Not to mention, the laptop's yet to be piloted in any real-world implementations, so wherever this money's coming from, it may not really be going anywhere.
Two things - a common theme in the book is that leaving Britain seemed to be a valid way to escape Voldy, which supports the independent nations theory. Also, perhaps if things continued to go bad for the British, perhaps the larger wizarding world would have joined in; not unlike Dumbledore waiting a rather long time before dueling Grindelwald, or the rest of the world not really caring that much about the atrocities of Nazi Germany until they started invading other countries.
Not really; your points are all valid. Can a person choose their patronus form and more than their animagus form? For James/Lily to have such obviously compatible patronus forms, and James' patronus to be the same as his animagus form...
I seem to recall that the Dementors did fight with Voldy the first round, and it was a sticking point between Dumbledore and the Ministry that they continued to enable them to exist.
Alternate story: In a galaxy, far, far away... Snape is tired of being a moisture farmer, leaves home to join a rebellious training program, falls in love with a girl who turns out to be his sister (explaining the duplicate patronus) but in a twist of plot lines, falls to the Dark Arts, while a daring, dashing young man and his furry werewolf sidekick who gets out of hand at times charms the girl... Luckily, a wise but mysterious and ancient teacher realizes there is still good hidden deep inside the dark wizard that is Snape...
another thought on the doe: maybe Lily's patronus was the doe, and James chose his stag form based on that, whereas Snape just tried to mimic?
Voldy's dislike for academia was played on in this book, glossing over his hard work at figuring out Horcruxes in the first place. Hm.
Another misstep with the Hallows was Ollivander not ever having heard of them. Certainly the chief wand-maker in England would've at least come across the stories of the three brothers and make the connection between the Elder Wand and the Hallows? Or at least read it in passing in Wanding Weekly or the like?
The sword was indeed confusing. no answers on that one.
Also, I guess pendants/jewelry don't count as clothing, or else Kreacher got freed when they gave him RAB's fake locket.
Also, I don't see any organization choosing a pricier, harder-to-repair/upgrade, easier-to-steal/lose/break solution to put on employees' desks. Sure, your average home user will move towards laptops because they want to carry it into the living room/kitchen/yard or on vacation, and don't play high-end games on it. I don't see organizations changing to laptops any more than they already are doing.
We just encrypt everything with Rot13? It benchmarks favourably in terms of security with such industry standards as CSS and WMA, both of which are broken.
I reply - even better, we have the DMCA already on the books; so legally ROT13 is just as secure as any other protection mechanism, if you break it, you can be sued. This is the case, I propose DRM move to Double-ROT13. ROT13 is an old method, and like DES moving to TripleDES (3DES), ROT13 should update to 2ROT13 for increased security AND performance - even better, it works out of the box on existing players - zero compatibility problems, no need to worry about whiny users with old or new technology.
Why bother transferring, if you already have a requirement to have pilots in/near the theater? I guess you could have one or two local pilots handling a queue of takeoffs/landings and then a larger bank of remote pilots?
Privoxy, on the other hand, may quickly be able to prevent this hassle. Or a well trained firewall. Or, of course, using an OS that spends its cycles providing you with utility, productivity, information and eye candy, rather than advertisements. But who'd want that?
What's the lagtime from (a) the I hope really solid crypto guarding the command link and (b) the raw distance between the human sitting in Nevada and the actions of the drone in Iraq? It seems that might have some rather horrific downsides in combat situations?
Another angle is that MS wants to block Google from doing this, escalating their classic vaporware tactics to the IP stage. Google'd be hard put to offer a "google desktop" or "google OS" that didn't violate this patent in one way or the other.
others report things like the mouse suddenly failing to work or long periods of hard drive thrashing. In some cases a hard reboot seems to fix the problem, but other reports suggest that a reinstallation of the.NET framework itself is required
Wait; so, random failures, hard drive thrashing, rebooting and/or reinstalling works? Isn't that the normal user experience in Windows anyhow?
And there's also the forcibly-change-over-to-gmail option - we had some important aolusers (board members) at a previous job; they never got important board listserv emails or massmails or such, they refused to leave AOL and we couldn't afford any of the solutions to get around the AOL blocking.
So I created individual gmail accounts for all the aolusers which we sent to, and set the gmail accounts to auto forward to their AOL accounts. Problem solved.
Seriously, though, the article seemed to focus on all the possible ways Linux might be being undercounted - proxies/NATs, installation of multiple systems from one downloaded CD, bittorrent distribution, spoofed HTTP headers, being counted under "unknown"
I call bullshit. Most of these also apply to Windows, the main advantage in counting windows being "Genuine Advantage" Still, my workplace has a MS site license and is NATted; are we fully and accurately counted? What about global piracy rates of Windows lowering their official numbers?
The real problem here is that there's both a lack of precision and accuracy. Accuracy is getting the actual right number - sure, the article reminds us all of the reasons we'll never get this (nor will Microsoft, though Apple might have better luck now that they're back to being the only HW manufacturer). What we need to focus on is precision - deciding on a cross-platform close to valid measure, and apply that blindly. Will it be accurate? Probably not, but what we need is precise and fair.
While there have been some claims that Microsoft's distribution of certificates for Novell support services, under our interoperability collaboration with Novell, constitutes acceptance of the GPLv3 license, we do not believe that such claims have a valid legal basis under contract, intellectual property, or any other law.
I think credit scores are rapidly going the way of SSNs - a number that gets increasingly used where it shouldn't be, which means we need some active, federal-level legislation which reveals when and where it is getting used as well as restricting it.
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Not to mention, the laptop's yet to be piloted in any real-world implementations, so wherever this money's coming from, it may not really be going anywhere.
Two things - a common theme in the book is that leaving Britain seemed to be a valid way to escape Voldy, which supports the independent nations theory. Also, perhaps if things continued to go bad for the British, perhaps the larger wizarding world would have joined in; not unlike Dumbledore waiting a rather long time before dueling Grindelwald, or the rest of the world not really caring that much about the atrocities of Nazi Germany until they started invading other countries.
Not really; your points are all valid. Can a person choose their patronus form and more than their animagus form? For James/Lily to have such obviously compatible patronus forms, and James' patronus to be the same as his animagus form...
... Snape is tired of being a moisture farmer, leaves home to join a rebellious training program, falls in love with a girl who turns out to be his sister (explaining the duplicate patronus) but in a twist of plot lines, falls to the Dark Arts, while a daring, dashing young man and his furry werewolf sidekick who gets out of hand at times charms the girl... Luckily, a wise but mysterious and ancient teacher realizes there is still good hidden deep inside the dark wizard that is Snape...
I seem to recall that the Dementors did fight with Voldy the first round, and it was a sticking point between Dumbledore and the Ministry that they continued to enable them to exist.
Alternate story: In a galaxy, far, far away
Hm.
also:
Harry not moving when Voldemort cast a Crucio on him?
I understand not screaming, since the pain can be resisted somewhat. But not even twitching?
Obviously, Harry was still semi-transparent and flickering with immunity after having cashed in a +1UP, and didn't feel the pain.
another thought on the doe: maybe Lily's patronus was the doe, and James chose his stag form based on that, whereas Snape just tried to mimic?
Voldy's dislike for academia was played on in this book, glossing over his hard work at figuring out Horcruxes in the first place. Hm.
Another misstep with the Hallows was Ollivander not ever having heard of them. Certainly the chief wand-maker in England would've at least come across the stories of the three brothers and make the connection between the Elder Wand and the Hallows? Or at least read it in passing in Wanding Weekly or the like?
The sword was indeed confusing. no answers on that one.
Also, I guess pendants/jewelry don't count as clothing, or else Kreacher got freed when they gave him RAB's fake locket.
Also, I don't see any organization choosing a pricier, harder-to-repair/upgrade, easier-to-steal/lose/break solution to put on employees' desks. Sure, your average home user will move towards laptops because they want to carry it into the living room/kitchen/yard or on vacation, and don't play high-end games on it. I don't see organizations changing to laptops any more than they already are doing.
That comment reads (in ROT13):
We just encrypt everything with Rot13? It benchmarks favourably in terms of security with such industry standards as CSS and WMA, both of which are broken.
I reply - even better, we have the DMCA already on the books; so legally ROT13 is just as secure as any other protection mechanism, if you break it, you can be sued. This is the case, I propose DRM move to Double-ROT13. ROT13 is an old method, and like DES moving to TripleDES (3DES), ROT13 should update to 2ROT13 for increased security AND performance - even better, it works out of the box on existing players - zero compatibility problems, no need to worry about whiny users with old or new technology.
Also, never ever tell them you're running Linux, because certainly they'll say say it's not supported and they can't help.
Why bother transferring, if you already have a requirement to have pilots in/near the theater? I guess you could have one or two local pilots handling a queue of takeoffs/landings and then a larger bank of remote pilots?
Regardless, 3 seconds is pretty impressive.
Privoxy, on the other hand, may quickly be able to prevent this hassle. Or a well trained firewall. Or, of course, using an OS that spends its cycles providing you with utility, productivity, information and eye candy, rather than advertisements. But who'd want that?
What's the lagtime from (a) the I hope really solid crypto guarding the command link and (b) the raw distance between the human sitting in Nevada and the actions of the drone in Iraq? It seems that might have some rather horrific downsides in combat situations?
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IAWTC - this totally worked for me. Also with a little work you can get much better eye candy on less powerful hardware, I've noticed.
Another angle is that MS wants to block Google from doing this, escalating their classic vaporware tactics to the IP stage. Google'd be hard put to offer a "google desktop" or "google OS" that didn't violate this patent in one way or the other.
+1 insightful to your post pondering the insightfulness of my post!
It was 3, Funny last I looked. Now the moderation totals are:
30% Insightful
20% Flamebait
20% Troll
Ah, slashdot.
others report things like the mouse suddenly failing to work or long periods of hard drive thrashing. In some cases a hard reboot seems to fix the problem, but other reports suggest that a reinstallation of the .NET framework itself is required
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Wait; so, random failures, hard drive thrashing, rebooting and/or reinstalling works? Isn't that the normal user experience in Windows anyhow?
DUPE!
Indeed, I often rip my DVDs to insure against scratches, especially if I plan on loaning them to friends, carrying on a trip, etc.
And there's also the forcibly-change-over-to-gmail option - we had some important aolusers (board members) at a previous job; they never got important board listserv emails or massmails or such, they refused to leave AOL and we couldn't afford any of the solutions to get around the AOL blocking.
So I created individual gmail accounts for all the aolusers which we sent to, and set the gmail accounts to auto forward to their AOL accounts. Problem solved.
Importantly, does ingimp track crashes?
Are we just counting legal windows copies? That makes it a lot easier, but also a much smaller number...
Seriously, though, the article seemed to focus on all the possible ways Linux might be being undercounted - proxies/NATs, installation of multiple systems from one downloaded CD, bittorrent distribution, spoofed HTTP headers, being counted under "unknown"
I call bullshit. Most of these also apply to Windows, the main advantage in counting windows being "Genuine Advantage" Still, my workplace has a MS site license and is NATted; are we fully and accurately counted? What about global piracy rates of Windows lowering their official numbers?
The real problem here is that there's both a lack of precision and accuracy. Accuracy is getting the actual right number - sure, the article reminds us all of the reasons we'll never get this (nor will Microsoft, though Apple might have better luck now that they're back to being the only HW manufacturer). What we need to focus on is precision - deciding on a cross-platform close to valid measure, and apply that blindly. Will it be accurate? Probably not, but what we need is precise and fair.
Now if we can somehow link punch card size to automobile size, we can expand the whole cars-based-on-horse-butt-sizes metaphor to cover code! woot?
Fixed that for you.
FTA:
I think credit scores are rapidly going the way of SSNs - a number that gets increasingly used where it shouldn't be, which means we need some active, federal-level legislation which reveals when and where it is getting used as well as restricting it.
Not true - credit scores affect everything from card rates if you have to carry a balance to things as distant as car insurance premiums.