1) Apps are labelled by task rather than name. I had to use google to find out that the "File Browser" was called "nautilus". Gee - could you label it using the app's name, or make it launchable by entering something like "file-browser" in the run box?
The parent brings up a good point on this one. Obviously we can't just name apps file-browser or webrowser, there are too many choices. But how about an app that creates a series of shortcuts with descriptive names, and a gui (and manual text config file) that keeps a list of default apps? we already have default apps for various tasks after all. It would be trivial to do as well, just modify alias or keep shortcuts in the user's bin folder.
And it would have saved me a lot of trouble the first time I used Debian or Slackware and couldn't find 'Firefox' (PS, whoever made the decision to keep gaim as an optional launch name for Pidgin has my eternal thanks)
[quote]eligion is the anti-thesis of science because you are not allowed to question in religion. When was the last time anybody happened to say, "you know the bible/koran/tora needs updating, let's change a few paragraphs shall we."[/quote]
When they wrote the King James Bible?
There *is* such a thing as a non dogmatic religion though, mine still writes new holy texts, and the original book's copyright notice is where the term 'copyleft' comes from.
Single wall carbon nanotubes can be coated with various chemicals (I forget the details), to make them act as batteries/capacitors. When you charge the nanotubes they also change shape at a molecular level. This helps with the power requirements, since at least some of the energy would be recovered as well.
I can't be sure, but this is how I've always assumed artificial muscles would be made if they used nanotubes.
I, personally, hate Microsoft *and* Apple thankyou very much (I forgave Sony, since they haven't done anything really horrible outside the music division, an dI also hate Amazon, so I need Son for an ebook reader).
[quote]Blah blah. Fill in typical slashdot posting about how he's the same as the old boss, etc.
What the fuck is with this site? Was there this much focus on every single fucking thing the Bush administration did? Or did the coverage then just focus on the really egregious shit?[/quote]
I'm reposting something someone else wrote on this subject to answer you (with his permission):
George W. Bush had something going for him his last term. Those who hated him had written him off. There was no need to pay attention to what he was doing because everything he was going to do was going to be steeped in failure. By the time this recent Presidential Election got started, he only had the hearts and minds of 1/5th of the country. And one has to assume that many of those are probably party loyalists who feel it is their sworn duty to support ANY Republican President. It seemed like somewhere along the way, a majority of Americans, though they loathed W's performance as a President, decided, "Meh, we'll just wait him out", and then tuned out in favor of Dancing with the Stars.
So now we have this new guy coming in. And in some sense, he still is a relative unknown, when you compare him to the typical life-span in DC politics. It's clear that there are many who desperately want him to succeed. I suspect even some of the fifth who still like W, would love to see Obama succeed, thought they'd be loathe to admit it in public. There is a collective weight on our shoulders in the form of this failing economy. We desperately want someone to come along and lift it. We want someont to come along and succeed in lifting it.
But the key will be remembering that this is our burden to share with him. The biggest role we have is to support his efforts. That is, to support them by paying attention. We cannot allow this "Hope for Change" to become insulation. We cannot put so much trust in Obama that we stop paying attention. Holding his feet to the fire when he walks astray will be our best contribution. And we know the fifth will do that anyway. The rest of us need to represent the rational and reasoned response.
At least, that's how I see it. - Reverend What's-His-Name?
The point is to encourage companies to reveal how they make things, in exchange for a limited monopoly (basically you ensure the monopoly is x years, not 5 or 500, which used to be a real issue in medieval times)
Firefox's memory usage, test shows, is 1/2 that of Chrome or IE 8 with the same 10 tabs open.
I rarely have just ten tabs open, but that Firefox's memory footprint is smaller is pretty terrifying, given that I've gotten it to consume an entire gig before.
I'm not sure here, but if the legal term valid is equivalent to the logic term valid, that would imply that some of those 57% of copyright notices were false, but still covered under the DMCA has the claims not been fraudulent.
And invalid takedown notice would be something not related to copyright, such as a trademark issue, slander, requests to remove obscene content, something hosted outside the US etc. A valid but false claim would be me claiming I own the content of the parent post.
Pre release of copyrighted works, or release of limited distribution works (like a movie still only in theaters), has always been considered criminal, both in case law and the law as written. The logic is that in these cases the amount of damage is substantially more than more mundane piracy, since it creates a single point of release (he is responsible not just for the people he distributed it to, but every single person who downloads it prior to release).
The free market works just fine, you need regulation to *have* a free market though. The banks collapsed because no regulation meant no information about the assets being sold, and people who got adjustable rate mortgages weren't told that the banks would jack the interest rates up so high that the mortgage payments doubled.
Given my experience with expensive custom rigs, I'm guessing for music. These kind of setups usually double as home theater systems, whoever bought it probably got way overpriced speakers, and custom cabinet work to go with this and a 50 some odd inch TV.
The Linux move is instead of an Upgrade to Vista, in the short term, they may not have saved anything, long term, they saved on license upgrades, plus if any of those machines were older, hardware upgrades.
It gets worse than that, since there's no requirement to provide a copyright notice, it may be impossible to be sure what the copyright term is, thanks to a lack of information. Even if you know when it was made, binding it to the authors life means copyright effectively extends for 200 years, because you simply can't be sure when somebody obscure, *especially* online where you have no idea who the author/artist is.
Slightly different formula really, in that Halo Wars is actually playable on a console (a first for me).
That said it has some serious issues, no campaign mode for the covenant, no play at all for flood, multiplay costs extra, and the base building mechanism just isn't as fun as building a huge sprawling mess like a more traditional RTS. A couple missions have in game instructions that just don't make any sense as well, and you need to look online to figure out what it is you're supposed to accomplish.
All in all, its fun, but it makes me want to go back to playing Lord of the Rings or Tiberium Wars more than anything (And I probably will once I can afford real graphics and/or get them working in WINE).
"I think the life begins at conception idea is just a left over from ancient attempts at science. It uses the same ideas behind "Spontaneous generation", that life comes from inanimate matter."
The concept of life begins at conception didn't come about till the 19th century, at least in western culture.
There was one *huge* problem with the tax credit idea. If you're poor, you don't pay that much tax. I gave the government maybe 2 grand in 08 (not including social security, which i couldn't use the deduction on), that won't get me much health care, it definitely won't get me health care that will cover what I need it to.
And since my 'employer provided health care' required me to cover the *entire* cost of the plan, there was no chance my wages would go up either.
Precedent doesn't matter much in this instance. What matters is a challenge with the patent office (this costs an average of 5 million), the chances of the patents being upheld seem pretty small post bilski, at least the FAT ones (the others I don't know enough). But the law prevents judges from tossing a patent out, even when its blatently illegal, so instead of a moderately expensive publicly subsidized court battle (and appeals), patent cases end up being massively expensive for profit exercises mostly run by the patent office, *then* you get to do a round of appeals, depending on the outcome.
Once a patent is tossed out, MS can't use it anymore, but they have 227 others, so this is gonna be a long fight.
On the plus side, Tom Tom is probably going to fight if they aren't run by complete morons, otherwise they would have at least negotiated with MS.
While I'll agree few people could do the job of an executive well, I'd argue that very few executives manage to do a good job. Companies are failing left and right, most of the ones that aren't in distress exist on pure inertia. Nor is there any real effort to find good executives by most businesses. Instead they hire people who failed at a previous executive level job (see the guy who drove AMD into the ground, after trashing another company right before being hired), or who have the right networks to get the attention of the existing executives.
Many ISPs, including (from TFS) Rogers, do... [QoS shaping]. What they're saying is that if in the future they're not allowed to do this, by law, then they don't know what they'll do instead.
TFS seems to suggest Rogers is capping the torrents, which is a different practice altogether (and in reality, has more to do with limiting how much they have to pay tier 1s than congestion, QoS works fine for that).
If I'm wrong, and Rogers is really just trying to streamline the network, my attitude torwards them needs some adjustment, but in practice my ISP (who I know de prioritizes torrents, like any sane network should) has no trouble giving me my entire bandwidth cap 90% of the time.
Net neutrality does pose a lot of problems for ISPs who are trying to give customers what they want though, and the problem really should be dealt with with existing contract and extortion laws should be used, leaving legislation as a last resort if that fails.
He did not voluntarily show them the evidence though, he was forced to do it by customs.
Slightly more disturbing is the argument the judge makes according to TFA, which is that because they know he commited a crime, the 5th amendment has no place because it will not affect the outcome. 2 major flaws.
They have no evidence he actually committed a crime at all, just a suspicion, according to other articles, the customs official saw adult pornography and pornographic *drawings* of children, disgusting, but unless the defendant represents them as, or could be shown to have believed them to be, real, no crime exists. (Though many judges will thwart this SCOTUS ruling at every opportunity).
The second is that he could be exercising his 5th amendment rights concerning a second crime (or real images of child abuse, 50/50 that's the case), or out of fear that he unknowingly broke the law (there are over 20,000 federal crimes, (probably, nobody kept count) it is very easy to unknowingly commit a felony, which is one of the big things the 5th protects from).
That said, apparently precedent is with the appeals judge in this case (if you ignore the part where the man may be imprisoned on blatantly false charges), so I can't actually fault him.
IANAL, this is not legal advice, a judge may choose to ignore the law to get you even if I am correct, and given the topic, probably will.
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1) Apps are labelled by task rather than name. I had to use google to find out that the "File Browser" was called "nautilus". Gee - could you label it using the app's name, or make it launchable by entering something like "file-browser" in the run box?
The parent brings up a good point on this one. Obviously we can't just name apps file-browser or webrowser, there are too many choices. But how about an app that creates a series of shortcuts with descriptive names, and a gui (and manual text config file) that keeps a list of default apps? we already have default apps for various tasks after all. It would be trivial to do as well, just modify alias or keep shortcuts in the user's bin folder.
And it would have saved me a lot of trouble the first time I used Debian or Slackware and couldn't find 'Firefox' (PS, whoever made the decision to keep gaim as an optional launch name for Pidgin has my eternal thanks)
Nor does Goldman Sachs run Linux, they run a Microsoft stack on top of Citrix.
[quote]eligion is the anti-thesis of science because you are not allowed to question in religion. When was the last time anybody happened to say, "you know the bible/koran/tora needs updating, let's change a few paragraphs shall we."[/quote]
When they wrote the King James Bible?
There *is* such a thing as a non dogmatic religion though, mine still writes new holy texts, and the original book's copyright notice is where the term 'copyleft' comes from.
I've downloaded dozens of addons, I've never once visited an addon website.
Single wall carbon nanotubes can be coated with various chemicals (I forget the details), to make them act as batteries/capacitors. When you charge the nanotubes they also change shape at a molecular level. This helps with the power requirements, since at least some of the energy would be recovered as well.
I can't be sure, but this is how I've always assumed artificial muscles would be made if they used nanotubes.
I, personally, hate Microsoft *and* Apple thankyou very much (I forgave Sony, since they haven't done anything really horrible outside the music division, an dI also hate Amazon, so I need Son for an ebook reader).
[quote]Blah blah. Fill in typical slashdot posting about how he's the same as the old boss, etc.
What the fuck is with this site? Was there this much focus on every single fucking thing the Bush administration did? Or did the coverage then just focus on the really egregious shit?[/quote]
I'm reposting something someone else wrote on this subject to answer you (with his permission):
George W. Bush had something going for him his last term. Those who hated him had written him off. There was no need to pay attention to what he was doing because everything he was going to do was going to be steeped in failure. By the time this recent Presidential Election got started, he only had the hearts and minds of 1/5th of the country. And one has to assume that many of those are probably party loyalists who feel it is their sworn duty to support ANY Republican President. It seemed like somewhere along the way, a majority of Americans, though they loathed W's performance as a President, decided, "Meh, we'll just wait him out", and then tuned out in favor of Dancing with the Stars.
So now we have this new guy coming in. And in some sense, he still is a relative unknown, when you compare him to the typical life-span in DC politics. It's clear that there are many who desperately want him to succeed. I suspect even some of the fifth who still like W, would love to see Obama succeed, thought they'd be loathe to admit it in public. There is a collective weight on our shoulders in the form of this failing economy. We desperately want someone to come along and lift it. We want someont to come along and succeed in lifting it.
But the key will be remembering that this is our burden to share with him. The biggest role we have is to support his efforts. That is, to support them by paying attention. We cannot allow this "Hope for Change" to become insulation. We cannot put so much trust in Obama that we stop paying attention. Holding his feet to the fire when he walks astray will be our best contribution. And we know the fifth will do that anyway. The rest of us need to represent the rational and reasoned response.
At least, that's how I see it. - Reverend What's-His-Name?
The point is to encourage companies to reveal how they make things, in exchange for a limited monopoly (basically you ensure the monopoly is x years, not 5 or 500, which used to be a real issue in medieval times)
Firefox's memory usage, test shows, is 1/2 that of Chrome or IE 8 with the same 10 tabs open.
I rarely have just ten tabs open, but that Firefox's memory footprint is smaller is pretty terrifying, given that I've gotten it to consume an entire gig before.
I'm not sure here, but if the legal term valid is equivalent to the logic term valid, that would imply that some of those 57% of copyright notices were false, but still covered under the DMCA has the claims not been fraudulent.
And invalid takedown notice would be something not related to copyright, such as a trademark issue, slander, requests to remove obscene content, something hosted outside the US etc. A valid but false claim would be me claiming I own the content of the parent post.
Pre release of copyrighted works, or release of limited distribution works (like a movie still only in theaters), has always been considered criminal, both in case law and the law as written. The logic is that in these cases the amount of damage is substantially more than more mundane piracy, since it creates a single point of release (he is responsible not just for the people he distributed it to, but every single person who downloads it prior to release).
The free market works just fine, you need regulation to *have* a free market though. The banks collapsed because no regulation meant no information about the assets being sold, and people who got adjustable rate mortgages weren't told that the banks would jack the interest rates up so high that the mortgage payments doubled.
Doesn't OpenGL 3 support real time raytracing already if you feed it enough hardware? Or did that not materialize in the final spec?
Given my experience with expensive custom rigs, I'm guessing for music. These kind of setups usually double as home theater systems, whoever bought it probably got way overpriced speakers, and custom cabinet work to go with this and a 50 some odd inch TV.
The Linux move is instead of an Upgrade to Vista, in the short term, they may not have saved anything, long term, they saved on license upgrades, plus if any of those machines were older, hardware upgrades.
Um... that's exactly what the summary says. The migration will not be completed till 2015.
And at an estimate of 100 bucks a license, thats 9 *million* in savings over moving to Vista instead.
It gets worse than that, since there's no requirement to provide a copyright notice, it may be impossible to be sure what the copyright term is, thanks to a lack of information. Even if you know when it was made, binding it to the authors life means copyright effectively extends for 200 years, because you simply can't be sure when somebody obscure, *especially* online where you have no idea who the author/artist is.
Even though its free I still won't use it.
Slightly different formula really, in that Halo Wars is actually playable on a console (a first for me).
That said it has some serious issues, no campaign mode for the covenant, no play at all for flood, multiplay costs extra, and the base building mechanism just isn't as fun as building a huge sprawling mess like a more traditional RTS. A couple missions have in game instructions that just don't make any sense as well, and you need to look online to figure out what it is you're supposed to accomplish.
All in all, its fun, but it makes me want to go back to playing Lord of the Rings or Tiberium Wars more than anything (And I probably will once I can afford real graphics and/or get them working in WINE).
"I think the life begins at conception idea is just a left over from ancient attempts at science. It uses the same ideas behind "Spontaneous generation", that life comes from inanimate matter."
The concept of life begins at conception didn't come about till the 19th century, at least in western culture.
There was one *huge* problem with the tax credit idea. If you're poor, you don't pay that much tax. I gave the government maybe 2 grand in 08 (not including social security, which i couldn't use the deduction on), that won't get me much health care, it definitely won't get me health care that will cover what I need it to.
And since my 'employer provided health care' required me to cover the *entire* cost of the plan, there was no chance my wages would go up either.
Precedent doesn't matter much in this instance. What matters is a challenge with the patent office (this costs an average of 5 million), the chances of the patents being upheld seem pretty small post bilski, at least the FAT ones (the others I don't know enough). But the law prevents judges from tossing a patent out, even when its blatently illegal, so instead of a moderately expensive publicly subsidized court battle (and appeals), patent cases end up being massively expensive for profit exercises mostly run by the patent office, *then* you get to do a round of appeals, depending on the outcome.
Once a patent is tossed out, MS can't use it anymore, but they have 227 others, so this is gonna be a long fight.
On the plus side, Tom Tom is probably going to fight if they aren't run by complete morons, otherwise they would have at least negotiated with MS.
While I'll agree few people could do the job of an executive well, I'd argue that very few executives manage to do a good job. Companies are failing left and right, most of the ones that aren't in distress exist on pure inertia. Nor is there any real effort to find good executives by most businesses. Instead they hire people who failed at a previous executive level job (see the guy who drove AMD into the ground, after trashing another company right before being hired), or who have the right networks to get the attention of the existing executives.
Many ISPs, including (from TFS) Rogers, do ... [QoS shaping]. What they're saying is that if in the future they're not allowed to do this, by law, then they don't know what they'll do instead.
TFS seems to suggest Rogers is capping the torrents, which is a different practice altogether (and in reality, has more to do with limiting how much they have to pay tier 1s than congestion, QoS works fine for that).
If I'm wrong, and Rogers is really just trying to streamline the network, my attitude torwards them needs some adjustment, but in practice my ISP (who I know de prioritizes torrents, like any sane network should) has no trouble giving me my entire bandwidth cap 90% of the time.
Net neutrality does pose a lot of problems for ISPs who are trying to give customers what they want though, and the problem really should be dealt with with existing contract and extortion laws should be used, leaving legislation as a last resort if that fails.
He did not voluntarily show them the evidence though, he was forced to do it by customs.
Slightly more disturbing is the argument the judge makes according to TFA, which is that because they know he commited a crime, the 5th amendment has no place because it will not affect the outcome. 2 major flaws.
They have no evidence he actually committed a crime at all, just a suspicion, according to other articles, the customs official saw adult pornography and pornographic *drawings* of children, disgusting, but unless the defendant represents them as, or could be shown to have believed them to be, real, no crime exists. (Though many judges will thwart this SCOTUS ruling at every opportunity).
The second is that he could be exercising his 5th amendment rights concerning a second crime (or real images of child abuse, 50/50 that's the case), or out of fear that he unknowingly broke the law (there are over 20,000 federal crimes, (probably, nobody kept count) it is very easy to unknowingly commit a felony, which is one of the big things the 5th protects from).
That said, apparently precedent is with the appeals judge in this case (if you ignore the part where the man may be imprisoned on blatantly false charges), so I can't actually fault him.
IANAL, this is not legal advice, a judge may choose to ignore the law to get you even if I am correct, and given the topic, probably will.