I have been sending pictures from France and Spain to Sweden, with the recipients using different operators than me, and I haven't had any problem at all.
I guess I have to concede that all major commercial software is developed in the US, I haven't found any good examples of commercial European competition
Well, there's SAP, Skype, and Navision is from a Danish company. And of course the software in all Sony-Ericsson and Nokia phones.
In Swedish schools there are discussions about all kind of "theories" behind the creation of earth and man. However, it is in a subject called "religion", and contains information about all major and some minor religions (like christianity, buddhism, islam, norse gods and beliefs (of course), shinto, hindu, and some others.)
These discussions are good, but they do not fit into a science class. Unless any of them can be proved they way evolution have been of course.
Conway: Very simply, they're the glue that holds complex systems together. They allow developers to hook together commercial and open source software packages, and to coordinate the resulting systems.
When reading this, I immediately thought of ARexx (and now also show my fondness of the Amiga and somewhat show my age, now git of my lawn!). The use of scripting languages as glue between different programs is somewhat forgotten these days I think. Also forgotten is the easy witch with you could embed ARexx, and how extremely easy it was to interface with programs using ARexx. I think these aspects could be better developed.
In most companies where software is not the main focus, the deadlines are for the main product and the software had better be done by that deadline. The software guys have nothing to say about the schedule.
At any given moment I can find 10 models of Nokia phones in any store. They all have completely different designs, and it is unclear which ones are better than others.
You do know that all those models have different feature-sets? Although I have to admit that it's not obvious what the difference is in many cases.
Point being, there are a lot more ways for a terrorist to do damage than by hijacking a plane.
I have been saying the same thing too. If you are a terrorist and want to kill as many as possible (although thats not the goal of most terrorists), why not go to a big arena concert strapped in explosives? Could easily kill many thousands of people. Or for even more damage, fly a private plane full of gasoline into the crowd of a big rock festival. Many tens of thousands killed.
Salvage logging--removal of dead, diseased, or insect-riddled trees--is a good thing for old growth forests. It makes them less vulnerable to wild fires and creates room for new trees to grow.
I thought the wildfires took care of it? Wild forest fires are actually a part of the natural cycle of a forest.
Yes if you buy from Apple or Microsoft, you get someone to call for support. But will they fix your bugs? Even if you give them extra money for it? Who knows!
If you use open source software, you can always ask the creator or maintainer of the software directly. And if that doesn't work, you can always ask someone else to fix it for you, free or for payment.
One of the most common reasons for not revealing the existence of aliens, is because the top leaders of the world are afraid that the population of earth will panic. I don't think that is the case, I think most people would say something like "yes, I knew there really were aliens". The only ones I think would panic is the religious nut-jobs, although you would think that the would be used to have their view of the world shattered at least once every hundred year or so.
*There's one exception to this. I saw part of the American adaptation of Planet Earth last week. David Attenborough's voice had been dubbed over. Shameful.
When I bought my copy of Mad Max, I laughed out loud when I noticed that the default speach-soundtrack was dubbed American. I quickly switched over to the original Australian soundtrack.
Why not just send it into space? Aim the rocket at some distant galaxy, and there's no need for us to worry about it. Unless, of course, we happen tu discover a Stargate address leading to that galaxy...
Product placement. Ford and Coca-Cola sponsor "American Idol" and their products are worked into the show all over the place. I don't particularly care for blatant placements 20 times a minute, but that's the only form of advertising that can't be easily skipped.
I dated a girl from Thailand once, and one time saw a Thai talk-show with her. All of the backdrops were filled with commercials. Was quite unusual to me as I mostly watch Swedish public-service channels.
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Did anyone else read the title "Sending Execs To The Cloud"?
I don't even need special software for my Sony-Ericsson phone, it works as a mass storage device which means it works perfect in Linux.
I have been sending pictures from France and Spain to Sweden, with the recipients using different operators than me, and I haven't had any problem at all.
Well, there's SAP, Skype, and Navision is from a Danish company. And of course the software in all Sony-Ericsson and Nokia phones.
In Sweden, we would say that they have been shitting in the blue cabinet (skitit i det blå skåpet).
Go get them Ray!
In Swedish schools there are discussions about all kind of "theories" behind the creation of earth and man. However, it is in a subject called "religion", and contains information about all major and some minor religions (like christianity, buddhism, islam, norse gods and beliefs (of course), shinto, hindu, and some others.)
These discussions are good, but they do not fit into a science class. Unless any of them can be proved they way evolution have been of course.
I am sure that the kids building tree-houses really appreciates this!
Trees don't grow on... Well, yes they do, but Rome wasn't built in one day either.
Would be nice, but it's too slow for any of us now living to use it.
This part from the old TFA cought my eye:
When reading this, I immediately thought of ARexx (and now also show my fondness of the Amiga and somewhat show my age, now git of my lawn!). The use of scripting languages as glue between different programs is somewhat forgotten these days I think. Also forgotten is the easy witch with you could embed ARexx, and how extremely easy it was to interface with programs using ARexx.
I think these aspects could be better developed.
In most companies where software is not the main focus, the deadlines are for the main product and the software had better be done by that deadline. The software guys have nothing to say about the schedule.
You do know that all those models have different feature-sets? Although I have to admit that it's not obvious what the difference is in many cases.
Yes, but people are still buying it.
SEK = Swedish crowns, or "kronor" in Swedish. 1 SEK is around $0.16.
In soviet russia, earth swallows you!
What should I be most afraid of, earth swallowed by a dying sun or swallowed by a wandering jupiter?
I have been saying the same thing too. If you are a terrorist and want to kill as many as possible (although thats not the goal of most terrorists), why not go to a big arena concert strapped in explosives? Could easily kill many thousands of people. Or for even more damage, fly a private plane full of gasoline into the crowd of a big rock festival. Many tens of thousands killed.
I only read them for the pictures.
Well so is Yahoo! My Asian wife and all her friends and relatives only use Yahoo! messenger and Yahoo! mail. And Friendster of course.
I thought the wildfires took care of it? Wild forest fires are actually a part of the natural cycle of a forest.
Yes if you buy from Apple or Microsoft, you get someone to call for support. But will they fix your bugs? Even if you give them extra money for it? Who knows!
If you use open source software, you can always ask the creator or maintainer of the software directly. And if that doesn't work, you can always ask someone else to fix it for you, free or for payment.
One of the most common reasons for not revealing the existence of aliens, is because the top leaders of the world are afraid that the population of earth will panic. I don't think that is the case, I think most people would say something like "yes, I knew there really were aliens". The only ones I think would panic is the religious nut-jobs, although you would think that the would be used to have their view of the world shattered at least once every hundred year or so.
When I bought my copy of Mad Max, I laughed out loud when I noticed that the default speach-soundtrack was dubbed American. I quickly switched over to the original Australian soundtrack.
Why not just send it into space? Aim the rocket at some distant galaxy, and there's no need for us to worry about it. Unless, of course, we happen tu discover a Stargate address leading to that galaxy...
Oh my god, I didn't recognize Jason Alexander with hair!
I dated a girl from Thailand once, and one time saw a Thai talk-show with her. All of the backdrops were filled with commercials. Was quite unusual to me as I mostly watch Swedish public-service channels.