I wanted to believe that he was innocent because, well, he's a fellow geek.
But as the trial went on and his behaviour after the fact became clear, I felt like the time when I was losing my religion: I didn't really want to consider it, but I also couldn't ignore the facts staring in my face.
In any case it's nice that he decided to come clean, so at least now there are no doubts that he commited the crime (though that was pretty obvious already).
I heard that old motherboards (ASUS?) had a ROM chip with the BIOS that came originally with the motherboard.
If you flashed your BIOS and anything went wrong, the system would boot automatically from the ROM, and you'd be able to boot your computer to try the flash again. Since it was read-only memory, you'd know you always have a suitable fallback in case of disaster.
My GF's laptop battery died last year, and I though of giving her a new one for christmas. When I mentioned this to my friends, it was like giving them ammunition to make fun of me for the next 2 months.
Fast forward to last month, I was talking with her about her computer and I mentioned that I almost "made a mistake" and bought her a laptop battery for christmas.
Turns out she would've loved it, probably better than the massage book and oil I gave her as a emergency backup present.
You do realize that you can make a keyword for your most visited sites, right? For example, if you use keyword 's' for slashdot, you just type s and press enter.
Even better, you can right-click a search field, and create keywords for searches, e.g. Wikipedia, and then just type something like "w star wars" to get to the wiki page on star wars.
The point I'm trying to make is that if you just try adjusting your workflow to the possibilities offered by the technology, you may find that it will improve.
Then again, one size doesn't fit all, but I suspect that most people hating on the awesome bar are just resisting to change.
Yeah, I also uninstalled FF3 immediatelly after seeing that. What a stupid idea, making the button which is used more often bigger than the forward button. And the worst part is that you can't even change it!
Punishment here seems to fit the crime The modern penal system in civilized countries does not (make that "should not") have punishment as an objective.
I mean, I understand where you're coming from, and I even agree with your sentiment, but these things have been tested and studied a lot, and society as a whole benefits more from trying to reform criminals (even while some cannot be reformed) than to lock them up and throw away the key.
It's a proprietary software which is barely used/known in the industry.
I did meet the developers in person and took the opportunity to ask for a Linux version. They told me that the framework they're using is cross-platform, but they had to focus on Windows because they're using DCOM for something.
I thought it was a crappy excuse, but what the hell.
On the day that I got my laptop, I installed Ubuntu in a separate partition. 1 week later I hacked the BIOS to re-enable the wireless and bluetooth features that had been disabled for "security reasons". No one can tell because I use windows for my work (crappy industrial software), and I don't think that anyone that matters (my bosses) cares, as long as I do my job properly.
If I could get this crappy program to run on Linux, I would switch and never look back. Probably even going as far as formatting the corporate windows partition.
On the other hand, a friend of mine is afraid of installing Skype on his laptop because the IT guys might not like it. His loss.
Because he has absolutely no idea what he is doing. I'm sure his wireless card drops his connections because he lives in an apartment building with 30 routers all within 20 feet, each fighting for the same 11 channels.
Even though the rest of your answer was dead-on, I take issue with the part that I quoted.
In my case I also have my media center / headless server connected via wireless because my dsl modem is next to my door (that's where the POTS line is), and I don't want to run cables on the ground/walls/under doors all over my house when it's much easier to just use wireless.
In any case, in my appartment building I have almost no wireless interference from other routers and I've always been able to use my internet connection to it's limits without any loss of signal quality.
So what I mean is, for some people it makes a lot of sense to use wireless, even if it is for a computer that never moves. That, or I also "have no idea what I'm doing".
About your comments on BMI, I've read those kinds of oppinions a lot, but I always disagree with them, somwhat.
I agree that the BMI isn't the be-all end-all of fitness indexes, because as you say, it's not correct for anomalies, but those anomalies are exactly that: anomalies. If I spent the last 10 years in a gym, I think I would know that I should probably ignore my BMI when it says I'm overweight, but for an average person with average muscle mass, the measurement is pretty accurate, or at least, accurate enough for estimating your "healthy zone".
I agree that it would have been better if people were using the % of body fat as an index instead, but as far as I understand it, measuring the body fat has it's own issues (if you drink too much/too little water, it goes crazy) and such a feature might have ruined the Wii Fit's price point (wouldn't know about that).
So, for a game aimed at the average person, the use of the BMI isn't such a bad idea, and the more sportive players will probably know to ignore it.
But does the Atom CPU have enough power to play HD movies without coughing a lung? From benchmarks I've seen the Atom is on par with the Pentium IV (sorry, don't have the link right now).
I'm interested because I need a small, silent and cheap computer to act as a media center and home server. I thought this would fit the bill, but now I'm not so sure anymore.
My office has a door, but I keep it open at all times, except when I'm on extended phone calls (so I don't disturb my colleagues) or the few moments where I really require privacy (small meetings, changing my clothes, fucking the secretary).
I found out that having the door closed shuts me from the rest of the offices and "uninvites" people from stop by. Since my colleagues aren't doing it very often, I usually welcome a chance to take a small break to chat, or help someone out.
Some people do like their privacy and keep their doors closed at all times, but most people here leave them open.
BTW, I was kidding about the secretary thing -- first I would need a secretary... *sigh*
One can tell that from his very first comment (on the splash screen):
HOT new splash But probably this is just a temporary one, as the final version will have a totally different splash! Really? You mean the splash screen is a HOT new feature? And you say it will "probably" change on the final version? Amazing!
Then it just goes downhill from there, ending with a description of what The Gimp is. Thanks, I didn't know what it was before, now I have to read your crappy review once again so it makes sense.
At least there were no shortage of ads, which surprisingly got through my AdBlock Plus.
I wouldn't call it easy. The option is burried somewhere, and when you disable it (presumably because you already hate it), it still does all this animation of the dog leaving, blocking everything until the animation ends.
I can only presume that the person who designed this system is a cat lover.
I heard that certain sites will try the same password you used for that site to access your webmail account.
Are you using the same password in both sites?
More commonly, though, they ask for your mail password in a non-challant way, and make it seem as though it is a requirement in the account creation phase. This is the reason I stopped trying to bring new people into Twitter, and am activelly looking for a replacement (suggestions will be appreciated).
Slashdot Mirror
Do you also want us to get off your lawn?
I wanted to believe that he was innocent because, well, he's a fellow geek.
But as the trial went on and his behaviour after the fact became clear, I felt like the time when I was losing my religion: I didn't really want to consider it, but I also couldn't ignore the facts staring in my face.
In any case it's nice that he decided to come clean, so at least now there are no doubts that he commited the crime (though that was pretty obvious already).
So, what you're saying is that viruses are like vampires?
Man, you just made it so much harder for me to sleep tonight :-(
I heard that old motherboards (ASUS?) had a ROM chip with the BIOS that came originally with the motherboard.
If you flashed your BIOS and anything went wrong, the system would boot automatically from the ROM, and you'd be able to boot your computer to try the flash again. Since it was read-only memory, you'd know you always have a suitable fallback in case of disaster.
My GF's laptop battery died last year, and I though of giving her a new one for christmas.
When I mentioned this to my friends, it was like giving them ammunition to make fun of me for the next 2 months.
Fast forward to last month, I was talking with her about her computer and I mentioned that I almost "made a mistake" and bought her a laptop battery for christmas.
Turns out she would've loved it, probably better than the massage book and oil I gave her as a emergency backup present.
Go figure.
The problem is that they're only giving this access to Google and Yahoo.
Perhaps they're affraid of exactly a scenario such as the one you describe.
You do realize that you can make a keyword for your most visited sites, right?
For example, if you use keyword 's' for slashdot, you just type s and press enter.
Even better, you can right-click a search field, and create keywords for searches, e.g. Wikipedia, and then just type something like "w star wars" to get to the wiki page on star wars.
The point I'm trying to make is that if you just try adjusting your workflow to the possibilities offered by the technology, you may find that it will improve.
Then again, one size doesn't fit all, but I suspect that most people hating on the awesome bar are just resisting to change.
Yeah, I also uninstalled FF3 immediatelly after seeing that.
What a stupid idea, making the button which is used more often bigger than the forward button. And the worst part is that you can't even change it!
I mean, I understand where you're coming from, and I even agree with your sentiment, but these things have been tested and studied a lot, and society as a whole benefits more from trying to reform criminals (even while some cannot be reformed) than to lock them up and throw away the key.
It's a proprietary software which is barely used/known in the industry.
I did meet the developers in person and took the opportunity to ask for a Linux version. They told me that the framework they're using is cross-platform, but they had to focus on Windows because they're using DCOM for something.
I thought it was a crappy excuse, but what the hell.
It's a 3D CAD environment.
I'd thought about emulation, but it's already slow in Windows on a top of the line laptop.
On the day that I got my laptop, I installed Ubuntu in a separate partition. 1 week later I hacked the BIOS to re-enable the wireless and bluetooth features that had been disabled for "security reasons".
No one can tell because I use windows for my work (crappy industrial software), and I don't think that anyone that matters (my bosses) cares, as long as I do my job properly.
If I could get this crappy program to run on Linux, I would switch and never look back. Probably even going as far as formatting the corporate windows partition.
On the other hand, a friend of mine is afraid of installing Skype on his laptop because the IT guys might not like it. His loss.
Because he has absolutely no idea what he is doing. I'm sure his wireless card drops his connections because he lives in an apartment building with 30 routers all within 20 feet, each fighting for the same 11 channels.
Even though the rest of your answer was dead-on, I take issue with the part that I quoted.In my case I also have my media center / headless server connected via wireless because my dsl modem is next to my door (that's where the POTS line is), and I don't want to run cables on the ground/walls/under doors all over my house when it's much easier to just use wireless.
In any case, in my appartment building I have almost no wireless interference from other routers and I've always been able to use my internet connection to it's limits without any loss of signal quality.
So what I mean is, for some people it makes a lot of sense to use wireless, even if it is for a computer that never moves.
That, or I also "have no idea what I'm doing".
Was it good?
A not only history, it also searches your bookmarks, which is something that I've always wondered why it wasn't implemented before.
Now you don't have to navigate your deep bookmark folders for that link, just start typing the name and it appears directly under your cursor.
About your comments on BMI, I've read those kinds of oppinions a lot, but I always disagree with them, somwhat.
I agree that the BMI isn't the be-all end-all of fitness indexes, because as you say, it's not correct for anomalies, but those anomalies are exactly that: anomalies.
If I spent the last 10 years in a gym, I think I would know that I should probably ignore my BMI when it says I'm overweight, but for an average person with average muscle mass, the measurement is pretty accurate, or at least, accurate enough for estimating your "healthy zone".
I agree that it would have been better if people were using the % of body fat as an index instead, but as far as I understand it, measuring the body fat has it's own issues (if you drink too much/too little water, it goes crazy) and such a feature might have ruined the Wii Fit's price point (wouldn't know about that).
So, for a game aimed at the average person, the use of the BMI isn't such a bad idea, and the more sportive players will probably know to ignore it.
My experience exactly.
I ended up running Windows for that particular Media Center because the Linux drivers plain sucked.
Not that the Windows drivers from VIA were any good anyway. In fact, they sucked, just not as much.
But does the Atom CPU have enough power to play HD movies without coughing a lung?
From benchmarks I've seen the Atom is on par with the Pentium IV (sorry, don't have the link right now).
I'm interested because I need a small, silent and cheap computer to act as a media center and home server. I thought this would fit the bill, but now I'm not so sure anymore.
And there is this one blue dot with 9 female connections on the largest group (on the top-right).
The lucky bastard!
My office has a door, but I keep it open at all times, except when I'm on extended phone calls (so I don't disturb my colleagues) or the few moments where I really require privacy (small meetings, changing my clothes, fucking the secretary).
I found out that having the door closed shuts me from the rest of the offices and "uninvites" people from stop by. Since my colleagues aren't doing it very often, I usually welcome a chance to take a small break to chat, or help someone out.
Some people do like their privacy and keep their doors closed at all times, but most people here leave them open.
BTW, I was kidding about the secretary thing -- first I would need a secretary... *sigh*
You and I, we haven't been watching the same movies.
One can tell that from his very first comment (on the splash screen): HOT new splash
But probably this is just a temporary one, as the final version will have a totally different splash! Really? You mean the splash screen is a HOT new feature? And you say it will "probably" change on the final version? Amazing!
Then it just goes downhill from there, ending with a description of what The Gimp is.
Thanks, I didn't know what it was before, now I have to read your crappy review once again so it makes sense.
At least there were no shortage of ads, which surprisingly got through my AdBlock Plus.
BAD ADBLOCK! BAD!
I wouldn't call it easy.
The option is burried somewhere, and when you disable it (presumably because you already hate it), it still does all this animation of the dog leaving, blocking everything until the animation ends.
I can only presume that the person who designed this system is a cat lover.
Maybe someone should have attached a GPS tracker to it
I heard that certain sites will try the same password you used for that site to access your webmail account.
Are you using the same password in both sites?
More commonly, though, they ask for your mail password in a non-challant way, and make it seem as though it is a requirement in the account creation phase.
This is the reason I stopped trying to bring new people into Twitter, and am activelly looking for a replacement (suggestions will be appreciated).