The chip then sends radio signals to a larger device carried by the client with a global positioning system in it.
Or they can just smash the 'device' to bits. I fail to see the utility of this system.
I assume that the moment it is smashed the fact that it has stopped transmitting is noticed and alarms ring and a last known location and time are recorded.
The implanted chip prevents them just taking the transmitter away.
But why pick on one company as though it is something special?
OK, this guy is more aggressive in expanding and in taking on incumbent operators, and he is more focused on small markets. That is all really forced on him by being smaller than the big operators (so he cannot go in to big markets, which would mean higher capex and competing head on with the big boys). Those smaller markets are less competitive and require different tactics.
Isn't this the same Web site that wants the government to intervene to lower the price of Windows, or supports early iphone adopters who paid the stupid tax suing Apple because they had the audacity to lower prices?
How do you get opinions from the site? Do you mean the opinions of different people who frequently disagree with each other.
Personally, I do not the government to intervene to lower the price of Windows: I want changes to competition, copyright and patent laws that would make the market more competitive which may or may not lead to lower prices (it may lead to more features, and certainly to more consumer choice). As for the people suing Apple, no one forced them to buy an Iphone, there are plenty of alternatives.
Nvidia has a company presence in the US so they can get sued here.
I think not.
Lots of companies around the world breach US software patents (for example) without their US businesses getting sued. Have you got an example of someone being successfully sued in the US for breaching US patents entirely outside the US?
India and China want to do business with Intel and AMD
Not half as much as Intel and AMD want to do business with India and China.
It may not do everything that Silverlight of Flash can, but SVG + Javascript can do what is actually useful: the important exceptions are embedded media players and games.
Just wondering why you chose Christianity over, say, Islam or Buddhism or Shamanism. Feel free to ignore my question if you want, but it always interests me to know why people choose a particular religion (which almost always originated or was historically propagated within their cultural group).
As you imply, many people do accept religious views unquestioningly. Then again, many people accept political views, cultural views, ethical ideas, scientific views etc. equally unquestioningly if presented by authority figures. That does not mean the view necessarily invalid.
It is more worth looking at why people change their religious views, often at great personal cost. Better people than me have written about this, but a few things come to mind:
Documentary evidence: i.e. someone who read the bible and historical background and decided it was a true record.
Philosophical argument.
Personal experience of God. Not always as dramatic as some mystics visions, but always a life-changing experience.
The accounts of people who have experienced the former
I personally find pure philosophical arguments (like Descartes etc.) unconvincing, but I find some force in each of the others. I think this combination is probably not unusual.
On the other hand, the fact that for a few decades now a huge percentage of young people in various countries has considered smoking marijuana completely fine has not resulted in the total decriminalization of it
They have not managed to stop people smoking marijuana either.
Actually there are lots of parallels between the two. US pressure for the restrictive laws, a large industry that makes huge profits from the restrictions (albeit an illegal one on one case), lots of money spent on enforcement for no-social benefit, the lack of evidence for the arguments for the restrictions, etc.
It's not tax pounds (which would be taken out of your pay) but a license fee that you have to pay if you own any equipment that is capable of receiving a TV signal (e.g. TV, computer, certain mobile devices, etc) or IIRC a radio signal.
So it is a tax on TV ownership that is hypothecated to fund the BBC. It is still a tax and public money.
One example. I have two operating systems. One is a F/OSS distribution of Linux. The other is Windows or a FIPS certified Linux distribution like SUSE or RedHat.
Red Hat is definitely pure FOSS, I think SuSe probably is as well.
They weren't doing "just fine" - they were miserable, poor, and died at an extremely early age from all sorts of easily curable diseases. The myth of the "noble savage" is a popular one, but it IS a myth.
That is accurate as far as places that were "savage". However, many of the places that are now third world were civilised and economically competitive with Europe until they were invaded and occupied. Do you really think that the 18th century de-industrialisation of India would have been so bad without British colonisation, for example?
Read up on what people thought prior to that time: many Europeans thought it impossible to compete with the variety and scale of Asian manufacturing. Parts of West Africa were also developing.
Command lines are also much easier to give to other people as instructions. "type exactly what I say", or "copy this and paste into into a terminal window" is much easier than something like:
"open xxxx, go to the tools menu, open preferences. No it is right there, second from the bottom. OK now click on the xxxx tab. I said TAB, the row of things at the top. No, not the top of the screen, the top of the little preferences window. OK now...."
Personally I think John is an eye witness account - if it is not, it was written by a literary genius who developed a level of realism well ahead of his time: the inclusion of unnecessary details, the exclusion of detail likely to have been forgotten between the event and its recollection. Add to that the assertion that it was written by John himself, missing from the other gospels.
Mandriva has both Gnome and KDE versions. The installer either offers you a choice (Powerpack multi CD version) or comes in KDE and Gnome flavours (single CD version).
It is a pity that Kubuntu sucks. At least Suse offers a reasonable choice.
There are also a lot of smaller distros default to KDE: Mepis, PCLinuxOS, Knoppix, Slax, Slackware, Arch, TurboLinux, Vector, Linspire, Ark, Xandros, Pardus, Red Flag, ALT and probably a lot more I have not heard of.
I think that big business is more comfortable with the LGPL licensing of Gnome, so KDE probably does have a disadvantage that will not go away.
Because, despite your prejudice, there is a business case for it.
I think the GP is suggesting that there is rarely or never a business case or using Windows. I am not saying he is right, but that his argument need not be interpreted as zealotry.
Incidentally, Ackers presumably thinks that there is no business case for supporting Drizzle on Windows. Not supporting one platform should lead to cheaper, faster or better development.
The same way that anyone interested in any historical events copes. Multiple sources, comparison with other sources of information, finding older sources when possible etc.
The Bible is not a book. It is a collection of books. The New Testament is a collection of what were considered the best sources available: mostly books and letters.
You might understand better if you knew what faith was and why people have it.
I recently switched back to Mandriva after using Kubuntu for two years. I has a better installer, better hardware detection and a much better configuration GUI, but slightly worse software installation.
LaTeX is great, and is very useful when writing papers or manuals, etc.
It sucks for throwing together little one-off projects though. A little FAQ sheet. A letter to someone.
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The chip then sends radio signals to a larger device carried by the client with a global positioning system in it.
Or they can just smash the 'device' to bits. I fail to see the utility of this system.
I assume that the moment it is smashed the fact that it has stopped transmitting is noticed and alarms ring and a last known location and time are recorded.
The implanted chip prevents them just taking the transmitter away.
OK, this guy is more aggressive in expanding and in taking on incumbent operators, and he is more focused on small markets. That is all really forced on him by being smaller than the big operators (so he cannot go in to big markets, which would mean higher capex and competing head on with the big boys). Those smaller markets are less competitive and require different tactics.
Isn't this the same Web site that wants the government to intervene to lower the price of Windows, or supports early iphone adopters who paid the stupid tax suing Apple because they had the audacity to lower prices?
How do you get opinions from the site? Do you mean the opinions of different people who frequently disagree with each other.
Personally, I do not the government to intervene to lower the price of Windows: I want changes to competition, copyright and patent laws that would make the market more competitive which may or may not lead to lower prices (it may lead to more features, and certainly to more consumer choice). As for the people suing Apple, no one forced them to buy an Iphone, there are plenty of alternatives.
Nvidia has a company presence in the US so they can get sued here.
I think not.
Lots of companies around the world breach US software patents (for example) without their US businesses getting sued. Have you got an example of someone being successfully sued in the US for breaching US patents entirely outside the US?
India and China want to do business with Intel and AMD
Not half as much as Intel and AMD want to do business with India and China.
and what does it way about Slashdot that this appears to be the first comment from a woman....
SVG is designed for still vector images and animation on the order of animated gif (IE, short and no sound). Nothing else.
SVG can do a lot more.
It may not do everything that Silverlight of Flash can, but SVG + Javascript can do what is actually useful: the important exceptions are embedded media players and games.
Just wondering why you chose Christianity over, say, Islam or Buddhism or Shamanism. Feel free to ignore my question if you want, but it always interests me to know why people choose a particular religion (which almost always originated or was historically propagated within their cultural group).
As you imply, many people do accept religious views unquestioningly. Then again, many people accept political views, cultural views, ethical ideas, scientific views etc. equally unquestioningly if presented by authority figures. That does not mean the view necessarily invalid.
It is more worth looking at why people change their religious views, often at great personal cost. Better people than me have written about this, but a few things come to mind:
I personally find pure philosophical arguments (like Descartes etc.) unconvincing, but I find some force in each of the others. I think this combination is probably not unusual.
Can anyone recommend a country that isn't blithely gamboling towards outright fascism?
Antarctica?
That is not just an example, that is the entire list.
Almost the entire world is moving towards less personal freedom
On the other hand, the fact that for a few decades now a huge percentage of young people in various countries has considered smoking marijuana completely fine has not resulted in the total decriminalization of it
They have not managed to stop people smoking marijuana either.
Actually there are lots of parallels between the two. US pressure for the restrictive laws, a large industry that makes huge profits from the restrictions (albeit an illegal one on one case), lots of money spent on enforcement for no-social benefit, the lack of evidence for the arguments for the restrictions, etc.
It's not tax pounds (which would be taken out of your pay) but a license fee that you have to pay if you own any equipment that is capable of receiving a TV signal (e.g. TV, computer, certain mobile devices, etc) or IIRC a radio signal.
So it is a tax on TV ownership that is hypothecated to fund the BBC. It is still a tax and public money.
One example. I have two operating systems. One is a F/OSS distribution of Linux. The other is Windows or a FIPS certified Linux distribution like SUSE or RedHat.
Red Hat is definitely pure FOSS, I think SuSe probably is as well.
Slashdot geeks get excited about writing OSS to be used by first of all themselves, then other geeks, then artistic or creative types.
I am pretty sure that some of them would get excited about writing software that would allow them to sell support contracts to rich lawyers...
here is the fix [softpedia.com],from your friendly neighborhood PC repairman.
Amazing! I thought the only fix a neighbourhood repairman did was reinstall Windows.
That said I was recently asked by someone where he could get his technicians Linux training, so there is hope.
I said Asian and ALSO parts of West Africa
Even microkernels such as Mach are prone to these problems.
Can, but comparatively how often?
They weren't doing "just fine" - they were miserable, poor, and died at an extremely early age from all sorts of easily curable diseases. The myth of the "noble savage" is a popular one, but it IS a myth.
That is accurate as far as places that were "savage". However, many of the places that are now third world were civilised and economically competitive with Europe until they were invaded and occupied. Do you really think that the 18th century de-industrialisation of India would have been so bad without British colonisation, for example?
Read up on what people thought prior to that time: many Europeans thought it impossible to compete with the variety and scale of Asian manufacturing. Parts of West Africa were also developing.
"open xxxx, go to the tools menu, open preferences. No it is right there, second from the bottom. OK now click on the xxxx tab. I said TAB, the row of things at the top. No, not the top of the screen, the top of the little preferences window. OK now...."
Personally I think John is an eye witness account - if it is not, it was written by a literary genius who developed a level of realism well ahead of his time: the inclusion of unnecessary details, the exclusion of detail likely to have been forgotten between the event and its recollection. Add to that the assertion that it was written by John himself, missing from the other gospels.
It is a pity that Kubuntu sucks. At least Suse offers a reasonable choice.
There are also a lot of smaller distros default to KDE: Mepis, PCLinuxOS, Knoppix, Slax, Slackware, Arch, TurboLinux, Vector, Linspire, Ark, Xandros, Pardus, Red Flag, ALT and probably a lot more I have not heard of.
I think that big business is more comfortable with the LGPL licensing of Gnome, so KDE probably does have a disadvantage that will not go away.
Because, despite your prejudice, there is a business case for it.
I think the GP is suggesting that there is rarely or never a business case or using Windows. I am not saying he is right, but that his argument need not be interpreted as zealotry.
Incidentally, Ackers presumably thinks that there is no business case for supporting Drizzle on Windows. Not supporting one platform should lead to cheaper, faster or better development.
Finding the few stupidest comments made by a group of hundreds of millions of people proves what exactly?
The Bible is not a book. It is a collection of books. The New Testament is a collection of what were considered the best sources available: mostly books and letters.
You might understand better if you knew what faith was and why people have it.
I recently switched back to Mandriva after using Kubuntu for two years. I has a better installer, better hardware detection and a much better configuration GUI, but slightly worse software installation.
LaTeX is great, and is very useful when writing papers or manuals, etc. It sucks for throwing together little one-off projects though. A little FAQ sheet. A letter to someone.
Lyx
The vector graphics in Silverlight is similar enough to SVG to be converted by a relatively simple Javascript.