On the contrary, isn't this beneficial? It monitors who you are, how much you've drank, supports optional PIN numbers to make sure someone doesn't swipe your access key (if you're too drunk to get the PIN right then you don't get anymore), and it won't dispense beer without a valid key.
IMHO it promotes safe (and ultimately geeky) drinking.
I haven't seen a longhorn beta but I'm sure there's a version number in there somewhere. Version numbers aren't friendly to end lusers....remember that since 2000 the industry has been in a steady decline due to the necessary fluffing (for lack of a better term) of end lusers.
"Introducing....the ALL NEW and IMPROVED...Windows XP."
versus
"Introducing...the ALL NEW and IMPROVED...Windows five point one point twenty six hundred!"
Apple did it too...System 11 sounds nerdy. TIGER sounds fierce, competitive and on the bleeding edge of technology.
Expect the names to get more nonsensical as time goes on.
The cosine error only works in their favor. The smaller the angle, the slower you appear to be going. For instance, to the radar gun, if you're going 100MPH and he's right in front of you, it's gonna read 100. Now if he's to your side, it's going to read 0, because relative to the radar gun, you're moving sideways, not forward.
It doesn't matter. The ticket was incorrect, therefore, case dismissed on technicality. Don'tcha love the legal system?:)
Here comes the flood of lusers saying how their preferred distro is the king and everyone should get eaten up by it.
I've used 3 distros (only glanced at the rest...and it's been too long since I've used Slackware): Gentoo, Debian, Redhat.
Gentoo stands out on its own because it does something the others don't. Debian and Redhat are very similar. They have a canned installer, you grab precompiled packages, and viola.
Grouping according to similarity rather than announcing your distro is the best would get us somewhere.
Unless you happen to be a blind blogger. With all the effort people have put into accessibility there's got to be a validation method that can work for the blind as well.
Actually, no. The ALT tag contains some simple riddle that requires logic beyond that of brute force or database lookup.
The guy makes a good point...human validation via captcha. If you're going to spend 10 minutes complaining, whining, bragging and/or loathing about something then you can spend 3 seconds typing in the word "uNFsaQ" to prove you're human.
If it takes you less than 10 minutes to write in your dear diary--I mean blog--then it's probably a 1 liner to the effect of "i think she likez me omglolbbq!!!" and you need to get off my internet.
1.5 ton sounds expensive, big and awe-inspiring. It's not. Most people have cheap 1 ton a/c units in their living room walls (12,000 btu). My 12,000 (1 ton) unit is barely able to cool 3 computers. Good luck with a datacenter.
Crypto solutions breaks on way too many mailing lists and more than a few email forwarders because content is often added (ads on the bottom) or changed (spam/virus filtering), and this breaks the crypto signatures.
Isn't that what we want though? It's the mailing list's responsibility to reject messages that have bad signatures...and then resign the new mailing list message.
I'm sure someone with a psychology degree can offer more insight into this...but...
Blogs are just a way for someone to avoid the confrontation of dealing with it in real life. You can talk about that girl you like...and you know she's going to see it because you have the link in all your profiles. You can finally say what you really think of that jackass who picks on you because a friend of a friend will let him know the link. And of course the "OMGLOLBBQ!!!!111ONEHUNDREDELEVEN!!".
I have had an online dear diary that none of the real-world friends know about. Online friends do because they're removed from the situation and as long as I give an unbiased description they can give unbiased advice. That whole "ohhh I hopehopehope she reads this because it's in all my profiles and I announce to everyone when I update it" is a bunch of creepy, insecure crap.
The upgrade wanted to remove half of my installed apps and it kept back the other half. Even after sorting it out (hours and hours), it did something screwy with the ifupdown utility so it never came back from a reboot.
This was the final nail in the coffin for debian. No updates since 2002 and now this.
How do you conclude that far more advanced than us would want to avoid detection?
If they didn't, then we would see them.
People are soooo caught up in wild theories and crazy notions and trying to reach further and further into space that they forget the basics:
- We don't have the technology for what we're trying to do. Putting a radioshack r/c car on mars is a huge feat for us, but in the grand scheme of things involving interplanetary travel/speed faster than light/etc it's like Lewis and Clark compared to maps.google.com's satellite.
- If we do come across something, it's not going to be a little blip. It's going to be a continuous stream of fortified, non-arguable evidence. Did we broadcast "hello world\n" and then stop? Hell no. Anyone listening to us is going to hear everything from the first transmission up until now...a continous stream of RF.
We've been listening and transmitting for a long time...it's more than clear that nothing is out there, unless they're avoiding detection or they're incapable of communicating long distance (ie, equal to or lesser advanced than us).
Other posters made it clear: if you want to find ET and study space, you need to stop doing it on earth. Relays on mars, the moon, etc. We need to use our spectrum for other purposes now.
They can't force developing countries like us to solely use legal software since we can't afford it.
By "developing countries" he means 3rd world and poorer than dirt.
According to my tax returns, I'm poorer than dirt. Is MS going to force me into using software I can't afford? Why do THEY get a break when I probably make something comparable to their salary?
1) Other civilizations are below our technological level....which means we won't see them at all. 2) They're equal to ours...and since we're unable to do much of anything beyond our little neighborhood, we won't see them at all. 3) They're far more advanced than us...which means they have the smarts to avoid detection so we won't see them at all.
Keeping this in mind, explain to me again why we need to change the entire commercial aircraft industry (FCC approval + FAA approval + thousands of aircrafts + world-compatible technology) when there are easier ways to try and avoid our RF interference (satellites, moon, probes, etc). TFA didn't impress me.
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...especially since you require everyone to register in order to get ANY info or ANY software or ANY drivers.
I think Jamie and Adam should redo their experiment with the lightning hitting your house using this generator.
On the contrary, isn't this beneficial? It monitors who you are, how much you've drank, supports optional PIN numbers to make sure someone doesn't swipe your access key (if you're too drunk to get the PIN right then you don't get anymore), and it won't dispense beer without a valid key.
IMHO it promotes safe (and ultimately geeky) drinking.
Longhorn went from something that is safe, secure and stable with lots of new features into a bunch of marketing fluff.
Windows Millennium anybody?
XP = 5.1
Server 2003 = 5.2
I haven't seen a longhorn beta but I'm sure there's a version number in there somewhere. Version numbers aren't friendly to end lusers....remember that since 2000 the industry has been in a steady decline due to the necessary fluffing (for lack of a better term) of end lusers.
"Introducing....the ALL NEW and IMPROVED...Windows XP."
versus
"Introducing...the ALL NEW and IMPROVED...Windows five point one point twenty six hundred!"
Apple did it too...System 11 sounds nerdy. TIGER sounds fierce, competitive and on the bleeding edge of technology.
Expect the names to get more nonsensical as time goes on.
The cosine error only works in their favor. The smaller the angle, the slower you appear to be going. For instance, to the radar gun, if you're going 100MPH and he's right in front of you, it's gonna read 100. Now if he's to your side, it's going to read 0, because relative to the radar gun, you're moving sideways, not forward.
:)
It doesn't matter. The ticket was incorrect, therefore, case dismissed on technicality. Don'tcha love the legal system?
For radar: use the cosine error in your defense (the more offset you are, the more inaccurate the speed).
:)
For vascar: use operator timing error in your defense (it all depends on the officer's reaction time).
For laser: get a lawyer you plead it down...you're toast
fhqwhgads.+++ATH0
OK
Here comes the flood of lusers saying how their preferred distro is the king and everyone should get eaten up by it.
I've used 3 distros (only glanced at the rest...and it's been too long since I've used Slackware): Gentoo, Debian, Redhat.
Gentoo stands out on its own because it does something the others don't. Debian and Redhat are very similar. They have a canned installer, you grab precompiled packages, and viola.
Grouping according to similarity rather than announcing your distro is the best would get us somewhere.
Anyone else start humming the theme song for the Benny Hill show while watching this?
I expected Tux to come out of the back room, smash it to pieces, and then see the 3 of them chasing each other around for 3 of the 4 minutes.
That gives me an idea for a new sketch...
Some day in the very near future there will be a way to easily duplicate fingerprints, vein prints, retina prints, or whatever.
Current solution: change password or revoke key.
Solution for the future: slice your finger off and hope they can someday regrow you a new one with a new fingerprint.
Do we really want to slice hands/arms and eyes off too? Biometric ID has NO solution if the thing you're testing against becomes compromised.
Unless you happen to be a blind blogger. With all the effort people have put into accessibility there's got to be a validation method that can work for the blind as well.
Actually, no. The ALT tag contains some simple riddle that requires logic beyond that of brute force or database lookup.
The guy makes a good point...human validation via captcha. If you're going to spend 10 minutes complaining, whining, bragging and/or loathing about something then you can spend 3 seconds typing in the word "uNFsaQ" to prove you're human.
If it takes you less than 10 minutes to write in your dear diary--I mean blog--then it's probably a 1 liner to the effect of "i think she likez me omglolbbq!!!" and you need to get off my internet.
Problem solved. Next?
1.5 ton sounds expensive, big and awe-inspiring. It's not. Most people have cheap 1 ton a/c units in their living room walls (12,000 btu). My 12,000 (1 ton) unit is barely able to cool 3 computers. Good luck with a datacenter.
I honor spf entries on my mail server. It stops about 1000 emails/day. So far no legit mail being bounced.
Crypto solutions breaks on way too many mailing lists and more than a few email forwarders because content is often added (ads on the bottom) or changed (spam/virus filtering), and this breaks the crypto signatures.
Isn't that what we want though? It's the mailing list's responsibility to reject messages that have bad signatures...and then resign the new mailing list message.
Maybe this is exactly what we need. Microsoft technology that allows people to steal stuff.
I'd like to see the RIAA/MPAA sue Microsoft for providing a P2P app.
I'm sure someone with a psychology degree can offer more insight into this...but...
Blogs are just a way for someone to avoid the confrontation of dealing with it in real life. You can talk about that girl you like...and you know she's going to see it because you have the link in all your profiles. You can finally say what you really think of that jackass who picks on you because a friend of a friend will let him know the link. And of course the "OMGLOLBBQ!!!!111ONEHUNDREDELEVEN!!".
I have had an online dear diary that none of the real-world friends know about. Online friends do because they're removed from the situation and as long as I give an unbiased description they can give unbiased advice. That whole "ohhh I hopehopehope she reads this because it's in all my profiles and I announce to everyone when I update it" is a bunch of creepy, insecure crap.
Would you want your children flying a space shuttle that hasn't been properly beta-tested?
We did beta testing already...many, many years ago. What we're dealing with now are design flaws for a very specific set of events, wear/tear, etc.
Besides, the only way to "beta test" the shuttle is to launch it. Simulators don't account for the real world problems that caused it to be grounded.
http://www.expressdynamics.com/
I talked with the guy who wrote it and he gave me a tour of it. Sounds like what you need.
Written in PHP, too.
The upgrade wanted to remove half of my installed apps and it kept back the other half. Even after sorting it out (hours and hours), it did something screwy with the ifupdown utility so it never came back from a reboot.
This was the final nail in the coffin for debian. No updates since 2002 and now this.
If you go by third world standards, you're probably doing just fine.
Not when you compare the cost of living to income ratios. They may pay $20/mo rent where they are, but then they only have to make $150/mo.
How do you conclude that far more advanced than us would want to avoid detection?
If they didn't, then we would see them.
People are soooo caught up in wild theories and crazy notions and trying to reach further and further into space that they forget the basics:
- We don't have the technology for what we're trying to do. Putting a radioshack r/c car on mars is a huge feat for us, but in the grand scheme of things involving interplanetary travel/speed faster than light/etc it's like Lewis and Clark compared to maps.google.com's satellite.
- If we do come across something, it's not going to be a little blip. It's going to be a continuous stream of fortified, non-arguable evidence. Did we broadcast "hello world\n" and then stop? Hell no. Anyone listening to us is going to hear everything from the first transmission up until now...a continous stream of RF.
We've been listening and transmitting for a long time...it's more than clear that nothing is out there, unless they're avoiding detection or they're incapable of communicating long distance (ie, equal to or lesser advanced than us).
Other posters made it clear: if you want to find ET and study space, you need to stop doing it on earth. Relays on mars, the moon, etc. We need to use our spectrum for other purposes now.
They can't force developing countries like us to solely use legal software since we can't afford it.
By "developing countries" he means 3rd world and poorer than dirt.
According to my tax returns, I'm poorer than dirt. Is MS going to force me into using software I can't afford? Why do THEY get a break when I probably make something comparable to their salary?
3 scenarios guys:
1) Other civilizations are below our technological level....which means we won't see them at all.
2) They're equal to ours...and since we're unable to do much of anything beyond our little neighborhood, we won't see them at all.
3) They're far more advanced than us...which means they have the smarts to avoid detection so we won't see them at all.
Keeping this in mind, explain to me again why we need to change the entire commercial aircraft industry (FCC approval + FAA approval + thousands of aircrafts + world-compatible technology) when there are easier ways to try and avoid our RF interference (satellites, moon, probes, etc). TFA didn't impress me.