A very mainstream reporter for the Guardian (a major national UK newspaper) documented her direct experience of an undercover police officer agitating for violence at a protest in London.
Actually, you bring up a good point: How much should we trust The Guardian? Slashdot have previously reported on stories reported by The Daily Mail, which is about as reputable as The National Enquirer (ie. The Onion frequently contains more factual reporting)
I'm no Brit, although I've spent a fair amount of time there. My (largely informal) opinion of the UK media is that "tabloid journalism" is rampant. Papers that don't stoop to this level seem to be edged out of the market. Ironically, the government-run BBC appear to have been one of the only neutral and unbiased news sources throughout the years (and in some cases, one of the government's harshest critics).
Although the US is hardly much better, I'd like to believe that the New York Times and Washington Post are trustworthy sources of news, even with their self-admitted liberal biases*. Although I do trust the Guardian more than most UK publications, the prevalence of bad journalism makes me view any outlandish claim by a UK news source with a grain of salt.
*I don't want to engage in a political flamewar, although I do think it's prudent to point out that any political party that routinely lies to the media aren't likely to be viewed favorably by the press. The Republicans kind of shot themselves in the foot with that one...
The spire of the Empire State Building in NYC originally contained an airship docking port on the 102nd floor.
Although this idea sounds awesome in theory, it was incredibly dangerous in practice, and no airships ever managed to safely dock with the building due to severe winds and updrafts.
The idea was eventually scrapped, and the spire was converted for use as a transmission aerial, which is still in operation today. The building still retains several peculiarities relating to the unused airship terminal.
Coincidentally, a few years later the building would later survive a direct hit from a B-25 relatively unscathed. The idea of a rooftop air terminal was later resurrected with the construction of a helipad on top of the nearby Pan-Am building, which also proved to be extremely dangerous, and was permanently closed after an accident in the 1970s.
Simple. Joe Biden signed up for an account at Mint.Com. Our financial problems are over!
(Serious aside: The Fed could/should employ a team of designers and information experts (a la Edward Tufte or this guy) to help improve the transparency and operational efficiency of the government. Mint.com has some great examples of boring/old data presented in a fresh, informative, and visually-attractive manner. There's plenty of scientific evidence showing that aesthetics can improve cognition. The Obama administration have done an admirable job on this front compared to their predecessors, but there's still more to be done, particularly at the congressional level)
(Second aside: Mint.com were purchased by Intuit yesterday. Ew.)
Actually, I'd suggest using OpenSolaris so that you can take advantage of ZFS. Managing large filesystems and pools of disks is *stupidly* easy with ZFS.
You could also do it with Linux, but that would require you to use FUSE, which has a considerable performance penalty. I'm not sure about the state of ZFS on FreeBSD, although I imagine that the Solaris implementation is going to be the most stable and complete. (For what it's worth, I've been doing backups via ZFS/FUSE on Ubuntu for about a year without any major problems)
Problem is that although the "Great Garbage Patch" does indeed contain quite a lot of refuse, it's spread over an enormous area (ie. 2x the size of the continental US). It's unlikely that collecting any meaningful quantity of garbage would be economical -- in fact, it would likely be quite expensive.
In eight states and the District of Columbia, insurance companies are allowed to deny health benefits to victims of domestic abuse, as it is considered to be a pre-existing condition.
I don't care what side of the table you're on politically. That's just plain wrong (doubly so if you call yourself a Christian)
With regard to TFA, don't forget that all of the usual medical confidentiality laws will still apply, and that it's fairly common for the school nurse to check the blood pressure, pulse, eyesight, and hearing of each student on a yearly basis. Far more information is collected via this "mini-physical" than anything that a HRM can collect. Also don't forget that it seems highly improbable for the school to take the time to archive this data, given that they're forced to run with so little overhead as it is.
(Yes, this was covered on/. yesterday, though many of you might have missed it, given that it was posted to Idle)
You could say the same about Linux. Doesn't mean it's a bad idea to try it.
In fact, I quite like the fact that there are enterprise-grade features lying around my system, just in case I ever happen to need them. As long as they don't get in the way of day-to-day tasks, what's the harm?
(A good current example of this is ZFS. Although casual users won't have a use for this, I find ZFS's awesome filesystem-creation and pooling features to be a godsend for managing my central backup repository and media store. If I need more space, I add another drive, type a short line into the console, and the space is available instantly to use with my existing filesystems with full-redundancy built in. Removing an old/small/broken drive from the pool is just as easy.)
It's not as sexy to report "University of Kentucky students take pictures from space on $150 budget".
Actually, I'd expect MIT students to do stuff like this. Podunk U students doing it would be more newsworthy.
Yeah, no smart kids outside MIT.
You're a fucking asshole, you know that? Total fucking gaping asshole.
Hm. Can't tell which one is the actual troll.
MIT's a good school, no doubt -- easily one of the best. However, I will agree that the amount of praise it receives in the press (and by the general public) is hyperbolic and tremendously overstated.
The one thing I'll concede is that MIT's marketing department must be excellent.
(Full disclaimer: I graduated from a public university, and have a great deal of respect for MIT. However, I'm %*#ing sick of reading job postings that contain the phrase "We are only recruiting Ivy League (or equivalent) graduates for this position.")
Nah. The power consumption would be high, but not that high. You might even be able to get it all on one circuit without blowing a fuse.
According to the specs, a 30" Dell LCD consumes somewhere between 163 and 250W.
This number is surprisingly high, considering a 27" CRT TV only uses approx. 100W, although the same guy measured a 30" Dell LCD to consume approx. 90W, which sounds much more believable. If your LCD is consuming 250W, it's either going to be blindingly bright, or throwing off a serious amount of heat.
On the other hand, Dell also manufacture an "energy efficient" line of monitors, the largest of which is 24", and consumes approx. 23W while in use, which is pretty impressive. You could easily run 12 of these off of a single domestic supply, even on one of North America's puny 120V circuits. In fact, 12 of Dell's 24" 'Green' displays would consume less power than a single 30" display if the spec sheet is to be believed.
Now, that being said, you also certainly wouldn't need a 220V 3-phase connector to run this many 30" displays. You'd likely be able to do it off of a single domestic circuit (barely). Most newer North American 120V outlets support a maximum load of 15A, or 1800W. If we can safely assume that the monitors will consume 100W each, and the PC stays under 600W, you'd just be able to squeak by (600 + 12*100 = 1800W)
On the other hand, if you live in one of the civilized nations that use 220-240V as their domestic supply, you'd be able to do this without risking blowing a fuse (oddly enough, fuse boxes are still quite common in certain parts of the world). A European 16A CEEForm plug should be able to safely deliver 16A * 240V = 3840W, which would hypothetically be enough to power 24 monitors, and a PC to drive them. Domestic Schuko, BS1363, and BS546 outlets (most of Europe, the UK, and the commonwealth countries) would also be able to handle this sort of load without a problem, provided that they were wired correctly.
Heat distribution wouldn't be a problem, considering that 12 30" monitors would occupy approximately 32 square feet. Passive cooling should be adequate, provided that you're not cramming all this gear into an unventilated closet.
I've always wondered why we've spent so much money servicing the darn thing.
Granted, the ability to capture & repair a satellite in orbit is outright remarkable, although the economics of the space shuttle appear to make this an extremely unattractive proposition. Why aren't there several "Hubbles" orbiting above us? Like you've said... the science returns on the investment have been remarkable (arguably the best for any project NASA's ever done)
It's a program designed to play videos, and that alone. IMO, it seems to do a pretty good job of that (resource bloat in the Windows version notwithstanding). QuickTime Pro has some rudimentary editing capabilities built-in as well that are extremely useful if you just want to trim or combine a few clips (Apple finally started including this for free with Snow Leopard)
Windows Media Player has feature-creep out the wazoo, while VLC seems doomed to be forever rough around the edges (despite being otherwise fantastic)
Even the iTunes Windows UI isn't *that* awful. It could use some improvement, though it certainly seems to remain far more faithful to Microsoft's UI guidelines than Windows Media Player does.
Intel currently has the upper hand for the ultra-high-end, and ultra-low-end (ie. Atom). AMD's mainstream line is about on par with Intel, and has a considerable cost advantage.
Maybe I'm just old but I preferred when "Pentium n" is the new processor and probably better than my "Pentium n-1".
Not to troll, but the Pentium 4 line was a distinct step backwards from the Pentium III in many respects.
Yes, the Pentium 4 was the successor to the Pentium III. However, it wasn't particularly good in terms of performance, power consumption, or cost. AMD clearly had the upper-hand during that period of time.
Of course, Intel, AMD, ATI, and nVidia *all* need to clean up their product lines so that they make sense to consumers!
If, for instance, you prefer one graphics program for editing.jpgs and a different one for viewing them you can now right click, or drag the icon onto the dock.
Fixed that for you.
I do quite a bit of coding and graphic design, and view this as a very good thing.
There are limited use cases in which the old scheme made more sense. However, I find myself right clicking.JPGs to open in Preview more often than the other way around.
With any luck, this case will have far-reaching implications. At the very least, the judges and governor need to be put on trial for negligent homicide.
The governor does NOT serve any role in the court system. The fact that he has the opportunity to pardon someone doesn't translate into an obligation for him to determine guilt or innocence.
To (re)use an incredible cheesy line: "With great power comes great responsibility"
The governor is the chief executive of the state. If the state is attempting to put a man to death, it is the chief executive's job to be damn sure that the person being put to death is guilty of a crime severe enough to warrant capital punishment.
The fact that she failed to act on pertinent information is all the more damning.
Actually, the GP's got a good point. Back in college, I took a number of humanities courses whenever I could squeeze them into my schedule.
I can say from firsthand experience that there are a lot of "scholarly" articles that are complete and total crap. When writing papers, I'd frequently peruse JStor for pertinent articles about my topic, keeping an eye out for particularly good articles, as well as the heinously bad ones. Picking apart and systematically disproving a bad paper published in a "good" journal was an easy ticket to an 'A' on the paper.
These papers, of course, were certainly the exception. Most scholarly papers I encounter are humbling in their brilliance. However, I've seen more than a few bad journal articles, as well as quite a few blog entries that would be worthy of scholarly publication. It's hard to make any generalizations about the validity of certain sources of information.
Unfortunately, Physics wasn't quite as easy to bullshit (Random aside: The physical sciences certainly have their fair share of bad journal articles, especially in light of the fact that printed media is a terrible means by which to communicate scientific results. It's a cruel irony that the www was invented to enable collaboration and information exchange between scientists, but is rarely (if ever) used for that purpose. Also, any use of the word 'trivial,' or its synonyms needs to be punishable by death.)
PS. Don't judge our writing abilities based upon out slashdot comments. I'm sure the GP had his own reasons for majoring in English, even though literary discourse is often trite and contrived.
Not really. Quite a few of the books in the series approached that number.
Of course, one of Jordan's greatest faults was his inability to break his stories down into manageable chunks. If Sanderson's able to do this, while preserving the spirit of the originals, I'd definitely approve of it.
Damn. Now I have to pick up where I left off with the series, and probably re-read the first bits given just how %*##&ing complex it is.
You're joking, but it's slowly coming to light that Texas almost definitely executed an innocent man in 2004.
At the time of his execution, numerous petitions containing exonerating evidence had been filed, and were ignored.
With any luck, this case will have far-reaching implications. At the very least, the judges and governor need to be put on trial for negligent homicide.
Don't forget that the primary implementation of X11 back in the early days of OS X was XFree86, which had some pretty significant internal/political issues. Apple would have needed to completely fork the project in order to get anything useful done.
Eventually, the problems got so bad that the entire system was forked, which was a pretty big undertaking at the time. The fork was only successful because the entire open source community was almost unanimously clawing to move away from XFree. Unfortunately, by then it was already too late.
To this day, this makes me sad -- if XFree had cleaned up its act a few years earlier, Apple might have adopted X11 for its windowing system. The lack of proper X11 support means that OS X doesn't play nicely with the Unix ecosystem. The built-in X server is a nice, but really isn't suited for day-to-day use. Similarly, OS X is the only major operating system that doesn't have network transparency built into its windowing system. Remote access is slow, even on a fast connection (compared to NX, which performs impressively over dialup).
It's been mentioned elsewhere (but not here as far as I can tell) that this development is particularly notable, given that Windows doesn't support Exchange out of the box. You need Office for that.
Howso? Although my experience with the application in question is somewhat limited, I've always understood it to be just as full-featured as its Windows counterpart.
Could you possibly have VPN issues instead? There are a number of windows-only proprietary VPN clients that don't play nicely with macs.
My 4-year-old PowerBook supports this. Two-finger right clicking and scrolling is easily one of my favorite features about the machine.
(I'm not terribly thrilled that Snow Leopard dropped PPC support. Even though my machine's just a few years old, it's still perfectly good for day-to-day use)
The concorde was profitable in its last years (not extremely profitable, but it made money, which is more than most airlines can currently say).
In the end, its operators decided it wasn't worth maintaining/refurbishing the planes, scrapped the program, and wouldn't let competitors purchase the unused aircraft. Richard Branson allegedly made several serious offers for the planes, all of which were rejected. Numerous allegations have been made that the grounding of the Concorde fleet was a result of a conspiracy between Airbus and the airlines (unsubstantiated, but certainly plausible, especially in light of their refusal to sell the craft to other carriers at a time when the company was losing money)
Seriously. I wish I got $30, a free book, and an apology from the CEO every time a company fucked up.
It's regrettable that this happened in the first place, but Amazon are clearly spending a tremendous amount of effort and money to rectify the situation.
Jeff Bezos apology (made shortly after the incident) also seemed to express that they would refrain from this sort of action in the future. There was no explicit proclamation, but his apology strongly implies that this will never happen again:
Our âoesolutionâ to the problem was stupid, thoughtless, and painfully out of line with our principles. It is wholly self-inflicted, and we deserve the criticism weâ(TM)ve received. We will use the scar tissue from this painful mistake to help make better decisions going forward, ones that match our mission.
How often do you hear something like that come from the mouth of a CEO? They could have very easily glossed over the entire incident without even a minor effect on their bottom line.
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A very mainstream reporter for the Guardian (a major national UK newspaper) documented her direct experience of an undercover police officer agitating for violence at a protest in London.
Actually, you bring up a good point: How much should we trust The Guardian? Slashdot have previously reported on stories reported by The Daily Mail, which is about as reputable as The National Enquirer (ie. The Onion frequently contains more factual reporting)
I'm no Brit, although I've spent a fair amount of time there. My (largely informal) opinion of the UK media is that "tabloid journalism" is rampant. Papers that don't stoop to this level seem to be edged out of the market. Ironically, the government-run BBC appear to have been one of the only neutral and unbiased news sources throughout the years (and in some cases, one of the government's harshest critics).
Although the US is hardly much better, I'd like to believe that the New York Times and Washington Post are trustworthy sources of news, even with their self-admitted liberal biases*. Although I do trust the Guardian more than most UK publications, the prevalence of bad journalism makes me view any outlandish claim by a UK news source with a grain of salt.
*I don't want to engage in a political flamewar, although I do think it's prudent to point out that any political party that routinely lies to the media aren't likely to be viewed favorably by the press. The Republicans kind of shot themselves in the foot with that one...
The spire of the Empire State Building in NYC originally contained an airship docking port on the 102nd floor.
Although this idea sounds awesome in theory, it was incredibly dangerous in practice, and no airships ever managed to safely dock with the building due to severe winds and updrafts.
The idea was eventually scrapped, and the spire was converted for use as a transmission aerial, which is still in operation today. The building still retains several peculiarities relating to the unused airship terminal.
Coincidentally, a few years later the building would later survive a direct hit from a B-25 relatively unscathed. The idea of a rooftop air terminal was later resurrected with the construction of a helipad on top of the nearby Pan-Am building, which also proved to be extremely dangerous, and was permanently closed after an accident in the 1970s.
Simple. Joe Biden signed up for an account at Mint.Com. Our financial problems are over!
(Serious aside: The Fed could/should employ a team of designers and information experts (a la Edward Tufte or this guy) to help improve the transparency and operational efficiency of the government. Mint.com has some great examples of boring/old data presented in a fresh, informative, and visually-attractive manner. There's plenty of scientific evidence showing that aesthetics can improve cognition. The Obama administration have done an admirable job on this front compared to their predecessors, but there's still more to be done, particularly at the congressional level)
(Second aside: Mint.com were purchased by Intuit yesterday. Ew.)
Actually, I'd suggest using OpenSolaris so that you can take advantage of ZFS. Managing large filesystems and pools of disks is *stupidly* easy with ZFS.
You could also do it with Linux, but that would require you to use FUSE, which has a considerable performance penalty. I'm not sure about the state of ZFS on FreeBSD, although I imagine that the Solaris implementation is going to be the most stable and complete. (For what it's worth, I've been doing backups via ZFS/FUSE on Ubuntu for about a year without any major problems)
Problem is that although the "Great Garbage Patch" does indeed contain quite a lot of refuse, it's spread over an enormous area (ie. 2x the size of the continental US). It's unlikely that collecting any meaningful quantity of garbage would be economical -- in fact, it would likely be quite expensive.
In eight states and the District of Columbia, insurance companies are allowed to deny health benefits to victims of domestic abuse, as it is considered to be a pre-existing condition.
I don't care what side of the table you're on politically. That's just plain wrong (doubly so if you call yourself a Christian)
With regard to TFA, don't forget that all of the usual medical confidentiality laws will still apply, and that it's fairly common for the school nurse to check the blood pressure, pulse, eyesight, and hearing of each student on a yearly basis. Far more information is collected via this "mini-physical" than anything that a HRM can collect. Also don't forget that it seems highly improbable for the school to take the time to archive this data, given that they're forced to run with so little overhead as it is.
(Yes, this was covered on /. yesterday, though many of you might have missed it, given that it was posted to Idle)
You could say the same about Linux. Doesn't mean it's a bad idea to try it.
In fact, I quite like the fact that there are enterprise-grade features lying around my system, just in case I ever happen to need them. As long as they don't get in the way of day-to-day tasks, what's the harm?
(A good current example of this is ZFS. Although casual users won't have a use for this, I find ZFS's awesome filesystem-creation and pooling features to be a godsend for managing my central backup repository and media store. If I need more space, I add another drive, type a short line into the console, and the space is available instantly to use with my existing filesystems with full-redundancy built in. Removing an old/small/broken drive from the pool is just as easy.)
It's not as sexy to report "University of Kentucky students take pictures from space on $150 budget".
Actually, I'd expect MIT students to do stuff like this. Podunk U students doing it would be more newsworthy.
Yeah, no smart kids outside MIT.
You're a fucking asshole, you know that? Total fucking gaping asshole.
Hm. Can't tell which one is the actual troll.
MIT's a good school, no doubt -- easily one of the best. However, I will agree that the amount of praise it receives in the press (and by the general public) is hyperbolic and tremendously overstated.
The one thing I'll concede is that MIT's marketing department must be excellent.
(Full disclaimer: I graduated from a public university, and have a great deal of respect for MIT. However, I'm %*#ing sick of reading job postings that contain the phrase "We are only recruiting Ivy League (or equivalent) graduates for this position.")
Nah. The power consumption would be high, but not that high. You might even be able to get it all on one circuit without blowing a fuse.
According to the specs, a 30" Dell LCD consumes somewhere between 163 and 250W.
This number is surprisingly high, considering a 27" CRT TV only uses approx. 100W, although the same guy measured a 30" Dell LCD to consume approx. 90W, which sounds much more believable. If your LCD is consuming 250W, it's either going to be blindingly bright, or throwing off a serious amount of heat.
On the other hand, Dell also manufacture an "energy efficient" line of monitors, the largest of which is 24", and consumes approx. 23W while in use, which is pretty impressive. You could easily run 12 of these off of a single domestic supply, even on one of North America's puny 120V circuits. In fact, 12 of Dell's 24" 'Green' displays would consume less power than a single 30" display if the spec sheet is to be believed.
Now, that being said, you also certainly wouldn't need a 220V 3-phase connector to run this many 30" displays. You'd likely be able to do it off of a single domestic circuit (barely). Most newer North American 120V outlets support a maximum load of 15A, or 1800W. If we can safely assume that the monitors will consume 100W each, and the PC stays under 600W, you'd just be able to squeak by (600 + 12*100 = 1800W)
On the other hand, if you live in one of the civilized nations that use 220-240V as their domestic supply, you'd be able to do this without risking blowing a fuse (oddly enough, fuse boxes are still quite common in certain parts of the world). A European 16A CEEForm plug should be able to safely deliver 16A * 240V = 3840W, which would hypothetically be enough to power 24 monitors, and a PC to drive them. Domestic Schuko, BS1363, and BS546 outlets (most of Europe, the UK, and the commonwealth countries) would also be able to handle this sort of load without a problem, provided that they were wired correctly.
Heat distribution wouldn't be a problem, considering that 12 30" monitors would occupy approximately 32 square feet. Passive cooling should be adequate, provided that you're not cramming all this gear into an unventilated closet.
Here come the chemistry Nazis
That comparison's actually kind of painful, given the context of the article.
I've always wondered why we've spent so much money servicing the darn thing.
Granted, the ability to capture & repair a satellite in orbit is outright remarkable, although the economics of the space shuttle appear to make this an extremely unattractive proposition. Why aren't there several "Hubbles" orbiting above us? Like you've said... the science returns on the investment have been remarkable (arguably the best for any project NASA's ever done)
What's wrong with QuickTime's UI?
It's a program designed to play videos, and that alone. IMO, it seems to do a pretty good job of that (resource bloat in the Windows version notwithstanding). QuickTime Pro has some rudimentary editing capabilities built-in as well that are extremely useful if you just want to trim or combine a few clips (Apple finally started including this for free with Snow Leopard)
Windows Media Player has feature-creep out the wazoo, while VLC seems doomed to be forever rough around the edges (despite being otherwise fantastic)
Even the iTunes Windows UI isn't *that* awful. It could use some improvement, though it certainly seems to remain far more faithful to Microsoft's UI guidelines than Windows Media Player does.
No. That's not quite right.
AMD is competitive with Intel's mainstream line.
Intel currently has the upper hand for the ultra-high-end, and ultra-low-end (ie. Atom). AMD's mainstream line is about on par with Intel, and has a considerable cost advantage.
Maybe I'm just old but I preferred when "Pentium n" is the new processor and probably better than my "Pentium n-1".
Not to troll, but the Pentium 4 line was a distinct step backwards from the Pentium III in many respects.
Yes, the Pentium 4 was the successor to the Pentium III. However, it wasn't particularly good in terms of performance, power consumption, or cost. AMD clearly had the upper-hand during that period of time.
Of course, Intel, AMD, ATI, and nVidia *all* need to clean up their product lines so that they make sense to consumers!
If, for instance, you prefer one graphics program for editing .jpgs and a different one for viewing them you can now right click, or drag the icon onto the dock.
Fixed that for you.
I do quite a bit of coding and graphic design, and view this as a very good thing.
There are limited use cases in which the old scheme made more sense. However, I find myself right clicking .JPGs to open in Preview more often than the other way around.
With any luck, this case will have far-reaching implications. At the very least, the judges and governor need to be put on trial for negligent homicide.
The governor does NOT serve any role in the court system. The fact that he has the opportunity to pardon someone doesn't translate into an obligation for him to determine guilt or innocence.
To (re)use an incredible cheesy line: "With great power comes great responsibility"
The governor is the chief executive of the state. If the state is attempting to put a man to death, it is the chief executive's job to be damn sure that the person being put to death is guilty of a crime severe enough to warrant capital punishment.
The fact that she failed to act on pertinent information is all the more damning.
Actually, the GP's got a good point. Back in college, I took a number of humanities courses whenever I could squeeze them into my schedule.
I can say from firsthand experience that there are a lot of "scholarly" articles that are complete and total crap. When writing papers, I'd frequently peruse JStor for pertinent articles about my topic, keeping an eye out for particularly good articles, as well as the heinously bad ones. Picking apart and systematically disproving a bad paper published in a "good" journal was an easy ticket to an 'A' on the paper.
These papers, of course, were certainly the exception. Most scholarly papers I encounter are humbling in their brilliance. However, I've seen more than a few bad journal articles, as well as quite a few blog entries that would be worthy of scholarly publication. It's hard to make any generalizations about the validity of certain sources of information.
Unfortunately, Physics wasn't quite as easy to bullshit (Random aside: The physical sciences certainly have their fair share of bad journal articles, especially in light of the fact that printed media is a terrible means by which to communicate scientific results. It's a cruel irony that the www was invented to enable collaboration and information exchange between scientists, but is rarely (if ever) used for that purpose. Also, any use of the word 'trivial,' or its synonyms needs to be punishable by death.)
PS. Don't judge our writing abilities based upon out slashdot comments. I'm sure the GP had his own reasons for majoring in English, even though literary discourse is often trite and contrived.
Not really. Quite a few of the books in the series approached that number.
Of course, one of Jordan's greatest faults was his inability to break his stories down into manageable chunks. If Sanderson's able to do this, while preserving the spirit of the originals, I'd definitely approve of it.
Damn. Now I have to pick up where I left off with the series, and probably re-read the first bits given just how %*##&ing complex it is.
You're joking, but it's slowly coming to light that Texas almost definitely executed an innocent man in 2004.
At the time of his execution, numerous petitions containing exonerating evidence had been filed, and were ignored.
With any luck, this case will have far-reaching implications. At the very least, the judges and governor need to be put on trial for negligent homicide.
Don't forget that the primary implementation of X11 back in the early days of OS X was XFree86, which had some pretty significant internal/political issues. Apple would have needed to completely fork the project in order to get anything useful done.
Eventually, the problems got so bad that the entire system was forked, which was a pretty big undertaking at the time. The fork was only successful because the entire open source community was almost unanimously clawing to move away from XFree. Unfortunately, by then it was already too late.
To this day, this makes me sad -- if XFree had cleaned up its act a few years earlier, Apple might have adopted X11 for its windowing system. The lack of proper X11 support means that OS X doesn't play nicely with the Unix ecosystem. The built-in X server is a nice, but really isn't suited for day-to-day use. Similarly, OS X is the only major operating system that doesn't have network transparency built into its windowing system. Remote access is slow, even on a fast connection (compared to NX, which performs impressively over dialup).
It's been mentioned elsewhere (but not here as far as I can tell) that this development is particularly notable, given that Windows doesn't support Exchange out of the box. You need Office for that.
Howso? Although my experience with the application in question is somewhat limited, I've always understood it to be just as full-featured as its Windows counterpart.
Could you possibly have VPN issues instead? There are a number of windows-only proprietary VPN clients that don't play nicely with macs.
My 4-year-old PowerBook supports this. Two-finger right clicking and scrolling is easily one of my favorite features about the machine.
(I'm not terribly thrilled that Snow Leopard dropped PPC support. Even though my machine's just a few years old, it's still perfectly good for day-to-day use)
The concorde was profitable in its last years (not extremely profitable, but it made money, which is more than most airlines can currently say).
In the end, its operators decided it wasn't worth maintaining/refurbishing the planes, scrapped the program, and wouldn't let competitors purchase the unused aircraft. Richard Branson allegedly made several serious offers for the planes, all of which were rejected. Numerous allegations have been made that the grounding of the Concorde fleet was a result of a conspiracy between Airbus and the airlines (unsubstantiated, but certainly plausible, especially in light of their refusal to sell the craft to other carriers at a time when the company was losing money)
In short, we got lazy and stupid.
Seriously. I wish I got $30, a free book, and an apology from the CEO every time a company fucked up.
It's regrettable that this happened in the first place, but Amazon are clearly spending a tremendous amount of effort and money to rectify the situation.
Jeff Bezos apology (made shortly after the incident) also seemed to express that they would refrain from this sort of action in the future. There was no explicit proclamation, but his apology strongly implies that this will never happen again:
Our âoesolutionâ to the problem was stupid, thoughtless, and painfully out of line with our principles. It is wholly self-inflicted, and we deserve the criticism weâ(TM)ve received. We will use the scar tissue from this painful mistake to help make better decisions going forward, ones that match our mission.
How often do you hear something like that come from the mouth of a CEO? They could have very easily glossed over the entire incident without even a minor effect on their bottom line.