under the header "Licensing" Feature: Windows Activation Services yes for all home versions (not available for ultimate and corp based)
hmm... ah well, at least getting a diffrent version of windows will mean you'll get more (usable) features. But I probably won't get it anyway. (yay for student version of XP and linux)
(there are more diffrences, limited memory at 8 gig for top home (256 minimum?) they actually getting a desktop window manager(!) P2P meeting place disabled for home use, etc. look at parents link: nice table of diffrences)
Well here in Utrecht, we recently had a vote over wether or not the stores should be able be open every sunday. In this case there are several parties who are effected by this decision: the big malls the small shops and the consumers. Note that it was already possible to be open the first sunday of the month, it was about the other 3/4 sundays in the month.
The big malls are in favor of this, since it will encrease their marketshare. (Not more profit, since it is researched that people are buying less on saturdays and mondays) The small shops, will not be able to sustain a profitable extra working day. So they are against it. The consumers don't care since they can buy things anyway.
The outcome was that the shops are open enough of the time, so that this was not necessary to be open on every sunday.
This is as complex as you can get, without the majority of voters getting confused. But as you see, most people don't give a damn.
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At the same time there was a referenda here in the Netherlands wether or not we should accept the constitution of Europe. This was important, most people thought it was important, but no-one really understood what the consequences would be.
There were parties who were in favor of accepting, they claimed al sorts of arguments why we should vote pro this constitution. Most of those pro arguments, I thought well, I could do without those. (More liberalism, more free market, more big companies, less government etc.)
There were parties who were against, they also had their arguments, most of which I thought, well, that's why I will vote in favor of the constitution. (Dutch government gets to say less, but the europarlement gets to say more.)
Then there were groups of people who thought, well, "I do not like this government", the so called protest voters, "they are in favor, so I'm against."
These are just a few groups there were hundreds of them.
The outcome was a no, we don't accept this constitution.
It was a several hundreds of pages of legal texts, so that stating more than 1% of the voters actually read the constitution, contiplated the consequences, would be overstating it.
The government turned this "no" as an argument, Europe costs the average Dutch Sixpack too much, and to demanded that less money should be going into the EU. (Which was no argument at all (or just a very tiny one) during the period of information and discussion.)
To get to the point, it was far to complex. A "yes" was the only thing to be interpreted correctly. A "no" could mean anything, and as for politics, business as usual.
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For the conclusion, either it is too trivial, that politics should be able to understand and represent the people. (And do their jobs as they are getting paid for it, out of our tax money, that is, I hope) Or things are just too bloody complicated so they should either figure out what should be the best for all of us, very little people have the luxury of time to contemplate what all the consequences are.
It's like a business model: delegate to the proper people.
Most adds have moving/flashing elements, just by human nature the reader tends to focus on moving elements in his view.
Most page content does not have moving elements.
That's why most adds will cause you to focus your attention on the adds in the website, and not on the content. The marketeers do this deliberatly, of course. That's why I deliberatly choose to block these flashing/moving adds, since those adds will distract me from doing on a site what I want to do. As long as they don't distract me to much I don't mind the adds, since it will keep some site in the air.
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On a side note, there are some idio.., ehh... marketeers , who take flash to create popups, so the default popup blocker will not stop block them. Those go directly on the ban list.
It's not about visual representation, it's about finding the right things, even when things are called differently.
Perhaps it will help in translating issues as well. Since it is not about syntax, which you may or may not 'speak', it's about semantics, which we all understand.
Still I'm a bit pessemistic in how far this will work eventually, the ontologies written are as specific as the designers of them want them to be. Which leaves a big gap between the different ontologies, even on the same subject. When they can be automatically merged, than it will work as it's suppost to work. But we're not nearly there yet.
Well for the anology, Sony is in the CD player business and in the music industry as well.
Though I agree, that it sounds a bit strange for any record label to get some cash from the retailer of the medium.
The point is that the record label argues that they should be able to influence the price. In that case the record label can choose to disallow iTunes sales. Record labels are just like ordinary people:
they like to get paid as much as possible for the minimum amount of effort.
they like to have a choice
they dislike to be forced someway or another
Then they react in a similar way: they protest against limitations they don't like.
Just like getting in to a slipery slope. Some 20 years ago, perhaps 25 years ago we all got a tax number somewhat like the ssn in the US. This was only possible on the strict promise it would limited to use of financial data, for tax purposes and only that. This was a public demand, just because of the gestapo reasoning.
Recently our Dutch government has made the decision to create a personal identification number just to gather personal data, like who's lending which books in the library.
This to illustrate how intentions can change on these subjects.
The reason for these changes is to fight terrorism. Yay for our (Dutch) government and our allies.
I'm just wondering how long it would take for them to create a red flag system based on this system, to include data about what books they might read, and when it will be used against you.
How long will it take for our government to reason, if you're not with us, you're against us, and therefor a terrorist.
"this method binds hydrogen to a pellet which is completely safe to handle at room temperature."
hmm... well if a car is crashing it will get alot hotter then just room temperature, the impact of the crash will result in disformation of the vehicle but also in an encrease in temperature.
well, they can sell it to you, just the same as they can sell you air. You don't have to buy it, to use it all the same. USPTO/RIAA/MPAA don't own those rights either. (Prior art and such, for the USPTO, so patenting is out) RIAA and MPAA only owns a derived piece of art. Just claim you used the original.
Considering it is automatically translated it is quite cool: it is not correct, but you do get the general idea, for the translation, though there are some errors in the first translation, and there are some errors in the second translation. So it's not perfect, but close enough for some informal translation.
The mistakes made here are less important than the mistakes made in some manual from Sony, which replaces random Dutch words with its German, rendering it unreadable for those who don't speak German. Though these mistakes are less often than in this translation.
For a bigger audience, or an extremly impatient audience I'd still get a human translator, but for private messages, it'll work just fine.
It's not that there is no known proof/disproof. It's that it's easy to see that proof or disproof is impossible.
So what is your point? you're meerly stating the obvious I didn't go into that, because it is the way most people see things. But on the other hand, what we think is correct at the current time, could be seen completely different in a couple of years time. So there is no proof for something to be unproofable, perhaps the proof isn't found jet.
Appearent proof of god could be a being powerfull to fool us Well wouldn't you call that a god? I don't know but if it acts like a god, has power like a god, it probably is one. Or do you think someone will go through all that trouble just to make you believe the being is a god?
I meerly state that for making ID work you'll need to find a creator, and that could be anything, but as the parent said, God is irrelevant, well I dare to differ, for ID to work god is definitly relevant. Though, god might be something different we expected.
Well actually, ID requires someone with a clue one how life and everyting is created. This someone, lets call it "The Creator" could be defined as god.
It doesn't nessesarily means to be one god, or Christ, Jaweh, Buddah, or just a bunch of aliens but still it requires someone or some group, non human, since they didn't exist at the time.
Therefor god is relevant, if it is proven no one existed to create/design the world and it enhabitants, it will be falsifiable, and thus making it science.
Though there is no known proof of a (group of) gods, on the other hand there is no proof of the non existance of a (group of) gods.
Bit of making it the billion dollar question, ain' it?
Going offtopic: I don't believe in a god, but if it exists or existed it did a moderate job in designing. Nor do I believe in the non existance of a god, it's just something I cannot proof or disproof.
My personal view is that religion is just an invention to deal with bad luck, it's a comfort, it doesn't need to be true to give it that comfort. Therefor I believe things will work out in the end. It doesn't need to be right, but I like to think so.
if it is private property you're on, then you can choose to be on it. (or you can choose to go else where.)
In the public space, well, you can choose to stay at home all day and eat ordered pizza every day, never set a foot out the door, but let's be realistic it would be devastating for your personal life.
public space is "owned" by us all, private property isn't. just a difference, but I think a significant one. (otherwise I can't follow the reasoning, I'd sure as hell would be uncomfortable knowing I'd be spied upon when in the dressing room)
Yes government is granted powers, but it isn't granted the abuse. A shopping store is granted the protection of it's property, but there are different ways of doing so. Having a "servent/counseler/dressing advisor" at the dressingroom is quite effective in combination with a limited amount of items in the dressingrooms. It should be a sign: person x went in with n items, came out with m items (m<n). This in combination with a camera at the entrance of the dressingrooms will do the proofing bit.
offtopic (to me at least:) and I'm not the only one who isn't a US citizen, I recently saw a great dutchism http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=158309&cid=132 63501/ what was meant of course was Dutch soccer team, this to the foreigners translates directly to Nederlands voetbal team (foot is stated as voet in Dutch))/offtopic
I thought mozilla already has done this, it was a while ago, (think around 2001 or 2002, but that's just a hunch). If I remember correctly they offered $500 for each security flaw in the mozilla browser or something.
Slashdot Mirror
under the header "Licensing"
Feature: Windows Activation Services yes for all home versions (not available for ultimate and corp based)
hmm... ah well, at least getting a diffrent version of windows will mean you'll get more (usable) features. But I probably won't get it anyway. (yay for student version of XP and linux)
(there are more diffrences, limited memory at 8 gig for top home (256 minimum?) they actually getting a desktop window manager(!) P2P meeting place disabled for home use, etc. look at parents link: nice table of diffrences)
UW-Madison is one of five universities selected for Gates' tour.
:) )
I'd bet he skips Waterloo.
(by the way: Waterloo hasn't got a university, so it's quite a save bet
Are we to say that all legislation must be binary? You're 21 or you're not?
I'm 24. So I am most definatly not?
Well here in Utrecht, we recently had a vote over wether or not the stores should be able be open every sunday. In this case there are several parties who are effected by this decision: the big malls the small shops and the consumers.
Note that it was already possible to be open the first sunday of the month, it was about the other 3/4 sundays in the month.
The big malls are in favor of this, since it will encrease their marketshare. (Not more profit, since it is researched that people are buying less on saturdays and mondays)
The small shops, will not be able to sustain a profitable extra working day. So they are against it.
The consumers don't care since they can buy things anyway.
The outcome was that the shops are open enough of the time, so that this was not necessary to be open on every sunday.
This is as complex as you can get, without the majority of voters getting confused. But as you see, most people don't give a damn.
.
At the same time there was a referenda here in the Netherlands wether or not we should accept the constitution of Europe.
This was important, most people thought it was important, but no-one really understood what the consequences would be.
There were parties who were in favor of accepting, they claimed al sorts of arguments why we should vote pro this constitution. Most of those pro arguments, I thought well, I could do without those. (More liberalism, more free market, more big companies, less government etc.)
There were parties who were against, they also had their arguments, most of which I thought, well, that's why I will vote in favor of the constitution. (Dutch government gets to say less, but the europarlement gets to say more.)
Then there were groups of people who thought, well, "I do not like this government", the so called protest voters, "they are in favor, so I'm against."
These are just a few groups there were hundreds of them.
The outcome was a no, we don't accept this constitution.
It was a several hundreds of pages of legal texts, so that stating more than 1% of the voters actually read the constitution, contiplated the consequences, would be overstating it.
The government turned this "no" as an argument, Europe costs the average Dutch Sixpack too much, and to demanded that less money should be going into the EU. (Which was no argument at all (or just a very tiny one) during the period of information and discussion.)
To get to the point, it was far to complex. A "yes" was the only thing to be interpreted correctly. A "no" could mean anything, and as for politics, business as usual.
.
For the conclusion, either it is too trivial, that politics should be able to understand and represent the people. (And do their jobs as they are getting paid for it, out of our tax money, that is, I hope)
Or things are just too bloody complicated so they should either figure out what should be the best for all of us, very little people have the luxury of time to contemplate what all the consequences are.
It's like a business model: delegate to the proper people.
They're arrested. They're not convicted, though.
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CmdrTaco Breda is about 50 km to the south east of Rotterdam, and about 100 km south of Amsterdam, which most people do know. First I wanted to correct you on the 25, but then I realized your counting in miles. Why are there still people counting in miles? If you want to let people know where it is, use a map:
Relative lokations:http://www.lokatienet.nl/maps/map_172_2
the Netherlands (and Belguim): http://www.lokatienet.nl/maps/map_172_22_2_6_1508
Most adds have moving/flashing elements, just by human nature the reader tends to focus on moving elements in his view.
Most page content does not have moving elements.
That's why most adds will cause you to focus your attention on the adds in the website, and not on the content. The marketeers do this deliberatly, of course. That's why I deliberatly choose to block these flashing/moving adds, since those adds will distract me from doing on a site what I want to do. As long as they don't distract me to much I don't mind the adds, since it will keep some site in the air.
.
On a side note, there are some idio.., ehh... marketeers , who take flash to create popups, so the default popup blocker will not stop block them. Those go directly on the ban list.
It's not about visual representation, it's about finding the right things, even when things are called differently.
Perhaps it will help in translating issues as well. Since it is not about syntax, which you may or may not 'speak', it's about semantics, which we all understand.
Still I'm a bit pessemistic in how far this will work eventually, the ontologies written are as specific as the designers of them want them to be. Which leaves a big gap between the different ontologies, even on the same subject.
When they can be automatically merged, than it will work as it's suppost to work. But we're not nearly there yet.
OJ lost the civil procedure, with the same amount of evidence in his criminal trial.
Since it is the case of a civil nature (ie. (aiding to) breach of copyright) It's, I think, a civil trail.
Though I agree, that it sounds a bit strange for any record label to get some cash from the retailer of the medium.
The point is that the record label argues that they should be able to influence the price. In that case the record label can choose to disallow iTunes sales.
Record labels are just like ordinary people:
Then they react in a similar way: they protest against limitations they don't like.
nope he didn't there :)
the headline FTA: Seattle Children's Home receives $150,000 award from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Why would you use pirated software if there's enough software there for you to use that commercial software is redundant and just as easy to use?
Just like getting in to a slipery slope. Some 20 years ago, perhaps 25 years ago we all got a tax number somewhat like the ssn in the US. This was only possible on the strict promise it would limited to use of financial data, for tax purposes and only that. This was a public demand, just because of the gestapo reasoning.
Recently our Dutch government has made the decision to create a personal identification number just to gather personal data, like who's lending which books in the library.
This to illustrate how intentions can change on these subjects.
The reason for these changes is to fight terrorism. Yay for our (Dutch) government and our allies.
I'm just wondering how long it would take for them to create a red flag system based on this system, to include data about what books they might read, and when it will be used against you.
How long will it take for our government to reason, if you're not with us, you're against us, and therefor a terrorist.
The other versions will be build opon the "Infect Me" version. That's ObjectOriented for you. :)
"this method binds hydrogen to a pellet which is completely safe to handle at room temperature."
hmm... well if a car is crashing it will get alot hotter then just room temperature, the impact of the crash will result in disformation of the vehicle but also in an encrease in temperature.
FTA:"This laptop was designed for one thing and one thing only - to win the game and look good doing it."
makes you wonder a bit, will he start up his laptop to do the math?
well, they can sell it to you, just the same as they can sell you air. You don't have to buy it, to use it all the same. USPTO/RIAA/MPAA don't own those rights either. (Prior art and such, for the USPTO, so patenting is out) RIAA and MPAA only owns a derived piece of art. Just claim you used the original.
IANAL
Considering it is automatically translated it is quite cool: it is not correct, but you do get the general idea, for the translation, though there are some errors in the first translation, and there are some errors in the second translation. So it's not perfect, but close enough for some informal translation.
The mistakes made here are less important than the mistakes made in some manual from Sony, which replaces random Dutch words with its German, rendering it unreadable for those who don't speak German. Though these mistakes are less often than in this translation.
For a bigger audience, or an extremly impatient audience I'd still get a human translator, but for private messages, it'll work just fine.
It's not that there is no known proof/disproof. It's that it's easy to see that proof or disproof is impossible.
So what is your point? you're meerly stating the obvious I didn't go into that, because it is the way most people see things. But on the other hand, what we think is correct at the current time, could be seen completely different in a couple of years time. So there is no proof for something to be unproofable, perhaps the proof isn't found jet.
Appearent proof of god could be a being powerfull to fool us
Well wouldn't you call that a god? I don't know but if it acts like a god, has power like a god, it probably is one. Or do you think someone will go through all that trouble just to make you believe the being is a god?
I meerly state that for making ID work you'll need to find a creator, and that could be anything, but as the parent said, God is irrelevant, well I dare to differ, for ID to work god is definitly relevant. Though, god might be something different we expected.
Well actually, ID requires someone with a clue one how life and everyting is created. This someone, lets call it "The Creator" could be defined as god.
It doesn't nessesarily means to be one god, or Christ, Jaweh, Buddah, or just a bunch of aliens but still it requires someone or some group, non human, since they didn't exist at the time.
Therefor god is relevant, if it is proven no one existed to create/design the world and it enhabitants, it will be falsifiable, and thus making it science.
Though there is no known proof of a (group of) gods, on the other hand there is no proof of the non existance of a (group of) gods.
Bit of making it the billion dollar question, ain' it?
Going offtopic: I don't believe in a god, but if it exists or existed it did a moderate job in designing. Nor do I believe in the non existance of a god, it's just something I cannot proof or disproof.
My personal view is that religion is just an invention to deal with bad luck, it's a comfort, it doesn't need to be true to give it that comfort. Therefor I believe things will work out in the end. It doesn't need to be right, but I like to think so.
FTA:
The acronym SHARE does not stand for anything; according to organizers, it refers to sharing information.
hmm... appearantly acronym doesn't either.
well actually, I think it was... but it's just a long time ago, you'll probably won't remember.
if it is private property you're on, then you can choose to be on it. (or you can choose to go else where.)
In the public space, well, you can choose to stay at home all day and eat ordered pizza every day, never set a foot out the door, but let's be realistic it would be devastating for your personal life.
public space is "owned" by us all, private property isn't. just a difference, but I think a significant one. (otherwise I can't follow the reasoning, I'd sure as hell would be uncomfortable knowing I'd be spied upon when in the dressing room)
Yes government is granted powers, but it isn't granted the abuse. A shopping store is granted the protection of it's property, but there are different ways of doing so. Having a "servent/counseler/dressing advisor" at the dressingroom is quite effective in combination with a limited amount of items in the dressingrooms. It should be a sign: person x went in with n items, came out with m items (m<n). This in combination with a camera at the entrance of the dressingrooms will do the proofing bit.
It isn't a country, but hell it's foreign.
:) and I'm not the only one who isn't a US citizen, I recently saw a great dutchism http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=158309&cid=132 63501/ what was meant of course was Dutch soccer team, this to the foreigners translates directly to Nederlands voetbal team (foot is stated as voet in Dutch)) /offtopic
offtopic (to me at least
Stress the words: hard work :)
There's a difference, a tiny one, but than again pretty noticable.
I thought mozilla already has done this, it was a while ago, (think around 2001 or 2002, but that's just a hunch).
If I remember correctly they offered $500 for each security flaw in the mozilla browser or something.