"You will obey or molten silver will be poured into your ears."
That's a fitting random quote from Slashdot if I ever saw one. Perhaps that's an implied part of "facing the consequences including contempt of court".
I would not let the UN handle tying someone's shoelaces without expecting them to foul it up and hurt somebody in the process.
But How is the US Government any better at that? They Bleed money out of every government agency any chance they get and still screw stuff up.
Let's put it this way: Suppose you're walking down the street and notice your shoelaces are untied...
If you asked the United States to tie your shoelaces, he'd punch you in the gut and steal your shoes while you were collapsed on the ground, and he wouldn't care how many people witnessed it.
If you asked the United Nations to tie your shoelaces, he'd attempt to tie them, lose his balance, and fall forward with such force that it knocks you into oncoming traffic.
Mars is also in our habitable zone, yet liquid water quickly (relatively) sublimates.
Apparently atmospheric density and geomagnetic field are important.
The planet is roughly 2x Earth's size, and its sun is dimmer than ours, so the odds of it being able to hold on to a sizable atmosphere are good.
... maybe it's because we developers don't appreciate having the libraries we rely on upgraded to a new version without warning on half of the machines we use?
I use Unity, and I like it. I expect I will continue to like it until I try to run something I know I installed but can't remember the name of, because there doesn't seem to be any way to show an organized list of installed programs like in the old GNOME2 interface.
Most users generally don't have to worry about drivers even if they are on windows. Windows 7 supported my plug-in wireless adapter right out of the box. And even for other things, generally they come with a software CD that you just pop in, run the installer, and everything works.
...and puts another half-dozen programs in your system tray and sucks away another few percentage points of your computer's performance.
Can you really say that with a straight face? They just said they protect the freedom of expression of their citizens! I don't think they've ever not cracked down on any expression that's critical of how things are being run.
That sounds even worse than Ubuntu's Unity interface, and to top it off: it's not free. Customers will actually be expected to pay for the privilege of using this craptastic interface.
Think about it, do you think chimps when they make war on an enemy tribe (the only other critter besides us on the planet who does such a thing), that they're exhibiting sociopathic tendencies, or in fact, exhibiting just how powerful social tribalism can be?
Nitpick: ants do that, too, and with better tactics.
Hell, I wouldn't trust the Chinese not to "accidentally" drop the thing on top of the US, for a start. And in case you ask, no, I wouldn't trust the US not to "accidentally" drop one on Peking either.
And then our projectile weapons development will have come full circle.
From lobbing rocks, to spears, to arrows, to bullets, to missiles, and now back to rocks!
We don't have to make a grey goo that is faster and more efficient than living organisms,
it just has to be less discriminating in where it lives and what it considers food.
You say that like there's a single spot on the planet containing anything even slightly approximating food that isn't already full of living organisms. Put your grey-goo nanomachines anywhere you like; they'll still be out-competed and eliminated by the bacteria already living there.
Wind Mobile does this in Canada. They say you have unlimited but if you go over 2GB, I think, they de-prioritize you and you get throttled if the network needs you throttled.
That's like telling an imprisoned man he's free to go... and then breaking his arms and legs the moment he leaves his cell. Hey, he's completely free to do whatever he wants, it's not our fault he's decided to spend all his time twitching and bleeding on the floor!
I still think it smells funny that we just so happen to dump him in the ocean after going "yep that's him, uh huh" with the excuse that "it'll become a shrine for terrorists". Uhhh...wouldn't that make them pretty damned easy to catch then? We'd know where they are, right by his grave.
They're right, though. Any grave site would become a shrine and call-to-arms for militants and, sadly, we wouldn't be able to kill/imprison/tail everyone who visited it. So we couldn't hand the body over. We couldn't take the body back the USA either, because showing off his bullet-riddled corpse is just a half-step above dragging it through the streets, and would piss off way too many people/groups/nations. So really, dumping it in the ocean was the best of a set of bad options.
That's not a valid implication.The installer would and does do SKU checks, not just kernel version checks, so it's easily possible that it can still be installed on Server 2008 and that it can be tweaked to be installed on Vista as well.
What Microsoft is announcing is effectively a lack of support for Vista, so even if it can be tweaked to be installed on Vista, Microsoft wouldn't offer any support for it.
Oh yeah. Running tweaked, unsupported applications. That's the sort of thing businesses love.
Don't buy all of them. Just buy one major music label... and turn it into a nonprofit organization, The effect on the rest of the labels would be devastating!
Not to knock GOG's stance on DRM (I agree wholeheartedly), but their position in the games market is a bit... unique. They specialize in selling games that have been out on the market for years. That is to say, anyone who has wanted to pirate those games has already done so, so their sales are hardly affected by piracy at all.
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"You will obey or molten silver will be poured into your ears."
That's a fitting random quote from Slashdot if I ever saw one. Perhaps that's an implied part of "facing the consequences including contempt of court".
I would not let the UN handle tying someone's shoelaces without expecting them to foul it up and hurt somebody in the process.
But How is the US Government any better at that? They Bleed money out of every government agency any chance they get and still screw stuff up.
Let's put it this way: Suppose you're walking down the street and notice your shoelaces are untied...
18th word in your first phrase. "could".
Mars is also in our habitable zone, yet liquid water quickly (relatively) sublimates. Apparently atmospheric density and geomagnetic field are important.
The planet is roughly 2x Earth's size, and its sun is dimmer than ours, so the odds of it being able to hold on to a sizable atmosphere are good.
... maybe it's because we developers don't appreciate having the libraries we rely on upgraded to a new version without warning on half of the machines we use?
If I was concerned with quality loss, I wouldn't be streaming it in the first place. I'd get the DVD and rip it.
I use Unity, and I like it. I expect I will continue to like it until I try to run something I know I installed but can't remember the name of, because there doesn't seem to be any way to show an organized list of installed programs like in the old GNOME2 interface.
+1, this saves me time. And good riddance to Banshee, such a slow POS that is.
Seriously. When a music player decides it needs to be able to play DVDs, it's time to move on.
Most users generally don't have to worry about drivers even if they are on windows. Windows 7 supported my plug-in wireless adapter right out of the box. And even for other things, generally they come with a software CD that you just pop in, run the installer, and everything works.
...and puts another half-dozen programs in your system tray and sucks away another few percentage points of your computer's performance.
At least the Chinese gov isn't being a hypocrite
Can you really say that with a straight face? They just said they protect the freedom of expression of their citizens! I don't think they've ever not cracked down on any expression that's critical of how things are being run.
The genre hasn't been totally dead. Tried Etrian Odyssey?
Does anyone else here remember "3D Body Adventure" for DOS?
That sounds even worse than Ubuntu's Unity interface, and to top it off: it's not free. Customers will actually be expected to pay for the privilege of using this craptastic interface.
Think about it, do you think chimps when they make war on an enemy tribe (the only other critter besides us on the planet who does such a thing), that they're exhibiting sociopathic tendencies, or in fact, exhibiting just how powerful social tribalism can be?
Nitpick: ants do that, too, and with better tactics.
Hell, I wouldn't trust the Chinese not to "accidentally" drop the thing on top of the US, for a start. And in case you ask, no, I wouldn't trust the US not to "accidentally" drop one on Peking either.
And then our projectile weapons development will have come full circle.
From lobbing rocks, to spears, to arrows, to bullets, to missiles, and now back to rocks!
We don't have to make a grey goo that is faster and more efficient than living organisms,
it just has to be less discriminating in where it lives and what it considers food.
You say that like there's a single spot on the planet containing anything even slightly approximating food that isn't already full of living organisms. Put your grey-goo nanomachines anywhere you like; they'll still be out-competed and eliminated by the bacteria already living there.
You just described Freenet.
Wind Mobile does this in Canada. They say you have unlimited but if you go over 2GB, I think, they de-prioritize you and you get throttled if the network needs you throttled.
That's like telling an imprisoned man he's free to go ... and then breaking his arms and legs the moment he leaves his cell. Hey, he's completely free to do whatever he wants, it's not our fault he's decided to spend all his time twitching and bleeding on the floor!
Describing LoC as a "not perfect" metric is an astonishing understatement.
I
disagree,
using
LoC
as
a
metric
has
made
my
measured
productivity
skyrocket!
But the point is that if something's been around as long as flint arrows or boot sector viruses, we've usually come up with a good defense against it.
Yes, and in both cases, the best defence is still generally 'don't get hit with one'.
Never underestimate the power of primitive attacks to overcome sophisticated defences.
The best defence is a good offence. So go find a shifty-looking programmer and punch him in the face.
I still think it smells funny that we just so happen to dump him in the ocean after going "yep that's him, uh huh" with the excuse that "it'll become a shrine for terrorists". Uhhh...wouldn't that make them pretty damned easy to catch then? We'd know where they are, right by his grave.
They're right, though. Any grave site would become a shrine and call-to-arms for militants and, sadly, we wouldn't be able to kill/imprison/tail everyone who visited it. So we couldn't hand the body over. We couldn't take the body back the USA either, because showing off his bullet-riddled corpse is just a half-step above dragging it through the streets, and would piss off way too many people/groups/nations. So really, dumping it in the ocean was the best of a set of bad options.
Is there a problem here? If the bill is truly what the summary (read the article? never!) makes it out to be, it sounds quite reasonable.
WMI is really powerful, I only wish the documentation was better. You can do some really powerful things with VBScript and WMI.
Wait a second, something's not right here...
Linux has well-known utilities that everyone is familiar with?
Windows has powerful tools with terrible documentation?
I AM IN BIZARRO WORLD!
That's not a valid implication.The installer would and does do SKU checks, not just kernel version checks, so it's easily possible that it can still be installed on Server 2008 and that it can be tweaked to be installed on Vista as well. What Microsoft is announcing is effectively a lack of support for Vista, so even if it can be tweaked to be installed on Vista, Microsoft wouldn't offer any support for it.
Oh yeah. Running tweaked, unsupported applications. That's the sort of thing businesses love.
Don't buy all of them. Just buy one major music label... and turn it into a nonprofit organization, The effect on the rest of the labels would be devastating!
Not to knock GOG's stance on DRM (I agree wholeheartedly), but their position in the games market is a bit... unique. They specialize in selling games that have been out on the market for years. That is to say, anyone who has wanted to pirate those games has already done so, so their sales are hardly affected by piracy at all.