The excessive publicity and "rabidness" of these arguments harms the linux community as a whole. So much infighting and debate over what many people consider triviality. This kind of thing just leaves a bad taste in the mouth of many people, especially those on the outside.
Although Debian can be obtained for free and will always remain that way, events such as the problem with the ownership of the term Linux have shown that Debian needs to protect its property from any use which could hurt its reputation.
Just s/Debian/Mozilla and you have the exact reason the Mozilla people are protecting their image. For shame, Debian.
Man these debian people just keep sinking lower and lower. This kind of thing just makes them look like rabid zealots to most of the potential users out there. When will they realize that people want their computer to "just work" first of all, then MAYBE later worry about some other guy's idea of what "free" is... Guess that's part of the reason their releases take so long.
I'm just waiting for the inevitable security holes that will allow "Zunedriving" (you saw it here first)... Run around crashing Zunes, stealing/erasing/replacing content, forcing the volume suddenly jump to 100%, uploading goatsex photos to replace all the album art. With Microsoft software at the helm, the possibilities are limitless!
I find cell phone batteries to be pathetic enough now as it is. Using them as a serious mp3 player with a small hard disk would be pretty stupid if you enjoy using your phone for what you bought it for -- A GODDAMN PHONE.
Nothing to stop the same sites from giving out free iTunes songs based on some internal system they probably already have... Like pepsi with the free song giveaway they did before.
This is pretty close to my thoughts on "true" AI now. I don't agree with the article's claims that computers are smart. They aren't smart at all. I think what it all stems from is that since computers can add two numbers together so much faster than a human, most people believe a computer will be able to do everything else we can do with that much of a speed advantage. If adding numbers together quickly had some kind of evolutionary advantage, I assure you we would be the fastest adding machines ever created. As they are today, there is no computer that is anything more than a very fast abacus. No matter how many you hook up together, they don't do anything extra besides add faster. The human brain is far more than just a 10-billion core CPU.
Most of the PHP apps I've ever had the (mis)pleasure to peruse make liberal use of this type of "escaping" rather than calling the provided "escape_string" functions. That never made any sense to me, but the practice appears to be quite common.
And do what with the waste? When you are trekking around places where it is inconvenient to recharge a battery, sure, a fuel cell might sound great. But you will never achieve 100% conversion of the fuel so you can't just dump out the waste.
Not only that, but the reaction generates... CO2. So now your phone will be contributing to global warming all the time.
The most pathetic part is that no one in the entire Jedi order thought to go back save this little boy's mother from slavery once they got to Coruscant. Guess Obi-wan forgot to make a note in his jedi palm pilot.
That's pretty much been my stance on the whole "prequel" mess. Lucas was pretty good at a general "story", but when it came to writing, directing and producing he was just total ass.
I don't think you can blame the terrible acting on the actors alone. I've seen most of them in other roles where they excelled. You can't blame the poor dialog delivery on the actors. It's all the director's fault. His job is to decide if the actors are performing as they should. It's his call whether or not a scene is finished. I personally think Lucas was too busy daydreaming about how many awesome special effects he would be adding to the scene later to worry about this silly "actors". The end result was a set of really crappy movies.
I remember all the TV specials in the 80s about the miniatures, puppeteers and animatronics that Lucasfilm used to make the films. Those were fascinating. Nowadays all you get is some bullcrap about some warehouse filled with 5000 computers that spent 6 months rendering a movie with an impossible palette of colors. Booooooooooooooring. CGI is just too damned impersonal. Bring back the stunt men, makeup artists and elaborate sets. Burn your green screens.
... I would phone up Microsoft and say "Hi, you're going to have to pay me NOT to change the default search engine to Google/Yahoo/whoever". If they tried to cram some crazy pricing scheme down my throat, off to the courts.
I'm not sure about your car, but the owners manual for my car provides instructions for programming additional keys if you have the two original keys. Up to a certain limit, then you have to get the dealer to do it.
Actually, the CPU power required to perform the exchange in a reasonable (1 second or less) length of time might take up much more space than available. The power drain could also be considerable. If you were still using a physical key, you could use smaller, less demanding keypairs and simply re-key every time the car key is in the ignition. Otherwise, you need to anticipate keeping the data secure against attacks for a good while.
Not much of a nerd if that didn't ring a thousand bells as it was written. That figure is flat out impossible. Daily gasoline consumption in the USA is estimated at almost 9 million barrels, far less than 800 million gallons.
First of all, you shouldn't worry about losing data while "shifting it around". The source data shouldn't be unlinked until the operation has completed. A "sync" mounted filesystem on a drive without write caching should guarantee that the data has actually been written. Then the biggest threat to your data is going to be drive failure, which can be lessened by the use of RAID5.
As for which filesystem, I would humbly suggest the tried-and-true time-tested UFS. I don't think UDF is really what you want, because it sounds more like you are writing data and modifying it "infrequently" instead of just writing it once.
I think the same thing every time that I read about some silly "fuel cell powered device" replacing existing rechargeable devices. I don't want to carry fuel cells with me, and I don't want to purchase them. I can always find a free or nearly free outlet to plug in to. All of these fuel cell researchers need to realize that if we a device doesn't already physically consume fuel, no one is likely to migrate to a device that does. How dumb can these incredibly smart people be!
I've been through quite a few power supplies... Some of them barely lasted a year before dying. The last time one died, I scavenged one from an old 386 that I had lying around. It's been running 24/7 for almost two years with no sign of slowing down. Guess they just don't make 'em like they used to.
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The excessive publicity and "rabidness" of these arguments harms the linux community as a whole. So much infighting and debate over what many people consider triviality. This kind of thing just leaves a bad taste in the mouth of many people, especially those on the outside.
Just s/Debian/Mozilla and you have the exact reason the Mozilla people are protecting their image. For shame, Debian.
Man these debian people just keep sinking lower and lower. This kind of thing just makes them look like rabid zealots to most of the potential users out there. When will they realize that people want their computer to "just work" first of all, then MAYBE later worry about some other guy's idea of what "free" is... Guess that's part of the reason their releases take so long.
I'm just waiting for the inevitable security holes that will allow "Zunedriving" (you saw it here first) ... Run around crashing Zunes, stealing/erasing/replacing content, forcing the volume suddenly jump to 100%, uploading goatsex photos to replace all the album art. With Microsoft software at the helm, the possibilities are limitless!
I find cell phone batteries to be pathetic enough now as it is. Using them as a serious mp3 player with a small hard disk would be pretty stupid if you enjoy using your phone for what you bought it for -- A GODDAMN PHONE.
Donnie's discount gas?!
Nothing to stop the same sites from giving out free iTunes songs based on some internal system they probably already have... Like pepsi with the free song giveaway they did before.
The hummer's weakeness is well known: the IED!
This is pretty close to my thoughts on "true" AI now. I don't agree with the article's claims that computers are smart. They aren't smart at all. I think what it all stems from is that since computers can add two numbers together so much faster than a human, most people believe a computer will be able to do everything else we can do with that much of a speed advantage. If adding numbers together quickly had some kind of evolutionary advantage, I assure you we would be the fastest adding machines ever created. As they are today, there is no computer that is anything more than a very fast abacus. No matter how many you hook up together, they don't do anything extra besides add faster. The human brain is far more than just a 10-billion core CPU.
Wow, those QVGA screens sure do blow up nicely, without any pixelation!
Damn, and I was going to post something about feeling stupid buying something named "Zune".
Hello sir, can you direct me to your Zunes?
That also sounds like the Microsoft Method.
Most of the PHP apps I've ever had the (mis)pleasure to peruse make liberal use of this type of "escaping" rather than calling the provided "escape_string" functions. That never made any sense to me, but the practice appears to be quite common.
And do what with the waste? When you are trekking around places where it is inconvenient to recharge a battery, sure, a fuel cell might sound great. But you will never achieve 100% conversion of the fuel so you can't just dump out the waste.
Not only that, but the reaction generates... CO2. So now your phone will be contributing to global warming all the time.
I'm still very doubtful that you can fit this type of device in the proper form factor.
The most pathetic part is that no one in the entire Jedi order thought to go back save this little boy's mother from slavery once they got to Coruscant. Guess Obi-wan forgot to make a note in his jedi palm pilot.
That's pretty much been my stance on the whole "prequel" mess. Lucas was pretty good at a general "story", but when it came to writing, directing and producing he was just total ass.
I don't think you can blame the terrible acting on the actors alone. I've seen most of them in other roles where they excelled. You can't blame the poor dialog delivery on the actors. It's all the director's fault. His job is to decide if the actors are performing as they should. It's his call whether or not a scene is finished. I personally think Lucas was too busy daydreaming about how many awesome special effects he would be adding to the scene later to worry about this silly "actors". The end result was a set of really crappy movies.
I remember all the TV specials in the 80s about the miniatures, puppeteers and animatronics that Lucasfilm used to make the films. Those were fascinating. Nowadays all you get is some bullcrap about some warehouse filled with 5000 computers that spent 6 months rendering a movie with an impossible palette of colors. Booooooooooooooring. CGI is just too damned impersonal. Bring back the stunt men, makeup artists and elaborate sets. Burn your green screens.
... I would phone up Microsoft and say "Hi, you're going to have to pay me NOT to change the default search engine to Google/Yahoo/whoever". If they tried to cram some crazy pricing scheme down my throat, off to the courts.
I'm not sure about your car, but the owners manual for my car provides instructions for programming additional keys if you have the two original keys. Up to a certain limit, then you have to get the dealer to do it.
Actually, the CPU power required to perform the exchange in a reasonable (1 second or less) length of time might take up much more space than available. The power drain could also be considerable. If you were still using a physical key, you could use smaller, less demanding keypairs and simply re-key every time the car key is in the ignition. Otherwise, you need to anticipate keeping the data secure against attacks for a good while.
Not much of a nerd if that didn't ring a thousand bells as it was written. That figure is flat out impossible. Daily gasoline consumption in the USA is estimated at almost 9 million barrels, far less than 800 million gallons.
First of all, you shouldn't worry about losing data while "shifting it around". The source data shouldn't be unlinked until the operation has completed. A "sync" mounted filesystem on a drive without write caching should guarantee that the data has actually been written. Then the biggest threat to your data is going to be drive failure, which can be lessened by the use of RAID5.
As for which filesystem, I would humbly suggest the tried-and-true time-tested UFS. I don't think UDF is really what you want, because it sounds more like you are writing data and modifying it "infrequently" instead of just writing it once.
I think the same thing every time that I read about some silly "fuel cell powered device" replacing existing rechargeable devices. I don't want to carry fuel cells with me, and I don't want to purchase them. I can always find a free or nearly free outlet to plug in to. All of these fuel cell researchers need to realize that if we a device doesn't already physically consume fuel, no one is likely to migrate to a device that does. How dumb can these incredibly smart people be!
I've been through quite a few power supplies... Some of them barely lasted a year before dying. The last time one died, I scavenged one from an old 386 that I had lying around. It's been running 24/7 for almost two years with no sign of slowing down. Guess they just don't make 'em like they used to.
I like to use a@b.com, and find that it is taken on many sites.