This is simply because the US doesn't have reciprocal work visa arrangements with anyone. As a British citizen, I can get work visas in many countries pretty easily, and others like me from those countries can do the same in the UK. This is in addition to the complete free movement of labour within the EU. So, while I can get an Australian work visa from the travel agents, I don't have a hope of getting a US one according to their rules.
Personally, I like The Economist's idea: free movement of labour between all countries of comparable wealth.
It's not up to Apple to say if it's legal. That's for a court to decide if it ever came to need a decision. Luckily, companies don't decide the law. Well, not officially, anyway.
The reason they all have that is because they (almost) all have the same rendering engine, so should display the same content the same way. Why else would you need to know what the browser is?
The reason they do this is because many sites that sniff for Gecko then send content which Safari would render just fine. Instead of getting broken HTML meant for IE, the Safari developers added the word so they'd get the more compliant Mozilla version. Of course this is all fucking stupid. Sites shouldn't be sniffing for browsers. Just make it compliant. If it's for Javascript, check for the feature required (e.g. if (document.all) { blah...} ).
Euro MPs are next to useless because the European Parliament is virtually powerless. That's not to confuse them with MPs in the individual member states' parliaments, who occasionally do have some power.
It was to the UK as well. 'Aspirin' is generic here too.
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...at least in the UK. I don't know about elsewhere. It can record any of the radio channels that are available through cable. This includes virtually all of the local and national stations, plus quite a few that are digital only.
I use it to record specialist shows from BBC Radio 1 that are broadcast at ungodly hours, such as the Breezeblock and Gilles Peterson and listen to them at a more civilised time.
Actually, in the parts where it matters (the mp3 codec, the FairPlay DRM), iTunes doesn't even use QT. This will be clear to anyone who has used the painfully slow mp3 codec in QuickTime. I believe it does use QT for AAC however. This inconsistency and refusal to eat their own dog food is a source of annoyance for QT developers.
Regarding the Mac Toolbox in QT: yes, it's still there. Sadly it's the nasty old pre-Carbon toolbox though. All Pascal strings and FOUR_CHAR_CODEs. *shudder* I have to make clear: I am big fan of QuickTime. In fact, I develop QuickTime applications as my job, and love it. There are just quite a few annoyances. Little things like Quicktime for Java being so old that it no longer works since the JVM was updated in OS X.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who finds H2G2 intolerably nannyish in its editing, and filled with fans trying to write in a self-conscious Douglas Adams style.
If this does turn out to be more than the regular rumour-mongering, it's worth remembering that even if a merger isn't blocked by US authorities, the European Union Competition Commission has shown itself more than willing to block deals like this that are so obviously anti-competitive. And yes, they do have jurisidiction over the deal, because both companies do business and have subsidiaries in Europe.
In a list of top business ideas, I'm a little suprised they missed the Black-Scholes Formula. While few outside of the financial have heard of it, this Nobel prize-winning development revolutionised the world of finance. It was (and is) a way of finding the fair price for options contracts, a problem that experts had been trying to solve for most of the century. It was revolutionary because it was the first one that actually worked and as such utterly changed the balance of risks involved with these financial transactions. The model was eventually extended to cover other instruments. Professors Black and Scholes later changed the world in another, less appealing way. They were behind the spectacular failure that was Long Term Capital Management (LTCM), proving, if anything, that their models were not entirely flawless.
He's pulled the first auction because of an 'error' in the listing, and relisted it without the 'preinstalled' software. Funnily enough though, he's also removed things like iSync that are free downloads anyway.
Next week, public beta of the X11 release for Darwin 6, Mac OS X 10.2.
This is still the X11 version. Sure, it'll be nice to try it, but it won't have Mac look and feel, and certainly won't obey the Human Interface Guidelines yet. It seems that the Aqua demo was of NeoOffice, which is just a proof of concept for developers, not a real distribution.
NeoOffice is a mildly functional prototype office suite used for exploring technologies for use in OpenOffice.org. It is not a distribution and not in active development. It is a sandbox for testing out potentially unstable and ugly technologies that are not appropriate for a maintainable source base.
Since many people call it "Linux", doesn't that make it right?
We don't think that the popularity of an error makes it the truth.
I think history has shown that English-speakers ignore those who try to tell them to change the way they speak. Linguistic changes are evolutionary, and often enough people making an "error" does make it right. This, however, is not an example of that. Since it was created, it has been called Linux. The FSF has come along after the fact and tried to enforce their ideology with a name change. Aside from their case's merits (or lack of), if people don't want to use a new term, no amount of whining will change that. Give up already.
I do buy CDs every month. In fact I usually buy several each week. Music is important to me, so I'm happy to spend £20-£30 per week on it. A subscription model would be a godsend to me, but only if they have the music I want. The kind of stuff I listen to seems to only be available in specialiststores. Much as I love spending a Sunday afternoon browsing through these stores, if I knew I could get all the releases I want for a monthly subscription, I'd be sorely tempted. I'd probably still buy the stuff I really like on CD too.
If I'm going to be spending the money on calls anyway, I may as well get a contract and a subsidised phone. My point is that because most people will be buying mobiles anyway, the savings on a device by having it a phone rather than just an unsubsidised PDA are considerable. The economics of pricing with mobile phones is different.
Regarding your second point: yeah, the phone could be SIM-locked. Who cares? I've signed the contract for a year anyway, so why would I want to use the phone on another network before then. In fact, in many cases they're not really locked. Try swapping SIMs with another phone some day. You'll probably find it works fine. I always have.
In most countries, handset prices for contract mobiles are subsidised heavily by the networks. Even prepay phones are subsidised to some extent. This means that a phone will always be cheaper than an equivalent PDA. As an example, I just got a newly released T68i, off-net price ~300GBP. I got it for free on an Orange contract.
I think the issue is the use of the world as a general insult. Do you hear nigger used as a general insult, even targetted at non-blacks? Would a someone have got up ang shout "NIGGER" if they heard a phone ringing? I doubt it. The reaction to this comment has suprised me: having the original remark modded up, and the perfectly sensible reply modded down to -1. Reminds me that the slashbots are always more juvenile than I remember.
Next time, why not try what i do. "YAAA-A-NK", "FUCKING SEPTIIIC", "MERKIN", "BUSH VOTER" I find them all to be better insults.
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QuickTime is an open format. Go take a look for yourself.
This is simply because the US doesn't have reciprocal work visa arrangements with anyone. As a British citizen, I can get work visas in many countries pretty easily, and others like me from those countries can do the same in the UK. This is in addition to the complete free movement of labour within the EU. So, while I can get an Australian work visa from the travel agents, I don't have a hope of getting a US one according to their rules.
Personally, I like The Economist's idea: free movement of labour between all countries of comparable wealth.
Funnily enough, Experts Exchange are no longer to be found at expertsexchange.com. I guess it attracted the wrong kind of clientele.
It's not up to Apple to say if it's legal. That's for a court to decide if it ever came to need a decision. Luckily, companies don't decide the law. Well, not officially, anyway.
Sports gambling is fully legal in the UK and the UK National Lottery is one of the most successful in the world.
The reason they all have that is because they (almost) all have the same rendering engine, so should display the same content the same way. Why else would you need to know what the browser is?
The reason they do this is because many sites that sniff for Gecko then send content which Safari would render just fine. Instead of getting broken HTML meant for IE, the Safari developers added the word so they'd get the more compliant Mozilla version. Of course this is all fucking stupid. Sites shouldn't be sniffing for browsers. Just make it compliant. If it's for Javascript, check for the feature required (e.g. if (document.all) { blah...} ).
Internet explorer identifies itself with "Mozilla" in the user-agent string.
...as does pretty much every regular browser.
Mozilla identifies itself with "Gecko" in the user-agent string.
Euro MPs are next to useless because the European Parliament is virtually powerless.
That's not to confuse them with MPs in the individual member states' parliaments, who occasionally do have some power.
It was to the UK as well. 'Aspirin' is generic here too.
...at least in the UK. I don't know about elsewhere. It can record any of the radio channels that are available through cable. This includes virtually all of the local and national stations, plus quite a few that are digital only.
I use it to record specialist shows from BBC Radio 1 that are broadcast at ungodly hours, such as the Breezeblock and Gilles Peterson and listen to them at a more civilised time.
Regarding the Mac Toolbox in QT: yes, it's still there. Sadly it's the nasty old pre-Carbon toolbox though. All Pascal strings and FOUR_CHAR_CODEs. *shudder* I have to make clear: I am big fan of QuickTime. In fact, I develop QuickTime applications as my job, and love it. There are just quite a few annoyances. Little things like Quicktime for Java being so old that it no longer works since the JVM was updated in OS X.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who finds H2G2 intolerably nannyish in its editing, and filled with fans trying to write in a self-conscious Douglas Adams style.
As for the community aspect, there are few places that can top E2 for that. Noders (E2 users) meet in real life all the time, all around the world. There have been births, marriages and deaths. E2 may be unfriendly to new noders (and new order), but is certainly is a strong community.
Screenshots comparing OpenOffice.org with Office v.X show quite how far it has to go. It simply looks ghastly.
If this does turn out to be more than the regular rumour-mongering, it's worth remembering that even if a merger isn't blocked by US authorities, the European Union Competition Commission has shown itself more than willing to block deals like this that are so obviously anti-competitive. And yes, they do have jurisidiction over the deal, because both companies do business and have subsidiaries in Europe.
In a list of top business ideas, I'm a little suprised they missed the Black-Scholes Formula. While few outside of the financial have heard of it, this Nobel prize-winning development revolutionised the world of finance. It was (and is) a way of finding the fair price for options contracts, a problem that experts had been trying to solve for most of the century. It was revolutionary because it was the first one that actually worked and as such utterly changed the balance of risks involved with these financial transactions. The model was eventually extended to cover other instruments. Professors Black and Scholes later changed the world in another, less appealing way. They were behind the spectacular failure that was Long Term Capital Management (LTCM), proving, if anything, that their models were not entirely flawless.
He's pulled the first auction because of an 'error' in the listing, and relisted it without the 'preinstalled' software. Funnily enough though, he's also removed things like iSync that are free downloads anyway.
This is still the X11 version. Sure, it'll be nice to try it, but it won't have Mac look and feel, and certainly won't obey the Human Interface Guidelines yet. It seems that the Aqua demo was of NeoOffice, which is just a proof of concept for developers, not a real distribution.
Looks like there's a lot more work to be done...
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I think history has shown that English-speakers ignore those who try to tell them to change the way they speak. Linguistic changes are evolutionary, and often enough people making an "error" does make it right. This, however, is not an example of that. Since it was created, it has been called Linux. The FSF has come along after the fact and tried to enforce their ideology with a name change. Aside from their case's merits (or lack of), if people don't want to use a new term, no amount of whining will change that. Give up already.
This book provides good programmers who have never used PHP enough information to do serious web development using PHP
Those who are experienced with another language will find this book useful for picking up PHP.
so if you want to use PHP but have never written any serious code, you may want to look elsewhere for an introduction
..if, however, you don't have experience in any programming language, you'd be best to find a book that spends more time covering coding basics.
I do buy CDs every month. In fact I usually buy several each week. Music is important to me, so I'm happy to spend £20-£30 per week on it. A subscription model would be a godsend to me, but only if they have the music I want. The kind of stuff I listen to seems to only be available in specialist stores. Much as I love spending a Sunday afternoon browsing through these stores, if I knew I could get all the releases I want for a monthly subscription, I'd be sorely tempted. I'd probably still buy the stuff I really like on CD too.
If I'm going to be spending the money on calls anyway, I may as well get a contract and a subsidised phone. My point is that because most people will be buying mobiles anyway, the savings on a device by having it a phone rather than just an unsubsidised PDA are considerable. The economics of pricing with mobile phones is different.
Regarding your second point: yeah, the phone could be SIM-locked. Who cares? I've signed the contract for a year anyway, so why would I want to use the phone on another network before then. In fact, in many cases they're not really locked. Try swapping SIMs with another phone some day. You'll probably find it works fine. I always have.
In most countries, handset prices for contract mobiles are subsidised heavily by the networks. Even prepay phones are subsidised to some extent. This means that a phone will always be cheaper than an equivalent PDA. As an example, I just got a newly released T68i, off-net price ~300GBP. I got it for free on an Orange contract.
I think the issue is the use of the world as a general insult. Do you hear nigger used as a general insult, even targetted at non-blacks? Would a someone have got up ang shout "NIGGER" if they heard a phone ringing? I doubt it. The reaction to this comment has suprised me: having the original remark modded up, and the perfectly sensible reply modded down to -1. Reminds me that the slashbots are always more juvenile than I remember.
Next time, why not try what i do. "YAAA-A-NK", "FUCKING SEPTIIIC", "MERKIN", "BUSH VOTER" I find them all to be better insults.