We blow up foreign infrastructure only to rebuild it.
We give tax breaks while simultaneously starting new spending programs.
We fight poppy growers, who fund terrorism, while simultaneously sustaining an artificially expensive black market for drugs. In a sense, we're both funding and fighting terrorism.
So there's absolutely nothing inconsistent about our behavior here.
Although I never really understood why MS wants to penetrate entrenched markets, I thought the Xbox was turning a profit now... so that must be new R&D or the Zune totally bombing.
Libertarians have a hard time bowing to authority and being labeled.
So a lot of them feel it necessary to rebel against the Libertarian Party, only dooming every libertarian to even further political insignificance.
Hence, every libertarian (one who subscribes to libertarian ideals) is not a Libertarian (one who subscribes to libertarian ideals and belongs to the Libertarian Party). Yawn.
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Sony made it so people don't even care to because pretty much everything people do with modded consoles is made available.
I may or may not agree with your point, but I think that if the grand total is that more information is published, it's a good thing!
If I am a content provider, I will benefit from publishing UNIQUE content, because unique content will rise to the top of the content shit pool, since more sites will aggregate it. It'll actually cause competition and raise humanity's awareness through the intertubes.
Have you ever fucked up your system and had to reboot for hours of trial and error to fix it? Yeah, me neither... oh wait that was yesterday when I upgraded my kernel!
I guess if you have to pee every 5 minutes then it's okay, but a disk check is not necessarily what I want to sit through when I can't sleep until my system is fixed.
Hey man, I'm just playing paranoid devil's advocate. I'd argue that Iran and China are something other than vanilla dictatorships, too. And, well, killing Saddam did pretty much end that government, but apparently the 'democracy' that took it's place isn't the most desirable. I'd argue we could have taken him down without military action, but what's the point?
Pretty much the saving points of a democracy are freedom of the press and constitutional limits... though how effective they are these days in the US is debatable, when virtually every news outlet parrots talking points given to them and every law is unconstitutional.
Exactly. The whole reason I use Linux is because the system is configured from the get-go the way I like. Gnome follows through with that on the UI end. Also, the developer end.
IMO if it takes more than a half hour to configure your OS settings, then you're using the wrong OS or doing it wrong. It used to take me a whole damn day to get Windows set up the way I wanted.
Because obviously you have no other important work to do until it's finished.
Because you just design websites from your mom's basement for some spare cash on the side.
Anyway, browsershots is useful for browsers you don't have installed and want to *eventually* check. This product is for browsers you have installed and want to debug *now*.
A car with "black" paint, as long as that paint reflects UV and IR, and at least scatters some light (You want a glossy paintjob anyway), combined with UV/IR reflective window treatments, will meet the requirement.
So then are you going to be taxed for not washing your car?
The CDs are already in digital format, so compressing them is a cardinal sin.
The photos, movies, and maps are in analog format to start with, so we don't feel so bad using lossy compression. Image files are really big. I think the 1GB estimate per movie is pretty good, considering shorts, black and white, and the standard (or lower) definition of most of them. That would allow for a very high detail scan of the movie in something like MPEG4.
And, since they started in analog formats, there's no fair way to determine what resolution to scan them. I mean, even a million by a million pixels could not be a 'lossless' interpretation of a 1x1cm image, so you have to accept that any digital conversion will be lossy regardless of encoding.
At least that would be my rationale. Not that this question needed to be answered...
Let's just privatize the schools so somebody else has to deal with this nonsense.
Seriously. All other arguments for and against public schools aside. Would a private school have a zero tolerance policy that requires the strip search of a student? Would it be this big of a deal?
And while we're at it, we're always talking about how your employer doesn't have to follow the constitution but the government does, because the constitution is a limit on what government can do and laws are a limit on what private entities can do. How is this any different for schools? If the school is controlled by the state, it would seem that the state has less leeway in terms of these things.
Anyway, that's just some food for thought. I went to a public school and there was none of this trouble.
He's not actually asking for legal advice. He's helping the Streisand effect take hold of the situation so that they get screwed even when he does take the questions down.
Note I don't believe Atheism is legitimate - because you can't prove the absence of something. But functionally, Agnosticism is equivalent to Atheism. I frown at Dawkins (and others) view that Agnostics are cognitively dissodent. It doesn't serve his cause of winning the hearts and minds of the religious, and is provably incorrect.
Atheism just means the absence of belief in god, not the absolute denial of the possibility of existence in god. This is a common misconception. What you are referring to is "hard atheism" which is, more or less, impossible to prove and not really subscribed to.
Self-proclaimed agnostics are either, in reality, "soft atheists" or people pleasers who feel the need to assert their special individuality in such a way that offends the least amount of people.
Basically, if you're not a theist then you're an atheist... because you're without theism. It's not like sexuality where you can swing both ways.
A CPU will produce the heat that will produce the noise! You need to know the size of the dog shit before you know what kind of pooper scooper to get.
I think it would be rather advantageous to know which processor gets the most performance per unit of heat, don't you? Good! Then we're in agreement. In fantasy land, that data would also be relevant to real world usage scenarios instead of being synthetic benchmarks and games.
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So quick to judge.
A "cyber attack" doesn't necessarily mean "internet attack". They could very well send a spy to do the "cyber damage" on an internal network.
It's about my job as a software developer.
It makes perfect sense.
We blow up foreign infrastructure only to rebuild it.
We give tax breaks while simultaneously starting new spending programs.
We fight poppy growers, who fund terrorism, while simultaneously sustaining an artificially expensive black market for drugs. In a sense, we're both funding and fighting terrorism.
So there's absolutely nothing inconsistent about our behavior here.
Although I never really understood why MS wants to penetrate entrenched markets, I thought the Xbox was turning a profit now... so that must be new R&D or the Zune totally bombing.
2008 Q1
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/24/the-xbox-turns-a-profit/
2008 Q2
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/04/25/the-xbox-360-turns-a-profit-again/
All of Mandriva's system utilities use GTK.
I've been using Gnome on Mandriva for years, so apparently their support for both environments is acceptable.
What?
Libertarians have a hard time bowing to authority and being labeled.
So a lot of them feel it necessary to rebel against the Libertarian Party, only dooming every libertarian to even further political insignificance.
Hence, every libertarian (one who subscribes to libertarian ideals) is not a Libertarian (one who subscribes to libertarian ideals and belongs to the Libertarian Party). Yawn.
Sony made it so people don't even care to because pretty much everything people do with modded consoles is made available.
Except pirate games... and now play PS2 games.
2) publish something
I may or may not agree with your point, but I think that if the grand total is that more information is published, it's a good thing!
If I am a content provider, I will benefit from publishing UNIQUE content, because unique content will rise to the top of the content shit pool, since more sites will aggregate it. It'll actually cause competition and raise humanity's awareness through the intertubes.
Am I am being hopelessly optimistic? Probably.
And how much sunlight do you think Wisconsin gets?
Did you even read the fucking summary?!
Have you ever fucked up your system and had to reboot for hours of trial and error to fix it? Yeah, me neither... oh wait that was yesterday when I upgraded my kernel!
I guess if you have to pee every 5 minutes then it's okay, but a disk check is not necessarily what I want to sit through when I can't sleep until my system is fixed.
Hey man, I'm just playing paranoid devil's advocate. I'd argue that Iran and China are something other than vanilla dictatorships, too. And, well, killing Saddam did pretty much end that government, but apparently the 'democracy' that took it's place isn't the most desirable. I'd argue we could have taken him down without military action, but what's the point?
Pretty much the saving points of a democracy are freedom of the press and constitutional limits... though how effective they are these days in the US is debatable, when virtually every news outlet parrots talking points given to them and every law is unconstitutional.
Ok smart guy, so how do you reassign F11 and have it actually function in Xcode?
It's easier to stop one insane man than it is a bureaucracy with delusions of ultimate justification (the will of the people).
Not if I encrypt my house and they have to decrypt it to see it!! Pure genius!!!
In the US, you are more likely to live in a rural or suburban areas yet still require cellular access.
And how long will it be before I start compiling my own version of Firefox?
Exactly. The whole reason I use Linux is because the system is configured from the get-go the way I like. Gnome follows through with that on the UI end. Also, the developer end.
IMO if it takes more than a half hour to configure your OS settings, then you're using the wrong OS or doing it wrong. It used to take me a whole damn day to get Windows set up the way I wanted.
Because obviously you have no other important work to do until it's finished.
Because you just design websites from your mom's basement for some spare cash on the side.
Anyway, browsershots is useful for browsers you don't have installed and want to *eventually* check. This product is for browsers you have installed and want to debug *now*.
A car with "black" paint, as long as that paint reflects UV and IR, and at least scatters some light (You want a glossy paintjob anyway), combined with UV/IR reflective window treatments, will meet the requirement.
So then are you going to be taxed for not washing your car?
The CDs are already in digital format, so compressing them is a cardinal sin.
The photos, movies, and maps are in analog format to start with, so we don't feel so bad using lossy compression. Image files are really big. I think the 1GB estimate per movie is pretty good, considering shorts, black and white, and the standard (or lower) definition of most of them. That would allow for a very high detail scan of the movie in something like MPEG4.
And, since they started in analog formats, there's no fair way to determine what resolution to scan them. I mean, even a million by a million pixels could not be a 'lossless' interpretation of a 1x1cm image, so you have to accept that any digital conversion will be lossy regardless of encoding.
At least that would be my rationale. Not that this question needed to be answered...
Let's just privatize the schools so somebody else has to deal with this nonsense.
Seriously. All other arguments for and against public schools aside. Would a private school have a zero tolerance policy that requires the strip search of a student? Would it be this big of a deal?
And while we're at it, we're always talking about how your employer doesn't have to follow the constitution but the government does, because the constitution is a limit on what government can do and laws are a limit on what private entities can do. How is this any different for schools? If the school is controlled by the state, it would seem that the state has less leeway in terms of these things.
Anyway, that's just some food for thought. I went to a public school and there was none of this trouble.
He's not actually asking for legal advice. He's helping the Streisand effect take hold of the situation so that they get screwed even when he does take the questions down.
Note I don't believe Atheism is legitimate - because you can't prove the absence of something. But functionally, Agnosticism is equivalent to Atheism. I frown at Dawkins (and others) view that Agnostics are cognitively dissodent. It doesn't serve his cause of winning the hearts and minds of the religious, and is provably incorrect.
Atheism just means the absence of belief in god, not the absolute denial of the possibility of existence in god. This is a common misconception. What you are referring to is "hard atheism" which is, more or less, impossible to prove and not really subscribed to.
Self-proclaimed agnostics are either, in reality, "soft atheists" or people pleasers who feel the need to assert their special individuality in such a way that offends the least amount of people.
Basically, if you're not a theist then you're an atheist... because you're without theism. It's not like sexuality where you can swing both ways.
A CPU will produce the heat that will produce the noise! You need to know the size of the dog shit before you know what kind of pooper scooper to get.
I think it would be rather advantageous to know which processor gets the most performance per unit of heat, don't you? Good! Then we're in agreement. In fantasy land, that data would also be relevant to real world usage scenarios instead of being synthetic benchmarks and games.