Ten air bags plus associated electronics, power everything, leather, half a dozen cupholders, navigation system, 10-speaker gigawatt sound system, etc. etc, all add WEIGHT. My 26-year-old t-Bird gets better mileage than a lot of cars today because it's weighs less. It, however, didn't come with the "bubble-wrap-the-entire-world-for-the-children" option that newer cars come with. It doesn't even have air bags, so I *wear my goddamned seat belt*.
I won't call it "garbage", but otherwise I was thinking along similar lines (disclaimer -- I have a Master's in Physics but I haven't bothered to do the math). 60ns is an eternity in an experimental setup, and while the two sites are at different latitudes (and a straight-line three-space trajectory sends the neutrinos along a curved path in spacetime), I can't see earth's relatively weak gravity accounting for such a discrepancy. It's a curved 4-space path, but it's not *that* curved.
Maybe later today I'll look for somethig else to buy. I'd like to hear someone announce a valid reason why their hatred of the US is so blindingly intense that they consider actions like this appropriate. In the meantime, I'm going to support Amazon and any other victims of these people.
I've worked at a lot of different companies, and some are targets...not just for terrorists, but kooks. The company I work for makes eeeeeevil weapons of war. We've had people sneak past security and try to wage a protest in our offices. We've had people try to sneak in weapons. We've had people try to damage our products. We've had people SUCCEED in damaging our products. We know all to well that we are under threat.
I also worked at a chemical company. We knew full well that some people objected to anything man-made and might attempt sabotage or worse. There is a reason why we had on-site security.
If there are groups planning to protest at our work site, YOU'rRE DAMN RIGHT we would like to know about it. Do we need to know about the individuals involved? Maybe. I consider it a judgement call based on their history. If one person had a history of illegal or violent protesting actions. Once again YOU BETTER BELIEVE that I want our security staff on the lookout. 99% of protesters are perfectly peaceful, and I'm not concerned about those...it's the unhinged kooks who tend to kill people.
If they really want IE6 usage to reach zero, the people at MS will have to swallow some pride and realize that there are some of us who refuse to 'upgrade" like little sheep. Otherwise, IE6 will still be around for quite some time.
Oh, wait, Firefox 3.6 runs on Win2k...never mind...
Stephen Hawking might be interested in this. On the one hand, I shudder at the risk to him, but on the other hand I wonder if he might consider the potential benefit worth it.
There's something about this, and cases like this, that just stinks. We all know it does, yet sometimes it's hard to put a finger on it. For me, the amorality of the lawyers just rubs me the wrong way. Someone says, "Mr. Lawyer, I'd like to sue X for Y, and I'll pay you handsomely for it." And the lawyer does, because it pays. It doesn't matter if the reason is bogus, it doesn't matter that X has to spend lots of money on a legal defense against something that has no merit. It only matters that the lawyer is being paid.
Of course, at this point, someone will probably pop off that I'm some sort of Commie or something. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Just because you CAN perform a service (regardless of whether you're being paid for it) doesn't mean you SHOULD. I have numerous skills, and I almost always expect to be compensated for my work, but there are some things that I simply will not build, for any price -- because I would consider it wrong to do so. It seems to me (and perhaps to a lot of people) that there is a dearth of lawyers who would say in the face of a paying potential customer, "No, I won't take your case. You're asking me to do something that's dishonest and immoral. Now get the hell out of my office."
There's a difference between working for money and working MERELY for money. In that sense I would term the latter type of lawyer as also a mercenary, and there seem to be entirely too many of them.
How do you deter a mercenary? I invite suggestions, but the only way I know of is through fear. With the collective intelligence of those on this forum, it shouldn't be hard to come up with some creative ideas on how to make a mercenary lawyer think twice about working MERELY for money.
Windows 2000 EOL is July 13, 2010, so I'll have roughly six months to decide among four choices:
1. Take a shrinkwrapped XP copy off the shelf and upgrade to that
2. Switch to ReactOS
3. "Upgrade" to Windows 7
4. Stick with Windows 2000, hoping that a third party keeps up with security patches
Even though I've bought XP I have yet to switch to that over Windows 2000, so guess how high MY bar for MS is to convince me to switch to Windows 7. Potential customers don't have to buy (or simply use) things just because someone offers them, you know...
I must admit I wished Delphi had some of the features that Ada has (though there appears to be a lot of commonality). Delphi is already awesome, but with some of Ada's features it would be uber.
I doubt a chat with a phisher would be helpful. It'd probably incredibly dull, and filled with brackets due to typos on their part. Besides, as in most shadow communities, phishers tend to assume you either know everything, or you're a complete idiot to be ignored. I'm willing to bet that you couldn't get a (current) phisher to tell all."
It begs the question, in dealing with the phishing community, who are we dealing with -- the uneducated, the merely poor, the greedy, the antisocial, or worse? Is the phishing community an outlet for the antisocial/maladjusted/borderline mentally ill? I'd like to pose the following question: assuming that such people always have and always will exist in the world, is the tech community remiss in taking this into account? When we create a piece of hardware or software, do we need to ask the question, "what if someone with an 'LSD in the reservoir' mentality gets his hands on this?" In connecting the world via the Internet, we've also connected ourselves to every flavor of person we would rather avoid in real life. Does there need to be a shift in the way we view our responsibilities as tech authors/creators?
Not to worry...it's not in my district. The question is, how many other people who are in that district bear animosity toward them? There's a reason people are generally advised to not burn bridges.
Perhaps this is a tactic to force a settlement, since every one of their tactics would be placed before a jury, in an atmosphere where they could hardly be despised more. I doubt the RIAA could actually lose the copyrights since I doubt they own them in the first place, but it would be interesting if she expanded the suit to include the owners on whose behalf the RIAA operates. All I know is, if I'm a juror, those copyrights are G-O-N-E. How willing is the RIAA to take the chance that a juror who decides against them won't be persuasive enough with 8 of 11 other peers? (I presume it's a civil suit)
Can't we have just one technical article without some Socialist pushing his political agenda? If I wanted politics I would, you know, go to a *political* board. Good grief. Knock it off, already.
...if the price of scanning and printing drops. Mod your Palm? Your iPod? Your game console? Your mouse? Your laptop? Your car's interior? Special mods for the handicapped, or for your near-sighted grandmother? The possibilities are astounding.
The built-in wireless card in my laptop is the only thing keeping me tied to WEP (my Palm uses BT so that's not an issue there). It's one of those weird combo mini-PCI cards that also drives the dial-up modem (HP zt1100 series laptop). If I could find a combo card that supported wireless G and WPA I'd upgrade in a heartbeat. I've searched the net for one, but it seems like mini-PCI cards are in this amorphous, murky world where it's impossible to locate manufacturers and specs.
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Ten air bags plus associated electronics, power everything, leather, half a dozen cupholders, navigation system, 10-speaker gigawatt sound system, etc. etc, all add WEIGHT. My 26-year-old t-Bird gets better mileage than a lot of cars today because it's weighs less. It, however, didn't come with the "bubble-wrap-the-entire-world-for-the-children" option that newer cars come with. It doesn't even have air bags, so I *wear my goddamned seat belt*.
Some great points on El Reg:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/10/oh_no_its_the_plastic_3d_gun/
But, of course, let's not let those prevent a politician from exploiting the issue...
I won't call it "garbage", but otherwise I was thinking along similar lines (disclaimer -- I have a Master's in Physics but I haven't bothered to do the math). 60ns is an eternity in an experimental setup, and while the two sites are at different latitudes (and a straight-line three-space trajectory sends the neutrinos along a curved path in spacetime), I can't see earth's relatively weak gravity accounting for such a discrepancy. It's a curved 4-space path, but it's not *that* curved.
...except that IE7 won't install. We'll have to limp along with unofficial IE6 patches unless that changes.
Huh?? Care to elaborate, or am I supposed to guess?
Maybe later today I'll look for somethig else to buy. I'd like to hear someone announce a valid reason why their hatred of the US is so blindingly intense that they consider actions like this appropriate. In the meantime, I'm going to support Amazon and any other victims of these people.
I've worked at a lot of different companies, and some are targets...not just for terrorists, but kooks. The company I work for makes eeeeeevil weapons of war. We've had people sneak past security and try to wage a protest in our offices. We've had people try to sneak in weapons. We've had people try to damage our products. We've had people SUCCEED in damaging our products. We know all to well that we are under threat.
I also worked at a chemical company. We knew full well that some people objected to anything man-made and might attempt sabotage or worse. There is a reason why we had on-site security.
If there are groups planning to protest at our work site, YOU'rRE DAMN RIGHT we would like to know about it. Do we need to know about the individuals involved? Maybe. I consider it a judgement call based on their history. If one person had a history of illegal or violent protesting actions. Once again YOU BETTER BELIEVE that I want our security staff on the lookout. 99% of protesters are perfectly peaceful, and I'm not concerned about those...it's the unhinged kooks who tend to kill people.
If they really want IE6 usage to reach zero, the people at MS will have to swallow some pride and realize that there are some of us who refuse to 'upgrade" like little sheep. Otherwise, IE6 will still be around for quite some time. Oh, wait, Firefox 3.6 runs on Win2k...never mind...
... to still be running Windows 2000. It received patches for the same vulnerabilities as XP, but it's running just fine.
Stephen Hawking might be interested in this. On the one hand, I shudder at the risk to him, but on the other hand I wonder if he might consider the potential benefit worth it.
There's something about this, and cases like this, that just stinks. We all know it does, yet sometimes it's hard to put a finger on it. For me, the amorality of the lawyers just rubs me the wrong way. Someone says, "Mr. Lawyer, I'd like to sue X for Y, and I'll pay you handsomely for it." And the lawyer does, because it pays. It doesn't matter if the reason is bogus, it doesn't matter that X has to spend lots of money on a legal defense against something that has no merit. It only matters that the lawyer is being paid.
Of course, at this point, someone will probably pop off that I'm some sort of Commie or something. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Just because you CAN perform a service (regardless of whether you're being paid for it) doesn't mean you SHOULD. I have numerous skills, and I almost always expect to be compensated for my work, but there are some things that I simply will not build, for any price -- because I would consider it wrong to do so. It seems to me (and perhaps to a lot of people) that there is a dearth of lawyers who would say in the face of a paying potential customer, "No, I won't take your case. You're asking me to do something that's dishonest and immoral. Now get the hell out of my office."
There's a difference between working for money and working MERELY for money. In that sense I would term the latter type of lawyer as also a mercenary, and there seem to be entirely too many of them.
How do you deter a mercenary? I invite suggestions, but the only way I know of is through fear. With the collective intelligence of those on this forum, it shouldn't be hard to come up with some creative ideas on how to make a mercenary lawyer think twice about working MERELY for money.
Windows 2000 EOL is July 13, 2010, so I'll have roughly six months to decide among four choices:
1. Take a shrinkwrapped XP copy off the shelf and upgrade to that
2. Switch to ReactOS
3. "Upgrade" to Windows 7
4. Stick with Windows 2000, hoping that a third party keeps up with security patches
Even though I've bought XP I have yet to switch to that over Windows 2000, so guess how high MY bar for MS is to convince me to switch to Windows 7. Potential customers don't have to buy (or simply use) things just because someone offers them, you know...
I must admit I wished Delphi had some of the features that Ada has (though there appears to be a lot of commonality). Delphi is already awesome, but with some of Ada's features it would be uber.
I'm just grateful I kept Windows 2000 on this machine.
SmoothText does system-wide subpixel antialiasing on Windows 2000. But FireFox 2 doesn't play nice with it.
...caching the width of the space character across font variants so SmoothText will render text properly.
I doubt a chat with a phisher would be helpful. It'd probably incredibly dull, and filled with brackets due to typos on their part. Besides, as in most shadow communities, phishers tend to assume you either know everything, or you're a complete idiot to be ignored. I'm willing to bet that you couldn't get a (current) phisher to tell all."
It begs the question, in dealing with the phishing community, who are we dealing with -- the uneducated, the merely poor, the greedy, the antisocial, or worse? Is the phishing community an outlet for the antisocial/maladjusted/borderline mentally ill? I'd like to pose the following question: assuming that such people always have and always will exist in the world, is the tech community remiss in taking this into account? When we create a piece of hardware or software, do we need to ask the question, "what if someone with an 'LSD in the reservoir' mentality gets his hands on this?" In connecting the world via the Internet, we've also connected ourselves to every flavor of person we would rather avoid in real life. Does there need to be a shift in the way we view our responsibilities as tech authors/creators?
Hear, hear. I'm running Rockbox on my 5.5G. Absolutely love it.
Not to worry...it's not in my district. The question is, how many other people who are in that district bear animosity toward them? There's a reason people are generally advised to not burn bridges.
Perhaps this is a tactic to force a settlement, since every one of their tactics would be placed before a jury, in an atmosphere where they could hardly be despised more. I doubt the RIAA could actually lose the copyrights since I doubt they own them in the first place, but it would be interesting if she expanded the suit to include the owners on whose behalf the RIAA operates. All I know is, if I'm a juror, those copyrights are G-O-N-E. How willing is the RIAA to take the chance that a juror who decides against them won't be persuasive enough with 8 of 11 other peers? (I presume it's a civil suit)
Can't we have just one technical article without some Socialist pushing his political agenda? If I wanted politics I would, you know, go to a *political* board. Good grief. Knock it off, already.
The FEC reports receiving massive numbers of declarations of campaign contributions. They all suspiciously appear to have come from MPAA members...
...if the price of scanning and printing drops. Mod your Palm? Your iPod? Your game console? Your mouse? Your laptop? Your car's interior? Special mods for the handicapped, or for your near-sighted grandmother? The possibilities are astounding.
...from Win2k to ReactOS.
The built-in wireless card in my laptop is the only thing keeping me tied to WEP (my Palm uses BT so that's not an issue there). It's one of those weird combo mini-PCI cards that also drives the dial-up modem (HP zt1100 series laptop). If I could find a combo card that supported wireless G and WPA I'd upgrade in a heartbeat. I've searched the net for one, but it seems like mini-PCI cards are in this amorphous, murky world where it's impossible to locate manufacturers and specs.