I'm no expert on the ins and outs of IP assignment, but with dynamic assignment of IPs, it seems to me that even giving a billing address is extremely problematic. In Australia, the IP address could be owned by Telstra, dynamically assigned to your iphone, would could be anywhere in the country. Perhaps days and weeks after the fact you could look at logs and find out some better information, but I would have thought that in real time, IP address tells you precisely zero.
Except that Skype facilitates incoming calls only, so they are more like a foreign telco than a local one. And because they don't provide POTS to consumers, it is impossible to fulfill France's telco requirements to be able to identifiy the location of an emergency call. At best, France's laws are out of step with the 21st century. Or else, no Skype is like a foreign telco, routing incoming calls, and not a local telco, which provides outgoing calls.
China has no more ambition or motive to attack the US than Russia does. Sure they are a superpower, and therefore dangerous, but if that is enough to keep MAD, then there is no "just yet" about the situation, they will always (for the foreseeable future) be a superpower, so by your logical we must always have MAD.
I don't understand the attraction of those old IBMish keyboards. You wore out your fingers with all the pressure they take to type on, and you feel self conscious typing on them because they're so noisy. What really is the attraction?
It's kinda the whole problem with Linux is that any "standard" is just defacto and ever shifting. Yeah for sure, it is something that holds Linux back compared to the stability of proprietary platforms. But also, it is the thing that allows it to move forward. Canonical will give this a shot, and if its great, perhaps it will be the new standard. If its rubbish, it won't be. Let's just see what they come up with. If Wayland were perfect, I'm sure Canonical would not want to throw money at a problem that is already solved.
Sir Humphrey: East Yemen, isn't that a democracy? Sir Richard Wharton: Its full name is "The Peoples' Democratic Republic of East Yemen." Sir Humphrey: Ah, I see, so it's a communist dictatorship.
A lot of times in software someone starts some grand plan project which takes forever to get anywhere. Then some lone programmer comes along with something small, well focused and just plain well thought out, which causes the grand project to be abandoned. There are so many examples of this one can't count. The Linux kernel itself compared to Hurd is just one example. Let Canonical have a shot at this. They've got some good ideas, if they can pull it off, the result will stand on its own merits.
On Mac there is a program called Vitamin-R designed to solve this problem. It's designed to set short term goals and keep you focused. It's not bad I think.
Don't know if this is comedy or troll or what, but OSX is Unix. The folks who define such things have officially declared it so. It conforms to all the standards. As for your attachment to various things like getty, lots of things about how unix traditionally worked have changed over the years.
Numbers always beats a superior pilot. You can be Baron von Richthofen, but if you're outnumbered 10:1, you're screwed. I suspect a good drone can be made tons cheaper than a piloted aircraft, and perhaps even piloted automatically should there be a break in communications. Plus a drone can outperform in pulling Gs than a real pilot. A good fighter with a good pilot will still be screwed if he is surrounded and outgunned.
Why exactly is a touch screen on a chromebook interesting? I'm pretty vague on what a Chrome book can do anyway, as I think are most people, which is why they won't sell any. But as I understand it, its centred around mostly being a browser, and apps that run in a browser. And those aren't likely to be particularly optimised for touch. At least if it ran Android, you'd get apps that make interesting use of touch.
My guess is that it's doable, but Sony is too brain-dead a company to do it. The bean counters would say "what's the benefit to us", to which the answer would be "none, or even negative", so it won't be done.
Does it really matter? What is the "desktop OS" doing when a game takes over the machine? If it is doing something, I question whether some "game OS" can do it better or faster.
I don't know that it is wrong. For one thing, we are starting to see a trend that all laptops will one day have touch screens too. The division between tablet and computer is becoming blurred. At the very least, having the option of metro on all computers is not a bad idea. Trying to force it is perhaps questionable.
The Oxford administrators should phish their own students. Any student stupid enough to fall for it must attend compulsory remedial training. Rinse, repeat, rinse repeat until nobody falls for it anymore.
I'm guessing it makes phishing ridiculously easy by hosting a form service on the web where you can easily and anonymously get the results back over the net.
It is possible that different races have different characteristics because of genes, but I'm pretty skeptical about all such claims. It's really really hard to show such things, and if they can be shown, I really think a study like the one under discussion is not the way to do it.
But if it doesn't need to be quick, why is it in the kernel in the first place? I would have thought that if you are tempted to put a scripting language in the kernel, it's a pretty good indication that the division between kernel and non kernel is somehow wrong.
I agree that some of the points can be debated. But at the end of the day I think the reality is that anyone stupid enough to run out of juice in a car, has got an agenda. How often does a normal person break down because of forgetting to fill up, let alone a professional doing a newspaper review, where range is the important issue? There is no way anyone would run out of juice in that scenario unless they wanted it to be so.
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I'm no expert on the ins and outs of IP assignment, but with dynamic assignment of IPs, it seems to me that even giving a billing address is extremely problematic. In Australia, the IP address could be owned by Telstra, dynamically assigned to your iphone, would could be anywhere in the country. Perhaps days and weeks after the fact you could look at logs and find out some better information, but I would have thought that in real time, IP address tells you precisely zero.
Except that Skype facilitates incoming calls only, so they are more like a foreign telco than a local one. And because they don't provide POTS to consumers, it is impossible to fulfill France's telco requirements to be able to identifiy the location of an emergency call. At best, France's laws are out of step with the 21st century. Or else, no Skype is like a foreign telco, routing incoming calls, and not a local telco, which provides outgoing calls.
Not if they are submarine based.
China has no more ambition or motive to attack the US than Russia does. Sure they are a superpower, and therefore dangerous, but if that is enough to keep MAD, then there is no "just yet" about the situation, they will always (for the foreseeable future) be a superpower, so by your logical we must always have MAD.
Or Moscow
I don't understand the attraction of those old IBMish keyboards. You wore out your fingers with all the pressure they take to type on, and you feel self conscious typing on them because they're so noisy. What really is the attraction?
It's kinda the whole problem with Linux is that any "standard" is just defacto and ever shifting. Yeah for sure, it is something that holds Linux back compared to the stability of proprietary platforms. But also, it is the thing that allows it to move forward. Canonical will give this a shot, and if its great, perhaps it will be the new standard. If its rubbish, it won't be. Let's just see what they come up with. If Wayland were perfect, I'm sure Canonical would not want to throw money at a problem that is already solved.
Sir Humphrey: East Yemen, isn't that a democracy?
Sir Richard Wharton: Its full name is "The Peoples' Democratic Republic of East Yemen."
Sir Humphrey: Ah, I see, so it's a communist dictatorship.
A lot of times in software someone starts some grand plan project which takes forever to get anywhere. Then some lone programmer comes along with something small, well focused and just plain well thought out, which causes the grand project to be abandoned. There are so many examples of this one can't count. The Linux kernel itself compared to Hurd is just one example. Let Canonical have a shot at this. They've got some good ideas, if they can pull it off, the result will stand on its own merits.
On Mac there is a program called Vitamin-R designed to solve this problem. It's designed to set short term goals and keep you focused. It's not bad I think.
Don't know if this is comedy or troll or what, but OSX is Unix. The folks who define such things have officially declared it so. It conforms to all the standards. As for your attachment to various things like getty, lots of things about how unix traditionally worked have changed over the years.
Numbers always beats a superior pilot. You can be Baron von Richthofen, but if you're outnumbered 10:1, you're screwed. I suspect a good drone can be made tons cheaper than a piloted aircraft, and perhaps even piloted automatically should there be a break in communications. Plus a drone can outperform in pulling Gs than a real pilot. A good fighter with a good pilot will still be screwed if he is surrounded and outgunned.
I must be evolving too, because I can't smell my aftershave as much when I've got used to it.
Yeah... and that pretty much sucks, because you can't see the damned arrow with your fat finger on top of it.
Why exactly is a touch screen on a chromebook interesting? I'm pretty vague on what a Chrome book can do anyway, as I think are most people, which is why they won't sell any. But as I understand it, its centred around mostly being a browser, and apps that run in a browser. And those aren't likely to be particularly optimised for touch. At least if it ran Android, you'd get apps that make interesting use of touch.
My guess is that it's doable, but Sony is too brain-dead a company to do it. The bean counters would say "what's the benefit to us", to which the answer would be "none, or even negative", so it won't be done.
Does it really matter? What is the "desktop OS" doing when a game takes over the machine? If it is doing something, I question whether some "game OS" can do it better or faster.
I don't know that it is wrong. For one thing, we are starting to see a trend that all laptops will one day have touch screens too. The division between tablet and computer is becoming blurred. At the very least, having the option of metro on all computers is not a bad idea. Trying to force it is perhaps questionable.
The Oxford administrators should phish their own students. Any student stupid enough to fall for it must attend compulsory remedial training. Rinse, repeat, rinse repeat until nobody falls for it anymore.
I'm guessing it makes phishing ridiculously easy by hosting a form service on the web where you can easily and anonymously get the results back over the net.
I like Ballmer's strategy, I like it a lot.
It is possible that different races have different characteristics because of genes, but I'm pretty skeptical about all such claims. It's really really hard to show such things, and if they can be shown, I really think a study like the one under discussion is not the way to do it.
"why precisely shouldn't you pay child support?"
Maybe because he didn't want the kids, and now they are nothing but financial drain. QED the original subjective opinion of wanting kids.
But if it doesn't need to be quick, why is it in the kernel in the first place? I would have thought that if you are tempted to put a scripting language in the kernel, it's a pretty good indication that the division between kernel and non kernel is somehow wrong.
I agree that some of the points can be debated. But at the end of the day I think the reality is that anyone stupid enough to run out of juice in a car, has got an agenda. How often does a normal person break down because of forgetting to fill up, let alone a professional doing a newspaper review, where range is the important issue? There is no way anyone would run out of juice in that scenario unless they wanted it to be so.