This really screams of "rebranding panic" they know that they're going to have a serious problem getting the OS out the door and the general public as well as management latching on to it with the current name of metro. So they're looking for a new name.
Personally, they should have gone with Fabulous off the start. A little gay, a little flashy, a little hip. And then it could have all gone downhill from there...kinda like what it's doing now.
the way the US has done things, they're the lesser of evils compared to the UN. Especially when you toss Russia, and China, and other dictatorships, neo-dictatorships into the mix. The best solution in the end will end up being decentralizing the entire thing and keeping it away from any national body.
I think asia myth is a bit of a misnomer. Rather, it's had faster and a larger adoption because in some places the infrastructure was less mature, using either more current, or only a previous generation which could either be upgraded, or shuffled around reducing overhead costs. Compared to here, which has a lot of overhead costs for some ISP's, meaning some are all bent out of shape waiting, and waiting some more to do the upgrades. Heck my ISP(Teksavvy) has IPv6 for DSL, but not for cable, because the carrier they lease their headend connections from(Rogers) is still lagging way behind on deployment.
Yeah, that's why old reactors are coming back online. And plans are being "drawn up" around the world to bring reactors to the fore even after the problem with the first generation reactor in Japan. The problem, of course it's environuts and their fear mongering.
Then again, if it wasn't for them we could be seeing PBR's in open availability right now. They only stalled the nuclear industry for 30 years.
It's been just about impossible to criticize the religious beliefs of anyone for decades, and it's almost impossible to curb inappropriate and in-your-face religious behaviors because of the sacrosanct rule that religion is somehow immune to interference from the secular world, and that's why religious craziness around the world is on the rise.
Beh, hardly. The only religious group that is going to actually go out of your way and actually hurt you for "criticizing your beliefs" is Muslims. Try it, go on. I'll wait. People criticize Christians all the time, they do it to Jews, and Taoists, and Hindu's and all the rest without a problem. No mass slaughters either. Hell they desecrate their idols, blow up their sanctuaries, destroy their churches, synagogues, and places of worship, they attack their god, and gods. Burn their books, and holy texts. And narry a peep, except for them to look at you in disgust for it, or perhaps to flee if you're the one brandishing a weapon at them. And it usually doesn't come to actual violence in those cases unless they're pushed right up against the wall, like the copts in egypt, or buddhists in thailand, where civil order has fully broken down.
But, you do any of that to a muslim, and you'll get riots in the street. They'll threaten to kill you, draw their prophet and they'll threaten to behead you. Meh, your post is one sided, and terribly so.
Yeah I learned at the tender young age of 5 how to program first on a vic-20. My old man thought it would be a learning experience if I could write my own stuff, or copy stuff out of compute, and then play around with it.
Well you could even be using free-breeder reactors, or well anything in between too until it becomes cheaper? So what's stopping you besides wacknut environmentalists and NIMBY nuts? CANDU reactors can use anything for fuel, nice huh?
But here you are complaining about "greedy nuke plant operators" and yet we have greedy *insert other power plant operators* and we have even worse super-greedy wind/solar operators. Who get lovely feed-in-tariffs of 40-80c/KWH to sell their electricity. That's what we pay for in Ontario right now. Oh yeah, really good. Right on track by 2015, most expensive power in North America.
Hey, it's so bad in Germany that there's over 1m people that can't even afford their power anymore. And the price per/KWH is now over 20c.
Thorium reactors are an alternative, but they're a stepping stone, like other nuclear technologies. Technologies that environuts, and nimbys' get their panties in a twist over.
Pretty much. Exclusion times are not guaranteed, and you can end up paying more, or less, or not getting anything at all. They can whine, and thrash about all they want but they're sure not going to get anywhere. To me it seems like they tried to make a big bet on the IPO being worth more, and it's now tanking hard(and will tank harder) and are trying to recoup losses by doing this instead. Yeah...not gonna work there guys.
The Liberals in Canada spent years gutting the military. To the point where it was putting the lives of the soldiers in direct jeopardy. I could fill the entire comment box full of stories with from friends and family who were or are in the military about the flying, riding, doomed death traps that we gave our servicemen and women up here. And to be honest? It got so bloody bad, we were renting military equipment from the US and UK because ours was so unsafe.
They're welcome to put on whatever song and dance that they want. But, in Canada there's no dearth of availability to funding if you can prove your research is viable.
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Well, they could have named it "Fabulous." But maybe that would have been too much? I'll just roll along with the puns here.
Unfortunately yes, it does seem to be legally binding.
If you live in Canada, the ruling is not binding. In Ontario for example, you're protected under the CPA(Consumer Protection act 2002). This law, ensures that no company may remove, or attempt to strip away your legal rights to sue, or force you into binding arbitration via contract, ToS, or EULA.
I don't think you understand what discrimination is...
I understand it just fine. I just happen to live in a part of the world where using something like facebook to deny a person a job, or apartment, or loan because they don't have facebook is discrimination. I suppose, I should pity you, that you don't live in a part of the world where a persons personal privacy is more than sum value of it's parts.
I just did a warranty claim with Logitech. My x-540's were dying a slow painful death, channels dropping out. They sent me a new pair of the z-906's, covered shipping both ways. That's a hell of an upgrade in my book for warranty replacement, from $90 to $300 replacements. The first warranty I had for a mouse, one of their very first laser jobs they had me send back, to the US. Though, Logitech has sent me a replacement mouse without a problem every time I've needed a new one without a problem.
Funny how you got modded a troll. Maybe who ever did it got tired of their community garden yelling at them for entering after dark, and informing them that the police had been dispatched. I really wish I'd kept the article, and video on it. Oh well, it was on the telegraph I believe sometime last year.
Why would it be out of your direct vision? Lights are at such a small minute of arc out of your normal sight line, if you can't tell what color it is, you cannot operate a vehicle safely.
People can be red-green colour blind and operate a vehicle just fine. The problem is, when places start getting their asses up in the air and don't conform to one of two standards of hanging street lights. And there have been a couple of places that have been sued into the dirt for this, there *are* proper ways to hang lights, because if you don't you're going to cause an accident for those that do have this disability.
I'll take Logitech over MS any day of the week, especially considering the differences in warranty policies. Heck, even Logitech pays both ways for shipping. That is if they even want the product back at all for warranty.
Probably off being just as dumb as those people who think the private sector to be the magic bullet that fixes everything.
Living in a country(Canada) where there are both, via crown corporations. Let me say, that the private sector is vastly better a providing a service to the general public. Unless they're unwilling to provide the service. Fine examples: Ontario and the LCBO(booze control board, and in turn only place to buy it), the only reason they exist is to line the coffers of the provincial government with money. On the other hand, places like Saskatchewan where for decades the private industry wouldn't touch the telephone system. And the provincial government was required to invest into it. In you could get your phone service from the prov. government.
Isolated communities, where the federal government provides rail access. Plenty of those in northern ontario. On the other hand, Hydro. Which was semi-privatized, but now has additional 'feed tariffs' causing the price of power to climb through the roof for things like wind, and solar.
EULA's are not binding in most places. And it's getting to the point in most courts via case law that they're considered "beyond the terms of the layman" to understand, so they're also not binding. If a person can't understand what they're agreeing to, you can't enforce it.
After all, if I write out a 300 page contract and slip in on page 298, that I'll own you, your children, and your wife in exceptionally verbose language, via a EULA, that's linked via a 1st party website that you have to use to agree to the contract. Still legal? Hardly.
No it doesn't work on facebook. Hell it doesn't work on any site where they require the "facebook social plugin" if anything, the comments degenerate even faster, and it becomes a giant screaming shill match of epeen stroking to see who can become the biggest asshole of the thread with the most likes. Oddly enough, I generally just strike sites off my reading list that use it for commenting.
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Since Metro's squares look like pony colors.
This really screams of "rebranding panic" they know that they're going to have a serious problem getting the OS out the door and the general public as well as management latching on to it with the current name of metro. So they're looking for a new name.
Personally, they should have gone with Fabulous off the start. A little gay, a little flashy, a little hip. And then it could have all gone downhill from there...kinda like what it's doing now.
the way the US has done things, they're the lesser of evils compared to the UN. Especially when you toss Russia, and China, and other dictatorships, neo-dictatorships into the mix. The best solution in the end will end up being decentralizing the entire thing and keeping it away from any national body.
I think asia myth is a bit of a misnomer. Rather, it's had faster and a larger adoption because in some places the infrastructure was less mature, using either more current, or only a previous generation which could either be upgraded, or shuffled around reducing overhead costs. Compared to here, which has a lot of overhead costs for some ISP's, meaning some are all bent out of shape waiting, and waiting some more to do the upgrades. Heck my ISP(Teksavvy) has IPv6 for DSL, but not for cable, because the carrier they lease their headend connections from(Rogers) is still lagging way behind on deployment.
nuclear in general is falling out of favour.
Yeah, that's why old reactors are coming back online. And plans are being "drawn up" around the world to bring reactors to the fore even after the problem with the first generation reactor in Japan. The problem, of course it's environuts and their fear mongering.
Then again, if it wasn't for them we could be seeing PBR's in open availability right now. They only stalled the nuclear industry for 30 years.
7zip is awkward, and parity files are difficult to use? And here you are posting on /.? Okay there. I'd hate to see what happens if faced with a CLI.
It's been just about impossible to criticize the religious beliefs of anyone for decades, and it's almost impossible to curb inappropriate and in-your-face religious behaviors because of the sacrosanct rule that religion is somehow immune to interference from the secular world, and that's why religious craziness around the world is on the rise.
Beh, hardly. The only religious group that is going to actually go out of your way and actually hurt you for "criticizing your beliefs" is Muslims. Try it, go on. I'll wait. People criticize Christians all the time, they do it to Jews, and Taoists, and Hindu's and all the rest without a problem. No mass slaughters either. Hell they desecrate their idols, blow up their sanctuaries, destroy their churches, synagogues, and places of worship, they attack their god, and gods. Burn their books, and holy texts. And narry a peep, except for them to look at you in disgust for it, or perhaps to flee if you're the one brandishing a weapon at them. And it usually doesn't come to actual violence in those cases unless they're pushed right up against the wall, like the copts in egypt, or buddhists in thailand, where civil order has fully broken down.
But, you do any of that to a muslim, and you'll get riots in the street. They'll threaten to kill you, draw their prophet and they'll threaten to behead you. Meh, your post is one sided, and terribly so.
Oh, it will work. They'll just get a nice bailout courtesy of the US taxpayers. That's how its done in business.
Awesome. Can I get some bailout money courtesy of the US taxpayers? I'm America's Hat after all.
If you're impressed by that you should go play Skyrim, with a few texture mods.
Yeah I learned at the tender young age of 5 how to program first on a vic-20. My old man thought it would be a learning experience if I could write my own stuff, or copy stuff out of compute, and then play around with it.
Well you could even be using free-breeder reactors, or well anything in between too until it becomes cheaper? So what's stopping you besides wacknut environmentalists and NIMBY nuts? CANDU reactors can use anything for fuel, nice huh?
But here you are complaining about "greedy nuke plant operators" and yet we have greedy *insert other power plant operators* and we have even worse super-greedy wind/solar operators. Who get lovely feed-in-tariffs of 40-80c/KWH to sell their electricity. That's what we pay for in Ontario right now. Oh yeah, really good. Right on track by 2015, most expensive power in North America.
Hey, it's so bad in Germany that there's over 1m people that can't even afford their power anymore. And the price per/KWH is now over 20c.
Thorium reactors are an alternative, but they're a stepping stone, like other nuclear technologies. Technologies that environuts, and nimbys' get their panties in a twist over.
Pretty much. Exclusion times are not guaranteed, and you can end up paying more, or less, or not getting anything at all. They can whine, and thrash about all they want but they're sure not going to get anywhere. To me it seems like they tried to make a big bet on the IPO being worth more, and it's now tanking hard(and will tank harder) and are trying to recoup losses by doing this instead. Yeah...not gonna work there guys.
The Liberals in Canada spent years gutting the military. To the point where it was putting the lives of the soldiers in direct jeopardy. I could fill the entire comment box full of stories with from friends and family who were or are in the military about the flying, riding, doomed death traps that we gave our servicemen and women up here. And to be honest? It got so bloody bad, we were renting military equipment from the US and UK because ours was so unsafe.
They're welcome to put on whatever song and dance that they want. But, in Canada there's no dearth of availability to funding if you can prove your research is viable.
Well, they could have named it "Fabulous." But maybe that would have been too much? I'll just roll along with the puns here.
Unfortunately yes, it does seem to be legally binding.
If you live in Canada, the ruling is not binding. In Ontario for example, you're protected under the CPA(Consumer Protection act 2002). This law, ensures that no company may remove, or attempt to strip away your legal rights to sue, or force you into binding arbitration via contract, ToS, or EULA.
This comes from the case Kanitz v Rogers Cable
Now that's actually pretty good. Too bad cannon won't do that.
I don't think you understand what discrimination is...
I understand it just fine. I just happen to live in a part of the world where using something like facebook to deny a person a job, or apartment, or loan because they don't have facebook is discrimination. I suppose, I should pity you, that you don't live in a part of the world where a persons personal privacy is more than sum value of it's parts.
I just did a warranty claim with Logitech. My x-540's were dying a slow painful death, channels dropping out. They sent me a new pair of the z-906's, covered shipping both ways. That's a hell of an upgrade in my book for warranty replacement, from $90 to $300 replacements. The first warranty I had for a mouse, one of their very first laser jobs they had me send back, to the US. Though, Logitech has sent me a replacement mouse without a problem every time I've needed a new one without a problem.
Funny how you got modded a troll. Maybe who ever did it got tired of their community garden yelling at them for entering after dark, and informing them that the police had been dispatched. I really wish I'd kept the article, and video on it. Oh well, it was on the telegraph I believe sometime last year.
Why would it be out of your direct vision? Lights are at such a small minute of arc out of your normal sight line, if you can't tell what color it is, you cannot operate a vehicle safely.
People can be red-green colour blind and operate a vehicle just fine. The problem is, when places start getting their asses up in the air and don't conform to one of two standards of hanging street lights. And there have been a couple of places that have been sued into the dirt for this, there *are* proper ways to hang lights, because if you don't you're going to cause an accident for those that do have this disability.
I'll take Logitech over MS any day of the week, especially considering the differences in warranty policies. Heck, even Logitech pays both ways for shipping. That is if they even want the product back at all for warranty.
Probably off being just as dumb as those people who think the private sector to be the magic bullet that fixes everything.
Living in a country(Canada) where there are both, via crown corporations. Let me say, that the private sector is vastly better a providing a service to the general public. Unless they're unwilling to provide the service. Fine examples: Ontario and the LCBO(booze control board, and in turn only place to buy it), the only reason they exist is to line the coffers of the provincial government with money. On the other hand, places like Saskatchewan where for decades the private industry wouldn't touch the telephone system. And the provincial government was required to invest into it. In you could get your phone service from the prov. government.
Isolated communities, where the federal government provides rail access. Plenty of those in northern ontario. On the other hand, Hydro. Which was semi-privatized, but now has additional 'feed tariffs' causing the price of power to climb through the roof for things like wind, and solar.
The conspiracy theory nuts keep telling us that the moon landings were fake!
EULA's are not binding in most places. And it's getting to the point in most courts via case law that they're considered "beyond the terms of the layman" to understand, so they're also not binding. If a person can't understand what they're agreeing to, you can't enforce it.
After all, if I write out a 300 page contract and slip in on page 298, that I'll own you, your children, and your wife in exceptionally verbose language, via a EULA, that's linked via a 1st party website that you have to use to agree to the contract. Still legal? Hardly.
Even now, I know people who have been denied jobs, apartments and loans because they do not have a Facebook account,
Sounds to me like a great case for discrimination to me.
No it doesn't work on facebook. Hell it doesn't work on any site where they require the "facebook social plugin" if anything, the comments degenerate even faster, and it becomes a giant screaming shill match of epeen stroking to see who can become the biggest asshole of the thread with the most likes. Oddly enough, I generally just strike sites off my reading list that use it for commenting.