just upgrade overnight (should be enough time on any connection besides dial up), try different mirrors for the iso, get the torrents, *OR*...
Wait 2 weeks, let the community work any bugs out, get a newer release of the firefox beta that it currently ships with, and download it in a fraction of time
The servers are slightly slow right. Several options though:
-Try different mirrors and just download the iso (try foreign servers too)
-Upgrade using apt-get and just run it over night, even on a slow connection this is more than enough time
-Wait for a month and let the community get the bugs fixed, a more stable version of firefox (ships with a beta as of right now), and download it in a fraction of the time
This is quite a disturbing trend in so called 'industrialized' countries (although Russia's industrialized status could be questioned). The lack of outside information and abundance government propaganda is why N. Korea is so scary. Many of the people there that have no access to outside information actually whole heartedly believe what the government tells them, and why wouldn't they, it's all they've ever known. All it takes is one new generation to grow up behind these 'iron curtains' and the governments have effectively indoctrinated an entire country with the ideals of a select few.
This almost seems like common sense to me.
I mean wouldn't your cognitive activity decrease right before you make an error?
I don't know about everyone else but that is when I make my errors - immediately after becoming distracted.
Did we really need a research study for this?
Although perhaps they could use a large amount of this data to build a prediction model that could predict a possibility of an error sometime in advance. But I still question the usefulness of such a prediction.
Just what I was looking for!
A way to organize all of the unethically gathered data Microsoft has collected on me!
Thank God! I thought they might actually have to look in two databases to realize I don't like Vista, but I do like pizza and bunnies...I mean first person shooters...yeah...FPS...def not bunnies
While todays hard drives may be much larger, its not going to be long before we move on. I remember when I got my first 100mb HD and thinking "wow this is it ill never need any more storage than this". But now we know that as HD capacity increases so will the features and size software and media. Think of how big the first windows distro was and how big Vista is. Soon we'll all have HD DVD rips and real life quality music filling our new 100TB HDs
In short, we as consumers don't need to worry about how to use this multitude of ever expanding space; software and media companies will do it for us.;)
Many state and SCOTUS cases have upheld any type of searches at the border. Their logic is fairly simple and straightforward. You know going into an airport that everything you have in your possession can be searched. Since you know this, you can choose to leave and have nothing searched. You have no reasonable expectation of privacy while traveling through an American airport. If you have no reasonable expectation of privacy then there can never be any fourth amendment violations.
The defendant could have said I do not want my laptop searched. I will leave, take my laptop home, and book another flight. But he didn't he consented to a search.
Its not just the judges decision here, by law officers of the court are given the benefit of the doubt in matters of paperwork and clerical errors. Unless they specifically did this to (and this is legal terminology) 'make a mockery of the court and the legal system', which is almost never proven, then they are given the benefit of the doubt that their mistakes were made with good intentions simply because they've passed the bard.
I knew that law minor with my IT major would come in handy somewhere
bacteria has definitely proven itself here on earth, living in the most extreme conditions across a wide spectrum of environments that vary in temperature, pressure, and exposure to light and food sources.See Life in Extreme Environments
Its not beyond reason to think they couldn't live in an environment like the moon. Perhaps we could use some creative genetics to make *helpful* bacteria that can live in this environment.
It seems to me that if now in 2008 we have the ability to shoot down a satellite with a missile, which is like diverting a.45 caliber bullet with a.22 caliber bullet, then in 19 years I would hope we could hit an asteroid with a larger missile.
And yes it would rain down many smaller fragments that could do extensive damage, but enough of the mass may burn in the atmosphere to prevent it from completely destroying all life.
Thats a time when we may have to make the decision of possibly hundreds of thousands of deaths versus human extinction.
'"I don't know of a company that chooses to sue its own customer base," says Joseph Mendelson, of the Center for Food Safety. "It's a very bizarre business strategy." **cough**RIAA**cough**
I've seen this so many times within my own organisation, departments or teams have their IT guy who have historically done all the IT for them, doing a fine job of it. Then they leave, then the IT department have to pick up where this person left off, inevitably requiring a time consuming migration back to the corporate standard systems. If this arrangement is fully supported by appropriate management such that the replacements job requirement is such that they should have appropriate IT knowledge, the problem with this is that you were probably a 1 in 1000 candidate, finding a qualified competent solicitor (or whatever) who knows drupal inside and out is pretty rare.
This is a very valid point and i think it is one reason why requirements for most jobs are going up. For instance many positions (in all roles in an organization) are listing preferred requirements including: relational database experience, basic web design experience, pc troubleshooting, etc, even when these dont have to do with the essential job function.
Now whether this is for better or worse is still open for discussion
Will I install applications, use applications and write applications as necessary to get *my own* job done? Yes. Will I go out of my way to do it so that others can do their job better? No. I am the first to tell someone who sends me an IM that asks, "Bill, can you come down and help with foo?" to go and submit an IT work order and wait it out. But I'm certainly not going to wait for them to come and fix my machine when I know full well I can do it myself without watching work backup for minutes, hours or days.
Agreed, it has been my personal experience that tier-1 help desk people are usually of the college intern type. While they may be knowledgeable overall it takes too much time to get things done. Why put in a support ticket, or proposal for a new software package when I can do my own fixes, write my own apps, or use a FOSS to get things done quicker and more efficiently.
This is far different from giving me admin status over the network. I think it also boils down to tow different kinds of people, some of us were brought up on computers using best practices, doing things by the book, making sure things never go wrong, etc, but a lot of us were brought up challenging how things work, and trying to go against the technology staus quo. There will always be conflict between these two types.
I think most of it comes down to screen quality overall. While I prefer a non-glossy screen, I would much rather have a bright, quality glossy screen over a sub-par matte screen. I have two laptops, one glossy one matte and the matte screen has a far superior viewing angle which I enjoy because I use my laptops for watching movies on trips a lot and hate having to adjust the screen angle to see the picture.
First of all, not just *anyone* can edit *any* wikipedia anymore. Many topics that get consistently vandalized etc, are now locked and can only be edited by registered editors. Most large topics, or groups of topics, are assigned intelligent knowledgeable moderators that keep an eye an changes and try to keep information as accurate as possible. You can also see where the info in the article comes from right at the bottom under sources. If info on a company comes from a company's homepage, its probably decent info. On the other hand if it comes from Joe Bob's House of Knowledge you should be wary.
There is also a discussion board for each article where the quality of the article and information can be discussed. If people used the discussion boards and the references section then they could make much better use of wiki info.
Second, *any* encyclopedia should not be used a primary source, since an encyclopedia is by definition a secondary source already. Encyclopedias are useful for beginning literature reviews and getting ideas for on which direction to take your research. They are meant to give a broad overview on a subject and give you an entry level amount of info about something and nothing more.
False. Ask someone from the West Indies if they're "African American" and see what they say. It's a stupid politically correct catch-phrase invented by whites too afraid to say the word "black" or "negroe" and who thought "coloured" was too passe (and overly generic).
The term was made by black leaders during the civil rights movement to stop the use of more derogatory terms. And no people all over the world are not African Americans, just people with dark skin the U.S. We had a large percentage of Jamaican students at my college and they were classified as African Americans. Like it or not, in the U.S. black people are called African Americans. And yes recently many black leaders are making the push for no identifying term and just wanting to be called Americans, but we're not quite there yet
But then again we could all be called African - X since thats where the human race began =X
This is especially of some concern for people such as me who use a motorcycle as a primary vehicle.
Getting rear ended on a bike is certainly not where u want to be. If they want to make intersections *VERY* safe they should use cameras AND lengthen the yellow light interval.
I could see this unfortunately turning into a wrongful death suit if someone gets killed in a rear end accident caused by a short yellow.
Based on this article I think I will make a low feature program that allows people to look at remote "pages" and view them in a standardized format. Yes, yes similar things have been done before, but my product will be sub par and do nothing revolutionary.
And if anyone else tries to "copy" that Ill go after them with a vengeance.
I dont know why people keep thinking this is a move to HDTV, I keep hearing this from everyone and I don't think most people understand the difference between HDTV and Digital TV. The over the air broadcasts are not switching to HDTV. They are switching from analog (a continuous form of data transfer) to digital (a discrete form of data transfer).
Currently all cable and satellite feeds are digital, this conversion is simply going to make over the air broadcasts digital as well. Its simply changing how the message is sent to your antenna, hence the need for a conversion box. And while the digital signal may be better than the analog signal, it is certainly not HD.
HD is a high quality type of digital broadcast available through cable and dish feeds (or Blu-Ray DVDs). It requires an HDTV source as well as an HDTV ready television.
Ive actually heard of people going out and buying HD TV's for the switch...wtf?
Yes, and I also did not see any private property signs or indications. Once they realized they were on a private drive they had to go to the end to turn around (or do it in the grass, and we all know how most people are about their yards). The pictures of the trampoline, garage doors etc are obviously taken during a 3-point turn to get out of the driveway.
Granted Google should not have included these, but I think this is more a mistake of the car operators than Google being an evil privacy destroying corporation (and yes I know Google does some less than honorable things regardng privacy).
Without there being a private property sign of any kind I dont see how these people would expect that level of privacy from their driveway.
How many of us have ever been driving in an area we were not familiar with, or the map we are using is not accurate and we are forced to turn around in someone's driveway?
Are you supposed to do it? No, but its pretty harmless, they probably didn't think anything of it and I'm sure Google will remove these images if requested.
Slashdot Mirror
just upgrade overnight (should be enough time on any connection besides dial up), try different mirrors for the iso, get the torrents, *OR*...
Wait 2 weeks, let the community work any bugs out, get a newer release of the firefox beta that it currently ships with, and download it in a fraction of time
The servers are slightly slow right. Several options though:
-Try different mirrors and just download the iso (try foreign servers too)
-Upgrade using apt-get and just run it over night, even on a slow connection this is more than enough time
-Wait for a month and let the community get the bugs fixed, a more stable version of firefox (ships with a beta as of right now), and download it in a fraction of the time
This is quite a disturbing trend in so called 'industrialized' countries (although Russia's industrialized status could be questioned). The lack of outside information and abundance government propaganda is why N. Korea is so scary. Many of the people there that have no access to outside information actually whole heartedly believe what the government tells them, and why wouldn't they, it's all they've ever known. All it takes is one new generation to grow up behind these 'iron curtains' and the governments have effectively indoctrinated an entire country with the ideals of a select few.
No no, the 110 - 1000 are "Tall Sats".
I think it was really just a matter of time before they switched to a distributed model of satellite communications.
Its kinda like moving away from centralized mainframe systems of the past to the distributed networks that are used today (i.e. the Internet)
Its just more efficient and has greater fail safes.
This almost seems like common sense to me.
I mean wouldn't your cognitive activity decrease right before you make an error?
I don't know about everyone else but that is when I make my errors - immediately after becoming distracted.
Did we really need a research study for this?
Although perhaps they could use a large amount of this data to build a prediction model that could predict a possibility of an error sometime in advance. But I still question the usefulness of such a prediction.
Just what I was looking for!
A way to organize all of the unethically gathered data Microsoft has collected on me!
Thank God! I thought they might actually have to look in two databases to realize I don't like Vista, but I do like pizza and bunnies...I mean first person shooters...yeah...FPS...def not bunnies
While todays hard drives may be much larger, its not going to be long before we move on. I remember when I got my first 100mb HD and thinking "wow this is it ill never need any more storage than this". But now we know that as HD capacity increases so will the features and size software and media. Think of how big the first windows distro was and how big Vista is. Soon we'll all have HD DVD rips and real life quality music filling our new 100TB HDs
;)
In short, we as consumers don't need to worry about how to use this multitude of ever expanding space; software and media companies will do it for us.
Many state and SCOTUS cases have upheld any type of searches at the border. Their logic is fairly simple and straightforward. You know going into an airport that everything you have in your possession can be searched. Since you know this, you can choose to leave and have nothing searched. You have no reasonable expectation of privacy while traveling through an American airport. If you have no reasonable expectation of privacy then there can never be any fourth amendment violations.
The defendant could have said I do not want my laptop searched. I will leave, take my laptop home, and book another flight. But he didn't he consented to a search.
that should be 'passed the bar' above...unless they're MMORPG playing lawyers...then they have to pass the bard...
Its not just the judges decision here, by law officers of the court are given the benefit of the doubt in matters of paperwork and clerical errors. Unless they specifically did this to (and this is legal terminology) 'make a mockery of the court and the legal system', which is almost never proven, then they are given the benefit of the doubt that their mistakes were made with good intentions simply because they've passed the bard.
I knew that law minor with my IT major would come in handy somewhere
bacteria has definitely proven itself here on earth, living in the most extreme conditions across a wide spectrum of environments that vary in temperature, pressure, and exposure to light and food sources.See Life in Extreme Environments
Its not beyond reason to think they couldn't live in an environment like the moon. Perhaps we could use some creative genetics to make *helpful* bacteria that can live in this environment.
It seems to me that if now in 2008 we have the ability to shoot down a satellite with a missile, which is like diverting a .45 caliber bullet with a .22 caliber bullet, then in 19 years I would hope we could hit an asteroid with a larger missile.
And yes it would rain down many smaller fragments that could do extensive damage, but enough of the mass may burn in the atmosphere to prevent it from completely destroying all life.
Thats a time when we may have to make the decision of possibly hundreds of thousands of deaths versus human extinction.
I've seen this so many times within my own organisation, departments or teams have their IT guy who have historically done all the IT for them, doing a fine job of it. Then they leave, then the IT department have to pick up where this person left off, inevitably requiring a time consuming migration back to the corporate standard systems. If this arrangement is fully supported by appropriate management such that the replacements job requirement is such that they should have appropriate IT knowledge, the problem with this is that you were probably a 1 in 1000 candidate, finding a qualified competent solicitor (or whatever) who knows drupal inside and out is pretty rare.
This is a very valid point and i think it is one reason why requirements for most jobs are going up. For instance many positions (in all roles in an organization) are listing preferred requirements including: relational database experience, basic web design experience, pc troubleshooting, etc, even when these dont have to do with the essential job function.Now whether this is for better or worse is still open for discussion
Agreed, it all comes down to the underlying quality of the screen. A crappy screen is a crappy screen regardless of matte or gloss finish.
For two identical screens of the same quality it would come down to personal preference.
Agreed, it has been my personal experience that tier-1 help desk people are usually of the college intern type. While they may be knowledgeable overall it takes too much time to get things done. Why put in a support ticket, or proposal for a new software package when I can do my own fixes, write my own apps, or use a FOSS to get things done quicker and more efficiently.
This is far different from giving me admin status over the network. I think it also boils down to tow different kinds of people, some of us were brought up on computers using best practices, doing things by the book, making sure things never go wrong, etc, but a lot of us were brought up challenging how things work, and trying to go against the technology staus quo. There will always be conflict between these two types.
I think most of it comes down to screen quality overall. While I prefer a non-glossy screen, I would much rather have a bright, quality glossy screen over a sub-par matte screen. I have two laptops, one glossy one matte and the matte screen has a far superior viewing angle which I enjoy because I use my laptops for watching movies on trips a lot and hate having to adjust the screen angle to see the picture.
First of all, not just *anyone* can edit *any* wikipedia anymore. Many topics that get consistently vandalized etc, are now locked and can only be edited by registered editors. Most large topics, or groups of topics, are assigned intelligent knowledgeable moderators that keep an eye an changes and try to keep information as accurate as possible. You can also see where the info in the article comes from right at the bottom under sources. If info on a company comes from a company's homepage, its probably decent info. On the other hand if it comes from Joe Bob's House of Knowledge you should be wary.
There is also a discussion board for each article where the quality of the article and information can be discussed. If people used the discussion boards and the references section then they could make much better use of wiki info.
Second, *any* encyclopedia should not be used a primary source, since an encyclopedia is by definition a secondary source already. Encyclopedias are useful for beginning literature reviews and getting ideas for on which direction to take your research. They are meant to give a broad overview on a subject and give you an entry level amount of info about something and nothing more.
False. Ask someone from the West Indies if they're "African American" and see what they say. It's a stupid politically correct catch-phrase invented by whites too afraid to say the word "black" or "negroe" and who thought "coloured" was too passe (and overly generic).
The term was made by black leaders during the civil rights movement to stop the use of more derogatory terms. And no people all over the world are not African Americans, just people with dark skin the U.S. We had a large percentage of Jamaican students at my college and they were classified as African Americans. Like it or not, in the U.S. black people are called African Americans. And yes recently many black leaders are making the push for no identifying term and just wanting to be called Americans, but we're not quite there yetBut then again we could all be called African - X since thats where the human race began =X
This is especially of some concern for people such as me who use a motorcycle as a primary vehicle.
Getting rear ended on a bike is certainly not where u want to be. If they want to make intersections *VERY* safe they should use cameras AND lengthen the yellow light interval.
I could see this unfortunately turning into a wrongful death suit if someone gets killed in a rear end accident caused by a short yellow.
Based on this article I think I will make a low feature program that allows people to look at remote "pages" and view them in a standardized format. Yes, yes similar things have been done before, but my product will be sub par and do nothing revolutionary.
And if anyone else tries to "copy" that Ill go after them with a vengeance.
I dont know why people keep thinking this is a move to HDTV, I keep hearing this from everyone and I don't think most people understand the difference between HDTV and Digital TV. The over the air broadcasts are not switching to HDTV. They are switching from analog (a continuous form of data transfer) to digital (a discrete form of data transfer).
Currently all cable and satellite feeds are digital, this conversion is simply going to make over the air broadcasts digital as well. Its simply changing how the message is sent to your antenna, hence the need for a conversion box. And while the digital signal may be better than the analog signal, it is certainly not HD.
HD is a high quality type of digital broadcast available through cable and dish feeds (or Blu-Ray DVDs). It requires an HDTV source as well as an HDTV ready television.
Ive actually heard of people going out and buying HD TV's for the switch...wtf?
Yes, and I also did not see any private property signs or indications. Once they realized they were on a private drive they had to go to the end to turn around (or do it in the grass, and we all know how most people are about their yards). The pictures of the trampoline, garage doors etc are obviously taken during a 3-point turn to get out of the driveway.
Granted Google should not have included these, but I think this is more a mistake of the car operators than Google being an evil privacy destroying corporation (and yes I know Google does some less than honorable things regardng privacy).
Without there being a private property sign of any kind I dont see how these people would expect that level of privacy from their driveway.
How many of us have ever been driving in an area we were not familiar with, or the map we are using is not accurate and we are forced to turn around in someone's driveway?
Are you supposed to do it? No, but its pretty harmless, they probably didn't think anything of it and I'm sure Google will remove these images if requested.