"Thanks to a new feature approved this week by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee, you won't hear Fedora 18 users bragging about systems that have been running continuously for months on end."
Except that's not true. At all. This affects only graphical updates via PackageKit. If you want to continue to update on-the-fly you can perfectly happily do so via yum.
Good thing, too; if the feature was implemented for all updates and ever made it's way into the upstream, then Red Hat would quickly lose it's utility as a server distribution.
Many people (myself included) hate it with a passion. As far as I can tell this largely has to do with how your taste buds work.
I hated it s a kid because my folks always said to me "eat your broccoli". I hated eggs for the same reason. As an adult I realized I like both. But not together.
As it is you can evict by doing X% of renovations on a home, proving non residency of a leaseholder (with as little as 2 weeks absence), moving in a family member, etc. etc.
So you just wait for the tenant to leave for a two week vacation, have your out-of-work 20-something kid move in and start a remodeling job, and voila, you're in. Sounds easy to me.
When he made the earth, it was fully formed in 6 days.
It's not deceptive. When he made Adam in a day, he made a full grown man, not a baby nor a boy. When he turned water into wine, he did it in less than an evening, and it was fully aged and fermented wine. When he fed the 5000 and 4000, he fed them fully prepared food.
He did not create the molecules of the fish and grow it from scratch, over the life cycle of the fish, and then prepare/cook the food. He did not create the molecules of the wheat and grow it from scratch, and then bake it. He created food fully ready to eat.
Don't get me wrong. I don't expect you to believe it, but he never deceives anybody, when he does that.
Also, the only reason that it looks really old to you, is because you insist on assuming that soil layers are sedimentary layers that are deposited over many years, or that carbon dating works a certain way, etc.
And you know this based on what objective, observable record?
I then opened an account at the local Credit Union and moved all of my business there. I paid $12 per month to them for their services at that time. It's $15 per month today.
I can't recommend this more strongly: If you're not doing your banking at your local Credit Union, you're getting ripped off.
Are they still offering new accounts with those terms? I ask because I checked the local Credit Union when Chase started charging my business $10/month. While they still don't charge for personal account, they were over twice the price for business accounts.
On the flip side with credit cards there are charge-backs. But if you're not an online merchant I think the charge-back and fraud rates aren't that high.
I know my experience is only anecdotal, but nevertheless I still remember the one time my PayPal debit card was compromised and used five times at four different stores, all card present transactions, all within ten miles of my home, all within an hour. Fortunately, as bad as they may or may not be in other respects, PayPal is very good at detecting fraud patterns; they noticed, canceled the card account, and called me to let me know what happened, even before I noticed.
And who is going to enforce the consumer protection laws? Since the arbitration clause is binding, can you even get a court to look at it? Or only an arbitrar that they picked?
Actually you can get a court to look at it. Any judge in the US can agree to look at any case. And a contract cannot be used to take away your rights, so it's likely that almost any judge would agree to look at it.
I'm not a lawyer, and I don't play one on TV, but I pay one. I had a (now dead) uncle who once paid a judge, and even got in trouble for it.
By the way, for cable subscribers, and maybe satellite, call up and ask for discounts. If you've been a loyal customer for years, ask for the retention department.
Been there, done that, won the lottery. Charter in So. California. About five months ago I realized that since I'd bought my 65" projection TV system my cable bill had been creeping up to the high point of $208. I started calling, returning things, canceling premiums, and threatening to quit. It's now down to $119. Of course I don't get as many channels but I still get more than I can watch, and two boxes (one a DVR). And high speed Internet. How high? I just ran speedtest.net: Ping: 12 ms, Download: 40.81 Mbps, upload 4.22 Mbps. The last time I got a $10 monthly discount I didn't need to drop or change anything.
I could save about fifteen dollars more by buying the cable modem, and not paying for wiring coverage, but I don't, so they'll never tell me on the phone that if they come out it could end up costing me $75. I know it costs more than that a year, but I like the comfort zone.
Good advice, and if mod-points lasted long enough, I'd have modded the post up instead of responding. Take the advice, try it, you have nothing to lose but an empty wallet.
Unfortunately, that's a reality that these guys are going to have to face. No amount of DRM or lawsuits or even infomercials has stopped it from happening
From the link: You can buy your own copy, with a manual.
"Hey, our budget could very well get cut soon. Let's fine people for things!" That's what I suspect the FCC's reasoning is. They just wont admit it.
Really? $25,000? do you have any idea how little $25,000 is in the realm of government budgets? It's less than if you drop a penny down the sewer grate.
Whatever the reason is, it's certainly not because of (perceived or real) budget cutting.
A few years ago I walked out of a restaurant without paying because of a dispute. A manager followed me, and stood behind my car so I culdn't drive out, and used her cellphone to call the police. They eventually came, after about a half-hour.
Cop spoke to manager first; she likely told him I'd walked out without paying. Then he came to talk to me. I told him she had detained me and prevented me from leaving for a half-hour, pointed out to him that as he no doubt realized, California law defines that as kidnapping, and that I wanted him to arrest her for the felony.
I let him eventually talk me out of it, but you should have seen the look on her face when she thought she could actually go to jail; maybe even prison.
I wonder if she'd ever tried it again. She's no longer at that restaurant, they've solved their problems, and I occasionally eat there to this day.
Back in the '60s my Canadian wife and I kept a home in Texas, an apartment in Manhattan, and an apartment in St.Johns, NFLD. One morning, after arriving in St.Johns (hardly a border town) the night before I went to the local store to buy some milk. I hadn't yet been to the bank, and still had only US funds. Not only was the storekeeper happy to take it, but she had a chart (probably not really up-to-date, but who cared) for conversion, and offered me change either in US funds or Canadian. I accepted Canadian, and went to the bank to get some Canadian money later.
My social security card is from the 60s (yes, I still have the original), and the front is printed in a light blue. It's on white paper and it says clearly on it: FOR SOCIAL SECURITY AND TAX PURPOSES - NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION.
On the back it says (among other things): FORM OA-702-1 Rev. (11-61)
It's yellowed (actually oranged) from age, and the personal information (name and number) hand typed (I was there when it was typed; I got it as a replacement when I left the active military).
The last time I used it (probably within the last ten years) it was still accepted without comment.
It's debatable, because there are multiple rules. Because while the period (full stop) goes inside the close double quotes, that's a typographical convention, and not a gramatical rule.
The reason it's a typographical convention is now strictly visual, to avoid whitespace, but originally, in the days of metal and wood type set by hand it was so the period wouldn't get lost before the type block was bound in string to be put into the chase. If you'll look, you'll see the period is narrower than the close double quotes; it made sense to some that the narrowest character shouldn't be on the end. At least that's what it said in the Boy Scouts of America Printing Merit Badge pamphlet back in the 1960s.
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"Thanks to a new feature approved this week by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee, you won't hear Fedora 18 users bragging about systems that have been running continuously for months on end."
Except that's not true. At all. This affects only graphical updates via PackageKit. If you want to continue to update on-the-fly you can perfectly happily do so via yum.
Good thing, too; if the feature was implemented for all updates and ever made it's way into the upstream, then Red Hat would quickly lose it's utility as a server distribution.
All things are better with bacon. Well, all savory things. Some sweet things get dicey. But whipped cream will handle them.
Everything's better with Blue Bonnet on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkm4HY-3cD8
Many people (myself included) hate it with a passion. As far as I can tell this largely has to do with how your taste buds work.
I hated it s a kid because my folks always said to me "eat your broccoli". I hated eggs for the same reason. As an adult I realized I like both. But not together.
Eagles, for instance, are regular eaters of carrion
So that's why my luggage has been disappearing lately.
As it is you can evict by doing X% of renovations on a home, proving non residency of a leaseholder (with as little as 2 weeks absence), moving in a family member, etc. etc.
So you just wait for the tenant to leave for a two week vacation, have your out-of-work 20-something kid move in and start a remodeling job, and voila, you're in. Sounds easy to me.
When he made the earth, it was fully formed in 6 days.
It's not deceptive. When he made Adam in a day, he made a full grown man, not a baby nor a boy. When he turned water into wine, he did it in less than an evening, and it was fully aged and fermented wine. When he fed the 5000 and 4000, he fed them fully prepared food.
He did not create the molecules of the fish and grow it from scratch, over the life cycle of the fish, and then prepare/cook the food. He did not create the molecules of the wheat and grow it from scratch, and then bake it. He created food fully ready to eat.
Don't get me wrong. I don't expect you to believe it, but he never deceives anybody, when he does that.
Also, the only reason that it looks really old to you, is because you insist on assuming that soil layers are sedimentary layers that are deposited over many years, or that carbon dating works a certain way, etc.
And you know this based on what objective, observable record?
Net Zero green datacenter? Already done:
http://www.aiso.net/technology-network.html
There's also likely enough 7-11s in NYC that you can just go from one to the next without being thirsty.
No need to waste your time; 7-11s are convenience stores, and convenience stores are exempt from the (still only proposed) law
I then opened an account at the local Credit Union and moved all of my business there. I paid $12 per month to them for their services at that time. It's $15 per month today.
I can't recommend this more strongly: If you're not doing your banking at your local Credit Union, you're getting ripped off.
Are they still offering new accounts with those terms? I ask because I checked the local Credit Union when Chase started charging my business $10/month. While they still don't charge for personal account, they were over twice the price for business accounts.
On the flip side with credit cards there are charge-backs. But if you're not an online merchant I think the charge-back and fraud rates aren't that high.
I know my experience is only anecdotal, but nevertheless I still remember the one time my PayPal debit card was compromised and used five times at four different stores, all card present transactions, all within ten miles of my home, all within an hour. Fortunately, as bad as they may or may not be in other respects, PayPal is very good at detecting fraud patterns; they noticed, canceled the card account, and called me to let me know what happened, even before I noticed.
And who is going to enforce the consumer protection laws? Since the arbitration clause is binding, can you even get a court to look at it? Or only an arbitrar that they picked?
Actually you can get a court to look at it. Any judge in the US can agree to look at any case. And a contract cannot be used to take away your rights, so it's likely that almost any judge would agree to look at it.
I'm not a lawyer, and I don't play one on TV, but I pay one. I had a (now dead) uncle who once paid a judge, and even got in trouble for it.
Google has proved itself to be extraordinarily ethical.
So then why you do use duckduckgo ?
By the way, for cable subscribers, and maybe satellite, call up and ask for discounts. If you've been a loyal customer for years, ask for the retention department.
Been there, done that, won the lottery. Charter in So. California. About five months ago I realized that since I'd bought my 65" projection TV system my cable bill had been creeping up to the high point of $208. I started calling, returning things, canceling premiums, and threatening to quit. It's now down to $119. Of course I don't get as many channels but I still get more than I can watch, and two boxes (one a DVR). And high speed Internet. How high? I just ran speedtest.net: Ping: 12 ms, Download: 40.81 Mbps, upload 4.22 Mbps. The last time I got a $10 monthly discount I didn't need to drop or change anything.
I could save about fifteen dollars more by buying the cable modem, and not paying for wiring coverage, but I don't, so they'll never tell me on the phone that if they come out it could end up costing me $75. I know it costs more than that a year, but I like the comfort zone.
Good advice, and if mod-points lasted long enough, I'd have modded the post up instead of responding. Take the advice, try it, you have nothing to lose but an empty wallet.
Huh. I always thought that "Home of the Brave" referred to Native American warriors.
It's home of the Braves. As in Milwaukee. http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nl/milbraves/milbraves.html
They went south, just as did our U. S. of A.
Anti-glare, self-cleaning, no reflections. There goes my ability to beat the red-light cameras.
The difference is that unless it's a kernel update Linux doesn't really need a reboot on update.
Rebooting is obsolete.
http://www.ksplice.com/
Unfortunately, that's a reality that these guys are going to have to face. No amount of DRM or lawsuits or even infomercials has stopped it from happening
From the link: You can buy your own copy, with a manual.
What's a manual?
"I have mod points...."
The moderation system on /. sucks. Mostly because moderators punish those of politics with which they do not agree.
When i had mod points they vanished before i found suitable targets.
I suggest that mod points last for weeks, and that the count of negative points be restricted to 1/5 of allocations.
I'd mod you up, except that my mod points expired yesterday.
Steve "Big" Jobs wouldn't even have used two hundred dollar bills to wipe his arse, it would have been like associating with the lower classes.
I take it you realize that the largest denomination available in the U.S. anyway is a $100 bill.
"Hey, our budget could very well get cut soon. Let's fine people for things!" That's what I suspect the FCC's reasoning is. They just wont admit it.
Really? $25,000? do you have any idea how little $25,000 is in the realm of government budgets? It's less than if you drop a penny down the sewer grate.
Whatever the reason is, it's certainly not because of (perceived or real) budget cutting.
sounds a bit fishy to me
Then you forget the late 60s to early 70s timetable, when programming flourished and no one had heard of the Internet.
A few years ago I walked out of a restaurant without paying because of a dispute. A manager followed me, and stood behind my car so I culdn't drive out, and used her cellphone to call the police. They eventually came, after about a half-hour.
Cop spoke to manager first; she likely told him I'd walked out without paying. Then he came to talk to me. I told him she had detained me and prevented me from leaving for a half-hour, pointed out to him that as he no doubt realized, California law defines that as kidnapping, and that I wanted him to arrest her for the felony.
I let him eventually talk me out of it, but you should have seen the look on her face when she thought she could actually go to jail; maybe even prison.
I wonder if she'd ever tried it again. She's no longer at that restaurant, they've solved their problems, and I occasionally eat there to this day.
Back in the '60s my Canadian wife and I kept a home in Texas, an apartment in Manhattan, and an apartment in St.Johns, NFLD. One morning, after arriving in St.Johns (hardly a border town) the night before I went to the local store to buy some milk. I hadn't yet been to the bank, and still had only US funds. Not only was the storekeeper happy to take it, but she had a chart (probably not really up-to-date, but who cared) for conversion, and offered me change either in US funds or Canadian. I accepted Canadian, and went to the bank to get some Canadian money later.
My social security card is from the 60s (yes, I still have the original), and the front is printed in a light blue. It's on white paper and it says clearly on it: FOR SOCIAL SECURITY AND TAX PURPOSES - NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION.
On the back it says (among other things): FORM OA-702-1 Rev. (11-61)
It's yellowed (actually oranged) from age, and the personal information (name and number) hand typed (I was there when it was typed; I got it as a replacement when I left the active military).
The last time I used it (probably within the last ten years) it was still accepted without comment.
It is not debatable that it is the rule.
It's debatable, because there are multiple rules. Because while the period (full stop) goes inside the close double quotes, that's a typographical convention, and not a gramatical rule.
The reason it's a typographical convention is now strictly visual, to avoid whitespace, but originally, in the days of metal and wood type set by hand it was so the period wouldn't get lost before the type block was bound in string to be put into the chase. If you'll look, you'll see the period is narrower than the close double quotes; it made sense to some that the narrowest character shouldn't be on the end. At least that's what it said in the Boy Scouts of America Printing Merit Badge pamphlet back in the 1960s.
Grammatically, historically, the period belongs wherever it makes sense; see the second paragraph of http://www.writersblock.ca/tips/monthtip/tipmay96.htm.