Abroad it can be referred to as the London Times to avoid confusion. In the US "the Times" refers to the New York Times. "The British Times" is bad English as there are more than one Times newspaper in Britain.
If he is referring to the Times Online website, an excuse could be made for, "The British Times Online". If he is not referring to the website's title, but the paper's, then "online" should be lower case.
Well I can tell you now, it was Volidin. Ask Lev Rubin to match the voice prints. If they say it will take a month, give them a week. He'll need Gleb Nerzhin's help, but swiftly, because he's being transferred to one of the camps.
He said, "form." Men and women alike enjoy movies, books, music, and physical activities. However, as the poster seemed to be trying to point out, they like different kinds of movies, books, music and physical activities.
Your generalisations about gamers and casual grouping together of radical feminists and lesbians, however, is both insulting and dumb.
Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Animal rights groups in the UK. All trying to save the world with a baseball bat.
Most of the professional protesters I know are just that, professional protesters!
A conference I was recently at was attacked by Friends of the Earth. They threw dyed Yogurt (?!) at a speaker from a commodities company. Not a thought for the hosts of the conference, the other people they hit, the cost of all those suits, and the fact that breaking the law doesn't set a fabulous example.
And yet I still consider myself a very eco minded person. I don't drive, recycle vigorously and encourage any enviromentally efficient technologies both in my workplace and socially. There are better ways to save the world than listen to eco-terrorists.
"A lot of people don't like our ads, which is sad as we don't have a rich sugar daddy like the Mozilla Foundation. They [the Mozilla Firefox team] don't have to think about money as they're being funded. We're not being funded," said von Tetzchner.
Hate to be a capitalist, but that's a great revenue stream that allows you to increase your userbase with ease ("what, it's free?!"). Seriously mate, if you're jealous, and think mozilla's model allows them to have it better, then move open source and get some funding. It's competition, that's how it works.
As for public browser stats: If you're faking IE then you're really pushing it. Even IE fake Mozilla. It's meanlingless, seeing as you have sales figures (those ads served, licenses, downloads). The reason why standards are not well enforced on the web is because - shock horror - browser makers and web designers keep breaking them.
This is not good marketing. Maybe spending more on that would help your market share.
"Organizations like the Red Cross got into trouble because people donated money thinking they were donating money to x, when really they weren't."
This was more the other way around. People donated to the Tsunami appeal. Because that appeal was specific, the Red Cross were only allowed to use that money for the tsunami's relief operation. They had enough money and wanted to divert some to other appeals, they had to ask permission for this and make the public aware. Which they did...
Well I think tha was kind of his point: it's obvious where they are missing the target. -1 for saying, "he's saying the obvious" when the article was about people missing the obvious. Pretty ironically trolling response.
Unfortunately these aren't the reason's cited at all. The award is for his 'oustanding contribution to the British economy'. Microsoft's taxation of software has cost our economy and our government billions. This money does not go back into that economy but to Microsoft's coffers, though I'll agree with Jack Straw's comment that, "his company has had a profound effect on the British economy."
If Bills gates wanted to contribute a little to our economy then he could give back some of the billions he looted from it.
What about converting all my friends and family to Linux. I would be so overwhelmed keeping each one current.
Install a stable version of Ubuntu, set a cron job to run # apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and you'll get the latest security patches installed automatically. SUSE, Windows, and I presume Red Hat can be configured to do this.
As The Timeswrote in the wake of Carly's sacking:-
"Here's a little-known fact about the computer business: if you filled an Olympic-sized swimming pool with printer ink from Hewlett-Packard's inkjet cartridges, the bill would come to $5.9 billion (£3.2 billion). It would be cheaper to fill the pool with Dom Perignon, or petrol."
Microsoft is not a monopoly, and has never been convicted of being such. It is, however, not a firm in perfect competition, as they can affect market prices by increasing production or reducing it. Also, as software is not a single price market, Microsoft can engage in price discrimination, i.e. charging, to a reasonable degree, what they like. It is for these reasons they have been convicted of anti-competitive behaviour.
Although candid, his remarks are fairly carefully chosen. If you read the first entry, page 14 of the PDF, he writes, "While this is intended as an internal blog, I recognize that it will become public - welcome to the Internet!"
Yes you are. Fans are noisy, a lot of people turn their machines off at night. Leaving your computer on when you're out, away for the weekend, at work, etc may be justificable if it hosts internet/network services but is a shameful waste of energy if you don't - do you always leave your lights on because the bulb is less likely to blow?
Also, as is clearly stated - this is desktop use. That includes laptops, which obviously have to be powered down an awful lot. It is all very well to point out the power of UNIX systems and their uptimes, but that does not make it illegitimate to improve the speed with which they boot.
A system whereby these restrictions can be easily applied, but allowing for certain internet uses is simple to implement. If everyone was scanned biologically from birth by way of iris scans and any other scientific identification then this would be difficult to cirumvent.
Everyone has their unique ID and logs onto their email, banking and a variety of services using this alongside existing methods such as passwords. When using any device deemed powerful enough users would be required to 'login' as such using eye scans. The state could then monitor the usage of devices, sift through communication and have the identities of all the parties involved.
Such a system would be easily challenged under democracy as the demos would object to it. Therefore an autocratic system, such as a dictatorship, would be the best political setup. The government could, in this age, effectively monitor, control, and police the lives of all of it's citizens, ensuring their happiness.
Followed up by rigurous policing and wide ranging law, the state would be able to maintain peace and stability on a scale we certainly can't attain in our current environment. Harsh and disproportionate punishment would encourage people to think twice before being nasty to other people and engender a real harmony.
This story is yet another indication of why we need, for the good of us all, to move towards a totalitarian, restrictive, state run empire. Long live the MInistry for the Ceation and Restriction Of SOFTware!
It's providing links to information about a banned terrorist organisation. Banned in the EU, Turkey and the US. Read the Wikipedia entry. IMO providing links to banned oprganisations is not quite the same as hosting/making/supporting their websites, but clearly Turkish judges do. So much for freedom of speech. This is overly draconian.
Surely there are better things for congress to hear than this waste of time/money? What a man does with his penis on front of his computer is his business, so long as no one else is harmed. I fail to see where this enters the realm of government.
Slashdot Mirror
"History Repeats Itself"
Marx's one joke was wrong, History does not repeat itself, it just rhymes.
If you build it, they will come.
That's what they thought about the Millenium Dome.
Depends. If I had 12.3% of 11.34% of all the world's money I'd be pretty smug.
Abroad it can be referred to as the London Times to avoid confusion. In the US "the Times" refers to the New York Times. "The British Times" is bad English as there are more than one Times newspaper in Britain.
If he is referring to the Times Online website, an excuse could be made for, "The British Times Online". If he is not referring to the website's title, but the paper's, then "online" should be lower case.
"It's the tax, stupid."
This is just the initial scheme, brought in under the banner of security, for taxing our road usage rather than fuel consumption.
As Benjamin Franklin said: "In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."
No. Read the 'First Circle' by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. A bit above slashdot.
The russian authorities ask for help in matching a voice to a man, using the new technique being developed by Rubin - Voice prints.
Well I can tell you now, it was Volidin. Ask Lev Rubin to match the voice prints. If they say it will take a month, give them a week. He'll need Gleb Nerzhin's help, but swiftly, because he's being transferred to one of the camps.
He said, "form." Men and women alike enjoy movies, books, music, and physical activities. However, as the poster seemed to be trying to point out, they like different kinds of movies, books, music and physical activities.
Your generalisations about gamers and casual grouping together of radical feminists and lesbians, however, is both insulting and dumb.
Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Animal rights groups in the UK. All trying to save the world with a baseball bat.
Most of the professional protesters I know are just that, professional protesters!
A conference I was recently at was attacked by Friends of the Earth. They threw dyed Yogurt (?!) at a speaker from a commodities company. Not a thought for the hosts of the conference, the other people they hit, the cost of all those suits, and the fact that breaking the law doesn't set a fabulous example.
And yet I still consider myself a very eco minded person. I don't drive, recycle vigorously and encourage any enviromentally efficient technologies both in my workplace and socially. There are better ways to save the world than listen to eco-terrorists.
"A lot of people don't like our ads, which is sad as we don't have a rich sugar daddy like the Mozilla Foundation. They [the Mozilla Firefox team] don't have to think about money as they're being funded. We're not being funded," said von Tetzchner.
Hate to be a capitalist, but that's a great revenue stream that allows you to increase your userbase with ease ("what, it's free?!"). Seriously mate, if you're jealous, and think mozilla's model allows them to have it better, then move open source and get some funding. It's competition, that's how it works.
As for public browser stats: If you're faking IE then you're really pushing it. Even IE fake Mozilla. It's meanlingless, seeing as you have sales figures (those ads served, licenses, downloads). The reason why standards are not well enforced on the web is because - shock horror - browser makers and web designers keep breaking them.
This is not good marketing. Maybe spending more on that would help your market share.
"Organizations like the Red Cross got into trouble because people donated money thinking they were donating money to x, when really they weren't."
This was more the other way around. People donated to the Tsunami appeal. Because that appeal was specific, the Red Cross were only allowed to use that money for the tsunami's relief operation. They had enough money and wanted to divert some to other appeals, they had to ask permission for this and make the public aware. Which they did...
Well I think tha was kind of his point: it's obvious where they are missing the target. -1 for saying, "he's saying the obvious" when the article was about people missing the obvious. Pretty ironically trolling response.
Unfortunately these aren't the reason's cited at all. The award is for his 'oustanding contribution to the British economy'. Microsoft's taxation of software has cost our economy and our government billions. This money does not go back into that economy but to Microsoft's coffers, though I'll agree with Jack Straw's comment that, "his company has had a profound effect on the British economy."
If Bills gates wanted to contribute a little to our economy then he could give back some of the billions he looted from it.
What about converting all my friends and family to Linux. I would be so overwhelmed keeping each one current.
Install a stable version of Ubuntu, set a cron job to run # apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and you'll get the latest security patches installed automatically. SUSE, Windows, and I presume Red Hat can be configured to do this.
As The Times wrote in the wake of Carly's sacking:-
"Here's a little-known fact about the computer business: if you filled an Olympic-sized swimming pool with printer ink from Hewlett-Packard's inkjet cartridges, the bill would come to $5.9 billion (£3.2 billion). It would be cheaper to fill the pool with Dom Perignon, or petrol."
Microsoft is not a monopoly, and has never been convicted of being such. It is, however, not a firm in perfect competition, as they can affect market prices by increasing production or reducing it. Also, as software is not a single price market, Microsoft can engage in price discrimination, i.e. charging, to a reasonable degree, what they like. It is for these reasons they have been convicted of anti-competitive behaviour.
Important destinctions.
or as bob dylan said, "i'm going where the weather suits my clothes."
well i bought all my clothes in the UK, so it's fine here.
Although candid, his remarks are fairly carefully chosen. If you read the first entry, page 14 of the PDF, he writes, "While this is intended as an internal blog, I recognize that it will become public - welcome to the Internet!"
And you thought, seeing as they were just friends of yours and you're not a lawyer, that it'd be okay to share it with 5,000 or 6,000 slashdotters.
Yes you are. Fans are noisy, a lot of people turn their machines off at night. Leaving your computer on when you're out, away for the weekend, at work, etc may be justificable if it hosts internet/network services but is a shameful waste of energy if you don't - do you always leave your lights on because the bulb is less likely to blow?
Also, as is clearly stated - this is desktop use. That includes laptops, which obviously have to be powered down an awful lot. It is all very well to point out the power of UNIX systems and their uptimes, but that does not make it illegitimate to improve the speed with which they boot.
I say good luck to Red Hat and Ubuntu.
A system whereby these restrictions can be easily applied, but allowing for certain internet uses is simple to implement. If everyone was scanned biologically from birth by way of iris scans and any other scientific identification then this would be difficult to cirumvent.
Everyone has their unique ID and logs onto their email, banking and a variety of services using this alongside existing methods such as passwords. When using any device deemed powerful enough users would be required to 'login' as such using eye scans. The state could then monitor the usage of devices, sift through communication and have the identities of all the parties involved.
Such a system would be easily challenged under democracy as the demos would object to it. Therefore an autocratic system, such as a dictatorship, would be the best political setup. The government could, in this age, effectively monitor, control, and police the lives of all of it's citizens, ensuring their happiness.
Followed up by rigurous policing and wide ranging law, the state would be able to maintain peace and stability on a scale we certainly can't attain in our current environment. Harsh and disproportionate punishment would encourage people to think twice before being nasty to other people and engender a real harmony.
This story is yet another indication of why we need, for the good of us all, to move towards a totalitarian, restrictive, state run empire. Long live the MInistry for the Ceation and Restriction Of SOFTware!
http://handhelds.freshmeat.net/projects/sdwap/
Try googling.
Many don't subscribe to the base 10 distance though, in particular the British, who still use the imperial 'mile' for long distances.
It's providing links to information about a banned terrorist organisation. Banned in the EU, Turkey and the US. Read the Wikipedia entry. IMO providing links to banned oprganisations is not quite the same as hosting/making/supporting their websites, but clearly Turkish judges do. So much for freedom of speech. This is overly draconian.
So what?
Surely there are better things for congress to hear than this waste of time/money? What a man does with his penis on front of his computer is his business, so long as no one else is harmed. I fail to see where this enters the realm of government.