another excellent reason to keep real and internet lives separate. the more time you spend telling others to get laid on the internet, the less time you can spend eating your own dogfood.
The problem is, not everybody is as paranoid as I am.
paranoia not required, just some basic common sense. we seem to lose that a lot lately, with the fast pace of things. before I hit submit on anything, I take a moment to slow down and consider the effect my click will have on my life. then I generally do it anyways, as i'm not into that illegal mess.
my solution to that is to act schizophrenic on almost every website i visit. any ID thief who tries to profile me just wont get anything they can wrap their tiny criminal minds around, other than perhaps the desire to . your best bet is to have a healthy separation between your life on the internet and your real life.
... I won't get into the waste of paying for other peoples brats to go to school/babysitter.
The next time you have to deal with an idiot, I want you to remember that you don't like paying for the kids who DO get all their education. If your tax dollars didn't contribute to putting "other people's brats" through school, i'm sure you would find things go a lot farther south a lot faster than they're already going. education is the only thing standing between us and a degenerate society. I dunno about you, but i'd like to be as far away from a degenerate society as I can.
I was going to suggest that we put it in the water coolers in the House of Representatives and the Senate, for BOTH sides of the aisle.
and that way you know anyone who's still retarded later drinks bottled water.
I'd settle for just giving it to all MBA's and law students on graduation.
IPv7? You either overestimate the proliferation of computers or people. after all, experts predict that one day we may have the need for as many as four computers in the continental united states!
nope. it was a genuine article that was completely different from the press release. SOMEONE wrote it and didnt work for the company, i believe it was apple. then it got copied at least three times. after reading it the fourth time i gave up and read the slashdot comments, at least they're original:p
The register really cant have too much room to talk... one day i was reading up about a particular subject, and four of the articles a google search found were exactly the same article with four bylines. granted, the register's was later updated with a few grammar corrections, and a single story probably isn't as big a deal as borrowing from another video game.
New Method for Rendering Particles Outlined
"Although this method has been employed in games for many years Slight contradiction or equivocation on the term "new" nope, just bad writing.
These volumes typically are simulated simply by determining how much contribution they present to the view using a simple blend function. This blend function defines how much the simulated volume of particles obscures the scene behind them.
Although this method has been employed in games for many years, this article defines a method using shader technology to more physically represent these volumetric particles. This method will give a more accurate visual representation of the simulated volumes as well as potentially decreasing the necessary number of particles, which in turn will help to improve render performance.
i believe the term for that is "doing someone a favor" or "just being nice". sadly, some people have lost their ability to differentiate between things you might say about a move which is out of character to a political opponent, and what you'd say to an actual human being. this whole fundamentalist character judgment thing reeks of an election year.
people will find, at some point, that radiohead are doing the fans a favor here. the number of steps to place a downloaded song from iTunes onto one's ipod is fewer than the number of steps to place a CD ripped song, or a TPB downloaded song on that same ipod. you're paying for the minor convenience, and the certainty that no one will knock on your door about a take-down notice from our beloved music industry association.
Cause, you know, that's how we want nuclear fucking powerplants to work. why go with that when "over three million men trust natural male enhancement"? coal fucking powerplants are dirty, it's true, but many consider the act itself dirty. i dont see a problem.
Now that im all graduated, i can bitch and moan about this without fear of repercussions....
Dashboard widgets are a pain to have to work with in a school environment where the kids use buggy, crapwaredgets that do things as varied and useful as poorly simulating a basketball game, or poorly simulating an actual implementation of the breakout concept, or just being stupid and cluttering the screen. it all amounts to situations where the teacher will attempt to access the somewhat useful default functionality of the dashboard, the iMac will lock up, and i'd get called out of class to come fix it, because i made the mistake of having a reputation for knowing what i'm doing...
now i just have to hope the teacher doesnt have my cell number by the time NEXT year's students add all their crap on...
i dunno how stable time machine is supposed to be, but it certainly isnt on the imacs we got at school for our art lab. of course, the fact that art students are the ones who keep managing to mess things up with it might have a great deal more to say about the problem...
He is, however dissatisfied with the wireless networking system used in the XO. Since it uses a proprietary technology, he plans to remove it and use a separate device when he needs to make wireless communication with others.
You are ignoring statistics. Once you ignore the numbers you don't operate on reason. You operate on emotion.
Once you leave logic for emotion you lose objectivity and credibility.
the problem with that, then, is that he/she isnt the only one doing that in america. pretty much everyone does that, or we wouldnt need pages like this to set them all straight on things like "There is no profile of a typical shoplifter. Men and women shoplift about equally as often.".
he/she's right though, about the society and culture thing. we're conditioned to believe certain things by our entire life experience, and as a logical result of that, we do. politicians and the ones lobbying them constantly get it the worst, and since they're the decision makers... the idea that people who posses child porn are more likely to molest children based on available data that X% of those arrested on those charges had HDDs full of the stuff is just as reasonable to them as the idea that since X% of the prison population is race Y, race Y must be more/less likely to commit crime Z than race A would be, which is a little silly, and the point the great grandparent was trying to make.
i've heard from conflicting sources during various times that whomever was more likely to steal from a given store, and even been turned down on a job application because i "was at high risk of shoplifting based on available demographics". this was a funny example of perceptions because they'd told my parents previously that they'd surely hire any of their offspring. your logic has to account for their emotions.
we do that too, and i'd buy a lot of the computers they're getting rid of from some of the other schools (the reason we have such outdated tech still in use is the huge number of nodes on our private network. we're the only school in the county that has a separately managed subnet), but the auctions are in lots of 10 or 40, and they must all be carted off same day. i could do with about 20-30 of the things, but have no means to transport that many of such large computers. when these tiny thinkcentres start up on the auction block, im wanting a community net-hangout spot in my rather large basement!
i attend a rather high-tech (by NC's standards) highschool where we do something similar. our network administrators place new machines into the digital arts and computer engineering classrooms, remove the machines that were there, and place them throughout the school wherever they're needed, replacing pretty much every machine with something ever so slightly better. unfortunately, the math and science classrooms are always the last to be upgraded... anyone remember the white IBM netvistas? i've used one today, and am currently typing from a newish lenovo IBM thinkcentre.
depending on the exact problem, it can also be easier to fix things with a reinstall in linux as well. for instance, if my package manager is interrupted at a specific stage of update/install of packages, it becomes pretty close to unrescueable. i say close because its always doable, but is less work for me to reinstall from disk. sad to say, but the problem isnt just a windows thing!
i dunno, they seemed to have pretty fun cubes, from what i saw on the tour. plus, they've got the CPOC, and the NERV, both of which i had to be dragged off of...:p
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.. you need to get laid or something.
another excellent reason to keep real and internet lives separate. the more time you spend telling others to get laid on the internet, the less time you can spend eating your own dogfood.
The problem is, not everybody is as paranoid as I am.
paranoia not required, just some basic common sense. we seem to lose that a lot lately, with the fast pace of things. before I hit submit on anything, I take a moment to slow down and consider the effect my click will have on my life. then I generally do it anyways, as i'm not into that illegal mess.
my solution to that is to act schizophrenic on almost every website i visit. any ID thief who tries to profile me just wont get anything they can wrap their tiny criminal minds around, other than perhaps the desire to . your best bet is to have a healthy separation between your life on the internet and your real life.
... I won't get into the waste of paying for other peoples brats to go to school/babysitter.
The next time you have to deal with an idiot, I want you to remember that you don't like paying for the kids who DO get all their education. If your tax dollars didn't contribute to putting "other people's brats" through school, i'm sure you would find things go a lot farther south a lot faster than they're already going. education is the only thing standing between us and a degenerate society. I dunno about you, but i'd like to be as far away from a degenerate society as I can.
no.. but i want a mouse who's smart enough to save humanity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty_Mouse
I was going to suggest that we put it in the water coolers in the House of Representatives and the Senate, for BOTH sides of the aisle.
and that way you know anyone who's still retarded later drinks bottled water. I'd settle for just giving it to all MBA's and law students on graduation.
if you copy it without proper credit given for the original source of the article, it's still plagiarism.
nope. it was a genuine article that was completely different from the press release. SOMEONE wrote it and didnt work for the company, i believe it was apple. then it got copied at least three times. after reading it the fourth time i gave up and read the slashdot comments, at least they're original :p
the pot, however, doesnt know where that nasty rumor that the kettle is black got started...
The register really cant have too much room to talk... one day i was reading up about a particular subject, and four of the articles a google search found were exactly the same article with four bylines. granted, the register's was later updated with a few grammar corrections, and a single story probably isn't as big a deal as borrowing from another video game.
i believe the term for that is "doing someone a favor" or "just being nice". sadly, some people have lost their ability to differentiate between things you might say about a move which is out of character to a political opponent, and what you'd say to an actual human being. this whole fundamentalist character judgment thing reeks of an election year.
people will find, at some point, that radiohead are doing the fans a favor here. the number of steps to place a downloaded song from iTunes onto one's ipod is fewer than the number of steps to place a CD ripped song, or a TPB downloaded song on that same ipod. you're paying for the minor convenience, and the certainty that no one will knock on your door about a take-down notice from our beloved music industry association.
i for one, welcome our new aquatic mine hunting overlords.
Now that im all graduated, i can bitch and moan about this without fear of repercussions....
Dashboard widgets are a pain to have to work with in a school environment where the kids use buggy, crapwaredgets that do things as varied and useful as poorly simulating a basketball game, or poorly simulating an actual implementation of the breakout concept, or just being stupid and cluttering the screen. it all amounts to situations where the teacher will attempt to access the somewhat useful default functionality of the dashboard, the iMac will lock up, and i'd get called out of class to come fix it, because i made the mistake of having a reputation for knowing what i'm doing...
now i just have to hope the teacher doesnt have my cell number by the time NEXT year's students add all their crap on...
SHHH! we're not supposed to even talk to them if they get it wrong... RMS would be ashamed!
i dunno how stable time machine is supposed to be, but it certainly isnt on the imacs we got at school for our art lab. of course, the fact that art students are the ones who keep managing to mess things up with it might have a great deal more to say about the problem...
clearly, they think clamAV works, and therefore is not a waste of time and/or money
AV is also just a small part of the ways cisco provides security to the network. read up on their best practices.
Richard Stallman
He is, however dissatisfied with the wireless networking system used in the XO. Since it uses a proprietary technology, he plans to remove it and use a separate device when he needs to make wireless communication with others.the problem with that, then, is that he/she isnt the only one doing that in america. pretty much everyone does that, or we wouldnt need pages like this to set them all straight on things like "There is no profile of a typical shoplifter. Men and women shoplift about equally as often.".
he/she's right though, about the society and culture thing. we're conditioned to believe certain things by our entire life experience, and as a logical result of that, we do. politicians and the ones lobbying them constantly get it the worst, and since they're the decision makers... the idea that people who posses child porn are more likely to molest children based on available data that X% of those arrested on those charges had HDDs full of the stuff is just as reasonable to them as the idea that since X% of the prison population is race Y, race Y must be more/less likely to commit crime Z than race A would be, which is a little silly, and the point the great grandparent was trying to make.
i've heard from conflicting sources during various times that whomever was more likely to steal from a given store, and even been turned down on a job application because i "was at high risk of shoplifting based on available demographics". this was a funny example of perceptions because they'd told my parents previously that they'd surely hire any of their offspring. your logic has to account for their emotions.
we do that too, and i'd buy a lot of the computers they're getting rid of from some of the other schools (the reason we have such outdated tech still in use is the huge number of nodes on our private network. we're the only school in the county that has a separately managed subnet), but the auctions are in lots of 10 or 40, and they must all be carted off same day. i could do with about 20-30 of the things, but have no means to transport that many of such large computers. when these tiny thinkcentres start up on the auction block, im wanting a community net-hangout spot in my rather large basement!
i attend a rather high-tech (by NC's standards) highschool where we do something similar. our network administrators place new machines into the digital arts and computer engineering classrooms, remove the machines that were there, and place them throughout the school wherever they're needed, replacing pretty much every machine with something ever so slightly better. unfortunately, the math and science classrooms are always the last to be upgraded... anyone remember the white IBM netvistas? i've used one today, and am currently typing from a newish lenovo IBM thinkcentre.
depending on the exact problem, it can also be easier to fix things with a reinstall in linux as well. for instance, if my package manager is interrupted at a specific stage of update/install of packages, it becomes pretty close to unrescueable. i say close because its always doable, but is less work for me to reinstall from disk. sad to say, but the problem isnt just a windows thing!
i dunno, they seemed to have pretty fun cubes, from what i saw on the tour. plus, they've got the CPOC, and the NERV, both of which i had to be dragged off of... :p