I have one of the Karachi Outpost bags which I find very good. I can't compare it to other brands but the bag has a lot of nice touches that make it clear that thought has been put into it. I particularly like who the whole camera compartment can be removed and put back in one leaving you with a nice big general backpack without needing to re-configure all the subcompartments. The rearward opening is nice too. It can't really be opened when it's on your back so you have to worry less about light fingers.
I'd expect the CPU would start throttling and then shutdown if it reached the edge of its acceptable operating range.
My 2600K runs 'hot' with the stock cooler (not overclocked but running boinc clients). It seems to hover between 64 and 70c but I think it would start throttling at 78 and shutdown completely if it got to 90-something.
The procedures you're talking about aren't there for shits and giggles. They're in place to ensure that upgrades go smoothly, and that critical systems continue to function properly.
If those procedures involve people making guesses based on version numbers then they are shitty procedures.
That's not "shirking responsibility". That's due diligence. They're trying to judge the impact that upgrades will have, but doing a poor job using version numbers interferes with their evaluations.
I'd suggest that using version numbers for such a thing is an inherently poor way of doing it.
I can't believe that someone in 'enterprise' would upgrade to a new Linux kernel without appropriate testing and fallback positions even if that kernel update was a same-version distro update that only contained a few backported security fixes. You don't look at a version number and guess, you assume an update will fuck things up until testing shows otherwise.
I think Mozilla can be faulted for not providing security fixes for relatively recent releases but I don't think their version numbering scheme matters at all.
The kernel version number matters even less. Most people will only come across a kernel version change when updating to a new distro version at which time the quantity of change must require a significant amount of testing even from lazy admins.
If a log of where and when the Smartwater is deployed is maintained and possibly tallied with police video (or testimony) it should not be too hard to tie people to individual acts. I believe that is the actual point of Smartwater in that usage, you can tie a person (or persons) to an individual deployment of the SmartWater (as each deployment can be uniquely identifiable) and therefore tag people as associated with an to an act while it is ongoing.
No, people buy SUVs because they better allow you to see over and around other vehicles
As someone who when driving a small car frequently found themselves being merged into by SUV drivers changing lanes where their "height advantage" evidently caused them to completely overlook my car I think the height is a problem rather than a solution.
It isn't just the height though, I never found myself being squished by truck or bus drivers so I think it is in part due to driver ability (professional drivers generally being better) and vehicle design (perhaps mirrors on trucks and buses are of a fuller length while SUV mirrors are kept as small as possible for style reasons).
Power users clearly aren't what they used to be. I remember a power user meaning someone who fiddled with arcane config files or maybe even patched or pulled source from a repo and compiled it to get a feature. These days "power users" seem to be offended if there isn't a nice checkbox there for them or even if it isn't exactly how they want it on installation.
Yeah, I can change all this stuff manually in Ubuntu... but defaults matter
It seems to me that many "power users" have seen the benefits from the "it just works" ethos that Ubuntu and others have made great strides towards (though not without breaking some eggs) and simultaneously desire that convenience without realising what it actually entails..
Personally I remember compiling kernels, GNOME etc. These days I'm perfectly happy just to use an OS that for the most part just keeps out of my way and lets me get on with whatever it is I am doing (which OS X, Windows 7 and Ubuntu all do, by and large).
I have no problem with people who do want to spent time playing around with their computer, it is an interesting to dig around and see how things work. I do however have a problem when people seem to say "this is too dumbed down" and "it should work how I want it to out of the box" at the same time.
Swedish rounding is a reasonable solution for this. It is applied to the total cost of a single order and only applied to cash sales. Rounding up might still happen more often on average due to people buying single items but a (literally) penny pinching customer could also "game" the system by paying cash in the round down instances and by credit/debit card when the amount would otherwise be rounded up.
Dropping 1 and 2c coins went down fairly well her in Australia from what I recall.
The first, and perhaps more intriguing, is how a bug like this could sit undetected for years.
It does seem odd that people haven't run fuzzed data against a number of different implementations of blowfish and not noticed differing output. I'd have thought that would be a fairly normal thing for someone developing a crypto algorithm implementation to do.
diplomacy could get a lot trickier when you have to explain your conversations with others.
Perhaps. OTOH it might actually be easier in the long run if you deal with people openly and honestly.
Too often when people start talking about Wikileaks effect on diplomacy people (though not specifically the person whose post I'm replying to) end up making diplomacy sound like some sort of game played be old men who get a kick out of pulling levers and trying mould the world to their will rather than the art of arriving at genuine understanding and agreement.
No doubt there are often short term gains to such an approach but I can't help but think it is harmful in the long run.
The Wii did well because it sold kinda like a board game
I think the private screen could go a long way to replicating some of that. From poker, Scrabble, etc etc I think there's a lot of possibilities in multiplayer gaming where some aspects of the game are enhanced by individual players having their own subsets of information.
I am not sure my living room has room for many of the controllers though.
You target standards, and test with a validator before it even hits the first browser in test phase 2
Which would be more useful, if browsers met those standards reliably.
Even modern browsers have quirks. In IE 9 for example rounded borders suddenly stop working on a fieldset if it has a legend.
I am fortunate enough to only have to deal with vaguely modern browsers (I mostly work on a non public app where we can set reasonable minimum requirements for supported browsers) but there are still nasties and work around we employ now may well bite us and require reworking when a new browser version turns up.
This is probably a closer approximation to the Thai arrest in the article. Eg someone conducting otherwise lawful activity on the internet who got nabbed when setting foot in an unenlightened country.
Take from this what you will, but to say the version numbers are arbitrary is just plain ignorant.
It seems rather strange to label others as ignorant when there is Linus saying "since we no longer do version numbers based on features, but based on time,"
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Apparantly they are keen to talk now.
I have one of the Karachi Outpost bags which I find very good. I can't compare it to other brands but the bag has a lot of nice touches that make it clear that thought has been put into it. I particularly like who the whole camera compartment can be removed and put back in one leaving you with a nice big general backpack without needing to re-configure all the subcompartments. The rearward opening is nice too. It can't really be opened when it's on your back so you have to worry less about light fingers.
Or just buy Intel, ignoring these people who inventing these warranty issues out of thin air and their own paranoia.
I'd expect the CPU would start throttling and then shutdown if it reached the edge of its acceptable operating range. My 2600K runs 'hot' with the stock cooler (not overclocked but running boinc clients). It seems to hover between 64 and 70c but I think it would start throttling at 78 and shutdown completely if it got to 90-something.
If those procedures involve people making guesses based on version numbers then they are shitty procedures.
I'd suggest that using version numbers for such a thing is an inherently poor way of doing it. I can't believe that someone in 'enterprise' would upgrade to a new Linux kernel without appropriate testing and fallback positions even if that kernel update was a same-version distro update that only contained a few backported security fixes. You don't look at a version number and guess, you assume an update will fuck things up until testing shows otherwise.
I think Mozilla can be faulted for not providing security fixes for relatively recent releases but I don't think their version numbering scheme matters at all.
The kernel version number matters even less. Most people will only come across a kernel version change when updating to a new distro version at which time the quantity of change must require a significant amount of testing even from lazy admins.
If a log of where and when the Smartwater is deployed is maintained and possibly tallied with police video (or testimony) it should not be too hard to tie people to individual acts. I believe that is the actual point of Smartwater in that usage, you can tie a person (or persons) to an individual deployment of the SmartWater (as each deployment can be uniquely identifiable) and therefore tag people as associated with an to an act while it is ongoing.
As someone who when driving a small car frequently found themselves being merged into by SUV drivers changing lanes where their "height advantage" evidently caused them to completely overlook my car I think the height is a problem rather than a solution.
It isn't just the height though, I never found myself being squished by truck or bus drivers so I think it is in part due to driver ability (professional drivers generally being better) and vehicle design (perhaps mirrors on trucks and buses are of a fuller length while SUV mirrors are kept as small as possible for style reasons).
Plenty of people, though mostly I suspect it's just people who think using the term "false-flag" makes them sound cool.
Power users clearly aren't what they used to be. I remember a power user meaning someone who fiddled with arcane config files or maybe even patched or pulled source from a repo and compiled it to get a feature. These days "power users" seem to be offended if there isn't a nice checkbox there for them or even if it isn't exactly how they want it on installation.
It seems to me that many "power users" have seen the benefits from the "it just works" ethos that Ubuntu and others have made great strides towards (though not without breaking some eggs) and simultaneously desire that convenience without realising what it actually entails..
Personally I remember compiling kernels, GNOME etc. These days I'm perfectly happy just to use an OS that for the most part just keeps out of my way and lets me get on with whatever it is I am doing (which OS X, Windows 7 and Ubuntu all do, by and large).
I have no problem with people who do want to spent time playing around with their computer, it is an interesting to dig around and see how things work. I do however have a problem when people seem to say "this is too dumbed down" and "it should work how I want it to out of the box" at the same time.
Swedish rounding is a reasonable solution for this. It is applied to the total cost of a single order and only applied to cash sales. Rounding up might still happen more often on average due to people buying single items but a (literally) penny pinching customer could also "game" the system by paying cash in the round down instances and by credit/debit card when the amount would otherwise be rounded up.
Dropping 1 and 2c coins went down fairly well her in Australia from what I recall.
It does seem odd that people haven't run fuzzed data against a number of different implementations of blowfish and not noticed differing output. I'd have thought that would be a fairly normal thing for someone developing a crypto algorithm implementation to do.
It's the massive surge in lion numbers that we should be worrying about.
If you have to ask, you don't get it.
Congratulations, you have successfully demonstrated that you understand what a "question" is.
Perhaps. OTOH it might actually be easier in the long run if you deal with people openly and honestly. Too often when people start talking about Wikileaks effect on diplomacy people (though not specifically the person whose post I'm replying to) end up making diplomacy sound like some sort of game played be old men who get a kick out of pulling levers and trying mould the world to their will rather than the art of arriving at genuine understanding and agreement. No doubt there are often short term gains to such an approach but I can't help but think it is harmful in the long run.
Better hope no one accidentally fed Watson some House scripts!
I think the private screen could go a long way to replicating some of that. From poker, Scrabble, etc etc I think there's a lot of possibilities in multiplayer gaming where some aspects of the game are enhanced by individual players having their own subsets of information. I am not sure my living room has room for many of the controllers though.
Seems a shame not to test Intel seeing as they go to the trouble of producing open drivers.
Intel might not be your first choice if gaming was the primary function for your computer, but then Linux probably wouldn't be either.
Which would be more useful, if browsers met those standards reliably. Even modern browsers have quirks. In IE 9 for example rounded borders suddenly stop working on a fieldset if it has a legend.
I am fortunate enough to only have to deal with vaguely modern browsers (I mostly work on a non public app where we can set reasonable minimum requirements for supported browsers) but there are still nasties and work around we employ now may well bite us and require reworking when a new browser version turns up.
No, the relevant law is abhorrent regardless of the nationality or location of the guy.
This is probably a closer approximation to the Thai arrest in the article. Eg someone conducting otherwise lawful activity on the internet who got nabbed when setting foot in an unenlightened country.
That argument might hold more weight if the US behaved as if it's laws stopped at it's borders.
It seems rather strange to label others as ignorant when there is Linus saying "since we no longer do version numbers based on features, but based on time,"
If only someone had thought to implement some sort of searching mechanism.
It would be if I was American.......