That will work great until the extensive Somali pirate hacker network finds out about it and... Ok, I guess it will work great (except for the Russian hackers, and the Chinese hackers, and...).
(replace 'hacker' with 'cracker' if you want to be strict on the terminology)
Not by a thread, the direction of the company should be decided by a Slashdot Poll. You think people complain about lack of options now, just wait. Also, I'm looking forward to the ads for the next release of Oracle (12?) codenamed 'CowboyNeal' (new feature- new tables automatically get filled with a line that says 'Frist data!!11!!!').
Actually TFA contradicts itself. In the summary at the top of TFA (not the Slashdot summary, which may contain some elements from TFA) it says the Marines gave it to him, but below it says the photo was given to them by the US Army's 4th Infantry Division. I'd expect this level of inaccuracy from the BBC, but this is somewhat surprising from the Telegraph. Your statement about reliability is still correct overall.
Let the spammers send their money to ICANN, what do I care which thief has the money? I can then add *.pilz to my spam list (or more likely subscribe to something like Ad-Aware for e-mail lists, which if not around already then would be 5 seconds after this happened). There's already ridiculous amounts of spam- if this makes it easier to filter some of it out then it's not all bad. I'd be more worried about the malware which will undoubtedly also be on those sites.
If a bug is detected, a window will pop up titled "Microsoft Antiflaw2009" with instructions on how to pay, and then download the fix. If you close that window without paying, a few dozen more will take its place just to make sure you're aware of this opportunity.
If Facebook were to remove all the bloat and extraneous content they would be showing mostly blank pages. Yes, the web would be a much nicer place to be...
Except that every time it powered up to take a reading, it would alter the measured property (ok, just a little). I suppose if the problem was high blood sugar, the problem would solve itself eventually...
The article misses another way to save power. Modern processors are capable of reducing their frequency when under low load, but XP will not do this by default. But if you tell your XP desktop that it is a Portable/Laptop in Power Options Properties, it will lower the cpu frequency when it can. This also allows the cpu fan to slow down, reducing noise (the fan on my Athlon X2 cpu heatsink actually stops when it goes from 2.8 to 1.0 Ghz). When you need more cpu power, it ramps back up seamlessly. You can see this happening in the performance monitor on XP (run perfmon.exe, add counters for processor frequency). The only time I've ever had a problem was running flash in Firefox on Linux. Usually, I only notice the change in cpu frequency when my cpu fan gets louder or softer.
Vista seems to enable this in desktops by default, but I think you need to add a package to Fedora to enable this.
That's annoying, but try working your way through one of those systems with kids running through the room halfway through the call (or, having your parents yell down to the basement, depending on your situation). Accent doesn't matter, the system will think you just agreed to buy something.
Maybe they'll show some 'Pred8r' movies, or make some bad movies about giant alligators/snakes/voles/whatevers attacking extremely dumb people (but still smarter than anyone who could sit through one of those movies).
With SciFi airing wrestling....yes...wrestling...normal, steriod-loaded human male wrestling..no robots..
Well, they have the fiction part down at least. I agree that they should also have robots wrestling. At least the acting skill level would be consistent.
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You mean... it's not terrorists? I'm confused...
That will work great until the extensive Somali pirate hacker network finds out about it and... Ok, I guess it will work great (except for the Russian hackers, and the Chinese hackers, and...).
(replace 'hacker' with 'cracker' if you want to be strict on the terminology)
Not by a thread, the direction of the company should be decided by a Slashdot Poll. You think people complain about lack of options now, just wait. Also, I'm looking forward to the ads for the next release of Oracle (12?) codenamed 'CowboyNeal' (new feature- new tables automatically get filled with a line that says 'Frist data!!11!!!').
Actually TFA contradicts itself. In the summary at the top of TFA (not the Slashdot summary, which may contain some elements from TFA) it says the Marines gave it to him, but below it says the photo was given to them by the US Army's 4th Infantry Division. I'd expect this level of inaccuracy from the BBC, but this is somewhat surprising from the Telegraph. Your statement about reliability is still correct overall.
Let the spammers send their money to ICANN, what do I care which thief has the money? I can then add *.pilz to my spam list (or more likely subscribe to something like Ad-Aware for e-mail lists, which if not around already then would be 5 seconds after this happened). There's already ridiculous amounts of spam- if this makes it easier to filter some of it out then it's not all bad. I'd be more worried about the malware which will undoubtedly also be on those sites.
If a bug is detected, a window will pop up titled "Microsoft Antiflaw2009" with instructions on how to pay, and then download the fix. If you close that window without paying, a few dozen more will take its place just to make sure you're aware of this opportunity.
Without being too picky (just helpful, hopefully):
my Lightwave 8.5 Licence (+ books 'n stuff)
That should be "books 'n' stuff" (see here for explanation). Also, license not licence.
that little Project is closing in on us
The word project is not a proper noun as used, it should be "project".
Blender is a scaring thing
Should be "scary".
My english is better than most other people's german,...
English and German should both be capitalized. Your English is also better than many other people's English.
Tomorrows CNN: "According to Twits from the Moldovian front...."
When did CNN start using reporters from Fox?
And tomorrow on Fox:
"According to Imbeciles from the Moldovian front..."
If Facebook were to remove all the bloat and extraneous content they would be showing mostly blank pages. Yes, the web would be a much nicer place to be...
I'm posting to complain about your unfair moderation, unless you can explain yourself.
There. I expect this to be modded +15, Funny.
Except that every time it powered up to take a reading, it would alter the measured property (ok, just a little). I suppose if the problem was high blood sugar, the problem would solve itself eventually...
No, the name 'ms removal tool' was already taken. It can be found on many linux install discs.
Are you saying she needs to have her rack 'blown up' a bit?
This could be the most popular Mythbusters episode ever...
and you get rickrolled. Is that better?
The article misses another way to save power. Modern processors are capable of reducing their frequency when under low load, but XP will not do this by default. But if you tell your XP desktop that it is a Portable/Laptop in Power Options Properties, it will lower the cpu frequency when it can. This also allows the cpu fan to slow down, reducing noise (the fan on my Athlon X2 cpu heatsink actually stops when it goes from 2.8 to 1.0 Ghz). When you need more cpu power, it ramps back up seamlessly. You can see this happening in the performance monitor on XP (run perfmon.exe, add counters for processor frequency). The only time I've ever had a problem was running flash in Firefox on Linux. Usually, I only notice the change in cpu frequency when my cpu fan gets louder or softer.
Vista seems to enable this in desktops by default, but I think you need to add a package to Fedora to enable this.
Energy savings were confirmed with a kill-a-watt.
More info here.
(about a tenth of the complexity of the human brain)
Bastards stole my thunder.
They'll probably also steal all the chances for a "first post"...
It and the MacPro are both chained to a metal pole
I think he's already storing it in a strip club.
As a bonus, occasionally he finds a dollar bill in the MacPro.
Great, now I now what the subjects of the next 100 Slashdot polls are going to be...
Why I expect the next time I walk into Wholefoods, they'll have canisters with the gas output from the volcano.
Aisle 3. Chili. Having some now.
You can have an Earth Shattering Happy moment with your partner!
Had one. Now she insists on knowing when I've had chili.
No, it would be +10 deciTrolls.
...bacterium found a few years ago in the Chesapeake Bay...
All right! Go Bay-bee! Who needs the rainforest to find useful biology?
...break down the tough cell walls in dead plants and convert the remaining cellulose into sugars.
Oh. I guess we do still need the rainforest.
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There is only a machine blindly and incredibly stupidly processing a giant set of rules
Great, now I'm losing to a list.
I liked it better when I was losing to a machine.
That's annoying, but try working your way through one of those systems with kids running through the room halfway through the call (or, having your parents yell down to the basement, depending on your situation). Accent doesn't matter, the system will think you just agreed to buy something.
Don't you mean 'Capryca'?
Maybe they'll show some 'Pred8r' movies, or make some bad movies about giant alligators/snakes/voles/whatevers attacking extremely dumb people (but still smarter than anyone who could sit through one of those movies).
With SciFi airing wrestling....yes...wrestling...normal, steriod-loaded human male wrestling..no robots..
Well, they have the fiction part down at least. I agree that they should also have robots wrestling. At least the acting skill level would be consistent.