Not at all. They are replacing it with technology locked into Verizon. With copper, other companies could lease the lines from the line owner. Not so with fiber. It would be one thing if Verizon were using wholly private land for their fiber, but they are putting it on public easements and public property with public infrastructure-improvement subsidies. They should serve the public first -- which means allowing competitors to use the equipment that they install on public land.
If you want a deregulated, private network -- buy your own land to lay your own lines using only your own money. Verizon is doing none of those things.
15-64 years: 78.5% (male 2,558,029/female 932,617) note: 73.9% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2007 est.)
Read further down and you will also see that 50% of the foreign population are from South Asia. Read that as cheap imported South Asian labor. Men only. So part of the gender gap is entirely artificial in UAE's efforts to diversify away from oil in their grand construction and infrastructure development.
Their birth rates are closer to the western medians, much more so than other Middle Eastern countries.
Not if you cross out those sections of the contract. I did that with my current Cingular contract and the idiot at the counter has no idea what I had crossed out -- and didn't care. I did the same thing with my apartment lease, car loan, etc. Forced arbitration is NEVER in the consumer's best interest.
(Just make sure you keep copies of the documents.)
Likely not fixable. It wasn't designed to be a long-lived satellite. It was a quick "get these instruments into space" satellite. The replacement, now delayed to 2016, was supposed to be the more robust, advanced replacement.
No. It is part of the checks and balances on the Judicial and Legislative branch (Legislative because if he wanted to, the President could pardon everyone convicted of a law he felt ran contrary to the country). He is supposed to show restraint in using the power and use it only when it does not weaken laws unnecessarily.
Of course, since President Bush doesn't seem to follow much for precedent in other areas, it comes as no surprise he commuted the sentence.
Personally, I don't care about Libby. I'm more concerned that he has weakened the force that testifying to Congress should hold. Testifying to Congress should be a big deal. Obstructing them should be a big deal. He not only lied to Congress, he lied to the country our Congressmen represent.
The more bad press you give us, the more ammunition bands have to never sign with you in the first place. Keep it up, you're doing a better job at killing yourselves than we music lovers could ever do!
The problem exists on any NT-based system, actually. What is happening is that when the installer runs, it is running with Administrator credentials. The retarded, non-user account aware installer installs the icon in the "All Users" desktop. You, a non-administrator, cannot remove it from your desktop because you can use the "All Users" desktop, but cannot alter it. The failing silently thing can also happen on 2000/XP, albeit rarely. Sometimes the "Permission Denied" box can take many minutes to display for apparently no reason at all, particularly on some computers with strange software installed (I've noticed many similar failures when the Dell support tools are installed).
Of course, the solution is blindingly simple. If an icon is on the "All Users" desktop, and you delete it, it simply marks it deleted for *your copy* of the desktop. If you rename it, it's the same icon.. just renamed on your desktop. If an administrator wants to delete it, give them another context menu option, or let them delete it from the actual "All Users\Desktop" folder.
Arguments in terms of Active Directory/Domains are moot--you could simply administer that right via group policies to prevent users from renaming, for example, the icon for Outlook.
If the rich don't spend any money, sure, they get a break. But what rich person doesn't spend a lot of money? Sure, they save a lot of money (that's how a lot of them get rich), but they also spend a lot of money.
Remember, savings help the economy, too. Savings are reinvested in economic growth.
FairTax does target some individuals aggressively, sure. But so does our tax system now. Pardon me if I weep for a handful of wealthy people that don't pay any tax now that suddenly will have to pay taxes.
I'd probably pay more in FairTax than I would under Income Taxes, yet I still support FairTax. With FairTax, I can directly control my taxation through spending. Politicians will be unable to alter the taxation rate without it being highly visible. If the tax rate went from 23% to 24%, EVERYONE would see it on EVERY receipt. Right now they can hide tax increases in all sorts of places while simultaneously throwing money back as "tax refunds".
Luckily, FairTax would abolish the idea of taxing virtual economies altogether, at least from what I've read and understand. Only services and first-hand goods are taxed, used items are not. Since you never purchased the virtual items to begin with, there is nothing to tax.
One small question arises from companies like Sony and SecondLife that sell virtual goods. Obviousy your monthly access fee would be taxed (recall that under FairTax, income is not taxed, only spending, so it's simply moving your tax due to your spending instead of income).
I don't even check if they've graduated unless they make a big deal out of it, then I check it just to make sure they aren't overcompensating for being a liar. For me, the interview is much more definitive than some words on you resume. As s small company, we value workaholics more than those that sail through a degree. I'd rather hire someone who had to work every day of their college years and manage to pull straight C's than someone who didn't work and pulled straight A's.
But YMMV according to the types of companies you want to work for -- or help create.
Larger companies tend to get you stuck in a singular or very small set of roles. Small companies tend to give you a wide variety of job duties, albeit with longer hours. For instance, the other day I got to design business cards. Show me a big company where an IT guy gets to design business cards? Sure as hell was a nice break from programming.
He didn't say take the hover out of websites. Just make it non-essential. For instance, if you have a menu, have them respond to both hover AND click.
And "Ctrl+Touch = hoever" won't work at all. For instance, the touchscreens in my clinics don't have keyboards at all. Requiring multi-touch devices or devices that react on pressure won't work, either, as they are restrictively expensive for many purposes.
And it's not just iPhone users. No touchscreen mobile device supports hovering to my knowledge, including PDAs, smart phones, iPhone, etc. Not to mention that not all users are able to easily hover (keyboard, screen readers, search engines, people with movement disorders/shaking...).
All it requires is a few minutes of planning to ensure all hover operations have an alternative method to them and everyone can be happy.
Part of the issue arises from the fact that much of browser rendering code is ancient. Much of the basic rendering pieces weren't built to handle some of the CSS properties. For instance, many advanced selectors break when you are dynamically adding content or changing/adding stylesheets.
Expect Internet Explorer to lag again unless they completely replace large parts of their HTML rendering engine for standard-compliant sites. There is simply too much legacy code running against the Internet Explorer control, unfortunately.
The ruling doesn't say that e-mail is off limits. All the court said was that there is nothing special about e-mail or phone calls. They are still grounds to be seized, but those wanting the information (FBI, prosecutors, etc) must go through due process to obtain them. If they get a warrant they can seize e-mail all they want.
95 -> 98 -> 2000 -> XP (or NT -> 2000 -> XP) were small, gradual updates in terms of hardware and maintenance. User retraining was trivial for workstation users since they really only interacted with a few programs.
I think Office may be Microsoft's saving grace yet again. A few of my users are on the new 2007 Office and I must say it's a massive improvement in productivity and ease of use over any office suite out there. I had been pushing to replace our Microsoft systems with a free operating system and OpenOffice, but Office 2007 will make that a much harder decision. $800 per workstation (Vista+Office) is nothing if I can get more out of my workers and not have to retrain them on OpenOffice.
I'll still move our servers to Linux, or preferably, BSD. Office 2007 doesn't help me there.:-)
Part of the benefit of hybrids and electrical plug-in vehicles is that they are source-neutral. Any source can feed the grid, and in turn, your vehicle. As new energy sources become viable, your vehicle reliability increases and it becomes easy to phase in and phase out sources depending on economical viability, political environments (wars, etc), disasters, and technological breakthroughs.
Diesel is a great start to help us get there in the meantime.
Cracking WGA is of interest to the greater community if only because of pirates. The more people that are able to patch their Windows machines, the less likely they are to get infected with viruses, which translates to less computers attacking my network.
I think having full "cvs blame" on ALL legislation would be a great start to complete overhaul.
Currently we can see some of the evolution of a bill into law, but much of the direct personal responsibility is masked by committee changes. A lawmaker would be far, far more careful if he knew everyone (media, citizens, etc) could see exactly what changes he made, and when.
The "when" is important, for instance, a change of a bill a day before being voted on should be a major red flag.
Government computers probably come with government spyware (not the annoying kind the rest of the world deals with). When someone discovers it they won't be able to say anything through the government-owned media and will be thrown out of their job and be on government blacklists and be unable to obtain government food rations...
I wonder if they will follow the GPL when they introduce nastiness into the kernel?
Actually, I think the opposite may be true. Currently, it is difficult to target a niche audience because you, as a television channel, have to convince broadcasters to add your content to their lineup. It is a risky venture for cable companies. They don't know if their viewers really want the content.
With a la carte, cable companies have little to risk about adding a channel since they can pay for what their customers use. N subscribers makes them pay $N for the channel.
Channels will have to continually produce content for their viewers, too, or customers will sign up for the months when new content is on and cancel afterward, much like many people do with HBO/Shotime/etc. Of course, this can also bring in a new market sector of channels: those that are only on air for a few months out of the year, reducing operating costs and having a very strong profit for the few months they are on air showing good content.
I don't, however, like this getting tied in with even more indecency laws. Laws and indecency have nothing to do with one another, even for broadcasters. If we allowed anything on air and current statiosn suddenly went apeshit and started swearing about the mother fucking fire on main street that caused the anchor to be late for mother fucking work while blaming it on those shithead firemen a new market sector would instantly appear: the moderated, tame, channels. Especially if we had a la carte.
Please show me this "silent majority" of scientists qualified to make scientific claims about the climate. The dissenting minority is pretty damn vocal and well-funded, by the way.
I wish I could be amazed at how much effort countries and politicians are putting into reducing pollution. Reducing pollution is never bad. Really.
One of the popular claims, for instance, is that curbing pollution will "cost jobs." How, exactly? Do you honestly think businesses will suddenly stop operating because they have to reduce pollution by 1% each year?
And the argument that GDP will suffer is baseless, too. The first country to show substantial gains in pollution reduction will have a sizable lead over other countries in brining those technologies to market in other countries, earning potentially vast profits for their parent organization, and thus the parent country. I'd rather that technology come to fruition in the US, Canada, Japan, Australia, etc than, say, China, wouldn't you?
We use Google Checkout. Under their promotions, retailers have it good for the start, too. The ending rates are great, too, much better than PayPal. The Terms of Service are much more agreeable to both the buyer and seller, particularly for physical goods. I'm not sure how they compare to digital goods, but PayPal isn't very good on that front, either.
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Not at all. They are replacing it with technology locked into Verizon. With copper, other companies could lease the lines from the line owner. Not so with fiber. It would be one thing if Verizon were using wholly private land for their fiber, but they are putting it on public easements and public property with public infrastructure-improvement subsidies. They should serve the public first -- which means allowing competitors to use the equipment that they install on public land.
If you want a deregulated, private network -- buy your own land to lay your own lines using only your own money. Verizon is doing none of those things.
CIA World Factbook:
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15-64 years: 78.5% (male 2,558,029/female 932,617)
note: 73.9% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2007 est.)
Read further down and you will also see that 50% of the foreign population are from South Asia. Read that as cheap imported South Asian labor. Men only. So part of the gender gap is entirely artificial in UAE's efforts to diversify away from oil in their grand construction and infrastructure development.
Their birth rates are closer to the western medians, much more so than other Middle Eastern countries.
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Not if you cross out those sections of the contract. I did that with my current Cingular contract and the idiot at the counter has no idea what I had crossed out -- and didn't care. I did the same thing with my apartment lease, car loan, etc. Forced arbitration is NEVER in the consumer's best interest.
(Just make sure you keep copies of the documents.)
Likely not fixable. It wasn't designed to be a long-lived satellite. It was a quick "get these instruments into space" satellite. The replacement, now delayed to 2016, was supposed to be the more robust, advanced replacement.
Did you miss the part about Godwin being the first legal counsel to the EFF?
No. It is part of the checks and balances on the Judicial and Legislative branch (Legislative because if he wanted to, the President could pardon everyone convicted of a law he felt ran contrary to the country). He is supposed to show restraint in using the power and use it only when it does not weaken laws unnecessarily.
Of course, since President Bush doesn't seem to follow much for precedent in other areas, it comes as no surprise he commuted the sentence.
Personally, I don't care about Libby. I'm more concerned that he has weakened the force that testifying to Congress should hold. Testifying to Congress should be a big deal. Obstructing them should be a big deal. He not only lied to Congress, he lied to the country our Congressmen represent.
I don't know about you, but I prefer real babies for that authentic feel and sound.
The more bad press you give us, the more ammunition bands have to never sign with you in the first place. Keep it up, you're doing a better job at killing yourselves than we music lovers could ever do!
The problem exists on any NT-based system, actually. What is happening is that when the installer runs, it is running with Administrator credentials. The retarded, non-user account aware installer installs the icon in the "All Users" desktop. You, a non-administrator, cannot remove it from your desktop because you can use the "All Users" desktop, but cannot alter it. The failing silently thing can also happen on 2000/XP, albeit rarely. Sometimes the "Permission Denied" box can take many minutes to display for apparently no reason at all, particularly on some computers with strange software installed (I've noticed many similar failures when the Dell support tools are installed).
Of course, the solution is blindingly simple. If an icon is on the "All Users" desktop, and you delete it, it simply marks it deleted for *your copy* of the desktop. If you rename it, it's the same icon.. just renamed on your desktop. If an administrator wants to delete it, give them another context menu option, or let them delete it from the actual "All Users\Desktop" folder.
Arguments in terms of Active Directory/Domains are moot--you could simply administer that right via group policies to prevent users from renaming, for example, the icon for Outlook.
But people do that now, even with most towns having higher trash capacities.
If the rich don't spend any money, sure, they get a break. But what rich person doesn't spend a lot of money? Sure, they save a lot of money (that's how a lot of them get rich), but they also spend a lot of money.
Remember, savings help the economy, too. Savings are reinvested in economic growth.
FairTax does target some individuals aggressively, sure. But so does our tax system now. Pardon me if I weep for a handful of wealthy people that don't pay any tax now that suddenly will have to pay taxes.
I'd probably pay more in FairTax than I would under Income Taxes, yet I still support FairTax. With FairTax, I can directly control my taxation through spending. Politicians will be unable to alter the taxation rate without it being highly visible. If the tax rate went from 23% to 24%, EVERYONE would see it on EVERY receipt. Right now they can hide tax increases in all sorts of places while simultaneously throwing money back as "tax refunds".
Luckily, FairTax would abolish the idea of taxing virtual economies altogether, at least from what I've read and understand. Only services and first-hand goods are taxed, used items are not. Since you never purchased the virtual items to begin with, there is nothing to tax.
One small question arises from companies like Sony and SecondLife that sell virtual goods. Obviousy your monthly access fee would be taxed (recall that under FairTax, income is not taxed, only spending, so it's simply moving your tax due to your spending instead of income).
fairtax.org
I don't even check if they've graduated unless they make a big deal out of it, then I check it just to make sure they aren't overcompensating for being a liar. For me, the interview is much more definitive than some words on you resume. As s small company, we value workaholics more than those that sail through a degree. I'd rather hire someone who had to work every day of their college years and manage to pull straight C's than someone who didn't work and pulled straight A's.
But YMMV according to the types of companies you want to work for -- or help create.
Larger companies tend to get you stuck in a singular or very small set of roles. Small companies tend to give you a wide variety of job duties, albeit with longer hours. For instance, the other day I got to design business cards. Show me a big company where an IT guy gets to design business cards? Sure as hell was a nice break from programming.
I'm guessing if it really is a liquid you could continuously filter it.
He didn't say take the hover out of websites. Just make it non-essential. For instance, if you have a menu, have them respond to both hover AND click.
And "Ctrl+Touch = hoever" won't work at all. For instance, the touchscreens in my clinics don't have keyboards at all. Requiring multi-touch devices or devices that react on pressure won't work, either, as they are restrictively expensive for many purposes.
And it's not just iPhone users. No touchscreen mobile device supports hovering to my knowledge, including PDAs, smart phones, iPhone, etc. Not to mention that not all users are able to easily hover (keyboard, screen readers, search engines, people with movement disorders/shaking...).
All it requires is a few minutes of planning to ensure all hover operations have an alternative method to them and everyone can be happy.
Part of the issue arises from the fact that much of browser rendering code is ancient. Much of the basic rendering pieces weren't built to handle some of the CSS properties. For instance, many advanced selectors break when you are dynamically adding content or changing/adding stylesheets.
Expect Internet Explorer to lag again unless they completely replace large parts of their HTML rendering engine for standard-compliant sites. There is simply too much legacy code running against the Internet Explorer control, unfortunately.
The ruling doesn't say that e-mail is off limits. All the court said was that there is nothing special about e-mail or phone calls. They are still grounds to be seized, but those wanting the information (FBI, prosecutors, etc) must go through due process to obtain them. If they get a warrant they can seize e-mail all they want.
95 -> 98 -> 2000 -> XP (or NT -> 2000 -> XP) were small, gradual updates in terms of hardware and maintenance. User retraining was trivial for workstation users since they really only interacted with a few programs.
:-)
I think Office may be Microsoft's saving grace yet again. A few of my users are on the new 2007 Office and I must say it's a massive improvement in productivity and ease of use over any office suite out there. I had been pushing to replace our Microsoft systems with a free operating system and OpenOffice, but Office 2007 will make that a much harder decision. $800 per workstation (Vista+Office) is nothing if I can get more out of my workers and not have to retrain them on OpenOffice.
I'll still move our servers to Linux, or preferably, BSD. Office 2007 doesn't help me there.
Part of the benefit of hybrids and electrical plug-in vehicles is that they are source-neutral. Any source can feed the grid, and in turn, your vehicle. As new energy sources become viable, your vehicle reliability increases and it becomes easy to phase in and phase out sources depending on economical viability, political environments (wars, etc), disasters, and technological breakthroughs.
Diesel is a great start to help us get there in the meantime.
Cracking WGA is of interest to the greater community if only because of pirates. The more people that are able to patch their Windows machines, the less likely they are to get infected with viruses, which translates to less computers attacking my network.
I think having full "cvs blame" on ALL legislation would be a great start to complete overhaul.
Currently we can see some of the evolution of a bill into law, but much of the direct personal responsibility is masked by committee changes. A lawmaker would be far, far more careful if he knew everyone (media, citizens, etc) could see exactly what changes he made, and when.
The "when" is important, for instance, a change of a bill a day before being voted on should be a major red flag.
Government computers probably come with government spyware (not the annoying kind the rest of the world deals with). When someone discovers it they won't be able to say anything through the government-owned media and will be thrown out of their job and be on government blacklists and be unable to obtain government food rations...
I wonder if they will follow the GPL when they introduce nastiness into the kernel?
Actually, I think the opposite may be true. Currently, it is difficult to target a niche audience because you, as a television channel, have to convince broadcasters to add your content to their lineup. It is a risky venture for cable companies. They don't know if their viewers really want the content.
With a la carte, cable companies have little to risk about adding a channel since they can pay for what their customers use. N subscribers makes them pay $N for the channel.
Channels will have to continually produce content for their viewers, too, or customers will sign up for the months when new content is on and cancel afterward, much like many people do with HBO/Shotime/etc. Of course, this can also bring in a new market sector of channels: those that are only on air for a few months out of the year, reducing operating costs and having a very strong profit for the few months they are on air showing good content.
I don't, however, like this getting tied in with even more indecency laws. Laws and indecency have nothing to do with one another, even for broadcasters. If we allowed anything on air and current statiosn suddenly went apeshit and started swearing about the mother fucking fire on main street that caused the anchor to be late for mother fucking work while blaming it on those shithead firemen a new market sector would instantly appear: the moderated, tame, channels. Especially if we had a la carte.
Please show me this "silent majority" of scientists qualified to make scientific claims about the climate. The dissenting minority is pretty damn vocal and well-funded, by the way.
I wish I could be amazed at how much effort countries and politicians are putting into reducing pollution. Reducing pollution is never bad. Really.
One of the popular claims, for instance, is that curbing pollution will "cost jobs." How, exactly? Do you honestly think businesses will suddenly stop operating because they have to reduce pollution by 1% each year?
And the argument that GDP will suffer is baseless, too. The first country to show substantial gains in pollution reduction will have a sizable lead over other countries in brining those technologies to market in other countries, earning potentially vast profits for their parent organization, and thus the parent country. I'd rather that technology come to fruition in the US, Canada, Japan, Australia, etc than, say, China, wouldn't you?
We use Google Checkout. Under their promotions, retailers have it good for the start, too. The ending rates are great, too, much better than PayPal. The Terms of Service are much more agreeable to both the buyer and seller, particularly for physical goods. I'm not sure how they compare to digital goods, but PayPal isn't very good on that front, either.