If NL Universities are like German ones, they don't have any insurance, as mandated by law.
The key idea is the state itrself is the largest solidarity community anyway, so paying insurance is waste of state funds.
Needless to say, in reality, you are fucked when something big happens to your computers. Maybe in next years Budget, you get some additional money to replace them. Or not.
but you aren't going to die from the carbon dioxide... you die from lack of oxygen as i said in the post...
Sorry, wrong.
Carbon dioxide is lethal up from about 30% air volume. No matter what the rest of the air consist of - even if that contains comfortably much oxygen. As far as I remeber my paramedic training, it's called an acidosis - essentially, CO2 at high percentages soures your blood, to a point where your metabolism cant handle it any more.
That wasnt even about derailing trains. The article in question (in an old issue of German extreme left magazine "radikal") detailed how to disable certain parts of the train control/security systems, which then would be detected and force the trains to go half-speed.
[...]going to the link [...] you could very easily determine whether or not your 'theory' was true.
You, Sir, are a troll.
Either you haven't read that mail as well, or you are intentionally lying. The mail at the link does not contain any information how this fraud was possible.
But not from their engines. It's just driving noise - both tracks/wheels and air. In Germany, they ended up building noise protection walls along quite a few of the new high speed tracks
The cost of electrification is minor, compared to the track costs as whole. Guys, you have to imagine not only better track material, but completely different less curvy trackways, new bridges, tunnels, you name it.
the test run was with a modified, lighter (3 cars - 2 first-class and one test coach) and souped-up train.
... not to mention the larger wheels they mounted to get to the record speed.
That pissed off the hell the guys working at the German competitor of TGV (the ICE), who, at that time, did use standard gear for their record attempts.
Folks, this article is satirical, is'n it ? It just has to. I mean, I know good satire when I see it, and this one just so fucking good, it's hilarious.
Actually it would be a total waste this not to be satirical.
It doesn't push anyone out of business, it doesn't change previous rates, it only allows more people to be saved. The only companies (such as live365) that would not benefit are those that are too large to go under this deal. Note I said do not benefit, because they are also Not harmed explicitly by it in any way
This is nonsensical babble.
Any comparision or reference to the current situation is meaningless, since that one means death for most operators anyway. Any "improvement" not large enough to save them still means death for them, and is therefore equivalent to the current situation.
So you saved your (and a few other's) ass while leaving the majority of operators going down the drain.
Furthermore, you wasted the probably only possibility to get Congress involved on this. One of your co-conspiratoirs lauded the bill as a "good starting point". If this bill passes, it will be the end point as well - for many years to come.
In certain Linux Circles, the mention of Donald Becker's drivers is met with raised eyebrows - and polite but marked silence.
Is this just nonsense, or do you actually favour a different spot in the stability/performance/ease-of-implementation triangle than most other driver developers ? If so, why ?
Since you only play classic (are there any players left ?) this doesnt apply. I referred to LoD - the X-Pack - and Blizzard made Hell much harder there. Multiply Immune Monsters, nerfed spells and skills, general 50% physical immunity of all Monsters, loads of physical immunes, you name it. This can only be compensated via the special Ueber-Items. A sorc, e.g., who hasn't at least +10 to all skills from items is mostly considered weak.
The ISOC proposal is a shameless money-grab. They are contracting out the actual work to.info operator AFFILIAS (a privately held for profit company owned by - among others - Verisign) while grabbing a part of the revenues for whatever club activities they deem worthy.
This is the very same ISOC that got its bid approved by an evaluation comitee which judged principial Bind developer and internet pioneer Paul Vixie and his coworkers to be technically incompetent to run a registry - ISOC should be ashamed (and refuse) to accept that approval at all !
Some people run bots that kill the same highlevel monster over and over and over, and looks for valuable items dropped there. Doing that yourself is tedious and boring (its called boss runs) but its the only way to get hold of the items you need to survive in the higher levels. So people either do Boss runs by hand (ultra boring, and you never stand the chance to even get close to what the bots make), run bots doing it for them, use cheating and hacking tools to dupe or steal their way into the item economy or buy stuff on ebay and friends, spending real dolares (or euros).
All 4 ways suck.
And Blizzard, in its eternal wisdom, has announced to make the game even harder to beat, thus making the pressure to get good items even more urgent.
Dont believe those assholes claiming DiabloII is "too easy" or such. People who say that are those who already have all the über items.
There is a kind of glass ceiling in the game. If you dont have the right items, you never stand a chance to get to a place where you might find them.
I've tried for months to break through that ceiling while doing neither runs nor the other methods. No friggin chance in hell.
Smoking causes illness. I won't argue that. Smoking is only one of millions of causes of illness, but it's the only one we've dedicated a crusade against recently. Coincidence?
Maybe smokers just pissed off too many non-smoking people. Now that they are the majority, they get payback.
I used to consider myself a tolerant non-smoker some years ago, but smokers have since worked hard - and still work hard every day - to cure me from that idiocy.
In short, the European politicians said, "If you want to stay in business, you MUST buy this spectrum at the prices we dictate"
Hell, NO! That lie doesnt get any more true by repeating it!
Licenses were either comparatively cheap or auctioned off. The auctions had a cheap start price. The resulting bidding wars should be blamed to the operators.
This whole article is a self serving pile of bullshit.
This actually _is_ about Qualcomm dominance.
Qualcomm is the RAMBUS Inc. of cellular telephony. Or, to be more precise, they are the role model that RAMBUS tried to imitate, but failed. Qualcomm has successfully poisoned and mined a whole field of technology with their patents and now require everyone to pay "Qualcomm tax" who wants to be active there.
And that doesn't end with patent licenses. As the quoted author put it so well:
They licensed Qualcomm's patents, but what they're now discovering is that Qualcomm didn't patent everything it knows about making CDMA work, and that it's a really difficult problem. (Damned straight it is. We know a hell of a lot we're not telling. It's pretty straightforward to make it work badly and unreliably, using a lot of battery power. Making it work well on low power is damned tough, and that knowledge is not for sale.)
Isn't that great ? So Quallcomm sold them licenses with the full knowledge they wouldn't do them any good. Stupid them - why didn't they also buy Qualcomm chips and hire Qualcomm consultants ?
Now I'm asking you to take a step back and remember what the "patent" thing actually is about: Basically, you exchange full disclosure for a time limited monopoly, the idea beeing that this generally furthers innovation.
But in the world of RAMBUS and Qualcomm, Innovation is actually something that has to be prevented. Because, they have already invented something, so anybody else doing so is a threat to them. They are the perfect manifestation of the "Not Invented Here" princciple.
Technology standards exist for a reason. In some fields, lack of standards just brings you chaos and loss of quality. (We've seen that in the US in the past decade). In others, the need for a standard is so extreme, that market participants settle for a vendor standard eventually. This of course, is a huge advantage for the vendor in question, and a huge disadvantage for everyone else.
The author here essentially argues that he thinks the world is now ripe to settle on such a standard. And he is full of glee that its his company winning - after having successfully sabotaged every attempt to agree on a worldwide common standard.
That's not only funny, it might even get close to the real reasons. APIs for theming (and that's what the whole fuss is about) can be glaring security holes. The user has certain expectations about system behaviour - when software can alter system behaviour, an unsuspecting user can be tricked into utterly compromising his system security.
And, of course, Jobs is right. Themes are dead anyway.
And while you're at it, you might get your UN dues paid."
We might, as soon as UN diplomats start paying off their NYC parking/traffic tickets.
This is a classic and very dishonest fake argument.
When the US of A applied for getting the UN seat in NY, you entered into contracts. Part of these contracts is that UN diplomats are not required to pay these traffic tickets. So, just honor your own contracts please (something you would do well in other cases, too; re WTO, re Consulary affairs etc - you guys have a disturbing habit to publicly piss on the very contracts you made).
Moreover you know perfectly well that the US nonpayment of UN dues is not related to those traffic tickets but based on the US demand for more influence on UN policy than they already are entitled to based on the UN charta.
Are the rest of your "Arguments" of similar quality here ?
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You have no clue what you are talking about.
The given link for Terry's message seems to be broken.
Take this one
If NL Universities are like German ones, they don't have any insurance, as mandated by law.
The key idea is the state itrself is the largest solidarity community anyway, so paying insurance is waste of state funds.
Needless to say, in reality, you are fucked when something big happens to your computers. Maybe in next years Budget, you get some additional money to replace them. Or not.
Carbon dioxide is lethal up from about 30% air volume. No matter what the rest of the air consist of - even if that contains comfortably much oxygen. As far as I remeber my paramedic training, it's called an acidosis - essentially, CO2 at high percentages soures your blood, to a point where your metabolism cant handle it any more.
That wasnt even about derailing trains. The article in question (in an old issue of German extreme left magazine "radikal") detailed how to disable certain parts of the train control/security systems, which then would be detected and force the trains to go half-speed.
[...]going to the link [...] you could very easily determine whether or not your 'theory' was true.
You, Sir, are a troll.
Either you haven't read that mail as well, or you are intentionally lying. The mail at the link does not contain any information how this fraud was possible.
Yep. Really fast trains are loud
But not from their engines. It's just driving noise - both tracks/wheels and air. In Germany, they ended up building noise protection walls along quite a few of the new high speed tracks
every serious European railtrack is electrified.
The cost of electrification is minor, compared to the track costs as whole. Guys, you have to imagine not only better track material, but completely different less curvy trackways, new bridges, tunnels, you name it.
That pissed off the hell the guys working at the German competitor of TGV (the ICE), who, at that time, did use standard gear for their record attempts.
this sounds awfully a lot like fake techno babble.
Folks, this article is satirical, is'n it ? It just has to. I mean, I know good satire when I see it, and this one just so fucking good, it's hilarious.
Actually it would be a total waste this not to be satirical.
Now, someone please tell me....
Yeah dude! Well said!
Because, a I understood the thing, the RIAA wants them to pay extra cash on top of author fees (more than 100%), unlike you "real" stations.
Any comparision or reference to the current situation is meaningless, since that one means death for most operators anyway. Any "improvement" not large enough to save them still means death for them, and is therefore equivalent to the current situation.
So you saved your (and a few other's) ass while leaving the majority of operators going down the drain.
Furthermore, you wasted the probably only possibility to get Congress involved on this. One of your co-conspiratoirs lauded the bill as a "good starting point". If this bill passes, it will be the end point as well - for many years to come.
In certain Linux Circles, the mention of Donald Becker's drivers is met with raised eyebrows - and polite but marked silence.
Is this just nonsense, or do you actually favour a different spot in the stability/performance/ease-of-implementation triangle than most other driver developers ? If so, why ?
Since you only play classic (are there any players left ?) this doesnt apply. I referred to LoD - the X-Pack - and Blizzard made Hell much harder there. Multiply Immune Monsters, nerfed spells and skills, general 50% physical immunity of all Monsters, loads of physical immunes, you name it. This can only be compensated via the special Ueber-Items. A sorc, e.g., who hasn't at least +10 to all skills from items is mostly considered weak.
you applaud that ?
.info operator AFFILIAS (a privately held for profit company owned by - among others - Verisign) while grabbing a part of the revenues for whatever club activities they deem worthy.
The ISOC proposal is a shameless money-grab. They are contracting out the actual work to
This is the very same ISOC that got its bid approved by an evaluation comitee which judged principial Bind developer and internet pioneer Paul Vixie and his coworkers to be technically incompetent to run a registry - ISOC should be ashamed (and refuse) to accept that approval at all !
The whole thing is a farce....
Two words: Item hunt.
Some people run bots that kill the same highlevel monster over and over and over, and looks for valuable items dropped there. Doing that yourself is tedious and boring (its called boss runs) but its the only way to get hold of the items you need to survive in the higher levels. So people either do Boss runs by hand (ultra boring, and you never stand the chance to even get close to what the bots make), run bots doing it for them, use cheating and hacking tools to dupe or steal their way into the item economy or buy stuff on ebay and friends, spending real dolares (or euros).
All 4 ways suck.
And Blizzard, in its eternal wisdom, has announced to make the game even harder to beat, thus making the pressure to get good items even more urgent.
Dont believe those assholes claiming DiabloII is "too easy" or such. People who say that are those who already have all the über items.
There is a kind of glass ceiling in the game. If you dont have the right items, you never stand a chance to get to a place where you might find them.
I've tried for months to break through that ceiling while doing neither runs nor the other methods. No friggin chance in hell.
I used to consider myself a tolerant non-smoker some years ago, but smokers have since worked hard - and still work hard every day - to cure me from that idiocy.
Thankyou for playing.
Hell, NO! That lie doesnt get any more true by repeating it!
Licenses were either comparatively cheap or auctioned off. The auctions had a cheap start price. The resulting bidding wars should be blamed to the operators.
This whole article is a self serving pile of bullshit.
This actually _is_ about Qualcomm dominance.
Qualcomm is the RAMBUS Inc. of cellular telephony. Or, to be more precise, they are the role model that RAMBUS tried to imitate, but failed. Qualcomm has successfully poisoned and mined a whole field of technology with their patents and now require everyone to pay "Qualcomm tax" who wants to be active there.
And that doesn't end with patent licenses. As the quoted author put it so well:
Isn't that great ? So Quallcomm sold them licenses with the full knowledge they wouldn't do them any good. Stupid them - why didn't they also buy Qualcomm chips and hire Qualcomm consultants ?
Now I'm asking you to take a step back and remember what the "patent" thing actually is about: Basically, you exchange full disclosure for a time limited monopoly, the idea beeing that this generally furthers innovation.
But in the world of RAMBUS and Qualcomm, Innovation is actually something that has to be prevented. Because, they have already invented something, so anybody else doing so is a threat to them. They are the perfect manifestation of the "Not Invented Here" princciple.
Technology standards exist for a reason. In some fields, lack of standards just brings you chaos and loss of quality. (We've seen that in the US in the past decade). In others, the need for a standard is so extreme, that market participants settle for a vendor standard eventually. This of course, is a huge advantage for the vendor in question, and a huge disadvantage for everyone else.
The author here essentially argues that he thinks the world is now ripe to settle on such a standard. And he is full of glee that its his company winning - after having successfully sabotaged every attempt to agree on a worldwide common standard.
Should we all share his sentiment ?
That's not only funny, it might even get close to the real reasons. APIs for theming (and that's what the whole fuss is about) can be glaring security holes. The user has certain expectations about system behaviour - when software can alter system behaviour, an unsuspecting user can be tricked into utterly compromising his system security.
And, of course, Jobs is right. Themes are dead anyway.
When the US of A applied for getting the UN seat in NY, you entered into contracts. Part of these contracts is that UN diplomats are not required to pay these traffic tickets. So, just honor your own contracts please (something you would do well in other cases, too; re WTO, re Consulary affairs etc - you guys have a disturbing habit to publicly piss on the very contracts you made).
Moreover you know perfectly well that the US nonpayment of UN dues is not related to those traffic tickets but based on the US demand for more influence on UN policy than they already are entitled to based on the UN charta.
Are the rest of your "Arguments" of similar quality here ?
Go figure...