2) Nuclear would lock the UK into a centralised energy distribution system for the next 50 years when more flexible distribution options are becoming available...and how many of these require the use of petroleum products, i.e., natural gas, etc.? For the distributed power generation system, you're going to need a lot of instant-on generators. Solar and Wind don't exactly fulfill this 24x7.
Well, nuke power would probably do a good deal in reducing the need to burn hydrocarbon to simply make heat. but that still leaves gasoline for cars and plastics (plastic car parts, plastic for kelvar, plastic for clothing, and disposable plastic film and packing peanuts).
And, yet, people complain so loudly when the topic of using Linux comes up: I...no, The Users, will have to relearn everything! Too costly in lost productivity! yada yada yada.
Every new version of MS products, especially major versions, has subtle, not so subtle, and downright completely bassackwards ways of doing things than were done before. File->Find vs File->Search comes to mind. Too much change for change's sake, and yet, the huge mental stumbling block of, oooo, "but it's Linux and not Microsoft!".
I've lost count of the number of times that I've seen people do things like implement indented paragraphs with hard line breaks and spaces.
And then the joy of watching them struggle to fix it if they change font size or font family entirely. Even more funny when they do it with tables.
You show them how to do things with styles, etc., but their eyes roll back into their heads. Some people just like pounding sand, I suppose.
The worst thing that Word's designers did was to obfuscate the layout structure of a Word document: Document->Sections->Paragraphs->Characters. Simple as that. Oh, and make the last paragraph mark so magical (and prone to breakage), instead of just having an "end of text" marker.
Besides, the only cool stuff you can do with Outlook presumes you're hooked to an Exchange Server (i.e., calendars, scheduling, etc). If you're just using it as a POP3/IMAP/NNTP client, well, you mgiht as well be using Thunderbird.
Other than that, there's no real other integration with the other real Office apps. Oh, let me guess. Send To->E-Mail is the integration piece? Geez. It's easy enough to redo that with some VBA code.
then you just feed it the same gas that you feed your other vehicles
Oh, so wrong, so bloody wrong. Run straight unleaded gas in your typical 2-cycle motored piece of landscape equipment (blower, chain saw, brush cutter, etc)... One of the suxors about 2-cycle motors is having to have "mix". OK, it's not as big a suxor as having to carry AvGas, but still... Can't run them on Diesel (although there have been 2-cycle diesel marine engines, you'd just have to design it to have a long enough lifetime being lubed with diesel fuel/kerosene). Can't run them on straight 87 octane unleaded. Can't run them on alcohol.
One of the reasons the military standardized on diesel engines for its combat vehicles was to simplify the logistics of fuel delivery. Lots easier to deliver only one fuel, especially if you can use JP4 in place of #3 Diesel in a pinch (like in an M1A1 tank).
Yes, but how much gas does the thing have to tote? Mules don't have to tote their own food usually (in Afghanistan/Iraq/Iran they probably would have to, though, and water too). How do they get so much power from a.080 model airplane engine, though?
For a major web-based intranet app I helped support, dealing with the Back button was a *MAJOR* headache (J2EE session objects, etc). So having something that makes the Back button do nothing is bad? No, I think a lot of developers would say it's probably a good thing...
Same for me, thru OnlineMac (http://www.onlinemac.com/) wireless DSL. I get SDSL 768Kbps... No telco or cable company broadband bullshit service agreement issues, either. Little Yagi antenna on my roof, LOS to the tower. It's fast enough for me...
Actually, the "making a product" issue is only a relatively modern claim. It used to be that all patent submissions required a working model to be submitted at the same time. The PTO got tired of storing everything, so gave up on it.
What's stopping them from just making the service themselves and cutting you out of the picture completely? I don't know. It's the Microsoft Model (just ask Citrix, Symantec, etc). If you have a shit-hot application idea, Microsoft *will* eventually start competing against you, whether you like it (i.e., they pay you some $$$ for it) or not.
In the other copyright-associated industries, it's simply claimed to be a copyright violation: "he stole my original idea for 'Big Momma'. I showed him my script 3 years ago called 'Big Fat Hoochie Mama', but he didn't want to produce it. Now I want my 10% of the gross box office take, or one million lira, which ever is greater!".
If the applications can be copyrighted, then that's how it should be resolved. Software (and software techniques, including business models) should simply *not* be patentable.1
If you're shopping an idea around for a software application or service to investors, you'd better have a pretty good NDA and agressive lawyer to back up that NDA...
The Software industry has been allowed to get away with choosing the best parts of different areas of IP to benefit themselves while using the best negative parts of IP law to keep out competition or screw customers out of $$$. But the toothpaste is out of the tube on that one.
Either software is copyrightable, patentable or simply trade secret. None of this license bullshit and double-speak in them, either. It's either a physical product (patentable) or an instance of a copyrightable publication.
But we have no such goods left at all. EVERYTHING can be made cheaper someplace else. If it wasn't for agricultural subsidies, we wouldn't have anything left at all.
Please explain these "subsidies" that you talk about. If there are subsidies, they are very much targeted at commodity groups. The US has given up most subsidies, at the behest of other countries (who keep their own subsidy programs in place to ensure that THEIR markets are protected from US exports).
I think we do, but there are lots of barriers to it. If we try to sell our stuff, we're percieved as trying to put local businesses out of business. Or, because of economies of scale, our stuff is cheaper than their stuff. Or the whole "cultural imperialism" aspect of it, too.
Try exporting US lamb to New Zealand... It's only slightly more pointless than trying to raise US lamb for US markets.
Australia, Canada get to keep their Wheat Boards, subsidizing their wheat exports while creating monopolies in their countries that can lockout US wheat exports to their countries. US had similar things, but they've all been bitch-slapped by the WTO.
Soybean production is moving from the US to Argentina and Brazil. OK, so they have about 3x the available land to raise soybeans than the US has...
Perhaps, but it is a one-way street. If you're a good ol' American, try to go to India to get a job. The US is expected to be an "open" country, but all the other countries that the US trades with are definitely not open, can practice "cultural" or "social" protectionism, etc.
The system is set up to benefit corporations and their wealthy investors. Any other perceived benefits are very much scraps on the floor that the rest of us should be grateful to get. It is not set up to benefit workers, small-scale producers, etc. in any measurable way.
Well, it's collusion when its competitors lobby more successfully (i.e., throw more $$$ at regulators/law writers), then what do we call Microsoft and how its unfavorable US antitrust decision basically was cast to the wind when the change in command essentially ordered the Dept of Justice to stop pursuing the case (because...well...Microsoft and associates probably threw enough $$$ at the Republican Party for it to take notice and reward said "donations"?)
Funny thing, though is that there are a few DC transmission lines out there. SoCal Edison (I forget what it's called now) has a 500,000 VDC line that goes through Arizona and into SoCal...
illegal tying helped them out in getting MS-Word and MS-Excel/i
No, turning a blind eye towards those who initially installed it at work, and then took it home to install (as well as licensing terms that encouraged this), helped a great deal, as did pretty liberal pricing for educational discounts, etc.
Yep, it probably is. At least the Supreme Court (of the US) would buy into the argument. Just look at the absurdity it made out of limits on Eminent Domain and Copyright...
(Note that drop is almost certainly a direct result of legallizing abortions - it prevents unwanted children from being born to people that don't want them and usually don't have the mental or phsyical resources to properly raise them).
Sorry, it is basic economics. Do I have a job? Am I getting paid "well" for what I do/do I have enough money to pay for my Jones'? Good. If not, then at some point I start looking at "easier" ways to acquire cash from the star-bellied sneetches.
well, it is probably safe to assume that "violent" video games had nothing to do with the recent Hutu vs Tutsi bloodrage, the implosion of Yugoslavia, the rise (and fall and...rise again?) of the Taliban, OBL/AZ vs whatever the hell they're pissed off about today, etc.
There are far larger factors that lead to violence (drugs, money, job, economy) that are out of anyone's day-to-day control, really.
Well, the Phosmet story wouldn't apply to scrapies, then, in sheep and goats. Sheep ranchers have been dealing with scrapies for way before the first organophosphate pesticide was invented. If Phosmet does chelate copper out, then perhaps it should be used in sheep to fight copper toxicity...
Probably sheep byproducts put back into cow feed.
Nor does it necessarily explain Chronic Wasting Disease in deer (and elk?). CWD could be environmental, if only because most state game management practices are designed to maximize deer populations, not quality of said population... so too many deer are allowed to stay around, they eat down their feed base, so they become stressed, more susceptible to things like CWD, etc.
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2) Nuclear would lock the UK into a centralised energy distribution system for the next 50 years when more flexible distribution options are becoming available ...and how many of these require the use of petroleum products, i.e., natural gas, etc.? For the distributed power generation system, you're going to need a lot of instant-on generators. Solar and Wind don't exactly fulfill this 24x7.
Well, nuke power would probably do a good deal in reducing the need to burn hydrocarbon to simply make heat. but that still leaves gasoline for cars and plastics (plastic car parts, plastic for kelvar, plastic for clothing, and disposable plastic film and packing peanuts).
You still need Exchange Server, or a reasonable facimile thereof, which was the point. Without it, Outlook is just another MUA.
And, yet, people complain so loudly when the topic of using Linux comes up: I...no, The Users, will have to relearn everything! Too costly in lost productivity! yada yada yada.
Every new version of MS products, especially major versions, has subtle, not so subtle, and downright completely bassackwards ways of doing things than were done before. File->Find vs File->Search comes to mind. Too much change for change's sake, and yet, the huge mental stumbling block of, oooo, "but it's Linux and not Microsoft!".
I've lost count of the number of times that I've seen people do things like implement indented paragraphs with hard line breaks and spaces.
And then the joy of watching them struggle to fix it if they change font size or font family entirely. Even more funny when they do it with tables.
You show them how to do things with styles, etc., but their eyes roll back into their heads. Some people just like pounding sand, I suppose.
The worst thing that Word's designers did was to obfuscate the layout structure of a Word document: Document->Sections->Paragraphs->Characters. Simple as that. Oh, and make the last paragraph mark so magical (and prone to breakage), instead of just having an "end of text" marker.
Besides, the only cool stuff you can do with Outlook presumes you're hooked to an Exchange Server (i.e., calendars, scheduling, etc). If you're just using it as a POP3/IMAP/NNTP client, well, you mgiht as well be using Thunderbird.
Other than that, there's no real other integration with the other real Office apps. Oh, let me guess. Send To->E-Mail is the integration piece? Geez. It's easy enough to redo that with some VBA code.
No, Air Force/CIA came along with their own set of requirements too, which caused some redesigns, compromises in other areas, etc.
then you just feed it the same gas that you feed your other vehicles
Oh, so wrong, so bloody wrong. Run straight unleaded gas in your typical 2-cycle motored piece of landscape equipment (blower, chain saw, brush cutter, etc)... One of the suxors about 2-cycle motors is having to have "mix". OK, it's not as big a suxor as having to carry AvGas, but still... Can't run them on Diesel (although there have been 2-cycle diesel marine engines, you'd just have to design it to have a long enough lifetime being lubed with diesel fuel/kerosene). Can't run them on straight 87 octane unleaded. Can't run them on alcohol.
One of the reasons the military standardized on diesel engines for its combat vehicles was to simplify the logistics of fuel delivery. Lots easier to deliver only one fuel, especially if you can use JP4 in place of #3 Diesel in a pinch (like in an M1A1 tank).
Yes, but how much gas does the thing have to tote? Mules don't have to tote their own food usually (in Afghanistan/Iraq/Iran they probably would have to, though, and water too). How do they get so much power from a .080 model airplane engine, though?
"AJAX breaks the back button"
For a major web-based intranet app I helped support, dealing with the Back button was a *MAJOR* headache (J2EE session objects, etc). So having something that makes the Back button do nothing is bad? No, I think a lot of developers would say it's probably a good thing...
Black and White was a fine game, but how do you sell someone on the notion of spending hours training a giant cow?
I don't know. Nintendo has done a good job sucking people into NintenDogs...
Same for me, thru OnlineMac (http://www.onlinemac.com/) wireless DSL. I get SDSL 768Kbps... No telco or cable company broadband bullshit service agreement issues, either. Little Yagi antenna on my roof, LOS to the tower.
It's fast enough for me...
Actually, the "making a product" issue is only a relatively modern claim. It used to be that all patent submissions required a working model to be submitted at the same time. The PTO got tired of storing everything, so gave up on it.
What's stopping them from just making the service themselves and cutting you out of the picture completely?
I don't know. It's the Microsoft Model (just ask Citrix, Symantec, etc). If you have a shit-hot application idea, Microsoft *will* eventually start competing against you, whether you like it (i.e., they pay you some $$$ for it) or not.
In the other copyright-associated industries, it's simply claimed to be a copyright violation: "he stole my original idea for 'Big Momma'. I showed him my script 3 years ago called 'Big Fat Hoochie Mama', but he didn't want to produce it. Now I want my 10% of the gross box office take, or one million lira, which ever is greater!".
If the applications can be copyrighted, then that's how it should be resolved. Software (and software techniques, including business models) should simply *not* be patentable.1
If you're shopping an idea around for a software application or service to investors, you'd better have a pretty good NDA and agressive lawyer to back up that NDA...
The Software industry has been allowed to get away with choosing the best parts of different areas of IP to benefit themselves while using the best negative parts of IP law to keep out competition or screw customers out of $$$. But the toothpaste is out of the tube on that one.
Either software is copyrightable, patentable or simply trade secret. None of this license bullshit and double-speak in them, either. It's either a physical product (patentable) or an instance of a copyrightable publication.
But we have no such goods left at all. EVERYTHING can be made cheaper someplace else. If it wasn't for agricultural subsidies, we wouldn't have anything left at all.
Please explain these "subsidies" that you talk about. If there are subsidies, they are very much targeted at commodity groups. The US has given up most subsidies, at the behest of other countries (who keep their own subsidy programs in place to ensure that THEIR markets are protected from US exports).
I think we do, but there are lots of barriers to it. If we try to sell our stuff, we're percieved as trying to put local businesses out of business. Or, because of economies of scale, our stuff is cheaper than their stuff. Or the whole "cultural imperialism" aspect of it, too.
Try exporting US lamb to New Zealand... It's only slightly more pointless than trying to raise US lamb for US markets.
Australia, Canada get to keep their Wheat Boards, subsidizing their wheat exports while creating monopolies in their countries that can lockout US wheat exports to their countries. US had similar things, but they've all been bitch-slapped by the WTO.
Soybean production is moving from the US to Argentina and Brazil. OK, so they have about 3x the available land to raise soybeans than the US has...
Perhaps, but it is a one-way street. If you're a good ol' American, try to go to India to get a job. The US is expected to be an "open" country, but all the other countries that the US trades with are definitely not open, can practice "cultural" or "social" protectionism, etc.
The system is set up to benefit corporations and their wealthy investors. Any other perceived benefits are very much scraps on the floor that the rest of us should be grateful to get. It is not set up to benefit workers, small-scale producers, etc. in any measurable way.
What good does civil forfeiture do to someone sneaking into the country to fly a plane into a skyscraper?
If the anti-drug laws are so good and effective, then why not use them against "terrorists"?
Well, it's collusion when its competitors lobby more successfully (i.e., throw more $$$ at regulators/law writers), then what do we call Microsoft and how its unfavorable US antitrust decision basically was cast to the wind when the change in command essentially ordered the Dept of Justice to stop pursuing the case (because...well...Microsoft and associates probably threw enough $$$ at the Republican Party for it to take notice and reward said "donations"?)
Funny thing, though is that there are a few DC transmission lines out there. SoCal Edison (I forget what it's called now) has a 500,000 VDC line that goes through Arizona and into SoCal...
illegal tying helped them out in getting MS-Word and MS-Excel /i
No, turning a blind eye towards those who initially installed it at work, and then took it home to install (as well as licensing terms that encouraged this), helped a great deal, as did pretty liberal pricing for educational discounts, etc.
Yep, it probably is. At least the Supreme Court (of the US) would buy into the argument. Just look at the absurdity it made out of limits on Eminent Domain and Copyright...
(Note that drop is almost certainly a direct result of legallizing abortions - it prevents unwanted children from being born to people that don't want them and usually don't have the mental or phsyical resources to properly raise them).
Sorry, it is basic economics. Do I have a job? Am I getting paid "well" for what I do/do I have enough money to pay for my Jones'? Good. If not, then at some point I start looking at "easier" ways to acquire cash from the star-bellied sneetches.
well, it is probably safe to assume that "violent" video games had nothing to do with the recent Hutu vs Tutsi bloodrage, the implosion of Yugoslavia, the rise (and fall and...rise again?) of the Taliban, OBL/AZ vs whatever the hell they're pissed off about today, etc.
There are far larger factors that lead to violence (drugs, money, job, economy) that are out of anyone's day-to-day control, really.
Well, the Phosmet story wouldn't apply to scrapies, then, in sheep and goats. Sheep ranchers have been dealing with scrapies for way before the first organophosphate pesticide was invented. If Phosmet does chelate copper out, then perhaps it should be used in sheep to fight copper toxicity...
Probably sheep byproducts put back into cow feed.
Nor does it necessarily explain Chronic Wasting Disease in deer (and elk?). CWD could be environmental, if only because most state game management practices are designed to maximize deer populations, not quality of said population... so too many deer are allowed to stay around, they eat down their feed base, so they become stressed, more susceptible to things like CWD, etc.