If we want to download more we pay more. Sounds pretty simple. It's alright though because I'm on an unlimited plan. What's that you say? ISP's have been actively trying to deceive consumers and now all of their bullshit doesn't make sense?
I doubt your R/C F1 car is a faithful physical copy. Could the above poster not claim that as the accuracy of the object produced by hornby is so poor it can no longer be considered a physical copy?
I do agree with you to a certain degree, but it's a damn sight easier for the article to say "copy and paste this into a terminal ..." than "click menu item one, click menu item two. On the dialogue that opens, select the 'I'm bored now' tab". Horses for courses.
Except that elementary number theory, as nailed by the greeks, has plenty of algorithms. Yes, you could do them a different way, but other ways are more complicated and less intuitive, and why re-invent the Euclid's algorithm? It's exactly the same case as video decoding, AFAICS.
Aww Cute! Another user who's clearly not used linux in the last decade. I'm not saying meego's the dog's, but really, wipe the spittle off the monitor and go outside in the sun.
Are you saying canonical shouldn't bother as there's already a competitor which is much more expensive and doesn't contribute to the pool of code that all linux's share?
he was referring to the fact that this new standard annoyed foss fans as it merely duplicated the functionality of odf. It would have been much more straight forward for the foss community if MS had simply adopted odf but MS said that odf lacked features it wanted. Believe who you like on the mis/match of features of odf/ooxml.
so that they don't get flagged up as Israelis when they enter an Arab country as a prominent Hamas member is visiting. It seems hard to believe it wasn't them considering they're refusing to deny it.
So you're saying that because the companies are rich and powerful enough to boss around a central government (I'm assuming here that we accept that a lot of the measures in place to keep big companies big were 'encouraged' by big business in the first place. If you disagree then we can amicably part ways here) and make a mockery of the legal system then the central government and the legal system are to blame? What do you think would happen if they weren't there? Would it not be true that the big businesses would become so powerful that they took the role of any sort of government, without all that pretending to care about people.
Even in this country (uk) the media is far too pro Isreal. At most there's a one sentence mention of the military op which prompted the retaliatory rocket launch which scared a child and surprised three cats in an Isreali town.
I don't support the military strikes of Hamas on Isreali citizens but a quick tally of casualties in virtually any time period (within the last 20 years) shows how laughable it is to call such attempted genocide a war.
Oddly, just because the murdering *astards aren't pointing their weapons at us doesn't mean I approve of them. While I agree that what the military wing of Hamas is doing is wrong I believe that the mass murder perpetrated by the IDF is also a very bad thing. On a much larger scale. While the "media shows are Palestinian kids in hospitals without mentioning that hamas were using said kids for propaganda purposes by putting them in the line of fire", it's hard not to as those crafty Hamas keep sneaking civilians into major cities/schools/hospitals! Damn them! The current leadership of Israel are taking the hard line because they're murdering, land-grabbing ****s.
Given that it's actually Israel who've broken all of the recent cease fires, Israel forces its youth to take part in aggressive military operations and also commits crimes against humanity how do you justify your support? I just hope you're a troll.
From what I understand, no. I agree about your assessment of the USSR, however, private companies, even in a democracy, are not under the control of the public.
I suspect the video games paragraph was more than a little tongue-in-cheek. Also, I disagree, you should see the speed and accuracy with which I sweep for mines after a few ;)
Everything I use fits nicely on my 4GB ssd, thanks. If it were a main machine, or I was sharing it with someone who wasn't as happy to nerd around as much the space might get a bit restrictive, however.
They're giving out the fines from the previous year. If there are no fines there's little reward. So what they're actually encouraging is what disgruntled yank proposes, provocation!
This actually sounds like a good idea. I didn't think governments were supposed to have those!
As we all know, kids who're abused ALWAYS respect other people around them, right?
I think I'd prefer the approach of parents fostering feelings of respect through developing relationships with their children, as I'd prefer to live in a world with less psychopaths. Strange, I know.
Not only will the tory solution be more proactive, it will no doubt also be outside the box and have increased efficiency. Reducing overheads and downtime while increasing quality of service will also feature.
The sad thing is that the torys are probably going to win the next election.
"... 1 thousand million (base 10), which in the US is a billion, though I hear that England considers a billion to be a million million. (As they say, two people divided by a common language)."
I've heard that too and I live in England. If anyone actually tried to use 1 million = 1 000 000 000 000 I would assume they're taking the piss.
I've been told that it was the case a long time ago, but I've yet to come across anyone who thinks this is still the case (who has a full bag of marbles, of course).
Yes. The idea isn't that using hydrogen is intrinsically green, but that because it allows the electricity (which is used to gather and compress the gas) that the bike uses to be stored and transported without as much loss as putting it through the mains. The fact that the electricity can be generated centrally allows a larger, more efficient power generator to be used.
Petrol may well be more efficient (I have no idea) but that doesn't mean it's green.
If they'd added "probably not" to the list of possible responses I'd have a lot more sympathy for them. As it stands my first thought is "hahahahahahaha".
"Goodrich was charged with ... causing fear of harm"
You didn't warn us that this article contained reference to scenes of mild peril! It just a good job no one in the US is paranoid else everyone they meet would be arrested.
That's not being cynical, of course that's why MS joined, and there's nothing wrong with that. If that's what they're doing then fair play to them (why do you think the others are there?).
If you were to be cynical you might say that MS has joined the party to disagree a lot and slow the whole thing down so that it's only released when it's already way out of date, all the while pushing it's windows only plugins at people who don't need them.
To all the people who say that Apple has the advantage because the only machine both os's run legaly on is a mac... I don't really understand. Surely the fact that you can't choose what hardware to run your os on isn't an advantage? If windows can run on custom boxes AND macs, but sl can't. Surely that's a win for windows?
Another thing I have to say is regarding all the "spit and polish" that mac has, along with all the magic new folders windows has introduced. If the functionality is the same then after a month does anyone even remember that the "cool" bits the ui introduced? All these libraries, smart folders, and all the other marketing gadgets seem to be so much fluff too. Having tried similar things to everything mentioned I can safely say I'll stick with the least intrusive, simple configuration that gives me the functionality I need. I suppose this is why we have articles taking into account end users as oppose to just nerds like us though.
Tux 'cos I don't mind too much either way, I won't be using either of these.
The problem with your floors in Truecrypt is that time travel isn't as easy as it used to be (or as it will used to be once it's been invented in the past). </facetiousness>. Requiring cops to get the files before they're encrypted rather defeats the object of the discussion.
Also, stating that monitoring the tc file over time allows you to see which bits have changed and which bits haven't is meaningless. It only allows you to say "I think there's something there otherwise their behaviour is a bit weird". It doesn't let you prove anything.
T600 as the time travel that's undergone doesn't fit either ;)
My first trackball was a logitech marble mouse and it's fantastic. They still make them now (but with an extra two buttons). My only gripe was a lack of a scroll wheel. The ball's finger controlled, the ms trackball explorer definitely ISN'T unique. I used one again recently and I was surprised how comfy and effortless it was to use (given that I'm used to using a trackball, I suppose). Certainly tempted me to scrap my current mouse.
I actually picked up a MS trackball explorer a few years back and it was awful. The buttons felt flimsy and didn't line up with my fingers correctly so it spent most of it's life unused in a box. Maybe it's just what I was used to, but the quality of the buttons/smoothness of the ball was far superior on the logitech marble.
Idealy I'd want the Logitech Cordless Optical TrackMan (finger controlled ball + scroll wheel) but I refuse to pay for a cordless trackball, surely that's the daftest use of wireless technology yet?
any of what they're whining about was true. Okay, so it's not right that they should be silenced, but it also isn't right that they're allowed to spout this torrent of ---- and have their well informed, technoliterate supporters gasp and point at the marxist, east European, botnet WITH THREE PARTY SUPPORT.
I don't want to start any arguments, but if you're sick of MS and want to try something new with no strings attached there's always linux. Ubuntu's got a good rep (although Debian is the closest I've used to it, which is also very good). As expensive as a download and no need for a new pc (in fact you'll be able to run it on any old heap you can find!).
The reg had a guide to installing osx a while ago but it didn't look fun. Plenty of people have done it on netbooks though.
Simply being frictionless doesn't mean it can't impart energy onto something. The high pressure will push the bullet regardless of friction. Similarly, a high speed bullet will slam into something and push it (causing the damaging shockwave) without the effects of friction; much in the same way that a fist, frictionless or not, would crush a nose if applied with enough force.
Getting the bullet to spin in the barrel might be a tough one though.
the coalition forces "are there with the agreement of the Iraqi goverment and thus are there legally, unless you consider the current goverment of Iraq to be illegitimate and that the legitimate government is the baath party, which would be a curious position to take if you considered yourself a liberal."
Unfortunately, being a liberal does not imply that we think it's lawful to illegally invade and enforce your own government. Just because you don't like someone doesn't mean that they can be thrown out.
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...Turkey paste.
I don't see the problem
If we want to download more we pay more. Sounds pretty simple. It's alright though because I'm on an unlimited plan. What's that you say? ISP's have been actively trying to deceive consumers and now all of their bullshit doesn't make sense?
Don't you mean...
Been there, viewed it. It's rubbish. Going back in a week and a bit for better site survey, but not because it's good or anything, you'd hate it.
yes
mileage turned back.
and I do my time on the catwalk
I doubt your R/C F1 car is a faithful physical copy. Could the above poster not claim that as the accuracy of the object produced by hornby is so poor it can no longer be considered a physical copy?
Sorry. Just wanted some right said fred.
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I do agree with you to a certain degree, but it's a damn sight easier for the article to say "copy and paste this into a terminal ..." than "click menu item one, click menu item two. On the dialogue that opens, select the 'I'm bored now' tab". Horses for courses.
But
He looks like such a nice chap!
I
wish.
+1
Except that elementary number theory, as nailed by the greeks, has plenty of algorithms. Yes, you could do them a different way, but other ways are more complicated and less intuitive, and why re-invent the Euclid's algorithm? It's exactly the same case as video decoding, AFAICS.
The enemy of my enemy...
is my firend.
A new market?
Phone for being near thieving coppers. Nice.
@AC 14:38
Aww Cute! Another user who's clearly not used linux in the last decade. I'm not saying meego's the dog's, but really, wipe the spittle off the monitor and go outside in the sun.
But
So lots of mirrors and a tiny spec of black paint then? See the "power tower" on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_thermal_collector
Job done.
Re: Reciprocal
I'm not sure, but by the tone of the post I THINK he means to say
Yes. In the sense that no.
It was
right absolute nonsense, won it?
Femail equiv.
You want to kick someone IN THE OVARIES?! That's some nimble footwork.
I don't understand...
Are you saying canonical shouldn't bother as there's already a competitor which is much more expensive and doesn't contribute to the pool of code that all linux's share?
I think
he was referring to the fact that this new standard annoyed foss fans as it merely duplicated the functionality of odf. It would have been much more straight forward for the foss community if MS had simply adopted odf but MS said that odf lacked features it wanted. Believe who you like on the mis/match of features of odf/ooxml.
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"Controlled, authoritative research studies play a vital role in the formulation of laws and policies"
unless, of course, the research contradicts what the guberment has decided is true.
title
"Can't we have really unbiased studies, PLEASE, to at least know as best as we can what is actually going on, in a fair way?"
Empirical evidence, in all politicised debates reported on by the media, suggests not. Sorry.
tut tut.
These deviants. Any excuse to involve a biohazard suit.
Presumably
so that they don't get flagged up as Israelis when they enter an Arab country as a prominent Hamas member is visiting. It seems hard to believe it wasn't them considering they're refusing to deny it.
@blod
So you're saying that because the companies are rich and powerful enough to boss around a central government (I'm assuming here that we accept that a lot of the measures in place to keep big companies big were 'encouraged' by big business in the first place. If you disagree then we can amicably part ways here) and make a mockery of the legal system then the central government and the legal system are to blame? What do you think would happen if they weren't there? Would it not be true that the big businesses would become so powerful that they took the role of any sort of government, without all that pretending to care about people.
I happen to dissagree.
Even in this country (uk) the media is far too pro Isreal. At most there's a one sentence mention of the military op which prompted the retaliatory rocket launch which scared a child and surprised three cats in an Isreali town.
I don't support the military strikes of Hamas on Isreali citizens but a quick tally of casualties in virtually any time period (within the last 20 years) shows how laughable it is to call such attempted genocide a war.
@Mike JVX
Wow.
Oddly, just because the murdering *astards aren't pointing their weapons at us doesn't mean I approve of them. While I agree that what the military wing of Hamas is doing is wrong I believe that the mass murder perpetrated by the IDF is also a very bad thing. On a much larger scale. While the "media shows are Palestinian kids in hospitals without mentioning that hamas were using said kids for propaganda purposes by putting them in the line of fire", it's hard not to as those crafty Hamas keep sneaking civilians into major cities/schools/hospitals! Damn them! The current leadership of Israel are taking the hard line because they're murdering, land-grabbing ****s.
Given that it's actually Israel who've broken all of the recent cease fires, Israel forces its youth to take part in aggressive military operations and also commits crimes against humanity how do you justify your support? I just hope you're a troll.
@OK, I wasn't there
I'd say it's more like we have a whole heap of hamburgers and we're trying to make a cow.
Bloody diana ross!
That is all.
Socialism
From what I understand, no. I agree about your assessment of the USSR, however, private companies, even in a democracy, are not under the control of the public.
Thankfully...
I suspect the video games paragraph was more than a little tongue-in-cheek. Also, I disagree, you should see the speed and accuracy with which I sweep for mines after a few ;)
There's a program you're forgetting
|OOo| > |abiwork| > |antiword|.
Everything I use fits nicely on my 4GB ssd, thanks. If it were a main machine, or I was sharing it with someone who wasn't as happy to nerd around as much the space might get a bit restrictive, however.
Fraud
Because they'd rather do nothing and get paid through the nose for it.
But then...
a busy shop/house would suffice.
Did you read the article?
They're giving out the fines from the previous year. If there are no fines there's little reward. So what they're actually encouraging is what disgruntled yank proposes, provocation!
This actually sounds like a good idea. I didn't think governments were supposed to have those!
Completely!
As we all know, kids who're abused ALWAYS respect other people around them, right?
I think I'd prefer the approach of parents fostering feelings of respect through developing relationships with their children, as I'd prefer to live in a world with less psychopaths. Strange, I know.
Great idea David!
Not only will the tory solution be more proactive, it will no doubt also be outside the box and have increased efficiency. Reducing overheads and downtime while increasing quality of service will also feature.
The sad thing is that the torys are probably going to win the next election.
@Cool!
It's pretty common to use something like pifast to check stability of an overclock. Or it was when I did it. Or at least I did.
@it Hertz so good
"... 1 thousand million (base 10), which in the US is a billion, though I hear that England considers a billion to be a million million. (As they say, two people divided by a common language)."
I've heard that too and I live in England. If anyone actually tried to use 1 million = 1 000 000 000 000 I would assume they're taking the piss.
I've been told that it was the case a long time ago, but I've yet to come across anyone who thinks this is still the case (who has a full bag of marbles, of course).
Re: Is this supposed to be "green"?
Yes. The idea isn't that using hydrogen is intrinsically green, but that because it allows the electricity (which is used to gather and compress the gas) that the bike uses to be stored and transported without as much loss as putting it through the mains. The fact that the electricity can be generated centrally allows a larger, more efficient power generator to be used.
Petrol may well be more efficient (I have no idea) but that doesn't mean it's green.
Serves them right.
If they'd added "probably not" to the list of possible responses I'd have a lot more sympathy for them. As it stands my first thought is "hahahahahahaha".
Er
"Goodrich was charged with ... causing fear of harm"
You didn't warn us that this article contained reference to scenes of mild peril! It just a good job no one in the US is paranoid else everyone they meet would be arrested.
@Of course, if one were to be cynical
That's not being cynical, of course that's why MS joined, and there's nothing wrong with that. If that's what they're doing then fair play to them (why do you think the others are there?).
If you were to be cynical you might say that MS has joined the party to disagree a lot and slow the whole thing down so that it's only released when it's already way out of date, all the while pushing it's windows only plugins at people who don't need them.
Not re-useable?
http://www.shewee.com/ wins.
Splashed keyboard because I just couldn't hold on any longer.
@Bravo - Fair and Balanced
To all the people who say that Apple has the advantage because the only machine both os's run legaly on is a mac... I don't really understand. Surely the fact that you can't choose what hardware to run your os on isn't an advantage? If windows can run on custom boxes AND macs, but sl can't. Surely that's a win for windows?
Another thing I have to say is regarding all the "spit and polish" that mac has, along with all the magic new folders windows has introduced. If the functionality is the same then after a month does anyone even remember that the "cool" bits the ui introduced? All these libraries, smart folders, and all the other marketing gadgets seem to be so much fluff too. Having tried similar things to everything mentioned I can safely say I'll stick with the least intrusive, simple configuration that gives me the functionality I need. I suppose this is why we have articles taking into account end users as oppose to just nerds like us though.
Tux 'cos I don't mind too much either way, I won't be using either of these.
@Bod
The problem with your floors in Truecrypt is that time travel isn't as easy as it used to be (or as it will used to be once it's been invented in the past). </facetiousness>. Requiring cops to get the files before they're encrypted rather defeats the object of the discussion.
Also, stating that monitoring the tc file over time allows you to see which bits have changed and which bits haven't is meaningless. It only allows you to say "I think there's something there otherwise their behaviour is a bit weird". It doesn't let you prove anything.
T600 as the time travel that's undergone doesn't fit either ;)
Yorkshire...
...appears to be seperate from the north east. Glad to see it's getting the recognition it deserves!
@ MS trackballs Vs Logitech
My first trackball was a logitech marble mouse and it's fantastic. They still make them now (but with an extra two buttons). My only gripe was a lack of a scroll wheel. The ball's finger controlled, the ms trackball explorer definitely ISN'T unique. I used one again recently and I was surprised how comfy and effortless it was to use (given that I'm used to using a trackball, I suppose). Certainly tempted me to scrap my current mouse.
I actually picked up a MS trackball explorer a few years back and it was awful. The buttons felt flimsy and didn't line up with my fingers correctly so it spent most of it's life unused in a box. Maybe it's just what I was used to, but the quality of the buttons/smoothness of the ball was far superior on the logitech marble.
Idealy I'd want the Logitech Cordless Optical TrackMan (finger controlled ball + scroll wheel) but I refuse to pay for a cordless trackball, surely that's the daftest use of wireless technology yet?
If only...
any of what they're whining about was true. Okay, so it's not right that they should be silenced, but it also isn't right that they're allowed to spout this torrent of ---- and have their well informed, technoliterate supporters gasp and point at the marxist, east European, botnet WITH THREE PARTY SUPPORT.
@ @ Richard
I don't want to start any arguments, but if you're sick of MS and want to try something new with no strings attached there's always linux. Ubuntu's got a good rep (although Debian is the closest I've used to it, which is also very good). As expensive as a download and no need for a new pc (in fact you'll be able to run it on any old heap you can find!).
The reg had a guide to installing osx a while ago but it didn't look fun. Plenty of people have done it on netbooks though.
@projectile weapons
Simply being frictionless doesn't mean it can't impart energy onto something. The high pressure will push the bullet regardless of friction. Similarly, a high speed bullet will slam into something and push it (causing the damaging shockwave) without the effects of friction; much in the same way that a fist, frictionless or not, would crush a nose if applied with enough force.
Getting the bullet to spin in the barrel might be a tough one though.
@Risky
the coalition forces "are there with the agreement of the Iraqi goverment and thus are there legally, unless you consider the current goverment of Iraq to be illegitimate and that the legitimate government is the baath party, which would be a curious position to take if you considered yourself a liberal."
Unfortunately, being a liberal does not imply that we think it's lawful to illegally invade and enforce your own government. Just because you don't like someone doesn't mean that they can be thrown out.
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