Eeeh, it is quite a stretch to call her "white". If I recall from a contemporary interview she was quite dark skinned - at least at the time, not sure if it was helped by a tan - but in any case not caucasian. Also, it was an airport - paranoia to the max!
If you know your place of employment, commuting is up to you - you can live close by if you prefer. But if you have to go where your employer tells you every day, commuting is on them.
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I had never heard of it before getting a Samsung Smart TV and since I didn't actually get the 51" Plasma to watch broadcast television, I had to find a way to stream my media from a server, without actually having a laptop next to the TV. Anyway, I looked up possible technologies and DLNA that the TV supported seemed the best solution. After I painfully found out DLNA in practice is riddled with problems, I went back to google and Plex came up. A free Plex Media Sever was installed on the Mac Pro, an also free client was installed on the Smart TV, et voila, streaming with full support of any format I had, multiple audio & subtitle streams, plus excellent library organization (it recognizes your media, shows covers/meta data, even downloads subtitles automatically with the proper plugin). I also got a chromecast dongle at some point and I use it to send some browser video streams to the TV, but for two years now Plex has served me very well. If you have a platform, like a Smart TV/Smart Bluray etc where the Plex client is free, definitely give it a try.
Slashdot is filled with lousy posts nowadays, so I am used to crap, I just go quickly through them without even noticing the submitter. But, every time time there is a Bennett one, I immediatelly look up to verify the submitter after just having read two sentences. How does he do it? How is his crap so distinctive as to be instantly recognized? What kind of algorithm could detect if a piece of text was written by Bennett to filter it out of our internet?
Ok, I kid, I kid, although it would be nice to be able to open a word document and have it layout exactly as the Windows-based writer intended it... My vote goes to Photoshop. Also some specialized software that are popular for processing astrophotos like Deep Space Stacker, Registax etc would be nice to have in Linux, but I'd be generally happy with just a native Photoshop.
I mean, with a sufficient supply of donuts you can assign a couple of cops to each star, and when they turn to black holes you can tell which is which as long as you don't lose sight of them...
As far as I can understand, AMD has released the specs for the new GPUs, which is what many Linux / Open Source advocates care about, right? Sure they haven't yet added the support for the new cards on their own, but other people could do it if they are in a hurry, right? Then you have Nvidia not releasing any specs for open drivers, but adding support (more quickly perhaps?) on their proprietary binary drivers. This upsets (hopefully a different set of) Linux users. And in the end, this is just about games (because I never had a problem with the Linux desktop in general, even over multiple displays with mostly AMD cards), right? Well, guess what, Linux is not a good gaming platform. It is great in many things, why should it also be good for games? Why would Nvidia and AMD spend significant resources so that very few people (compared to the total market) can play games in a specific platform that, let's face it, is not gamer-oriented? Well, they don't, so don't complain. Sorry for the rant-ish post, perhaps I would post different 15 years ago when I was still into computer games;)
Hmm, I've had this as a plug-in for a while now (FF though). It interfered a bit with some sites, but it was the fault of those sites anyway, so I guess it is a good idea to have it built-in in the browser (it can work even better than a plugin)
Obligatory: Thank god for model trains, you know if they didn't have the model train they wouldn't get the idea for the big train! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Actually the main reason I use Firefox (alongside Chrome) is that it has some extensions that Chrome does not, and AFAIK that is exactly due to the more permissive add-on API. Otherwise, on fast modern systems it is rather sluggish compared to Chrome, I don't see why I wouldn't use Chrome all the time. I get it that it would be safer and easier to use the Chrome model, but what would the selling point be then? Is "not made by Google" enough?
Nice and all, but the model resolution was never the problem. E.g. Katrina was going to hit whatever model we had, with not much warning. The problem was the response.
Unless you are someone important, people won't spend the significant effort required to hack your car. I would say you can probably avoid the seemingly quite inept "classic" US manufacturers, especially if you don't plant to do the usb upgrades etc that they might require if a remote exploit is found, but still it should be a minor concern. Ok, if you are paranoid get a Tesla, researches spent TWO YEARS and they ended up with an exploit that required physical access to a port inside the car, could at most turn of your engine (very gracefully in neutral and with you in full control) and could be instantly patched over the air... Again, if you are some sort of a dictator etc I could see an intelligence organization with great resources finding a way to hack your Tesla if they have physical access to it, but it will still be cheaper and more efficient to just plant a bomb...
Patrick Jean is the executive producer of the 2015 movie, Columbia did not just rip him off. Why would he file a claim against his own film sites an materials?
I can lend you my Dell Axim from 2004. Still works great, but I don't use it since my cellphone is a superset of its functionality. Or you can remove the SIM from an android phone. The reason they are cheaper than the PDAs were is that the chipsets are produced in massive volumes since they are now found in everybody's phone. So you aren't actually paying extra for the phone part - on the contrary it discounts the hardware that you can still use as a PDA.
It was more about screwing Symbian developers (incompatible OS versions/ multiple APIs, then sudden abandonment of the platform after there was assurance to devs etc) and also the abandoning the one phone OS that was better than Android & iOS (I am talking about the Maemo/Meego as seen on the N9 of course) in favor of being a "me too" Windows Phone manufacturer, that killed-off Nokia in the end.
Half every 5,730 years? What kind of scale is that? The whole universe is barely over 6000 years old, dating scales should cover years or dozens of years, like tree-ring dating or biblical character dating, otherwise they don't make any sense. Carbon dating seems like a scam anyway, they are probably trying to find excuses for why it is not working out.
The article says the problem to address is "bit-rot". So, they only had one copy of the program which degraded due to failure of the storage media and they have to patch it? No. From the context that does not seem to be the case, although that is the only meaning of "bit-rot" that I know. In any case the article seems to continue with the problem that old code optimized for old hardware has to be patched now and then to improve performance. Helium seems to be a tool for that, working directly on binaries, but it seems to be a very specialized tool, working only on "stencil kernels", which is not clear from the summary.
I have only had one SSD fail on me, it was an early one. I have switched everything I have at work and at home to SSD (currently mostly Samsung 840/850, Crucial M500/MX100) and have never looked back, modern drives don't seem to have high failure rates and the speed difference is so great I would still use them even if they were unreliable and I had to back them up all the time.
One way to get to work from home is to become indispensable. For example, I told my boss that I will move to another country and he asked me if I could continue working from there. I accepted and it had many advantages, the biggest for me being the fact that I then moved to a third country, still keeping the same job. But it is true that you have many distractions and it is hard to separate your working from non-working hours, which poses problems if you have a family or at least a wife. And the lack of the social contact at work is also something you have to replace somehow. I would think the best deal would be to be able to work from home a couple of days a week. That would offer some of the advantages without giving you much of the problems. But good luck convincing your boss;)
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Eeeh, it is quite a stretch to call her "white". If I recall from a contemporary interview she was quite dark skinned - at least at the time, not sure if it was helped by a tan - but in any case not caucasian. Also, it was an airport - paranoia to the max!
When there is a bomb scare, you don't evacuate the school. Since as early as the 50's we've known that you should Duck... and Cover!
I call BS! If they weren't close to a nuclear reaction, how did they get to the moon?
Are we sure it did not just learn how to install and launch GnuChess?
If you know your place of employment, commuting is up to you - you can live close by if you prefer. But if you have to go where your employer tells you every day, commuting is on them.
I had never heard of it before getting a Samsung Smart TV and since I didn't actually get the 51" Plasma to watch broadcast television, I had to find a way to stream my media from a server, without actually having a laptop next to the TV. Anyway, I looked up possible technologies and DLNA that the TV supported seemed the best solution. After I painfully found out DLNA in practice is riddled with problems, I went back to google and Plex came up. A free Plex Media Sever was installed on the Mac Pro, an also free client was installed on the Smart TV, et voila, streaming with full support of any format I had, multiple audio & subtitle streams, plus excellent library organization (it recognizes your media, shows covers/meta data, even downloads subtitles automatically with the proper plugin).
I also got a chromecast dongle at some point and I use it to send some browser video streams to the TV, but for two years now Plex has served me very well. If you have a platform, like a Smart TV/Smart Bluray etc where the Plex client is free, definitely give it a try.
Slashdot is filled with lousy posts nowadays, so I am used to crap, I just go quickly through them without even noticing the submitter. But, every time time there is a Bennett one, I immediatelly look up to verify the submitter after just having read two sentences. How does he do it? How is his crap so distinctive as to be instantly recognized? What kind of algorithm could detect if a piece of text was written by Bennett to filter it out of our internet?
Holy crap, I haven't read TFA of course, but does this mean they have devoted a top-level domain to parody news?
Ok, I kid, I kid, although it would be nice to be able to open a word document and have it layout exactly as the Windows-based writer intended it...
My vote goes to Photoshop.
Also some specialized software that are popular for processing astrophotos like Deep Space Stacker, Registax etc would be nice to have in Linux, but I'd be generally happy with just a native Photoshop.
I mean, with a sufficient supply of donuts you can assign a couple of cops to each star, and when they turn to black holes you can tell which is which as long as you don't lose sight of them...
As far as I can understand, AMD has released the specs for the new GPUs, which is what many Linux / Open Source advocates care about, right? Sure they haven't yet added the support for the new cards on their own, but other people could do it if they are in a hurry, right? Then you have Nvidia not releasing any specs for open drivers, but adding support (more quickly perhaps?) on their proprietary binary drivers. This upsets (hopefully a different set of) Linux users. ;)
And in the end, this is just about games (because I never had a problem with the Linux desktop in general, even over multiple displays with mostly AMD cards), right? Well, guess what, Linux is not a good gaming platform. It is great in many things, why should it also be good for games? Why would Nvidia and AMD spend significant resources so that very few people (compared to the total market) can play games in a specific platform that, let's face it, is not gamer-oriented? Well, they don't, so don't complain. Sorry for the rant-ish post, perhaps I would post different 15 years ago when I was still into computer games
Hmm, I've had this as a plug-in for a while now (FF though). It interfered a bit with some sites, but it was the fault of those sites anyway, so I guess it is a good idea to have it built-in in the browser (it can work even better than a plugin)
This topic just screams for some juvenile humor...
Obligatory:
Thank god for model trains, you know if they didn't have the model train they wouldn't get the idea for the big train!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Actually the main reason I use Firefox (alongside Chrome) is that it has some extensions that Chrome does not, and AFAIK that is exactly due to the more permissive add-on API. Otherwise, on fast modern systems it is rather sluggish compared to Chrome, I don't see why I wouldn't use Chrome all the time. I get it that it would be safer and easier to use the Chrome model, but what would the selling point be then? Is "not made by Google" enough?
Nice and all, but the model resolution was never the problem. E.g. Katrina was going to hit whatever model we had, with not much warning. The problem was the response.
Unless you are someone important, people won't spend the significant effort required to hack your car. I would say you can probably avoid the seemingly quite inept "classic" US manufacturers, especially if you don't plant to do the usb upgrades etc that they might require if a remote exploit is found, but still it should be a minor concern. Ok, if you are paranoid get a Tesla, researches spent TWO YEARS and they ended up with an exploit that required physical access to a port inside the car, could at most turn of your engine (very gracefully in neutral and with you in full control) and could be instantly patched over the air...
Again, if you are some sort of a dictator etc I could see an intelligence organization with great resources finding a way to hack your Tesla if they have physical access to it, but it will still be cheaper and more efficient to just plant a bomb...
Patrick Jean is the executive producer of the 2015 movie, Columbia did not just rip him off. Why would he file a claim against his own film sites an materials?
I can lend you my Dell Axim from 2004. Still works great, but I don't use it since my cellphone is a superset of its functionality. Or you can remove the SIM from an android phone. The reason they are cheaper than the PDAs were is that the chipsets are produced in massive volumes since they are now found in everybody's phone. So you aren't actually paying extra for the phone part - on the contrary it discounts the hardware that you can still use as a PDA.
It was more about screwing Symbian developers (incompatible OS versions/ multiple APIs, then sudden abandonment of the platform after there was assurance to devs etc) and also the abandoning the one phone OS that was better than Android & iOS (I am talking about the Maemo/Meego as seen on the N9 of course) in favor of being a "me too" Windows Phone manufacturer, that killed-off Nokia in the end.
Half every 5,730 years? What kind of scale is that? The whole universe is barely over 6000 years old, dating scales should cover years or dozens of years, like tree-ring dating or biblical character dating, otherwise they don't make any sense. Carbon dating seems like a scam anyway, they are probably trying to find excuses for why it is not working out.
The article says the problem to address is "bit-rot". So, they only had one copy of the program which degraded due to failure of the storage media and they have to patch it? No. From the context that does not seem to be the case, although that is the only meaning of "bit-rot" that I know.
In any case the article seems to continue with the problem that old code optimized for old hardware has to be patched now and then to improve performance. Helium seems to be a tool for that, working directly on binaries, but it seems to be a very specialized tool, working only on "stencil kernels", which is not clear from the summary.
I have only had one SSD fail on me, it was an early one. I have switched everything I have at work and at home to SSD (currently mostly Samsung 840/850, Crucial M500/MX100) and have never looked back, modern drives don't seem to have high failure rates and the speed difference is so great I would still use them even if they were unreliable and I had to back them up all the time.
Good catch! I guess the difference is that that one is not against Apple...
One way to get to work from home is to become indispensable. For example, I told my boss that I will move to another country and he asked me if I could continue working from there. I accepted and it had many advantages, the biggest for me being the fact that I then moved to a third country, still keeping the same job. But it is true that you have many distractions and it is hard to separate your working from non-working hours, which poses problems if you have a family or at least a wife. And the lack of the social contact at work is also something you have to replace somehow. ;)
I would think the best deal would be to be able to work from home a couple of days a week. That would offer some of the advantages without giving you much of the problems. But good luck convincing your boss