Yes. Or "apparently kills." Saying the cellphone battery killed the man -- without a disclaimer word such as "apparently" or "allegedly" -- sets Slashdot up for a libel suit from the cell phone manufacturer if they lose sales as a result of the/. article and investigation finds it wasn't the cell phone battery.
This is one good reason why anyone who calls himself a journalist should know one of the major wire services' stylebooks, e.g., the Associated Press Stylebook, inside and out. It's handy for little tips like grammar, spelling and "how to avoid being sued for libel."
I enter my password quite often in Ubuntu when doing admin-level adjustments.
And is moving icons around in the Ubuntu equivalent of a Start Menu considered an admin-level adjustment? Vista asks you twice each time you move, copy, rename or delete a Start Menu shortcut.
Personally, I think it's a fair trade. What do you expect when you put all your personal information in to a web-site that is free to use?
To be able to maintain full control of my online likeness without having to check every week or two to see if Facebook or some other site has sold product endorsements using my name. If the circumstances were reversed -- that is, if I were saying "Facebook endorses this" without consulting with their legal and public relations folks first -- I'd probably have hell to pay, and rightly so.
In short, I expect Facebook or any other corporation to have to play by the same rules I do.
Prince can tell someone to take something down. Likewise, they can tell Prince to sod off. It has nothing to do with copyright (aside from abuse-as-usual of the DMCA).
I tried out Vista for about a week... and based on the games I have (Half-Life 2, Civ 4 and a few others), I'd say the benchmark compared to XP wasn't all that bad.
That is, except for all the times my hard drive was randomly thrashing away so badly that I couldn't even pull up a task manager to see what the hell was going on. And I say randomly because at the time, about the only thing I had open was Firefox. This is on an AMD 2.0GHz processor with 2 GB of RAM.
Vista is not just slower than XP; Vista is broken.
One of Vista's breakthrough features was supposed to be a new file management system, built from the ground up -- WinFS -- but the developers, developers, developers, developers couldn't hack it, hack it, hack it, hack it, so it got pulled. After that, there wasn't much reason for XP users to upgrade.
It's a shame, too, to be perfectly honest. A relational file system would be a welcome addition to the OS, especially if it gave you options to create indexable tags for files on your PC. But building a relational filesystem from scratch and having it work like a legacy filesystem is an unenviable task.
And your computer is never doing anything in the background? No antivirus software? No explorer.exe? You never plug in a memory stick to save work to while your word processor is open?
Completely off-topic, but what the deuce is going on with tags lately? To the adjectives absurdly long, meaningless, and obscure, now we can add obscene.
As much as Comcast sucks, it sounds like you're taking the position that the federal government should have the authority to regulate how networks work.
Sitnalta's point is especially true when you consider how close to nothing a comet's coma really is. The closest thing to "nothing" we can manage on Earth still has a lot more stuff in it than the coma of a comet.
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Yes. Or "apparently kills." Saying the cellphone battery killed the man -- without a disclaimer word such as "apparently" or "allegedly" -- sets Slashdot up for a libel suit from the cell phone manufacturer if they lose sales as a result of the /. article and investigation finds it wasn't the cell phone battery.
This is one good reason why anyone who calls himself a journalist should know one of the major wire services' stylebooks, e.g., the Associated Press Stylebook, inside and out. It's handy for little tips like grammar, spelling and "how to avoid being sued for libel."
But Chuck Norris uses Firefox, and Chuck Norris says it's Steve Jobs' problem.
Software should be pessimistic. Design the code to handle incoming requests as potentially malicious, and you'll never be disappointed.
Inasmuch as Tuesday ends with "day," yes.
And is moving icons around in the Ubuntu equivalent of a Start Menu considered an admin-level adjustment? Vista asks you twice each time you move, copy, rename or delete a Start Menu shortcut.
How long do they have to take before they can be strung up on contempt of court charges?
To be able to maintain full control of my online likeness without having to check every week or two to see if Facebook or some other site has sold product endorsements using my name. If the circumstances were reversed -- that is, if I were saying "Facebook endorses this" without consulting with their legal and public relations folks first -- I'd probably have hell to pay, and rightly so.
In short, I expect Facebook or any other corporation to have to play by the same rules I do.
Prince can tell someone to take something down. Likewise, they can tell Prince to sod off. It has nothing to do with copyright (aside from abuse-as-usual of the DMCA).
I tried out Vista for about a week ... and based on the games I have (Half-Life 2, Civ 4 and a few others), I'd say the benchmark compared to XP wasn't all that bad.
That is, except for all the times my hard drive was randomly thrashing away so badly that I couldn't even pull up a task manager to see what the hell was going on. And I say randomly because at the time, about the only thing I had open was Firefox. This is on an AMD 2.0GHz processor with 2 GB of RAM.
Vista is not just slower than XP; Vista is broken.
One of Vista's breakthrough features was supposed to be a new file management system, built from the ground up -- WinFS -- but the developers, developers, developers, developers couldn't hack it, hack it, hack it, hack it, so it got pulled. After that, there wasn't much reason for XP users to upgrade.
It's a shame, too, to be perfectly honest. A relational file system would be a welcome addition to the OS, especially if it gave you options to create indexable tags for files on your PC. But building a relational filesystem from scratch and having it work like a legacy filesystem is an unenviable task.
Compared to 2,000 years of listening and looking for one suspicious signal that never repeated, I'd say the alien-hunters are doing all right.
And your computer is never doing anything in the background? No antivirus software? No explorer.exe? You never plug in a memory stick to save work to while your word processor is open?
I'll bet they were waiting for enough money from contributors to make this happen.
So, Windows then?
Right, because the music industry certainly gives a shit about right or wrong. Oh, wait ...
You got a fuckin' problem with that? :)
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But how exactly are flammable gases supposed to burn in space? :)
Sitnalta's point is especially true when you consider how close to nothing a comet's coma really is. The closest thing to "nothing" we can manage on Earth still has a lot more stuff in it than the coma of a comet.
The Computer will, of course. Or are you saying you doubt the Computer?
The Computer is your friend. Trust the Computer.
but Johnny is no more.
What Johnny thought was H2O
was H2SO4.