This made sense when the EU first started moving against MS. It made less sense by the time judgement was finally reached and the whole business is pretty much irrelevant now. I was actually quite annoyed when my Win7 machine started informing me that I needed to choose a browser last week, one of Firefox / Chrome / Opera / the Apple Konqueror derivative / one other option.
The battle is over. MS forced IE upon us for a while but they caved in years ago. Win7 has been out for years now and it seems no-one noticed that the question had not been popped. It is just inertia on the part of the EU that they still care. It takes years to start a process like this (I knew a lawyer involved in the case 9 years ago) and years to stop it again.
No anti-US conspiracy, just inertia. Of course the whole thing pretty much started after Bush was elected and stopped the anti-trust proceedings against MS. That abdication of responsibility got the EU started. Hey, we need the money to bail Greece, Spain, Ireland and Italy out;-)
You have to wonder if - based in Russia as they are - they are the only ones allowed to report this stuff. I'm not particularly surprised that Norton are useless here but there are two companies based in Germany who should be doing better work, assuming the viruses (virii?) show their elegant haaircuts in Germany. As to the GP, how do the viruses take their martinis? A tuxedo alone does not make a secret agent.
I was days away from buying a Symbian-based Nokia when "the announcement" came, it was just down to a choice between two models. It would have been my eighth (?) Nokia. Now I have my first ever Samsung, it runs Android. Saves me from having to learn to use an OS which was about to be dumped.
If I understood things correctly, Intel processors offer two ways of doing things, AMD just the one. The one that Intel borked is the one they offer to be compatable with AMD. Since Apple don't need to worry about their software running correctly on AMD, they presumably used the other mechanism.
Back when Kaspersky first went public on Flame, I saw that one if the Israeli government ministers essentially said "didn't we do well!" a day or so later. I don't remember his name, it meant nothing to me. Of course as a politician he could well have been misinformed, lying (trying to position himself as a hawk) or just too stupid to keep his mouth shut. On balance, I tend to see Israel being wholly or at least partially responsible - "partially" would probably implicate the US as partners. Why do the Iranians persist in using Windows?
In a pre-atomic era, there seems to be no rational way to avoid a frozen solid earth. Frozen solid = no movement. wtf? Didn't they have volcanos back then?
I am old enough to remember when "the jury was still out" on continental drift. What convinced me as a teenager was that the S America and Africa coastlines match pretty accurately, even down to the kinds of rock. Claiming Wegener was just lucky just demonstrates your own ignorance as to how he assessed the evidence. So, what's the story on Intelligent Design?
A year ago, one Euro was around 88 pence. Now one Euro is somewhere around 81 pence. This is the same rate as during a temporary dip around 22 months ago. The last time the Euro was lower than that was in late summer 2008.
The Euro is going down against the Pound, not vice versa. There is less justification for this price hike than there has been at pretty much any time since late 2008.
Lets take Vietnam. I think we can assume the figures for US soldiers are reasonably accurate, but the figures for Vietnamese killed are probably straight plain fiction. WW2 will be similar but on a much larger scale. The Nazis kept fairly exact records but destroyed a lot of them towards the end to hide their culpability.
Now back to the Civil War. The following states were admitted to the Union after 1870 and it's census. 1870's - Colorado 1889's - the Dakotas, Montana, Washington 1890's - Idaho, Wyoming, Utah 1900's - Oklahoma 1910's - New Mexico, Arizona. All of these were Territories before they schieved statehood (Oklahoma included 'Indian Territory'). Did the Census include Territories? Can we assume that more men that women would have been prepared to take that step? To simply head out west? The 1870 Census is known to have missed a large number of people, particularly in New York and Pennsylvania. The authors tried to take that into account by using the number of women as a baseline but there still has to be a lot of guesswork involved.
The "proof" that he was plagiarising was very tenuous to say the least. Chessbase had a series of articles on the subject and they were indicating the proof was only considered valid because the people who "proved" it were also playing judge and jury.
For all I know they may be right (you takes your choice as to who "they" are) but at the moment it is testimony against testimony.
Doonesbury ran a series of storylines on a firm like that a year or so ago.
Blaming the Saudis directly for 911 is stretching things slightly: Saudi Arabia is run by religous conservatives mired in the middle ages, the people who carried out the 911 attacks considered the Saudi rulers to be hypocritical liberals. They were incandescent with rage at the Saudi rulers allowing armed infidels onto their sacred soil during the first Gulf War and its aftermath.
The German Pirates *are* trying to broaden their base by establishing their standpoint on other issues. They were amazed by how much of the vote they got in that Berlin election, amazed and unprepared.
The way things work in Germany is that parties put up a list of candidates, and the voters do their thing. There are two different ways of handling this:
you get (say) 30 votes and can give candidates a maximum of three. A candidates' position on the list is determined by the number of votes they got as an individual. A voter can also just specify a party instead and then the top 10 candidates on the original list get the 3 votes each. Hell you can even mix things, give some to individuals and the rest to a party.
You vote for a party, the candidates' position on their list is then all-important.
Whichever system is used, the top n candidates have then been elected. If an elected candidate dies, resigns, is convicted of a felony or whatever, the next candidate on the list is promoted in their place.
With the Pirates in Berlin, I think every single candidate on their list made the cut. Some of them were just making up the numbers and were not particularly happy. That issue is taking up some of the party's energy.
That should pretty much be a one-off thing. Candidates now know they run a risk of being voted in, increased public scrutiny led to one potential candidate in another area being identified as a member of a far-right organisation. I am expecting the other parties to start trying to defuse the anger by taking up the Pirates' issues themselves. That is what I'd like to see now. I have some lawyers for a porn producer after me claiming I was file-sharing one of their 'products'. The previous CDU+SPD coalition introduced a law where there is absolutely no burden of proof - if they say its so then it must be true, nice people like that would not lie.
Don't forget they have major earthquakes here. I remember the last one, it caused far more damage than it should have because the earthquake 'waves' were bouncing off a 'wall' at the edge of the city and there was a ripple-effect. In one spot two waves would reinforce each other, nearby they would cancel each other out. One of the recent earthquakes in New Zealand caused similar problems.
In other news, the Piratenpartei recently made it to the Berlin City legistature with 8% of the vote and and are currently running nationally with that level of support. If they maintain this, they will be the 4th-5th largest party in Germany.
I don't have any (real life) friends who are not able to communicate in one of the languages I speak. Nothing strange in that - how can someone be my friend when we have no means of communicating with each other? Ok, that might not hold true for someone visiting http://brides.r.us.ru/ (I made that one up) but that is something different entirely.
My mainframe access is via a terminal emulator running under Windows. That is not the sort of thing which can simply be 'saved'. Since mainframe access is via VPN which means a firewall blocks Microsoft Update, not normally a problem. Once though, I booted, waited for Net traffic to cease (meaning the virus scanner had updated) and then fired up the VPN. A couple of minutes later, some out-of-sync update finished applying itself and it then informed me it was going to boot in a few seconds. That was when I turned auto-update off. If I want updates, I'll ask for them.
You are assuming RES and CKI are not on the same physical machine, that assumption may well be correct but is not a certainty. As to CKI breaking, that depends on whether you consider the processing of ticketless (paperless) bookings to be part of CKI. CKI breaking would just mean that ground staff would have to allocate seats manually, more serious is if the database saying who has paid for tickets is unavailable and that is what it looks like here.
This will be a problem with a mainframe, probably but not necessarily software. The reason that passengers with bookings cannot fly is that most reservations nowadays are ticketless - the evidence is only in the database.
I work for another airline and have been in nightmare situations like this. We have backup hardware in place - the discs are simply switched to the backup machine. If they follow similar procedures then the chances are some software update went wrong.
It most definitely was that. There were State elections in Baden Wuertemburg several weeks ago, the CDU have *always* ruled there - often with over 50% of the votes.
The Ecology Party (Gruenen) won the election and are going into coalition with the SPD. The FDP (the CDU's partners at State and national level) did not get any seats at all. Merkel panicked.
There were some major reasons why the CDU lost their majority - mostly CDU initiatives which had gone expensively south, although Fukushima will also have been a factor. The CDU decided they had lost touch with their electorate (true) and it was all down to Fukushima (debatable).
There are several State elections this year. One has been held since that nuclear decision. The CDU came in third, their worst result anywhere since the war. The FDP did not pick up any seats there either.
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Wait till I get that patent granted! The court cases will be held in that part of Texas which is forever patent-troll-land!
ok, maybe not.
This made sense when the EU first started moving against MS. It made less sense by the time judgement was finally reached and the whole business is pretty much irrelevant now. I was actually quite annoyed when my Win7 machine started informing me that I needed to choose a browser last week, one of Firefox / Chrome / Opera / the Apple Konqueror derivative / one other option.
The battle is over. MS forced IE upon us for a while but they caved in years ago. Win7 has been out for years now and it seems no-one noticed that the question had not been popped. It is just inertia on the part of the EU that they still care. It takes years to start a process like this (I knew a lawyer involved in the case 9 years ago) and years to stop it again.
No anti-US conspiracy, just inertia. Of course the whole thing pretty much started after Bush was elected and stopped the anti-trust proceedings against MS. That abdication of responsibility got the EU started. Hey, we need the money to bail Greece, Spain, Ireland and Italy out ;-)
You have to wonder if - based in Russia as they are - they are the only ones allowed to report this stuff. I'm not particularly surprised that Norton are useless here but there are two companies based in Germany who should be doing better work, assuming the viruses (virii?) show their elegant haaircuts in Germany.
As to the GP, how do the viruses take their martinis? A tuxedo alone does not make a secret agent.
I was days away from buying a Symbian-based Nokia when "the announcement" came, it was just down to a choice between two models. It would have been my eighth (?) Nokia.
Now I have my first ever Samsung, it runs Android. Saves me from having to learn to use an OS which was about to be dumped.
Move along, nothing left to C
If I understood things correctly, Intel processors offer two ways of doing things, AMD just the one. The one that Intel borked is the one they offer to be compatable with AMD.
Since Apple don't need to worry about their software running correctly on AMD, they presumably used the other mechanism.
Back when Kaspersky first went public on Flame, I saw that one if the Israeli government ministers essentially said "didn't we do well!" a day or so later. I don't remember his name, it meant nothing to me.
Of course as a politician he could well have been misinformed, lying (trying to position himself as a hawk) or just too stupid to keep his mouth shut. On balance, I tend to see Israel being wholly or at least partially responsible - "partially" would probably implicate the US as partners. Why do the Iranians persist in using Windows?
In a pre-atomic era, there seems to be no rational way to avoid a frozen solid earth. Frozen solid = no movement.
wtf? Didn't they have volcanos back then?
I am old enough to remember when "the jury was still out" on continental drift. What convinced me as a teenager was that the S America and Africa coastlines match pretty accurately, even down to the kinds of rock. Claiming Wegener was just lucky just demonstrates your own ignorance as to how he assessed the evidence.
So, what's the story on Intelligent Design?
A year ago, one Euro was around 88 pence.
Now one Euro is somewhere around 81 pence. This is the same rate as during a temporary dip around 22 months ago. The last time the Euro was lower than that was in late summer 2008.
The Euro is going down against the Pound, not vice versa. There is less justification for this price hike than there has been at pretty much any time since late 2008.
Lets take Vietnam. I think we can assume the figures for US soldiers are reasonably accurate, but the figures for Vietnamese killed are probably straight plain fiction.
WW2 will be similar but on a much larger scale. The Nazis kept fairly exact records but destroyed a lot of them towards the end to hide their culpability.
Now back to the Civil War.
The following states were admitted to the Union after 1870 and it's census.
1870's - Colorado
1889's - the Dakotas, Montana, Washington
1890's - Idaho, Wyoming, Utah
1900's - Oklahoma
1910's - New Mexico, Arizona.
All of these were Territories before they schieved statehood (Oklahoma included 'Indian Territory'). Did the Census include Territories? Can we assume that more men that women would have been prepared to take that step? To simply head out west?
The 1870 Census is known to have missed a large number of people, particularly in New York and Pennsylvania. The authors tried to take that into account by using the number of women as a baseline but there still has to be a lot of guesswork involved.
The "proof" that he was plagiarising was very tenuous to say the least. Chessbase had a series of articles on the subject and they were indicating the proof was only considered valid because the people who "proved" it were also playing judge and jury.
For all I know they may be right (you takes your choice as to who "they" are) but at the moment it is testimony against testimony.
And is it still April 1 AM in Slashdot land? It ended 12 hours ago here...
Not possible. There is no timezone where April 1 ended 12 hours ago (you posted at 12:38 UTC), or am I missing something?
Who said the virgins had to be female?
Yup, thats the mindset of the 911 crew!
With one little insignificant addition - they *cared*, really cared about this.
I could give you my opinion of the US, freedom and even the old USSR but that would take this thread waaay off topic and I really can't be bothered.
Doonesbury ran a series of storylines on a firm like that a year or so ago.
Blaming the Saudis directly for 911 is stretching things slightly: Saudi Arabia is run by religous conservatives mired in the middle ages, the people who carried out the 911 attacks considered the Saudi rulers to be hypocritical liberals. They were incandescent with rage at the Saudi rulers allowing armed infidels onto their sacred soil during the first Gulf War and its aftermath.
The German Pirates *are* trying to broaden their base by establishing their standpoint on other issues. They were amazed by how much of the vote they got in that Berlin election, amazed and unprepared.
The way things work in Germany is that parties put up a list of candidates, and the voters do their thing. There are two different ways of handling this:
Whichever system is used, the top n candidates have then been elected. If an elected candidate dies, resigns, is convicted of a felony or whatever, the next candidate on the list is promoted in their place.
With the Pirates in Berlin, I think every single candidate on their list made the cut. Some of them were just making up the numbers and were not particularly happy. That issue is taking up some of the party's energy.
That should pretty much be a one-off thing. Candidates now know they run a risk of being voted in, increased public scrutiny led to one potential candidate in another area being identified as a member of a far-right organisation. I am expecting the other parties to start trying to defuse the anger by taking up the Pirates' issues themselves. That is what I'd like to see now. I have some lawyers for a porn producer after me claiming I was file-sharing one of their 'products'. The previous CDU+SPD coalition introduced a law where there is absolutely no burden of proof - if they say its so then it must be true, nice people like that would not lie.
Don't forget they have major earthquakes here.
I remember the last one, it caused far more damage than it should have because the earthquake 'waves' were bouncing off a 'wall' at the edge of the city and there was a ripple-effect. In one spot two waves would reinforce each other, nearby they would cancel each other out. One of the recent earthquakes in New Zealand caused similar problems.
In other news, the Piratenpartei recently made it to the Berlin City legistature with 8% of the vote and and are currently running nationally with that level of support. If they maintain this, they will be the 4th-5th largest party in Germany.
Want a good argument for regulation? Glad to oblige.
I don't have any (real life) friends who are not able to communicate in one of the languages I speak. Nothing strange in that - how can someone be my friend when we have no means of communicating with each other? Ok, that might not hold true for someone visiting http://brides.r.us.ru/ (I made that one up) but that is something different entirely.
Apples are crunchy, whereas 747s are big. Not sure why you think it's so hard to compare the two...
747s are also crunchy. Think Godzilla.
My mainframe access is via a terminal emulator running under Windows. That is not the sort of thing which can simply be 'saved'.
Since mainframe access is via VPN which means a firewall blocks Microsoft Update, not normally a problem. Once though, I booted, waited for Net traffic to cease (meaning the virus scanner had updated) and then fired up the VPN. A couple of minutes later, some out-of-sync update finished applying itself and it then informed me it was going to boot in a few seconds. That was when I turned auto-update off. If I want updates, I'll ask for them.
You are assuming RES and CKI are not on the same physical machine, that assumption may well be correct but is not a certainty. As to CKI breaking, that depends on whether you consider the processing of ticketless (paperless) bookings to be part of CKI. CKI breaking would just mean that ground staff would have to allocate seats manually, more serious is if the database saying who has paid for tickets is unavailable and that is what it looks like here.
Best of luck guys. Been there, done that.
Absolutely no chance this is a "Windoze" problem.
This will be a problem with a mainframe, probably but not necessarily software. The reason that passengers with bookings cannot fly is that most reservations nowadays are ticketless - the evidence is only in the database.
I work for another airline and have been in nightmare situations like this. We have backup hardware in place - the discs are simply switched to the backup machine. If they follow similar procedures then the chances are some software update went wrong.
It most definitely was that.
There were State elections in Baden Wuertemburg several weeks ago, the CDU have *always* ruled there - often with over 50% of the votes.
The Ecology Party (Gruenen) won the election and are going into coalition with the SPD. The FDP (the CDU's partners at State and national level) did not get any seats at all. Merkel panicked.
There were some major reasons why the CDU lost their majority - mostly CDU initiatives which had gone expensively south, although Fukushima will also have been a factor. The CDU decided they had lost touch with their electorate (true) and it was all down to Fukushima (debatable).
There are several State elections this year. One has been held since that nuclear decision. The CDU came in third, their worst result anywhere since the war. The FDP did not pick up any seats there either.