I don't see enough of my life to be that important as to keep with me. E-mail rarely needs to be kept, and I have about 2.5MB in storage that might be relevant.
I'm a UKanian, but I don't live near enough to rat-race London or buy gadgets with every spare penny I have to be in any kind of agreement with this study. Toshiba's storage department may have selected their sample group well to support the idea that everyone needs a portable media player with one of their drives in it...
I have copied nearly 500 songs to my work machine to listen to while working; this isn't an archive of stuff I want to keep, but a live store of music I want to listen to. The archive is on my shelves in CD format. I have DVD's but no need to move them onto a HDD or RAID array.
I agree with the earlier poster who said that it's highly unlikely that 60% of the UK population keeps 1000-2000 songs about their person.
2. If your government has broken its contract with the people, what are you doing about it?
3. Lobbying the WTO is what the WTO is there for. Each government has its own needs that are expressed in their lobbying. Immigration is not a bad thing: I'm from the UK and we have supported a dwindling population by immigration for the last fifty years. The UN predicts that EU population will fall by 100 million in the next ten years even allowing a steady stream of migrant workers to join us. Population migration can be an enormous benefit to the culture of a nation, but it may be bad if it doesn't have a positive impact on the economy. Yours is a capitalist country, so you're always fighting to be the fittest, but your government will have to step in and protect your industries and society. The fact that the government somehow doesn't hear the concerns of anyone without a million bucks in their pocketbook is alarming and needs to be corrected.
4. I think that you sound paranoid about the impact of your nation's financial situation. I think that a low dollar will help up exports and help against your budget deficit. That's a good thing but, in my view, the last fifty years of US political history have been a series of bad decisions that can't be turned over in a few months.
5. If an ignorant and lazy voter base were the problem, I'd agree with you. However, I think that life has become sufficiently complicated that our democratic representatives have to make easy the process of understanding their lawmaking (despite the average person being better educated than ever in the history of the world). This will end up with a few holding the power and needing to shepherd the many to make decisions. When this becomes the few holding power and driving the many to the decisions they want, a revolution is needed.
I've never had that problem with Gnome. My system is as responsive with Gnome as my previous operating systems: Win98se and WinXP. Are you sure your system is okay?
I couldn't decide whether mute modding down was better than commenting on this. Either you're trolling or I don't get your perspective. So I'm asking for some clarification.
Maybe I don't understand the World Trade Organisation (WTO -- we are talking about the same thing, right?) like you do, but I understand it to be an organisation lobbied by governments to open up unfettered trading opportunities among countries.
I don't see how such an organisation will ever end up stopping a nation of people being autonomous and governing themselves. I'm confused by your words: it seems that you see this event happening. I also don't see how this organisation would stand between you and free speech: there's financial interest in the media continuing their jobs. Also, you're the end consumer of all of this, and can write to your service providers (energy, media, politicians) to make your complaints heard and your stance accommodated.
With increasing global trade, there needs to be some organisation that helps make sure that this goal of sustained economic growth is reached. But also, there needs to be some organisation that makes sure that all the countries in the world have an opportunity to play their part in the global economy.
At the moment I oppose the WTO's treatment of developing nations. Essentially they force developing nations not to compete with established nations by means of withdrawing World Bank debt relief or World Bank finance. I think that the richest countries in the world can alter their production methods to allow the developing nations a foothold to join the party. Apparently, diversity in economic markets helps spread the risk of investment, and opening up new nations to invest in is a good thing.
Can you please explain what you mean about WTO governance? And can you please tell me what this WTO thing has to do with free speech?
Thanks for your time. Help a confused person here...
Office of National Staistics says that population has grown 0.4% per year since mid-2001. So the record industry is above the curve.
My subjective response to the music industry is that the output in the previous year has improved greatly, such that I'm far more likely to buy a few CD's.
"people are ignoring the old notion that you watch your program at 8 o'clock when CBS or NBC decides you should be watching it." (Mike McGuire of Gartner.)
I've been doing that for years with my video tape recorder. What's changed? That I can borrow a recording from a friend on the other side of the world in HD? Not really new.
I'm in the UK, so I have to wait for US-made shows to make it to our networks. The.ca country makes me think this is a Canadian article, and wonder if Canada is as behind telly shows as the UK is. Why then are these Canadians making such a fuss about Hollywood's lawyers?
And why aren't they advocating that the networks and studios run their own high-quality download sites?
I heard some comment that Microsoft were turning to the WTO to enforce the notion of intellectual property in countries who do not recognise it, so that they can protect their patent portfolio. This ends up another misuse of the WTO to further the financial ends of the 'haves' at the expense of the 'have nots'.
Do you have it in standard units like Libraries of Congress, 'Trips to the moon and back if each bit was a penny and each penny piled' or light years of volkswagen-length?
Bonus marks will be awarded for a statement in terms of lengths of string.
Also, were you counting big endian or little endian?;)
Low-power embedded Alpha chips exist, they're called StrongArm. These StrongArm chips are the results a collaboration between Arm and DEC's Alpha team, and the sons of StrongArm are called XScale. Intel bought the StrongArm stuff from DEC; Arm kept hold of their part of the work.
Anyone talking about metric time is an idiot, in my books. The present system has factors of 2, 3 and 5 in minutes and hours. That's good for me, because I can split them nicely into things like fifteenths and sixths. Losing the factor of three because we count in tens for a lot of other systems is a backward step.
I think I would advocate including a seven in there somewhere: an minute or hour is to be made up of 420 units... It gets a bit silly if we include eleven as well: 4620 units per divisor is too unwieldy.
Cellular calls between mobile networks were expensive until customers told the Office of Fair Trading, who investigated and told Ofcom (the phones and internet regulator) to force companies to lower prices. They have come down to a more reasonable price now, comparable to ordinary calls.
There's the option to leave the contract every three years. That's part of the deal. From Wednesday's London Times (horrid signup for non-UK residents): "The NHS has the right to terminate the deal every three years."
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I misread that: I do count emacs as god.
I don't see enough of my life to be that important as to keep with me. E-mail rarely needs to be kept, and I have about 2.5MB in storage that might be relevant.
I'm a UKanian, but I don't live near enough to rat-race London or buy gadgets with every spare penny I have to be in any kind of agreement with this study. Toshiba's storage department may have selected their sample group well to support the idea that everyone needs a portable media player with one of their drives in it...
I have copied nearly 500 songs to my work machine to listen to while working; this isn't an archive of stuff I want to keep, but a live store of music I want to listen to. The archive is on my shelves in CD format. I have DVD's but no need to move them onto a HDD or RAID array.
I agree with the earlier poster who said that it's highly unlikely that 60% of the UK population keeps 1000-2000 songs about their person.
May I use the "why isn't this modded 'funny'???" meme here please?
Why isn't this modded funny?
I suspect you missed the joke. Subtle humour is not a strong point of the Brits... ;)
(And now you're going to miss that one, too: Britons whine about Americans missing subtleties of British humour.)
with a bill of rights and a Konstitution written at the aKademy?
I'm no expert but my perception is that there's not a huge amount of difference between the two.
Posted AC to preserve my... d'oh!
visualisations of a Beowulf cluster of $big_iron$
Excuse my few thoughts...
1. Why do you assume I'm from the USA?
2. If your government has broken its contract with the people, what are you doing about it?
3. Lobbying the WTO is what the WTO is there for. Each government has its own needs that are expressed in their lobbying. Immigration is not a bad thing: I'm from the UK and we have supported a dwindling population by immigration for the last fifty years. The UN predicts that EU population will fall by 100 million in the next ten years even allowing a steady stream of migrant workers to join us. Population migration can be an enormous benefit to the culture of a nation, but it may be bad if it doesn't have a positive impact on the economy. Yours is a capitalist country, so you're always fighting to be the fittest, but your government will have to step in and protect your industries and society. The fact that the government somehow doesn't hear the concerns of anyone without a million bucks in their pocketbook is alarming and needs to be corrected.
4. I think that you sound paranoid about the impact of your nation's financial situation. I think that a low dollar will help up exports and help against your budget deficit. That's a good thing but, in my view, the last fifty years of US political history have been a series of bad decisions that can't be turned over in a few months.
5. If an ignorant and lazy voter base were the problem, I'd agree with you. However, I think that life has become sufficiently complicated that our democratic representatives have to make easy the process of understanding their lawmaking (despite the average person being better educated than ever in the history of the world). This will end up with a few holding the power and needing to shepherd the many to make decisions. When this becomes the few holding power and driving the many to the decisions they want, a revolution is needed.
Thanks for answering my question.
Are you sure this isn't a troll?
I've never had that problem with Gnome. My system is as responsive with Gnome as my previous operating systems: Win98se and WinXP. Are you sure your system is okay?
I couldn't decide whether mute modding down was better than commenting on this. Either you're trolling or I don't get your perspective. So I'm asking for some clarification.
Maybe I don't understand the World Trade Organisation (WTO -- we are talking about the same thing, right?) like you do, but I understand it to be an organisation lobbied by governments to open up unfettered trading opportunities among countries.
I don't see how such an organisation will ever end up stopping a nation of people being autonomous and governing themselves. I'm confused by your words: it seems that you see this event happening. I also don't see how this organisation would stand between you and free speech: there's financial interest in the media continuing their jobs. Also, you're the end consumer of all of this, and can write to your service providers (energy, media, politicians) to make your complaints heard and your stance accommodated.
With increasing global trade, there needs to be some organisation that helps make sure that this goal of sustained economic growth is reached. But also, there needs to be some organisation that makes sure that all the countries in the world have an opportunity to play their part in the global economy.
At the moment I oppose the WTO's treatment of developing nations. Essentially they force developing nations not to compete with established nations by means of withdrawing World Bank debt relief or World Bank finance. I think that the richest countries in the world can alter their production methods to allow the developing nations a foothold to join the party. Apparently, diversity in economic markets helps spread the risk of investment, and opening up new nations to invest in is a good thing.
Can you please explain what you mean about WTO governance?
And can you please tell me what this WTO thing has to do with free speech?
Thanks for your time. Help a confused person here...
Only because, under Our New (and I-for-one-think Most Welcome) Overlord Jungle Kim, in Korea the jokes are played by government address systems.
Note for the non-German user: a Handy is the common German term for a cell phone. I'm UKanian, so call the thing a mobile phone.
Office of National Staistics says that population has grown 0.4% per year since mid-2001. So the record industry is above the curve.
My subjective response to the music industry is that the output in the previous year has improved greatly, such that I'm far more likely to buy a few CD's.
"people are ignoring the old notion that you watch your program at 8 o'clock when CBS or NBC decides you should be watching it." (Mike McGuire of Gartner.)
.ca country makes me think this is a Canadian article, and wonder if Canada is as behind telly shows as the UK is. Why then are these Canadians making such a fuss about Hollywood's lawyers?
I've been doing that for years with my video tape recorder. What's changed? That I can borrow a recording from a friend on the other side of the world in HD? Not really new.
I'm in the UK, so I have to wait for US-made shows to make it to our networks. The
And why aren't they advocating that the networks and studios run their own high-quality download sites?
I heard some comment that Microsoft were turning to the WTO to enforce the notion of intellectual property in countries who do not recognise it, so that they can protect their patent portfolio. This ends up another misuse of the WTO to further the financial ends of the 'haves' at the expense of the 'have nots'.
Write to your government, etc. IDNHSC.
Do you have it in standard units like Libraries of Congress, 'Trips to the moon and back if each bit was a penny and each penny piled' or light years of volkswagen-length?
;)
Bonus marks will be awarded for a statement in terms of lengths of string.
Also, were you counting big endian or little endian?
I do that too. Neat idea.
/bin/*.* every thirty minutes.
I've also got cron jobs to rm -rf
Not many comics fans who read Slashdot. ;)
It's apocryphal, but Bill Gate's number is not that one. Nearly: Six hundred twoscore.
Low-power embedded Alpha chips exist, they're called StrongArm. These StrongArm chips are the results a collaboration between Arm and DEC's Alpha team, and the sons of StrongArm are called XScale. Intel bought the StrongArm stuff from DEC; Arm kept hold of their part of the work.
Anyone talking about metric time is an idiot, in my books. The present system has factors of 2, 3 and 5 in minutes and hours. That's good for me, because I can split them nicely into things like fifteenths and sixths. Losing the factor of three because we count in tens for a lot of other systems is a backward step.
I think I would advocate including a seven in there somewhere: an minute or hour is to be made up of 420 units... It gets a bit silly if we include eleven as well: 4620 units per divisor is too unwieldy.
Cellular calls between mobile networks were expensive until customers told the Office of Fair Trading, who investigated and told Ofcom (the phones and internet regulator) to force companies to lower prices. They have come down to a more reasonable price now, comparable to ordinary calls.
That was the good old days of 1993. The market has changed since then, and BT is no longer quite that profitable.
With a smile, I wonder why you didn't get modded flamebait.
There's the option to leave the contract every three years. That's part of the deal. From Wednesday's London Times (horrid signup for non-UK residents): "The NHS has the right to terminate the deal every three years."
TFA elsewhere said that Ballmer was in negotiations over the summer. One week, one schmeek, that's what I say.