How many times have we been stuck in a jam because people thought "this will never be in use by the time this is a problem"? The Y2k bug, which we were afraid might bring down the entire banking system with the change of a clock, was one major one. Before that was the infamous "640k is enough for anyone" shortsightedness. There has been plenty of it in the x86 architecture that needs to be babied as it has been upgraded from 8-bit to 16-bit to 32-bit to 64-bit.
Y2K ranks up with Swine and Bird flu for being some of the most hyped "disasters", yes Y2K did happen but on only a few things. A far cry from the "planes will be falling out of the sky" garbage the media was spewing out.
The 640K is enough (aside from not being a real quote) does make since though for static machines. Point of sale machines with DOS-Based software don't need gigabytes of RAM and terabytes of HD space. For a time computers were mostly static much more akin to game consoles, there wasn't a wealth of software to do stuff with. If you take an old computer and boot it up, it is remarkably fast even though it might only have a 25 Mhz processor but it was kept in relatively unchanging conditions software-wise so it doesn't get programs not made for it. On the other hand we have Pentium 4s running software designed for use on more modern CPUs and it just fails. Similarly we run programs that are made for lots and lots of RAM and HD space on machines with only a few hundred megs of RAM and a few gigabytes of HD space and they run slow. If it wasn't for the internet and the ability to get new software on old machines via it, chances are there would be fewer "slow computers".
They have had to work around it over and over and over and over again, every time the technology jumps. Now that they are actually thinking "hey, what about the next big jump?" and structuring their systems in such a way that they potentially won't have this problem, and you seem to have a problem with it.
But the thing is, technology -hasn't- jumped past 32 bit. You can still find many, many, many computers with 32-bit only CPUs still being used. And on just about every single 64 bit capable platform it is running a 32 bit OS. It makes no sense to try to go for the "next" thing that is still 2 generations ahead.
Nothing. Look at "piracy" just about -everyone- either pirates or does something that ticks off media execs (such as watches YouTube videos with "unauthorized" music) its been proven in study after study that it has little to no affect on album sales but they still try to sue for it. Similarly marijuana has been proven safer than tobacco or alcohol in both effects and dependence but it is still outlawed in many countries.
There are two types of "crimes" one is crimes that harm others and in general are a big deal, things like murder, rape (real rape, not some 18 year old having sex with a 17 year old), theft and even some forms of vandalism. Those things should be reported. Other things are still "crimes" but they harm no one except possibly the person doing the actions, things like light speeding with little to no traffic, underage drinking/smoking, some things classified under drugs, etc. However, its not the crimes that are a big deal that will be reported it is the stupid little crimes which shouldn't even be prosecuted or in some cases have laws forbidding the actions.
You can either A) Use it to play games and some media B) Sell it C) Donate it/give it away. I have no doubt that a local children's hospital would be eternally greatful for the gift. You could always donate it to some guy like Ben Heck (http://benheck.com/) to use in a mod to help a gamer with disabilities (or just to look pretty cool as a mod), or if worse comes to worse, keep it in its box and save it for a few years and sell it then in mint condition.
There has been a lot of hype about ZFS but what use is it in a desktop system? And honestly, while APT is great for desktop systems, I really wouldn't use it much on a server. So unless there is some amazing benefit for the average user with ZFS why even have this port as a main system?
About the only thing that I can think of is that a Debian admin good with the few debian-only tools like APT feels more at home. I really don't get why Debian would do this though because of the fact that it will take away from its primary user base (Linux users) to help fill a possible niche of users (KFreeBSD users) that are small in number.
How many solo games do you see out in the big blue room? Golf, chess, and wrestling come to mind - and in the schools, these are still organized into "team" events. Track "teams" go to track meets - while many of the activities are individual, the individual is still part of a team.
Many. Just about every shooting sport is individual (you may be formed into teams, but it comes down to where a team is simply just 5 individuals combining scores), so is swimming, martial arts, puzzles and loads of board games. Yes, things are divided into teams sometimes, but it is really the individual that matters. The "team" aspect just lets for combining of scores and easier management.
When I look at Balrog in StreetFighter, and the black man in the Final Fantasies games, I see a game just portraying Black men as big dumb idiots who use profanity all the time. Since that is the same shit I have to watch on TV, it would be nice if I could play a video game and get something different, but it's no different.
You have to remember though, those games were developed in Japan. It isn't a diverse country in the least, black people are a rarity. In Street Fighter -everything- is stereotypical. In Final Fantasy, there really -aren't- any non-white characters other than a few. I have little doubt it was due to pressure (in the US) to make the games more "diverse" that non-white characters were added, however, since the games were developed in Japan, stereotypes were used.
It is my understanding, in Germany, it is illegal to display certain symbols because they are considered anti-Jewish. If a video game were an escape from reality, that symbol could be displayed in video games, but that is not the case.
Well, Germany has many censorship issues blocking true free speech, but that is beside the point. In real life, chances are none of us/.ers could have fought in WWII, video games let experience it. Other games let you do things that you can't do in real life without serious consequences (fly a plane, steal cars, drive tanks, etc). Similar to while some books are pure fantasy others take place in realistic historical situations, others use a fictional version of reality, and still others let you experience life as a different person. All are escapes from reality but may use realistic situations to experience life that you are unable to experience. All but the most mundane book gives you something different than your life.
If you have IE 8 installed chances are you have Windows. Switch to OS X, Linux or another non-Windows platform and your risks of being infected will drop dramatically (yeah, it might be security through obscurity, but it works well enough not to get viruses so long as you aren't a complete idiot).
Buy the company and do what? Sorry but due to various responsibilities, Google, Apple, etc. would more than likely be legally forced to keep the patents and keep trying to sue (Eolas being a patent troll has no real assets other than BS patents) to make the investment worthwhile for its shareholders.
The people who need to make sure to get everything secure in order to for the web to function have waited longer than -9 weeks- to get something fixed? When the thing was presented at... Defcon? What else do these people have to do other than fix these -major- flaws. When something is shown at Defcon, BlackHat, HOPE or any other major security conference, the first thing for these people to do would be to fix the flaw. 9 weeks is inexcusable.
Depends though. I was in a number of literature classes and book clubs in high school and a lot of the books that have made the most impact weren't the "classic" books that everyone thinks about, but rather the odd book that one or two students really liked so the entire class read it. For example, even though my teacher had never read an Ayn Rand book, one of the students had and recommended it, and it really challenged and expanded my view of the world. It also helps reduce certain biases by teachers in what types of books you read (and its pretty easy with fantasy/sci-fi for a teacher to project their own personal beliefs via the types of books).
Let the students decide. In most literature classes similar to this, you can pretty much bet that each student will have their favorite authors/genres, so why not take suggestions at the beginning of the year, order the books and use that as some material. Students will like it because they aren't being "forced" to read a book that isn't their style, they see that a teacher respects their opinions and chances are you would have better discussions. So pick a few "classic" books and a few contemporary novels, but let the students really direct what the class reads, the English classes that were like that in high school I really loved and participated much more actively in than "read pages 125-178 by tomorrow" classes.
Hm, I wonder why that is? Surely it didn't have anything to do with the financial meltdown. Surely it wasn't because all the CEOs with millions invested in various stocks realized that the stocks were failing? Basically, Virgin Galactic's market is CEOs or other wealthy people with cash to burn who want to experience weightlessness in space. When most of them realized they can't afford the million dollar bonus this year, Virgin Galactic's market kinda dried up.
Yeah, except for I've been hearing the "two more years" stuff for at least the last 5 if not the last 10 years. Always 2 more years. And those years have passed and we haven't run out yet.
All that is just great until you realize that each application may be -huge-. If someone can make a small script that converts OGG files into MP3 files using both the OGG encoder and MP3 encoder that is already on my system, it saves me from downloading ~20 MB of extra files.
It is their site, they are free to publish what they feel on it. Now what -is- illegal and misleading is if you were to write a negative review and they make it be a positive review. Similar to Engadget and Monster Cable.
I tend to agree. While there should be -some- accessibility standards (as in, being able to get everything in basic HTML, open standards, etc) but to be perfectly honest, some handicapped people just aren't cut out for some jobs or some tasks and may require assistance.
T-Mobile may have a crappy cell network, but they're the one cell company I actually respect. They fixed glitches with the iPhone on their network even though they didn't have to, they have the most open cell phones, and they don't neuter their cell phones (like Verizon does).
Haven't you been reading all these posts? The point is there -is- almost no effort in producing it. They take the information they gathered 30 years ago (assumed to be paid off over 30 years) and just shuffle it around to make people have to buy new editions. But because professors have to have page numbers consistent with the class, they have to require a specific edition, if it isn't a recent edition students can't find it.
Ok, have you -not- seen the targeted ads on Facebook? Most either say *insert exact age here* year olds needed for *insert testing for some believable product*, Or use your relationship status to do "Meet singles in your area", or other crappy spam. None of it is relevant. Ok, sure, perhaps it might be nice if it said "X band is coming to *insert town here* on *insert date that the concert was* reserve tickets now!" because that would be useful, but instead it either recommends bands that aren't even similar to what I'm listening to or "reserve tickets" even though the band might not even be touring in your country.
Someone hasn't compared editions of college textbooks. They cover the same stuff. How hard is it to rearrange a few pages? Something tells me that doesn't cost a ton of money to hire someone to do that. The physical books aren't even bound particularly nicely so that can't be the cost, so when you have almost no initial cost and sell the book for a high price, the only logical conclusion is you are making a lot of money.
Depends on how many movies you watch though. Myself I only watch a movie at most once a week on Friday night if I don't have something more productive to do. So its still an extra $1 per Blu-Ray disk if we assume that I watch 3 movies or so in a month. For someone who constantly watches movies, Netflix would be a better deal though.
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No, because this is how the usual user acts.
Tech: "Ok, you've got a virus"
User: "But why? I have X protecting me!"
Tech: "Well, you downloaded these kitten screensavers that appear to have a trojan on them"
User: "So you're going to remove my kitten screensavers!?!"
Tech: "Um, well yes."
User: "But you can't do that!!!"
Tech: "Well you want the virus gone right?"
User: "Not if it endangers my kitten screensavers!"
Tech: "..."
Add that plus all the scareware floating around with rogue AV software leads to a perfect storm.
How many times have we been stuck in a jam because people thought "this will never be in use by the time this is a problem"? The Y2k bug, which we were afraid might bring down the entire banking system with the change of a clock, was one major one. Before that was the infamous "640k is enough for anyone" shortsightedness. There has been plenty of it in the x86 architecture that needs to be babied as it has been upgraded from 8-bit to 16-bit to 32-bit to 64-bit.
Y2K ranks up with Swine and Bird flu for being some of the most hyped "disasters", yes Y2K did happen but on only a few things. A far cry from the "planes will be falling out of the sky" garbage the media was spewing out.
The 640K is enough (aside from not being a real quote) does make since though for static machines. Point of sale machines with DOS-Based software don't need gigabytes of RAM and terabytes of HD space. For a time computers were mostly static much more akin to game consoles, there wasn't a wealth of software to do stuff with. If you take an old computer and boot it up, it is remarkably fast even though it might only have a 25 Mhz processor but it was kept in relatively unchanging conditions software-wise so it doesn't get programs not made for it. On the other hand we have Pentium 4s running software designed for use on more modern CPUs and it just fails. Similarly we run programs that are made for lots and lots of RAM and HD space on machines with only a few hundred megs of RAM and a few gigabytes of HD space and they run slow. If it wasn't for the internet and the ability to get new software on old machines via it, chances are there would be fewer "slow computers".
They have had to work around it over and over and over and over again, every time the technology jumps. Now that they are actually thinking "hey, what about the next big jump?" and structuring their systems in such a way that they potentially won't have this problem, and you seem to have a problem with it.
But the thing is, technology -hasn't- jumped past 32 bit. You can still find many, many, many computers with 32-bit only CPUs still being used. And on just about every single 64 bit capable platform it is running a 32 bit OS. It makes no sense to try to go for the "next" thing that is still 2 generations ahead.
Nothing. Look at "piracy" just about -everyone- either pirates or does something that ticks off media execs (such as watches YouTube videos with "unauthorized" music) its been proven in study after study that it has little to no affect on album sales but they still try to sue for it. Similarly marijuana has been proven safer than tobacco or alcohol in both effects and dependence but it is still outlawed in many countries.
There are two types of "crimes" one is crimes that harm others and in general are a big deal, things like murder, rape (real rape, not some 18 year old having sex with a 17 year old), theft and even some forms of vandalism. Those things should be reported. Other things are still "crimes" but they harm no one except possibly the person doing the actions, things like light speeding with little to no traffic, underage drinking/smoking, some things classified under drugs, etc. However, its not the crimes that are a big deal that will be reported it is the stupid little crimes which shouldn't even be prosecuted or in some cases have laws forbidding the actions.
You can either A) Use it to play games and some media B) Sell it C) Donate it/give it away. I have no doubt that a local children's hospital would be eternally greatful for the gift. You could always donate it to some guy like Ben Heck (http://benheck.com/) to use in a mod to help a gamer with disabilities (or just to look pretty cool as a mod), or if worse comes to worse, keep it in its box and save it for a few years and sell it then in mint condition.
There has been a lot of hype about ZFS but what use is it in a desktop system? And honestly, while APT is great for desktop systems, I really wouldn't use it much on a server. So unless there is some amazing benefit for the average user with ZFS why even have this port as a main system?
About the only thing that I can think of is that a Debian admin good with the few debian-only tools like APT feels more at home. I really don't get why Debian would do this though because of the fact that it will take away from its primary user base (Linux users) to help fill a possible niche of users (KFreeBSD users) that are small in number.
How many solo games do you see out in the big blue room? Golf, chess, and wrestling come to mind - and in the schools, these are still organized into "team" events. Track "teams" go to track meets - while many of the activities are individual, the individual is still part of a team.
Many. Just about every shooting sport is individual (you may be formed into teams, but it comes down to where a team is simply just 5 individuals combining scores), so is swimming, martial arts, puzzles and loads of board games. Yes, things are divided into teams sometimes, but it is really the individual that matters. The "team" aspect just lets for combining of scores and easier management.
When I look at Balrog in StreetFighter, and the black man in the Final Fantasies games, I see a game just portraying Black men as big dumb idiots who use profanity all the time. Since that is the same shit I have to watch on TV, it would be nice if I could play a video game and get something different, but it's no different.
You have to remember though, those games were developed in Japan. It isn't a diverse country in the least, black people are a rarity. In Street Fighter -everything- is stereotypical. In Final Fantasy, there really -aren't- any non-white characters other than a few. I have little doubt it was due to pressure (in the US) to make the games more "diverse" that non-white characters were added, however, since the games were developed in Japan, stereotypes were used.
It is my understanding, in Germany, it is illegal to display certain symbols because they are considered anti-Jewish. If a video game were an escape from reality, that symbol could be displayed in video games, but that is not the case.
Well, Germany has many censorship issues blocking true free speech, but that is beside the point. In real life, chances are none of us /.ers could have fought in WWII, video games let experience it. Other games let you do things that you can't do in real life without serious consequences (fly a plane, steal cars, drive tanks, etc). Similar to while some books are pure fantasy others take place in realistic historical situations, others use a fictional version of reality, and still others let you experience life as a different person. All are escapes from reality but may use realistic situations to experience life that you are unable to experience. All but the most mundane book gives you something different than your life.
If you have IE 8 installed chances are you have Windows. Switch to OS X, Linux or another non-Windows platform and your risks of being infected will drop dramatically (yeah, it might be security through obscurity, but it works well enough not to get viruses so long as you aren't a complete idiot).
Buy the company and do what? Sorry but due to various responsibilities, Google, Apple, etc. would more than likely be legally forced to keep the patents and keep trying to sue (Eolas being a patent troll has no real assets other than BS patents) to make the investment worthwhile for its shareholders.
The people who need to make sure to get everything secure in order to for the web to function have waited longer than -9 weeks- to get something fixed? When the thing was presented at... Defcon? What else do these people have to do other than fix these -major- flaws. When something is shown at Defcon, BlackHat, HOPE or any other major security conference, the first thing for these people to do would be to fix the flaw. 9 weeks is inexcusable.
That "click to activate this control" was the last straw that made me dump IE for good.
Depends though. I was in a number of literature classes and book clubs in high school and a lot of the books that have made the most impact weren't the "classic" books that everyone thinks about, but rather the odd book that one or two students really liked so the entire class read it. For example, even though my teacher had never read an Ayn Rand book, one of the students had and recommended it, and it really challenged and expanded my view of the world. It also helps reduce certain biases by teachers in what types of books you read (and its pretty easy with fantasy/sci-fi for a teacher to project their own personal beliefs via the types of books).
Let the students decide. In most literature classes similar to this, you can pretty much bet that each student will have their favorite authors/genres, so why not take suggestions at the beginning of the year, order the books and use that as some material. Students will like it because they aren't being "forced" to read a book that isn't their style, they see that a teacher respects their opinions and chances are you would have better discussions. So pick a few "classic" books and a few contemporary novels, but let the students really direct what the class reads, the English classes that were like that in high school I really loved and participated much more actively in than "read pages 125-178 by tomorrow" classes.
Hm, I wonder why that is? Surely it didn't have anything to do with the financial meltdown. Surely it wasn't because all the CEOs with millions invested in various stocks realized that the stocks were failing? Basically, Virgin Galactic's market is CEOs or other wealthy people with cash to burn who want to experience weightlessness in space. When most of them realized they can't afford the million dollar bonus this year, Virgin Galactic's market kinda dried up.
Yeah, except for I've been hearing the "two more years" stuff for at least the last 5 if not the last 10 years. Always 2 more years. And those years have passed and we haven't run out yet.
All that is just great until you realize that each application may be -huge-. If someone can make a small script that converts OGG files into MP3 files using both the OGG encoder and MP3 encoder that is already on my system, it saves me from downloading ~20 MB of extra files.
It is their site, they are free to publish what they feel on it. Now what -is- illegal and misleading is if you were to write a negative review and they make it be a positive review. Similar to Engadget and Monster Cable.
I tend to agree. While there should be -some- accessibility standards (as in, being able to get everything in basic HTML, open standards, etc) but to be perfectly honest, some handicapped people just aren't cut out for some jobs or some tasks and may require assistance.
T-Mobile may have a crappy cell network, but they're the one cell company I actually respect. They fixed glitches with the iPhone on their network even though they didn't have to, they have the most open cell phones, and they don't neuter their cell phones (like Verizon does).
Haven't you been reading all these posts? The point is there -is- almost no effort in producing it. They take the information they gathered 30 years ago (assumed to be paid off over 30 years) and just shuffle it around to make people have to buy new editions. But because professors have to have page numbers consistent with the class, they have to require a specific edition, if it isn't a recent edition students can't find it.
Ok, have you -not- seen the targeted ads on Facebook? Most either say *insert exact age here* year olds needed for *insert testing for some believable product*, Or use your relationship status to do "Meet singles in your area", or other crappy spam. None of it is relevant. Ok, sure, perhaps it might be nice if it said "X band is coming to *insert town here* on *insert date that the concert was* reserve tickets now!" because that would be useful, but instead it either recommends bands that aren't even similar to what I'm listening to or "reserve tickets" even though the band might not even be touring in your country.
Someone hasn't compared editions of college textbooks. They cover the same stuff. How hard is it to rearrange a few pages? Something tells me that doesn't cost a ton of money to hire someone to do that. The physical books aren't even bound particularly nicely so that can't be the cost, so when you have almost no initial cost and sell the book for a high price, the only logical conclusion is you are making a lot of money.
Depends on how many movies you watch though. Myself I only watch a movie at most once a week on Friday night if I don't have something more productive to do. So its still an extra $1 per Blu-Ray disk if we assume that I watch 3 movies or so in a month. For someone who constantly watches movies, Netflix would be a better deal though.