Ed Bott at ZDNet has reproduced the problem and focused attention on an updated version of the GEARAspiWDM.sys driver.
This is one of the CD burning drivers that iTunes installs during the update (though to figure this out, he had to comb through the inflated installer packages manually and the System Restore history).
"Theories" are built upon "Facts". "Intelligent Design" does not even reach the level of a "Theory" because it is not based upon facts, but mere conjecture.
I don't think sets of natural or social phenomena are best referred to as "facts," but rather "observations."
In common parlance, "facts" tend to include suppositions, conscious or not, about the causation, correlation or relation of observations.
"Fact: It is raining." != "Observation: Liquid seems to be falling onto the sidewalk."
The former takes the mere observation, links it with other previous observations, and raises it to a declaration based on categorization. Some night say this is a form of "theorizing" in itself.
Obviously it would be nice to know why they have those customs, but I'm not sure how to find out without disturbing them. Ah, the Heisenberg Anthropological Principle. And its rhetorical neighbor: "If a tribe lives in the woods, and no one is there to contact it, does it really exist?"
The author of this article misspelled the name of the ant. I tried Googling "paratrenicha species near pubens" and came up only with results pointing back to this one article.
Correctly spelled, the ant's name is "Paratrechina sp. nr. pubens." It has not yet been identified to the species level, hence the "species near" bit.
Also, what's with this sentence?
They also bite humans, though not with a stinger like fire ants.
No insect bites with a stinger. It's two different ends, folks! I frequently hear someone yelp, "That bee just bit me!" No, she stung you. Honeybees don't even have chewing mouthparts capable of biting--they just suck nectar with a siphon-like structure.
Fun Fact: Only female insects sting, since a stinger is actually a modified ovipositor. Thankfully, mammals like our ladies haven't yet evolved venomous uses for their reproductive parts.
First thing I'll buy: a rotary-dial interface that uses gestures to dial! No cop-out touch-sensitive numbers. It has to rotate with my finger as I pull it around, then snap back and enter that number.
Everyone always jokes about this, but it would be so frickin cool. Retro is the new black.
I like being jack-of-all-trades too. But I'm finding that one must tread very carefully on this path.
If you aren't careful, you end up being the fall guy for a widening array of mishaps.
For instance, you help set up the video projector a couple of times for presentations. Then during the next presentation the projector fails. In some eyes it will be your fault, because you're now the "PowerPoint Guy." Nevermind that the bulb was past its recommended use hours, or that the presenter forgot his VGA dongle, or whatever.
It seems like if I want to come out as the go-to guy for some area of tech, I'd damn well better get up to pro-level speed really quick. Because soon I'm going to have to be mitigating crises and solving complex problems that before were just chalked up to "well, that thing's always been a problem." Yeah, now it is *your* problem!
"If I had kids, I'd rather they heard this story with that fact, and would get the chance to learn the lesson "don't taunt things that can easily kill you, even if you think you're safe""
Sounds like an argument against filesharing copyrighted material as well. The odds that you'll be one of the lucky people served by the RIAA is miniscule--you think you are safe. But in the taunting hides the risk of being eaten by their tiger team of lawyers.
"But that shouldn't be illegal," you protest. Perhaps. But a Siberian tiger shouldn't be able to jump over a retaining wall, either. Predation happens.
It would be better if the library were more robust, but the speed is fine. It starts in a few seconds.
That's my assessment as well. The "Watch Now" portion of Netflix's content mostly looks like the back wall at the video store: lots of old B-movies, low budget "special interest" stuff like Yoga videos, and lots of the BBCs back catalog. It's kinda slim pickin's.
But there's some gems. I caught up on Steve Carrell's "The Office." Watched an old Jet Li. Last night watched "Puccini for Beginners" with my wife, and it was really good. I noticed that there's a few big recent releases there like "Letters from Iwo Jima," and "Pan's Labyrinth," which I'll check out soon.
I *really* hope that this is just a pilot, and that soon the "Watch Now" library will expand dramatically. I'd even pay a few more bucks if, say, half of my 50 queued movies were available on demand.
There's an amazing phenomenon where I live in California caused by "Amber Alert" signs and retarded (or possibly illiterate) drivers.
A boatload of tax money was used to erect these signs on major freeways throughout the state, supposedly so that we can quickly disseminate vehicle descriptions to the public in the event of a kidnapping. (Space constraints usually cause the info to be abbreviated beyond all recognition, though, like "BLK CHVY SUV LIC 5TRG345 CALL CHP." Try parsing that while driving by a 65 mph...)
Anyway, these signs rarely have kidnapping info on them. But I guess someone thought it was a waste to have all these signs if they are always going to be dark. So they now cycle through "helpful" tips from the California Highway Patrol. "Don't Drink and Drive." "Speed Kills." "Click it or Ticket" (oh, that one's cute, isn't it?). And sometimes weather or wind advisories that never seem to actually be correlated with current conditions (I'll be battling wind gusts one day with the signs off, then the next day when it is clear the signs have a warning on them. Gee, thanks, but a bit late.)
What I've noticed, though, is that whenever the signs have a message on them traffic inexplicably backs up around them. I'm convinced that it is because drivers are slowing down while attempting to read the signs. I kind of like the irony that wrecks are going to be caused by people trying to read highway safety information. But it is really annoying.
These signs ought to be used only in the case of a real emergency, because they seriously compromise driving conditions when they are lit up. And it burns me up that someone took my tax money to erect a sign to tell me not to drink and drive (while pretending it was to save kidnapped children). For every drunk person who reads it and decides to stop and call a cab, there are going to be 100 collisions between people trying to sound out the words while simultaneously eating and talking on a cell phone.
Interesting. I work in IT for the anesthesiology dept at a Northern California hospital. We use Stentor and Epic's EMR. Our biggest frustration is the lack of a good billing module for our procedures.
I went to a 10 Year Anniversary party in my hometown to celebrate this website. *That* should indicate the unique place Slashdot has internet culture. It transcends webspace and enters meatspace.
The idea of getting together with strangers over *any* other news website is just absurd. The idea of anyone even wanting to organize such gatherings is absurd.
The symbiosis between this site and its users makes it a community like no other, and you have done very well at maintaining that relationship.
IMO, it is the only place on the internet where the comments aren't a waste of time and bits. If you have to sellout and mass market something, make it Slash!
The reason it is and should be a crime is because you simply cannot have a policy where people toting things that look like bombs can board aircraft.
She wasn't boarding an aircraft. She wasn't trying to board an aircraft. She wasn't even trying to pass through the security checkpoint to get to the boarding areas for the aircraft.
But I heard the police stopped a straw man in the airport who was trying to do all of the above.
You want a police state where every bend of the law is enforced to the extreme? Is this what you're asking for? You want a fascist state?
I DO NOT WANT a police state, which is exactly why I strongly favor laws that LIMIT POLICE POWER!
I agree that laws can be viewed as tools which help get to the bottom of right and wrong in the wildly variable situations we experience in life and society. But the laws I would like to see enforced most rigidly are the ones applying to those who carry state-owned firearms and have the special authority to DETAIN, INCAPACITATE AND KILL ME as they deem necessary.
The penalties for breeching social expectations are social sanctions (shaming, shunning, etc.) You cannot get arrested for social violations. Circuit City has the right to view him as an asshole, and make frownie faces at him when they pass on the street. But the police can't lock him up and fine him for it. THAT'S a police state, buddy!
The "Matt" in WhereTheHellIsMatt just downloaded and blogged about this demo, and he loves it:
"Two days ago, a demo went out on Xbox Live for a game called Bioshock. It's the best demo I've played in years. The game is actually literate, which is a quality I stopped hoping for long ago. The situation they drop you in is absolutely riveting and the quality is at a level that no amount of money can produce. Having worked in games, I know all forms of bodily fluid were excreted in its creation. A lot of people put a lot of passion into making this game great.
"One of those people is Garry Schyman, who makes the music for my dancing videos.
"Playing Bioshock makes me really glad I don't work in games anymore, as I wouldn't be able to derive any pleasure from it. Just envy and self-loathing."
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Ed Bott at ZDNet has reproduced the problem and focused attention on an updated version of the GEARAspiWDM.sys driver. This is one of the CD burning drivers that iTunes installs during the update (though to figure this out, he had to comb through the inflated installer packages manually and the System Restore history).
Um, do what any network admin does with a rouge device.
Apply it to the cheeks and go out on the town?
"Theories" are built upon "Facts". "Intelligent Design" does not even reach the level of a "Theory" because it is not based upon facts, but mere conjecture.
I don't think sets of natural or social phenomena are best referred to as "facts," but rather "observations."
In common parlance, "facts" tend to include suppositions, conscious or not, about the causation, correlation or relation of observations.
"Fact: It is raining." != "Observation: Liquid seems to be falling onto the sidewalk."
The former takes the mere observation, links it with other previous observations, and raises it to a declaration based on categorization. Some night say this is a form of "theorizing" in itself.
This sounds a lot like the Thecus N2100 I just set up. The latest firmware also adds support for DLNA media sharing.
The author of this article misspelled the name of the ant. I tried Googling "paratrenicha species near pubens" and came up only with results pointing back to this one article.
Correctly spelled, the ant's name is "Paratrechina sp. nr. pubens." It has not yet been identified to the species level, hence the "species near" bit.
Also, what's with this sentence?
No insect bites with a stinger. It's two different ends, folks! I frequently hear someone yelp, "That bee just bit me!" No, she stung you. Honeybees don't even have chewing mouthparts capable of biting--they just suck nectar with a siphon-like structure.
Fun Fact: Only female insects sting, since a stinger is actually a modified ovipositor. Thankfully, mammals like our ladies haven't yet evolved venomous uses for their reproductive parts.
I remember the last time my Geiger counter went berserk. Let's just say we're not welcome back to the Vatican City Coconuts-R-Us Stand...
I'm sure that idea has already been patented, ensuring that no one can put it into practice...
What you need to do is patent the idea of not abandoning the whole patent system.
Then for every day that the patent system remains unabandoned, you can bring legal action!
First thing I'll buy: a rotary-dial interface that uses gestures to dial! No cop-out touch-sensitive numbers. It has to rotate with my finger as I pull it around, then snap back and enter that number.
Everyone always jokes about this, but it would be so frickin cool. Retro is the new black.
I like being jack-of-all-trades too. But I'm finding that one must tread very carefully on this path.
If you aren't careful, you end up being the fall guy for a widening array of mishaps.
For instance, you help set up the video projector a couple of times for presentations. Then during the next presentation the projector fails. In some eyes it will be your fault, because you're now the "PowerPoint Guy." Nevermind that the bulb was past its recommended use hours, or that the presenter forgot his VGA dongle, or whatever.
It seems like if I want to come out as the go-to guy for some area of tech, I'd damn well better get up to pro-level speed really quick. Because soon I'm going to have to be mitigating crises and solving complex problems that before were just chalked up to "well, that thing's always been a problem." Yeah, now it is *your* problem!
Sounds like an argument against filesharing copyrighted material as well. The odds that you'll be one of the lucky people served by the RIAA is miniscule--you think you are safe. But in the taunting hides the risk of being eaten by their tiger team of lawyers.
"But that shouldn't be illegal," you protest. Perhaps. But a Siberian tiger shouldn't be able to jump over a retaining wall, either. Predation happens.
That's my assessment as well. The "Watch Now" portion of Netflix's content mostly looks like the back wall at the video store: lots of old B-movies, low budget "special interest" stuff like Yoga videos, and lots of the BBCs back catalog. It's kinda slim pickin's.
But there's some gems. I caught up on Steve Carrell's "The Office." Watched an old Jet Li. Last night watched "Puccini for Beginners" with my wife, and it was really good. I noticed that there's a few big recent releases there like "Letters from Iwo Jima," and "Pan's Labyrinth," which I'll check out soon.
I *really* hope that this is just a pilot, and that soon the "Watch Now" library will expand dramatically. I'd even pay a few more bucks if, say, half of my 50 queued movies were available on demand.
There's an amazing phenomenon where I live in California caused by "Amber Alert" signs and retarded (or possibly illiterate) drivers.
A boatload of tax money was used to erect these signs on major freeways throughout the state, supposedly so that we can quickly disseminate vehicle descriptions to the public in the event of a kidnapping. (Space constraints usually cause the info to be abbreviated beyond all recognition, though, like "BLK CHVY SUV LIC 5TRG345 CALL CHP." Try parsing that while driving by a 65 mph...)
Anyway, these signs rarely have kidnapping info on them. But I guess someone thought it was a waste to have all these signs if they are always going to be dark. So they now cycle through "helpful" tips from the California Highway Patrol. "Don't Drink and Drive." "Speed Kills." "Click it or Ticket" (oh, that one's cute, isn't it?). And sometimes weather or wind advisories that never seem to actually be correlated with current conditions (I'll be battling wind gusts one day with the signs off, then the next day when it is clear the signs have a warning on them. Gee, thanks, but a bit late.)
What I've noticed, though, is that whenever the signs have a message on them traffic inexplicably backs up around them. I'm convinced that it is because drivers are slowing down while attempting to read the signs. I kind of like the irony that wrecks are going to be caused by people trying to read highway safety information. But it is really annoying.
These signs ought to be used only in the case of a real emergency, because they seriously compromise driving conditions when they are lit up. And it burns me up that someone took my tax money to erect a sign to tell me not to drink and drive (while pretending it was to save kidnapped children). For every drunk person who reads it and decides to stop and call a cab, there are going to be 100 collisions between people trying to sound out the words while simultaneously eating and talking on a cell phone.
Interesting. I work in IT for the anesthesiology dept at a Northern California hospital. We use Stentor and Epic's EMR. Our biggest frustration is the lack of a good billing module for our procedures.
I went to a 10 Year Anniversary party in my hometown to celebrate this website. *That* should indicate the unique place Slashdot has internet culture. It transcends webspace and enters meatspace.
The idea of getting together with strangers over *any* other news website is just absurd. The idea of anyone even wanting to organize such gatherings is absurd.
The symbiosis between this site and its users makes it a community like no other, and you have done very well at maintaining that relationship.
IMO, it is the only place on the internet where the comments aren't a waste of time and bits. If you have to sellout and mass market something, make it Slash!
I put five Shrute Bucks on: 1. No one there knows anything about a fee waiver, and 2. You get someone else's Toshiba
Show us pictures of your wife!
P.S. Wow, this comment is on-topic for once!
The reason it is and should be a crime is because you simply cannot have a policy where people toting things that look like bombs can board aircraft.
She wasn't boarding an aircraft. She wasn't trying to board an aircraft. She wasn't even trying to pass through the security checkpoint to get to the boarding areas for the aircraft.
But I heard the police stopped a straw man in the airport who was trying to do all of the above.
You want a police state where every bend of the law is enforced to the extreme? Is this what you're asking for? You want a fascist state?
I DO NOT WANT a police state, which is exactly why I strongly favor laws that LIMIT POLICE POWER!
I agree that laws can be viewed as tools which help get to the bottom of right and wrong in the wildly variable situations we experience in life and society. But the laws I would like to see enforced most rigidly are the ones applying to those who carry state-owned firearms and have the special authority to DETAIN, INCAPACITATE AND KILL ME as they deem necessary.
The penalties for breeching social expectations are social sanctions (shaming, shunning, etc.) You cannot get arrested for social violations. Circuit City has the right to view him as an asshole, and make frownie faces at him when they pass on the street. But the police can't lock him up and fine him for it. THAT'S a police state, buddy!
The "Matt" in WhereTheHellIsMatt just downloaded and blogged about this demo, and he loves it:
"Two days ago, a demo went out on Xbox Live for a game called Bioshock. It's the best demo I've played in years. The game is actually literate, which is a quality I stopped hoping for long ago. The situation they drop you in is absolutely riveting and the quality is at a level that no amount of money can produce. Having worked in games, I know all forms of bodily fluid were excreted in its creation. A lot of people put a lot of passion into making this game great.
"One of those people is Garry Schyman, who makes the music for my dancing videos.
"Playing Bioshock makes me really glad I don't work in games anymore, as I wouldn't be able to derive any pleasure from it. Just envy and self-loathing."
Not true. It kills internet radio broadcasts that stream to the U.S., according to Rusty Hodge of soma.fm:
"The law says that anything transmitted to listeners in the US is liable for the royalties."Or we could go with something less inflammatory (although with "Brute Squad" and "Hacks" in the title of this one...)
I'm on the Brute Squad...
"And now you know... the rest of the story!" Good to see Paul Harvey is trying a new medium, even if he has to use a pseudonym like "Robinson."