eMachines are just a crappy as Dells or Gateways but you avoid the brand tax with them. Unlike Dell and Gateway, eMachines doesn't pretend it's selling you some top of the line system but is honest about the fact that you're getting the house Chianti, as it were.
The really original homesteaders were forced off their lands by white people with guns, marched en masse to reservations, given smallpox-ridden blankets, and starved into oblivion.
There is a grenade in the US arsenal (one of the white phosophorous ones) that has a thrown range of 35 yards and an effective casualty radius of 45 yards.
There also was at one point a nuclear mortar. The training video for that is hilarious.
Sort of.. You do have to agree to its terms to use it. The terms state that if you modify & distribute, then you must make the source available. Without agreeing, you're using someone else's copyrighted code without a license.
5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it.
So you see, there is no need to accept the terms of the GPL to simply use GPL'd software; you only accept the license by redistributing the software.
but I don't think I've had an outage in the last year. (Northern Virginia area)
I think MAE-EAST scares the outages away (*franticly searching for wood to knock on*).
You are, however, the first NoVaite I've heard complimenting Cox. I've used Cox, Qwest, XO, C&W, Comcast, Covad, and *shudder* Northpoint (before they went balls-up on us one Friday morning) at home and work variously and I have to say Cox has the absolute worst customer-service attitude of the lot of them.
Also the fact that the handlers is emotionaly attached to its dog is beneficial in the same way that soldier in the same unit will become (encouraged by their training) attached (like a familly or friend) to other in the same unit. This give a better team dynamics as each members will look out for each other.
Except that after a point they *don't* want the handlers attached to their dogs. The dogs are there to die so that soldiers and marines don't have to. They don't want handlers risking their lives or using first aid supplies to help dogs. If a robot could help break some of that connection, all the better.
We have and do use war dogs. The Marine kennels are in North Carolina and Virginia and the Army kennels are, I believe, in Oklahoma. In addition, MPs have canine squads just like civilian cops and many of these squads have war dog training in addition to police dog training.
They're useful for sniffing out booby traps and ambushes. There are a couple of problems, though:
Training a dog is by no means cheap or easy (all told, hundreds of thousands of dollars). Robots would be cheaper once they get in production.
No matter how well trained, dogs have common sense and feel fear. Robots wouldn't unless we programmed them to.
Dogs die. Their handlers have trained with them for months or years. Losing a dog is *very* hard on the handler. Robots would not be so hard to lose.
The Pentagon is huge. I mean, really really big. And it's totally full of people who do nothing all day but sit around and plan out how the US would invade every single square foot of land on earth if we needed to. So obviously we had a plan to invade S.A. and Kuwait, just like we still do now (along with Latvia, Upper Volta, Cleveland, and anywhere else you can imagine.
And, btw, the report lists as a specific source the US Secretary of Defense, who said "it was no longer obvious that the United States could not use force".
...they quantified it by dividing verified defects by lines of code. MySQL had 0.09 bugs/KLOC while the "commercial" defect density was 0.53 bugs/KLOC. (Their use of the term "commercial" confused me since MySQL is, after all, a "commercial" project, just an open-source one.)
2) WTF did Aragorn et all dismount before charging the enemy at the Black Gate? That's not continuity, that's just dumb.
Because of research into medieval tactics. Cavalry almost never fights mounted unless the enemy infantry is already scattered. Ever seen "Braveheart"? William Wallace hardly thought that trick up; in fact mounted cavalry has almost never defeated formed infantry.
A Balrog is existentially the equivalent of somebody like Gandalf or Sauron. Which is why the Balrog on Moria couldn't have given a damn about Frodo and just wanted to kill Gandalf.
Well, for one because (legal) bulk emailing is a large part of what I do for a living. If someone is wrongly on one of our lists it's very easy for them to contact us and resolve the problem (happens about once a month, usually).
Besides the self interest, I'm not worried about someone with a verifiable online contact point (like a real email address) because that's a way we can get at that person if he or she breaks the law.
Yeah instead poor "xxlksjdflkj@yahoo.com" will. Another problem I have with TMDA. It allows a distributed DOS attack.
Yeah, that is the big problem with whitelist confirm messages. I was just pointing out that it wouldn't be hard to keep spammers with fake reply-to's from auto-confirming whitelist verifications.
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I'm surprised the Iraqi anthrax factories didn't make the list.
eMachines are just a crappy as Dells or Gateways but you avoid the brand tax with them. Unlike Dell and Gateway, eMachines doesn't pretend it's selling you some top of the line system but is honest about the fact that you're getting the house Chianti, as it were.
Here's a precis to a similar study about the effects of converting to agriculture on the dental health of Africans.
Or emails from teenagers, who now write in all situations as if they were on IM.
The really original homesteaders were forced off their lands by white people with guns, marched en masse to reservations, given smallpox-ridden blankets, and starved into oblivion.
We are now fully off-topic...
There is a grenade in the US arsenal (one of the white phosophorous ones) that has a thrown range of 35 yards and an effective casualty radius of 45 yards.
There also was at one point a nuclear mortar. The training video for that is hilarious.
That's a common misconception. You need no license to *use* GPL'ed software. I quote the GNU General Public License:
So you see, there is no need to accept the terms of the GPL to simply use GPL'd software; you only accept the license by redistributing the software.
What's /sys for, anyways? Is it just that /proc was getting crowded?
I think MAE-EAST scares the outages away (*franticly searching for wood to knock on*).
You are, however, the first NoVaite I've heard complimenting Cox. I've used Cox, Qwest, XO, C&W, Comcast, Covad, and *shudder* Northpoint (before they went balls-up on us one Friday morning) at home and work variously and I have to say Cox has the absolute worst customer-service attitude of the lot of them.
Except that after a point they *don't* want the handlers attached to their dogs. The dogs are there to die so that soldiers and marines don't have to. They don't want handlers risking their lives or using first aid supplies to help dogs. If a robot could help break some of that connection, all the better.
We have and do use war dogs. The Marine kennels are in North Carolina and Virginia and the Army kennels are, I believe, in Oklahoma. In addition, MPs have canine squads just like civilian cops and many of these squads have war dog training in addition to police dog training.
They're useful for sniffing out booby traps and ambushes. There are a couple of problems, though:
I thought that's what E3's were for. Won't we be putting all our PFC's and Lance Corporals out of work?
The image is the easy part. Getting your hands on the right kind of paper is what's tricky.
Great one, dude. You're really in the zone tonight.
I refuse to italicize my bad jokes.
The Pentagon is huge. I mean, really really big. And it's totally full of people who do nothing all day but sit around and plan out how the US would invade every single square foot of land on earth if we needed to. So obviously we had a plan to invade S.A. and Kuwait, just like we still do now (along with Latvia, Upper Volta, Cleveland, and anywhere else you can imagine.
And, btw, the report lists as a specific source the US Secretary of Defense, who said "it was no longer obvious that the United States could not use force".
...they quantified it by dividing verified defects by lines of code. MySQL had 0.09 bugs/KLOC while the "commercial" defect density was 0.53 bugs/KLOC. (Their use of the term "commercial" confused me since MySQL is, after all, a "commercial" project, just an open-source one.)
It would make an awful movie, IMO, until we get about ten more generations of CG graphics technology.
It would be a great opera/symphony cycle any time, however...
Because of research into medieval tactics. Cavalry almost never fights mounted unless the enemy infantry is already scattered. Ever seen "Braveheart"? William Wallace hardly thought that trick up; in fact mounted cavalry has almost never defeated formed infantry.
A Balrog is existentially the equivalent of somebody like Gandalf or Sauron. Which is why the Balrog on Moria couldn't have given a damn about Frodo and just wanted to kill Gandalf.
...but no matter how much technology you throw at the Big Dig it will still CONSUME YOUR CITY! Bwa ha ha ha ha ha!
And isn't it called ".section .bss"?
pcmcia-cs and madwifi finally work without making me pull my hair out. Hello, T-mobile hotspots...
Unfortunately the kernel I just compiled broke OSS so I guess I'll need to figure out how to make ALSA work.
They already do shared source for their "partners". I got to see some Windows code when I was trying (and eventually failing) to write a driver.
And don't forget that you can see the source code of Windows CE if you want to.
Well, for one because (legal) bulk emailing is a large part of what I do for a living. If someone is wrongly on one of our lists it's very easy for them to contact us and resolve the problem (happens about once a month, usually).
Besides the self interest, I'm not worried about someone with a verifiable online contact point (like a real email address) because that's a way we can get at that person if he or she breaks the law.
Yeah, that is the big problem with whitelist confirm messages. I was just pointing out that it wouldn't be hard to keep spammers with fake reply-to's from auto-confirming whitelist verifications.