It can default to where it likes but it should at least give me the frigging chance to change the location! Like many other users, I never willingly put ANYTHING, least of all user specific stuff, on the root partition.
Until it does have a proper installer count me out.
I don't feel Martin owes me anything. And by the same token I don't owe him anything. He lost the plot with the last volume of Ice & Fire and so I won't be reading any more. I wish the hell he'd never even started the damn saga. Hard luck on me.
After that and the Wheel of Time I won't be getting caught a third time. From now on, it's only finished stories for me. None of the ones I have read could be described as failures.
Just a thought. When you use the recently introduced Google option of promoting or deleting a result, does it affect the page rankings?
In any case I just googled up "jonesday" and deleted every result on the page that pointed to their site. I wonder what other queries also return their site...;)
Is avoiding revealing your whereabouts to a violent spouse so widespread an issue that it overshadows everybody else's natural need to know who the hell is calling?
"These types of actions aren't being permitted because computers CAN be used to do illegal things. It's because they ARE. We're talking about terrorists hacking into government computers and causing all sorts of issues. Computer crime is a growing problem."
Touché! - well, almost. I was testing the logic of such a move rather than defending it. Whether the police look into my computer or not has no bearing on that.
For the record, the government (most governments indeed) have said for some time that you can't carry a long pointy knife. We have know way of knowing if this is already effective in keeping knife crime down.
In truth I reckon the Long Pointy Knife Bill is more fantasy than fact. It stems from a statement by doctors that this is a great way of saving lives - the same doctors who have been slagging off smoking for decades but have yet to achieve a ban on cigarette sales.
I reckon I could live with a "Warning: can cause stab wounds" sticker on my kitchen knife.;)
Anecdotal evidence I know, but I've recently been treated for (and hopefully cured of) a life threatening condition in the UK, and I simply can't see any way the attention could have been improved. What particularly impressed me was the thoroughness of everyone involved. I once had to undergo an operation in France, which is supposed to be a reference in matters of health care, and although it was correct, I honestly felt better looked after in the UK.
This is not meant to be an attempt at humour, but stabbing someone with a screwdriver just doesn't have the same appeal as stabbing someone with a big knife. I see the whole knife crime thing as some kind of sordid sport, like kicking people's heads in with Doc Martens (and not just any run-of-the-mill boot) used to be. And yes I know Dr Martens never got banned. I'm not arguing for the banning of kitchen knives, just trying to point out that people might be barking up the wrong tree when looking for reasons.
MrPloppy's argument is not entirely without merit. If pointy kitchen knives do get banned, it's not because they CAN be used as weapons; it's because they ARE. We're not talking about crimes of passion; we're talking about people going out armed with knives and harbouring aggressive intentions. Knife crime is a growing problem. Poisoned dart attacks are very much a minority sport and one we can live with.
As for looking into my computer without a search warrant, I entirely agree it would be an unjustifiable outrage.
Very good article you quoted there. I was expecting to read another (completely erroneous) article about pyramid schemes but this one gets right down to the real nitty gritty of Second Life economics. For those who can't be bothered to click through, the gist is that the viability of on-line businesses is shackled by a severe limitation in the size of the simultaneous audience they can reach, even if there are a million people on line, due to the inadequacy of the servers.
I do think, however, that such economic issues are irrrelevant to recreational participants. Of the thousands of hours spent creating objects, there must be a good percentage expended by people who are just in it for the kick of creating something... although you do have to be a bit masochistic to want to do so in such a painfully slow environment (which brings us nicely back to the problem of inadequate servers).
I was listening to the car radio the other day when the news came on. One article stated that some schools were going to get into trouble because of low exam pass rates. They then quoted a target pass rate that all schools should be achieving. It seemed ridiculously high to me, unless the exams in question really are a piece of cake.
It immediately struck me as a call to lower standards rather than to increase them.
"Is this a cunning way to encourage people to sign in while they search, thus providing Google with a richer set of data that can be mapped to specific user accounts?"
"i don't really consider anything that goes on in gmail, in windows, or on facebook to equate to my privacy. who does? this information is mined in order to display ads in a side panel on my pc? ok. and your point?"
I think his point is he does consider all that equates to his privacy.
He disguised it pretty well, I'll admit (rolls eyes).
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It can default to where it likes but it should at least give me the frigging chance to change the location! Like many other users, I never willingly put ANYTHING, least of all user specific stuff, on the root partition.
Until it does have a proper installer count me out.
Its a typo. It should read "word wide". TBL invented the word "wide" because prior to then most things were narrow.
It is indeed, and it got me thinking are there any other important 133rd anniversaries coming up we should know about?
I don't feel Martin owes me anything. And by the same token I don't owe him anything. He lost the plot with the last volume of Ice & Fire and so I won't be reading any more. I wish the hell he'd never even started the damn saga. Hard luck on me.
After that and the Wheel of Time I won't be getting caught a third time.
From now on, it's only finished stories for me. None of the ones I have read could be described as failures.
It's a generic term now trademark or not.
So, if I remember correctly, were rollerblades. They're not called that now though.
Sorry to do this but the concept of presumption of innocence goes a LOT further back than 1789.
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2003/01/12/153/23800
Wasn't Attali also instrumental in swaying European opinion against software patents?
...was the first (and prolly the only) game to scare the shit out of me.
And it bears our all the points made in the article.
Just a thought. When you use the recently introduced Google option of promoting or deleting a result, does it affect the page rankings?
In any case I just googled up "jonesday" and deleted every result on the page that pointed to their site. I wonder what other queries also return their site... ;)
Is avoiding revealing your whereabouts to a violent spouse so widespread an issue that it overshadows everybody else's natural need to know who the hell is calling?
Or to put it another way, why on earth would anyone even expect me to talk to them if they're not prepared to reveal who they are?
Has anybody made an attempt at drafting traffic rules for flying cars yet?
Presumably, they'll only let copyright holders make the accusations
No problem. Becoming a copyright holder is one of the easiest things in the world.
"These types of actions aren't being permitted because computers CAN be used to do illegal things. It's because they ARE. We're talking about terrorists hacking into government computers and causing all sorts of issues. Computer crime is a growing problem."
Touché! - well, almost. I was testing the logic of such a move rather than defending it. Whether the police look into my computer or not has no bearing on that.
For the record, the government (most governments indeed) have said for some time that you can't carry a long pointy knife. We have know way of knowing if this is already effective in keeping knife crime down.
In truth I reckon the Long Pointy Knife Bill is more fantasy than fact. It stems from a statement by doctors that this is a great way of saving lives - the same doctors who have been slagging off smoking for decades but have yet to achieve a ban on cigarette sales.
I reckon I could live with a "Warning: can cause stab wounds" sticker on my kitchen knife. ;)
Anecdotal evidence I know, but I've recently been treated for (and hopefully cured of) a life threatening condition in the UK, and I simply can't see any way the attention could have been improved. What particularly impressed me was the thoroughness of everyone involved.
I once had to undergo an operation in France, which is supposed to be a reference in matters of health care, and although it was correct, I honestly felt better looked after in the UK.
This is not meant to be an attempt at humour, but stabbing someone with a screwdriver just doesn't have the same appeal as stabbing someone with a big knife.
I see the whole knife crime thing as some kind of sordid sport, like kicking people's heads in with Doc Martens (and not just any run-of-the-mill boot) used to be.
And yes I know Dr Martens never got banned. I'm not arguing for the banning of kitchen knives, just trying to point out that people might be barking up the wrong tree when looking for reasons.
MrPloppy's argument is not entirely without merit.
If pointy kitchen knives do get banned, it's not because they CAN be used as weapons; it's because they ARE. We're not talking about crimes of passion; we're talking about people going out armed with knives and harbouring aggressive intentions. Knife crime is a growing problem. Poisoned dart attacks are very much a minority sport and one we can live with.
As for looking into my computer without a search warrant, I entirely agree it would be an unjustifiable outrage.
My dream is: "RIAA jailed for contempt of music".
Very good article you quoted there. I was expecting to read another (completely erroneous) article about pyramid schemes but this one gets right down to the real nitty gritty of Second Life economics. For those who can't be bothered to click through, the gist is that the viability of on-line businesses is shackled by a severe limitation in the size of the simultaneous audience they can reach, even if there are a million people on line, due to the inadequacy of the servers.
I do think, however, that such economic issues are irrrelevant to recreational participants. Of the thousands of hours spent creating objects, there must be a good percentage expended by people who are just in it for the kick of creating something ... although you do have to be a bit masochistic to want to do so in such a painfully slow environment (which brings us nicely back to the problem of inadequate servers).
I was listening to the car radio the other day when the news came on. One article stated that some schools were going to get into trouble because of low exam pass rates. They then quoted a target pass rate that all schools should be achieving. It seemed ridiculously high to me, unless the exams in question really are a piece of cake.
It immediately struck me as a call to lower standards rather than to increase them.
Personal hate: price comparison sites. If I'm interested in buying something I want the names of sellers, not spiders.
"Is this a cunning way to encourage people to sign in while they search, thus providing Google with a richer set of data that can be mapped to specific user accounts?"
Yep. You got a problem with that?
Can someone help me here please:
All I have to go on is a name, "Duncan Lunan", and the so called deciphering of a message from outer space
- wasn't there some kind of hoax involved here?
References on the Web seem to be verbose and fragmented.
...this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62F5qPwXVcA
It met with a big success on the BBC's Dragons Den. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dragonsden/
You pull or push it instead of riding it.
"i don't really consider anything that goes on in gmail, in windows, or on facebook to equate to my privacy. who does? this information is mined in order to display ads in a side panel on my pc? ok. and your point?"
I think his point is he does consider all that equates to his privacy.
He disguised it pretty well, I'll admit (rolls eyes).
HTH