The general problem facing any country in the world is the "how to keep up services in the new world"
Basically the goal of globalisation atleast seems to be to have other countries reach the that same status that US has reached, as written in the parent post.
The way things are moved to places with minimal corporate taxation will lead to things getting more and more harmonised at the given model.
Some countries try to buck the trend and many have been successfull sofar, but with the push coming, this seems to be getting harder.
Some of the newer inflight enteetainment systems seem to allready be quite nice. I recently flew an Emirates flight in economy and you could select from 15 movies, about 20 games, 30+ radio channels, couple dozen Audio books and some others. All the movies were fully rewindable, stoppable and so on.
Defnitely enough stuff for atleast few flights.
The people who put up that website should have just put in 5 point font a "valid until YYYY" like you do with any print ad. When doing any sort of advertising people should really think of the limitations of what they offer and spell them out clearly. The problem is that many people do not think of a webpage with the same througness as they do an ad in a newspaper.
Well, US is not known for the high level of consumer rights. But I do foresee similar cases in some country in the EU where they have reasonably effective consumer protection laws and authorities.
There was a reasonably well published case in the United Arab Emirates where the owners of a VOIP company were thrown in jail. Though there does not seem to be anything against using such, but selling the services was too much for the state monopoly.
Ofcourse Not. But some banks have actually modernised to really radical things called Minicomputers. Ofcourse they have to be IBM. I mean they must be daring to go to iSeries instead of the zSeries.
Indeed, one of the problems sun has is that their system and computers are "too good". A customer of ours is still running their heavily used website on a SUN from 1999. They have no plans to upgrade. Thus no need to buy new servers like you would on other types.
Indeed, the most important factor to get to front page seems to involve making as big claims as possible, preferanbly with no backing. This one is actually a strange one, as they talk against themselves and still...
Easy: Set up a small business of some sort in a mall where you get lots of small credit card transactions. Then bill few thousand people more a month say $20 each.. that extra should allow you to make profit even with a crappy business plan.
No no.. he works as a consultant for them... consultants are never promoted to heads of organisations, the maximum they can hope for is advisory boards.
Well a chairman or other leading post can influence the internal policies of an organisation like that to a high degree, well atleast until kicked out.
Well, the thing is. Too many people who read./ are cynics. As it seem to be the normal thing for anyone who actually thinks about the world. I think quite many people here used to be fired up by things when they were young, but lost that fire when the world just got crazier and crazier. That was actually my path, and judging by the comments modded insightfull in general, things that have highest probability of being modded that are cynically-insightfull.
Quite simple: Your privary rights with homeland security are about the same as you have with gator. Except that there is no way to uninstall Homeland security sort of total political shift. I am sure next year the easy wiretapping laws will include all PCs and that any company supplying an operating system or other sofware has to provide lawenforcement witha backdoor that does not require court orders to use. Thus: Spyware delivered by windowsupdate.
Well, yes true in one sense. It is the same argument that anti-virus companies use to hire virus writers, and companies emply crackers. But in any of these cases there is the implisit understanding that the bad activities have ended and the person in question knows that they were bad and is willing to work for good instead. In this case this does not seem to be the case. Also the fact is, even with repenting, I would never fully trst such a person.
Preventing things like terrorism is basically impossible. One can try to make the probability of success low with many methods, starting at international politics and ending with properly trained policeforces.
It seems to work very well. I was actually surpised. A customer asked to run our application on solaris and wanted us to test it. We were able to run the linux version with no changes on solaris and thus the customer went with that solution.
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Basically the goal of globalisation atleast seems to be to have other countries reach the that same status that US has reached, as written in the parent post.
The way things are moved to places with minimal corporate taxation will lead to things getting more and more harmonised at the given model.
Some countries try to buck the trend and many have been successfull sofar, but with the push coming, this seems to be getting harder.
Some of the newer inflight enteetainment systems seem to allready be quite nice. I recently flew an Emirates flight in economy and you could select from 15 movies, about 20 games, 30+ radio channels, couple dozen Audio books and some others. All the movies were fully rewindable, stoppable and so on. Defnitely enough stuff for atleast few flights.
The people who put up that website should have just put in 5 point font a "valid until YYYY" like you do with any print ad. When doing any sort of advertising people should really think of the limitations of what they offer and spell them out clearly. The problem is that many people do not think of a webpage with the same througness as they do an ad in a newspaper.
Well, US is not known for the high level of consumer rights. But I do foresee similar cases in some country in the EU where they have reasonably effective consumer protection laws and authorities.
There was a reasonably well published case in the United Arab Emirates where the owners of a VOIP company were thrown in jail. Though there does not seem to be anything against using such, but selling the services was too much for the state monopoly.
I am not saying they have not have updated the software or such, I was talking about the hardware.
Ofcourse Not. But some banks have actually modernised to really radical things called Minicomputers. Ofcourse they have to be IBM. I mean they must be daring to go to iSeries instead of the zSeries.
Indeed, one of the problems sun has is that their system and computers are "too good". A customer of ours is still running their heavily used website on a SUN from 1999. They have no plans to upgrade. Thus no need to buy new servers like you would on other types.
But I think what would be needed more is a try to do things like actual stresstesting and comparisions under load.
Ofcourse pot is much more damgerous than assaulting someone? Are you some kind of left wing radical or something?
Indeed, the most important factor to get to front page seems to involve making as big claims as possible, preferanbly with no backing. This one is actually a strange one, as they talk against themselves and still...
Easy: Set up a small business of some sort in a mall where you get lots of small credit card transactions. Then bill few thousand people more a month say $20 each.. that extra should allow you to make profit even with a crappy business plan.
rights are allways passed somewhere and with the current copyright law.. they exist forever.
No no.. he works as a consultant for them... consultants are never promoted to heads of organisations, the maximum they can hope for is advisory boards.
Well a chairman or other leading post can influence the internal policies of an organisation like that to a high degree, well atleast until kicked out.
well Computer Associates lists Gator as rapidly spreading. http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/pest/ do you suppose thet knew of this appointment beforehand?
You become partly what you fight.
Well, the thing is. Too many people who read ./ are cynics. As it seem to be the normal thing for anyone who actually thinks about the world. I think quite many people here used to be fired up by things when they were young, but lost that fire when the world just got crazier and crazier. That was actually my path, and judging by the comments modded insightfull in general, things that have highest probability of being modded that are cynically-insightfull.
Quite simple: Your privary rights with homeland security are about the same as you have with gator. Except that there is no way to uninstall Homeland security sort of total political shift. I am sure next year the easy wiretapping laws will include all PCs and that any company supplying an operating system or other sofware has to provide lawenforcement witha backdoor that does not require court orders to use. Thus: Spyware delivered by windowsupdate.
He was probably the only person with any sort of degree and even remotely connected experience crazy enough to take the job.
oh and they do also have a section on modern newspeak not only the Orwell version.
Well, yes true in one sense. It is the same argument that anti-virus companies use to hire virus writers, and companies emply crackers. But in any of these cases there is the implisit understanding that the bad activities have ended and the person in question knows that they were bad and is willing to work for good instead. In this case this does not seem to be the case. Also the fact is, even with repenting, I would never fully trst such a person.
Preventing things like terrorism is basically impossible. One can try to make the probability of success low with many methods, starting at international politics and ending with properly trained policeforces.
Good idea, we need to start a campaign to get him appointed as Commissioner for Patents in USPTO.
It seems to work very well. I was actually surpised. A customer asked to run our application on solaris and wanted us to test it. We were able to run the linux version with no changes on solaris and thus the customer went with that solution.