Is it true that the gubmint can track the location of my cellie even when it's off? Or do I really need to disconnect the battery?
It's theoretically possible since it's a soft power-off. Hypothetically, the phone could still be operating while giving the appearance of being turned off. By the same token, it could be taking pictures and transmitting audio even when you're not on a call and not using the camera, or even when "off". Whether this is ever actually done, I don't know.
I think this is worth repeating. There is a common misconception that while a quickformat does not wipe the drive, a regular format does. Both types of formats only write enough information to initialize the filesystem, and leave other sectors untouched. The only difference is that a regular format verifies the readability of all (or at least most) sectors within the partition before initializing the filesystem.
I have a Core2 Duo running 32-bit Windows, with 64-bit Ubuntu Linux running in VMWare Server. I've been doing this for nearly two years now, no problems at all.
His answer presupposes that there is no such thing as a soul, no creative spark, only emerging properties of complex systems. That is a very narrow and pessimistic view. A person with that sort of view might as well just crawl away to die, what would be the point of going on?
From an omniscient, outside, point-of-view, my actions are entirely deterministic. But from my own point of view, I have free will and choices. The point of living is whatever you make it. Unfortunately, this open-ended freedom scares some people. The narrowness and pessimism you see is simply a result of this. But you don't have to think of it that way.
The creative spark can be thought of as emergent behavior of a complex system. If you could simulate a person and their environment in their entirety, then you could predict their every move, including their creativity. But from my own perspective, creativity is not so deterministic. I believe I have free will, that I am making choices of my own will. I know that if you examine it at a low enough level, it's all deterministic. But it doesn't matter. Consciousness is an illusion, but a very relevant one.
I like to think of it the opposite way: RAID 5 is a special-case implementation of RAID 6. The parity calculation in RAID 5 work out to be a simple XOR, but the second (and third, fourth, etc) parity calculations in RAID 6 with two or more parities are significantly more difficult.
And again, Microsoft is drawing attention to Apple's ads. Don't draw attention to your opponent unless he has managed to grab sufficient mind-share to demand a response!
While I agree with this, Apple has definitely grabbed mind-share with their ads. Microsoft may be leading in the market, but Apple has been gaining ground. Whether their gains are sufficient to illicit a direct response is debatable (and something I'm not knowledgeable enough to debate).
The idea was that the more artistic nature of Macs should appeal to users of all walks of life. Microsoft obviously didn't get that.
I believe you're the one not getting it. The purpose of this advertisement is not to carefully interpret the Apple ad, but to override it with their own interpretation. I think they did a fair job at this.
While technically correct, this is not common usage. Even Apple promotes the distinction in their commercials (Mac guy and PC guy).
The most disgusting thing is the chauvinism from BOTH sides, the other operating systems don't exist, and if you're running a PC it must be running Microsoft Something. If you're running a Mac it must be running OS X.
It's an advertisement. They're already giving publicity to one competitor, why would they want to include even more?
You could show Mao smiling as he holds a bus pass.
A bus pass to a forced labor camp. Mao would reduce pollution by purging the population or setting up camps in which "enemies of the state" would be forced to pedal bicycles to generate electricity.
Two tests: Give the Amazon natives sufficient food and water and safety from other people, and see how long they can comfortably survive in lands where English is spoken.
Then give native English speakers sufficient food and water and safety from other people, and see how long they can comfortably survive in the Amazon region.
All this really says is that we have higher living standards.
We are finding cures in nature that have baffled science for many years.
This is a non sequitur. Science is about studying nature and learning from it. You're creating a dichotomy where there is none.
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The ClearType used by Windows really gets me. Yes, it does make the shapes smother, but what it does is turn the edges into rainbows.
This may be due to your monitor not being specified correctly. IIRC, there are two main types of LCD panels: RGB and BGR (different color orders), and in order for ClearType to work correctly, it has to know which one you're using. I've noticed if someone does a non-lossy screen capture of some ClearType text on a computer set up for the opposite sub-pixel color order than what I use, the text looks crappy and has that rainbow effect.
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It's theoretically possible since it's a soft power-off. Hypothetically, the phone could still be operating while giving the appearance of being turned off. By the same token, it could be taking pictures and transmitting audio even when you're not on a call and not using the camera, or even when "off". Whether this is ever actually done, I don't know.
He only pretended to release a jar of mosquitoes. Which is actually kinda disappointing.
I think this is worth repeating. There is a common misconception that while a quickformat does not wipe the drive, a regular format does. Both types of formats only write enough information to initialize the filesystem, and leave other sectors untouched. The only difference is that a regular format verifies the readability of all (or at least most) sectors within the partition before initializing the filesystem.
Nice to see the editors are on the job.
I have a Core2 Duo running 32-bit Windows, with 64-bit Ubuntu Linux running in VMWare Server. I've been doing this for nearly two years now, no problems at all.
Line of code != Compilable program
From an omniscient, outside, point-of-view, my actions are entirely deterministic. But from my own point of view, I have free will and choices. The point of living is whatever you make it. Unfortunately, this open-ended freedom scares some people. The narrowness and pessimism you see is simply a result of this. But you don't have to think of it that way.
The creative spark can be thought of as emergent behavior of a complex system. If you could simulate a person and their environment in their entirety, then you could predict their every move, including their creativity. But from my own perspective, creativity is not so deterministic. I believe I have free will, that I am making choices of my own will. I know that if you examine it at a low enough level, it's all deterministic. But it doesn't matter. Consciousness is an illusion, but a very relevant one.
I guess I should've looked at your recent comment history :p
I like to think of it the opposite way: RAID 5 is a special-case implementation of RAID 6. The parity calculation in RAID 5 work out to be a simple XOR, but the second (and third, fourth, etc) parity calculations in RAID 6 with two or more parities are significantly more difficult.
If you're interested in implementation, check out The mathematics of RAID-6 (pdf) by H. Peter Anvin, and A Tutorial on Reed-Solomon Coding for Fault-Tolerance in RAID-like Systems (pdf) by James S. Plank (I used these as references to write a RAID-6 implementation in Java).
While I agree with this, Apple has definitely grabbed mind-share with their ads. Microsoft may be leading in the market, but Apple has been gaining ground. Whether their gains are sufficient to illicit a direct response is debatable (and something I'm not knowledgeable enough to debate).
I believe you're the one not getting it. The purpose of this advertisement is not to carefully interpret the Apple ad, but to override it with their own interpretation. I think they did a fair job at this.
While technically correct, this is not common usage. Even Apple promotes the distinction in their commercials (Mac guy and PC guy).
It's an advertisement. They're already giving publicity to one competitor, why would they want to include even more?
For those of you who haven't seen the video, take some time to watch it. Really, it's worth it.
A bus pass to a forced labor camp. Mao would reduce pollution by purging the population or setting up camps in which "enemies of the state" would be forced to pedal bicycles to generate electricity.
All this really says is that we have higher living standards.
Booga-booga!
That video was pretty damn cool. I didn't know chips could be disassembled that way.
The UTF-16 BOM is 2 bytes, the UTF-8 BOM is 3 bytes.
I wish I had mod points for you, well put.