Afghanistan is about as far as possible from conventional (WW2-style) warfare. Not that I think a conflict with Iran is a good idea, but if there were such a conflict Iran's sad little speedboats and V2-style drones would be wiped out pretty quick. Their best bet would be to bog down the US in another guerilla-combat quagmire.
Another way to look at it is that the Middle East is ahead of the Western world: They've already been through their enlightenment and are coming out of the authoritarian, theocratic dark age that the West is now headed for. Maybe it all goes in cycles?
The US is pretty good at conventional warfare, it's the guerilla/urban/CT stuff they suck at, because in those types it's hard to win without becoming as bad as the enemy, and the US citizens don't want that (buncha pansies, right?).
Keeping the "smart" separate from the "TV" is the right thing to do. If you think an '80s car with a clunky old tape deck is funny, wait until your TV has an 8-year-old HTPC permanently embedded in it...
BTW this sounds like that "popcorn hour" thing. I haven't paid much attention to it since it's a closed toy, but sounds like just a smaller version of the same thing.
In ~'50s-'70s TV shows the characters all seem much more intelligent than today's Average Joes (or today's TV characters). At the same time a lot of older folks say anti-intellectualism was more pervasive back then, so I doubt the situation was that these characters were an idealization of intelligence. Maybe writers back then were more intelligent and wrote more intelligent characters, who didn't get dumbed down later because there were no focus groups to consider them unrelatable (or "nerdy and faggy" if you prefer).
Even google has been known to change their search results so that each user gets more of what Google thinks the user would want.
I find that when I use Google at work it's much easier to find technical solutions than at home (where the browser is more locked-down, doesn't allow cookies etc.) Had a hell of a time finding an article with a code example at home yesterday, even when using the exact same search string I used at work to find it earlier in the day.
I refuse to use any of those file-system-imaging backup solutions. I use rsync on Linux and robocopy+vshadow on Windows. Want to store increments so you can roll back? Backup to a snapshotting filesystem.
It's possible to dedupe already using shellscripts. I saw one yesterday that does it but it was horrifically inefficient. It used slow-ass SHA hashes and didn't even check to see if files were the same size before hashing. I'm going to make a fast one that checks the size first and uses CRC hashes by the weekend. I've been experimenting with btrfs on one of my external backup drives.
We've all seen these makeup patterns by now, funny that it reminds me of the face tattoos from Mirror's Edge and a lot of cyberpunk makeup (something very similar was seen in the Blade Runner movie IIRC).
I'd flashed both my Treo 180 and Treo 650 with updates. Mind you those were closed-source OSes, but you just entered the phone's serial into a page on the Palm website and received the update image.
Hi-res rips are much more common these days. The copy is also better than the original in that the ads and anti-piracy warnings are stripped out and any copy protection or DRM is removed.
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Afghanistan is about as far as possible from conventional (WW2-style) warfare. Not that I think a conflict with Iran is a good idea, but if there were such a conflict Iran's sad little speedboats and V2-style drones would be wiped out pretty quick. Their best bet would be to bog down the US in another guerilla-combat quagmire.
Another way to look at it is that the Middle East is ahead of the Western world: They've already been through their enlightenment and are coming out of the authoritarian, theocratic dark age that the West is now headed for. Maybe it all goes in cycles?
The US is pretty good at conventional warfare, it's the guerilla/urban/CT stuff they suck at, because in those types it's hard to win without becoming as bad as the enemy, and the US citizens don't want that (buncha pansies, right?).
Keeping the "smart" separate from the "TV" is the right thing to do. If you think an '80s car with a clunky old tape deck is funny, wait until your TV has an 8-year-old HTPC permanently embedded in it...
BTW this sounds like that "popcorn hour" thing. I haven't paid much attention to it since it's a closed toy, but sounds like just a smaller version of the same thing.
In ~'50s-'70s TV shows the characters all seem much more intelligent than today's Average Joes (or today's TV characters). At the same time a lot of older folks say anti-intellectualism was more pervasive back then, so I doubt the situation was that these characters were an idealization of intelligence. Maybe writers back then were more intelligent and wrote more intelligent characters, who didn't get dumbed down later because there were no focus groups to consider them unrelatable (or "nerdy and faggy" if you prefer).
Even google has been known to change their search results so that each user gets more of what Google thinks the user would want.
I find that when I use Google at work it's much easier to find technical solutions than at home (where the browser is more locked-down, doesn't allow cookies etc.) Had a hell of a time finding an article with a code example at home yesterday, even when using the exact same search string I used at work to find it earlier in the day.
Also, who the hell was storing any significant customer data on the ATMs in the first place?
That was my first thought, I assumed they already worked like this!
Shill-tracking journal updated.
http://slashdot.org/journal/273120/list-of-shill-accounts-on-slashdot
I refuse to use any of those file-system-imaging backup solutions. I use rsync on Linux and robocopy+vshadow on Windows. Want to store increments so you can roll back? Backup to a snapshotting filesystem.
BTRFS is working on dedup support... (best bet!)
It's possible to dedupe already using shellscripts. I saw one yesterday that does it but it was horrifically inefficient. It used slow-ass SHA hashes and didn't even check to see if files were the same size before hashing. I'm going to make a fast one that checks the size first and uses CRC hashes by the weekend. I've been experimenting with btrfs on one of my external backup drives.
We've all seen these makeup patterns by now, funny that it reminds me of the face tattoos from Mirror's Edge and a lot of cyberpunk makeup (something very similar was seen in the Blade Runner movie IIRC).
I'd flashed both my Treo 180 and Treo 650 with updates. Mind you those were closed-source OSes, but you just entered the phone's serial into a page on the Palm website and received the update image.
I have good logical (and hopefully obvious) reasons for hating Apple and I'm not a fanboy of any company (well, maybe GoG...).
Wait, wut?
I know you have some nice outstanding citizens you could be proud of, like that Patrick Furstenhoff guy...
No, that is the holy sharing grail.
Users can still change the theme, it says so right in TFS, it's just setting a standard default theme like most OSes had from day one.
There's always at least one "squad" of 4-8 MS shills operating on Slashdot.
Apple doesn't need shills, they have fanboys :-P
Yes yes we know you have a fiery hate for Google and you wuvvy-duvvy-love Apple, let's move on...
Ahhhhh. The old *I'm well off, but I care about the lesser man" polemic.
What's wrong with that? It's a good mindset to have. The alternative is "fuck you, got mine" or a more nicely worded phrasing of it.
Yep, look at Steam, the Kindle, consoles and the various app stores...it hasn't been a total loss for them.
Storage is so cheap, only a luddite would still put a CD in a PC more than twice.
What's the second insertion for?
Hi-res rips are much more common these days. The copy is also better than the original in that the ads and anti-piracy warnings are stripped out and any copy protection or DRM is removed.
This is why the copyright holders should just kill the incentive to pirate by selling media cheap and DRM-free. It'll make them more money too.
You could raise minimum wage quite a bit before robots would be cheaper. Look at the XKCD money graph, you'll see where the money is...