The real question you want answered is whether revenues are better with the cameras or without. If they make more money than they cost, they're a good thing. If they make less money than they cost, they're a bad thing.
The real problem is that they're run by government. They should be contracted out to private companies to make the most of free market economics.
so who was walking around piecing tiny bits of paper together in the middle of the parade?
Ethan Finkelstein.. apparently.
FTFA:
Nassau County Police Department Inspector Kenneth Lack said in a statement the department "is very concerned about this situation."
"We will be conducting an investigation into this matter as well as reviewing our procedures for the disposing of sensitive documents," he said.
Intellectual property is antithetical to the production of anything. It's a way to keep 80% of the population (the proportion not required to support human needs) busy arguing about the nuances of ownership whilst the people producing the required goods are starving to death in sweatshops around the world. IP is a means to enforce modern slavery, nothing more.
Africa is full of international tension, starvation, warlords, drug abuse, HIV and incredibly, incredibly poor people. There's only 2 ways a director general of a UN body could keep a straight face while talking about the 'knowledge economy' in Africa:
1/ He's an imbecile
2/ Botox
"There was an attack! This could cause some problem, somewhere, sometime.. maybe. Senior people in the US say 'something could go wrong!' but they don't all agree on that."
Serious, serious FUD. This is like a CBS broadcast calling for increased funding for cyber defense.
The journal is published by one of those 'think tanks' which try to form foreign policy by delivering analysis funded by industry heavyweights. This one (believe it or not) founded by Richard Nixon. How does this find the front page of/.? Is/. becoming a site devoted to fear-mongering and right wing political activism? I mean seriously, just because it has 'cyber' in the title, doesn't mean that there's anything of interest to/. readers in the text!
However most people now have moved onto the Unity interface. I don't see that as an option, which makes it seem a bit ancient
Let's be honest, if you think Unity is the next 'big thing' then you've got your head up Mark Shuttleworth's arse. Just because it comes from Canonical, it doesn't mean it's good.
If you put some thought into it, it's rather clear how Unity is (at best) an average desktop interface and a terrible tablet interface. It's incredibly unstable, poorly thought out and simply not configurable. It would serve quite averagely as a touch screen desktop productivity GUI. To top it off, Gnome 3 is actually a better desktop interface with more flexability and a damn site more stable.
So it's quite scary that Canonical have bet-the-house on this 'swing for the fences' GUI which obviously all the users of Mint can't stand. Ironically, the Unity desktop interface is creating the greatest schism in graphical desktops since KDE 'vs' Gnome. 'most people have moved onto the Unity interface' is either a troll or wishful thinking. Mint is (essentially) 'not Unity' and is now more popular than Ubuntu for this reason. And who knows how many people who stuck with Ubuntu aren't actually using Unity.
Face reality.. you're in a minority that's going to be left behind playing in Ubuntu-land. You're ancient.
Representative voting is the way to go. Get 12% of the votes? Get 12% of the seats. This isn't the case in most westernized democracies because it makes it harder for the big parties to hold office. Unless by some stroke of genius, all of the party members for a particular party decide to live in the same suburb, there's almost always more big party voters in the division, electorate, area, region.. whatever you're particular country calls it.
This is by design. The incumbant parties don't want to change the system, because it reduces their importance and ability to win. Wealthy people / businesses don't want this changed, because they're doing so well in the current climate.
The thing that blows me away is how people can actually think that we live in democracies? This is the appearance of freedom, no more. And in the US, even the appearance has melted away. It's time to stop discussing the election, and time to start being disgusted with the election.
Chris Roberts, game designer of Wing Commander fame, has had great success with his new crowd-funded Star Citizen project
Success? What success? He's raised a bunch of money by promising a whole lot of people something that it's probably going to be impossible to deliver on. When you raise people's expectations this much, you can only fail.
The Chris Roberts retirement fund is looking very dubious right now. New gaming engine for Linux? I'd be shocked just to see a new game.
That's a sort of realist 'blame the corporation' type post, and it's somewhat appropriate. Of course, there are plenty enemies of open source.. just about anyone who wants to sell software!
But don't blame the death of open source on others. It's the open source movement that's killing open source. Seriously, I've been using Linux for a long time, and you know what? It really does still suck. I just upgraded my desktop to Ubuntu 12.10 and the VMware networking has flown apart again. Unity is a chain of terrible design decisions and I still need to use package management software in order to install applications on my desktop. I mean.. seriously? After 20 years, there's been no GNU developments in software installation?
Firefox has been re-birthed from the dead and buried Mozilla, which was re-birthed from the dead and buried Netscape and Google turns around to knock out Firefox within the blink of an eye. Windows 8 is going to attract users like crazy. Once it seriously hits businesses, people are going to love it. I don't doubt that Windows 8 won't gain massive penetration in the smart phone market, but that's just because it's saturated. Android is just a cheap copy of the iPhone and it really does show. There's not much room for another knock-off smartphone.
And people are blaming the 'legion' for the failings of OSS. There's only one legion to blame for OSS. Wake up and smell the mediocrity. Hell, I just had to add manual carriage returns to my post to get paragraph breaks to come out!
Arrogance is a self defence mechanism for people with low self esteem to (try to) feel good about themselves.
Mechanical changes in your persona just don't cut the mustard. You really need to find a way to feel good about yourself which isn't dependant upon anything but your own self opinion (in an introspective, not egotistical fashion). Until you can really accept yourself, with all of your failings and strengths, then you can't draw a realistic opinion of yourself. Without a realistic opinion of yourself, you'll spend an awful lot of energy and effort trying to make yourself feel better about the low self opinion you're deriving of yourself from the opinions of others.
Take some time for introspection.
What are you afraid of? How can you overcome those fears?
How do you treat people? Do you judge others?
Are you constructive in situations with other people?
Do you recognize the immense value in the diversity of human kind?
Are you sincere, honestly emotional and balanced?
Can you really understand why that jock-like character demeans you, and feel compassion for his failings?
Can you feel compassion for your own failings?
Are you reactive or thoughful?
It's not about abolishing your shortcomings, they're part of you, serve a purpose and are not something you can or would want to just throw away. But if you find the root cause of your failings, not only will you understand yourself but you'll be a better person for the understanding and most likely, very constructive for your arrogant geek friends to be around. And be gentle and kind with yourself, there's not a single person alive who doesn't have failings who hasn't overcome them.
Learn to love yourself like you'd love your own children, no matter what.
Windows NT 3.51 had a FAT bug where after a file was appended to, the correct file size was not re-written to the FAT. The only way to identify the file size was to read the entire file byte for byte. Microsoft denied that it was a bug, didn't publicize the undocumented feature and never changed that particular behavior.
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What'll we be talking about 30 years in the future?
The glories of the tech from 60 years in the past
The real question you want answered is whether revenues are better with the cameras or without. If they make more money than they cost, they're a good thing. If they make less money than they cost, they're a bad thing.
The real problem is that they're run by government. They should be contracted out to private companies to make the most of free market economics.
but there is sufficient evidence available that the "common sense" utility of the traffic sign or a traffic light is clearly unproven
Please stop using the term 'common sense' in relation to governments, my brain is in danger of melting.
so who was walking around piecing tiny bits of paper together in the middle of the parade?
Ethan Finkelstein .. apparently.
FTFA:
Nassau County Police Department Inspector Kenneth Lack said in a statement the department "is very concerned about this situation." "We will be conducting an investigation into this matter as well as reviewing our procedures for the disposing of sensitive documents," he said.
I'd guess this guy:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/lack-kenneth/9/6b4/115
So apparent not a standard internet myth, but an especially well contrived internet myth.
It's hard to root for a soulless lump of metal, whereas you can vicariously experience the competition through the human competitors.
Sounds like an excellent argument for human fights instead of robots fights.
Intellectual property is antithetical to the production of anything. It's a way to keep 80% of the population (the proportion not required to support human needs) busy arguing about the nuances of ownership whilst the people producing the required goods are starving to death in sweatshops around the world. IP is a means to enforce modern slavery, nothing more.
Africa is full of international tension, starvation, warlords, drug abuse, HIV and incredibly, incredibly poor people. There's only 2 ways a director general of a UN body could keep a straight face while talking about the 'knowledge economy' in Africa:
1/ He's an imbecile
2/ Botox
nuff said.
What would be really interesting is if Tony Mokbel sued Google for ruining his criminal reputation.
Just what we need, an efficient swf interpreter that doesn't have any memory issues!
I'm totally with you. Ivan seriously deserves that climate award.
To summarise the article:
.. maybe. Senior people in the US say 'something could go wrong!' but they don't all agree on that."
/.? Is /. becoming a site devoted to fear-mongering and right wing political activism? I mean seriously, just because it has 'cyber' in the title, doesn't mean that there's anything of interest to /. readers in the text!
"There was an attack! This could cause some problem, somewhere, sometime
Serious, serious FUD. This is like a CBS broadcast calling for increased funding for cyber defense.
The journal is published by one of those 'think tanks' which try to form foreign policy by delivering analysis funded by industry heavyweights. This one (believe it or not) founded by Richard Nixon. How does this find the front page of
However most people now have moved onto the Unity interface. I don't see that as an option, which makes it seem a bit ancient
Let's be honest, if you think Unity is the next 'big thing' then you've got your head up Mark Shuttleworth's arse. Just because it comes from Canonical, it doesn't mean it's good.
.. you're in a minority that's going to be left behind playing in Ubuntu-land. You're ancient.
If you put some thought into it, it's rather clear how Unity is (at best) an average desktop interface and a terrible tablet interface. It's incredibly unstable, poorly thought out and simply not configurable. It would serve quite averagely as a touch screen desktop productivity GUI. To top it off, Gnome 3 is actually a better desktop interface with more flexability and a damn site more stable.
So it's quite scary that Canonical have bet-the-house on this 'swing for the fences' GUI which obviously all the users of Mint can't stand. Ironically, the Unity desktop interface is creating the greatest schism in graphical desktops since KDE 'vs' Gnome. 'most people have moved onto the Unity interface' is either a troll or wishful thinking. Mint is (essentially) 'not Unity' and is now more popular than Ubuntu for this reason. And who knows how many people who stuck with Ubuntu aren't actually using Unity.
Face reality
Go ahead and lay the pipe to the US!
Representative voting is the way to go. Get 12% of the votes? Get 12% of the seats. This isn't the case in most westernized democracies because it makes it harder for the big parties to hold office. Unless by some stroke of genius, all of the party members for a particular party decide to live in the same suburb, there's almost always more big party voters in the division, electorate, area, region .. whatever you're particular country calls it.
This is by design. The incumbant parties don't want to change the system, because it reduces their importance and ability to win. Wealthy people / businesses don't want this changed, because they're doing so well in the current climate.
The thing that blows me away is how people can actually think that we live in democracies? This is the appearance of freedom, no more. And in the US, even the appearance has melted away. It's time to stop discussing the election, and time to start being disgusted with the election.
Chris Roberts, game designer of Wing Commander fame, has had great success with his new crowd-funded Star Citizen project
Success? What success? He's raised a bunch of money by promising a whole lot of people something that it's probably going to be impossible to deliver on. When you raise people's expectations this much, you can only fail.
The Chris Roberts retirement fund is looking very dubious right now. New gaming engine for Linux? I'd be shocked just to see a new game.
Trippy dude
FYI: Cheap land in Fukashima, excellent farming territory, good rainfall and low population density
That's like saying "My truck will be fine in the flood, it's designed to crush a Miata".
That's a sort of realist 'blame the corporation' type post, and it's somewhat appropriate. Of course, there are plenty enemies of open source .. just about anyone who wants to sell software!
.. seriously? After 20 years, there's been no GNU developments in software installation?
But don't blame the death of open source on others. It's the open source movement that's killing open source. Seriously, I've been using Linux for a long time, and you know what? It really does still suck. I just upgraded my desktop to Ubuntu 12.10 and the VMware networking has flown apart again. Unity is a chain of terrible design decisions and I still need to use package management software in order to install applications on my desktop. I mean
Firefox has been re-birthed from the dead and buried Mozilla, which was re-birthed from the dead and buried Netscape and Google turns around to knock out Firefox within the blink of an eye. Windows 8 is going to attract users like crazy. Once it seriously hits businesses, people are going to love it. I don't doubt that Windows 8 won't gain massive penetration in the smart phone market, but that's just because it's saturated. Android is just a cheap copy of the iPhone and it really does show. There's not much room for another knock-off smartphone.
And people are blaming the 'legion' for the failings of OSS. There's only one legion to blame for OSS. Wake up and smell the mediocrity. Hell, I just had to add manual carriage returns to my post to get paragraph breaks to come out!
What happens when one of them takes a good sized wave?
It's important to hold the ship at the correct angle to the wave.
That the bridge has a 13 foot wide white surface with one silver coloured ball in the middle of it .. and no other instrumentation :)
Arrogance is a self defence mechanism for people with low self esteem to (try to) feel good about themselves.
Mechanical changes in your persona just don't cut the mustard. You really need to find a way to feel good about yourself which isn't dependant upon anything but your own self opinion (in an introspective, not egotistical fashion). Until you can really accept yourself, with all of your failings and strengths, then you can't draw a realistic opinion of yourself. Without a realistic opinion of yourself, you'll spend an awful lot of energy and effort trying to make yourself feel better about the low self opinion you're deriving of yourself from the opinions of others.
Take some time for introspection.
What are you afraid of? How can you overcome those fears?
How do you treat people? Do you judge others?
Are you constructive in situations with other people?
Do you recognize the immense value in the diversity of human kind?
Are you sincere, honestly emotional and balanced?
Can you really understand why that jock-like character demeans you, and feel compassion for his failings?
Can you feel compassion for your own failings?
Are you reactive or thoughful?
It's not about abolishing your shortcomings, they're part of you, serve a purpose and are not something you can or would want to just throw away. But if you find the root cause of your failings, not only will you understand yourself but you'll be a better person for the understanding and most likely, very constructive for your arrogant geek friends to be around. And be gentle and kind with yourself, there's not a single person alive who doesn't have failings who hasn't overcome them.
Learn to love yourself like you'd love your own children, no matter what.
That would be hard if T.Rex were only a carrion specialist.
What if the dinosaur was asleep?
People stop adhering to the law.
Martin Gräßlin of KDE was rather wary about the patch and said that games changing the resolution just tend to mess up the desktop
KDE doesn't need the help.
Windows NT 3.51 had a FAT bug where after a file was appended to, the correct file size was not re-written to the FAT. The only way to identify the file size was to read the entire file byte for byte. Microsoft denied that it was a bug, didn't publicize the undocumented feature and never changed that particular behavior.