I get hosted there by my cousin, who graciously grants me space and bandwidth for free. He blocks slashdot because he doesn't charge any money for his hosting.
I'm very grateful for his hosting, and if you were running a small OSS project for free (note, I make _no_ money from it, even though I have been offered), you'd be grateful for free hosting too. Making slashdotters hide their referrers is a small price to pay.
New Zealand markets a "clean, green" image. Inform me please as to how nuclear reactors contributes to this.
Maybe it's not a "big" thing, but it *helps*. I guess you've never been here, but plenty of people I've met say that they think the nuclear-free thing is a plus for us.
You obviously don't understand the NZ situation then, do you?
I'm a New Zealander also. There have been studies done here to see whether nuclear power would actually benefit us, and so thus whether we should repeal the nuclear-free stuff.
And you know what? If we decided to build a nuclear power plant, it would cost us $50 billion to set up. And then it would only last for 30 years.
Our GDP is simply not high enough (I'm not sure on what it is but I think it's around $85 billion).
Thus, our nuclear free policy stays, because a) we would get no advantage out of nuclear power other than a huge debt, and b) it's good for our tourist industry.
The closed nature of the Microsoft Office ecosystem is exaggerated.
Microsoft Office 12 -- the coming version -- will use an "open" XML code system, catchingly called the Microsoft Office Open XML Format, as a key component of its code engine.
Sorry, I just had to laugh here. At the same time they plaud the "openness" of the XML file format, they link to an article that states:
The company has previously declined suggestions that it should open up its file formats to an industry standards body
Besides, the business sector has a long-held grudge against the greens, as the greens do annoying things liks supporting Kyoto and advocating "NZ Made" promotions.
And as for low linux desktop usage: what may turn out to hurt MS later on is that at my university all the CS students now run Debian/NetBSD/Other distro, because uni runs NetBSD and has advocated the use of *nix based OS's. These are the people, mind, who are going to be SysAdmins for large companies in NZ in the future.
They were asking for people to submit sites that still use SSL 2, and they had found a mere 2000 left that people actually used that still used it (down from 10000 when they began this push).
Hmmm... seems like only yesterday that slashdot posted a link to the IEblog with the news that they were fixing heaps of web developer bugs for beta 2 of IE7.
Can you please not attack the guy when interviewing him, like the last time I remember slashdot interviewing an MS employee? Last time you asked the questions but also gave him a whole load of crap that wasn't warranted.
Estimates for my country, New Zealand, put the cost of building a nuclear power plant to offset our power woes at around $50 Billion. And that will last us for onlyl 30 years until it gets too old and unstable, not to mention the lasting damage to our green image that brings in so much tourist revenue.
Then after 30 years we have to fork out another $50 Billion (plus inflation) to have another 30 years of power.
And nuclear waste simply doesn't go away, until the space shuttle starts carting it out into space and ejecting it into a collision with the sun...
Saying that nuclear power is "cheaper" than ever before doesn't stop it from being completely unaffordable by all but a few of the worlds richest countries.
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I get hosted there by my cousin, who graciously grants me space and bandwidth for free. He blocks slashdot because he doesn't charge any money for his hosting.
I'm very grateful for his hosting, and if you were running a small OSS project for free (note, I make _no_ money from it, even though I have been offered), you'd be grateful for free hosting too. Making slashdotters hide their referrers is a small price to pay.
Comments are good.
Are they formatted though?
That is the question to ask.
New Zealand markets a "clean, green" image. Inform me please as to how nuclear reactors contributes to this.
Maybe it's not a "big" thing, but it *helps*. I guess you've never been here, but plenty of people I've met say that they think the nuclear-free thing is a plus for us.
You obviously don't understand the NZ situation then, do you?
I'm a New Zealander also. There have been studies done here to see whether nuclear power would actually benefit us, and so thus whether we should repeal the nuclear-free stuff.
And you know what? If we decided to build a nuclear power plant, it would cost us $50 billion to set up. And then it would only last for 30 years.
Our GDP is simply not high enough (I'm not sure on what it is but I think it's around $85 billion).
Thus, our nuclear free policy stays, because a) we would get no advantage out of nuclear power other than a huge debt, and b) it's good for our tourist industry.
The closed nature of the Microsoft Office ecosystem is exaggerated.
Microsoft Office 12 -- the coming version -- will use an "open" XML code system, catchingly called the Microsoft Office Open XML Format, as a key component of its code engine.
Sorry, I just had to laugh here. At the same time they plaud the "openness" of the XML file format, they link to an article that states:
The company has previously declined suggestions that it should open up its file formats to an industry standards body
Besides, the business sector has a long-held grudge against the greens, as the greens do annoying things liks supporting Kyoto and advocating "NZ Made" promotions.
And as for low linux desktop usage: what may turn out to hurt MS later on is that at my university all the CS students now run Debian/NetBSD/Other distro, because uni runs NetBSD and has advocated the use of *nix based OS's. These are the people, mind, who are going to be SysAdmins for large companies in NZ in the future.
... will it look better for me?
They were asking for people to submit sites that still use SSL 2, and they had found a mere 2000 left that people actually used that still used it (down from 10000 when they began this push).
and .nz?
Hey, what did we NZers do to you?
You don't happen to be Australian, do you? ;)
Hmmm... seems like only yesterday that slashdot posted a link to the IEblog with the news that they were fixing heaps of web developer bugs for beta 2 of IE7.
Oh, wait, it was?
Actually, I have a plea for the interviewer.
Can you please not attack the guy when interviewing him, like the last time I remember slashdot interviewing an MS employee? Last time you asked the questions but also gave him a whole load of crap that wasn't warranted.
safari gains activeX support
What happened to 2.6.11.8 - 4.6.11.7?
Have they added working support for the SB Live! Audigy LS soundcard yet?
Pidgeons!
Estimates for my country, New Zealand, put the cost of building a nuclear power plant to offset our power woes at around $50 Billion. And that will last us for onlyl 30 years until it gets too old and unstable, not to mention the lasting damage to our green image that brings in so much tourist revenue.
Then after 30 years we have to fork out another $50 Billion (plus inflation) to have another 30 years of power.
And nuclear waste simply doesn't go away, until the space shuttle starts carting it out into space and ejecting it into a collision with the sun...
Saying that nuclear power is "cheaper" than ever before doesn't stop it from being completely unaffordable by all but a few of the worlds richest countries.
Adblock can handle anything from google ;)
I don't care about two browsers... I want one rendering engine only!
And how many of those books contain detailed test case analysis?