I think you may be under informed as to his credentials
As to how the pros use the current adaptability on browsers, try catching all of these.
HTML is now used as a standard formatting language, not just on the web, but in mail clients and all over the shop really, HTML rendering software should be stricter about what it honours and Javascript engines are a hideous series of exploits strung together as an interpreter
While there could be more meat on these proposals I tend to agree with them.
They seem to be targeting Accountants and DBAs who work from home today and will go back inside the corporate firewall tomorrow. Oh and dog trainers for some reason
I believe they were actually debating whether a finite or infinite number of angels could dance on the head of a pin, but the expression has moved from the world of theology into general use for discussions about minutiae that have no real world relevance
Not trying to start a war here, but isn't this level extraction (98-99%) beyond current tech?
As far as I know, (IANANP though that should be obvious), we still are left with plutonium-239 as a waste product, and while there are some charming countries willing to buy it off me for cash I'm not sure I want to sell it, yet where in the name of Mary's tit do I put it safely for the next 24K years?
I would have thought renewable meant tidal/wave/wind/solar depending on your location/climate, as a bonus the clean-up costs on decommissioning are manageable. The ITER project is surely the way forward for Nuclear energy, if it can break even.
A figure I have heard which I can provide absolutely no reference for suggests that there is enough Uranium on the planet for about 30 years, were it to totally replace current energy production. I'd be interested in an accurate figure.
The point being the whole renewable thing. Yes, breeder reactors wring the last of the energy out of the original source but ultimately the source dries up/cools down whatever you get the picture. A renewable source is one not dependant on a finite resource.
As to sustainability and long term waste management, that's a whole separate issue.
When decimalization took place the Irish pound was still tied to Sterling and I vaguely remember the old, old money*.
I believe this youth may being confusing the guinea with the pound. It was still in use as 120 new pence for auctions a while after decimalization, bidding was in guineas but the seller got paid the pound amount, auctioneers skimming the extra 20 new pence.
*Of course over here we've since split from Sterling and subsequently gone the way of all Europe
AS far as I know, (and I don't live there so I'm quite likely to be wrong), in the US the obligation of proof in a defamation case is on the part of the plaintiff to prove the untruth. Over here, (Ireland), politicians and other sleazeballs have taken advantage of the fact that if a slander/libel case is called against you the obligation is on you to prove the truth of the allegations to criminal level, (ie. beyond reasonable doubt). Several of our politicos have abused this to hide well known allegations from the larger public.
One aspect of US law that, I think, European democracy could benefit from.
No I'm saying that women kill less people on the road and that blokes under 25 shouldn't be given control of a lethal weapon.
My mother was a commercial rep for Bayers and drove a lot in her life, she imparted two essential rules of driving to me
Always remember you are in chage of a lethal weapon
Everybody on the road is potentially an idiot who could do anything at anytime
Curiously enough insurance statistics tend to indicate that women have the same number of accidents as men, however because the haven't got their egos wrapped around their driving ability they tend not to be doing 30 over the applicable limit at the time and so cause less damage
The really sad thing is that they once actually researched and developed stuff now their just a patent troll
At the risk of sounding repetitive the US really needs to sort out this patent-licensing as a business model thing. The license holders have nothing to add to the marketplace and so their not interested in cross licenses. They just want the money now, which stifles invention and progress. I took a look at their site and their mission statement makes interesting reading
Our mission is to sign license agreements with all companies in the world who use Wi-LAN's patented inventions and to selectively acquire new patents to ensure the Company's long-term growth.
and they seem to believe that they own 802.11(a|b|g|n) in it's entirety
They once actually produced stuff but
In 2006, Wi-LAN reinvented itself to focus exclusively on licensing its intellectual property. Today, under the leadership of Jim Skippen, President & CEO, Wi LAN licenses a large intellectual property portfolio, which includes technologies that apply to a full range of products in the communications and consumer electronics markets.
So yeah their a shower of leaching bastards and should be shot at dawn.
I agree wholeheartedly that Ubuntu is a great disto for use. If you want to learn more, well have a second machine and stick Slack on it and then when you've got Slack running well for a year try out LFS on this learning box. However if you actually have work to do Ubuntu is an excellent distro that gets the fuck out of your way and is generally fairly intuitive.
I would assume that most of us here are tinkerers by nature and as such want to (know|understand|adapt|break) how our systems work, this is not true of everyone and these people have no need to $1 their system, or even understand that reference, they just want to do their work and Ubuntu seems to be the answer for them
I had this one recently with an ISP in Ireland, they still had a mail alias in place, put their by a company they had bought out, for a domain that had gone dormant 5 years ago. This was interfering with mail sent from their domain. After trying fruitlessly to explain to call centre employees that my fscking MUA settings had nothing to do with the problem, (the only question they were trained to answer it would seem), I got 'round to asking each one if they knew what an MX record was and asking to talk to their supervisor if they didn't. Still took 2 hrs to get through to someone who could understand what my problem was and as they hadn't put the "Mail Solution" in place themselves their workflow control software didn't allow them create a task of removing it.
After intensive study of the proposed method in the flowchart, it appears to be an if statement.
While in some ways this story is a dupe of the , "Some fuckwit given exclusive right to picking noses in an obvious way" story that seems to run every second day, the US does need to do something about this in the short to medium term as it is having the opposite effect to that intended by the framers of the original patent legislation through being inappropriately applied to things wich are either not original or not inventions.
I fully expect to see a large contingent of genuinely innovative tech companies moving HQ over to Europe and refusing to offer patent indemnity for their USian users in the medium term if this sort of crap continues.
Solaris's OLWM had multiple desktop with sticky before the great unification of all window management into MOTIF in '92.
Anyone else remember (or able to cite a reference to) the release of this feature in OLWM ?
If so this could be a very brief prior art trial
Are you saying that someone has an IP claim on mod_JK ?
If so, your lawyer needs prior art take a look at the history of mod_JK and wipe the fsckers out, is this another of those holding companies for carpet bagging lawyers or is the sewage coming from someone who actually at one point put Apache in front of a web app?
Unfortunately politics seem to have been reduced to two different spins on any issue which are wholly unrelated to the facts.
Each side then believes what they wish and objective truth, science or even video evidence are then discounted, the various media channels then publicise the spin of their chosen side and no one even gets to hear the facts.
I'm afraid democracy may not survive, this is not a problem exclusive to the united States but exists throughout modern western democracies.
The demos needs open honest moderated debate, instead we get two groups of PR agencies promulgating their opinions without ever interacting with each other.
I genuinely fear for the health of our democracies</rant>
Or maybe I've become an old fart when I wasn't paying attention and the world is suddenly going to hell in a handcart
Actually more careful reading of their site reveals this list The Dirty list of companies that trade with Burma. Perhaps local action on a global scale of posters/stickers with pictures of dead monks attached to their advertising/products would be something we could do to put pressure on the Junta from outside
What half-wit modded this as a troll?
I think the In Repressive Burma it's not just your connection that dies describes perfectly the murderous intent of the regime and the means by which they shield their actions from outside scrutiny.
Perhaps rather than the Olympics boycott suggested we could look at the western companies who deal with Burma and apply what pressure we can where we can.
While the old Itallian proverb informs us that "The bed is the opera of the poor" the papacy has consistently, despite the AIDS epidemic, insisted that contraception is an act which denies life and equates a shag with a condom on your knob to murder.
As a general rule I try avoid taking advice on my sex life from octogenarian virgins.
Getting back to the point at issue many companies do take their profits in Ireland and other countries with low corporate tax rates, thus avoiding paying tax and supporting the social infrastructure in countries where the profit is made. In fact that other bastion of dubious morality GWB raised the possibility of punishing companies that took profits in Ireland last year.
PS. I'm Irish and find the fawning attitude of our government to the requests of trans-national corporations reprehensible in the extreme, we have ignored indigenous companies while throwing money at trans-nationals that have no local ties and leave at the drop of a hat.
PPS. I live in Meath and am not at all bitter about the departure of NEC;)
I don't want to get into the ongoing feud that twitter seems to attract, in fact I also find the name calling thing quite childish and off-putting but I believe this post was modded down maliciously, Vista breaks the dhcp standard, Microsoft are refusing to fix this, so why is the City of Lund to blame.
Would anyone seriously suggest it was the ISP's fault if I ignored RFC-2131 when writing the dhcp client for a build of SkryneOS.
Twitter is quite right in saying that where Microsoft products depend on competitors upstream services there is no obligation on these competitors to deviate from published standards to facilitate Microsoft's product.
I think this is another instance of using the moderation drop-down because the reply button requires too much work.
I think you'll find it's not possible to use MOOXML unless you're Microsoft.
Actually it appears that it's not even possible to implement if you are Microsoft as shown by Stéphane Rodriguez Office doesn't obey this specification as it is defined.
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As to how the pros use the current adaptability on browsers, try catching all of these.
HTML is now used as a standard formatting language, not just on the web, but in mail clients and all over the shop really, HTML rendering software should be stricter about what it honours and Javascript engines are a hideous series of exploits strung together as an interpreter
While there could be more meat on these proposals I tend to agree with them.
No I wasn't RickRolled today ;)
They seem to be targeting Accountants and DBAs who work from home today and will go back inside the corporate firewall tomorrow. Oh and dog trainers for some reason
I believe they were actually debating whether a finite or infinite number of angels could dance on the head of a pin, but the expression has moved from the world of theology into general use for discussions about minutiae that have no real world relevance
As far as I know, (IANANP though that should be obvious), we still are left with plutonium-239 as a waste product, and while there are some charming countries willing to buy it off me for cash I'm not sure I want to sell it, yet where in the name of Mary's tit do I put it safely for the next 24K years?
I would have thought renewable meant tidal/wave/wind/solar depending on your location/climate, as a bonus the clean-up costs on decommissioning are manageable. The ITER project is surely the way forward for Nuclear energy, if it can break even.
I prepare to sit corrected.
A figure I have heard which I can provide absolutely no reference for suggests that there is enough Uranium on the planet for about 30 years, were it to totally replace current energy production. I'd be interested in an accurate figure.
The point being the whole renewable thing. Yes, breeder reactors wring the last of the energy out of the original source but ultimately the source dries up/cools down whatever you get the picture. A renewable source is one not dependant on a finite resource.
As to sustainability and long term waste management, that's a whole separate issue.
*Of course over here we've since split from Sterling and subsequently gone the way of all Europe
One aspect of US law that, I think, European democracy could benefit from.
My mother was a commercial rep for Bayers and drove a lot in her life, she imparted two essential rules of driving to me
Curiously enough insurance statistics tend to indicate that women have the same number of accidents as men, however because the haven't got their egos wrapped around their driving ability they tend not to be doing 30 over the applicable limit at the time and so cause less damage
At the risk of sounding repetitive the US really needs to sort out this patent-licensing as a business model thing. The license holders have nothing to add to the marketplace and so their not interested in cross licenses. They just want the money now, which stifles invention and progress. I took a look at their site and their mission statement makes interesting reading and they seem to believe that they own 802.11(a|b|g|n) in it's entirety
They once actually produced stuff but
So yeah their a shower of leaching bastards and should be shot at dawn.I would assume that most of us here are tinkerers by nature and as such want to (know|understand|adapt|break) how our systems work, this is not true of everyone and these people have no need to $1 their system, or even understand that reference, they just want to do their work and Ubuntu seems to be the answer for them
Surprisingly I was never convicted of anything
While in some ways this story is a dupe of the , "Some fuckwit given exclusive right to picking noses in an obvious way" story that seems to run every second day, the US does need to do something about this in the short to medium term as it is having the opposite effect to that intended by the framers of the original patent legislation through being inappropriately applied to things wich are either not original or not inventions.
I fully expect to see a large contingent of genuinely innovative tech companies moving HQ over to Europe and refusing to offer patent indemnity for their USian users in the medium term if this sort of crap continues.
Stop this madness now as they say.
Solaris's OLWM had multiple desktop with sticky before the great unification of all window management into MOTIF in '92.
Anyone else remember (or able to cite a reference to) the release of this feature in OLWM ?
If so this could be a very brief prior art trial
Are you saying that someone has an IP claim on mod_JK ?
If so, your lawyer needs prior art take a look at the history of mod_JK and wipe the fsckers out, is this another of those holding companies for carpet bagging lawyers or is the sewage coming from someone who actually at one point put Apache in front of a web app?
Each side then believes what they wish and objective truth, science or even video evidence are then discounted, the various media channels then publicise the spin of their chosen side and no one even gets to hear the facts.
I'm afraid democracy may not survive, this is not a problem exclusive to the united States but exists throughout modern western democracies.
The demos needs open honest moderated debate, instead we get two groups of PR agencies promulgating their opinions without ever interacting with each other.
I genuinely fear for the health of our democracies</rant>
Or maybe I've become an old fart when I wasn't paying attention and the world is suddenly going to hell in a handcart
Actually more careful reading of their site reveals this list The Dirty list of companies that trade with Burma. Perhaps local action on a global scale of posters/stickers with pictures of dead monks attached to their advertising/products would be something we could do to put pressure on the Junta from outside
I think the In Repressive Burma it's not just your connection that dies describes perfectly the murderous intent of the regime and the means by which they shield their actions from outside scrutiny.
Perhaps rather than the Olympics boycott suggested we could look at the western companies who deal with Burma and apply what pressure we can where we can.
But hardly explains Patricia, Daniela, and Celeste
As a general rule I try avoid taking advice on my sex life from octogenarian virgins.
Getting back to the point at issue many companies do take their profits in Ireland and other countries with low corporate tax rates, thus avoiding paying tax and supporting the social infrastructure in countries where the profit is made. In fact that other bastion of dubious morality GWB raised the possibility of punishing companies that took profits in Ireland last year.
PS. I'm Irish and find the fawning attitude of our government to the requests of trans-national corporations reprehensible in the extreme, we have ignored indigenous companies while throwing money at trans-nationals that have no local ties and leave at the drop of a hat.
PPS. I live in Meath and am not at all bitter about the departure of NEC ;)
Having to use a certified appliance between an MS-OS and the real world would solve the luser problem at a stroke ;)
Would anyone seriously suggest it was the ISP's fault if I ignored RFC-2131 when writing the dhcp client for a build of SkryneOS.
Twitter is quite right in saying that where Microsoft products depend on competitors upstream services there is no obligation on these competitors to deviate from published standards to facilitate Microsoft's product.
I think this is another instance of using the moderation drop-down because the reply button requires too much work.
A bit harder to deny it's global policy when the same or very similar tactics were employed in Portugal and elsewhere though
And yes nobody broadcasted an article on this, though the business section of a national paper did raise the issue