Not sure about that particular area you linked to, but just from my own experience switching between map/satellite views on areas that I'm familiar with, the green areas are "green space" like parks, grassy fields, etc.
Even if we do block cookies, they can still track by IP, so I don't know what they're complaining about really. "Please don't make it slightly inconvenient for us to invade your privacy!"
I've really been enjoying the Dr. Who series, but some parts of it bug me... at times, the show is completely inconsistent with itself! (I was going to complain that the show is inconsistent with the laws of physics as I know them, but that seemed a little pedantic).
Anyways, for example on the Father's Day episode. Rose saves her father's life, and then aliens come down to destroy humanity because they're pissed off that somebody is alive who shouldn't be.
a) Why is it that nothing else the doctor has done in any other episode has provoked these aliens? He seems to have the fate of humanity in his hands all the time. b) Why is it that the inside of the tardis just up and disappeared? That makes no sense and was poorly (eg, not) explained. c) how is it that the aliens just disappeared and everybody brought back to life when Rose's father killed himself? And they had no memory? Augh!
Also, another big complaint of mine is this whole Bad Wolf thing. Apparently this one person on a satellite managed to track the Doctor through time, and was able to control: the words chosen by a woman in Cardiff, the chosen phrase for a couple of graffitists, the name chosen for a helicopter and a proposed nuclear power plant, and the naming of a TV channel and later a whole corporation. WTF? How did this person get this power to control subtle things like this, reaching across time to do so?
A simple explanation like being able to track the movements of the tardis through some kind of residue or trail or "warp signature" or something would have sufficed, but no, there's no explanation at all.
Don't get me wrong, I've really enjoyed the show so far and I'm looking forward to watching the finale, but some of these things kinda bug me.;)
Now, obviously this is unscientific, but all the anecdotal evidence I've seen is that many, many, many programs will refuse to run properly when run as an unpriveleged user. And this statement is very telling:
Sorry, I just tried as a regular user,
That indicates to me that you normally run as Admin, likely because half your apps break when you run as a user.
For example, I once estimated that to clear the samples in *one* of my tracks from back in 2000, it would cost something like $50k-$100k, far more than the entire album it was from would ever generate even in gross profit.
I'm not familiar with your work (or, maybe I am but just don't recognize you from your slashdot name), but that is a really sad state of affairs.
The worst part is that the RIAA types would see you as a drain on society, eg, they wouldn't see your work as being a contribution to the arts at all, they'd see the lack of revenue from licensing your samples as a loss of money (they'd probably even call you a pirate or whatever the insult du jour is), they would then go on to claim that by you not paying this money, "real" artists are hurt and less "real" music is then made. Sad.
The funny thing about all of this is that the blog itself is using a pretty much stock WordPress setup, with the default generic theme. Couldn't even be bothered to give his blog a proper design, and we're supposed to take him seriously?
Put some effort into your website and then I'll care what you have to say.
For just 6 cents per infected PC? I run a relatively low-traffic website and I make more than 6 cents per click on my google Adsense ads (in fact I'm averaging around 14 cents per click).
The sad thing is that this works on an economy of scale, and it's easier to infect a windows PC by simply viewing a website than it is to convince people to click on a targetted contextual link that has a half decent chance of actually interesting the viewer.
Well, bugs are inevitable. Humans are fallible, software is made by humans, thus software has errors. Some software more than others;)
The moral of the story is, no software release can ever be perfect. If patches are available, what more can the software vendor possibly do? At some point it has to be the user's fault for not being patched. Are we to fault the software vendor for not forcibly installing updates onto everybody's PC?
"Yes that's right ladies, all this pleasure and it stores compactly right between the comfort of his legs. No embarrasing bulges in the pants, even with a full erection! All this and less for just $99 99 99!"
it's customary for a new director to request the resignations of senior managers. It doesn't mean that he accepts them (or accepts all of them), but it's customary to submit them.
What the hell, is that like some kind of neo-feudal way of pledging allegiance to the new King? Like acknowledging that he does in fact have the power to fire you at any time?
I'd rather have a widely publicized contest showing many different ways of being sneaky with malicious code, so that those ways are known and can be checked for, than to trust in the ignorance of the malicious that they won't already know these techniques.
To phrase it differently: the malicious hackers already know all these tricks and secrets. By exposing them, we can protect ourselves.
Microsoft and Apple don't package third party software for others, why should Linux vendors?
Because on linux, there's no such thing as software that isn't third-party.
If you look at a distro like Fedora, how much of that do you think is produced by RedHat, and how much of it is "third party"? I'll give you an idea, if RedHat were to stop distributing third-party software with Fedora, then Fedora would no longer have things like: a kernel, a filesystem, a shell, a windowing environment, or even a package manager (yes! 'yum' is not produced by RedHat, it's third party as well).
So where do you draw the line between "third party software that everybody is going to need on the system" and "third party stuff that we can let users install on their own"? Debian takes the stance to simply package everything, and the debian apt repositories have thousands upon thousands of packages in them.
Unless the controllers are USB2, I'm not sure what the point of 6 USB2 ports is.
Even then, a 6-player game would be pretty useless if you only have one screen. dividing the screen into quarters for each player is painful enough, I can't imagine how bad it would be with six. Especially on a small screen.
I hope there's a way to hook 6 TVs up to the thing;)
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Not sure about that particular area you linked to, but just from my own experience switching between map/satellite views on areas that I'm familiar with, the green areas are "green space" like parks, grassy fields, etc.
Even if we do block cookies, they can still track by IP, so I don't know what they're complaining about really. "Please don't make it slightly inconvenient for us to invade your privacy!"
I'm not convinced that the existing middle management aren't already robots.
I've really been enjoying the Dr. Who series, but some parts of it bug me... at times, the show is completely inconsistent with itself! (I was going to complain that the show is inconsistent with the laws of physics as I know them, but that seemed a little pedantic).
;)
Anyways, for example on the Father's Day episode. Rose saves her father's life, and then aliens come down to destroy humanity because they're pissed off that somebody is alive who shouldn't be.
a) Why is it that nothing else the doctor has done in any other episode has provoked these aliens? He seems to have the fate of humanity in his hands all the time.
b) Why is it that the inside of the tardis just up and disappeared? That makes no sense and was poorly (eg, not) explained.
c) how is it that the aliens just disappeared and everybody brought back to life when Rose's father killed himself? And they had no memory? Augh!
Also, another big complaint of mine is this whole Bad Wolf thing. Apparently this one person on a satellite managed to track the Doctor through time, and was able to control: the words chosen by a woman in Cardiff, the chosen phrase for a couple of graffitists, the name chosen for a helicopter and a proposed nuclear power plant, and the naming of a TV channel and later a whole corporation. WTF? How did this person get this power to control subtle things like this, reaching across time to do so?
A simple explanation like being able to track the movements of the tardis through some kind of residue or trail or "warp signature" or something would have sufficed, but no, there's no explanation at all.
Don't get me wrong, I've really enjoyed the show so far and I'm looking forward to watching the finale, but some of these things kinda bug me.
Lol, this is the best re-use of a slashdot cliche I've seen in a loooong time -- I actually laughed!
Thanks.
The panic color code for today is puce
Wouldn't mauve be more appropriate?
Learn to logon as a user
Now, obviously this is unscientific, but all the anecdotal evidence I've seen is that many, many, many programs will refuse to run properly when run as an unpriveleged user. And this statement is very telling:
Sorry, I just tried as a regular user,
That indicates to me that you normally run as Admin, likely because half your apps break when you run as a user.
I think the idea is that it's an early prototype, not the actual Batmobile that you're used to from the comics.
You were clearly suggesting that just because Microsoft has $50+ billion in the bank, they can do no wrong.
For example, I once estimated that to clear the samples in *one* of my tracks from back in 2000, it would cost something like $50k-$100k, far more than the entire album it was from would ever generate even in gross profit.
I'm not familiar with your work (or, maybe I am but just don't recognize you from your slashdot name), but that is a really sad state of affairs.
The worst part is that the RIAA types would see you as a drain on society, eg, they wouldn't see your work as being a contribution to the arts at all, they'd see the lack of revenue from licensing your samples as a loss of money (they'd probably even call you a pirate or whatever the insult du jour is), they would then go on to claim that by you not paying this money, "real" artists are hurt and less "real" music is then made. Sad.
MS has..what, 50-60 billion in the bank and you guys are saying they've done something wrong?
WOW. Just because they have a bit of money in the bank doesn't make them the Omnipotent and Infallible Lord and Master of Humankind.
Just because something's popular doesn't make it good or right.
The funny thing about all of this is that the blog itself is using a pretty much stock WordPress setup, with the default generic theme. Couldn't even be bothered to give his blog a proper design, and we're supposed to take him seriously?
Put some effort into your website and then I'll care what you have to say.
For just 6 cents per infected PC? I run a relatively low-traffic website and I make more than 6 cents per click on my google Adsense ads (in fact I'm averaging around 14 cents per click).
The sad thing is that this works on an economy of scale, and it's easier to infect a windows PC by simply viewing a website than it is to convince people to click on a targetted contextual link that has a half decent chance of actually interesting the viewer.
Well, bugs are inevitable. Humans are fallible, software is made by humans, thus software has errors. Some software more than others ;)
The moral of the story is, no software release can ever be perfect. If patches are available, what more can the software vendor possibly do? At some point it has to be the user's fault for not being patched. Are we to fault the software vendor for not forcibly installing updates onto everybody's PC?
Sell smallness?
"Yes that's right ladies, all this pleasure and it stores compactly right between the comfort of his legs. No embarrasing bulges in the pants, even with a full erection! All this and less for just $99 99 99!"
it's customary for a new director to request the resignations of senior managers. It doesn't mean that he accepts them (or accepts all of them), but it's customary to submit them.
What the hell, is that like some kind of neo-feudal way of pledging allegiance to the new King? Like acknowledging that he does in fact have the power to fire you at any time?
Sounds like they need an Easy button.
I'd rather have a widely publicized contest showing many different ways of being sneaky with malicious code, so that those ways are known and can be checked for, than to trust in the ignorance of the malicious that they won't already know these techniques.
To phrase it differently: the malicious hackers already know all these tricks and secrets. By exposing them, we can protect ourselves.
So what you're proposing is to create a nation of p2p commies? Why do you hate America?
Ethics aside, all politicians follow the golden rule: He who has the gold, makes the rules.
Adobemedia is the obvious name for an Adobe/Macromedia merger, but I think I prefer the name "Macrobe"
Microsoft and Apple don't package third party software for others, why should Linux vendors?
Because on linux, there's no such thing as software that isn't third-party.
If you look at a distro like Fedora, how much of that do you think is produced by RedHat, and how much of it is "third party"? I'll give you an idea, if RedHat were to stop distributing third-party software with Fedora, then Fedora would no longer have things like: a kernel, a filesystem, a shell, a windowing environment, or even a package manager (yes! 'yum' is not produced by RedHat, it's third party as well).
So where do you draw the line between "third party software that everybody is going to need on the system" and "third party stuff that we can let users install on their own"? Debian takes the stance to simply package everything, and the debian apt repositories have thousands upon thousands of packages in them.
Unless the controllers are USB2, I'm not sure what the point of 6 USB2 ports is.
;)
Even then, a 6-player game would be pretty useless if you only have one screen. dividing the screen into quarters for each player is painful enough, I can't imagine how bad it would be with six. Especially on a small screen.
I hope there's a way to hook 6 TVs up to the thing
So let me get this straight: You want to pass a law that would increase the tax burden on the wealthy, and slash hundreds of thousands of jobs?
And you think this will pass? You're joking, right?