What if a parent had named their kid Myspace some years ago. I wonder if the kid will be perpetually explaining internet history when she's older. "When I was born, social networking was controlled by private companies. One in particular was very influential."
Nokia is facing heat at both ends of the price spectrum.
Although it continues to rank number one among handheld producers, it holds on primarily because of its dominance at the low end, where it faces significant challenges from Chinese competitors who make smaller, lighter, quicker, more capable phones at competitive prices.
http://nowtnews.com/05805/nokia-and-hp-get-back-in-the-game/
Fortunately the new CEO seems to get it. Unfortunately, he seems to believe that the answer is to team up with Microsoft. The market isn't impressed.
No horses! It moves, but there are no horses! I don't think I'll ever get used to that (note, if you think there might be small horses under the hood, open it up and prepare to be amazed.)
I don't think it would have been different in any other Canadian city. Say Calgary, for example. They sent their cops to the G20 in Toronto to help out:
The officers, who are from the Calgary police public safety unit, said the Toronto event was a chance for them to practise their crowd-control training.
"We just never have had to use those tactics to that degree in Calgary. It was a fantastic opportunity for us to test them out and show that yeah they really do work," said Pecksen.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2010/06/28/g20-calgary-g8-police-security-protest.html
I think it would have played out pretty much the same in any Canadian city. The times they are a-changin'.
And this is Canada, we go for security through co-operation and support, rather than intimidation and manipulation.
I would have agreed with you prior to the G20 in Toronto in June. But Canada is becoming just as fascist as any other western state, maybe more so, complete with intimidation, beatings, and groundless mass arrest. You may be thinking of the old Canada, where if they wanted to abrogate rights, they had to do so legally through an act like the War Measures Act. Now they don't even bother with the legal niceties.
That would explain all the taxes and fees as well. Thought you got a cheap flight? Guess again. There are no cheap flights once they add the cost of a cheap flight in additional charges.
Sounds pretty causal to me. Some say ASCII is harmless, but it just leads to Unicode, and before you know it, an epidemic of unwanted crack babies. Very sad.
Just say no to text.
Nor loss of habitat, something the article you link to also mentions.
I have a file system that allows me to create directories that I can give meaningful names.
People email me about stuff, and I used to put those into meaningfully named folders, but now I rely more on search. I email myself about stuff I want to be able to recover through search.
Years ago I wrote a simple web based calendar program that runs on my local computer. That's my home page.
That's about it. Pretty simple.
Because as Rumsfeld so sagely noted, "democracy is messy". Lets hope Jobs never runs for office and tries to set up iGovernment.
$1,068,928,721.46 ÷ 4,366,386 spam messages = $244.80 per message.
Yikes. According to the summary, it was $100 per message, plus punitive damages. Those are some punitive damages, esp. considering the per message value is punitive. Unless they believe emails are worth $100 each. In which case I should advise my correspondents to stop emailing me and just send the money instead.
Hah, jokes on me. Repeated meme blindness.
Don't worry that only works out to about twelve Canadian dollars.
2002 called. They want their joke back.
Spam seems an attractive way of getting a message out because it is so inexpensive per message. Given the volume, the amount per message to act as a deterrent doesn't have to be that high. A buck would probably do it. Though perhaps he's really rich and they wanted a figure that equates with certainty to "all your money". I guess that's not an option when sentencing -- "How much ya got?"
Hows about genetically engineered super carbon capturing hemp? Or lichen, as presented in Kim Stanley Robinson's Forty Signs of Rain trilogy. Or perhaps all of the above, none are mutually exclusive. The problem with trees is that they take time to grow, and in the meantime, it would be good to have something that grows more quickly.
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
