Offensive is such an interesting word, don't you think? Completely subjective. If facebook considers something to be offensive, then their code of conduct disallows it. And, to make it even more fun, what facebook considers to be offensive can change from day to day.
Pumping waste chemical weapons into the subsurface under Rock Flats = Pumping stuff underground = Increases pressure.
Kindly read what you are insulting before insulting it, it leaves innocent bystanders like me with less of a headache. Or, if you still argue that it's not the same thing, use an argument which makes sense with the thing you're insulting, okay?
However, the IPs are already known, as they were logged in wikipedia edits. The issue is what offices those IPs belong to, which is necessary for the lawsuit to target the right people.
I guess it depends on how vague or specific you are on the word "appear". I know a lot of people would find a god appearing (becoming visible in a visual sense or coming before the public according to the dictionary) More than enough scientific proof to stop questioning the existence. I'm just saying this to show that, especially in the United States, the word atheism has evolved in a much darker definition.
More dependent on the definition of waiting; it's the difference from actively waiting (eg, "I really hope that a god appears soon so that I will know which religion to join") and inactively waiting (eg, "I suppose that, if a god appeared, I would have to join a religion"). I would argue that most atheists are inactively waiting (or just not waiting, as they don't want to subscribe to a belief system which involves worship).
So, atheism means that, even though you can go through the motions of theism, you don't really need to? (As asexuality means that, while you can go through the motions of sex if you need to, or are pressured into doing so, you have no mental need for it). That fits; if I had to choose between not practicing a religion and death (or at least social ostracism - although, considering the crusades and other religious wars, death works) I would probably be willing to go through the motions of belief.
As I understood that, it meant that assuming that all religious (or non-religious) people will argue the same thing is ignorant, not that being religious (or not) is ignorant (as you seem to have read it). Also, I think that you may have confusing Atheism with Agnosticism. Atheism is the belief that there are no gods (or an absence of belief in them), Agnosticism is the belief that metaphysical things (including gods) are either unknown to exist, or cannot be proven to exist - but they still might exist. I suppose that most atheists would probably be willing to become theists if they were presented proof of a god, but that's not the same thing as waiting for a god or gods to appear.
But if you don't pay for a service which they are not delivering, what do they do to you? Stop refusing to give you access to the Internet? That would make sense if the service they're delivering is the refusal to give you access, I suppose.
"'My next step is to talk to manufacturers to see if they will build a working prototype,' Yuan said. 'If the design works in a real test stage, I want to find a company to manufacture and market it.'"
So, basically, there's no prototype yet, and this is just a concept design. And it might not even work. And there's no mention of the cost, as compared to current solar cells. When there is a working prototype, there's a company which will make them, and the cost is known (or at least estimated), I'll be interested. Until than, this is just another story which focuses on a supposed prodigy to increase media attention on probable vaporware.
According to the Wikipedia article on Copy Control, it is only effective on Windows - Linux and OSX can easily rip files from it. Boot up a Linux system, rip the files onto it, and then move them to your Windows box.
It seems to be fairly reliable to me - whenever I'm in a situation where a wifi network is unreliable, it's either because I'm too far away or the router itself is having issues. Latency is low, as far as I can tell basically the same as pinging another computer by way of a hub. The range is an issue, but it's one which will be difficult to deal with, although there are already ways to do so - for example, you can sacrifice latency for range by using repeaters. As for it being low capacity - which I take to mean low bandwidth - this is what they're trying to fix.
So, what you're saying is that it's like a bookstore, but without being able to read all of the books, or actually touch the books, and it will give me a headache if I try to spend more than an hour or so looking through the catalog (because of the screens). It won't even be as useful as a normal computer, because it will be much more difficult to search and browse around (in terms of having to walk). And there won't be anyone to talk to. Who could possibly think that this is a good idea?
My thoughts exactly. On most of the ubuntu boxes I use, it just doesn't seem to matter if an application is designed for KDE, Gnome, or something completely different: they just work.
From the article itself: "... We are hiring designers, user experience champions and interaction design visionaries and challenging them to lead not only Canonical's distinctive projects but also to participate in GNOME, KDE and other upstream efforts to improve FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) usability."
You forgot ABrowse, Arora, iCab, OmniWeb, Shiira, Skipstone, Sunrise, Midori, and Swift (Isn't wikipedia great? There's a section in the list of web browsers for KHTML and Webkit based browsers).
Post-it notes under desks aren't very secure: as soon as someone has access to the desk, all your security is gone. Filling your world with a few hundred low-capacity encrypted SD cards or flash drives (all identical, of course), and each using a different password, would be secure: sure, you'd have to remember a lot of stuff, but even if someone gets their hands on all of them, they 1) wouldn't be able to crack the encryption, and 2) even if they were able to, they would have to crack it possibly hundreds of times. Of course, this would be difficult to implement, but, if done correctly, very, very secure.
As I recall, Microsoft has the ability to force updates (which are downloaded in the background without telling the user). So, not downloading the WGA notifications will only work until MS realizes that users are able to do so.
SCSI drives are still in use (albeit not in the modern, high-end systems), and it is still easy to find some way to read them. 5.25" and 8" floppy readers can still be found. Systems with SATA interfaces are still going to be available in 25 years, and, once IDE isn't common on motherboards any more, you'll still be able to get PCI adapters. For that matter, external hard drive enclosures can easily be found with IDE interfaces, and the same is true of SATA. USB is not going to go away any time soon, and even if it does there will be systems which still have USB ports. Since the costs for modern technology is so low, it's everywhere, and it would take a rather longer time than 25 years for it to be completely vanished.
I must agree with you about Google Desktop, however I happen to quite like Google Home. It's great for a keeping an eye on some RSS feeds, and, if you don't like it, there's a link in the corner ("Classic Home") which sends you back to the normal page, and - I think - remembers that you want to be at the normal page, so you get sent there in the future.
Well, according to the summary (not that anyone reads that), they think it was brought aboard by one of the astronauts, who was carrying a flash drive, which was infected with a virus, which, when plugged into one of the computers, infected that computer. It probably than spread via the ISS's internal network, or via other flash drives which were plugged into the computer.
Not exactly: the issue is that Psystar is buying a product, doing things with that product, and reselling the product, albeit in a slightly different form. There is no demand for "some sort of moral right to make unfettered profits from another's work without respecting the owner's license." Now, if Psystar was not paying Apple for each copy, this would a clear case of piracy, and illegal, would would be an example of "mak[ing] unfettered profits from another's work without respecting the owner's license." It's more similar to the cases of manufacturers telling eBay to prevent people from reselling their product, claiming copyright infringement (as I recall). In other words, once you buy a product, you are not allowed to resell it, or do anything to it which the manufacturer objects to - and, if this stance is shown to be legal, you'll quickly see EULAs on hardware forbidding upgrading it (currently, all they can do is refuse to support user-modified products).
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And, clearly, breasts are the only possible source of food for infants.
Offensive is such an interesting word, don't you think? Completely subjective. If facebook considers something to be offensive, then their code of conduct disallows it. And, to make it even more fun, what facebook considers to be offensive can change from day to day.
Pumping waste chemical weapons into the subsurface under Rock Flats = Pumping stuff underground = Increases pressure.
Kindly read what you are insulting before insulting it, it leaves innocent bystanders like me with less of a headache. Or, if you still argue that it's not the same thing, use an argument which makes sense with the thing you're insulting, okay?
It also has sharp edges, so it will cut blood vessels and then turn into cement. In your lungs. Fun, right?
(l)Users don't want to have to think about what they're doing, they just want to be able to do it. Sad but true.
Well, that may be true, but here are some numbers with little or no basis in reality which represent a few moments of random speculation:
Internet Explorer $RANDOM% Mozilla Firefox $RANDOM% Safari $RANDOM% Opera $RANDOM% Netscape $RANDOM% Google Chrome $RANDOM% Other $RANDOM%
However, the IPs are already known, as they were logged in wikipedia edits. The issue is what offices those IPs belong to, which is necessary for the lawsuit to target the right people.
More dependent on the definition of waiting; it's the difference from actively waiting (eg, "I really hope that a god appears soon so that I will know which religion to join") and inactively waiting (eg, "I suppose that, if a god appeared, I would have to join a religion"). I would argue that most atheists are inactively waiting (or just not waiting, as they don't want to subscribe to a belief system which involves worship).
So, atheism means that, even though you can go through the motions of theism, you don't really need to? (As asexuality means that, while you can go through the motions of sex if you need to, or are pressured into doing so, you have no mental need for it). That fits; if I had to choose between not practicing a religion and death (or at least social ostracism - although, considering the crusades and other religious wars, death works) I would probably be willing to go through the motions of belief.
As I understood that, it meant that assuming that all religious (or non-religious) people will argue the same thing is ignorant, not that being religious (or not) is ignorant (as you seem to have read it). Also, I think that you may have confusing Atheism with Agnosticism. Atheism is the belief that there are no gods (or an absence of belief in them), Agnosticism is the belief that metaphysical things (including gods) are either unknown to exist, or cannot be proven to exist - but they still might exist. I suppose that most atheists would probably be willing to become theists if they were presented proof of a god, but that's not the same thing as waiting for a god or gods to appear.
But if you don't pay for a service which they are not delivering, what do they do to you? Stop refusing to give you access to the Internet? That would make sense if the service they're delivering is the refusal to give you access, I suppose.
Don't see why anyone would be excited about this; Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Any piece of technology will advance until it has an MP3 player function. This includes household appliances, and, apparently, the DS.
"'My next step is to talk to manufacturers to see if they will build a working prototype,' Yuan said. 'If the design works in a real test stage, I want to find a company to manufacture and market it.'"
So, basically, there's no prototype yet, and this is just a concept design. And it might not even work. And there's no mention of the cost, as compared to current solar cells. When there is a working prototype, there's a company which will make them, and the cost is known (or at least estimated), I'll be interested. Until than, this is just another story which focuses on a supposed prodigy to increase media attention on probable vaporware.
According to the Wikipedia article on Copy Control, it is only effective on Windows - Linux and OSX can easily rip files from it. Boot up a Linux system, rip the files onto it, and then move them to your Windows box.
It seems to be fairly reliable to me - whenever I'm in a situation where a wifi network is unreliable, it's either because I'm too far away or the router itself is having issues. Latency is low, as far as I can tell basically the same as pinging another computer by way of a hub. The range is an issue, but it's one which will be difficult to deal with, although there are already ways to do so - for example, you can sacrifice latency for range by using repeaters. As for it being low capacity - which I take to mean low bandwidth - this is what they're trying to fix.
So, what you're saying is that it's like a bookstore, but without being able to read all of the books, or actually touch the books, and it will give me a headache if I try to spend more than an hour or so looking through the catalog (because of the screens). It won't even be as useful as a normal computer, because it will be much more difficult to search and browse around (in terms of having to walk). And there won't be anyone to talk to. Who could possibly think that this is a good idea?
My thoughts exactly. On most of the ubuntu boxes I use, it just doesn't seem to matter if an application is designed for KDE, Gnome, or something completely different: they just work.
From the article itself: "... We are hiring designers, user experience champions and interaction design visionaries and challenging them to lead not only Canonical's distinctive projects but also to participate in GNOME, KDE and other upstream efforts to improve FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) usability."
You forgot ABrowse, Arora, iCab, OmniWeb, Shiira, Skipstone, Sunrise, Midori, and Swift (Isn't wikipedia great? There's a section in the list of web browsers for KHTML and Webkit based browsers).
Post-it notes under desks aren't very secure: as soon as someone has access to the desk, all your security is gone. Filling your world with a few hundred low-capacity encrypted SD cards or flash drives (all identical, of course), and each using a different password, would be secure: sure, you'd have to remember a lot of stuff, but even if someone gets their hands on all of them, they 1) wouldn't be able to crack the encryption, and 2) even if they were able to, they would have to crack it possibly hundreds of times. Of course, this would be difficult to implement, but, if done correctly, very, very secure.
As I recall, Microsoft has the ability to force updates (which are downloaded in the background without telling the user). So, not downloading the WGA notifications will only work until MS realizes that users are able to do so.
SCSI drives are still in use (albeit not in the modern, high-end systems), and it is still easy to find some way to read them. 5.25" and 8" floppy readers can still be found. Systems with SATA interfaces are still going to be available in 25 years, and, once IDE isn't common on motherboards any more, you'll still be able to get PCI adapters. For that matter, external hard drive enclosures can easily be found with IDE interfaces, and the same is true of SATA. USB is not going to go away any time soon, and even if it does there will be systems which still have USB ports. Since the costs for modern technology is so low, it's everywhere, and it would take a rather longer time than 25 years for it to be completely vanished.
I must agree with you about Google Desktop, however I happen to quite like Google Home. It's great for a keeping an eye on some RSS feeds, and, if you don't like it, there's a link in the corner ("Classic Home") which sends you back to the normal page, and - I think - remembers that you want to be at the normal page, so you get sent there in the future.
Well, according to the summary (not that anyone reads that), they think it was brought aboard by one of the astronauts, who was carrying a flash drive, which was infected with a virus, which, when plugged into one of the computers, infected that computer. It probably than spread via the ISS's internal network, or via other flash drives which were plugged into the computer.
Not exactly: the issue is that Psystar is buying a product, doing things with that product, and reselling the product, albeit in a slightly different form. There is no demand for "some sort of moral right to make unfettered profits from another's work without respecting the owner's license." Now, if Psystar was not paying Apple for each copy, this would a clear case of piracy, and illegal, would would be an example of "mak[ing] unfettered profits from another's work without respecting the owner's license." It's more similar to the cases of manufacturers telling eBay to prevent people from reselling their product, claiming copyright infringement (as I recall). In other words, once you buy a product, you are not allowed to resell it, or do anything to it which the manufacturer objects to - and, if this stance is shown to be legal, you'll quickly see EULAs on hardware forbidding upgrading it (currently, all they can do is refuse to support user-modified products).