* November 7–11, 1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 claims 19 ships and more than 250 lives. * October 4, 1914 - The Burdur earthquake was centered near Lake Burdur in southwestern Turkey and the mainshock and subsequent fire destroyed more than 17,000 homes, and caused 2,344 casualties. * January 13, 1915 – An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy, registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills more than 29,000 * July 1–12, 1916 – At least one shark mauls 5 swimmers along 80 miles (130 km) of New Jersey coastline during the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916, resulting in 4 deaths and the survival of one youth who requires limb amputation. * May 21, 1917 – Over 300 acres (73 blocks) are destroyed in the Great Atlanta fire of 1917. * January, 1918 – 1918 flu pandemic: "Spanish 'flu" (influenza) first observed in Haskell County, Kansas. * January 15, 1919, - Boston Molasses Disaster: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150. * February 20, 1920 - Gori earthquake: An earthquake hits Gori in the Democratic Republic of Georgia, killing 114. * 1921 - Russian famine: Roughly 5,000,000 people die. * January 13, 1922 – The flu epidemic has claimed 804 victims in Britain. * July 10, 1923 – Large hailstones kill 23 in Rostov, Soviet Union. * July 10, 1924 – Large hailstones kill 23 in Rostov, Soviet Union. * February 28, 1925 – The 1925 Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America. * October 20, 1926 – A hurricane kills 650 in Cuba. * February 14, 1927 – An earthquake in Yugoslavia kills 100. * February 12, 1928 – Heavy hail kills 11 in England. * November 18, 1929 – 1929 Grand Banks earthquake. * November 25, 1930 - An earthquake in the Izu Peninsula of Japan kills 223 people and destroys 650 buildings. * February 3, 1931 – Hawke's Bay earthquake: Much of the New Zealand city of Napier is destroyed in an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale. * March 21, 1932 – A series of deadly tornadoes in the south kills more than 220 people in Alabama, 34 people in Georgia, and 17 in Tennessee during a two-day period. * March 3, 1933 - A powerful earthquake and tsunami hit Honsh, Japan, killing approximately 3,000 people. * May 11, 1934 – Dust Bowl in North America: A strong 2-day dust storm removes massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the region's worst dust storms. * April 14, 1935 - Black Sunday, a particularly severe dust storm, was one of the worst dust storms in American history and it caused immense economic and agricultural damage. It is estimated to have displaced 300 thousand tons of topsoil from the Prairie area in the US. * March 17 – March 18, 1936 – St. Patrick's Day Flood: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, suffers the worst flooding in its history. * May 6, 1937 – Hindenburg disaster: In the United States, the German airship Hindenburg bursts into flame when mooring to a mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey. Of the 36 passengers and 61 crew on board, 13 passengers and 22 crew die, as well as one member of the ground crew. * February 6, 1938 – Black Sunday at Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia: 300 swimmers are dragged out to sea in 3 freak waves; 80 lifesavers save all but 5. * January 13, 1939 – Black Friday: 71 people die across Victoria in one of Australia's worst ever bush fires. * November, 1940 - The Armistice Day Blizzard (or the Armistice Day Storm) took place in the Midwest region of the United States on 11 November (Armistice Day) and 12 November 1940. The intense early-season "Panhandle hook" winter storm cut a 1,000-mile-wide (1600 km) path through the middle of the country from Kansas to Michigan. A total of 145 deaths were blamed on the storm. * April 15, 1941 - Colima earthquake * November 28, 1942 - Cocoanut Grove Fire * February 27, 1943 - Smith Mine Disaster * D
Similar problem (and I'm saying this as a member of the Church) with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a.k.a. "Mormons." It's not as heavily inculcated as it is in the catholic church, but it's still pretty bad and has disheartening effect of minimizing the human achievement, something that is NOT doctrinally based and ABSOLUTELY antithetical to God's stated purposes.
End-running myself from going down that particular rabbit hole, I'll leave you with an amusing quote that comes about because of the guilt-complexing and minimizing of the individual; "Ex-mormon girls make the best lesbians."
...it's an old fashioned private club, complete with membership requirements, a bouncer at the door, and some odd activities and traditions that don't make sense to outsiders.
"Cathedral" and "Bazaar" are commerce/Command-and-Control related, not social related. Don't try to shoe-horn any of the Social things (Twitter, Facebook, Diaspora, RainbowDash.net, etc.) into something it's not.
Scientist 1: "They're poking holes in our Anthropogenic Global Warming sca...er, I mean 'theory'...stop laughing, this is serious guys! They're figuring out that we didn't really have any evidence that global warming was mankind's fault! Just like they figured out that the whole 'over-population' and 'New Ice Age' thing was all bupkus! We need a new great big scare, something that will secure the 'scientific' community the nearly unlimited funds we've been enjoying since we convinced the world we were killing each other just by driving our cars!"
Scientist 2: "Well...I've got this interstellar space flight project, but the technology is still a few centuries off from being mature enough to do any real-world tests..."
Scientist 3: "Hey, the sun's been warming the system up by a degree or two, right? People are starting to notice that..."
Scientist 1: "Wait...wait! I got it! We'll release new data that says that the SUN will kill us all after a long time frame! That will GUARANTEE that not only will WE be rolling in cash, but scientists for hundreds of years to come will be filthy rich, too!"
Seriously, what's a game console doing in the server room? There are no other alternatives? No leftover hardware (PIII-almost-anything, P4-anythinbg at-all, Athlon-ditto) more than capable of doing the job?
Because it's cheap, and readily available, and widely popular. If you don't care what the box itself looks like, a computer is a computer is a computer and if the admin of that particular boxen decided to use cheap, readily available, and widely supported hardware to run their server on, that's their decision.
The article was replete with references to the lack of respect management had for the proletariat IT staff, blahblahblahblahblah. Feh.
Labeling equipment in the server room is crucial. How about a decent label if, for no other reason, after a fire or some other event, you can contact the functional owner(s) and inform them of the survival or demise of their precious server.
You mean like this? Seriously, how many large scale environments have you dealt with? Or administrators? Or users? Or people? If it'd been a particularly nice "beige box" with more blinkin-lights than usual it would have presented theft temptation for a sticky fingered moron to lift it.
Welcome to the club! I would offer you a welcome gift basket, but it's being held up in legal pending approval of the government that all products in it are certified non-lethal.
We've prepared for you a chair. You'll need something comfortable to sit in while you wait for years and years of court cases, as standing that whole time is just uncomfortable.
I see you've found our complimentary golf-towels. Oh, no, we don't have a golf course. See, the government doesn't trust us with any small object that travels at anything resembling a high speed. The golf-towel is to dry the nervous sweat from your brow as you sit on the edge of that comfortable chair as the courts decide on cases that could either classify you as the law-abiding citizen simply for doing the things you've always done or declare you a criminal simply for doing the things you've always done.
Oh, and we have over there our Screech-o-mat(tm), a device that you can pull the lever on to remind you of the pointlessness of arguing your case that you're not a bad guy for simply owning a useful tool, because all you'll get if you DO defend yourself is the screeching and wailing of fear-mongers and politicians who are slowly stripping away your rights and liberties "for the children." Oh, there it goes. Yes, it's normally that loud, and yes, the "arguments" it spouts are all direct quotes from the people who think you're a danger to life, the universe, and everything simply for being Not Them. I guess Bob needed his daily reminder.
Uh-oh, Phil over there forgot to use the Screech-o-mat again! Don't mind him, he'll wind down in about 10 minutes or so. That's what happens when you don't use the Screech-o-mat, you start to wonder why the world doesn't make sense and wonder if you're living in a madhouse. Yeah, that's why he's shouting that at the top of his lungs...oh, hey, he ran down quicker than usual. He must not have had his morning coffee...oh, no, wait...there it is. His soul just got crushed under the realization that the inmates are running the asylum and there's really not much that can be done about it anymore, as everybody in power seems to have checked their common sense at the door and lost their claim ticket.
Don't worry, you get used to it after a while. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go use the Screech-o-mat.
I'd put money on http://www.doubletwist.com/ being next. Given the cross platform, Zune, iTunes etc applications it covers, Doubletwist would be a pretty high profile target to hit with a C & D.
Different product, different principles. The stuff on the Hymn page is made for simply stripping out the DRM, period. The DoubleTwist application is designed to remove it for the sole purpose of putting it on a device that doesn't support Apple's DRM. Whereas the whole purpose of the Hymn projects are simply to ditch the DRM entirely, thus making such applications worthless if they can't make the MP3'S inaccessible to the user, DoubleTwist wouldn't necessarily be harmed by making the MP3's it creates non-accessible to users outside of the target device.
I am what many here would consider a "creationist." I have a personal relationship with God and think that the evidence at hand shows that this world and everything on it wouldn't be here if it weren't for a designer of some sort. To the news from this article I have the following to say:
GOOD! CLOSE THE DOORS, DESTROY THE JUNK "SCIENCE!" PLEASE!
This kind of person isn't a "fundamentalist" or "creationist" or any of the so called "conservative" labels; this kind of person is one thing and one thing only: Stupid. They are the kind of person that upon finding yourself allied with them you find yourself looking for anti-stoopid soap. The only thing you have to say to them is, "GET OFF MY SIDE!!!"
Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb. I cannot wait for that idiotic waste of real estate to have it's doors closed permanently and the pertinent materials sold off to *real* museums and institutions of higher learning.
While this is a nifty keen toy to play with (Skipper!), how about simply making the software so it's not frustrating? That may seem like an oversimplification, but seriously, that's all you really need to do. Microsoft is sinking tons of money into what will essentially become a social network of bandaids and hacks to kludgy software. This not only becomes a problem on the front line, (User is trying to connect to a network share the sysadmin had purposely locked down to just Systems Support personal, Clippy 2.0 - Return of Clippy detects this and connects the user with a script kiddy who shows them exactly what to do to compromise network security to get to files the user didn't need any access to whatsoever) it's a money loser from end-to-end. Microsoft is paying for it's development and support, OEMs and companies are paying to purchase it as part of the OS/Office software, end users are paying for not just the add-on value to the base price of the software they're purchasing, but also the support costs when the thing breaks.
And what about the whole point of the question, "What if the owner says Linux is on the boxen?" Let's clarify this a bit and say that Linux *is* installed on all the boxen and the entire business is run on open source. The BSA has no legal leg to stand on at that point. What then?
Clinton was a poor kid from the South whose real dad died, and whose step-dad was a mean, drunk SOB who beat his mom up all the time. Life gave him no handouts, and he had to earn everything he ever had. From this background, he became an Oxford scholar. He went to law school and was voted governor of Arkansas. On the national TV circuit, his obvious intelligence and warmth made him the closest thing a President got to being a rock star since Kennedy.
...aaaand then he made a mockery of the office, slept around on his wife, made an international joke of the word "cigar," and completely ignored the growing threat of terrorism leading up to 9/11.
And that's not even getting into the stuff he's suspected of doing.
Keep in mind I voted for him twice, because for a little while I was willing to overlook his obvious lack of morals because he was "doing a good job." 'course, I was young and stupid (as proven mathematically by Church's Law of 'Yer a God-damned Idiot') and did things I now regret.
Now, do us all a favor, stop drinkin' the Kool-aid, try actually looking at the issues instead of swallowing the party-line whole, and DON'T talk about issues you haven't got the faintest clue about, or you're just acting like the Lefty-mirror of all the Right-wing morons that embarras the hell out of our nation.
Also, do try actually LIVING IN A DICTATORIAL MONARCHY before you call Pres. Bush "King George" again. You might figure out that you haven't got a god-damned clue what you're talking about. (see preceding paragraph for what not to do about things you haven't got a god-damned clue about)
Yes, actually, it is different. Whether you like iTunes or not would be a good indicator of whether you'll like Democracy/Miro. If VLC were like WinAmp, Democracy/Miro would be iTunes. It's a way of managing the videos you want to watch.
In terms o feature-ness, Miro allows you to create playlists, automatic watch lists, and integrates video searches from Google, Yahoo, and a couple others. It's also a bittorrent client for videos, though admittedly I haven't figured out how to use that feature. One thing about Miro that I like is that if I have a bunch of videos I want to watch (say, I haven't watched The HowTo Crew for several episodes) and they're on my auto-update lists, they'll be downloaded to my computer instead of being on the 'net, so I can watch them whether I have a connection or not. Also, the full-screen mode is priceless.
On the downside, it IS bloated, and to autoupdate you have to have the bloated player running at all times. I tend to not get regular updates because I don't like bloatware running in the background.
What or who is compelling Google to smudge out these images selectively? Will all satellite images of facilities that the government deems 'sensitive' soon be subject to censoring?
o noes!!! teh evul guvments iz blokin ma intranetz!!!
Pardon me for pointing this out, but these are nuclear facilities that are being blurred out. Would it not make sense, from the purely public health perspective, to hide whatever details that canbe hidden without destroying the integrety of the photo from whatever persons might hold ill intent (we're not even talking terrorism here, radioactive materials make bank on the black market) so that any actuall information gathering they do would have to be onsite, where the facility is monitored and suspicious activity can be very easily dealt with because they so conveniently showed up on the facility's doorstep?
What's so important about having an unimpeded aereal view of the top of a building, anyway? Or a parking lot? It's not like you're watching the images in real-time, so whatever you do get to see would be old information. The purpose for a map is to reference a location in space, not to provide intimate details of every building you should happen to look up.
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As a satelite launcher this sounds like a great technology, although I'm not sure who would be "targeting" it or for what purpose...advertisers, maybe? Painting thier logos on it or something? Or some guy hiding in a cave someplace that we're supposed to be all afear'd of?
Because we all know there's no way a bunch of bearded thugs could POSSIBLY take down a couple of 110 story buildings, especially in the heart of New York City. What could we have to fear from them? We have digital watches and push around little green pieces of paper!
And what was the point of that cannon/blade thing?!
The Brute Shot (the "cannon/blade thing") doesn't seem all that useful...'till it's all you've got and have to get used to it. A friend of mine and I wanted to switch things up in multiplayer a bit, so we did a "Slayer" with Brute Shot's being the only weapon available. He's a sniper, I'm a "John Wayne", and the Brute Shot turned out to be a perfectly balanced weapon for both of us, allowing for ranged fun, as well as the "sneak up and stab 'em", and also being good for just wading in to combat and slapping your finger on the trigger. My only disapointment with the weapon after that? The thing needs a belt feeder, it runs out of ammo too quick!
"Any changes, and I mean any changes to the base configuration of the computer the user is sitting at result in unforseeable and often nightmarish problems with the virtual machine."
But the VM sits a-top... VMware or VPC... Unless you break those (and they're pretty solid applications), how does the VM break? Where is the abstraction barrier crossed?
Unless you have a magical "box of no box" that users can somehow manipulate the VM with their brain alone, there's hardware in the mix somewhere. Where there's hardware and users in the same room, you can bet that at some point the hardware will get screwed up in some way. They could change the mouse without your knowledge and that'd be enough to bork the VM, at least in my experience.
I've personally had good experiences with both linux and windows machines, running in both VMware or VPC. I've found that the linux machines are kinder about freeing memory, while windows seems to want to keep it around for possible future use (not a bad ploy). Other than the lack of virtual machine additions on VPC for linux, both work pretty decently (when critical performance isn't neccessary).
It's nice that your personal experience is pretty good, and I congratulate you on having a pretty headache-free run with VM's. My professional experience in having to do the upkeep on a corporate network of the monsters is quite the opposite. No matter how well configured, no matter how well tweeked, no matter how good the technician, there's going to be far, far more headaches involved than just running "fat" machines at each desktop.
Oh, and these Mac VMs you speak of... they don't really exist. Unless you count that leaked Mac OSX x86 image floating around on the torrent sites.
Which is one reason I said, "I can't speak for Linux or MacOS X..." I'm sure there's some company out there who is working on VMs for Macs, probably even Apple themselves. I'm speaking from professional, on the job experience with Windows VMs.
They... ...suck!
If there was a reason that the windows vms broke, please share it. I'm curious.
The reason it broke? Hmm...let's see, it broke because it was a Tuesday, it broke because the user was wearing a green hat, it broke because it was having personal issues at home and just couldn't focus that day.
Sure, there was a real, honest to goodness, technical reason why the VM went down every single time, but I can count on my hand the number of unique reasons for breakage. Normally, each and every single problem was exactly the same one I'd fixed on the same damn machine the day before, or on another machine, or had the server guys fix, or had the network people fix...
While limited use VMs are great for things like development and troubleshooting, they should NOT be used in a normal business production environment. It simply adds an exponential growth in complexity to the environment that drove me and several other techs that worked on that site absolutely nuts.
...or Mac type VMs, but as for Windows......don't. It's a massive nightmare. Any changes, and I mean any changes to the base configuration of the computer the user is sitting at result in unforseeable and often nightmarish problems with the virtual machine. It's especially bad with any proprietary software which may or may not have been designed to be flexible enough to handle virtualization. Then there's network problems, which are too numerous to really go into.
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* November 7–11, 1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 claims 19 ships and more than 250 lives.
* October 4, 1914 - The Burdur earthquake was centered near Lake Burdur in southwestern Turkey and the mainshock and subsequent fire destroyed more than 17,000 homes, and caused 2,344 casualties.
* January 13, 1915 – An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy, registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills more than 29,000
* July 1–12, 1916 – At least one shark mauls 5 swimmers along 80 miles (130 km) of New Jersey coastline during the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916, resulting in 4 deaths and the survival of one youth who requires limb amputation.
* May 21, 1917 – Over 300 acres (73 blocks) are destroyed in the Great Atlanta fire of 1917.
* January, 1918 – 1918 flu pandemic: "Spanish 'flu" (influenza) first observed in Haskell County, Kansas.
* January 15, 1919, - Boston Molasses Disaster: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150.
* February 20, 1920 - Gori earthquake: An earthquake hits Gori in the Democratic Republic of Georgia, killing 114.
* 1921 - Russian famine: Roughly 5,000,000 people die.
* January 13, 1922 – The flu epidemic has claimed 804 victims in Britain.
* July 10, 1923 – Large hailstones kill 23 in Rostov, Soviet Union.
* July 10, 1924 – Large hailstones kill 23 in Rostov, Soviet Union.
* February 28, 1925 – The 1925 Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.
* October 20, 1926 – A hurricane kills 650 in Cuba.
* February 14, 1927 – An earthquake in Yugoslavia kills 100.
* February 12, 1928 – Heavy hail kills 11 in England.
* November 18, 1929 – 1929 Grand Banks earthquake.
* November 25, 1930 - An earthquake in the Izu Peninsula of Japan kills 223 people and destroys 650 buildings.
* February 3, 1931 – Hawke's Bay earthquake: Much of the New Zealand city of Napier is destroyed in an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale.
* March 21, 1932 – A series of deadly tornadoes in the south kills more than 220 people in Alabama, 34 people in Georgia, and 17 in Tennessee during a two-day period.
* March 3, 1933 - A powerful earthquake and tsunami hit Honsh, Japan, killing approximately 3,000 people.
* May 11, 1934 – Dust Bowl in North America: A strong 2-day dust storm removes massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the region's worst dust storms.
* April 14, 1935 - Black Sunday, a particularly severe dust storm, was one of the worst dust storms in American history and it caused immense economic and agricultural damage. It is estimated to have displaced 300 thousand tons of topsoil from the Prairie area in the US.
* March 17 – March 18, 1936 – St. Patrick's Day Flood: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, suffers the worst flooding in its history.
* May 6, 1937 – Hindenburg disaster: In the United States, the German airship Hindenburg bursts into flame when mooring to a mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey. Of the 36 passengers and 61 crew on board, 13 passengers and 22 crew die, as well as one member of the ground crew.
* February 6, 1938 – Black Sunday at Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia: 300 swimmers are dragged out to sea in 3 freak waves; 80 lifesavers save all but 5.
* January 13, 1939 – Black Friday: 71 people die across Victoria in one of Australia's worst ever bush fires.
* November, 1940 - The Armistice Day Blizzard (or the Armistice Day Storm) took place in the Midwest region of the United States on 11 November (Armistice Day) and 12 November 1940. The intense early-season "Panhandle hook" winter storm cut a 1,000-mile-wide (1600 km) path through the middle of the country from Kansas to Michigan. A total of 145 deaths were blamed on the storm.
* April 15, 1941 - Colima earthquake
* November 28, 1942 - Cocoanut Grove Fire
* February 27, 1943 - Smith Mine Disaster
* D
What? No, damnit! I didn't want to post anonymously! Gah, I keep forgetting to make sure I'm logged in here.
Similar problem (and I'm saying this as a member of the Church) with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a.k.a. "Mormons." It's not as heavily inculcated as it is in the catholic church, but it's still pretty bad and has disheartening effect of minimizing the human achievement, something that is NOT doctrinally based and ABSOLUTELY antithetical to God's stated purposes.
End-running myself from going down that particular rabbit hole, I'll leave you with an amusing quote that comes about because of the guilt-complexing and minimizing of the individual; "Ex-mormon girls make the best lesbians."
True story!
...it's an old fashioned private club, complete with membership requirements, a bouncer at the door, and some odd activities and traditions that don't make sense to outsiders.
"Cathedral" and "Bazaar" are commerce/Command-and-Control related, not social related. Don't try to shoe-horn any of the Social things (Twitter, Facebook, Diaspora, RainbowDash.net, etc.) into something it's not.
Scientist 1: "They're poking holes in our Anthropogenic Global Warming sca...er, I mean 'theory'...stop laughing, this is serious guys! They're figuring out that we didn't really have any evidence that global warming was mankind's fault! Just like they figured out that the whole 'over-population' and 'New Ice Age' thing was all bupkus! We need a new great big scare, something that will secure the 'scientific' community the nearly unlimited funds we've been enjoying since we convinced the world we were killing each other just by driving our cars!"
Scientist 2: "Well...I've got this interstellar space flight project, but the technology is still a few centuries off from being mature enough to do any real-world tests..."
Scientist 3: "Hey, the sun's been warming the system up by a degree or two, right? People are starting to notice that..."
Scientist 1: "Wait...wait! I got it! We'll release new data that says that the SUN will kill us all after a long time frame! That will GUARANTEE that not only will WE be rolling in cash, but scientists for hundreds of years to come will be filthy rich, too!"
Scientists 2 & 3: "GENIUS!"
*beers are passed all around*
...they want their headlines back.
Because it's cheap, and readily available, and widely popular. If you don't care what the box itself looks like, a computer is a computer is a computer and if the admin of that particular boxen decided to use cheap, readily available, and widely supported hardware to run their server on, that's their decision.
You mean like this? Seriously, how many large scale environments have you dealt with? Or administrators? Or users? Or people? If it'd been a particularly nice "beige box" with more blinkin-lights than usual it would have presented theft temptation for a sticky fingered moron to lift it.
*stands and applauds* You, sir, are a genius!
You misspelled a word:
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"Spacy," not "spacee"
Welcome to the club! I would offer you a welcome gift basket, but it's being held up in legal pending approval of the government that all products in it are certified non-lethal.
We've prepared for you a chair. You'll need something comfortable to sit in while you wait for years and years of court cases, as standing that whole time is just uncomfortable.
I see you've found our complimentary golf-towels. Oh, no, we don't have a golf course. See, the government doesn't trust us with any small object that travels at anything resembling a high speed. The golf-towel is to dry the nervous sweat from your brow as you sit on the edge of that comfortable chair as the courts decide on cases that could either classify you as the law-abiding citizen simply for doing the things you've always done or declare you a criminal simply for doing the things you've always done.
Oh, and we have over there our Screech-o-mat(tm), a device that you can pull the lever on to remind you of the pointlessness of arguing your case that you're not a bad guy for simply owning a useful tool, because all you'll get if you DO defend yourself is the screeching and wailing of fear-mongers and politicians who are slowly stripping away your rights and liberties "for the children." Oh, there it goes. Yes, it's normally that loud, and yes, the "arguments" it spouts are all direct quotes from the people who think you're a danger to life, the universe, and everything simply for being Not Them. I guess Bob needed his daily reminder.
Uh-oh, Phil over there forgot to use the Screech-o-mat again! Don't mind him, he'll wind down in about 10 minutes or so. That's what happens when you don't use the Screech-o-mat, you start to wonder why the world doesn't make sense and wonder if you're living in a madhouse. Yeah, that's why he's shouting that at the top of his lungs...oh, hey, he ran down quicker than usual. He must not have had his morning coffee...oh, no, wait...there it is. His soul just got crushed under the realization that the inmates are running the asylum and there's really not much that can be done about it anymore, as everybody in power seems to have checked their common sense at the door and lost their claim ticket.
Don't worry, you get used to it after a while. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go use the Screech-o-mat.
Different product, different principles. The stuff on the Hymn page is made for simply stripping out the DRM, period. The DoubleTwist application is designed to remove it for the sole purpose of putting it on a device that doesn't support Apple's DRM. Whereas the whole purpose of the Hymn projects are simply to ditch the DRM entirely, thus making such applications worthless if they can't make the MP3'S inaccessible to the user, DoubleTwist wouldn't necessarily be harmed by making the MP3's it creates non-accessible to users outside of the target device.
I am what many here would consider a "creationist." I have a personal relationship with God and think that the evidence at hand shows that this world and everything on it wouldn't be here if it weren't for a designer of some sort. To the news from this article I have the following to say:
GOOD! CLOSE THE DOORS, DESTROY THE JUNK "SCIENCE!" PLEASE!
This kind of person isn't a "fundamentalist" or "creationist" or any of the so called "conservative" labels; this kind of person is one thing and one thing only: Stupid. They are the kind of person that upon finding yourself allied with them you find yourself looking for anti-stoopid soap. The only thing you have to say to them is, "GET OFF MY SIDE!!!"
Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb. I cannot wait for that idiotic waste of real estate to have it's doors closed permanently and the pertinent materials sold off to *real* museums and institutions of higher learning.
Really? I thought they got green by taking it out of your paycheck? No, no, no...that's congress
While this is a nifty keen toy to play with (Skipper!), how about simply making the software so it's not frustrating? That may seem like an oversimplification, but seriously, that's all you really need to do. Microsoft is sinking tons of money into what will essentially become a social network of bandaids and hacks to kludgy software. This not only becomes a problem on the front line, (User is trying to connect to a network share the sysadmin had purposely locked down to just Systems Support personal, Clippy 2.0 - Return of Clippy detects this and connects the user with a script kiddy who shows them exactly what to do to compromise network security to get to files the user didn't need any access to whatsoever) it's a money loser from end-to-end. Microsoft is paying for it's development and support, OEMs and companies are paying to purchase it as part of the OS/Office software, end users are paying for not just the add-on value to the base price of the software they're purchasing, but also the support costs when the thing breaks.
And what about the whole point of the question, "What if the owner says Linux is on the boxen?" Let's clarify this a bit and say that Linux *is* installed on all the boxen and the entire business is run on open source. The BSA has no legal leg to stand on at that point. What then?
...aaaand then he made a mockery of the office, slept around on his wife, made an international joke of the word "cigar," and completely ignored the growing threat of terrorism leading up to 9/11.
And that's not even getting into the stuff he's suspected of doing.
Keep in mind I voted for him twice, because for a little while I was willing to overlook his obvious lack of morals because he was "doing a good job." 'course, I was young and stupid (as proven mathematically by Church's Law of 'Yer a God-damned Idiot') and did things I now regret.
Now, do us all a favor, stop drinkin' the Kool-aid, try actually looking at the issues instead of swallowing the party-line whole, and DON'T talk about issues you haven't got the faintest clue about, or you're just acting like the Lefty-mirror of all the Right-wing morons that embarras the hell out of our nation.
Also, do try actually LIVING IN A DICTATORIAL MONARCHY before you call Pres. Bush "King George" again. You might figure out that you haven't got a god-damned clue what you're talking about. (see preceding paragraph for what not to do about things you haven't got a god-damned clue about)
Yes, actually, it is different. Whether you like iTunes or not would be a good indicator of whether you'll like Democracy/Miro. If VLC were like WinAmp, Democracy/Miro would be iTunes. It's a way of managing the videos you want to watch.
In terms o feature-ness, Miro allows you to create playlists, automatic watch lists, and integrates video searches from Google, Yahoo, and a couple others. It's also a bittorrent client for videos, though admittedly I haven't figured out how to use that feature. One thing about Miro that I like is that if I have a bunch of videos I want to watch (say, I haven't watched The HowTo Crew for several episodes) and they're on my auto-update lists, they'll be downloaded to my computer instead of being on the 'net, so I can watch them whether I have a connection or not. Also, the full-screen mode is priceless.
On the downside, it IS bloated, and to autoupdate you have to have the bloated player running at all times. I tend to not get regular updates because I don't like bloatware running in the background.
There's porn of that!
How long will it be before Microsoft gets cranky, takes their ball, and goes home this time?
What or who is compelling Google to smudge out these images selectively? Will all satellite images of facilities that the government deems 'sensitive' soon be subject to censoring?
o noes!!! teh evul guvments iz blokin ma intranetz!!!
Pardon me for pointing this out, but these are nuclear facilities that are being blurred out. Would it not make sense, from the purely public health perspective, to hide whatever details that canbe hidden without destroying the integrety of the photo from whatever persons might hold ill intent (we're not even talking terrorism here, radioactive materials make bank on the black market) so that any actuall information gathering they do would have to be onsite, where the facility is monitored and suspicious activity can be very easily dealt with because they so conveniently showed up on the facility's doorstep?
What's so important about having an unimpeded aereal view of the top of a building, anyway? Or a parking lot? It's not like you're watching the images in real-time, so whatever you do get to see would be old information. The purpose for a map is to reference a location in space, not to provide intimate details of every building you should happen to look up.
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Because we all know there's no way a bunch of bearded thugs could POSSIBLY take down a couple of 110 story buildings, especially in the heart of New York City. What could we have to fear from them? We have digital watches and push around little green pieces of paper!
The Brute Shot (the "cannon/blade thing") doesn't seem all that useful...'till it's all you've got and have to get used to it. A friend of mine and I wanted to switch things up in multiplayer a bit, so we did a "Slayer" with Brute Shot's being the only weapon available. He's a sniper, I'm a "John Wayne", and the Brute Shot turned out to be a perfectly balanced weapon for both of us, allowing for ranged fun, as well as the "sneak up and stab 'em", and also being good for just wading in to combat and slapping your finger on the trigger. My only disapointment with the weapon after that? The thing needs a belt feeder, it runs out of ammo too quick!
Unless you have a magical "box of no box" that users can somehow manipulate the VM with their brain alone, there's hardware in the mix somewhere. Where there's hardware and users in the same room, you can bet that at some point the hardware will get screwed up in some way. They could change the mouse without your knowledge and that'd be enough to bork the VM, at least in my experience.
It's nice that your personal experience is pretty good, and I congratulate you on having a pretty headache-free run with VM's. My professional experience in having to do the upkeep on a corporate network of the monsters is quite the opposite. No matter how well configured, no matter how well tweeked, no matter how good the technician, there's going to be far, far more headaches involved than just running "fat" machines at each desktop.
Which is one reason I said, "I can't speak for Linux or MacOS X..." I'm sure there's some company out there who is working on VMs for Macs, probably even Apple themselves. I'm speaking from professional, on the job experience with Windows VMs.
They...
...suck!
The reason it broke? Hmm...let's see, it broke because it was a Tuesday, it broke because the user was wearing a green hat, it broke because it was having personal issues at home and just couldn't focus that day.
Sure, there was a real, honest to goodness, technical reason why the VM went down every single time, but I can count on my hand the number of unique reasons for breakage. Normally, each and every single problem was exactly the same one I'd fixed on the same damn machine the day before, or on another machine, or had the server guys fix, or had the network people fix...
While limited use VMs are great for things like development and troubleshooting, they should NOT be used in a normal business production environment. It simply adds an exponential growth in complexity to the environment that drove me and several other techs that worked on that site absolutely nuts.
...or Mac type VMs, but as for Windows... ...don't. It's a massive nightmare. Any changes, and I mean any changes to the base configuration of the computer the user is sitting at result in unforseeable and often nightmarish problems with the virtual machine. It's especially bad with any proprietary software which may or may not have been designed to be flexible enough to handle virtualization. Then there's network problems, which are too numerous to really go into.
Just don't do Windows on a VM. It sucks.
Do you work at my old job? 'cause that sounds awefully familiar.