I've been looking at setting up something like that as well. Though ideally mine would convert to a sitting desk as well. I've tried the standing desk thing before, but I found it difficult to play any skill-based game, such as an FPS while standing. I can't imagine walking can be any better for my accuracy.
Well porn is pretty easy to identify, and most of it is reported by users, rather than actually being screened. It's completely against the Youtube TOS, so when its found, it's quite clear that it should be removed.
Copyrighted material on the other hand, isn't immediately identifiable. If you do have some perfect algorithm to separate copyrighted work from original work, you still need to make sure the person uploading the copyrighted work doesn't have permission to do so... Then we're not even touching on e.g. using a song as background music for a video, what constitutes "fair use" etc.
So even when there is no DRM involved, pirated games are STILL better than paying....
(on a serious note, I'll try the pirated game, since it should be legal if they're the ones I'm downloading it from, right? If I like it, I'll consider buying the less-awesome version; In other words, this was a successful slashvert)
Or, better yet, have a rolling release, with major changes (e.g, desktop environment changes, like from GNOME to Unity) every 2 years, when they are doing LTS releases now. That way, we can keep the cute alliterations.
The idea is that the ISP providing the service is in a friendly country that hates censorship. They can connect to any website that goes through that ISP to use the Telex service.
I seriously doubt those are powerful enough to see any medical effects from their use. It's like the vitamin content in Vitamin Water and Sobe drinks: A good thing, but not nearly enough of it
A change to your sleep pattern is hardly a small change biologically. We may not understand everything about sleep just yet, but we do know one thing: It's damn important.
A change in your sleep schedule changes your biological clock, which helps control many complex biological processes. Even small changes like that can confuse the body and cause it to do things wrong.
Or, you know... Microsoft has more than one person making decisions.
They're a big company. There are a lot of people making a lot of decisions, and I doubt that every one of those people see eye-to-eye.
The questions is: Are those trying to work with FOSS really trying to improve cooperation in contrast to the rest of the company, or are they just a little behind the rest of the company on the "embrace, extend, extinguish" plan?
Also the "dominant OS gets more virus theory" doesn't hold water. Linux is the most dominant OS amongst servers and yet doesn't get more virus or worms.
Not "dominant OS", but "dominant desktop OS"
Servers are generally run and maintained by those with enough common sense that writing viruses to target those people are a waste of time. Desktops on the other hand are used by people of all technical caliber, and so there will always be some set of users that are dumb enough to run random pieces of software.
Remember that fake screensaver that was on gnome-look.org? When Ubuntu becomes the dominant desktop OS, we will see a lot more like that.
They are profiting from Google's wheel, and taking from their profits, when Google is the one that puts and continues to put effort into improving their search results. In fact, Microsoft specifically started Bing to compete with Google, and on top of that, MS is using Google's work to do it.
So you are indifferent as to whether or not hundreds of innocents die with him?
Yes, I do chuckle at most Darwin awards, but that doesn't mean that I see little value to human life. People die every second, but we can't go around crying over every single one, or we would die ourselves from neglect of our lives where we put mourning in place of continuing to do what we need to.
In the case of suicide bombers, we can laugh about their failures even more so and share the same regard for their lives as they do themselves. The bomber was going to die either way, and clearly didn't care about it. When she failed, there was no loss of life; in fact, lives were saved.
While it may be sad that this person decided to commit suicide, it is joyous that the other lives were saved. If the situation in which they failed is humorous, all the better.
You DO know that Wikipedia articles are well referenced, right? I mean, there are TONS of links to the actual studies backing up the claims. If you have a problem with the conclusions the Wikipedia article reaches, state what those problems are rather than trying to poison the well against Wikipedia. People love to claim Wikipedia is unreliable, but independent studies show it is actually less likely to contain inaccuracies than traditional encyclopedias.
I have done many college papers using Wikipedia as my primary source, and citing the links at the bottom of the page (with a quick check to verify consistency between the article and the source). Whenever I tell someone else about this, they usually respond "Wow, I never thought of that"
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I've been looking at setting up something like that as well. Though ideally mine would convert to a sitting desk as well. I've tried the standing desk thing before, but I found it difficult to play any skill-based game, such as an FPS while standing. I can't imagine walking can be any better for my accuracy.
Well porn is pretty easy to identify, and most of it is reported by users, rather than actually being screened. It's completely against the Youtube TOS, so when its found, it's quite clear that it should be removed.
Copyrighted material on the other hand, isn't immediately identifiable. If you do have some perfect algorithm to separate copyrighted work from original work, you still need to make sure the person uploading the copyrighted work doesn't have permission to do so... Then we're not even touching on e.g. using a song as background music for a video, what constitutes "fair use" etc.
Email is not magic.
I like the backlinks one.
They say the data helps narrow the region of the search because it excludes some of the higher energy ranges where the Higgs boson might be found
"We haven't failed a thousands times. We've just found a thousand ways NOT to make a Higgs Boson"
Red Hat has devised a solution for the ASPM Linux power problem by mimicking Microsoft Windows' power behavior in the Linux kernel.
I'm sure Microsoft will ignore this.
Hence the use of the word "life-like" instead of "living".
the game characters wear pirate hats
So even when there is no DRM involved, pirated games are STILL better than paying....
(on a serious note, I'll try the pirated game, since it should be legal if they're the ones I'm downloading it from, right? If I like it, I'll consider buying the less-awesome version; In other words, this was a successful slashvert)
Why don't they just switch to a rolling release?
Or, better yet, have a rolling release, with major changes (e.g, desktop environment changes, like from GNOME to Unity) every 2 years, when they are doing LTS releases now. That way, we can keep the cute alliterations.
I guess breaking your system twice a year just isn't enough?
Actually, the part that made me envy it is this:
The IBM monochrome monitor is a very high-quality 11.5in green phosphor device with an anti-glare screen.
I wonder if I can get it in laptop form.
The idea is that the ISP providing the service is in a friendly country that hates censorship. They can connect to any website that goes through that ISP to use the Telex service.
I seriously doubt those are powerful enough to see any medical effects from their use. It's like the vitamin content in Vitamin Water and Sobe drinks: A good thing, but not nearly enough of it
A change to your sleep pattern is hardly a small change biologically. We may not understand everything about sleep just yet, but we do know one thing: It's damn important.
A change in your sleep schedule changes your biological clock, which helps control many complex biological processes. Even small changes like that can confuse the body and cause it to do things wrong.
Or, you know... Microsoft has more than one person making decisions.
They're a big company. There are a lot of people making a lot of decisions, and I doubt that every one of those people see eye-to-eye.
The questions is: Are those trying to work with FOSS really trying to improve cooperation in contrast to the rest of the company, or are they just a little behind the rest of the company on the "embrace, extend, extinguish" plan?
Also the "dominant OS gets more virus theory" doesn't hold water. Linux is the most dominant OS amongst servers and yet doesn't get more virus or worms.
Not "dominant OS", but "dominant desktop OS"
Servers are generally run and maintained by those with enough common sense that writing viruses to target those people are a waste of time. Desktops on the other hand are used by people of all technical caliber, and so there will always be some set of users that are dumb enough to run random pieces of software.
Remember that fake screensaver that was on gnome-look.org? When Ubuntu becomes the dominant desktop OS, we will see a lot more like that.
The Constitution??? That's just too liberal!
(If you are unfortunate enough to live in Alabama, the above would be funny)
https://code.google.com/apis/websearch/terms.html
I'm pretty sure Bing is breaking some rules in 1.4 and 1.5. I'm no lawyer though, so I have no idea what Google can do except make Bing stop.
They are profiting from Google's wheel, and taking from their profits, when Google is the one that puts and continues to put effort into improving their search results. In fact, Microsoft specifically started Bing to compete with Google, and on top of that, MS is using Google's work to do it.
So you are indifferent as to whether or not hundreds of innocents die with him?
Yes, I do chuckle at most Darwin awards, but that doesn't mean that I see little value to human life. People die every second, but we can't go around crying over every single one, or we would die ourselves from neglect of our lives where we put mourning in place of continuing to do what we need to.
In the case of suicide bombers, we can laugh about their failures even more so and share the same regard for their lives as they do themselves. The bomber was going to die either way, and clearly didn't care about it. When she failed, there was no loss of life; in fact, lives were saved.
While it may be sad that this person decided to commit suicide, it is joyous that the other lives were saved. If the situation in which they failed is humorous, all the better.
You DO know that Wikipedia articles are well referenced, right? I mean, there are TONS of links to the actual studies backing up the claims. If you have a problem with the conclusions the Wikipedia article reaches, state what those problems are rather than trying to poison the well against Wikipedia. People love to claim Wikipedia is unreliable, but independent studies show it is actually less likely to contain inaccuracies than traditional encyclopedias.
I have done many college papers using Wikipedia as my primary source, and citing the links at the bottom of the page (with a quick check to verify consistency between the article and the source). Whenever I tell someone else about this, they usually respond "Wow, I never thought of that"
I'd say it's at least marginally more humorous than what would happen should said bomber's detonation be on time.
That is not true, she had the potential to harm other people in her safe house who thought she was doing a good thing
Well if the people she (potentially) harmed would have themselves each killed hundreds of innocents, then how many lives were saved?
(after all, the phone should have been destroyed in the blast)?
I'm sure the only place records of text messages are kept are on the recipient's phone.
This wasn't the original intention of this device. There was some confusion because the word "high" wasn't translated properly from English to Spanish