I can't vote in the US elections either, yet the term "leader of the free world" is still used. Guess I'm not important enough to elect my "leader".
The aforementioned term springs from the same mindset from which the term "World Series" is applied to a US-only baseball league.
Now, I may be wrong, but my understanding is that the series is called the World Series because it was originally sponsored by the US magazine World Report. Can anybody confirm this for me?
Agree: my first thought when I saw the words "for all but the most demanding sytems" was Yeah, right!. The databases I work on for BigCellphoneCo are of the order of 150-200GB, and these are now considered small to medium sized in enterprise terms. Large databases run to many terabytes, and the petabyte database is not far off.
Y'know, the second of the two links posted above relies on the first for justification.
Of course, this doesn't stop Paul Thurott - or you or me, for that matter - from being an enormous asshole, but it does seem to me to be "questionable" logic.
Not defending them, but Diebold makes a LOT of ATM machines.
And I would bet frickin' HUGE sums of money that the banks who buy them insist on more security, auditability and reliability than the brain-dead election officials that select these Diebold machines.
Heck, even the slot-jockeys in Vegas are better protected than the electorate...
It will require a work force of 384 slaves, 34 slave drivers, 12 engineers, 2 turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree. The work will need to be managed by a command team composed of 234 bureaucrats, 2347 secretaries (at least two of whom could type), 12,256 paper shufflers, 52,469 rubber stampers, 245,193 red tape processors, and nearly one million dead trees
They are NOT releasing the list of patents. They just state there are 283 patent infrigements.
They will show you the patents if you insist, but they recommend strongly that you not look, since if you know about the patents you are infringing, then in the US the infringement becomes wilful, and renders you liable to triple damages.
This is one of the reasons that people such as Linus recommend that engineers should not do prior patent research before coding anything.
I have been using the Sony TRV900E (when in Europe) and the TRV900 in the US for about four years now, and I can say that it still wipes the floor with camcorders that currently cost almost three times as much. It was the Sony "prosumer" model, but when they found it was hurting sales of the VX2000 and other low end pro models, they replaced it with the significantly less capable TRV900.
The TRV900 can be had on eBay for well under USD1000 now. I love it...
Well, given the tremdous debt that Marx, Engels, and by extension Lenin and modern communism owe to Helvetius, probably the most influential of the 18th Century French Utilitarians, your quoting of him wouldn't sit too well with those advocating/enforcing the censorship...
While I'll admit that many (even most) fundimentalists you'll meet are drooling morons, there are plenty of ones who are very intelligent and well educated (other than their obviously deficient bullshit detection skills).
Precisely. Thus has it ever been with terrorist organisations. Al Qaeda:
Richard Reid ("Shoe Bomber") -> Drooling Booby. Osama Bin Laden -> Educated guy who's kept his ass safe.
Read "The Secret Agent" by Joseph Conrad sometime, in which a terrorist uses a mentally deficient child to perform his atrocities.
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I can't vote in the US elections either, yet the term "leader of the free world" is still used. Guess I'm not important enough to elect my "leader".
The aforementioned term springs from the same mindset from which the term "World Series" is applied to a US-only baseball league.
Now, I may be wrong, but my understanding is that the series is called the World Series because it was originally sponsored by the US magazine World Report. Can anybody confirm this for me?
just came in his own pants
Better in his own than in mine...
Agree: my first thought when I saw the words "for all but the most demanding sytems" was Yeah, right!. The databases I work on for BigCellphoneCo are of the order of 150-200GB, and these are now considered small to medium sized in enterprise terms. Large databases run to many terabytes, and the petabyte database is not far off.
Y'know, the second of the two links posted above relies on the first for justification.
Of course, this doesn't stop Paul Thurott - or you or me, for that matter - from being an enormous asshole, but it does seem to me to be "questionable" logic.
Not defending them, but Diebold makes a LOT of ATM machines.
And I would bet frickin' HUGE sums of money that the banks who buy them insist on more security, auditability and reliability than the brain-dead election officials that select these Diebold machines.
Heck, even the slot-jockeys in Vegas are better protected than the electorate...
One of the suggestions for "Diebold" is "Diablo" Accident? I think not...
Go here. For more specifics about the offshore explosion hazard click here.
(Note: site doesn't appear to work well in Firefox)
It will require a work force of 384 slaves, 34 slave drivers, 12 engineers, 2 turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree. The work will need to be managed by a command team composed of 234 bureaucrats, 2347 secretaries (at least two of whom could type), 12,256 paper shufflers, 52,469 rubber stampers, 245,193 red tape processors, and nearly one million dead trees
(Score:-1, Plagiarism)
Journalist: Senator, did you learn anything from Chappaquiddick?
Kennedy: Yeah, don't drive over a bridge when you're pissed out of your fucking mind!
Some of the most lassie-fair of people
Ha! Running dogs of capitalism, if ever I saw one!!!
The above post was written on release 2 of XP Starter Edition: the one that doesn't support the return key...
When in doubt, use brute force. -- Ken Thompson
That's how Linus made millions.
Silly me, I thought that Linus actually had something to do with creating the Linux phenomenon, rather than being a freeloader...
They are NOT releasing the list of patents. They just state there are 283 patent infrigements.
They will show you the patents if you insist, but they recommend strongly that you not look, since if you know about the patents you are infringing, then in the US the infringement becomes wilful, and renders you liable to triple damages.
This is one of the reasons that people such as Linus recommend that engineers should not do prior patent research before coding anything.
The real "love bug" beginning with those letters...
Try here. (Search for "spank")
Nah, SNIPPING is so passé
I have been using the Sony TRV900E (when in Europe) and the TRV900 in the US for about four years now, and I can say that it still wipes the floor with camcorders that currently cost almost three times as much. It was the Sony "prosumer" model, but when they found it was hurting sales of the VX2000 and other low end pro models, they replaced it with the significantly less capable TRV900.
The TRV900 can be had on eBay for well under USD1000 now. I love it...
Well, given the tremdous debt that Marx, Engels, and by extension Lenin and modern communism owe to Helvetius, probably the most influential of the 18th Century French Utilitarians, your quoting of him wouldn't sit too well with those advocating/enforcing the censorship...
I read alot,
My first reaction to seeing this was to ask where, if you read alot [sic], you saw the "word" I emboldened in quoting you, but then I saw this:
particularly content on the web
and had my answer...
While I'll admit that many (even most) fundimentalists you'll meet are drooling morons, there are plenty of ones who are very intelligent and well educated (other than their obviously deficient bullshit detection skills).
Precisely. Thus has it ever been with terrorist organisations. Al Qaeda:
Richard Reid ("Shoe Bomber") -> Drooling Booby.
Osama Bin Laden -> Educated guy who's kept his ass safe.
Read "The Secret Agent" by Joseph Conrad sometime, in which a terrorist uses a mentally deficient child to perform his atrocities.
On the bright side, it had enough other POSIX stuff (file I/O, pthreads, etc.) that the rest of the port was pretty easy.
IIRC, it also had a hardware opcode for solving polynomials. That what is known as a FUCISC* architecture...
--j
*Frickin' Unbelievably CISC
this huge mountain of cash that is literally being metaphorically syphoned
Bleeeeechhh!
Isn't that a highly irrational comment?
Yes, but this one is transcendental!
While such can lead credence to a strong case, it bodes when mentioned as the very first points.
But does it bode well or ill?