OS'es and office suites need to be patched to keep up with the changing hardware.
I can understand OSes needing to be patched, but why the hell would an Office suite need to be changed due to changing hardware? Don't say something like "to print, dumbass", either... all that needs to happen for printing is a call to the "print" function of the OS, which shouldn't change its name at all. Any specific tools such as a touchpad or something should be as a plugin or module, so really there is nothing that an Office suite should need for changing hardware, so the service packs must all be bug fixes.
As to your friend - I feel sorry for him but I don't consider that at all unacceptable.
You think it's acceptable that someone is riding on something $5000, and happens to be Vietnamese, is getting pulled into the police station because of his race? You think it's REASONABLE for a cop to "pull him over" because of that?
I have to carry papers for my car. I know the issue is because he's being profiled unfairly, but to some extent it is out of the ordinary and if you are going to be doing unusual things around police why is it such a burden to carry some proof what you're doing is OK?
Yes, you do, that's for if you break the law in some other way, such as not stopping at a red light. You don't get pulled over because you "look poor" and are "driving an expensive car". Plus, since when was it unusual or suspicious for a person to ride a bike around?
As far as "unusual" goes, I don't exactly want to carry around papers saying it's okay for me to do something, regardless of what it looks like. As long as I'm not doing anything illegal, I don't ever, EVER, want to have a police officer talk to me, unless he is just being friendly, as in "Hey how's it going? Nice weather today, isn't it?", not "What the hell do you think you are doing? Explain yourself or I'm going to arrest you!", in which case my response would be a big "Fuck you.".
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Some days even working the scrollywheel on/. is too much effort...
No kidding, I'll open up an article, read some comments, scroll, etc, for awhile, then scroll down as far as possible until im at where I left off at the top, then rest my arms in my lap or on my chair. After I'm done reading everything on the page, I'll generally stare at the screen for a good 5 minutes, then fall asleep. I just can't get the courage to lift my hand up and scroll down some more...
Right, that thing will set a boat on fire... maybe a small fire from 2 feet away...
I remember that there was an episode that they did this with, way before the MIT thing, and they took into consideration the materials the boats were made from, the fact that Arcimedes used bronze shields to do it, with the soldiers as the individual mirrors, and they couldn't successfully set the boat on fire because it was just too damn hard to get everyone to aim it correctly. So they made a giant thing that was already aimed, and they managed to only get a small fire off on the boat, if I remember correctly.
Recently Jennifer Garner did a recruiting commercial for the CIA. When I saw it, my first reaction was, "how do I know you're recruiting for the CIA and not for some other organization posing as the CIA?"
Because Sydney Bristow is a good person, just like Sloane was before she found out about him. So you know it's the real CIA.
One more variant, also due to Gardner or one of his readers: Suppose
that you speak the local language (shared by truth-tellers and liars)
perfectly, except you have forgotten if "pish" means yes and "tush"
means no, or vice versa, and that your question must be in a form
that requires a yes/no (well, pish/tush) answer.
"If path A is a path to your village, say 'pish'; otherwise, say 'tush'."
If they answer "no", that means you can take the other path safely no matter what. If they answer "yes", then you can take that path no matter what.
See, if they are a liar and they say path A isn't their path, then path B is safe. If they are a truth teller and they say path A isn't a path to their village, then path B is safe in this instance as well.
If they are a liar and they say path A IS their path, then path A is safe. If they are a truth teller and they say path A is a path to their village, then path A is safe in this instance as well.
So, if you ask "is this the path to your village?", what you are really asking, no matter what type of person they are, their answer will be "yes" on the path of life, and "no" on the path of death.
While I will agree that X may not be the most efficient peice of work in the world, I will also point out that neither is Windows or Mac. What we need is for top developers from all three and a few extra people who HAVEN'T ever touched a backend of a GUI to collaborate and share their findings with each other, then write a completely new one 100% from scratch. This way, we not only get the best out of what we currently have, but we get outsiders to point out how stupid certain ideas of theirs are.
Suppose the temperate band moves 5 degrees towards the poles, what happens? Would there be the same amount of arable land, or more, or less? Hint: the world is round like a ball. The further north you go from the equator, the less the diameter is, and consequently the less surface there is per degree.
The way the equator is the hottest place is because that is just where the sun happens to hit the surface of the Earth head on. When you shift the planet's temperate band 5 degrees north on one side of the planet, the band moves 5 degrees south on the other side. It doesn't matter where you place the Earth, since it's a sphere it will still hit at exactly a diameter the most. Did you think the equator was a diameter (whatever the term is for the circle created by the diameter of a sphere, I've forgotten) is just a coincidence?
Maybe not "wars" per say, but massive bombings of every nation on the planet. The bombs would produce some heatfor the people in the nations, and we'd all be just a bit happier. Probably the only instance where a nation would thank another for bombing them.
IMHO, this is not about 'protecting the children', it is about Yahoo protecting itself.
I don't think it's about either. I think it's about two things, first, reducing their bandwidth by 90%. Second, trying to increase the intelligence of the average teen by trying to cut out their retard spawning pool.
That's why there are complicated algorithms that try to detect if it's "close enough" to match.
I'm sure it's possible to create a specialized hash algorithm that based on the fingerprint information given, will be "close enough" to generate the same hash.
Graph y=int(x), or y=round(x,0), and you'll see what I mean. From 1-2 the output is 1, from 2-3 the output is 2, from 3-4 the output is 3, etc. You can cause inaccuracies in the fingerprint to output the same letter in the hash value.
Like double negatives, English has long used split infinatives. Most Germanic languages have the ability to split infinatives and (I believe) many actually do so. The whole BS of not splitting the infinative came about because 18th and 19th century grammarians wanted to make English more like Latin (which cannot split infinatives because the infinative is one whole word/unit). Spelling, too, is only a recent convention and is one I'd rather see go the way of the Dodo as well as I am a dyslexic with an MA in English.
Maybe you were dyslexic, but you aren't now, that's for sure. The only misspelling you made was "infinative", which should be "infinitive", and since you misspelled it more than once in the same way, I can tell it has nothing to do with your dyslexia, you just didn't know how to spell it right.
I don't know of any free software operating system that includes only software licensed under the GNU GPL. Which free software operating system does this?
Debian & Debian derivatives. Since that covers 3/4ths of all distros, I'm just going to stop there.
the close window control is supposed to close a window, and not shut down the application. you may be used to windows, where closing the last open window also shuts down the app, but many ux peeps will tell you this is not a good assumption to make: if you close the last window of a database server (say, a query window), do you want the database to shut down? if you close the last window to your mail app, do you want all mail services to shut down (i like still being able to see when ive got incoming mail)? the apple ux teams position on these things and others are well known (try google)
If I close the last window of my database, mail, or any client, I want the client to close. The server is a separate application, and shouldn't be affected whatsoever by the client quitting, I don't know why you are mixing these two applications up. When I close my web browser, I don't want Slashdot, or my local, web server to go down. They are completely unrelated applications, and should be treated as such.
A mail client for instance, say you use Thunderbird, has absolutely nothing to do with an SMTP server, such as Sendmail. It's not even made by the same people...
You can't use them to protect your hard drive. All it takes to get the data off is for someone to pull the hard drive out and put it in a different system. You are better off sticking with PGP, which actually encrypts the data.
In Windows maybe, but I'm sure in *nix you could set it up to read the data off the finger print device as if it were a hash, then decrypt an encrypted partition with that.
Example (/dev/fpd1 being finger print device 1,/dev/XdXX being the drive type, drive identification, and partition number, and fphash_prog being the program to access the fingerprint hash from the biometric device):
As if DV doesn't already involve some kind of compression?
I don't know where you've been the last few years, but "compression" is a thing of the past! All our video stores every object in 3 dimensions that ever existed at that point in time. It's a full snapshot of the universe, on a USB Pen Drive. Wake up people!
Did anyone else think of "The Big Hit" with this post?
Dude1: This muthafucka is a trace busta. This busts their tracer so they can't trace our call.
Dude2: What if they have a trace buster, too?
Dude1: That's why we have the trace busta, BUSTA! This muthafucka busts their bust of our trace busta, which busts the bust of their, uh.... uh....
Dude2: Trace!
Dude1: Yeah!
...
Guy on other end: So you have a trace buster, buster, huh. Well say hello to my trace buster buster BUSTER.
I know that I tend to react "guiltily" to being challenged, regardless of whether I'm actually in the wrong. I suspect this is a consequence of the fact that, when one's parents are enraged at, for example, the paint on the walls, one's guilt or innocence (no really, my sister did it) ceases to be an issue. Then if, as I suspect, the detectable physiological reaction to guilt is fear-based, it could be that the so-called "liars" just had parents who were a bit hasty with the shouting and the smacking and the grounding. Hardly a basis on which to lock them up.
Wow, mod parent up. I've been trying to put that into words for over 17 years now, and you just did it for me.
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OS'es and office suites need to be patched to keep up with the changing hardware.
I can understand OSes needing to be patched, but why the hell would an Office suite need to be changed due to changing hardware? Don't say something like "to print, dumbass", either... all that needs to happen for printing is a call to the "print" function of the OS, which shouldn't change its name at all. Any specific tools such as a touchpad or something should be as a plugin or module, so really there is nothing that an Office suite should need for changing hardware, so the service packs must all be bug fixes.
As to your friend - I feel sorry for him but I don't consider that at all unacceptable.
You think it's acceptable that someone is riding on something $5000, and happens to be Vietnamese, is getting pulled into the police station because of his race? You think it's REASONABLE for a cop to "pull him over" because of that?
I have to carry papers for my car. I know the issue is because he's being profiled unfairly, but to some extent it is out of the ordinary and if you are going to be doing unusual things around police why is it such a burden to carry some proof what you're doing is OK?
Yes, you do, that's for if you break the law in some other way, such as not stopping at a red light. You don't get pulled over because you "look poor" and are "driving an expensive car". Plus, since when was it unusual or suspicious for a person to ride a bike around?
As far as "unusual" goes, I don't exactly want to carry around papers saying it's okay for me to do something, regardless of what it looks like. As long as I'm not doing anything illegal, I don't ever, EVER, want to have a police officer talk to me, unless he is just being friendly, as in "Hey how's it going? Nice weather today, isn't it?", not "What the hell do you think you are doing? Explain yourself or I'm going to arrest you!", in which case my response would be a big "Fuck you.".
Some days even working the scrollywheel on /. is too much effort...
No kidding, I'll open up an article, read some comments, scroll, etc, for awhile, then scroll down as far as possible until im at where I left off at the top, then rest my arms in my lap or on my chair. After I'm done reading everything on the page, I'll generally stare at the screen for a good 5 minutes, then fall asleep. I just can't get the courage to lift my hand up and scroll down some more...
Well, currently, even the best artificial limbs are a poor substitute for the genuine article.
That's the Genuine Advantage!
Right, that thing will set a boat on fire... maybe a small fire from 2 feet away...
I remember that there was an episode that they did this with, way before the MIT thing, and they took into consideration the materials the boats were made from, the fact that Arcimedes used bronze shields to do it, with the soldiers as the individual mirrors, and they couldn't successfully set the boat on fire because it was just too damn hard to get everyone to aim it correctly. So they made a giant thing that was already aimed, and they managed to only get a small fire off on the boat, if I remember correctly.
Recently Jennifer Garner did a recruiting commercial for the CIA. When I saw it, my first reaction was, "how do I know you're recruiting for the CIA and not for some other organization posing as the CIA?"
Because Sydney Bristow is a good person, just like Sloane was before she found out about him. So you know it's the real CIA.
Ahh, that looks like a classic TI-89/92/V200 message.
Not classic, TI-89 Platinum.
One more variant, also due to Gardner or one of his readers: Suppose that you speak the local language (shared by truth-tellers and liars) perfectly, except you have forgotten if "pish" means yes and "tush" means no, or vice versa, and that your question must be in a form that requires a yes/no (well, pish/tush) answer.
"If path A is a path to your village, say 'pish'; otherwise, say 'tush'."
No questions required.
If they answer "no", that means you can take the other path safely no matter what. If they answer "yes", then you can take that path no matter what.
See, if they are a liar and they say path A isn't their path, then path B is safe. If they are a truth teller and they say path A isn't a path to their village, then path B is safe in this instance as well.
If they are a liar and they say path A IS their path, then path A is safe. If they are a truth teller and they say path A is a path to their village, then path A is safe in this instance as well.
So, if you ask "is this the path to your village?", what you are really asking, no matter what type of person they are, their answer will be "yes" on the path of life, and "no" on the path of death.
"Warning: 0^0 replaced by 1"
I have a feeling that means it's not ACTUALLY 1.
Thanks for quoting an article from 1992.
While I will agree that X may not be the most efficient peice of work in the world, I will also point out that neither is Windows or Mac. What we need is for top developers from all three and a few extra people who HAVEN'T ever touched a backend of a GUI to collaborate and share their findings with each other, then write a completely new one 100% from scratch. This way, we not only get the best out of what we currently have, but we get outsiders to point out how stupid certain ideas of theirs are.
Oh my god, I think I'm going to puke.
His bone was exposed due to the skin cancer? That hole in his wrist was huge!
Suppose the temperate band moves 5 degrees towards the poles, what happens? Would there be the same amount of arable land, or more, or less? Hint: the world is round like a ball. The further north you go from the equator, the less the diameter is, and consequently the less surface there is per degree.
The way the equator is the hottest place is because that is just where the sun happens to hit the surface of the Earth head on. When you shift the planet's temperate band 5 degrees north on one side of the planet, the band moves 5 degrees south on the other side. It doesn't matter where you place the Earth, since it's a sphere it will still hit at exactly a diameter the most. Did you think the equator was a diameter (whatever the term is for the circle created by the diameter of a sphere, I've forgotten) is just a coincidence?
Crop failures, harsh winters, OK..
Wars?
How does a mini ice age cause wars?
Maybe not "wars" per say, but massive bombings of every nation on the planet. The bombs would produce some heatfor the people in the nations, and we'd all be just a bit happier. Probably the only instance where a nation would thank another for bombing them.
IMHO, this is not about 'protecting the children', it is about Yahoo protecting itself.
I don't think it's about either. I think it's about two things, first, reducing their bandwidth by 90%. Second, trying to increase the intelligence of the average teen by trying to cut out their retard spawning pool.
lol, roflmao, jk u no!!!11
That's why there are complicated algorithms that try to detect if it's "close enough" to match.
I'm sure it's possible to create a specialized hash algorithm that based on the fingerprint information given, will be "close enough" to generate the same hash.
Graph y=int(x), or y=round(x,0), and you'll see what I mean. From 1-2 the output is 1, from 2-3 the output is 2, from 3-4 the output is 3, etc. You can cause inaccuracies in the fingerprint to output the same letter in the hash value.
misspelled
Get a dikshunarie.
Like double negatives, English has long used split infinatives. Most Germanic languages have the ability to split infinatives and (I believe) many actually do so. The whole BS of not splitting the infinative came about because 18th and 19th century grammarians wanted to make English more like Latin (which cannot split infinatives because the infinative is one whole word/unit). Spelling, too, is only a recent convention and is one I'd rather see go the way of the Dodo as well as I am a dyslexic with an MA in English.
Maybe you were dyslexic, but you aren't now, that's for sure. The only misspelling you made was "infinative", which should be "infinitive", and since you misspelled it more than once in the same way, I can tell it has nothing to do with your dyslexia, you just didn't know how to spell it right.
I don't know of any free software operating system that includes only software licensed under the GNU GPL. Which free software operating system does this?
Debian & Debian derivatives. Since that covers 3/4ths of all distros, I'm just going to stop there.
the close window control is supposed to close a window, and not shut down the application. you may be used to windows, where closing the last open window also shuts down the app, but many ux peeps will tell you this is not a good assumption to make: if you close the last window of a database server (say, a query window), do you want the database to shut down? if you close the last window to your mail app, do you want all mail services to shut down (i like still being able to see when ive got incoming mail)? the apple ux teams position on these things and others are well known (try google)
If I close the last window of my database, mail, or any client, I want the client to close. The server is a separate application, and shouldn't be affected whatsoever by the client quitting, I don't know why you are mixing these two applications up. When I close my web browser, I don't want Slashdot, or my local, web server to go down. They are completely unrelated applications, and should be treated as such.
A mail client for instance, say you use Thunderbird, has absolutely nothing to do with an SMTP server, such as Sendmail. It's not even made by the same people...
You can't use them to protect your hard drive. All it takes to get the data off is for someone to pull the hard drive out and put it in a different system. You are better off sticking with PGP, which actually encrypts the data.
/dev/XdXX being the drive type, drive identification, and partition number, and fphash_prog being the program to access the fingerprint hash from the biometric device):
/dev/loop0 /dev/XdXX
/dev/loop0 /secured_data_mount_point
In Windows maybe, but I'm sure in *nix you could set it up to read the data off the finger print device as if it were a hash, then decrypt an encrypted partition with that.
Example (/dev/fpd1 being finger print device 1,
fphash_prog | losetup -e aes-256 -C 123 -S whateverblah
mount
As if DV doesn't already involve some kind of compression?
I don't know where you've been the last few years, but "compression" is a thing of the past! All our video stores every object in 3 dimensions that ever existed at that point in time. It's a full snapshot of the universe, on a USB Pen Drive. Wake up people!
Did anyone else think of "The Big Hit" with this post?
...
Dude1: This muthafucka is a trace busta. This busts their tracer so they can't trace our call.
Dude2: What if they have a trace buster, too?
Dude1: That's why we have the trace busta, BUSTA! This muthafucka busts their bust of our trace busta, which busts the bust of their, uh.... uh....
Dude2: Trace!
Dude1: Yeah!
Guy on other end: So you have a trace buster, buster, huh. Well say hello to my trace buster buster BUSTER.
I know that I tend to react "guiltily" to being challenged, regardless of whether I'm actually in the wrong. I suspect this is a consequence of the fact that, when one's parents are enraged at, for example, the paint on the walls, one's guilt or innocence (no really, my sister did it) ceases to be an issue. Then if, as I suspect, the detectable physiological reaction to guilt is fear-based, it could be that the so-called "liars" just had parents who were a bit hasty with the shouting and the smacking and the grounding. Hardly a basis on which to lock them up.
Wow, mod parent up. I've been trying to put that into words for over 17 years now, and you just did it for me.
My question is, is it the "GP2X" or the "GPX2"?
http://www.gp2x.co.uk/
Look at the actual device, it says "GPX2" on it, yet the rest of the site and everyone else is calling it the "GP2X"... O_o