I've heard that NMCI charges you a per-seat lease in addition to a flat fee site contract, and at least one site contract I know of involves giving ridiculous amounts of equipment to NMCI essentially for free.
So they are paying NMCI money to have NMCI lease their own equipment to them. This includes quite a few high-end LCD monitors.
And the rollout is something like nine months late, but NMCI still gets paid...
I've also heard that EDS are whores, and that they'll say anything you want them to.
But I don't really have any direct experience. I think this 'reversal' is pretty damn funny, however.
-1 offtopic. It figures that a moderator would mod this post's parent down. It actually mentioned and discussed, however briefly, the parent article for these comments.
Nevermind the two posts cruising at +5 that don't have anything to do with anything whatsoever except an argument made cliche by repetition, and nauseating by its perpetrators.
CTRL-F for 'coffee' ought to do yer fine. Go re-read the great Slashdot coffee debates of yesterday if that provides the surcease your grubby heart seems to require. Nurse old wounds and insults. But keep your obnoxious little fetish to yourself, okay?
This isn't even a YRO article. Civil Law is not specifically a subject of the article but should be considered on-topic so long as it relates to the subject of the article under discussion.
Malicious websites are installing a malware bundle that can defeat the security of the following browsers: Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape. Daniel Veditz, Mozilla security head, says Opera and Netcaptor aren't immune. This bundle requires java to operate. The hook that makes this different enough to be interesting is that the bundle installs a whole package of horrible Internet Explorer spyware, even if your IE is as locked down as you can get it. Granted, the user has to click a button so it's not a total disaster.
Unfortunately, most of us don't have the razer hacker precision it takes to read each button in lazer detail eath time we see it. I see this particular incident as another indictment of the practice of browsing the web with too many user privileges unsecured. More specifically, I wonder if it was wise for Microsoft to integrate (assimilate) the web browser into the operating system, thereby transforming a necessary security hole into a systemic 'Open for business' aperture which provides access to nearly any part or process of a system so transformed.
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How did we get so badly off-topic? And why, why this topic?
As I have said, I would consider Civil Law to have a reasonable place in the wider discussions of security in theory and current implementation that such an article might hope to provoke. Specific civil lawsuits might have relevance, especially if they involved parties named Microsoft, Netscape, Mozilla Foundation, or Sun MicroSystems. Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants is not funny anymore, much less on-topic.
Let's examine the particulars.
McDonald's Coffee. Slashdot.
Great-grandparent poster:
That's true, and is why I don't believe that any OS or browser is going to save us from malware. Until the average user learns safe computing practices, they're going to continue installing stuff they later wish they hadn't; in time even if they do stop running as admin, they'll get used to typing in their admin (or root) username and password.
This is in direct relation to the subject of the article. Good Job, Great-grandparent poster!
The grandparent poster had this to say in response:
This isn't just a problem for the tech industry. Have a look at how many people smoke cigarettes that will kill them despite the warnings, sue large companies for spilling hot coffee on themselves, force plugs into "dummy proof" sockets, etc., etc. etc.
Some people are just plain dumb sometimes. No amount of education can cure human stupidity.
Way to cast the first stone, Grandparent poster! You get points for a sane response to an on-topic post, but you lose them all by using nine little words. sue large companies for spilling hot coffee on the
The d-pad on the standard controller is fairly weak. That's what a Hori pad is for. Unfortunately, the schema of having two directional inputs for the left thumb requires that one of the inputs be placed at a disadvantageous angle. Xbox controller S's D-pad is better, but still not nearly as good as the PS2's D-pad. Unfortunately, on the PS2 controller the analog stick is in the 'secondary' position, and hence not as easy to use as the analog sticks of either GameCube or Xbox.
Yes, but you're forgetting that we want the worst movie ever made, and Highlander 2 is not even the worst movie to star Christopher Lambert.
Fortress 2: Re-Entry is in all probability the worst movie ever to star Christopher Lambert. The inexcusably bad "Fortress" might be argued to be better than Highlander II, but not by me. The sequel fails to live up to the unbelievably low standards of it's predecessor.
But even this is light-years beyond efforts such as "Ankle Biters". This no-budget film stars (exploits) dwarfs to portray the vampiric midget antagonists of the title. Laughably bad cinematography and action direction are counterpointed by the lack of any actual monies spent on graphical effects, the clumsy placement of jarring and unbelievable sound effects, and the total lack of any acting skill in any participant.
The high moment of the film is a man scracting his balls on a motorcycle. I'm almost certain this somehow escaped the filmmaker's notice.
As an example of just how bad writing in films can be, the protagonist, Drexel, a "half-vampire", is attempting to inject hypodermic syringes filled with his own blood (Drexel's Blood) into his vampiric opponents in order to kill them.
Never mind that there isn't even a token explanation of why Drexel's blood is deadly to vampires.
Just realize, that when the tables are turned and Drexel is injected (Drexel's Blood), his inexplicable bearded ally says, "It'll either kill him, or make him a hell of a lot stronger."
I don't know why he believes this to be true, but he does, and it is. The power of positive thinking in action, I guess.
The very worst writing in a movie is condensed into the ending scene of "Galaxy of the Dinosaurs". If you haven't heard Gurtorious Gonimus give his wretched, spiteful, meandering monologue, you haven't lived.
"You broke the law, you landed on Gur-Gon." - G.G.
Looking at Nintendo's fundamental financial position, I can with almost complete certainty guarantee _another_ console after the next. The next console, codenamed 'Revolution', will probably ship in 2006. While little is known about this machine, I have heard that you will be able to display its video output on a computer monitor. Nintendo is currently involved with IBM and ATI, and while no-one has explicitly confirmed anything about the hardware for the next console, it is safe to assume that Big Blue & Big Red are providing it.
nVidia must surely be Green with envy that their competition is providing graphics for the mass-market consoles.
You don't quite seem to understand capitalism, I'm afraid. It's not a system that responds to public opinion and the needs of the collective social good - it responds to supply, demand, efficiency, convenience, & price. When a person makes a purchase decision, there is a very complex multi-variable equation being solved, a reflex calculation of interfering and intersecting desires as opposed to the prices of the objects for sale.
People will without fail attempt to make the choice they feel is most advantageous to themselves. Valuation is in the eye of the purchaser, and it is this that the purchaser's ethics and ideals of social good must affect in order to affect the outcome of any purchase. People who complain about Wal-Mart's behavior yet continue to purchase Wal-Mart's goods, for example, do not weigh the cost of the social ill they believe Wal-Mart creates heavily enough against the value of the goods to stop them from making the decision to buy Wal-Mart's product.
This is exactly the same reason why consumers won't pay a price premium for the privilege of not fucking over struggling third-world coffee farmers. Bad shit that happens to other people isn't seen to be as important as bad shit that happens to one's self, even when the bad shit that happens to you is relatively trivial, such as having to spend that extra $3 for the guilt-free version.
This is precisely why courts of civil and criminal law at the state and federal levels have authority over business activities - there are many sorts of behavior that will give a company a large competitive advantage that are collectively perceived as undesirable, but which will clearly be rewarded financially by a pure system of capitalism. Undesirable and socially harmful behavior can be proscribed and reprimanded by the courts, which is a socialist aspect of our American marketplace, like it or not. I think that overall it's more beneficial than harmful, but that's just my opinion.
As regards the question of whether or not Microsoft's activities have been sufficiently harmful to consumers to merit the prosecution of a class-action lawsuit, I would suggest that it is certainly the right of American citizens to raise that question in a court of law if they feel that there is sufficient reason to do so, and that the social order we have wherein, where we would accept the decision of the court in this question, is working reasonably well in such an instance.
It's sheer laziness that you don't have that table memorized well enough to do instant calculation of single digit multiplication, as it only actually has 36 unique and non-trivial entries. I'm assuming you know the method for multiplying by nine, which further reduces the entries you actually need to memorize to a mere 28.
We are discussing an amount of data equivalent to a social security number, your date of birth, your street address, and five telephone numbers.
You state that you have memorized 'many' powers of two. This hoses your claim to not memorize data well.
You are going to have a hard time convincing anyone that given two hours, you can't remember that now and forever, 7 * 8 = 56.
I will accept that you choose not to do so, but your assertion that that choice stems from anything other than stubborn and willful laziness does not hold water with me.
I repeat my advice that you should step past the idea that you can't do this. Actually look at what's involved, DO IT, and you can stop thinking about it and making excuses for yourself.
If this pisses you off, too fucking bad. I'm just a random internet asshole, and I'm sure as hell not going to humor your ridiculous little neurosis. Keep in mind that it wouldn't be an issue if you hadn't claimed this skill to be 'worthless' and 'irrelevant'.
You are the least qualified judge of the worth or relevance of this skill, as you do not possess it.
If it has no worth or relevance to you, it is because you do not possess it.
Wrong! Learning multiplication tables is a valuable technique to enhance rapid recall proficiency. If you can't multiply single-digit numbers in your head, I strongly recommend that you take the piddling few hours it would take to learn how. You took the time to post your angry post on Slashdot, so I can only assume that this is a sore point with you. If you learn your times tables you won't have to get defensive about not knowing them anymore, Mr. AC 'hacker'.
Now, I'll agree that hackers can usually fall back on their computers, but other professionals don't always have that luxury. Accountants, financiers, and carpenters spring immediately to mind as people who benefit considerably from instant mind-math.
I still don't know what the article submitter was talking about when he referred to this 'gem', however.
Well, in all truth, after you are done with the pretty installer, and you have updated the applications you use to current versions, the biggest difference between distributions is the packaging system and custom graphical admin tools provided by the distro. To a certain extent, Linux is Linux is Linux. This is why developers can write one program that will run on most any distro.
To properly review a distribution probably takes longer than most people who do such reviewing have time for. If you need to write something in three days, you've got time to install a distro, but not enough to fuck with it for three months and see how easy it is to keep it running and happy when you are adding weird custom shit, new versions of important system files, and applications that the distribution vendor never intended to integrate.
I am distro-shopping myself right now. Not sure what I'll do.
And you are correct, so long as you are talking about Xbox or PS2 console DVDs.
But those GameCube discs? Fucking righteous protection on those bad boys. Nothing's impossible to duplicate, but the GCN discs are so ornery that it's just not worth it.
Again, the smart money is on Nintendo. I think they probably see more profit from their first party software than the entire PC gaming industry. And that's _before_ you consider Pokemon, which is still far and away the most popular game IN THE WORLD, despite its many crappy aspects.
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Even if I accept that as true, Windows still isn't nearly as good in this area as just about anything that tries a little harder for POSIX compliance.
If you are comparing OSS code to Solaris or AIX or something, you might have a point. But not much of one.
I just think it's sad that one way or another, people still make the attempt to rationalize their choice of 'hacker', 'cracker' or somesuch in public. I'm tired of reading these silly little disclaimers, and as the reader my interpretation of the term is what gets used. Putting it at the end is no help at all, and putting it at the beginning is just an invitation for the reader to disagree with you.
The nebulousness of these terms should suggest to you that it would be a good idea to tailor your choice of words to aid ease of comprehension by the audience they are intended for. You may also want to add contextual clues to avoid ambiguity.
Part of the problem stems from the fact that even under the most semantic interpretation of 'hacking isn't cracking', cracking can be hacking. At least, the first time. Then it's just a documented crack, and left to the kidz and crookz.
Please stop making the Republican party look worse than they are, you crank. If you can't take the time to read what you're responding to, keep your damn mouth shut and your fool ideas to yourself.
Go join the Raelians or something, so you can really let it all hang out.
Paranoid fanatics rarely have anything useful to contribute.
Aren't reciprocal systems wonderful? On some days of the week I believe that the nature of human communications can give rise to a system similar enough to the consciousness borne from the communication of information in the human brain to be possibly considered a "mind", although it would be one for which a common context with a human mind is practically unimaginable.[1][2]
Of course, if there is such a mind, the internet has made it a hell of a lot smarter and faster.
Whether or not groupthink is involved, Slashdot definitely has a personality. Any individual post is by itself pretty insignificant. I will preemptively disclaim that this applies to this post as well. You may wish to consider the greater holistic ramifications before you reply, if you intend to. Someone usually does.
This is probably all bullshit. Don't listen to anything I say.
[1] Yar. Diagram that. [2] Or unimaginably simple. Maybe it can find a common context, even if we can't. Maybe it already has.
If you want to get technical, you add the milk to the espresso. And I'm fairly confident that the milk is hotter, having been burnt by both. The finished drink should be at a minimum of 170 degrees after you are done fiddling with syrups and toppings and shit, so the milk needs to be around 190, especially if you are doing a caramel macchiato or some similarly syrup laden beverage. Soy milk is an exception as it burns more readily than regular milk - do not order soy mochas with flavored syrups as the temperature required of the soy to melt the syrup produces a lovely burnt flavor nauseatingly masked by all the sugar.
Sure, the water in the espresso machine is scalding, and the espresso dripping from it is pretty hot too. But in the little cup that catches it, it cools very quickly. This is why the milk must be added to it as soon as possible. The end beverage product will vary from 160 to 180ish, with somewhere around 175 being a nice ideal. When you are making 5 drinks in a little under two minutes, for an hour and a half straight, this is hard to achieve in practice. Other complications involve children's beverages, which are served at much lower heat (usu. 140 max) and beverages served at higher heat, such as hot apple cider and americanos.
An americano is what you get when you add 190 degree water to espresso. It is the Italian approximation of American coffee.
As I have been employed at a McDonald's franchise after the disputed, I will simply say that if they lowered the hold temperature of the coffee then it was a damn good thing they did so, as it was at least 185 degrees at "my" store in CA. The water used to make the coffee was abominably hot. We had to use it to make hot tea for people. The teabags come in a paper wrapper with golden arches on them, so I was never tempted to try the tea. The water itself was comfortably above boiling. It burnt me worse than the fry oil ever did.
Coffee has a higher boiling point than plain old water, which means that you may not necessarily be aware that what you think is hot coffee is actually a nuclear furnace in an insulated bunker.
I will go far as to say that I believe that if the woman in question was burnt as badly as she claims and McDonald's would not cover her hospital bills and she sued McD for the purposes of paying her medical expenses, then her lawsuit was not frivolous, given my bias that nobody should be peddling a substance capable of that level of tissue damage for the specific purpose of ingestion into one's vulnerable oral orifice.
1 : involving, based on, or constituting intellectual speculation; also : theoretical rather than demonstrable
Fiction
Function: noun
1 a : something invented by the imagination or feigned; specifically : an invented story
Speculative Fiction
An invented story involving, based on, or constituting intellectual speculation.
Novels about alternate possible historical timelines are SF. "Normal" historical fiction is also somewhat speculative as the author speculates about dialogue internal and external, and attempts to relate the reader to the experience of the characters as envisioned by the author. Much fiction does indeed have speculative qualities, but certainly not all fiction. Star Wars novelizations, for example, are not even remotely SF, though they do apparently qualify as "sci-fi". Where the science comes in, I'm not sure, but hey.
SF is not a new term, and AFAIK, it was coined by authors who considered themselves writers of speculative fiction, and those authors have usually not wanted to be classified as "sci-fi", but insist on the term SF, or Speculative Fiction.
Mod parent UP. This is the purpose and function of antitrust, to prevent a monopoly from undermining, defeating, and eradicating an entire capital industry. A monopolist has the potential to severely harm all of their competitors. If you are a company marketing software or software services, then you are in competition with Microsoft.
I've been reading./ for years now, and I always thought that it was a BBS that was extremely popular because it linked to lots of news stories, which gave its members a constant stream of new topics to "discuss".
Marsh isn't weaseling words around some sort of cash-equivalents transfer here; he would refer to such things as cash. The most likely explanation seems to me to be SCO Group's habit of deceitfulness.
I'm sorry, I have stuff that lives at the top of the screen already, thank you very much.
Forcing a Macintosh UI paradigm into either KDE or Gnome environments is stupid.
That said, it would probably be preferable if GIMP running on a MacOS system were to use a global menu bar on the top of the screen, for consistency with the rest of the interface. Please note that I know nothing about GIMP's actual behavior in MacOS, not being a Mac owner.
PS: You can tear off the menu if you need to use an image window too small to properly display it. Then you may put it wherever you wish.
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But why would you choose the more restrictive latter license if the older version is still an option?
So they are paying NMCI money to have NMCI lease their own equipment to them. This includes quite a few high-end LCD monitors.
And the rollout is something like nine months late, but NMCI still gets paid...
I've also heard that EDS are whores, and that they'll say anything you want them to.
But I don't really have any direct experience. I think this 'reversal' is pretty damn funny, however.
Nevermind the two posts cruising at +5 that don't have anything to do with anything whatsoever except an argument made cliche by repetition, and nauseating by its perpetrators.
McDonald's Coffee. Stuff that matters.
CTRL-F for 'coffee' ought to do yer fine. Go re-read the great Slashdot coffee debates of yesterday if that provides the surcease your grubby heart seems to require. Nurse old wounds and insults. But keep your obnoxious little fetish to yourself, okay?
This isn't even a YRO article. Civil Law is not specifically a subject of the article but should be considered on-topic so long as it relates to the subject of the article under discussion.
Malicious websites are installing a malware bundle that can defeat the security of the following browsers: Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape. Daniel Veditz, Mozilla security head, says Opera and Netcaptor aren't immune. This bundle requires java to operate. The hook that makes this different enough to be interesting is that the bundle installs a whole package of horrible Internet Explorer spyware, even if your IE is as locked down as you can get it. Granted, the user has to click a button so it's not a total disaster.
Unfortunately, most of us don't have the razer hacker precision it takes to read each button in lazer detail eath time we see it. I see this particular incident as another indictment of the practice of browsing the web with too many user privileges unsecured. More specifically, I wonder if it was wise for Microsoft to integrate (assimilate) the web browser into the operating system, thereby transforming a necessary security hole into a systemic 'Open for business' aperture which provides access to nearly any part or process of a system so transformed.
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How did we get so badly off-topic? And why, why this topic?
As I have said, I would consider Civil Law to have a reasonable place in the wider discussions of security in theory and current implementation that such an article might hope to provoke. Specific civil lawsuits might have relevance, especially if they involved parties named Microsoft, Netscape, Mozilla Foundation, or Sun MicroSystems. Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants is not funny anymore, much less on-topic.
Let's examine the particulars.
McDonald's Coffee. Slashdot.
Great-grandparent poster:
That's true, and is why I don't believe that any OS or browser is going to save us from malware. Until the average user learns safe computing practices, they're going to continue installing stuff they later wish they hadn't; in time even if they do stop running as admin, they'll get used to typing in their admin (or root) username and password.
This is in direct relation to the subject of the article. Good Job, Great-grandparent poster!
The grandparent poster had this to say in response:
This isn't just a problem for the tech industry. Have a look at how many people smoke cigarettes that will kill them despite the warnings, sue large companies for spilling hot coffee on themselves, force plugs into "dummy proof" sockets, etc., etc. etc.
Some people are just plain dumb sometimes. No amount of education can cure human stupidity.
Way to cast the first stone, Grandparent poster! You get points for a sane response to an on-topic post, but you lose them all by using nine little words. sue large companies for spilling hot coffee on the
The d-pad on the standard controller is fairly weak. That's what a Hori pad is for. Unfortunately, the schema of having two directional inputs for the left thumb requires that one of the inputs be placed at a disadvantageous angle. Xbox controller S's D-pad is better, but still not nearly as good as the PS2's D-pad. Unfortunately, on the PS2 controller the analog stick is in the 'secondary' position, and hence not as easy to use as the analog sticks of either GameCube or Xbox.
Yes, but you're forgetting that we want the worst movie ever made, and Highlander 2 is not even the worst movie to star Christopher Lambert.
Fortress 2: Re-Entry is in all probability the worst movie ever to star Christopher Lambert. The inexcusably bad "Fortress" might be argued to be better than Highlander II, but not by me. The sequel fails to live up to the unbelievably low standards of it's predecessor.
But even this is light-years beyond efforts such as "Ankle Biters". This no-budget film stars (exploits) dwarfs to portray the vampiric midget antagonists of the title. Laughably bad cinematography and action direction are counterpointed by the lack of any actual monies spent on graphical effects, the clumsy placement of jarring and unbelievable sound effects, and the total lack of any acting skill in any participant.
The high moment of the film is a man scracting his balls on a motorcycle. I'm almost certain this somehow escaped the filmmaker's notice.
As an example of just how bad writing in films can be, the protagonist, Drexel, a "half-vampire", is attempting to inject hypodermic syringes filled with his own blood (Drexel's Blood) into his vampiric opponents in order to kill them.
Never mind that there isn't even a token explanation of why Drexel's blood is deadly to vampires.
Just realize, that when the tables are turned and Drexel is injected (Drexel's Blood), his inexplicable bearded ally says, "It'll either kill him, or make him a hell of a lot stronger."
I don't know why he believes this to be true, but he does, and it is. The power of positive thinking in action, I guess.
The very worst writing in a movie is condensed into the ending scene of "Galaxy of the Dinosaurs". If you haven't heard Gurtorious Gonimus give his wretched, spiteful, meandering monologue, you haven't lived.
"You broke the law, you landed on Gur-Gon." - G.G.
Looking at Nintendo's fundamental financial position, I can with almost complete certainty guarantee _another_ console after the next. The next console, codenamed 'Revolution', will probably ship in 2006. While little is known about this machine, I have heard that you will be able to display its video output on a computer monitor. Nintendo is currently involved with IBM and ATI, and while no-one has explicitly confirmed anything about the hardware for the next console, it is safe to assume that Big Blue & Big Red are providing it. nVidia must surely be Green with envy that their competition is providing graphics for the mass-market consoles.
You don't quite seem to understand capitalism, I'm afraid. It's not a system that responds to public opinion and the needs of the collective social good - it responds to supply, demand, efficiency, convenience, & price. When a person makes a purchase decision, there is a very complex multi-variable equation being solved, a reflex calculation of interfering and intersecting desires as opposed to the prices of the objects for sale.
People will without fail attempt to make the choice they feel is most advantageous to themselves. Valuation is in the eye of the purchaser, and it is this that the purchaser's ethics and ideals of social good must affect in order to affect the outcome of any purchase.
People who complain about Wal-Mart's behavior yet continue to purchase Wal-Mart's goods, for example, do not weigh the cost of the social ill they believe Wal-Mart creates heavily enough against the value of the goods to stop them from making the decision to buy Wal-Mart's product.
This is exactly the same reason why consumers won't pay a price premium for the privilege of not fucking over struggling third-world coffee farmers. Bad shit that happens to other people isn't seen to be as important as bad shit that happens to one's self, even when the bad shit that happens to you is relatively trivial, such as having to spend that extra $3 for the guilt-free version.
This is precisely why courts of civil and criminal law at the state and federal levels have authority over business activities - there are many sorts of behavior that will give a company a large competitive advantage that are collectively perceived as undesirable, but which will clearly be rewarded financially by a pure system of capitalism. Undesirable and socially harmful behavior can be proscribed and reprimanded by the courts, which is a socialist aspect of our American marketplace, like it or not. I think that overall it's more beneficial than harmful, but that's just my opinion.
As regards the question of whether or not Microsoft's activities have been sufficiently harmful to consumers to merit the prosecution of a class-action lawsuit, I would suggest that it is certainly the right of American citizens to raise that question in a court of law if they feel that there is sufficient reason to do so, and that the social order we have wherein, where we would accept the decision of the court in this question, is working reasonably well in such an instance.
It's sheer laziness that you don't have that table memorized well enough to do instant calculation of single digit multiplication, as it only actually has 36 unique and non-trivial entries. I'm assuming you know the method for multiplying by nine, which further reduces the entries you actually need to memorize to a mere 28.
We are discussing an amount of data equivalent to a social security number, your date of birth, your street address, and five telephone numbers.
You state that you have memorized 'many' powers of two. This hoses your claim to not memorize data well.
You are going to have a hard time convincing anyone that given two hours, you can't remember that now and forever, 7 * 8 = 56.
I will accept that you choose not to do so, but your assertion that that choice stems from anything other than stubborn and willful laziness does not hold water with me.
I repeat my advice that you should step past the idea that you can't do this. Actually look at what's involved, DO IT, and you can stop thinking about it and making excuses for yourself.
If this pisses you off, too fucking bad. I'm just a random internet asshole, and I'm sure as hell not going to humor your ridiculous little neurosis. Keep in mind that it wouldn't be an issue if you hadn't claimed this skill to be 'worthless' and 'irrelevant'.
You are the least qualified judge of the worth or relevance of this skill, as you do not possess it.
If it has no worth or relevance to you, it is because you do not possess it.
Wrong! Learning multiplication tables is a valuable technique to enhance rapid recall proficiency. If you can't multiply single-digit numbers in your head, I strongly recommend that you take the piddling few hours it would take to learn how. You took the time to post your angry post on Slashdot, so I can only assume that this is a sore point with you. If you learn your times tables you won't have to get defensive about not knowing them anymore, Mr. AC 'hacker'.
Now, I'll agree that hackers can usually fall back on their computers, but other professionals don't always have that luxury. Accountants, financiers, and carpenters spring immediately to mind as people who benefit considerably from instant mind-math.
I still don't know what the article submitter was talking about when he referred to this 'gem', however.
But where is it? I honestly don't know where this 'gem' is in the article, and I'm not sure the AC parent does either.
Well, in all truth, after you are done with the pretty installer, and you have updated the applications you use to current versions, the biggest difference between distributions is the packaging system and custom graphical admin tools provided by the distro. To a certain extent, Linux is Linux is Linux. This is why developers can write one program that will run on most any distro.
To properly review a distribution probably takes longer than most people who do such reviewing have time for. If you need to write something in three days, you've got time to install a distro, but not enough to fuck with it for three months and see how easy it is to keep it running and happy when you are adding weird custom shit, new versions of important system files, and applications that the distribution vendor never intended to integrate.
I am distro-shopping myself right now. Not sure what I'll do.
And you are correct, so long as you are talking about Xbox or PS2 console DVDs.
But those GameCube discs? Fucking righteous protection on those bad boys. Nothing's impossible to duplicate, but the GCN discs are so ornery that it's just not worth it.
Again, the smart money is on Nintendo. I think they probably see more profit from their first party software than the entire PC gaming industry. And that's _before_ you consider Pokemon, which is still far and away the most popular game IN THE WORLD, despite its many crappy aspects.
Even if I accept that as true, Windows still isn't nearly as good in this area as just about anything that tries a little harder for POSIX compliance.
If you are comparing OSS code to Solaris or AIX or something, you might have a point. But not much of one.
I just think it's sad that one way or another, people still make the attempt to rationalize their choice of 'hacker', 'cracker' or somesuch in public. I'm tired of reading these silly little disclaimers, and as the reader my interpretation of the term is what gets used. Putting it at the end is no help at all, and putting it at the beginning is just an invitation for the reader to disagree with you.
The nebulousness of these terms should suggest to you that it would be a good idea to tailor your choice of words to aid ease of comprehension by the audience they are intended for. You may also want to add contextual clues to avoid ambiguity.
Part of the problem stems from the fact that even under the most semantic interpretation of 'hacking isn't cracking', cracking can be hacking. At least, the first time. Then it's just a documented crack, and left to the kidz and crookz.
Please stop making the Republican party look worse than they are, you crank. If you can't take the time to read what you're responding to, keep your damn mouth shut and your fool ideas to yourself.
Go join the Raelians or something, so you can really let it all hang out.
Paranoid fanatics rarely have anything useful to contribute.
Aren't reciprocal systems wonderful? On some days of the week I believe that the nature of human communications can give rise to a system similar enough to the consciousness borne from the communication of information in the human brain to be possibly considered a "mind", although it would be one for which a common context with a human mind is practically unimaginable.[1][2]
Of course, if there is such a mind, the internet has made it a hell of a lot smarter and faster.
Whether or not groupthink is involved, Slashdot definitely has a personality. Any individual post is by itself pretty insignificant. I will preemptively disclaim that this applies to this post as well. You may wish to consider the greater holistic ramifications before you reply, if you intend to. Someone usually does.
This is probably all bullshit. Don't listen to anything I say.
[1] Yar. Diagram that.
[2] Or unimaginably simple. Maybe it can find a common context, even if we can't. Maybe it already has.
If you want to get technical, you add the milk to the espresso. And I'm fairly confident that the milk is hotter, having been burnt by both. The finished drink should be at a minimum of 170 degrees after you are done fiddling with syrups and toppings and shit, so the milk needs to be around 190, especially if you are doing a caramel macchiato or some similarly syrup laden beverage. Soy milk is an exception as it burns more readily than regular milk - do not order soy mochas with flavored syrups as the temperature required of the soy to melt the syrup produces a lovely burnt flavor nauseatingly masked by all the sugar.
Sure, the water in the espresso machine is scalding, and the espresso dripping from it is pretty hot too. But in the little cup that catches it, it cools very quickly. This is why the milk must be added to it as soon as possible. The end beverage product will vary from 160 to 180ish, with somewhere around 175 being a nice ideal. When you are making 5 drinks in a little under two minutes, for an hour and a half straight, this is hard to achieve in practice. Other complications involve children's beverages, which are served at much lower heat (usu. 140 max) and beverages served at higher heat, such as hot apple cider and americanos.
An americano is what you get when you add 190 degree water to espresso. It is the Italian approximation of American coffee.
As I have been employed at a McDonald's franchise after the disputed, I will simply say that if they lowered the hold temperature of the coffee then it was a damn good thing they did so, as it was at least 185 degrees at "my" store in CA. The water used to make the coffee was abominably hot. We had to use it to make hot tea for people. The teabags come in a paper wrapper with golden arches on them, so I was never tempted to try the tea. The water itself was comfortably above boiling. It burnt me worse than the fry oil ever did.
Coffee has a higher boiling point than plain old water, which means that you may not necessarily be aware that what you think is hot coffee is actually a nuclear furnace in an insulated bunker.
I will go far as to say that I believe that if the woman in question was burnt as badly as she claims and McDonald's would not cover her hospital bills and she sued McD for the purposes of paying her medical expenses, then her lawsuit was not frivolous, given my bias that nobody should be peddling a substance capable of that level of tissue damage for the specific purpose of ingestion into one's vulnerable oral orifice.
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Arek Rashan
But only in the expanded DVD, IIRC.
From Merriam-Webster Online:
Speculative
Function: adjective
1 : involving, based on, or constituting intellectual speculation; also : theoretical rather than demonstrable
Fiction
Function: noun
1 a : something invented by the imagination or feigned; specifically : an invented story
Speculative Fiction
An invented story involving, based on, or constituting intellectual speculation.
Novels about alternate possible historical timelines are SF. "Normal" historical fiction is also somewhat speculative as the author speculates about dialogue internal and external, and attempts to relate the reader to the experience of the characters as envisioned by the author. Much fiction does indeed have speculative qualities, but certainly not all fiction. Star Wars novelizations, for example, are not even remotely SF, though they do apparently qualify as "sci-fi". Where the science comes in, I'm not sure, but hey.
SF is not a new term, and AFAIK, it was coined by authors who considered themselves writers of speculative fiction, and those authors have usually not wanted to be classified as "sci-fi", but insist on the term SF, or Speculative Fiction.
Too bad.
I've been reading ./ for years now, and I always thought that it was a BBS that was extremely popular because it linked to lots of news stories, which gave its members a constant stream of new topics to "discuss".
Slashdot is what happens after journalism.
Why would SCO want EV1 stock?
Marsh isn't weaseling words around some sort of cash-equivalents transfer here; he would refer to such things as cash. The most likely explanation seems to me to be SCO Group's habit of deceitfulness.
gay, fag you're I think.
Forcing a Macintosh UI paradigm into either KDE or Gnome environments is stupid.
That said, it would probably be preferable if GIMP running on a MacOS system were to use a global menu bar on the top of the screen, for consistency with the rest of the interface. Please note that I know nothing about GIMP's actual behavior in MacOS, not being a Mac owner.
PS: You can tear off the menu if you need to use an image window too small to properly display it. Then you may put it wherever you wish.
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Arek