Good point. I didn't buy the wii to play the some old stuff I could play on console X I got it because I thought it was innovative and I wanted to play innovative games. Not Fighting Game X squeal n+1.... Thats what my PC is for:)
I agree and this shouldn't come as a surprise right? I mean thats the way everything seems to be going. You contract out what isn't your specialty. Because if it's not your specialty it could very well be costing you more to do it yourself. That's how we have all these IT outsourcing companies.
I think they do. My sister used to work at a video rental store and I saw the catalog they used to order VHS tapes from. They were easily 4 to 5 times as expencive as buying it from walmart or what have you. This also led to fun times when someone would leave a video in their hot car in Florida and were shocked when told how much it was to replace the tape.
The percentage that would try to apply it in current-era Earth scare me. We don't have fictitious directive that even in the TV show was seldom applied. Most of the episodes seemed to present moral justification on ignoring it.
I once thought that yeah gee what a great idea, we just sit here and let everyone else do as they wish. This would work great if all the other cultures out there we're as tolerant as I am. Then I learned about all the crimes against humanity that occur. Whether on large scales or on small scales. I don't think all things have a supreme right to exist. A culture that practices FGM in my opinion should be changed forced if necessary. A culture that attempts genocide on one of it's ethnic groups should be stopped by force if necessary. Sure it would be easy to sit back in a little bubble and let everything else go to crap becuase it's easy to say well it's their culture they can do what they like. Tell that to the girl who is mutilated just becuase she's female or to the Tutsi who was killed for no other reason than becuase of his ethnicity. I weep for any person who can say that directly to their face.
So we don't have a Prime Directive and for good reason, what we do have is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights sadly it isn't adhered to as much as itshould be.
I didn't get my DVR to skip ads, I don't care about ads. Compared to some ads on the internet ads in TV shows aren't that bad. My reason to get he DVr was to record shows while I'm away. I like being able to pick a show to record over then net and I like being able to pause TV. Ads are the least of my concern. Just my $0.02
I feel bad now for clicking on the "be sure to check out the museum link" at the bottom. Somewhere some jackoff is smiling at all the hits they are getting... I hope I remember never to again read a story submitted by fields and most likely never read a story posted by kdawson
I think you might have missed the intent of the parents post. Hey meant failure point as a way to protect the owner of the card. If I steal your card a failure point is me having to enter your pin number. It is extremely small if you know your pin, otherwise the possible failure rate should be extremely high as it is a guess of finding the one right combination out of 10,000 possible combinations.
RMS is that you? How many refurburished ipods have had viruses on them I don't know how many? How many sb thumb drives with custom controls and drivers have had viruses on them? Again I don't know how many? How may times has MSFT released a service pack only to pull it a day or two later because 50% of the installs would fail horribly? You tell me. OSS has a far better track record on quality control. What are your standards for this statement? Even better OSS software knows exactly how many times it has been downloaded So if I get a copy open source app from a friends machine the OOS software knows this too? Better yet if we distribute the software around the office instead of us all hitting the mirrors it knows that too. OSS is far from perfect, but it has a much better track record than closed source software. Again with the claims with out metrics or data to back them up.
It's nice to be a proponent of OSS software. I like the stuff myself. But you're not a proponent your an evangelist.
"When all you have is a hammer all problems look like a nail" The UAV's are cheaper to maintain, don't require 100's of hours to learn to fly, don't waste as much, safer (that is if it crashes it won't kill the pilot and probably wont cause as much ground damage) etc etc. The better question is why not?
This is similar to saying that in a newspaper where there is a news article about Netscape, Microsoft should not be allowed to advertise just because in the past Microsoft played dirty with Netscape. I thought that was more or less the definition of punishment. You can't do X now becuase in the past you did something wrong. Not trying to be a smart a$$ but appearntly someone (teh court) thinks they did something wrong and need to be punished.
Sadly no mod points today. I would have given you some. Most/.'ers doesn't live in the real world. My father almost flipped out when he found out I was majoring in criminology to try to go to the FBI or DEA or some such other agency. His response "Why the hell would you want to have a job where people spit on you just because of who you are. I'm glad he made it till retirement.
Come on give me this one. I work for Raytheon. Let me enjoy it./I used to work for EDS. It's nice to work for a company that doesn't get blasted every other day on/.
You are absolutely right their is no law about being a liar but I do think it would make your chalkboard lose credibility when you say anyone can write on it. The draw to wikipedia is supposed to be it's openness and the fact that anyone can edit it. It's almost a form of censorship to block a specific IP from editing the pages. Do I think what they did was right? No way. It torques me to know that some people use it's key feature to abuse it but the community is supposed to be the filter/moderator not wikipedia. Of course people will abuse the system and maybe we need to work out how to prevent it. Maybe thats why rights come with responsibilities. You have freedom of speech but it comes with responsibilities/stipulations. Maybe this will teach us why we have rights with responsibilities. Maybe it's like doing a proof in math, you have a formula but your not sure why it is, to truly understand it you have top do the proof.
Who know, all I know is I wish more things were more like math.
I'd imagine that if your "average cop shop" as you put it finds out they can't read the files they'll send it either to their state lab or to some other higher agency that has expert knowledge in the subject of computer forensics. If they have reason to suspect your hard drive has data they want they'll try to get it.
Side note: I recently built a new rig for gaming and have no issues with Vista. In fact I kinda like it. Not to say I still don't use Linux at work and at home also. Being a long time/. reader can't say I'm surprised. my $0.02
This is commercial software for Linux. Just because your OS is open source free as in beer doesn't mean that you can't get high end commercial software.
Sorry, I should have made it clearer. I wasn't sure if my code was broken or if it was the OS. My mistake. The good news in all of this though is that it wasn't my code:)
I was going to add that once your pc is part of a bot net its not really your machine anymore anyway. Its some one else's machine that you pay the electricity for and occasionally it will allow you to use if albeit at degraded performance.
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Thats why I got the beta a week ago;) I was thinking ahead to this very day. Course when somethings didn't work right I was never sure if it was the code or if it was the OS. Speaking of if you get a java window that doesn't seem to display anything there is a bug with xgl. bug 48404
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not as simple a charitable proposition as it sounds.
Would the fact that it's costing you more money than you thought make it more charitable?
Good point. I didn't buy the wii to play the some old stuff I could play on console X I got it because I thought it was innovative and I wanted to play innovative games. Not Fighting Game X squeal n+1.... Thats what my PC is for:)
I agree and this shouldn't come as a surprise right? I mean thats the way everything seems to be going. You contract out what isn't your specialty. Because if it's not your specialty it could very well be costing you more to do it yourself. That's how we have all these IT outsourcing companies.
This was not for new releases this was for all the movies they bought.
I think they do. My sister used to work at a video rental store and I saw the catalog they used to order VHS tapes from. They were easily 4 to 5 times as expencive as buying it from walmart or what have you. This also led to fun times when someone would leave a video in their hot car in Florida and were shocked when told how much it was to replace the tape.
Wait what? Bad things happened in the past that I had no control over, wow I had no idea....
The percentage that would try to apply it in current-era Earth scare me. We don't have fictitious directive that even in the TV show was seldom applied. Most of the episodes seemed to present moral justification on ignoring it.
I once thought that yeah gee what a great idea, we just sit here and let everyone else do as they wish. This would work great if all the other cultures out there we're as tolerant as I am. Then I learned about all the crimes against humanity that occur. Whether on large scales or on small scales. I don't think all things have a supreme right to exist. A culture that practices FGM in my opinion should be changed forced if necessary. A culture that attempts genocide on one of it's ethnic groups should be stopped by force if necessary. Sure it would be easy to sit back in a little bubble and let everything else go to crap becuase it's easy to say well it's their culture they can do what they like. Tell that to the girl who is mutilated just becuase she's female or to the Tutsi who was killed for no other reason than becuase of his ethnicity. I weep for any person who can say that directly to their face.
So we don't have a Prime Directive and for good reason, what we do have is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights sadly it isn't adhered to as much as itshould be.
I didn't get my DVR to skip ads, I don't care about ads. Compared to some ads on the internet ads in TV shows aren't that bad. My reason to get he DVr was to record shows while I'm away. I like being able to pick a show to record over then net and I like being able to pause TV. Ads are the least of my concern. Just my $0.02
I feel bad now for clicking on the "be sure to check out the museum link" at the bottom. Somewhere some jackoff is smiling at all the hits they are getting...
I hope I remember never to again read a story submitted by fields and most likely never read a story posted by kdawson
Or its possible I missed the point. I must be tired. I'm going home.
I think you might have missed the intent of the parents post. Hey meant failure point as a way to protect the owner of the card. If I steal your card a failure point is me having to enter your pin number. It is extremely small if you know your pin, otherwise the possible failure rate should be extremely high as it is a guess of finding the one right combination out of 10,000 possible combinations.
Wow thats a pretty detailed map, in fact I think I see one of my IP address.
Wait what?
RMS is that you?
How many refurburished ipods have had viruses on them
I don't know how many?
How many sb thumb drives with custom controls and drivers have had viruses on them?
Again I don't know how many?
How may times has MSFT released a service pack only to pull it a day or two later because 50% of the installs would fail horribly?
You tell me.
OSS has a far better track record on quality control.
What are your standards for this statement?
Even better OSS software knows exactly how many times it has been downloaded
So if I get a copy open source app from a friends machine the OOS software knows this too? Better yet if we distribute the software around the office instead of us all hitting the mirrors it knows that too.
OSS is far from perfect, but it has a much better track record than closed source software.
Again with the claims with out metrics or data to back them up.
It's nice to be a proponent of OSS software. I like the stuff myself. But you're not a proponent your an evangelist.
"When all you have is a hammer all problems look like a nail"
The UAV's are cheaper to maintain, don't require 100's of hours to learn to fly, don't waste as much, safer (that is if it crashes it won't kill the pilot and probably wont cause as much ground damage) etc etc. The better question is why not?
This is similar to saying that in a newspaper where there is a news article about Netscape, Microsoft should not be allowed to advertise just because in the past Microsoft played dirty with Netscape.
I thought that was more or less the definition of punishment. You can't do X now becuase in the past you did something wrong. Not trying to be a smart a$$ but appearntly someone (teh court) thinks they did something wrong and need to be punished.
Sadly no mod points today. I would have given you some. Most /.'ers doesn't live in the real world. My father almost flipped out when he found out I was majoring in criminology to try to go to the FBI or DEA or some such other agency. His response "Why the hell would you want to have a job where people spit on you just because of who you are. I'm glad he made it till retirement.
Good post.
Come on give me this one. I work for Raytheon. Let me enjoy it. /I used to work for EDS. It's nice to work for a company that doesn't get blasted every other day on /.
You are absolutely right their is no law about being a liar but I do think it would make your chalkboard lose credibility when you say anyone can write on it. The draw to wikipedia is supposed to be it's openness and the fact that anyone can edit it. It's almost a form of censorship to block a specific IP from editing the pages.
Do I think what they did was right? No way. It torques me to know that some people use it's key feature to abuse it but the community is supposed to be the filter/moderator not wikipedia. Of course people will abuse the system and maybe we need to work out how to prevent it. Maybe thats why rights come with responsibilities. You have freedom of speech but it comes with responsibilities/stipulations. Maybe this will teach us why we have rights with responsibilities. Maybe it's like doing a proof in math, you have a formula but your not sure why it is, to truly understand it you have top do the proof.
Who know, all I know is I wish more things were more like math.
thats fine as long as you don't say "it's the free chalkboard that anyone can write on".
actual tagline from wikipedia:the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
I'd imagine that if your "average cop shop" as you put it finds out they can't read the files they'll send it either to their state lab or to some other higher agency that has expert knowledge in the subject of computer forensics. If they have reason to suspect your hard drive has data they want they'll try to get it.
/. reader can't say I'm surprised. my $0.02
Side note: I recently built a new rig for gaming and have no issues with Vista. In fact I kinda like it. Not to say I still don't use Linux at work and at home also. Being a long time
Jumbonium. As if it could be called anything else.
This is commercial software for Linux. Just because your OS is open source free as in beer doesn't mean that you can't get high end commercial software.
Sorry, I should have made it clearer. I wasn't sure if my code was broken or if it was the OS. My mistake. The good news in all of this though is that it wasn't my code :)
I was going to add that once your pc is part of a bot net its not really your machine anymore anyway. Its some one else's machine that you pay the electricity for and occasionally it will allow you to use if albeit at degraded performance.
Thats why I got the beta a week ago ;) I was thinking ahead to this very day. Course when somethings didn't work right I was never sure if it was the code or if it was the OS. Speaking of if you get a java window that doesn't seem to display anything there is a bug with xgl. bug 48404