Depending on your route, it might make sense to either visit LIGO Livingston Observatory in Louisiana or LIGO Hanford Observatory in Washington state. The former is preferable because of their cool "science education center", but both of these facilities have public outreach staffs and hold public events regularly. Call ahead and ask about the public tour schedule.
They are in the middle of a huge upgrade and their instruments are not in operation, but I think it's still worth your time.
I don't buy from you even though you are the only shop in my town that sells electronics components (resistors, capacitors, transistors, ICs, connectors etc.).
You don't offer any value over digikey, Mouser etc., their inventory is huge and they almost always have what I need, if not I'll order from other specialty online retailers. Your offerings are totally laughable.
Sure, I could use your 1/4 Watt 2.2k resistor, but why should I when I need to order other stuff you don't have, anyway?
Please become a digikey partner, or Mouser partner, or whatever partner, so that you have a reasonable inventory. I'll order using your partner's web site and get the parts at your store, with a reduced shipping cost (hopefully zero, but a reasonable amount is OK) and a shorter delivery time.
If you operate this way, I might buy something from your local inventory once in a while.
Even if your credit card company charges you some chunk as this is a Yen transaction (though I don't know if this is actually the case), I still believe that it's much better option than sending money to American RC.
Unlike American RC, I actually trust Japanese RC for doing useful things in Japan with smaller overhead costs. I don't have any data to back "smaller overhead costs" part, but I don't remember hearing about some major scandal, and for "doing useful things" part, just look at this report from Japanese RC on 23/Mar:
If you read Japanese, just read this list of donation/fundraising effort. Follow each of the link and you'll find that majority of these efforts are sending money to Japanese RC:
"because it was from nations like china and korea"
Right now there are rescue teams from 10 countries including "nations like china and korea" working in Japan.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/14_12.html
Sure sure, you're talking about Kobe. Would you please give me source that shows that Japan actually turned down the offers from "nations like china and korea" in Kobe? After doing that, would you give me another one that shows that the decision is because the offers came from those countries mentioned?
The water cooling system of the plant itself cannot produce enough cool water because of the power loss or something.
Anyway, this means that they decided to basically trash the plant after everything is (hopefully) contained even though the reactor vessel is intact: The inside of the reactor will be contaminated by I-dont-know-what from the sea water and it will be almost impossible to reuse.
I think the company is taking the route that makes sense, even if that's because there's no other choice or whatever.
I don't know why I RTFA, and I still don't know why Android is the New Windows(TM), but at least now I can save your time.
1. Eventually Android will dominate the market.
You know, separation of software and hardware, blah blah.
2. Market dominated by one OS brand = Virus, malware, we're doomed!
From TFA: "The entire phenomenon of viruses and malware is a result of the proliferation of Windows".
3. Market dominated by one OS brand = Crappy product once in a while, we'll have no choise
Windows ME, Vista.
Science is about discovering the nature of this world, and this might or might not be directly useful for your day-to-day life.
However, science academia plants seeds for most of the major inventions, and often it takes a long time for anybody including academia and private industry to transform it into something you can harvest.
You're using LCD?
Who first discovered the liquid crystals? Yes, it's an Austrian chemist working at an Austrian university.
Did he invent LCD panel? Hell, no, it was RCA engineer who "invented" the fundamentals of LCD some 76 years later. At about the same time, UK government-funded engineers in Royal Radar Establishment developed long-lasting material that made the commercial application of LCD practical.
You know that GPS was first proposed in 1956 as a test of general relativity by an American academic? That is because of the clocks running around in the earth bound orbit would have a different "tick" length than the ones on earth.
And general relativity was of course "invented" by another academic, a guy named Albert Einstein or something, in 1915.
And GPS was not possible without the accuracy of atomic clocks, which is entirely based on quantum mechanics of atomic transition, and the first guy who thought about using is as a clock is Lord Kelvin (1879), a British academic.
Oh, you're using internet? I wouldn't talk about DARPA, but anyway.
Between you and slashdot, your message goes through some fiber connection, and in that fiber travels laser light.
It was Einstein (1917) who "invented" the theoretical foundation of laser, which is the rate equation for spontaneous and induced radiation. But that was of course based on Max-Planck's classical radiation theory.
But of course it was Bell Lab that patented the actual implementation of Laser in 1957 (BTW, unlike many many trivial patents filed by private corporations today, this was totally non-trivial).
And speaking of fiber connection, how about optical fibers, the principle of which was first demonstrated by French and Swiss physicists?
Are you seeing a pattern here?
Can you do without these useless, budget-eating science thingie?
Do the private companies care to invest in fundamental science which might or might not directly profit them in 50 years or longer?
Mr Petter said that the Bill, which is being rushed through Parliament before the general election next year, had been poorly thought out.
And they're not giving music guys free money (yet). The proposal is about cutting off repeated offenders from the net.
TFA seems to imply that the cost of "identify offenders, notify them, and cut them off" procedure would amount to 500m GPB, though it is not very clear about the numbers and whatnot.
I live in the state of Washington, and Amazon always collects sales tax from me.
For example, the last item I've ordered costed 89.99 USD, but the total was 97.46 because Amazon took 7.47 as sales tax.
I always thought that this is the way it operates for people in the US, but apparently I't totally confused.
and they're making more money for the lower price!
I think this guy can learn something from what some of the Japanese publishers are doing in Japan.
Take for example a successful title, Gyakuten-Saiban: Yomigaeru Gyakuten. This is one of the titles known as "Ace Attorney" series in the USA.
There are three versions of this exact same title in Japan, i.e. the original (Sep.2005, sold at 5040 JPY or about 50 bucks), "Best Price" version (June 2006, sold at 3129 JPY or 31 bucks), and "New Best Price" (Apr. 2008, 2100 JPY or about 21 bucks).
The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.6.16
I don't have any doubt about what you wrote (Linus saying something in line of "2.6 not stable"), but that doesn't make me ignorant nor unreasonable even if I expect 2.6 series to be "stable", whatever that word means. I don't expect 2.6 series to be "stable", but that's another story.
I'm sick. Not because TFA claims that Unix is not that better than windows from some perspective. I'm not surprised if Unix-like system is not that better from many perspectives.
I'm sick because the author of TFA thinks as if the only issue is the loss of your data on your PC caused by the LOCAL activity on YOUR SAME PC.
Isn't it easier for an attacker to masquerade his/her wrongdoing if he/she has root privilage instead of user? Is it that difficult to figure out that the point of making your PC a part of zombie network is anything but to destroy your personal, precious data?
I'm sick of these guys who assume that the "average" users are so dumb that they can't care less if their PCs are used to hurt others.
Long time ago I had a conversation with a colleague of mine. He said that he didn't have to worry about virus and security, because he regularly backed up important personal files, and nothing confidential (like credit card information) was on his PC anyway, and he simply didn't care if some jerk wanted to look at his emails. In his opinion, there's absolutely NOBODY who really gains anything from owning his PC.
Even at that time (more than 10 years ago), it was a common knowledge that somebody can own your PC without doing any apparent damage to your data, silently doing something nasty (like attacking other computer using your PC). I had to tell him that his data was only one aspect of the valuable resources, and that he had to think about a social damage that could be caused: Potential DDOS and such done on his PC BECAUSE he left his PC unprotected for so long. His reply was like "So what? Do you think the attacked guy is going to sue me? Ha!".
I was beginning to be angry, but I knew this guy was intelligent and nice at heart, so I continued. It took a long time before he was finally half convinced of my arguement. I had to say something like "What if you leave your car with the door unlocked and your key inside for over a year, and eventually a jerk steals your car, hits somebody he hates, and runs away. Your car was old and you don't regret the loss, and the guy hit doesn't sue you. Do you still think you're OK with that?"
But that was long time ago. And we were (and are) scientists, not tech guys. I assumed that, by now, at least every tech "journalist" type knows that it is not only about your personal data, but also about some nasty, sometimes criminal, activity done using your PC. Security issue is social, rather than individual. And still, this so-called "article" appears on OS News.
</rant>
In NZ, I've never heard of this sort of craziness. If the vendor is offering a discount on their product, they do it through the retailer, like you suggest.
Same in Germany and in Japan. Never seen this rebate thing in these two countries. When I came to USA, I was shocked to see the inefficiency of rebate system. I don't have any statistics, but I guess this is indeed US thing.
Short version: Would you please tell us how you evaluate timely release of your security patch and thorough testing of that same patch, and how you decide the release date?
A bit longer version:
Microsoft is often criticized of long delivery time of the patches for critical vulnerabilities of Windows and its related components, such as Internet Explorer. Indeed, it is not unusual for Microsoft to take months to release a patch for a known ciritical security vulnerability (for example this one). This makes a stark contrast with patch releases of many open source projects (such as Linux kernel) that are very quick to release their fixes.
On the other hand, many of us understand that any software has to be tested before it is released to public. And here comes the compromise between thorough testing and quick, timely delivery. Since it is impossible for anybody to do the testing against all possible configuration of Windows, somebody has to say, at some stage, that the risk of most of the users being exposed for extended time is far greater than the risk of some of the obscure functionality of Windows (and thus some users' system) broken by the patch.
This can be a tricky decision, though, and it all depends on some coorporate/project/whatever policy. So my questions are the following:
1. Who makes the decision to release a specific patch at some specific date for a critical security bug?
2. Is there any reward for that decision maker when the timely release of the patch is believed to have saved millions of Windows PCs from being owned?
3. Is there any punishment for that decision maker when the patch unfortunately breaks somebody's system and he/she complains (like lost revenue of one million dollars per hour because some unknown printer driver stopped working)?
4. Do you think your current decision making process is working well?
4a. If so, why is Microsoft often criticized for not releasing patches in a timely manner?
4b. If not, what are you planning to improve the process?
when you are a monopoly supplier (or a cartel) "the market" doesn't decide anything, the monopolist looks at the demand curve and sets a profit maximizing price.
Exactly. And since this Bronfman Jr. guy claims that the market can indeed decide the price, it follows that he doesn't look at any music piece as one-of-a-kind art. To him any two songs are exchangeable as far as the "music" part is concerned.
In his mind, a typical "consumer" who was about to buy, say, The Black Eyed Peas song would say "Hey look! This new Rolling Stones song costs the same as The Black Eyed Peas thing, and if you think about the production cost, guess which is the bargain? I'll buy Stones instead." or "Boston Phil is too expensive, I'd take Vienna Philharmonic instead."
ZDNet failed to see the importance of the following paragraph (so they just omitted that):
Asked whether he would support the model of paying for a sub-licence, Stallman said he was concerned over issues of naming only when they helped to focus attention on the freedom to change and redistribute software.
"In this particular case, though, the naming issue seems rather to distract attention from freedom, so I'd rather focus the attention back where it belongs," he said.
Without this, ZDNet article might give a false impression that Mr. Stallman is inconsistent (i.e., on one hand he says that the name is irrelevant, on the other hand he implies that the name is important, i.e. GNU/this GNU/that).
You were close, but you missed the point of konq guy (see see this post) when you began talking about the "problems" of Webcore code. The konq guy's message was more or less like this as far as I can see:
When Konqueror doesn't follow Safari's new feature within 4 hours, don't blame us. When Konqueror finally follows Safari's feature list, don't automatically praise Apple, either.
It's not like Apple is giving out some drop-in patch, but that's OK. That's their right. Sometimes we take their patch, but sometimes we write things from scratch. When we'll use Apple's code, we'll be slow because of the way they produce their patch, not because we're lazy.
Apple is OK for me, but please stop bashing our laziness while praising opensource-friendliness of Apple. That hurts.
Current Offering = Linspire-built ("Balance" series).
Future Offering = Linair-built.
If Linair can supply more powerful hardware with the same price, I'm not surprised to see Walmart going for Linair instead of Linspire. From TFA:
The new device follows on the heels of a similar product the retailer is offering since December last year. As the Linspire-built "Balance" device, the Linare notebook comes with a LinuxOS but offers a faster processor and more storage space.
Instead of the Balance's 1.0 GHz Via C3 processor, Linare equips its LADBSD250 model with an AMD Athlon 1800+.
Though my Thinkpad T40 was assembled in China, I understand that most, if not all, of the Thinkpad design came from your excellent Japanese lab. As far as I can say, your lab is one of the few that understands the balance between durability, usability and portability: Unlike Dell and HP ("bulky, heavy, suitable only for U.S. where people don't walk"), and unlike some Japanese makers ("make everything smaller, no matter how fragile it gets, and you have some unusable tiny keyboard as a bonus!"), your lab always provides some excellent machines that I can actually carry around and comfortably type.
IBM, please don't kill these guys. If possible, please consider branching out a new company specializing in laptops (just as you did for Lexmark). Cheap hardware makers don't need these guys I think, and I don't want to see your lab simply closed (or converted to a software lab). I see Apple is making a great progress in this "durable, portable and usable" segment, but I hope there's some healthy competition even in such a small niche.
No. The fact is that he's kept in custody for hours without being told why, nor being charged for anything.
It seems that nobody including the sergeant himself who arrested this guy was sure about the reason for this very arrest. The only thing I can see here is that the sergeant was told by somebody to arrest him for some reason that is not known to us at the moment.
Maybe it was vandalism indeed, maybe not. But if it was the case, they could have told the guy that he was arrested because of vandalism. Anyway here's the article, in case you're too lazy:
When Kinberg showed the police sergeant how the bicycle used a non-permanent spray chalk, the sergeant seemed to agree that it wasn't defacement, at which point Kinberg asked, "am I free to go?" After conferring about it, officers decided to call superiors, then came back moments later to place Kinberg under arrest and confiscate the bicycle.
Kinberg cooperated fully with the officers as he was being handcuffed, only asking, "can I ask what I'm being arrested for?" to which no one provided an answer. As of 11:00 PM Saturday evening, he was still in custody without being charged with anything.
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Switzerland's firearm-related suicide rate per population is about the same as US but 140 times larger than Japan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
US has a HUGE gun fatality rate. That doesn't mean that any country with somewhat smaller gun crime rate has "hardly any".
Depending on your route, it might make sense to either visit LIGO Livingston Observatory in Louisiana or LIGO Hanford Observatory in Washington state. The former is preferable because of their cool "science education center", but both of these facilities have public outreach staffs and hold public events regularly. Call ahead and ask about the public tour schedule. They are in the middle of a huge upgrade and their instruments are not in operation, but I think it's still worth your time.
I don't buy from you even though you are the only shop in my town that sells electronics components (resistors, capacitors, transistors, ICs, connectors etc.).
You don't offer any value over digikey, Mouser etc., their inventory is huge and they almost always have what I need, if not I'll order from other specialty online retailers. Your offerings are totally laughable.
Sure, I could use your 1/4 Watt 2.2k resistor, but why should I when I need to order other stuff you don't have, anyway?
Please become a digikey partner, or Mouser partner, or whatever partner, so that you have a reasonable inventory. I'll order using your partner's web site and get the parts at your store, with a reduced shipping cost (hopefully zero, but a reasonable amount is OK) and a shorter delivery time.
If you operate this way, I might buy something from your local inventory once in a while.
Please, if you plan to donate to American Red Cross to help Japanese, donate instead to Japanese Red Cross.
You can donate directly to Japanese Red Cross using Google Checkout.
http://www.google.co.jp/intl/en/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html
Even if your credit card company charges you some chunk as this is a Yen transaction (though I don't know if this is actually the case), I still believe that it's much better option than sending money to American RC.
Unlike American RC, I actually trust Japanese RC for doing useful things in Japan with smaller overhead costs. I don't have any data to back "smaller overhead costs" part, but I don't remember hearing about some major scandal, and for "doing useful things" part, just look at this report from Japanese RC on 23/Mar:
http://www.jrc.or.jp/english/relief/l4/Vcms4_00002105.html
If you read Japanese, just read this list of donation/fundraising effort. Follow each of the link and you'll find that majority of these efforts are sending money to Japanese RC:
http://www.lifehacker.jp/2011/03/post_1701.html
Right now there are rescue teams from 10 countries including "nations like china and korea" working in Japan.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/14_12.html
Sure sure, you're talking about Kobe. Would you please give me source that shows that Japan actually turned down the offers from "nations like china and korea" in Kobe? After doing that, would you give me another one that shows that the decision is because the offers came from those countries mentioned?
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20110313/t10014635191000.html
The water cooling system of the plant itself cannot produce enough cool water because of the power loss or something.
Anyway, this means that they decided to basically trash the plant after everything is (hopefully) contained even though the reactor vessel is intact: The inside of the reactor will be contaminated by I-dont-know-what from the sea water and it will be almost impossible to reuse.
I think the company is taking the route that makes sense, even if that's because there's no other choice or whatever.
I really, really hope it's not too late.
Because the usability of the feature you use every day doesn't count?
I don't know why I RTFA, and I still don't know why Android is the New Windows(TM), but at least now I can save your time.
1. Eventually Android will dominate the market.
You know, separation of software and hardware, blah blah.
2. Market dominated by one OS brand = Virus, malware, we're doomed!
From TFA: "The entire phenomenon of viruses and malware is a result of the proliferation of Windows".
3. Market dominated by one OS brand = Crappy product once in a while, we'll have no choise
Windows ME, Vista.
Science is about discovering the nature of this world, and this might or might not be directly useful for your day-to-day life.
However, science academia plants seeds for most of the major inventions, and often it takes a long time for anybody including academia and private industry to transform it into something you can harvest.
You're using LCD?
Who first discovered the liquid crystals? Yes, it's an Austrian chemist working at an Austrian university.
Did he invent LCD panel? Hell, no, it was RCA engineer who "invented" the fundamentals of LCD some 76 years later. At about the same time, UK government-funded engineers in Royal Radar Establishment developed long-lasting material that made the commercial application of LCD practical.
You're using GPS navigation?
You know that GPS was first proposed in 1956 as a test of general relativity by an American academic? That is because of the clocks running around in the earth bound orbit would have a different "tick" length than the ones on earth.
And general relativity was of course "invented" by another academic, a guy named Albert Einstein or something, in 1915.
And GPS was not possible without the accuracy of atomic clocks, which is entirely based on quantum mechanics of atomic transition, and the first guy who thought about using is as a clock is Lord Kelvin (1879), a British academic.
Oh, you're using internet? I wouldn't talk about DARPA, but anyway.
Between you and slashdot, your message goes through some fiber connection, and in that fiber travels laser light.
Yes, Laser.
It was Einstein (1917) who "invented" the theoretical foundation of laser, which is the rate equation for spontaneous and induced radiation. But that was of course based on Max-Planck's classical radiation theory.
But of course it was Bell Lab that patented the actual implementation of Laser in 1957 (BTW, unlike many many trivial patents filed by private corporations today, this was totally non-trivial).
And speaking of fiber connection, how about optical fibers, the principle of which was first demonstrated by French and Swiss physicists?
Are you seeing a pattern here?
Can you do without these useless, budget-eating science thingie?
Do the private companies care to invest in fundamental science which might or might not directly profit them in 50 years or longer?
I thought so.
Mr Petter said that the Bill, which is being rushed through Parliament before the general election next year, had been poorly thought out.
And they're not giving music guys free money (yet). The proposal is about cutting off repeated offenders from the net.
TFA seems to imply that the cost of "identify offenders, notify them, and cut them off" procedure would amount to 500m GPB, though it is not very clear about the numbers and whatnot.
I live in the state of Washington, and Amazon always collects sales tax from me. For example, the last item I've ordered costed 89.99 USD, but the total was 97.46 because Amazon took 7.47 as sales tax. I always thought that this is the way it operates for people in the US, but apparently I't totally confused.
Take for example a successful title, Gyakuten-Saiban: Yomigaeru Gyakuten. This is one of the titles known as "Ace Attorney" series in the USA.
There are three versions of this exact same title in Japan, i.e. the original (Sep.2005, sold at 5040 JPY or about 50 bucks), "Best Price" version (June 2006, sold at 3129 JPY or 31 bucks), and "New Best Price" (Apr. 2008, 2100 JPY or about 21 bucks).
130000 copies of the original version were sold, but they sold 200000 copies of the "Best" and "New Best" combined, so apparently they made more money from the budget-priced versions.
This is not an isolated case, it seems many publishers are lowering the price of popular but older games in Japan.
I'm sick. Not because TFA claims that Unix is not that better than windows from some perspective. I'm not surprised if Unix-like system is not that better from many perspectives. I'm sick because the author of TFA thinks as if the only issue is the loss of your data on your PC caused by the LOCAL activity on YOUR SAME PC.
Isn't it easier for an attacker to masquerade his/her wrongdoing if he/she has root privilage instead of user? Is it that difficult to figure out that the point of making your PC a part of zombie network is anything but to destroy your personal, precious data?
I'm sick of these guys who assume that the "average" users are so dumb that they can't care less if their PCs are used to hurt others.
Long time ago I had a conversation with a colleague of mine. He said that he didn't have to worry about virus and security, because he regularly backed up important personal files, and nothing confidential (like credit card information) was on his PC anyway, and he simply didn't care if some jerk wanted to look at his emails. In his opinion, there's absolutely NOBODY who really gains anything from owning his PC.
Even at that time (more than 10 years ago), it was a common knowledge that somebody can own your PC without doing any apparent damage to your data, silently doing something nasty (like attacking other computer using your PC). I had to tell him that his data was only one aspect of the valuable resources, and that he had to think about a social damage that could be caused: Potential DDOS and such done on his PC BECAUSE he left his PC unprotected for so long. His reply was like "So what? Do you think the attacked guy is going to sue me? Ha!".
I was beginning to be angry, but I knew this guy was intelligent and nice at heart, so I continued. It took a long time before he was finally half convinced of my arguement. I had to say something like "What if you leave your car with the door unlocked and your key inside for over a year, and eventually a jerk steals your car, hits somebody he hates, and runs away. Your car was old and you don't regret the loss, and the guy hit doesn't sue you. Do you still think you're OK with that?"
But that was long time ago. And we were (and are) scientists, not tech guys. I assumed that, by now, at least every tech "journalist" type knows that it is not only about your personal data, but also about some nasty, sometimes criminal, activity done using your PC. Security issue is social, rather than individual. And still, this so-called "article" appears on OS News.
</rant>
Sorry for my rant. Now I feel a bit better.
Same in Germany and in Japan. Never seen this rebate thing in these two countries. When I came to USA, I was shocked to see the inefficiency of rebate system. I don't have any statistics, but I guess this is indeed US thing.
Short version: Would you please tell us how you evaluate timely release of your security patch and thorough testing of that same patch, and how you decide the release date?
A bit longer version:
Microsoft is often criticized of long delivery time of the patches for critical vulnerabilities of Windows and its related components, such as Internet Explorer. Indeed, it is not unusual for Microsoft to take months to release a patch for a known ciritical security vulnerability (for example this one). This makes a stark contrast with patch releases of many open source projects (such as Linux kernel) that are very quick to release their fixes.
On the other hand, many of us understand that any software has to be tested before it is released to public. And here comes the compromise between thorough testing and quick, timely delivery. Since it is impossible for anybody to do the testing against all possible configuration of Windows, somebody has to say, at some stage, that the risk of most of the users being exposed for extended time is far greater than the risk of some of the obscure functionality of Windows (and thus some users' system) broken by the patch.
This can be a tricky decision, though, and it all depends on some coorporate/project/whatever policy. So my questions are the following:
1. Who makes the decision to release a specific patch at some specific date for a critical security bug?
2. Is there any reward for that decision maker when the timely release of the patch is believed to have saved millions of Windows PCs from being owned?
3. Is there any punishment for that decision maker when the patch unfortunately breaks somebody's system and he/she complains (like lost revenue of one million dollars per hour because some unknown printer driver stopped working)?
4. Do you think your current decision making process is working well?
4a. If so, why is Microsoft often criticized for not releasing patches in a timely manner?
4b. If not, what are you planning to improve the process?
In his mind, a typical "consumer" who was about to buy, say, The Black Eyed Peas song would say "Hey look! This new Rolling Stones song costs the same as The Black Eyed Peas thing, and if you think about the production cost, guess which is the bargain? I'll buy Stones instead." or "Boston Phil is too expensive, I'd take Vienna Philharmonic instead."
Instead of watered-down ZDNet thing, you should read the original Sydney Morning Herald interview.
ZDNet failed to see the importance of the following paragraph (so they just omitted that):
Without this, ZDNet article might give a false impression that Mr. Stallman is inconsistent (i.e., on one hand he says that the name is irrelevant, on the other hand he implies that the name is important, i.e. GNU/this GNU/that).
When Konqueror doesn't follow Safari's new feature within 4 hours, don't blame us. When Konqueror finally follows Safari's feature list, don't automatically praise Apple, either.
It's not like Apple is giving out some drop-in patch, but that's OK. That's their right. Sometimes we take their patch, but sometimes we write things from scratch. When we'll use Apple's code, we'll be slow because of the way they produce their patch, not because we're lazy.
Apple is OK for me, but please stop bashing our laziness while praising opensource-friendliness of Apple. That hurts.
Future Offering = Linair-built.
If Linair can supply more powerful hardware with the same price, I'm not surprised to see Walmart going for Linair instead of Linspire. From TFA:
Though my Thinkpad T40 was assembled in China, I understand that most, if not all, of the Thinkpad design came from your excellent Japanese lab. As far as I can say, your lab is one of the few that understands the balance between durability, usability and portability: Unlike Dell and HP ("bulky, heavy, suitable only for U.S. where people don't walk"), and unlike some Japanese makers ("make everything smaller, no matter how fragile it gets, and you have some unusable tiny keyboard as a bonus!"), your lab always provides some excellent machines that I can actually carry around and comfortably type.
IBM, please don't kill these guys. If possible, please consider branching out a new company specializing in laptops (just as you did for Lexmark). Cheap hardware makers don't need these guys I think, and I don't want to see your lab simply closed (or converted to a software lab). I see Apple is making a great progress in this "durable, portable and usable" segment, but I hope there's some healthy competition even in such a small niche.
or neighbor, or a friend in their local hula hoop club or whatever, to get people to vote, they're still encouraged to vote. At least I think so.
No it's not joke. Here're relevant press releases and their "HP Tattoos" gallery:/ 2004/04082 7a.htmlk its/2004/ digitalexplaunch/fs_ipod.pdfh p.com/music/us/en/tattoos.html
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press_
http://h10049.www1.
No. The fact is that he's kept in custody for hours without being told why, nor being charged for anything.
It seems that nobody including the sergeant himself who arrested this guy was sure about the reason for this very arrest. The only thing I can see here is that the sergeant was told by somebody to arrest him for some reason that is not known to us at the moment.
Maybe it was vandalism indeed, maybe not. But if it was the case, they could have told the guy that he was arrested because of vandalism. Anyway here's the article, in case you're too lazy:
When Kinberg showed the police sergeant how the bicycle used a non-permanent spray chalk, the sergeant seemed to agree that it wasn't defacement, at which point Kinberg asked, "am I free to go?" After conferring about it, officers decided to call superiors, then came back moments later to place Kinberg under arrest and confiscate the bicycle.
Kinberg cooperated fully with the officers as he was being handcuffed, only asking, "can I ask what I'm being arrested for?" to which no one provided an answer. As of 11:00 PM Saturday evening, he was still in custody without being charged with anything.