I am bilingual too. (French & English) In my head I actually do both: -Talk to myself in English or French when I'm alone (E.g. Programing, planning, etc) -Think in concepts and then translate to French or English when I verbalize to someone.
The later is very obvious when you know what you mean but cannot find the right word in the language you happen to be speaking in. I'm sure monolinguals experience the same but the effect is not as obvious.
It's a Symbiotic relationship. The Entertainment Industry (not artists, btw) and the governments need each other.
The industry distract the people from what the governments are doing (hint: pilfer)
So when the industry come knocking about competition to their eternal monopoly, the governments jump to help. You wouldn't want your smoke screen to clear up and have light shining on you...
The problem is that there is no way for end users to verify this prioritization. Granted it makes sense but once the filters exists, it's VERY easy to change and abuse them.
Also WHO decides what is a priority? The end user? Only if you have lots of $$$ Should gaming traffic have precedence over VOIP? What happens if BitTorrent and P2P traffic ends at the bottom to the point where you can barely connect? What if you come up with a new protocol that the "priority filters" do not recognize and decided to send it to the bottom or block it altogether?
Anyway you slice it, if you don't have Net neutrality, you can kiss all the neat stuff on the Internet good buy because the ISP corps will want nothing to change unless it makes THEM money. The Internet will then become TV 2.0.
Somehow I can see the US being more interested on taking out Wikileaks that Osama or the-like.
Why? Security theatre must be protected so that draconian laws can stay on the books.
The irony is: -if they get Osama, Joe-six-pack will think that 9/11 is finally over and things can go back to normal. -If they take out Wikileaks, the world stays in the dark (OMG, new dark ages?) and the truth is what the USA says it is.
Or you place v1.0.1 of the DLL in the same folder as App_A.exe. App_A will find v1.0.1 of the DLL before going to the shared location *IF* it's written properly. In "MSI packaging Land" this is called "Application Isolation".
Hope they fix the dust collecting on the solar panels issue. Something as simple as compressed air blowing on the panels would do the trick. Since there is a thin atmosphere on Mars, they could just have a little compressor pump the Martian air instead of an air or CO2 canister.
We had to repackage to get the tweaks we wanted. The package installed amazingly faster compared to Oracle's JAVA-based installer. The catch: we had to include the ~200MB of Oracle's installer metadata to keep getting support.
I hate it when companies create their own installer.
DMCA punishes people just for TALKING about vulnerabilities. It's amazing that MS/Adobe/Apple don't push to imprison the people who find security flaws.
Software patents also kills innovation. What the point of playing "Lego" in software when you are not allowed to use some basic blocks? If you come up with something innovative, you'll get sued into oblivion because you used applied-math that someone else owns. That means you must exit the SW patent zone to sell/distribute your software. Innovative mean you have a brain therefore another potential "Cyberwarrior", gone.
Any country that enforces either DMCA-style laws or Software patents will be hacked into oblivious in the future.
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I am bilingual too. (French & English)
In my head I actually do both:
-Talk to myself in English or French when I'm alone (E.g. Programing, planning, etc)
-Think in concepts and then translate to French or English when I verbalize to someone.
The later is very obvious when you know what you mean but cannot find the right word in the language you happen to be speaking in. I'm sure monolinguals experience the same but the effect is not as obvious.
I thought MagicJack and Skype were going to last a year at most.
They seem to be OK
The difference: They didn't need an FCC license to TRY to make a profit.
But don't you worry, that will be fixed soon:
http://dietcookingrecipes.com/video/66PbSzwnLes/Human-Lobotomy-Save-the-internet.html
There is something called Iron Wood.
If you use a chain saw, sparks will fly and you'll need a new chain.
http://www.ncwoodworker.net/forums/f64/iron-wood-24581/
It's a Symbiotic relationship. The Entertainment Industry (not artists, btw) and the governments need each other.
The industry distract the people from what the governments are doing (hint: pilfer)
So when the industry come knocking about competition to their eternal monopoly, the governments jump to help. You wouldn't want your smoke screen to clear up and have light shining on you...
10 end users to 1 "advertised" bandwidth.
This is all about money. They want to cram more customers on their network without putting in a bigger pipe.
You are a trusting fellow.
The problem is that there is no way for end users to verify this prioritization. Granted it makes sense but once the filters exists, it's VERY easy to change and abuse them.
Also WHO decides what is a priority?
The end user? Only if you have lots of $$$
Should gaming traffic have precedence over VOIP?
What happens if BitTorrent and P2P traffic ends at the bottom to the point where you can barely connect?
What if you come up with a new protocol that the "priority filters" do not recognize and decided to send it to the bottom or block it altogether?
Anyway you slice it, if you don't have Net neutrality, you can kiss all the neat stuff on the Internet good buy because the ISP corps will want nothing to change unless it makes THEM money. The Internet will then become TV 2.0.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=F8q&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=fiber+to+the+home+%22remove+copper
AC a a lazy bastard.
At least in DollHouse you get a REAL Ve-j-j
Somehow I can see the US being more interested on taking out Wikileaks that Osama or the-like.
Why? Security theatre must be protected so that draconian laws can stay on the books.
The irony is:
-if they get Osama, Joe-six-pack will think that 9/11 is finally over and things can go back to normal.
-If they take out Wikileaks, the world stays in the dark (OMG, new dark ages?) and the truth is what the USA says it is.
Be careful for what you wish for.
In the USA, when your get fiber to you house by the telephone company, they REMOVE the copper so that you cannot get phone or DSL from a competitor.
Only the USA and 2 other countries still use imperial measurements
http://www.google.ca/search?q=non-metric+countries
Irony: The USA had a revolution over imperialism but they still use their measurement system.
I call it a write protect switch.
I carry my utils, patches and SW on a Kanguru FlashBlu 2 16GB USB drive to fix people's PCs.
You never know what crap they have on there.
An infected PC could modify one (or more) EXEs on an ordinary USB drive. Autorun disabled or not
Maybe the RSS feed work but the web interface is almost static.
New Digg, in old Digg lingo: "sucks donkey balls"
New Digg is annoying, confusing and the content is static. /. puts out more post than New Digg
The content is SO static that
increase appetite
Or you place v1.0.1 of the DLL in the same folder as App_A.exe. App_A will find v1.0.1 of the DLL before going to the shared location *IF* it's written properly. In "MSI packaging Land" this is called "Application Isolation".
Application Developers are rarely good packagers.
Check the contracts for those languages you know.
I know of a contractor that's been at the same place doing COBOL for almost 20 years.
She makes $800 per Diem!! (sorry guys, she married)
Governments are swimming in COBOL apps.
Do I have to buy all my apps over again like with an iPhone?
Hope they fix the dust collecting on the solar panels issue.
Something as simple as compressed air blowing on the panels would do the trick.
Since there is a thin atmosphere on Mars, they could just have a little compressor pump the Martian air instead of an air or CO2 canister.
OK, I'll bite.
You buy 1 TB HD : one time Cost=$100
you want to not worry if it fails so
You buy another 1 TB HD: one time Cost=$100+$100
You want an off-line backup so
You buy Tapes+tape drives:
one time Cost=$100+$100+$1500
monthly cost=$100
You want someone else to manage it...
Yup, your 1TB of storage is starting to cost alot.
Hey, the Flashlight app was approved
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/07/21/0148214/Flashlight-iPhone-App-Enables-Tethering
Oracle client 10 is no better.
We had to repackage to get the tweaks we wanted. The package installed amazingly faster compared to Oracle's JAVA-based installer. The catch: we had to include the ~200MB of Oracle's installer metadata to keep getting support.
I hate it when companies create their own installer.
Those apps are probably niche apps where packaging in MSI is an after though.
Developers tend to think:
Why should I change things?
That InstallShield installer made by Sterling in 1998 still works great for me!
If you have 100-500 users and 10 oddball apps, hack away.
When you have 10000 users and 100+ oddball apps, repackage in MSI or upgrade.
IOW: MS is too big to turn on a dime.
MS has become what they were striving to replace: IBM.
DMCA punishes people just for TALKING about vulnerabilities. It's amazing that MS/Adobe/Apple don't push to imprison the people who find security flaws.
Software patents also kills innovation. What the point of playing "Lego" in software when you are not allowed to use some basic blocks? If you come up with something innovative, you'll get sued into oblivion because you used applied-math that someone else owns. That means you must exit the SW patent zone to sell/distribute your software. Innovative mean you have a brain therefore another potential "Cyberwarrior", gone.
Any country that enforces either DMCA-style laws or Software patents will be hacked into oblivious in the future.
BTW: Cyber-anything is so 80s.