If someone can mod parent down, please do, because the parent poster doesn't know sh** about Economy.
Public investment in Education will provide in the short term social movility, and in the long term, more production. This will result in a greater Product per Capita, and if the investment in education remains, it becomes a virtuous circle. Of course, where will you get teachers? By teaching them. Education breeds Education. It's not wasted like money.
Developed countries invest AT LEAST 8% of the Gross Domestic Product in Education, while the developing countries don't. The Singapore Minister said yesterday: "A sound and robust education system plays an important role in Singapore's economic development... In fact, the education sector has been the second largest recipient of government funding for many years, averaging 5 percent of Singapore's GDP (gross domestic product) annually".
More and better education always results in the benefit of the country, so your comparison of building more schools with printing money is at least ridiculous.
The real problem with Education is that some governments DON'T WANT IT. Why? Because the corrupted leaders and dictators know that an educated country is not easy to manipulate. It's much cheaper for the people in power to invest a couple million dollars in buying the people with free food, and to keep the rest for themselves. Don't forget that the people who protested in the Tiananmen Square in China were STUDENTS. Education is a very dangerous weapon against dictatorships.
"The system works by looking for the reflectivity and shape of the image-producing sensors used in digital cameras."
This means that spies could just design and use cameras which look non-suspicious by the sensors. And then again, what will happen when common glasses have integrated cameras in them?
As usual, this kind of systems can only block the legitimate public (which tries not to break any laws), while the truly dangerous people just use more advanced technology.
We have to take into account the time in which it was patented. We're talking about the times when there wasn't Windows 95. Actually Windows 3.1 was just released. The internet wasn't used in home PC's but computer depts in colleges, and Mosaic wasn't invented yet. The Pentium processor was in the works, and so was Linux. The newsgroup comp.os.linux had just been proposed.
In that time, the concept of Open Source wasn't used yet, it was only known in certain circles. For the other 99.9% of us, all we had was SHAREWARE. Try before you buy, nag screens, and the like. At that time, trade secrets were the rule.
IMO, it's just not fair to judge someone for patenting a software idea in the early 90's, before the internet became mainstream. It was just another era.
Remember what Steve Jobs said about France regarding interoperability? Apple isn't just losing Touch with the OS Community. Apple is losing touch with _ALL_ the community!
Actually my (attempt at) implementation was with PHP, on a LAMP stack. (But I don't remember well, maybe I tried the php implementation because the Apache one didn't work? This was over 2 years ago, so it's all fuzzy in my memory).
Anyway, the problem was that the particular directory was below other directory structures. Instead of just trying to access the directory, the stupid Internet Explorer kept checking the directories above without need, messing everything up and denying access. To have access to that directory I would have to give access to the directories above, and that was a horrible security flaw.
I had tried with other webdav clients, and they did work. They all worked. EXCEPT IE6. Nothing in the specs said ANYTHING about scanning the ancestor directories for permissions. Grrrr.
In the end I had to switch from having a nice authenticated (and with cookies!) subdirectory access, to a stupid FTP with javascript password obfuscation (can you believe that?). Finally, when the company hosting us went broke this year, we had to switch to another one which doesn't support FTP accounts because they don't use CPANEL but PLESK, and it SUCKS. So I had to implement a php-based "file manager", all on my own. Well, at least there's no password disclosing security problem now.
But everything could've been soooo nice with webdav:(
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If someone can mod parent down, please do, because the parent poster doesn't know sh** about Economy.
Public investment in Education will provide in the short term social movility, and in the long term, more production. This will result in a greater Product per Capita, and if the investment in education remains, it becomes a virtuous circle. Of course, where will you get teachers? By teaching them. Education breeds Education. It's not wasted like money.
Developed countries invest AT LEAST 8% of the Gross Domestic Product in Education, while the developing countries don't. The Singapore Minister said yesterday: "A sound and robust education system plays an important role in Singapore's economic development... In fact, the education sector has been the second largest recipient of government funding for many years, averaging 5 percent of Singapore's GDP (gross domestic product) annually".
More and better education always results in the benefit of the country, so your comparison of building more schools with printing money is at least ridiculous.
The real problem with Education is that some governments DON'T WANT IT. Why? Because the corrupted leaders and dictators know that an educated country is not easy to manipulate. It's much cheaper for the people in power to invest a couple million dollars in buying the people with free food, and to keep the rest for themselves. Don't forget that the people who protested in the Tiananmen Square in China were STUDENTS. Education is a very dangerous weapon against dictatorships.
Why not putting the seeds in carbon fibre capsules, so that the damage is minimized?
"The system works by looking for the reflectivity and shape of the image-producing sensors used in digital cameras."
This means that spies could just design and use cameras which look non-suspicious by the sensors. And then again, what will happen when common glasses have integrated cameras in them?
As usual, this kind of systems can only block the legitimate public (which tries not to break any laws), while the truly dangerous people just use more advanced technology.
While Jobs is calling the french interoperability laws "a state sponsored piracy", he's getting attacked by the RIAA on his pricing model.
It would seem that Steve's trying to find a middle ground, but the truth is that with DRM, there is NO middle ground.
back to DOS would be an improvement.
:P
Well, with the current Windows security we have "back to DDOS". That ought to be something
Ways to dispose of hundreds of thousands of dollars of junk food left over from the cafeteria....
... with only one click :)
We have to take into account the time in which it was patented. We're talking about the times when there wasn't Windows 95. Actually Windows 3.1 was just released. The internet wasn't used in home PC's but computer depts in colleges, and Mosaic wasn't invented yet. The Pentium processor was in the works, and so was Linux. The newsgroup comp.os.linux had just been proposed.
In that time, the concept of Open Source wasn't used yet, it was only known in certain circles. For the other 99.9% of us, all we had was SHAREWARE. Try before you buy, nag screens, and the like. At that time, trade secrets were the rule.
IMO, it's just not fair to judge someone for patenting a software idea in the early 90's, before the internet became mainstream. It was just another era.
*Windows Vista requirements*
..... 1 ..... 1
Arms
Legs
Is diffing binaries THAT hard to do? *Rolls eyes*
...or the rest of the male coders?
Or for both. A healthy work environment usually results in a healthy project... I think.
Bagpipes Hero? *shivers*
They can take away our guitars... but they can't take away... OUR FREEDOM!!!
He's going to stay chairman.
He's replacing Ballmer!?!? O.o
Suddenly I feel so lucky nobody has patented winamp's playback buttons yet.
if the bot replied "it's a virus lol j/k, just click on it", i'm sure some people would STILL download it.
Before criticizing Pope JPII, please read his encyclica "fides et ratio" (faith and reason). It's dangerous to comment on quotes taken out of context.
Through a vulnerability in MSN messenger, or is it just the usual "click here to get infected" method?
Plus one for the Illuminati part.
Remember what Steve Jobs said about France regarding interoperability? Apple isn't just losing Touch with the OS Community. Apple is losing touch with _ALL_ the community!
Search: [__________] ( ) Photographs (*) Games/Video Screenshots ( ) CG art
Now, that wasn't too hard, was it?
That will be good to remember then when I'm having my caffeine induced coronary .
:-/
I heard alcohol helps to mitigate heart attacks.
Hey wait a minute...
Actually my (attempt at) implementation was with PHP, on a LAMP stack. (But I don't remember well, maybe I tried the php implementation because the Apache one didn't work? This was over 2 years ago, so it's all fuzzy in my memory).
:(
Anyway, the problem was that the particular directory was below other directory structures. Instead of just trying to access the directory, the stupid Internet Explorer kept checking the directories above without need, messing everything up and denying access. To have access to that directory I would have to give access to the directories above, and that was a horrible security flaw.
I had tried with other webdav clients, and they did work. They all worked. EXCEPT IE6. Nothing in the specs said ANYTHING about scanning the ancestor directories for permissions. Grrrr.
In the end I had to switch from having a nice authenticated (and with cookies!) subdirectory access, to a stupid FTP with javascript password obfuscation (can you believe that?). Finally, when the company hosting us went broke this year, we had to switch to another one which doesn't support FTP accounts because they don't use CPANEL but PLESK, and it SUCKS. So I had to implement a php-based "file manager", all on my own. Well, at least there's no password disclosing security problem now.
But everything could've been soooo nice with webdav
How can they be that expensive? are they made of of the same stuff as iPods?
:P
Yes. Protons, neutrons and electrons.
Does anyone have any idea why the small pores have higher flow rate through them ?
Laminar flow + less friction is a possibility.
But how about a nanofilter for SPAM!!!
;-)
:P
You mean this one? (PDF) Or perhaps you would like a more proactive method?
And after the shameless plug, someone mod parent off-topic
Yeah, well, they thought Jack Bauer was dead, too.
Shhh! You'll blow our cover!
*carefully puts on tinfoil hat*