IMNSHO, the quality control at both companies has been terrible for several years now. What's the point of paying a premium for a good graphics card, if hardware problems make your system unstable as soon as a demanding game is loaded or the drivers take out your operating system at random intervals? It's not like this has happened only on bleeding edge cards with new drivers, either: several entire models have had basic incompatibilities with other common system components, and sometimes drivers have been unacceptably poor for the entire useful lifetime of a gamer's card.
If they stopped putting out new hardware like mad every other week in order to outbest one another, they could just possibly have time to fix their hardware and drivers.
Mr McKinnon should burn his British passport and go away from the UK to some country which still cares for its citizens.
A country he wouldn't be a citizen of. I'm not sure that would help a lot... He *could* try to just vanish with a new identity but that's presumably not a very exciting life to live either (or it's too much excitement maybe).
Due to the health risks associated with carbon dioxide exposure, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration says that average exposure for healthy adults during an eight-hour work day should not exceed 5,000 ppm (0.5%).
Republicans tend to adopt a much more black and white world view, in which nobody abuses their power, hard work pays off, and therefore anyone who does not have the good things in life or is dissatisfied in any way has done or is doing something wrong.
And in the 1960s that's exactly what the Democrats would do while the Republicans would do exactly the opposite.
Your two party system has gotten to the point that both parties actually *exchanged sides*, something that's probably unique in all the countries with open parties, and yet nobody cares. If that's not a sign that the whole thing is fucked up then what is ?
If you look at European politics, pretty much every country has at least 4 or 5 parties that *really* have a say (plus others). Granted only 2 or 3 have a shot at getting elected, but they all get to have a say. And they all weigh on the opinion. Seen from abroad, Ah I won't even get into it... Two semi-parties, elections where you can't even figure out who has won, electronic machines that are so flawed that the only excuse the makers find is that the anti virus software must have done something...
Don't start arguing about your locally twisted definitions of liberal and whatever else that don't match anything else in the civilised world when you can't even have a working democracy.
And yes. It's a flame, mod me down. I'm sick of this kind of politics popping up on every damn article that doesn't deal with the latest colour of elves in WOW.
But if you were a web designer who wanted to make the most people able to access their site, they'd start with IE - firefox has to be installed, IE comes with it.
What ? Firefox comes with IE nowadays ? Do distribution packagers remove it or what ? I never get IE with my Firefox !
I knew I should have stayed with Gentoo, there probably was a "USE ie" somewhere I missed at the time...
Excelent. Finally someone who can tell me just what the bloody hell this sign is: That's my shift+4. Google doesn't even seem to know what the hell it is. It looks a little bit like a bomb as seen from behind - main fusulage in the middle and four fins, but surely you aren't suggesting we bomb the manufacturers?
That character which didn't make it through/.'s silly character filter presumambly is the generic currency character (U+00A4 in the Latin 1 Supplement table of Unicode). You can create it in HTML with ¤ It isn't very widely used.
I don't get it. If they say they're compatible with Firefox - as in web browser - why does that browser need to run on a particular operating system? Since invention of flash video we are free from unnecessary plugins and related burden.
Can Flash do live streaming ? I don't see any reason that it couldn't but then I never setup anything with Flash and figured there might at least be a sane reason they didn't go with the obvious solution.
Oooo! Or, we could fill up Tienanmen square with peaceful people in protest.
No, this is bound to work : "'Songs for Tibet' was downloaded more than 40 times by Olympic athletes as a sign of solidarity for Tibet's cause"
If this doesn't make the world take the notice, nothing will. I mean *40 times*, that's probably as many as 40 people. Downloading an album from iTunes. Now *that's* solidarity !
My "I am poor" app, which only displays a frayed piece of string will only cell for 5 cents. I expect to sell at least 100 and thus be able to afford some hot soup !
He's not a moaning exec, he's a man with a vision : "Either it's going to happen or it's not going to happen." (Bob Sutor, vice president of open source and standards at IBM)
It's because of this kind of insight that he's a VP at IBM and you're not.
There aren't many. There are a handful. At best. For people who try to run Linux shops it's indeed very difficult.
For something that impacts pretty much every business, finding a proper accounting package that will be accepted during yearly audits (in Europe) is pretty much impossible at the moment.
More specialised packages for innumerable industries simply don't exist although in many case you can hack something together fairly easily from what's out there (but most businesses aren't too keen on that kind of thing).
Remember illegal access to a computer is illegal, but anyone running a database full of stolen credit card numbers is probably not going to call the cops on you, especially since to prove you access the system they'd have to keep it pretty much intact.
There is however a marginal risk that the legitimate owner of the system would notice you instead of the phisher. And call the relevant authorities on you. Which might prove uncomfortable.
For quite a lot of us, a TV is something that is 20" to 30" tops and while VHS really is bad enough that a DVD makes a difference, investing in a larger system is so low on the list of priorities (down there with buying dental floss for my cat) that the point of switching to BluRay (didn't they have any "e" on their keyboard in the marketing dept that came up with this?) is pretty much nil.
My computer screen is larger than my TV screen. I spend more time working on it than watching TV. A 40+" TV just doesn't make sense to most people I know (and we're definitely not starving students).
Nah, just kidding, I'm really looking forward to seeing HD ads for Preparation H.
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I really just curious - do feds or anyone from government did their work _after_ Katrina?
Of course they did, they're highly trained professionals after all.
They put up signs
However they didn't expect Gustav and forgot to translate them in German.
Well, *somebody* has to think of the children.
Anyone know where I could pick one up? It could be useful for backing up my phone.
My thoughts exactly. It would be nice if it could also *write* to the phone though. Backing up without being able to restore isn't all that useful.
Sometimes I think we really need a medieval style guild (NOT a union) that punishes companies that habitually abuse IT workers.
Do you think we could have a cool outfit ? With a pointy hat ?
IMNSHO, the quality control at both companies has been terrible for several years now. What's the point of paying a premium for a good graphics card, if hardware problems make your system unstable as soon as a demanding game is loaded or the drivers take out your operating system at random intervals? It's not like this has happened only on bleeding edge cards with new drivers, either: several entire models have had basic incompatibilities with other common system components, and sometimes drivers have been unacceptably poor for the entire useful lifetime of a gamer's card.
If they stopped putting out new hardware like mad every other week in order to outbest one another, they could just possibly have time to fix their hardware and drivers.
Just a thought.
Mr McKinnon should burn his British passport and go away from the UK to some country which still cares for its citizens.
A country he wouldn't be a citizen of. I'm not sure that would help a lot...
He *could* try to just vanish with a new identity but that's presumably not a very exciting life to live either (or it's too much excitement maybe).
No, ironic is like when it rains on your wedding day.
Irony is frequent in Britain
That's why metallurgy is a big deal there.
Some projects require nano legos apparently.
This is not recommended:
Due to the health risks associated with carbon dioxide exposure, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration says that average exposure for healthy adults during an eight-hour work day should not exceed 5,000 ppm (0.5%).
Just use unhealthy adults. Or children.
Republicans tend to adopt a much more black and white world view, in which nobody abuses their power, hard work pays off, and therefore anyone who does not have the good things in life or is dissatisfied in any way has done or is doing something wrong.
And in the 1960s that's exactly what the Democrats would do while the Republicans would do exactly the opposite.
Your two party system has gotten to the point that both parties actually *exchanged sides*, something that's probably unique in all the countries with open parties, and yet nobody cares.
If that's not a sign that the whole thing is fucked up then what is ?
If you look at European politics, pretty much every country has at least 4 or 5 parties that *really* have a say (plus others). Granted only 2 or 3 have a shot at getting elected, but they all get to have a say. And they all weigh on the opinion.
Seen from abroad,
Ah I won't even get into it... Two semi-parties, elections where you can't even figure out who has won, electronic machines that are so flawed that the only excuse the makers find is that the anti virus software must have done something...
Don't start arguing about your locally twisted definitions of liberal and whatever else that don't match anything else in the civilised world when you can't even have a working democracy.
And yes. It's a flame, mod me down. I'm sick of this kind of politics popping up on every damn article that doesn't deal with the latest colour of elves in WOW.
But if you were a web designer who wanted to make the most people able to access their site, they'd start with IE - firefox has to be installed, IE comes with it.
What ? Firefox comes with IE nowadays ? Do distribution packagers remove it or what ? I never get IE with my Firefox !
I knew I should have stayed with Gentoo, there probably was a "USE ie" somewhere I missed at the time...
Excelent. Finally someone who can tell me just what the bloody hell this sign is:
That's my shift+4. Google doesn't even seem to know what the hell it is. It looks a little bit like a bomb as seen from behind - main fusulage in the middle and four fins, but surely you aren't suggesting we bomb the manufacturers?
That character which didn't make it through /.'s silly character filter presumambly is the generic currency character (U+00A4 in the Latin 1 Supplement table of Unicode). You can create it in HTML with ¤ It isn't very widely used.
I don't get it. If they say they're compatible with Firefox - as in web browser - why does that browser need to run on a particular operating system? Since invention of flash video we are free from unnecessary plugins and related burden.
Can Flash do live streaming ?
I don't see any reason that it couldn't but then I never setup anything with Flash and figured there might at least be a sane reason they didn't go with the obvious solution.
Slashdot stopped the april fools jokes to appear to be a legitimate news organization [ ... ]
It did ? I thought they were now just scattered all through the year, one every couple day, to be less obvious.
Oh, you mean the bigfigs...
(runs away)
You probably also want a user interface that does what you mean, not what you said.
There might still be TARs of DWIM floating around. Maybe he could port that.
Oooo! Or, we could fill up Tienanmen square with peaceful people in protest.
No, this is bound to work :
"'Songs for Tibet' was downloaded more than 40 times by Olympic athletes as a sign of solidarity for Tibet's cause"
If this doesn't make the world take the notice, nothing will. I mean *40 times*, that's probably as many as 40 people. Downloading an album from iTunes. Now *that's* solidarity !
Take that China !
A fool and his money are soon parted...
How many more times am I going to hear the same thing over and over again?
Is it somehow funny? I just don't get it. Could someone please explain, before I completely lose my mind?
I'll explain it.
For a small fee.
My "I am poor" app, which only displays a frayed piece of string will only cell for 5 cents. I expect to sell at least 100 and thus be able to afford some hot soup !
Actually this is the case for an awful lot of students in Europe with the TV over ADSL deals.
He's not a moaning exec, he's a man with a vision :
"Either it's going to happen or it's not going to happen." (Bob Sutor, vice president of open source and standards at IBM)
It's because of this kind of insight that he's a VP at IBM and you're not.
There aren't many. There are a handful. At best. For people who try to run Linux shops it's indeed very difficult.
For something that impacts pretty much every business, finding a proper accounting package that will be accepted during yearly audits (in Europe) is pretty much impossible at the moment.
More specialised packages for innumerable industries simply don't exist although in many case you can hack something together fairly easily from what's out there (but most businesses aren't too keen on that kind of thing).
Remember illegal access to a computer is illegal, but anyone running a database full of stolen credit card numbers is probably not going to call the cops on you, especially since to prove you access the system they'd have to keep it pretty much intact.
There is however a marginal risk that the legitimate owner of the system would notice you instead of the phisher. And call the relevant authorities on you. Which might prove uncomfortable.
For quite a lot of us, a TV is something that is 20" to 30" tops and while VHS really is bad enough that a DVD makes a difference, investing in a larger system is so low on the list of priorities (down there with buying dental floss for my cat) that the point of switching to BluRay (didn't they have any "e" on their keyboard in the marketing dept that came up with this?) is pretty much nil.
My computer screen is larger than my TV screen. I spend more time working on it than watching TV. A 40+" TV just doesn't make sense to most people I know (and we're definitely not starving students).
Nah, just kidding, I'm really looking forward to seeing HD ads for Preparation H.
Are you suggesting they only have truncheons, mace and no tazers ? This lack of funding is outrageous, someone ought to Think Of the Children !