They want to fund games that will run only on the newest phones with extra ram and ultra-colour display and why not a microdrive. Then, while you were out buying that phone, they'll come up with an even better game that needs the resources of an even more expensive phone which, while unfortunately incompatible with your current one, can be yours for a low initial fee and a three year contract.
take 20% of my salary now and save it away. It has grown to about $100,000. If I had a job in Canada, that would mean I would only have $60,000 saved up instead of $100,000.
If you spend your retirement in Canada as well then you haven't lost any ground at all. With one of the highest costs of living in the world, the US isn't exactly a magnet for foreign retirees, unless they were wealthy enough to have a summer house in France and a beach house in Florida already.
The USB drive didn't come up in the CIA scans because the drive wasn't active; the inactive drive wasn't giving off any EM for them to detect.
Do YOU remember the movie? The reason the drive didn't come up in the CIA scans was because the agent always managed to leave the coffee cup on the security counter while she went through the scanner - the cup itself was never scanned.
This is a common tactic in several caper movies, and is equally implausible in all of them.
What's this, an area 51 discussion and not even one mention of area 6413?
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Exactly. This isn't about the mode of transportation you'll use to go grab a beef burger. It's about:
How are all of the consumer goods going to get from where they are produced to the store?
How are factories/refineries/etc going to produce goods in the first place (without diesel generators)?
How are you going to generate electricity at home? Wind turbines and solar panels aren't effective for people in apartments.
Oil is about power. Not political, but in terms of energy to do work. Almost every activity in western civilization requires power. What alternatives to oil will be left? Coal/steam power? Wood burning? The previous levels of technology won't support all of us.
Imagine that, someone put up a satellite a whole 2 years before Mir went operational, and it's still there three and a half years after Mir was decommissioned.
Let me know if the ISS is still in one peice in 2017; then I'll be impressed.
...this is probably the first time I've thought to myself: why don't people just leave this alone? It's really a public safety issue, and there is no real reason anyone outside of police, fire, etc have to have this device.
It's not amusing. It's just wrong.
Absolutely. The penalty for using this device should be equal to the penalty for using police-like blinkenlights and sirens on your car to bully your way through traffic.
Now if software could have similar damage control mechanism
Exactly. What we need is a mechanism that will drive companies with buggy products into bankruptcy instead of allowing them to flourish and produce flawed results.
I have no idea why the general public and indeed, the media have such a blatant misunderstanding of judicial publication ban orders. The ban is a ban on media reporting while the trial is in progress and possibly until such time as the appeals are exhausted. The complete, entire purpose of the ban is to minimize contamination of the jury pool.
Guess what happens when the trial is over?
That's right - you're allowed to report on the trial! The transcripts are made public! Hell, CBC even made a TV movie out of the case. Since the media has lost it's chance to unfairly bias the public at this point, they rarely bother to report on it after the fact though.
So take your sacrimonious attitude and apply it to those first generation Americans who are being held in US prisons without charges or trial just for registering the country of their birth.
changing their ways would set a precedent for other companies.
A precedent such as going out of business. Measures like these are signs that the company is getting desperate for sources of recurring revenue, without which the business cannot survive. I don't support the practice, but I recognise it for what it is: the beginning of a financial death wail.
it could be attained for the paltry sum of $200. Pennies to us, but to them it could take a
lifetime to acquire that amount of savings
The average monthly salary in India is somewhere along the lines of $37
How much are taxes in India? For simplicity, I'll assume the $37 represents after tax income. Okay, let's say they really really want one of these and save $5 a month. So, it'll take 3.5 years to save up the $200. That would make it a major purchase, along the lines of, say, a car in the western world, but hardly their life savings. I'd buy the lifetime argument for families taking home $3.50 a month though.
[ Meanwhile, Emcee waves the contract in front of Shatner, who then reluctantly returns to the podium.... ]
William Shatner: Of course, that speech was a "re-creation" of the "Evil Captain Kirk" from um... Episode, um... [ Emcee whispers ] THIRTY-SEVEN... uhh... called... [ another whisper ] "The Enemy Within."
With NT (2000 and XP are NT versions) MS wrote the whole OS from scratch and did a fairly good job at the low levels (yes, NT is a nice OS down near the hardware where you never interact with it).
Um, that's because M$ "adopted"(stole) VMS/BSD code to form the "core" of NT (known in the day as the schizophrenic operating system)
At the higher levels, they just took the miserable waste of system resources called Win32 (MS' port of Windows to a 32-bit environment) and pasted it on top of NT.
That would be the part of NT developed from scratch in Redmond.
America has never lost a war, and I see no reason to let our record be sullied now.
I know that was only flamebait, but I can't resist pointing out that just because it's been almost two centuries since the US lost the war of 1812 doesn't mean their 'record' hasn't been 'sullied'.
Now go bomb some innocent goat-herders in Afghanistan and get it out of your system so the rest of the world can stop worrying about further US escalation and the terrorists can finish decorating their new compounds at wherever they've evacuated to by now.
1) the effect when thousands of soldiers crossing a bridge intentionally fall out of step to avoid setting up sympathetic vibrations in the bridge, thus collapsing it (which used to be a real problem before they figured out the cause!)
2) for the Chinese scanario: instead of having them all jump off a chair in their homes, line them up on the shoreline and have them dive in to the surf simultaneously - possibly setting up a tseunami heading eastward.
I completely disagree with the premise that the GUI is somehow more enabling than the CLI. Instead, I feel that GUIs offer a much slower, more limited range of expression which, due to it's restricted scope, has a shallower learning curve for novice users. For output, graphics are a wonderfully efficient, parallel medium; for input however, no mouse or 'powerglove' will come close to the efficiency of a typist keyboarding at 80wpm or better.
This quote sums up my opinion much more eloquently:
In 1979, when I was working at IBM, I wrote an internal memo lambasting the Apple Lisa, which was Apple's first attempt to adapt Xerox PARC technology, the graphical user interface, into a desktop PC. I was then working on the development of APL2, a nested array, algorithmic, symbolic language, and I was committed to the idea that what we were doing with computers was making languages that were better than natural languages for procedural thought. The idea was to do for whole ranges of human thinking what mathematics has been doing for thousands of years in the quantitative arrangement of knowledge, and to help people think in more precise and clear ways. What I saw in the Xerox PARC technology was the caveman interface, you point and you grunt. A massive winding down, regressing away from language, in order to address the technological nervousness of the user.
Users wanted to be infantilized, to return to a pre-linguistic condition in the using of computers, and the Xerox PARC technology's primary advantage was that it allowed users to address computers in a pre-linguistic way. This was to my mind a terribly socially retrograde thing to do, and I have not changed my mind about that.
-- Eben Moglen
The continued development and enhancement of interfaces for novices is a noble undertaking, and very worthwhile to pursue; but don't for a second confuse the success of such an interface with the goals of efficient, expert interfaces: "an interface better than natural languages for procedural thought".
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What would happen if one of the advertisers suddenly ran up a $3,000 bill? Or $30,000? Or $300,000?
I know what happens - from personal experience selling ad space on a very high traffic website. What happens is they don't pay, and when you sue them they declare bankruptcy and still don't pay.
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They want to fund games that will run only on the newest phones with extra ram and ultra-colour display and why not a microdrive. Then, while you were out buying that phone, they'll come up with an even better game that needs the resources of an even more expensive phone which, while unfortunately incompatible with your current one, can be yours for a low initial fee and a three year contract.
take 20% of my salary now and save it away. It has grown to about $100,000. If I had a job in Canada, that would mean I would only have $60,000 saved up instead of $100,000.
If you spend your retirement in Canada as well then you haven't lost any ground at all. With one of the highest costs of living in the world, the US isn't exactly a magnet for foreign retirees, unless they were wealthy enough to have a summer house in France and a beach house in Florida already.
The USB drive didn't come up in the CIA scans because the drive wasn't active; the inactive drive wasn't giving off any EM for them to detect.
Do YOU remember the movie? The reason the drive didn't come up in the CIA scans was because the agent always managed to leave the coffee cup on the security counter while she went through the scanner - the cup itself was never scanned.
This is a common tactic in several caper movies, and is equally implausible in all of them.
What's this, an area 51 discussion and not even one mention of area 6413?
- How are all of the consumer goods going to get from where they are produced to the store?
- How are factories/refineries/etc going to produce goods in the first place (without diesel generators)?
- How are you going to generate electricity at home? Wind turbines and solar panels aren't effective for people in apartments.
Oil is about power. Not political, but in terms of energy to do work. Almost every activity in western civilization requires power. What alternatives to oil will be left? Coal/steam power? Wood burning? The previous levels of technology won't support all of us.Imagine that, someone put up a satellite a whole 2 years before Mir went operational, and it's still there three and a half years after Mir was decommissioned.
Let me know if the ISS is still in one peice in 2017; then I'll be impressed.
I wonder how many extension cords they'll populate before they flip the circuit breaker.
Informative? It's called whitelisting.
...this is probably the first time I've thought to myself: why don't people just leave this alone? It's really a public safety issue, and there is no real reason anyone outside of police, fire, etc have to have this device.
It's not amusing. It's just wrong.
Absolutely. The penalty for using this device should be equal to the penalty for using police-like blinkenlights and sirens on your car to bully your way through traffic.
Rats, make that 20 win2003 servers.
(Shouldn't do math before coffee)
So, there are five new Windows 2003 servers, one of which used to run linux?
Bell bottoms are back, the Stones are still touring and...
Oh, wait. For a minute there I was expecting this apollo.
Now if software could have similar damage control mechanism
Exactly. What we need is a mechanism that will drive companies with buggy products into bankruptcy instead of allowing them to flourish and produce flawed results.
I have no idea why the general public and indeed, the media have such a blatant misunderstanding of judicial publication ban orders. The ban is a ban on media reporting while the trial is in progress and possibly until such time as the appeals are exhausted. The complete, entire purpose of the ban is to minimize contamination of the jury pool.
Guess what happens when the trial is over?
That's right - you're allowed to report on the trial! The transcripts are made public! Hell, CBC even made a TV movie out of the case. Since the media has lost it's chance to unfairly bias the public at this point, they rarely bother to report on it after the fact though.
So take your sacrimonious attitude and apply it to those first generation Americans who are being held in US prisons without charges or trial just for registering the country of their birth.
um, karma whore much? Guess what, I can use google too! Please mod parent down.
A precedent such as going out of business. Measures like these are signs that the company is getting desperate for sources of recurring revenue, without which the business cannot survive. I don't support the practice, but I recognise it for what it is: the beginning of a financial death wail.
How much are taxes in India? For simplicity, I'll assume the $37 represents after tax income. Okay, let's say they really really want one of these and save $5 a month. So, it'll take 3.5 years to save up the $200. That would make it a major purchase, along the lines of, say, a car in the western world, but hardly their life savings. I'd buy the lifetime argument for families taking home $3.50 a month though.
[ Meanwhile, Emcee waves the contract in front of Shatner, who then reluctantly returns to the podium.... ]
William Shatner: Of course, that speech was a "re-creation" of the "Evil Captain Kirk" from um... Episode, um... [ Emcee whispers ] THIRTY-SEVEN... uhh... called... [ another whisper ] "The Enemy Within."
"This film has been described by Video-Audio Canada"
With NT (2000 and XP are NT versions) MS wrote the whole OS from scratch and did a fairly good job at the low levels (yes, NT is a nice OS down near the hardware where you never interact with it).
Um, that's because M$ "adopted"(stole) VMS/BSD code to form the "core" of NT (known in the day as the schizophrenic operating system)
At the higher levels, they just took the miserable waste of system resources called Win32 (MS' port of Windows to a 32-bit environment) and pasted it on top of NT.
That would be the part of NT developed from scratch in Redmond.
America has never lost a war, and I see no reason to let our record be sullied now.
I know that was only flamebait, but I can't resist pointing out that just because it's been almost two centuries since the US lost the war of 1812 doesn't mean their 'record' hasn't been 'sullied'.
Now go bomb some innocent goat-herders in Afghanistan and get it out of your system so the rest of the world can stop worrying about further US escalation and the terrorists can finish decorating their new compounds at wherever they've evacuated to by now.
Reminds me of:
1) the effect when thousands of soldiers crossing a bridge intentionally fall out of step to avoid setting up sympathetic vibrations in the bridge, thus collapsing it (which used to be a real problem before they figured out the cause!)
2) for the Chinese scanario: instead of having them all jump off a chair in their homes, line them up on the shoreline and have them dive in to the surf simultaneously - possibly setting up a tseunami heading eastward.
This quote sums up my opinion much more eloquently:
The continued development and enhancement of interfaces for novices is a noble undertaking, and very worthwhile to pursue; but don't for a second confuse the success of such an interface with the goals of efficient, expert interfaces: "an interface better than natural languages for procedural thought".
I know what happens - from personal experience selling ad space on a very high traffic website. What happens is they don't pay, and when you sue them they declare bankruptcy and still don't pay.
"Milky Way Galaxy named Best Galaxy of 2001"