The truth is that in countries like this, all you need to do is throw a few shiny dollars the way of the police and nobody will ever enforce the law. I highly doubt such a small country has the necessary resources to enforce something so insane anyway.
That's the point. The Windows development model means that most drivers are "third party" in the sense that the driver must be installed separately to the operating system, and third party driver developers aren't held to the same standard that Microsoft (or the developers of any Windows-bundled driver) are. This happens less in the Linux world because most drivers are bundled with the kernel and reviewed more thoroughly before being committed.
Both operating systems are still vulnerable to dodgy drivers regardless due to the fact that they run them in kernel mode, and these sorts of things will keep happening until user-space drivers become commonplace.
I agree with AC in that I can't stand incandescent lightbulbs. I especially love 5500K+ fluorescents, I find they complement daylight well during the day and make it feel like I have an extra window! According to Wikipedia, the sun has a colour temperature of 5500K to 6500K, and that same article has an excellent picture comparing different bulb types and temperatures. I think it's really just what you get used to over time - if you've spent most of your life with incandescents, you'll prefer them to LEDs/fluorescents and visa versa.
The input energy that a heatball consumes is the effort, its heat is the benefit while light portion is the loss.
Hence the HEATBALL has an efficiency of 95%!
Due to its effectiveness, the HEATBALL as a work of art would have an Efficiency Class A.
So as a light, it has an efficiency of 5%. Also, what the fuck does "as a work of art" mean? I don't have any problems with people selling heat lamps to skirt government regulations on lightbulbs, but this sort of misleading BS is just stupid (even if it's satire - these guys just seem to be out to make a quick buck and pass it off as charity by "donating" 12% to "save the rainforests").
the HH Permanent Calendar Fully Respects the Fourth Commandment of the Bible
The fourth commandment being
Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work. But the seventh day is the Sabbath in honor of the Lord thy G*d; on it thou shalt not do any work, neither thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
You needn't go so high-tech to take down tiny unmanned aircraft, have a look at the CIWS ("Close-in Weapon Systems") used by navies to protect from missiles and aircraft. Scattering a bunch of those around the countryside (or in this case, on board a whaling ship) would probably take care of those meddling spy drones. Here's a video of one in a training exercise.
When a land based automobile broke the sound barrier, was amateur automobile racing over? When Amundsen reached the South Pole, was adventuring over? Rather than eliminating enthusiasm for these ventures, such achievements tend to make these things more popular and accessible. Hell, anyone can get into higher-end over-clocking nowadays without having to worry about it taking too much of a toll on their wallet. A few months ago I glued a PVC tube to the lower half of a stock 775 cooler and threw some dry ice in to try and see what I could get the machine too. I mightn't have clocked my RAM up to 3600MHz but it was still enjoyable seeing my old box get put on cyber-roids (also playing with the dry ice afterwards - there's a lot of fun things you can do with it;) ). Maybe it's not a high stakes game of processor roulette anymore, but geeks tend to be experts at doing stuff "just because they can".
Bandwidth is actually insanely expensive outside the US. There's a long way to go before ISPs in other countries adopt similar pricing regimes which allow for kind of usage OnLive requires, and even then it is dubious whether or not OnLive will be able to maintain a physical presence in enough countries to let it displace traditional consoles.
These things are actually surprisingly versatile, some company in Germany built a giant climate controlled tropical resort out of one a few years ago after the collapse of an airship startup.
Now you're looking for the secret. But you won't find it because of course, you're not really looking. You don't really want to work it out. You want to be fooled.
Some of those choices aren't too bad - Pidgin/Libpurple is a pretty awesome IM client (particularly for Jabber), GIMP could still well be classed as a design tool (and TBH Inkscape still isn't up there with most of the proprietary vector editors like AI and CorelDraw), VirtualBox is dead easy to use if you just want to fire up a VM to play around with, rsync is an awesome tool for quick backups, Libreoffice is really the only full-featured Linux office suite (KOffice and the GNOME Office collection are shaping up pretty well, though) and Python probably deserves the best scripting language award (if not best programming language).
Sure, a fair few of those (Skype, Dropbox?!) seem fairly bogus, but the truth is that your average Linux user likes software which is user-friendly and readily available. It's fine for/.-ers to criticise new software from their Ivory Towers of Linux expertise, but when you deal with people who've never used Linux before you begin to appreciate projects like GNOME 3.
I'll just point out something I read on the somethingawful thread - the original (unadulterated) Manos and the Hands of Fate is actually available on archive.org, http://www.archive.org/details/manos_the_hands_of_fate
I wish I knew that was there earlier, I tried sitting through the MST3k version and I just couldn't stand the annoying narration. It will be interesting to see the high definition copy from the workprint, the stills in the article look really nice.
I have to vaccinate a newborn against an STD? (Even my staunchly pro-vaccine doctor disagreed with that one!) Seriously people.
If you're talking about hepatitis C, you should know that sexual transmission isn't the only vector by which it can spread. If you come in contact with the blood of an infected person (and yes, this *does* happen), you can also become infected. If you have an infected kindergarten teacher chopping up food who unknowingly cuts themselves, you can end up with a whole bunch of people infected. The same goes for used syringes, improperly sterilised equipment, etc.
I think the real question here is why all UIDs under 2,000,000 don't do marketing for MS. But seriously, their R&D department do some pretty cool stuff. Even though MS manage to churn out nine-nines of crap products, occasionally they still come out with something awesome that they manage to get to market (think Kinect). Shame they spend the rest of their time suing their competitors, churning out garbage like Windows and spreading FUD.
The person who did this uses the alias anomuumi. It is a generic term used when individuals who hang around at the Finnish message board forums discuss their evildoing.
-- Mikko Hyppönen on his deep understanding of Internet culture.
Advertisers and marketing people might be the lowest form of life too.
I'm pretty sure that title goes to IP droids as far as corporate lifeforms are concerned. At least marketers and advertisers create something of value (usually).
Please don't be surprised if I pull out my computer at dinner and begin handling some of my email. I have difficulty hearing when there is noise; at dinner, when people are speaking to each other, I usually cannot hear their words.
Hearing difficulty of this sort is actually quite common, Wikipedia even has a page on "King-Kopetzky syndrome" which seems to describe it perfectly.
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The truth is that in countries like this, all you need to do is throw a few shiny dollars the way of the police and nobody will ever enforce the law. I highly doubt such a small country has the necessary resources to enforce something so insane anyway.
That's the point. The Windows development model means that most drivers are "third party" in the sense that the driver must be installed separately to the operating system, and third party driver developers aren't held to the same standard that Microsoft (or the developers of any Windows-bundled driver) are. This happens less in the Linux world because most drivers are bundled with the kernel and reviewed more thoroughly before being committed.
Both operating systems are still vulnerable to dodgy drivers regardless due to the fact that they run them in kernel mode, and these sorts of things will keep happening until user-space drivers become commonplace.
I agree with AC in that I can't stand incandescent lightbulbs. I especially love 5500K+ fluorescents, I find they complement daylight well during the day and make it feel like I have an extra window! According to Wikipedia, the sun has a colour temperature of 5500K to 6500K, and that same article has an excellent picture comparing different bulb types and temperatures.
I think it's really just what you get used to over time - if you've spent most of your life with incandescents, you'll prefer them to LEDs/fluorescents and visa versa.
The input energy that a heatball consumes is the effort, its heat is the benefit while light portion is the loss.
Hence the HEATBALL has an efficiency of 95%!
Due to its effectiveness, the HEATBALL as a work of art would have an Efficiency Class A.
So as a light, it has an efficiency of 5%. Also, what the fuck does "as a work of art" mean? I don't have any problems with people selling heat lamps to skirt government regulations on lightbulbs, but this sort of misleading BS is just stupid (even if it's satire - these guys just seem to be out to make a quick buck and pass it off as charity by "donating" 12% to "save the rainforests").
From that website:
the HH Permanent Calendar Fully Respects the Fourth Commandment of the Bible
The fourth commandment being
Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work. But the seventh day is the Sabbath in honor of the Lord thy G*d;
on it thou shalt not do any work, neither thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant nor thy maidservant,
nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates;
For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
This makes me sad. Very sad.
You needn't go so high-tech to take down tiny unmanned aircraft, have a look at the CIWS ("Close-in Weapon Systems") used by navies to protect from missiles and aircraft. Scattering a bunch of those around the countryside (or in this case, on board a whaling ship) would probably take care of those meddling spy drones. Here's a video of one in a training exercise.
I used to be a whale, but then I took a harpoon to the face.
When a land based automobile broke the sound barrier, was amateur automobile racing over? When Amundsen reached the South Pole, was adventuring over? Rather than eliminating enthusiasm for these ventures, such achievements tend to make these things more popular and accessible. Hell, anyone can get into higher-end over-clocking nowadays without having to worry about it taking too much of a toll on their wallet. A few months ago I glued a PVC tube to the lower half of a stock 775 cooler and threw some dry ice in to try and see what I could get the machine too. I mightn't have clocked my RAM up to 3600MHz but it was still enjoyable seeing my old box get put on cyber-roids (also playing with the dry ice afterwards - there's a lot of fun things you can do with it ;) ). Maybe it's not a high stakes game of processor roulette anymore, but geeks tend to be experts at doing stuff "just because they can".
Bandwidth is actually insanely expensive outside the US. There's a long way to go before ISPs in other countries adopt similar pricing regimes which allow for kind of usage OnLive requires, and even then it is dubious whether or not OnLive will be able to maintain a physical presence in enough countries to let it displace traditional consoles.
These things are actually surprisingly versatile, some company in Germany built a giant climate controlled tropical resort out of one a few years ago after the collapse of an airship startup.
Now you're looking for the secret. But you won't find it because of course, you're not really looking. You don't really want to work it out. You want to be fooled.
Some of those choices aren't too bad - Pidgin/Libpurple is a pretty awesome IM client (particularly for Jabber), GIMP could still well be classed as a design tool (and TBH Inkscape still isn't up there with most of the proprietary vector editors like AI and CorelDraw), VirtualBox is dead easy to use if you just want to fire up a VM to play around with, rsync is an awesome tool for quick backups, Libreoffice is really the only full-featured Linux office suite (KOffice and the GNOME Office collection are shaping up pretty well, though) and Python probably deserves the best scripting language award (if not best programming language).
/.-ers to criticise new software from their Ivory Towers of Linux expertise, but when you deal with people who've never used Linux before you begin to appreciate projects like GNOME 3.
Sure, a fair few of those (Skype, Dropbox?!) seem fairly bogus, but the truth is that your average Linux user likes software which is user-friendly and readily available. It's fine for
The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime happens to the first Quad-Core Android Tablet, which also makes it the fastest and most powerful tablet.
Wait, what? How did this obvious piece of corporate self-promotion get to the front page?
I used XFCE before it was authentic.
I'll just point out something I read on the somethingawful thread - the original (unadulterated) Manos and the Hands of Fate is actually available on archive.org, http://www.archive.org/details/manos_the_hands_of_fate
I wish I knew that was there earlier, I tried sitting through the MST3k version and I just couldn't stand the annoying narration. It will be interesting to see the high definition copy from the workprint, the stills in the article look really nice.
Sweet, let's all take Gandhi quotes out of context and use them to justify credit card fraud.
Cost of spell checker: $0.
I have to vaccinate a newborn against an STD? (Even my staunchly pro-vaccine doctor disagreed with that one!) Seriously people.
If you're talking about hepatitis C, you should know that sexual transmission isn't the only vector by which it can spread. If you come in contact with the blood of an infected person (and yes, this *does* happen), you can also become infected. If you have an infected kindergarten teacher chopping up food who unknowingly cuts themselves, you can end up with a whole bunch of people infected. The same goes for used syringes, improperly sterilised equipment, etc.
I think the real question here is why all UIDs under 2,000,000 don't do marketing for MS. But seriously, their R&D department do some pretty cool stuff. Even though MS manage to churn out nine-nines of crap products, occasionally they still come out with something awesome that they manage to get to market (think Kinect). Shame they spend the rest of their time suing their competitors, churning out garbage like Windows and spreading FUD.
The person who did this uses the alias anomuumi. It is a generic term used when individuals who hang around at the Finnish message board forums discuss their evildoing.
-- Mikko Hyppönen on his deep understanding of Internet culture.
If you want to save some key strokes, just use !g instead of !google. Instant productivity boost :)
Advertisers and marketing people might be the lowest form of life too.
I'm pretty sure that title goes to IP droids as far as corporate lifeforms are concerned. At least marketers and advertisers create something of value (usually).
Please don't be surprised if I pull out my computer at dinner and
begin handling some of my email. I have difficulty hearing when there
is noise; at dinner, when people are speaking to each other, I usually
cannot hear their words.
Hearing difficulty of this sort is actually quite common, Wikipedia even has a page on "King-Kopetzky syndrome" which seems to describe it perfectly.
Obligatory XKCD
If Microsoft just copied UNIX then I'd love them. Or at least I'd love them more than I do now.