The stupidity was in not telling MS to put a price on that media player, in other words the 'light' version should for obvious reasons have been cheaper.
The same applies for the proposed ruling about IE, it'll especially work when there's a price to pay for that eternally security challenged browser.
And since when do you need marriage to procreate???
And since when is removing these restrictions on tax breaks (main practical excuse for marriage) going to incite people to suddenly turn gay?
You must be from one of these states where sexual education is frowned upon...
Do you know what hurts employment in California? insanely high taxes, wasteful spending and over regulation.
Exactly, that ban on gay marriages is over regulation, the state should not get involved in these private matters.
A couple is a couple, regardless of colour, religion, nationality or sex.
It may well be, but, I fail to see how gay marriage affects the ability of a company to hire and retain employees?!?!?
I mean, gays are such a minority out there,
You clearly mis a few points.
First; gays are very much above average represented in the arts and design world.
Second; gays might be a minority but there are very many more than you seem to think, even outside of the world of arts.
is whether they can marry such a big deal with respect to employment? Won't they, like anyone else...go to where the jobs are? It isn't like they can marry everywhere else in the US, and will leave CA in droves.
There is a way above average number of gays in California and other places with the type of employment that the high tech and entertainment industry offers.
That's no doubt a prime reason why the Californian industry is strong in these fields and vice versa, one comes with the other.
I wonder why no one here has mentioned the real answer, The once famous Royal Mail is in financial trouble and this is a veiled method of getting people off that foreign internet and back to sending real letters. In the days of the Empire it worked, it will save the nation once more.
I'm lucky. There's nothing horribly embarrassing or wildly contradicting my current opinions out there.
Same here, I used my real name on usenet, the difference is that I still use my real name.
Because I'm not afraid to defend my opinion. That opinion might on some subjects have changed over the last 15-odd years but that's only natural, after all I believe in Evolution.
Scientists (who owe a duty of loyalty to the progress of science) and politicians (who (purportedly) owe a duty of loyalty to their constituency) are entirely different creatures.
I think that's open to discussion...
So I wasn't snarky or dense, I wanted to point out what in my view is an interesting discrepancy.
My gut says the US constitution is right, my mind worries about the potential waste.
When we put the batteries at the consumer end we have only half the transmission losses, compare to a distributed system like bittorrent.
Now the world seems to embrace the electric car these can, as long as they are connected to the charging point, be excellent buffers for excess energy.
You are not supposed to raise your hands, you're supposed to twist and lay down the screen.
That still does not mean much, on a 8.9" touch screen there's only so much real estate for icons etc. The rest will depend on smart gestures.
This is indeed the way forward.
But what you didn't explicitly mention, you seem to take it for granted, is that all systems at some point have to rely on trust. So the issue at hand is best, if not only, tackled at the HR and/or PO department, more technology has little effect.
Heh, being from Egypt you could have mentioned the obvious reason why this stupid law is suddenly enforced.
It's not to stop the owners abusing the GPS information as the law originally tried to control...
The effective reason is of course the simple fact someone, likely the importer, did not pay off the right official.
After all, power lines do kill children, but we still use them.
Please give us a reputable reference, otherwise you have for the rest of your on-line life the credibility of a UK tabloid. (No, I don't mean the kid sticking a nail in a power outlet)
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Besides, to mention a few of many you get Konqueror and Opera tossed in as well.
Now I'm waiting for a clearer decision on the sale of hardware that's not available without Windows installed...
The same applies for the proposed ruling about IE, it'll especially work when there's a price to pay for that eternally security challenged browser.
So, should be give them special rights above others?
No, the state (you) should stop taking their rights like an equal opportunity to get married.
And since when is removing these restrictions on tax breaks (main practical excuse for marriage) going to incite people to suddenly turn gay?
You must be from one of these states where sexual education is frowned upon...
Do you know what hurts employment in California? insanely high taxes, wasteful spending and over regulation.
Exactly, that ban on gay marriages is over regulation, the state should not get involved in these private matters.
A couple is a couple, regardless of colour, religion, nationality or sex.
It may well be, but, I fail to see how gay marriage affects the ability of a company to hire and retain employees?!?!?
I mean, gays are such a minority out there,
You clearly mis a few points.
First; gays are very much above average represented in the arts and design world.
Second; gays might be a minority but there are very many more than you seem to think, even outside of the world of arts.
is whether they can marry such a big deal with respect to employment? Won't they, like anyone else...go to where the jobs are? It isn't like they can marry everywhere else in the US, and will leave CA in droves.
There is a way above average number of gays in California and other places with the type of employment that the high tech and entertainment industry offers.
That's no doubt a prime reason why the Californian industry is strong in these fields and vice versa, one comes with the other.
Evolution is the Most Intelligent Design.
Not so bad when it is a separately bought product but plain obnoxious when it's integrated into some other equipment like a laptop.
So yeah, kudos to the developers.
I wonder why no one here has mentioned the real answer, The once famous Royal Mail is in financial trouble and this is a veiled method of getting people off that foreign internet and back to sending real letters.
In the days of the Empire it worked, it will save the nation once more.
I'm lucky. There's nothing horribly embarrassing or wildly contradicting my current opinions out there.
Same here, I used my real name on usenet, the difference is that I still use my real name.
Because I'm not afraid to defend my opinion.
That opinion might on some subjects have changed over the last 15-odd years but that's only natural, after all I believe in Evolution.
Scientists (who owe a duty of loyalty to the progress of science) and politicians (who (purportedly) owe a duty of loyalty to their constituency) are entirely different creatures.
I think that's open to discussion...
So I wasn't snarky or dense, I wanted to point out what in my view is an interesting discrepancy.
My gut says the US constitution is right, my mind worries about the potential waste.
When we put the batteries at the consumer end we have only half the transmission losses, compare to a distributed system like bittorrent.
Now the world seems to embrace the electric car these can, as long as they are connected to the charging point, be excellent buffers for excess energy.
And it adds value that the Icelandic Krona is so deflated that it's probably cheaper to study here than even in eastern Europe :P
I think you wanted to say: don't go there to study economy.
Who cares where someone was born?
Then what was all the fuss aroud Obama's place of birth...
You are not supposed to raise your hands, you're supposed to twist and lay down the screen.
That still does not mean much, on a 8.9" touch screen there's only so much real estate for icons etc. The rest will depend on smart gestures.
This is indeed the way forward.
But what you didn't explicitly mention, you seem to take it for granted, is that all systems at some point have to rely on trust.
So the issue at hand is best, if not only, tackled at the HR and/or PO department, more technology has little effect.
I just pitty that zombie with an offtopic mod.
Please don't confuse the corporate (law) world with Slashdot.
Yeah, a lot of them end up politicians.
Heh, being from Egypt you could have mentioned the obvious reason why this stupid law is suddenly enforced.
It's not to stop the owners abusing the GPS information as the law originally tried to control...
The effective reason is of course the simple fact someone, likely the importer, did not pay off the right official.
But not based on price, they now claimed it was an illegal copy.
I wish with you there was an easy way to counteract this kind of chicanery.
There isn't.
Just my failed attempt at humor, I wanted to show how relative these numbers are, especially when time (history) is a factor.
Once upon a time the Dutch had a unique connection to the -then- internet, we were the first outside of the USofA.
This was at a time the USSR and China were still very People-minded and refused to even think of such connections.
Maybe the subject of today has something to do with the size of the population ?
After all, power lines do kill children, but we still use them.
Please give us a reputable reference, otherwise you have for the rest of your on-line life the credibility of a UK tabloid.
(No, I don't mean the kid sticking a nail in a power outlet)