That's because dogs, god love them, will get fed, have a nice warm place to lay down, and still want MORE self-affirmation (given their pack nature.) They want to please you, they want you to reward them nonstop all day every day otherwise they feel left out. Cats have figured out that if they just shut up and sleep that they will be fed and tended to just fine. I would speculate that this is why you see a lot less abandoned cats at shelters than dogs (aside from a dog having a harder time living life as a feral inhabitant of an urban environment) but cats generally require so little maintenance that they are so much less likely to become a pain enough to have to get rid of.
I will be sure to remind my dogs of this the next time I catch them eating shit off the ground. Literally, eating random dog shit, right off the ground. If you want to get into a pissing match over which animal is dumber, the one that excitedly eats dog shit off the ground or the one that licks itself until it's throat fills with hair, you go right ahead. Just don't throw the word "smarter" in there expecting it to mean something.
Well, for every Fox News story stating global warming is wrong because of cold weather, there's a couple of NBC/ABC/newspaper/etc stories which discuss heat waves and the like and say that they are evidence of global warming, and two or three politicians using it to justify some measure.
Asus' $30 Xonar DG and its considerably more expensive $280 Xense cousin. Everything from gaming performance to signal quality is explored, and it's the blind listening tests that prove most revealing.
They reveal the authors insistence on going into excruciating detail on everything. Maybe his attention to detail makes him a better audio engineer/evaluator, but honestly we would have been fine with "The subjects preferred X card for Y music by a substantial margin"...
I hope that's not a verbatim quote. He also overlooked the fact that Earth's Moon is a satellite and most likely larger than the spy satellite they launched (The ISS is also likely to be larger, and it too is a satellite.)
I tend to shy away from using laptops (even with docking stations and such) for primary machines. I'd go with regular desktops. The costs of upkeep and such will be more predictable that way. I don't prefer any one brand over another, but I typically tell my clients to stay away from Dells (because of all the issues with capacitors on motherboards over the last several years).
I know full well that this post probably won't ever make the top-50 to be seen in the overall thread, but I had to make it anyway. Your intentions are well-minded but several (most) fortune-500 organizations whose survival relies on properly assessing IT risk and strategy completely disagree with you. Laptops tend to outlive usefulness, and warranties at the purchasing plan level take the rest of the risk off the table completely without much added cost. If you are staying away from laptops because you are worried they will break and drive costs up, you need a reality check. Desktops should be given preference if, for example, the computer never needs to move or even further it needs to NOT move (i.e. you are worried about employees stealing them.) If there is any chance that the user would benefit from a mobile platform (if they ever go to long meetings, if they ever work from outside the office, etc) laptops are of immense value.
Not to straw man your other arguments, but the FAA has managed to keep people alive at an unprecedented rate. Considering the aviation disasters that befall less regulated nations on a regular basis (and even other transportation methods in our own nation,) I would have to politely decline the notion that the FAA is overstepping it's bounds. As someone who has put on a lot of miles in the air, I prefer to take my planes well regulated and safe, as opposed to innovative and in a crater.
"The Homeland Security Cyber and Physical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2010 authorizes DHS to establish and enforce risk and performance-based cybersecurity standards on federal agencies and private sector companies consider part of the country's critical infrastructure."
It does sound like a standards-based, not a "take over" approach. The crisis alternative (as we found out during the financial crisis) is for a takeover/bailout of the entire organization when internal processes fail to account for risk. When it comes to a bank's bottom line, you might argue that they have free will to self destruct. When it comes to utilities that we rely on for life and liberty, mandating the least risky approach isn't overkill if you ask me.
Considering how much a lot of those companies rely on their network infrastructure, if there isn't a provision for this then perhaps the alternative is to be prepared to take over the whole organization if/when they are crippled by an attack. I am not one for heavy handed government but someone needs to light the fire under these guys.
Is there that much interesting stuff going on behind him? As he is a professor, I suspect a lot of the footage will be of the wall behind his desk in his office... Hopefully there is a TV or a window there or something.
Once they got there, they just headed for the nearest river. Without an abundance of livestock to contaminate ground water, early settlers had little need for this "purification" nonsense. They were pure at heart, remember?
Tasers will automatically self-sacrifice their capacitors if brought too close to Bruce Schneier. He once was approached by a man with a Taser; he ripped the man's arm off to tase him with it and the taser never forgot. Tasers never forget.
Opportunity, man. Opportunity! The world didn't get where it is today because the upper class lived in a vacuum, creating and benefiting from prosperity out of thin air. Having these willingly uneducated, underprivileged people around is nothing but opportunity for those who are/want to be part of the ruling class. And considering there's only so much room at the top, why fight the trend by trying to balloon the population of the upper class?
Thinking that the world is (or should be) one big, flat utopia was your first mistake. Your second mistake was, probably, watching Idiocracy and thinking "wow man that is SO true!" instead of "ha ha what a funny movie"...
You're such an anti-apple fanatic that you can't see the forest for the trees, and think that anything outside your notion of "fair" is a troll. I asked you twice to name these specific "technical, non-subjective features" that you insist certain phones posses that make them superior to the iPhone. Please do so, unless you want to be the one trolling.
As a cellphone is something one must live with day in and day out, personal opinion on size/shape/feel are HUGE factors, and dismissing these with a wave of your hand is incredibly ignorant. Feel free to include details on your merit-based argument if you *really* think it's that compelling.
Owning a Fascinate (verizon galaxy s phone) I can say that while advanced, and smart, it is not really any measure better than the iPhone. Lacking a front facing camera, any sort of LED message notification, and sporting a screen technology that is both lower in resolution and far harder on battery life make it impossible to ever classify it as "well beyond what apple currently provides". The incredible's lack of significant screen resolution (even after the switch to LCD to improve reliability and battery life) and no front facing camera make it also pale when compared to the iPhone 4. Motorola, god bless them, doesn't even compete in the same space. Their android offerings are either keyboard/slider, or jumbo-slate, neither being a good alternative if you are really set on the now standard slate form factor of the iPhone (which I am).
Don't get me wrong, I love to see iPhone competition get better, but after a lot of research I can't in good conscience call ANY of them a marked improvement on Apple's offerings.
The effect seemed to influence the learning process... IE when the current is applied in the correct direction the learning process takes place very quickly and when in the opposite direction it takes place very slowly. The subjects retested later showed they retained the learned skill, not the *ability* to learn that was afforded by the electrical stimulation.
Of course, lacking any such mental enhancement my interpretation of this may be totally wrong.
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That's because dogs, god love them, will get fed, have a nice warm place to lay down, and still want MORE self-affirmation (given their pack nature.) They want to please you, they want you to reward them nonstop all day every day otherwise they feel left out. Cats have figured out that if they just shut up and sleep that they will be fed and tended to just fine. I would speculate that this is why you see a lot less abandoned cats at shelters than dogs (aside from a dog having a harder time living life as a feral inhabitant of an urban environment) but cats generally require so little maintenance that they are so much less likely to become a pain enough to have to get rid of.
Now which species is "smarter"?
I will be sure to remind my dogs of this the next time I catch them eating shit off the ground. Literally, eating random dog shit, right off the ground. If you want to get into a pissing match over which animal is dumber, the one that excitedly eats dog shit off the ground or the one that licks itself until it's throat fills with hair, you go right ahead. Just don't throw the word "smarter" in there expecting it to mean something.
Well, for every Fox News story stating global warming is wrong because of cold weather, there's a couple of NBC/ABC/newspaper/etc stories which discuss heat waves and the like and say that they are evidence of global warming, and two or three politicians using it to justify some measure.
[Citation needed]
Seriously. I want to read them.
Asus' $30 Xonar DG and its considerably more expensive $280 Xense cousin. Everything from gaming performance to signal quality is explored, and it's the blind listening tests that prove most revealing.
They reveal the authors insistence on going into excruciating detail on everything. Maybe his attention to detail makes him a better audio engineer/evaluator, but honestly we would have been fine with "The subjects preferred X card for Y music by a substantial margin"...
I hope that's not a verbatim quote. He also overlooked the fact that Earth's Moon is a satellite and most likely larger than the spy satellite they launched (The ISS is also likely to be larger, and it too is a satellite.)
I tend to shy away from using laptops (even with docking stations and such) for primary machines. I'd go with regular desktops. The costs of upkeep and such will be more predictable that way. I don't prefer any one brand over another, but I typically tell my clients to stay away from Dells (because of all the issues with capacitors on motherboards over the last several years).
I know full well that this post probably won't ever make the top-50 to be seen in the overall thread, but I had to make it anyway. Your intentions are well-minded but several (most) fortune-500 organizations whose survival relies on properly assessing IT risk and strategy completely disagree with you. Laptops tend to outlive usefulness, and warranties at the purchasing plan level take the rest of the risk off the table completely without much added cost. If you are staying away from laptops because you are worried they will break and drive costs up, you need a reality check.
Desktops should be given preference if, for example, the computer never needs to move or even further it needs to NOT move (i.e. you are worried about employees stealing them.) If there is any chance that the user would benefit from a mobile platform (if they ever go to long meetings, if they ever work from outside the office, etc) laptops are of immense value.
Not to straw man your other arguments, but the FAA has managed to keep people alive at an unprecedented rate. Considering the aviation disasters that befall less regulated nations on a regular basis (and even other transportation methods in our own nation,) I would have to politely decline the notion that the FAA is overstepping it's bounds. As someone who has put on a lot of miles in the air, I prefer to take my planes well regulated and safe, as opposed to innovative and in a crater.
"The Homeland Security Cyber and Physical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2010 authorizes DHS to establish and enforce risk and performance-based cybersecurity standards on federal agencies and private sector companies consider part of the country's critical infrastructure."
It does sound like a standards-based, not a "take over" approach. The crisis alternative (as we found out during the financial crisis) is for a takeover/bailout of the entire organization when internal processes fail to account for risk. When it comes to a bank's bottom line, you might argue that they have free will to self destruct. When it comes to utilities that we rely on for life and liberty, mandating the least risky approach isn't overkill if you ask me.
Considering how much a lot of those companies rely on their network infrastructure, if there isn't a provision for this then perhaps the alternative is to be prepared to take over the whole organization if/when they are crippled by an attack. I am not one for heavy handed government but someone needs to light the fire under these guys.
3:55:01pm (Foursquare) AstroTom has checked in at Chicago's Miracle mile!
3:55:51pm (Foursquare) AstroTom has checked in at The Cleveland Zoo!
3:56:31pm (Foursquare) AstroTom has checked in at Times Square!
Does this mean I can no longer rely on my 6 character passwords?
You still can, if your six character password is "FrodoSamwiseGandalfGimliAragornLegolas"...
Is there that much interesting stuff going on behind him? As he is a professor, I suspect a lot of the footage will be of the wall behind his desk in his office... Hopefully there is a TV or a window there or something.
Besides, every atom of the Earth was part of a celestial object at some point in the past.
Nigh, it IS a celestial object; just not to us because we are still on it. To the inhabitants of Mars, our planet is a faraway and mystic place.
Once they got there, they just headed for the nearest river. Without an abundance of livestock to contaminate ground water, early settlers had little need for this "purification" nonsense. They were pure at heart, remember?
Tasers will automatically self-sacrifice their capacitors if brought too close to Bruce Schneier. He once was approached by a man with a Taser; he ripped the man's arm off to tase him with it and the taser never forgot. Tasers never forget.
Nah, there are no wolves on the sleeves of that sweater to further accentuate the badassedness of the wearer...
Considering this is slashdot, I automatically read that as "I'm putting a GNU on mine!" and started wondering where the punchline was...
Opportunity, man. Opportunity! The world didn't get where it is today because the upper class lived in a vacuum, creating and benefiting from prosperity out of thin air. Having these willingly uneducated, underprivileged people around is nothing but opportunity for those who are/want to be part of the ruling class. And considering there's only so much room at the top, why fight the trend by trying to balloon the population of the upper class?
Thinking that the world is (or should be) one big, flat utopia was your first mistake. Your second mistake was, probably, watching Idiocracy and thinking "wow man that is SO true!" instead of "ha ha what a funny movie"...
Is it sad that this was my first thought, too? It seems that there is nothing we can't blame on WikiLeaks...
You're such an anti-apple fanatic that you can't see the forest for the trees, and think that anything outside your notion of "fair" is a troll. I asked you twice to name these specific "technical, non-subjective features" that you insist certain phones posses that make them superior to the iPhone. Please do so, unless you want to be the one trolling.
As a cellphone is something one must live with day in and day out, personal opinion on size/shape/feel are HUGE factors, and dismissing these with a wave of your hand is incredibly ignorant. Feel free to include details on your merit-based argument if you *really* think it's that compelling.
Owning a Fascinate (verizon galaxy s phone) I can say that while advanced, and smart, it is not really any measure better than the iPhone. Lacking a front facing camera, any sort of LED message notification, and sporting a screen technology that is both lower in resolution and far harder on battery life make it impossible to ever classify it as "well beyond what apple currently provides". The incredible's lack of significant screen resolution (even after the switch to LCD to improve reliability and battery life) and no front facing camera make it also pale when compared to the iPhone 4. Motorola, god bless them, doesn't even compete in the same space. Their android offerings are either keyboard/slider, or jumbo-slate, neither being a good alternative if you are really set on the now standard slate form factor of the iPhone (which I am).
Don't get me wrong, I love to see iPhone competition get better, but after a lot of research I can't in good conscience call ANY of them a marked improvement on Apple's offerings.
Working with AC may be problematic... Are you comfortable only learning something for 1/120th of a second at a time?
The effect seemed to influence the learning process... IE when the current is applied in the correct direction the learning process takes place very quickly and when in the opposite direction it takes place very slowly. The subjects retested later showed they retained the learned skill, not the *ability* to learn that was afforded by the electrical stimulation.
Of course, lacking any such mental enhancement my interpretation of this may be totally wrong.
I am honestly not trolling... But, please tell me which Android phone is "well beyond what Apple currently provides [in the iPhone 4]"...