All the thick people who couldn't bother spending 15mn to find a decent ISP here in Canada are getting overcharged for their DSL by Bell Sympathico AND now spied upon! This is close to being funny.
Really, I cannot be sympathic to the people using Sympatico...I suppose one could relate that to AOL-users love from Slashdotters.
For once, this lawsuit have cost a few million dollars to the EU. Do you honestly think the EU is trying to make money? That's as ridiculous as can be.
Also, the EU has no reason to do anything that would make the trade tycoons from USA unhappy.
Then, in the EU, there are LAWS exactly like in the US. The difference is, since it's a union of pre-existing countries, not simple "states", there is no incentive to protect national interests or no single target to lobby against. There's also much less opportunities for a single corporation to lobby enough in order to bypass one's country laws, less for 25 countries together.
To sum up, EU is not (yet) driven by profit or oil business, unlike some other well-known places.
I've heard that "SUN" is something that attracts people out of their computerized office. I am not sure exactly how it works but some say it casts "rays" of "sunshine" (I call it buzzword!) that are supposed to make you feel better. My educated guess is that it probably works by attracting people like lightbulbs do for insects at night.
It also has been reported that a few 'female' of the non-geek specy actually enjoy "sunshine" because it is supposed to make them prettier by a process they call "sun tan".
No, they would have won if former users of P2P were now downloading songs from paying sites, which is probably not the case. Have all the people willing to "illegaly" (meaning "against MAFIAA rules") download music moved to ITunes or such? I doubt it. What we'll see is an upcoming huge drop in CD sales in favor of downloaded music, but will the gross income increase? I am not sure.
They're losing the battle they started. Just as in project management, to keep face when a project is majorly failing, declare a success mid-course then terminate the project before big money gets lost.
Yes, SIM cards are usually attached to a particular account/phone#. That's the nice thing of it since you can change your phone and retain all your stuff by re-using your SIM card with the new phone.
Chances are Mr and Mrs Army didn't even bother getting a new SIM card.
It's easy to extract hydrogen and oxygen from water, with a little bit of electricity. Hydrogen is a good explosive and only requires a tiny spark to blow off, as we all learned in chemistry labs.
Are they going to also prevent from using water? How about free beer?
IMHO this article is plain wrong in the way to tackle the issue. So, according to the FA, one would not fix all bugs because:
They may introduce expensive regressions: regressions are the sign of bad design and coding. Fix your development process and you'll have affordable regressions. Conduct proper testing and regressions aren't so costly
Vendor locking prevents from introducing changes desired by your customers (The MS-SQL and the so-called non-portable "SQL" - which in itself is wrong). This is not a bug, this is exactly what it is: vendor-locking. The company made that choice for its products, too bad it can't have as much customers as they would like. This is a "bug" in the requirement phase, not a bug of the software.
So basically, the article misses the point and mixes bugs, feature creep and unforseen requirements. As a lead developer, I never accepted that the industry I work in can ship products that simply don't work the way they should, or have so much bugs it makes people laugh. It is also an insult to the paying customer user who knows nothing about software and can't work its way around them.
On the other hand, computer scientists know that no program can be empty of bugs. It's been demonstrated. We should live with it and make the best of it.
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So what's the real answer on "Nova"? Because the more I read the posts here, the more I hear people saying "Nova" is Portugese for "new", means "don't go" in Spanish and that "Nuevo" or "Nueva" is the Spanish for "New".
So who's wrong? You? All the other posts plus the parent poster's teacher?
I disagree.
I own a lenovo-built T42 and it's the slickest, toughest, best functioning laptop I've owned in years. And about the FA, thinkpad's quality hasn't changed before and after Lenovo, since they've been built by them since a long while.
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Are they absolutely sure they want to switch to Windows?
Yes, nothing is new and we knew that already. Actually, I find it easy for this guy to take such a stance now after having been blind for so long. For someone supposedly working with Intelligence, that kind of blindness sounds a bit suspect, to say the least.
He's just as responsible as the others for the fiasco and the lies.
No, that's not far-fetched at all. I've become convinced that Microsoft is going to continue to be hammered and threatened like this no matter what they do, until specific European officials get their bribes.
I think it is far-fetched. Actually, it's Microsoft who tries to drown the fish by overwhelming the European Comission under zillions of useless documents, such as the source code, precisely, and tries to get away from actually HAVE to modify software components wired too deeply in Windows.
Don't forget, the whole story began 7 years ago. M$ has had a lot of time to act. They didn't on purpose thinking they would be able to push the legal battle as far as possible. They pushed as far as it was possible, and now the deadline's approaching fast with M$ having done nothing else than legal dances. They now find themselves in a dead-end they try to get out by any means.
On source code itself:
Any good sotware engineer will tell you how useless it is to try reading M$-based code so the argument that M$ provides what the European Comission wants by handling the code is fake and wrong. It can be said the same about the documentation of the code. Documentation creep is a known phenomenom on ALL M$ software components. You Microsoft programmers know what I'm talking about.
My idea is that it would cost M$ much more effort (hence money) to actually comply with separating Windows components (such as the media player). To me, it's the same thing as IE7: they just couldn't implement some features before in a timely manner (tab browsing for instance - I don't believe a second it was a design choice no to have those, in order to "simplify the user experience") because it would take/cost too much. Yet some things have to be done, regardless...like the IE7 tabbed browsing. Which will end up on desktops soon and probably won't confuse anyone.
So basically, M$'s strategy was to try drowning the fish. Trouble is that they're fighting a big one and the scenario is now turning to Jaws for our friend Bill.
Hey! I tried the Civ IV fix against World of Warcrack!
There's one thing Blizzard is way ahead of most game editors: product stability. I've wasted 40$ in Civ IV which crashes every 10 minutes or so, including rebooting the computer. I never had a computer crash using a released version/patch of WoW. Blizzard makes games that work, like the undestructible Starcraft.
I find it odd that people post hateful comments or other more moderated comments denying facts that have appeared in many other newspapers, including some overseas (that this Abramoff guy is known as an all-out lobbyist who gets and throws money at anything that can make him richer or bribe someone to that affect, like it's just eyecandies) and that a blog has to be turned off for saying what everyone knows since a while.
Apparently, it's also easy for lobbyists and their friends to bark on a blog and have it shut down.
I should try with every blog saying GW is a nice buddy
Prove to me there is no God. Prove to me that everything science measures and describes was not created by God.
People have believed in God since the start of time. What makes scientists today so much more certain than scientists of 100 years ago?
It's funny to see how people who believe in God want a proof of its non-existence from others. Why not proving it exists and show the world that you are right in what you BELIEVE?
As of now, it's never been the case. Actually, God has been dismissed many times in favor of more simple and logical arguments.
Still, with the whole ID story, it's carry to see what religious zealots are ready to do to avoid proving their point and spread their belief, because that's all they have. Zealoting in schools though is a big no-no.
I don't have to, any more than I have to prove to you there is no tooth fairy, no Grim Reaper, that Buffy isn't real and that Cthulhu isn't really dead but dreaming deep under the ocean.
Come on! Proofs...proofs...always proofs and more proofs...
We all know for a FACT that Cthulhu is dreamind deep under the ocean, don't we? What proof do we need? My HP Lovecraft collection says he does, why having to have proofs?
there is always someone smarter than you who can pop out latin sentences, maybe it's the guy at the corner who stinks and whom you think has no friends. Go ask him!
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All the thick people who couldn't bother spending 15mn to find a decent ISP here in Canada are getting overcharged for their DSL by Bell Sympathico AND now spied upon! This is close to being funny.
Really, I cannot be sympathic to the people using Sympatico...I suppose one could relate that to AOL-users love from Slashdotters.
For once, this lawsuit have cost a few million dollars to the EU. Do you honestly think the EU is trying to make money? That's as ridiculous as can be.
Also, the EU has no reason to do anything that would make the trade tycoons from USA unhappy.
Then, in the EU, there are LAWS exactly like in the US. The difference is, since it's a union of pre-existing countries, not simple "states", there is no incentive to protect national interests or no single target to lobby against. There's also much less opportunities for a single corporation to lobby enough in order to bypass one's country laws, less for 25 countries together.
To sum up, EU is not (yet) driven by profit or oil business, unlike some other well-known places.
I've heard that "SUN" is something that attracts people out of their computerized office. I am not sure exactly how it works but some say it casts "rays" of "sunshine" (I call it buzzword!) that are supposed to make you feel better. My educated guess is that it probably works by attracting people like lightbulbs do for insects at night.
It also has been reported that a few 'female' of the non-geek specy actually enjoy "sunshine" because it is supposed to make them prettier by a process they call "sun tan".
Crazy stuff if you ask me!
Absolutely identical: thanks to Blizzard for saving us 50$ a month.
No, they would have won if former users of P2P were now downloading songs from paying sites, which is probably not the case. Have all the people willing to "illegaly" (meaning "against MAFIAA rules") download music moved to ITunes or such? I doubt it. What we'll see is an upcoming huge drop in CD sales in favor of downloaded music, but will the gross income increase? I am not sure.
They're losing the battle they started. Just as in project management, to keep face when a project is majorly failing, declare a success mid-course then terminate the project before big money gets lost.
I'm lost...Well at least my soul is.
I met my wife online AND she now plays World of Warcraft.
So much sin in the house, so much immorality! I can't take it anymore. I need to...I need to...KILL RAGNAROS AGAIN!
The fact is, employers don't want to work with people who publicly admit using drugs and dirty sex as their recreational time.
It may appear sad but it's the terrible truth
Well. It's so hilariously obvious it's funny.
One must really be a non-hireable idiot if he thinks he can post anything on the Internet and then stay anonymous.
Yes, SIM cards are usually attached to a particular account/phone#. That's the nice thing of it since you can change your phone and retain all your stuff by re-using your SIM card with the new phone.
Chances are Mr and Mrs Army didn't even bother getting a new SIM card.
Dissolve any lawsuit against invasion of privacy through "State secret"
Get rid more and more of freedom of speech everyday.
Arbitrarily deport and detain people to lawless countries to interrogate them freely.
Use torture on presumably innocent people.
Best recipe for growing a fascist country. Good job Bush and good luck fellow americans!It's easy to extract hydrogen and oxygen from water, with a little bit of electricity. Hydrogen is a good explosive and only requires a tiny spark to blow off, as we all learned in chemistry labs.
Are they going to also prevent from using water? How about free beer?
This is insane.
There is a smaller version of Silicon Valley (hosting 26K jobs). It's called "Telecom Valley" and is in Sophia-Antipolis - France.
IMHO this article is plain wrong in the way to tackle the issue.
So, according to the FA, one would not fix all bugs because:
So basically, the article misses the point and mixes bugs, feature creep and unforseen requirements. As a lead developer, I never accepted that the industry I work in can ship products that simply don't work the way they should, or have so much bugs it makes people laugh. It is also an insult to the paying customer user who knows nothing about software and can't work its way around them.
On the other hand, computer scientists know that no program can be empty of bugs. It's been demonstrated. We should live with it and make the best of it.
So what's the real answer on "Nova"? Because the more I read the posts here, the more I hear people saying "Nova" is Portugese for "new", means "don't go" in Spanish and that "Nuevo" or "Nueva" is the Spanish for "New".
So who's wrong? You? All the other posts plus the parent poster's teacher?
I disagree. I own a lenovo-built T42 and it's the slickest, toughest, best functioning laptop I've owned in years. And about the FA, thinkpad's quality hasn't changed before and after Lenovo, since they've been built by them since a long while.
Guide to using Microsoft company.
He also did a two-year stint in the World of Warcraft.
WoW is one year and 3 months old. How did he spent 2 years on it? This seems as definitive as his biased arguments and comparison with Street Fighter.This guy just doesn't know and does the same kind of journalism we've seen recently on video games.
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He's just as responsible as the others for the fiasco and the lies.
No, that's not far-fetched at all. I've become convinced that Microsoft is going to continue to be hammered and threatened like this no matter what they do, until specific European officials get their bribes.
I think it is far-fetched. Actually, it's Microsoft who tries to drown the fish by overwhelming the European Comission under zillions of useless documents, such as the source code, precisely, and tries to get away from actually HAVE to modify software components wired too deeply in Windows. Don't forget, the whole story began 7 years ago. M$ has had a lot of time to act. They didn't on purpose thinking they would be able to push the legal battle as far as possible. They pushed as far as it was possible, and now the deadline's approaching fast with M$ having done nothing else than legal dances. They now find themselves in a dead-end they try to get out by any means. On source code itself: Any good sotware engineer will tell you how useless it is to try reading M$-based code so the argument that M$ provides what the European Comission wants by handling the code is fake and wrong. It can be said the same about the documentation of the code. Documentation creep is a known phenomenom on ALL M$ software components. You Microsoft programmers know what I'm talking about. My idea is that it would cost M$ much more effort (hence money) to actually comply with separating Windows components (such as the media player). To me, it's the same thing as IE7: they just couldn't implement some features before in a timely manner (tab browsing for instance - I don't believe a second it was a design choice no to have those, in order to "simplify the user experience") because it would take/cost too much. Yet some things have to be done, regardless...like the IE7 tabbed browsing. Which will end up on desktops soon and probably won't confuse anyone. So basically, M$'s strategy was to try drowning the fish. Trouble is that they're fighting a big one and the scenario is now turning to Jaws for our friend Bill.There's one thing Blizzard is way ahead of most game editors: product stability. I've wasted 40$ in Civ IV which crashes every 10 minutes or so, including rebooting the computer. I never had a computer crash using a released version/patch of WoW. Blizzard makes games that work, like the undestructible Starcraft.
I find it odd that people post hateful comments or other more moderated comments denying facts that have appeared in many other newspapers, including some overseas (that this Abramoff guy is known as an all-out lobbyist who gets and throws money at anything that can make him richer or bribe someone to that affect, like it's just eyecandies) and that a blog has to be turned off for saying what everyone knows since a while.
Apparently, it's also easy for lobbyists and their friends to bark on a blog and have it shut down.
I should try with every blog saying GW is a nice buddy
Prove to me there is no God. Prove to me that everything science measures and describes was not created by God. People have believed in God since the start of time. What makes scientists today so much more certain than scientists of 100 years ago?
It's funny to see how people who believe in God want a proof of its non-existence from others. Why not proving it exists and show the world that you are right in what you BELIEVE? As of now, it's never been the case. Actually, God has been dismissed many times in favor of more simple and logical arguments. Still, with the whole ID story, it's carry to see what religious zealots are ready to do to avoid proving their point and spread their belief, because that's all they have. Zealoting in schools though is a big no-no.I don't have to, any more than I have to prove to you there is no tooth fairy, no Grim Reaper, that Buffy isn't real and that Cthulhu isn't really dead but dreaming deep under the ocean.
Come on! Proofs...proofs...always proofs and more proofs... We all know for a FACT that Cthulhu is dreamind deep under the ocean, don't we? What proof do we need? My HP Lovecraft collection says he does, why having to have proofs?vis pachem para bellum
vis pachem para pachem
would be the correct sentence.Translation for your own particular usage:
there is always someone smarter than you who can pop out latin sentences, maybe it's the guy at the corner who stinks and whom you think has no friends. Go ask him!