On gas prices: According to google the current US gasoline price hovers around 3.22 dollar/gallon, though it's going up. Meanwhile, if I try and fill my gas tank in the Netherlands, I'm looking at a price of 1.55 euros/liter, which with current exchange rates translates to roughly 8.91 dollars/gallon. Why are you complaining again?
85% of that information somewhere goes through a corporate computer, website, network or asset That's all? I mean, a good deal will be created by corporations in the first place, all the major bits of internet infrastructure belong to one corporation (for-profit or not) or another, the post office is a corporation... 85% seems low, actually.
A presidential veto can then in return be overridden by a two-thirds majority. The Democrats intend to try and get the ban on waterboarding through a veto, I believe. The problem is that the Americans have a two-party system and the one the president belongs to generally has plenty votes to block the two-thirds thing easily.
I'm no more a lawyer than you are, but I don't think common sense is allowed when it comes to law.
Though there are also those who claim common sense is patented, and the cost of a license is prohibitive _
Here we've got the masters of embrace, extend and lock out criticising Open Source software for lack of interoperability. Uh huh. Maybe it would all work together if they'd bother to use open standards, or to actually document what they did with the ones they DID use.
Your point two implies that grandparent checked every patent for silliness, and that's all he could find. This is at best doubtful, and you can't dismiss his point just because the possibility that there's a much larger percentage of silly patents destroys your argument.
Oookay... You realize that x86 isn't a specification for a piece of hardware, I hope? I'm sure you've noted Intel and AMD manage to make processors of about equal performance at vastly different clockspeeds...
If we start now, the Russell prize will have a 100 years under it's belt by 2105. Assuming the fund is big enough, all it takes to last that long is time.
I blame the advertisers themselves. Ads kept getting more and more intrusive, abusing pretty much everything they could. In response, users started blocking pop-ups, keeping an anti-ad hosts file and generally ignore advertisements altogether. Firefox is merely another thing that makes it easier to get rid of ads. If they'd remained the nice, standard non-moving/flashing/whatever banners, users might not hate them this much.
All that's on TV these days is news and reality shows. Most of the latter cater to an audience with all the intelligence of a sack of potatos. Why bother, really.
I'd say that it only means they're able to act on it when someone points it out to them. It also says they "reserve the right." It nowhere actually says they're *capable* of it.
Though in that case, one might wish they were.
Sovereignty doesn't enter into it. Signing Kyoto is merely agreeing to do something - the method isn't specified. Nobody is *forcing* the US to do anything, as evidenced by the fact that they're not signing, hence no sovereignty whatsoever is given away.
I'm sure the US can come up with their own plans. Kyoto, in fact, would COUNT on it having that kind of capability.
And if you believe that all the nations that did sign the treaty aren't right-thinking, I'd say the only idiocy here is yours.
Europe isn't trying to embarass the USA. The OSCE was *invited*. In fact, it's not even truly a European organisation. It may be based in Vienna, but it's members include not only Europe, but parts of Asia, Canada, and the USA.
The problemwith computer game betas is that they're often released to the public at a price of around $50, with the developer promising to fix things in a patch in a month or three:P
One thing you oughtta note is that for any operation large enough to warrant a largish IT staff, you're going to want the system to be dependable. You WANT a service contract. It's a garantuee clad in steep fines that yes, your hardware at least will behave.
One of the other will win, sure, but is there that much to be won? I'm probably not representative but I won't be buying either since I've pretty much stopped watching TV. With content moving more and more toward live broadcasts and "reality shows" I'm less and less interested in using my TV for anything but my Playstation and DVDs. I don't need timeshifting for either of those.
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On gas prices: According to google the current US gasoline price hovers around 3.22 dollar/gallon, though it's going up. Meanwhile, if I try and fill my gas tank in the Netherlands, I'm looking at a price of 1.55 euros/liter, which with current exchange rates translates to roughly 8.91 dollars/gallon. Why are you complaining again?
A presidential veto can then in return be overridden by a two-thirds majority. The Democrats intend to try and get the ban on waterboarding through a veto, I believe. The problem is that the Americans have a two-party system and the one the president belongs to generally has plenty votes to block the two-thirds thing easily.
I'm no more a lawyer than you are, but I don't think common sense is allowed when it comes to law. Though there are also those who claim common sense is patented, and the cost of a license is prohibitive _
The EFF press release is http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/02/26
So... How comes it HASN'T without that law being in place for the past decades?
Here we've got the masters of embrace, extend and lock out criticising Open Source software for lack of interoperability. Uh huh. Maybe it would all work together if they'd bother to use open standards, or to actually document what they did with the ones they DID use.
Your point two implies that grandparent checked every patent for silliness, and that's all he could find. This is at best doubtful, and you can't dismiss his point just because the possibility that there's a much larger percentage of silly patents destroys your argument.
Oookay... You realize that x86 isn't a specification for a piece of hardware, I hope? I'm sure you've noted Intel and AMD manage to make processors of about equal performance at vastly different clockspeeds...
If we start now, the Russell prize will have a 100 years under it's belt by 2105. Assuming the fund is big enough, all it takes to last that long is time.
Nono, TECHNICIANS should be able to list, create, delete, read, write, and change permissions.
:)
Managers should be able to SIGN, maybe read, and if you're really lucky, shut up and listen. But I wouldn't hold my breath on that one
I find it strangely disturbing that was modded insightful :)
But it IS posted under YRO. Well, it shows up there at least. That's where I came from.
Only on your side of the ocean. He's linking to english sites you damn barbarian.
Anyone up for quick round of the blame game?
I blame the advertisers themselves. Ads kept getting more and more intrusive, abusing pretty much everything they could. In response, users started blocking pop-ups, keeping an anti-ad hosts file and generally ignore advertisements altogether. Firefox is merely another thing that makes it easier to get rid of ads. If they'd remained the nice, standard non-moving/flashing/whatever banners, users might not hate them this much.
All that's on TV these days is news and reality shows. Most of the latter cater to an audience with all the intelligence of a sack of potatos. Why bother, really.
I'd say that it only means they're able to act on it when someone points it out to them. It also says they "reserve the right." It nowhere actually says they're *capable* of it. Though in that case, one might wish they were.
Sovereignty doesn't enter into it. Signing Kyoto is merely agreeing to do something - the method isn't specified. Nobody is *forcing* the US to do anything, as evidenced by the fact that they're not signing, hence no sovereignty whatsoever is given away. I'm sure the US can come up with their own plans. Kyoto, in fact, would COUNT on it having that kind of capability. And if you believe that all the nations that did sign the treaty aren't right-thinking, I'd say the only idiocy here is yours.
up in smoke... Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Today's lesson: Thou shall not post links to 2.8MB files on slashdot, unless they're bittorrent ones.
Europe isn't trying to embarass the USA. The OSCE was *invited*. In fact, it's not even truly a European organisation. It may be based in Vienna, but it's members include not only Europe, but parts of Asia, Canada, and the USA.
And it turns out it also shows the Slashdot readers don't read who posted a submission very carefully :)
The problemwith computer game betas is that they're often released to the public at a price of around $50, with the developer promising to fix things in a patch in a month or three :P
One thing you oughtta note is that for any operation large enough to warrant a largish IT staff, you're going to want the system to be dependable. You WANT a service contract. It's a garantuee clad in steep fines that yes, your hardware at least will behave.
One of the other will win, sure, but is there that much to be won? I'm probably not representative but I won't be buying either since I've pretty much stopped watching TV. With content moving more and more toward live broadcasts and "reality shows" I'm less and less interested in using my TV for anything but my Playstation and DVDs. I don't need timeshifting for either of those.
Like say, any American intelligence agency? Okay, so we're too late on that score.