Obama's mortgage assistance program will reward people that are significantly behind in their mortgage payments.
If you did everything right and did not get suckered into a ridiculous mortgage you couldn't pay, then you should be fine anyway. But a lot of hardworking people that did get suckered do need help.
There will be no incentives for... people interested in buying foreclosed properties.
Of course there is : do you how CHEAP you can buy an investment property now ? If you have the money now is definitely a good time.
Sure, except the funding isn't comming from the UK, it's coming from the ESA. The ESA does have a solid history of completing expensive and difficult projects (the ATV comes to mind). As mentioned in the press release, labs in Germany will also be helping Reaction Engines with testing and development.
The Noble rocket car project is a lot of fun, and good inspiration for future engineers, but this new engine technology (not a scramjet BTW) has the potential to completly revolutionise space travel.
If you use a "heavy-duty" IDE like eclipse or netbeans it may run a bit slow on a netbook.
If you are a vi kinda developer then what's the difference between using a versioning system (having the desktop as a SVN/Git server) ?
I'm not sure it's possible to paint all of FOSS, or all of closed source devs with such a wide brush. You do have some projects that are extremely risk and innovation averse, a classic example being GNOME, while others on the contrary have no problems starting everything from scratch like KDE has done. Similarly, you have Apple, the constant innovator, willing to dump legacy code to move forward, and MS, where their commitment to binary compability is limiting their progress.
Each strategy has its advantages and disadvantages of course. For some projects it does make sense to do your utmost not to disturb the ecosystem.
No but it has been consistently shown that FF users keep their browsers up to date much sooner. Case in point : the huge number of IE6 users compared to FF 1.5 users out there. Even within major revisions, the less painfull FF upgrade system keeps the vast majority of people on the latest minor update or patch. Many IE users disable auto-updates because they're seen as an annoyance (asking themselves "why do I have to reboot simply to upgrade my web browser ?").
You do realise this is a religious tradition, where children are named after a prominent religious figure ? In some countries it was actually illegal to not to use a christian name. I wouldn't be surprised if some modern muslim countries have this sort of backward mentality. As such many people are reluctant to change... much like some idiots are still going on about creationism.
Furthermore, there is a certain amount of comfort in having a common name, it does make social interactions easier.
In any case I am in complete agreement with you, especially since my name is rather unique;-) .
In many places you have some idiot in HR that has no clue as to what really goes on for a job, but is tasked with eliminating the most obviously unemployable candidates. This is actually a good thing in most cases, I have seen some resumes with no qualifications seeking advanced programming/sysadmin positions, and it's simply a waste of time to forward all of them to the managers/leads that make the hiring decisions. Unfortunately, a lot of times HR is really ignorant, and knowing that they are, tend to be overly zealous in their eliminations.
So even if the person doing the actual interview and hiring would be intelligent enough to easily see that it's two different people, a little thing like that could cost you the job. In normal times, this would not be an issue, but these days it's much harder to ignore a potential job just because of one idiot.
Bad analogy. Rome, like most great empires, was not really destroyed by outside forces, but by a gradual weakening and stagnation from the inside. Once the core was weak and ceased to innovate it could no longer support the constant outside pressure and collapsed on itself.
You can get broadband in the contryside in France. Even in out of the way medieval villages of 100 people.
By contrast, you can't get broadband in some parts of Alachua, FL - the county seat and 15 minutes down the road from Gainesville (home of UF).
...But really you have to talk to Microsoft about when they want to support ARM architectures. It's not up to us," answered East. "We're seeing a lot of activity in the Linux space so I don't think it's a serious brake on our progress into that new application area, right now," he concluded.
it's generally faster to move fewer large files than many small ones, especially on the same drive. Most often nothing is actually being moved from one disk location to another, just rearranging indexes in the filesystem.
Exactly. At this point, there's no more reason for that tangled mess that is GTK, and with Gnome's reliance on Mono apps, I see the downfall of Gnome/Mono and the rise of KDE/Qt as the programming environment of choice for Linux (well as soon as KDE 4 is out of beta...).
Amazing what difference a license change makes, eh ?
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Yeah me too. I hate it when they want candle lit dinners, walks under the moonlight, and cuddling.
You seem to blindly believe that Adobe is even remotely competent at writing code.
Sure they are. Just not for PDF viewing ;-)
The failing auto industry got billions as soon as the Dems took over
No that was Bush.
Obama's mortgage assistance program will reward people that are significantly behind in their mortgage payments.
If you did everything right and did not get suckered into a ridiculous mortgage you couldn't pay, then you should be fine anyway. But a lot of hardworking people that did get suckered do need help.
There will be no incentives for ... people interested in buying foreclosed properties.
Of course there is : do you how CHEAP you can buy an investment property now ? If you have the money now is definitely a good time.
Sure, except the funding isn't comming from the UK, it's coming from the ESA. The ESA does have a solid history of completing expensive and difficult projects (the ATV comes to mind). As mentioned in the press release, labs in Germany will also be helping Reaction Engines with testing and development.
The Noble rocket car project is a lot of fun, and good inspiration for future engineers, but this new engine technology (not a scramjet BTW) has the potential to completly revolutionise space travel.
If you use a "heavy-duty" IDE like eclipse or netbeans it may run a bit slow on a netbook.
If you are a vi kinda developer then what's the difference between using a versioning system (having the desktop as a SVN/Git server) ?
Both rovers have benefited from this, and they were landed on opposite sides of the planet. Also, dust storms on Mars tend to become global.
Wasn't this also the time of the naive internet ? When all smtp traffic was on port 25 with forwarding enabled ? Before AOL and the dark times ...
I'm not sure it's possible to paint all of FOSS, or all of closed source devs with such a wide brush. You do have some projects that are extremely risk and innovation averse, a classic example being GNOME, while others on the contrary have no problems starting everything from scratch like KDE has done. Similarly, you have Apple, the constant innovator, willing to dump legacy code to move forward, and MS, where their commitment to binary compability is limiting their progress.
Each strategy has its advantages and disadvantages of course. For some projects it does make sense to do your utmost not to disturb the ecosystem.
No but it has been consistently shown that FF users keep their browsers up to date much sooner. Case in point : the huge number of IE6 users compared to FF 1.5 users out there. Even within major revisions, the less painfull FF upgrade system keeps the vast majority of people on the latest minor update or patch. Many IE users disable auto-updates because they're seen as an annoyance (asking themselves "why do I have to reboot simply to upgrade my web browser ?").
That would be political, and possibly literal, suicide. You don't piss off the mafia(a).
You do realise this is a religious tradition, where children are named after a prominent religious figure ? In some countries it was actually illegal to not to use a christian name. I wouldn't be surprised if some modern muslim countries have this sort of backward mentality. As such many people are reluctant to change ... much like some idiots are still going on about creationism.
;-) .
Furthermore, there is a certain amount of comfort in having a common name, it does make social interactions easier.
In any case I am in complete agreement with you, especially since my name is rather unique
In many places you have some idiot in HR that has no clue as to what really goes on for a job, but is tasked with eliminating the most obviously unemployable candidates. This is actually a good thing in most cases, I have seen some resumes with no qualifications seeking advanced programming/sysadmin positions, and it's simply a waste of time to forward all of them to the managers/leads that make the hiring decisions. Unfortunately, a lot of times HR is really ignorant, and knowing that they are, tend to be overly zealous in their eliminations.
So even if the person doing the actual interview and hiring would be intelligent enough to easily see that it's two different people, a little thing like that could cost you the job. In normal times, this would not be an issue, but these days it's much harder to ignore a potential job just because of one idiot.
Uhm this is BBC not Fox or CNN. They actually do some research on what they're writting.
So, when a company ...
builds a school somewhere
Tax writeoff, educate lots of future customers to use their products.
sponsors a race
"win on sunday, sell on monday"
hires a speaker who climbed mt everest
Tax writeoff, improve company morale
invests in some wild technology
ROI isn't always short term, especially for asian corps. Also, a great publicity generator.
IBM funds something like a big art exhibit
Tax writeoff.
Bad analogy. Rome, like most great empires, was not really destroyed by outside forces, but by a gradual weakening and stagnation from the inside. Once the core was weak and ceased to innovate it could no longer support the constant outside pressure and collapsed on itself.
Leaving the computer running when no one is using it, like overnight, is extremely wasteful. Shame on you.
Ok, here you go. It's included in the install CD, close enough for ya ? BITSAdmin
You can get broadband in the contryside in France. Even in out of the way medieval villages of 100 people.
By contrast, you can't get broadband in some parts of Alachua, FL - the county seat and 15 minutes down the road from Gainesville (home of UF).
don't you mean : /political_dissidents /dev/gulag
mv --force
...But really you have to talk to Microsoft about when they want to support ARM architectures. It's not up to us," answered East. "We're seeing a lot of activity in the Linux space so I don't think it's a serious brake on our progress into that new application area, right now," he concluded.
mods must be on crack today if this is 'informative'.
Anyway the anwser is 'no'.
Why were there no aircraft fuselage fragments at the Pentagon "crash site" on 9/11?
Will people please stop with this one ? It's not like there is no evidence for this.
I doubt a patch is comming in anytime soon.
it's generally faster to move fewer large files than many small ones, especially on the same drive. Most often nothing is actually being moved from one disk location to another, just rearranging indexes in the filesystem.
Exactly. At this point, there's no more reason for that tangled mess that is GTK, and with Gnome's reliance on Mono apps, I see the downfall of Gnome/Mono and the rise of KDE/Qt as the programming environment of choice for Linux (well as soon as KDE 4 is out of beta ...).
Amazing what difference a license change makes, eh ?