From what little I understand of CTS, it involves the wrist just not having the neural bandwidth to handle too much activity on the part of the hand. Don't know how swinging a hammer could cause problems, unless positioning the nail required a lot of effort...
We're just not evolved for doing that sort of thing. They should make an input device that mimics the tools that we ARE evolved to use, like chopping flint handaxes. Not sure how it could be done though.
Gravenreuth against Linux Distributor SuSE
After Samba and kIllustrator now a further open SOURCE program employs the lawyers. The attorney Guenter Frhr. v. Gravenreuth obtained a provisional order against the German Linux Distributor SuSE before the regional court Munich. The cause seems to be one on the SuSE d referenzierte open SOURCE often commodity. Gravenreuth let obvious forbid to the Nuernberger enterprise judicially to deliver its Linux distribution further as long as on it the disputed program name is contained. For SuSE from it a substantial financial loss could arise, if the copies already produced could not be issued any longer.
Frhr. v. Gravenreuth acknowledged on demand a provisional order against the indication of an open SOURCE often commodity to have received. It did not want to call further details however, since its mandator " with the opponent agree " become and require no denomination. Christian Egle, press speaker of the SuSE GmbH, explained, his enterprise in the next days as the affair will express themselves. ( odi / c't)
I'm not accusing atheists of selfishly abusing others, I'm just suggesting that behavior of that sort is not entirely inconsistent with the lack of objective measurements of right and wrong.
It's also not inconsistent with history; both Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union were fiercely atheistic (though the former had a sort of state-run official church, but even they weren't that serious about it)
Actually they set aside the money to help bailout the airlines, and a lot of it might not get spent. Airline executives are starting to realize that they're not going to just get free money; to accept loan guarantees, for example, requires meeting several qualifications. i.e. they're not allowed to give themselves bonuses this year. And it won't cost us anything unless they can't repay their loans.
MIS/CIS also tends to place an emphasis on business/management. Learn to be a Pointy Haired Boss who can't tell the difference between an Etch-A-Sketch and a laptop! "Shake it to reboot."
And who works shorter hours and makes a lot more money than most CS code monkeys.
As China grows, it is going to come under incredible political pressure as it's citizens become wealthier and have more expectations for freedom - the government will either become opressive internally or lash out (at Tiwan most likely)
Actually the PRC government has already started channeling it against the west in general and the US in particular. They've had the propaganda machine going for years saying that all China's problems are a result of western imperialism. Nothing new about that, but now they're playing to feelings of nationalism rather than communist fervor.
To what windowing system are you referring? X was first written long before little Billy's Windows 1.0 was released. And in any case, Apple had it first.
Fine, they ripped off X. Which (surprise surprise) is from the USA too, so the point still stands...
yet the US standard of living continues to edge upwards.
Because Americans continue to work longer and longer days, with more family members working (look at how few stay-at-home parents there are these days, and how early children these days get jobs). And look at how many factory jobs have been lost in this country over the past 3 decades as corporations move their operations to slave-labor-friendly countries.
In conclusion, I think there's a general misconception about outsourcing, caused by the false assumption that cheaper always means worse.
Actually I don't think that's true at all. There seems to be a belief among some US IT managers that overseas programmers are not only cheaper but better. I think it may be a result of either the rampant belief here that our educational system cannot produce first-rate technologists (wrong of course), or that foreign programmers are by necessity more single-minded and eager to put in those long hours (again, not necessarily true, it comes down to the individual).
Reaaal mature there sonny. I haven't even seen the damn movie, I'm just curious as to why they'd supposedly follow the book so closely, then start making stuff up.
I hardly think the "how" is a mystery. The why is equally obvious: More money == more power == more control. And we all know (don't we Mr. Gates?) that more control is a Very Good Thing (TM)... for the person or agency who holds that control!
Record company executives make Bill Gates look like the Dalai Lama.
Gonna have to disagree on this. We did not need Yet Another Elf who would show up, do one thing, and vanish without any explanation. It makes a lot of sense to put Glorfindel's role into Arwen's.
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No no no. We are a democracy and a republic; the two things are NOT mutually exclusive.
From what little I understand of CTS, it involves the wrist just not having the neural bandwidth to handle too much activity on the part of the hand. Don't know how swinging a hammer could cause problems, unless positioning the nail required a lot of effort...
We're just not evolved for doing that sort of thing. They should make an input device that mimics the tools that we ARE evolved to use, like chopping flint handaxes. Not sure how it could be done though.
Probably not. Unless /dev/hda in your case is 100 bytes, and zeosync's claims are accurate.
Babelfish translation:
Gravenreuth against Linux Distributor SuSE
After Samba and kIllustrator now a further open SOURCE program employs the lawyers. The attorney Guenter Frhr. v. Gravenreuth obtained a provisional order against the German Linux Distributor SuSE before the regional court Munich. The cause seems to be one on the SuSE d referenzierte open SOURCE often commodity. Gravenreuth let obvious forbid to the Nuernberger enterprise judicially to deliver its Linux distribution further as long as on it the disputed program name is contained. For SuSE from it a substantial financial loss could arise, if the copies already produced could not be issued any longer.
Frhr. v. Gravenreuth acknowledged on demand a provisional order against the indication of an open SOURCE often commodity to have received. It did not want to call further details however, since its mandator " with the opponent agree " become and require no denomination. Christian Egle, press speaker of the SuSE GmbH, explained, his enterprise in the next days as the affair will express themselves. ( odi / c't)
Does OSDN own stock in altavista or something?
Why, the GPL of course. They'll make the money selling their services maintaining the mathematical algorithm.
Hope that gene pool doesn't need math skills. 150 million is more like 1.8% of an 8.2 billion market cap.
Steve Jobs is terrific at just that, Creating Desire.
Good god yes. I saw a pic of this and instantly felt the familiar sensation of total geek lust.
I'm not accusing atheists of selfishly abusing others, I'm just suggesting that behavior of that sort is not entirely inconsistent with the lack of objective measurements of right and wrong.
It's also not inconsistent with history; both Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union were fiercely atheistic (though the former had a sort of state-run official church, but even they weren't that serious about it)
Warmer seas melt polar ice, polar ice firmly entrenched on land doe not melt, and only is pushed off by new ice formation.
Wow, if ice is entrenched on land, it never melts? Amazing. So if I took a blowtorch to it, nothing would happen?
Land based glaciers often melt during the spring. With a high enough increase in temperatures, they'll melt faster, and won't refreeze in the winter.
Actually they set aside the money to help bailout the airlines, and a lot of it might not get spent. Airline executives are starting to realize that they're not going to just get free money; to accept loan guarantees, for example, requires meeting several qualifications. i.e. they're not allowed to give themselves bonuses this year. And it won't cost us anything unless they can't repay their loans.
MIS/CIS also tends to place an emphasis on business/management. Learn to be a Pointy Haired Boss who can't tell the difference between an Etch-A-Sketch and a laptop! "Shake it to reboot."
And who works shorter hours and makes a lot more money than most CS code monkeys.
Depends on the school. Some places computer engineering and computer science is used interchangeably.
That's probably why IBM sees no problem in decreasing RPMs on the microdrive. Probably doesn't effect performance much.
As China grows, it is going to come under incredible political pressure as it's citizens become wealthier and have more expectations for freedom - the government will either become opressive internally or lash out (at Tiwan most likely)
Actually the PRC government has already started channeling it against the west in general and the US in particular. They've had the propaganda machine going for years saying that all China's problems are a result of western imperialism. Nothing new about that, but now they're playing to feelings of nationalism rather than communist fervor.
To what windowing system are you referring? X was first written long before little Billy's Windows 1.0 was released. And in any case, Apple had it first.
Fine, they ripped off X. Which (surprise surprise) is from the USA too, so the point still stands...
yet the US standard of living continues to edge upwards.
Because Americans continue to work longer and longer days, with more family members working (look at how few stay-at-home parents there are these days, and how early children these days get jobs). And look at how many factory jobs have been lost in this country over the past 3 decades as corporations move their operations to slave-labor-friendly countries.
No, mundane jobs usually lead to more mundane jobs.
In conclusion, I think there's a general misconception about outsourcing, caused by the false assumption that cheaper always means worse.
Actually I don't think that's true at all. There seems to be a belief among some US IT managers that overseas programmers are not only cheaper but better. I think it may be a result of either the rampant belief here that our educational system cannot produce first-rate technologists (wrong of course), or that foreign programmers are by necessity more single-minded and eager to put in those long hours (again, not necessarily true, it comes down to the individual).
Geeze, don't be so paranoid, nobody's accusing you of being a communist...
Reaaal mature there sonny. I haven't even seen the damn movie, I'm just curious as to why they'd supposedly follow the book so closely, then start making stuff up.
So make it Glorfindel. Why the hell change it to Arwen anyway?
I hardly think the "how" is a mystery. The why is equally obvious: More money == more power == more control. And we all know (don't we Mr. Gates?) that more control is a Very Good Thing (TM)... for the person or agency who holds that control!
Record company executives make Bill Gates look like the Dalai Lama.
I don't have a problem with cutting things out, but there's no reason to put in stuff that wasn't in the book.
Gonna have to disagree on this. We did not need Yet Another Elf who would show up, do one thing, and vanish without any explanation. It makes a lot of sense to put Glorfindel's role into Arwen's.
If it did why didn't Tolkien do it?