Out of curiosity, what country are you from? Because I believe that they are also talking about implementing this foolishness in the UK, home of English:)
When did New Zealand become part of the UK? They're not even in the same hemisphere.
The fact that Google is very good at their core market (search engines and relational databases) and is aggressively entering new markets in a variety of fields, should make them an attractive partner for many federal agencies that cannot seem to get their IT $#!^ together (I'm talking to you, Robert Mueller).
Um, what? I have no idea who wrote the individual drivers and algorithms on my Ubuntu desktop, so why exactly should it matter if it was IBM, Red Hat, or even Microsoft?
You don't think the company that hires the most kernel hackers get to set the direction of the kernel?
Say company R wants to push for an new filesystem, and company O wants to push for a new memory model. Company R has more kernel hackers than company O. Which feature is most likely to find itself in the mainline kernel sooner? Say both companies are pushing for a new memory model. Which company will most likely get their model set as the default?
What can IE's competitors use to differentiate themselves from IE (to the average user) in Vista-land?
Security. I have friends (non-geeks) converting to Firefox because of the security issues in IE. They didn't even know about tabbed browsing until I pointed it out to them.
It doesn't really matter how you are watching the shows, since the only people who counts are the Nielsen households. So, everybody who isn't a Nielsen household could be downloading the shows and it wouldn't impact the ratings.
Probably not. Loki thougth there was a marked and ported some games over to Linux (I bought the SimCity version). They closed shop after three years. Then again, the marked might be a little different now from the way it was four years ago (lots of newbie distros, like Ubuntu, Xandros, Linspire etc, that have brought in non-developers to Linux)
How many foreign companies are there in the UK? Should all those companies also be forced to pack up and go home when the UK companies are forced to stop outsourcing? Or is it just one way? Only domestic companies aren't allowed to outsource. Foreign companies are allowed to outsource to the UK?
An example of the weakness of a true democracy is that, as I have seen mentioned by someone else on Slashdot in the past, 50.0000000000001% of the population could, potentially, vote to have the remaining portion of the American public executed because they don't like them (for whatever reason. race religion, etc.). In the U.S., that pesky thing called the Constitution would stop you from implementing that plan.
And why wouldn't the constitution in a "true" democracy stop this just as well as in a constitutional republic? In most western democracies I've seen, there are certain laws similar to the Bill of Rights that can't be overturned by a simple majority.
You're absolutely correct that the article summary is somewhat statistically (and economically) illiterate. Instead of "Worst Tech CEOs Earn the Most Money," why not "Struggling Companies Pay CEOs Top Dollar to Turn Things Around"?
IBM aren't struggling, are they? I though Lou Gerstner had already turned the company around.
the childrens last name is a combination of the parents name.
same in the Vietnamese culture. Children take both their parents name. Married people don't take their partner's name. Their children take the father's last name for the combination.
So, say father Huynh, mother Vo. Children would have the last name Huynh Vo. Say, children marries someone whose father and mother were Nguyen and Quan respectivelly, then their children would have the last name Huynh Nguyen.
This practice has gone out of use though, especially for people who grew up in the Western world (most of the people I know living in the US or Europe basically decided on a family name, like Huynh, and kept it "simple")
If the HTML code is valid the page should be fully readable in a text based browser.
Bull. This is a valid page that doesn't display properly in text based browser that doesn't support CSS. I don't want the browser to do anything fancy. All I want the browser is to not display certain elements if I don't want to, in other word, support display: none;
Except most text only browsers (links, lynx, w3m) don't understand CSS, which make them useless in my book. At least most PDA browsers understand CSS to remove stuff that shouldn't be there in the smaller screen.
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When did New Zealand become part of the UK? They're not even in the same hemisphere.
I think he mentioned that one of his interview subjects lost. Still did very well, though :-)
Like,
Candidate R: My opponent supports terrorism and hate America!
Candidate D: My opponent is a fascist and hate America!
Probably the only way for him to get a medal.
You don't think the company that hires the most kernel hackers get to set the direction of the kernel?
Say company R wants to push for an new filesystem, and company O wants to push for a new memory model. Company R has more kernel hackers than company O. Which feature is most likely to find itself in the mainline kernel sooner? Say both companies are pushing for a new memory model. Which company will most likely get their model set as the default?
Security. I have friends (non-geeks) converting to Firefox because of the security issues in IE. They didn't even know about tabbed browsing until I pointed it out to them.
It doesn't really matter how you are watching the shows, since the only people who counts are the Nielsen households. So, everybody who isn't a Nielsen household could be downloading the shows and it wouldn't impact the ratings.
They do put a disclaimer in front. Then again, I don't think most people take CNN seriously as a newschannel outside the US.
http://icasualties.org/oif/
About 2600
Why work for $10,000USD/year when you can easily go elsewhere and make 10 times that amount?
$10,000 USD in India probably last longer than $100,000 USD in the US.
Probably not. Loki thougth there was a marked and ported some games over to Linux (I bought the SimCity version). They closed shop after three years. Then again, the marked might be a little different now from the way it was four years ago (lots of newbie distros, like Ubuntu, Xandros, Linspire etc, that have brought in non-developers to Linux)
How many foreign companies are there in the UK? Should all those companies also be forced to pack up and go home when the UK companies are forced to stop outsourcing? Or is it just one way? Only domestic companies aren't allowed to outsource. Foreign companies are allowed to outsource to the UK?
And why wouldn't the constitution in a "true" democracy stop this just as well as in a constitutional republic? In most western democracies I've seen, there are certain laws similar to the Bill of Rights that can't be overturned by a simple majority.
You're absolutely correct that the article summary is somewhat statistically (and economically) illiterate. Instead of "Worst Tech CEOs Earn the Most Money," why not "Struggling Companies Pay CEOs Top Dollar to Turn Things Around"?
IBM aren't struggling, are they? I though Lou Gerstner had already turned the company around.
the childrens last name is a combination of the parents name.
same in the Vietnamese culture. Children take both their parents name. Married people don't take their partner's name.
Their children take the father's last name for the combination.
So, say father Huynh, mother Vo.
Children would have the last name Huynh Vo.
Say, children marries someone whose father and mother were Nguyen and Quan respectivelly, then their children would have the last name Huynh Nguyen.
This practice has gone out of use though, especially for people who grew up in the Western world (most of the people I know living in the US or Europe basically decided on a family name, like Huynh, and kept it "simple")
That's why you have DVR :) Works great with TiVo.
KDE has a mini commandline too. I think Gnome also has something similar.
Brazilian babes at the World Cup
Swedish babes
Trinidad & Tobago babes
Italian babes
I take you wouldn't have a problem hiring a neo-nazi, who spends his free time at KKK rallies as long as he's the best candidate for the job?
East Germany was formally named German Democratic Republic. I'm guessing that makes them democratic in your book.
Ubuntu removed the MTA, and it seems to work properly. I used to think a MTA was required on the desktop, but I'm not convinced anymore.
If the HTML code is valid the page should be fully readable in a text based browser.
Bull. This is a valid page that doesn't display properly in text based browser that doesn't support CSS. I don't want the browser to do anything fancy. All I want the browser is to not display certain elements if I don't want to, in other word, support display: none;
Except most text only browsers (links, lynx, w3m) don't understand CSS, which make them useless in my book. At least most PDA browsers understand CSS to remove stuff that shouldn't be there in the smaller screen.
You don't think Joe Average found Firefox by himself, don't you ?
One of my friends, who has no interests in computers at all (other than as a tool), uses Firefox. Installed it himself. You would be surprised.
The BankofAmerica website even works with Konqueror.