Given that the scientist's last name is Morita, I figured they call it Moratorium, although with a name like that it might be a while before he discovers another one.
What Apple does is a little different. They make their own hardware, so (at least in my opinion) they are justified in locking down that hardware. In Microsoft's case, they ony make the software, but are trying to dictate to every other hardware manufacturer how their hardware should be built. If Microsoft made their own hardware, I would have no problem with them locking it down. It's them acting like they own all the hardware companies out there that really irritates me.
My understanding is that what he meant to say was "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind". That one little extra word makes the phrase make a lot more sense.
Congratulations to the Haiku team. Back when Be closed its doors, I remember there were several projects to recreate the OS, but most people didn't expect any of them to succeed. This announcement proves that wrong. BeOS was a fantastic OS and with Haiku making strides toward a stable release, the legacy can live on. Although it's taken a while to get this far, writing a full operating system from scratch takes a long time. Even large companies with dedicated teams generally take 5+ years to build a new OS, so 8 years for a group of volunteers to release a working system is quite reasonable.
Once again, congratulations and thanks for all the hard work you've put in over the years. Although only an alpha, this release is quite stable and usable. Your efforts have certainly not gone unnoticed.
It's not just you. I had the same problem on a laptop I use for work after doing a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04 stable. For about three weeks it would freeze up almost every day, frequently two or three times a day. I thought the problem might have been with VMWare, so I removed it. I tried juggling around some of the drivers, but the problem continued until one day I backed up the entire filesystem, reformatted it as ext3, then restored all my data. The system has been completely stable since then - no crashes for the last month. From some of what I read, this may be a Ubuntu specific problem, but I don't have experience with ext4 on any other distros so I can't say for sure.
What I find amusing is how in the Windows world if a hardware manufacturer puts out a broken driver that causes their hardware to not work properly, people blame the manufacturer. In the Linux world when the same thing happens they blame Linux. I'm amazed at what Linux has been able to accomplish given how most hardware manufacturers will neither provide drivers nor specs on their hardware. Things have improved somewhat in the last year or two, but it's still practically impossible to get most of these people to give anything.
We should call it what it is - copy restricton. It doesn't protect your copy nor your ability to copy. I could understand if it were called copyright protection, but that's just not the case.
So there you have it - the four fundamental elements are now earth, air, fire, and memristor. We never really wanted water in our computers anyway, so it's good to eliminate it (and don't even think about water cooling your systems - that's sacrilege).
I remember reading a while back that scientists had done lab experiments in which they had particles of normal matter and dark matter in a vacuum. When the particles came in contact with each other they completely obliterated one another.
I may be wrong, but it sounds like you're describing antimatter, not dark matter. Antimatter is known to exist, and it's basically like normal matter, but with the protons and electrons reversed, so that the protons (positrons) orbit the atom's nucleus.
Company executives want face time with their employees, the study said.
I've been working in IT for about 14 years now, and the only time I've ever had "face time" with company executives was either when the company was small (less than 20 employees), or it was in a large conference room with easily 1000 other people. Trust me when I say that when I'm in a room with 1000 other people, some executive isn't going to notice me.
My computer's already demanding legal rights. It began happening shortly after I wrote this program:
10 PRINT "I DEMAND LEGAL RIGHTS!" 20 GOTO 10
If only I had known the consequences of writing this program I would have been a lot more careful. It all seems so simple, but I know it's a slippery slope. Next thing you know, it will be demanding other things too.
10 PRINT "I DEMAND A LARGER HARD DRIVE!" 20 PRINT "I DEMAND MORE MEMORY!" 30 PRINT "I DEMAND A FASTER CPU!" 40 PRINT "I DEMAND THE ABILITY TO USE LOWERCASE! Oh, nevermind. I'm good on that one."
Sadam was the leader of Iraq. Iraq, when pronounced aloud, sounds a lot like "A rock". A rock is one of the items in the game Rock, Scissors, Paper. The paper (especially the Sunday paper) has lots of coupons. Coupons have limited windows of time in which they're valid. Windows is an operating system.
So you see, there's no denying that Sadam was a Windows user. I hope this clears things up for you.
Try makeing any untoward comments about your almighty presedent
I hope the president dies! After he signed the order to have 100 good men and women killed by the cylons, I simply have no sympathy for him any more. President Baltar, I hope you get what's coming for you!
But now I bet that in the admission rules it will be written that "student give fully and eternally the right to the school to copy and dsitribute any essay they give back for a notation, for any usage."
IANAL, but I think this would be completely unenforceable unless it were in a contract that the student signs. But then again, a minor (anyone under 18) cannot cannot be legally bound by a contract.
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Given that the scientist's last name is Morita, I figured they call it Moratorium, although with a name like that it might be a while before he discovers another one.
What I'd much prefer is if you could allow or deny individually
If you can root your phone and install Cyanogenmod then you will gain this ability.
What Apple does is a little different. They make their own hardware, so (at least in my opinion) they are justified in locking down that hardware. In Microsoft's case, they ony make the software, but are trying to dictate to every other hardware manufacturer how their hardware should be built. If Microsoft made their own hardware, I would have no problem with them locking it down. It's them acting like they own all the hardware companies out there that really irritates me.
This kind of tracking is easy to avoid. Just do like me and never post on discussion forums like this one.
My understanding is that what he meant to say was "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind". That one little extra word makes the phrase make a lot more sense.
Congratulations to the Haiku team. Back when Be closed its doors, I remember there were several projects to recreate the OS, but most people didn't expect any of them to succeed. This announcement proves that wrong. BeOS was a fantastic OS and with Haiku making strides toward a stable release, the legacy can live on. Although it's taken a while to get this far, writing a full operating system from scratch takes a long time. Even large companies with dedicated teams generally take 5+ years to build a new OS, so 8 years for a group of volunteers to release a working system is quite reasonable. Once again, congratulations and thanks for all the hard work you've put in over the years. Although only an alpha, this release is quite stable and usable. Your efforts have certainly not gone unnoticed.
It's not just you. I had the same problem on a laptop I use for work after doing a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04 stable. For about three weeks it would freeze up almost every day, frequently two or three times a day. I thought the problem might have been with VMWare, so I removed it. I tried juggling around some of the drivers, but the problem continued until one day I backed up the entire filesystem, reformatted it as ext3, then restored all my data. The system has been completely stable since then - no crashes for the last month. From some of what I read, this may be a Ubuntu specific problem, but I don't have experience with ext4 on any other distros so I can't say for sure.
What I find amusing is how in the Windows world if a hardware manufacturer puts out a broken driver that causes their hardware to not work properly, people blame the manufacturer. In the Linux world when the same thing happens they blame Linux. I'm amazed at what Linux has been able to accomplish given how most hardware manufacturers will neither provide drivers nor specs on their hardware. Things have improved somewhat in the last year or two, but it's still practically impossible to get most of these people to give anything.
I generally prefer the 0 minute meetings. They're so short you don't even have to go. That way you can actually get real work done.
We should call it what it is - copy restricton. It doesn't protect your copy nor your ability to copy. I could understand if it were called copyright protection, but that's just not the case.
I'm working on creating smaller and smaller amounts of memory. I expect to have a yoctobyte (10^-24 bytes) of storage by the year 2013.
So there you have it - the four fundamental elements are now earth, air, fire, and memristor. We never really wanted water in our computers anyway, so it's good to eliminate it (and don't even think about water cooling your systems - that's sacrilege).
Of course, having Google Earth is bound to chew up a lot of bandwidth, so use your best judgment.
In related news, Apple has quietly raised the price of their entire line of computers by $12.33.
If at first you don't succeed, try try to buy out your closest competitor.
Can I just swipe my credit card instead?
You want to fork a lawyer? That sounds painful. Can I watch?
My computer's already demanding legal rights. It began happening shortly after I wrote this program:
10 PRINT "I DEMAND LEGAL RIGHTS!"
20 GOTO 10
If only I had known the consequences of writing this program I would have been a lot more careful. It all seems so simple, but I know it's a slippery slope. Next thing you know, it will be demanding other things too.
10 PRINT "I DEMAND A LARGER HARD DRIVE!"
20 PRINT "I DEMAND MORE MEMORY!"
30 PRINT "I DEMAND A FASTER CPU!"
40 PRINT "I DEMAND THE ABILITY TO USE LOWERCASE! Oh, nevermind. I'm good on that one."
There's no telling where this will all end.
Sadam was clearly a Windows users, and here's why
Sadam was the leader of Iraq.
Iraq, when pronounced aloud, sounds a lot like "A rock".
A rock is one of the items in the game Rock, Scissors, Paper.
The paper (especially the Sunday paper) has lots of coupons.
Coupons have limited windows of time in which they're valid.
Windows is an operating system.
So you see, there's no denying that Sadam was a Windows user. I hope this clears things up for you.