It is bullshit if you have to do a field sobriety test. Here in Australia they simply use RBT units. It takes 30 seconds, you sit in your car, and the police doing them are polite.
A positive blow is probable cause to detain you. They typically wait 10-15 minutes (yes, you're now out time...) and then let you blow again, in case there was any mouth alcohol. If you pass this one, you go. If you don't pass, you go down to the station for a blood test. That blood test is what's used in the court.
So it's not that inconvenient, has multiple "outs," and the final result is almost an hour later all said and done.
8 users is not SMB, it's micro. SMB is more in the 50-300 employee range, and that is where "cloud" services make a TON of sense. They're not big enough to have 3 exchange admins on top of a SOE manager etc, but can buy in bulk from someone else.
I visited the USA for 4 weeks in November. I got my iphone unlocked by my carrier (telstra), flew to the USA, walked into an AT&T store, handed over $50-70 or so, and walked out with a prepaid SIM with a ton of credit and either 250 or 500mb of data (I don't remember).
The only trick is that you need to manually set the APN on the iphone for data to work, but you can do this without jailbreaking if you can get a wifi connection for ~5 minutes.
Coverage wasn't bad, and I didn't use most of my credit apart from data.
If you actually do some thinking you'll realize that's not completely true.
Most embedded systems are running 8 bit risc chips, but how many of them care about the current exact time, and how many of them run unix (which is the combo necessary for this to be unsurmountable).
32bit ARM chips are so low power and so cheap nowadays that I can easily imagine the crappiest embedded processor you can get in 10-15 years will be 4 core, have ~8mb of onboard program memory (as opposed to the 128kb I'm used to today), and be capable of handling 64 bit longs even if it's not 64bit native.
Used games, especially for games under 6 months old, are rarely discounted more than $5.
Buying a game at $10, but not at $50 I can understand.
But if you bought a game for $47 instead of $52, you were going to buy the game either way, it's just "why not save $5" when both are staring you in the face.
EA/MS/etc should simply refuse to sell "new" in stores which also sell "used." It will take a big name doing it, not a tiny publisher, and it will take doing so publicly.
People will want halo15/madden 2035/half life episode 69 enough that it won't kill sales (it may dampen them a bit, so that's why you use a blockbuster).
I can really see this being true. Game piracy does nothing more than get your game's name out there. People are playing it, talking about it, etc. Pretty much no one (statistically) who pirates a game intended on ever purchasing it and thus aren't lost revenue.
People buying used games intended on purchasing the game, but bought used to save $5. They did nothing wrong, but they were a potential source of revenue for the publisher that is lost.
I don't know of a good "fix," because I don't support limiting your right to resell, but at the same time the scale that EB/etc do it causes issues.
In my mind, morally, it's a bit like piracy itself. Me sharing an mp3 rip of an album I've bought with 3-4 friends is not "wrong" in my mind. Were I to rip an album and then sell it on the street for $5 a copy it would be a different story. How you legislate intent and morality, without killing genuine "sharing," is tough.
What security fixes have there been in windows 2008 R2 base server in the past 2 years?
I can't think of a single one, but I'm sure there has been at least 1-2.
Remember, with 2008 R2 MS went down the ubuntu/redhat/bsd-ish route by allowing you to install a VERY basic server with almost nothing on it, then add packages one by one. A hyper-V cluster member will not have a full IE, full IIS, Office, Flash, etc. Nor will it likely have any file shares open.
Microsoft's tactics around server vs desktop OSs are very different. They are finally taking servers seriously, allowing you to script everything via powershell and keeping things barebones.
I agree the documentation is 95%, and this isn't a complete excuse, but every API also has fully working code samples in at least 1 language to get you that final 5%.
Whether or not you'd count code samples as a part of "documentation" is debatable. It's nice that they're there, and they always save my bacon, but IMO if you can't read the spec and then write your own code then the docs aren't quite ready.
Linksys/cisco E3000. -tons of ram -fast processor -dual band N -works OOTB with tomatousb or dd-wrt
I've got two, one as a router/ap and one as a wireless bridge. The only issue (as per usual) is heat, but I simply got 4 rubber feet so that it sits 1cm above the desk and that took care of that.
Both makeMKV (which has osx and linux versions in addition to windows) and anydvdHD do 2-click ripping of blu rays.
I own a few blu rays, but all of them are ripped on my mac and then transferred to my mythtv backend. I got an external usb2 blu ray drive for $60 that does the trick.
It's like freedom of speech. Just because you don't like what someone does with that freedom doesn't mean that it's "less free" than free speech with caveats and limitations to prevent you from saying words someone else has said. It makes it MORE free.
1. register MyDepartmentOnCall.com (don't name the hospital for various reasons) 2. sign up for google apps 3. set everyone up with accounts on there 4. pray no one puts patient info there,and only "i'm working/I'm not working/I'm on call" info, because you'll be the one sued.
This all sounds fishy. Blogger has no mechanism to host streaming media. It integrates well with youtube and picasa, but neither of those could show you live games, both respond to takedown notices, and neither was targeted by this.
With powershell I'm not 100% certain that's true any more.
Having true OO based outputs from commands instead of having to split on tabs/pipe characters/etc is much easier, less prone to error, and more portable across upgrades (ps changing its default column order won't break all of your scripts if you're talking to a process object with well defined properties, etc).
Are you unable to read? They are stopping the subscription service that gave the Tivo guide data. The box will still power on, will still play your old recordings, will still act "vcr-style" for manual recordings (record wednesday from 5-6pm, etc), and will work 100% if you have an alternate method of getting guide data.
Commenting without reading the summary, let alone the article, and reacting based on a headline should be illegal.
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It is bullshit if you have to do a field sobriety test. Here in Australia they simply use RBT units. It takes 30 seconds, you sit in your car, and the police doing them are polite.
A positive blow is probable cause to detain you. They typically wait 10-15 minutes (yes, you're now out time...) and then let you blow again, in case there was any mouth alcohol. If you pass this one, you go. If you don't pass, you go down to the station for a blood test. That blood test is what's used in the court.
So it's not that inconvenient, has multiple "outs," and the final result is almost an hour later all said and done.
Serious question, as I don't know:
On android, does the OS sit in EEPROM, or in flash?
On iPhone only the boot loader and baseband sit in eeprom, the entire rest of the OS is in flash, meaning that iphone OS images are NOT ROMs.
My guess is that android is the same, as it would take a LONG time to flash 100-500 megabytes of eeprom.
In fact, a quick look at wiki for the nexus S says that it has 1GB out of 16GB of NAND flash memory partitioned off as OS.
Specific terminology exists for a reason. It's not a ROM.
8 users is not SMB, it's micro. SMB is more in the 50-300 employee range, and that is where "cloud" services make a TON of sense. They're not big enough to have 3 exchange admins on top of a SOE manager etc, but can buy in bulk from someone else.
An "internal private cloud" is a specific methodology and layout used in managing a "server farm."
So yes and no. All internal private clouds are server farms. Not all server farms are private clouds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesforce.com
Who is paying them 1.3b in subscription fees then?
I visited the USA for 4 weeks in November. I got my iphone unlocked by my carrier (telstra), flew to the USA, walked into an AT&T store, handed over $50-70 or so, and walked out with a prepaid SIM with a ton of credit and either 250 or 500mb of data (I don't remember).
The only trick is that you need to manually set the APN on the iphone for data to work, but you can do this without jailbreaking if you can get a wifi connection for ~5 minutes.
Coverage wasn't bad, and I didn't use most of my credit apart from data.
If you actually do some thinking you'll realize that's not completely true.
Most embedded systems are running 8 bit risc chips, but how many of them care about the current exact time, and how many of them run unix (which is the combo necessary for this to be unsurmountable).
32bit ARM chips are so low power and so cheap nowadays that I can easily imagine the crappiest embedded processor you can get in 10-15 years will be 4 core, have ~8mb of onboard program memory (as opposed to the 128kb I'm used to today), and be capable of handling 64 bit longs even if it's not 64bit native.
And draw next to no power.
Used games, especially for games under 6 months old, are rarely discounted more than $5.
Buying a game at $10, but not at $50 I can understand.
But if you bought a game for $47 instead of $52, you were going to buy the game either way, it's just "why not save $5" when both are staring you in the face.
A possible, non-legislative solution:
EA/MS/etc should simply refuse to sell "new" in stores which also sell "used." It will take a big name doing it, not a tiny publisher, and it will take doing so publicly.
People will want halo15/madden 2035/half life episode 69 enough that it won't kill sales (it may dampen them a bit, so that's why you use a blockbuster).
I can really see this being true. Game piracy does nothing more than get your game's name out there. People are playing it, talking about it, etc. Pretty much no one (statistically) who pirates a game intended on ever purchasing it and thus aren't lost revenue.
People buying used games intended on purchasing the game, but bought used to save $5. They did nothing wrong, but they were a potential source of revenue for the publisher that is lost.
I don't know of a good "fix," because I don't support limiting your right to resell, but at the same time the scale that EB/etc do it causes issues.
In my mind, morally, it's a bit like piracy itself. Me sharing an mp3 rip of an album I've bought with 3-4 friends is not "wrong" in my mind. Were I to rip an album and then sell it on the street for $5 a copy it would be a different story. How you legislate intent and morality, without killing genuine "sharing," is tough.
What security fixes have there been in windows 2008 R2 base server in the past 2 years?
I can't think of a single one, but I'm sure there has been at least 1-2.
Remember, with 2008 R2 MS went down the ubuntu/redhat/bsd-ish route by allowing you to install a VERY basic server with almost nothing on it, then add packages one by one. A hyper-V cluster member will not have a full IE, full IIS, Office, Flash, etc. Nor will it likely have any file shares open.
Microsoft's tactics around server vs desktop OSs are very different. They are finally taking servers seriously, allowing you to script everything via powershell and keeping things barebones.
You are incorrect. There were two forms of PS2 backwards compat.
If your console was a REALLY early original, with hardware compatability, you can still play some PS2 games.
If your console was the second gen, with software compatability, they removed it.
I agree the documentation is 95%, and this isn't a complete excuse, but every API also has fully working code samples in at least 1 language to get you that final 5%.
Whether or not you'd count code samples as a part of "documentation" is debatable. It's nice that they're there, and they always save my bacon, but IMO if you can't read the spec and then write your own code then the docs aren't quite ready.
Linksys/cisco E3000.
-tons of ram
-fast processor
-dual band N
-works OOTB with tomatousb or dd-wrt
I've got two, one as a router/ap and one as a wireless bridge. The only issue (as per usual) is heat, but I simply got 4 rubber feet so that it sits 1cm above the desk and that took care of that.
Why would you repack them? I just play them on my mythtv box. XBMC and most media tanks will play them too.
Both makeMKV (which has osx and linux versions in addition to windows) and anydvdHD do 2-click ripping of blu rays.
I own a few blu rays, but all of them are ripped on my mac and then transferred to my mythtv backend. I got an external usb2 blu ray drive for $60 that does the trick.
http://www.kogan.com.au/shop/kogan-blu-ray-player-slim-bdlive-full-hd-1080p/
$130 for a region free 240v blu ray player from a known brand with USB support as well for playing stuff off a HD.
I'm not 100% certain they ship to NZ, but if not he's certain to know someone in AU who would ship him one.
It's like freedom of speech. Just because you don't like what someone does with that freedom doesn't mean that it's "less free" than free speech with caveats and limitations to prevent you from saying words someone else has said. It makes it MORE free.
1. register MyDepartmentOnCall.com (don't name the hospital for various reasons)
2. sign up for google apps
3. set everyone up with accounts on there
4. pray no one puts patient info there,and only "i'm working/I'm not working/I'm on call" info, because you'll be the one sued.
And I would like a pony.
Then don't give apple your CC number and buy gift cards, using cash, from retail stores instead.
This all sounds fishy. Blogger has no mechanism to host streaming media. It integrates well with youtube and picasa, but neither of those could show you live games, both respond to takedown notices, and neither was targeted by this.
With powershell I'm not 100% certain that's true any more.
Having true OO based outputs from commands instead of having to split on tabs/pipe characters/etc is much easier, less prone to error, and more portable across upgrades (ps changing its default column order won't break all of your scripts if you're talking to a process object with well defined properties, etc).
"All what it takes is some intelligence and a will to do so."
Are you going to start with english?
Are you unable to read? They are stopping the subscription service that gave the Tivo guide data. The box will still power on, will still play your old recordings, will still act "vcr-style" for manual recordings (record wednesday from 5-6pm, etc), and will work 100% if you have an alternate method of getting guide data.
Commenting without reading the summary, let alone the article, and reacting based on a headline should be illegal.