Vandalism requires physical harm. The hardware is not damaged. Moreover, the guy visited a website, which isn't against the law either.
The store will probably reimage the phone every night anyway and meanwhile it still works in its original capacity, its not affecting the demonstration of the phone either.
I had a large, used, Origin 2000 server shipped strapped to a plastic palate delivered via DHL. I swear it had been tipped over, (nearly impossible as it weighs like 300 pounds and is a very evenly weight distributed square)- all the rails were crushed, and there were dents in the top. Its a freaking palate with several inches of clearance inside the palate edges to product. How hard can it be to keep it from getting damaged.
I've also had UPS send me servers that look like they were sat on and/or drop kicked across the country. Forget drop shipping, you get drop kicking.
Never say -any- MD. There are a lot of MDs out there fighting to change the world in a lot of ways- from pioneering and promoting new newborn screening protocls/requirements, to going to botswana and giving their services free.
Moreover, your doctor spent something like half a million dollars and many years of their lives to learn the profession you're paying to see them for. They went through hell in residency and put their families aside.
If you don't want to respect your doctor, get a new one.
Yes, there are some asshole docs- I've had one or two or three, there are some who are very caring but have the bedside manner of a turnip, and there are some who will melt your heart.
But remember, they worked hard to get there, you're paying them to be professionals, treat them like professionals.
if the pumps would dispense gas in equal sized units- and I'd guess there is in fact a pump in operation which has a certain volume per pump, then it should be fairly easy to make sure you're never dealing with fractions of a cent.
But that unliklihood aside, it mostly bugs me that "it's not $4.00 a gallon! It's only 3.999 a gallon! see, only three bucks! or maybe three ninety nine, not $4!".
I truly hate the.99 gimick. I actually wish they'd roll tax into the prices so what you see on the label is what you pay and its a nice round number $X.10 $X.20 $X.50 $X.00. Worse is the stupid gas stations with 9/10's of a cent. Why is it they can charge a fraction of a penny you can't possibly pay, ensuring they skim 10ths of a cent gazillions of times. I think they did that in Superman III or something. How is it after all these years, they're still stealing money?
That brings up an exceptional point, it seems like all page form elements should have a little triangle at the far right corner or a hover tool tip or something that indicates whether the action is a secure page, insecure page, or whether the form elements are standalone?
I own my physical cable modem. Bought it at best buy.
That said-- I had an Xbox original, and thought about the 360, but most of the games i have weren't on the backwards compatibility list. Time goes by, I start to consider going to the PS3, but theres loads of good, cheap PS2 games out there-- but I wanted one with hardware support and it was hard to tell which ones had the full compatibility, so I didn't buy then... Time goes by again, I start considering it for linux development and toying with the Cell as well as maybe working on some computational maths- but money was tight so I waited. I guess I'm glad I did now, no PS2 support, no Linux. I'd have been pissed as hell.
Of course, my old Xbox now has no online support any more, so I'm now console-less. PC gaming for me on my HTPC/HDTV- 1280x720 or 1280x1080 looks fantastic.
You're speaking for all "teabaggers" then? Do you also speak for the trees, Mr. Lorax, Sir? (sorry, son's been reading that a lot)
Presuming you're not the bad kind of teabagger that the word used to mean... They sure picked a bad term to re-use. Can you tell my why you're willing to be called a "teabagger"?
CentOS is more or less a direct copy of RHEL with branding removed. It moves slightly slower than RHEL's already (and increasingly) slow pace. While RedHat still maintains control, Fedora is now a lot more of a community project than it was under RedHat. Fedora suffers from things like endless dependencies because many packagers compile with every possible library turned on- the kernel changes every time the wind blows as well.
CentOS/RHEL is good for software developers, people using VMWare, Xilinx, Cadence, or other major software packages as it is more supported. The penalty you pay is having older libraries and applications- HOWEVER many of the packages while having older versions contain backports of recent patches and security updates. Moreover, there are plenty of software repos out there that let you get the best of both worlds. The slower kernel updates reduce the hassle of updating ATI or Nvidia drivers every other day as well.
Fedora moves very fast, and has the bleeding edge of everything. The advantages of this are clear I think, but a price to pay is instability. When FC10 came out, I was unable to install it on some stock Dell and Compaq Pentium 4 class machines due to crashes during the installer and boot sequence post install.
Unfortunately, RedHat has really slowed down the last year or so and is extending the life of RHEL 5. IMHO, it's precisely because Fedora moves too fast. 5.5 is in beta, probably another month or two out, CentOS will be a couple weeks to a month behind that. RHEL 6 is still in who knows land.
I've grown frustrated with my RHEL box due to old packages- and have compiled many on my own and even started my own Repo with newer packages I didn't really find anywhere else. But I'm stuck with it due to Xilinx, VMWare, and other work applications. I'm looking forward to RHEL 6 or 6.1 so I can then take that and bring it a bit more up to date than the base.
Indeed. I've done some embedded work myself. I wrote a power supply controller that used DACs to trim the voltage using some analog control ports on the DC to DC converter modules- it also monitored the PowerGood lines on the DC:DC's and linears and was programmed to shut down if one deasserted without a prior command telling it to do so. It had an I2C control network that could request status of bunch of aspects of the board including temperature, voltages, etc. Not wanting to risk blowing out a $10k FPGA with a $4.00 MCU, we had test boards with no FPGA on and some with cheaper FPGAs, and I also had a dev kit with the board on it hooked to a logic analyzer so we could emulate all sorts different scenarios and hopefully protect the FPGAs. Ultimately, a few problems emerged. With a particular combination of testing apparatus and polling rate, the I2C would receive interference and miss or corrupt some data. It was almost impossible to replicate reliably. This in turn exposed an oversight/bug where because of the skipped (as far as the power supply MCU was concerned) bytes, the wrong DAC values were being written, overvolting or undervolting the supplies- but it really only surfaced on the fully populated boards. This lead to a change in the I2C wiring/termination and a move to a keyed and transactional approach that required writing a key value to an address, writing the new data, then optionally reading back the data again, and lastly writing another key to a different address to either commit or roll back. Point is exactly what the parent said, it's very difficult to test some of these things because the problems may be an unusual chain of events or due to very specific circumstance in what's hooked to what and how much power is being drawn in the circuit at the time, etc.
The other portions of the code that performed monitoring and emergency shutdown caught the overvoltages very quickly and shutdown the FPGA in the span of a couple clocks. In the end we only lost one board, and it was due to ESD despite using proper handling techniques and equipment.
I set up a new HTPC and installed Rainbow Six Lockdown, Rainbow Six Vegas (both were Direct Downloads from Ubi store) and Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (DVD purchased copy). I tried to activate them Saturday and Sunday. Do you know how many of the 3 games let me play them uncracked? ZERO. They all reported activation failures (internet was otherwise working). I had to crack all three games. My plans to buy Vegas 3 just went out the window. I'm totally pissed!
You've got a $70,000 Lexus, you pull into the fill up station to pick up the batteries which were just in a demolition derby or a drive by shooting. I don't mean to imply that because you have a more expensive car you deserve better condition batteries, but it is more likely that you treat your batteries well than someone with an older junker. Unless all batteries are picked up by a truck and replaced with charged+inspected before reuse, there is a certain inequality that may leave you stranded when your abused battery dies, ruptures, etc. Personally, I drive a car with a value under $3,000 at the moment, but even then I know I treat my car better than a lot of other people. It's sort of the same reason I don't like propane cylinder exchanges- you get the grimey rusted tanks for your brand new shiny one.
Oddly enough on my way in to work this morning, I noticed they'd repainted the elevator doors which formerly had a bit of everything, but they still hadn't done the wall which had a little smiley. I chuckled a little, having read your comment earlier.
It is perfectly possible to be censored on one topic while not on another. It happens all the time. For example the Bettendorf Iowa school newspaper (The Growl) was recently censored because of a supposed disclosure of identifying information in an article about jocks getting preferential academic leniency. The students are complaining. But by your logic, we should never have heard about the censoring because they were censored. The paper was censored, sure, but now they've got the Streisand effect to deal with, which wouldn't exist either without topic limited censorship.
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I hear they get shitty gas mileage...
I hear crashing those is a really shitty experience...
Congressman, is that you?
Vandalism requires physical harm. The hardware is not damaged. Moreover, the guy visited a website, which isn't against the law either.
The store will probably reimage the phone every night anyway and meanwhile it still works in its original capacity, its not affecting the demonstration of the phone either.
Just an aside, but I found Duck Hunt on the original SMB cartridge to be unplayable on my HDTV, presumably due to the lag in video processing/display.
Done before, better:
http://www.wantowle.com/
Available at thinkgeek:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/portable-audio-video/cd04/
and a review:
http://gizmodo.com/5309119/owle-iphone-3gs-video-mount-is-about-as-practical-as-an-iphone-3gs-video-mount-can-be
I had a large, used, Origin 2000 server shipped strapped to a plastic palate delivered via DHL. I swear it had been tipped over, (nearly impossible as it weighs like 300 pounds and is a very evenly weight distributed square)- all the rails were crushed, and there were dents in the top. Its a freaking palate with several inches of clearance inside the palate edges to product. How hard can it be to keep it from getting damaged.
I've also had UPS send me servers that look like they were sat on and/or drop kicked across the country. Forget drop shipping, you get drop kicking.
but less growth still equals growth until less growth equals no growth or negative growth.
ReCAPTCHA was to fix bad scans in specific works- I didn't think it was ever designed to further OCR, but I see how it could possibly be useful.
Never say -any- MD. There are a lot of MDs out there fighting to change the world in a lot of ways- from pioneering and promoting new newborn screening protocls/requirements, to going to botswana and giving their services free.
Moreover, your doctor spent something like half a million dollars and many years of their lives to learn the profession you're paying to see them for. They went through hell in residency and put their families aside.
If you don't want to respect your doctor, get a new one.
Yes, there are some asshole docs- I've had one or two or three, there are some who are very caring but have the bedside manner of a turnip, and there are some who will melt your heart.
But remember, they worked hard to get there, you're paying them to be professionals, treat them like professionals.
My biggest Dvorak pet peeve - V next to W. Ctrl + V paste. Ctrl + W close window. I've been bit a few times with long emails, etc. Doh!
While not allowed by any stretch google Hiren or MiniPE.
if the pumps would dispense gas in equal sized units- and I'd guess there is in fact a pump in operation which has a certain volume per pump, then it should be fairly easy to make sure you're never dealing with fractions of a cent.
But that unliklihood aside, it mostly bugs me that "it's not $4.00 a gallon! It's only 3.999 a gallon! see, only three bucks! or maybe three ninety nine, not $4!".
I truly hate the .99 gimick. I actually wish they'd roll tax into the prices so what you see on the label is what you pay and its a nice round number $X.10 $X.20 $X.50 $X.00. Worse is the stupid gas stations with 9/10's of a cent. Why is it they can charge a fraction of a penny you can't possibly pay, ensuring they skim 10ths of a cent gazillions of times. I think they did that in Superman III or something. How is it after all these years, they're still stealing money?
That brings up an exceptional point, it seems like all page form elements should have a little triangle at the far right corner or a hover tool tip or something that indicates whether the action is a secure page, insecure page, or whether the form elements are standalone?
I own my physical cable modem. Bought it at best buy.
That said-- I had an Xbox original, and thought about the 360, but most of the games i have weren't on the backwards compatibility list. Time goes by, I start to consider going to the PS3, but theres loads of good, cheap PS2 games out there-- but I wanted one with hardware support and it was hard to tell which ones had the full compatibility, so I didn't buy then... Time goes by again, I start considering it for linux development and toying with the Cell as well as maybe working on some computational maths- but money was tight so I waited. I guess I'm glad I did now, no PS2 support, no Linux. I'd have been pissed as hell.
Of course, my old Xbox now has no online support any more, so I'm now console-less. PC gaming for me on my HTPC/HDTV- 1280x720 or 1280x1080 looks fantastic.
She turned me into a newt! ..
Well, I got better!
You're speaking for all "teabaggers" then? Do you also speak for the trees, Mr. Lorax, Sir? (sorry, son's been reading that a lot)
Presuming you're not the bad kind of teabagger that the word used to mean... They sure picked a bad term to re-use. Can you tell my why you're willing to be called a "teabagger"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teabagging
Wow is that an oversimplification.
CentOS is more or less a direct copy of RHEL with branding removed. It moves slightly slower than RHEL's already (and increasingly) slow pace.
While RedHat still maintains control, Fedora is now a lot more of a community project than it was under RedHat. Fedora suffers from things like endless dependencies because many packagers compile with every possible library turned on- the kernel changes every time the wind blows as well.
CentOS/RHEL is good for software developers, people using VMWare, Xilinx, Cadence, or other major software packages as it is more supported. The penalty you pay is having older libraries and applications- HOWEVER many of the packages while having older versions contain backports of recent patches and security updates. Moreover, there are plenty of software repos out there that let you get the best of both worlds. The slower kernel updates reduce the hassle of updating ATI or Nvidia drivers every other day as well.
Fedora moves very fast, and has the bleeding edge of everything. The advantages of this are clear I think, but a price to pay is instability. When FC10 came out, I was unable to install it on some stock Dell and Compaq Pentium 4 class machines due to crashes during the installer and boot sequence post install.
Unfortunately, RedHat has really slowed down the last year or so and is extending the life of RHEL 5. IMHO, it's precisely because Fedora moves too fast. 5.5 is in beta, probably another month or two out, CentOS will be a couple weeks to a month behind that. RHEL 6 is still in who knows land.
I've grown frustrated with my RHEL box due to old packages- and have compiled many on my own and even started my own Repo with newer packages I didn't really find anywhere else. But I'm stuck with it due to Xilinx, VMWare, and other work applications. I'm looking forward to RHEL 6 or 6.1 so I can then take that and bring it a bit more up to date than the base.
intentional potentially deniable leak to test the waters?
Indeed. I've done some embedded work myself. I wrote a power supply controller that used DACs to trim the voltage using some analog control ports on the DC to DC converter modules- it also monitored the PowerGood lines on the DC:DC's and linears and was programmed to shut down if one deasserted without a prior command telling it to do so. It had an I2C control network that could request status of bunch of aspects of the board including temperature, voltages, etc. Not wanting to risk blowing out a $10k FPGA with a $4.00 MCU, we had test boards with no FPGA on and some with cheaper FPGAs, and I also had a dev kit with the board on it hooked to a logic analyzer so we could emulate all sorts different scenarios and hopefully protect the FPGAs. Ultimately, a few problems emerged. With a particular combination of testing apparatus and polling rate, the I2C would receive interference and miss or corrupt some data. It was almost impossible to replicate reliably. This in turn exposed an oversight/bug where because of the skipped (as far as the power supply MCU was concerned) bytes, the wrong DAC values were being written, overvolting or undervolting the supplies- but it really only surfaced on the fully populated boards. This lead to a change in the I2C wiring/termination and a move to a keyed and transactional approach that required writing a key value to an address, writing the new data, then optionally reading back the data again, and lastly writing another key to a different address to either commit or roll back. Point is exactly what the parent said, it's very difficult to test some of these things because the problems may be an unusual chain of events or due to very specific circumstance in what's hooked to what and how much power is being drawn in the circuit at the time, etc.
The other portions of the code that performed monitoring and emergency shutdown caught the overvoltages very quickly and shutdown the FPGA in the span of a couple clocks. In the end we only lost one board, and it was due to ESD despite using proper handling techniques and equipment.
LACP = Link Aggregation Control Protocol. Already taken. But I'm up for a LAPP dance.
To clarify, these were previously installed -one time- on my old Windows desktop before I switched to Linux with Windows in a VM.
I set up a new HTPC and installed Rainbow Six Lockdown, Rainbow Six Vegas (both were Direct Downloads from Ubi store) and Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (DVD purchased copy). I tried to activate them Saturday and Sunday. Do you know how many of the 3 games let me play them uncracked? ZERO. They all reported activation failures (internet was otherwise working). I had to crack all three games. My plans to buy Vegas 3 just went out the window. I'm totally pissed!
You've got a $70,000 Lexus, you pull into the fill up station to pick up the batteries which were just in a demolition derby or a drive by shooting. I don't mean to imply that because you have a more expensive car you deserve better condition batteries, but it is more likely that you treat your batteries well than someone with an older junker. Unless all batteries are picked up by a truck and replaced with charged+inspected before reuse, there is a certain inequality that may leave you stranded when your abused battery dies, ruptures, etc. Personally, I drive a car with a value under $3,000 at the moment, but even then I know I treat my car better than a lot of other people. It's sort of the same reason I don't like propane cylinder exchanges- you get the grimey rusted tanks for your brand new shiny one.
Oddly enough on my way in to work this morning, I noticed they'd repainted the elevator doors which formerly had a bit of everything, but they still hadn't done the wall which had a little smiley. I chuckled a little, having read your comment earlier.
It is perfectly possible to be censored on one topic while not on another. It happens all the time. For example the Bettendorf Iowa school newspaper (The Growl) was recently censored because of a supposed disclosure of identifying information in an article about jocks getting preferential academic leniency. The students are complaining. But by your logic, we should never have heard about the censoring because they were censored. The paper was censored, sure, but now they've got the Streisand effect to deal with, which wouldn't exist either without topic limited censorship.