Yeah... but Unity didn't turn out to be such a big deal in the end. Just add "sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback" to all the other cryptic commands in a typical Linux installation and customisation.
Perhaps there is some Windows equivalent to get back to an old interface, most likely done using the Microsoft unique user-friendly method of entering hex digits into the registry editor.
Yes, Project Gutenberg goes to a lot of trouble to proof read their texts. I don't understand why people would look anywhere else for the likes of War and Peace, given that the Gutenberg version is free.
I've never seen porn on Wikipedia, because I've never looked for it. The fact that the porn is more highly accessed than other types of content indicates that we're not talking about accidental encounters. I don't see what the problem is.
Neither have I. Which is strange, since I've found vandalised articles on occasions and you'd expect Wikipedia vandals to have a lot of fun adding Wikipedia's own porn images to random articles. I guess they just have no imagination *shrug*
It doesn't seem ridiculous to me. I owned my last car about 20 years ago. In the rare event that I need one, I'll rent it, typically for a trip to a different town or a van to move stuff. I've saved a fortune in the last 20 years, and avoided no end of car-related hassle.
The US is the only country I know of that taxes its citizens even if they live outside the US. Citizens of other countries don't need to renounce their citizenship to escape taxes, they simply liquidate their assets and move to a tax haven.
Also, it's hard to be sure what is legal and what is not. There is too much legislation to ever bother to read, and if you did read it you may not interpret it the same way as the courts.
Yeah, don't lock it down. Let the patients use it for random web browsing if they aren't interested in your videos. Waiting rooms can be extremely boring and not everybody has mobile net access.
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It's also possible that numerous civilisations with a similar level of technology to ours exist, but it's simply impossible in practice to "colonise the galazy". Inter-stellar travel may simply require too much energy/resources, or it may turn out to be infeasible to survive in space for long enough for anybody to reach another star.
There's no way the US government will meet all the payments that it has promised. It simply doesn't have the income, nor can it borrow forever. Sure, it has wasted a lot on wars, bailing out banks, and an out of control medical system, but that can't be turned back. Either they will change the rules and not pay it, or they will let inflation get out of control and pay in devalued dollars.
Agreed. The Microsoft page basically amounts to "blah blah Windows blah blah Windows blah Windows Windows Windows." Yes Microsoft, we know you care about Windows. Perhaps when you discuss solutions to the problem of video on open source operating systems, you will write something worth reading.
One of my engineering professors worked on something like this in the 90s, when I asked him why we never saw anything like this come into use he said that they knew that the first time anyone was killed in an accident involving one of the automated vehicles the entire project would be dead. Regardless of if it was from something like a blowout causing a computer driven car to swerve into the other lane, or some drunk ramming headlong into a "platoon" of cars.
Even if it is much safer, the lawyers will be salivating while they wait for the first death.
Couldn't the same argument could be used to prove that nobody would ever drive a car manually? They'd be opening themselves up to lawsuits if they crashed. Occasional crashes are apparently the price we are willing to pay to travel faster, and if the automated cars have fewer crashes there's still a price to pay, but it's lower.
The tax pack software runs fine under wine. I know, I know, we shouldn't have to use wine. But you can. Funnily enough, I only got the idea after the tax department website said (paraphrasing here) "eh, try running it under wine stupid".
No thanks, I'm not going to run the thing under Wine unless they have properly tested it and support it. It's not *that* hard to install Linux and Wine, is it? Surely they must have somebody in their organisation who can do it.
As long as they provide information to the public in an open format such as HTML or PDF, I don't care what they adopt in an SOE.
The major beef I do have however, is the Windows only tax return software provided by the Australian Taxation Office. The fact that I have to use Windows if I want to file my tax return electronically is totally unacceptable.
Yeah, that Windows tax pack thing is complete incompetence. I always fill the thing out on paper and post it to them - let them waste time keying it in again.
Possibly. What he is suggesting is that banks should have a monopoly on handling cash, it seems to me. The rest of the population would only have access to bank deposits, and could not handle cash directly. Why you would want that, I have no idea, especially when anyone could easily get their hands on cash by traveling to one of the other countries that use the Euro.
I suspect regulation of the gambling industry is more for the benefit of the industry than to reduce gambling (why should the government care about gambling?) Regulation reduces or eliminates competition while giving the government a big share of the profits.
Short term trading doesn't really have any affect on the value of stocks - the trader may push the value up a bit if they buy, but the opposite will happen when they sell - it averages out to zero.
If that's the case, I'm surprised the Norwegians were prosecuted at all. Surely the complaint must have originated from Timber Hill itself, unless it involved Norwegian stocks that the regulators were monitoring. But why would Timber Hill initiate action over such a small sum of money (the article mentions £18,000 and £11,500)?
Constantly canceling orders seems more like blatant manipulation to me. I guess the orders were never intended to be executed, but only to mislead other traders. Placing fake orders, in other words.
You are suggesting that sites like Slashdot will disappear because its readers will prefer to watch streaming video from big media conglomerates? I can't see why this would happen. The Internet has been competing with TV since it became widely available in people's homes. Using the Internet to deliver the TV streams won't change anything.
I mostly agree. But I think it will be a long time before you can assume that the typical end user has a working IPv6 connection. There are a lot of routers out there that can't handle it, and they won't be replaced until absolutely necessary.
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I'm also curious with anything based on cell technology, how the car obtains a life-time connection to a cell phone provider. Who would pay for it?
Cheating? Where in the rules does it say that this isn't permitted?
Yeah ... but Unity didn't turn out to be such a big deal in the end. Just add "sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback" to all the other cryptic commands in a typical Linux installation and customisation.
Perhaps there is some Windows equivalent to get back to an old interface, most likely done using the Microsoft unique user-friendly method of entering hex digits into the registry editor.
Yes, Project Gutenberg goes to a lot of trouble to proof read their texts. I don't understand why people would look anywhere else for the likes of War and Peace, given that the Gutenberg version is free.
I've never seen porn on Wikipedia, because I've never looked for it. The fact that the porn is more highly accessed than other types of content indicates that we're not talking about accidental encounters. I don't see what the problem is.
Neither have I. Which is strange, since I've found vandalised articles on occasions and you'd expect Wikipedia vandals to have a lot of fun adding Wikipedia's own porn images to random articles. I guess they just have no imagination *shrug*
It doesn't seem ridiculous to me. I owned my last car about 20 years ago. In the rare event that I need one, I'll rent it, typically for a trip to a different town or a van to move stuff. I've saved a fortune in the last 20 years, and avoided no end of car-related hassle.
The US is the only country I know of that taxes its citizens even if they live outside the US. Citizens of other countries don't need to renounce their citizenship to escape taxes, they simply liquidate their assets and move to a tax haven.
Also, it's hard to be sure what is legal and what is not. There is too much legislation to ever bother to read, and if you did read it you may not interpret it the same way as the courts.
Yeah, don't lock it down. Let the patients use it for random web browsing if they aren't interested in your videos. Waiting rooms can be extremely boring and not everybody has mobile net access.
It's also possible that numerous civilisations with a similar level of technology to ours exist, but it's simply impossible in practice to "colonise the galazy". Inter-stellar travel may simply require too much energy/resources, or it may turn out to be infeasible to survive in space for long enough for anybody to reach another star.
Yeah, I was about to post the same thing.
http://s.dealextreme.com/search/hearing+aid
That's about what I'd expect it to cost, given the price of electronics these days.
The only downside to dealextreme is that it's a pretty slow delivery, allow a few weeks.
Actually even $0.9480 is high by historical standards (say the last 10 years).
There's no way the US government will meet all the payments that it has promised. It simply doesn't have the income, nor can it borrow forever. Sure, it has wasted a lot on wars, bailing out banks, and an out of control medical system, but that can't be turned back. Either they will change the rules and not pay it, or they will let inflation get out of control and pay in devalued dollars.
I'd like to see no patents, period. The situation isn't any better in other fields.
Agreed. The Microsoft page basically amounts to "blah blah Windows blah blah Windows blah Windows Windows Windows." Yes Microsoft, we know you care about Windows. Perhaps when you discuss solutions to the problem of video on open source operating systems, you will write something worth reading.
One of my engineering professors worked on something like this in the 90s, when I asked him why we never saw anything like this come into use he said that they knew that the first time anyone was killed in an accident involving one of the automated vehicles the entire project would be dead. Regardless of if it was from something like a blowout causing a computer driven car to swerve into the other lane, or some drunk ramming headlong into a "platoon" of cars.
Even if it is much safer, the lawyers will be salivating while they wait for the first death.
Couldn't the same argument could be used to prove that nobody would ever drive a car manually? They'd be opening themselves up to lawsuits if they crashed. Occasional crashes are apparently the price we are willing to pay to travel faster, and if the automated cars have fewer crashes there's still a price to pay, but it's lower.
The tax pack software runs fine under wine. I know, I know, we shouldn't have to use wine. But you can. Funnily enough, I only got the idea after the tax department website said (paraphrasing here) "eh, try running it under wine stupid".
No thanks, I'm not going to run the thing under Wine unless they have properly tested it and support it. It's not *that* hard to install Linux and Wine, is it? Surely they must have somebody in their organisation who can do it.
As long as they provide information to the public in an open format such as HTML or PDF, I don't care what they adopt in an SOE.
The major beef I do have however, is the Windows only tax return software provided by the Australian Taxation Office. The fact that I have to use Windows if I want to file my tax return electronically is totally unacceptable.
Yeah, that Windows tax pack thing is complete incompetence. I always fill the thing out on paper and post it to them - let them waste time keying it in again.
Possibly. What he is suggesting is that banks should have a monopoly on handling cash, it seems to me. The rest of the population would only have access to bank deposits, and could not handle cash directly. Why you would want that, I have no idea, especially when anyone could easily get their hands on cash by traveling to one of the other countries that use the Euro.
Imminent Death of Internet Predicted. Film at 11.
Yeah, I've heard these kinds of rants since the early 1990s. But the Internet is still here, and it still works.
I suspect regulation of the gambling industry is more for the benefit of the industry than to reduce gambling (why should the government care about gambling?) Regulation reduces or eliminates competition while giving the government a big share of the profits. Short term trading doesn't really have any affect on the value of stocks - the trader may push the value up a bit if they buy, but the opposite will happen when they sell - it averages out to zero.
If that's the case, I'm surprised the Norwegians were prosecuted at all. Surely the complaint must have originated from Timber Hill itself, unless it involved Norwegian stocks that the regulators were monitoring. But why would Timber Hill initiate action over such a small sum of money (the article mentions £18,000 and £11,500)?
Constantly canceling orders seems more like blatant manipulation to me. I guess the orders were never intended to be executed, but only to mislead other traders. Placing fake orders, in other words.
You are suggesting that sites like Slashdot will disappear because its readers will prefer to watch streaming video from big media conglomerates? I can't see why this would happen. The Internet has been competing with TV since it became widely available in people's homes. Using the Internet to deliver the TV streams won't change anything.
I mostly agree. But I think it will be a long time before you can assume that the typical end user has a working IPv6 connection. There are a lot of routers out there that can't handle it, and they won't be replaced until absolutely necessary.