My understanding is that they install versions of software in seperate directories.../AppName/1.0.0.../AppName/1.0.1 and I imagine you can have the recipes look for older versions and migrate the config files forward.
Patronizing explanations aside, does it matter if he read the entire article if they start out with a faulty premise of "meta data"? Some people bandy the term about as if out of band information were some sort of pixie-dust, and as a result he may have come to a quick conclusion. A quick conclusion isn't always a wrong one.
Another quick conclusion is that he couldn't possibly have stumbled upon that article beforehand without the help of slashdot. My only intent was to point out the silliness of chastising an opinion as a presumption, using another presumption as your only evidence.
If you have a slashdot subscription you can read the article for a while before its posted time, it comes up as being posted in the "Mysterious Future".
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Being a paralegal, you'd know that "guilty beyond a reasonable doubt" applies to criminal and not civil law. My understanding is that in civil law, the juror is expected to determine responsibility based on even a 51% belief, and is expected to mitigate the 49% doubt through sentencing. Unless the user was charged with a criminal offense, I doubt the open-door policy would save them much. But then again, I'm not even a paralegal, though I have been a juror.:)
Let's refine the analogy to add in monopolistic practices: Your club owns 98% of the commercial real estate suitable for running a night club. Your company also runs a clothing line. Your definition of "well dressed" means someone wearing only articles from your clothing line. The analogy has transformed from an example of the glories of a free market to something sinister and Orwellian.
All people make stupid mistakes at least some of the time. I've found that those who feel compelled to smugly point out flaws using derisive language are that way most of the time. A phrase like "Hear hear" isn't something you can look up the spelling of like a single word. A word like "Dumbfuck" instantly indicates that you are a crass, intolerant bore. Call me out on an error if you will, but don't attempt to berate me over a two-word mistake. Resorting to name-calling over an English error is petty. Posting as AC ashkar, with even more foul language instead of owning up or letting go is even sadder. You behaved like a supercilious fool, but we can all take solace in the fact that, with an attitude like that, your chances of passing those traits on to the gene pool are thankfully close to nonexistent.
I'm sure it's a lot more effective to go with the 100% chance of getting the beneficial virus from a needle prick, than the much lower percentage chance of getting it from a needle prick.
You may make a point on courage there, but I personally value smarts before courage. Your example does not address the relative smarts of the pilot and the suicide bomber, but I do have prejudices regarding people in both positions that I suspect aren't completely off base. The attributes required of the bomber is bipedal locomotion and the "guts" to blow himself to smithereens. The US military may have more than a few twits in its ranks, but I'm willing to guess they don't put too many in pilot seats.
America (and most every other nation) has lost the culture it had 200 years ago. Do you think that social progress on issues of human rights neccessitates "decimation" of a culture, or merely bringing it into the 21st century? Is corporatism so wrong that we should deny everyone the clothing, shelter, medicines and food that are also generated by it? Or would you rather every culture stay exactly where it is now, or even go backward?
You've got it all wrong, Libraries of Congress is a data measure not a distance measure, and a Moon Unit is a weighed average of substance-based impairment at the time of naming your child, also known as a Dweezil. Sheesh.
Should I go out in the world travelling doing something I love at a time in my life when I have no commitments other than work, or should I stay chained to my desk job for fear of losing it? Oh yeah, and there aren't any groupies at the desk job.
If we're touting OSS as better, shouldn't it have the option to do everything Windows does, plus? Don't cripple something both powerful and convenient because of the idiot corner cases. All users have to be accountable on some level, and most of them do OK for themselves. I have no sympathy for users who get upset when the computer does exactly what you told it to do. In the end, if security were always absolutely more important than connectivity then we wouln't have the internet.
I have the $40 or so plan... I have been pleased with their tech support responsiveness, though the machine isn't as fast as I've been used to having my own box. Then again, I don't have to maintain my own hardware.:)
Augmented Reality is basically annotating meatspace with metadata. This device can collect images and text and associate them with a temporal and postional location, all in realtime since the device has networking. Now if that isn't made for augmented reality data collection, I don't know what is. Now all we need is a good open, public data store like the web, a means of looking up information based on positional criteria, and come up with some decent equipment to strap to our heads... and then we've got something!
Agreed. But to play devil's advocate... Spammers use large pools of compromised machines anyway, so they have throw-away IPs to make the requests from. You couldn't make all these requests from one machine without getting nabbed, in any version of this scheme. You can't make the user fill out the requesting form to hotmail, submit it, and get the results from your porn client's HTTP session without resorting to trying to compromise the porn user (which is hard to do real-time on an unknown machine). Its easier to have porn users do the work of typing in the codes, and the pool of compromised machines doing the work of the client sessions to hotmail.
You just temporarily store the image on your own server and serve it up to the porn user. If you're proxying the response, there's no reason you wouldn't proxy the target's image as well. The entire HTTP client session to hotmail, etc. can exist on the porn/spammer server. If the client session exists from the spammer's server, everything can be forged.
You know what, I browse slashdot in Lite mode, so there aren't "parts" of slashdot to me, there's just a list of stories. No icons. No changing backgrounds. Nuthin. Just the news (or an arguably reasonable semblance of news anyway). I should have paid more attention though... for fucks sake, even mention a windows solution that focuses on getting the job done and... whooooop! Modded into oblivion. I know mod points count for jack but I take it as a badge of pride when other people appreciate what I say. It's wierd, I think this is the only section of slashdot where proposing another way to do it is flamebait, or at least a big fat target for the grief mods.:)
This won't be useful for the original question since it isn't Mac OS X, but it is worth mentioning because its the best, simplest, cheapest (free!) solution for doing ripping on windows, and it works with multiple drives (just fire up a new instance). It supports FreeDB/CDDB, a ton of encoding formats (WAV, MP3, OGG, VQF, APE)... makes playlist files, and it works as an audio format converter in addtion to ripping from CD (I do WAV->MP3 with it all the time).
In a world where anything media-oriented has to be "skinned" it looks refreshingly like an actual windows app and not the usual regurgitated fruit salad that everyone seems to want to shove down my throat and call a GUI.:) WHY, Mozilla, WHY?
It doesn't perform the burning, but I personally prefer using a separate program for that anyway... Nero does the job for me and it came free with my burner.
Usually when I end up in a situation like that, I realize I didn't document the "why" in the code comments like I should have. Any time you go counter to your initial assumptions in the code you write, there should be comments that explain why you went that way. Those who forget history are destined to repeat it.:)
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My understanding is that they install versions of software in seperate directories .../AppName/1.0.0 .../AppName/1.0.1 and I imagine you can have the recipes look for older versions and migrate the config files forward.
What happens if they steal your PC?
Patronizing explanations aside, does it matter if he read the entire article if they start out with a faulty premise of "meta data"? Some people bandy the term about as if out of band information were some sort of pixie-dust, and as a result he may have come to a quick conclusion. A quick conclusion isn't always a wrong one.
Another quick conclusion is that he couldn't possibly have stumbled upon that article beforehand without the help of slashdot. My only intent was to point out the silliness of chastising an opinion as a presumption, using another presumption as your only evidence.
If you have a slashdot subscription you can read the article for a while before its posted time, it comes up as being posted in the "Mysterious Future".
Being a paralegal, you'd know that "guilty beyond a reasonable doubt" applies to criminal and not civil law. My understanding is that in civil law, the juror is expected to determine responsibility based on even a 51% belief, and is expected to mitigate the 49% doubt through sentencing. Unless the user was charged with a criminal offense, I doubt the open-door policy would save them much. But then again, I'm not even a paralegal, though I have been a juror. :)
Even Firefox, the "lite" Mozilla, is 6.2MB.
Agreed, and the average user isn't going to install an extension to use it.
Let's refine the analogy to add in monopolistic practices: Your club owns 98% of the commercial real estate suitable for running a night club. Your company also runs a clothing line. Your definition of "well dressed" means someone wearing only articles from your clothing line. The analogy has transformed from an example of the glories of a free market to something sinister and Orwellian.
All people make stupid mistakes at least some of the time. I've found that those who feel compelled to smugly point out flaws using derisive language are that way most of the time. A phrase like "Hear hear" isn't something you can look up the spelling of like a single word. A word like "Dumbfuck" instantly indicates that you are a crass, intolerant bore. Call me out on an error if you will, but don't attempt to berate me over a two-word mistake. Resorting to name-calling over an English error is petty. Posting as AC ashkar, with even more foul language instead of owning up or letting go is even sadder. You behaved like a supercilious fool, but we can all take solace in the fact that, with an attitude like that, your chances of passing those traits on to the gene pool are thankfully close to nonexistent.
I'm sure it's a lot more effective to go with the 100% chance of getting the beneficial virus from a needle prick, than the much lower percentage chance of getting it from a needle prick.
Perl avoids all this confusion and uses underscores as a thousands separator! How about that for a nugget of useless knowledge.
I bet you're a blast at parties. Are you always this crass, or did you forget your medication?
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You may make a point on courage there, but I personally value smarts before courage. Your example does not address the relative smarts of the pilot and the suicide bomber, but I do have prejudices regarding people in both positions that I suspect aren't completely off base. The attributes required of the bomber is bipedal locomotion and the "guts" to blow himself to smithereens. The US military may have more than a few twits in its ranks, but I'm willing to guess they don't put too many in pilot seats.
America (and most every other nation) has lost the culture it had 200 years ago. Do you think that social progress on issues of human rights neccessitates "decimation" of a culture, or merely bringing it into the 21st century? Is corporatism so wrong that we should deny everyone the clothing, shelter, medicines and food that are also generated by it? Or would you rather every culture stay exactly where it is now, or even go backward?
You've got it all wrong, Libraries of Congress is a data measure not a distance measure, and a Moon Unit is a weighed average of substance-based impairment at the time of naming your child, also known as a Dweezil. Sheesh.
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Should I go out in the world travelling doing something I love at a time in my life when I have no commitments other than work, or should I stay chained to my desk job for fear of losing it? Oh yeah, and there aren't any groupies at the desk job.
If we're touting OSS as better, shouldn't it have the option to do everything Windows does, plus? Don't cripple something both powerful and convenient because of the idiot corner cases. All users have to be accountable on some level, and most of them do OK for themselves. I have no sympathy for users who get upset when the computer does exactly what you told it to do. In the end, if security were always absolutely more important than connectivity then we wouln't have the internet.
I have the $40 or so plan... I have been pleased with their tech support responsiveness, though the machine isn't as fast as I've been used to having my own box. Then again, I don't have to maintain my own hardware. :)
Augmented Reality is basically annotating meatspace with metadata. This device can collect images and text and associate them with a temporal and postional location, all in realtime since the device has networking. Now if that isn't made for augmented reality data collection, I don't know what is. Now all we need is a good open, public data store like the web, a means of looking up information based on positional criteria, and come up with some decent equipment to strap to our heads... and then we've got something!
If you want stock gain, buy into a company that does really nasty things to people.
Automated slashbot response: So which should I buy, SCO or Microsoft?
Agreed. But to play devil's advocate... Spammers use large pools of compromised machines anyway, so they have throw-away IPs to make the requests from. You couldn't make all these requests from one machine without getting nabbed, in any version of this scheme. You can't make the user fill out the requesting form to hotmail, submit it, and get the results from your porn client's HTTP session without resorting to trying to compromise the porn user (which is hard to do real-time on an unknown machine). Its easier to have porn users do the work of typing in the codes, and the pool of compromised machines doing the work of the client sessions to hotmail.
You just temporarily store the image on your own server and serve it up to the porn user. If you're proxying the response, there's no reason you wouldn't proxy the target's image as well. The entire HTTP client session to hotmail, etc. can exist on the porn/spammer server. If the client session exists from the spammer's server, everything can be forged.
You know what, I browse slashdot in Lite mode, so there aren't "parts" of slashdot to me, there's just a list of stories. No icons. No changing backgrounds. Nuthin. Just the news (or an arguably reasonable semblance of news anyway). I should have paid more attention though... for fucks sake, even mention a windows solution that focuses on getting the job done and... whooooop! Modded into oblivion. I know mod points count for jack but I take it as a badge of pride when other people appreciate what I say. It's wierd, I think this is the only section of slashdot where proposing another way to do it is flamebait, or at least a big fat target for the grief mods. :)
This won't be useful for the original question since it isn't Mac OS X, but it is worth mentioning because its the best, simplest, cheapest (free!) solution for doing ripping on windows, and it works with multiple drives (just fire up a new instance). It supports FreeDB/CDDB, a ton of encoding formats (WAV, MP3, OGG, VQF, APE)... makes playlist files, and it works as an audio format converter in addtion to ripping from CD (I do WAV->MP3 with it all the time).
In a world where anything media-oriented has to be "skinned" it looks refreshingly like an actual windows app and not the usual regurgitated fruit salad that everyone seems to want to shove down my throat and call a GUI. :) WHY, Mozilla, WHY?
It doesn't perform the burning, but I personally prefer using a separate program for that anyway... Nero does the job for me and it came free with my burner.
Usually when I end up in a situation like that, I realize I didn't document the "why" in the code comments like I should have. Any time you go counter to your initial assumptions in the code you write, there should be comments that explain why you went that way. Those who forget history are destined to repeat it. :)