Re:Man ... it's not that bad on OS X ...
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I have a G4 with OS X, and I would have tended to agree with you - that is, until I started browsing around my ~/Library directory. (~/Library is where many applications, especially graphical ones, store user preferences, settings, and a bunch of other stuff. It's like the Windows registry, except not always in resident memory.)
Apparently, when you drag an application from the/Applications folder to the trash, your per-user preferences and other settings that reside in ~/Library/* don't get taken along, giving you a residual build up of all sorts of things. If you want to get the real scoop on just how easy and clean it is to get rid of programs on Mac OS X, check your ~/Library directory for stuff leftover from programs you thought you removed completely months ago. I'll bet you'll find a lot of stuff you dind't think existed on your HD anymore.
It may be more cost effective to use CGI than real people. It may be more cost effective to cast a bum off the street for a role than to cast Robert DeNiro, but I know who I would want..
Seriously, I'm getting tired of all this "the sky is falling" editorial that people submit with their stories. The world will move on, so just submit your @#$%ing story sans idiotorial.
On page two of the article it references a clause in the website's TOS that says you cannot link to anything besides the homepage. The terms of service page states:
"4. Links to, and frames of, the Site. If you operate a Web site and wish to link to this Site, you may link only to the home page of the Site and not to any other page or subdomain of us. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques that involve any Marks, copyrighted material or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of any portion of the Site or suggest any relationship between our Site and you without our express written consent. In addition, you agree not to decompile, reverse engineer or disassemble any software or other products or processes accessible through the Site, not to insert any code or product or manipulate the content of the Site in any way that affects the user's experience, and not to use any data mining, robots, cancelbots, spiders, Trojan horse, or any data gathering or extraction method in connection with your use of the Site."
(emphasis mine)
It seems to me that this is explicitly spelled out in their registration terms of service. While I agree with previous posters that their web gurus are easily able to, and should block outside referrals, it seems like they have a valid case here.
Reading the article I went "duh." But why are these "non-conventional" things getting blamed? How is this more dangerous than bringing in a floppy disk or a "music" cd with a data track on it?
This bit of lucidity brought to you by..something!
From the way the submitter frames it, he sounds like he is pursuing this more as a community thing than as a profitable business. In that case, a lot of what he is saying seems reasonable.. "cost effective" dsl vs cable, licensing costs. It would be interesting to see a club (maybe a LUG or similar?) try to create a not-for-profit internet cafe, perhaps a monthly membership almost like a Geek Country Club or something;)
I think it's safe to say that the acronym was constructed intentionally. IMHO whether it is The Patriot act or the USA PATRIOT act, the implication is still a slap in the face.
Re:How does this fit in with String theory?
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First off, I don't have an astrophysics degree..yet;)
If someone were to refer to a black-hole as an elementary particle, imho it is because the tidal forces (the difference in the force of gravity felt between the two ends of a particle) are great enough to literally rip any individual atom within the BH apart - down to its fundamental level - a BH doesn't consist of protons or quarks, just mass located at a singularity. Of course it's been shown that Black Holes can carry a charge, as well as spin, but that is ostensibly independant of the behavior of the black hole as a single point vs say an active star.
It would be more correct imho to think of a "Quark" star along the same lines of a Neutron Star or a White Dwarf (a White Dwarf is supported against gravity via "electron degeneracy pressure"). If this discovery holds, in order of increasing mass:
White Dwarf, Neutron Star, "Quark" Star, Black Hole.
I seem to recall having the following information beaten into my skull: a consequence of the proton-proton chain (the fusion reaction at the core of the sun) was trillions of neutrinos streaming out in all directions - including passing right through us.
What makes the neutrinos beamed from Earth different than the ones beamed from the sun? And also, would neutrinos/anti-neutrinos interact with each other, and if so, how can they ensure that they won't all annihilate each other?
MS does give out copies of their development software. Here is something which caught my attention when they took out a full page ad in the school newpaper to announce they would be giving away copies of WindowsXP professional (among other things) to attendees. http://www.msdnaa.net/vslaunch/
Would know that right after he quoted from C# specification about unsafe code, he quoted again
""Unsafe code is in fact a 'safe' feature," the C# specification continues, "from the perspective of both developers and users. Unsafe code must be clearly marked with the modifier 'unsafe,' so developers can't possibly use unsafe features accidentally, and the execution engine works to ensure that unsafe code cannot be executed in an untrusted environment.""
Seems like a good idea to me, whats wrong with that?
Ozone is actually a respiratory irritant. Here is a small blurb on it. In short, Ozone at the surface of the Earth is bad, and would probably react with other compounds in the atmosphere before it had a chance to rise up to where it would not be a health risk and would absorb UV light.
Back when AOL merged with Netscape there was a big deal made about how AOL was contractually obligated to use IE as it's browser. Is anyone really surprised now that AOL is using the browser technology spawned from a company that it owns?
72% of Americans say that crypto backdoors would help prevent terrorism, but that doesn't automatically translate to 72% of Americans favor mandatory backdoors.
I do however agree that support for the backdoors is much higher now than it may have been 3 weeks ago, or 3 weeks from now for that matter.
After being in the Real World for a while, its good to see that I am not the only one who is unwilling to sign away all personal freedoms because of emotional reaction to tragedy.
Re:that's not a cubicle that's a japanese apartmen
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I wonder how many Japanese would kill for a 'typical American sized house' as opposed to a cramped Tokyo apartment?
Imho just because someone must live in a cramped living space out of necessity doesn't mean that everyone should do the same voluntarily.
There are already something like a dozen Hubble sized telescopes pointed in towards the Earth.
Having an airplane is less desirable because it won't have the resolution and can be shot down, IMHO.
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I have a G4 with OS X, and I would have tended to agree with you - that is, until I started browsing around my ~/Library directory. (~/Library is where many applications, especially graphical ones, store user preferences, settings, and a bunch of other stuff. It's like the Windows registry, except not always in resident memory.)
/Applications folder to the trash, your per-user preferences and other settings that reside in ~/Library/* don't get taken along, giving you a residual build up of all sorts of things. If you want to get the real scoop on just how easy and clean it is to get rid of programs on Mac OS X, check your ~/Library directory for stuff leftover from programs you thought you removed completely months ago. I'll bet you'll find a lot of stuff you dind't think existed on your HD anymore.
Apparently, when you drag an application from the
Actually, it says 'Tableturkey' which makes it even more mind bending.
It may be more cost effective to use CGI than real people. It may be more cost effective to cast a bum off the street for a role than to cast Robert DeNiro, but I know who I would want..
Seriously, I'm getting tired of all this "the sky is falling" editorial that people submit with their stories. The world will move on, so just submit your @#$%ing story sans idiotorial.
On page two of the article it references a clause in the website's TOS that says you cannot link to anything besides the homepage. The terms of service page states:
"4. Links to, and frames of, the Site. If you operate a Web site and wish to link to this Site, you may link only to the home page of the Site and not to any other page or subdomain of us. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques that involve any Marks, copyrighted material or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of any portion of the Site or suggest any relationship between our Site and you without our express written consent. In addition, you agree not to decompile, reverse engineer or disassemble any software or other products or processes accessible through the Site, not to insert any code or product or manipulate the content of the Site in any way that affects the user's experience, and not to use any data mining, robots, cancelbots, spiders, Trojan horse, or any data gathering or extraction method in connection with your use of the Site."
(emphasis mine)
It seems to me that this is explicitly spelled out in their registration terms of service. While I agree with previous posters that their web gurus are easily able to, and should block outside referrals, it seems like they have a valid case here.
Reading the article I went "duh." But why are these "non-conventional" things getting blamed? How is this more dangerous than bringing in a floppy disk or a "music" cd with a data track on it?
This bit of lucidity brought to you by..something!
From the way the submitter frames it, he sounds like he is pursuing this more as a community thing than as a profitable business. In that case, a lot of what he is saying seems reasonable.. "cost effective" dsl vs cable, licensing costs. It would be interesting to see a club (maybe a LUG or similar?) try to create a not-for-profit internet cafe, perhaps a monthly membership almost like a Geek Country Club or something ;)
Has anyone tried anything like that?
I think it's safe to say that the acronym was constructed intentionally. IMHO whether it is The Patriot act or the USA PATRIOT act, the implication is still a slap in the face.
First off, I don't have an astrophysics degree..yet ;)
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If someone were to refer to a black-hole as an elementary particle, imho it is because the tidal forces (the difference in the force of gravity felt between the two ends of a particle) are great enough to literally rip any individual atom within the BH apart - down to its fundamental level - a BH doesn't consist of protons or quarks, just mass located at a singularity. Of course it's been shown that Black Holes can carry a charge, as well as spin, but that is ostensibly independant of the behavior of the black hole as a single point vs say an active star.
It would be more correct imho to think of a "Quark" star along the same lines of a Neutron Star or a White Dwarf (a White Dwarf is supported against gravity via "electron degeneracy pressure"). If this discovery holds, in order of increasing mass:
White Dwarf, Neutron Star, "Quark" Star, Black Hole.
Obligatory Karma Whore Link: http://cosmos.colorado.edu/astr1120/hypertext.htm
But I think the comic at the top of the ftc page made goinng to the site worthwhile ;) Since when did the government have a sense of humor?
"Gee, let's encase our computer in the same foam that is used to insulate windows and doors! That will conduct the heat away from the system, right?"
Seriously, that computer will be a melted glob of goo after being on for a while.
Yes but how easy was it for him to unlock the thing afterwards?
That's why you have 144 rubber bands! If all 144 hit him, I guess the kid wins..
I seem to recall having the following information beaten into my skull: a consequence of the proton-proton chain (the fusion reaction at the core of the sun) was trillions of neutrinos streaming out in all directions - including passing right through us.
What makes the neutrinos beamed from Earth different than the ones beamed from the sun? And also, would neutrinos/anti-neutrinos interact with each other, and if so, how can they ensure that they won't all annihilate each other?
MS does give out copies of their development software. Here is something which caught my attention when they took out a full page ad in the school newpaper to announce they would be giving away copies of WindowsXP professional (among other things) to attendees. http://www.msdnaa.net/vslaunch/
And in other news this evening, experts are baffled as Vermont real estate prices soar.
Would know that right after he quoted from C# specification about unsafe code, he quoted again
""Unsafe code is in fact a 'safe' feature," the C# specification continues, "from the perspective of both developers and users. Unsafe code must be clearly marked with the modifier 'unsafe,' so developers can't possibly use unsafe features accidentally, and the execution engine works to ensure that unsafe code cannot be executed in an untrusted environment.""
Seems like a good idea to me, whats wrong with that?
Ozone is actually a respiratory irritant. Here is a small blurb on it. In short, Ozone at the surface of the Earth is bad, and would probably react with other compounds in the atmosphere before it had a chance to rise up to where it would not be a health risk and would absorb UV light.
Hosted by AOL? You mean it should resist slashdotters fairly well, don't you? :P
Back when AOL merged with Netscape there was a big deal made about how AOL was contractually obligated to use IE as it's browser. Is anyone really surprised now that AOL is using the browser technology spawned from a company that it owns?
72% of Americans say that crypto backdoors would help prevent terrorism, but that doesn't automatically translate to 72% of Americans favor mandatory backdoors.
I do however agree that support for the backdoors is much higher now than it may have been 3 weeks ago, or 3 weeks from now for that matter.
After being in the Real World for a while, its good to see that I am not the only one who is unwilling to sign away all personal freedoms because of emotional reaction to tragedy.
I wonder how many Japanese would kill for a 'typical American sized house' as opposed to a cramped Tokyo apartment?
Imho just because someone must live in a cramped living space out of necessity doesn't mean that everyone should do the same voluntarily.
There are already something like a dozen Hubble sized telescopes pointed in towards the Earth. Having an airplane is less desirable because it won't have the resolution and can be shot down, IMHO.