How could you not understand that it takes LOTS of time to recount ballots (are you too young to remember the Florida recount?), and that it must be done by existing state elections employees, and that people who are doing Job B can't also be simultaneously be doing their normal Job A, and so the backlog of Job A piles up?
Or ripping your ears off and drilling a big hole in your head.
(I was heading for the pliers when I successfully clicked closed that horrid window. Hopefully I haven't been too scarred by the experience and can still watch ST:TOS without horrid flashbacks.)
Well, maybe because a better analogy is "I have a warrant to search your whole house. You need to give me the key to the locked room in the back." I'm not sure it is "painfully obvious" but this is the correct decision in the end.
The difference is that a passphrase (should be) part of "the contents of your mind", and thus protected against "compelled... to be a witness against himself".
Of course, if it's written down somewhere, then a search warrant can let the police look for it.
After my first experience with Firewire vs USB I make sure any external drive I get supports Firewire, though I want to try playing around with eSata as well. I just need to pick up some cables one of these days to try it out.
I echo your statements about FW vs. USB on Linux.
One thing to note: There aren't many external FW enclosures for SATA, and they're all on the expensive side.
Gnome is usually reasonably Windows like by default, apart from the fact that the "taskbar" (as a Windows user will call it) is (gasp!) at the top of the screen
And for anyone who knows that right-click activates a pop-up menu, moving the panel to the bottom of the bottom of the screen takes a GNOME-newbie 45 seconds.
"East Coast" is a proper noun that, in the South, including most of Virginia, denominates a culture that is distinct from that of the South. I have been personally yelled at for making this error in terminology, so I know that at least some Virginians are very passionate about the distinction.
Well, ok. But there are a lot of East Coast Liberals moving to VA (and NC, too), especially Northern Virginia. It's turning more East Cost every day.
For what it's worth, North Dakotans are as unaware that Virginia and the Carolinas are not the "East Coast," for instance, as the rest of the country is that North Dakota is a paleontologist's playground.
Am I reading you correctly? Are you saying that Virginia and the Carolinas do not border the Atlantic Ocean? Or are you trying to be too grammatically clever with the double negatives?
Why the hell do you need to take journalism classes to learn about clarity, consistency, intellectual honesty, in-depth research providing valuable insights?
You just described attributes needed for SCIENCE and ENGINEERING.
Absolute rubbish! What part of Europe are you talking about? Here in the UK I don't know anybody without a landline, and it's always one of the first things to get connected when you move into a new house.
You must be young.
I know for a fact that the PTTs were horrendous at customer service (including getting phone lines installed).
Lunar dust is jagged and more like a sea of glass shards,
That's one of the "issues" I was referring to.
If we can get a handle on lunar dust, Martian dust really shouldn't be a big problem.
Pray tell how "months-long dust storm that coats the solar arrays rendering them ineffectual and us very, very, very cold and powerless" is remotely similar to "sea of tiny glass static-electric shards"
Yahoo regularly drops my e-mails if I attach a multi-megabyte file, without any bounce or warning. Also, I pay for this mail service, so it's not just the free accounts. [snip] Yahoo also forwards hundreds of spam e-mails to me every day, and SFAIK, there's not much I can do about it.
Sure you can!! You can stop paying Yahoo for shoddy service.
Bad design is an issue here; relying on Solar Power only is foolish, especially when not on Earth. Martian conditions could change at any time, and as we know little about Mars and the climate and cover on the surface, there should be another power source. All space craft and rovers should keep a backup supply of power, in some kind of extra battery. As it is charging, the extra battery should be charged first, used last. When power is low, a sort of survival mode should be entered, and escaped at sun hit. At the moment, that is what the rover lacks.
The design compromises of the rovers were governed by
the largest amount mass that the Delta 2 rocket could accelerate to the proper velocity, and
the volume of the capsule atop said rocket.
So, next time you want to attack something about which you know squat, lock yourself in your parents' basement, stop reading Slashdot and actually learn something for a change.
I do agree with you about the Bible supporting rape, genocide, etc. Not incest in particular, but that's a detail compared to phrases like "if you come to a city, you have to deliver an ultimatum to the citizen: either surrender and be put into slavery, with their young wives and daughters being taken as spoils for you and old wives killed -- or, refuse and be murdered to the last man, woman and child. Except for the following tribes: A, B and C (which happen to be your closest neighbours), where you don't have a choice and need to slaughter them all.". That's Bible.
No, that's the "Israelite" part of the Bible.
The "Christian" part doesn't mention a word of that, and, in fact, specifically prohibits honor killings.
Not that that's stopped Christians from raping, genociding, etc....
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How could you not understand that it takes LOTS of time to recount ballots (are you too young to remember the Florida recount?), and that it must be done by existing state elections employees, and that people who are doing Job B can't also be simultaneously be doing their normal Job A, and so the backlog of Job A piles up?
But why spend the money on Flash RAM swap, when you can spend the money on more "regular" RAM, thus reducing the need for swap?
IMNSHO, flash RAM swap is the STUPIDEST idea ever in the 55(?) years of commercial computer hardware sales.
Or ripping your ears off and drilling a big hole in your head.
(I was heading for the pliers when I successfully clicked closed that horrid window. Hopefully I haven't been too scarred by the experience and can still watch ST:TOS without horrid flashbacks.)
The difference is that a passphrase (should be) part of "the contents of your mind", and thus protected against "compelled
Of course, if it's written down somewhere, then a search warrant can let the police look for it.
This is why we should all learn to shoot rifles.
I echo your statements about FW vs. USB on Linux.
One thing to note: There aren't many external FW enclosures for SATA, and they're all on the expensive side.
And for anyone who knows that right-click activates a pop-up menu, moving the panel to the bottom of the bottom of the screen takes a GNOME-newbie 45 seconds.
Geez, hasn't anyone ever heard of themes? It was very simple to make KDE 3.5 look like Win2k.
Well, ok. But there are a lot of East Coast Liberals moving to VA (and NC, too), especially Northern Virginia. It's turning more East Cost every day.
Am I reading you correctly? Are you saying that Virginia and the Carolinas do not border the Atlantic Ocean? Or are you trying to be too grammatically clever with the double negatives?
So when will ps2pdf17 be released?
Or could grandparent be referring to the 1999 bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade?
You just described attributes needed for SCIENCE and ENGINEERING.
Sure. It informs you about Sam Cooke lyrics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke
Sucks to be you then.
Cox is constantly ramping up and delivering higher d/l speeds. And they just layed "fiber to the neighborhood" in my area (suburban New Oleans).
You must be young.
I know for a fact that the PTTs were horrendous at customer service (including getting phone lines installed).
How can you violate the Geneva Convention in a war against a country that hasn't signed the Geneva Convention?
RTGs don't generate enough power, and "regular" nuclear generators a way past too massive.
What kind of generator are you referring to?
That's one of the "issues" I was referring to.
If we can get a handle on lunar dust, Martian dust really shouldn't be a big problem.
Pray tell how "months-long dust storm that coats the solar arrays rendering them ineffectual and us very, very, very cold and powerless" is remotely similar to "sea of tiny glass static-electric shards"
Don't worry. Your English is infinitely better than my non-existent German...
The more I learn of Mars, the less I think that any manned mission to the Dust Storm Planet would be anything more than stupid. And probably suicidal.
Luna has it's own dust problems, but no months-long hemisphere-wide storms, and that's a Very Good Thing.
[snip]
Yahoo also forwards hundreds of spam e-mails to me every day, and SFAIK, there's not much I can do about it.
Sure you can!! You can stop paying Yahoo for shoddy service.
Had?????
OpenVMS is an ongoing concern that was ported to Itanium and is still being upgraded on Alpha and Itanium.
clustering for ~15 years
Make that ~25 years.
The design compromises of the rovers were governed by
- the largest amount mass that the Delta 2 rocket could accelerate to the proper velocity, and
- the volume of the capsule atop said rocket.
So, next time you want to attack something about which you know squat, lock yourself in your parents' basement, stop reading Slashdot and actually learn something for a change.No, that's the "Israelite" part of the Bible.
The "Christian" part doesn't mention a word of that, and, in fact, specifically prohibits honor killings.
Not that that's stopped Christians from raping, genociding, etc....