At least, not by me. I imagine that most users will be confused by the presence of more than one "internet" on their machines,
I say Bull.
Sure there are such people but why would the ~85% of people that get a PC with Windows pre-installed have to suffer from those (either few or many) that don't understand what they operate?
and one browser or another still has to be the default. Does MS have to make Firefox the default browser, too?
It's already since the days of IE3 and Netscape a simple pop up that asks what your choice is. And MS being, according to their own claims, so damn good at designing things easy and transparent can no doubt come up with a very elegant solution After all the browser is just another application.
If every ISP blocks 100%, then not even cops can get an unfiltered connection.
If you'd read TFA you would see it's all about consumer broadband and UK households, in my world that excludes the enterprise grade accounts from this mandate to filtering.
What differentiates hard capitalism from the model many (continental) Europeans prefer is the period over which you measure the results.
When taking the quarterly or even monthly returns as the gospel you will in up in a dehumanised system, looking at a life achievement is maybe a little too broad for your average commercial entity but it is what counts in the end.
You are right in principle. But practically humans are weak and to take high campaign spending out of the equation would indeed further the level playing field.
I'm just angry and frustrated and the awful truth is that we elected these assholes because we wanted them.
As an outsider I'd suggest you have another look at your last statement.
In my opinion the biggest enemy of the US democratic process is the financing of the elections. Put a limit of say $25.- p/a on any contribution a single -voter- can make and you'd be back at a level playing field. I hope you realise what I meant by -voter-, that does exclude anything/anyone that has no voting rights.
Your present government was not elected by the people but by the money they got.
But then employees like you are not supposed to browse 'Ebay-like' sites from company equipment.
It's a bit like where I work, the IT dept. is acutely aware of the advantages of Firefox and they'll allow you to install it but the PHB's tell us all of our intranet is IE6 'compliant' and that's Good Enough.
That'll change quite rapidly when their favourite golf or investment site baulks at IE6:)
Why would he, for the performance oriented the terminal is as black as ever and those that want a nice desktop use Kubuntu.
Joking aside I really find the standard wallpapers for Ubuntu quite smart, while retaining the warm earthy feel they have a nice artistic depiction of the version's animal.
You have read my mind or was it the other way around:). This idea is totally impractical.
On one hand you save on the m3 of solar arrays compared to ground based, on the other hand you're looking at a near impossible cost at getting them in orbit. But the, in this case justified, NIMBY effect alone will kill it.
When reading yesterdays story about the 1 in 185 chance of the Space Shuttle receiving significant damage during it's mission you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out how long it would be for such a huge structure to get damaged.
But the explanation is rather mundane, lets take some hypothetical super tanker accident.
The oil company will claim less than ten thousand tons of oil might have leaked away. The clean up company will report about fifty five thousand barrels of oil to collect and Green Peace will talk about a disaster involving over twelve million litres of crude oil polluting the environment.
For example in The Netherlands we have a representative democracy. Does a party get 10% of the vote, they get 10% of the MP's. With the number of parties we have you can only get a majority government via coalitions in the parliament.
This works fine when you have the Legislature (Parliament) in charge like over here. Or like in Denmark where they often have a minority government that needs to find a (ever shifting) majority for every law they propose.
But the moment you have (effectively) a 1 man government like in the USofA or France you need a different system to get to a majority.
The European Commission is about to give them 2 years to voluntarily come up with a universal charger (and head phone connector) or, like in China, face legislation.
Interestingly, the Thunar file manager under xfce (Xubuntu 8.10) is doing something that Gnome's and KDE's file managers are not doing: It will flag the desktop launcher file as potential malware and thus prevent execution via a simple click.
Mutually Assured Destruction only works when it is Mutually Assured.
You miss part of the sentence, 'The Threat of' needs to be included.
And in case of guy's with a religious chip on their rag head even that doesn't work, they long to be destructed.
So be careful what you wish for, the old enemies mutually giving up on this type of potential destruction will only invite these even scarier opponents of humanity.
You seem to imply this contamination needs be man made. In the sense of the article volcanic areas on our planet can typically be classed as contaminated and have been so for millions of years.
Especially sub sea volcanic vents are known to harbour life forms that are really special and studies have only just started.
I think you missed what this site is about: equipment reviews.
The art of composing a brilliant picture is something hard to quantify, this site does not comment on the artistic aspects of photography, it just helps people decide on the products available.
Whether a picture was made via chemical processes, digital imaging or a brush and paint is irrelevant for the beauty and even the message it conveys.
Would you read a bit more on the site I linked to you'd see them gushing about the picture qualities of the 12.7 MP Nikon D700, because it shows so little noise.
Form my own digital experience I can say some old 3-5 MP camera's give a performance present yet cheaper 10-12 MP camera's can't match.
But luckily with the advent of full-frame 35mm SLR camera's we can again use our old 'super' lenses to get the best of the higher resolutions.
Years ago Kodak was the only supplier of Hi-Res backs and I still trust their claim 16MP was about the sweet spot for quality 35mm.
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At least, not by me. I imagine that most users will be confused by the presence of more than one "internet" on their machines,
I say Bull.
Sure there are such people but why would the ~85% of people that get a PC with Windows pre-installed have to suffer from those (either few or many) that don't understand what they operate?
and one browser or another still has to be the default. Does MS have to make Firefox the default browser, too?
It's already since the days of IE3 and Netscape a simple pop up that asks what your choice is.
And MS being, according to their own claims, so damn good at designing things easy and transparent can no doubt come up with a very elegant solution
After all the browser is just another application.
But there is no denying the timing of this decision is not due to the EU but mainly the result of many years of stalling tactics by MS.
And therefore I don't feel one bit sorry for MS.
If every ISP blocks 100%, then not even cops can get an unfiltered connection.
If you'd read TFA you would see it's all about consumer broadband and UK households, in my world that excludes the enterprise grade accounts from this mandate to filtering.
What differentiates hard capitalism from the model many (continental) Europeans prefer is the period over which you measure the results.
When taking the quarterly or even monthly returns as the gospel you will in up in a dehumanised system, looking at a life achievement is maybe a little too broad for your average commercial entity but it is what counts in the end.
And that's not an assumption.
When the manager entered one of our guys came forward and asked him for a kiss.
Upon the managers indignant reply "Why would I kiss you?" our Hero explained he liked to kiss while being screwed.
You are right in principle.
But practically humans are weak and to take high campaign spending out of the equation would indeed further the level playing field.
Sigh... you are right.
I'm just angry and frustrated and the awful truth is that we elected these assholes because we wanted them.
As an outsider I'd suggest you have another look at your last statement.
In my opinion the biggest enemy of the US democratic process is the financing of the elections.
Put a limit of say $25.- p/a on any contribution a single -voter- can make and you'd be back at a level playing field.
I hope you realise what I meant by -voter-, that does exclude anything/anyone that has no voting rights.
Your present government was not elected by the people but by the money they got.
Otherwise, every time the White House changed party hands, the previous president would be up Shit Creek.
You're too cynical, in this case it's only those that were in the wrong lane to begin with that would end up Shit Creek.
Although the (Flashblock) developers hint it might not be intentional.
It's a bit like where I work, the IT dept. is acutely aware of the advantages of Firefox and they'll allow you to install it but the PHB's tell us all of our intranet is IE6 'compliant' and that's Good Enough.
That'll change quite rapidly when their favourite golf or investment site baulks at IE6 :)
Joking aside I really find the standard wallpapers for Ubuntu quite smart, while retaining the warm earthy feel they have a nice artistic depiction of the version's animal.
This idea is totally impractical.
On one hand you save on the m3 of solar arrays compared to ground based, on the other hand you're looking at a near impossible cost at getting them in orbit.
But the, in this case justified, NIMBY effect alone will kill it.
When reading yesterdays story about the 1 in 185 chance of the Space Shuttle receiving significant damage during it's mission you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out how long it would be for such a huge structure to get damaged.
But the explanation is rather mundane, lets take some hypothetical super tanker accident.
The oil company will claim less than ten thousand tons of oil might have leaked away.
The clean up company will report about fifty five thousand barrels of oil to collect and Green Peace will talk about a disaster involving over twelve million litres of crude oil polluting the environment.
Does a party get 10% of the vote, they get 10% of the MP's.
With the number of parties we have you can only get a majority government via coalitions in the parliament.
This works fine when you have the Legislature (Parliament) in charge like over here.
Or like in Denmark where they often have a minority government that needs to find a (ever shifting) majority for every law they propose.
But the moment you have (effectively) a 1 man government like in the USofA or France you need a different system to get to a majority.
Sure but at least you guys in the UK all have your own CCTV.
As you can read in this link we had our delays.
http://www.physorg.com/news153989416.html
Thunar?
Interestingly, the Thunar file manager under xfce (Xubuntu 8.10) is doing something that Gnome's and KDE's file managers are not doing: It will flag the desktop launcher file as potential malware and thus prevent execution via a simple click.
Plus downloads still default to the existing Desktop directory which is easily accessible via any file manager.
According to all Hollywood studies it would be safest to leave the USofA...
Mutually Assured Destruction only works when it is Mutually Assured.
You miss part of the sentence, 'The Threat of' needs to be included.
And in case of guy's with a religious chip on their rag head even that doesn't work, they long to be destructed.
So be careful what you wish for, the old enemies mutually giving up on this type of potential destruction will only invite these even scarier opponents of humanity.
In the sense of the article volcanic areas on our planet can typically be classed as contaminated and have been so for millions of years.
Especially sub sea volcanic vents are known to harbour life forms that are really special and studies have only just started.
The art of composing a brilliant picture is something hard to quantify, this site does not comment on the artistic aspects of photography, it just helps people decide on the products available.
Whether a picture was made via chemical processes, digital imaging or a brush and paint is irrelevant for the beauty and even the message it conveys.
Would you read a bit more on the site I linked to you'd see them gushing about the picture qualities of the 12.7 MP Nikon D700, because it shows so little noise.
Form my own digital experience I can say some old 3-5 MP camera's give a performance present yet cheaper 10-12 MP camera's can't match.
But luckily with the advent of full-frame 35mm SLR camera's we can again use our old 'super' lenses to get the best of the higher resolutions.
Years ago Kodak was the only supplier of Hi-Res backs and I still trust their claim 16MP was about the sweet spot for quality 35mm.