Once the cops have arrested and locked up every kid with an interest in guns or other weaponry, the military isn't going to have anyone to sign up... Actually, neither will the police!
I wouldn't be surprised if 95% of today's police didn't become cops because they wanted to play with and use guns in some way. As kids themselves, they probably drew pictures of them, collected them, played with toy guns, etc. Just a bunch of hypocrites.
Creating fancy or professional graphical interfaces doesn't fit in with Microsoft's new future of big square blocks for everything.
Okay, that makes some sense. I'm thinking though that maybe they can provide an alternate incentive for attendance if the government is paying a portion of the tuition. Perhaps a required grade point average or score that the student must achieve. If the student doesn't achieve it, they should be forced to repay the taxpayers in part or full. I know that I would have studied harder...
Either way, I think they should avoid biometrics for identification. I know the current systems don't really store your actual fingerprint in the database so it's not a security or privacy issue, but it still seems they could make it simpler by using cards. We have fingerprint scanners at my office for the server rooms and it takes a good 10 seconds use the thing. If you have hundreds of students trying to get into a room, half will always be late because of the lineup.
They should just use RFID based card keys like everyone else does in the business world. It's a lot faster to tap a card against a reader at a door than to stand there an scan your print which might take 10 seconds or more. It's probably a lot cheaper to implement too. Granted, someone could get a friend to log them in for attendance, but is that really a problem? As long as the student has paid for their classes, why should the university care what the kid does. If they want to skip classes and fail, that's the student's problem.
Maybe because 75% of the market is running Windows on their desktops and we would definitely like to have some of the great open source software available to us.
I actually wonder why anyone would target Linux with their code. I am working on a project myself and have no desire to waste my time writing it for a fragmented OS that only has ~10% of the market. Even if I never expect a penny from my work, I still want it on a platform that lets 75% of the people use it.
There should be no difference be online and offline. If I drive to a particular state and buy something, I pay their sales tax at the till. Online should be no different. The tax is collected at the location of the seller and goes to the state the seller is in.
For those America companies that try and offshore the business, use the first American location their business touches. Start at the web site location, transaction location, head office, warehouse, etc and pick the first one in America as the tax base.
Of course, that does make states with no sales tax look prettier to the consumer for online sales, but the states will just have to compete for that business through other incentives.
I'm sure there are a lot of logistics I haven't thought of, but it has to be thousands of times easier than charging remote taxes for every company.
There is an order to the folders but not to tags. In your example, there would be no difference between the paths
If you add a parent/child relationship to your tags, you might as well just stick with folders. Typically, file name extensions could be used as a simple tagging system for searches. We just need smarter apps that don't tie their data files to particular extensions.
Google should consider each of those excerpts as advertisements of the news articles. Then, they should turn around and charge the news organizations for them.
That advertisement fee should cover the cost of the copyright plus the administration costs of managing those fees. That way the news companies would end up paying more to Google than Google pays them back.
I was just looking at the maps app and noticed that when you're zoomed in far enough to see the streets, one section in my city, Calgary, are covered by clouds! The clouds and their shadows completely obscure the view of the homes and streets. Practically the whole community of Rundle is missing.
The big difference is that you can only buy apps directly on your Android device so Google Play knows what you have. The iTunes store on my devices also exclude items that won't work with the device I'm buying with.
But if you're using iTunes on the desktop, how is it supposed to know which device of yours you're getting the app for? You could have 15 devices registered, some which would work, others that wouldn't. Every app on the store though lists the required hardware and OS version.
That Firefox one gets me all the time too in the menus and toolbars. Content always seemed fine for me.
Disable "Use hardware acceleration when available" in Options, Advanced, General tab.
The way I see it is that this is a direct cost of business that Google must recover. The snippet really is an advertisement of the article they are pointing to. That snippet is what the user uses to make the decision to click the link.
If the publisher wants that snippet shown, Google can charge them a nice monthly fee for advertising the article. Or they can opt out and have their article shown without the snippet or not at all.
Of course, Google is going to have to hire many new people to manage this administrative cost, so the fee they charge the publishers is going to be higher than the copyright fee they're being forced to pay. Add to that some profit factor and they win!
I didn't want to do anything so complicated, especially if I have to type the names over and over. So I decided to just use single letters of the alphabet. Nothing's easier than typing a share when the host is only a single letter long! Eg. "\\a\c$".
And to make it even easier to organize, IP addresses match the letter number. A is
It wouldn't work for a business, but for home, why make it any harder than needed?
It's one thing for the guy running a web server to keep logs for 18 months. That's probably easy given cheap disk and compression. But the web site host is not an ISP. They could be anybody, and they're probably not going to record logs if they have material they want to hide.
It would be impossible for an ISP to record all traffic though. I have a 100 Mbit/s connection to the internet now. Can they possible write a record to disk of every connection I make over HTTP? How about NNTP, SMTP, etc. Then, multiply that across tens of thousands of users at today's broadband speeds. It just can't be done!
For an analogy, have someone hop on a subway train and record in a notebook every time one person speaks to another person. Then, assume there are 200 people on each subway car, multiplied by 200 cars, multiplied by hundreds of cities... You'd exhaust the worlds paper supply in a week!
At best, they should be able to give a warrant to an ISP to record a specific IP address for a period of time just like a normal wire tap would happen.
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