"Fridge" Perry, former Chicago Bears linebacker and Super Bowl ring holder, could run 50 yards in less than 5 sec. in spite of an overbearing 400+ pounds of weight.
Teenagers reading about other teenagers, adults reading about the anxieities of teenagers (getting thus aquainted with trends their own children may be involved with and perhaps gaining a better understanding of their problems) all just one click away.
The positives (and negatives of course) are incredibly powerful. To dismiss them so casualy shows a lack of understanding of how things were just a few years ago.
I think that somehow we need to raise the bar for winner of any election so a win is as unvcontoversial as possilbe.
Let say that to wina an election you have to have 51% of the casted votes (or whatever percentage that ensures we are not dealing with minuscule margins of error).
If neither candidate wins with this minimum percentage, then a secondary body (ideally formed of elected people, i.e. local congress) elects the winner. AT least that way it is easy to count all votes.
Where is he mentioning that the applications have to be Open Source ones?
For all applications there are formats that are industry standards and unencumbered by patents (as far as it is possible to ensure this in certain litigious countries).
The knee jerk reaction "boooh! Open Source software is not ready" should be only used when actually Open Source is a necessary part of a requested solution.
You will gain the convenience of flying from A to B but your flight will be fully controlled by a third party (company, goverment or both) to ensure safety.
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. -- Albert Einstein, 1954, from Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere.... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. -- Albert Einstein, "Religion and Science," New York Times Magazine, 9 November 1930
Goolge is your friend... or foe if we look at your unfortunate comment.
.... if you can't even look at the fscking code you are paying for?
With Open Source everybody is open to accountability, which I thought was a prerequisite when it comes to projects undertaken by any democratic goverment.
In the UK the current goverment (Labour for crying out loud, they used to be the left) has outsourced most imporant IT projects to private companies in the last years.
More often than not the projects have been grossly over budget, late or cancelled alltogether due to the private companies' inability to deliver.
Your capitalist fundamentalistic ranting will have no credibility whatosever with any person that bothers to read a serious newspaper.
As usual the answer is somewhere in the middle, sometimes goverments get it spectacularly right, sometimes terribly worng, but private industry is not much better.
... but since I am still in christmasy mood, I will oblige.
Those programmers get jobs:
- Customazing the software that is out there: this is not a fantasy, in my company we have modified versions of many utilities like ssh, scsu, rsync and many others.
- Putting all the disjoint parts together: there is a tremendous amount of software out there but very often you need to glue it all together. The cost of paying a few programmers to do so is very often substantially lower than buying a commercial product.
- Education and training: somebody has to teach all the new Linuz zealots.
- Commercial support: many companies are demanding commercial, professional support for different FLOSS products.
- Commercialization of improved software: many examples out there of FLOSS software with value added in the form of improvements, support, dcoumentation, etc.
Typhoons in Bangladesh and eartquakes in China have been much worse.
In regards to geographic extension it is difficult to think about something this devastating and widepread (there have beenn people killed as far as Somalia and Kenya).
THe UK is donating 15 million dollars (after much pressure of the media and the general public).
This is the amount that football teams have paid for some top players in recent years:
Manchester United for Wayne Rooney: 54 million US$. Manchester United for Rio Ferdinand: 58 million US$. Real Madrid for David Beckham: 41 million US$.
... but terribly uninformed (I used worst descriptions initially, but insults will not make you change...).
A tsunami of these caracteristics has not been seen on those regions for more than 100 years, thus the local population did not necessarily have knowledge about how dangerous this could be.
Also the waves move at speeds comparable to a commercial airliner, people may get into a false sense of security since the waves could appear far away but will get to the observer's position in no time at all (a wave 10 km away would be drawning you in areound 40 sec if they move at 900km/hour)...
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People are asking for your honest opinions and you are suppossed to lie if you have nothing good to say.
I sometimes wonder how pink is the sky of some folks....
"Fridge" Perry, former Chicago Bears linebacker and Super Bowl ring holder, could run 50 yards in less than 5 sec. in spite of an overbearing 400+ pounds of weight.
Yeah, I vote for those in Guantanamo Bay or Abu Garib "detention centers"....
You are so cute and fluffy.
Please...
Lets isolate ourselves in the basement.
We are not worth the attention we can get from others.
10 years ago that was impossible.
Teenagers reading about other teenagers, adults reading about the anxieities of teenagers (getting thus aquainted with trends their own children may be involved with and perhaps gaining a better understanding of their problems) all just one click away.
The positives (and negatives of course) are incredibly powerful. To dismiss them so casualy shows a lack of understanding of how things were just a few years ago.
And the Microsofties call "success" anything that bleeds money as long as it is bleassed by Uncle Bill.
I think that somehow we need to raise the bar for winner of any election so a win is as unvcontoversial as possilbe.
Let say that to wina an election you have to have 51% of the casted votes (or whatever percentage that ensures we are not dealing with minuscule margins of error).
If neither candidate wins with this minimum percentage, then a secondary body (ideally formed of elected people, i.e. local congress) elects the winner. AT least that way it is easy to count all votes.
The article poster is explicitly stating they want to move to vendor neutral applications.
In such a situation why would they need to do such conversions?
Where is he mentioning that the applications have to be Open Source ones?
For all applications there are formats that are industry standards and unencumbered by patents (as far as it is possible to ensure this in certain litigious countries).
The knee jerk reaction "boooh! Open Source software is not ready" should be only used when actually Open Source is a necessary part of a requested solution.
You either do not know the meaning of the word secret (which if you know about it, obivously is not such) or are airing your wishful thinking.
/.ers I know don't use Windows, which of course means nothing, but heck, I want the world let know my little "secret".
All the
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You will gain the convenience of flying from A to B but your flight will be fully controlled by a third party (company, goverment or both) to ensure safety.
Here you go:
... or foe if we look at your unfortunate comment.
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
-- Albert Einstein, 1954, from Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere.... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
-- Albert Einstein, "Religion and Science," New York Times Magazine, 9 November 1930
Goolge is your friend
.... n/t
.... if you can't even look at the fscking code you are paying for?
With Open Source everybody is open to accountability, which I thought was a prerequisite when it comes to projects undertaken by any democratic goverment.
In the UK the current goverment (Labour for crying out loud, they used to be the left) has outsourced most imporant IT projects to private companies in the last years.
More often than not the projects have been grossly over budget, late or cancelled alltogether due to the private companies' inability to deliver.
Your capitalist fundamentalistic ranting will have no credibility whatosever with any person that bothers to read a serious newspaper.
As usual the answer is somewhere in the middle, sometimes goverments get it spectacularly right, sometimes terribly worng, but private industry is not much better.
... but since I am still in christmasy mood, I will oblige.
Those programmers get jobs:
- Customazing the software that is out there: this is not a fantasy, in my company we have modified versions of many utilities like ssh, scsu, rsync and many others.
- Putting all the disjoint parts together: there is a tremendous amount of software out there but very often you need to glue it all together. The cost of paying a few programmers to do so is very often substantially lower than buying a commercial product.
- Education and training: somebody has to teach all the new Linuz zealots.
- Commercial support: many companies are demanding commercial, professional support for different FLOSS products.
- Commercialization of improved software: many examples out there of FLOSS software with value added in the form of improvements, support, dcoumentation, etc.
Every time you login you could be presented with Text adds relevant to the site you are visiting.
To the webmaster and the user it woudl be free....
Many viruses use standard ports to call home.
If you are using only a hardware firewall you could already be owned and your computer could be seen by your firewall as an overactive mailer...
Typhoons in Bangladesh and eartquakes in China have been much worse.
In regards to geographic extension it is difficult to think about something this devastating and widepread (there have beenn people killed as far as Somalia and Kenya).
THe UK is donating 15 million dollars (after much pressure of the media and the general public).
This is the amount that football teams have paid for some top players in recent years:
Manchester United for Wayne Rooney: 54 million US$.
Manchester United for Rio Ferdinand: 58 million US$.
Real Madrid for David Beckham: 41 million US$.
Something is horribly wrong with this.
Why stupidity?
Tourists in any part of the world are not aware of all the local dangers, no matter how much you try to inform yourself.
This speaks more about the lack of profesionalism of the authorities than about stupidity of the tourists.
... but terribly uninformed (I used worst descriptions initially, but insults will not make you change...).
A tsunami of these caracteristics has not been seen on those regions for more than 100 years, thus the local population did not necessarily have knowledge about how dangerous this could be.
Also the waves move at speeds comparable to a commercial airliner, people may get into a false sense of security since the waves could appear far away but will get to the observer's position in no time at all (a wave 10 km away would be drawning you in areound 40 sec if they move at 900km/hour)...