I only have one car and I can't afford to have it not working so I don't tinker with it. I certainly am interested but I cannot afford the downtime. I can do it vicariously by going to the shop and watching the mechanic.
I have a computer that I need for work and I don't tinker with that either. But on that front at least I can afford to have another that I can mess with.
Thermodynamics fascinates me too but not enough to start taking apart my refrigerator.
Good lord if my mechanic were ever like the ones that people talk about here I would ditch them in a hot minute. It really is not all that hard to find one that knows what they are doing. Dig around on the web and look for testimonials.
The HTML5 spec authors would do well to read that hulu blog. If they really want HTML5 to win, they need to provide the support necessary so sites like hulu can do what they want to do.
Really hulu has made it very easy for them, giving them an explicit goal to shoot for.
"Considering the prevalence of Marxism in colleges"
Wow what kind of creatures live under your bed? In my experience, college is filled with young uber-capitalists who are looking for an edge to get a better job.
Well, just about every keyboard picks up a shine when it gets used a lot.
I have this keyboard too and I absolutely love it.
The left trackpoint button has lost its spring because the screw underneath it, that holds the button in place, has started to strip out of the plastic.
I have had this happen to two of these keyboards now.
Good luck finding a way to fix this problem.
The real sorrow here is that they have indeed stopped making them.
Ask a smoking friend to see their cigarette when they're done and look at the filter.
It's fresh and new because my smoking friends tear off the filter and toss it in the ashtray. Well they used to anyway. Now they are either dead or they have quit smoking.
I saw a demonstration at the local shopping mall. You could smell the stink everywhere in the whole mall. It was borderline intolerable on the balcony right above the kiosk where the demonstration was going on.
"By keeping these boxes separate, your privacy is better protected"
Umm, the boxes are all controlled by the same program, so whether or not there is physical separation between them (does that have any meaning in a user interface?) has nothing to do with whether or not the data is collected or not.
"Cars today have more horsepower, more traction, better safety, and more braking power than cars 20-30 years ago.. Yet, our speed limits have decreased.. Why?"
The guidance system in automobiles has not been upgraded in thousands of years. It has a very slow response time, its memory is faulty, and its visual sensors are inaccurate. It also has a tendancy to multitask at unexpected moments, resulting in inadequate computing resources for the task at hand.
I really wonder how you expect motor vehicles to go faster when their control systems are already loaded to capacity.
There are some problems that you have to pay money to have.
True, but Windows OS isn't one of them. It costs just as much to buy a PC for a home or small office without preinstalled Windows OS as it does to buy one with preinstalled Windows OS. The common explanation for this is that major shareware publishers subsidize the cost of a Windows OS license by paying PC makers to include unregistered versions of their products in the default install.
You are asserting that the costs of a computer end at purchase, they do not. With Windows, the purchase price is only the beginning of your costs. Anti-virus, maintenance, upgrading, rebooting, these costs dwarf the purchase price.
This is a government operation, paid for with taxpayer dollars. They have no product to sell, and no investors to satisfy. They DO however, have many stakeholders in the form of the taxpaying public who deserve to know how their dollars are spent.
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All the packages are signed and I can rebuild anything I want from scratch.
Adobe uses it to update Flash and Reader on my systems, they don't need to support an update installer.
I have no doubt that the same type of system can serve palmtop systems well.
If they REALLY make a true firewall around the hypervisor then performance will be terrible.
If you want decent network or display performance on a vm then you have to use special drivers for the virtual devices that bypass the firewall.
We have already seen security flaws in these special drivers.
I only have one car and I can't afford to have it not working so I don't tinker with it. I certainly am interested but I cannot afford the downtime. I can do it vicariously by going to the shop and watching the mechanic.
I have a computer that I need for work and I don't tinker with that either. But on that front at least I can afford to have another that I can mess with.
Thermodynamics fascinates me too but not enough to start taking apart my refrigerator.
Good lord if my mechanic were ever like the ones that people talk about here I would ditch them in a hot minute. It really is not all that hard to find one that knows what they are doing. Dig around on the web and look for testimonials.
Maybe Microsoft could pull out the Word file format specification and show us exactly what Google is doing wrong?
The HTML5 spec authors would do well to read that hulu blog. If they really want HTML5 to win, they need to provide the support necessary so sites like hulu can do what they want to do.
Really hulu has made it very easy for them, giving them an explicit goal to shoot for.
"Considering the prevalence of Marxism in colleges"
Wow what kind of creatures live under your bed? In my experience, college is filled with young uber-capitalists who are looking for an edge to get a better job.
Well, just about every keyboard picks up a shine when it gets used a lot.
I have this keyboard too and I absolutely love it.
The left trackpoint button has lost its spring because the screw underneath it, that holds the button in place, has started to strip out of the plastic.
I have had this happen to two of these keyboards now.
Good luck finding a way to fix this problem.
The real sorrow here is that they have indeed stopped making them.
Most of you are too young to have dealt with architectures like VAX and Gould PowerNode with their awful floating point implementations.
IEEE 754 has problems but it's a big improvement over what came before.
Try jamming two hard drives into a laptop.
Re-read the problem as stated:
"Is there a way to use an SSD to act as a hot sector cache for a magnetic disk under Linux?"
Ya think maybe it's assumed that there are two drives? Just Maybe?
Oh yes losing power to all 4 engines at once is nothing unusual.
That ash cloud is basically sandpaper in vapor form. You really don't want to suck it into an engine, aircraft or auto.
First it's e-cigs and now it's patches.
What's next, an article about pipes?
Ask a smoking friend to see their cigarette when they're done and look at the filter.
It's fresh and new because my smoking friends tear off the filter and toss it in the ashtray. Well they used to anyway. Now they are either dead or they have quit smoking.
Maybe it hasn't killed anyone but I know at least two people with some pretty hardcore permanent brain damage from consuming too much LSD.
I saw a demonstration at the local shopping mall. You could smell the stink everywhere in the whole mall. It was borderline intolerable on the balcony right above the kiosk where the demonstration was going on.
If they were not the delivery devices for addictive drugs then they would be illegal.
Many states have laws against carrying "infernal devices" in public that belch smoke, stink, and otherwise create unpleasantness.
I gotta say those e-cigs smell pretty darned nasty. Have you ever smelled one?
Please cite some incidents traceable to the writing down of passwords.
How about: "gee, how come my wife is not surprised about any of the gifts I bought her?"
Gee everyone else figured out a long time ago: give away the compiler.
Charging developers for dev tools is no way to win hearts.
Many developers are cross-platform and we would not be, if we had to pay for the tools for each platform.
Maybe this will be a boost for gcc when everyone can see first hand how bad the Microsoft C++ compiler is.
Maybe the Microsoft C++ developers will be shamed into improving their compiler when the comparisons come out.
Maybe they will even embrace cygwin. It fits with their goal, because the rest of the community has.
Maybe monkeys will fly out of my butt.
"And you don't understand the problem. "
I never said I did. What I am saying is that what this guy says is of no help to me in understanding the program.
"By keeping these boxes separate, your privacy is better protected"
Umm, the boxes are all controlled by the same program, so whether or not there is physical separation between them (does that have any meaning in a user interface?) has nothing to do with whether or not the data is collected or not.
This guy is a product manager?
"Cars today have more horsepower, more traction, better safety, and more braking power than cars 20-30 years ago.. Yet, our speed limits have decreased.. Why?"
The guidance system in automobiles has not been upgraded in thousands of years. It has a very slow response time, its memory is faulty, and its visual sensors are inaccurate. It also has a tendancy to multitask at unexpected moments, resulting in inadequate computing resources for the task at hand.
I really wonder how you expect motor vehicles to go faster when their control systems are already loaded to capacity.
There are some problems that you have to pay money to have.
True, but Windows OS isn't one of them. It costs just as much to buy a PC for a home or small office without preinstalled Windows OS as it does to buy one with preinstalled Windows OS. The common explanation for this is that major shareware publishers subsidize the cost of a Windows OS license by paying PC makers to include unregistered versions of their products in the default install.
You are asserting that the costs of a computer end at purchase, they do not. With Windows, the purchase price is only the beginning of your costs. Anti-virus, maintenance, upgrading, rebooting, these costs dwarf the purchase price.
"image problems and/or lawsuits"
This is a government operation, paid for with taxpayer dollars. They have no product to sell, and no investors to satisfy. They DO however, have many stakeholders in the form of the taxpaying public who deserve to know how their dollars are spent.
You can use gmail from a client program if you don't want to look at google ads.
You can't avoid MagicJack the same way.
If you think that the government should not get involved in engineering.