Since the searches are done by Customs, it doesn't matter whether you ship via FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL, or anyone else. Customs has to clear every package before it's allowed to cross the border and if they decide this is something they want to check for (like they currently do for drugs), then the carrier has no choice in the matter.
All non-domestic packages can be subject to dogs searching for contraband (it's the law. FedEx can't fly a plane out of the country without getting customs to sign off on EVERY package in the plane). FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL all have customs personnel with dogs at their facilities. They have to if they want to get packages cleared by customs efficiently (in hours, not days).
If you break you work up into little jobs that can get finished in roughly half an hour, then there's not much overhead at all. Most of what I do is research, so it's easy to find a stopping point in my reading before switching to something else.
For those who don't know, the Kernel Janitor project is dedicated specifically to fixing the bugs that are largely considered unrewarding or uninteresting to fix.
It's a great way to learn about kernel hacking. It's educational to just lurk on the mailing list before you're willing to actually get your hands dirty.
I don't generally drink anything sweetened or containing caffeine. If I have trouble focusing or staying awake in the later morning or afternoon, I either switch to another project or I get up and take a quick walk around the lab/buiding/whatever to stretch out my legs. I find that if I change what I'm working on every half hour or so, that I don't have problems staying focused on what I'm doing.
Printing in Linux is still a religious experience. Most printers will eventually work with CUPS to some degree, but it's often difficult to understand why a printer is misbehaving or why certain features are unavailable. If you're lucky enough to have a printer that understands postscript, then you can simply send it raw. If not, the difficulty of getting this working acceptably seems to be related to your karmic standing with the cosmos.
Configuring printers is the only part of setting up a Linux desktop that still makes me nervous (used to be nervous about setting up X, but it's been several years now since X has given me any non-trivial problems).
I've seen comments where people were confused about what Nintendo is doing, but I haven't seen any say that Nintendo was going to fail in this next generation. Most seem to be taking a wait and see position.
Sony dumps a bunch of money into chip fabs so that they don't have to line the pocket of any hardware manufactures, and then makes it back on the hardware once they've brought production costs down. Despite all the claims to the contrary, Sony does not expect to lose money on the hardware in the long run.
No, Microsoft's position is actually pretty weak. All it takes is for one governmental agency to add "ISO standard file format" as a checkbox on their requirements list and suddenly MS is forced to either support ODF or go home.
Those estimates all assumed that Sony would be paying what other OEMs would be paying to the manufacturers of said parts. However, Sony doesn't buy their parts, they manufacture them themselves. Thus, the cost to Sony to build a PS3 will be less than the cost someone else to purchase all the PS3 parts individually.
We won't really know what it costs Sony until they release a quarterly report that includes the PS3 (and even then we'll still only be able to guess at the details).
I work at a Fortune 150ish company where our some of our development groups are moving to.NET. It is my understanding that all of the back-end stuff (nothing requiring pretty UIs for the customer) is being tested to run both on MS's CLR and Mono. The customer facing stuff uses windows forms, so it won't do Mono.
I don't know who set this policy, but I think somewhere along the way, someone decided that the back-end stuff should be able to run on Linux. Hence, the Mono decision.
Actually there was a computer version of Birthright (a board game loosely coupled to D&D) that was actually pretty good in that respect. It was loads of fun to erode the economies of your neighbors and provoke wars so you could sweep in later and pick up the pieces.
The human mind dislikes infinite regression because it violates our intuitions about causality.
The rational mind abhores infinite regression because it implies that certain catagories of truth are simply unknowable.
In any case, accepting an infinite regression does not lend itself to progressive thought, so in the absence of compelling proof, it is better to assume that infinite regressions cannot meaningfully exist.
Most protests I've witnessed were very orderly. People who organize protests often use there own people to police the protesters to make sure that all the people involved remain orderly and to remove those who behave inappropriately.
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Since the searches are done by Customs, it doesn't matter whether
you ship via FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL, or anyone else. Customs has
to clear every package before it's allowed to cross the border
and if they decide this is something they want to check for (like
they currently do for drugs), then the carrier has no choice in
the matter.
It's not the MPAA that confiscates (and potentially destroys) the
DVDS, it's Customs. All the MPAA does is help Customs identify
potential contraband.
There's a big difference.
All non-domestic packages can be subject to dogs
searching for contraband (it's the law. FedEx can't fly a
plane out of the country without getting customs to sign off
on EVERY package in the plane). FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL all
have customs personnel with dogs at their facilities. They
have to if they want to get packages cleared by customs
efficiently (in hours, not days).
It becomes news when it's an official corporate sales strategy.
If you break you work up into little jobs that can get finished in roughly half an
hour, then there's not much overhead at all. Most of what I do is research, so it's
easy to find a stopping point in my reading before switching to something else.
Except for the 8-space tabs, I find it very reasonable. In fact, except for the
8-space tabs, it's pretty much what I do now (I use 4-space tabs).
What, pray tell, are your issues with it?
For those who don't know, the Kernel Janitor
project is dedicated specifically to fixing the bugs that are largely considered unrewarding
or uninteresting to fix.
It's a great way to learn about kernel hacking. It's educational to just lurk on the mailing
list before you're willing to actually get your hands dirty.
Is there some reason that you're using FreeBSD with pf instead of using OpenBSD with pf?
(for those of you who don't know, pf is developed by the OpenBSD team and was ported
to FreeBSD by some FBSD developers).
It just seems to me that if pf is the reason you're using FreeBSD, then you would probably
be even happier using OpenBSD.
I don't generally drink anything sweetened or containing caffeine. If I have trouble
focusing or staying awake in the later morning or afternoon, I either switch to another
project or I get up and take a quick walk around the lab/buiding/whatever to stretch out
my legs. I find that if I change what I'm working on every half hour or so, that I don't
have problems staying focused on what I'm doing.
Wow, I think that's the first Bloom County reference I've seen on slashdot.
Printing in Linux is still a religious experience. Most printers
will eventually work with CUPS to some degree, but it's often
difficult to understand why a printer is misbehaving or why
certain features are unavailable. If you're lucky
enough to have a printer that understands postscript, then
you can simply send it raw. If not, the difficulty of
getting this working acceptably seems to be related to your
karmic standing with the cosmos.
Configuring printers is the only part of setting up a Linux
desktop that still makes me nervous (used to be nervous about
setting up X, but it's been several years now since X has
given me any non-trivial problems).
I've seen comments where people were confused about what Nintendo is doing, but I haven't seen any say that Nintendo was going to fail in this next generation. Most seem to be taking a wait and see position.
But isn't this how Sony likes to play?
Sony dumps a bunch of money into chip fabs so that they don't have to line the pocket of any hardware manufactures, and then makes it back on the hardware once they've brought production costs down. Despite all the claims to the contrary, Sony does not expect to lose money on the hardware in the long run.
No, Microsoft's position is actually pretty weak. All it takes is for one
governmental agency to add "ISO standard file format" as a checkbox on their
requirements list and suddenly MS is forced to either support ODF or go
home.
Why does Apple need Dell when Apple is currently
selling computers faster than ever before?
Those estimates all assumed that Sony would be paying what other OEMs would be paying to the manufacturers of said parts. However, Sony doesn't buy their parts, they manufacture them themselves. Thus, the cost to Sony to build a PS3 will be less than the cost someone else to purchase all the PS3 parts individually.
We won't really know what it costs Sony until they release a quarterly report that includes the PS3 (and even then we'll still only be able to guess at the details).
Did you mean to post this to the apple article where they are dumping a whole dev team?
Not very fsking likely, the US is the biggest market in the world for Asian products. Just look at the Trade Deficeit.
It's my understanding that the trade deficit is largely due to the amount
of oil we import.
I work at a Fortune 150ish company where our some of our development groups are moving to .NET. It is my understanding that all of the back-end stuff (nothing requiring pretty UIs for the customer) is being tested to run both on MS's CLR and Mono. The customer facing stuff uses windows forms, so it won't do Mono.
I don't know who set this policy, but I think somewhere along the way, someone decided that the back-end stuff should be able to run on Linux. Hence, the Mono decision.
Will it remain that way when Vista is released?
Is this for real?
A quick google search found nothing about such a proposal.
Actually there was a computer version of Birthright (a board game loosely coupled to D&D) that
was actually pretty good in that respect. It was loads of fun to erode the economies of your
neighbors and provoke wars so you could sweep in later and pick up the pieces.
The human mind dislikes infinite regression because it violates our
intuitions about causality.
The rational mind abhores infinite regression because it implies that
certain catagories of truth are simply unknowable.
In any case, accepting an infinite regression does not lend itself to
progressive thought, so in the absence of compelling proof, it is better
to assume that infinite regressions cannot meaningfully exist.
Most protests I've witnessed were very orderly. People who organize protests often use there
own people to police the protesters to make sure that all the people involved remain orderly
and to remove those who behave inappropriately.
For $15 you can buy an enclosure that lets you make one of these drives into an external drive.
Certainly worth looking into.