I use Dropbox, because I have several computers that I want to keep in sync. A couple times a year, I will actually log in to Dropbox... the other 99% of the time, it is just a syncing service between my computers, that has the added benefit of:
Disaster recovery from the cloud.
Quick sharing of folders with other DB users.
Quick sharing with anyone using public DB links.
Access to files using their website or mobile client.
Simple versioning support for files I'm not checking into a repository.
Dropbox is different from most cloud services, because if they disappear I still have all my files. They are on MY computer, not just the cloud, and that makes a big difference.
Developers develop on NVIDIA because their drivers are better. Flat out better. More compliant, reliable, etc. This has been true for a long time... id Software's Carmack wrote about this years ago, and the situation has not improved since then.
While I agree, mostly, I should point out that Polygamy causes similar harm to society as a whole as selective abortion of female children. It causes an excess of unattached (and frustrated) young males, which increases local violence and society's predilection for violent resolution of disagreement... ie, war.
This is very useful to me; I often have trouble picking my wife out of a crowd. Mom, who has prosopagnosia (unable to identify faces) will also appreciate it. This kind of task, supplementing human failings, is exactly what we need. Many people don't need it; I'm sure most people will be as good or better than Glass at seeing friends in a crowd. But for those of us who are not? Useful!
I don't need a calculator to figure out which package of rice is the best-per-pound at the supermarket (when it is not labeled clearly), while my wife does. Should I say calculators are useless or stupid, just because I don't need them for that use case?
To be fair, they are orbiting. This means that someone just outside the space station is on a slightly different orbital track than the station. Typically this will result in 90 minute (about the length of one orbit) oscillations in position, meaning that from most locations around the ISS, you will cycle back into contact with the station about 90 minutes later unless you gave yourself a notable push away (and even notable pushes would often result in meeting the station again 45 or 90 minutes later).
Orbital dynamics: only the best non intuitive results for the past 60 years.
Nice and informative, but a bit confusing. LoL, an eSport title, is about four times larger (# of players) than Dota 2. Can you explain why you count Starcraft 2 and Dota 2 as the top two e-Sport titles, yet do not include the 'most notable' Leage of Legends?
(Disclaimer: I play Dota 2, and not LoL; I am not a LoL fanboy, just curious about the appearant contradiction)
I don't understand, actually. TPB proudly displays the anti-copyright symbol (Kopimi), so are they not explicitly granting permission to use their HTML and CSS? While the CIAPC are dicks, it seems hypocritical to grant permission to copy only when they like the person.
Only some people can stomach it as a career (I love it, but I'm Abby Norma), but once you rise above the rank and file of read-the-script jobs, there are a lot of IT assistance jobs that benefit from someone with years of experience working with computers. Generally when you are one of two or three IT Help Desk for a business, you have to be more knowledgeable and flexible than a mere script can cover, and many businesses are smart enough to compensate accordingly.
There is still the need to learn new things and keep up to date on the latest operating systems, but a bit less of the '20 year olds can do it better' stigma, because it is demonstrably false; young people are often poor at the customer support side of the equation, and rarely have the breadth of experience necessary to troubleshoot issues calmly when the user is frustrated or confused. YMMV.
While I mostly agree, you are missing a fine point. He did not commit one crime... he committed dozens, or even hundreds, many of them serious and damaging to the victims, of a level near no rape.
He is getting more time than someone who murdered one person. But less than a serial murderer who stalked and killed over a dozen people.
He is a serial digital rapist. Repeat offenders always get much harsher sentences than one-timers.
I often get answers that I need right with autocomplete. I love it, and would be sad to see it lost just because some people get butthurt when they find out that the only reason people look them up online is to find out about their financial status.
Introversion is not unhealthy. Being introverted means preferring a small group of close friends over a wide group of more casual friends. It is not the same as agoraphobic, which is what many people wrongly conflate introversion with. They are not the same thing.
Introverts tend to be more creative and intellectual; would you seek to 'fix' them all with mental electroshock therapy (logical fallacy used deliberately)? Differences are fine. I have no problem with fixing serious diseases with techniques such as this, but it seriously bothers me when instead people start talking about stamping out difference and individuality. Not everyone needs to fit in. We are stronger as a race for our variety.
This is not quite true. True one-time pads are not able to be brute forced, but the pad must be as long as the message (10MB file = 10MB key). This is not how quantum key exchange is expected to work. The quantum key will be measured in KB, to encrypt a secure session or file measured in MB or GB. This means that it is damn secure, but could be brute forced given enough time.
The bit rate on these quantum links is not high enough for it to be practical to exchange pads the size of the file.
One notable point is that the primary FOV of the device has double or triple the resolution of the peripheral. In other words, the point you aim at is sharper than you would expect given just a resolution of 640x400. Resolution is still an issue to be improved on, for certain, but don't dismiss it based on this alone.
Redhat because I knew no better (it was popular, and it was 1997, and I was just starting to use Linux).
Gentoo as an informed choice after being displeased with the maintenance of RPM based systems and the kludgy/etc that Redhat used.
And Ubuntu now, because I just wanted a Desktop fast without a bunch of configuration.
In the near future, I expect I'm going to switch again to another Debian based system, but with a saner default WM. I may go back to a Gentoo based distro... the compile pain gets less with every processor generation, and even more so with the switch to SSD storage.
This actually has a good chance to work. Just because Bob raped someone doesn't mean Bob's dad knows. Bob's dad goes in, gets tested, and shows up as a very close match... they have now narrowed the suspect list from 8000 to under 10.
Valve has indicated, in their public statements on the issue, that piracy has has a negligible impact on their bottom line in any market they make their product available in. Notably, they indicated that when they made their products available on day 1 in the Russian market, Russian piracy dried up.
Any bets on whether Ubisoft checks the IPs and ignores 'piracy' in areas they are not making the game available in? No takers? Didn't think so.
Are there no pesticide spraying planes NOT owned by the Emergency Management department? I can't imagine that it is that complicated or expensive to hire crop dusters.
This may be in the ToS, but it is not a practical requirement. Most parents would not want to buy 3 copies of a game for ONE COMPUTER just so their kids could play too.
Valve has, numerous times, banned users from Steam for violating policies (such as cheating). When only games are affected this is draconian, but understandable. However, what about when your kid cheats, and that gets your copy of Office taken away? All the documents you created?
This is something that will have to be addressed in the TOS before I would be comfortable putting too much in their care.
I should note the same issue affects Google... this is not unique to Steam.
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I use Dropbox, because I have several computers that I want to keep in sync. A couple times a year, I will actually log in to Dropbox... the other 99% of the time, it is just a syncing service between my computers, that has the added benefit of:
Dropbox is different from most cloud services, because if they disappear I still have all my files. They are on MY computer, not just the cloud, and that makes a big difference.
I don't see the synergy here. Maybe they do. But the services seem completely disparate.
Developers develop on NVIDIA because their drivers are better. Flat out better. More compliant, reliable, etc. This has been true for a long time... id Software's Carmack wrote about this years ago, and the situation has not improved since then.
While I agree, mostly, I should point out that Polygamy causes similar harm to society as a whole as selective abortion of female children. It causes an excess of unattached (and frustrated) young males, which increases local violence and society's predilection for violent resolution of disagreement... ie, war.
This is very useful to me; I often have trouble picking my wife out of a crowd. Mom, who has prosopagnosia (unable to identify faces) will also appreciate it. This kind of task, supplementing human failings, is exactly what we need. Many people don't need it; I'm sure most people will be as good or better than Glass at seeing friends in a crowd. But for those of us who are not? Useful!
I don't need a calculator to figure out which package of rice is the best-per-pound at the supermarket (when it is not labeled clearly), while my wife does. Should I say calculators are useless or stupid, just because I don't need them for that use case?
Sorry, but PHP is a better example of a bad language than VB6. Not that VB6 was good... but PHP is far worse.
To be fair, they are orbiting. This means that someone just outside the space station is on a slightly different orbital track than the station. Typically this will result in 90 minute (about the length of one orbit) oscillations in position, meaning that from most locations around the ISS, you will cycle back into contact with the station about 90 minutes later unless you gave yourself a notable push away (and even notable pushes would often result in meeting the station again 45 or 90 minutes later).
Orbital dynamics: only the best non intuitive results for the past 60 years.
Nice and informative, but a bit confusing. LoL, an eSport title, is about four times larger (# of players) than Dota 2. Can you explain why you count Starcraft 2 and Dota 2 as the top two e-Sport titles, yet do not include the 'most notable' Leage of Legends?
(Disclaimer: I play Dota 2, and not LoL; I am not a LoL fanboy, just curious about the appearant contradiction)
I don't understand, actually. TPB proudly displays the anti-copyright symbol (Kopimi), so are they not explicitly granting permission to use their HTML and CSS? While the CIAPC are dicks, it seems hypocritical to grant permission to copy only when they like the person.
Only some people can stomach it as a career (I love it, but I'm Abby Norma), but once you rise above the rank and file of read-the-script jobs, there are a lot of IT assistance jobs that benefit from someone with years of experience working with computers. Generally when you are one of two or three IT Help Desk for a business, you have to be more knowledgeable and flexible than a mere script can cover, and many businesses are smart enough to compensate accordingly.
There is still the need to learn new things and keep up to date on the latest operating systems, but a bit less of the '20 year olds can do it better' stigma, because it is demonstrably false; young people are often poor at the customer support side of the equation, and rarely have the breadth of experience necessary to troubleshoot issues calmly when the user is frustrated or confused. YMMV.
While I mostly agree, you are missing a fine point. He did not commit one crime... he committed dozens, or even hundreds, many of them serious and damaging to the victims, of a level near no rape.
He is getting more time than someone who murdered one person. But less than a serial murderer who stalked and killed over a dozen people.
He is a serial digital rapist. Repeat offenders always get much harsher sentences than one-timers.
Interesting, but this is worse in my opinion. They are deliberately over civilians, rather than off course.
Don't worry... G+ will get its eternal September if Facebook tanks.
I often get answers that I need right with autocomplete. I love it, and would be sad to see it lost just because some people get butthurt when they find out that the only reason people look them up online is to find out about their financial status.
5% - Humble Store. They do barely better than break even, but the point is they *do* break even. 30% is 25% profit.
Introversion is not unhealthy. Being introverted means preferring a small group of close friends over a wide group of more casual friends. It is not the same as agoraphobic, which is what many people wrongly conflate introversion with. They are not the same thing.
Introverts tend to be more creative and intellectual; would you seek to 'fix' them all with mental electroshock therapy (logical fallacy used deliberately)? Differences are fine. I have no problem with fixing serious diseases with techniques such as this, but it seriously bothers me when instead people start talking about stamping out difference and individuality. Not everyone needs to fit in. We are stronger as a race for our variety.
This is not quite true. True one-time pads are not able to be brute forced, but the pad must be as long as the message (10MB file = 10MB key). This is not how quantum key exchange is expected to work. The quantum key will be measured in KB, to encrypt a secure session or file measured in MB or GB. This means that it is damn secure, but could be brute forced given enough time.
The bit rate on these quantum links is not high enough for it to be practical to exchange pads the size of the file.
One notable point is that the primary FOV of the device has double or triple the resolution of the peripheral. In other words, the point you aim at is sharper than you would expect given just a resolution of 640x400. Resolution is still an issue to be improved on, for certain, but don't dismiss it based on this alone.
Such as Google. As long as their Kansas deployment is successful, expect to see it duplicated across the US.
Redhat > Gentoo > Ubunto
Redhat because I knew no better (it was popular, and it was 1997, and I was just starting to use Linux).
Gentoo as an informed choice after being displeased with the maintenance of RPM based systems and the kludgy /etc that Redhat used.
And Ubuntu now, because I just wanted a Desktop fast without a bunch of configuration.
In the near future, I expect I'm going to switch again to another Debian based system, but with a saner default WM. I may go back to a Gentoo based distro... the compile pain gets less with every processor generation, and even more so with the switch to SSD storage.
This actually has a good chance to work. Just because Bob raped someone doesn't mean Bob's dad knows. Bob's dad goes in, gets tested, and shows up as a very close match... they have now narrowed the suspect list from 8000 to under 10.
Valve has indicated, in their public statements on the issue, that piracy has has a negligible impact on their bottom line in any market they make their product available in. Notably, they indicated that when they made their products available on day 1 in the Russian market, Russian piracy dried up.
Any bets on whether Ubisoft checks the IPs and ignores 'piracy' in areas they are not making the game available in? No takers? Didn't think so.
Are there no pesticide spraying planes NOT owned by the Emergency Management department? I can't imagine that it is that complicated or expensive to hire crop dusters.
This may be in the ToS, but it is not a practical requirement. Most parents would not want to buy 3 copies of a game for ONE COMPUTER just so their kids could play too.
Valve has, numerous times, banned users from Steam for violating policies (such as cheating). When only games are affected this is draconian, but understandable. However, what about when your kid cheats, and that gets your copy of Office taken away? All the documents you created?
This is something that will have to be addressed in the TOS before I would be comfortable putting too much in their care.
I should note the same issue affects Google... this is not unique to Steam.