That was a case of a company that sold google page rankings, and tried to manipluate those rankings for its own profit. I don't see that this is a similar case - this one involves a company that apparently legitimately gained a high page ranking losing business when that ranking was lowered. It sounds to me like this case has a lot more merit.
Don't worry. The downward pressure on wages will really soon do the same, and more, to house prices and rents. You'll still have the same problem, though, bacause you'll be earning a lot less too.
That was a quote. His Billness said that to Anders when he was calling him at Borland trying to get him to jump ship. This tactic was obviously rather successful. That and the 5 million dollar sign-on bonus, of course.
I'd be more worried about the solvency of Virgin Galactic. Giving Beardie a 20k loan to bail out his other interests doesn't seem like a great idea to me.
Just now in the keynote - "I stood up here two years ago and promised you 3.0 GHz. I think a lot of you would like a G5 in your PowerBook, and we haven't been able to deliver that to you. But as we look ahead, and though we've got great products now, and great PowerPC products still to come, we can envision great products we want to build, and we can't envision how to build them with the current PowerPC roadmap." - Steve Jobs
By coincidence, I had just read the New Scientist's article about this, which is the source of the BBC article, but in much more depth and with many more details,
I note that the company that makes the decisions about what constitutes "adult content" is based in Utah. Does this mean that scenes of wanton coffee drinking will be removed? It reminds me of a comment I heard about American television once - "any scenes relating to sex usually draw complaints from an audience the size of Salt Lake City. In fact is usually *is* the population of Salt Lake City". Can't we make Utah an independent country and stop them skewing the demographic for the rest of us?
Really? I've been using Vonage quite happily for over a year now. Great quality, uptime, service. Althpugh I haven't ditched Ma Bell yet (she provides my DSL service, and my grandfathered-in static ip address would be sorely missed).
The article clearly states that this sort of thing will be happening everywhere when cars get smart enough to avoid traffic jams and road blocks. If privacy is a concern, then start doing something about it. If you just want to post gloating drivel then please shut up.
Please RTFA before clicking submit. The article clearly says that this type of thing will be happening everywhere. It's part of the infrastructure required to make cars smart enough to plan around roadblocks and traffic jams ahead. If you think that *any* government is going to ignore the data that comes back from the car giving (at least) its speed and location then you are a very deluded individual.
"Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that wearing uniforms that resemble generic law enforcement uniforms but are not direct imitations of official uniforms is illegal."
So what does this mean? "or which so resembles the authorized badge of a peace officer as would deceive any ordinary reasonable person into believing that it is authorized for the use of one who by law is given the authority of a peace officer..." If I am wearing something that is not a direct imitation of an official uniform, but that is close enough to "deceive any reasonable person" (and it appears that they deceived quite a few of them) then I fall foul of this code. Don't I?
Not a troll. Wonderful bit of self-deprecation in a Grauniad article. "If there's one thing the British know how to snatch it is defeat and, unerringly, they know where to snatch it from." Watch out for the sneaky bit of optimism that made its way in at the end though.
Yeah. I agree. I'm waiting for someone to make a tivo for the radio. Maybe, for safety's sake since I listen to radio mainly in my car, with a ReplayTV style commercial auto-skip.
The scary one, assuming I'm reading this right, is 2078-03-22.19, when it gets to within 0.11 earth radii of us. Surely that's far enough out that some slight changes to its orbit could nudge it closer?
Really? Anybody care to enlighten somebody who always thought mosquitoes were prime candidates for the species-nobody-would-miss-if-they-became-extinct dept?
I'm not sure that the implication that XML should be human-readable is correct. XML is a way of wrapping human-readable content in such a way that it can be easily processed and transformed by machines. It can then also be processed easily to make it human readable, with computer-enhanced richness intact.
I understand where you're coming from with respect to Ant, though. It seems to me that the missing step here is something to generate the XML. I've recently been charged with programming in a beast called BPEL. Take a look at that and you'll never complain about Ant again.
You know, people who don't like fiction really shouldn't complain about its quality. People like that complained about Austen and Diskens too. If you don't like it you just won't understand it. Stick to stuff you don't consider a waste of time.
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That was a case of a company that sold google page rankings, and tried to manipluate those rankings for its own profit. I don't see that this is a similar case - this one involves a company that apparently legitimately gained a high page ranking losing business when that ranking was lowered. It sounds to me like this case has a lot more merit.
Don't worry. The downward pressure on wages will really soon do the same, and more, to house prices and rents. You'll still have the same problem, though, bacause you'll be earning a lot less too.
That was a quote. His Billness said that to Anders when he was calling him at Borland trying to get him to jump ship. This tactic was obviously rather successful. That and the 5 million dollar sign-on bonus, of course.
But then, Bill Gates himself said that the only thing wrong with Delphi was that it wasn't a Microsoft product.
I'd be more worried about the solvency of Virgin Galactic. Giving Beardie a 20k loan to bail out his other interests doesn't seem like a great idea to me.
Sick. But funny. Thanks.
Seriously - I'm as geeky as anyone, but who would really wear this stuff? If I gave a girl something as nasty as this I'd expect a very cool response.
Just now in the keynote - "I stood up here two years ago and promised you 3.0 GHz. I think a lot of you would like a G5 in your PowerBook, and we haven't been able to deliver that to you. But as we look ahead, and though we've got great products now, and great PowerPC products still to come, we can envision great products we want to build, and we can't envision how to build them with the current PowerPC roadmap." - Steve Jobs
Damn you. I just laughed coffee all over my screen.
By coincidence, I had just read the New Scientist's article about this, which is the source of the BBC article, but in much more depth and with many more details,
Me gets yur book, me invites me mates round, and believe me - it ain't hardcore. They was well headcase.
I note that the company that makes the decisions about what constitutes "adult content" is based in Utah. Does this mean that scenes of wanton coffee drinking will be removed? It reminds me of a comment I heard about American television once - "any scenes relating to sex usually draw complaints from an audience the size of Salt Lake City. In fact is usually *is* the population of Salt Lake City". Can't we make Utah an independent country and stop them skewing the demographic for the rest of us?
Really? I've been using Vonage quite happily for over a year now. Great quality, uptime, service. Althpugh I haven't ditched Ma Bell yet (she provides my DSL service, and my grandfathered-in static ip address would be sorely missed).
I can think of a few off the top of my head:
Three's Company (Man About the House)
Sanford and Son (Steptoe and Son)
All In The Family (Till Death Us Do Part)
The article clearly states that this sort of thing will be happening everywhere when cars get smart enough to avoid traffic jams and road blocks. If privacy is a concern, then start doing something about it. If you just want to post gloating drivel then please shut up.
Please RTFA before clicking submit. The article clearly says that this type of thing will be happening everywhere. It's part of the infrastructure required to make cars smart enough to plan around roadblocks and traffic jams ahead. If you think that *any* government is going to ignore the data that comes back from the car giving (at least) its speed and location then you are a very deluded individual.
So what does this mean? "or which so resembles the authorized badge of a peace officer as would deceive any ordinary reasonable person into believing that it is authorized for the use of one who by law is given the authority of a peace officer..." If I am wearing something that is not a direct imitation of an official uniform, but that is close enough to "deceive any reasonable person" (and it appears that they deceived quite a few of them) then I fall foul of this code. Don't I?
Not a troll. Wonderful bit of self-deprecation in a Grauniad article. "If there's one thing the British know how to snatch it is defeat and, unerringly, they know where to snatch it from." Watch out for the sneaky bit of optimism that made its way in at the end though.
Yeah. I agree. I'm waiting for someone to make a tivo for the radio. Maybe, for safety's sake since I listen to radio mainly in my car, with a ReplayTV style commercial auto-skip.
The scary one, assuming I'm reading this right, is 2078-03-22.19, when it gets to within 0.11 earth radii of us. Surely that's far enough out that some slight changes to its orbit could nudge it closer?
Really? Anybody care to enlighten somebody who always thought mosquitoes were prime candidates for the species-nobody-would-miss-if-they-became-extinct dept?
No problem. In any given twenty minutes of a cricket game, the chances that anything actually happened are pretty low.
I'm not sure that the implication that XML should be human-readable is correct. XML is a way of wrapping human-readable content in such a way that it can be easily processed and transformed by machines. It can then also be processed easily to make it human readable, with computer-enhanced richness intact. I understand where you're coming from with respect to Ant, though. It seems to me that the missing step here is something to generate the XML. I've recently been charged with programming in a beast called BPEL. Take a look at that and you'll never complain about Ant again.
Wow. So Japanese people can get 100MBit Optical Fiber Internet Access in France? Amazing.
You know, people who don't like fiction really shouldn't complain about its quality. People like that complained about Austen and Diskens too. If you don't like it you just won't understand it. Stick to stuff you don't consider a waste of time.