Why worry?
There's nothing you can do about it anyway...

If you have large deposits, almost certainly they're locked into life insurance policies or similar instruments that you can't clean our...

Obama believes in destroying the US, economy and all, for the sake of his friends in Iran and for "the environment".
That's all you need to know to determine who's the best candidate for the country.

the entire "manmade global warming" scare is a massive fraud enterprise based on a hoax.
There is no "manmade global warming", only natural climate fluctuations.
And thinking that anything we can...

They should have filed suit for the posession of those mp3 files, which (in the absence of the physical media) is a clear sign of illegal activity, rather than the fact that pirate 2 pirate software...

Gosh, that post reads like something written in 2001.
Most companies by now know better, know that the quality of what comes out of offshoring projects to India and other low wage countries is...

it infringes on copyrights because it doesn't pay royalties.
In some countries radio stations may not have to pay royalties, in the EU they rightfully do.

what caused BluRay to win out was NOT superior technology, it was superior funding in the marketing department.
A few billion spent on "convincing" movie studios and others to release their products...

P.S the same goes for (most?) other brands, except maybe ones like Leica that have release cycles measured in years.

Canon has a "new" range of cameras available twice a year, each time with a new marketing hype attached in the form of some new acronym to add to the specsheet.

In reality none of those cameras...

Given the massive cost difference between wireless hotspots and mobile broadband (not to mention the difference in bandwidth, up to 54MBit for 802.11 vs. 1.8MBit for wireless broadband) it's...

The problem with politicians telling us there won't be a recession is that noone believes them anymore after they've lied to us for decades about pretty much everything (and especially economics).
...

Guess they've never heard of hardware failure.
Data centers are already pretty much unmanned, except for people monitoring the equipment and reacting when things (threaten to) go wrong.

I've yet...

Another major factor in pulling countries into a recession is politicians stating that things are going well with the economy while people are getting hit in their income and see their spending power...

I wonder what indices you're looking at. The NASDAQ had quite a rally yesterday.
And it's not just tech stocks that have been going down. There's been a general downturn in the market which only...

Cellphone manufacturers are ever more forgetting one very large category of users: those who just want to use the darn thing as a phone (so no cameras, PDAs, internet access, radios, mp3 players, you...

what's to like about Blackberries?
Too small to be comfortable as a replacement for a laptop, too large to be a decent replacement for a mobile phone.

well, in other countries the political leaders are doing their best to create a recession.
The Netherlands will get massive tax increases next year, the announcement of which has already sent...

I do have a creditcard, but I use it extremely sparingly.
Basically it's used only for buying stuff online (where cash isn't an option, COD is impossible internationally and too cumbersome...

the best thing to do is to prevent you get into debt in the first place.
NEVER buy anything on downpayment or spread payment.
NEVER take out any credit on anything.
ALWAYS pay your creditcard...

Sure it impacts my job. I work in the market data business, and we're the ones supplying the data used to make trades to a lot of brokers and banks.

There is a chance (given historical record)...

The main things happening:
1) banks are getting less eager to hand out credit, both because they've been hit by the bad loans already and because they've got less money to lend because of the...

If history is any indication Blu-Ray is dead already.
That's what usually happens in the end with Sony technology.
Betamax anyone?

posession of stolen goods is a crime in most countries, once you have downloaded pirated software/movies/music you are in posession of stolen goods.
The "fake" stuff isn't in itself enough to...

So? When you send me money I've no obligation to see whether it's for something you were required to pay me for.
Nor am I under any obligation to send money back old ladies send me.
Besides, she...

You can't use sizeof to initialise the size of an array, after all sizeof what?
Sizeof that array? But that's not available early enough (before array initialisation).

There'll always be a place...

So your advice is to go against what has been found to be best practice over the last 30 years and just hardcode magic numbers everywhere, and to abandon type definitions and put everything in one...

Seen all that and more...

From a production system at a multinational:

double add(double a, double b) {
return a + b;
}


From another production system at another multinational:

While a cost per copy sold of $450 is a bit much, it does prove the point quite well.
Most people sorely underestimate the cost of building and maintaining software, let alone supporting it for...

prepaid phones are the real ripoff :mrgreen:
You pay more for less.

Just because some marketing department was less than honest in the way it shoved services down the throat of customers doesn't...

And that's the only time you ever have to look at the version number of a program if you're an end user, when calling tech support so they can know which version it is you're using.

At all other...

And who's going to be the version number police?
Are you proposing some UN agency where everyone has to submit requests to be allowed to release something and wait for a few decades (or pay a few...

how can you have been talking for "many years" about something that hasn't existed for more than a few...

The "researchers" you are talking about are the crackers who would use such tools to steal corporate secrets and commit sabotage.
And they don't care a gnat's ass about the DMCA (or any other law)....

Another major disadvantage of Gmail is security.
Do you, as a company (or a private person), really want a third party to have unrestricted access to all your communications and a policy that states...

Considering that 10-15% of computers don't run Windows it's fair to say that probably 90% of FF users are people who don't have access to IE :cheesy: :mrgreen:

Having used both (as well as...

Good warning about FF now forcing even more spyware onto PCs.
The Goooooooooogle toolbar was bad enough, now RealPlayer as well and all the crap that brings.

Thanks but no thanks, I'll stick with...

They give people a choice, either change to a GSM subscription or pay for the privilege.

That's more than the networks here did when they stopped their oldfashioned (even then) analog networks in...

Let's hope the censors at the UN don't get to have any say or any content that is not politically correct will be banned from the internet.
And of course any country that doesn't have the correct...

If you always hold off to buy the next announced CPU or GPU you'll never buy one.

As to gaming performance, there's indeed not that much difference YET between single core and multi-core CPUs, but...

It's pretty much all stores...

Staff are hired based not on knowledge but pricetag and looks.
A cheap highschool dropout with a toothpaste smile, a miniskirt, and big boobs sells more (and at a...