Not to mention; the right ask "am _I_ better off now?", rather than "are _we_ better off now?"
And if you do want to take the self-interest question; "am I as well off as I would have been had the other side been in power?" That one's harder to answer, but it's very relevant when you have a boom/bust cycle and the government riding the boom is claiming to be creating it, rather than being swept along by it, which is generally all of them.
When did Google become a charity again? At best their move into fiber is a highly capitalized risk venture, and your suggestion is they should "create markets" by providing incredibly expensive data runs to people the rest of the industry can't be bothered servicing because there's not enough of them to make a profit on.
Traditionally that kind of folly is a role for government, perhaps you should be lobbying them to create a public network to compete with the privates./laugh
If I have a test for marijuana, PCP, heroin, cocaine, and every other controlled substance, and you're smoking marijuana and taking a new designer drug, guess what you test positive for?
Just because the Mirror doesn't understand pathology doesn't give you an excuse for repeating it.
Wish I had a handy copy of a picture I took of a bike in Rome. It was locked to a post, but not tightly enough to avoid being run over by a lorry and turned into a banana chair.
Which tells you just how actually repellent the idea is; when you consider the first episode includes the Prime Minister being extorted to have sex with a pig on live television for half an hour.
To be fair, corporations don't improve the situation. I had this conversation several times with Telstra staff:
Telstra: Hi, this is Telstra. We want to discuss your account, but to prove you are you, what's your birthday? Me: You cold-called me, you need to prove who you are, not the other way around. Telstra: But it's just your birthday, it's not ID. Me: YOU'RE USING IT FOR ID RIGHT NOW!
You make a good point, but "read" and "write" are fairly coarse grained permission distinctions.
Besides, a lot of this stuff is the same LCD crap that means printer manufacturers tell their customers their MFD printer needs "Network Administrator" permissions to operate, when all it needs is Change permissions on it's destinations folders, not even Full which is the other usual overreach. Sure, it will always work if you give it ultimate control over your entire network, but it's not something responsible people can agree to, and some of us have phones too.
All you need is the OPTION to drill down the permission list; if you want to say yes to all at a higher level, that's your issue. If the developer is too stupid to work out what permissions they really need then they have the problem.
I have the same default setting. People often start talking to me without saying my name first and I assume they're just talking to themselves, or like repeating themselves, or hearing themselves speak. Probably that last one, it's true of most people.
Google better; Windows 7 SP1 was 903.2MB for X64, 537.8MB for X86, and 511.6MB for IA64.
Why you'd be downloading the Itanium service pack I'm not sure, however, even if you were you could download it once and put it on a DVD and not have to take all day to do an install and service pack should you need a fresh one.
Compulsive clickers click yes without reading for context and details, like people that say Win7 SP1 was 1.9GB.
I've had the same problem with other vendors and I'm beginning to think it's not a leak so much as an addition to the "common list of names we spam".
If you create your vendor addresses as "vendor5123" or some other random addition and they still get spam then we have a much better connection between cause and effect (alternatively the people reporting the spam might already have an infection that is sending their "TO:" addresses out to a 3rd party, but that's possibly even less likely)
The worst part of Windows 8, out of the box, is the interface shifts for tasks such as looking at image files. But fixing those is pretty easy. When the lousy "Photos" app opens, close it, right click the file, "Open with...", and change the associated app for all files of that type. Do it once and never think about it again.
Until there's a reinstall, or it reverts with a service pack, or there's a second computer, or you use someone else's computer, or just because your local profile got hosed and you created a new user account to clean that mess up. This shit needs to work for/most/ people immediately, where as Metro works for the 1% that have a Surface and even then (having watched the mother-in-law struggle with the incredibly complex task of joining a f**king wireless network) it's not great.
Besides, the idea that you can customise away poor design decisions is the same misguided thinking that says ergonomic split keyboards in the workplace are ok because you can still use them if you're not familiar with them, just really slowly and painfully, or equally that if someone says their work surface is too small to have a regular keyboard you buy them some horrible micro-keyboard with only the Qwerty portion of the keyboard when their job involves entering a lot of numeric data and they need a numeric pad on their keyboard.
Nothing heavy about it compared to any other service pack.
Other than the 3Gb download size, apparently on every computer you have infected with Windows 8, or that you want to reinstall, which given Windows dependance on reinstall as a fix for problems can be frequent if you have a compulsive clicker using the computer.
Really wanted to run that sentence on further... but I'm sick of thinking about the horrible thing.
Berating a woman after the fact for being "so stupid" as to allow herself to be raped is victim blaming.
Giving a woman the tools and situational awareness to avoid it in the first place is a rational reaction to an extant risk. The culture of "I should be safe to" is a ridiculous denial of reality. If you wander through a bad neighborhood alone at night and get mugged, it's not your fault either, but you avoid being in that situation because it's stupid.
Interestingly the press release does exclude free books, but yeah, still doesn't mention prices other than (most of them) being under $9.99.
As to OCR, I was looking a one the other day and there was a thread about it being terrible and a comment 2 years later that the version they bought was all but flawless.
Anyway, it seems a fair old crapshoot. Though Amazon seems to have a decent returns policy on ebooks (albeit 7 days is a short window), where as others that I looked at didn't even have a policy on their website that I could find.
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Not to mention; the right ask "am _I_ better off now?", rather than "are _we_ better off now?"
And if you do want to take the self-interest question; "am I as well off as I would have been had the other side been in power?" That one's harder to answer, but it's very relevant when you have a boom/bust cycle and the government riding the boom is claiming to be creating it, rather than being swept along by it, which is generally all of them.
As if, not only should we death-march women into tech, we need to get young men into child care.
When did Google become a charity again? At best their move into fiber is a highly capitalized risk venture, and your suggestion is they should "create markets" by providing incredibly expensive data runs to people the rest of the industry can't be bothered servicing because there's not enough of them to make a profit on.
Traditionally that kind of folly is a role for government, perhaps you should be lobbying them to create a public network to compete with the privates. /laugh
If I have a test for marijuana, PCP, heroin, cocaine, and every other controlled substance, and you're smoking marijuana and taking a new designer drug, guess what you test positive for?
Just because the Mirror doesn't understand pathology doesn't give you an excuse for repeating it.
Wish I had a handy copy of a picture I took of a bike in Rome. It was locked to a post, but not tightly enough to avoid being run over by a lorry and turned into a banana chair.
If you want reply notification stop posting anon, whiner.
Which tells you just how actually repellent the idea is; when you consider the first episode includes the Prime Minister being extorted to have sex with a pig on live television for half an hour.
To be fair, corporations don't improve the situation. I had this conversation several times with Telstra staff:
Telstra: Hi, this is Telstra. We want to discuss your account, but to prove you are you, what's your birthday?
Me: You cold-called me, you need to prove who you are, not the other way around.
Telstra: But it's just your birthday, it's not ID.
Me: YOU'RE USING IT FOR ID RIGHT NOW!
Twats.
You make a good point, but "read" and "write" are fairly coarse grained permission distinctions.
Besides, a lot of this stuff is the same LCD crap that means printer manufacturers tell their customers their MFD printer needs "Network Administrator" permissions to operate, when all it needs is Change permissions on it's destinations folders, not even Full which is the other usual overreach. Sure, it will always work if you give it ultimate control over your entire network, but it's not something responsible people can agree to, and some of us have phones too.
All you need is the OPTION to drill down the permission list; if you want to say yes to all at a higher level, that's your issue. If the developer is too stupid to work out what permissions they really need then they have the problem.
That's a worthless comment.
I'm sorry sir, would you like a free streak to go with your phone?
Dear God, no. Keep your pants on.
I have the same default setting. People often start talking to me without saying my name first and I assume they're just talking to themselves, or like repeating themselves, or hearing themselves speak. Probably that last one, it's true of most people.
You need to read the hyphen correctly, it's "stupid-child protection" not "stupid child-protection".
IOW, he's saying your ex has stupid kids. Since it's an ex maybe you agree?
Google better; Windows 7 SP1 was 903.2MB for X64, 537.8MB for X86, and 511.6MB for IA64.
Why you'd be downloading the Itanium service pack I'm not sure, however, even if you were you could download it once and put it on a DVD and not have to take all day to do an install and service pack should you need a fresh one.
Compulsive clickers click yes without reading for context and details, like people that say Win7 SP1 was 1.9GB.
I've had the same problem with other vendors and I'm beginning to think it's not a leak so much as an addition to the "common list of names we spam".
If you create your vendor addresses as "vendor5123" or some other random addition and they still get spam then we have a much better connection between cause and effect (alternatively the people reporting the spam might already have an infection that is sending their "TO:" addresses out to a 3rd party, but that's possibly even less likely)
The worst part of Windows 8, out of the box, is the interface shifts for tasks such as looking at image files. But fixing those is pretty easy. When the lousy "Photos" app opens, close it, right click the file, "Open with...", and change the associated app for all files of that type. Do it once and never think about it again.
Until there's a reinstall, or it reverts with a service pack, or there's a second computer, or you use someone else's computer, or just because your local profile got hosed and you created a new user account to clean that mess up. This shit needs to work for /most/ people immediately, where as Metro works for the 1% that have a Surface and even then (having watched the mother-in-law struggle with the incredibly complex task of joining a f**king wireless network) it's not great.
Besides, the idea that you can customise away poor design decisions is the same misguided thinking that says ergonomic split keyboards in the workplace are ok because you can still use them if you're not familiar with them, just really slowly and painfully, or equally that if someone says their work surface is too small to have a regular keyboard you buy them some horrible micro-keyboard with only the Qwerty portion of the keyboard when their job involves entering a lot of numeric data and they need a numeric pad on their keyboard.
Nothing heavy about it compared to any other service pack.
Other than the 3Gb download size, apparently on every computer you have infected with Windows 8, or that you want to reinstall, which given Windows dependance on reinstall as a fix for problems can be frequent if you have a compulsive clicker using the computer.
Really wanted to run that sentence on further... but I'm sick of thinking about the horrible thing.
This post is, ironically, an example of why Slashdot needs a method of blocking ACs.
A combination of laws and the funding to police them is what's required, so Mexico falls down on the second part.
Do you even lift?
Berating a woman after the fact for being "so stupid" as to allow herself to be raped is victim blaming.
Giving a woman the tools and situational awareness to avoid it in the first place is a rational reaction to an extant risk. The culture of "I should be safe to" is a ridiculous denial of reality. If you wander through a bad neighborhood alone at night and get mugged, it's not your fault either, but you avoid being in that situation because it's stupid.
Not to mention the inability to understand difficult concepts like "ratio".
What you say about the talent may be true, but what I see is posters for One Direction everywhere.
Interestingly the press release does exclude free books, but yeah, still doesn't mention prices other than (most of them) being under $9.99.
As to OCR, I was looking a one the other day and there was a thread about it being terrible and a comment 2 years later that the version they bought was all but flawless.
Anyway, it seems a fair old crapshoot. Though Amazon seems to have a decent returns policy on ebooks (albeit 7 days is a short window), where as others that I looked at didn't even have a policy on their website that I could find.
It's a reflection of community standards, in the same way that it's against them to dine with your cock out, it's not yet acceptable to play cyborg.
You might well feel that those standards are archaic, in the same way that nudists feel the standards are childish, but guess what, majority rules.
I've secreted the Hope Diamond in a highland cow, but I can't recall which one. GO!