How about seagate gives me a refund for me and the many other people whose hard drive has crashed as a result of crappy hardware? I believe you'll find that your dead hard drive is a Fujitsu. I just replaced the Fujitsu drive in my iBook with a Seagate. The Fry's salesguy seemed surprised at my refusal to buy Fujitsu, after the problems I've had with the last two (the original, and the one Apple replaced under warranty).
Of course they can. Colbert can still try to get on the ballot for the general election as an independent, he just can't get on the ballot for the primary election as a member of either of the two major parties.
You can't win without being a member of one of the two major parties. That's not the same thing as not being able to run.
Then we'd need to make sure that their printers are going to work all right. You may have trouble with the other things you mentioned, but my experience with CUPS has been GREAT. Give it a try; you might be surprised.
If a mayor were talking about the fire dept and referred to "fire guys" using a "fire pipe" while driving their "big red taxis", he'd would be rightfully ridiculed. When communicating technical concepts to non-technical people, it's helpful to use terminology that your audience can understand. Whenever I explain DNS to non-technical people, I use the analogy of a phone book. When explaining how data is sent from one host to another on the Internet, it may be useful to compare it to water flowing through a series of tubes of varying sizes, because non-technical people can visualize how that would work, and immediately understand the effects of making one of the tubes smaller.
I haven't read or listened to the entire speech, I've only heard the sound bytes, and the people making fun of them. John Hodgman on The Daily Show suggested that a more appropriate analogy would be a "net", and people thought that was funny because it's called "the Internet" which has "net" in it, but a net analogy makes no sense when talking about bandwidth. While I completely agree that Senator Stevens clearly doesn't understand what he's talking about when it comes to an e-mail being delayed because of the tubes being clogged, that's not what I hear people making fun of. What I hear people making fun of is the tube analogy, which isn't a bad one.
...which included him "getting an internet from an aide". I'm perfectly willing to let him off the hook for that one too. An obvious slip of the tongue; he clearly meant to say "an e-mail".
But yeah, saying an e-mail message was delayed for a few days because the "tubes were clogged" definitely shows a lack of understanding about the technology he's talking about. Still, what people keep making fun of him for is calling the Internet "a series of tubes", and since I think that analogy sounds perfectly reasonable, the people who make fun of him for it don't have much credibility with me.
The main difference between XP Pro and XP Home is that XP Home doesn't let you join a domain. The vast majority of pirates are not using this feature; they're only running XP Pro because it was easy to pirate. XP Home is essentially the same product for them, and since nearly all OEM-built PCs sold since 2001 have shipped with a license for some edition of XP, these people are essentially using a product that has been paid for.
Technically, of course, if they have Pro installed even though they're only using the features of Home (which they have a license for), it's still a violation of the license, but it's easy to see why these people feel justified.
The above does not apply to users who have built their own PC without buying XP, or bought a PC that did not include an XP license (blank hard drive, older version of Windows such as Win98, or a different OS).
I've heard it said that any hard drive is in one of two states:
1) just about to die 2) already dead
I suggest setting up a RAID-1 on two hard drives. Software RAID is very easy to do on Linux (instructions for Slackware; most other distros have a point-and-click GUI that will set it up for you). For Mac OS X, I think you just have to run Disk Utility while booted from the DVD, create the RAID, then quit and proceed with the installer. I'm not sure if you can set up a software RAID in Windows Vista or not, but hardware RAID works fine (and without the F6 floppy retardedness of XP).
Actually, the difference between low temperatures and high temperatures increased by two degrees. Whether the net result would be warming or cooling, we don't know for sure, because as you say it's too small a sample size.
Cingular was a joint venture between SBC and BellSouth. As a joint venture between the two companies, it was somewhat insulated from the abhorrent evil of either of the two parents. Cingular bought AT&T Wireless from AT&T and forced all AT&T Wireless customers to undergo a name change. SBC then bought both BellSouth, then bought AT&T (mostly for the name), and renamed everything AT&T. That insulation I mentioned is now gone; "the new AT&T" is just as evil as SBC ever was.
I bet you're confusing the retardedness of Windows with actual reality. Windows has this nasty tendency of preventing all access to any open file, so that e.g. while a file is being downloaded, it can't simultaneously be opened for viewing. No other OS I'm aware of does this.
However, there can be problems with certain applications not behaving well when the file content changes when they're not expecting it. For example, if a video is going to be 30 minutes long when it's complete, but it's only 30 seconds long when the file is opened in a movie player, then the movie player may display a scrub bar going from 0 to 30, and upon reaching the 30 second mark but still having more content available to play (data that has been received since the time the file was opened), may do something undesirable (stop playback at 30 seconds, or crash, or improperly render the scrubber, or something else).
Start by developing Mac OS X applications in Objective C with Cocoa.
If you don't have access to Mac OS X, try developing apps for GNUStep.
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Given how 90% of the ISPs these days provide Usenet access through companies like Giganews, and third party Usenet providers like Usenet.com aren't very common, this could easily be just the first strike against every major Usenet provider. As the other poster pointed out, Giganews and Usenet.com (and many others) do exactly the same thing - they're all "third-party Usenet providers".
This is different from how things used to work, where local ISPs would each run their own news server, and customers would connect to the local server, thus saving Internet bandwidth costs. That doesn't really work anymore, because 1) most ISPs aren't local anymore, so the ISP's server isn't local anyway, 2) Usenet has grown so much that keeping up with it takes pretty beefy hardware and uses a ton of bandwidth, and 3) such a small percentage of users even know what Usenet is that it's just not worth it for most ISP to bother with.
You really think these electronic voting companies spent the money for R&D to engineer and build custom components, instead of just throwing together off the shelf parts? Not a chance. And there's absolutely nothing illegal about doing what you want with hardware you've legally purchased. Don't infringe on any copyrighted software, but I'm not interested in their software; that would all be replaced. I'm talking about using things like the touchscreen, and the box it's mounted in.
I defy anyone to come up with a better passage of Scripture to take out of context:
Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more. -- Proverbs 31:6-7 (NIV)
(Most other translations say "strong drink" rather than "beer"; the Hebrew word is "shekar". I can't give you a precise definition, but it's definitely something alcoholic.)
Hold Ctrl, scroll the mouse wheel to resize icons. Just like what you'd do in most browsers. Seriously? I've never done that in a browser, and it certainly would never have occurred to me to try it in Explorer.
More impressive, still, since it was a NON-story, yet the jibber-jabber of the left actually got the AG removed. Correction: it would have been a non-story, if the DOJ/white house hadn't tried to cover up what happened. If everyone had been forthcoming, everything would have been fine.
Except that the OS and hardware of these systems are supposably locked down. Do we even know if they have standard USB ports?
Sure, hackers can probably get something on it, but the government doesn't work on that basis. So? We're talking about buying voting machines that would otherwise be destined for the scrap heap. Physically pull the hardware apart if you have to, and make whatever changes are necessary. When you're done, you can lock it down again. It should still be cheaper than whatever Diebold wants to charge.
Except that one of the leaked Diebold memos basically had them going to charge more for adding printing capabilities than what they charged for the machines in the first place. That's precisely why I like the idea of using an existing voting machine. Replace the software with something open source, obviously. I'm sure it could be done for much cheaper than what Diebold was quoting, and would work a lot better.
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Prove me wrong, I dare you. :-P
Of course they can. Colbert can still try to get on the ballot for the general election as an independent, he just can't get on the ballot for the primary election as a member of either of the two major parties.
You can't win without being a member of one of the two major parties. That's not the same thing as not being able to run.
I haven't read or listened to the entire speech, I've only heard the sound bytes, and the people making fun of them. John Hodgman on The Daily Show suggested that a more appropriate analogy would be a "net", and people thought that was funny because it's called "the Internet" which has "net" in it, but a net analogy makes no sense when talking about bandwidth. While I completely agree that Senator Stevens clearly doesn't understand what he's talking about when it comes to an e-mail being delayed because of the tubes being clogged, that's not what I hear people making fun of. What I hear people making fun of is the tube analogy, which isn't a bad one.
...which included him "getting an internet from an aide". I'm perfectly willing to let him off the hook for that one too. An obvious slip of the tongue; he clearly meant to say "an e-mail".But yeah, saying an e-mail message was delayed for a few days because the "tubes were clogged" definitely shows a lack of understanding about the technology he's talking about. Still, what people keep making fun of him for is calling the Internet "a series of tubes", and since I think that analogy sounds perfectly reasonable, the people who make fun of him for it don't have much credibility with me.
The main difference between XP Pro and XP Home is that XP Home doesn't let you join a domain. The vast majority of pirates are not using this feature; they're only running XP Pro because it was easy to pirate. XP Home is essentially the same product for them, and since nearly all OEM-built PCs sold since 2001 have shipped with a license for some edition of XP, these people are essentially using a product that has been paid for.
Technically, of course, if they have Pro installed even though they're only using the features of Home (which they have a license for), it's still a violation of the license, but it's easy to see why these people feel justified.
The above does not apply to users who have built their own PC without buying XP, or bought a PC that did not include an XP license (blank hard drive, older version of Windows such as Win98, or a different OS).
It still shows that Apple's maturity level is that of a 12-year old. Sad, that. It's a good thing Microsoft would never stoop that low!
Yeah, I was about to post the same thing. Can we use some different terminology when talking about helpfully contributing code to a database project?
I'm curious as to what sort of charity you're thinking of that would be affected by this ruling. :-P
I've heard it said that any hard drive is in one of two states:
1) just about to die
2) already dead
I suggest setting up a RAID-1 on two hard drives. Software RAID is very easy to do on Linux (instructions for Slackware; most other distros have a point-and-click GUI that will set it up for you). For Mac OS X, I think you just have to run Disk Utility while booted from the DVD, create the RAID, then quit and proceed with the installer. I'm not sure if you can set up a software RAID in Windows Vista or not, but hardware RAID works fine (and without the F6 floppy retardedness of XP).
Actually, the difference between low temperatures and high temperatures increased by two degrees. Whether the net result would be warming or cooling, we don't know for sure, because as you say it's too small a sample size.
You should read about global dimming.
Cingular was a joint venture between SBC and BellSouth. As a joint venture between the two companies, it was somewhat insulated from the abhorrent evil of either of the two parents. Cingular bought AT&T Wireless from AT&T and forced all AT&T Wireless customers to undergo a name change. SBC then bought both BellSouth, then bought AT&T (mostly for the name), and renamed everything AT&T. That insulation I mentioned is now gone; "the new AT&T" is just as evil as SBC ever was.
I bet you're confusing the retardedness of Windows with actual reality. Windows has this nasty tendency of preventing all access to any open file, so that e.g. while a file is being downloaded, it can't simultaneously be opened for viewing. No other OS I'm aware of does this.
However, there can be problems with certain applications not behaving well when the file content changes when they're not expecting it. For example, if a video is going to be 30 minutes long when it's complete, but it's only 30 seconds long when the file is opened in a movie player, then the movie player may display a scrub bar going from 0 to 30, and upon reaching the 30 second mark but still having more content available to play (data that has been received since the time the file was opened), may do something undesirable (stop playback at 30 seconds, or crash, or improperly render the scrubber, or something else).
Start by developing Mac OS X applications in Objective C with Cocoa.
If you don't have access to Mac OS X, try developing apps for GNUStep.
This is different from how things used to work, where local ISPs would each run their own news server, and customers would connect to the local server, thus saving Internet bandwidth costs. That doesn't really work anymore, because 1) most ISPs aren't local anymore, so the ISP's server isn't local anyway, 2) Usenet has grown so much that keeping up with it takes pretty beefy hardware and uses a ton of bandwidth, and 3) such a small percentage of users even know what Usenet is that it's just not worth it for most ISP to bother with.
You really think these electronic voting companies spent the money for R&D to engineer and build custom components, instead of just throwing together off the shelf parts? Not a chance. And there's absolutely nothing illegal about doing what you want with hardware you've legally purchased. Don't infringe on any copyrighted software, but I'm not interested in their software; that would all be replaced. I'm talking about using things like the touchscreen, and the box it's mounted in.
You're a Canadian pirate?
(Most other translations say "strong drink" rather than "beer"; the Hebrew word is "shekar". I can't give you a precise definition, but it's definitely something alcoholic.)
Sure, hackers can probably get something on it, but the government doesn't work on that basis. So? We're talking about buying voting machines that would otherwise be destined for the scrap heap. Physically pull the hardware apart if you have to, and make whatever changes are necessary. When you're done, you can lock it down again. It should still be cheaper than whatever Diebold wants to charge.