Did you ever consider that when you're looking at very similar shapes and very dissimilar colors you've made a very silly experiment? Try something like picking the [0,0,205] blue ball out of the field of [0,0,255] blue balls (search for blue3 on this page) as easily as you did the red? I'd also bet you could find the O in a field of T's almost as easily as you did the red ball in the blob of green ones, as long as you weren't colorblind.
But I'm betting that I'm just a peer in your scientific review process;)
Or possibly because iron is all over the damn place, and making iron oxide isn't hard, whereas many (most?) other metals that would supply the proper amount of oxygen aren't really available in large quantities easily?
I'd say fecation happens in your lower intestine, where the nutrients and excess fluids are absorbed off, and it's transformed into feces. Defecation is getting rid of the products of said process. I'm a fan of mastication as a term for eating, especially at fancy restaurants.
True. But the word "defenestrate" means literally to throw out a window. I caught his meaning, I would suggest that "I need to disembowel my wife" has the same kind of retarded meaning-leap that defenestration does. Don't use big words incorrectly... you only make yourself look like a fool.
TrueCrypt can put data into files, rather than using the whole drive. Put TrueCrypt on the drive as well as the file, and run it from there. So what if they know what program you encrypted it with, as long as you have a properly strong password, it won't matter.
But I'd be wary using a secure key on any public PC... you can't trust the PC, and the key could easily be compromised if the machine is. The chain of security is only as strong as it's weakest link.
So... you're saying that if you want to use Microsoft technology, you have to use... Microsoft technology? Any other insights you'd like to share? Is water wet? Is gravity still defining "down"?
If you want to use a proper, portable language that has open implementations, there's much to be said AGAINST Windows, and very little for it.
Windows often gets unhappy if you try to run too many "enterprise" applications on one box. Linux generally doesn't. You don't run your main database AND web server on a Windows machine... that is suicide. It's not the best idea for Linux, but that's only because the hardware won't keep up. The software will do it's thing just fine.
Windows still hasn't figured out how to do task switching. Linux figured that out a long time ago. It's way too easy for one process to "run away" on a Windows machine and make it completely unusable, even to kill the offending process.
Except if Firefox wanted to start using the Gecko engine as an embeddable HTML renderer like WebKit is... then the whole thing falls apart, and what they're doing makes sense again.
Decoding still isn't free, no matter whether the CPU or the GPU does it. It still eats up power.
The thing that would help most is to rip the movie to a resolution more compatible with your laptop... I know of very few laptops that can display 1920x1080 video in it's proper resolution... convert it to 720p, something with fewer pixels. It'll make the decoding easier, the file smaller, and look better on your smaller screen anyway.
It's called "politics", and geeks are notoriously bad at it. It's talking out both sides of your mouth, and not being consistent internally with what you present externally.
It may be a recipe for losing, but it's also one for not being hypocritical.
It also breaks the Internet. With only 65,536 ports that you can use you run out of ports to dynamically swap around and still provide network services to all the NAT'ed IP's. You can only get a couple hundred machines behind each world-routable IP and still have them be able to access the outside world without running any servers on them. NATing isn't magic... it takes resources, it's just "invisible" as far as most people are concerned. So far. If you NAT a NAT, you're going to run into major issues with limited port allocation. We still need world-routable IP's, and they ain't making any more of those.
And you're a moron, because we're talking about that IP address that you so easily determine with your cron job would GO AWAY. It'd be a non-world-routable private IP.
IPv6 isn't a solution in search of a problem. The problem is quite real... it's just a matter of time before we embrace the solution.
Ok, so that "solves" https. What about the fact that we can't NAT a whole lot more than we already are, especially with the explosion of P2P apps and massively interlinked websites?
It's because you specifically noted primate and human evolution versus the theory of evolution in general, somehow implying that humans are special and outside the system, and you also used a fallacious argument about "Well, if we were wrong about one thing, we could be wrong about everything in science!". This is typically an argument of "Intelligent Design theorists", which is why the GPP brought it up. There have always been problems with scientific research in all fields being imperfect, because humans do it. Stating that you think this is some kind of new thing, or only new in your field of interest, is disingenuous.
Microsoft also has a 16.4% failure rate of the 360's that's seriously eating into their possibility of profiting from it. I suppose they'll write the couple billion that they're in the hole on that endeavor off as a marketing expense...
And as soon as you find out they've taken the whole bag, they lose their contract, and get NO more rubies from you. The bulk of their business is still tied to the demand of the manufacturing company, not the second-shift production. It's cutting off your nose to spite your face if you value the second-shift production more than a good first-shift production. The Chinese aren't stupid... far from it. They just have very little respect for you, so you need to give them a reason to do so.
Money is a PLACEHOLDER for value. It is not an entity unto itself. If it comes to blows, I'm pretty sure the US can stand on it's own. They only "own" the United States as long as the US plays fair. And since China hasn't exactly done so in the past, I'm not sure I see a big reason for the US to do so, either.
The only time in the last 2 years of using Linux (I've used it for much longer) that I've had to "edit some conf files to auto-mount partitions" is with my RAID arrays. Which grandma ain't gonna be using.
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Did you ever consider that when you're looking at very similar shapes and very dissimilar colors you've made a very silly experiment? Try something like picking the [0,0,205] blue ball out of the field of [0,0,255] blue balls (search for blue3 on this page) as easily as you did the red? I'd also bet you could find the O in a field of T's almost as easily as you did the red ball in the blob of green ones, as long as you weren't colorblind.
;)
But I'm betting that I'm just a peer in your scientific review process
Or possibly because iron is all over the damn place, and making iron oxide isn't hard, whereas many (most?) other metals that would supply the proper amount of oxygen aren't really available in large quantities easily?
I'd say fecation happens in your lower intestine, where the nutrients and excess fluids are absorbed off, and it's transformed into feces. Defecation is getting rid of the products of said process. I'm a fan of mastication as a term for eating, especially at fancy restaurants.
And you failed all of them?
True. But the word "defenestrate" means literally to throw out a window. I caught his meaning, I would suggest that "I need to disembowel my wife" has the same kind of retarded meaning-leap that defenestration does. Don't use big words incorrectly... you only make yourself look like a fool.
TrueCrypt can put data into files, rather than using the whole drive. Put TrueCrypt on the drive as well as the file, and run it from there. So what if they know what program you encrypted it with, as long as you have a properly strong password, it won't matter.
But I'd be wary using a secure key on any public PC... you can't trust the PC, and the key could easily be compromised if the machine is. The chain of security is only as strong as it's weakest link.
So... you're saying that if you want to use Microsoft technology, you have to use... Microsoft technology? Any other insights you'd like to share? Is water wet? Is gravity still defining "down"?
If you want to use a proper, portable language that has open implementations, there's much to be said AGAINST Windows, and very little for it.
Windows often gets unhappy if you try to run too many "enterprise" applications on one box. Linux generally doesn't. You don't run your main database AND web server on a Windows machine... that is suicide. It's not the best idea for Linux, but that's only because the hardware won't keep up. The software will do it's thing just fine.
Windows still hasn't figured out how to do task switching. Linux figured that out a long time ago. It's way too easy for one process to "run away" on a Windows machine and make it completely unusable, even to kill the offending process.
Except if Firefox wanted to start using the Gecko engine as an embeddable HTML renderer like WebKit is... then the whole thing falls apart, and what they're doing makes sense again.
Of course not. Even with that edge, IE still sucks ;)
Decoding still isn't free, no matter whether the CPU or the GPU does it. It still eats up power.
The thing that would help most is to rip the movie to a resolution more compatible with your laptop... I know of very few laptops that can display 1920x1080 video in it's proper resolution... convert it to 720p, something with fewer pixels. It'll make the decoding easier, the file smaller, and look better on your smaller screen anyway.
It's called "politics", and geeks are notoriously bad at it. It's talking out both sides of your mouth, and not being consistent internally with what you present externally.
It may be a recipe for losing, but it's also one for not being hypocritical.
I think you just made up step 5, since I've never seen anything like that. You're probably some sort of Microsoft shill ;) </joke>
It also breaks the Internet. With only 65,536 ports that you can use you run out of ports to dynamically swap around and still provide network services to all the NAT'ed IP's. You can only get a couple hundred machines behind each world-routable IP and still have them be able to access the outside world without running any servers on them. NATing isn't magic... it takes resources, it's just "invisible" as far as most people are concerned. So far. If you NAT a NAT, you're going to run into major issues with limited port allocation. We still need world-routable IP's, and they ain't making any more of those.
And you're a moron, because we're talking about that IP address that you so easily determine with your cron job would GO AWAY. It'd be a non-world-routable private IP.
IPv6 isn't a solution in search of a problem. The problem is quite real... it's just a matter of time before we embrace the solution.
Ok, so that "solves" https. What about the fact that we can't NAT a whole lot more than we already are, especially with the explosion of P2P apps and massively interlinked websites?
It's because you specifically noted primate and human evolution versus the theory of evolution in general, somehow implying that humans are special and outside the system, and you also used a fallacious argument about "Well, if we were wrong about one thing, we could be wrong about everything in science!". This is typically an argument of "Intelligent Design theorists", which is why the GPP brought it up. There have always been problems with scientific research in all fields being imperfect, because humans do it. Stating that you think this is some kind of new thing, or only new in your field of interest, is disingenuous.
I'd wager on "surrender" for the type of negotiation that I'd vote it most likely to be used in. My second choice is "sex".
Microsoft also has a 16.4% failure rate of the 360's that's seriously eating into their possibility of profiting from it. I suppose they'll write the couple billion that they're in the hole on that endeavor off as a marketing expense...
And as soon as you find out they've taken the whole bag, they lose their contract, and get NO more rubies from you. The bulk of their business is still tied to the demand of the manufacturing company, not the second-shift production. It's cutting off your nose to spite your face if you value the second-shift production more than a good first-shift production. The Chinese aren't stupid... far from it. They just have very little respect for you, so you need to give them a reason to do so.
Money is a PLACEHOLDER for value. It is not an entity unto itself. If it comes to blows, I'm pretty sure the US can stand on it's own. They only "own" the United States as long as the US plays fair. And since China hasn't exactly done so in the past, I'm not sure I see a big reason for the US to do so, either.
Oh, I don't know... I don't really find it that amazing...
Oh, I'm sorry Fry, scientists renamed Uranus years ago to rid the earth of that stupid joke once and for all. Now it's called Urectum!
If they haven't touched it in Windows, there's a very good chance they won't have to touch it in Linux.
The only time in the last 2 years of using Linux (I've used it for much longer) that I've had to "edit some conf files to auto-mount partitions" is with my RAID arrays. Which grandma ain't gonna be using.