And knowing microsoft, and the huge amount of money they have for these things, they will attempt to enforce it if they can kill a competitor by doing so.
And if they didn't patent it, someone else would (like plugins) and use it against them. Microsoft owns thousands of patents and I haven't heard any instances of them using it to kill the competition.
As a kid, the school I went to required all students to recite the national anthem and say a prayer every morning at assembly. I resented it because I did not believe in religion or nations.
But it's not that big a deal. I didn't have a problem with everyone else doing what they felt was right. I was smart enough to stay silent through the whole thing. We need to stop being so sensitive about these things.
Excuse me, but not only did Congress approve this, but 50 million Americans did, too. If 50 million Americans say a law should go through, then I'm thinking that it should go through.
Nope. That's not how the law works and it's for a reason. There's a reason why we have a constitution. For example, it would be very easy to get Congress to approve (pick your favorite subject - say anti-abortion) legislation and you will easily find 50 million people who will sign a petition saying they agree with it. That does not trump the (debatable) right of a woman to get an aborotion.
Also, 50 million people signing on to the do-not-call list does not constitute a referendum.
The right thing would be for Congress to pass an actual law within the constitution. The judge simply ruled that the way this rule was enforced was not within the bounds of the law - the judge did not say that if Congress did do it the correct way that it would be against the constitution.
The seller pays both the buying and the selling agents commissions. If there is no buying agent, the selling agent keeps the commission - the seller does not get it back.
Yes, if the seller chooses not to use a realtor, the seller could in theory sell the home cheaper (since they don't have to pay the 6%) and that's where the "For Sale by Owner" comes in, however as the buyer, whether or not YOU use a realtor, it still costs you the same.
Your realtor is not charging you anything when you're buying a house. Your realtor does get paid, but not by you. Realtors are marginally useful when buying is concerned but unless you're buying a "For Sale by Owner", going with a realtor is not cheaper than going by yourself - so it's basically free to you.
Realtors do offer tremendous value to the seller, however - whether or not this justifies the 6% that they charge is debatable but the value in terms of advising you on when and where to advertise, timing the sale, setting the price right, making the right fixes to improve the sale value, logistics such as working with the escrow company and lawyers to protect your rights, etc. can make you/save you a LOT of money when it comes to selling a house.
Why would it have to be at the poles? I can't see any reason whatsoever for that restriction
Because you don't want to deal with the centrifugal force associated with stuff at the equators.
An object on the surface of the earth travels at a speed proportional to its distance from the axis that the earth rotates in. An object in geostationary object above that same object has to move at a much faster speed to keep up because it is circumscribing a bigger circle. So if you built the elevator at some point other than the poles, you have to make sure you provide transverse acceleration to any objects you send up the elevator.
On the other hand, at the poles, the whole elevator is in line with the earths axis and you don't have to worry about accelerating the objects you are sending up.
I make a lot of international calls and I've experimented with Sprint, MCI, AT&T and a whole bunch of phone card providers.
Without question, AT&T has been miles better than the rest. The other providers obviously use packet switching as evidenced by the intermittent delays as much as a couple of seconds. Sometimes you can get half-way through a sentence when you hear the other guy starting a sentence that he did when there was silence - it gets very annoying because both of you have to practice random backoff which can either result in empty silence or both of you speaking over each other.
Refer to other medical research proposals. I'm assuming that you're not trying to get this grant on the sole basis of this being open source, right? The open v/s closed source nature of your project should be pretty irrelevant to your research proposal.
Setup or no, when a law is passed that automatically defaults the majority of citizens as being criminals, there's something wrong with the law, not the people.
I'm glad you weren't around when slavery was abolished otherwise geniuses like you would have proclaimed that there was something wrong with the law rather than the people who were committing it.
There's a big difference between being enslaved and being too cheap to pay for the music you want to listen to and too weak to just choose not to listen to it if you don't want to pay.
But sure, go ahead and draw whatever analogies you want to draw to justify your petty crime.
So how come when some 50-year-old guy goes and kills his ex-lover and her boyfriend we don't hear the media jumping up and down and saying it's Frank Sinatras fault because that's who the killer listened to?
In the US, that requires a warrant to do. However, if it's possible to crack the signal then the government can eavesdrop on a conversation without a warrant.
Nope. U.S. law is deciding what search results Indians in India, on land in India, on computers in India, may view off a U.S. site. U.S. law says nothing about what they may view off an Indian site or off a site somewhere else.
Yes, but Indians might object to being held to U.S. laws.
Google is being held to U.S. laws. Indians are not. Indians are free to link to Kazaa lite anywhere they want to (unless it violates Indian law) but Google may not because Google is U.S. not Indian.
And now that our tax dollars are being used to allow members of a radical Islamic regime (one that harbors terrorists and has WMDs) to anonymously look at all the bomb plans burried in steganographied images on eBay, aren't we opening ourselves up for more terror?
The members of the regime already have the ability to do this anyway. What the US is funding here is the ability for the people being oopressed by that regime to do so. There's a big difference. You show your ignorance by not recognizing the difference.
Makes you wonder if anyone believes that Axis of Evil crap.
It's the Iranian government that has been branded dangerous, not the Iranian people. It's hard to expect you to believe something if you're too ignorant to understand what is being talked about.
have always admired Microsoft's COM architecture and the relative simplicity that allows you to reuse already installed components to create even complex programs. And I have always been fascinated by the distributed nature of DCOM, which seemed to me much more graspable than complex monsters like CORBA and J2EE.
Ha! Be prepared to be modded down like the astroturfing troll you are! Ooops.. too late for that I guess.
Sources on what? That Orrin Hatch used a company that used unlicensed Java code? It's been discussed on slashdot and he's been panned for it.
This is not torpedoing Dean's political career by any means. You can't criticize Orrin Hatch for hiring a company that screwed up any more than you can criticize Dean for hiring a company that screwed up.
Personally, I am more forgiving when there is evidence to believe that they weren't aware of exactly what was happening.
I think one of the most important jobs a citizen has is to review the candidates running for office and pick the best one. To that end, I do not think an email here or there about something important is a bad thing.
How does this crap get modded up? Any unsolicited, mass, annoying contact is spam. Why would you even think that it is ok to send someone email that they may or may not care about?
Then again, I guess those of us who are interested in politics could sign up with the individual campaigns to recieve emails. Duh.
I don't want some politician to decide what is important for me to know. I know how to seek out information I am interested in, thank you.
Slashdot Mirror
And knowing microsoft, and the huge amount of money they have for these things, they will attempt to enforce it if they can kill a competitor by doing so.
And if they didn't patent it, someone else would (like plugins) and use it against them. Microsoft owns thousands of patents and I haven't heard any instances of them using it to kill the competition.
I'm no Microsoft hater - I honestly doubt most Slashdot readers are either.
You must be new here.
As a kid, the school I went to required all students to recite the national anthem and say a prayer every morning at assembly. I resented it because I did not believe in religion or nations.
But it's not that big a deal. I didn't have a problem with everyone else doing what they felt was right. I was smart enough to stay silent through the whole thing. We need to stop being so sensitive about these things.
Even Chandrababu Naidu would have a legitimate claim to a higher spot than Vajpayee. This list definitely has not done its research.
I'd expect the headline to say "Steve Jobs Most Powerful Man in Tech" rather than focus on Linus being 5th most powerful.
Excuse me, but not only did Congress approve this, but 50 million Americans did, too. If 50 million Americans say a law should go through, then I'm thinking that it should go through.
Nope. That's not how the law works and it's for a reason. There's a reason why we have a constitution. For example, it would be very easy to get Congress to approve (pick your favorite subject - say anti-abortion) legislation and you will easily find 50 million people who will sign a petition saying they agree with it. That does not trump the (debatable) right of a woman to get an aborotion.
Also, 50 million people signing on to the do-not-call list does not constitute a referendum.
The right thing would be for Congress to pass an actual law within the constitution. The judge simply ruled that the way this rule was enforced was not within the bounds of the law - the judge did not say that if Congress did do it the correct way that it would be against the constitution.
The seller pays both the buying and the selling agents commissions. If there is no buying agent, the selling agent keeps the commission - the seller does not get it back.
Yes, if the seller chooses not to use a realtor, the seller could in theory sell the home cheaper (since they don't have to pay the 6%) and that's where the "For Sale by Owner" comes in, however as the buyer, whether or not YOU use a realtor, it still costs you the same.
Your realtor is not charging you anything when you're buying a house. Your realtor does get paid, but not by you. Realtors are marginally useful when buying is concerned but unless you're buying a "For Sale by Owner", going with a realtor is not cheaper than going by yourself - so it's basically free to you.
Realtors do offer tremendous value to the seller, however - whether or not this justifies the 6% that they charge is debatable but the value in terms of advising you on when and where to advertise, timing the sale, setting the price right, making the right fixes to improve the sale value, logistics such as working with the escrow company and lawyers to protect your rights, etc. can make you/save you a LOT of money when it comes to selling a house.
Why would it have to be at the poles? I can't see any reason whatsoever for that restriction
Because you don't want to deal with the centrifugal force associated with stuff at the equators.
An object on the surface of the earth travels at a speed proportional to its distance from the axis that the earth rotates in. An object in geostationary object above that same object has to move at a much faster speed to keep up because it is circumscribing a bigger circle. So if you built the elevator at some point other than the poles, you have to make sure you provide transverse acceleration to any objects you send up the elevator.
On the other hand, at the poles, the whole elevator is in line with the earths axis and you don't have to worry about accelerating the objects you are sending up.
I make a lot of international calls and I've experimented with Sprint, MCI, AT&T and a whole bunch of phone card providers.
Without question, AT&T has been miles better than the rest. The other providers obviously use packet switching as evidenced by the intermittent delays as much as a couple of seconds. Sometimes you can get half-way through a sentence when you hear the other guy starting a sentence that he did when there was silence - it gets very annoying because both of you have to practice random backoff which can either result in empty silence or both of you speaking over each other.
I hope AT&Ts service doesn't go that way.
That sounds like an interesting concept. Do you have a link for that?
... type ... something ... here ... to ... defeat ... lameness ... filter.
Must
Refer to other medical research proposals. I'm assuming that you're not trying to get this grant on the sole basis of this being open source, right? The open v/s closed source nature of your project should be pretty irrelevant to your research proposal.
Setup or no, when a law is passed that automatically defaults the majority of citizens as being criminals, there's something wrong with the law, not the people.
I'm glad you weren't around when slavery was abolished otherwise geniuses like you would have proclaimed that there was something wrong with the law rather than the people who were committing it.
There's a big difference between being enslaved and being too cheap to pay for the music you want to listen to and too weak to just choose not to listen to it if you don't want to pay.
But sure, go ahead and draw whatever analogies you want to draw to justify your petty crime.
So how come when some 50-year-old guy goes and kills his ex-lover and her boyfriend we don't hear the media jumping up and down and saying it's Frank Sinatras fault because that's who the killer listened to?
In the US, that requires a warrant to do. However, if it's possible to crack the signal then the government can eavesdrop on a conversation without a warrant.
Europe has a population density of about 200 ppl/sq. km while the US is about 20/sq. km. It makes a big difference.
Not sure if this is a troll but I'll respond anyway.
How about 3 day battery life with 6 hours talk time?
I have more than that on my Sprint PCS LG phone that I bought 2 years ago.
How about good, clear calls?
Again, I'm on Sprint PCS and am not sure what you're talking about.
How about not magically losing signal when I walk in to another room?
Ask your cellphone provider to boost the coverage/signal in your area.
Nope. U.S. law is deciding what search results Indians in India, on land in India, on computers in India, may view off a U.S. site. U.S. law says nothing about what they may view off an Indian site or off a site somewhere else.
Yes, but Indians might object to being held to U.S. laws.
Google is being held to U.S. laws. Indians are not. Indians are free to link to Kazaa lite anywhere they want to (unless it violates Indian law) but Google may not because Google is U.S. not Indian.
Exactly how hard is that to understand?
And now that our tax dollars are being used to allow members of a radical Islamic regime (one that harbors terrorists and has WMDs) to anonymously look at all the bomb plans burried in steganographied images on eBay, aren't we opening ourselves up for more terror?
The members of the regime already have the ability to do this anyway. What the US is funding here is the ability for the people being oopressed by that regime to do so. There's a big difference. You show your ignorance by not recognizing the difference.
Makes you wonder if anyone believes that Axis of Evil crap.
It's the Iranian government that has been branded dangerous, not the Iranian people. It's hard to expect you to believe something if you're too ignorant to understand what is being talked about.
have always admired Microsoft's COM architecture and the relative simplicity that allows you to reuse already installed components to create even complex programs. And I have always been fascinated by the distributed nature of DCOM, which seemed to me much more graspable than complex monsters like CORBA and J2EE.
Ha! Be prepared to be modded down like the astroturfing troll you are! Ooops.. too late for that I guess.
Sources on what? That Orrin Hatch used a company that used unlicensed Java code? It's been discussed on slashdot and he's been panned for it.
This is not torpedoing Dean's political career by any means. You can't criticize Orrin Hatch for hiring a company that screwed up any more than you can criticize Dean for hiring a company that screwed up.
Personally, I am more forgiving when there is evidence to believe that they weren't aware of exactly what was happening.
Bullshit. Seems you have drunk the kool-aid the politicians want you to drink.
Stick your political speech on a website and the people who are interested will see it. Keep your political opinions out of my inbox, however.
I think one of the most important jobs a citizen has is to review the candidates running for office and pick the best one. To that end, I do not think an email here or there about something important is a bad thing.
How does this crap get modded up? Any unsolicited, mass, annoying contact is spam. Why would you even think that it is ok to send someone email that they may or may not care about?
Then again, I guess those of us who are interested in politics could sign up with the individual campaigns to recieve emails.
Duh.
I don't want some politician to decide what is important for me to know. I know how to seek out information I am interested in, thank you.