No, as President of the Senate he will always vote the way the Obama Administration wants him to - this is how all Vice Presidents have voted in the past.
Did you actually read the article? It said that the legs did not give him a mechanical advantage:
Pistorius' lawyers countered with independent tests conducted by a team led by MIT professor Hugh M. Herr that claimed to show he doesn't gain any advantage over able-bodied runners.
CAS said the IAAF failed to prove that Pistorius' running blades give him an advantage.
"The panel was not persuaded that there was sufficient evidence of any metabolic advantage in favor of a double-amputee using the Cheetah Flex-Foot," CAS said. "Furthermore, the CAS panel has considered that the IAAF did not prove that the biomechanical effects of using this particular prosthetic device gives Oscar Pistorius an advantage over other athletes not using the device."
Let's face it - if someone is qualified to compete in other respects, but needs accommodations that provide no advantage, he should be allowed to compete. This is the same standard that people have used to try and prevent those with learning disabilities from getting extra time or other accommodations.
Actually, I disagree. Most Windows desktop applications (MS Office, Photoshop, etc.) already have equivalent open-source Linux versions. Even iTunes is closely matched by Banshee. So based on that, it makes sense that Wine users mainly want games, since those can't as easily be "ported."
Personally, I think Linux is ready for the mainstream desktop user *right now*. The open source software library is huge, modern distributions (Ubuntu, OpenSuse) make installation really easy, and so on. We'll see if this materializes over the next few years.
Another good aspect is that, as Linux gets more popular, the most common reason to use Windows over Linux (if we assume that is games) will start going away, as companies will have to develop for both operating systems.
That is assuming that ALL the people downloading will switch, which is not the case. Many of the people using P2P programs for music are kids who cannot buy anything online at all because they lack the credit card. Others will simply not want to switch for whatever reason. The point is that the market will not increase substantially to make up for a 94% price drop.
What I like to do is to actually educate them on how not to install more spyware. Trust me, when they screwed their computer up really badly, they'll listen to practically anything.
Anyway, I just give them Firefox and tell them not to install any more P2P software and almost always never hear from them again.
I hope they improve on the Mac version
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I use Firefox for my Mac, and I have used it for a while now. However, I have found it to use up a godly amount of memory, which sometimes leads to crashes on my mere 512 MB machine. I noticed the 1.0 version was better than the 0.9 version at this, and I hope the 1.1 version is even better.
Anyway, I'm just wondering... does anyone else have these memory problems on their Mac's, or is it just me?
What we need is some organization to conduct a real poll on businesses (and maybe even homes depending on what they want to find out) and such to see who is using what, the way presidential polls are done. Using download counters simply does not work.
Every time an article about web standards gets published on Slashdot, someone always comes along and says something like this. Look, just because Slashdot doesn't follow web standards, doesn't mean that the it can't publish articles about how others do. It's not ironic, or funny.
You have not been to Russia evidently. Almost every company here is at least partially illegal. I can't speak for them all, but that's just what I see here. None of the stores sell legal software either. (Maybe different cities of Russia are different? Where have you been?)
Savvy enough to pirate their own OS? In America, this is probably so. But you obviously have never been in countries like Russia. In Russia, everyone owns a pirated version of Windows. Getting a legal version is impossible. The huge stores all sell illegal copies. So all the "non-savvy" users still have pirated stuff.
I'm not sure what affect this will have on the people in other countries, (like Russia) but I doubt the effect will be noticable. The pirates will just introduce some russian site to give the updates or something, no big deal.
Very few consumers actually modify open source software. Even people who would have the ability to, ussually don't anyway. While they are free to, they probably won't.
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The thing is that they DO get past the store clerk. However, when these bills get exchanged for new ones (and the store guys will do this eventually) the bank can check the serial numbers and realize that these bills are fake. Therefore, even the bill that looks 100% like the real thing, will be found out eventually.
Code reuse is an important part of any business setting, as I am sure you know. There is nothing to stop them from using the libraries that they wrote, and if they are smart enough to write them and quickly figure out which parts to use in a competition, more power to them.
It's because the competition (and I have competed in TopCoder; I wonder if you have?) is about solving problems quickly. The coding language is just important because it must be tested with a computer; it is not the focus of the competition. (Also, as a side not, C++ is not proprietary as people have said before.)
Maybe it will try to mimic Google's layout somehow? Like, when I search for a file, it will come up with 10 results with links/descriptions that make it look exactly as though I am searching Google.
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No, as President of the Senate he will always vote the way the Obama Administration wants him to - this is how all Vice Presidents have voted in the past.
Let's face it - if someone is qualified to compete in other respects, but needs accommodations that provide no advantage, he should be allowed to compete. This is the same standard that people have used to try and prevent those with learning disabilities from getting extra time or other accommodations.
Actually, I disagree. Most Windows desktop applications (MS Office, Photoshop, etc.) already have equivalent open-source Linux versions. Even iTunes is closely matched by Banshee. So based on that, it makes sense that Wine users mainly want games, since those can't as easily be "ported."
Personally, I think Linux is ready for the mainstream desktop user *right now*. The open source software library is huge, modern distributions (Ubuntu, OpenSuse) make installation really easy, and so on. We'll see if this materializes over the next few years.
Another good aspect is that, as Linux gets more popular, the most common reason to use Windows over Linux (if we assume that is games) will start going away, as companies will have to develop for both operating systems.
Yeah, it obviously won't work. She still looks like a socialist. Now she's trying to be more authoritarian, too. What a great idea...
That is assuming that ALL the people downloading will switch, which is not the case. Many of the people using P2P programs for music are kids who cannot buy anything online at all because they lack the credit card. Others will simply not want to switch for whatever reason. The point is that the market will not increase substantially to make up for a 94% price drop.
Well, Wrongful Termination lawsuits can make it a little more complicated than that...
Well, they rely on the US for everything else, so why not this?
What I like to do is to actually educate them on how not to install more spyware. Trust me, when they screwed their computer up really badly, they'll listen to practically anything.
Anyway, I just give them Firefox and tell them not to install any more P2P software and almost always never hear from them again.
I use Firefox for my Mac, and I have used it for a while now. However, I have found it to use up a godly amount of memory, which sometimes leads to crashes on my mere 512 MB machine. I noticed the 1.0 version was better than the 0.9 version at this, and I hope the 1.1 version is even better.
Anyway, I'm just wondering... does anyone else have these memory problems on their Mac's, or is it just me?
The Honeywell people probably think that they can get more money out of the bigger companies like Apple and Dell. It is as simple as that.
Er, I wrote better than that when I was 12 and so did my peers. Stop degrading the American Youth.
I couldn't have said it any clearer myself.
What we need is some organization to conduct a real poll on businesses (and maybe even homes depending on what they want to find out) and such to see who is using what, the way presidential polls are done. Using download counters simply does not work.
Every time an article about web standards gets published on Slashdot, someone always comes along and says something like this. Look, just because Slashdot doesn't follow web standards, doesn't mean that the it can't publish articles about how others do. It's not ironic, or funny.
You have not been to Russia evidently. Almost every company here is at least partially illegal. I can't speak for them all, but that's just what I see here. None of the stores sell legal software either. (Maybe different cities of Russia are different? Where have you been?)
Savvy enough to pirate their own OS? In America, this is probably so. But you obviously have never been in countries like Russia. In Russia, everyone owns a pirated version of Windows. Getting a legal version is impossible. The huge stores all sell illegal copies. So all the "non-savvy" users still have pirated stuff.
I'm not sure what affect this will have on the people in other countries, (like Russia) but I doubt the effect will be noticable. The pirates will just introduce some russian site to give the updates or something, no big deal.
Very few consumers actually modify open source software. Even people who would have the ability to, ussually don't anyway. While they are free to, they probably won't.
The thing is that they DO get past the store clerk. However, when these bills get exchanged for new ones (and the store guys will do this eventually) the bank can check the serial numbers and realize that these bills are fake. Therefore, even the bill that looks 100% like the real thing, will be found out eventually.
Even if some of the code you're talking about passes the challenges, it will still fail the system tests, so it won't really work.
Code reuse is an important part of any business setting, as I am sure you know. There is nothing to stop them from using the libraries that they wrote, and if they are smart enough to write them and quickly figure out which parts to use in a competition, more power to them.
It's because the competition (and I have competed in TopCoder; I wonder if you have?) is about solving problems quickly. The coding language is just important because it must be tested with a computer; it is not the focus of the competition. (Also, as a side not, C++ is not proprietary as people have said before.)
There is a difference between peaceful protest and spraying the street with chalk.
$4000 for Windows Server 2003 Enterprise edition.
Or, you could just be reasonable and keep all important files on a computer not physically accessible to anyone.
Maybe it will try to mimic Google's layout somehow? Like, when I search for a file, it will come up with 10 results with links/descriptions that make it look exactly as though I am searching Google.
Why doesn't the person just write down the locker number they put their things in? It seems logical.