Old PCs are good enough. I'm still on a 3.8 GHz P4 single core running Debian, and it's fast enough for everything I do but running my pet project or doing video encoding, both of which I do on my Core i7 laptop.
My folks recently had to replace their machine. It's a quad core unit that is such serious overkill for email and surfing it's not even funny. Unless it breaks down, I doubt they'll *ever* have to replace it.
No kidding. Accenture is one of the worst money-grabbing providers out there. They bring in the "top tech talent" for the initial meetings, then bill you the same rates for a horde of junior incompetents, and you never see that senior talent again.
Clearly you have never tried to "educate" an executive. Their inevitable response is "I need to do this", and to make you responsible for preventing the damage they risk and cause. It's the email administrator's fault that the email system let them send that financial report to the wrong people, dontcha know.
As far as liability goes, there is still someone in the car: they're in charge (though they've given up control to the machine), so they're responsible.
If we ever have driverless cars with no passengers, the owner of the vehicle would be responsible for damages. Again, they're in charge of the vehicle, and they're the ones who let it roam the streets unattended, so they're responsible.
Really, I would have thought it rather obvious that such should be the case. But I don't live in the Lawsuit States of America.
Unfortunately, Iceweasel/Firefox don't indicate what cipher is used by an https connection, so Yahoo gives you a false sense of security with the use of RC4. So do many other websites.
There should be some indicator of just how secure an HTTPS connection is (maybe shifting the colour of the padlock from red through orange, yellow, and green as the strength of the cipher improves.) One should also be able to select which ciphers are considered valid by their browser.
Of course it was modded down. I mentioned the Americans. Can't mention the Americans, or the rah-rah flag waving troops will mod you down because they're "offended".
When you uninstall McAfee, it leaves your registry littered with corrupt references to *their* versions of a VB interpreter and such.
You need to download a utility from the McAfee website to properly clean the software from your system after doing the uninstall. Otherwise, you'll find that things like a PostgreSQL install fail, because there is now *no* properly registered VB interpreter (which is required by the PostgreSQL installer.)
Of course, this little "feature" of McAfee is not announced anywhere on the front pages of their website. You have to use yet *another* product to find the page where you can download the clean-up utility: Google.
Absolute crapware. The only reason it was on my box is it came pre-installed. One of the first things I did was remove it in favour of Avast.
And thus begins the balkanized internet and the end of network neutrality, where service providers can start negotiating big bundle provisioning of their services over others.
Surely you jest. War is not a civilized activity, no matter what the excuse for starting one. "Law" is a facet of civilization, not war.
Are you refering to the old Bushido code from the days of archers and swords?
The behaviour of soldiers in the musket days of the American Revolution?
Perhaps the days of the tank, rifle, and gas weapons in WWI?
The dawn of the air strikes and nuclear weapons in WWII?
War is uncivilized, and it has always been fought with new technologies that were deemed to be "game changers" by those wielding the weapons. No one goes to war unless they think they can win, and the Americans, UK, Israel, Russia, etc. are no different with their "next generation" tactical fighters, laser weapons, drones, and so on.
There should only be one law of war: don't start one, or the whole world will turn against you.
As long as there are Amish, there will be a market for buggy-whips. And as long as there are people who like to get together with their friends instead of hunching in front of a computer, there will be a market for paper RPGs.
Combine coffee and throwing. When someone asks you to get them a coffee, stuff a styro mug with paper towels and some water to give it weight, and toss it to them. One of my favourite pranks. Makes them jump out of the way every time.:P
Confronted with the fact that I proof-read my post, hit submit, and the comment posted was different than what I'd just proof-read, yes, I do presume something is fucking with the system.
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Old PCs are good enough. I'm still on a 3.8 GHz P4 single core running Debian, and it's fast enough for everything I do but running my pet project or doing video encoding, both of which I do on my Core i7 laptop.
My folks recently had to replace their machine. It's a quad core unit that is such serious overkill for email and surfing it's not even funny. Unless it breaks down, I doubt they'll *ever* have to replace it.
COBOL and FORTRAN programmers. :P
No kidding. Accenture is one of the worst money-grabbing providers out there. They bring in the "top tech talent" for the initial meetings, then bill you the same rates for a horde of junior incompetents, and you never see that senior talent again.
There are so many possibilities. Vertical height to indicate gravity strength, or vertical height to indicate temperature?
What about "roughness" as a dimension?
Personally I think trying to express a 3D universe as a 2D "image" with 3D "effects" would be more confusing than just relying on the imagination.
Therein lies the problem with most religions. They think of God as a "person", anthromorphising to the hilt.
If the universe is alive and intelligent (as I believe), it's as far away from a human as we are from an amoeba.
"Let's not educate the executives?"
Clearly you have never tried to "educate" an executive. Their inevitable response is "I need to do this", and to make you responsible for preventing the damage they risk and cause. It's the email administrator's fault that the email system let them send that financial report to the wrong people, dontcha know.
As far as liability goes, there is still someone in the car: they're in charge (though they've given up control to the machine), so they're responsible.
If we ever have driverless cars with no passengers, the owner of the vehicle would be responsible for damages. Again, they're in charge of the vehicle, and they're the ones who let it roam the streets unattended, so they're responsible.
Really, I would have thought it rather obvious that such should be the case. But I don't live in the Lawsuit States of America.
Unfortunately, Iceweasel/Firefox don't indicate what cipher is used by an https connection, so Yahoo gives you a false sense of security with the use of RC4. So do many other websites.
There should be some indicator of just how secure an HTTPS connection is (maybe shifting the colour of the padlock from red through orange, yellow, and green as the strength of the cipher improves.) One should also be able to select which ciphers are considered valid by their browser.
A cracker is a hacker who specializes in security.
On the bright side, algorithm-driven machines are unlikely to pull their guns just because they have an attitude problem like some cops do.
Script kiddies run it, but a hacker created it.
Finally they're using some resolutions that might actually be worth buying.
I hated the way they talked about an "immersive" experience with pixelated low-resolution screens. Blocks are not immersive.
You're not a mobile user -- you're an Apple user.
So scream at Apple for the fact that they don't support Flash video. Every other device on the planet should work.
So Sony considers the PS3 and PS4 to be "underpowered" hardware, eh? :P :P :P
Of course it was modded down. I mentioned the Americans. Can't mention the Americans, or the rah-rah flag waving troops will mod you down because they're "offended".
When you uninstall McAfee, it leaves your registry littered with corrupt references to *their* versions of a VB interpreter and such.
You need to download a utility from the McAfee website to properly clean the software from your system after doing the uninstall. Otherwise, you'll find that things like a PostgreSQL install fail, because there is now *no* properly registered VB interpreter (which is required by the PostgreSQL installer.)
Of course, this little "feature" of McAfee is not announced anywhere on the front pages of their website. You have to use yet *another* product to find the page where you can download the clean-up utility: Google.
Absolute crapware. The only reason it was on my box is it came pre-installed. One of the first things I did was remove it in favour of Avast.
Until I can also register a "dislike" of a product or service, Facecrap has no business thinking I endorse anything.
And thus begins the balkanized internet and the end of network neutrality, where service providers can start negotiating big bundle provisioning of their services over others.
Surely you jest. War is not a civilized activity, no matter what the excuse for starting one. "Law" is a facet of civilization, not war.
Are you refering to the old Bushido code from the days of archers and swords?
The behaviour of soldiers in the musket days of the American Revolution?
Perhaps the days of the tank, rifle, and gas weapons in WWI?
The dawn of the air strikes and nuclear weapons in WWII?
War is uncivilized, and it has always been fought with new technologies that were deemed to be "game changers" by those wielding the weapons. No one goes to war unless they think they can win, and the Americans, UK, Israel, Russia, etc. are no different with their "next generation" tactical fighters, laser weapons, drones, and so on.
There should only be one law of war: don't start one, or the whole world will turn against you.
As long as there are Amish, there will be a market for buggy-whips. And as long as there are people who like to get together with their friends instead of hunching in front of a computer, there will be a market for paper RPGs.
'nuff said
Well, the earth is certainly weighed down by a plethora of bullshit artists out there.
The guy making the "observation" is himself the dark matter which weighs us down... :P
Combine coffee and throwing. When someone asks you to get them a coffee, stuff a styro mug with paper towels and some water to give it weight, and toss it to them. One of my favourite pranks. Makes them jump out of the way every time. :P
Confronted with the fact that I proof-read my post, hit submit, and the comment posted was different than what I'd just proof-read, yes, I do presume something is fucking with the system.
WTF is going on here? I typed "engines", not "indexes".
Is slashdot now EDITING posts before publishing them, or is Firefox screwing with me?