I would add eye-movement-based interaction to this list of stupid things that everyone feels to be the next big thing. Eye movements are used for visual exploration. If you limit yourself to eye tracker input, it's not generally possible to discriminate between exploration and desired interaction. If you want to provide inputs, you can't explore, and vice-versa.
You're treating those businesses like sentient beings. Stop with that. A business does no more and no less than what the people in charge of the business want done. If you're a money-at-all costs scumbag, sure, that's how your business will operate. It's not a law of any sort that a business has to be run that way. And stop spreading the fiduciary-duty-to-shareholders bullshit, because it's tired and old and not true at all. Shareholders who invest in a business decide for themselves if their investment goals are aligned with those of the business. Nobody forces them to invest in a business that is not all about maximizing shareholder ROI.
The problem is that in many cases we don't know if they even are the murderers and the rapists. You'd be amazed how many innocent people get sentenced to life in prison. You'd be also amazed to know that many forensic examiner positions have, effectively, no requirements.
You haven't addressed my concerns about car salespeople and dealerships. Comic books and trading cards aren't the same thing as cars. I think it can be pretty damn hard to get some rarer comic books and cards, and it's a specialist market. Cars are about the opposite of it in all aspects. They are plentiful, "everyone" has one, and there's huge competition out there. If you like spiderman, you probably aren't going to switch to something else just because there was one issue that you didn't like. Get a lemon car, and you're likely never to come back.
I agree. If it happens that CS Lewis's writings find parallels in artifacts of Christian tradition, so what. What's so wrong about a story where someone sacrifices him/herself for the greater good? I'd much rather see people actually act Christian without tooting their horn and interfering in others' lives.
Good performance per liter of engine displacement, or good performance per liter of gasoline? Yes, I know those are sports cars and people perhaps don't care much about fuel efficiency, but aren't they really obnoxious gas guzzlers? I don't care much about displacement, personally. Power at the output shaft is what counts to me, and gas efficiency.
Are you really sure that pushrods have substantially less parts? You always need a valve, its guide and the return spring. With overhead cams, you have a shim, something between the shim and the valve, and what else, exactly, that is per valve? With pushrods, there's, well, the pushrod, a rocker of some sort, whatever bushings are needed to mount the rocker, the rocker shaft,... seems like more parts to me. In either case you still need a camshaft. I'd appreciate if you could break it down and show that there are, in fact, substantially less parts in an overhead valve engine. Because I think you made that one up. Seriously.
What's so special about pushrods and less valves per cylinder? Except that people wo didn't bother learning anything new about engines in the last few decades can keep working on them, perhaps?
It's a made up, unnecessary job. It was only needed when it was hard to get information. These days, I can look at any car I want online, often it means a 3D walkthrough is available as well. There are reviews available as well. I don't need someone to sell anything to me. I want, perhaps and occasionally, a showroom to go to and see a car. Not BUY a car, just see it and feel it. This can be provided by the manufacturer, or a third party -- I'd gladly pay for the privilege, say $10 per entrance to a showroom, just so that nobody would bother me with sales pitches or naughty looks if I don't seem to look like a ready buyer. Then, if I need to, I can shop for a loan. And then buy. Nowhere is there anyone selling me anything until I actually click the buy button.
Ah, "all the resources we could ever possibly really need", that's where you're completely delusional. If the U.S. borders were suddenly closed for both import and export, the U.S. would be in some very deep shit indeed. For all practical purposes, it'd cease to exist as a modern civlisation in a couple of years. I'm serious.
I don't think we can change that under our group plan. Having individual insurance would be so much more expensive that deductible-based rate reductions wouldn't cover the difference.
Just to give you a solid idea: it's about $1300/month for a decent family coverage on a small business group plan. That is about $16k per year in medical insurance cost. It's not peanuts, I give you that.
CCleaner isn't for the paranoid, it's simply a tool every administrator needs. Its functionality has nary nothing to do with viruses or malware. If you value your time, you won't be waiting for the microsoft-written add/remove software box to come up. It takes 15 fucking seconds to come up on a clean, less than a year old i7 system running Windows 7. Ccleaner's remove software pane comes up instantly.
I don't even think that having Javascript turned on is a problem. Not having it turned on pretty much makes the most of the web nonfuctional. Javascript isn't a vastly larger exploitation target than the html parser and DOM engine. Sure turning off parts of the browser makes you a lesser target, but it's not like, say, Java that has comparably a ton of holes.
I have Samba3 that was pretty much hands-off except for when upgrades broke because I have misconfigured things. It was my choice to use the bleeding edge releases, though. As samba releases moved ahead, they've plugged various holes that let misconfigured systems keep on working. This can be easily mitigated by doing proper testing prior to going into production. If you don't want to upgrade, just keep things the way they are and you'll be fine. Redhat-provided samba is a good choice since they only include security changes and don't add new "features" in that do break things. If one would stick with, say, CentOS5/RHEL5-provided Samba, it would be totally hands-off once configured. We're talking 5 years of continuous hands-free service. It hardly gets any better than that.
I guess if you don't automate the "IT stuff" in your home, then it's surely less hassle to get paper stuff mailed in. At home I use a USB controlled powerstrip and have tweaked my iMac's cups to turn the laser printer on and wait a bit before trying to use it, and then to turn it off if unused for 2 minutes. I have a little laserjet P1006 that has phenomenal start-up time and throughput for such a cheap, low-end device (usable in 15 seconds from cold start). I similarly turn off the time capsule when there are no more connections to it at night for at least 15 minutes. It gets turned back on in the morning. I also heavily automate various online tasks such as downloading account statements. Banks do faux-security and wouldn't email the damn statements, even if the recipient's email server supports smtps. For the TV and other devices that I want to centrally control, I use a little ethernet-attached industrial I/O system with relay outputs (Beckhoff's BK9000), and talk to it via Modbus. I'm sure there are cheaper things that Beckhoff's out there, but I got them very cheaply on eBay together with I/O modules.
I don't think these days there's much "configuring and reading documentation". There's one samba-provided registry file you need to import on every Windows Vista/7/8 host before joining them to the domain, and that' sit. It pretty much works. Server-based printers w/ drivers don't work for some printers because said printer drivers are buggy and won't take anything but only certain windows server versions. If you use IPP printing, things are fine. I still keep drivers on the server and push them to clients using windows-native print server configurator.
What they've apparently forgotten about is high-flying xenophobia. People outside of China, emigrants excepted, generally can't speak nor read the languages used in China, and that's a very fertile ground for xenophobia. It'll take very minor propaganda prodding to turn essentially all of the world against China. They'll be a very sore winner at best.
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I would add eye-movement-based interaction to this list of stupid things that everyone feels to be the next big thing. Eye movements are used for visual exploration. If you limit yourself to eye tracker input, it's not generally possible to discriminate between exploration and desired interaction. If you want to provide inputs, you can't explore, and vice-versa.
Now be careful. Isn't infringing use limited to process patents?
You're treating those businesses like sentient beings. Stop with that. A business does no more and no less than what the people in charge of the business want done. If you're a money-at-all costs scumbag, sure, that's how your business will operate. It's not a law of any sort that a business has to be run that way. And stop spreading the fiduciary-duty-to-shareholders bullshit, because it's tired and old and not true at all. Shareholders who invest in a business decide for themselves if their investment goals are aligned with those of the business. Nobody forces them to invest in a business that is not all about maximizing shareholder ROI.
The problem is that in many cases we don't know if they even are the murderers and the rapists. You'd be amazed how many innocent people get sentenced to life in prison. You'd be also amazed to know that many forensic examiner positions have, effectively, no requirements.
OK, makes sense.
You haven't addressed my concerns about car salespeople and dealerships. Comic books and trading cards aren't the same thing as cars. I think it can be pretty damn hard to get some rarer comic books and cards, and it's a specialist market. Cars are about the opposite of it in all aspects. They are plentiful, "everyone" has one, and there's huge competition out there. If you like spiderman, you probably aren't going to switch to something else just because there was one issue that you didn't like. Get a lemon car, and you're likely never to come back.
Romney has no fucking clue how to get economy back on track. Not the U.S. economy, anyway. He loves shipping jobs to China.
I agree. If it happens that CS Lewis's writings find parallels in artifacts of Christian tradition, so what. What's so wrong about a story where someone sacrifices him/herself for the greater good? I'd much rather see people actually act Christian without tooting their horn and interfering in others' lives.
Good performance per liter of engine displacement, or good performance per liter of gasoline? Yes, I know those are sports cars and people perhaps don't care much about fuel efficiency, but aren't they really obnoxious gas guzzlers? I don't care much about displacement, personally. Power at the output shaft is what counts to me, and gas efficiency.
Are you really sure that pushrods have substantially less parts? You always need a valve, its guide and the return spring. With overhead cams, you have a shim, something between the shim and the valve, and what else, exactly, that is per valve? With pushrods, there's, well, the pushrod, a rocker of some sort, whatever bushings are needed to mount the rocker, the rocker shaft, ... seems like more parts to me. In either case you still need a camshaft. I'd appreciate if you could break it down and show that there are, in fact, substantially less parts in an overhead valve engine. Because I think you made that one up. Seriously.
What's so special about pushrods and less valves per cylinder? Except that people wo didn't bother learning anything new about engines in the last few decades can keep working on them, perhaps?
It's a made up, unnecessary job. It was only needed when it was hard to get information. These days, I can look at any car I want online, often it means a 3D walkthrough is available as well. There are reviews available as well. I don't need someone to sell anything to me. I want, perhaps and occasionally, a showroom to go to and see a car. Not BUY a car, just see it and feel it. This can be provided by the manufacturer, or a third party -- I'd gladly pay for the privilege, say $10 per entrance to a showroom, just so that nobody would bother me with sales pitches or naughty looks if I don't seem to look like a ready buyer. Then, if I need to, I can shop for a loan. And then buy. Nowhere is there anyone selling me anything until I actually click the buy button.
Ah, "all the resources we could ever possibly really need", that's where you're completely delusional. If the U.S. borders were suddenly closed for both import and export, the U.S. would be in some very deep shit indeed. For all practical purposes, it'd cease to exist as a modern civlisation in a couple of years. I'm serious.
I don't think we can change that under our group plan. Having individual insurance would be so much more expensive that deductible-based rate reductions wouldn't cover the difference.
Just to give you a solid idea: it's about $1300/month for a decent family coverage on a small business group plan. That is about $16k per year in medical insurance cost. It's not peanuts, I give you that.
So you're essentially betting that the untrusted site will exploit your javascript vm, versus, say, the good old image parsers, html parser, etc. :)
CCleaner isn't for the paranoid, it's simply a tool every administrator needs. Its functionality has nary nothing to do with viruses or malware. If you value your time, you won't be waiting for the microsoft-written add/remove software box to come up. It takes 15 fucking seconds to come up on a clean, less than a year old i7 system running Windows 7. Ccleaner's remove software pane comes up instantly.
I don't even think that having Javascript turned on is a problem. Not having it turned on pretty much makes the most of the web nonfuctional. Javascript isn't a vastly larger exploitation target than the html parser and DOM engine. Sure turning off parts of the browser makes you a lesser target, but it's not like, say, Java that has comparably a ton of holes.
I agree, but that misses my point. China may become a sole world superpower, but they'll be pretty much isolated in their victory.
I have Samba3 that was pretty much hands-off except for when upgrades broke because I have misconfigured things. It was my choice to use the bleeding edge releases, though. As samba releases moved ahead, they've plugged various holes that let misconfigured systems keep on working. This can be easily mitigated by doing proper testing prior to going into production. If you don't want to upgrade, just keep things the way they are and you'll be fine. Redhat-provided samba is a good choice since they only include security changes and don't add new "features" in that do break things. If one would stick with, say, CentOS5/RHEL5-provided Samba, it would be totally hands-off once configured. We're talking 5 years of continuous hands-free service. It hardly gets any better than that.
Since when "DomainCompatibilityMode" winds Windows back to "NT4/2000" levels of security? You don't even need it with Samba4, I'm using Samba3.
I guess if you don't automate the "IT stuff" in your home, then it's surely less hassle to get paper stuff mailed in. At home I use a USB controlled powerstrip and have tweaked my iMac's cups to turn the laser printer on and wait a bit before trying to use it, and then to turn it off if unused for 2 minutes. I have a little laserjet P1006 that has phenomenal start-up time and throughput for such a cheap, low-end device (usable in 15 seconds from cold start). I similarly turn off the time capsule when there are no more connections to it at night for at least 15 minutes. It gets turned back on in the morning. I also heavily automate various online tasks such as downloading account statements. Banks do faux-security and wouldn't email the damn statements, even if the recipient's email server supports smtps. For the TV and other devices that I want to centrally control, I use a little ethernet-attached industrial I/O system with relay outputs (Beckhoff's BK9000), and talk to it via Modbus. I'm sure there are cheaper things that Beckhoff's out there, but I got them very cheaply on eBay together with I/O modules.
I don't think these days there's much "configuring and reading documentation". There's one samba-provided registry file you need to import on every Windows Vista/7/8 host before joining them to the domain, and that' sit. It pretty much works. Server-based printers w/ drivers don't work for some printers because said printer drivers are buggy and won't take anything but only certain windows server versions. If you use IPP printing, things are fine. I still keep drivers on the server and push them to clients using windows-native print server configurator.
The true setup cost to rackspace should be $0. If they don't have this automated to hell and back, they are amateurs.
Yeah, because you, dear AC, are so much better than everyone else. We're all human, it must have slipped your mind this morning, I guess.
What they've apparently forgotten about is high-flying xenophobia. People outside of China, emigrants excepted, generally can't speak nor read the languages used in China, and that's a very fertile ground for xenophobia. It'll take very minor propaganda prodding to turn essentially all of the world against China. They'll be a very sore winner at best.