Hopefully the Drug Enforcement Agency would not be proactive about data center energy consumption. While energy usage is out of their jurisdiction, I can see how it is addictive... always having to plug in just one more server, or had more hard drives to reach maximum capacity.
How do you "know what you're looking for" without searching the web exactly?
It's worth noting that Microsoft would love nothing more than to bundle as many free utilities as they could, but their hands are tied thanks to those who whined to the DOJ.
Why is searching the web a problem? If I need to find an app in Linux that does whatever. Almost always searching: "Linux <whatever I want to do>" will give me at least 1 or 2 applications that do that. I could in fact replace Linux with KDE, Gnome or XFCE depending on which DE I'm using.
And to say the one shouldn't have to search for an application to run is absurd. No one is born knowing which applications do what in Windows, they learn either from searching or asking someone. Which is what they would do in Linux too.
I have thought the same myself - surely basic texts need not change much from year to year, and big markets like Texas and California have to spend enough on textbooks that the cost of writing them "in-house" would be cheaper than purchasing them. I sure the issue is more likely where would Texas and California have over 1 million books printed (not to mention all the other states)? The only places that have the printing/binding ability to handle that kind of load (and able to deliver in a reasonable time) are the same people trying to get them to buy $150+ textbooks every year.
It would be near impossible to track otherwise. When large companies buy computers, they buy them in large quantities, so those $1200 laptops retail might be only $900 when buying 200+. So which category should they be put it in if the computers were not >$1000 laptops if they were sold for less. Assuming Dell, HP and Apple each are even willing to release the data from their Government/Enterprise sales.
...refers to how much a tax cut will 'cost' the government, how much it will 'cost' the government to implement a tax cut, etc. You do realize that there is a "real" cost to doing anything in the government. Its not like they decide to cut taxes and *poof* money appears in everyone's pocket.
Whether they raise or lower taxes, there is an additional costs in paying of the implementation of the new precedures from printing and mailing notification to re-training the departments responsible for collecting the new tax or tax rate.
> "I think they (the jurors) misapprehended what the standards-setting organizations are about and the absolute need for good faith,"
This is a poor portent for standards bodies generally. Microsoft (like Rambus) perfectly understood what these bodies are about and have sought to subvert ISO for their benefit. Unlike Rambus, they aren't seeking to collect extortion payments, merely to cement their monopoly. Both distasteful though. Yet.
Except as stated elsewhere, they filed for the patent in 1999. So they had 2 years between filing a patent and doing something to bring a product to market, even longer if you consider the fact that the Windows version of iTunes didn't come out for another 1.5 years after the Mac OS release.
Instead, they chose to wait until the patent was approved, then start suing the companies that took an obvious idea and brought it to market themselves.
It will be interesting to see if artists et al can actually collect on this case. Since I don't believe tpb is actually violating swedish law. What will be hilarious if they do actually win and collect anything, what the artist "cut" would end up being.
"Thanks for helping us collect all that money from TPB, here's your $0.10."
Congress, of course, won't realize that these auctions are a very limited-use thing. They can't re-auction them every year. You sure about that? Considering the government we have, I'd be sure to read the fine print to make sure its not an annual lease agreement.
There are two things for which I've never understood how they can be viable: Bottled water sold for the same price as soft drink, and DRM music. Probably because the cost isn't the water (and other ingredients for soft drinks) but rather the plastic bottle it is in, and the marketing and distribution of the product.
Why do websites have to paginate stories? The scroll bar is there for a reason, why not let it do its thing? It is really annoying when I can read the sentence or paragraph you put on each page faster than it can load.
I think a story or article should only be split into different pages when it is big enough to have different chapters. Since almost all news articles are way to short to have chapters, why try to split them up in an annoying way? Increased ad views, obviously. The more pages you click-thru to read the story, the more money the site makes from advertisers.
However, in order to take advantage of the improved standards compliance in IE8, Web developers will have to opt-in by adding an additional meta tag to their web pages. This improved standards mode is the same that was recently reported to pass the Acid 2 test, as was discussed here.
So how could IE8 possibly have passed the Acid2 test? The test page doesn't contain the magic META tag that IE needs to pass the test!
It could be that the "tag" is the code from the Acid2 test.
The specific problem he calls out (which I actually feel only scratches the surface) is that Java offers such a featureful API that the programmer isn't forced to learn the basics. He is able to simply use a Hashtable, a Sort, a LinkedList, or whatever he needs without understanding why it works. Which is a very dangerous thing for someone training to be a Computer Scientist. I would argue that the issue isn't with Java, but the way it presented to the students. I took a few Java classes at my university and before we could use the built-in structures we had assignments to implement them ourselves. We did not completely re-implement stacks, queues, hash tables, etc, to replace the entire interface but enough of the data structure to understand its workings before moving on.
Provide students using C++ an API that contains all those structures implemented for C++ and the same issues would arise.
That is true, no doubt. But it still isnt very cut and dry. What happens 4+ years from now when everyone and their cat knows Office 2007 (not an unlikely scenario) and every new employee needs to be retrained on OO.org? Then it becomes more expensive. No more expensive than when MS replaces ribbons for the next big thing in UI and then having to retrain everyone again. Or if they decide to stop backward compatibility of older file formats again.
Should an aircraft go down as the result of Terrorist actions, pay everyone on board $1,000,000 from the fund. How do you plan to pay $1,000,000 to the people on board a plane that crashes? I will gladly accept any non-collected payouts, just to keep the accounting straight, of course.
If you want to consider real money, consider the > 450 billion dollars spent over the last 5 years on the Iraq war, or the 450 Billion dollar Defense budget spent every year which doesn't even include war operations.
According to this page, we have spend closer to $485 billion so far and the works out to about $275 million per day or $0.92 per day for every man, woman and child in America, versus only $0.003 per day over the life of Hubble.
Hmmm... Ok so tell me how often are you going to be visiting the Microsoft website if you happen to be a Linux and Firefox user? I commonly have to access MS sites from my linux workstation to get info on my clients Windows servers for documentation, updates, etc.
Can anyone give one legitimate reason why anyone would need to "trial" a domain? Is that to see how it looks in the browser's address bar? Well, I'm guessing if Experts Exchange had domain tasting back in the day, they would have figured out to use experts-exchange.com from the beginning.
If you ever actually read Popular Mechanics, then you would know that they do tend to cover a lot of Military and Gun Technology. This is what makes it relevant to the rest of the topics. The link between each category is "Areas of Interest to Popular Mechanics and Its Readers".
the release itself doesn't sound very firm, as 'the developers are confident to be able to release a more polished and better working KDE' and not the long awaited prime-time release.
One simple question: Why can Microsoft not slip release dates without getting flack, but it's okay for open source projects? Both are slipping for the same reasons.
Care to take a stab at the number of Full-time salaried developers are working on each project? Open source projects get a pass because most of the time there are few, if any, paid developers working on them, (especially developers whose primary task is to work on said project).
You can fly from one end of the continent to the other. But you need to load when ever you visit another continent, outland or enter a dungeon. It is my understanding (and I could be wrong), that this is mainly due to the fact that each continent (Kal, EK, Outland) and instances are different servers and the loading screen is due to the hand-off of your connection between servers. Which is why one continent can crash and everyone on another is fine, and the boats/zeps due weird stuff when one continent drops.
Fuck experts or playing games, I hope they deal with the real issues instead, like our failing economic policies, failing health care system, failing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, failing trade policies, failing dollar, and this miserable failure of an illegitimate presidency. This.
(Its comments like the Parent that makes me wish that/. allowed higher than +5)
Yep, CentOS really isn't much different than Fedora, which Red Hat *gasp* sponsors.
It's a stepping stone to the enterprise edition. This is completely wrong. CentOS *IS* the Enterprise Edition of Red Hat, and therefore very different from fedora. CentOS is exactly the same as RHEL. Fedora and CentOS have very different goals. Fedora is the testing distro for RHEL and gets software version updates, where as RHEL (and therefore CentOS) only get security backports. While there are yum repo's available for CentOS to add additional software or newer versions, the default [base] and [updates] repo's are same as upstream.
remember there are metal joints in the space suit and as he is floating inside the suit, who knows what metal he could in contact at any second. But it is unlikely he would be grounded to anything. Just touching a charged wire, even barehanded, will not cause one to be electrocuted as long as he is not grounded.
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Hopefully the Drug Enforcement Agency would not be proactive about data center energy consumption. While energy usage is out of their jurisdiction, I can see how it is addictive... always having to plug in just one more server, or had more hard drives to reach maximum capacity.
How do you "know what you're looking for" without searching the web exactly?
It's worth noting that Microsoft would love nothing more than to bundle as many free utilities as they could, but their hands are tied thanks to those who whined to the DOJ.
Why is searching the web a problem? If I need to find an app in Linux that does whatever. Almost always searching: "Linux <whatever I want to do>" will give me at least 1 or 2 applications that do that. I could in fact replace Linux with KDE, Gnome or XFCE depending on which DE I'm using.
And to say the one shouldn't have to search for an application to run is absurd. No one is born knowing which applications do what in Windows, they learn either from searching or asking someone. Which is what they would do in Linux too.
It would be near impossible to track otherwise. When large companies buy computers, they buy them in large quantities, so those $1200 laptops retail might be only $900 when buying 200+. So which category should they be put it in if the computers were not >$1000 laptops if they were sold for less. Assuming Dell, HP and Apple each are even willing to release the data from their Government/Enterprise sales.
...refers to how much a tax cut will 'cost' the government, how much it will 'cost' the government to implement a tax cut, etc. You do realize that there is a "real" cost to doing anything in the government. Its not like they decide to cut taxes and *poof* money appears in everyone's pocket.Whether they raise or lower taxes, there is an additional costs in paying of the implementation of the new precedures from printing and mailing notification to re-training the departments responsible for collecting the new tax or tax rate.
This is a poor portent for standards bodies generally. Microsoft (like Rambus) perfectly understood what these bodies are about and have sought to subvert ISO for their benefit. Unlike Rambus, they aren't seeking to collect extortion payments, merely to cement their monopoly. Both distasteful though. Yet.
Except as stated elsewhere, they filed for the patent in 1999. So they had 2 years between filing a patent and doing something to bring a product to market, even longer if you consider the fact that the Windows version of iTunes didn't come out for another 1.5 years after the Mac OS release.
Instead, they chose to wait until the patent was approved, then start suing the companies that took an obvious idea and brought it to market themselves.
"Thanks for helping us collect all that money from TPB, here's your $0.10."
I think a story or article should only be split into different pages when it is big enough to have different chapters. Since almost all news articles are way to short to have chapters, why try to split them up in an annoying way? Increased ad views, obviously. The more pages you click-thru to read the story, the more money the site makes from advertisers.
So how could IE8 possibly have passed the Acid2 test? The test page doesn't contain the magic META tag that IE needs to pass the test!
It could be that the "tag" is the code from the Acid2 test.Provide students using C++ an API that contains all those structures implemented for C++ and the same issues would arise.
Thanks.
According to this page, we have spend closer to $485 billion so far and the works out to about $275 million per day or $0.92 per day for every man, woman and child in America, versus only $0.003 per day over the life of Hubble.
Similarly for some of these other domains.
If you ever actually read Popular Mechanics, then you would know that they do tend to cover a lot of Military and Gun Technology. This is what makes it relevant to the rest of the topics. The link between each category is "Areas of Interest to Popular Mechanics and Its Readers".
Care to take a stab at the number of Full-time salaried developers are working on each project? Open source projects get a pass because most of the time there are few, if any, paid developers working on them, (especially developers whose primary task is to work on said project).One simple question: Why can Microsoft not slip release dates without getting flack, but it's okay for open source projects? Both are slipping for the same reasons.
(Its comments like the Parent that makes me wish that
It's a stepping stone to the enterprise edition. This is completely wrong. CentOS *IS* the Enterprise Edition of Red Hat, and therefore very different from fedora. CentOS is exactly the same as RHEL. Fedora and CentOS have very different goals. Fedora is the testing distro for RHEL and gets software version updates, where as RHEL (and therefore CentOS) only get security backports. While there are yum repo's available for CentOS to add additional software or newer versions, the default [base] and [updates] repo's are same as upstream.