Ease of measurement, maybe? If you see some distant objects and can observe their orbits, you may be able to call them planets or whatever. But observing physical characteristics such as composition, roundness etc. may be a lot more difficult at range...
I think it's a bullshit excuse, that's what I think. With encryption algorithms, we're talking orders of magnitude, and most algorithms that can't be bruteforced in 28 days will take longer than 90. This is just a shitty excuse to get joe public on Tony's side.
If you want to, you can strip down the car piece-by-piece and verify for yourself that it works exactly as it should do. The same thing cannot be said about proprietary software whose source is not available.
Also, I feel that the whole mozilla organization is much more reasonable. Are options really some type of "tool"? No. Mozilla got it right to put it under preferences. Just because IE did something stupid doesn't mean that firefox has to copy it.
Thats how it is in my firefox - preferences is in the edit menu, and the tools menu is for the extension and theme managers, as well as individual extension menus where appropriate.
This has been going on for a while now. I've seen BSODs, and "This program has shut down unexpectedly... Send / Don't send?" dialogue boxes. I can confirm that at least some Lloyds, Barclays, and Sainsbury's Bank machines use Windows.
I actually found a 19" RasterOps monitor sitting in somebody's driveway a few doors down from me... it had a sign saying "works - please take" on it, so I did.
And to a certain extent, they weren't lying. It does work, you just have to leave it on for 10-15 minutes to let it warm up, because until then the vsync is screwed and it scrolls the output like some badly tracked VCR.
Still, it's better for watching films and TV on than my 17" TFT.
The community of Linux users and developers is held together by pride and the thrill of working toward a common goal of a universal (...) alternative to Windows
Hmm... I thought that a lot of people were contributing to Linux simply because they like the idea of an open source OS, and believe that it is the best way to produce software... irrespective of wethere or not it's going to be an "alternative" to windows. Not everybody who uses/contributes to Linux does so out of a burning desire to compete with windows.
About the video cards: I'd have to disagree with the Voodoo3 idea. Mine runs so hot its almost unbelievable, and has done since the day I bought it. I was getting artifacts on my screen from day one, but I was too young and naive then to realize that this was unacceptable, so I just got some case fans to try to cool the thing down a little.
Nowadays, one of my boxen has a Geforce2 gts in it, and the fan on that started to squeal no end a few months ago. In a fit of rage i just unplugged the fan, and now its not only completely silent, but also completely stable under load, even when overclocked.
The point is, YMMV as much for graphics cards as it will for CPUs. Don't assume that one particular type of card will always run cool/stable in a certain situation.
PS: damn good idea about the hard drives. I'm gonna have to give that a try.
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I call bullshit. I know plenty of people who are forced to use macs at work but would really prefer not to.
Me for one. (Actually I use Linux mostly but because there are a lot of Macs in our office too, I have to support them.)
"On the menu today we have pasta, steak and chips and custard."
vs
"On the menu today we have pasta, steak and chips, and custard."
Mandarin Chinese.
Yes, then some time down the line your boss walks in, realizes he's been paying you to do a lot more machination than support lately, and fires you.
The interweb is slowly becoming a MMO
The interweb was the original MMO.
It's actually well worth giving it a try, if your machine will handle it at a playable frame rate - the game is really well done and great fun.
You can do that in Safari, too.
It's not. The Sun is a daily tabloid paper here in the UK, but some might question its journalistic merit.
Ease of measurement, maybe? If you see some distant objects and can observe their orbits, you may be able to call them planets or whatever. But observing physical characteristics such as composition, roundness etc. may be a lot more difficult at range...
A lot fucking cheaper than that. Some people support whole families on jobs that pay less than $5 per hour.
Yeah digg would be great, but most of it's users appear to be immature little kids and (Gasp!) whiny bloggers.
No thank you.
I think it's a bullshit excuse, that's what I think. With encryption algorithms, we're talking orders of magnitude, and most algorithms that can't be bruteforced in 28 days will take longer than 90. This is just a shitty excuse to get joe public on Tony's side.
More people have it now than last week - I'd say that's a pretty textbook case of spreading. How does your definition work?
Is this the first time a linux virus has been spreading in the wild?
You've got some brown on your nose, there.
If you want to, you can strip down the car piece-by-piece and verify for yourself that it works exactly as it should do. The same thing cannot be said about proprietary software whose source is not available.
YHBT. YHL. HAND.
Why? I don't remember them endorsing BSD...
*ducks*
Also, I feel that the whole mozilla organization is much more reasonable. Are options really some type of "tool"? No. Mozilla got it right to put it under preferences. Just because IE did something stupid doesn't mean that firefox has to copy it.
Thats how it is in my firefox - preferences is in the edit menu, and the tools menu is for the extension and theme managers, as well as individual extension menus where appropriate.
This has been going on for a while now. I've seen BSODs, and "This program has shut down unexpectedly... Send / Don't send?" dialogue boxes. I can confirm that at least some Lloyds, Barclays, and Sainsbury's Bank machines use Windows.
Hot damn I'd love to see a show like that. I've seen enough of these garden/home/anything makeover shows to last me an eternity.
I actually found a 19" RasterOps monitor sitting in somebody's driveway a few doors down from me... it had a sign saying "works - please take" on it, so I did.
And to a certain extent, they weren't lying. It does work, you just have to leave it on for 10-15 minutes to let it warm up, because until then the vsync is screwed and it scrolls the output like some badly tracked VCR.
Still, it's better for watching films and TV on than my 17" TFT.
The community of Linux users and developers is held together by pride and the thrill of working toward a common goal of a universal (...) alternative to Windows Hmm... I thought that a lot of people were contributing to Linux simply because they like the idea of an open source OS, and believe that it is the best way to produce software... irrespective of wethere or not it's going to be an "alternative" to windows. Not everybody who uses/contributes to Linux does so out of a burning desire to compete with windows.
About the video cards: I'd have to disagree with the Voodoo3 idea. Mine runs so hot its almost unbelievable, and has done since the day I bought it. I was getting artifacts on my screen from day one, but I was too young and naive then to realize that this was unacceptable, so I just got some case fans to try to cool the thing down a little. Nowadays, one of my boxen has a Geforce2 gts in it, and the fan on that started to squeal no end a few months ago. In a fit of rage i just unplugged the fan, and now its not only completely silent, but also completely stable under load, even when overclocked. The point is, YMMV as much for graphics cards as it will for CPUs. Don't assume that one particular type of card will always run cool/stable in a certain situation. PS: damn good idea about the hard drives. I'm gonna have to give that a try.