please just forget all flatrates. IMHO Flatrates should be forbidden, because they are misleading at best. Flatrates are bets that 50% of the users will never go close to the limit where it would be not profitable (you dont need more than 1GB if you just have private email and open a few times per month a web page - but hey, exactly these people are the ones you can scare in the shop - they will overpay you to be sure not to overpay even more). This bet is not getting fairer by declaring "heavy users" afterwards and changing the contract conditions.
If mobile providers would be forced to compete by a single, transparent Money/GB value (maybe slightly regressive with amount of data, but *not* a factor of 10 or 100), and the customers would be free to choose the mobile phones independently, we would be spared from all this shit.
c) Their patent lawyers compared the size of their.... ahem i meant patents stacks, found them equivalently sized and recommended to the boards of the companies to sing an agreement that they would not step onto each others feet as long as everybody stays in his own business
Excuse me, i don't write code for non-cross platform software environments. For a long time. Being single platform by definition excludes an environment from the list.
i know, that will be hard to swallow, and tcl is not one of the , favourite 5 programming languages of mine, but its stable, easy to embed, has clear interfaces, and is leightweight. What else do you need?
Yes, actually i am quite certain that all big OS companies will have some internal demo version running on the major processors families. If you dont support a lot of HW, recompiling a OS is not so time consuming. And i personally found compiling/running a program on different architectures a quite useful metric of code quality. It keeps weird assumptions localized to specific places.
I dont believe that democracy in China would work better if it would be managed by the Chinese banker and lawyers and political majors.
Having lived in Germany i can say that the last professions where the culture was strongly influenced by Nazi ideology are the lawyers(/courts) and the philosophical sciences. The law system in Germany took 40 years to begin to reflect on its own role during this time. And some of the banks never reflected where their money came from.
This is because *by definition* being part of the legal system requires you to "be on the side of the state" in sense of your ideology. If at a single time this field adheres to the Idea of a "strong state" in the negative sense, that is a state consisting of the people in power (chosen by god, by money, or as some kind of elite), not of the people in general, then its very unlikely that the legal system will give up this view very quickly - the people in power will understand how to use this legal system.
This usually involves that people who oppose in some sense are declared to be "enemies of the state" and therefor have less rights. You can observe this idea nearly everywhere, and i would think that the western world, where the US are discussing if torture is ok again for suspected terrorists, and the European union not sending help to refugees on the Mediterranean sea and letting them drown, where its only 25years ago that the French secret service sunk the Rainbow warrier as enemies of the state, should be a little more humble when claiming ideals.
If you look closely to china you see that many, if not most of the human rights violations are *not* a centrally controlled act from Bejing (I exclude the question of Tibet, which is purely driven by the fact that the West wants a stick to poke China from time to time and China need to prove itself exactly because of that reason). Many things happen because locally (on the province-and city-level) the local officials actually dont want to have the central government and laws invading into their personal business, and the police and courts etc. also are - effectively - controlled by them.
If i look at China i am actually amazed that they managed to progress so well, despite that a large class of people in their system would profit from the situation staying constant. Looking at other parts of the world with a similar starting point, i can say that the human rights situation in China seems to be slowly improving, with bumps, and sometimes not in the direction like the West expects it, but the police and law system seems to get more and more stable.
The Chinese which i know (most of them are scientists) are usually well-informed, capable of critical thinking and confirm this view, and they overall feel that the things develop to the better.
My personal opinion is that there are dangerous paths down the road for China, and the west should try to help China to master these problem as much as we can - the best way to do this IMHO is to invite as many Chinese as we can into the West to work and stay for some time or longer, so they can look at it and hopefully the best (not the worst) of what they see and what can work there back with them.
This does not mean we should not mention where we think something is going wrong, actually we should, but i think it would be more productive to keep political interests out of it.
They are hurt by the fact that often you find in game shops the shelves with old/used games directly besides the shelves with new games. So a customer who is willing to pay money will be distracted to spend less money.
Piracy cant be regulated, but if they manage to pass a law which requires game shops to change that, they could easily find new customers.
That procedure would lead to the same results. Maybe some redundancy would be removed, but obviously he doe not understand why the Tax system is complicated. Its the politics, stupid. Many of these 10000 pages are just small little promises somebody has given to *his* voters at some point. And nobody wants to cut such things, because one time this starts, it could be soon the promises to *your* voters. So no matter how absurd something is, it will stay there forever.
I am willing to pay but only if you dont harass me with complicated schemes on signing up/getting rebates etc. If you want that people advertise for you, then hire them. If you want that people spread the word about your game on Facebook or at other places, then make a good game.
Stop trying to pay susceptible people off for the possibility to influence their reviews.
Because then security leaks cant be fixed? I suggest at least some switch to update the software. On the other hand that could be achieved with any USB stick with a write protect switch.
i am not sure about the legal situation in all states, but AFAIU courts can rule that not all information which was discussed during the case, including testimonies is available, and for certain cases that seems to be the standard.
no, i dont want to see how people with mental problems or people who are found to have smoked some weed but not sentenced are stigmatized. It wont be long until somebody makes a database and offers a service for possible employers to check against.
Searching for the image or the voice of a person is not science fiction any more.
Why? If you stole the credit card numbers before to buy the computation time, its not a big deal it they later fine the virtual machine afterwards. I would obviously only use the EC2 to collect and encrypt the data, but obviously not process it. If you need a lot of bandwidth to handle the incoming data, but you can afford a few days to transfer them out.
Buy no computer for more than 250 -300Euro (laptops). I made good experiences with refurbished X2x/X4x thinkpads or cheap netbooks, which lasted a few years in average. When buying a computer make sure the hd is easily replacable, replace it by a new one. When its broken, remove the hd and throw away the rest. Dont buy support packs, these are ripoffs. Have done it once, and decided my time is too valuable to go to the procedures for getting a problem not fixed despite staying on the phone for 5 hours.
that they say: from android 3.0 on devices are expected to have usb host functionality to get access to the app store and must mandatory implement usb standard protocols to talk to hardware.
advantages:
-standards hubs exist
-Mass storage could be attached
-HID devices could be uses AND the specialized HID devices designed for the use with Android devices could be used with other devices
-Testing of the device could happen easily on your personal computer
-Availability of hundreds of ultra-cheap reference implementations including small microprocessors.
Until they do this: Thanks, i will stay with some arduino bluetooth module. Costs a little extra, but can be attached to anything.
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please just forget all flatrates. IMHO Flatrates should be forbidden, because they are misleading at best. Flatrates are bets that 50% of the users will never go close to the limit where it would be not profitable (you dont need more than 1GB if you just have private email and open a few times per month a web page - but hey, exactly these people are the ones you can scare in the shop - they will overpay you to be sure not to overpay even more). This bet is not getting fairer by declaring "heavy users" afterwards and changing the contract conditions.
If mobile providers would be forced to compete by a single, transparent Money/GB value (maybe slightly regressive with amount of data, but *not* a factor of 10 or 100), and the customers would be free to choose the mobile phones independently, we would be spared from all this shit.
c) Their patent lawyers compared the size of their .... ahem i meant patents stacks, found them equivalently sized and recommended to the boards of the companies to sing an agreement that they would not step onto each others feet as long as everybody stays in his own business
d) They licensed the technology
Excuse me, i don't write code for non-cross platform software environments. For a long time. Being single platform by definition excludes an environment from the list.
i know, that will be hard to swallow, and tcl is not one of the , favourite 5 programming languages of mine, but its stable, easy to embed, has clear interfaces, and is leightweight. What else do you need?
Yes, actually i am quite certain that all big OS companies will have some internal demo version running on the major processors families. If you dont support a lot of HW, recompiling a OS is not so time consuming. And i personally found compiling/running a program on different architectures a quite useful metric of code quality. It keeps weird assumptions localized to specific places.
A challenge, which was mastered before, like in the Basic for the commodore 64.
But it could be a performance hit.
I dont believe that democracy in China would work better if it would be managed by the Chinese banker and lawyers and political majors.
Having lived in Germany i can say that the last professions where the culture was strongly influenced by Nazi ideology are the lawyers(/courts) and the philosophical sciences. The law system in Germany took 40 years to begin to reflect on its own role during this time. And some of the banks never reflected where their money came from.
This is because *by definition* being part of the legal system requires you to "be on the side of the state" in sense of your ideology. If at a single time this field adheres to the Idea of a "strong state" in the negative sense, that is a state consisting of the people in power (chosen by god, by money, or as some kind of elite), not of the people in general, then its very unlikely that the legal system will give up this view very quickly - the people in power will understand how to use this legal system.
This usually involves that people who oppose in some sense are declared to be "enemies of the state" and therefor have less rights. You can observe this idea nearly everywhere, and i would think that the western world, where the US are discussing if torture is ok again for suspected terrorists, and the European union not sending help to refugees on the Mediterranean sea and letting them drown, where its only 25years ago that the French secret service sunk the Rainbow warrier as enemies of the state, should be a little more humble when claiming ideals.
If you look closely to china you see that many, if not most of the human rights violations are *not* a centrally controlled act from Bejing (I exclude the question of Tibet, which is purely driven by the fact that the West wants a stick to poke China from time to time and China need to prove itself exactly because of that reason). Many things happen because locally (on the province-and city-level) the local officials actually dont want to have the central government and laws invading into their personal business, and the police and courts etc. also are - effectively - controlled by them.
If i look at China i am actually amazed that they managed to progress so well, despite that a large class of people in their system would profit from the situation staying constant. Looking at other parts of the world with a similar starting point, i can say that the human rights situation in China seems to be slowly improving, with bumps, and sometimes not in the direction like the West expects it, but the police and law system seems to get more and more stable.
The Chinese which i know (most of them are scientists) are usually well-informed, capable of critical thinking and confirm this view, and they overall feel that the things develop to the better.
My personal opinion is that there are dangerous paths down the road for China, and the west should try to help China to master these problem as much as we can - the best way to do this IMHO is to invite as many Chinese as we can into the West to work and stay for some time or longer, so they can look at it and hopefully the best (not the worst) of what they see and what can work there back with them.
This does not mean we should not mention where we think something is going wrong, actually we should, but i think it would be more productive to keep political interests out of it.
They are hurt by the fact that often you find in game shops the shelves with old/used games directly besides the shelves with new games. So a customer who is willing to pay money will be distracted to spend less money.
Piracy cant be regulated, but if they manage to pass a law which requires game shops to change that, they could easily find new customers.
He must have lived in a parallel universe. In the 90s it was IRC.
not being a beta version?
I am using 11.04 and i ham honestly a little disappointed.
I dont use the "sync to google" functions anyway. Was always too scary to me.
"Our Senator" and "our representative" is not exactly bound to a nametag.
That procedure would lead to the same results. Maybe some redundancy would be removed, but obviously he doe not understand why the Tax system is complicated. Its the politics, stupid. Many of these 10000 pages are just small little promises somebody has given to *his* voters at some point. And nobody wants to cut such things, because one time this starts, it could be soon the promises to *your* voters. So no matter how absurd something is, it will stay there forever.
I am willing to pay but only if you dont harass me with complicated schemes on signing up/getting rebates etc. If you want that people advertise for you, then hire them. If you want that people spread the word about your game on Facebook or at other places, then make a good game.
Stop trying to pay susceptible people off for the possibility to influence their reviews.
a second monitor to run vi?
Because then security leaks cant be fixed? I suggest at least some switch to update the software. On the other hand that could be achieved with any USB stick with a write protect switch.
We should use the latin names for these former roman provinces
I think these bubbles should be called fox bubbles.....
i am not sure about the legal situation in all states, but AFAIU courts can rule that not all information which was discussed during the case, including testimonies is available, and for certain cases that seems to be the standard.
no, i dont want to see how people with mental problems or people who are found to have smoked some weed but not sentenced are stigmatized. It wont be long until somebody makes a database and offers a service for possible employers to check against.
Searching for the image or the voice of a person is not science fiction any more.
Why? If you stole the credit card numbers before to buy the computation time, its not a big deal it they later fine the virtual machine afterwards. I would obviously only use the EC2 to collect and encrypt the data, but obviously not process it. If you need a lot of bandwidth to handle the incoming data, but you can afford a few days to transfer them out.
Buy no computer for more than 250 -300Euro (laptops). I made good experiences with refurbished X2x/X4x thinkpads or cheap netbooks, which lasted a few years in average. When buying a computer make sure the hd is easily replacable, replace it by a new one. When its broken, remove the hd and throw away the rest. Dont buy support packs, these are ripoffs. Have done it once, and decided my time is too valuable to go to the procedures for getting a problem not fixed despite staying on the phone for 5 hours.
that they say: from android 3.0 on devices are expected to have usb host functionality to get access to the app store and must mandatory implement usb standard protocols to talk to hardware.
advantages:
-standards hubs exist
-Mass storage could be attached
-HID devices could be uses AND the specialized HID devices designed for the use with Android devices could be used with other devices
-Testing of the device could happen easily on your personal computer
-Availability of hundreds of ultra-cheap reference implementations including small microprocessors.
Until they do this: Thanks, i will stay with some arduino bluetooth module. Costs a little extra, but can be attached to anything.
Combine with the acceleration sensor to detect if you throw you phone against the wall.
Technically, pressing snooze on the built-in alarm clock qualifies as "using an app", but luckily its not connected to facebook.