Dammit, why is it always yelling "fire!" in a theatre? Don't you guys have any imagination or artistic initiative? Try: yelling "The Zerg are invading!" in a park or "My nipples are melting into deadly nanofluids!" in a pool.
Ah, but an encyclopedia isn't about explaining knowledge to non-experts; it's about presenting information clearly, precisely, and in detail. Most people couldn't make heads or tails of Encyclopedia Britannica, so Wikipedia is even better in that regard. All you need is a clear head and a good level of reading and reading comprehension ability, and perhaps general background knowledge in the subject (and that last requirement can be waived if you're willing to read up on that knowledge on Wikipedia itself).
Amplification of vibrations is common to IEMs. You can prevent/reduce it either by not listening to music while walking/moving, or "grounding" it by clipping the wire to your shirt, gripping between your fingers, or wrapping over/behind your ears.
that installing Windows breaks a laptop a lot more than installing Linux. At least installing Linux renders the machine usable; the same cannot be said for Windows.
Doesn't Facebook automatically friend you with that what's-his-face guy who founded the darn thing (you can tell I don't really give much of a damn about Facebook)? Of course, the first thing I did with unfriend him...
This idea of preserving and saving everything is a little strange, especially considering that we are basically using the most volatile medium in the history of mankind, hard drives and so on. If you want something to last a long time, carve it into rock. Why would you want to keep all your social network photos/posts anyway? It's not like you'll ever look back over it or anything. Save it locally if you really have to.
Why does everyone say vlc? Is this really/.? After all, mplayer is the only way to go. VLC is like emacs, obese with features most people willl never use, but mplayer is like vim, doing only what it needs to do but easily extensible to do what YOU need to do, as well as being more powerful at the expense of a shallow learning curve.
Huh? Why would it take that long? Just rm ~/.wine, or sudo killall wine, and if all else fails sudo apt-get remove --purge wine or whatever your local package manager is.
In that case, everyone should be running around trying to get heart transplants from serial killers. I mean, the only reason why they'd kill people for fun is because, well, they think it's fun. Therefore, they must be living very happy lives and have extremely healthy hearts.
You can't tell me that you will use 1.6TB of personal data on a regular basis. Here's what I do: organize all the data you need to keep, but won't touch regularly or at all (let's be honest, if a file disappears here or there you probably won't notice, even if we all panic at the mere thought), and gzip-tar them (or your preferred compression method). Stick them on your backup drive(s). If you ever need to access them, just plug in the backup drive and untar what you need. Now, you have maybe 10-500GB of data left which you can rsync/your preferred backup method to a drive.
Example:I move my archivable personal data off my HD as gzipped tarballs, and regularly backup my home and root directories separately as gzipped tarballs (that way I have a history of backups too, just in case). On ther other hand, I rsync my music collection separately because despite its size, I use all of it regularly, but I don't want it weighing down every single backup of my home. So you may have to come up with your own solutions for your own specific situation, but in general: consolidate and optimize!
Actually, I think leaving the spare keys under your neighbor's welcome mat is a very good and unorthodox backup method. I'm pretty sure someone trying to break in will check your welcome mat and top of door frame, not your neighbor's. Maybe we can extend this analogy to web security? Have sites store their users password hashed on partner sites, and vice versa. Even better, have sites store the hashing salts on another partner site's servers. Quick, you and me patent this before big name companies start doing it!
ideally, every service/company would have it's own set of salts to immediately hash all incoming email addresses, which it would of course protect with its life. You'd have to steal the salts first, and the rainbow tables you make would only work for that one service, until it decides to reset its caches and generate new salts when it finds out someone stole them, which a responsible company should be doing.
Why is it sent in plain text? If you're gonna be sending it in plain text, you might as well send it hashed than send the plain text password in plain text right? Although IMO the best method is for the site to store the salt and hash, the user sends the plaintext password via secure/encrypted connection, and the site checks it. Asking the user to hash something and send that to be checked directly means more work on the user's part, and if someone intercepts that, it's no different from having gotten the plaintext password. More work for little increase in security.
You obviously haven't been paying attention to the state of justice in America. Since awhile ago, we replaced "innocent until proven guilty" with "guilty and then proven guilty".
Free equivalents to many (not all, I admit) software you may need are available for download, either directly through a package manager or as source.
I can't play ANY games on it that aren't total crap or 10yrs old
This is true.
It's hard to use for most people. (editing text files in emacs is not easy for most people)
emacs works pretty much the same at notepade. vi/vim I can understand, but if most people can't use emacs... (I mean on the superficial level most people would expect from a text editor anyway)
The linux support community are a bunch of assholes. Try and post a question in a linux forum asking how to do something, you get treated like an idiot.
We expect people to do their research beforehand, act mature and use proper grammar and spelling. Unfortunately, this seems to be outside of the abilities of "most people"
Even if you had someone to support you, the entire appearance, function and utility of it differs widely from distro to distro... even from release to release. Win7 may be a lot different than Win95... but not nearly as different as 2 Ubuntu distros that are less than 5yrs apart. So even a linux pro can be lost unless you drop to command line, and even then they may be confused unless you're using the same distro... not to mention that its virtually impossible to support a novice, over the phone, while they're entering console commands.
Linux tutorials are usually given in CLI commands precisely BECAUSE they're easier to support. What's harder to tell someone to do, hit ALT-F2 and type "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade" and hit enter, or tell them to go to the start menu, find microsoft update, click on that, wait for the page to load, hit normal upgrade (or whatever that is), hit confirm, wait, restart computer, and rinse and repeat for each application you have installed?
Depends on what "truly replace" means.
Will they, or rather might they partially displace current credit card and debit card usage? Certainly, although that's still up in the air. Might they replace wallets a a convenient storage device and everything they hold? Nope. Not a chance. Now, a Plasma Field Limited Projection Device TM, now THAT is the wallet of the future, my friend.
I propose a bill that whenever "Congressman" is used as a title, it must be accompanied by the following: "Warning: Exposure to public office has been linked to stupid behavior" Of course, we'd also need to find independent data to support it... Oh wait! We can just use a US history book!
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Dammit, why is it always yelling "fire!" in a theatre? Don't you guys have any imagination or artistic initiative? Try: yelling "The Zerg are invading!" in a park or "My nipples are melting into deadly nanofluids!" in a pool.
Actually "throw up" is a pretty accurate metaphor for a lot of what I've seen on pretty much every social network...
FTFY?
What? One of the best RSS feed aggregators is going away? What is this madness?
Ah, but an encyclopedia isn't about explaining knowledge to non-experts; it's about presenting information clearly, precisely, and in detail. Most people couldn't make heads or tails of Encyclopedia Britannica, so Wikipedia is even better in that regard. All you need is a clear head and a good level of reading and reading comprehension ability, and perhaps general background knowledge in the subject (and that last requirement can be waived if you're willing to read up on that knowledge on Wikipedia itself).
At the very least, they have been very proactive at poking something into something else, or we wouldn't be here.
I applaud you good sir, for that spectacular piece of composition.
Amplification of vibrations is common to IEMs. You can prevent/reduce it either by not listening to music while walking/moving, or "grounding" it by clipping the wire to your shirt, gripping between your fingers, or wrapping over/behind your ears.
that installing Windows breaks a laptop a lot more than installing Linux. At least installing Linux renders the machine usable; the same cannot be said for Windows.
Doesn't Facebook automatically friend you with that what's-his-face guy who founded the darn thing (you can tell I don't really give much of a damn about Facebook)? Of course, the first thing I did with unfriend him...
This idea of preserving and saving everything is a little strange, especially considering that we are basically using the most volatile medium in the history of mankind, hard drives and so on. If you want something to last a long time, carve it into rock. Why would you want to keep all your social network photos/posts anyway? It's not like you'll ever look back over it or anything. Save it locally if you really have to.
Why does everyone say vlc? Is this really /.? After all, mplayer is the only way to go. VLC is like emacs, obese with features most people willl never use, but mplayer is like vim, doing only what it needs to do but easily extensible to do what YOU need to do, as well as being more powerful at the expense of a shallow learning curve.
Huh? Why would it take that long? Just rm ~/.wine, or sudo killall wine, and if all else fails sudo apt-get remove --purge wine or whatever your local package manager is.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume that legally, "to be fitted with" includes actually being connected and functioning.
In that case, everyone should be running around trying to get heart transplants from serial killers. I mean, the only reason why they'd kill people for fun is because, well, they think it's fun. Therefore, they must be living very happy lives and have extremely healthy hearts.
Example:I move my archivable personal data off my HD as gzipped tarballs, and regularly backup my home and root directories separately as gzipped tarballs (that way I have a history of backups too, just in case). On ther other hand, I rsync my music collection separately because despite its size, I use all of it regularly, but I don't want it weighing down every single backup of my home. So you may have to come up with your own solutions for your own specific situation, but in general: consolidate and optimize!
Actually, I think leaving the spare keys under your neighbor's welcome mat is a very good and unorthodox backup method. I'm pretty sure someone trying to break in will check your welcome mat and top of door frame, not your neighbor's. Maybe we can extend this analogy to web security? Have sites store their users password hashed on partner sites, and vice versa. Even better, have sites store the hashing salts on another partner site's servers. Quick, you and me patent this before big name companies start doing it!
ideally, every service/company would have it's own set of salts to immediately hash all incoming email addresses, which it would of course protect with its life. You'd have to steal the salts first, and the rainbow tables you make would only work for that one service, until it decides to reset its caches and generate new salts when it finds out someone stole them, which a responsible company should be doing.
Why is it sent in plain text? If you're gonna be sending it in plain text, you might as well send it hashed than send the plain text password in plain text right? Although IMO the best method is for the site to store the salt and hash, the user sends the plaintext password via secure/encrypted connection, and the site checks it. Asking the user to hash something and send that to be checked directly means more work on the user's part, and if someone intercepts that, it's no different from having gotten the plaintext password. More work for little increase in security.
You obviously haven't been paying attention to the state of justice in America. Since awhile ago, we replaced "innocent until proven guilty" with "guilty and then proven guilty".
Did you just quote XKCD? So, it has come to this.
Free equivalents to many (not all, I admit) software you may need are available for download, either directly through a package manager or as source.
I can't play ANY games on it that aren't total crap or 10yrs old
This is true.
It's hard to use for most people. (editing text files in emacs is not easy for most people)
emacs works pretty much the same at notepade. vi/vim I can understand, but if most people can't use emacs... (I mean on the superficial level most people would expect from a text editor anyway)
The linux support community are a bunch of assholes. Try and post a question in a linux forum asking how to do something, you get treated like an idiot.
We expect people to do their research beforehand, act mature and use proper grammar and spelling. Unfortunately, this seems to be outside of the abilities of "most people"
Even if you had someone to support you, the entire appearance, function and utility of it differs widely from distro to distro... even from release to release. Win7 may be a lot different than Win95... but not nearly as different as 2 Ubuntu distros that are less than 5yrs apart. So even a linux pro can be lost unless you drop to command line, and even then they may be confused unless you're using the same distro... not to mention that its virtually impossible to support a novice, over the phone, while they're entering console commands.
Linux tutorials are usually given in CLI commands precisely BECAUSE they're easier to support. What's harder to tell someone to do, hit ALT-F2 and type "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade" and hit enter, or tell them to go to the start menu, find microsoft update, click on that, wait for the page to load, hit normal upgrade (or whatever that is), hit confirm, wait, restart computer, and rinse and repeat for each application you have installed?
Depends on what "truly replace" means. Will they, or rather might they partially displace current credit card and debit card usage? Certainly, although that's still up in the air. Might they replace wallets a a convenient storage device and everything they hold? Nope. Not a chance. Now, a Plasma Field Limited Projection Device TM, now THAT is the wallet of the future, my friend.
Don't worry, Google's working on a birth control ray to come standard with Android's next release.
You obviously don't understand what kind of clutter he's talking about.
I propose a bill that whenever "Congressman" is used as a title, it must be accompanied by the following: "Warning: Exposure to public office has been linked to stupid behavior" Of course, we'd also need to find independent data to support it... Oh wait! We can just use a US history book!