So what happens if they DON'T find you within the 24 hours? TFA didn't mention whether there is a bonus for hiding yourself well (e.g. in a cave or on a car-ferry or airplane) or whether the prize is lost.
I believe in the incremental approach to updates; it's so much safer and usually easier.
So it's going to be IPv5 for me, while you suckers make a mess of IPv6!
The real money is in providing services to programmers. One way would be to follow this advice. A significant fraction of humanity is already qualified and equipped...
Show's how little you know, the year BEFORE iphone was even announced, samsung released a little device f700. If you compare the 2 side by side they look very similar so on topic of who copied who first, that would be apple copied samsung.
I hate Apple with a passion but you're just wrong. The F700 came out just slightly after the iPhone. Obviously they both had to be in development around the same time but Apple was in fact first.
The myth posted above has be debunked many times, just use a little Google-fu and you will see.
Indeed, the F700 was publicly shown just a few weeks after the iPhone's first appearance. However, Samsung had filed for a Korean design patent on the F700 several weeks before the iPhone was revealed. It exactly matched the F700 (BTW, there were rounded corners on the rectangle). The whole "who did it first" issue is stupid, and describing it as "copying our innovation" is utter lunacy, when basic design principles lead to just a few possibilities, all of which were released by somebody.
The slope is long and slippery, and leads down a long way. We'd never agree to a great leap downwards, but every incremental movement downwards is easier than a nudge in the opposite direction.
In other words, this MP is severely 'tarded. Alas, so are many regular folks.
(a rouble was worth more than a dollar at the time).
I would like to qualify this statement with an explanation. NOBODY in Russia was allowed to deal in dollars OR gold. Nobody. Such deals were punishable by law with very lengthy prison sentences and confiscation of all private possessions, sometimes also by death.
Due to this, the black market for dollars (or any other foreign money that was called the 'valuta') was almost non-existent among the general public, it was of a very limited use.
Not in my experience. Almost everyone we met was willing and eager to exchange their spare roubles for a well-known hard currency (US/UK/German/etc.). Mind you, such transactions were rather more discreet than those which merely exchanged roubles for jeans (the illegality you mentioned). We enquired from our translator as to why this was so, and mostly got evasive answers. The only plausible explanation entailed the official Beriozhka shops, in which almost anything Russian or foreign could be bought for hard currency, and which were frequented mostly by foreigners and the Russian elite. But anyone could go there and buy stuff with no questions asked, if they had some hard currency to spend. It appears that having a few packages of Marlboro cigarettes or a bottle of Johnnie Walker scotch visible on your shelf was an astounding status symbol in Soviet days.
It was yet another weirdness - vicious punishment for getting caught in a certain action, but official facilitation for disposing of the results of that action.
I have the patent upon First Posts - you'll hear from my lawyers; Dewey, Skruem & Howe
beating the obvious to death: did Mr. Cheathem, Esq. retire, leaving a partnership to Mr. Skruem?
I believe the learned Mr. Ripem succeeded the mild-mannered Mr. Cheathem in that partnership. Mr. Skruem is a member of a different partnership: Dewey, Twistem, Skruem, & Howe.
Anyone who thinks that life wasn't better in Russia in the 1970s either 1) was not living there; 2) is one of the very few beneficiaries of business. (Hint: if you're a geek programmer living in Moscow, you're in category #2.)
Well, life in the Soviet Union was of uneven quality, on geographical as well as political grounds. There were certainly places where life was better then than it is now. There were also many places where it was worse then than it is now. I spent time in both Moscow and Leningrad (as it was then called) for a period as a foreigner in the early 1980s, and formed opinions based on what I saw and what I was told by actual Russians. I'd class it as weird as much as good or bad.
Taking the "good" side first, I saw no particular poverty (unlike most large Western cities), and the people were all fairly well-dressed and looked healthy enough. The streets were quite tidy, just like Nordic cities of today. Also, the people I met all had jobs or sinecures of some sort, and even the lowliest (cleaners) had some spare money. Basic rents were controlled and cheap, so was food.
Taking the "bad" side, those I talked to (including our translator) said that it was a privilege to live in "display" cities like Moscow or Leningrad. Moreover, if they lost this privilege, life would be much tougher in the backwoods, and even keeping well-fed could be a challenge. Internal travel was highly restricted, and our translator needed internal permission papers for every place we visited or spent the night. The reason everyone had spare cash was because there were no luxuries available, and there was not much to spend money on after paying for food and rent - except for booze. Booze was cheap and plentiful, and consumed in prodigious amounts.
Then there was the "weird" side. Whenever we went to a touristy place, we were met by well-dressed most unbeggar-like kids who were determined to haggle - they gave us badges with Lenin and suchlike, and we gave them Wrigley's chewing gum. I still have many of those badges, with their prices embossed on them from manufacture. The staff at every hotel wanted to haggle over our jeans - Levi's only, forget the designer shit - and paid up to 150roubles a pair in cash (a rouble was worth more than a dollar at the time). To break the ice when meeting groups of Russians in a business context, we learned to bring along a few bottles of vodka - it turned the event from a confrontation between potential foes into a meeting of long-lost friends after a couple of bottles were empty. On one of our first restaurant visits, we forgot to "bribe" or tip-in-advance the head waiter, so we ended up waiting a long time for a table. We were then informed that only the set meal was available, and that due to time constraints, we could not have the dessert but that the price was unchanged. The entire restaurant staff came out to indulge in "self-criticism" before we left, just to rub in the lesson and let the other guests know what cheap-skates we were...
Another anecdote: a colleague left a party early and very drunk in late winter. He woke up the next day in our hotel on the other side of Moscow, with no knowledge or recollection of how he got there (and he didn't know the way). Our translator said that probably the police found him drunk and unconscious on the street, and took him to the correct hotel based on the ID in his pocket. She said that regular Russians would have spent the night in a police cell and would have been released early in the morning (a cold shower for the hangover was mentioned, but perhaps jokingly). Apparently, the main work for the police at night was picking up drunks before they froze to death. Most of my anecdotes from that period tend toward the scandalous; that one is tame enough.
For a Westerner interacting with regular people, the weirdness overwhelmed the goodness and the badness.
Pick one: a PC or a circular slide rule...
Seriously, a 7-year-old has too much to learn about almost everything. He is better off with his own account on a shared PC (e.g. a family PC, where our kids started), where he can dabble and can sometimes look over an adult's shoulder. Give him his own PC, and he's likely to still want to use the same one as dad or mom.
Mod up this AC, please. The sunspot cycle of about 11 years is only one half of the solar magnetic cycle of about 22 years. And as a side note, the cycle is on average about 22 years. Observed cycles have varied by up to a few years from this.
President Obama,
The DMCA has deleted your wife from the internet! You must repeal it immediately!
Sincerely,
A Concerned Internet Citizen
The president would then propose repealing the internet... just like any normal greasy politician. After all, the internet is not a direct result of lobbyist-promoted legislation so it must be the cause of the problem, not that fine well-lobbied DMCA piece of legislation which can clearly only cause good things.
Many of us keep photos on our home servers (my/media/Photos tree has 310GB of files) . Many of us keep emails either on the home server, or accessed from POP/IMAP servers using an email client.
Microsoft's flawed implementation (or lack of implementation) of PAE modes means that 32bit Windows can access and manage only 4GB of address space in total, even on a 64bit processor. Linux, BSD, and others implemented PAE correctly, and 32bit Linux can access and manage 64GB of RAM on a 64bit machine. Since it is rare for a single process to require more than 4GB of its own address space, there is not much reason to migrate from i386 to amd64 on Linux. On 32bit Windows, however, the total address space of all processes including the base OS and hardware I/O space cannot exceed 4GB. Hence the rapid shift from 32bit to 64bit in Windows, but the much more leisurely migration on Linux and BSD.
Of course cheaper isn't a reason on it's own, otherwise you are condoning stealing because that too is cheaper.
The vendors' selection of a price point is something that has gone astray here. And it's linked to competition from other entertainment devices - music and video are a smaller fraction of the pie than they used to be.
I'm willing to pay up to euro10 for a DVD, and less than that for a CD. This means I wait several months (or a year) after a new release before it reaches my price point. DVDs typically start out here at euro20+ and some CDs are amazingly priced at euro20+ when "hot". After a few months, one has a better view on whether a CD/DVD is worth getting for the long term. There was a time I'd pay the crazy prices being asked for new releases, but it passed a long time ago.
A few years ago, a survey (maybe in The Economist magazine) indicated that people were spending about the same fraction of their income on entertainment as they had 25 years earlier. However, the share taken by music and video (predominantly VHS then, DVD now) had declined significantly, while that taken by gaming and suchlike had grown, and dining out etc. had not changed much. Clearly, if we're expected to buy just as much music and video, the price has to be more attractive. They're competing with PlayStations, internet, and suchlike for money and attention.
Strange bedfellows indeed. I wonder whether they can reconcile some of their other goals. Like Iran wanting to promote Shia Islam and eliminate all other religions (and atheists/agnostics). And PRK wanting to promote atheism and the cult of the great successor Kim Jong Un and eliminate all religions (including Shia Islam).
Cambridge and Oxford may not be entirely typical, but they only have 20 weeks/academic year of lectures. Yet they don't seem to have trouble teaching people things.
Exactly this. Finland has one of the shortest school years in Europe (based on hours at school per year), both for grade school and for high school. However, it consistently comes near the top in the PISA rankings for 15-year-olds. Some of the school hours appear to be fruitless time wasting in those countries with a lot more hours in the school year.
What is needed is not shorter holidays for the kids, but longer vacations for their parents. How much of your work time is productive, how much is socially useful (as opposed to directly useful), and how much is just wasted?
Norton Antivirus and McAfee did just that on a system wide CIH infection, just too bad good old f-prot ain't free anymore...
Did they then completely remove themselves?
If so, good; congratulations on the less unclean PC. If not, they were clearly not doing their AV job properly.
"Good artists copy, great artists steal" - Steve Jobs, 1994
This is a misattributed quote. It should more correctly be attributed to either Pablo Picasso (an overrated artist) or Igor Stravinsky (an excellent composer).
If it's Gnome 3, then screw it. It goes into the "ignored trash" category, along with the Unity flavor of Ubuntu.
If it's a Gnome 2 fork (like Mate) or other Gnome 2 flavor, then I might be interested.
We converted all our home PCs from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to Xubuntu 10.04 LTS more than a year ago,. This was after testing a couple of versions of Ubuntu with Unity in a VM and seeing the train-wreck that it was. Now we're on Xubuntu 12.04 LTS.
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So what happens if they DON'T find you within the 24 hours? TFA didn't mention whether there is a bonus for hiding yourself well (e.g. in a cave or on a car-ferry or airplane) or whether the prize is lost.
I also believe a WHOOSH! is in order for you, sir/madam.
I believe in the incremental approach to updates; it's so much safer and usually easier.
So it's going to be IPv5 for me, while you suckers make a mess of IPv6!
And it depends what you call "programming".
The real money is in providing services to programmers. One way would be to follow this advice. A significant fraction of humanity is already qualified and equipped...
Show's how little you know, the year BEFORE iphone was even announced, samsung released a little device f700. If you compare the 2 side by side they look very similar so on topic of who copied who first, that would be apple copied samsung.
I hate Apple with a passion but you're just wrong. The F700 came out just slightly after the iPhone. Obviously they both had to be in development around the same time but Apple was in fact first.
The myth posted above has be debunked many times, just use a little Google-fu and you will see.
Indeed, the F700 was publicly shown just a few weeks after the iPhone's first appearance. However, Samsung had filed for a Korean design patent on the F700 several weeks before the iPhone was revealed. It exactly matched the F700 (BTW, there were rounded corners on the rectangle). The whole "who did it first" issue is stupid, and describing it as "copying our innovation" is utter lunacy, when basic design principles lead to just a few possibilities, all of which were released by somebody.
define "wrong fucking place" please.
Well, in the US, they'll arrest you for fucking in public places.
So, definition: "public place" = "wrong fucking place".
Oh, and i know Nick Cage sucks, but thats my girls favorite movie and it always makes her horny. So yeah, I have seen it too many times.
By 'girls' I hope you mean your Wife/GF/SO, and not your daughter(s).
He meant his fembots. Hand in your geek card at once...
The slope is long and slippery, and leads down a long way. We'd never agree to a great leap downwards, but every incremental movement downwards is easier than a nudge in the opposite direction.
In other words, this MP is severely 'tarded. Alas, so are many regular folks.
(a rouble was worth more than a dollar at the time).
I would like to qualify this statement with an explanation. NOBODY in Russia was allowed to deal in dollars OR gold. Nobody. Such deals were punishable by law with very lengthy prison sentences and confiscation of all private possessions, sometimes also by death.
Due to this, the black market for dollars (or any other foreign money that was called the 'valuta') was almost non-existent among the general public, it was of a very limited use.
Not in my experience. Almost everyone we met was willing and eager to exchange their spare roubles for a well-known hard currency (US/UK/German/etc.). Mind you, such transactions were rather more discreet than those which merely exchanged roubles for jeans (the illegality you mentioned). We enquired from our translator as to why this was so, and mostly got evasive answers. The only plausible explanation entailed the official Beriozhka shops, in which almost anything Russian or foreign could be bought for hard currency, and which were frequented mostly by foreigners and the Russian elite. But anyone could go there and buy stuff with no questions asked, if they had some hard currency to spend. It appears that having a few packages of Marlboro cigarettes or a bottle of Johnnie Walker scotch visible on your shelf was an astounding status symbol in Soviet days.
It was yet another weirdness - vicious punishment for getting caught in a certain action, but official facilitation for disposing of the results of that action.
I have the patent upon First Posts - you'll hear from my lawyers; Dewey, Skruem & Howe
beating the obvious to death: did Mr. Cheathem, Esq. retire, leaving a partnership to Mr. Skruem?
I believe the learned Mr. Ripem succeeded the mild-mannered Mr. Cheathem in that partnership. Mr. Skruem is a member of a different partnership: Dewey, Twistem, Skruem, & Howe.
Anyone who thinks that life wasn't better in Russia in the 1970s either 1) was not living there; 2) is one of the very few beneficiaries of business. (Hint: if you're a geek programmer living in Moscow, you're in category #2.)
Well, life in the Soviet Union was of uneven quality, on geographical as well as political grounds. There were certainly places where life was better then than it is now. There were also many places where it was worse then than it is now. I spent time in both Moscow and Leningrad (as it was then called) for a period as a foreigner in the early 1980s, and formed opinions based on what I saw and what I was told by actual Russians. I'd class it as weird as much as good or bad.
Taking the "good" side first, I saw no particular poverty (unlike most large Western cities), and the people were all fairly well-dressed and looked healthy enough. The streets were quite tidy, just like Nordic cities of today. Also, the people I met all had jobs or sinecures of some sort, and even the lowliest (cleaners) had some spare money. Basic rents were controlled and cheap, so was food.
Taking the "bad" side, those I talked to (including our translator) said that it was a privilege to live in "display" cities like Moscow or Leningrad. Moreover, if they lost this privilege, life would be much tougher in the backwoods, and even keeping well-fed could be a challenge. Internal travel was highly restricted, and our translator needed internal permission papers for every place we visited or spent the night. The reason everyone had spare cash was because there were no luxuries available, and there was not much to spend money on after paying for food and rent - except for booze. Booze was cheap and plentiful, and consumed in prodigious amounts.
Then there was the "weird" side. Whenever we went to a touristy place, we were met by well-dressed most unbeggar-like kids who were determined to haggle - they gave us badges with Lenin and suchlike, and we gave them Wrigley's chewing gum. I still have many of those badges, with their prices embossed on them from manufacture. The staff at every hotel wanted to haggle over our jeans - Levi's only, forget the designer shit - and paid up to 150roubles a pair in cash (a rouble was worth more than a dollar at the time). To break the ice when meeting groups of Russians in a business context, we learned to bring along a few bottles of vodka - it turned the event from a confrontation between potential foes into a meeting of long-lost friends after a couple of bottles were empty. On one of our first restaurant visits, we forgot to "bribe" or tip-in-advance the head waiter, so we ended up waiting a long time for a table. We were then informed that only the set meal was available, and that due to time constraints, we could not have the dessert but that the price was unchanged. The entire restaurant staff came out to indulge in "self-criticism" before we left, just to rub in the lesson and let the other guests know what cheap-skates we were...
Another anecdote: a colleague left a party early and very drunk in late winter. He woke up the next day in our hotel on the other side of Moscow, with no knowledge or recollection of how he got there (and he didn't know the way). Our translator said that probably the police found him drunk and unconscious on the street, and took him to the correct hotel based on the ID in his pocket. She said that regular Russians would have spent the night in a police cell and would have been released early in the morning (a cold shower for the hangover was mentioned, but perhaps jokingly). Apparently, the main work for the police at night was picking up drunks before they froze to death. Most of my anecdotes from that period tend toward the scandalous; that one is tame enough.
For a Westerner interacting with regular people, the weirdness overwhelmed the goodness and the badness.
Pick one: a PC or a circular slide rule...
Seriously, a 7-year-old has too much to learn about almost everything. He is better off with his own account on a shared PC (e.g. a family PC, where our kids started), where he can dabble and can sometimes look over an adult's shoulder. Give him his own PC, and he's likely to still want to use the same one as dad or mom.
FYI, the cycle is 22 years, not 11.
Mod up this AC, please. The sunspot cycle of about 11 years is only one half of the solar magnetic cycle of about 22 years. And as a side note, the cycle is on average about 22 years. Observed cycles have varied by up to a few years from this.
President Obama,
The DMCA has deleted your wife from the internet! You must repeal it immediately!
Sincerely,
A Concerned Internet Citizen
The president would then propose repealing the internet... just like any normal greasy politician. After all, the internet is not a direct result of lobbyist-promoted legislation so it must be the cause of the problem, not that fine well-lobbied DMCA piece of legislation which can clearly only cause good things.
Volvo(cars) is owned by Ford
Bzzzzt wrong. Volvo cars is owned by Geely.
Photos auto-sync via Skydrive.
If you actually want to use Windows Live.
Email is all cloud-based.
For tiny little miniscule values of all...
Many of us keep photos on our home servers (my /media/Photos tree has 310GB of files) . Many of us keep emails either on the home server, or accessed from POP/IMAP servers using an email client.
You should check up on PAE kernels.
Microsoft's flawed implementation (or lack of implementation) of PAE modes means that 32bit Windows can access and manage only 4GB of address space in total, even on a 64bit processor. Linux, BSD, and others implemented PAE correctly, and 32bit Linux can access and manage 64GB of RAM on a 64bit machine. Since it is rare for a single process to require more than 4GB of its own address space, there is not much reason to migrate from i386 to amd64 on Linux. On 32bit Windows, however, the total address space of all processes including the base OS and hardware I/O space cannot exceed 4GB. Hence the rapid shift from 32bit to 64bit in Windows, but the much more leisurely migration on Linux and BSD.
For those of you unfamiliar with Shakesphere:
And for ACs unfamiliar with the spelling of the Bard's name, it should have "ea" where you put "he".
Try spelling it as "Shakespeare", next time.
Of course cheaper isn't a reason on it's own, otherwise you are condoning stealing because that too is cheaper.
The vendors' selection of a price point is something that has gone astray here. And it's linked to competition from other entertainment devices - music and video are a smaller fraction of the pie than they used to be.
I'm willing to pay up to euro10 for a DVD, and less than that for a CD. This means I wait several months (or a year) after a new release before it reaches my price point. DVDs typically start out here at euro20+ and some CDs are amazingly priced at euro20+ when "hot". After a few months, one has a better view on whether a CD/DVD is worth getting for the long term. There was a time I'd pay the crazy prices being asked for new releases, but it passed a long time ago.
A few years ago, a survey (maybe in The Economist magazine) indicated that people were spending about the same fraction of their income on entertainment as they had 25 years earlier. However, the share taken by music and video (predominantly VHS then, DVD now) had declined significantly, while that taken by gaming and suchlike had grown, and dining out etc. had not changed much. Clearly, if we're expected to buy just as much music and video, the price has to be more attractive. They're competing with PlayStations, internet, and suchlike for money and attention.
Strange bedfellows indeed. I wonder whether they can reconcile some of their other goals. Like Iran wanting to promote Shia Islam and eliminate all other religions (and atheists/agnostics). And PRK wanting to promote atheism and the cult of the great successor Kim Jong Un and eliminate all religions (including Shia Islam).
Cambridge and Oxford may not be entirely typical, but they only have 20 weeks/academic year of lectures. Yet they don't seem to have trouble teaching people things.
Exactly this. Finland has one of the shortest school years in Europe (based on hours at school per year), both for grade school and for high school. However, it consistently comes near the top in the PISA rankings for 15-year-olds. Some of the school hours appear to be fruitless time wasting in those countries with a lot more hours in the school year.
What is needed is not shorter holidays for the kids, but longer vacations for their parents. How much of your work time is productive, how much is socially useful (as opposed to directly useful), and how much is just wasted?
Norton Antivirus and McAfee did just that on a system wide CIH infection, just too bad good old f-prot ain't free anymore...
Did they then completely remove themselves?
If so, good; congratulations on the less unclean PC. If not, they were clearly not doing their AV job properly.
"Good artists copy, great artists steal" - Steve Jobs, 1994
This is a misattributed quote. It should more correctly be attributed to either Pablo Picasso (an overrated artist) or Igor Stravinsky (an excellent composer).
Rock Star Developers, seriously? None of them are that good.
Agreed. Rock Stars suck as developers. And most of them suck at rock, as well.
If it's Gnome 3, then screw it. It goes into the "ignored trash" category, along with the Unity flavor of Ubuntu.
If it's a Gnome 2 fork (like Mate) or other Gnome 2 flavor, then I might be interested.
We converted all our home PCs from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to Xubuntu 10.04 LTS more than a year ago,. This was after testing a couple of versions of Ubuntu with Unity in a VM and seeing the train-wreck that it was. Now we're on Xubuntu 12.04 LTS.