The company I work for has around 500 clients. We only have about a dozen servers that connect to Microsoft for updates, one of those servers is responsible for distributing the updates too all of the other clients.
The truth is that the largest groupings of users are corporate, and the larger a corporate userbase is then the more likely they will just have a few servers that grab the updates and distribute them for everyone else.
You may want to try Ubuntu's official site next time.
I had to scroll down quite a ways before Ubuntu's download page mentioned money... and that was only if I wanted it on DVD. CentOS's download link takes me to their sponsor page before I can proceed to their list of mirrors... and it's not shy about asking for donations before you click on the mirrors link.
It depends on how you determine popularity. Because Linux distros typically don't phone home at any point during installation or operation, it's impossible to know how many installs of a given distro are out there. Mint may have the most pageviews or the most downloads in the last X months, but it doesn't mean it's the most widely installed.
If a company with 1000 seats downloads Ubuntu once and uses that single download to install it on all 1000 PCs, while the business next door has all ten of its users download Mint to install on their own desktops then Mint appears to be ten times as popular as Ubuntu.
I'm not saying this is the case, just that it's almost impossible to figure out the most popular Linux distro. It's also important to point out that Mint is to Ubuntu what Ubuntu is to Debian... if Debian stopped, Ubuntu would die and if Ubuntu stopped then Mint would die.
Based on TW's record, this is sort of like GM saying "There's no consumer demand for 500mpg cars" or Intel saying "There's no consumer demand for 50GHz 512-core processors". There may be no apparent demand because Time Warner still can't pull off 10mbps with any reliability.
Speed is distance over time. If time slows down, then light will appear to slow down to an observer in another frame of reference. However, speed is unaffected, it takes the same amount of time to cover a set distance within the same frame of reference - it just appears to be slower to an outside observer.
There are numerous websites that will provide salary figures for many common job titles. However, you really should have a general idea of what you're worth based on how much you've made in previous jobs and what's acceptable to you. It works both ways - I've turned down jobs because the hiring company had no idea of the salary range they should be willing to offer (IE: I was offered $30k for a senior sysadmin/web dev/programmer position that required a Bachelor's and 5 years experience)
Given how well my Intel HD 3000 has been handling games on a dual-monitor 1920x1080 / 1440x900, I wouldn't scoff at the HD 4000 even if it only shows a minor improvement over the 3000.
I don't think you understand the Debian philosophy. It's not "latest and greatest". It's "so stable, Archimedes could stand here to move the whole world"
Warrants are usually specific in what they can search. In the warrant says "any electronic device" then yes. If the warrant says "cell phone", then no. If the warrant is overly broad, you can probably make a case later on that anything seized was illegally obtained because the warrant was too broad to be valid.
Perhaps the analogy works if you narrow it down to something like credit cards or receipts in your wallet. There's a record on other devices that can be traced to your spending, but finding it in your wallet makes things a lot easier (for the police).
I'm curious how secure your cellphone needs to be. For the sake of simplicity, I just use a simple pattern (a straight line) to lock my phone - it's more to keep people out for just a couple minutes if one of my dumbass friends wants to change the language settings while I'm in the bathroom rather than actually protect the contents so it's not much more secure than a zipper on a physical wallet. Does that constitute a lock, as it is intentioned to prevent access?
Based on various news stories, anecdotes and some personal experience with similar situations, the police can search your open garage the same as your property, but they can't enter the house through the garage unless they suspect a crime in progress, etc. However, they can't start opening cabinets and closets in the garage - only what's in plain sight unless they have reasonable suspicion.
It's sort of like many old video games. They can keep going as long as they have a clear path - they can't move that pesky pebble or blade of grass (IE: opening doors or drawers).
The space shuttles were first launched starting in 1982, but I'm pretty sure they upgraded the internal hardware every now and then, especially the computers and communications. I see no reason why the F-22's wouldn't have undergone more frequent refits, especially given the budget difference between NASA and the DoD. We haven't really needed them in war, so it's no problem to rotate them out every couple years to upgrade.
Funny, the sheet with our volume license on it also has a support number that we've used a few times. The on-hold time sucks and about a third of the techs are morons, but the other two thirds of techs were halfway decent.
And yes, the compatibility is because the vendors use MS Office. If they used something else, it wouldn't be a case. However, this is an imperfect world in which MS Office formats rule supreme.
You'll notice version 1.2 included the short-lived Typo Flux Capacitor, causing it to go back in time to prevent the birth of Bill Gates (Oct 28, 1955) but was ultimately unsuccessful.
I've found that some stores have bags too crappy to re-use. Walmart bags I keep because I reuse them for lots of stuff, but Wegmans bags are much thinner and half of them are ripped open by the time I get home and unload the groceries. I like the model that Aldi and BJ's use - bags cost extra, but help yourself to the leftover cardboard boxes that they received the food in. It's great for small to moderate loads and isn't too much of a problem for large loads of groceries.
You're correct on the cruise control. Here's how it works for every car I've driven that has it: - Accelerating by pushing the pedal allows you to speed up. Releasing the accelerator allows the car to slow back to it's previously set speed - Braking will automatically unset cruise control but CC will remain on. You can then hit Resume to have it go back to it's previously set speed
It's a pretty good model that's simple and natural enough for people to learn it in about 2 sentences. If you have to accelerate, it's usually to avoid an object or pass someone so you'll almost always want to resume your previous speed. Braking has a greater chance to be in response to an event after which you may not want to resume your previous speed, so the car won't do that automagically. I think it would adapt well to the auto-driver setup too.
A number of other posters have pointed that out. However, it's Forbes who did the math wrong... I copied the figures from the listed source and didn't pay attention to the obvious discrepancy. Or else Apple is paying people off to hide something. Your pick.
Student loan interest + medical comes pretty close to the standard deduction. As another poster mentioned, mortgages will also put you up near, if not over, the standard deduction.
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The company I work for has around 500 clients. We only have about a dozen servers that connect to Microsoft for updates, one of those servers is responsible for distributing the updates too all of the other clients.
The truth is that the largest groupings of users are corporate, and the larger a corporate userbase is then the more likely they will just have a few servers that grab the updates and distribute them for everyone else.
You may want to try Ubuntu's official site next time.
I had to scroll down quite a ways before Ubuntu's download page mentioned money... and that was only if I wanted it on DVD. CentOS's download link takes me to their sponsor page before I can proceed to their list of mirrors... and it's not shy about asking for donations before you click on the mirrors link.
It depends on how you determine popularity. Because Linux distros typically don't phone home at any point during installation or operation, it's impossible to know how many installs of a given distro are out there. Mint may have the most pageviews or the most downloads in the last X months, but it doesn't mean it's the most widely installed.
If a company with 1000 seats downloads Ubuntu once and uses that single download to install it on all 1000 PCs, while the business next door has all ten of its users download Mint to install on their own desktops then Mint appears to be ten times as popular as Ubuntu.
I'm not saying this is the case, just that it's almost impossible to figure out the most popular Linux distro. It's also important to point out that Mint is to Ubuntu what Ubuntu is to Debian... if Debian stopped, Ubuntu would die and if Ubuntu stopped then Mint would die.
I thought bullshit gave off more methane than CO2.
In many cases, they omit or falsify the year which is often the most valuable portion of the birthdate.
Personally, I just leave mine off altogether. Might be why I've only had one person remember my birthday today, which is fine by me.
Based on TW's record, this is sort of like GM saying "There's no consumer demand for 500mpg cars" or Intel saying "There's no consumer demand for 50GHz 512-core processors". There may be no apparent demand because Time Warner still can't pull off 10mbps with any reliability.
Speed is distance over time. If time slows down, then light will appear to slow down to an observer in another frame of reference. However, speed is unaffected, it takes the same amount of time to cover a set distance within the same frame of reference - it just appears to be slower to an outside observer.
Transform and roll out!
There are numerous websites that will provide salary figures for many common job titles. However, you really should have a general idea of what you're worth based on how much you've made in previous jobs and what's acceptable to you. It works both ways - I've turned down jobs because the hiring company had no idea of the salary range they should be willing to offer (IE: I was offered $30k for a senior sysadmin/web dev/programmer position that required a Bachelor's and 5 years experience)
Because you enjoy complaining? Anyone else would just quietly take Slashdot off their Favorites, Bookmarks or wherever you keep the link.
Given how well my Intel HD 3000 has been handling games on a dual-monitor 1920x1080 / 1440x900, I wouldn't scoff at the HD 4000 even if it only shows a minor improvement over the 3000.
I don't think you understand the Debian philosophy. It's not "latest and greatest". It's "so stable, Archimedes could stand here to move the whole world"
Warrants are usually specific in what they can search. In the warrant says "any electronic device" then yes. If the warrant says "cell phone", then no. If the warrant is overly broad, you can probably make a case later on that anything seized was illegally obtained because the warrant was too broad to be valid.
Perhaps the analogy works if you narrow it down to something like credit cards or receipts in your wallet. There's a record on other devices that can be traced to your spending, but finding it in your wallet makes things a lot easier (for the police).
I'm curious how secure your cellphone needs to be. For the sake of simplicity, I just use a simple pattern (a straight line) to lock my phone - it's more to keep people out for just a couple minutes if one of my dumbass friends wants to change the language settings while I'm in the bathroom rather than actually protect the contents so it's not much more secure than a zipper on a physical wallet. Does that constitute a lock, as it is intentioned to prevent access?
Based on various news stories, anecdotes and some personal experience with similar situations, the police can search your open garage the same as your property, but they can't enter the house through the garage unless they suspect a crime in progress, etc. However, they can't start opening cabinets and closets in the garage - only what's in plain sight unless they have reasonable suspicion.
It's sort of like many old video games. They can keep going as long as they have a clear path - they can't move that pesky pebble or blade of grass (IE: opening doors or drawers).
The space shuttles were first launched starting in 1982, but I'm pretty sure they upgraded the internal hardware every now and then, especially the computers and communications. I see no reason why the F-22's wouldn't have undergone more frequent refits, especially given the budget difference between NASA and the DoD. We haven't really needed them in war, so it's no problem to rotate them out every couple years to upgrade.
Funny, the sheet with our volume license on it also has a support number that we've used a few times. The on-hold time sucks and about a third of the techs are morons, but the other two thirds of techs were halfway decent.
And yes, the compatibility is because the vendors use MS Office. If they used something else, it wouldn't be a case. However, this is an imperfect world in which MS Office formats rule supreme.
You'll notice version 1.2 included the short-lived Typo Flux Capacitor, causing it to go back in time to prevent the birth of Bill Gates (Oct 28, 1955) but was ultimately unsuccessful.
0.01 - 1991
1.0 - 1994
1.2 - 1955
1.3 - 1995
2.0 - 1996
2.1 - 1996
2.2 - 1999
2.3 - 1999
2.4 - 2001
2.5 - 2001
2.6 - 2003
3.0 - 2011
3.2 - 2012
Of course, there were many smaller version numbers released in the meantime - 2.4.37.11 was released in 2011, ten years after 2.4.0.
One man's waste of time and resources is another's inspiration and breakthrough.
I've found that some stores have bags too crappy to re-use. Walmart bags I keep because I reuse them for lots of stuff, but Wegmans bags are much thinner and half of them are ripped open by the time I get home and unload the groceries. I like the model that Aldi and BJ's use - bags cost extra, but help yourself to the leftover cardboard boxes that they received the food in. It's great for small to moderate loads and isn't too much of a problem for large loads of groceries.
You're correct on the cruise control. Here's how it works for every car I've driven that has it:
- Accelerating by pushing the pedal allows you to speed up. Releasing the accelerator allows the car to slow back to it's previously set speed
- Braking will automatically unset cruise control but CC will remain on. You can then hit Resume to have it go back to it's previously set speed
It's a pretty good model that's simple and natural enough for people to learn it in about 2 sentences. If you have to accelerate, it's usually to avoid an object or pass someone so you'll almost always want to resume your previous speed. Braking has a greater chance to be in response to an event after which you may not want to resume your previous speed, so the car won't do that automagically. I think it would adapt well to the auto-driver setup too.
But "breaks" is a more comical typo than many given that brakes are a safety device that you wish to never break.
A number of other posters have pointed that out. However, it's Forbes who did the math wrong... I copied the figures from the listed source and didn't pay attention to the obvious discrepancy. Or else Apple is paying people off to hide something. Your pick.
Student loan interest + medical comes pretty close to the standard deduction. As another poster mentioned, mortgages will also put you up near, if not over, the standard deduction.