This truly is an American problem. In EU it is quite common to respect other people's privacy, unless they are some kind of public persons (politicians, musicians, celebrities, banksters etc.).
The problem with your argument is that we didn't "lose" to the Black Plague. It killed a lot of Europeans but it was unheard of in most other segments of the world, and the proof in the pudding is that we're here and the Black Plague is virtually nonexistent.
This, of course, was in the times BEFORE cheap flight travel and mass tourism.
... who thinks that a name like 'Pirate Party' sounds like some sort of childish joke. They might have serious intentions, but I could no more bring myself to take them seriously than I could one called the "purple polka dot clowns party".
Even at best, to try to take the name at face value, their naming suggests they are advocating something that is strongly associated with disobedience and anarchy.
The name is perfectly chosen, and by mocking propaganda-term the capitalists chose for "unlegal copying", it perfectly suits the values they represent, and you got it right, it does have something to do with the disobedience and anarchism. So, you were saying?
Note that this is 100 days without having to pay for a rent or for food. You can probably sleep 10 hours/day for all they care. There's no work actually that needs to be done, ie. you can choose what you'll do in those 14 awaken hours, right? Plus, once out, you're the cool guy that took part in the Mars experience. IMHO it's not that bad of reward.
So find another provider. Oh, there are none, are they? If people are willing to pay that kind of money, the provider will charge them. The real question is: as an IT contractor, can you afford NOT to be online during Olympics? This is an excellent example of a monopoly.
There's an old Bosnian joke about how Mujo decided which girl he should marry. He discussed about it later with his friend Haso: H: I heard you got married. Congratulations! How did you decide? M: Well, this was not easy. I had three candidates and I conducted a test. I asked the first one:
"What's 2+2?".
She said "4".
I though to myslelf, that's good, the woman is smart.
The second one said: "Well, it depends. It can be 4, but sometimes it can also be 3 or 5."
That's even better, the woman is cunning.
I asked the third one the same question and she says "I don't care. Whatever my husband says it is".
I thought to myself, this woman surely will respect her husband. This is good. H: So, which one did you take? M: Oh. The one with big tits, of course.
I don't think that scientists are THAT different to other men.
Correct me, if I'm wrong, but the Chinese and Russians have their own spying satellites. Isn't it by far more likely that they already knew what it loos like? If the submarine visual appearance was really all that secret, how come they didn't repair it (or whatever) under the roof? Roofs are cheap to build nowadays, you know.
From previous experience with Google publicly available software (Google Bar and Google Desktop) I'd say that it's more likely that Google will choose Internet Explorer as a base for its browser instead of Mozilla. But I'd be very happy to be wrong!
Posting on the /. won't help them either
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· Score: 2, Insightful
This issue has been raised on wikipedia-l mailing list and there were some opinions that they should try to resolve things quietly before making headlines. Posting on the Slashdot at this point of time sure won't help anyone (OK, so people have the right to know).
I agree with this and I have to add: the scenario of selling a used game is calculated in price of the game. People can count on selling the game the moment they're buying it, so the companies can sell expensive games to them because consumers know they can always sell it later.
Forbidding to sell used things would be the ultimate act of consumer society - definitely not the kind of world many people want to live in.
A while ago I've seen an English documentary on Antarctica. Apparently the documentary team had to stay in a tent because they were not allowed to sleep in the US base. The argumentation was the same as now. I can understand that giving public people shelter would encourage a bunch of other adventurers to visit the pole and making crowd there, though.
Cost of labor is not the only factor here. By making the company in the Germany the chip becomes an European Union product and is less taxed than the Asian imported chip.
Your friend can try Pajek, a package for large network analysis for Win32, developed at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Or you may want to search the Net for other Graph Drawing Competition contestants.
Besides other way around, there are also some areas of technology that were not predicted by the "2001: A Space Odyssey" and yet they have great impact on the way we live nowadays.
Namely, there's this scene in the film where Floyd calls home and his child answers the phone saying that he cannot talk to mommy because she went to the hair-dresser. In this case the reality is even more advanced that Kubrick's anticipation - obviously the nowadays wife would carry a mobile phone if her husband was in space on a mission.
Apparently there is a bug in older version of
KMail from KDE 1.x that prevents KMail from
correctly displaying the current date since
billenium.
More information about KMail billenium bug is on www.kde.org.
I disagree. Parsing LaTeX is harder
than parsing HTML, because:
You have environments (ie. \begin{...}... \end{...}), which are somewhat equivalent to
the SGML tags.
You can extend the language with new definitions
(\newcommand) and environments (\usepackage) that can change the meaning and the expected rendered layout in significant way.
LaTeX is a compromise between describing parts of the document and expecting the wish to render it,
so it is not meant to be descriptive all way long - while the spirit of LaTeX is markup, the end goal is still PostScript and this sure shows in
a language.
IMHO HTML + MathML, if adopted by "both of you know who", would be a good web alternative to LaTeX, still XML is a way to go. If you need
layout and hyperlinks, you can have PDF with LaTeX in the back-stage.
First you have to forget about Linux and Intel. You may like your PC, but I don't think availability will be good.
That said... We've been using Informix Dynamic Server with Sinix (UNIX for 16-processor R10000) with little more than 30 GB database on Emc disk fields and a *lot* of traffic. It works for us (knock knock).
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I totally agree with you. IMHO all e-companies should read useit.com before they design WWW user interfaces. In the words of Jakob Nielsen: "The collapse of Boo does not prove that e-commerce doesn't work. It proves that overly fancy design doesn't work."
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So they invented some non-recyclable material which is supposed to replace the recyclable one? How is this good?
This truly is an American problem. In EU it is quite common to respect other people's privacy, unless they are some kind of public persons (politicians, musicians, celebrities, banksters etc.).
The problem with your argument is that we didn't "lose" to the Black Plague. It killed a lot of Europeans but it was unheard of in most other segments of the world, and the proof in the pudding is that we're here and the Black Plague is virtually nonexistent.
This, of course, was in the times BEFORE cheap flight travel and mass tourism.
Even at best, to try to take the name at face value, their naming suggests they are advocating something that is strongly associated with disobedience and anarchy.
The name is perfectly chosen, and by mocking propaganda-term the capitalists chose for "unlegal copying", it perfectly suits the values they represent, and you got it right, it does have something to do with the disobedience and anarchism. So, you were saying?
So this is the new Teflon. Years before we discover that it, too, causes cancer: 73.
I wonder if they have a "Pull trigger to fire" sticker on their rifles too.
I hope that you won't have to find that one out.
Note that this is 100 days without having to pay for a rent or for food. You can probably sleep 10 hours/day for all they care. There's no work actually that needs to be done, ie. you can choose what you'll do in those 14 awaken hours, right? Plus, once out, you're the cool guy that took part in the Mars experience. IMHO it's not that bad of reward.
So find another provider. Oh, there are none, are they? If people are willing to pay that kind of money, the provider will charge them. The real question is: as an IT contractor, can you afford NOT to be online during Olympics? This is an excellent example of a monopoly.
There's an old Bosnian joke about how Mujo decided which girl he should marry. He discussed about it later with his friend Haso:
H: I heard you got married. Congratulations! How did you decide?
M: Well, this was not easy. I had three candidates and I conducted a test. I asked the first one:
"What's 2+2?".
She said "4".
I though to myslelf, that's good, the woman is smart.
The second one said: "Well, it depends. It can be 4, but sometimes it can also be 3 or 5."
That's even better, the woman is cunning.
I asked the third one the same question and she says "I don't care. Whatever my husband says it is".
I thought to myself, this woman surely will respect her husband. This is good.
H: So, which one did you take?
M: Oh. The one with big tits, of course.
I don't think that scientists are THAT different to other men.
Correct me, if I'm wrong, but the Chinese and Russians have their own spying satellites. Isn't it by far more likely that they already knew what it loos like? If the submarine visual appearance was really all that secret, how come they didn't repair it (or whatever) under the roof? Roofs are cheap to build nowadays, you know.
From previous experience with Google publicly available software (Google Bar and Google Desktop) I'd say that it's more likely that Google will choose Internet Explorer as a base for its browser instead of Mozilla. But I'd be very happy to be wrong!
This issue has been raised on wikipedia-l mailing list and there were some opinions that they should try to resolve things quietly before making headlines. Posting on the Slashdot at this point of time sure won't help anyone (OK, so people have the right to know).
I agree with this and I have to add: the scenario of selling a used game is calculated in price of the game. People can count on selling the game the moment they're buying it, so the companies can sell expensive games to them because consumers know they can always sell it later.
Forbidding to sell used things would be the ultimate act of consumer society - definitely not the kind of world many people want to live in.
A while ago I've seen an English documentary on Antarctica. Apparently the documentary team had to stay in a tent because they were not allowed to sleep in the US base. The argumentation was the same as now. I can understand that giving public people shelter would encourage a bunch of other adventurers to visit the pole and making crowd there, though.
Cost of labor is not the only factor here. By making the company in the Germany the chip becomes an European Union product and is less taxed than the Asian imported chip.
You call fiddling about with some small creature's life "a cool thing"? IMHO this is just plain sick.
Your friend can try Pajek, a package for large network analysis for Win32, developed at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Or you may want to search the Net for other Graph Drawing Competition contestants.
Namely, there's this scene in the film where Floyd calls home and his child answers the phone saying that he cannot talk to mommy because she went to the hair-dresser. In this case the reality is even more advanced that Kubrick's anticipation - obviously the nowadays wife would carry a mobile phone if her husband was in space on a mission.
Babelfish does like PHP and here is the proof: the translation of German article.
Apparently there is a bug in older version of KMail from KDE 1.x that prevents KMail from correctly displaying the current date since billenium. More information about KMail billenium bug is on www.kde.org.
I disagree. Parsing LaTeX is harder than parsing HTML, because:
IMHO HTML + MathML, if adopted by "both of you know who", would be a good web alternative to LaTeX, still XML is a way to go. If you need layout and hyperlinks, you can have PDF with LaTeX in the back-stage.
That said ... We've been using Informix Dynamic Server with Sinix (UNIX for 16-processor R10000) with little more than 30 GB database on Emc disk fields and a *lot* of traffic. It works for us (knock knock).
I totally agree with you. IMHO all e-companies should read useit.com before they design WWW user interfaces. In the words of Jakob Nielsen: "The collapse of Boo does not prove that e-commerce doesn't work. It proves that overly fancy design doesn't work."