In anything approaching normal urban density (NOT Manhattan), as soon as you have to do two transfers, ride a non-express train/bus more than 20 minutes, etc., public transit starts to break down pretty badly in efficiency. A couple of extra hours per day adds up to huge numbers of wasted days over the course of a year.
I beg to differ. My wife has a commute of about 100 mls in one direction, and she would never dream to drive the distance. She has to switch from one train to another, sometimes to a third one, and finally using the subway to get to her destination, but she still prefers it above driving, because she uses the time to prepare for work. And yes, by train or by car, it always takes about 2:30 hrs. (I don't know what kind of trains you have... Ours go 100-150 mph...)
And the three reasons I use the car to commute are: 1) I have to carry a toolbox, a drilling machine and a backpack with my laptop for work (yes, I am doing all seven layers of networking;) ). 2) The car is company provided, and the company pays for the gas. 3) I am servicing different customers, and often either go directly from home to the customer's site or return directly from there.
The large SIEMENS phone System HiPath 4000 is using SCO OpenServer as one of their main operating system (the other one being RMX, a database based system similar to OS/400). I guess SEN (the ex-SIEMENS branch that develops the HiPath systems) will finally switch to SuSE on the boxes now.
Rob Enderle long ago admitted, that he was wrong. But he claimed that it was the constant bashing by the Linux community that made him believe SCO in the first place.
The citizens of the town of Budweis got the right to brew beer in 1295. The 1795 founded Buergerbraeu ("citizen's brewery") was just one of the many breweries that were operated by the town council of Budweis in exercise of the brewing priviledge. "Budweiser" at the time was just one method to brew a lager (the other one being Pilsner). Both weren't trademarks, and Pilsner never became one. The registration of variants of "Budweiser" as trademarks was done by Budvar (founded by the czech keeper of the brewing priviledge) in 1895 and by Buergerbraeu (still operated by the german keepers of the brewing priviledge) in 1899.
China has a system of blatantly stealing known technology too (see the Redberry, and Chery motors). They have no rules regarding foreign products, and in fact are encouraged to rip off what happens overseas by the govt. So I don't think that using China as an example of "innovation" is appropriate.
So this is different from Germany or the U.S. in the 19th century, or Japan in the 1950ies, or Taiwan in the 1980ies exactly how? Every country that has managed to close up to the technology leaders of its time has used the same tactics.
And while you can have hundreds of parallel Gbit/sec cables running through the same building, each running at maximum speed, you can not have hundreds of parallel 802.11n-accesspoint each reaching maximum throughput at the same time.
Diplomacy is telling someone to go to hell in such a way, that they don't reply in a way they would like to because that would look like an overreaction.
The core of Diplomacy is that both sides know what the other side actually meant, but it sounds like flowers to everyone else.
At least for most of Central Europe, the Inquisition victims had been burned anyway by mundane powers (or the mob). It was the Inquisition which actually stopped the mob from burning too many people.
In some regions outside the reach of the Inquisition in Germany for instance the population halved within a few decades due to witch burning. Look at the Nether Rhine or to Bamberg, a town in Frankonia, for instance.
What kind of pages do people visit to hit one that requires java?
Your mileage may vary, but I have to use webpages that require Java every day. Most of the configuration tools I am working with are Java applets embedded in webpages.
1. Great Britain is a member of the EU. 2. It is six month mandantory, but only for phone companies and for the IP-adresses you get from your service provider.
One of the big differences is that you can actually have a border around your property. You can't have a border around your "intellectual property", because even in the most original Works of Art there are layers and layers of cultural knowledge, environmental influences and ideas from other people.
As an easy example: "Which part of '42' is public knowledge, and which part is the intellectual property of Douglas Adams (Estate)?" (To make it more simple for you, using 42 in any circumstances is completely free to everyone, but nearly everyone at least on Slashdot associates 42 with Douglas Adams).
Human rights are the rights you have independently of the local laws. Laws that infer to your human rights are considered unenforcable or unconstitutional. The U.S. even from time to time invade regions with other legislation (e.g. other countries) under the premise to reinstitute the human rights.
It's like the guy who tells you "I drive since 20 years without car insurance"... He might have saved much money, but I never want to be involved in a car accident with him.
The only reason why voting by mail is accepted is because it is not the main type of voting. As soon as a considerable large part of the electorate wants to vote per mail, it is no longer viable.
The main problem is that a censorship list only works if it is secret. Hey, even the Index Librorum Prohibitorum was itself indexed and not open to the public.
A public index list is nothing else than free advertisement for the allegedly forbidden items. Most of them would remain in obscurity and not known to most of us if they were never indexed to begin with. And especially with child pornography one of the arguments about censoring the sites (instead of waging criminal actions against the operators of the site and taking it down), is that it should stop the exploitation of the children portrayed. If now everyone checks out if the link actually contains child pornography, then exactly what you tried to achieve with censoring the site is reversed.
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In anything approaching normal urban density (NOT Manhattan), as soon as you have to do two transfers, ride a non-express train/bus more than 20 minutes, etc., public transit starts to break down pretty badly in efficiency. A couple of extra hours per day adds up to huge numbers of wasted days over the course of a year.
I beg to differ. My wife has a commute of about 100 mls in one direction, and she would never dream to drive the distance. She has to switch from one train to another, sometimes to a third one, and finally using the subway to get to her destination, but she still prefers it above driving, because she uses the time to prepare for work. And yes, by train or by car, it always takes about 2:30 hrs. (I don't know what kind of trains you have... Ours go 100-150 mph...)
And the three reasons I use the car to commute are: ;) ).
1) I have to carry a toolbox, a drilling machine and a backpack with my laptop for work (yes, I am doing all seven layers of networking
2) The car is company provided, and the company pays for the gas.
3) I am servicing different customers, and often either go directly from home to the customer's site or return directly from there.
If possible I still prefer to use the bicycle.
I just wanted to point out that there will probably no further excuse from Rob Enderle, because there already was one.
The large SIEMENS phone System HiPath 4000 is using SCO OpenServer as one of their main operating system (the other one being RMX, a database based system similar to OS/400). I guess SEN (the ex-SIEMENS branch that develops the HiPath systems) will finally switch to SuSE on the boxes now.
Rob Enderle long ago admitted, that he was wrong. But he claimed that it was the constant bashing by the Linux community that made him believe SCO in the first place.
You got it more wrong than I ;)
The citizens of the town of Budweis got the right to brew beer in 1295. The 1795 founded Buergerbraeu ("citizen's brewery") was just one of the many breweries that were operated by the town council of Budweis in exercise of the brewing priviledge. "Budweiser" at the time was just one method to brew a lager (the other one being Pilsner). Both weren't trademarks, and Pilsner never became one. The registration of variants of "Budweiser" as trademarks was done by Budvar (founded by the czech keeper of the brewing priviledge) in 1895 and by Buergerbraeu (still operated by the german keepers of the brewing priviledge) in 1899.
China has a system of blatantly stealing known technology too (see the Redberry, and Chery motors). They have no rules regarding foreign products, and in fact are encouraged to rip off what happens overseas by the govt. So I don't think that using China as an example of "innovation" is appropriate.
So this is different from Germany or the U.S. in the 19th century, or Japan in the 1950ies, or Taiwan in the 1980ies exactly how?
Every country that has managed to close up to the technology leaders of its time has used the same tactics.
The main problem with that: Anheuser-Busch started 30 years earlier than Budvar. So Anheuser-Busch has the original, and Budvar is the impostor.
All the hotels I was visiting recently had Wireless.
And while you can have hundreds of parallel Gbit/sec cables running through the same building, each running at maximum speed, you can not have hundreds of parallel 802.11n-accesspoint each reaching maximum throughput at the same time.
This is actually called "salesmanship".
Diplomacy is telling someone to go to hell in such a way, that they don't reply in a way they would like to because that would look like an overreaction.
The core of Diplomacy is that both sides know what the other side actually meant, but it sounds like flowers to everyone else.
My most hateloved word in this case is "studio". It still means "I strive (for something)" in Latin.
One you can easily monitor and pinpoint to the sources. Call it a Danaian gift!
Evolution doesn't have a mind at all.
You read too much Carpet People!
As in the old jokes, where two planets meet:
- How's going?
- Bad... I got Mankind.
- Had it also. Not a big problem though, it goes away.
At least for most of Central Europe, the Inquisition victims had been burned anyway by mundane powers (or the mob). It was the Inquisition which actually stopped the mob from burning too many people.
In some regions outside the reach of the Inquisition in Germany for instance the population halved within a few decades due to witch burning. Look at the Nether Rhine or to Bamberg, a town in Frankonia, for instance.
What kind of pages do people visit to hit one that requires java?
Your mileage may vary, but I have to use webpages that require Java every day. Most of the configuration tools I am working with are Java applets embedded in webpages.
1. Great Britain is a member of the EU.
2. It is six month mandantory, but only for phone companies and for the IP-adresses you get from your service provider.
I didn't. I just wanted to point out that there is a concept of "human rights", that stands above legislation.
One of the big differences is that you can actually have a border around your property. You can't have a border around your "intellectual property", because even in the most original Works of Art there are layers and layers of cultural knowledge, environmental influences and ideas from other people.
As an easy example: "Which part of '42' is public knowledge, and which part is the intellectual property of Douglas Adams (Estate)?" (To make it more simple for you, using 42 in any circumstances is completely free to everyone, but nearly everyone at least on Slashdot associates 42 with Douglas Adams).
Human rights are the rights you have independently of the local laws. Laws that infer to your human rights are considered unenforcable or unconstitutional. The U.S. even from time to time invade regions with other legislation (e.g. other countries) under the premise to reinstitute the human rights.
Luckily I don't have to vote in Oregon.
It's like the guy who tells you "I drive since 20 years without car insurance"... He might have saved much money, but I never want to be involved in a car accident with him.
The only reason why voting by mail is accepted is because it is not the main type of voting. As soon as a considerable large part of the electorate wants to vote per mail, it is no longer viable.
The main problem is that a censorship list only works if it is secret. Hey, even the Index Librorum Prohibitorum was itself indexed and not open to the public.
A public index list is nothing else than free advertisement for the allegedly forbidden items. Most of them would remain in obscurity and not known to most of us if they were never indexed to begin with. And especially with child pornography one of the arguments about censoring the sites (instead of waging criminal actions against the operators of the site and taking it down), is that it should stop the exploitation of the children portrayed. If now everyone checks out if the link actually contains child pornography, then exactly what you tried to achieve with censoring the site is reversed.
Much easier, don't you think, to have all those people out there who do want something like this to opt-in[...]
You mean, like buying and installing a filter program on your home computer, or using a similar service from your ISP?