There was a real good short story with that theme, and the glass broke on impact... It was 'designed' to prevent interference from outside, and every star had one, thus we could travel away from our star, but not close to any other. The reason why was interesting...
Also remind me of a really cute comic book (in french).
About a decade ago the french white pages did provide two email addresses to everybody in it, at the firstname.lastname@whitepages.fr and phonenumber@whitepages.fr (or something like that, the details are hazy). It was good for about a week before the spammers launched a free for all on it. It was shut down shortly after that.
Agreed. And it should be the same with ID cards. There's a time when you need to identify yourself when interacting with _your_ gov. But it shouldn't be used for any other purpose. Like social security numbers are reserved for use with the social security. Ho, wait...
"Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time." -- George Bernard Shaw.
In a sensible economic system, if all the work could be done by machines, we'd live in abundance. Alan Watts had an interesting idea about how each citizen ought to get a share in the wealth created the machines.
Re-read science fiction stories from the 50s: they already thought about plenty of variations of that. What they didn't think about would be that the investors of those machines would get 90% of the profits and leave the others to rot. Why wouldn't they, they have the money, the political influence and the power, so why would they share any of it, short of plenty of heads on spikes like in 1789.
I'm fascinated by articles on language origins and the various methods used to build relation trees between them, but I have no idea what those pronunciation terms mean. Isn't there a site somewhere with SOUNDS to complement those linguistic terms ? I mean, WTF is a 'fricative', seriously !
Flash was built for the desktop. Devices with big screens [...]
Big screen ? At its ridiculously tiny native resolution I can already see all the compression artifacts and the image flow sputters like a moped in a rock garden, so why would you want to enlarge it to make it even worse ? I used to think say that RealMedia was crap in, oh, 1996, and Flash has consistently maintained that high standard since then.
If you believe that people should get a real job instead of an education then you've got a country of predominantly labourers and factory line workers.
But what do you think of people getting decades of education in things that they cannot then use ? I won't beat on liberal art majors, but look at the example of biology here: it's certainly hard to study but most of those PhDs will end up waiting tables anyway. I know a PhD in biology who took 10 years to find a job in the field and after a year he was so disgusted by the work conditions and miserable salary that he's now a wine seller ! Don't you think he wasted 15 years of his life ?
In the long debate of the configurability of KDE vs the non-configurability of Gnome, there's the impression that KDE is for power users and Gnome for the avg user. But I configure PCs for family members and I _need_ advanced configuration to lock down and reduce what's available to them. There's no way I can do that with Gnome. So KDE is also for low-level users.
Do you need apple tinted glasses to see them as gorgeous ?!? Because the iPhone pics I receive from friends and family suck ass worse than a 30 year old 5$ el-cheapo throw away camera. Sure it's better than most other phone cameras but it's like claiming your webcam makes great movies !
Google is making a mistake. It simply needs to show a little patience. Companies that stray to far off the reservation, the android comparability reservation will soon find themselves punished by their customers and that punishment will likely doom their products for quite a long time.
I wish it was that easy. I got 2 android phone: the 1st one is stock android and it's great. 2 years later it's still receiving regular system updates. The other one was modified by the carrier and it's pure garbage (can't change homepage in browser, no bookmarks, no tethering, can't disable data, no updates ever...). I wish there was a large simple sticker on the box that said: "pure android" vs "rendered useless by the carrier".
Police officers should just be held to the same laws as everyone else.
An emphatic NO to that. Knowing the law is THEIR job, not mine, so if I do some minor screwup, maybe I can get a slap on the wrist, but they shouldn't. And a lot more important, if you do something to a cop, you get added sentencing versus doing the same thing to Joe Blow. So a cop doing something illegal to you should get added sentencing. Seems only fair to me.
The original question is exactly my line of work ! You can't make a neutron beam (they are neutral), but what you can make is a proton beam and then fire it at a spallation target in the middle of your core to change them into neutron. It's a new type of sub-critical reactor, but it doesn't quite fit into my basement. Yes, and it runs Linux.
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Yes, I meant that mostly as a joke, it's usually more practical to dd individual partitions: dd if=/dev/sda1 | gzip > sda1.img.gz
Also they zip better if you first fill the available space with zeros instead of the random garbage that's already there: mount/dev/sda1/somewhere; dd/dev/zero/somewhere/nothing; rm/somewhere/nothing; umount/somewhere; dd if=/dev/sda1 | gzip > sda1.img.gz
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single tool that I can use to back up my whole disk?
dd if=/dev/sda | gzip > sda.img.gz
As for mounting that thing, I'll leave this as an exercise for the reader.
OK, I admit that I use facebook a little, just to stay in touch with far away family and friends. I login, see what my friends/family's been doing, post how many times I farted today and that's about it. But when I go to bigfatsluts.com and see the 'like' button under the videos, I cringe. I would like an option to deny facebook 'like' and suchlike (hah!) when I'm not on facebook itself. How ?
For those who'd like to configure a multi-button mouse on Linux, it can be tricky. I have a little writeup here for 2 models. Hmmm, server seems to be down at the moment...
You still want the second, you want to tax consumption, or sales. Money people don't spend goes into a bank or stocks as is also invested or creates jobs. That's why a national sales tax and 0 income and 0 capital gains is the best environment for economic growth. This also promotes freedom, since now the government doesn't have to have detailed information about your job.
No:
"You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are." — Adolphus Busch.
Which means that you end up paying as much tax as Bill Gates on those beers. Seems fair to you ?
I said nothing about poor or rich. And 'overpopulation is a myth', seriously ? Why don't you ask a bunch of yeast at the end of a fermentation batch in beer ?
Yeah, when I see or hear about families with 10 or more kids nowadays, it gives me a queasy feeling and makes me want to puke. It's like those people are the ultimate egoists, willing to propagate themselves, even it that kills the specie. The fact that they are religious freaks in most cases doesn't make it any better for humanity.
I did buy the phone directly, not through the carrier. So how do those DRM bootloaders behave in this case ? Are they disabled ? Or does the maker simply stop selling you phones directly ?
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There was a real good short story with that theme, and the glass broke on impact... It was 'designed' to prevent interference from outside, and every star had one, thus we could travel away from our star, but not close to any other. The reason why was interesting...
Also remind me of a really cute comic book (in french).
About a decade ago the french white pages did provide two email addresses to everybody in it, at the firstname.lastname@whitepages.fr and phonenumber@whitepages.fr (or something like that, the details are hazy). It was good for about a week before the spammers launched a free for all on it. It was shut down shortly after that.
Agreed. And it should be the same with ID cards. There's a time when you need to identify yourself when interacting with _your_ gov. But it shouldn't be used for any other purpose. Like social security numbers are reserved for use with the social security. Ho, wait...
Does it remind anyone of the integrated toilet seat tv of Idiocracy ?
"Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time." -- George Bernard Shaw.
In a sensible economic system, if all the work could be done by machines, we'd live in abundance. Alan Watts had an interesting idea about how each citizen ought to get a share in the wealth created the machines.
Re-read science fiction stories from the 50s: they already thought about plenty of variations of that. What they didn't think about would be that the investors of those machines would get 90% of the profits and leave the others to rot. Why wouldn't they, they have the money, the political influence and the power, so why would they share any of it, short of plenty of heads on spikes like in 1789.
[...] interdental fricative [...]
I'm fascinated by articles on language origins and the various methods used to build relation trees between them, but I have no idea what those pronunciation terms mean. Isn't there a site somewhere with SOUNDS to complement those linguistic terms ? I mean, WTF is a 'fricative', seriously !
Flash was built for the desktop. Devices with big screens [...]
Big screen ? At its ridiculously tiny native resolution I can already see all the compression artifacts and the image flow sputters like a moped in a rock garden, so why would you want to enlarge it to make it even worse ? I used to think say that RealMedia was crap in, oh, 1996, and Flash has consistently maintained that high standard since then.
I think reading that article ruined my WE...
If you believe that people should get a real job instead of an education then you've got a country of predominantly labourers and factory line workers.
But what do you think of people getting decades of education in things that they cannot then use ? I won't beat on liberal art majors, but look at the example of biology here: it's certainly hard to study but most of those PhDs will end up waiting tables anyway. I know a PhD in biology who took 10 years to find a job in the field and after a year he was so disgusted by the work conditions and miserable salary that he's now a wine seller ! Don't you think he wasted 15 years of his life ?
In the long debate of the configurability of KDE vs the non-configurability of Gnome, there's the impression that KDE is for power users and Gnome for the avg user. But I configure PCs for family members and I _need_ advanced configuration to lock down and reduce what's available to them. There's no way I can do that with Gnome. So KDE is also for low-level users.
takes gorgeous photos
Do you need apple tinted glasses to see them as gorgeous ?!? Because the iPhone pics I receive from friends and family suck ass worse than a 30 year old 5$ el-cheapo throw away camera. Sure it's better than most other phone cameras but it's like claiming your webcam makes great movies !
Google is making a mistake. It simply needs to show a little patience. Companies that stray to far off the reservation, the android comparability reservation will soon find themselves punished by their customers and that punishment will likely doom their products for quite a long time.
I wish it was that easy. I got 2 android phone: the 1st one is stock android and it's great. 2 years later it's still receiving regular system updates. The other one was modified by the carrier and it's pure garbage (can't change homepage in browser, no bookmarks, no tethering, can't disable data, no updates ever...). I wish there was a large simple sticker on the box that said: "pure android" vs "rendered useless by the carrier".
Police officers should just be held to the same laws as everyone else.
An emphatic NO to that. Knowing the law is THEIR job, not mine, so if I do some minor screwup, maybe I can get a slap on the wrist, but they shouldn't. And a lot more important, if you do something to a cop, you get added sentencing versus doing the same thing to Joe Blow. So a cop doing something illegal to you should get added sentencing. Seems only fair to me.
The original question is exactly my line of work ! You can't make a neutron beam (they are neutral), but what you can make is a proton beam and then fire it at a spallation target in the middle of your core to change them into neutron. It's a new type of sub-critical reactor, but it doesn't quite fit into my basement. Yes, and it runs Linux.
Yes, I meant that mostly as a joke, it's usually more practical to dd individual partitions: dd if=/dev/sda1 | gzip > sda1.img.gz /dev/sda1 /somewhere; dd /dev/zero /somewhere/nothing; rm /somewhere/nothing; umount /somewhere; dd if=/dev/sda1 | gzip > sda1.img.gz
Also they zip better if you first fill the available space with zeros instead of the random garbage that's already there: mount
single tool that I can use to back up my whole disk?
dd if=/dev/sda | gzip > sda.img.gz
As for mounting that thing, I'll leave this as an exercise for the reader.
...so what is it this time: "your backup didn't really exist after all" ? Best April's Fool evar !
OK, I admit that I use facebook a little, just to stay in touch with far away family and friends. I login, see what my friends/family's been doing, post how many times I farted today and that's about it. But when I go to bigfatsluts.com and see the 'like' button under the videos, I cringe. I would like an option to deny facebook 'like' and suchlike (hah!) when I'm not on facebook itself. How ?
So, anyone cares to make a forecast as to when SSDs will overtake HDs even for large Tb units in terms of price+perf ?
For those who'd like to configure a multi-button mouse on Linux, it can be tricky. I have a little writeup here for 2 models. Hmmm, server seems to be down at the moment...
You still want the second, you want to tax consumption, or sales. Money people don't spend goes into a bank or stocks as is also invested or creates jobs. That's why a national sales tax and 0 income and 0 capital gains is the best environment for economic growth. This also promotes freedom, since now the government doesn't have to have detailed information about your job.
No:
"You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are." — Adolphus Busch.
Which means that you end up paying as much tax as Bill Gates on those beers. Seems fair to you ?
I said nothing about poor or rich. And 'overpopulation is a myth', seriously ? Why don't you ask a bunch of yeast at the end of a fermentation batch in beer ?
Yeah, when I see or hear about families with 10 or more kids nowadays, it gives me a queasy feeling and makes me want to puke. It's like those people are the ultimate egoists, willing to propagate themselves, even it that kills the specie. The fact that they are religious freaks in most cases doesn't make it any better for humanity.
I did buy the phone directly, not through the carrier. So how do those DRM bootloaders behave in this case ? Are they disabled ? Or does the maker simply stop selling you phones directly ?