If we held fast to this theory, we'd have to fire the entire Parliament, since they don't even bother to read the legislation placed in front of them.
I'm in! Saw that back during the NAFTA debate - went to Ottawa to argue against the mandatory natural resources sharing limits, couldn't find a single MP who had read ANY of the legislation. bunch of morons. They went by the title alone. Maybe we should push for a "Give the MPS double pay" bill, and in the text make it a 50% pay CUT - they'd never read it.
Spammers hide their info. If you're running a legit domain, post your owner and admin contact info. It's part and parcel of running a domain, same as a license plate is part and parcel of driving a car, or your name, signature, bank address, and account number on any checks you write.
This isn't a "why keep the info private if you have nothing to hide" issue - it's about transparency and holding people accountable - and not just spammers. The requirement for valid info would go a good ways towards reducing the amount of spam, which benefits everyone.
Putting in valid contact info also means that a proxy can't hold your domain hostage if you want to transfer it. If it's worth nothing, there's no harm in putting in correct info, and if it's worth something, there's risk in putting in bogus info. Either way, it's one more party to go through, one more link in the chain that can screw up. Not worth the hassle to make your contact info private.
Agreed that 1280x800 on a 17" would suck, but 1440 x 900 is actually quite nice - especially if you plug an external 1920x1200 (or like I did for fun, a 50" 1920x1080 plasma - even youtube looks good on that:-)
We've learned that the best long-term interests of the victim don't necessarily coincide with what the victim wants.
Many times, the victim just wants everything dropped to "make it all go away."
Over time, this gets internalized. Then everything becomes a rationalization to continue to maintain that "don't have to deal with it".
We now know that the best thing for victims or abuse is for the perps to be dealt with openly. A few decades of this has led to the destigmatization of the victims in rapes, which has led to more rape cases being reported rather than the victim shutting up because they're afraid everyone will see them as "damaged goods".
Just take a look at how many wives refuse to testify against abusive husbands. This led to the law being changed in many places so that the cops don't need the woman to file the complaint.
Then there's the other issue - he avoided justice for almost 40 years. Do we reward that with a lesser sentence? That just teaches that running is the smart thing to do. That he has to face this now is his own fault - first, for doing the crime, second, for trying to avoid doing the time... if he hadn't run, this would have been behind him. Of course, his career would have been in ruins, but that just means some crappy pretentious shit wouldn't have mede it onto celluloid, which is another bonus. And we wouldn't be listening to Whoopi going "It wasn't rape-rape" (she obviously never read the transcripts of the grand jury hearing or the plea bargain - it was rape, Polanski admitted he knew she was only 13 when he sodomized her after vaginal sex, etc.)
Case in point: Canada, probably as much by luck as good management, had one of the few banking systems to emerge relatively unscathed from the credit crisis. Has any Canadian lined up to pay more taxes in exchange for this excellent governance? Fat chance. We'd be happier if they had lost $100b (that's Canadian for $1t) so we could pillory them as models of what we deplore. Despising politicians is a nation building experience.
Well, we've been in favour of balanced budgets for a couple of decades now, even though we know it means higher taxes now (to avoid even higer taxes in the future). We kept re-electing the liberals because of the balanced budgets, and we are keeping the Tories on a short leash because we don't like budget deficits... we understand that we've "kept the powder dry", and that there's a time to use it - and that time is now, but we don't want to return to institutionalized big deficits.
It might seem we're lucky, but being more prudent than our American counterparts has something to do with it.
This would also not have dragged on if he hadn't fled the country. In doing so, he broke the plea bargain and should have to face trial on the original charges.
Yes, he consulted twice with his lawyer before admitting that he knew she was 13. This shows (1) that he knew what he was admitting was a serious crime, and (2) that he was informed of his legal rights.
Also, the fact that the victims' lawyer argued for the plea bargain is a sign of the times - his argument was that she would be forever stigmatized - made a victim a second time over. Today, we don't see rape victims as "damaged goods", so no, today the victims' lawyer would argue for jail time and against a plea bargain to lesser charges when there's ample evidence (semen, etc).
Let him stand trial on the original charges, since he didn't fulfill his end of the plea bargain. What could be more fair?
1280x800 on a 15" screen (my work laptop) is not enough resolution to actually do any modern development work in, and the pixels are just a little bit too large. 1440x900 might be okay. 1680x1050 might have too small pixels. But on a 17" display, 1680x1050 (or 1600x900 for the new 16:9 screens) sounds like a good resolution.
That's why $DIETY invented external 2nd monitors. No compromising.
At least you can get your IDE on that without feeling cramped.
Not really - once you've gone dual screens anything less is just an exercise in frustration. The efficiencies of 2 monitors just make sense.
The reason you need to swap the battery is because there is no external power to plug the thing in to.
Eventually, you're going to need external power one way or another, or you'll have a brick and 2 dead batteries.
Just suspend to disk if it's that big a deal. Or better yet, shut it down and swap the batteries. After a few hours, you should be taking a break anyways.
I'm happy with 1440 x 900 for a 17" laptop - but I've seen the same model, but with a lower-res screen - 1280x800.
The question I have is how much squinting at fine fonts I'd do at 1920x1200 on only 17" of screen - it's great on a 26", but can't see it being that good on a laptop.
Yeah, because nothing's quite so convenient as hibernating your laptop, swapping out the batteries, and resuming.
You can plug in the external adapter for a few secs while you pop the old battery out. You'll need the adapter anyway to recharge.
Or, if you're not too chicken to make a hole in your battery case, all you need to do is run the external battery in parallel. A simple case mod (holes for the wires to the + and - terminals) and you're good to go. Don't even need the "right" battery - any battery with the right voltage and enough capacity will do.
Also, laptops don't "spin up" the DVD on boot if there's no disk in the drive, and you haven't set "boot from optical media" as an option.
The poster who wrote that Polanski thought she was "old enough" was wrong - you can read the transcripts of the plea bargain at The Smoking Gun.
Polanski admitted under oath during the plea bargain that he knew PRIOR to raping her that she was only 13. This was with his lawyers' advice and consent, and after being told by the judge what the legal implications were.
The mother testified at the grand jury, also under oath, that she had told Polanski that her daughter was 13; she was surprised that Polanski wanted her to do some child modeling because photogs usually want models who are even younger.
So we have both the testmony from the perp, after waiving his right to avoid self-incrimination as part of the guilty plea bargain, and a second witness, that he knew she was 13. What more proof does ANYONE want?
He was absolutely convinced she was 17 (which is what the girl's mother told him
An out-and-out LIE. He admitted during the hearing for the plea bargain that he KNEW she was 13. The mother also testified under oath at the grand jury that she had told him she was 13, because she was surprised that he wanted a model that old - most kid models are younger.
He's a pedophile. Cunnilingus, vaginal, and anal sex, after doping her up. That's not just "a momentary weakness", as he's tried to argue. He was prescribed 150mg qualudes, but the one he gave her was 500mg, and he tried to dispose of another 500mg when he was arrested - probably part of his "date kit."
That his films aren't worth watching is just a bonus.
Tyranny-loving politicians always try to scare the shit out of you to make it seem like they have no choice but to take your freedoms away. And it is always something horrible, like kidnapping or child rape. That way, if you don't give them what they want, then *you* must be responsible for their kidnapping/rape/death since you stood by and didn't let them do anything.
That's right - and we saw it again last week. Somehow it's OUR fault that Roman Polanski avoided justice all these decades. "We", the peons, don't "get it".
Maybe we need to charge public officials with corruption or fraud when they try to lie so blatantly. "That statement is no longer operative" is just one more fuddle duddle.
Most of the "benefits" of the extra swappable drive bay are nullified in newer laptops.
Here's his list: CD/DVD R/W, extra battery, floppy drive, extra hard drive, memory card reader, etc
Floppy drives are obsolete
Since this is a developers' machine, a 17" should have 2 drive bays, so who needs to swap out drives? Failing that, use an external USB drive.
Memory card readers are built in nowadays.
If you're going to be lugging an extra battery around, just carry a spare.
So just go with the built-in DVD R/W, built in 4 USB ports, built-in 2nd hard drive, built-in card reader, etc. A grand should get you all this, including 4 gigs of ram and twin 500 gig hard drives.
Teacher: Why are you late?
Student 1: I was throwing pebbles in the pond.
Teacher: (to student #2) Why are you late?
Student 2: I was throwing pebbles in the pond.
Teacher: (to student #3) Let me guess - you were throwing pebbles in the pond too?
Student 3: I'm Pebbles.
However, nowadays MS seems to have lost their cool, Don't excpect them to dissapear (sic) anytime soon, but they will probably not be in as dominate position as they were back in the days.
They lost their cool a long time ago - back when it was no longer seen to be cool to work for them,
You might blame it on Monkeyboy, but it actually started in the developer community the early '90s, when people started to realize that perpetual death marches are an indicator that the higher-ups are clueless.
Open the folder in Explorer, make sure you're in detail view with a 'Type' column visible (should be by default), click the 'Type' column header, click the first.xml file, shift+click the last.xml file, drag and drop. How is that not painfully obvious?
Your reading comprehension must have suffered from watching the video. The poster was clear: Each directory has exactly ONE file in it. 1000 directories, each with 1 file in it, that they want to move to a common directory. Just the files - not the folders. So your method would involve opening each folder in explorer, one at a time, and dragging the file to another directory. It would be quicker to reboot into linux and mount the hd and do it than to do what you suggest.
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Do you really think that humans who have been religious for thousands of years will suddenly give up their religion? I must say you are a dreamer.
There is not a single human who has "been religious for thousands of years"... and anyone else, maybe when they're staring death in the face, they'll realize that life is too short for that shit.
Or they'll kill each other off, and solve the problem that way.
If they want to fight so bad, let's give them a territory to fight in, nothing but their bare fists, and let them go at it. They want to behave like animals, let them.
What I haven't heard discussed is that Israel, in the face of world indifference and even hostility to its' continued survival, may come to the same conclusion and decide it has nothing to lose by nuking Tehran and the known & suspected enrichment facilities and putting the world on notice that any counter-attack by any nation will result in a nuclear response.
That's because that sort of option pretty much guarantees the destruction of Israel. The real danger isn't nukes, it's biologicals, and that's what you WON'T hear discussed - especially biological weapons that can differentiate between different genetic backgrounds. Think of them as "smart bugs" or the biological equivalent of a neutron bomb. Deploy nukes, and there's no reason for others not to retaliate with biologicals, world-wide.
Fugly. I wouldn't pay $700 for that. Let me change that - I wouldn't pay $7.00 for that. It's too damn big. Also, if you add up all the fans you'll need to take full advantage of the |individual cooling", it's going to be noisy.
Definitely targeted at the "more money than brains" folks.
If you prove to the world that you are an idiot and want to eliminate other countries, you don't get nukes. Iran has proven this. Israel just wants to exist as it is and has proven this. A portion of the Muslim world is just too radical!
By your logic Israel has proven that they shouldn't have nukes - their "Samson Option" - "If we go, we'll take everyone with us!" is just as bad.
Israel got their nukes from the US. The material was siphoned off a bit at a time, every time nuclear material was moved from one location in the US to another. The record-keeping system was designed to automatically experience some "shrinkage" every time material was moved. This came out when someone noted that just moving material from one side of a storage are to another changed its' reported quantity in inventory. Look through Scientific American's archives from (iirc) the early 80s (but it could be the '70s).
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I'm in! Saw that back during the NAFTA debate - went to Ottawa to argue against the mandatory natural resources sharing limits, couldn't find a single MP who had read ANY of the legislation. bunch of morons. They went by the title alone. Maybe we should push for a "Give the MPS double pay" bill, and in the text make it a 50% pay CUT - they'd never read it.
Spammers hide their info. If you're running a legit domain, post your owner and admin contact info. It's part and parcel of running a domain, same as a license plate is part and parcel of driving a car, or your name, signature, bank address, and account number on any checks you write.
This isn't a "why keep the info private if you have nothing to hide" issue - it's about transparency and holding people accountable - and not just spammers. The requirement for valid info would go a good ways towards reducing the amount of spam, which benefits everyone.
Putting in valid contact info also means that a proxy can't hold your domain hostage if you want to transfer it. If it's worth nothing, there's no harm in putting in correct info, and if it's worth something, there's risk in putting in bogus info. Either way, it's one more party to go through, one more link in the chain that can screw up. Not worth the hassle to make your contact info private.
Err, if he's running an image, he doesn't need a floppy.
Agreed that 1280x800 on a 17" would suck, but 1440 x 900 is actually quite nice - especially if you plug an external 1920x1200 (or like I did for fun, a 50" 1920x1080 plasma - even youtube looks good on that :-)
We've learned that the best long-term interests of the victim don't necessarily coincide with what the victim wants.
Many times, the victim just wants everything dropped to "make it all go away."
Over time, this gets internalized. Then everything becomes a rationalization to continue to maintain that "don't have to deal with it".
We now know that the best thing for victims or abuse is for the perps to be dealt with openly. A few decades of this has led to the destigmatization of the victims in rapes, which has led to more rape cases being reported rather than the victim shutting up because they're afraid everyone will see them as "damaged goods".
Just take a look at how many wives refuse to testify against abusive husbands. This led to the law being changed in many places so that the cops don't need the woman to file the complaint.
Then there's the other issue - he avoided justice for almost 40 years. Do we reward that with a lesser sentence? That just teaches that running is the smart thing to do. That he has to face this now is his own fault - first, for doing the crime, second, for trying to avoid doing the time ... if he hadn't run, this would have been behind him. Of course, his career would have been in ruins, but that just means some crappy pretentious shit wouldn't have mede it onto celluloid, which is another bonus. And we wouldn't be listening to Whoopi going "It wasn't rape-rape" (she obviously never read the transcripts of the grand jury hearing or the plea bargain - it was rape, Polanski admitted he knew she was only 13 when he sodomized her after vaginal sex, etc.)
Well, we've been in favour of balanced budgets for a couple of decades now, even though we know it means higher taxes now (to avoid even higer taxes in the future). We kept re-electing the liberals because of the balanced budgets, and we are keeping the Tories on a short leash because we don't like budget deficits ... we understand that we've "kept the powder dry", and that there's a time to use it - and that time is now, but we don't want to return to institutionalized big deficits.
It might seem we're lucky, but being more prudent than our American counterparts has something to do with it.
This would also not have dragged on if he hadn't fled the country. In doing so, he broke the plea bargain and should have to face trial on the original charges.
Yes, he consulted twice with his lawyer before admitting that he knew she was 13. This shows (1) that he knew what he was admitting was a serious crime, and (2) that he was informed of his legal rights.
Also, the fact that the victims' lawyer argued for the plea bargain is a sign of the times - his argument was that she would be forever stigmatized - made a victim a second time over. Today, we don't see rape victims as "damaged goods", so no, today the victims' lawyer would argue for jail time and against a plea bargain to lesser charges when there's ample evidence (semen, etc).
Let him stand trial on the original charges, since he didn't fulfill his end of the plea bargain. What could be more fair?
That's why $DIETY invented external 2nd monitors. No compromising.
Not really - once you've gone dual screens anything less is just an exercise in frustration. The efficiencies of 2 monitors just make sense.
Eventually, you're going to need external power one way or another, or you'll have a brick and 2 dead batteries.
Just suspend to disk if it's that big a deal. Or better yet, shut it down and swap the batteries. After a few hours, you should be taking a break anyways.
I'm happy with 1440 x 900 for a 17" laptop - but I've seen the same model, but with a lower-res screen - 1280x800.
The question I have is how much squinting at fine fonts I'd do at 1920x1200 on only 17" of screen - it's great on a 26", but can't see it being that good on a laptop.
You can plug in the external adapter for a few secs while you pop the old battery out. You'll need the adapter anyway to recharge.
Or, if you're not too chicken to make a hole in your battery case, all you need to do is run the external battery in parallel. A simple case mod (holes for the wires to the + and - terminals) and you're good to go. Don't even need the "right" battery - any battery with the right voltage and enough capacity will do.
Also, laptops don't "spin up" the DVD on boot if there's no disk in the drive, and you haven't set "boot from optical media" as an option.
So we have both the testmony from the perp, after waiving his right to avoid self-incrimination as part of the guilty plea bargain, and a second witness, that he knew she was 13. What more proof does ANYONE want?
An out-and-out LIE. He admitted during the hearing for the plea bargain that he KNEW she was 13. The mother also testified under oath at the grand jury that she had told him she was 13, because she was surprised that he wanted a model that old - most kid models are younger.
He's a pedophile. Cunnilingus, vaginal, and anal sex, after doping her up. That's not just "a momentary weakness", as he's tried to argue. He was prescribed 150mg qualudes, but the one he gave her was 500mg, and he tried to dispose of another 500mg when he was arrested - probably part of his "date kit."
That his films aren't worth watching is just a bonus.
That's right - and we saw it again last week. Somehow it's OUR fault that Roman Polanski avoided justice all these decades. "We", the peons, don't "get it".
Fortunately, the power of the Internet is able to route around the brain-damaged "celebrity types" who signed that stupid petition expressing outrage that a pedophile should actually be arrested. counter-petition
Maybe we need to charge public officials with corruption or fraud when they try to lie so blatantly. "That statement is no longer operative" is just one more fuddle duddle.
Oh, come on. It's his JOB to know. The guy either lied or he's incompetent. Either way, fire the bum!
Most of the "benefits" of the extra swappable drive bay are nullified in newer laptops.
Here's his list: CD/DVD R/W, extra battery, floppy drive, extra hard drive, memory card reader, etc
Floppy drives are obsolete
Since this is a developers' machine, a 17" should have 2 drive bays, so who needs to swap out drives? Failing that, use an external USB drive.
Memory card readers are built in nowadays.
If you're going to be lugging an extra battery around, just carry a spare.
So just go with the built-in DVD R/W, built in 4 USB ports, built-in 2nd hard drive, built-in card reader, etc. A grand should get you all this, including 4 gigs of ram and twin 500 gig hard drives.
Teacher: Why are you late?
Student 1: I was throwing pebbles in the pond.
Teacher: (to student #2) Why are you late?
Student 2: I was throwing pebbles in the pond.
Teacher: (to student #3) Let me guess - you were throwing pebbles in the pond too?
Student 3: I'm Pebbles.
They lost their cool a long time ago - back when it was no longer seen to be cool to work for them,
You might blame it on Monkeyboy, but it actually started in the developer community the early '90s, when people started to realize that perpetual death marches are an indicator that the higher-ups are clueless.
Your reading comprehension must have suffered from watching the video. The poster was clear: Each directory has exactly ONE file in it. 1000 directories, each with 1 file in it, that they want to move to a common directory. Just the files - not the folders. So your method would involve opening each folder in explorer, one at a time, and dragging the file to another directory. It would be quicker to reboot into linux and mount the hd and do it than to do what you suggest.
There is not a single human who has "been religious for thousands of years" ... and anyone else, maybe when they're staring death in the face, they'll realize that life is too short for that shit.
Or they'll kill each other off, and solve the problem that way.
If they want to fight so bad, let's give them a territory to fight in, nothing but their bare fists, and let them go at it. They want to behave like animals, let them.
That's because that sort of option pretty much guarantees the destruction of Israel. The real danger isn't nukes, it's biologicals, and that's what you WON'T hear discussed - especially biological weapons that can differentiate between different genetic backgrounds. Think of them as "smart bugs" or the biological equivalent of a neutron bomb. Deploy nukes, and there's no reason for others not to retaliate with biologicals, world-wide.
Israel said they had them during the gulf war. Heck, they even revealed that during the 6-day war they had rolled them to the planes.
Russia knows they have them (Russia had spy equipment good enough to tell long ago, same as the US).
Definitely targeted at the "more money than brains" folks.
By your logic Israel has proven that they shouldn't have nukes - their "Samson Option" - "If we go, we'll take everyone with us!" is just as bad.
Israel got their nukes from the US. The material was siphoned off a bit at a time, every time nuclear material was moved from one location in the US to another. The record-keeping system was designed to automatically experience some "shrinkage" every time material was moved. This came out when someone noted that just moving material from one side of a storage are to another changed its' reported quantity in inventory. Look through Scientific American's archives from (iirc) the early 80s (but it could be the '70s).