H2 is a piece of junk. If you want something that's good offroad, then do yourself a favour and buy a Jeep. Even the lowliest Wrangler will handle better offroad than an H2, and it'll cost a fraction of what you'd spend for the Hummer.
Or if you don't like Jeep, then Suzuki makes some nice and good offroad vehicles, as does Toyota, and if you want a status symbol, buy a Land Rover. Any of the above will be better offroad than an H2, and with the exception of the Land Rover, they'll all cost significantly less than the Hummer.
Build this cheap PC you allude to, then compare it to some real world tests using this new Asus beast.
That wasn't his point. The point was that for somebody who actually knows what the heck he's doing, it's overkill. By a wide margin. On a par with the Killer NIC. Yes, it will perfrom a little better. But for a real world application, it's really not worth the added cost.
Case in point, my laptop has a Core 2 Duo @ 1.66GHz, 2GB of RAM, and a 256MB GeForce 8600M GT. It's driving a 1680x1050 LCD. The lappy is getting a little long in the tooth... it'll be 2 years old in September. But it's still plenty powerful enough for every game I play. There's not a game on the market that won't run on the laptop, and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone when I say that the game mechanics and fun factor are what keeps me playing a game, not the poly count or photo realism.
You can play any game out there on a $100 video card. Why on earth would you spend $1000 on one, if not for bragging rights?
It would be better to give scientology itself a page about themselves that only they can edit, that is labeled as such.
That's what a real democraticized encyclopedia would do.
The "real democratized encyclopedia" people know that Scientology already has http://www.scientology.org/ and doesn't need their own page on Wikipedia.
Tor's exit IPs also all have a domain name ending with "tor.net". Simply implement a ban on "tor.net" and you're blocking all of Tor, even new IPs that they add to the network.
Tor doesn't hide the fact that it's an anonymizer, nor does it try to make it difficult to prevent its use on websites. It simply provides a service to its users. But Tor's ToS do say pretty clearly that the service is not to be used to abuse the services of others (not that it stops anybody), and to help prevent such abuses, they make it pretty easy to block.
depends on the cement, of course. but yes, some types do wear out the tires quickly. some types are very noisy. Some types are much quieter, too. The problem is that while they could make a perfectly smooth concrete surface that'd be silent to drive on and wouldn't really wear out your tires at all, such a surface would be very slippery when wet, and good luck getting any traction when it's covered in snow/ice.
The main reason you don't tend to see concrete roads is because the beancounters are deciding what kind of road to build. It costs significantly more, up front, to build a cement road, and the beancounters only look at this year's budget. Asphalt is cheaper. Yes, you'll have to repave the Asphalt in 10 years, whereas the concrete will last closer to 75-100 years, but they don't care. It's cheaper today, and it'll probably be somebody else's job to justify the expenditure in 10 years' time, and it'll almost certainly be somebody else's job by the time the equations start to balance out in favour of the long-term solution.
These are the same geniuses who think it's a good idea to alienate your customer base by moving services overseas in order to save $4/hour on your salary. They don't seem to think about the long-term implications of pissing off your customers... namely, that the customers will go somewhere else and your revenue will fall into the toilet.
Ontario Highway 115, which runs between Peterborough, Ontario, and Hwy 401 just outside Toronto, is a test road. They put it in decades ago, and tested several different road surfaces, including several different types of cement and light-coloured road surfaces.
The cement has, on the whole, stood up better than the asphalt. And believe me, it gets cold in Pete.
Interesting that you'd mention PADI, though.... the deepest they certify recreational divers is 40m. 130 feet. And they recommend that you never go over 100 feet. If you want to dive a wreck that's in 140 feet of water, it requires specialized training... Also, according to PADI's dive tables, the no-decomp limit in the dive table at 40m is 2 minutes. Not a lot of bottom time to explore a sunken warship.
I'll probably make my way down there to explore it at some point... but there's much more accessible shipwrecks that can be dived without special training... there's one in the St. Lawrence, for example, the SS Conestoga, that's so shallow that one of the smoke stacks is above water. It being in fresh water with a decent current, they tend to last longer, too. Despite being mostly wood, the Conestoga is still there after sinking almost 100 years ago. You just need to wear a thicker wetsuit (I had 7mm main suit, and a 7mm tunic two weeks ago, the water was under 50' F).
Another that I've dived, the Tugboat, in Curacao, was scuttled in about 5m of water... it's fully under water, but is a regular stop for skin divers. Only place I've seen octopi during the day.
And I'm with you there on listening to the tables. That's the advantage a shallow wreck has over a deep wreck... while you've only got 2 minutes at 40m depth, you've got 240 minutes at 10m. That's plenty of time to explore a wreck, and your likely to be limited not by the tables, but by your air tank. Even with the biggest tank I've ever seen (one of my instructors on my Adv. O/W had a 159 cu. ft. steel tank), you're not likely to have 4h of breathable air.
Normally I'd stay out of something like this. Obvious bias, etc. But out of curiosity, when was the last time you bought a Dell?
They don't come with the Microsoft standard-issue hologrammed disc for Windows... they come with a blue-label disc. Said blue-label disc, however, installs a clean, vanilla image of MS Windows Vista (the XP disc is green). The only difference between the blue disc and the original hologrammed disc, aside from the holograms, is that the blue disc contains the version that's tied to the hardware and doesn't ask for your CoA.
If you choose to install the crapware that comes pre-installed, they provide you discs to allow you to do that. If you choose not to, they've been kind enough to put all the drivers on another disc so you don't have to risk accidentally installing something you don't want. And yes, the blue discs can be used to repair an existing installation of Windows without wiping anything.
No, you can't take your disc and use it to install Windows on another computer. You haven't paid for the retail version that'd let you do that. But it's not a "restore" disc that'll wipe out the entire machine, unless you tell it to, and even then, it won't bring it back to factory default, it'll bring it to vanilla Windows.
Do animals benefit from "hybrid vigor" like plants when the most dissimilar individuals of the same species mix?
Dogs and cats do, yes. I don't have any frame of reference outside those species, but I imagine that they would, as well... from what I do know, though, mixed breed dogs/cats typically have stronger immune systems and are less prone to some of the other genetic problems that plague purebreeds.
As a case in point... my dog is a cross... we're not entirely sure what her parentage is, but she bears a striking resemblance to a Harrier Hound. She's not pure, though... she's got some traits from an American Foxhound, and frequently gets mistaken for a Beagle... she's got about the same markings, but is bigger and taller. You can't really tell, though, unless you know the breeds, or you see her standing next to a Beagle (at which point you notice that she's about twice the size of one). All we know for sure, though, is that she's a cross-breed.
The thing is, dogs in that family of breeds have a tendency to develop hip dysplasia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_dysplasia_(canine) ). In spite of that, my dog has no signs of developing it. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen her get sick.
Likewise, among house cats, there's a pronounced difference in the immune systems of cats who are cross-bred. It's hard to tell among cats, because most of them are cross-bred by now anyway, but pure-bred animals rarely live to the ripe old age of 20... by contrast, the only cat I ever had in my life who didn't live to that age was a tabby, who developped stomach cancer at 14. Even 14, though, is very old for some purebred cats.
So yes. With my limited experience, I'd say that animals do experience "hybrid vigor". And probably for the same reason that plants experience it... they're a new biochemistry, new immune system, and the viruses and harmful bacteria* aren't adapted to it.
* I say harmful bacteria, because as we all know, there's good bacteria, too. I read somewhere, but I can't remember where, that there's actually more bacteria cells than human cells in the average person....
Pro bono basically means the lawyer is free. This doesn't mean the lawyer doesn't get anything out of the deal though. If I were a young, smart, talented lawyer like him I would try and get some experience and boost my career with a hard high-profile case like this too. Even if it means I don't get a penny out of it right now, the reward will be large in the long run.
Pro Bono doesn't necessarily mean the lawyer is free. It might also mean that the lawyer will only get paid if he wins the case... often when it's like that, it means he'll take a cut of the settlement. I've seen lawyers take cases in exchange for something exorbitant, like 25% of the final settlement. Works out well, really... if they win a $10m settlement, they get paid $2.5m. Not bad for a couple of months' work.
Unfortunately for said cop, my father was a duly authorized U.S. Army officer going about official military business in a U.S. Army staff vehicle and was in possession of a valid U.S. Army Drivers license which permitted him to drive said vehicle on any any all U.S. territory, domestic and abroad.
I do have to laugh at this. Not because of your father, but because of the cop's stupidity. When I was in the military (Canadian Forces), they advised us to never carry our civilian license with us when we were in uniform. If we had to drive our personal vehicle to work, we left the license in the glove box. That way if you did get pulled over for a traffic offense or get into an accident (having a DND 404 license doesn't mean you're immune to traffic laws), there was zero chance of it affecting your civilian driving record or insurance rates.
I'm surprised the cop didn't know that the military issues drivers' licenses, though. I thought it was common knowledge that you needed a special license to drive military vehicles. Yes, a Milcot, or whatever the US Army equivalent is, is just a militarized Chevrolet Silverado, it's still a military vehicle, and requires a military drivers' license to operate.
Believe it or not, ethical lawyers do exist. I've got some lawyer friends who won't take a case to defend a guilty party. It's got nothing to do with wanting a 100% win track record, and everything to do with feeling that it's wrong to get a guilty party off on a technicality.
Heat. Because of the form factor, you can't put a massive heatsink on a graphics card, certainly not the kind that you see on high end desktop CPUs.
GPUs are also generally a completely different architecture than a CPU... they're usually massively parallel and optimized for working with enormous matrices, whereas a CPU is significantly more linear in its operation, and generally prefers single variables.
Sure... I can ask my brother what brand/model they bought... I think they bought a new one when my niece was born in March, rather than keeping the one for my nephew who's 3 now.:) I'll send him an e-mail.
They could be in the same part of the spectrum, but designed by sane people. If your router is newer, for example, it probably supports frequency scanning and self-configuration for channel. Routers which have that ability will scan the usable channels, and pick the one that has the least interference, and are able to change channels on the fly when somebody opens up and starts cluttering your channel.
Likewise, higher end baby monitors are able to broadcast/receive on at least a dozen channels, and I've seen ones that are capable of using 48 different channels and more. These will pick a frequency where there's less interference in order to work.
You could be being affected by engineers who actually knew what they were doing when they designed your hardware, in other words. I know. it's rare. But things will be ok.
You are an idiot, and the people who modded you up are bigger idiots. If you would take the time to read the fine summary you would see the words they have no concept of 'ownership transfer' and instead assume that if you're not in their system, you must be a thief.
And while I know there's a link on the Alienware site for the same, I don't have it in my bookmarks, because I don't need it to do my job. You could, however, e-mail support@alienware.com and ask them to give you the link if you felt like looking it up and couldn't find it with the search function on their website.
I *did* read the summary. and I *did* read the article. I'm just saying that the person who posted it is a twat who's talking out of his arse.
So in other words, using your examples, a jew, woman, homosexual, or disabled person has more rights than a white male. They can sue Alienware under current laws; the white guy can not.
No. That's not what I said at all. They could refuse to sell to a gay jewish disabled black woman, and as long as they have a legitimate reason besides her minority status to deny her service, then she can't sue them. Refusing to prove that she came by it legally is a perfectly adequate reason.
Minorities don't have greater rights, they have greater protections against discrimination.
Using your example, I don't think you could have won a lawsuit against the motel, even if you were black. You were living there for 6 months, and a motel is not a rent controlled housing. Come peak season, they can legitimately jack up your rate to match seasonal rates, and if you're not willing to pay what he could make for the room (say $100/night, so $3,000/month), then he can quite legally expel you from the room. It's got nothing to do with minority status or lack thereof. A lot of that depends on the judge who hears your case, but in Canada, your case would almost certainly be thrown out of court with prejudice.
After you accuse me of a *crime*, the burden of proof is on YOU. You don't get to ask me for receipts, names of the people I know, or anything else. The police are going to be asking YOU for YOUR evidence, and when it turns out you have none, my case against you for slander and defamation will be simple to make.
And there's a difference between accusing you of a crime and saying that I'm not going to help you with your computer until you've proven you own it legitimately. Dell/Alienware has zero obligation to provide any support whatsoever to you for a system that isn't covered by warranty. None. And the terms of their warranty say that it's transferrable, but you have to prove that you bought it legitimately rather than stole it. That's more than you get from most other vendors in the computer market.
Just because it's a big corporation doesn't mean that they are required to sell to you. The only circumstances under which refusing to service/sell to you are when it's a human rights issue... if they refuse to sell to women, that's illegal. if they refuse to sell to homosexuals, that's illegal. if they refuse to sell to jews, that's illegal. if they refuse to sell to anybody who's physically disabled, that's illegal. if they refuse to sell to somebody who doesn't want to prove that they came by it legally, then that's well within their rights as a corporation.
Nope. There isn't a law that specifically requires you to report a stolen vehicle in your service bay. But if it later turns out that you knowingly serviced a stolen vehicle and allowed it to remain unreported, you can be charged with being an accessory to grand theft, or if they're feeling particularly vicious, with abetting said crime.
But it's a moot point... the only repair shops that routinely check the VIN are dealers and people looking for recalls to perform. If somebody goes into a garage and says 'fix the brakes' the garage isn't going to check whether it's still in warranty so that it can invoice GM for the work, it's going to assume that if it was in warranty, you'd take it to the dealer in the first place. Most car thieves aren't stupid enough to take a car to a dealer to have it fixed.
Dell's policy is to not talk to people who aren't authorized on the account that owns the computer. Considering the number of laptops that get stolen, that's a good policy, IMO.
Now if the user bought the computer legally on e-Bay, he should have some kind of sales receipt, or at least know the name of the person he bought it from. If he knows the name of the person he bought it from he can go online to the Alienware website and fill out a transfer of ownership form. If he doesn't know the name, or he bought it from a retailer, he can fax in a copy of the sales receipt to customer care, and have them transfer the ownership for him.
But instead of doing a little legwork at his end to get the system actually transferred to his name, he chooses to go online and grouse about how a company is treating him like a thief.
I'll admit I don't know much about Dutch law, but what I do know is that it resembles Swedish law more than American law as both countries are very social democratic. I don't intend to flamebait but seriously, the world doesn't spin around the US. Read, learn, understand, then speak. I hate to make this about the US but you and your ignorant assumptions drive people into it. Stereotyping is bad, statistics are facts.
And I know it's difficult for you to comprehend, but it's possible, even likely, that I'm not an American, and that I haven't set foot in the USA in more than a decade. The closest I've been to the US in recent memory was a flyover while I was on my way to the Netherlands Antilles (CuraÃao) for a vacation in January.
If you had any idea what you were talking about you'd know that the question is not about breaking or not breaking copyright laws, the question is about assisting in breaking copyright laws
When have I said it's about breaking copyright laws?
If you actually read what I said, you'll notice that I said that it's appearances that matter. Mininova is trying to appear as though they are trying to help the copyright holders keep their rights, by removing copyrighted material when asked, and by trying to develop a filter. How effective that filter turns out to be is completely irrelevant. TPB responded to takedown requests by laughing at them and posting them publicly.
In other words, Mininova is trying to appear as though they are inhibiting the infringement, whereas TPB was trying to appear as though they were facilitating it. It's got nothing to do with whether or not the site itself is infringing on copyrights by linking torrents, and everything to do with how the site reacts to requests from copyright holders.
And appearances are all that matters. Mininova could implement a completely innefectual filter, but from having put it there in the first place, they can still claim that they're trying to help, and escape the kind of punishment that TPB has earned.
If you had any idea what you were talking about you'd know that the question is not about breaking or not breaking copyright laws, the question is about assisting in breaking copyright laws.
While I prefer not to flame, I feel I should point out that if you want any credibility, it helps to actually read what the person you're replying to is saying. This being Slashdot, however, I can forgive you for not doing so.
No, he's right. The behaviour of the sites in question has a huge impact on the outcome... Mininova is at least attempting to appear as though they're cooperating with copyright holders. TPB, by contrast, has a long history of replying to C&D letters by telling them things like "This is Sweden, you've got no jurisdiction, silly American coroporation, so fuck off" and then posting said takedown notice on their site so that everybody can read their ridicule.
There's a slight difference. And the copyright laws aren't really *that* different in Sweden when compared to the Netherlands.
You see, XP is plenty secure against malware, if you know what you're doing. If you don't, nothing will save you -- certainly not Vista.
Emphasis mine. Neither will Linux. But any added security is a good thing.
Furthermore, Linux and BSD have historically been both faster and more secure than Vista. What is it about Vista's security that requires it to be slower?
Historically, adding extra features to a system tends to slow it down. It's not so much that the security slows it down, it's that the system is doing an awful lot more. There's a lot of UI latency in Vista, which has been addressed in 7, but that doesn't change the fact that there's still more stuff happening in the background of your computer. Stuff that, generally speaking, doesn't have to be done in Linux because, as I said before, the average Linux user is smarter about computers than the average Windows user.
And also because unlike Windows, we've been running as non-root for decades. There's still tons of Windows software that requires Administrator, while you couldn't ship a Linux app that couldn't be run as a normal user.
You could, actually. Most package management tools require admin rights to be able to update the system, for example.
And also because it takes several conscious decisions to download and run a program. You can't just click an EXE, click "open", and done -- you'd have to save it somewhere, make it executable, then run it.
That depends on your system's settings, now doesn't it? In an Ubuntu system with WINE installed, for example, it automatically associates files that end in.exe with WINE and runs them. There are other examples where a program can be automatically run without you setting the permissions to executable.
And also because the process for installing new software, or getting upgrades, typically does not revolve around downloading a random executable file from the web. It all comes through a package manager, signed by trusted authorities.
Again. You know that. I know that. Does Joe User know that? As much as many of us wish it were so, you do not need to take an exam and get a license to own a computer.
And also because said package manager keeps the entire system up to date -- everything from drivers to IM clients -- and not just the OS and the web browser.
Depends on your settings, now, doesn't it? I don't like having a package manager running as a TSR or a system tray applet in order to keep the system up to date. I prefer, instead, to have to manually go in and update it. And again, all that hinges on people actually using the package manager, now, doesn't it? And them knowing that the package manager is the best way to keep their system up to date?
And also because, as the majority of the software is open source, we're not going to get a trojan attached to some little piece of freeware.
You say that as though everybody reads through the source code of what they're running to make sure it's not malicious before compiling and installing it. Being "open source" does not magically convey immunity to being malicious.
And also because the default browser tends to be Firefox or Konqueror, and not Internet Explorer.
And also because there's no Autorun. When I pop in a CD or a USB drive, I don't have to hold shift, or tweak a registry setting, to make sure it doesn't just automatically run whatever's there.
You do know that Autorun has been disabled in Windows 7? Yes, it's several versions too late for that family of virus
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H2 is a piece of junk. If you want something that's good offroad, then do yourself a favour and buy a Jeep. Even the lowliest Wrangler will handle better offroad than an H2, and it'll cost a fraction of what you'd spend for the Hummer.
Or if you don't like Jeep, then Suzuki makes some nice and good offroad vehicles, as does Toyota, and if you want a status symbol, buy a Land Rover. Any of the above will be better offroad than an H2, and with the exception of the Land Rover, they'll all cost significantly less than the Hummer.
That wasn't his point. The point was that for somebody who actually knows what the heck he's doing, it's overkill. By a wide margin. On a par with the Killer NIC. Yes, it will perfrom a little better. But for a real world application, it's really not worth the added cost.
Case in point, my laptop has a Core 2 Duo @ 1.66GHz, 2GB of RAM, and a 256MB GeForce 8600M GT. It's driving a 1680x1050 LCD. The lappy is getting a little long in the tooth... it'll be 2 years old in September. But it's still plenty powerful enough for every game I play. There's not a game on the market that won't run on the laptop, and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone when I say that the game mechanics and fun factor are what keeps me playing a game, not the poly count or photo realism.
You can play any game out there on a $100 video card. Why on earth would you spend $1000 on one, if not for bragging rights?
The "real democratized encyclopedia" people know that Scientology already has http://www.scientology.org/ and doesn't need their own page on Wikipedia.
Tor's exit IPs also all have a domain name ending with "tor.net". Simply implement a ban on "tor.net" and you're blocking all of Tor, even new IPs that they add to the network.
Tor doesn't hide the fact that it's an anonymizer, nor does it try to make it difficult to prevent its use on websites. It simply provides a service to its users. But Tor's ToS do say pretty clearly that the service is not to be used to abuse the services of others (not that it stops anybody), and to help prevent such abuses, they make it pretty easy to block.
depends on the cement, of course. but yes, some types do wear out the tires quickly. some types are very noisy. Some types are much quieter, too. The problem is that while they could make a perfectly smooth concrete surface that'd be silent to drive on and wouldn't really wear out your tires at all, such a surface would be very slippery when wet, and good luck getting any traction when it's covered in snow/ice.
The main reason you don't tend to see concrete roads is because the beancounters are deciding what kind of road to build. It costs significantly more, up front, to build a cement road, and the beancounters only look at this year's budget. Asphalt is cheaper. Yes, you'll have to repave the Asphalt in 10 years, whereas the concrete will last closer to 75-100 years, but they don't care. It's cheaper today, and it'll probably be somebody else's job to justify the expenditure in 10 years' time, and it'll almost certainly be somebody else's job by the time the equations start to balance out in favour of the long-term solution.
These are the same geniuses who think it's a good idea to alienate your customer base by moving services overseas in order to save $4/hour on your salary. They don't seem to think about the long-term implications of pissing off your customers... namely, that the customers will go somewhere else and your revenue will fall into the toilet.
Ontario Highway 115, which runs between Peterborough, Ontario, and Hwy 401 just outside Toronto, is a test road. They put it in decades ago, and tested several different road surfaces, including several different types of cement and light-coloured road surfaces.
The cement has, on the whole, stood up better than the asphalt. And believe me, it gets cold in Pete.
Interesting that you'd mention PADI, though.... the deepest they certify recreational divers is 40m. 130 feet. And they recommend that you never go over 100 feet. If you want to dive a wreck that's in 140 feet of water, it requires specialized training... Also, according to PADI's dive tables, the no-decomp limit in the dive table at 40m is 2 minutes. Not a lot of bottom time to explore a sunken warship.
I'll probably make my way down there to explore it at some point... but there's much more accessible shipwrecks that can be dived without special training... there's one in the St. Lawrence, for example, the SS Conestoga, that's so shallow that one of the smoke stacks is above water. It being in fresh water with a decent current, they tend to last longer, too. Despite being mostly wood, the Conestoga is still there after sinking almost 100 years ago. You just need to wear a thicker wetsuit (I had 7mm main suit, and a 7mm tunic two weeks ago, the water was under 50' F).
Another that I've dived, the Tugboat, in Curacao, was scuttled in about 5m of water... it's fully under water, but is a regular stop for skin divers. Only place I've seen octopi during the day.
And I'm with you there on listening to the tables. That's the advantage a shallow wreck has over a deep wreck... while you've only got 2 minutes at 40m depth, you've got 240 minutes at 10m. That's plenty of time to explore a wreck, and your likely to be limited not by the tables, but by your air tank. Even with the biggest tank I've ever seen (one of my instructors on my Adv. O/W had a 159 cu. ft. steel tank), you're not likely to have 4h of breathable air.
Normally I'd stay out of something like this. Obvious bias, etc. But out of curiosity, when was the last time you bought a Dell?
They don't come with the Microsoft standard-issue hologrammed disc for Windows... they come with a blue-label disc. Said blue-label disc, however, installs a clean, vanilla image of MS Windows Vista (the XP disc is green). The only difference between the blue disc and the original hologrammed disc, aside from the holograms, is that the blue disc contains the version that's tied to the hardware and doesn't ask for your CoA.
If you choose to install the crapware that comes pre-installed, they provide you discs to allow you to do that. If you choose not to, they've been kind enough to put all the drivers on another disc so you don't have to risk accidentally installing something you don't want. And yes, the blue discs can be used to repair an existing installation of Windows without wiping anything.
No, you can't take your disc and use it to install Windows on another computer. You haven't paid for the retail version that'd let you do that. But it's not a "restore" disc that'll wipe out the entire machine, unless you tell it to, and even then, it won't bring it back to factory default, it'll bring it to vanilla Windows.
Dogs and cats do, yes. I don't have any frame of reference outside those species, but I imagine that they would, as well... from what I do know, though, mixed breed dogs/cats typically have stronger immune systems and are less prone to some of the other genetic problems that plague purebreeds.
As a case in point... my dog is a cross... we're not entirely sure what her parentage is, but she bears a striking resemblance to a Harrier Hound. She's not pure, though... she's got some traits from an American Foxhound, and frequently gets mistaken for a Beagle... she's got about the same markings, but is bigger and taller. You can't really tell, though, unless you know the breeds, or you see her standing next to a Beagle (at which point you notice that she's about twice the size of one). All we know for sure, though, is that she's a cross-breed.
The thing is, dogs in that family of breeds have a tendency to develop hip dysplasia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_dysplasia_(canine) ). In spite of that, my dog has no signs of developing it. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen her get sick.
Likewise, among house cats, there's a pronounced difference in the immune systems of cats who are cross-bred. It's hard to tell among cats, because most of them are cross-bred by now anyway, but pure-bred animals rarely live to the ripe old age of 20... by contrast, the only cat I ever had in my life who didn't live to that age was a tabby, who developped stomach cancer at 14. Even 14, though, is very old for some purebred cats.
So yes. With my limited experience, I'd say that animals do experience "hybrid vigor". And probably for the same reason that plants experience it... they're a new biochemistry, new immune system, and the viruses and harmful bacteria* aren't adapted to it.
* I say harmful bacteria, because as we all know, there's good bacteria, too. I read somewhere, but I can't remember where, that there's actually more bacteria cells than human cells in the average person....
Pro Bono doesn't necessarily mean the lawyer is free. It might also mean that the lawyer will only get paid if he wins the case... often when it's like that, it means he'll take a cut of the settlement. I've seen lawyers take cases in exchange for something exorbitant, like 25% of the final settlement. Works out well, really... if they win a $10m settlement, they get paid $2.5m. Not bad for a couple of months' work.
I do have to laugh at this. Not because of your father, but because of the cop's stupidity. When I was in the military (Canadian Forces), they advised us to never carry our civilian license with us when we were in uniform. If we had to drive our personal vehicle to work, we left the license in the glove box. That way if you did get pulled over for a traffic offense or get into an accident (having a DND 404 license doesn't mean you're immune to traffic laws), there was zero chance of it affecting your civilian driving record or insurance rates.
I'm surprised the cop didn't know that the military issues drivers' licenses, though. I thought it was common knowledge that you needed a special license to drive military vehicles. Yes, a Milcot, or whatever the US Army equivalent is, is just a militarized Chevrolet Silverado, it's still a military vehicle, and requires a military drivers' license to operate.
MediaSentry is an unlicensed investigator. As such, any evidence they gained is inadmissable.
Believe it or not, ethical lawyers do exist. I've got some lawyer friends who won't take a case to defend a guilty party. It's got nothing to do with wanting a 100% win track record, and everything to do with feeling that it's wrong to get a guilty party off on a technicality.
Heat. Because of the form factor, you can't put a massive heatsink on a graphics card, certainly not the kind that you see on high end desktop CPUs.
GPUs are also generally a completely different architecture than a CPU... they're usually massively parallel and optimized for working with enormous matrices, whereas a CPU is significantly more linear in its operation, and generally prefers single variables.
Yes, you don't have to worry. Kirk still shoots first.
Sure... I can ask my brother what brand/model they bought... I think they bought a new one when my niece was born in March, rather than keeping the one for my nephew who's 3 now. :) I'll send him an e-mail.
They could be in the same part of the spectrum, but designed by sane people. If your router is newer, for example, it probably supports frequency scanning and self-configuration for channel. Routers which have that ability will scan the usable channels, and pick the one that has the least interference, and are able to change channels on the fly when somebody opens up and starts cluttering your channel.
Likewise, higher end baby monitors are able to broadcast/receive on at least a dozen channels, and I've seen ones that are capable of using 48 different channels and more. These will pick a frequency where there's less interference in order to work.
You could be being affected by engineers who actually knew what they were doing when they designed your hardware, in other words. I know. it's rare. But things will be ok.
Do your research.
https://support.dell.com/support/topics/topic.aspx/ca/shared/support/dellcare/en/tag_transfer?c=ca&cs=&l=en&s=gen
https://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/change_order/tag_transfer?~ck=ln&c=us&cs=&l=en&lnki=1&s=gen
And while I know there's a link on the Alienware site for the same, I don't have it in my bookmarks, because I don't need it to do my job. You could, however, e-mail support@alienware.com and ask them to give you the link if you felt like looking it up and couldn't find it with the search function on their website.
I *did* read the summary. and I *did* read the article. I'm just saying that the person who posted it is a twat who's talking out of his arse.
No. That's not what I said at all. They could refuse to sell to a gay jewish disabled black woman, and as long as they have a legitimate reason besides her minority status to deny her service, then she can't sue them. Refusing to prove that she came by it legally is a perfectly adequate reason.
Minorities don't have greater rights, they have greater protections against discrimination.
Using your example, I don't think you could have won a lawsuit against the motel, even if you were black. You were living there for 6 months, and a motel is not a rent controlled housing. Come peak season, they can legitimately jack up your rate to match seasonal rates, and if you're not willing to pay what he could make for the room (say $100/night, so $3,000/month), then he can quite legally expel you from the room. It's got nothing to do with minority status or lack thereof. A lot of that depends on the judge who hears your case, but in Canada, your case would almost certainly be thrown out of court with prejudice.
And there's a difference between accusing you of a crime and saying that I'm not going to help you with your computer until you've proven you own it legitimately. Dell/Alienware has zero obligation to provide any support whatsoever to you for a system that isn't covered by warranty. None. And the terms of their warranty say that it's transferrable, but you have to prove that you bought it legitimately rather than stole it. That's more than you get from most other vendors in the computer market.
Just because it's a big corporation doesn't mean that they are required to sell to you. The only circumstances under which refusing to service/sell to you are when it's a human rights issue... if they refuse to sell to women, that's illegal. if they refuse to sell to homosexuals, that's illegal. if they refuse to sell to jews, that's illegal. if they refuse to sell to anybody who's physically disabled, that's illegal. if they refuse to sell to somebody who doesn't want to prove that they came by it legally, then that's well within their rights as a corporation.
Nope. There isn't a law that specifically requires you to report a stolen vehicle in your service bay. But if it later turns out that you knowingly serviced a stolen vehicle and allowed it to remain unreported, you can be charged with being an accessory to grand theft, or if they're feeling particularly vicious, with abetting said crime.
But it's a moot point... the only repair shops that routinely check the VIN are dealers and people looking for recalls to perform. If somebody goes into a garage and says 'fix the brakes' the garage isn't going to check whether it's still in warranty so that it can invoice GM for the work, it's going to assume that if it was in warranty, you'd take it to the dealer in the first place. Most car thieves aren't stupid enough to take a car to a dealer to have it fixed.
Dell's policy is to not talk to people who aren't authorized on the account that owns the computer. Considering the number of laptops that get stolen, that's a good policy, IMO.
Now if the user bought the computer legally on e-Bay, he should have some kind of sales receipt, or at least know the name of the person he bought it from. If he knows the name of the person he bought it from he can go online to the Alienware website and fill out a transfer of ownership form. If he doesn't know the name, or he bought it from a retailer, he can fax in a copy of the sales receipt to customer care, and have them transfer the ownership for him.
But instead of doing a little legwork at his end to get the system actually transferred to his name, he chooses to go online and grouse about how a company is treating him like a thief.
And I know it's difficult for you to comprehend, but it's possible, even likely, that I'm not an American, and that I haven't set foot in the USA in more than a decade. The closest I've been to the US in recent memory was a flyover while I was on my way to the Netherlands Antilles (CuraÃao) for a vacation in January.
When have I said it's about breaking copyright laws?
If you actually read what I said, you'll notice that I said that it's appearances that matter. Mininova is trying to appear as though they are trying to help the copyright holders keep their rights, by removing copyrighted material when asked, and by trying to develop a filter. How effective that filter turns out to be is completely irrelevant. TPB responded to takedown requests by laughing at them and posting them publicly.
In other words, Mininova is trying to appear as though they are inhibiting the infringement, whereas TPB was trying to appear as though they were facilitating it. It's got nothing to do with whether or not the site itself is infringing on copyrights by linking torrents, and everything to do with how the site reacts to requests from copyright holders.
And appearances are all that matters. Mininova could implement a completely innefectual filter, but from having put it there in the first place, they can still claim that they're trying to help, and escape the kind of punishment that TPB has earned.
While I prefer not to flame, I feel I should point out that if you want any credibility, it helps to actually read what the person you're replying to is saying. This being Slashdot, however, I can forgive you for not doing so.
No, he's right. The behaviour of the sites in question has a huge impact on the outcome... Mininova is at least attempting to appear as though they're cooperating with copyright holders. TPB, by contrast, has a long history of replying to C&D letters by telling them things like "This is Sweden, you've got no jurisdiction, silly American coroporation, so fuck off" and then posting said takedown notice on their site so that everybody can read their ridicule.
There's a slight difference. And the copyright laws aren't really *that* different in Sweden when compared to the Netherlands.
Emphasis mine. Neither will Linux. But any added security is a good thing.
Historically, adding extra features to a system tends to slow it down. It's not so much that the security slows it down, it's that the system is doing an awful lot more. There's a lot of UI latency in Vista, which has been addressed in 7, but that doesn't change the fact that there's still more stuff happening in the background of your computer. Stuff that, generally speaking, doesn't have to be done in Linux because, as I said before, the average Linux user is smarter about computers than the average Windows user.
You could, actually. Most package management tools require admin rights to be able to update the system, for example.
That depends on your system's settings, now doesn't it? In an Ubuntu system with WINE installed, for example, it automatically associates files that end in .exe with WINE and runs them. There are other examples where a program can be automatically run without you setting the permissions to executable.
Again. You know that. I know that. Does Joe User know that? As much as many of us wish it were so, you do not need to take an exam and get a license to own a computer.
Depends on your settings, now, doesn't it? I don't like having a package manager running as a TSR or a system tray applet in order to keep the system up to date. I prefer, instead, to have to manually go in and update it. And again, all that hinges on people actually using the package manager, now, doesn't it? And them knowing that the package manager is the best way to keep their system up to date?
You say that as though everybody reads through the source code of what they're running to make sure it's not malicious before compiling and installing it. Being "open source" does not magically convey immunity to being malicious.
You say that like there's never been an exploit in those browsers.
You do know that Autorun has been disabled in Windows 7? Yes, it's several versions too late for that family of virus