Ditto. The only books I ever bought in college were the few data structure and algorithm books I still use today as reference guides. For everything else I either did not buy it at all, or if the professor was known for textbook related activities we would get a bunch of people to pitch in a few bucks and share one copy of the book.
Sure as hell beat the alternative of paying ~$100 for a book then getting ~$5 when you try to sell it back to the bookstore at the end of the semester.
One of my favourite 'wasted vote' arguments is as follows:
Pretend you are in jail on death row. You find that you have a 50% chance of lethal injection, 45% chance of the electric chair, or 5% chance of escape... which would you vote for?
Statistics has nothing to do with it. People need to realize that you don't have to vote based on who is most popular or who has the highest chance of winning. The point of voting is to vote for the person you think is right for the job, regardless of what your neighbor says.
"Cost associated with hosting the debate are estimated at about $2 million. ASU will seek donations and corporate sponsorships to cover expenses. No state appropriation of tax dollars has been received to find the debate."
The commission is the one spending exactly 0 dollars in this whole operation.:)
Why do I see a presidential debate reality show in the future? Throw all the candidates on a barren island with nothing more than a can of tuna and roll of dental floss. The last one to be voted off gets to be President.:)
Actually, all you need to have a chance of winning is to be on enough ballots to potentially win 270 electoral votes. There are six candidates who meet that qualification this year:
IMHO they should all be allowed to debate if they can rustle up enough support to make it on the ballots. The second requirement, high polling, is irrelevant because of it does not accurately represent the will of the people. That part should be eliminated.
Exactly! I, like most people, learn by doing, not by simply reading a book. Bobby is nice because it not only tells you exactly what is "wrong" but also gives informative explanations as to why it is wrong and how to go about fixing it.
Can't get interactive help like that from a book.:)
to say the least. I'm running a 450mhz w/ 128M of RAM and this new milestone is super fast and stable (something I haven't seen in ages). Beats the snot out of 1.0 and Opera, IMHO.
Good to see Transmeta getting a deal like this; we can only hope it actually works out. Publicity like this is exactly what the company needs to take back some of the market from Wintel ®.
Interesting enough, however I don't see this being a widespread replacement for steel unless it can be easily cut, rolled, bolted, welded and whatnot. I used to work for a company that developed structural steel detailing and fabrication software and can say from experience that making a connection between two pieces of steel is not exactly a trivial task. This structure just doesn't look like it would easily lend itself to building anything of significance other than poles.
If you knew anything about American politics, you'd know that power is split up into three branches - Judiciary, Legislative & Excecutive. The prez is the Executive branch and can't do much without the approval of the other two. Likewise for the others.
If *nix had a similar system of checks and balances perhaps it would be a bit more secure.
Having a single root is like having a dictatorship. It could be good if the dictator is good, but if it ends up corrupted the rest of the system is screwed.
lol... that's my.sig.:-) I guess I should put those signature delimeter lines in.
Seriously though, I've used NT. While it's ``easy to use'' I just find the whole Windoze line to be uneccesarily restrictive in terms of it's user environment. I don't mean security-wise, I mean in regards to pure hack value.
I have no problem using NT when I have to (a.k.a. at work) but all of my home boxes are *nix and bsd.
``Rather than having just a single ?root?
user, limited administration capability can be broken up among a number of
administrative accounts - ensuring that even an administrator account compromise
is non-fatal.
Nice!!! IMHO having a single root is the biggest flaw of *nix operating systems. It'll be interesting to see how all of the critical privileges will be split up in order to minimize the damage of a break-in.
C'mon . . . no one saw this coming? A big company buys out a smaller company and then trys to incorporate it's products into the new domain. It's the way of the business world. Maybe it'll suck (read: Hotmail) or maybe it will actually work out. Solaris isn't really that bad if it's administered right.
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Ditto. The only books I ever bought in college were the few data structure and algorithm books I still use today as reference guides. For everything else I either did not buy it at all, or if the professor was known for textbook related activities we would get a bunch of people to pitch in a few bucks and share one copy of the book.
Sure as hell beat the alternative of paying ~$100 for a book then getting ~$5 when you try to sell it back to the bookstore at the end of the semester.
One of my favourite 'wasted vote' arguments is as follows:
Pretend you are in jail on death row. You find that you have a 50% chance of lethal injection, 45% chance of the electric chair, or 5% chance of escape... which would you vote for?
Statistics has nothing to do with it. People need to realize that you don't have to vote based on who is most popular or who has the highest chance of winning. The point of voting is to vote for the person you think is right for the job, regardless of what your neighbor says.
'fund,' not 'find.'
From page 3 of the complaint:
:)
"Cost associated with hosting the debate are estimated at about $2 million. ASU will seek donations and corporate sponsorships to cover expenses. No state appropriation of tax dollars has been received to find the debate."
The commission is the one spending exactly 0 dollars in this whole operation.
Yes... and what a lot of people like to forget is that the third party was the Republicans.
Why do I see a presidential debate reality show in the future? Throw all the candidates on a barren island with nothing more than a can of tuna and roll of dental floss. The last one to be voted off gets to be President. :)
It was submitted under politics. :)
Actually, all you need to have a chance of winning is to be on enough ballots to potentially win 270 electoral votes. There are six candidates who meet that qualification this year:
# Badnarik
# Bush
# Cobb
# Kerry
# Nader
# Peroutka
IMHO they should all be allowed to debate if they can rustle up enough support to make it on the ballots. The second requirement, high polling, is irrelevant because of it does not accurately represent the will of the people. That part should be eliminated.
It is intended to be a quick hearing. Each party will only have a half hour to present their case afterwhich a decision will be made.
I, for one, welcome our new Libertarian overlord to the debates.
Exactly! I, like most people, learn by doing, not by simply reading a book. Bobby is nice because it not only tells you exactly what is "wrong" but also gives informative explanations as to why it is wrong and how to go about fixing it.
:)
Can't get interactive help like that from a book.
when you can check your site for these guidelines on the web here?
to say the least. I'm running a 450mhz w/ 128M of RAM and this new milestone is super fast and stable (something I haven't seen in ages). Beats the snot out of 1.0 and Opera, IMHO.
So IBM is thriving overseas, yet here in the US they are laying off countless employees. Am I the only one who sees a problem in that?
Good to see Transmeta getting a deal like this; we can only hope it actually works out. Publicity like this is exactly what the company needs to take back some of the market from Wintel ®.
(mmm. 1GHz in a tablet sounds mighty tasty).
Interesting enough, however I don't see this being a widespread replacement for steel unless it can be easily cut, rolled, bolted, welded and whatnot. I used to work for a company that developed structural steel detailing and fabrication software and can say from experience that making a connection between two pieces of steel is not exactly a trivial task. This structure just doesn't look like it would easily lend itself to building anything of significance other than poles.
``Try the chick at purebsd.com''
:-P
Otherwise known as Jenny McCarthy
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That's on a Unix machine running VMWare, right? ;-)
That was supposed to be funny, laugh dammit.
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If you want a security tool check SecurityFocus. They have all kinds of neat toys that actually work.
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If you knew anything about American politics, you'd know that power is split up into three branches - Judiciary, Legislative & Excecutive. The prez is the Executive branch and can't do much without the approval of the other two. Likewise for the others.
If *nix had a similar system of checks and balances perhaps it would be a bit more secure.
Having a single root is like having a dictatorship. It could be good if the dictator is good, but if it ends up corrupted the rest of the system is screwed.
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Hey, it's really nice to see that Elias Levy made the list. He's a hell of a guy and really deserves it. Lodes of congratulations to him. ;-)
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lol... that's my .sig. :-) I guess I should put those signature delimeter lines in.
Seriously though, I've used NT. While it's ``easy to use'' I just find the whole Windoze line to be uneccesarily restrictive in terms of it's user environment. I don't mean security-wise, I mean in regards to pure hack value.
I have no problem using NT when I have to (a.k.a. at work) but all of my home boxes are *nix and bsd.
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``Rather than having just a single ?root? user, limited administration capability can be broken up among a number of administrative accounts - ensuring that even an administrator account compromise is non-fatal.
Nice!!! IMHO having a single root is the biggest flaw of *nix operating systems. It'll be interesting to see how all of the critical privileges will be split up in order to minimize the damage of a break-in.
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C'mon . . . no one saw this coming? A big company buys out a smaller company and then trys to incorporate it's products into the new domain. It's the way of the business world. Maybe it'll suck (read: Hotmail) or maybe it will actually work out. Solaris isn't really that bad if it's administered right.
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You can bring Solaris 7 up to B1 trusted with a little package called PitBull. From what I've heard it's doing pretty well for itself.
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You can find all of the rainbow books here and here. They're worth a look.
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