If the drug dealers know that their phone records may be searched, then they won't use cellphones. There were drug dealers in schools long before there were cellphones in schools.
All i can say is if they start this in my kid's school district, he will NOT be carrying his phone around any more.
Well, duh! Is there a point or are you just setting up a strawman here?
and, frankly, arts and music aren't very useful.
Sure, why not cut out literature as well? Creative writing is unnecessary for a future of making powerpoint presentations. Sports is gone, too. No point in that.
Is this what you are looking for, training a bunch of mindless zombies that can calculate numbers, memorize facts and correctly fill in standardized test bubbles?
Michael Moore was able to get elected president of his school board while he was still in school. Sometimes talks about how great the last 3 months of his senior year was since he was the principal's boss.
Bridgestone and Microsoft have been granted exclusive contracts to be the sole suppliers, of tires and ECUs respectively, of Formula 1 beginning in 2008. (Electronic Control Units, responsible for a car's engine management)
McLaren's website lists Siemens as the supplier of "telecommunications products, including mobile phones, innovative office telephones and cordless handsets."
They list "McLaren Electronic Systems" as the developer of all onboard electronic systems with, coincidentally, the same initials: MES.
The joint venture between Siemens and Microsoft is to create (or control, hehe) standards for Manufacturing Execution Systems which are the software and hardware controls for manufacturing processes. In theory, thats not far from engine control management, but they don't currently make anything in that area.
Siemens does claim that they have or will be implementing telemetry systems for McLaren.
Not only that, but NONE of the current teams list Microsoft as a technology partner, supplier or even sponsor. A cursory look at the current teams specs shows that they either develop the software in-house or they partner with Magnet Marelli. I think if you were to look at a sole-source supplier, that would be the one, not some newcomer.
Strange that this is even big news, its not near as big as who the sole tire supplier would be. Nobody talks about the "winning ECU supplier" the way they talk about the team or tire supplier.
I think the parent's point was not that it isn't theft, but its NOT theft of copyright. You infringe someone's copyright when you steal a copy of their work. Yeah, I know its semantics but when they just haphazardly shove words around just to make a clever acronym, we have the right to riducule the language.
And I thought it was just here in the US where they make up stupid acronyms for acts of legislature.
Thats an interesting point. I figured since most windows virii work by exploiting windows APIs, their authors would lack the knowledge (and desire to learn how) to program them in OSX. I fail to see how this explains a tremendous explosion of virus activity on OSX, however, and the ridiculous article about it gets quite skewered by DF.
The current version handles clips longer than 9 minutes just fine. That limit used to be in place to support older mac's that had a 1.9g file size limit. If you tried to import or capture a clip longer than 9 minutes, it would just break it into 2. Then all you had to do is stick them together in the timeline. Hardly "crippled".
Flash always drops frames when in a mac browser window without focus. I've seen it enough times to think that its by design. Play the same file in the standalone player and it will play normally in the background.
Japan is also noted among automotive enthusiasts for similarly draconian rules surrounding old cars - I cannot corroborate this, but I have heard that the *entire* braking system must be replaced in all cars over a certain number of years of age.
I had heard a similar myth that auto engines required replacing after 40,000 miles as there were a number of import engines available in the US with this claimed 40,000 mile limit. Truth is, car inspection can be so expensive that people there would rather just trade their in on a new one before the 3rd-year inspection is due. One part of this is that the inspections, run by the government, are VERY thorough, the other part is that most people take their cars to garages for inspections and the garages liberally markup inspection costs.
Here is an interesting story about a foreigner taking his ancient (10 year old) car through the dreaded "shaken" inspection, as its often called.
You're thinking of a radial engine. It has air-cooled pistsons arranged in a circle around a crankshaft. Mazda's rotary engines are completely different.
180 could do like Claria/Gator and sue everyone calling it spyware/adware. Then make back-door deals with the anti-spyware software developers to take them off the threat list. Sue, those who don't comply. Case dismissed!
Parent's point was disputing that if apple went with AMD, they would instantly be AMD's biggest customer and that production may be strained to its limit or beyond. My point (and brokeninside's below) was that shipments by individual manufacturers of AMD-based computers are most likely lower than Apple's current volume and that if apple moved the entire platform to AMD, they would easily be AMD largest customer.
Intel makes more sense for apple, as Apple would require a fraction of what Dell, or HP buys from Intel and intel shoudl be able to handle the slight increase in production.
It's not that people don't ENJOY not paying sales tax, but if it stays low enough, not too many people are going to bitch. The problem is who gets the tax? For example, say I live in NY, work in NJ, and I go to PA on vacation where I order an iPod on a website hosted on a server in Texas, from a company that was encorporated in Delaware and has their offices are in Colorado. It ships from a warehouse in Virginia to my friend's house in Ohio where I'm going to pick it up.
Standard ideas of the sellers location and the location of purchase are clouded today. I think they only way to simply the process is to make the tax due on the purchaser's state of residence, ie. where they pay their state income tax since several states already have laws (like PA) for usage anyway. Yes, it could require every online store to collect and submit sales tax from 50 states, but at least the states with multiple tax rates could help by deciding on one rate for the entire state for online purchases.
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I would do that, but my homeowners association fines $50 a day for hanging my laundry outside.
Of there would be hell to pay for having his phone on during school hours.
If the drug dealers know that their phone records may be searched, then they won't use cellphones. There were drug dealers in schools long before there were cellphones in schools.
All i can say is if they start this in my kid's school district, he will NOT be carrying his phone around any more.
Teaching for tests is better than not teaching,
Well, duh! Is there a point or are you just setting up a strawman here?
and, frankly, arts and music aren't very useful.
Sure, why not cut out literature as well? Creative writing is unnecessary for a future of making powerpoint presentations. Sports is gone, too. No point in that.
Is this what you are looking for, training a bunch of mindless zombies that can calculate numbers, memorize facts and correctly fill in standardized test bubbles?
Michael Moore was able to get elected president of his school board while he was still in school. Sometimes talks about how great the last 3 months of his senior year was since he was the principal's boss.
That is not what the article says.
Bridgestone and Microsoft have been granted exclusive contracts to be the sole suppliers, of tires and ECUs respectively, of Formula 1 beginning in 2008.
(Electronic Control Units, responsible for a car's engine management)
McLaren's website lists Siemens as the supplier of "telecommunications products, including mobile phones, innovative office telephones and cordless handsets."
They list "McLaren Electronic Systems" as the developer of all onboard electronic systems with, coincidentally, the same initials: MES.
The joint venture between Siemens and Microsoft is to create (or control, hehe) standards for Manufacturing Execution Systems which are the software and hardware controls for manufacturing processes. In theory, thats not far from engine control management, but they don't currently make anything in that area.
Siemens does claim that they have or will be implementing telemetry systems for McLaren.
Not only that, but NONE of the current teams list Microsoft as a technology partner, supplier or even sponsor. A cursory look at the current teams specs shows that they either develop the software in-house or they partner with Magnet Marelli. I think if you were to look at a sole-source supplier, that would be the one, not some newcomer.
Strange that this is even big news, its not near as big as who the sole tire supplier would be. Nobody talks about the "winning ECU supplier" the way they talk about the team or tire supplier.
However, the news blurb specifically says they are to be the sole supplier of ECUs. I belive telemetry systems are separate from the ECU.
Sony killed everyone with PS1 sales the year the PS2 came out.
I think the parent's point was not that it isn't theft, but its NOT theft of copyright. You infringe someone's copyright when you steal a copy of their work. Yeah, I know its semantics but when they just haphazardly shove words around just to make a clever acronym, we have the right to riducule the language.
And I thought it was just here in the US where they make up stupid acronyms for acts of legislature.
This part of tfa says it all:
"In recent months, the MPAA has been fine-tuning the totals..."
They aren't even TRYING to hide the fact that they are making shit up.
Thats an interesting point. I figured since most windows virii work by exploiting windows APIs, their authors would lack the knowledge (and desire to learn how) to program them in OSX. I fail to see how this explains a tremendous explosion of virus activity on OSX, however, and the ridiculous article about it gets quite skewered by DF.
The current version handles clips longer than 9 minutes just fine. That limit used to be in place to support older mac's that had a 1.9g file size limit. If you tried to import or capture a clip longer than 9 minutes, it would just break it into 2. Then all you had to do is stick them together in the timeline. Hardly "crippled".
What makes writing viruses for Intel-based macs easier than PPC-based macs?
Flash always drops frames when in a mac browser window without focus. I've seen it enough times to think that its by design. Play the same file in the standalone player and it will play normally in the background.
Japan is also noted among automotive enthusiasts for similarly draconian rules surrounding old cars - I cannot corroborate this, but I have heard that the *entire* braking system must be replaced in all cars over a certain number of years of age.
I had heard a similar myth that auto engines required replacing after 40,000 miles as there were a number of import engines available in the US with this claimed 40,000 mile limit. Truth is, car inspection can be so expensive that people there would rather just trade their in on a new one before the 3rd-year inspection is due. One part of this is that the inspections, run by the government, are VERY thorough, the other part is that most people take their cars to garages for inspections and the garages liberally markup inspection costs.
Here is an interesting story about a foreigner taking his ancient (10 year old) car through the dreaded "shaken" inspection, as its often called.
Oh, its not just an american thing, I can think of at least one guy from Europe that hates Peugeots, too.
I should know to scroll down and see if 10 other people have already made the same reply before I post.
You're thinking of a radial engine. It has air-cooled pistsons arranged in a circle around a crankshaft. Mazda's rotary engines are completely different.
180 could do like Claria/Gator and sue everyone calling it spyware/adware. Then make back-door deals with the anti-spyware software developers to take them off the threat list. Sue, those who don't comply. Case dismissed!
Parent's point was disputing that if apple went with AMD, they would instantly be AMD's biggest customer and that production may be strained to its limit or beyond. My point (and brokeninside's below) was that shipments by individual manufacturers of AMD-based computers are most likely lower than Apple's current volume and that if apple moved the entire platform to AMD, they would easily be AMD largest customer.
Intel makes more sense for apple, as Apple would require a fraction of what Dell, or HP buys from Intel and intel shoudl be able to handle the slight increase in production.
I don't think its an unreasonable assertion. How many single manufacturers are currently outselling apple with strictly AMD-equipped computers?
It's not that people don't ENJOY not paying sales tax, but if it stays low enough, not too many people are going to bitch. The problem is who gets the tax? For example, say I live in NY, work in NJ, and I go to PA on vacation where I order an iPod on a website hosted on a server in Texas, from a company that was encorporated in Delaware and has their offices are in Colorado. It ships from a warehouse in Virginia to my friend's house in Ohio where I'm going to pick it up.
Standard ideas of the sellers location and the location of purchase are clouded today. I think they only way to simply the process is to make the tax due on the purchaser's state of residence, ie. where they pay their state income tax since several states already have laws (like PA) for usage anyway. Yes, it could require every online store to collect and submit sales tax from 50 states, but at least the states with multiple tax rates could help by deciding on one rate for the entire state for online purchases.
I think you mean debt, not deficit. Budget surplus is the opposite of budget deficit.