That's pretty clear. I've noticed it on Reddit a good bit too. At least there though, I don't think the administration has been bought out. After that Blizzard fanboy piece they ran the other week, Slashdot has me more than a little concerned.
Which is why I find it very strange that Microsoft feels it necessary to pepper this material with so many bold-faced lies. Printer and Camera support is great under Linux (really better than Windows in my experience), WoW runs great on Wine, updates are a breeze.
That said, you can't do your taxes, run Photoshop, Netflix, and sound support is flaky at best. Also Flash is even shittier than it is under Windows.
And sadly, Microsoft is being paid for these things that aren't even their doing.
It's really sad that our law enforcement is so incompetent that we're reduced to security contractors attempting enforcement pro bono.
Now, that's not entirely fair, our law enforcement isn't so much incompetent as nonexistent and/or apathetic in this arena. But still, this is ridiculous.
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The Kindle runs Linux already. All he did was disable a few protections, which you would know if you had watched the video. That TOS has absolutely zero applicability, since they have already released the modifications they made to the Linux kernel (as required by the GPL.)
In fact, given the fact that the Kindle is Linux, the software provisions of their TOS are patently absurd.
But there are a lot of people in the older generation who see text messaging as an expensive add-on. If they offered it free, it would encourage people to use text in place of voice, which would free up a considerable amount of bandwidth.
This is closer to the model in the developing world, where text costs, but voice costs more.
The thing you have to understand about money is that it's imaginary. The problem of the past few years has not been an actual scarcity, but an artificial one. The 700 billion injected into the system was just fudging the numbers to make our fantasy land of money line up with reality. Bankers have no real assets.
The main thing we don't know is what the low gravity on Mars would do. The moon might be better in that respect, because it would be more feasible to set up an Earth-normal centrifuge for them to sleep in than on Mars where the gravity would cause a lot of drag on the centrifuge.
Point of fact, vegan shit is just as good as horse shit for plants. Restricting the astronauts to a vegan diet would remove a lot of agro-engineering problems.
But you have to toss out your soul to answer those questions the way the interviewer wants you to answer them. Everybody knows the 'right' answers to those questions, ergo, the questions only tell you who is trying to play your game and who is being honest.
Of course, it's also possible that the person who gives the 'right' answer is playing you straight, but that case is extremely rare.
Well, it's firstly true with humans because you have always been able to do parallel processing with multiple humans.
But it's perfectly applicable with algorithms, especially now that we have better parallel machines.
But even so, you take a task where you have several heuristics, something like the ubiquitous quicksort but a little less reliable. If all of them have a 50/50 chance of working, you set all of them at the problem at once, and even on a single core, you end up with a fairly robust and accurate heuristic.
It seems like the crux of their argument is that this is somehow novel because it cuts the computer out of the loop. However, the remote doubtlessly contains a computer, as does the TV itself, thus invalidating their argument that they have thought of a means to communicate with microblogging services without a computer.
Libertarianism is sort of Fascism's doppleganger. Not to compare the two in an ideological sense, but rather just in the way the debate is framed. Libertarianism is precisely whatever the self-identified libertarian you're talking to says it is, much like fascism is whatever the speaker calls despicable.
Neither term is worth arguing over its application to an individual organization.
My university decided that it would open up its wireless, since the administration didn't want to increase IT funding, but it wanted to support iPhones. Anybody with a halfway decent understanding if IT knows it's a bad idea for the college to provide free unauthenticated WiFi anywhere on campus, but apparently no one put it in terms that convinced the board.
Because you insult those that disagree with you by implying that they are incapable of thinking for themselves.
Also, if he had just posted that I probably wouldn't have respected his comment. Granted, there probably are scammers among the carbon credit sellers. However, if you buy up some land and plant an orchard, that's a legitimate carbon sink (the trees themselves) which will also turn a profit.
I trust that sort of thing a lot more than the average venture capitalist. But that's why, if I were to buy a carbon credit, I would do something along the lines of finding a golf course and turning it into an orchard, or just a forest.
And I don't think than many environmentalists are honestly arguing that carbon credits are a solution. Environmentalism boils down to reduce, reuse, recycle. Corporations can take their greenwashed overconsumption and shove it up my ass.
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That's pretty clear. I've noticed it on Reddit a good bit too. At least there though, I don't think the administration has been bought out. After that Blizzard fanboy piece they ran the other week, Slashdot has me more than a little concerned.
This is true.
Which is why I find it very strange that Microsoft feels it necessary to pepper this material with so many bold-faced lies. Printer and Camera support is great under Linux (really better than Windows in my experience), WoW runs great on Wine, updates are a breeze.
That said, you can't do your taxes, run Photoshop, Netflix, and sound support is flaky at best. Also Flash is even shittier than it is under Windows.
And sadly, Microsoft is being paid for these things that aren't even their doing.
It's really sad that our law enforcement is so incompetent that we're reduced to security contractors attempting enforcement pro bono.
Now, that's not entirely fair, our law enforcement isn't so much incompetent as nonexistent and /or apathetic in this arena. But still, this is ridiculous.
You, sir, are a troll among men.
Take that as you will.
The Kindle runs Linux already. All he did was disable a few protections, which you would know if you had watched the video. That TOS has absolutely zero applicability, since they have already released the modifications they made to the Linux kernel (as required by the GPL.)
In fact, given the fact that the Kindle is Linux, the software provisions of their TOS are patently absurd.
Yeah, it's funny how that happens when you persecute your best people.
I guess this was '49. But still. These guys are getting media attention while Turing rots in his grave.
But there are a lot of people in the older generation who see text messaging as an expensive add-on. If they offered it free, it would encourage people to use text in place of voice, which would free up a considerable amount of bandwidth.
This is closer to the model in the developing world, where text costs, but voice costs more.
The thing you have to understand about money is that it's imaginary. The problem of the past few years has not been an actual scarcity, but an artificial one. The 700 billion injected into the system was just fudging the numbers to make our fantasy land of money line up with reality. Bankers have no real assets.
The main thing we don't know is what the low gravity on Mars would do. The moon might be better in that respect, because it would be more feasible to set up an Earth-normal centrifuge for them to sleep in than on Mars where the gravity would cause a lot of drag on the centrifuge.
One possibility is having them sleep in a centrifuge with 1G of rotation.
Point of fact, vegan shit is just as good as horse shit for plants. Restricting the astronauts to a vegan diet would remove a lot of agro-engineering problems.
But you have to toss out your soul to answer those questions the way the interviewer wants you to answer them. Everybody knows the 'right' answers to those questions, ergo, the questions only tell you who is trying to play your game and who is being honest.
Of course, it's also possible that the person who gives the 'right' answer is playing you straight, but that case is extremely rare.
Maybe if they stopped pricing text at thousands of dollars per megabyte it would free up enough voice traffic that this wouldn't be a problem.
And no grandfather clauses.
If you reduce software patent terms to 5 years.
Well, it's firstly true with humans because you have always been able to do parallel processing with multiple humans.
But it's perfectly applicable with algorithms, especially now that we have better parallel machines.
But even so, you take a task where you have several heuristics, something like the ubiquitous quicksort but a little less reliable. If all of them have a 50/50 chance of working, you set all of them at the problem at once, and even on a single core, you end up with a fairly robust and accurate heuristic.
It seems like the crux of their argument is that this is somehow novel because it cuts the computer out of the loop. However, the remote doubtlessly contains a computer, as does the TV itself, thus invalidating their argument that they have thought of a means to communicate with microblogging services without a computer.
Google doesn't want to have to deal with subpoenas for information any more than libraries do. That's why they anonymize the data after nine months.
Please. Emacs can crash a Mac and create an IP stack in one command.
Libertarianism is sort of Fascism's doppleganger. Not to compare the two in an ideological sense, but rather just in the way the debate is framed. Libertarianism is precisely whatever the self-identified libertarian you're talking to says it is, much like fascism is whatever the speaker calls despicable.
Neither term is worth arguing over its application to an individual organization.
I know for a fact I use a variety of libraries that infringe on at least one software patent.
Yes it does
My university decided that it would open up its wireless, since the administration didn't want to increase IT funding, but it wanted to support iPhones. Anybody with a halfway decent understanding if IT knows it's a bad idea for the college to provide free unauthenticated WiFi anywhere on campus, but apparently no one put it in terms that convinced the board.
Because you insult those that disagree with you by implying that they are incapable of thinking for themselves.
Also, if he had just posted that I probably wouldn't have respected his comment. Granted, there probably are scammers among the carbon credit sellers. However, if you buy up some land and plant an orchard, that's a legitimate carbon sink (the trees themselves) which will also turn a profit.
I trust that sort of thing a lot more than the average venture capitalist. But that's why, if I were to buy a carbon credit, I would do something along the lines of finding a golf course and turning it into an orchard, or just a forest.
And I don't think than many environmentalists are honestly arguing that carbon credits are a solution. Environmentalism boils down to reduce, reuse, recycle. Corporations can take their greenwashed overconsumption and shove it up my ass.
And comedians never troll libraries.