I'm betting whatever fine will be levied in Euros.
Given that the dollar has lost about 30% of its value against the Euro over the last year, paying sooner rather than later might be a good idea from the ForEx perspective.
[Please pardon my ignorance if Everybody Already Knows This.]
I got a cell phone (Mot v60i) about a year ago. I enter in the directory a bunch of the numbers I frequently dial. Works great for my universe of about 20 numbers.
Once in a while I need to lookup a number of a restaurant, doctor's office, etc.. Not lugging the white pages whereever I go, my only current option is to make a call to information and get charged some fee to find out the number.
Isn't there some way of having a cheaper directory lookup service based on text and scrolling of viewing the white pages online without needing to callup some human?
And, what's your guess as to what a representative, popularly-elected government in Iraq will look like?
In particular, will "tyranny of the majority" cause minority factions (eg, Kurds, Sunnis, non-Islamic religions, etc.) to become dissatisfied and resort to arms?
How's the free press? Broadly factual, rational, sensational, biased?
I don't have the SLIGHTEST clue how to do ANYTHING with Powerpoint.
Since the usefulness of Powerpoint as a piece of software is completely questionable to me, any effort spent in trying to figure out how to use it would be completely wasted.
I agree with you vehemently.
Unfortunately, as I speak, collaborators have pointed me to their ppt file where I need to shove in 3 pages of my stuff which I had done quite nicely earlier using pdflatex.
As so even as I curse PowerPoints ubiquity, I recognize the necessity of needing to know how to do rudimentary things with it merely because I live in a world where I must collaborate.
I've had an RFID access badge for years. I don't see how that would reflect negatively on my employers.
It wouldn't, necessarily.
It all depends on how your employer uses the technology.
If it's purely as a convenience so you can get access where you need to be, great.
On the other hand, if your employer comes back and tells you that you left work 3 minutes early one day last week, took too many bathroom breaks last shift, or even that they're concerned that you visited a "partnering" liquor store late last night, then you might feel differently.
offended by getting stopped at a store exit to have my purchase and receipt examined
disappointed that the merchandise was shoddy
My later experiences were that:
they created a traffic nightmare where they were built
the old box stores create a hollow vacuum when they pull out
their policy for establishing new stores runs roughshod over local citizen's concerns
they employ a lot of retirees part-time with low wages and low benefits (I think they employ more people than anyone in the U.S. and in my state, too.)
they stand front and center to take credit for charitable contributions that come from their impoverished employees
"just folks" and their mouthpiece, Paul Harvey, like WalMart
All in all, their success is depressing; their presence detracts from public space and forcibly homogenizes our culture.
Maybe if I were either very poor (every dollar counts) or very rich (owning shares of a succesful compnay) I'd like WalMart.
But I'm curious where Keith Packard stands relative to all of this; he has talent to contribute substantially to an improved X and has had enough problems with the earlier XFree86 development that he thought a fork was justified.
Given all of the other information about WalMart's record as an employer, I predict RFID tags will be applied to their employees' badges before they are deployed on a larger scale to individual retail items.
Reagan, professional actor, "The Great Communicator", mentions Evil Empire =
W, ex prep-school cheerleader, agonizing oratory style, mentions "Axis of Evil"
Reagan delegates critical decisions to underlings like James Watt = W delegates everything to underlings like Cheney, Rumsfield
It's pretty clear that Win2K is securable in principle, just as Linux is.
The fundamental problem is that the app developers in Redmond thought they knew better than the rest of the world about adding "features" to enhance the user experience.
The bad scenario for Linux is stopped because users have a choice of MUA - one that conveniently and automatically runs binaries and shell scripts would be welcomed with jaw-dropping disbelief.
In the Windows world, bad ideas are pre-installed to a base of largely unsuspecting users. If binary installations and a dominant vendor with non-interoperable features arose in the Linux market, then the same Bad Thing could happen, but it's not anywhere in the near future.
So I'm curious if, after the demos of EAL'd systems to government buyers, they allow the system to be modified - upgraded kernels, adding apache, etc.?
I'm just wondering if the bureaucratic hurdle is a "one time, just to prove you can be certified" or whether it's an ongoing PITA?
Presenting the pro-Fax.com side as roughly believable as the anti-fax.com "side" is disingenous on any level. It is not journalism; at worst it is Machiavellan manipulation of perception.
I'm in agreement with you on this.
But successful growing media businesses, eg, Rupert Murdoch's empire, are based on increasing the audience, which is what brings in ad revenue.
That's the bottom line.
We may wish for our journalists to be noble pursuers of truth, but if cockeyed slanted rumour gets larger audiences than dispassionate careful rational analysis and exhaustive research, then it's a foregone conclusion as to what kinds of "news" sources the market will drive towards.
One possibility is to diffuse the access. If everyone agreed to be part of a P2P router cluster. Packets would bounce around many different inefficient hops, each acting like a proxy server, but auditing would then require pretty much a complete record of packet traffic - more than what is reasonable to keep records of for any length of time.
Try not watching TV for a week sometime. It's one of the more insidious causes of stress I know, not the least because it robs you of time to reflect, to read, to talk to other people, or sleep. There's also all the "conditioning" to make you feel anxious if you don't buy some product. That can't be healthy.
it's a matter of time before the formation of some semblance of world government.
Multinational corporations are trying their best to merge what they like from the United States, unfettered free enterprise, (they dislike the instability of democracy which might compromise that), with what they like from the People's Republic of China, authoritarian suppression of dissent (they dislike all that Marxist rhetoric the Party was founded upon).
Arguably, if you strongly control both the United States and China you pretty much have the world wrapped up these days.
A timely example might be expressions by President Bush on the one hand and that many Americans believe Saddam Hussein was responsible for what happened on Sept 11, 2001.
IOW, if I buy a used car because the salesman said things that made me feel good about my purchase, bad about not purchasing and later I found out the car was a lemon, then whose responsibility was it?
the global media companys will regret that they spent so much effort creating a public perception that viewing mass-marketed media products (movies, music, games, ect...) is somehow illegal because this perception will eventually start to shrink their market and revenue streams.
Or, worse, society at large will regret it has become one in which artificial constraints has created people who regard flaunting the law as not a big deal at all, exciting, etc.
When people come up with
"Hey! I have a great idea! Let's use the legal system to help preserve my current revenue stream!"
then the legal system cheapens and, in the end, society at large suffers.
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With US 52.8 billion dollars in the bank
I'm betting whatever fine will be levied in Euros.
Given that the dollar has lost about 30% of its value against the Euro over the last year, paying sooner rather than later might be a good idea from the ForEx perspective.
[Please pardon my ignorance if Everybody Already Knows This.]
I got a cell phone (Mot v60i) about a year ago. I enter in the directory a bunch of the numbers I frequently dial. Works great for my universe of about 20 numbers.
Once in a while I need to lookup a number of a restaurant, doctor's office, etc.. Not lugging the white pages whereever I go, my only current option is to make a call to information and get charged some fee to find out the number.
Isn't there some way of having a cheaper directory lookup service based on text and scrolling of viewing the white pages online without needing to callup some human?
Just seems like it should be so...
And, what's your guess as to what a representative, popularly-elected government in Iraq will look like?
In particular, will "tyranny of the majority" cause minority factions (eg, Kurds, Sunnis, non-Islamic religions, etc.) to become dissatisfied and resort to arms?
How's the free press? Broadly factual, rational, sensational, biased?
Damn, so that's why the Republican controlled Congress is doing the traditionally Democratic "overspend" thing!
I don't have the SLIGHTEST clue how to do ANYTHING with Powerpoint.
Since the usefulness of Powerpoint as a piece of software is completely questionable to me, any effort spent in trying to figure out how to use it would be completely wasted.
I agree with you vehemently.
Unfortunately, as I speak, collaborators have pointed me to their ppt file where I need to shove in 3 pages of my stuff which I had done quite nicely earlier using pdflatex.
As so even as I curse PowerPoints ubiquity, I recognize the necessity of needing to know how to do rudimentary things with it merely because I live in a world where I must collaborate.
thing's value is not derived from the costs involved in making it.
An excellent illustration of the differences is the cost of cocaine at different points along the production and distribution chain.
As far as Microsoft products such as Windows and Office are concerned, the Inquirer dug up some of the more interesting figures.
Basically, most businesses would love to have margins on their products like MS. Only the pharmaceutical companies are in the same league as MSFT.
You're absolutely correct.
I'd actually like to see WalMart get some competition.
What I dislike is that they can essentially negotiate a different price from suppliers than anyone else.
Free market efficiency and fairness would be improved if contracted terms and prices for all transactions had to be disclosed publicly.
I understand that suppliers are entitled to offer volume buying pricing, but anyone and everyone ought to be entitled to the same terms.
Are there any listings of great places for RSS feeds?
I know of a few pretty much by chance, like /., but there must be tons of interesting sites out there that provide RSS.
Who?
I've had an RFID access badge for years. I don't see how that would reflect negatively on my employers.
It wouldn't, necessarily.
It all depends on how your employer uses the technology.
If it's purely as a convenience so you can get access where you need to be, great.
On the other hand, if your employer comes back and tells you that you left work 3 minutes early one day last week, took too many bathroom breaks last shift, or even that they're concerned that you visited a "partnering" liquor store late last night, then you might feel differently.
only low prices
Ain't that the truth.
My early experiences with WalMart were:
- impressed with low prices
- offended by getting stopped at a store exit to have my purchase and receipt examined
- disappointed that the merchandise was shoddy
My later experiences were that:- they created a traffic nightmare where they were built
- the old box stores create a hollow vacuum when they pull out
- their policy for establishing new stores runs roughshod over local citizen's concerns
- they employ a lot of retirees part-time with low wages and low benefits (I think they employ more people than anyone in the U.S. and in my state, too.)
- they stand front and center to take credit for charitable contributions that come from their impoverished employees
- "just folks" and their mouthpiece, Paul Harvey, like WalMart
All in all, their success is depressing; their presence detracts from public space and forcibly homogenizes our culture.Maybe if I were either very poor (every dollar counts) or very rich (owning shares of a succesful compnay) I'd like WalMart.
A real welcome development.
But I'm curious where Keith Packard stands relative to all of this; he has talent to contribute substantially to an improved X and has had enough problems with the earlier XFree86 development that he thought a fork was justified.
Given all of the other information about WalMart's record as an employer, I predict RFID tags will be applied to their employees' badges before they are deployed on a larger scale to individual retail items.
More:
studying their strategies and passing on the juicy bits to the media.
Pray tell, what juicy bits?
It's pretty clear that Win2K is securable in principle, just as Linux is.
The fundamental problem is that the app developers in Redmond thought they knew better than the rest of the world about adding "features" to enhance the user experience.
The bad scenario for Linux is stopped because users have a choice of MUA - one that conveniently and automatically runs binaries and shell scripts would be welcomed with jaw-dropping disbelief.
In the Windows world, bad ideas are pre-installed to a base of largely unsuspecting users. If binary installations and a dominant vendor with non-interoperable features arose in the Linux market, then the same Bad Thing could happen, but it's not anywhere in the near future.
So I'm curious if, after the demos of EAL'd systems to government buyers, they allow the system to be modified - upgraded kernels, adding apache, etc.?
I'm just wondering if the bureaucratic hurdle is a "one time, just to prove you can be certified" or whether it's an ongoing PITA?
Presenting the pro-Fax.com side as roughly believable as the anti-fax.com "side" is disingenous on any level. It is not journalism; at worst it is Machiavellan manipulation of perception.
I'm in agreement with you on this.
But successful growing media businesses, eg, Rupert Murdoch's empire, are based on increasing the audience, which is what brings in ad revenue.
That's the bottom line.
We may wish for our journalists to be noble pursuers of truth, but if cockeyed slanted rumour gets larger audiences than dispassionate careful rational analysis and exhaustive research, then it's a foregone conclusion as to what kinds of "news" sources the market will drive towards.
These depressing trends have been noted previously.
One possibility is to diffuse the access. If everyone agreed to be part of a P2P router cluster. Packets would bounce around many different inefficient hops, each acting like a proxy server, but auditing would then require pretty much a complete record of packet traffic - more than what is reasonable to keep records of for any length of time.
the cell phone is the biggest stress-causer ever
Try not watching TV for a week sometime. It's one of the more insidious causes of stress I know, not the least because it robs you of time to reflect, to read, to talk to other people, or sleep. There's also all the "conditioning" to make you feel anxious if you don't buy some product. That can't be healthy.
A new synonym for "RAMBUS".
it's a matter of time before the formation of some semblance of world government.
Multinational corporations are trying their best to merge what they like from the United States, unfettered free enterprise, (they dislike the instability of democracy which might compromise that), with what they like from the People's Republic of China, authoritarian suppression of dissent (they dislike all that Marxist rhetoric the Party was founded upon).
Arguably, if you strongly control both the United States and China you pretty much have the world wrapped up these days.
I really welcome new small form factor computers like this one from Shuttle.
As much as I like computers, I dislike
- space they take up
- rats nest of cables in the back (like Brazil)
- fan noise
A laptop solves these problems, but at the sacrifice of a lousier keyboard and mouse interface.The $300 price definitely helps market a machine, too, where used computers are cheap.
create platforms for rich client applications that work in internet browsers.
So I know just enough to ask a question: How do these rich client application development tools compare with one another?
Quite right.
There's a difference between
A timely example might be expressions by President Bush on the one hand and that many Americans believe Saddam Hussein was responsible for what happened on Sept 11, 2001.
IOW, if I buy a used car because the salesman said things that made me feel good about my purchase, bad about not purchasing and later I found out the car was a lemon, then whose responsibility was it?
the global media companys will regret that they spent so much effort creating a public perception that viewing mass-marketed media products (movies, music, games, ect...) is somehow illegal because this perception will eventually start to shrink their market and revenue streams.
Or, worse, society at large will regret it has become one in which artificial constraints has created people who regard flaunting the law as not a big deal at all, exciting, etc.
When people come up with
then the legal system cheapens and, in the end, society at large suffers.