Learn not to grab hot soldering iron by the barrel or tip.
Handle is much safer.
Metalesson 1: it doesn't matter if you think you need to keep your eyes on that twitchy almost-mechanically-sound connection in order to keep it from springing apart before you can solder it. You still need to pick your head up and guide your hands to the soldering iron, because grasping blindly WILL HURT.
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Ditto. Win7 64-bit pro on a Phenom II multicore.
Much fewer mandatory reboots than long-time experience with Windows desktop and server OSs would lead me to expect.
OTOH, the weird little snap-crashes while the system is idling is a bit mysterious, but for now I attribute that to immature device drivers.
And that infuriating "Unidentified Network" thing will drive me around the bend. MS had damn-well better fix that in SP1.
Regardless whether Trudeau is an Asshat or not, he has the right to free speech, and unsolicited mail is harrassment[sic], and harassment of a court official in the course of performing his court duties is.... contempt of court. Q.E.D.
Or maybe you don't think harassment is ever contempt of court? Try swearing at the sitting judge at your next trial.
I was seeing a lot of well-informed commentary on the subject, and becoming disappointed that the great Slashdot tradition of "tl;dr" wasn't really being upheld. I mean, Slashdotters reading the article? That's just... untraditional!
But you restored my faith in Slashdot's great heritage of blurting without learning.
Just for your information, the only one being held in contempt is Kevin Trudeau himself, not the moronic sheeples he got to shill-spam for him:
A litigant in a civil lawsuit asked an appeals court Wednesday to overturn his 30-day contempt sentence for urging people to send e-mail to a federal judge.
False. The 5-axis system would still carve metal like butter if it were manually controlled. Just more clumsily and slowly.
Whereas, frankly, Mafia Wars can never be allowed to be present on the winning side of any argument. If it means abjuring the entire history and future of accomplishments in software, it's still a small price to pay.
You have pretty limited experience with on-line games, don't you?
The "human interaction" is richly-textured and explores the full breadth of human ass-hattery, just like in person. Except it might depend on a modicum of skill with the push-to-talk button. And has less chance to degenerate into physical violence and law enforcement attention.
Now everyone needs to bring a gaming PC, a monitor, and a copy of the same game to the party.
Which is why the host provides all the PCs and displays.
Gaming is srs bzns; you gotta set it up RIGHT.
Not all video game designs depend on hiding information from other players,
But the good ones are. Sniper punkin' is much less fun if the target can see you zoom in on their ugly head. Ruins the surprise, ya know what I mean.
Besides, I think this discussion is veering widely away from any on-topic point. If one console is good enough, one HTPC is good enough. If one HTPC wouldn't be good enough, console wouldn't be either.
The only relevant wrinkle is that, for now, not all console games are on non-console platforms. Once consoles die their richly-deserved death, that will change (if the media publisher know what's good for 'em).
Or by "party" did you mean "LAN party", which defeats the purpose of an HTPC?
"An" HTPC, perhaps. Multiple HTPCs, not so much. Since many multiplayer console games are still best played in multi-console LAN party mode. (Much less ass-hurt about "screen lookers", etc.)
Single-screen, single-console multiplayer console play is not something to be preserved as a valuable feature, but abolished as the crocky krufty wart it is.
In this context, though, I don't think we're talking about theory. We're talking about experimental results that confirm non-experimental observation. "I can't eat the local food until I've gotten sick off it for a few days" is an anecdotal observation.
Experimental results that conflict with naive observation means either (A) your experiment didn't replicate the actual conditions outside the expermiment, or (B) the naive observation is misplaced or mistaken. Possibly attributable to subtle things like nocebo effects ("You get sick on the local food because you expect to.") or misattribution ("You actually get sick, not because of the local food, but because of the stress of travel.").
The measure they're talking about is how much variance there is in the frequency of the pulses over time, and you can measure that without any 'standard' to compare to -- you're actually comparing the signal to itself.
Pulse variance... is measured... in terms of time? And how are you measuring time? With a cesium atomic transition clock? Well, then, oddly enough, a cesium clock is clearly more accurate!
This has always bothered me about metrology. You have to establish a standard for any measurement. How can you talk about the accuracy of a stratum-0 time source? By definition, it's perfectly accurate. But that's arbitrary. Maybe the pulsar is perfectly regular, but varies when compared to a man-made timekeeping source because the man-made source is actually variable.
Oh, BTW, no hand-waving about this being frequency measurement instead of interval measurement. It's still time-based, so still depends on some level 0 standard.
But the thing NO ONE expected (asides from the Spanish Inquisition) is that legitimate Fat PS3s would be rendered non-functional (stuck in upgrade infinite loops, for instance). "Bricking" in the parlance. (And yes, there is a trollish minority that insists it's not really "bricked" unless it's utterly unrecoverable. We're aware of your position. We just understand that you're wrong.)
Anyway, only the most pessimistic would believe in advance that Sony would be so careless with a firmware update that it would effectively punish a vocal minority of those who would actually choose to toe the company line.
I'm inclined to attribute this outcome to Sony's incompetence, rather than some malicious and evil genius, because punishing those who choose to obey your dictates ("Upgrade OR BE DAMNED!") is stupid by any measure.
Of course programs care what you think of them. (Or stepping away from gratuitous and confusing anthropomorphizing, the authors of such software care.)
Trojans and other automated social engineering depend on projecting trustworthiness; i.e., that the user thinks the software is both reliable and desirable. If user perceptions of software didn't matter, malware wouldn't try to trick users. They'd just say "click here to get pwned".
Until Chuck Norris manifests himself as malware, what users think of software will continue to directly influence its effectiveness.
I'm guessing you're unaware of how the Supreme Court has modified interpretation of the Commerce Clause such that almost any action which has any effect on any form of interstate commerce is cause for federal supremacy in enforcement.
Or are you a "strict constructionist"? How quaint.
"Interstate commerce" has included, at federal discretion, any and all commerce (including illicit commerce on contraband) since 1937.
I like Cygwin. It's not perfect, and I am not sure I'd call it production-grade, but I've never had problems with it for "toy" projects and general workstation-grade hacking around.
Then, Google will lobby Congress to push through a law legalizing robots.txt, which will trump the case law.
Only if the case hinges entirely on robots.txt
The real "infringement" isn't crawling to collect this data, it's actually collecting it. If you were insane enough to collect usage, friendship network, and other statistics by hand-clicking Facebook pages and tallying numbers with a pad of paper and a pencil, Facebook would still be down your throat.
Those numbers, in Facebook's ego-inflated universe, belong to Facebook. That's their marketing magic, their secret treasure. The demographics and aggregated characteristics of their usership. No one else is allowed to duplicate that. Just ask 'em.
So a law ennobling robots.txt would be as useful as snow shovels on the Titanic: you could push the ice chips off the deck, but that ship is still gonna sink.
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Learn not to grab hot soldering iron by the barrel or tip.
Handle is much safer.
Metalesson 1: it doesn't matter if you think you need to keep your eyes on that twitchy almost-mechanically-sound connection in order to keep it from springing apart before you can solder it. You still need to pick your head up and guide your hands to the soldering iron, because grasping blindly WILL HURT.
Ditto. Win7 64-bit pro on a Phenom II multicore.
Much fewer mandatory reboots than long-time experience with Windows desktop and server OSs would lead me to expect.
OTOH, the weird little snap-crashes while the system is idling is a bit mysterious, but for now I attribute that to immature device drivers.
And that infuriating "Unidentified Network" thing will drive me around the bend. MS had damn-well better fix that in SP1.
And if you've read nothing he wrote than you're just Dick-less.
It's amazing how off-topic we can be and still be perfectly on-topic.
Jahava is promptly stunlocked to death by the subtlety-spec gnome rogue he wasn't expecting.
Yeah, they're pretty overpowered.
I wasn't aware that 2012-mania was particularly prevalent in, as you put it, "Xtian fundies".
After all, real Christian fundamentalists will actually read the Bible that they hold as fundamental:
Executive summary: someone who claims to know the end of the world is either lying to you or to himself.
Tautological tautology is tautological.
You forgot to finish your sentence.
Regardless whether Trudeau is an Asshat or not, he has the right to free speech, and unsolicited mail is harrassment[sic], and harassment of a court official in the course of performing his court duties is.... contempt of court. Q.E.D.
Or maybe you don't think harassment is ever contempt of court? Try swearing at the sitting judge at your next trial.
You do me proud.
I was seeing a lot of well-informed commentary on the subject, and becoming disappointed that the great Slashdot tradition of "tl;dr" wasn't really being upheld. I mean, Slashdotters reading the article? That's just... untraditional!
But you restored my faith in Slashdot's great heritage of blurting without learning.
Just for your information, the only one being held in contempt is Kevin Trudeau himself, not the moronic sheeples he got to shill-spam for him:
Other than the mustache, the resemblance between Steve Ballmer and J. Wellington Wimpy is uncanny.
Maybe.
I'm sure that's the rational answer.
That's also what THEY WANT YOU TO THINK!
He really means Office '15, which comes out some time in 2017.
But if you assume he means the next major release, and that assumption pacifies you, all the better.
False. The 5-axis system would still carve metal like butter if it were manually controlled. Just more clumsily and slowly.
Whereas, frankly, Mafia Wars can never be allowed to be present on the winning side of any argument. If it means abjuring the entire history and future of accomplishments in software, it's still a small price to pay.
If you are in a car with a bunch of kids it may be useful for them to entertain themselves.
"Dad, I'm lagging out in Dalaran again!"
Thanks. But no.
You have pretty limited experience with on-line games, don't you?
The "human interaction" is richly-textured and explores the full breadth of human ass-hattery, just like in person. Except it might depend on a modicum of skill with the push-to-talk button. And has less chance to degenerate into physical violence and law enforcement attention.
Now everyone needs to bring a gaming PC, a monitor, and a copy of the same game to the party.
Which is why the host provides all the PCs and displays.
Gaming is srs bzns; you gotta set it up RIGHT.
Not all video game designs depend on hiding information from other players,
But the good ones are. Sniper punkin' is much less fun if the target can see you zoom in on their ugly head. Ruins the surprise, ya know what I mean.
Besides, I think this discussion is veering widely away from any on-topic point. If one console is good enough, one HTPC is good enough. If one HTPC wouldn't be good enough, console wouldn't be either.
The only relevant wrinkle is that, for now, not all console games are on non-console platforms. Once consoles die their richly-deserved death, that will change (if the media publisher know what's good for 'em).
Or by "party" did you mean "LAN party", which defeats the purpose of an HTPC?
"An" HTPC, perhaps. Multiple HTPCs, not so much. Since many multiplayer console games are still best played in multi-console LAN party mode. (Much less ass-hurt about "screen lookers", etc.)
Single-screen, single-console multiplayer console play is not something to be preserved as a valuable feature, but abolished as the crocky krufty wart it is.
In this context, though, I don't think we're talking about theory. We're talking about experimental results that confirm non-experimental observation. "I can't eat the local food until I've gotten sick off it for a few days" is an anecdotal observation.
Experimental results that conflict with naive observation means either (A) your experiment didn't replicate the actual conditions outside the expermiment, or (B) the naive observation is misplaced or mistaken. Possibly attributable to subtle things like nocebo effects ("You get sick on the local food because you expect to.") or misattribution ("You actually get sick, not because of the local food, but because of the stress of travel.").
The measure they're talking about is how much variance there is in the frequency of the pulses over time, and you can measure that without any 'standard' to compare to -- you're actually comparing the signal to itself.
Pulse variance... is measured... in terms of time? And how are you measuring time? With a cesium atomic transition clock? Well, then, oddly enough, a cesium clock is clearly more accurate!
This has always bothered me about metrology. You have to establish a standard for any measurement. How can you talk about the accuracy of a stratum-0 time source? By definition, it's perfectly accurate. But that's arbitrary. Maybe the pulsar is perfectly regular, but varies when compared to a man-made timekeeping source because the man-made source is actually variable.
Oh, BTW, no hand-waving about this being frequency measurement instead of interval measurement. It's still time-based, so still depends on some level 0 standard.
I'm pretty sure FSM would look strongly down on your sacrilege...
But the thing NO ONE expected (asides from the Spanish Inquisition) is that legitimate Fat PS3s would be rendered non-functional (stuck in upgrade infinite loops, for instance). "Bricking" in the parlance. (And yes, there is a trollish minority that insists it's not really "bricked" unless it's utterly unrecoverable. We're aware of your position. We just understand that you're wrong.)
Anyway, only the most pessimistic would believe in advance that Sony would be so careless with a firmware update that it would effectively punish a vocal minority of those who would actually choose to toe the company line.
I'm inclined to attribute this outcome to Sony's incompetence, rather than some malicious and evil genius, because punishing those who choose to obey your dictates ("Upgrade OR BE DAMNED!") is stupid by any measure.
Of course programs care what you think of them. (Or stepping away from gratuitous and confusing anthropomorphizing, the authors of such software care.)
Trojans and other automated social engineering depend on projecting trustworthiness; i.e., that the user thinks the software is both reliable and desirable. If user perceptions of software didn't matter, malware wouldn't try to trick users. They'd just say "click here to get pwned".
Until Chuck Norris manifests himself as malware, what users think of software will continue to directly influence its effectiveness.
I'm guessing you're unaware of how the Supreme Court has modified interpretation of the Commerce Clause such that almost any action which has any effect on any form of interstate commerce is cause for federal supremacy in enforcement.
Or are you a "strict constructionist"? How quaint.
"Interstate commerce" has included, at federal discretion, any and all commerce (including illicit commerce on contraband) since 1937.
Of course, there are some signs of sanity in more recent SCOTUS decisions.
"One o' them said they'd buy me lunch. But I don't see nobody taking me to Chick-fil-A."
I like Cygwin. It's not perfect, and I am not sure I'd call it production-grade, but I've never had problems with it for "toy" projects and general workstation-grade hacking around.
Then, Google will lobby Congress to push through a law legalizing robots.txt, which will trump the case law.
Only if the case hinges entirely on robots.txt
The real "infringement" isn't crawling to collect this data, it's actually collecting it. If you were insane enough to collect usage, friendship network, and other statistics by hand-clicking Facebook pages and tallying numbers with a pad of paper and a pencil, Facebook would still be down your throat.
Those numbers, in Facebook's ego-inflated universe, belong to Facebook. That's their marketing magic, their secret treasure. The demographics and aggregated characteristics of their usership. No one else is allowed to duplicate that. Just ask 'em.
So a law ennobling robots.txt would be as useful as snow shovels on the Titanic: you could push the ice chips off the deck, but that ship is still gonna sink.
/nod
Here's a hint about how meaningful POSIX compliance is.
Windows Server 2K8 includes Interix 6.1. This combination is POSIX-compliant.