tech based people aren't reall "users" in the base term. Incorrect. Tech based people are as much of a user as anyone else.
The only difference is that non-tech based people will try to contact the tech-based people in order for the computer to be repaired. A technician will immediately try to get information about that STOP error code and if necessary, guide the user to disable the automatic restart for one session.
Being condescending to someone because they make a valid point only paints yourself as a monkey.
Their point is valid, you are not. Condescending doesn't mean what you think it means.
If you carefully reread my posting, you will notice that I addressed the first point where error messages are hidden from the user, and the second point on why hiding error messages behind an automatic reboot is a good idea. If you have additional information that makes information in my posting incorrect, perhaps you'd like to contribute rather than complain.
Perhaps because Windows XP and Vista don't show BSODs anymore but rather just restart the whole system silently, leaving it up to the user's imagination what has caused this? Right click on My-Computer, select properties. Click on Advanced System Settings. Under the advanced tab, click settings for Startup and Recovery. Uncheck Automatically Restart.
Alternatively, press F8 during bootup and disable automatic restarts.
I am not trying to rant (well.. okay, partially I do) but how exactly does stability issues concealment count as good engineering? Unless you are in a reboot loop, or have a persistent failure of your system, you generally want to restart the computer if there's a STOP error.
Unfortunately, you cannot file a DMCA complaint as a third party. You have to be the copyright owner. NBD Television Ltd filed such a complaint to remove Youtube videos. Michel Crook also filed one (although he was sued for filing false claims). A young teenager, upset that her fake ID was posted, filed one in spite of the fact that the "copyright" is owned by the government (and claiming your modifications to be copyright asserts your guilt in forgery.) And finally, a nameless 15-year-old filed one, as a prank.
Even though the DMCA requires you to be the copyright holder, there's plenty of abuses where thrid-parties submitted the DMCA takedown notice for malicious purposes. Service providers that don't have a backbone will not bother verifying the legitimacy of the complaint and will simply remove the content.
Is "punishing for previous sins" unfair? In particular, you need to state which one of the sins is being punished.
Is it Wrath? Attempting to kill everything in GTA will not advance the plot - perhaps even set back the player as he gets reduced back to what's considered the absolute basic equipment and stuff.
Is it Lust? While it is true that GTA III had a dry-humping sex scene that cannot be obtained through normal in-game means, it's still considered an isolated incident.
Is it gluttony? Probably not, since Pacman would obviously be considered the most awful game of all time, as would any other game that allows eating strawberries for points/health.
Sloth? If a person is playing video games to a degree where he isn't a productive member of society, there's something already wrong with him. In any case, GTA doesn't present sloth as you need to act to advance the plot. If you want a prime example of sloth, Don't shoot the puppy.
Envy? GTA's protagonist doesn't really desire the aspects of others.
Greed? Probably, but call me when someone punishes the other game developers for not breaking the "packrat" mentality.
This leaves pride. The release of this game has caused many self-important attention whores use the "video games made me do it" defence, as well as allowing the florida-lawyer-who-shall-not-be-named to perform the peacock defence. In addition, there are those that take satisifaction in bashing rockstar for releasing the violent video games. Because GTA has spread the sin of pride throughout society, I am in full agreement that Rockstar should be crushed into oblivion.
Last I checked, both Rogers and Shaw were refusing to turn over account information to the CRIAA. Has this changed? IANAL, but there is a Canadian law in effect that causes liability if they disclose information to third parties - especially on a large scale. I'm not sure if the law has any teeth, but private individuals can use it as leverage against large companies.
There's already enough trouble with frivilous lawsuits (e.g. Warning: do not place ladder on frozen cow patties). Violating an actual law will be worse against companies, since they will need to win on a technicality (which won't always work.)
It's involves all audio devices in general, although it could have to do with unintentional design specifications.
More often than not, I find that I need to set the Windows master volume to an extremely low level - one or two pixels above silence. After that, I need to set the wave volume to that same region - near the bottom. Next, my speaker volume is set to low as well. After all this, I'm actually comfortable with the standard operating system sounds.
Unless there's some boost or gain that I haven't noticed, it's more than just the music industry that's having problems.
Yeah, but you still have to deal with that crap running in the background, popping up when you want to work and having it download daily updates. Personally, I've never found a virus/spyware scanner that is totally hassle free. AVG has an option to not display download popups. If there's a popup appearing on each download with your favourite AV program, check the configuration options.
Before I got a Mac I ran FreeBSD and Linux just so I didn't have to deal with that shit (I deal with it all day at work). I don't see how people stand it. My notebook runs Microsoft Windows. It was never infected, even without AV software. (Although it does need a factory restore, as the system's beginning to be bogged down by some heavy apps - MSVC++ 2005 and Firefox don't seem to play very well.)
I believe Unreal Tournament 2003 tried out the "no sniper rifles" concept. Long-range weapon with zoom capabilities are called sniper rifles, even if they shoot lightning.
The real issue with UT2003 was that it didn't implement some of the gameplay features of the original UT, such as the Assault gametype. It's not as simple as a single weapon, as that could easily be fixed in a patch or a mod (and dismissed as an overcompensation as the sniper rifle was previously too powerful.)
In this anonymous online world, this would be an attempt to establish character. So in the future, acting like an asshat for fun in formus would relfect on you elsewhere. I'll play devil's advocate here...
Let's say you comment on the theory concerning the use of demolition explosives on one of the world trade centers - pointing out that the collapse of the WTC doesn't look like other building demolitions, or that the "symettric demolition" claim is incorrect.
However, the conspiracy theorists on the site are extremely fanatic about their theory (as opposed to a more moderate site that tries to investigate properly.) As a result, you receive a large quantity of negative feedback that attaches itself to your online reputation.
Other things that can affect you would be playing RTCW:ET, where you get kicked from a server for n00bism as you didn't dodge the three panzers that get fired into your local area (because another player thought you should have.)
And my personal favourite - just claim you support Bush. Your reputation would instantly tank.
Trust me... You really don't want to know how wrong you are... Actually, I do - preferably starting with an appropriate Wikipedia article.
As you know, some people are able to sexually fufill themselves even if it is against social guidelines or norms to do so. (Naturally, they don't talk about it, since it's gross and rather pointless in day-to-day discussion aside from jokes.)
Regular friendships between two people - even between a man and a woman - do not require sex even over the long term. A marital relationship, in this regard, shouldn't be different - the only difference is the sexual aspect being added. If this aspect is handled correctly, it won't interefere with the long term component.
There's also "Dr. Phil" style relationships, where there are two fighting couples that use "makeup sex" in order to settle arguments. This isn't much different than trying to use post-it-notes for duct work - eventually the passion gained from intercourse will die down and fail to even offset the negative environment.
I've spared everyone the simple and boring math and logic. That's not all the math.
In the situation provided, the toilet seat needs to be down 10 times a day, and up 8 times. Total effort expended is x*8*2 + y * 10 * 2 (or 16X+20Y), where x+y=1, and x is the distance to raise and y is the distance to lower. A distance of 1 is a full trip up or down.
Since both partners want to minimize work, the best method to do this is to ensure that work is distributed equally.
Splitting the work exactly evenly would require placing the toilet seat 5/9ths of the way down. If your toilet seat doesn't like this position, get a better toilet seat. If your partner doesn't like this suggestion and demands the toilet seat always be down, get a better partner.
Or, to put it another way: remove sex from a relationship and you don't have a relationship, at least not for long. Are you sure? My parents seem to get along just fine.
Most of "top 10" list appears to be composed of reactive solutions, which rely on user reports. A proactive one automatically detects if a user is entering what appears to be a credit card or debit card number over an http or unsigned https connection - a common trait for most phishing sites.
Based on the article, Google Safe Browsing should either be at the top or bottom of the list, and not obscured by having a reactive entry in a more prominant position.
As a side note, these phishing sites want as much traffic as possible. We should give it to them - Lad Vampire handles the traffic, and the fake name generator gives the database entries.
Or just upgrade to Firefox 2, which has the feature built in. What's the threshold? I've submitted reports of phishing sites, but haven't really seen any changes in reaction within Firefox.
In particular, I've been looking at "online pharmacy" sites that are obviously fake (e.g. have you submit credit card information over http rather than https) - which is a common trend for 99% of these fake pharmacy sites that I've been to.
So, pray, tell us, what resource belonging to First Nations is being consumed, Not "consumed" per se, but cell phones generate electro-magnetic radiation - which kill off bees that are necessary for their survival. There's some pseudo-scientific reports that simply state the opposite and should be avoided as much as possible.
Do you know about some memory issue or CPU usage issue in Firefox? If so, report the details so it can be fixed. You posted a link to a utility that "stress-tests" mozilla. An even harder stress test is to load all of those sites at once rather than putting them through some form of rotation. As of now, Process Explorer detects a working set size of ~100MB, which doesn't really decrease after all 100 of those tabs were closed (that is, the windows containing those tabs was closed).
Filing a report requires a special version of Firefox with an included memory leak detector that can write reports at any time. If I was able to compile Firefox, I wouldn't be complaining about the program as a whole and would instead complain about a specific aspect of it.
By the way - if Firefox is supposed to use less resources than the competition, then resource leak problems are more severe as it cannot leverage it's claimed advantage.
If you don't want to lose CPU cycles (and therefore battery power) from using your browser, why are you on Slashdot? I could ask you the same question. In addition, I do experience the same symptoms when attempting to do actual work.
Some of these tweaks cut down on memory usage. Given that there are still plenty of computers with 512MB of ram (e.g. notebook computers), you don't want applications pinning 100% CPU or memory as it slows down the rest of the system. This is more important with notebook computers, since a second lost through CPU usage or hard drive thrashing is a second lost from battery charge.
The notebook I'm using right now has this amount of memory, and was easily available in stores 1 year ago. Last time I checked, a web browser should never require the absolute latest system for day-to-day operations (which include having another application in the background, such as a word processor or even MSVC 2005.)
While I generally agree, I do strongly oppose home schooling. What your kid would miss out is the contact with other kids, not just their friends but actually finding a way to work together with people they didn't choose but that were "forced" onto them. This is not an issue with homeschooling, as these issues still persist (or are significantly worse) in public schools. For example:
The social structure in public schools bears no resemblance to either a realistic or healthy society. Problematic children are given free reign matched only by the Grand Theft Auto series, where the authorities "forget" about problems.
Contact with other kids is "forced" with a false statement saying that contact is always good. As a result, you have taunting, exploitive relationships and other negative social aspects that get learnt as status quo.
Working together, most cases of elementry or high school assignments, means one person collects work in an assignment. Unlike most RPGs, where characters can join together to eliminate weaknesses (or join together as in Chrono Trigger), the best person simply takes the brunt of the work with others parasiting off of the best person.
While you didn't raise this point, public schools teach at a fixed rate - 110 hours of training without adjusting content to the skill of the pupil.
The business world is not equal to a public school. Adults can walk away at any time, complete with years of experience and possibly additional information, if they are "forced" into a hostile envrionment.
You can wonder why public elementry/high schools have these problems, while colleges and universities don't - it's based around the same principles, but most of the obvious issues appear to vaporise as soon as the setting changes.
You could try looking at the following issues when opposing homeschooling:
Course content doesn't match what should be taught. For example, it may be deficient in math, or put undue weight on some topics (e.g. be mixed with religious fundamentalism.)
Course quality isn't guarenteed. If there's a problem with the course content, it may go undetected in one-time schools.
Cost is higher. You either need to take time off work, or need to hire a tutor.
I COPY your book. That's infringement. (Notice how in all but one example you lose the ability to use the object? That is a key point) Let's expand this a little - I copy your video game, with it's CD-key. In this example, you partially lose the ability to do online play.
Your rule of thumb is full of shit and your point about Alex Jones is not valid. Alex is safe precisely because he does speak out. If he were to wind up dead with a bullet in his head people would scream bloody murder, and the obvious corollary to your argument would be proven for many people: "OMG, he was telling the truth all along!" I know a person who is speaking out about one of the government plots - in particular, it involves planting loose screws that generate an electromagnetic flux in order to attract a six-dimensional alien invasion lead by the Secret Intelligence Agency. I haven't heard from this person in a while, as if he simply disappeared - perhaps he was telling the truth.
The irony is that those who speak out against tyranny are safer than those who cower. As you know, Michael Moore is under constant ridicule from those who disagree with him. In particular, some publications (e.g. Farenhype 9/11) accuse him of being an alien and launch personal attacks. His latest documentary caused the government to ask why he went to Cuba, complete with threats of fines and/or jail.
There's also an individual going up against some cult - who is currently bankrupt and facing extradition.
IANAL, and have limited experience in the legal system (with the exception of divorce attorneys) but wouldn't disbarring Jack not do anything except prevent him from practicing law? If he's disbarred, he loses his credibility - and anyone who sees him on the news can write a letter to an editor asking why they are citing a disbarred lawyer.
Seriously, if in fact you want him to stop, why not simply have a judge order, based on previous set examples of his actions, that is banned from filing any lawsuit in the USA or territories for a period of ten years. Not optimal. The trick is to let him file these lawsuits - then countersue. If you want to know why this works, ask a lawyer.
A microwave oven is a Faraday cage, the radiation it generates is contained within the oven itself. The cage isn't perfect, as the front door is a mesh rather than a wall. While the mesh is still capable of stopping microwave radiation, it's still not something you want to stand in front of for a few hours - even if the leakage through the mesh is negligible. (Not that you'd actually do that...)
And reading the page, the concept goes back much further. Sudoku's just the name - programming a Sudoku-styled game (a Number Place generator, say) would've been harder 10 years ago, but the game certainly existed.
I wouldn't agree - I've built magic-square solvers ~10 years ago (possibly a bit longer - and that also included writing a QBasic program that writes these magic-square solvers for those puzzles that aren't square shaped).
Based on the quality of the most common flash-based sudoku puzzles (as well as the equivalant kakuro puzzles), writing a sudoku program wouldn't be hard even when done 10-20 years ago. In fact, I could have easily built one with the tools of that time.
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tech based people aren't reall "users" in the base term. Incorrect. Tech based people are as much of a user as anyone else.
The only difference is that non-tech based people will try to contact the tech-based people in order for the computer to be repaired. A technician will immediately try to get information about that STOP error code and if necessary, guide the user to disable the automatic restart for one session. Being condescending to someone because they make a valid point only paints yourself as a monkey.
Their point is valid, you are not. Condescending doesn't mean what you think it means.
If you carefully reread my posting, you will notice that I addressed the first point where error messages are hidden from the user, and the second point on why hiding error messages behind an automatic reboot is a good idea. If you have additional information that makes information in my posting incorrect, perhaps you'd like to contribute rather than complain.
Alternatively, press F8 during bootup and disable automatic restarts. I am not trying to rant (well.. okay, partially I do) but how exactly does stability issues concealment count as good engineering? Unless you are in a reboot loop, or have a persistent failure of your system, you generally want to restart the computer if there's a STOP error.
Even though the DMCA requires you to be the copyright holder, there's plenty of abuses where thrid-parties submitted the DMCA takedown notice for malicious purposes. Service providers that don't have a backbone will not bother verifying the legitimacy of the complaint and will simply remove the content.
Is it Wrath? Attempting to kill everything in GTA will not advance the plot - perhaps even set back the player as he gets reduced back to what's considered the absolute basic equipment and stuff.
Is it Lust? While it is true that GTA III had a dry-humping sex scene that cannot be obtained through normal in-game means, it's still considered an isolated incident.
Is it gluttony? Probably not, since Pacman would obviously be considered the most awful game of all time, as would any other game that allows eating strawberries for points/health.
Sloth? If a person is playing video games to a degree where he isn't a productive member of society, there's something already wrong with him. In any case, GTA doesn't present sloth as you need to act to advance the plot. If you want a prime example of sloth, Don't shoot the puppy.
Envy? GTA's protagonist doesn't really desire the aspects of others.
Greed? Probably, but call me when someone punishes the other game developers for not breaking the "packrat" mentality.
This leaves pride. The release of this game has caused many self-important attention whores use the "video games made me do it" defence, as well as allowing the florida-lawyer-who-shall-not-be-named to perform the peacock defence. In addition, there are those that take satisifaction in bashing rockstar for releasing the violent video games. Because GTA has spread the sin of pride throughout society, I am in full agreement that Rockstar should be crushed into oblivion.
There's already enough trouble with frivilous lawsuits (e.g. Warning: do not place ladder on frozen cow patties). Violating an actual law will be worse against companies, since they will need to win on a technicality (which won't always work.)
It's involves all audio devices in general, although it could have to do with unintentional design specifications.
More often than not, I find that I need to set the Windows master volume to an extremely low level - one or two pixels above silence. After that, I need to set the wave volume to that same region - near the bottom. Next, my speaker volume is set to low as well. After all this, I'm actually comfortable with the standard operating system sounds.
Unless there's some boost or gain that I haven't noticed, it's more than just the music industry that's having problems.
The real issue with UT2003 was that it didn't implement some of the gameplay features of the original UT, such as the Assault gametype. It's not as simple as a single weapon, as that could easily be fixed in a patch or a mod (and dismissed as an overcompensation as the sniper rifle was previously too powerful.)
Let's say you comment on the theory concerning the use of demolition explosives on one of the world trade centers - pointing out that the collapse of the WTC doesn't look like other building demolitions, or that the "symettric demolition" claim is incorrect.
However, the conspiracy theorists on the site are extremely fanatic about their theory (as opposed to a more moderate site that tries to investigate properly.) As a result, you receive a large quantity of negative feedback that attaches itself to your online reputation.
Other things that can affect you would be playing RTCW:ET, where you get kicked from a server for n00bism as you didn't dodge the three panzers that get fired into your local area (because another player thought you should have.)
And my personal favourite - just claim you support Bush. Your reputation would instantly tank.
As you know, some people are able to sexually fufill themselves even if it is against social guidelines or norms to do so. (Naturally, they don't talk about it, since it's gross and rather pointless in day-to-day discussion aside from jokes.)
Regular friendships between two people - even between a man and a woman - do not require sex even over the long term. A marital relationship, in this regard, shouldn't be different - the only difference is the sexual aspect being added. If this aspect is handled correctly, it won't interefere with the long term component.
There's also "Dr. Phil" style relationships, where there are two fighting couples that use "makeup sex" in order to settle arguments. This isn't much different than trying to use post-it-notes for duct work - eventually the passion gained from intercourse will die down and fail to even offset the negative environment.
In the situation provided, the toilet seat needs to be down 10 times a day, and up 8 times. Total effort expended is x*8*2 + y * 10 * 2 (or 16X+20Y), where x+y=1, and x is the distance to raise and y is the distance to lower. A distance of 1 is a full trip up or down.
Since both partners want to minimize work, the best method to do this is to ensure that work is distributed equally.
16X = 20Y
16X = 20(1-X)
16X = 20 - 20X
36X = 20
X=20/36
X=5/9
Splitting the work exactly evenly would require placing the toilet seat 5/9ths of the way down. If your toilet seat doesn't like this position, get a better toilet seat. If your partner doesn't like this suggestion and demands the toilet seat always be down, get a better partner.
Most of "top 10" list appears to be composed of reactive solutions, which rely on user reports. A proactive one automatically detects if a user is entering what appears to be a credit card or debit card number over an http or unsigned https connection - a common trait for most phishing sites.
Based on the article, Google Safe Browsing should either be at the top or bottom of the list, and not obscured by having a reactive entry in a more prominant position.
As a side note, these phishing sites want as much traffic as possible. We should give it to them - Lad Vampire handles the traffic, and the fake name generator gives the database entries.
In particular, I've been looking at "online pharmacy" sites that are obviously fake (e.g. have you submit credit card information over http rather than https) - which is a common trend for 99% of these fake pharmacy sites that I've been to.
Filing a report requires a special version of Firefox with an included memory leak detector that can write reports at any time. If I was able to compile Firefox, I wouldn't be complaining about the program as a whole and would instead complain about a specific aspect of it.
By the way - if Firefox is supposed to use less resources than the competition, then resource leak problems are more severe as it cannot leverage it's claimed advantage.
Some of these tweaks cut down on memory usage. Given that there are still plenty of computers with 512MB of ram (e.g. notebook computers), you don't want applications pinning 100% CPU or memory as it slows down the rest of the system. This is more important with notebook computers, since a second lost through CPU usage or hard drive thrashing is a second lost from battery charge.
The notebook I'm using right now has this amount of memory, and was easily available in stores 1 year ago. Last time I checked, a web browser should never require the absolute latest system for day-to-day operations (which include having another application in the background, such as a word processor or even MSVC 2005.)
You can wonder why public elementry/high schools have these problems, while colleges and universities don't - it's based around the same principles, but most of the obvious issues appear to vaporise as soon as the setting changes.
You could try looking at the following issues when opposing homeschooling:
There's also an individual going up against some cult - who is currently bankrupt and facing extradition.
I wouldn't agree - I've built magic-square solvers ~10 years ago (possibly a bit longer - and that also included writing a QBasic program that writes these magic-square solvers for those puzzles that aren't square shaped).
Based on the quality of the most common flash-based sudoku puzzles (as well as the equivalant kakuro puzzles), writing a sudoku program wouldn't be hard even when done 10-20 years ago. In fact, I could have easily built one with the tools of that time.