Personally I'm just afraid of being locked out of my own collection (losing it overnight as with kindle, unable to transfer to new laptop/reader, unable to copy passages out of it for fair use or search/index it using my software, etc). Now that iTunes and Amazon offer unprotected music it's a great place to shop (I prefer amazon as it doesn't require bloatware in a VM to download, but iTunes often has better bitrate). Thing is that I'm not big on music, and most of what I like is free legally or I already have.
I really wish someone would do the same for books. As long as piracy provides a cheaper, more convenient, and higher quality product (all of which are currently true) how can legitimate distributors hope to compete? Well they can't win on price, but there's no excuse for not winning on convenience or quality. And that would be enough to win me over, despite my not having a lot of money. Offer a better quality, DRM-free product, with an easy buying process, at a sane price, and you'll have my business.
>>They are, but perhaps they wouldn't have been if there was sufficient (in price as well as quantity) homegrown talent. Fixed that for you. H-1B's are there to lower expected wage for engineers by increasing the pool, not to replace any shortage.
For example, you could have one of the scientists with a sense of humor narrate it. Oh yes, they do exist......though their humor can usually be boiled down to complex analysis jokes, so maybe this doesn't solve the problem.
I'm only trying to interpret his comment. Consider the middle ground of Amazon finding its jobs less in demand (due to more jobs due to better economy) and needing to increase demand by making more lenient policies, paying more, or both.
Personally I think it's disgusting and thought we had laws against that sort of thing (the 12+ hour days, getting fired for sick leave, overtime at normal rate, excessive quotas, etc) after the Walmart case, but don't know enough to comment fully.
He's being ironic with the plenty of jobs. His point is that morality and workers' rights should be set to whatever the market will bear. Since jobs are in demand, it is possible (and ethical) for companies to offer less desirable jobs.
My server does this. The bootscripts for Ubuntu's dropbear package allow you to embed it on the initrd pretty easily, such that this occurs. I had a hard time because our network uses really weird settings (the gateway is outside the netblock and we have nonstandard mtu) and it's surprisingly hard to change this in early boot. Anyway, I'd give this a try; just install the dropbear package (or if not on ubuntu, unpack the deb for it and look at the initramfs scripts, should be easy to adapt to your distro of choice). You can even have a different root password for the initramfs and the real system, or use a keypair.
If you want a less hackish and more reliable [and expensive] solution look into a remote [power] switch and one of those remote admin cards that basically gives you KVM over network.
Currently Alpha fails to even estimate very simple questions ("estimate how many Christians are there in Hawaii?") despite having all the necessary information (religion rates there & population). I was hoping to find a generic order of magnitude problem solving engine, instead I found a hyped Ask Jeeves from 1997.
Put it on Freenet, and few people will read it because it's hard. The Powers That Be then win, and probably don't try to stop it. Might be a good idea for dual-deployment, however, if it would take any load off the http.
Because the US is now self-terrorizing, no bombers needed. We needlessly disrupt and frighten on our own to keep people on edge. And because once grown, government never shrinks, the massive increase in HSA and other such frightmongering will be a part of our culture (and budget) for the rest of United States history.
But midichlorians...it's science...ok not really;)
Yeah it occurred to me I should have said fantasy not sci-fi after I posted but don't generally like to self reply. I'm well aware of the difference, I assure you, but didn't want to get into the sci-fi/fantasy debate on star wars as most people seem to think it's the former.
But I do think that the explanation was reasonable. The kid had a tough upbringing, was afraid of loss, and let his paranoid fears and dreams run away with him. He went insane. This does not strike me as inconsistent with human nature; with the horrible things people do out of jealousy, fear, etc. He let his fears go out of control and was willing to do anything to get the help Sidious was stringing him along with.
I'm not crazy about any of Star Wars (possibly because I first saw the old ones in college, when the newer ones came out), but I do think that ep III can stand with them as well as the rest of the extended universe on quality and enjoyability.
I thought Episode III was good for precisely this reason: it's about a good person who turns evil for the right reasons. I and II I agree were just...eh. It's actually my favorite episode of the whole series, possibly second to the empire strikes back.
In all honesty though, all six of the Star Wars episodes (not to mention the extended mythos) is tacky science fiction with aliens being guys with masks on and a very black-and-white simplistic morality, and I chalk up most of the hate I-III get to when-I-was-your-age-movies-were-good nostalgia. That said, i didn't like them either;)
See above, there is a comment explaining how if they were attempting to defuse/detonate a bomb they were Doing it Wrong, and so this was either incompetence or brutishness.
That said, the hdd was ok and Israel is graciously buying a new laptop, so all she loses is some time with her 'puter.
I think it's perfectly understandable for Israelis and Palestinians to be biased against each other given circumstances in the region. All the more important to show tolerance. So I'd take her report with a grain of salt, but also the Israeli party line.
Also bullies. That said, these guards are in one of the places in the world where someone with a bomb coming through is actually plausible, so I can understand them being a bit jumpy. Still I have a feeling this has more to do with nationalism than it does with doing their jobs.
If this is true then the NSA got a lot lazier, a lot more efficient, and a lot more effective. The Soviets pioneered denouncing your neighbors but this is one better.
Forgive my lack of knowledge of Swiss law but I'm going to assume proving he intentionally damaged property would require proving intent. I'm extraordinarily skeptical that there was any.
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More like reflash to factory condition before returning. Jailbreak analogy is to installing linux.
* Jailbreak
* Install apps
* If you ever need warranty service, reflash with original OS before sending in
Personally I'm just afraid of being locked out of my own collection (losing it overnight as with kindle, unable to transfer to new laptop/reader, unable to copy passages out of it for fair use or search/index it using my software, etc). Now that iTunes and Amazon offer unprotected music it's a great place to shop (I prefer amazon as it doesn't require bloatware in a VM to download, but iTunes often has better bitrate). Thing is that I'm not big on music, and most of what I like is free legally or I already have.
I really wish someone would do the same for books. As long as piracy provides a cheaper, more convenient, and higher quality product (all of which are currently true) how can legitimate distributors hope to compete? Well they can't win on price, but there's no excuse for not winning on convenience or quality. And that would be enough to win me over, despite my not having a lot of money. Offer a better quality, DRM-free product, with an easy buying process, at a sane price, and you'll have my business.
>>They are, but perhaps they wouldn't have been if there was sufficient (in price as well as quantity) homegrown talent.
Fixed that for you. H-1B's are there to lower expected wage for engineers by increasing the pool, not to replace any shortage.
That's the funniest part of the whole FA. Like something out of the simpsons for crying out loud.
Your post works on two levels.
Wow. I can't believe how blind I've been. Bush wasn't a fascist ruler or a clueless moron, he was a GENIUS dedicated to keeping America safe.
Thank God Obama hasn't been restoring those dangerous freedoms, or this attack might have succeeded!
For example, you could have one of the scientists with a sense of humor narrate it. Oh yes, they do exist... ...though their humor can usually be boiled down to complex analysis jokes, so maybe this doesn't solve the problem.
Keeps easily scared people flying which keeps my ticket price down. Security theatre does benefit me.
I'm only trying to interpret his comment. Consider the middle ground of Amazon finding its jobs less in demand (due to more jobs due to better economy) and needing to increase demand by making more lenient policies, paying more, or both.
Personally I think it's disgusting and thought we had laws against that sort of thing (the 12+ hour days, getting fired for sick leave, overtime at normal rate, excessive quotas, etc) after the Walmart case, but don't know enough to comment fully.
He's being ironic with the plenty of jobs. His point is that morality and workers' rights should be set to whatever the market will bear. Since jobs are in demand, it is possible (and ethical) for companies to offer less desirable jobs.
My server does this. The bootscripts for Ubuntu's dropbear package allow you to embed it on the initrd pretty easily, such that this occurs. I had a hard time because our network uses really weird settings (the gateway is outside the netblock and we have nonstandard mtu) and it's surprisingly hard to change this in early boot. Anyway, I'd give this a try; just install the dropbear package (or if not on ubuntu, unpack the deb for it and look at the initramfs scripts, should be easy to adapt to your distro of choice). You can even have a different root password for the initramfs and the real system, or use a keypair.
If you want a less hackish and more reliable [and expensive] solution look into a remote [power] switch and one of those remote admin cards that basically gives you KVM over network.
Currently Alpha fails to even estimate very simple questions ("estimate how many Christians are there in Hawaii?") despite having all the necessary information (religion rates there & population). I was hoping to find a generic order of magnitude problem solving engine, instead I found a hyped Ask Jeeves from 1997.
Put it on Freenet, and few people will read it because it's hard. The Powers That Be then win, and probably don't try to stop it.
Might be a good idea for dual-deployment, however, if it would take any load off the http.
Because the US is now self-terrorizing, no bombers needed. We needlessly disrupt and frighten on our own to keep people on edge. And because once grown, government never shrinks, the massive increase in HSA and other such frightmongering will be a part of our culture (and budget) for the rest of United States history.
But midichlorians...it's science...ok not really;)
Yeah it occurred to me I should have said fantasy not sci-fi after I posted but don't generally like to self reply. I'm well aware of the difference, I assure you, but didn't want to get into the sci-fi/fantasy debate on star wars as most people seem to think it's the former.
But I do think that the explanation was reasonable. The kid had a tough upbringing, was afraid of loss, and let his paranoid fears and dreams run away with him. He went insane. This does not strike me as inconsistent with human nature; with the horrible things people do out of jealousy, fear, etc. He let his fears go out of control and was willing to do anything to get the help Sidious was stringing him along with.
I'm not crazy about any of Star Wars (possibly because I first saw the old ones in college, when the newer ones came out), but I do think that ep III can stand with them as well as the rest of the extended universe on quality and enjoyability.
Oh yeah? Well from my perspective, the Jedi are evil!
I thought Episode III was good for precisely this reason: it's about a good person who turns evil for the right reasons. I and II I agree were just...eh. It's actually my favorite episode of the whole series, possibly second to the empire strikes back.
In all honesty though, all six of the Star Wars episodes (not to mention the extended mythos) is tacky science fiction with aliens being guys with masks on and a very black-and-white simplistic morality, and I chalk up most of the hate I-III get to when-I-was-your-age-movies-were-good nostalgia. That said, i didn't like them either;)
There are a few (such as Freenet) but have their issues such as low uptake, being slow, and child porn.
See above, there is a comment explaining how if they were attempting to defuse/detonate a bomb they were Doing it Wrong, and so this was either incompetence or brutishness.
That said, the hdd was ok and Israel is graciously buying a new laptop, so all she loses is some time with her 'puter.
I think it's perfectly understandable for Israelis and Palestinians to be biased against each other given circumstances in the region. All the more important to show tolerance. So I'd take her report with a grain of salt, but also the Israeli party line.
Also bullies. That said, these guards are in one of the places in the world where someone with a bomb coming through is actually plausible, so I can understand them being a bit jumpy. Still I have a feeling this has more to do with nationalism than it does with doing their jobs.
In practice not many people would cash in, since it would motivate the company to release patches to fix bugs.
If this is true then the NSA got a lot lazier, a lot more efficient, and a lot more effective. The Soviets pioneered denouncing your neighbors but this is one better.
The same people who are representing our interests on ACTA.
Forgive my lack of knowledge of Swiss law but I'm going to assume proving he intentionally damaged property would require proving intent. I'm extraordinarily skeptical that there was any.