Most of the protesters I've seen outside the Zimbabwe embassy in London are black themselves. Don't try to paint what is happening there in black vs white terms, it is a violent dictator who has harmed all his citizens.
but even if you get it down to one child per woman immediately (which is what such legislation would accomplish)
It didn't accomplish that in China, so what makes you think it would accomplish it in Africa? When you look at the figures, China's birthrate fell only slightly faster than other Asian countries. The one thing that brings a birthrate down is economic growth, and the education and healthcare improvements that come with it.
A "character" data type has no meaning beyond representing codepoints. There are languages, such as Hindi (and other South Asian languages) and Arabic, where any attempt to output a single character at a time will result in an unreadable mess due to the fact that characters change their shape depending on what comes before or after. So a better rule is not to use strings to represent a character, but to always output whole strings, never individual characters.
But they won't win it. Nokia is still the largest mobile phone manufacturer on planet. There are billions of Nokia phones in Asia.
Are they still the largest mobile phone manufacturer on the planet though? I live in Asia (not the poorest part, but certainly not the richest either), and it seems that Samsung is cleaning up the market here, with Apple and HTC the only other players with any significant market share. And the China and India markets are not all that different from here, except perhaps the brands are different in China.
PNG can use indexed palettes too, and compresses to smaller sizes than GIF with the same palette. In a lot of cases where PNG is used for the type of image it is best suited to (line art etc), it compresses to smaller sizes at 32 bit (24 bit color with 8 bit alpha channel) than a 256 color GIF of the same picture.
My ISP (and Opera's Turbo) can compress GIFs and JPEGs prior to sending them
And they get a compression ratio that is worth the compression and decompression latency at each end on anything faster than a 28k8 modem? That would be impressive if it were true.
Immigration agents in other countries tend to thumb through passports looking at where you've been.
They usually only seem interested in their own country's stamps, making sure you haven't overstayed on the past visits (though you'd think the computer on their desk would be a more reliable method of obtaining that information than flicking quickly through a 50 page passport that is nearly full).
My passport is going to end up having loads of visa stamps for other countries, but no re-entry stamps back into the U.S. I wonder if that will be looked at suspiciously by foreign countries.
A lot of countries don't stamp passports on exit, some even for visitors. A lot of countries don't stamp their own citizen's passports on either entry or exit. If this was a problem, I think someone would have noticed by now.
Indeed, the only non-industrial Intel motherboards I know of that have a floppy port are the ASRock Extreme boards - and that's powered by a SuperIO chip on the motherboard, as chipset support for floppies was dropped by Intel years ago.
Maybe my experience is skewed by the fact that the last two PCs I've built have been AMD based. I stand corrected, I just assumed it was a standard part of every IDE controller, and though my current motherboard came with half a dozen SATA ports, I was surprised to see it still has the dual IDE port and floppy controller of old, and the BIOS even still lists Floppy as the first boot device by default.
Not necessarily. Their purchasing contract may have adopted to the fact that Pentium II processors are no longer available, and now specifies a "required peripheral list", leaving the processor and RAM spec open to whatever is current at time of purchase. So the machines they are buying might be modern fast machines, but somewhere in the contract it says they need to have floppy drives, so they do (most motherboards are still coming with floppy controllers on them for some reason, so nothing has forced them to reevaluate whether they need one, and the supplier is probably happily collecting a premium for supplying them, so doesn't want to rock the boat).
Other solutions allow you to use "groupware" functionality with IMAP (less so with POP, as that pulls all your mail in locally). Only Microsoft intentionally cripples their IMAP implementation so that you cannot see important fields (like Date/Time of meeting) when you try to browse the vcal messages that are stored in the calendar folder over IMAP.
Someone needs to start a petition for the UK to get it over with and become the 53rd state of the US, in order to make it clear whose laws you are living under.
I for one hope that the US will fragment into separate countries. That's what happened to the Soviet Union, and it resulted in a better standard of living for most people under that regime; just ask the Czechs and Poles.
For a more accurate view, ask someone who used to actually live in the Soviet Union, Estonians and Lithuanians for example. Then again there are places like Georgia, and plenty of parts of Russia, which have gone in the other direction post-Soviet times.
....your patch is not in line with the "semi-pro-football club"'s ways or some other bullshit.
Personal insults aside, the "semi-pro football club's ways" are probably part of the reason they are a long term successful project. Projects are better off without volunteers who toss out their patches on an as-is basis, and then get upset when noone else wants to clean them up to meet the project's standards and commit them to the mainline.
What exactly are these hundreds of thousands of dollars for? Do any members of the team treating the patient get a bonus for producing a transplantable organ? Or is this all expenses - mostly going to drug companies for their patented drugs used during the recovery phase for the transplant recipient? You seem to be suggesting that there is a conflict of interest here, but I'm not really sure there is.
Fukushima isn't over yet. The spent fuel pool of reactor 4 contains a large amount of plutonium from the two reactors that were under maintenance at the time of the earthquake. The crane used to transfer fuel from the spent fuel pool was damaged in the earthquake, and scheduled to be fixed by December 2013. Meanwhile, the structure has been damaged to the point where it can now only withstand an earthquake up to magnitude 7.0. The probability of an aftershock of that magnitude occurring this year has been estimated at 70%, and within the next three years at 98%.
Attachments are multipart/related, HTML email is multipart/alternative.
If you're going to argue on technical details, at least get them right. Emails with attachments are almost always multipart/mixed. The attachments themselves can be any mime type.
Multipart/related is a seldom used extension to mime, intended to deal with situations where different parts refer to the same object, such as Macintosh data and resource forks, digital signatures for attached files, etc.
That is the list of countries for sellers. The list of countries that can buy through Google Checkout is here, and is quite extensive these days (until around the time Android 2.3 launched, most of those countries did not even have access to free apps on the Market).
The move doesn't affect users of Microsoft's new mobile OS, who will continue to be served by the Windows Phone Marketplace."
Translation:
The move should serve as a warning to customers considering purchasing a Windows Phone 7 phone about future support prospects, with the impending release of Windows 8 based phones.
Just one more way of many that Microsoft/Nokia have screwed up their marketing message
"You have 1 minute to write a hello world program...45 seconds of which will be in a meeting to be sure every one knows what is taking place.
That's just the upfront story. Noone saw the progress meeting at 55 seconds coming, and the emergency meeting called at 0:59 for everyone to justify why they are late on the project and to schedule meetings every 5 seconds from then on to closer track the progress, because obviously the problem was with the employees not working on the project because management wasn't tracking them closely enough.
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Most of the protesters I've seen outside the Zimbabwe embassy in London are black themselves. Don't try to paint what is happening there in black vs white terms, it is a violent dictator who has harmed all his citizens.
It didn't accomplish that in China, so what makes you think it would accomplish it in Africa? When you look at the figures, China's birthrate fell only slightly faster than other Asian countries. The one thing that brings a birthrate down is economic growth, and the education and healthcare improvements that come with it.
Not being familiar with the scene from my mother's basement, is scat considered S+M too, or is it a distinct speciality?
A "character" data type has no meaning beyond representing codepoints. There are languages, such as Hindi (and other South Asian languages) and Arabic, where any attempt to output a single character at a time will result in an unreadable mess due to the fact that characters change their shape depending on what comes before or after. So a better rule is not to use strings to represent a character, but to always output whole strings, never individual characters.
Are they still the largest mobile phone manufacturer on the planet though? I live in Asia (not the poorest part, but certainly not the richest either), and it seems that Samsung is cleaning up the market here, with Apple and HTC the only other players with any significant market share. And the China and India markets are not all that different from here, except perhaps the brands are different in China.
More likely... Go fire that paranoid delusional in cubicle 3 before he does something embarrassing in front of a customer.
Which is of no use in talking about laptops that are on the market TODAY.
PNG can use indexed palettes too, and compresses to smaller sizes than GIF with the same palette. In a lot of cases where PNG is used for the type of image it is best suited to (line art etc), it compresses to smaller sizes at 32 bit (24 bit color with 8 bit alpha channel) than a 256 color GIF of the same picture.
And they get a compression ratio that is worth the compression and decompression latency at each end on anything faster than a 28k8 modem? That would be impressive if it were true.
Playing content in VLC and having codecs available to the standard system media playback APIs are two different things.
They usually only seem interested in their own country's stamps, making sure you haven't overstayed on the past visits (though you'd think the computer on their desk would be a more reliable method of obtaining that information than flicking quickly through a 50 page passport that is nearly full).
A lot of countries don't stamp passports on exit, some even for visitors. A lot of countries don't stamp their own citizen's passports on either entry or exit. If this was a problem, I think someone would have noticed by now.
Maybe my experience is skewed by the fact that the last two PCs I've built have been AMD based. I stand corrected, I just assumed it was a standard part of every IDE controller, and though my current motherboard came with half a dozen SATA ports, I was surprised to see it still has the dual IDE port and floppy controller of old, and the BIOS even still lists Floppy as the first boot device by default.
Not necessarily. Their purchasing contract may have adopted to the fact that Pentium II processors are no longer available, and now specifies a "required peripheral list", leaving the processor and RAM spec open to whatever is current at time of purchase. So the machines they are buying might be modern fast machines, but somewhere in the contract it says they need to have floppy drives, so they do (most motherboards are still coming with floppy controllers on them for some reason, so nothing has forced them to reevaluate whether they need one, and the supplier is probably happily collecting a premium for supplying them, so doesn't want to rock the boat).
Other solutions allow you to use "groupware" functionality with IMAP (less so with POP, as that pulls all your mail in locally). Only Microsoft intentionally cripples their IMAP implementation so that you cannot see important fields (like Date/Time of meeting) when you try to browse the vcal messages that are stored in the calendar folder over IMAP.
Someone needs to start a petition for the UK to get it over with and become the 53rd state of the US, in order to make it clear whose laws you are living under.
For a more accurate view, ask someone who used to actually live in the Soviet Union, Estonians and Lithuanians for example. Then again there are places like Georgia, and plenty of parts of Russia, which have gone in the other direction post-Soviet times.
Except he's not being extradited for copyright infringement, but for "aiding copyright infringement". Is that even a crime outside the US?
Personal insults aside, the "semi-pro football club's ways" are probably part of the reason they are a long term successful project. Projects are better off without volunteers who toss out their patches on an as-is basis, and then get upset when noone else wants to clean them up to meet the project's standards and commit them to the mainline.
CFLs have been available in 2700K (Warm White), 4800K (Cool white) and 6300K (Daylight) variants for at least 10 years.
What exactly are these hundreds of thousands of dollars for? Do any members of the team treating the patient get a bonus for producing a transplantable organ? Or is this all expenses - mostly going to drug companies for their patented drugs used during the recovery phase for the transplant recipient? You seem to be suggesting that there is a conflict of interest here, but I'm not really sure there is.
Fukushima isn't over yet. The spent fuel pool of reactor 4 contains a large amount of plutonium from the two reactors that were under maintenance at the time of the earthquake. The crane used to transfer fuel from the spent fuel pool was damaged in the earthquake, and scheduled to be fixed by December 2013. Meanwhile, the structure has been damaged to the point where it can now only withstand an earthquake up to magnitude 7.0. The probability of an aftershock of that magnitude occurring this year has been estimated at 70%, and within the next three years at 98%.
If you're going to argue on technical details, at least get them right. Emails with attachments are almost always multipart/mixed. The attachments themselves can be any mime type.
Multipart/related is a seldom used extension to mime, intended to deal with situations where different parts refer to the same object, such as Macintosh data and resource forks, digital signatures for attached files, etc.
That is the list of countries for sellers. The list of countries that can buy through Google Checkout is here, and is quite extensive these days (until around the time Android 2.3 launched, most of those countries did not even have access to free apps on the Market).
Translation:
The move should serve as a warning to customers considering purchasing a Windows Phone 7 phone about future support prospects, with the impending release of Windows 8 based phones.
Just one more way of many that Microsoft/Nokia have screwed up their marketing message
That's just the upfront story. Noone saw the progress meeting at 55 seconds coming, and the emergency meeting called at 0:59 for everyone to justify why they are late on the project and to schedule meetings every 5 seconds from then on to closer track the progress, because obviously the problem was with the employees not working on the project because management wasn't tracking them closely enough.