It is less about apartheid and more about the pure, unfettered xenophobia we went through in the last two years. Not government-sponsored, enforced by military nutters and entrenched in the legal system, but groups of people blaming aliens for their own problems, taking things into their own hands in an environment where the police are either disinterested or corrupt.
The news report is a formalization of the lies and accusations leveled by South Africans against foreigners as part of their self-justification of their violence against those who are willing to work harder than they are.
We went through it, and most of the world didn't understand what was happening or give a shit. So when they see District 9, hulle dink dis net nog 'n vokking fliek oor apartheid.
Whether it's horizontal or vertical, it can be regarded as the same effect because of netbooks.
Producing an Atom cpu will likely result in a similar amount of waste and impact as a Core2 Duo and if recycling a three-year-old machine to Nigeria saves a OTPC production, it has reduced the amount of new computers being made.
In a world without OTPC or netbooks, there isn't a production of new low end machines, everything is at the top, and your logic worked. But not anymore.
In South Africa, they started with SG-1 about a year after it started on SciFi, ran for 3 seasons and then dropped it completely. Haven't seen it since.
They did not call header and footer arbitrary or unnecessary. They questioned the implementation as to validity for printing.
They did call aside arbitrary as well as section.
From reading the post, I see a lot of good insights into what might be an overly-cluttered and, in places, badly written standard. While there is always an element of Microsoft playing their own games, this does raise valid questions.
Does that mean that the Volkswagen Golf I have is an Audi because half the components have the four rings logo somewhere on them. Yippee, I'm upper-class:);)
That would be like Spain deliberately diverting a fully loaded treasure ship to investigate a new island where a previous expedition had already been lost. I just don't see it happening. The Nostromo was ridiculously valuable; they might gamble it on it on an expedition where no real exceptional risks could be assessed, but it just doesn't make sense to gamble an expensive treasure ship, with an unqualified crew -- if they already knew that they'd lost an expedition.
Don't forget this is the company whose primary function is weapons research. Think of it as Spain diverting a ship carrying a full load of valuable timber to an island where a previous expedition saw huge piles of gold coins and managed to get a message into a bottle just before being slaughtered by the natives. The Nostromo's cargo was valuable, but if there was any chance of a super bio-weapon, it was expendable. The whole inquiry at the beginning of Aliens was not to blame Ripley, but to get attention away from the Company's actions.
When you torrent any copyright, it is most definitely for your profit. Of all the movies, software and music you have obtained, can you honestly say that you would never had rented or purchased even one? Then you have profited by your act. That $1, $5 or $100 is still available for your personal use elsewhere, use you would not have had if you had paid for that item. Simple accounting 101 - Profit = Income - Expenditure. Lower expenditure = greater profit.
It's already in there and running. I can see the secure sound and video process running in Task Manager and get the degradation effects on non-compliant monitors.
The French looted the Rosetta Stone from the wall of a fort in Egypt while trying to strengthen the place.
The whinging Poms nicked it while the cheese-eating surrender monkeys were trying to smuggle it out and decided to keep it safe in the one place the Frenchies didn't have access to. Old Blighty.
The Egyptians have since rebuilt the wall with stones looted from a temple near Karnak.
Now find a safe runway, cover all your windows with heavy black plastic, disconnect your speedometer and try and accurately maintain 60km/h +- 3km/h over the length of the runway. Ten bucks says you park it in a fence a third of the way down.
That's the situation the pilots were in. No points of reference at all.
In my mind, a planned outage is clearly defined. Two weeks notice on any system below core-critical, four weeks on core-critical; clearly defined reason for the downtime, including motivation as to why it cannot be done without downtime; clear indication of outage period and a full defined plan for both deployment of the change and recovery procedure. Clear communication to users is also essential.
Anything else is unplanned and needs to be penalized.
Emergency outages are permitted, but are not flagged as planned and count against the SLA metrics.
Out-of-band emergencies, like the nuclear power plant having a generator failure and the power utility shutting down swathes of the city for hours at a time, get flagged on the management system as not our fault and excluded. Too bad we cannot negotiate an SLA with the power company. Same with someone not being able to climb a mast because of 120km/h winds for three days straight.
I've got server rooms that come up completely from power failures in less time than that. And that's staggered starts of switches, DNS, DHCP and AD before everything else.
And if it's a planned update, then your uptime percentage ain't affected anyway.
You are forgetting the reciprocal costs of phone calls. You break out of the network to another telco, most of the time there are costs per minute. You pay for access to the circuit. Add international calls to this and the numbers climb.
Most telcos have reciprocals in place that say if Telco A made 1000 minutes of calls to Telco B, and Telco B made 1000 minutes to Telco A, they call it quits. Now if A made 1000000 minutes to B, B wants its money. And A has nobody to send the bill to because they were stupid and didn't change the passwords.
There is a bit of a cruddy issue with Windows and the way it deals with DNS servers provided by VPNs
If your LAN connection DNS servers are on the same subnet as the LAN connection itself, as is the case with most home networks, then for some inexplicable reason, Windows queries the LAN-provided DNS before the VPN-provided DNS servers despite whether the VPN is configured for split tunnels or not.
It's been documented, reported to MS and nothing has happened about fixing it.
Bad justice or not, I'm contemptuous of people who think taking work product from anyone without compensation is a valid and moral way of correcting a bad business model.
A complete boycott of sales combined with no illegal copying would have a much greater significance.
Or right-click on the Start Menu, go to Properties, Customize and check the Run Command option that is unchecked. Same way you can take it off of a XP Start Menu if you wanted to.
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It is less about apartheid and more about the pure, unfettered xenophobia we went through in the last two years. Not government-sponsored, enforced by military nutters and entrenched in the legal system, but groups of people blaming aliens for their own problems, taking things into their own hands in an environment where the police are either disinterested or corrupt.
The news report is a formalization of the lies and accusations leveled by South Africans against foreigners as part of their self-justification of their violence against those who are willing to work harder than they are.
We went through it, and most of the world didn't understand what was happening or give a shit. So when they see District 9, hulle dink dis net nog 'n vokking fliek oor apartheid.
Autotranslation of the parent's sentence: "yes , i did to tell the truth of district 6 heard , and i did it also saw"
My god, what the hell translated that. "Yes, I have actually heard of district 6, and I've seen it as well"
Here you go. Found it at the bottom of the RSAT forum page from MS. RSAT for Windows 7
Whether it's horizontal or vertical, it can be regarded as the same effect because of netbooks.
Producing an Atom cpu will likely result in a similar amount of waste and impact as a Core2 Duo and if recycling a three-year-old machine to Nigeria saves a OTPC production, it has reduced the amount of new computers being made.
In a world without OTPC or netbooks, there isn't a production of new low end machines, everything is at the top, and your logic worked. But not anymore.
Maybe there were 10 individual girls in the photos.
Eric Schmidt could simply threaten to drop their search results to page 20050 out of 20049. Even on their names or trademarks.
In South Africa, they started with SG-1 about a year after it started on SciFi, ran for 3 seasons and then dropped it completely. Haven't seen it since.
The usual journalistic nightmare of a summary.
They did not call header and footer arbitrary or unnecessary. They questioned the implementation as to validity for printing.
They did call aside arbitrary as well as section.
From reading the post, I see a lot of good insights into what might be an overly-cluttered and, in places, badly written standard. While there is always an element of Microsoft playing their own games, this does raise valid questions.
Does that mean that the Volkswagen Golf I have is an Audi because half the components have the four rings logo somewhere on them. Yippee, I'm upper-class :) ;)
Don't forget this is the company whose primary function is weapons research. Think of it as Spain diverting a ship carrying a full load of valuable timber to an island where a previous expedition saw huge piles of gold coins and managed to get a message into a bottle just before being slaughtered by the natives. The Nostromo's cargo was valuable, but if there was any chance of a super bio-weapon, it was expendable. The whole inquiry at the beginning of Aliens was not to blame Ripley, but to get attention away from the Company's actions.
When you torrent any copyright, it is most definitely for your profit. Of all the movies, software and music you have obtained, can you honestly say that you would never had rented or purchased even one? Then you have profited by your act. That $1, $5 or $100 is still available for your personal use elsewhere, use you would not have had if you had paid for that item. Simple accounting 101 - Profit = Income - Expenditure. Lower expenditure = greater profit.
It's already in there and running. I can see the secure sound and video process running in Task Manager and get the degradation effects on non-compliant monitors.
The French looted the Rosetta Stone from the wall of a fort in Egypt while trying to strengthen the place.
The whinging Poms nicked it while the cheese-eating surrender monkeys were trying to smuggle it out and decided to keep it safe in the one place the Frenchies didn't have access to. Old Blighty.
The Egyptians have since rebuilt the wall with stones looted from a temple near Karnak.
Now find a safe runway, cover all your windows with heavy black plastic, disconnect your speedometer and try and accurately maintain 60km/h +- 3km/h over the length of the runway. Ten bucks says you park it in a fence a third of the way down.
That's the situation the pilots were in. No points of reference at all.
Depends on how you negotiate the SLA.
In my mind, a planned outage is clearly defined. Two weeks notice on any system below core-critical, four weeks on core-critical; clearly defined reason for the downtime, including motivation as to why it cannot be done without downtime; clear indication of outage period and a full defined plan for both deployment of the change and recovery procedure. Clear communication to users is also essential.
Anything else is unplanned and needs to be penalized.
Emergency outages are permitted, but are not flagged as planned and count against the SLA metrics.
Out-of-band emergencies, like the nuclear power plant having a generator failure and the power utility shutting down swathes of the city for hours at a time, get flagged on the management system as not our fault and excluded. Too bad we cannot negotiate an SLA with the power company. Same with someone not being able to climb a mast because of 120km/h winds for three days straight.
you running that takes 13 minutes to boot up?
I've got server rooms that come up completely from power failures in less time than that. And that's staggered starts of switches, DNS, DHCP and AD before everything else.
And if it's a planned update, then your uptime percentage ain't affected anyway.
You are forgetting the reciprocal costs of phone calls. You break out of the network to another telco, most of the time there are costs per minute. You pay for access to the circuit. Add international calls to this and the numbers climb.
Most telcos have reciprocals in place that say if Telco A made 1000 minutes of calls to Telco B, and Telco B made 1000 minutes to Telco A, they call it quits. Now if A made 1000000 minutes to B, B wants its money. And A has nobody to send the bill to because they were stupid and didn't change the passwords.
They're counting turns on bolts or number of guide-lines still visible as they slot something in.
Or sometimes the amount of O2 they have in their tanks.
Just load the latest root servers and do all recursion yourself. Never met an ISP that blocks that sort of thing at the wire level.
Bit more traffic, but full control.
There is a bit of a cruddy issue with Windows and the way it deals with DNS servers provided by VPNs
If your LAN connection DNS servers are on the same subnet as the LAN connection itself, as is the case with most home networks, then for some inexplicable reason, Windows queries the LAN-provided DNS before the VPN-provided DNS servers despite whether the VPN is configured for split tunnels or not.
It's been documented, reported to MS and nothing has happened about fixing it.
Bad justice or not, I'm contemptuous of people who think taking work product from anyone without compensation is a valid and moral way of correcting a bad business model.
A complete boycott of sales combined with no illegal copying would have a much greater significance.
Does Sweden have contempt of court?
Or right-click on the Start Menu, go to Properties, Customize and check the Run Command option that is unchecked. Same way you can take it off of a XP Start Menu if you wanted to.
More than that. cmd.exe has more features and is a 32 bit app, while command.exe dates from 95/98 and runs inside the 16 bit NTVDM.
Someone please mod this damned bigot down to the depths of hell where he belongs?
Why not accuse the South American Indians of the same thing? Or the tribes in Paupau New Guinea?
It's always the blacks. Always trying to run them down for some reason.