When Microsoft came and said 'We're going to buy you for more money than you deserve multiplied by about a hundred... Okay? Good, now, if you want us to continue with this deal, you listen to us from now on... now kill the Skype projects like the good little bitch I just paid for'
Its rather ignorant to ignore the fact that the high level people in Skype are probably talking fairly often to their future bosses... if you have ANY SENSE what so ever you do what they want because if you don't, they either back out of the deal, and you're SOL or... they fire you after the merger is complete and of course part of the merger agreement was that previous exit parachute bonuses are no longer on the table... and then again, you are SOL.
You've clearly never dealt with corporate politics and personal greed.
Not as much as you might think, just as the dust blows onto the mirrors, in a dry climate, it doesn't stick together, so it also blows off.
Take a look at what happened with the mars rovers, how many years have they gone without a good wipe down of the solar panels and they are working on a planet with no water worth mentioning in the atmosphere or the ground so there is dust EVERYWHERE.
Untrue, True Native Americans could be some of the most savage torturous people known to man.
However, that was generally after you started raping their wives and daughters and killing them to take their land. Native Americans WERE savages when we European settlers turned them into that by bending them over and not even offering lube.
Don't get me wrong, the Europeans settlers almost always certainly deserved it considering the atrocities they brought with them, I hold no ill will against Native Americans, we were the dicks, but you guys know how to make a man suffer when he deserves it... and that tends to be why Native American 'Indians' were labeled as savages.
Oh, wait, you say that hydroelectric dams have contributed significantly to severely damaging fisheries?
While I agree in general, dams hurt fisheries from our perspective, the reality is, its just change, and someone always gets upset when change occurs.
I personally don't mind change, it sucks that some things get hurt in the process. I new damn may wipe out a species of fish on a river simply because it can't get to its spawning grounds and it can't adapt to somewhere else... that sucks... but thats life. We aren't the first damn builders, the Colorado river has been dammed several times as far as we can tell, by massive ice dams... that eventually burst, wiping out life anywhere near its banks or in it for a thousand miles at a clip...
And something else came back and took its place afterwords.
The environment changes before we existed. Extinctions happened before we existed. We don't control the world, we just suggest what it should do next, and most of the time, it doesn't listen even a little bit.
Lets be realistic when we're talking about this stuff, its really about protecting OUR lives. We need to keep the environment capable of supporting US. Sometimes that means we're going to save animals from extinction when they should have died out, and sometimes we're going to kill off species by accident or as an unattended side effect... and once in a while, we're going to cause extinctions intentionally... like irradicated smallpox and now arguing over destroying the last known live samples.
Its not 'damaging the environment', its simply changing it. The question is, are our changes going to doom US as a species, nothing else matters. Saving life on Earth is irrelevant from our perspective if we aren't here to witness it.
-You use a lot less energy living in a tower block with apartments on all sides such that waste heat from one cuts down on the heating bills of the others etc.
And you're ignoring the fact that transporting that energy to the tower block with apartments is inefficient.
-Transporting people a few miles on mas transport is a lot more efficient than getting too and from a little farmstead.
You don't do much traveling when you work a farm... you live where you work and grow most of your supplies, you do far less traveling in general... and its possible, if we're reverting back to that sort of living, that you can also take advantage of things like animals for transportation as well as work on the farm where they are required anyway.
-Distributing food and other essentials also takes energy and is far more efficient in a nice dense city.
Sure... IN THE CITY its easy to move the goods around... but...
HOW DID THEY GET TO THE CITY? The food got there because it was collected from a bunch of farms, packaged in bulk from thousands of little and big farms around the country probably no where near where the city is.
Cities are incredible efficient if you completely ignore the fact that they are entirely dependent on support from the very thing you are calling inefficient.
Cities simply can not survive without the things you are calling inefficient and they provide nothing back to supplies that has real value. Money doesn't count as the farmers can survive just fine without it. Most farms are fully capable of being entirely self sufficient without any modern tech, but they can be far more profitable with modern tech.
The fact that you think cities are 'good for the environment' shows you have absolutely no idea what so ever about whats going on. You seem to think that transporting resources thousands of miles to places where they don't naturally occur is somehow more efficient than just using them at the source.
You can say that if you want, but its simply not true in reality.
Anyone who refers to themselves openly as a 'green' or an 'environmentalist' is 9 times out of 8, a extremist nutjob by the standards of pretty much anyone else.
You can pretend that its not true, you can point out various ways that a person that matches the dictionary definition of environmentalist may view the problem, but that just doesn't reflect reality. When someone refers to 'environmentalists' or 'greens' they are refering to the nut job extremists that represent the worst of what would be considered (by the dictionary) as an environmentalist. In reality those groups generally cause far more damage than they resolve and represent a large collection of hypocrites in many cases.
Someone who cares about what happens to the environment is not 'an environmentalist' in normal persons minds. When someone sees or hears the word environmentalist, their mind instantly thinks 'lunatic'.
Why? Well because a bunch of nut job extremists idiots run around doing ridiculous attention getting stunts and acting like morons on television spreading propaganda and screaming 'I'm an environmentalist!'... so people naturally associate the word with the people who claim it in the loudest most obnoxious (and memorable) way.
Like every stereotype on the planet, it exists for a reason, its is true. It is also a stereotype which means it doesn't represent everyone exactly, there are always exceptions, but the majority of the people for which the label is applied... it DOES actually apply.
Your argument is just as invalid as all the irrational morons who see a nuclear accident that happens once every 20 years or so with a relatively small group of effected people being hurt as proof that nuclear power is far too dangerous... You don't use exceptions to the stereotypical version of the object to define the object, that just makes you look ignorant, as does ignoring the fact that every stereotype has exceptions.
People have been transporting water for miles using nothing more than gravity for years.
I think if you're going to construct a massive surface collector in the ocean, you're going to need to build it higher than the shoreline simply so waves from storms don't damage it.
At that height, it can certainly gravity feed back to the shore... like every other aqueduct in the last several thousand years. Moving it further than that may be a different story, but there is no need for any electricity or oil to be used in its construction if we don't WANT to. Again, the Romans did it with neither... several thousand years ago.
Before we discovered and harnessed both oil for modern fuels (I'm ignoring things like whale oil lamps and such) we got along and did some pretty impressive things... some of which haven't been bested WITH modern technology... like say the pyramids of Egypt.
We can do stuff without current fuel supplies... its just WAY fucking easier and more intelligent to use the fuels to accomplish it quickly rather than waxing on about technicalities on slashdot over how to accomplish it with absolutely no use of our modern technology.
We can actually do things better long term by paying the price short term and using modern non-renewable supplies in order to jumpstart our modern renewable supplies. You don't always win a Warcraft game by stock piling and being extremely efficient when you start out... as the Zerg rush will wipe you out before it matters.
So you can hook up a high res CRT and send it a signal over a VGA cable...
The result is you end up saying something on slashdot that basically translates into:
You don't know what you're talking about, FM radio is WAY better than CD quality audio.
Your CRT is unable to reproduce colors accurately without constant calibration, simply placing a magnet or coiled power cord near your cable will effect the output on your CRT since the signal is analog.
The DVI based LCDs on the other hand should be fully capable of consistently reproducing the colors exactly as intended, though not as many... YAY digital.
Just because you can push 2560x1600 to your CRT, doesn't means it looks any less like shit than it did over VGA than it did at 1600x1200
So... you'll be exactly like me, except I didn't need to get spammed by cold calling recruiters to do so.
Do you think for some reason there will be no recruiters available to you if you AREN'T on LinkedIn?
I'm guessing you think recruiters are some form of special person that finds 'talent'... the reality of it is, recruiters are nothing more than head hunters, your relationship with them is irrelevant, you're nothing more than a resume. Any friendliness they show to you is simply to ensure they make the most possible amount off you when they whore your resume out.
When the time comes, you can accomplish the same thing yourself with a couple phone calls.
And you ad a connection to these people? Seriously? THAT IS WHY LINKEDIN IS POINTLESS. Your connections mean nothing, you add them just like people add Facebook friends, your connections are meaningless, again, underscoring how worthless LinkedIn actually is as you've proven yourself how meaningless the networking aspect of LinkedIn is since it too has turned into a popularity contest.
Uhm, its not like they serve the same quality to all devices. I know for a fact that my iPad, iPhone, XBox and PC ALL get different streams. My PC and XBox streams are noticably higher quality than the iPad stream which works fine over 3G, and the iPhone stream will actually work on a solid EDGE connection, but you can enjoy watching the pixel artifacts.
Likewise the stream to my iPad when on 3G is noticeably lower quality than the wifi streams.
In short, Netflix adjusts the quality of the streams to the device and bandwidth available. Its silly to assume it won't go up.
Of course, its also funny that I can see a visible difference between Netflix television shows and the overcompressed versions that TimeWarner sends down the wire on digital cable. Both Netflix and OTA ATSC signals are far better than TWC digital:( Even the iPad stream output to a TV from netflix is better than the same show over a standard TWC digital channel/HD channel.
Its completely justified to blame the plumber if the electricity went out because he cut the wire.
You're right. Its not Gnome's FAULT that the nvidia driver is buggy and crashes the machine.
But...
When the guy tries to do something with certain aspects of the Gnome environment he wants to do, it crashes, so its effectively not useful to him. The ultimate reason is not important in the grand scheme of things to the user, only the developer. The user doesn't give a fuck why it works or doesn't, just that it does or doesn't. Beyond that, its the developers image and problem. Nvidias fault, clearly, but because its triggered by Gnome, he doesn't use Gnome. Either way, Gnome loses support because of its actions, even though its not directly Gnomes fault.
You see this sort of thing all the time with tech people.
Techies like to wax on about what specific technological reason something broke. We'll argue about the actual cause on our bug trackers and forums. Come up with a bunch of alternate ways to solve the problem. Spend 6 months blaming it on a hardware vendor. And ultimately... a year later the bug is written off because of lack of interest from the original submitters... BECAUSE THEY'VE GOTTEN SO TIRED OF WATCHING TECHIES CIRCLE JERK themselves on forums and bug trackers that they just moved on to something else... which may not be free... or it may not be under some ideal license... but it fucking doesn't piss them off regularly.
OSS continually fails to get that. Plenty of companies miss it as well, but they tend to go out of business. OSS projects just continue to push on due to the sheer number of geeks who 'believe' in the project.
If every time I call a certain plumber, my electricity goes out... I'm not going to call that plumber anymore, I'm going to find another plumber who can manage the problem without breaking shit, even if it means I have to give up the fact that the plumber I'm dumping was a hot chick, I'd rather not miss the fucking super bowl.
The problem with this sort of contest is not the equipment or the engineers creating the hardware and software.
The problem is doctors. Doctors, as a rule, when it comes to testing their medical knowledge are fucking liars.
When you show 10 doctors the same MRI, they'll almost invariably give you 10 different answers. If you're EXTREMELY lucky, one of them will speak up and say 'I dont know', but what you're more likely to get is all 10 of them making up bullshit if they can't see a problem.
The end result is that the engineers creating the equipment don't have a freaking chance of getting a better diagnosis, or even close to being accurate because the doctors being used as a basis to train the software in the equipment are giving back false information. The testing equipment gets back different answers for what it sees as the same result, so no one can pick the proper cues for it to make a diagnosis.
The biggest problem with designing and winning this contest is not building the equipment and writing the software, we've probably already done it. The problem is engineering the training program to deal with doctors who won't say 'I dont know' during the training process (training the equipment, not the doctor).
Find enough HONEST doctors who are willing to admit when they don't know, can't tell or are unsure, and building the tricorder will be a cake walk.
If you want help finding honest doctors, tell them the data you are giving them to evaluate is from one of their family members and watch their reaction. Its freaking amazing watching how doctors change their attitude when diagnosing someone/something they care about versus a random stranger.
I was lucky enough to marry a doctor, as a geek I've learned two things about medicine. Nothing practiced in a hospital setting should be considered science. At best, its art, but mostly its a bunch of guesses that eventually lead them in the right direction most of the time. And more importantly, Doctors aren't nearly as smart as you'd think. Most of them, are in fact, rather stupid, the common population on the other hand has been conditioned over time to assume that all the years of school and internships/residencies that doctors goes through means they really know what they are doing.
Don't kid yourself, they really don't. Its more along the lines of not having any other options so they stuck it out. Watching my wife go through the schooling and all the other crap that goes with becoming a practicing doctor I watched a lot of other med students join the professional world... I learned that if I can still think well enough to consider going to the doctor, I should avoid the doctor at all costs.
I'm pretty confident that every suicide bomber/hijacker/whatever can be considered stupid regardless of their previous accomplishments.
Personally, knowing several business owners, lawyers and doctors, being any of those things doesn't say anything about your intelligence or wisdom, just that you made some good deals, which could be luck, or managed to memorize the right things to satisfy some government requirements.
You are right, these aren't the 'trash' people think of when they think of suicide bomber, but they most certainly qualify as stupid.
OBL took 10 years to find because he was very well finianced and had the support of a small country helping him hide... a small country that also claimed it was doing everything it could to help us find him.
In short, had we taken a far less politically correct path, and killed a whole bunch more people years ago by just running over Pakistan and everything in it, we would have likely resolved the OBL issue 8 years ago.
But we didn't.
And we're probably better off for it as I doubt steamrolling over Pakistan would have made us any friends, except for maybe a few politicians from India. It certainly would have cost us ( and them ) a lot more lives, which I for one would like to avoid. I'll fight the fight, but not when we can find a viable alternative solution.
that's part of why tor was built: to enable communication of persecuted minorities. when we built tor we were thinking post-tienanmen democracy advocates in china. our noble intentions in building tor don't keep the technology from being useful to other persecuted minorities that we don't like.
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Or it was designed for military communications between ships by hopping on other ships signals not under the control of the US Navy without needing direct secure links between US Navy ships.
to enable communication of persecuted minorities
Quit making shit up. You just totally made up a reason for creating Tor that has nothing to do with the actual reason it was created.
On windows: Open regedit, delete HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Or, edit the respective subtrees of the things listed above, they are all functionally equivalent regardless of how many people like to pretend they are different.
If there's no national security secrets in the photos
You mean like the fact that the release of those pictures is almost certainly going to incite violence against the US and its citizens? Kind of the definition of 'risk to national security' don'tcha think?
I can see the argument that maybe the families of those who died should be allowed to view them, for closure but thats probably not good psychologically for them long term.
The reality of it is however nothing good will come from people viewing very disturbing pictures of the man with his head blown off. Anyone who 'must' see them needs psychological help rather a viewing of a guy missing half his skull. Its not like what you see on CSI with a nice pretty little round hole with a trickle of blood coming out of it. The only reason pretty much everyone making a stink about seeing these photos has to see them is just morbid curiosity.
An FOIA request will be denied for obvious reasons, its rather silly that AP even would consider pushing the issue.
Read the iOS developers agreement, not what some guy who can't run a business spouted as he was taking his toys and going home. I'm not going to post articles or discussions links, thats retarded. Why would you want to read a bunch of shit written by anyone other than the source, who has a nice big PDF of the contract online? Do you think you're going to get something from some forum or blog post than you're going to get out of the legally binding contract that EVERY iOS app is bound by?
He's mixing things his content producers changed and Apples changes into one lump complaint against Apple.
Apple does not control the content producers... they on the other hand said 'welp, if everything goes through iBooks than we get 70% of the profit and we don't have to bother with iFlowReader who only gives us 50%. Wouldn't it be rather stupid for publishers to give iFlowReader, which lets face it, has only been out for 6 months, isn't that impressive, and isn't on the device be default'. It would be rather dumb for the content producers to continue their deal with iFlowReader, as there is a better deal for them with iBooks.
iFlowReader offered nothing anyone was willing to pay for. Not Apple, not the content producers, and they were giving the app away for free, so not the content consumers either. Why should any party involved pay more for the same thing?
Sounds like it saved them the years of recovery from dealing with the shitty employees they lost though.
I'd wager the company was far better off because a bunch of uppity idiots got offended about something trivial and walked out because of it.
Also, I find it hard to believe that 'most of the IT department walked out' over something like a silly book unless the IT department was 3 people total, two of which hadn't graduated high school yet.
Anyone who freaked out and left wasn't really a loss.
Yes it is, it still comes with every mac purchased on the installation disk and that won't change when Lion comes out.
Now, if you'd like to upgrade to the latest version rather than the version you got for free, then it costs $5 if you aren't a member of the Mac or iOS paid developer programs, but XCode is still 100% free for every mac owner as long as they don't lose their disks.
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When Microsoft came and said 'We're going to buy you for more money than you deserve multiplied by about a hundred ... Okay? Good, now, if you want us to continue with this deal, you listen to us from now on ... now kill the Skype projects like the good little bitch I just paid for'
Its rather ignorant to ignore the fact that the high level people in Skype are probably talking fairly often to their future bosses ... if you have ANY SENSE what so ever you do what they want because if you don't, they either back out of the deal, and you're SOL or ... they fire you after the merger is complete and of course part of the merger agreement was that previous exit parachute bonuses are no longer on the table ... and then again, you are SOL.
You've clearly never dealt with corporate politics and personal greed.
Not as much as you might think, just as the dust blows onto the mirrors, in a dry climate, it doesn't stick together, so it also blows off.
Take a look at what happened with the mars rovers, how many years have they gone without a good wipe down of the solar panels and they are working on a planet with no water worth mentioning in the atmosphere or the ground so there is dust EVERYWHERE.
Untrue, True Native Americans could be some of the most savage torturous people known to man.
However, that was generally after you started raping their wives and daughters and killing them to take their land. Native Americans WERE savages when we European settlers turned them into that by bending them over and not even offering lube.
Don't get me wrong, the Europeans settlers almost always certainly deserved it considering the atrocities they brought with them, I hold no ill will against Native Americans, we were the dicks, but you guys know how to make a man suffer when he deserves it ... and that tends to be why Native American 'Indians' were labeled as savages.
Oh, wait, you say that hydroelectric dams have contributed significantly to severely damaging fisheries?
While I agree in general, dams hurt fisheries from our perspective, the reality is, its just change, and someone always gets upset when change occurs.
I personally don't mind change, it sucks that some things get hurt in the process. I new damn may wipe out a species of fish on a river simply because it can't get to its spawning grounds and it can't adapt to somewhere else ... that sucks ... but thats life. We aren't the first damn builders, the Colorado river has been dammed several times as far as we can tell, by massive ice dams ... that eventually burst, wiping out life anywhere near its banks or in it for a thousand miles at a clip ...
And something else came back and took its place afterwords.
The environment changes before we existed. Extinctions happened before we existed. We don't control the world, we just suggest what it should do next, and most of the time, it doesn't listen even a little bit.
Lets be realistic when we're talking about this stuff, its really about protecting OUR lives. We need to keep the environment capable of supporting US. Sometimes that means we're going to save animals from extinction when they should have died out, and sometimes we're going to kill off species by accident or as an unattended side effect ... and once in a while, we're going to cause extinctions intentionally ... like irradicated smallpox and now arguing over destroying the last known live samples.
Its not 'damaging the environment', its simply changing it. The question is, are our changes going to doom US as a species, nothing else matters. Saving life on Earth is irrelevant from our perspective if we aren't here to witness it.
-You use a lot less energy living in a tower block with apartments on all sides such that waste heat from one cuts down on the heating bills of the others etc.
And you're ignoring the fact that transporting that energy to the tower block with apartments is inefficient.
-Transporting people a few miles on mas transport is a lot more efficient than getting too and from a little farmstead.
You don't do much traveling when you work a farm ... you live where you work and grow most of your supplies, you do far less traveling in general ... and its possible, if we're reverting back to that sort of living, that you can also take advantage of things like animals for transportation as well as work on the farm where they are required anyway.
-Distributing food and other essentials also takes energy and is far more efficient in a nice dense city.
Sure ... IN THE CITY its easy to move the goods around ... but ...
HOW DID THEY GET TO THE CITY? The food got there because it was collected from a bunch of farms, packaged in bulk from thousands of little and big farms around the country probably no where near where the city is.
Cities are incredible efficient if you completely ignore the fact that they are entirely dependent on support from the very thing you are calling inefficient.
Cities simply can not survive without the things you are calling inefficient and they provide nothing back to supplies that has real value. Money doesn't count as the farmers can survive just fine without it. Most farms are fully capable of being entirely self sufficient without any modern tech, but they can be far more profitable with modern tech.
The fact that you think cities are 'good for the environment' shows you have absolutely no idea what so ever about whats going on. You seem to think that transporting resources thousands of miles to places where they don't naturally occur is somehow more efficient than just using them at the source.
You can say that if you want, but its simply not true in reality.
Anyone who refers to themselves openly as a 'green' or an 'environmentalist' is 9 times out of 8, a extremist nutjob by the standards of pretty much anyone else.
You can pretend that its not true, you can point out various ways that a person that matches the dictionary definition of environmentalist may view the problem, but that just doesn't reflect reality. When someone refers to 'environmentalists' or 'greens' they are refering to the nut job extremists that represent the worst of what would be considered (by the dictionary) as an environmentalist. In reality those groups generally cause far more damage than they resolve and represent a large collection of hypocrites in many cases.
Someone who cares about what happens to the environment is not 'an environmentalist' in normal persons minds. When someone sees or hears the word environmentalist, their mind instantly thinks 'lunatic'.
Why? Well because a bunch of nut job extremists idiots run around doing ridiculous attention getting stunts and acting like morons on television spreading propaganda and screaming 'I'm an environmentalist!' ... so people naturally associate the word with the people who claim it in the loudest most obnoxious (and memorable) way.
Like every stereotype on the planet, it exists for a reason, its is true. It is also a stereotype which means it doesn't represent everyone exactly, there are always exceptions, but the majority of the people for which the label is applied ... it DOES actually apply.
Your argument is just as invalid as all the irrational morons who see a nuclear accident that happens once every 20 years or so with a relatively small group of effected people being hurt as proof that nuclear power is far too dangerous ... You don't use exceptions to the stereotypical version of the object to define the object, that just makes you look ignorant, as does ignoring the fact that every stereotype has exceptions.
People have been transporting water for miles using nothing more than gravity for years.
I think if you're going to construct a massive surface collector in the ocean, you're going to need to build it higher than the shoreline simply so waves from storms don't damage it.
At that height, it can certainly gravity feed back to the shore ... like every other aqueduct in the last several thousand years. Moving it further than that may be a different story, but there is no need for any electricity or oil to be used in its construction if we don't WANT to. Again, the Romans did it with neither ... several thousand years ago.
Before we discovered and harnessed both oil for modern fuels (I'm ignoring things like whale oil lamps and such) we got along and did some pretty impressive things ... some of which haven't been bested WITH modern technology ... like say the pyramids of Egypt.
We can do stuff without current fuel supplies ... its just WAY fucking easier and more intelligent to use the fuels to accomplish it quickly rather than waxing on about technicalities on slashdot over how to accomplish it with absolutely no use of our modern technology.
We can actually do things better long term by paying the price short term and using modern non-renewable supplies in order to jumpstart our modern renewable supplies. You don't always win a Warcraft game by stock piling and being extremely efficient when you start out ... as the Zerg rush will wipe you out before it matters.
So you can hook up a high res CRT and send it a signal over a VGA cable ...
The result is you end up saying something on slashdot that basically translates into:
You don't know what you're talking about, FM radio is WAY better than CD quality audio.
Your CRT is unable to reproduce colors accurately without constant calibration, simply placing a magnet or coiled power cord near your cable will effect the output on your CRT since the signal is analog.
The DVI based LCDs on the other hand should be fully capable of consistently reproducing the colors exactly as intended, though not as many ... YAY digital.
Just because you can push 2560x1600 to your CRT, doesn't means it looks any less like shit than it did over VGA than it did at 1600x1200
So ... you'll be exactly like me, except I didn't need to get spammed by cold calling recruiters to do so.
Do you think for some reason there will be no recruiters available to you if you AREN'T on LinkedIn?
I'm guessing you think recruiters are some form of special person that finds 'talent' ... the reality of it is, recruiters are nothing more than head hunters, your relationship with them is irrelevant, you're nothing more than a resume. Any friendliness they show to you is simply to ensure they make the most possible amount off you when they whore your resume out.
When the time comes, you can accomplish the same thing yourself with a couple phone calls.
And you ad a connection to these people? Seriously? THAT IS WHY LINKEDIN IS POINTLESS. Your connections mean nothing, you add them just like people add Facebook friends, your connections are meaningless, again, underscoring how worthless LinkedIn actually is as you've proven yourself how meaningless the networking aspect of LinkedIn is since it too has turned into a popularity contest.
LinkedIn may have started out that way, but at this point its more or less another Monster.com with a friends network.
Everyone is on LinkedIn, it is no longer a sign of a higher quality professional. It means nothing any more.
The only thing you can be sure about someone on LinkedIn is that they are being spammed by LinkedIn's useless emails on a regular basis.
There are far cheaper ways to obtain a list of email addresses.
Uhm, its not like they serve the same quality to all devices. I know for a fact that my iPad, iPhone, XBox and PC ALL get different streams. My PC and XBox streams are noticably higher quality than the iPad stream which works fine over 3G, and the iPhone stream will actually work on a solid EDGE connection, but you can enjoy watching the pixel artifacts.
Likewise the stream to my iPad when on 3G is noticeably lower quality than the wifi streams.
In short, Netflix adjusts the quality of the streams to the device and bandwidth available. Its silly to assume it won't go up.
Of course, its also funny that I can see a visible difference between Netflix television shows and the overcompressed versions that TimeWarner sends down the wire on digital cable. Both Netflix and OTA ATSC signals are far better than TWC digital :( Even the iPad stream output to a TV from netflix is better than the same show over a standard TWC digital channel/HD channel.
Too bad you didn't think to water proof it as well. Things are probably still going to go down hill when they put it in the back of your toilet.
Its completely justified to blame the plumber if the electricity went out because he cut the wire.
You're right. Its not Gnome's FAULT that the nvidia driver is buggy and crashes the machine.
But ...
When the guy tries to do something with certain aspects of the Gnome environment he wants to do, it crashes, so its effectively not useful to him. The ultimate reason is not important in the grand scheme of things to the user, only the developer. The user doesn't give a fuck why it works or doesn't, just that it does or doesn't. Beyond that, its the developers image and problem. Nvidias fault, clearly, but because its triggered by Gnome, he doesn't use Gnome. Either way, Gnome loses support because of its actions, even though its not directly Gnomes fault.
You see this sort of thing all the time with tech people.
Techies like to wax on about what specific technological reason something broke. We'll argue about the actual cause on our bug trackers and forums. Come up with a bunch of alternate ways to solve the problem. Spend 6 months blaming it on a hardware vendor. And ultimately ... a year later the bug is written off because of lack of interest from the original submitters ... BECAUSE THEY'VE GOTTEN SO TIRED OF WATCHING TECHIES CIRCLE JERK themselves on forums and bug trackers that they just moved on to something else ... which may not be free ... or it may not be under some ideal license ... but it fucking doesn't piss them off regularly.
OSS continually fails to get that. Plenty of companies miss it as well, but they tend to go out of business. OSS projects just continue to push on due to the sheer number of geeks who 'believe' in the project.
If every time I call a certain plumber, my electricity goes out ... I'm not going to call that plumber anymore, I'm going to find another plumber who can manage the problem without breaking shit, even if it means I have to give up the fact that the plumber I'm dumping was a hot chick, I'd rather not miss the fucking super bowl.
The problem with this sort of contest is not the equipment or the engineers creating the hardware and software.
The problem is doctors. Doctors, as a rule, when it comes to testing their medical knowledge are fucking liars.
When you show 10 doctors the same MRI, they'll almost invariably give you 10 different answers. If you're EXTREMELY lucky, one of them will speak up and say 'I dont know', but what you're more likely to get is all 10 of them making up bullshit if they can't see a problem.
The end result is that the engineers creating the equipment don't have a freaking chance of getting a better diagnosis, or even close to being accurate because the doctors being used as a basis to train the software in the equipment are giving back false information. The testing equipment gets back different answers for what it sees as the same result, so no one can pick the proper cues for it to make a diagnosis.
The biggest problem with designing and winning this contest is not building the equipment and writing the software, we've probably already done it. The problem is engineering the training program to deal with doctors who won't say 'I dont know' during the training process (training the equipment, not the doctor).
Find enough HONEST doctors who are willing to admit when they don't know, can't tell or are unsure, and building the tricorder will be a cake walk.
If you want help finding honest doctors, tell them the data you are giving them to evaluate is from one of their family members and watch their reaction. Its freaking amazing watching how doctors change their attitude when diagnosing someone/something they care about versus a random stranger.
I was lucky enough to marry a doctor, as a geek I've learned two things about medicine. Nothing practiced in a hospital setting should be considered science. At best, its art, but mostly its a bunch of guesses that eventually lead them in the right direction most of the time. And more importantly, Doctors aren't nearly as smart as you'd think. Most of them, are in fact, rather stupid, the common population on the other hand has been conditioned over time to assume that all the years of school and internships/residencies that doctors goes through means they really know what they are doing.
Don't kid yourself, they really don't. Its more along the lines of not having any other options so they stuck it out. Watching my wife go through the schooling and all the other crap that goes with becoming a practicing doctor I watched a lot of other med students join the professional world ... I learned that if I can still think well enough to consider going to the doctor, I should avoid the doctor at all costs.
I'm pretty confident that every suicide bomber/hijacker/whatever can be considered stupid regardless of their previous accomplishments.
Personally, knowing several business owners, lawyers and doctors, being any of those things doesn't say anything about your intelligence or wisdom, just that you made some good deals, which could be luck, or managed to memorize the right things to satisfy some government requirements.
You are right, these aren't the 'trash' people think of when they think of suicide bomber, but they most certainly qualify as stupid.
OBL took 10 years to find because he was very well finianced and had the support of a small country helping him hide ... a small country that also claimed it was doing everything it could to help us find him.
In short, had we taken a far less politically correct path, and killed a whole bunch more people years ago by just running over Pakistan and everything in it, we would have likely resolved the OBL issue 8 years ago.
But we didn't.
And we're probably better off for it as I doubt steamrolling over Pakistan would have made us any friends, except for maybe a few politicians from India. It certainly would have cost us ( and them ) a lot more lives, which I for one would like to avoid. I'll fight the fight, but not when we can find a viable alternative solution.
that's part of why tor was built: to enable communication of persecuted minorities. when we built tor we were thinking post-tienanmen democracy advocates in china. our noble intentions in building tor don't keep the technology from being useful to other persecuted minorities that we don't like.
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Or it was designed for military communications between ships by hopping on other ships signals not under the control of the US Navy without needing direct secure links between US Navy ships.
to enable communication of persecuted minorities
Quit making shit up. You just totally made up a reason for creating Tor that has nothing to do with the actual reason it was created.
On linux:
rm -rf ~/.*
On OS X:
rm -rf ~/Library
On windows:
Open regedit, delete HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Or, edit the respective subtrees of the things listed above, they are all functionally equivalent regardless of how many people like to pretend they are different.
Its not like you can't organize libraries into sub libraries ... kind of makes your point non-existent.
There is a difference between being terrorized by a fire ant hill and running away screaming versus pulling my pants down and sticking my dick in it.
I do neither of those things, and because of that I'm not a terrorist.
If there's no national security secrets in the photos
You mean like the fact that the release of those pictures is almost certainly going to incite violence against the US and its citizens? Kind of the definition of 'risk to national security' don'tcha think?
I can see the argument that maybe the families of those who died should be allowed to view them, for closure but thats probably not good psychologically for them long term.
The reality of it is however nothing good will come from people viewing very disturbing pictures of the man with his head blown off. Anyone who 'must' see them needs psychological help rather a viewing of a guy missing half his skull. Its not like what you see on CSI with a nice pretty little round hole with a trickle of blood coming out of it. The only reason pretty much everyone making a stink about seeing these photos has to see them is just morbid curiosity.
An FOIA request will be denied for obvious reasons, its rather silly that AP even would consider pushing the issue.
Read the iOS developers agreement, not what some guy who can't run a business spouted as he was taking his toys and going home. I'm not going to post articles or discussions links, thats retarded. Why would you want to read a bunch of shit written by anyone other than the source, who has a nice big PDF of the contract online? Do you think you're going to get something from some forum or blog post than you're going to get out of the legally binding contract that EVERY iOS app is bound by?
He's mixing things his content producers changed and Apples changes into one lump complaint against Apple.
Apple does not control the content producers ... they on the other hand said 'welp, if everything goes through iBooks than we get 70% of the profit and we don't have to bother with iFlowReader who only gives us 50%. Wouldn't it be rather stupid for publishers to give iFlowReader, which lets face it, has only been out for 6 months, isn't that impressive, and isn't on the device be default'. It would be rather dumb for the content producers to continue their deal with iFlowReader, as there is a better deal for them with iBooks.
iFlowReader offered nothing anyone was willing to pay for. Not Apple, not the content producers, and they were giving the app away for free, so not the content consumers either. Why should any party involved pay more for the same thing?
No, but its pretty obvious you did.
Apple never saw the data, it stayed on your equipment unless you happened to give it to someone else or your equipment wasn't secure.
Again, Apple never saw the GPS data, get a clue, its not a debated statement, its a rather well known fact.
Sounds like it saved them the years of recovery from dealing with the shitty employees they lost though.
I'd wager the company was far better off because a bunch of uppity idiots got offended about something trivial and walked out because of it.
Also, I find it hard to believe that 'most of the IT department walked out' over something like a silly book unless the IT department was 3 people total, two of which hadn't graduated high school yet.
Anyone who freaked out and left wasn't really a loss.
Yes it is, it still comes with every mac purchased on the installation disk and that won't change when Lion comes out.
Now, if you'd like to upgrade to the latest version rather than the version you got for free, then it costs $5 if you aren't a member of the Mac or iOS paid developer programs, but XCode is still 100% free for every mac owner as long as they don't lose their disks.