Here in the Netherlands we're only allowed to have four plants in natural light and farming cannabis on an industrial scale is only permitted in some rare government experiments.
Didn't think we would start running behind on the Americans with our liberal drugs laws, then again the Christian democrats have been in government for quite a while.
If you live close to water where big ships dock then there's a good chance it could be radar. It may sound far fetched but it has happened before with a company who couldn't figure out why the entire wireless network went down every day at the same time. Turned out there was a harbour with big navy ships nearby, due to the tide the ships radar would be at a certain height at a specific time each day which would cause the radar to interfere with wireless signals.
Indeed, just like when you buy a car, or anything else where there are choices to be made the less you know the easier it is. You can just walk into a shop and ask them for a PC that's fast like you can ask for a car that's fast or a TV that's big. The more informed choices you want to make about the product you are buying the more research you will have to do in the specifications of the different options and the pro's and con's of each of those choices.
The problem is humans are not good at coping with decissions that involve more than three different factors. So in the end the best is to boil it down to the three things that are most important to you and rate the choices on those items. Or you can just ask for a fast one.
Because IE is still the most popular browser. If Google wants to develop applications that run smoothly on every machine out there it makes sense for them to use every browser under the sun and especially IE throughout the company.
Could you explain what is insane about this position? It seems less insane to me than allowing the industry to use FUD tactics by using their outlets to distribute propaganda and give people huge fines that they will have to pay for the rest of their lives for downloading a few songs.
Your post may be modded as funny, but that's exactly the way it works in the Netherlands.
Like somebody from Canada posted above, we too have a tax on recordable media such as CD-R and DVD-R (but no HDD's) which is supposedly paid to recording artists who suffer from illegal copying. It is actually legal in the Netherlands to copy music or video from another source (neighbour, friend, internet) if it is for personal use. Naturally the recording industry association is trying to change the law, but just a few months a great move was made by our government showing that they will not be easily influenced by the media lobby:
They ruled that copying of copyrighted material will be made illegal only when the industry makes content readily available online for a fair price and without any DRM restrictions that would limit the usage of the material. This to me seems the perfect response to the tactics the industry is employing to try to keep their outdated business model alive. If they try to block innovation the consumer will find ways to work around it, the consumer owns the government so it always seems strange to me that in western so-called democratic society the government seems to be protecting the business more from the consumer than the other way round. It also shows the Labour party is far from its original socialist roots, I'm glad I don't have to vote in the British elections!
The thing to get excited about here is not the efficiency of the fuel but that this is supposedly a "cradle to cradle" solution. By producing this fuel you are not taking away farmland to decrease possible food production but you are taking the CO2 out of the air to produce the fuel.
An algae farm could be located almost anywhere. It would not require converting cropland from food production to energy production. It could use sea water and could consume pollutants from sewage and power plants.
This is just BT believing that because they used to be the national phone service they have a right to dominate any communications market and charge whatever they like. We have a similar company in the Netherlands KPN who used to be the national telephone and post service but since they were privatized have shown a total disregard for fair competition from other companies and tried every trick in the book to hold their dominant position so they can abuse it to make bigger profits.
No doubt there are some influential contacts in the government who get paid well for these agreements. If you ask me the expense scandal in the UK is just the top of the iceberg and our governments are basically nearly as corrupt as the US, they just make more effort to hide it.
It took 5 years to travel 13 miles, a garden slug would have been able to travel over 100 times that distance in the same time (although it may not last that long in the same environment).
This also requires that the Linux community respects Microsoft rather than ridicule it. "There are some things that Windows does pretty well," Zemlin said. Microsoft for instance has excelled in marketing the operating system, and has a good track record in fending off competition.'"
Saying all Microsoft has ever done well is marketing and fending off competition is setting an example for not ridiculing them? I believe he's just being sarcastic.
So you don't really need any of the BIOS' going "Wtf? Who am I? Do I have arms and legs? no. Do I have a cd drive? yes. What time is it? Will there be cake?"
You have a point about the TV, but what you are referring to is the BIOS boot time which is usually only a couple of seconds. Of course, the BIOS does not detect everything, devices attached to the PCI bridge are detected and assigned after the BIOS boots, and then you often have a short time while the RAID controller loads and checks everything is okay nowadays.
This process before the OS loads can take anything from a little under 10s. till up to a minute on some systems with extreme RAID configurations. But the biggest part of the boot time is almost always caused by Windows. Even though XP is supposedly designed to smartly put all the files it loads at boot in order on the start of your HDD and it does boot noticeably faster than 2000, I can't help but thinking the whole boot process is still very inefficient. If the BIOS can detect and use almost all devices in a matter of seconds, then why does it take Windows ages to essentially do the same and assign the same drivers it has done the last time it booted.
As long as Windows checks all hardware is identical to last boot which shouldn't take long then I can see no reason why it couldn't load a sort of hibernation image from the last time it booted successfully. But when you look at all the crap that Windows loads by default which is hardly ever used on 90% of all systems then it should make it all a whole lot clearer. MS doesn't seem to care for efficiency... AT ALL! They only started pretending they care about security since recently when Windows has been a hackfest forever so there is no reason to expect their policy on efficiency to change any time soon. ESPECIALLY not when you look at Vista.
That's PC hardware running a modified WinCE with Direct-X slapped on top. The Gamecube more or less equalled the power of the XBOX with a 485Mhz G3 PowerPC CPU, 162Ghz GPU, 24MB SRAM, because it was designed from the start to be a games machine. Today's Wii has a much more powerful CPU based on the G5 and with 1.5x the clockspeed, more powerful GPU, the same amount of SRAM but now with 64MB of GDDR3 RAM and the GPU has 3MB of ultra-fast onboard RAM too. So it's safe to say that the Wii is at least twice as powerful in some and alot more in other respects and still only has to render the same resolution iso. the other next-gen consoles that have to render approx 4 times the amount of pixels and therefore need 4 times the power for the same amount of eye-candy.
Ironically enough, it was and is pirated software that has made MS as big as it is today. If it weren't for all those free copies of MS-DOS up to Win-XP that people around the world have been using, Bill Gates' company would have never achieved the market domination that they have. So even though he was wining about it from the start it is exactly that which has made him those billions. I wonder if he really understands that or not.
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Here in the Netherlands we're only allowed to have four plants in natural light and farming cannabis on an industrial scale is only permitted in some rare government experiments.
Didn't think we would start running behind on the Americans with our liberal drugs laws, then again the Christian democrats have been in government for quite a while.
If you live close to water where big ships dock then there's a good chance it could be radar. It may sound far fetched but it has happened before with a company who couldn't figure out why the entire wireless network went down every day at the same time. Turned out there was a harbour with big navy ships nearby, due to the tide the ships radar would be at a certain height at a specific time each day which would cause the radar to interfere with wireless signals.
That's odd, only takes up 1632KB here (Win7-64)
I see a future where MS bots will only talk to other MS bots. I for one welcome our new wall-crashing overlords.
We have found a more fun way to be higher than the rest of the world.
Indeed, just like when you buy a car, or anything else where there are choices to be made the less you know the easier it is. You can just walk into a shop and ask them for a PC that's fast like you can ask for a car that's fast or a TV that's big. The more informed choices you want to make about the product you are buying the more research you will have to do in the specifications of the different options and the pro's and con's of each of those choices.
The problem is humans are not good at coping with decissions that involve more than three different factors. So in the end the best is to boil it down to the three things that are most important to you and rate the choices on those items. Or you can just ask for a fast one.
Incidentally, the Spanish Flu (name for 1918 flu) was also a virus strain of subtype H1N1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu
Because IE is still the most popular browser. If Google wants to develop applications that run smoothly on every machine out there it makes sense for them to use every browser under the sun and especially IE throughout the company.
Wooded does not equal boned would be more accurate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baculum
Could you explain what is insane about this position? It seems less insane to me than allowing the industry to use FUD tactics by using their outlets to distribute propaganda and give people huge fines that they will have to pay for the rest of their lives for downloading a few songs.
Your post may be modded as funny, but that's exactly the way it works in the Netherlands.
Like somebody from Canada posted above, we too have a tax on recordable media such as CD-R and DVD-R (but no HDD's) which is supposedly paid to recording artists who suffer from illegal copying. It is actually legal in the Netherlands to copy music or video from another source (neighbour, friend, internet) if it is for personal use. Naturally the recording industry association is trying to change the law, but just a few months a great move was made by our government showing that they will not be easily influenced by the media lobby:
They ruled that copying of copyrighted material will be made illegal only when the industry makes content readily available online for a fair price and without any DRM restrictions that would limit the usage of the material. This to me seems the perfect response to the tactics the industry is employing to try to keep their outdated business model alive. If they try to block innovation the consumer will find ways to work around it, the consumer owns the government so it always seems strange to me that in western so-called democratic society the government seems to be protecting the business more from the consumer than the other way round. It also shows the Labour party is far from its original socialist roots, I'm glad I don't have to vote in the British elections!
Did you just call the librarian a monkey?
I hope you have some bananas.
The Euro was introduced in 2002. 10 years ago that would have been in Deutschmark.
The thing to get excited about here is not the efficiency of the fuel but that this is supposedly a "cradle to cradle" solution. By producing this fuel you are not taking away farmland to decrease possible food production but you are taking the CO2 out of the air to produce the fuel.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/us/02algae.html?_r=2&oref=slogin
An algae farm could be located almost anywhere. It would not require converting cropland from food production to energy production. It could use sea water and could consume pollutants from sewage and power plants.
This is just BT believing that because they used to be the national phone service they have a right to dominate any communications market and charge whatever they like. We have a similar company in the Netherlands KPN who used to be the national telephone and post service but since they were privatized have shown a total disregard for fair competition from other companies and tried every trick in the book to hold their dominant position so they can abuse it to make bigger profits.
No doubt there are some influential contacts in the government who get paid well for these agreements. If you ask me the expense scandal in the UK is just the top of the iceberg and our governments are basically nearly as corrupt as the US, they just make more effort to hide it.
Right. Aren't we supposed to be the experts at that here at slashdot?
The world is full of people who don't take their professed religions seriously.
Which seems preferable to a world full of religious extremists to me, but then I am an atheist.
I think you meant "Orwell..."
You think that's slow?
It took 5 years to travel 13 miles, a garden slug would have been able to travel over 100 times that distance in the same time (although it may not last that long in the same environment).
This also requires that the Linux community respects Microsoft rather than ridicule it. "There are some things that Windows does pretty well," Zemlin said. Microsoft for instance has excelled in marketing the operating system, and has a good track record in fending off competition.'"
Saying all Microsoft has ever done well is marketing and fending off competition is setting an example for not ridiculing them? I believe he's just being sarcastic.
So you don't really need any of the BIOS' going "Wtf? Who am I? Do I have arms and legs? no. Do I have a cd drive? yes. What time is it? Will there be cake?"
You have a point about the TV, but what you are referring to is the BIOS boot time which is usually only a couple of seconds. Of course, the BIOS does not detect everything, devices attached to the PCI bridge are detected and assigned after the BIOS boots, and then you often have a short time while the RAID controller loads and checks everything is okay nowadays.
This process before the OS loads can take anything from a little under 10s. till up to a minute on some systems with extreme RAID configurations. But the biggest part of the boot time is almost always caused by Windows. Even though XP is supposedly designed to smartly put all the files it loads at boot in order on the start of your HDD and it does boot noticeably faster than 2000, I can't help but thinking the whole boot process is still very inefficient. If the BIOS can detect and use almost all devices in a matter of seconds, then why does it take Windows ages to essentially do the same and assign the same drivers it has done the last time it booted.
As long as Windows checks all hardware is identical to last boot which shouldn't take long then I can see no reason why it couldn't load a sort of hibernation image from the last time it booted successfully. But when you look at all the crap that Windows loads by default which is hardly ever used on 90% of all systems then it should make it all a whole lot clearer. MS doesn't seem to care for efficiency... AT ALL! They only started pretending they care about security since recently when Windows has been a hackfest forever so there is no reason to expect their policy on efficiency to change any time soon. ESPECIALLY not when you look at Vista.
Well I'll be the first to admit I am more interested in Finnish dark metal than I am in cars. ;-)
So what's the mileage on this thing? It's have to be pretty amazing to beat the "save your families future on a can of tomatoes" of the Dolorian.
That's PC hardware running a modified WinCE with Direct-X slapped on top. The Gamecube more or less equalled the power of the XBOX with a 485Mhz G3 PowerPC CPU, 162Ghz GPU, 24MB SRAM, because it was designed from the start to be a games machine. Today's Wii has a much more powerful CPU based on the G5 and with 1.5x the clockspeed, more powerful GPU, the same amount of SRAM but now with 64MB of GDDR3 RAM and the GPU has 3MB of ultra-fast onboard RAM too. So it's safe to say that the Wii is at least twice as powerful in some and alot more in other respects and still only has to render the same resolution iso. the other next-gen consoles that have to render approx 4 times the amount of pixels and therefore need 4 times the power for the same amount of eye-candy.
Ironically enough, it was and is pirated software that has made MS as big as it is today. If it weren't for all those free copies of MS-DOS up to Win-XP that people around the world have been using, Bill Gates' company would have never achieved the market domination that they have. So even though he was wining about it from the start it is exactly that which has made him those billions. I wonder if he really understands that or not.