That was my original take too, but I don't think that is what the article says. It states that despite the reduction in CFC the ozone layer is not improving (I've heard otherwise before, though), but it doesn't say it is getting worse either though. So the angle of the story is that the ozone layer is not improving, so they are looking for other problems than the already known ones to get to a point where the ozone layer would be healing.
Mod parent insightful. As bad as Hugo is this summary is stupid. You could write a story in the same style about the US, and how they are the source of much pornography but is still trying to outlaw or severly restrict. Just pure trolling.
Please critize Venzuela on sound ground. It is not that hard.
Now please, list for me, the free software OS distributions that are provided with security fixes for 10-12 years after release?
Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, any other free linux distro.
Linux is free, so you are free to upgrade. The idea of only fixing some things, and not providing free upgrades is only relevant to Microsoft because they have a financial interest in getting the users to pay for a new version. In linux there is little point in patching old versions since the new version with both the fixes and new features are just as free.
Why wouldn't it? AMD64 is backwards compatible with IA32. It is only kernel-drivers that has to be 64bit, and even then you are saved by WinNT's original microkernel architecture, so only high-performance drivers such as graphics needs to be 64bit. Vista in itself imposes more driver-rewrites that 64bit does.
If DVDs are anything like CD-R they will have hard time surviving just 5 years, let alone 16. So stay away from writable optical media. Getting a DVD professional pressed might make it survivable (like a bought movie).
Save it on a harddisk. Preferable on an external one with ethernet access. You will still be able to use ethernet in 16years while USB might have become uncommon. I have 12 year old harddisks that are still active and working. With continued use half of them have died in that timeframe, but I assume that if they had been unused most would have made it.
A standard harddisk survives 6-10 years of continued _use_. Storing it is perfectly safe. If you are really worried buy a modern SCSI drive, they should be able to survive the 16years even if it is running the whole time.
Are you telling me it's taxes are just enough that Sony has to 299 for the PS3 in the EU and $299 in the US and that it has nothing to do with the euro being worth more therefore allowing them to make a bigger profit for no additional work?
Almost. Europe doesn't like misleading price-tags and commercial dishonesty, as a result prices in the EU is the actuale sale-price, including VAT or other types of sale tax. The sale tax is anywhere from 10% to 25%. In the case of 25% it almost covers difference between dollars and euros. Before the dollar lost most of its value the prices in euroes was often higher than the price in dollars.
Firefox is written in C++. That their interface description are written in a purpuse build script-like language is just a design separation. Look at it this way: You couldn't make a new Firefox on pre, because it requires compiled C++.
Whether you pay an average 35% tax or an average 45% is not going to make you choose a 30,000$/year job (minimum salery) over a 100,000$/year job (starting for a CS major). Math and science is missing students for the same reason as they do in the US, they are just not popular and won't get you laid. Still we have many more people with higher educations than the US, but it might be because educations are free.
Just imagine what would've happened if a nuclear reactor crashed into WTC. The bottom of the sea doesn't have this problem.
Much less than what happened on 11/9, without the jet-fuel there would be no powerful steel-melting furnace. We might still need to demolish the building to clear the nuclear waste, but it could be done controlled after the everyone was evacuated. New Yorkers in general might become a little weirder and more radioactive, but I don't think anyone would notice.
Yes, because it's not like we experience that kind of politcal bias here on Slashdot all the time where people get modded down because someone of the other party had mod points......
By the "other party" you are refering to the Apple party, right?
If the UK software market is anything like Denmark only idiots buys the full versions. You can buy the OEM versions for less than a fifth of the price, since Microsoft can not legally restrict the resale of OEM versions, like in the US. People only pay full price for the ability to gracefully upgrade (which is why upgrade and full versions cost the same).
I'd agree that it's very questionable whether a lawsuit for breaking an EULA is valid... However, if you write an EULA or asks people to accept an EULA, and you then break the EULA, you won't look too bright...:)
True, but I don't think we really need more reasons to laugh Microsoft. The OEMs doesn't have a choice.
Btw, the default install of Windows in Lenova is pretty broken. I have the same machine and Vista Business as in this article. Several icons in the default installation doesn't work, and the second time the machine booted (the first was self-installation) the first thing I saw was a crash dialog for some third party application. So I don't need any more reasons to laugh at Lenovo either;) The leftover they have from IBM is the still best hardware on the market, but it seems they are covering it in software poo.
No, they can't... A this EULA is written by Microsoft and approved by the EU
Nope. I don't know of any place in the EU where EULA are legal. It is only a few states in the US, and possible a few other countries that has sufficiently messed up contract law where EULAs mean anything.
Further, the Windows EULA is odd in that *Microsoft* is setting up an agreement between two *other* parties. One party has the right to decline the EULA, and the other party is legally bound to accept that.
Well, EULA's are invalid in Denmark, you are allowed to press accept without accepting it. It has been established in supreme court that you are allowed to do anything necessary to make your purchased product work without agreeing to anything more than what you agreed to before purchase, and that clicking a button on a screen is not legally binding. I guess it works the other way too, nothing you do with the EULA has any legal relevance what so ever. The EULA is fiction.
Just because someone questions it doesn't mean it is questionable. As people have said it is just as likely to be someone defending his turf or his puppet-master.
Blowing ourselves up is not about killing all life on earth. The scenario is usually a total nuclear war which will destroy "life as we know it". This means it will destroy our way of living and a lot of people, but it won't even wipe out the human race, at best just our current civilizations.
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I know there have been apologies for slavery, but it just doesn't make any sense.
As a former foreign minister of Denmark said on the issue: We do not apologize for things we haven't done, to people it wasn't done against.
That was my original take too, but I don't think that is what the article says. It states that despite the reduction in CFC the ozone layer is not improving (I've heard otherwise before, though), but it doesn't say it is getting worse either though. So the angle of the story is that the ozone layer is not improving, so they are looking for other problems than the already known ones to get to a point where the ozone layer would be healing.
Mod parent insightful. As bad as Hugo is this summary is stupid. You could write a story in the same style about the US, and how they are the source of much pornography but is still trying to outlaw or severly restrict. Just pure trolling.
Please critize Venzuela on sound ground. It is not that hard.
Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, any other free linux distro.
Linux is free, so you are free to upgrade. The idea of only fixing some things, and not providing free upgrades is only relevant to Microsoft because they have a financial interest in getting the users to pay for a new version. In linux there is little point in patching old versions since the new version with both the fixes and new features are just as free.
Why wouldn't it? AMD64 is backwards compatible with IA32. It is only kernel-drivers that has to be 64bit, and even then you are saved by WinNT's original microkernel architecture, so only high-performance drivers such as graphics needs to be 64bit. Vista in itself imposes more driver-rewrites that 64bit does.
I find CTRL+F to be faster.
So far a few hundred thousands the last 10 years.
If DVDs are anything like CD-R they will have hard time surviving just 5 years, let alone 16. So stay away from writable optical media. Getting a DVD professional pressed might make it survivable (like a bought movie).
Save it on a harddisk. Preferable on an external one with ethernet access. You will still be able to use ethernet in 16years while USB might have become uncommon. I have 12 year old harddisks that are still active and working. With continued use half of them have died in that timeframe, but I assume that if they had been unused most would have made it.
A standard harddisk survives 6-10 years of continued _use_. Storing it is perfectly safe. If you are really worried buy a modern SCSI drive, they should be able to survive the 16years even if it is running the whole time.
Stopping being idiots and start (re)introducing 1 dollar coins, and add 0.5 and 2 dollar coins while you are at it.
Almost. Europe doesn't like misleading price-tags and commercial dishonesty, as a result prices in the EU is the actuale sale-price, including VAT or other types of sale tax. The sale tax is anywhere from 10% to 25%. In the case of 25% it almost covers difference between dollars and euros. Before the dollar lost most of its value the prices in euroes was often higher than the price in dollars.
Firefox is written in C++. That their interface description are written in a purpuse build script-like language is just a design separation. Look at it this way: You couldn't make a new Firefox on pre, because it requires compiled C++.
Whether you pay an average 35% tax or an average 45% is not going to make you choose a 30,000$/year job (minimum salery) over a 100,000$/year job (starting for a CS major). Math and science is missing students for the same reason as they do in the US, they are just not popular and won't get you laid. Still we have many more people with higher educations than the US, but it might be because educations are free.
My debit card charges 0.0% per transaction. Why are you using credit cards online?
Much less than what happened on 11/9, without the jet-fuel there would be no powerful steel-melting furnace. We might still need to demolish the building to clear the nuclear waste, but it could be done controlled after the everyone was evacuated. New Yorkers in general might become a little weirder and more radioactive, but I don't think anyone would notice.
By the "other party" you are refering to the Apple party, right?
If the UK software market is anything like Denmark only idiots buys the full versions. You can buy the OEM versions for less than a fifth of the price, since Microsoft can not legally restrict the resale of OEM versions, like in the US. People only pay full price for the ability to gracefully upgrade (which is why upgrade and full versions cost the same).
Recently europeans said the same about Airbus after all the A380 delays.
True, but I don't think we really need more reasons to laugh Microsoft. The OEMs doesn't have a choice.
Btw, the default install of Windows in Lenova is pretty broken. I have the same machine and Vista Business as in this article. Several icons in the default installation doesn't work, and the second time the machine booted (the first was self-installation) the first thing I saw was a crash dialog for some third party application. So I don't need any more reasons to laugh at Lenovo either ;) The leftover they have from IBM is the still best hardware on the market, but it seems they are covering it in software poo.
Nope. I don't know of any place in the EU where EULA are legal. It is only a few states in the US, and possible a few other countries that has sufficiently messed up contract law where EULAs mean anything.
Well, EULA's are invalid in Denmark, you are allowed to press accept without accepting it. It has been established in supreme court that you are allowed to do anything necessary to make your purchased product work without agreeing to anything more than what you agreed to before purchase, and that clicking a button on a screen is not legally binding. I guess it works the other way too, nothing you do with the EULA has any legal relevance what so ever. The EULA is fiction.
Just because someone questions it doesn't mean it is questionable. As people have said it is just as likely to be someone defending his turf or his puppet-master.
Not entirely. The UK does have a major third party that gets between 10 and 20% of the votes, even if they never get real representation.
Blowing ourselves up is not about killing all life on earth. The scenario is usually a total nuclear war which will destroy "life as we know it". This means it will destroy our way of living and a lot of people, but it won't even wipe out the human race, at best just our current civilizations.