Since most Catholics ignore "official teachings" and use contraception, that's kind of beside the point. In Italy, where the Church arguably has more influence than any other country, the fertility rate (average number of births per woman) is 1.3, way below the "steady-state" rate of 2.1. Similar figures apply to other western European countries.
The main predictor of family size is not religion but wealth. Poor people have big families, rich people don't, for a variety of reasons. Yes, there are lots of well-known and well-off Catholic and Mormon families with umpteen kids, but most population pressure comes from social groups where poverty is endemic.
"Linux Pre-Installs Hit 2.8%". That doesn't qualify as a "hit". More like a soft nudge.
What is it with OSS enthusiasts and their lame statistics that don't even sound impressive? Don't get me wrong, I'm pleased that desktop Linux is finally getting some mindshare. But gaining an itsy-bitsy percentage of the market in one particular country is not significant milestone.
Especially one that doesn't have an index! The reviewer says that the presence of an online searchable copy of the book makes up for this. But if I have to go online to look something up, why do I even want the book?
I think it's a little unfair to call them "lazy or stupid". Keeping up with one's email every day can be very time consuming and repetitive. If you haven't checked your email in a couple days, you might find yourself with a couple hundred messages to sort through. If a lot of it is spam, anybody is quite likely to flag something they don't recognize immediately — like a newsletter they forgot they subscribed to.
Also, I'm less than convinced that flagging had that much to do with the newsletter getting banned. No doubt that's what Yahoo's call center people told Randy when he hassled them, but you know how well-informed they are. More likely some statistical filter has decided he's spam based on the volume of the email he sends out, keyword matching, and the IP block he sends it from.
"Monopoly" is defined in terms of a marketplace. If consumers don't have a practical alternative to a supplier, then that is a monopoly. The presence of impractical alternatives is irrelevant. It only Toyota were allowed to sell cars and small trucks, it would be a monopoly, no matter how many people bought Peterbilt rigs.
Another detail: the landline companies clearly do have a monopoly on the copper "last-mile" networks that all DSL providers use. In theory, these networks are equally available to all ISPs. But by an amazing coincidence, the dominant ISP in any given market is always the one that belongs to the local landline company. that's just not consistent with the idea that the DSL market is "open".
You didn't check either. SpeakEasy doesn't try to compete with consumer ISPs. If you want a business type VoIP package, a lot of bandwidth, symmetric DSL so you can host your own server, they'll cut you a good deal. But if you want simple home DSL, they'll charge you maybe twice as much as the phone company.
Expect a cease-and-desist letter soon. Creating a Scrabble clone based on Wordscraper is just as bad as creating one from scratch. You'll have to find a more discreet way to distribute your template
In a way, this is actually a positive thing. In order to get round the Hasbro lawyers, people will be forced to be creative with with Wordscraper templates. Some of these creations are bound to be improvements on the original.
I'm reminded of a movie by my favorite Spanish director. In Talk to Her, two actresses spend most of the movie pretending to be in a coma. Sounds easy, right? But Almadovar claims its the hardest kind of acting there is.
Sure, you have the right to free speech. However, if you're using somebody else's computer system to exercise that right, then the owner of that system also has some rights, including the right to impose reasonable rules, such as requiring people to be civil and stay ontopic. The fact is, griefers like this step on other people's free speech rights. To exercise my free speech rights, I need a forum. People who fill a forum with offtopic and malicious commentary make it useless, because nobody wants to wade through all the crap.
Spam is an example of this kind of abuse of free speech rights. Don't people have a fundamental right to tell you about herbal alternatives to Viagra? But you also have a right not to listen.
Anonymity is the problem here. The early Internet was a small, more-or-less cohesive community where anonymity was impossible. So they didn't bother to provide protection against misuse of anonymity. So there's no way to say, "I don't want to get any more email from that online pharmacy" or "This guy is not welcome in any forum I moderate." Eventually, we'll have some kind of ID certification system, and these problems will go away. In the meantime, nobody should claim a "right" to online anonymity — least of all, cyberbullies like this.
That's the economic theory. The practice on eBay has often been buyers who are willing to bid up to prices totally out of touch with economic reality. Everybody who shopped on eBay in their early years has had the experience of being outbid by somebody who seemed to have no idea of the actual value of the item.
This overbidding was probably a big reason for eBay's early profitability. Seems to be much less common nowadays, which is probably why eBay is putting so much emphasis on fixed-price selling.
But why is it unreasonable to think that someone on a cell-tethered computer might want to use Skype Video or visit Hulu?
It's not. The problem here is that tethering on their cell phone data plan is against AT&T's TOS. They went you to have a separate laptop plan. You can ignore this rule and set up the tethering yourself. But if you do something that makes it obvious (like use Skype Video or visit Hulu) you could get stuck with hefty overage charges.
US attorneys are not Civil Service. And yes, most incoming Presidents (Bill Clinton was not the first) fire the lot. Bush certainly had the legal night to fire them. It's just that the reasons he (or rather his Attorney-General) gave were a little dubious. He claimed they were underperforming when in fact they mostly had good track records. Allegedly, some of the firings happened to protect Republicans who were under investigation, while others were punishment for not prosecuting Democrats vigorously enough.
Whatever the reason, the Executive Branch has a constitutional obligation to be honest with the other two branches, even about actions that are perfectly legal.
The current scandal is really an offshoot of the investigations prompted by those initial firings. These are about civil service positions, career prosecutors who are supposed to be hired solely on merit.
Name a company that doesn't get bashed here. Everybody has somebody pissed off at them. Sun actually does pretty well in Slashdot discussions compared to, say, SCO.
Besides, where's the bashing in this discussion? Sun has a product. Some people say they like it. Some are less enthusiastic. Not exactly a lynching.
I just don't see how this can work. It has to do one of two things. It either keeps water out, meaning that it covers and seals every opening that leads into the device, or it somehow coats every surface of the device, inside and out, including all circuit boards and components.
It works, because it doesn't do what TFA says it does. It does not make gadgets "waterproof". If you follow the links to the manufacturer's web site, you'll find that the stuff only makes the gadget "splash resistant". Of course, in the idiot blogosphere, that distinction quickly got lost.
People need to double check before they respond to — or pass on — "facts" as they're presented in the usual breathless, ill-informed fashion on most blogs.
There's more to Scrabble than colors. There's a unique board layout and letter frequency. Safe to say that Mattel claims to own these things too. Change them, and you have a completely different game.
Anybody who can install an OS is a techie, at least by normal standards. If he thinks that ME is a decent OS, then he's not a very smart techie, but a techie nonetheless.
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Since most Catholics ignore "official teachings" and use contraception, that's kind of beside the point. In Italy, where the Church arguably has more influence than any other country, the fertility rate (average number of births per woman) is 1.3, way below the "steady-state" rate of 2.1. Similar figures apply to other western European countries.
The main predictor of family size is not religion but wealth. Poor people have big families, rich people don't, for a variety of reasons. Yes, there are lots of well-known and well-off Catholic and Mormon families with umpteen kids, but most population pressure comes from social groups where poverty is endemic.
Yes, I know that's the hope. And when it does snowball (I think there's a good chance, people are sick of bloatware) it will be news.
From teeny-weeny-tiny to teeny-tiny. Interesting definition of "big deal".
"Linux Pre-Installs Hit 2.8%". That doesn't qualify as a "hit". More like a soft nudge.
What is it with OSS enthusiasts and their lame statistics that don't even sound impressive? Don't get me wrong, I'm pleased that desktop Linux is finally getting some mindshare. But gaining an itsy-bitsy percentage of the market in one particular country is not significant milestone.
How can you say such thing?! Next you'll be telling me that Prince Michael of Sealand is just another scam artist!
Especially one that doesn't have an index! The reviewer says that the presence of an online searchable copy of the book makes up for this. But if I have to go online to look something up, why do I even want the book?
I think it's a little unfair to call them "lazy or stupid". Keeping up with one's email every day can be very time consuming and repetitive. If you haven't checked your email in a couple days, you might find yourself with a couple hundred messages to sort through. If a lot of it is spam, anybody is quite likely to flag something they don't recognize immediately — like a newsletter they forgot they subscribed to.
Also, I'm less than convinced that flagging had that much to do with the newsletter getting banned. No doubt that's what Yahoo's call center people told Randy when he hassled them, but you know how well-informed they are. More likely some statistical filter has decided he's spam based on the volume of the email he sends out, keyword matching, and the IP block he sends it from.
Right, I should have said that. The nitpicker in me balks at calling them RSS feeds, because so many of them use ATOM.
I gave up on newsgroups a long time ago.
Newsfeeds are not "delivered", at least not in the sense that email is. Your newsreader retrieves them directly from the provider's HTTP server.
Spam filtering is a problem for all mailing lists. Simple solution: use newsfeeds instead.
"Monopoly" is defined in terms of a marketplace. If consumers don't have a practical alternative to a supplier, then that is a monopoly. The presence of impractical alternatives is irrelevant. It only Toyota were allowed to sell cars and small trucks, it would be a monopoly, no matter how many people bought Peterbilt rigs.
Another detail: the landline companies clearly do have a monopoly on the copper "last-mile" networks that all DSL providers use. In theory, these networks are equally available to all ISPs. But by an amazing coincidence, the dominant ISP in any given market is always the one that belongs to the local landline company. that's just not consistent with the idea that the DSL market is "open".
http://www.putzmeister.com/
Funny if you know a little Yiddish. I'm guessing "putz" is not an offensive term in modern German.
http://www.cumminsonan.com/
Every time I see one of their products, I wonder if spillage is an issue.
You didn't check either. SpeakEasy doesn't try to compete with consumer ISPs. If you want a business type VoIP package, a lot of bandwidth, symmetric DSL so you can host your own server, they'll cut you a good deal. But if you want simple home DSL, they'll charge you maybe twice as much as the phone company.
MDY's security measures? Not all servers are managed by clueless clowns.
Nonsense. Taco Bell is destined to achieve domination after Franchise Wars. I, for one, welcome our new pseudo-Mexican masters.
Expect a cease-and-desist letter soon. Creating a Scrabble clone based on Wordscraper is just as bad as creating one from scratch. You'll have to find a more discreet way to distribute your template
In a way, this is actually a positive thing. In order to get round the Hasbro lawyers, people will be forced to be creative with with Wordscraper templates. Some of these creations are bound to be improvements on the original.
It definitely sounds like work.
I'm reminded of a movie by my favorite Spanish director. In Talk to Her, two actresses spend most of the movie pretending to be in a coma. Sounds easy, right? But Almadovar claims its the hardest kind of acting there is.
Sure, you have the right to free speech. However, if you're using somebody else's computer system to exercise that right, then the owner of that system also has some rights, including the right to impose reasonable rules, such as requiring people to be civil and stay ontopic. The fact is, griefers like this step on other people's free speech rights. To exercise my free speech rights, I need a forum. People who fill a forum with offtopic and malicious commentary make it useless, because nobody wants to wade through all the crap.
Spam is an example of this kind of abuse of free speech rights. Don't people have a fundamental right to tell you about herbal alternatives to Viagra? But you also have a right not to listen.
Anonymity is the problem here. The early Internet was a small, more-or-less cohesive community where anonymity was impossible. So they didn't bother to provide protection against misuse of anonymity. So there's no way to say, "I don't want to get any more email from that online pharmacy" or "This guy is not welcome in any forum I moderate." Eventually, we'll have some kind of ID certification system, and these problems will go away. In the meantime, nobody should claim a "right" to online anonymity — least of all, cyberbullies like this.
That's the economic theory. The practice on eBay has often been buyers who are willing to bid up to prices totally out of touch with economic reality. Everybody who shopped on eBay in their early years has had the experience of being outbid by somebody who seemed to have no idea of the actual value of the item.
This overbidding was probably a big reason for eBay's early profitability. Seems to be much less common nowadays, which is probably why eBay is putting so much emphasis on fixed-price selling.
But why is it unreasonable to think that someone on a cell-tethered computer might want to use Skype Video or visit Hulu?
It's not. The problem here is that tethering on their cell phone data plan is against AT&T's TOS. They went you to have a separate laptop plan. You can ignore this rule and set up the tethering yourself. But if you do something that makes it obvious (like use Skype Video or visit Hulu) you could get stuck with hefty overage charges.
US attorneys are not Civil Service. And yes, most incoming Presidents (Bill Clinton was not the first) fire the lot. Bush certainly had the legal night to fire them. It's just that the reasons he (or rather his Attorney-General) gave were a little dubious. He claimed they were underperforming when in fact they mostly had good track records. Allegedly, some of the firings happened to protect Republicans who were under investigation, while others were punishment for not prosecuting Democrats vigorously enough.
Whatever the reason, the Executive Branch has a constitutional obligation to be honest with the other two branches, even about actions that are perfectly legal.
The current scandal is really an offshoot of the investigations prompted by those initial firings. These are about civil service positions, career prosecutors who are supposed to be hired solely on merit.
Name a company that doesn't get bashed here. Everybody has somebody pissed off at them. Sun actually does pretty well in Slashdot discussions compared to, say, SCO.
Besides, where's the bashing in this discussion? Sun has a product. Some people say they like it. Some are less enthusiastic. Not exactly a lynching.
I just don't see how this can work. It has to do one of two things. It either keeps water out, meaning that it covers and seals every opening that leads into the device, or it somehow coats every surface of the device, inside and out, including all circuit boards and components.
It works, because it doesn't do what TFA says it does. It does not make gadgets "waterproof". If you follow the links to the manufacturer's web site, you'll find that the stuff only makes the gadget "splash resistant". Of course, in the idiot blogosphere, that distinction quickly got lost.
People need to double check before they respond to — or pass on — "facts" as they're presented in the usual breathless, ill-informed fashion on most blogs.
There's more to Scrabble than colors. There's a unique board layout and letter frequency. Safe to say that Mattel claims to own these things too. Change them, and you have a completely different game.
Anybody who can install an OS is a techie, at least by normal standards. If he thinks that ME is a decent OS, then he's not a very smart techie, but a techie nonetheless.