Not sure where you get the idea that "Europeans are willing to pay more".
Living in the UK, I am royally pissed that Adobe ramp their charges up so much here. Thankfully I not forced by my job to buy their products, because I'm simply not willing to pay their extortionate prices.
Its even more annoying that they come out with some cock-and-bull story about extra translations. Errr, hello - in the UK, Adobe needs to support precisely one language (English) as opposed to 3 for North America (English, French and Spanish).
There may well be some additional cost due to support issues or running European branches (always assuming their support farms are not off in India), but in no way does it justify the huge additional markup.
The fact is that its pure price gouging that they enforce by having practices such as preventing downloads from their US stores.
Maybe its old fashioned parenting, but buying your child a camera, then sticking masking tape over the lens may not be the best way to encourage their photographic ability! I guess it may help their ability to write USB drivers though... the choice is yours.
Indeed. In fact, food kills more Americans than terrorists:
Report on Injuries in America, 2003 (http://www.nsc.org/library/report_injury_usa.htm) Leading Causes of Unintentional Injury Deaths United States, 2003
Motor Vehicle 44,800 Falls 16,200 Poisoning 13,900 Choking 4,300 Drowning 2,900 Fires, flames, and smoke 2,600 Suffocation 1,200
I'm not sure if fast food was counted in the poisoning death toll, but I'm pretty sure the majority of choking would be on food:)
Here in the UK we also managed to set up a woefully inadequate postal voting system, and court cases are still trundling through the system as a result. The government claimed that the system would deal with vote fraud, but as the judge (Richard Mawrey QC) in a trial last year said:
"Anybody who has sat through the case I have just tried and listened to evidence of electoral fraud that would disgrace a banana republic would find this statement surprising. To assert that 'the systems already in place to deal with the allegations of electoral fraud are clearly working' indicates a state not simply of complacency but of denial. The systems to deal with fraud are not working well. They are not working badly. The fact is that there are no systems to deal realistically with fraud and there never have been. Until there are, fraud will continue unabated."
Which all goes to show that if you leave holes open in a voting system, there will always be some scumbags who take advantage.
For the tin-hats amongst us, all this climate change is for the benefit of our corporate overlords. Think about it... extremes in weather always cause pensioners to pop their clogs. Here in the UK, we awake in spring to find lots of old biddy popiscles in their front rooms because they haven't been able to afford the heating bills. And when it's hot... well, just look at the cull that happened in France's 2003 heatwave.
With neither governments nor corporations able to meet future pension commitments, climate change is a god-send....
Yes, for the humour impaired, its a joke.... well, a half joke.... probably... possibly.
If nothing at all existed, it is impossible for anything to now exist, because nothing can cause its own existence.
I always thought this was a dodgy argument. If nothing really means nothing, it implies an absence of all rules/laws/physics/maths/etc, including rules about causality. Things should be able to form out of true nothingness simply because there are no rules against it happening.
> Iraq's ratio of civilian to miltary fatalities > is currently running at about 33 to 1, and > there is no reason to think that trend will > not continue.
Based on today's iraqbodycount.org figures, that means that there have been between 438768 and 507441 Iraqi military fatalities.
And people wonder why there's a widespread insurgency. Each one of those fatalities will have friends/relatives, and some of those guys *will* hold a grudge.
As for serving out specific http content based on domain - mod_rewrite's been around in Apache since 1.2b3 - off the top of my head, i can't recall if it was capable of all the stuff mentioned in the patent in 1.2, but Apache 1.3.0 released in 1998 certainly could be used for mass virtual hosting using mod_rewrite.
Slight factual update - the death toll from bhopal is currently estimated to be somewhere over 20,000 dead, with 500,000 injured and 120,000 seriously ill.
They didn't go to prison because their CEO did a runner and refuses to go back to India in case he gets his wrists slapped (mind you, the indian government's being pretty lax/corrupt about the whole sad thing too).
err, no, darwin's theory of evolution is about better adaptation to the local environment; not intelligence.
if you survive better as a big, stupid brute, then that's what's important. unless you can utilise your intelligence for survival in your environment then it doesn't count for anything.
v (having just spent the last few hours in the pub watching the football, and generally reducing my brain power by many pints damage:)
have a look at systrace, which is an attempt at providing a means of reviewing/restricting an application's access to system resources.
http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace/
As with most things these days, its possible the global warming debate will wind up in the courts.
*sigh*
(my 2p - regardless of whether chopping down forests warms the world or not, it is probably a major reason for the current extinction rate estimated at being 40 times the the normal background rate (40 times is one of the more conservative estimates - some estimates range up to 1000 times))
You may be able to make IE behave better by tagging a Content-Disposition header along in your HTTP response.
Its not in the HTTP spec, but is a proper MIME header (http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/MIME/rfc2183.t xt).
IE sometimes takes note of Content-Disposition's 'filename' parameter to figure out what extension jiggery-pokery it should call.
I say sometimes, because you can still run up against IE deciding that the first few hundred bytes of your file look like HTML so *obviously* the file is html, regardless of content-type, content-disposition, filename and untold sacrifices to the gods *sob!*:(
somewhat off topic, but this sort of idea has been around for a long time, have a read of rodney brook's paper
"Fast, Cheap and Out of Control: A Robot Invasion of the Solar System" [www.ai.mit.edu] (Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, October 1989).
similar ideas, but with robots.
v
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Not sure where you get the idea that "Europeans are willing to pay more".
Living in the UK, I am royally pissed that Adobe ramp their charges up so much here. Thankfully I not forced by my job to buy their products, because I'm simply not willing to pay their extortionate prices.
Its even more annoying that they come out with some cock-and-bull story about extra translations. Errr, hello - in the UK, Adobe needs to support precisely one language (English) as opposed to 3 for North America (English, French and Spanish).
There may well be some additional cost due to support issues or running European branches (always assuming their support farms are not off in India), but in no way does it justify the huge additional markup.
The fact is that its pure price gouging that they enforce by having practices such as preventing downloads from their US stores.
http://xkcd.com/350/
Am I the only one to read the complaint about the "4U HOES" and think there's nothing offensive about rack mountable gardening tools?
Maybe its old fashioned parenting, but buying your child a camera, then sticking masking tape over the lens may not be the best way to encourage their photographic ability! I guess it may help their ability to write USB drivers though... the choice is yours.
You could try the FuzzyOcrPlugin for SpamAssassinn
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugi
Indeed. In fact, food kills more Americans than terrorists:
)
:)
Report on Injuries in America, 2003 (http://www.nsc.org/library/report_injury_usa.htm
Leading Causes of Unintentional Injury Deaths United States, 2003
Motor Vehicle 44,800
Falls 16,200
Poisoning 13,900
Choking 4,300
Drowning 2,900
Fires, flames, and smoke 2,600
Suffocation 1,200
I'm not sure if fast food was counted in the poisoning death toll, but I'm pretty sure the majority of choking would be on food
Here in the UK we also managed to set up a woefully inadequate postal voting system, and court cases are still trundling through the system as a result. The government claimed that the system would deal with vote fraud, but as the judge (Richard Mawrey QC) in a trial last year said:
"Anybody who has sat through the case I have just tried and listened to evidence of electoral fraud that would disgrace a banana republic would find this statement surprising. To assert that 'the systems already in place to deal with the allegations of electoral fraud are clearly working' indicates a state not simply of complacency but of denial. The systems to deal with fraud are not working well. They are not working badly. The fact is that there are no systems to deal realistically with fraud and there never have been. Until there are, fraud will continue unabated."
Which all goes to show that if you leave holes open in a voting system, there will always be some scumbags who take advantage.
> touched by the hand of Jobs?
;->
probably too busy to notice a dead pixel then
fnar!
For the tin-hats amongst us, all this climate change is for the benefit of our corporate overlords. Think about it... extremes in weather always cause pensioners to pop their clogs. Here in the UK, we awake in spring to find lots of old biddy popiscles in their front rooms because they haven't been able to afford the heating bills. And when it's hot... well, just look at the cull that happened in France's 2003 heatwave.
...
With neither governments nor corporations able to meet future pension commitments, climate change is a god-send.
Yes, for the humour impaired, its a joke.... well, a half joke.... probably... possibly.
If nothing at all existed, it is impossible for anything to now exist, because nothing can cause its own existence.
I always thought this was a dodgy argument. If nothing really means nothing, it implies an absence of all rules/laws/physics/maths/etc, including rules about causality. Things should be able to form out of true nothingness simply because there are no rules against it happening.
FYI, Dow picked up the liabilities for Union Carbide's asbestos problems (hence pissing off a lot of shareholders)
2 00 2/nf20020122_7284.htm
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan
> Iraq's ratio of civilian to miltary fatalities
> is currently running at about 33 to 1, and
> there is no reason to think that trend will
> not continue.
Based on today's iraqbodycount.org figures, that means that there have been between 438768 and 507441 Iraqi military fatalities.
And people wonder why there's a widespread insurgency. Each one of those fatalities will have friends/relatives, and some of those guys *will* hold a grudge.
http://www2.electrochem.org/cgi-bin/abs?mtg=012&ab s=0186&type=pdf
Abs. 186, IMLB 12 Meeting, (C) 2004 The Electrochemical Society, Inc.
Organic Radical Battery:
Transition-metal free Lithium-ion Battery
Kentaro Nakahara, Jiro Iriyama, Shigeyuki Iwasa, Masahiro Suguro and Masaharu Satoh
Fundamental & Environmental Research Laboratories
NEC Corporation
Some of the load balancing concepts referred to in the patent were discussed in 1995 in Roland Schemers lbnamed work: http://www.stanford.edu/~riepel/lbnamed/
As for serving out specific http content based on domain - mod_rewrite's been around in Apache since 1.2b3 - off the top of my head, i can't recall if it was capable of all the stuff mentioned in the patent in 1.2, but Apache 1.3.0 released in 1998 certainly could be used for mass virtual hosting using mod_rewrite.
v
> and some Yemenis terrorists learned this
:(
> the hard way
All the reports I read about this state "Six Al Qaeda Suspects".
I think we're all learning the hard way that suspect -> terrorist -> dead is pretty easy these days
vittal
Slight factual update - the death toll from bhopal is currently estimated to be somewhere over 20,000 dead, with 500,000 injured and 120,000 seriously ill.
http://www.bhopal.net/welcome2.html
They didn't go to prison because their CEO did a runner and refuses to go back to India in case he gets his wrists slapped (mind you, the indian government's being pretty lax/corrupt about the whole sad thing too).
v
err, no, darwin's theory of evolution is about better adaptation to the local environment; not intelligence.
:)
if you survive better as a big, stupid brute, then that's what's important. unless you can utilise your intelligence for survival in your environment then it doesn't count for anything.
v
(having just spent the last few hours in the pub watching the football, and generally reducing my brain power by many pints damage
have a look at systrace, which is an attempt at providing a means of reviewing/restricting an application's access to system resources.
http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace/
v
http://sidsnet.org/cgi-bin/dnewsweb?cmd=article&gr oup=sidsnet.climate.newswire&item=547
As with most things these days, its possible the global warming debate will wind up in the courts.
*sigh*
(my 2p - regardless of whether chopping down forests warms the world or not, it is probably a major reason for the current extinction rate estimated at being 40 times the the normal background rate (40 times is one of the more conservative estimates - some estimates range up to 1000 times))
You may be able to make IE behave better by tagging a Content-Disposition header along in your HTTP response.
t xt).
:(
Its not in the HTTP spec, but is a proper MIME header (http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/MIME/rfc2183.
IE sometimes takes note of Content-Disposition's 'filename' parameter to figure out what extension jiggery-pokery it should call.
I say sometimes, because you can still run up against IE deciding that the first few hundred bytes of your file look like HTML so *obviously* the file is html, regardless of content-type, content-disposition, filename and untold sacrifices to the gods *sob!*
v
somewhat off topic, but this sort of idea has been around for a long time, have a read of rodney brook's paper "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control: A Robot Invasion of the Solar System" [www.ai.mit.edu] (Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, October 1989).
similar ideas, but with robots. v
which is a more informative link - or at least its full of more technobabble
v
Didn't Arthur C Clarke describe exactly the same experiment in 2001 (or is my memory horked)?
not a bad prediction to make 30 odd years in advance.
v
Doesn't the US military have a habit of farming out contracts to Microsoft?
Would you be happy if you friendly-fire avoidance system had a little pop-up "how do you want to avoid dying?" wizard?
vittal