Oh I have high quality power surpression on all the wall outlets that I connect computers or AV equipment to. So well a surge could happen it would have to make it through a very high quality surve power bar and a UPS. So I'm not actually worried about it. The PSU's in all my computers are also super high quality, so if they did every blow ( which hasn't happened to me ) I would jsut prosue the manufacture because they're covered. For me none of the data is really so important that I'm going to take additional steps to be safe.
There are a few issues with this, the first is that just because a judge rules doesn't mean he rules the right way, lots of innocent people end up in jail.
The second major issue is that he can't prove anything from the first chapter of the bible actually happened. In order to prove it he would have to throw out all evidence or scientific reasoning behind the big bang as well as all the proof of evolution and the million of fossil records. If he manages to get that far we should still be taxed with the overwhelming task of proving or at least demonstrating that the universe appeared out of nothing and at the EXACT same point and time the earth appeared full of animals.
He's put forth a game he can never win, he can never put together reasonable evidence to back his side up. In fact to disprove Genesis all you need to do is to prove that the earth didn't exist at the exact moment the universe came into existence. I would actually be willing to take this challenge on because in an attempt to prove a literal interpretation Genesis he'll actually be giving the evolutionists a hand!
I believe a higher power might exist but as for the bible, it's toilet paper.
Fire anyone who hold the shipment up, complains about the packaging or manages to lose the package. If your going to work for the postal service you need to show no basis towards any packaging.
There is no link between violence and video games! If there was a link between violence and video games then there would be a link between other genre's of video games like fantasy and human acts, last time I checked no one ever made a turtle cart and raced around town throwing banana's on the ground. I'm sick of hearing how video games are linked to violence. if your sick enough in the head to go a shoot a school then your going to do it regardless of if you play some james bond or battle field. Maybe instead of blaming the games you could blame everyone else who doesn't step in to help these sick assholes before they kill. How about teachers who turn a blind eye cause violence or parents who don't punish create violence, because I can promise that before the video game could have an effect people have already given up.
First, I am getting really tired of websites that don't work on mobile platforms. How hard is it to pick up a tablet or phone and test your website on it before releasing it to the masses. It's the 21st century more people are likely to browser your website on a mobile device then a desktop so stop only creating websites for desktop browsers. More phones ad tablets don't need the mobile version either, most people do not test full desktop sites on a tablet which is why most of them don't work. My Nexus 10 has more pixels then MOST desktop workstations, fucking deal with it properly and stop formatting a website like I am using a VGA phone.
I never said I don't develop for mobile platforms, a mobile platform is still a web platform, the fact you didn't realize that is fine but it doesn't mean you can call me out for not targeting mobile devices.
Secondly, I do all development for free, I don't change for the web sites I create because frankly they're not meant for professional installations, if you take what I give you and you leave the scope I place on it then don't cry to me when it doesn't work.
So what I'm sick of is people who assume outside the box abstracts that make developers like me look bad. If you want a website to work on IE then hire a web developer who will build you a site that will work on IE, I don't promise that and I don't even tell you I'll do that. I make websites to fit the need of a need and not for the general public.
Embedded system developer, I mainly write my own firmwares and operating systems. 90% of the time I work on the Windows platform and then other 10% are custom jobs. I do 0% window's development, I don't even write systems to interface with windows, so hence all my low level code is mostly Linux based.
I'm not about to even try and claim the blue screen isn't useful, it just don't help me personally track down issues. I would rather have raw kernel output with a nice stack trace then see random memory address and a name.sys file.
This is why I don't develop for IE at all. I need a web platform that doesn't break CSS and HTML code. If Microsoft wants to change the string from MSIE to IE then they better have finally fixed CSS and HTML handling. If they have I'm more then happy to support IE as part of my web platform, if not then I'll just have to put an update to block this new IE 11.
Apple just decided to handle it in an elegant way as opposed to windows which handles it in the developer way. I like the Linux / Unix model where you deal with it and don't restart. Restarting should be a last option not a routine operating procedure.
Thats fair, I'm a developer also but still have trouble understanding most of what a blue screen tells me. Granted I got the point of this post wrong so I'll admit that was my mistake.
No, the kernel is responsible to either catching or responding to invalid requests or access. You need to handle them with out needing to restart the computer. In Linux / Unix think about how rare it is for the kernel to actually give up and need a restart of the computer, in fact it almost never happens, I've seen it maybe twice in 12 years. The blue screen really is giving up and just admitting your not good enough to deal with the issue at hand. For another spin of the same view, think about what would happen if an embedded system just gave up and quit and rebooted, most if not all of our devices in day to day life wouldn't work, the internet for one would be a brick if that happened. The blue screen is the lazy approach to OS programming.
The blue screen already contains almost no good or helpful information. A blue effectively says "We did something wrong and can't explain what happened so were just giving up".
If you don't believe a different exists just grab a flac file of your favorite band and that same file as Mp3, Ogg, Wav and anything else you want to try. If you have good hearing and good quality sound equipment you'll hear a dramatic difference. Of course listening to lossless sound files on crappy sound systems will leave you with an experience equal to mp3, this is why it's important for music lovers to always buy the best sound cards possible, at least for computers.
Once again this is the classic issue of what defines a religion. When you get down to it all a religion is, is a set of beliefs that usually follow an un-provable and unrealistic event. Even more so, there is no better "proof" of a religion then a book who's origins read more like a harry potter novel then fact ( The Bible ). So if your going to allow a Catholic Priest to preform Marriages then you MUST ALLOW any one who has a religion to preform the same acts. It's the same logic that must apply to who can wear religious symbols. If the Muslim can wear a Turban then I must be allowed be allowed to wear a woman thong on my head, if I claim it's religious.
So how about we listen to this post and just stop caring at all. If turning your lights off wont help then why even try, lets turn everything on full blast and leave it on.
Well multipurpose devices have certainly been on the rise it doesn't mean that single use devices still don't provide a better experience in that task they're mean't to complete. For instance my smart phone can also be a music player, camera, network share, wallet and a number of other things. Just because my smart phone can take pictures doesn't mean it's camera and therefore I still want a great camera for taking pictures. Just because my smart phone can be my music player doesn't mean it is, I can buy much better stand alone portable systems and so my smart phone doesn't need to fill that area.
My point is that just because everyone is obsessed with compression 10 devices into 1 doesn't mean we get 1 devices which can do 10 tasks. Really all you get in that case is 1 device which can 1 do one thing really well and 9 things rather poorly. In the way a smart phone isn't a good DLSR camera, that same camera could never be a great smart phone. So my tech heap has grown as instead of relying on a few devices to do everything rather poorly, I rely on 20 devices to do 20 things exceptionally well.
That isn't to say for the most people a smart phone can't be a camera, music play, easy bake oven and more but for me it can't be those things.
No one is dumb enough to claim that finger print readers are secure. It's one step up from a password. All you need to get is a finger print from the "doctor" you want to be for the day and with a little effort you can replicate access. Out of all bio-metric security systems, finger prints are pretty insecure.
Samsung are the kings of phone's and they know how to do it right! I switched to the S from blackberry and never looked back, if you want a responsive phone, amazing hardware and software features you got with Samsung. I would never go to any other phone, Blackberry was old and then copied the market. The iPhone has a piss poor design ( just me ), a poor GUI and poor hardware and Samsung is just cutting edge and new. This of course is just what I think but honestly after being a Samsung fan boy I can clearly say I'll never go back.
you can always pick of exceptions to what I said. Most of the people I know who complain about not having time or being to busy are just lying to themselves to prevent from having to do work. Even when I'm busy, which I can admit isn't every day I can still find a hour or even 1/2 hour to do something. On my busiest weeks I probably work 100+hours and yet someone manage to get a workout in. I'm not saying some people aren't to busy but the majority who say they are just have an issue with time management.
I completely agree. Everyone one tells me they don't have the time to go and they have to much work but somehow yet manage to fit 5 hours of TV into the evening. To stay fit, burn fat and keep energized you really only need to work out twice a week, I usually aim for 3 - 4 times. Either go to a gym or stop complaining, you have the time, just go and do it.
This is a great concept, but it falls short because at least in my experience, most of the teachers (educators) I know are computer idiots to put it nicely. The amount of times I would have a question they couldn't answer was sad, even worse is that in grade school ( 1991 - 2000 ) the IT admin also couldn't answer most of them. If a distro exists to help students / educators learn Linux / Computers I think the educators should be the first to get on board and finally globally get those skills where they need to be and not in 1971.
Gaming is a choice that you make, it's no different then gambling, drinking, doing drugs or other addictive activities. My roommate is addicted to playing computer / video games and really from what I've seen hardcore or even regular gaming is just sad. You can become addicted to anything and not get help and not have rights so why should we give special treatment to gamers? The difference between a drinker and a gamer is that one buys the product at another location. The second you give someone addicted to gaming a bill of rights then you need to give each addicted group a bill of rights.
Haven't we already seen this post? How many times have we seen something about Mars having or supporting life? It's getting redundant. I love the fact were still going at it hard but it's sounding like a broken record. There have been at least four other posts in the last few years about the possibility of life on Mars and so when you finally find it, is it that big a deal.
Well if the earth is approx 4 BILLION years old then 4 000 000 000 - 11 300 = 3 999 988 700, meaning that given the age of this planet were actually not in a warming period at all.
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Oh I have high quality power surpression on all the wall outlets that I connect computers or AV equipment to. So well a surge could happen it would have to make it through a very high quality surve power bar and a UPS. So I'm not actually worried about it. The PSU's in all my computers are also super high quality, so if they did every blow ( which hasn't happened to me ) I would jsut prosue the manufacture because they're covered. For me none of the data is really so important that I'm going to take additional steps to be safe.
I always buy hard disks in Pairs and Raid them, each disk has a back up.
There are a few issues with this, the first is that just because a judge rules doesn't mean he rules the right way, lots of innocent people end up in jail.
The second major issue is that he can't prove anything from the first chapter of the bible actually happened. In order to prove it he would have to throw out all evidence or scientific reasoning behind the big bang as well as all the proof of evolution and the million of fossil records. If he manages to get that far we should still be taxed with the overwhelming task of proving or at least demonstrating that the universe appeared out of nothing and at the EXACT same point and time the earth appeared full of animals.
He's put forth a game he can never win, he can never put together reasonable evidence to back his side up. In fact to disprove Genesis all you need to do is to prove that the earth didn't exist at the exact moment the universe came into existence. I would actually be willing to take this challenge on because in an attempt to prove a literal interpretation Genesis he'll actually be giving the evolutionists a hand!
I believe a higher power might exist but as for the bible, it's toilet paper.
Fire anyone who hold the shipment up, complains about the packaging or manages to lose the package. If your going to work for the postal service you need to show no basis towards any packaging.
There is no link between violence and video games! If there was a link between violence and video games then there would be a link between other genre's of video games like fantasy and human acts, last time I checked no one ever made a turtle cart and raced around town throwing banana's on the ground. I'm sick of hearing how video games are linked to violence. if your sick enough in the head to go a shoot a school then your going to do it regardless of if you play some james bond or battle field. Maybe instead of blaming the games you could blame everyone else who doesn't step in to help these sick assholes before they kill. How about teachers who turn a blind eye cause violence or parents who don't punish create violence, because I can promise that before the video game could have an effect people have already given up.
First, I am getting really tired of websites that don't work on mobile platforms. How hard is it to pick up a tablet or phone and test your website on it before releasing it to the masses. It's the 21st century more people are likely to browser your website on a mobile device then a desktop so stop only creating websites for desktop browsers. More phones ad tablets don't need the mobile version either, most people do not test full desktop sites on a tablet which is why most of them don't work. My Nexus 10 has more pixels then MOST desktop workstations, fucking deal with it properly and stop formatting a website like I am using a VGA phone.
I never said I don't develop for mobile platforms, a mobile platform is still a web platform, the fact you didn't realize that is fine but it doesn't mean you can call me out for not targeting mobile devices.
Secondly, I do all development for free, I don't change for the web sites I create because frankly they're not meant for professional installations, if you take what I give you and you leave the scope I place on it then don't cry to me when it doesn't work.
So what I'm sick of is people who assume outside the box abstracts that make developers like me look bad. If you want a website to work on IE then hire a web developer who will build you a site that will work on IE, I don't promise that and I don't even tell you I'll do that. I make websites to fit the need of a need and not for the general public.
Embedded system developer, I mainly write my own firmwares and operating systems. 90% of the time I work on the Windows platform and then other 10% are custom jobs. I do 0% window's development, I don't even write systems to interface with windows, so hence all my low level code is mostly Linux based.
I'm not about to even try and claim the blue screen isn't useful, it just don't help me personally track down issues. I would rather have raw kernel output with a nice stack trace then see random memory address and a name.sys file.
This is why I don't develop for IE at all. I need a web platform that doesn't break CSS and HTML code. If Microsoft wants to change the string from MSIE to IE then they better have finally fixed CSS and HTML handling. If they have I'm more then happy to support IE as part of my web platform, if not then I'll just have to put an update to block this new IE 11.
Apple just decided to handle it in an elegant way as opposed to windows which handles it in the developer way. I like the Linux / Unix model where you deal with it and don't restart. Restarting should be a last option not a routine operating procedure.
Thats fair, I'm a developer also but still have trouble understanding most of what a blue screen tells me. Granted I got the point of this post wrong so I'll admit that was my mistake.
No, the kernel is responsible to either catching or responding to invalid requests or access. You need to handle them with out needing to restart the computer. In Linux / Unix think about how rare it is for the kernel to actually give up and need a restart of the computer, in fact it almost never happens, I've seen it maybe twice in 12 years. The blue screen really is giving up and just admitting your not good enough to deal with the issue at hand. For another spin of the same view, think about what would happen if an embedded system just gave up and quit and rebooted, most if not all of our devices in day to day life wouldn't work, the internet for one would be a brick if that happened. The blue screen is the lazy approach to OS programming.
The blue screen already contains almost no good or helpful information. A blue effectively says "We did something wrong and can't explain what happened so were just giving up".
If you don't believe a different exists just grab a flac file of your favorite band and that same file as Mp3, Ogg, Wav and anything else you want to try. If you have good hearing and good quality sound equipment you'll hear a dramatic difference. Of course listening to lossless sound files on crappy sound systems will leave you with an experience equal to mp3, this is why it's important for music lovers to always buy the best sound cards possible, at least for computers.
Once again this is the classic issue of what defines a religion. When you get down to it all a religion is, is a set of beliefs that usually follow an un-provable and unrealistic event. Even more so, there is no better "proof" of a religion then a book who's origins read more like a harry potter novel then fact ( The Bible ). So if your going to allow a Catholic Priest to preform Marriages then you MUST ALLOW any one who has a religion to preform the same acts. It's the same logic that must apply to who can wear religious symbols. If the Muslim can wear a Turban then I must be allowed be allowed to wear a woman thong on my head, if I claim it's religious.
So how about we listen to this post and just stop caring at all. If turning your lights off wont help then why even try, lets turn everything on full blast and leave it on.
Well multipurpose devices have certainly been on the rise it doesn't mean that single use devices still don't provide a better experience in that task they're mean't to complete. For instance my smart phone can also be a music player, camera, network share, wallet and a number of other things. Just because my smart phone can take pictures doesn't mean it's camera and therefore I still want a great camera for taking pictures. Just because my smart phone can be my music player doesn't mean it is, I can buy much better stand alone portable systems and so my smart phone doesn't need to fill that area.
My point is that just because everyone is obsessed with compression 10 devices into 1 doesn't mean we get 1 devices which can do 10 tasks. Really all you get in that case is 1 device which can 1 do one thing really well and 9 things rather poorly. In the way a smart phone isn't a good DLSR camera, that same camera could never be a great smart phone. So my tech heap has grown as instead of relying on a few devices to do everything rather poorly, I rely on 20 devices to do 20 things exceptionally well.
That isn't to say for the most people a smart phone can't be a camera, music play, easy bake oven and more but for me it can't be those things.
No one is dumb enough to claim that finger print readers are secure. It's one step up from a password. All you need to get is a finger print from the "doctor" you want to be for the day and with a little effort you can replicate access. Out of all bio-metric security systems, finger prints are pretty insecure.
Samsung are the kings of phone's and they know how to do it right! I switched to the S from blackberry and never looked back, if you want a responsive phone, amazing hardware and software features you got with Samsung. I would never go to any other phone, Blackberry was old and then copied the market. The iPhone has a piss poor design ( just me ), a poor GUI and poor hardware and Samsung is just cutting edge and new. This of course is just what I think but honestly after being a Samsung fan boy I can clearly say I'll never go back.
you can always pick of exceptions to what I said. Most of the people I know who complain about not having time or being to busy are just lying to themselves to prevent from having to do work. Even when I'm busy, which I can admit isn't every day I can still find a hour or even 1/2 hour to do something. On my busiest weeks I probably work 100+hours and yet someone manage to get a workout in. I'm not saying some people aren't to busy but the majority who say they are just have an issue with time management.
I completely agree. Everyone one tells me they don't have the time to go and they have to much work but somehow yet manage to fit 5 hours of TV into the evening. To stay fit, burn fat and keep energized you really only need to work out twice a week, I usually aim for 3 - 4 times. Either go to a gym or stop complaining, you have the time, just go and do it.
This is a great concept, but it falls short because at least in my experience, most of the teachers (educators) I know are computer idiots to put it nicely. The amount of times I would have a question they couldn't answer was sad, even worse is that in grade school ( 1991 - 2000 ) the IT admin also couldn't answer most of them. If a distro exists to help students / educators learn Linux / Computers I think the educators should be the first to get on board and finally globally get those skills where they need to be and not in 1971.
Gaming is a choice that you make, it's no different then gambling, drinking, doing drugs or other addictive activities. My roommate is addicted to playing computer / video games and really from what I've seen hardcore or even regular gaming is just sad. You can become addicted to anything and not get help and not have rights so why should we give special treatment to gamers? The difference between a drinker and a gamer is that one buys the product at another location. The second you give someone addicted to gaming a bill of rights then you need to give each addicted group a bill of rights.
Haven't we already seen this post? How many times have we seen something about Mars having or supporting life? It's getting redundant. I love the fact were still going at it hard but it's sounding like a broken record. There have been at least four other posts in the last few years about the possibility of life on Mars and so when you finally find it, is it that big a deal.
On slashdot using numbers to constitute a joke is a trolling remark.
Well if the earth is approx 4 BILLION years old then 4 000 000 000 - 11 300 = 3 999 988 700, meaning that given the age of this planet were actually not in a warming period at all.