It sounds like this is the result of innovation? I imagine that these "big-block" engines will be replaced by smaller-block V8s or perhaps more powerful V6s that have similar performance?
I am curious about the GMC commercials talking about a "6.2 liter nutcracker." If a 6.2 liter V8 is not a big block, then what is?
Well okay but where does this apply, other than in the Vatican?
In any organization connected to the Catholic church. This includes various parishes around the nation, high schools, some colleges, and any student or teacher organizations that are part of those. For example, a student-run newspaper at a Catholic university such as Notre Dame would be restricted in their use of papal symbols.
Even ignoring the fact that the U.S. does have treaties with the Vatican and would uphold their copyrights in court, a Catholic organization would suffer far more damage by being cut off from the church (i.e. excommunicated).
Disclaimer: I am Catholic and this does not bother me.
It's not just users. Applications still aren't being written to work properly with non-administrator accounts. I just installed SimplyAccounting 2010 on Windows XP and started getting weird errors poking around in it using a Limited Account, but switching to an Administrator account, no more errors.
I agree, the problem with Windows is not so much the OS itself but poorly written applications.
One of the largest examples is World of Warcraft. After five years, it still insists on storing all of its data in its program directory. I actually had to install it outside of Program Files to get it to work on Vista, even with UAC turned off and logged in as Administrator (the account, not an account in that group).
I think more software developers need to look at Firefox, a good example. Data, including plugins, are kept in the user's home. Different users can have different plugins and data, and everything just works even on a properly-secured system.
Blizzard can even download the source code to figure out basic stuff like "where to put files" because after all these years of writing Windows games, they still lack that basic knowledge.
Why are you bashing U2? Because you probably weren't born when they WERE the club scene. Learn your music history dude. If you want to bash the "boy bands" and pop stars, thats fine, but not bands who worked their asses off to become the biggest act on the planet.
I don't know about the OP, but I don't like U2 because their music sucks and they all have vaginas. Their old stuff from the 1980s was good, but around 1990 they changed into something even my cats don't like.
So they installed OS X, then installed some updates to it. Is that really modifying OS X? Suppose Dell installs Windows on a computer, then installs a patch that overwrites a file that Microsoft distributed, then resells the computer. Did they sell a modified version of Windows? Is it a derivative work?
If not, how is what Psystar did any different?
Difference is, Apple is in the business of tying their products together even more closely than Microsoft could ever dream of. They have draconian licensing in place to ensure that you only use specific software on specific hardware and do not modify it. Remember, Apple is both a hardware and a software company. While Microsoft does sell hardware (e.g. mouses) they do not sell whole computers. Compared to Apple, they are actually much more permissive about what you can and cannot modify per the license agreement.
Microsoft has agreements with companies such as Dell that do sell hardware that allow them to modify the operating system and installed software to some extent. This is how you get the mouthful "Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by Dell" in your title bar.
Apple would never allow that -- I imagine allowing any other company to modify the MacOS operating system or their hardware would give Steve Jobs a heart attack.
45 days ship and wait vs within a week in your house. The warranty is generally better than the factory one.
True, true. I bought a Best Buy warranty for my flat panel. Not because I was pressured like some people are, but for two main reasons.
The dead pixel replacement was a better deal than the manufacturer's.
I could have a new TV in less than one week to replace my old one, instead of shipping it out probably across the Pacific somewhere for a month or more for "repairs" only to find out you pretty much cannot repair the actual LCD screen and I would need a new one anyway.
Odds are I will never use the warranty, but for an extra $150 or so it was a good hedge.
3DES uses DES 3 times, with 3 different keys. (3 X 56 bit)
but due to "meet in the middle" search methods, the complexity of a brute force attack is "only" 2^112, which is more than enough to make it impossible.
3DES runs the second round backwards, which enables the "meet in the middle" attacks. While security in general relies on good keys, especially for symmetric ciphers, 3DES in particular is sensitive to poor key choice. There are many keys which may be good for other algorithms that weaken this one significantly. Thankfully we know most of the traits of bad keys, but probably not all. That means that while theoretically the security is high, there are attacks against it which may simplify it further depending on the keys used.
I agree that most for-pay software sucks in this regard, just look at any corporate network. Most computers have terrible performance and still wind up spreading worms and viruses.
I think the key here is that the company is telling us we need his product. In other news, a consultant came to the conclusion that we need more consulting, GM told me I need a new car, and McDonald's told me I need a McBurger. No shit, a company telling me I need their products? Nothing to see here, move along, look for an unbiased neutral party.
You do anything enough times and it becomes boring. I can barely even make myself ask my girlfriend to put on the schoolgirl uniform and pickup the whip without yawning.
Just today I suspended my fiancee from the ropes in the ceiling while she was wearing latex, and I was spanking her with a cat o' nine tails while she squirmed in her restraints.
Yawn. I guess when you are always trying to outdo yourself, you eventually cannot succeed.
You seem to be talking about LaTex. It already exists. Don't reinvent it.
Another alternative is RTF, which is a sister SGML language of HTML. While it may have drawbacks, it would accomplish most if not all of what is required.
Real men role play with pencil and paper, or nothing at all.
With a name like "sexconker" you should know that real men role play after a trip to the "adult" store. RAWR Catwoman, I am Batman! I'm going to grab you while you're on the litterbox... crap, I mean, nevermind.
Anyway, role playing is about spicing up the ol' bedroom, not pretending you are grabbing your robe and wizard hat.
I live in suburban Cleveland and I never sit around on a weekend wishing I had something to do outside the house. There is tons to do within 15-30 minutes of my house. Maybe nothing super exciting like amusement parks (although Cedar Point is less than an hour away) or watching sports teams win championships, but stuff that I can do with my children or fiancee and have a nice time.
The problems here are a declining job market, housing market, economy in general. Urban sprawl killed Cleveland back in the 1970s, and it has been in its death throws ever since. Politicians talk about the "brain drain" of Clevelanders and Ohioans in general getting an education (we do have some good colleges, not ivy league, but good, solid universities such as Ohio State and CWRU) and leaving for greener pastures, but cannot get their heads out of their asses and fix the problems: they live in denial and cannot suck up their pride to do what is necessary. Even simple stuff such as changing some of the highways to remove choke points at interchanges (there is one spot on I-480 where I slow from about 80 to 30 every day) would make commuting more pleasant. Expanding the light rail system to be useful would be nice. Sorry, but lines that basically link the airport to downtown to the wealthy east side do nothing for those of us that commute between the southern suburbs: this would be around 80% of the white collar work force in the county.
In general cities need to realize that their time is up. It has been for some time. People live and work in the suburbs for the most part. Urban areas are ghettos now, and the business districts are declining in most (but not all) cities. Give up the ghost, come up with solutions to make our lives easier, and people won't be so pissed off all the time like I am. I really want to move, but what are my options? Move away from family and everyone I know to wind up with the same shitty commute, the same standard of living, and being more bored because I don't know anyone?
Just do what my school does and make assignments worth 10 - 15% and expect some noise. For a lot of professors, assignments are really only meant to keep the student up to date on the material. The students that rely on WolframAlpha will only end up screwing themselves over.
I had math and computer science classes where homework was not graded. All course credit came from exams. If you "cheated" on your homework, you came up short on the exam where showing all work was required to receive any credit for a problem. Those are the best types of classes, because it truly tests your ability to solve problems.
Ghostbusters was nothing like that. It was a drama.
Really? The one I watched was a comedy.
It was both. It was a comedy with some aspects of drama in it. It was the polar opposite (in the same genre at least) of a slapstick comedy like most of Jim Carrey's movies. It made you laugh, but it had a cool story, too.
Did you miss the lightning battle at the end of the movie with some interdimensional god and a giant Stay Puft Marshmallow man? If that's not an action sequence, what is it?
The end of the movie was just them walking around, making jokes, holding and aiming props. When I think of Indiana Jones I think of outrunning a massive boulder, fighting Nazies on tanks, etc. Ghostbusters was nothing like that. It was a drama.
The real reason you keep receiving spam is that there is a almost endless stream of new companies that can be tricked into believing that sending spam would be a cost effective way of advertising there product.
It is not even that. I have accosted companies that left reliable contact information in my spam several times. Each time, they did not know (or claimed not to know) that they were spamming. Instead, a "marketing" company offered to help them "advertise on the internet." They claimed to be unwitting bystanders in the process. In one case, I verified that I stopped receiving their spam. Other times, not so lucky. Some of them were probably spammers themselves, some were probably innocent. Either way, it is not so easy to paint them all as having the same motives.
When do we ever see votes split down state lines? It happens, but not nearly as often as party lines.
Not since the civil war era, when states' rights were important. Ever since it seems like most states are fairly similar politically. When was the last time you heard of congressmen from New York and Georgia holding debates over finances as they relate to banking v. cotton farming?
Microsoft? Delivering a quality product? Mod be troll all you want (and frankly I don't care because after many unfair troll ratings my karma is still excellent), but seriously, if you disagree, name one product that Microsoft ever made that is quality software.
Personally, I like SQL Server 2005. It may not have the scalability or performance that Oracle has, but it makes up for it in simplicity and ease of use. I have several customers with SQL Server databases in the 40-60 GB range accessed almost constantly via Java web services and rarely do we see so much as a hiccup. The tools are fairly easy to use and intuitive, and I like how the system tables/views are laid out: between standard SQL, the information schema, and TSQL, I have found only one task I could not accomplish. However, given that SQL is not NP-complete, I simply offloaded that logic (recursive lookup) to the application, not the SQL or stored procedures. Oracle could have done it, but it still would have been slower than just grabbing the data and processing it in a language better suited to it anyway.
Visual Studio is an excellent development environment. Recent versions are about as C/C++ standards-compliant as any open source offering, and the debugger is probably the best on the planet. Between the rock-solid and intuitive IDE, the strong compiler/standard library, I have no complaints there. I am talking standard C/C++ however, not.NET.
Other than that, I have to agree, much of the rest of their software is junk. Windows is a resource hog. Outlook+Exchange makes me cry every day at work: poor performance, lost connections, slow searching, and worst of all, it encourages top-posting. Office uses those awful ribbons that make me want to throw my monitor through the cubical wall.
...leave it to a German to take one person and blame a mass of people for that one person's faults. counter-strike and Far cry 2 aren't animate objects. they can't load a clip for you. they can't cock the hammer and pull the trigger. Run a search for violence statistics on google and you'll see that since the creation of violent video games, world-wide violent crimes have gone down, not up.
Yeah, because aiming and firing a real firearm is the same thing as pressing a button in a computer game. Artards. Games are not to blame.
You make an interesting point in that it's free as in beer. However, isn't Java GPL'd nowadays?
Java 6 SE License. In a word, "no." Sun have talked about open sourcing Java, and I heard it was, but I just read the license and it does not look open-source to me. Regardless, I know for a fact they were not going to use the GPL, but another OSI-approved license, perhaps the Sun Public License?
Okay, so let's see the records you have for the pictures of the toddler running around without a diaper, who you accidentally caught in a funny but "suggestive" pose.
Don't try to tell me that the law doesn't apply to you! As written, it most certainly does.
I have photographs of both of my children naked. Certainly I have photos from the delivery room. I even have pictures of their fist baths, and one of my younger son pissing on my ex-wife while she bathed him.
The difference is I am not publishing these photographs, nor do I use them in a sexual context. It is the difference between nudity and sexuality. At the very least, if such a law were in effect, someone would need to see them, suffer some sort of harm (or claim that I harmed my children), and then file a lawsuit. Even if it is technically illegal, a judge wants to see that someone was hurt in some way before agreeing to hear a lawsuit.
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I am curious about the GMC commercials talking about a "6.2 liter nutcracker." If a 6.2 liter V8 is not a big block, then what is?
In any organization connected to the Catholic church. This includes various parishes around the nation, high schools, some colleges, and any student or teacher organizations that are part of those. For example, a student-run newspaper at a Catholic university such as Notre Dame would be restricted in their use of papal symbols.
Even ignoring the fact that the U.S. does have treaties with the Vatican and would uphold their copyrights in court, a Catholic organization would suffer far more damage by being cut off from the church (i.e. excommunicated).
Disclaimer: I am Catholic and this does not bother me.
FYI the last day of this decade is December 31, 2010, which is a few more than 250 hours. Remember, our calendar uses 1-based math, not 0-based.
That being said, Win2k is still ancient history, as is IE6.
I agree, the problem with Windows is not so much the OS itself but poorly written applications.
One of the largest examples is World of Warcraft. After five years, it still insists on storing all of its data in its program directory. I actually had to install it outside of Program Files to get it to work on Vista, even with UAC turned off and logged in as Administrator (the account, not an account in that group).
I think more software developers need to look at Firefox, a good example. Data, including plugins, are kept in the user's home. Different users can have different plugins and data, and everything just works even on a properly-secured system.
Blizzard can even download the source code to figure out basic stuff like "where to put files" because after all these years of writing Windows games, they still lack that basic knowledge.
I don't know about the OP, but I don't like U2 because their music sucks and they all have vaginas. Their old stuff from the 1980s was good, but around 1990 they changed into something even my cats don't like.
Difference is, Apple is in the business of tying their products together even more closely than Microsoft could ever dream of. They have draconian licensing in place to ensure that you only use specific software on specific hardware and do not modify it. Remember, Apple is both a hardware and a software company. While Microsoft does sell hardware (e.g. mouses) they do not sell whole computers. Compared to Apple, they are actually much more permissive about what you can and cannot modify per the license agreement.
Microsoft has agreements with companies such as Dell that do sell hardware that allow them to modify the operating system and installed software to some extent. This is how you get the mouthful "Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by Dell" in your title bar.
Apple would never allow that -- I imagine allowing any other company to modify the MacOS operating system or their hardware would give Steve Jobs a heart attack.
True, true. I bought a Best Buy warranty for my flat panel. Not because I was pressured like some people are, but for two main reasons.
Odds are I will never use the warranty, but for an extra $150 or so it was a good hedge.
I have heard this several times, but never seen it in any of the patch notes -- do you know which patch?
Not necessarily. According to Dante, the ninth circle of Hell is a frozen wasteland reserved for the most severe traitors and betrayers.
Now, if only the Beltway were the first circle, then the Capitol/White House would be the ninth... damn traitors to the Constitution.
3DES runs the second round backwards, which enables the "meet in the middle" attacks. While security in general relies on good keys, especially for symmetric ciphers, 3DES in particular is sensitive to poor key choice. There are many keys which may be good for other algorithms that weaken this one significantly. Thankfully we know most of the traits of bad keys, but probably not all. That means that while theoretically the security is high, there are attacks against it which may simplify it further depending on the keys used.
I agree that most for-pay software sucks in this regard, just look at any corporate network. Most computers have terrible performance and still wind up spreading worms and viruses.
I think the key here is that the company is telling us we need his product. In other news, a consultant came to the conclusion that we need more consulting, GM told me I need a new car, and McDonald's told me I need a McBurger. No shit, a company telling me I need their products? Nothing to see here, move along, look for an unbiased neutral party.
Just today I suspended my fiancee from the ropes in the ceiling while she was wearing latex, and I was spanking her with a cat o' nine tails while she squirmed in her restraints.
Yawn. I guess when you are always trying to outdo yourself, you eventually cannot succeed.
Another alternative is RTF, which is a sister SGML language of HTML. While it may have drawbacks, it would accomplish most if not all of what is required.
With a name like "sexconker" you should know that real men role play after a trip to the "adult" store. RAWR Catwoman, I am Batman! I'm going to grab you while you're on the litterbox... crap, I mean, nevermind.
Anyway, role playing is about spicing up the ol' bedroom, not pretending you are grabbing your robe and wizard hat.
I live in suburban Cleveland and I never sit around on a weekend wishing I had something to do outside the house. There is tons to do within 15-30 minutes of my house. Maybe nothing super exciting like amusement parks (although Cedar Point is less than an hour away) or watching sports teams win championships, but stuff that I can do with my children or fiancee and have a nice time.
The problems here are a declining job market, housing market, economy in general. Urban sprawl killed Cleveland back in the 1970s, and it has been in its death throws ever since. Politicians talk about the "brain drain" of Clevelanders and Ohioans in general getting an education (we do have some good colleges, not ivy league, but good, solid universities such as Ohio State and CWRU) and leaving for greener pastures, but cannot get their heads out of their asses and fix the problems: they live in denial and cannot suck up their pride to do what is necessary. Even simple stuff such as changing some of the highways to remove choke points at interchanges (there is one spot on I-480 where I slow from about 80 to 30 every day) would make commuting more pleasant. Expanding the light rail system to be useful would be nice. Sorry, but lines that basically link the airport to downtown to the wealthy east side do nothing for those of us that commute between the southern suburbs: this would be around 80% of the white collar work force in the county.
In general cities need to realize that their time is up. It has been for some time. People live and work in the suburbs for the most part. Urban areas are ghettos now, and the business districts are declining in most (but not all) cities. Give up the ghost, come up with solutions to make our lives easier, and people won't be so pissed off all the time like I am. I really want to move, but what are my options? Move away from family and everyone I know to wind up with the same shitty commute, the same standard of living, and being more bored because I don't know anyone?
I had math and computer science classes where homework was not graded. All course credit came from exams. If you "cheated" on your homework, you came up short on the exam where showing all work was required to receive any credit for a problem. Those are the best types of classes, because it truly tests your ability to solve problems.
It was both. It was a comedy with some aspects of drama in it. It was the polar opposite (in the same genre at least) of a slapstick comedy like most of Jim Carrey's movies. It made you laugh, but it had a cool story, too.
The end of the movie was just them walking around, making jokes, holding and aiming props. When I think of Indiana Jones I think of outrunning a massive boulder, fighting Nazies on tanks, etc. Ghostbusters was nothing like that. It was a drama.
It is not even that. I have accosted companies that left reliable contact information in my spam several times. Each time, they did not know (or claimed not to know) that they were spamming. Instead, a "marketing" company offered to help them "advertise on the internet." They claimed to be unwitting bystanders in the process. In one case, I verified that I stopped receiving their spam. Other times, not so lucky. Some of them were probably spammers themselves, some were probably innocent. Either way, it is not so easy to paint them all as having the same motives.
Not since the civil war era, when states' rights were important. Ever since it seems like most states are fairly similar politically. When was the last time you heard of congressmen from New York and Georgia holding debates over finances as they relate to banking v. cotton farming?
Personally, I like SQL Server 2005. It may not have the scalability or performance that Oracle has, but it makes up for it in simplicity and ease of use. I have several customers with SQL Server databases in the 40-60 GB range accessed almost constantly via Java web services and rarely do we see so much as a hiccup. The tools are fairly easy to use and intuitive, and I like how the system tables/views are laid out: between standard SQL, the information schema, and TSQL, I have found only one task I could not accomplish. However, given that SQL is not NP-complete, I simply offloaded that logic (recursive lookup) to the application, not the SQL or stored procedures. Oracle could have done it, but it still would have been slower than just grabbing the data and processing it in a language better suited to it anyway.
Visual Studio is an excellent development environment. Recent versions are about as C/C++ standards-compliant as any open source offering, and the debugger is probably the best on the planet. Between the rock-solid and intuitive IDE, the strong compiler/standard library, I have no complaints there. I am talking standard C/C++ however, not .NET.
Other than that, I have to agree, much of the rest of their software is junk. Windows is a resource hog. Outlook+Exchange makes me cry every day at work: poor performance, lost connections, slow searching, and worst of all, it encourages top-posting. Office uses those awful ribbons that make me want to throw my monitor through the cubical wall.
Yeah, because aiming and firing a real firearm is the same thing as pressing a button in a computer game. Artards. Games are not to blame.
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Java 6 SE License. In a word, "no." Sun have talked about open sourcing Java, and I heard it was, but I just read the license and it does not look open-source to me. Regardless, I know for a fact they were not going to use the GPL, but another OSI-approved license, perhaps the Sun Public License?
I have photographs of both of my children naked. Certainly I have photos from the delivery room. I even have pictures of their fist baths, and one of my younger son pissing on my ex-wife while she bathed him.
The difference is I am not publishing these photographs, nor do I use them in a sexual context. It is the difference between nudity and sexuality. At the very least, if such a law were in effect, someone would need to see them, suffer some sort of harm (or claim that I harmed my children), and then file a lawsuit. Even if it is technically illegal, a judge wants to see that someone was hurt in some way before agreeing to hear a lawsuit.