nice quote:
It starts with a deception: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights." While true, all newborns are born with no dignity or rights.
It continues with an inacccuracy: "They are endowed with reason and conscience..." Not all humans necessarily possess reason or conscience. Certainly not in equal measure.
And concludes with an ambiguous, wishful suggestion: "and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." That doesn't declare anything or specify any rights.
Which basic human rights were denied?
Also, which military tribunal is authorative to you? Do you think a Taliban tribunal should determine the enemy combatant status? Or Belgian?
They call the vehicles "Gators", not "Golf Carts."
Oh, and it explicitly says use of pepper spray may be allowed:
The CJDOG, DCJDOG, JDOG S3, CO, PL, or
SOG may authorize the use of OC pepper spray to
preclude the use of physical force by the IRF
Team/Escorts. This will be to control an unruly
detainee or detainees; to prevent the commission of a
serious offense involving violence and threatening
death or serious bodily harm; in self defense; to prevent
a detainee from escaping; or to extract an detainee(s)
involved in a riot or disturbance. Do not use OC to
respond to spitters, urinators, or water throwers.
But everyone knows that history was written by the winners. Just because your nutjob comes up with a cure for cancer and an unstoppable death ray means that he's going to beat the plodding peer-reviewists and write a version of the facts that make it look like his way was better than bureaucracy and political correctness.
If the web isn't a better medium then paper, we might as well just wad it up and throw it away.
If, as you say, it takes only a few weekends to understand the concept of CSS and maybe a couple months to master, you might consider that someone you're talking to might have more than a passing familiarity with the medium. By your own words, you're not as elite as you claim. A lot of high school kids do understand CSS and see it's limitations and realize solutions for them. Just because it didn't occur to some committee of politically correct PhDs worried about their grant money if they don't add bullet points for screen readers for crippled colored poor Africans. Newsflash, screenreaders, get paid $10 per hour, and chat over tea, thanks to government welfare. Computer programs still couldn't read if their life depended on it, despite what you saw in a Star Trek utopia.
PS. There aren't any blacksmiths anymore. We use steel and carbon fiber reinforced polymer resins, and no one with a potter's wheel can turn out the kinds of widgets that robotic laser lathes can.
Your analysis is fine, except "wholesale" spectrum is kinda like "wholesale" gold. Only much scarcer, and getting even more so. Maybe a better analogy would be wholesale oceanfront real estate, in that there's a finite amount and that it's getting smaller all the time. Maybe Apple doesn't want to build the infrastructure, but whoever wins this auction is sitting on a gold mine, and the "wholesale" price for leasing the spectrum will be pretty profitable, unless the auction price goes through the roof. Even so, in time, it will only get more valuable, so a bid at full market value for the spectrum today, will actually be a bargain next year when there is less spectrum available.
Verizon doesn't even compare to AT&T. The biggest problem with AT&T's network is that they've got two incompatible 2.5G networks that they're trying to merge. Verizon still has nothing like what Cingular or AWS had before the merger. If they were leapfrogging, that might be an advantage, but they're not improving they're network, they're living off the fat of 75% the land lines they got for free. AT&T is trying to move into the modern world, and the only carrier that can compete (coincidentally using the same technology) is T-Mobile, but they're in no position to invest.
Europeans have no idea about different spectrums, different technologies, different (competing) carries, or large are coverage, so they don't understand and are typically unable to comment on the situation over here. Most of them still trot out that hubs in Europe were offering SMS before the US in the 1990s, and consider that evidence of perpetual technological superiority.
I'm interested too. Getting the hardware interface working is the trick. Barcode scanners are easy enough, but touchscreens might be trickier. And then drivers for the receipt printer and cash drawer and credit card readers.
So I see three systems:
1. The POS application. That's fairly straightforward. Creating it modularly and fulfilling tax and accounting requirements are the difficult part, but really just about finding the right regulations and other documents.
2. The drivers for all the POS hardware. Probably a base Linux OS (pick your flavor) frozen and tested with identified drivers for specific hardware. I'd start small and just get what you intend to use. The value add will be in adding support for new hardware and this will be a good area for (paid) community involvement.
3. A framework for integration with back end inventory, accounting, and payroll/timesheet applications. This would be where bespoke customization could pay off.
Like I said, I'm interested, willing to learn existing POS and integration apps, but not really expert at writing drivers. My email is ahdevans atgmail.com
Canadians don't have to worry about "the system" because America shoulders that burden for them. And for most of Europe. And the great thing is, when a Canadian has a toothache and doesn't want to wait in line, or needs open heart surgery, or medicine for his cholesterol, the US health care system is there to bail him out.
Actually, the only failed experiment is one you try that fails. If you don't try it, you didn't fail the experiment. It may pass or fail if you try it in the future, but you might have spent your time more wisely doing something else -- even possibly a different experiment where knowing the outcome is more valuable.
Is that the wilderness with the parking lot just off the freeway, the one full of all the other people in their Subarus and shopping mall camping gear?
Add adventurous, supportive, genuine women to that list. They don't like that nonsense either.
The materialistic, petty women I've met were all getting drunk in Costa Rica, Cancun, Las Vegas, and other exotic locations with McDonalds and Starbucks on every corner, and living off their parents, just like you.
No, it's just that a lot of the changes in Office happened under the hood. Office 2003 is the prime competitor to HTML for application development. Back when web 2.0 meant rich apps (read: RSS feed readers and blog posting tools) Microsoft positioned Office to become the web 2.0 development platform. They sort of gave that up, but if Infopath had been integrated into Word instead of sold separately as an XML Access, you'd see all those web forms as documents that could be sent around via email. Still, they're making a lot of money off of Sharepoint and still selling SQL Server as a file store, so they didn't lose much.
If I could pick one job it would be to work for Sun and make Open Office the document-centric web development platform. That's what businesses really want, a printable invoice that connects to the database.
It's not a fallacy, though it's a weak argument, and definitely not always true. In technical matters, actually, criticism leveled by someone with less experience is more often than not, wrong.
Yeah, and just like their kin, environmentalists, they're oblivious to whose agenda they're support -- whether it be Dupont and Weyerhauser or Microsoft and the RIAA.
Myspace-type communication provides a different type of communication. It is persistent for one, it is one-to-many for another. Blogs are in this same category. Pre-web equivalents were the "open letter" like a christmas letter sent to all your friends and family, or for my space, gossiping.
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nice quote: It starts with a deception: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights." While true, all newborns are born with no dignity or rights. It continues with an inacccuracy: "They are endowed with reason and conscience..." Not all humans necessarily possess reason or conscience. Certainly not in equal measure. And concludes with an ambiguous, wishful suggestion: "and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." That doesn't declare anything or specify any rights.
Which basic human rights were denied? Also, which military tribunal is authorative to you? Do you think a Taliban tribunal should determine the enemy combatant status? Or Belgian?
They call the vehicles "Gators", not "Golf Carts." Oh, and it explicitly says use of pepper spray may be allowed: The CJDOG, DCJDOG, JDOG S3, CO, PL, or SOG may authorize the use of OC pepper spray to preclude the use of physical force by the IRF Team/Escorts. This will be to control an unruly detainee or detainees; to prevent the commission of a serious offense involving violence and threatening death or serious bodily harm; in self defense; to prevent a detainee from escaping; or to extract an detainee(s) involved in a riot or disturbance. Do not use OC to respond to spitters, urinators, or water throwers.
But everyone knows that history was written by the winners. Just because your nutjob comes up with a cure for cancer and an unstoppable death ray means that he's going to beat the plodding peer-reviewists and write a version of the facts that make it look like his way was better than bureaucracy and political correctness.
To be fair, it was at the end of the discourse.
If the web isn't a better medium then paper, we might as well just wad it up and throw it away. If, as you say, it takes only a few weekends to understand the concept of CSS and maybe a couple months to master, you might consider that someone you're talking to might have more than a passing familiarity with the medium. By your own words, you're not as elite as you claim. A lot of high school kids do understand CSS and see it's limitations and realize solutions for them. Just because it didn't occur to some committee of politically correct PhDs worried about their grant money if they don't add bullet points for screen readers for crippled colored poor Africans. Newsflash, screenreaders, get paid $10 per hour, and chat over tea, thanks to government welfare. Computer programs still couldn't read if their life depended on it, despite what you saw in a Star Trek utopia. PS. There aren't any blacksmiths anymore. We use steel and carbon fiber reinforced polymer resins, and no one with a potter's wheel can turn out the kinds of widgets that robotic laser lathes can.
Your analysis is fine, except "wholesale" spectrum is kinda like "wholesale" gold. Only much scarcer, and getting even more so. Maybe a better analogy would be wholesale oceanfront real estate, in that there's a finite amount and that it's getting smaller all the time. Maybe Apple doesn't want to build the infrastructure, but whoever wins this auction is sitting on a gold mine, and the "wholesale" price for leasing the spectrum will be pretty profitable, unless the auction price goes through the roof. Even so, in time, it will only get more valuable, so a bid at full market value for the spectrum today, will actually be a bargain next year when there is less spectrum available.
Verizon doesn't even compare to AT&T. The biggest problem with AT&T's network is that they've got two incompatible 2.5G networks that they're trying to merge. Verizon still has nothing like what Cingular or AWS had before the merger. If they were leapfrogging, that might be an advantage, but they're not improving they're network, they're living off the fat of 75% the land lines they got for free. AT&T is trying to move into the modern world, and the only carrier that can compete (coincidentally using the same technology) is T-Mobile, but they're in no position to invest. Europeans have no idea about different spectrums, different technologies, different (competing) carries, or large are coverage, so they don't understand and are typically unable to comment on the situation over here. Most of them still trot out that hubs in Europe were offering SMS before the US in the 1990s, and consider that evidence of perpetual technological superiority.
Canada isn't a certain localized area. It's a huge chunk of the earth's surface.
You're stupid.
Yes, it would be just like that if Bjarne Stroustrup had invented Java.
I'm interested too. Getting the hardware interface working is the trick. Barcode scanners are easy enough, but touchscreens might be trickier. And then drivers for the receipt printer and cash drawer and credit card readers.
So I see three systems:
1. The POS application. That's fairly straightforward. Creating it modularly and fulfilling tax and accounting requirements are the difficult part, but really just about finding the right regulations and other documents.
2. The drivers for all the POS hardware. Probably a base Linux OS (pick your flavor) frozen and tested with identified drivers for specific hardware. I'd start small and just get what you intend to use. The value add will be in adding support for new hardware and this will be a good area for (paid) community involvement.
3. A framework for integration with back end inventory, accounting, and payroll/timesheet applications. This would be where bespoke customization could pay off.
Like I said, I'm interested, willing to learn existing POS and integration apps, but not really expert at writing drivers. My email is ahdevans atgmail.com
Most everything else is made in Taiwan, a separate country, containing the exiles who fled China when the communists took over.
Canadians don't have to worry about "the system" because America shoulders that burden for them. And for most of Europe. And the great thing is, when a Canadian has a toothache and doesn't want to wait in line, or needs open heart surgery, or medicine for his cholesterol, the US health care system is there to bail him out.
Actually, the only failed experiment is one you try that fails. If you don't try it, you didn't fail the experiment. It may pass or fail if you try it in the future, but you might have spent your time more wisely doing something else -- even possibly a different experiment where knowing the outcome is more valuable.
That's a bug in slashdot. Why should anyone work around it?
If you'd read the title to the summary to which the article was linked, you see that the "concerns" were "specious" -- that means "not credible."
Is that the wilderness with the parking lot just off the freeway, the one full of all the other people in their Subarus and shopping mall camping gear?
Add adventurous, supportive, genuine women to that list. They don't like that nonsense either. The materialistic, petty women I've met were all getting drunk in Costa Rica, Cancun, Las Vegas, and other exotic locations with McDonalds and Starbucks on every corner, and living off their parents, just like you.
No one pays for an ad to run if they don't approve of the content.
No, it's just that a lot of the changes in Office happened under the hood. Office 2003 is the prime competitor to HTML for application development. Back when web 2.0 meant rich apps (read: RSS feed readers and blog posting tools) Microsoft positioned Office to become the web 2.0 development platform. They sort of gave that up, but if Infopath had been integrated into Word instead of sold separately as an XML Access, you'd see all those web forms as documents that could be sent around via email. Still, they're making a lot of money off of Sharepoint and still selling SQL Server as a file store, so they didn't lose much. If I could pick one job it would be to work for Sun and make Open Office the document-centric web development platform. That's what businesses really want, a printable invoice that connects to the database.
It's not a fallacy, though it's a weak argument, and definitely not always true. In technical matters, actually, criticism leveled by someone with less experience is more often than not, wrong.
Yeah, and just like their kin, environmentalists, they're oblivious to whose agenda they're support -- whether it be Dupont and Weyerhauser or Microsoft and the RIAA.
Yeah, the smiley face is in the King James Version of the bible, as well as the wink. That's at least 400 years old.
Myspace-type communication provides a different type of communication. It is persistent for one, it is one-to-many for another. Blogs are in this same category. Pre-web equivalents were the "open letter" like a christmas letter sent to all your friends and family, or for my space, gossiping.