And most of Canada suddenly becomes the most usable land in North America. The problem is what exactly? Who said you deserve to live by the ocean? Who gave you the *right* to never have to relocate?
Most people I've met who push global warming don't believe in chaos theory, nor have any concept of entropy. And one wonders why I snicker at their logic.
Cyanogen had fixes for my phone's 911 support long before Rogers Canada did. I didn't need Rogers' firmware upgrade to fix the problem because I never had the problem, using a custom ROM.
"Community" software runs Slashdot, the mail servers at Yahoo, and a large number of other very huge projects. Why wouldn't you support them for your phone?
If you're producing large amounts of video and you're not using a good encoder, that's your fault. The usefulness of the algorithm has nothing to do with how good your encoder is.
One-up that with "you do realize where Saddam got his power, right?"
The American ambassador is on the record for giving the go-ahead to Saddam's invasion of Kuwait at the time, the US is well-known to have assisted in the Iraq-Iran conflict to empower Saddam to help quash Iran, etc. etc. etc.
America is hardly the good guy of the last fifty years of military history.
Of all the modern consoles, the PS3 doesn't have a very high cost of entry. Some very small houses have published games for the PS3. Sony has been very accepting of games that are edgy or different from the normal fare. I've enjoyed several of them, and others not as much, but I don't feel the hate here; I think Sony's done a great job helping out small developers already.
There's a new vaccine every year because the dominant variant changes. Get your facts straight at least.
Also noteworthy: in years where the variants of flu covered by major flu vaccines couldn't possibly help with the variants going around in the population, people have still been encouraged to get the vaccine despite its being almost entirely useless on those occasions.
You're missing the point. If the firmware checks for media type, a BD-R's signature will never be checked, because its the wrong type of media. You still need a firmware bypass to allow that. Note: we can already do 1-to-1 copies of BD-R discs, and they don't work. Those are signed already, being 1-to-1 copies.
The signature issue only applies to unlicensed software, not pirated software.
IE someone can make a printed non-burned game/application disc and sign it without paying Sony for licensing. That's a whole other problem.
Since when does an efficient solution eradicate all others from sensibility?
I'd venture a guess that the vast majority of things you do in the day are not done in the most efficient manor possible. Pointing out an efficient solution is great if someone wants one. But someone not using one in no way detracts from the sanity of their method.
I feel the same way every time I read yet another editorial in Scientific American on how stupid and crazy religious folks are. Who cares? Last I checked, local religious groups in my town were feeding the hungry, clothing the needy and helping people that aren't being directly assisted by the local research grants at the University.
"Yay, we created a grand unified theory of everything... isn't that great?" ought to be far less desirable than "We've almost eradicated starvation and abuse."
I love science, and contrary to the beliefs of some very religious* people on Slashdot, a lot of science-loving geeks are religious or god-fearing types too.
*yes, that faith-hating empirical mindset is a belief system
And boo effing hoo for the cop who's PO'd that his version of events is not golden anymore, or for the DA who's seen his conviction ratio drop. It's almost routine now for DNA evidence, for example, to exonerate people who've spent years in prison, falsely convicted after some crooked cop lied in court to frame him and the DA went along with the sham just to get his numbers up. How many innocent people have lost years of their lives because of this?
I'd rather see criminals go free than law-abiding citizens jailed. Our society's in bad shape when those in power believe otherwise.
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And most of Canada suddenly becomes the most usable land in North America. The problem is what exactly? Who said you deserve to live by the ocean? Who gave you the *right* to never have to relocate?
Most people I've met who push global warming don't believe in chaos theory, nor have any concept of entropy. And one wonders why I snicker at their logic.
As others said, you're a bit messed up there. Meteorology existed for a VERY long time before climatology.
If I may troll, "and climatologists aren't scientists."
Make a prediction and test it, or you're just another soft science.
Cyanogen had fixes for my phone's 911 support long before Rogers Canada did. I didn't need Rogers' firmware upgrade to fix the problem because I never had the problem, using a custom ROM.
"Community" software runs Slashdot, the mail servers at Yahoo, and a large number of other very huge projects. Why wouldn't you support them for your phone?
Spoken like someone who truly does not understand open source and free software.
Leave it to Apple? Why? Lots of good OS programmers don't work for Apple. Why not let them hack at the source code too? They can with Android.
Those people haven't figured out how to install their own version of Android on the phone yet, that's all.
My (very old) G1 supposedly only runs 1.6, final stamp, last year. I'm running 2.2 on it right now thanks to CyanogenMod, as are many others.
How many roll-your-own distros are there of iOS allowing you to upgrade any old phone to the latest version? Hmmm?
Android is a silver bullet, the problem is people forget to pull the trigger.
If you're producing large amounts of video and you're not using a good encoder, that's your fault. The usefulness of the algorithm has nothing to do with how good your encoder is.
One-up that with "you do realize where Saddam got his power, right?"
The American ambassador is on the record for giving the go-ahead to Saddam's invasion of Kuwait at the time, the US is well-known to have assisted in the Iraq-Iran conflict to empower Saddam to help quash Iran, etc. etc. etc.
America is hardly the good guy of the last fifty years of military history.
The United States is very willing to "arrange" for people to end up in their jurisdiction when necessary.
Apple had the excuse of being first. Nobody else gets that excuse.
Once your competitor deals with "we need copy+paste", you should make sure your product has it too.
Mine too. Still buying corporate desktops with XP SP3 on them instead of Vista or Win7 for some customers.
Most of us won't live to see the Copyright on any GPL project expire.
Welcome to modern Copyright law.
Considering we all /can/ see what was changed, through the history option, its not so bad really. Get over yourself.
mtr is a much better tool than what ships with whatever OS you're thinking of, unless its an OS that mtr itself ships on.
The output is superior and continual unlike standard traceroute programs with options for ascii graphing to see trend data easier.
As a quick example for the uninitiated, this is what mtr 0.75 looks like, doing a trace to slashdot.org.
Of all the modern consoles, the PS3 doesn't have a very high cost of entry. Some very small houses have published games for the PS3. Sony has been very accepting of games that are edgy or different from the normal fare. I've enjoyed several of them, and others not as much, but I don't feel the hate here; I think Sony's done a great job helping out small developers already.
There's a new vaccine every year because the dominant variant changes. Get your facts straight at least.
Also noteworthy: in years where the variants of flu covered by major flu vaccines couldn't possibly help with the variants going around in the population, people have still been encouraged to get the vaccine despite its being almost entirely useless on those occasions.
You're missing the point. If the firmware checks for media type, a BD-R's signature will never be checked, because its the wrong type of media. You still need a firmware bypass to allow that. Note: we can already do 1-to-1 copies of BD-R discs, and they don't work. Those are signed already, being 1-to-1 copies.
The signature issue only applies to unlicensed software, not pirated software.
IE someone can make a printed non-burned game/application disc and sign it without paying Sony for licensing. That's a whole other problem.
You touched on it but I'll say it more bluntly: science nuts who dismiss religion are as ignorant as religious nuts who dismiss science.
Since when does an efficient solution eradicate all others from sensibility?
I'd venture a guess that the vast majority of things you do in the day are not done in the most efficient manor possible. Pointing out an efficient solution is great if someone wants one. But someone not using one in no way detracts from the sanity of their method.
I feel the same way every time I read yet another editorial in Scientific American on how stupid and crazy religious folks are. Who cares? Last I checked, local religious groups in my town were feeding the hungry, clothing the needy and helping people that aren't being directly assisted by the local research grants at the University.
"Yay, we created a grand unified theory of everything ... isn't that great?" ought to be far less desirable than "We've almost eradicated starvation and abuse."
I love science, and contrary to the beliefs of some very religious* people on Slashdot, a lot of science-loving geeks are religious or god-fearing types too.
*yes, that faith-hating empirical mindset is a belief system
I'd rather see criminals go free than law-abiding citizens jailed. Our society's in bad shape when those in power believe otherwise.
Turn your screen on. Turn off the screensaver. Turn off all software, and leave just the radio and screen turned on.
Measure standby-with-backlit-screen power-on time.
Now measure your for loop power-on time with the screen off (yes, it can do that).
I think you'll find the screen is a bigger power drain than the CPU still.
If I had mod points ... but its so true. Linux supports more hardware than Windows ever has, and does it very well. Too bad about those old myths.
Way to not make any sense at all.
Binary blob = compiled source code.
Source code = source code.
Neither takes more effort to maintain for Intel or the project that uses them. The binary blob method simply allows hiding methods.