> When all you got is a hammer everything looks like a nail...
When all you got [sic] is a lame catchphrase, every situation looks like a good place to use it.
You can take your hammer line pretty far, why use a computer when paper would work? Why use a calculator when perfectly good abacusses are around? After all, when all you've got is a computer, everything looks like a computer program:)
It might be weird to use ruby as a spreadsheet, but why not?
Yeah, if he's using cperl-mode, he's using it wrong. It does a great job figuring out tricky things like $@foo[bar]->{baz}, etc., as well as the usual %hash, @array, $scalar (and $hash{foo}, $array[0], $#array, etc.)
> She was fired because she believed she could post whatever she wanted, wherever she wanted - and not pay the consequences.
Which is true, if you "Post Anonymously". Even better, I've found, is to write your blog in a different language. Then people know you're talking about them, but they don't know what you're saying.
Is your employeer really going to hire someone to translate your blog? I think not.
(Then again, you have to use a language that nobody knows, like ancient Greek or maybe Japanese. Lots of people think they know Japanese, but if you use a lot of difficult words they'll get bored looking everything up in the dictionary. "Know" and ability to read through a years worth of boring blog posts are two different things.)
Not that I'm speaking form personal experience -- just saying in general:)
You don't have to isolate the CPU to figure out the power consumption. Just plug the mobo into a watt-meter and see what it says. Sure, the chipset and RAM are included in the measurements, but so what. A CPU that uses 10W with a chipset that uses 70W is pretty useless as a laptop.
As for determining what sort of load to run under, how about do some research and see what people use the chips for? It's good for other aspects of the business too.
All in all, I don't buy the argument that Intel dosesn't know how to measure the power consumption. It's pretty easy; they designed the damn chips, they can measure how much power they use. However, maybe they won't sell as well if we know the facts? (My "power saving" core duo laptop lasts MAYBE 1.5 hours if I "spin down" the CPUs all the way. Something is using power...)
It's definitely worth the effort. My school (not exactly private; IMSA) kicked out a number of students for supposed thought crimes. Writing a song about a teacher they didn't like; posting "racist" comments on a private message board from home; etc. I wish someone had the balls to sue them -- I'm sure they would have lost big time.
Just beacuse you're under 18 doesn't mean you deserve to be considered too dumb / young to have a voice. "First they came for those under 18, then they came for "the terrorists", now they're here for me and nobody is left to speak out." Don't put up with them.
OTOH, if the OP did something stupid, then they might have a case. Not telling us the details just hurts you in the end.
> Passing people up because of eccentricity, quirks, or political views will harm employers in the end.
True, but passing up people that post pictures of themselves violating several local laws whilst naked is not necessarily a bad idea. Have you seen some people's facebook pages? "Hi there, I'm completely wasted and people are drawing on me with a permanent marker. Hire me?"
Actually, it makes things worse than random. Imagine that all terrorists wear black hats. The airport security folks respond by searching everyone with a black hat. When the terrorists hear about this, they wear white hats instead. Now the only people being serached are non-terrorists.
If things were random, it wouldn't matter what hat you used; eventually you'd be searched.
Also, Japanese companies don't want to be bought by Americans. I think they would put up a fight; I don't see the leaders "selling out to the West" like the Chinese do. I also don't see what Nintendo would gain from selling out to Apple... Nintendo is doing just fine right now.
> Note that having the user's key isn't enough, either. You also need their password.
And what's nice is that the smart card melts itself if you type the password wrong 3 times. So unless you can brute-force the password in 3 tries, you're not getting the key. (Actually, the smart card never gives you the key. It handles all the crypto operations itself.)
> Howard Stern ran into problems from the FCC (Federal Communications Commission), this article describes the actions of the FTC (Federal Trade Commission).
I think Eric Idle sums it up best: "Fuck you very much, the FCC, for proving that free speech just isn't free." (He was fined for saying "fuck" on the radio, but it's the same idea.)
Also, how exactly can the federal government make a law that makes it illegal to say "fuck" or to not have your video game rated? The Constitution reads, "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech". When you charge a fine for speech, that abridges the freedom, methinks.
So it should be legal for me to use a night-vision scope to look into my neighbor's bedroom window at night? After all, her naked body is reflecting electromagnetic radiation into my personal space. Amplifying it into a visible image, digitizing it, and making it available on the Internet seems like a perfectly logical step, doesn't it?
Actually, sounds pretty logical to me. If your neighbor is concerned, she should get some high-tech radio jamming technology called "insulation". Saves on heating, too.
> There's plenty of WYSIWYG tools for Latex. Let Google be your guide.
GNU TeXmacs is one that I've recently discovered, and it's quite nice. It's especially good if you want to incorporate sessions with programs like gnuplot, octave, or guile into your documents. (For example, if you type "plot x**2" while in gnuplot mode, the graph produced becomes part of your document, just like in Mathematica.)
It's also good for your other daily typesetting needs.
>> You don't hate the children, do you? >> You don't support the bad people, do you?
> Yes I do, and No I don't. I simply choose to define "The Bad People" differently that the government wants me to.
If it's becase of "the children" that we're losing all of our rights; then yes, I do hate the fucking children. (By "children", I take it that they mean the whiney leaders of the MPAA, RIAA, NSA, etc., right?)
> Adobe's open licensing policy specifically states it must maintain the integrity of PDF.
How do we have GPL'd PDF reader/writers, then? According to the GPL, I have every right to do whatver I want to the program, and that no other document or terms can limit those rights. If making corrupt / embraced-and-extended PDFs is not allowed, then Free PDF software cannot exist.
Am I missing something here? (I don't want Microsoft to make PDF proprietary, but I think they have every legal right to do so.)
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> This is another example of a rich guy with nothing better to do than expirement.
I detect negative connotations there, but why? What's wrong with taking a job that's fun over one that's safe but boring?
> When all you got is a hammer everything looks like a nail...
:)
When all you got [sic] is a lame catchphrase, every situation looks like a good place to use it.
You can take your hammer line pretty far, why use a computer when paper would work? Why use a calculator when perfectly good abacusses are around? After all, when all you've got is a computer, everything looks like a computer program
It might be weird to use ruby as a spreadsheet, but why not?
Yeah, if he's using cperl-mode, he's using it wrong. It does a great job figuring out tricky things like $@foo[bar]->{baz}, etc., as well as the usual %hash, @array, $scalar (and $hash{foo}, $array[0], $#array, etc.)
> not comparable either
;)
How is it that you compared them in your previous sentence, then?
> She was fired because she believed she could post whatever she wanted, wherever she wanted - and not pay the consequences.
:)
Which is true, if you "Post Anonymously". Even better, I've found, is to write your blog in a different language. Then people know you're talking about them, but they don't know what you're saying.
Is your employeer really going to hire someone to translate your blog? I think not.
(Then again, you have to use a language that nobody knows, like ancient Greek or maybe Japanese. Lots of people think they know Japanese, but if you use a lot of difficult words they'll get bored looking everything up in the dictionary. "Know" and ability to read through a years worth of boring blog posts are two different things.)
Not that I'm speaking form personal experience -- just saying in general
You don't have to isolate the CPU to figure out the power consumption. Just plug the mobo into a watt-meter and see what it says. Sure, the chipset and RAM are included in the measurements, but so what. A CPU that uses 10W with a chipset that uses 70W is pretty useless as a laptop.
As for determining what sort of load to run under, how about do some research and see what people use the chips for? It's good for other aspects of the business too.
All in all, I don't buy the argument that Intel dosesn't know how to measure the power consumption. It's pretty easy; they designed the damn chips, they can measure how much power they use. However, maybe they won't sell as well if we know the facts? (My "power saving" core duo laptop lasts MAYBE 1.5 hours if I "spin down" the CPUs all the way. Something is using power...)
> it's probably not worth the effort
It's definitely worth the effort. My school (not exactly private; IMSA) kicked out a number of students for supposed thought crimes. Writing a song about a teacher they didn't like; posting "racist" comments on a private message board from home; etc. I wish someone had the balls to sue them -- I'm sure they would have lost big time.
Just beacuse you're under 18 doesn't mean you deserve to be considered too dumb / young to have a voice. "First they came for those under 18, then they came for "the terrorists", now they're here for me and nobody is left to speak out." Don't put up with them.
OTOH, if the OP did something stupid, then they might have a case. Not telling us the details just hurts you in the end.
> Passing people up because of eccentricity, quirks, or political views will harm employers in the end.
True, but passing up people that post pictures of themselves violating several local laws whilst naked is not necessarily a bad idea. Have you seen some people's facebook pages? "Hi there, I'm completely wasted and people are drawing on me with a permanent marker. Hire me?"
> making your search no better than random
Actually, it makes things worse than random. Imagine that all terrorists wear black hats. The airport security folks respond by searching everyone with a black hat. When the terrorists hear about this, they wear white hats instead. Now the only people being serached are non-terrorists.
If things were random, it wouldn't matter what hat you used; eventually you'd be searched.
Firefox is GPL'd, but it's also licensed under BSD and MPL.
> They just concentrate on what they're good at.
Also, Japanese companies don't want to be bought by Americans. I think they would put up a fight; I don't see the leaders "selling out to the West" like the Chinese do. I also don't see what Nintendo would gain from selling out to Apple... Nintendo is doing just fine right now.
> BookmarkRank to augment PageRank?
Ever hear of "del.icio.us"?
I used a passhprase. PIN is a misnomer here (as with smartcards, you can use a full ASCII "PIN").
The real question is, is this a GPL violation? According to RMS, any plugin that uses the internals of a GPL'd application has to be GPL'd.
Then again, Firefox is tri-licensed or something, so the GPL probably doesn't apply in this instance.
In order for it to be a joke, it has to be funny....
Yes, and the encryption is done client-side, not server-side. Unfortunately without the source code, we can't really be sure that the crypto works.
> but frankly I could care less.
Wouldn't that be "but frankly I couldn't care less"? Or do you subscribe to the belief that "if everyone does something wrong, it's right"?
> Note that having the user's key isn't enough, either. You also need their password.
And what's nice is that the smart card melts itself if you type the password wrong 3 times. So unless you can brute-force the password in 3 tries, you're not getting the key. (Actually, the smart card never gives you the key. It handles all the crypto operations itself.)
> Howard Stern ran into problems from the FCC (Federal Communications Commission), this article describes the actions of the FTC (Federal Trade Commission).
Still an oppressive regime either way.
> Every shipped disk would be a violation.
... abridging the freedom of speech". When you charge a fine for speech, that abridges the freedom, methinks.
I think Eric Idle sums it up best: "Fuck you very much, the FCC, for proving that free speech just isn't free." (He was fined for saying "fuck" on the radio, but it's the same idea.)
Also, how exactly can the federal government make a law that makes it illegal to say "fuck" or to not have your video game rated? The Constitution reads, "Congress shall make no law
Actually, sounds pretty logical to me. If your neighbor is concerned, she should get some high-tech radio jamming technology called "insulation". Saves on heating, too.
This is wrong, the GNU Radio software has no trouble transmitting. I believe that an 802.11b card is being worked on, for example.
> There's plenty of WYSIWYG tools for Latex. Let Google be your guide.
GNU TeXmacs is one that I've recently discovered, and it's quite nice. It's especially good if you want to incorporate sessions with programs like gnuplot, octave, or guile into your documents. (For example, if you type "plot x**2" while in gnuplot mode, the graph produced becomes part of your document, just like in Mathematica.)
It's also good for your other daily typesetting needs.
>> You don't hate the children, do you?
>> You don't support the bad people, do you?
> Yes I do, and No I don't. I simply choose to define "The Bad People" differently that the government wants me to.
If it's becase of "the children" that we're losing all of our rights; then yes, I do hate the fucking children. (By "children", I take it that they mean the whiney leaders of the MPAA, RIAA, NSA, etc., right?)
> Adobe's open licensing policy specifically states it must maintain the integrity of PDF.
How do we have GPL'd PDF reader/writers, then? According to the GPL, I have every right to do whatver I want to the program, and that no other document or terms can limit those rights. If making corrupt / embraced-and-extended PDFs is not allowed, then Free PDF software cannot exist.
Am I missing something here? (I don't want Microsoft to make PDF proprietary, but I think they have every legal right to do so.)