Actually, it's pronounced Coburn because he's from Scotland and apparantly that's how they pronounce it there. He starts nearly every talk by explaining how to say it correctly:)
Fortunately, these young people will not be able to afford to drive these out of their driveway. Why not? A gallon of gas costs EU 6.24 here in The Netherlands (which is $9.73) and while SUVs were never that popular here (and their popularity is declining) I still see quite a few of them every day.
Does anybody actually believe that before there were 10-minute web-based tests, everybody used to go out and read all the different parties' complete programs and base their decision on a comprehensive analysis of them all? Ofcourse not, people used to base it on soundbytes and whether someone appears to be trustworthy. So from that perspective, using a 10-minute test to base your choice on some actually relevant political issues is a great step forward.
I remember somewhere halfway through the 90s that a co-worker who did research into search technologies got the "idea" to just crawl the web looking for references to stuff you were interested in. It was pretty obvious, but he wanted to back everything up in case he wanted to recrawl it searching for something else.
One day our internet connection was down and we went up to him asking: "the net connection is down, could we use your internet backup instead?" He was not amused, we were:)
Come to think of it, I'm not sure what he's up to nowadays...
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Back in december, Tom's Hardware managed to get two dual-GPU GeForce 7800 cards working on a regular SLI-board. In their bechmarks the performance increase was quite good. Although not worth the money ofcourse, but none of the high-end gaming cards are.
If MS really wants the.Net Framework to be adopted by the end user (note I didn't write 'developers'), they should make any installation issues a breeze.
Instead of spouting a list of things where IE *might* suck more than FF, perhaps you should just provide those numbers and let them speak. TFA states hard facts, facts that shouldn't be ignored, even if it's not part of the usual anti-MS mood everyone's in. If you want to prove those facts wrong, put some numbers on the table yourself.
What this means is both that some grumpy social worker, on bad day, can flag a kid for life, and there is no way for anyone to put a judgement on the social workers decision.
What does the fact that the system work with flags have to do with how these flags are placed? You have no information at all about the process that sets these flags, so how a single social worker could do this, how this would flag someone for life, etc. has absolutely nothing to do with how it works technically.
My experience with the Dutch government is that they have extensive auditing on all these kinds of activities, monitored by independent control boards.
Teachers don't have access to the database. The only ones with access to your old information is people who have access to your current information already. So in effect, the only change is for people that move. For people that don't move, everything stays the same.
What is really going on is that the already existing files of different agencies are being coupled in an attempt to keep children in difficult situations from falling off the radar when for instance they move to a different city. Child protection services often didn't know about children moving into the city with problems in their past - in the old database the record would be closed and they wouldn't turn up in the new one until something actually happened (which is usually too late).
So I hope this is not interpreted as a terrible invasion of privacy - all the information is already collected by local governments. The only change is that moving from one local government's area to another doesn't mean those services lose all information.
I'm a typical Nintendo fanboy in the sense that I had my DS imported from the US when it came out (I live in the EU), got Mario64 with it and later a couple more games. But I'm afraid to say that I've actually been playing with my GBA SP again lately.
The DS is just too big, the games suck (Mario64 is a brilliant game, which is why I played it to pieces back on the N64 and can't be bothered with it anymore) and the whole stylus/microphone/multiscreen-stuff is just a joke.
The reason this console came out the way it did is obvious to me: Nintendo saw the PSP coming and decided to dump another handheld on the market before it would arrive (at least outside Japan) so that kids could get that one from their parents and get a "you already have a DS!" from their parents when the PSP came out.
Everything about it smells of this: two screens instead of one. Better gameplay? Nope, quicker to make, less risk, lower production cost (to make it extra enticing as a PSP alternative), microphones and stylus? Again low-cost short-term appeal crap hidden behind "innovation".
Back when Nintendo and Sega were kings of the console world it was Nintendo that held back their new stuff confident that quality would win in the end. Unfortunately, these days it's Nintendo that tries to gain the first mover advantage. So effectively they've become the new Sega. Anyone remember what happened to their console business?
Sergey and Brin take their job very serious. Organizing and delivering a whole world's information/thoughts/opinions is a HUGE responsibility, yet they've carried it and with dignity.
These two have done great things yes, but don't downplay the work of two other great minds, Larry and Page.
Lots of posters here seem to think that once the judge finds out who's "behind" SCO that something will happen. But why would there? Suppose they find a document where an Intel executive advises SCO to sue IBM? That's not against the law at all.
It's interesting for us to find out who's behind all of this, but not to the judge. These documents are only going to be needed because IBM thinks there's something there about licensing etc. deals. Not about helping out SCO or whatever.
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Actually, it's pronounced Coburn because he's from Scotland and apparantly that's how they pronounce it there. He starts nearly every talk by explaining how to say it correctly :)
Considering that internet search and online advertising are exactly the places they don't dominate, I don't see why regulators would object.
Does anybody actually believe that before there were 10-minute web-based tests, everybody used to go out and read all the different parties' complete programs and base their decision on a comprehensive analysis of them all? Ofcourse not, people used to base it on soundbytes and whether someone appears to be trustworthy. So from that perspective, using a 10-minute test to base your choice on some actually relevant political issues is a great step forward.
I remember somewhere halfway through the 90s that a co-worker who did research into search technologies got the "idea" to just crawl the web looking for references to stuff you were interested in. It was pretty obvious, but he wanted to back everything up in case he wanted to recrawl it searching for something else.
:)
One day our internet connection was down and we went up to him asking: "the net connection is down, could we use your internet backup instead?" He was not amused, we were
Come to think of it, I'm not sure what he's up to nowadays...
Back in december, Tom's Hardware managed to get two dual-GPU GeForce 7800 cards working on a regular SLI-board. In their bechmarks the performance increase was quite good. Although not worth the money ofcourse, but none of the high-end gaming cards are.
the SQL programming language
It's a query language. Ffs, the name even says so.
Although, on second thought, the name also says it's structured.
Audiophiles. These people spend money on the strangest things.
It's a structural solution from now on, so yeah, this time everybody's still screwed, just like before Java Web Start :)
If MS really wants the .Net Framework to be adopted by the end user (note I didn't write 'developers'), they should make any installation issues a breeze.
They have, it's called ClickOnce.
Actually, it's rolling in here at ~200kb/s all the way to Europe. Although at ~3GB for VS2005 alone, it's still taking a while.
Just go to the FAQ and click the link at the bottom...
Instead of spouting a list of things where IE *might* suck more than FF, perhaps you should just provide those numbers and let them speak. TFA states hard facts, facts that shouldn't be ignored, even if it's not part of the usual anti-MS mood everyone's in. If you want to prove those facts wrong, put some numbers on the table yourself.
What this means is both that some grumpy social worker, on bad day, can flag a kid for life, and there is no way for anyone to put a judgement on the social workers decision.
What does the fact that the system work with flags have to do with how these flags are placed? You have no information at all about the process that sets these flags, so how a single social worker could do this, how this would flag someone for life, etc. has absolutely nothing to do with how it works technically.
My experience with the Dutch government is that they have extensive auditing on all these kinds of activities, monitored by independent control boards.
Teachers don't have access to the database. The only ones with access to your old information is people who have access to your current information already. So in effect, the only change is for people that move. For people that don't move, everything stays the same.
What is really going on is that the already existing files of different agencies are being coupled in an attempt to keep children in difficult situations from falling off the radar when for instance they move to a different city. Child protection services often didn't know about children moving into the city with problems in their past - in the old database the record would be closed and they wouldn't turn up in the new one until something actually happened (which is usually too late).
So I hope this is not interpreted as a terrible invasion of privacy - all the information is already collected by local governments. The only change is that moving from one local government's area to another doesn't mean those services lose all information.
Nothing like handing Microsoft some talking points, Bruce. Way to go.
So you prefer security through obscurity? If nobody knows we can easily get screwed over it matters less?
I'm a typical Nintendo fanboy in the sense that I had my DS imported from the US when it came out (I live in the EU), got Mario64 with it and later a couple more games. But I'm afraid to say that I've actually been playing with my GBA SP again lately.
The DS is just too big, the games suck (Mario64 is a brilliant game, which is why I played it to pieces back on the N64 and can't be bothered with it anymore) and the whole stylus/microphone/multiscreen-stuff is just a joke.
The reason this console came out the way it did is obvious to me: Nintendo saw the PSP coming and decided to dump another handheld on the market before it would arrive (at least outside Japan) so that kids could get that one from their parents and get a "you already have a DS!" from their parents when the PSP came out.
Everything about it smells of this: two screens instead of one. Better gameplay? Nope, quicker to make, less risk, lower production cost (to make it extra enticing as a PSP alternative), microphones and stylus? Again low-cost short-term appeal crap hidden behind "innovation".
Back when Nintendo and Sega were kings of the console world it was Nintendo that held back their new stuff confident that quality would win in the end. Unfortunately, these days it's Nintendo that tries to gain the first mover advantage. So effectively they've become the new Sega. Anyone remember what happened to their console business?
and it doesn't make their RSS-files incompatible with "standard" readers.
appears to be the whole point of this tool anyway.
Because the BSD license explicitly allows them to do this.
These two have done great things yes, but don't downplay the work of two other great minds, Larry and Page.
Well, Google is extremely important with regards to the internet, regardless of whether there would be alternatives if they didn't exist.
But in general (as the posting claims)? I think that's overestimating the importance of the internet as a whole, at least in the current situation.
Lots of posters here seem to think that once the judge finds out who's "behind" SCO that something will happen. But why would there? Suppose they find a document where an Intel executive advises SCO to sue IBM? That's not against the law at all.
It's interesting for us to find out who's behind all of this, but not to the judge. These documents are only going to be needed because IBM thinks there's something there about licensing etc. deals. Not about helping out SCO or whatever.
Such as Sharpreader and RSSBandit. See Wikipedia's News aggregator entry for a lot of good ones.