All the contrived, pointless tropes of Stargate with none of the cheeky self-deprecating humor.
Also, Gaius Baltar has no place in the Stargate Universe. Honestly, practically every sentence that came out of Robert Carlyle's mouth it felt like he was being fed his lines by an invisible woman in a red dress. Only he wasn't. His character just has zero definition, and there's no way to sympathize with him.
Well, their binary blobs still work better than the ATI equivalents with source. Until that stops being the case, I'm sticking with a single Nvidia card.
It's actually some of the people in their testing group use Linux 70% of the time, not 70% only use Linux. And it doesn't clarify whether that "some" was most or a few people, etc.
This one looks promising, but I really want a larger keyboard. (The fact that the keyboard has an integrated backup battery is nice, but I don't want a child-sized keyboard.) https://www.alwaysinnovating.com/store/home.php
Under the hood, itâ(TM)s Linux running on top of an ARM chip on a mini-motherboard that provides this quick access feature. Youâ(TM)re basically talking about most of the components needed to run an iPhone being hitched to a large battery. So, the computer can run in instant-on mode for days.
That sounds to me like the perfect writing tablet, if you put a proper keyboard on it.
If you'd read the NYT article, you would know it's because it can run for days under the ARM Linux instant-on OS.
I'd like one of these with a full-size keyboard and no Intel chip. I'd certainly pay a good penny for it, too, if it had a decent hard drive and battery life measured in days. The wireless charging is gimmicky though, and I'd prefer a normal charger (I'm sure that's a good part of the cost, in addition to the Apple-like attention to shine.)
It really doesn't. In fact, it has such broad descriptions of what it does not cover, I'm not sure how this can really apply to anything other than Limewire:
Sec. 4.4.B (B) does not include a program, application, or software designed primarily toâ"
i. operate as a server that is accessible over the Internet using the Internet Domain Name system;
ii. transmit or receive email messages, instant messaging, real-time audio or video communications, or real-time voice communications; or
iii. provide network or computer securrity, network management, maintenance, diagnostics, technical support or repair, or to detect or prevent fraudulent activities.
While it does technically apply to torrenting Linux distro, someone could trivially code up a client designed for distribution of Linux binaries that would qualify as a maintenance tool, and probably also computer security, as well as technical support or repair without too much trouble.
And if someone happens to prepare a patch that enables general bittorrent...
However, it's not likely to be necessary - the bill basically only allows to programs that automatically start sharing shit on the internet. And I would be really impressed if someone managed to create a torrent by accident.
Really Slashdot? A troll comparing an executive bonuses to the cost of infrastructure is modded insightful and someone calling him on it is modded flamebait? I'm a socialist and these socialist drones disgust me.
I think that's the first stop mid-sentence where the supposed loss of connection is actually plausible. Usually it involves the actual internet connection or computer going down, but here, you actually could've crashed, accidentally hitting submit in the process.
There is a fairly significant gap in the fossil record. Absent an explanation for this gap, an external party modifying our ancestors to create us is not unreasonable. There is no evidence for your sequence of events either, and it seems rather odd to me that we could've had a significant population of ancestors that failed to leave a fossil record.
What if the life forms are made of gaseous lava? Around Earth surface temperature, I can see the arguments for most life forms being carbon based (though I've heard silicon could have similar properties.)
But at high-energy states like that, it's kind of absurd to begin theorizing about what would or wouldn't be damaging to a life form that evolved in that environment.
No matter what sort of printer you buy, toner cost will quickly dwarf the cost of the printer. Don't worry about getting one that will last decades, focus on having cheap toner. This will pay off enough in the next few years to let you afford to buy a new printer every 3 years and still save money.
If the environment at school is anti-intellectual, that's a serious problem. However, my point is that hopefully school should be somewhat more intellectual than home life for these students, and the longer they spend in a reasonably intellectual environment, the better. I don't know if school always fits the bill, but if it doesn't, things at the school need to change.
The teachers' unions like to blame the class sizes
I find it's a very very rare soul that can give a lecture good enough to get even the mid-range students on board properly. There's no substitute for one-on-one time with a teacher.
As for your corruption argument, I'd say you have one example, and by and large management overhead is not an issue. Poor management, maybe, but I don't think bloat is as much of an issue as you make out, in general.
That's true of students who have affluent parents like you or I who can afford (and consider it a personal imperative) to insure that their children are highly intelligent.
This is not about us. This is about students who end up out wandering the streets on the summers. Whether or not they get caught up in criminal activity, they end up losing a lot of what they have learned to skills that don't do a lot of good for them in the long run.
Not only that, but many students would probably be marginally better off with more time spent in school,. Even if that time is wasted, it's a safe, nonthreatening atmosphere.
If people actually obeyed this, it would increase the number of accidents. Why? Because they would go back to using dead-tree maps, which are far more dangerous, often requiring you to turn on the lights, and wrestle with a huge sheet of paper, while focusing intently on said sheet of paper in place of the road.
If they're going to ban hand-operated cell-phone gps, they logically should ban maps.
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All the contrived, pointless tropes of Stargate with none of the cheeky self-deprecating humor.
Also, Gaius Baltar has no place in the Stargate Universe. Honestly, practically every sentence that came out of Robert Carlyle's mouth it felt like he was being fed his lines by an invisible woman in a red dress. Only he wasn't. His character just has zero definition, and there's no way to sympathize with him.
Sadly, it's all we have.
New York Times (according to a few random Google sources.)
The global extinction, not their extinction (though they fared poorly.)
Well, their binary blobs still work better than the ATI equivalents with source. Until that stops being the case, I'm sticking with a single Nvidia card.
It's actually some of the people in their testing group use Linux 70% of the time, not 70% only use Linux. And it doesn't clarify whether that "some" was most or a few people, etc.
This one looks promising, but I really want a larger keyboard. (The fact that the keyboard has an integrated backup battery is nice, but I don't want a child-sized keyboard.)
https://www.alwaysinnovating.com/store/home.php
That sounds to me like the perfect writing tablet, if you put a proper keyboard on it.
If you'd read the NYT article, you would know it's because it can run for days under the ARM Linux instant-on OS.
I'd like one of these with a full-size keyboard and no Intel chip. I'd certainly pay a good penny for it, too, if it had a decent hard drive and battery life measured in days. The wireless charging is gimmicky though, and I'd prefer a normal charger (I'm sure that's a good part of the cost, in addition to the Apple-like attention to shine.)
It really doesn't. In fact, it has such broad descriptions of what it does not cover, I'm not sure how this can really apply to anything other than Limewire:
Sec. 4.4.B
(B) does not include a program, application, or software designed primarily toâ"
i. operate as a server that is accessible over the Internet using the Internet Domain Name system;
ii. transmit or receive email messages, instant messaging, real-time audio or video communications, or real-time voice communications; or
iii. provide network or computer securrity, network management, maintenance, diagnostics, technical support or repair, or to detect or prevent fraudulent activities.
While it does technically apply to torrenting Linux distro, someone could trivially code up a client designed for distribution of Linux binaries that would qualify as a maintenance tool, and probably also computer security, as well as technical support or repair without too much trouble.
And if someone happens to prepare a patch that enables general bittorrent...
However, it's not likely to be necessary - the bill basically only allows to programs that automatically start sharing shit on the internet. And I would be really impressed if someone managed to create a torrent by accident.
Really Slashdot? A troll comparing an executive bonuses to the cost of infrastructure is modded insightful and someone calling him on it is modded flamebait? I'm a socialist and these socialist drones disgust me.
I think that's the first stop mid-sentence where the supposed loss of connection is actually plausible. Usually it involves the actual internet connection or computer going down, but here, you actually could've crashed, accidentally hitting submit in the process.
Um... Ok I'll bite... I think you have the symbols for "and" and "or" backwards
But other than that, you are quite right.
From what I understand, most of that money is servers, server maintenance, and bandwidth. Design is a fairly small piece of the pie.
There is a fairly significant gap in the fossil record. Absent an explanation for this gap, an external party modifying our ancestors to create us is not unreasonable. There is no evidence for your sequence of events either, and it seems rather odd to me that we could've had a significant population of ancestors that failed to leave a fossil record.
Actually, I'd say Java is exactly equivalent to the gardening Candide settles down to.
What if the life forms are made of gaseous lava? Around Earth surface temperature, I can see the arguments for most life forms being carbon based (though I've heard silicon could have similar properties.)
But at high-energy states like that, it's kind of absurd to begin theorizing about what would or wouldn't be damaging to a life form that evolved in that environment.
No matter what sort of printer you buy, toner cost will quickly dwarf the cost of the printer. Don't worry about getting one that will last decades, focus on having cheap toner. This will pay off enough in the next few years to let you afford to buy a new printer every 3 years and still save money.
They're working on a port of Dwarf Fortress. I'd expect that to be hardware accelerated.
But Android has the best of all worlds.
If the environment at school is anti-intellectual, that's a serious problem. However, my point is that hopefully school should be somewhat more intellectual than home life for these students, and the longer they spend in a reasonably intellectual environment, the better. I don't know if school always fits the bill, but if it doesn't, things at the school need to change.
I find it's a very very rare soul that can give a lecture good enough to get even the mid-range students on board properly. There's no substitute for one-on-one time with a teacher.
As for your corruption argument, I'd say you have one example, and by and large management overhead is not an issue. Poor management, maybe, but I don't think bloat is as much of an issue as you make out, in general.
That's true of students who have affluent parents like you or I who can afford (and consider it a personal imperative) to insure that their children are highly intelligent.
This is not about us. This is about students who end up out wandering the streets on the summers. Whether or not they get caught up in criminal activity, they end up losing a lot of what they have learned to skills that don't do a lot of good for them in the long run.
Not only that, but many students would probably be marginally better off with more time spent in school,. Even if that time is wasted, it's a safe, nonthreatening atmosphere.
I'm pretty sure the trolls have been hitting the tags since we started tagging.
Except no one outside of the FOSS/modder community wants an Android phone. They want a Google phone.
Except cell-phone GPS is actually much safer to operate while driving than an old fashioned map.
If people actually obeyed this, it would increase the number of accidents. Why? Because they would go back to using dead-tree maps, which are far more dangerous, often requiring you to turn on the lights, and wrestle with a huge sheet of paper, while focusing intently on said sheet of paper in place of the road.
If they're going to ban hand-operated cell-phone gps, they logically should ban maps.