by a month so you can remove that from the summary, not that the whole article isn't rather pointless. Distros come and go. If "Debian" were to vanish tomorrow another would take its place. And lets be honest here - repackaging other software and doing custom configurations of the same isn't exactly rocket science. A PITA maybe but groundshaking? Influential? No. Which is exactly why so many distros have come and gone since 1993. When a perceived need arises which is not yet met individuals coalese into groups which develop a new or better (forked) product. The article uses the fact that there are derivatives of Debian to claim it is influential but isn't it the case that Debian is lacking in some way(s) such that others are willing to go to the trouble to do something different?
This isn't meant to be a negative critique of Debian at all - I just find it joke to say it or any other distribution is the most "influential" having been around since the days of Yggdrasil.
Taxes are not the answer and never are. The move to pennies was one of the biggest factors in the genesis of this type of trade. Move spreads back to 1/16 or 1/8 - or split it and make it 0.05 and most of this nonsense would go away. People try to claim these programs provide liquidity but that is only true in the most stable of markets - not when the real Joe Investor needs liquidity the most. Moving the spread out to 0.05 would 'cost' a little up front but would likley result in the return of real depth to the market - saving far more in the long run.
The thing about what is discused here is that it is not trading. Trading requires thought and action by two individuals. Neither is present here. This is simply automated self-arbitrage - systems generating trades against each other. Remove commission credits and make the minimum spread 0.05 and they would not exist. Any any idea that these things provide "liquidity" is illusionary - as has been proven countless times during news or other events as bids go from $30 one minute to $0.01 the next. Real money has largely pulled back from participating in the market until they must trade. There is no 'depth' anymore.
What has happened so far is that certain parameter spaces for some models of supersymmetry have been constrained. There are many models and many spaces from which to draw, so many that it may well be that LHC will never rule them all out.
On Win I've been running beta 12 for a while (it was out well before the/. story) Speaking generally, Firefox is still a pig when it comes to memory and still has usability issues after a few hours of opening and closing tabs. I think all the browsers to one extent or another - and maybe this is just the way software is now - are pigs. I laugh when I think back to one of the big reasons for firefox in the first place - mozilla/netscrape feature bloat. And yet, here we are again but with out the mail and new readers and page editor.
As to Chrome - never will be my regular browser until they cave on password security. Nothing like giving customers what you want instead of what theywant.
slightly off-topic, but what Obama did with regards DOMA was about as huge a grab on executive power as you can get. He's basically decided that he shall be King and decide which laws he likes to enforce and which he does not. We are now at the point that whatever political party comes to power will simply non-enforce laws with which they disagree. Even if Obama had legit concerns over this law (or any other) it is SCOTUS, not President, who determines the constitutionality.
You can find comparable (except the lightpeekyboo) laptops of decent build quality for about $800. You could throw it in the trash every year and buy a new one with the latest greatest cpu, etc. Instead, you pay iSteve. Yes, its your dough now but please don't whine to anybody that you don't have rent money, can't pay the heat or a/c bill, have no money for the kids edukation or are defaulting on your college loans and then come looking for a handout. Before you say 'troll' think about how many of your Apple friends are just managing to get by - or worse hit you up for money - yet dump tons of coin on MBP, iPads, etc.
Dragged into the troll thread but what the heck...
Here are my observations, beginning with the unix style...
1) I was a long time user of slackware - from around 1994ish until 2009. To me it was the most BSD like and it was consistent about where it put things both across releases and in terms of being BSD like. The other linux distros are, imho, all over the map - mostly sysv like, kinda like, not quite like.
2) less frequent update cycle. Some will think this a disadvantage but I think it speaks to a more thorough build and release process.
3) ive found that applications seem to be more stable running on bsd than linux (slackware). Both slack and freebsd themself are quite stable but configuration is a little bit easier on freebsd
4) linux is too fragmented though it does seem to be reconsolidating again.
5) all the *nixes fail in regards driver support and likely will continue to trail far behind windows. thats just a fact of life
protecting them from what? The 36 child predators that are online trolling facebook? The whole child predator/child pron thing has been so blown out of proportion. How about this? Little Jonnie and Susie can't meet any new facebook 'friends' in person without mom or dad there the first time? And not at the house.
Instant 24/7/365 'news' coverage has resulted in mass hysteria over so many things (not just the above) that we are now a society that is petrified to go outside lest some boogeyman somewhere get us or our loved ones. Because well, it can happen! Of course, the incident rates are minisucle and events which otherwise would remain isolated and local now become out latest national problem to solve. Liberty be damned. Constitution? ha.
Hillary, via her official position as Sect. of State was advocating not just for the security of the internets but was also encouraging dissent and the tolerance of it by all governments. How about Hill you go talk to the Justice dept. about tolerating dissent in this country too? Or is it ok for the US to harrass, track and arrest those who dissent and wish (insert # of elected officials here) removed from power and/or the actual form of government changed? This applies to those on the left/middle/right who at any given time in the past 20 years have advocated peacefully for such ideas.
Frankly, I do not believe the US (federally or at state/local level) would tolerate the kind of events which took place in Egypt or Tunisia.
You probably think the cost of books is all in the paper and delivery too. Losing 30% of the top line may well be more than the cost of bulk publication and distribution. You still have to pay for content and editing and "pre-press" for the digital edition could well be more expensive in terms of labor cost. Further, you assume that advertisers will pay the same (or better) to be in this digital edition. You have nothing to base that on and if recent trends in demand for subscription based media on the iPad are any indication, ad rates are going to plummet.
I agree to an extent - I don't think the dedicated e-readers should be a concern as they are equivalent to bringing a book to read - no typing, sound or other flashiness. Of course, real or electronic, book reading takes up space and if you aren't buying multiple cups of coffee you're a loss.
this is not the same thing as tapping a cable in international waters. This is asking for records of the calls originated in the US and provided by 'any of three telecommunications companies.'
I reply to you but it applies to the others too. I split my time between the suburbs of a major metro area and, gasp, the sticks!. You know what? Our local phone co. here that covers 5 or 6 towns has manged to get me... drumroll.... high speed broadband, 4Mb/1Mb to be precise. They have a lower offering and also now a higher one too. They do this without Obama, Nancy or Harry's help. It runs roughly 35 bucks a month so no, its not the cheapest offering in the country nor is it the most expensive.
If you look at the rankings of MSA's and microSA's, they total 287mio people. The smallest of them is Pecos TX (pop about 11K) and they have time warner broadband internet service available.
So I repeat all of my above points - its a waste of money, its government trying to tell us they know best and it is certainly not a priority.
FYI - the nearest traffic light to me is 18 miles.
would about sum this latest boondoggle up. $5B we all pay to bring broadband to the people who chose, knowing the limitations, to live in the sticks? Outside of that, are there any areas that don't have broadband sufficient to watch at least 480p video? And of course, Government, Inc. knows best what you want, need and is good for you. I'm sure 'creating jobs' will be part of the sell but what jobs are those - telecommuters? And exactly how much are we spending per job created? Meanwhile the budget deficit is on its way to $1.5T for 2011, we are still in Afghanistan and the eekonomy is still a piece of crap. But yeah, lets waste our time and resources on 4g broadband for everyone!
As is always the case - left on its own the market will provide products and services more efficiently and at fair price. End the regulation and the subsidies so we can have a real market and not some hybrid corpratism.
I had the pleasure of working on a DEC 2060/TOPS-20 system during my college days. It was a great system to program and learn on and even had an Algol compiler. It also was crashable by using recursive batch jobs to fill the disks to 100%. There are a number of aficionados who are still running 'twenex' systems and most, if not all, the core stuff is available if you want to set one of your own up.
Perhaps making contact with an imprisoned person is deliberately more expensive/difficult so that non-imprisoned people are implicitly encouraged to shift more of their social interaction away from the prisoner and towards people who have not been deemed criminals. This not only encourages them to form more and deeper social bonds with people who are less likely to be criminals, but weakens the existing social bonds (and therefore social power) of people more likely to be criminals.
What you suggest would be an illegal and unconstitutional infringement on rights of association of those not in prison.
As to the only method of contact 'not long ago' being to travel to the prison - are you speaking of 100 years ago? And what is your definition of a few dollars more? I suspect for the majority of people in the world a 15 minute phone call will cost less than 50 cents. At one call a month that would be $6 a year as compared to $128 minimum using systems like global telink.
I have no interest (usually) in either of the big party candidates. However, the system as described in original post does not work for me. What you described (at length) was not the same - a system where I can put a value weighting on my choice and the candidate with the highest total wins. That can have a far different outcome than assigning equal weights to all choices and gives a far more accurate indication of voter approval.
I will second the above. At first blush people will say too bad, we're punishing the prisoners. But in reality, who is being punished? The family and friends of the prisoner/detainee. It is they who must pay $9 for a 15 minute collect call. It is they who must pay a $10 'service fee' to put up to (but not exceeding) $50 on a prepaid account via TouchPay for use on the Global Telink phone system. It is, for all intents, robbery. Prisons can limit the frequency and duration of phone calls - there is no need to extort the failies too.
In an age of 1c/min phone calls and google voice there are many better ways to do things. But none of them would line the pockets of the few companies who are 'authorized' to be in this game.
how is this better? You are basically going with the lowest common denominator and thus encouraging voters to select other candidates whom they don't really like just to cover their ass that the one they *really* hate doesn't have a chance. The end result could be the displacement of the candidate a majority would prefer with another. So in an election which would normally be a toss-up between the two big parties suddenly you end up with a 3rd party candidate winning - simply because each side wishes to prevent the unthinkable, their big party opponent from winning. In fact, you are creating not a positive voting system but a negative one. This seems a step backwards to me.
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by a month so you can remove that from the summary, not that the whole article isn't rather pointless. Distros come and go. If "Debian" were to vanish tomorrow another would take its place. And lets be honest here - repackaging other software and doing custom configurations of the same isn't exactly rocket science. A PITA maybe but groundshaking? Influential? No. Which is exactly why so many distros have come and gone since 1993. When a perceived need arises which is not yet met individuals coalese into groups which develop a new or better (forked) product. The article uses the fact that there are derivatives of Debian to claim it is influential but isn't it the case that Debian is lacking in some way(s) such that others are willing to go to the trouble to do something different?
This isn't meant to be a negative critique of Debian at all - I just find it joke to say it or any other distribution is the most "influential" having been around since the days of Yggdrasil.
Taxes are not the answer and never are. The move to pennies was one of the biggest factors in the genesis of this type of trade. Move spreads back to 1/16 or 1/8 - or split it and make it 0.05 and most of this nonsense would go away. People try to claim these programs provide liquidity but that is only true in the most stable of markets - not when the real Joe Investor needs liquidity the most. Moving the spread out to 0.05 would 'cost' a little up front but would likley result in the return of real depth to the market - saving far more in the long run.
The thing about what is discused here is that it is not trading. Trading requires thought and action by two individuals. Neither is present here. This is simply automated self-arbitrage - systems generating trades against each other. Remove commission credits and make the minimum spread 0.05 and they would not exist. Any any idea that these things provide "liquidity" is illusionary - as has been proven countless times during news or other events as bids go from $30 one minute to $0.01 the next. Real money has largely pulled back from participating in the market until they must trade. There is no 'depth' anymore.
as the bid/ask spread generally exceeds any theoretical differences between models.
What has happened so far is that certain parameter spaces for some models of supersymmetry have been constrained. There are many models and many spaces from which to draw, so many that it may well be that LHC will never rule them all out.
On Win I've been running beta 12 for a while (it was out well before the /. story) Speaking generally, Firefox is still a pig when it comes to memory and still has usability issues after a few hours of opening and closing tabs. I think all the browsers to one extent or another - and maybe this is just the way software is now - are pigs. I laugh when I think back to one of the big reasons for firefox in the first place - mozilla/netscrape feature bloat. And yet, here we are again but with out the mail and new readers and page editor.
As to Chrome - never will be my regular browser until they cave on password security. Nothing like giving customers what you want instead of what theywant.
slightly off-topic, but what Obama did with regards DOMA was about as huge a grab on executive power as you can get. He's basically decided that he shall be King and decide which laws he likes to enforce and which he does not. We are now at the point that whatever political party comes to power will simply non-enforce laws with which they disagree. Even if Obama had legit concerns over this law (or any other) it is SCOTUS, not President, who determines the constitutionality.
even more amusing is that they are chasing after things that the Bush dodo's dropped.
You can find comparable (except the lightpeekyboo) laptops of decent build quality for about $800. You could throw it in the trash every year and buy a new one with the latest greatest cpu, etc. Instead, you pay iSteve. Yes, its your dough now but please don't whine to anybody that you don't have rent money, can't pay the heat or a/c bill, have no money for the kids edukation or are defaulting on your college loans and then come looking for a handout. Before you say 'troll' think about how many of your Apple friends are just managing to get by - or worse hit you up for money - yet dump tons of coin on MBP, iPads, etc.
Dragged into the troll thread but what the heck... Here are my observations, beginning with the unix style... 1) I was a long time user of slackware - from around 1994ish until 2009. To me it was the most BSD like and it was consistent about where it put things both across releases and in terms of being BSD like. The other linux distros are, imho, all over the map - mostly sysv like, kinda like, not quite like. 2) less frequent update cycle. Some will think this a disadvantage but I think it speaks to a more thorough build and release process. 3) ive found that applications seem to be more stable running on bsd than linux (slackware). Both slack and freebsd themself are quite stable but configuration is a little bit easier on freebsd 4) linux is too fragmented though it does seem to be reconsolidating again. 5) all the *nixes fail in regards driver support and likely will continue to trail far behind windows. thats just a fact of life
AIM Group = classified ad consultancy. Wonder who their customers are and if they might, just maybe, be competitors to CL?
protecting them from what? The 36 child predators that are online trolling facebook? The whole child predator/child pron thing has been so blown out of proportion. How about this? Little Jonnie and Susie can't meet any new facebook 'friends' in person without mom or dad there the first time? And not at the house.
Instant 24/7/365 'news' coverage has resulted in mass hysteria over so many things (not just the above) that we are now a society that is petrified to go outside lest some boogeyman somewhere get us or our loved ones. Because well, it can happen! Of course, the incident rates are minisucle and events which otherwise would remain isolated and local now become out latest national problem to solve. Liberty be damned. Constitution? ha.
renice -20 `pgrep due` -u individual -g liberty
Hillary, via her official position as Sect. of State was advocating not just for the security of the internets but was also encouraging dissent and the tolerance of it by all governments. How about Hill you go talk to the Justice dept. about tolerating dissent in this country too? Or is it ok for the US to harrass, track and arrest those who dissent and wish (insert # of elected officials here) removed from power and/or the actual form of government changed? This applies to those on the left/middle/right who at any given time in the past 20 years have advocated peacefully for such ideas.
Frankly, I do not believe the US (federally or at state/local level) would tolerate the kind of events which took place in Egypt or Tunisia.
You probably think the cost of books is all in the paper and delivery too. Losing 30% of the top line may well be more than the cost of bulk publication and distribution. You still have to pay for content and editing and "pre-press" for the digital edition could well be more expensive in terms of labor cost. Further, you assume that advertisers will pay the same (or better) to be in this digital edition. You have nothing to base that on and if recent trends in demand for subscription based media on the iPad are any indication, ad rates are going to plummet.
I agree to an extent - I don't think the dedicated e-readers should be a concern as they are equivalent to bringing a book to read - no typing, sound or other flashiness. Of course, real or electronic, book reading takes up space and if you aren't buying multiple cups of coffee you're a loss.
this is not the same thing as tapping a cable in international waters. This is asking for records of the calls originated in the US and provided by 'any of three telecommunications companies.'
I reply to you but it applies to the others too. I split my time between the suburbs of a major metro area and, gasp, the sticks!. You know what? Our local phone co. here that covers 5 or 6 towns has manged to get me... drumroll.... high speed broadband, 4Mb/1Mb to be precise. They have a lower offering and also now a higher one too. They do this without Obama, Nancy or Harry's help. It runs roughly 35 bucks a month so no, its not the cheapest offering in the country nor is it the most expensive.
If you look at the rankings of MSA's and microSA's, they total 287mio people. The smallest of them is Pecos TX (pop about 11K) and they have time warner broadband internet service available.
So I repeat all of my above points - its a waste of money, its government trying to tell us they know best and it is certainly not a priority.
FYI - the nearest traffic light to me is 18 miles.
would about sum this latest boondoggle up. $5B we all pay to bring broadband to the people who chose, knowing the limitations, to live in the sticks? Outside of that, are there any areas that don't have broadband sufficient to watch at least 480p video? And of course, Government, Inc. knows best what you want, need and is good for you. I'm sure 'creating jobs' will be part of the sell but what jobs are those - telecommuters? And exactly how much are we spending per job created? Meanwhile the budget deficit is on its way to $1.5T for 2011, we are still in Afghanistan and the eekonomy is still a piece of crap. But yeah, lets waste our time and resources on 4g broadband for everyone! As is always the case - left on its own the market will provide products and services more efficiently and at fair price. End the regulation and the subsidies so we can have a real market and not some hybrid corpratism.
I had the pleasure of working on a DEC 2060/TOPS-20 system during my college days. It was a great system to program and learn on and even had an Algol compiler. It also was crashable by using recursive batch jobs to fill the disks to 100%. There are a number of aficionados who are still running 'twenex' systems and most, if not all, the core stuff is available if you want to set one of your own up.
What you suggest would be an illegal and unconstitutional infringement on rights of association of those not in prison. As to the only method of contact 'not long ago' being to travel to the prison - are you speaking of 100 years ago? And what is your definition of a few dollars more? I suspect for the majority of people in the world a 15 minute phone call will cost less than 50 cents. At one call a month that would be $6 a year as compared to $128 minimum using systems like global telink.
I have no interest (usually) in either of the big party candidates. However, the system as described in original post does not work for me. What you described (at length) was not the same - a system where I can put a value weighting on my choice and the candidate with the highest total wins. That can have a far different outcome than assigning equal weights to all choices and gives a far more accurate indication of voter approval.
I will second the above. At first blush people will say too bad, we're punishing the prisoners. But in reality, who is being punished? The family and friends of the prisoner/detainee. It is they who must pay $9 for a 15 minute collect call. It is they who must pay a $10 'service fee' to put up to (but not exceeding) $50 on a prepaid account via TouchPay for use on the Global Telink phone system. It is, for all intents, robbery. Prisons can limit the frequency and duration of phone calls - there is no need to extort the failies too. In an age of 1c/min phone calls and google voice there are many better ways to do things. But none of them would line the pockets of the few companies who are 'authorized' to be in this game.
how is this better? You are basically going with the lowest common denominator and thus encouraging voters to select other candidates whom they don't really like just to cover their ass that the one they *really* hate doesn't have a chance. The end result could be the displacement of the candidate a majority would prefer with another. So in an election which would normally be a toss-up between the two big parties suddenly you end up with a 3rd party candidate winning - simply because each side wishes to prevent the unthinkable, their big party opponent from winning. In fact, you are creating not a positive voting system but a negative one. This seems a step backwards to me.
I heard Jennie runs her own ISP now too....