Speaking as someone who does support for Apple computers... that's just fucking idiotic.
Granted, the VMware fusion bits can be excused, if they're spending most of their time in OS X and just using VMware or Parallels for small stuff, but why on earth would you pay so much money for Apple computers, if you aren't using OS X?
Sure, they look nice, but the mice are... well... annoying to me.
And the laptops might look more rugged than others, but I doubt they are more rugged, and they definitely aren't rated for it.
This does appear to be a solution in search of a problem. Today's dishes are already tiny enough to easily mount on an RV
I would like to have satellite TV on my phone. Now then - where exactly do I attach the phone to my dish?
Secondly, while it probably won't work while indoors (can't see any satellites), it'd probably work while I'm in the garden, on the beach or on my bicycle.
There you go - we just found a problem for this thing to solve, and it only took me about 2 seconds to come up with it. I'm sure there are companies looking at this on-chip phased array antenna and going "OMG WTF BBQ, that'll solve the problems we're facing with $product".
But how tolerant would turbines be against the ordinary bumps and shocks of traveling on a road?
Not at all. They break the moment they get even a little bump.
Just look at how fragile the engine is in the turbine powered M1 Abrams! It's so fragile, they never ever take it off road or drive across anything other than pristine asphalt.
these were documents that put a large number of other American and Australian (and probably British and other nationalities) peoples in dangerNot quite. The actions described in those documents, are what put the people you mention in danger.
The only people the documents themselves may have put in danger, were names of civilian locals, who's names etc. weren't redacted from them.
If the documents showed that the occupying forces were nothing but do-gooders and had done absolutely nothing wrong, the documents would still put the non-redacted civilian locals in danger, as some of the people reading the documents are world class ass holes and thugs, who barely need an excuse to maim and/or kill others.
Complaining that the documents put soldiers at risk is stupid. They are already in a warzone. If the contents of the documents puts them at even more risk, it's because it's detailing extremely horrible behaviour (like, say, the killing of an entire family just so they could rape a young girl, kill her afterwards and then claim it was done by rebels).
Granted, some of the documents probably detail tactics when dealing with certain situations, but if you don't change your tactics during a now 7 year long war, then YOU are the one responsible for the added danger - not some documents describing your tactics to the enemy.
I'm no economist, and I'm not trying to preach, but how, pray tell, do you plan on having an economy without government intervention?
Without a government, you cannot have currency, as they are the ones settings its base value (which can the be influenced from outside).
So, without government intervention, you'd have to use the barter system, and I dont' know about you, but I don't have space to raise chickens in my two bedroom apartment on the 4th floor of an apartment building.
So... if we were to vibrate your cochlea directly, without the manipulation of air (i.e. bone conduction), you're not hearing sounds, you're just having aural hallucinations?
I'm always curious when I see things like "new high for xxx".
New high compared to what?
If the old high was 100$, today it's 110$, but at 100$ it was also 100Euro, but today the dollar is worth less than the Euro, making the "new high" of 110$ a measly 80Euro (current value of 110$), is it still a new high?
Does it take inflation into consideration? I.e. if the old high was 100$, but those 100$ would be 115$ with inflation, is the "new high" of 110$ really the highest price?
Completely off topic, but does anyone else look at that picture and see a hill rather than a crater? I know it's a crater, but to my brain it looks like a hill due to the shadows and lack of perspective (i.e. can't see it going into the ground).
Except that it sucks, when you get a mix of layouts. Just look at Slashdot.
Would you want to read it on a line by line basis? In my particular layout (reply) I see
Main Reply to: Re:New blacktop for the road to hell AskSlashdot Book Reviews Re:New blacktop for the road to hell (Score:3, Interesting) Developers by biryokumaru (822262) Alter Relationship on Wednesday September 29, @09:58PM (#33739200) Games Hardware What if you did it with OCR on images pulled from the GPU? Then you can literally read everything, from the text that shows up in the HTML between tags, to IT text in images, to text in flash. Heck, it would read street signs in people's pics on Flickr. And no one would have to make anything on their webpages special index for blind people.
Now, I don't know about you, but to me that'd be annoying as hell.
Now, since you and I can see, we can tell that these are from different blocks, and thus do not belong together, but your OCR solution can't.
The only fix for this is if people started caring more about the lives of others and there own life
I don't think so.
It's about perceived risk. It seems much riskier to fly than to drive a car, because you have no way of preventing an accident yourself (you're just a passenger), whereas in the car you are the driver and could easily avoid an accident, because you're a great driver.
Ever notice how, as a passenger, you're always a lot more worried about driving than you are as the driver? I'm almost willing to bet, that if you sent people out onto a seemingly dangerous test track, they'd be more nervous in general when they're passengers than they'd be when driving themselves.
Even if you put them into a car driven by the best driver in the world.
If this was about any other data, like mp3, it would be called a copyright infringement.
Not quite. Since the information in question is not any kind of creative work (apart from possibly creative bookkeeping) but merely a collection of facts, it is not copyrightable in most countries, and definitely not in the EU.
Now, is it bad that a banker is copying what is expected to be confidential information and selling it to outside parties? Certainly. But that does not make it copyright infringement.
Hell, the US Marines were created to deal with muslim terrorism, which was presumably due to our oil policies at the time.
You mean the US Marine Corps, founded on November 10th, 1775?
The Marine Corps was founded to serve as an infantry unit aboard naval vessels and was responsible for the security of the ship and its crew by conducting offensive and defensive combat during boarding actions and defending the ship's officers from mutiny; to the latter end, their quarters on ship were often strategically positioned between the officers' quarters and the rest of the vessel. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Marine_Corps#Historical_mission
Because back in the days just before the US was founded, the primary objective of the government was to protect it's oil interests (of which it had none) against Muslim terrorists aboard it's ships.
And that will be a replacement for what current technology exactly?
And why does it have to be in use? In what kind of scenario would your storage device be in use, when it's falling four stories? And why would your biggest concern be "gee, I hope it won't stop working for the 2.3 seconds it takes to hit the ground, because I'll never get those precious seconds back" rather than "fuck, I dropped my laptop over the balcony!?
I didn't say they shouldn't take risks. But taking a risk like that one, which is essentially just "it'll be easier for one boss" with absolutely no gain in ease of use (easier to just use a key), financial gains (cheaper to just use a key) and a massive risk (something goes wrong, it's not the boss getting the shaft) is just idiotic.
It will never gain you, your department or the company anything other than a pink slip and will taint your resume.
Now, if the boss had said something like "I will sign off on doing this, and my department will foot the bill for it", it would probably be a different case. But that's not the scenario we were presented with.
Now, is the door more secure or less secure than it would have been if you had run a card lock without the special conduit?
That's besides the questions. The question that needs asking is:
Would a physical key entry result in security getting the blame, if something 'bad' happens in the lab?
The likely answer to that is: "No" However, if they simply ran the wire as requested by the boss, and something bad happened, would they get the blame? Yes they would, because they installed and approved it.
If you want me to take the blame for something, then I want to be in charge of how it can happen. If you just want a scape goat, look elsewhere, as I have no need for a "responsible for break-in to lab due to botched security job" on my resume.
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Speaking as someone who does support for Apple computers ... that's just fucking idiotic.
Granted, the VMware fusion bits can be excused, if they're spending most of their time in OS X and just using VMware or Parallels for small stuff, but why on earth would you pay so much money for Apple computers, if you aren't using OS X?
Sure, they look nice, but the mice are ... well ... annoying to me.
And the laptops might look more rugged than others, but I doubt they are more rugged, and they definitely aren't rated for it.
So ... why do it?
I would like to have satellite TV on my phone. Now then - where exactly do I attach the phone to my dish?
Secondly, while it probably won't work while indoors (can't see any satellites), it'd probably work while I'm in the garden, on the beach or on my bicycle.
There you go - we just found a problem for this thing to solve, and it only took me about 2 seconds to come up with it. I'm sure there are companies looking at this on-chip phased array antenna and going "OMG WTF BBQ, that'll solve the problems we're facing with $product".
Ann Dunham He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy!"
Not at all. They break the moment they get even a little bump.
Just look at how fragile the engine is in the turbine powered M1 Abrams! It's so fragile, they never ever take it off road or drive across anything other than pristine asphalt.
This book? The GBP 23.40 book, available at Amazon?
For such a rare book, it's surprisingly cheap.
How do you know that what he is saying is not 100% objective and true? Being furious and lashing out does not mean he's not truthful and objective.
With 15 kids, I'd think you'd be happy to be out of the house.
Hell, you might bribe the IRS agent to give you a letter, telling you to be at their office every day for the next month!
But that'd be socialism, and that's bad! Glen Beck told me!
I'm no economist, and I'm not trying to preach, but how, pray tell, do you plan on having an economy without government intervention?
Without a government, you cannot have currency, as they are the ones settings its base value (which can the be influenced from outside).
So, without government intervention, you'd have to use the barter system, and I dont' know about you, but I don't have space to raise chickens in my two bedroom apartment on the 4th floor of an apartment building.
Well, a cheap and fairly effective way to solve the male issue at least would be Sharia law of some sort.
I mean - if you get your hand cut off for stealing with it ...
You can cover about 1.61803 average American adults with 1 gram of graphene.
So ... if we were to vibrate your cochlea directly, without the manipulation of air (i.e. bone conduction), you're not hearing sounds, you're just having aural hallucinations?
I'm always curious when I see things like "new high for xxx".
New high compared to what?
If the old high was 100$, today it's 110$, but at 100$ it was also 100Euro, but today the dollar is worth less than the Euro, making the "new high" of 110$ a measly 80Euro (current value of 110$), is it still a new high?
Does it take inflation into consideration? I.e. if the old high was 100$, but those 100$ would be 115$ with inflation, is the "new high" of 110$ really the highest price?
Not so much what the constellations looked like, when they were first dreamed up, but more what the fuck they were smoking?
I can't draw stick figures (even XKCD), and yet I can easily tell that none of the constellations look like what they're supposed to.
Completely off topic, but does anyone else look at that picture and see a hill rather than a crater? I know it's a crater, but to my brain it looks like a hill due to the shadows and lack of perspective (i.e. can't see it going into the ground).
Yes, that makes perfect sense.
Except that it sucks, when you get a mix of layouts. Just look at Slashdot.
Would you want to read it on a line by line basis? In my particular layout (reply) I see
Now, I don't know about you, but to me that'd be annoying as hell.
Now, since you and I can see, we can tell that these are from different blocks, and thus do not belong together, but your OCR solution can't.
I don't think so.
It's about perceived risk. It seems much riskier to fly than to drive a car, because you have no way of preventing an accident yourself (you're just a passenger), whereas in the car you are the driver and could easily avoid an accident, because you're a great driver.
Ever notice how, as a passenger, you're always a lot more worried about driving than you are as the driver? I'm almost willing to bet, that if you sent people out onto a seemingly dangerous test track, they'd be more nervous in general when they're passengers than they'd be when driving themselves.
Even if you put them into a car driven by the best driver in the world.
Not quite. Since the information in question is not any kind of creative work (apart from possibly creative bookkeeping) but merely a collection of facts, it is not copyrightable in most countries, and definitely not in the EU.
Now, is it bad that a banker is copying what is expected to be confidential information and selling it to outside parties? Certainly. But that does not make it copyright infringement.
You mean the US Marine Corps, founded on November 10th, 1775?
Because back in the days just before the US was founded, the primary objective of the government was to protect it's oil interests (of which it had none) against Muslim terrorists aboard it's ships.
Well, that certainly explains why they'd be shooting at a stationary utility pole.
OH MY GOD! IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR US!
I thought the problem was exactly people thinking about the children?
And that will be a replacement for what current technology exactly?
And why does it have to be in use? In what kind of scenario would your storage device be in use, when it's falling four stories? And why would your biggest concern be "gee, I hope it won't stop working for the 2.3 seconds it takes to hit the ground, because I'll never get those precious seconds back" rather than "fuck, I dropped my laptop over the balcony!?
I didn't say they shouldn't take risks. But taking a risk like that one, which is essentially just "it'll be easier for one boss" with absolutely no gain in ease of use (easier to just use a key), financial gains (cheaper to just use a key) and a massive risk (something goes wrong, it's not the boss getting the shaft) is just idiotic.
It will never gain you, your department or the company anything other than a pink slip and will taint your resume.
Now, if the boss had said something like "I will sign off on doing this, and my department will foot the bill for it", it would probably be a different case. But that's not the scenario we were presented with.
That's besides the questions. The question that needs asking is:
The likely answer to that is: "No"
However, if they simply ran the wire as requested by the boss, and something bad happened, would they get the blame? Yes they would, because they installed and approved it.
If you want me to take the blame for something, then I want to be in charge of how it can happen. If you just want a scape goat, look elsewhere, as I have no need for a "responsible for break-in to lab due to botched security job" on my resume.