You can't be much of a TDS watcher if you haven't noticed that Stewart frequently has fairly right wing guests on that are uniformly warmly welcomed, treated with courtesy and allowed to speak. William Kristol from the Daily Standard, and John Ashcroft are two recent examples. That courtesy is a massive departure from other shows and a huge good example for the young audience.
The comedy comes from pointing out the absurdities in the news coverage - particularly in what they select as important enough to emphasize, and from the direct words of the politicians. I expect that the new congressional leadership will become more frequent targets in the next year as they will be making news, rather than simply watching from the sidelines.
For Linux, there is no downside. Everything just works. I've tried Ubuntu, Suse and CentOS without any issues (related to 64 bit code).
For Windows, I've been running Win2k3 64 bit. There are a ton of devices that have no drivers. Lots of subtle bugs, none of them major but it isn't usable as a dev/test machine since any issue has to be replicated on WinXP. Unless you are running SQL Server, don't bother with 64 bit windows. (and even then only bother if that is about all you are doing) 64 bit SQL server has some issues as well that make running it in production a pain.
You are wrong. rsync works fine for binary files. Where it falls down (a bit) is on compressed files, as it has to transmit the entire file for minor changes. This can be mitigated on the upstream side by using the rsync-friendly gzip patch, which resets the compression periodically midstream at a small cost to total compression size.
Everybody is the complete opposite of what you look for in a candidate? I think you need to reexamine your criteria, and perhaps prioritize. Everything is not equally important. I'm not sure how this comment got marked insightful.
Your world doesn't seem very practical. Do you skip lunch because the ideal sandwich isn't available?
Not only that but Lawrence Babbio, President of Verizon, which is actively engaged in sueing identity thieves, sits on the board. HE surely knew this was totally illegal fraud.
The question I have is why did Babbio not resign in protest as well? As a Verizon shareholder, it really ticks me off that he didn't.
Dunn should have know this was illegal, but ignorance of the law is no excuse. In any case she was given the opportunity to learn about the illegality in May and the entire Board, with the sole exception of Tom Perkins, colluded with the surveillance after that. It's not clear whether the Board knew at that time that non Board members also had been fraudulently impersonated, or whether they assumed incorrectly that all the victims were in the room.
Some small fraction of salmon get lost every year. These fish can colonize new rivers, and if they sucessfully spawn the babies will selectively return to that river to spawn, thus the colony will persist if conditions permit. "over millions of years" is the key part of your phrase for adaptation, naturally or unnaturally is irrelevant. Man doesn't act on those timespans so the the fish don't have time to adapt, but it is the timespan that matters not the naturalness of the change. Rapid natural change can also exterminate salmon from a stream.
The problem with dams is that they can make the entire upstream habitat uninhabitable because it is unreachable. Adding fish ladders lets the adults get upstream, but the water temperature increases, the lower flow rate of the river, and passing through dam turbines all cause problems for the fry, resulting in significant mortality.
He shouldn't have called you a liar. It's almost as cheap of a tactic as criticising judges for their appearance and gender. You are clearly willfully ignorant, and need to read a bit more on the topic before you earn the right to disparage others opinions. "Infiltrated by leftists" is a handy excuse to ignore data that is contrary to your preconceptions.
Fact: Between 1979 and 2001 FISA rejected NO warrants. None. They rejected 2 in 2002 and 4 in 2003. Those same years they approved 1228 and 1727 respectively. The 2 rejected in 2002 were approved in appeal. In 2005 they approved 1758 with no rejections. This is not an obstructionist record that warrants your abusive language or attitude. Fact: the judge that struck down the NSA wiretaps is a Carter appointee. Clinton had nothing to do with her.
Here's a thought: You can't trust the president or the judge or the congress. That's why the Constitution of this United States set them up in opposition. The president swore to uphold the constitution and live by its principles when he was elected. When he acts contrary to the Constitution by acting without oversight he is violating those principles and breaking his sworn oath. Your trust in him is misplaced.
If we were not overextended in Iraq, Iran wouldn't be challenging us. If we weren't foolishly addicted to oil because our government has spent billions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize the extraction industry and little to seed research into alternatives they would be irrelevant.
Save your indignation for those who deserve it - the ignorant voters who put this mediocre man into the presidents office and return a profligate corrupt congress year after year.
I'm going to pray tonight that nobody running the NSA is anything like you. I hope they gather the data, review it thoroughly and draw conclusions that are based on the facts, not their prejudicial view of the world.
That's a reasonable argument. So there should be a big label on it right, "Now fresher longer, thanks to biotechnology!"
My point is that if the consumer isn't told WHICH meat is fresher in their fridge longer, then it isn't a benefit to them. The fact that the industry refuses to label means they don't believe it is a consumer benefit - ie. the extended shelf life will be used by them to ship meat farther, and not available to the end user.
I'm rather ticked off that once again (like with irradiated meat) the food industry thinks that consumers have no right to know what is in what they are eating. (and I think treating meat with radiation and bacteriophages is a good thing. I just think people have a right to know.)
The problem is the food industry and USDA wants the benefits of science without taking any responsibility for educating a population woefully ignorant about science.
The other side of it of course is that treating meat so it can sit on a shelf longer has no real benefit for the consumer (other than not getting sick from spoiled meat) - the meat packers benefit greatly with lower costs, but why shouldn't consumers get some of the benefit in the form of lower prices? Hiding whether it is treated is a way to capture all the benefit for the producers.
Microsoft has separate teams of people devoted to fixing post-release bugs in most of their corporate software. Anytime you see a service pack released that is the result of their work, and it consists of a rollup of all the bug fixes produced for corporate users, plus all the public security patches. Private patches for those bugs were released to the requestor before the SP is released. Sure they don't get all their requests met, but on any given day somebody is getting a bug fixed in released software.
It's a false dichotomy to say that because we can't do everything we should do nothing.
If I can make the world better or safer for the children around me, then I have a moral obligation to act. I can't help them all, and I have no moral obligation to do the impossible. Could I do more? You bet. Making a rational choice about allocation of cost/energy/safety is not the same as turning a blind eye. 24/7 filming isn't avoided due to the cost, it's avoided because it is as abhorrent as child porn is.
This isn't about "avoiding" child porn. It is about not actively facilitating it. Huge difference.
I'd rephrase your conclusion to "We can't stop it all without resorting to unacceptable tactics"
You are confused. Splits and dividends are totally unrelated.
A split does NOTHING for the stockholders except divide what you have into two. A two year old will happily trade his cookie for two half cookies, but most adults know that there is no difference. Except in the stock market, when most adults seem to think like two year olds.
A dividend happens when a company pays out some of its cash to the stockholders since they don't have a better idea about how to invest it internally. This marks the difference between a company in the "growth" phase and the company that is no longer experiencing strong growth - a growth company knows that investing in its own business will provide high returns. Google would be insane to squander its cash during it growth phase by paying dividends. Note that Microsoft is one company in transition out of growth phase and now paying dividends.
A "stock dividend" is just a split by another name. (Unless it is offset by a repurchase, in which case there is no dilution)
Berkshire Hathaway, over the long term, has dramatically outperformed the general market and if Google can follow in their footsteps, more power to em. 6 months is irrelevant, particularly in a wild market like we have. Look at them in 5 years.
I'm not invested in either Google or Berkshire-Hathaway.
Mailing a DVD will cost (minimum).39 (stamp) +.25 (blank) / 4.3GB = 0.15/GB
Hmmm. Maybe not so much cheaper after all? Especially when you consider that the DVD may not be full, which won't affect your costs in the DVD case but will be cheaper with Amazon.
So knowing that Intel will release this fabulous new chip in 3-6 months, why would anyone buy a P4 based computer from Dell now? Why would anyone buy a dead-end P4 from anyone that can't be upgraded to the new architecture?
If you have an immediate need, it seems like an AMD chip is the one to buy today. In six months, that may change, but for today it's pretty clear.
There's a reason Intel has never before released processor details this far before availability. Their next quarter sales are very soft and just became softer.
Why does "Anonymous Coward" seem so appropriate for the writer of this comment?
Quite a shame that honorable service towards ones country can be casually denigrated by anonymous cowards. I don't think Kerry was a particularly great candidate, but this attack is the lowest kind of cowardly irony there is.
The big problem, which I didn't see in reading others comments, is that to western observers this violent response to the cartoons seems disproportionate, irrational and frankly unbalanced.
Yet we have Iran pursuing a policy of acquiring nuclear capability. I am totally not a supporter of the Bush administration and its excessive power grabbing behavior, yet I cannot see how the United States can allow a regime that reacts in a disproportionate and irrational fashion to have nuclear weapons. The deterrent benefit from MAD presumes sanity.
America is addicted to Oil to the degree that it is not possible to use most of the potential levers for effectively dealing with the threat represented by Iran. It is a national security imperative that our economy is freed from the oil anchor. Since the white house recognizes americas addiction must end there might eventually be some consensus to tackle the hard problem of weaning off of it. I don't think the current administration values competence enough to be up to the task though, even if it wasn't beholden on multiple levels the the oil industry.
Can't help with the Wacom tablet, but did you try the turboprint driver for the i9900? (http://www.turboprint.de/english.html). I've used it with my i960 and been fairly happy with the results. Unfortunately Canon doesn't seem willing to release enough info to use their products with linux.
If you did try it out, please post a response as I'm curious.
This incident should very much emphasize to anybody who develops for, or wants to develop for Windows: When you play in Microsofts sandbox, they may take your toys. Not sure why this is news though. There is no level playing field. It's not like it's the first time, or even the second, that Microsoft has used its market dominance in way that appears, at least to me, to be totally unfair.
Developers can vote with their feet, if nothing else. MacOS and Linux are both smaller niches, but you get to keep what you earn, and have a chance to succeed wildly.
Pathological test case... why has nobody noticed?
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If you look at the test files, they are HIGHLY redundant, consequently they get zipped extremely effectively.ods is about 3MB but uncompressed xml version is around 192MB.
Based on the memory footprint, Excel is clearly not loading the entire file into ram, or windows is not counting it toward excel. OO on the other hand, not only has to uncompress the file into memory, but hold the entire 192MB file in memory since it is in a compressed form on disk. That comprises the bulk of the difference in memory footprint. Nobody seems to be counting the uncompress time done on the excel file before it is opened either.
This is clearly a pathological test case - however it does lead to a couple interesting strategies: OO could optionally save files uncompressed if the user thinks opening speed is more important the disk space. OO does use more memory and is slower than the Excel app, and this should be addressed for 2.1
The correct response to somebody like George Ou is to say "Thanks for finding this nice test case" and then figuring out whether it really matters, and if so how to fix it.
Care to provide more details? A retail HP A1250N is $849 after rebate, the cheapest Dell I can configure with equivalent memory and disk with a much slower 820D processor is at least $200 more. Dell does have some nice 24" LCD deals, but you can get those without buying a computer.
In my experience support from both Dell and HP is equally bad for their home buyers, so not much to sway the decision there.
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You can't be much of a TDS watcher if you haven't noticed that Stewart frequently has fairly right wing guests on that are uniformly warmly welcomed, treated with courtesy and allowed to speak. William Kristol from the Daily Standard, and John Ashcroft are two recent examples. That courtesy is a massive departure from other shows and a huge good example for the young audience.
The comedy comes from pointing out the absurdities in the news coverage - particularly in what they select as important enough to emphasize, and from the direct words of the politicians. I expect that the new congressional leadership will become more frequent targets in the next year as they will be making news, rather than simply watching from the sidelines.
For Linux, there is no downside. Everything just works. I've tried Ubuntu, Suse and CentOS without any issues (related to 64 bit code).
For Windows, I've been running Win2k3 64 bit. There are a ton of devices that have no drivers. Lots of subtle bugs, none of them major but it isn't usable as a dev/test machine since any issue has to be replicated on WinXP. Unless you are running SQL Server, don't bother with 64 bit windows. (and even then only bother if that is about all you are doing) 64 bit SQL server has some issues as well that make running it in production a pain.
You are wrong. rsync works fine for binary files. Where it falls down (a bit) is on compressed files, as it has to transmit the entire file for minor changes. This can be mitigated on the upstream side by using the rsync-friendly gzip patch, which resets the compression periodically midstream at a small cost to total compression size.
Everybody is the complete opposite of what you look for in a candidate? I think you need to reexamine your criteria, and perhaps prioritize. Everything is not equally important. I'm not sure how this comment got marked insightful.
Your world doesn't seem very practical. Do you skip lunch because the ideal sandwich isn't available?
Not only that but Lawrence Babbio, President of Verizon, which is actively engaged in sueing identity thieves, sits on the board. HE surely knew this was totally illegal fraud.
The question I have is why did Babbio not resign in protest as well? As a Verizon shareholder, it really ticks me off that he didn't.
Dunn should have know this was illegal, but ignorance of the law is no excuse. In any case she was given the opportunity to learn about the illegality in May and the entire Board, with the sole exception of Tom Perkins, colluded with the surveillance after that. It's not clear whether the Board knew at that time that non Board members also had been fraudulently impersonated, or whether they assumed incorrectly that all the victims were in the room.
Some small fraction of salmon get lost every year. These fish can colonize new rivers, and if they sucessfully spawn the babies will selectively return to that river to spawn, thus the colony will persist if conditions permit. "over millions of years" is the key part of your phrase for adaptation, naturally or unnaturally is irrelevant. Man doesn't act on those timespans so the the fish don't have time to adapt, but it is the timespan that matters not the naturalness of the change. Rapid natural change can also exterminate salmon from a stream.
The problem with dams is that they can make the entire upstream habitat uninhabitable because it is unreachable. Adding fish ladders lets the adults get upstream, but the water temperature increases, the lower flow rate of the river, and passing through dam turbines all cause problems for the fry, resulting in significant mortality.
He shouldn't have called you a liar. It's almost as cheap of a tactic as criticising judges for their appearance and gender. You are clearly willfully ignorant, and need to read a bit more on the topic before you earn the right to disparage others opinions. "Infiltrated by leftists" is a handy excuse to ignore data that is contrary to your preconceptions.
Fact: Between 1979 and 2001 FISA rejected NO warrants. None. They rejected 2 in 2002 and 4 in 2003. Those same years they approved 1228 and 1727 respectively. The 2 rejected in 2002 were approved in appeal. In 2005 they approved 1758 with no rejections. This is not an obstructionist record that warrants your abusive language or attitude.
Fact: the judge that struck down the NSA wiretaps is a Carter appointee. Clinton had nothing to do with her.
Here's a thought: You can't trust the president or the judge or the congress. That's why the Constitution of this United States set them up in opposition. The president swore to uphold the constitution and live by its principles when he was elected. When he acts contrary to the Constitution by acting without oversight he is violating those principles and breaking his sworn oath. Your trust in him is misplaced.
If we were not overextended in Iraq, Iran wouldn't be challenging us. If we weren't foolishly addicted to oil because our government has spent billions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize the extraction industry and little to seed research into alternatives they would be irrelevant.
Save your indignation for those who deserve it - the ignorant voters who put this mediocre man into the presidents office and return a profligate corrupt congress year after year.
I'm going to pray tonight that nobody running the NSA is anything like you. I hope they gather the data, review it thoroughly and draw conclusions that are based on the facts, not their prejudicial view of the world.
That's a reasonable argument. So there should be a big label on it right, "Now fresher longer, thanks to biotechnology!"
My point is that if the consumer isn't told WHICH meat is fresher in their fridge longer, then it isn't a benefit to them. The fact that the industry refuses to label means they don't believe it is a consumer benefit - ie. the extended shelf life will be used by them to ship meat farther, and not available to the end user.
I'm rather ticked off that once again (like with irradiated meat) the food industry thinks that consumers have no right to know what is in what they are eating. (and I think treating meat with radiation and bacteriophages is a good thing. I just think people have a right to know.)
The problem is the food industry and USDA wants the benefits of science without taking any responsibility for educating a population woefully ignorant about science.
The other side of it of course is that treating meat so it can sit on a shelf longer has no real benefit for the consumer (other than not getting sick from spoiled meat) - the meat packers benefit greatly with lower costs, but why shouldn't consumers get some of the benefit in the form of lower prices? Hiding whether it is treated is a way to capture all the benefit for the producers.
Could you please flag articles by this unmitigated idiot so I don't wast the click. Reading his drivel is not worth anybodys time.
Try Tora. It's a great database admin tool. There's a couple things Toad will do that Tora won't, but I've found it to be a nice substitute.
Free
Cross Platform
Open Source
supports Multiple Databases
Really quite a nice application.
As a parent I don't find that idea in any way reassuring. Quite the opposite.
Microsoft has separate teams of people devoted to fixing post-release bugs in most of their corporate software. Anytime you see a service pack released that is the result of their work, and it consists of a rollup of all the bug fixes produced for corporate users, plus all the public security patches. Private patches for those bugs were released to the requestor before the SP is released. Sure they don't get all their requests met, but on any given day somebody is getting a bug fixed in released software.
Would you be talking about Grenada, Panama, Afghanistan or Iraq here?
"absolutely no opposition" isn't really accurate. minimal or token opposition is more accurate I think.
It's a false dichotomy to say that because we can't do everything we should do nothing.
If I can make the world better or safer for the children around me, then I have a moral obligation to act. I can't help them all, and I have no moral obligation to do the impossible. Could I do more? You bet. Making a rational choice about allocation of cost/energy/safety is not the same as turning a blind eye. 24/7 filming isn't avoided due to the cost, it's avoided because it is as abhorrent as child porn is.
This isn't about "avoiding" child porn. It is about not actively facilitating it. Huge difference.
I'd rephrase your conclusion to "We can't stop it all without resorting to unacceptable tactics"
You are confused. Splits and dividends are totally unrelated.
A split does NOTHING for the stockholders except divide what you have into two. A two year old will happily trade his cookie for two half cookies, but most adults know that there is no difference. Except in the stock market, when most adults seem to think like two year olds.
A dividend happens when a company pays out some of its cash to the stockholders since they don't have a better idea about how to invest it internally. This marks the difference between a company in the "growth" phase and the company that is no longer experiencing strong growth - a growth company knows that investing in its own business will provide high returns. Google would be insane to squander its cash during it growth phase by paying dividends. Note that Microsoft is one company in transition out of growth phase and now paying dividends.
A "stock dividend" is just a split by another name. (Unless it is offset by a repurchase, in which case there is no dilution)
Berkshire Hathaway, over the long term, has dramatically outperformed the general market and if Google can follow in their footsteps, more power to em. 6 months is irrelevant, particularly in a wild market like we have. Look at them in 5 years.
I'm not invested in either Google or Berkshire-Hathaway.
Mailing a DVD will cost (minimum) .39 (stamp) + .25 (blank) / 4.3GB = 0.15/GB
Hmmm. Maybe not so much cheaper after all? Especially when you consider that the DVD may not be full, which won't affect your costs in the DVD case but will be cheaper with Amazon.
Changing the default boot on ubuntu:
http://ubuntuguide.org/#changedefaultosgrub
Here's instructions on how to set it for whatever booted last:
http://geodsoft.com/howto/dualboot/grub.htm
Not so hard, really.
So knowing that Intel will release this fabulous new chip in 3-6 months, why would anyone buy a P4 based computer from Dell now? Why would anyone buy a dead-end P4 from anyone that can't be upgraded to the new architecture?
If you have an immediate need, it seems like an AMD chip is the one to buy today. In six months, that may change, but for today it's pretty clear.
There's a reason Intel has never before released processor details this far before availability. Their next quarter sales are very soft and just became softer.
Why does "Anonymous Coward" seem so appropriate for the writer of this comment?
Quite a shame that honorable service towards ones country can be casually denigrated by anonymous cowards. I don't think Kerry was a particularly great candidate, but this attack is the lowest kind of cowardly irony there is.
Find the courage to sign your name next time.
The big problem, which I didn't see in reading others comments, is
that to western observers this violent response to the cartoons seems disproportionate, irrational and frankly unbalanced.
Yet we have Iran pursuing a policy of acquiring nuclear capability. I am
totally not a supporter of the Bush administration and its excessive power grabbing behavior, yet I cannot see how the United States can allow a regime that reacts in a disproportionate and irrational fashion to have nuclear weapons. The deterrent benefit from MAD presumes sanity.
America is addicted to Oil to the degree that it is not possible to use most of the potential levers for effectively dealing with the threat represented by Iran. It is a national security imperative that our economy is freed from the oil anchor. Since the white house recognizes americas addiction must end there might eventually be some consensus to tackle the hard problem of weaning off of it. I don't think the current administration values competence enough to be up to the task though, even if it wasn't beholden on multiple levels the the oil industry.
Can't help with the Wacom tablet, but did you try the turboprint driver for the i9900? (http://www.turboprint.de/english.html). I've used it with my i960 and been fairly happy with the results. Unfortunately Canon doesn't seem willing to release enough info to use their products with linux.
If you did try it out, please post a response as I'm curious.
This incident should very much emphasize to anybody who develops for, or wants to develop for Windows: When you play in Microsofts sandbox, they may take your toys. Not sure why this is news though. There is no level playing field. It's not like it's the first time, or even the second, that Microsoft has used its market dominance in way that appears, at least to me, to be totally unfair.
Developers can vote with their feet, if nothing else. MacOS and Linux are both smaller niches, but you get to keep what you earn, and have a chance to succeed wildly.
If you look at the test files, they are HIGHLY redundant, consequently they get zipped extremely effectively .ods is about 3MB but uncompressed xml version is around 192MB.
Based on the memory footprint, Excel is clearly not loading the entire file into ram, or windows is not counting it toward excel. OO on the other hand, not only has to uncompress the file into memory, but hold the entire 192MB file in memory since it is in a compressed form on disk. That comprises the bulk of the difference in memory footprint. Nobody seems to be counting the uncompress time done on the excel file before it is opened either.
This is clearly a pathological test case - however it does lead to a couple interesting strategies: OO could optionally save files uncompressed if the user thinks opening speed is more important the disk space. OO does use more memory and is slower than the Excel app, and this should be addressed for 2.1
The correct response to somebody like George Ou is to say "Thanks for finding this nice test case" and then figuring out whether it really matters, and if so how to fix it.
Care to provide more details? A retail HP A1250N is $849 after rebate, the cheapest Dell I can configure with equivalent memory and disk with a much slower 820D processor is at least $200 more. Dell does have some nice 24" LCD deals, but you can get those without buying a computer.
In my experience support from both Dell and HP is equally bad for their home buyers, so not much to sway the decision there.