It's an exercise in mocking the "special considerations" given for religion.
There are presumably good reasons for prohibiting headwear in ID photos. If so, then why are these reasons suspended because you belong to a particular Imaginary Friend Club? By drawing attention to how ludicrous it is to be permitted to wear a colander because you claim that you worship a being composed of pasta and meatballs, he draws attention to how ludicrous it is to claim special headwear privileges for other, similar beliefs.
It's crap because it's hosted in the same old cmd.exe that MS has shipped for years and shares many of it's default behaviours.
* You can't resize it ** You can resize the window smaller, but the actual terminal stays the same size * It doesn't do copy-on-select, only copy-on-right-click ** This is very annoying when you are used to copy-on-select and middle-click to paste from other environments * Doesn't support all the keyboard shortcuts that you're used to on other terminals ** Is it possible to add some of this via snap-ins? Was very impressed with the Autocomplete one. * Operations that you expect to do normal things do odd things ** e.g. - try doing an svnadmin dump > file in a Powershell. Discover to your disgust that your dump file has been totally ruined because Psh has thoughtfully converted the STDOUT from svnadmin it into UTF-16 with a byte-order-mark. ** This is more a Psh thing, than a console thing though - cmd.exe does this properly
When you are used to the terminal emulators that ship with POSIX systems, it's rather frustrating. It's a nice scripting environment - I even think it's superior to bash + GNU for a lot of tasks, but the default terminal for it still blows chunks.
That said... things from cmd.exe / Powershell I'd like to see in bash include...
* Support for cd -N ; where N is a number from the stack of folders recently accessed, also cd - cd + to move up and down stack ** Think this is an enhancement from PSCX * F7 hotkey that shows your recent command history and lets you choose one to either run now, or edit
I don't know about the "fully floating point audio path", but PulseAudio does support per-application volume faders.
It says it supports floating point sample types, but I don't know if that meets your criteria of being from the hardware up - I guess that would be a driver issue.
The bearing between the fan and the plate is a very small air gap. Because it's small, and because it's constantly being churned around, it's thermal resistance is low.
Because the movement fan part destroys the normal zone of still air around radiator fins it dissipates heat more quickly and efficiently.
The number one vector of infection for religion is getting it from your parents.
Catholics having more children means more Catholics, which means more power to the Catholic church. It's that simple. The reasons they actually state are just to stop them looking like power-mongering assholes.
It would be a serious security breach if you could access the screen buffer from Javascript. You could write al kinds of nasty spy tools that just run in the browser, by dint of visiting a webpage. Insinuate that into a few popular ad servers and watch the corporate espionage roll in...
It always throws me to see Harrison Ford wearing an earring, as he usually does when interviewed - here is a man who epitomizes manliness, wearing jewellery. And often a diamond stud you'd expect to see on your little sister....
Indeed, there's already some impetus to prevent Murdoch buying BSkyB ; that would seem to be a likely reason that he's engaging in this symbolic gesture - to draw attention from this campaign.
* My office switched to Exchange ensconced behind a firewall so you could no longer use IMAP
* Thunderbird 3 was downloading all my mail from Google multiple times, and indexing it multiple times, and presenting it in search results multiple times
I know this is a funny, but the opposite is true ; one of the suggested geoengineering techniques proposed to reduce global warming is to increase the Earth's albedo (reflectivity) by spouting massive clouds of aerosolized sea water from semi-autonomous ships designed to do so.
But surely, the layer of oxide, being non-conductive, no longer forms part of the conductor, but merely becomes a nice extra layer of insulation protecting the rest of the wire from oxidation?
Actually, when "The Icelandic Volcano" erupted, it was calculated that the decrease in airline activity was a net gain in terms of CO2, even with the volcano factored in.
From the figures on the spreadsheet, just the world airline industry dwarfs world volcanic CO2 emissions with over 3.5 times more CO2
This doesn't mitigate the cost of doing encryption on the server though.
If you ship signed levels, and provide keys in your app for the client to verify them, the cost is at the client.
If you have to use SSL, the cost is at the server. Instead of just caching a single response, or even deferring the request to local content caches (a lot of ISPs use transparent caching proxies, for example), every request has to be individually encrypted, server side.
In a situation where the content is signed anyway, SSL is adding no value - it is indeed, just a sop to the app review team at Amazon who apparently have a big checklist instead of actual skill or experience.
The number one thing I wanted as soon as I tried the market search was the ability to filter on the security permissions.
I was looking for an offline bible reader (for my wife)... yet it was basically impossible to find one that didn't demand internet access, local disk access (is there a permission for an app-level storage folder only?), even access to your contacts and phone logs. I can't help but feel that this situation persists because there is no means of filtering apps that demand excessive permissions out (with an easy UI to help out the noobs) ; developers feel they can get away with this because "everyone else does it" and because they know that people are going to cave eventually rather than manually check the permissions on a thousand applications.
Reminds me of a plot point from The Stainless Steel Rat for President ; one of the characters has the hobby of collecting universities - it's noted that the expensive part is travelling to other worlds, because the university itself costs a pittance and fits into a small data storage device.
I've had instances where I've used the OEM (Dell) supplied install disk, on the original hardware, only for the online activation to fail, and had to ring the activation hotline (which is just a different kind of online activation, because it's a voice robot).
Who's to say how long it is before the activation system just refuses to allow me to reinstall XP altogether?
You could probably make quite an evil fuel-air explosive device about the size of a normal USB stick ; fill the computer case with a flammable gas through the USB port, and electrically ignite it. The overpressure would probably buckle or explode most cases, crack motherboards in half, etc.
I think the main complaint about "unusual compensation" was that they were expected to work huge amounts of overtime, but weren't paid for it unless they stuck with the project until 3 months after it's release date ; this pretty much encourages management to treat people like shit so they will leave and forfeit their (huge) overtime bill.
I hardly think it's "prima donna" to expect to work the time you are contracted for, get paid for your overtime, and have the truth told to you by management (unlike one guy who worked 3 x 100 hour weeks back to back to meet a deadline for a press demo release that never occurred, and was probably just a fabrication to get shitloads of work out of him). Most of these guys are not coders either - the majority of work effort on a game like this is content production.
And as for the Ferraris? To date, LA Noire has sold 1.94 million copies on combined PS3 and Xbox360 sales, on the back of 5 weeks of sales. With a used Ferrari running to about $300,000 I think they could afford a few.
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Or maybe it's a reference to all the little cells in the metal?
So an interesting question would be - did Microsoft supply "enlightened" network drivers for the Linux kernel, or are they only available on Windows?
It's an exercise in mocking the "special considerations" given for religion.
There are presumably good reasons for prohibiting headwear in ID photos. If so, then why are these reasons suspended because you belong to a particular Imaginary Friend Club? By drawing attention to how ludicrous it is to be permitted to wear a colander because you claim that you worship a being composed of pasta and meatballs, he draws attention to how ludicrous it is to claim special headwear privileges for other, similar beliefs.
It's crap because it's hosted in the same old cmd.exe that MS has shipped for years and shares many of it's default behaviours.
* You can't resize it
** You can resize the window smaller, but the actual terminal stays the same size
* It doesn't do copy-on-select, only copy-on-right-click
** This is very annoying when you are used to copy-on-select and middle-click to paste from other environments
* Doesn't support all the keyboard shortcuts that you're used to on other terminals
** Is it possible to add some of this via snap-ins? Was very impressed with the Autocomplete one.
* Operations that you expect to do normal things do odd things
** e.g. - try doing an svnadmin dump > file in a Powershell. Discover to your disgust that your dump file has been totally ruined because Psh has thoughtfully converted the STDOUT from svnadmin it into UTF-16 with a byte-order-mark.
** This is more a Psh thing, than a console thing though - cmd.exe does this properly
When you are used to the terminal emulators that ship with POSIX systems, it's rather frustrating. It's a nice scripting environment - I even think it's superior to bash + GNU for a lot of tasks, but the default terminal for it still blows chunks.
That said... things from cmd.exe / Powershell I'd like to see in bash include...
* Support for cd -N ; where N is a number from the stack of folders recently accessed, also cd - cd + to move up and down stack
** Think this is an enhancement from PSCX
* F7 hotkey that shows your recent command history and lets you choose one to either run now, or edit
I don't know about the "fully floating point audio path", but PulseAudio does support per-application volume faders.
It says it supports floating point sample types, but I don't know if that meets your criteria of being from the hardware up - I guess that would be a driver issue.
The bearing between the fan and the plate is a very small air gap. Because it's small, and because it's constantly being churned around, it's thermal resistance is low.
Because the movement fan part destroys the normal zone of still air around radiator fins it dissipates heat more quickly and efficiently.
The number one vector of infection for religion is getting it from your parents.
Catholics having more children means more Catholics, which means more power to the Catholic church. It's that simple. The reasons they actually state are just to stop them looking like power-mongering assholes.
It would be a serious security breach if you could access the screen buffer from Javascript. You could write al kinds of nasty spy tools that just run in the browser, by dint of visiting a webpage. Insinuate that into a few popular ad servers and watch the corporate espionage roll in...
It's more important than when you are in a city.
Fail to anticipate the time of sunset in the city? You get to eat by neon light.
Fail to anticipate the time of sunset while camping? You have to pitch your tent in darkness.
It always throws me to see Harrison Ford wearing an earring, as he usually does when interviewed - here is a man who epitomizes manliness, wearing jewellery. And often a diamond stud you'd expect to see on your little sister....
Indeed, there's already some impetus to prevent Murdoch buying BSkyB ; that would seem to be a likely reason that he's engaging in this symbolic gesture - to draw attention from this campaign.
Yup, I quit using Thunderbird for two reasons
* My office switched to Exchange ensconced behind a firewall so you could no longer use IMAP
* Thunderbird 3 was downloading all my mail from Google multiple times, and indexing it multiple times, and presenting it in search results multiple times
I think that reveals more about the internal architecture of IE than it says about intrinsic security issues in WebGL.
I now have visions of fossil fuel corporation sponsored wars to destroy hydroelectric dams, because they are un-American.
It's not as if it would be expensive - a couple of cruise missiles with appropriate warheads would probably do the job.
I know this is a funny, but the opposite is true ; one of the suggested geoengineering techniques proposed to reduce global warming is to increase the Earth's albedo (reflectivity) by spouting massive clouds of aerosolized sea water from semi-autonomous ships designed to do so.
But surely, the layer of oxide, being non-conductive, no longer forms part of the conductor, but merely becomes a nice extra layer of insulation protecting the rest of the wire from oxidation?
Probably from inducing supernovae in nearby solar systems. Because it's more "enterprise" than stupid hippy shit like recycling.
removes tongue from cheek
Actually, when "The Icelandic Volcano" erupted, it was calculated that the decrease in airline activity was a net gain in terms of CO2, even with the volcano factored in.
From the figures on the spreadsheet, just the world airline industry dwarfs world volcanic CO2 emissions with over 3.5 times more CO2
This doesn't mitigate the cost of doing encryption on the server though.
If you ship signed levels, and provide keys in your app for the client to verify them, the cost is at the client.
If you have to use SSL, the cost is at the server. Instead of just caching a single response, or even deferring the request to local content caches (a lot of ISPs use transparent caching proxies, for example), every request has to be individually encrypted, server side.
In a situation where the content is signed anyway, SSL is adding no value - it is indeed, just a sop to the app review team at Amazon who apparently have a big checklist instead of actual skill or experience.
The number one thing I wanted as soon as I tried the market search was the ability to filter on the security permissions.
I was looking for an offline bible reader (for my wife)... yet it was basically impossible to find one that didn't demand internet access, local disk access (is there a permission for an app-level storage folder only?), even access to your contacts and phone logs. I can't help but feel that this situation persists because there is no means of filtering apps that demand excessive permissions out (with an easy UI to help out the noobs) ; developers feel they can get away with this because "everyone else does it" and because they know that people are going to cave eventually rather than manually check the permissions on a thousand applications.
Reminds me of a plot point from The Stainless Steel Rat for President ; one of the characters has the hobby of collecting universities - it's noted that the expensive part is travelling to other worlds, because the university itself costs a pittance and fits into a small data storage device.
.NET applications have a fairly fine-grained security model to draw on, but it seems that few people actually use it.
I've had instances where I've used the OEM (Dell) supplied install disk, on the original hardware, only for the online activation to fail, and had to ring the activation hotline (which is just a different kind of online activation, because it's a voice robot).
Who's to say how long it is before the activation system just refuses to allow me to reinstall XP altogether?
You could probably make quite an evil fuel-air explosive device about the size of a normal USB stick ; fill the computer case with a flammable gas through the USB port, and electrically ignite it. The overpressure would probably buckle or explode most cases, crack motherboards in half, etc.
I think the main complaint about "unusual compensation" was that they were expected to work huge amounts of overtime, but weren't paid for it unless they stuck with the project until 3 months after it's release date ; this pretty much encourages management to treat people like shit so they will leave and forfeit their (huge) overtime bill.
I hardly think it's "prima donna" to expect to work the time you are contracted for, get paid for your overtime, and have the truth told to you by management (unlike one guy who worked 3 x 100 hour weeks back to back to meet a deadline for a press demo release that never occurred, and was probably just a fabrication to get shitloads of work out of him). Most of these guys are not coders either - the majority of work effort on a game like this is content production.
And as for the Ferraris? To date, LA Noire has sold 1.94 million copies on combined PS3 and Xbox360 sales, on the back of 5 weeks of sales. With a used Ferrari running to about $300,000 I think they could afford a few.