According to wikipedia, Spanish has the second-highest number of native speakers (after Chinese), and the fourth largest number of total speakers. While I am certainly not arguing that knowing English isn't an asset in today's world, especially for IT and business, I'm not convinced that simply learning English will be an "enormous economic boost" to Mexico. There are plenty of opportunities just by knowing Spanish.
That's weird because on my default ubuntu 7.04 install I can right click on a file or folder -> 'open with other application' -> select from list of applications OR 'use a custom command'.
I can also right click -> 'properties' on a file or folder, there is an 'open with' and there I can add, remove, and select which application open that type of file.
True, in the end it does all come down to whether or not you like it. A lot of contemporary "art for art's sake" I personally find to be hideous. But when the prime motivator is greed and money, you are much more likely to see exactly the type of behavior you (and I) are opposed to. If they were more concerned about making good music and sharing it with others, the internet and P2P would be seen as a great way to share with even more people, rather than something that needs to be restricted and persecuted.
[SPAM] has... become inextricably associated with a massive, universally despised, worldwide problem. Might I be so bold as to say that this was always the case ?
Look at pre-2001 Afghanistan - music was considered sinful and evil and was banned. But people would still meet in secret and sing, and would still find ways of obtaining cassettes or CDs and listen to them behind locked (and presumably sound-proof) doors.
In fact I would say that BigMusic is anything BUT. They are only in it for the money, they don't care about art, about expression, or about individuality. Not that there's anything wrong with making money off of art, but it should most definitely not be the prime motivation. And the reason why music sucks so hard nowadays is because money has become the prime motivator for many so-called 'artists'. If anything the demise of the record industry (just the word 'industry' disgusts me) could usher a re-awakening of 'true' music - art for art's sake.
Your rights to privacy CANNOT be more important than National Security. You do realize this is exactly the line of reasoning that got us into the illegal wiretaps. Rights to privacy have to be balanced against national security... one should not be vastly more important than the other.
The server is written in the Python programming language Now, I am a python programmer and it's a great language, but this type of application would best be handled by a lower level language. Python is great when you need to bang stuff out quickly, or expect to be continuously making code adjustments, but at a (small) sacrifice in performance. In other words, the exact opposite of priorities than for a mail server (stable well thought out code, running as fast as possible).
I'll stick to a basic phone, and follow the *NIX philosophy, "just does one thing, and do it well", thank you very much. You have perfectly described Apple philosophy, not *NIX. *NIX is more like "do as many things as you want to do". The fact that Apple uses *nix to a large extent, and has put it on a phone, while at the same time some of these same tools help run huge render farms, workstations on different architectures, datacenters, embedded devices, routers, etc.. ad nauseam -- just goes to show the versatility of *NIX.
You're right, and I agree, BUT - by making a sucky movie they lose out on:
1) Repeat viewings. No matter how hard core a fan you are, you're not going to see a sucky movie 5 times. I think Lucas knows a little about this by now.
2) People that like sci-fi, but are not attached to Star Trek. Like me... I'm not going to see this movie, it really does sound bad. However I've certainly enjoyed some StarTrek movies before, even though the series as a whole leaves me rather "blah".
It can understand spoken commands and reacts accordingly. It builds its own map of its surroundings and can navigate itself on learning. This is a big deal for the disabled or the elderly that need help to do various day to day tasks.
Maybe because in Bobax's case at least, it's a buffer overflow. No mention of an M$ fix though.
FTFA:
It spreads via a buffer overflow vulnerability in Windows, and inserts the spam code into the IE browser so that each time the browser runs, the virus is activated.
Actually on closer inspection of the guy's reflection it looks like he's rubbing the car while having his hand in his front pocket.
I'll leave it up to you to figure that one out.
This is so simple. In order to drive, a valid credit card and driver's license is required, even if driving the car is free. Don't return it and the cops will be at your door.
TFA:
According to the institute, it uses about 10 percent less power than existing streetcars. Apparently, not very. Consider the initial cost of the battery (li-ion is not cheap, the tesla roadster for example costs $100,000 most of which is for the battery pack, ~ $75,000 IIRC). Then consider the cost of disposing or recycling the batteries which will presumably need to be done several times in the life of the streetcar. I guess this is a start, but at 10% less power, I don't see this as much of an advantage.
FTFA:
He explained, however, that there was "space for pragmatism" in deciding on what formats to be used. He gave PDF as an example, which was not technically an open standard but did not have comparable open equivalents. He said that when faced with a choice of standards, the most open would be chosen. (emphasis mine)
Sounds good to me, PDF is widely readable, and ODF is not the best format for distribution when you don't want the document to be altered. It would have been ironic if it was a.doc file.
For a high-end gaming platform, probably not much of an advantage, as this type of setup typically uses obnoxious amounts of power for basically everything except the hard drive. For a media sharing PC or other type of home server which is always on, it would be a better fit.
If the price is low enough, most definitely. We use SATA RAIDs for our 'medium grade' file servers, a 40% reduction in power (and corresponding reduction in electric bills) is a huge deal. Each server is hooked up to 16 drives total, so the biggest power draw by far is from the drives, not the mobo/processors - it's not like file servers need a huge amount of processing power.
The price is what makes or breaks how good this will be, but we are certainly looking forward to testing these.
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According to wikipedia, Spanish has the second-highest number of native speakers (after Chinese), and the fourth largest number of total speakers. While I am certainly not arguing that knowing English isn't an asset in today's world, especially for IT and business, I'm not convinced that simply learning English will be an "enormous economic boost" to Mexico. There are plenty of opportunities just by knowing Spanish.
That's weird because on my default ubuntu 7.04 install I can right click on a file or folder -> 'open with other application' -> select from list of applications OR 'use a custom command'.
I can also right click -> 'properties' on a file or folder, there is an 'open with' and there I can add, remove, and select which application open that type of file.
True, in the end it does all come down to whether or not you like it. A lot of contemporary "art for art's sake" I personally find to be hideous. But when the prime motivator is greed and money, you are much more likely to see exactly the type of behavior you (and I) are opposed to. If they were more concerned about making good music and sharing it with others, the internet and P2P would be seen as a great way to share with even more people, rather than something that needs to be restricted and persecuted.
Look at pre-2001 Afghanistan - music was considered sinful and evil and was banned. But people would still meet in secret and sing, and would still find ways of obtaining cassettes or CDs and listen to them behind locked (and presumably sound-proof) doors.
In fact I would say that BigMusic is anything BUT. They are only in it for the money, they don't care about art, about expression, or about individuality. Not that there's anything wrong with making money off of art, but it should most definitely not be the prime motivation. And the reason why music sucks so hard nowadays is because money has become the prime motivator for many so-called 'artists'. If anything the demise of the record industry (just the word 'industry' disgusts me) could usher a re-awakening of 'true' music - art for art's sake.
Untrue unless this was changed very recently. Green card holders are neither fingerprinted nor photographed upon entering the US.
You're right, and I agree, BUT - by making a sucky movie they lose out on :
... I'm not going to see this movie, it really does sound bad. However I've certainly enjoyed some StarTrek movies before, even though the series as a whole leaves me rather "blah".
1) Repeat viewings. No matter how hard core a fan you are, you're not going to see a sucky movie 5 times. I think Lucas knows a little about this by now.
2) People that like sci-fi, but are not attached to Star Trek. Like me
Yes, now you can change the living room TV from the kitchen.
It can understand spoken commands and reacts accordingly. It builds its own map of its surroundings and can navigate itself on learning. This is a big deal for the disabled or the elderly that need help to do various day to day tasks.
FTFA: It spreads via a buffer overflow vulnerability in Windows, and inserts the spam code into the IE browser so that each time the browser runs, the virus is activated.
I certainly hope so. How shiny do you need your icons?
There could simply be a guy at the 'car station' to swipe them, then give you a ticket to actually open the car.
Actually on closer inspection of the guy's reflection it looks like he's rubbing the car while having his hand in his front pocket.
I'll leave it up to you to figure that one out.
This is so simple. In order to drive, a valid credit card and driver's license is required, even if driving the car is free. Don't return it and the cops will be at your door.
That IS what they're saying. Don't you know how to read market-speak?
But is it faster than win2000? In my experience this version is the fastest for file transfers.
from TFA:
Pirates crack Vista
For a high-end gaming platform, probably not much of an advantage, as this type of setup typically uses obnoxious amounts of power for basically everything except the hard drive. For a media sharing PC or other type of home server which is always on, it would be a better fit.
If the price is low enough, most definitely. We use SATA RAIDs for our 'medium grade' file servers, a 40% reduction in power (and corresponding reduction in electric bills) is a huge deal. Each server is hooked up to 16 drives total, so the biggest power draw by far is from the drives, not the mobo/processors - it's not like file servers need a huge amount of processing power.
The price is what makes or breaks how good this will be, but we are certainly looking forward to testing these.