Trust me, mentioning anything about "track record" is absolutely the last thing the current British government wants to do, especially when it comes to IT systems.
Sigh. I know it's waaay too much to ask, but if you actually read his blog post it's not a plan at all - just some ideas that he's throwing around. The headline in TFA (and thence TFS) is misleading.
Though the Xbox doesn't have the number one market share, it is the top target for hackers
But MS have been telling us for decades that the reason so many viruses are written to target Windows is that it is the number one OS in market share. So that quote from the summary can't be right.
I've got news for you, your culture has already vanished. Some chopper has already decided that it's a good idea to remake Edge of Darkness. Clearly nothing is sacred and everything is up for grabs by the almighty dollar.
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle applies at the quantum level and its effect becomes more pronounced as the sizes of the objects and systems decrease. However, this alone imposes no limit on observability.
Put simply, the principle states that the more precisely you know the position of a particle the less precisely you can know its momentum (and therefore velocity). At the quantum level the observation necessarily perturbs the system being observed.
I think alukin has the key point here (for me, at any rate).
Mobile phones are very handy for making phone calls, but when you go beyond that what I would really like is a device that fits in my pocket with a decent battery life that I can use with OpenVPN/OpenSSH so I can actually do productive stuff when I'm stuck in (relatively) the middle of nowhere.
If this phone (or any other) can do that at a reasonable price then, yes, I'm definitely interested.
Of course Britain doesn't have a constitution - it isn't a country. Fortunately the United Kingdom (which is a country) very much does have a constitution. If it did not, there'd be anarchy after all and we would have bigger fish to fry than the EU.
If the new standard is guilty until proven innocent, we are all fucked.
I see you are familiar with the current state of affairs in Brown's Britain. The RIP act is perhaps the most insidious piece of legislation enacted by this government (and that is up against some stiff competition, by the way) and it is only the thought that we will be kicking these bastards well and truly out in 10 months' time that prevents me from emigrating today.
The worst offenders go in my hosts file, but they are not null-routed. Instead they go to 132.147.63.12 so not only do I not see their irritating ads, but I contribute just a fraction to the demise of our favourite hate figure by costing them a little bandwidth every day.
Tax avoidance is the task of structuring one's affars to pay less tax than would otherwise be due. Therefore, anyone with a pension is "guilty" of tax avoidance (for example).
What Google have done is to structure their affairs so that the bulk of the tax which they pay is due in a regime with less punitive taxation. It's a global marketplace, so more power to them for that.
It's also worth pointing out for the non-UK readership that the British system of taxation is so labyrinthine and obfuscated that it makes Vista look like a well-designed, efficient, sleek system. Half the GDP seems to go to HMRC to enforce this crock of a system while the other half goes to expensive accountants to help folks (both ordinary and extraordinary) navigate it. If the government of the day really wanted to help us out of the mess they have got us into, they would simplify taxation rather than enacting more legislation to further overcomplicate it.
Don't worry, you won't have to use complicated metric units like, say, Watts for power. Instead you can use the much simpler kilowatthourperannum as mentioned in TFS.
TFA points out that this is telephone banking. Really, read TFAs once in a while and don't rely on summaries approved by editors who cannot spell a word as simple as Lloyds.
After all, why would you produce something that would sell a million units when, for the same engineering effort, you could sell 100 million? The argument is not about the engineering effort, IMHO, because that effort has already been spent on these gadgets - they are already mass produced and for sale to the general public - just in a different country. The effort required to sell them in a new country is simply that of rejigging the marketing and translating the instruction manuals. I'm sure if a corporation thought that they could shift a million units by just translating the manual and pushing some ads, they'd do so.
Internet Explorer as a whole now has a reputation for being buggy and insecure I have to say that I am not aware of any time when it did not have (or even warrant) such a reputation.
Ah, but that is entirely the fault of said electicity companies billing their customers in such ridiculous units. Why use the unwieldy kilowatt-hours when you could bill them in megajoules, eh?
It's interesting to note that despite all the coverage SCO has had on/. over the past year, their own news page seems to indicate that nothing of note has happened to the company since October 2006.
Slashdot Mirror
25 years too late. Oh well, better late than never.
Apparently not: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com
Presumably that should be 1e100.net? And presumably it isn't actually "rerouting" anything. Hmmm.
Trust me, mentioning anything about "track record" is absolutely the last thing the current British government wants to do, especially when it comes to IT systems.
Unfortunately the British government has already phased out gold. :-(
Sigh. I know it's waaay too much to ask, but if you actually read his blog post it's not a plan at all - just some ideas that he's throwing around. The headline in TFA (and thence TFS) is misleading.
Though the Xbox doesn't have the number one market share, it is the top target for hackers
But MS have been telling us for decades that the reason so many viruses are written to target Windows is that it is the number one OS in market share. So that quote from the summary can't be right.
Can it?
I've got news for you, your culture has already vanished. Some chopper has already decided that it's a good idea to remake Edge of Darkness. Clearly nothing is sacred and everything is up for grabs by the almighty dollar.
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle applies at the quantum level and its effect becomes more pronounced as the sizes of the objects and systems decrease. However, this alone imposes no limit on observability.
Put simply, the principle states that the more precisely you know the position of a particle the less precisely you can know its momentum (and therefore velocity). At the quantum level the observation necessarily perturbs the system being observed.
This was a scanning probe microscope, and the tip of the probe was a single carbon monoxide atom.
Er, no. It may have been a single carbon monoxide molecule, however.
Mobile phones are very handy for making phone calls, but when you go beyond that what I would really like is a device that fits in my pocket with a decent battery life that I can use with OpenVPN/OpenSSH so I can actually do productive stuff when I'm stuck in (relatively) the middle of nowhere.
If this phone (or any other) can do that at a reasonable price then, yes, I'm definitely interested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kingdom
Of course Britain doesn't have a constitution - it isn't a country. Fortunately the United Kingdom (which is a country) very much does have a constitution. If it did not, there'd be anarchy after all and we would have bigger fish to fry than the EU.
If the new standard is guilty until proven innocent, we are all fucked.
I see you are familiar with the current state of affairs in Brown's Britain. The RIP act is perhaps the most insidious piece of legislation enacted by this government (and that is up against some stiff competition, by the way) and it is only the thought that we will be kicking these bastards well and truly out in 10 months' time that prevents me from emigrating today.
The worst offenders go in my hosts file, but they are not null-routed. Instead they go to 132.147.63.12 so not only do I not see their irritating ads, but I contribute just a fraction to the demise of our favourite hate figure by costing them a little bandwidth every day.
Just to clarify, tax avoidance != tax evasion.
Tax avoidance is the task of structuring one's affars to pay less tax than would otherwise be due. Therefore, anyone with a pension is "guilty" of tax avoidance (for example).
What Google have done is to structure their affairs so that the bulk of the tax which they pay is due in a regime with less punitive taxation. It's a global marketplace, so more power to them for that.
It's also worth pointing out for the non-UK readership that the British system of taxation is so labyrinthine and obfuscated that it makes Vista look like a well-designed, efficient, sleek system. Half the GDP seems to go to HMRC to enforce this crock of a system while the other half goes to expensive accountants to help folks (both ordinary and extraordinary) navigate it. If the government of the day really wanted to help us out of the mess they have got us into, they would simplify taxation rather than enacting more legislation to further overcomplicate it.
Don't worry - there's only 13 more months to go.
Don't worry, you won't have to use complicated metric units like, say, Watts for power. Instead you can use the much simpler kilowatthourperannum as mentioned in TFS.
TFA points out that this is telephone banking. Really, read TFAs once in a while and don't rely on summaries approved by editors who cannot spell a word as simple as Lloyds.
This assertion is confirmed by the BBC.
Sure you can. Read the GPL sometime.
Using Paypal to support an individual's crusade against poor customer service and corporate indifference? You, sir, owe me a brand new irony detector!
Ah, but that is entirely the fault of said electicity companies billing their customers in such ridiculous units. Why use the unwieldy kilowatt-hours when you could bill them in megajoules, eh?
It's interesting to note that despite all the coverage SCO has had on /. over the past year, their own news page seems to indicate that nothing of note has happened to the company since October 2006.
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I wonder why that would be