I'm leaving out lots of other reasons why the Chinese government is awful. Here's a suggestion, try to breath in Bejing.
Yeah... but that isn't necessarily the government Being Evil - they simply decided that the cost of controlling emissions was too detrimental to the pocket of the end consumer and their way of life. Defining "not Being Evil" as like crushing what most would consider basic human rights and such...
Breathing the local air wasn't such a good idea in major American and European cities in the late 1800s and early 1900s either... Nice mix of horse/donkey/oxen shit, the occasional drunk or drug addict (heroin, opium, etc), as well as the coal and wood smoke from people cooking or trying to keep warm. Check out the evolution of the pepper moth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Layer 1 has been done. THe "install now" icon on a live CD, the Store in Ubuntu, etc. Heck, just mkdir/etc/skel/Desktop and put the file there and call it a day....
Layer 2 would be sticky, but yes, include it on their images. Quote the $BAD_COMPANY $10 to cover the cost of a SD card to include with the board on sale and $2 or more of profit.
Layer 3 is the Truth and where it would stop even if it were included on a free SD card. Heck if I buy a new Dell laptop the first thing I do is image the hard drive, then wipe and reinstall from the provided disk and get rid of all the add-on crap - what MS includes is enough, I don't need trial versions of various things on there as well...
Layer 4 running linux even a shell script is executable - you'll have to pardon the marketing intern that wrote the email... after all, they are in marketing, how much technical knowledge do you expect them to have?
Layer 5 - headless, yes, my Pi runs headless doing DHCP and DNS duty for my home network. As do several others that I know of. The majority of the ones I've seen in the wild though have been used to run changing adverts/displays on TVs mounted in various places... and they are all on a network to enable updates via screenly or similar service. In short, a Pi has many more uses when connected to a network... not that they aren't useful with only 127,0.0.1...
It isn't so much voting, as it is communicating our desires to our representative(s) and having those representatives actually vote the way their electorate is asking them to.
Of course, now with a massive increase in population from the last time representatives were divvied up perhaps it is time instead to change the number of representatives. Perhaps 200 or 250 (4 or 5 per state) senators and ~5k Representatives (since they should represent the People), with sane term limits (2 or 3 election cycles). Maybe adding the massive number of Representatives would be what is needed to break the 2 party system we seem to have even without a legal limit on the number of parties involved...
Between the 10 minutes of commercials in a 30 minute time slot (including running closing and/or opening credits in a small window while a commercial for some other show is playing, sorta like picture-in-a-picture), the corner bugs, the bottom bars that over lap the corner bugs, the other corner bugs, etc. you don't even need a show to show it is about advertising.
Teaching to the test is a very valid educational method - IF the test is any good. Unfortunately, this is the Final Exam of the course called Life that we should be preparing them for... and we aren't doing such a good job of it.
All depends on how you define "better". Faster, further, higher? Soonish, if events are exact same-same. Some events like trap shooting a disability may not matter - I've seen a guy in a wheel chair keep up with the pros. Some like perhaps the high jump I'd almost expect them to do it kinda soonish - it becomes a matter of engineering. If you look at Olympic vs. Paralympic record - I picked 200m men's sprint - you can see some times that are getting *very* close to Usian Bolt's 9.30 second time from the 2008 games.
I can see where a boot password would be handy for a kiosk or similar setup where the machine is out in public space, and I'd definitely want it locked down to some degree. BIOS boot options as well.
Probably depends on corporate policy. If law enforcement gets involved, there will be questions asked at least... the rest depends on the answers.
I know that I'm responsible for removing my staff parking decal from any car I sell that has one... heck, I removed it when I had a windshield replaced. I've seen how easy it is to transfer them to paper to use as a hang tag instead of stuck on glass.
A coworker won the lotto (10mil) and gave an old car to a work study student. Student was given bill of sale ($1), etc. but never actually put it in their name. It was found 9 months later in a large city a few hundred miles away in the "wrong part of town". Cops came and talked to coworker.... just to clear their paperwork.
Indeed. Kinda long for the "old days" of dialup only. Sure, speeds sucked but generally you had many ISPs to choose from, from national outfits to local mom-n-pop operations. Heck, I switched ISPs and paid $3 more per month to connect via a provider that also ran game servers in their data center. Even with a ping of 150 quake was great to play when there were only a couple of hops between me on my dialup and the server itself. Almost as good as dialing directly into the server.
Ayup. The original owner of the house worked for the local power company, and hated the thought of paying his own salary in his power bill. AC at 75 in the middle of a Florida summer is a $150 electric bill...
He was also a fan of over building in general. House is from mid 80s and is over built even accordign to today's code for new construction. Hardly any noise, no concerns with strong storms (hurricanes, tropical storms, and just general bad weather), etc.
Exactly... I'm not even sure how it would do that. Locate phones? possibly... determine if a particular phone is in range? Sure... Actually scan the calls for keywords? No way... At least, nothing portable in anything less than a plane much bigger than a 4 seat cessna, or with a massive data pipe back to land-based crunching resources
My house has 2x6 exterior walls, with insulation in them. My interior walls are 2x4, but are also insulated. Outside noise is so reduced, when there is an accident on the super sharp corner we live on, we don't hear it - hte neighbors 100 yards further away do and they are the ones that call the cops/ambulance. We notice when we see the flashing lights outside...
Just like apple did, break away from old crufty OS for a fresh start, but not piss off your existing customer base - let them keep older versions of their apps for a OS cycle or two
Same with her stance on gun control. While one of the biggest proponents, she has (or had... she may have given it up in shame when this was revealed) a CCW permit in California, which is near impossible for an average person to obtain
"I have concern about a PlayStation that my grandchildren might use," she said, "and a predator getting on the other end, and talking to them, and it's all encrypted. I think there really is reason to have the ability, with a court order, to be able to get into that."
You could be involved with your kids and *you* be in charge of who they are communicating with via your playstation
Of course there is a root user. Just use sudo -i to become root, then run the installer/make install/whatever
Or, as I have stated enough times to get banned from the ubuntu forums, just run sudo passwd and set a password for the root user - then anything expecting to be able to su -c or whatever will work too.
Not everywhere. In California, perhaps (you mention DROS which is only Cali AFAIK). Here in Florida, most dealers charge $20-30 plus the phone call fee, the state charges tehm $5 per call but the dealer is allowed (by law) to charge $8.
Of course, if you like older stuff, you can get a C&R FFL (aka Type 3 FFL) for under $50 for 3 years and have qualifying firearms shipped directly to you.
Ah, but you *can* see hte bullet in flight as it moves away from you if you are the shooter... or possibly even further off angle if the light is just right.
In fact, in good light with a very high magnification scope (I've seen it at 20x, easier at 36x) it is possible to fire a 22 target gun at a target and watch the bullet for most of its travel path. (average muzzle velocity around 1050fps - just under speed of sound)
From one of the collective's favorite authors - perhaps the same holds for coffee?
"It is a curious fact, and one to which no-one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85 percent of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand variations on this phonetic theme. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian âchinanto/mnigsâ(TM) which is ordinary water served just above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan 'tzjin-anthony-ksâ(TM) which kills cows at a hundred paces; and in fact the only one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that their names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds."
Modern handgun ammo as would be used in military (9mm, 45acp) is usually 800ish to 1300ish feet/sec, depending on caliber and exact load. Some new stuff (5.7x28, 22 TCM) drives a small light bullet at super high velocities - 1700+fps.
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Doesn't work this way with the 2nd amendment - why should it work with something that isn't even a right enumerated in the constitution?
I'm leaving out lots of other reasons why the Chinese government is awful. Here's a suggestion, try to breath in Bejing.
Yeah... but that isn't necessarily the government Being Evil - they simply decided that the cost of controlling emissions was too detrimental to the pocket of the end consumer and their way of life. Defining "not Being Evil" as like crushing what most would consider basic human rights and such...
Breathing the local air wasn't such a good idea in major American and European cities in the late 1800s and early 1900s either... Nice mix of horse/donkey/oxen shit, the occasional drunk or drug addict (heroin, opium, etc), as well as the coal and wood smoke from people cooking or trying to keep warm. Check out the evolution of the pepper moth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Layer 1 has been done. THe "install now" icon on a live CD, the Store in Ubuntu, etc. Heck, just mkdir /etc/skel/Desktop and put the file there and call it a day....
Layer 2 would be sticky, but yes, include it on their images. Quote the $BAD_COMPANY $10 to cover the cost of a SD card to include with the board on sale and $2 or more of profit.
Layer 3 is the Truth and where it would stop even if it were included on a free SD card. Heck if I buy a new Dell laptop the first thing I do is image the hard drive, then wipe and reinstall from the provided disk and get rid of all the add-on crap - what MS includes is enough, I don't need trial versions of various things on there as well...
Layer 4 running linux even a shell script is executable - you'll have to pardon the marketing intern that wrote the email ... after all, they are in marketing, how much technical knowledge do you expect them to have?
Layer 5 - headless, yes, my Pi runs headless doing DHCP and DNS duty for my home network. As do several others that I know of. The majority of the ones I've seen in the wild though have been used to run changing adverts/displays on TVs mounted in various places... and they are all on a network to enable updates via screenly or similar service. In short, a Pi has many more uses when connected to a network... not that they aren't useful with only 127,0.0.1 ...
It isn't so much voting, as it is communicating our desires to our representative(s) and having those representatives actually vote the way their electorate is asking them to.
Of course, now with a massive increase in population from the last time representatives were divvied up perhaps it is time instead to change the number of representatives. Perhaps 200 or 250 (4 or 5 per state) senators and ~5k Representatives (since they should represent the People), with sane term limits (2 or 3 election cycles). Maybe adding the massive number of Representatives would be what is needed to break the 2 party system we seem to have even without a legal limit on the number of parties involved...
Between the 10 minutes of commercials in a 30 minute time slot (including running closing and/or opening credits in a small window while a commercial for some other show is playing, sorta like picture-in-a-picture), the corner bugs, the bottom bars that over lap the corner bugs, the other corner bugs, etc. you don't even need a show to show it is about advertising.
Teaching to the test is a very valid educational method - IF the test is any good. Unfortunately, this is the Final Exam of the course called Life that we should be preparing them for... and we aren't doing such a good job of it.
Not just odds of a winning hand, but rather, the chances of a hand someone else has of being a better hand.
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All depends on how you define "better". Faster, further, higher? Soonish, if events are exact same-same. Some events like trap shooting a disability may not matter - I've seen a guy in a wheel chair keep up with the pros. Some like perhaps the high jump I'd almost expect them to do it kinda soonish - it becomes a matter of engineering. If you look at Olympic vs. Paralympic record - I picked 200m men's sprint - you can see some times that are getting *very* close to Usian Bolt's 9.30 second time from the 2008 games.
I can see where a boot password would be handy for a kiosk or similar setup where the machine is out in public space, and I'd definitely want it locked down to some degree. BIOS boot options as well.
For a server room, this is no big deal.
Probably depends on corporate policy. If law enforcement gets involved, there will be questions asked at least... the rest depends on the answers.
I know that I'm responsible for removing my staff parking decal from any car I sell that has one ... heck, I removed it when I had a windshield replaced. I've seen how easy it is to transfer them to paper to use as a hang tag instead of stuck on glass.
A coworker won the lotto (10mil) and gave an old car to a work study student. Student was given bill of sale ($1), etc. but never actually put it in their name. It was found 9 months later in a large city a few hundred miles away in the "wrong part of town". Cops came and talked to coworker.... just to clear their paperwork.
Indeed. Kinda long for the "old days" of dialup only. Sure, speeds sucked but generally you had many ISPs to choose from, from national outfits to local mom-n-pop operations. Heck, I switched ISPs and paid $3 more per month to connect via a provider that also ran game servers in their data center. Even with a ping of 150 quake was great to play when there were only a couple of hops between me on my dialup and the server itself. Almost as good as dialing directly into the server.
Ayup. The original owner of the house worked for the local power company, and hated the thought of paying his own salary in his power bill. AC at 75 in the middle of a Florida summer is a $150 electric bill...
He was also a fan of over building in general. House is from mid 80s and is over built even accordign to today's code for new construction. Hardly any noise, no concerns with strong storms (hurricanes, tropical storms, and just general bad weather), etc.
Exactly... I'm not even sure how it would do that. Locate phones? possibly... determine if a particular phone is in range? Sure... Actually scan the calls for keywords? No way... At least, nothing portable in anything less than a plane much bigger than a 4 seat cessna, or with a massive data pipe back to land-based crunching resources
My house has 2x6 exterior walls, with insulation in them. My interior walls are 2x4, but are also insulated. Outside noise is so reduced, when there is an accident on the super sharp corner we live on, we don't hear it - hte neighbors 100 yards further away do and they are the ones that call the cops/ambulance. We notice when we see the flashing lights outside...
Just like apple did, break away from old crufty OS for a fresh start, but not piss off your existing customer base - let them keep older versions of their apps for a OS cycle or two
With their inner knowledge of Windows and the various system calls and such it uses how hard would be be for Microsoft to perfect WINE?
Didn't early versions of OS X allow running OS 9.x applications?
Same with her stance on gun control. While one of the biggest proponents, she has (or had... she may have given it up in shame when this was revealed) a CCW permit in California, which is near impossible for an average person to obtain
"I have concern about a PlayStation that my grandchildren might use," she said, "and a predator getting on the other end, and talking to them, and it's all encrypted. I think there really is reason to have the ability, with a court order, to be able to get into that."
You could be involved with your kids and *you* be in charge of who they are communicating with via your playstation
Of course there is a root user. Just use sudo -i to become root, then run the installer/make install/whatever
Or, as I have stated enough times to get banned from the ubuntu forums, just run sudo passwd and set a password for the root user - then anything expecting to be able to su -c or whatever will work too.
Released just in time for the Hogswatch sales season! Yay!
Not everywhere. In California, perhaps (you mention DROS which is only Cali AFAIK). Here in Florida, most dealers charge $20-30 plus the phone call fee, the state charges tehm $5 per call but the dealer is allowed (by law) to charge $8.
Of course, if you like older stuff, you can get a C&R FFL (aka Type 3 FFL) for under $50 for 3 years and have qualifying firearms shipped directly to you.
https://www.atf.gov/firearms/c...
Ah, but you *can* see hte bullet in flight as it moves away from you if you are the shooter... or possibly even further off angle if the light is just right.
In fact, in good light with a very high magnification scope (I've seen it at 20x, easier at 36x) it is possible to fire a 22 target gun at a target and watch the bullet for most of its travel path. (average muzzle velocity around 1050fps - just under speed of sound)
From one of the collective's favorite authors - perhaps the same holds for coffee?
"It is a curious fact, and one to which no-one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85 percent of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand variations on this phonetic theme.
The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian âchinanto/mnigsâ(TM) which is ordinary water served just above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan 'tzjin-anthony-ksâ(TM) which kills cows at a hundred paces; and in fact the only one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that their names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds."
Modern handgun ammo as would be used in military (9mm, 45acp) is usually 800ish to 1300ish feet/sec, depending on caliber and exact load. Some new stuff (5.7x28, 22 TCM) drives a small light bullet at super high velocities - 1700+fps.