The message reads 'in hoc spatio arbor noster floruit, fecundus pomis Elysii ignoti, quo in loco ludent electi, ab Originis angelis circumdati'.
Looks like the sort of generic boiler plate text that many web developers use when they want text appearing to demonstrate content but want to ensure that the text has no real content which might annoy the client or seem flippant. Why on earth/.'s editors have decided that has some sort of significance is beyond imagining.
Well, let's face it: true solar-powered vehicles are unlikely ever to be commercialized.
Probably. An effective end product would be a hybrid using ethanol for acceleration and the battery to keep momentum going. Refill on the ethanol once in a while at the service station, refill the battery at your house (with solar panels replacing your house's roof). There are some homes already paying their electricity bills and on-selling surplus to energy suppliers, so the concept's reasonably proven.
That said, I'm not sure that Americans can easily give up their love affair with SUVs, so it'll probably be a European and Asian thing way before it happens in the US. In the end though, oil prices are on the rise quickly now and it's not going to be whether people switch to alternative energy, but, when and using what.
Unlike bittorrent sites that will copy entire works in full.
Torrent sites generally have no copies of the works. They just coordinate sharing. Each of those bittorrent clients is "showing small snippets out of copyrighted [works]" available to each other. Rarely does one torrent client copy the entirity of a work to another client;-).
An interesting precedent if it succeeds. Your local bittorrent site can simply offer the record companies and film industry the ability to opt out of having their works reproduced by a particular torrent if they happen to find it's been copied and then impose highly bureaucratic mechanisms for them to prove who they are before they act.
Who knew you just had to be a big company for your theft of copyright to become 'legal'... Everyone else wanting to publish content has to make do with only publishing copyright expired works, works for which they've purchased the rights to or those they own directly by virtue of being the author themselves.
"[...] Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller claims in the future some civil rights may have to 'erode', in order to keep everyone in the country safe from terrorism."
Lets review the neocon rhetoric, shall we:
"The terrorists hate our freedoms."
"We will not bow down to terrorism."
"You must give up your rights to stop terrorism."
Basic incompatible propositions. Seriously, someone needs to teach these idiots how to think. (If they can't even think through their lies and spin properly, what chance do they have of actually resolving the real root causes terrorism.)
All well and good. However, that's not going to be a lot of use in 2212 when the binaries are long-forgotten and the proprietory file format's a mystery. What using an open format means is the specifications will be available to open those files at any time in the future, whether Microsoft's around as a company or not.
I agree however that it would seem people have been caught with their pants down in regards to WinFS though. The usual sentiment about it among Linux peeps from what I've seen is that it either isn't doable, or that it is, but that it'd be horribly slow.
Nah. The real problem is that WinFS is fundamentally just a solution looking for a problem that nobody really has. Thus the lack of horror from the public when WinFS has been successively removed from various "next gen" Windows releases.
Office has MUCH better version tracking, sharing and collaborative features. OOo can't touch it here.
Yes. Thank God. Those version tracking "features" are one of the reasons I steer clear of MS Office.
Office really needs an easily found "Destroy Version Tracking Data" option. Too many places send out Word documents to the outside world with this stuff inside. Not a good thing to have those clients/competitors/etc step through the revisions to see what was originally included but removed;-).
A bit irrelevant to the main topic, but, in Australia, anyone who rear ends you for whatever reason is always at fault. If they'd been driving at a sensible following distance and had kept their brakes in good condition, they wouldn't have rear-ended you. They did. Therefore, they're to blame.
Which electricity had to be generated far away, losing at least half its power in the transmission.
Solar power + battery systems + decent home design to improve insulating properties to reduce heat loss. Yes, there are homes out there who sell electricity to the grid rather than buy. Seriously, I know Americans love their petrochemicals and detest the Kyoto Protocol, but, you've got to keep up with the emergent technologies overseas sometime...
Dunno. Either way, it seems like complete wank. "Windows 6.0" would be a preferable name (or "Windows 2006" if they must keep using their asshat date based versions to encourage people to update their OS every few years).
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Terrorism \Ter"ror*ism\, n. [Cf. F. terrorisme.]
1. The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a
mode of government by terror or intimidation. --Jefferson.
[1913 Webster]
2. The practise of coercing governments to accede to
political demands by committing violence on civilian
targets; any similar use of violence to achieve goals.
[PJC]
Remember Shrub's "shock and awe" attacks on Baghdad? Yep, textbook terrorism but on a grand scale. Oddly enough, Shrub hasn't been indefinitely detained and tortured without charge at Guantanimo Bay, Cuba.
The US Patriot Act won't be used against terrorists, just opponents of the US government. Expecting anything less would be ignoring the recent history of US systematic human rights violations.
They're symbolic of the results of nuclear war (particularly terrifying in 1963 when they were introduced, just after the Cuban Missile Crisis proved how close nuclear war could have been).
General fear of the unknown; what mutant lurks inside the Dalek travel machine. It took a few stories before they were shown. Even then, they're generally only seen briefly.
Fears of biological and genetic engineering, classic Frankenstein losing control of a creation story.
Stories involving Davros also add the fear of fascism, the seductiveness of evil and warns of the dangers of logic and self-preservation over ethics and humanity.
The 'next generation' seen in Revelation of the Daleks added the question: what if you went to sleep and woke up with only your head and turning into a Dalek hybrid?
Unfortunately, not a lot of that was seen in the Tom Baker era, apart from Genesis... just a lot of Tom causing them to get confused and explode by dropping a hat on their eye-stalk, or yell "Exterminate!" a lot, which really cheapened them as villains.
According to the GPL, you must make the source code available to the people you distribute it to. Well, if your giving someone your document doesn't this mean you're also giving them the code as well??:)
The equivalent would be someone using Perl to write a report. The output data you produce with it is not GNU. Only the code used to produce Perl is GNU.
Someone uses a GNU font to produce a document. The code that makes the font is GNU. The output isn't. Your document's safe.
18 days after April Fools and people just can't let it go...
That is unbelievable. Customer expectations are profit opportunities -- and if he's not willing to satisfy them, someone else will. He's actually angry that customers want service to keep improving!
Improving the service, in these companies, is called cannibalizing the marketplace. They'll resist improving the service because they're reaping profit from the existing capital and there's no point putting in more capital to generate the same incomings.
In an oligopoly, the few suppliers have a defacto understanding together of what pricing should be set for various services and don't deviate into a profit-sapping price war. That'll remain the standard unless a new entrant comes in who is willing to run the risk of being driven out of business by that same oligopoly selling at below-cost by using the financial reserves they've accumulated during the fat times.
This, boys and girls, is why the free market fetishists are living in a fantasy world if they think an unregulated economy lead to marketplace efficiency.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Monopoly \Mo*nop"o*ly\, n.; pl. {Monopolies}. [L. monopolium, Gr. ?, ?; mo`nos alone + ? to sell.] 1. The exclusive power, or privilege of selling a commodity; the exclusive power, right, or privilege of dealing in some article, or of trading in some market; sole command of the traffic in anything, however obtained; as, the proprietor of a patented article is given a monopoly of its sale for a limited time; chartered trading companies have sometimes had a monopoly of trade with remote regions; a combination of traders may get a monopoly of a particular product.
Raleigh held a monopoly of cards, Essex a monopoly of sweet wines. --Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
monopoly n 1: (economics) a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller; "a monopoly on silver"; "when you have a monopoly you can ask any price you like" 2: exclusive control or possession of something; "They have no monopoly on intelligence"
Knowing the surface-level dross that claims to be US current affairs shows -- yes, even from your PBS -- I seriously doubt it's better than the Australian satire of the current affairs genre with the same name;-).
Slashdot Mirror
Looks like the sort of generic boiler plate text that many web developers use when they want text appearing to demonstrate content but want to ensure that the text has no real content which might annoy the client or seem flippant. Why on earth /.'s editors have decided that has some sort of significance is beyond imagining.
Probably. An effective end product would be a hybrid using ethanol for acceleration and the battery to keep momentum going. Refill on the ethanol once in a while at the service station, refill the battery at your house (with solar panels replacing your house's roof). There are some homes already paying their electricity bills and on-selling surplus to energy suppliers, so the concept's reasonably proven.
That said, I'm not sure that Americans can easily give up their love affair with SUVs, so it'll probably be a European and Asian thing way before it happens in the US. In the end though, oil prices are on the rise quickly now and it's not going to be whether people switch to alternative energy, but, when and using what.
Torrent sites generally have no copies of the works. They just coordinate sharing. Each of those bittorrent clients is "showing small snippets out of copyrighted [works]" available to each other. Rarely does one torrent client copy the entirity of a work to another client ;-).
Who knew you just had to be a big company for your theft of copyright to become 'legal'... Everyone else wanting to publish content has to make do with only publishing copyright expired works, works for which they've purchased the rights to or those they own directly by virtue of being the author themselves.
Comparing State size, eh?
Texas, USA: 678,907 km^2
Western Australia, Australia: 2,529,875 km^2
Things are always teensy-weensy in Texas.
Lets review the neocon rhetoric, shall we:
- "The terrorists hate our freedoms."
- "We will not bow down to terrorism."
- "You must give up your rights to stop terrorism."
Basic incompatible propositions. Seriously, someone needs to teach these idiots how to think. (If they can't even think through their lies and spin properly, what chance do they have of actually resolving the real root causes terrorism.)All well and good. However, that's not going to be a lot of use in 2212 when the binaries are long-forgotten and the proprietory file format's a mystery. What using an open format means is the specifications will be available to open those files at any time in the future, whether Microsoft's around as a company or not.
Nah. The real problem is that WinFS is fundamentally just a solution looking for a problem that nobody really has. Thus the lack of horror from the public when WinFS has been successively removed from various "next gen" Windows releases.
Yes. Thank God. Those version tracking "features" are one of the reasons I steer clear of MS Office. Office really needs an easily found "Destroy Version Tracking Data" option. Too many places send out Word documents to the outside world with this stuff inside. Not a good thing to have those clients/competitors/etc step through the revisions to see what was originally included but removed ;-).
Er, no. One rat might carry plague but it certainly doesn't cause or create the plague virus.
A bit irrelevant to the main topic, but, in Australia, anyone who rear ends you for whatever reason is always at fault. If they'd been driving at a sensible following distance and had kept their brakes in good condition, they wouldn't have rear-ended you. They did. Therefore, they're to blame.
Voltage doesn't matter. It's the Amps that count.
Which electricity had to be generated far away, losing at least half its power in the transmission.
Solar power + battery systems + decent home design to improve insulating properties to reduce heat loss. Yes, there are homes out there who sell electricity to the grid rather than buy. Seriously, I know Americans love their petrochemicals and detest the Kyoto Protocol, but, you've got to keep up with the emergent technologies overseas sometime...
Dunno. Either way, it seems like complete wank. "Windows 6.0" would be a preferable name (or "Windows 2006" if they must keep using their asshat date based versions to encourage people to update their OS every few years).
The US Patriot Act won't be used against terrorists, just opponents of the US government. Expecting anything less would be ignoring the recent history of US systematic human rights violations.
The above only includes the TV episodes, not the audio dramas.
- They're symbolic of the results of nuclear war (particularly terrifying in 1963 when they were introduced, just after the Cuban Missile Crisis proved how close nuclear war could have been).
- General fear of the unknown; what mutant lurks inside the Dalek travel machine. It took a few stories before they were shown. Even then, they're generally only seen briefly.
- Fears of biological and genetic engineering, classic Frankenstein losing control of a creation story.
- Stories involving Davros also add the fear of fascism, the seductiveness of evil and warns of the dangers of logic and self-preservation over ethics and humanity.
- The 'next generation' seen in Revelation of the Daleks added the question: what if you went to sleep and woke up with only your head and turning into a Dalek hybrid?
Unfortunately, not a lot of that was seen in the Tom Baker era, apart from Genesis... just a lot of Tom causing them to get confused and explode by dropping a hat on their eye-stalk, or yell "Exterminate!" a lot, which really cheapened them as villains.Now there's a marketing gimmick waiting to happen...
"Your purchase of cough medicine has been declined."
The equivalent would be someone using Perl to write a report. The output data you produce with it is not GNU. Only the code used to produce Perl is GNU.
Someone uses a GNU font to produce a document. The code that makes the font is GNU. The output isn't. Your document's safe.
18 days after April Fools and people just can't let it go...
That is unbelievable. Customer expectations are profit opportunities -- and if he's not willing to satisfy them, someone else will. He's actually angry that customers want service to keep improving!
Improving the service, in these companies, is called cannibalizing the marketplace. They'll resist improving the service because they're reaping profit from the existing capital and there's no point putting in more capital to generate the same incomings.
In an oligopoly, the few suppliers have a defacto understanding together of what pricing should be set for various services and don't deviate into a profit-sapping price war. That'll remain the standard unless a new entrant comes in who is willing to run the risk of being driven out of business by that same oligopoly selling at below-cost by using the financial reserves they've accumulated during the fat times.
This, boys and girls, is why the free market fetishists are living in a fantasy world if they think an unregulated economy lead to marketplace efficiency.
Obligatory: In Arabic countries, George Bush fucks you!
Knowing the surface-level dross that claims to be US current affairs shows -- yes, even from your PBS -- I seriously doubt it's better than the Australian satire of the current affairs genre with the same name ;-).
Seriously though... What moron at Microsoft decided that naming a coding framework after a popular gTLD was a good idea?
Actually www.php.net is and their Netcraft result shows they're using Apache1.