I have to search through several configuration files with 100s of lines to find the one that specifies the default GUI, and then it often doesn't even work.
Really? I just click "Session" in GDM, and choose from there. Easy.
pplying patches in Windows is easier than in Linux. Linux is pretty easy, but Windows is still ahead, I'd say. Argue all you want. But a properly configured Windows box will successfully apply patches to itself better than a Linux one will.
Err. No. A properly setup box (your phrase) makes these tasks equally easy. (Actually, my XP wouldn't install SP2... it just aborted with a cryptic error message [particularly ironic, given that this is what Linux is supposed to do]. But MS recently fixed this with the new windowsupdate, so my box was only vulnerable for 12 months or so.)
As to how mine works... well, I've a little shield in XP that tells me I need updates. And I've a little X in Fedora that tells me I need updates. Both need the admin/root password.
The lack of zOS training on CompSci courses shouldn't make the slightest difference. Companies could easily hire graduates and train them to the ideosyncracies of their mainframes. Any computer science course that produces people who are only capable of using Unix/Windows and so inflexible that they can't cope with change isn't worthy of the name.
Liberals and/or feminists are the people that define porn as exploitation
And at that time, they're acting as social conservatives. And it's by no means restricted to feminists (and of course, not all feminists). Do you think all the people who complained about Janet Jackson's nipples were liberals? Do you think the FCC is run by liberals, too?
Suing Google makes as much sense as suing your post-office for mail fraud.
The difference being the Post Office (and, in the OP's example ISPs) have legal protection against exactly that, otherwise they'd have certainly been sued. It's called being a "common carrier". Google doesn't have any protection of that kind, plus they're cash rich. Is it any surprise they're getting sued?
Really? I thought I was stating the obvious in a pretty straightforward way. Tell me what was pretentious about my post, and I'll try to cut it out later?
Then.. uh... shouldn't Perfect 10 be going after the real offenders
Yes, of course they should. But those people are i) harder to track down than Google ii) probably much poorer than Google, so it's really not a tricky decision for Perfect 10's lawyers as to who they go after.
So a porn publisher whose whole business is built on exploitation
Only if you take the axiom that "Porn = Exploitation". If you're not a social conservative, and believe that people should be allowed to show their tits for money if they want to, your analogy simply doesn't
I do things for money that I wouldn't ordinarily do. It's called "gainful employment".
wouldn't the same gravity of the moon create tides in the flowing lava?
Lava's a lot denser than water. More density means lower velocites meaning less friction (modulo differing drag coefficients, and the fact that the crust/core boundary isn't as neatly defined as the fluid/solid interface at the ocean bottom).
I'd always understood it to be Earth/atmosphere/ocean interactions under the influence of the moon. They're basically surface effects. I could be wrong though, it's been a long time since I looked into any of this
If it is gravitation from other bodies?
I'd say not, unless you're counting the moon -- and the moon's gravitional effect is usually restricted to periodic, tidal forces. It's pretty hard for exceedingly distant bodies to exert a net torque by gravity.
Given that the Earth's rotation is slowing down, isn't it immediately apparent that the liquid core must spin faster than the outside. It's just basic fluid dynamics. If apply a torque to the outside of a fluid filled region, the middle of that region will feel the effect last.
Godard didn't care how much money his films made, or even how well received they were (except directly as it affected his chances of financing his next). Everything was completely secondary to his artistic vision.
Similarly with Chaplin; even though he was the biggest star in the world, he made only the films he wanted to make. Everyone in the studio system warned him away from making "The Great Dictator."
The reason that Hollywood sucks, is that their films are greenlighted by accountants, based on projected receipts.
films like Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine.., 28 Days Later, O Brother Where Art Thou (or earlier Coen Brother films) I didn't care for some of those but your point is well made. The problem is, once upon a time major studios would make "little" pictures because occasionally you got a runaway success, and anyway, the cost was minute compared to the profits your blockbuster made, so it didn't really matter. Now that blockbusters aren't making a lot of money, its cutting off one of the funding channels for the sort of smaller quirky movie that we both seem to enjoy.
If Fox's blockbusters don't make much money, Fox won't be funding next years "Garden State" (or whatever).
Not really : Many of the worst blockbuster films of the last year ("Stealth", "The Island", "Fantastic Four" and IMHO "Revenge Of The Sith") are clearly marketed at boys of various ages.
But they're bad films: badly written, badly plotted and largely badly acted. Sure, they're nice to look at, but they're stultifyingly dull. The problem isn't the "13 year old girl" market, it's the fact that most of Hollywood has almost no desire to make films that appeal to adults, and even less of an idea how to make them.
Wedding Crashers may not have been clever, but at least it treated us like adults -- not necessarily the most sophisticated adults -- and aimed its jokes appropriately. It was also one of the summers few hits.
By the same logic the Chinese Government is trying to overthrow western democracy using methods indistinguishable from incoherent spam emails about cheap viagra.
Saying "No comment" is same as saying "yes, we are going to do it".
No it isn't. Saying "we never comment on speculation" is the only solution in these cases, at least if you with to maintain your veneer of holiness. Or, they can confess that they're no more moral than most other corporations, and that whole "Do No Evil" shit was purely for the benefit of marketing.
Given how they've dissembled and denied all the rumours about instant messaging, it's good to see that Google's "corporate morality" is such that "tell no lies" doesn't fall within the aegis of "do no evil".
What a sad shame that your Alma Mater did not teach you to RTFA before commenting on it. Or the comments above, pointing out that PRECISELY NO BOOKS ARE BEING DISCARDED.
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As to how mine works... well, I've a little shield in XP that tells me I need updates. And I've a little X in Fedora that tells me I need updates. Both need the admin/root password.
I'd call that a wash.
The lack of zOS training on CompSci courses shouldn't make the slightest difference. Companies could easily hire graduates and train them to the ideosyncracies of their mainframes. Any computer science course that produces people who are only capable of using Unix/Windows and so inflexible that they can't cope with change isn't worthy of the name.
That isn't to say there aren't a lot about.
Really? I thought I was stating the obvious in a pretty straightforward way. Tell me what was pretentious about my post, and I'll try to cut it out later?
i) harder to track down than Google
ii) probably much poorer than Google,
so it's really not a tricky decision for Perfect 10's lawyers as to who they go after.
I do things for money that I wouldn't ordinarily do. It's called "gainful employment".
I'd say not, unless you're counting the moon -- and the moon's gravitional effect is usually restricted to periodic, tidal forces. It's pretty hard for exceedingly distant bodies to exert a net torque by gravity.
Given that the Earth's rotation is slowing down, isn't it immediately apparent that the liquid core must spin faster than the outside. It's just basic fluid dynamics. If apply a torque to the outside of a fluid filled region, the middle of that region will feel the effect last.
Godard didn't care how much money his films made, or even how well received they were (except directly as it affected his chances of financing his next). Everything was completely secondary to his artistic vision.
Similarly with Chaplin; even though he was the biggest star in the world, he made only the films he wanted to make. Everyone in the studio system warned him away from making "The Great Dictator."
The reason that Hollywood sucks, is that their films are greenlighted by accountants, based on projected receipts.
films like Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine.., 28 Days Later, O Brother Where Art Thou (or earlier Coen Brother films) I didn't care for some of those but your point is well made. The problem is, once upon a time major studios would make "little" pictures because occasionally you got a runaway success, and anyway, the cost was minute compared to the profits your blockbuster made, so it didn't really matter. Now that blockbusters aren't making a lot of money, its cutting off one of the funding channels for the sort of smaller quirky movie that we both seem to enjoy.
If Fox's blockbusters don't make much money, Fox won't be funding next years "Garden State" (or whatever).
Not really : Many of the worst blockbuster films of the last year ("Stealth", "The Island", "Fantastic Four" and IMHO "Revenge Of The Sith") are clearly marketed at boys of various ages.
But they're bad films: badly written, badly plotted and largely badly acted. Sure, they're nice to look at, but they're stultifyingly dull. The problem isn't the "13 year old girl" market, it's the fact that most of Hollywood has almost no desire to make films that appeal to adults, and even less of an idea how to make them.
Wedding Crashers may not have been clever, but at least it treated us like adults -- not necessarily the most sophisticated adults -- and aimed its jokes appropriately. It was also one of the summers few hits.
By the same logic the Chinese Government is trying to overthrow western democracy using methods indistinguishable from incoherent spam emails about cheap viagra.
Either's cool with me.
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Given how they've dissembled and denied all the rumours about instant messaging, it's good to see that Google's "corporate morality" is such that "tell no lies" doesn't fall within the aegis of "do no evil".
What a sad shame that your Alma Mater did not teach you to RTFA before commenting on it. Or the comments above, pointing out that PRECISELY NO BOOKS ARE BEING DISCARDED.
Further more : blacks are more athletic, but aren't smart enough to play quarterback. Carribeans are natural hitters but have no plate discipline.
The English have bad teeth and in rains all the time. Red Indians are drunkards, the French are cowards, Germans are fascists...
And Americans have ridiculously stereotyped views of everyone else...
They're not discarding the books. They're moving them to other buildings in the library system. You can still get hold of them, if you want to.
Sounds like a minor restructuring of the library system blown out of all proportion because one building that formerly held books doesn't any more.