The US murder rate is about 5.9 per 100,000. It hasn't been at 9 per 100,000 in a number of years. The UK's is about 1.4 per 100,000. Japan's is about 0.5 per 100,000.
The other missing thing from Safari was something as basic as session saving and crash protection. You have to buy Saft for that. With Firefox, it's free.
I wonder if Apple has done anything about these issues.
I don't know about the first issue, but certainly the second is fixed. Go to the History menu, and "reopen all tabs from last session". It doesn't let you save arbitrary sessions, but it does give you crash protection.
A friend of mine in Uni (a few years back now) could not deal with two button mice, since, as he was dyslexic (I think that is what it was) he just could not grok right vs. left mouse buttons. He liked the mac since it did not have a right mouse button, and unix (on a terminal) since it had no graphics at all!
Now, I have not had contact with him in a few years, so I don't know if he ever did manage to grok a two button mouse properly.
They asked you to a meeting.
That is a reasonable, and professional course of action to take. People get laid off, sometimes for good reasons, sometimes for bad. The real problem with the article is not that some people were laid off, but that they were told by e-mail not to bother coming in anymore.
HP at least gave you the courtesy of a face to face.
I can only assume you are being serious here, and so will respond seriously...
Is this not a good thing... letting people who are on faster connections have priority seems like it will drive companies to provide a better service faster and might also reduce the cost of slower connections... or am I wrong?
No, this is not a good thing. Think about what you are saying:
If this is allowed then _every_ high bandwidth site has to pay _every_ provider. That means that Google, Yahoo, Sun, Oracle, Microsoft, kernel.org, debian, IBM, Playboy, etc, etc all have to pay verizon, ma bell, and a host of other providers from other countries. That is a lot of money, which is, of course, why the providers want to do that. For them, it is pure profit.
The provider has no incentive to lower the cost of slower connections, as they only get the "priority-fee" money based on the number of users that they have on faster connections. It may see a decrease in faster connection fees, although this is also unlikely, as it is unlikely increase the providers profits.
As of December 2004, we are releasing the parser under a new license; the license allows unrestricted use in commercial applications, and is also compatible with the GNU GPL (General Public License). You can view the license here. We are also releasing version 4.1b, which is identical to version 4.1 (released in 2000) except that the licensing statements reflect the new license.
Meaning that it is most likely no easier for abiword to include it than it is for openoffice to include it.
The reason is simply so that you have one program that you can tell sudo that people can use... last I checked, sudo did not handle wildcards all that well...
Then put a small cell phone tranceiver (a small version of those cell phone towers) inside the room and program it to only allow outgoing calls to the emergency numbers (e.g. 911).
Actually, going by the GSM standard the emergency number is 112. As an interesting sidenote, 112 will also work in America, since it is defined in the GSM standard, 911 also works, but not in Europe (which is where the story is set)
how many phones have the capabilities that you mention? How many phones exist? 0/100's millions is not a lot. Remember, humanity survived before teh advent of the telephone, let alone the mobile...
On the same theme: Saturn made a interesting assumption about their cars a few years ago. At high speed they reduced gas to the engine to control the speed to a maximum of 105mph. According to this entry in Risks digest (source of endless scary stories about computing and automation risks) the author was left going down hill at over 105mph, coasting, with a stalled engine, no power brakes and no power steering.
I'm sorry. I call bullshit.
Simply put, the guy in the article claimed that he had no power steerin, or brakes, and further that he had "coasted" up to 105 mph. There are two things here I find tricky to believe;
a. The car "coasts" at 105mph. That is pretty damn fast. That needs a long straight downhill road, and
b. that he had no brakes or power steering. As has been mentioned all over this story. You have both, you can even continue to use both assisted for a short while... well and truly long enough to put the clutch back in!
What is so bad about the idea of establishing criteria for high risk passengers? Statistically speaking, I believe that the prominent threat to the airlines (notice I don't say "only") comes from Arab Muslim single males between the ages of 18 and 45. This criteria certainly fit all of the 9/11 terrorist hijackers. What is interesting is that although the article mentions that the post data would be turned over, it doesn't specifically state exactly how the government will use the data in terms of homeland security.
What is so bad about the idea of establishing criteria for high risk commuters? Statistically speaking, I believe that the prominent threat to the government buildings (notice I don't say "only") comes from white American christian single males between the ages of 18 and 45. This criteria certainly fit all of the Oklahama terrorist bombers.
At any rate, though, I don't think that maintaining flexible profiles for high risk passengers is such a bad idea. Some passengers may be inconvenienced; however, if it will save lives, then I am quite willing for some people to end up having their feelings hurt.
At any rate, though, I don't think that maintaining flexible profiles for high risk commuters is such a bad idea. Some drivers may be inconvenienced; however, if it will save lives, then I am quite willing for some people to end up having their feelings hurt.
ABN Amro has an excellent wesite, and it works perfectly in mozilla and safari.
I actually left the Postbank because (at the time, don't know about now) there website did not work with mozilla, and being able to pay bills online is important to me. And yes, I told them this as well.
The other bank that I use, Rabobank has a website that works, but only when you allow popup windows. Very, very annoying.
doesn't... have the ability to move my mail to a Junk folder on my IMAP server.
Yes it does:
Preferences -> Accounts -> Special Mailboxes -> Store junk messages on the server.
My personal IMAP complaint is that you can't create rules to move messages between folders on the server, only folders on the client.
Not entirely true... it depends a lot on what server you are using, but it is possible to do server side filtering on IMAP servers. In general there are two types of servers, and two types of solutions:
Maildir based (i.e. dovecot)
Filters for these can be normally be setup with procmail based filters.
Private database (i.e. Cyrus)
These normally have a language called "sieve" to do the filtering for you.
What you might of meant to say that it gripes you that mail.app does not have any way to manipulate these rules... and that is damn annoying. Horde/ingo is a god choice for a web based frontend to this though.
1. Why, oh why, is their watermark not "placed" into the virtual image... in the virtual image it is very blurry:-\
2. How do they deal with the mouse cursor? I.e. on what plane does it move around, and how does it interact with the screen? In particular can you still use it to aim? Or does it appear to point to the wrong place?
Still... way cool.
We really have to think of alternate economic systems the more stories like this come up. An automated car doesn't really displace jobs--but this really could.
I think you say that without realising how many taxi drivers there are in the world. I would be prepared to bet that the number of taxi drivers compared to the number of qualified superliner pilots would be quite large...
As a visitor to Europe, I am flabbergasted by how crass the TV output is. Apparantly it's okay to show graphic sex acts but guns and violence are out. Even the crazy channels like RTL put out sex-packed junk like Wa(h)re Liebe.
What kind of fucked up system is that?
I know that you are only trying to be funny, and point out the double standards that are prevalent. However, in this case you are wrong. Violence is also OK in Europe! Unless it is portrayed against women that is. The point that the original poster was trying to make, is that America has this strange double standard when it comes to TV/films. Gore is OK. Guts splayed across the screen is OK. Violence is OK. Extreme violence is OK. Mild nudity is not.
I have a question? Where can you find the per CPU licensing deals for SuSE? Back in the day when I was using it, SuSE came with both SMP and uniprocessor in the same box. If I look on the website now, they only have four options, each of which is licensed for one machine. I can see no limits on the number of CPUS to be used in any of the descriptions.
Now, sure, we don't expect these people to be totally unbiased, but where did they pull this from?:
The Pentium 4 'E' is an absolute monster in workstation graphics, capturing the top spot in three of the six tests and tying for it in one more. In the other two, the Prescott 3.4GHz is second only to the Athlon 64 FX-53.
By the way, that test that it tied? It tied it with the Athlon 64 FX-53. But then I guess they wouldn't get their advertising budget if they said:
The Pentium 4 'E' and Athlon 64 FX-53 are roughly equal in workstation graphics, with the P4E winning three of the six tests the A64 FX-53 winning two, and they tied one test. Overall though there was less than 2% difference in any test.
Hmm. Just had a quick browse of the article, and noticed something a little funny. In the Sphinx speech recognition test they compared all of the chips with both the microsoft and the Intel compiler. What was strange about it though was that for every AMD chip the Intel compiler was faster, by up to 4%. However, for 7 out of the 10 intel processors the microsoft compiler produced faster code than the intel compiler!
But does IBM honestly think that open-source
is the best path to creating successful software?
If so, how about an open-source WebSphere & DB2?
The difference is that WebSphere is (to some extent) based on quite a few open source projects, many of which IBM contribute to. For example, xalan, xerces, log4j, apache.
This is just IBM saying that they see Java as a fundamental building block, and that if it isn't free it will have serious issues in the future, inluding losing developer mindshare.
I'd be more likely to vote for a candidate who spammed me (and let's be honest, this isn't really spam) than one who wasted paper on mass-mailings.
Maybe to you it isn't spam, but what happens if I get it? I can't even vote in your election. So if I get it, it is most certainly spam, and most definitely unwanted.
Not saying that I will get it... maybe they have a real opt-in list somewhere, but if I do get it, it will be spam.
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Arranging head on collisions sounds a lot more like 5th Gear than Top Gear.
I think that you are right, it was probably 5th gear.... the soundtrack has no Jeremy, James or Richard.
Video in question: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvoumToSP5c
The US murder rate is about 5.9 per 100,000. It hasn't been at 9 per 100,000 in a number of years. The UK's is about 1.4 per 100,000. Japan's is about 0.5 per 100,000.
Just so that people can "confirm" these facts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#International_comparison or http://www.nationmaster.com/red/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita&ob=ws are your friends. The parents stats are more or less right, although according to these sources the US rate is a little high, it should be 5.4-4.3 per 100,000.
The other missing thing from Safari was something as basic as session saving and crash protection. You have to buy Saft for that. With Firefox, it's free.
I wonder if Apple has done anything about these issues.
I don't know about the first issue, but certainly the second is fixed. Go to the History menu, and "reopen all tabs from last session". It doesn't let you save arbitrary sessions, but it does give you crash protection.
A friend of mine in Uni (a few years back now) could not deal with two button mice, since, as he was dyslexic (I think that is what it was) he just could not grok right vs. left mouse buttons. He liked the mac since it did not have a right mouse button, and unix (on a terminal) since it had no graphics at all!
Now, I have not had contact with him in a few years, so I don't know if he ever did manage to grok a two button mouse properly.
They asked you to a meeting. That is a reasonable, and professional course of action to take. People get laid off, sometimes for good reasons, sometimes for bad. The real problem with the article is not that some people were laid off, but that they were told by e-mail not to bother coming in anymore. HP at least gave you the courtesy of a face to face.
It would appear that you are not alone...
The reason is simply so that you have one program that you can tell sudo that people can use... last I checked, sudo did not handle wildcards all that well...
how many phones have the capabilities that you mention? How many phones exist? 0/100's millions is not a lot. Remember, humanity survived before teh advent of the telephone, let alone the mobile...
Simply put, the guy in the article claimed that he had no power steerin, or brakes, and further that he had "coasted" up to 105 mph. There are two things here I find tricky to believe;
a. The car "coasts" at 105mph. That is pretty damn fast. That needs a long straight downhill road, and
b. that he had no brakes or power steering. As has been mentioned all over this story. You have both, you can even continue to use both assisted for a short while... well and truly long enough to put the clutch back in!
What is so bad about the idea of establishing criteria for high risk commuters? Statistically speaking, I believe that the prominent threat to the government buildings (notice I don't say "only") comes from white American christian single males between the ages of 18 and 45. This criteria certainly fit all of the Oklahama terrorist bombers.
At any rate, though, I don't think that maintaining flexible profiles for high risk commuters is such a bad idea. Some drivers may be inconvenienced; however, if it will save lives, then I am quite willing for some people to end up having their feelings hurt.
ABN Amro has an excellent wesite, and it works perfectly in mozilla and safari.
I actually left the Postbank because (at the time, don't know about now) there website did not work with mozilla, and being able to pay bills online is important to me. And yes, I told them this as well.
The other bank that I use, Rabobank has a website that works, but only when you allow popup windows. Very, very annoying.
1. Why, oh why, is their watermark not "placed" into the virtual image... in the virtual image it is very blurry :-\
2. How do they deal with the mouse cursor? I.e. on what plane does it move around, and how does it interact with the screen? In particular can you still use it to aim? Or does it appear to point to the wrong place?
Still... way cool.
I mean... It's already in Debian! :-)
Food for thought.
The point that the original poster was trying to make, is that America has this strange double standard when it comes to TV/films. Gore is OK. Guts splayed across the screen is OK. Violence is OK. Extreme violence is OK. Mild nudity is not.
Where are the per-CPU pricings?
Yes, but imagine if BillyG lived in Finland....
Bizzare eh?
This is just IBM saying that they see Java as a fundamental building block, and that if it isn't free it will have serious issues in the future, inluding losing developer mindshare.
Not saying that I will get it... maybe they have a real opt-in list somewhere, but if I do get it, it will be spam.