Withdrawing OOOXML is not the only option... In theory, OOOXML could be turned into a reasonable standard so that is the other option. In theory. Would that mean that after the ISO fixed OOXML, microsoft won't even be supporting their own standard anymore?
Well, we're kinda used to MS not supporting their own standards properly, but this would be the first time someone else changed their standards for them.
Exactly. Even TFA calls him oppressive for hanging on to his secret revolutionary technology that could change the world, for being unable to trust others with that technology. Tony Stark is proprietary technology personified.
The only reason he's a hero at all is because he has his own comic book. Besides, I never liked Iron Man anyway.
Africa is no more a "continent" than Europe is. It, Europe, Asia Minor, Asia, and India are all part of the same land mass. Africa is quote a lot more a continent than Europe is. Europe is nothing more than a big peninsula on the Eurasian (or just plain Asian) continent, whereas Africa is a full-blown continent with a tiny land bridge to Asia. Africa is as much a continent as North America is.
Actually, as a Dane, I'd usually go with "black", or quite a lot more likely, their name. In one specific instance, I'd go with 'aunt', but I know that's cheating, on account of her being my aunt. So how many aunts are working in the game industry compared to the total percentage of aunts in the population?
The glass fibre network in Amsterdam is simply called "glasvezel Amsterdam", which translates to "glass fibre Amsterdam". Works well enough, so I'd simply call it "glass fibre East-Central Vermont", although I'm sure it'd sound better if you could get it to cover all of Vermont.
According to my tests, all odd numbers greater than 1 are prime. 3 tested as prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime. Now I admit that 9 tested as non-prime, but considering 11 and 13 did test as prime, I'm considering 9 an erroneous data point. The general trend is clear.
Or more specifically the corruption's petty like stealing office supplies and declaring holiday trips official fact-finding missions. It costs the tax payer a few millions at most and while it tells you something about your representatives it's vastly better than organized lobbying which really screws you over.
Don't kid yourself. Lots of EU laws are being written by lobbyists. It's not uncommon for MEPs from completely different factions to submit literally the exact same proposal or amendment.
I lived in Luxembourg for 6 Months. I can only speak English and Afrikaans. The Germans were polite and helpful. The Locals were polite and helpful. The French looked down their noses at me, refused to even speak to me because I dared to address them in English.... Take what you want from that, I no longer have any time what so ever for the arrogance of the French. I think the reason French and Americans hate each other so much is that they're so alike. They're both arrogant pricks who think their nation is superior to any other. Ofcourse the US actually has the military power and cultural dominance to back that up, but to many foreigners, Americans and French aren't so very different from each other.
since you lacked the concept of invaders going AROUND your impenetrable defense. I know this is flamebait, but you're thinking of WW I, when the Germans tried to reach Paris through Belgium. In WW2 they did reach Paris through Belgium.
Not that that justifies France-bashing, though. There wasn't a single country that could stand up to the German military at that time. They overran most of Europe and came pretty close to Moscow.
It doesn't make sense to privatize everything, and that's not what I'm arguing. It would be nice to privatize roads, in the most glowing of theories, but in practicality I doubt it would work.
Wait, what would be the most glowing of theories about privatised roads? I'd rather see collectively owned roads. Idealy, his kind of last-mile infrastructure should be owned or controlled by the people who live there, who have no other choice than use that road. Or that cable, phone line or fiber optic line.
However, I like having a choice of provider. I like being able to say "Nope, I'll check my e-mail at a library. Or a friend's house. Or an internet cafe." More than that, I like being able to switch to another ISP for my home internet.
But, because of how the whole line-owner-carrier-thing has been abstracted, it does make sense to have multiple ISPs competing. Considering how wonderful last-mile monopolies have done for us so far, I'd hate to see even less competition. Exactly. That's why I like the arrangement for the new fiber optic internet in Amsterdam: the city hires a company to lay the cables in every street, and lots of ISPs get to compete to carry the customers' packets to the internet. The cabling company isn't an ISP, but as far as I understand, they don't even control the infrastructure itself. They just manage it for the city. Or at least, that's how I hope it works.
Not that it's feasible to go without electricity or roads, but lots of people get along just fine without the Internet. A lot of people do just fine without electricity or roads, for varying definitions of "fine". I certainly got along just fine without ever using highways, mostly because I also got along just fine without a driver license (but this is all changing now that I married a car-owner).
Anyway, over a century ago, lots of people got along fine without electricity or telephones. And while many older people probably never bothered with cars when they were first introduced, there are a lot of places in the world now where you can't do without one. Internet is also becoming one of these vital necessities.
If private companies provide internet service, you have every right to say "No, no series of tubes for me. I have a big truck." and go about your daily life. Sure, and when a private company builds all the roads in my neighbourhood, I'm free to never leave the door. But that can get really impractical for an increasing number of things. For one thing: Dutch companies are now required to do their taxes electronically. Most job applications are done by email nowadays, and an applicant without email is unlikely to be taken seriously (particularly in my line of business). And I've been told kids in school also use the internet for tons of things these days. My grandma may get along fine without internet, but I can't, and my kids will need it even more.
I like the idea, but agree with adlll when he said that the goverment doesn't do a good job with the roads. It's a good thing then that you can vote for a new government to do a better job on the roads.
I propose a diffrent idea. A private company is formed to jouse the entire US internet infrastructor. They buy out the existing fibor, and than charge existing ISP's to use said fiber. They than are NOT ABLE to be an ISP themselves. That way they are not a monopoly hording the traffic to themselves (comcast), and ISP's can than compete on a fair fiber playing field. A government that's accountable to the voters doesn't do a good job, so you think a corporate monopoly that's only accountable to their shareholders will provide better roads/information infrastructure? I don't think so.
If anyone could buy part of the fibor of this one comapny and start an ISP, I would be you would get a lot of compatition for the best ISP. The problem is you have ISP's and the lines owned by the same company. Whoever owns the lines, can't provide. That would be like the goverment starting a fast food restraunt and puting great roads to it, while letting all the other roads fail. Everyone would eventuly go to the nice roads, and the goverments store. Make ISP's and actual lines seprate. That's why the government should build and maintain the roads/fiber optic cable, and companies should run the restaurants/ISPs.
It's $30 per Megabit per second (speed, not volume). Which is pretty close to what some of us pay already (~$45/month for 1.5Mbps) You need fiber optic. Once I switch (I'm still on overpriced cable at the moment), I'll be paying $30/month for 20 Mbps. That's enough for anything except serving streaming video to lots of others.
Now in my city (Amsterdam), the city itself is involved in getting fiber optic to every home. The idea is that in the 21st century, this is vital infrastructure, like roads, which are also paid for by the city. Fiber optic ISPs only take care of my traffic from this local infrastructure to the big exchanges and backbones, which makes it relatively cheap for an ISP to start in this business and compete with the others. As a result, I've got 7 or 8 to choose from.
Fiber optic is clearly the future, and if your area lacks fiber optic or any sort of competition among broadband ISPs, write to your city council to get them to give their town proper infrastructure.
Problem is this-If I don't like Texaco, I can go to Shell. I can switch to a hybrid,etc. In way to many places in the US,it is their way or the highway. It's important to have competition in this. I guess compared to some areas I'm lucky: one cable ISP, a few ADSL ISPs, a whopping 7 fiber optic ISPs. And most have several different options for bandwidth. But the fiber optic is very recent, and I can imagine that in many areas you're lucky if you can choose between cable and ADSL at all.
ISP A-20Gb per month for $40 and $1.50 per Gb for everything over, or ISP B at 35Gb for $40 with $1 per Gb over. And NEITHER bothers to give you any kind of way to tell how much you've used! That sucks, but I think it shouldn't be too hard to find a tool that does this for you. As far as I can tell, all my choices claim to be unlimited, but I bet once I really do start downloading streaming video continuously, many of them would start to complain.
Like it or not, the USA will always have firearms. We are like no other country in the world in that respect, right or wrong. We were founded on individualism and being tough SOBs (like it or not). The USA is not at all unlike other nations in this respect. There are plenty of countries in Africa and the Middle East that will never be without guns, and where people consider themselves tough SOBs.
But, i'll assume that when you die, many people will spout off... "I am glad that anonymous fucking coward is dead" I don't know. It'd get awfully quiet here without him.
Oh, you people crack me the fuck up. "WoW is addictive!" No. Cocaine is addictive; it causes physiological changes to your brain that cause you to want it more at the same time that it gives you less effect.
WoW is a computer game. It's entertainment,
So? That doesn't contradict what the GP said. Entertainment can be extremely addictive. Gambling can cause physiological changes to your brain.
In fact, I recognise many aspects of addiction (including wanting it more while getting less effect) from my internet usage. I thought I had it under control, but here I am posting stuff on slashdot again.
As long as this camera has more force behind it (which as you pointed out is mass x velocity[/momentum]^2) then it'll escape a stronger gravitational well than a mere photon could hope to. Neutrinos are not required.
Wrong again. Kinetic energy is mass * velicity^2 (half of that, actually, but who cares about a constant factor?). Velocity is not the same thing as momentum, which is mass * velocity. Force causes accelleration, which is a change in velocity. The predominant force near a black hole is the gravity of the black hole, which causes everything with even the slightest bit of mass to accellerate straight into the black hole. Exactly how big that gravitational force is, depends on the mass of the object. In the case of a photon, the mass is nearly negligible, the photon's kinetic energy is as big as it can possibly be (due to its speed of light velocity), and yet the resulting force is big enough to trap it within the event horizon. A camera made of actual matter has a lot more mass than a photon and a lot less velocity, so it'll fall into the black hole a lot faster, unless you can make it go faster than the speed of light, or you can make it from mysteriour massless substance.
My advice to you is to pay more attention during highschool physics classes. If you somehow managed to miss out on those, buy a decent entry-level physics textbook, or check out wikipedia. I'm sure all of this is on their somewhere.
Don't be such a pedant. There's absolutely no reason why you can't fly a vehicle like the ATV on a near-miss course, and then do precisely what the grandparent suggested.
Maybe they could, but it sounds incredibly dangerous. Near misses and different orbits imply a speed difference. To remove that speed difference, force needs to be applied. tons of things can go wrong. It's much safer to put both objects in the same orbit and approach gently.
I was a bit disappointed to read that Jules Verne would burn up in the atmosphere, since a proper replacement for the space shuttle is really long overdue, but I understand that the lack of a re-entry system makes the whole thing orders of magnitude cheaper and safer, and only people really need to return safely.
Spending money to get garbage safely down to earth is silly. We've got plenty of garbage down here already.
Christianity is a minority belief on this planet, a large minority, but still...
Since there are so many of them, all belief systems (including atheism and agnosticism) are minority beliefs, but if I'm not mistaken, Christianity is the biggest minority.
I thought I once read that Hinduism or Buddhism had close to a billion followers, and considering the populations of India and China, you'd expect them to be pretty big, but according to Wikipedia, they're a lot smaller than Islam.
Not really. It left us hanging there wondering what was going to happen to all that gold they found.
That is epilogue, and is not always necessary for an ending. Also note that I didn't say it was a brilliant ending, just that it had "something of an ending", which it did.
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Well, we're kinda used to MS not supporting their own standards properly, but this would be the first time someone else changed their standards for them.
Exactly. Even TFA calls him oppressive for hanging on to his secret revolutionary technology that could change the world, for being unable to trust others with that technology. Tony Stark is proprietary technology personified.
The only reason he's a hero at all is because he has his own comic book. Besides, I never liked Iron Man anyway.
The glass fibre network in Amsterdam is simply called "glasvezel Amsterdam", which translates to "glass fibre Amsterdam". Works well enough, so I'd simply call it "glass fibre East-Central Vermont", although I'm sure it'd sound better if you could get it to cover all of Vermont.
According to my tests, all odd numbers greater than 1 are prime. 3 tested as prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime. Now I admit that 9 tested as non-prime, but considering 11 and 13 did test as prime, I'm considering 9 an erroneous data point. The general trend is clear.
Don't kid yourself. Lots of EU laws are being written by lobbyists. It's not uncommon for MEPs from completely different factions to submit literally the exact same proposal or amendment.Or more specifically the corruption's petty like stealing office supplies and declaring holiday trips official fact-finding missions. It costs the tax payer a few millions at most and while it tells you something about your representatives it's vastly better than organized lobbying which really screws you over.
Take what you want from that, I no longer have any time what so ever for the arrogance of the French. I think the reason French and Americans hate each other so much is that they're so alike. They're both arrogant pricks who think their nation is superior to any other. Ofcourse the US actually has the military power and cultural dominance to back that up, but to many foreigners, Americans and French aren't so very different from each other.
Except the French have better cheese.
Not that that justifies France-bashing, though. There wasn't a single country that could stand up to the German military at that time. They overran most of Europe and came pretty close to Moscow.
It doesn't make sense to privatize everything, and that's not what I'm arguing. It would be nice to privatize roads, in the most glowing of theories, but in practicality I doubt it would work.
Wait, what would be the most glowing of theories about privatised roads? I'd rather see collectively owned roads. Idealy, his kind of last-mile infrastructure should be owned or controlled by the people who live there, who have no other choice than use that road. Or that cable, phone line or fiber optic line. However, I like having a choice of provider. I like being able to say "Nope, I'll check my e-mail at a library. Or a friend's house. Or an internet cafe." More than that, I like being able to switch to another ISP for my home internet. But, because of how the whole line-owner-carrier-thing has been abstracted, it does make sense to have multiple ISPs competing. Considering how wonderful last-mile monopolies have done for us so far, I'd hate to see even less competition. Exactly. That's why I like the arrangement for the new fiber optic internet in Amsterdam: the city hires a company to lay the cables in every street, and lots of ISPs get to compete to carry the customers' packets to the internet. The cabling company isn't an ISP, but as far as I understand, they don't even control the infrastructure itself. They just manage it for the city. Or at least, that's how I hope it works.Exactly. The proper car analogy here is: I paid for a car, and now that I want to use it more than once a week, I have to pay for it again.
Anyway, over a century ago, lots of people got along fine without electricity or telephones. And while many older people probably never bothered with cars when they were first introduced, there are a lot of places in the world now where you can't do without one. Internet is also becoming one of these vital necessities. If private companies provide internet service, you have every right to say "No, no series of tubes for me. I have a big truck." and go about your daily life. Sure, and when a private company builds all the roads in my neighbourhood, I'm free to never leave the door. But that can get really impractical for an increasing number of things. For one thing: Dutch companies are now required to do their taxes electronically. Most job applications are done by email nowadays, and an applicant without email is unlikely to be taken seriously (particularly in my line of business). And I've been told kids in school also use the internet for tons of things these days. My grandma may get along fine without internet, but I can't, and my kids will need it even more.
Now in my city (Amsterdam), the city itself is involved in getting fiber optic to every home. The idea is that in the 21st century, this is vital infrastructure, like roads, which are also paid for by the city. Fiber optic ISPs only take care of my traffic from this local infrastructure to the big exchanges and backbones, which makes it relatively cheap for an ISP to start in this business and compete with the others. As a result, I've got 7 or 8 to choose from.
Fiber optic is clearly the future, and if your area lacks fiber optic or any sort of competition among broadband ISPs, write to your city council to get them to give their town proper infrastructure.
If we're taking lessons from Iraq, it's mostly the improvised (car) bombs that should be legal.
Oh, you people crack me the fuck up. "WoW is addictive!" No. Cocaine is addictive; it causes physiological changes to your brain that cause you to want it more at the same time that it gives you less effect.
WoW is a computer game. It's entertainment,
So? That doesn't contradict what the GP said. Entertainment can be extremely addictive. Gambling can cause physiological changes to your brain.
In fact, I recognise many aspects of addiction (including wanting it more while getting less effect) from my internet usage. I thought I had it under control, but here I am posting stuff on slashdot again.
Wrong again. Kinetic energy is mass * velicity^2 (half of that, actually, but who cares about a constant factor?). Velocity is not the same thing as momentum, which is mass * velocity. Force causes accelleration, which is a change in velocity. The predominant force near a black hole is the gravity of the black hole, which causes everything with even the slightest bit of mass to accellerate straight into the black hole. Exactly how big that gravitational force is, depends on the mass of the object. In the case of a photon, the mass is nearly negligible, the photon's kinetic energy is as big as it can possibly be (due to its speed of light velocity), and yet the resulting force is big enough to trap it within the event horizon. A camera made of actual matter has a lot more mass than a photon and a lot less velocity, so it'll fall into the black hole a lot faster, unless you can make it go faster than the speed of light, or you can make it from mysteriour massless substance.
My advice to you is to pay more attention during highschool physics classes. If you somehow managed to miss out on those, buy a decent entry-level physics textbook, or check out wikipedia. I'm sure all of this is on their somewhere.
Maybe they could, but it sounds incredibly dangerous. Near misses and different orbits imply a speed difference. To remove that speed difference, force needs to be applied. tons of things can go wrong. It's much safer to put both objects in the same orbit and approach gently.
I was a bit disappointed to read that Jules Verne would burn up in the atmosphere, since a proper replacement for the space shuttle is really long overdue, but I understand that the lack of a re-entry system makes the whole thing orders of magnitude cheaper and safer, and only people really need to return safely.
Spending money to get garbage safely down to earth is silly. We've got plenty of garbage down here already.
Since there are so many of them, all belief systems (including atheism and agnosticism) are minority beliefs, but if I'm not mistaken, Christianity is the biggest minority.
I thought I once read that Hinduism or Buddhism had close to a billion followers, and considering the populations of India and China, you'd expect them to be pretty big, but according to Wikipedia, they're a lot smaller than Islam.
That is epilogue, and is not always necessary for an ending. Also note that I didn't say it was a brilliant ending, just that it had "something of an ending", which it did.