Hmmm, I didn't realize that a finger print could be scanned for possible genetic anomalies? Personality traits?.....
The DNA profile that will be stored does not have enough information in it to test for any genetic traits (thinking about it however, they might notice extra chromosomes). Having said that, I still voted against that proposition.
Are you a US Citizen? a. yes b. no Do you like the way we are acting in our security? a. yes b. no If answers are "a a" you are a patriot. If answers are "a b" feel free to leave the country or be a patriot and join congress to debate the subject.... If your answers are "b a" thank you for understanding. If answers are "b b" then fuck off.
You forgot other options for "a b": Vote for the candidates that agree with you most and exercise the rights that our constitution does its best to afford us and let as many people as can know your views and realize if others do not agree with you, it is their right to not agree and do the same as you.
Yeah, finding a HDTV that will do 1080i is nearly impossible (for flatscreens). That is a resolution around 2000x1080, interlaced so that on 540 lines are drawn per pass.
It won't even do 720p, 1280x720, which is still HD. I believe in the next 6 months or so we will be seeing more flat panel 1080p capable TVs coming out. I'll be happy as I cannot stand interlaced video.
This is just another bullshit revenue-grab by the state. The state road fund has been pillaged to the tune of about 2 billion a year (the funds have been stolen for the general budget), then they cry wolf about needing money to improve roads?!
The problem is California is running massive debts due to illegal immigration (costs us about 10 billion a year). BUT NOBODY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM.
How much more will we have to pay for our veggies and fruits if we stop illegal immigration? How about for construction? How about when we eat out? Just about every contractor and landscaper I know relies on day laborers with no papers. Our economy currently depends on this cheap labor. Just saying 'get rid of illegal immigrants' is easy but it doesn't solve the problem, it will just create new ones.
I would say one of the main reasons we are running huge debts is all those bloody initiatives that mandate funding for this and funding for that, basically giving the elected officials control over only a very small part of the total budget. Combine that with Prop 13 and you have California today.
My vonage VOIP uses a Linksys router, no computer needed. If my internet goes down, then yes, I have a problem, but it does not rely on Mr. Gates, thank you very much.
OSX-- does the default user account have system privileges?
Yes, the first account created is an admin account, and admin accounts have system priveileges but only after re-authenitcating. Any action that requires system proveleges requires you to type in your password.
In case you haven't noticed, Perl 5's object system is a complete and utter mess that looks and smells like it has been added as an afterthought
If you even consider it an object system; I use it daily and I'm still skeptical about calling it object oriented programming. Reminds me really of ADT with C with some new 'features' added to make it slightly easier. Not that I don't like it, I still find it very useful but....
Konfabulator uses Javascript, not Java. CPU usage, like for any application, varies depending on what the application is doing. I can write an infinite loop that'll bring a system to its knees, but that doesn't mean that the system is flawed.
No, but having a whole separate engine for each widget adds plenty of extra overhead and makes the footprint larger than it needs to be.
Apple didn't just return Desk Accessories to the OS, they added a system that would let you run small "widgets" that are built using Javascript and a tagged page markup language designed so that mere mortals can create their own. Since Konfabulator was currently on the Mac OS doing the exact same thing with the exact same nomenclature, the appearance of Apple stealing the concept was inevitable (and IMO, justified).
When Windows 2k came out I could write little javascript pages and embed them in the background. They could check stock quotes, be calculators, I even added one that tracked sattelites. Did Konfabulator rip off Microsoft? Competition makes things better doesn't it? Isn't that what OpenOffice is all about? Should we all be using wordstar and visicalc now?
I forgot to add, to get around the inherited 8 characeter flaw, just change your password. That will change it from the old-school 8 character password to the new longer one.
I blinked, told myself I was having a very bad dream, and logged off. When I logged back in, everything was fine and I breathed a huge sigh of relief! I guess I was one of the "lucky" ones. I keep using it and I haven't had any more issues... yet.
I've had both problems happen (the bad and the recoverable), the bad one has not happened since I updated to 10.3.1. For the recoverable with a re-login one, near as I can tell this comes from some legacy 8 character password weirdness. As this post indicates, if you have upgraded your computer from jaguar to panther you will only need 8 characters of your password to be correct to log in. What I have noticed is that is FileVault does not have the 8 char limit and needs *all* of the characters in your password to be correct. This causes some weirdness if you have a 12 character password and have a typo in the 10th character: you will be logged in but not see any of your data. The really stupid thing is there is no error message displayed*.
Having said that, I haven't had the problem crop up in a while so they might have fixed it.
*Sort of: if you do not have FileVault on, your keychain will choke and ask for your password again.
It also says something about the relationship between NASA and it's subcontractors when they can accept a receiver design and not sign a standard non-disclosure agreement so that they can see the specific design elements.
Sort of. This was really an ESA project and NASA was was only assisting the them. If this was a NASA run project I'm sure they would have insited in seeing what the specs were (now weather that would have helped is a different question). I wonder if Alenia Spazio (the contractor) gave the ESA the specs?
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Which doesn't make sense: did nobody at NASA have the brainpower to conceive of sending an emulated signal just like the one they actually ended up using? How much could it have cost to run a few hours' testing of Cassini's commlink prior to assembly of the craft? It's *always* a good thing to check system components in a full emulation environment.
s/NASA/ESA/g
NASA was only observing - this part of the project was pretty much run by ESA. Still a "cock-up" all around.
While MySQL is great for reads, it sucks balls with inserts and updates... even with InnoDB, even with gobs of RAM and 15K SCSI hard drives in Raid 0 configurations on Quad Opteron systems.
The only time I've seen MySQL "suck balls" for inserts was when I was doing single row insert...select... statements. I have no idea why but those are really, really slow and doing an individual select then an insert is much faster (3x faster IIRC).
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The DNA profile that will be stored does not have enough information in it to test for any genetic traits (thinking about it however, they might notice extra chromosomes). Having said that, I still voted against that proposition.
Just put all the of the disclosures in an EULA, no one will ever read it and the study will not be tainted.
You forgot other options for "a b": Vote for the candidates that agree with you most and exercise the rights that our constitution does its best to afford us and let as many people as can know your views and realize if others do not agree with you, it is their right to not agree and do the same as you.
Well, there go my plans to move to Canada.
My vonage lines at home now do not work (with a fast-busy when I try to dial in), and I cannot connect to www.vonage.com from my office. Coincidence?
Sounds just like our ballistic missile defense system.
It won't even do 720p, 1280x720, which is still HD. I believe in the next 6 months or so we will be seeing more flat panel 1080p capable TVs coming out. I'll be happy as I cannot stand interlaced video.
The problem is California is running massive debts due to illegal immigration (costs us about 10 billion a year). BUT NOBODY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM.
How much more will we have to pay for our veggies and fruits if we stop illegal immigration? How about for construction? How about when we eat out? Just about every contractor and landscaper I know relies on day laborers with no papers. Our economy currently depends on this cheap labor. Just saying 'get rid of illegal immigrants' is easy but it doesn't solve the problem, it will just create new ones.
I would say one of the main reasons we are running huge debts is all those bloody initiatives that mandate funding for this and funding for that, basically giving the elected officials control over only a very small part of the total budget. Combine that with Prop 13 and you have California today.
Man, Google knows everything, even when I will have to go to the bathroom!
Well, to be honest I know that for my girlfriend too: about every three minutes.
My vonage VOIP uses a Linksys router, no computer needed. If my internet goes down, then yes, I have a problem, but it does not rely on Mr. Gates, thank you very much.
Not to belittle your accomplishment, but being completely submersed helps: no evaporative cooling.
Yes, the first account created is an admin account, and admin accounts have system priveileges but only after re-authenitcating. Any action that requires system proveleges requires you to type in your password.
RTFA, they are discussing tropical honeybees. Their climate requirements are tropical, and fairly constrained.
If you even consider it an object system; I use it daily and I'm still skeptical about calling it object oriented programming. Reminds me really of ADT with C with some new 'features' added to make it slightly easier. Not that I don't like it, I still find it very useful but....
No, but having a whole separate engine for each widget adds plenty of extra overhead and makes the footprint larger than it needs to be.
Apple didn't just return Desk Accessories to the OS, they added a system that would let you run small "widgets" that are built using Javascript and a tagged page markup language designed so that mere mortals can create their own. Since Konfabulator was currently on the Mac OS doing the exact same thing with the exact same nomenclature, the appearance of Apple stealing the concept was inevitable (and IMO, justified).
When Windows 2k came out I could write little javascript pages and embed them in the background. They could check stock quotes, be calculators, I even added one that tracked sattelites. Did Konfabulator rip off Microsoft? Competition makes things better doesn't it? Isn't that what OpenOffice is all about? Should we all be using wordstar and visicalc now?
To a certain degree we already have this here. I've seen many intersectons in the SF Bay Area that have countdown timers for the pedestrian crossings.
I worry more about the disc delaminating and DVD/CD-rot than scratches.
I forgot to add, to get around the inherited 8 characeter flaw, just change your password. That will change it from the old-school 8 character password to the new longer one.
I've had both problems happen (the bad and the recoverable), the bad one has not happened since I updated to 10.3.1. For the recoverable with a re-login one, near as I can tell this comes from some legacy 8 character password weirdness. As this post indicates, if you have upgraded your computer from jaguar to panther you will only need 8 characters of your password to be correct to log in. What I have noticed is that is FileVault does not have the 8 char limit and needs *all* of the characters in your password to be correct. This causes some weirdness if you have a 12 character password and have a typo in the 10th character: you will be logged in but not see any of your data. The really stupid thing is there is no error message displayed*.
Having said that, I haven't had the problem crop up in a while so they might have fixed it.
*Sort of: if you do not have FileVault on, your keychain will choke and ask for your password again.
If the effect is psychological, having a physically detectable (by the subject) component is likely to reinforce it.
Hmm, so maybe to increase my verbal skills I should rub poison ivy on my skalp replicate the ichy sensation.
Like real life? The realism in this role-playing game must be getting good.
Sort of. This was really an ESA project and NASA was was only assisting the them. If this was a NASA run project I'm sure they would have insited in seeing what the specs were (now weather that would have helped is a different question). I wonder if Alenia Spazio (the contractor) gave the ESA the specs?
s/NASA/ESA/g
NASA was only observing - this part of the project was pretty much run by ESA. Still a "cock-up" all around.
I know I will be waiting with baited breath for the court decision so I can use my TV-B-Gone to turn off the TV at the local pub.
The only time I've seen MySQL "suck balls" for inserts was when I was doing single row insert...select... statements. I have no idea why but those are really, really slow and doing an individual select then an insert is much faster (3x faster IIRC).