Last time I checked, cable ISPs don't put the whole connection sharing bit up in bold type with the maximum bandwidth figure. If someone figures that the bandwidth they will get is actually the bandwidth advertised you can hardly blame them. That's why I go ADSL, I always get exactly what is written on my bill. But that is because I am a tech savy nerd, not everyone can say the same thing.
If the rumours are correct, he'd hate the fact that one cannot have slaves and that one now has to seduce black girls at a bar like everybody else. That doesn't mean that society has gone in the wrong direction though.
Hrm, could that be do to a lack of standards in linux graphics?
What, like OpenGL?
Also there's no money involved as everyone in the linux space wants stuff for free or will be the first out to pirate it in the name of some sort of "freedom."
I've got a legit copy of UT2004 installed on my linux partition as well as most of the quake series, in fact I've never pirated a linux game, though I make windows game piracy an almost daily habit.
Objective answers - rather than pro-nukular or anti-nuclear spin - preferred (some hope!)
That site linked to is titled "Nuclear Energy institute" and has such topics as "Nuclear, the clean air energy". Not that I don't agree with them that nuclear power is a very good idea, but seriously, they do have a bit of a political slant don't they?
A little cynical, but rightly so. Here's a question: which is better?
A: mobi.yahoo.com
B: yahoo.mobi
Since most likely the mobile site will be hosted in the same network as the main yahoo.com site, it should be in the yahoo.com domain. Thus the difference is A is correct and B shows a fundimental misunderstanding about domain conventions by whoever is proposing this sack of shit.
Before I discuss spelling rules I would like to point out to any readers that I am not criticizing anyone's spelling here and in turn I do not expect to be criticized for any mistakes I may well have made.
What I always learned is that 's was added if the word does not end with (schwa)s since adding an 's would effectively sound like (schwa)s(schwa)s which would be really awkward and stupid. That's why you never see "Jesus's" written, because you'd sound really dumb saying it like that.
By the way, WTF is with/. and special characters (in this case the little rotated e I wanted to use)? They just disappear as soon as I hit preview, maybe it is a firefox font problem or something.
You just don't get it. Pron is not difficult to find now. What's a lot more difficult (relatively) is filtering it out. If you take all of the existing pron sites and force them to move to.xxx domain, then all you need is one simple rule and your job is done. No constant updating of filters, nothing slipping through the cracks - you're done. That's it - that's all.
We could have used you as a general at Verdun in WWI. We could have won that battle in a day if we had simply taken all the German soldiers and forced them to move to the open ground, then we could have simply shot them. No year long trench battle, no 700 000 casualties, no eventual stalemate. We win - that is all.
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Most open source developers are very happy to have people use their software for free. What very few are willing to do is provide support for free. Support isn't fun, takes a lot of time and is generally just as frustrating as coding but gives the developer very little to show at the end of the day. The price for some support is money, many open developers make some cash that way. But for most hobbiests, the price is politeness, patience and possibly even a little gratitude. Giving away software is a fun thing to do, getting pushed around by an obnoxious user in a developer channel/list is something completely different, there is no reason to claim someone shouldn't do the former simply because they cannot tollerate the latter.
If an email client or web browser was running with as little privalages as it needs then there would be no way possible to directly install something malicious through it. It wouldn't plug the hole completely (someone could just download something and run it) but it would help a lot.
By the way, did anyone find it strange how my last post got modded flamebait? I post hundreds of comments a year, most of them thinly veiled abuse, then I make a comment about how focusing on security would eliminate the need for widely deployed virus scanners and I get modded flamebait for the first time I can remember. All I can say is wow.
There is no reason for Microsoft to be making Anti-virus, Anti-spyware or similar tools. They should simply write their software so it is naturally resitant (like running software with least privilages, rather than Administrator).
Here's some news for you: water boils at 373 kelvin, it cannot be any hotter. When you make coffee you boil your water at 373 kelvin then either add milk or let it cool a little, regardless, you must handle water that is at the maximum temperature boundaries of what McDonalds coffee could be and you probably didn't hurt yourself. Coffee is hot stuff, you have to watch out for it, whether you make it or it comes from McDonalds.
The person who discovered this isn't just some random XBox blogger, this is a writer for a major magazine. Someone who would have alot to loose for just making stuff up.
Hmm, ok, so this guy would be doing something very stupid if he was making it up, thus we know for a fact that he isn't making it up.
That kind of thinking leads to the amazing success of the "big lie", a propaganda technique that involves saying something SO incredibly different from what is generally accepted that people won't be able to imagine that you would have taken such a chance with your credibility by lying, thus you must be telling the truth.
But where do you draw the line? WW2 is ok, so what about Korea? Vietnam? Iraq in the early 90s? Iraq now?
Compared to WWII, all those other wars (plus Columbine and 2001/9/11 for that matter) were about as tragic as a guy stubbing his toe. No disrespect intended for the veterens of these events, but compared to 62 Million deaths from combat, bombing, starving, nuking and mass genocide, every other nasty event in the four thousand odd years of written history of violence seems like a jolly piece of fun.
The guy further up the thread claimed that they both got some, but the USSR got more, whereas the USA got the chief engineer behind the V2 which is by far the greatest asset up for grabs. I'm not saying the USA got more either, I'm just saying that the USSR didn't.
Think about it for a second though. would people in free, capitalist, english speaking, US allied countries like Canada and Australia concede that the USSR won in space if it was not true? Australia, the UK, Canada, etc. always wanted for you guys to win the space race (and did our part to help) because the USSR were commies, but you didn't win, get over it. For all of the failings of communism, the USSR beat everyone else in every goal but putting an actual human on the moon.
I am not a Canadian by the way, but I have Canadian friends and I really feel sorry for them having to share a border with you guys sometimes. I know not all Americans are fuckwits, but it seems that you do have a greater fuckwit per capita rating than anywhere outside of mainland Europe.
Especially in regards to the Soviet space program, while I do want to give credit where credit's due, I think it's also worth pointing out the number of Soviet failures and accidents
IIRC, The soviet union has lost 4 cosmonauts but the US has lost 17 astronauts. The USSR was leading the body count with Soyuz 1 and 11 compared to America's Apollo 1, but the USA took a comfortable lead with the Challenger and left the USSR in their dust with the Columbia. That said, the American space program has launched more people up there than the Soviet one and the USSR had some nasty ground problems (though so did the US) but you can't claim that the Soviet space program was any more dangerous.
The USA got Werner Von Braun from the Third Reich, the chief designer of the V2 who was worth far more than any bombed to shit WWII industrial facility is worth. It was good old faciest know how driving both sides in equal amounts.
Your assessment of the space race is nothing more than rosy eyed patriotism, which is sweet and everything, but essentially, space is the only place that the Russians didn't screw up and no amount of re-interpretation can change that.
Some of those "nation of criminals" jokes are actually pretty funny and I think Australian culture is actually effected by that part of our heritage. However when you hear people like Bob Larson talking about "ancestral guilt" in Australia, we know that there are some people who don't realise it is all just a funny stereotype. But I am generally happy about the 50 or 60 Americans that have a sense of humour to joke about it all they want.
As a Nokia 770 user, I say none of those things are an issue
Recent firmware mainly fixed bugs, I didn't really care what was in it
Wireless works great with WPA over here, full support out of the box, unlike most PC linux distros. I don't know what problems you are having.
Wireless remains connected until one either shuts it off or closes the cover, unless you have a usage timeout set.
My main objections would be:
Though it is very power efficient when running (6 hours with just the screen on, 6 hours with just wifi or 4 hours with both), standby consumption is so great that it needs to be charged every three days even if used only sporatically, the device shuts down completely if left in standby for a week. My Nokia 1110 can do triple that.
Although both the onscreen keyboard and the handwriting recognition is done well, neither of them are anything compared to a good keyboard, but the 770 cannot have a keyboard that isn't bluetooth (expensive).
I think the file manager needs a little bit of work, it tends to become just a tad unstable and/or unresponsive when browsing files, especially over bluetooth.
The bus between the CPU and the screen is awefully slow, it kinda makes it sucky for being the "multimedia device" it is advertised as. Videos need highspeed fullscreen transfers, that's all there is to it.
The zippy DSP is no substitute for a big fat main core, the DSP is especially useless for an open souce targeted system since the SDK for said chip is expensive. If this is such a multimedia capable device, give us a nice fast ARM core like a recent Intel XScale (maybe Monahans), or maybe even an ARM with an FPU (yes, they exist) so we can get some performance with flash.
RS-MMC, WTF? I have only ever seen one of these elusive creatures and that is the tiny one that shipped with the 770 itself. I desperately want a GiB of extera flash, but I can't find it anywhere in Sydney, it totally sucks. If only they had allowed it to be a milimeter fatter in breadth they could have stuck a full size SD card reader in it or left it the same size and supported MicroSD or hell, even left it the same socket but allowed it to read with its door open so it could support a real sized MMC hanging out the back of it.
The GTK fork they use is a little infuriating, mainly it is exactly the same as its full size cousin, but sometimes there is something they just changed a little and it will piss you off for days before you find out what it is, like how they butchered trees or their abominable new widgets that have no signals that can be attached, WTF? That's plain AWEFUL!
They use GStreamer, awesome, that means it will support all of the extensive array of codecs GStreamer does right? Well no actually, it doesn't support OGG in its core media subsystem for one. Apparently Nokia didn't trust the legalities of OGG, but if that is the case, they should make it easy to install a plugin yourself, they don't. All GStreamer plugins should be able to be installed whether Nokia likes them or not, if you don't want to be associated with something, that is fine, but don't stop me from installing it.
The user base is very small, so if you write something cool, hoping people will use it, that is not as likely as you might think. I spent days writing a game specifically for it but it was very hard to get anyone interested in testing it. That kind of made me depressed to think that possibly the total amount of time people will spend playing it is less than the time it took to write. I'm not sure how much more development work will happen with it.
But all in all, despite some of these weaknesses, it's a great little gadget, it is fun and actually verges on the almost useful in rare occasions. If you want something that lets you have the web, email and some multimedia in your pocket along with some games and the l
Today I got to talk to 7 women and I didn't even have to pay a single one of them. One of them even laughed at my jokes and stuff, it was awesome. The unfortunent thing is that it won't happen again for weeks.
If they would start "paying every 21-year-old new hire mid six-figures, a corner office, two months off their first year and free food all day" they could probably get the very best employees that the market had to offer. Good staff are worth so much more than lots of staff after all.
All news sources are biased, the trick is subtracting their bias from my bias and adding it to the news, that will give me something I'm willing to believe, possibly no more true, but biased in a way I like it to be biased. Fox news I guess is biased so far that it might be beyond the relm of useful biased where it cannot be compensated for, but you can probably glean some moderately useful stuff from it.
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Last time I checked, cable ISPs don't put the whole connection sharing bit up in bold type with the maximum bandwidth figure. If someone figures that the bandwidth they will get is actually the bandwidth advertised you can hardly blame them. That's why I go ADSL, I always get exactly what is written on my bill. But that is because I am a tech savy nerd, not everyone can say the same thing.
If the rumours are correct, he'd hate the fact that one cannot have slaves and that one now has to seduce black girls at a bar like everybody else. That doesn't mean that society has gone in the wrong direction though.
A non-government lobbyist organization that claims to be fair has an obligation to be fair though.
If you went into your workshop and made yourself an exact duplicate of that toaster, would sunbeam sue you unless you mass produced ans sold them?
Since most likely the mobile site will be hosted in the same network as the main yahoo.com site, it should be in the yahoo.com domain. Thus the difference is A is correct and B shows a fundimental misunderstanding about domain conventions by whoever is proposing this sack of shit.
What I always learned is that 's was added if the word does not end with (schwa)s since adding an 's would effectively sound like (schwa)s(schwa)s which would be really awkward and stupid. That's why you never see "Jesus's" written, because you'd sound really dumb saying it like that.
By the way, WTF is with /. and special characters (in this case the little rotated e I wanted to use)? They just disappear as soon as I hit preview, maybe it is a firefox font problem or something.
By the way, when I say "We" I'm not French, I'm just thinking about the Entente in general.
We could have used you as a general at Verdun in WWI. We could have won that battle in a day if we had simply taken all the German soldiers and forced them to move to the open ground, then we could have simply shot them. No year long trench battle, no 700 000 casualties, no eventual stalemate. We win - that is all.
Most open source developers are very happy to have people use their software for free. What very few are willing to do is provide support for free. Support isn't fun, takes a lot of time and is generally just as frustrating as coding but gives the developer very little to show at the end of the day. The price for some support is money, many open developers make some cash that way. But for most hobbiests, the price is politeness, patience and possibly even a little gratitude. Giving away software is a fun thing to do, getting pushed around by an obnoxious user in a developer channel/list is something completely different, there is no reason to claim someone shouldn't do the former simply because they cannot tollerate the latter.
I know a lot of people who want heroin, cocane and other such things, but they arn't allowed to have them because it isn't good for them.
By the way, did anyone find it strange how my last post got modded flamebait? I post hundreds of comments a year, most of them thinly veiled abuse, then I make a comment about how focusing on security would eliminate the need for widely deployed virus scanners and I get modded flamebait for the first time I can remember. All I can say is wow.
There is no reason for Microsoft to be making Anti-virus, Anti-spyware or similar tools. They should simply write their software so it is naturally resitant (like running software with least privilages, rather than Administrator).
Here's some news for you: water boils at 373 kelvin, it cannot be any hotter. When you make coffee you boil your water at 373 kelvin then either add milk or let it cool a little, regardless, you must handle water that is at the maximum temperature boundaries of what McDonalds coffee could be and you probably didn't hurt yourself. Coffee is hot stuff, you have to watch out for it, whether you make it or it comes from McDonalds.
Hmm, ok, so this guy would be doing something very stupid if he was making it up, thus we know for a fact that he isn't making it up.
That kind of thinking leads to the amazing success of the "big lie", a propaganda technique that involves saying something SO incredibly different from what is generally accepted that people won't be able to imagine that you would have taken such a chance with your credibility by lying, thus you must be telling the truth.
Compared to WWII, all those other wars (plus Columbine and 2001/9/11 for that matter) were about as tragic as a guy stubbing his toe. No disrespect intended for the veterens of these events, but compared to 62 Million deaths from combat, bombing, starving, nuking and mass genocide, every other nasty event in the four thousand odd years of written history of violence seems like a jolly piece of fun.
Think about it for a second though. would people in free, capitalist, english speaking, US allied countries like Canada and Australia concede that the USSR won in space if it was not true? Australia, the UK, Canada, etc. always wanted for you guys to win the space race (and did our part to help) because the USSR were commies, but you didn't win, get over it. For all of the failings of communism, the USSR beat everyone else in every goal but putting an actual human on the moon.
I am not a Canadian by the way, but I have Canadian friends and I really feel sorry for them having to share a border with you guys sometimes. I know not all Americans are fuckwits, but it seems that you do have a greater fuckwit per capita rating than anywhere outside of mainland Europe.
"It was good old faciest know how driving both sides in equal amounts." --Me, if you had read my post
IIRC, The soviet union has lost 4 cosmonauts but the US has lost 17 astronauts. The USSR was leading the body count with Soyuz 1 and 11 compared to America's Apollo 1, but the USA took a comfortable lead with the Challenger and left the USSR in their dust with the Columbia. That said, the American space program has launched more people up there than the Soviet one and the USSR had some nasty ground problems (though so did the US) but you can't claim that the Soviet space program was any more dangerous.
The USA got Werner Von Braun from the Third Reich, the chief designer of the V2 who was worth far more than any bombed to shit WWII industrial facility is worth. It was good old faciest know how driving both sides in equal amounts.
Your assessment of the space race is nothing more than rosy eyed patriotism, which is sweet and everything, but essentially, space is the only place that the Russians didn't screw up and no amount of re-interpretation can change that.
Some of those "nation of criminals" jokes are actually pretty funny and I think Australian culture is actually effected by that part of our heritage. However when you hear people like Bob Larson talking about "ancestral guilt" in Australia, we know that there are some people who don't realise it is all just a funny stereotype. But I am generally happy about the 50 or 60 Americans that have a sense of humour to joke about it all they want.
My main objections would be:
But all in all, despite some of these weaknesses, it's a great little gadget, it is fun and actually verges on the almost useful in rare occasions. If you want something that lets you have the web, email and some multimedia in your pocket along with some games and the l
Today I got to talk to 7 women and I didn't even have to pay a single one of them. One of them even laughed at my jokes and stuff, it was awesome. The unfortunent thing is that it won't happen again for weeks.
If they would start "paying every 21-year-old new hire mid six-figures, a corner office, two months off their first year and free food all day" they could probably get the very best employees that the market had to offer. Good staff are worth so much more than lots of staff after all.
All news sources are biased, the trick is subtracting their bias from my bias and adding it to the news, that will give me something I'm willing to believe, possibly no more true, but biased in a way I like it to be biased. Fox news I guess is biased so far that it might be beyond the relm of useful biased where it cannot be compensated for, but you can probably glean some moderately useful stuff from it.