856.011Disorderly intoxication.—
(1)No person in the state shall be intoxicated and endanger the safety of another person or property, and no person in the state shall be intoxicated or drink any alcoholic beverage in a public place or in or upon any public conveyance and cause a public disturbance.
(2)Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
(3)Any person who shall have been convicted or have forfeited collateral under the provisions of subsection (1) three times in the preceding 12 months shall be deemed a habitual offender and may be committed by the court to an appropriate treatment resource for a period of not more than 60 days. Any peace officer, in lieu of incarcerating an intoxicated person for violation of subsection (1), may take or send the intoxicated person to her or his home or to a public or private health facility, and the law enforcement officer may take reasonable measures to ascertain the commercial transportation used for such purposes is paid for by such person in advance. Any law enforcement officers so acting shall be considered as carrying out their official duty.
History.—s. 16A, ch. 71-132; s. 1383, ch. 97-102.
I think it's one of the better laws on the books. It bans a disruptive behavior yet leaves some discretion to handle it in a reasonable manner. Usually when I read a law I say "Wow, that's messed up!" and move on.
It's no surprise. Generally, companies sell "apps" to make money. As of August, Microsoft and other small fry mobile OS's combined represented a whopping 0.6% of mobile device OS's. What's more, that number has declined by almost 50% from a year ago. Why spend time and money developing for a platform that appears to be dying. Developers will probably wait to see if the current rev MS os can turn that trend around before spending more time and money on the platform.
Mine is "Beatify Code." That feature is the reason I bought slick. I don't use it as my main editor, though.. I paste code in, beatify, copy and paste back out in most cases.
That would work fine if they wanted to be removed from the index. They want to receive Google's indexing service free and they also want Google to pay them for the privilege of giving them free indexing services. I bet if Google dropped them from the indexes for a few weeks, they'd be begging to get back in.
I can honestly tell you yes 3.8% improvement is massive when your typical gaming is expecting a drop in performance. You can see Steam speced gaming PCs and notebooks coming down the pipeline, with a Steam branded Linux distribution and steam will start making available for download all those sundry apps that no one really cares about like Office suites etc. So a Steam speced PC running Linux and ready to go, with access to proprietary games, especially ones you have already bought, plus new games and a whole FOSS library, sounds pretty dangerous for M$ and a reasonable buy for end users depending on pricing.
That sure sounds good to me! The only hangup with the whole thing I see is getting other companies on board. Right now, games are the one area where I just cannot do what I want on Linux no matter how hard I try. It will be especially hard to entice firms like EA who control a lot of the good games, and have a software distribution tool that competes with steam. I guess if valve executes well and games on Linux actually sell and turn a significant profit then that might turn the eye of some other companies.
On another note, here's why I say 3.8% is not a huge deal. Gaming performance is largely considered to be measured by framerate. I play "World of Tanks" right now, and pull about 60fps on average. 63fps/57fps.. neither of those is going to make any difference to me at all. It would be a bigger difference if you were on the cusp of getting a playable 30fps with lower end hardware I guess.
Since this is/., I am not quite sure how to react - perhaps someone will enlighten me?
Do we *like* the idea that a federal agency is taking online crime seriously and increasing its investigative efforts? Or do we decry even larger invasion of privacy by the lead-fisted government into private citizens lives? Assuming, of course, that any investigation of online crimes would have to at a very least get access to various online resources, logs and data, most likely not voluntarily shared by many parties who go to great lengths to be difficult to identify. You know what *that* means.
So 100 million "useless" devices, and that's just iPads, have been sold?
(BTW, I don't own an iPad or any other tablet.)
I can't say nobody at all uses them, but I personally know four people with ipads that mostly collect dust. Those people use their cell phones when out, and their computers when home. Two of those people have the white apple sticker from the package on the back of their car, though!
Think of it as mens rea. If a statement is intended to be insulting, it's insulting, even if the person being insulted doesn't realize it. If a statement is not intended to be insulting, does it matter if the person being described finds it insulting? There's a difference between 'that's an insult' and 'I'm insulted.'
So if I go out and start calling black people the N word and don't mean it as an insult it's okay?
People buy apple because it's in vogue to own apple products. Tablets don't have much use period. Smartphones are useful, laptops are useful. The tablet with a dock laptop concept is kind of interesting to me, but mostly only because it finally brings laptops with touch screens.
I don't see it ever being in vogue to own a Microsoft product - they're too hated for their business practices.
It's quite likely that Steam could make Linux (Ubuntu, at least) viable for games. There's nothing inherently "good" about Windows for games other than the monopoly that Microsoft rides on.
Who knows, in a few years it could happen. It'll take some other big names getting onboard. Right now it's just valve and maybe some small fries. EA comes to mind. But they won't use steam because they have their own competing product. Valve will have to attract some other big companies to distribute games via steam to make this really work.
I've read alot about companies saying win8 is bad for gaming yet very few are actually willing to put their money where their mouth is and actually produce linux native games (or at least games that work perfectly well under wine).
Couple that with the lack of installed userbase with capable hardware and the commercial aspects of linux don't really stack up. As much as I'd love to run mint full time its stuck on its vm currently or on underpowered hardware (where linux really shines as a desktop making old/low powered hardware useable!) neither of which are gaming capable.
Linux users want things F.O.S.S. The first letter stands for "FREE". Companies don't make money giving away their products, unless it's a dump to attract users to another product or service the company has.
So if I don't think something is insulting, I guess then it doesn't matter if the person being insulted thinks it's insulting or not? I see the logic here. It's great, anyone can do whatever they want and ignore the tolerance that the world has worked so hard to achieve! The KKK could probably apply this logic when launching their next website...
Dr. Dawkins has made a critical error in judgement here. I guess maybe the title "Dr" really doesn't mean what it used to.
but commercial games are closed source so what's the point? linux is an awful desktop compared to os x or even windows. the only reason to use it is for ideological reasons...and if you're already playing closed source shit on it why bother? if you want a unix environment get a mac.
I think you forget that Linux is free. Windows is expensive. OSX is expensive (because of the overpriced hardware you must buy to satisfy the licensing requirements). Price is a big reason to run Linux.
Also, in my opinion running closed source software on Linux does not nullify all of the ideological factors involved.
Oh yea, and not to mention in two months MS is releasing windows 8 tablets with intel cpu's. That gets you the same UI experience with some actual application compatibility. Personally I see RT dying at that point.
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If you go to the store drunk as hell it is as rude as going there completely baked, and you have a major problem if you do that.
At least in my state (Florida) there are laws against public intoxication. While the law does specifically make it illegal to be actually drinking in public, it does not specifically limit based on substance consumed. Here's a link: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0800-0899/0856/Sections/0856.011.html
856.011Disorderly intoxication.—
(1)No person in the state shall be intoxicated and endanger the safety of another person or property, and no person in the state shall be intoxicated or drink any alcoholic beverage in a public place or in or upon any public conveyance and cause a public disturbance.
(2)Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
(3)Any person who shall have been convicted or have forfeited collateral under the provisions of subsection (1) three times in the preceding 12 months shall be deemed a habitual offender and may be committed by the court to an appropriate treatment resource for a period of not more than 60 days. Any peace officer, in lieu of incarcerating an intoxicated person for violation of subsection (1), may take or send the intoxicated person to her or his home or to a public or private health facility, and the law enforcement officer may take reasonable measures to ascertain the commercial transportation used for such purposes is paid for by such person in advance. Any law enforcement officers so acting shall be considered as carrying out their official duty.
History.—s. 16A, ch. 71-132; s. 1383, ch. 97-102.
I think it's one of the better laws on the books. It bans a disruptive behavior yet leaves some discretion to handle it in a reasonable manner. Usually when I read a law I say "Wow, that's messed up!" and move on.
It's no surprise. Generally, companies sell "apps" to make money. As of August, Microsoft and other small fry mobile OS's combined represented a whopping 0.6% of mobile device OS's. What's more, that number has declined by almost 50% from a year ago. Why spend time and money developing for a platform that appears to be dying. Developers will probably wait to see if the current rev MS os can turn that trend around before spending more time and money on the platform.
Source: Gartner
seems to have worked for Samsung Galaxy Note with the plastic stylus...
The multitude of companies making money selling cheap styluses for other android and apple touchscreen devices are also doing it.
Mine is "Beatify Code." That feature is the reason I bought slick. I don't use it as my main editor, though.. I paste code in, beatify, copy and paste back out in most cases.
relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0R3OjMcOqg
I wonder if they've ever heard of "robots.txt"?
Last I heard, Google was honoring it....
That would work fine if they wanted to be removed from the index. They want to receive Google's indexing service free and they also want Google to pay them for the privilege of giving them free indexing services. I bet if Google dropped them from the indexes for a few weeks, they'd be begging to get back in.
... Erm, yes! What do you think URL's are!?
Just because I'm not in the Phone book doesn't mean people can't call me.
If your business revolved around people calling you it means your business would probably fail.
I can honestly tell you yes 3.8% improvement is massive when your typical gaming is expecting a drop in performance. You can see Steam speced gaming PCs and notebooks coming down the pipeline, with a Steam branded Linux distribution and steam will start making available for download all those sundry apps that no one really cares about like Office suites etc. So a Steam speced PC running Linux and ready to go, with access to proprietary games, especially ones you have already bought, plus new games and a whole FOSS library, sounds pretty dangerous for M$ and a reasonable buy for end users depending on pricing.
That sure sounds good to me! The only hangup with the whole thing I see is getting other companies on board. Right now, games are the one area where I just cannot do what I want on Linux no matter how hard I try. It will be especially hard to entice firms like EA who control a lot of the good games, and have a software distribution tool that competes with steam. I guess if valve executes well and games on Linux actually sell and turn a significant profit then that might turn the eye of some other companies.
On another note, here's why I say 3.8% is not a huge deal. Gaming performance is largely considered to be measured by framerate. I play "World of Tanks" right now, and pull about 60fps on average. 63fps/57fps.. neither of those is going to make any difference to me at all. It would be a bigger difference if you were on the cusp of getting a playable 30fps with lower end hardware I guess.
The answer? It's no. Just like it always is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
Since this is /., I am not quite sure how to react - perhaps someone will enlighten me?
Do we *like* the idea that a federal agency is taking online crime seriously and increasing its investigative efforts? Or do we decry even larger invasion of privacy by the lead-fisted government into private citizens lives? Assuming, of course, that any investigation of online crimes would have to at a very least get access to various online resources, logs and data, most likely not voluntarily shared by many parties who go to great lengths to be difficult to identify. You know what *that* means.
Yes
I've been noticing a downshift lately of spambot activity on my websites. Maybe this is why?
I think it's unlikely any actual good has come from increased law enforcement. It's more likely that your downshift is just coincidence.
So 100 million "useless" devices, and that's just iPads, have been sold?
(BTW, I don't own an iPad or any other tablet.)
I can't say nobody at all uses them, but I personally know four people with ipads that mostly collect dust. Those people use their cell phones when out, and their computers when home. Two of those people have the white apple sticker from the package on the back of their car, though!
> It'll take some other big names getting onboard. Right now it's just valve and maybe some small fries. EA comes to mind.
I think that needs restructuring. I see what you mean, but it sounds like you just called EA a small fry (that is onboard with Linux gaming).
Sorry for the bad grammar.
Think of it as mens rea. If a statement is intended to be insulting, it's insulting, even if the person being insulted doesn't realize it. If a statement is not intended to be insulting, does it matter if the person being described finds it insulting? There's a difference between 'that's an insult' and 'I'm insulted.'
So if I go out and start calling black people the N word and don't mean it as an insult it's okay?
People buy apple because it's in vogue to own apple products. Tablets don't have much use period. Smartphones are useful, laptops are useful. The tablet with a dock laptop concept is kind of interesting to me, but mostly only because it finally brings laptops with touch screens.
I don't see it ever being in vogue to own a Microsoft product - they're too hated for their business practices.
It's quite likely that Steam could make Linux (Ubuntu, at least) viable for games. There's nothing inherently "good" about Windows for games other than the monopoly that Microsoft rides on.
Who knows, in a few years it could happen. It'll take some other big names getting onboard. Right now it's just valve and maybe some small fries. EA comes to mind. But they won't use steam because they have their own competing product. Valve will have to attract some other big companies to distribute games via steam to make this really work.
I've read alot about companies saying win8 is bad for gaming yet very few are actually willing to put their money where their mouth is and actually produce linux native games (or at least games that work perfectly well under wine). Couple that with the lack of installed userbase with capable hardware and the commercial aspects of linux don't really stack up. As much as I'd love to run mint full time its stuck on its vm currently or on underpowered hardware (where linux really shines as a desktop making old/low powered hardware useable!) neither of which are gaming capable.
Linux users want things F.O.S.S. The first letter stands for "FREE". Companies don't make money giving away their products, unless it's a dump to attract users to another product or service the company has.
If a 3.8% advantage is "massive", what words do you reserve for things that have advantages/improvements on the order of 50%+?
"decent" comes to mind. 3.8% isn't worth batting an eye.
Actually it has gotten harder to do.
Just think how easy it would have been to get Bill Clinton's DNA.
That's what she said!
The answer is no. Here's why: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
So if I don't think something is insulting, I guess then it doesn't matter if the person being insulted thinks it's insulting or not? I see the logic here. It's great, anyone can do whatever they want and ignore the tolerance that the world has worked so hard to achieve! The KKK could probably apply this logic when launching their next website...
Dr. Dawkins has made a critical error in judgement here. I guess maybe the title "Dr" really doesn't mean what it used to.
No, no. That's "BA". This is BA+! It's differenter! That guy from the A-TEAM is sure gonna be ticked off, though.
but commercial games are closed source so what's the point? linux is an awful desktop compared to os x or even windows. the only reason to use it is for ideological reasons...and if you're already playing closed source shit on it why bother? if you want a unix environment get a mac.
I think you forget that Linux is free. Windows is expensive. OSX is expensive (because of the overpriced hardware you must buy to satisfy the licensing requirements). Price is a big reason to run Linux.
Also, in my opinion running closed source software on Linux does not nullify all of the ideological factors involved.
Oh yea, and not to mention in two months MS is releasing windows 8 tablets with intel cpu's. That gets you the same UI experience with some actual application compatibility. Personally I see RT dying at that point.
This isn't something that requires technical knowledge of, nor does it require a like or dislike for microsoft. The LAW says the answer is no: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines