Here's a link to part of an article on such a subject. I wasn't able to find more details on how the pricing details are handled. This article indicates that a Transit Authority in Texas has control over their prices, and also demonstrates the sense these people have.
Just one week after the NTTA raised the toll rates, it sent five representatives to the 75th Annual International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association conference in Vienna, Austria.
It is not always the government. Usually instead of worrying about paying for roads, they decide to build it and pay off the loan immediately by selling the rights to private investers (often from out of the country) who then install the tolls. So don't blame the government for the tolls, blame them for taking the easy way and selling off the road way rights.
Tell me about it, I went to install the latest Windows SDK only to find out I had to first uninstall the previous one. Here goes a couple hours. Time to find a book.
Personally, I picked a Diesel (VW New Beetle TDI) instead.
I envy you. Though I think I will wait a year or three for the new half ton pickups that will be coming out in V6 and V8 diesels. It will probably be wise to wait the full three years to see how they do with some of the newer features like aluminum heads and so forth. I have reasonable faith though that they should get it right the first time.
The last remaining question would be what kind of transmission they put behind them. As long as dodge comes out with a manual it should be acceptable; although I do not see Ford or Chevy releasing one with a manual: the rest of their components are better. I have a 4x4 Ford w/ auto right now, I would really like a V6 turbo diesel w/ a manual I would imagine this would get anywhere from 22 to 30 mpg.... Wow, that got off topic.
I saw a spot about this on some news TV program. Every single alleged criminal they showed on a billboard was either black or Hispanic.... What happens when people see minorities on wanted postings over and over?
Who cares, maybe they will stop committing the crimes they are charged with or guilty of? Minority or otherwise. I think this is a bunch of horse-shit and I am glad I don't live there. As long as it is not federal dollars I guess I don't care. Back to point: If these people are committing a disproportionate number of the crimes why should we care? It seems obvious that we shouldn't, and that this should be a moot point in the discussion of whether this billboard system is a legitimate need.
I thought this was RC2? Why would the appearance not be finalized?
This release candidate marks the last mile on the road to KDE 4.0.
Some work is still being done to put the icing on the KDE 4.0 cake. This includes fixing some major and minor bugs, finishing off artwork and smoothening out the user experience.
I can only hope they make rather drastic changes. The worst part is that in general the KDE team always puts out great sets of icons. Trully very nice looking stuff. It is the rest of the appearance, such as the starting(k) menu, large screen space use for apps at the bottom, large clock, ugly file browser and so forth that looks so wrong right now by default. This looks a little better but is a larger screen size than the ars technica shots.
Nothing you said makes this any less disgusting. And do you really need the time to show up that big? Or Icons and apps on the task bar that take up that much space?
Too bad it doesn't look good. Seriously, KDE 4 looks like the retard offspring of Vista and OS X. Look at this and tell me I'm wrong. I could not even imagine using KDE4 at the default appearances. Not even the search box has a nice appearance and why is the battery "widget" so large?
It would be helpful for interoperability if all browsers could support the same codecs. However, there are no known codecs that satisfy all the current players: we need a codec that is known to not require per-unit or per-distributor licensing, that is compatible with the open source development model, that is of sufficient quality as to be usable, and that is not an additional submarine patent risk for large companies. This is an ongoing issue and this section will be updated once more information is available.
What part of initially suggesting Ogg Vorbis doesn't fit with the new quote? It just seems wierd. Like they could say what they mean, but not explicitly suggest Ogg.
Well a farmer cares about the health of his cattle right? A government has the same interest in the health of its citizens.
This is slightly offtopic but I hate this perception. We the people give the government its power. They are not our rulers and we are not mere property of the state. Granted the precedent set by government telling us what is good, and unconstitutional actions such as outlawing ecstasy, have eroded both public perception of governments role in human health and our personal responsibility.
well, geezer, we're sick of writing sizeable apps in shitty languages. smalltalk, java, c# and various other languages are the flavor of the day. we get more done but you need a better computer. go back to your green screen. the trend will continue once we get to massively multi core desktop computer systems.
Recall though that Melindia Gates was an employee of Bill Gates. It would have to be *very* inappropriate.
What I have seen nobody mention, I am about to postulate: It was a guy. This is Microsoft, not Open Source. I don't think the MS people would be quite as tolerant of this.
If you don't have an overwhelmingly compelling reason to vote for the incumbent, you should vote against him/her, even if you think the other guy is a bad choice. You can always vote him out next election. He won't have the chance to do much harm in one term. The longer a person is in the legislature the more harm he/she can do.
I wish i had a mod point for you. I have this view as well, I wish we limited terms as well but that'd be a much more active stance on the issue. This may not work anyways if the party leadership was too powerful - or should I have said "since the party leadership is too powerful."
Then I'd stop pointing out that they're misguided morons incapable of reasonable thought, and while their predecessors in simpler less infromed times had some excuse, anyone in modern times with access to real education who goes around making "GodDidIt" noises needs to be forcibly sterilized for the betterment of humanity.
I would assume you are being cynical - or just plain upset at the angle of the discussion that took place - because otherwise you are throwing out any of the reasoning or advancements made in freedom of speech and thought, especially with regard to religion. The only reason "we" have come to the place we are, is through periods in history where discussion and thought is allowed to take place. The writings of Locke, Franklin and others noticed this and thus proposed the freedoms so many enjoy. Did you know that under sharia you would be killed for denying this attribution of Creation to God. How can you say that what he did actually didn't happen. How can you as a simple man be more correct than the Holy men who understand God better than you? This type of thing must be protected by personal freedoms. Though in a state under Islam is so obviously not necessary - as the individual is absolutely expendable for the good of the group.
Also, so many here are saying that religions are stagnant and never change their viewpoints or stances. This is very far from the truth. Under the many religions that incorporate free will, and a personal faith, the views most definitely will change especially as text is studied and interpreted. I will forgive it because generally people here study science and not religion.
Likewise, as articles reach maturity, edits will be fewer, particularly on topics that are not subject to a great deal of change.
This is part of the problem in my opinion. Typically a user will try to maintain control on an article (or even a category of articles), this will on its own prohibit more changes or even a total re-write. So he might think the article has reached maturity, but others may disagree.
I have mainly seen this on controversial topics, such as dealing with russia and other eastern european history, or say European and Islam conflicts. I have even read in various article discussion pages that it would get to the point someone just flat out gave up, and would edit articles in their language's wiki fork only.
I've got an Ibanez with a fixed bridge, and even a mahogony body. Sounds good and stays in tune, but damn I love the neck and high fret access on it. (Ibanez RGT42DXFX - basic RGT42 w/ colored inlays)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01, @06:47PM (#20817625)
I've been wanking around with pluggable opinions for years, and I turned out okay. So Linus Torvalds is this Anonymous Coward character that keeps showing up on/.
And what is even sadder is I probably have those 3 to 4 months of stories stuffed into some netscape cache, on some drives cramed in my infinite shit pile of left over computer parts. There should be some nerd based "grass roots effort" to resurrect those stories!
And my point would be that, given the complexity of any modern OS (not just Vista), 2GB RAM is not comparable to a 5.0L V8. More like your basic pushrod V6: moves an average car just fine, but not with a lot of power (space) to spare.
Want a machine that performs like a modern V8 car? Get 4 (or 8) GB.
Not all that bad of an analogy. Having recently gone from a pushrod V6 to a V8 vehicle (pickup) it is noticeable. Pushrod V6 vehicles can be pretty good though, how many other V6 vehicles get ~30mpg highway steady? (GM 3800 in particular.)
But I don't see yet how anyone as a desktop user needs more than 2GB of RAM. Maybe right about now is the time as we have been seeing some pretty massive and awesome games coming out. Even the recent World in Conflict requires 1GB for Vista, which as a minimum would indicate that perhaps over 2GB is ok now. However there is usually a gap for a while until desktops catch up with gaming rigs. Maybe someone who does video encoding or something could chime in with how powerful a dual core is with over 2GB RAM.
The agency also reported officials as saying that two other monks had been beaten to death. A protester who was not a monk had died after being shot, it quoted Yangon General Hospital as saying.
This regime has no respect for life of any sort, just the maintanence of their power. Th UN doesn't care about the nation or people either, just that the protests are allowed. Nothing is mentioned of the fact that the Burmese rulers are totalitarian pigs. The UN just wants the problem to disappear, not fix the problem at the cause.
"Noting reports of the use of force and of arrests and beatings, the secretary-general calls again on authorities to exercise utmost restraint toward the peaceful demonstrations taking place, as such action can only undermine the prospects for peace, prosperity and stability in Myanmar."
I don't know how this guy was moderated so promptly. Perhaps ending a comment with "Fuck the ACLU" is harmful a post's moderation status. But the sad fact is that he is correct, the ACLU doesn't agree that a common citizen/person deserves the right to own or carry arms for the defense of his person or nation. They basically agree with the supreme courts stance of taking a no stance and prefer to not face this issue. They agree with earlier decisions limiting the personal ownership of arms and with continually limiting what arms are allowed. So in closing, Fuck the ACLU.
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Here's a link to part of an article on such a subject. I wasn't able to find more details on how the pricing details are handled. This article indicates that a Transit Authority in Texas has control over their prices, and also demonstrates the sense these people have.
Just one week after the NTTA raised the toll rates, it sent five representatives to the 75th Annual International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association conference in Vienna, Austria.It is not always the government. Usually instead of worrying about paying for roads, they decide to build it and pay off the loan immediately by selling the rights to private investers (often from out of the country) who then install the tolls. So don't blame the government for the tolls, blame them for taking the easy way and selling off the road way rights.
Tell me about it, I went to install the latest Windows SDK only to find out I had to first uninstall the previous one. Here goes a couple hours. Time to find a book.
Yes, and as said above: And I note that DAs and cops are not known for liberal bias.
I envy you. Though I think I will wait a year or three for the new half ton pickups that will be coming out in V6 and V8 diesels. It will probably be wise to wait the full three years to see how they do with some of the newer features like aluminum heads and so forth. I have reasonable faith though that they should get it right the first time.
The last remaining question would be what kind of transmission they put behind them. As long as dodge comes out with a manual it should be acceptable; although I do not see Ford or Chevy releasing one with a manual: the rest of their components are better. I have a 4x4 Ford w/ auto right now, I would really like a V6 turbo diesel w/ a manual I would imagine this would get anywhere from 22 to 30 mpg. ... Wow, that got off topic.
Who cares, maybe they will stop committing the crimes they are charged with or guilty of? Minority or otherwise. I think this is a bunch of horse-shit and I am glad I don't live there. As long as it is not federal dollars I guess I don't care. Back to point: If these people are committing a disproportionate number of the crimes why should we care? It seems obvious that we shouldn't, and that this should be a moot point in the discussion of whether this billboard system is a legitimate need.
I thought this was RC2? Why would the appearance not be finalized?
This release candidate marks the last mile on the road to KDE 4.0. Some work is still being done to put the icing on the KDE 4.0 cake. This includes fixing some major and minor bugs, finishing off artwork and smoothening out the user experience.I can only hope they make rather drastic changes. The worst part is that in general the KDE team always puts out great sets of icons. Trully very nice looking stuff. It is the rest of the appearance, such as the starting(k) menu, large screen space use for apps at the bottom, large clock, ugly file browser and so forth that looks so wrong right now by default. This looks a little better but is a larger screen size than the ars technica shots.
Nothing you said makes this any less disgusting. And do you really need the time to show up that big? Or Icons and apps on the task bar that take up that much space?
Too bad it doesn't look good. Seriously, KDE 4 looks like the retard offspring of Vista and OS X. Look at this and tell me I'm wrong. I could not even imagine using KDE4 at the default appearances. Not even the search box has a nice appearance and why is the battery "widget" so large?
From the page:
It would be helpful for interoperability if all browsers could support the same codecs. However, there are no known codecs that satisfy all the current players: we need a codec that is known to not require per-unit or per-distributor licensing, that is compatible with the open source development model, that is of sufficient quality as to be usable, and that is not an additional submarine patent risk for large companies. This is an ongoing issue and this section will be updated once more information is available.What part of initially suggesting Ogg Vorbis doesn't fit with the new quote? It just seems wierd. Like they could say what they mean, but not explicitly suggest Ogg.
This is slightly offtopic but I hate this perception. We the people give the government its power. They are not our rulers and we are not mere property of the state. Granted the precedent set by government telling us what is good, and unconstitutional actions such as outlawing ecstasy, have eroded both public perception of governments role in human health and our personal responsibility.
well, geezer, we're sick of writing sizeable apps in shitty languages. smalltalk, java, c# and various other languages are the flavor of the day. we get more done but you need a better computer. go back to your green screen. the trend will continue once we get to massively multi core desktop computer systems.
What I have seen nobody mention, I am about to postulate: It was a guy. This is Microsoft, not Open Source. I don't think the MS people would be quite as tolerant of this.
I wish i had a mod point for you. I have this view as well, I wish we limited terms as well but that'd be a much more active stance on the issue. This may not work anyways if the party leadership was too powerful - or should I have said "since the party leadership is too powerful."
I would assume you are being cynical - or just plain upset at the angle of the discussion that took place - because otherwise you are throwing out any of the reasoning or advancements made in freedom of speech and thought, especially with regard to religion. The only reason "we" have come to the place we are, is through periods in history where discussion and thought is allowed to take place. The writings of Locke, Franklin and others noticed this and thus proposed the freedoms so many enjoy. Did you know that under sharia you would be killed for denying this attribution of Creation to God. How can you say that what he did actually didn't happen. How can you as a simple man be more correct than the Holy men who understand God better than you? This type of thing must be protected by personal freedoms. Though in a state under Islam is so obviously not necessary - as the individual is absolutely expendable for the good of the group.
Also, so many here are saying that religions are stagnant and never change their viewpoints or stances. This is very far from the truth. Under the many religions that incorporate free will, and a personal faith, the views most definitely will change especially as text is studied and interpreted. I will forgive it because generally people here study science and not religion.
This is part of the problem in my opinion. Typically a user will try to maintain control on an article (or even a category of articles), this will on its own prohibit more changes or even a total re-write. So he might think the article has reached maturity, but others may disagree.
I have mainly seen this on controversial topics, such as dealing with russia and other eastern european history, or say European and Islam conflicts. I have even read in various article discussion pages that it would get to the point someone just flat out gave up, and would edit articles in their language's wiki fork only.
It'd probably have been some weird Jazz Rock sound. Maybe Iommi and Beck would've had to get together - actually that would've been pretty sweet.
I've got an Ibanez with a fixed bridge, and even a mahogony body. Sounds good and stays in tune, but damn I love the neck and high fret access on it. (Ibanez RGT42DXFX - basic RGT42 w/ colored inlays)
I've been wanking around with pluggable opinions for years, and I turned out okay. So Linus Torvalds is this Anonymous Coward character that keeps showing up on
I wouldn't be the one. I have no old hard drives with possible caches on them, but perhaps someone else might reply to you.
Want a machine that performs like a modern V8 car? Get 4 (or 8) GB.
Not all that bad of an analogy. Having recently gone from a pushrod V6 to a V8 vehicle (pickup) it is noticeable. Pushrod V6 vehicles can be pretty good though, how many other V6 vehicles get ~30mpg highway steady? (GM 3800 in particular.)
But I don't see yet how anyone as a desktop user needs more than 2GB of RAM. Maybe right about now is the time as we have been seeing some pretty massive and awesome games coming out. Even the recent World in Conflict requires 1GB for Vista, which as a minimum would indicate that perhaps over 2GB is ok now. However there is usually a gap for a while until desktops catch up with gaming rigs. Maybe someone who does video encoding or something could chime in with how powerful a dual core is with over 2GB RAM.
From CNN :
The agency also reported officials as saying that two other monks had been beaten to death. A protester who was not a monk had died after being shot, it quoted Yangon General Hospital as saying.
This regime has no respect for life of any sort, just the maintanence of their power. Th UN doesn't care about the nation or people either, just that the protests are allowed. Nothing is mentioned of the fact that the Burmese rulers are totalitarian pigs. The UN just wants the problem to disappear, not fix the problem at the cause.
"Noting reports of the use of force and of arrests and beatings, the secretary-general calls again on authorities to exercise utmost restraint toward the peaceful demonstrations taking place, as such action can only undermine the prospects for peace, prosperity and stability in Myanmar."I don't know how this guy was moderated so promptly. Perhaps ending a comment with "Fuck the ACLU" is harmful a post's moderation status. But the sad fact is that he is correct, the ACLU doesn't agree that a common citizen/person deserves the right to own or carry arms for the defense of his person or nation. They basically agree with the supreme courts stance of taking a no stance and prefer to not face this issue. They agree with earlier decisions limiting the personal ownership of arms and with continually limiting what arms are allowed. So in closing, Fuck the ACLU.
I totally agree.