Uh...don't you mean: 1:26 minutes / 3 hours = roughly 1/2; 1:26 / 4 hours = roughly 3/8.
Not that the battery life is very good on current AMD-equipped devices, but at the same time one doesn't pay as much either.
I wonder if a similar bug isn't responsible for my PDA eating power (when off) with SD cards present.
In my religion, God's a hermaphrodite. Of course God's also on fire, so God needn't be concerned with planets such as Neptune or Pluto. God's also everywhere which, though it may seem to conflict with my assertion that God is on fire, does not because this is a religious statement which needn't pass any scientific tests. Which is odd, since I still cannot understand why Christians (are there any other religions pushing ID?) want this taught in a science class.
Of course, as I'm merely a newly converted hermaphrodite worshipper who created this religion mere seconds ago, I cannot begin to imagine what thoughts may race through my mind after faith permeates my psyche to the point that I can no longer differentiate science from religious belief.
No really, I'm a true believer and strong supporter of religion. There isn't a cynical bone in my body...honest!
As Deagol noted, unless your office is exceptionally humid, running labels through multiple times is unlikely to cause problems. At a previous job we did this all the time and the one time we had a problem it was attributed to one of the labels having been caught by another sheet in the stack and peeled up, causing a paper jam. Luckily it was easy to remove and thereafter a quick glance at the sheet before use and better storage solved the problem. We ended up creating a script that would generate HTML pages to print given a starting label column and row using a database to provide the address data. It took some fine-tuning to keep it ontrack after 10 or so pages which wouldn't have been a problem if we'd used some word-processing application instead of HTML, but the HTML worked out better for our situation. We'd print our postage information using a thermal printer and then used the laser for the address information though I must admit I no longer recall why. Either way, we never had an issue with either the laser or thermal labels becoming unreadable.
Uh, because that's basically what the article was doing, comparing Windows menu entries to aan opensource application's executable.
Looking through my menus in Gentoo, it is fairly clear what the program does either by the name, or icon. There are some exceptions, like GIMP is just called "The GIMP", but at least it is under the Graphics menu group so I've a pretty good idea what its function is even without recognizing the application. That actually applies to most applications under my Gnome desktop actually. Everything is grouped by it's function, unlike Windows where typically applications are grouped by manufacturer.
I think that is a bit forgetful, we're not the only people that try and force our views upon others.
I think many people (I am not generalizing) try and force their beliefs onto others. It's happened since the world's founding, in the example of religion and in the current century in the world where the worlds leaders are forcing their policies on others. Continue spreading the idea of intelligent design to others who wish to know about it. For the rest of us, leave it alone. Don't force a religious idea into a science classroom and call it an alternative view to evolution.
Really, that was a waste of time, but anyway... People are always eager to have others share their view. I don't know the reason but maybe it affirms their beliefs and makes them feel better about themselves and their decisions. I guess it's nice to be in the majority so people are always trying to introduce new members into their way of thinking, or associate with like-minded individuals. I don't think most people would agree that it might be possible that their way of life isn't the right, or best. I think most would probably be defensive and then try to convince you that, indeed, it is. I guess it's just human nature, but luckily we have laws to limit just what people/organizations/republics can do before those actions are considered illegal. Not that it always works, but that's the intention.
So, with all that in mind: in theory, democracy looks pretty good even though as far as the US federal government goes I think we can all agree that it's devolved into a elitist representation. Still, as far as the long-term welfare of the people go, I can't really see any alternative. It's possible I haven't looked hard enough or researched enough, it's hardly an interest or specialty of mine. But, having grown up in the US, I can't really say how I'd feel about any other form of government but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to live under Sadaam Hussein, even there's probably a more devious reason for his removal from power. We can't really leave though, because due to the lack of infrastructure and government, it would probably disintegrate into something worse than the previous dictatorship.
But hey, yeah I agree, a religious theory has no place in a US classroom. American's should realize that being in the majority, doesn't mean that things are always going to go your way, which was a large part of the basis on which this country was built. Someday, somewhere, everyone is probably going to be part of a minority and just as you expect to be respected by the majority, you should respect the minority when you are in the majority....and that's basically what this fight is about: changing things to suit the majority even though we've agreed not to do so (well, I guess we're all born into it now, though we could conceivably alter the constitution if the majority really felt so strongly).
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*I find the choice of wording quite humorous (intended or not)*
Another problem is that the [some?] ID people are trying to bypass the scientific community by using their majority (or apparently appearance of majority since the school board was voted out) to effectively legislate this into the textbooks as a scientific theory. If ID supporters truly believed it could withstand the scientific community then why didn't they persevere to get it accepted by the community anyway? I'm pretty sure that's a rhetorical question, but I'd love to hear an answer that doesn't involve the words/meanings: conspiracy, secularist, or closed-minded.
Scientific method, the method employed in exact science and
consisting of: (a) Careful and abundant observation and
experiment. (b) generalization of the results into
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How can you experiment on ID? Seriously, I'd like to know how that would be done. What's your method for detecting the presence of an intelligent entity or whether it is affecting ones results?
With evolution, we can subject organisms to varying environments given a known starting point. We can observe the changes in the DNA in the resulting populations. We can observe the genes being selected for in the resultant generations. We can observe the differences between each different controlled ecosystem's DNA. We can observe how DNA replicates and introduces random changes. This all supports the theory of evolution, and it can be done using the scientific method. We have observed, and hypothesized. Then we created an experiment to test our hypothesis and it supports our theory. Evolution has a lot of evidence supporting it and though it may have some holes, it is a strong theory.
ID was just recently introduced, has a very bad scientific reputation, uses questionable methods and is strongly linked to a creationist text. The judge made no statements saying that ID shouldn't be investigated by the scientific community. He said that it shouldn't be taught in schools as a secular theory (which under the constitution, it must be secular*), because based on the evidence provided during the trial it is a thinly disguised theory of creation. Typically theories are judged by the scientific community, and only after gaining support there are they taught as theory in our public schools.
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Secularist Sec"u*lar*ist, n.
One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith,
and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the
facts and influences which are derived from the present life;
also, one who believes that education and other matters of
civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a
religious element.
I don't even understand why Christians are pressing this issue. If one believes in the Christian God and all that he has done, why can't one wrap ones mind around the fact that He could create the Earth and make it appear the way that it is? I thought the whole idea of religion is that it is the faith that is important, not the physical evidence anyway. If it was readily evident that God had created the universe and He had left irrefutable evidence of this fact, we would know. There wouldn't be any requirement for belief and there wouldn't be any disbelief. In that environment, we would have no choice in our future or belief, inherently we would believe and inherently we would be saved. Our faith could never be tested in such a world and in fact we could then only argue over which religion is actually worshipping the correct God, which really couldn't ever be construed to be any sort of true faith as we know it.
I haven't even touched upon the strong case for evolution and the total lack of any scientifically-accepted, provable evidence in support of ID -- I'm referring to well-respected scientific journals here . Nor have I mentioned the fact that ID is provably based on creationism and that no one has the legal right to teach _my_ child religion in public school (not that I have any children, but still). It's not my problem, the scientific community's problem, or my government's problem that the scientific evidence doesn't support ones belief or religious interpretation of a religious text. Religions survived the discovery that Earth isn't the center of the universe, and it will survive the theory of evolution. Just because ones faith can't surmount scientific evidence doesn't give one the right to teach religion in school. This republic was based on liberty above all, including Christianity, something that apparently many would like to forget along with the scientific method.
Finally for those that think that I'm enforcing/choosing a religion, consider this: while I'm not a believer in any specific religion I support the theory of evolution. Evolution has no bearing upon my religious beliefs, it neither supports or detracts from my religious beliefs, much in the way that mathematics has no bearing upon my religion. I don't support ID, primarily because it doesn't follow the scientific method. If one's going argue this against evolution, let's start talking about physics. There is no law of gravity in regards to what exactly creates that force (for starters). So we can just say that God is just pushing us down (literally THE MAN is keeping us down!!). What is time? Ah, it's just something God made, it just is! Whoops, I mean "Intelligent Entity", not God [we can fix that with a search and replace, don't worry]! Can anyone help me expand this theory? Maybe we can tack it onto ID and we'll present it as the all-encompassing theory of existence? What possible barrier can withstand the answer "because the intelligent entity created it that way"? Seriously, if we can't agree that ID isn't science then let's just let this be settled in the scientific circle. That means it doesn't get into the public school system until it's proven itself in the scientific community, which at the very least means it's discussed and accepted in scientific journals. Every modern theory took that course before becoming mainstream and ID deserves no special treatment. If ID is to measure up to evolution, then it needs to be subjected to the same peer review process to which all other scientific theories are subjected. One can't railroad a theory into mainstream by teaching it in school, and one can't legislate a statement into a scientific theory simply because it is what one believes. It needs to adhere to the scientific method and it needs to withstand scientific testing, neither of which has been done from the data I have gathered.
The fact that there is no direct scientific evidence to backup the existence of a god is not a denunciation of all religions that depend upon the premise. That fact
Microsoft can't even make the deadlines without verifying these things. How can you expect them to even ship if you put constraints like that upon them?
Seriously though, buffer overflows can happen regardless of the company or source. Obviously some take this more seriously than others (i.e. the BSDs). So since only so much can be done, we use technology to minimize the impact when it does occur. It's kind of like how society can see that some people won't follow the rules so we invent police and jails instead of trying vainly to just fix the people in the first place. Some "parents" are better than others.
DISCLAIMER: Please don't read too much into that parenting reference, it is only as an example, not an absolute cause of misbehavior (in people at least).
And yet my virus scanner detects both worms and trojans...and many worms use buffer overflow exploits to spread. What a confusing world we live in.
We are talking about the general public here and the fact remains that if the computer gets it without the users permission, that's pretty much a virus. With the notable exception of spyware, probably because the virus scanner manufacturers didn't feel like starting a firestorm by detecting it as a trojan.
The typical home user probably has a hard enough time distinguishing between spyware and trojans, let alone attempting to digest this "NX bit" and "buffer overflow" thing anyway. I'm usually all for being technically correct, but I'm not going to require that when talking to a 4 year old which is essentially what AMD is doing when advertising to home users.
That said though, since I haven't actually heard any of these commercials, I must go off what's been posted. If the accounts are true, it certainly is misleading advertising. They make it sound as if there's a virus scanner residing in the CPU somewhere scanning the software as it's executed. That's clearly not the case and I can think of several better ways to market its advantages in the few seconds I just took to think about it without misleading and confusing the public.
There may be components in marijuana that can be medically useful, but using the plant itself (a mixture of a variety of beneficial and harmful components) isn't going to net one any benefits. It's somewhat akin to putting crude in your gasoline car versus using gasoline which is just one component refined from oil.
It took me a while to get used the the GIMP interface. I thought it was pretty good...
Then I tried it on Windows and I can certainly see a problem. In most any Linux windowmanager, you can force windows to stay on top (and shade them). In Windows, you lose those two options and that's when the interface really becomes a nightmare to use. Alt-tabbing or searching through the task bar to locate a lost window (or even activating it from the menu) is a real killer. I think most windows users will quickly grow tired of that before they learn the keyboard short-cuts and move on to something more conventional.
No, what you smell is another case of a chemical company getting away with polluting the environment, killing people (many of them slowly) and leaving a nice unsafe legacy.
It happens in America all the time,<sarcasm>it's only right that American companies do it elsewhere</sarcasm>.
When you neglect security to a point where accidents are bound to happen sooner or later, do you still not think we should hold the responsible accountable?
I have nothing against these people being held accountable. But I disagree, as the poster did, with comparing a terrorist act with a lapse (intentional or otherwise) of safety.
If you continue your line of thought, you could say that the terrorists of 11/9 only wanted to do material damage, but human lives was lost by accident.
I'm not sure I should even respond to a troll like this, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. Anyway, to say that is preposterous is being quite generous. If you've followed any of the videos from Usama you can see that they wanted to hit the American people, not just the towers. The fact that the towers fell was beyond their greatest expectations. If they wanted to minimize the casualties, they would have crashed into the very top of the towers or attacked them at a different time of day or even attacked a different, less populated target. Saving lives was not only not a priority, it was contradictory to their plans. The plan was to attack an American icon and if civilians died, all the better.
So mod up this parent all you want, but it's not going to make it any more valid a line of arguing.
Let's just leave it at being a terrible tragedy that could (probably) have been easily avoided had the Indian or American company intervened, as they should have. Should someone be held criminally responsible? Sure. Should the people receive some of the $470 million that was paid to the Indian government? Sure. Should the victims receive more compensation (or any) directly from Dow? Sure. Is this tradegy comparable to a terrorist act? Not even remotely.
I don't know about Tivo, but I once worked for a national store that sold DirecTV units. We were told by the DirecTV people that they often detected pirated units by them calling from an unauthorized number, or not calling at all. Now obviously they also knew which machines had hacked (or stolen) cards somehow and they would somehow disable those machines (sounded like some sort of bad BIOS flash from what the DirecTV representatives said). They asked us to be sure to tell the customers that the units NEEDED to be plugged in.
I was skeptical of their ability to do this, but we did have a person try to return a dead unit shortly thereafter and we knew he had been trying to purchase units from us so he could steal the cards and then return them when our electronics associates were at lunch or off.
But that was several years ago already... Still, if it was me, I'd give them a call just to be sure.
These are the most comfortable shoes I've ever owned. With all the previous shoes I've owned (Reebok, Nike, Avia, New Balance, Sketcher, Eco) my forefoot would always get sore after 3 or 4 miles. With these, I walked 11 miles today and my feet feel fine. I use the lace-up ones but I doubt they'd set off any metal detectors.
Instead of reading the comments, you blindly replied with a canned response. I've listed the most common subject of the postings I've read so far so you'll know what to look for when reading the posts yourself.
If you'd like to respond to these issues point-by-point and explain how this is an objective scientific study and not (at the very least) an ignorant and misleading article, I'd be happy to join in a discussion.
I've installed XP on several computers and never did it "ask" if the user should be an administrator or to give them a password. Of course this is Home Edition I'm referring to, maybe other versions are different.
In every case I had to go to Control Panel->Users and manually make them a restricted user and give them a password. If I want to set a password on the "Administrator" account, I have to boot into safe mode just to set a password on that account!
This is in stark contrast to SuSE 8.0 which required me to enter passwords for all users (including root) and by default all users are non-root accounts.
But then those XP installation CDs were both from early 2003, maybe MS has changed the way the installer works. In any case I'm curious to which version of XP you're referring and the purchase date of the XP CD.
On the other hand, if you would have read the article you would notice: "With the drive mounted normally, the average temp was 39-42C, and hit peaks of 46C at times. (Generally, MBM5 shows my case temp to be 30C or lower.)"
You might want to read the article rather than just look at the pretty pictures next time.
So how much of the heat reduction is due to the aluminum plates, and how much is due to the fact that the hard drive now sits in front of stream of cool, fresh air instead of a stale hot air pocket at the top of the case?
I'd like to see a comparison where the drive is mounted in a practical manner where you can actually move the case without the need to open it up and remove the hard drive first.
And even if the plates are securely fastened to the bottom of the case, it'd still be more informative to provide heat measurements with the hard drive alone positioned in that same location.
You can also just go into the Control Panel, System tab I believe and then click on the button about error reporting and recovery. Then you can change how long it waits before rebooting after a BSOD. I set mine to 5 seconds so I can keep score between which driver is causing the most;-)
It's not like I ever expect them to be fixed, so I might as well make it a game. Kinda like, wonder how much code I'll lose this time...
Face it. All the Linux users will freely ignore and disregard corrupting kernel releases.
Hmm, is that why they got fixed?
Seriously though, what you're failing to understand is that the things that caused those problems (such as ext3 corruption) as has been mentioned were "experimental" features. That's called beta. What that means is that only people who can afford to have their system hosed should be using it.
Let me explain that maybe in a way that you'll be more likely to understand. I have in my possesion a Windows 2003 RC2 CD. So, I install the CD and damn if I can't do a windows update! Or, when I try to start some of those services a message pops up that it isn't yet complete. Do I bitch about these features that aren't functional in the Beta as if this was software I spent $100 on? Why no, because I understand the concept of beta software.
Now when some new piece of hardware doesn't work with Linux, by all means complain...to the manufacturer of that device so they'll release the specs to the LKML. Or, if you have some other problem, post a friendly message to the LKML and offer whatever info the developers need to troubleshoot the problem (if it's the kernel of course). So basically, I pay $100 for my upgrade WinXP CD and it doesn't work worth a damn with my hardware and Microsoft isn't even interested in sticking some hard drive transfer mode controls in the control panel so I have decent performance. OTOH, if I have a problem with the Linux kernel (which I paid $80 for a distribution that came with every program I need), I can just find the developer site and they can help me fix it.
Granted there's some buggy open source software, but don't insult everyone's intelligence by claiming that there isn't any MS or other commercial software available that only sells because it looks good on the box. At least if I don't like the OSS version, I can just try another. Kinda hard to get your money back from the store after unpacking the software.
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1:26 minutes / 3 hours = roughly 1/2; 1:26 / 4 hours = roughly 3/8.
Not that the battery life is very good on current AMD-equipped devices, but at the same time one doesn't pay as much either.
I wonder if a similar bug isn't responsible for my PDA eating power (when off) with SD cards present.
Let me test a theory on why people would believe something like this.
OK, poll time:
Whoever trusts the government, reply to this post.
In my religion, God's a hermaphrodite. Of course God's also on fire, so God needn't be concerned with planets such as Neptune or Pluto. God's also everywhere which, though it may seem to conflict with my assertion that God is on fire, does not because this is a religious statement which needn't pass any scientific tests. Which is odd, since I still cannot understand why Christians (are there any other religions pushing ID?) want this taught in a science class.
Of course, as I'm merely a newly converted hermaphrodite worshipper who created this religion mere seconds ago, I cannot begin to imagine what thoughts may race through my mind after faith permeates my psyche to the point that I can no longer differentiate science from religious belief.
No really, I'm a true believer and strong supporter of religion. There isn't a cynical bone in my body...honest!
Sure, the pronoun usage is a bit ambiguous, but don't you mean:
The confrontation was at the home of Professor Brian Glyn Williams' parents?
So, it could have been the government testing the public's reaction to yet more erosion of our civil liberties, right?
Hey, I'm just kidding...
* superchkn quietly assembles a tinfoil hat out of his holiday Hershey's Kisses...
As Deagol noted, unless your office is exceptionally humid, running labels through multiple times is unlikely to cause problems. At a previous job we did this all the time and the one time we had a problem it was attributed to one of the labels having been caught by another sheet in the stack and peeled up, causing a paper jam. Luckily it was easy to remove and thereafter a quick glance at the sheet before use and better storage solved the problem. We ended up creating a script that would generate HTML pages to print given a starting label column and row using a database to provide the address data. It took some fine-tuning to keep it ontrack after 10 or so pages which wouldn't have been a problem if we'd used some word-processing application instead of HTML, but the HTML worked out better for our situation. We'd print our postage information using a thermal printer and then used the laser for the address information though I must admit I no longer recall why. Either way, we never had an issue with either the laser or thermal labels becoming unreadable.
Uh, because that's basically what the article was doing, comparing Windows menu entries to aan opensource application's executable.
Looking through my menus in Gentoo, it is fairly clear what the program does either by the name, or icon. There are some exceptions, like GIMP is just called "The GIMP", but at least it is under the Graphics menu group so I've a pretty good idea what its function is even without recognizing the application. That actually applies to most applications under my Gnome desktop actually. Everything is grouped by it's function, unlike Windows where typically applications are grouped by manufacturer.
Really, that was a waste of time, but anyway... People are always eager to have others share their view. I don't know the reason but maybe it affirms their beliefs and makes them feel better about themselves and their decisions. I guess it's nice to be in the majority so people are always trying to introduce new members into their way of thinking, or associate with like-minded individuals. I don't think most people would agree that it might be possible that their way of life isn't the right, or best. I think most would probably be defensive and then try to convince you that, indeed, it is. I guess it's just human nature, but luckily we have laws to limit just what people/organizations/republics can do before those actions are considered illegal. Not that it always works, but that's the intention.
So, with all that in mind: in theory, democracy looks pretty good even though as far as the US federal government goes I think we can all agree that it's devolved into a elitist representation. Still, as far as the long-term welfare of the people go, I can't really see any alternative. It's possible I haven't looked hard enough or researched enough, it's hardly an interest or specialty of mine. But, having grown up in the US, I can't really say how I'd feel about any other form of government but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to live under Sadaam Hussein, even there's probably a more devious reason for his removal from power. We can't really leave though, because due to the lack of infrastructure and government, it would probably disintegrate into something worse than the previous dictatorship.
But hey, yeah I agree, a religious theory has no place in a US classroom. American's should realize that being in the majority, doesn't mean that things are always going to go your way, which was a large part of the basis on which this country was built. Someday, somewhere, everyone is probably going to be part of a minority and just as you expect to be respected by the majority, you should respect the minority when you are in the majority....and that's basically what this fight is about: changing things to suit the majority even though we've agreed not to do so (well, I guess we're all born into it now, though we could conceivably alter the constitution if the majority really felt so strongly).
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Resurrect Res`ur*rect", v. t. See Resurrection.
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2. To reanimate; to restore to life; to bring to view (that
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*I find the choice of wording quite humorous (intended or not)*
Another problem is that the [some?] ID people are trying to bypass the scientific community by using their majority (or apparently appearance of majority since the school board was voted out) to effectively legislate this into the textbooks as a scientific theory. If ID supporters truly believed it could withstand the scientific community then why didn't they persevere to get it accepted by the community anyway? I'm pretty sure that's a rhetorical question, but I'd love to hear an answer that doesn't involve the words/meanings: conspiracy, secularist, or closed-minded.
With evolution, we can subject organisms to varying environments given a known starting point. We can observe the changes in the DNA in the resulting populations. We can observe the genes being selected for in the resultant generations. We can observe the differences between each different controlled ecosystem's DNA. We can observe how DNA replicates and introduces random changes. This all supports the theory of evolution, and it can be done using the scientific method. We have observed, and hypothesized. Then we created an experiment to test our hypothesis and it supports our theory. Evolution has a lot of evidence supporting it and though it may have some holes, it is a strong theory.
ID was just recently introduced, has a very bad scientific reputation, uses questionable methods and is strongly linked to a creationist text. The judge made no statements saying that ID shouldn't be investigated by the scientific community. He said that it shouldn't be taught in schools as a secular theory (which under the constitution, it must be secular*), because based on the evidence provided during the trial it is a thinly disguised theory of creation. Typically theories are judged by the scientific community, and only after gaining support there are they taught as theory in our public schools.
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I don't even understand why Christians are pressing this issue. If one believes in the Christian God and all that he has done, why can't one wrap ones mind around the fact that He could create the Earth and make it appear the way that it is? I thought the whole idea of religion is that it is the faith that is important, not the physical evidence anyway. If it was readily evident that God had created the universe and He had left irrefutable evidence of this fact, we would know. There wouldn't be any requirement for belief and there wouldn't be any disbelief. In that environment, we would have no choice in our future or belief, inherently we would believe and inherently we would be saved. Our faith could never be tested in such a world and in fact we could then only argue over which religion is actually worshipping the correct God, which really couldn't ever be construed to be any sort of true faith as we know it.
I haven't even touched upon the strong case for evolution and the total lack of any scientifically-accepted, provable evidence in support of ID -- I'm referring to well-respected scientific journals here . Nor have I mentioned the fact that ID is provably based on creationism and that no one has the legal right to teach _my_ child religion in public school (not that I have any children, but still). It's not my problem, the scientific community's problem, or my government's problem that the scientific evidence doesn't support ones belief or religious interpretation of a religious text. Religions survived the discovery that Earth isn't the center of the universe, and it will survive the theory of evolution. Just because ones faith can't surmount scientific evidence doesn't give one the right to teach religion in school. This republic was based on liberty above all, including Christianity, something that apparently many would like to forget along with the scientific method.
Finally for those that think that I'm enforcing/choosing a religion, consider this: while I'm not a believer in any specific religion I support the theory of evolution. Evolution has no bearing upon my religious beliefs, it neither supports or detracts from my religious beliefs, much in the way that mathematics has no bearing upon my religion. I don't support ID, primarily because it doesn't follow the scientific method. If one's going argue this against evolution, let's start talking about physics. There is no law of gravity in regards to what exactly creates that force (for starters). So we can just say that God is just pushing us down (literally THE MAN is keeping us down!!). What is time? Ah, it's just something God made, it just is! Whoops, I mean "Intelligent Entity", not God [we can fix that with a search and replace, don't worry]! Can anyone help me expand this theory? Maybe we can tack it onto ID and we'll present it as the all-encompassing theory of existence? What possible barrier can withstand the answer "because the intelligent entity created it that way"? Seriously, if we can't agree that ID isn't science then let's just let this be settled in the scientific circle. That means it doesn't get into the public school system until it's proven itself in the scientific community, which at the very least means it's discussed and accepted in scientific journals. Every modern theory took that course before becoming mainstream and ID deserves no special treatment. If ID is to measure up to evolution, then it needs to be subjected to the same peer review process to which all other scientific theories are subjected. One can't railroad a theory into mainstream by teaching it in school, and one can't legislate a statement into a scientific theory simply because it is what one believes. It needs to adhere to the scientific method and it needs to withstand scientific testing, neither of which has been done from the data I have gathered.
The fact that there is no direct scientific evidence to backup the existence of a god is not a denunciation of all religions that depend upon the premise. That fact
Microsoft can't even make the deadlines without verifying these things. How can you expect them to even ship if you put constraints like that upon them?
Seriously though, buffer overflows can happen regardless of the company or source. Obviously some take this more seriously than others (i.e. the BSDs). So since only so much can be done, we use technology to minimize the impact when it does occur. It's kind of like how society can see that some people won't follow the rules so we invent police and jails instead of trying vainly to just fix the people in the first place. Some "parents" are better than others.
DISCLAIMER: Please don't read too much into that parenting reference, it is only as an example, not an absolute cause of misbehavior (in people at least).
And yet my virus scanner detects both worms and trojans...and many worms use buffer overflow exploits to spread. What a confusing world we live in.
We are talking about the general public here and the fact remains that if the computer gets it without the users permission, that's pretty much a virus. With the notable exception of spyware, probably because the virus scanner manufacturers didn't feel like starting a firestorm by detecting it as a trojan.
The typical home user probably has a hard enough time distinguishing between spyware and trojans, let alone attempting to digest this "NX bit" and "buffer overflow" thing anyway. I'm usually all for being technically correct, but I'm not going to require that when talking to a 4 year old which is essentially what AMD is doing when advertising to home users.
That said though, since I haven't actually heard any of these commercials, I must go off what's been posted. If the accounts are true, it certainly is misleading advertising. They make it sound as if there's a virus scanner residing in the CPU somewhere scanning the software as it's executed. That's clearly not the case and I can think of several better ways to market its advantages in the few seconds I just took to think about it without misleading and confusing the public.
There may be components in marijuana that can be medically useful, but using the plant itself (a mixture of a variety of beneficial and harmful components) isn't going to net one any benefits. It's somewhat akin to putting crude in your gasoline car versus using gasoline which is just one component refined from oil.
It took me a while to get used the the GIMP interface. I thought it was pretty good...
Then I tried it on Windows and I can certainly see a problem. In most any Linux windowmanager, you can force windows to stay on top (and shade them). In Windows, you lose those two options and that's when the interface really becomes a nightmare to use. Alt-tabbing or searching through the task bar to locate a lost window (or even activating it from the menu) is a real killer. I think most windows users will quickly grow tired of that before they learn the keyboard short-cuts and move on to something more conventional.
I'm not sure I should even respond to a troll like this, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. Anyway, to say that is preposterous is being quite generous. If you've followed any of the videos from Usama you can see that they wanted to hit the American people, not just the towers. The fact that the towers fell was beyond their greatest expectations. If they wanted to minimize the casualties, they would have crashed into the very top of the towers or attacked them at a different time of day or even attacked a different, less populated target. Saving lives was not only not a priority, it was contradictory to their plans. The plan was to attack an American icon and if civilians died, all the better.
So mod up this parent all you want, but it's not going to make it any more valid a line of arguing.
Let's just leave it at being a terrible tragedy that could (probably) have been easily avoided had the Indian or American company intervened, as they should have. Should someone be held criminally responsible? Sure. Should the people receive some of the $470 million that was paid to the Indian government? Sure. Should the victims receive more compensation (or any) directly from Dow? Sure. Is this tradegy comparable to a terrorist act? Not even remotely.
I don't know about Tivo, but I once worked for a national store that sold DirecTV units. We were told by the DirecTV people that they often detected pirated units by them calling from an unauthorized number, or not calling at all. Now obviously they also knew which machines had hacked (or stolen) cards somehow and they would somehow disable those machines (sounded like some sort of bad BIOS flash from what the DirecTV representatives said). They asked us to be sure to tell the customers that the units NEEDED to be plugged in.
I was skeptical of their ability to do this, but we did have a person try to return a dead unit shortly thereafter and we knew he had been trying to purchase units from us so he could steal the cards and then return them when our electronics associates were at lunch or off.
But that was several years ago already... Still, if it was me, I'd give them a call just to be sure.
These are the most comfortable shoes I've ever owned. With all the previous shoes I've owned (Reebok, Nike, Avia, New Balance, Sketcher, Eco) my forefoot would always get sore after 3 or 4 miles. With these, I walked 11 miles today and my feet feel fine. I use the lace-up ones but I doubt they'd set off any metal detectors.
Here's a little reality for you:
Instead of reading the comments, you blindly replied with a canned response. I've listed the most common subject of the postings I've read so far so you'll know what to look for when reading the posts yourself.
If you'd like to respond to these issues point-by-point and explain how this is an objective scientific study and not (at the very least) an ignorant and misleading article, I'd be happy to join in a discussion.
Maybe that's an updated XP?
I've installed XP on several computers and never did it "ask" if the user should be an administrator or to give them a password. Of course this is Home Edition I'm referring to, maybe other versions are different.
In every case I had to go to Control Panel->Users and manually make them a restricted user and give them a password. If I want to set a password on the "Administrator" account, I have to boot into safe mode just to set a password on that account!
This is in stark contrast to SuSE 8.0 which required me to enter passwords for all users (including root) and by default all users are non-root accounts.
But then those XP installation CDs were both from early 2003, maybe MS has changed the way the installer works. In any case I'm curious to which version of XP you're referring and the purchase date of the XP CD.
On the other hand, if you would have read the article you would notice: "With the drive mounted normally, the average temp was 39-42C, and hit peaks of 46C at times. (Generally, MBM5 shows my case temp to be 30C or lower.)"
You might want to read the article rather than just look at the pretty pictures next time.
So how much of the heat reduction is due to the aluminum plates, and how much is due to the fact that the hard drive now sits in front of stream of cool, fresh air instead of a stale hot air pocket at the top of the case?
I'd like to see a comparison where the drive is mounted in a practical manner where you can actually move the case without the need to open it up and remove the hard drive first.
And even if the plates are securely fastened to the bottom of the case, it'd still be more informative to provide heat measurements with the hard drive alone positioned in that same location.
You can also just go into the Control Panel, System tab I believe and then click on the button about error reporting and recovery. Then you can change how long it waits before rebooting after a BSOD. I set mine to 5 seconds so I can keep score between which driver is causing the most ;-)
It's not like I ever expect them to be fixed, so I might as well make it a game. Kinda like, wonder how much code I'll lose this time...
Seriously though, what you're failing to understand is that the things that caused those problems (such as ext3 corruption) as has been mentioned were "experimental" features. That's called beta. What that means is that only people who can afford to have their system hosed should be using it.
Let me explain that maybe in a way that you'll be more likely to understand. I have in my possesion a Windows 2003 RC2 CD. So, I install the CD and damn if I can't do a windows update! Or, when I try to start some of those services a message pops up that it isn't yet complete. Do I bitch about these features that aren't functional in the Beta as if this was software I spent $100 on? Why no, because I understand the concept of beta software.
Now when some new piece of hardware doesn't work with Linux, by all means complain...to the manufacturer of that device so they'll release the specs to the LKML. Or, if you have some other problem, post a friendly message to the LKML and offer whatever info the developers need to troubleshoot the problem (if it's the kernel of course). So basically, I pay $100 for my upgrade WinXP CD and it doesn't work worth a damn with my hardware and Microsoft isn't even interested in sticking some hard drive transfer mode controls in the control panel so I have decent performance. OTOH, if I have a problem with the Linux kernel (which I paid $80 for a distribution that came with every program I need), I can just find the developer site and they can help me fix it.
Granted there's some buggy open source software, but don't insult everyone's intelligence by claiming that there isn't any MS or other commercial software available that only sells because it looks good on the box. At least if I don't like the OSS version, I can just try another. Kinda hard to get your money back from the store after unpacking the software.