It boggles my mind why so many people with 64-bit hardware would still install a 32-bit version of windows[...]
I bought Win7 Home Premium for my gaming station and the package includes both 32 and 64 editions. Initially I installed the 64bits and used it for a month (new hardware with 4GB or RAM) but then I switched to 32bits because of buggy drivers.
I couldn't make my Logitech wingman driving wheel to work, my multifunctional driver was outdated and hard to find (Epson CX7300), my Audigy 2 ZS audio board didn't work out of the box and my network card (Intel whatever, onboard) was performing erratically after some time (not sure why, the win7 diagnostic was "problem with the driver").
Not to mention lots of trouble with low level applications such as dvd drive emulators (magic disk made my machine unusable and IIRC I had a few problems with daemon tools as well).
All of the aforementioned now work fine under win7 32bits.
So I don't recommend people to use Win7 64bits if they have old hardware around (joysticks, printers, scanners) or if they plan to use 3rd party drivers.
Not just old hardware, some A-holes are still building hardware and only shipping 32-bit drivers with them.
We had one of those pieces of garbage, and returned it. And nowhere in the specs did it say 32-bit only.
Really? The people who needed to pay vast sums of money to a large institution in order to know the same things as the kids who played on the computer too much are the ones keeping up with the learning on their own? I call bullshit.
You think that? Your experience must be really limited then.
Gotta disagree with you. College is NOT a glorified vocational school, even if some people in CS treat it as such.
Any decent college won't claim that the knowledge you gain is worth anything in 5 years. Their purpose is (and should be) teaching some fundamental principles of a particular major discipline (CS, in this case), and, more importantly, a set of attitudes and philosophies that teach you how to teach yourself. In engineering, you know your basic skill set will be obsolete in 5 years (and the Head of our EE dept. told us this before classes even began), so it's more important to get the basic mental framework in place and learn how to learn.
Even at my place of work, some talented high school students could probably be taught how to do the job about as fast and well as college graduates. The difference comes 2 or 3 years down the road. The people most able to keep up with emerging trends and extending their abilities tend to be the ones with degrees. And it tends to be the ones with PhDs or Masters that do better at it. The ones whose skill sets don't seem to expand as quickly or as much do tend to be the ones with less schooling.
Really, the fundamental skill set out of college is obsolete?
I didn't think figuring out how to make stuff work ever became obsolete.
Of course I have a BEP and just took EE courses for fun.
If a smart employer wants to get rid of you, you're a good as gone.
If they can't get rid of you outright, by say putting every single action of yours under a microscope, they can make things uncomfortable enough for you to want to leave, or put you in a position where they can get rid of you.
While we're on the topic, here's something that confused me about the SEC / Python idea.
Python is Turing complete, which means some Python programs may never terminate*. Has the SEC taken this into consideration in its plans to use them?
Or is the SEC planning to impose limitations such as, "These Python programs must complete within 1 hour when run on an Intel Pentiun IV 2.8 GHz with 4 GB RAM and Windows XP SP 3"?
(* Of course, real computers have finite memories, so it's actually theoretically possible to detect looping on such a computer. But at this point we get back to specifying a particular memory size I think, which kind of goes to my question about the SEC specifying the particular hardware on which the program must run.)
Gag, I hate Python; it has to be the most annoying language to code in since COBOL. White-space blocked languages needed to die with the Hollerith card.
I have a question then. Since the VOTE is a public action too, does this ruling means that voting signatures should be public too?
And don't get me wrong, but i really want to know who voted for who....
So would Chick-fillet, and the Discovery Institute; They want to make sure their people are voting for the right people.
...how is this any different than radio and TV? Do we not already have the emergency broadcast system that can barge in and essentially "turn off" radio and TV services?
Now why would you go and do something silly like pay for your own phone service when you can get the taxpayers to pick up the tab instead?
I know what you're saying, but there may be some good reasons. We have employer issued phones at our workplace with unlimited plans. Making personal calls or sending texts during non-work hours does nothing to change the final bill, so we've been told to use them for our own personal use as well. We're required to have the phones & be "on call." Why would I want to pay for a second phone I don't need?
Because you don't want your boss to know exactly who you're calling or texting?
What happens when you leave the company and they don't let you take the number with you?
And yes I have a company provided cell, and I still pay for my own to keep my business my own.
The worst part of this oil spill is that you can't even boycott BP effectively without also boycotting the local gas station owner and the whole refinery chain. Say that this shady keyword purchasing damage control made you so upset that you went down and picketed the BP station in your neighborhood. Well, you might be affecting BP a little but you're having a much larger impact on the guy who owns that station. A huge impact if you're there all day appealing to people's empathy for the Gulf.
What can I do? Write my senator demanding what exactly?
I don't know what the BP stations look like in your area, but around here they're as dirty and sleazy as they get. I didn't like getting gas there before the spill.
Look at their stock in the last month and then look down at related companies on that page and see how every single company in that industry has suffered stock prices plummeting in the last month. Not saying it's a bad thing or that these patents shouldn't be overturned but it was pretty obvious. Just to prepare everyone, you will see a short term drop in research devoted to identifying cancer genes unless it's government backed with your tax dollars.
I gave them conversation logs that implicated Special Agent Manning. They were particularly interested in a code word for a major operation.
So you know, in addition to the videos and diplomatic cables he was out and about bragging about this and discussing major operations and their code words. While you might be able to justify the videos, I don't know how you could justify bragging to people about it and discussing current military operations on the internet. That could probably be construed as putting the lives of many soldiers in danger.
If he's divulging ongoing operations, and codewords, they can probably shoot him for it. If fact they can even throw you in jail indefinitely if they think you're mishandling classified documents. That's the price you pay for getting to live in that world, and being in the know.
Also, it isn't some innocent snitch; he's nothing buy a liar and he knew exactly what he was doing.
The military all too often makes things secret not because it is sensitive, but because it would generate bad PR. This is not how a democratic government is supposed to function. If you don't like living in a country with a transparent government, you can always move to places like North Korea.
A lot of data is classified because the system its created on is classified and that's a one way trip; once something is classified, its forever classified until someone qualified checks it then declassifies it.
Its ok to try to protect something you poured your blood sweat and tears into, even if copying it only costs a few pennies.
Whats not OK is trying to claim that each infringement costs them thousands of dollars.
If youre going to sue for a few MP3s, then do it in small claims court, and do it often. Don't blame one person for the crimes of 10,000.
Its too easy to defend yourself in small claim's court so they don't want to sue there. They want a lawsuit where its cheaper to just fork out the money and pay them off than it is to fight.
How about flash sucks because it doesn't include a volume controls by default?
That's all it takes to trump that idiotic article.
Don't get me wrong, there are many other reasons to hate flash, (Including some of the reasons identified in the article as reasons to use flash: Flash's sub-pixel resolution and anti-aliasing and Flash's supercool fonts ) and that's not even the biggest one. But its more than adequate to just beg for that POS to die.
Ecklund is spinning the data, possibly to fit her pet hypothesis. For example, she claims that about half of scientists are "traditionally religious" but by her own data, 34% are atheists, 30% are strong agnostics, and 8% are believe in a higher power which they explicitly don't believe is "God." Given that, it is very hard to claim that half the scientific population is traditionally religious when three quarters aren't even theists. There are also some odd choices she makes in her definition of scientists. So for example, she includes all the social sciences but not mathematicians (something which I philosophically agree with but find sociologically suspect). There's an excellent analysis of her data by Jason Rosenhouse of her data at http://scienceblogs.com/evolutionblog/2010/05/scientists_and_religion.php. The most striking thing about the data, regardless of how Ecklund wants to spin it as showing scientists are religious, is how much less religious scientists are than the general population. Atheism is much more common among scientists than among the general population, as is agnosticism. Moreover, what religions are common if one looks at the theistic breakdown is very different. Evangelical Christianity for example is a much smaller percentage then one would get from a representative sample of theists.
She's in Texas, religious spin-doctoring is to be expected.
Anime and manga should be legal. They're cartoons; Fictional representations of a fabricated encounter, often between entities which do not even exist outside of a person's imagination.
Or do you think there really are impossibly proportioned cartoon people in the real world, with emotions other than those that the artist has attributed to them at the exact time being pictured? Do they have a family history? Are they going to grow up in later life and abuse other cartoon people?
Many of the the right-wing fundies/idiots believe that thinking about sinning is the same as sinning.
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It boggles my mind why so many people with 64-bit hardware would still install a 32-bit version of windows[...]
I bought Win7 Home Premium for my gaming station and the package includes both 32 and 64 editions. Initially I installed the 64bits and used it for a month (new hardware with 4GB or RAM) but then I switched to 32bits because of buggy drivers.
I couldn't make my Logitech wingman driving wheel to work, my multifunctional driver was outdated and hard to find (Epson CX7300), my Audigy 2 ZS audio board didn't work out of the box and my network card (Intel whatever, onboard) was performing erratically after some time (not sure why, the win7 diagnostic was "problem with the driver").
Not to mention lots of trouble with low level applications such as dvd drive emulators (magic disk made my machine unusable and IIRC I had a few problems with daemon tools as well).
All of the aforementioned now work fine under win7 32bits.
So I don't recommend people to use Win7 64bits if they have old hardware around (joysticks, printers, scanners) or if they plan to use 3rd party drivers.
Not just old hardware, some A-holes are still building hardware and only shipping 32-bit drivers with them.
We had one of those pieces of garbage, and returned it. And nowhere in the specs did it say 32-bit only.
I guess I'm SOL. I'm not paying AT&T anything.
I think they spent it all on advertising the DVD.
I remember seeing like 2 ads for the DVD for awhile, during every commercial break for a show.
The biggest idiots I know are in Mensa. Just a bunch of incompetent morons who like taking IQ tests.
Really? The people who needed to pay vast sums of money to a large institution in order to know the same things as the kids who played on the computer too much are the ones keeping up with the learning on their own? I call bullshit.
You think that? Your experience must be really limited then.
Gotta disagree with you. College is NOT a glorified vocational school, even if some people in CS treat it as such.
Any decent college won't claim that the knowledge you gain is worth anything in 5 years. Their purpose is (and should be) teaching some fundamental principles of a particular major discipline (CS, in this case), and, more importantly, a set of attitudes and philosophies that teach you how to teach yourself. In engineering, you know your basic skill set will be obsolete in 5 years (and the Head of our EE dept. told us this before classes even began), so it's more important to get the basic mental framework in place and learn how to learn.
Even at my place of work, some talented high school students could probably be taught how to do the job about as fast and well as college graduates. The difference comes 2 or 3 years down the road. The people most able to keep up with emerging trends and extending their abilities tend to be the ones with degrees. And it tends to be the ones with PhDs or Masters that do better at it. The ones whose skill sets don't seem to expand as quickly or as much do tend to be the ones with less schooling.
Really, the fundamental skill set out of college is obsolete?
I didn't think figuring out how to make stuff work ever became obsolete.
Of course I have a BEP and just took EE courses for fun.
You can include check /. from a company computer on that list.
Don't kid yourself.
If a smart employer wants to get rid of you, you're a good as gone.
If they can't get rid of you outright, by say putting every single action of yours under a microscope, they can make things uncomfortable enough for you to want to leave, or put you in a position where they can get rid of you.
While we're on the topic, here's something that confused me about the SEC / Python idea.
Python is Turing complete, which means some Python programs may never terminate*. Has the SEC taken this into consideration in its plans to use them?
Or is the SEC planning to impose limitations such as, "These Python programs must complete within 1 hour when run on an Intel Pentiun IV 2.8 GHz with 4 GB RAM and Windows XP SP 3"?
(* Of course, real computers have finite memories, so it's actually theoretically possible to detect looping on such a computer. But at this point we get back to specifying a particular memory size I think, which kind of goes to my question about the SEC specifying the particular hardware on which the program must run.)
Gag, I hate Python; it has to be the most annoying language to code in since COBOL. White-space blocked languages needed to die with the Hollerith card.
I have a question then. Since the VOTE is a public action too, does this ruling means that voting signatures should be public too? And don't get me wrong, but i really want to know who voted for who....
So would Chick-fillet, and the Discovery Institute; They want to make sure their people are voting for the right people.
...how is this any different than radio and TV? Do we not already have the emergency broadcast system that can barge in and essentially "turn off" radio and TV services?
Does that disable your phone line?
The Internet was designed to NOT be turned off.
...is a much more serious bug than any possible printing problem.
Sounds like he is learning a lesson that I learned more than 10 years ago. All browsers suck.
Now why would you go and do something silly like pay for your own phone service when you can get the taxpayers to pick up the tab instead?
I know what you're saying, but there may be some good reasons. We have employer issued phones at our workplace with unlimited plans. Making personal calls or sending texts during non-work hours does nothing to change the final bill, so we've been told to use them for our own personal use as well. We're required to have the phones & be "on call." Why would I want to pay for a second phone I don't need?
Because you don't want your boss to know exactly who you're calling or texting?
What happens when you leave the company and they don't let you take the number with you?
And yes I have a company provided cell, and I still pay for my own to keep my business my own.
Its certainly cost effective if you're the one selling the network hardware.
Damn those activist judges, they're at it again subverting the Executive Branch.
The worst part of this oil spill is that you can't even boycott BP effectively without also boycotting the local gas station owner and the whole refinery chain. Say that this shady keyword purchasing damage control made you so upset that you went down and picketed the BP station in your neighborhood. Well, you might be affecting BP a little but you're having a much larger impact on the guy who owns that station. A huge impact if you're there all day appealing to people's empathy for the Gulf. What can I do? Write my senator demanding what exactly?
I don't know what the BP stations look like in your area, but around here they're as dirty and sleazy as they get. I didn't like getting gas there before the spill.
Look at their stock in the last month and then look down at related companies on that page and see how every single company in that industry has suffered stock prices plummeting in the last month. Not saying it's a bad thing or that these patents shouldn't be overturned but it was pretty obvious. Just to prepare everyone, you will see a short term drop in research devoted to identifying cancer genes unless it's government backed with your tax dollars.
Can you think of a better use of tax dollars?
He's putting US Citizen's lives in danger by exposing a cover up by the US Military? Now there's some Dubya bush logic!
From a BBC article with more details from the person who turned him in:
I gave them conversation logs that implicated Special Agent Manning. They were particularly interested in a code word for a major operation.
So you know, in addition to the videos and diplomatic cables he was out and about bragging about this and discussing major operations and their code words. While you might be able to justify the videos, I don't know how you could justify bragging to people about it and discussing current military operations on the internet. That could probably be construed as putting the lives of many soldiers in danger.
If he's divulging ongoing operations, and codewords, they can probably shoot him for it. If fact they can even throw you in jail indefinitely if they think you're mishandling classified documents. That's the price you pay for getting to live in that world, and being in the know.
Also, it isn't some innocent snitch; he's nothing buy a liar and he knew exactly what he was doing.
With an S, they can throw you in prison. With a TS they can shoot you.
The military all too often makes things secret not because it is sensitive, but because it would generate bad PR. This is not how a democratic government is supposed to function. If you don't like living in a country with a transparent government, you can always move to places like North Korea.
A lot of data is classified because the system its created on is classified and that's a one way trip; once something is classified, its forever classified until someone qualified checks it then declassifies it.
Its ok to try to protect something you poured your blood sweat and tears into, even if copying it only costs a few pennies. Whats not OK is trying to claim that each infringement costs them thousands of dollars. If youre going to sue for a few MP3s, then do it in small claims court, and do it often. Don't blame one person for the crimes of 10,000.
Its too easy to defend yourself in small claim's court so they don't want to sue there. They want a lawsuit where its cheaper to just fork out the money and pay them off than it is to fight.
How about flash sucks because it doesn't include a volume controls by default?
That's all it takes to trump that idiotic article.
Don't get me wrong, there are many other reasons to hate flash, (Including some of the reasons identified in the article as reasons to use flash: Flash's sub-pixel resolution and anti-aliasing and Flash's supercool fonts ) and that's not even the biggest one. But its more than adequate to just beg for that POS to die.
Ecklund is spinning the data, possibly to fit her pet hypothesis. For example, she claims that about half of scientists are "traditionally religious" but by her own data, 34% are atheists, 30% are strong agnostics, and 8% are believe in a higher power which they explicitly don't believe is "God." Given that, it is very hard to claim that half the scientific population is traditionally religious when three quarters aren't even theists. There are also some odd choices she makes in her definition of scientists. So for example, she includes all the social sciences but not mathematicians (something which I philosophically agree with but find sociologically suspect). There's an excellent analysis of her data by Jason Rosenhouse of her data at http://scienceblogs.com/evolutionblog/2010/05/scientists_and_religion.php. The most striking thing about the data, regardless of how Ecklund wants to spin it as showing scientists are religious, is how much less religious scientists are than the general population. Atheism is much more common among scientists than among the general population, as is agnosticism. Moreover, what religions are common if one looks at the theistic breakdown is very different. Evangelical Christianity for example is a much smaller percentage then one would get from a representative sample of theists.
She's in Texas, religious spin-doctoring is to be expected.
Anime and manga should be legal. They're cartoons; Fictional representations of a fabricated encounter, often between entities which do not even exist outside of a person's imagination. Or do you think there really are impossibly proportioned cartoon people in the real world, with emotions other than those that the artist has attributed to them at the exact time being pictured? Do they have a family history? Are they going to grow up in later life and abuse other cartoon people?
Many of the the right-wing fundies/idiots believe that thinking about sinning is the same as sinning.