> Thank the engineers who designed and built the power grids for that — but don't thank them too much. Their main goal was reliability; keeping > the cost of electricity down was less of a concern. That's in part why so many people in the United States complain about high electricity prices.
Can't agree with that. In New Zealand the main goal of the engineers who designed and built the electricity infrastructure also was reliability. The cost of electricity in NZ, while it has increased massively in recent times since the electricity industry was deregulated, is relatively low - and continues to be cheaper than in the USA, Canada, the UK, and most if not all of Europe.
> Some armchair economists (and a quite a few real ones) have long argued that the solution is deregulation. After all, many other US industries > have been deregulated — take, for instance, oil, natural gas, or trucking — and greater competition in those sectors swiftly brought prices > down. Why not electricity?"
Deregulation is not the solution.Many essential aspects of infrastructure were deregulated and privatized by successive right-wing governments over the years. The net result in each and every case was increased prices being charged to consumers, and/or reduced quality of service.
So, we can certainly say from experience that "deregulation" is NOT a valid solution for problems in infrastructure areas that are a natural monopoly such as electricity, gas, water, telephone lines, rail, roads, and television. At least deregulation is not a valid solution unless you want to see prices triple!
1600*1200 at 80Hz in a 19" monitor is good for most purposes.
Unfortunately Most LCD screens don't have 1200 vertical pixels in the same physical space as CRT monitors, and their images don't seem to be as sharp.:(
> This can't really surprise anyone. I'm sure there are plenty of things our > government has kept from us either "for our own good" (their rationale for > hiding their actions) and for national security reasons (we can't disclose > everything).
1/ it shouldn't surprise anyone who has been watching the actions of the USA over the last 10 years because the government of that country has proven that it cannot be trusted.
2/ The government of the USA demonstrates repeatedly that it doesn't trust the people that it was elected to represent. Oh that's right - it isn't actually a real democracy. Their "president" is appointed and rules by fiat!
3/ It isn't "our" government. This is an international forum. Please respect that fact.
> But how much do we really want to know? No matter how much they > tell us we always suspect more... and the conspiracy theorists > will only use the truth to build even more elaborate plots of > imaginative intrigue and nefarious actions.
The people of the USA *should* want to know everything that is being done in their name. If they don't take ownership of the actions done in their name by holding their representatives responsible then they should not be surprised when the rest of the world takes action by, for example, obliterating a landmark building in New York.
This latest revelation only demonstrates that the actions taken by the USA since 11/9/2001 have really been happening all along, just not so visibly.
I think that the facts of the case clearly support Novell.
I think that Novell should win for multiple reasons:
1/ that the copyrights did not transfer to the S.C.O.
2/ that NewSCO tried to get Novell to assign the copyrights, that Novell didn't want to do so and therefore NewSCO took Novell to court in an attempt to take the copyrights from Novell.
3/ that NewSCO has been such a slimy corporation and has been so malicious to Novell that NewSCO doesn't deserve to get the copyrights.
HOWEVER, I think that given the jury may consist of persons who may be lacking in education, and may potentially be scammers themselves (you can't tell what the predisposition of any jury person is due to not actually knowing who they are and what their background is) there is at least a chance that NewSCO's lawyers may have been able to pull the wool down far enough so that at least one person on the Jury might just have believed NewSCO's pathetic bleating.
I agree - such a stupid case as this could only ever have been strung out this long in the USA. Every country that actually has a savvy and just legal system would have thrown out this case as having no chance of success and therefore not worth following through.
There are issues that need to be considered, and risks that need to be accepted when contemplating a migration over to using Gmail.
1/ a large organisation currently using MS Exchange will most likely end up needing to replace their existing server(s) with potentially more servers in order to go with a gmail solution - especially if a single-sign-on solution is wanted.
2/ internet bandwidth costs will dramatically increase.
3/ there is presently no easy way to walk away from using gmail if a decision is made at a later date to move away from gmail.
Why is it that, over the generations - including the more recent Women's Liberated generations - both women and men perceived males to have greater intelligence than females?
And puhlease don't give any of the pathetic anti-male "patriarchy" bullshit because I don't buy into it as a reason for why one gender should be perceived as being more intelligent than the other.
If possible stick to presenting actual empirical data from actual research.
> Microsoft now says that its November Windows updates are not causing > the BlackSOD: "The company has found those reports to be inaccurate > and our comprehensive investigation has shown that none of the recently > released updates are related to the behavior described in the reports."
"We know those reports are inaccurate because we already knew about this before releasing the November updates and so it couldn't possibly be related to the November updates. It is an issue that we are having considerable difficulties fixing hence not being fixed in the November updates and hoped that nobody would have commented about it so soon."
In general terms I'm curious to learn a little more about this.
How long ago did you stop working for Microsoft? For how long were you working for that corporation? And in general terms why did you decide to stop working for Microsoft?
The reason why I am asking is so that I can get a feel for the validity of your statement about the coding culture amongst people working for Microsoft.
> "Like many recent college grads, Steven Lee finds himself > unemployed in one of the roughest job markets in decades > and saddled with a big pile of debt -- he owes about $84,000 > in student loans for undergrad and grad school.
He should count himself lucky that he's only got an $85,000 student debt.
I know of people who have well over $100,000 student debt as their Veterinarian course fees were hideously expensive.
It appears that Mozilla wants to swap out a standard, stable, well organised and well known cross-platform GUI with one that requires more CPU effort, is confusing and inconsistent.
Personally, I thought that Mozilla had more common sense than to use the MS Office Ribbon, and I don't consider the Mozilla GUI to be out of date, and neither does it look out of date. It just doesn't look like MS Office - and that fact is a good thing!
> The Google book deal has received considerable attention but > for the most part it has been negative.
Surely most of the general public has viewed this Google project as a positive thing. Only large multinational corporations such as the large publishing houses, the RIAA [sic], Sony, and Microsoft (with their copyright and DRM interests) are the ones squeeling about Google making a fair-use amount of a book available for a reader to peruse.
Lets face it, MP3s make it easy for listeners to decide in a fair-use way if an album is worth buying (much like walking into a shop and asking to listen to the album). Fair-use viewing of a book is much the same as standing in the store and flipping through the book.
> On the bright side, it includes math showing that the total damages from > copyright infringement by children in the US amount to a measly $7.8 million.
How does the RIAA know that "children" have made $7.8 million American dollars worth of illegal copies of music?
Heh heh. Why doesn't the RIAA sue all those children for those known copyright infringements?
I mean, Its already tried to sue people with no Internet connections.
Surely if anything, this would make children more aware than before that they are able to make copies of CDs.
> I don't understand why they're dragging their feet, as sooner or later something > installs a listening service (or the user already has such a service) and it's over.
The reason why MS is dragging its feet is that by not patching MS Windows XP/v5 there will be less of a reason for users to not move onto MS Windows v7.
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> Thank the engineers who designed and built the power grids for that — but don't thank them too much. Their main goal was reliability; keeping
> the cost of electricity down was less of a concern. That's in part why so many people in the United States complain about high electricity prices.
Can't agree with that. In New Zealand the main goal of the engineers who designed and built the electricity infrastructure also was reliability. The cost of electricity in NZ, while it has increased massively in recent times since the electricity industry was deregulated, is relatively low - and continues to be cheaper than in the USA, Canada, the UK, and most if not all of Europe.
> Some armchair economists (and a quite a few real ones) have long argued that the solution is deregulation. After all, many other US industries
> have been deregulated — take, for instance, oil, natural gas, or trucking — and greater competition in those sectors swiftly brought prices
> down. Why not electricity?"
Deregulation is not the solution.Many essential aspects of infrastructure were deregulated and privatized by successive right-wing governments over the years. The net result in each and every case was increased prices being charged to consumers, and/or reduced quality of service.
So, we can certainly say from experience that "deregulation" is NOT a valid solution for problems in infrastructure areas that are a natural monopoly such as electricity, gas, water, telephone lines, rail, roads, and television. At least deregulation is not a valid solution unless you want to see prices triple!
This sort of legal bullshit only demonstrates how bad the USian legal system is!
This is rich! Microsoft's software has the poorest interoperability capability of all Office Productivity suites.
Why should MS bitch about this when it's own software cannot even open basic documents created in other office productivity suites?
1600*1200 at 80Hz in a 19" monitor is good for most purposes.
Unfortunately Most LCD screens don't have 1200 vertical pixels in the same physical space as CRT monitors, and their images don't seem to be as sharp. :(
> This can't really surprise anyone. I'm sure there are plenty of things our
> government has kept from us either "for our own good" (their rationale for
> hiding their actions) and for national security reasons (we can't disclose
> everything).
1/ it shouldn't surprise anyone who has been watching the actions of the USA over the last 10 years because the government of that country has proven that it cannot be trusted.
2/ The government of the USA demonstrates repeatedly that it doesn't trust the people that it was elected to represent. Oh that's right - it isn't actually a real democracy. Their "president" is appointed and rules by fiat!
3/ It isn't "our" government. This is an international forum. Please respect that fact.
> But how much do we really want to know? No matter how much they ... and the conspiracy theorists
> tell us we always suspect more
> will only use the truth to build even more elaborate plots of
> imaginative intrigue and nefarious actions.
The people of the USA *should* want to know everything that is being done in their name. If they don't take ownership of the actions done in their name by holding their representatives responsible then they should not be surprised when the rest of the world takes action by, for example, obliterating a landmark building in New York.
This latest revelation only demonstrates that the actions taken by the USA since 11/9/2001 have really been happening all along, just not so visibly.
I think that the facts of the case clearly support Novell.
I think that Novell should win for multiple reasons:
1/ that the copyrights did not transfer to the S.C.O.
2/ that NewSCO tried to get Novell to assign the copyrights, that Novell didn't want to do so and therefore NewSCO took Novell to court in an attempt to take the copyrights from Novell.
3/ that NewSCO has been such a slimy corporation and has been so malicious to Novell that NewSCO doesn't deserve to get the copyrights.
HOWEVER, I think that given the jury may consist of persons who may be lacking in education, and may potentially be scammers themselves (you can't tell what the predisposition of any jury person is due to not actually knowing who they are and what their background is) there is at least a chance that NewSCO's lawyers may have been able to pull the wool down far enough so that at least one person on the Jury might just have believed NewSCO's pathetic bleating.
I agree - such a stupid case as this could only ever have been strung out this long in the USA. Every country that actually has a savvy and just legal system would have thrown out this case as having no chance of success and therefore not worth following through.
There are issues that need to be considered, and risks that need to be accepted when contemplating a migration over to using Gmail.
1/ a large organisation currently using MS Exchange will most likely end up needing to replace their existing server(s) with potentially more servers in order to go with a gmail solution - especially if a single-sign-on solution is wanted.
2/ internet bandwidth costs will dramatically increase.
3/ there is presently no easy way to walk away from using gmail if a decision is made at a later date to move away from gmail.
Has Microsoft been rudderless and uninspired/uninspiring for 10 years already?
More than 4/5ths of a Kilometer too!
4/5 sounds more than 1/2. And Kilometers are the new metric system that everyone (except the USA - funny that) is adopting.
> So why are we not building these reactors?"
Because the USA wanted to build nuclear bombs.
Have you considered simply putting an advert into a major daily newspaper?
What about advertising on websites such as Seek.co.nz, etc.
If you're looking to employ someone those are normally the sorts of things to do.
Why is it that, over the generations - including the more recent Women's Liberated generations - both women and men perceived males to have greater intelligence than females?
And puhlease don't give any of the pathetic anti-male "patriarchy" bullshit because I don't buy into it as a reason for why one gender should be perceived as being more intelligent than the other.
If possible stick to presenting actual empirical data from actual research.
> Microsoft now says that its November Windows updates are not causing
> the BlackSOD: "The company has found those reports to be inaccurate
> and our comprehensive investigation has shown that none of the recently
> released updates are related to the behavior described in the reports."
"We know those reports are inaccurate because we already knew about this before releasing the November updates and so it couldn't possibly be related to the November updates. It is an issue that we are having considerable difficulties fixing hence not being fixed in the November updates and hoped that nobody would have commented about it so soon."
I wonder if this means that if a scientist implanted this sort of implant into an animal that we would be able to figure out what it is thinking.
Never believe something until it is officially denied. :o)
> What the hell was the legal team doing?
Intimidating customers who had installed more than one copy of MS Windows?
Rearranging deck chairs on the Digital Restrictions Management palava?
> Microsoft 7 legally contains GPL code.
Excellent. That means that Microsoft Windows is now GPL'd software. :o)
Are you sure that your statement is correct?
Hi,
In general terms I'm curious to learn a little more about this.
How long ago did you stop working for Microsoft? For how long were you working for that corporation? And in general terms why did you decide to stop working for Microsoft?
The reason why I am asking is so that I can get a feel for the validity of your statement about the coding culture amongst people working for Microsoft.
If Microsoft can demonstrate a causal link between known pirated copies of it's flawed insecure OS, then why can't MS prosecute those pirates?
If I can't prove that any particular infected copy was pirated then it's merely spouting rubbish to defend the poor security of it's software.
> "Like many recent college grads, Steven Lee finds himself
> unemployed in one of the roughest job markets in decades
> and saddled with a big pile of debt -- he owes about $84,000
> in student loans for undergrad and grad school.
He should count himself lucky that he's only got an $85,000 student debt.
I know of people who have well over $100,000 student debt as their Veterinarian course fees were hideously expensive.
If you want to check out an Open Source application that is well on the way to being a Sharepoint killer check out SilverStripe.
http://silverstripe.org/
Lots of plugins and extensions already, available for all three platforms (Linux, MacOS, and Microsoft) and yet still under active development. :o)
Its actually a website CMS, but many of the extensions effectively make it much more than merely a _very_ easy-to-use CMS. :o)
It appears that Mozilla wants to swap out a standard, stable, well organised and well known cross-platform GUI with one that requires more CPU effort, is confusing and inconsistent.
Personally, I thought that Mozilla had more common sense than to use the MS Office Ribbon, and I don't consider the Mozilla GUI to be out of date, and neither does it look out of date. It just doesn't look like MS Office - and that fact is a good thing!
> The Google book deal has received considerable attention but
> for the most part it has been negative.
Surely most of the general public has viewed this Google project as a positive thing. Only large multinational corporations such as the large publishing houses, the RIAA [sic], Sony, and Microsoft (with their copyright and DRM interests) are the ones squeeling about Google making a fair-use amount of a book available for a reader to peruse.
Lets face it, MP3s make it easy for listeners to decide in a fair-use way if an album is worth buying (much like walking into a shop and asking to listen to the album). Fair-use viewing of a book is much the same as standing in the store and flipping through the book.
> On the bright side, it includes math showing that the total damages from
> copyright infringement by children in the US amount to a measly $7.8 million.
How does the RIAA know that "children" have made $7.8 million American dollars worth of illegal copies of music?
Heh heh. Why doesn't the RIAA sue all those children for those known copyright infringements?
I mean, Its already tried to sue people with no Internet connections.
Surely if anything, this would make children more aware than before that they are able to make copies of CDs.
> I don't understand why they're dragging their feet, as sooner or later something
> installs a listening service (or the user already has such a service) and it's over.
The reason why MS is dragging its feet is that by not patching MS Windows XP/v5 there will be less of a reason for users to not move onto MS Windows v7.