The cold war might have been better than the alternative, if the alternative was a totalitarian Europe. But given that many of today's global threats have roots in superpower policy and schemes of 20-odd years ago, I think the wheel is still spinning on that question.
He's the dumbass? Think about what you just said, all an authority has to do is to declare a protest technique illegal, and suddenly it ceases to be civil disobedience?
No everyone there is trying to run a scam, but the government is so corrupt that doing business there must be risky. Unless that is you're Shell Oil . For balance, here's their PR puff
Some of these look real enough. Not sure if it's on this site, but one account I read even used a couple of contacts to photograph the scammer waiting at an airport in Dubai, while the mark pretended to be stuck in customs with the cash.
How very true. Any time an application crashes on Windows, I'll merrily press the 'Report this' button, just to give MS some more irrelevant crap. We are expected to give them free bug reports, and pay for the privilige.
I just put on my 'dummy mode' hat, and press the button like it says. All the better if the bug has nothing to do with them:-)
It's not just a culture thing. Western Europe, specifically Britain and France, happily ruled the place in the early 20th Century, then hurriedly left the place after WW2. The lack of democratic preparation must have contributed to the proliferation of autocratic, power-accumulating elites in that part of the world.
Only inciting hatred will fall foul of that law, not inciting discrimination or being strongly critical. There is already a similar law against inciting racial hatred, and I have to say it has impinged on my life not one iota. Hopefully it has stopped at least one family having their lives blighted by idiots.
Communism and Totalitarianism are manifestly not exclusive, but I reckon that 20 years of war probably caused the people more suffering than either would alone.
I'd say no copper saved in the short term, as you would have to throw out all your old appliances.
It would be interesting to see the respective domestic electrucution deaths per capita in, say, the US and UK. I wonder if your 110V supply kills fewer people than our 230V.
Opium production is higher now than when the Taliban controlled much of the country. I doubt the Northern Alliance are concerned about stopping the trade, more likely they are making money from it.
Ah, that was the reason? If they had come out straight and said so, instead of bullshit WMD claims, I'd have more respect for anything the US & UK governments had to say about it now.
A seperate issue from the availability of codecs is the lack of HTML rendering in the Linux Real clients.
My wife is a Big Brother fan (don't ask me why), and the site requires the Windows client in order to login to the premium stream. The reason is almost certainly the availability of a HTML renderer for Real to use. Last year, I managed to login using windows and copy the cookie across to the equivalent location for RealOne beta. To my utter astonishment and satisfaction, it worked. No such luck this year.
I understand that in Windows the IE control is available, but in order for Real to be successful, it must be fully functional on all platforms. Please don't take this as a flame, I'm excited about seeing a nicely styled, functional and well-behaved X client for Real, but I'm sorry to say that my current difficulties reaching paid content makes me wish media providers were not using Real.
That will depend on your jurisdiction. British law states that an item bought new has to be 'fit for the purpose for which it was sold', else you have the right to a refund.
I wish I could agree with you. I doubt it would be too difficult for a machine to recognise the predominant colour of a car. You don't even need to worry about the finer details, just filter out the largest blob which is nearest the number plate.
Computers are getting ever more powerful. I worry about a not-so-distant future where our vehicle movements will be recorded, with automated cross-referencing of the people you meet and the places you visit. It would be dressed up as a tool to stop terrorism, but would be capable of monitoring any behaviour or network of contacts.
Minor nitpick, IRQs are a consequence of the PC architecture, not MS's fault. Trying to get an ISA soundblaster to work in RedHat while first learning Linux was nasty.
A company has a right to beat the competition by being better. It does not have the right to beat the competition by illegal *and* immoral means.
And if you want to keep giving business to a company that will shaft its customers to consolidate its position, be my guest:
"Perhaps a message in the phone system for Windows. It would say something like 'if you are not using MS-DOS or an OEM version of MS-DOS, then press ##'. Then give them the message." Silverberg replied: "What the guy is supposed to do is feel uncomfortable, and when he has bugs, suspect that the problem is dr-dos and then go out to buy ms-dos. or decide to not take the risk for the other machines he has to buy for in the office."
Perhaps if there were nothing but well paid professionals on the planet, you might realise where your food comes from, who packs it, who drives it to your local store, and who takes your garbage away when you've finished with it. Or are they too uneducated to deal with your trash?
You might be right if we were talking about fuelling cars on 1,000 year old redwood trees. Something like oilseed rape has grown from seed in one season. Practically all the carbon will have been fixed from the atmosphere in one growing season.
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The cold war might have been better than the alternative, if the alternative was a totalitarian Europe. But given that many of today's global threats have roots in superpower policy and schemes of 20-odd years ago, I think the wheel is still spinning on that question.
And was the French Revolution such a bad thing in the long run? Look at the British, we had a revolution and didn't kill all the aristocrats.
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Not coincidentally, I'm still technically a subject of the Crown, not a citizen of a republic
Federal. A federation of what? A federation of democratic states, I presume. Correct me if I'm wrong.
He's the dumbass? Think about what you just said, all an authority has to do is to declare a protest technique illegal, and suddenly it ceases to be civil disobedience?
This one goes to 11.
No everyone there is trying to run a scam, but the government is so corrupt that doing business there must be risky. Unless that is you're Shell Oil . For balance, here's their PR puff
Some of these look real enough. Not sure if it's on this site, but one account I read even used a couple of contacts to photograph the scammer waiting at an airport in Dubai, while the mark pretended to be stuck in customs with the cash.
How very true. Any time an application crashes on Windows, I'll merrily press the 'Report this' button, just to give MS some more irrelevant crap. We are expected to give them free bug reports, and pay for the privilige.
:-)
I just put on my 'dummy mode' hat, and press the button like it says. All the better if the bug has nothing to do with them
It's not just a culture thing. Western Europe, specifically Britain and France, happily ruled the place in the early 20th Century, then hurriedly left the place after WW2. The lack of democratic preparation must have contributed to the proliferation of autocratic, power-accumulating elites in that part of the world.
Only inciting hatred will fall foul of that law, not inciting discrimination or being strongly critical. There is already a similar law against inciting racial hatred, and I have to say it has impinged on my life not one iota. Hopefully it has stopped at least one family having their lives blighted by idiots.
Communism and Totalitarianism are manifestly not exclusive, but I reckon that 20 years of war probably caused the people more suffering than either would alone.
I'd say no copper saved in the short term, as you would have to throw out all your old appliances.
It would be interesting to see the respective domestic electrucution deaths per capita in, say, the US and UK. I wonder if your 110V supply kills fewer people than our 230V.
Opium production is higher now than when the Taliban controlled much of the country. I doubt the Northern Alliance are concerned about stopping the trade, more likely they are making money from it.
BBC Report June 2004
BBC Report February 2002
Ah, that was the reason? If they had come out straight and said so, instead of bullshit WMD claims, I'd have more respect for anything the US & UK governments had to say about it now.
A seperate issue from the availability of codecs is the lack of HTML rendering in the Linux Real clients.
My wife is a Big Brother fan (don't ask me why), and the site requires the Windows client in order to login to the premium stream. The reason is almost certainly the availability of a HTML renderer for Real to use. Last year, I managed to login using windows and copy the cookie across to the equivalent location for RealOne beta. To my utter astonishment and satisfaction, it worked. No such luck this year.
I understand that in Windows the IE control is available, but in order for Real to be successful, it must be fully functional on all platforms. Please don't take this as a flame, I'm excited about seeing a nicely styled, functional and well-behaved X client for Real, but I'm sorry to say that my current difficulties reaching paid content makes me wish media providers were not using Real.
That will depend on your jurisdiction. British law states that an item bought new has to be 'fit for the purpose for which it was sold', else you have the right to a refund.
That's your excuse quota used up for the next 6 months :-)
I wish I could agree with you. I doubt it would be too difficult for a machine to recognise the predominant colour of a car. You don't even need to worry about the finer details, just filter out the largest blob which is nearest the number plate.
Computers are getting ever more powerful. I worry about a not-so-distant future where our vehicle movements will be recorded, with automated cross-referencing of the people you meet and the places you visit. It would be dressed up as a tool to stop terrorism, but would be capable of monitoring any behaviour or network of contacts.
Do you REALLY think they have the time and/or manpower to read every plate, and them crosscheck it with what color the car actually is?
That's what machines are for.
Excuse my ignorance, but who was the first European to reach NZ?
Minor nitpick, IRQs are a consequence of the PC architecture, not MS's fault. Trying to get an ISA soundblaster to work in RedHat while first learning Linux was nasty.
A company has a right to beat the competition by being better. It does not have the right to beat the competition by illegal *and* immoral means.
And if you want to keep giving business to a company that will shaft its customers to consolidate its position, be my guest:
"Perhaps a message in the phone system for Windows. It would say something like 'if you are not using MS-DOS or an OEM version of MS-DOS, then press ##'. Then give them the message." Silverberg replied: "What the guy is supposed to do is feel uncomfortable, and when he has bugs, suspect that the problem is dr-dos and then go out to buy ms-dos. or decide to not take the risk for the other machines he has to buy for in the office."
Are you equating lack of education with laziness?
Perhaps if there were nothing but well paid professionals on the planet, you might realise where your food comes from, who packs it, who drives it to your local store, and who takes your garbage away when you've finished with it. Or are they too uneducated to deal with your trash?
The patent says "limited resource computing device". Since I don't know af any machines with unlimited resources, the clause seems meaningless.
You might be right if we were talking about fuelling cars on 1,000 year old redwood trees. Something like oilseed rape has grown from seed in one season. Practically all the carbon will have been fixed from the atmosphere in one growing season.