The more permanent freedom is a matter of time. At some point, lawmakers will be from the generation that also posts on forums, that downloaded mp3's when they were younger (or still do), and that watched 2 or 3 movies illegally when they were students.
Right, because all those hippies from the baby boomer generation that are in power now have shutdown the military, ended the war on drugs, and prevented racial discrimination in all its forms. Or more likely, 99% of those who make it into power had to sell most of their ideals to the highest bidder or never had any in the first place.
The law makers we have in 20 years will be the same assholes we have now with different faces. Real change comes when the people force the government to take action, not the other way around.
How exactly do you do that? I've tried turning on and off every god damn setting in the preferences pages, and the only thing that doesn't seem to change at all is how the comments are displayed.
I used to live near a rubber factory and it had a pretty big areas fenced off around it with signs that said "WARNING: DEPRESSED AREAS MAY HARBOR NON LIFE-SUSTAINING GASSES". I'm guessing they vented CO2 there or something, but why the couldn't vent it out the smoke stacks with the rest of the crud they produced was always a mystery to me.
My understanding is that your key is only region locked for ladder matches. Unranked casual matches can be with anyone anywhere. I don't actually have the game, just what I heard.
Well, you can start with probably $400k to pay salary and benefits to the guy who maintains it for 3 years, plus equipments costs, plus backup solution, network, physical premisis, insurance, power, HVAC, UPS. Plus you want high availability, then double pretty much everything.
This will override the eclipse launcher's default set of JVM arguments with a custom set. The MaxPermSize is the issue. If the eclipse launcher can't identify the JVM, then it doesn't know to specify a larger permanent generation size for the Sun/Oracle JVM.
To those people saying that this was a lousy design decision by the Eclipse devs:
D:\>java -X
-Xmixed mixed mode execution (default)
-Xint interpreted mode execution only ...
-Xshare:on require using shared class data, otherwise fail.
The -X options are non-standard and subject to change without notice.
Since a nonstandard switch is required at launch by the JVM, the only way to know what set of switches to pass is to query the JVM vendor string. It's not a clean solution, but it's a solution dictated by the platform.
But if somebody becomes a parent at the age of 12 then unless it's the second coming of Christ (good luck persuading the court) an offense has been committed.
In most places I know of, it's not illegal for 2 minors to have sex with each other. In any case, I would argue that the intercourse is the legally problematic bit, not the "becoming a parent" part.
What the hell is ActivePython and why the hell would anyone use it?
Although now available for multiple platforms, originally ActivePerl/Python/Tcl's main attraction is that they were a commercial port of popular UNIX scripting languages to Windows with the added feature of being able to interact with ActiveX components. This made them attractive alternatives to VBScript.
If your neighbors "doohicky" continuously flung teleporters that would transport the user into their house all over the neighborhood then it would be a more apt analogy. The point is that RF is not a door and a WI-FI router is not a house, it's its own thing and needs its own set of rules.
Newspapers aren't, for the most part, loosing money. They're becoming less profitable. Historically, newspapers have enjoyed fantastically high profit margins. Due to a falloff in revenue from shrinking circulation and less interest in print classifieds, those margins have shrunk to being merely moderate.
Back in the days when newspapers were run by private companies or wealthy families most papers probably could have weathered these leaner times, these days most major papers are held by big public media companies. These companies can't tolerate a drop in profits, so they are firing reporters and closing beuros in order to maintain those margins.
My take on it really is a story of redemption. Case, as a classic noir hero in a sense, is someone who at first appears to be completely in it for himself.
*** spoliers ***
I don't know that I agree that Case is ever really redeemed. Sure he saves his own ass, but what does he do with his reward? Buys a new liver and cyberspace deck so he can go back to abusing drugs and making money as a criminal. Molly ends up leaving him as well.
I'd argue that he's materially better off than when the story starts, but spiritually he's in pretty much the same place. But that jibes with the idea of him being a noir hero anyway. A noir protagonist is supposed to fall short of redemption, usually because they are unable or unwilling to use the opportunity they are given to grow beyond their own flaws.
That's my take at any rate. The ending is sort of open-ended, so it's open to debate. Anyway it looks like this guy is pretty thoughtful and is putting a lot of effort into his adaptation, so I'm excited to see how it turns out (if it ever gets beyond just another dead-end screenplay, that is).
Elemental hydrogen is very easily gotten many different ways at various level of expense as it is one of the most abundant elements on the planet. Refining it from oil reserves isn't the only way. Electricity + H2O -> H2 + O is pretty well known.
Elemental helium by contrast is relatively rare on Earth and is only got from natural gas deposits. The He in these deposits builds up over millennia as a consequence of beta decay of other radioactive elements. Additionally many refineries aren't equipped to process He, so a lot of it that is mined just gets lost.
I was referring to vanilla default HFS+, you are running HFSX, a variant introduced in OS X 10.3 that is optionally case sensitive. However, no Mac that I know of ships in a case-sensitive configuration, so you must have reformatted your drive at some point and specifically selected case-sensitive. You should be aware that some poorly-written Mac apps fail when used on a case-sensitive file system.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I think it's a stupid policy and I'm disappointed that Obama hasn't done anything to change it. I was just responding to the GP's contention that he could end DADT with an executive order, which is not true.
How about "Don't ask, don't tell"? Something he could end with an executive order?
If Obama ended "Don't ask don't tell", then gays would be outright banned from the military. "No homosexuals in the military" is US law, and only an act of congress can change it.
"Don't ask, don't tell" is basically an executive order issued by Clinton that orders commanders not to go out of their way to determine the sexual orientation of the people serving under them. However, if the fact that a service man/woman is gay comes to the attention of a commander, they still have to enforce the law.
The only unilateral power Obama has is to rescind Clinton's order, which would free up the various services to craft their own enforcement policies of 10 USC 654, which could include active investigations and purges.
The story I've heard is that the server software that runs XBox 1 and 360 Live services is the same software. So they are not shutting down anything, just dropping support for XBox 1. Supposedly XBox 1 legacy support was holding back new features for the 360, like upping the friend limit past 100.
I believe the game itself is not hosted on the XBox Live servers. Live acts as a matchmaking service, but the person who starts the game is hosting it on their box. As long as all the players stay connected, the game will continue indefinitely.
Personally I think their real problem is the number of seats they have. They should just drop 2 positions in their next election and this will never come up again.
Most small towns in Massachusetts are still governed directly by town meetings, not representatives. The number of votes is most likely the number of people who showed up to vote on the issue. Truro is way too small to need 206 representatives.
Slashdot Mirror
Right, because all those hippies from the baby boomer generation that are in power now have shutdown the military, ended the war on drugs, and prevented racial discrimination in all its forms. Or more likely, 99% of those who make it into power had to sell most of their ideals to the highest bidder or never had any in the first place.
The law makers we have in 20 years will be the same assholes we have now with different faces. Real change comes when the people force the government to take action, not the other way around.
Go to http://slashdot.org/my/comments, and select "Slashdot Classic Discussion System", Display Mode=Nested, Sort=Highest First, and Threshold=1. Then go to http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edithome and select "Use Classic Index".
You'll now have good old classic /., the way God intended.
Quarter 'em and sauté 'em in butter, and Brussel Sprouts taste fucking amazing.
I used to live near a rubber factory and it had a pretty big areas fenced off around it with signs that said "WARNING: DEPRESSED AREAS MAY HARBOR NON LIFE-SUSTAINING GASSES". I'm guessing they vented CO2 there or something, but why the couldn't vent it out the smoke stacks with the rest of the crud they produced was always a mystery to me.
My understanding is that your key is only region locked for ladder matches. Unranked casual matches can be with anyone anywhere. I don't actually have the game, just what I heard.
Well, you can start with probably $400k to pay salary and benefits to the guy who maintains it for 3 years, plus equipments costs, plus backup solution, network, physical premisis, insurance, power, HVAC, UPS. Plus you want high availability, then double pretty much everything.
Launch your copy of Eclipse like so:
This will override the eclipse launcher's default set of JVM arguments with a custom set. The MaxPermSize is the issue. If the eclipse launcher can't identify the JVM, then it doesn't know to specify a larger permanent generation size for the Sun/Oracle JVM.
To those people saying that this was a lousy design decision by the Eclipse devs:
Since a nonstandard switch is required at launch by the JVM, the only way to know what set of switches to pass is to query the JVM vendor string. It's not a clean solution, but it's a solution dictated by the platform.
Yeaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!
In most places I know of, it's not illegal for 2 minors to have sex with each other. In any case, I would argue that the intercourse is the legally problematic bit, not the "becoming a parent" part.
That's funny, because I thought that was exactly what was meant by the headline. To me "Zero Gravity radiation suit" = "Radiation hardened space suit"
Although now available for multiple platforms, originally ActivePerl/Python/Tcl's main attraction is that they were a commercial port of popular UNIX scripting languages to Windows with the added feature of being able to interact with ActiveX components. This made them attractive alternatives to VBScript.
If your neighbors "doohicky" continuously flung teleporters that would transport the user into their house all over the neighborhood then it would be a more apt analogy. The point is that RF is not a door and a WI-FI router is not a house, it's its own thing and needs its own set of rules.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=45.332616,63.193359&ie=UTF8&ll=42.211971,-71.019659&spn=0.002602,0.003857&t=h&z=18
Newspapers aren't, for the most part, loosing money. They're becoming less profitable. Historically, newspapers have enjoyed fantastically high profit margins. Due to a falloff in revenue from shrinking circulation and less interest in print classifieds, those margins have shrunk to being merely moderate.
Back in the days when newspapers were run by private companies or wealthy families most papers probably could have weathered these leaner times, these days most major papers are held by big public media companies. These companies can't tolerate a drop in profits, so they are firing reporters and closing beuros in order to maintain those margins.
*** spoliers ***
I don't know that I agree that Case is ever really redeemed. Sure he saves his own ass, but what does he do with his reward? Buys a new liver and cyberspace deck so he can go back to abusing drugs and making money as a criminal. Molly ends up leaving him as well.
I'd argue that he's materially better off than when the story starts, but spiritually he's in pretty much the same place. But that jibes with the idea of him being a noir hero anyway. A noir protagonist is supposed to fall short of redemption, usually because they are unable or unwilling to use the opportunity they are given to grow beyond their own flaws.
That's my take at any rate. The ending is sort of open-ended, so it's open to debate. Anyway it looks like this guy is pretty thoughtful and is putting a lot of effort into his adaptation, so I'm excited to see how it turns out (if it ever gets beyond just another dead-end screenplay, that is).
Elemental hydrogen is very easily gotten many different ways at various level of expense as it is one of the most abundant elements on the planet. Refining it from oil reserves isn't the only way. Electricity + H2O -> H2 + O is pretty well known.
Elemental helium by contrast is relatively rare on Earth and is only got from natural gas deposits. The He in these deposits builds up over millennia as a consequence of beta decay of other radioactive elements. Additionally many refineries aren't equipped to process He, so a lot of it that is mined just gets lost.
I feel like this is painfully apropos.
I was referring to vanilla default HFS+, you are running HFSX, a variant introduced in OS X 10.3 that is optionally case sensitive. However, no Mac that I know of ships in a case-sensitive configuration, so you must have reformatted your drive at some point and specifically selected case-sensitive. You should be aware that some poorly-written Mac apps fail when used on a case-sensitive file system.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I think it's a stupid policy and I'm disappointed that Obama hasn't done anything to change it. I was just responding to the GP's contention that he could end DADT with an executive order, which is not true.
OS X's HFS+ filesystem is case insensitive. It's case preserving, like NTFS.
$ echo bar > FOO.txt
$ cat foo.txt
bar
$ ls *.txt
FOO.txt
If Obama ended "Don't ask don't tell", then gays would be outright banned from the military. "No homosexuals in the military" is US law, and only an act of congress can change it.
"Don't ask, don't tell" is basically an executive order issued by Clinton that orders commanders not to go out of their way to determine the sexual orientation of the people serving under them. However, if the fact that a service man/woman is gay comes to the attention of a commander, they still have to enforce the law.
The only unilateral power Obama has is to rescind Clinton's order, which would free up the various services to craft their own enforcement policies of 10 USC 654, which could include active investigations and purges.
The story I've heard is that the server software that runs XBox 1 and 360 Live services is the same software. So they are not shutting down anything, just dropping support for XBox 1. Supposedly XBox 1 legacy support was holding back new features for the 360, like upping the friend limit past 100.
I believe the game itself is not hosted on the XBox Live servers. Live acts as a matchmaking service, but the person who starts the game is hosting it on their box. As long as all the players stay connected, the game will continue indefinitely.
Most small towns in Massachusetts are still governed directly by town meetings, not representatives. The number of votes is most likely the number of people who showed up to vote on the issue. Truro is way too small to need 206 representatives.
There is a last.fm app in the iTunes store. I don't use it that much, but it streamed just fine on the few occasions I used it.