The quote in the summary is more specific. It's the "production and distribution of more than 90 percent of the high-quality counterfeit Microsoft software products either seized by law enforcement or test-purchased around the world."
So they're only talking about the stuff they've confiscated and not claiming it's 90% of everything that exists.
The simplest answer is that the developers who have the final say don't want to do it that way. They think that it's better for the kernel to have one single scheduler that gets widely tested against every type of load than to have multiple schedulers that tend to only get tested in their areas of optimization.
Well, except for the fact that the word Diebold don't appear anywhere in that article, meaning it may not have been one of their machines. The quick bit of searching I did indicates that they used iVotronic voting machines.
Well, there's always a slight chance of turning the iPAQ into a brick, but for most devices it's an extremely small chance if you follow the directions. The problem is that people tend to not follow directions.
Entirely different ideas. Redhat's approach had two major portions. First they had widget, icon, window manager themes for both KDE and GNOME that looked and behaved the same. On its own that really won't kill the native feel that much, just make them both look the same. The next thing they did was change the default config options of both desktops so that they had the same basic layouts, behavior, and application selections. That's the part that really makes them feel different. I ended up using the blue curve themes on Debian for a while since it was the best way to get a decent matching look for both toolkits at the time.
The Portland project doesn't really address the toolkit differences though and it isn't really targetted at KDE/GNOME apps, they'll be doing a lot of these same things except through APIs provided by KDE or GNOME. It's intended more for third party software developers who want to build an application that behaves sanely without having to depend on either KDE or GNOME directly. They provide a bunch of little programs that make it easier to make your program respect the current system and user configuration. so they have a program that installs a menu entry into the proper location for KDE and GNOME, another one lets you spawn the user's preferred email client, and another lets you open a file or URL in the proper program.
STEWART: It's not honest. What you do is not honest. What you do is partisan hackery. And I will tell you why I know it.
CARLSON: You had John Kerry on your show and you sniff his throne and you're accusing us of partisan hackery?
STEWART: Absolutely.
CARLSON: You've got to be kidding me. He comes on and you...
(CROSSTALK)
STEWART: You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls.
(LAUGHTER)
STEWART: What is wrong with you?
Though I think his intention isn't to say that the Daily Show isn't intended to have substance, but acknowledge that they will sometimes sacrifice substance in favor of the presentation in a way that isn't appropriate for a program that intends to be taken seriously.
Bon Echo is the Mozilla project's code name for FireFox2 betas. ( http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox2 ) I don't know what whether or not Mozilla and Ubuntu will be working out some kind of deal or just changing the name, but the Bon Echo branding was just a side effect of them planning to use Firefox 2 for Edgy Eft.
Dunno about the power cord, but he has on occasion accidently banned everyone from the network. He's provided a great tool for projects over the years, and I wish his family the best in dealing with this horrible occurance.
That's not true. I called cingular support and requested an unlock code for my Treo 650. I gave them the phone's IMEI and waited a few days for them to email me the unlock code. Now I can just pop in a SIM from any provider I want and the phone works fine.
The Cingular Wireless side isn't too hard to get the code out of. My experience with the AT&T side of Cingular is that they are much harder to get an unlock code out of.
Are you running 0.19? Auto-expire was a feature in older versions, but it wasn't the default behaviour. Due to some changes in the live tv portions of myth, auto-expire is automatically enabled.
That said, I think the hang on disk full bug was fixed in one of the 0.18 releases. I'm not absolutely sure though.
I have one of those Inspiron 6000s. It's a great machine that does exactly what I want it to do and was fairly inexpensive. Before I picked up the Inspiron, I was using a Powerbook that I had from work that would have been about the equivalent to the Inspiron. Both machines performed well, but the Powerbook was a bit more comfortable to use due to size and build quality. The Dell is roughly twice as thick as the Powerbook and feels signficantly heavier. It doesnt feel quite as well built either. While it doesn't feel fragile, there are parts that don't seem as sturdy as they could be. Part of that extra 1500 bucks is name, but some of it does go towards a better machine.
I'm in no hurry for a new laptop at this point, but if the Intel based MacBooks feel like the older Powerbooks I might go that route for the next laptop I buy.
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I wouldn't recommend making the switch on the basis of the cost of the Tivo. The cost of the Tivo with lifetime service is probably the same or cheaper than setting up a nice quiet dedicated Myth box, even without factoring the time it will take to get Myth up and running satisfactorily.
I had a Tivo for about a year, and I really liked the box. It did exactly what it was supposed to do for a reasonable price, and the ads in the menus didn't annoy me too much. Setting it up took a couple hours to do, but that was mostly a matter of waiting for the tivo to download the data and do the initial import.
About two months ago I got rid of the Tivo and replaced it with a small PC running MythTV, and am happy with it as well. The main selling point for me was the ability to watch video from my desktop or laptop along with on my TV. I lost a few features like sugesstions and the more refined interface, but for me the trade offs were worth it. It took me two days to get the system basically up and running, along with a week or two of tweaking things as I noticed them. It's a great system on its own, but if you jump into it thinking it's just going to be a cheap Tivo you will be disappointed.
While I disagree with you on what is meant by the militia, it's a possible interpretation of the word. The sticking point of the amendment is "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Amendments 1, 9, and 10 all use "the people" in a manner that indicates that it means everyone, why would the second be any different in that respect? Article 1, Section 8 specifically gives the government power to raise and support an Army, I don't see why an amendment would need to be added to arm them.
From a historical point of view, the first 10 amendments were things that the drafters thought were implied by the Constitution itself. Each of the other amendments in the Bill of Rights relate to protecting the rights of the citizens, and were written to assure people hesitant to ratify the new Constitution that their rights wouldn't be completely trampled on by the new government.
order online from Blizzard. I did it last week and it supposedly shipped this week. From one of their press releases:
. To accommodate the increasing number of players eager to join World of Warcraft, Blizzard will be bringing several new servers online. After a short and successful testing period to ensure server stability, the company also plans to release additional units to retail outlets nationwide.
From the sounds of it everyone is sold out and Blizzard isn't going to send out more retail copies for a while. If you really want it, their online store is probably your best bet for now.
Well in theory almost all power lies with the state. The Federal government is mostly limited to foreign policy, maintaining the defense of the nation, and regulating interactions between the different states. Of course that's just the theory that was layed out in the Constitution. The federal government has slowly expanded it's powers into other areas, which at one point ended up in a civil war as a number of states tries leaving the union. The 10th ammendment pretty clearly sums up the intentions pretty well:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people
So if it seems redundant to you that the federal government and the state governments seem to do the exact same things now, you're in good company.
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Well I don't actually run anything on there except for an sshd for access from work. I just checked it to see if they did block anything off. I more or less assume any ISP is going to disallow servers unless I have information to the contrary.
Well I can't speak for this service specifically, but I have Verizon DSL and they don't block any ports that I've noticed. Ports 25 and 80 are both open to the world at this moment. This is the Ventura California area, in case it varies by region. To bad anything over 1.5mbit is unstable on the wiring in my apartment.
Epic had a great chance to more accurately measure the market for 1st rate Linux games with UT2004, since it -was- simultaneously released for Windows and Linux (for the first time ever), but the chance was missed by not (for what seems like also the first time in history) including a registration card.
The chance wasn't missed because they didn't include a registration card. The authentication servers can happily keep track of what OS was used, and Epic did that with UT2003. Obviously not everyone is going to end up playing it online, but it's probably a larger percentage than would return a registration card. I know I always throw the things out.
Through price japan you do get a warranty, the same one Sharp gives a japanese buyer of the device. You pay ship the device to them, and they send it in to sharp for repair. Once it's done the device is shipped back to you.
Don't get me wrong, I like kmail and use it for most of my mail these days. This is just about the only feature that annoys me. I also hate HTML mail, but I still get a ton of it and reading the HTML unrendered is no fun at all.
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The quote in the summary is more specific. It's the "production and distribution of more than 90 percent of the high-quality counterfeit Microsoft software products either seized by law enforcement or test-purchased around the world."
So they're only talking about the stuff they've confiscated and not claiming it's 90% of everything that exists.
The simplest answer is that the developers who have the final say don't want to do it that way. They think that it's better for the kernel to have one single scheduler that gets widely tested against every type of load than to have multiple schedulers that tend to only get tested in their areas of optimization.
I just looked again and saw there are three different ones. You specifically want the exclusive trailer. I was watching the 1080p version.
It's on the trailer at http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/transformers.html at about 1 minute and 37 seconds in when Optimus transforms.
The code was opened up and it made it into the evolution source releases. I don't think it really went anywhere else though.
Well, except for the fact that the word Diebold don't appear anywhere in that article, meaning it may not have been one of their machines. The quick bit of searching I did indicates that they used iVotronic voting machines.
Well, there's always a slight chance of turning the iPAQ into a brick, but for most devices it's an extremely small chance if you follow the directions. The problem is that people tend to not follow directions.
Entirely different ideas. Redhat's approach had two major portions. First they had widget, icon, window manager themes for both KDE and GNOME that looked and behaved the same. On its own that really won't kill the native feel that much, just make them both look the same. The next thing they did was change the default config options of both desktops so that they had the same basic layouts, behavior, and application selections. That's the part that really makes them feel different. I ended up using the blue curve themes on Debian for a while since it was the best way to get a decent matching look for both toolkits at the time.
The Portland project doesn't really address the toolkit differences though and it isn't really targetted at KDE/GNOME apps, they'll be doing a lot of these same things except through APIs provided by KDE or GNOME. It's intended more for third party software developers who want to build an application that behaves sanely without having to depend on either KDE or GNOME directly. They provide a bunch of little programs that make it easier to make your program respect the current system and user configuration. so they have a program that installs a menu entry into the proper location for KDE and GNOME, another one lets you spawn the user's preferred email client, and another lets you open a file or URL in the proper program.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/15/cf
Though I think his intention isn't to say that the Daily Show isn't intended to have substance, but acknowledge that they will sometimes sacrifice substance in favor of the presentation in a way that isn't appropriate for a program that intends to be taken seriously.
Bon Echo is the Mozilla project's code name for FireFox2 betas. ( http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox2 ) I don't know what whether or not Mozilla and Ubuntu will be working out some kind of deal or just changing the name, but the Bon Echo branding was just a side effect of them planning to use Firefox 2 for Edgy Eft.
Dunno about the power cord, but he has on occasion accidently banned everyone from the network. He's provided a great tool for projects over the years, and I wish his family the best in dealing with this horrible occurance.
That's not true. I called cingular support and requested an unlock code for my Treo 650. I gave them the phone's IMEI and waited a few days for them to email me the unlock code. Now I can just pop in a SIM from any provider I want and the phone works fine.
The Cingular Wireless side isn't too hard to get the code out of. My experience with the AT&T side of Cingular is that they are much harder to get an unlock code out of.
Are you running 0.19? Auto-expire was a feature in older versions, but it wasn't the default behaviour. Due to some changes in the live tv portions of myth, auto-expire is automatically enabled.
That said, I think the hang on disk full bug was fixed in one of the 0.18 releases. I'm not absolutely sure though.
I have one of those Inspiron 6000s. It's a great machine that does exactly what I want it to do and was fairly inexpensive. Before I picked up the Inspiron, I was using a Powerbook that I had from work that would have been about the equivalent to the Inspiron. Both machines performed well, but the Powerbook was a bit more comfortable to use due to size and build quality. The Dell is roughly twice as thick as the Powerbook and feels signficantly heavier. It doesnt feel quite as well built either. While it doesn't feel fragile, there are parts that don't seem as sturdy as they could be. Part of that extra 1500 bucks is name, but some of it does go towards a better machine.
I'm in no hurry for a new laptop at this point, but if the Intel based MacBooks feel like the older Powerbooks I might go that route for the next laptop I buy.
I wouldn't recommend making the switch on the basis of the cost of the Tivo. The cost of the Tivo with lifetime service is probably the same or cheaper than setting up a nice quiet dedicated Myth box, even without factoring the time it will take to get Myth up and running satisfactorily.
I had a Tivo for about a year, and I really liked the box. It did exactly what it was supposed to do for a reasonable price, and the ads in the menus didn't annoy me too much. Setting it up took a couple hours to do, but that was mostly a matter of waiting for the tivo to download the data and do the initial import.
About two months ago I got rid of the Tivo and replaced it with a small PC running MythTV, and am happy with it as well. The main selling point for me was the ability to watch video from my desktop or laptop along with on my TV. I lost a few features like sugesstions and the more refined interface, but for me the trade offs were worth it. It took me two days to get the system basically up and running, along with a week or two of tweaking things as I noticed them. It's a great system on its own, but if you jump into it thinking it's just going to be a cheap Tivo you will be disappointed.
While I disagree with you on what is meant by the militia, it's a possible interpretation of the word. The sticking point of the amendment is "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Amendments 1, 9, and 10 all use "the people" in a manner that indicates that it means everyone, why would the second be any different in that respect? Article 1, Section 8 specifically gives the government power to raise and support an Army, I don't see why an amendment would need to be added to arm them.
From a historical point of view, the first 10 amendments were things that the drafters thought were implied by the Constitution itself. Each of the other amendments in the Bill of Rights relate to protecting the rights of the citizens, and were written to assure people hesitant to ratify the new Constitution that their rights wouldn't be completely trampled on by the new government.
order online from Blizzard. I did it last week and it supposedly shipped this week. From one of their press releases:
. To accommodate the increasing number of players eager to join World of Warcraft, Blizzard will be bringing several new servers online. After a short and successful testing period to ensure server stability, the company also plans to release additional units to retail outlets nationwide.
From the sounds of it everyone is sold out and Blizzard isn't going to send out more retail copies for a while. If you really want it, their online store is probably your best bet for now.
Well in theory almost all power lies with the state. The Federal government is mostly limited to foreign policy, maintaining the defense of the nation, and regulating interactions between the different states. Of course that's just the theory that was layed out in the Constitution. The federal government has slowly expanded it's powers into other areas, which at one point ended up in a civil war as a number of states tries leaving the union. The 10th ammendment pretty clearly sums up the intentions pretty well:
So if it seems redundant to you that the federal government and the state governments seem to do the exact same things now, you're in good company.
He must have taught you everything you know.
Well I don't actually run anything on there except for an sshd for access from work. I just checked it to see if they did block anything off. I more or less assume any ISP is going to disallow servers unless I have information to the contrary.
Well I can't speak for this service specifically, but I have Verizon DSL and they don't block any ports that I've noticed. Ports 25 and 80 are both open to the world at this moment. This is the Ventura California area, in case it varies by region. To bad anything over 1.5mbit is unstable on the wiring in my apartment.
Epic had a great chance to more accurately measure the market for 1st rate Linux games with UT2004, since it -was- simultaneously released for Windows and Linux (for the first time ever), but the chance was missed by not (for what seems like also the first time in history) including a registration card.
The chance wasn't missed because they didn't include a registration card. The authentication servers can happily keep track of what OS was used, and Epic did that with UT2003. Obviously not everyone is going to end up playing it online, but it's probably a larger percentage than would return a registration card. I know I always throw the things out.
Through price japan you do get a warranty, the same one Sharp gives a japanese buyer of the device. You pay ship the device to them, and they send it in to sharp for repair. Once it's done the device is shipped back to you.
Of coure pricejapan provides warranty service. You pay for shipping to them and they act as a proxy between Sharp and you.
Don't get me wrong, I like kmail and use it for most of my mail these days. This is just about the only feature that annoys me. I also hate HTML mail, but I still get a ton of it and reading the HTML unrendered is no fun at all.