I dunno. There's this concept of "personal responsibility", too. People ARE idiots if they can't figure out that something is different, and they should pay attention to it. Saying that developers are idiots (as in your case) does not excuse users from being idiots.
This should be insightful... the students don't care whose problem it is, since it's definitely not theirs. They're gonna just click through the dialogs on someone else's computer since they don't have to pay the tech to fix it.
I'd love to see a study done on people's home computers... too bad it's not really possible, and either way, it'd be tainted. Giving them an app and telling them to run it? They're getting it from what should be a trusted source, so that throws off the threat response, etc.
Is there any good reason to do multiple X servers like that any more, though? I've gotten to where I just use xrandr with my T61 (Intel X3100), and switch screens on the fly. got a nifty little script hooked up to the ACPI event for screen switching. I use Outlook and Excel in an XP VM when I have to, and it actually works pretty well.
I've seen studies that show that there's a much higher incidence of sociopathic disorders in management like that as compared to the "regular" workers. There's a reason they climb high... they don't care who they step on to get up there.
Amen. People who bought into HD-DVD aren't gonna be suckered twice... and besides, they already spent the money. Not everyone has the disposable income to buy multiple players... I haven't even bought one of them, even though I'd like to. And I make enough to live... I just can't justify it with the way credit and such is going any more.
They don't just work, though. The people who hang out on the forums aren't the ones who were bitten by HDCP. And you get people asking salespeople about this new fancy high-def disc and get asked if the HDTV they bought 3 years ago has HDCP, they don't know if it does or not, so that scares them off. And many people have HDTV's that don't have HDCP, so there goes a number of people who would buy one, but it just doesn't work. My brother is an example of that... bought a 720p TV a while back, and it only has component inputs. It may technically work, but that's only until ICT gets used more commonly, which the the manufacturers haven't used so far. But that's like trusting Apple to not delete your apps off the store.
T-Mobile has pretty good peering agreements, though. I've gotten service everywhere I went, even Alaska, and I've never been charged more than my base "national" plan rate, even with data usage.
Besides... AT&T is the only official place to get the iPhone, and I don't see that device failing. People even jailbroke it to use it on other networks and such.
The membranes are required for more advanced cells, but look at the components of our cells... most biologists I know believe that the things like the mitochondria, etc. just got "trapped" together in a membrane. Besides, if the lipids exist, they're hydrophobic in and of themselves, and will form into spheres automatically. And then there are conjectures about mechanisms like viruses and such (they don't have any lipid membranes) modifying the cells themselves. There's no magic random chemicals->life step. But there are a number of plausible paths that it could have taken. And it only takes one to survive and start dividing.
I think that he's probably referring to the government backed takeovers of Fannie May, Freddie Mac, AIG and so on. Because they essentially are being bailed out of the consequences of their bad decisions by taxpayer money. And the execs aren't even getting a slap on the wrist.
I'm of the opinion that those fucks who destabilized the world economy in the name of unfettered greed of finances they didn't understand should go to jail, not pass go, and not ever get out. Anyone who can't demonstrate that they tried to make things better rather than worse.
What's common? DWI? Oh, you probably meant "come on", which has a completely different meaning. Words are spelled the way they are for a reason, kids. It's so we can communicate!
Let's see... should I pay for a copy of software that will install all kinds of shit on my computer, and possibly not work because of other software that's installed (like ISO mounting programs), or should I take the pirated copy that will just work and is a lot cheaper and less likely to screw up my computer. Man, this is a hard decision!
I buy software. I don't if it has shitty DRM that tries to invade my machine and take control away from me.
That's because aluminum significantly contracts and expands with temperature changes. When it does so in a residential setting, it will cause shorts and sparks and such in outlets and switches. The 1" wire (probably more like a crossbar) was probably specifically designed for electrical use, and had appropriate connectors and so on so that it was NOT a danger (as noted in the physicsforums post you linked to. Given the price of copper any more, the special work needed for aluminum is possibly worth it.
I've only burnt one pot because of that. Now I have a little kitchen timer I set to like, 10 minutes or so when I start the water boiling. It reminds me that I did something a while ago that I really should be checking on;)
And that specifically is why Seinfeld isn't funny. He's funny if you are a complete moron. Otherwise, his "observations" are all things that are trivially explained if you have half a clue.
You should go watch them. It's like watching a train wreck. Especially the second one... rich people fucking up normal people's lives and being unaware and even magnanimous about it. It never gets old.
They don't care that they're breaking the law. That's kinda, you know, the DEFINITION of a criminal. But either way, it doesn't matter one whit what the law is when someone robs you with a gun. They have the power due to their weapon, they take what they want, and you hopefully don't get hurt. Unless they're randomly mean. Or a jealous ex. Or just fucking loony. It may be illegal for them to have the gun, but the fact is that they DO have the gun, and the law really doesn't provide too much of an impediment to them having that advantage. And society is all the more geared to rewarding criminal behavior. I'm sure we want that, right? Laws that reward the people that don't follow them?
If someone even thinks I might have a gun, they're going to think twice. They no longer have overwhelming force to back up their words. We're on equal footing, and there's a much higher likelihood that they'll go do something more productive, or at least go rob someone that doesn't have a gun.
Laws are all well and good, but they're concepts. The world doesn't work on concepts alone.
It means we shouldn't have laws that prevent the law-abiding public from protecting themselves, since the police obviously are not there for that purpose.
But you probably knew that, and were just trolling. Still, it's a common enough fallacy that I had to refute it.
People are lazy, and would just keep their cards in their wallets. Let it read it through the wallet.
Personally? I don't trust anything that doesn't require actual physical contact. Go ahead and put a smart chip in, but put some contacts for the reader to connect to. Radio frequency is too easy for people to fuck with. Not to mention we've had a great track record with insecure RFID badges, right?
Where do you get the city bus numbers? Or train numbers? Because those all assume filling to capacity, right? That very rarely happens on any buses I've been on (except rush hour), or even trains. Or cars. Jets on the other hand, very rarely fly without holding as much as they can, be it passengers or cargo (most airlines carry mail and such if they can to help defray the costs).
Statistics can say anything you want, especially if you take them out of context.
Only if they have a warrant. At least, I think that's what I last heard with the GPS tracking police debacle. Somehow these twats think they can get around that, though.
Those glasses are typically red/blue if they exist any more, or even more common are polarized glasses (at least in movie theaters). But these glasses actually work differently... they have an LCD that turns on and off very quickly in front of each eye, so you see one picture with one eye, and another one from a different vantage point with the other eye, giving the 3D effect. It's completely colorblind friendly;)
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I dunno. There's this concept of "personal responsibility", too. People ARE idiots if they can't figure out that something is different, and they should pay attention to it. Saying that developers are idiots (as in your case) does not excuse users from being idiots.
This should be insightful... the students don't care whose problem it is, since it's definitely not theirs. They're gonna just click through the dialogs on someone else's computer since they don't have to pay the tech to fix it.
I'd love to see a study done on people's home computers... too bad it's not really possible, and either way, it'd be tainted. Giving them an app and telling them to run it? They're getting it from what should be a trusted source, so that throws off the threat response, etc.
Is there any good reason to do multiple X servers like that any more, though? I've gotten to where I just use xrandr with my T61 (Intel X3100), and switch screens on the fly. got a nifty little script hooked up to the ACPI event for screen switching. I use Outlook and Excel in an XP VM when I have to, and it actually works pretty well.
Or you just send "start" commands to your bots. Who needs a response? Let them do the hard work and expose themselves.
I've seen studies that show that there's a much higher incidence of sociopathic disorders in management like that as compared to the "regular" workers. There's a reason they climb high... they don't care who they step on to get up there.
Amen. People who bought into HD-DVD aren't gonna be suckered twice... and besides, they already spent the money. Not everyone has the disposable income to buy multiple players... I haven't even bought one of them, even though I'd like to. And I make enough to live... I just can't justify it with the way credit and such is going any more.
They don't just work, though. The people who hang out on the forums aren't the ones who were bitten by HDCP. And you get people asking salespeople about this new fancy high-def disc and get asked if the HDTV they bought 3 years ago has HDCP, they don't know if it does or not, so that scares them off. And many people have HDTV's that don't have HDCP, so there goes a number of people who would buy one, but it just doesn't work. My brother is an example of that... bought a 720p TV a while back, and it only has component inputs. It may technically work, but that's only until ICT gets used more commonly, which the the manufacturers haven't used so far. But that's like trusting Apple to not delete your apps off the store.
T-Mobile has pretty good peering agreements, though. I've gotten service everywhere I went, even Alaska, and I've never been charged more than my base "national" plan rate, even with data usage.
Besides... AT&T is the only official place to get the iPhone, and I don't see that device failing. People even jailbroke it to use it on other networks and such.
The membranes are required for more advanced cells, but look at the components of our cells... most biologists I know believe that the things like the mitochondria, etc. just got "trapped" together in a membrane. Besides, if the lipids exist, they're hydrophobic in and of themselves, and will form into spheres automatically. And then there are conjectures about mechanisms like viruses and such (they don't have any lipid membranes) modifying the cells themselves. There's no magic random chemicals->life step. But there are a number of plausible paths that it could have taken. And it only takes one to survive and start dividing.
I think that T-Mobile is going 3G in their 21 major markets in the US at the beginning of October here... at least, that's the last news I heard.
I think that he's probably referring to the government backed takeovers of Fannie May, Freddie Mac, AIG and so on. Because they essentially are being bailed out of the consequences of their bad decisions by taxpayer money. And the execs aren't even getting a slap on the wrist.
I'm of the opinion that those fucks who destabilized the world economy in the name of unfettered greed of finances they didn't understand should go to jail, not pass go, and not ever get out. Anyone who can't demonstrate that they tried to make things better rather than worse.
What's common? DWI? Oh, you probably meant "come on", which has a completely different meaning. Words are spelled the way they are for a reason, kids. It's so we can communicate!
Let's see... should I pay for a copy of software that will install all kinds of shit on my computer, and possibly not work because of other software that's installed (like ISO mounting programs), or should I take the pirated copy that will just work and is a lot cheaper and less likely to screw up my computer. Man, this is a hard decision!
I buy software. I don't if it has shitty DRM that tries to invade my machine and take control away from me.
That'd actually be an interesting project... write an AI as a separate process for a game in Haskell... wonder how well that'd work out.
That's because aluminum significantly contracts and expands with temperature changes. When it does so in a residential setting, it will cause shorts and sparks and such in outlets and switches. The 1" wire (probably more like a crossbar) was probably specifically designed for electrical use, and had appropriate connectors and so on so that it was NOT a danger (as noted in the physicsforums post you linked to. Given the price of copper any more, the special work needed for aluminum is possibly worth it.
I've only burnt one pot because of that. Now I have a little kitchen timer I set to like, 10 minutes or so when I start the water boiling. It reminds me that I did something a while ago that I really should be checking on ;)
And that specifically is why Seinfeld isn't funny. He's funny if you are a complete moron. Otherwise, his "observations" are all things that are trivially explained if you have half a clue.
Apparently, most of America doesn't.
You should go watch them. It's like watching a train wreck. Especially the second one... rich people fucking up normal people's lives and being unaware and even magnanimous about it. It never gets old.
Only $100K? You deserve millions for that kind of insight. I hear there's a spot on the board opening up ;)
They don't care that they're breaking the law. That's kinda, you know, the DEFINITION of a criminal. But either way, it doesn't matter one whit what the law is when someone robs you with a gun. They have the power due to their weapon, they take what they want, and you hopefully don't get hurt. Unless they're randomly mean. Or a jealous ex. Or just fucking loony. It may be illegal for them to have the gun, but the fact is that they DO have the gun, and the law really doesn't provide too much of an impediment to them having that advantage. And society is all the more geared to rewarding criminal behavior. I'm sure we want that, right? Laws that reward the people that don't follow them?
If someone even thinks I might have a gun, they're going to think twice. They no longer have overwhelming force to back up their words. We're on equal footing, and there's a much higher likelihood that they'll go do something more productive, or at least go rob someone that doesn't have a gun.
Laws are all well and good, but they're concepts. The world doesn't work on concepts alone.
It means we shouldn't have laws that prevent the law-abiding public from protecting themselves, since the police obviously are not there for that purpose.
But you probably knew that, and were just trolling. Still, it's a common enough fallacy that I had to refute it.
People are lazy, and would just keep their cards in their wallets. Let it read it through the wallet.
Personally? I don't trust anything that doesn't require actual physical contact. Go ahead and put a smart chip in, but put some contacts for the reader to connect to. Radio frequency is too easy for people to fuck with. Not to mention we've had a great track record with insecure RFID badges, right?
Where do you get the city bus numbers? Or train numbers? Because those all assume filling to capacity, right? That very rarely happens on any buses I've been on (except rush hour), or even trains. Or cars. Jets on the other hand, very rarely fly without holding as much as they can, be it passengers or cargo (most airlines carry mail and such if they can to help defray the costs).
Statistics can say anything you want, especially if you take them out of context.
Only if they have a warrant. At least, I think that's what I last heard with the GPS tracking police debacle. Somehow these twats think they can get around that, though.
Those glasses are typically red/blue if they exist any more, or even more common are polarized glasses (at least in movie theaters). But these glasses actually work differently... they have an LCD that turns on and off very quickly in front of each eye, so you see one picture with one eye, and another one from a different vantage point with the other eye, giving the 3D effect. It's completely colorblind friendly ;)