Dunno, I went through them, and the only emails I saw that looked kinda shady were between her and an apparent long time friend with a pseudonym of "yugedeal@hotmail.com" where she appeared to be orchestrating some attempt to hijack the Republican nomination by having her friend win the nomination. Apparently "Yugedeal" would spout a lot of the kinda racist, sexist, what-liberals-think-Republicans-like crap before the nomination, insulting most of the party's big wigs (leaving them in disarray) while attracting support from the grassroots, and then reveal it was all a hoax the day before the election.
Not sure what came of the plan. The last email in the thread was just a "Good luck today Don!" sent June 16, 2015. I assume from the silence since that nothing came of it.
You can't do it account wide, but you can do it on a per-search basis. Near the bottom on the left, once you've chosen a department, you'll see a "Seller" section. Curiously Amazon has itself listed as both Amazon and Amazon.com, I have no idea why.
Possibly, but it doesn't matter much. As I understood it, the beta was just a wrapper around the web version. The web version works very well under GNU/Linux, it even works on ChromeOS.
I used to run GTA IV over it. It's surprising how compatible it is, most games, when I tested them, worked. Occasionally they needed a hack or two, but the hack was generally well documented.
Same reason as he'd be obsessed by systemd - he's not a real system administrator, or if he is, has managed to get in with very little of the required knowledge and experience but can talk a good game in front of the boss.
I love the idea that he thinks any businesses out there are running RHEL on large numbers of desktops.
Did something change? Enterprise has always been available in a subscription form. Microsoft announcing a new tier of Enterprise licensing doesn't suddenly mean that Windows is now subscription only.
I'd imagine he'd be sitting it out, declining to endorse or oppose Clinton given whomever the Republicans would have nominated, it would almost certainly have been someone further from Sander's goals than Clinton. To the best of my knowledge, Sanders has never campaigned against the eventual Democratic nominee during his time in politics.
Trump is particularly bad, and Clinton was willing to allow the conference agenda to include some sops to Sander and his supporters for the eventual Democratic platform, so Sanders isn't sitting it out.
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It's a fine, not lighting him on fire or even sticking him in jail. And it's not just to deter him, it's to deter others, who might find the whole idea funny and consider replicating the act without even having a flight to catch.
FWIW, and I'm not sure I want to enter this shit show, it's a list of deadliest jobs. There's no such job as "amateur pilot". It's about professional airline pilots, "Professional" without have been redundant.
You'd have been on stronger ground criticizing him if you'd mentioned that it referred to pilots and flight engineers, not just pilots.
What is the point of doing GMO research, then? Or is everyone going to be using 25 year old crops?
You seem to be going a little overboard here. First, you assume that everyone does it to get a monopoly. The other is that you believe there is no value in a 20 year monopoly.
Academics will quite reasonably do GMO research because it produces useful results.
Monsanto and others will quite reasonably do GMO research because they believe they can produce products that are sufficiently compelling to farmers to ensure those farmers will pay a royalty that will more than cover the costs of research, even if limited to 20 years.
What's the problem here? Neither situation is a problem. Moreover, both scenarios leave with the world a better place.
Not in practice, no. This might be why you're having problems believing that modern streaming is any good.
10Mbps is the maximum bitrate of DVD, not the average. Generally the average is around 3-4Mbps (if it wasn't, you wouldn't see any single layer single sided DVDs containing more than 80 minutes of content...)
But it doesn't stop there. That 3Mbps stream doesn't just include the video, it includes the audio. And on most DVDs, that's the core 5.1 stream in DTS (either 768kbps or 1.44Mbps) and/or DD (around 384kbps), plus the Spanish version (usually at least 384kbps), plus the director's commentary. So around 1-2Mbps of that 3-4Mbps (up to half!) is audio - and mostly redundant audio!
And the video... well, the video is compressed using MPEG 2 on a DVD. And MPEG 2 is difficult to optimize. Just look at the supposedly black background on the closing credits for example,
Now, with streaming, they've changed the codec to H.264 for the video, which addresses more causes of artifacts than MPEG 2. It obviously depends on the content, but bit for bit, the general consensus is that you can easily get equivalent or better quality out of H.264 over MPEG2 for half the bitrate.
And with streaming, they're only streaming one audio channel. They only need to stream one, as they already know which one you're going to listen to. So instead of including 1-2Mbps of audio in the stream, they only need to include 384kbps (less if you're listening in bi-speaker stereo.)
All of which means that they can go for a much lower streaming speed than you'd expect based upon extrapolating DVD video rates, and achieve much, much, higher quality.
I'm not going to argue that it's Blu-ray quality: when streaming, there's obviously the risk that your available bandwidth will drop and force the video to pause (Vudu) or drop to a lower quality (Amazon), but I would argue that, when I've watched videos without temporary bandwidth problems on, for example, Vudu (which doesn't implement dynamic bandwidth/streaming quality), the quality is good enough that 99% of people will never be able to tell the difference. It's a shame the Roku doesn't contain a hard disk, as it would be nice to tell the system what movie you want to watch, go off and make something to eat, come back, and watch it, knowing there's no risk of temporary bandwidth issues causing problems.
The problem with "X did something against Y, Y then takes a position Q against X that happens to be the right thing" is that you can't tell whether Y is acting because X did what it did, or because Q is the right thing.
To put it another way, the Obama administration (and Samsung) is in the right here. It'd be interesting to know their motives.
If that's why it's being used, then that's not really a great use for it. It's certainly not why it exists - it'd take a few hours for any competent programmer to develop a much simpler library that covers the core functionality of multiple browsers that uses a more conventional paradigm. And by implementing a more conventional paradigm (I hate that word too, complaints to/dev/null) the gnusimplecrosscompatability.js library would have a much shallower learning curve.
jQuery has its own spin on each of the operations and features it implements that makes it easier to use jQuery than use the original. For example, each $(...).function... is inherently an iteration through whatever is matched. A great example is jQuery's AJAX support, which uses callbacks that makes asynchronous and AJAX and JSONP calls much easier to implement, because you're not having to juggle all the balls you'd usually have to do if you used the real APIs (standardized or otherwise) directly.
The sole problem I have with it is that I suspect the obsession with callback functions and presumption that you're going to use closures is why memory leaks inside actual webpages is becoming a fairly widespread problem at the moment (closures are notoriously hard to garbage collect.)
It was Hogan's intent to ensure his sex tape is publicized internationally and associated with an attempt by a billionaire to shut down a part of the media he doesn't like?
I.. doubt it. I suspect Hogan wanted compensation.
Compensation that, thanks to "his" (Theil's) lawyer, he isn't going to get.
Hogan has been completely fucked over by this. Everyone knows about the sex tape, even people who ignore Gawker (which is most of us), he's associated with the world's most dubious lawsuit, and he's not actually going to get paid because the lawyer was, thanks to Theil's influence, told to prevent Gawker's insurance from being involved.
(If Gawker had involved their insurance, not only would Hogan be compensated, but Gawker's insurance rates would skyrocket, punishing Gawker and forcing them to be more careful in their choice of articles. Everyone would have won.)
Oh, so you'd be fully in support if Theil went into Gawker's offices and mowed down everyone with a machine gun?
See? I can do false dichotomies too. BTW, "no justice" is more or less what's going to happen to Hogan, as I pointed out. Had Theil's lawyer not deliberately eliminated legal arguments that would have ensured Gawker's insurance paid out, Hogan would actually be in line for a big payout right now.
Instead, Hogan gets his sex tape revealed, gets even more publicity for it thanks to the Streisland effect, and doesn't get compensated.
Hardly a comparable situation. But I'll address it anyway and why it would be bad at the end of this comment.
The millionaire in this case is trying to drown a particular enemy of their's in lawsuits, some legitimate, some frivolous (Hogan was semi-legitimate, though not $150M legitimate! "I invented email" is completely bogus.)
Additionally, Hogan's lawyer worked for Theil, not Hogan, and so made decisions that were actually harmful to Hogan (but benefited Theil's agenda of killing Gawker.)
But back to whether a billionaire (you said millionaire, but this isn't about millionaires) paying for your DUI offense is a bad thing: if a billionaire was running around paying for the defense of DUI offenders, in an apparent attempt to render DUI laws unenforceable by making them overly expensive to prosecute and ensuring that defendants have the best lawyers around and are likely to win over technicalities, etc: don't you think that it would be a massive distortion of democracy for one person to have the power to invalidate a democratically proposed and supported law like that?
Lawyers tend to work pro-bono for good cases for people victims of a massive injustice, and they work for the client. In this case, the lawyer was working for Theil and in Theil's interests even though he was "presenting" Hogan.
Hogan is now fucked. He's not likely to see much in the way of compensation, because the intent of his lawyer - working for Theil - was to bankrupt Gawker, not get a big payout.
So, not really a comparable situation for a lot of reasons.
Well, those sites (and I agree they're good) seem to be what Ziff Davis are interested in. With a bit of luck they'll survive.
I'm really much more bothered here about the fact a millionaire can throw around money like this to shut down a news site, however lousy, that he doesn't like. Yes, it's Gawker today, but who knows who the next victim will be?
Meh, no, Firefox is what it always was, a few annoying UI changes aside. I still stick with F i r e f o x, it's a good browser, it's fast, and F I R E F O X has always had nice features like separating the search and URL bar, aiding privacy and reducing the risk that unusual URLs will be interpreted as search queries. There's really only one problem F . i . r. e . f . o. x has these days, ironically one of the problems F - I - R - E - F - O - X was supposed to solve and that is... sorry, hold on a moment, I need to quit and restart F-------I--------R--------E--------F-------O-------X, it's sucking up all my memory again...
I'm glad to hear it. You'll find playing games that don't discriminate against minorities and avoid uses of offensive and discriminatory language much more appealing when you switch to Politically Correct gaming.
Take the source and translate its instructions into machine code, so the computer performs the instructions as described in the source
Unfortunately, that's not been true ever since the first version of ANSI C was released, the most common word in the spec being "undefined."
(TBH, this sounds like a storm in a teacup. So some code that, despite the name, turned out to be debugging/profiling crap got into the compiler? So what? Other than minor performance impacts that obviously are so minor nobody noticed, I'm failing to see how anyone was harmed by this.)
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Dunno, I went through them, and the only emails I saw that looked kinda shady were between her and an apparent long time friend with a pseudonym of "yugedeal@hotmail.com" where she appeared to be orchestrating some attempt to hijack the Republican nomination by having her friend win the nomination. Apparently "Yugedeal" would spout a lot of the kinda racist, sexist, what-liberals-think-Republicans-like crap before the nomination, insulting most of the party's big wigs (leaving them in disarray) while attracting support from the grassroots, and then reveal it was all a hoax the day before the election.
Not sure what came of the plan. The last email in the thread was just a "Good luck today Don!" sent June 16, 2015. I assume from the silence since that nothing came of it.
You can't do it account wide, but you can do it on a per-search basis. Near the bottom on the left, once you've chosen a department, you'll see a "Seller" section. Curiously Amazon has itself listed as both Amazon and Amazon.com, I have no idea why.
Possibly, but it doesn't matter much. As I understood it, the beta was just a wrapper around the web version. The web version works very well under GNU/Linux, it even works on ChromeOS.
I used to run GTA IV over it. It's surprising how compatible it is, most games, when I tested them, worked. Occasionally they needed a hack or two, but the hack was generally well documented.
Same reason as he'd be obsessed by systemd - he's not a real system administrator, or if he is, has managed to get in with very little of the required knowledge and experience but can talk a good game in front of the boss.
I love the idea that he thinks any businesses out there are running RHEL on large numbers of desktops.
OMG?! You mean we're going to have to PAY for WINDOWS?!
Did something change? Enterprise has always been available in a subscription form. Microsoft announcing a new tier of Enterprise licensing doesn't suddenly mean that Windows is now subscription only.
I'd imagine he'd be sitting it out, declining to endorse or oppose Clinton given whomever the Republicans would have nominated, it would almost certainly have been someone further from Sander's goals than Clinton. To the best of my knowledge, Sanders has never campaigned against the eventual Democratic nominee during his time in politics.
Trump is particularly bad, and Clinton was willing to allow the conference agenda to include some sops to Sander and his supporters for the eventual Democratic platform, so Sanders isn't sitting it out.
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So thereNo, he just knew the context of the statement, something most people quoting Pelosi ignore.
It's a fine, not lighting him on fire or even sticking him in jail. And it's not just to deter him, it's to deter others, who might find the whole idea funny and consider replicating the act without even having a flight to catch.
FWIW, and I'm not sure I want to enter this shit show, it's a list of deadliest jobs. There's no such job as "amateur pilot". It's about professional airline pilots, "Professional" without have been redundant.
You'd have been on stronger ground criticizing him if you'd mentioned that it referred to pilots and flight engineers, not just pilots.
You seem to be going a little overboard here. First, you assume that everyone does it to get a monopoly. The other is that you believe there is no value in a 20 year monopoly.
Academics will quite reasonably do GMO research because it produces useful results.
Monsanto and others will quite reasonably do GMO research because they believe they can produce products that are sufficiently compelling to farmers to ensure those farmers will pay a royalty that will more than cover the costs of research, even if limited to 20 years.
What's the problem here? Neither situation is a problem. Moreover, both scenarios leave with the world a better place.
Not in practice, no. This might be why you're having problems believing that modern streaming is any good.
10Mbps is the maximum bitrate of DVD, not the average. Generally the average is around 3-4Mbps (if it wasn't, you wouldn't see any single layer single sided DVDs containing more than 80 minutes of content...)
But it doesn't stop there. That 3Mbps stream doesn't just include the video, it includes the audio. And on most DVDs, that's the core 5.1 stream in DTS (either 768kbps or 1.44Mbps) and/or DD (around 384kbps), plus the Spanish version (usually at least 384kbps), plus the director's commentary. So around 1-2Mbps of that 3-4Mbps (up to half!) is audio - and mostly redundant audio!
And the video... well, the video is compressed using MPEG 2 on a DVD. And MPEG 2 is difficult to optimize. Just look at the supposedly black background on the closing credits for example,
Now, with streaming, they've changed the codec to H.264 for the video, which addresses more causes of artifacts than MPEG 2. It obviously depends on the content, but bit for bit, the general consensus is that you can easily get equivalent or better quality out of H.264 over MPEG2 for half the bitrate.
And with streaming, they're only streaming one audio channel. They only need to stream one, as they already know which one you're going to listen to. So instead of including 1-2Mbps of audio in the stream, they only need to include 384kbps (less if you're listening in bi-speaker stereo.)
All of which means that they can go for a much lower streaming speed than you'd expect based upon extrapolating DVD video rates, and achieve much, much, higher quality.
I'm not going to argue that it's Blu-ray quality: when streaming, there's obviously the risk that your available bandwidth will drop and force the video to pause (Vudu) or drop to a lower quality (Amazon), but I would argue that, when I've watched videos without temporary bandwidth problems on, for example, Vudu (which doesn't implement dynamic bandwidth/streaming quality), the quality is good enough that 99% of people will never be able to tell the difference. It's a shame the Roku doesn't contain a hard disk, as it would be nice to tell the system what movie you want to watch, go off and make something to eat, come back, and watch it, knowing there's no risk of temporary bandwidth issues causing problems.
Bezos bought the Post as an investment, not as a means to shut down criticism. The Post has been no worse since he bought it.
The problem with "X did something against Y, Y then takes a position Q against X that happens to be the right thing" is that you can't tell whether Y is acting because X did what it did, or because Q is the right thing.
To put it another way, the Obama administration (and Samsung) is in the right here. It'd be interesting to know their motives.
If that's why it's being used, then that's not really a great use for it. It's certainly not why it exists - it'd take a few hours for any competent programmer to develop a much simpler library that covers the core functionality of multiple browsers that uses a more conventional paradigm. And by implementing a more conventional paradigm (I hate that word too, complaints to /dev/null) the gnusimplecrosscompatability.js library would have a much shallower learning curve.
jQuery has its own spin on each of the operations and features it implements that makes it easier to use jQuery than use the original. For example, each $(...).function... is inherently an iteration through whatever is matched. A great example is jQuery's AJAX support, which uses callbacks that makes asynchronous and AJAX and JSONP calls much easier to implement, because you're not having to juggle all the balls you'd usually have to do if you used the real APIs (standardized or otherwise) directly.
The sole problem I have with it is that I suspect the obsession with callback functions and presumption that you're going to use closures is why memory leaks inside actual webpages is becoming a fairly widespread problem at the moment (closures are notoriously hard to garbage collect.)
It was Hogan's intent to ensure his sex tape is publicized internationally and associated with an attempt by a billionaire to shut down a part of the media he doesn't like?
I.. doubt it. I suspect Hogan wanted compensation.
Compensation that, thanks to "his" (Theil's) lawyer, he isn't going to get.
Hogan has been completely fucked over by this. Everyone knows about the sex tape, even people who ignore Gawker (which is most of us), he's associated with the world's most dubious lawsuit, and he's not actually going to get paid because the lawyer was, thanks to Theil's influence, told to prevent Gawker's insurance from being involved.
(If Gawker had involved their insurance, not only would Hogan be compensated, but Gawker's insurance rates would skyrocket, punishing Gawker and forcing them to be more careful in their choice of articles. Everyone would have won.)
Oh, so you'd be fully in support if Theil went into Gawker's offices and mowed down everyone with a machine gun?
See? I can do false dichotomies too. BTW, "no justice" is more or less what's going to happen to Hogan, as I pointed out. Had Theil's lawyer not deliberately eliminated legal arguments that would have ensured Gawker's insurance paid out, Hogan would actually be in line for a big payout right now.
Instead, Hogan gets his sex tape revealed, gets even more publicity for it thanks to the Streisland effect, and doesn't get compensated.
Hardly a comparable situation. But I'll address it anyway and why it would be bad at the end of this comment.
The millionaire in this case is trying to drown a particular enemy of their's in lawsuits, some legitimate, some frivolous (Hogan was semi-legitimate, though not $150M legitimate! "I invented email" is completely bogus.)
Additionally, Hogan's lawyer worked for Theil, not Hogan, and so made decisions that were actually harmful to Hogan (but benefited Theil's agenda of killing Gawker.)
But back to whether a billionaire (you said millionaire, but this isn't about millionaires) paying for your DUI offense is a bad thing: if a billionaire was running around paying for the defense of DUI offenders, in an apparent attempt to render DUI laws unenforceable by making them overly expensive to prosecute and ensuring that defendants have the best lawyers around and are likely to win over technicalities, etc: don't you think that it would be a massive distortion of democracy for one person to have the power to invalidate a democratically proposed and supported law like that?
Wow, just wow.
Dude, you need to get out more.
Lawyers tend to work pro-bono for good cases for people victims of a massive injustice, and they work for the client. In this case, the lawyer was working for Theil and in Theil's interests even though he was "presenting" Hogan.
Hogan is now fucked. He's not likely to see much in the way of compensation, because the intent of his lawyer - working for Theil - was to bankrupt Gawker, not get a big payout.
So, not really a comparable situation for a lot of reasons.
Well, those sites (and I agree they're good) seem to be what Ziff Davis are interested in. With a bit of luck they'll survive.
I'm really much more bothered here about the fact a millionaire can throw around money like this to shut down a news site, however lousy, that he doesn't like. Yes, it's Gawker today, but who knows who the next victim will be?
Meh, no, Firefox is what it always was, a few annoying UI changes aside. I still stick with F i r e f o x, it's a good browser, it's fast, and F I R E F O X has always had nice features like separating the search and URL bar, aiding privacy and reducing the risk that unusual URLs will be interpreted as search queries. There's really only one problem F . i . r. e . f . o. x has these days, ironically one of the problems F - I - R - E - F - O - X was supposed to solve and that is... sorry, hold on a moment, I need to quit and restart F-------I--------R--------E--------F-------O-------X, it's sucking up all my memory again...
I'm glad to hear it. You'll find playing games that don't discriminate against minorities and avoid uses of offensive and discriminatory language much more appealing when you switch to Politically Correct gaming.
Unfortunately, that's not been true ever since the first version of ANSI C was released, the most common word in the spec being "undefined."
(TBH, this sounds like a storm in a teacup. So some code that, despite the name, turned out to be debugging/profiling crap got into the compiler? So what? Other than minor performance impacts that obviously are so minor nobody noticed, I'm failing to see how anyone was harmed by this.)