The US is the greatest, most important country in the history of the world. We've done more, succeeded in things that were thought to be impossible, have the greatest economic system, best standard of living, most rights, etc.
1. Countless drugs, enzymes and industrial compounds have been developed by studying the exotic animal and plant lifeforms that have developed in isolated environments like the Amazon.
2. Deep sea trenches and the deep ocean are the least investigated and studied environments on Earth. It's only recently that we've seen the first footage of living giant squid that give whales their battle scars. There's life down there that survives at extremes of cold, depth and pressure, low oxygen, etc, which no human has ever seen, much less studied.
3. So some staggering drooling idiot decides it'd be the perfect spot to dump a gigatonne of liquid CO2, which would almost certainly turn the whole lot into an underwater Death Valley.
Mod the parent up. There's no way you can consider the 2.6 series stable when it's living on the bleeding edge.
The old ${Major version}.${odd|even}.${release} method solved the issue perfectly: if you're a kernel developer or you want the very latest, you ran from the odd Dev branch. If you're running a remote server or otherwise don't want to/can't take the risk, you ran the even Stable branch.
It was a big strength of Linux and it's greatly disappointing that this sensible system wasn't continued.
I'm pretty sure this is incompatible with the UK Sale of Goods Act
Whether or not that's true, I can almost guarantee it would be a violation of the terms of their contract with Visa/Mastercard/Bankcard through their bank for merchant services and would get their merchant services revoked -- and would be likely enough to get them blacklisted from ever being approved for a merchant account ever again under that company name.
The card companies have a lot at stake to ensure their customers feel their online transactions are safe. They're not going to let a pissant little software company cause a media firestorm if they ever even tried to enforce it.
Heh. You neglect to mention the data cap on that account. That $AU29.95 gets you 500Meg/month. On a 24 Meg service, you'd blow that in the first day. After that, you get to pay whatever rate per Meg they've decided to gouge you on (likely 4c-15c/Meg).
Remember, the Doctor's TARDIS is unique. It's also possible that there are some causality issues that we are unaware of.
Well, no. The Doctor's TARDIS is an old superceded Type 40 model he nicked from a TARDIS repair room on Gallifrey. Both The Master and The Rani have much more advanced Type 60 TARDISes -- and The Rani has even had the technological skill to make custom improvements and modifications to hers.
The new series has been absolutely shite when it comes to plot contrivances. The "Heart of the TARDIS" sequences in episodes Boom Town and Parting of the Ways have unfortunately established than any suicidal hero can save the day with a quick TARDIS Heart peek, without any danger of adverse risks or consequences.
And the truck convoys that he moved from restricted areas just prior to making them unrestricted were just a coincidence? Or was he perhaps running a giant bluff and making his words appear to be lies?
Heh. The only ones making those claims was the now discredited UNMOVIC headed by serial liar, Richard Butler. UNMOVIC was disbanded entirely when it was demonstrated beyond doubt that their so-called independent UN authority was riddled with US agents;-).
You'll just keep cunningly moving your Rice horse pr0n around behind our backs while we search... until we have no option but to take over your house. We all know that;-).
Point is: nobody can prove a negative. That was why the US took that line. Saddam could never prove to the US/UN that his country had no WMD, though he did a damned good job trying. (Thus the complete lack of support from every country in the world apart from US vassal states.)
Let me refresh you memory. He invaded Kuwait and threatened to invade Saudi Arabia.
Pfft. Lets refresh your memory a bit here: the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait was originally provoked by Kuwait slant-drilling into Iraq's oil fields. The Iraqis sent a memo beforehand to US diplomats to get their okay, which was given.
From there, he proceeded for 10 years to violate the terms of the temporary cease fire by failing to prove that he had destroyed his WMDs
I'd now like you to prove that you have gotten rid of your photos of Condoleeza Rice humping a horse.
Ebay is the auctioneer. The auctioneer's services happen to be automated. Maybe Ebay might need to pay its $35 license fee and pay a $5000 bond. Big deal.
The seller is just, well, the seller -- someone who has purchased the auctioneer's services in order to sell a good or service at the highest bid.
If the legislators and bureaucrats in some hicksville US State are so dense that they can't fathom the difference, hopefully your courts will have a little bit more nous.
Bad idea, this. The consequences wouldn't be pretty.
1. It would cause the cost of software to blow out to pay the enormous cost of public liability insurance. There are local councils closing their childrens playgrounds in Australia due to the insurance costs involved. At best, software prices would increase. At worst, all the little players would quit the market leaving only the large firms who would then operate in an monopoly/oligopoly market.
2. Most companies already have incentive to provide updates to fix buggy code through the marketplace. If they consistently botch it, their products lose credibility and sales.
3. There are places in the market for software of all levels of reliability: public betas (expected to have bugs), ordinary commercial release and stuff tested heavily for mission critical use. In the end, you get the guarantees you pay for.
What this really demonstrates the most, though, is an ignorance of the lifecycle of software development: software takes time to mature. At maturity, it's at its most stable. A little while after that, feature creep takes hold and bugs increase again until those new features become mature. (And so on and so forth until the project dies or is redesigned from scratch.)
[...] incessantly pointed out that the "21st Century" didn't start out until 2001, aren't you?
In Australian schools we were taught that our country was Federated on the first day of the 20th Century on 1 Jan 1901 -- and yet our Mint and government still cocked it up and called 2000 the beginning of the 21st Century. What on earth can ya do when innumeracy is so prevalent, eh?
Every day, fewer and fewer customers enter my store to buy fewer and fewer CDs. Why is no one buying CDs? Are people not interested in music? Do people prefer to watch TV, see films, read books?
1. CDs are absurdly expensive. They should be priced like newspapers or magazines and sold in little cardboard dust covers to reduce the storage/transport costs. With the economies of scale, and the reduced price incentives for pirating, you'd be making money hand over fist. Take note of the example of the commercial success of computer magazine cover disks.
2. Take note of the live music scene in pubs and bars. It's largely collapsed. Yes, that's largely because people are doing other things with their time. The rise of computer games into the mainstream (both PC and consoles) hoovers a lot of money out of wallets and purses.
3. The rise of the Internet as a new nearly-essential utility and the privatisation of other public utilities has meant increased fixed costs to all consumers. More money hoovered out of wallets before non-essential purchases are even considered.
4. All the music released today sounds like over-produced American Idol contestants and the content's watered down to the lowest common denominator. Yet, the studios make their back catalog of prior good stuff largely inaccessible.
People flocked to my store, knowing that they (and their children) could safely purchase records without profanity or violent lyrics.
Families don't buy music, young people aged 14-40 do. Learn your demographic.
So that's my idea - a national blacklist of pirates.
Bound to fail for the same reasons the US War On Terrorism fails now: the security infrasture to police it will bankrupt you and for every pirate caught, another springs up in their place.
KFC definitely is/was. You're right though, it's Dominos not Pizza Hut. Shows how long it's been since I worked at STM;-).
Termteks were the replacement for Wyse terminals (caused by scarcity locally and price, IIRC). The keyboards you mention sound a bit odd. They used to have keypads with easily replaceable insertshandy for the regularly rotating novelty burger of the month.
(Aside for the Americans: IIRC, Burger King in the US hated this Hungry Jacks novelty burger practice enough to try to sue them over it in 1999. They lost. Yay.)
Interesting. Way back around 1998-1999, I was working for the company that did Point of Sale systems for Pizza Hut, Hungry Jacks (the Australian version of Burger King) and KFC. Front of Store was a collection of cheap VT terminals (Termteks) with keypads, the server being SCO. But the move was on way back then to move to Linux.
I hear on the grapevine that their system now runs on most of the Unix-alikes: SCO, Linux, FreeBSD, etc.
Consider that the US is the only country in the history of the world that was founded on principles of individual liberty and the protection of individual rights
Unless you were either non-white or female or both.
Though I guess "freedom and liberty for around 30%" doesn't have the same ring to it, eh?
Indeed. You'd want to ensure they don't have any Weapons of Mass Destruction before you use that as a pretext for invading them using an undersized military presence -- otherwise they'd rip you a new arsehole.
Stable IMAP-SSL support would be nice. As it is, it crashes regularly both in Windows and X11 (Linux). While I generally use Evolution on X11, Thunderbird is the best of a bad bunch for supporting this on Windows. Some improvement would be much appreciated though.
Biometrics is a false dawn. The best cautionary tale is The Mickelberg Stitch in 1982. The pricipal evidence (aside from false confessions) used to convict them were fingerprints found on cheques. Cut and dried, you might say... except that one of the brothers worked with latex. The police had used latex cast-offs to acquire his biometric identity and used it.
That was 1982 and I doubt criminal elements would need latex cast-offs to defeat biometrics. If they're decent folk, they'd be able to use image capture from something you've touched and lathe the prints into latex. If they're not, they just chop off some fingers and/or gouge out one of your eyes.
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Oh, I dunno... He's the last US President you could say at least tried not to be a force for evil in the world. Gotta give him points for that.
The mid-1980s want their humour back.
Mod parent up, +1 Funny :-).
Oops. s/nation/region/
West Indies... It's a nation outside US borders.
1. Countless drugs, enzymes and industrial compounds have been developed by studying the exotic animal and plant lifeforms that have developed in isolated environments like the Amazon.
2. Deep sea trenches and the deep ocean are the least investigated and studied environments on Earth. It's only recently that we've seen the first footage of living giant squid that give whales their battle scars. There's life down there that survives at extremes of cold, depth and pressure, low oxygen, etc, which no human has ever seen, much less studied.
3. So some staggering drooling idiot decides it'd be the perfect spot to dump a gigatonne of liquid CO2, which would almost certainly turn the whole lot into an underwater Death Valley.
4. ????
5. Profit.
The old ${Major version}.${odd|even}.${release} method solved the issue perfectly: if you're a kernel developer or you want the very latest, you ran from the odd Dev branch. If you're running a remote server or otherwise don't want to/can't take the risk, you ran the even Stable branch.
It was a big strength of Linux and it's greatly disappointing that this sensible system wasn't continued.
Whether or not that's true, I can almost guarantee it would be a violation of the terms of their contract with Visa/Mastercard/Bankcard through their bank for merchant services and would get their merchant services revoked -- and would be likely enough to get them blacklisted from ever being approved for a merchant account ever again under that company name.
The card companies have a lot at stake to ensure their customers feel their online transactions are safe. They're not going to let a pissant little software company cause a media firestorm if they ever even tried to enforce it.
Heh. You neglect to mention the data cap on that account. That $AU29.95 gets you 500Meg/month. On a 24 Meg service, you'd blow that in the first day. After that, you get to pay whatever rate per Meg they've decided to gouge you on (likely 4c-15c/Meg).
Well, no. The Doctor's TARDIS is an old superceded Type 40 model he nicked from a TARDIS repair room on Gallifrey. Both The Master and The Rani have much more advanced Type 60 TARDISes -- and The Rani has even had the technological skill to make custom improvements and modifications to hers.
The new series has been absolutely shite when it comes to plot contrivances. The "Heart of the TARDIS" sequences in episodes Boom Town and Parting of the Ways have unfortunately established than any suicidal hero can save the day with a quick TARDIS Heart peek, without any danger of adverse risks or consequences.
Heh. The only ones making those claims was the now discredited UNMOVIC headed by serial liar, Richard Butler. UNMOVIC was disbanded entirely when it was demonstrated beyond doubt that their so-called independent UN authority was riddled with US agents ;-).
Point is: nobody can prove a negative. That was why the US took that line. Saddam could never prove to the US/UN that his country had no WMD, though he did a damned good job trying. (Thus the complete lack of support from every country in the world apart from US vassal states.)
Pfft. Lets refresh your memory a bit here: the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait was originally provoked by Kuwait slant-drilling into Iraq's oil fields. The Iraqis sent a memo beforehand to US diplomats to get their okay, which was given.
From there, he proceeded for 10 years to violate the terms of the temporary cease fire by failing to prove that he had destroyed his WMDs
I'd now like you to prove that you have gotten rid of your photos of Condoleeza Rice humping a horse.
Bachelors level degree holders: North Dakota: 22.0%
Australia: 21.0%
Nothing much there to choose between. If North Dakota is the cream of the US crop, the rest of your country must be in pretty desperate shape.
Someone acting as an agent for another person, to sell that person's goods in exchange for a fee.
Given that agent still isn't acting as an auctioneer, just hiring Ebay to do the job for someone else, your point's still irrelevant.
The seller is just, well, the seller -- someone who has purchased the auctioneer's services in order to sell a good or service at the highest bid.
If the legislators and bureaucrats in some hicksville US State are so dense that they can't fathom the difference, hopefully your courts will have a little bit more nous.
1. It would cause the cost of software to blow out to pay the enormous cost of public liability insurance. There are local councils closing their childrens playgrounds in Australia due to the insurance costs involved. At best, software prices would increase. At worst, all the little players would quit the market leaving only the large firms who would then operate in an monopoly/oligopoly market.
2. Most companies already have incentive to provide updates to fix buggy code through the marketplace. If they consistently botch it, their products lose credibility and sales.
3. There are places in the market for software of all levels of reliability: public betas (expected to have bugs), ordinary commercial release and stuff tested heavily for mission critical use. In the end, you get the guarantees you pay for.
What this really demonstrates the most, though, is an ignorance of the lifecycle of software development: software takes time to mature. At maturity, it's at its most stable. A little while after that, feature creep takes hold and bugs increase again until those new features become mature. (And so on and so forth until the project dies or is redesigned from scratch.)
In Australian schools we were taught that our country was Federated on the first day of the 20th Century on 1 Jan 1901 -- and yet our Mint and government still cocked it up and called 2000 the beginning of the 21st Century. What on earth can ya do when innumeracy is so prevalent, eh?
You know, if OpenOffice.Org were completely serious about their name, we'd start the app by running OpenOffice.Org.exe...
1. CDs are absurdly expensive. They should be priced like newspapers or magazines and sold in little cardboard dust covers to reduce the storage/transport costs. With the economies of scale, and the reduced price incentives for pirating, you'd be making money hand over fist. Take note of the example of the commercial success of computer magazine cover disks.
2. Take note of the live music scene in pubs and bars. It's largely collapsed. Yes, that's largely because people are doing other things with their time. The rise of computer games into the mainstream (both PC and consoles) hoovers a lot of money out of wallets and purses.
3. The rise of the Internet as a new nearly-essential utility and the privatisation of other public utilities has meant increased fixed costs to all consumers. More money hoovered out of wallets before non-essential purchases are even considered.
4. All the music released today sounds like over-produced American Idol contestants and the content's watered down to the lowest common denominator. Yet, the studios make their back catalog of prior good stuff largely inaccessible.
People flocked to my store, knowing that they (and their children) could safely purchase records without profanity or violent lyrics.
Families don't buy music, young people aged 14-40 do. Learn your demographic.
So that's my idea - a national blacklist of pirates.
Bound to fail for the same reasons the US War On Terrorism fails now: the security infrasture to police it will bankrupt you and for every pirate caught, another springs up in their place.
KFC definitely is/was. You're right though, it's Dominos not Pizza Hut. Shows how long it's been since I worked at STM ;-).
Termteks were the replacement for Wyse terminals (caused by scarcity locally and price, IIRC). The keyboards you mention sound a bit odd. They used to have keypads with easily replaceable insertshandy for the regularly rotating novelty burger of the month.
(Aside for the Americans: IIRC, Burger King in the US hated this Hungry Jacks novelty burger practice enough to try to sue them over it in 1999. They lost. Yay.)
I hear on the grapevine that their system now runs on most of the Unix-alikes: SCO, Linux, FreeBSD, etc.
Unless you were either non-white or female or both.
Though I guess "freedom and liberty for around 30%" doesn't have the same ring to it, eh?
Indeed. You'd want to ensure they don't have any Weapons of Mass Destruction before you use that as a pretext for invading them using an undersized military presence -- otherwise they'd rip you a new arsehole.
Stable IMAP-SSL support would be nice. As it is, it crashes regularly both in Windows and X11 (Linux). While I generally use Evolution on X11, Thunderbird is the best of a bad bunch for supporting this on Windows. Some improvement would be much appreciated though.
That was 1982 and I doubt criminal elements would need latex cast-offs to defeat biometrics. If they're decent folk, they'd be able to use image capture from something you've touched and lathe the prints into latex. If they're not, they just chop off some fingers and/or gouge out one of your eyes.