Which means, that without the massive inertia of the previous windows releases, those three will kick the living crap out of Win 7 in terms of maturity, usability and price.
Price definitely. Maturity and usability, well, maybe when one doesn't have to resort to the command line for banal stuff, like WPA configuration in Ubuntu. The basics have to work 100% out of the box, and while I like Linux a lot and use it personally, it's just not there yet.
Yeah, but I hear that they're going to be stopping those soon. Something about problems with infections of the skin around the RJ-45 connectors or something like that.
Those who vote on the issue should also be able to demonstrate a competent understanding of the proposal in question, and have done a sufficient level of research into the proposed standard and the issues surrounding it.
And adhering to this would (rightly) have totally derailed the fast-tracking of this standard. As I recall, less than 20% of the issues the participants had with the proposal were actually discussed during the BRM due to time constraints. The standard was something like 6000 pages (2/3rds the size of the U.S. Revenue Code, for comparison, and we know how many people fully understand *that*), so it's ludicrous to think that such a large document could have been adequately vetted and fixed in the space of a few days.
People want to say, "don't blame the ISO, blame MS", but the ISO had no business whatsoever agreeing to fast-track this process, and the results we got are largely because of that. I'm disappointed that *anyone* would have voted "yes" given how the process was conducted with more emphasis on getting it done quickly than done right, and it's this that tarnishes the ISO's reputation, not anything having to do with Microsoft. How many other standards were rushed through the process in a similar manner but just didn't receive this kind of publicity?
In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if I'm having to farm primals, I'd *much* rather deal with bots than real players of the opposite faction - bots go down *so* much more quickly, leaving me to farm in peace without the added competition.
While it is strictly speaking the fault of the user that Blizzard is suffering damage, the root cause is the creator and vendor of the tool.
No, the *root* cause is WoW having unavoidable gameplay mechanics that are so fundamentally unsatisfying to at least 100,000 paying customers that they're willing to fork over the equivalent of two months' worth of WoW subscription fees in REAL money to avoid them.
According to the state of California, Seagate Technology's agent for service is:
C T CORPORATION SYSTEM
818 WEST SEVENTH ST
LOS ANGELES, CA 90017
Looking up CT's record shows this as *their* agent for service:
JERE KEPRIOS
C/O C T CORPORAITON SYSTEM
818 W. SEVENTH STREET
LOS ANGELES, CA 90017
I'm pretty sure every state keeps their corporate records online, and these records will always have the designated agent for service given. I don't usually even bother with a company's web site anymore when I need that kind of info.
SSD is an enhancement to existing technology, NOT some "OMG, how did they think of that" technology. Back in '92 people were talking about that.
I'm sure they were, and ever since CompactFlash appeared almost 15 years ago it's been trivially easy to put a CF card in a computer, talk to it via IDE, and use it exactly as you would any other hard disk.
Don't forget making it into such a form factor as to make it entertainingly difficult to change. Some kind of heavy bayonet-type plug that requires one to push in against an overly-strong spring while twisting on the extremely hot and delicate bulb would be my choice. Extra points to be awarded for making the glass envelope strong enough to work during use but long enough to guarantee breakage while changing it. After all, if you're going to get badly burned, you might as well get cut while you're there.
There is not way that a 140 lm/w running at 250w is going to beat a 400 w street light at 150 lm/w.
Sure it can - it may not beat it in actual energy output, but the eye's sensitivity is not linear across the entire visible spectrum. Almost all of the light from a low-pressure sodium lamp is at wavelengths well below the sensitivity peak for the human eye. The new lamp may not actually *be* brighter, but it certainly could *look* brighter, and that's all that really matters for the intended purpose.
The two are one and the same in this context. "Color temperature" refers to the spectrum given off by an ideal black body at the given temperature, and is kinda redundant when speaking of incandescent sources since they produce their light by black-body radiation. To get a 6000K spectrum with an incandescent source, whatever is glowing in the lamp (the tiny bit of argon gas in this case) will need to actually be at that temperature.
If you cooperate with a police investigation and someone sues you because of it, do you want to pay a lawyer to defend you?
Blanket immunity is hardly ever a good idea. Let's say I cooperate with the police and give them incorrect information that leads to them busting into your family's house and killing a couple of family members in the process. Sorry, you can't sue me - I have immunity, even though I did you a grievous wrong.
Similarly, giving the government free reign to listen in on my phone traffic gives the government unwarranted and unprecedented power over me. I occasionally discuss firearms with a few friends of mine - while being completely legal, it's entirely possible the content of that traffic could end up getting me put on a watchlist that significantly impairs my ability to move about the country. In this case, the phone company's voluntary and unwarranted cooperation with the government will have cost me something tangible, and that's something I should be able to go to court to recover. More importantly, the mere threat of being able to sue will help keep the phone company from doing that in the first place, which is the preferred outcome.
As a previous poster indicated, the phone companies are acting as a proxy for the government when they do this - why would you think it's a good idea to remove any kind of judicial restraint and allow the executive to operate unfettered?
I have yet to see a police or law enforcement that has 'crime prevention' in it's charter, because it is impossible.
It's also because crime prevention isn't anything any law enforcement agency is legally required to provide. There have been plenty of lawsuits against the government where the police were shown to have actual knowledge of a crime in progress, did nothing, and a citizen suffered horribly for it. In practically every case, the court found that the police have some nebulous "duty to society" in general, but no duty to intervene in crimes they're made aware of. Warren v. District of Columbia is the poster child for this kind of case, but there are many others.
It makes me feel *so* much better about the annual $100 million+ budget allocated to our local sheriff's department, which of course doesn't include the funding for the municipal police department, the metro task force that can't seem to do *anything* right (aside from the ridiculous amount of money they spend "investigating" local strip clubs, a few years ago one of their snipers managed to kill the hostage instead of the crook), or any of the other local law enforcement agencies sucking on the public teat.
Search for prevailing wage: this would be you 'going rate'. What you suggest in point 4 is illegal.
Yeah, and? I've had personal experience with a couple of companies that gave little more than lip service to this rule, and I've never seen the DoL going out of its way to bust those companies that aren't paying their H-1Bs what they're supposed to. It's a joke.
But you totally missed the GP's point. Things that *used* to be done in Flash like interactive web UIs and such are increasingly being done more cleanly and using fewer system resources with non-proprietary tools (i.e. AJAX). No one is arguing against Flash still being the primary means of delivering web games and streaming media, and that wasn't the point he was making.
All those paintings have been restored and are stored in museums with perfect atmospheric conditions under very low lighting.
I haven't seen very many instances of "very low lighting" in multiple visits of the Louvre or d'Orsay, and the majority of the paintings in both places are uncovered and within reach of the viewing public. They do firmly enforce a ban on flash photography (UV is not good), but otherwise the lighting levels are comparable to what you'd see in an average office environment. Not very many instances of cracked paint either, even on paintings that are centuries old.
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Which means, that without the massive inertia of the previous windows releases, those three will kick the living crap out of Win 7 in terms of maturity, usability and price.
Price definitely. Maturity and usability, well, maybe when one doesn't have to resort to the command line for banal stuff, like WPA configuration in Ubuntu. The basics have to work 100% out of the box, and while I like Linux a lot and use it personally, it's just not there yet.
Yeah, but I hear that they're going to be stopping those soon. Something about problems with infections of the skin around the RJ-45 connectors or something like that.
And to follow up, that's the Portland that isn't actually in the state of Oregon.
...and is also the town that Portland, OR is named after.
It's not really "blaming the victim". There wasn't anyone holding a gun to the ISO's head demanding the OOXML proposal be fast-tracked.
Those who vote on the issue should also be able to demonstrate a competent understanding of the proposal in question, and have done a sufficient level of research into the proposed standard and the issues surrounding it.
And adhering to this would (rightly) have totally derailed the fast-tracking of this standard. As I recall, less than 20% of the issues the participants had with the proposal were actually discussed during the BRM due to time constraints. The standard was something like 6000 pages (2/3rds the size of the U.S. Revenue Code, for comparison, and we know how many people fully understand *that*), so it's ludicrous to think that such a large document could have been adequately vetted and fixed in the space of a few days.
People want to say, "don't blame the ISO, blame MS", but the ISO had no business whatsoever agreeing to fast-track this process, and the results we got are largely because of that. I'm disappointed that *anyone* would have voted "yes" given how the process was conducted with more emphasis on getting it done quickly than done right, and it's this that tarnishes the ISO's reputation, not anything having to do with Microsoft. How many other standards were rushed through the process in a similar manner but just didn't receive this kind of publicity?
In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if I'm having to farm primals, I'd *much* rather deal with bots than real players of the opposite faction - bots go down *so* much more quickly, leaving me to farm in peace without the added competition.
While it is strictly speaking the fault of the user that Blizzard is suffering damage, the root cause is the creator and vendor of the tool.
No, the *root* cause is WoW having unavoidable gameplay mechanics that are so fundamentally unsatisfying to at least 100,000 paying customers that they're willing to fork over the equivalent of two months' worth of WoW subscription fees in REAL money to avoid them.
Although that level of perseverance is still pretty perverse. Pedantic? Probably.
Awesome alliteration!
According to the state of California, Seagate Technology's agent for service is:
C T CORPORATION SYSTEM
818 WEST SEVENTH ST
LOS ANGELES, CA 90017
Looking up CT's record shows this as *their* agent for service:
JERE KEPRIOS
C/O C T CORPORAITON SYSTEM
818 W. SEVENTH STREET
LOS ANGELES, CA 90017
I'm pretty sure every state keeps their corporate records online, and these records will always have the designated agent for service given. I don't usually even bother with a company's web site anymore when I need that kind of info.
SSD is an enhancement to existing technology, NOT some "OMG, how did they think of that" technology. Back in '92 people were talking about that.
I'm sure they were, and ever since CompactFlash appeared almost 15 years ago it's been trivially easy to put a CF card in a computer, talk to it via IDE, and use it exactly as you would any other hard disk.
Exactly - from the creator's perspective, current copyright terms are not of a "limited time" at all.
Don't forget making it into such a form factor as to make it entertainingly difficult to change. Some kind of heavy bayonet-type plug that requires one to push in against an overly-strong spring while twisting on the extremely hot and delicate bulb would be my choice. Extra points to be awarded for making the glass envelope strong enough to work during use but long enough to guarantee breakage while changing it. After all, if you're going to get badly burned, you might as well get cut while you're there.
There is not way that a 140 lm/w running at 250w is going to beat a 400 w street light at 150 lm/w.
Sure it can - it may not beat it in actual energy output, but the eye's sensitivity is not linear across the entire visible spectrum. Almost all of the light from a low-pressure sodium lamp is at wavelengths well below the sensitivity peak for the human eye. The new lamp may not actually *be* brighter, but it certainly could *look* brighter, and that's all that really matters for the intended purpose.
Yeah, but can you make popcorn with it?
The two are one and the same in this context. "Color temperature" refers to the spectrum given off by an ideal black body at the given temperature, and is kinda redundant when speaking of incandescent sources since they produce their light by black-body radiation. To get a 6000K spectrum with an incandescent source, whatever is glowing in the lamp (the tiny bit of argon gas in this case) will need to actually be at that temperature.
If you cooperate with a police investigation and someone sues you because of it, do you want to pay a lawyer to defend you?
Blanket immunity is hardly ever a good idea. Let's say I cooperate with the police and give them incorrect information that leads to them busting into your family's house and killing a couple of family members in the process. Sorry, you can't sue me - I have immunity, even though I did you a grievous wrong.
Similarly, giving the government free reign to listen in on my phone traffic gives the government unwarranted and unprecedented power over me. I occasionally discuss firearms with a few friends of mine - while being completely legal, it's entirely possible the content of that traffic could end up getting me put on a watchlist that significantly impairs my ability to move about the country. In this case, the phone company's voluntary and unwarranted cooperation with the government will have cost me something tangible, and that's something I should be able to go to court to recover. More importantly, the mere threat of being able to sue will help keep the phone company from doing that in the first place, which is the preferred outcome.
As a previous poster indicated, the phone companies are acting as a proxy for the government when they do this - why would you think it's a good idea to remove any kind of judicial restraint and allow the executive to operate unfettered?
News flash - being free is inherently fraught with a degree of danger.
I have yet to see a police or law enforcement that has 'crime prevention' in it's charter, because it is impossible.
It's also because crime prevention isn't anything any law enforcement agency is legally required to provide. There have been plenty of lawsuits against the government where the police were shown to have actual knowledge of a crime in progress, did nothing, and a citizen suffered horribly for it. In practically every case, the court found that the police have some nebulous "duty to society" in general, but no duty to intervene in crimes they're made aware of. Warren v. District of Columbia is the poster child for this kind of case, but there are many others.
It makes me feel *so* much better about the annual $100 million+ budget allocated to our local sheriff's department, which of course doesn't include the funding for the municipal police department, the metro task force that can't seem to do *anything* right (aside from the ridiculous amount of money they spend "investigating" local strip clubs, a few years ago one of their snipers managed to kill the hostage instead of the crook), or any of the other local law enforcement agencies sucking on the public teat.
I have a friend who was sucked into Schluberje (sp)
:-)
Schlumberger.
Search for prevailing wage: this would be you 'going rate'. What you suggest in point 4 is illegal.
Yeah, and? I've had personal experience with a couple of companies that gave little more than lip service to this rule, and I've never seen the DoL going out of its way to bust those companies that aren't paying their H-1Bs what they're supposed to. It's a joke.
But you totally missed the GP's point. Things that *used* to be done in Flash like interactive web UIs and such are increasingly being done more cleanly and using fewer system resources with non-proprietary tools (i.e. AJAX). No one is arguing against Flash still being the primary means of delivering web games and streaming media, and that wasn't the point he was making.
Not to mention that he's a doctor himself. :-)
Actually Ron Paul would have been 73 when he took office in 2009
John McCain will be 72 if/when he takes office, so your comments apply equally to him as well.
Perhaps, but I'm sure he at least has his stapler.
All those paintings have been restored and are stored in museums with perfect atmospheric conditions under very low lighting.
I haven't seen very many instances of "very low lighting" in multiple visits of the Louvre or d'Orsay, and the majority of the paintings in both places are uncovered and within reach of the viewing public. They do firmly enforce a ban on flash photography (UV is not good), but otherwise the lighting levels are comparable to what you'd see in an average office environment. Not very many instances of cracked paint either, even on paintings that are centuries old.