It's a machine people. Yes, it's one that requires some knowledge and self-discipline to own and use safely, but that's all it is.
Exactly -- and so are tanks, and grenades, and fighter jets, and nuclear missiles. Also, cars, knives, axes, and rocks. Some of these things offer more danger than others, and so require more "knowledge and self-discipline to own and use safely". Some require so much that regular people are not allowed to even possess them.
Does any of this mean that it's not reasonable to not want to be around the more dangerous ones?
And how many of them do you think you could kill before they tackled you and made you eat your own shot/bullets? Or before they whipped out their own weapons and blasted every limb from your torso?
What? I'm being too extreme? But I thought you were sure these people were a huge, immediate danger to you. Else why would you be brandishing life-threatening devices at them?
Oh, to prove what a Big Tough Guy(tm) you are. Gotcha.
If I were a property owner (particularly with livestock) and suddenly a bunch of folks with GPS units showed up on my land and headed for a specific spot without so much as a 'by your leave' or 'Hi, we're here to do X. We'll do X quickly and be gone,' I'd be suspicious as well and likely to reach for the biggest gun I own. The geohashers could just as easily have been livestock rustlers.
Really? Livestock rustlers go about on foot, gazing at GPS units, in the middle of the day, dressed like a bunch of geeks?
Oh, right, you said if you were a property owner -- meaning you're not. And therefore don't know the first thing about livestock rustlers.
I don't suppose it occurs to these mini-Gestapo that this is exactly the kind of thing that causes people to snap, then buy and train in the use of sniper rifles.
Don't forget that waterboarding was considered the special torture of the Spanish Inquisition. Not like the "ordinary" tortures of the rack, or the iron maiden, hot pokers, etc. No, waterboarding was for the truly resistant, and had the advantage that it left no marks for the victim to later show off as proof of torture.
Or he could go the lazy way: take them down to your local computer mega-store and look for the DriveStar machine. Dump them in, the machine counts the space, and gives you back a few large-capacity drives (minus 8% for their profit, of course).
I tend to think, and a "thinking" computer would probably agree, that the computer is probably better off doing other things than running wetware facsimilies that grew out of a willy-nilly evolutionary process over millions of years.
You mean things like taking a copy of said facsimile and evolving it in a non-willy-nilly fashion farther and farther toward a directed goal? I.e., executing the Singularity?
When YouTube hit, I thought it was the perfect place for documentaries and culture works, but apparently it's a place for pop culture trash and soft-core pornography. Never underestimate the reptilian brain of your average Joe Sixpack.
So you're saying you made and posted said documentaries and/or "culture works", and they were promptly removed because they Won't Have That Sort Of Thing over there?
This "customers will be free to attach any device and any application to its network by the end of the year" seems like a complete 180 to that mindset.
I think it's pretty obvious what happened. Verizon has gotten so lock-down-happy that their intensity-of-lock-down-ness variable wrapped around and now they want to be open-up-happy.
No, no. You know -- space lawyers. Like space hamburgers or space poker. (Skip to 1:30 for what I'm talking about. Dammit, Google, get on the ball! Put that "link to a specific time" feature you have on Google Video on YouTube too already.)
it was only capable of transferring to/from one drive at a time.
Do you mean it had to wait and do nothing else from the time the command was issued to the time the transfer was finished? Or could it go about its business while waiting for the sector to rotate into position? If the latter, you would still be able to get (usually, depending on the duty cycle of the transfer) 4X speed.
Tetris performed better on my Gameboy (an 8-bit, 4.2MHz x80 CPU with 8KB RAM) than this clone does on my 32-bit 1.4GHz Athlon. And it had sound. Tetris shouldn't load "quickly" it should load instantly.
I think your complaint here is with Java, not Javascript or Orto. I guarantee it would take longer for this Tetris to load up were it directly in Java if you didn't already have the Java runtime loaded up in memory -- and maybe even if you did.
One obvious method would be to have each branch of government actually run the backup for another branch.
Another would be to make the penalty for not having proper backups be the same as the penalty for the worst conceivable crime one might cover up by not having them.
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Obviously, he was typing into length-limited fields.
Just went to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/?p=downloadday and got a download button that says:
Firefox 3
Free Download
2.0.0.14 for Windows
English (US) (7.8MB)
And, indeed, if you click it, you end up downloading version 2.0.0.14. Fix this, guys...
Obviously, they wanted it to be 5:00 PM UTC -- quitting time! Grab a pint and hit "download"!
Does any of this mean that it's not reasonable to not want to be around the more dangerous ones?
And how many of them do you think you could kill before they tackled you and made you eat your own shot/bullets? Or before they whipped out their own weapons and blasted every limb from your torso?
What? I'm being too extreme? But I thought you were sure these people were a huge, immediate danger to you. Else why would you be brandishing life-threatening devices at them?
Oh, to prove what a Big Tough Guy(tm) you are. Gotcha.
Oh, right, you said if you were a property owner -- meaning you're not. And therefore don't know the first thing about livestock rustlers.
There's a better reason why this is going nowhere: it is designed to subvert the companies' carefully-crafted connector conspiracy.
I don't suppose it occurs to these mini-Gestapo that this is exactly the kind of thing that causes people to snap, then buy and train in the use of sniper rifles.
Don't forget that waterboarding was considered the special torture of the Spanish Inquisition. Not like the "ordinary" tortures of the rack, or the iron maiden, hot pokers, etc. No, waterboarding was for the truly resistant, and had the advantage that it left no marks for the victim to later show off as proof of torture.
Or he could go the lazy way: take them down to your local computer mega-store and look for the DriveStar machine. Dump them in, the machine counts the space, and gives you back a few large-capacity drives (minus 8% for their profit, of course).
No, no. You know -- space lawyers. Like space hamburgers or space poker . (Skip to 1:30 for what I'm talking about. Dammit, Google, get on the ball! Put that "link to a specific time" feature you have on Google Video on YouTube too already.)
So, I'd grade Orto as "damn impressive".