With respect to question 1: His qualifications are that he is heading a research group and has published several peer-reviewed scientific papers on the analysis of p2p network traffic.
With respect to question 2: A brief check shows he's a professional engineer who subsequently acquired a PhD at one of the better universities (rank 53 worldwide, 13 in europe).
For the latitude notebooks they advertise with "Windows Vista at no extra cost" I guess this would also imply "Windows Vista offers no extra value" if this situation persists...
No inconsistency here, Amazon is probably violating the same trade-rules as Apple. Despite popular opinion, the EU only employs a relatively small amount of people* and they probably just haven't got to them yet.
(*less than the number of civil servants for a medium sized city; I'm not denying that they generate tons of superfluous paperwork for the member states...)
True, but then again, Monsanto may is probably the biggest pusher of cross-species "genetic-modification" for commercial use. So your remark sounds a bit like: "The sad part is that Communism is going take the majority of the blame, not the individuals in North_Korea, China, Cuba and the Soviet Uion that actually caused the problem".
As far as I can see both parties agree that the cases of kidney and liver damage observed after 90 days are statistically signifcant. It's just that the the European Food Safety Agency allegedly does not consider them 'biologically relevant'. This latter formulation is of course not an official criterion for acceptance, but it would translate roughly as: 'we don't get paid by people who care about sick rodents so piss off'.
Apart from that, I agree that I wouldn't put it beyond any of the parties involved to use publicity as a weapon...
It's probably not the yeast, but the dextrins that give you the gas problem (same as with beans). Of course, beer with live yeast tends to be high-gravity high-dextrin as well in practice.
I expect that pointing out that they are taking advice from Microsoft, which is a repeatedly convicted international offender, may be a better way to get through to the average PHB than any factual security claim.
is still strongly associated with both unsolicited email and the ham product in most English speaking person's minds But that would be about 10% of the population of the EU. For the 90% living outside Britain I would guess that only Monty Python fans will be aware that there is another meaning for the word spam besides unsollicitated bulk email.
Perhaps he couldn't get past the 5000 levels of corporate hierarchy to find the underpaid anonymous C#/VB.Net programmer working in the broom-closet in the basement of a Bombay-based programming sweatshop?
But seriously? It's the culture. The Netherlands and the Nordic countries are about the same like this. Big on democracy, accountability, transparency, highly intolerant of corruption, etc.
In the end, it's basically a self-fulfilling thing, really. People trust the system --> therefore they have low tolerance for corruption --> get very pissed when it happens --> therefore they have low corruption --> therefore they trust the system.
It's not just faith in the Government itself, but to all the institutions, and the parliament, etc. And there's a lot less political polarization. Of course part of the latter is due to the multi-party system. I used to be agnostic on which system was better, but now I'm pretty convinced that the many-party parliamentary system is superior to the US system.
Nah, I prefer to think we really are just freedom hating socialists.
You are aware of course that your solution requires somebody at least marginally competent working in the IT department, whereas the 'yelling into a telephone about warranties' support-model does not require much more than possession of lungs...
Oh yeah, in geological terms, human history is less than the blink of an eye.
Let's not exaggerate our unimportance; If you take that to mean 'a blink of an eye relative to the existence of your eye', there are about 25 billion 0.1s 'blinks of an eye' possible in an average lifetime (78*365*24*3600*10), but only about a million written human histories in the history of the earth.
So calling human history less than a blink of an eye seems to underestimate its importance by a factor of 25000 (making it a mere 0.00000000004 instead of a whopping 0.000001).
However a more literal definition might be "Source code that is available to others than the people that wrote it." Just because someone doesn't give you their code for free,....
But with that definition all source is open; If I want to look at the Vista code I just buy this company called Microsoft, and all its code is available to me.
I guess some people have caught on to that idea as well; In radio ads around here I've noticed an enormous amount of 'URL's'. Last week I counted 17 requests to visit a company web-site out of 24 ads in the morning rush-hour advertising surrounding the traffic information. They must hope the name sticks long enough to make it to the office.
Does advertising work as well as claimed at all? After all, the claim of success is made by advertising agencies and marketing departments. Both parties have an obvious interest in higher advertising budgets.
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Alternatively, you could say it casts an interesting light on the real value of 1$...
With respect to question 1:
His qualifications are that he is heading a research group and has published several peer-reviewed scientific papers on the analysis of p2p network traffic.
With respect to question 2:
A brief check shows he's a professional engineer who subsequently acquired a PhD at one of the better universities (rank 53 worldwide, 13 in europe).
With respect to question 3:
Do you know this definition?
http://www.webster.com/dictionary/slander
Why not declare the robots enemy combattants?
that normally kicks in the dehuminization mode.
Yes, you are clearly missing the higher management logic:
Product 1 sucks less Windows XP
Product 2 also sucks less than Windows XP
That makes it a draw.
For the latitude notebooks they advertise with "Windows Vista at no extra cost"
I guess this would also imply "Windows Vista offers no extra value" if this situation persists...
I don't get it. Do you mean that A ~A as the reductio ad absurdum of omnipotence cannot apply because it shows that the conclusion is absurd?
No inconsistency here, Amazon is probably violating the same trade-rules as Apple. Despite popular opinion, the EU only employs a relatively small amount of people* and they probably just haven't got to them yet.
(*less than the number of civil servants for a medium sized city; I'm not denying that they generate tons of superfluous paperwork for the member states...)
True, but then again, Monsanto may is probably the biggest pusher of cross-species "genetic-modification" for commercial use.
So your remark sounds a bit like: "The sad part is that Communism is going take the majority of the blame, not the individuals in North_Korea, China, Cuba and the Soviet Uion that actually caused the problem".
As far as I can see both parties agree that the cases of kidney and liver damage observed after 90 days are statistically signifcant.
It's just that the the European Food Safety Agency allegedly does not consider them 'biologically relevant'.
This latter formulation is of course not an official criterion for acceptance, but it would translate roughly as:
'we don't get paid by people who care about sick rodents so piss off'.
Apart from that, I agree that I wouldn't put it beyond any of the parties involved to use publicity as a weapon...
You're sure it isn't to protect the export profits?
Many countries refuse to import meat that contains antibodies from immunization,
as they are often indistinguishable from those of infected animals...
You must be new here.
(on this planet that is)
It's probably not the yeast, but the dextrins that give you the gas problem (same as with beans). Of course, beer with live yeast tends to be high-gravity high-dextrin as well in practice.
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( http://www.glyphandcog.com/index.html )
I expect that pointing out that they are taking advice from Microsoft, which is a repeatedly convicted international offender, may be a better way to get through to the average PHB than any factual security claim.
These are authorative sources.
I think you misspelled authoritarian there
http://www.webster.com/dictionary/authoritarian
is still strongly associated with both unsolicited email and the ham product in most English speaking person's minds
But that would be about 10% of the population of the EU. For the 90% living outside Britain I would guess that only Monty Python fans will be aware that there is another meaning for the word spam besides unsollicitated bulk email.
Perhaps he couldn't get past the 5000 levels of corporate hierarchy to find the underpaid anonymous C#/VB.Net programmer working in the broom-closet in the basement of a Bombay-based programming sweatshop?
not to not sound like a fanboi btw...
But seriously? It's the culture. The Netherlands and the Nordic countries are about the same like this. Big on democracy, accountability, transparency, highly intolerant of corruption, etc.
In the end, it's basically a self-fulfilling thing, really. People trust the system --> therefore they have low tolerance for corruption --> get very pissed when it happens --> therefore they have low corruption --> therefore they trust the system.
It's not just faith in the Government itself, but to all the institutions, and the parliament, etc. And there's a lot less political polarization. Of course part of the latter is due to the multi-party system. I used to be agnostic on which system was better, but now I'm pretty convinced that the many-party parliamentary system is superior to the US system.
Nah, I prefer to think we really are just freedom hating socialists.
You are aware of course that your solution requires somebody at least marginally competent working in the IT department, whereas the 'yelling into a telephone about warranties' support-model does not require much more than possession of lungs...
Oh yeah, in geological terms, human history is less than the blink of an eye.
Let's not exaggerate our unimportance; If you take that to mean 'a blink of an eye relative to the existence of your eye', there are about 25 billion 0.1s 'blinks of an eye' possible in an average lifetime (78*365*24*3600*10), but only
about a million written human histories in the history of the earth.
So calling human history less than a blink of an eye seems to underestimate its importance by a factor of 25000
(making it a mere 0.00000000004 instead of a whopping 0.000001).
However a more literal definition might be "Source code that is available to others than the people that wrote it." Just because someone doesn't give you their code for free, ....
But with that definition all source is open; If I want to look at the Vista code I just buy this company called Microsoft, and all its code is available to me.
It's an ad for an advertising campaign.
I guess some people have caught on to that idea as well; In radio ads around here I've noticed an enormous amount of 'URL's'. Last week I counted 17 requests to visit a company web-site out of 24 ads in the morning rush-hour advertising surrounding the traffic information. They must hope the name sticks long enough to make it to the office.
Does advertising work as well as claimed at all?
After all, the claim of success is made by advertising agencies and marketing departments.
Both parties have an obvious interest in higher advertising budgets.
Oddly in the original old greek meaning Earth is of course not a wandering star, and therefore not a planet...