...the concentration of wealth has nothing to do with who controlled the land and resources of this country which were taken by force.
And, of course, native American tribes gained all of their land and natural wealth by divine grant, with absolutely no use of force to gain power or status over their peers and rivals, right?
Maybe your torrent client has a few leaks or you downloaded some 'extra' stuff with those torrents.
I could buy the leak argument if my available memory wasn't over 2GB (I've got 3.5GB in the machine). And maybe if I ran into disk thrashing when trying to open a new application in this state (nope, it just uses the RAM that is said to be available)
As for the suggestion of a malicious client, the client is uTorrent, as in the basis of the official BitTorrent client. I think you'd be hard pressed to back the idea that uTorrent isn't on the up and up.
But the important point here is that a userspace application, no matter how ill-behaved, should not cripple the window manager. Of course, I fully expect it to be "back to normal" again after that fresh reinstall.:)
The "crash" jokes may be old, but depending on usage patterns, Windows XP still requires a healthy regimen of "reinstall and start fresh" for long-term use.
In my XP usage lately, I have been unamused at how my torrent client starts throwing "insufficient resources" errors, and the entire XP windowing system starts failing to draw windows correctly, even though there's absolutely no lack of free RAM or hard drive space. Looks like it's time for me to dig that XP disk out again...
Some? You mean MOST. Home schooled kid regularly out pace public schooled kids. It may be unpleasant for the majority of people to accept that they are not giving their kids the best education possible, but that doesn't change the reality of it.
Don't confuse correlation with causality. The 11 children of the uneducated welfare mom don't tend to get home schooled. They get to drag down the average scores of the public schools instead.:)
The children who tend to get home schooled are, quite frankly, a select group from the more "desirable" end of the student scale. Not all of them, by any stretch, but we're talking average across the board here. They might not be the ENTIRE "pick of the litter", but the realities of the kind of parent that would choose to home school their kids, versus a public school that must take all comers, makes direct comparison of test results (as these studies so often do) a rather distorted approach to measuring the difference in quality.
No, because that's what encryption is for. I use Jungle Disk to mount my Amazon S3 data as a network share on all of my systems.
Jungle Disk allows me to encrypt my data before it is sent to Amazon's servers. Short of cracking the 256-bit AES key the data is encrypted with, Amazon can't dig through my data.
Maybe for a web-based application, this wouldn't make sense, but at least in terms of storing my data in the "cloud" for retrieval and use by various client-side apps, there's no "great flaw".
Apple "Genius Bar geniuses" are retail workers, no matter how gussied up an Apple Store may be.
What kind of complete morons think they will accomplish something by harassing poor retail workers that have not one iota of control over what they're being harassed about?
Well... you've got no chance of making me use the stupid "GNU/Linux" name NOW.
The findings aren't that there is "no gap" in the math abilities of boys and girls.
The findings are that there is no performance gap between boys and girls when taking state standardized tests - tests which the article then goes on to point out have lopped off all difficult questions (with math problems rated from Level 1 to Level 4, they found that most state tests had zero Level 3 or Level 4 questions).
To oversimplify, I'm sure if I took a room full of 6th graders and had them do 2nd grade math, we wouldn't see a skill discrepancy between the boys and the girls. But that wouldn't tell us jack crap about their ability to do 6th grade math.
Do you have PERFECT understanding of (insert your favorite book here)? Are you sure you get every possible nuance within the text?
Or is it enough that you get the "jist" of it?
It takes a bit more insight to preserve nuance in a translation effort than it does to read a text and get the "jist" of it. Your midwestern church-goers may not be in a position to do any Bible translating, but it doesn't mean that they don't have a solid understanding of the important points.
The idea that understanding is a binary choice between complete perfect understanding and knowing nothing is utterly moronic.
Can you re-write the dictionary? If not, clearly you don't know English, right?
1) I make an insanely low bid for the job of handling this issue 2) I print out a picture of Tubgirl, and tape it to the door. I even spring for duct tape. 3) Vegas baby...
Except what spurred them away from the abysmal P4 line wasn't investing R&D money to try and beat AMD.
Instead, they basically had the solution dropped in their laps when their Israeli design team made a mobile processor (Pentium-M) that made the P4 look like the piece of crap it was. It really drove home to Intel how much of a dead end their current approach (creating CPUs with endlessly long pipelines to chase the GHz purple dragon) was. If not for the Pentium-M, who knows how long Intel would have held the course?
Trouble is, you are confusing the end result with the root cause.
What these "PC jerks" believe is that women and men are socially conditioned to have different interests -- in other words, it just ain't natural. The concern is that the social conditioning is detrimental. That stereotypical "women's interests" are less valued and thus less rewarding than stereotypical "men's interests."
Pushing for quotas to try and address this problem is like trying to fix the root causes of a murder after the victim's already dead. At that stage, it's too damn late.
It would be one thing if quotas would stimulate a change in attitudes for the next generation, but I think that's hopelessly optimistic.
PR For Dummies:
Step 1: Make grandiose statement about something that will happen 7 years from now.
Step 2: Enjoy the PR boost now.
Step 3: There is no Step 3. You don't even have to do what you said in Step 1. Nobody will remember the claim by then! And even if someone digs it up, it will be dismissed as an inconsequential footnote, something someone wistfully said 7 years ago.
Between January 2007 and June 2008, less than half of IE users - 47.6 percent - were running the most secure browser version during the same time period.
This is all well and good, but when it comes right down to it, how pleasant someone's singing voice is, is a completely subjective thing that can only really be properly judged by other human beings.
So who was asleep on the job when they were supposed to be judging Wing?
If you agree with me you're a good guy. If you don't, you're a muslim terrorist.
I thought this was stupid. But right after I "disagreed" with it, someone started strapping a bomb to me. It's only in this late hour that I see the error of my ways. Rahi Alla... NO CARRIER
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...the concentration of wealth has nothing to do with who controlled the land and resources of this country which were taken by force.
And, of course, native American tribes gained all of their land and natural wealth by divine grant, with absolutely no use of force to gain power or status over their peers and rivals, right?
GOP: "We must protect this House!"
... and yet I still "remember" the good ol' days before Eternal September! ;)
Maybe your torrent client has a few leaks or you downloaded some 'extra' stuff with those torrents.
I could buy the leak argument if my available memory wasn't over 2GB (I've got 3.5GB in the machine). And maybe if I ran into disk thrashing when trying to open a new application in this state (nope, it just uses the RAM that is said to be available)
As for the suggestion of a malicious client, the client is uTorrent, as in the basis of the official BitTorrent client. I think you'd be hard pressed to back the idea that uTorrent isn't on the up and up.
But the important point here is that a userspace application, no matter how ill-behaved, should not cripple the window manager. Of course, I fully expect it to be "back to normal" again after that fresh reinstall. :)
The "crash" jokes may be old, but depending on usage patterns, Windows XP still requires a healthy regimen of "reinstall and start fresh" for long-term use.
In my XP usage lately, I have been unamused at how my torrent client starts throwing "insufficient resources" errors, and the entire XP windowing system starts failing to draw windows correctly, even though there's absolutely no lack of free RAM or hard drive space. Looks like it's time for me to dig that XP disk out again...
VPNs work. But VPN software pages and instructions are blocked. ;)
Some? You mean MOST. Home schooled kid regularly out pace public schooled kids. It may be unpleasant for the majority of people to accept that they are not giving their kids the best education possible, but that doesn't change the reality of it.
Don't confuse correlation with causality. The 11 children of the uneducated welfare mom don't tend to get home schooled. They get to drag down the average scores of the public schools instead. :)
The children who tend to get home schooled are, quite frankly, a select group from the more "desirable" end of the student scale. Not all of them, by any stretch, but we're talking average across the board here. They might not be the ENTIRE "pick of the litter", but the realities of the kind of parent that would choose to home school their kids, versus a public school that must take all comers, makes direct comparison of test results (as these studies so often do) a rather distorted approach to measuring the difference in quality.
Silly n00b... you don't buy an iPhone to make phone calls...
Isn't this the great flaw of Cloud Computing?
No, because that's what encryption is for. I use Jungle Disk to mount my Amazon S3 data as a network share on all of my systems.
Jungle Disk allows me to encrypt my data before it is sent to Amazon's servers. Short of cracking the 256-bit AES key the data is encrypted with, Amazon can't dig through my data.
Maybe for a web-based application, this wouldn't make sense, but at least in terms of storing my data in the "cloud" for retrieval and use by various client-side apps, there's no "great flaw".
Apple "Genius Bar geniuses" are retail workers, no matter how gussied up an Apple Store may be.
What kind of complete morons think they will accomplish something by harassing poor retail workers that have not one iota of control over what they're being harassed about?
Well... you've got no chance of making me use the stupid "GNU/Linux" name NOW.
The findings aren't that there is "no gap" in the math abilities of boys and girls.
The findings are that there is no performance gap between boys and girls when taking state standardized tests - tests which the article then goes on to point out have lopped off all difficult questions (with math problems rated from Level 1 to Level 4, they found that most state tests had zero Level 3 or Level 4 questions).
To oversimplify, I'm sure if I took a room full of 6th graders and had them do 2nd grade math, we wouldn't see a skill discrepancy between the boys and the girls. But that wouldn't tell us jack crap about their ability to do 6th grade math.
Do you have PERFECT understanding of (insert your favorite book here)? Are you sure you get every possible nuance within the text?
Or is it enough that you get the "jist" of it?
It takes a bit more insight to preserve nuance in a translation effort than it does to read a text and get the "jist" of it. Your midwestern church-goers may not be in a position to do any Bible translating, but it doesn't mean that they don't have a solid understanding of the important points.
The idea that understanding is a binary choice between complete perfect understanding and knowing nothing is utterly moronic.
Can you re-write the dictionary? If not, clearly you don't know English, right?
Most CS programs that fail to cover "rational" databases do, however, cover relational databases like MySQL.
Intellectually, I hate this. Our constitutional republic* requires free and fair elections.
But in terms of news-as-entertainment, this is the stuff the best thrillers are made of.
(*: used in place of "democracy" for maximum correctness)
1) I make an insanely low bid for the job of handling this issue
2) I print out a picture of Tubgirl, and tape it to the door. I even spring for duct tape.
3) Vegas baby...
That Mallory is a real bitch.
Except what spurred them away from the abysmal P4 line wasn't investing R&D money to try and beat AMD.
Instead, they basically had the solution dropped in their laps when their Israeli design team made a mobile processor (Pentium-M) that made the P4 look like the piece of crap it was. It really drove home to Intel how much of a dead end their current approach (creating CPUs with endlessly long pipelines to chase the GHz purple dragon) was. If not for the Pentium-M, who knows how long Intel would have held the course?
Trouble is, you are confusing the end result with the root cause.
What these "PC jerks" believe is that women and men are socially conditioned to have different interests -- in other words, it just ain't natural. The concern is that the social conditioning is detrimental. That stereotypical "women's interests" are less valued and thus less rewarding than stereotypical "men's interests."
Pushing for quotas to try and address this problem is like trying to fix the root causes of a murder after the victim's already dead. At that stage, it's too damn late.
It would be one thing if quotas would stimulate a change in attitudes for the next generation, but I think that's hopelessly optimistic.
PR For Dummies:
Step 1: Make grandiose statement about something that will happen 7 years from now.
Step 2: Enjoy the PR boost now.
Step 3: There is no Step 3. You don't even have to do what you said in Step 1. Nobody will remember the claim by then! And even if someone digs it up, it will be dismissed as an inconsequential footnote, something someone wistfully said 7 years ago.
Because Google would never have allowed you to butcher "pore through" like that.
Either that, or find a very small, very agile uber chess geek.
One way or another, I'm going to be the Freddie Roach of this damn sport.
That many people still run IE 2.0?
This is all well and good, but when it comes right down to it, how pleasant someone's singing voice is, is a completely subjective thing that can only really be properly judged by other human beings.
So who was asleep on the job when they were supposed to be judging Wing?
If you agree with me you're a good guy. If you don't, you're a muslim terrorist.
I thought this was stupid. But right after I "disagreed" with it, someone started strapping a bomb to me. It's only in this late hour that I see the error of my ways. Rahi Alla... NO CARRIER
Geraldo opened the "secret vault". There was nothing in there except a few old toy store receipts.