Accidentally hitting someone with a car and accidentally hitting someone with a car after you've swilled half a bottle of Gold Schlager would be treated differently. Accidents happen. Deliberately fucking with hospital systems in a way that you KNOW could cause damages and even get someone killed is not an accident.
This reminds me of a time when I snagged a secondhand 40GB hard drive from a local computer shop to put in my father-in-law's computer to give him more space. It had someone else's data all over it. I called the shop to let them know that they'd sold a hard drive with someone's data on it and they didn't seem to care. Needless to say, I advised the father-in-law to never go back to that shop again. If I'd been just a tad more malicious, I would've gone through the data on the hard drive to get some contact info on the former owner and let him know what had happened.
The only other time I went back to that place is when I needed a USB and DVI cable for a new computer I'd gotten for the father-in-law. The asshats wanted $30 for a DVI cable and $15 for a USB cable. When I said that was a bit high, the dipshit behind the counter fumbled out an excuse that there was some kind of shortage on DVI cables. I left and went to another shop that sold me a DVI cable for $10 and a USB cable for $3.
Kind of a digression, but I guess the moral of the story is that selling something with someone else's data on it is a great way to lose business.
That's all well and dandy when you've already made some money writing, but how the hell is a fledgling author going to pay a qualified editor to go over his whole novel? That's an awfully big gamble when the publisher could take care of it.
Self-publication works for this guy because he already has his name out there and a base of readers. If you're just starting out and you have a choice between a publisher deal and self-publishing, the publisher would probably be a helluva lot better in the long run. You don't get much of anything in the way of marketing when you self-publish. Also, like you said, EDITORS. Your "final draft" might still need some editorial touches that can make a major difference in a book. If you get a decent readerbase with a publisher, THEN you can think of self-publication.
Dean Koontz a literary genius? Stop reading books. Now. Koontz is a hack. He's a good hack and a readable one, but he's still a hack. Koontz made a damned good psycho character...once, and then he reused him over and over and over with a few modifications. The main characters often lack major flaws that make them more human. He goes for "good guys" that might have a few issues, but are often still boy scouts. I stopped reading Koontz around "Corner of His Eye". I'd read maybe a dozen of his books or more from the local used bookstore. I realized that the guy recycles way too much material from book to book. He's still written some decent, readable novels. Lightning was good. Phantoms scared the shit out of me when I first read it as a teenager (although the movie was ass), Darkfall was creepy as hell around the same time, and Watchers was solid, but they're not great books, and Koontz is not a literary genius, period.
Solar power still has a long way to go before it's viable, both as a power source and as an economical power source. I sure as hell hope it gets there soon (I keep seeing stories about breakthroughs in solar, but have yet to see these seriously materialize in the market), but it isn't there yet and we can't say when it will be.
And quite frankly, if what I hear about breeder reactors is true, I'm surprised that the US hasn't build one at Hanford and fed all that leaking nuclear waste to it. Power and disposal all in one.
My understanding is that breeder reactors and pebble bed reactors wouldn't have had the problem that hit the plant in Japan. That and breeder reactors have the added benefit of eating nuclear waste over and over until whatever is left might make you sneeze. Maybe I'm completely off on that, but why do we need a new design on this kind of reactor unless it's relatively simple to retrofit older reactors?
In all likelihood, it is an Apple problem, probably drivers or firmware. Regardless, it'll probably be fixed within a few weeks.
This (and price, of course) is why I wait to buy refurbs from the online Apple Store if I'm eyeballing a specific model. Just like new, same warranty as new, but a good deal cheaper, and by the time refurbs show up, the kinks like this are probably worked out.
It may not even be the ATI driver specifically, but the Intel/ATI video card switching. I've seen a lot of reports of WoW crashing on the new MBPs, and turning off auto-switching seems to greatly alleviate the problem. Hopefully it's something that a firmware/software update will fix shortly.
Although how they don't manage to catch this crap in testing is beyond me.
And you have to be a fucking idiot to think I'm a religious zealot for believing that when I'm an agnostic.
Like I said below, are we supposed to let him keep trying until he succeeds? He sure didn't know that it was a cop. He had every intention of following through with this as the evidence has overwhelmingly shown, emoticons or no.
So using that logic, you're free to try and kill someone as long as they don't know it, and trying to do so isn't a crime...until you succeed. Nevermind that you've already shown yourself capable of performing such an act and made a real attempt to carry it out. Nevermind that there IS a danger to that person whether they know it or not. You cannot look at things purely in retrospect. Conspiracy to commit murder is very much a crime, and if you can't see why that is, then I honestly cannot fathom what kind of warped mind you have. When sufficient measures have been taken to commit a crime and everything points to someone making an attempt to carry it out, then what the fuck are you supposed to do, just wait for it to happen? If a van full of armed (and let's say that the firearms are legal for argument's sake) guys in masks gets pulled over a block from a bank and you find incontrovertible evidence that they are going to rob that bank, are you just supposed to let them go until they try and very possibly get people killed?
Now apply that to this case. The guy showed that he was perfectly willing to screw a 13 year old. That alone isn't a crime, but attempting to do so is, and there is a good reason for this. He had no idea it was a cop, and if it had been a 13 year old girl, what then? So if this wasn't a crime, then once again, he's free to keep trying until he succeeds, and then it's crime. Sorry, but I don't buy that. If a person has demonstrated that they're more than willing to break the law and make a solid attempt to break the law, then they go to jail.
The laws of physics are the laws of physics, but if you think those are the only laws upon which societal laws should be based, then I'd say you're seriously deluded.
Funny, the courts would disagree that no crime was committed. If I hire a hitman to kill someone, is it only a crime if that guy actually kills the person? Sending pictures could potentially be written off, but trying to meet up with a 13 year old girl to shag her is very much a crime.
Furthermore, the guy KNEW that what he was doing could get him thrown in prison.
And even furthermore, writing off everyone who is opposed to this sort of thing as a "religious zealot" only makes you look like an idiot. You don't have to be a "religious zealot" to believe that a 60 year old man should be incarcerated for trying to bang a 13 year old girl. This is a mindset that is shared by 99%+ of the civilized world. I think YOU need to get over yourself and YOUR self-righteousness.
He sent what he believed to be a 13 year old girl pictures of his junk and then arranged to meet her at a fast food joint for a "sleep over". The whole "using a computer" bit is just clarification. The guy was trying to diddle a 13 year old. I have zero sympathy.
Not to mention that they didn't even use the native browser on each platform, but a custom app, which makes this test even more irrelevant. If you want to measure browser performance, then use the bundled browser that the vast majority of users will be using.
THIS. Bad test is bad. If you want a good measure of performance, use the native browser on each as that's what the vast majority of users are going to use.
Exactly. Sorry Moot, you have a good point, but Zuckerberg didn't hear you over the sound of how much money he made in the time it took you to make that statement. Moot seems to genuinely care about online anonymity, but Zuckerberg cares about making money and doesn't think twice about selling every piece of info he has on you to anyone who wants it.
Wow. The idea of launching stuff in a parabola is one thing, but that's almost 100% identical to Angry Birds with slightly different controls and different graphics. There's no way AB wasn't a ripoff of that game.
Wait, you mean Jeff Goldblum's character actually had access to that ship for 50 years? No, it was a matter of hours between his idea and the complete virus that disabled the shields. Even if he did, all the military had been able to do was fudge around with it. They couldn't even switch the damned thing on until the mothership arrived in orbit. How is THAT not so simple and dumbed down to border on retardation? Do you even think before you post?
And all of the above is true, more or less. What so many/.ers and geeks in general can't grasp is that there are people out there who have valid reasons for seeing things differently and wanting different things. It's sad, really.
Yeah, but Goldblum had never seen their computers and wouldn't have the foggiest damned clue how to infect their OS. Just because some scientists fumbled around and figured out how to interface with it doesn't mean that someone completely new to it could figure out how to break it.
So...all computers can get infected with a single virus? Just because it's a binary computer doesn't mean that you can figure out how to infect it within a few hours. Did Goldblum just download Metasploit for AlienOS? It's still a massive, gaping plothole.
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Accidentally hitting someone with a car and accidentally hitting someone with a car after you've swilled half a bottle of Gold Schlager would be treated differently. Accidents happen. Deliberately fucking with hospital systems in a way that you KNOW could cause damages and even get someone killed is not an accident.
This reminds me of a time when I snagged a secondhand 40GB hard drive from a local computer shop to put in my father-in-law's computer to give him more space. It had someone else's data all over it. I called the shop to let them know that they'd sold a hard drive with someone's data on it and they didn't seem to care. Needless to say, I advised the father-in-law to never go back to that shop again. If I'd been just a tad more malicious, I would've gone through the data on the hard drive to get some contact info on the former owner and let him know what had happened.
The only other time I went back to that place is when I needed a USB and DVI cable for a new computer I'd gotten for the father-in-law. The asshats wanted $30 for a DVI cable and $15 for a USB cable. When I said that was a bit high, the dipshit behind the counter fumbled out an excuse that there was some kind of shortage on DVI cables. I left and went to another shop that sold me a DVI cable for $10 and a USB cable for $3.
Kind of a digression, but I guess the moral of the story is that selling something with someone else's data on it is a great way to lose business.
That's all well and dandy when you've already made some money writing, but how the hell is a fledgling author going to pay a qualified editor to go over his whole novel? That's an awfully big gamble when the publisher could take care of it.
And I'm sure it's financially feasible to hire a qualified editor to go over your entire novel when you're just starting out as an author.
Self-publication works for this guy because he already has his name out there and a base of readers. If you're just starting out and you have a choice between a publisher deal and self-publishing, the publisher would probably be a helluva lot better in the long run. You don't get much of anything in the way of marketing when you self-publish. Also, like you said, EDITORS. Your "final draft" might still need some editorial touches that can make a major difference in a book. If you get a decent readerbase with a publisher, THEN you can think of self-publication.
Dean Koontz a literary genius? Stop reading books. Now. Koontz is a hack. He's a good hack and a readable one, but he's still a hack. Koontz made a damned good psycho character...once, and then he reused him over and over and over with a few modifications. The main characters often lack major flaws that make them more human. He goes for "good guys" that might have a few issues, but are often still boy scouts. I stopped reading Koontz around "Corner of His Eye". I'd read maybe a dozen of his books or more from the local used bookstore. I realized that the guy recycles way too much material from book to book. He's still written some decent, readable novels. Lightning was good. Phantoms scared the shit out of me when I first read it as a teenager (although the movie was ass), Darkfall was creepy as hell around the same time, and Watchers was solid, but they're not great books, and Koontz is not a literary genius, period.
Solar power still has a long way to go before it's viable, both as a power source and as an economical power source. I sure as hell hope it gets there soon (I keep seeing stories about breakthroughs in solar, but have yet to see these seriously materialize in the market), but it isn't there yet and we can't say when it will be.
And quite frankly, if what I hear about breeder reactors is true, I'm surprised that the US hasn't build one at Hanford and fed all that leaking nuclear waste to it. Power and disposal all in one.
My understanding is that breeder reactors and pebble bed reactors wouldn't have had the problem that hit the plant in Japan. That and breeder reactors have the added benefit of eating nuclear waste over and over until whatever is left might make you sneeze. Maybe I'm completely off on that, but why do we need a new design on this kind of reactor unless it's relatively simple to retrofit older reactors?
In all likelihood, it is an Apple problem, probably drivers or firmware. Regardless, it'll probably be fixed within a few weeks.
This (and price, of course) is why I wait to buy refurbs from the online Apple Store if I'm eyeballing a specific model. Just like new, same warranty as new, but a good deal cheaper, and by the time refurbs show up, the kinks like this are probably worked out.
It may not even be the ATI driver specifically, but the Intel/ATI video card switching. I've seen a lot of reports of WoW crashing on the new MBPs, and turning off auto-switching seems to greatly alleviate the problem. Hopefully it's something that a firmware/software update will fix shortly.
Although how they don't manage to catch this crap in testing is beyond me.
And you have to be a fucking idiot to think I'm a religious zealot for believing that when I'm an agnostic.
Like I said below, are we supposed to let him keep trying until he succeeds? He sure didn't know that it was a cop. He had every intention of following through with this as the evidence has overwhelmingly shown, emoticons or no.
So using that logic, you're free to try and kill someone as long as they don't know it, and trying to do so isn't a crime...until you succeed. Nevermind that you've already shown yourself capable of performing such an act and made a real attempt to carry it out. Nevermind that there IS a danger to that person whether they know it or not. You cannot look at things purely in retrospect. Conspiracy to commit murder is very much a crime, and if you can't see why that is, then I honestly cannot fathom what kind of warped mind you have. When sufficient measures have been taken to commit a crime and everything points to someone making an attempt to carry it out, then what the fuck are you supposed to do, just wait for it to happen? If a van full of armed (and let's say that the firearms are legal for argument's sake) guys in masks gets pulled over a block from a bank and you find incontrovertible evidence that they are going to rob that bank, are you just supposed to let them go until they try and very possibly get people killed?
Now apply that to this case. The guy showed that he was perfectly willing to screw a 13 year old. That alone isn't a crime, but attempting to do so is, and there is a good reason for this. He had no idea it was a cop, and if it had been a 13 year old girl, what then? So if this wasn't a crime, then once again, he's free to keep trying until he succeeds, and then it's crime. Sorry, but I don't buy that. If a person has demonstrated that they're more than willing to break the law and make a solid attempt to break the law, then they go to jail.
The laws of physics are the laws of physics, but if you think those are the only laws upon which societal laws should be based, then I'd say you're seriously deluded.
Funny, the courts would disagree that no crime was committed. If I hire a hitman to kill someone, is it only a crime if that guy actually kills the person? Sending pictures could potentially be written off, but trying to meet up with a 13 year old girl to shag her is very much a crime.
Furthermore, the guy KNEW that what he was doing could get him thrown in prison.
And even furthermore, writing off everyone who is opposed to this sort of thing as a "religious zealot" only makes you look like an idiot. You don't have to be a "religious zealot" to believe that a 60 year old man should be incarcerated for trying to bang a 13 year old girl. This is a mindset that is shared by 99%+ of the civilized world. I think YOU need to get over yourself and YOUR self-righteousness.
Right, because it would be so hard to determine which app was put on the Android Market first.
He sent what he believed to be a 13 year old girl pictures of his junk and then arranged to meet her at a fast food joint for a "sleep over". The whole "using a computer" bit is just clarification. The guy was trying to diddle a 13 year old. I have zero sympathy.
Not to mention that they didn't even use the native browser on each platform, but a custom app, which makes this test even more irrelevant. If you want to measure browser performance, then use the bundled browser that the vast majority of users will be using.
THIS. Bad test is bad. If you want a good measure of performance, use the native browser on each as that's what the vast majority of users are going to use.
I just tinkered with it and didn't play long. It doesn't take more than ten seconds of actual play on both games to see thatAB is a massive ripoff.
Exactly. Sorry Moot, you have a good point, but Zuckerberg didn't hear you over the sound of how much money he made in the time it took you to make that statement. Moot seems to genuinely care about online anonymity, but Zuckerberg cares about making money and doesn't think twice about selling every piece of info he has on you to anyone who wants it.
Wow. The idea of launching stuff in a parabola is one thing, but that's almost 100% identical to Angry Birds with slightly different controls and different graphics. There's no way AB wasn't a ripoff of that game.
Wait, you mean Jeff Goldblum's character actually had access to that ship for 50 years? No, it was a matter of hours between his idea and the complete virus that disabled the shields. Even if he did, all the military had been able to do was fudge around with it. They couldn't even switch the damned thing on until the mothership arrived in orbit. How is THAT not so simple and dumbed down to border on retardation? Do you even think before you post?
And all of the above is true, more or less. What so many /.ers and geeks in general can't grasp is that there are people out there who have valid reasons for seeing things differently and wanting different things. It's sad, really.
Yeah, but Goldblum had never seen their computers and wouldn't have the foggiest damned clue how to infect their OS. Just because some scientists fumbled around and figured out how to interface with it doesn't mean that someone completely new to it could figure out how to break it.
So...all computers can get infected with a single virus? Just because it's a binary computer doesn't mean that you can figure out how to infect it within a few hours. Did Goldblum just download Metasploit for AlienOS? It's still a massive, gaping plothole.
Acer? Acer has terrible ratings in reliability and customer service. Asus and Toshiba are far better brands.