You can ask "Why?" until you regress all the way back to a singularity, at which point you have to engage in guesswork.
Such guesswork is the entire basis of religion. The truth is, no one knows the answer to "why". If God exists, he's not talking to us, no matter how much some people would like to believe that he is.
Anonymous is just the 4chan equivalent of Anonymous Coward. It's not supposed to be a group or an identity. Some of them just decided "We Are Anonymous" sounded cool, but they were using the word in a completely literal sense.
You must not be following the polls. Obama is ahead in every state Kerry won, mostly by margins considered insurmountable. That gets him to 251 practically automatically. Winning Virginia (as he is currently projected to do) would bring him to 264, meaning he'd only need one of OH, FL, CO, NC, IN, or (NV+NM) to win. He can win even if he loses both Ohio and Florida, but he happens to be leading in all of the states I mentioned. (Colorado in particular looks very good for Obama.) He may not sweep them, but he's unlikely to lose them all.
Virginia is also important because it will be our first indicator of the how the night will play out. If Obama wins a state that went to Bush by 9% in 2004, it will signal that the polls were right and Obama is likely to win the election handily. If Obama loses Virginia, then that means the polling has been significantly off and the night will be much tougher for Obama.
I would direct you to take a look at FiveThirtyEight.com, particularly their Tipping Point States sidebar. It reflects the odds that a state will prove to be one of the closest states that would tip the election in the other direction if they were decided differently. You'll notice that Virginia is currently #1.
Are they just catering to the small percentage of people who sit and tweak their desktops and widget layouts all day long and are constantly looking for something with more of "teh shiny!!1"?
I think they're focusing on the initial in-store impression. It's Joe the College Student walking through Best Buy with his parents trying to decide on a laptop to take to school. If the Macs have "teh shiny!!1" and PCs don't, Joe is going to spend all his time at the Mac station. It doesn't matter that Joe will end up turning off all of "teh shiny!!1" once he brings the laptop home as long as he brings it home at all.
Corporate customers on the other hand are going to be turned off by shiny bits. I think that probably has a lot to do with the lackluster response to Vista.
Wait, what? 2000 was already a well-polished OS. It didn't need to be "tweaked", they just rebranded it for home users and called it XP. XP is only really impressive when compared to the 9x line. 2000 was the high water mark.
Here's the deal: You have two pieces of plastic that need to fit together. If the two pieces were exactly the right sizes, they would fit hand in glove. But the factor never really makes pieces exactly the right size and the cheap factory you picked is all over the place. You have to design in a tolerance, otherwise you'll be throwing out too many pieces. That's not a rare defect and it's not subjective. Those tolerances are listed in some mechanical specs somewhere.
Also, there are quite a few phones that have no moving pieces save buttons, but you missed my point completely. It's quite easy to get the joints and the movement just plain wrong. The same way that some phones have bugs in software, others might a flaw in their mechanical design.
It's not 100% subjective. I've never handled a G1, but of course the build quality varies in some products. Cheap and thin plastic pieces will bend or give more than they should. Poor mechanical design may mean that moving parts don't move smoothly, don't lock in position, or move too much. High tolerances for sloppy manufacturing may mean the pieces fit together loosely, so they shift subtly as you use the device.
All of that resembles normal wear on an older item. It's no surprise that people will say things like "it feels like it's about to fall apart" because it reminds them of other things that actually fell apart.
Conversely, the iPhone is very tightly integrated. It has no real moving pieces and the connections are extremely snug. It does not feel like 20 different pieces of plastic and metal stuck together, it feels like one solid unit. That makes a difference.
1. That's a business, not an individual. 2. It was a permanent public installation, not an item of clothing on a private person. 3. The pictures probably stayed up for weeks while the matter was being resolved. I know of nothing that would have required them to take it down immediately upon Eisener's request. 4. They technically *chose* to take it down to get Disney to drop the suit. They could have taken them to court to drag out the process for months.
If a cop saw a biker wearing the logo, he couldn't do anything there on the spot. He couldn't even issue a citation, because it's not a criminal issue.
Wikipedia reflects the mainstream consciousness, which is a known limitation. If the preponderance of published sources agree that Iraq has WMDs and ties to terrorists, Wikipedia has to rely on that since Wikipedia has no way to know what is actually true. Anything less would open the floodgates for all the quacks who dispute the mainstream when the mainstream is actually right.
IANAL, but I assume there must be a distinction between a hobby and volunteering for a registered non-profit organization such as the FSF. I'm guessing starting your own non-profit is complicated, but you might be able to get your project adopted by an existing organization.
We have a panel of nine judges appointed by the President. I don't think it's such a crazy idea to have a branch of the government freed somewhat from political pressure.
There is of course a huge Cisco markup, but the units aren't exactly cheap either. It's not your HP Pavillion. They have three 1080p cameras, three large flat screens, and HD encoders that work in real time. They even remodel the room, furniture included, to get the lighting and positioning just right.
The bandwidth requirements are very steep as well, with three 1080p full motion video streams. (Or six if you count both directions.) IIRC, the traffic can't go over the public Internet because of latency requirements, so you need a dedicated path all the way to the destination. There's no way your consumer broadband line would handle it.
My understanding (and my observation, for that matter) is that roughly 50% of men end up going bald.
I think that depends on what you mean by "going bald". Maybe that many men have some baldness, but for of them it seems to stop at a certain point. 1 in 7 for Jean-Luc Picard bald seems about right.
Sounds like your typical "we're going to revolutionize a decades-old standard" start up.
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It's not evidence, it's an indictment from the US government. It's on the same level as Colin Powell giving his PowerPoint presentation to the UN and holding up a vial of white powder. The evidence they thought they had to support the allegation is not detailed, but presumably it came from Iraqi defectors like most of the pre-war intelligence. We know now that there were significant caveats to that intelligence which were ignored.
Unfortunately, I suspect EA has these things called "lawyers" which have been designed to parse such agreements and throw an exception if the terms are unfavorable. If every customer could afford their own lawyer to parse EULAs for them, it might actually be fair.
Maybe this person doesn't know about any hosting forums. Maybe this person would like to get personal answers from a wide range of people with varying technical skills who aren't necessarily so gung ho about hosting that they hang out on hosting forums.
Perfectly understandable. I certainly wouldn't begrudge anyone who simply prefers the mix of expertise that is the Slashdot community.
Maybe they don't want google indexing their emails, but didn't see fit to include that tidbit in the small amount of space provided for them to ask their question.
This though is a critical requirement that we can't guess at if it's not explained in the question. If the obvious solution doesn't work for you, it's important to know why it doesn't work to avoid suggesting another solution that suffers from the exact same flaw.
In this case, we're lucky that the submitter actually did explain why he couldn't use Google, except the problem he cited isn't actually a problem. That doesn't make him an idiot, it just means he had a misconception about Google Apps that needed to be corrected.
Isn't that exactly what the study subjects are doing? They know from past history that the OK button on a dialog "works" in that it gets rid of the dialog. They can't understand "the instruction at '0x77f41d24' referenced memory at '0x595c2a4c'" any more than your roommates' daughter.
The only way your statement would make sense is if nerdy guys would see the PC and go "that's me, I want to be PC".
You don't think people ever watch the ads and think "that's me, I want to be like that laid-back dude"? Or "I don't want to be like that stuffed shirt"?
Advertising is all about selling a lifestyle. Of course I've seen the ads and of course they're presenting the characters as the personification of the computers. I've also seen the iPod ads infused with hip indie music. No one had to explain why they chose that music or what aspects of the iPod the music represents. It's selling a lifestyle, whether or not the script addresses it.
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You can ask "Why?" until you regress all the way back to a singularity, at which point you have to engage in guesswork.
Such guesswork is the entire basis of religion. The truth is, no one knows the answer to "why". If God exists, he's not talking to us, no matter how much some people would like to believe that he is.
That was Project Chanology. It grew to include a lot of people who had nothing to do with the original "Anonymous" raids.
Both campaigns were hacked.
Anonymous is just the 4chan equivalent of Anonymous Coward. It's not supposed to be a group or an identity. Some of them just decided "We Are Anonymous" sounded cool, but they were using the word in a completely literal sense.
Anyone know a news site for nerds, something with stuff that matters?
You must not be following the polls. Obama is ahead in every state Kerry won, mostly by margins considered insurmountable. That gets him to 251 practically automatically. Winning Virginia (as he is currently projected to do) would bring him to 264, meaning he'd only need one of OH, FL, CO, NC, IN, or (NV+NM) to win. He can win even if he loses both Ohio and Florida, but he happens to be leading in all of the states I mentioned. (Colorado in particular looks very good for Obama.) He may not sweep them, but he's unlikely to lose them all.
Virginia is also important because it will be our first indicator of the how the night will play out. If Obama wins a state that went to Bush by 9% in 2004, it will signal that the polls were right and Obama is likely to win the election handily. If Obama loses Virginia, then that means the polling has been significantly off and the night will be much tougher for Obama.
I would direct you to take a look at FiveThirtyEight.com, particularly their Tipping Point States sidebar. It reflects the odds that a state will prove to be one of the closest states that would tip the election in the other direction if they were decided differently. You'll notice that Virginia is currently #1.
Are they just catering to the small percentage of people who sit and tweak their desktops and widget layouts all day long and are constantly looking for something with more of "teh shiny!!1"?
I think they're focusing on the initial in-store impression. It's Joe the College Student walking through Best Buy with his parents trying to decide on a laptop to take to school. If the Macs have "teh shiny!!1" and PCs don't, Joe is going to spend all his time at the Mac station. It doesn't matter that Joe will end up turning off all of "teh shiny!!1" once he brings the laptop home as long as he brings it home at all.
Corporate customers on the other hand are going to be turned off by shiny bits. I think that probably has a lot to do with the lackluster response to Vista.
Win 2000 to Win XP
Wait, what? 2000 was already a well-polished OS. It didn't need to be "tweaked", they just rebranded it for home users and called it XP. XP is only really impressive when compared to the 9x line. 2000 was the high water mark.
Here's the deal: You have two pieces of plastic that need to fit together. If the two pieces were exactly the right sizes, they would fit hand in glove. But the factor never really makes pieces exactly the right size and the cheap factory you picked is all over the place. You have to design in a tolerance, otherwise you'll be throwing out too many pieces. That's not a rare defect and it's not subjective. Those tolerances are listed in some mechanical specs somewhere.
Also, there are quite a few phones that have no moving pieces save buttons, but you missed my point completely. It's quite easy to get the joints and the movement just plain wrong. The same way that some phones have bugs in software, others might a flaw in their mechanical design.
They can demand all sorts of things as long as you're on their property. If you refuse, the worst they can do is kick you out.
It's not 100% subjective. I've never handled a G1, but of course the build quality varies in some products. Cheap and thin plastic pieces will bend or give more than they should. Poor mechanical design may mean that moving parts don't move smoothly, don't lock in position, or move too much. High tolerances for sloppy manufacturing may mean the pieces fit together loosely, so they shift subtly as you use the device.
All of that resembles normal wear on an older item. It's no surprise that people will say things like "it feels like it's about to fall apart" because it reminds them of other things that actually fell apart.
Conversely, the iPhone is very tightly integrated. It has no real moving pieces and the connections are extremely snug. It does not feel like 20 different pieces of plastic and metal stuck together, it feels like one solid unit. That makes a difference.
1. That's a business, not an individual.
2. It was a permanent public installation, not an item of clothing on a private person.
3. The pictures probably stayed up for weeks while the matter was being resolved. I know of nothing that would have required them to take it down immediately upon Eisener's request.
4. They technically *chose* to take it down to get Disney to drop the suit. They could have taken them to court to drag out the process for months.
If a cop saw a biker wearing the logo, he couldn't do anything there on the spot. He couldn't even issue a citation, because it's not a criminal issue.
Wikipedia reflects the mainstream consciousness, which is a known limitation. If the preponderance of published sources agree that Iraq has WMDs and ties to terrorists, Wikipedia has to rely on that since Wikipedia has no way to know what is actually true. Anything less would open the floodgates for all the quacks who dispute the mainstream when the mainstream is actually right.
IANAL, but I assume there must be a distinction between a hobby and volunteering for a registered non-profit organization such as the FSF. I'm guessing starting your own non-profit is complicated, but you might be able to get your project adopted by an existing organization.
There is no "fifth amendment" in the UK.
Which happens to be why there is one in the US.
I'm confused. Are you trying to say that Cisco hardware is more expensive than other options? I can't say I would be shocked.
We have a panel of nine judges appointed by the President. I don't think it's such a crazy idea to have a branch of the government freed somewhat from political pressure.
There is of course a huge Cisco markup, but the units aren't exactly cheap either. It's not your HP Pavillion. They have three 1080p cameras, three large flat screens, and HD encoders that work in real time. They even remodel the room, furniture included, to get the lighting and positioning just right.
The bandwidth requirements are very steep as well, with three 1080p full motion video streams. (Or six if you count both directions.) IIRC, the traffic can't go over the public Internet because of latency requirements, so you need a dedicated path all the way to the destination. There's no way your consumer broadband line would handle it.
My understanding (and my observation, for that matter) is that roughly 50% of men end up going bald.
I think that depends on what you mean by "going bald". Maybe that many men have some baldness, but for of them it seems to stop at a certain point. 1 in 7 for Jean-Luc Picard bald seems about right.
Sounds like your typical "we're going to revolutionize a decades-old standard" start up.
It's not evidence, it's an indictment from the US government. It's on the same level as Colin Powell giving his PowerPoint presentation to the UN and holding up a vial of white powder. The evidence they thought they had to support the allegation is not detailed, but presumably it came from Iraqi defectors like most of the pre-war intelligence. We know now that there were significant caveats to that intelligence which were ignored.
Unfortunately, I suspect EA has these things called "lawyers" which have been designed to parse such agreements and throw an exception if the terms are unfavorable. If every customer could afford their own lawyer to parse EULAs for them, it might actually be fair.
Maybe this person doesn't know about any hosting forums. Maybe this person would like to get personal answers from a wide range of people with varying technical skills who aren't necessarily so gung ho about hosting that they hang out on hosting forums.
Perfectly understandable. I certainly wouldn't begrudge anyone who simply prefers the mix of expertise that is the Slashdot community.
Maybe they don't want google indexing their emails, but didn't see fit to include that tidbit in the small amount of space provided for them to ask their question.
This though is a critical requirement that we can't guess at if it's not explained in the question. If the obvious solution doesn't work for you, it's important to know why it doesn't work to avoid suggesting another solution that suffers from the exact same flaw.
In this case, we're lucky that the submitter actually did explain why he couldn't use Google, except the problem he cited isn't actually a problem. That doesn't make him an idiot, it just means he had a misconception about Google Apps that needed to be corrected.
Isn't that exactly what the study subjects are doing? They know from past history that the OK button on a dialog "works" in that it gets rid of the dialog. They can't understand "the instruction at '0x77f41d24' referenced memory at '0x595c2a4c'" any more than your roommates' daughter.
The only way your statement would make sense is if nerdy guys would see the PC and go "that's me, I want to be PC".
You don't think people ever watch the ads and think "that's me, I want to be like that laid-back dude"? Or "I don't want to be like that stuffed shirt"?
Advertising is all about selling a lifestyle. Of course I've seen the ads and of course they're presenting the characters as the personification of the computers. I've also seen the iPod ads infused with hip indie music. No one had to explain why they chose that music or what aspects of the iPod the music represents. It's selling a lifestyle, whether or not the script addresses it.