It doesn't make much sense in the SG1 universe, however, as it seems like the different Goa'uld are constantly skirmishing each other. You'd think they'd use the staff weapons to intimidate their slaves, and something a little more efficient for actual battles with other Goa'uld.
And it makes no sense in Star Wars either, the rebels are a known threat, if stormtroopers where just the intimidating jackboots of the empire then special forces would have shown up at some point in the movies.
A lot of these arguments apply to many sci-fi/fantasy works, not just SW so why waste your time on the critical analysis. Are you bettering society? Congratulations, you just tore apart something that was made over three decades ago.
I'll get right to it. Let me brake my actions into clear steps so other people can better society with us:
I can't speak for you, but I know that when I switched from PCs (running linux), the main reason was because I was tired of having to buy new components/new machines every year.
Now you buy OS X instead if you want to run this years software. Then you get tired of it and stick with Tiger. But decide to buy iWork '09 (you don't buy the boxed set because you are waiting for Snow Leopard).
So while you are googling around for a simple (rotation, cropping, white balance) image editor that is both free and runs on OS X 10.-1 Apple decides that there will be no proper Snow Leopard release, instead you can upgrade from your non existing copy of Leopard or buy a boxed set that helpfully includes a copy of iWork '09.
Also, somewhere along the lines you discover Pages '09 doesn't have any sort of crash recovery and lose hours of work, you google around and find there are at least third party workarounds... if you run Leopard.
Also, being on Mac OS X, I really appreciate not having to tinker constantly, or have to deal with broken packages, broken configs, hardware on newer machines not working properly with linux... ugh.
And then you try to compile that one tool that isn't available in a neat binary package (unless you have Leopard of course) and rediscover the fun of dependency hell, random errors and general incompatibility that you thought you left behind when apt-get got big and people started to test their applications on Linux in addition to their favorite Unix flavor.
God have mercy on your soul if you actually want a decent terminal emulator or a photo editor that's not Photoshop!
...and those are just the things I've run into helping my wife! I'll, however, stick to my fiddlebuntu for the foreseeable future. At least I have a fighting chance of adding that one, small feature and squashing that one little bug, even without being a real programmer.
P.S.: I'm sure OS X is great if what you need done falls within its operational parameters. However just like with Windows and GNU/Linux people need to know what they are getting before they commit. Also, I needed to air.;)
My point, obviously lost, is that science can be equally dogmatic as religion. In fact, show me any organization and I pretty sure I could reasonable show how they are dogmatic.
His point was that science is a method, not an organization.
As far as DoSing an account or accounts, that is entirely a different security problem and one you should address with different measures like isolation and logging.
Strong passwords don't matter, just lock attackers out. Lockout policy induced DoS attacks don't matter, just isolate the attackers out. Just hire someone to give access based on visual identification and be done with it if you don't actually want to address computer security...
DoS, you'll either be stuck with people flooding support and not getting anything done, or you will drop part of those blocks, after that it will be back to password strength.
Takes me a few times typing in a new 16 character password (lowercase, capitals, numbers, symbols) to remember it. The trick is to type from memory and only use a note/password manager to refresh it, not copy. Easiest way is to encrypt a file with your new password and train it before setting it for the system.
Their shareholders (owners) lost billions of dollars, and the GM of old is no more.
Of course, the company was never profitable, they never made anything, they will know better then run companies into the ground for short-term profits now...
"As I've said before, the traditional business model has to change rapidly to ensure that our journalistic businesses can return to their old margins of profitability," Murdoch said. "Quality journalism is not cheap, and an industry that gives away its content is simply cannibalizing its ability to produce good reporting."
Profit is not what pays for the journalism so that makes no sense. Also, if you don't want to play on the free market (where profit, theoretically, is supposed to head to zero because of competition) then... well, I guess then you alter the views of the people by using mass media to put yourself as the king and ruler instead of a market player, but he'd never do that.
Actually it's quite recent as far as recorded history goes, the modern version that lasts 3 or more generations is even newer. Besides the law is only the law if you have deep pockets to back it up. What would happen if small music producer ripped of a Timbaland song, made significant profits from it and basically insulted him when busted? Is it a wonder that the law in question doesn't get any respect from the average music listener?
Whether we are discussing the ethnic group, or the territory, Ossetians have a long and rich relationship with Russia.
So? You could say the same just about any ethnic group both in the Russian Federation and former USSR, doesn't justify them playing big brother. My country has 28% Russians, does that mean we have to let Putin dictate our lives? And fuck Russia fro playing number games too, Russian-speaking != Russian.
They decided that there would be no point to accepting bids because Microsoft was the only vendor who had a product that could meet their needs.
Not surprising when you write the whole big basically describing Windows without mentioning the name, I've seen bids like that, they are written with the intention of not having to look at anything else.
I'm intrigued by this "man powered" Segway? Is it powered by a human driving a generator to charge the batteries? Possibly a generator attached to a stationary bike?
That's nice, it has nothing to do with copyright laws or copyright violations however...
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Anyway, I can tell from your post that you don't just use Emacs, but I swear I think some Emacs users went back for one too many cups of the Kool-aid.
Some always do, seems to be the case for everything. Some are however tongue-in-cheek (yes of course Emacs can do this, here's how!), I believe the SVG comment is one of them. Also every time I switch some text-related task to Emacs (even if I switch back later) I can understand people who spend most of their computer time in Emacs. If most of what you do with a computer is edit text, and you are an Emacs user, after a while when you need to get another task done your first inclination becomes to look for a suitable Emacs mode in the same way that an OS X user will look for a native app first and only when that fails look at something for X Windows.
I however simply do to much graphics editing to be able to stick with Emacs for everything. Even if I sometimes do wish for some of the features of Emacs in my graphics packages... Looks like I'm not the only one:
The amount of menu entries in GIMP - either from plug-ins, scripts or internal functions - is huge. The name of a particular function might be easier to remember than its menu location. Being able to search for the function and applying it to the image without having to go through the menus can help (similar to Emacs' M-x feature).
C-x b is listed as "Select named buffer", and demands once more that I type the name of something. It nowhere mentions that typing a non-existent name (or indeed, typing a name incorrectly) will instead create a buffer.
Yeah, I had to search for how to create a new buffer to find out, I suspect creating new buffers without corresponding files is discouraged because of the possible data loss, but I'm just guessing here.
"For something that claims all over the place to be self-documenting, this sure does a piss-poor job of telling you how to do things or what does what"
Generally I've found the self documenting part excellent, once I figured out how it works, as the other post already mentioned the tutorial is a good place to start, but if you have already done it a few times and just skimmed the help parts all you really need to start exploring is C-h ?. You will probably also have to learn Info, it might seem weird if you are used to man pages but it works well for large programs as you can search easily (for example to find out how to create a new buffer you'd start Info [C-h i], go to the Emacs manual [m Emacs RET] (this might be named slightly differently I have "Emacs (emacs-snapshot)" instead of "Emacs", but it should be easy to find), search [s] and play guess the correct search string (no AI yet;), in this case "new buffer" takes you to the menu item "Select Buffer" which has the answer and "create a new buffer" takes you to a place just below the answer you are looking for.
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I'm actually been switching back and forth between more conventional GUI tools and Emacs for some applications: note taking, email and such. It seems that while Emacs can take more work to set up right it is the more pleasant experience once you have. Right now I've actually brought my todo/scheduling into Org-Mode, I'd say I moved over from EvIt's basically plain text with some clues to the colution, but I didn't. Every time I've tried to use a dedicated time management tool I've gone back to a mixture of notes (paper and digital), mobile phone and just plain old 'hope to remember'. Org-Mode however seems to be the right combination between the strict approach of tools like Evolution and random notes.
Yeah, I get it, I'll stop playing dumb now. It's using 1970s technology or something so it needs a filename before it can edit anything.
Well, strictly speaking a file is not something in your editor, it's something on your disk, so common convention aside Emacs is actually doing the sensible thing of asking which file to create when you press "new file". Anyway, in case you want to learn Emacs... You can create a new 'buffer' (which is an text object in Emacs, that might or might not be read from a file) by pressing C-x b (Emacs speak for "Control+x followed by b") and entering a name for it (you might like 'New file 1':), now you can use it as a new file in most other editors and save it wherever you want once you decide on the actual file name and location.
That's what one gets when one uses a word just because of the warm and fuzzy associations it evokes, confusion. And why exactly should I trust whoever is in charge of the regulations this week? I'd prefer actual facts instead of a fell-good stamp on the package.
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And it makes no sense in Star Wars either, the rebels are a known threat, if stormtroopers where just the intimidating jackboots of the empire then special forces would have shown up at some point in the movies.
I'll get right to it. Let me brake my actions into clear steps so other people can better society with us:
We are saved.
I was talking about the few passwords you actually want to/have to remember. Login, password manager, etc.
Now you buy OS X instead if you want to run this years software. Then you get tired of it and stick with Tiger. But decide to buy iWork '09 (you don't buy the boxed set because you are waiting for Snow Leopard).
So while you are googling around for a simple (rotation, cropping, white balance) image editor that is both free and runs on OS X 10.-1 Apple decides that there will be no proper Snow Leopard release, instead you can upgrade from your non existing copy of Leopard or buy a boxed set that helpfully includes a copy of iWork '09.
Also, somewhere along the lines you discover Pages '09 doesn't have any sort of crash recovery and lose hours of work, you google around and find there are at least third party workarounds... if you run Leopard.
And then you try to compile that one tool that isn't available in a neat binary package (unless you have Leopard of course) and rediscover the fun of dependency hell, random errors and general incompatibility that you thought you left behind when apt-get got big and people started to test their applications on Linux in addition to their favorite Unix flavor.
God have mercy on your soul if you actually want a decent terminal emulator or a photo editor that's not Photoshop!
...and those are just the things I've run into helping my wife! I'll, however, stick to my fiddlebuntu for the foreseeable future. At least I have a fighting chance of adding that one, small feature and squashing that one little bug, even without being a real programmer.
P.S.: I'm sure OS X is great if what you need done falls within its operational parameters. However just like with Windows and GNU/Linux people need to know what they are getting before they commit. Also, I needed to air. ;)
His point was that science is a method, not an organization.
Strong passwords don't matter, just lock attackers out. Lockout policy induced DoS attacks don't matter, just isolate the attackers out. Just hire someone to give access based on visual identification and be done with it if you don't actually want to address computer security...
DoS, you'll either be stuck with people flooding support and not getting anything done, or you will drop part of those blocks, after that it will be back to password strength.
People who's passwords provide no real security might be, the rest of us do have and/or will have big private keys encrypted with strong passwords.
Takes me a few times typing in a new 16 character password (lowercase, capitals, numbers, symbols) to remember it. The trick is to type from memory and only use a note/password manager to refresh it, not copy. Easiest way is to encrypt a file with your new password and train it before setting it for the system.
Of course, the company was never profitable, they never made anything, they will know better then run companies into the ground for short-term profits now...
Fixed that for you. As far as h264 goes, those are legal reasons.
Boy do I ever hope that's a novelty account with that username, otherwise you'd need to re-register as "assumefirstaskquestionslater" or some such...
Profit is not what pays for the journalism so that makes no sense. Also, if you don't want to play on the free market (where profit, theoretically, is supposed to head to zero because of competition) then... well, I guess then you alter the views of the people by using mass media to put yourself as the king and ruler instead of a market player, but he'd never do that.
Actually it's quite recent as far as recorded history goes, the modern version that lasts 3 or more generations is even newer. Besides the law is only the law if you have deep pockets to back it up. What would happen if small music producer ripped of a Timbaland song, made significant profits from it and basically insulted him when busted? Is it a wonder that the law in question doesn't get any respect from the average music listener?
So? You could say the same just about any ethnic group both in the Russian Federation and former USSR, doesn't justify them playing big brother. My country has 28% Russians, does that mean we have to let Putin dictate our lives? And fuck Russia fro playing number games too, Russian-speaking != Russian.
No Ossetians are Ossetians, don't talk about history if you are not willing to look it up.
Have you been fined $700,000 for shoplifting however? Besides, it's not compareable anyway, shoplifting creates a very real loss for the store.
Not surprising when you write the whole big basically describing Windows without mentioning the name, I've seen bids like that, they are written with the intention of not having to look at anything else.
I'm intrigued by this "man powered" Segway? Is it powered by a human driving a generator to charge the batteries? Possibly a generator attached to a stationary bike?
That's nice, it has nothing to do with copyright laws or copyright violations however...
Some always do, seems to be the case for everything. Some are however tongue-in-cheek (yes of course Emacs can do this, here's how!), I believe the SVG comment is one of them. Also every time I switch some text-related task to Emacs (even if I switch back later) I can understand people who spend most of their computer time in Emacs. If most of what you do with a computer is edit text, and you are an Emacs user, after a while when you need to get another task done your first inclination becomes to look for a suitable Emacs mode in the same way that an OS X user will look for a native app first and only when that fails look at something for X Windows.
I however simply do to much graphics editing to be able to stick with Emacs for everything. Even if I sometimes do wish for some of the features of Emacs in my graphics packages... Looks like I'm not the only one:
Yeah, I had to search for how to create a new buffer to find out, I suspect creating new buffers without corresponding files is discouraged because of the possible data loss, but I'm just guessing here.
Generally I've found the self documenting part excellent, once I figured out how it works, as the other post already mentioned the tutorial is a good place to start, but if you have already done it a few times and just skimmed the help parts all you really need to start exploring is C-h ?. You will probably also have to learn Info, it might seem weird if you are used to man pages but it works well for large programs as you can search easily (for example to find out how to create a new buffer you'd start Info [C-h i], go to the Emacs manual [m Emacs RET] (this might be named slightly differently I have "Emacs (emacs-snapshot)" instead of "Emacs", but it should be easy to find), search [s] and play guess the correct search string (no AI yet ;), in this case "new buffer" takes you to the menu item "Select Buffer" which has the answer and "create a new buffer" takes you to a place just below the answer you are looking for.
I'm actually been switching back and forth between more conventional GUI tools and Emacs for some applications: note taking, email and such. It seems that while Emacs can take more work to set up right it is the more pleasant experience once you have. Right now I've actually brought my todo/scheduling into Org-Mode, I'd say I moved over from EvIt's basically plain text with some clues to the colution, but I didn't. Every time I've tried to use a dedicated time management tool I've gone back to a mixture of notes (paper and digital), mobile phone and just plain old 'hope to remember'. Org-Mode however seems to be the right combination between the strict approach of tools like Evolution and random notes.
Well, strictly speaking a file is not something in your editor, it's something on your disk, so common convention aside Emacs is actually doing the sensible thing of asking which file to create when you press "new file". Anyway, in case you want to learn Emacs... You can create a new 'buffer' (which is an text object in Emacs, that might or might not be read from a file) by pressing C-x b (Emacs speak for "Control+x followed by b") and entering a name for it (you might like 'New file 1' :), now you can use it as a new file in most other editors and save it wherever you want once you decide on the actual file name and location.
That's what one gets when one uses a word just because of the warm and fuzzy associations it evokes, confusion. And why exactly should I trust whoever is in charge of the regulations this week? I'd prefer actual facts instead of a fell-good stamp on the package.