Nobody's deciding who may call you but you. It's just like Slashdot; if you don't like censorship, set your filter to -1 and read away. Have fun; I'll stick to +3, thanks.
Specificaly, the Government/state/whatever is *not* making the decision; it's just creating a list of people that companies may not call. The people themselves decide if they want on this list.
Marines? Are they the ones who were supposed to do a beach landing exercise in Gibralter and inadvertantly invaded Spain? Hmm, I rather think they are.
A simpler system than the STV is the satis system, where you simply cross all the candidates you are happy with - meaning you can cast a single vote for, or go entirely against one candidate by choosing everyone but him.
The big advantage of this is that it is easy for voters to understand - an important point frequently overlooked. I've met plenty of people who didn't and don't understand Scotland's (fairly simple) electoral system.
In any case, it has been proved that no voting system can deliver correct results all the time. Let's overthrow them all and establish a benevolent dictatorship.
Well, not neccesarily. I don't think it's unreasonable (as a provider, not a web zealot) that a server doles out pages that are renderable. Where it's possible to predict what needs to be changed to get a browser to render that page properly, you might as well do it. Of course, it does have the potential to be abused.
My browser is set to send nonsense as its id strings; it doesn't seem to do my surfing experience much harm.
I wasn't aware that compiling a program risked creating a virus. I certainly wasn't aware that cross-compiling was so dangerous.
I would agree with those that suggest that this doesn't seem to be a sensible way to run a production environment, but it's good for people like me, writing cross-platform applications that I will be porting to Windows. It saves me hunting down someone with the time and inclination to do my dirty work for me, as I gave up on Windows a while back now.
Who the f*** are you? I mean, I don't think of mysel;f as being stupid or anything, but I've never heard of you. Why are you being interviewed on Slashdot, as opposed to, say, my uncle Simon?
Live concerts are rather enjoyable things to go to. Having recordings is great, particularly when you can't get to these concerts so often, but music lives when it's played, not when it's converted into a bitstream.
The Grateful Dead encouraged lived taping of their shows and the swapping scene that this created. I doubt it did their ticket sales or their album sales any harm.
Finally, it's worth noticing that most artists make far more from their live shows than from their recordings. FWIW.
Chinese ideographs are common to all dialects - so the multiple dialects problem just doesn't arise when screening foreign films. I thought that films in China were mostly made now to a sort of standard Chinese, accessible to all Chinese speakers? Sounds a bit Orwellian, but I'm sure I remember reading about it.
These subtitles are well done, but I think I have to cry fake. They are the wrong shape, they're in English (why would a Chinaman be any better at reading English than speaking it?) and we all know how "amusing" people who can't talk proper are.
On an entirely unrelated note, your site is an excellent innovation, and very much appreciated. One suggestion: is it possible to use a cookie to track previous page views so that I don't have to dig through several pages to get to new content? That would just be the cream on the cake, so to speak.
I don't think so. What you're asking is (for example) can you now plug a 512 meg module into a 256 meg limited mobo, yep? The answer is no, as this limit is defined by the mobo, though it may be hackable in other ways - but that would be even more OT. Numa is about accessing large sets of parallel memory banks, as others will expound at length elsewhere in the discussion. Essentially, it's of no practical use for playing Tux Racer, so it's OK to ignore it.
Well, Microsoft's track record clearly shows that security through obscurity has proven to be an excellent model to chose Wrong!
Back to the drawing board, methinks.
>p>Seriusly, yes, it's always an issue with a vulnerability discovered by a white hat - but on the whole, it's probably better that folk know about it than have to start figuring out what happened *after* they got hit with it.
Actually, the UK PM has more effective power than the US president. With royal prerogative (ie without Parliament's approval) he can ratify treaties and declare war. Huge numbers of appointments are legally in his gift, even if many are exercised by committee - such as the appointment of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
You have to think of the PM as leader of Congress as the President as his obedient flunky to get a picture of how it works here. I actually think it works pretty well, except when a party gets elected on the back of a popular baying for blood, as happened in '97. Still, I don't see major reforms any time soon.
We will have another worthless community distro, which is exactly what newbies HATE about linux, they HATE the debian zealots running around trying to make everyone run debian.
I don't agree. I am a relative newbie to Linux. I got it because it was a hell of a lot cheaper, and because I wanted to learn about *nix, so maybe I'm not the typical kind of newbie you're talking about. What I found frustrating at first was the fragmentation; there's no one place to go when it all goes wrong.
I think what is most urgently needed on Linux is a decent update system, which can be made to work on a large scale. Something which updates everything automagically, can get from any location, and so on. Debian's apt-get comes the closest; but we need it to work perfectly from the GUI. When it can't find a needed library, it goes out and looks for it. When a library needs updating, it gets updated. These are things I do not want to know about! My dear old mother *certainly* doesn't want to know about them.
Oh yeah, and installation. That sucks too. FWIW, I don't believe graphical installers are necessary or even desirable; ncurses is fine and dandy. Just make it consistent and sensible (ie not like Debian, which is a pig). And try and have up-to-date drivers available. Nothing is more likely to tarnish a persons perception of Linux when he can't even get a graphical screen up.
A dedicated cache has been talked about many times. It's just too messy, it takes up time for the editors, it screws up pages with ads on them (yeah, boohoo, but if you were getting money for the page you'd care), and the rest. It would be good, though, if the editors were to put up at least the Google cache of this kind of site. OK, back to bed. Night night now.
I haven't read the article, I don't want to spoil my day, but I don't think the point of this is to seriously suggest that soldiers could live and fight off some bloody patch on their arm. They couldn't. I suspect it's a simple method of ensuring that all the nutrients that it's hard to get into rat-pack, MREs, or whatever your local nickname for them is, which are stored sometimes for years before us, still get into your soldier.
I can see this as particularly useful for behind-enemy-lines scenarios, where a soldier is unlikely (particularly on a long stay basis) to have access to a good quality food source. One of the major morale destroyers in theatre is poor logistical support, most particularly food. This is one way to make life slightly easier for soldiers. And, of course, to administer all the drugs to them they might not want to take after Gulf War Syndrome. Colour me cynical.
Overtones shape the harmonic spectra and create a specific waveform. Why do a piano playing a=440Hz and a xylophone playing a=440Hz sound like a piano and a xylophone? Because the overtones (which occur at 1, 2, 3,... times the base frequency) have different strenghts at diffierent frequencies. Strings tend to have good octave, fifth, and seventh harmonics, bars on a xylophone don't.
MP3 stripping is more subtle - when there are two instruments which have a harmonic line on the same pitch, one line gets stripped out, as it will make no difference to what you hear. That kind of thing
And BTW, tuning forks don't produce a sine wave, they produce a very strong set of harmonic octaves, which is what makes them unpleasant. A nice low sine tone is actually quite unoffensive, if used appropriately.
The thing with Legolas mounting the horse under the neck was not a trick. Well, it may have been, but it is possible, though I'll freely admit I don't have the stones to try it.
It involves timing the horse's paces, swinging under the feet as the horse lifts them, then using the momentum from the shoulders and a strong left arm to swing your centre of gravity to a point where you can twist round and land in the saddle.
It's one of these things like dipping your hand into molten lead or cliff diving; either you can stand there and do it, or you can't.
Our computers on campus are kept running 24/7. The screensaver, which is on about 15 hours of the day on average (I would guess), is a slideshow of various equal sized photos of "historic interest" (colour me cynical). By the time these monitors come to be replaced, they have a glaring burn-in, ironically, from the "screen-saver".
We used to treat 'mathematics' as a plural, like you still sometimes hear data treated ("the data were tested..."). When lazy schoolboys and Cambridge ugrads abbreviated it to maths, they kept their plural, as changing it to a singular (at that time) would have felt odd. Now, we treat it as singular, but continue to call it maths. Obviously. One sheep, two sheeps, fish.
Since when did Red Hat release with a 4.2.18-3 kernel? I can't seem to find it in the official tree, so I might just have to reconsider my loyalties to SuSE.
I hate to be pernickety (hmm, that's a lie. I enjoy it and you know it), but catched was perfectly good English a few hundred years ago, until someone came up with the idea that it should work like teach / taught, and invented the new word 'caught'. Here in Scotland, the change hasn't been fully made yet, and people can still occasionally heard to say catched. Of course, this leads to whole new areas of how 'correct' English is defined, and whether the English of Dickens is what should be perpetuated. Personally, I'm all for change - but change, not ignorance (cf. loose for lose).
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Specificaly, the Government/state/whatever is *not* making the decision; it's just creating a list of people that companies may not call. The people themselves decide if they want on this list.
Didn't understand a single bloody word of that. What does this AUICITPQXRWS thingy do then?
Marines? Are they the ones who were supposed to do a beach landing exercise in Gibralter and inadvertantly invaded Spain? Hmm, I rather think they are.
The big advantage of this is that it is easy for voters to understand - an important point frequently overlooked. I've met plenty of people who didn't and don't understand Scotland's (fairly simple) electoral system.
In any case, it has been proved that no voting system can deliver correct results all the time. Let's overthrow them all and establish a benevolent dictatorship.
My browser is set to send nonsense as its id strings; it doesn't seem to do my surfing experience much harm.
I wasn't aware that compiling a program risked creating a virus. I certainly wasn't aware that cross-compiling was so dangerous.
I would agree with those that suggest that this doesn't seem to be a sensible way to run a production environment, but it's good for people like me, writing cross-platform applications that I will be porting to Windows. It saves me hunting down someone with the time and inclination to do my dirty work for me, as I gave up on Windows a while back now.
Who the f*** are you? I mean, I don't think of mysel;f as being stupid or anything, but I've never heard of you. Why are you being interviewed on Slashdot, as opposed to, say, my uncle Simon?
Live concerts are rather enjoyable things to go to. Having recordings is great, particularly when you can't get to these concerts so often, but music lives when it's played, not when it's converted into a bitstream.
The Grateful Dead encouraged lived taping of their shows and the swapping scene that this created. I doubt it did their ticket sales or their album sales any harm.
Finally, it's worth noticing that most artists make far more from their live shows than from their recordings. FWIW.
These subtitles are well done, but I think I have to cry fake. They are the wrong shape, they're in English (why would a Chinaman be any better at reading English than speaking it?) and we all know how "amusing" people who can't talk proper are.
On an entirely unrelated note, your site is an excellent innovation, and very much appreciated. One suggestion: is it possible to use a cookie to track previous page views so that I don't have to dig through several pages to get to new content? That would just be the cream on the cake, so to speak.
I don't think so. What you're asking is (for example) can you now plug a 512 meg module into a 256 meg limited mobo, yep? The answer is no, as this limit is defined by the mobo, though it may be hackable in other ways - but that would be even more OT. Numa is about accessing large sets of parallel memory banks, as others will expound at length elsewhere in the discussion. Essentially, it's of no practical use for playing Tux Racer, so it's OK to ignore it.
a) Get drunk.
b) Fight.
Yes, I am a musician.
Back to the drawing board, methinks. >p>Seriusly, yes, it's always an issue with a vulnerability discovered by a white hat - but on the whole, it's probably better that folk know about it than have to start figuring out what happened *after* they got hit with it.
No. This case was prosecuted under Norway's civil law, not her criminal law. This means either side can appeal, in Norway *or* America.
You have to think of the PM as leader of Congress as the President as his obedient flunky to get a picture of how it works here. I actually think it works pretty well, except when a party gets elected on the back of a popular baying for blood, as happened in '97. Still, I don't see major reforms any time soon.
I don't agree. I am a relative newbie to Linux. I got it because it was a hell of a lot cheaper, and because I wanted to learn about *nix, so maybe I'm not the typical kind of newbie you're talking about. What I found frustrating at first was the fragmentation; there's no one place to go when it all goes wrong.
I think what is most urgently needed on Linux is a decent update system, which can be made to work on a large scale. Something which updates everything automagically, can get from any location, and so on. Debian's apt-get comes the closest; but we need it to work perfectly from the GUI. When it can't find a needed library, it goes out and looks for it. When a library needs updating, it gets updated. These are things I do not want to know about! My dear old mother *certainly* doesn't want to know about them.
Oh yeah, and installation. That sucks too. FWIW, I don't believe graphical installers are necessary or even desirable; ncurses is fine and dandy. Just make it consistent and sensible (ie not like Debian, which is a pig). And try and have up-to-date drivers available. Nothing is more likely to tarnish a persons perception of Linux when he can't even get a graphical screen up.
A dedicated cache has been talked about many times. It's just too messy, it takes up time for the editors, it screws up pages with ads on them (yeah, boohoo, but if you were getting money for the page you'd care), and the rest. It would be good, though, if the editors were to put up at least the Google cache of this kind of site. OK, back to bed. Night night now.
I can see this as particularly useful for behind-enemy-lines scenarios, where a soldier is unlikely (particularly on a long stay basis) to have access to a good quality food source. One of the major morale destroyers in theatre is poor logistical support, most particularly food. This is one way to make life slightly easier for soldiers. And, of course, to administer all the drugs to them they might not want to take after Gulf War Syndrome. Colour me cynical.
Overtones shape the harmonic spectra and create a specific waveform. Why do a piano playing a=440Hz and a xylophone playing a=440Hz sound like a piano and a xylophone? Because the overtones (which occur at 1, 2, 3,... times the base frequency) have different strenghts at diffierent frequencies. Strings tend to have good octave, fifth, and seventh harmonics, bars on a xylophone don't.
MP3 stripping is more subtle - when there are two instruments which have a harmonic line on the same pitch, one line gets stripped out, as it will make no difference to what you hear. That kind of thing
And BTW, tuning forks don't produce a sine wave, they produce a very strong set of harmonic octaves, which is what makes them unpleasant. A nice low sine tone is actually quite unoffensive, if used appropriately.
Please people, it's *ckin obviously nonsense. How can something that's not there hurt your hearing?
It involves timing the horse's paces, swinging under the feet as the horse lifts them, then using the momentum from the shoulders and a strong left arm to swing your centre of gravity to a point where you can twist round and land in the saddle.
It's one of these things like dipping your hand into molten lead or cliff diving; either you can stand there and do it, or you can't.
Our computers on campus are kept running 24/7. The screensaver, which is on about 15 hours of the day on average (I would guess), is a slideshow of various equal sized photos of "historic interest" (colour me cynical). By the time these monitors come to be replaced, they have a glaring burn-in, ironically, from the "screen-saver".
This is, like, so less interesting than I thought it would be when I saw "naked" in the subject line. Oh well, back to work...
We used to treat 'mathematics' as a plural, like you still sometimes hear data treated ("the data were tested..."). When lazy schoolboys and Cambridge ugrads abbreviated it to maths, they kept their plural, as changing it to a singular (at that time) would have felt odd. Now, we treat it as singular, but continue to call it maths. Obviously. One sheep, two sheeps, fish.
Since when did Red Hat release with a 4.2.18-3 kernel? I can't seem to find it in the official tree, so I might just have to reconsider my loyalties to SuSE.
I hate to be pernickety (hmm, that's a lie. I enjoy it and you know it), but catched was perfectly good English a few hundred years ago, until someone came up with the idea that it should work like teach / taught, and invented the new word 'caught'. Here in Scotland, the change hasn't been fully made yet, and people can still occasionally heard to say catched. Of course, this leads to whole new areas of how 'correct' English is defined, and whether the English of Dickens is what should be perpetuated. Personally, I'm all for change - but change, not ignorance (cf. loose for lose).