I don't get it. Can't you simply leave out the "front" side of the box, that is the side where you'd sit if you were reading the book? The cameras don't need a piece of glass there, and the whole contraption could still be stable. That way you could reach in and turn the page without lifiting the glass box. Seems much more convenient. I must be missing something.
I've never had SkullCandy headphones, and they don't look very convincing, and the brand kind of shouts style over substance. I did have CX-300s, though, and while they're decent headphones with good SQ, the isolation was barely worth mentioning. The AKG K324P is another in-ear by a well-known brand that has basically the same design and the same flaws. The cheapest in-ears with decent isolation I would recommend are Shure SE110s for 60 bucks (though personally I've only had SE210s and SE310s).
Long distance TV turner-offer is the opposite of sociopathy. RF jamming has a lot of interesting and enlightening uses; it's also apparently a super-advanced project. The Area Effect Sickness thing is sociopathic, unsurprisingly considering it's modeled after a device engineered for crowd control by the government.
Fuck 'em. Don't buy their shit. Hell, make it a general principle and don't buy shit in general. Ask yourself "Do I really need this"? Spend more money on food and wine, ideally without a long distribution chain between you and the producer.
Want to argue and question what they're doing when they're just going by what they've been trained to do for your protection? You're gonna get beaten and thrown in a cell. Other countries you'd probably be shot. So now you're saying getting beaten up is just the expected consequence for "arguing and questioning"? I thought the cop was a bad seed? Other countries are even more fucked up and that's that? You've got a high standard there. No wonder your police does whatever the fuck it wants aka taking control of situations.
Mandela was inside a jail cell after he founded an armed wing of the equal rights movement. Not sure if you guys are quite there yet with your border guard.
I don't know how much more likely you are to get killed while working as a cop than as a software developer -- or as a high altitude worker, for that matter. So far, none of the comments includes any actual numbers, so there isn't much value to taking a side.
Not sure I want to cut cops a whole lot of slack in any event. They're running around with guns and tasers and batons, there ought to be a pretty high standard for people who do that because the damage they can do is so terrible, doubly so because in very, very rare cases the damage is justified by our social contract. Not fucking with the cops is sage advice, though; personally I try to avoid fucking with any kind of armed thug while I'm vulnerable.
I didn't say the market couldn't bear more smartphones - I said smartphone OSes.
No, what you (and that Samsung dude) said was smartphone market, and not smartphone OS market, but I guess I should have figured what you meant from the context. I agree that the smartphone OS market is pretty crowded already.
Really? I mean seriously? Take what is called a smartphone today. You don't think in 5, 10, 20 years pretty much everyone who's got a cell phone now will have a cell phone then that does everything that these devices do? We won't call them smartphones then, we'll just call them phones. Just like most (yes, not all, I know) people have a cell phone with a camera now, and nobody calls them camera phones.
Hah! Now that you've said that he knows that if the intruding computer's name is something other than Dan-PC it must be you! Unless that is what you want him to think! Hmm.
Of course, you could give up the virtual desktop scrolling and have the more intuitive setup of the mouse hitting the left edge of the right screen and going to the right edge of the left screen.
How about having left/right move between screens, and up/down move between virtual desktops? Seems like a fairly obvious setup.
X could write an xorg.conf-auto file on every start, containing the generated xorg.conf. If you want X to use this file, mv it to xorg.conf. Otherwise, it sits there for informational purposes and is otherwise ignored, so if you change your hardware you don't have to edit it. OTOH this does shackle X to the logic imposed by this old config format, which might or might not be a problem.
Also, I want to be able to write a partial config, containing only the bare minimum information I want to/need to override. This is already possible to a great degree, but I'd like to be able to get rid of the Identifier/Device/Monitor tags in my xorg.conf, all of them are redundant since I've only got one Screen/Device/Monitor (well two, actually, but those are managed by the Nvidia driver).
I've rarely seen the same straw man argument repeated so often. Nobody is saying what he did was legal, but rather that what he did was not serious enough to get extradited for. Trespassing without stealing or vandalising merits a slap on the wrist.
It might not be okay, but if you break into a house and all the damage you do is break a cheap lock, I sure as hell hope you're not extradited to a foreign country. Because it might be a crime, but not yet a particularly serious one.
It's not irrelevant when you're talking about the "huge damages", like the GP did. And the damages are particularly important since you wouldn't extradite someone otherwise.
I often argue that Wikipedia articles should not need to pass the "test of time", topics don't need to still be notable in 5 or 10 years to warrant inclusion. (That might even sound absurd, but this is sort of the official position on the German Wikipedia.) However, maybe the flip side of that is that topics can be notable and worthy of inclusion at some point, and sort of non-notable in the future. The notability of a topic isn't fixed, it changes with the times. Of course, being a fairly hard core inclusionist, I'd argue that there is no harm in keeping articles of low notability around -- particularly not if notability was established in the past, but other seem to differ on that.
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Whatever! I bought like ten of them! There was a special at Walmart, didn't you see the ad?
Well, what can I say, it works even as a text ad!
Yep, there it is. That is what I was missing. Thanks.
I don't get it. Can't you simply leave out the "front" side of the box, that is the side where you'd sit if you were reading the book? The cameras don't need a piece of glass there, and the whole contraption could still be stable. That way you could reach in and turn the page without lifiting the glass box. Seems much more convenient. I must be missing something.
I've never had SkullCandy headphones, and they don't look very convincing, and the brand kind of shouts style over substance. I did have CX-300s, though, and while they're decent headphones with good SQ, the isolation was barely worth mentioning. The AKG K324P is another in-ear by a well-known brand that has basically the same design and the same flaws. The cheapest in-ears with decent isolation I would recommend are Shure SE110s for 60 bucks (though personally I've only had SE210s and SE310s).
Long distance TV turner-offer is the opposite of sociopathy. RF jamming has a lot of interesting and enlightening uses; it's also apparently a super-advanced project. The Area Effect Sickness thing is sociopathic, unsurprisingly considering it's modeled after a device engineered for crowd control by the government.
Because unlike a Popular Mechanics article, you're allowed to re-publish identical or modified versions of these guides and the attached sources?
Fuck 'em. Don't buy their shit. Hell, make it a general principle and don't buy shit in general. Ask yourself "Do I really need this"? Spend more money on food and wine, ideally without a long distribution chain between you and the producer.
Wait, wait, did that actually happen or did you just happen to see it due to your condition or the drugs that were in your system?
Want to argue and question what they're doing when they're just going by what they've been trained to do for your protection? You're gonna get beaten and thrown in a cell. Other countries you'd probably be shot.
So now you're saying getting beaten up is just the expected consequence for "arguing and questioning"? I thought the cop was a bad seed? Other countries are even more fucked up and that's that? You've got a high standard there. No wonder your police does whatever the fuck it wants aka taking control of situations.
Mandela was inside a jail cell after he founded an armed wing of the equal rights movement. Not sure if you guys are quite there yet with your border guard.
I don't know how much more likely you are to get killed while working as a cop than as a software developer -- or as a high altitude worker, for that matter. So far, none of the comments includes any actual numbers, so there isn't much value to taking a side.
Not sure I want to cut cops a whole lot of slack in any event. They're running around with guns and tasers and batons, there ought to be a pretty high standard for people who do that because the damage they can do is so terrible, doubly so because in very, very rare cases the damage is justified by our social contract. Not fucking with the cops is sage advice, though; personally I try to avoid fucking with any kind of armed thug while I'm vulnerable.
I didn't say the market couldn't bear more smartphones - I said smartphone OSes.
No, what you (and that Samsung dude) said was smartphone market, and not smartphone OS market, but I guess I should have figured what you meant from the context. I agree that the smartphone OS market is pretty crowded already.
Really? I mean seriously? Take what is called a smartphone today. You don't think in 5, 10, 20 years pretty much everyone who's got a cell phone now will have a cell phone then that does everything that these devices do? We won't call them smartphones then, we'll just call them phones. Just like most (yes, not all, I know) people have a cell phone with a camera now, and nobody calls them camera phones.
It also brings up the scoll widget on Ubuntu 9.10.
Hah! Now that you've said that he knows that if the intruding computer's name is something other than Dan-PC it must be you! Unless that is what you want him to think! Hmm.
Of course, you could give up the virtual desktop scrolling and have the more intuitive setup of the mouse hitting the left edge of the right screen and going to the right edge of the left screen.
How about having left/right move between screens, and up/down move between virtual desktops? Seems like a fairly obvious setup.
Okay I just figured it out, you might want to run more then two screens. Why, that's crazy talk!
Why would you use Xinerama on nvidia? In TwinView, Compiz and 3D both work on both screens.
X could write an xorg.conf-auto file on every start, containing the generated xorg.conf. If you want X to use this file, mv it to xorg.conf. Otherwise, it sits there for informational purposes and is otherwise ignored, so if you change your hardware you don't have to edit it. OTOH this does shackle X to the logic imposed by this old config format, which might or might not be a problem.
Also, I want to be able to write a partial config, containing only the bare minimum information I want to/need to override. This is already possible to a great degree, but I'd like to be able to get rid of the Identifier/Device/Monitor tags in my xorg.conf, all of them are redundant since I've only got one Screen/Device/Monitor (well two, actually, but those are managed by the Nvidia driver).
Yuck.
I've rarely seen the same straw man argument repeated so often. Nobody is saying what he did was legal, but rather that what he did was not serious enough to get extradited for. Trespassing without stealing or vandalising merits a slap on the wrist.
It might not be okay, but if you break into a house and all the damage you do is break a cheap lock, I sure as hell hope you're not extradited to a foreign country. Because it might be a crime, but not yet a particularly serious one.
I don't know who Stellar is.
Maybe this helps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVrU0JNAgqI#t=00m05s
It's not irrelevant when you're talking about the "huge damages", like the GP did. And the damages are particularly important since you wouldn't extradite someone otherwise.
I often argue that Wikipedia articles should not need to pass the "test of time", topics don't need to still be notable in 5 or 10 years to warrant inclusion. (That might even sound absurd, but this is sort of the official position on the German Wikipedia.) However, maybe the flip side of that is that topics can be notable and worthy of inclusion at some point, and sort of non-notable in the future. The notability of a topic isn't fixed, it changes with the times. Of course, being a fairly hard core inclusionist, I'd argue that there is no harm in keeping articles of low notability around -- particularly not if notability was established in the past, but other seem to differ on that.