True about the plugins. Mozilla should do something else with their version numbers so that fast, minor updates don't bump the major version and break plugins.
Support for Hybrid GPU setups in the kernel has been supported for the last few releases. If you google for something like "linux gpu switcheroo" you should be able to find what I'm talking about. Yes, it was called "Switcheroo" by the original author of the code. The primary way of switching GPUs is through the/sys filesystem unless there are some GUI programs that do that for you.
I believe that forum was shut down, and moved to Bioware's new Social site along with the Dragon Age and Mass Effect forums. If it's no longer possible to login and use that forum, the database probably should have been scrubbed of passwords and CD Keys and the like.
Keep in mind that this is 14% of _support calls_. Using the same logic as the summary, you could say that Android phones have fewer software issues than other phones because only 86% of calls are related to software. That is assuming there isn't a third option in support calls.
The article even states this, they don't have shipment numbers for devices so they don't have data for the phones that don't require support. Their sample is only phones that people are having problems with in the first place.
It wouldn't be hard to set up a self-driving vehicle if you can make the assumption that all cars on the road have some sort of wireless signal that the self driving car can use. For instance, if the car ahead of you is slowing down, it could be broadcasting it's speed to other cars behind it, so the self driving car won't plow into it. There could also be construction signs that tell cars about construction zones and lane closings. You could stick these on stop lights too. For navigation, it could use a GPS perhaps with some electronics on the road to assist with going around curves or marking lanes.
I'd hate to be a pedestrian though. I can't think of a reasonable way for self driving cars to detect people crossing the street without people having to wear bracelets that broadcast another signal. It'd be cooler in my opinion if all of this was done without image recognition which is always a fuzzy issue.
OpenSSL has a blowfish cipher, which I assume doesn't have the same bug. If your system has OpenSSL, but not OpenWall, would PHP use OpenSSL? The OpenWall site says that PHP 5.3 uses it, but is it included in the PHP binary so OpenSSL isn't an option?
You're supposed to vote for the party. No matter who the candidate is, they will vote based on the party's platform more than 95% of the time. If you agree with that party's positions, it's a safe bet to vote for whoever they put up as a candidate.
If you truly don't like the candidate, vote against him in the primaries when they're selecting their candidate. Even Mr. Non-partisan Maverick John McCain voted with the Republicans something like 95% of the time.
Don't ever vote based on your opinion of the individual. Even if the guy is a child molester, he'll give you what you want if elected. If you vote for the other party because your candidate has questionable morals, the other guy is just going to screw you over with how he will vote in the legislature.
To quote Obama in TFA "We've made incredible progress on education, helping students to finance their college educations"
What progress? I'm still paying huge amounts of money for college. Why can't it be free like it is in Finland or other European countries? Oh right, that's socialism. Didn't mean to rock the boat too much.
Come on LulzSec. Do something a bit more sophisticated than SQL Injections and XSS. Any dingbat can put "a'; select * from users where '1'='1" into a search form on a random website.
It doesn't necessarily have to be PayPal, but I'd like to see paper currency replaced by something digital. Nothing is worse than buying something and then dealing with change. I really don't have any reason to carry pennies and nickels so all that change I get is lost money. There could be some government sanctioned digital currency and I would be cool with that. It should work like a check so that you can use it to pay people who aren't equipped to handle credit cards, but without the paper. Maybe you could bump smartphones together and verify the transaction or something cool with NFC devices.
I don't think it's fair to compare the Internet to putting a fence around a pool so they don't fall in and drown. Whats the worst that's going to happen on the Internet? They see naked people perform a natural process?
The examples you gave were all life threatening (even the bit about liquor which can be dangerous to young children). The Internet isn't life threatening.
I'm transferring from a community college to a 4 year university this fall, and I just checked the IT page on the website. Windows users have to jump through more hoops to get on the network than Mac and Linux users. Windows users need to use special software that verifies you have an approved antivirus program. Macs have a client program as well, but any other OS just needs to go through some sort of portal page and login with your college ID.
I don't like this idea. It sounds good, but legislatures write law, and what are most legislators? Lawyers. Do I want Joe SixPack writing laws when he has zero legal background. And do I want "experts" telling him what to do? A bunch of random nobodies would be too easily manipulated by these experts or advisers who know how the system works.
The latest Medal of Honor game had Taliban as a playable faction for mutliplayer, but they had to change it to some generic "Terrorist" team because of the backlash. There were people that were upset that you could play the Taliban and shoot at American soldiers in a virtual environment. I don't think most/.ers will find this offensive, but such people do exist.
You're right, but computers are so common these days that anyone thinking about majoring in CS can easily teach themselves the basics just by doing tutorials online and asking questions on sites like StackOverflow. CS isn't like doing Chemistry which requires a bunch of expensive, specialized equipment. Everyone has the resources to put Visual Studio Express, Python, or Linux on their machine and mess around. They may not get all the theory, but they'll at least know the basics. If you're not interested in CS enough to type a measly "print 'Hello World'" into a.py file before declaring your major then maybe CS isn't for you.
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True about the plugins. Mozilla should do something else with their version numbers so that fast, minor updates don't bump the major version and break plugins.
If the version number were 4.0.2 instead of 5.0 Enterprises wouldn't be getting their panties in a bunch over this.
Support for Hybrid GPU setups in the kernel has been supported for the last few releases. If you google for something like "linux gpu switcheroo" you should be able to find what I'm talking about. Yes, it was called "Switcheroo" by the original author of the code. The primary way of switching GPUs is through the /sys filesystem unless there are some GUI programs that do that for you.
I believe that forum was shut down, and moved to Bioware's new Social site along with the Dragon Age and Mass Effect forums. If it's no longer possible to login and use that forum, the database probably should have been scrubbed of passwords and CD Keys and the like.
Heh, good idea. You can probably tell I'm a Computer Science major not a Physics one. Real world interactions aren't my style.
Keep in mind that this is 14% of _support calls_. Using the same logic as the summary, you could say that Android phones have fewer software issues than other phones because only 86% of calls are related to software. That is assuming there isn't a third option in support calls.
The article even states this, they don't have shipment numbers for devices so they don't have data for the phones that don't require support. Their sample is only phones that people are having problems with in the first place.
It wouldn't be hard to set up a self-driving vehicle if you can make the assumption that all cars on the road have some sort of wireless signal that the self driving car can use. For instance, if the car ahead of you is slowing down, it could be broadcasting it's speed to other cars behind it, so the self driving car won't plow into it. There could also be construction signs that tell cars about construction zones and lane closings. You could stick these on stop lights too. For navigation, it could use a GPS perhaps with some electronics on the road to assist with going around curves or marking lanes.
I'd hate to be a pedestrian though. I can't think of a reasonable way for self driving cars to detect people crossing the street without people having to wear bracelets that broadcast another signal. It'd be cooler in my opinion if all of this was done without image recognition which is always a fuzzy issue.
Gold farmers on WoW are using stolen accounts. They don't really go out and make their own.
We start counting from 0 here.
OpenSSL has a blowfish cipher, which I assume doesn't have the same bug. If your system has OpenSSL, but not OpenWall, would PHP use OpenSSL?
The OpenWall site says that PHP 5.3 uses it, but is it included in the PHP binary so OpenSSL isn't an option?
I think this argument is a red herring meant to mislead us.
You're supposed to vote for the party. No matter who the candidate is, they will vote based on the party's platform more than 95% of the time. If you agree with that party's positions, it's a safe bet to vote for whoever they put up as a candidate.
If you truly don't like the candidate, vote against him in the primaries when they're selecting their candidate.
Even Mr. Non-partisan Maverick John McCain voted with the Republicans something like 95% of the time.
Don't ever vote based on your opinion of the individual. Even if the guy is a child molester, he'll give you what you want if elected. If you vote for the other party because your candidate has questionable morals, the other guy is just going to screw you over with how he will vote in the legislature.
To quote Obama in TFA
"We've made incredible progress on education, helping students to finance their college educations"
What progress? I'm still paying huge amounts of money for college. Why can't it be free like it is in Finland or other European countries? Oh right, that's socialism. Didn't mean to rock the boat too much.
Come on LulzSec. Do something a bit more sophisticated than SQL Injections and XSS.
Any dingbat can put "a'; select * from users where '1'='1" into a search form on a random website.
The x86 emulator running Linux in Javascript wasn't impressive enough to you?
http://bellard.org/jslinux/
It doesn't necessarily have to be PayPal, but I'd like to see paper currency replaced by something digital. Nothing is worse than buying something and then dealing with change. I really don't have any reason to carry pennies and nickels so all that change I get is lost money. There could be some government sanctioned digital currency and I would be cool with that. It should work like a check so that you can use it to pay people who aren't equipped to handle credit cards, but without the paper. Maybe you could bump smartphones together and verify the transaction or something cool with NFC devices.
I don't think it's fair to compare the Internet to putting a fence around a pool so they don't fall in and drown.
Whats the worst that's going to happen on the Internet? They see naked people perform a natural process?
The examples you gave were all life threatening (even the bit about liquor which can be dangerous to young children). The Internet isn't life threatening.
I'm transferring from a community college to a 4 year university this fall, and I just checked the IT page on the website.
Windows users have to jump through more hoops to get on the network than Mac and Linux users. Windows users need to use special software that verifies you have an approved antivirus program. Macs have a client program as well, but any other OS just needs to go through some sort of portal page and login with your college ID.
From information on the university website, they use Cisco NAC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_NAC_Appliance
Definitely check the website beforehand.
Additionally, the Telltale series might be good as well. The new Sam & Max, Tales of Monkey Island, etc.
I'm pretty sure Marijuana isn't a narcotic. And I don't think cocaine is either.
A narcotic would be like morphine or heroin.
Narcotics are specific, not a generalization for all drugs.
If you're going to post Slashvertisements, at least get some of your facts straight.
I don't like this idea. It sounds good, but legislatures write law, and what are most legislators? Lawyers. Do I want Joe SixPack writing laws when he has zero legal background. And do I want "experts" telling him what to do? A bunch of random nobodies would be too easily manipulated by these experts or advisers who know how the system works.
The latest Medal of Honor game had Taliban as a playable faction for mutliplayer, but they had to change it to some generic "Terrorist" team because of the backlash. There were people that were upset that you could play the Taliban and shoot at American soldiers in a virtual environment. I don't think most /.ers will find this offensive, but such people do exist.
There are games where China is the enemy. Why is it suddenly a bad thing when the US are the bad guys?
You're right, but computers are so common these days that anyone thinking about majoring in CS can easily teach themselves the basics just by doing tutorials online and asking questions on sites like StackOverflow. CS isn't like doing Chemistry which requires a bunch of expensive, specialized equipment. Everyone has the resources to put Visual Studio Express, Python, or Linux on their machine and mess around. They may not get all the theory, but they'll at least know the basics. If you're not interested in CS enough to type a measly "print 'Hello World'" into a .py file before declaring your major then maybe CS isn't for you.
A rooted phone has the file /system/xbin/su