To me, there's still nothing quite like a cheap, simple, effective floppy to bootstrap with (e.g. etherboot) in a large computing environment.
You shouldn't really need that though, as most systems these days (both from vendors like HP/Compaq, as well as individually sold consumer motherboards) support booting straight from the network.
Personally, I find USB drives much more useful. At worse I prefer writing a CD (/CWRW), as both are larger and more reliable (and in the case of CD's, have been supported as the norm for about 8 years or so now).
Here, we have our Sun systems set up for net installs - mostly because Solaris is crap out of the box (no decent GNU tool chain, no firewall, lots of crappy exploitable services running, etc), but for Debian and FreeBSD we just burn CD's (then do net installs from public BSD and Debian mirrors we host locally) - not got around to setting up similar systems for them (I suspect that no one would want to be lumped with the task of maintaining them, and we are fine with booting them from CD and burning them as we need to and just sharing the disks, so their is not much impetus).
"The Internet archive, which has been storing snapshots of millions of webpages since 1996 has been sued by the firm Harding Earley Follmer & Frailey, Philadelphia."
and also:
"Last week Healthcare Advocates sued both the Harding Earley firm and the Internet Archive".
So to believe the write up, they are being sued by BOTH parties.
However, it says, in TFA:
"... John Earley, a member of the firm being sued, said he was not surprised by the action, because Healthcare Advocates had tried to amend similar charges to its original suit against Health Advocate, but the judge denied the motion. Mr. Earley called the action baseless, adding: "It's a rather strange one, too, because Wayback is used every day in trademark law. It's a common tool."
Christ knows where the idea they they are being sued by the firm Harding Earley Follmer & Frailey came from.
The point is you plug (or use a wireless) keyboard and mouse. It ensures your screen is at eye level. The point of this is to strain on your wrist, back and neck.
It clearly indicates the point was to raise this laptop to a suitable height in the first paragraph (ref: "to have my computer at a height that I like").
Have so many/. readers (and people with mod points) NEVER seen a laptop stand before?
Not that I want to criticise, but for only ~20 UKP I got a really nice removable stand for my PowerBook, the iCurve which I think is a really good solution (even if it was over priced for a lump of clear plastic).
I got this for use at work, where I use it with a nice big monitor, with a 'normal' keyboard and mouse (the idea being that it's better for my back/posture in particular, also because it allows me to see the second screen on the PowerBook - on which I usually stick an IRC window on - at eye level).
I would think it's more cost effective and more convenient (particularly as it can be moved) to by one of the available stands than spend time making a fixed one.
Alternatively, you can go to http://vod.divx.com/ and click the How It Works button and you'll get to the right page.
I noticed this address too my my DVD player. How it's supposed to work (as far as I can tell):
You download the content on your Windows PC, then use your DivX player (which presumably has some sort of disc burning functionality) to create the disc. The DivX player authorises you and burns a personalised disc which will ONLY play on the player tied to your account (or, if you have multiple players, which ever player you select to burn it for). You can own multiple players (or buy a new one when when the old one breaks) and still watch movies you've purchased on them, but you have to burn a new disc each time you want to play it on a new system.
The obvious disadvantages are, it's a hassle to burn the CD's - and for longer movies, DVD's - and keeping track of multiple sets if you have more than one player (e.g. if as I do, you have one in the bedroom as well as one in the living room, and of course many people have them in cars these days for the kids some have multiple living rooms, etc). You also have to be careful because of differing DivX versions, some movies won't play on some players. And of course, you can't watch them at a friends house, loan the videos, or expect to sell them on once your done.
This is not helped by the very limited video selection currently available.
I would have thought it would be much easier just to download the movies and stream it to your PC with some sort of wireless streaming solution (so you skip the time consuming and costly burning process all together). I believe this sort of network enabled player (often combined with a regular DVD/VCD player) are what vendors like AOL are looking at.
I'd be willing to put up with some trade offs (compared to DVD's) stemming from a system where I could easily stream the videos from a shared network drive (especially as consumer NAS units are really starting to take off) but I can't see many people who'd be comfortable burning and ripping CD's and DVD's thinking something where you have to burn a unique disc per player as being worth the hassle.
Of course all the demons teleporting in from hell *don't* hurt the game's credibility, right?
No it doesn't, because that doesn't break the suspension of disbelief. Players know there are going to be demons from hell because that's a very central part to the premise of the series.
It does certainly hurt the games credibility when they don't teleport in, but instead just POP in to view with no manner of accompanying animation (due to crap design and implementation), often right in front of you, because that DOES break the suspension of disbelief.
Doom3 was poorly accepted because most of the people who went out to buy it expected Doom/Doom2/Quake/Quake2 single player, but ended up with (basically) first person Resident Evil.
I would say it was poorly accepted because it simply wasn't a very good game.
I particularly liked "I was equally urged by dodgy map design" (I think the word I was looking for was 'irked'.)
In my defence, it reads a lot better if you're tired and you've had a few cans of cider, as such they are the minimum requirements for reading it. If your system does not meet these requirements you are in violation of the EULA for this post, and should cease and desist from further viewing.
"It's little surprise only Valve have really gone down this path properly as it clearly took a lot of work making the "cut-scenes" unbreakable by the player." Rather, they just ignore you and run through the script regardless (even if you shoot them, drop heavy objects that should kill them onto them or block their path with items they should not be able to move).
For example, if you block a path the game doesn't want you to (including dynamically 'in game', not just 'in cutscenes') the game would completly disregard the usual rules of physics and simply walk through pushing aisde any and all obstacles like they were made of cardboard (making setting interesting traps impossible in some area's, it's clear your supposed to 'stick to the rails' - like so many games thinking outside the box is not encoraged).
Of course playing with things like grary's modshows this isn't a limiation of the HAVOK physics engine - the best thing about Half Life 2 IMO, and which is entirely 3rd party - it's just the way Valve implimented it.
Half Life 2 is nowhere near as impressive as the origional was for the time IMO. Admittedly the origional had lots of distinctly tedious jump puzzles towards the end, but in the first half it had far more atmosphere and felt much more immersive to me. This is not just a case of seeing it through rose-tinted glasses either, I've played it through again recently and it's still head and shoulders above HL2 IMO.
To me, it just seems like Half Life 2 is riding entirely on it's use of the HAVOK physics engine, which of course lots of other titles have used (Halo 2, Ghost Recon, Max Pane 2, Full Spectrum Warrior, and many more) it's just that Half Life 2 use it _so_ extensively and happen to give the player a really fun toy to use to manipulate objects.
Sure I think the artwork in HL2 was okay, but the underlying engine quality was poor IMO - with kludges like the use of 2 sprites and careful map design used to try to cover up problems with a lack of proper LOD handling (with large objects like whole ships just appearing and disappearing at random in front of you on the beach, and things like tree's being redered as 2D sprites - Yuck!). The lack of a decent lighting model was pretty prevolent in some areas (something well discussed), though I was equally urged by dodgy map design featuring such delights as points where enemies could infinately spawn from points apparently in mid air (the sort of crap Doom 3 pulled and that is a big no-no in my view).
I found it particularly disappointing because we know they are capeable of better.
Ah fair enough, I'm not bother about what any one calls their God, to be sure.
I call mine Steve, and he lives in a shiny white palace, far to the West, in a plentiful garden full of apples, or so it is written. Though he is a vengeful God who moves in mysterious ways, and care must be taken not upset him lest he unleash a terrible plague of bugs.
They only ever trailer for their own shows and channels (cross channel, including for TV programs on Radio shows), which the extent they are allowed to.
They do also have 'commercial arms' though, some of which are joint ventures which get access to show old BBC shows on subscription based digtial and satillite.
UK Gold used to fall into this category (and may still do) with old Doctor Who, Red Dwarf and Blackadder shows, though it also shows non BBC shows from the UK.
Alas, there is a new organ grinder in charge and he's introduced proposals for a huge number of job cuts, thousands of people are to go. Mark Thompson became Director General following the resignation of Greg Dyke (over a highly public row between the BBC and the UK Government on the War in Iraq).
No matter what people thought of Greg Dyke - he wasn't actually Evil(TM) but he wasn't without a fair share of legitimate critics either - pretty much everybody, both the general public and BBC employees, hate Mark Thompson (something which on his announcement as new Dir. Gen. was fuelled by the media, who have plenty of material owning to his own past behaviour).
I rather suspect this is all to help make the BBC better suited to transition to a subscription based service (rather than a license fee funded one), though this won't be till after 2008-12, and would probably co-incide with a move to switch of analogue TV all together and go digital (so the government can go through with it's plan to sell of the valuable airspace to next generation mobile/wireless operators).
I don' t know about the original poster, but my respect for diversity ends when people start mutilating the genitals of children (something which both men mentioned are proponents of, albeit one group boys and the other girls). YMMV.
(Seriously, I'm not kidding or trolling here. It's definitely not acceptible behaviour in my book.)
And what unbiased source are you going to use to tell you whether or not your sources are unbiased
You compare the output of multiple sources with each other and draw your own conclusions based on the information at hand, under such scrutiny bias invariably shows through.
What you are asking for is bias that is too hard for you too see.
Minimal (imperceptible) bias is exactly what people many people expect of a responsible news outlet (given true zero bias from anyone is unattainable).
Many devices (think graphics cards, sound cards, IDE/SATA cards) support standard interfaces for basic functionality and do not need explicit support for a given vendors hardware (sure you won't gain access to some of their advanced features without explicit support for a specific device, but your very likely to still get basically working functionality out of it, not least because of the limited number of core chipsets, and how similar in design many of them are, often with regard to an initial reference design).
This is not true of all devices (e.g. SCSI cards, which typically have do have vendor specific drivers), but it's true of a significant majority of hardware. PCI cards intended for x86 systems can of course be used in PCI slots on other platforms, such as PowerMac, PReP or CHRP boards, without any modification (though their can be alternate Firmware versions for the different platforms).
OpenStep (which became Rhapsody, which became Mac OS X) ran fine on a wide variety of hardware without explicit support for a wide variety of devices (and that was without freely downloadable kernel and driver source), so baring the presence of something like crippling DRM in the consumer 'Mactel' hardware, the likely hood of Mac OS X running fine on generic x86 PC hardware is very high in my estimation.
Interesting. Does he also blame "the burglars" for "costing us billions of dollars" to secure our homes against them?
I imagine (like me and most people) he does, yes.
If you don't hold people to account for own actions, then crime would be rampant (witness places with no effective law enforcement). This can be seen even in societies where economic disparity within the community is marginal.
It's very easy (and stupid) to blame problems like these in a poorly-defined class of people.
People who commit pre-meditated crime under their own free will are responsible for their actions. The suggestion that it's 'stupid' to think this, or that they are a 'poorly-defined class' is nonsense. They are defined as criminals because they commit crime.
in the sense that most people doing it wouldn't consider to be thieves (I believe), but are happy to invade other people's computers.
The unintelligibility of that sentence aside (as you are not a native English speaker it seems) the view is not they are 'theives' who are 'stealing' in a generally understood meaning of the word but that they are committing acts of vandalism.
(Though 'stealing' of information such as credit card numbers certainly does occur, everyone involved in that is aware what they are doing is very wrong and a crime and I assume we are not debating that).
Typical 'cracker' behaviour is more directly comparable with criminal behaviour such as 'tagging' or spray painting private property, the smashing of windows or arson. They often also plead innocence using language that indicates they do not consider themselves 'criminals' or see their acts as 'wrong':
"No one was using that wall/server anyway - I didn't do any harm." "The owner of that car can collect on his insurance/companies employ people to deal with this sort of thing anyway."
Recreational 'crackers' think their lifestyle is 'cool', in the same way that punk kids who spray paint property and vandalise buildings and parked cars think they are 'cool', and they attempt to rationalise behaviour they know is wrong, purely to excuse their own actions.
Cue 'West Side Story'...
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Dear kindly Sergeant Krupke, You gotta understand, It's just our bringin' up-ke That gets us out of hand. Our mothers all are junkies, Our fathers all are drunks. Golly Moses, natcherly we're punks!
Not to belabor the issue, but in this case, I think CrkHead raises a relevant point. You were discussing variance from "the norm," whatever it may be, as cause to doubt somebody's judgement or intelligence. In your case, you mention body modification[0]. CrkHead then commented on your intellectual prowess as demonstrated by your spelling.
If you turn up to an interview (or work) and 'smoke', 'drink', 'don't brush your teeth' then your exercising poor judgement in my book.
If you can't configure the refresh rate your CRT monitor, and you work in IT, I don't want to be anywhere near you, because your not so much exercising poor judgement as being a complete muppet, but yes I'd expect people to pay attention to basic issues of ergonomics.
If you perform an extreme sport, then yes I think on balance your probably a head case and don't know what's good for you (this depends on the 'extreme sport' in question). AFAIC: Feeling like your in danger of death or serious injury, is nature's way of telling you you're in danger of death or serious injury.
Anyone who sunbathes (knowing that unduly increases their risk of contracting skin cancer) is also exercising VERY poor judgement (don't, really - it's a very bad idea, if a deeper tan matters that much to you, use a tanning lotion instead).
Eating fattening food is good for the soul, but it should be balanced and you should try to exercise (I don't, but that's simply me demonstrating very poor judgement).
Would you also consider having lasers shot into your eyeballs, fat suctioned from your body, breast implants, nose jobs, eye tucks, permanent eye brows(i.e. tattoo's), or even operations to "fix" birth defects like hair lips as Daft?
No.
But then I said that already in the post, if you'd read it (WRT things that are quality of life effecting).
I find your assessment of the Lizardman interesting.
I don't think it's accurate to call what little I wrote as an assessment of him.
But FWIW, when I first read about him I though "Oh good greif, another attention seeking self obsessed up-his-own-arse philosophy student." which he indeed is (a philosophy student that is), based on what he had to say.
I could certainly admire him as an original and dedicated professional entertainer, if I hadn't heard the utter bollocks he's come out with in interviews - in particular about how it's all about him doing a deep and meaningful psychological experiment and human interaction (rather than the more accurate reality that he is an attention whore and he gets a kick out of mutilating himself in unusual ways, which I think is fine, as long as you honest with yourself and others about your motivations).
Some people can't stand anyone leaving the flock
I'm socially extremely progressive and liberal as it goes, but I'm thinking that's doesn't conveniently fit into your view of the world (which consists of simple toadying 'sheeple' and their primitive closed mind-spaces I would not be surprised to learn).
If you admittedly can't be bothered to read the entire thread the capacity for meaningful discussion is nerfed to zero because then nothing is context. It's convenient if your just looking for an argument rather than a reasonable discussion though.
You can stand on the social acceptability for customer-facing positions, but your claim about judgement is entirely bogus, being based on circular and flawed logic and generally unreasonable comparisons.
Well no, not if you accept that it can have a negative impact on the ability to perform the role by interacting with clients (all the development work I do involves external customers at some point).
That is displaying manifestly poor judgement, in the same way that turning up to a first stage interview for a developer position (for someone you don't know) in a ripped t-shirt and jeans doesn't in itself effect that persons ability to do their job, but is also is poor judgement (unless you are say John Carmack or David Perry).
I'd apply the same to people who were decked out in other socially unacceptable gear, such as tacky gold MR T bling bling jewellery, for example. Poor choice for an interview, ergo poor judgement AFAIK.
I am actually pretty radical in my social attitudes, but I definitely expect other people to be able to relate to other people and behave in a socially appropriate manner to a basic degree and if they can't demonstrate this in an interview then their CV goes in the bit bucked labelled 'verging on high functioning autist'.
God knows there are too many misfits like that in the industry already (-1; Bad Parenting), I consider it a mission in life to avoid people like that.
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But thanks for helping me blow away Hula Girl
Why, why would you want to do that?
Hula Girl rocks!
To me, there's still nothing quite like a cheap, simple, effective floppy to bootstrap with (e.g. etherboot) in a large computing environment.
You shouldn't really need that though, as most systems these days (both from vendors like HP/Compaq, as well as individually sold consumer motherboards) support booting straight from the network.
Personally, I find USB drives much more useful. At worse I prefer writing a CD (/CWRW), as both are larger and more reliable (and in the case of CD's, have been supported as the norm for about 8 years or so now).
Here, we have our Sun systems set up for net installs - mostly because Solaris is crap out of the box (no decent GNU tool chain, no firewall, lots of crappy exploitable services running, etc), but for Debian and FreeBSD we just burn CD's (then do net installs from public BSD and Debian mirrors we host locally) - not got around to setting up similar systems for them (I suspect that no one would want to be lumped with the task of maintaining them, and we are fine with booting them from CD and burning them as we need to and just sharing the disks, so their is not much impetus).
Sorry, the writeup is bollocks. It says:
"The Internet archive, which has been storing snapshots of millions of webpages since 1996 has been sued by the firm Harding Earley Follmer & Frailey, Philadelphia."
and also:
"Last week Healthcare Advocates sued both the Harding Earley firm and the Internet Archive".
So to believe the write up, they are being sued by BOTH parties.
However, it says, in TFA:
"... John Earley, a member of the firm being sued, said he was not surprised by the action, because Healthcare Advocates had tried to amend similar charges to its original suit against Health Advocate, but the judge denied the motion. Mr. Earley called the action baseless, adding: "It's a rather strange one, too, because Wayback is used every day in trademark law. It's a common tool."
Christ knows where the idea they they are being sued by the firm Harding Earley Follmer & Frailey came from.
Doesn't anyone else read the stories first? o_O
Err...
/. readers (and people with mod points) NEVER seen a laptop stand before?
The point is you plug (or use a wireless) keyboard and mouse. It ensures your screen is at eye level. The point of this is to strain on your wrist, back and neck.
It clearly indicates the point was to raise this laptop to a suitable height in the first paragraph (ref: "to have my computer at a height that I like").
Have so many
Scary...
Not that I want to criticise, but for only ~20 UKP I got a really nice removable stand for my PowerBook, the iCurve which I think is a really good solution (even if it was over priced for a lump of clear plastic).
I got this for use at work, where I use it with a nice big monitor, with a 'normal' keyboard and mouse (the idea being that it's better for my back/posture in particular, also because it allows me to see the second screen on the PowerBook - on which I usually stick an IRC window on - at eye level).
I would think it's more cost effective and more convenient (particularly as it can be moved) to by one of the available stands than spend time making a fixed one.
VOD.DIVX.COM/HOW is borked because it redirects to a bogus destination. Fortunately going straight to the SSL version https://vod.divx.com/how/ works.
Alternatively, you can go to http://vod.divx.com/ and click the How It Works button and you'll get to the right page.
I noticed this address too my my DVD player. How it's supposed to work (as far as I can tell):
You download the content on your Windows PC, then use your DivX player (which presumably has some sort of disc burning functionality) to create the disc. The DivX player authorises you and burns a personalised disc which will ONLY play on the player tied to your account (or, if you have multiple players, which ever player you select to burn it for). You can own multiple players (or buy a new one when when the old one breaks) and still watch movies you've purchased on them, but you have to burn a new disc each time you want to play it on a new system.
The obvious disadvantages are, it's a hassle to burn the CD's - and for longer movies, DVD's - and keeping track of multiple sets if you have more than one player (e.g. if as I do, you have one in the bedroom as well as one in the living room, and of course many people have them in cars these days for the kids some have multiple living rooms, etc). You also have to be careful because of differing DivX versions, some movies won't play on some players. And of course, you can't watch them at a friends house, loan the videos, or expect to sell them on once your done.
This is not helped by the very limited video selection currently available.
I would have thought it would be much easier just to download the movies and stream it to your PC with some sort of wireless streaming solution (so you skip the time consuming and costly burning process all together). I believe this sort of network enabled player (often combined with a regular DVD/VCD player) are what vendors like AOL are looking at.
I'd be willing to put up with some trade offs (compared to DVD's) stemming from a system where I could easily stream the videos from a shared network drive (especially as consumer NAS units are really starting to take off) but I can't see many people who'd be comfortable burning and ripping CD's and DVD's thinking something where you have to burn a unique disc per player as being worth the hassle.
Of course all the demons teleporting in from hell *don't* hurt the game's credibility, right?
No it doesn't, because that doesn't break the suspension of disbelief. Players know there are going to be demons from hell because that's a very central part to the premise of the series.
It does certainly hurt the games credibility when they don't teleport in, but instead just POP in to view with no manner of accompanying animation (due to crap design and implementation), often right in front of you, because that DOES break the suspension of disbelief.
Doom3 was poorly accepted because most of the people who went out to buy it expected Doom/Doom2/Quake/Quake2 single player, but ended up with (basically) first person Resident Evil.
I would say it was poorly accepted because it simply wasn't a very good game.
I particularly liked "I was equally urged by dodgy map design" (I think the word I was looking for was 'irked'.)
In my defence, it reads a lot better if you're tired and you've had a few cans of cider, as such they are the minimum requirements for reading it. If your system does not meet these requirements you are in violation of the EULA for this post, and should cease and desist from further viewing.
Oops lots of typo's in that, perhaps best not to post at 2 AM on a Monday morning.
From the article:
"It's little surprise only Valve have really gone down this path properly as it clearly took a lot of work making the "cut-scenes" unbreakable by the player." Rather, they just ignore you and run through the script regardless (even if you shoot them, drop heavy objects that should kill them onto them or block their path with items they should not be able to move).
For example, if you block a path the game doesn't want you to (including dynamically 'in game', not just 'in cutscenes') the game would completly disregard the usual rules of physics and simply walk through pushing aisde any and all obstacles like they were made of cardboard (making setting interesting traps impossible in some area's, it's clear your supposed to 'stick to the rails' - like so many games thinking outside the box is not encoraged).
Of course playing with things like grary's modshows this isn't a limiation of the HAVOK physics engine - the best thing about Half Life 2 IMO, and which is entirely 3rd party - it's just the way Valve implimented it.
Half Life 2 is nowhere near as impressive as the origional was for the time IMO. Admittedly the origional had lots of distinctly tedious jump puzzles towards the end, but in the first half it had far more atmosphere and felt much more immersive to me. This is not just a case of seeing it through rose-tinted glasses either, I've played it through again recently and it's still head and shoulders above HL2 IMO.
To me, it just seems like Half Life 2 is riding entirely on it's use of the HAVOK physics engine, which of course lots of other titles have used (Halo 2, Ghost Recon, Max Pane 2, Full Spectrum Warrior, and many more) it's just that Half Life 2 use it _so_ extensively and happen to give the player a really fun toy to use to manipulate objects.
Sure I think the artwork in HL2 was okay, but the underlying engine quality was poor IMO - with kludges like the use of 2 sprites and careful map design used to try to cover up problems with a lack of proper LOD handling (with large objects like whole ships just appearing and disappearing at random in front of you on the beach, and things like tree's being redered as 2D sprites - Yuck!). The lack of a decent lighting model was pretty prevolent in some areas (something well discussed), though I was equally urged by dodgy map design featuring such delights as points where enemies could infinately spawn from points apparently in mid air (the sort of crap Doom 3 pulled and that is a big no-no in my view).
I found it particularly disappointing because we know they are capeable of better.
Ah fair enough, I'm not bother about what any one calls their God, to be sure.
I call mine Steve, and he lives in a shiny white palace, far to the West, in a plentiful garden full of apples, or so it is written. Though he is a vengeful God who moves in mysterious ways, and care must be taken not upset him lest he unleash a terrible plague of bugs.
They only ever trailer for their own shows and channels (cross channel, including for TV programs on Radio shows), which the extent they are allowed to.
They do also have 'commercial arms' though, some of which are joint ventures which get access to show old BBC shows on subscription based digtial and satillite.
UK Gold used to fall into this category (and may still do) with old Doctor Who, Red Dwarf and Blackadder shows, though it also shows non BBC shows from the UK.
Alas, there is a new organ grinder in charge and he's introduced proposals for a huge number of job cuts, thousands of people are to go. Mark Thompson became Director General following the resignation of Greg Dyke (over a highly public row between the BBC and the UK Government on the War in Iraq).
No matter what people thought of Greg Dyke - he wasn't actually Evil(TM) but he wasn't without a fair share of legitimate critics either - pretty much everybody, both the general public and BBC employees, hate Mark Thompson (something which on his announcement as new Dir. Gen. was fuelled by the media, who have plenty of material owning to his own past behaviour).
I rather suspect this is all to help make the BBC better suited to transition to a subscription based service (rather than a license fee funded one), though this won't be till after 2008-12, and would probably co-incide with a move to switch of analogue TV all together and go digital (so the government can go through with it's plan to sell of the valuable airspace to next generation mobile/wireless operators).
I don' t know about the original poster, but my respect for diversity ends when people start mutilating the genitals of children (something which both men mentioned are proponents of, albeit one group boys and the other girls). YMMV.
(Seriously, I'm not kidding or trolling here. It's definitely not acceptible behaviour in my book.)
And what unbiased source are you going to use to tell you whether or not your sources are unbiased
You compare the output of multiple sources with each other and draw your own conclusions based on the information at hand, under such scrutiny bias invariably shows through.
What you are asking for is bias that is too hard for you too see.
Minimal (imperceptible) bias is exactly what people many people expect of a responsible news outlet (given true zero bias from anyone is unattainable).
In many cases, Objective C is slower than Java becasue of it's "run-time" binding.
Hmm, I don't believe that's true (though I can see it could theoretically be the case of course).
Can you point to anything that supports the idea that run-time binding in Objective C slower than run-time binding in Java?
Many devices (think graphics cards, sound cards, IDE/SATA cards) support standard interfaces for basic functionality and do not need explicit support for a given vendors hardware (sure you won't gain access to some of their advanced features without explicit support for a specific device, but your very likely to still get basically working functionality out of it, not least because of the limited number of core chipsets, and how similar in design many of them are, often with regard to an initial reference design).
This is not true of all devices (e.g. SCSI cards, which typically have do have vendor specific drivers), but it's true of a significant majority of hardware. PCI cards intended for x86 systems can of course be used in PCI slots on other platforms, such as PowerMac, PReP or CHRP boards, without any modification (though their can be alternate Firmware versions for the different platforms).
OpenStep (which became Rhapsody, which became Mac OS X) ran fine on a wide variety of hardware without explicit support for a wide variety of devices (and that was without freely downloadable kernel and driver source), so baring the presence of something like crippling DRM in the consumer 'Mactel' hardware, the likely hood of Mac OS X running fine on generic x86 PC hardware is very high in my estimation.
Interesting. Does he also blame "the burglars" for "costing us billions of dollars" to secure our homes against them?
I imagine (like me and most people) he does, yes.
If you don't hold people to account for own actions, then crime would be rampant (witness places with no effective law enforcement). This can be seen even in societies where economic disparity within the community is marginal.
It's very easy (and stupid) to blame problems like these in a poorly-defined class of people.
People who commit pre-meditated crime under their own free will are responsible for their actions. The suggestion that it's 'stupid' to think this, or that they are a 'poorly-defined class' is nonsense. They are defined as criminals because they commit crime.
in the sense that most people doing it wouldn't consider to be thieves (I believe), but are happy to invade other people's computers.
The unintelligibility of that sentence aside (as you are not a native English speaker it seems) the view is not they are 'theives' who are 'stealing' in a generally understood meaning of the word but that they are committing acts of vandalism.
(Though 'stealing' of information such as credit card numbers certainly does occur, everyone involved in that is aware what they are doing is very wrong and a crime and I assume we are not debating that).
Typical 'cracker' behaviour is more directly comparable with criminal behaviour such as 'tagging' or spray painting private property, the smashing of windows or arson. They often also plead innocence using language that indicates they do not consider themselves 'criminals' or see their acts as 'wrong':
"No one was using that wall/server anyway - I didn't do any harm."
"The owner of that car can collect on his insurance/companies employ people to deal with this sort of thing anyway."
Recreational 'crackers' think their lifestyle is 'cool', in the same way that punk kids who spray paint property and vandalise buildings and parked cars think they are 'cool', and they attempt to rationalise behaviour they know is wrong, purely to excuse their own actions.
Cue 'West Side Story'...
o/`
Dear kindly Sergeant Krupke,
You gotta understand,
It's just our bringin' up-ke
That gets us out of hand.
Our mothers all are junkies,
Our fathers all are drunks.
Golly Moses, natcherly we're punks!
o/`
Not to belabor the issue, but in this case, I think CrkHead raises a relevant point. You were discussing variance from "the norm," whatever it may be, as cause to doubt somebody's judgement or intelligence. In your case, you mention body modification[0]. CrkHead then commented on your intellectual prowess as demonstrated by your spelling.
;)
Yeah, but I'm not getting paid for this.
*Engaging Answer-O-Matic*
If you turn up to an interview (or work) and 'smoke', 'drink', 'don't brush your teeth' then your exercising poor judgement in my book.
If you can't configure the refresh rate your CRT monitor, and you work in IT, I don't want to be anywhere near you, because your not so much exercising poor judgement as being a complete muppet, but yes I'd expect people to pay attention to basic issues of ergonomics.
If you perform an extreme sport, then yes I think on balance your probably a head case and don't know what's good for you (this depends on the 'extreme sport' in question). AFAIC: Feeling like your in danger of death or serious injury, is nature's way of telling you you're in danger of death or serious injury.
Anyone who sunbathes (knowing that unduly increases their risk of contracting skin cancer) is also exercising VERY poor judgement (don't, really - it's a very bad idea, if a deeper tan matters that much to you, use a tanning lotion instead).
Eating fattening food is good for the soul, but it should be balanced and you should try to exercise (I don't, but that's simply me demonstrating very poor judgement).
Would you also consider having lasers shot into your eyeballs, fat suctioned from your body, breast implants, nose jobs, eye tucks, permanent eye brows(i.e. tattoo's), or even operations to "fix" birth defects like hair lips as Daft?
No.
But then I said that already in the post, if you'd read it (WRT things that are quality of life effecting).
Similarly, I find myself unable to respect those that do not understand the difference between possesive and plural.
Oh noes! Teh bad grammar, it burns us!
Curse yoo Molesworth.
I find your assessment of the Lizardman interesting.
I don't think it's accurate to call what little I wrote as an assessment of him.
But FWIW, when I first read about him I though "Oh good greif, another attention seeking self obsessed up-his-own-arse philosophy student." which he indeed is (a philosophy student that is), based on what he had to say.
I could certainly admire him as an original and dedicated professional entertainer, if I hadn't heard the utter bollocks he's come out with in interviews - in particular about how it's all about him doing a deep and meaningful psychological experiment and human interaction (rather than the more accurate reality that he is an attention whore and he gets a kick out of mutilating himself in unusual ways, which I think is fine, as long as you honest with yourself and others about your motivations).
Some people can't stand anyone leaving the flock
I'm socially extremely progressive and liberal as it goes, but I'm thinking that's doesn't conveniently fit into your view of the world (which consists of simple toadying 'sheeple' and their primitive closed mind-spaces I would not be surprised to learn).
I think this is eerily relevant to this discussion, as I dare say a few people not too far removed from characters in this strip are taking part in this thread.
If you admittedly can't be bothered to read the entire thread the capacity for meaningful discussion is nerfed to zero because then nothing is context. It's convenient if your just looking for an argument rather than a reasonable discussion though.
You can stand on the social acceptability for customer-facing positions, but your claim about judgement is entirely bogus, being based on circular and flawed logic and generally unreasonable comparisons.
Well no, not if you accept that it can have a negative impact on the ability to perform the role by interacting with clients (all the development work I do involves external customers at some point).
That is displaying manifestly poor judgement, in the same way that turning up to a first stage interview for a developer position (for someone you don't know) in a ripped t-shirt and jeans doesn't in itself effect that persons ability to do their job, but is also is poor judgement (unless you are say John Carmack or David Perry).
I'd apply the same to people who were decked out in other socially unacceptable gear, such as tacky gold MR T bling bling jewellery, for example. Poor choice for an interview, ergo poor judgement AFAIK.
I am actually pretty radical in my social attitudes, but I definitely expect other people to be able to relate to other people and behave in a socially appropriate manner to a basic degree and if they can't demonstrate this in an interview then their CV goes in the bit bucked labelled 'verging on high functioning autist'.
God knows there are too many misfits like that in the industry already (-1; Bad Parenting), I consider it a mission in life to avoid people like that.
So you wouldn't hire a woman with pierced ears as a developer because her decision to pierce them demonstrates poor judgement? I doubt it
No, but then I've clearly said otherwise already, but your not paying attention to the thread it seems.
Even if you've not read my other posts, there is at least a partical clue in the preceding line:
"However, it is undeniably different as far as social acceptability goes."