The rest of the industrial world (you know, all those countries with universal health care) do not have this problem. The United STates, with its unregulated private market DOES have it. Your private health insurance can refuse to treat your cancer based on "pre-existing conditions;" guess what, the Sécurité Sociale or the National Health Service cannot.
For the price of "setting foot on Mars" you could have hundreds or thousands of robots circling it, drilling it, terraforming it and beaming back terrabytes of data every second.
The mars rovers' photos are very sexy. They made the news. How often does the ISS make the news? Who cares? Seriously, look it up. It doesn't register, for a simple reason: that shit does nothing and accomplishes nothing. The little rovers, for a mere billion dollars, are a captivating story.
For every useless wanker up there, just to make sure he has a reasonable chance to come back in one piece, and to provide him with a place to shit, sleep and eat, you've spent the equivalent of a hundred Mars rovers. For the price of the Uselessational Space Station, we could have built an interferometric telescope with which we could have looked at neighbouring solar systems' planets, and figure if they had life. Go ahead, tell me how sending dozens of rovers exploring the whole solar system and/or having a look at Proxima Centauri's planets is any less interesting for the general public than watching a bunch of bozos awkwardly trying to bolt a nut in 0g.
Most code out there is in-house stuff, and 99% of it sucks harder than Windows ME. Outsource that crap, and you won't get anything better, there is no reason for it. People (PHBs) who managed these projects and got them where they are the same who are managing the outsourcing. It can't possibly be any better. Cheaper? Not even sure about that. There is a huge difference between domestic shitpiles of bad code and outsourced dungmounds of crappy software. The domestic bad coders might not know shit about coding, but they know what it's supposed to do, and eventually, they manage, through trial and error, to produce something that sort of does something useful. The Indian developer has no reason to be any worse than his western counterpart, but he certainly doesn't share the same culture. Simple things can be worlds apart; and even the if the spec is super detailed, you end up with something that fits it (sort of) but is completely retarded because the programmer had no idea what the fuck he was coding it for.
... for all the bad things in the UK which curiously don't seem to happen nearly as much in other EU countries. CCTV, zero tolerance bullshit, paedophilia scares, Iraq war scandals, etc.
Stop with the stupidity, enough with the ignorance: MS is treated differently because it enjoys a monopoly, and has a proven track record of abusing it.
The EU passes directives (between the Council, Commission and Parliament), that have to be implemented by national legislative bodies. The European Court of Justice (not ECHR) rules on European directives and their implementation.
Considering (considérant) that most legal (légaux) terms (termes) of the English language (langage) come from French, I figured (figuré) it would be obvious.
And maintenance is low tech, requires mostly steel. Just look at Britain, where they even have 80 year old wagons (or something) in service, thanks to the wonder of privatization.
Airports take a lot of room. A motherfucking lot. It surely evens out for long haul flights, but other than that...
You just build more farms is all. And intermittency can be dealt with a number of well-known strategies, starting with keeping fossil fuel stations around for emergencies, storing energy in reversable dams, displacing usage dynamically by having industrial refrigerators run a few degrees lower, and so on and so forth.
Wouldn't a 20 year copyright be more than enough for you, as a game developer? Because that's what the Pirate Party is advocating. Currently, in many countries, copyright extends up to 70 years after the death of the author. What sense is there in that? It's bullshit, plain and simple. And nobody's fighting against this crap in the political arena, nobody but the Pirate Party.
When the torrent client creates the file (most fill it with zero to avoid fragmentation at the beginning), it's almost instantaneous, while with ext3 it can take a few dozens of seconds for large files. However I've experienced process lockups on ext4, nothing shows up in the log but the process accessing files on ext4 is unkillable (zombified).
I'm as anti-religious as you can get, and that kind of attitude doesn't help anyone. Even the most intolerant retarded backwards major religious groups (such as Southern Baptists or Wahhabis) try to feed the poor (at least as long as they're of the right ethnic group), not milk them.
What, do you believe they believe it's going to stop all abuse from $cieno? Yeah, they're so technologically clueless at Wikipedia! You so smart! Fact is it will stop, even if only temporarily, a good proportion of the unwanted edits, while not preventing any legitimate edits.
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The rest of the industrial world (you know, all those countries with universal health care) do not have this problem. The United STates, with its unregulated private market DOES have it. Your private health insurance can refuse to treat your cancer based on "pre-existing conditions;" guess what, the Sécurité Sociale or the National Health Service cannot.
We can't destroy life on this planet, you're right. Absolutely right.
Because the definition of "life" includes extremophiles that can accomodate that thrive in battery acid at 200C under 100 atm of pressure.
But destroying most of life as we know it ... well, yes, we can.
For the price of "setting foot on Mars" you could have hundreds or thousands of robots circling it, drilling it, terraforming it and beaming back terrabytes of data every second.
The mars rovers' photos are very sexy. They made the news. How often does the ISS make the news? Who cares? Seriously, look it up. It doesn't register, for a simple reason: that shit does nothing and accomplishes nothing.
The little rovers, for a mere billion dollars, are a captivating story.
IMO we should just leave it to nice little bots until we can come up with something other than giant firecrackers to put people in space.
For every useless wanker up there, just to make sure he has a reasonable chance to come back in one piece, and to provide him with a place to shit, sleep and eat, you've spent the equivalent of a hundred Mars rovers.
For the price of the Uselessational Space Station, we could have built an interferometric telescope with which we could have looked at neighbouring solar systems' planets, and figure if they had life.
Go ahead, tell me how sending dozens of rovers exploring the whole solar system and/or having a look at Proxima Centauri's planets is any less interesting for the general public than watching a bunch of bozos awkwardly trying to bolt a nut in 0g.
Such short sightedness, you gotta be a Repub.
Most code out there is in-house stuff, and 99% of it sucks harder than Windows ME. Outsource that crap, and you won't get anything better, there is no reason for it. People (PHBs) who managed these projects and got them where they are the same who are managing the outsourcing. It can't possibly be any better. Cheaper? Not even sure about that.
There is a huge difference between domestic shitpiles of bad code and outsourced dungmounds of crappy software. The domestic bad coders might not know shit about coding, but they know what it's supposed to do, and eventually, they manage, through trial and error, to produce something that sort of does something useful.
The Indian developer has no reason to be any worse than his western counterpart, but he certainly doesn't share the same culture. Simple things can be worlds apart; and even the if the spec is super detailed, you end up with something that fits it (sort of) but is completely retarded because the programmer had no idea what the fuck he was coding it for.
Try using those HTLM5 features w/o JS:
... for all the bad things in the UK which curiously don't seem to happen nearly as much in other EU countries. CCTV, zero tolerance bullshit, paedophilia scares, Iraq war scandals, etc.
Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it's not true.
And if Apple had a monopoly in the OS market, you'd have a point, but since it doesn't, why don't you just shut the fuck up?
Stop with the stupidity, enough with the ignorance: MS is treated differently because it enjoys a monopoly, and has a proven track record of abusing it.
The EU passes directives (between the Council, Commission and Parliament), that have to be implemented by national legislative bodies. The European Court of Justice (not ECHR) rules on European directives and their implementation.
Considering (considérant) that most legal (légaux) terms (termes) of the English language (langage) come from French, I figured (figuré) it would be obvious.
"tout homme etant presume innocent jusqu'a ce qu'il ait ete declare coupable..."
Oh, and /.: IMPLEMENT UTF-8
And maintenance is low tech, requires mostly steel. Just look at Britain, where they even have 80 year old wagons (or something) in service, thanks to the wonder of privatization.
Airports take a lot of room. A motherfucking lot. It surely evens out for long haul flights, but other than that ...
More or less. They require minimal maintenance, especially compared to every single other electricity generation method but solar.
You just build more farms is all.
And intermittency can be dealt with a number of well-known strategies, starting with keeping fossil fuel stations around for emergencies, storing energy in reversable dams, displacing usage dynamically by having industrial refrigerators run a few degrees lower, and so on and so forth.
Wouldn't a 20 year copyright be more than enough for you, as a game developer? Because that's what the Pirate Party is advocating. Currently, in many countries, copyright extends up to 70 years after the death of the author. What sense is there in that? It's bullshit, plain and simple. And nobody's fighting against this crap in the political arena, nobody but the Pirate Party.
Name of their first pet and name of the street where they live.
I'm Brownie de Lappe.
What do they tell you if you tell them you can't use IE?
When the torrent client creates the file (most fill it with zero to avoid fragmentation at the beginning), it's almost instantaneous, while with ext3 it can take a few dozens of seconds for large files. However I've experienced process lockups on ext4, nothing shows up in the log but the process accessing files on ext4 is unkillable (zombified).
I'm as anti-religious as you can get, and that kind of attitude doesn't help anyone. Even the most intolerant retarded backwards major religious groups (such as Southern Baptists or Wahhabis) try to feed the poor (at least as long as they're of the right ethnic group), not milk them.
What, do you believe they believe it's going to stop all abuse from $cieno? Yeah, they're so technologically clueless at Wikipedia! You so smart!
Fact is it will stop, even if only temporarily, a good proportion of the unwanted edits, while not preventing any legitimate edits.