Why would you even consider trying to do this? You know up front that your data connectivity will be poor, and that you'll have a lot of files to upload. Save yourself the frustration. Bring along an external hard drive and make backups as necessary.
An item is worth whatever amount people are willing to pay for it. The fact that some people are unwilling to pay at all and resort to stealing does not dimish the worth of the item.
By your logic, if I were able to steal DaVinci's "Mona Lisa", it would be worth no more than the cost of gas in my getaway car.
I find the most productive ambient noise to be the steady, mindless thrum of a few dozen server fans. It's like a soft cloak of white noise being thrown over your head.
Even if one disregards the technical hurdles, the very idea of government run strictly by polling is ill advised. Firstly, poll results are heavily influenced by the wording of the questions. This would essentially be handing over a great deal of influence to whoever gets to phrase the questions. Secondly, it is likely to encourage demagogy.
You are fully aware that free software exists that will do what you need, but you don't want to take the time to learn it. You're willing to pirate commercial software worth hundreds of dollars because you are lazy.
Your sense of entitlement is staggering. You're not well off? Neither am I, but I wouldn't go out and steal a nice car because my cheap shitty car doesn't have all the features I would like. And I certainly wouldn't justify such action because buying a nice car is "untenable on my budget".
If you can't afford to obtain PhotoShop® by legitimate means, too f*cking bad. Save up for it, or use something you can afford.
Number of pages is not a very meaningful measure. It is dependent on formatting. As anyone with an e-book reader knows, one can increase the number of pages of any document by simply choosing a larger font.
Yes, Microsoft licensing can include "software assurance", which entitles the buyer to upgrades as they become available, but such licences do cost more up front. In addition, this doesn't cover the manpower costs of installing the new versions on every computer, and the productivity loss when nearly every government worker at a computer is suddenly wondering "where the hell has my Print button gone?".
Obviously sticking with IE6 is misguided, but I've seen the opposite side. I've worked in IT for 20+ years, and I've never seen any organization as cavalier about software upgrade costs as my provincial and federal governments. Entire departments would be upgraded to the latest version of Microsoft Office as soon as it came out. It had nothing to do with product features, or whether the previous version was sufficient for their needs. (And I'm not talking about file format changes, which caused a legitimate need for upgrading). The cost to taxpayers for unnecessary software upgrades must be be significant.
...teachers will be paid a decent middle class income. And no, they have no room to complain about it....
I don't know what it's like in your jurisdiction, but I often hear similar comments where I live in British Columbia, Canada. I would agree that teacher's remuneration is appropriate, if it were not for the preposterous amount of work they are expected to do without pay. Teachers are routinely expected to attend meetings before work, attend meetings after work, and to perform many hours of addtional work (such as planning lessons and writing report cards) on their own time.
Personally, if I had an employer who expected me to put in that many extra hours with no compensation at all, I would tell them to shove it. There is a huge gap between what is expected of teachers and the appreciation they get for providing it.
The country codes were supposed to organize sites that were specific to certain countryies. instead they're used to make stupid domains like tw.it
Too bad single-letter names are impossible to register, or I could make a fortune on t.it.
Seriously though, shaving one character off a shortened URL is actually useful for Twitter (if you care about proper punctuation in a tweet, for example, and are hitting the 140 character limit).
ICANN's only criterion here on whether this is a good idea is whether it will generate lots more money in newly registered domains. Better grab your top level domain before someone squats on it and makes you look bad
You're dead on there. This is precisely how these domains are marketed to businesses by registrars.
My first and lasting impression of GEOS was how fast it felt. Everything I clicked on seemed instantaenous. Despite the massive advances in technology, I've yet to experience another GUI as responsive as that.
RDP can optionally make the client's local drives and printers accessible on the server. This is quite convenient if you need a local copy of a file (that's too large to e-mail), or a printed report while on the road.
It ends with the following (where "SpyCatcher" and "SpyTag" refer to chemical components of the adhesive):
An important attribute for one of the world's strongest adhesives is that SpyCatcher and SpyTag won't bond to fingers - they will only stick to each other. Being the basis of an adhesive, however, the adhesive carriers will have to bond to other materials, as SpyTag and SpyCatcher cannot.
Further development of the new class of adhesives is ongoing...
So they've invented a new superglue that only sticks to itself.
Why the hell do authorities have such a boner for the Pirate Bay?
Have you ever perused their legal threats page? At the bottom of the page they summarize as follows:
"No action (except ridiculing the senders) has been taken by us because of these.:-)"
It's a matter of opinion whether they flaunt the law, but it's a matter of fact that they taunt it.
This discussion of compilers written in their own language makes me think of the Ken Thompson Hack, wherein the hacked compiler forever propagates malicious content that is not contained in the source code.
"This hack can propagate transparently across languages and language generations. In the case of cross compilers it can leap across whole architectures."
27 years later it's still the most devious backdoor I've ever heard of.
And this seems like a very easy thing to computise.
You digitize the shredded documents.
You run a program that looks for similarities around the edges.
You stick likely candidates together and either ask for human confirmation or run a text recognition algorithm to see if the result makes sense.
This sort of approach has been used before, as far back as 1969, as described in this excerpt from an issue Popular Mechanics:
The job of reassembling 30,000 pieces of an Egyptian temple at Karnak is being given an assist by an IBM computer... The pieces are coded and photographed, and the photos matched with the help of the computer.
It's commonly accepted that anyone hitting a vehicle from behind is automatically at fault, but there is at least one exceptional circumstance. If the vehicle in front stops instantly due to a collision, then normal stopping distance does not apply - not even emergency braking distance.
This happened to me once when I was following a normally safe distance behind a vehicle in morning rush our. Due to the relative sizes of our vehicles, I could not really see beyond the back of the other vehicle. If that driver had merely hammered the brakes hard, I would have seen brake lights followed by a short stopping distance. What happened, however, is that the other vehicle itself plowed into a chain collision in front of it. The resulting stoppage of the vehicle in front of me was so abnormally abrupt I could not possibly have braked quickly enough.
Eyebrows were raised when I stuck to my assertion that I was not at fault. Some might argue that I should have been far enough back to allow for even an instantaneous stop in front of me, but it's not really feasible to leave a gap that large during rush hour. Other drivers will constantly dart in to close the gap.
I'm Pro-Union (Democrat) and Anti-Illegal Immigration (Which takes away union jobs by undercutting prices. Republican.)
Which party should I vote for? Which one of these parties don't have a predominant agenda to actively fuck me over?
FFS, are you really that thick? First of all, no party is Pro-Illegal Immigration. That's why it's "illegal".
Secondly, if you are pro-union, then Republicans are your enemy. Their agenda should be 100 times more frightening to you than the notion of Mexicans sneaking across the border and stealing away union jobs.
So then no matter who I vote for, I'll be voting against my interests in some way?
Who is the idiot here?
You are the idiot if you can't see the difference between a party that doesn't align perfectly with every one of your interests and a party with a predominant agenda to actively f*ck you over.
The article shows clearly in both a screen shot and a video that the "Time remaining" estimate is still there in Windows 8 Explorer. It's simply hidden under a "More details" button by default.
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Why would you even consider trying to do this? You know up front that your data connectivity will be poor, and that you'll have a lot of files to upload. Save yourself the frustration. Bring along an external hard drive and make backups as necessary.
An item is worth whatever amount people are willing to pay for it. The fact that some people are unwilling to pay at all and resort to stealing does not dimish the worth of the item.
By your logic, if I were able to steal DaVinci's "Mona Lisa", it would be worth no more than the cost of gas in my getaway car.
I find the most productive ambient noise to be the steady, mindless thrum of a few dozen server fans. It's like a soft cloak of white noise being thrown over your head.
Even if one disregards the technical hurdles, the very idea of government run strictly by polling is ill advised. Firstly, poll results are heavily influenced by the wording of the questions. This would essentially be handing over a great deal of influence to whoever gets to phrase the questions. Secondly, it is likely to encourage demagogy.
You are fully aware that free software exists that will do what you need, but you don't want to take the time to learn it. You're willing to pirate commercial software worth hundreds of dollars because you are lazy.
Your sense of entitlement is staggering. You're not well off? Neither am I, but I wouldn't go out and steal a nice car because my cheap shitty car doesn't have all the features I would like. And I certainly wouldn't justify such action because buying a nice car is "untenable on my budget".
If you can't afford to obtain PhotoShop® by legitimate means, too f*cking bad. Save up for it, or use something you can afford.
Number of pages is not a very meaningful measure. It is dependent on formatting. As anyone with an e-book reader knows, one can increase the number of pages of any document by simply choosing a larger font.
Yes, Microsoft licensing can include "software assurance", which entitles the buyer to upgrades as they become available, but such licences do cost more up front. In addition, this doesn't cover the manpower costs of installing the new versions on every computer, and the productivity loss when nearly every government worker at a computer is suddenly wondering "where the hell has my Print button gone?".
Obviously sticking with IE6 is misguided, but I've seen the opposite side. I've worked in IT for 20+ years, and I've never seen any organization as cavalier about software upgrade costs as my provincial and federal governments. Entire departments would be upgraded to the latest version of Microsoft Office as soon as it came out. It had nothing to do with product features, or whether the previous version was sufficient for their needs. (And I'm not talking about file format changes, which caused a legitimate need for upgrading). The cost to taxpayers for unnecessary software upgrades must be be significant.
that recently had Avira anti-virus identify itself as malware:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/26/avira_auto_immune_false_positive/
...teachers will be paid a decent middle class income. And no, they have no room to complain about it....
I don't know what it's like in your jurisdiction, but I often hear similar comments where I live in British Columbia, Canada. I would agree that teacher's remuneration is appropriate, if it were not for the preposterous amount of work they are expected to do without pay. Teachers are routinely expected to attend meetings before work, attend meetings after work, and to perform many hours of addtional work (such as planning lessons and writing report cards) on their own time.
Personally, if I had an employer who expected me to put in that many extra hours with no compensation at all, I would tell them to shove it. There is a huge gap between what is expected of teachers and the appreciation they get for providing it.
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If you have to click on a link, that's interaction.
The country codes were supposed to organize sites that were specific to certain countryies. instead they're used to make stupid domains like tw.it
Too bad single-letter names are impossible to register, or I could make a fortune on t.it.
Seriously though, shaving one character off a shortened URL is actually useful for Twitter (if you care about proper punctuation in a tweet, for example, and are hitting the 140 character limit).
ICANN's only criterion here on whether this is a good idea is whether it will generate lots more money in newly registered domains. Better grab your top level domain before someone squats on it and makes you look bad
You're dead on there. This is precisely how these domains are marketed to businesses by registrars.
My first and lasting impression of GEOS was how fast it felt. Everything I clicked on seemed instantaenous. Despite the massive advances in technology, I've yet to experience another GUI as responsive as that.
From the summary:
the 150-meter long machines...
From the article:
The 140 metre long, fully assembled tunnel boring machine...
At 140 metres, each TBM would just fit just inside the boundaries of a cricket oval.
Was 140 meters not impressive enough, so the submitter had to add 10 meters?
RDP can optionally make the client's local drives and printers accessible on the server. This is quite convenient if you need a local copy of a file (that's too large to e-mail), or a printed report while on the road.
It ends with the following (where "SpyCatcher" and "SpyTag" refer to chemical components of the adhesive):
An important attribute for one of the world's strongest adhesives is that SpyCatcher and SpyTag won't bond to fingers - they will only stick to each other. Being the basis of an adhesive, however, the adhesive carriers will have to bond to other materials, as SpyTag and SpyCatcher cannot.
Further development of the new class of adhesives is ongoing...
So they've invented a new superglue that only sticks to itself.
Why the hell do authorities have such a boner for the Pirate Bay?
Have you ever perused their legal threats page? At the bottom of the page they summarize as follows: :-)"
"No action (except ridiculing the senders) has been taken by us because of these.
It's a matter of opinion whether they flaunt the law, but it's a matter of fact that they taunt it.
This discussion of compilers written in their own language makes me think of the Ken Thompson Hack, wherein the hacked compiler forever propagates malicious content that is not contained in the source code.
"This hack can propagate transparently across languages and language generations. In the case of cross compilers it can leap across whole architectures."
27 years later it's still the most devious backdoor I've ever heard of.
And this seems like a very easy thing to computise. You digitize the shredded documents. You run a program that looks for similarities around the edges. You stick likely candidates together and either ask for human confirmation or run a text recognition algorithm to see if the result makes sense.
This sort of approach has been used before, as far back as 1969, as described in this excerpt from an issue Popular Mechanics:
The job of reassembling 30,000 pieces of an Egyptian temple at Karnak is being given an assist by an IBM computer... The pieces are coded and photographed, and the photos matched with the help of the computer.
More recently, software developed at Tel Aviv University is being used to piece together thousands of hand-written document fragments.
"Killer app" might not be the best way to describe an autonomous driving program.
It's commonly accepted that anyone hitting a vehicle from behind is automatically at fault, but there is at least one exceptional circumstance. If the vehicle in front stops instantly due to a collision, then normal stopping distance does not apply - not even emergency braking distance.
This happened to me once when I was following a normally safe distance behind a vehicle in morning rush our. Due to the relative sizes of our vehicles, I could not really see beyond the back of the other vehicle. If that driver had merely hammered the brakes hard, I would have seen brake lights followed by a short stopping distance. What happened, however, is that the other vehicle itself plowed into a chain collision in front of it. The resulting stoppage of the vehicle in front of me was so abnormally abrupt I could not possibly have braked quickly enough.
Eyebrows were raised when I stuck to my assertion that I was not at fault. Some might argue that I should have been far enough back to allow for even an instantaneous stop in front of me, but it's not really feasible to leave a gap that large during rush hour. Other drivers will constantly dart in to close the gap.
I'm Pro-Union (Democrat) and Anti-Illegal Immigration (Which takes away union jobs by undercutting prices. Republican.)
Which party should I vote for? Which one of these parties don't have a predominant agenda to actively fuck me over?
FFS, are you really that thick? First of all, no party is Pro-Illegal Immigration. That's why it's "illegal".
Secondly, if you are pro-union, then Republicans are your enemy. Their agenda should be 100 times more frightening to you than the notion of Mexicans sneaking across the border and stealing away union jobs.
So then no matter who I vote for, I'll be voting against my interests in some way?
Who is the idiot here?
You are the idiot if you can't see the difference between a party that doesn't align perfectly with every one of your interests and a party with a predominant agenda to actively f*ck you over.
The article shows clearly in both a screen shot and a video that the "Time remaining" estimate is still there in Windows 8 Explorer. It's simply hidden under a "More details" button by default.
Since they came through alive, I'd say they survived ingestion, not digestion.