...sites that previously only could be found by users who knew the exact URL for the site.
Isn't that kinda how the Internet works. If your don't know the exact URL for a site and no one has posted a link to it on another site your do know, you're not going to reach it. It's only thanks to searching the indexing systems people can find stuff any other way.
The reason cell phone camera err on the side of too much in focus is because they originally were all fixed-focus lenses. If you didn't have a high depth of field, you'd have to make sure your subject was an exact distance from the camera to get them in focus. Even once we had focusing lenses the auto-focus software wasn't the greatest at determining what the real subject of the photo was supposed to be.
You know what would give a great shallow depth of field? A better lens in the camera. A lens with an aperture that could open up to lower f-stops would give a REAL depth of field effect, plus it would make the camera just plain better at taking pictures -- better low-light performance, less noise in high ISO speeds captures.
The "company" is nothing more than a Tax ID number. Yahoo's directors MUST (not "should") do whatever maximizes profit for shareholders. This isn't an opinion, nor what's socially correct, but those are the rules when you issue shares to the public on U.S. stock markets.
This line of thinking is responsible for many of the problems with the stock market, and the economy, and this country to a larger extent.
The reason companies sell shares is they want to do their business (make doohickeys, sell services, etc) but they need money to grow the business. Investors are investing in the company on the idea their money will be used to improve the business and in return they will get dividends and the business will becomes more valuable -- which will in turn lead to a share of the company becoming more valuable. The purpose of the company is not "convince the stock market we're worth as much as possible". Anyone who believes this is still living in the Bubble delusion that the stock market is nothing more than a lottery and the reason you get into it is you want your horse to get as high on the price board as possible before it dies.
And a wish to increase profit does not mean the people running the company are absolved of all social responsibility in the decisions they make. "Hurr-durr, we can run sweatshops in undeveloped countries, rape babies, dump toxic waste all over, run our industrial plants in ways where the employees will get cancer, and it doesn't matter because we aren't doing it really -- the Company is, and the Company MUST maximize shareholder profit -- even if that means doing things like using high priced lawyers to screw consumers hurt by our products and bribing government officials to get unjust laws passed that favor us. Who caress if it's not "correct", it's BUSINESS!"
Do you really believe that's how the world is supposed to work?
Meanwhile, the biggest issue that faces most nuclear plants under emergency conditions — overheating and potential meltdown, as happened at Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island — would be virtually impossible at sea.
Yeah, it will just melt down through the containment vessel and dump the fuel slag into the ocean instead. No problem!
Does Mint now follow Ubuntu releases at all? Or just stick to Debian? B'cos under the hood, it's Debian...
Bad info is bad. Mint has two editions. The normal release is based on Ubuntu, but there is a second more rolling-release edition based on Debian Unstable called LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition). It is available in both Mate and Cinnamon interfaces.
Freedombox has a wikipedia page, and seems to want to place Facebooking/email/all your communications on an independent private server that only let you communicate with other people who have freedomboxes.
That Wikipedia article is stub-length and equally non-informative. The email service is likely more universal than just other FreedomBoxes, but might need to set up decryption services on recipient clients.
So they want an open and decentralized social network. But the VM images are only in the Oracle owned Virtual Box format? And right now it is only built for new and hard to source appliances, not older desktop easily found in rubbish bins? And I still haven't found what it does that owncloud does not... You would think the web page or wikipedia would have a short "This is what the we do" page somewhere...
Add to that Owncloud is an available plug-in for FreeNAS, which will run on older desktops (although the plug-in is only available for the 64-bit release of FreeNAS) and besides setting up an additional BSD jails with these other services, seems this can be handled that way.
You assume you're going to get a choice. In Japan, a cell phone that has a loud, audible shutter-sound when a picture is taken that the owner cannot disable is not high on anyone's feature list, either.
If every other device mess with wifi frequencies (or close enough to them), it will cause issue. It's the same thing that happen in dense apartment buildings where everyone get his own wireless access point (everyone get crappy wifi).
Yes... that's what I meant by "unless a bunch of people are trying to operate ad-hoc networks to do tethering with cellular data service" -- interference from other networks operating in the courtroom.
I wasn't aware this trial was so popular, I haven't heard that anyone is live-blogging it, so I wonder who all these people are who feel they need to have an internet connection running during the trial. I assume the counsel brings their presentation materials with them already on their laptop hard drives at the start of a session.
Maybe I just don't understand what is really happening here, but shouldn't the wi-fi network for official court usage be secured so only those terminals are able to connect. The cell phones and stuff shouldn't be causing an issue, unless a bunch of people are trying to operate ad-hoc networks to do tethering with cellular data service.
Yeah, I'll just apply to the company that doesn't treat employees like this.
Oh wait, they all do... because their shareholder/owners are always trying to squeeze as much productivity as possible from people, to maximize profits and maintain Endless Growth.
Yeah, great, but some routers' built-in support is locked to dyndns.org. I can recall a belkin G from half a decade ago, still in use by a friend. Maybe that's been fixed, but he'll need to shell out cash to fix something that should never have been hardcoded. At least dd-wrt doesn't have this problem.
It doesn't have to be the actual router that makes the updates, since the dynamic DNS record simply points to your public IP, not to a specific machine on your side. My router doesn't support Dynamic DNS services at all. It's the FreeNAS server that's running on it that calls in to no-ip.com to update my record. The router just forwards the incoming requests to the correct machine on the network by port number.
They only expire if you're too lazy to visit their website for three minutes to do a captcha when they send you the email saying your domain is about to expire. I've been doing it for months and have had uninterrupted service.
Anyway isn't this supposed to be a stopgap before IPV6 means we can all have permanent static IPS?!
You think your ISP is going to give you static IPs for free just because they have an IPv6 pool to dive into? Chances are it will still be DHCP and rotate occasionally. And the fee an ISP charges for static IP is more per year than paying for a dynamic DNS service.
Please link me to the page where I can sign my mom up for this extended support for XP. I'm sure she'd be willing to pay a nominal fee.
Her Microsoft Security Essentials is now trying to spook her into upgrading too, by becoming a System Tray-based reminder that XP support is about to end. I'm waiting for her to crack so I can move her over to Linux Mint/Cinnamon.
He could also play live sports. That would be entertaining and a lot healthier than sitting on the couch listening to how someone else runs around with the ball.
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That they would stoop to this level of tracking on consumers....
but this isn't quite how it works.
Thank you for owning up to your mistakes in the article, that's more than the editors around here seem to do.
I see... you think "smart" means bringing a knife to a gun fight. Good for you.
Bring a knife to a gun fight... ...stab them while they're laughing.
The elevator would have to accelerate at the rate of gravity (9.8 m/s/s, iirc) and have a cruising speed as fast as terminal velocity for you.
...sites that previously only could be found by users who knew the exact URL for the site.
Isn't that kinda how the Internet works. If your don't know the exact URL for a site and no one has posted a link to it on another site your do know, you're not going to reach it. It's only thanks to searching the indexing systems people can find stuff any other way.
The reason cell phone camera err on the side of too much in focus is because they originally were all fixed-focus lenses. If you didn't have a high depth of field, you'd have to make sure your subject was an exact distance from the camera to get them in focus. Even once we had focusing lenses the auto-focus software wasn't the greatest at determining what the real subject of the photo was supposed to be.
You know what would give a great shallow depth of field? A better lens in the camera. A lens with an aperture that could open up to lower f-stops would give a REAL depth of field effect, plus it would make the camera just plain better at taking pictures -- better low-light performance, less noise in high ISO speeds captures.
I heard that they gave Omni Consumer Products^W^W^W Google to clean up the town. They're doing something with drones.
That's not Google. It's rival drug factions.
The "company" is nothing more than a Tax ID number. Yahoo's directors MUST (not "should") do whatever maximizes profit for shareholders. This isn't an opinion, nor what's socially correct, but those are the rules when you issue shares to the public on U.S. stock markets.
This line of thinking is responsible for many of the problems with the stock market, and the economy, and this country to a larger extent.
The reason companies sell shares is they want to do their business (make doohickeys, sell services, etc) but they need money to grow the business. Investors are investing in the company on the idea their money will be used to improve the business and in return they will get dividends and the business will becomes more valuable -- which will in turn lead to a share of the company becoming more valuable. The purpose of the company is not "convince the stock market we're worth as much as possible". Anyone who believes this is still living in the Bubble delusion that the stock market is nothing more than a lottery and the reason you get into it is you want your horse to get as high on the price board as possible before it dies.
And a wish to increase profit does not mean the people running the company are absolved of all social responsibility in the decisions they make. "Hurr-durr, we can run sweatshops in undeveloped countries, rape babies, dump toxic waste all over, run our industrial plants in ways where the employees will get cancer, and it doesn't matter because we aren't doing it really -- the Company is, and the Company MUST maximize shareholder profit -- even if that means doing things like using high priced lawyers to screw consumers hurt by our products and bribing government officials to get unjust laws passed that favor us. Who caress if it's not "correct", it's BUSINESS!"
Do you really believe that's how the world is supposed to work?
Meanwhile, the biggest issue that faces most nuclear plants under emergency conditions — overheating and potential meltdown, as happened at Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island — would be virtually impossible at sea.
Yeah, it will just melt down through the containment vessel and dump the fuel slag into the ocean instead. No problem!
Does Mint now follow Ubuntu releases at all? Or just stick to Debian? B'cos under the hood, it's Debian...
Bad info is bad.
Mint has two editions. The normal release is based on Ubuntu, but there is a second more rolling-release edition based on Debian Unstable called LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition). It is available in both Mate and Cinnamon interfaces.
Freedombox has a wikipedia page, and seems to want to place Facebooking/email/all your communications on an independent private server that only let you communicate with other people who have freedomboxes.
That Wikipedia article is stub-length and equally non-informative. The email service is likely more universal than just other FreedomBoxes, but might need to set up decryption services on recipient clients.
So they want an open and decentralized social network. But the VM images are only in the Oracle owned Virtual Box format? And right now it is only built for new and hard to source appliances, not older desktop easily found in rubbish bins? And I still haven't found what it does that owncloud does not... You would think the web page or wikipedia would have a short "This is what the we do" page somewhere...
Add to that Owncloud is an available plug-in for FreeNAS, which will run on older desktops (although the plug-in is only available for the 64-bit release of FreeNAS) and besides setting up an additional BSD jails with these other services, seems this can be handled that way.
Because that would make too much sense.
You assume you're going to get a choice. In Japan, a cell phone that has a loud, audible shutter-sound when a picture is taken that the owner cannot disable is not high on anyone's feature list, either.
If every other device mess with wifi frequencies (or close enough to them), it will cause issue. It's the same thing that happen in dense apartment buildings where everyone get his own wireless access point (everyone get crappy wifi).
Yes... that's what I meant by "unless a bunch of people are trying to operate ad-hoc networks to do tethering with cellular data service" -- interference from other networks operating in the courtroom.
I wasn't aware this trial was so popular, I haven't heard that anyone is live-blogging it, so I wonder who all these people are who feel they need to have an internet connection running during the trial. I assume the counsel brings their presentation materials with them already on their laptop hard drives at the start of a session.
Maybe I just don't understand what is really happening here, but shouldn't the wi-fi network for official court usage be secured so only those terminals are able to connect. The cell phones and stuff shouldn't be causing an issue, unless a bunch of people are trying to operate ad-hoc networks to do tethering with cellular data service.
He doesn't believe in rank and file employees having power to enact this level of change at their workplace.
Yeah, I'll just apply to the company that doesn't treat employees like this.
Oh wait, they all do... because their shareholder/owners are always trying to squeeze as much productivity as possible from people, to maximize profits and maintain Endless Growth.
Yeah, great, but some routers' built-in support is locked to dyndns.org. I can recall a belkin G from half a decade ago, still in use by a friend. Maybe that's been fixed, but he'll need to shell out cash to fix something that should never have been hardcoded. At least dd-wrt doesn't have this problem.
It doesn't have to be the actual router that makes the updates, since the dynamic DNS record simply points to your public IP, not to a specific machine on your side. My router doesn't support Dynamic DNS services at all. It's the FreeNAS server that's running on it that calls in to no-ip.com to update my record. The router just forwards the incoming requests to the correct machine on the network by port number.
If she is willing to pay a nominal fee, why not spend that money to upgrade the OS?
Because the computer is too old to run anything newer. So it would be a whole new machine we'd have to buy.
With No-IP's free service, host names expire every 30 days.
They only expire if you're too lazy to visit their website for three minutes to do a captcha when they send you the email saying your domain is about to expire. I've been doing it for months and have had uninterrupted service.
Anyway isn't this supposed to be a stopgap before IPV6 means we can all have permanent static IPS?!
You think your ISP is going to give you static IPs for free just because they have an IPv6 pool to dive into? Chances are it will still be DHCP and rotate occasionally. And the fee an ISP charges for static IP is more per year than paying for a dynamic DNS service.
Please link me to the page where I can sign my mom up for this extended support for XP. I'm sure she'd be willing to pay a nominal fee.
Her Microsoft Security Essentials is now trying to spook her into upgrading too, by becoming a System Tray-based reminder that XP support is about to end.
I'm waiting for her to crack so I can move her over to Linux Mint/Cinnamon.
Oh...you want to *watch* live sports.
He could also play live sports. That would be entertaining and a lot healthier than sitting on the couch listening to how someone else runs around with the ball.