Well, for starters, there's the fact that "rot128" isn't really a copyright protection measure if you're not the copyright holder, so they wouldn't be violating anything by "circumventing" it.
(Don't get me started on the logical inconsistency of a no-abortions-ever candidate who would not ban embryonic stem cell research outright.)
I'm not sure I see any inconsistency there. Even if abortions were 100% banned, there are other sources of embryonic stem cells. As far as I am aware, most of the stem cells that we do have available for research now didn't come from aborted fetuses anyway.
Huh. And here I figured you had to get up to a thousand or so to become evil. So how do the numbers change for a privately held vs. publicly traded company?
Yes, Google is the 21st century Microsoft. If you look closely they have taken Microsoft's business strategy for PCs and implemented it on the web. They don't innovate with new services, but look at what is popular / successful for others and they try to build a nicer version with a prettier UI
The difference of course being that when Google builds a competing version of an existing product, it actually works better than the previously existing product. I for one will not begrudge a company that builds its market share by building superior products.
Good questions, although it's worth pointing out that (as of the last time I tried using it, which was some months ago now) Prototype does not play nicely with other JS files and did not respect the global namespace, which is one reason why we don't use Prototype where I work. (Our libraries are also smaller, and more modular)
I can tell you from experience that a private school is not likely to have behaved in an any more enlightened manner than your average public school. In fact, many private schools would probably be even quicker to give you the boot, because in their eyes, it's a privilege for you to be there. And personally, I don't believe that home schooling is a valid solution in almost any case, because for better worse, about the only truly meaningful thing your kids learn in middle school is social interaction.
Just why should he be evaluated or asked about what he's done?
Why not? So long as it's not handled like an inquisition, I don't see the problem. If you ask "Why did you make a map of the school?", he might say, "Because I was familiar with it, and it seemed like it would be fun because there are wide hallways, plenty of alternate routes to any given point, and plenty o starways," then no big deal, leave the kid alone. If he says "Because I thought it would be fun to shoot up the school," then I'd say a little more investigation is warranted.
Even the dumbest company in the world can get something right once or twice by accident. Maybe they didn't realize that one of their new employees was actually more intelligent than he seemed in the interview. Maybe the POS competitor that they bought out actually had a good idea that they just never released. Maybe they accidentally bought a good company somewhere along the line. Maybe Microsoft really does suck, and possibly most of their products look like they were written by five year olds, but that doesn't mean that they've never released anything along the way that is worthwhile. Some of us would like to use the worthwhile bits that have snuck their way out the door without being tied to the rest of the sandcastle.
What possible reason could he have for wanting to keep that functionality. It seems to me to be one of the very few security practices that one could implement with a "no exceptions" policy without catching innocent users.
Even without any of the best and brightest, it should take about ten brain cells and a half hour's work to disable outbound port 25 traffic from your corporate network (minus the mail server, if you're not bright enough to put it on a seoarate network), and no legitimate use would ever know the difference.
I think you've got it backwards. It's actually older inefficient air conditioners that are more likely to be better at maintaining a temperature than reaching that temperature, because they have to do a lot more work to reach the desired temperature. It's also a matter of how good your insulation is, and whether you are running your AC in a reasonable range. (If it takes 16 hours straight for your AC to reach your desired temperature, than either you have terrible air conditioner, or you are not trying to maintain a reasonable temperature.)
If you have a reasonably efficient HVAC system, turning it off when you go to bed or leave for work for the day should save you money. Obviously nobody in their right mind would say that running an air conditioner 16 hours straight would use less power than running it 10 minutes an hour, but running it 10 minutes an hour for a whole day when nobody needs it on is going to take more power than running it for a half hour to an hour right after (or in our case right before, as we have a programmable thermostat) you get home. Not to mention that those daytime hours when you don't even need the AC on are going to be by far the most expensive.
The programmable thermostat that my wife bought when we moved into our house has probably saved us more money than any other single improvement that we've made. Our power bills are smaller than those of some people we know in apartments half the size of our house. We also got a $50 credit from our power company to let them install a "cutoff" switch on our AC unit so that they can remotely shut it off during periods of peak usage. It's free money for us, since the AC unit is never on during the time that it would be disabled anyway.
SharpDevelop is a pretty cool free IDE for.NET but so far still only works on Windows. (Monodevelop was forked from a very old version of SharpDevelop) In my opinion it's almost as good as VS2k5. If you're willing to pay for an IDE (as you seem to be if you are comparing to Visual Studio) there's a.NET/Java IDE called X-Develop that appears to be pretty good, and runs on Mac, Linux, and Windows. I haven't used it beyond a few days of trial evaluation, but it looked really impressive to me.
I was curious about that too. Perhaps we was stating the percentage of Americans who consider themselves to be "Christian" or "strongly religious" or whatever wording happened to be used in some particular survey. Even among strongly religious people, not everyone believes in the literal interpretation of Genesis. After all, Genesis also mentions God laying out the four corners of the earth, and you don't hear too many fundamentalists still arguing that the earth is flat, do you?
Yes I'm serious. Overall I think that Thunderbird is great, I just wish that I didn't have to dig up an extension every time I upgrade to add one commonly used button to the toolbar. Perhaps I am in the minority, but I can't stand the "Move to trash folder" approach, and very much prefer to mark messages to be deleted before expunging them.
As for why most IMAP clients implement it that way, that's the way the IMAP protocol was designed. Marking a message for deletion is one command with very little overhead. "Moving deleted items to the trash" actually requires you to copy the message to a new folder, mark the message for deletion, and then expunge after each deletion. (I think- It's been a while since I poked around with the mail protocols at a low level.)
Oh yeah, I forgot, their major expansion a few years back was so they could start distributing more to California. In Chicago, and other parts of the Midwest I've been to, Fat Tire is all over the place lately, but only Fat Tire - to the point that most people I know in the Midwest think that's the name of the brewery.
I do think Fat Tire is a good beer, I just don't find it to be nearly as compelling as many of their other varieties. And speaking of seasonals, I was really disappointed that they dropped their "Bier de Mars" this year, as that was one of my favorites, although it's replacement (Springboard) was pretty good in its own way.
Why Thunderbird still doesn't have a Purge/Expunge/Compact button by default (at least available, if not already on the toolbar) is a mystery to me. Do they just not care about IMAP users? It's rather annoying to have to hunt down an extension to get that one toolbar button every time i upgrade or install Thunderbird on a new computer.
You must live in the wrong part of the States. When I used to live in Chicago, I was practically swimming in good beer from the cheeseheads to the north (and Bell's in Kalamazoo, Michigan). I still bring 2 or 3 cases back with me when if I visit there over the summer. (Just finished off the last Fat Squirrel 2 weeks ago.:( )
Now that I live in Colorado, while I still miss many of my favorite Midwestern brews, the selection of quality beers is higher than I ever could have imagined. New Belgium is a great brewery (as long as you don't judge them solely based on Fat Tire, which as far as I know is currently their only beer distributed outside of Colorado), as is O'Dells, Oscar Blues (although you probably won't care for them if you don't like hoppy beers), and more local brewery/bars than you can count. Even the Rock Bottom Cafe's out here manage to produce some pretty good beer.
I remember wiping out a 98 install to reinstall Win 95. I stuck with Windows 95 (OSR2) until mid 2001, when I was finally convinced to move to win2k. Even then I continued to use 95 on VMWare partitions due to its smaller size for almost two more years, as Windows 2K would take 1GB of disk space by itself.
Ah, so this is the corrupted audio CD debacle all over again.
It didn't start with audio CD's. Software companies (mostly game publishers) were doing this with floppy discs back in the 1980's. There's a reason this practice was abandoned in the software industry long ago, and it's not because they stopped caring about piracy...
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I think the "Zune killer" was when Steve Ballmer starting talking about using it to "squirt".
Well, for starters, there's the fact that "rot128" isn't really a copyright protection measure if you're not the copyright holder, so they wouldn't be violating anything by "circumventing" it.
It wouldn't have to be that high quality. Eveybody on YouTube already looks like they're doing a poor job of lip synching anyway.
I'm not sure I see any inconsistency there. Even if abortions were 100% banned, there are other sources of embryonic stem cells. As far as I am aware, most of the stem cells that we do have available for research now didn't come from aborted fetuses anyway.
Huh. And here I figured you had to get up to a thousand or so to become evil. So how do the numbers change for a privately held vs. publicly traded company?
The difference of course being that when Google builds a competing version of an existing product, it actually works better than the previously existing product. I for one will not begrudge a company that builds its market share by building superior products.
You may want to reverse those arguments...
Good questions, although it's worth pointing out that (as of the last time I tried using it, which was some months ago now) Prototype does not play nicely with other JS files and did not respect the global namespace, which is one reason why we don't use Prototype where I work. (Our libraries are also smaller, and more modular)
I can tell you from experience that a private school is not likely to have behaved in an any more enlightened manner than your average public school. In fact, many private schools would probably be even quicker to give you the boot, because in their eyes, it's a privilege for you to be there. And personally, I don't believe that home schooling is a valid solution in almost any case, because for better worse, about the only truly meaningful thing your kids learn in middle school is social interaction.
Why not? So long as it's not handled like an inquisition, I don't see the problem. If you ask "Why did you make a map of the school?", he might say, "Because I was familiar with it, and it seemed like it would be fun because there are wide hallways, plenty of alternate routes to any given point, and plenty o starways," then no big deal, leave the kid alone. If he says "Because I thought it would be fun to shoot up the school," then I'd say a little more investigation is warranted.
Even the dumbest company in the world can get something right once or twice by accident. Maybe they didn't realize that one of their new employees was actually more intelligent than he seemed in the interview. Maybe the POS competitor that they bought out actually had a good idea that they just never released. Maybe they accidentally bought a good company somewhere along the line. Maybe Microsoft really does suck, and possibly most of their products look like they were written by five year olds, but that doesn't mean that they've never released anything along the way that is worthwhile. Some of us would like to use the worthwhile bits that have snuck their way out the door without being tied to the rest of the sandcastle.
What possible reason could he have for wanting to keep that functionality. It seems to me to be one of the very few security practices that one could implement with a "no exceptions" policy without catching innocent users.
Even without any of the best and brightest, it should take about ten brain cells and a half hour's work to disable outbound port 25 traffic from your corporate network (minus the mail server, if you're not bright enough to put it on a seoarate network), and no legitimate use would ever know the difference.
I think you've got it backwards. It's actually older inefficient air conditioners that are more likely to be better at maintaining a temperature than reaching that temperature, because they have to do a lot more work to reach the desired temperature. It's also a matter of how good your insulation is, and whether you are running your AC in a reasonable range. (If it takes 16 hours straight for your AC to reach your desired temperature, than either you have terrible air conditioner, or you are not trying to maintain a reasonable temperature.)
If you have a reasonably efficient HVAC system, turning it off when you go to bed or leave for work for the day should save you money. Obviously nobody in their right mind would say that running an air conditioner 16 hours straight would use less power than running it 10 minutes an hour, but running it 10 minutes an hour for a whole day when nobody needs it on is going to take more power than running it for a half hour to an hour right after (or in our case right before, as we have a programmable thermostat) you get home. Not to mention that those daytime hours when you don't even need the AC on are going to be by far the most expensive.
The programmable thermostat that my wife bought when we moved into our house has probably saved us more money than any other single improvement that we've made. Our power bills are smaller than those of some people we know in apartments half the size of our house. We also got a $50 credit from our power company to let them install a "cutoff" switch on our AC unit so that they can remotely shut it off during periods of peak usage. It's free money for us, since the AC unit is never on during the time that it would be disabled anyway.
SharpDevelop is a pretty cool free IDE for .NET but so far still only works on Windows. (Monodevelop was forked from a very old version of SharpDevelop) In my opinion it's almost as good as VS2k5. If you're willing to pay for an IDE (as you seem to be if you are comparing to Visual Studio) there's a .NET/Java IDE called X-Develop that appears to be pretty good, and runs on Mac, Linux, and Windows. I haven't used it beyond a few days of trial evaluation, but it looked really impressive to me.
I don't know, maybe it's a good thing. If they manage to split the market with Flash, maybe more people will give up on using either one.
I was curious about that too. Perhaps we was stating the percentage of Americans who consider themselves to be "Christian" or "strongly religious" or whatever wording happened to be used in some particular survey. Even among strongly religious people, not everyone believes in the literal interpretation of Genesis. After all, Genesis also mentions God laying out the four corners of the earth, and you don't hear too many fundamentalists still arguing that the earth is flat, do you?
No kidding. The article was so obviously biased that I was about ready to turn my monitor on its side...
Yes I'm serious. Overall I think that Thunderbird is great, I just wish that I didn't have to dig up an extension every time I upgrade to add one commonly used button to the toolbar. Perhaps I am in the minority, but I can't stand the "Move to trash folder" approach, and very much prefer to mark messages to be deleted before expunging them.
As for why most IMAP clients implement it that way, that's the way the IMAP protocol was designed. Marking a message for deletion is one command with very little overhead. "Moving deleted items to the trash" actually requires you to copy the message to a new folder, mark the message for deletion, and then expunge after each deletion. (I think- It's been a while since I poked around with the mail protocols at a low level.)
Yes, I know it's in the menu. The point is that I don't want to have to go through the menu to use a common function.
Oh yeah, I forgot, their major expansion a few years back was so they could start distributing more to California. In Chicago, and other parts of the Midwest I've been to, Fat Tire is all over the place lately, but only Fat Tire - to the point that most people I know in the Midwest think that's the name of the brewery.
I do think Fat Tire is a good beer, I just don't find it to be nearly as compelling as many of their other varieties. And speaking of seasonals, I was really disappointed that they dropped their "Bier de Mars" this year, as that was one of my favorites, although it's replacement (Springboard) was pretty good in its own way.
Why Thunderbird still doesn't have a Purge/Expunge/Compact button by default (at least available, if not already on the toolbar) is a mystery to me. Do they just not care about IMAP users? It's rather annoying to have to hunt down an extension to get that one toolbar button every time i upgrade or install Thunderbird on a new computer.
You must live in the wrong part of the States. When I used to live in Chicago, I was practically swimming in good beer from the cheeseheads to the north (and Bell's in Kalamazoo, Michigan). I still bring 2 or 3 cases back with me when if I visit there over the summer. (Just finished off the last Fat Squirrel 2 weeks ago. :( )
Now that I live in Colorado, while I still miss many of my favorite Midwestern brews, the selection of quality beers is higher than I ever could have imagined. New Belgium is a great brewery (as long as you don't judge them solely based on Fat Tire, which as far as I know is currently their only beer distributed outside of Colorado), as is O'Dells, Oscar Blues (although you probably won't care for them if you don't like hoppy beers), and more local brewery/bars than you can count. Even the Rock Bottom Cafe's out here manage to produce some pretty good beer.
I remember wiping out a 98 install to reinstall Win 95. I stuck with Windows 95 (OSR2) until mid 2001, when I was finally convinced to move to win2k. Even then I continued to use 95 on VMWare partitions due to its smaller size for almost two more years, as Windows 2K would take 1GB of disk space by itself.
It didn't start with audio CD's. Software companies (mostly game publishers) were doing this with floppy discs back in the 1980's. There's a reason this practice was abandoned in the software industry long ago, and it's not because they stopped caring about piracy...