Gosh, that was such a terribly worded article summary I can't decide if the author is a regular 'editor' of/. or just a typical reflection of the poor taste and low competence of the/. editors.
It also makes things like debates and campaign funding easier to manage, otherwise we would have hundreds of parties which would all have to be treated equal.
How's you work that one out? You would give parties more coverage based on their number of seats. A party with 1 or 2 seats in the parliament would be given little coverage. Hardly rocket science.
This could only happen under a proportional election system, too. Anyone who says that the electoral system doesn't really matter, it's all about how the representatives behave (been hearing that one trotted out in the UK a lot recently) is talking out of their ass.
Where it might have been a multiple button mash on a physical keyboard and you'd know about it and correct it, it may be a WRONG single button press on a touchscreen. Give me a physical keyboard ANY day.
All that would be better for MS, but instead they go into the already saturated market with yet another search engine, how many do they have now? MSN, Live, and now Bing?
You forgot Wolfram | Alpha. Since I started using it, I've never needed anything else - a true Google killer.
Also, the name of their sister city really doesn't help matters. I can see some employers being worried about the turn of phrase, "Gary? Fuxin, China" coming about somehow.
This website is such a hack-job. I can't believe MS or Asus was involved. The video player is FlowPlayer, the tracking uses Google Analytics, the fonts are all wrong for a MS job. There's no copyright, disclaimer, contact. Nothing. I call bullshit.
To be fair, it is better designed than Asus' own website.
Yeah; wait for its light to stop flashing, then pull it out. It's never failed for me with Windows XP. No, really; not once.
And if you're worried about data loss because of that you can still umount before removal, anyway. It just stops people from losing data because they reasonably assume that once a copy dialog has disappeared, the copy has completed (etc.)
Not true...if someone wants to speed they will, and no propaganda (or technology) will stop them. The solutuion to this problem is to ban drivers for two or more serious speeding offences.
Maybe a nice idea in theory, but in practice, I have to disagree with you on this.
The more power you put in the hands of authorities to 'crack down' on speeding, the more onerous and totally inappropriate blanket speed limits will be put on roads. Drivers will find themselves getting banned because they were doing what is frankly a sensible speed on a road (70/80 on a dual carriageway in good conditions) when some government pricks have decided to enforce a 40/50 limit for no particular reason. Happened to me, on a road I would say I've *never* driven dangerously on; just technically in breach of the law.
It also confused the hell out of my bank when my memorable date was too far in the future for it's system to cope with. That soon made me switch banks to one with a half decent system !
Was it L. Ron Hubbard's prediction for the date/time of the end of the universe?
Secret questions are way to easily guessed. They should just stick to the most reliable password of all, mother's maiden name. Who the hell else would know that?
Why did we translate it into Klingon? <Need some blurb here> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis consequat odio vel risus fermentum at hendrerit sapien malesuada. </end blurb>
I'm guessing that's Klingon for 'God fucking knows'.
Does anyone know whether, in Outlook, when you reply to an e-mail, you can selectively get rid of the blue 'quote' line to the left?
Yes, I know it seems nitpicky, but it'sr eally not. In Outlook 2007, they changed things from the previous version. Previously you could un-indent when you wanted to reply to a part of a quite and the blue quote-line would disappear. In 2007, best I can tell it's absolutely impossible to remove that quote line. Unindenting just makes your text appear behind the quote line. Incredibly fucking annoying and I have no idea why MS did it. It basically forces you to put your entire reply above the entire quote now. Dumb dumb dumb.
Please don't turn to the BBC. They're horribly biased towards certain agendas, including banning drugs, banning guns, banning knives, socialist government, reduction of civil liberties, promotion of police power and (in the UK) populist claptrap.
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Gosh, that was such a terribly worded article summary I can't decide if the author is a regular 'editor' of /. or just a typical reflection of the poor taste and low competence of the /. editors.
Dunno, but the editor was kdawson. :-D
How fond Americans are of reductionist dualities that are unhelpful, misleading and frequently downright dangerous
Absolutely, whereas non-Americans are much more responsible than that.
It also makes things like debates and campaign funding easier to manage, otherwise we would have hundreds of parties which would all have to be treated equal.
How's you work that one out? You would give parties more coverage based on their number of seats. A party with 1 or 2 seats in the parliament would be given little coverage. Hardly rocket science.
This could only happen under a proportional election system, too. Anyone who says that the electoral system doesn't really matter, it's all about how the representatives behave (been hearing that one trotted out in the UK a lot recently) is talking out of their ass.
How dare you? CSI is a bastion of computer literacy.
Where it might have been a multiple button mash on a physical keyboard and you'd know about it and correct it, it may be a WRONG single button press on a touchscreen. Give me a physical keyboard ANY day.
Don't you mean, "it's still inconvenient for the Chinese government that this BE seen by the public?"
Has it changed your political views at all? If so, in what ways?
All that would be better for MS, but instead they go into the already saturated market with yet another search engine, how many do they have now? MSN, Live, and now Bing?
You forgot Wolfram | Alpha. Since I started using it, I've never needed anything else - a true Google killer.
Also, the name of their sister city really doesn't help matters. I can see some employers being worried about the turn of phrase, "Gary? Fuxin, China" coming about somehow.
This website is such a hack-job. I can't believe MS or Asus was involved. The video player is FlowPlayer, the tracking uses Google Analytics, the fonts are all wrong for a MS job. There's no copyright, disclaimer, contact. Nothing. I call bullshit.
To be fair, it is better designed than Asus' own website.
Its a pity it doesn't have any Rush Limbaughs there
Mmmm, I'm not completely sure most Swedes would be bothered about that fact.
Sometimes things sound too good to be true. Risk-free money smuggling from Nigeria. Enormous genitals from a few pills.
You've obviously never heard of Viagra. :-)
Why bother spending $500 for a killer graphics card when you can get a killer hard drive for free by installing ReiserFS?
Yeah; wait for its light to stop flashing, then pull it out. It's never failed for me with Windows XP. No, really; not once.
And if you're worried about data loss because of that you can still umount before removal, anyway. It just stops people from losing data because they reasonably assume that once a copy dialog has disappeared, the copy has completed (etc.)
Not true...if someone wants to speed they will, and no propaganda (or technology) will stop them. The solutuion to this problem is to ban drivers for two or more serious speeding offences.
Maybe a nice idea in theory, but in practice, I have to disagree with you on this.
The more power you put in the hands of authorities to 'crack down' on speeding, the more onerous and totally inappropriate blanket speed limits will be put on roads. Drivers will find themselves getting banned because they were doing what is frankly a sensible speed on a road (70/80 on a dual carriageway in good conditions) when some government pricks have decided to enforce a 40/50 limit for no particular reason. Happened to me, on a road I would say I've *never* driven dangerously on; just technically in breach of the law.
I'm sure on days when attractive women come through the airport, it does make them harder. But I hardly think that's the point of the Bill of Rights.
It also confused the hell out of my bank when my memorable date was too far in the future for it's system to cope with. That soon made me switch banks to one with a half decent system !
Was it L. Ron Hubbard's prediction for the date/time of the end of the universe?
Secret questions are way to easily guessed. They should just stick to the most reliable password of all, mother's maiden name. Who the hell else would know that?
People who complain about leg room have never suffered insufficient head room.
Get a convertible? :-D
From the webpage:
Why did we translate it into Klingon?
<Need some blurb here> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis consequat odio vel risus fermentum at hendrerit sapien malesuada. </end blurb>
I'm guessing that's Klingon for 'God fucking knows'.
Is there some universal law that I missed whereby states won't get too big and abuse their power eventually? If anything, it's the other way round.
Does anyone know whether, in Outlook, when you reply to an e-mail, you can selectively get rid of the blue 'quote' line to the left?
Yes, I know it seems nitpicky, but it'sr eally not. In Outlook 2007, they changed things from the previous version. Previously you could un-indent when you wanted to reply to a part of a quite and the blue quote-line would disappear. In 2007, best I can tell it's absolutely impossible to remove that quote line. Unindenting just makes your text appear behind the quote line. Incredibly fucking annoying and I have no idea why MS did it. It basically forces you to put your entire reply above the entire quote now. Dumb dumb dumb.
I've never used AdBlock on principle, and I got the 'disable ads' checkbox for 'making a great contribution to the community'. Go figure.
Please don't turn to the BBC. They're horribly biased towards certain agendas, including banning drugs, banning guns, banning knives, socialist government, reduction of civil liberties, promotion of police power and (in the UK) populist claptrap.