Its too easily stolen and comes with higher staffing, maintenance and security costs. When I lived in Amsterdam a few years ago it had gotten to the point where several bank branches in the city did not even carry cash and for those that did only carried small amounts so you had to inform them in advance if you wanted to withdraw anything in excess of something like 5K.
But when I did (usually FreeBSD) I always found it a quick and easy and once installed it was very fast. Linux always gave me more problems but to be fair I generally didn't care about getting sound drivers and maxing out the video drivers etc with FreeBSD since it was almost always a server.
The problem is that for that tiny minority of nut jobs out there, games like can help fuel their little deluded fantasies. Unfortunately that makes these games high visibility, easy targets so the system can pretend its doing something to protect society rather than working out how to do the hard bit which is identify and treat these nut jobs before they go postal.
What's the point in getting the contract if the lawmakers know that they can bully IBM and get away with not paying.
It will probably be worth in the 10's of millions, IBM will have it set in stone and their massive legal team keeping an eye on it. Plus it will save them millions they would normally have to spend on tender.
Its all part of give and take. The lawmakers will not be bullying IBM, they will be doing it cover their own asses. Do you think they want to expain how they lost $5 millions dollars of taxpayers money in court? IBM hold all the cards here.
Dont kid yourself IBM will love this. They will write off the 5 mill on condition that they get the next big IT contract California signs. Then they will cream the 'we are so generous PR' and make even more money off the fat contract.
I agree, I find women in the workplace are generally polite to each other and then frequently turn around and bitch like anything behind each others back. However the office wokspace is a very different environment to a nuclear submarine where you are deployed for 6-8 months at a time in a 100m long narrow metal tube, sharing bunks, monotonous shifts etc and there is just no getting away from each other. Thats what the study concluded women dealt with better than men with improved discipline and efficiency IIRC.
Well I remember reading about a US Navy study some years ago that concluded that nuclear submarines would function more efficiently if they were crewed solely by women because they coped better mentally with prolonged cramped living conditions similar to those on the space station.
Agreed, seems more logical not negotiate for a few points of the gross rather than risk the substantial up front cost of making the movie themselves. If a couple of movies tank Marvel will be in serious diffs. Also they are going to have to hire some very creative accountants. The movie studios are notorious for their bookkeeping practices, which contributes substantially to their profits.
Thats not the way the law works. When you piss me off I sue you and anyone else even remotely connected to the 'incident'. Should these claims be proven libelous all the pressure falls on the administrator because they are actually known. So the court awards in my favour and the buck for liability stops with the administrator who now is highly motivated to find out who the original posters were so he can pass on the bad news and will be wasting no time in logging IP addresses from that point forward and also removing potentially litigious postings. The plaintiffs may not gain a lot from this other than to prevent similar postings in the future.
And as soon as I settle the rebellion on the outlying planets in the Sprouticus system I will be bringing my Imperial Battle Fleet to explain the situation to Mr Stross. Perhaps I will banish him to one of my penal planets, he can amuse the inmates with his so called logic.
Well it wasn't a complete bluff. Any followers of Mr "There are legions of terrorists out there waiting to kill us" Rumsfelds career will remember him back in the day when it was Russian nuclear bombers not terrorists lining up to kill us. As was shown later this "bomber gap" was completely fictitious but resulted in the US having a much larger bomber force than the Russians. As missile technology improved the bomber gap was replaced by the missile gap. Now this was actually a real gap, just not in the direction Mr Rumsfeld and his buddies led poople to believe. So the Russians, seriously worried at the US first strike weapons advantage had no choice but to chuck what money they had at their military.
In fact it's somewhat ironic that after all the politically motivated fear mongering in the West during the cold war it turns out the Russians were actually bricking themselves because they knew they were badly outgunned.
Apple Introduces Safari for Windows
Public Beta Available Today for Mac Windows
WWDC 2007, SAN FRANCISCOJune 11, 2007Apple® today introduced Safari 3, the worlds fastest and easiest-to-use web browser for Windows PCs and Macs. Safari is the fastest browser running on Windows, based on the industry standard iBench tests, rendering web pages up to twice as fast as IE 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2. Safari joins iTunes® in delivering Apples legendary user experience to both Windows and Mac® users as well as full support of open Internet standards. Safari 3 features easy-to-manage bookmarks, effortless browsing with easy-to-organize tabs and a built-in RSS reader to quickly scan the latest news and information. Safari 3 public beta is available today as a free download at www.apple.com/safari.
We think Windows users are going to be really impressed when they see how fast and intuitive web browsing can be with Safari, said Steve Jobs, Apples CEO. Hundreds of millions of Windows users already use iTunes, and we look forward to turning them on to Safaris superior browsing experience too.
I think you have a bit of revisionism going on there after a poorly received release.
Well if you go back a bit they reached this number more than twice as quickly as Firefox did with their Fahrenheit 1 million campaign. Presumable they will also see the same high percentage of users download it, have a quick look and then forget about it as Firefox does.
We all know that long ago in the Garden of Silicon the Divine Circut created the first FatherBoard in his own image. Then because the FatherBoard was lonely the Divine Circut took a rib logic gate from the FatherBoard and used it to create a MotherBoard to be the FatherBoards companion. Now MotherBoards can only be created within the sanctity of a Printing Process approved by the Holy Surface Mount Church.
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Never mind predicted, this is desirable for the DHS, it's further 'proof' there are bazillions of terrorists out there hell bent on destroying the US.
you know, the one that slaughters the crew.
If I could do a double backflip I would be proud as punch! I would probably never walk again but it might be worth it.
The Germans will take over the Polish and French versions.
Its too easily stolen and comes with higher staffing, maintenance and security costs. When I lived in Amsterdam a few years ago it had gotten to the point where several bank branches in the city did not even carry cash and for those that did only carried small amounts so you had to inform them in advance if you wanted to withdraw anything in excess of something like 5K.
But when I did (usually FreeBSD) I always found it a quick and easy and once installed it was very fast. Linux always gave me more problems but to be fair I generally didn't care about getting sound drivers and maxing out the video drivers etc with FreeBSD since it was almost always a server.
The problem is that for that tiny minority of nut jobs out there, games like can help fuel their little deluded fantasies. Unfortunately that makes these games high visibility, easy targets so the system can pretend its doing something to protect society rather than working out how to do the hard bit which is identify and treat these nut jobs before they go postal.
Read between the lines, he obviously works for Slashdot.
Its all part of give and take. The lawmakers will not be bullying IBM, they will be doing it cover their own asses. Do you think they want to expain how they lost $5 millions dollars of taxpayers money in court? IBM hold all the cards here.
Dont kid yourself IBM will love this. They will write off the 5 mill on condition that they get the next big IT contract California signs. Then they will cream the 'we are so generous PR' and make even more money off the fat contract.
I agree, I find women in the workplace are generally polite to each other and then frequently turn around and bitch like anything behind each others back. However the office wokspace is a very different environment to a nuclear submarine where you are deployed for 6-8 months at a time in a 100m long narrow metal tube, sharing bunks, monotonous shifts etc and there is just no getting away from each other. Thats what the study concluded women dealt with better than men with improved discipline and efficiency IIRC.
Well I remember reading about a US Navy study some years ago that concluded that nuclear submarines would function more efficiently if they were crewed solely by women because they coped better mentally with prolonged cramped living conditions similar to those on the space station.
Agreed, seems more logical not negotiate for a few points of the gross rather than risk the substantial up front cost of making the movie themselves. If a couple of movies tank Marvel will be in serious diffs. Also they are going to have to hire some very creative accountants. The movie studios are notorious for their bookkeeping practices, which contributes substantially to their profits.
If only you had not switched between Imperial and Metric English for your post we might have been able to understand what you were trying to say.
Thats not the way the law works. When you piss me off I sue you and anyone else even remotely connected to the 'incident'. Should these claims be proven libelous all the pressure falls on the administrator because they are actually known. So the court awards in my favour and the buck for liability stops with the administrator who now is highly motivated to find out who the original posters were so he can pass on the bad news and will be wasting no time in logging IP addresses from that point forward and also removing potentially litigious postings. The plaintiffs may not gain a lot from this other than to prevent similar postings in the future.
SO YOUR POST CAN BE UNDERSTOOD
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And as soon as I settle the rebellion on the outlying planets in the Sprouticus system I will be bringing my Imperial Battle Fleet to explain the situation to Mr Stross. Perhaps I will banish him to one of my penal planets, he can amuse the inmates with his so called logic.
Well it wasn't a complete bluff. Any followers of Mr "There are legions of terrorists out there waiting to kill us" Rumsfelds career will remember him back in the day when it was Russian nuclear bombers not terrorists lining up to kill us. As was shown later this "bomber gap" was completely fictitious but resulted in the US having a much larger bomber force than the Russians. As missile technology improved the bomber gap was replaced by the missile gap. Now this was actually a real gap, just not in the direction Mr Rumsfeld and his buddies led poople to believe. So the Russians, seriously worried at the US first strike weapons advantage had no choice but to chuck what money they had at their military.
In fact it's somewhat ironic that after all the politically motivated fear mongering in the West during the cold war it turns out the Russians were actually bricking themselves because they knew they were badly outgunned.
Make us think they are going to nuke us and then launch a surprise attack with water pistols.
I dont think that means what Smart think it means in the US.
Ice Ice Baby was bad enough the first time it was released.
Well if you go back a bit they reached this number more than twice as quickly as Firefox did with their Fahrenheit 1 million campaign. Presumable they will also see the same high percentage of users download it, have a quick look and then forget about it as Firefox does.
We all know that long ago in the Garden of Silicon the Divine Circut created the first FatherBoard in his own image. Then because the FatherBoard was lonely the Divine Circut took a rib logic gate from the FatherBoard and used it to create a MotherBoard to be the FatherBoards companion. Now MotherBoards can only be created within the sanctity of a Printing Process approved by the Holy Surface Mount Church.