he's right (well, maybe not [the] part about "immersed in an immense ocean of energetic particles" even though we are indeed immersed in an immense ocean of energetic particles;
Do you not understand what that word means?
right (adj) - correct in judgment, opinion, or action.
Apple accepted the app, and then rejected it later, and asked that Google reimburse everyone who bought the app before that. I don't see how Apple could think that anyone would believe they accepted it, and then "studied" it, and refused any further purchases or updates, but didn't reject it.
Maybe. Maybe not. They don't mention anywhere how they tested the laptops. It's just a bunch of voodoo. The results have no meaning. We don't even know if the IE 8 battery life includes the juice required to run the malware.
...and farmers think that 15 miles an hour is fast...
You're from the city, ye?
Do you know what that whooshing sound is? That is you missing the joke. Farmers often drive tractors, which are big and slow. Maybe it wasn't that funny, but it wasn't exactly subtle either.
From TFA: Computer engineers have the worst road accident records while farmers are the safest drivers, it has been disclosed.
Computer engineers are likely to be gamers (the article didn't mention whether or not gamer was considered a profession) and farmers think that 15 miles an hour is fast.
Could I have pirated it? Sure, but then all I would have gotten is the episodes themselves, and not the actor and director commentaries, the "making of" featurettes, the makeup and stunts behind the scenes, etc.
You can pirate that stuff too. The difference is that most people don't WANT that extra crap, and so when most people pirate a movie, they only take the one file that they want: the movie. On the other hand, less popular stuff is a little bit harder to pirate.
I find it likely that we are the quiet majority, actually. Those films barely made any sense because they skipped so much. It is very unlikely that the washed masses were able to pick up a story from it. The first one was good, but the second ones were just too dull. I couldn't even finish watching the third one. The movie was over-hyped, and a lot of people just got swept up in it.
Hopefully The Hobbit will be better. This book lends itself slightly better for a movie format, since there was action and comedy in pretty much every chapter.
nVidia already knows. Anybody who uses an nVidia card and Linux already knows. Try to use the Debian Lenny (2009) nVidia driver with the Debian Etch (2007) kernel, or vise versa.
Fortunately, the nVidia wrapper is GPL and open source, so kernel hackers and distro maintainers can update it as appropriate, but that isn't a solution, that's just something that kinda works sometimes, if you are a kernel hacker.
Linux ABI is stable enough that Quake 3 runs on any current x86 Linux box
Quake 3 is a game. It is an application. It is not affected by the unstable Linux ABI.
The unstable Linux ABI means that if a hardware company is going to make a driver for Linux, then it has to update it frequently, and that new drivers may not work in old kernels, and old drivers may not work in new kernels. It is a serious problem, and is partially responsible for generally poor hardware support from device manufacturers.
What exactly is funny about that comic? All I see is an inability to understand who is responsible for what (Linux kernel devs are responsible for Adobe Flash now?), and the fallacy that only one problem can be worked on at a time. Sure, jokes don't usually make much sense under scrutiny, but this comic was never funny, and is just an obvious troll.
To be fair, people say the same thing about any hobby. Stamp collectors, model airplane builders, open source developers are all told to get a life by people who don't particularly like their hobby.
Enlightenment such as yours, where you say something along the lines of, "I don't particularly like that hobby, but I have no disrespect for those who do" is unusual.
As I recall, there were plenty of harmless domains in the.us TLD that got banned because they contained bad words, but only if you read them across words.
Easy for an experienced computer user, yes. We can just look up on the internet which registry key needs to be changed, and to what, and then we do it. For most users this is too much, and the registry is pretty scary to them.
or dismissed.
For some versions of Windows, yes. For the most popular version in credit unions (based on my limited anecdotal experience) "dismissing" is not an option. Windows 2K just runs whatever the CD tells it to.
The real issue here is that without autorun, idiots would open My Computer, open up D:\, and double-click "Training.exe".
Users will do silly things, but that is no reason to just give up on security and make an OS insecure by default.
Blizzard might as well just come right out and say it "If you don't have broadband, we don't care about you.".
That isn't exactly what they are saying. What they are really saying is, "If you don't play WOW, we don't care about you." And of course, all WOW players have internet connections, most of them broadband.
You see, Blizzard is like a bad parent, and WOW is like the spoiled, favorite child. WOW is the child star who brings a lot of income to the family, and so her parents dote on her and her friends. Diablo III and Starcraft II are mostly ignored, and there is some question as to whether they will ever reach maturity.
The only reason Blizzard even lets SC II bring friends home, is so that maybe they can hook up with WOW, which admittedly is a little sicker in my analogy than reality.
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It's like somebody else getting in an accident on the highway due to a manufacturing error, and you get to sue the manufacturer for negligence.
It might not be a great analogy, but at least it involves cars.
he's right (well, maybe not [the] part about "immersed in an immense ocean of energetic particles" even though we are indeed immersed in an immense ocean of energetic particles;
Do you not understand what that word means?
right (adj) - correct in judgment, opinion, or action.
Apple accepted the app, and then rejected it later, and asked that Google reimburse everyone who bought the app before that. I don't see how Apple could think that anyone would believe they accepted it, and then "studied" it, and refused any further purchases or updates, but didn't reject it.
SPARC ... has ... the highest market share once you leave the atmosphere
I see what you did there.
Maybe. Maybe not. They don't mention anywhere how they tested the laptops. It's just a bunch of voodoo. The results have no meaning. We don't even know if the IE 8 battery life includes the juice required to run the malware.
I wouldn't recommend it, but if anyone actually wants to read TFA, here is the article on 1 page, rather than 5: http://anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3636
...and farmers think that 15 miles an hour is fast...
You're from the city, ye?
Do you know what that whooshing sound is? That is you missing the joke. Farmers often drive tractors, which are big and slow. Maybe it wasn't that funny, but it wasn't exactly subtle either.
From TFA: Computer engineers have the worst road accident records while farmers are the safest drivers, it has been disclosed.
Computer engineers are likely to be gamers (the article didn't mention whether or not gamer was considered a profession) and farmers think that 15 miles an hour is fast.
Could I have pirated it? Sure, but then all I would have gotten is the episodes themselves, and not the actor and director commentaries, the "making of" featurettes, the makeup and stunts behind the scenes, etc.
You can pirate that stuff too. The difference is that most people don't WANT that extra crap, and so when most people pirate a movie, they only take the one file that they want: the movie. On the other hand, less popular stuff is a little bit harder to pirate.
I find it likely that we are the quiet majority, actually. Those films barely made any sense because they skipped so much. It is very unlikely that the washed masses were able to pick up a story from it. The first one was good, but the second ones were just too dull. I couldn't even finish watching the third one. The movie was over-hyped, and a lot of people just got swept up in it.
Hopefully The Hobbit will be better. This book lends itself slightly better for a movie format, since there was action and comedy in pretty much every chapter.
There is no requirement to wear pants in public, and there is no reason to notify any authorities. Misinformation is not funny. It is sad.
http://www.aanr.com/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8235959.stm
Somebody call nVidia and let them know.
nVidia already knows. Anybody who uses an nVidia card and Linux already knows. Try to use the Debian Lenny (2009) nVidia driver with the Debian Etch (2007) kernel, or vise versa.
Fortunately, the nVidia wrapper is GPL and open source, so kernel hackers and distro maintainers can update it as appropriate, but that isn't a solution, that's just something that kinda works sometimes, if you are a kernel hacker.
Linux ABI is stable enough that Quake 3 runs on any current x86 Linux box
Quake 3 is a game. It is an application. It is not affected by the unstable Linux ABI.
The unstable Linux ABI means that if a hardware company is going to make a driver for Linux, then it has to update it frequently, and that new drivers may not work in old kernels, and old drivers may not work in new kernels. It is a serious problem, and is partially responsible for generally poor hardware support from device manufacturers.
Do you have any evidence to back that up? My anecdotal evidence suggests otherwise.
What exactly is funny about that comic? All I see is an inability to understand who is responsible for what (Linux kernel devs are responsible for Adobe Flash now?), and the fallacy that only one problem can be worked on at a time. Sure, jokes don't usually make much sense under scrutiny, but this comic was never funny, and is just an obvious troll.
Disclaimer:I love Debian's way of doing things; but wonder whether it (Debian) has any answer to what this Redhat release has to offer. Does it?
Exactly what is it that Debian might have an answer to? What does this Red Hat release have to offer that isn't in every other large Linux distro?
My Verizon rep says that 54 hours is the same thing as 54 minutes, which is less than an hour.
Just goes to show that using Linux helps prevent piracy. Go F/OSS!
Actually, the definition of piracy used in the summary is: installing a free, flexible OS onto a computer device. So, installing Linux is now piracy.
The email was meant to be informative, not magical.
To be fair, people say the same thing about any hobby. Stamp collectors, model airplane builders, open source developers are all told to get a life by people who don't particularly like their hobby. Enlightenment such as yours, where you say something along the lines of, "I don't particularly like that hobby, but I have no disrespect for those who do" is unusual.
I was thinking sokobanknights.se
As I recall, there were plenty of harmless domains in the .us TLD that got banned because they contained bad words, but only if you read them across words.
Easily disabled
Easy for an experienced computer user, yes. We can just look up on the internet which registry key needs to be changed, and to what, and then we do it. For most users this is too much, and the registry is pretty scary to them.
or dismissed.
For some versions of Windows, yes. For the most popular version in credit unions (based on my limited anecdotal experience) "dismissing" is not an option. Windows 2K just runs whatever the CD tells it to.
The real issue here is that without autorun, idiots would open My Computer, open up D:\, and double-click "Training.exe".
Users will do silly things, but that is no reason to just give up on security and make an OS insecure by default.
really bad
The people who are dumb enough to get offended by this usually aren't the ones that make decisions that cause companies to buy the product or not.
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Blizzard might as well just come right out and say it "If you don't have broadband, we don't care about you.".
That isn't exactly what they are saying. What they are really saying is, "If you don't play WOW, we don't care about you." And of course, all WOW players have internet connections, most of them broadband.
You see, Blizzard is like a bad parent, and WOW is like the spoiled, favorite child. WOW is the child star who brings a lot of income to the family, and so her parents dote on her and her friends. Diablo III and Starcraft II are mostly ignored, and there is some question as to whether they will ever reach maturity.
The only reason Blizzard even lets SC II bring friends home, is so that maybe they can hook up with WOW, which admittedly is a little sicker in my analogy than reality.