Interestingly, there has been an increase in the number of Acura TLs driven by GM lower management...
Propably these were the people from GM that were forced to drive a Pontiac Aztek to compensate for bad sales, and after 5 years did everything they could to buy a car that was reasonable in all ways thinkable:)
This is why in some/most european countries there is such a thing as area planning. Even if you buy larges pieces of ground by yourself, what you do with it still has to comply with the destination for this area planned by the (local) government. Now in practice this is also a fight against big money, and often lost to the latter. One tactic is to start building before the decision of the govenrment is made, and by the time they have voted against it it is already built, and breaking it down doesn't make sense. But still it can be used to make sure that a new housing area actually has a real city center, contains a pleasant ratio of houses/(small) shops/offices. I think that is the best way, not everyone wants to live in the city, so areas with one family houses are needed, but instead of creating a suburb it is much nicer to create a small urban area that has all services at hand.
What if there would be a 'prior art database'. Per definition, all patents are public, so anyone has access to them and if many people manage to collect the prior art cases of all MS patents, their threat can as effectively as possible be waved away, without having to start any legal case. If such a project gets enough momentum and credibility, it will be the best weapon against FUD.
Furhtermore, MS patents that do not have prior art can be identified and one can find ways to circumvent those in OS code. This will preactively determine which OS code is safe, or to which level the code is safe, way before any hypothetical case by MS is started, and enlarge trust in its applicability in a commercial environment.
I have an additional question: is this a problem in europe? They still don't have software patents here, as far as I know...
(which depicted Iron Age Britain as filled with unkempt cave-dwelling barbarians with no language or culture)
In fact, this did happen in Britain, but not until quite some time later on, I think you can more or less guess the start of this period by searching for the screening dates of the first channel 4 documentaries about these inhabitants.
>I just set up a custom search that works in the main address bar. g searches google, w search wikipedia, imdb searchs imbd.
you mean you just installed Opera?
Indeed, the state should not meddle with you at all, so you have the right to defend yourself against someone who tries to kill you, but you'll lose your life the moment you get ill and cannot pay the hospital bill since you didn't have any basic medical insurance. We are not in the wild west anymore. Your biggest enemy is not someone with a gun, it's the chance that you end up at the "weaker" side of society.
Actually, the majority of 'democratic' states do not permit carrying guns for civilians, and do very fine with it without 'degrading' into communism or whatever it is one can be afraid for. Example: There is probably not a single university in Europe with its own police force. I've visited several and at no point I was lacking this or feeling insecure. In the US, with about the same amount of universities, there are most probably more gun incidents there than in Europe, even though most US universities have their own police department. It's just a matter of statistics. At some point, people will get drunk and more violent. If they didn't have a gun they might beat someone up which is bad enough, but if they would coincidentally carry a gun with them, the story of some of the people will be over in a hitch. I really feel safer without a gun, and knowing that the people around me that carry guns are way in the minority.
But, what wonders me mostly, the state meddles in your complete private life, there are Patriot acts that allow them to tap your phonecalls, read your e-mails, etc. without you knowing of it. No gun carrying law will protect you from this. Who would you shoot? The Echelon server? This is apparently not a problem for many US-ians, but having the state meddling in medical insurance or carrying weapons is. Standing up for your rights and freedom is a good thing, but why is the lobby to stand up for your right to health and your freedom of privacy so much smaller or at least less apparent than the lobby for the right to carry guns? I have never been to the US, but this is the image that one gets out here. Please explain to me how this came to be and if it's right or not.
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Ah, the genius! But where are modpoints when you need them...
Yes, I think that is what he wanted to say there anyway. Do it before someone else does it. Put in another way, they say that they also know that their patent requests are obvious.
As a student I had a pentium 100, (until 2001), since then I have a 1 Ghz machine. It does everything I want (although a bit slow on DVD movies, I bought a normal dvd-player to plug into my TV-card to solve that). As long as you don't play games, you don't miss it. I'd rather spend money on a good DSL connection.
Recently, I 'acquired' a virtual server, one tenth (max. 9 other users) of a 2 Ghz celeron somewhere in a rack in a colocation, for about 10 Euro/month, including a shitload of bandwith. It comes with an image of debian, automated backup, and a special root-login to save the machine in the case that you've messed everything up. Within an hour it can have a working install of debian again. It is great fun! I get to try all the nice things of linux remotely, without even having to buy a machine that can handle it. I think I might buy a laptop as a main pc in some time, but furthermore, why would I need to build PCs with a lot of painful effort (I really lost track on the CPU/rambus/etc coreduo core2duo whateverduo specifications) if I can have so much more fun with so much less money:)
Ah, yes, that's also from the guy from qwantz.com isn't it. I like the idea, but it's fairly new, I wonder how well it's working already. I'd like to use that system, but don't have a site in the cartoon-region, that might make it a bit more difficult to get the right banners, or to use this to place my banners. It will be more useful as it grows and grows, though.
I, as original author of the inflicting post, beg to disagree. As a native Dutch speaker, I used the word 'visum' (which is indeed the only correct word for this in Dutch) and just thought it would be the same in English. So actually, this was not a mistake in usage of Latin, but a mistake in the usage of English. My Latin is also just so-so, but that's a different point.
Therefore, I congratulate poster Petrushka by correctly identifying the source of my mistake:) The interesting thing about this, if I posted anonymously and both of you were in CSI:slashdot, trying to discover the background of the person that posted the inflicting text, you would have thought that it was someone who has no feeling for Latin, while slashdotter Petrushka would've consider someone who was originally Dutch. The Jerry Springer final word is therefore: Sometimes it's better to look at things from a wider angle without going too deep into the matter, than just trying to fixate on the absolute correctness of one small point.
Indeed. A lot of scientists for example were hindered by the US immigration service, e.g. by getting their visum for a congress only after the congress is already past. I had the impression that the US immigration got a little better the past few years. In the end, strict admission rules comes to shooting yourself in the foot. You'll need foreigners, be it for low-paid or extremely high-paid jobs, and not allowing new talent into your country is only bad for yourself.
Also, Canada will get a lot less tourists this way, did they ever think of that? I hope they get reasonable soon, and that other countries won't follow these ridiculous standards, otherwise we'll got a world-wide sovjet state as far as freedom of movement is involved.
My driving instructor also trained police officers, and it's pretty heavy stuff going on there, speeding up to 2 times the allowed speed limit within residential areas is not a simple task. Cool thing was that the training cars were automatically removed from the lists with speeding offenders.
Furthermore, responsible speeding is the kind of thing that is stimulated in Germany. When you have the space and the condition of the road is good enough, do your 150 mph thing, but speed next to a construction site and you get your speeding ticket at a double fee. And it works, apparently, not more accidents here than in the neighbouring countries that do have speed limits. The current focus of the law enforcement is on 'draengler', the people who drive up too closely behind the person driving in front, because actions like that have much more effect on accidents than just plain speeding.
Who is this 'we' you're talking about? Are you as an American citizen also a part of the industrial structures as the MPAA? Would you fight for the rights of the MPAA if they called you to do so? Are you not a patriot if you don't agree with what the MPAA tells you to do? It sounds like you should rethink your stance on who is running your beloved country.
Sidenote: The US militairy troops in e.g. Germany have no authority outside the borders of their camps, also not over the German military. Also, in many cases the assistence of the US government is not very much welcomed, ask all the happy Iraquese whose country is now a big load of junk, with no outsight at all on a stable government. Actually, that is where the US calls in the help of the rest in the world, because creating stability doesn't seem to be on the list of competences of the US.
And 12 billion $ of that money, in actual paper bills weighing 360 tons was completely lost in the distant land you implied. Propably just burning these bills would give enough power to launch a sattelite.
P.s. The article linked to here is the first I found and seems pretty biased, please find a better source for yourself.
If I follow the wikilink, most of the "information" there seems to come from an epside from 1989. Apart from the sad thing that some people actually treat these data as real, the fun thing is that apparently the scriptwriters who made up these fictional data did a pretty good job to make up computer specifications that would still be out of reach for normal PCs 20 years later.
Yes indeed, and we're screwed even more because advertisers want their material spread to as many people as possible, without asking money to view it. Say, Google has advertisers as costumers, and they earn their money by intermediating for their advertisers: google's job is to show the advertisements to as many viewers as possible. Fortunately for us, they have to do this by giving better search results / e-mail services than the competition. So in a way, this still works in our advantage
In the case of Microsoft/Movie industry, the Movie industry is not really an 'advertizer'. They probably(?) pays Microsoft to deliver them the most DRM-laden format they can think of, to be able to spread their content whilst getting as much revenue for it as possible. (aka: if you need to buy the same movie twice because your PC needed to be reinstalled and the DRM was locked to the previous install, all the better).
Still, as a user you have to choice to not watch the crap they call copyrighted entertainment. Use it.
And the best thing, in-message pictures from unknown senders can be hidden, which already helps you identifying those new picture-message spam messages.
If Sun wants its market back, they should have photorealistic 3D graphics, real time, robotics control, neural network security system, files presented as memory mapped data structures of type-specific format... There are opportunities, market and technologies that are still left for $1M price tag of high end Sun servers or Cray supercomputers.
I never bought a dell in my life, but I'm really amazed at this:
You bought these via a corporate account? So these were not normal costumer pcs? Then it's really bad, they just annoy their biggest costumers like hell. They know that any corporation will not even use AOL or 30-day symantec trials. Which system admin will keep on buying corporate amounts of dells if he has to work many extra hours to remove the software they put on there. Actually, this will make dells much more expensive if you calculate these admin working hours into the total cost of ownership. Also, they miss out on the smarter idea to bundle larger orders of dells with corporate antivirus contracts. They probably could make shitloads of money if they did that.
I hope this new algorithm will make that individual delisting unnecessary. I never really got the point, if you'd search for BMW dealers, you'd actually end up at the BMW website, which is what you probably wanted anyway. Also the delisting makes google seem some sort of online police, although they have no basis to do this, and I won't trust them to it.
The power they do have is to create an algorithm that gives me back the kind of pages I was looking for. I will then use google and therefore look at their ads.
Nice theory, but it doesn't seem to hold up in practice. Truth is, secondlife is just run and supported by a single company. As soon as the company gets bankrupt, everything is gone. Even the skills you got in creating new stuff in secondlife will be useless. I sure hope that you in your first life are not dependent on one single company!
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Propably these were the people from GM that were forced to drive a Pontiac Aztek to compensate for bad sales, and after 5 years did everything they could to buy a car that was reasonable in all ways thinkable :)
This is why in some/most european countries there is such a thing as area planning. Even if you buy larges pieces of ground by yourself, what you do with it still has to comply with the destination for this area planned by the (local) government. Now in practice this is also a fight against big money, and often lost to the latter. One tactic is to start building before the decision of the govenrment is made, and by the time they have voted against it it is already built, and breaking it down doesn't make sense. But still it can be used to make sure that a new housing area actually has a real city center, contains a pleasant ratio of houses/(small) shops/offices. I think that is the best way, not everyone wants to live in the city, so areas with one family houses are needed, but instead of creating a suburb it is much nicer to create a small urban area that has all services at hand.
Furhtermore, MS patents that do not have prior art can be identified and one can find ways to circumvent those in OS code. This will preactively determine which OS code is safe, or to which level the code is safe, way before any hypothetical case by MS is started, and enlarge trust in its applicability in a commercial environment.
I have an additional question: is this a problem in europe? They still don't have software patents here, as far as I know...
In fact, this did happen in Britain, but not until quite some time later on, I think you can more or less guess the start of this period by searching for the screening dates of the first channel 4 documentaries about these inhabitants.
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>I just set up a custom search that works in the main address bar. g searches google, w search wikipedia, imdb searchs imbd. you mean you just installed Opera?
Actually, the majority of 'democratic' states do not permit carrying guns for civilians, and do very fine with it without 'degrading' into communism or whatever it is one can be afraid for. Example: There is probably not a single university in Europe with its own police force. I've visited several and at no point I was lacking this or feeling insecure. In the US, with about the same amount of universities, there are most probably more gun incidents there than in Europe, even though most US universities have their own police department. It's just a matter of statistics. At some point, people will get drunk and more violent. If they didn't have a gun they might beat someone up which is bad enough, but if they would coincidentally carry a gun with them, the story of some of the people will be over in a hitch. I really feel safer without a gun, and knowing that the people around me that carry guns are way in the minority.
But, what wonders me mostly, the state meddles in your complete private life, there are Patriot acts that allow them to tap your phonecalls, read your e-mails, etc. without you knowing of it. No gun carrying law will protect you from this. Who would you shoot? The Echelon server? This is apparently not a problem for many US-ians, but having the state meddling in medical insurance or carrying weapons is. Standing up for your rights and freedom is a good thing, but why is the lobby to stand up for your right to health and your freedom of privacy so much smaller or at least less apparent than the lobby for the right to carry guns? I have never been to the US, but this is the image that one gets out here. Please explain to me how this came to be and if it's right or not.
Ah, the genius! But where are modpoints when you need them...
Yes, I think that is what he wanted to say there anyway. Do it before someone else does it. Put in another way, they say that they also know that their patent requests are obvious.
Recently, I 'acquired' a virtual server, one tenth (max. 9 other users) of a 2 Ghz celeron somewhere in a rack in a colocation, for about 10 Euro/month, including a shitload of bandwith. It comes with an image of debian, automated backup, and a special root-login to save the machine in the case that you've messed everything up. Within an hour it can have a working install of debian again. It is great fun! I get to try all the nice things of linux remotely, without even having to buy a machine that can handle it. I think I might buy a laptop as a main pc in some time, but furthermore, why would I need to build PCs with a lot of painful effort (I really lost track on the CPU/rambus/etc coreduo core2duo whateverduo specifications) if I can have so much more fun with so much less money :)
Ah, yes, that's also from the guy from qwantz.com isn't it. I like the idea, but it's fairly new, I wonder how well it's working already. I'd like to use that system, but don't have a site in the cartoon-region, that might make it a bit more difficult to get the right banners, or to use this to place my banners. It will be more useful as it grows and grows, though.
I, as original author of the inflicting post, beg to disagree. As a native Dutch speaker, I used the word 'visum' (which is indeed the only correct word for this in Dutch) and just thought it would be the same in English. So actually, this was not a mistake in usage of Latin, but a mistake in the usage of English. My Latin is also just so-so, but that's a different point.
Therefore, I congratulate poster Petrushka by correctly identifying the source of my mistake :) The interesting thing about this, if I posted anonymously and both of you were in CSI:slashdot, trying to discover the background of the person that posted the inflicting text, you would have thought that it was someone who has no feeling for Latin, while slashdotter Petrushka would've consider someone who was originally Dutch. The Jerry Springer final word is therefore: Sometimes it's better to look at things from a wider angle without going too deep into the matter, than just trying to fixate on the absolute correctness of one small point.
Also, Canada will get a lot less tourists this way, did they ever think of that? I hope they get reasonable soon, and that other countries won't follow these ridiculous standards, otherwise we'll got a world-wide sovjet state as far as freedom of movement is involved.
Furthermore, responsible speeding is the kind of thing that is stimulated in Germany. When you have the space and the condition of the road is good enough, do your 150 mph thing, but speed next to a construction site and you get your speeding ticket at a double fee. And it works, apparently, not more accidents here than in the neighbouring countries that do have speed limits. The current focus of the law enforcement is on 'draengler', the people who drive up too closely behind the person driving in front, because actions like that have much more effect on accidents than just plain speeding.
Sidenote: The US militairy troops in e.g. Germany have no authority outside the borders of their camps, also not over the German military. Also, in many cases the assistence of the US government is not very much welcomed, ask all the happy Iraquese whose country is now a big load of junk, with no outsight at all on a stable government. Actually, that is where the US calls in the help of the rest in the world, because creating stability doesn't seem to be on the list of competences of the US.
you win the shell award :D
P.s. The article linked to here is the first I found and seems pretty biased, please find a better source for yourself.
Or better, try it out for yourself here. (I don't give the direct link to the telnet star wars server, don't want the poor guy to get slashdotted).
If I follow the wikilink, most of the "information" there seems to come from an epside from 1989. Apart from the sad thing that some people actually treat these data as real, the fun thing is that apparently the scriptwriters who made up these fictional data did a pretty good job to make up computer specifications that would still be out of reach for normal PCs 20 years later.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30352
In the case of Microsoft/Movie industry, the Movie industry is not really an 'advertizer'. They probably(?) pays Microsoft to deliver them the most DRM-laden format they can think of, to be able to spread their content whilst getting as much revenue for it as possible. (aka: if you need to buy the same movie twice because your PC needed to be reinstalled and the DRM was locked to the previous install, all the better).
Still, as a user you have to choice to not watch the crap they call copyrighted entertainment. Use it.
And the best thing, in-message pictures from unknown senders can be hidden, which already helps you identifying those new picture-message spam messages.
It sounds like you are a manager yourself...
You bought these via a corporate account? So these were not normal costumer pcs? Then it's really bad, they just annoy their biggest costumers like hell. They know that any corporation will not even use AOL or 30-day symantec trials. Which system admin will keep on buying corporate amounts of dells if he has to work many extra hours to remove the software they put on there. Actually, this will make dells much more expensive if you calculate these admin working hours into the total cost of ownership. Also, they miss out on the smarter idea to bundle larger orders of dells with corporate antivirus contracts. They probably could make shitloads of money if they did that.
The power they do have is to create an algorithm that gives me back the kind of pages I was looking for. I will then use google and therefore look at their ads.
Nice theory, but it doesn't seem to hold up in practice. Truth is, secondlife is just run and supported by a single company. As soon as the company gets bankrupt, everything is gone. Even the skills you got in creating new stuff in secondlife will be useless. I sure hope that you in your first life are not dependent on one single company!