How can a $300 software package be cheaper then free?....me wonders...
The costs are not in the '$300 software package' (MS Office), but in the other packages that link to and (ab)use MS Office functionality, e.g. some applications that 'need' MS Word as a report generator.
As soon as the Scottish police upgrades to the next MS Office version, they will find out how cheap MS Office really is - then they will have to upgrade *ALL* these nice 'I-need-the-old-office-to-run' apps.
Next time you talk about a 'silicon babe' you'll have to specify if you mean the carbon-based one (with silicon implants) or the silicium-based one (with silicon skin)...
FYI - the major differences between the two types are:
- the silicium-based one can run out of battery power
- the carbon-based one can run out of your money
Overbloated? Given KDE's origins, you'd better call it 'überbloated':) .
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If anyone knows of a way to get thrust from fission I'd love to hear it.
Use fission to heat a propellant gas. You could pump gas through a pipe made of uranium, the fission heat would heat up the gas to >> 1000 degrees C. The gas would expand and get expelled from the other end of the pipe at high speed --> thrust.
Another approach to fission powered propulsion was designed for project Orion.
All those senators and representatives have Blackberries, and perhaps something that affects them personally will get them to realize there might be a problem with the patent system.
To bad your statement assumes those politicians are capable of logical thinking.
Cause: bad patent system.
Effect: RIM has to recall BlackBerries.
Do you really think Congress(wo)men will be able to tell the difference between cause and effect? They will get pissed of with RIM, and continue their daily habits without changing the patent system.
Does the Firefox team use any automated testing on the project?
Either they don't have automated testing, or they do have, but it didn't look for this bug.
Finding bugs (and squashing them) is a good thing, but I'm curious about how this bug got reintroduced in FireFox. I hope they analyse this problem, and improve their operational procedures to prevent other reintroductions of old bugs.
You can dump FireFox if you want not to use it because of security problems. But what's your chance with IE?
That's funny. I, and millions of others, use Firefox on Windows. So, what exactly are you talking about?
What camcorder is talking about is the inability to deinstall IE - you can deinstall FireFox without any problem, but you can't deinstall IE.
That is, you can not remove IE without breaking some Windows functionality that shouldn't depend upon IE to start with.
If regulation bodies in EU recognize that MS is happy with 5M/day, commision will be glad to increase it.
Nonsense. 5M$/day is the maximum fine. Maybe they want to increase it, but they can't.
Don't forget that majority in EU parliament and commision are leftist parties (socialists, greens).
The EU Parliament has 729 members, 201 (Socialist Group) + 42 (Group of
the Greens) + 41 (Confederal Group of the European United left) = 284
members = 39% can be considered 'Left'. That's not a majority. Check Members of the European Parliament it yourself.
<SARCASM>
39% ; in the US of A they call a group that large a 'moral majority'
</SARCASM>
Removing rights would most likely be an actionable offense. Suppose they said that you weren't allowed to make a backup copy (fair use), then you could do something about that because they are trying to remove a right that you have. That isn't the case though.
Nonsense. Some copyright protection schemes make making a backup copy (almost) impossible. So they are taking rights away, and as a consumer you don't have a change in court because you're bankrupt long before the MPAA/RIAA runs out of money.
No, they do not say you're not allowed to make backup copies - however, they make it technologically almost impossible to make that backup copy. And if you circumvent the anti-copy system, then the MPAA/RIAA will throw the DMCA at you.
Making a backup copy is fair use, but if you're not a geek, then some anti-copy systems will prevent you from making that backup copy; and if you're a geek who can and does circumvent, then they'll hit you with the DMCA.
Things like 'product price' tend to have a different meanings to different people (for sales people it's the selling price, for others the purchasing price; for some it's always the price + V.A.T., for others it's the price minus V.A.T., etc.).
Make sure everybody has the same mental picture when you talk about 'x' will help reducing the errors that creep into a project when 'x' has different meanings to different people.
it's a play off an old joke "hot and black" and a newer variant "old and bitter" it's also on a tshirthell.com shirt.
That 'old joke' is known to people from one geographical region - and/. readers are from all over the world. So if your sig is a play off a locale joke, then the non-locale/. readers will miss the play off and take your sig literally. Trigun could (should?) have realized that his sig would be read by people who don't know the old joke, and that these readers therefore would misinterpret his sig.
Frequencies used for radio astronomy are just another example. Once commercial stations start broadcasting on frequencies that are now being used by radio astronomers, then the natural signals will get drowned in the artificial signals. And, since you can't ask a star / interstellar cloud to broadcast at another frequency, you have to make sure that some frequencies are free from artificial signals.
Btw: using above mentioned frequencies for commercial purposes would violate existing international treaties.
I think MS won't be happy with the upcoming XForms support in Mozilla / FireFox. A good XForms implementation by Mozilla before MS launches LongHorn + the next IE could make Mozilla a must-have application for those who want to use advanced Wbapps.
I noticed that the number of observations dropped from 176 to 118 and the number of days increased from 196 to 287 in just a couple hours.
I noticed this too... looks like NASA discarded some inaccurate observations (--> smaller number of observations), and found some old photographs of 2004 MN4 in their archive (--> longer baseline) - they must have been searching their archives for existing older sightings as soon as the impact risk started to look real bad.
But, you can install multiple versions, because the shared libraries usually have different names.
'Usually' means 'not always'. So you're in trouble if the names are identical.
A little bit OT: I once heard about the idea of putting the libs version number into the lib name, e.g. if you've versions 1.2 and 1.3 for somelib, then you'll name them somelib_1_2 and somelib_1_3. An application that needs version 1.2 links to somelib_1_2, and lives happily alongside another application that needs version 1.3 and links to somelib_1_3.
Pro: applications that need different version of a library can work at the same system.
Con: multiple versions of a libraru use more diskspace and memory than one version does.
By saying linux, he is refering to distributions, not the kernel.
You're absolutely right by pointing out the differences between a distribution and a kernel.
However, you're average PHB, when reading the Ballmer article, doesn't know the difference and believes everything Ballmer is telling about Linux vs. Windows. Worse, I recently had to explain the difference to an ICT professional with 10+ years of experience in ICT...:(
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The costs are not in the '$300 software package' (MS Office), but in the other packages that link to and (ab)use MS Office functionality, e.g. some applications that 'need' MS Word as a report generator.
As soon as the Scottish police upgrades to the next MS Office version, they will find out how cheap MS Office really is - then they will have to upgrade *ALL* these nice 'I-need-the-old-office-to-run' apps.
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FYI - the major differences between the two types are:
- the silicium-based one can run out of battery power
- the carbon-based one can run out of your money
On-chip lasers are better suited for this task. Shorter wavelength than RF --> larger bandwidth.
Intel is investing some R&D money in this technology.
Yep - it's about time for a new CPU logo: Hedgehog inside :) .
Overbloated? Given KDE's origins, you'd better call it 'überbloated' :) .
Use fission to heat a propellant gas. You could pump gas through a pipe made of uranium, the fission heat would heat up the gas to >> 1000 degrees C. The gas would expand and get expelled from the other end of the pipe at high speed --> thrust.
Another approach to fission powered propulsion was designed for project Orion.
... and if you can read Dutch, then Handleiding HTML is an excellent resource.
To bad your statement assumes those politicians are capable of logical thinking.
Cause: bad patent system.
Effect: RIM has to recall BlackBerries.
Do you really think Congress(wo)men will be able to tell the difference between cause and effect? They will get pissed of with RIM, and continue their daily habits without changing the patent system.
Either they don't have automated testing, or they do have, but it didn't look for this bug.
Finding bugs (and squashing them) is a good thing, but I'm curious about how this bug got reintroduced in FireFox. I hope they analyse this problem, and improve their operational procedures to prevent other reintroductions of old bugs.
What camcorder is talking about is the inability to deinstall IE - you can deinstall FireFox without any problem, but you can't deinstall IE.
That is, you can not remove IE without breaking some Windows functionality that shouldn't depend upon IE to start with.
Gimme 1.00 $ for each website using frames, and 'll never have to work again ...
An electric car will make an even more unbelievable amount of noise when it's batteries get short-circuited :) .
Nonsense. 5M$/day is the maximum fine. Maybe they want to increase it, but they can't.
Don't forget that majority in EU parliament and commision are leftist parties (socialists, greens).
The EU Parliament has 729 members, 201 (Socialist Group) + 42 (Group of the Greens) + 41 (Confederal Group of the European United left) = 284 members = 39% can be considered 'Left'. That's not a majority. Check Members of the European Parliament it yourself.
<SARCASM> 39% ; in the US of A they call a group that large a 'moral majority' </SARCASM>
Nonsense. Some copyright protection schemes make making a backup copy (almost) impossible. So they are taking rights away, and as a consumer you don't have a change in court because you're bankrupt long before the MPAA/RIAA runs out of money.
No, they do not say you're not allowed to make backup copies - however, they make it technologically almost impossible to make that backup copy. And if you circumvent the anti-copy system, then the MPAA/RIAA will throw the DMCA at you.
Making a backup copy is fair use, but if you're not a geek, then some anti-copy systems will prevent you from making that backup copy; and if you're a geek who can and does circumvent, then they'll hit you with the DMCA.
I will LOL all the way back home.
The only thing this tax proposal proves is that we don't have to travel to Washington D.C. to see stupid politicians.
Things like 'product price' tend to have a different meanings to different people (for sales people it's the selling price, for others the purchasing price; for some it's always the price + V.A.T., for others it's the price minus V.A.T., etc.).
Make sure everybody has the same mental picture when you talk about 'x' will help reducing the errors that creep into a project when 'x' has different meanings to different people.
That 'old joke' is known to people from one geographical region - and /. readers are from all over the world. So if your sig is a play off a locale joke, then the non-locale /. readers will miss the play off and take your sig literally. Trigun could (should?) have realized that his sig would be read by people who don't know the old joke, and that these readers therefore would misinterpret his sig.
Frequencies used for radio astronomy are just another example. Once commercial stations start broadcasting on frequencies that are now being used by radio astronomers, then the natural signals will get drowned in the artificial signals. And, since you can't ask a star / interstellar cloud to broadcast at another frequency, you have to make sure that some frequencies are free from artificial signals.
Btw: using above mentioned frequencies for commercial purposes would violate existing international treaties.
I think MS won't be happy with the upcoming XForms support in Mozilla / FireFox. A good XForms implementation by Mozilla before MS launches LongHorn + the next IE could make Mozilla a must-have application for those who want to use advanced Wbapps.
I noticed this too ... looks like NASA discarded some inaccurate observations (--> smaller number of observations), and found some old photographs of 2004 MN4 in their archive (--> longer baseline) - they must have been searching their archives for existing older sightings as soon as the impact risk started to look real bad.
'Usually' means 'not always'. So you're in trouble if the names are identical.
A little bit OT: I once heard about the idea of putting the libs version number into the lib name, e.g. if you've versions 1.2 and 1.3 for somelib, then you'll name them somelib_1_2 and somelib_1_3. An application that needs version 1.2 links to somelib_1_2, and lives happily alongside another application that needs version 1.3 and links to somelib_1_3.
Pro: applications that need different version of a library can work at the same system.
Con: multiple versions of a libraru use more diskspace and memory than one version does.
You're absolutely right by pointing out the differences between a distribution and a kernel. ... :(
However, you're average PHB, when reading the Ballmer article, doesn't know the difference and believes everything Ballmer is telling about Linux vs. Windows. Worse, I recently had to explain the difference to an ICT professional with 10+ years of experience in ICT
And the politicians don't care, because it are the more equal people / companies who donate the most to their election campaigns.
If you really really think Longhorn will be widely available before the '08 elections, then you are on some VERY high quality crack too ....