Oddly enough, after reading your comment I decided to use google to see how the two commodities match up in historic terms.
According to a 2004 report (looking for historic) by an investment company it appears that oil and gold tend to peak and valley around the same figure, just oil is a little less stable.
But things might be on the verge of a big change. Large portions Microsoft's website are in the middle of a redesign that will feature a fully Silverlight-powered interface - doing away with HTML and everything else. We've had a chance to test the new interface (currently in beta), and here's what we think:
In all fairness, an aggregator site such as this is not to be expected to research beyond the linked article.
I left Circuit City about a decade ago, when all the salesmen were commissioned. IIRC the last full year I was there I made around 38k and I certainly wasn't one of the hotshot salesmen. If they really are paying that kind of money these days I can understand their problems.
I normally don't jump into the OSX interface wars, but feel compelled to.
A good interface is defined by how well it works for the user. Users are different.
I am one of those people that promised I'd buy a Mac once I could get one for $500. I had it running for about a year and I never could get a feel for the machine. Any time I tried to do anything it seemed like I had to fight the system.
About the time I picked up a copy of 'Mac OSX for the Unix Geek' that Mini died. It hasn't seemed worth my effort to even look inside for a loose wire.
I haven't given Ubuntu the same run through, but did look at it recently. My father has stayed with the latest version of Windows since 3.1 and has run into issue with Vista allowing him access to his.mp3 files. He asked me for advice on a solution and dual booting may work for him. It certainly worked out of the box for me running a couple year old IBM desktop.
For me, I'm sticking with Slackware. It may not have all the shinies that some distros or competing OSes have, but it does what I need it to do in a manner that I can understand. Sure, I could probably learn how to do the same things with Ubuntu, OSX, or Windows, but I haven't the time to bother relearning everything.
The press do have the ability to police the system as the grandparent post posited. The issue is that they no longer consider it to be in their interests.
IMHO, the primary reason we get left with choices A and B is that C does not stand a chance at getting the level of coverage required to compete.
With your example re: Dr. Paul, case in point. Dr. Paul broke fundraising records because he bypassed traditional access methods and did not rely on receiving any media coverage. Even after he became #3 in Republican fundraising (the most important polling statistic) there were movements to remove him from the debates.
A free and open press does have the ability to influence politics. I think the US is a good example of that.
I realize I'm posting way to late to ever be notice...
I don't thing the "Slashdot standard" at play here is not so much at the copyright infringement, but rather the blatant hypocrisy of this organization recently having threatened to sue a blogger for what most would consider fair use.
Legacy analog audio ports? The only reason I would consider a new computer would be a small form factor that I can stash nicely behind my audio rack. Quite, low power, but able to plug into an amplifier.
I know it's too late in the conversation for anyone to actually read this (actually had to work at work all day) but this jumped to mind:
It was in this way that he found out that in many districts of the vast Pacific coast, so strong is the wild, free love of justice in the hearts of the people, that whenever any secret and mysterious crime is committed, they say, "Let justice be done, though the heavens fall," and go straightway and swing a Chinaman.
Same CPU, not a faster one, so the post is flawed.
FTFA:
Like the earlier N800, the N810 is based on a Texas Instruments (TI) OMAP2420 SoC. Whereas the N800 was clocked at 320MHz, the N810 ups the clock to 400MHz.
The posted bit is about an excessively intrusive, potential solution to a preventable problem (stop eating so much Mickey D's people!)
Not always preventable. Valve issues can cause CHF and those issues can be caused by genetics over ruling diet. Granted, genetics is just one of the risk factors and double cheese burgers likely cause more failures than genes, but it is not always a preventable problem.
My experience? 34 year old vegitarian that gets regular light exercise under the supervision of a cardiologist that can do everything just right and still have high probability that my heart (or aorta) will pop by 40.
I think "Carbon Free" indicates the cluelessness of the editor. This car could be "Carbon Neutral" if a decent number of carbon free sources are made available to charge the batteries and excess is sold back to the grid.
That being said, it will become more difficult to be carbon neutral if you count manufacturing and shipping of the components across the globe. This could again be achieved if the company does heavy investment in generating green energy for the individual factories and has enough surplus to offset the shipping.
There is the possibility of several nag lawsuits that could make an impact on MS's business. How many different copyright holders are there in a distribution? If a quarter of them filed a small claims suit, MS would have to answer each of them. At the very least their legal department would be divided and could not spend as much time battling the EU without expanding.
I'm not GPL scholar, but my understanding of the license is that the only obligation I have in distributing it is to make the source code available, make available any changes that is in the distributed software, and not attempt to place any additional restrictions on it.
Should MS decide to start taking people to court as they've begun to threaten it may be an entertaining bit to bring up, but I don't see that it'll be considered too relevant.
Bah. These are not censored stories in even the most generous use of the term.
How does this definition sound:
2. a. An official empowered to examine written or printed matter, as manuscripts of books, plays, foreign newspapers or magazines, etc., in order to forbid publication, circulation, or representation if it contains anything objectionable.
Just to ensure the word wasn't recently changed, I went to my copy of Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, Unabridged copyright 1953.
Now, you can try to argue that major media owners are not "officials" but with the current status of influence money has on world politics I think it would be a hard arguement to win.
I have been working through the decisions rendered and what I've found most striking is the phrase "What <patent> taught us..." This is the court back to saying that the purpose of patents is to share knowlege while repecting original invention. I like the language being used.
I used the exact opposite analogy selling computers in the mid 90's.
This filing cabinet is like the hard drive where everything is stored. This desk where everything is in reach is like the memory. The thoughts right in this person's head is the cache, which has the quickest access.
The most important lesson I learned in that job is that it is impossible to talk down to some people.
RAIN has learned the rates that the Board has decided on, effective retroactively through the beginning of 2006.
They announce a new pricing scheme late in the first quarter and plan to charge the increased rate from the beginning of the year? How is that possibly legal?
Slashdot Mirror
Oddly enough, after reading your comment I decided to use google to see how the two commodities match up in historic terms.
According to a 2004 report (looking for historic) by an investment company it appears that oil and gold tend to peak and valley around the same figure, just oil is a little less stable.
http://www.zealllc.com/2004/goldoil4.htm
From TFA:
In all fairness, an aggregator site such as this is not to be expected to research beyond the linked article.
If you're polite enough, you get mistaken for a Canadian.
I left Circuit City about a decade ago, when all the salesmen were commissioned. IIRC the last full year I was there I made around 38k and I certainly wasn't one of the hotshot salesmen. If they really are paying that kind of money these days I can understand their problems.
I normally don't jump into the OSX interface wars, but feel compelled to.
A good interface is defined by how well it works for the user. Users are different.
I am one of those people that promised I'd buy a Mac once I could get one for $500. I had it running for about a year and I never could get a feel for the machine. Any time I tried to do anything it seemed like I had to fight the system.
About the time I picked up a copy of 'Mac OSX for the Unix Geek' that Mini died. It hasn't seemed worth my effort to even look inside for a loose wire.
I haven't given Ubuntu the same run through, but did look at it recently. My father has stayed with the latest version of Windows since 3.1 and has run into issue with Vista allowing him access to his .mp3 files. He asked me for advice on a solution and dual booting may work for him. It certainly worked out of the box for me running a couple year old IBM desktop.
For me, I'm sticking with Slackware. It may not have all the shinies that some distros or competing OSes have, but it does what I need it to do in a manner that I can understand. Sure, I could probably learn how to do the same things with Ubuntu, OSX, or Windows, but I haven't the time to bother relearning everything.
The press do have the ability to police the system as the grandparent post posited. The issue is that they no longer consider it to be in their interests.
IMHO, the primary reason we get left with choices A and B is that C does not stand a chance at getting the level of coverage required to compete.
With your example re: Dr. Paul, case in point. Dr. Paul broke fundraising records because he bypassed traditional access methods and did not rely on receiving any media coverage. Even after he became #3 in Republican fundraising (the most important polling statistic) there were movements to remove him from the debates.
A free and open press does have the ability to influence politics. I think the US is a good example of that.
I realize I'm posting way to late to ever be notice...
I don't thing the "Slashdot standard" at play here is not so much at the copyright infringement, but rather the blatant hypocrisy of this organization recently having threatened to sue a blogger for what most would consider fair use.
Legacy analog audio ports? The only reason I would consider a new computer would be a small form factor that I can stash nicely behind my audio rack. Quite, low power, but able to plug into an amplifier.
Yes, that's why I look forward to elections.
FTFA:
Not always preventable. Valve issues can cause CHF and those issues can be caused by genetics over ruling diet. Granted, genetics is just one of the risk factors and double cheese burgers likely cause more failures than genes, but it is not always a preventable problem.
My experience? 34 year old vegitarian that gets regular light exercise under the supervision of a cardiologist that can do everything just right and still have high probability that my heart (or aorta) will pop by 40.
I can't help but be reminded of that classic DK song Kill the Poor while reading through these comments.
I think "Carbon Free" indicates the cluelessness of the editor. This car could be "Carbon Neutral" if a decent number of carbon free sources are made available to charge the batteries and excess is sold back to the grid.
That being said, it will become more difficult to be carbon neutral if you count manufacturing and shipping of the components across the globe. This could again be achieved if the company does heavy investment in generating green energy for the individual factories and has enough surplus to offset the shipping.
Per the article, the inventor of Stirling engines has retrofitted one of these.
You really ought to visit Detroit some time.
There is the possibility of several nag lawsuits that could make an impact on MS's business. How many different copyright holders are there in a distribution? If a quarter of them filed a small claims suit, MS would have to answer each of them. At the very least their legal department would be divided and could not spend as much time battling the EU without expanding.
Does it really matter?
I'm not GPL scholar, but my understanding of the license is that the only obligation I have in distributing it is to make the source code available, make available any changes that is in the distributed software, and not attempt to place any additional restrictions on it.
Should MS decide to start taking people to court as they've begun to threaten it may be an entertaining bit to bring up, but I don't see that it'll be considered too relevant.
Before pirates start using them.
How does this definition sound:
Just to ensure the word wasn't recently changed, I went to my copy of Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, Unabridged copyright 1953.
Now, you can try to argue that major media owners are not "officials" but with the current status of influence money has on world politics I think it would be a hard arguement to win.
I have been working through the decisions rendered and what I've found most striking is the phrase "What <patent> taught us..." This is the court back to saying that the purpose of patents is to share knowlege while repecting original invention. I like the language being used.
I think the reasoning is that no Microsoft product will work on it. At least not after the Patch Tuesday following the iPhone release.
Almost certainly, you would be dead. If you're lucky there will be a nice write up in the local paper with the cop saying how bad he felt.
This filing cabinet is like the hard drive where everything is stored. This desk where everything is in reach is like the memory. The thoughts right in this person's head is the cache, which has the quickest access.
The most important lesson I learned in that job is that it is impossible to talk down to some people.
They announce a new pricing scheme late in the first quarter and plan to charge the increased rate from the beginning of the year? How is that possibly legal?