It's possible those dire consequences may return to haunt GM consumers.
However, it is FACT that the increased use of herbicides and pesticides associated with GM crops is a threat to human health and increases the incidence of many serious diseases.
This threat however occurs in the country in which the crop is grown, so regardless of whether Europe and Japan ban the rice or not, it will be US citizens who die so that a few companies can make a few bucks.
It's almost as bad as those evolutionary biologists who don't bother examining if their are any effects from God's guiding hand when documenting a species' genetic make-up. How dare scientists base their research on extremely well researched facts and not on the views of American right-wing fundamentalists.
"would put European companies at a competitive disadvantage with every other company around the world who does have access to these new technologies."
What Dribble. Does that mean all those companies still using Windows 2000 / NT are at a competitive disadvantage with companies who got conned into upgrading to the virtually identical Windows XP?
I fail to see what competitive advantage Vista will give businesses who upgrade to it immediatly. Maybe companies could run into problems in 5 years time when compatability issues arise, but not in the short/medium term.
And they reckon people are actually going to pay for this?
The development of such a technology will surely cost many millions for what must be a very specialised market. Maybe some researchers will find it useful but most of them work at universities (or have access to one) which already have such services available, albeit mostly non-digitalised.
Yet more evidence imho that Google is really struggling to find ways of turning their cash pile into cash-generating ventures.
"Really, sneaking a nature show into a stunt show is what he did, and it's really sad that the odds caught up with him."
The irony of it all is that he wasn't killed by one of the deadly animals he often encountered. Stingrays are not normally considered dangerous, they are extremely passive and gentle creatures, their sting is purely for self-defense.
"Freeserve is a name I have not heard since the.com boom and hoped I would not hear again."
Actually Freeserve hasn't been heard of since 2004 (several years after the.com boom) when French ISP Wanadoo (who owns the ISP) rebranded the brand. It now becoming "Orange Broadband", after the mobile phone company which owns Wanadoo.
Far from dying in the.com crash, it is still one of the main broadband providers in the UK, just under a different name.
Liberterians often miss out an extremely important point:
When you have massive corporations dominating an infastructure heavy industry like telecoms then it is often not the government who 'meddles' but the corporations themselves.
The reason the UK has such cheap and high-speed internet is because the government forced the main telecoms company who owns all the "last mile" wires (the ones going down your street and into your house) and exchanges to allow other companies to install equipment in their exchanges and use their "last mile" wires.
It is almost completely due to this "unbundling" that internet in the UK is now so cheap and fast. Believe me, 6 or 7 years ago, before this was done, internet in the UK was slow and crap.
"With the streets awash with axe murderers, terrorists and paedophiles,"
What a ridiculous and more to the point, extremely irresponsible statement!
I wish media companies such as cnet had to help pay the medical insurance costs for all the millions of obese kids who have become that way because their parents were too terrified to let them outside for fear of all these boogeymen.
It's digusting that when the biggest killer in our country is heart disease, the best cure for this disease (exercise) is discouraged due to risks that statistically non-existant.
Media companies are meant to inform on the truth, not make their own risks up and then justify them because they affect 1 in a million (or often less) people.
I fear Biofuels could ultimatly cause the Amazon rainforest's demise. The Brazillian government already seems eager to trash the rainforest whenever the opportunity to make a bit of cash presents itself.
If you think the UK's 68% is disappointing, take a look at US universities and colleges.
Within our supposedly academic institutions, Firefox appears on only a small fraction of computers. We defiantly have a long way to go to catch up to their European counterparts.
I agree. The idea that the jewel (if it is such?) had some attached legend about the original explosion seems a little far fetched for quite a few reasons.
Personally, I don't see why it needs a legend even if it is "just glass" to us. Back then glass had never been heard of, so a rock that is almost transparent with a yellow tint would probably have seemed amazing.
One thing I do no understand though, if large areas of land were 'glassified', than why were bigger items or even structures not created or coated with this glass material? Why just one small jewel?
Please, go visit a US Marine Corps Recuitment Center if you want to express your patriotism, it's a much better place than slashdot.
If European nations wish to build spend a few bucks on a GPS satellite network than that's up to them really besides it'll cost them nothing compared to some of the mega bucks NASA has blown on many occasions.
Anyway, competition is nearly always helpful for any industry!
I agree the summary is bad, but remeber Slashdot is not the site it used to be. Nowadays it has to satisfy all the script-kiddies and even kiddies who need to first ask how to download and then run the scripts.
Therefor over-simplified summaries copied and pasted from mainstream news sources (which after all are providing a service to the ordinary person so don't tend to talk about API's etc.) are here to stay and mention of API's and inter-connectivity documentation have gone the way of the old articles about memory design and debates over different styles of pipelined CPU architecture.
All the leaders you list are notable for running totalitarian regimes, which is at the same end of the wider political spectrum, not the opposite, and why the effects on society are similar. Left-Right-wing politics is simply to simplistic though to take what are basically the same policies on control of media, elections, policing etc. into consideration and so they may appear to be at opposite ends of the political spectrum when actually in the context you are describing they are not.
With regards to monopolies, at the moment at least, the EU is thankfully going after monopolies non-stop (as the article describes). Also, as the various EU states' political parties aren't generally allowed to accept bribes *cough*...I mean campaign contributions from companies, the end result does often seem to be that they could be considered to be working more exclusively for the people. Not that certain interest groups aren't constantly trying to convince the EU commission of the "benefits" of US style corporate lobbying, I just hope they and their bribes don't one day succeed.
You can always tell when someone doesn't have a proper case...they revert to the use of an analogy. In addition the analogy completely misses the point.
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It's possible those dire consequences may return to haunt GM consumers.
However, it is FACT that the increased use of herbicides and pesticides associated with GM crops is a threat to human health and increases the incidence of many serious diseases.
This threat however occurs in the country in which the crop is grown, so regardless of whether Europe and Japan ban the rice or not, it will be US citizens who die so that a few companies can make a few bucks.
It's almost as bad as those evolutionary biologists who don't bother examining if their are any effects from God's guiding hand when documenting a species' genetic make-up. How dare scientists base their research on extremely well researched facts and not on the views of American right-wing fundamentalists.
So your saying in a few months time, businesses in America and Asia will be able to depend on their customers running Vista?
Of course not, for at least a couple of years the expectation will be that any customer is running Windows XP.
Only in several years time. The article is talking about a delay of months, not years.
"would put European companies at a competitive disadvantage with every other company around the world who does have access to these new technologies."
What Dribble. Does that mean all those companies still using Windows 2000 / NT are at a competitive disadvantage with companies who got conned into upgrading to the virtually identical Windows XP?
I fail to see what competitive advantage Vista will give businesses who upgrade to it immediatly. Maybe companies could run into problems in 5 years time when compatability issues arise, but not in the short/medium term.
And they reckon people are actually going to pay for this?
The development of such a technology will surely cost many millions for what must be a very specialised market. Maybe some researchers will find it useful but most of them work at universities (or have access to one) which already have such services available, albeit mostly non-digitalised.
Yet more evidence imho that Google is really struggling to find ways of turning their cash pile into cash-generating ventures.
"Really, sneaking a nature show into a stunt show is what he did, and it's really sad that the odds caught up with him."
1 298.stmBBC, he is the first person in Australia to die from a Sting-ray since 1945!
The irony of it all is that he wasn't killed by one of the deadly animals he often encountered. Stingrays are not normally considered dangerous, they are extremely passive and gentle creatures, their sting is purely for self-defense.
In fact, according to the http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/531
Truely, this is a tragic freak accident. I just hope all his conservation work (which was REAL conservation work not just for show) can be kept going.
"Freeserve is a name I have not heard since the .com boom and hoped I would not hear again."
.com boom) when French ISP Wanadoo (who owns the ISP) rebranded the brand. It now becoming "Orange Broadband", after the mobile phone company which owns Wanadoo.
.com crash, it is still one of the main broadband providers in the UK, just under a different name.
Actually Freeserve hasn't been heard of since 2004 (several years after the
Far from dying in the
Do a bit more research.
Although a few companies (mainly the ones offering extremely cheap deals) charge for high usage of the internet, but most don't.
Liberterians often miss out an extremely important point:
When you have massive corporations dominating an infastructure heavy industry like telecoms then it is often not the government who 'meddles' but the corporations themselves.
The reason the UK has such cheap and high-speed internet is because the government forced the main telecoms company who owns all the "last mile" wires (the ones going down your street and into your house) and exchanges to allow other companies to install equipment in their exchanges and use their "last mile" wires.
It is almost completely due to this "unbundling" that internet in the UK is now so cheap and fast. Believe me, 6 or 7 years ago, before this was done, internet in the UK was slow and crap.
"With the streets awash with axe murderers, terrorists and paedophiles,"
What a ridiculous and more to the point, extremely irresponsible statement!
I wish media companies such as cnet had to help pay the medical insurance costs for all the millions of obese kids who have become that way because their parents were too terrified to let them outside for fear of all these boogeymen.
It's digusting that when the biggest killer in our country is heart disease, the best cure for this disease (exercise) is discouraged due to risks that statistically non-existant.
Media companies are meant to inform on the truth, not make their own risks up and then justify them because they affect 1 in a million (or often less) people.
I fear Biofuels could ultimatly cause the Amazon rainforest's demise. The Brazillian government already seems eager to trash the rainforest whenever the opportunity to make a bit of cash presents itself.
Oops, my grammar does suck!
:)
It's a large part of the reason I work with computers
If you think the UK's 68% is disappointing, take a look at US universities and colleges.
Within our supposedly academic institutions, Firefox appears on only a small fraction of computers. We defiantly have a long way to go to catch up to their European counterparts.
I always think it's amazing that less than 100 years ago, Iraq was actually owned by Britain.
What the hell does this have to do with technology, computers or anything nerdy?
My god, talk about selling out!
I agree. The idea that the jewel (if it is such?) had some attached legend about the original explosion seems a little far fetched for quite a few reasons.
Personally, I don't see why it needs a legend even if it is "just glass" to us. Back then glass had never been heard of, so a rock that is almost transparent with a yellow tint would probably have seemed amazing.
One thing I do no understand though, if large areas of land were 'glassified', than why were bigger items or even structures not created or coated with this glass material? Why just one small jewel?
It's good to see that the Microsoft PR offices obviously do not block viewing of (and posting to) Slashdot.org.
Please, go visit a US Marine Corps Recuitment Center if you want to express your patriotism, it's a much better place than slashdot.
If European nations wish to build spend a few bucks on a GPS satellite network than that's up to them really besides it'll cost them nothing compared to some of the mega bucks NASA has blown on many occasions.
Anyway, competition is nearly always helpful for any industry!
I agree the summary is bad, but remeber Slashdot is not the site it used to be. Nowadays it has to satisfy all the script-kiddies and even kiddies who need to first ask how to download and then run the scripts.
Therefor over-simplified summaries copied and pasted from mainstream news sources (which after all are providing a service to the ordinary person so don't tend to talk about API's etc.) are here to stay and mention of API's and inter-connectivity documentation have gone the way of the old articles about memory design and debates over different styles of pipelined CPU architecture.
I'm sick of all the obsurd games they expect us to buy.
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Except MotorStorm ofcourse! That game looks awesome, wipes the floor with all the other PS3 expected games.
Mmmm. The video looks amazing: http://uk.media.ps3.ign.com/media/748/748488/vids
All the leaders you list are notable for running totalitarian regimes, which is at the same end of the wider political spectrum, not the opposite, and why the effects on society are similar. Left-Right-wing politics is simply to simplistic though to take what are basically the same policies on control of media, elections, policing etc. into consideration and so they may appear to be at opposite ends of the political spectrum when actually in the context you are describing they are not.
...I mean campaign contributions from companies, the end result does often seem to be that they could be considered to be working more exclusively for the people. Not that certain interest groups aren't constantly trying to convince the EU commission of the "benefits" of US style corporate lobbying, I just hope they and their bribes don't one day succeed.
With regards to monopolies, at the moment at least, the EU is thankfully going after monopolies non-stop (as the article describes). Also, as the various EU states' political parties aren't generally allowed to accept bribes *cough*
So basically, the companies with the current monopoly are condemning a plan to try and gradually remove their monopoly. How Odd.
'Self-defense, protection of others, dread of the 'undead,'
It's good to know games are teaching our youngsters against sympathising with the undead!
I'd like to see games go further and display warnings like "Ghoulish Studies leads to bad buddies""
You can always tell when someone doesn't have a proper case ...they revert to the use of an analogy. In addition the analogy completely misses the point.