This is relatively late in the comments so will be missed by everyone but has anhyone noticed how the name of the uncaught guy Dzhokhar is pronounced very close to Joker.
Since the death of the Amiga and Atari ST. Computer users have had two or three options, Windows, Mac or Linux ( there was a time between the death of the two computers and the birth of a viable Linux -- so at that time there were only two options. Linux were geeky, and Macs were expensive.
At the same time the net arose, and it was internet stuff that became the biggest consumer of cpu time. For most home users. Windows was really the only option.
OK. I'm vry geeky and I used to use Windows a lot. One of the main reasons, all the developer tools that worked much better in Windows. Then one day I got a drive by virus. I went to one of those, post your Hijack this logs and we will help sites. The esperience was enough to make me decide to go then and there with Linux.
While I am geeky, I do not want to spend my time maintaining my computer. I want to spend it doing the geeky stuff that I like, and I discovered that if you are your own sysadmin Linux is a lot easier to use. I have almost never had file system corruption and the times that I did it was because of failing hard drives not the OS. I generally don't worry about viruses. I don't have to worry often about conflicting installation of software. Every Friday I update my whole system no problem.
The thing is that underneath it all Windows is a poorly engineered system with a lot of bad decisions which got by for a long time because of it's monopoly power,Moore's law, and the ability to hire tousands of chimpanzees too bang out code on keyboards in an attempt to hide Windows flaws. The problem now for MS is that when people check something else out, they are not likely to go back.
Close. I would say several things. First processor improvement has changed and most processor improvement is now in the number of cores. You don't need new software for more cores.
The second unsaid thing is that after the flood with hard drives becoming scarcer, people are not urging that you get better quality 'files", higher resolution videos, higher bitrate audio etc. So you don't need the new processing power, or memory improvements.
I bet that the special interests will have too much at stake to let this be overturned.
I expect a swift congressional override in such a case.
Congress does not have the power to determine if something is patentable. Only SCOTUS has the power to do that. If SCOTUS rules something is not patentable, then the Constitution would have to be modified to make it so. In other words it would take an amendment. Do you know how hard it is to amend the constitutiion? Hell the possibility of one amendment even started one of the bloodiest wars in history, and the bloodiest in US history.
That's nice, but you should probably give that speech to Congress not the Supreme Court. The court only cares if Congress stays within their constitutionally granted power, not if they're doing it smart or even right. After all it's not hard to argue that since patents are valuable it is incentive to create patentable inventions. It might not work that well in practice but the Supreme Court isn't going to overrule Congress on a thing like that.
After the first sentence and before the last sentence, everything you said is absolutely true, but it all sums up to absolute bullshit.
The basic patent case history is laid out. Many in the Constitiional Convention did not want to give Congress the right to grant patents. The final language in the Constitution is IIRC, Congress has the right to grant patents "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" IIRC the phrase correctly. SCOTUS can look at a certain type of patent and decide it does not "promote..." and declare the material unpatentable. Granted it uses a very light hand for this, but it does enter the fray at times.
Nah. These days they could write a device driver for that. In fact they could do something like take the present port of ext2 and improve it. From what I remember studies indicate that ext4 is actually the best file system for flash.
It's Jobs vision of computing. You couldn't add a hard drive to the original Mac because "Who wants a hard drive?". It just makes things more complicated. Remember the big fight between Jobs and Scully was because Scully wanted to open up the MAc and do things like add SCSI ports and Jobs opposed it.
Hmm. Take ten entangled pairs. Sequence them 1-10. ( It doesn't have to be ten. ) Split the pairs up. Use an encoding invariant under bitwise not set one set of pairs to some value. Read the other set of pairs value. Seems to me information was transmitted.
Of course QE is something that most people didn't talk about till after I finished grad school.
What exactly is the difference between a 'fake' journal and a 'real' journal? How much you pay?
A journal is fake if it is not published by Elvesier Springer-Verlag, Foster-and whatever or one of the established publishers who have been publishing for at least 50 years
After all those publishers have interests to protect. Those are to have a "real" system of journals where the publishers get paid to publish the articles, get paid a lot for subscriptions, and get paid a lot to access the articles electronically, and where the biggest amount of labor is done by editors and peer reviewers who offer up their work for free.
Now I do not run Windows except for VMs. [1] But I remember that when XP was first released MS tried to calm some fears by saying that at end of life they would release a work around for WGA so that those who suddenly find themselves with machines that need verification would not be left out of the cold.
Now we get see if they keep their word.
[1] The point is that I no longer understand WGA intimately.
Maybe, just maybe, the MS user base (at around 94%) is a bit more appealing to malware/virus writers than OS X (at around 5%) or Linux (at 1%)...
Of course the fact that most botnot managers base their C&C on linux boxes and one linux box is considered pure gold for them, even compared to 1000 Windows boxes.
Great site, but I always download my videos ( generally to/tmp ) before viewing. Gives a better viewing "experience" [1]. Firefox/Download Helper don't work can you make a suggestion?
[1] I hate that word using it makes me sound like Gates or Jobs selling something.
Aside from that... a lot of addicts who stopped say that the biggest motivation was the illegality, and that if the drugs were legal they probably would never have stopped.
Did you slack off at work for half an hour in the last few weeks? If so, you have committed a felony by violating the Honest Services Act, please go to your local police station and turn yourself in.
I'm not too particularly enamoured with Anonymous either. In fact, I've said that their members envision themselves as being a cyber version of the Red Brigade, but they are closer to the SLA. That does not mean however that everything they oppose is right, or everything they support is wrong.
No but it makes it harder to locate a mate, plus once you explain it to a potential mate, they use up valuable time used reproducing laughing their heads of at you.
If he had stood up to Hitler earlier, the level of death and destruction would have been far less, or perhaps zero. Germany was still very weak when the appeasement started. When Hitler sent soldiers into the Rhineland, they had no ammunition. If the Allies had put up even a token resistance, they could have stopped it.
Not to forget that when the Germans marched into Sudetenland the German Generals made an agreement amongst themselves that should they encounter any resistance, they would turn around and overthrow Hitler.
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Who would have thought, of all places, MIT under "lock down".
In answer to the question: Aaron Swartz.
Conspiracy?
I don't say anything about a conspiracy. Just a very creepy fact.
This is relatively late in the comments so will be missed by everyone but has anhyone noticed how the name of the uncaught guy Dzhokhar is pronounced very close to Joker.
Guns have a useful purpose. They are good at blowing away those idiots that want to ban guns.
OR maybe itw as AQ hackers bringing SABER down.
Since the death of the Amiga and Atari ST. Computer users have had two or three options, Windows, Mac or Linux ( there was a time between the death of the two computers and the birth of a viable Linux -- so at that time there were only two options. Linux were geeky, and Macs were expensive.
At the same time the net arose, and it was internet stuff that became the biggest consumer of cpu time. For most home users. Windows was really the only option.
OK. I'm vry geeky and I used to use Windows a lot. One of the main reasons, all the developer tools that worked much better in Windows.
Then one day I got a drive by virus. I went to one of those, post your Hijack this logs and we will help sites. The esperience was enough to make me decide to go then and there with Linux.
While I am geeky, I do not want to spend my time maintaining my computer. I want to spend it doing the geeky stuff that I like, and I discovered that if you are your own sysadmin Linux is a lot easier to use. I have almost never had file system corruption and the times that I did it was because of failing hard drives not the OS.
I generally don't worry about viruses. I don't have to worry often about conflicting installation of software. Every Friday I update my whole system no problem.
The thing is that underneath it all Windows is a poorly engineered system with a lot of bad decisions which got by for a long time because of it's monopoly power ,Moore's law, and the ability to hire tousands of chimpanzees too bang out code on keyboards in an attempt to hide Windows flaws. The problem now for MS is that when people check something else out, they are not likely to go back.
Close.
I would say several things.
First processor improvement has changed and most processor improvement is now in the number of cores. You don't need new software for more cores.
The second unsaid thing is that after the flood with hard drives becoming scarcer, people are not urging that you get better quality 'files", higher resolution videos, higher bitrate audio etc. So you don't need the new processing power, or memory improvements.
because Obama single handedly killed Osama Bin Laden, finishing off Al Queda.
I bet that the special interests will have too much at stake to let this be overturned.
I expect a swift congressional override in such a case.
Congress does not have the power to determine if something is patentable. Only SCOTUS has the power to do that. If SCOTUS rules something is not patentable, then the Constitution would have to be modified to make it so. In other words it would take an amendment. Do you know how hard it is to amend the constitutiion?
Hell the possibility of one amendment even started one of the bloodiest wars in history, and the bloodiest in US history.
That's nice, but you should probably give that speech to Congress not the Supreme Court. The court only cares if Congress stays within their constitutionally granted power, not if they're doing it smart or even right. After all it's not hard to argue that since patents are valuable it is incentive to create patentable inventions. It might not work that well in practice but the Supreme Court isn't going to overrule Congress on a thing like that.
After the first sentence and before the last sentence, everything you said is absolutely true, but it all sums up to absolute bullshit.
The basic patent case history is laid out. Many in the Constitiional Convention did not want to give Congress the right to grant patents. The final language in the Constitution is IIRC, Congress has the right to grant patents "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" IIRC the phrase correctly. SCOTUS can look at a certain type of patent and decide it does not "promote ..." and declare the material unpatentable. Granted it uses a very light hand for this, but it does enter the fray
at times.
is that a large portion of Swedes lie about when they will change their minds.
Nah. These days they could write a device driver for that.
In fact they could do something like take the present port of ext2 and improve it.
From what I remember studies indicate that ext4 is actually the best file system for flash.
It's Jobs vision of computing. You couldn't add a hard drive to the original Mac because
"Who wants a hard drive?". It just makes things more complicated. Remember the big fight between Jobs and Scully
was because Scully wanted to open up the MAc and do things like add SCSI ports and Jobs opposed it.
Hmm. Take ten entangled pairs. Sequence them 1-10. ( It doesn't have to be ten. )
Split the pairs up.
Use an encoding invariant under bitwise not set one set of pairs to some value.
Read the other set of pairs value.
Seems to me information was transmitted.
Of course QE is something that most people didn't talk about till after I finished grad school.
Given that according to SR there is no such thing as simultaneity at two different locations in space, how can you tell it was instantaneous?
So a teeny teeny bit more accurate then MSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, the Washington Post and the New York Times.
What exactly is the difference between a 'fake' journal and a 'real' journal? How much you pay?
A journal is fake if it is not published by Elvesier Springer-Verlag, Foster-and whatever or one of the established publishers who have been publishing for at least 50 years
After all those publishers have interests to protect. Those are to have a "real" system of journals where the publishers get paid to publish the articles, get paid a lot for subscriptions, and get paid a lot to access the articles electronically, and where the biggest amount of labor is done by editors and peer reviewers who offer up their work for free.
My understanding is that the Qt libraries are on the order of hundreds of megabytes. Bit large for a library on a machine with 16G storage,
Now I do not run Windows except for VMs. [1] But I remember that when XP was first released MS tried to calm some fears by saying that at end of life they would release a work around for WGA so that those who suddenly find themselves with machines that need verification would not be left out of the cold.
Now we get see if they keep their word.
[1] The point is that I no longer understand WGA intimately.
Maybe, just maybe, the MS user base (at around 94%) is a bit more appealing to malware/virus writers than OS X (at around 5%) or Linux (at 1%)...
Of course the fact that most botnot managers base their C&C on linux boxes and one linux box is considered pure gold for them, even compared to 1000 Windows boxes.
Great site, but I always download my videos ( generally to /tmp ) before viewing. Gives a better viewing "experience" [1].
Firefox/Download Helper don't work can you make a suggestion?
[1] I hate that word using it makes me sound like Gates or Jobs selling something.
Aside from that...
a lot of addicts who stopped say that the biggest motivation was the illegality, and that if the drugs were legal they probably would never have stopped.
Did you slack off at work for half an hour in the last few weeks?
If so, you have committed a felony by violating the Honest Services Act, please go to your local police station and turn yourself in.
I'm not too particularly enamoured with Anonymous either. In fact, I've said that their members envision themselves as being a cyber version of the Red Brigade, but they are closer to the SLA. That does not mean however that everything they oppose is right, or everything they support is wrong.
No but it makes it harder to locate a mate, plus once you explain it to a potential mate, they use up valuable time used reproducing laughing their heads of at you.
If he had stood up to Hitler earlier, the level of death and destruction would have been far less, or perhaps zero. Germany was still very weak when the appeasement started. When Hitler sent soldiers into the Rhineland, they had no ammunition. If the Allies had put up even a token resistance, they could have stopped it.
Not to forget that when the Germans marched into Sudetenland the German Generals made an agreement amongst themselves that should they encounter any resistance, they would turn around and overthrow Hitler.