There was a time I LOVED Bloglines, but not for a few years. They kept having issues with feeds from common sites and certain aspects of their site returned the same error all the time (such as the error message whenever I tried to go to recommendations).
I switched to Google Reader earlier this year, and really haven't looked back.
Have you seen the videos of the Muslim protests against this? They're burning all sorts of things in response to just the announcement of the Koran burning.
I'm really freaking tired of this argument. Those crazy muslims/japanese/germans/vietnamese/enemy-of-the-day" are doing worse! So us doing what we're talking about is fine!
Just because there are bad people doing bad things DOES NOT MEAN WE NEED TO GO TO THAT LEVEL. All these actions does let the extremists use their propaganda to show how bad we are. Its a vicious cycle.
I know many who cannot afford the fines (at least in NY) for speeding and change their driving after a ticket (at least for a while). Worse than that, most states you accumulate points for speeding tickets and other moving violations. Once you get a certain number of points (they do decay over time and can be reduced with defensive driving courses every so often) you can get your license suspended.
THAT does change the attitudes for all but the worst offenders.
No - what often happens with H1B is the lying. You ever see those job postings which ask for impossible things like 20 years experience with Java or 7 years experience with Windows 7? The companies that want an excuse for H1B will accept (knowing its false) that the H1B applicants actually have that experience. They will use that excuse to say "Look - we can only find people with H1B that have this experience! We need to hire internationally!".
I'm not saying all the time impossible skill requirements are because of this (there are ignorant people often writing job requirements) but it is true sometimes.
Does anyone know how much of an issue the debris from these satellites are? From the perspective of collisions in orbit more so than what happens when it lands (I imagine the parts are small enough that reentry will take care of them).
Or - you could just use the game's automatic 'recommended' settings which almost always work perfectly (unless your computer is well below the advertised minimum specs or your system is clogged with malware).
You're still paying sales tax in most areas here in the states, in the high single digits in many areas but in the US the tax is added AFTER the sticker price. The difference is really not bad at all.
Then again I think the iPad is overpriced no matter where you are.
From the server side of things, yes I use google for Linux and other OSS software info. But I find that much more reliable than some of the 'enterprise' software companies and their documentation (Sungard & Blackboard among the worst in my opinion).
Even worse is the fact that many of these enterprise software companies have their documentation & support information protected by login so you are unable to search them with google (and their own internal search software is god awful).
Bad documentation is not an open source/linux thing. Its pretty much everywhere.
In the very long run, after we colonize Mars and possibly the Moon, latency issues will become even more severe. It will be interesting to see whether we will simply give them separate networks or have those networks as part of the internet. If the second occurs, we may need new protocols to deal with the large latency and related issues.
We already have networks with latency comparable to round trip Earth/Mars connections. Its called Time Warner Cable.
Though I agree two factor authentication is useful, the 'taking the engine' analogy overestimates the difficulty of breaking through it.
All the scammers have to do is instead of recording your keystrokes, gesturing, etc., they display a 'fake' copy of the bank to you through whatever software they have installed on your computer. They take the information you think you are sending to your bank (but are sending to them instead) and instantly have their scripts login to the site from their own systems (or some other bot on the net).
If they prevent your initial login to the site from happening, they can use your username + password + rolling code themselves if their software auto logs in.
This of course requires a user to go to a phishing site (miscellaneous.scammersite.com or something more complex), or requires the phisher to own the user's computer enough that they can intercept their connections & deal with the SSL certificate issues) while the phisher's automated software automatically goes to the real miscellaneousbank.com site.
Jordan said that he was going to finish the series with one final book. Sanderson is releasing 3; milking the series is in Jordan's "spirit", yup.
Yes - because Jordan was probably sure that based on his condition, he wouldn't live to finish more than one book.
If you want to make the argument that he should have compressed books 7-10 into one or two books - I won't argue with that. I find it hard to believe though, that anyone who has actually read the whole series could believe the series could be concluded without it feeling incredibly rushed in just one more book (following where the plot was at after Knife of Dreams).
Maybe there's something I'm missing here but these do not sound very durable to me - especially not for being put in a relatively durable product like a car.
[quote]Odd that the price of computers have dropped to 10% of what they once cost, but games haven't gone down a bit.[/quote] The price of making computers has gone down significantly. The cost of making games has gone up significantly in that time.
Yes - more people do buy games but they're also not being made by a team of one or two people anymore (portable cell-phone type games excepted).
Its bad enough that I have to pay the freaking ESPN Tax added onto my cable bill when I don't even want it. Many I know are fleeing cable so they DO NOT have to pay for things like this.
Well they have two options - iPhone (which requires cell phone service) and the iPod Touch (which short of being able to make phone calls, will function like an iPhone will with the appropriate 802.11 connection).
No one is being forced to get a contract. Yes - I'm sure many will but they aren't being forced.
They aren't saying Apple released Safari because of Firefox. They are saying that Apple released their most recent Safari version (3.1) because of Firefox 3. Whether that is true or not I can't say but it is not implausible.
This could get VERY interesting (as if it hasn't been already) if both Nader and Bloomberg both run as separate 3rd parties. Since both are liberals it might divide up the Democrat vote enough to give a win to McCain (who is also a liberal).
Towing the party line on 90% instead of 100% of issues does not make one a liberal.
Blizzard is constantly rolling out new content for free - new dungeons, new raid zones, new quests, new factions... All sorts of new stuff. Compare this to something like old-school EverQuest where your money just kind of vanished and every single new addition was through a paid expansion pack.
Except half the stuff they've rolled out was promised as part of the last paid expansion pack (Black Temple, Zul'Aman, etc).
Late content that you paid extra for != free content.
You obviously are ignorant and misinformed. I use a prepaid cell phone (I spend around $20 every three months on it), and have an unlimited domestic calling plan at home for around $25 per month for a land line (VOIP). This is less than I would be spending for a cell phone plan ($40/month for an average plan), plus I don't need to manage my minutes at home. For many people, cell phones are for emergencies and quick calls. For that purpose it serves perfectly.
Not sure I buy it. Video stores have no problems renting adult movies, nor finding employees.
Not sure if its different in your area of the US (assuming that's where you are) but the big Video store chains (Blockbuster and Netflix's online services included) do not rent anything above an R rating.
They may occasionally advertise an 'unrated' version of a movie but these are only slightly more crude/violent/whatever than the R rated version of the same movie (and sometimes only in the special features/deleted scenes section of the DVD do they differ).
The only place you can get anything NC-17/X/whatever rated is usually at small independent video stores/small chains.
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There was a time I LOVED Bloglines, but not for a few years. They kept having issues with feeds from common sites and certain aspects of their site returned the same error all the time (such as the error message whenever I tried to go to recommendations).
I switched to Google Reader earlier this year, and really haven't looked back.
I'm really freaking tired of this argument. Those crazy muslims/japanese/germans/vietnamese/enemy-of-the-day" are doing worse! So us doing what we're talking about is fine!
Just because there are bad people doing bad things DOES NOT MEAN WE NEED TO GO TO THAT LEVEL. All these actions does let the extremists use their propaganda to show how bad we are. Its a vicious cycle.
I know many who cannot afford the fines (at least in NY) for speeding and change their driving after a ticket (at least for a while). Worse than that, most states you accumulate points for speeding tickets and other moving violations. Once you get a certain number of points (they do decay over time and can be reduced with defensive driving courses every so often) you can get your license suspended.
THAT does change the attitudes for all but the worst offenders.
No - what often happens with H1B is the lying. You ever see those job postings which ask for impossible things like 20 years experience with Java or 7 years experience with Windows 7? The companies that want an excuse for H1B will accept (knowing its false) that the H1B applicants actually have that experience. They will use that excuse to say "Look - we can only find people with H1B that have this experience! We need to hire internationally!".
I'm not saying all the time impossible skill requirements are because of this (there are ignorant people often writing job requirements) but it is true sometimes.
Read up on the recent Library of Congress anti-circumvention exceptions which explicitly allow jailbreaking of devices (for US users of course):
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/library-of-congress-adds-dmca-exception-for-jailbreaking-or-root/
Does anyone know how much of an issue the debris from these satellites are? From the perspective of collisions in orbit more so than what happens when it lands (I imagine the parts are small enough that reentry will take care of them).
Changing or attempting to change your phone's OS voids it anyway so its a moot point.
Or - you could just use the game's automatic 'recommended' settings which almost always work perfectly (unless your computer is well below the advertised minimum specs or your system is clogged with malware).
You're still paying sales tax in most areas here in the states, in the high single digits in many areas but in the US the tax is added AFTER the sticker price. The difference is really not bad at all.
Then again I think the iPad is overpriced no matter where you are.
From your link: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZFS
Because of this and how its integrated - the performance advantage of ZFS on Solaris (or BSD) is lost.
I would LOVE for this to happen. I have some systems I've kept on Solaris purely for ZFS. ZFS on Linux would really be the best of both worlds.
Oh - and DTrace please while you're at it.
From the server side of things, yes I use google for Linux and other OSS software info. But I find that much more reliable than some of the 'enterprise' software companies and their documentation (Sungard & Blackboard among the worst in my opinion).
Even worse is the fact that many of these enterprise software companies have their documentation & support information protected by login so you are unable to search them with google (and their own internal search software is god awful).
Bad documentation is not an open source/linux thing. Its pretty much everywhere.
We already have networks with latency comparable to round trip Earth/Mars connections. Its called Time Warner Cable.
Though I agree two factor authentication is useful, the 'taking the engine' analogy overestimates the difficulty of breaking through it.
All the scammers have to do is instead of recording your keystrokes, gesturing, etc., they display a 'fake' copy of the bank to you through whatever software they have installed on your computer. They take the information you think you are sending to your bank (but are sending to them instead) and instantly have their scripts login to the site from their own systems (or some other bot on the net).
If they prevent your initial login to the site from happening, they can use your username + password + rolling code themselves if their software auto logs in.
This of course requires a user to go to a phishing site (miscellaneous.scammersite.com or something more complex), or requires the phisher to own the user's computer enough that they can intercept their connections & deal with the SSL certificate issues) while the phisher's automated software automatically goes to the real miscellaneousbank.com site.
So all they have to do is 'encrypt' it? XOR here we come!
Seriously - is there any guide to what TYPES of encryption are covered under this? Otherwise its inane.
Yes - because Jordan was probably sure that based on his condition, he wouldn't live to finish more than one book.
If you want to make the argument that he should have compressed books 7-10 into one or two books - I won't argue with that. I find it hard to believe though, that anyone who has actually read the whole series could believe the series could be concluded without it feeling incredibly rushed in just one more book (following where the plot was at after Knife of Dreams).
Maybe there's something I'm missing here but these do not sound very durable to me - especially not for being put in a relatively durable product like a car.
[quote]Odd that the price of computers have dropped to 10% of what they once cost, but games haven't gone down a bit.[/quote]
The price of making computers has gone down significantly. The cost of making games has gone up significantly in that time.
Yes - more people do buy games but they're also not being made by a team of one or two people anymore (portable cell-phone type games excepted).
Its bad enough that I have to pay the freaking ESPN Tax added onto my cable bill when I don't even want it. Many I know are fleeing cable so they DO NOT have to pay for things like this.
Well they have two options - iPhone (which requires cell phone service) and the iPod Touch (which short of being able to make phone calls, will function like an iPhone will with the appropriate 802.11 connection).
No one is being forced to get a contract. Yes - I'm sure many will but they aren't being forced.
They aren't saying Apple released Safari because of Firefox. They are saying that Apple released their most recent Safari version (3.1) because of Firefox 3. Whether that is true or not I can't say but it is not implausible.
Towing the party line on 90% instead of 100% of issues does not make one a liberal.
You obviously are ignorant and misinformed. I use a prepaid cell phone (I spend around $20 every three months on it), and have an unlimited domestic calling plan at home for around $25 per month for a land line (VOIP). This is less than I would be spending for a cell phone plan ($40/month for an average plan), plus I don't need to manage my minutes at home. For many people, cell phones are for emergencies and quick calls. For that purpose it serves perfectly.
Not sure if its different in your area of the US (assuming that's where you are) but the big Video store chains (Blockbuster and Netflix's online services included) do not rent anything above an R rating.
They may occasionally advertise an 'unrated' version of a movie but these are only slightly more crude/violent/whatever than the R rated version of the same movie (and sometimes only in the special features/deleted scenes section of the DVD do they differ).
The only place you can get anything NC-17/X/whatever rated is usually at small independent video stores/small chains.