"We were negotiating with the Pentagon. We had a Blue Screen of Death..."
I have found Linux to be far less stable than Windows. I have used both on a lot of different systems, at work and at home. Linux is unlikely to completely crash (although it will—bad drivers or hardware are often the culprit). But KDE and Gnome go down all the time. It's not really fair to talk about applications. But Linux is the big loser there too.
Windows XP, fully updated, rarely goes down. Like in Linux, the base system can often save the rest. You just need to restart explorer.exe. Real BSODs, in my experience, tend to be driver and hardware related. The hardware culprits for me have been: An ATI Radeon card, a motherboard (a revision of K7s5a fails memtest out of the box), and bad RAM, of coore than a year.
None of my current Linux systems go for more than a month without X-Windows manager troubles. In one case, I know this to be a video card driver issue. The others, I have no idea about.
I didn't quote anything from The Bell Curve. I should have though. It's a book that gets its facts right. The only place the detractors won the debate was in the media. They lost it in the literature. If Bob Herbert feels that the IQ evidence shows that Blacks are 'niggers,' that's Bob Herbert's problem with reality. (He's wrong, of course.) Your Scientific American quote seems to be wishful-thinking supported, not evidence supported. In reality, whenever you try to study whether SES causes high-IQ or the other way around, you find that IQ is a major determiner of SES.
Exactly the same pattern shows up when you ditch all vocabularly sections and concentrate only on math and geometery type things. Examples of culture-fair tests where blacks and whites score equivalently tend to be very very silly. (Ebonics vocabularly tests basically.)
Its been repeadetly shown that giving children a test with a CULTURAL BIAS affects their score. most IQ tests are written from a middle-class, white, suburban perspective.
IQ is extremely overused. it was designed as a test of the mental capacity of mentally disabled children. (mental age/physical age) it was never to be used as a guage against normally intelligent people to begin with, let alone adults.
Okay. Explain why IQ correlates so well with income and education level, even when controlling for other factors?
Check the average IQ of the black child who was adopted by a married hetero white couple, or a black child whose family moved into a non-ghetto suburban neighborhood.
Adoption studies have tended to show a IQ boost of around 10 points for these children. Then it goes away at adulthood.
If you want to draw more Blacks and Hispanics into game development, you're going to have to develop an IQ boosting pill. Their population averages for IQ are about 85 and 90 respectively. Assume that you need an IQ of at least 110 to participate in game development. A little calculation with the old z-table gives me: 5% of Blacks have IQs above 110, 9% of Hispanics do, and 25% of Whites do (avg. IQ 100). For Asians (avg. 105) this would be 37%. For Ashkenazi Jews (avg. 110) this would be 50%.
One place where natural selection has helped is Windows Update. It's hard to turn off and hard to break. Similar tools in various Linux distros are getting better, but are not as good.
On the other hand, where Linux updating bests Windows by miles is that you can often update all the software on your computer at once—if you're using all free software packaged by your distro provider, that is.
That's a fairly interesting. After all, I'd rather have my system owned by a script kiddie who's trying to shut down the internet than someone going after my identity and personal information. Does the huge sea of viruses and attacks out there grant Microsoft some sort of fitness benefit? Maybe natural selection has winnowed the weaker systems, leaving fully updated Windows systems as a harder target for manual attacks. Linux, having existed in a kinder environment, is like the boy-in-the-bubble stepping out into the world for the first time.
"Weaponizing space would be very unwise. No satellite has been the subject of a direct physical attack in the history of warfare. Whatever we do sets a precedent that others will follow. We depend so heavily on satellites to protect lives and wage war with a minimum of collateral damage. Attacks on satellites would mean that wars become a whole lot more difficult for our forces in the field and a lot more harmful to noncombatants."
So we can get them to ignore our satelites—the ones that have been absolutely vital to every war the U.S. has fought since 1988—by not weaponizing space? Please, explain more.
"Rules matter, and we are the world's most important rule maker or rule breaker. One rule that has stood the test of time so far is that you don't attack satellites directly. That's a very important rule to keep if we want to protect our forces in the field. We could develop a code of conduct for responsible space-faring nations."
Some rules matter. This one doesn't. No nation at war with us is going to ignore our satelites giving us up-to-the-minute battlefield data when it has the option to do something about them instead.
Are they being ultra-careful with this, or is this just normal-careful? I imagine that it's the second, but this mission has been weird so far. One of the hazards of being ultra-careful with the weather would be that you reject all the okay opportunities to land and have to take the worst at the end. Or land in Texas.
A restraining order? Since when have police enforced contracts? If a contract is broken you can pursue damages. You can't get the police to enforce it for you.
Has Slashdot been bought by Google? I'm serious. I don't read those Slashback articles. I've been noticing an average of about 3 Google themed articles a day and it seems like a lot, even controlling for dupes.
While it is reasonable to punish this guy for hacking, it is not reasonable to consider extra security measures as part of the damages incurred by him. A consulting company that informed them that extra security was needed would be paid handsomely. You would hardly talk about their service as "damage." The need for the extra security was exactly the same before the break-in as it was after.
To ward off the replies that I know are coming: I am not saying that the guy should be rewarded. I am not saying that what he did was ethical. I am saying that extra security after the fact is not "damage incurred." If someone could show that their need for security increased as a result of the break-in this would be another matter.
If they had implemented this a few decades ago your point would be a little more convincing. In reality, Japan is a terrible nation to be a woman reporting a sex crime. It's not as bad as an Islamic country, but it's the worst of the first-world.
I love Japan and the Japanese, but it's important to be honest about their failings. Read up a little on the sorts of sadistic things they did during WWII. It is not the sort of stuff that can be written off as an aberration.
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A garbled line of text there, sorry: "and bad RAM, of course. My Windows XP box has not gone down for more than a year."
Windows XP, fully updated, rarely goes down. Like in Linux, the base system can often save the rest. You just need to restart explorer.exe. Real BSODs, in my experience, tend to be driver and hardware related. The hardware culprits for me have been: An ATI Radeon card, a motherboard (a revision of K7s5a fails memtest out of the box), and bad RAM, of coore than a year.
None of my current Linux systems go for more than a month without X-Windows manager troubles. In one case, I know this to be a video card driver issue. The others, I have no idea about.
Yes. This is a DMCA issue, not a reverse-engineering issue.
For Real's actions to be legal under the DMCA, don't they need Library of Congress permission or something like that?
For months, Slashdot has been posting story after story trying to make itself more female friendly and to lure women into gaming.
Now, you've undone it all with this one crass story. Good job!
I didn't quote anything from The Bell Curve. I should have though. It's a book that gets its facts right. The only place the detractors won the debate was in the media. They lost it in the literature. If Bob Herbert feels that the IQ evidence shows that Blacks are 'niggers,' that's Bob Herbert's problem with reality. (He's wrong, of course.) Your Scientific American quote seems to be wishful-thinking supported, not evidence supported. In reality, whenever you try to study whether SES causes high-IQ or the other way around, you find that IQ is a major determiner of SES.
Exactly the same pattern shows up when you ditch all vocabularly sections and concentrate only on math and geometery type things. Examples of culture-fair tests where blacks and whites score equivalently tend to be very very silly. (Ebonics vocabularly tests basically.)
Okay. Explain why IQ correlates so well with income and education level, even when controlling for other factors?
If you want to draw more Blacks and Hispanics into game development, you're going to have to develop an IQ boosting pill. Their population averages for IQ are about 85 and 90 respectively. Assume that you need an IQ of at least 110 to participate in game development. A little calculation with the old z-table gives me: 5% of Blacks have IQs above 110, 9% of Hispanics do, and 25% of Whites do (avg. IQ 100). For Asians (avg. 105) this would be 37%. For Ashkenazi Jews (avg. 110) this would be 50%.
Windows Update is for clients. If you want something to match RHEL in that regard, try Active Directory.
One place where natural selection has helped is Windows Update. It's hard to turn off and hard to break. Similar tools in various Linux distros are getting better, but are not as good.
On the other hand, where Linux updating bests Windows by miles is that you can often update all the software on your computer at once—if you're using all free software packaged by your distro provider, that is.
That's a fairly interesting. After all, I'd rather have my system owned by a script kiddie who's trying to shut down the internet than someone going after my identity and personal information. Does the huge sea of viruses and attacks out there grant Microsoft some sort of fitness benefit? Maybe natural selection has winnowed the weaker systems, leaving fully updated Windows systems as a harder target for manual attacks. Linux, having existed in a kinder environment, is like the boy-in-the-bubble stepping out into the world for the first time.
Are they being ultra-careful with this, or is this just normal-careful? I imagine that it's the second, but this mission has been weird so far. One of the hazards of being ultra-careful with the weather would be that you reject all the okay opportunities to land and have to take the worst at the end. Or land in Texas.
Mac users couldn't handle two buttons and now they candle a mouse with a zillion nifty features?
A restraining order? Since when have police enforced contracts? If a contract is broken you can pursue damages. You can't get the police to enforce it for you.
No. Of course not. This guy.
I didn't see the trailer, but I checked the stills. Is this an appropriate time to start taking bets on the black guy's lifespan in nanoseconds?
will also save costs by reducing the number of times computers will have to be rebooted.
They have said this with every major release. Are things really getting better?
The Windows monopoly saves the world at least $500 billion a year in compatibility costs.
Has Slashdot been bought by Google? I'm serious. I don't read those Slashback articles. I've been noticing an average of about 3 Google themed articles a day and it seems like a lot, even controlling for dupes.
If it's a copy of 1995 technology, and patents last 10 years, I wonder if they're violating anything important.
While it is reasonable to punish this guy for hacking, it is not reasonable to consider extra security measures as part of the damages incurred by him. A consulting company that informed them that extra security was needed would be paid handsomely. You would hardly talk about their service as "damage." The need for the extra security was exactly the same before the break-in as it was after.
To ward off the replies that I know are coming: I am not saying that the guy should be rewarded. I am not saying that what he did was ethical. I am saying that extra security after the fact is not "damage incurred." If someone could show that their need for security increased as a result of the break-in this would be another matter.
If they had implemented this a few decades ago your point would be a little more convincing. In reality, Japan is a terrible nation to be a woman reporting a sex crime. It's not as bad as an Islamic country, but it's the worst of the first-world.
I love Japan and the Japanese, but it's important to be honest about their failings. Read up a little on the sorts of sadistic things they did during WWII. It is not the sort of stuff that can be written off as an aberration.