The known dial-up ranges are a problem, and a stupid way to block spam.
I have several business mail servers running on static IP ranges from DSL providers that regularly run into "why are they blocking my mail?" issues because of this. Until the ISPs agree on a way to publish "should" and "should not" lists for their users' services, the Internet should be considered the Internet with arbitrary range blocking avoided.
IMHO it wouldn't be hard for ISPs to use a reverse-DNS range for specifying users who have business/static IP accounts for checking purposes, but its not being done to my knowledge.
If you're going to make that argument in the future, just go with chromosomes, its much easier.
If you've got more X's than Y's then you're genetically female and vice versa.
I have no problem with transgendered people wanting to be called whatever gender it is they identify with, but they really need to stop taking offence at how awkward it is for everyone else to figure it out in the border cases. Heck, there are some pretty gender neutral looking people I've met who have had no surgeries.
To be fair (and I have no opinion on the circumcision thing beyond 'ouch'), yes.
Medical procedures are almost always relative. "In your case," and "Most of the time," and other such phrases are used a lot because we aren't Star Trek and complications and other factors creep in unannounced in medicine all the time.
Stop believing that medicine is like computer programming.
This fact annoys me every time its brought up -- just because I can fit it over your head doesn't make it comfortable. The very elasticity of it squeezes against you on one of the most sensitive areas of your body.
I can wrap a mail elastic around your neck too, and I bet you wouldn't find that any more enjoyable than a tight condom.
Free Software is Free in that it guarantees the Freedom of the software itself, not your Freedoms.
For example, if you lived in a truly free society, you'd be allowed to do whatever you want. But wouldn't your neighbour be allowed to shoot you for sport as well? To prevent this type of chaos and to guarantee your general freedoms (which require life and safety), certain other "freedoms" like wanton murder and theft are disallowed by society.
The same has evolved in the Free Software movement. Now if you want "freedom including neighbour murdering" free, check out BSD.
Most of the best programmers I know are contributing to Open Source.
And I'd also disagree with the editorializing in the summary -- these situations just cause yelling and lawsuits but they don't make anyone of any significance stop believing in FOSS.
Perhaps we should split comp-sci into two paths? One for people intending to get a job in academia and one for those destined for the commercial job market?
We have those already. The first is called a degree from a University and the second is called a trade school education.
In the same way the P.Eng's rarely make good brick-layers, you're expecting the wrong thing from your university grads.
I was a hard core PC gamer until I got my PS3. Sitting on the couch is much more fun than sitting at a desk, and having a 5.1 surround system with a big screen TV is a lot more entertaining than headphones and a computer screen for a lot of games.
My PS3 cost me about the same as my next video card upgrade was going to cost. Hard core PC gaming is a LOT more expensive than a high-end console, and making consoles for that market is a perfectly acceptable business decision.
Don't be fooled, owning your technology and being able to improve on it are completely different concepts.
Look at the original PS2 vs the latest model. Look at the revisions list and you'll understand what worries Microsoft about Sony's ability to improve their hardware designs over time.
The 360 doesn't correct any errors in backward compatibility unless the next XBox comes with appropriate hardware or software to do it. Microsoft may learn as Sony did with the PS3 that including compatible previous-generation hardware is expensive, and doing it in software is hard because of the kind of code tweakers that game designers are.
That's poor logic and utter FUD. The carrier has the ability to shut off your service at any time. On any day at any minute they can have their computers disable your phone because you've gone over your perceived ability to pay in additional charges.
They don't either out of sheer laziness or because its much more fun to charge you and hope they get the money.
if customer['usage'] > customer['limit']:
if not call['type'] == EMERGENCY:
return CALL_REFUSED;
In most cases, their "reasons" are ignorance and paranoia, not reason.
They don't need the SSN, they just have a policy to do full credit checks on everyone and so they do it. None of the people you talk to in that store were involved in the little boardroom pow-wow that lead to this policy and none of them will understand it, so they just do it blindly.
Sony committed to 10 years on the PS2 just like they did for the PS1 in terms of continuing support. The PS2 is still a viable gaming platform at only $100 and during E3 they suggested they'd continue support past the 10 year mark if publishers were still wanting to use it as a platform. They'll most likely continue support for the PS3 long after the PS4 comes out as well.
Microsoft's inability to make their hardware cheaper and long-lasting meant they had to blow away the xbox when the 360 was ready as they lost money on every unit sold right to the end. I'm not convinced they won't do something similar with the third version. If there's any hope, its that Microsoft usually gets things right by the third version (Windows, Excel, IE, etc.)
Ironically your list is very accurate except for the BS about the PS3. 90+% of the games that play on the 360 also are available on the PS3 as they're multi-platform and a good selection of excellent exclusives are also available only for the PS3.
The hardware is reliable, the system is quiet, the blu-ray player is very functional, the up-scaling for DVDs is very high quality and the gaming is excellent and free to play online.
Its not simply FUD. Increased efficiency for data retrieval rubs both ways. If its easier to get data out of the system for the good guy, its easy to get data out of the system for the turn coat.
Yes, its probably a great idea to make a lot of intelligence data easier to access in general, and I'll assume the system fully logs all dat accesses and makes note of unnecessary information retrievals.
The obnoxious self-indulgent morons who put those tags up get a kick out of them. I ignore the tagging system altogether because it has no moderation, voting or other method of validation.
When they introduced the PSP 2000(?) it had twice the RAM of the original, but that memory is for caching and is not available to games so as to keep new games compatible with the old unit.
However, the new unit was able to run Skype in that extra memory, and the old one was not.
There may be other PSP Go unique features that will emerge, but knowing Sony, there won't be Go-only games.
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The known dial-up ranges are a problem, and a stupid way to block spam.
I have several business mail servers running on static IP ranges from DSL providers that regularly run into "why are they blocking my mail?" issues because of this. Until the ISPs agree on a way to publish "should" and "should not" lists for their users' services, the Internet should be considered the Internet with arbitrary range blocking avoided.
IMHO it wouldn't be hard for ISPs to use a reverse-DNS range for specifying users who have business/static IP accounts for checking purposes, but its not being done to my knowledge.
If you're going to make that argument in the future, just go with chromosomes, its much easier.
If you've got more X's than Y's then you're genetically female and vice versa.
I have no problem with transgendered people wanting to be called whatever gender it is they identify with, but they really need to stop taking offence at how awkward it is for everyone else to figure it out in the border cases. Heck, there are some pretty gender neutral looking people I've met who have had no surgeries.
It would be nice to do a comparison of both compiled with ICC instead (assuming the Firefox source code is compatible).
Of course, if you worked for a drug company you would've said:
Remember, someone's getting that money.
To be fair (and I have no opinion on the circumcision thing beyond 'ouch'), yes.
Medical procedures are almost always relative. "In your case," and "Most of the time," and other such phrases are used a lot because we aren't Star Trek and complications and other factors creep in unannounced in medicine all the time.
Stop believing that medicine is like computer programming.
Don't forget "keep refrigerated" (its on the box). Try applying it cold ;-)
This fact annoys me every time its brought up -- just because I can fit it over your head doesn't make it comfortable. The very elasticity of it squeezes against you on one of the most sensitive areas of your body.
I can wrap a mail elastic around your neck too, and I bet you wouldn't find that any more enjoyable than a tight condom.
You can't read.
Free Software is Free in that it guarantees the Freedom of the software itself, not your Freedoms.
For example, if you lived in a truly free society, you'd be allowed to do whatever you want. But wouldn't your neighbour be allowed to shoot you for sport as well? To prevent this type of chaos and to guarantee your general freedoms (which require life and safety), certain other "freedoms" like wanton murder and theft are disallowed by society.
The same has evolved in the Free Software movement. Now if you want "freedom including neighbour murdering" free, check out BSD.
Most of the best programmers I know are contributing to Open Source.
And I'd also disagree with the editorializing in the summary -- these situations just cause yelling and lawsuits but they don't make anyone of any significance stop believing in FOSS.
We have those already. The first is called a degree from a University and the second is called a trade school education.
In the same way the P.Eng's rarely make good brick-layers, you're expecting the wrong thing from your university grads.
I actually like the new AJAX site, it works nicely and its easier to see additional comments, but that's only on my newer PC at work.
Of course, you could disable Javascript in Firefox and see how that goes, or use the 'noscript' extension and maybe Slashdot reverts? I don't know.
I was a hard core PC gamer until I got my PS3. Sitting on the couch is much more fun than sitting at a desk, and having a 5.1 surround system with a big screen TV is a lot more entertaining than headphones and a computer screen for a lot of games.
My PS3 cost me about the same as my next video card upgrade was going to cost. Hard core PC gaming is a LOT more expensive than a high-end console, and making consoles for that market is a perfectly acceptable business decision.
Don't be fooled, owning your technology and being able to improve on it are completely different concepts.
Look at the original PS2 vs the latest model. Look at the revisions list and you'll understand what worries Microsoft about Sony's ability to improve their hardware designs over time.
The 360 doesn't correct any errors in backward compatibility unless the next XBox comes with appropriate hardware or software to do it. Microsoft may learn as Sony did with the PS3 that including compatible previous-generation hardware is expensive, and doing it in software is hard because of the kind of code tweakers that game designers are.
That's poor logic and utter FUD. The carrier has the ability to shut off your service at any time. On any day at any minute they can have their computers disable your phone because you've gone over your perceived ability to pay in additional charges.
They don't either out of sheer laziness or because its much more fun to charge you and hope they get the money.
if customer['usage'] > customer['limit']:
if not call['type'] == EMERGENCY:
return CALL_REFUSED;
In most cases, their "reasons" are ignorance and paranoia, not reason.
They don't need the SSN, they just have a policy to do full credit checks on everyone and so they do it. None of the people you talk to in that store were involved in the little boardroom pow-wow that lead to this policy and none of them will understand it, so they just do it blindly.
Even Killzone 2 supposedly only cost about $30 million to make, and its a pretty huge amount of work.
Back in 2007, their budget for the game was $20 million. I can't imagine most high-end games costing much more than that to develop.
Sony committed to 10 years on the PS2 just like they did for the PS1 in terms of continuing support. The PS2 is still a viable gaming platform at only $100 and during E3 they suggested they'd continue support past the 10 year mark if publishers were still wanting to use it as a platform. They'll most likely continue support for the PS3 long after the PS4 comes out as well.
Microsoft's inability to make their hardware cheaper and long-lasting meant they had to blow away the xbox when the 360 was ready as they lost money on every unit sold right to the end. I'm not convinced they won't do something similar with the third version. If there's any hope, its that Microsoft usually gets things right by the third version (Windows, Excel, IE, etc.)
Don't forget the CD and the mega-drive, etc.
Major add-ons to the Sega platform hurt them as much as it helped I think.
Ironically your list is very accurate except for the BS about the PS3. 90+% of the games that play on the 360 also are available on the PS3 as they're multi-platform and a good selection of excellent exclusives are also available only for the PS3.
The hardware is reliable, the system is quiet, the blu-ray player is very functional, the up-scaling for DVDs is very high quality and the gaming is excellent and free to play online.
Its not simply FUD. Increased efficiency for data retrieval rubs both ways. If its easier to get data out of the system for the good guy, its easy to get data out of the system for the turn coat.
Yes, its probably a great idea to make a lot of intelligence data easier to access in general, and I'll assume the system fully logs all dat accesses and makes note of unnecessary information retrievals.
No, since 'flop' means "floating point operation per"
The 's' means "second"
IOW, you can have one petaflops.
The obnoxious self-indulgent morons who put those tags up get a kick out of them. I ignore the tagging system altogether because it has no moderation, voting or other method of validation.
When they introduced the PSP 2000(?) it had twice the RAM of the original, but that memory is for caching and is not available to games so as to keep new games compatible with the old unit.
However, the new unit was able to run Skype in that extra memory, and the old one was not.
There may be other PSP Go unique features that will emerge, but knowing Sony, there won't be Go-only games.
You have wired stuff attached to your PSP?
Mine's wireless, and I like it that way.
Just you wait, they'll find a way to tap the optic nerve directly eventually.