Exception, not rule. The locals will end up cleaning after the large amounts of mistakes. That is no different from what happens if you have your project done locally. Locals will end up having to clean the gap between 'design' and requirements at one time or another.
There's a difference between concept and implementation. Traffic shaping on highway onramps can help reduce congestion on the highways itself. This must be inplemented with some sort of feedback loop between traffic flow on the highway and the number of cars allowed onto it.
If you are waiting a long time when no traffic is on the highway then the implementation is flawed.
In general, nature re-uses everything. That means if bacteria excrete nanotubes, there are probably other organisms that feed on them. That makes me wonder if we'll find our wonderful nanotechnology will be vulnerable to organisms eating them...
"Yes, I know, it's MS, but they still have a policy to not ship with known bugs."
This is definitely untrue. In many cases there are bugs left that they consider 'acceptable risk'. If you ever get to join the beta tester crew you will find that many issues get reported, then closed as "Wont fix". Often because these are trivial things that MS thinks no-one cares about, but in several instances they make a consient decision to ship with the bug in place and deal with in in the next SP or even next product.
The closer they get to a release, the fewer changes are made to the code base. As it's huge by now, no-one can really oversee the consequences and possible regressions of even the smallest change
I really like your suggestion #3, the proper OFF switch. I would take that one step further, how about TV sets that switch themselves off if nothing is on that's worth watching. The energy savings would be HUMONGOUS!
That is certainly good to hear. However, if it were true that people's records are added in this database, don't you think the authorities could enter the 'crime' and 'conviction' details just as easily? When you turned people away, did you state the reason for doing so? Did you tell them "Sorry, you are a sex offender, cannot let you in"? If so, how many people told you this wasn't true??
60GHz signals do not travel through walls or anything else. You can't set up a central transmitter in your house and watch HD movies elsewhere. This is nice technology to 'beam' signals across a street or to prevent wiring mess in an ad-hoc meeting room, but it won't be a real WiFi replacement
This sounds more like he's planning to pre-empt Google from buying those companies. Buy-and-kill doesn't work with open source projects, as the source is already out there and anyone can start another company based on the same code.
Maybe, by allowing these kinds of bans based on claims of litiguous bastards will finally get real patent reform going. It's just plain stupid that patents are allowed to cause damage like this.
Makes you wonder where they draw the line on zoophilia. Will a 95% guy with 5% horse genes (yes, right there..) be able to legally fsck a 68% girl with a pony-tail?
..Americans can't tell one country from another.. Austria is quite a walk up from Australia. Makes you wonder how you decide which country to attack next.
Once Google stops those terrorists from finding the secret recipy for furtilizer... whoops.. bombs, I'm sure they will have no means to obtain that information elsewhere...
What is this commissioner thnking?!? These guys go to Pakistan and Afghanistan to be trained in full operational training camps. And he thinks filtering Google will make them harmless? What utter naïvity.
Moller should go into the hot air balloon industry if his intent is VTOL. His current ventures are enough of a speaming pile of sh*t to make any balloon fly.. Scam all around.
It's amazing that after 30 years of scam he has not been sued out of existence yet.
This is very simpel. If no-one has obtained a license to reincarnate, whichever kid is pronounced the new incarnation of the Dalai Lama automatically violates Chinese law and will be locked up. Case closed.
Don't be naive in thinking that the threat is China adding spy stuff.. I think it's a lot more realistic that Seagate will need to clean up their firmware base before a sell to remove the routines that are *already* there 'on request of certain agencies'. I would not be surprized at all if today's drives accept specific undocumented command sequences that can either disable the drive and/or disable any encryption in place.
Microsoft is manipulating many members of the ISO technical committee into voting 'yes', and even rigging the voting process in several countries.
The voting process is 'defective by design' as votes from each country must be unanimous. Microsoft is a member in most (if not all) countries and will always vote 'yes'. This means that the vote can only be 'yes' or (when no unanimous vote can be reached) 'abstain'. All other votes will be declared invalid, and only the 'yes' votes count. Still believe the outcome will be no?!?
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.. Oh boy, that *SUCKS*
There's a difference between concept and implementation. Traffic shaping on highway onramps can help reduce congestion on the highways itself. This must be inplemented with some sort of feedback loop between traffic flow on the highway and the number of cars allowed onto it.
If you are waiting a long time when no traffic is on the highway then the implementation is flawed.
In general, nature re-uses everything. That means if bacteria excrete nanotubes, there are probably other organisms that feed on them. That makes me wonder if we'll find our wonderful nanotechnology will be vulnerable to organisms eating them...
"Yes, I know, it's MS, but they still have a policy to not ship with known bugs."
This is definitely untrue. In many cases there are bugs left that they consider 'acceptable risk'. If you ever get to join the beta tester crew you will find that many issues get reported, then closed as "Wont fix". Often because these are trivial things that MS thinks no-one cares about, but in several instances they make a consient decision to ship with the bug in place and deal with in in the next SP or even next product.
The closer they get to a release, the fewer changes are made to the code base. As it's huge by now, no-one can really oversee the consequences and possible regressions of even the smallest change
I really like your suggestion #3, the proper OFF switch. I would take that one step further, how about TV sets that switch themselves off if nothing is on that's worth watching. The energy savings would be HUMONGOUS!
... That BMW is short for Bayerische Motoren Werke, which is headquartered in Germany?!?
That is certainly good to hear. However, if it were true that people's records are added in this database, don't you think the authorities could enter the 'crime' and 'conviction' details just as easily? When you turned people away, did you state the reason for doing so? Did you tell them "Sorry, you are a sex offender, cannot let you in"? If so, how many people told you this wasn't true??
60GHz signals do not travel through walls or anything else. You can't set up a central transmitter in your house and watch HD movies elsewhere. This is nice technology to 'beam' signals across a street or to prevent wiring mess in an ad-hoc meeting room, but it won't be a real WiFi replacement
This sounds more like he's planning to pre-empt Google from buying those companies. Buy-and-kill doesn't work with open source projects, as the source is already out there and anyone can start another company based on the same code.
Must be NT-based counting.
0. CP/M
1. VMS
2. OS/2
3. Windows-NT 3.1, 3.5, 3.51
4. Windows-NT 4
5. Windows 2000, Windows XP
6. Windows Vista
7. Windows 7
8. Ubuntu Octal Overlord
9. Plan-9
10. OS-X
Plenty of future, you see..
Maybe, by allowing these kinds of bans based on claims of litiguous bastards will finally get real patent reform going. It's just plain stupid that patents are allowed to cause damage like this.
Makes you wonder where they draw the line on zoophilia. Will a 95% guy with 5% horse genes (yes, right there..) be able to legally fsck a 68% girl with a pony-tail?
Simple. Smoking shortens average life expectancy, therefor moving you into a different scale for average chance of getting Alzheimer or Parkinsons.
Suicide also seems to drive down your chances of getting Alzheimer...
"This check is an early installment on Fairchild Semiconductor's first sale: 100 transistors sold to IBM for $150 apiece"
Interesting detail is that it shows $1,500.00 to be paid...
..Americans can't tell one country from another.. Austria is quite a walk up from Australia. Makes you wonder how you decide which country to attack next.
.. to the United States of Arabia.
Once Google stops those terrorists from finding the secret recipy for furtilizer... whoops.. bombs, I'm sure they will have no means to obtain that information elsewhere...
What is this commissioner thnking?!? These guys go to Pakistan and Afghanistan to be trained in full operational training camps. And he thinks filtering Google will make them harmless? What utter naïvity.
Contracts do not trump the law. Hence the line "Void where prohibited".
If you buy into his scam story then you definitely live up to your Slashdot handle. Moller will never fly.
Moller should go into the hot air balloon industry if his intent is VTOL. His current ventures are enough of a speaming pile of sh*t to make any balloon fly.. Scam all around.
It's amazing that after 30 years of scam he has not been sued out of existence yet.
This is very simpel. If no-one has obtained a license to reincarnate, whichever kid is pronounced the new incarnation of the Dalai Lama automatically violates Chinese law and will be locked up. Case closed.
Don't be naive in thinking that the threat is China adding spy stuff.. I think it's a lot more realistic that Seagate will need to clean up their firmware base before a sell to remove the routines that are *already* there 'on request of certain agencies'. I would not be surprized at all if today's drives accept specific undocumented command sequences that can either disable the drive and/or disable any encryption in place.
Microsoft is manipulating many members of the ISO technical committee into voting 'yes', and even rigging the voting process in several countries.
The voting process is 'defective by design' as votes from each country must be unanimous. Microsoft is a member in most (if not all) countries and will always vote 'yes'. This means that the vote can only be 'yes' or (when no unanimous vote can be reached) 'abstain'. All other votes will be declared invalid, and only the 'yes' votes count. Still believe the outcome will be no?!?
Then you must be living somewhere outside the United States of Abuse...