There is a lot of the time that having a very common name can be a pain in the butt. This is one time I'm glad of it.
My email address gives away my first initial and last name. If someone tries to look me up by that they'll find hundreds with that combo in my town. If they manage to figure out my first name that'll drop it to dozens.
I think you're overly optimistic. Most politicians haven't even considered the matter of balance, since the lobbyists they talk to haven't brought it up. All they know is that the lobbyists' industries are being ripped off, and we'll lose tons of jobs if this goes on. What possible balance is involved? This is private property we're talking about!
Most politicians are completely unaware of the purpose of copyright and patents. They believe that it's to "protect" the "property" of the recording and movie industries. Because that's what they've been told.
Copyrights and patents are for similar purposes -- to provide incentive for creativity. The difference is in the types of creativity -- "artistic" versus industrial.
I was in a 7.0 quake in the Imperial Valley in 1979. I didn't find the quake itself all that scary, but the aftershocks were pretty spooky. I don't think I had time to think about it while the main quake was happening, but for the next 24 hours or so the aftershocks would really make me jump.
I suspect that the IDC data reflects actual installations of servers, and not just sales of server operating systems.
However, server =! webserver. The last time I looked (which has been a while) the numbers were a lot more even in webserver space. Also, I'm not sure how IIS is in number of sites per server, but I've run a hundred or more unique sites on an individual webserver. At the time, IIS couldn't do that, Apache could. I don't know if you can now. You can also run Apache on Windows, but I'm not sure how much it's done.
FWIW, in the US there are 4 time zones (not counting Alaska and Hawaii.) And time zones don't follow state lines, so there's no guarantee that your own state capital is in the same time zone you are.
It's irritating, but from a practical perspective, if the bloatware pays the difference its not actually costing me money. I discovered that when I noticed the first time that the Linux version of identical hardware cost me more. I'd rather none of my dollars went to Redmond, but from a pure cost point of view it doesn't matter.
- Why are people letting the US govt away with this? An internet kill switch sounds an awful lot like a violation of free speech, especially if they're thinking of using it in the same way the Egyptian govt did.
National emergencies occur for more reasons than suppressing the population to keep a dictator in office for a 31st year. I'm sure if you thought about it you could come up with some reasons.
One that requires cutting off communications? I can think of lots of emergencies where enhanced communications would be necessary. None whatsoever that require cutting it off.
I'm sure nobody has ever threatened to invade Australia.
You mean, other than in 1942?
- The constitution is starting to look like a bad joke.
It's in fine shape. The US just had one of the biggest changes in the legislature in 70 years, and the massive power grab that is Obamacare is being defeated in court.
One strength of the American system is that defeated candidates voluntarily relinquish power, without violence or even histrionics.
On the other hand, free speech and privacy have taken a big hit this last decade. Warrantless wiretaps are explicitly unconstitutional. An internet kill switch would also be. That doesn't seem to stop them.
There are plenty of legitimate uses for a caps lock key -- but none that *I* ever use. I find it an annoyance that it's so easy to hit accidentally.
The Happy Hacking keyboard has what I thought was the perfect solution -- Caps Lock was a shifted key sequence (Fn+Tab.) Always available, but *really* hard to hit by accident.
Netflix, ebooks, there is an increasing amount of content providers that can't sell to me.
There's also an increasing amount of content I can find on my own. If they want my money, they'll have to make it possible for me to buy from them. Otherwise they'll have to do without me as a customer.
It might be a pretty decent Android tablet, but it won't be as good as a book reader. Battery life aside, the screen won't be nearly as usable outside in the sun. The screen has to refresh, like every other LCD, and it has a backlight. Both of those are hard on the eyes if you read for extended periods.
Some people like the ability to read in the dark. I prefer the ability to read in the light. In the summer, I spend a fair amount of time on the patio outside reading. My e-ink screens are great for that, an LCD not so much.
There is no blind spot for most cars if you simply set your mirror correctly. Adjust it so that you can't actually see your own car in the side mirror, and you will be able to see a car along side you over the full angle between when you can see it in the rear view mirror and when you see it without a mirror.
My company hired a defensive driving instructor (a former truck driver) for all employees who had to drive on business, and he would yell at us if we set the mirror too close. "What's the matter? Why do you want to see the ass end of your car? Do you think it might have fallen off?"
He was right, and I haven't found a car since then where setting the regular *flat* side mirror correctly didn't eliminate the "blind spot." Of course it doesn't work if you don't check the side mirror before you shift lanes, but if you do, no blind spot.
And it doesn't address the issue of backing, so the camera might still be useful.
Wordstar was at one time the most popular word processor in the PC world. It was also the most pirated. In 1985 they offered an amnesty for pirates -- anyone who wanted to go legit could pay an inexpensive upgrade price and get the most current version, legally.
A lot of people took them up on it, including me.
Unfortunately, they made other mistakes, and the company didn't last, but that was a smart move on their part.
I love running the latest and greatest, and I run Gentoo -- on my own machines. If something stops working, then I'll fix it when I get the time, but I can live with the uncertainty on my own machines.
The machines I support are mainly Ubuntu for the workstations and straight Debian for the servers. Rolling releases are very nice to run (as long as nothing's broken) but they are a nightmare to support (because they are frequently broken.)
If so, they must have just started. Last time I looked at Mint they were pretty firmly tied to "upstream"... which was Ubuntu.
There had been talk in their forums of switching over to following Debian, but the project leaders made it very clear that that was never going to happen. I was hoping they would, Debian works better on some of my hardware than Ubuntu.
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I've often wished there was a mod class labeled "-1 Incoherent."
There is a lot of the time that having a very common name can be a pain in the butt. This is one time I'm glad of it.
My email address gives away my first initial and last name. If someone tries to look me up by that they'll find hundreds with that combo in my town. If they manage to figure out my first name that'll drop it to dozens.
I think you're overly optimistic. Most politicians haven't even considered the matter of balance, since the lobbyists they talk to haven't brought it up. All they know is that the lobbyists' industries are being ripped off, and we'll lose tons of jobs if this goes on. What possible balance is involved? This is private property we're talking about!
Most politicians are completely unaware of the purpose of copyright and patents. They believe that it's to "protect" the "property" of the recording and movie industries. Because that's what they've been told.
Copyrights and patents are for similar purposes -- to provide incentive for creativity. The difference is in the types of creativity -- "artistic" versus industrial.
I have trouble with dirty glasses. If my glasses are smudged and I don't clean them, I end up with a headache in pretty short order.
3D glasses over the top of my regular glasses act just like dirty glasses. And I *can't* clean them -- the smudge *is* the second pair of glasses.
Mmm? Are you sure about that last? I'm pretty sure the standard e-Ink Nook also runs Android.
So when is Nemiah Scudder coming around?
I was in a 7.0 quake in the Imperial Valley in 1979. I didn't find the quake itself all that scary, but the aftershocks were pretty spooky. I don't think I had time to think about it while the main quake was happening, but for the next 24 hours or so the aftershocks would really make me jump.
Except I think you're wrong. The unchanging part identifies the subnet. The changing part identifies the client.
Which of those involve routing? The changing part, or the static part?
I've run Gnome on Solaris. On Sparc workstations.
I suspect that the IDC data reflects actual installations of servers, and not just sales of server operating systems.
However, server =! webserver. The last time I looked (which has been a while) the numbers were a lot more even in webserver space. Also, I'm not sure how IIS is in number of sites per server, but I've run a hundred or more unique sites on an individual webserver. At the time, IIS couldn't do that, Apache could. I don't know if you can now. You can also run Apache on Windows, but I'm not sure how much it's done.
FWIW, in the US there are 4 time zones (not counting Alaska and Hawaii.) And time zones don't follow state lines, so there's no guarantee that your own state capital is in the same time zone you are.
Yes and no.
It's irritating, but from a practical perspective, if the bloatware pays the difference its not actually costing me money. I discovered that when I noticed the first time that the Linux version of identical hardware cost me more. I'd rather none of my dollars went to Redmond, but from a pure cost point of view it doesn't matter.
Besides, I only pay the MS tax on laptops.
Are you saying that computers come with software installed?
Huh. Who knew?
I just always assume the disk is blank and do a fresh install.
- Why are people letting the US govt away with this? An internet kill switch sounds an awful lot like a violation of free speech, especially if they're thinking of using it in the same way the Egyptian govt did.
National emergencies occur for more reasons than suppressing the population to keep a dictator in office for a 31st year. I'm sure if you thought about it you could come up with some reasons.
One that requires cutting off communications? I can think of lots of emergencies where enhanced communications would be necessary. None whatsoever that require cutting it off.
I'm sure nobody has ever threatened to invade Australia.
You mean, other than in 1942?
- The constitution is starting to look like a bad joke.
It's in fine shape. The US just had one of the biggest changes in the legislature in 70 years, and the massive power grab that is Obamacare is being defeated in court.
One strength of the American system is that defeated candidates voluntarily relinquish power, without violence or even histrionics. On the other hand, free speech and privacy have taken a big hit this last decade. Warrantless wiretaps are explicitly unconstitutional. An internet kill switch would also be. That doesn't seem to stop them.
There are plenty of legitimate uses for a caps lock key -- but none that *I* ever use. I find it an annoyance that it's so easy to hit accidentally.
The Happy Hacking keyboard has what I thought was the perfect solution -- Caps Lock was a shifted key sequence (Fn+Tab.) Always available, but *really* hard to hit by accident.
The corollary, of course, is that I hit it all the time, accidentally. On most of the computers I use regularly, I've added these lines to .Xmodmap:
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Shift_L
and that eliminates the problem. It's really annoying to find myself on a machine that doesn't have my fix on it.
I don't have that problem.
Netflix, ebooks, there is an increasing amount of content providers that can't sell to me.
There's also an increasing amount of content I can find on my own. If they want my money, they'll have to make it possible for me to buy from them. Otherwise they'll have to do without me as a customer.
It might be a pretty decent Android tablet, but it won't be as good as a book reader. Battery life aside, the screen won't be nearly as usable outside in the sun. The screen has to refresh, like every other LCD, and it has a backlight. Both of those are hard on the eyes if you read for extended periods.
Some people like the ability to read in the dark. I prefer the ability to read in the light. In the summer, I spend a fair amount of time on the patio outside reading. My e-ink screens are great for that, an LCD not so much.
There is no blind spot for most cars if you simply set your mirror correctly. Adjust it so that you can't actually see your own car in the side mirror, and you will be able to see a car along side you over the full angle between when you can see it in the rear view mirror and when you see it without a mirror.
My company hired a defensive driving instructor (a former truck driver) for all employees who had to drive on business, and he would yell at us if we set the mirror too close. "What's the matter? Why do you want to see the ass end of your car? Do you think it might have fallen off?"
He was right, and I haven't found a car since then where setting the regular *flat* side mirror correctly didn't eliminate the "blind spot." Of course it doesn't work if you don't check the side mirror before you shift lanes, but if you do, no blind spot.
And it doesn't address the issue of backing, so the camera might still be useful.
Wordstar was at one time the most popular word processor in the PC world. It was also the most pirated. In 1985 they offered an amnesty for pirates -- anyone who wanted to go legit could pay an inexpensive upgrade price and get the most current version, legally.
A lot of people took them up on it, including me.
Unfortunately, they made other mistakes, and the company didn't last, but that was a smart move on their part.
I love running the latest and greatest, and I run Gentoo -- on my own machines. If something stops working, then I'll fix it when I get the time, but I can live with the uncertainty on my own machines.
The machines I support are mainly Ubuntu for the workstations and straight Debian for the servers. Rolling releases are very nice to run (as long as nothing's broken) but they are a nightmare to support (because they are frequently broken.)
If so, they must have just started. Last time I looked at Mint they were pretty firmly tied to "upstream"... which was Ubuntu.
There had been talk in their forums of switching over to following Debian, but the project leaders made it very clear that that was never going to happen. I was hoping they would, Debian works better on some of my hardware than Ubuntu.
20x, I think.
And, you're right, it looks a lot like a DSLR, so I agree that you'd risk getting in trouble in Kuwait.
On the other hand, *all* the cameras in the article linked by G*P look very much like mine and would potentially get you in trouble.