Comment Re:three? (Score 1) 729
Unless you are a Mac user, you probably have three buttons on your mouse, the middle one is disguised as a wheel....
Unless you are a Mac user, you probably have three buttons on your mouse, the middle one is disguised as a wheel....
Obligatory xkcd "https://xkcd.com/936/"
Put American kids in a Korean class
If your teachers cannot discipline you and your parents don't and don't push you in a subject then you have no motivation to do well
Hydrogen Fuel Cells/Modern Batteries
Portability - HFC's are Better than Petrol/Gas, Batteries are not
High Energy - HFC's Better than Petrol/Gas, Batteries are gaining
Low Tech - One moving part in an engine, as opposed to modern fossil fuel engines which are hugely complex
Out of Sight - Depends where they are put, like fossil plants they can be put out of the way but often are not
I have a single node, localised, single user cloud server
In the 1980's I could have used this thing called the Internet (in fact I did)
You may be thinking of the WorldWideWeb which is built on top of the internet, that only started in the 1990's
I don't want to "Learn" Metro! I just want to use my computer!
If the interface is not obvious then it is getting in the way, and Metro (or whatever it is called this week) just gets in the way
The Start button was a faster than the program manager
the Search in the start menu was often faster than using the Start menu
Metro is in all cases slower
I don't want to run windows, use windows etc
It's the GPL, LGPL, and BSD licences pick the appropriate one for your business model
See all the business software written under them that are making money
If your business model is not compatible with the above then what you want is not Open Source
...remember that the current government is a coalition so the main party who most if not all of these ministers belong to were voted for by less than 25% on the voting population
It seems that the less of a mandate a government has the more and more radically they change things
The commonly used filter in the UK already blocks sites as Porn that have nothing whatsoever to do with it
Corporations should not have copyright
Similar to Patents it should be from N years of first publication (not creation) in *any* medium (no different copyright for new medium), but they have limited rights before that
This gives the creator control, and rights from when they can reasonably start to reap the rewards
How could it reach the Supreme Court when no-one knew about it
It depends what you mean by guaranteed civil rights
Your constitution guarantees freedom of speech (which ours does not explicitly) but you have more legislation that removes this in some (many) circumstances
Tandy TRS-80 runs for 20+ hours on 4 AA cells
Remember that in most of the western world Obama would be considered Right of Centre, and Bush Very Right of Centre
Like most political systems with only a few parties the parties likely to get elected are very similar (and continually go on about where they differ)
But the alternative is many parties that differ a lot, but you need a coalition to get anything done and they tend to average out
"No matter where you go, there you are..." -- Buckaroo Banzai