By saying that it's ok for men to be seen topless but not women implies that men are unable to control themselves, while women are. That's a double-dose of sexism - women's bodies are shameful and must be covered up, while men are brutish and incapable of controlling themselves.
1) The old Windows 9x lack of security, which lead an awful lot of programmers to assume that their software would have full access to the filesystem, OS, etc - this is so ingrained that it's taking a long time to be beaten out of some programmers
2) Having by far the largest desktop market share, it attracts the most programmers; the law of averages dictates that a lot of them are going to be pretty bad at it.
There is no silver bullet; while some languages, technologies and OSes may encourage good programming practices, it is entirely possible to write god-awful shite using/targeting any of them.
Because in the search engine arena, Google is the 200lb gorilla. If it bought out Yahoo, that would essentially kill competition.
With MS and Yahoo teaming up, that creates a single search company that while still smaller than Google is in a much better position to compete with it than Bing would have been against Google/Yahoo.
Sometimes fewer competitors leads to increased competition, if two or more small competitors merge to become one entity with sufficient resources to be able to actually compete effectively.
Yes, but the people working for (and in charge of) the print part of the business are not the same as those involved with the digital part. Each department is no doubt charged with maximising profit from their department, and with maximising the profit of the organisation as a whole.
It's an unusual person who would say "You know what I think? I think my department is antiquated and should be phased out; if you want to succeed, your best chance is to fire me and all my employees" - especially when their department is still making money, and at one point was the *only* department.
That doesn't excuse the next person up the chain from not seeing that, of course.
The school has no jurisdiction over the home or anywhere else that isn't the school.
I agree with what you mean, but the school does have "jurisdiction" over the children when they're not on school premises if they're on a school trip or other school-sponsored or school-controlled activity.
Further, the cameras/mics could be used to spy on anyone in the house, including adults who are not in any way, shape, or form under the guardianship of the school. So any argument about guardianship is moot.
I'm no lawyer, but as I understand it schools have guardianship of children due to in loco parentis. While the child is in the care of their actual parents/guardians, the school's responsibilities no longer apply.
Therefore there is no argument about guardianship, it does not apply while the child is not in the direct care of the school. (Yes of course if the school has reason to believe that a child is being mistreated at home, etc, they should take their concerns to the appropriate authorities, just as anyone else should, but that's nothing to do with guardianship)
Many of the technologies that we have now owe their existence to space technology...
What REALLY needs to be cut is military and weapons funding.
While I agree with you, you should bear in mind that many advances in medicine, surgery and our understanding of anatomy owe their existence to war. A lot of knowledge was gained on how the visual cortex works by performing tests on soldiers with localised gun shot wounds to the head, for example.
Does that make up for the money and human cost? I don't know; I doubt it personally, but I have no hard figures. I'm just pointing out that your same argument for space technology can be made for military spending too.
Nevertheless, the original post appears to me to be factually correct, unless you're disputing "he cheated" and would prefer something more like "He was accused of cheating".
Floyd Landis (born October 14, 1975) is an American cyclist, from Farmersville, Pennsylvania, best known for being disqualified for a doping offense after finishing first in the 2006 Tour de France.
Whenever anyone questions the value of a particular line of scientific enquiry I remind that we had lasers sat around in research labs for a long time before anyone thought of anything useful to do with them. Now the average person has a few at home, and they form part of the backbone of our entire communications network.
Just because we can't think of anything practical to do with it now doesn't mean it won't be life-changing at some point in the future.
The textbook is copyrightable, as these is creative work involved in taking the facts and presenting them in the text. The facts themselves are not copyrightable; it is not possible to prevent someone else from describing the same facts in their own words.
So, the fact that Einstein developed the Theory of Relativity is not copyrightable. A given description of it and of the process by which he developed it is, but feel free to write your own in your own words and publish that.
On a related note, courts tend to take a rather dim view of people trying to take the piss and exploit clever word play to try to get around a law like that. It also takes you well out of "I'm sorry, I didn't realise it was wrong..." and squarely into culpable intent territory, which is likely to up the consequences to the higher end of the scale.
Actually, London is a problem - it is spaghetti under the streets and a lot of areas have poor connectivity.
I live in Elm Park, out in the east of London - essentially Essex (I have an Essex postcode and phone area code, but a Tube station a couple of minutes walk away and live in a London Borough). For a few years I had ADSL over a BT line, which was fine at 512Kbps. Then my ISP upgraded everyone to a 2Mbps connection, and I suffered frequent connectivity loss; replacing my modem with a proper ADSL router sorted that out.
Then a year or two later I upgraded to the 8Mbps service. The router never reported connecting at more than about 2Mbps, and actual throughput was maybe 1Mbps at best; some days, when the exchange thought it detected a problem, it throttled back to as little as 300kbps. Other days it repeatedly dropped the connection.
Finally I tired of it and, as I live in a cabled street, switched to Virgin cable broadband. 10Mbps advertised, 10Mbps actual performance (when the other end can deliver it, of course). Absolutely fantastic, and so far very few service interruptions.
So yes, in my experience it is perfectly possible to live in London and have pretty poor internet access. I'm just lucky I'm in a cabled street, or I'd still be pulling my hair out over crappy ADSL performance.
STOP CALLING US BRITAIN! If you are trying to reduce keystrokes, call us The UK. Bloody foreigners. British people are from the UK, not "Britain". No one says Britain here. In fact, very few people class themselves as British even if their passports say so. I'm English. Others are Welsh or Scottish.
Speak for yourself mate. Pretty much everyone I've actually spoken to about it uses Britain and the UK more or less interchangeably. In fact, I don't remember ever seeing anything described as being "from the UK", while "British" is stamped on absolutely everything possible and frequently used in adverts (e.g. "made using 100% British beef", etc)
Being English born and bred, I am from England, (Great) Britain and the UK as the situation warrants, and describe myself as English (birthplace), British (nationality) and above all human (as I wish we'd evolve away from our petty nationalism).
people share their private matters on their publicly available pages no matter how hard Facebook tries to educate them or force them to set their options
Excuse me? Is this the same Facebook that has removed some of the more restrictive privacy options, and defaulted to allowing Google to index people's pages in real time?
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nobody in the tech field is screaming back
Why would they? As long as it doesn't cost them anything, it's not their fight. (Licensing costs, etc are passed directly on to the consumer)
In fact otherwise working kit being obsoleted is good for the industry, as it helps drive sales of the new kit.
It's even more ridiculous than that.
By saying that it's ok for men to be seen topless but not women implies that men are unable to control themselves, while women are. That's a double-dose of sexism - women's bodies are shameful and must be covered up, while men are brutish and incapable of controlling themselves.
Windows suffers from two main problems:
1) The old Windows 9x lack of security, which lead an awful lot of programmers to assume that their software would have full access to the filesystem, OS, etc - this is so ingrained that it's taking a long time to be beaten out of some programmers
2) Having by far the largest desktop market share, it attracts the most programmers; the law of averages dictates that a lot of them are going to be pretty bad at it.
There is no silver bullet; while some languages, technologies and OSes may encourage good programming practices, it is entirely possible to write god-awful shite using/targeting any of them.
Because in the search engine arena, Google is the 200lb gorilla. If it bought out Yahoo, that would essentially kill competition.
With MS and Yahoo teaming up, that creates a single search company that while still smaller than Google is in a much better position to compete with it than Bing would have been against Google/Yahoo.
That is why it's ok for MS, but not for Google.
Sometimes fewer competitors leads to increased competition, if two or more small competitors merge to become one entity with sufficient resources to be able to actually compete effectively.
When you write, just write "they are", "it is", and "we are" and save the apostrophes for things like "it is Bill's cat."
Well, "they're" is quicker to type than "they are", uses less bandwidth and storage space, etc.
Especially if you can't ever seem to get it right.
I cannot believe you said "can't".
Yes, but the people working for (and in charge of) the print part of the business are not the same as those involved with the digital part. Each department is no doubt charged with maximising profit from their department, and with maximising the profit of the organisation as a whole.
It's an unusual person who would say "You know what I think? I think my department is antiquated and should be phased out; if you want to succeed, your best chance is to fire me and all my employees" - especially when their department is still making money, and at one point was the *only* department.
That doesn't excuse the next person up the chain from not seeing that, of course.
The school has no jurisdiction over the home or anywhere else that isn't the school.
I agree with what you mean, but the school does have "jurisdiction" over the children when they're not on school premises if they're on a school trip or other school-sponsored or school-controlled activity.
Further, the cameras/mics could be used to spy on anyone in the house, including adults who are not in any way, shape, or form under the guardianship of the school. So any argument about guardianship is moot.
I'm no lawyer, but as I understand it schools have guardianship of children due to in loco parentis. While the child is in the care of their actual parents/guardians, the school's responsibilities no longer apply.
Therefore there is no argument about guardianship, it does not apply while the child is not in the direct care of the school. (Yes of course if the school has reason to believe that a child is being mistreated at home, etc, they should take their concerns to the appropriate authorities, just as anyone else should, but that's nothing to do with guardianship)
You'd be wrong; you are thinking of an android.
Many of the technologies that we have now owe their existence to space technology...
What REALLY needs to be cut is military and weapons funding.
While I agree with you, you should bear in mind that many advances in medicine, surgery and our understanding of anatomy owe their existence to war. A lot of knowledge was gained on how the visual cortex works by performing tests on soldiers with localised gun shot wounds to the head, for example.
Does that make up for the money and human cost? I don't know; I doubt it personally, but I have no hard figures. I'm just pointing out that your same argument for space technology can be made for military spending too.
Nevertheless, the original post appears to me to be factually correct, unless you're disputing "he cheated" and would prefer something more like "He was accused of cheating".
Why is this modded troll? Wikipedia appears to agree:
Whenever anyone questions the value of a particular line of scientific enquiry I remind that we had lasers sat around in research labs for a long time before anyone thought of anything useful to do with them. Now the average person has a few at home, and they form part of the backbone of our entire communications network.
Just because we can't think of anything practical to do with it now doesn't mean it won't be life-changing at some point in the future.
The GP may be a Brit; "hacks me off" (and similar, e.g. "I'm really hacked off about...") is a reasonably common expression over here.
Well that would happen at the event horizon, which by definition is the "edge" of the black hole anyway.
Nit-pick - the thing you're thinking of is called an accretion disk, not an acceleration disk.
Well, I was drinking and watching Quarantine on Saturday night - today's Sunday in my time zone :)
The textbook is copyrightable, as these is creative work involved in taking the facts and presenting them in the text. The facts themselves are not copyrightable; it is not possible to prevent someone else from describing the same facts in their own words.
So, the fact that Einstein developed the Theory of Relativity is not copyrightable. A given description of it and of the process by which he developed it is, but feel free to write your own in your own words and publish that.
On a related note, courts tend to take a rather dim view of people trying to take the piss and exploit clever word play to try to get around a law like that. It also takes you well out of "I'm sorry, I didn't realise it was wrong..." and squarely into culpable intent territory, which is likely to up the consequences to the higher end of the scale.
(Note: of course, IANAL)
How many people are around that are willing to stand against bias in ALL directions?
Even fewer than there are that can recognise their own biases.
Even funnier is that a lot of people would say the same thing about the UK, at least as far as the two main parties are concerned...
Actually, London is a problem - it is spaghetti under the streets and a lot of areas have poor connectivity.
I live in Elm Park, out in the east of London - essentially Essex (I have an Essex postcode and phone area code, but a Tube station a couple of minutes walk away and live in a London Borough). For a few years I had ADSL over a BT line, which was fine at 512Kbps. Then my ISP upgraded everyone to a 2Mbps connection, and I suffered frequent connectivity loss; replacing my modem with a proper ADSL router sorted that out.
Then a year or two later I upgraded to the 8Mbps service. The router never reported connecting at more than about 2Mbps, and actual throughput was maybe 1Mbps at best; some days, when the exchange thought it detected a problem, it throttled back to as little as 300kbps. Other days it repeatedly dropped the connection.
Finally I tired of it and, as I live in a cabled street, switched to Virgin cable broadband. 10Mbps advertised, 10Mbps actual performance (when the other end can deliver it, of course). Absolutely fantastic, and so far very few service interruptions.
So yes, in my experience it is perfectly possible to live in London and have pretty poor internet access. I'm just lucky I'm in a cabled street, or I'd still be pulling my hair out over crappy ADSL performance.
STOP CALLING US BRITAIN! If you are trying to reduce keystrokes, call us The UK. Bloody foreigners. British people are from the UK, not "Britain". No one says Britain here. In fact, very few people class themselves as British even if their passports say so. I'm English. Others are Welsh or Scottish.
Speak for yourself mate. Pretty much everyone I've actually spoken to about it uses Britain and the UK more or less interchangeably. In fact, I don't remember ever seeing anything described as being "from the UK", while "British" is stamped on absolutely everything possible and frequently used in adverts (e.g. "made using 100% British beef", etc)
Being English born and bred, I am from England, (Great) Britain and the UK as the situation warrants, and describe myself as English (birthplace), British (nationality) and above all human (as I wish we'd evolve away from our petty nationalism).
people share their private matters on their publicly available pages no matter how hard Facebook tries to educate them or force them to set their options
Excuse me? Is this the same Facebook that has removed some of the more restrictive privacy options, and defaulted to allowing Google to index people's pages in real time?