Erm, no. That's the whole point of being a public limited liability company: in exchange for capping your liability to what you invested, you have to open your company up to a certain level of scrutiny.
This is bollocks. I no longer bother to check whether the hardware I buy is Linux compatible; I assume if it's selling in large quantities it will work. And it does. Maybe I'm lucky, but all the Linux users I know hold a similar view: hardware drivers are no longer an issue. Just for giggles, I recently had to reinstall Windows and my main desktop. Ubuntu took me an hour to install, and another hour to install all my favourite programs. Two weeks later, I have given up on finding a windows driver for an old Canon scanner that Ubuntu is more than happy to talk to. And don't talk to me about having to explain to India that no, I am not pirating Windows, I am merely reinstalling it, because it is so crappy that that is the only way to keep it functional is to reinstall it six-monthly.
Fighting off a libel claim (eve an unfounded one) is more trouble than it's worth compared to just not mentioning poor performance. For that reason, many companies in the UK now provide nothing other than a confirmation of dates of employment.
OnStar? This chain of thought is all very well, but what about when the cops decide to track your movements - just because they can? Or what about the bad guys learn how to work it, then use it to track down expensive vehicles in places where they can carjack with impunity?
This sort of risk should be mitigated with insurance, not technology. The insurance industry is well placed to figure out what kind of technology actually works and which doesn't.
The version I learnt as a kid: There was a girl of 13, who had a bust of 84. She wanted to make it 45, so she went to the doctor. 0, he said. Take these pills 2 times a day - instead she took them four. Of course, she ended up...
This is a really common argument and it's simply not true. People want to buy cheaper items, and they do it accepting that the failure rate will be higher than it potentially could be. If people really wanted superb reliability then they would get it - the fact is, despite what they say, they don't.
The 38 years is just the sum of the terms for the various offences he's been charged with. Presumably any sane court will give him a swift kick up the backside and send him on his way.
Long answer - in order to get it into the sun, you have to reduce its rotational velocity from numerous miles per second down to zero. You'll remember your 0.5mv^2 - that's how much calorific energy has to be in those tanks to achieve that. Also, at those kind of distances, almost any kind of rotational velocity will be enough to achieve orbit - meaning the damn thing will almost certainly miss and turn into a rather odd comet, which will no doubt baffle our ancestors.
I don't know. A lot of financial companies are waking up to how much mission critical stuff, at every level, is dependant on hacked up excel spreadsheets. We currently have a consultancy working their way through our finance and actuarial divisions replacing as much as possible with SAS/SAP. there are messages going out that Excel is not to get used for this sort of thing and support is being made available so when someone wants to start a little data analysis project they don't automatically turn to Excel.
Technically, you are correct - but if the Lords is hell bent against something then you can guarantee the government will have a fight on its hands. Enough to make a government rethink its position, sometimes.
Hilary has calculated that McCain will, as an independently minded figure, with race on his side, overcome the negative associations of the Bush years and will beat Obama. She already knows she's lost. She knows Obama will not select her as his running mate. She beleives the Republicans will win this term. She is now campaigning for the White House 2012, when McCain will be 76 and almost certainly showing it, and Obama the loser will be a lame duck.
R&D doesn't cost $12 billion. A company is run for its shareholders. If that company is sitting on a pile of cash and doesn't know what to do with it, it *has* to hand it back to the owners of the business - ie, the shareholders. Simply squirelling it in the bank for a hypothetical rainy day is wasteful.
The current approach to monopolies in the US is not to assess whether a monopoly is being created as such. The thinking is that many monopolies, as defined by market share, still behave in a competitive manner. For example, the XM/Sirius merger gave the combined company a 100% share of the satellite radio market. It was not blocked because the merged company will still have to behave competitively, or they will lose out to other audio entertainment alternatives.
Similarly, if the barriers to entry in a market are low (by corporate standards) then a monopoly is likely to behave competitively. Since all you need to challenge Google is a server farm and some CS whizzes, Google will behave competitively even if it has a full 100% market share (which it doesn't, by any means). So there is effectively zero chance of this merger being blocked. And yes, just to clarify, I know the OP was joking...
Possibly your old 2x4s were cut from lumber that was dried and seasoned as a log - this was certainly common for hardwoods that went into musical instruments at that time. Presumably if it had been, no considerations over shrinkage would apply.
Frankly, whether it's giving off gas or taking it in, I don't know, but coffee peaks between 2-4 days after roasting. If you try and brew it straight after roasting, it has an unpleasant bitterness that goes away after a day or two. After that, it just gets stale. I'd strongly recommend trying home roasting - brings it up to a different level. However, you may not ever like Starbucks again...shame.
Try dumping every single photograph you've ever taken in a single directory, then using the timestamp on it to sort it into directorys by session. My girlfriend spent four hours on this using a GUI, and got nowhere. Five minutes of shell script and ten minutes of Python had 6,531 photgraphs sorted in something like one and a half minutes.
You don't *have* to learn a command line if you don't want to: however, sometimes it gets you blowjobs. If that's not a reason, what is?
Yes, but an important issue to be aware of is that global agricultural production is a fraction of capacity. This is largely down to first world subsidies meaning that the rest of the world has not had much incentive to move from subsistence farming to cash crops. Also, population growth stalls at a given level of development, because it is no longer economically necessary to have children; these factors combined mean that the future is not quite as bleak or scary as it is commonly painted.
500 Island Corporate Center 7525 Southeast 24th Street Mercer Island, Washington 98040-2336
It's a relatively small practice - two partners and a dozen attorneys all told - so I would expect that anything mailed to Tanya Anderson c/o Lory Lybeck will reach her attention.
Yes, you are correct. What is currently not encrypted is the data transfer between your card and the terminal into which you insert your card. Given how easy some terminals are to hack (this same team got one terminal playing Tetris last year), this means that any dishonest merchant can skim your details and create a cloned card, complete with PIN. The level of difficulty is not beyond the majority of/.ers.
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Erm, no. That's the whole point of being a public limited liability company: in exchange for capping your liability to what you invested, you have to open your company up to a certain level of scrutiny.
This is bollocks. I no longer bother to check whether the hardware I buy is Linux compatible; I assume if it's selling in large quantities it will work. And it does. Maybe I'm lucky, but all the Linux users I know hold a similar view: hardware drivers are no longer an issue. Just for giggles, I recently had to reinstall Windows and my main desktop. Ubuntu took me an hour to install, and another hour to install all my favourite programs. Two weeks later, I have given up on finding a windows driver for an old Canon scanner that Ubuntu is more than happy to talk to. And don't talk to me about having to explain to India that no, I am not pirating Windows, I am merely reinstalling it, because it is so crappy that that is the only way to keep it functional is to reinstall it six-monthly.
Fighting off a libel claim (eve an unfounded one) is more trouble than it's worth compared to just not mentioning poor performance. For that reason, many companies in the UK now provide nothing other than a confirmation of dates of employment.
This sort of risk should be mitigated with insurance, not technology. The insurance industry is well placed to figure out what kind of technology actually works and which doesn't.
The version I learnt as a kid: There was a girl of 13, who had a bust of 84. She wanted to make it 45, so she went to the doctor. 0, he said. Take these pills 2 times a day - instead she took them four. Of course, she ended up...
This is a really common argument and it's simply not true. People want to buy cheaper items, and they do it accepting that the failure rate will be higher than it potentially could be. If people really wanted superb reliability then they would get it - the fact is, despite what they say, they don't.
The 38 years is just the sum of the terms for the various offences he's been charged with. Presumably any sane court will give him a swift kick up the backside and send him on his way.
And Google Zeitgeist is going to be raising a few eyebrows next month...
Long answer - in order to get it into the sun, you have to reduce its rotational velocity from numerous miles per second down to zero. You'll remember your 0.5mv^2 - that's how much calorific energy has to be in those tanks to achieve that. Also, at those kind of distances, almost any kind of rotational velocity will be enough to achieve orbit - meaning the damn thing will almost certainly miss and turn into a rather odd comet, which will no doubt baffle our ancestors.
I don't know. A lot of financial companies are waking up to how much mission critical stuff, at every level, is dependant on hacked up excel spreadsheets. We currently have a consultancy working their way through our finance and actuarial divisions replacing as much as possible with SAS/SAP. there are messages going out that Excel is not to get used for this sort of thing and support is being made available so when someone wants to start a little data analysis project they don't automatically turn to Excel.
Technically, you are correct - but if the Lords is hell bent against something then you can guarantee the government will have a fight on its hands. Enough to make a government rethink its position, sometimes.
So it's like those 3D printers we keep hearing about?
I think anyone with a user number lower than mine who is still posting ought to know what UML is.
Hilary has calculated that McCain will, as an independently minded figure, with race on his side, overcome the negative associations of the Bush years and will beat Obama. She already knows she's lost. She knows Obama will not select her as his running mate. She beleives the Republicans will win this term. She is now campaigning for the White House 2012, when McCain will be 76 and almost certainly showing it, and Obama the loser will be a lame duck.
R&D doesn't cost $12 billion. A company is run for its shareholders. If that company is sitting on a pile of cash and doesn't know what to do with it, it *has* to hand it back to the owners of the business - ie, the shareholders. Simply squirelling it in the bank for a hypothetical rainy day is wasteful.
Similarly, if the barriers to entry in a market are low (by corporate standards) then a monopoly is likely to behave competitively. Since all you need to challenge Google is a server farm and some CS whizzes, Google will behave competitively even if it has a full 100% market share (which it doesn't, by any means). So there is effectively zero chance of this merger being blocked. And yes, just to clarify, I know the OP was joking...
And what about when it is your government that has managed to lose it? Good luck with boycotting your tax payments...
Possibly your old 2x4s were cut from lumber that was dried and seasoned as a log - this was certainly common for hardwoods that went into musical instruments at that time. Presumably if it had been, no considerations over shrinkage would apply.
Frankly, whether it's giving off gas or taking it in, I don't know, but coffee peaks between 2-4 days after roasting. If you try and brew it straight after roasting, it has an unpleasant bitterness that goes away after a day or two. After that, it just gets stale. I'd strongly recommend trying home roasting - brings it up to a different level. However, you may not ever like Starbucks again...shame.
You don't *have* to learn a command line if you don't want to: however, sometimes it gets you blowjobs. If that's not a reason, what is?
Yes, but an important issue to be aware of is that global agricultural production is a fraction of capacity. This is largely down to first world subsidies meaning that the rest of the world has not had much incentive to move from subsistence farming to cash crops. Also, population growth stalls at a given level of development, because it is no longer economically necessary to have children; these factors combined mean that the future is not quite as bleak or scary as it is commonly painted.
Her lawyer's address is:
500 Island Corporate Center
7525 Southeast 24th Street
Mercer Island, Washington 98040-2336
It's a relatively small practice - two partners and a dozen attorneys all told - so I would expect that anything mailed to Tanya Anderson c/o Lory Lybeck will reach her attention.
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Not too hard, though I'd agree that if this was deliberate, I would expect it to be a bit more obfuscated than that...
I take it you've never heard of Vulcan?
Yes, you are correct. What is currently not encrypted is the data transfer between your card and the terminal into which you insert your card. Given how easy some terminals are to hack (this same team got one terminal playing Tetris last year), this means that any dishonest merchant can skim your details and create a cloned card, complete with PIN. The level of difficulty is not beyond the majority of /.ers.