I save all my stuff in ODF und use PDF if I have to give a document to anyone else.
I suppose I would use doc if the recipient needed to edit the document but I usually avoid it.
Personally I find that argument asine. To make the basic car analogy it's like still using horse-and-buggy in 2007 since when the motor car became available not everyone bought one on the first day, so obviously noone needs it.
Isn't type 2 diabetes basically dietary related (adult onset) and controled by monitoring blood sugar while type 1 is the permanent loss of pancreatic beta cells that produce insulin, which I guess is what your mom has? If so then this research wouldn't help people like your mom since they have no insulin in the first place.
This is the current received wisdom. The article mentions research leading another way. Basically it says you need fat + a certain enzyme to develop Diabetes Type 2. This may or not be true, but it's certainly worth investigating.
From the FA
In their study, the researchers used genetically modified mice to observe the link between an oversupply of fat and type 2 diabetes.
They found mice without the enzyme did not develop diabetes, despite gaining weight on a high-fat diet.
That would at least explain why some people can be as fat as they like without ever developing Diabetes 2 and why Diabetes 2 seems to run in families.
You can get around this by standardising lawyers fees.
In Germany there is a catalogue - mainly written by the lawyers association - on how much a lawyer may take for a particular action. Court costs in civil courts depend on the agreed value of whatever is at stake.
Since last year, attorneys and clients may agree to different fees but the court does not have to grant more than standard fees without compelling reason.
Their job isn't really in stopping the content, it is to frustrate users into thinking paying for the stuff is easier and less time consuming. It is to break the model the P2P sites are using.
They should ask for a raise - since their corporate masters are still working on making it more difficult to just buy the stuff. What with all kinds of DRM and silly restrictions like you cannot buy a single while the album is for sale. Not to mention songs played to death on the air for a month before you can actually buy the single anywhere.
How do you get force feedback on those things?
You'll never know if you hit something. I'm a sword fencer (2 kg bastard sword) and the experience is much more tactile then visual. Even if you consider that light sabres are much lighter than a real sword and don't have bars to protect your hand I doubt if fencing with a light sabre wii control will live up tu the experience of real fencing - even if it's just for show.
You are right there. Those vans with the antenna did (and do) exist but they are searching for unauthorised radio transmitters like pirate radios or unlicensed hams.
They used to belong to the post office and were painted yellow like all post office vehicles. Therefore they were nicknamed the yellow stags among hams.
I actually got my version for free from the M$ Academic Program. I may continue to use it after I leave uni, but I will not get new versions.
Sounds fair, doesn't it?
Windows 2000-2003Server, Visual Studio, Visio and a couple more programs.
The german Win XP Version was fubar, though. It wouldn't install.NET, Java or Visual Studio. Had to reinstall the old version I had - Gift horse, I guess.
PayPal is a way to easily pay for things around the world for those who do not have credit cards.
If I want to pay for something in the States or UK, I have to go to my bank's branch office, get a foreign money order and send that per registered mail. Takes time and costs a helluva lot of extra cash. Been there, done that, bought the doublet
If I pay by Paypal, the money is credited to the recipient immediatly (even though it is deducted from my account a few days later). Obviously the old banks have slept through a trend here or are too greedy to offer such a reliatively cheap service. Bad luck.
If this works here in Germany I'll be mighty happy. I do not have a credit card, since a debit card works better here.
There are some things I might occasionally need a credit card for (mostly Pearson exams). My Dad won't let me uses his so a one-time card would be just the thing.
I don't know about Verizon, but my provider in Germany (Vodafone) has so many adds on their WAP cards I wrote myself a script to dissect a few RSS streams and post them on my own site just so I can get the weather and some news without clicking past 5 cards of ads.
There is one other problem with e-voting: it adds some artificial bottlenecks to the system.
With paper voting, the voting is supervised by many local people, mostly (at least in Germany) senior citizens with a good sense of self respect and usually in a stable sitution. These people are not bought easily. You would have to bribe quite a lot of them to make an effect on the outcome. My grandad used to lead a voting station for several years and anyone offering to buy him would be looking for his teeth in the next county, I should think.
With e-voting, anyone interested in changing the outcome just has to find someone at one or at most the few companies making the machines and have him tamper with the things. This could be the manager who got the job from his political connections anyway or the unpaid summer intern or anyone in between. You just need one person in a whole company.
This makes evoting very susceptible to a money/power based attack even if it could be protected from an intelligence based attack.
Actually, so did our lawyer.
When we asked him for assistance with auctioning of a flat my boyfriend half-owns, he just whipped out a lawbook and told us how and where to file the application, telling us we could do it without him and save his fee.
Microsoft decides what I may do on my computer or not?
What's next? Microsoft deciding I may not run OpenOffice on my computer because I may write threatening letters on it?
You aren't the only ones to get shafted. Over here the switchover dates are different for each region. The shutoff dates are already fixed since they involve termination of long-term contracts. However, the go live dates of Digital TV are not so fixed. The region I live in was promised DVB-T for the 18th of April. However the powers that be decided that 1 million people where not worth the hassle of installing digital infrastructure (By the way, Germany is about 15 times as densly popuated as the US). And when did they tell us? Beginnning of April. So all those people who bought DVB-T Receivers are now royally screwed. Still Analogue TV was shut off with very little noise, like one article in the local paper on Saturday the 16th, complete with a big ad from the cable service.
Satelite dishes are now sold out. We were lucky to get one for my mother-in-law who was freaking out so we had to install it as quickly as possible and she still owes us the money for the dish. Funnily enough it was about 25% more expensive than the identical one we bought for ourselves two years ago.
I think you will get screwed the same way. DVB-T will only be available in very high density population centres. The rest can go buy a dish and find a wall to fix it on. Don't suppose otherwise even if you are bombarded with ads about how good DVB-T will be and that you should buy the box while it's cheap.
I build most of my boxes from old systems my parents retired. So, if I combine a new box from two of their old ones, the fee has been payed twice on one box. Should I get a refund? Or pay the fee a third time, since its a new box now, made of the best (or at least working parts) of the two parent systems.
The dragon myth has a factual base. Men has found dinosaur skeletons and made up the dragon myth from there.
This even explains why the Asian and European Dragons look different, because there were different kinds of dinosaur predominant in the area and more likely to leave remains.
Don't know where the fire-breathing stuff comes from, but that was probably made up to make the dragons more powerful. Fire is har to control and very destructive.
When they started selling the Nissan Pajero in Spain they found out that Pajero in Spanish means Wanker.
Or the Mistcurler - in German mist means manure. Not something I'd wish to stick in my hair.
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I save all my stuff in ODF und use PDF if I have to give a document to anyone else.
I suppose I would use doc if the recipient needed to edit the document but I usually avoid it.
Personally I find that argument asine. To make the basic car analogy it's like still using horse-and-buggy in 2007 since when the motor car became available not everyone bought one on the first day, so obviously noone needs it.
This is the current received wisdom. The article mentions research leading another way. Basically it says you need fat + a certain enzyme to develop Diabetes Type 2. This may or not be true, but it's certainly worth investigating.
From the FA In their study, the researchers used genetically modified mice to observe the link between an oversupply of fat and type 2 diabetes.They found mice without the enzyme did not develop diabetes, despite gaining weight on a high-fat diet.
That would at least explain why some people can be as fat as they like without ever developing Diabetes 2 and why Diabetes 2 seems to run in families.
You can get around this by standardising lawyers fees.
In Germany there is a catalogue - mainly written by the lawyers association - on how much a lawyer may take for a particular action. Court costs in civil courts depend on the agreed value of whatever is at stake.
Since last year, attorneys and clients may agree to different fees but the court does not have to grant more than standard fees without compelling reason.
We actually slashdotted Intel.
Their job isn't really in stopping the content, it is to frustrate users into thinking paying for the stuff is easier and less time consuming. It is to break the model the P2P sites are using.
They should ask for a raise - since their corporate masters are still working on making it more difficult to just buy the stuff. What with all kinds of DRM and silly restrictions like you cannot buy a single while the album is for sale. Not to mention songs played to death on the air for a month before you can actually buy the single anywhere.
How do you get force feedback on those things?
You'll never know if you hit something. I'm a sword fencer (2 kg bastard sword) and the experience is much more tactile then visual. Even if you consider that light sabres are much lighter than a real sword and don't have bars to protect your hand I doubt if fencing with a light sabre wii control will live up tu the experience of real fencing - even if it's just for show.
Actually, it's called Zeeland and its a Dutch province.
God made Woman, right? I'd say that's about as wicked as someone could get.
Remember: when God made Man, she was only practicing
You are right there. Those vans with the antenna did (and do) exist but they are searching for unauthorised radio transmitters like pirate radios or unlicensed hams.
They used to belong to the post office and were painted yellow like all post office vehicles. Therefore they were nicknamed the yellow stags among hams.
Nope, same here. Wishful thinking again.
Nope, that is Switzerland.
How is that news? Such devices have been known for millenia: they are called mother or wife.
I actually got my version for free from the M$ Academic Program. I may continue to use it after I leave uni, but I will not get new versions.
Sounds fair, doesn't it?
Windows 2000-2003Server, Visual Studio, Visio and a couple more programs.
The german Win XP Version was fubar, though. It wouldn't install .NET, Java or Visual Studio. Had to reinstall the old version I had - Gift horse, I guess.
PayPal is a way to easily pay for things around the world for those who do not have credit cards.
If I want to pay for something in the States or UK, I have to go to my bank's branch office, get a foreign money order and send that per registered mail. Takes time and costs a helluva lot of extra cash. Been there, done that, bought the doublet
If I pay by Paypal, the money is credited to the recipient immediatly (even though it is deducted from my account a few days later). Obviously the old banks have slept through a trend here or are too greedy to offer such a reliatively cheap service. Bad luck.
If this works here in Germany I'll be mighty happy. I do not have a credit card, since a debit card works better here.
There are some things I might occasionally need a credit card for (mostly Pearson exams). My Dad won't let me uses his so a one-time card would be just the thing.
I don't know about Verizon, but my provider in Germany (Vodafone) has so many adds on their WAP cards I wrote myself a script to dissect a few RSS streams and post them on my own site just so I can get the weather and some news without clicking past 5 cards of ads.
Probably a placename again.
There is one other problem with e-voting: it adds some artificial bottlenecks to the system.
With paper voting, the voting is supervised by many local people, mostly (at least in Germany) senior citizens with a good sense of self respect and usually in a stable sitution. These people are not bought easily. You would have to bribe quite a lot of them to make an effect on the outcome. My grandad used to lead a voting station for several years and anyone offering to buy him would be looking for his teeth in the next county, I should think.
With e-voting, anyone interested in changing the outcome just has to find someone at one or at most the few companies making the machines and have him tamper with the things. This could be the manager who got the job from his political connections anyway or the unpaid summer intern or anyone in between. You just need one person in a whole company.
This makes evoting very susceptible to a money/power based attack even if it could be protected from an intelligence based attack.
Actually, so did our lawyer.
When we asked him for assistance with auctioning of a flat my boyfriend half-owns, he just whipped out a lawbook and told us how and where to file the application, telling us we could do it without him and save his fee.
Microsoft decides what I may do on my computer or not?
What's next? Microsoft deciding I may not run OpenOffice on my computer because I may write threatening letters on it?
You aren't the only ones to get shafted. Over here the switchover dates are different for each region. The shutoff dates are already fixed since they involve termination of long-term contracts. However, the go live dates of Digital TV are not so fixed.
The region I live in was promised DVB-T for the 18th of April. However the powers that be decided that 1 million people where not worth the hassle of installing digital infrastructure (By the way, Germany is about 15 times as densly popuated as the US). And when did they tell us? Beginnning of April.
So all those people who bought DVB-T Receivers are now royally screwed. Still Analogue TV was shut off with very little noise, like one article in the local paper on Saturday the 16th, complete with a big ad from the cable service.
Satelite dishes are now sold out. We were lucky to get one for my mother-in-law who was freaking out so we had to install it as quickly as possible and she still owes us the money for the dish. Funnily enough it was about 25% more expensive than the identical one we bought for ourselves two years ago.
I think you will get screwed the same way. DVB-T will only be available in very high density population centres. The rest can go buy a dish and find a wall to fix it on. Don't suppose otherwise even if you are bombarded with ads about how good DVB-T will be and that you should buy the box while it's cheap.
I build most of my boxes from old systems my parents retired. So, if I combine a new box from two of their old ones, the fee has been payed twice on one box. Should I get a refund? Or pay the fee a third time, since its a new box now, made of the best (or at least working parts) of the two parent systems.
The dragon myth has a factual base. Men has found dinosaur skeletons and made up the dragon myth from there.
This even explains why the Asian and European Dragons look different, because there were different kinds of dinosaur predominant in the area and more likely to leave remains.
Don't know where the fire-breathing stuff comes from, but that was probably made up to make the dragons more powerful. Fire is har to control and very destructive.
since Bush has probably patented "causing the loss of American jobs" and doesn't want anyone to infringe on his patent.
When they started selling the Nissan Pajero in Spain they found out that Pajero in Spanish means Wanker.
Or the Mistcurler - in German mist means manure. Not something I'd wish to stick in my hair.