I'm not sure why Comcast gets so much hate. Maybe it depends on the local market you are in?
Yes, this is exactly their problem.
I'm here on a beautiful 16/2 connection that always rocks. I've seen a 5-minute outage at 4:30AM once. It's former Adelphia territory.
But if you go 60 miles away, everybody who only has Comcast just hates it. You'll hear similar bipolar stories from all over.
They seem unable to find their winning processes and replicate them into company-wide success. Perhaps they should spend more money on business process management and quality measures and less on branding?
So you would base political decisions on what ? Stupidity ? Ignorance ? Random numbers ? There are already way too many important decision based on 'gut feeling'...
I think what he's saying is that Science and Politics are done separately, not that policy isn't based on science.
So much of science is what gets funded. Go ahead and try to get funding for a study examining the medical benefits of smoking weed or studying the datasets showing that AGW impact is negligible.
What's even more absurd is when people say, "your study is corrupt, because it was funded by Exxon but our study is lilly white because it was funded by Government". On the given issue, Exxon only wants money, government wants to dramatically increase its power over all the citizens of the Earth.
At least have a few larger seats reserved for larger passengers.
They do, they're called "first class". If you can fit in a cheaper seat, great, but don't ask me to pay for your big seat because you don't chose to eat healthily.
Not to mention that thermal exhaust duct that's only supposed to stretch from the exhaust port at the surface 621/1000s of the way down to the main reactor.
Ten is merely a happenstance of tetrapod evolution. A "smart" god would have given us 12 digits instead of 10.
Your god gave you 12 knuckles on the grasping fingers of each hand. Egyptian and Babylonian children were taught this at an early age. It seems his children are the idiots here.
And nobody in Apple seems to have actually used one so it got poor support.
I had the dubious distinction of filing a bug on one in the MacOS 8.1 beta program that halted the production schedule of the gold-master release. With the intended GM release if you pressed the power button on the remote control on a TAM it would power off immediately, not trigger shutdown. They fixed it very quickly but it seems nobody at Apple was testing their new OS on a TAM (turning it off with the remote was a natural thing to do on your way out the door for the day).
It was only a laptop in a cool form factor, but in an era where everybody had CRT's on their desk, it was a very cool device.
By the time Apple adopted the PowerPC it had become clear that Intel would remain ahead of the curve in the processor wars.
Really? Intel's current chip at the time was the 486DX2. The PPC had significant advantages over that technology and the marketing-driven Netburst architecture was all disaster, especially in portables. Plus the CISC nature of the 486 was a bad mate for the 68040 emulator that Apple needed.
Intel blew the PPC out of the water with the Pentium-M architecture, and that's right about when Apple decided to switch.
. Its one and only advantage is that you could upgrade the software.
Well, yes, that's the entire point of a DSP. I had a pretty decent phone system (voice) running off of one at one point. Some people hacked them to be awesome/cheap high-speed D/A's for non-telephony apps.
The only advantage of a CPU-based computer is that it can execute general-purpose programs. Right?
Right, and compared to what AppleLink was charging eWorld was a decent deal. But since it was a re-branded AOL and AOL had the network-effect benefits it didn't do any better than AppleLink and then the Internet/Mosaic made it obsolete.
Er, it doesn't run Windows anyway so you are always going to have to port the software.
Actually I have a Windows NT 4 for PowerPC disc in my closet. Microsoft reneged on its commitment to Motorola to maintain the port, so that's about as far as it got. I never did see the purported Microsoft Office for PPC though.
I was recently worried they'd both wither on the vine trying to compete against Android and filling almost exactly the same space. Thus I was thinking I'd have to base a project on ChromeOS, which seemed strategically foolish (at least Nokia and Intel will have divergent interests to keep development focused on solving problems well in the abstract, rather than quick-n-dirty tangents a single vendor can accept).
Especially if they stay with the mainline kernel, which Google isn't interested in doing, together Intel and Nokia are going to be much more successful than competing poorly against each other and Google.
So, here's one developer's intent to go this way rather than Android (for a non-phone project). Congrats to the adults in both camps.
Am I off base here? What do you think about intermediate variables that are not strictly necessary?
Well, use your judgement. Sometimes it helps. Take two options:
my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(time); $mon++; # 0-indexed from localtime $year+= 1900; # years since 1900 print "At the tone the time will be: $year-$mon-$mday $hour:min:$sec\n";
Or the more 'efficient':
my @timeparts = localtime(time); print 'At the tone the time will be: ' . $timeparts[5]+1900 . '-' . $timeparts[4]++ . "-$timeparts[3] $timeparts[2]:$timeparts[1]:$timeparts[0]\n";
To the topic, which would you rather encounter as the next man on a codebase? And don't forget that the compiler will optimize out any gratutious intermediates.
Sell a model I can buy that kills all female mosquitoes within range. I'll install one on the side of my house tomorrow. The Mosquito Magnet is only marginally effective and those run $250 these days. If this can really be done for $50, sell it for $100 and use the money to lower the cost in malaria areas.
In fact knowing where pictures were taken can lead to some really cool mashups of tourist photos and such.
Yes, eventually Street Maps will just be a projection of user-published pictures.
In the meantime, a good picture uploader will include a [x] Strip Identifying Information UI widget next to the 'upload' button, so it's all informed consent.
Almost every system built to assist communication for people like me are built on top of WinXP.
Does the hardware give you any rudimentary control over the BIOS-level startup? I'm wondering if a second install with a bootloader to chose the backup wouldn't be some cheap insurance for you.
WinXP goes final EOL in early 2014 - so hopefully the vendors are working on some new drivers for you. It sounds like it could take a couple years to get the specialized IT out to all the users.
How does the hardware interface with the OS? Does it emulate a keyboard and mouse or a digitizer? There are those kernel developers who are running the 'do you need a driver written?' campaign if the vendor is Open. GNOME has pretty decent assistive technologies, from what I've heard, but you're in need of the device driver.
It really makes you wonder why people are actually buying the stuff. I mean, if you want good comic books, those are available. If you want more Star Wars stories, then "these aren't the comics you're looking for."
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I'm not sure why Comcast gets so much hate. Maybe it depends on the local market you are in?
Yes, this is exactly their problem.
I'm here on a beautiful 16/2 connection that always rocks. I've seen a 5-minute outage at 4:30AM once. It's former Adelphia territory.
But if you go 60 miles away, everybody who only has Comcast just hates it. You'll hear similar bipolar stories from all over.
They seem unable to find their winning processes and replicate them into company-wide success. Perhaps they should spend more money on business process management and quality measures and less on branding?
So you would base political decisions on what ? Stupidity ? Ignorance ? Random numbers ? There are already way too many important decision based on 'gut feeling'...
I think what he's saying is that Science and Politics are done separately, not that policy isn't based on science.
So much of science is what gets funded. Go ahead and try to get funding for a study examining the medical benefits of smoking weed or studying the datasets showing that AGW impact is negligible.
What's even more absurd is when people say, "your study is corrupt, because it was funded by Exxon but our study is lilly white because it was funded by Government". On the given issue, Exxon only wants money, government wants to dramatically increase its power over all the citizens of the Earth.
At least have a few larger seats reserved for larger passengers.
They do, they're called "first class". If you can fit in a cheaper seat, great, but don't ask me to pay for your big seat because you don't chose to eat healthily.
It's a great idea, as FileVault is very limited in its approach, but this is far from a "replacement" for it.
So a reasonable thing to do would be to create an EncFS mountpoint and symlink in appropriate directories to your homedir, still on FileVault.
Except, I guess that's just ordinary and usable and doesn't garner a Slashdot headline.
I can see why Apple did it they way they did - dynamically resizing partitions as the user adds data to their home directory sounds... scary.
It's almost like they shouldn't have ripped ZFS out last summer...
Not to mention that thermal exhaust duct that's only supposed to stretch from the exhaust port at the surface 621/1000s of the way down to the main reactor.
But they are two meters across.
Crew was able to use their eyes and hands and gave good info on interference
And this is why our successful Mars colonization efforts won't be done solely with robotics.
Ten is merely a happenstance of tetrapod evolution. A "smart" god would have given us 12 digits instead of 10.
Your god gave you 12 knuckles on the grasping fingers of each hand. Egyptian and Babylonian children were taught this at an early age. It seems his children are the idiots here.
Dozenal or bust.
Temperature, water quality, what to feed it, and how to open the pressurised container to feed it (air lock style door?) would be trickier.
especially if they need live prey.
exclusive, high priced item, for collectors..
And nobody in Apple seems to have actually used one so it got poor support.
I had the dubious distinction of filing a bug on one in the MacOS 8.1 beta program that halted the production schedule of the gold-master release. With the intended GM release if you pressed the power button on the remote control on a TAM it would power off immediately, not trigger shutdown. They fixed it very quickly but it seems nobody at Apple was testing their new OS on a TAM (turning it off with the remote was a natural thing to do on your way out the door for the day).
It was only a laptop in a cool form factor, but in an era where everybody had CRT's on their desk, it was a very cool device.
By the time Apple adopted the PowerPC it had become clear that Intel would remain ahead of the curve in the processor wars.
Really? Intel's current chip at the time was the 486DX2. The PPC had significant advantages over that technology and the marketing-driven Netburst architecture was all disaster, especially in portables. Plus the CISC nature of the 486 was a bad mate for the 68040 emulator that Apple needed.
Intel blew the PPC out of the water with the Pentium-M architecture, and that's right about when Apple decided to switch.
. Its one and only advantage is that you could upgrade the software.
Well, yes, that's the entire point of a DSP. I had a pretty decent phone system (voice) running off of one at one point. Some people hacked them to be awesome/cheap high-speed D/A's for non-telephony apps.
The only advantage of a CPU-based computer is that it can execute general-purpose programs. Right?
Right, and compared to what AppleLink was charging eWorld was a decent deal. But since it was a re-branded AOL and AOL had the network-effect benefits it didn't do any better than AppleLink and then the Internet/Mosaic made it obsolete.
Er, it doesn't run Windows anyway so you are always going to have to port the software.
Actually I have a Windows NT 4 for PowerPC disc in my closet. Microsoft reneged on its commitment to Motorola to maintain the port, so that's about as far as it got. I never did see the purported Microsoft Office for PPC though.
I was recently worried they'd both wither on the vine trying to compete against Android and filling almost exactly the same space. Thus I was thinking I'd have to base a project on ChromeOS, which seemed strategically foolish (at least Nokia and Intel will have divergent interests to keep development focused on solving problems well in the abstract, rather than quick-n-dirty tangents a single vendor can accept).
Especially if they stay with the mainline kernel, which Google isn't interested in doing, together Intel and Nokia are going to be much more successful than competing poorly against each other and Google.
So, here's one developer's intent to go this way rather than Android (for a non-phone project). Congrats to the adults in both camps.
truly learn the software.
And then if your unit tests work you'll know enough to comment the code correctly for the next time you or your successor comes back to it.
Am I off base here? What do you think about intermediate variables that are not strictly necessary?
Well, use your judgement. Sometimes it helps. Take two options:
my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(time);
$mon++; # 0-indexed from localtime
$year+= 1900; # years since 1900
print "At the tone the time will be: $year-$mon-$mday $hour:min:$sec\n";
Or the more 'efficient':
my @timeparts = localtime(time);
print 'At the tone the time will be: ' . $timeparts[5]+1900 . '-' . $timeparts[4]++ . "-$timeparts[3] $timeparts[2]:$timeparts[1]:$timeparts[0]\n";
To the topic, which would you rather encounter as the next man on a codebase? And don't forget that the compiler will optimize out any gratutious intermediates.
Sell a model I can buy that kills all female mosquitoes within range. I'll install one on the side of my house tomorrow. The Mosquito Magnet is only marginally effective and those run $250 these days. If this can really be done for $50, sell it for $100 and use the money to lower the cost in malaria areas.
I can't see the Obama administration rattling sabers against China. That's not their style.
Have you seen the debt and default risk in the current budget? China is the USA's biggest creditor.
In fact knowing where pictures were taken can lead to some really cool mashups of tourist photos and such.
Yes, eventually Street Maps will just be a projection of user-published pictures.
In the meantime, a good picture uploader will include a [x] Strip Identifying Information UI widget next to the 'upload' button, so it's all informed consent.
When someone decides that there is money in getting non-techies onto Linux, they will be able to polish Linux into something really slick
I have tech-illiterate friends on FB raving about their Droid phones.
Almost every system built to assist communication for people like me are built on top of WinXP.
Does the hardware give you any rudimentary control over the BIOS-level startup? I'm wondering if a second install with a bootloader to chose the backup wouldn't be some cheap insurance for you.
WinXP goes final EOL in early 2014 - so hopefully the vendors are working on some new drivers for you. It sounds like it could take a couple years to get the specialized IT out to all the users.
How does the hardware interface with the OS? Does it emulate a keyboard and mouse or a digitizer? There are those kernel developers who are running the 'do you need a driver written?' campaign if the vendor is Open. GNOME has pretty decent assistive technologies, from what I've heard, but you're in need of the device driver.
Back on the intercision kick again, are they?
and a laptop running a Python script
So, classify Python as a criminal tool, problem solved.
(the rule that you have to mention Python at every possibility cuts both ways).
It really makes you wonder why people are actually buying the stuff. I mean, if you want good comic books, those are available. If you want more Star Wars stories, then "these aren't the comics you're looking for."