> New Orleans has been there for a very long time.
Yeah and strangely enough the old part of the city isn't flooded that bad. How is that possible? Because a long time ago people were smart enough to build their houses above sea level.
I'm living in the Netherlands, well known because a big part of the country is below sea level. We have the same problem here, people building their homes next to big rivers, and then complain if their property gets flooded. Because of some big floods over the last ten years, there are now plans to create enormous backup water bassins, so we can leave the water somewhere if the rivers get too high.
Another problem with SUVs is that they are higher, so you need to be taller to be seen. So accidents happen more often, and the result is that more parents bring their kids to school because it's not safe anymore. The more this happens, the busier it gets, the more agitated people get, the more accidents happen.
Then I read that if an SUV has an accident with another car, the people in the other car are 6x more likely to die than in an accident with a normal car.
And you'll find only 2,860,000,000 entries. Same for b or s or n (not exactly the same of course, but a lot less). So what's the deal with "a"? I think it just tells us something about the dominance of English pages on the web, where the word "a" is used on almost any page. I don't believe a page with the letter "a" in it, but only as part of another word, won't be counted.
I certainly don't believe those other 10 billion pages are in other languages. Images and other files don't add up to that much as well. So your way of counting doesn't work here...
Ajax the bleach and the Amsterdam football club Ajax are named after Ajax, a Greek warrior. At dictionary.com you can find the proper pronunciation. It turns out there are two Ajax's, one a hero, one a coward.
I wonder how long these RFID tags work. How do they get their energy?
If it was possible to create a tag that would dissolve in the body after a certain period of time, you wouldn't be marked for life. The casing could dissolve, and then body fluids should impair the chip, so it stops functioning.
So it turns out the EU Parliament has power, and actually can stop the EU Commission. I wonder how this would have turned out if the EU constitution in France and Netherlands wasn't rejected. I think this was a good moment for EU Parliament to show their muscle.
If I follow your logic, then Dell isn't a hardware company, and probably HP neither. They too buy ram, processor, harddisks, screens, etc. Then they make a custom case, custom keyboard, and that's it.
For the moment, Apple is both a hardware and software company.
Back in 1997 I got Lotus Word Pro with my windows pc. It had tabs and I used them a lot. They weren't used for different documents, but for sections within a document. It made browsing through a document a lot easier. (You could group them as well, and collapse or expand those groups.) I always wondered when MS Word would copy this.
I liked Word Pro a lot more than Word. Especially for layout it worked more precise and easier. I haven't used it for years though, for obvious reasons...
Why would you want to tags to html for printing purposes? I believe CSS2 or 3 will be able to do this. And then there is a much better solution: xml + xslt. You take one document with the data (xml) and use the xslt to convert it to any format you want: pdf (xsl-fo), wordml, html, odf, rtf, etc. What you suggest is something you don't want to happen.
I just tried to register with allofmp3.com. Because I just wanted to see what they offer, I used a fake name. Then I had to enter my age. I entered 100. I was quite surprised to see that it didn't work: "more correctly input your age", was the message I got.
I tried 90, then 80, and got accepted at 70. At first I thought it was really smart russian hacking (being able to correct me lying about my age), but as they only got to just within the 100% error margin, it couldn't be thát smart.
Although I expect not many people will be excluded by this marketing technique, I'm surprised they even check for this.
My car won't start at times. It just refused to start for 5 minutes up to half an hour. This happens completely at random (it seems), and it has happened about 10 times the last three years.
It happened one time when I had a friend in the car. He got out to get some groceries in a shop, and when I saw him coming back the car wouldn't start. I tried and tried. When he got in, the car started. Ten minutes the same thing happened. We both got out to get some take-out, got back in, and the car wouldn't start. I tried all kind of things for about 20 minutes, which was quite frustrating with the food getting cold. Then he said:
Well I'm going to open and close the right side door and then see if that solves the problem.
And it did! Looking back, it occured to me that the other time he also opened the right door (to get in) before it worked again.
Now I can't wait until the next time to see if this trick really works... (Btw, the car is a Seat, which has similar technique like the VW Golf/Rabbit
At the moment I'm sorry to say I'm Dutch. The Dutch are presiding the EU at the moment, and as I understood the Dutch secretary Brinkhorst approved the law earlier this year and was afraid of loosing face if he now voted against it. He voted against the will of the Dutch parliament, and by using aparently normal political tactics he wanted to prevent a revote.
For me this is the first really good thing coming out of the bigger EU.
If you'd like to comment to the party of Brinkhorst, contact D66 (Dutch, but you probably will understand it), his party, or mail them: international@d66.nl.
Here's a quote from their site:
Maximum influence and participation of involved citizens are needed for all the social institutions.
In the Netherlands the departments and several cities want to make a deal with Microsoft for 245.000 desktops for about 147 million euro for the next 5 years, while parliament has approved a bill to use open source as much as possible. Opposition to this deal is beginning to grow.
....Win2k patched fine. Another Tuesday Patch roulette over with....
Well for me this roulette didn't turn out that well, although I should say it didn't turn out at all on most of our servers.:-( I just got red lines saying I should try again. I knew I should have betted on black...;-)
This could improve the lives of people living in these countries AND make us, as a species, better able to know what we know.
Not only would it make their lives better, it's a known fact that when the living standards of the poor improve, the standard for everyone gets higher. Everybody benefits from this. The same goes for education: it's more usefull to give all people basic education and leave it with that, then to give the top 10% top level education (like sending them to universities etc).
Prize for the most useless invention on (name your territory here)
I remember a Japanese book called 101 unuseful things or something. I can't find the title on Amazon or Google that quick. It was about inventions that were really useless or absolutely impractible to use. It should be really made (not just on paper) and it should be used at least once. It was incredibly funny I remember. It was kind of a competition to have the most unuseful invention.
That whole thing assumes communism is in any way bad... It's biased to begin with.
To be honest, when I think of Microsoft, that feels to me more and more communist-like than OSS does. OSS makes me feel free, MS cannot give me this feeling anymore. And isn't freedom the basis of our society?
Well, Google might as well pay me for the ads that I view or click! Why not? Normally they pay the website that has the ads on it, so this seems very logical to me. Of course you would have to subscribe to Google Personal Ads (TM) or something, but for a few cents.... Who wouldn't want to do that?!
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I thought it meant MS was making the Escort. And it's called a Focus nowadays I believe.
> New Orleans has been there for a very long time.
Yeah and strangely enough the old part of the city isn't flooded that bad. How is that possible? Because a long time ago people were smart enough to build their houses above sea level.
I'm living in the Netherlands, well known because a big part of the country is below sea level. We have the same problem here, people building their homes next to big rivers, and then complain if their property gets flooded. Because of some big floods over the last ten years, there are now plans to create enormous backup water bassins, so we can leave the water somewhere if the rivers get too high.
Another problem with SUVs is that they are higher, so you need to be taller to be seen. So accidents happen more often, and the result is that more parents bring their kids to school because it's not safe anymore. The more this happens, the busier it gets, the more agitated people get, the more accidents happen.
Then I read that if an SUV has an accident with another car, the people in the other car are 6x more likely to die than in an accident with a normal car.
And you'll find only 2,860,000,000 entries. Same for b or s or n (not exactly the same of course, but a lot less). So what's the deal with "a"? I think it just tells us something about the dominance of English pages on the web, where the word "a" is used on almost any page. I don't believe a page with the letter "a" in it, but only as part of another word, won't be counted.
I certainly don't believe those other 10 billion pages are in other languages. Images and other files don't add up to that much as well. So your way of counting doesn't work here...
Ajax the bleach and the Amsterdam football club Ajax are named after Ajax, a Greek warrior. At dictionary.com you can find the proper pronunciation. It turns out there are two Ajax's, one a hero, one a coward.
Slashdot should make love, not war! And in this spirit another useful patent would be an automatic option for breasts in the polls.
I wonder how long these RFID tags work. How do they get their energy?
If it was possible to create a tag that would dissolve in the body after a certain period of time, you wouldn't be marked for life. The casing could dissolve, and then body fluids should impair the chip, so it stops functioning.
It looks very slick, and would make a good match with the aluminium case of the Mac G5. Now only they should make a split version as well.
So it turns out the EU Parliament has power, and actually can stop the EU Commission. I wonder how this would have turned out if the EU constitution in France and Netherlands wasn't rejected. I think this was a good moment for EU Parliament to show their muscle.
If I follow your logic, then Dell isn't a hardware company, and probably HP neither. They too buy ram, processor, harddisks, screens, etc. Then they make a custom case, custom keyboard, and that's it.
For the moment, Apple is both a hardware and software company.
Back in 1997 I got Lotus Word Pro with my windows pc. It had tabs and I used them a lot. They weren't used for different documents, but for sections within a document. It made browsing through a document a lot easier. (You could group them as well, and collapse or expand those groups.) I always wondered when MS Word would copy this.
I liked Word Pro a lot more than Word. Especially for layout it worked more precise and easier. I haven't used it for years though, for obvious reasons...
Gmail is not a threat for Exchange, as they are different services. But it is a threat for Hotmail, and that is MS as well....
Don't they use Linux for their website?
Why would you want to tags to html for printing purposes? I believe CSS2 or 3 will be able to do this. And then there is a much better solution: xml + xslt. You take one document with the data (xml) and use the xslt to convert it to any format you want: pdf (xsl-fo), wordml, html, odf, rtf, etc. What you suggest is something you don't want to happen.
I just tried to register with allofmp3.com. Because I just wanted to see what they offer, I used a fake name. Then I had to enter my age. I entered 100. I was quite surprised to see that it didn't work: "more correctly input your age", was the message I got.
I tried 90, then 80, and got accepted at 70. At first I thought it was really smart russian hacking (being able to correct me lying about my age), but as they only got to just within the 100% error margin, it couldn't be thát smart.
Although I expect not many people will be excluded by this marketing technique, I'm surprised they even check for this.
My car won't start at times. It just refused to start for 5 minutes up to half an hour. This happens completely at random (it seems), and it has happened about 10 times the last three years.
It happened one time when I had a friend in the car. He got out to get some groceries in a shop, and when I saw him coming back the car wouldn't start. I tried and tried. When he got in, the car started. Ten minutes the same thing happened. We both got out to get some take-out, got back in, and the car wouldn't start. I tried all kind of things for about 20 minutes, which was quite frustrating with the food getting cold. Then he said:
Well I'm going to open and close the right side door and then see if that solves the problem.
And it did! Looking back, it occured to me that the other time he also opened the right door (to get in) before it worked again.
Now I can't wait until the next time to see if this trick really works... (Btw, the car is a Seat, which has similar technique like the VW Golf/Rabbit
For me this is the first really good thing coming out of the bigger EU. If you'd like to comment to the party of Brinkhorst, contact D66 (Dutch, but you probably will understand it), his party, or mail them: international@d66.nl. Here's a quote from their site:
In the Netherlands the departments and several cities want to make a deal with Microsoft for 245.000 desktops for about 147 million euro for the next 5 years, while parliament has approved a bill to use open source as much as possible. Opposition to this deal is beginning to grow.
Well for me this roulette didn't turn out that well, although I should say it didn't turn out at all on most of our servers. :-( I just got red lines saying I should try again. I knew I should have betted on black... ;-)
This could improve the lives of people living in these countries AND make us, as a species, better able to know what we know.
Not only would it make their lives better, it's a known fact that when the living standards of the poor improve, the standard for everyone gets higher. Everybody benefits from this. The same goes for education: it's more usefull to give all people basic education and leave it with that, then to give the top 10% top level education (like sending them to universities etc).
Prize for the most useless invention on (name your territory here)
I remember a Japanese book called 101 unuseful things or something. I can't find the title on Amazon or Google that quick. It was about inventions that were really useless or absolutely impractible to use. It should be really made (not just on paper) and it should be used at least once. It was incredibly funny I remember. It was kind of a competition to have the most unuseful invention.
The ad is not just stupid by itself, it also shows how MS thinks of it customers: so stupid that they will believe everything MS tells.
I'm curious how long it takes them to release Service Patch 2 for SP2...
That whole thing assumes communism is in any way bad... It's biased to begin with.
To be honest, when I think of Microsoft, that feels to me more and more communist-like than OSS does. OSS makes me feel free, MS cannot give me this feeling anymore. And isn't freedom the basis of our society?
Well, Google might as well pay me for the ads that I view or click! Why not? Normally they pay the website that has the ads on it, so this seems very logical to me. Of course you would have to subscribe to Google Personal Ads (TM) or something, but for a few cents.... Who wouldn't want to do that?!