In both the countries I have lived in it is common to be able to get prepaid connections that give you cheap calls subsidised phones.
The telcos far prefer to sell monthly packages (more profitable) but they would rather be in the pre-paid market than lose those customers altogether - that is how competition is supposed to work.
I buy cheap phones as well (approx USD 50) and make few phone calls so I spend very little in total.
While it's nice that Christians agree with the rest of us that murder and theft are bad things, the core of their morality is that moral behavior is based on rules handed down from a higher authority
No, it is subtly different from that: it is that a perfectly good and omnipotent being can guide us.
If God was not good, He would not be worthy of worshipping just because He is all powerful.
Changes in the dogma of Anglican churches over women priests are a recent example.
The history of the early church was full of debates.
All the founders of religions challenged the dogmas of existing religions. All the reformers of religions challenged existing dogma.
It happens slower than in science because there is rarely any new evidence to consider
Scriptures are not changed, but that would be dishonest. It would be like the police changing witnesses' written statements because of evidence they were mistaken or lying. The correct thing to do in both cases is to present both the statements and the evidence or arguments contradicting them.
But then how does a person break into the industry?
The industry has more jobs than programming, and a lot of them are interesting. What about working for a software company that sells to your current industry? I did it myself for an year and liked it.
Depending on what you do and what your skills are you may be able to write specifications, deal with clients, explain requirements to developers, etc.
Weak government are often a good thing. Its strong governments that are the problem.
However, given that the UK as a whole does not have proportional representation, and that the EU increasingly concentrates power in the centre (for example, look at who is negotiating ACTA on your behalf: its not the Scottish government!), Scotland having proportional representation does not matter.
In addition, the religious arguments for biblical literalism are deeply flawed as well.
St Augustine rejected biblical literalism 1600 years ago (there may well have been other before him). I would have thought that the evidence against it that has accumulated since would convince just about anyone.
I wonder how much influence The Flintstones various silly films have on this?
Given that in the last week or so I have found one serious factual error and two copy and pastes from my site, I would say that Wikipedia is not an ideal authoritative reference.
Not that your wrong, but quoting a primary source is better, and I am sure you can fine one for this easily.
I am not up to date on this, but British law does not make trespassing itself an criminal offence, only a tort and unless damage is caused it is not worth suing.
I guess it's possible to modify some key/value pair in about:config to tell Firefox how long it should keep the entries in its hostname cache. But I'm too lazy to search for that;)
One Google query (probably done faster than typing that paragraph) found:
There is a huge difference. There is a rationale for the value of Pi. Claiming it as a different value is plain wrong.
The meaning of a word like planet is arbitrary. It means what the consensus says it means. There is no right or wrong answer.
The non-problem that the IAU was trying to solve is that though some things are clearly planets (e.g. Jupiter, the Earth) some things are clearly not (Most asteroids, moons etc.) there are some bodies that are in a grey area. So what? Most nouns are not perfectly unambiguously defined in all circumstances defined.
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Asian cultures are not homogeneous. Even within the larger countries there is huge variation - why do you think infanticide is common in certain parts of India and unheard of in others?
Dowry customs, in particular, vary enormously between countries and communities within countries. I think there are still places where a bride price is paid, completely changing the economics of it.
On big difference is that the US has far better protection of free speech than India (or Europe). Hurting people's feelings is not a criminal offence in the US, as it often is in India
You are missing the point. No one says it was fine for her to use the phone in class, or to lie about it. The point is that arresting her for disorderly conduct and having her strip searched by a cop was a hugely disproportionate response.
If a $200 dollar an hour lawyer can't spot the problem in quoting US law at people who are based out of Sweden he deserves to be ridiculed
I suspect they charge a lot more than $200 and hour.
Put yourself in the lawyers position (it might make you feel dirty). You can either tell your client that there is no point sending these letters and run up negligible chargeable time, or you can tell them that you send DMCA letters to all the torrent trackers and charge for each one sent.
Imagine that telecoms companies were allowed to do this with voice traffic. So you would get crystal clear calls to their preferred bank, PC retailer's or manufacturer's support, pizza delivery etc. and barely understandable calls to the competition.
You can see how that would reduce competition by forcing customers into buying bundles of services?
I would have no problem with something like your starcraft example, as long as the extra charges were made on the consumer side, not to content providers - in this case Blizzard. I think you may misunderstand who would pay the extra is net neutrality was abolished.
The problem with charging both sides, is that the charges to content providers are not transparent to customers, but do impact the services they get, making sensible consumer choice even more difficult in a market in which the average consumer is confused and ignorant about anyway.
It will also fragment the net, reducing its value to everyone: Your ISP has done a deal with Google, so you upload a video to Youtube (because it uploads fast). A friend whose ISP had done a deal with Yahoo finds it unwatchably slow to download.
It will lock out new entrants. Startups will have to pay a huge amount to ISPs before they can compete.
Finally the market will not work to keep costs down because consumer's choices will impose extra costs not on them, but on content providers.
It does not invalidate the point that the bugs were fixed in the open source versions and not in the MS version.
Other points to make: 1) Open = open to independent security audits. I think the Open BSD audit covers other people's code, so there is at least one example of it happening. 2) MS code has been leaked, and other code is deliberately shared with selected people. The bad guys probably have ways of getting hold of a lot of MS source code; whereas open source is available to you as well. 3) Track record. Not just Windows vs Linux, but IIS vs Apache etc.
I have very few perceived performance problems with Mandriva 2008 Spring KDE on a Pentium dual core laptop.
Generally, Linux beats Window at this, so you may well have a config/driver problem, or something else wrong with that installation - especially as you did not have problems on your old PC.
free does not have to mean open source. The article gives several reasons why MS might want to give Windows away but no compelling reasons why it should make it open source. Closed source isn't just about getting paid for software it's about control. They control the APIs and all the little gotchas that make producing a windows clone difficult.
MS are far more likely to go with free (OK, OK, "free as in beer", happy now?) than open source. It gives them control (as you say) and the option of reversing the decision later.
MS also already in effect gives Windows away free in a lot of countries (certainly where I live) by tolerating blatant piracy (shops in city centre shopping malls, every PC retailer around).
Interestingly, Adobe are now extracting license fees from business users of their products (e.g. graphic design companies), and IBM is doing the same for Lotus Notes. MS is said to have backed off attempts to do the same after one big user threatened to switch to Linux if they did.
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What makes you think that the people complaining about backwards compatibility are the same people who complained about the Windows security model?
In both the countries I have lived in it is common to be able to get prepaid connections that give you cheap calls subsidised phones.
The telcos far prefer to sell monthly packages (more profitable) but they would rather be in the pre-paid market than lose those customers altogether - that is how competition is supposed to work.
I buy cheap phones as well (approx USD 50) and make few phone calls so I spend very little in total.
While it's nice that Christians agree with the rest of us that murder and theft are bad things, the core of their morality is that moral behavior is based on rules handed down from a higher authority
No, it is subtly different from that: it is that a perfectly good and omnipotent being can guide us.
If God was not good, He would not be worthy of worshipping just because He is all powerful.
When was the last time this happened in religion?
All the time.
Changes in the dogma of Anglican churches over women priests are a recent example.
The history of the early church was full of debates.
All the founders of religions challenged the dogmas of existing religions. All the reformers of religions challenged existing dogma.
It happens slower than in science because there is rarely any new evidence to consider
Scriptures are not changed, but that would be dishonest. It would be like the police changing witnesses' written statements because of evidence they were mistaken or lying. The correct thing to do in both cases is to present both the statements and the evidence or arguments contradicting them.
But then how does a person break into the industry?
The industry has more jobs than programming, and a lot of them are interesting. What about working for a software company that sells to your current industry? I did it myself for an year and liked it.
Depending on what you do and what your skills are you may be able to write specifications, deal with clients, explain requirements to developers, etc.
Weak government are often a good thing. Its strong governments that are the problem.
However, given that the UK as a whole does not have proportional representation, and that the EU increasingly concentrates power in the centre (for example, look at who is negotiating ACTA on your behalf: its not the Scottish government!), Scotland having proportional representation does not matter.
In addition, the religious arguments for biblical literalism are deeply flawed as well.
St Augustine rejected biblical literalism 1600 years ago (there may well have been other before him). I would have thought that the evidence against it that has accumulated since would convince just about anyone.
I wonder how much influence The Flintstones various silly films have on this?
Given that in the last week or so I have found one serious factual error and two copy and pastes from my site, I would say that Wikipedia is not an ideal authoritative reference.
Not that your wrong, but quoting a primary source is better, and I am sure you can fine one for this easily.
They could just buy a cheap phones like I do...
Nokia make cheap and fairly tough phones that sell from the equivalent of $50 upwards.
I am not up to date on this, but British law does not make trespassing itself an criminal offence, only a tort and unless damage is caused it is not worth suing.
Breaking and entering is a criminal offence.
I guess it's possible to modify some key/value pair in about:config to tell Firefox how long it should keep the entries in its hostname cache. But I'm too lazy to search for that ;)
One Google query (probably done faster than typing that paragraph) found:
Network.dnsCacheExpiration
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.dnsCacheExpiration
There is a huge difference. There is a rationale for the value of Pi. Claiming it as a different value is plain wrong.
The meaning of a word like planet is arbitrary. It means what the consensus says it means. There is no right or wrong answer.
The non-problem that the IAU was trying to solve is that though some things are clearly planets (e.g. Jupiter, the Earth) some things are clearly not (Most asteroids, moons etc.) there are some bodies that are in a grey area. So what? Most nouns are not perfectly unambiguously defined in all circumstances defined.
Asian cultures are not homogeneous. Even within the larger countries there is huge variation - why do you think infanticide is common in certain parts of India and unheard of in others?
Dowry customs, in particular, vary enormously between countries and communities within countries. I think there are still places where a bride price is paid, completely changing the economics of it.
On big difference is that the US has far better protection of free speech than India (or Europe). Hurting people's feelings is not a criminal offence in the US, as it often is in India
You are missing the point. No one says it was fine for her to use the phone in class, or to lie about it. The point is that arresting her for disorderly conduct and having her strip searched by a cop was a hugely disproportionate response.
If a $200 dollar an hour lawyer can't spot the problem in quoting US law at people who are based out of Sweden he deserves to be ridiculed
I suspect they charge a lot more than $200 and hour.
Put yourself in the lawyers position (it might make you feel dirty). You can either tell your client that there is no point sending these letters and run up negligible chargeable time, or you can tell them that you send DMCA letters to all the torrent trackers and charge for each one sent.
Lysenko has arguably given anyone who suggests the idea of inherited acquired characteristics a sort of guilt by association.
Ridiculed is probably more accurate than villified.
Imagine that telecoms companies were allowed to do this with voice traffic. So you would get crystal clear calls to their preferred bank, PC retailer's or manufacturer's support, pizza delivery etc. and barely understandable calls to the competition.
You can see how that would reduce competition by forcing customers into buying bundles of services?
I would have no problem with something like your starcraft example, as long as the extra charges were made on the consumer side, not to content providers - in this case Blizzard. I think you may misunderstand who would pay the extra is net neutrality was abolished.
The problem with charging both sides, is that the charges to content providers are not transparent to customers, but do impact the services they get, making sensible consumer choice even more difficult in a market in which the average consumer is confused and ignorant about anyway.
It will also fragment the net, reducing its value to everyone: Your ISP has done a deal with Google, so you upload a video to Youtube (because it uploads fast). A friend whose ISP had done a deal with Yahoo finds it unwatchably slow to download.
It will lock out new entrants. Startups will have to pay a huge amount to ISPs before they can compete.
Finally the market will not work to keep costs down because consumer's choices will impose extra costs not on them, but on content providers.
It does not invalidate the point that the bugs were fixed in the open source versions and not in the MS version.
Other points to make:
1) Open = open to independent security audits. I think the Open BSD audit covers other people's code, so there is at least one example of it happening.
2) MS code has been leaked, and other code is deliberately shared with selected people. The bad guys probably have ways of getting hold of a lot of MS source code; whereas open source is available to you as well.
3) Track record. Not just Windows vs Linux, but IIS vs Apache etc.
What about those of us who are afraid of needles. Would you execute an arachnaphope in a room full of spiders?
I would far prefer a firing squad too - provided they were good enough to guarantee at least one bullet straight in the head.
I blame the distro. They should not have made KDE4 the default so early - they should have stuck with KDE 3 until at least 4.2.
AS far as I can remember KDE 4.0 was well know not to be really ready.
I have very few perceived performance problems with Mandriva 2008 Spring KDE on a Pentium dual core laptop.
Generally, Linux beats Window at this, so you may well have a config/driver problem, or something else wrong with that installation - especially as you did not have problems on your old PC.
free does not have to mean open source. The article gives several reasons why MS might want to give Windows away but no compelling reasons why it should make it open source. Closed source isn't just about getting paid for software it's about control. They control the APIs and all the little gotchas that make producing a windows clone difficult.
MS are far more likely to go with free (OK, OK, "free as in beer", happy now?) than open source. It gives them control (as you say) and the option of reversing the decision later.
MS also already in effect gives Windows away free in a lot of countries (certainly where I live) by tolerating blatant piracy (shops in city centre shopping malls, every PC retailer around).
Interestingly, Adobe are now extracting license fees from business users of their products (e.g. graphic design companies), and IBM is doing the same for Lotus Notes. MS is said to have backed off attempts to do the same after one big user threatened to switch to Linux if they did.
Software only became patentable after Microsoft vs Stac, so this could be seen as just reversing a previous bit of judicial activism.
Linux being smoother and faster is no surprise.
I did think that Windows did come with a lot of device drivers these days. Does it not, or was it odd hardware?