Maybe you disagree with me on this, but from my perspective:
1. Firefox plugins rarely (in my case, never) crash. 2. Chrome is a beta browser, so I'm not going to use it for day-to-day tasks.
I'm tired of stories comparing Chrome and Firefox. Once Chrome reaches v1.0 and is considered by Google to be production-ready, then I'll care. Until then, it's an interesting tech-demo and nothing more.
What was the inflation rate last year? Zero? Slightly negative? As long as your wages increase faster than inflation, then your purchasing power is going up. And.7% is better than the 0% raise I got.
Ah, but you're ignoring the big reason why people continue to smoke, once they start - it's addicting. All things being equal, a dumb person and a smart person should have similar addiction risks. Perhaps here we're seeing that smarter people are less likely to become addicts, or maybe their intelligence is able to override the addictive drive.
Some details of your experience would be nice. What was the project? When was it deployed? How many officers where given access?
IMO, if Chicago police officers were given access to current firearm violations and they didn't find it useful, then maybe we need to look at the software, not the officers.
God. Sequels are bad enough as is. Sequels by every hackneyed wanna-be director makes me just want to cringe.
Of course, I guess it could go the other way too. Some of the cheesy 1990's action films could be redone into really awesome films - Judge Dredd, Demolition Man, and anything with Steven Segall in it.
But I hate the idea of tax money going to frivolous things like this. Personally, I can't stand that my library lends DVDs and music too. Public libraries, in my opinion, should solely be about self-improvement and betterment. Books, movies, and music should be classics, self-help, technical, etc. It doesn't make a lot of sense to have the library just be a surrogate Blockbuster/Netflix/Gamefly.
This was submitted by a SoftMaker employee, has only SoftMaker links, and only talks about the positives of SoftMaker. The submission fails to mention that it's closed source, GPL incompatible. How about a link to a critical review? A heads up comparison of SoftMaker, OpenOffice, and MS Office?
Since this lawsuit started... I got an undergraduate degree in math. I got a master's degree in physics. I got a doctoral degree in physics. I got a dog and a cat. I meet a wonderful woman. I married her.
There was a/. a couple of years ago about a company that release "ink saving" fonts that had holes in them - micro-dots in the black area of each letter, designed to be invisible to the naked eye, yet indistinguishable from the regular fonts.
It's sad that $1.5 billion had to be spent to try and protect honest God-fearing Americans from poor Mexicans who wanted to pick our fruit for minimum wage.
-Lengthy download instead of a trip to the store. -Price comparable to a Bluray off of Amazon. -Quality less than Bluray. -Limited to watching it on my PS3.
Why is it when we have health care discussions, the media tends to quote widows and widowers? They are not experts in health care and they are not unbiased. Sure, her story is interesting and compelling, but does it tell us anything useful about medicine in the US?
In the article, he states "One problem is that if you’re working in an interpreted language such as PHP then your code isn’t compiled, so in practice your client does receive source code and can do what they like to it, even though they have no legal right to."
It's your responsibility to elucidate what's accceptible and what's not. Moreover, if someone updates your code to fix say a spelling error, then that's not copyright infringenment, it's just updating.
A Li-ion battery should get somewhere between 300-500 charge-discharge cycles (http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm) and unless you use your laptop daily, you should still have a decent battery after two years.
As someone who has used a laptop 2-3 times a week regularly since 1996, I can say it usually takes about 2 years for a Li-ion battery to get to the point where it is only half-as-good as it was originally and generally I can get another year of it before I replace it.
Only once have I ever had a battery that fell from near 100% charge levels to near 0% charge levels that wasn't fixed by re-conditioning the battery (as the original poster described) and that battery tech was NiMH.
Considering the somewhat sophisticated chips in a modern Li-ion battery, I would say it's not unreasonable that Win7 is somehow tricking/confusing the battery into thinking that it's cells are prematurely dead and shutting them off.
Properly encrypted data should be indistinguishable from random noise.
The pigeon hole principle applies to the "decrypted" data. Say you have 16 bytes of data protected by a 16-byte key. Then, there will be lots of keys that produce non-random "decrypted" sequences. But, if you have 1GB of data and a 16-byte key, then there is likely (depending on the nature of the underlying data) only one key that will produce the decrypted data.
It's similar to why there can't exist a generic compression algorithm that *always* shrinks a file.
I basically have that with KDE4 and a dual-head Nvidia card. I have it set to "span", but when I maximize, it only maximizes to the current window. If I really wanted, I could setup two instances of kicker, so that I would have the KDE menu, apps, etc on each screen. The only thing I don't think I can do is have independent virtual desktops - that is, have the left screen on desktop #1 and the right screen on desktop #3.
Saying it has "no value" is like saying that Wikipedia has no value because there already exist print encyclopedias. I think, done correctly, this could be fairly unobtrusive and beneficial. Imagine, you download a single you like and it already contains Amazon links to buy the full album. Or it lets you know when the band's next release comes out.
I for one welcome this idea. Instead of penalizing the legitimate buyers of a product with DRM, they are attempting to reward the buyers with additional content. Our relationship with the content industries is always going to be one of a carrot or a stick, and I much prefer the carrot.
I'm missing how its bad for the government. Right now, your employer sends your W2 to you and the IRS. You fill in a 1040 and send it to the IRS. If the IRS agrees, then everything is fine.
Alternatively, the IRS could use the W2 to fill in the 1040 automatically for you and as long as you agree, then everything is fine.
But in both cases, the same data is used and is available. And in both cases, the tax return is only accepted if both parties agree it is correct.
Taking a cue from MythBusters the other day, I want to use this to tenderize meat. How would you like your steak? Oh, 10 meters and medium rare, please!
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Um, try posting again without using the "anonymous coward" checkbox and I might give a fuck what you have to say.
Maybe you disagree with me on this, but from my perspective:
1. Firefox plugins rarely (in my case, never) crash.
2. Chrome is a beta browser, so I'm not going to use it for day-to-day tasks.
I'm tired of stories comparing Chrome and Firefox. Once Chrome reaches v1.0 and is considered by Google to be production-ready, then I'll care. Until then, it's an interesting tech-demo and nothing more.
I've heard many politicians, usually Republican, claim just that.
What was the inflation rate last year? Zero? Slightly negative? As long as your wages increase faster than inflation, then your purchasing power is going up. And .7% is better than the 0% raise I got.
Ah, but you're ignoring the big reason why people continue to smoke, once they start - it's addicting. All things being equal, a dumb person and a smart person should have similar addiction risks. Perhaps here we're seeing that smarter people are less likely to become addicts, or maybe their intelligence is able to override the addictive drive.
Some details of your experience would be nice. What was the project? When was it deployed? How many officers where given access?
IMO, if Chicago police officers were given access to current firearm violations and they didn't find it useful, then maybe we need to look at the software, not the officers.
God. Sequels are bad enough as is. Sequels by every hackneyed wanna-be director makes me just want to cringe.
Of course, I guess it could go the other way too. Some of the cheesy 1990's action films could be redone into really awesome films - Judge Dredd, Demolition Man, and anything with Steven Segall in it.
But I hate the idea of tax money going to frivolous things like this. Personally, I can't stand that my library lends DVDs and music too. Public libraries, in my opinion, should solely be about self-improvement and betterment. Books, movies, and music should be classics, self-help, technical, etc. It doesn't make a lot of sense to have the library just be a surrogate Blockbuster/Netflix/Gamefly.
This was submitted by a SoftMaker employee, has only SoftMaker links, and only talks about the positives of SoftMaker. The submission fails to mention that it's closed source, GPL incompatible. How about a link to a critical review? A heads up comparison of SoftMaker, OpenOffice, and MS Office?
Since this lawsuit started...
I got an undergraduate degree in math.
I got a master's degree in physics.
I got a doctoral degree in physics.
I got a dog and a cat.
I meet a wonderful woman.
I married her.
There was a /. a couple of years ago about a company that release "ink saving" fonts that had holes in them - micro-dots in the black area of each letter, designed to be invisible to the naked eye, yet indistinguishable from the regular fonts.
It's sad that $1.5 billion had to be spent to try and protect honest God-fearing Americans from poor Mexicans who wanted to pick our fruit for minimum wage.
Let's see:
-Lengthy download instead of a trip to the store.
-Price comparable to a Bluray off of Amazon.
-Quality less than Bluray.
-Limited to watching it on my PS3.
Sounds like a real winner, Sony!
Why is it when we have health care discussions, the media tends to quote widows and widowers? They are not experts in health care and they are not unbiased. Sure, her story is interesting and compelling, but does it tell us anything useful about medicine in the US?
In the article, he states "One problem is that if you’re working in an interpreted language such as PHP then your code isn’t compiled, so in practice your client does receive source code and can do what they like to it, even though they have no legal right to."
It's your responsibility to elucidate what's accceptible and what's not. Moreover, if someone updates your code to fix say a spelling error, then that's not copyright infringenment, it's just updating.
Come on. Please tell me that Apple didn't know better than to release Safari 4.04. lol =)
A Li-ion battery should get somewhere between 300-500 charge-discharge cycles (http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm) and unless you use your laptop daily, you should still have a decent battery after two years.
As someone who has used a laptop 2-3 times a week regularly since 1996, I can say it usually takes about 2 years for a Li-ion battery to get to the point where it is only half-as-good as it was originally and generally I can get another year of it before I replace it.
Only once have I ever had a battery that fell from near 100% charge levels to near 0% charge levels that wasn't fixed by re-conditioning the battery (as the original poster described) and that battery tech was NiMH.
Considering the somewhat sophisticated chips in a modern Li-ion battery, I would say it's not unreasonable that Win7 is somehow tricking/confusing the battery into thinking that it's cells are prematurely dead and shutting them off.
Exactly right.
Properly encrypted data should be indistinguishable from random noise.
The pigeon hole principle applies to the "decrypted" data. Say you have 16 bytes of data protected by a 16-byte key. Then, there will be lots of keys that produce non-random "decrypted" sequences. But, if you have 1GB of data and a 16-byte key, then there is likely (depending on the nature of the underlying data) only one key that will produce the decrypted data.
It's similar to why there can't exist a generic compression algorithm that *always* shrinks a file.
I basically have that with KDE4 and a dual-head Nvidia card. I have it set to "span", but when I maximize, it only maximizes to the current window. If I really wanted, I could setup two instances of kicker, so that I would have the KDE menu, apps, etc on each screen. The only thing I don't think I can do is have independent virtual desktops - that is, have the left screen on desktop #1 and the right screen on desktop #3.
Here's a little tip that I discovered by accident. On a NewEgg order, if you hit "cancel" on the Verified-by-Visa page, the order still goes through.
Saying it has "no value" is like saying that Wikipedia has no value because there already exist print encyclopedias. I think, done correctly, this could be fairly unobtrusive and beneficial. Imagine, you download a single you like and it already contains Amazon links to buy the full album. Or it lets you know when the band's next release comes out.
I for one welcome this idea. Instead of penalizing the legitimate buyers of a product with DRM, they are attempting to reward the buyers with additional content. Our relationship with the content industries is always going to be one of a carrot or a stick, and I much prefer the carrot.
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Mod parent funny for the double-entendre.
Would you elaborate on what happened?
I'm missing how its bad for the government. Right now, your employer sends your W2 to you and the IRS. You fill in a 1040 and send it to the IRS. If the IRS agrees, then everything is fine.
Alternatively, the IRS could use the W2 to fill in the 1040 automatically for you and as long as you agree, then everything is fine.
But in both cases, the same data is used and is available. And in both cases, the tax return is only accepted if both parties agree it is correct.
Taking a cue from MythBusters the other day, I want to use this to tenderize meat. How would you like your steak? Oh, 10 meters and medium rare, please!