Slashdot doesn't do markup for anything. No accents for European languages (let alone more esoteric ones), no Unicode, no nothing.
It does not support the degree symbol, but it does have some of the accented characters used in Western Europe (ä à á å â ç ñ ø € etc.). It also supports some less common characters, such as the Icelandic ð or the æ or ß ligatures.
2. Windows still doesn't have proper package management. Which leads to...
Ironically this is the main reason why I use Windows, because it doesn't have a "proper" package manager. I can install an 8 year old copy of winamp alongside the newest iTunes and everything just works. You can't do this with a "proper" package manager like any of the ones for Linux because there will be 100s of conflicts.
Are you aware that you can "downgrade" packages with a package manager? And that you can lock versions to ancient ones if you wish to prevent future upgrades?
For well over a year, I ran Xubuntu with MTP 0.3.7 even when the current version was 1.0.2 because one particular media device I had was problematic (the others didn't care which version of MTP was in use). The package manager looked after all of the dependencies quite nicely. If it had been Windows, a "DLL Hell" would likely have resulted.
You don't need most of the things on that list. B&W Cellulose acetate film stored at low temps would still be around. In principle Nitrocellulose stored at low enough temps might have survived but you'd need to get postgrads or other expendable people to handle it.
After all, it's Soyuz that keeps the ISS manned, and Proton that provides most of its supplies. No US components or technology (maybe some really ancient/proven stuff).
Not necessarily tax payers dollars. In fact, the patents already force people to pay hidden taxes on products. You could charge the patent trolls more for their patents, have a "flood-penalty" for entities holding more than a few patents, etc. It would be extremely unfair to make the tax payers bleed for being ripped off. Punish the wrongdoers, not the victims.
A related issue is that the USPTO is a net contributor to the budget. They don't even get to use all of the patent examination fees that they generate, with some being "diverted" to the general budget.
A "flood-penalty" along the lines you propose would punish those corporations which generate and use a large number of patents, such as IBM, Toshiba, Siemens, and so forth. A better idea would be to take the ratio of implemented patents (in products produced and marketed by the patent holder) to unimplemented patents (whether licensed to others or not), and use that as the basis for a tax per patent or per unimplemented patent more than a few years old. This would still hit patent licensors such as ARM, but if the tax were relatively low, it would not hinder them much while the trolls would find it a great inconvenience.
Lots of us don't care at all at home - nothing but Linux boxes: laptops, desktops and servers (2 in each category).
However, at work it's all Windows 7[*], and probably will be for some time. Not Windows 8; we don't have any (outside the odd test machine), and likely will continue that way. In fact, Windows 8 had already out a while when I recently got a new laptop with Windows 7 Enterprise on it.
[*] More than 10^5 laptops & desktops. Some of the "desktops" run Windows Server 2008. Our real servers run a variety of things, but more run Windows in some form or other than Linux or Oracle's bastardized shitpile.
A substance abusing mess?
Last I heard, she was a militant vegan.
In my experience, the intersection of those two sets is pretty empty.
Vegans are, by definition, substance abusers. They abuse animal protein by not eating it. They also abuse omnivores by forcing them to act like herbivores (or folivores or frugivores, or other non-carnivores). So the intersection between those sets is equal to the whole set of vegans.
Not all buildings are the same, and not all of them are build for the same purpose.
And they're not all built in the same region, either.
It's all fine to talk of going rapidly from idea to plan to construction, but major changes might be required to meet local fire or seismic regulations in the area you intend to build. Unless you're going to build in a really laissez-faire area, the plans will require approval from the local authorities, and may require changes to come into conformance with local building regulations. Then there are the foundations to consider... Around here, that involves a hell of a lot of insulation (to avoid frost-heave) and including concrete, gravel, utilities, and drainage, the foundation can cost as much as the house itself.
80MB in a single disk pack??? Do you know how many RL01 disk packs that would need? We used PDP-11 with DECnet (which was upgraded to thickwire ethernet years later). Mind you, the PDP-11 was already light years ahead of where we started - IBM 360 with a quarter megaword of drum storage and 300baud links...
They all have crappy battery life. It may start at 8 hours, but after a year it'll be down to 1 hour. Most of my friends have viable home laptops with no remaining battery of which to speak. And these were solid industrial models. Does that mean the whole thing should be thrown out and replaced?
You mean the battery loses most of its capacity in a single year... WTF are they doing to those things?
I have a 9 year old laptop with a 17" WUXGA display which we use every day with near maximum brightness. When it was new, it could go for about 3 hours on a charge (fairly old CPU and battery technology, 'nuff said). Nowadays, it still gets better than 2 hours on a charge, and it's still using its original battery. So in 9 years of extensive use, both on AC power and battery power, it has lost about 30% of its capacity. And some of that loss was perhaps because we switched it from XP to Linux after a year or so, and Linux is supposed to have worse power management than XP.
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Most politicians fly private jets "loaned" to them by "concerned" parties. Or are married to centi-millionaires who can just give them their own jet.
I think you meant hecto-millionaires (i.e persons having more than 100million bucks), since the hecto- prefix means one hundred of a quantity. The centi- prefix means one hundredth of a quantity, so a centi-millionaire has a mere 10thousand bucks. There are lots and lots of centi-millionaires, and not many of them have their own jet...
Try reading TFA. Anonymised data isn't covered by the ECHR since it (supposedly) doesn't infringe on one's privacy.
TFA is self contradictory. It says "The data that Ipsos MORI would be able to analyse includes individual user's location to the nearest 100 metres." Further down, Ipsos MORI claims that "Ipsos MORI only receives anonymised data without any personally identifiable information on an individual customer".
At most, one of those two statements is true. The article may be badly written (no surprises there), or Ipsos MORI may be less than truthful (no surprises there either). Go figure.
very soon, when it gets some traction, goog will hav its presence with the ominous search box
More importantly, will we have the ability to prevent IMEI from accompanying cookies, and the ability to remove cookies selectively? Ideally, the various Firefox add-ins which automate deletion would be installable, such as BetterPrivacy, DoNotTrackMe, Facebook Blocker, and Self-Destructing Cookies and so forth; not just the ad blockers like AdBlock Plus and its ilk. Ideally, these add-ins for the Firefox browser would work at the phone level for Firefox OS, not merely for a single browser. The Google search box need not be such a bad thing, if you don't allow cookies (and can prevent IMEI and suchlike from accompanying cookies).
Maybe the Flashblock plugin would not be needed, if the Firefox phone also does not support Adobe's Flash abomination.
Although the third-party blurb suggests some interesting conjectures, the article itself is hidden behind a paywall. It's hardly worth speculating on its content or statistical robustness or experimental rigor - other than noting that the social sciences tend to be less robust in their methods and mathematics than the physical sciences and engineering.
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What are you talking about, Commie????? It means Freedom!!!11!!!! God bless Ay-Murrrrka!!!111!!11
Presumably, you're one of the idiots who freely believes that al-Gur was responsible for 9-11, and not al-Qaeda...
Slashdot doesn't do markup for anything. No accents for European languages (let alone more esoteric ones), no Unicode, no nothing.
It does not support the degree symbol, but it does have some of the accented characters used in Western Europe (ä à á å â ç ñ ø € etc.). It also supports some less common characters, such as the Icelandic ð or the æ or ß ligatures.
2. Windows still doesn't have proper package management. Which leads to...
Ironically this is the main reason why I use Windows, because it doesn't have a "proper" package manager. I can install an 8 year old copy of winamp alongside the newest iTunes and everything just works. You can't do this with a "proper" package manager like any of the ones for Linux because there will be 100s of conflicts.
Are you aware that you can "downgrade" packages with a package manager? And that you can lock versions to ancient ones if you wish to prevent future upgrades?
For well over a year, I ran Xubuntu with MTP 0.3.7 even when the current version was 1.0.2 because one particular media device I had was problematic (the others didn't care which version of MTP was in use). The package manager looked after all of the dependencies quite nicely. If it had been Windows, a "DLL Hell" would likely have resulted.
Surely there's a rat at the bottom of the pile.
Not if it's the steaming pile we've become accustomed to. The rats are on top...
You don't need most of the things on that list. B&W Cellulose acetate film stored at low temps would still be around. In principle Nitrocellulose stored at low enough temps might have survived but you'd need to get postgrads or other expendable people to handle it.
Even some of the earliest movies have been digitized from ancient film. For example there are collections of shorts by Edison (1899-1902), as well as items like The Little Match Seller (1902), The Great Train Robbery (1903) or both halves of the Chicago-Michigan Football Game (1903). Obviously these are silent and monochrome, and in some cases the original was imperfect.
After all, it's Soyuz that keeps the ISS manned, and Proton that provides most of its supplies. No US components or technology (maybe some really ancient/proven stuff).
Ai-je été si poli, péter au roi d'angleterre?
Insultes polies sont plus efficaces, en tout cas...
Not necessarily tax payers dollars. In fact, the patents already force people to pay hidden taxes on products. You could charge the patent trolls more for their patents, have a "flood-penalty" for entities holding more than a few patents, etc. It would be extremely unfair to make the tax payers bleed for being ripped off. Punish the wrongdoers, not the victims.
A related issue is that the USPTO is a net contributor to the budget. They don't even get to use all of the patent examination fees that they generate, with some being "diverted" to the general budget.
A "flood-penalty" along the lines you propose would punish those corporations which generate and use a large number of patents, such as IBM, Toshiba, Siemens, and so forth. A better idea would be to take the ratio of implemented patents (in products produced and marketed by the patent holder) to unimplemented patents (whether licensed to others or not), and use that as the basis for a tax per patent or per unimplemented patent more than a few years old. This would still hit patent licensors such as ARM, but if the tax were relatively low, it would not hinder them much while the trolls would find it a great inconvenience.
Lots of people, obviously. Probably millions.
Lots of us don't care at all at home - nothing but Linux boxes: laptops, desktops and servers (2 in each category).
However, at work it's all Windows 7[*], and probably will be for some time. Not Windows 8; we don't have any (outside the odd test machine), and likely will continue that way. In fact, Windows 8 had already out a while when I recently got a new laptop with Windows 7 Enterprise on it.
[*] More than 10^5 laptops & desktops. Some of the "desktops" run Windows Server 2008. Our real servers run a variety of things, but more run Windows in some form or other than Linux or Oracle's bastardized shitpile.
A substance abusing mess?
Last I heard, she was a militant vegan.
In my experience, the intersection of those two sets is pretty empty.
Vegans are, by definition, substance abusers. They abuse animal protein by not eating it. They also abuse omnivores by forcing them to act like herbivores (or folivores or frugivores, or other non-carnivores). So the intersection between those sets is equal to the whole set of vegans.
For me, Ergodan sounds likes a real menace to turkish society.
Votre mère était un hamster et votre père avait une odeur de baies de sureau...
Not all buildings are the same, and not all of them are build for the same purpose.
And they're not all built in the same region, either.
It's all fine to talk of going rapidly from idea to plan to construction, but major changes might be required to meet local fire or seismic regulations in the area you intend to build. Unless you're going to build in a really laissez-faire area, the plans will require approval from the local authorities, and may require changes to come into conformance with local building regulations. Then there are the foundations to consider... Around here, that involves a hell of a lot of insulation (to avoid frost-heave) and including concrete, gravel, utilities, and drainage, the foundation can cost as much as the house itself.
I suspect you meant death throes. The term "death throws" is confusing, and possibly a little bit disturbing.
80MB removable disk packs the diameter of LPs.
80MB in a single disk pack??? Do you know how many RL01 disk packs that would need? We used PDP-11 with DECnet (which was upgraded to thickwire ethernet years later). Mind you, the PDP-11 was already light years ahead of where we started - IBM 360 with a quarter megaword of drum storage and 300baud links...
Betadine surgical scrub consists of:
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Nonoxynol-9
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OK, so tell me, why do surgeons want to rub a spermicide on their hands. On second thoughts, please don't tell me; I just ate dinner...
Hell, half the time I don't know if they have a new release, or if a new rapper busted out on the scene...
Crunchbang rocks!
They all have crappy battery life. It may start at 8 hours, but after a year it'll be down to 1 hour.
Most of my friends have viable home laptops with no remaining battery of which to speak. And these were solid industrial models. Does that mean the whole thing should be thrown out and replaced?
You mean the battery loses most of its capacity in a single year... WTF are they doing to those things?
I have a 9 year old laptop with a 17" WUXGA display which we use every day with near maximum brightness. When it was new, it could go for about 3 hours on a charge (fairly old CPU and battery technology, 'nuff said). Nowadays, it still gets better than 2 hours on a charge, and it's still using its original battery. So in 9 years of extensive use, both on AC power and battery power, it has lost about 30% of its capacity. And some of that loss was perhaps because we switched it from XP to Linux after a year or so, and Linux is supposed to have worse power management than XP.
Most politicians fly private jets "loaned" to them by "concerned" parties. Or are married to centi-millionaires who can just give them their own jet.
I think you meant hecto-millionaires (i.e persons having more than 100million bucks), since the hecto- prefix means one hundred of a quantity. The centi- prefix means one hundredth of a quantity, so a centi-millionaire has a mere 10thousand bucks. There are lots and lots of centi-millionaires, and not many of them have their own jet...
Try reading TFA. Anonymised data isn't covered by the ECHR since it (supposedly) doesn't infringe on one's privacy.
TFA is self contradictory. It says "The data that Ipsos MORI would be able to analyse includes individual user's location to the nearest 100 metres." Further down, Ipsos MORI claims that "Ipsos MORI only receives anonymised data without any personally identifiable information on an individual customer".
At most, one of those two statements is true. The article may be badly written (no surprises there), or Ipsos MORI may be less than truthful (no surprises there either). Go figure.
very soon, when it gets some traction, goog will hav its presence with the ominous search box
More importantly, will we have the ability to prevent IMEI from accompanying cookies, and the ability to remove cookies selectively? Ideally, the various Firefox add-ins which automate deletion would be installable, such as BetterPrivacy, DoNotTrackMe, Facebook Blocker, and Self-Destructing Cookies and so forth; not just the ad blockers like AdBlock Plus and its ilk. Ideally, these add-ins for the Firefox browser would work at the phone level for Firefox OS, not merely for a single browser. The Google search box need not be such a bad thing, if you don't allow cookies (and can prevent IMEI and suchlike from accompanying cookies).
Maybe the Flashblock plugin would not be needed, if the Firefox phone also does not support Adobe's Flash abomination.
Although the third-party blurb suggests some interesting conjectures, the article itself is hidden behind a paywall. It's hardly worth speculating on its content or statistical robustness or experimental rigor - other than noting that the social sciences tend to be less robust in their methods and mathematics than the physical sciences and engineering.
Sales of Reynold's Wrap spike in the Bay Area.
If only they'd use Stretch-N-Seal instead... Or Cling Wrap, or something that would increase the average IQ of the area.
Thanks for the info !!
Looks like I ain't gonna enjoy lots of sleep from now until next weekend
You could download and compile (for your web server) the detection C code provided here. Then you'll have less uncertainty.
I had to cross-compile it for an old Synology box with a PowerPC 8241 processor; it seems to be clean.
a photo in the "Victoria's Secretions" catalog
Those photos sound wilder than the ones in the "Victoria's Secrets" catalog...