Why was that modded down? I don't see how either party is involved, except that Bush appointed the FCC Chairman who shot down Comcast. If anything, wouldn't that be one of the (possibly few) good that he did?
Following up on their threat last year to sue the FCC over sanctions imposed, Comcast has finally filed suit, stating that there are no statutes or regulations that support the FCC's authority to stop traffic shaping procedures.
Traffic shaping is writing rules like "give ssh and http packets priority over ftp-data". This is good and something almost all ISP that care about good customer service already do. What Comcast was doing, aka packet forgery, was a deliberate attempt to disrupt certain types of transfer. NO good ISP does this, by definition.
I disagree - having map data in poor signal areas is valuable
...so they should write the app to maintain a configurable-radius circle mapped around you. If you're in South Dakota heading west, that might be a good (and algorithmically detectable) time to start caching Wyoming.
Snopes = exhaustively researched articles done by people who take the time to get it right as much as they possibly can, with no need to be "first to post" to get credit.
BS. Snopes = getting ad money to sound authoritative, no more, no less.
I've sent two corrections to Snopes. The first was in a myth about taking caffeine and aspirin. They had reported that there was nothing about the combination that would be stronger than both taken individually. I sent links to published studies demonstrating the synergistic effect of the combo, and links to common products (eg Excedrin) that pair them. Snopes updated the article to reflect the new information.
The second was regarding Marilyn Monroe having six toes. Now, I see no reason to believe that she did. However, some of their supporting "evidence" was that Monroe would've had a long recovery and a lasting limp. My wife, a podiatric surgeon, told them that this was completely untrue, and that she's amputated many toes over the years without long-term adverse affects to the patients. Snopes replied that she was wrong and that I was crazy for thinking Marilyn had 6 toes.
So I personally know of one article that presents completely, 100% wrong evidence as proof, and another that had completely ignored evidence that would have weakened their claim. How many other corrections have been ignored or rejected?
Snopes is not exhaustively researched, not by a long shot. Read the site for entertainment or as a starting point for further research, but don't take their word for anything.
I imagine if you tested currency for benzodiazepines (valium and the like) or SSRIs (Prozac and the like) or beta blockers or digitalis or any commonly prescribed drug, you'd find near 100% contamination as well.
At least some portion of the reactor may need to be placed inside the habitat to make convenient monitoring and servicing possible.
Well, I suppose you could stick it up on the surface where it's subject to dust and solar radiation and meteorites. Was anyone actually proposing to do that, though?
These languages do NOT quite meet the requirements of the projects that happen in the professional workplace,
That's cute, son. My Python app processed about a billion dollars in financial data last year. Maybe that's small by Wall Street standards, but I think it qualifies as "professional". Heck, maybe even "enterprise"!
In this case, they darn well should be. Microsoft is offering specific remedies if you are dissatisfied with their software. I can't imagine a judge would allow them to renege on their freely-made offer. That doesn't seem nearly as dubious as the idea that they can add extra restrictions to the purchaser after the sale.
The only thing good about travelling west through Illinois on I-80 is that you're not longer in Gary, IN. Every time I hit that stretch of highway, I want to cuss and throw things. Most lanes of traffic are open this week, which undoubtedly indicates that they'll be tearing it apart to start rebuilding it this fall.
From this same ill-managed substate, we get a law that says you can't use Facebook if you peed on a tree when you turned 21. Why is anyone surprised?
No, it's designed to punish the people that don't know how to live within their means.
We had a baby two years ago. The C-section pegged my wife's deductible and co-pay. Our son was a little sick when he was born, and the NICU pegged our family deductible and co-pay. It's lucky for our family that we could afford to make payments on a $4,000 bill incurred one day. I suppose you could make the hard-line argument that we should've saved money by having an abortion (although that's probably not exactly free these days either), but society generally tends to hold that having a kid is somewhat less frivolous than buying a $2,000 TV to watch Survivor.
The true thrust of his article is that just having TrueCrypt (or any other advanced encryption tool) installed on your machine is enough to pique the interest of law enforcement.
Not if you have a good enough reason to have it installed. My wife uses her laptop for medical dictation, so I installed TrueCrypt with a boot password so that no one can access patient information if her computer gets stolen. There are enough stories about things like that happening that just about anyone can justify having TrueCrypt installed:
"I keep my Quicken files on there."
"I don't want someone getting my online banking passwords."
"I don't want none of that identity theft!"
When you added up the man-time required to move everything to Postgres, did it come to more or less than the cost of buying a commercial licence for the MySQL JDBC drivers
...plus the cost of the drivers for the next incompatible version and the next one after that? The conversion was a one-time, sunk expense. Eternal subscriptions to new version aren't.
It sounds like I'm the only one left who likes (at least some) gaming mags. My wife got a subscription to Game Informer with a Gamestop store card and we came to look forward to new issues. There are plenty of 2- or 3-star reviews, they criticize shiny new games, and are generally fun to read. Yeah, certain articles feel a little... sponsored... but for the most part we've been happy with it.
While doubtful, I want to know if the people in charge of this product are going to give us the "what the consumer wants" that WE want, what they THINK we want or SOS with a higher price tag.
I think the RIAA cabal has been infiltrated by the Greenwich Mean Tribe with the goal of making them kill themselves. It's sad when a Cory Doctorow plot is the most logical explanation for a real-life phenomenon.
If I buy a Subaru WRX with a normal shifter but plan on putting in a short-throw shifter after-market, Subaru isn't going to buy back my normal shifter.
Has Subaru been found guilty of illegally abusing their monopoly status, such that they account for 90% of dealerships and have contracts with the dealers stating that they're forbidden to offer non-Subaru options? If not, then the analogy isn't very close.
The odds that my customers will find anything on sale at Walmart, Best Buy, Staples without XP support? About 0%.
And the odds that they'll find something on sale without Vista or Windows 7 support, or without 64-bit support? About 50%. I'd bet that a modern Linux distro has better hardware support than a modern Windows installation.
It's great that your customers have a vendor willing to sell them an EOLed OS that still has good driver support (as long as you run it on old hardware), but that can't last forever.
But Barking and Dagenham Council, which runs the pool, said they had changed the swimming lanes to run width-ways to help people training for 50metre and 100metre events and to free up more space in the shallow end of the pool for less confident swimmers.
A council spokesman said: 'This enables people who are less confident to swim lengths of the shallow end to help them get fit and also it makes it easier to see where people are swimming and what they are doing. It's about variety, giving a whole host of swimming options.
'Most people who are training for events don't want to swim 33.3 metres, it doesn't fit in with the distances involved. It's not all about health and safety although it is true it does make it easier, they can use different staffing levels. It's easier for the staff and it's better swimming.'
That actually makes sense. When have you ever heard of a swimming event that wasn't a multiple of 25 meters in length? A 100m race is 2x50m (or 4x25m if you have a short pool), not 3x33.3m.
I can swallow that some people still (after GUIs and screen(1) became available twenty years ago or so) prefer to live entirely inside one emacs instance,
Note that "one emacs instance" does not mean "one Emacs window".
but personally I could never learn to run my shells,
Zsh vs. eshell? I'll take zsh every time. The Emacs shell is mostly useful to me as a convenient place to process the output of other Emacs buffers.
run make and so on there.
Oh, you must learn to run make inside Emacs. If nothing else, pressing a key to go to the exact file and line of an error or warning is a tremendous timesaver.
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Why was that modded down? I don't see how either party is involved, except that Bush appointed the FCC Chairman who shot down Comcast. If anything, wouldn't that be one of the (possibly few) good that he did?
Following up on their threat last year to sue the FCC over sanctions imposed, Comcast has finally filed suit, stating that there are no statutes or regulations that support the FCC's authority to stop traffic shaping procedures.
Traffic shaping is writing rules like "give ssh and http packets priority over ftp-data". This is good and something almost all ISP that care about good customer service already do. What Comcast was doing, aka packet forgery, was a deliberate attempt to disrupt certain types of transfer. NO good ISP does this, by definition.
I disagree - having map data in poor signal areas is valuable
...so they should write the app to maintain a configurable-radius circle mapped around you. If you're in South Dakota heading west, that might be a good (and algorithmically detectable) time to start caching Wyoming.
That would be utterly redundant.
Snopes = exhaustively researched articles done by people who take the time to get it right as much as they possibly can, with no need to be "first to post" to get credit.
BS. Snopes = getting ad money to sound authoritative, no more, no less.
I've sent two corrections to Snopes. The first was in a myth about taking caffeine and aspirin. They had reported that there was nothing about the combination that would be stronger than both taken individually. I sent links to published studies demonstrating the synergistic effect of the combo, and links to common products (eg Excedrin) that pair them. Snopes updated the article to reflect the new information.
The second was regarding Marilyn Monroe having six toes. Now, I see no reason to believe that she did. However, some of their supporting "evidence" was that Monroe would've had a long recovery and a lasting limp. My wife, a podiatric surgeon, told them that this was completely untrue, and that she's amputated many toes over the years without long-term adverse affects to the patients. Snopes replied that she was wrong and that I was crazy for thinking Marilyn had 6 toes.
So I personally know of one article that presents completely, 100% wrong evidence as proof, and another that had completely ignored evidence that would have weakened their claim. How many other corrections have been ignored or rejected?
Snopes is not exhaustively researched, not by a long shot. Read the site for entertainment or as a starting point for further research, but don't take their word for anything.
I imagine if you tested currency for benzodiazepines (valium and the like) or SSRIs (Prozac and the like) or beta blockers or digitalis or any commonly prescribed drug, you'd find near 100% contamination as well.
Why? Is Prozac routinely crushed up and snorted?
They're a danger to the rest of the world too.
Yeah, but in the rest of the world they're given a nice hot mug of STFU.
At least some portion of the reactor may need to be placed inside the habitat to make convenient monitoring and servicing possible.
Well, I suppose you could stick it up on the surface where it's subject to dust and solar radiation and meteorites. Was anyone actually proposing to do that, though?
These languages do NOT quite meet the requirements of the projects that happen in the professional workplace,
That's cute, son. My Python app processed about a billion dollars in financial data last year. Maybe that's small by Wall Street standards, but I think it qualifies as "professional". Heck, maybe even "enterprise"!
But are EULAs binding?
In this case, they darn well should be. Microsoft is offering specific remedies if you are dissatisfied with their software. I can't imagine a judge would allow them to renege on their freely-made offer. That doesn't seem nearly as dubious as the idea that they can add extra restrictions to the purchaser after the sale.
Come to the Omaha Zoo. It's the best I've been to.
In other words, this checks whether the house and the building plan are identical.
Car. Remember your audience.
The only thing good about travelling west through Illinois on I-80 is that you're not longer in Gary, IN. Every time I hit that stretch of highway, I want to cuss and throw things. Most lanes of traffic are open this week, which undoubtedly indicates that they'll be tearing it apart to start rebuilding it this fall.
From this same ill-managed substate, we get a law that says you can't use Facebook if you peed on a tree when you turned 21. Why is anyone surprised?
No, it's designed to punish the people that don't know how to live within their means.
We had a baby two years ago. The C-section pegged my wife's deductible and co-pay. Our son was a little sick when he was born, and the NICU pegged our family deductible and co-pay. It's lucky for our family that we could afford to make payments on a $4,000 bill incurred one day. I suppose you could make the hard-line argument that we should've saved money by having an abortion (although that's probably not exactly free these days either), but society generally tends to hold that having a kid is somewhat less frivolous than buying a $2,000 TV to watch Survivor.
The true thrust of his article is that just having TrueCrypt (or any other advanced encryption tool) installed on your machine is enough to pique the interest of law enforcement.
Not if you have a good enough reason to have it installed. My wife uses her laptop for medical dictation, so I installed TrueCrypt with a boot password so that no one can access patient information if her computer gets stolen. There are enough stories about things like that happening that just about anyone can justify having TrueCrypt installed:
"I keep my Quicken files on there."
"I don't want someone getting my online banking passwords."
"I don't want none of that identity theft!"
Smarter in that they know how to use the tools. Dumber in that they don't know how to get by without them.
I could learn to life barefoot and wrapped in animal skins, but I'd prefer to accept that I don't want to.
Virtualization is even better for low-load servers
Yep! Virtualization is great for settop boxes and remote backup servers, except for the 99% of situations in which it's impossible.
When you added up the man-time required to move everything to Postgres, did it come to more or less than the cost of buying a commercial licence for the MySQL JDBC drivers
...plus the cost of the drivers for the next incompatible version and the next one after that? The conversion was a one-time, sunk expense. Eternal subscriptions to new version aren't.
It sounds like I'm the only one left who likes (at least some) gaming mags. My wife got a subscription to Game Informer with a Gamestop store card and we came to look forward to new issues. There are plenty of 2- or 3-star reviews, they criticize shiny new games, and are generally fun to read. Yeah, certain articles feel a little... sponsored... but for the most part we've been happy with it.
While doubtful, I want to know if the people in charge of this product are going to give us the "what the consumer wants" that WE want, what they THINK we want or SOS with a higher price tag.
I think the RIAA cabal has been infiltrated by the Greenwich Mean Tribe with the goal of making them kill themselves. It's sad when a Cory Doctorow plot is the most logical explanation for a real-life phenomenon.
This process is called "arbitrage" and many many people do make a living doing exactly that.
Not typically by selling the components back to the original seller, they don't - or at least not commonly.
If I buy a Subaru WRX with a normal shifter but plan on putting in a short-throw shifter after-market, Subaru isn't going to buy back my normal shifter.
Has Subaru been found guilty of illegally abusing their monopoly status, such that they account for 90% of dealerships and have contracts with the dealers stating that they're forbidden to offer non-Subaru options? If not, then the analogy isn't very close.
The odds that my customers will find anything on sale at Walmart, Best Buy, Staples without XP support? About 0%.
And the odds that they'll find something on sale without Vista or Windows 7 support, or without 64-bit support? About 50%. I'd bet that a modern Linux distro has better hardware support than a modern Windows installation.
It's great that your customers have a vendor willing to sell them an EOLed OS that still has good driver support (as long as you run it on old hardware), but that can't last forever.
That actually makes sense. When have you ever heard of a swimming event that wasn't a multiple of 25 meters in length? A 100m race is 2x50m (or 4x25m if you have a short pool), not 3x33.3m.
I can swallow that some people still (after GUIs and screen(1) became available twenty years ago or so) prefer to live entirely inside one emacs instance,
Note that "one emacs instance" does not mean "one Emacs window".
but personally I could never learn to run my shells,
Zsh vs. eshell? I'll take zsh every time. The Emacs shell is mostly useful to me as a convenient place to process the output of other Emacs buffers.
run make and so on there.
Oh, you must learn to run make inside Emacs. If nothing else, pressing a key to go to the exact file and line of an error or warning is a tremendous timesaver.