Dude, you could have stopped there. You don't need to defend yourself (/ your employer) from an attack against a totally unrelated competitor in a different country.
On another note:
Cue the people in that area complaining...
Nice to see someone getting 'cue' right; it's a bit painful seeing people say 'queue' all the time.
There is a difference between paying someone to do something and pointing a gun at them and telling them to do something. *snip*
B. mercenaries with training and equipment from rifles to nuclear submarines complete with nuclear deterrent are available for hire.
... available for hire to anyone who has the economic power to do so.
So, you're refuting Hatta's statement that economic power is equivalent to political power, but saying that economic power is equivalent to military power? That's fine then, that won't ever turn out bad for the people who want to vote with their wallets and boycott the Big Bad Company.
My experience with dell laptops is that they cook themselves. I think the problem is specific to high end / discrete gpu's, but the point remains. Not a fan of them since.
Well there's your problem: Dell laptops don't have enough fans!
Badumdumtish, I'll be here all week, etc.
>Yeah it costs more, but I'll put money down that it will last longer
The physical Mac hardware may (or may not) last logger than the typical PC counterparts, however there are two issue with the Apple OS release schedule that when combined may lead to early obsolesce of their hardware.
1). Apple only supports the current and previous OS version.
2). Apple seems to be decreasing the time time between OS releases. They now appear to be on a yearly schedule.
This could render new Mac's unsupported within a 3 year window.
You're basing your point on an unstated assumption; that new OS releases will not be supported on older hardware. I do not know whether this assumption is true, but I suspect it is not. I have heard that Apple has a good history of not increasing hardware requirements too much with new OS releases.
Have I heard wrong?
A retail copy of Windows costs $300? I guess you're including the price of the netbook?
Seriously, how do people keep not getting this? Microsoft Store, Retail Windows 7 Home Premium - US$299.99 (download). And no, I don't think they throw in a netbook.
Can you get it cheaper elsewhere? Sure you can! Even Ultimate is less than $300 on Newegg.
That does not mean that Windows does not cost $300 - it only means that you'd be daft to pay Microsoft's full price.
I was wondering the same thing. Then I remembered a few years back when my provider, replacing a modem that had taken a power surge, tried to pawn off one of those "NAT router/modems" on me.
If they're being used as such, for internal DHCP, that might be a problem, I guess...
What's with all the "combined router/modem" bashing in this thread? Is it really that big a problem for you, to not be/forced/ to use a separate router and/or switch? Most router/modems I have seen can also be set to a direct or bridge mode to disable the router and go back to being a dumb modem.
Even more so, what's with all the people who seem to be surprised at the concept? I can't remember the last time I even saw a consumer-level DSL modem that was not also a router - maybe ten years? This is not new or unusual tech.
I wonder if they will work on your mobile devices.
They'll be all like, "Yo Dawg, I put an app in your app so you can facebook while you facebook."
Dead horse, stick, go.
What, you mean "Yo dawg, I heard you like beating dead horses with a stick, so I put a stick and a dead horse in your dead horse so you can beat a dead horse with a stick while you beat a dead horse with a stick"?
It doesn't quite work for me; it's missing that spark, that je ne sais quoi, which makes a meme memorable.
He is speaking in two areas that were affected by riots in 2011. In these riots, almost half of the rioters were Black (see wikipedia). Therefore in the twisted minds of the UK authorities, teaching people in areas affected by riots to defend themselves is equivalent to racism and extremism.
from TFA:
Mr Larkin had been invited to be a keynote speaker at The Martial Arts Show conference in Birmingham on 12 and 13 May, and to hold a seminar in Tottenham.
Both areas were targeted by rioters last August.
The section of TFA that you quoted shows not the slightest hint of a mention of racism or extremism.
Did you copy the wrong sentence, or are you just making shit up?
no, this is a new vector for malware. could be virus, or etc.
No, it isn't. This is a technique that could be used by malware after it's installed. In no way can it help malware to install itself. Do you actually know what vector means, in the context of diseases or viruses?
In all seriousness, there's some cool stuff coming out from Microsoft Research. Everything else, if it can be considered innovative, is half-baked. The dimwits who specified and documented winapi had no clue how to formally specify stuff. Thus all the undocumented behavior that applications exploit in light of no documentation and no clear direction as to the rationale and intended uses behind various APIs. Thus we have stuff that MS had to work around over and over to maintain compatibility with broken applications; stuff that wine people have to deal with as well. As far as MS complaining that app writers are getting things wrong: well duh idiots, you can't write the docs, you'll pay for it. Yeah, I've been consistently pissed about that, even back in the times of 16 bit winapi -- even as a kid back then I realized that they were not saying things that should have been said.
Of course with various non-standard Linux APIs, you're entirely on your own. But at least there's no pretense of documentation, and you can look at the code.
Wow, you've really managed to piss off an AC today, huh?
As a fun example of winapi, I happen to have an MSDN page open right now on the GetDIBits function. It copys bitmap pixels around, and it returns:
on success: nonzero or "the number of scan lines copied from the bitmap." (because that's very helpful)
on failure: 0
Then it also says "This function can return the following value: ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER"
And what is the value of ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER? 87
How does someone sit down a design an API that returns a positive value on succes, and also on failure?
This is part one of the process of introducing a draconian and unpopular new law. First you come up with something completely over the top and unacceptable. Then, over a few months you water it down here and there, chopping little bits, amending others, until you end up with something that is draconian and unpopular. But it'll be accepted because it's not as bad as the original plan which, by then, will be falsely seen as the alternative. It's a flaw in human logical thought that has been exploited by politicians since they first crawled out of the sewer.
Politicians crawled out of the sewer? When did that happen? I guess the poor lawyers are on their own now.
Ahh, Acorns...
The only one I've ever seen in the flesh was at a local science centre (Scitech in Perth, Australia) when I was a kid - and it was being used to run MS Magic School Bus in Win3.1 in an x86 emulator. I died a little inside.
Still, I got to play around with RiscOS, so I shouldn't complain.
Our first child was born with Down syndrome and leukemia, unbeknownst to us until he was born. We store his cord blood with Cryo-cell - paid the upfront costs, OB collection fee and yearly storage fees. As a result of that experience, our second child's cord blood is being stored for us, in the event that our son should need it, with ViaCord - they took care of all fees. I like both companies. They were both professional and easy to deal with. Our good friends also use Cryo-cell. It's like buying insurance - you buy it and hope you never need it. I wish you the best of luck.
Sorry, but are you saying that the stored blood for your first child actually helped with the leukemia and Down's syndrome? Because without that information, your anecdote isn't actually making a point.
It is actually difficult to define vocabulary size. If I know "jump", does "jumper", "jumped" and "jumping" count as new words?
Regardless, the 1,000 - 2,000 word vocabulary is unbelievable for most individuals over the age of 8.
And for added confusion, what about "jumper", too?
The item of clothing - not sure how widespread that usage is, but it's common in Australia and, I believe, Britain.
Your complaints are valid, but are totally off-topic here - timothy's talking about the "reporter talking to an interesting person for our edification" kind of interview, not the "grill prospective job candidate & indulge in HR power-trip" kind of interview.
anything that you need absolute privacy for, set up your own encryption before marking it for backup. Not all your data could require paranoid levels of privacy could it?
What part of "approximately 883.75 years" did you not grasp?
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Sounds like AT&T uVerse to me:
Wrong. not even the right country.
Dude, you could have stopped there. You don't need to defend yourself (/ your employer) from an attack against a totally unrelated competitor in a different country.
On another note:
Cue the people in that area complaining ...
Nice to see someone getting 'cue' right; it's a bit painful seeing people say 'queue' all the time.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Sounds like an abstinence slogan.
There is a difference between paying someone to do something and pointing a gun at them and telling them to do something.
*snip*
B. mercenaries with training and equipment from rifles to nuclear submarines complete with nuclear deterrent are available for hire.
... available for hire to anyone who has the economic power to do so.
So, you're refuting Hatta's statement that economic power is equivalent to political power, but saying that economic power is equivalent to military power? That's fine then, that won't ever turn out bad for the people who want to vote with their wallets and boycott the Big Bad Company.
My experience with dell laptops is that they cook themselves. I think the problem is specific to high end / discrete gpu's, but the point remains. Not a fan of them since.
Well there's your problem: Dell laptops don't have enough fans!
Badumdumtish, I'll be here all week, etc.
>Yeah it costs more, but I'll put money down that it will last longer
The physical Mac hardware may (or may not) last logger than the typical PC counterparts, however there are two issue with the Apple OS release schedule that when combined may lead to early obsolesce of their hardware.
1). Apple only supports the current and previous OS version.
2). Apple seems to be decreasing the time time between OS releases. They now appear to be on a yearly schedule.
This could render new Mac's unsupported within a 3 year window.
You're basing your point on an unstated assumption; that new OS releases will not be supported on older hardware. I do not know whether this assumption is true, but I suspect it is not. I have heard that Apple has a good history of not increasing hardware requirements too much with new OS releases.
Have I heard wrong?
How did you manage to fix armed FBI storming your servers located in another country problem?
Unless you're not in the US, and "another country" is the US - what the hell are the FBI doing there?
A retail copy of Windows costs $300? I guess you're including the price of the netbook?
Seriously, how do people keep not getting this?
Microsoft Store, Retail Windows 7 Home Premium - US$299.99 (download). And no, I don't think they throw in a netbook.
Can you get it cheaper elsewhere? Sure you can! Even Ultimate is less than $300 on Newegg.
That does not mean that Windows does not cost $300 - it only means that you'd be daft to pay Microsoft's full price.
I was wondering the same thing. Then I remembered a few years back when my provider, replacing a modem that had taken a power surge, tried to pawn off one of those "NAT router/modems" on me.
If they're being used as such, for internal DHCP, that might be a problem, I guess...
What's with all the "combined router/modem" bashing in this thread? Is it really that big a problem for you, to not be /forced/ to use a separate router and/or switch? Most router/modems I have seen can also be set to a direct or bridge mode to disable the router and go back to being a dumb modem.
Even more so, what's with all the people who seem to be surprised at the concept? I can't remember the last time I even saw a consumer-level DSL modem that was not also a router - maybe ten years? This is not new or unusual tech.
I wonder if they will work on your mobile devices.
They'll be all like, "Yo Dawg, I put an app in your app so you can facebook while you facebook."
Dead horse, stick, go.
What, you mean "Yo dawg, I heard you like beating dead horses with a stick, so I put a stick and a dead horse in your dead horse so you can beat a dead horse with a stick while you beat a dead horse with a stick"?
It doesn't quite work for me; it's missing that spark, that je ne sais quoi, which makes a meme memorable.
He is speaking in two areas that were affected by riots in 2011. In these riots, almost half of the rioters were Black (see wikipedia). Therefore in the twisted minds of the UK authorities, teaching people in areas affected by riots to defend themselves is equivalent to racism and extremism.
from TFA:
The section of TFA that you quoted shows not the slightest hint of a mention of racism or extremism.
Did you copy the wrong sentence, or are you just making shit up?
Full equation would be: CO2 + Algea = Light + O2
I would say if this can be put up on global scale it would be nobel price.
congratz on ur work Pierre Calleja
I don't think the world can afford that price.
Was mono ever part of the base install? Did one ever require mono to run Ubuntu?
Yes. Did you really never notice people complaining about this?
Yes.
no, this is a new vector for malware. could be virus, or etc.
No, it isn't. This is a technique that could be used by malware after it's installed. In no way can it help malware to install itself. Do you actually know what vector means, in the context of diseases or viruses?
It is not I who am crazy.
It is I who am MAD!
... geeks who never even saw a girl outside their mother.
Hey! Some of us never even got a date inside the womb either, you insensitive clod!
In all seriousness, there's some cool stuff coming out from Microsoft Research. Everything else, if it can be considered innovative, is half-baked. The dimwits who specified and documented winapi had no clue how to formally specify stuff. Thus all the undocumented behavior that applications exploit in light of no documentation and no clear direction as to the rationale and intended uses behind various APIs. Thus we have stuff that MS had to work around over and over to maintain compatibility with broken applications; stuff that wine people have to deal with as well. As far as MS complaining that app writers are getting things wrong: well duh idiots, you can't write the docs, you'll pay for it. Yeah, I've been consistently pissed about that, even back in the times of 16 bit winapi -- even as a kid back then I realized that they were not saying things that should have been said.
Of course with various non-standard Linux APIs, you're entirely on your own. But at least there's no pretense of documentation, and you can look at the code.
Wow, you've really managed to piss off an AC today, huh?
As a fun example of winapi, I happen to have an MSDN page open right now on the GetDIBits function. It copys bitmap pixels around, and it returns:
on success: nonzero or "the number of scan lines copied from the bitmap." (because that's very helpful)
on failure: 0
Then it also says "This function can return the following value: ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER"
And what is the value of ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER? 87
How does someone sit down a design an API that returns a positive value on succes, and also on failure?
This is part one of the process of introducing a draconian and unpopular new law. First you come up with something completely over the top and unacceptable. Then, over a few months you water it down here and there, chopping little bits, amending others, until you end up with something that is draconian and unpopular. But it'll be accepted because it's not as bad as the original plan which, by then, will be falsely seen as the alternative. It's a flaw in human logical thought that has been exploited by politicians since they first crawled out of the sewer.
Politicians crawled out of the sewer? When did that happen? I guess the poor lawyers are on their own now.
Ahh, Acorns...
The only one I've ever seen in the flesh was at a local science centre (Scitech in Perth, Australia) when I was a kid - and it was being used to run MS Magic School Bus in Win3.1 in an x86 emulator. I died a little inside.
Still, I got to play around with RiscOS, so I shouldn't complain.
Our first child was born with Down syndrome and leukemia, unbeknownst to us until he was born. We store his cord blood with Cryo-cell - paid the upfront costs, OB collection fee and yearly storage fees. As a result of that experience, our second child's cord blood is being stored for us, in the event that our son should need it, with ViaCord - they took care of all fees. I like both companies. They were both professional and easy to deal with. Our good friends also use Cryo-cell. It's like buying insurance - you buy it and hope you never need it. I wish you the best of luck.
Sorry, but are you saying that the stored blood for your first child actually helped with the leukemia and Down's syndrome? Because without that information, your anecdote isn't actually making a point.
Nobody said evolution was perfect.
No, but Thunderbird is pretty good.
It is actually difficult to define vocabulary size. If I know "jump", does "jumper", "jumped" and "jumping" count as new words?
Regardless, the 1,000 - 2,000 word vocabulary is unbelievable for most individuals over the age of 8.
And for added confusion, what about "jumper", too?
The item of clothing - not sure how widespread that usage is, but it's common in Australia and, I believe, Britain.
That's a lot of concrete ducks!
Your complaints are valid, but are totally off-topic here - timothy's talking about the "reporter talking to an interesting person for our edification" kind of interview, not the "grill prospective job candidate & indulge in HR power-trip" kind of interview.
anything that you need absolute privacy for, set up your own encryption before marking it for backup. Not all your data could require paranoid levels of privacy could it?
What part of "approximately 883.75 years" did you not grasp?