Anyone get the feeling the Chinese are behaving as if engaged in a game of Civilization, while the US is played more like a game of Monopoly?
Democracy and Republic is not most efficient government form for Civilization (or at least for FreeCiv). Monarchy and Communism work better for expanding player.
BTW: There are ways of losing a lot more in EVE. For example a titan class ship costs about 2x-3x as much as these plexes. So this is really a non-story.
Cable modems are maintained by the ISP, even if you own them. Otherwise they would not let you connect them to their cable. Otherwise people would be hacking their firmware to remove speed caps.
What kind of idiot sets speed restrictions on hardware that is owned (and controlled) by customer.
Every broadband provider has access to the modems connected to their network to perform maintenance and updates as necessary. It's part of the fine print you agreed to.
Not every broadband provider has administrative access to customer's hardware. I own my ADSL router. If provider hacks it, I will wonder how they managed to do that on third party router with remote admin access turned off.
That AutoRun virus that was going around a while back, how much did that cost to clean up?
That autorun virus vulnerability was introduced after upgrade to XP SP2. How many vulnerabilities will be introduced with upgrade to other major browser version? Who will handle support issues introduced by changes in Windows Explorer behavior. If IE is only a browser, why it changes the way Windows Explorer works.
Even worse, the jingoistic nationalism which pervades any discussion of international events--the official media's constant portrayal of the Western powers led by the USA as the evil imperialists of the 19th Century,
Some American said "But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." Don't judge or condemn political structure used in other country. After all only democrats used a-bomb in anger and last American military campaigns toppled governments of two independent countries.
The only thing holding them back right now is local politics.
The only thing keeping them together is local politics. IMHO Chinese need strong ruler to keep them together or country might fall into smaller pieces like it did n times before.
It as if Larry were a kid who felt the need to stamp his name on all of his possessions.
He paid 7 billion for that and he wants something in return. Or he wants to destroy all traces of Sun and in 5-10 years people will remember only Oracle Java, Oracle Office and Oracle servers&desktops.
He said he had held on to it since the early 80s, because nobody wanted a pink screwdriver.
It does not have to be pink. Any unusual color that catches the eye will work. if you want stapler or screwdriver without legs, you get the one with shouting colors and nobody will take it.
I don't recall Europeans paying the Chinese any royalties on that.
They returned royalties with shells and bombs that landed on Chinese towns.
Although it can argued if Chinese gave gunpowder to the world. It was invented by Chinese in 500 AD, but Arabs and Europeans got it only in 1200-1400 AD. If it was patented:), patent was already expired. If it was trade secret, then how nation with such technological advantage (other Chinese inventions not included) lost it and became second world country in 1700-1900 AD.
So they use the already-existing Phalanx platform for targeting and tracking.
There is a big difference between hitting the right spot with 20mm HE round and trying to track same spot with laser beam. 20mm HE has effective radius of 2 meters and fragmentation radius of 20 meters. 20 mm round does not have proximity fuse, but I don't think that you care about it, when you fire 50 rounds per sec and can sustain fire up to 1000 rounds.
Um, they already know where I live. That would be the address where my phone bill arrives. It's also the billing address of the credit card I used to sign up with iTunes.
you don't have to live in location where your phone bill arrives. Any sane service provider might try to reduce billing costs and deliver bills electronically. I haven't received bill for my cell in last 6 years. No paper bill for land line in last 2 years.
Yes, bacteria and a virus can change something as big as a man, but a man's body has the defenses to counter those changes and go on unaffected. Though, a human's body is weak and more prone to the effects of localized problems. When death occurs from bacterial or viral infections, it is from events similar to the moon crashing into the fucking earth.
Or infections are systematic and have long lasting effects. One bacteria weakens immune system, one scratch breaks protective skin layer, one virus infects through unprotected body part. 10 minutes later other attack starts in different place. One month later Goliath is dead.
I will take that as pretty strong evidence that the Windows OS works just fine
Right. Let me reboot and check if Microsoft Vista still works. Yep still works. Still does not have host, mtr, ssh and synaptics. Still requires reboots in order to change locale.
It works just fine in dual boot mode. But it gives me less options than Linux and Linux works just fine with all bells and whistles I need included.
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That cloth will soon become virus/bacteria farm instead of being security feature.
let's hope that someone does not replace those cloud images on remote sites with goat something.
or maybe they can also add purple monkey from Windows to KDE. That would definitely improve computer usability.
KDE was always a mess on Debian.
Actually it is not. You can display flash applets and play sounds without javascript. Even without html5 stuff.
Democracy and Republic is not most efficient government form for Civilization (or at least for FreeCiv). Monarchy and Communism work better for expanding player.
Can you buy titan class ship with real money?
She is. http://mofo.killmail.org/?a=pilot_detail&plt_id=571181
Not sure how normal player stats looks on EVE, but player with 0 kills and 4 looses does not look good in stats. Played more than 6 months.
What kind of idiot sets speed restrictions on hardware that is owned (and controlled) by customer.
Your browsing history collected through Urchin/Google Analytics.
Not every broadband provider has administrative access to customer's hardware. I own my ADSL router. If provider hacks it, I will wonder how they managed to do that on third party router with remote admin access turned off.
That autorun virus vulnerability was introduced after upgrade to XP SP2. How many vulnerabilities will be introduced with upgrade to other major browser version? Who will handle support issues introduced by changes in Windows Explorer behavior. If IE is only a browser, why it changes the way Windows Explorer works.
Yeah right. Iranians (or anybody not under NPT obligations) will let CIA to fingerprint their reactors.
My point was that Americans (or any other democrats) should not criticize different government form. It only differs from the one that are used to.
Except for the part where you can't copyright generic idiom.
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1870, revised by Adrian Room (Millennium Edition). Looks like copyright is expired.
Some American said "But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." Don't judge or condemn political structure used in other country. After all only democrats used a-bomb in anger and last American military campaigns toppled governments of two independent countries.
The only thing keeping them together is local politics. IMHO Chinese need strong ruler to keep them together or country might fall into smaller pieces like it did n times before.
He paid 7 billion for that and he wants something in return. Or he wants to destroy all traces of Sun and in 5-10 years people will remember only Oracle Java, Oracle Office and Oracle servers&desktops.
It does not have to be pink. Any unusual color that catches the eye will work. if you want stapler or screwdriver without legs, you get the one with shouting colors and nobody will take it.
They returned royalties with shells and bombs that landed on Chinese towns.
Although it can argued if Chinese gave gunpowder to the world. It was invented by Chinese in 500 AD, but Arabs and Europeans got it only in 1200-1400 AD. If it was patented :), patent was already expired. If it was trade secret, then how nation with such technological advantage (other Chinese inventions not included) lost it and became second world country in 1700-1900 AD.
The first one is always free.
There is a big difference between hitting the right spot with 20mm HE round and trying to track same spot with laser beam. 20mm HE has effective radius of 2 meters and fragmentation radius of 20 meters. 20 mm round does not have proximity fuse, but I don't think that you care about it, when you fire 50 rounds per sec and can sustain fire up to 1000 rounds.
you don't have to live in location where your phone bill arrives. Any sane service provider might try to reduce billing costs and deliver bills electronically. I haven't received bill for my cell in last 6 years. No paper bill for land line in last 2 years.
Or infections are systematic and have long lasting effects. One bacteria weakens immune system, one scratch breaks protective skin layer, one virus infects through unprotected body part. 10 minutes later other attack starts in different place. One month later Goliath is dead.
Right. Let me reboot and check if Microsoft Vista still works. Yep still works. Still does not have host, mtr, ssh and synaptics. Still requires reboots in order to change locale.
It works just fine in dual boot mode. But it gives me less options than Linux and Linux works just fine with all bells and whistles I need included.
What's the point. It still looks better than windows.