Heard a noise at night? just go to the tablet on the wall, scan the cameras, and alert the authorities if necessary.
Yes, the first thing I want to do if I hear a noise at night is put my face up to a wall, highlight my silhouette, ruin my night vision, and fiddle with some electronics.
Correction, I'll go downstairs with a bat, or gun, and a really bright flashlight to blind any intruder with before I bat them. And if it's a miscreant child, blind them and scare the shit out of them so they'll stop sneaking out at night.
I certainly do not intend to wait for authorities after putting myself at a serious disadvantage first.
Let's say I deliberately install 15 extensions, then restart.
Firefox is now going to ask me 15 times if I want to keep this extension? How annoying. Even if it only asks once, if I want to keep "these 15 extensions", what if I miss the sneaky one that time because it's at the bottom? Or I just assume that since I just installed 15 and restarted it, that they're all OK?
I'm already tired of Firefox's irritating startup procedure as it is. When I start firefox, I expect to see a usable browser window as quickly as my computer can deliver it. Not a dialog asking if I want to update these extensions. Especially not a dialog that asks me if I want to update these extensions, then, after I click yes, will do the updates, then sit there doing nothing while demanding that I click "continue" before I get the browser window I requested 30 seconds ago!
Ugh!
When I open Firefox, I want a browser window I can use immediately. All of Firefox's housekeeping crap should take a backseat to my selfish demands. To blatantly personify, Firefox is getting upity and thinks what it wants to do is more important than what I want it to do. But I have news for it, I can uninstall it and use Chrome, Opera, or Internet Explorer at a whim!
If the things Firefox needs to ask me are in the form of demands rather than optional questions, it's doing it freaking wrong.
So what you're saying is not all in-line skates are Rollerblades(tm), not all adhesive medical strips are Band-Aids(tm), and not all vacuums are Hoovers(tm)?
The first time we sold it, we took a planning tool meant for building maintenance (repairing light bulbs and the like) and repurposed it. Even today the garbage trucks still have to be entered into the system as employees.
I love that word.
It always makes me think of doing something wildly inappropriate for utterly selfish reasons. Like selling a company a bunch of hammers you've "repurposed" as screwdrivers by labeling them screwdrivers - and no other changes - then selling them. Then lying through your teeth saying they're screwdrivers simply because you've decided you want their money but don't actually have what they want.
This is impossible. Given the speed burst you mentioned of 700MB/s and a typical HD cache of 12-16MB the burst can last about 0.029 seconds at best. Simply because at 700MB/s, the cache will be empty in that amount of time, though during that time, you'll be able to get another 4MB off the platters and burst that, but then you're once again depending on spindle speed.
Can we please ban the use of "up to" in advertising? The same goes for "as much as" and all their ilk.
How it isn't simply declared false advertising is beyond me.
It's like those super soakers that were advertised as shooting "up to 30 feet!". Yeah, right. Only if you whip your arm about before firing to impart some momentum to the water, then fire downwind at a 37 degree angle in a category 4 hurricane. Otherwise it was more like 10 feet.
How about if the mean average performance of the product isn't at least 80% of the advertised "up to" figure, you don't get to use that figure. Or require that all "up to" claims be accompanied with a bell curve that show people that most of them will be getting significantly less 100% of the time?
That's the difference though. In Linux they're homogeneously addressable (/dev/sda1/dev/sda2), but logically separable (display/dev/sda1 as "system drive").
In windows, they're physically separated (c:\ d:\) and not homogeneously addressable since system links in windows are difficult to use at best.
Punishment or persecution is the precisely wrong way to discourage a religion.
It has not worked a single time in all of history!
People will believe what they want, and punishing them for it will drive them underground at best and make them feel persecuted (and often rightly so) or validated.
If you really wanted to put a stop to it you'd educate the followers as politely and as positively as you can, and show them it's a bunch of bullshit. The same applies to all religions really, since there's no difference between a religion and a cult besides follower count.
This is a pretty boneheaded move that will accomplish nothing good.
All children are not created equal, but should be given an equal opportunity.
Offer them interesting classes with engaging teachers teaching things that will be useful in their adult life, or useful in preparing them for their adult life. Fire any teacher that hands out busy work, or large volumes of rote memorization work.
Those that pay attention and learn will continue to do so. To those that prefer to goof off and fall behind the curve, hand them a shovel or burger king hat. At least that way both will be prepared for their adult life in ways that are appropriate to them as an individual. If parents complain, tell the parents to encourage their children not to be dumb asses.
Above all, any system staffed by humans should attempt to account for being staffed and run at least partially by incompetent schmucks.
Articled headline is misleading if not completely wrong. MediaSentry is not dead, and the MPAA is still using it. They're just masquerading as "Safenet DMCA". But, it's still the same company. But now they're attempting to escape the horrible PR associated with the name MediaSentry. Exactly like the name of Gator was changed to Claria in an attempt to avoid allegations of spyware that were largely accepted as true.
MediaSentry lives on in the US and ISPs are still bowing to their scare tactics and threat letters, typically this means immediately punishing their customers without due process and based solely on the allegations of SafeNet DMCA/MediaSentry.
How is this informative? Iron does not support adblock. It's just a build of chrome that has the phone home stuff removed and as far as I know, hasn't been updated since its release. It was largely PR stunt by SRWare rather than a real commitment to a version that doesn't phone home like Chrome does.
I use linux at work for linux, not for its apps. Specifically, the homogeneous file system (no c:\ d:\ e:\ monkey business), soft links and standard utilities that have been around for decades and are still useful. The default availability of powerful command line shells and utilities. Most of what I use that is linux specific shipped with the ISO I installed it from, some have no decent windows equivalents at all, and nearly none are built into windows.
Most of the major apps I use (Firefox/launchy/IntelliJ/remote desktop) are available in Windows too, so it's not those.
However, I can't find any free software that can specifically work with epub.
There are at least two. Adobe Digital Editions which is reputed to be a pretty thorough implementation of the.epub standard by a lot of people who wrote.epub creation tutorials, though I haven't tried it myself. And FBReader which is an open source multi platform program that is well suited for portable devices like the Illiad, smartphones, Nokia Internet tablets (770, 800, 810 tc.), and android, but also runs in Windows, and Linux. Its implementation is not perfect, but the books look just fine and will pull the author & title information from the.epub for you so you don't have to do it manually when adding the book to your library.
Personally, I use FBReader on my N810. I have it configured to look roughly like this (red on black preserves night vision and doesn't leave nearly the afterimage that black on white or white on black does when reading in bed at night) though there's no toolbar in fullscreen mode. Here are some screenshots on other platforms.
The benefits are its an open standard and you can fairly easily create your own.epub books that follow the standard.
Sweat is just water with salt, some oils and trace amounts of other chemicals. Urine is just water with urea, salt, and trace amounts of other chemicals.
If you thoroughly remove these other ingredients it's not really appropriate to call it "recycled urine/sweat" because it no longer contains the chemicals that make it those things. It would be like taking some kool-aid, boiling it, extracting the steam and calling it recycled kool-aid or de-kool-aided-water. It's just water.
And I suspect its cleaner than your average tap water given NASA's propensity to do things very carefully (with a few exceptions) and the taboos associated with drinking urine or sweat.
Which is why you should really make sure the game is ready before you release it. I'm not saying this to be a jerk. Customers are fickle and will find something else to do if they don't like the experience. Getting them to come back to give you a second chance after you've made their experience so horrible that they took deliberate action to cease paying you for it is a difficult thing to do. It's because it's so so difficult to get players back that you should make certain your launch is a good experience.
What they should do now - if they were smart business folk - is send all the players who started the week or month the game did, but canceled soon after, a free month and an invitation to come back.
Which perhaps goes to show that you should make sure your launch isn't an abomination, or otherwise you'll lose a bunch of players who won't give you a second chance.
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Probably acting as a general purpose OS to allow ATM manufacturers to do less work since they only have to write software for a common OS.
Yes, the first thing I want to do if I hear a noise at night is put my face up to a wall, highlight my silhouette, ruin my night vision, and fiddle with some electronics.
Correction, I'll go downstairs with a bat, or gun, and a really bright flashlight to blind any intruder with before I bat them. And if it's a miscreant child, blind them and scare the shit out of them so they'll stop sneaking out at night.
I certainly do not intend to wait for authorities after putting myself at a serious disadvantage first.
Or as was more succinctly put by the character House on House M.D., "If religious people could be reasoned with, there wouldn't be religious people."
Sad, but true.
Except you didn't follow it through.
Let's say I deliberately install 15 extensions, then restart.
Firefox is now going to ask me 15 times if I want to keep this extension? How annoying. Even if it only asks once, if I want to keep "these 15 extensions", what if I miss the sneaky one that time because it's at the bottom? Or I just assume that since I just installed 15 and restarted it, that they're all OK?
I'm already tired of Firefox's irritating startup procedure as it is. When I start firefox, I expect to see a usable browser window as quickly as my computer can deliver it. Not a dialog asking if I want to update these extensions. Especially not a dialog that asks me if I want to update these extensions, then, after I click yes, will do the updates, then sit there doing nothing while demanding that I click "continue" before I get the browser window I requested 30 seconds ago!
Ugh!
When I open Firefox, I want a browser window I can use immediately. All of Firefox's housekeeping crap should take a backseat to my selfish demands. To blatantly personify, Firefox is getting upity and thinks what it wants to do is more important than what I want it to do. But I have news for it, I can uninstall it and use Chrome, Opera, or Internet Explorer at a whim!
If the things Firefox needs to ask me are in the form of demands rather than optional questions, it's doing it freaking wrong.
So what you're saying is not all in-line skates are Rollerblades(tm), not all adhesive medical strips are Band-Aids(tm), and not all vacuums are Hoovers(tm)?
You are correct, but good luck with that.
SAP.
ERP.
I love that word.
It always makes me think of doing something wildly inappropriate for utterly selfish reasons. Like selling a company a bunch of hammers you've "repurposed" as screwdrivers by labeling them screwdrivers - and no other changes - then selling them. Then lying through your teeth saying they're screwdrivers simply because you've decided you want their money but don't actually have what they want.
This is impossible. Given the speed burst you mentioned of 700MB/s and a typical HD cache of 12-16MB the burst can last about 0.029 seconds at best. Simply because at 700MB/s, the cache will be empty in that amount of time, though during that time, you'll be able to get another 4MB off the platters and burst that, but then you're once again depending on spindle speed.
It's actually more like UI mods for games.
You can either attempt to fight it (an arms race you'll lose) or embrace it and get users to do hard stuff for you for free.
Can we please ban the use of "up to" in advertising? The same goes for "as much as" and all their ilk.
How it isn't simply declared false advertising is beyond me.
It's like those super soakers that were advertised as shooting "up to 30 feet!". Yeah, right. Only if you whip your arm about before firing to impart some momentum to the water, then fire downwind at a 37 degree angle in a category 4 hurricane. Otherwise it was more like 10 feet.
How about if the mean average performance of the product isn't at least 80% of the advertised "up to" figure, you don't get to use that figure. Or require that all "up to" claims be accompanied with a bell curve that show people that most of them will be getting significantly less 100% of the time?
It seems to me - and the headline implies this - that a "Unified Threat Manager" is a firewall that has had Marketing's claws in it.
As Bill always said, "If you work in marketing, kill yourself."
That's the difference though. In Linux they're homogeneously addressable (/dev/sda1 /dev/sda2), but logically separable (display /dev/sda1 as "system drive").
In windows, they're physically separated (c:\ d:\) and not homogeneously addressable since system links in windows are difficult to use at best.
Punishment or persecution is the precisely wrong way to discourage a religion.
It has not worked a single time in all of history!
People will believe what they want, and punishing them for it will drive them underground at best and make them feel persecuted (and often rightly so) or validated.
If you really wanted to put a stop to it you'd educate the followers as politely and as positively as you can, and show them it's a bunch of bullshit. The same applies to all religions really, since there's no difference between a religion and a cult besides follower count.
This is a pretty boneheaded move that will accomplish nothing good.
All children are not created equal, but should be given an equal opportunity.
Offer them interesting classes with engaging teachers teaching things that will be useful in their adult life, or useful in preparing them for their adult life. Fire any teacher that hands out busy work, or large volumes of rote memorization work.
Those that pay attention and learn will continue to do so. To those that prefer to goof off and fall behind the curve, hand them a shovel or burger king hat. At least that way both will be prepared for their adult life in ways that are appropriate to them as an individual. If parents complain, tell the parents to encourage their children not to be dumb asses.
Above all, any system staffed by humans should attempt to account for being staffed and run at least partially by incompetent schmucks.
Articled headline is misleading if not completely wrong. MediaSentry is not dead, and the MPAA is still using it. They're just masquerading as "Safenet DMCA". But, it's still the same company. But now they're attempting to escape the horrible PR associated with the name MediaSentry. Exactly like the name of Gator was changed to Claria in an attempt to avoid allegations of spyware that were largely accepted as true.
MediaSentry lives on in the US and ISPs are still bowing to their scare tactics and threat letters, typically this means immediately punishing their customers without due process and based solely on the allegations of SafeNet DMCA/MediaSentry.
How is this informative? Iron does not support adblock. It's just a build of chrome that has the phone home stuff removed and as far as I know, hasn't been updated since its release. It was largely PR stunt by SRWare rather than a real commitment to a version that doesn't phone home like Chrome does.
Hear hear!
I use linux at work for linux, not for its apps. Specifically, the homogeneous file system (no c:\ d:\ e:\ monkey business), soft links and standard utilities that have been around for decades and are still useful. The default availability of powerful command line shells and utilities. Most of what I use that is linux specific shipped with the ISO I installed it from, some have no decent windows equivalents at all, and nearly none are built into windows.
Most of the major apps I use (Firefox/launchy/IntelliJ/remote desktop) are available in Windows too, so it's not those.
There are at least two. Adobe Digital Editions which is reputed to be a pretty thorough implementation of the .epub standard by a lot of people who wrote .epub creation tutorials, though I haven't tried it myself. And FBReader which is an open source multi platform program that is well suited for portable devices like the Illiad, smartphones, Nokia Internet tablets (770, 800, 810 tc.), and android, but also runs in Windows, and Linux. Its implementation is not perfect, but the books look just fine and will pull the author & title information from the .epub for you so you don't have to do it manually when adding the book to your library.
Personally, I use FBReader on my N810. I have it configured to look roughly like this (red on black preserves night vision and doesn't leave nearly the afterimage that black on white or white on black does when reading in bed at night) though there's no toolbar in fullscreen mode. Here are some screenshots on other platforms.
The benefits are its an open standard and you can fairly easily create your own .epub books that follow the standard.
"Recycled sweat & urine" is basically FUD.
Sweat is just water with salt, some oils and trace amounts of other chemicals. Urine is just water with urea, salt, and trace amounts of other chemicals.
If you thoroughly remove these other ingredients it's not really appropriate to call it "recycled urine/sweat" because it no longer contains the chemicals that make it those things. It would be like taking some kool-aid, boiling it, extracting the steam and calling it recycled kool-aid or de-kool-aided-water. It's just water.
And I suspect its cleaner than your average tap water given NASA's propensity to do things very carefully (with a few exceptions) and the taboos associated with drinking urine or sweat.
Which is why you should really make sure the game is ready before you release it. I'm not saying this to be a jerk. Customers are fickle and will find something else to do if they don't like the experience. Getting them to come back to give you a second chance after you've made their experience so horrible that they took deliberate action to cease paying you for it is a difficult thing to do. It's because it's so so difficult to get players back that you should make certain your launch is a good experience.
What they should do now - if they were smart business folk - is send all the players who started the week or month the game did, but canceled soon after, a free month and an invitation to come back.
Which perhaps goes to show that you should make sure your launch isn't an abomination, or otherwise you'll lose a bunch of players who won't give you a second chance.
I use the same password on my luggage!
Especially when that free service is servicing the oldest profession; you know, the one that isn't going to go away no matter how illegal you make it.
If it's not .epub, they're not very good. Why? It's industry accepted, prevalent open-standard for ebooks. Even Adobe uses it over .pdf.