Windows 7 came out more than two years ago and you think you need another two years to find out if it works with your business apps. What the fuck are you guys doing?
re: #1 - OK, for example, explain consciousness within the atheistic worldview.
Explain consciousness within the theistic world view of your choice. make reference to any experimental evidence you have that proves your explanation is not just somebody guessing.
re: #3 - what don't you find plausible about Christianity?
Dead man coming alive again.
The idea that it is necessary to kill your son who is also yourself (temporarily) in order to forgive people for crimes that their ancestors committed or that a loving god would come up with such an idea.
It's a very common use-case to want to ssh in to a remote computer and start an application that has a X based GUI. Clearly you don't want the application's GUI to appear on the remote computer's console which is probably in the same server farm as the remote computer, if it exists at all. So ssh has the ability to pretend to be an X-server on the remote box and forward all the X traffic to an X-server running on the device you are sitting in front of.
It'd be pretty stupid and useless to have an x11 server sitting there displaying a blank screen with little to no applications that can be used on the X-server.
You might be confused about the terminology. When we are talking about X, the client is the program that runs on the remote server and sends messages to the X-server to display its GUI. The X-server runs on the device that drives the display e.g. the lap top in front of you or an iPad and it paints the client's GUI in response to messages from the client. It's exactly backwards compared to how you normally think of clients and server. This is why an X-server on an iPad is useful. It's used for displaying the GUIs of applications on other remoter computers. So using iSSH (for example) I can log in to a Linux box and run, say, Firefox on that Linux box, but displaying on the iPad.
Also... you pretty much have to shoot to kill. Not because the law specifically states that but because if you wound an attacker they are likely to sue. How sick is that? You can either let yourself be robbed and possibly killed (often done so you don't talk), or you can wound the attacker exposing yourself to being sued. Or you kill the attacker and are stuck with that moment in your memory, on your conscious for life. That's bureaucratic justice for ya...
You should never point a gun at anybody unless you have accepted the moral, psychological and legal consequences of killing them. Shooting to wound is a nonsense. If you shoot to wound, you might still accidentally kill them or miss altogether.
If you have any doubts at all about killing a potential assailant, do not carry a gun, it'll only make things worse.
Most of the rioters were rioting (or rather looting, to use the correct term) because they had the perception that the police are not dangerous. i.e. that they would get away with it.
Having explicit block delimiters is quite useful actually. It makes it possible to copy and paste blocks of code around without changing its meaning. Modern IDE editors use the braces to magically work out how it should be indented without you having to insert spaces.
Any syntax in which characters you can't see are syntactically significant is asking for trouble, in my opinion. Then again, lots of really good code has been written in Python, so I may just be a bit paranoid.
How is it relevant that most people cannot fix a bug?
Because most of the people who buy Growl cannot program but they mostly still want the bugs fixed. Since these people have given the developers money, I expect the developers feel an obligation towards them.
The distinction is inherent; open-source and closed-source ANYTHING are indistinguishable except for the fact that improvements to the open-source variant are much more readily available.
Not to non programmers, they aren't. A non programmer would not count "download the source, download the patch, compile the... oh, wait... download Xcode, compile the source, install the binary" as readily available.
Of course Growl is going to prioritise its paying customers over the open source freeloaders.
Yes. The act of turning the page breaks the flow of reading.
Codexes supplanted scrolls for many reasons. They are physically easier to store. They are physically easier for the reader to manipulate. It's physically easier to access the text in a non sequential fashion. None of these issues apply to text stored on a computer.
When stored on a computer, there is absolutely no reason to split the text at arbitrary fixed length intervals.
There was a case in England in which Simon Singh was sued by the British Chiropractic Association for libel over his claim that they peddled bogus treatments, but I can't think of any case involving homeopathy.
BP is quite a long way from London. You'll need a whole day to drive there, have a look around, apologise and drive back. I'd skip the apology though, if I were you. I doubt if the manager of BP reads Slashdot.
It's a common misconception that the Polish contribution is not acknowledged anywhere. In fact, I have read many popular accounts about the code breaking. They all talk about the Polish contribution and they all claim that popular accounts don't give enough credit.
Firstly, dividing watts by volts gives an answer in amps, not amp-hours. Using your figures, one hour's charging from the solar cells would give you 5 Ah in your best scenario.
The starter motor on my car is the best part of 1 kW. That means your 5 Ah is enough to keep the starter motor turning over for a little under 4 minutes. Granted, that's enough to start the main engine several times over, but the main engine is 132 kW. That means, if I put my foot down hard on an equivalently powerful electric motor, your 5 Ah would run out in under 2 seconds.
The lack of helmets is daft, and TfL encourages people to where one. The system wouldn't work in a casual or convenient way if helmets were required, which rather defeats the purpose of the scheme.
So the lack of helmets is not daft.
I guess the rental bikes (from Montreal no less) are not designed to go very quickly anyway.
I think collision between your head and a concrete kerb stone can be pretty bad no matter what velocity in the horizontal direction you had prior to falling off your bike.
Take your own life in to your own hands... funny though that the US would be more of a nanny state in this regard.
I think "taking your life into your hands" is overdramatising it a bit. It wasn't that long ago that nobody in Britain wore helmets to cycle in. I don't recall there being carnage of cyclists dying of head injuries. It did happen occasionally, of course, which is why it is a good idea to wear a helmet, but there was never anything like the death toll that unhelmeted motorcyclists incurred, or unseat belted car passengers.
A PC is a "personal computer". Back in the early 80's, we had a PC: it was a Commodore Pet.
Anyhow, I have a Commodore 64 emulator on my iPod. It probably has to be throttled to run at the right speed and the games on it, some of which I remember, are really poor by today's iOS standards.
only including ANCIENT copies of GNU utilities on MacOS
Which Gnu utilities? A lot of the command line stuff stems from BSD and you do realise there is nothing to stop you from downloading and installing more recent versions of most of them.
I was about to buy a Macbook Pro when Apple came out with their "no flash" edict...
There's no "no Flash" edict applying to Apple's computers, only to their iOS devices.
btw: Note to the mods - it's really funny that I get modded down for a post that criticises iOS, then get modded down for a post that criticises Android, then get modded down for a post that criticises WP7. I expect my posts critical of RIM are going to get the same treatment?
So we can eliminate people modding you down just because they disagree with you. The only possible reason left is that your posts were shit....
He responded by demising it as a straw man argument, so no, he did not take it seriously.
What Duffy said or didn't say is irrelevant to my argument.
Your argument is relevant if the defendant is denying the crime. The defendant made a confession in this case. No amount of checking MAC addresses etc is going to convince a jury (or magistrate) that the defendant didn't do it if the defendant has already said he did.
This is a textbook True Scotsman fallacy.
British Solicitors are above reproach? Why Councillor, your nakedness is showing.
The point is that there is nothing to suggest that the defence legal counsel was incompetent in this case.
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Windows 7 came out more than two years ago and you think you need another two years to find out if it works with your business apps. What the fuck are you guys doing?
re: #1 - OK, for example, explain consciousness within the atheistic worldview.
Explain consciousness within the theistic world view of your choice. make reference to any experimental evidence you have that proves your explanation is not just somebody guessing.
re: #3 - what don't you find plausible about Christianity?
Dead man coming alive again.
The idea that it is necessary to kill your son who is also yourself (temporarily) in order to forgive people for crimes that their ancestors committed or that a loving god would come up with such an idea.
Now what exactly is this x11 server forwarding?
It's a very common use-case to want to ssh in to a remote computer and start an application that has a X based GUI. Clearly you don't want the application's GUI to appear on the remote computer's console which is probably in the same server farm as the remote computer, if it exists at all. So ssh has the ability to pretend to be an X-server on the remote box and forward all the X traffic to an X-server running on the device you are sitting in front of.
It'd be pretty stupid and useless to have an x11 server sitting there displaying a blank screen with little to no applications that can be used on the X-server.
You might be confused about the terminology. When we are talking about X, the client is the program that runs on the remote server and sends messages to the X-server to display its GUI. The X-server runs on the device that drives the display e.g. the lap top in front of you or an iPad and it paints the client's GUI in response to messages from the client. It's exactly backwards compared to how you normally think of clients and server. This is why an X-server on an iPad is useful. It's used for displaying the GUIs of applications on other remoter computers. So using iSSH (for example) I can log in to a Linux box and run, say, Firefox on that Linux box, but displaying on the iPad.
Can't talk about cheese curds but gravy and mayonnaise are both delicious on fries. Curry sauce is even better.
Also... you pretty much have to shoot to kill. Not because the law specifically states that but because if you wound an attacker they are likely to sue. How sick is that? You can either let yourself be robbed and possibly killed (often done so you don't talk), or you can wound the attacker exposing yourself to being sued. Or you kill the attacker and are stuck with that moment in your memory, on your conscious for life. That's bureaucratic justice for ya...
You should never point a gun at anybody unless you have accepted the moral, psychological and legal consequences of killing them. Shooting to wound is a nonsense. If you shoot to wound, you might still accidentally kill them or miss altogether.
If you have any doubts at all about killing a potential assailant, do not carry a gun, it'll only make things worse.
Most of the rioters were rioting (or rather looting, to use the correct term) because they had the perception that the police are not dangerous. i.e. that they would get away with it.
C uses braces to delimit blocks, not brackets.
Having explicit block delimiters is quite useful actually. It makes it possible to copy and paste blocks of code around without changing its meaning. Modern IDE editors use the braces to magically work out how it should be indented without you having to insert spaces.
Any syntax in which characters you can't see are syntactically significant is asking for trouble, in my opinion. Then again, lots of really good code has been written in Python, so I may just be a bit paranoid.
Portal.
But it runs that too.
How is it relevant that most people cannot fix a bug?
Because most of the people who buy Growl cannot program but they mostly still want the bugs fixed. Since these people have given the developers money, I expect the developers feel an obligation towards them.
The distinction is inherent; open-source and closed-source ANYTHING are indistinguishable except for the fact that improvements to the open-source variant are much more readily available.
Not to non programmers, they aren't. A non programmer would not count "download the source, download the patch, compile the... oh, wait... download Xcode, compile the source, install the binary" as readily available.
Of course Growl is going to prioritise its paying customers over the open source freeloaders.
Its longer than 4 minutes which is about the time it takes to "recharge" a petrol car to go much further.
They make an electric car which is nearly as bad in the view of the Top Gear presenters.
The fact that it was Socrates who committed suicide by drinking hemlock, not Plato.
Windows NT forward has no relationship to Unix other than a really half hearted implementation of Posix.
You have never heard of the Apple II?
Do you not understand that the Macintosh was the computer that brought the graphical user interface to the desktop PC?
It's harder to read paginated text... really?
Yes. The act of turning the page breaks the flow of reading.
Codexes supplanted scrolls for many reasons. They are physically easier to store. They are physically easier for the reader to manipulate. It's physically easier to access the text in a non sequential fashion. None of these issues apply to text stored on a computer.
When stored on a computer, there is absolutely no reason to split the text at arbitrary fixed length intervals.
Was there? Can you cite the details of the case?
There was a case in England in which Simon Singh was sued by the British Chiropractic Association for libel over his claim that they peddled bogus treatments, but I can't think of any case involving homeopathy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/apr/15/simon-singh-libel-case-dropped
More about the memorial: http://www.ww2museums.com/article/11049/Polish-Memorial-Bletchley-Park.htm
BP is quite a long way from London. You'll need a whole day to drive there, have a look around, apologise and drive back. I'd skip the apology though, if I were you. I doubt if the manager of BP reads Slashdot.
It's a common misconception that the Polish contribution is not acknowledged anywhere. In fact, I have read many popular accounts about the code breaking. They all talk about the Polish contribution and they all claim that popular accounts don't give enough credit.
Firstly, dividing watts by volts gives an answer in amps, not amp-hours. Using your figures, one hour's charging from the solar cells would give you 5 Ah in your best scenario.
The starter motor on my car is the best part of 1 kW. That means your 5 Ah is enough to keep the starter motor turning over for a little under 4 minutes. Granted, that's enough to start the main engine several times over, but the main engine is 132 kW. That means, if I put my foot down hard on an equivalently powerful electric motor, your 5 Ah would run out in under 2 seconds.
The lack of helmets is daft, and TfL encourages people to where one. The system wouldn't work in a casual or convenient way if helmets were required, which rather defeats the purpose of the scheme.
So the lack of helmets is not daft.
I guess the rental bikes (from Montreal no less) are not designed to go very quickly anyway.
I think collision between your head and a concrete kerb stone can be pretty bad no matter what velocity in the horizontal direction you had prior to falling off your bike.
Take your own life in to your own hands... funny though that the US would be more of a nanny state in this regard.
I think "taking your life into your hands" is overdramatising it a bit. It wasn't that long ago that nobody in Britain wore helmets to cycle in. I don't recall there being carnage of cyclists dying of head injuries. It did happen occasionally, of course, which is why it is a good idea to wear a helmet, but there was never anything like the death toll that unhelmeted motorcyclists incurred, or unseat belted car passengers.
A PC is a "personal computer". Back in the early 80's, we had a PC: it was a Commodore Pet.
Anyhow, I have a Commodore 64 emulator on my iPod. It probably has to be throttled to run at the right speed and the games on it, some of which I remember, are really poor by today's iOS standards.
only including ANCIENT copies of GNU utilities on MacOS
Which Gnu utilities? A lot of the command line stuff stems from BSD and you do realise there is nothing to stop you from downloading and installing more recent versions of most of them.
I was about to buy a Macbook Pro when Apple came out with their "no flash" edict...
There's no "no Flash" edict applying to Apple's computers, only to their iOS devices.
btw: Note to the mods - it's really funny that I get modded down for a post that criticises iOS, then get modded down for a post that criticises Android, then get modded down for a post that criticises WP7. I expect my posts critical of RIM are going to get the same treatment?
So we can eliminate people modding you down just because they disagree with you. The only possible reason left is that your posts were shit....
Isn't that the point?
This is a laughable straw man argument.
So laughable you felt compelled to respond to it.
He responded by demising it as a straw man argument, so no, he did not take it seriously.
What Duffy said or didn't say is irrelevant to my argument.
Your argument is relevant if the defendant is denying the crime. The defendant made a confession in this case. No amount of checking MAC addresses etc is going to convince a jury (or magistrate) that the defendant didn't do it if the defendant has already said he did.
This is a textbook True Scotsman fallacy.
British Solicitors are above reproach? Why Councillor, your nakedness is showing.
The point is that there is nothing to suggest that the defence legal counsel was incompetent in this case.
That just shows that the law is contrary to what is right in this case.