$100 million to the Gates Children's Vaccine Program, which will accelerate delivery of lifesaving vaccines to children in the poorest countries of the world. $50 million to the Maternal Mortality Reduction Program, run by the Columbia University School of Public Health. $50 million to the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, to conduct research on promising candidates for a malaria vaccine. $50 million to an international group called the Alliance for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer. $50 million to a fund for global polio eradication, led by the World Health Organization, Unicef, Rotary International and the U.N. Foundation. $40 million to the International Vaccine Institute, a research program based in Seoul, South Korea. $28 million to Unicef for the elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus. $25 million to the Sequella Global Tuberculosis Foundation. $25 million to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, which is creating coalitions of research scientists, pharmaceutical companies and governments in developing countries to look for a safe, effective, widely accessible vaccine against AIDS.
Taking out the ones that you bitched about, here is what is left. Still totals over $400 Million. How much have you given lately?
No, I prefer not to take the lock off the door and fix it myself. I also prefer not to let some stranger that isn't affliated with any lock company to take the lock away and fix it, then hand it back to me. If you live in a world where you are fine with the latter option, I hope you don't keep anything valuable in your house.
If you discover a bug like this and the author isn't willing to fix it, you can always fix it yourself.
...If you have the skills to do so. Most people couldn't fix a problem in the code. And I know that I would not feel comfortable running a fix that didn't come from the software maker.
Re:This book is destined to become a classic
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Shouldn't that be:
while ($havingSex) {
if (!$protected) {
$numChildren++;
$arrChildNames[$numChildren] = "PHP Programming " . $lastname;
} }
The beauty of having mouse gestures/pie menus is you dont need to alternate between mouse and keyboard.
What exactly are you doing with your other hand? For me, keyboard+mouse is faster than mouse only or keyboard only. Left hand hits all the keyboard shortcuts, mouse in the right hand clicks all the links and scrolls. I never really have to adjust. If you are using the keyboard completely, then you have a lot of time on your hands. If you are using only your mouse, well...you have a lot of other stuff on your hand.:)
Great for you! However, I was speaking from a typical home use perspective. And I am sorry to inform you, but typical home use is what is what drives home broadband market.
In this case, I believe stuff like this will drive the demand for higher bandwidth. Up until now, if you didn't game, porn or warez, then getting off of dialup had no practicle applications. As these sort of services start to take off, assuming high quality, having a better connection to view it might become more important to your average user.
It isn't the manager that drives the employees away, though a bad manager will certainly hasten the departure. Its dealing with the customer on the other end of the line, who 9 times out of 10 is pissed off about something you had no control over, but is still going to hold you personally responsible for it.
I work for a branch of the federal government, and we use Netscape 4.7s mail client. I am hoping now that 7 is out, and looks like it has a decent email client, we might switch.
The music in the trailer for X2 is Mars by Gustav Holst. While this is an awesome piece, it just doesn't work with this trailer. It pretty much ruined the trailer for me. Anyone else notice that it just didn't work with the visuals? Almost like they threw it on at the last minute because they didn't have anything else.
Would you prefer slashdot stories take another 8 hours to hit, so they can be vetted by an editor?
Yeah, the/. editors have more important things they have to be doing instead of editing blurbs like...like...coming up with new words for karma levels, and making sure that ads for.NET always show up on any anti-MS article they post. Oh, and coming up with new excuses to not cache the pages they link to. These things are more important to the community than you might think! Show some appreciation!
If you want cleanly editted news, read ZDNet. Notice how they don't have as much variety or community?
And I know that after I flame an editor for a crap post, and then I am flamed in return...God, my sense of community is tripled. God bless the/. XPerience!
I was thinking the same thing. You got the cel because you had a child, but you don't carry it with you unless you are expecting them to call. I believe accidents are called accidents because you don't expect them.
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It doesn't have to be posted on the front page for you to be able to see it. Just go to the developers section of slashdot and read all the developer news there.
This sort of thing already happens with the porn industry. I will occasionally get a msg saying something like "hello, whats your name?" You get to talk to it for about 30 seconds, the conversation quickly moving towards a sexual nature, before it hits you with the address.
As usual, the porn industry is about 987345 steps ahead of everyone else.
If you look at the history, pop music runs in cycles, usually about 10-12 years long. In the early 90s we were exactly where we are now. Teenie groups, no real innovation. Then Nirvana and "grunge" came along and started on a new cycle. 10 years before that it was 80s breaking out of what was left of disco. And it keeps going back. So I am being patient, because I know the next break is right around the corner.
If you are coding to standards, the only time cross-browsing is a bitch is having to deal with the NS4 series. Other than that, I have had trivial things display differently in mozilla and IE, so developing a cross-browser site is not nearly as difficult as everyone makes out.
Uh, that website you mention...thoughtcrime.org...I hit it with IE6, and it gives me a warning saying "Everything checks out EXCEPT the address on the certificate does not match the address of the site trying to send it." Then it gives me an option of accepting it, rejecting it, or viewing the certificate.
How exactly is this a bug? IE saw a problem, reported the problem to me, and gave me options on how to handle the problem. If a user decides to hit "Yes" thats their problem, not IE's.
By letting Linux run windows apps, Linux makes all those developers that are windows only potential allies, instead of the definite enemies that are now.
I don't see how it does that. If I developed a program that was Windows-only, and someone else took the inititative to get it working in linux, I would say "Good, now I don't have to deal with that mess." If anything, I would think this would cause Windows developers to be less prone to make something that works in linux, because "someone else will port it eventually."
But that will open up a window of any size. For me, my unminimized windows are maxed out to fill the screen. So doing a _blank will lose the parent window until I close the window.
Of course, I know I am in the minority on that one. I doubt many people browse maximized, but I like the idea of being able to continue to see the site underneith the popup. Gives it continuity, and it helps the stupid users understand what is going on.
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I doubt it will happen since Sega is currently in bed with Nintendo. There is a reason you are seeing Sonic on the GBA and GC lately.
$100 million to the Gates Children's Vaccine Program, which will accelerate delivery of lifesaving vaccines to children in the poorest countries of the world.
$50 million to the Maternal Mortality Reduction Program, run by the Columbia University School of Public Health.
$50 million to the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, to conduct research on promising candidates for a malaria vaccine.
$50 million to an international group called the Alliance for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer.
$50 million to a fund for global polio eradication, led by the World Health Organization, Unicef, Rotary International and the U.N. Foundation.
$40 million to the International Vaccine Institute, a research program based in Seoul, South Korea.
$28 million to Unicef for the elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus.
$25 million to the Sequella Global Tuberculosis Foundation.
$25 million to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, which is creating coalitions of research scientists, pharmaceutical companies and governments in developing countries to look for a safe, effective, widely accessible vaccine against AIDS.
Taking out the ones that you bitched about, here is what is left. Still totals over $400 Million. How much have you given lately?
No, I prefer not to take the lock off the door and fix it myself. I also prefer not to let some stranger that isn't affliated with any lock company to take the lock away and fix it, then hand it back to me. If you live in a world where you are fine with the latter option, I hope you don't keep anything valuable in your house.
If you discover a bug like this and the author isn't willing to fix it, you can always fix it yourself.
...If you have the skills to do so. Most people couldn't fix a problem in the code. And I know that I would not feel comfortable running a fix that didn't come from the software maker.
Shouldn't that be:
while ($havingSex) {
if (!$protected) {
$numChildren++;
$arrChildNames[$numChildren] = "PHP Programming " . $lastname;
}
}
The beauty of having mouse gestures/pie menus is you dont need to alternate between mouse and keyboard.
:)
What exactly are you doing with your other hand? For me, keyboard+mouse is faster than mouse only or keyboard only. Left hand hits all the keyboard shortcuts, mouse in the right hand clicks all the links and scrolls. I never really have to adjust. If you are using the keyboard completely, then you have a lot of time on your hands. If you are using only your mouse, well...you have a lot of other stuff on your hand.
Great for you! However, I was speaking from a typical home use perspective. And I am sorry to inform you, but typical home use is what is what drives home broadband market.
In this case, I believe stuff like this will drive the demand for higher bandwidth. Up until now, if you didn't game, porn or warez, then getting off of dialup had no practicle applications. As these sort of services start to take off, assuming high quality, having a better connection to view it might become more important to your average user.
It isn't the manager that drives the employees away, though a bad manager will certainly hasten the departure. Its dealing with the customer on the other end of the line, who 9 times out of 10 is pissed off about something you had no control over, but is still going to hold you personally responsible for it.
If this techology makes it into everyday homes, then he's changed the world, for the better...
...as long as you live in a country where you can actually have one of these houses. I don't see the improvement to non-first world countries.
I work for a branch of the federal government, and we use Netscape 4.7s mail client. I am hoping now that 7 is out, and looks like it has a decent email client, we might switch.
The music in the trailer for X2 is Mars by Gustav Holst. While this is an awesome piece, it just doesn't work with this trailer. It pretty much ruined the trailer for me. Anyone else notice that it just didn't work with the visuals? Almost like they threw it on at the last minute because they didn't have anything else.
Would you prefer slashdot stories take another 8 hours to hit, so they can be vetted by an editor?
/. editors have more important things they have to be doing instead of editing blurbs like...like...coming up with new words for karma levels, and making sure that ads for .NET always show up on any anti-MS article they post. Oh, and coming up with new excuses to not cache the pages they link to. These things are more important to the community than you might think! Show some appreciation!
/. XPerience!
Yeah, the
If you want cleanly editted news, read ZDNet. Notice how they don't have as much variety or community?
And I know that after I flame an editor for a crap post, and then I am flamed in return...God, my sense of community is tripled. God bless the
$25 / ticket? Where in the world do you live, so I can make sure I never go there.
I was thinking the same thing. You got the cel because you had a child, but you don't carry it with you unless you are expecting them to call. I believe accidents are called accidents because you don't expect them.
It doesn't have to be posted on the front page for you to be able to see it. Just go to the developers section of slashdot and read all the developer news there.
This sort of thing already happens with the porn industry. I will occasionally get a msg saying something like "hello, whats your name?" You get to talk to it for about 30 seconds, the conversation quickly moving towards a sexual nature, before it hits you with the address.
As usual, the porn industry is about 987345 steps ahead of everyone else.
If you look at the history, pop music runs in cycles, usually about 10-12 years long. In the early 90s we were exactly where we are now. Teenie groups, no real innovation. Then Nirvana and "grunge" came along and started on a new cycle. 10 years before that it was 80s breaking out of what was left of disco. And it keeps going back. So I am being patient, because I know the next break is right around the corner.
Code to specs and your web page will be developed to be "optimized for all w3c compliant web browsers" which happens to include IE.
If you are coding to standards, the only time cross-browsing is a bitch is having to deal with the NS4 series. Other than that, I have had trivial things display differently in mozilla and IE, so developing a cross-browser site is not nearly as difficult as everyone makes out.
Uh, that website you mention...thoughtcrime.org...I hit it with IE6, and it gives me a warning saying "Everything checks out EXCEPT the address on the certificate does not match the address of the site trying to send it." Then it gives me an option of accepting it, rejecting it, or viewing the certificate.
How exactly is this a bug? IE saw a problem, reported the problem to me, and gave me options on how to handle the problem. If a user decides to hit "Yes" thats their problem, not IE's.
Except Britney is going to have way better tits.
But if I am shouting my opinion on a street corner, and you are walking by, aren't you forced to listen to what I have to say?
What do you do when someone tries to hand you a pamphlet on the street? You know what I do? Ignore them.
What do you do when someone spams you with email? You know what I do? Delete it.
No one is forcing me to read the email before I delete it.
By letting Linux run windows apps, Linux makes all those developers that are windows only potential allies, instead of the definite enemies that are now.
I don't see how it does that. If I developed a program that was Windows-only, and someone else took the inititative to get it working in linux, I would say "Good, now I don't have to deal with that mess." If anything, I would think this would cause Windows developers to be less prone to make something that works in linux, because "someone else will port it eventually."
But that will open up a window of any size. For me, my unminimized windows are maxed out to fill the screen. So doing a _blank will lose the parent window until I close the window.
Of course, I know I am in the minority on that one. I doubt many people browse maximized, but I like the idea of being able to continue to see the site underneith the popup. Gives it continuity, and it helps the stupid users understand what is going on.