You sure can, as long as you don't actively encourage illegal posts and agree to take them down once notified about them. Just like every site that has user generated content.
Yeah, no.. I did something like that once. My family was a fairly early adopter of cable internet when it was The Wave from Rogers in Ontario. Me, being a nosey youngster with some computer knowledge, was poking around in network neighbourhood noticing that a lot more computers showed up than the 0 that I expected. I started looking around saw a folder called "Pictures". Let's just say that I learned a lesson I won't soon forget about sticking my nose where it didn't belong, along with a lesson I wish I could forget about sticking other things where they don't belong.
I don't see "wahhhh rounded corners" in my post. Ad Hominem attacks against people who disagree won't get a discussion anywhere.
Samsung could have done more to differentiate their design from Apples design, true. However I believe that calling Apples design distinctive or stylized is an exaggeration. Every electronic picture frame, TV, tablet, etc. is roughly rectangular and has rounded corners. They are rectangular because that is the screen shape we are used to. They have rounded corners because that is more comfortable to hold than squared corners.
A two stage move would work in this case: 1 - move to an AWS stored instance 1b - move the physical hardware 2 - restore from the AWS to the physical
People should be able to play the games they have paid for. This would also cover them in case something happens to the truck carrying the hardware or something similar. Pay the rent on the AWS server for a bit longer while the new hardware comes in.
As a counter to that, the round-cornered rectangle is neither distinctive not stylized. It's really one of the few logical shapes for a tablet computer. The only other thing they could do is make the corners squared rather than rounded, which would allow exactly two tablet companies, unless you could say they only hold the design patent for black, square-cornered rectangles.
For my work machine, 2 GB is more than sufficient as almost everything I do is online. When Firefox was really acting up I just switched to IE (because of a compatibility issue with Chrome and a site I needed) and the memory problems went away. If it wasn't for the plugins and the way Firefox handled the tabs I was using I would have stayed with IE.
Please cite a documented case that isn't caused by an extension.
As a tech, I know that, but as a user, I don't care about the difference. When my system slows to a crawl, my hard drive is thrashing and I look at task manager to see firefox.exe sitting at 250MB with two tabs open, there's a problem. I do have a few addons and having too many can cause problems but there comes a point when the host program needs to control the plugins and do something to keep from taking over.
Firefox is still my favourite browser for work and home, but the pauses and hangups when the memory consumption goes up get annoying.
My understanding is, in the context of this conversation, when people say "Corporation", they are referring to the groups that are pooling resources to make money.
I think I agree with you (and the others in this thread) though: Let people join a common cause under whatever banner, but when it comes time to actually approach the law makers each individual is there on their own, not as a member of the group.
I got a second hand desktop with a decent video card for $30. Wiped and reinstalled Windows, installed XBMC and it's good to go. Added a wireless keyboard with built in track pad for $40 and I could control it from anywhere.
Granted, though, I already had a network set up in my house as well as a desktop with significant storage on it, so the solution isn't as great for everyone.
In this case, that measurement isn't resolutions, but closed tickets. Unfortunately you would need a human to go through them and see that the first ticket was closed without fixing the problem, so it wouldn't count as a resolution. I would say it should even count against the tech who did it because it looks like they just tried to pawn off the issue to someone else.
The goal of special effects shouldn't necessarily be to look realistic, they should be works of art themselves and help create a mood or tell a story.
I disagree; unless you're shooting a cartoon, everything should be as realistic and beleivable as possible. And everything in the movie should strive to be a work of art in itself.
Really?
Right after you talk about how CGI is nice for doing impossible things, you say that it should all be as realistic and believable as possible?
Needless to say, I disagree.
Sure, if you're doing some kind of gritty cop-drama or something, realism is pretty nice. But what if you're doing a fantasy or science fiction movie? Do you really want realism? Once you introduce magic or dragons or FTL travel or something, realism pretty much goes out the window.
Rather than "realistic" I usually use "internally consistent", meaning that it is realistic within the universe of the movie/book/whatever. If something happens there had better be a story-reason why it's happening (or not happening, as the case may be).
A twitter account is more like broadcasting a message on a TV or radio show, rather than owning a TV or radio station. They would not be directly regulating themselves.
No you wouldn't, at least not the way parent is meaning. A few extra milliseconds between packets in an FTP connection aren't noticeable. Do that in a VoIP call and you get jitter and echo. Get the packets out of order and your FTP download will still be good, while in a VoIP call will they will be dropped and you won't hear the other person. I have seen that only a few missing or late packets will cause a lot of hassle in VoIP, and I believe there are other applications and protocols that would be affected.
Slowing traffic that doesn't care to make way for traffic that does is good. Slowing down traffic "just because" is, as you very rightly pointed out" really bad.
Tell a Hindu that the Earth doesn't sit on a turtle. They'll either laugh, or get offended that you stereotype them as a superstitious savage.
Sounds reasonable...
Tell a Christian that the world is over a billion years old, and they will tell you that scientists only say that to get funding.
And now you're an idiot. I am a Christian. I have no problem believing that the Earth is not 6000 years old. I also have no problem in believing that science and God can co-exist. Tell me, if you make a cake, does it just appear on the table, nicely iced and cut into pieces? No, you get the ingredients together, bake it, decorate it, cut it. I feel that this meshes with what we have observed. If you don't, fine. You believe what gets you through the day, I believe what gets me through the day. I am open to discussions, but as soon as you start lumping everyone in a group together, you just sound uneducated.
The way I see it, not buying a solid battery backup to go with your expensive and shiny toy is good only for making sure you'll need to upgrade more often to replace failed components.
That's a feature.
"Darn lightning. Honey, I need to buy a new motherboard, processor, video card...."
Perhaps the terrorists are actually hyper intelligent beings who knew all along that if they could only trick us into radiating ourselves out of fear of them and we would do their job for them while they kick back and enjoy some of that great Mideast sun and sand. 1000 dead and all they had to do was say "Boo!"
Actually, that's pretty much what they want to do. Terrorists operate by trying to frighten you into doing the hard work. Attack once and let the fear of that one attack cause government clamp-downs, make it impossible to live your life day-to-day as you had before.
There should be a golden bootloader that is locked that then allows the installation of any operating system software. Then you can make a relatively unbrickable device that gives people complete choice.
I would like to see something like this on almost any device. Hell, my car's transmission has a "limp mode" to get me to a garage if there's a problem, why shouldn't my computer? It does't need to be a full OS, just enough to get a full OS on there.
instead of buying digital copies that will never wear out
That isn't always the case. According to http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/889452-264/harpercollins_puts_26_loan_cap.html.csp there is at least one publisher who will put a limit on the number of times a book can be borrowed. After a year to a year and a half, depending on the loan length, the book is no longer available to anyone and has to be repurchased. I have seen physical books that are a good deal older than a year and all they need is a bit of tape on the corners and spine and they're quite usable. Granted if that expiry was removed the ebooks would easily outlast any physical book, but even though the technology is there, society (at least some parts) is not.
Heaven forbid someone should ask a question in "Ask Slashdot"...
Perhaps he is looking for somewhere to get started or pointers in a particular direction. Maybe he just wants to start a good, old fashioned discussion.
Searching Google or Yahoo or Bing or whatever else is out there does not match the input from people who are skilled in the field and have probably done the task before.
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How often does your unattended 2 year old go to the toy store? It's very easy not to have them in the house, just don't buy them.
How many people can be reliant on others before it breaks the collective back of society?
Do you know what society is? People relying on other people. That's pretty much the definition.
You sure can, as long as you don't actively encourage illegal posts and agree to take them down once notified about them. Just like every site that has user generated content.
And he looked upon it, and saw that it was good.
fsck /dev/world?
Yeah, no.. I did something like that once. My family was a fairly early adopter of cable internet when it was The Wave from Rogers in Ontario. Me, being a nosey youngster with some computer knowledge, was poking around in network neighbourhood noticing that a lot more computers showed up than the 0 that I expected. I started looking around saw a folder called "Pictures". Let's just say that I learned a lesson I won't soon forget about sticking my nose where it didn't belong, along with a lesson I wish I could forget about sticking other things where they don't belong.
I don't see "wahhhh rounded corners" in my post. Ad Hominem attacks against people who disagree won't get a discussion anywhere.
Samsung could have done more to differentiate their design from Apples design, true. However I believe that calling Apples design distinctive or stylized is an exaggeration. Every electronic picture frame, TV, tablet, etc. is roughly rectangular and has rounded corners. They are rectangular because that is the screen shape we are used to. They have rounded corners because that is more comfortable to hold than squared corners.
A two stage move would work in this case:
1 - move to an AWS stored instance
1b - move the physical hardware
2 - restore from the AWS to the physical
People should be able to play the games they have paid for. This would also cover them in case something happens to the truck carrying the hardware or something similar. Pay the rent on the AWS server for a bit longer while the new hardware comes in.
As a counter to that, the round-cornered rectangle is neither distinctive not stylized. It's really one of the few logical shapes for a tablet computer. The only other thing they could do is make the corners squared rather than rounded, which would allow exactly two tablet companies, unless you could say they only hold the design patent for black, square-cornered rectangles.
For my work machine, 2 GB is more than sufficient as almost everything I do is online. When Firefox was really acting up I just switched to IE (because of a compatibility issue with Chrome and a site I needed) and the memory problems went away. If it wasn't for the plugins and the way Firefox handled the tabs I was using I would have stayed with IE.
Please cite a documented case that isn't caused by an extension.
As a tech, I know that, but as a user, I don't care about the difference. When my system slows to a crawl, my hard drive is thrashing and I look at task manager to see firefox.exe sitting at 250MB with two tabs open, there's a problem. I do have a few addons and having too many can cause problems but there comes a point when the host program needs to control the plugins and do something to keep from taking over.
Firefox is still my favourite browser for work and home, but the pauses and hangups when the memory consumption goes up get annoying.
My understanding is, in the context of this conversation, when people say "Corporation", they are referring to the groups that are pooling resources to make money.
I think I agree with you (and the others in this thread) though: Let people join a common cause under whatever banner, but when it comes time to actually approach the law makers each individual is there on their own, not as a member of the group.
I got a second hand desktop with a decent video card for $30. Wiped and reinstalled Windows, installed XBMC and it's good to go. Added a wireless keyboard with built in track pad for $40 and I could control it from anywhere.
Granted, though, I already had a network set up in my house as well as a desktop with significant storage on it, so the solution isn't as great for everyone.
In this case, that measurement isn't resolutions, but closed tickets. Unfortunately you would need a human to go through them and see that the first ticket was closed without fixing the problem, so it wouldn't count as a resolution. I would say it should even count against the tech who did it because it looks like they just tried to pawn off the issue to someone else.
The goal of special effects shouldn't necessarily be to look realistic, they should be works of art themselves and help create a mood or tell a story.
I disagree; unless you're shooting a cartoon, everything should be as realistic and beleivable as possible. And everything in the movie should strive to be a work of art in itself.
Really?
Right after you talk about how CGI is nice for doing impossible things, you say that it should all be as realistic and believable as possible?
Needless to say, I disagree.
Sure, if you're doing some kind of gritty cop-drama or something, realism is pretty nice. But what if you're doing a fantasy or science fiction movie? Do you really want realism? Once you introduce magic or dragons or FTL travel or something, realism pretty much goes out the window.
Rather than "realistic" I usually use "internally consistent", meaning that it is realistic within the universe of the movie/book/whatever. If something happens there had better be a story-reason why it's happening (or not happening, as the case may be).
A twitter account is more like broadcasting a message on a TV or radio show, rather than owning a TV or radio station. They would not be directly regulating themselves.
They have stated that. Press with proper credentials have been told "you are not press tonight" and been forced away from where they can see anything.
No you wouldn't, at least not the way parent is meaning. A few extra milliseconds between packets in an FTP connection aren't noticeable. Do that in a VoIP call and you get jitter and echo. Get the packets out of order and your FTP download will still be good, while in a VoIP call will they will be dropped and you won't hear the other person. I have seen that only a few missing or late packets will cause a lot of hassle in VoIP, and I believe there are other applications and protocols that would be affected.
Slowing traffic that doesn't care to make way for traffic that does is good. Slowing down traffic "just because" is, as you very rightly pointed out" really bad.
Toss the spammers on their asses,
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Tell a Hindu that the Earth doesn't sit on a turtle. They'll either laugh, or get offended that you stereotype them as a superstitious savage.
Sounds reasonable...
Tell a Christian that the world is over a billion years old, and they will tell you that scientists only say that to get funding.
And now you're an idiot. I am a Christian. I have no problem believing that the Earth is not 6000 years old. I also have no problem in believing that science and God can co-exist. Tell me, if you make a cake, does it just appear on the table, nicely iced and cut into pieces? No, you get the ingredients together, bake it, decorate it, cut it. I feel that this meshes with what we have observed. If you don't, fine. You believe what gets you through the day, I believe what gets me through the day. I am open to discussions, but as soon as you start lumping everyone in a group together, you just sound uneducated.
The way I see it, not buying a solid battery backup to go with your expensive and shiny toy is good only for making sure you'll need to upgrade more often to replace failed components.
That's a feature. "Darn lightning. Honey, I need to buy a new motherboard, processor, video card...."
Perhaps the terrorists are actually hyper intelligent beings who knew all along that if they could only trick us into radiating ourselves out of fear of them and we would do their job for them while they kick back and enjoy some of that great Mideast sun and sand. 1000 dead and all they had to do was say "Boo!"
Actually, that's pretty much what they want to do. Terrorists operate by trying to frighten you into doing the hard work. Attack once and let the fear of that one attack cause government clamp-downs, make it impossible to live your life day-to-day as you had before.
There should be a golden bootloader that is locked that then allows the installation of any operating system software. Then you can make a relatively unbrickable device that gives people complete choice.
I would like to see something like this on almost any device. Hell, my car's transmission has a "limp mode" to get me to a garage if there's a problem, why shouldn't my computer? It does't need to be a full OS, just enough to get a full OS on there.
instead of buying digital copies that will never wear out
That isn't always the case. According to http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/889452-264/harpercollins_puts_26_loan_cap.html.csp there is at least one publisher who will put a limit on the number of times a book can be borrowed. After a year to a year and a half, depending on the loan length, the book is no longer available to anyone and has to be repurchased. I have seen physical books that are a good deal older than a year and all they need is a bit of tape on the corners and spine and they're quite usable. Granted if that expiry was removed the ebooks would easily outlast any physical book, but even though the technology is there, society (at least some parts) is not.
If you have to put "out" in quotes, it's not out.
Heaven forbid someone should ask a question in "Ask Slashdot"... Perhaps he is looking for somewhere to get started or pointers in a particular direction. Maybe he just wants to start a good, old fashioned discussion. Searching Google or Yahoo or Bing or whatever else is out there does not match the input from people who are skilled in the field and have probably done the task before.