That's just like a classic Star Trek episode. Two enemies are at war, but they agree to avoid loss of physical infrastructure by citizens "volunteering" to be vaporized when they are randomly selected.
If Apple released software for the iPod to connect to the PC then they'd have to support it. The people in their building are Mac coders and know Mac stuff inside and out. Do they know Windows? I dunno.
Except Apple does write Windows software, for example Quicktime. I bet there are more Quicktime users own Windows PCs than Macs..
I heard that when the police confronted Jose Padilla, he pulled out two light sabers and proceeded to KICK ASS. Now if that is not evil, I don't know what is.
Have you seen the new Denny's TV commercial? She and Kermit are ordering breakfast at Denny's. They order a Grand Slam breakfast and go ape-shit because they are overjoyed to be eating pancakes, sausage, and bacon. Man, there is some sick shit on TV these days...
And these aren't people who "come into this country", they're citizens of the US. Every American should be outraged that Bush and company are so willing to disregard the rights he's sworn to defend.
Why does John Walker Lindh get a trial before running home to his mommy and daddy while Jose Padilla is held using secret evidence but without trial or a lawyer? John Walker was captured on the battlefield fighting with the Taliban, while Jose Padilla is guilty of maybe having met with al-Quaida and maybe having thought about planning to build a bomb.
Is there a double standard? They are both US citizens, but John Walker is white and Jose Padilla is not. Has that affected their treatment?
And suppose they took him to trial but a jury of "civil rights outweigh the safety of others" kooks lets him off and he walks out a free man?
His civil rights would entitle him to a trial, not a "get out of jail free" card. If the prosecution cannot prove to a jury that he is guity, then why should he be imprisoned?
Here are some interesting performance benchmarks (using lmbench) comparing Darwin (aka Mac OS X), NetBSD, and Linux. Can you guess who came in first place?;-)
The claims of significant savings are bogus. At a previous employer the average CAD jockey cost about $25K/year for Pro/E licenses yearly. The cost for their workstation was barely 10%, and the cost for their OS was less than 1%.
see, the plan is that once Pro/Engineer is released on Linux, people will bitch and moan that it is not open-source (ie free) and then move on to the next free-as-in-warez rally..
I was reading a seller's eBay feedback. They had a few A++s and couple AAAAAA+++++++s. However they had one negative feedback: F+++++++++. To this day, I'm still not sure what that means..
They just gave a Netscape a review, and gave it the lowest possible score they could justify given that it was faster, more stable, and more W3C compliant than the big IE.
If you read the CNET review, you would see that in their performance tests, IE6 was faster than Mozilla in the three HTML tests. In the Java test, Mozilla was faster.
Why and how do Carbon apps need to be updated to use Quartz text smoothing? If Silk (apparently written in less than one day) is able to enable Quartz text smoothing for all apps, why couldn't Apple do the same?
good point. If K-Mart and 7-11 sold drugs, then there would be no market for shady, back-alley drug dealers (and their terrorist suppliers). If the US legalized drugs, would people complain that the US was racist and unfairly helping Big Business overrun the poor helpless dealers?
have you seen those TV commercials about buying drugs "helps kill judges" because you are funding terrorists? These commercials forget to mention that:
btw, for those of you who might not believe me (because the site has since been fixed), here is the Google-cached Nielsen Norman Group, broken links and all!
The Jakob Neilsen story was on ActionScript.com (a Flash news blog) yesterday. Here is a list of the HORRIBLE USABILITY BUGS on the Nielsen Norman Group's own web site. Fortunately (unfortunately for my karma?;-) these problems were fixed last night.
1) broken graphic at bottom of page 2) click on People, you go to Services 3) click on Services, you go to Publications 4) click on Publications, you go to Events 5) click on Events, you go to About 6) click on Jakob Nielsen, you go to Don Norman's web site 7) click on Donald A. Norman, you go to Ask Tog 8) click on Nielsen Norman Group Members, you go to Events 9) click on User Experience 2001/2002, you go to Services 10) click on Usability Testing and Reviews, you go to Process and Strategy 11) click on Process and Strategy, you go to Seminars 12) click on Contacting, you go to the MM/JN press release on Yahoo
instead of "this page intentionally left blank", they should use a graphic design, such as the company logo (!) in page corner. No one's intelligence is insulted and the design does not need to localized to different languages.
What was the one thing you came away with after watching "Full Metal Jacket" for the first time? Did it have to do with the duality of man, as Mathew Modine's character suggested? Maybe you gained a new perspective of the Vietnam War?
For me it was "Damn, I could never take a dump in one of those military bathrooms with no stalls." Whether you're shameless or shameful, such an environment would keep most poopers puckered until your blue eyes turned brown. So you can imagine how elated I was at Boot Camp when I saw how modern the facilities had become.
A year and a half after enlisting, I was sent to Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Shield. The unit to which I was transferred was one of the first to deploy, and had already been in country for five months by the time I got there.
The posh surroundings hardly resembled anything I had expected. There was a huge tent where warm meals were served, a generator to power the TV and VCR that played tapes sent from home and endless rows of Port-o-Johnesque latrines. This is war? Hell yes!
After about a week, we got word to pack everything in and start heading north, thus ending Operation Desert Vacation. We convoyed for hours and hours at a time, stopping only to sleep. If we were lucky, we might stay put for a day or two. The privacy of enclosed "sit down" style latrines was replaced with an open air "squat-n-squeeze" hole in the ground surrounded by a roofless tent. There may have been more than one hole, but I can tell you we only went in one at a time.
Given the ideal digging conditions in Saudi (lots and lots of deep sand) and in accordance with the aforementioned "one at a time" rule, on more than one occasion I was forced to venture out into the dunes, entrenching tool and shit paper in hand, seeking a place to deposit my Infidel load.
The terrain was much less digger-friendly in Iraq: lots of protruding jagged rocks and only a foot or so of sand before hitting solid rock. We knew we'd be staying at this particular location for a while, so we had to dig a fancy defensive perimeter, i.e., about 5 or 6 holes positioned in a half circle around our camp. While digging one of the holes, I discovered the rock layer.
In a stroke of military genius, someone (not me) decided to hit the rock layer with a 20-pound sledgehammer to "break it up". After about 5 futile seconds, we figured we'd just increase the circumference of the hole and fill sand bags, pile them up all around the hole and put on a plywood roof. It was only about 3 feet from bottom to top, but for 4 hours a day, it was home.
One sunny day while on guard duty, the urge to purge hit me. I had to go NOW. I tried to hold it, but knew I'd never make it back to camp. Finally, when we could see our replacements coming up the hill, I told the guy with me to head back and I'd stay to officially change the guard. That gave me a 2-minute window to do my business.
The second he left, I assessed the situation and went into MacGyver mode. I fumbled with the buttons of my BDU pants while simultaneously reaching for an empty MRE bag. Squatting very awkwardly, I aligned the bag directly below my ass and let loose.
Thank goodness MRE's make for some solid stool, because I totally missed the bag. The 7-incher slid out, clung to the side of the bag for a moment, then slammed to the rock floor with an audible "thump". Glancing back, I saw that my replacements were only about 30 feet away. Panic-stricken, I grabbed the turd with a leather glove and shoved it into the bag. War truly is Hell, for there would be no wipe.
I had just finished buttoning my pants when they appeared at the opening of the bunker. They looked at me strangely for a second as I grabbed my shit (literally) and got the hell out of there.
It's never too late to thank your brave men and women in the military -- those who have shit in far away lands, weary and in danger, so you don't have to.
Having read SICP, I know that functional programming is for quiche eaters. If you are into this sort of thing, then you will love the Lambda the Ultimate blog.
Are the networks losing money when people do this? A little, maybe. These people aren't being counted in ratings shares, so it means less ad revenue. These companies might be getting a small share of the revenue from the cable company if those connections were legitimate, but I believe they mostly get their money from the advertising.
but advertisers are getting MORE for their money because they are paying for X impressions, but there are X+Y TV viewers.
I think Opera makes money from supporting embedded platforms that are scared to use GPL Mozilla code. For example, I think Opera supports the Symbian embedded OS.
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Key size doesn't really have jack to do with this if you choose a proper password; numbers, letters, etc
What if I choose a key size of one bit? That might matter..
That's just like a classic Star Trek episode. Two enemies are at war, but they agree to avoid loss of physical infrastructure by citizens "volunteering" to be vaporized when they are randomly selected.
If Apple released software for the iPod to connect to the PC then they'd have to support it. The people in their building are Mac coders and know Mac stuff inside and out. Do they know Windows? I dunno.
Except Apple does write Windows software, for example Quicktime. I bet there are more Quicktime users own Windows PCs than Macs..
I heard that when the police confronted Jose Padilla, he pulled out two light sabers and proceeded to KICK ASS. Now if that is not evil, I don't know what is.
Have you seen the new Denny's TV commercial? She and Kermit are ordering breakfast at Denny's. They order a Grand Slam breakfast and go ape-shit because they are overjoyed to be eating pancakes, sausage, and bacon. Man, there is some sick shit on TV these days...
And these aren't people who "come into this country", they're citizens of the US. Every American should be outraged that Bush and company are so willing to disregard the rights he's sworn to defend.
Why does John Walker Lindh get a trial before running home to his mommy and daddy while Jose Padilla is held using secret evidence but without trial or a lawyer? John Walker was captured on the battlefield fighting with the Taliban, while Jose Padilla is guilty of maybe having met with al-Quaida and maybe having thought about planning to build a bomb.
Is there a double standard? They are both US citizens, but John Walker is white and Jose Padilla is not. Has that affected their treatment?
And suppose they took him to trial but a jury of "civil rights outweigh the safety of others" kooks lets him off and he walks out a free man?
His civil rights would entitle him to a trial, not a "get out of jail free" card. If the prosecution cannot prove to a jury that he is guity, then why should he be imprisoned?
Here are some interesting performance benchmarks (using lmbench) comparing Darwin (aka Mac OS X), NetBSD, and Linux. Can you guess who came in first place? ;-)
lmbench 2.0 summary
The claims of significant savings are bogus. At a previous employer the average CAD jockey cost about $25K/year for Pro/E licenses yearly. The cost for their workstation was barely 10%, and the cost for their OS was less than 1%.
see, the plan is that once Pro/Engineer is released on Linux, people will bitch and moan that it is not open-source (ie free) and then move on to the next free-as-in-warez rally..
Developer promises a fix real soon now. I could care less.
I think you mean that you could NOT care less.
UC San Diego? what in the world do you mean? The company is located in Carson City, NV and its "university study" was done at "Cornell.
I was reading a seller's eBay feedback. They had a few A++s and couple AAAAAA+++++++s. However they had one negative feedback: F+++++++++. To this day, I'm still not sure what that means..
Big business could care less about their customers in recent years
I think you mean: "Big business could NOT care less about their customers in recent years."
They just gave a Netscape a review, and gave it the lowest possible score they could justify given that it was faster, more stable, and more W3C compliant than the big IE.
If you read the CNET review, you would see that in their performance tests , IE6 was faster than Mozilla in the three HTML tests. In the Java test, Mozilla was faster.
actually combustion engines are pretty damned obvious, though most people(myself included) would never take the time to bother with it
Mom and Pop feel the same way about COMPUTERS.
Why and how do Carbon apps need to be updated to use Quartz text smoothing? If Silk (apparently written in less than one day) is able to enable Quartz text smoothing for all apps, why couldn't Apple do the same?
good point. If K-Mart and 7-11 sold drugs, then there would be no market for shady, back-alley drug dealers (and their terrorist suppliers). If the US legalized drugs, would people complain that the US was racist and unfairly helping Big Business overrun the poor helpless dealers?
have you seen those TV commercials about buying drugs "helps kill judges" because you are funding terrorists? These commercials forget to mention that:
btw, for those of you who might not believe me (because the site has since been fixed), here is the Google-cached Nielsen Norman Group , broken links and all!
(thank you again, google)
The Jakob Neilsen story was on ActionScript.com (a Flash news blog) yesterday. Here is a list of the HORRIBLE USABILITY BUGS on the Nielsen Norman Group's own web site. Fortunately (unfortunately for my karma?
1) broken graphic at bottom of page
2) click on People, you go to Services
3) click on Services, you go to Publications
4) click on Publications, you go to Events
5) click on Events, you go to About
6) click on Jakob Nielsen, you go to Don Norman's web site
7) click on Donald A. Norman, you go to Ask Tog
8) click on Nielsen Norman Group Members, you go to Events
9) click on User Experience 2001/2002, you go to Services
10) click on Usability Testing and Reviews, you go to Process and Strategy
11) click on Process and Strategy, you go to Seminars
12) click on Contacting, you go to the MM/JN press release on Yahoo
instead of "this page intentionally left blank", they should use a graphic design, such as the company logo (!) in page corner. No one's intelligence is insulted and the design does not need to localized to different languages.
What was the one thing you came away with after watching "Full Metal Jacket" for the first time? Did it have to do with the duality of man, as Mathew Modine's character suggested? Maybe you gained a new perspective of the Vietnam War?
For me it was "Damn, I could never take a dump in one of those military bathrooms with no stalls." Whether you're shameless or shameful, such an environment would keep most poopers puckered until your blue eyes turned brown. So you can imagine how elated I was at Boot Camp when I saw how modern the facilities had become.
A year and a half after enlisting, I was sent to Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Shield. The unit to which I was transferred was one of the first to deploy, and had already been in country for five months by the time I got there.
The posh surroundings hardly resembled anything I had expected. There was a huge tent where warm meals were served, a generator to power the TV and VCR that played tapes sent from home and endless rows of Port-o-Johnesque latrines. This is war? Hell yes!
After about a week, we got word to pack everything in and start heading north, thus ending Operation Desert Vacation. We convoyed for hours and hours at a time, stopping only to sleep. If we were lucky, we might stay put for a day or two. The privacy of enclosed "sit down" style latrines was replaced with an open air "squat-n-squeeze" hole in the ground surrounded by a roofless tent. There may have been more than one hole, but I can tell you we only went in one at a time.
Given the ideal digging conditions in Saudi (lots and lots of deep sand) and in accordance with the aforementioned "one at a time" rule, on more than one occasion I was forced to venture out into the dunes, entrenching tool and shit paper in hand, seeking a place to deposit my Infidel load.
The terrain was much less digger-friendly in Iraq: lots of protruding jagged rocks and only a foot or so of sand before hitting solid rock. We knew we'd be staying at this particular location for a while, so we had to dig a fancy defensive perimeter, i.e., about 5 or 6 holes positioned in a half circle around our camp. While digging one of the holes, I discovered the rock layer.
In a stroke of military genius, someone (not me) decided to hit the rock layer with a 20-pound sledgehammer to "break it up". After about 5 futile seconds, we figured we'd just increase the circumference of the hole and fill sand bags, pile them up all around the hole and put on a plywood roof. It was only about 3 feet from bottom to top, but for 4 hours a day, it was home.
One sunny day while on guard duty, the urge to purge hit me. I had to go NOW. I tried to hold it, but knew I'd never make it back to camp. Finally, when we could see our replacements coming up the hill, I told the guy with me to head back and I'd stay to officially change the guard. That gave me a 2-minute window to do my business.
The second he left, I assessed the situation and went into MacGyver mode. I fumbled with the buttons of my BDU pants while simultaneously reaching for an empty MRE bag. Squatting very awkwardly, I aligned the bag directly below my ass and let loose.
Thank goodness MRE's make for some solid stool, because I totally missed the bag. The 7-incher slid out, clung to the side of the bag for a moment, then slammed to the rock floor with an audible "thump". Glancing back, I saw that my replacements were only about 30 feet away. Panic-stricken, I grabbed the turd with a leather glove and shoved it into the bag. War truly is Hell, for there would be no wipe.
I had just finished buttoning my pants when they appeared at the opening of the bunker. They looked at me strangely for a second as I grabbed my shit (literally) and got the hell out of there.
It's never too late to thank your brave men and women in the military -- those who have shit in far away lands, weary and in danger, so you don't have to.
Having read SICP, I know that functional programming is for quiche eaters. If you are into this sort of thing, then you will love the Lambda the Ultimate blog.
Are the networks losing money when people do this? A little, maybe. These people aren't being counted in ratings shares, so it means less ad revenue. These companies might be getting a small share of the revenue from the cable company if those connections were legitimate, but I believe they mostly get their money from the advertising.
but advertisers are getting MORE for their money because they are paying for X impressions, but there are X+Y TV viewers.
I think Opera makes money from supporting embedded platforms that are scared to use GPL Mozilla code. For example, I think Opera supports the Symbian embedded OS.