I set up an online shop for a small business. It wasn't that expensive, cheques will likely get expensive when the only people using them are a handful of small businesses.
I pay my babysitter by check so I can have a written receipt to use when filling out my taxes. I strongly doubt she'd every be willing to set up credit card processing.
We're talking about rape and murder - in most cases, especially this one, these actions are indefensible.
I would actually defend murder over rape. There are a lot of situations where an otherwise decent, law-abiding person could be driven to murder (catching wife with a best friend, attacking the person who hurt a child, etc.). I think anyone could be made to snap violently under exactly the right conditions; a few billion years of evolved defense mechanisms could be hard to overcome. In the words of Chris Rock: I'm not saying I condone it, but I understand.
On the other hand, I can't think of a single reason why someone might be driven to rape. Note that I'm not talking about the drunken groping around with next-day regrets variety, but the clearcut deliberate attack sort. There's just not any kind of valid justification for that act.
I'll give you that one. For some reason, I can drag said network folder into iTunes on my Mac and it will add new files without adding duplicate entries. The same doesn't work on my wife's Mac. One of these days I'll be interested enough to diff the configs, but until then I mainly listen with Amarok, which doesn't have any of those problems.
Holy crap. I didn't realize that the Streisand Effect was where you suffocate your bed partner. Props to the Rapid City Journal for using "Rapist" as the first word in the headline of their story about his copyright claims. Since he is a convicted rapist, it's a matter of public record and totally OK say that Ted Klaudt is a rapist, right?
But these wiseguys don't realise that I'd much rather deal with files that I can recognise by their filename, copy and move them with the well known 'cp' and 'mv' commands rather than having their craptastic software try to manage it all.
Step 1: Tell iTunes not to manage my library.
Step 2: Drag the 30GB "music" folder from the fileserver onto iTunes and wait for it to index everything.
Step 3: Have easy access to all my music, with not a file moved or renamed.
There are plenty of reasons why you might not like iTunes, but if you're 'leet enough not to like the way it handles your files, then you're 'leet enough to tell it not to.
And these are the reasons Windows still has marketshare.
What is this? Proof by counterexample? Let's try those criteria against my wife's HP laptop:
Does the distro work with your printer without any complicated installation procedures?
"Where'd I put the driver CD for the HP printer that Linux, FreeBSD, and OS X supports out of the box?"
Does the distro work with your audio hardware without any complicated installation procedures?
Ask a Creative owner.
Does the distro switch between all the resolutions supported by your video hardware?
"Oh look! 640x400 until I find the right driver on nvidia.com, except that now it's telling me to use the special drivers packaged by my laptop vendor and not the "generic" ones directly from Nvidia."
Does the distro have a reasonably good package installation mechanism?
On Windows? LOL. Even billg agrees that "Add/Remove Programs" is a stupid name for an app that doesn't actually add programs.
Does the distro support your applications without special package installation requirements?
Windows supports precious few of the Linux apps I need to do my job. Mac users would have similar complaints.
Robert M. Pirsig in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance said very clearly that seeing mechanics work with music in the background was the sound of a poor quality workshop.
Robert M. Pirsig also claims to have had his mind erased after a psychotic breakdown. ZAMM was a good book, but I'm not going to apply it literally to my job.
Spoken like someone who doesn't develop software for a living.
I'm not the OP, but I develop software for a living. My boss often lets me give away useful stuff I've written because it's not directly related to our business model.
My company (among other things) develops software.
Mine too.
The sale of that software pays for our homes, electricity, computers, and the ability to continue developing programs that people need.
Interesting extrapolation from this to the idea that every software company works on this obsolescing model.
If Microsoft couldn't make money from their software, and Bill had decided to pump gas instead, where would you be today?
Getting paid to write Free Unix software, most likely (the FSF coming from the Unix subculture and not dependent on Microsoft).
Would linux be where it is today?
Without all the targeted FUD from Microsoft? No. It'd probably be farther along.
I'm surprised that someone hasn't written something like BusyBox starting from FreeBSD's utilities.
They have. Go to a FreeBSD console and run ls -i/rescue. There are 133 binaries in that directory on my desktop, each being a hardlink to the same statically linked file, with behavior depending on the value of argv[0] when the program is run. The idea is to include all the programs you might need to repair a FreeBSD system in single-user without having even/usr mounted. See the man page for crunchgen(1) for more details.
You could use an accelerometer or a ball-and-cup arrangement similar to a seat belt locking mechanism (very sensitive, especially on newer cars.
Or the status of the USB cable plugged into the huge laser printer next to your desk, or whether eth0 is up, or by using the built-in GPS (if there is one) or the external GPS (labeled "TIME") to establish plausible deniability.
Honestly, there are about a million things you could check to have a good idea that your computer isn't being moved.
All of us using GOOG-411 and Google Voice have done a splendid job training their voice recognition system. Within a year, I predict that you'll be seeing ads relevant to the conversation you're having while you're still having it. "It's been ages since I've had good sushi!" -> ad for nearby expensive sushi restaurants.
I worked at a couple of pizza places when I was in high school. There are actually two perfect ways to slice a pizza:
On a large pizza, make two parallel cuts maybe 3/4" apart on either side of the midline. Set the long, skinny slice aside. The pizza will still appear round, within normal limits of eccentricity. Continue slicing as normal, box it, and send it. Eat the long, skinny slice. Repeat until you are no longer hungry.
Starting slicing from the center of the pizza and working outward. Eyeball it (which you should be pretty good at, since you've sliced thousands of pizzas and you're well-fed for the evening) and carve the pie into 11 or 13 slices. Wonder later if people are still trying to figure out where the extra slice came from, or which greedy SOB ate one piece more than they should have.
So is it even theoretically possible to, say, dig a big shaft into it to slowly release the pressure under controlled conditions over decades or centuries?
Happened to me with an old Nvidia GeForce 4. It was in a light-duty desktop and worked perfectly for what I needed: something I could use to check mail and surf a couple of websites on occasion. The machine was an older AGP system that doubled as my home file and print server. I wouldn't have bothered with it, except the drivers were the ones hit with a critical security vulnerability. They were also deprecated and Nvidia had declared that only the newer drivers would be patched. My options were:
Live with a remote root vulnerability,
Upgrade my motherboard to something with PCIe, a new CPU, new RAM, and a new graphics card, or
Hope the Free drivers were at least minimally functional.
The "practical" choice of using closed drivers would have cost me a few hundred dollars. I'm glad the impractical alternative existed.
Yeah, I eventually upgraded the whole thing anyway. I just didn't want to have to do it that week because Nvidia decided not to bother with me anymore.
Miguel interviewed at Microsoft but they didn't hire him.
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[citation needed]
Never has a sig been more appropriate. I no longer believe that he didn't get the job. Frankly, the simplest explanation for everything he's said and done since then is that he's on their payroll, or at least is a paid consultant.
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In fairness, only one of them knew that there was an Internet other than MSN.
I set up an online shop for a small business. It wasn't that expensive, cheques will likely get expensive when the only people using them are a handful of small businesses.
I pay my babysitter by check so I can have a written receipt to use when filling out my taxes. I strongly doubt she'd every be willing to set up credit card processing.
We're talking about rape and murder - in most cases, especially this one, these actions are indefensible.
I would actually defend murder over rape. There are a lot of situations where an otherwise decent, law-abiding person could be driven to murder (catching wife with a best friend, attacking the person who hurt a child, etc.). I think anyone could be made to snap violently under exactly the right conditions; a few billion years of evolved defense mechanisms could be hard to overcome. In the words of Chris Rock: I'm not saying I condone it, but I understand.
On the other hand, I can't think of a single reason why someone might be driven to rape. Note that I'm not talking about the drunken groping around with next-day regrets variety, but the clearcut deliberate attack sort. There's just not any kind of valid justification for that act.
Because otherwise, the only thing you've shown is that.... a single person rejected two papers based on personal bias against the conclusion.
Oh, and that he felt confident enough that his peers would approve of his action that he was willing to brag about it.
I'll give you that one. For some reason, I can drag said network folder into iTunes on my Mac and it will add new files without adding duplicate entries. The same doesn't work on my wife's Mac. One of these days I'll be interested enough to diff the configs, but until then I mainly listen with Amarok, which doesn't have any of those problems.
Given that it sails through .03TB, what obstacles would keep it from getting 16 times bigger?
Holy crap. I didn't realize that the Streisand Effect was where you suffocate your bed partner. Props to the Rapid City Journal for using "Rapist" as the first word in the headline of their story about his copyright claims. Since he is a convicted rapist, it's a matter of public record and totally OK say that Ted Klaudt is a rapist, right?
But these wiseguys don't realise that I'd much rather deal with files that I can recognise by their filename, copy and move them with the well known 'cp' and 'mv' commands rather than having their craptastic software try to manage it all.
Step 1: Tell iTunes not to manage my library.
Step 2: Drag the 30GB "music" folder from the fileserver onto iTunes and wait for it to index everything.
Step 3: Have easy access to all my music, with not a file moved or renamed.
There are plenty of reasons why you might not like iTunes, but if you're 'leet enough not to like the way it handles your files, then you're 'leet enough to tell it not to.
Flamebait, huh? Guess I gored someone's pet ox.
The reviewer didn't fall for the immature "Novell is evil!" absurdity.
In fairness, the only people of that opinion are Gnome users who don't work for Microsoft. KDE users and Microsoft employees don't seem to care.
And these are the reasons Windows still has marketshare.
What is this? Proof by counterexample? Let's try those criteria against my wife's HP laptop:
Does the distro work with your printer without any complicated installation procedures?
"Where'd I put the driver CD for the HP printer that Linux, FreeBSD, and OS X supports out of the box?"
Does the distro work with your audio hardware without any complicated installation procedures?
Ask a Creative owner.
Does the distro switch between all the resolutions supported by your video hardware?
"Oh look! 640x400 until I find the right driver on nvidia.com, except that now it's telling me to use the special drivers packaged by my laptop vendor and not the "generic" ones directly from Nvidia."
Does the distro have a reasonably good package installation mechanism?
On Windows? LOL. Even billg agrees that "Add/Remove Programs" is a stupid name for an app that doesn't actually add programs.
Does the distro support your applications without special package installation requirements?
Windows supports precious few of the Linux apps I need to do my job. Mac users would have similar complaints.
Robert M. Pirsig in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance said very clearly that seeing mechanics work with music in the background was the sound of a poor quality workshop.
Robert M. Pirsig also claims to have had his mind erased after a psychotic breakdown. ZAMM was a good book, but I'm not going to apply it literally to my job.
i have an iphone 3gs and i max out at 2GB per month if i stream pandora almost all day for a month.
2*1024*1024*1024/(8*3600*30)*8 = 20Kbps. That's some darn good compression they're using.
Spoken like someone who doesn't develop software for a living.
I'm not the OP, but I develop software for a living. My boss often lets me give away useful stuff I've written because it's not directly related to our business model.
My company (among other things) develops software.
Mine too.
The sale of that software pays for our homes, electricity, computers, and the ability to continue developing programs that people need.
Interesting extrapolation from this to the idea that every software company works on this obsolescing model.
If Microsoft couldn't make money from their software, and Bill had decided to pump gas instead, where would you be today?
Getting paid to write Free Unix software, most likely (the FSF coming from the Unix subculture and not dependent on Microsoft).
Would linux be where it is today?
Without all the targeted FUD from Microsoft? No. It'd probably be farther along.
Dear God.
I'm surprised that someone hasn't written something like BusyBox starting from FreeBSD's utilities.
They have. Go to a FreeBSD console and run ls -i /rescue. There are 133 binaries in that directory on my desktop, each being a hardlink to the same statically linked file, with behavior depending on the value of argv[0] when the program is run. The idea is to include all the programs you might need to repair a FreeBSD system in single-user without having even /usr mounted. See the man page for crunchgen(1) for more details.
You could use an accelerometer or a ball-and-cup arrangement similar to a seat belt locking mechanism (very sensitive, especially on newer cars.
Or the status of the USB cable plugged into the huge laser printer next to your desk, or whether eth0 is up, or by using the built-in GPS (if there is one) or the external GPS (labeled "TIME") to establish plausible deniability.
Honestly, there are about a million things you could check to have a good idea that your computer isn't being moved.
All of us using GOOG-411 and Google Voice have done a splendid job training their voice recognition system. Within a year, I predict that you'll be seeing ads relevant to the conversation you're having while you're still having it. "It's been ages since I've had good sushi!" -> ad for nearby expensive sushi restaurants.
I worked at a couple of pizza places when I was in high school. There are actually two perfect ways to slice a pizza:
So is it even theoretically possible to, say, dig a big shaft into it to slowly release the pressure under controlled conditions over decades or centuries?
University of Utah research professor of geophysics Robert Smith led four separate studies
Abstract:
Happened to me with an old Nvidia GeForce 4. It was in a light-duty desktop and worked perfectly for what I needed: something I could use to check mail and surf a couple of websites on occasion. The machine was an older AGP system that doubled as my home file and print server. I wouldn't have bothered with it, except the drivers were the ones hit with a critical security vulnerability. They were also deprecated and Nvidia had declared that only the newer drivers would be patched. My options were:
The "practical" choice of using closed drivers would have cost me a few hundred dollars. I'm glad the impractical alternative existed.
Yeah, I eventually upgraded the whole thing anyway. I just didn't want to have to do it that week because Nvidia decided not to bother with me anymore.
That was beautiful, truly beautiful. Well done.
Miguel interviewed at Microsoft but they didn't hire him.
--
[citation needed]
Never has a sig been more appropriate. I no longer believe that he didn't get the job. Frankly, the simplest explanation for everything he's said and done since then is that he's on their payroll, or at least is a paid consultant.
They sure do, but they're much nicer now. My 9- and 8-year-old kids get the kit out, unprompted, to build stuff pretty often.