I think those quotes are from/usr/games/fortune - some things generated by the verion of that program that gets included in most Linux distros are things like that which make no sense. Other quotes from that program are priceless.
"If anybody acts up, I just start chanting, 'Four more years!'" said Zabawa, a Drexel University student.
Sounds just like the thoughtless way the sheep chanted "Four legs good, two legs bad!" in Animal Farm by George Orwell. This irony is obviously lost on this student.
The words "core experience" tells you everything you need to know what's wrong with Microsoft operating systems for the last few years. I don't want an "experience" when I'm using an OS. If I'm having an experience, it means the operating system is getting in my way by trying to provide this "experience". I want the OS to melt into the background.
I went to the US to live for several years. I enjoyed it very much, and wouldn't change it for the world.
However, I'm extremely glad that I'm back home now. When I hit my late 20s, I realised that there were things that were a lot more valuable to me than the money I could earn in the US or the stuff I could buy cheaply in the US.
The US isn't awful at all, I go back and visit my friends in Houston at least once a year. But I'm so glad I moved back home. Perhaps some time in the future I'll get the urge to live abroad again, but next time I will choose a different country. Not out of dislike of the US (which I will continue to visit) but just because I've been there, and I'd want to go somewhere new.
In a free market, you wouldn't have H1-B visas - there would be no requirements for a visa at all. You could work in whatever country you pleased. Visa and immigration restrictions distort the free market (actually, prevent it from existing at all).
Probably less than roads - railway tracks need far less materials than a high speed road - a high speed line can be made up of one track each way. A high speed road tends to be six lanes wide plus a shoulder. These trains are also effectively nuclear trains - 80% of France's electricity is from nuclear power, so very little noxious gas per passenger mile. (Or kilometer, given that it's France).
It's a hell of a lot more efficient than a plane. Firstly, this is a nuclear powered train (something like 80% of France's electricity is from nuclear), so very little emissions. Secondly, the typical TGV can shift an awful lot of people, many more than even the A380.
As far as security on trains, well, there's the Transport Police. There is no checkin, or metal detectors, or having to take your belt and shoes off and take your laptop out, no X-rays. You just buy a ticket and get on.
You do get high speed trains which are EMUs (electric multiple units), with no separate locomotive. The Virgin Trains Pendolino is an example of this kind of train in Britain.
However, once you exceed a certain speed, you have problems with multiple pantographs (the pick up from the overhead wire). Waves travelling down the wire from the lead pantograph tends to cause rear ones to retract. So on a long, high speed train such as this, you can only have one pantograph. It's easier (and probably more efficient) to have a single locomotive with all the electrical control gear and the traction motors than a high power busbar running the length of the train.
These trains are intercity trains, not city to bumfuck Egypt trains, unfortunately. Travelling by any public transportation method (whether it's the bus, train or plane) is not very practical if you want to live out in BFE, and never will be due to the lack of population density.
A train like this, in US terms, would be used to travel from San Fransisco to Los Angeles, not San Fransisco to Toolieville.
amd64 is much more than an PC relative addressing. It's also much more orthoganol (you don't have to use the accumulator for everything, like with x86), and you get more registers - real general purpose registers.
Assuming he's not already in custody, I'm surprised he hasn't gone on the run. A 45 year sentence from what he is surely expecting to be a kangaroo court means at this point he essentially has nothing to lose, as he's likely to die in federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
Solar panels aren't yet anywhere near a solution. Even if you covered the roof of an average home with solar panels, it wouldn't make enough power to charge your car; this is before looking at how expensive solar panels are.
Until a radically different solar panel technology is available on the mass market, solar has very limited use (mainly low power off-the-grid installations where getting the wires out from the grid to the location is more expensive than installing enough solar panels).
No, I don't think people generally love the WTO - however, they can see the irony when the very same institution which was used by the US to force others to do what the US wants is then ignored by the US, when the US is doing something contrary to the rules of the same organization it was using to browbeat others.
I don't think it's some sort of conspiracy. I've noticed most of Google's imagery is several years out of date - ground features I know have been demolished 5 years ago are still visible in Google's imagery. Windows Live maps is even more out of date - I was looking at the airport I learned to fly at - it was closed and demolished in 2002. MSN's imagery is approximately 7 years old of that area (I can tell because I can recognise the planes on the ground from that time).
Anyone who relies on Google Maps or MSN for up to date imagery is on crack. We still have 5 to 7 years to wait before we see the post-Katrina imagery based on Google's track record so far.
If there is more than one interface descriptor, that's the best time to accept the device. C'mon! And never, ever throw out the return code BISEXUAL_WOMAN, or worse still, an array of them!
I'm not entirely sure that I can take an article seriously that asserts the IBM PC was the "first home computer that took off". Firstly, it too expensive to even be considered a home computer. I think the first home computer that took off in the US was probably the Commodore 64. In Britain and most of Europe, the first home computer that took off was probably the Sinclair Spectrum. The PC didn't take off until much, much later as a home computer - really, not until the early 1990s (by which time, we were already on the second generation of home computers to take off, the Amiga and ST, and to a lesser extent, updated versions of the Spectrum and BBC Micro)
You know what... perhaps we should get a DMCA takedown spamming campaign against YouTube - send out lots of legitimate looking DMCA takedown notices for video that's obviously someone's home movie, and do it over a period of months so the rate's high enough to notice, but not so high that they can obviously spot the erroneous notices without actually viewing the video being complained about. The resulting embarrassment to YouTube when they take down thousands of obviously legitimate videos might make them actually examine the validity of the takedown notices.
If you think you're not vulnerable because you won't be downloading an animated cursor, or you're not vulnerable because you have AV software, read this:
Microsoft won't drop DRM, because DRM is the next (current?) war. Whoever wins the DRM war gets to be the sole distributor of online content. If Microsoft wins, it's another monopoly they gain (which they can leverage to preserve other monopolies, like Windows). Microsoft _likes_ DRM because it has the potential to make them the gatekeeper.
That's because they will either be using some sort of 'shop vac' style machine, or a Kirby. Kirby vacuum cleaners aren't made out of plastic - they are hewn from metal (and even have 'self drive' like lawnmowers have). They are also extremely powerful. A Kirby is hugely expensive, but if you're using the thing 8 hours a day, it will pay to have one as it'll last many years.
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I think those quotes are from /usr/games/fortune - some things generated by the verion of that program that gets included in most Linux distros are things like that which make no sense. Other quotes from that program are priceless.
The foundations of a six lane highway are also pretty deep too, if you've ever watched one being built.
Sounds just like the thoughtless way the sheep chanted "Four legs good, two legs bad!" in Animal Farm by George Orwell. This irony is obviously lost on this student.
The words "core experience" tells you everything you need to know what's wrong with Microsoft operating systems for the last few years. I don't want an "experience" when I'm using an OS. If I'm having an experience, it means the operating system is getting in my way by trying to provide this "experience". I want the OS to melt into the background.
If the City of Chicago can let dead people vote, I don't see why it's so odd that dead people can stand trial in Britain!
I went to the US to live for several years. I enjoyed it very much, and wouldn't change it for the world.
However, I'm extremely glad that I'm back home now. When I hit my late 20s, I realised that there were things that were a lot more valuable to me than the money I could earn in the US or the stuff I could buy cheaply in the US.
The US isn't awful at all, I go back and visit my friends in Houston at least once a year. But I'm so glad I moved back home. Perhaps some time in the future I'll get the urge to live abroad again, but next time I will choose a different country. Not out of dislike of the US (which I will continue to visit) but just because I've been there, and I'd want to go somewhere new.
In a free market, you wouldn't have H1-B visas - there would be no requirements for a visa at all. You could work in whatever country you pleased. Visa and immigration restrictions distort the free market (actually, prevent it from existing at all).
Probably less than roads - railway tracks need far less materials than a high speed road - a high speed line can be made up of one track each way. A high speed road tends to be six lanes wide plus a shoulder. These trains are also effectively nuclear trains - 80% of France's electricity is from nuclear power, so very little noxious gas per passenger mile. (Or kilometer, given that it's France).
It's a hell of a lot more efficient than a plane. Firstly, this is a nuclear powered train (something like 80% of France's electricity is from nuclear), so very little emissions. Secondly, the typical TGV can shift an awful lot of people, many more than even the A380.
As far as security on trains, well, there's the Transport Police. There is no checkin, or metal detectors, or having to take your belt and shoes off and take your laptop out, no X-rays. You just buy a ticket and get on.
Different tools for different jobs.
You do get high speed trains which are EMUs (electric multiple units), with no separate locomotive. The Virgin Trains Pendolino is an example of this kind of train in Britain.
However, once you exceed a certain speed, you have problems with multiple pantographs (the pick up from the overhead wire). Waves travelling down the wire from the lead pantograph tends to cause rear ones to retract. So on a long, high speed train such as this, you can only have one pantograph. It's easier (and probably more efficient) to have a single locomotive with all the electrical control gear and the traction motors than a high power busbar running the length of the train.
These trains are intercity trains, not city to bumfuck Egypt trains, unfortunately. Travelling by any public transportation method (whether it's the bus, train or plane) is not very practical if you want to live out in BFE, and never will be due to the lack of population density.
A train like this, in US terms, would be used to travel from San Fransisco to Los Angeles, not San Fransisco to Toolieville.
amd64 is much more than an PC relative addressing. It's also much more orthoganol (you don't have to use the accumulator for everything, like with x86), and you get more registers - real general purpose registers.
Assuming he's not already in custody, I'm surprised he hasn't gone on the run. A 45 year sentence from what he is surely expecting to be a kangaroo court means at this point he essentially has nothing to lose, as he's likely to die in federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
Solar panels aren't yet anywhere near a solution. Even if you covered the roof of an average home with solar panels, it wouldn't make enough power to charge your car; this is before looking at how expensive solar panels are.
Until a radically different solar panel technology is available on the mass market, solar has very limited use (mainly low power off-the-grid installations where getting the wires out from the grid to the location is more expensive than installing enough solar panels).
That's funny - I've found Cygwin's X server to be completely stable. Don't think I've had it crash on me ever.
No, I don't think people generally love the WTO - however, they can see the irony when the very same institution which was used by the US to force others to do what the US wants is then ignored by the US, when the US is doing something contrary to the rules of the same organization it was using to browbeat others.
I don't think it's some sort of conspiracy. I've noticed most of Google's imagery is several years out of date - ground features I know have been demolished 5 years ago are still visible in Google's imagery. Windows Live maps is even more out of date - I was looking at the airport I learned to fly at - it was closed and demolished in 2002. MSN's imagery is approximately 7 years old of that area (I can tell because I can recognise the planes on the ground from that time).
Anyone who relies on Google Maps or MSN for up to date imagery is on crack. We still have 5 to 7 years to wait before we see the post-Katrina imagery based on Google's track record so far.
If there is more than one interface descriptor, that's the best time to accept the device. C'mon! And never, ever throw out the return code BISEXUAL_WOMAN, or worse still, an array of them!
I'm not entirely sure that I can take an article seriously that asserts the IBM PC was the "first home computer that took off". Firstly, it too expensive to even be considered a home computer. I think the first home computer that took off in the US was probably the Commodore 64. In Britain and most of Europe, the first home computer that took off was probably the Sinclair Spectrum. The PC didn't take off until much, much later as a home computer - really, not until the early 1990s (by which time, we were already on the second generation of home computers to take off, the Amiga and ST, and to a lesser extent, updated versions of the Spectrum and BBC Micro)
Not if you're a foreign corporation, it seems - and it wouldn't be hard to set one up (especially as I'm not in the US to start with).
You know what... perhaps we should get a DMCA takedown spamming campaign against YouTube - send out lots of legitimate looking DMCA takedown notices for video that's obviously someone's home movie, and do it over a period of months so the rate's high enough to notice, but not so high that they can obviously spot the erroneous notices without actually viewing the video being complained about. The resulting embarrassment to YouTube when they take down thousands of obviously legitimate videos might make them actually examine the validity of the takedown notices.
If you think you're not vulnerable because you won't be downloading an animated cursor, or you're not vulnerable because you have AV software, read this:
...which has a similar infection vector (by merely visiting a web page you get infected), and went undetected for 54 days.
http://www.secureworks.com/research/threats/gozi/
This latest silent exploit, which can be used by merely visiting a web page, will be used for other similar attacks.
Microsoft won't drop DRM, because DRM is the next (current?) war. Whoever wins the DRM war gets to be the sole distributor of online content. If Microsoft wins, it's another monopoly they gain (which they can leverage to preserve other monopolies, like Windows). Microsoft _likes_ DRM because it has the potential to make them the gatekeeper.
Not to mention that Henry looks like the robot out of that journey to the black hole movie :-)
That's because they will either be using some sort of 'shop vac' style machine, or a Kirby. Kirby vacuum cleaners aren't made out of plastic - they are hewn from metal (and even have 'self drive' like lawnmowers have). They are also extremely powerful. A Kirby is hugely expensive, but if you're using the thing 8 hours a day, it will pay to have one as it'll last many years.