I saw this article on Ars yesterday which is much better.
There is one very interesting bit covered in the Ars article which is not covered in the pcmag one. Verizon is asking for the same court that ruled in favor of Comcast and has hired the same lawyer that represented Comcast. The FCC wants the court chosen by lottery.
Revisionist history at it's finest. At the release of 4.0, KDE had on their front page that it was ready to go. Then, after the big shitstorm, they say they never said this.
That's interesting because I remember trying 4.0 right after it came out. I remember the arguments over whether they should release it as a "finished" product and the KDE team responded by saying it's a X.0 release so you shouldn't expect it to be as polished or stable and if you need something stable stick with 3.5.
Total bull. That was true a decade ago but thanks to the Internet ANYBODY can buy ANY kind of machine, desktop, laptop, netbook, server, and do so without Windows. Not only does Dell offer Ubuntu machines now but there are plenty of specialty retailers like System 76 that are more than happy to have your business.
Yes, but you are limited to specific models that are offered in a "Linux" variety. Why can't I find the hardware I want without having to pay for software I don't want? I happen to like Thinkpads, but the models I like don't come without Windows.
To me this "Windows tax" crap smells like trying to eat your cake and have it too. These people want the lower prices that comes with bundling trialware but then want to just go "my bad" and get money back ON TOP of the lower prices they don't qualify for well sorry friend, it shouldn't work that way. Just as you can't buy basic cable and then demand they remove the ads or give you money back for the channels you don't want, so too should you not get the lower price that comes with trialware if you refuse to take the OS the trialware requires.
I bet these that scream "Windows tax!" would STFU if the OEMs said "Well we only pay $15 for Windows in bulk, but that trialware we install nets us $75. So you actually owe us $60 for the difference. Shall we just use your CC that we have on file?"
The issue is controlling where your money is going. With other companies giving the computer manufacturer money it isn't a big deal. With the manufacturer sending my money off to Microsoft that is more of an issue. So what if I am willing to spend a little extra to make sure Microsoft doesn't get any of my money? In fact, if Windows weren't so forced this trialware crap would probably spread to the other options as well so the revenue from that would be close.
Hell even if I did want Windows I would pay extra for them to not install all the garbage and to actually give me an install CD rather than the "recovery disc" BS. If I it weren't for the fact that the first thing I do with a new laptop is install Linux this behavior would make me seriously consider Apple.
"(the only one in the lab who has professional DBA experience...)"
See, imagine all other teams without a person like you...
So your argument is you should store data this way if you have no idea what you're doing?
I'm not bashing Cassandra here or anything (never used nosql), but I've seen this argument used enough times that I just have to point out how stupid it is.
I know corporations are people now and everything but I find their expressions sometimes difficult to interpret. Can we ask that they include a "current mood" icon on their corporate website or something so we can all avoid potentially embarrassing situations?
"Perfecting" is the wrong word to be using there. That crappy software combined with the slow hardware was one of the reasons I canceled my AT&T TV service about a month ago. Really the only thing that would get me to go back is if they cut the price in half and let me use my own set top box.
Not that I disagree with your overall point (in fact I am probably supporting it here), but with both Starcraft 2 and Half-Life 2 whether they are good sequels depends on what you want.
Starcraft 2 has only a 3 star rating on Amazon. It's fine for normal games but they have some major screwups in the custom game system. 30 second countdown timer that starts as soon as the game fills up. During which the only "useful" thing you can do is leave the game, which doesn't even cancel the timer. So it's basically a "you have 30 seconds to screw up this game for everyone" timer. Finding custom games is ok but the rest of it you would think they could at least improve over Warcraft 3.
Half-life 2 had no multi-player out of the box. Their reasoning was that Counter-Strike: Source was the multi-player. I spent countless hours playing the classic Half-Life at LAN parties. Not to mention the weapons in HL2 overall were not as fun for multi-player aside from the gravity gun. So yeah it had a great single player experience, but if you were interested in multi-player it was a disappointment.
Until the drunk driver hits somebody they are unlikely to draw the attention of the police, so I doubt more patrols would put a dent in the problem.
Except they are trained to spot drunk drivers. And if the drunk driver is driving normally they're probably not that drunk and not much of a hazard. With more patrols you can catch someone if and when they start driving badly.
Though maybe the checkpoint I experienced was just badly run and that's why it caused traffic problems. If it weren't for the traffic issues I wouldn't have minded.
Do we really need DUI checkpoints? It sounds like lazy police to me. We had one of those around where I live one year I think around the time of a high school graduation. It just held up traffic and pissed everyone off (I was on my way home from work). Then the cops pulled anyone over who saw the traffic and tried to make a U-Turn. This was my only experience with this sort of checkpoint though.
So is there a significant benefit to these checkpoints that couldn't be solved by more police patrolling? It seems like by the time the people hit the checkpoint they've already had plenty of time to cause an accident unless everyone is coming from the same party and this "checkpoint" is at the exit to the parking lot.
The biggest flaw I see with your logic is that the mouse is more of a precision device, so it makes sense to use it with your stronger hand.
I am left handed but I use the mouse right handed. Not because it's "better" but because it's a standard setup and there are so many right handed mice I don't want to limit myself.
Also, when I'm using the mouse and keyboard together I'm rarely typing. Usually I'm hitting backspace/delete, enter, etc. Not that it matters that I have to reach my left hand across the keyboard because it takes me about as long to move my right hand back to the keyboard as it does to move my left hand back to where it should be.
I think he's very passionate about his beliefs and just isn't very good at persuasive argument. I don't agree with him on everything but he seems to be sincere, which earns my respect.
If you were willing to look outside of the 2 major parties there were some ok candidates. A few of them even got 5-6% of the votes despite being ignored by all major media.
Of course even if there was an amazing candidate we would never elect them. 40% voted for prop 27 (the proposition put on there to kill prop 20, which gets the elected officials out of the re-districting process). If only we could fix all the stupid maybe we could fix our government.
Also their modem/router doesn't have a bridge mode so the only way to use your own router is to DMZ everything to it. Even setting that up was a lot harder than it should have been and the only way to use the DHCP from my own router was to leave theirs on and put it on a different subnet.
Technically U-verse boxes are already running Windows CE - they look a lot like Media Center, and if you go into the About menu you can see Microsoft had their hand in it.
I just don't understand why any informed Linux user bothers with these 'few years ago' comparisons. Tremendous progress has been made over these past few years. Linux hardware support today is nothing like what it used to be years ago. Look at all the hardware that's now being supported natively in Linux - ATI cards are being actively developed and open sourced, and even Broadcomm has opened their drivers to name a few. And support gets better and better with every new release (Ubuntu or otherwise). There's just no reason to complain if things were bad 'a few years ago.'
And yet many distros have been shipping with that nouveau video card driver with the 3D features disabled because they're still experimental. Fedora, I'm looking at you! Fortunately Ubuntu has stayed sane by letting you know you probably want to install the vendor's drivers and opensuse has a one click install to get some video drivers that don't suck once you realise what's going on and poke around their wiki.
Don't get me wrong I'm a big fan of Linux and for the most part it's very plug and play now, but pushing this nouveau thing before it was done is an example of a major screw up in the ease of use department by several distros. As much as I would like for it not to be the case there are still valid complaints about Linux.
A huge amount of kids go into college for a CS degree planning to make games when they graduate. At some point in their education they realize it's a shitty industry to be in and hopefully they're good enough at CS in general to get some other sort of CS job. Sending them into some sort of specialized game programming program is a horrible idea because when reality sets in they won't have somewhere else to go.
Besides, the only way to stand out is to actually do modding and stuff in your free time. The ones who are dedicated enough will do this regardless of what major or college they end up in.
2) Any voter in the state who wants to can vote in either party's primary (but not both at the same time).
Just to clarify, some of the rules surrounding voting in primaries varies by state. Here in California the Republican party did not allow "decline to state" (registered to vote but not registered as any specific party) to vote in their 2008 presidential primary. So only when the parties choose to allow it you can select which party's primary to vote in.
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Or through one of his legs.
I saw this article on Ars yesterday which is much better.
There is one very interesting bit covered in the Ars article which is not covered in the pcmag one. Verizon is asking for the same court that ruled in favor of Comcast and has hired the same lawyer that represented Comcast. The FCC wants the court chosen by lottery.
Revisionist history at it's finest. At the release of 4.0, KDE had on their front page that it was ready to go. Then, after the big shitstorm, they say they never said this.
That's interesting because I remember trying 4.0 right after it came out. I remember the arguments over whether they should release it as a "finished" product and the KDE team responded by saying it's a X.0 release so you shouldn't expect it to be as polished or stable and if you need something stable stick with 3.5.
Total bull. That was true a decade ago but thanks to the Internet ANYBODY can buy ANY kind of machine, desktop, laptop, netbook, server, and do so without Windows. Not only does Dell offer Ubuntu machines now but there are plenty of specialty retailers like System 76 that are more than happy to have your business.
Yes, but you are limited to specific models that are offered in a "Linux" variety. Why can't I find the hardware I want without having to pay for software I don't want? I happen to like Thinkpads, but the models I like don't come without Windows.
To me this "Windows tax" crap smells like trying to eat your cake and have it too. These people want the lower prices that comes with bundling trialware but then want to just go "my bad" and get money back ON TOP of the lower prices they don't qualify for well sorry friend, it shouldn't work that way. Just as you can't buy basic cable and then demand they remove the ads or give you money back for the channels you don't want, so too should you not get the lower price that comes with trialware if you refuse to take the OS the trialware requires.
I bet these that scream "Windows tax!" would STFU if the OEMs said "Well we only pay $15 for Windows in bulk, but that trialware we install nets us $75. So you actually owe us $60 for the difference. Shall we just use your CC that we have on file?"
The issue is controlling where your money is going. With other companies giving the computer manufacturer money it isn't a big deal. With the manufacturer sending my money off to Microsoft that is more of an issue. So what if I am willing to spend a little extra to make sure Microsoft doesn't get any of my money? In fact, if Windows weren't so forced this trialware crap would probably spread to the other options as well so the revenue from that would be close.
Hell even if I did want Windows I would pay extra for them to not install all the garbage and to actually give me an install CD rather than the "recovery disc" BS. If I it weren't for the fact that the first thing I do with a new laptop is install Linux this behavior would make me seriously consider Apple.
"(the only one in the lab who has professional DBA experience ...)"
See, imagine all other teams without a person like you...
So your argument is you should store data this way if you have no idea what you're doing?
I'm not bashing Cassandra here or anything (never used nosql), but I've seen this argument used enough times that I just have to point out how stupid it is.
I know corporations are people now and everything but I find their expressions sometimes difficult to interpret. Can we ask that they include a "current mood" icon on their corporate website or something so we can all avoid potentially embarrassing situations?
"Perfecting" is the wrong word to be using there. That crappy software combined with the slow hardware was one of the reasons I canceled my AT&T TV service about a month ago. Really the only thing that would get me to go back is if they cut the price in half and let me use my own set top box.
EA bought everyone with an original idea and on top of crushing the dreams of great game developers they are holding the fun hostage.
Not that I disagree with your overall point (in fact I am probably supporting it here), but with both Starcraft 2 and Half-Life 2 whether they are good sequels depends on what you want.
Starcraft 2 has only a 3 star rating on Amazon. It's fine for normal games but they have some major screwups in the custom game system. 30 second countdown timer that starts as soon as the game fills up. During which the only "useful" thing you can do is leave the game, which doesn't even cancel the timer. So it's basically a "you have 30 seconds to screw up this game for everyone" timer. Finding custom games is ok but the rest of it you would think they could at least improve over Warcraft 3.
Half-life 2 had no multi-player out of the box. Their reasoning was that Counter-Strike: Source was the multi-player. I spent countless hours playing the classic Half-Life at LAN parties. Not to mention the weapons in HL2 overall were not as fun for multi-player aside from the gravity gun. So yeah it had a great single player experience, but if you were interested in multi-player it was a disappointment.
Until the drunk driver hits somebody they are unlikely to draw the attention of the police, so I doubt more patrols would put a dent in the problem.
Except they are trained to spot drunk drivers. And if the drunk driver is driving normally they're probably not that drunk and not much of a hazard. With more patrols you can catch someone if and when they start driving badly.
Though maybe the checkpoint I experienced was just badly run and that's why it caused traffic problems. If it weren't for the traffic issues I wouldn't have minded.
Do we really need DUI checkpoints? It sounds like lazy police to me. We had one of those around where I live one year I think around the time of a high school graduation. It just held up traffic and pissed everyone off (I was on my way home from work). Then the cops pulled anyone over who saw the traffic and tried to make a U-Turn. This was my only experience with this sort of checkpoint though.
So is there a significant benefit to these checkpoints that couldn't be solved by more police patrolling? It seems like by the time the people hit the checkpoint they've already had plenty of time to cause an accident unless everyone is coming from the same party and this "checkpoint" is at the exit to the parking lot.
The current ball weighs almost six tons and uses 32,256 Philips Luxeon Rebel LEDs.
Why are we buying LEDs from rebel scum?
I know Avatar inspired me to be a one dimensional money-driven corporate manager.
There is nothing tragic about my privates.
The biggest flaw I see with your logic is that the mouse is more of a precision device, so it makes sense to use it with your stronger hand.
I am left handed but I use the mouse right handed. Not because it's "better" but because it's a standard setup and there are so many right handed mice I don't want to limit myself.
Also, when I'm using the mouse and keyboard together I'm rarely typing. Usually I'm hitting backspace/delete, enter, etc. Not that it matters that I have to reach my left hand across the keyboard because it takes me about as long to move my right hand back to the keyboard as it does to move my left hand back to where it should be.
Symbian was fast on a 60 mhz processor, and literally screams on the N8.
I don't want my phone to scream at me :(
I think he's very passionate about his beliefs and just isn't very good at persuasive argument. I don't agree with him on everything but he seems to be sincere, which earns my respect.
If you were willing to look outside of the 2 major parties there were some ok candidates. A few of them even got 5-6% of the votes despite being ignored by all major media.
Of course even if there was an amazing candidate we would never elect them. 40% voted for prop 27 (the proposition put on there to kill prop 20, which gets the elected officials out of the re-districting process). If only we could fix all the stupid maybe we could fix our government.
Own your identity. Don't sell yourself for nothing. And remember, always make a backup.
Wouldn't selling clones of yourself be considered slavery? I don't think that's legal.
You can keep your standards I'm not into that gay stuff. Even in space.
Also their modem/router doesn't have a bridge mode so the only way to use your own router is to DMZ everything to it. Even setting that up was a lot harder than it should have been and the only way to use the DHCP from my own router was to leave theirs on and put it on a different subnet.
Technically U-verse boxes are already running Windows CE - they look a lot like Media Center, and if you go into the About menu you can see Microsoft had their hand in it.
No wonder my box is a slow piece of shit.
I just don't understand why any informed Linux user bothers with these 'few years ago' comparisons. Tremendous progress has been made over these past few years. Linux hardware support today is nothing like what it used to be years ago. Look at all the hardware that's now being supported natively in Linux - ATI cards are being actively developed and open sourced, and even Broadcomm has opened their drivers to name a few. And support gets better and better with every new release (Ubuntu or otherwise). There's just no reason to complain if things were bad 'a few years ago.'
And yet many distros have been shipping with that nouveau video card driver with the 3D features disabled because they're still experimental. Fedora, I'm looking at you! Fortunately Ubuntu has stayed sane by letting you know you probably want to install the vendor's drivers and opensuse has a one click install to get some video drivers that don't suck once you realise what's going on and poke around their wiki.
Don't get me wrong I'm a big fan of Linux and for the most part it's very plug and play now, but pushing this nouveau thing before it was done is an example of a major screw up in the ease of use department by several distros. As much as I would like for it not to be the case there are still valid complaints about Linux.
A huge amount of kids go into college for a CS degree planning to make games when they graduate. At some point in their education they realize it's a shitty industry to be in and hopefully they're good enough at CS in general to get some other sort of CS job. Sending them into some sort of specialized game programming program is a horrible idea because when reality sets in they won't have somewhere else to go.
Besides, the only way to stand out is to actually do modding and stuff in your free time. The ones who are dedicated enough will do this regardless of what major or college they end up in.
2) Any voter in the state who wants to can vote in either party's primary (but not both at the same time).
Just to clarify, some of the rules surrounding voting in primaries varies by state. Here in California the Republican party did not allow "decline to state" (registered to vote but not registered as any specific party) to vote in their 2008 presidential primary. So only when the parties choose to allow it you can select which party's primary to vote in.