I think an interesting follow-up question is, "does more talking in real life equate to more blogging?". Sure there's correlation -- I think most of us will agree that women talk more than men -- but I wonder if the drive is similar between the two. . . In other words, does the mechanism that makes women blabber on also compel them to blog more? If so, what is that mechanism?
after 4 years, she still couldn't manage to upload things [via] FTP or figure out her local IP address (and I couldn't help her either since OSX, while trying to be Unix, lacks most of the key parts).
This smacks of troll, but I'll bite.
You can't be serious. She couldn't upload things via FTP? You, a supposed "Unix"(-ish?) user couldn't help her with this task? Aside from the plentiful OSS solutions (CyberDuck comes to mind), there's always the FTP command on the CLI.
And what's this about the IP address? As a "Unix user" you should be familiar with the ipconfig command. The first Google result for osx ipconfig was this page which explains what to do. I suppose man ipconfig would work equally well.
Sorry man, if these were actual problems, it's a PEBKAC error, not an OSX shortcoming. FWIW, I'd be writing the same post if you were talking about Windows instead of OSX.
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I do get the utility of the emoticons, but they irk me when they are either a cop-out that the lazy people use to avoid sharpening their writing, or a way to soften the tone of the communication by people who are too afraid of offending someone.
I consider myself a fairly sharp writer -- not author material, perhaps, but easily in the top percentile when it comes to expressing myself through written word. However, it seems I have a knack for coming across as a smart-ass in my informal communication. A main complaint about me in my WoW guild (I'll wait for you to stop laughing. . . okay.) is that I seem like a total dick in guild chat. But the same people who say that will add that I'm the "nicest guy" on Ventrilo.
I really can think of no way to correct that without talking to people as if they're children -- congratulating them on the smallest of accomplishments, peppering my words with:) and ~_^ . . . without hearing the inflection of your voice, a lot of people will automatically assume that a playful or sarcastic, or playfully sarcastic comment is rude and mean-spirited.
Cambodia: Various studies have estimated the death toll at between 740,000 and 3,000,000, most commonly between 1.4 million and 2.2 million, with perhaps half of those deaths being due to executions, and the rest from starvation and disease. (http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm)
Rwanda: estimated 800,000 dead (from your link)
Darfur: estimated 200k-400k dead (from your link)
Awful, terrible things, no doubt -- but a far cry from the 9 to 11 million deaths the Holocaust claimed.
Regarding your signature, "timely" can act as an adjective or an adverb.
"You gave me a timely warning about proper word usage" -- 'timely' modifies 'warning,' a noun, hence it's an adjective.
"Please be timely with your reply" -- 'timely' modifies 'be,' a verb, making it an adverb.
"Making a legal, paid-for version of the file less useful than a copied or pirated one doesn't make sense."
And herein is the best anti-DRM argument there is. Just this sentence and no further. If I were writing a thesis on DRM, this would be my main point.
Of course, expading the "doesn't make sense" part is important. It's also critical for the surely-to-be analogizers below to realise that this has no usefulr real world (as in, tangible) comparison. If three clicks of the mouse provides you with something far more useful than something you've shelled out your hard-earned cash for, something is wrong. Lax enforcement -- not to mention the difficulty of enforcement -- and fuzzy laws make this so.
It's not as easy as saying, "Stealing a car has more utility than buying one, we should all steal cars!" since enforcement and history are so vastly different. See, the car analogy is wrong! Ha!
It found that the code was often contained in those parts of the website not designed or controlled by the website owner, such as banner adverts and widgets. These days, almost nothing is designed by the website owner. Unless you're coding your own html/php/asp/pearl/ruby/python or at very least peruse the source code of the widgets you download to make sure there's nothing bad in there, you're just another end-user.
And so this is not unexpected. End-users are the ones that "CL1CK TH3 PURPL3 M0NK3Y F0R ELEVENTY M1LL10N DOLLERZZZZ!!!" and install all sorts of crazy stuff on their machines. (Rabbit trail: one of my clients many years ago actually ASKED me to install the infamous purple monkey for him because he liked the text-to-speech).
Whether it's on the desktop or on the web, people who will install anything without even a hint of research will continue to spread computer-borne diseases. It's one of the reasons I hate MySpace. What 13-year-old girl isn't going to think sparkly, smiling unicorns aren't cute? Of COURSE they're going to spread them around, even though they're attached to a malicious website.
It was never a secret to begin with, and that phrase mischaracterizes the whole thing. NYCL did himself and the readers a disservice by employing the same rhetoric the RIAA itself uses.
This is not a comment on the PATRIOT Act. It is a comment on how the RIAA now has more power than the FBI, CIA, NSA, and local police combined. I think you're misunderstanding the order. They don't have free reign now. As I understand it, the RIAA can go in with the order, the ISP says, "I don't think so; we're challenging this." And that's how ex parte is played.
Alright, so the judge issued the order. But isn't a big part of an ex parte order the fact that affected parties can contest it? ISPs aren't bound to this ruling in any meaningful way, am I right?
It's neat to see a consumer-level incarnation of this technology. I don't think I'm going out on a limb by saying that solid-state storage will be the norm in portable devices where impact is a real liability -- after all, the iPod kind of pioneered that. Even with impact-protection devices like the ones Apple has for their hard drives, physical damage is still a real-world problem. The faster access times are a welcome benefit, but for now are not the main focus.
So, kudos to Dell. The "rather expensive" price will fall, and it'll become the norm. It will be interesting to see how much more bloated apps become when access time isn't an issue.
The preamble to the declaration mentions anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and anti-Romany campaigns. Should the providers refuse to act more forcefully the five initiators of the declaration have vowed to pressure the European Commission into drafting appropriate legislation.
This is a bad thing. Freedom is based upon the ability to express your ideas without the threat of Government backlash. Some ideas can be called "bad", certainly, but they should not be preemptively squashed because of the possibility that they might turn into action.
It's the beginning of a slippery slope that ends up where web pages, emails, documents, or speech that is anti-establishment becomes illegal as well. It's important to set precident with the less-obvious things early on so this slope is avoided altogether.
[...] Learn how to sell and start earning what your [sic] worth.
I hate selling. I'm damn good at it, but I hate it. To quote Zoidberg:
It's all so complicated with the flowers and the romance and the lies upon lies!
Selling's about kissing ass and pushing off whatever it is you're selling on whoever has a wallet, no matter what their needs. Ok, at the retail level maybe not so much. But any sales job that pays close to 6 figures, yep.
Yeah, I'll pass. And I'll be doing what I want when I leave work at 4:30pm sharp, while you're closing a deal (still) at 9pm.
Indeed. I work in a law office as a graphic designer/web designer/video editor. That's what I do all day (when I'm not reading slashdot).
2 of our attorneys just got quad-core Mac Pros with Studio displays. For writing documents on. Maybe the occasional slide show. I'm stuck on this 3-year-old Dell with dual CRT monitors. Old ones.
Sorry, just had to bitch a little. Your comment is more real-world than you may have realized.
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I think an interesting follow-up question is, "does more talking in real life equate to more blogging?". Sure there's correlation -- I think most of us will agree that women talk more than men -- but I wonder if the drive is similar between the two. . . In other words, does the mechanism that makes women blabber on also compel them to blog more? If so, what is that mechanism?
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Um, bad form to reply to yourself and all that, but wtf? Is it backwards day? How could this possibly be offtopic?
Try Photosynth yourself: http://labs.live.com/photosynth/
This smacks of troll, but I'll bite.
You can't be serious. She couldn't upload things via FTP? You, a supposed "Unix"(-ish?) user couldn't help her with this task? Aside from the plentiful OSS solutions (CyberDuck comes to mind), there's always the FTP command on the CLI.
And what's this about the IP address? As a "Unix user" you should be familiar with the ipconfig command. The first Google result for osx ipconfig was this page which explains what to do. I suppose man ipconfig would work equally well.
Sorry man, if these were actual problems, it's a PEBKAC error, not an OSX shortcoming. FWIW, I'd be writing the same post if you were talking about Windows instead of OSX.
I do get the utility of the emoticons, but they irk me when they are either a cop-out that the lazy people use to avoid sharpening their writing, or a way to soften the tone of the communication by people who are too afraid of offending someone.
:) and ~_^ . . . without hearing the inflection of your voice, a lot of people will automatically assume that a playful or sarcastic, or playfully sarcastic comment is rude and mean-spirited.
I consider myself a fairly sharp writer -- not author material, perhaps, but easily in the top percentile when it comes to expressing myself through written word. However, it seems I have a knack for coming across as a smart-ass in my informal communication. A main complaint about me in my WoW guild (I'll wait for you to stop laughing. . . okay.) is that I seem like a total dick in guild chat. But the same people who say that will add that I'm the "nicest guy" on Ventrilo.
I really can think of no way to correct that without talking to people as if they're children -- congratulating them on the smallest of accomplishments, peppering my words with
Wait, no, that's not why. It's because they're the same thing.
Are you 12 years old, or just have the attention span of one?
As far as I can remember, yes you can.
"Léon" is actually the semi-uncut foreign version. It's not precisely the same movie. D'oh!
Dude, not even close.
Cambodia: Various studies have estimated the death toll at between 740,000 and 3,000,000, most commonly between 1.4 million and 2.2 million, with perhaps half of those deaths being due to executions, and the rest from starvation and disease. (http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm)
Rwanda: estimated 800,000 dead (from your link)
Darfur: estimated 200k-400k dead (from your link)
Awful, terrible things, no doubt -- but a far cry from the 9 to 11 million deaths the Holocaust claimed.
Regarding your signature, "timely" can act as an adjective or an adverb. "You gave me a timely warning about proper word usage" -- 'timely' modifies 'warning,' a noun, hence it's an adjective. "Please be timely with your reply" -- 'timely' modifies 'be,' a verb, making it an adverb.
Of course, expading the "doesn't make sense" part is important. It's also critical for the surely-to-be analogizers below to realise that this has no usefulr real world (as in, tangible) comparison. If three clicks of the mouse provides you with something far more useful than something you've shelled out your hard-earned cash for, something is wrong. Lax enforcement -- not to mention the difficulty of enforcement -- and fuzzy laws make this so.
It's not as easy as saying, "Stealing a car has more utility than buying one, we should all steal cars!" since enforcement and history are so vastly different. See, the car analogy is wrong! Ha!
Sounds like a video I don't want to see:
"The lengthy profile of the Large Hardon Collider"
It was never a secret to begin with, and that phrase mischaracterizes the whole thing. NYCL did himself and the readers a disservice by employing the same rhetoric the RIAA itself uses.
Alright, so the judge issued the order. But isn't a big part of an ex parte order the fact that affected parties can contest it? ISPs aren't bound to this ruling in any meaningful way, am I right?
I believe you're correct. According to the datasheet for the SanDisk 32GB:
Internal transfer read rate: 62MB/s
Internal transfer write rate: 36MB/s
Whereas, for example, the Maxtor MobileMax 40GB drive (for comparison) says:
Sustained Internal (MB/s) 42
Maybe it averages out?
It's neat to see a consumer-level incarnation of this technology. I don't think I'm going out on a limb by saying that solid-state storage will be the norm in portable devices where impact is a real liability -- after all, the iPod kind of pioneered that. Even with impact-protection devices like the ones Apple has for their hard drives, physical damage is still a real-world problem. The faster access times are a welcome benefit, but for now are not the main focus. So, kudos to Dell. The "rather expensive" price will fall, and it'll become the norm. It will be interesting to see how much more bloated apps become when access time isn't an issue.
It's the beginning of a slippery slope that ends up where web pages, emails, documents, or speech that is anti-establishment becomes illegal as well. It's important to set precident with the less-obvious things early on so this slope is avoided altogether.
Yeah, I'll pass. And I'll be doing what I want when I leave work at 4:30pm sharp, while you're closing a deal (still) at 9pm.
Indeed. I work in a law office as a graphic designer/web designer/video editor. That's what I do all day (when I'm not reading slashdot).
2 of our attorneys just got quad-core Mac Pros with Studio displays. For writing documents on. Maybe the occasional slide show. I'm stuck on this 3-year-old Dell with dual CRT monitors. Old ones.
Sorry, just had to bitch a little. Your comment is more real-world than you may have realized.