The article is talking about online market share, i.e. percentage of browsers going to websites, not percentage of new computers purchased in the marketplace.
I work for an e-commerce site that seems to track the average pretty closely. Windows as a whole is at 91.09% of our browsers, of which 74.09% is XP and 23.51% is Vista. Mac is at 7.98%. Last November, that number was 5.87%, which is a 35.9% increase in total Mac browsers in 1 year! In the same period, Linux has gone from 0.41% to 0.62%, an increase of about 51.2%
My wild guess then would be that your setup is half-broken much like mine was. Try that old Windows trick of wiping your hard disk and reinstalling your Linux distribution, whatever it is. It might be the solution.
Are you truly that inept at troubleshooting a pc, that you wipe the entire fucking OS to fix minor problems? Please stop giving people advice. About anything. Ever. Ok?
Are you so inept at fixing a pc that you think wiping the entire OS is some sort of monumental task? Is troubleshooting for 3 hours better than wiping your OS clean in 30 minutes? (you have your home directory on a separate partition, right?)
Nobody pays the premium OEM charge for their "downgrade to XP rights and media disk" unless they intend on NOT using Vista and only using XP...
Some OEMs don't charge extra to "downgrade" machines to XP. e.g. Dell. Also, with downgrade rights, you always have the option of installing Vista without an additional license.
So today, I can buy machines with Vista licenses, but with XP preinstalled for no extra cost. After I'm done with the current replacement cycle, all my machines will have valid Vista licenses, so if I wanted, I could choose to convert all of them for no additional license costs.
There are normally two ways to shop using the iTunes store 1) with 1-click "buy it now", which is the default, and 2) with a shopping cart, which lets you queue items and decide which to buy later.
Just a warning: App Store does NOT respect the shopping cart setting. If you login to download some free apps and accidentally click "Buy" on a non-free app, YOU WILL BE CHARGED IMMEDIATELY
So who backs up the DNC's and RNC's email? My understanding is that most of the emails they're talking about went through RNC servers instead of federal servers.
"A teacher is offering empirical evidence that when you're mining data, augmenting data is better than a better algorithm. He explains that he had teams in his class enter the Netflix challenge, and two teams went two different ways. One team used a better algorithm while the other harvested augmenting data on movies from the Internet Movie Database. And this team, which used a simpler algorithm, did much better -- nearly as well as the best algorithm on the boards for the $1 million challenge. The teacher relates this back to Google's page ranking algorithm and presents a pretty convincing argument. What do you think? Will more data usually perform better than a better algorithm?"
The whole purpose of speed limits and red lights is, ostensibly, to keep people safe. The laws are there to provide negative reinforcement for dangerous behavior. Because if the threat of a $300 ticket will persuade some selfish jackass to NOT run through a red light at 80 mph, you might prevent a few needless deaths.
Red light cameras debatable as safety measure
Running red lights is the No. 1 cause of urban crashes, costs $14 billion annually and was responsible for 165,000 injuries, 800 fatalities and 1.8 million crashes in 2005, according to Baton Rouge's Red Light Safety Program.
The program claims most automobile crashes involve drivers who run red lights, and 56 percent of drivers admit to running red lights.
So it's clear that running red lights is a dangerous problem. What could you do to prevent these senseless tragedies? You could install traffic cameras to try to stop people from dying. It turns out to be a phenomenal success: people started paying attention and therefore stopped running less lights. Great news, right?
Wrong.
But a March 21, 2008, MSNBC article explains that red light cameras in Dallas are so effective that they no longer generate much revenue.
Because drivers began to pay more attention at intersections with traffic lights, the cameras lost their purpose - producing more government revenue. The cameras were then removed.
Read that last line again. It's so cynical it makes my blood boil.
So which is it, Dallas? Protect and serve? Or Harass and swindle?
Original article: Red light cameras too good for their own good?
Both Audible and iTunes audio books support CD Burning out of the box. If it is your prerogative, you can then rip the CDs to DRM-free mp3s or oggs, or whatever. The DRM is annoying, but not invasive, but using these services is really about the instant gratification. (You can also authorize your audible account on a seemingly endless number of computers and devices. There are also apparently some tools to strip the DRM in pure software.)
It should be noted that the Slashdot editors changed the title of the article from
"Universal Offers iPod-Resistant MP3s"
to "Universal Offers iPod-Resistant Music"
The reason their "MP3"s don't work on iPods is because they're not MP3s. They're PlaysForSure DRMed WMAs. This is high quality journalism at work. Slashdot editors should be proud.
Hi.
poor college student here will teach you the ways of the mobile, young grasshopper.
1. call her cell (3way is the new 2way, and calling her is like using a walkie-talkie, since you get free in-network calls)
2. yes. (who doesn't have a cell? and if they don't, they get to use yours. you're such a gracious host!)
3. you pay for TV?
I don't know anything about shadow copy, but Apple's Time Machine is all userland. There is a process that looks for file system events and logs the files that have been changed. Every x time units (e.g. 1 hour) a heavily hardlinked copy of your most recent backup is copied to a new tree and the newly modified files are copied over there. Every y time units (e.g. 1 day), all but the day's newest backup are deleted. If you run out of space, old trees are also deleted.
(this is the same AC as above)
the core apache server is pretty small, and most things are modules that are loaded in.
there is also lighttpd, which doesn't load apache modules, but is a pretty lean & mean webserver
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I think the two worst computer bugs of all time are the two that quite possibly could have wiped us all out. More inforation here.
(Copied from the article:)
* November 9, 1979, when the US made emergency retaliation preparations after NORAD saw on-screen indications that a full-scale Soviet attack had been launched. No attempt was made to use the "red telephone" hotline to clarify the situation with the USSR and it was not until early-warning radar systems confirmed no such launch had taken place that NORAD realised that a computer system test had caused the display errors. A Senator at NORAD at the time described an atmosphere of absolute panic. A GAO investigation led to the construction of an off-site test facility, to prevent similar mistakes subsequently. A fictionalized version of this incident was filmed as the movie WarGames, in which the test system is inadvertantly triggered by a teenage hacker believing himself to be playing a video game.
* September 26, 1983, when Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov refused to launch ICBMs, despite computer indications that the US had already launched.
If it weren't for two humans who said "fuck what the computer says!", we might be in a very different place right now.
I think that "with corrupt intent" is redundant in the context of the definition of bribery. If a wealthy lobbyist tries to influence the actions of an elected official, he is essentially trying to use money and power to subvert democracy by moving the official's loyalty away from his/her constituents needs towards the needs of the wealthy few. If attempting to subvert democracy doesn't have intrinsic corrupt intent, I don't know what does.
Now, I don't want this to sound too one-sided, so I think it's important to say that I'm not against corporate campaign contributions, I'm just against any contribution that has stipulations, either expressed or implied, attached to it.
In any case, IANAL, so everything I say should be taken with a metric tonne of salt.
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His plan sounds a lot like Robert Zubrin's Mars Direct plan detailed in The Case for Mars
Those are just build numbers. Pick the biggest number for the latest version. As of right now, this is the latest version:
http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/sub-rel-mac/17420/
You can download Chromium here: http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/sub-rel-mac/
It's roughly competitive with Python 3
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=yarv&lang2=python3
The article is talking about online market share, i.e. percentage of browsers going to websites, not percentage of new computers purchased in the marketplace.
I work for an e-commerce site that seems to track the average pretty closely. Windows as a whole is at 91.09% of our browsers, of which 74.09% is XP and 23.51% is Vista. Mac is at 7.98%. Last November, that number was 5.87%, which is a 35.9% increase in total Mac browsers in 1 year! In the same period, Linux has gone from 0.41% to 0.62%, an increase of about 51.2%
It gets worse: The adapter capable of running the 30" display is $99, not $30.
The $30 adapter is only capable of running 1920x1200
http://store.apple.com/us/search?find=displayport
Are you truly that inept at troubleshooting a pc, that you wipe the entire fucking OS to fix minor problems? Please stop giving people advice. About anything. Ever. Ok?
Are you so inept at fixing a pc that you think wiping the entire OS is some sort of monumental task? Is troubleshooting for 3 hours better than wiping your OS clean in 30 minutes? (you have your home directory on a separate partition, right?)
Unfortunately, the joke is on us.
You can still buy XP without hardware:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2060350368+1179212716&name=Professional
Nobody pays the premium OEM charge for their "downgrade to XP rights and media disk" unless they intend on NOT using Vista and only using XP...
Some OEMs don't charge extra to "downgrade" machines to XP. e.g. Dell. Also, with downgrade rights, you always have the option of installing Vista without an additional license.
So today, I can buy machines with Vista licenses, but with XP preinstalled for no extra cost. After I'm done with the current replacement cycle, all my machines will have valid Vista licenses, so if I wanted, I could choose to convert all of them for no additional license costs.
Step 1) Turn down your monitor's brightness
Step 2) Stop whining
Step 3) There is no step 3!
Honestly, IMHO, the Blizzard shots are nicer. I have to squint to make out what's going on in the fan-created screenshots.
There are normally two ways to shop using the iTunes store 1) with 1-click "buy it now", which is the default, and 2) with a shopping cart, which lets you queue items and decide which to buy later.
Just a warning: App Store does NOT respect the shopping cart setting. If you login to download some free apps and accidentally click "Buy" on a non-free app, YOU WILL BE CHARGED IMMEDIATELY
Hopefully they fix this before tomorrow at 8am.
So who backs up the DNC's and RNC's email? My understanding is that most of the emails they're talking about went through RNC servers instead of federal servers.
It's not the military's job to shape our hearts and minds.
Their job is to fight and win wars. (hopefully wars that are just) and nothing else.
see: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/01/189230
"A teacher is offering empirical evidence that when you're mining data, augmenting data is better than a better algorithm. He explains that he had teams in his class enter the Netflix challenge, and two teams went two different ways. One team used a better algorithm while the other harvested augmenting data on movies from the Internet Movie Database. And this team, which used a simpler algorithm, did much better -- nearly as well as the best algorithm on the boards for the $1 million challenge. The teacher relates this back to Google's page ranking algorithm and presents a pretty convincing argument. What do you think? Will more data usually perform better than a better algorithm?"
Wrong. Read that last line again. It's so cynical it makes my blood boil. So which is it, Dallas? Protect and serve? Or Harass and swindle?
Original article: Red light cameras too good for their own good?
Both Audible and iTunes audio books support CD Burning out of the box. If it is your prerogative, you can then rip the CDs to DRM-free mp3s or oggs, or whatever. The DRM is annoying, but not invasive, but using these services is really about the instant gratification. (You can also authorize your audible account on a seemingly endless number of computers and devices. There are also apparently some tools to strip the DRM in pure software.)
The real story here isn't DRM. It's that the music is "free" and ad supported.
It should be noted that the Slashdot editors changed the title of the article from "Universal Offers iPod-Resistant MP3s" to "Universal Offers iPod-Resistant Music"
The reason their "MP3"s don't work on iPods is because they're not MP3s. They're PlaysForSure DRMed WMAs. This is high quality journalism at work. Slashdot editors should be proud.
http://www.tv.com/the-daily-show/show/1293/episode _guide.html?season=12&tag=season_dropdown;dropdown ;11
it seems they were off from
(last episode before break - first episode after break)
2/15/07 - 2/26/07
3/29/07 - 4/9/07
5/24/07 - 6/4/07
6/28/07 - 7/16/07
Hi. poor college student here will teach you the ways of the mobile, young grasshopper. 1. call her cell (3way is the new 2way, and calling her is like using a walkie-talkie, since you get free in-network calls) 2. yes. (who doesn't have a cell? and if they don't, they get to use yours. you're such a gracious host!) 3. you pay for TV?
I don't know anything about shadow copy, but Apple's Time Machine is all userland. There is a process that looks for file system events and logs the files that have been changed. Every x time units (e.g. 1 hour) a heavily hardlinked copy of your most recent backup is copied to a new tree and the newly modified files are copied over there. Every y time units (e.g. 1 day), all but the day's newest backup are deleted. If you run out of space, old trees are also deleted.
(this is the same AC as above) the core apache server is pretty small, and most things are modules that are loaded in. there is also lighttpd, which doesn't load apache modules, but is a pretty lean & mean webserver h
I think the two worst computer bugs of all time are the two that quite possibly could have wiped us all out. More inforation here.
(Copied from the article:)
* November 9, 1979, when the US made emergency retaliation preparations after NORAD saw on-screen indications that a full-scale Soviet attack had been launched. No attempt was made to use the "red telephone" hotline to clarify the situation with the USSR and it was not until early-warning radar systems confirmed no such launch had taken place that NORAD realised that a computer system test had caused the display errors. A Senator at NORAD at the time described an atmosphere of absolute panic. A GAO investigation led to the construction of an off-site test facility, to prevent similar mistakes subsequently. A fictionalized version of this incident was filmed as the movie WarGames, in which the test system is inadvertantly triggered by a teenage hacker believing himself to be playing a video game.
* September 26, 1983, when Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov refused to launch ICBMs, despite computer indications that the US had already launched.
If it weren't for two humans who said "fuck what the computer says!", we might be in a very different place right now.
I think that "with corrupt intent" is redundant in the context of the definition of bribery. If a wealthy lobbyist tries to influence the actions of an elected official, he is essentially trying to use money and power to subvert democracy by moving the official's loyalty away from his/her constituents needs towards the needs of the wealthy few. If attempting to subvert democracy doesn't have intrinsic corrupt intent, I don't know what does.
Now, I don't want this to sound too one-sided, so I think it's important to say that I'm not against corporate campaign contributions, I'm just against any contribution that has stipulations, either expressed or implied, attached to it.
In any case, IANAL, so everything I say should be taken with a metric tonne of salt.