your missing the point, it's fair to say most people who want broadband have it at home it's fairly cheap too.
Occasionally you want broadband elsewhere and this is quite a good deal but T-mobile tends to limit service in terms of ports and content. for example youtube is blocked by default till you demonstrate you are over 18. as are other social networking sites (but not slashdot).
Some might think its to stop users using too much bandwidth but its to protect the children.
To be honest 3 offer better rates and less restrictions e.g a pay as you go usb modem is the same price and £10 would get you a gb for a month or £15 for 3gb which is probably more useful. (E.g. on holiday for a week or two) Like home would give data on sister networks provided your within range and covers a fair number of countries.
Get that font and feel right at home with cobal and if you don't have a working teletype http://www.thebig8.net/nnews.wav this should help
next a terminal amber on black 255,129,0 green on black 144,238,144
Tilda might make a nice terminal to work with.
Cobol feels very restrictive and stilted. very good at the boring programming jobs very dry and dusty, most other languages could be used for more interesting and appealing projects COBOL isn't fun.
You could try 3 if they cover the countries you go to. Their like home deal covers data as well, I paid £5 for a months 3g internet access and used it with my EEE with a bluetooth connection while over in ireland.
you can get hspda from them too but its a little more £10 1gb and £15 for 3 Gb they also open more ports t-mobile pretty much limits you to web browsing
considering £15 credit can buy 300 minutes for the month plus free skype to skype its not bad at all (use the skype access number to get cheap international calls)
I switched to them as pay as you go after being on a contract with t-mobile for years and its drastically reduced my bills. I also use skype about £4 a month for landlines to european countrys.
I know pay as you go has a bad image, but i'm still using the same mobile number i had with t-mobile (got me 10 pounds credit with 3 for moving it). and over all i'm fairly happy, I don't want to get in a contract with 3 as there is little advantage for me.
Data charges are the same contract or no contract. Coverage isn't brilliant outside major population centres you just go on to a partner network it used to be vodaphone but i noticed it was orange today. not a problem in the uk but elsewhere it would be international roaming and expensive.
I don't know how it works in the usa but in the uk at least, phone companies have credit limits for contract phone users. If you exceed your limit they ask you to make a payment before you can make outgoing calls again.
The negatives the Credit limit is regularly revised and raised provided you pay your bill on time, with the only way of getting it held or lowered to pay your bills late. (which messes with your credit rating)
In theory you shouldn't end up with a bill that you can't pay, (want to pay is a different matter).
personally I prefer to use a local pay as you go sim card, or take advantage of things like 3 mobiles "like home" where you pay the same as at home however be warned if while abroad you lose the 3 sister network and move on to a partner network international roaming rates apply on incoming and out going calls.
This being slashdot I'm sure someone can come up with an asterisk system which would forward calls to which ever number you are on.
ok its pretty much adjacent to the M25 on the inside but it's still around 10 miles to central London which is where most of the transport links are and the way the traffic moves that could easily be an hour by road. Gatwick is even worse. Yes you could live near Heathrow but would you want to?
My point really was that the rural locations, are not nearly as bad as the parent post was making out and in reality for most people the journey doesnt end all that close to any airport. With the possible exception of places such as the City of London Airport.
Most Airports do have a pretty decent transport links to surrounding cities at least.
Ryanair isn't bad to be honest, you just pay for the service you receive. I just flew with them yesterday and for â38 I flew from Cork to EastMidlands. I only took hand luggage with me, so could check in online and print my boarding card. This meant all ryanair did on the ground for me was check my boarding pass as I got on.
Luggage is a major cost in flying and Ryanair encourages you not to take luggage in the Hold. Really its up to you what you take with you but travelling light isnt too bad the case i had was about twice the size most people go with but it was within the dimensions allowed. Another 15kg in the hold is an additional £12 each way. (plus the delay in checking in and retrieving the bag)
The alternative to flying with ryanair would be â109 for the same journey.
Getting to and from Airports costs the same however much you pay for the ticket
cheapest way is to get a shuttle bus for Cork thats â2.50 and EastMidlands to Nottingham £5 (and they run 24hours a day). It really is up to you how much you pay to get to an airport.
Limited Connections from the Airports well thats true of most Airports. Taxi, hire car, train, and bus or your own transport or friends and family are the usual options. Every airport has a shuttle bus to the nearest main transport links.
Rural Airports, most Airports are rural. The biggest Airport in the UK is Heathrow and thats outside the M25 to get to anywhere from there usually would involve getting into London somehow.
Ryanair do make terrible coffee and tea, however I'm not willing to pay at least double the flight cost to hope to get better coffee (yes its extra).
Ryanair is good at what it does without any unneeded extra services. Just like Linux it works for me. The Stewardesses on Ryanair are cute too:)
Strange you do not associate scifi writers with the films that you enjoy. Do you realise there are many films where the book came first? Ray Bradbury in particular has been the source of many stories that have been adapted for the screen.
cutting for film loses depth and plot and takes away your part in a story, yes your imagination has an important part to play when reading a book.
unfortunately your settling for mcdonalds instead of visiting a real restaurant.
To be frank the biggest reason Labour has spent years in power was Margret Thatcher. That venomous bitch was evil personified.
Go watch something like boys from the black stuff to get a feel for Tory policies.
Gordons not popular now but I'd rather not see the likes of Thatcher back in power.
Renationalising or taking a majority share in a couple of energy companies and he could win a general election. It's just a little crazy that foreign owned energy companies are taking money out of Britain.
Thats an interesting concept sharing amongst your friends is immoral.
I share quite a lot with my friends Books, DVD's Food, Drinks hardware, Software is slightly different, I shared nvu last night with a friend who wanted to create a website. I would share my lawnmower if I had a lawn and quite often I share my skills and knowledge.
I often share my car and sometimes share the cost of fuel.
Am I really being immoral?
Now I am not a game player really I most often play freecell or other puzzle related games.
Games tend to be a significant purchase the price is often non-trivial and non returnable. They tend to be locked to a single user, if not a single machine and difficult to loan. The whole issue of multiplayer and the need to buy each player a copy is another significant factor.
I don't have any real answers for game developers other than your pricing yourself out of reach of your potential customers. You are asking 4 twelve year olds for example to pay $200 to play a game. (Assuming you need 4 copies at $50 each). Assuming you have got kids, would you give them the money or use it to pay the gas bill instead.
I can think of a couple of suggestions that might help.
For a multiplayer game generate a session password lets call it password the kids then share the legally bought disk to load the game up and enter password on each system. they then play as long as they like and at the end of the session the password is useless. A new one needs generating from the original disk.
now the kids are happy all four can play and no developers got hurt, in fact the kids play 3 or 4 games like this and there are 3 or 4 legit copies and everyone got to play even the kid whose parents cant afford to buy him the latest games.
You could apply this online too, most lans have a single ip address visible so why not let the games be freely downloadable with an active session password for a dollar or 50cents the kids play for a few hours and when the session closes the dollar is spent. The parents would prepay a few dollars a time just like a prepay mobile.
Oh and sometimes you don't charge either, you have some games free at all times not necessarily the same game with free passwords. You can even open games as a reward for achieving a high score in another game.
Imagine the buzz around a new game with a free pass for the day just around release day or even alpha or beta level testing. The feedback could make a big difference to the success of the game. You could be like willy wonka and his golden tickets.
You could even sell vouchers retail.
It's probably best if at some point you decide to give a kid free access on a game if they have spent enough on it.
you could have freedays on birthdays and christmas.
Would this not be better than giving away 80% of potential sales to piracy?
what you are ignoring is that we all have some armor against getting hurt by other people. If you know someone is your enemy then there is less of an effect on you since you know that this person isn't your friend and is just trying to get to you.
Everybody wears masks and mostly you get to see what they want you to see we play roles be it doctor engineer whatever. Mostly people automatically say fine, when asked how are you. It's a ritual you say fine because the other person doesn't want to know most of the time. Most interaction is just role playing.
Love on the other hand tends to go with trust and you share things which makes you vulnerable, your without your armor, you might not share everything probably don't for most of us.
Having a strong emotional bond with someone, means that someone could hurt you beyond anything anybody else could do.
What I'm saying is the person you love the most can hurt you so badly you might commit suicide, most of us will do something less extreme, get drunk or maybe not date for a while.
Experience tells us that relationships fail and you get over it.
This girl did not have this experience and to top it off she wasn't just dumped but faced an overwhelming assault on her whole emotional being from the person she was closest to.
An interesting legal argument in uk law at least is that you can be found guilty of murder if you procure someone to act as your instrument, ie hire a hitman, or persuade your boyfriend to kill your husband for example.
did "josh" procure megan to act as his instrument to kill megan? Ok "josh" probably didn't want megan dead just seriously hurt. Therefore a lesser charge such as manslaughter (murder in the 3rd degree?) should apply. I should explain Murder carries a mandatory life sentence in the uk, Manslaughter allows a judge considerable leeway in what sentence to apply.
Manslaughter would seem to be a reasonable sentence for the circumstances and actions surrounding megans death.
The issue of bullying in general is a nasty can of worms to open , when does standard working practice become abuse? It isn't easy to define, evidence is hard to obtain and what may be devastating to one individual will have no effect on another.
Finally at Megans age with her lack of experience, the hormonal changes she was experiencing as most teenagers do with the abuse of trust from "josh" Is suicide so surprising?
I would agree though MySpace's terms and conditions should have no bearing on this what so ever.
no not in the real world, since the interpretation of the standards varies. broken browsers are not a problem for w3. Everyone else needs working solutions.
or to put it another way fans buy music,and you don't get to be a fan without hearing the music.
1% is probably a major over estimate of the percentage of musicians actually getting exposure from the music industry. The rest comes from club dj's friends and piracy.
As an exercise, can you think of 10 artists you are a fan of where you got introduced to their music solely from radio play and the music industry?
here's a simpler question consider any artist of who you are a fan of and have bought a commercial recording of. what percentage of artists that you like have you never had a pirated copy of something they have done.
Are there artists within your music collection who's music you wouldn't have, had you not heard via a pirated copy?
All a crackdown online piracy is likely to do is reduce exposure for many bands and result in reduced music sales, if it doesn't it will largely be due to the fact most music is available on a dvd for a few quid on the local market, ignoring that people will still swap music between friends.
simple enough isn't it? you don't say what the actual chipset is but the ndiswrapper route is probably the way to go.
Too tough for you? buy an edimax usb wireless stick and plug it in, they are cheap enough.
There are two issues here the first is some hardware manufacturers are unwilling to provide driver support for their hardware beyond a windows driver (e.g broadcom) and some are (e.g ralink).
For me I vote with my wallet and choose to buy supported hardware. Your wireless problem probably can be solved with the use of ndiswrapper. Which just uses the windows driver for your card it's not an ideal solution and requires a little effort on your part.
The second issue is you are being a dick, it took me a few seconds to find a how to for your wireless problem unfortunately i have no solution to you being a dick other than go run the os that came with your laptop.
linux has very little support for dicks and arseholes for this you require windows. Seriously, windows is designed for people like you in mind.
"But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine month."
"Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything."
"But the plans were on display..."
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a flashlight."
"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."
You realise that London is trying to reduce car usage and a possible effect might be to reduce traffic congestion and pollution. Why drive when you can get a free bus?
back in the mid 80's sheffield had a fairly unique bus service with 5p adult fares the result was packed buses going into and out of the city center and free flowing traffic. often you would have to wait 10 minutes for a bus since the first 3 that came were full.
unfortunately Margret thatcher deregulated the buses and privatized them resulting in higher fares more and mostly empty buses and the return of traffic jams to Sheffield streets.
While free rides might be wrong after all its theft of service, for london it could be a very good thing. reducing pollution and congestion. Incidentally pensioners (65 60 years +) tend to get a free bus pass in most of the uk so already there are some existing free rides.
well i am sure you are aware that software updates are not necessarily for the benefit of the owner.
for example the slingbox originally allowed you to record to your pc's hard drive and now is only barely able to stream a live broadcast to one single recipient. nice of slingbox to remove functionality in an already sold device.
On the other hand this is for a phone and not getting an update will...
make it impossible for apple to fix a flawed product?
make it impossible to stop the owner of an iPhone running what ever they feel like on their phone?
Apple will probably have to go the sony psp route of firmware updates offer something to get users to put the handcuffs back on. And even if you never jailbreak your iPhone you will probably get neat features offered to you as well
You see a police car up ahead of you. Most people will slowdown, get of the cell phone, stop undertaking, stop tailgating, make clear signals, put on seat belts and generally behave like model drivers... until they get out of the view of the police, then its back to business as usual.
Back to the subject of the article, essentially in situations with poor visibility we slow down, and thats a good thing since often it also means poor traction, snow, ice, driving rain.
Overcoming the poor visibility doesn't make the road conditions safer, also glasses wearers do you think perhaps driving with steamed up glasses is safe, or not wearing glasses to impress that date you finally got?
Older drivers can have problems , slower reactions poorer vision, a mind not as clear as it once was, and they compensate, they take ages at a junction since they are not as good at judging if there is enough of a gap to safely pull out for example, they get tired, we all get tired, and slow down.
There is no right to drive till you die, from 70 in the uk you renew your license every 3 years and if your medically unfit you don't get it renewed. simple as that. HGV drivers get regular medicals way younger than that for obvious reasons. It's good that a lot of people do accept that they shouldn't be driving but try telling your dad grandfather , yourself even, that it is time to quit, it's just as well the law does it for us.
What really needs to be enhanced is the ability to live a reasonable quality of life without driving everywhere.
you realize that I was being largely sarcastic with my comment. Lexmark has consistently ignored Linux for many years and most Linux users are smart enough not to buy into Lexmarks razor blade model for selling printers.
Lexmark printers are not worth writing drivers for. Largely because of the insanely high running costs of Lexmark printers.
There are two kinds of support for hardware, drivers written with the help of the hardware manufacturers or reverse engineered drivers written in spite of the lack of help from hardware manufacturers. Really when it comes to buying hardware surely you want to be choosing hardware from the first group.
At least that way your supporting a manufacturer who gives a damn about what the customer wants, or at least can see how it can be an edge over the competitors product.
surprisingly your right about royalties being paid on rentals, I didn't know that, but it's a lower percentage than if you actually buy the film. Brazil is well worth buying.
i've got a youtube account it's useful just for favouriting video's however in the past month i've accessed youtube from 2 countrys and a bunch of cities. so how exactly does an ip address help authenticate me as me? not only that access to that account is shared anyway. It's just easier that way. I've better things to do than copying and pasting links to share.
To be honest if i was to be interested in uploading copyright video footage.
1)get a throwaway email address 2)set up youtube account, 3)share the account with bunch of random friends located all over the world.
if i am really paranoid do all this via the dlink router that is sat wide open within range of me while i type and randomise my mac address each time.
it is a ridiculous notion that to use linux you should go through all the code or any of the code checking for back doors, is there anyone capable of doing this?
more important is the network of trust that has been established. There are people checking and examining code daily. There are problems found and problems fixed. I am happy enough to trust that the code review process works and repositories are trustworthy.
with closed source software there isn't the same openness and there isn't the same degree of trust. However the behaviour of the code is still watched and examined. Take Skype for example it's closed source but generally trusted however you can see that trust will only exist until it's been shown not to be trusted.
Skype wouldn't survive long if they did something nasty, thats a major incentive to stay clean.
practical considerations , come before idealogical considerations for most people. After all what is the alternative to using some closed source software, windows or an abacus maybe?
When it comes to customer relations and talking to customers, a fellow countryman is an superior asset to someone from or living outside the customers area, assuming both are equally competent.
It really helps put the customer at ease.
We know why companies outsource, because it is cheaper! As a customer how do you feel about a company that 'values' you so highly they dump you with the cheapest customer support they can get.
Secondly coding skills are less of an issue than communication skills. Without good communication between the people specifying the requirements and the team implementing the solution the result is likely to be unsatisfactory.
by outsourcing you are adding to this problem.
I hope you notice that I have deliberately avoided using nationality's since the problems are quite universal.
Finally while I appreciate that prejudice exists, telling American's, Indian's are just as good comes of as the same as saying some of the American's you have worked with are as equally bad as some of the Indians. It's an uncomfortable truth that you will not win friends and influence people with. Here's another people are more comfortable with people who are like themselves.
Slashdot Mirror
your missing the point, it's fair to say most people who want broadband have it at home it's fairly cheap too.
Occasionally you want broadband elsewhere and this is quite a good deal but T-mobile tends to limit service in terms of ports and content. for example youtube is blocked by default till you demonstrate you are over 18. as are other social networking sites (but not slashdot).
Some might think its to stop users using too much bandwidth but its to protect the children.
To be honest 3 offer better rates and less restrictions e.g a pay as you go usb modem is the same price and £10 would get you a gb for a month or £15 for 3gb which is probably more useful. (E.g. on holiday for a week or two) Like home would give data on sister networks provided your within range and covers a fair number of countries.
COBOL feels like it should be written in 1970's bad scifi font (bionic)
http://www.fontstock.net/fontsB/27/index.html
Get that font and feel right at home with cobal and if you don't have a working teletype http://www.thebig8.net/nnews.wav this should help
next a terminal amber on black 255,129,0 green on black 144,238,144
Tilda might make a nice terminal to work with.
Cobol feels very restrictive and stilted. very good at the boring programming jobs very dry and dusty, most other languages could be used for more interesting and appealing projects COBOL isn't fun.
ouch, thats horrendous.
You could try 3 if they cover the countries you go to.
Their like home deal covers data as well, I paid £5 for a months 3g internet access and used it with my EEE with a bluetooth connection while over in ireland.
you can get hspda from them too but its a little more £10 1gb and £15 for 3 Gb
they also open more ports t-mobile pretty much limits you to web browsing
considering £15 credit can buy 300 minutes for the month plus free skype to skype its not bad at all (use the skype access number to get cheap international calls)
I switched to them as pay as you go after being on a contract with t-mobile for years and its drastically reduced my bills. I also use skype about £4 a month for landlines to european countrys.
I know pay as you go has a bad image, but i'm still using the same mobile number i had with t-mobile (got me 10 pounds credit with 3 for moving it).
and over all i'm fairly happy, I don't want to get in a contract with 3 as there is little advantage for me.
Data charges are the same contract or no contract. Coverage isn't brilliant outside major population centres you just go on to a partner network it used to be vodaphone but i noticed it was orange today. not a problem in the uk but elsewhere it would be international roaming and expensive.
I don't know how it works in the usa but in the uk at least, phone companies have credit limits for contract phone users. If you exceed your limit they ask you to make a payment before you can make outgoing calls again.
The negatives the Credit limit is regularly revised and raised provided you pay your bill on time, with the only way of getting it held or lowered to pay your bills late. (which messes with your credit rating)
In theory you shouldn't end up with a bill that you can't pay, (want to pay is a different matter).
personally I prefer to use a local pay as you go sim card, or take advantage of things like 3 mobiles "like home" where you pay the same as at home however be warned if while abroad you lose the 3 sister network and move on to a partner network international roaming rates apply on incoming and out going calls.
This being slashdot I'm sure someone can come up with an asterisk system which would forward calls to which ever number you are on.
ok its pretty much adjacent to the M25 on the inside but it's still around 10 miles to central London which is where most of the transport links are and the way the traffic moves that could easily be an hour by road. Gatwick is even worse. Yes you could live near Heathrow but would you want to?
My point really was that the rural locations, are not nearly as bad as the parent post was making out and in reality for most people the journey doesnt end all that close to any airport. With the possible exception of places such as the City of London Airport.
Most Airports do have a pretty decent transport links to surrounding cities at least.
Ryanair isn't bad to be honest, you just pay for the service you receive. I just flew with them yesterday and for â38 I flew from Cork to EastMidlands.
I only took hand luggage with me, so could check in online and print my boarding card. This meant all ryanair did on the ground for me was check my boarding pass as I got on.
Luggage is a major cost in flying and Ryanair encourages you not to take luggage in the Hold. Really its up to you what you take with you but travelling light isnt too bad the case i had was about twice the size most people go with but it was within the dimensions allowed. Another 15kg in the hold is an additional £12 each way. (plus the delay in checking in and retrieving the bag)
The alternative to flying with ryanair would be â109 for the same journey.
Getting to and from Airports costs the same however much you pay for the ticket
cheapest way is to get a shuttle bus for Cork thats â2.50 and EastMidlands to Nottingham £5 (and they run 24hours a day). It really is up to you how much you pay to get to an airport.
Limited Connections from the Airports well thats true of most Airports. Taxi, hire car, train, and bus or your own transport or friends and family are the usual options. Every airport has a shuttle bus to the nearest main transport links.
Rural Airports, most Airports are rural. The biggest Airport in the UK is Heathrow and thats outside the M25 to get to anywhere from there usually would involve getting into London somehow.
Ryanair do make terrible coffee and tea, however I'm not willing to pay at least double the flight cost to hope to get better coffee (yes its extra).
Ryanair is good at what it does without any unneeded extra services. :)
Just like Linux it works for me. The Stewardesses on Ryanair are cute too
Strange you do not associate scifi writers with the films that you enjoy. Do you realise there are many films where the book came first? Ray Bradbury in particular has been the source of many stories that have been adapted for the screen.
cutting for film loses depth and plot and takes away your part in a story, yes your imagination has an important part to play when reading a book.
unfortunately your settling for mcdonalds instead of visiting a real restaurant.
To be frank the biggest reason Labour has spent years in power was Margret Thatcher. That venomous bitch was evil personified.
Go watch something like boys from the black stuff to get a feel for Tory policies.
Gordons not popular now but I'd rather not see the likes of Thatcher back in power.
Renationalising or taking a majority share in a couple of energy companies and he could win a general election. It's just a little crazy that foreign owned energy companies are taking money out of Britain.
Thats an interesting concept sharing amongst your friends is immoral.
I share quite a lot with my friends Books, DVD's Food, Drinks hardware, Software is slightly different, I shared nvu last night with a friend who wanted to create a website. I would share my lawnmower if I had a lawn and quite often I share my skills and knowledge.
I often share my car and sometimes share the cost of fuel.
Am I really being immoral?
Now I am not a game player really I most often play freecell or other puzzle related games.
Games tend to be a significant purchase the price is often non-trivial and non returnable. They tend to be locked to a single user, if not a single machine and difficult to loan. The whole issue of multiplayer and the need to buy each player a copy is another significant factor.
I don't have any real answers for game developers other than your pricing yourself out of reach of your potential customers. You are asking 4 twelve year olds for example to pay $200 to play a game. (Assuming you need 4 copies at $50 each). Assuming you have got kids, would you give them the money or use it to pay the gas bill instead.
I can think of a couple of suggestions that might help.
For a multiplayer game generate a session password lets call it password the kids then share the legally bought disk to load the game up and enter password on each system. they then play as long as they like and at the end of the session the password is useless. A new one needs generating from the original disk.
now the kids are happy all four can play and no developers got hurt, in fact the kids play 3 or 4 games like this and there are 3 or 4 legit copies and everyone got to play even the kid whose parents cant afford to buy him the latest games.
You could apply this online too, most lans have a single ip address visible so why not let the games be freely downloadable with an active session password for a dollar or 50cents the kids play for a few hours and when the session closes the dollar is spent. The parents would prepay a few dollars a time just like a prepay mobile.
Oh and sometimes you don't charge either, you have some games free at all times not necessarily the same game with free passwords. You can even open games as a reward for achieving a high score in another game.
Imagine the buzz around a new game with a free pass for the day just around release day or even alpha or beta level testing. The feedback could make a big difference to the success of the game. You could be like willy wonka and his golden tickets.
You could even sell vouchers retail.
It's probably best if at some point you decide to give a kid free access on a game if they have spent enough on it.
you could have freedays on birthdays and christmas.
Would this not be better than giving away 80% of potential sales to piracy?
if i tell you to kill someone and you do, then i am guilty of murder.
if i tell you to kill yourself then surely i should be guilty too.
I agree manslaughter is the right charge for this case.
However what charge could there be
if
a) megan hadn't died
or
b) attempted suicide?
clearly going from manslaughter on one hand to no charges on the basis of the actions of the victim isn't right either.
what you are ignoring is that we all have some armor against getting hurt by other people. If you know someone is your enemy then there is less of an effect on you since you know that this person isn't your friend and is just trying to get to you.
Everybody wears masks and mostly you get to see what they want you to see we play roles be it doctor engineer whatever. Mostly people automatically say fine, when asked how are you. It's a ritual you say fine because the other person doesn't want to know most of the time. Most interaction is just role playing.
Love on the other hand tends to go with trust and you share things which makes you vulnerable, your without your armor, you might not share everything probably don't for most of us.
Having a strong emotional bond with someone, means that someone could hurt you beyond anything anybody else could do.
What I'm saying is the person you love the most can hurt you so badly you might commit suicide, most of us will do something less extreme, get drunk or maybe not date for a while.
Experience tells us that relationships fail and you get over it.
This girl did not have this experience and to top it off she wasn't just dumped
but faced an overwhelming assault on her whole emotional being from the person she was closest to.
An interesting legal argument in uk law at least is that you can be found guilty of murder if you procure someone to act as your instrument, ie hire a hitman, or persuade your boyfriend to kill your husband for example.
did "josh" procure megan to act as his instrument to kill megan? Ok "josh" probably didn't want megan dead just seriously hurt. Therefore a lesser charge such as manslaughter (murder in the 3rd degree?) should apply. I should explain Murder carries a mandatory life sentence in the uk, Manslaughter allows a judge considerable leeway in what sentence to apply.
Manslaughter would seem to be a reasonable sentence for the circumstances and actions surrounding megans death.
The issue of bullying in general is a nasty can of worms to open , when does standard working practice become abuse? It isn't easy to define, evidence is hard to obtain and what may be devastating to one individual will have no effect on another.
Finally at Megans age with her lack of experience, the hormonal changes she was experiencing as most teenagers do with the abuse of trust from "josh" Is suicide so surprising?
I would agree though MySpace's terms and conditions should have no bearing on this what so ever.
no not in the real world, since the interpretation of the standards varies.
broken browsers are not a problem for w3. Everyone else needs working solutions.
or to put it another way fans buy music,and you don't get to be a fan without hearing the music.
1% is probably a major over estimate of the percentage of musicians actually getting exposure from the music industry. The rest comes from club dj's friends and piracy.
As an exercise, can you think of 10 artists you are a fan of where you got introduced to their music solely from radio play and the music industry?
here's a simpler question consider any artist of who you are a fan of and have bought a commercial recording of. what percentage of artists that you like have you never had a pirated copy of something they have done.
Are there artists within your music collection who's music you wouldn't have, had you not heard via a pirated copy?
All a crackdown online piracy is likely to do is reduce exposure for many bands and result in reduced music sales, if it doesn't it will largely be due to the fact most music is available on a dvd for a few quid on the local market, ignoring that people will still swap music between friends.
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Broadcom_(BCM4306)_WLAN_Installation_under_SUSE
simple enough isn't it?
you don't say what the actual chipset is but the ndiswrapper route is probably the way to go.
Too tough for you? buy an edimax usb wireless stick and plug it in, they are cheap enough.
There are two issues here the first is some hardware manufacturers are unwilling to provide driver support for their hardware beyond a windows driver
(e.g broadcom) and some are (e.g ralink).
For me I vote with my wallet and choose to buy supported hardware. Your wireless problem probably can be solved with the use of ndiswrapper. Which just uses the windows driver for your card it's not an ideal solution and requires a little effort on your part.
The second issue is you are being a dick, it took me a few seconds to find a how to for your wireless problem unfortunately i have no solution to you being a dick other than go run the os that came with your laptop.
linux has very little support for dicks and arseholes for this you require windows. Seriously, windows is designed for people like you in mind.
Douglas Adams put it this way
"But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine month."
"Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything."
"But the plans were on display ..."
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a flashlight."
"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice didn't you?"
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You realise that London is trying to reduce car usage and a possible effect might be to reduce traffic congestion and pollution. Why drive when you can get a free bus?
back in the mid 80's sheffield had a fairly unique bus service with 5p adult fares the result was packed buses going into and out of the city center and free flowing traffic. often you would have to wait 10 minutes for a bus since the first 3 that came were full.
unfortunately Margret thatcher deregulated the buses and privatized them resulting in higher fares more and mostly empty buses and the return of traffic jams to Sheffield streets.
While free rides might be wrong after all its theft of service, for london it could be a very good thing. reducing pollution and congestion.
Incidentally pensioners (65 60 years +) tend to get a free bus pass in most of the uk so already there are some existing free rides.
well i am sure you are aware that software updates are not necessarily for the benefit of the owner.
for example the slingbox originally allowed you to record to your pc's hard drive and now is only barely able to stream a live broadcast to one single recipient.
nice of slingbox to remove functionality in an already sold device.
On the other hand this is for a phone and not getting an update will...
make it impossible for apple to fix a flawed product?
make it impossible to stop the owner of an iPhone running what ever they feel like on their phone?
Apple will probably have to go the sony psp route of firmware updates offer something to get users to put the handcuffs back on. And even if you never jailbreak your iPhone you will probably get neat features offered to you as well
Do you really think so?
You see a police car up ahead of you. Most people will slowdown, get of the cell phone, stop undertaking, stop tailgating, make clear signals, put on seat belts and generally behave like model drivers... until they get out of the view of the police, then its back to business as usual.
Back to the subject of the article, essentially in situations with poor visibility we slow down, and thats a good thing since often it also means poor traction, snow, ice, driving rain.
Overcoming the poor visibility doesn't make the road conditions safer, also glasses wearers do you think perhaps driving with steamed up glasses is safe, or not wearing glasses to impress that date you finally got?
Older drivers can have problems , slower reactions poorer vision, a mind not as clear as it once was, and they compensate, they take ages at a junction since they are not as good at judging if there is enough of a gap to safely pull out for example, they get tired, we all get tired, and slow down.
There is no right to drive till you die, from 70 in the uk you renew your license every 3 years and if your medically unfit you don't get it renewed.
simple as that. HGV drivers get regular medicals way younger than that for obvious reasons. It's good that a lot of people do accept that they shouldn't be driving but try telling your dad grandfather , yourself even, that it is time to quit, it's just as well the law does it for us.
What really needs to be enhanced is the ability to live a reasonable quality of life without driving everywhere.
you realize that I was being largely sarcastic with my comment. Lexmark has consistently ignored Linux for many years and most Linux users are smart enough not to buy into Lexmarks razor blade model for selling printers.
Lexmark printers are not worth writing drivers for. Largely because of the insanely high running costs of Lexmark printers.
There are two kinds of support for hardware, drivers written with the help of the hardware manufacturers or reverse engineered drivers written in spite of the lack of help from hardware manufacturers. Really when it comes to buying hardware surely you want to be choosing hardware from the first group.
At least that way your supporting a manufacturer who gives a damn about what the customer wants, or at least can see how it can be an edge over the competitors product.
surprisingly your right about royalties being paid on rentals, I didn't know that, but it's a lower percentage than if you actually buy the film. Brazil is well worth buying.
http://www.skillset.org/film/knowledge/article_5103_1.asp
did you forget lexmark?
i've got a youtube account it's useful just for favouriting video's however in the past month i've accessed youtube from 2 countrys and a bunch of cities. so how exactly does an ip address help authenticate me as me? not only that access to that account is shared anyway. It's just easier that way. I've better things to do than copying and pasting links to share.
To be honest if i was to be interested in uploading copyright video footage.
1)get a throwaway email address
2)set up youtube account,
3)share the account with bunch of random friends located all over the world.
if i am really paranoid do all this via the dlink router that is sat wide open within range of me while i type and randomise my mac address each time.
it is a ridiculous notion that to use linux you should go through all the code or any of the code checking for back doors, is there anyone capable of doing this?
more important is the network of trust that has been established. There are people checking and examining code daily. There are problems found and problems fixed. I am happy enough to trust that the code review process works and repositories are trustworthy.
with closed source software there isn't the same openness and there isn't the same degree of trust. However the behaviour of the code is still watched and examined. Take Skype for example it's closed source but generally trusted however you can see that trust will only exist until it's been shown not to be trusted.
Skype wouldn't survive long if they did something nasty, thats a major incentive to stay clean.
practical considerations , come before idealogical considerations for most people. After all what is the alternative to using some closed source software, windows or an abacus maybe?
When it comes to customer relations and talking to customers, a fellow countryman is an superior asset to someone from or living outside the customers area, assuming both are equally competent.
It really helps put the customer at ease.
We know why companies outsource, because it is cheaper! As a customer how do you feel about a company that 'values' you so highly they dump you with the cheapest customer support they can get.
Secondly coding skills are less of an issue than communication skills. Without good communication between the people specifying the requirements and the team implementing the solution the result is likely to be unsatisfactory.
by outsourcing you are adding to this problem.
I hope you notice that I have deliberately avoided using nationality's since the problems are quite universal.
Finally while I appreciate that prejudice exists, telling American's, Indian's are just as good comes of as the same as saying some of the American's you have worked with are as equally bad as some of the Indians. It's an uncomfortable truth that you will not win friends and influence people with. Here's another people are more comfortable with people who are like themselves.