In 1998 A customer of mine had a whole batch of Dells who all had the same problem that the second IDE port didn't work. No problem as long as you kept the machine as you received it, but it became a problem when I wanted to add cdroms. As the whole batch had the problem they should have known about it. But instead they tried to make life difficult for me: "have you tried that? Didn't you make that mistake?". It paid of for them. I got so sick of it that I only asked replacement for those computers where I actually needed 3 IDE devices at that moment. But in fact the whole batch (some 15 computers) was bad.
I don't agree with much of what you said. But based on my recent experiences with Google Adsense I agree that Google has lost its moral compass. First they accused me of hosting illegal music and when I proved that that was not true they simply to my Adsense account away for having changed the color of my ad.
The ad says that Oracle will aim for tight integration with its database. That might be less welcome news for those people who do not use it for Oracle databases.
Reminds me of the Dutch blasphemy law in the 1970s. The time spirit had become liberal, but there were still those old laws. So they prosecuted some writers who had written blasphemous books (if I remember well in one God had sex with a donkey). The writers were condemned to some fine. But the free publicity for their books had been such that they didn't care at all.
With hundreds of US military "advisors" in Georgia the US very probably was informed before of the Georgian attacks. And they are probably now working as advisors behind the screens - providing data from the satellites. This looks very similar to Operation Storm in which the Croat army crushed the Serbs in the Krajna in 1995. Then too US advisors played a major role on the background. Even the lack of respect for Ossetian lives reminds of the lack of respect for Serb lives in the Krajna. Maybe somebody can check which "advisors" that were then in Croatia are now in Georgia.
Maybe it is finally time to abolish domain tasting.
A second strategy would be to use market forces. Let everybody pay 1 dollar a year for a domain. You can finance the UN from it and it would free up many reserved addresses.
Islamic terrorists come mostly from poor countries:
- In poor countries most of the higher employment is technical. Only rich countries can afford social workers, psychologists, etc.
- In poor families there is less opportunity to pay attention to social niceties, so kids from poor families tend to have less of the background for a social study. Both factors explain why in poor countries a much higher percentage of the population studies engineering.
If you look at Western terrorist groups like the RAF in Germany or the Red Brigades in Italy you won't find many engineers.
When I compare DIVs to tables the tables are much more flexible, specially when you need a solution that works on different browsers and window widths. Instead of building on the strengts of the tables to make something better the standards gurus developed with the divs something that misses many of the strengths of the tables.Now we have two half solutions instead of one whole.
This "copyright czar" Chris Israel should better check his kids' (if he has any) pcs and ipods. The majority of the families in the US are at risk for a similar verdict.
But then of course his risk is quite diminished: the Bush administration has an effective system for preventing that their friends are prosecuted. The time that justice was blind is behind us.
A stable country is a balance of power between a large number of people. That balance may bring some slowness of decission making, but it prevents most extreme and revolutionary policies. Revolution concentrates power in a few hands and that can easily go wrong.
As for wealth distribution: it is usually the extreme circumstances that create the skewed distribution. Charles Dickens lived in the industrial revolution. We see now an increasing inequality as a consequence of the computing revolution and the rise of China. On the other side: the stable 1950s gave rise to the equality minded 1960s. So my advice: just wait and you will see that at some point the situation will stabilise and you will get more equality again.
Many developping countries have an extreme inequality. This is partially still the product of the independence revolution. Partly it is the consequence of neo-colonialism, where some other country supports the elite so that it doesn't have to care about the rest of the country.
I would like to see a good system of identification for hardware (either PCI, AGP or USB). I often have to install older equipment from which the installation disks are lost. It is often difficult to find the drivers. Some network cards don't even carry decent names on them.
Each piece of hardware should carry:
1) a link to a website where drivers can be found
2) a unique ID so that if the website if offline (company broke or domain hijacked) you can still search in an easy way on driver sites like drivershq.
3) if there is place (and with the falling memory prices that should be increasingly the case: a mini driver for the most common operating systems.
I guess this generation of judges is finally computer literate enough to have looked on the computers of their children and understand what they are doing. That will have teached them that every other family is guilty of this this terrible "crime" that the RIAA is so upset about.
So we have an Estonian government that is playing the ethnic card and that in the process probably has caused hundreds of Russians to emigrate. And now we are asked to see that government as a victim because some Russian script kiddies got angry with them?
I was at Joker a few years ago and it was a complete disaster. At some point I could do nothing with my domains: not even setting the DNS servers. The help desk never answered a question and on the discussion forum I encountered only people with similar experiences.
I was glad that the domain transfering still worked...
When you study the history of industrial development you see that every country starts its industrial development with a period when it doesn't pay much attention to "intellectual property". The closer it comes to the international economical top the more it becomes obsessed with it.
You can see it now in China. Prior you could see it in Taiwan and Japan and yet further back you could see it in the US and most of Europe. The only one not guilty is the UK: they were the first.
It makes sense: the rich countries write the rules to their own advantage.
It is just not polite to say this kind of things too loud. This Rumanian president should learn some manners...
If it really was so easy to make sugar from cellulose we wouldn't use sugarcane and other plants to get the sugar and go the big cellulose producers - like trees - instead.
Just like in the blackberry case this is about a judge loosing all sense of proportion when it comes to patents. In my opinion patents should be treated as a monetary claim, not as a hostage taking device.
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Because CSS is based on many misunderstandings:
- You are supposed to separate content and visual elements. An input is both.
- An HTML page has to be XML. To achieve this part of positioning is delegated to attributes.
- The belief that tables are bad. In fact they are very intuitive elements - unlike the DIVs. It would have been much better if we could do with one block element that had the strong points of both tables and divs.
- A total disregard for consistency. Every HTML page contains 3 languages for the same thing: HTML, CSS and javascript. In many cases all three use slightly different names for the same thing. It would have been much better if they had been integrated into a consistent interface.
My question for Hakon: HTML became popular because it was so simple to use that everyone could use it. CSS by contrast is so complicated that only fulltime professionals understand it. Will CSS stay an elite thing?
I actually liked it when people developed something. The coding may need some reworking, but getting a good requirement report is a lot of work too.
What I did not like was that Access is such a horrible "tool". I spend lots of time learning how I can find the different parts of the Access application.
In general, the policy is that if it is safe for use on wikipedia, it should be safe to use on a mirror. Many of the copying happens automatic or semi-automatic. You cannot expect people to go for every image to a descriptive page where they can find somewhere in the middle the license.
I doubt article size can/should grow indefinitely. The preferred approach is always to split up larger articles into subpages, if there is enough material. There is always enough material: many books have been written about the lifes of great composers like Bach and Mozart. And the splitting up has already started. I wouldn't be astonished if one day we had a seperate subpage for Mozart's youth and below that a seperate subpage for his youth before 8.
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In 1998 A customer of mine had a whole batch of Dells who all had the same problem that the second IDE port didn't work. No problem as long as you kept the machine as you received it, but it became a problem when I wanted to add cdroms. As the whole batch had the problem they should have known about it. But instead they tried to make life difficult for me: "have you tried that? Didn't you make that mistake?". It paid of for them. I got so sick of it that I only asked replacement for those computers where I actually needed 3 IDE devices at that moment. But in fact the whole batch (some 15 computers) was bad.
I don't agree with much of what you said. But based on my recent experiences with Google Adsense I agree that Google has lost its moral compass. First they accused me of hosting illegal music and when I proved that that was not true they simply to my Adsense account away for having changed the color of my ad.
Disgusting...
The ad says that Oracle will aim for tight integration with its database. That might be less welcome news for those people who do not use it for Oracle databases.
Reminds me of the Dutch blasphemy law in the 1970s. The time spirit had become liberal, but there were still those old laws. So they prosecuted some writers who had written blasphemous books (if I remember well in one God had sex with a donkey). The writers were condemned to some fine. But the free publicity for their books had been such that they didn't care at all.
With hundreds of US military "advisors" in Georgia the US very probably was informed before of the Georgian attacks. And they are probably now working as advisors behind the screens - providing data from the satellites. This looks very similar to Operation Storm in which the Croat army crushed the Serbs in the Krajna in 1995. Then too US advisors played a major role on the background. Even the lack of respect for Ossetian lives reminds of the lack of respect for Serb lives in the Krajna. Maybe somebody can check which "advisors" that were then in Croatia are now in Georgia.
The US strategy in both Iraq and Serbia was "bomb them to the stone age". Compared to that the Russians seem civilized.
But they seem to lack the laserguided precision bombs of the US. So they will cause more civilian deads.
Maybe it is finally time to abolish domain tasting.
A second strategy would be to use market forces. Let everybody pay 1 dollar a year for a domain. You can finance the UN from it and it would free up many reserved addresses.
Islamic terrorists come mostly from poor countries:
- In poor countries most of the higher employment is technical. Only rich countries can afford social workers, psychologists, etc.
- In poor families there is less opportunity to pay attention to social niceties, so kids from poor families tend to have less of the background for a social study.
Both factors explain why in poor countries a much higher percentage of the population studies engineering.
If you look at Western terrorist groups like the RAF in Germany or the Red Brigades in Italy you won't find many engineers.
I totally agree.
When I compare DIVs to tables the tables are much more flexible, specially when you need a solution that works on different browsers and window widths. Instead of building on the strengts of the tables to make something better the standards gurus developed with the divs something that misses many of the strengths of the tables.Now we have two half solutions instead of one whole.
This "copyright czar" Chris Israel should better check his kids' (if he has any) pcs and ipods. The majority of the families in the US are at risk for a similar verdict.
But then of course his risk is quite diminished: the Bush administration has an effective system for preventing that their friends are prosecuted. The time that justice was blind is behind us.
A stable country is a balance of power between a large number of people. That balance may bring some slowness of decission making, but it prevents most extreme and revolutionary policies. Revolution concentrates power in a few hands and that can easily go wrong.
As for wealth distribution: it is usually the extreme circumstances that create the skewed distribution. Charles Dickens lived in the industrial revolution. We see now an increasing inequality as a consequence of the computing revolution and the rise of China. On the other side: the stable 1950s gave rise to the equality minded 1960s. So my advice: just wait and you will see that at some point the situation will stabilise and you will get more equality again.
Many developping countries have an extreme inequality. This is partially still the product of the independence revolution. Partly it is the consequence of neo-colonialism, where some other country supports the elite so that it doesn't have to care about the rest of the country.
I would like to see a good system of identification for hardware (either PCI, AGP or USB). I often have to install older equipment from which the installation disks are lost. It is often difficult to find the drivers. Some network cards don't even carry decent names on them.
Each piece of hardware should carry:
1) a link to a website where drivers can be found
2) a unique ID so that if the website if offline (company broke or domain hijacked) you can still search in an easy way on driver sites like drivershq.
3) if there is place (and with the falling memory prices that should be increasingly the case: a mini driver for the most common operating systems.
I guess this generation of judges is finally computer literate enough to have looked on the computers of their children and understand what they are doing. That will have teached them that every other family is guilty of this this terrible "crime" that the RIAA is so upset about.
The urls in the article did not work for me. So I looked them up myself.
This is what I found: The article and its source.
So we have an Estonian government that is playing the ethnic card and that in the process probably has caused hundreds of Russians to emigrate. And now we are asked to see that government as a victim because some Russian script kiddies got angry with them?
I was at Joker a few years ago and it was a complete disaster. At some point I could do nothing with my domains: not even setting the DNS servers. The help desk never answered a question and on the discussion forum I encountered only people with similar experiences.
I was glad that the domain transfering still worked...
With patents is exactly the same.
When you study the history of industrial development you see that every country starts its industrial development with a period when it doesn't pay much attention to "intellectual property". The closer it comes to the international economical top the more it becomes obsessed with it.
You can see it now in China. Prior you could see it in Taiwan and Japan and yet further back you could see it in the US and most of Europe. The only one not guilty is the UK: they were the first.
It makes sense: the rich countries write the rules to their own advantage.
It is just not polite to say this kind of things too loud. This Rumanian president should learn some manners...
If it really was so easy to make sugar from cellulose we wouldn't use sugarcane and other plants to get the sugar and go the big cellulose producers - like trees - instead.
I have here one pc that locks up when I upgrade to SP2 too. The only thing that still works is going in the safe mode and uninstalling it again.
It is a HP Pavilion and there were some issues documented for that model. But as far as I know I repaired them, yet no result.
The imfamous "little man" story...:
Well, believe me, 99% of the times the victims of this kind of laws is the small guy. But that doesn't reach the news.
Just like in the blackberry case this is about a judge loosing all sense of proportion when it comes to patents. In my opinion patents should be treated as a monetary claim, not as a hostage taking device.
Because CSS is based on many misunderstandings:
- You are supposed to separate content and visual elements. An input is both.
- An HTML page has to be XML. To achieve this part of positioning is delegated to attributes.
- The belief that tables are bad. In fact they are very intuitive elements - unlike the DIVs. It would have been much better if we could do with one block element that had the strong points of both tables and divs.
- A total disregard for consistency. Every HTML page contains 3 languages for the same thing: HTML, CSS and javascript. In many cases all three use slightly different names for the same thing. It would have been much better if they had been integrated into a consistent interface.
My question for Hakon: HTML became popular because it was so simple to use that everyone could use it. CSS by contrast is so complicated that only fulltime professionals understand it. Will CSS stay an elite thing?
I actually liked it when people developed something. The coding may need some reworking, but getting a good requirement report is a lot of work too.
What I did not like was that Access is such a horrible "tool". I spend lots of time learning how I can find the different parts of the Access application.
A forum looks like the most important for me for a community.
The manual might come in a wiki structure giving people the opportunity to add their own observations.
You might consider some blog like construction to give people a place to showcase what they have done with the technology.
In general, the policy is that if it is safe for use on wikipedia, it should be safe to use on a mirror.
Many of the copying happens automatic or semi-automatic. You cannot expect people to go for every image to a descriptive page where they can find somewhere in the middle the license.
I doubt article size can/should grow indefinitely. The preferred approach is always to split up larger articles into subpages, if there is enough material.
There is always enough material: many books have been written about the lifes of great composers like Bach and Mozart. And the splitting up has already started. I wouldn't be astonished if one day we had a seperate subpage for Mozart's youth and below that a seperate subpage for his youth before 8.