IMHO, it would just create a bigger pile of characteristics to match against and wouldn't help catch criminals any faster. Most criminals are caught by good old-fashioned detective work. Technology just makes it easier to accumulate evidence against them once suspects are identified.
Or the high velocity rounds in plastic sabots. Or buckshot.
The gun grabbers don't get it that the reason that projectile matching works now is due to law enforcement being able to confiscate a weapon from a suspect soon after after a murder. After a few hundred rounds through the barrel, the projectile markings may change to look similar to those produced by another weapon. Removing the barrel and rendering it unusable eliminates it from being used as evidence.
This would be another fiasco like automated facial recognition systems.
Why on god's green earth would you ever need an AR-15?
Why do you _need_ a computer faster than 500MHz? Because you want one for whatever reason you pull out of your ass. A.223 rifle like an AR-15 can be a good varmit eliminator, but probably isn't as practical as a.22LR. It's not some sort of SuperRifle. Their primary purpose is the military is to wound opponents. That is unless you are a special forces soldier and/or sniper, then a larger caliber and heavier load is employed because the primary objective is to kill the target not wound them.
Why do you hate/distrust your own government so much?
Simple. History has shown us that given the ability and power, governments will abuse it. It has also shown that some of the first steps towards a totalitarian govt is to create a database of all firearm owners, outlaw private ownership of firearms, and then confiscate them. What you are suggesting creates the first step and overblown incidents like current recent events will result people pushing for the 2nd & 3rd parts. The reasons for having the 2nd amendment is as valid today as it was in the 1700s. (BTW, there are handguns made for hunting and target shooting and people do use them to hunt deer. Like using archery equipment, it requires more patience and skill to get the required result.)
Given the media hype, I can understand the anxiety. But come on. This is DC we're talking about. There are probably more people dead because of the standard inner city drive by shootings during the same period of time.
My mom grew up in the SouthWest, so I always ate spicy food as a kid. The Indians at college said the same sort of thing and were disappointed when I ate their food and didn't have any adverse reaction to it. Of course, the guy that was 100% Norwegian and never ate a spicy thing in his life gave them the desired response. They didn't want to touch the lutefisk his grandma sent him, though.
No, they had a lock on the mainstream PC market that was given to them by IBM. The concept of "it's like a Mac, but I can run my DOS stuff on it too" is what made people buy it. I knew many people that thought mice and GUIs were for pussies when they were only available on Macs or Amigas. However, when MS came out with Windows, they bought it because they could run their DOS stuff when they wanted to show they were manly man geeks.
To say that Microsoft didn't use the considerable amount of income the result of the DOS days to prop up crap software is ignoring history too. They just continued on the scheme with Windows. That's why they made sure Win 3.x would crap out on DR-DOS. It's too bad that something like DR-DOS or FreeDOS didn't become widely available in the mid to late 80s.
Difficult to give up? I'd say so. That means I would be at the mercy of the merchants within walking distance and/or the piss-poor service that one often associates with public transport. I don't like people to begin with, so cramming me in a metal box with lots of others is not enjoyable. I'd rather live in the sticks with a car.
That's one of the things that is neglected in many driver's ed classes. The military had to start moving to vehicles with automatic transmissions because so many of the recruits had no experience with manual transmissions.
They take a little getting used to, but I find that they can be fun at times.
Great. Macrovision for the movie theaters. Why would anyone want to _buy_ a movie taken with a camcorder in the audience? The video and audio are going to be substandard, and would include crowd noise and physical interferrence, so why not just pony up the measly $8 and see it in the theater which will provide a better experience. The people going for these low quality copies probably are too damn cheap to pay for a ticket anyway, so I'd like to know where the movie industry is getting their $3 billion figure of 'losses'. My guess: out of their ass.
This isn't going to eliminate the source for good copies: movie industry insiders. Someone always has a preview copy for reviewers, crew, etc. and that's what gets duped and then distributed. Sounds like they need to get their internal processes in shape before push DRM crap.
I can't wait for some epileptic kid to have a seizure during a movie and die in the theater because of this crap. I hope their family sues the studios and this company for everything they've got. I'll feel very sorry for the kid and the family, but I'll laugh my ass off at the movie industry.
Both of you are on the same track. The fur from the animal pelts is used to make felt cloth, which is then made into hats, pool table coverings, etc.
This is a good explaination of it.
Then these private companies can then take the software, customize it, and then resell it as a turnkey solution to those who don't want to put the effort into assembling it themselves. The real usefulness in groupware is not just what it is like when it comes out of the box. Businesses spend a lot of money & effort to create customized forms or databases that are tied into groupware apps such as bLotus Notes. If it's OSS, they will continue to spend a lot of money to do the same sort of thing whether it's an in-house developer or an outside firm. This essentially provides a base from which everyone can work from. Lots of other computer 'plumbing' that we've taken for granted is open source. This would extend it into another area, but not by much since it would be using other OSS building blocks to get there.
Or companies could keep on doing what they have been doing for years: build a proprietary system and try to convince those holding the purse strings that their solution is the best one available. The German Govt has just decided that these sort of functions are essential enough that they don't want to be tied to any vendor. Private companies can still step in and produce a proprietary backend or client that conforms to the standards that are being laid out. If they do a better job than the OSS implementations, then they will certainly find buyers for their products.
But, as someone else pointed out. Linux, and X still seems to run faster, which is pretty ridiculous, considering that X is running through a socket, and is naturally indirect. *sigh*
If you're on the console it better NOT be. Local X traffic should be going through shared memory queues and not the networking layer. Many of the common unix workstations were doing this at least 10 years ago. I would certainly would have thought the XFree team would have implemented it.
here is a better article about the practice as well as some legal explanations for and against it. It also has quotes from people in the affected neighborhoods.
The armor that the soldiers could touch would be the ground plate. They wouldn't get shocked unless they got curious and stuck their finger in a hole in the outside armour made by a RPG. Even then, the vehicle commander could turn it off if that became a problem.
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So RedHat decides what the users want, and misconfigures KDE.
Funny, I thought that's what the job of a distribution was supposed to do: figure out what their users want from the myriad of open source products, make sure everything works well together, package them, and provide some sensible usable defaults. Misconfiguring implies that they cripple it such that it doesn't work properly. I don't think they've done that. From the screenshots, it looks like they've put together a couple of nice desktops without a ton of eye candy.
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So RedHat wants a consistent look for both environments? Big deal. The user can still rip it out and use something totally different and/or configure it they want with the desired apps. Some of the KDE ppl were pissed that they didn't include Konq and Kmail. If they wanted iron fist control over how their precious desktop environment is set up and what apps must be included, they should work for another company.
No you don't. It's on the start up screen along with the key sequence to start the tutorial.
Get help C-h (Hold down CTRL and press h)
Undo changes C-x u Exit Emacs C-x C-c
Get a tutorial C-h t Use Info to read docs C-h i
Activate menubar F10 or ESC ` or M-`
(`C-' means use the CTRL key. `M-' means use the Meta (or Alt) key.
If you have no Meta key, you may instead type ESC followed by the character.)
On a sociological level, each child won't get the attention they need to thrive in modern socioty.
You mean they won't be the common only child spoiled brat. Good responsible parents give all their children the love and attention they need no matter how many kids they have. With bigger families, it just requires more effort and that can be a big problem if one has the feminist 'stay-at-home parents are losers' mindset. Some people tend to forget that the most important job that anyone will ever have is raising the next generation.
Really? I tried shaking my RioVolt 250 as hard as I could for over 10 minutes while playing music. I could never get it to skip no matter what I tried.
Yes, you're going to get screwed if you go to a traditional retail jewelry store. The markups are quite high. If you know enough about diamonds to recognize the 4C's yourself with an eye loop, go to a pawn shop that has a wide selection. They will be much lower in cost. If you can't find the exact ring you want, but have found one that has the jewel you want, buy it and take it to a repair shop. They will usually do customizations.
People die or get divorced all the time. If it's portable and has some value, sooner or later it will end up at a pawn shop.
Not to mention that air inside most restaurants and other commercial buildings is exhausted and replaced with outside air several times a day (probably a few times every hour). Can the same thing be said about the pool? This is an HVAC issue.
I had a Hyundai and a Mitsubishi (same car different name plates) for over 7 years. They had close to 200,000 miles on them, used one of them about like a truck (pulling trailers, hauling lots of stuff in the hatch, etc.), and never had a problem with them. The biggest repair was the periodic timing belt replacement.
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IMHO, it would just create a bigger pile of characteristics to match against and wouldn't help catch criminals any faster. Most criminals are caught by good old-fashioned detective work. Technology just makes it easier to accumulate evidence against them once suspects are identified.
Or the high velocity rounds in plastic sabots. Or buckshot.
The gun grabbers don't get it that the reason that projectile matching works now is due to law enforcement being able to confiscate a weapon from a suspect soon after after a murder. After a few hundred rounds through the barrel, the projectile markings may change to look similar to those produced by another weapon. Removing the barrel and rendering it unusable eliminates it from being used as evidence.
This would be another fiasco like automated facial recognition systems.
Why on god's green earth would you ever need an AR-15?
Why do you _need_ a computer faster than 500MHz? Because you want one for whatever reason you pull out of your ass. A .223 rifle like an AR-15 can be a good varmit eliminator, but probably isn't as practical as a .22LR. It's not some sort of SuperRifle. Their primary purpose is the military is to wound opponents. That is unless you are a special forces soldier and/or sniper, then a larger caliber and heavier load is employed because the primary objective is to kill the target not wound them.
Why do you hate/distrust your own government so much?
Simple. History has shown us that given the ability and power, governments will abuse it. It has also shown that some of the first steps towards a totalitarian govt is to create a database of all firearm owners, outlaw private ownership of firearms, and then confiscate them. What you are suggesting creates the first step and overblown incidents like current recent events will result people pushing for the 2nd & 3rd parts. The reasons for having the 2nd amendment is as valid today as it was in the 1700s. (BTW, there are handguns made for hunting and target shooting and people do use them to hunt deer. Like using archery equipment, it requires more patience and skill to get the required result.)
Given the media hype, I can understand the anxiety. But come on. This is DC we're talking about. There are probably more people dead because of the standard inner city drive by shootings during the same period of time.
Joseph from the book of Genesis was supposedly a redhead.
My mom grew up in the SouthWest, so I always ate spicy food as a kid. The Indians at college said the same sort of thing and were disappointed when I ate their food and didn't have any adverse reaction to it. Of course, the guy that was 100% Norwegian and never ate a spicy thing in his life gave them the desired response. They didn't want to touch the lutefisk his grandma sent him, though.
No, they had a lock on the mainstream PC market that was given to them by IBM. The concept of "it's like a Mac, but I can run my DOS stuff on it too" is what made people buy it. I knew many people that thought mice and GUIs were for pussies when they were only available on Macs or Amigas. However, when MS came out with Windows, they bought it because they could run their DOS stuff when they wanted to show they were manly man geeks.
s/Monopoly/OS cash cow/
Happy now?
To say that Microsoft didn't use the considerable amount of income the result of the DOS days to prop up crap software is ignoring history too. They just continued on the scheme with Windows. That's why they made sure Win 3.x would crap out on DR-DOS. It's too bad that something like DR-DOS or FreeDOS didn't become widely available in the mid to late 80s.
Difficult to give up? I'd say so. That means I would be at the mercy of the merchants within walking distance and/or the piss-poor service that one often associates with public transport. I don't like people to begin with, so cramming me in a metal box with lots of others is not enjoyable. I'd rather live in the sticks with a car.
That's one of the things that is neglected in many driver's ed classes. The military had to start moving to vehicles with automatic transmissions because so many of the recruits had no experience with manual transmissions.
They take a little getting used to, but I find that they can be fun at times.
Great. Macrovision for the movie theaters. Why would anyone want to _buy_ a movie taken with a camcorder in the audience? The video and audio are going to be substandard, and would include crowd noise and physical interferrence, so why not just pony up the measly $8 and see it in the theater which will provide a better experience. The people going for these low quality copies probably are too damn cheap to pay for a ticket anyway, so I'd like to know where the movie industry is getting their $3 billion figure of 'losses'. My guess: out of their ass.
This isn't going to eliminate the source for good copies: movie industry insiders. Someone always has a preview copy for reviewers, crew, etc. and that's what gets duped and then distributed. Sounds like they need to get their internal processes in shape before push DRM crap.
I can't wait for some epileptic kid to have a seizure during a movie and die in the theater because of this crap. I hope their family sues the studios and this company for everything they've got. I'll feel very sorry for the kid and the family, but I'll laugh my ass off at the movie industry.
Both of you are on the same track. The fur from the animal pelts is used to make felt cloth, which is then made into hats, pool table coverings, etc. This is a good explaination of it.
That's because hybrid vehicles haven't become some sort of sick status symbol or give the buyer the illusion of safety.
I would enjoy that. Bring it on.
Then these private companies can then take the software, customize it, and then resell it as a turnkey solution to those who don't want to put the effort into assembling it themselves. The real usefulness in groupware is not just what it is like when it comes out of the box. Businesses spend a lot of money & effort to create customized forms or databases that are tied into groupware apps such as bLotus Notes. If it's OSS, they will continue to spend a lot of money to do the same sort of thing whether it's an in-house developer or an outside firm. This essentially provides a base from which everyone can work from. Lots of other computer 'plumbing' that we've taken for granted is open source. This would extend it into another area, but not by much since it would be using other OSS building blocks to get there.
Or companies could keep on doing what they have been doing for years: build a proprietary system and try to convince those holding the purse strings that their solution is the best one available. The German Govt has just decided that these sort of functions are essential enough that they don't want to be tied to any vendor. Private companies can still step in and produce a proprietary backend or client that conforms to the standards that are being laid out. If they do a better job than the OSS implementations, then they will certainly find buyers for their products.
But, as someone else pointed out. Linux, and X still seems to run faster, which is pretty ridiculous, considering that X is running through a socket, and is naturally indirect. *sigh*
If you're on the console it better NOT be. Local X traffic should be going through shared memory queues and not the networking layer. Many of the common unix workstations were doing this at least 10 years ago. I would certainly would have thought the XFree team would have implemented it.
here is a better article about the practice as well as some legal explanations for and against it. It also has quotes from people in the affected neighborhoods.
The armor that the soldiers could touch would be the ground plate. They wouldn't get shocked unless they got curious and stuck their finger in a hole in the outside armour made by a RPG. Even then, the vehicle commander could turn it off if that became a problem.
So RedHat decides what the users want, and misconfigures KDE.
Funny, I thought that's what the job of a distribution was supposed to do: figure out what their users want from the myriad of open source products, make sure everything works well together, package them, and provide some sensible usable defaults. Misconfiguring implies that they cripple it such that it doesn't work properly. I don't think they've done that. From the screenshots, it looks like they've put together a couple of nice desktops without a ton of eye candy.
So RedHat wants a consistent look for both environments? Big deal. The user can still rip it out and use something totally different and/or configure it they want with the desired apps. Some of the KDE ppl were pissed that they didn't include Konq and Kmail. If they wanted iron fist control over how their precious desktop environment is set up and what apps must be included, they should work for another company.
No you don't. It's on the start up screen along with the key sequence to start the tutorial.
On a sociological level, each child won't get the attention they need to thrive in modern socioty.
You mean they won't be the common only child spoiled brat. Good responsible parents give all their children the love and attention they need no matter how many kids they have. With bigger families, it just requires more effort and that can be a big problem if one has the feminist 'stay-at-home parents are losers' mindset. Some people tend to forget that the most important job that anyone will ever have is raising the next generation.
Really? I tried shaking my RioVolt 250 as hard as I could for over 10 minutes while playing music. I could never get it to skip no matter what I tried.
Yes, you're going to get screwed if you go to a traditional retail jewelry store. The markups are quite high. If you know enough about diamonds to recognize the 4C's yourself with an eye loop, go to a pawn shop that has a wide selection. They will be much lower in cost. If you can't find the exact ring you want, but have found one that has the jewel you want, buy it and take it to a repair shop. They will usually do customizations.
People die or get divorced all the time. If it's portable and has some value, sooner or later it will end up at a pawn shop.
Not to mention that air inside most restaurants and other commercial buildings is exhausted and replaced with outside air several times a day (probably a few times every hour). Can the same thing be said about the pool? This is an HVAC issue.
I had a Hyundai and a Mitsubishi (same car different name plates) for over 7 years. They had close to 200,000 miles on them, used one of them about like a truck (pulling trailers, hauling lots of stuff in the hatch, etc.), and never had a problem with them. The biggest repair was the periodic timing belt replacement.