P.S. I noticed that when someone mentions they will be modded down in a post it actually gets modded up.
What happens is you only see the responses that get modded up - you don't see the ones that say "I'm going to be modded into oblivion for this" and promptly are.
You run into 14th amendment issues. In general, legislation targeting a specific individual (or corporation, etc.) violates the equal protection clause. (This doesn't stop it from happening, but they usually try to be subtle about it.)
Your comment is exactly correct but needs some additional information to provide the whole picture. China's central government (and indeed most or all of its provincial governments) are oligarchic dictatorships (but not totalitarian ones), but the relationship between the two is complex. Generally, the provincial governments have more de facto power than the central government because of corruption and because they tend to just ignore its edicts. Beijing basically doesn't have that much power over the entire country. My favorite example is this: China actually has the most stringent environmental regulations in the world, but they simply can't be enforced.
leverage n.
1.
1. The action of a lever.
2. The mechanical advantage of a lever.
2. Positional advantage; power to act effectively: "started his... career with far more social leverage than his father had enjoyed" (Doris Kearns Goodwin). 3. The use of credit or borrowed funds to improve one's speculative capacity and increase the rate of return from an investment, as in buying securities on margin.
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Aside from the fact that there are programs that run on Windows that don't on OpenBSD...
There has always been a push to get women in science, yet there is no similar push to get men in literature, social sciences, education, etc.
Because traditionally men have dominated those, too.
P.S. I noticed that when someone mentions they will be modded down in a post it actually gets modded up. What happens is you only see the responses that get modded up - you don't see the ones that say "I'm going to be modded into oblivion for this" and promptly are.
You run into 14th amendment issues. In general, legislation targeting a specific individual (or corporation, etc.) violates the equal protection clause. (This doesn't stop it from happening, but they usually try to be subtle about it.)
This article is really light on details, but the concept sounds strikingly like something that would be predictable through Seldon's psychohistory.
Yes, apart from the fact that Seldon's psychohistory is completely fictional.
But... does it run linux? D'oh!
Because most people don't care about having their computer read to them.
If Opera needs more cache it'll ask you to get a phone with more memory.
Well, now it's the land of the setting sun.
It's rather like security through obscurity.
All 10 of them?
If I actually have a need to use the site, I'll open it up in IE.
As opposed to most commercial software, which isn't designed to do what the users actually need?
Huh?
Except, well, they do. Excel is far more powerful than Calc, which matters if you're, say, an actuary.
And what to GIMP, LaTeX, or Blender have to do with anything...?
If fewer people see the spam, it's less profitable and less of it is sent out. Spam filters *do* actually fight spam.
20% Overrated 20% Underrated hmmmmmm
Your comment is exactly correct but needs some additional information to provide the whole picture. China's central government (and indeed most or all of its provincial governments) are oligarchic dictatorships (but not totalitarian ones), but the relationship between the two is complex. Generally, the provincial governments have more de facto power than the central government because of corruption and because they tend to just ignore its edicts. Beijing basically doesn't have that much power over the entire country. My favorite example is this: China actually has the most stringent environmental regulations in the world, but they simply can't be enforced.
I hope you wouldn't compile a quantum program on a quantum computer. Imagine bugs that aren't even in your source code...
Well, in Virginia, it's $15,000. I assume it varies within a few tens of thousands.
To SP2? That costs, what, $0?
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And so Wikipedia would then be as reliable as slashdot posts?
The submitter just saw a chance to use "JAXA" and "web" in a story relating to neither AJAX nor the internet.
leverage
n.
1.
1. The action of a lever.
2. The mechanical advantage of a lever.
2. Positional advantage; power to act effectively: "started his... career with far more social leverage than his father had enjoyed" (Doris Kearns Goodwin).
3. The use of credit or borrowed funds to improve one's speculative capacity and increase the rate of return from an investment, as in buying securities on margin.