Are you completely sure that that's all that happened? Is that really the only reason? From what I rememeber, 13 year olds go through boyfriends like cowboyneal goes through sandwiches. It seems that she must have been in a pretty fragile state already, if having her boyfriend dump her drove her to suicide. We were all pretty unstable at that point, but it seems little extreme. Don't mean to be harsh, or to assume anything, but it just seems like there must have been more to the story.
But it happened in the US, and in the US, prison solves everything. No rehab needed. Just a specified period of hard time, and then send them back on their own.
I was thinking more likely manslaughter. I think it would be hard to argue for murder when the two people in question had no physical connection. Did they even meet in meatspace? The again, either way it would set an interesting precident. Could bullies at a school be tried for murder if the subject ends up killing themselves. Certainly they are more at fault of a suicide than some person on the internet could ever be. If you don't like a relationship with someone on the internet, you could just not talk to them. If it's someone at school, it's hard to go a day without seeing that person.
Yeah, I didn't watch the video. I just assumed it was the hoax one. That is pretty impressive. As a side note, my brother could beat Blades of Steel on pro mode using the NES Advantage and his feet.
Sounds to me like a lot of the web development frameworks out there. Using ASP.Net, and VS.Net, you can get a lot of stuff done and turn out a really quick project as long as you don't need to do anything they didn't anticipate. Once you need to go outside the box a little, it can be a real pain. If you stick to the basics, and just ignore all the special controls they've thrown in, and take a more PHP type approach to programming, then it may take you longer for some things, but it will be much easier to do a lot of other things.
If you like hot sauce, and are ever near Ottawa, you should check out Chilly Chiles. They sell all kinds of hot sauce. They even sell some pepper extract that is so hot you have to sign a waiver to buy it. A couple drops heats up an entire pot of chilly (from what I hear, never bought it). They also deliver, although I'm unsure about out of the country. I only wish they hadn't moved their shop out to the very edge of the city. They used to have a nice shop located downtown, and it was nice to be able to pick up a bottle of hot sauce on the weekend.
They could, but they could also increase their market share by selling low end equipment. They don't seem to be interested in doing that. The Mac Mini is their lowest cost machine, and even that is twice the price of the cheapest Dell, and is Non-upgradable. It's not without it's features though. It's a nice quiet efficient computer, that would serve most home users quite well. Apple could keep their core user base and charge whatever they want. But if they want to expand to the masses, they need a low end product. Which is why the Nano and Shuffle lines of their iPod are selling so well.
I agree. The movement times of things from Microsoft seem to be monumentally slow, and even after taking so long, there's nothing to show for it. They took 5? years between XP and Vista. They didn't really add many true features, and a large proportion of people would rather be running XP. Compare that with Linux Distros, where a new release happens every 6 months. New features are incorporated as they come available, and things can be changed incrementally, because of the frequent releases. My Mandriva box probably has changed quite a bit more than XP to Vista did in the same time frame, but it hasn't been quite as painful because it has been so incremental. Also, I bet they could sell a lot more retail boxes, and make a lot more money if they released every 6 months and charged $30-$40 for each release, rather than release every 5 years, and have nobody buy retail and everybody just get the $50 OEM license. Even if they only get 2 upgrades over the 5 years, they are still pulling in more money than they would only selling OEM licenses.
I also like swimming with the blue whale in Endless Ocean on the Wii. You can really get a feel for just how big these animals are. Probably not as good as your experience, but still somewhat cool.
It's only a matter of time before Windows becomes too high of a percentage of the cost of a PC for it to offered for free. When you are talking about a sub-$100 computer, the cost of a $25 windows license (big discount) starts to become pretty noticeable.
Anybody who thinks that Blender is too complicated should probably read up on expert interfaces. Doing 3D modelling is not something you can pick up in a couple hours, or learn in a week even. Expert interfaces are fine on tools like Blender where you would expect the user to be able to devote a large amount of time to learning how the tool works, as long as the time spent learning the tool allows them to do the actual tasks more quickly. Blender is like the CLI. It's not entirely obvious from just messing around how to use it effectively, but to the experienced user, it can be quite powerful.
But currently Firefox 3 is still in Beta, and now they will have to support that. Also, who's to say that Firefox 2 won't be supported in 3 years. Firefox 1.5 is still being supported. For that matter, who's to say that Mozilla will even be supporting Firefox 3 in 3 years?
Oh, I know those people too. It's not really the norm though. I would say that it's common enough that almost everybody knows 3 or 4 people who are picky eaters. But when trying to make dinner plans with 10 people, it's usually just the one that's picky.
Why not error on the side of stability then, and ship Firefox 2. For everyone who really needs to have Firefox 3, they are free to install it themselves.
I think by westerners, you really mean people in the United States. My dad travels to the US a lot for work, and he very surprised at how often many of the people eat at restaurants. Some people eat out 4-5 nights a week. Some only do home cooking 1 night a week, if that. In Canada, most people I know prepare meals from some basic ingredients, although a lot of time it's frozen french fries and canned soup. You still don't see a lot of people who eat out (or order in) every night. Most people I know like ethnic food, and really don't have a problem with lots of flavour. Although I do see things going the direction they currently are in the US.
I'm surprised they didn't offer both as an option. Mandriva 2008.1 has KDE3 by default, and an optional KDE4 install. You can install both, and select which one you want from the login screen. It's way too early to force KDE4 on everyone. A lot of features are still missing, and it's still pretty unstable. For the Record Mandriva 2009, plans to be KDE4 only. Hopefully KDE4 will be more mature by then.
I'm not sure, but the 4D software cubes I've played with before seem to be actually 4D. In your sliding puzzle analog, sliding a square on one side would have an effect in the orientation of the squares on the other sides. So in the 4D Rubik's cube model, turning a side on one of the cubes would also rotate something else on one of the other cubes. I can solve the 3x3 Rubik's original, and almost solve the 4x4 variant, but the 4D cubes are next to impossible in my mind.
My Grandfather used to make homemade rootbeer. From what I remember it was quite a bit better than the store bought stuff. We also make a lot of home made food, that most people would just get out of a can. Home made soups and sauces taste quite a bit better than what you get at the store, and are a lot more healthier. Even the low sodium soups at the store contain more salt than most people would put in a home made soup. Real home made food just tastes a lot better. Sadly, I think a lot of people don't realize, or forget just how much better home cooking is.
Not if you live in Canada. Here in Ontario, the cheapest 24 is $24. Anything remotely decent costs $30 for a 24. Most good beers are at least $35. A case of Guinness costs about $50, last time I checked.
The only cases I've heard of that working in is where we "reintroduced" predators back into their natural habitat. We killed off a bunch of wolves, and then restored their population successfully. I don't think it's ever been done to bring in a foreign predator.
Yes, but in my case, the drive was reporting 20% bad sectors, in any of the utilities I tried. There's no way it could have remapped all those sectors. It seems that forcing the computer to write over the entire disc caused the head to get reset or something. I'm not sure why it worked, multiple times, but I have no complaints. I don't keep anything really critical on the drives, but it's a nice place to through stuff that I don't care if I lose.
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Are you completely sure that that's all that happened? Is that really the only reason? From what I rememeber, 13 year olds go through boyfriends like cowboyneal goes through sandwiches. It seems that she must have been in a pretty fragile state already, if having her boyfriend dump her drove her to suicide. We were all pretty unstable at that point, but it seems little extreme. Don't mean to be harsh, or to assume anything, but it just seems like there must have been more to the story.
But it happened in the US, and in the US, prison solves everything. No rehab needed. Just a specified period of hard time, and then send them back on their own.
I was thinking more likely manslaughter. I think it would be hard to argue for murder when the two people in question had no physical connection. Did they even meet in meatspace? The again, either way it would set an interesting precident. Could bullies at a school be tried for murder if the subject ends up killing themselves. Certainly they are more at fault of a suicide than some person on the internet could ever be. If you don't like a relationship with someone on the internet, you could just not talk to them. If it's someone at school, it's hard to go a day without seeing that person.
Yeah, I didn't watch the video. I just assumed it was the hoax one. That is pretty impressive. As a side note, my brother could beat Blades of Steel on pro mode using the NES Advantage and his feet.
Sounds to me like a lot of the web development frameworks out there. Using ASP.Net, and VS.Net, you can get a lot of stuff done and turn out a really quick project as long as you don't need to do anything they didn't anticipate. Once you need to go outside the box a little, it can be a real pain. If you stick to the basics, and just ignore all the special controls they've thrown in, and take a more PHP type approach to programming, then it may take you longer for some things, but it will be much easier to do a lot of other things.
If you like hot sauce, and are ever near Ottawa, you should check out Chilly Chiles. They sell all kinds of hot sauce. They even sell some pepper extract that is so hot you have to sign a waiver to buy it. A couple drops heats up an entire pot of chilly (from what I hear, never bought it). They also deliver, although I'm unsure about out of the country. I only wish they hadn't moved their shop out to the very edge of the city. They used to have a nice shop located downtown, and it was nice to be able to pick up a bottle of hot sauce on the weekend.
They could, but they could also increase their market share by selling low end equipment. They don't seem to be interested in doing that. The Mac Mini is their lowest cost machine, and even that is twice the price of the cheapest Dell, and is Non-upgradable. It's not without it's features though. It's a nice quiet efficient computer, that would serve most home users quite well. Apple could keep their core user base and charge whatever they want. But if they want to expand to the masses, they need a low end product. Which is why the Nano and Shuffle lines of their iPod are selling so well.
I agree. The movement times of things from Microsoft seem to be monumentally slow, and even after taking so long, there's nothing to show for it. They took 5? years between XP and Vista. They didn't really add many true features, and a large proportion of people would rather be running XP. Compare that with Linux Distros, where a new release happens every 6 months. New features are incorporated as they come available, and things can be changed incrementally, because of the frequent releases. My Mandriva box probably has changed quite a bit more than XP to Vista did in the same time frame, but it hasn't been quite as painful because it has been so incremental. Also, I bet they could sell a lot more retail boxes, and make a lot more money if they released every 6 months and charged $30-$40 for each release, rather than release every 5 years, and have nobody buy retail and everybody just get the $50 OEM license. Even if they only get 2 upgrades over the 5 years, they are still pulling in more money than they would only selling OEM licenses.
I also like swimming with the blue whale in Endless Ocean on the Wii. You can really get a feel for just how big these animals are. Probably not as good as your experience, but still somewhat cool.
It's only a matter of time before Windows becomes too high of a percentage of the cost of a PC for it to offered for free. When you are talking about a sub-$100 computer, the cost of a $25 windows license (big discount) starts to become pretty noticeable.
Anybody who thinks that Blender is too complicated should probably read up on expert interfaces. Doing 3D modelling is not something you can pick up in a couple hours, or learn in a week even. Expert interfaces are fine on tools like Blender where you would expect the user to be able to devote a large amount of time to learning how the tool works, as long as the time spent learning the tool allows them to do the actual tasks more quickly. Blender is like the CLI. It's not entirely obvious from just messing around how to use it effectively, but to the experienced user, it can be quite powerful.
But currently Firefox 3 is still in Beta, and now they will have to support that. Also, who's to say that Firefox 2 won't be supported in 3 years. Firefox 1.5 is still being supported. For that matter, who's to say that Mozilla will even be supporting Firefox 3 in 3 years?
Oh, I know those people too. It's not really the norm though. I would say that it's common enough that almost everybody knows 3 or 4 people who are picky eaters. But when trying to make dinner plans with 10 people, it's usually just the one that's picky.
Why not error on the side of stability then, and ship Firefox 2. For everyone who really needs to have Firefox 3, they are free to install it themselves.
I think by westerners, you really mean people in the United States. My dad travels to the US a lot for work, and he very surprised at how often many of the people eat at restaurants. Some people eat out 4-5 nights a week. Some only do home cooking 1 night a week, if that. In Canada, most people I know prepare meals from some basic ingredients, although a lot of time it's frozen french fries and canned soup. You still don't see a lot of people who eat out (or order in) every night. Most people I know like ethnic food, and really don't have a problem with lots of flavour. Although I do see things going the direction they currently are in the US.
I'm surprised they didn't offer both as an option. Mandriva 2008.1 has KDE3 by default, and an optional KDE4 install. You can install both, and select which one you want from the login screen. It's way too early to force KDE4 on everyone. A lot of features are still missing, and it's still pretty unstable. For the Record Mandriva 2009, plans to be KDE4 only. Hopefully KDE4 will be more mature by then.
I do believe that feet one was a hoax. The guy started with a solved cube, and mixed it up with his feet. And then reversed the video.
I'm not sure, but the 4D software cubes I've played with before seem to be actually 4D. In your sliding puzzle analog, sliding a square on one side would have an effect in the orientation of the squares on the other sides. So in the 4D Rubik's cube model, turning a side on one of the cubes would also rotate something else on one of the other cubes. I can solve the 3x3 Rubik's original, and almost solve the 4x4 variant, but the 4D cubes are next to impossible in my mind.
Well, I didn't look into SMART logs, but I do know that half the time when I booted, that SMART reported the drive as dead, and completely unusable.
My Grandfather used to make homemade rootbeer. From what I remember it was quite a bit better than the store bought stuff. We also make a lot of home made food, that most people would just get out of a can. Home made soups and sauces taste quite a bit better than what you get at the store, and are a lot more healthier. Even the low sodium soups at the store contain more salt than most people would put in a home made soup. Real home made food just tastes a lot better. Sadly, I think a lot of people don't realize, or forget just how much better home cooking is.
Can you still qualify as a microbrewery if you do enough volume to sell at Costco?
Not if you live in Canada. Here in Ontario, the cheapest 24 is $24. Anything remotely decent costs $30 for a 24. Most good beers are at least $35. A case of Guinness costs about $50, last time I checked.
Just as long as they don't use it on The Littlest Hobo.
The only cases I've heard of that working in is where we "reintroduced" predators back into their natural habitat. We killed off a bunch of wolves, and then restored their population successfully. I don't think it's ever been done to bring in a foreign predator.
Yes, but in my case, the drive was reporting 20% bad sectors, in any of the utilities I tried. There's no way it could have remapped all those sectors. It seems that forcing the computer to write over the entire disc caused the head to get reset or something. I'm not sure why it worked, multiple times, but I have no complaints. I don't keep anything really critical on the drives, but it's a nice place to through stuff that I don't care if I lose.