A Swede was caught and fined for speeding on the autobahn.
As Americans, we sometimes willfully ignore facts, as most Americans believe the Autobahn to be this magical road where speed limits don't exist and every can drive as fast as they want.
I'd think that'd be the easy part, much easier than having shared storage. The synchronization to make sure writes against shared storage happened exactly once would be much harder.
Somehow I don't relate how they welded my water pipes to cooking, the charcoal grill is a decent point though. I think here in Norway anyone using gas would be the outlier, it's almost all electric here. Yes, we use oil and and gas and wood for space heating and water heaters but almost noone for cooking - normally people boil initially cold water so the water heater isn't involved either. Besides, you can quite easily burn yourself without a flame, so wasn't like that it's safer. Just that most here cook without fire:)
In other words, until you're big enough to have one asshat flag you and "tough luck, you'll need a membership to stop it being deleted". I guess you're technically correct but given the number of asshats on the Internet I'd say it works out the same. Unless there's some ToS problem, I'd just add all the open trackers like OpenBitTorrent, The HiddenTracker, OpenBitTorrent.kg, PublicBitTorrent and BitTrk. Host the torrent yourself, everybody loks at that but honestly nobody looks at what tracker(s) you're using unless they're ALL down.
It's a bit like the invention of fire. You can't suppress it, despite its danger - sure, people are burned with it every day (...) but if you want to cook food (...) you can't throw it out.
Between my kitchen cooktop, oven and microwave - all of which run on electricity - I'd say that was a very poor example. The last time I cooked something with fire, like an actual burning flame was when I went camping. Or in a cabin on a stove using either gas or wood. The only time you'd find a flame in my kitchen is if I'm trying to flambé something or I've set the kitchen on fire, where the latter is far more likely. Particularly since the former would probably lead to the latter.
Dude, did you pay any attention to the investment banking bubble? Everybody is going to cash in the next decade's quarterly bonuses and when the bubble burst they'll have to be bailed out because they're "too big to fail". The IEA is going to be influenced by everyone around them, it's not going to be "haha let's have fun and ruin the world" but a tons and tons of posturing saying "no, we're fiiiiiiiine... don't look behind that curtain".
It becomes a bit of a sport in itself, I find it pretty cool when it DOES work and you can put that platinum stamp on it "runs as good or better than in Windows". Granted, there's many games I can't play so it really makes no point, I'm not deleting Windows... but hey, where would we all be if we didn't waste time tweaking wine and wasted time playing games instead? Not getting anything more productive done, that's for sure:)
Meh, I can tell you why Internet Explorer has any market share at all - because there's millions and millions of corporate PCs where it is too much trouble to get anything else installed. I end up using it on a regular basis for no particular other reason than it's there. Just like my #1 most used graphics application at work is MS Paint to crop screenshots, doesn't mean it competes with Photoshop or really anything at all, just that it works good enough you don't get anything else installed. Even corporate intranets are starting to figure out it's not 2001 anymore, but there's still not a big return on switching or offering multiple alternatives...
Meh, if going 5 over the speed limit was a jailtime offense most people would be in jail. There's probably something very wrong with the laws or the culture or something, but I don't think that 99% are innocent.
Because there is, to my understanding two kinds of "child porn".
1) The "core" material that is clearly children, clearly porn and prosecuted as such pretty much everywhere. 2) The "fringe" material that is teen but maybe not 18, suggestive poses, artistic or not so artistic nudes, CG art, stories, roleplay or whatever else that the US may consider child porn but at least parts of the world do not. They're an endless source of easy convictions that make it appear that they're tough on all the nasty bogeymen.
For example, here in Norway there was a "child porn" conviction that I read about in the paper, where the defendant disputed that any children was involved, and it quoted part of the main actress' bio. I found this very strange so I googled for it and it was "Tiny Tove", who was a Danish porn star that starred in a lot of dubious movies in the 1970s but was 18+ in all of them. None the less, he still got convicted because she was playing a much younger role in the movies and that is illegal in Norway. In other words, it's not "child porn" in 95%+ of the world and you can download it from any adult site or p2p network. If you turn off safe search on google you don't even have to do that. But if I did that, I'd be watching child porn under Norwegian law. It's just so fucked up you wouldn't believe it.
Yes, because the big hosting providers with deep pockets that would risk being sued are so much less afraid of patent lawsuits than the big client providers with deep pockets.
Wait, no they're not. So they have to both pay for H.264 which is definitely patented and run the risk of being sued over hidden Theora patents, that's not a good sales pitch.
Honestly, I would prefer the browser to not be the media player. Just use whatever backend is available on the client, be it DirectShow, Quicktime, GStreamer, xine or whatever else. That way you can choose to use things like multithreading, hardware acceleration on dedicated units or shaders or any other settings which will work equally in all applications. I think the only one I've seen trying is Phonon. I'm hoping there'll eventually be a phonon-plugin and this whole "what can we include in firefox/safari/whatever discussion will become meaningless.
Well, I only have a few classes in macroeconomics, but I have a fair bit more in industrial economics. My analysis of the situation, looking at it more like a company:
If you don't got liquid capital, the company can't function. You need that for inventory, paying off suppliers and day-to-day operations that generation income. In my world money normally doesn't fall from the sky, so usually you would talk about selling assets to get more cash. Pouring money into the economy can help the liquidity situation.
However liquidity is only a fix for your cash flow, it's not a fix for spending more money than you have in the first place. You see this with excessive credit card use, they take up new debt to pay off the interest on old debt in a death spiral because their cash flow is good but the profit/loss statement is crap. We had exactly the same in business simulations, a cash strapped company could be helped with liquids but doing the same in a business losing money it only increased your interest payments making it even harder to turn a profit.
Even in macroeconomics, with the global economy you can not print money like you used to. The moment you set up the US dollar to lose value to cheat away your debts, the investors would abandon it in droves and really kill the economy. You also see it on global interest rates, the other central banks around the world follow each other so you can't keep a sustained interest difference just because you want to. I don't think it's really all that different from my world at all.
So did the stimulus package help? Well it might have helped to not kill off reasonably sound businesses that would otherwise fail due to short term cash flow, but it will not fix the economy. That requires a much more deeper fix that can't be done by moving around debts, The world's investors aren't more stupid that they can read a country's "balance sheet" with assets and debts and figure out where it's going just as easily as a company's. And if the US was a company, I'd say many red lights are blinking...
Huh? I've been running it since 7.04/7.10 (part/fulltime) and never experienced what you're talking about. Normally I sudo from the command line but I'm quite sure I've used the graphic tool at least once per release.
I think the first and foremost answer to that is that people don't want complexity. When somebody new asks them what distro they should try out, the last thing you want to do is to answer "Try Mandriva or Ubuntu or Fedora or OpenSuse or....", you only confuse them by saying they have different strengths and weaknesses. It's like talking the details of spin and reach and weight of a racket to someone who needs to learn to hit the ball. Single straight answer: "Ubuntu". Not that it really had to be that distro, but it's a rolling snowball. Now, why that answer isn't Mandriva...
I did try Mandriva, or I think it was Mandrake back then, and for me it had issues. Of course this is highly anecdotal, but I wasn't the only one who went with Debian instead because Debian had those issues fixed, and it didn't really matter what's on top if the base wasn't solid. And Debian was very good in terms of system stability, quality of base packages and all that, I'm sure it still is. It just was terribly desktop-unfriendly at the time, it was in many ways little things like not having a graphical boot that just screamed at you "this is not really a desktop distro". Ubuntu's early sales pitch was really "Debian with focus on the desktop".
In practice you won some and lost some, but it was an easy sales pitch. Pretty much everyone using Debian on the desktop gave it a go, I think. Mandriva? Always there but never managed to make a big splash saying "Hey, try me again". Yes, it's a bit like lemmings but the big lemming invasion in Ubuntu has also lead to results. There's a lot of things that have been fixed that I feel never got attention or priority in Debian, maybe it could have happened some other way but I guess it was easier to think Ubuntu could put a good face on Debian than believing Mandriva could make the basics as solid as Debian.
Not the big ones, the small ones. You rarely see them as wall sockets, but for example behind my computer (pc, screen, speakers, router, external hdd etc.) it's great with mixed big/small sockets. Same behind the tv/pvr/stereo section, or indeed any place you have many low-power gadgets. Always using the big three-pronged contacts or fullsize europlug is a big, overengineered waste of space and money.
I don't care. Honestly, I don't care h0w much 25% of the internet population want to punish themselves. Non-IE has 35%. IE8 is starting to become a decent browser. You don't screw with half your market. Whatever hacks you must do for IE6, it's just web developer annoyances. They're not my annoyances.
How much did those users pay for their copy of Karmic? Yes, it does make a difference. If I pay for a finished product, I expect it to be finished. If someone hands me a CD and says try this, I will try it, but not get upset if it doesn't work out perfectly
You pay, but as usual people don't see it the same way when it's not cash. Talk to any software company, volunteer to be a beta tester and most of them will love you. They give discounts and lots of other perks for being early adopters of their software. Why? Because you're their QA department, you're the one headbutting against all the wtfs they put in the latest release. If you just want to use their stablest and best product, you pay top dollar. To the degree that Canonical is making money, it's mostly on the server side. These six month releases are their way of getting a known and stable server/workstation distro. They'll call it a release but you're a beta tester for their moneymaker. But it's ok, it's a win for me too because I want the news they're bringing. There was nothing that really said I HAD to upgrade now, but I wanted to. Maybe I'm just lucky but my hardware seems all-around Linux friendly...
From that point on, yes - everything works and everything boots normally now. It didn't handle an unexpected reboot in the middle of the upgrade gracefully, but I don't know any consumer OS that reliably does.
Blank and flickering screens: No Failure to recognize hard drives: No Defaulting to the old 2.6.28 Linux kernel: No Failure to get encryption running: Sorta, but only because my computer took a dive in the middle of the live upgrade. I had to remount / read-write from an emergency console and run apt-get again. Or actually it told me to run "dpkg --configure -a" to correct it. That installed most things, but I had to reboot into the normal recovery console and run last updates. Rebooted and...
Working flawlessly with full disk encryption and everything. No problems with anything so far, that's my anecdotal evidence at least.
LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellites orbit at about 400 km, and Geostationary sats orbit at 35,786 km over the equator.
I'm connected to a GEO sat right now (I'm in the Gulf of Aden atm), and ping time is just under 800ms. Not great, admittedly, but really not bad.
I imagine NASA keeps their pipe pretty full 24/7 and that might generate some lag, but at their altitude, they are probably getting 300ms ping times or better.
If they're also using EM like radio and not bongo drums, the speed is exactly c. So assuming all other things alike, they'll have 118ms less lag than you, thus more like 650ms than 300ms.
It is significant because the lone hacker in his basement or the IT department of your unethical competitor might not have a spare server farm with 200 CPUs lying around.
Yes obviously cracking passwords scales linearly, we've known that for a long time. Oh, you could get 100 machines brute forcing instead of one, but what good is that? Either the password is crap and you crack is easily, or it's helluva complex and scaling it up 100x won't do a damn thing. In this case it looks like they just picked some random range and said "Hey, this is unfeasible on a single machine and doable on a cloud, let's do that" but they haven't produced any credible evidence it is in this range. Not unless semi-complex password possibility matches their corporate password policy or whatever.
I find Heroes suffering from the same thing - lack of a clear direction for at least the past season and a half.
At this point, I think it's an exercise in creating the most wtf relationship map ever. Like Syler that is *spoiler alert* halfway in some other man's body and halfway in some other man's mind. Not to mention all the wtfs in the Pitrelli and Hiro's family. At least you don't have a problem letting actors go, you could plot-twist kill anyone, any time.
Drug dealers would be on the level of seeders. This is like going after the top drug kingpins and wondering why it doesn't crumble like a house of cards. Except the kingpins aren't actually kingpins and the torrents are as easy to come by as getting a business card off a salesman. They're King Canute commanding the tide not to roll in. Let's hope they don't learn any lessons from the Dutch.
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A Swede was caught and fined for speeding on the autobahn.
As Americans, we sometimes willfully ignore facts, as most Americans believe the Autobahn to be this magical road where speed limits don't exist and every can drive as fast as they want.
They are. Just not ALL of them...
I'd think that'd be the easy part, much easier than having shared storage. The synchronization to make sure writes against shared storage happened exactly once would be much harder.
Somehow I don't relate how they welded my water pipes to cooking, the charcoal grill is a decent point though. I think here in Norway anyone using gas would be the outlier, it's almost all electric here. Yes, we use oil and and gas and wood for space heating and water heaters but almost noone for cooking - normally people boil initially cold water so the water heater isn't involved either. Besides, you can quite easily burn yourself without a flame, so wasn't like that it's safer. Just that most here cook without fire :)
In other words, until you're big enough to have one asshat flag you and "tough luck, you'll need a membership to stop it being deleted". I guess you're technically correct but given the number of asshats on the Internet I'd say it works out the same. Unless there's some ToS problem, I'd just add all the open trackers like OpenBitTorrent, The HiddenTracker, OpenBitTorrent.kg, PublicBitTorrent and BitTrk. Host the torrent yourself, everybody loks at that but honestly nobody looks at what tracker(s) you're using unless they're ALL down.
It's a bit like the invention of fire. You can't suppress it, despite its danger - sure, people are burned with it every day (...) but if you want to cook food (...) you can't throw it out.
Between my kitchen cooktop, oven and microwave - all of which run on electricity - I'd say that was a very poor example. The last time I cooked something with fire, like an actual burning flame was when I went camping. Or in a cabin on a stove using either gas or wood. The only time you'd find a flame in my kitchen is if I'm trying to flambé something or I've set the kitchen on fire, where the latter is far more likely. Particularly since the former would probably lead to the latter.
Dude, did you pay any attention to the investment banking bubble? Everybody is going to cash in the next decade's quarterly bonuses and when the bubble burst they'll have to be bailed out because they're "too big to fail". The IEA is going to be influenced by everyone around them, it's not going to be "haha let's have fun and ruin the world" but a tons and tons of posturing saying "no, we're fiiiiiiiine... don't look behind that curtain".
It becomes a bit of a sport in itself, I find it pretty cool when it DOES work and you can put that platinum stamp on it "runs as good or better than in Windows". Granted, there's many games I can't play so it really makes no point, I'm not deleting Windows... but hey, where would we all be if we didn't waste time tweaking wine and wasted time playing games instead? Not getting anything more productive done, that's for sure :)
Meh, I can tell you why Internet Explorer has any market share at all - because there's millions and millions of corporate PCs where it is too much trouble to get anything else installed. I end up using it on a regular basis for no particular other reason than it's there. Just like my #1 most used graphics application at work is MS Paint to crop screenshots, doesn't mean it competes with Photoshop or really anything at all, just that it works good enough you don't get anything else installed. Even corporate intranets are starting to figure out it's not 2001 anymore, but there's still not a big return on switching or offering multiple alternatives...
Meh, if going 5 over the speed limit was a jailtime offense most people would be in jail. There's probably something very wrong with the laws or the culture or something, but I don't think that 99% are innocent.
Because there is, to my understanding two kinds of "child porn".
1) The "core" material that is clearly children, clearly porn and prosecuted as such pretty much everywhere.
2) The "fringe" material that is teen but maybe not 18, suggestive poses, artistic or not so artistic nudes, CG art, stories, roleplay or whatever else that the US may consider child porn but at least parts of the world do not. They're an endless source of easy convictions that make it appear that they're tough on all the nasty bogeymen.
For example, here in Norway there was a "child porn" conviction that I read about in the paper, where the defendant disputed that any children was involved, and it quoted part of the main actress' bio. I found this very strange so I googled for it and it was "Tiny Tove", who was a Danish porn star that starred in a lot of dubious movies in the 1970s but was 18+ in all of them. None the less, he still got convicted because she was playing a much younger role in the movies and that is illegal in Norway. In other words, it's not "child porn" in 95%+ of the world and you can download it from any adult site or p2p network. If you turn off safe search on google you don't even have to do that. But if I did that, I'd be watching child porn under Norwegian law. It's just so fucked up you wouldn't believe it.
Yes, because the big hosting providers with deep pockets that would risk being sued are so much less afraid of patent lawsuits than the big client providers with deep pockets.
Wait, no they're not. So they have to both pay for H.264 which is definitely patented and run the risk of being sued over hidden Theora patents, that's not a good sales pitch.
Honestly, I would prefer the browser to not be the media player. Just use whatever backend is available on the client, be it DirectShow, Quicktime, GStreamer, xine or whatever else. That way you can choose to use things like multithreading, hardware acceleration on dedicated units or shaders or any other settings which will work equally in all applications. I think the only one I've seen trying is Phonon. I'm hoping there'll eventually be a phonon-plugin and this whole "what can we include in firefox/safari/whatever discussion will become meaningless.
Yep, let's start at the generals and work our way down... surely that won't kill this in its infancy?
Well, I only have a few classes in macroeconomics, but I have a fair bit more in industrial economics. My analysis of the situation, looking at it more like a company:
If you don't got liquid capital, the company can't function. You need that for inventory, paying off suppliers and day-to-day operations that generation income. In my world money normally doesn't fall from the sky, so usually you would talk about selling assets to get more cash. Pouring money into the economy can help the liquidity situation.
However liquidity is only a fix for your cash flow, it's not a fix for spending more money than you have in the first place. You see this with excessive credit card use, they take up new debt to pay off the interest on old debt in a death spiral because their cash flow is good but the profit/loss statement is crap. We had exactly the same in business simulations, a cash strapped company could be helped with liquids but doing the same in a business losing money it only increased your interest payments making it even harder to turn a profit.
Even in macroeconomics, with the global economy you can not print money like you used to. The moment you set up the US dollar to lose value to cheat away your debts, the investors would abandon it in droves and really kill the economy. You also see it on global interest rates, the other central banks around the world follow each other so you can't keep a sustained interest difference just because you want to. I don't think it's really all that different from my world at all.
So did the stimulus package help? Well it might have helped to not kill off reasonably sound businesses that would otherwise fail due to short term cash flow, but it will not fix the economy. That requires a much more deeper fix that can't be done by moving around debts, The world's investors aren't more stupid that they can read a country's "balance sheet" with assets and debts and figure out where it's going just as easily as a company's. And if the US was a company, I'd say many red lights are blinking...
Huh? I've been running it since 7.04/7.10 (part/fulltime) and never experienced what you're talking about. Normally I sudo from the command line but I'm quite sure I've used the graphic tool at least once per release.
I think the first and foremost answer to that is that people don't want complexity. When somebody new asks them what distro they should try out, the last thing you want to do is to answer "Try Mandriva or Ubuntu or Fedora or OpenSuse or....", you only confuse them by saying they have different strengths and weaknesses. It's like talking the details of spin and reach and weight of a racket to someone who needs to learn to hit the ball. Single straight answer: "Ubuntu". Not that it really had to be that distro, but it's a rolling snowball. Now, why that answer isn't Mandriva...
I did try Mandriva, or I think it was Mandrake back then, and for me it had issues. Of course this is highly anecdotal, but I wasn't the only one who went with Debian instead because Debian had those issues fixed, and it didn't really matter what's on top if the base wasn't solid. And Debian was very good in terms of system stability, quality of base packages and all that, I'm sure it still is. It just was terribly desktop-unfriendly at the time, it was in many ways little things like not having a graphical boot that just screamed at you "this is not really a desktop distro". Ubuntu's early sales pitch was really "Debian with focus on the desktop".
In practice you won some and lost some, but it was an easy sales pitch. Pretty much everyone using Debian on the desktop gave it a go, I think. Mandriva? Always there but never managed to make a big splash saying "Hey, try me again". Yes, it's a bit like lemmings but the big lemming invasion in Ubuntu has also lead to results. There's a lot of things that have been fixed that I feel never got attention or priority in Debian, maybe it could have happened some other way but I guess it was easier to think Ubuntu could put a good face on Debian than believing Mandriva could make the basics as solid as Debian.
Not the big ones, the small ones. You rarely see them as wall sockets, but for example behind my computer (pc, screen, speakers, router, external hdd etc.) it's great with mixed big/small sockets. Same behind the tv/pvr/stereo section, or indeed any place you have many low-power gadgets. Always using the big three-pronged contacts or fullsize europlug is a big, overengineered waste of space and money.
I don't care. Honestly, I don't care h0w much 25% of the internet population want to punish themselves. Non-IE has 35%. IE8 is starting to become a decent browser. You don't screw with half your market. Whatever hacks you must do for IE6, it's just web developer annoyances. They're not my annoyances.
How much did those users pay for their copy of Karmic? Yes, it does make a difference. If I pay for a finished product, I expect it to be finished. If someone hands me a CD and says try this, I will try it, but not get upset if it doesn't work out perfectly
You pay, but as usual people don't see it the same way when it's not cash. Talk to any software company, volunteer to be a beta tester and most of them will love you. They give discounts and lots of other perks for being early adopters of their software. Why? Because you're their QA department, you're the one headbutting against all the wtfs they put in the latest release. If you just want to use their stablest and best product, you pay top dollar. To the degree that Canonical is making money, it's mostly on the server side. These six month releases are their way of getting a known and stable server/workstation distro. They'll call it a release but you're a beta tester for their moneymaker. But it's ok, it's a win for me too because I want the news they're bringing. There was nothing that really said I HAD to upgrade now, but I wanted to. Maybe I'm just lucky but my hardware seems all-around Linux friendly...
From that point on, yes - everything works and everything boots normally now. It didn't handle an unexpected reboot in the middle of the upgrade gracefully, but I don't know any consumer OS that reliably does.
Blank and flickering screens: No
Failure to recognize hard drives: No
Defaulting to the old 2.6.28 Linux kernel: No
Failure to get encryption running:
Sorta, but only because my computer took a dive in the middle of the live upgrade. I had to remount / read-write from an emergency console and run apt-get again. Or actually it told me to run "dpkg --configure -a" to correct it. That installed most things, but I had to reboot into the normal recovery console and run last updates. Rebooted and...
Working flawlessly with full disk encryption and everything. No problems with anything so far, that's my anecdotal evidence at least.
LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellites orbit at about 400 km, and Geostationary sats orbit at 35,786 km over the equator.
I'm connected to a GEO sat right now (I'm in the Gulf of Aden atm), and ping time is just under 800ms. Not great, admittedly, but really not bad.
I imagine NASA keeps their pipe pretty full 24/7 and that might generate some lag, but at their altitude, they are probably getting 300ms ping times or better.
If they're also using EM like radio and not bongo drums, the speed is exactly c. So assuming all other things alike, they'll have 118ms less lag than you, thus more like 650ms than 300ms.
It is significant because the lone hacker in his basement or the IT department of your unethical competitor might not have a spare server farm with 200 CPUs lying around.
No, they have a botnet with 10000...
Yes obviously cracking passwords scales linearly, we've known that for a long time. Oh, you could get 100 machines brute forcing instead of one, but what good is that? Either the password is crap and you crack is easily, or it's helluva complex and scaling it up 100x won't do a damn thing. In this case it looks like they just picked some random range and said "Hey, this is unfeasible on a single machine and doable on a cloud, let's do that" but they haven't produced any credible evidence it is in this range. Not unless semi-complex password possibility matches their corporate password policy or whatever.
I find Heroes suffering from the same thing - lack of a clear direction for at least the past season and a half.
At this point, I think it's an exercise in creating the most wtf relationship map ever. Like Syler that is *spoiler alert* halfway in some other man's body and halfway in some other man's mind. Not to mention all the wtfs in the Pitrelli and Hiro's family. At least you don't have a problem letting actors go, you could plot-twist kill anyone, any time.
Drug dealers would be on the level of seeders. This is like going after the top drug kingpins and wondering why it doesn't crumble like a house of cards. Except the kingpins aren't actually kingpins and the torrents are as easy to come by as getting a business card off a salesman. They're King Canute commanding the tide not to roll in. Let's hope they don't learn any lessons from the Dutch.