Unlikely. Japan is a "fully" industrialised nation with low unemployment... the real reason that manufacturing has been moving to other Asian countries, like China, is because labour is far cheaper in those places (lower cost of living / quality of life, higher unemploment, a much larger labour pool, lack of laws protecting abuse of labour, etc.).. this process has been underway since long before any new environmental protection laws.
Yeah, that theory makes a lot of sense given that there are so many environmentalists in the current administration, who, let's see, actually have the power over moving or hiding this data. Yup - good thinking there.
Different races probably would have eventually evolved into different species if they'd been and remained isolated for another million years or so (unlikely), but the amount of "intermingling" is now dramatically on the rise, and seemingly set only to increase, so it seems unlikely that it will ever happen now. But no races have ever really been truly isolated anyway... global trade and travel etc. have been going on all the time for thousands of years.
They probably would if given enough time, AND if specific lines are kept apart, AND if there are survival pressures that favour certain traits within lines over others. Given the incredibly tiny time span allowed so far though, and the lack of clear survival pressures, I don't see why they should have.
Yes, that's why they're cancelling four of the company's research projects, to "save face" when they heard he wanted to resign. Right. I think you might be trying just a little too hard here to be the one to cleverly figure out the "story behind the story" analysis that 'everyone else missed';)
Because poor quality computer systems cost very real time/money etc.? Computers aren't some abstract thing apart from reality like wrestling, businesses all over the world use millions of them every day, all day long. What an awful analogy.
But the point is (if you go back and read again, but let me spell it out for you), why not just say a "maximum of ten years"?
Look:
"A maximum of two four-year terms, or ten years, whichever is longer" => "A maximum of eight years, or ten years, whichever is longer" => ten years is longer than eight, so "A maximum of ten years". The analogy to compilers being because an optimising compiler will precalculate evaluations of constants.
So you are suggesting that all companies are actually equal, and thus based on that, that any stated preference for one company over another implies an "unfair bias". That doesn't no sense whatsoever. Companies are not at all like, say, races (where a truly unbiased person assumes all races are equal) --- companies really do differ drastically from one to another, and it really is OK to judge and categorise companies according to how they behave, in fact you're supposed to. Are you suggesting we totally ignore every known fact about MS and pretend to be neutral in our stance, just to avoid being labelled 'biased' by people who might be offended by the truth?
OK, I've just tested it again, and it looks like they 'fixed the problem'. The file still only grows, but it seems to wipe out sections of it now when you clear your history. When I researched this a few years ago, it did not - it used to simply keep a full record of every site ever visited. Perhaps it really was a bug.
Sorry this is misplaced, I'm answering the question you posted here: The file is called "index.dat" and lives in "C:\Documents and Settings\X\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5". This file stores a list of all the sites you visited, when you visited them etc., and it only grows, never deleting any entries, even when you clear your history AND your cache in Internet Options.
You cannot browse to this folder with Windows Explorer because as soon as you get to the "C:\Documents and Settings\X\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files" level, it shows you your browser cache. But you can use any other "real" file manager (e.g. 'cmd' prompt, Total Commander etc.) to get there.
(Just because someone not too clued up posted a confused paranoid-sounding rambling, doesn't mean it's not true;)... I'm surprised the level of technical literacy on slashdot has now gotten so poor that nobody could even answer that when you asked it.)
That's because legally speaking piracy isn't "stealing", it's "copyright infringement" - these are two different, non-overlapping categories of crimes. This is just a technical, straightforward fact. I don't recall ever seeing anyone argue that this somehow makes violating copyright "OK" now - in fact, it's usually just brought up as a 'just-to-be-technical stop-calling-it-stealing' nitpick. You seem to imply there is some sort of hypocrisy going on here, but nobody here calls it "stealing" when a company violates the GPL either. In fact they call it "violating the GPL", which is exactly what it is.
I wouldn't be pointing fingers about advocacy strategies and 'looking bad', considering that your linked website's prominent, elegant and technically well-thought-out and accurate argument about why BSD is better than Linux is simply:
"BSD Shits All Over Linux"
complete with a poorly-rendered cartoon of the BSD mascot butt-raping Tux the Penguin. That's real mature. I'm sure that really makes people want to associate themselves with BSD.
it might not be of much use to anyone but OS/2 zealots.
If I may clarify, are you implying here that anyone who thinks OS/2 is a good enough operating system that it would be worthwhile to maintain and update it, is automatically a "zealot"? That's bizarre.
So are you suggesting then that anyone who isn't totally neutral about OSs is a "zealot"? What kind of behavioural manipulation is that --- or is it just strange, twisted mutation of the notion of political correctness? These aren't religions or races, some OSs really are better than others for certain purposes. What if I have a good technical knowledge of several OSs, including OS/2, and based on a sound technical evaluation, have decided OS/2 is good? I suppose that, according to your apparent reasoning, I am supposed to ignore all that and pretend to be neutral, in order to avoid being labelled a 'biased zealot', and in order not to "offend" anyone who disagrees.
Trust me, you do not want to install XP on anything less than at least 256MB RAM. Actually, as I recently discovered when I had to remove one of my memory modules, it performs badly even with 256MB RAM - I wouldn't go for anything less than 512.
Thank you. Honestly, are we supposed to reward Microsoft for making a non-standards-compliant browser by all doing extra work to make websites work with IE, basically spending our own time and money deliberately helping IE become even further entrenched? That's crazy. I say fsck it - code to standards, let it break on IE, and let MS either fix their browser or fall behind. If that means we "force" customers to use a standards-compliant browser to use the Web, well, that doesn't sound like such a bad thing to me. If enough major websites did this, MS would very quickly come round, and the 'standards compability patch' would be downloadable from MS in no time flat.
Open standards are important, without them, there is no fair competition and you are stuck with single-vendor lock-in and corresponding overpriced solutions. If we believe in the purpose of standards, we must adhere to this principle. This doesn't necessarily even mean "locking your customers out" for commercial websites - it's quite possible to design a standards-compilant website that renders in both IE and Firefox.
Three people in a row? People, it's fscking "Ubuntu", not "Unbuntu". If you're going to criticise people, at least make sure you have a clue what you're talking about.
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Unlikely. Japan is a "fully" industrialised nation with low unemployment ... the real reason that manufacturing has been moving to other Asian countries, like China, is because labour is far cheaper in those places (lower cost of living / quality of life, higher unemploment, a much larger labour pool, lack of laws protecting abuse of labour, etc.) .. this process has been underway since long before any new environmental protection laws.
Yeah, that theory makes a lot of sense given that there are so many environmentalists in the current administration, who, let's see, actually have the power over moving or hiding this data. Yup - good thinking there.
Could you point out where I EVER claimed that Google invented Google Maps? Because either I am losing my mind, or you are straight out 100% lying.
Different races probably would have eventually evolved into different species if they'd been and remained isolated for another million years or so (unlikely), but the amount of "intermingling" is now dramatically on the rise, and seemingly set only to increase, so it seems unlikely that it will ever happen now. But no races have ever really been truly isolated anyway ... global trade and travel etc. have been going on all the time for thousands of years.
They probably would if given enough time, AND if specific lines are kept apart, AND if there are survival pressures that favour certain traits within lines over others. Given the incredibly tiny time span allowed so far though, and the lack of clear survival pressures, I don't see why they should have.
Terraserver was also simply bought by MS, IIRC. But I suppose that MS's definition of "innovate" includes "buy".
So you and your friends account for 15% of Web searches, wow, I'm impressed.
Yes, that's why they're cancelling four of the company's research projects, to "save face" when they heard he wanted to resign. Right. I think you might be trying just a little too hard here to be the one to cleverly figure out the "story behind the story" analysis that 'everyone else missed' ;)
Because poor quality computer systems cost very real time/money etc.? Computers aren't some abstract thing apart from reality like wrestling, businesses all over the world use millions of them every day, all day long. What an awful analogy.
Well, I was just going on what had been posted, admittedly. It's not my country, I don't really know the system.
But the point is (if you go back and read again, but let me spell it out for you), why not just say a "maximum of ten years"?
Look:
"A maximum of two four-year terms, or ten years, whichever is longer" => "A maximum of eight years, or ten years, whichever is longer" => ten years is longer than eight, so "A maximum of ten years". The analogy to compilers being because an optimising compiler will precalculate evaluations of constants.
hate speech
"hate speech"? You think that's HATE SPEECH?!? You don't have the first friggin clue what "hate speech" is.
So you are suggesting that all companies are actually equal, and thus based on that, that any stated preference for one company over another implies an "unfair bias". That doesn't no sense whatsoever. Companies are not at all like, say, races (where a truly unbiased person assumes all races are equal) --- companies really do differ drastically from one to another, and it really is OK to judge and categorise companies according to how they behave, in fact you're supposed to. Are you suggesting we totally ignore every known fact about MS and pretend to be neutral in our stance, just to avoid being labelled 'biased' by people who might be offended by the truth?
Men can't think straight when they have hard-ons
Uh, yeah, whatever - there may be some truth to that, but OTOH, women can't think straight all the time.
OK, I've just tested it again, and it looks like they 'fixed the problem'. The file still only grows, but it seems to wipe out sections of it now when you clear your history. When I researched this a few years ago, it did not - it used to simply keep a full record of every site ever visited. Perhaps it really was a bug.
Sorry this is misplaced, I'm answering the question you posted here: The file is called "index.dat" and lives in "C:\Documents and Settings\X\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5". This file stores a list of all the sites you visited, when you visited them etc., and it only grows, never deleting any entries, even when you clear your history AND your cache in Internet Options.
You cannot browse to this folder with Windows Explorer because as soon as you get to the "C:\Documents and Settings\X\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files" level, it shows you your browser cache. But you can use any other "real" file manager (e.g. 'cmd' prompt, Total Commander etc.) to get there.
(Just because someone not too clued up posted a confused paranoid-sounding rambling, doesn't mean it's not true ;) ... I'm surprised the level of technical literacy on slashdot has now gotten so poor that nobody could even answer that when you asked it.)
That's because legally speaking piracy isn't "stealing", it's "copyright infringement" - these are two different, non-overlapping categories of crimes. This is just a technical, straightforward fact. I don't recall ever seeing anyone argue that this somehow makes violating copyright "OK" now - in fact, it's usually just brought up as a 'just-to-be-technical stop-calling-it-stealing' nitpick. You seem to imply there is some sort of hypocrisy going on here, but nobody here calls it "stealing" when a company violates the GPL either. In fact they call it "violating the GPL", which is exactly what it is.
This might come as a surprise to you, but there is more than one person posting on slashdot.
I wouldn't be pointing fingers about advocacy strategies and 'looking bad', considering that your linked website's prominent, elegant and technically well-thought-out and accurate argument about why BSD is better than Linux is simply:
complete with a poorly-rendered cartoon of the BSD mascot butt-raping Tux the Penguin. That's real mature. I'm sure that really makes people want to associate themselves with BSD.
it might not be of much use to anyone but OS/2 zealots.
If I may clarify, are you implying here that anyone who thinks OS/2 is a good enough operating system that it would be worthwhile to maintain and update it, is automatically a "zealot"? That's bizarre.
So are you suggesting then that anyone who isn't totally neutral about OSs is a "zealot"? What kind of behavioural manipulation is that --- or is it just strange, twisted mutation of the notion of political correctness? These aren't religions or races, some OSs really are better than others for certain purposes. What if I have a good technical knowledge of several OSs, including OS/2, and based on a sound technical evaluation, have decided OS/2 is good? I suppose that, according to your apparent reasoning, I am supposed to ignore all that and pretend to be neutral, in order to avoid being labelled a 'biased zealot', and in order not to "offend" anyone who disagrees.
What's "Umbutu"? Is it an Omperatig System, like Windowms or Macm OS X, or a Linumx distro like Red Hamt or Debiman? :-)
(Seems to be a frequent mistake around here, is it that hard to remember "Ubuntu"?)
128MB RAM Minimum (Though it'll install on 64)
Trust me, you do not want to install XP on anything less than at least 256MB RAM. Actually, as I recently discovered when I had to remove one of my memory modules, it performs badly even with 256MB RAM - I wouldn't go for anything less than 512.
Thank you. Honestly, are we supposed to reward Microsoft for making a non-standards-compliant browser by all doing extra work to make websites work with IE, basically spending our own time and money deliberately helping IE become even further entrenched? That's crazy. I say fsck it - code to standards, let it break on IE, and let MS either fix their browser or fall behind. If that means we "force" customers to use a standards-compliant browser to use the Web, well, that doesn't sound like such a bad thing to me. If enough major websites did this, MS would very quickly come round, and the 'standards compability patch' would be downloadable from MS in no time flat.
Open standards are important, without them, there is no fair competition and you are stuck with single-vendor lock-in and corresponding overpriced solutions. If we believe in the purpose of standards, we must adhere to this principle. This doesn't necessarily even mean "locking your customers out" for commercial websites - it's quite possible to design a standards-compilant website that renders in both IE and Firefox.
"Spear-chuckers"? Most Africans are agrarian (i.e. small-scale farmers), not hunters.
There are plenty of good books about South Africa.
Three people in a row? People, it's fscking "Ubuntu", not "Unbuntu". If you're going to criticise people, at least make sure you have a clue what you're talking about.