Exactly. It's the same thing with cars. If I knew that I could not sell my used car for something, I would keep it until it was absolutely worthless. That might delay me purchasing a new car by 5 or 10 years. The fact of the matter is that people who play games don't just sell off all their games and quit playing new ones (usually). They will take some or all of the money they get back and use it to buy other games.
Oh I know they have hacked together a way to simulate a right click, but for some tasks its just not convenient. There are times when I do need to hit both buttons at once, and must resort to a mouse. I had a Macbook Pro for years (work issued). I am aware of the ways to fake a right click.
What is this right click that you speak of? The lack of a right mouse button on the track pad is the main reason I would never buy a mac laptop (although my mac mini is nice, with my logitech mouse).
Why do Japanese students tend to do so much better then american students, simple they compete in mental subjects, the grades are posted on a giant board for everyone to see, and are ranked from smartest to dumbest. In america grades are confidential, we can't risk students self esteem getting hurt when they are made fun of for being dumb, so we have to hide that from them and allow only 1 subject where they will be mocked for being bad at Gym.
Are you kidding me? Children, teenagers, etc all know when they aren't performing as well as other people. Adults can tell when they aren't meeting the grade at work, too. Boys don't practice sports just because they don't want to look stupid in front of their friends. For most people, sports are just a lot more fun than your average school subject. Our problem isn't the fact that the students aren't competing for grades (honors kids always do, even in the US). The problem is that the average child is not taught to work hard, and to be accountable for their academic performance. They dream of becoming professional athletes, or movie stars. Not engineers or scientists.
I can tell that you've never tried to make complex documents with OpenOffice. Certain types of formatting and such cannot even be done, such as proper sections, table of contents, table of authorities, etc. All lacking in OpenOffice.
Apart from the weasely "as much as"; interesting that laptops are being compared, knowing that they have much lower power consumption (on average) than desktops while requiring almost the same amount of manufacturing.
For the average user on/. I am sure that the energy consumption for manufacturing a laptop is MUCH higher than a desktop. For instance, I have been using the same case, PSU, monitor, keyboard, mouse and such for years, even through several CPUs and motherboards. It's just much easier to recycle a desktop's components.
I think this is an ideal solution for the military, for instance. Right now, they use PCMCIA cards to store mission data, encryption codes, and other such things on aircraft. When one hits the master zeroize switch, it actually toasts the cards to try and render them unusable. This would provide additional security, in case the crew members do not survive long enough to wipe everything themselves.
I have walked through restaurants and bars and seen groups of college age students sitting around just texting. 10-15 people not even talking, just sitting around at a table and texting. Its very sad.
It's a nuclear clock! Hello! DO you not see the word nuclear???? They can't afford another melt down in Japan! The whole country is likely to die if they leave that clock left running while unattended! Won't someone think of the children?
I think what cushioned the fall was a giant mound of BS. I'd like to see you drop any sort of electronic device 10 feet into a bush and see it come out without a scratch. Its improbable. Bushes are quite good at scratching things, even at relatively low speeds.
I was under the impression that certain narcotic based drugs can take 10-30 days to completely clear the system after chronic use, whether prescribed or otherwise. Am I misinformed?
I can tell you that as a child I tripped and gashed my forehead open badly. At the hospital, they applied cocaine to the wound to reduce bleeding so that they could stitch the wound up. For the size of the gash, and number of stitches I had, there is no significantly noticeable scarring. I was quite impressed.
Saying that you are going to cause physical harm to the POTUS is actually a crime here, whether you intend to do so or not. I don't know whether you are from the US, but that kind of stuff does get investigated on a regular basis.
The majority does NOT rule all of the time. Look at the electoral college. There have been presidential elections that were not won by popular vote. I believe George W. was one of those cases, but I can't recall and am too lazy to google it for you.
The one thing I'm still confused about is the shooting of the people who came to help the wounded. When they shot up the van that arrived.
I've seen all sorts of comments about this, but have never heard from someone 'in the know' about apache rules.
I have a friend who was there at the time of that incident. I don't remember exactly what he told me, but at the time the insurgency was in full swing and was performing a lot of ambushes. If I recall correctly, they would often perform ambushes after skirmishes like that. So they could not trust that people collecting injured or dead had honest intentions. I'll try to remember to ask him tomorrow when I see him.
anyone who could see the brutality of willful shoot-ups of civilians and journalists by snickering, racist Apache gunship crews,
As someone who works closely with the Apache community, I think you are a bit mistaken. First of all, those journalists were issued vests to mark them as non-combatants that they were not wearing. Secondly, they were with armed Iraqis. Third, their cameras look a lot like weapons at first glance. You have the luxury of hindsight. They did not. They followed their rules of engagement and yes, some innocent people died. People die in wars, unfortunately. But to call these pilots brutal, and murders is just not appropriate. They were doing their duty. If you look back at history, you'll see that in WWI and WWII troops were taught to "hate" their enemies. This is less about racism and more to do with the fact that killing a human being is not easy for most individuals. Those two pilots will have to live with their conscience, and the judgment of the world for the rest of their lives.
Unless you watched the entire unedited clip, you saw an editorialized, and biased view of that encounter.
WTF is going on with people? He's now in detention, can he still leak documents? Then why the hell are you treating him like he's a threat to all human beings? Damn the US authorities.
You know sometimes people are put into solitary confinement for their own protection. I imagine that in a military prison, someone who "aids the enemy" is probably treated much like rapists and child molesters are treated in a civilian prison. People like Charles Manson are kept in solitary confinement because of the notoriety that inmates would receive for being the one who managed to kill them.
IIS and SQL Server injections were on the rise when Solaris was still king of the internet server market a decade ago.
What you and the parent are failing to take into consideration with those attacks is that compromising a server on the internet is far more valuable than some random person's computer. The server has far greater bandwidth (and probably computational power) than the average Mac is likely to have.
Then your parents did their taxes incorrectly. I can assure you that shortly after my birth the government required SSNs for all dependents. Such that my parents had to get social security cards for myself, and 4 other siblings at the same time. As a result, our numbers are very close to each other. Further more, had you prepared your own taxes (properly), you would know that the parent is correct.
You don't have to pay for phone service to use 911. As long as you're connected to the network, you can just plug in a phone and dial 911 and it works. Of course the $25 a month does help pay for maintenance.
I think a magnetic HDD is the best you can do, given current technology. How could you feasibly perform any better than that? Besides, you need the entire container header to remain intact. This is possible in an SSD, but very unlikely to occur with a single remapped sector.
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Exactly. It's the same thing with cars. If I knew that I could not sell my used car for something, I would keep it until it was absolutely worthless. That might delay me purchasing a new car by 5 or 10 years. The fact of the matter is that people who play games don't just sell off all their games and quit playing new ones (usually). They will take some or all of the money they get back and use it to buy other games.
But none of that works properly if I need to boot into another OS besides Mac OS.
Oh I know they have hacked together a way to simulate a right click, but for some tasks its just not convenient. There are times when I do need to hit both buttons at once, and must resort to a mouse. I had a Macbook Pro for years (work issued). I am aware of the ways to fake a right click.
You could of course also just right click on it
What is this right click that you speak of? The lack of a right mouse button on the track pad is the main reason I would never buy a mac laptop (although my mac mini is nice, with my logitech mouse).
Why do Japanese students tend to do so much better then american students, simple they compete in mental subjects, the grades are posted on a giant board for everyone to see, and are ranked from smartest to dumbest. In america grades are confidential, we can't risk students self esteem getting hurt when they are made fun of for being dumb, so we have to hide that from them and allow only 1 subject where they will be mocked for being bad at Gym.
Are you kidding me? Children, teenagers, etc all know when they aren't performing as well as other people. Adults can tell when they aren't meeting the grade at work, too. Boys don't practice sports just because they don't want to look stupid in front of their friends. For most people, sports are just a lot more fun than your average school subject. Our problem isn't the fact that the students aren't competing for grades (honors kids always do, even in the US). The problem is that the average child is not taught to work hard, and to be accountable for their academic performance. They dream of becoming professional athletes, or movie stars. Not engineers or scientists.
I can tell that you've never tried to make complex documents with OpenOffice. Certain types of formatting and such cannot even be done, such as proper sections, table of contents, table of authorities, etc. All lacking in OpenOffice.
Apart from the weasely "as much as"; interesting that laptops are being compared, knowing that they have much lower power consumption (on average) than desktops while requiring almost the same amount of manufacturing.
For the average user on /. I am sure that the energy consumption for manufacturing a laptop is MUCH higher than a desktop. For instance, I have been using the same case, PSU, monitor, keyboard, mouse and such for years, even through several CPUs and motherboards. It's just much easier to recycle a desktop's components.
But is it RoHS compliant? My organization is "going green".
I'm sure it won't be hard to find a green colored acid.
I think this is an ideal solution for the military, for instance. Right now, they use PCMCIA cards to store mission data, encryption codes, and other such things on aircraft. When one hits the master zeroize switch, it actually toasts the cards to try and render them unusable. This would provide additional security, in case the crew members do not survive long enough to wipe everything themselves.
I have walked through restaurants and bars and seen groups of college age students sitting around just texting. 10-15 people not even talking, just sitting around at a table and texting. Its very sad.
It's a nuclear clock! Hello! DO you not see the word nuclear???? They can't afford another melt down in Japan! The whole country is likely to die if they leave that clock left running while unattended! Won't someone think of the children?
I think what cushioned the fall was a giant mound of BS. I'd like to see you drop any sort of electronic device 10 feet into a bush and see it come out without a scratch. Its improbable. Bushes are quite good at scratching things, even at relatively low speeds.
With regard to HF, the US Army is actually removing HF radios from certain attack helicopters.
I was under the impression that certain narcotic based drugs can take 10-30 days to completely clear the system after chronic use, whether prescribed or otherwise. Am I misinformed?
I can tell you that as a child I tripped and gashed my forehead open badly. At the hospital, they applied cocaine to the wound to reduce bleeding so that they could stitch the wound up. For the size of the gash, and number of stitches I had, there is no significantly noticeable scarring. I was quite impressed.
Saying that you are going to cause physical harm to the POTUS is actually a crime here, whether you intend to do so or not. I don't know whether you are from the US, but that kind of stuff does get investigated on a regular basis.
My pleasure. :) Always nice to see a friendly response on /.
The majority does NOT rule all of the time. Look at the electoral college. There have been presidential elections that were not won by popular vote. I believe George W. was one of those cases, but I can't recall and am too lazy to google it for you.
The one thing I'm still confused about is the shooting of the people who came to help the wounded. When they shot up the van that arrived.
I've seen all sorts of comments about this, but have never heard from someone 'in the know' about apache rules.
I have a friend who was there at the time of that incident. I don't remember exactly what he told me, but at the time the insurgency was in full swing and was performing a lot of ambushes. If I recall correctly, they would often perform ambushes after skirmishes like that. So they could not trust that people collecting injured or dead had honest intentions. I'll try to remember to ask him tomorrow when I see him.
anyone who could see the brutality of willful shoot-ups of civilians and journalists by snickering, racist Apache gunship crews,
As someone who works closely with the Apache community, I think you are a bit mistaken. First of all, those journalists were issued vests to mark them as non-combatants that they were not wearing. Secondly, they were with armed Iraqis. Third, their cameras look a lot like weapons at first glance. You have the luxury of hindsight. They did not. They followed their rules of engagement and yes, some innocent people died. People die in wars, unfortunately. But to call these pilots brutal, and murders is just not appropriate. They were doing their duty. If you look back at history, you'll see that in WWI and WWII troops were taught to "hate" their enemies. This is less about racism and more to do with the fact that killing a human being is not easy for most individuals. Those two pilots will have to live with their conscience, and the judgment of the world for the rest of their lives.
Unless you watched the entire unedited clip, you saw an editorialized, and biased view of that encounter.
WTF is going on with people? He's now in detention, can he still leak documents? Then why the hell are you treating him like he's a threat to all human beings? Damn the US authorities.
You know sometimes people are put into solitary confinement for their own protection. I imagine that in a military prison, someone who "aids the enemy" is probably treated much like rapists and child molesters are treated in a civilian prison. People like Charles Manson are kept in solitary confinement because of the notoriety that inmates would receive for being the one who managed to kill them.
True.
IIS and SQL Server injections were on the rise when Solaris was still king of the internet server market a decade ago.
What you and the parent are failing to take into consideration with those attacks is that compromising a server on the internet is far more valuable than some random person's computer. The server has far greater bandwidth (and probably computational power) than the average Mac is likely to have.
Then your parents did their taxes incorrectly. I can assure you that shortly after my birth the government required SSNs for all dependents. Such that my parents had to get social security cards for myself, and 4 other siblings at the same time. As a result, our numbers are very close to each other. Further more, had you prepared your own taxes (properly), you would know that the parent is correct.
You don't have to pay for phone service to use 911. As long as you're connected to the network, you can just plug in a phone and dial 911 and it works. Of course the $25 a month does help pay for maintenance.
I think a magnetic HDD is the best you can do, given current technology. How could you feasibly perform any better than that? Besides, you need the entire container header to remain intact. This is possible in an SSD, but very unlikely to occur with a single remapped sector.