You do realize that a tree does not block all sunlight in a everywhere under its brances? Indeed, it is often very bright, even in the shadow from a tree -- certainly bright enough to run a solar cell. There is also the issue of the angle of sunlight. Most of the day, the sunlight is likely to come from the side (not the top) of the tree.
As I understand the issue, the "update" added an extension to FF, even if the toolbar weren't installed in the first place. So, the problem you sketch isn't there. MS update can place the dll on the users system, and if the user install the toolbar on FF, the MSN toolbar can simply reference the dll. If the toolbar needs to be updated, Windows Update can handle it.
Unless I missed something, the "update" doesn't patch an existing piece of software. It *adds* an extension to Firefox where none were earlier. If the old MSN toolbar were subject to a vulnerability, and I had it installed on IE, I would expect Microsoft to update the IE extension, *not* to add a new extension to FF.
The Search Enhancement Pack is a shared component used by the Windows Live Toolbar, MSN Toolbar, and Bing Bar. This component enables toolbar search functionality, like the toolbar search suggestions drop down. It is not the toolbar. It is a component used by the toolbars.
And this explains why it was silently added to Firefox how? Wouldn't the reasonable way of accomplishing this be to download the pack with the extensions in question?
Not to mention that nanites can hack everything and gain collective consciousness and destroy humanity in their hivemind mentality, before they make great big nano-spaceships to colonize the Cosmos.
Maybe we need more regulation. Maybe we don't. It's kinda hard to tell when it appears that absolutely NONE of it was followed.
That sounds an awful lot like an argument for more regulation, particularly regulation involving regular safety inspections by inspectors on government payrolls.
Norway is not Socialist. It is Social Democratic, that is, the economic and political system can be summarized by the popular catch phrase Capitalism with a human face.
However, it is in fact how all communisms implemented in the real world have ended up.
It should be noted, however, that where Marx envisioned that Communism would be implemented by a working class revolution in the advanced economies, only one "Communist" revolution comes close to have been lead by the working class: Russia 1917. At the time Russia were an overwhelmingly agrarian society - if memory serves the industrial proletariat consisted of 2-4 % of the entire population. The ensuing civil war against the nobility, digruntled peasants and foreign invaders left the industrial proletariat decimated and industry collapsed. Pretty much all other "Communist" revolutions were either lead by a peasant based army (China) or a middle class guerrilla (Cuba - note that the Cuban revolution weren't declared Communist until 2 years after the actual revolution).
My point? Pointing at those nations and concluding that Communism does not work is somewhat similar to putting a dog in the water, make it mate with another dog, note that the offspring did not develop fins and conclude that Darwinian evolution does not work. There is no direct empirical evidence to support your claims that Communism equals Totalitarianism. Similarly, there is no direct empirical evidence to support the claim that Communism does not equal Totalitarianism.
Also if you really think that social class per Marx exists in America today, it tells me you spend far too much time absorbed in a philosophy you want to be true, and not enough time examining the evidence. The biggest difference is that there is complete class mobility.
Marx divided the classes due to their relationship to production. Those who controlled production (Capitalists, nobility, etc) and those who did not (workers, peasants, etc). Do you seriously think that everyone has an equal control over production? And complete class mobility? Do you seriously believe that? As far as I know, all serious inquires into the subject show that people from privileged backgrounds have a much better chances of ending up in a privileged position than those from common or even poor backgrounds and vice versa. Regardless of their ability (yes, some studies have actually investigated that as well). It is not impossible to change class, but an important part of what makes Capitalism highly dynamic, which were noted by Marx in his analysis of the Capitalist system.
I'm not dissing your whole idea here, but the infrastructure to provide the movies the way you describe IS a distribution channel, and has it's own costs. Costs which are not necessarily cheaper than pressing a bunch of dvd's and sending them out.
No offence, but P2P methods have managed to distribute content at pretty much zero cost. Are you telling me that the entertainment industry is incapable of competing with that?
Alas, only if the recordings does not "mysteriously" disappear or are edited to remove unfortunate incidents. And that the officers learn that crossing the line has an effect. Indeed, the usage of mobile phones with video cameras have put the Danish police in a pinch more than once. About a year ago, a police officer were recorded beating up a sitting female protester. Notably, he kept hitting her when she got up and ran. Last I heard, he got of the hook.
I live just south of Norway (in Denmark), and here the police carry guns. In the last decade, the Danish police have been shooting and killing a few citizens in questionable circumstances, but police officers have managed to get off the hook every time. A few years back this state of affairs were used to argue that the police should be equipped with pepper spray. The argument were that if the police had something between the nightstick and the gun, they might use that instead of the gun. That, however, did not happen. Police usage of guns have not decreased, but usage of pepper spray has exploded, and we have police officers spraying pepper spray into the faces of citizens who are sitting on their asses. The point here is that giving the police extra tools of this sort, as you guessed, means that the tool will often to be used in place of a less dangerous tool. I urge you (and your fellow countrymen/women) to fight hard to keep the police unarmed. It does not help much in fighting crime, it clears the field for adding more weapons to the police, and it is difficult to disarm the police at a later time. Not to mention that an armed police force breeds distrust among the *police* towards the dangerous citizens - why else would they have guns in the first place?
was it that you found so incredibly difficult to understand? Should I be a troll and ask people to mod you down for not reading the post you responded to? Naturally, I will not. You probably had a bad day, to little coffee and a bad nights sleep.
Well, I wouldn't want my work to be used to kill and maim someone, and I'm sure a lot of other people feel the same way. The licence may be a bit to restrictive for my tastes, as I have no objection to testing medicine on animals, but I wouldn't mind telling the military (of whatever nation) to go screw themselves. Naturally, that would assume that the military would honor the licence (and want to use something I wrote), but that is another story entirely.
I would say that it is the other way around: A significant portion of Jupiters surface has changed color from reddish to white-ish, suggesting that it emits more light, and, hence, more energy. It follows that the disappearance of SEB will counteract the cooling due to sunspots. I for one am looking forward to a warm summer!
Indeed. Whenever I hear the theory that the building blocks of life came from asteroids, I can't help being reminded of another "popular" theory: That the pyramids were built by aliens, and not by the Egyptians (or, possibly, their slaves). I'll check out the video when I get the time.
PS3: You get 5 downloads, tied to the purchasing PSN account. This can be onto your console, or the consoles of bunches of friends. If you choose to download to the consoles of a group of friends, you won't be able to re-download in the future if your console dies. As the grandparent poster pointed out, this leads to sharing groups on PSN... groups of friends who buy once, share 5 times.
I would add a few extra advantages to this (from Sonys point of view). As the games (from the point of view of the user) are cheaper the more people you are to share, a PS3 user may try to convince friends to get a PS3 instead of an XBox. Cheaper games also mean a larger throughput. If a game cost $15, it is much easier to buy than if it cost $60. If five friends use this trick to get 6 games instead of one each (5 in all), Sony has still made an extra sale.
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You do realize that a tree does not block all sunlight in a everywhere under its brances? Indeed, it is often very bright, even in the shadow from a tree -- certainly bright enough to run a solar cell. There is also the issue of the angle of sunlight. Most of the day, the sunlight is likely to come from the side (not the top) of the tree.
As I understand the issue, the "update" added an extension to FF, even if the toolbar weren't installed in the first place. So, the problem you sketch isn't there. MS update can place the dll on the users system, and if the user install the toolbar on FF, the MSN toolbar can simply reference the dll. If the toolbar needs to be updated, Windows Update can handle it.
Unless I missed something, the "update" doesn't patch an existing piece of software. It *adds* an extension to Firefox where none were earlier. If the old MSN toolbar were subject to a vulnerability, and I had it installed on IE, I would expect Microsoft to update the IE extension, *not* to add a new extension to FF.
The Search Enhancement Pack is a shared component used by the Windows Live Toolbar, MSN Toolbar, and Bing Bar. This component enables toolbar search functionality, like the toolbar search suggestions drop down. It is not the toolbar. It is a component used by the toolbars.
And this explains why it was silently added to Firefox how? Wouldn't the reasonable way of accomplishing this be to download the pack with the extensions in question?
Or even worse, goes to the movies ... I wonder if the attendants will try to rip out his bionic eye and accidentally get the biologic eye ... ?
the revival of Duke Nukem, and it looks like neither will happen anytime soon
There is only one sensible reaction from a sensible person:
Noooooooooooooooo! Why, oh why? Nooooooooooooo!
Repeat until nauseous
So, one and a half people don't know math? Whew, I were afraid we were in real trouble.
Not to mention that nanites can hack everything and gain collective consciousness and destroy humanity in their hivemind mentality, before they make great big nano-spaceships to colonize the Cosmos.
Maybe we need more regulation. Maybe we don't. It's kinda hard to tell when it appears that absolutely NONE of it was followed.
That sounds an awful lot like an argument for more regulation, particularly regulation involving regular safety inspections by inspectors on government payrolls.
Don't patents only last 10-15 years? Or maybe that is your point?
So, Windows XP would suffice?
Norway is not Socialist. It is Social Democratic, that is, the economic and political system can be summarized by the popular catch phrase Capitalism with a human face.
However, it is in fact how all communisms implemented in the real world have ended up.
It should be noted, however, that where Marx envisioned that Communism would be implemented by a working class revolution in the advanced economies, only one "Communist" revolution comes close to have been lead by the working class: Russia 1917. At the time Russia were an overwhelmingly agrarian society - if memory serves the industrial proletariat consisted of 2-4 % of the entire population. The ensuing civil war against the nobility, digruntled peasants and foreign invaders left the industrial proletariat decimated and industry collapsed. Pretty much all other "Communist" revolutions were either lead by a peasant based army (China) or a middle class guerrilla (Cuba - note that the Cuban revolution weren't declared Communist until 2 years after the actual revolution).
My point? Pointing at those nations and concluding that Communism does not work is somewhat similar to putting a dog in the water, make it mate with another dog, note that the offspring did not develop fins and conclude that Darwinian evolution does not work. There is no direct empirical evidence to support your claims that Communism equals Totalitarianism. Similarly, there is no direct empirical evidence to support the claim that Communism does not equal Totalitarianism.
Also if you really think that social class per Marx exists in America today, it tells me you spend far too much time absorbed in a philosophy you want to be true, and not enough time examining the evidence. The biggest difference is that there is complete class mobility.
Marx divided the classes due to their relationship to production. Those who controlled production (Capitalists, nobility, etc) and those who did not (workers, peasants, etc). Do you seriously think that everyone has an equal control over production? And complete class mobility? Do you seriously believe that? As far as I know, all serious inquires into the subject show that people from privileged backgrounds have a much better chances of ending up in a privileged position than those from common or even poor backgrounds and vice versa. Regardless of their ability (yes, some studies have actually investigated that as well). It is not impossible to change class, but an important part of what makes Capitalism highly dynamic, which were noted by Marx in his analysis of the Capitalist system.
I'm not dissing your whole idea here, but the infrastructure to provide the movies the way you describe IS a distribution channel, and has it's own costs. Costs which are not necessarily cheaper than pressing a bunch of dvd's and sending them out.
No offence, but P2P methods have managed to distribute content at pretty much zero cost. Are you telling me that the entertainment industry is incapable of competing with that?
Alas, only if the recordings does not "mysteriously" disappear or are edited to remove unfortunate incidents. And that the officers learn that crossing the line has an effect. Indeed, the usage of mobile phones with video cameras have put the Danish police in a pinch more than once. About a year ago, a police officer were recorded beating up a sitting female protester. Notably, he kept hitting her when she got up and ran. Last I heard, he got of the hook.
I live just south of Norway (in Denmark), and here the police carry guns. In the last decade, the Danish police have been shooting and killing a few citizens in questionable circumstances, but police officers have managed to get off the hook every time. A few years back this state of affairs were used to argue that the police should be equipped with pepper spray. The argument were that if the police had something between the nightstick and the gun, they might use that instead of the gun. That, however, did not happen. Police usage of guns have not decreased, but usage of pepper spray has exploded, and we have police officers spraying pepper spray into the faces of citizens who are sitting on their asses. The point here is that giving the police extra tools of this sort, as you guessed, means that the tool will often to be used in place of a less dangerous tool. I urge you (and your fellow countrymen/women) to fight hard to keep the police unarmed. It does not help much in fighting crime, it clears the field for adding more weapons to the police, and it is difficult to disarm the police at a later time. Not to mention that an armed police force breeds distrust among the *police* towards the dangerous citizens - why else would they have guns in the first place?
military (of whatever nation)
was it that you found so incredibly difficult to understand? Should I be a troll and ask people to mod you down for not reading the post you responded to? Naturally, I will not. You probably had a bad day, to little coffee and a bad nights sleep.
Well, I wouldn't want my work to be used to kill and maim someone, and I'm sure a lot of other people feel the same way. The licence may be a bit to restrictive for my tastes, as I have no objection to testing medicine on animals, but I wouldn't mind telling the military (of whatever nation) to go screw themselves. Naturally, that would assume that the military would honor the licence (and want to use something I wrote), but that is another story entirely.
I would say that it is the other way around: A significant portion of Jupiters surface has changed color from reddish to white-ish, suggesting that it emits more light, and, hence, more energy. It follows that the disappearance of SEB will counteract the cooling due to sunspots. I for one am looking forward to a warm summer!
Indeed. Whenever I hear the theory that the building blocks of life came from asteroids, I can't help being reminded of another "popular" theory: That the pyramids were built by aliens, and not by the Egyptians (or, possibly, their slaves). I'll check out the video when I get the time.
If I say Yes, do I get the job?
And then you haven't even mentioned the CO2 cost of producing/recycling paper, as well as transport to and from the consumer.
It's the drivers that resist slipstreaming that I find problematic
How does a driver resist slipstreaming? And which drivers have you experienced these problems with?
Fortunately, someone came up with the idea of slipstreaming the drivers into the Windows CD/DVD.
PS3: You get 5 downloads, tied to the purchasing PSN account. This can be onto your console, or the consoles of bunches of friends. If you choose to download to the consoles of a group of friends, you won't be able to re-download in the future if your console dies. As the grandparent poster pointed out, this leads to sharing groups on PSN... groups of friends who buy once, share 5 times.
I would add a few extra advantages to this (from Sonys point of view). As the games (from the point of view of the user) are cheaper the more people you are to share, a PS3 user may try to convince friends to get a PS3 instead of an XBox. Cheaper games also mean a larger throughput. If a game cost $15, it is much easier to buy than if it cost $60. If five friends use this trick to get 6 games instead of one each (5 in all), Sony has still made an extra sale.