The civilian deaths in Iraq (attacked illegally and under false pretenses) have topped 100,000. That enough of a non-vengeance ? (Iraq as a whole, and those victims in particular, had nothing to do with 9/11). I find it ironic that more americans have died in that war than in 9/11.
Remind me, who's evil ?
PS: Are there still people who believe than the war in Iraq is about Hussein, not oil and spoils for friends and family ?
As your first sentence highlights by default, the US are not officially at war there. The slippery slope is there: Fighting wars (approved by Congress) -> fighting non-wars (not approved by Congress) -> Remotely assassinating at will (whim ?) terrorist, then military, then political, opponents, then bystanders.
Retroactively booting a president who erred on the side of slaughter is a dim compensation to his victims.
This is the exact same behaviour as terrorism. They won.
Actually, the luxury market is fairly resistant to downturns. Most crises affect mainly the poor, then the middle class. The rich are and will be OK.
Also, as seen with tablets, Apple has so much scale now that they can even compete on price. They've been very quiet on the desktop front, it wouldn't take much to give a nice fillip to their share there.
I find the card interface is an irritating gimmick. It does nothing more than a regular task bar, takes up a whole screen to do it, and is slowish. Granted, throwing away apps instead of closing them is a small rush, but really, the card interface is wildly over-hyped.
you are the idiot. Amazon wants a tablet locked in to their content. webOS provides much better lock-in than a neutered vesion of Android that's sure to be hacked and forced open sooner or later. Amazon is probably the only player aside from Apple/Google/MS to be in a position to create and support an ecosystem.
It's very good you're asking that question, I shudder to thing how many people I know have no backups of their all-important memorabilia.
The best solution by far is a dumb local backup. Not raid, not cloud, good old-fashioned backup to a second hard disk. As long as everything fits in 4TB, it's easy, since it fits on a single hard disk. If you start to have to juggle several hard drives, or buy expensive multi-disk enclosures, this becomes a pain, but is still the only long-term-proof solution.
Important things about backups: they are - offline, so that a virus, clumsy nephew, vindicative ex, half-asleep self, can't delete/damage/contaminate them by mistake or willfully - off-site, so that a burglary, fire.. doesn't destroy the backup as well as the original. Keep it in your desk at work for example, or at your 'rents. - tested, I've come across several instances of people who *thought* they had a backup... and maybe they had, but... they couldn't restore it. - multiple, because of murphy's law. Now that can get expensive.
Other remarks: - most real-life problems are "user" problems: virus, accidental deletion, even file corruption. - optical disks are not very good back-ups. My 10 yo CDs, brand- and no-name, have a very high failure rate (30% ?). There are archival-grade DVDs/BR, I have no info on them. - RAID is not a backup: it's online (so any goof-up, virus.. destroys all your files), on-site (so burglars take everything), un-tested (so a bug in the OS, RAID driver, app, user... can contaminate your files for weeks, months, years w/o you realizing it), and less than single let alone multiple (it's not even a backup) - online as a second backup is nice. Not as a primary backup, you never know when you'll be cut off - don't use fancy backup formats or software. Plain old rsynch / xxcopy / synctoy work fine, do reliable differential backups, and leave your files in their original formats, which is much easier to fix/salvage in case the backup gets corrupted.
I went and browsed the "regression" part. The text isn't bad, very geared towards validating evidence/procedures rather than generating those, which seems logical. But most pages are more than half footnotes; one of the early pages actually has 3 lines of text and the rest is footnotes.
Sophism. Religion/politics embracing idiots does not mean all people into religion/politics are idiots. Actually, there are some very clever people working those systems.
Indeed, being right is more important than being nice or popular. I'm not a politician.
You're also being offensive (actually your language is stronger than mine), but wrong (based on a sophism). Isn't that worse than being offensive and right ?
And the final comparison between "The scientific world rejects idiots. Religion and politics (is there a difference ?) actually need to embrace/recruit them." and " wearing a 'kill all fags' T-shirt" does not make sense, except as a baseless, dramatic, exaggeration. To be clear, I'm not advocating killing anyone;science-minded people rarely do, as opposed to religious/political ones. You not spotting that is worrying. Also, I'm not arguing against idiots, but against organizations designed to pander to/take advantage of them. I don't think there's anything wrong with being an idiot (nor gay), especially since both are pretty inevitable. I do think it's wrong for organizations to knowingly disregard truth and/or ethics to pander/recruit/exploit either or both.
I love the outraged reactions of senators out for a cheap shot against a non-campaign-contributor, after having been so silent on so many more egregious cases.
and then the GPS cuts off your engine / dumps your remaining fuel once you're right next to a service station, and the bio-chhip in your kids makes them hungry whenever you're close to a Mickey D. Off to the patent office for me !
I bought a passive E-350 board from Asus, and put it in a passive, well ventilated case vertically mounted behind my monitor. Temp was 60-65C, so I added a small and whiny fan.
The question could be put backwards: what's the reason for having an x86 computer ? In my case, I don't game much anymore, I use OpenOffice... apart from dual-screen support, the Pi-B at $35 does everything I need, though more RAM would be nice. Actually getting 2 Pis for fake dual screen will turn out cheaper than my current nettop. Once iOS and Android get their "big screen" interfaces right (and Android seems well on its way with 4.x), we can even take advantage of all the mobile apps out there, which are typically much cheaper and more accessible than their desktop versions.
I have no clue which other codecs are required and not free. Probably MPEG-2, MPEG-3... I'm guessing the total quickly reaches $1-$3, which is 5-15% of $25 and is, comparatively, a lot.
The $25-PC Raspberry Pi project is struggling about which codecs to include right. Even at a few bucks or less a codec, that's a huge cost when you try to hit $25 for a functional PC.
How many politicians are there that we can be proud of ? I'm French, so I'm accounted for ^^ The US have jumped from Clinton to Sonny Bush to Obama, the USSR have Putin, the Canada just recently lost half of theirs, Belgium seem to have lost all of them... I have nothing on Cameron and Merkel, but I'm not following very closely.
Berlusconi is slightly worse than those, but not at lot.
They seem to have run out of ideas, like Dell in the hardware space. Waiting for someone to spot/create a market and then validate by growing it before making any move means you're always simply too late. It's not fatal in hardware, or even in software, but in online where network effects are even stronger, 2 years late = very uphill battle. See Windows Phone, bing, Azure,...
MS need to be first... somewhere... and then milk that relentlessly, like Google is doing with search and online profiling.
Buying Skype is a way to buy "first" at something.
I think that won't happen because phone manufacturers want to keep selling phones, and carriers want you to commit to another 2yr contract for your subsidy.
The realistic best we can get is hackable phones and CM7, because hacking frightens most people off so it won't break that upgrade loop as far as most users are concerned; and it targets geeks who will mostly update asap anyway.
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The civilian deaths in Iraq (attacked illegally and under false pretenses) have topped 100,000. That enough of a non-vengeance ? (Iraq as a whole, and those victims in particular, had nothing to do with 9/11). I find it ironic that more americans have died in that war than in 9/11.
Remind me, who's evil ?
PS: Are there still people who believe than the war in Iraq is about Hussein, not oil and spoils for friends and family ?
As your first sentence highlights by default, the US are not officially at war there. The slippery slope is there: Fighting wars (approved by Congress) -> fighting non-wars (not approved by Congress) -> Remotely assassinating at will (whim ?) terrorist, then military, then political, opponents, then bystanders.
Retroactively booting a president who erred on the side of slaughter is a dim compensation to his victims.
This is the exact same behaviour as terrorism. They won.
Actually, the luxury market is fairly resistant to downturns. Most crises affect mainly the poor, then the middle class. The rich are and will be OK.
Also, as seen with tablets, Apple has so much scale now that they can even compete on price. They've been very quiet on the desktop front, it wouldn't take much to give a nice fillip to their share there.
I find the card interface is an irritating gimmick. It does nothing more than a regular task bar, takes up a whole screen to do it, and is slowish. Granted, throwing away apps instead of closing them is a small rush, but really, the card interface is wildly over-hyped.
you are the idiot. Amazon wants a tablet locked in to their content. webOS provides much better lock-in than a neutered vesion of Android that's sure to be hacked and forced open sooner or later. Amazon is probably the only player aside from Apple/Google/MS to be in a position to create and support an ecosystem.
It's very good you're asking that question, I shudder to thing how many people I know have no backups of their all-important memorabilia.
The best solution by far is a dumb local backup. Not raid, not cloud, good old-fashioned backup to a second hard disk. As long as everything fits in 4TB, it's easy, since it fits on a single hard disk. If you start to have to juggle several hard drives, or buy expensive multi-disk enclosures, this becomes a pain, but is still the only long-term-proof solution.
Important things about backups: they are
- offline, so that a virus, clumsy nephew, vindicative ex, half-asleep self, can't delete/damage/contaminate them by mistake or willfully
- off-site, so that a burglary, fire.. doesn't destroy the backup as well as the original. Keep it in your desk at work for example, or at your 'rents.
- tested, I've come across several instances of people who *thought* they had a backup... and maybe they had, but... they couldn't restore it.
- multiple, because of murphy's law. Now that can get expensive.
Other remarks:
- most real-life problems are "user" problems: virus, accidental deletion, even file corruption.
- optical disks are not very good back-ups. My 10 yo CDs, brand- and no-name, have a very high failure rate (30% ?). There are archival-grade DVDs/BR, I have no info on them.
- RAID is not a backup: it's online (so any goof-up, virus.. destroys all your files), on-site (so burglars take everything), un-tested (so a bug in the OS, RAID driver, app, user... can contaminate your files for weeks, months, years w/o you realizing it), and less than single let alone multiple (it's not even a backup)
- online as a second backup is nice. Not as a primary backup, you never know when you'll be cut off
- don't use fancy backup formats or software. Plain old rsynch / xxcopy / synctoy work fine, do reliable differential backups, and leave your files in their original formats, which is much easier to fix/salvage in case the backup gets corrupted.
I went and browsed the "regression" part. The text isn't bad, very geared towards validating evidence/procedures rather than generating those, which seems logical. But most pages are more than half footnotes; one of the early pages actually has 3 lines of text and the rest is footnotes.
Sophism. Religion/politics embracing idiots does not mean all people into religion/politics are idiots. Actually, there are some very clever people working those systems.
Indeed, being right is more important than being nice or popular. I'm not a politician.
You're also being offensive (actually your language is stronger than mine), but wrong (based on a sophism). Isn't that worse than being offensive and right ?
And the final comparison between "The scientific world rejects idiots. Religion and politics (is there a difference ?) actually need to embrace/recruit them." and " wearing a 'kill all fags' T-shirt" does not make sense, except as a baseless, dramatic, exaggeration. To be clear, I'm not advocating killing anyone;science-minded people rarely do, as opposed to religious/political ones. You not spotting that is worrying. Also, I'm not arguing against idiots, but against organizations designed to pander to/take advantage of them. I don't think there's anything wrong with being an idiot (nor gay), especially since both are pretty inevitable. I do think it's wrong for organizations to knowingly disregard truth and/or ethics to pander/recruit/exploit either or both.
it's idiots vs science.
The scientific world rejects idiots. Religion and politics (is there a difference ?) actually need to embrace/recruit them.
Guess who's more numerous.
wouldn't he part the bathwater anyway ?
You don't, you take it on faith and track record. Which is vastly superior to faith and no track record.
Actually, that took 5 years, and the negotiations with Bethesda, 45.
I love the outraged reactions of senators out for a cheap shot against a non-campaign-contributor, after having been so silent on so many more egregious cases.
RICO should apply ^^
the internet the web. The guys in the story are certainly not doing web stuff.
nice rant though.
and then the GPS cuts off your engine / dumps your remaining fuel once you're right next to a service station, and the bio-chhip in your kids makes them hungry whenever you're close to a Mickey D. Off to the patent office for me !
Wrong. You're too boring, t'is all.
FB is for 12 yo girls. Isn't the "unfriend" drama part of the attraction ?
I bought a passive E-350 board from Asus, and put it in a passive, well ventilated case vertically mounted behind my monitor. Temp was 60-65C, so I added a small and whiny fan.
The question could be put backwards: what's the reason for having an x86 computer ?
In my case, I don't game much anymore, I use OpenOffice... apart from dual-screen support, the Pi-B at $35 does everything I need, though more RAM would be nice. Actually getting 2 Pis for fake dual screen will turn out cheaper than my current nettop.
Once iOS and Android get their "big screen" interfaces right (and Android seems well on its way with 4.x), we can even take advantage of all the mobile apps out there, which are typically much cheaper and more accessible than their desktop versions.
I have no clue which other codecs are required and not free. Probably MPEG-2, MPEG-3... I'm guessing the total quickly reaches $1-$3, which is 5-15% of $25 and is, comparatively, a lot.
The $25-PC Raspberry Pi project is struggling about which codecs to include right. Even at a few bucks or less a codec, that's a huge cost when you try to hit $25 for a functional PC.
in the last line of my post.
How many politicians are there that we can be proud of ? I'm French, so I'm accounted for ^^ The US have jumped from Clinton to Sonny Bush to Obama, the USSR have Putin, the Canada just recently lost half of theirs, Belgium seem to have lost all of them... I have nothing on Cameron and Merkel, but I'm not following very closely.
Berlusconi is slightly worse than those, but not at lot.
They seem to have run out of ideas, like Dell in the hardware space. Waiting for someone to spot/create a market and then validate by growing it before making any move means you're always simply too late. It's not fatal in hardware, or even in software, but in online where network effects are even stronger, 2 years late = very uphill battle. See Windows Phone, bing, Azure, ...
MS need to be first... somewhere... and then milk that relentlessly, like Google is doing with search and online profiling.
Buying Skype is a way to buy "first" at something.
I think that won't happen because phone manufacturers want to keep selling phones, and carriers want you to commit to another 2yr contract for your subsidy.
The realistic best we can get is hackable phones and CM7, because hacking frightens most people off so it won't break that upgrade loop as far as most users are concerned; and it targets geeks who will mostly update asap anyway.