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Yeah, right.. European army.
This is a fallacy, not one single power in Europe has agreed to such a thing and it's doubtful they ever will. At most you're looking at closer military cooperation in the future akin to NATO, however for the most part all the cooperation pieces are in place.
Pretty much every single European nation balks at the idea of a European army, there are so many barriers and nightmares as to make it next to impossible.
First you've got the basic language barrier, then you've got the equipment barrier. You may think that everybody in western europe has standardised on certain types of ammunition but think again, as an example standard 5.56mm bullets for the British SA-80 (L85A2) actually cause jamming problems, so much so that the SA-80 now using its own type of 5.56mm ammunition.
You've also got vehicles and national pride issues, everybody is going to want to use their tanks or their APC's for the European army. So, again you'll have people bickering over which percentage of a nations make of tank is used rather than the best one for the job, you'll also have the issues of ammunition again. Western European tanks use 120mm rounds, East European tanks use 125mm rounds adding to logistical headaches.
It goes on and on, it's safe to say there will never be a European army. The closest we'll ever see is something akin to NATO and a rapid reaction force.
If you're using windows (2000/XP Professional), right click on the directory you want to use encryption. Then select Properties, on the general tab click on Advanced and tick Encrypt contents to secure data.
There you go, transparent encrypted directory.
Also, Truecrypt is capable of encrypting stuff too.
I bet spandisk saved your butt plenty of times, did with me.. mp3's downloaded on the colleges 4mbit+ (shared with a university, not sure how fast it was.. but I often got files at 400+KB/sec) line, no cd writer (they were large expensive things at the time) so.. it was pkzip, pkunzip and the spandisk option.. I think local computer stores were making a small fortune with the amount of floppy disks being bought.:)
For me, the reason why I don't use Opera is simply extensions.
From what I can see Firefox has a lot more extensions and they're easier to use.
For example, in Firefox the adblock extension.. I can rightclick on an item I want blocked or simply click the Adblock button and set a wildcard.
In Opera Adblock is a bit of a fudge in that you have to fart about pointing Opera to a CSS file that is updated by a program etc.
It's a case of the extensions that are keeping me on Firefox, they're simply superb.
If Opera had a proper plugin/addon feature like extensions (plus an extensions site) then i'd more than likely be using Opera, it is faster and does have a lighter memory load.
This is like asking which people prefer more vi or emacs, or Captain Picard vs. Captain Kirk.
Expect all the real nerd freaks to come out of the woodwork for a nerd factor of 9.7 on the nerdoscale.
They're probably just attention seekers hoping to get a bit of free publicity, they'll drop their case after a short while most likely.
If I were in the position of Google i'd make an example out of them, sue them for tortious interference or somesuch (IANAL). To prevent this kind of thing happening in the future.
I don't think the Geneva convention includes energy weapons, it dates back to pre-world war 2 I believe.
You may be thinking about weapons in space, if I remember correctly the USA and Russia agreed not to militarise space, which essentially meant no orbitting satellites with either lasers on them or nuclear missiles. (it may have taken kinetic weapons into account too, i'm not sure on that)
If I were Microsoft or one of the companies who use MS in some form (for example audio format like WMA), then i'd probably be shitting (pardon my french) bricks.
Pairing up the worlds most popular music service with the worlds most popular search engine is definitely a clever move by both parties, it can only serve to improve their customer bases. A symbiotic relationship if you will.
The thing everyone needs to remember is that slashdot is akin to Norman Bates, a lot of them are confused, a lot of them crossdress and are very often psychotic.
So, the next time you see a dupe.. remember, be quiet.. or you could be murdered by a crossdressing psychopath.
There are a few commercial apps that give you the always ontop for windows, also the nvidia drivers offer an app too which gives you said functionality.
For a good free (and small) application see Powermenu.
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Yeah, right.. European army.
This is a fallacy, not one single power in Europe has agreed to such a thing and it's doubtful they ever will. At most you're looking at closer military cooperation in the future akin to NATO, however for the most part all the cooperation pieces are in place.
Pretty much every single European nation balks at the idea of a European army, there are so many barriers and nightmares as to make it next to impossible.
First you've got the basic language barrier, then you've got the equipment barrier. You may think that everybody in western europe has standardised on certain types of ammunition but think again, as an example standard 5.56mm bullets for the British SA-80 (L85A2) actually cause jamming problems, so much so that the SA-80 now using its own type of 5.56mm ammunition.
You've also got vehicles and national pride issues, everybody is going to want to use their tanks or their APC's for the European army. So, again you'll have people bickering over which percentage of a nations make of tank is used rather than the best one for the job, you'll also have the issues of ammunition again. Western European tanks use 120mm rounds, East European tanks use 125mm rounds adding to logistical headaches.
It goes on and on, it's safe to say there will never be a European army. The closest we'll ever see is something akin to NATO and a rapid reaction force.
Creative... at making porn!
Won't somebody think of the children!!
Ohm...
All hail three digit user!
Bows down before your lordship.
Not to be a spelling nazi or anything, but the subject title..
I'm pretty sure "Balmer" is spelled "Ballmer".
In other news, it has been announced that Steve Ballmer has changed his name Tony Montana.
If you're using windows (2000/XP Professional), right click on the directory you want to use encryption. Then select Properties, on the general tab click on Advanced and tick Encrypt contents to secure data.
There you go, transparent encrypted directory.
Also, Truecrypt is capable of encrypting stuff too.
I think Arthur C. Clarke was the first to postulate the idea of satellites.
I bet spandisk saved your butt plenty of times, did with me.. mp3's downloaded on the colleges 4mbit+ (shared with a university, not sure how fast it was.. but I often got files at 400+KB/sec) line, no cd writer (they were large expensive things at the time) so.. it was pkzip, pkunzip and the spandisk option.. I think local computer stores were making a small fortune with the amount of floppy disks being bought. :)
As the great Elzar would say:
Bam!
For me, the reason why I don't use Opera is simply extensions.
From what I can see Firefox has a lot more extensions and they're easier to use.
For example, in Firefox the adblock extension.. I can rightclick on an item I want blocked or simply click the Adblock button and set a wildcard.
In Opera Adblock is a bit of a fudge in that you have to fart about pointing Opera to a CSS file that is updated by a program etc.
It's a case of the extensions that are keeping me on Firefox, they're simply superb.
If Opera had a proper plugin/addon feature like extensions (plus an extensions site) then i'd more than likely be using Opera, it is faster and does have a lighter memory load.
This is like asking which people prefer more vi or emacs, or Captain Picard vs. Captain Kirk.
Expect all the real nerd freaks to come out of the woodwork for a nerd factor of 9.7 on the nerdoscale.
Great way for the labels and Apple to discourage people from using legal methods for downloading music.
Desktop linux will break out next year!
Just like the year before that and the year before that, hang on.. i'm noticing a trend.. next year is always the year of desktop linux..
The Benny Hill Show was on ITV, not the BBC.
They're probably just attention seekers hoping to get a bit of free publicity, they'll drop their case after a short while most likely.
If I were in the position of Google i'd make an example out of them, sue them for tortious interference or somesuch (IANAL). To prevent this kind of thing happening in the future.
I don't think the Geneva convention includes energy weapons, it dates back to pre-world war 2 I believe.
You may be thinking about weapons in space, if I remember correctly the USA and Russia agreed not to militarise space, which essentially meant no orbitting satellites with either lasers on them or nuclear missiles. (it may have taken kinetic weapons into account too, i'm not sure on that)
Amiga is life, don't you dare act all superior!
We may lack hardware support, modern operating system features, people liking us but at least we have... hmm, at least we have...
So, remember! Amiga OS is better in every conceivable way!
I don't know, motiom blur seems a bit of a fad.
:)
All the games i've played which use it, I do not find to my liking. (the motion blur)
And if you want motion blur get a TFT with a 25ms response rate.
But Firefox would be behind IE by two versions!
And Microsoft would be spooked and up their version number to 2005, making IE 2000 versions ahead of Firefox!
How could Firefox ever keep up?!
This is a sad truth, a lot of MS programs ignore the "Program Access and defaults" and simply launch IE instead of the default browser.
Some companies also sadly do the same too, such as Valves (godawful) Steam.
Hold on, there are quantum tv's out now?
How do you watch it without changing what is on it?
Now all they need to do is make a psp emulator for windows and the cycle shall be complete.
Emulate x86 on a psp running windows and then emulate a psp on it and so on!
Although it may cause one of those universe destroying events.
Perhaps Cthulu will rise by running them recursively.
If I were Microsoft or one of the companies who use MS in some form (for example audio format like WMA), then i'd probably be shitting (pardon my french) bricks.
Pairing up the worlds most popular music service with the worlds most popular search engine is definitely a clever move by both parties, it can only serve to improve their customer bases. A symbiotic relationship if you will.
The thing everyone needs to remember is that slashdot is akin to Norman Bates, a lot of them are confused, a lot of them crossdress and are very often psychotic.
So, the next time you see a dupe.. remember, be quiet.. or you could be murdered by a crossdressing psychopath.
There are a few commercial apps that give you the always ontop for windows, also the nvidia drivers offer an app too which gives you said functionality.
For a good free (and small) application see Powermenu.