So, if they're allowed to inspect my client, may I inspect their server? No?
That was my first thought too, but if NZ is like the US in this regard, they have government banking regulators auditing the heck out of their systems. So it's probably reasonable to more strongly assume the banks' systems have a known level of security.
OTOH, if the banks' security audit results aren't made public, then your instinctive reaction is probably pretty fair.
Putting unrelated items into a single bill is a way to express deal-making within the Congress.
For example...
if congress-critter Jack is pro-A, mildly-anti-B, anti-C if congress-critter Jill is mildly-anti-A, pro-B, pro-C
Then the bill enacting {A, B} is a valid compromise for them.
Suppose they expressed this negotiated compromise as two bills (bill #1 = A, bill #2 = B) rather than one. Then after the first bill was passed, whichever congress-critter got his way would then probably betray the other critter when it was time to vote on the second bill.
So in a certain sense the items appearing in a bill may be related to the congress-criters, because they're all part of one negotiated horse-trade.
Or... Hah hah hah!!! Just kidding. They're smuggled in there to kill the bill, or they're pork and they knew other congress-critters don't read the bills before voting.
I have such fscking mixed feeling about our "democracy".
I installed it, and I had two apparent choices: (A) directly download the.deb file and install it using dpkg, or (B) Add Google's signing key and repositories to my system, and then use APT to retrieve and install the package.
Does anyone know why Google didn't just add this to the standard Debian repositories? Maybe because the software isn't considered ready for prime-time yet? I don't see the average new Ubuntu user feeling comfortable with the installation techniques Google currently supports.
These newfangled memory-managed languages like Java and C# leave an old C++ dev like me feeling like I am missing the love.
Maybe it's time to switch over to one of these newfangled memory-managed languages? It's a tiny bit like saying, "My Pinto is a huge death trap! Anyone know of some after-market air-bag kits for it?"
"What does it take to start writing programs for Linux? Most people will guess a text editor, knowledge of a programming language, the compiler and libraries of that language. Ask a professional programmer and he will differ with you. Insisting that while those things can help get you started, other things come into play in writing efficient programs such as, a debugger, memory profiler tools and above all a good understanding of the inner working of the Linux kernel and its processes."
You need to know about kernel internals to start writing programs on Linux? Sure - maybe if you start your programming on Linux by writing device drivers.
One out of 20, at most, projects I've done on Linux required anything more than an editor, a compiler, and the "print" statement. It's not that I write simple programs, it's just that in real life these usually end up being sufficient (especially if you program in Python or Java as opposed to C or C++).
Ah, President Bush. I thought I smelled your foul stench.... The more you tighten your grip, the more school systems slip right between your fingers...
The laptop was clearly not in suspend mode. Don't scapegoat Linux.
Suspending the laptop worked under Windows. It would stop producing heat.
When he told Feisty Fawn to suspend the laptop, it appeared to do so. And yet the laptop produced a lot of heat.
Are you actually saying that when Ubuntu (or Linux) doesn't perform the hardware operation it says it did, and serious system heat results, it's wrong to lay the blame at the feet of the OS that had that problem???
My brother (a semi-techie) got pissed off at Vista and XP, so he installed Ubuntu 7.04 on his nice new-ish ThinkPad.
He suspended to ram (via the Shutdown menu) and put the notebook in his backpack. A few hours later he pulled it out and found that while the ThinkPad was still (theoretically) in Suspend mode, it was *hot*.
This problem never happened to him with XP or Vista. Only Linux. And baking a laptop does have an effect on the cost of warranting it. So as much as I hate to admit it, there is at least sometimes a connection between OS choice and hardware maintenance / repair costs.
(One might argue that Dell could get this problem addressed. And they probably can - eventually. But it exists now.)
"Microsoft Sees No Conflicts With Patent Initiatives"
MS is a corporation. So among other things, we know that:
(1) It doesn't actually "see" anything. It's comprised of individual humans (mostly) that see things.
(2) Because it's actually a collection of minds that don't necessarily agree with each other, it doesn't tell us much that it's engaging in two actions that are potentially un-reconcilable. When we hear that a *person* "sees no conflict", we find that interesting because we figure maybe the person has discovered some reason that they two ideas in question can be reconciled. For a corporation of multiple persons, maybe no such reconciliation of the two ideas exists.
Plus it's also quite plausible that MS management has private motives that are very different than its public motives. In that case perhaps the (inauthentic) public motives are in logical conflict, but the private motives held by MS's management are actually completely self-consistent.
Balance of power between the three races isn't the only important balance that Blizzard needs to get right. There's also the balance to get the right level of unit capability complexity.
Brood War unit types got a little more complex compared to the original SC. For instance, blinding was introduced, but medics could heal it. The more different kinds of capabilities you need to worry about balancing, the harder you have to thing about the game. And if your mental juggling drops just one or two of those balls, you might find yourself wiped out by a powerful enemy unit that you failed to build a specific defense against.
So I'm a little afraid that SC2 will take a long time for players to develop strategies regarding, and that those strategies will be necessarily complex for the afore-mentioned reasons. This could mean that the game is less fun for now-casual gamers like myself who need to not dedicate too much gray matter to storing a units-capabilities database.
I use a Sansa m240 (or 230 - I forget). Anyway, it has the really nice quality that you can just dump a bunch of MP3 files onto it, and it will look at the id3 tags (artist, album, etc.) to automatically organize the songs. This is nice because any Linux software can just treat it as a plain old USB Mass Storage device, but I still get nicely categorized MP3s when I use the Sansa.
So the Sansa works pretty well, but there's one annoying problem. I use Amarok to get podcasts and to transfer them to the Sansa. Amarok tries to put the items on to the Sansa using a directory tree with levels based on artist, album, etc. The problem is that for some reason Amarok's transfer to the Sansa fails unless the corresponding directory already exists on the Sansa. So when I subscribe to a new podcast, my first transfer always fails. I have to look at the name of the directory path Amarok was planning to use on the Sansa, create it myself on the Sansa's file system, and then restart the transfer. My guess is that this is Amarok's fault, not the Sansa's.
Is why useful tweaks are hidden behind and obscure and risky-to-use interface like about:config. If the tweaks are worth doing, shouldn't they have first-class support in the main configuration GUI?
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Aaaghhh!!! Shark-jumping!
That was my first thought too, but if NZ is like the US in this regard, they have government banking regulators auditing the heck out of their systems. So it's probably reasonable to more strongly assume the banks' systems have a known level of security.
OTOH, if the banks' security audit results aren't made public, then your instinctive reaction is probably pretty fair.
Putting unrelated items into a single bill is a way to express deal-making within the Congress.
For example...
if congress-critter Jack is pro-A, mildly-anti-B, anti-C
if congress-critter Jill is mildly-anti-A, pro-B, pro-C
Then the bill enacting {A, B} is a valid compromise for them.
Suppose they expressed this negotiated compromise as two bills (bill #1 = A, bill #2 = B) rather than one. Then after the first bill was passed, whichever congress-critter got his way would then probably betray the other critter when it was time to vote on the second bill.
So in a certain sense the items appearing in a bill may be related to the congress-criters, because they're all part of one negotiated horse-trade.
Or... Hah hah hah!!! Just kidding. They're smuggled in there to kill the bill, or they're pork and they knew other congress-critters don't read the bills before voting.
I have such fscking mixed feeling about our "democracy".
I installed it, and I had two apparent choices: .deb file and install it using dpkg, or
(A) directly download the
(B) Add Google's signing key and repositories to my system, and then use APT to retrieve and install the package.
Does anyone know why Google didn't just add this to the standard Debian repositories? Maybe because the software isn't considered ready for prime-time yet? I don't see the average new Ubuntu user feeling comfortable with the installation techniques Google currently supports.
Notice that the M$ guy never mentioned "do no evil" as a factor.
The fact that this was a non-factor in the discussion perhaps indicates that this MS->Google->MS employee really is working where he belongs.
(Yes, I know that Google hasn't perfectly observed its "do no evil" rule, but it still seems a heck of a lot better than M$ in this regard.)
This is awesome no it's not!
Hah!
(My previous post had bad links. Sorry.)
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Maybe it's time to switch over to one of these newfangled memory-managed languages? It's a tiny bit like saying, "My Pinto is a huge death trap! Anyone know of some after-market air-bag kits for it?"
You need to know about kernel internals to start writing programs on Linux? Sure - maybe if you start your programming on Linux by writing device drivers.
One out of 20, at most, projects I've done on Linux required anything more than an editor, a compiler, and the "print" statement. It's not that I write simple programs, it's just that in real life these usually end up being sufficient (especially if you program in Python or Java as opposed to C or C++).
Why is this news? I read this article ten minutes from now.
Yeah ok, that's fair.
Ah, President Bush. I thought I smelled your foul stench. ... The more you tighten your grip, the more school systems slip right between your fingers...
The U.S. government's biggest gift to Microsoft since the abandoned anti-trust suit.
Suspending the laptop worked under Windows. It would stop producing heat.
When he told Feisty Fawn to suspend the laptop, it appeared to do so. And yet the laptop produced a lot of heat.
Are you actually saying that when Ubuntu (or Linux) doesn't perform the hardware operation it says it did, and serious system heat results, it's wrong to lay the blame at the feet of the OS that had that problem???
My brother (a semi-techie) got pissed off at Vista and XP, so he installed Ubuntu 7.04 on his nice new-ish ThinkPad.
He suspended to ram (via the Shutdown menu) and put the notebook in his backpack. A few hours later he pulled it out and found that while the ThinkPad was still (theoretically) in Suspend mode, it was *hot*.
This problem never happened to him with XP or Vista. Only Linux. And baking a laptop does have an effect on the cost of warranting it. So as much as I hate to admit it, there is at least sometimes a connection between OS choice and hardware maintenance / repair costs.
(One might argue that Dell could get this problem addressed. And they probably can - eventually. But it exists now.)
OK, you talked me out of it.
"Microsoft Sees No Conflicts With Patent Initiatives"
MS is a corporation. So among other things, we know that:
(1) It doesn't actually "see" anything. It's comprised of individual humans (mostly) that see things.
(2) Because it's actually a collection of minds that don't necessarily agree with each other, it doesn't tell us much that it's engaging in two actions that are potentially un-reconcilable. When we hear that a *person* "sees no conflict", we find that interesting because we figure maybe the person has discovered some reason that they two ideas in question can be reconciled. For a corporation of multiple persons, maybe no such reconciliation of the two ideas exists.
Plus it's also quite plausible that MS management has private motives that are very different than its public motives. In that case perhaps the (inauthentic) public motives are in logical conflict, but the private motives held by MS's management are actually completely self-consistent.
Balance of power between the three races isn't the only important balance that Blizzard needs to get right. There's also the balance to get the right level of unit capability complexity.
Brood War unit types got a little more complex compared to the original SC. For instance, blinding was introduced, but medics could heal it. The more different kinds of capabilities you need to worry about balancing, the harder you have to thing about the game. And if your mental juggling drops just one or two of those balls, you might find yourself wiped out by a powerful enemy unit that you failed to build a specific defense against.
So I'm a little afraid that SC2 will take a long time for players to develop strategies regarding, and that those strategies will be necessarily complex for the afore-mentioned reasons. This could mean that the game is less fun for now-casual gamers like myself who need to not dedicate too much gray matter to storing a units-capabilities database.
I use a Sansa m240 (or 230 - I forget). Anyway, it has the really nice quality that you can just dump a bunch of MP3 files onto it, and it will look at the id3 tags (artist, album, etc.) to automatically organize the songs. This is nice because any Linux software can just treat it as a plain old USB Mass Storage device, but I still get nicely categorized MP3s when I use the Sansa.
So the Sansa works pretty well, but there's one annoying problem. I use Amarok to get podcasts and to transfer them to the Sansa. Amarok tries to put the items on to the Sansa using a directory tree with levels based on artist, album, etc. The problem is that for some reason Amarok's transfer to the Sansa fails unless the corresponding directory already exists on the Sansa. So when I subscribe to a new podcast, my first transfer always fails. I have to look at the name of the directory path Amarok was planning to use on the Sansa, create it myself on the Sansa's file system, and then restart the transfer. My guess is that this is Amarok's fault, not the Sansa's.
Is why useful tweaks are hidden behind and obscure and risky-to-use interface like about:config. If the tweaks are worth doing, shouldn't they have first-class support in the main configuration GUI?
It sounds to me like we're making a classic stupid military mistake: we keep on defending ourselves, at our homes, schools, and workplaces.
So let me ask: how do we take the fight to them? How do we start fscking over the RIAA / MPAA / Disney / NJ Turnpike Authority?
To find the Dells w/Linux installed, it's actually very straight forward. Just enter into the site's text-search box, "There is no secret cow level."
Well sheee-it, Bubba, sounds to me like what we go us is one of them Muslim sympathizers...