It updated while I slept and I was reading the article in Chrome 7.
What?!
Yes, Chrome does that. And it's a good thing too, IMHO, for the typical user.
What I don't understand is why Chrome leaves the old (buggy and insecure) versions lying around in its install directory. I wouldn't have noticed this if I didn't have Secunia PSI installed. This tool, which is now running on all the Windows installations I have admin access to, checks all installed software against a list of known security vulnerabilities. I highly recommend it. Anyway, this tool notified me of an outdated and vulnerable version of Chrome, but when I started Chrome and checked the version, it had already updated. Thing is, there are subdirectories in the Chrome install path which contain copies of the old and outdated versions. These backup copies have to be removed manually after each update.
I bought a magnet set from zenmagnets.com in April, and I love them. They're every bit as advertised, and delivery to Europe was only a little over a week. I can't attest to the quality of the BuckyBalls product, but what I can do is compare the companies' attitudes. We've just read what the BuckyBalls execs are like. As a contrast, here's the confirmation email I got from Zen Magnets after my purchase.
HOORAY! I'm pleased to announce that your order ( #xxx ) has been processed and is now complete.
Please rest assured that we hold great urgency to each and every shipment. We promise your order will be out of our door within 24 hours of receiving this email. Unless you selected a shipping service with tracking, there will not be an additional email.
After a rigorous 4 step process of verifying the quality and consistency of each and every magnet, we donned silk gloves and placed it into a sacred padded envelope made of magic and lined with Unicorn fur, sealed the envelope with an adhesive made from strands of Gypsy hair, and wrapped the whole thing in a snazzy looking faux gold leaf paper, with elm leaf inlay from Costco. Unfortunately, by the time it gets to you, all of that fancy stuff will likely have been picked clean by the greedy postal service employees. Please don't be surprised to see just a plain padded envelope.
Now which company would you rather do business with?
Alright, I tried to look it up, but came up mostly empty. Most sites actually confirm the version of the story in which EPA regulations prevented the use of Dutch skimmer vessels (it appears that the've been given permission in the meantime).
So, what's the "myth" about this? Citation kindly requested. From a reliable source, if possible.
The whole thing is moot. If we really wanted to know which came first, we'd only have to conduct a relevant experiment. Although this could be one of those experiments where observation can alter the outcome...
...determine if a 1kg change is significant (weight of a bowling ball), insignificant (weight of the earth), of wildly significant (weight of a swallow)...
It could just be the difference between a laden and an unladen swallow.
Sometimes I wish it were possible to reorder the comments on Slashdot. If yours had been the first comment, I could have skipped the rest and saved myself some time.
Those links lead straight into conspiracy theory heaven. The Revolution Muslim brothers are the American Al-Qaeda. No, they're just two fanatics without a following. No, they're really agents provocateurs working for the Anti Defamation League. No, they're recruiting terrorists. No, they're Mossad. Al-Quaeda doesn't exist, and Bush bombed the WTC. No, Israel did it...... and so on.
I find it hard to believe that somebody with near perfect English and a fanatical devotion to all things Islam doesn't know how to spell "jews", but most online sources assume just that (illiterate wannabe terrorists). The other sign says "Throw the Jew down the well", which is from Sacha Baron Cohen song. The question is, are they doing that to discredit Islamists, or are they sending a message while remaining within the limits of their First Amendment rights?
It would be great to get some objective information on that group, but even in the Wikipedia article, many of the sources look suspect, or at least heavily biased.
You've already got a lot of replies about VirtualBox, so I'll spare you the repetition. It's a decent desktop virtualization solution, free, and very stable.
What you may not know is Grml, a Debian-based installable "live" distro. I've tried quite a few of those, and that's the one I kept. I'm always carrying a Grml CD around, just in case I come across some box that won't boot. Grml has *amazing* hardware support, in addition to a very stable architecture that will fall back on whatever is supported. I have rarely seen any PC or Mac that wouldn't boot Grml - and if it really can't, it's probably not worth buying. And yes, it's got everything you need for a Linux course, including a desktop, applications, compilers and scripting languages (if that's in your curriculum).
Grml gets additional bonus points for keeping the fine UNIX tradition of unpronouncable names. Who needs vocals when you've got phlegm?
We are at our best when things are at their worst. We will support each other. We'll give to one another when we have almost nothing individually. We become mindful of the future.
...
if you get a sizeable force and set it against us, we will work together as though we were one being and turn our entire nation into a war machine second to none.
"We move as one. We are at our best when we move together, and we are at our worst when we move together. When our leader was killed by your people, we went mad together. We stayed mad for a very long time -- a madness that almost consumed your world."
Did it matter that Rachmaninoff's [hands] were freakishly large (sometimes looking as long as the keys themselves)? Will you be able to build the physics of those hands into your model and simulation?
Rachmaninov's hands have already been reverse engineered. All a performer with standard issue hands needs is an assistant and a few adapters.
The interesting thing about space telescopes is that they allow you to look into the past. For example, here's what gamma rays looked like 20 years ago - they're near the bluish spectrum, heading towards our time, and they're wearing cheesy 80s style shades.
Even starting with the premise that the vaccine does have a 0.1% chance of causing autism, measles has a mortality rate much higher than that, especially in undeveloped countries.
I was doubting your claim of a "much higher" mortality rate for measles, but after a quick web search it appears you're right - if we're talking about worldwide mortality. One UNICEF article states that "measles infects 25 to 30 million children each year and kills over 345,000", which is about 1.15%, an order of magnitude higher than the 0.1% chance for autism you stated (from which source, btw?). On the other hand, in countries where professional medical care is more advanced and/or more available to the general public, the mortality rates are much, much lower. According to this article, the mortality rate for acute (!) cases in the U.S. was about 0.25% - 0.28%. Between 1993-1999, there was only one reported death. Given that the complications of a measles infection can generally be handled when adequate medical care is available, and that autism is (as far as we know) "final", the decision isn't quite as clear-cut as you present it.
That's assuming that your 0.1% figure is accurate. FWIW, I'm not in any way opposed to the MMR vaccination, and I'm not buying the autism scare either. Where I live, this vaccine is administered to children systematically, and hardly anybody ever opts out.
From your comment you apparently think I am a fucktard.
I don't know how you arrived at that conclusion. FWIW, I agree with you that the bc defaults aren't what people usually want. All I did was point out a simple way to make bc more useful; I've had that line in my.bashrc for ages. If you'd rather complain than use an alias, that's fine by me.
I've really come to like the SpeedCrunch calculator, which is available as a Debian package, and (according to their website) also runs on Windows and Mac. It's probably not inteded for scientific calculations, and it can't display graphs, but it has a very simple interface ideal for quick calculations. The tooltip with the current result of unfinished expressions is a nice touch, as is the history of past calculations (session).
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It updated while I slept and I was reading the article in Chrome 7.
What?!
Yes, Chrome does that. And it's a good thing too, IMHO, for the typical user.
What I don't understand is why Chrome leaves the old (buggy and insecure) versions lying around in its install directory. I wouldn't have noticed this if I didn't have Secunia PSI installed. This tool, which is now running on all the Windows installations I have admin access to, checks all installed software against a list of known security vulnerabilities. I highly recommend it. Anyway, this tool notified me of an outdated and vulnerable version of Chrome, but when I started Chrome and checked the version, it had already updated. Thing is, there are subdirectories in the Chrome install path which contain copies of the old and outdated versions. These backup copies have to be removed manually after each update.
CJ
If a game like shogi or chess was extended to 19x19 it would be vastly harder for a computer.
To illustrate your point...
Sufficiently motivated players could still win in such a setting. Or so I hear.
I bought a magnet set from zenmagnets.com in April, and I love them. They're every bit as advertised, and delivery to Europe was only a little over a week. I can't attest to the quality of the BuckyBalls product, but what I can do is compare the companies' attitudes. We've just read what the BuckyBalls execs are like. As a contrast, here's the confirmation email I got from Zen Magnets after my purchase.
HOORAY! I'm pleased to announce that your order ( #xxx ) has been processed and is now complete.
Please rest assured that we hold great urgency to each and every shipment. We promise your order will be out of our door within 24 hours of receiving this email. Unless you selected a shipping service with tracking, there will not be an additional email.
After a rigorous 4 step process of verifying the quality and consistency of each and every magnet, we donned silk gloves and placed it into a sacred padded envelope made of magic and lined with Unicorn fur, sealed the envelope with an adhesive made from strands of Gypsy hair, and wrapped the whole thing in a snazzy looking faux gold leaf paper, with elm leaf inlay from Costco. Unfortunately, by the time it gets to you, all of that fancy stuff will likely have been picked clean by the greedy postal service employees. Please don't be surprised to see just a plain padded envelope.
Now which company would you rather do business with?
CJ
Alright, I tried to look it up, but came up mostly empty. Most sites actually confirm the version of the story in which EPA regulations prevented the use of Dutch skimmer vessels (it appears that the've been given permission in the meantime).
So, what's the "myth" about this?
Citation kindly requested. From a reliable source, if possible.
CJ
So we meet at last...
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
The whole thing is moot. If we really wanted to know which came first, we'd only have to conduct a relevant experiment. Although this could be one of those experiments where observation can alter the outcome...
CJ
What? I don't know that!
waaaaaaahhrgh...
...determine if a 1kg change is significant (weight of a bowling ball), insignificant (weight of the earth), of wildly significant (weight of a swallow)...
It could just be the difference between a laden and an unladen swallow.
Sometimes I wish it were possible to reorder the comments on Slashdot. If yours had been the first comment, I could have skipped the rest and saved myself some time.
Thanks for the analysis.
As an atheist I couldn't possibly be happier with the Catholic Church and the deranged B-movie villain they elected Pope.
Dude! Star Wars isn't a B-movie!
vim -x
Yup. Just don't keep the file open too long - Vim's swap files are not encrypted.
CJ
"Oh my god! You killed Muhhamed."
You infidel bastards!
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/12/death-to-the-ju.html
http://catholicforum.fisheaters.com/index.php?topic=3427255.0
Those links lead straight into conspiracy theory heaven. The Revolution Muslim brothers are the American Al-Qaeda. No, they're just two fanatics without a following. No, they're really agents provocateurs working for the Anti Defamation League. No, they're recruiting terrorists. No, they're Mossad. Al-Quaeda doesn't exist, and Bush bombed the WTC. No, Israel did it... ... and so on.
I find it hard to believe that somebody with near perfect English and a fanatical devotion to all things Islam doesn't know how to spell "jews", but most online sources assume just that (illiterate wannabe terrorists). The other sign says "Throw the Jew down the well", which is from Sacha Baron Cohen song. The question is, are they doing that to discredit Islamists, or are they sending a message while remaining within the limits of their First Amendment rights?
It would be great to get some objective information on that group, but even in the Wikipedia article, many of the sources look suspect, or at least heavily biased.
CJ
You've already got a lot of replies about VirtualBox, so I'll spare you the repetition.
It's a decent desktop virtualization solution, free, and very stable.
What you may not know is Grml, a Debian-based installable "live" distro. I've tried quite a few of those, and that's the one I kept. I'm always carrying a Grml CD around, just in case I come across some box that won't boot. Grml has *amazing* hardware support, in addition to a very stable architecture that will fall back on whatever is supported. I have rarely seen any PC or Mac that wouldn't boot Grml - and if it really can't, it's probably not worth buying. And yes, it's got everything you need for a Linux course, including a desktop, applications, compilers and scripting languages (if that's in your curriculum).
Grml gets additional bonus points for keeping the fine UNIX tradition of unpronouncable names.
Who needs vocals when you've got phlegm?
http://grml.org/
CJ
My God. Clippy? Is that you?
I thought I'd disabled you on Slashdot...
We are at our best when things are at their worst. We will support each other. We'll give to one another when we have almost nothing individually. We become mindful of the future.
if you get a sizeable force and set it against us, we will work together as though we were one being and turn our entire nation into a war machine second to none.
"We move as one. We are at our best when we move together, and we
are at our worst when we move together. When our leader was killed
by your people, we went mad together. We stayed mad for a very long
time -- a madness that almost consumed your world."
So, in other words, you are Minbari.
CJ
We just donated a few weeks ago... I really hope that money doesn't end up in Paypal's pockets.
Did it matter that Rachmaninoff's [hands] were freakishly large (sometimes looking as long as the keys themselves)? Will you be able to build the physics of those hands into your model and simulation?
Rachmaninov's hands have already been reverse engineered.
All a performer with standard issue hands needs is an assistant and a few adapters.
The interesting thing about space telescopes is that they allow you to look into the past. For example, here's what gamma rays looked like 20 years ago - they're near the bluish spectrum, heading towards our time, and they're wearing cheesy 80s style shades.
Right now, I am giving presentations with impress.
Maybe you shouldn't post to Slashdot while you're giving a presentation...
Sorry, I mixed up the links... the second one should point to this page.
CJ
Even starting with the premise that the vaccine does have a 0.1% chance of causing autism, measles has a mortality rate much higher than that, especially in undeveloped countries.
I was doubting your claim of a "much higher" mortality rate for measles, but after a quick web search it appears you're right - if we're talking about worldwide mortality. One UNICEF article states that "measles infects 25 to 30 million children each year and kills over 345,000", which is about 1.15%, an order of magnitude higher than the 0.1% chance for autism you stated (from which source, btw?). On the other hand, in countries where professional medical care is more advanced and/or more available to the general public, the mortality rates are much, much lower. According to this article, the mortality rate for acute (!) cases in the U.S. was about 0.25% - 0.28%. Between 1993-1999, there was only one reported death. Given that the complications of a measles infection can generally be handled when adequate medical care is available, and that autism is (as far as we know) "final", the decision isn't quite as clear-cut as you present it.
That's assuming that your 0.1% figure is accurate. FWIW, I'm not in any way opposed to the MMR vaccination, and I'm not buying the autism scare either. Where I live, this vaccine is administered to children systematically, and hardly anybody ever opts out.
CJ
From your comment you apparently think I am a fucktard.
I don't know how you arrived at that conclusion. FWIW, I agree with you that the bc defaults aren't what people usually want. All I did was point out a simple way to make bc more useful; I've had that line in my .bashrc for ages. If you'd rather complain than use an alias, that's fine by me.
CJ
bc is crippled by the past in classic Unix style. Why does scale default to 0? Because otherwise you break things.
alias bc='bc -ql'
I've really come to like the SpeedCrunch calculator, which is available as a Debian package, and (according to their website) also runs on Windows and Mac. It's probably not inteded for scientific calculations, and it can't display graphs, but it has a very simple interface ideal for quick calculations. The tooltip with the current result of unfinished expressions is a nice touch, as is the history of past calculations (session).
CJ