because the hardware wasn't good enough to make it shiny.
Yeah, but what kind of frame rate did you get out of King's Quest?;)
I think this is a bit like music - people always try to credit nostalgia, but really some old music is much better than most modern music. The trick is, there was plenty of bad old, music, but nobody remembers it. The winners have staying power, and color our memories.
And my favorite musical era occurred a few years before I was born. My second favorite, 40 years before I was born, and my third favorite, when I was 12. So now people will immediately jump on the one when I was 12 and say it's because I grew up with it.
c.f. the RedLetterMedia review of The Phantom Menace.
If you actually want to fix the issue you go after the bigger fish.
They tried that with the groupers and found out that all the small ones were male, and then they turn into females when they get larger. It caused the population to crash for a while.
Seafood is wildlife. It's only due to the size of the oceans that the species haven't been wiped out completely. If people had such a voracious appetite for wild venison, we'd have empty woods by now. I try to limit my seafood consumption to once a month or less, for that reason. I do take some fish oil for my heart, and I know that's bad for a few species, but I'm also testifying on a hemp legalization bill in a few days, in an attempt to fix that as well.
Yes, we can grow Omega-3's with weeds, but our government imprisons people who do.
I was talking to an IT guy in a regulated industry the other day about it (reminding him) and the response was, "yeah, I doubt we'll get that in our budget for the next FY".
This is the point in time when a vast number of users go off security updates. I'm not defending it, just calling it like it is. Until those machines die they'll be running XP.
What wil be the result if each government acts the same way ?
You can't talk like that. We need to give a gang of people the power to steal, kidnap, and murder or else we'd have gangs of people stealing, kidnapping, and murdering.
It is the new Al-CIAda, designed to justify the elimination of the free internet as we once knew it.
Yeah, so you don't know many twenty-something, single, idealistic computer geeks. If they're CIA, the CIA is pretty silly. I suppose that doesn't rule out the possibility of useful idiots, but the idea that the bulk of Anonymous is secret agents appears to be highly unlikely.
Nah, such is our bane for divorcing science from policy. There are people who want to buy up that 'waste' that endangers you and your family and 'burn' it as fuel in more advanced reactors, eliminating 97% of the waste and converting that highly-radioactive 300,000 year waste into minimally-radioactive 600-year waste in the process.
Their efforts have been (and are being) thwarted by the same people who want to tax and regulate the carbon economy.
The problem was that the administrator's real name was publicly known
That wasn't the problem. Let's not blame the victim here.
The admin had to give in to the immense pressure
Yeah... hey, Wikimedia, how about an "I am making this change under duress." checkbox on the edit page? Automatically drop editing privs for the account and flag the change for review. Leave the change, though, so those with the gun to his head can walk away satisfied.
Only one of my machines now has a BIOS that's signed (UEFI). The risk of a dangerous flashing malware is just the same as it has been since the early 90's, no?
I always seem to have to reboot into DOS to actually flash when I want to, though. If there's a general way to flash a BIOS from linux, I'm interested.
It seems to have literally crashed the blog site as well. Comments thread on Roger's last entry:
Artur Artborg | April 4, 2013 12:47 PM | Reply Jody | April 4, 2013 12:49 PM | Reply Grant McGuire | April 4, 2013 12:57 PM | Reply Stephen | April 4, 2013 6:39 PM | Reply Jonny | April 4, 2013 6:40 PM | Reply The Dude in CA | April 4, 2013 6:40 PM | Reply Floyd | April 4, 2013 6:40 PM | Reply Jonathan | April 4, 2013 6:40 PM | Reply Jeff | April 4, 2013 6:41 PM | Reply Jim G. | April 4, 2013 6:41 PM | Reply Donna | April 4, 2013 6:42 PM | Reply Janet | April 4, 2013 6:42 PM | Reply
I agree, that's much better. A good reason to fork a project too. It's too bad OpenJDK hasn't done that yet - they still suffer from the over-the-wall model.
My point was more that if you have to think a few levels deep to view it as "moral hazard", then it's not a classic example.
The mistake is seeing the FDIC as primarily benefiting the account holders (because that's how it's advertised/propagandized). If you see it for really what it is - as insurance for the bankers to take risks, then it's clear that they are the primary beneficiaries. The bankers are able to privatize their gains made on the risks they take and and their losses (liability for deposits) are socialized if they fail.
Every single day bankers gain benefits from FDIC insurance. Only rarely do depositors see anything in terms of payouts.
You're only considering the banks that fail, not all of the banks that succeed fabulously because they've been able to take risks that would otherwise have been untenable, were not the losses guaranteed to be socialized.
Since the Fed used up all of its traditional power to create money once zero-reserve banking was reached, it now simply buys US bonds by crediting the account ledger of the bond seller without debiting its own account (and appears willing to keep doing so indefinitely - this will not end well).
Agreed, because they can create an infinite amount of USD. But to follow the line of argument, how could they create them if the Bonds were being sold for BTC?
The point is, how are you supposed to know if you are allowed to use a site, if you can't even read the terms of service without risking violating the terms of service?
"You've got to accept the Terms of Service, so you can find out what's in it." - Nancy Pelosi
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There are a dozen ways to enjoy frozen milk, sugar, and flavor. None of them are wrong.
Oh, my. I'm now forced to be willing to overlook some of her questionable politics and exhault her as a hero. Gee, thanks a lot, TheLink.
because the hardware wasn't good enough to make it shiny.
Yeah, but what kind of frame rate did you get out of King's Quest? ;)
I think this is a bit like music - people always try to credit nostalgia, but really some old music is much better than most modern music. The trick is, there was plenty of bad old, music, but nobody remembers it. The winners have staying power, and color our memories.
And my favorite musical era occurred a few years before I was born. My second favorite, 40 years before I was born, and my third favorite, when I was 12. So now people will immediately jump on the one when I was 12 and say it's because I grew up with it.
c.f. the RedLetterMedia review of The Phantom Menace.
If you actually want to fix the issue you go after the bigger fish.
They tried that with the groupers and found out that all the small ones were male, and then they turn into females when they get larger. It caused the population to crash for a while.
Seafood is wildlife. It's only due to the size of the oceans that the species haven't been wiped out completely. If people had such a voracious appetite for wild venison, we'd have empty woods by now. I try to limit my seafood consumption to once a month or less, for that reason. I do take some fish oil for my heart, and I know that's bad for a few species, but I'm also testifying on a hemp legalization bill in a few days, in an attempt to fix that as well.
Yes, we can grow Omega-3's with weeds, but our government imprisons people who do.
I was talking to an IT guy in a regulated industry the other day about it (reminding him) and the response was, "yeah, I doubt we'll get that in our budget for the next FY".
This is the point in time when a vast number of users go off security updates. I'm not defending it, just calling it like it is. Until those machines die they'll be running XP.
What wil be the result if each government acts the same way ?
You can't talk like that. We need to give a gang of people the power to steal, kidnap, and murder or else we'd have gangs of people stealing, kidnapping, and murdering.
there is still a separation between the program doing the work and the program providing the GUI
Wait ... so why does the frontend crash when I try to import a .flv (libflv gets blamed)?
Hey, man, upload that script somewhere and somebody might add the watching logic to it!
How do you keep your ScanSnap from not feeding multiple pages simultaneously? Mine does it frequently, making it mostly collect dust.
It is the new Al-CIAda, designed to justify the elimination of the free internet as we once knew it.
Yeah, so you don't know many twenty-something, single, idealistic computer geeks. If they're CIA, the CIA is pretty silly. I suppose that doesn't rule out the possibility of useful idiots, but the idea that the bulk of Anonymous is secret agents appears to be highly unlikely.
Such is our bane for helping stop the japs.
Nah, such is our bane for divorcing science from policy. There are people who want to buy up that 'waste' that endangers you and your family and 'burn' it as fuel in more advanced reactors, eliminating 97% of the waste and converting that highly-radioactive 300,000 year waste into minimally-radioactive 600-year waste in the process.
Their efforts have been (and are being) thwarted by the same people who want to tax and regulate the carbon economy.
The problem was that the administrator's real name was publicly known
That wasn't the problem. Let's not blame the victim here.
The admin had to give in to the immense pressure
Yeah ... hey, Wikimedia, how about an "I am making this change under duress." checkbox on the edit page? Automatically drop editing privs for the account and flag the change for review. Leave the change, though, so those with the gun to his head can walk away satisfied.
Yep, block it. Unless you get the practice's business owner's written request to allow it.
I think someone in the French military got their panties in a wad about nothing...
Wikileaks has leaked the last communications that French Intelligence had with Wikimedia Legal. Quote:
Only one of my machines now has a BIOS that's signed (UEFI). The risk of a dangerous flashing malware is just the same as it has been since the early 90's, no?
I always seem to have to reboot into DOS to actually flash when I want to, though. If there's a general way to flash a BIOS from linux, I'm interested.
This has the link, but that'll do you no good at this point.
In related news, I'm more interested in buying an AMI motherboard now. Especially one with CoreBoot flashed over it.
Some people seem to be hung up on stupid marketing slogans from Intel from 1996. Nobody says computers have "Hafnium Silicates Inside" either.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/ [suntimes.com] is melting under the pressure
It seems to have literally crashed the blog site as well. Comments thread on Roger's last entry:
Artur Artborg | April 4, 2013 12:47 PM | Reply
Jody | April 4, 2013 12:49 PM | Reply
Grant McGuire | April 4, 2013 12:57 PM | Reply
Stephen | April 4, 2013 6:39 PM | Reply
Jonny | April 4, 2013 6:40 PM | Reply
The Dude in CA | April 4, 2013 6:40 PM | Reply
Floyd | April 4, 2013 6:40 PM | Reply
Jonathan | April 4, 2013 6:40 PM | Reply
Jeff | April 4, 2013 6:41 PM | Reply
Jim G. | April 4, 2013 6:41 PM | Reply
Donna | April 4, 2013 6:42 PM | Reply
Janet | April 4, 2013 6:42 PM | Reply
I agree, that's much better. A good reason to fork a project too. It's too bad OpenJDK hasn't done that yet - they still suffer from the over-the-wall model.
My point was more that if you have to think a few levels deep to view it as "moral hazard", then it's not a classic example.
The mistake is seeing the FDIC as primarily benefiting the account holders (because that's how it's advertised/propagandized). If you see it for really what it is - as insurance for the bankers to take risks, then it's clear that they are the primary beneficiaries. The bankers are able to privatize their gains made on the risks they take and and their losses (liability for deposits) are socialized if they fail.
Every single day bankers gain benefits from FDIC insurance. Only rarely do depositors see anything in terms of payouts.
ah, I'd forgotten about that - works great, thanks!
You're only considering the banks that fail, not all of the banks that succeed fabulously because they've been able to take risks that would otherwise have been untenable, were not the losses guaranteed to be socialized.
Since the Fed used up all of its traditional power to create money once zero-reserve banking was reached, it now simply buys US bonds by crediting the account ledger of the bond seller without debiting its own account (and appears willing to keep doing so indefinitely - this will not end well).
Agreed, because they can create an infinite amount of USD. But to follow the line of argument, how could they create them if the Bonds were being sold for BTC?
and only when it serves the interests of the powerful corporations.
And corporations are fictional constructs to limit liability to bad actors granted by __________________ .
I might just declare everyone tax exempt.
You can't do that, but you can make everybody stop paying taxes under the ToS of your website or face criminal penalties for the violation. Bwahahaha.
The point is, how are you supposed to know if you are allowed to use a site, if you can't even read the terms of service without risking violating the terms of service?
"You've got to accept the Terms of Service, so you can find out what's in it." - Nancy Pelosi