Hmmm. Wisconsin is that state where all the cheeses are made. That makes me think that a lot of dutch people emigrated there. So yay for the clog wearing tulip eating windmill sniffing dutchies! (Or something..)
I would say 500 meters straight up and over the edge of that cliff you're standing at the bottom of would definitely fall under 'difficult-to-reach'. And quite possibly be extremely useful to have one person there checking that out before you bring in say that helicopter...
I think that guy would very well fit in with 'logical thought' and 'common sense' sort of schools. Unfortunately, as you've mentioned, there doesn't seem to be a political party that embraces those two sentiments..
According to this, business and ultimate are eligable for a free downgrade to XP Professional:
Rights to OEM versions of systems software are granted in the OEM License Terms. The OEM License Terms for most OEM versions of systems software do not grant downgrade rights. The exception is the OEM License Terms for the Windows® XP Professional operating system and the Windows Vistaâ Business and Windows Vista Ultimate operating systems, which grant downgrade rights. See the full text of the OEM License Terms for the specific downgrade rights
Yes. You can downgrade Business and Ultimate to Home, and you can download Pro to Home.
My coffee machine was designed in the 1950s, and makes brilliant coffee if you put enough love in.
You lucky bastard. There aren't that many wives that make coffee for their husbands anymore, although the ones from your design year generally tend to be more inclined.
We are very proud to announce our new workshop called Subversion of Justice.
We think this is the new trend in law at this moment, and have already found 4 speakers that are more than willing to state their case.
Our thanks go to Mr Bush, Mr Thompson, An anonymous person from the Scientology church who wants to go by the nomicker of 'Tom', and one or more speakers from an organization calling themselves RIAA for being this fast in giving their assent to speak at this great event.
Apple is going to have a serious problem applying this in a lot of European countries. They have laws that actually forbid this sort of tying 2 vendors into 1 product.
I know for a fact that France and the Netherlands have laws for that, and if I remember correctly, Germany has as well.
So either they're not going to be able to sell iPhones there, or they have to be sold seperately, which then opens them up for unlocking anyway.
I'm sorry, this is totally off topic, but to get an answer to this, posting it in the first thread is my best chance, probably.
I used to get 5 moderator points, then a while ago, I had 10, now I have 15... Does anyone have any clue what on earth is going on? Do they stack over time if unused?
And to stay slightly on-topic: I find it hilarious that they're fixing old engineering mistakes using modern engineering principles that are technically over 3000 years old;)
Interesting comment, however I completely and utterly disagree. Most modern keyboards (and I've gone through quite a lot), are simply not tactile and 'fast' enough. There are a number of keyboards (Looking at you, DELL), that I have serious problem with considering the speed I'm typing. More often then not, letters will be 'switched around', because I hit them in such fast succession. I've never had this problem with a Model-M, or with certain Cherry keyboards with microswitches (nor by the way, with this HP-KU keyboard, which comes with detachable numpad and card reader)
If you claim that a Model-M will slow people down, then I think you've either never typed on a tactile keyboard, or you're a slow typer to begin with. Of course I could be terribly wrong, and the positive effects of the Model-M surely vary for people, but in my experience I'm typing a LOT faster on my keyboard at home (which is an original Model-M/PS2) than on pretty much any other keyboard.
I think the main reason for that is twofold. First you never have to fully depress the key, plus aside from the 'noise' it also gives you a very tactile response, and even pushed the key back at you. This basically limits the amount of force and movement my fingers have to make to type anything, and for me at least, speeds my typing up enormously.
That is rather a dumb comment if you realize how many World of Warcraft client instances there are out there, and how large an update can be. Do you really think *ANY* company wants to provide the bandwidth needed to serve that amount of data, for a once in a month or so occurance? If you do, then you need a new calculator.
Let's do some simple estimates. A day after the release of a new content patch at say 200M (which is a quite reasonable size, we've had bigger), if 1/7th of total subscribers have downloaded it (this might be a bit of a high guess, but hey), that means that 1 million downloads have happened of the 200M file.
Let's keep it simple and in Megabytes, so we get 200 million MB in 24 hours, that's 2314MB per second.
I agree that there are definitely links that can handle that amount of data. Notwithstanding the amount of connections running through that. But most backbones have serious problems with anything over 1GB/s. Also. The costs of having an infrastructure in place that can handle that sort of bandwidths are high enough to not make it worth it to even think of investing in it just for upgrades.
I personally think Blizzard made the best decision considering all the factors, and seeing as you can refuse to upload anything, you personally should not even have any problems with this.
Keeping email backups for 7 years a general policy is complete stupidity. Unless you're in a regulated industry, the sooner you purge them, the better.
You know, you make this point as if it actually validates your post. Bit of a sad thing that it actually doesn't.
The government is as much a 'regulated industry' as for example the financial world (in which you *have* to keep 7 years of backups of ALL your data, including email, RTPs, databases and everything pertaining to your functioning). This is not optional, this is not something you can make your own policy about, it's quite simply the law.
Now. The law states that all communication within the government that is not explicitly marked top secret should be available to the public. Having a retention period after which this information gets deleted instead of archived is once again, simply against the law.
If you make local retention policies, you better be *very* sure you're not destroying material that you should keep by law, since your company will really not survive a serious audit or lawsuit based on those materials (the penalties for not obeying these parts of the law are really rather severe)
I think the main issue here is probably not going to be 'does it exist', but more whether we'll even recognize it as life once (if) we find it.
The amount of lifeforms found on earth itself that were considered impossible (think the whole ecology based around life based on sulphur energy without any influence from the sun), is quite large already.
Our preconception of how life 'should be' or should look like is quite certainly going to be an enormous hindrance in actually considering life to be 'life' if we ever do encounter it.
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And the platypus was obviously created by the creator when he also had just created mind altering drugs...
God on LSD.
Hmmm. Wisconsin is that state where all the cheeses are made. That makes me think that a lot of dutch people emigrated there. So yay for the clog wearing tulip eating windmill sniffing dutchies! (Or something..)
Title says it all, really....
You need to see this particular Dilbert cartoon, which is very much like what you describe :)
http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2008-09-09/
Mopeds would be too slow. The average speed of a biker in the Tour de Dope is higher than that of a moped :)
Lots of penis creatures. Lots of them.
Unfortunately fingerprints are actually easier to copy than chips..
This only goes to show that the people at Intel really can't count..
(Firmly tongue in cheeck, of course :)
The smurf round doesn't actually explode (it has no charge), so there is no visual or otherwise useful feedback it's been destroyed.
Obviously written by someone with women on the mind.. I mean.. XXX and then they're talking about 38B, 37B and 40A.
What's more obvious!
Admittedly though, I think 40A would be the average man and not a woman.. But hey, nowadays everything's possible.
A possibility might be that the companies simply never took the changed exchange rate into account.
In 2001 the exchange rate for USD/EUR was 1/1.5, now it's 1.5/1, so that's pretty much the whole difference explained right there.
So basically people in Europe are/were used to paying that price, and that hasn't changed, the only thing that changed is the exchange rate.
I would say 500 meters straight up and over the edge of that cliff you're standing at the bottom of would definitely fall under 'difficult-to-reach'. And quite possibly be extremely useful to have one person there checking that out before you bring in say that helicopter...
I think that guy would very well fit in with 'logical thought' and 'common sense' sort of schools. Unfortunately, as you've mentioned, there doesn't seem to be a political party that embraces those two sentiments..
Yes. You can downgrade Business and Ultimate to Home, and you can download Pro to Home.
You lucky bastard. There aren't that many wives that make coffee for their husbands anymore, although the ones from your design year generally tend to be more inclined.
Wow... Switzerland is off-shore? I always thought it was smack-dab in the middle of Europe in the Alps
We are very proud to announce our new workshop called Subversion of Justice.
We think this is the new trend in law at this moment, and have already found 4 speakers that are more than willing to state their case.
Our thanks go to Mr Bush, Mr Thompson, An anonymous person from the Scientology church who wants to go by the nomicker of 'Tom', and one or more speakers from an organization calling themselves RIAA for being this fast in giving their assent to speak at this great event.
Please stay tuned for more details.
Next time please acknowledge your source. Being the Exxon Valdez...
:)
Hehehe
Apple is going to have a serious problem applying this in a lot of European countries. They have laws that actually forbid this sort of tying 2 vendors into 1 product.
I know for a fact that France and the Netherlands have laws for that, and if I remember correctly, Germany has as well.
So either they're not going to be able to sell iPhones there, or they have to be sold seperately, which then opens them up for unlocking anyway.
I'm sorry, this is totally off topic, but to get an answer to this, posting it in the first thread is my best chance, probably.
;)
I used to get 5 moderator points, then a while ago, I had 10, now I have 15... Does anyone have any clue what on earth is going on? Do they stack over time if unused?
And to stay slightly on-topic: I find it hilarious that they're fixing old engineering mistakes using modern engineering principles that are technically over 3000 years old
Hmmm..
Interesting comment, however I completely and utterly disagree. Most modern keyboards (and I've gone through quite a lot), are simply not tactile and 'fast' enough. There are a number of keyboards (Looking at you, DELL), that I have serious problem with considering the speed I'm typing. More often then not, letters will be 'switched around', because I hit them in such fast succession. I've never had this problem with a Model-M, or with certain Cherry keyboards with microswitches (nor by the way, with this HP-KU keyboard, which comes with detachable numpad and card reader)
If you claim that a Model-M will slow people down, then I think you've either never typed on a tactile keyboard, or you're a slow typer to begin with. Of course I could be terribly wrong, and the positive effects of the Model-M surely vary for people, but in my experience I'm typing a LOT faster on my keyboard at home (which is an original Model-M/PS2) than on pretty much any other keyboard.
I think the main reason for that is twofold. First you never have to fully depress the key, plus aside from the 'noise' it also gives you a very tactile response, and even pushed the key back at you. This basically limits the amount of force and movement my fingers have to make to type anything, and for me at least, speeds my typing up enormously.
That is rather a dumb comment if you realize how many World of Warcraft client instances there are out there, and how large an update can be. Do you really think *ANY* company wants to provide the bandwidth needed to serve that amount of data, for a once in a month or so occurance? If you do, then you need a new calculator.
Let's do some simple estimates. A day after the release of a new content patch at say 200M (which is a quite reasonable size, we've had bigger), if 1/7th of total subscribers have downloaded it (this might be a bit of a high guess, but hey), that means that 1 million downloads have happened of the 200M file.
Let's keep it simple and in Megabytes, so we get 200 million MB in 24 hours, that's 2314MB per second.
I agree that there are definitely links that can handle that amount of data. Notwithstanding the amount of connections running through that. But most backbones have serious problems with anything over 1GB/s. Also. The costs of having an infrastructure in place that can handle that sort of bandwidths are high enough to not make it worth it to even think of investing in it just for upgrades.
I personally think Blizzard made the best decision considering all the factors, and seeing as you can refuse to upload anything, you personally should not even have any problems with this.
You know, you make this point as if it actually validates your post. Bit of a sad thing that it actually doesn't.
The government is as much a 'regulated industry' as for example the financial world (in which you *have* to keep 7 years of backups of ALL your data, including email, RTPs, databases and everything pertaining to your functioning). This is not optional, this is not something you can make your own policy about, it's quite simply the law.
Now. The law states that all communication within the government that is not explicitly marked top secret should be available to the public. Having a retention period after which this information gets deleted instead of archived is once again, simply against the law.
If you make local retention policies, you better be *very* sure you're not destroying material that you should keep by law, since your company will really not survive a serious audit or lawsuit based on those materials (the penalties for not obeying these parts of the law are really rather severe)
Maybe you took 'grow some balls!' a bit too literally?
I think the main issue here is probably not going to be 'does it exist', but more whether we'll even recognize it as life once (if) we find it.
The amount of lifeforms found on earth itself that were considered impossible (think the whole ecology based around life based on sulphur energy without any influence from the sun), is quite large already.
Our preconception of how life 'should be' or should look like is quite certainly going to be an enormous hindrance in actually considering life to be 'life' if we ever do encounter it.