This is a bad move. If this goes on, we will have to worry about paying taxes on revenue generated from online gaming and provide a statement of accounts on what we f!@#!@ did with virtual currency in a virtual world.
Furthermore, the US government is already doing it's analysis on how to enforce taxation on funds in MMOs. This will give them an excuse to do something stupid.
What next, you sell a lvl 1 bat wing for 1000USD and get picked up by the Feds?
[Todayâ(TM)s Financial Times posted a story](http://news.ft.com/cms/s/875630d4-cef9-11da-925d-0000779e2340.html) about how Skypeâ(TM)s partner TOM Online is filtering text messages in China.
Skype has a joint venture with TOM Online. As part of that venture, we provide a co-branded version of Skype called TOM-Skype, which is the version of Skype that is available in mainland China.
As part of the joint venture, TOM provides guidance to Skype about how to co-operate with local laws and regulations in China. In every country we operate in, we always work with local authorities to follow local laws and best practice.
TOM operates a text filter in TOM-Skype. The filter operates solely on text chats. The filter has a list of words which will not be displayed in Skype chats.
The text filter operates on the chat message content before it is encrypted for transmission, or after it has been decrypted on the receiver side. If the message is found unsuitable for displaying, it is simply discarded and not displayed or transmitted anywhere.
It is important to underline:
* The text filter does not affect in any way the security and encryption mechanisms of Skype. * Full end-to-end security is preserved and there is no compromise of peopleâ(TM)s privacy. * Calls, chats and all other forms of communication on Skype continue to be encrypted and secure. * There is absolutely no filtering on voice communications.
Open source Java does matter. We cannot rely on Sun to supply the JVM for all systems and I for one am sick of IBMs JDK, GNU's Java and Sun's Java each doing their own thing and fscking up the concept of portability.
Anyone who has tried to use.NET/C# for a TCP server with a few thousand clients over a GPRS cloud (frequent disconnect/reconnects) has my sympathies..NET is not worth the hassle for scalability in some areas. Of course, since M$ is showing it down the throat of the next generation of CS students, the sheeple will go down the same path as that of C++
After being Slashdotted, the statistics for this site as below.
1. Opera on UNIX 103.40
2. Firefox on MacPPC 103.35
3. AppleMAC-Safari on MacPPC 103.27
4. Mozilla on UNIX 103.13
5. Mozilla on MacPPC 103.05
6. AppleMAC-Safari on Unknown 102.77
7. Firefox on UNIX 102.75
8. Firefox on Unknown 102.53
9. Mozilla on Unknown 102.21
10. Firefox on Win2000 101.93
11. Firefox on Win98 101.48
12. Opera on MacPPC 101.26
13. Firefox on WinXP 101.14
14. Mozilla on WinXP 101.09
15. Firefox on WinNT 100.99
16. Opera on WinXP 100.17
17. Opera on Win2000 99.97
18. Opera on WinNT 98.99
19. IE on WinNT 98.09
20. Mozilla on Win2000 98.09
See, this is the problem with the US. I was in Locatient 2007 where a representative of the US government for navigation gave a boat load of crap about how GPS 3 will be totally open and it will interoperate with all other navigation systems. He also emphasized that unlike GPS 2, it will not have the feature to be switched off by the US military. He was pushing for more hardware and software developers to use the GPS platform.
This story is exactly the opposite of what he claimed. This switch and bait tactic is old and it is really taking whatever remains of the credibility of the US down the gutter.
Make Yahoo! services IE only.
Make Silverlight mandatory....
I will take my puny 20$ a year contribution to Yahoo Mail Plus elsewhere if this goes through. I just loathe the attitude of Microsoft when it comes to interoperability and the internet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mourning
I loved OS/2 a decade ago. IBM got the short end of the stick in the whole divorce with M$ with regard to OS/2 and never recovered. The operating system is fast (MS-DOS will be faster on today's computers), but there is a reason why people moved on to more mature environments and kernels. Even IBM recommends people migrate to Linux.
Sure WPS is good and yes, I miss work area templates, but enough already. Let it go...
There are always opportunities for making a profit. The concept of the OLPC was charity. Corporations that don't have a clue about such things are better off not participating. This is certainly a dent in Intel's reputation. I find it harder to believe that people justify the sales pitch.
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Microsoft is the market leader in the office suite applications arena for a good reason. Their creativity cannot be stifled by a standards committee. However, this also means that they can't pretend to have an open standard as a file format when they aren't.
The only thing that needs to happen is to reject the idea of OOXML as a standard until Microsoft is able to demonstrate transparency and consistency across at least three or so releases of their office suite. PDF didn't become a standard overnight. It has matured over time. The same needs to happen with OOXML.
Any government organization or large corporate that has a necessity to retain records has to convert their archives to a newer version. Who is paying for the conversion? Also, Office 95 is 13 years old. If someone upgraded to Office 95 by 97 (for service pack / stability etc) it is 10 years old. Given the investment in the software, if you assume someone used it and upgraded directly to office 2003, then the documents that are affected are less than 5 years old...
All that this study will accomplish is to gather statistical data on the food intake patterns of people in the Netherlands. Every country has its own culture and that has a strong influence on how they react to others, how they eat their food, what they eat and when they eat.
This is precisely the problem. With GM engineering, we are creating plants that
1) can't reproduce
2) repel insects naturally
3) can survive in harsh conditions and use less water
So if you come up with a scenario where these GM crops die and we are desperate for a solution, those millions of seeds will be of no use in the real world of the future except in a lab. Assuming we can get to them...
Kids need to learn the concepts. It doesn't have to be with the latest and greatest tools. While The Gimp may not compare to PS, it still teaches you layering, masks, etc. and it is something every kid can get in their home computer. Availability of the tool for a student is more important than a demonstration of something that is beyond their reach except at school.
I recommend using software the kids can play with at home and after they complete your course.
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I thought the EER of modern air conditioners was closer to .9 and not as low as .4?
This is a bad move. If this goes on, we will have to worry about paying taxes on revenue generated from online gaming and provide a statement of accounts on what we f!@#!@ did with virtual currency in a virtual world.
Furthermore, the US government is already doing it's analysis on how to enforce taxation on funds in MMOs. This will give them an excuse to do something stupid.
What next, you sell a lvl 1 bat wing for 1000USD and get picked up by the Feds?
Is it the decepticons landing on earth?! Say it isn't so!
[Todayâ(TM)s Financial Times posted a story](http://news.ft.com/cms/s/875630d4-cef9-11da-925d-0000779e2340.html) about how Skypeâ(TM)s partner TOM Online is filtering text messages in China.
Skype has a joint venture with TOM Online. As part of that venture, we provide a co-branded version of Skype called TOM-Skype, which is the version of Skype that is available in mainland China.
As part of the joint venture, TOM provides guidance to Skype about how to co-operate with local laws and regulations in China. In every country we operate in, we always work with local authorities to follow local laws and best practice.
TOM operates a text filter in TOM-Skype. The filter operates solely on text chats. The filter has a list of words which will not be displayed in Skype chats.
The text filter operates on the chat message content before it is encrypted for transmission, or after it has been decrypted on the receiver side. If the message is found unsuitable for displaying, it is simply discarded and not displayed or transmitted anywhere.
It is important to underline:
* The text filter does not affect in any way the security and encryption mechanisms of Skype.
* Full end-to-end security is preserved and there is no compromise of peopleâ(TM)s privacy.
* Calls, chats and all other forms of communication on Skype continue to be encrypted and secure.
* There is absolutely no filtering on voice communications.
Amen to that. SELinux with text mode email while we are at it.
The territory claimed independence back in 1991. Kinda late to stake claim to it again, don't you think?
Open source Java does matter. We cannot rely on Sun to supply the JVM for all systems and I for one am sick of IBMs JDK, GNU's Java and Sun's Java each doing their own thing and fscking up the concept of portability.
Anyone who has tried to use .NET/C# for a TCP server with a few thousand clients over a GPRS cloud (frequent disconnect/reconnects) has my sympathies. .NET is not worth the hassle for scalability in some areas. Of course, since M$ is showing it down the throat of the next generation of CS students, the sheeple will go down the same path as that of C++
1. Opera on UNIX 103.40
2. Firefox on MacPPC 103.35
3. AppleMAC-Safari on MacPPC 103.27
4. Mozilla on UNIX 103.13
5. Mozilla on MacPPC 103.05
6. AppleMAC-Safari on Unknown 102.77
7. Firefox on UNIX 102.75
8. Firefox on Unknown 102.53
9. Mozilla on Unknown 102.21
10. Firefox on Win2000 101.93
11. Firefox on Win98 101.48
12. Opera on MacPPC 101.26
13. Firefox on WinXP 101.14
14. Mozilla on WinXP 101.09
15. Firefox on WinNT 100.99
16. Opera on WinXP 100.17
17. Opera on Win2000 99.97
18. Opera on WinNT 98.99
19. IE on WinNT 98.09
20. Mozilla on Win2000 98.09
See, this is the problem with the US. I was in Locatient 2007 where a representative of the US government for navigation gave a boat load of crap about how GPS 3 will be totally open and it will interoperate with all other navigation systems. He also emphasized that unlike GPS 2, it will not have the feature to be switched off by the US military. He was pushing for more hardware and software developers to use the GPS platform. This story is exactly the opposite of what he claimed. This switch and bait tactic is old and it is really taking whatever remains of the credibility of the US down the gutter.
Make Yahoo! services IE only. Make Silverlight mandatory. ...
I will take my puny 20$ a year contribution to Yahoo Mail Plus elsewhere if this goes through. I just loathe the attitude of Microsoft when it comes to interoperability and the internet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mourning I loved OS/2 a decade ago. IBM got the short end of the stick in the whole divorce with M$ with regard to OS/2 and never recovered. The operating system is fast (MS-DOS will be faster on today's computers), but there is a reason why people moved on to more mature environments and kernels. Even IBM recommends people migrate to Linux. Sure WPS is good and yes, I miss work area templates, but enough already. Let it go...
There are always opportunities for making a profit. The concept of the OLPC was charity. Corporations that don't have a clue about such things are better off not participating. This is certainly a dent in Intel's reputation. I find it harder to believe that people justify the sales pitch.
Microsoft is the market leader in the office suite applications arena for a good reason. Their creativity cannot be stifled by a standards committee. However, this also means that they can't pretend to have an open standard as a file format when they aren't.
The only thing that needs to happen is to reject the idea of OOXML as a standard until Microsoft is able to demonstrate transparency and consistency across at least three or so releases of their office suite. PDF didn't become a standard overnight. It has matured over time. The same needs to happen with OOXML.
Any government organization or large corporate that has a necessity to retain records has to convert their archives to a newer version. Who is paying for the conversion? Also, Office 95 is 13 years old. If someone upgraded to Office 95 by 97 (for service pack / stability etc) it is 10 years old. Given the investment in the software, if you assume someone used it and upgraded directly to office 2003, then the documents that are affected are less than 5 years old...
All that this study will accomplish is to gather statistical data on the food intake patterns of people in the Netherlands. Every country has its own culture and that has a strong influence on how they react to others, how they eat their food, what they eat and when they eat.
This is precisely the problem. With GM engineering, we are creating plants that 1) can't reproduce 2) repel insects naturally 3) can survive in harsh conditions and use less water So if you come up with a scenario where these GM crops die and we are desperate for a solution, those millions of seeds will be of no use in the real world of the future except in a lab. Assuming we can get to them...
Kids need to learn the concepts. It doesn't have to be with the latest and greatest tools. While The Gimp may not compare to PS, it still teaches you layering, masks, etc. and it is something every kid can get in their home computer. Availability of the tool for a student is more important than a demonstration of something that is beyond their reach except at school. I recommend using software the kids can play with at home and after they complete your course.