1: ads are a VERY common way to get Windows infections; can you GUARANTEE that none of your ads will EVER infect a reader/casual visitor? It would require hosting the ads on YOUR site and vetting every single one of them. If you don't do that, please go out of business.
2: many/most/nearly all ads are annoying, even if not destructive; constant "I went to a site and the damn commercials nearly fried my speakers", "that flashing crap caused a petite mal event",... mean, again, that I'd rather you disappeared.
3: tracking cookies; why would anyone with an IQ higher than a houseplant's want that done to them?
4: offer me a box on the screen with something, presumably of interest since I'm at your site, then allow me to "click to play" if it's video/animation, "click for link", and, you know what, I may (have in fact) followed them./. allows me to kill ads, but I haven't bothered on my tablet. I have found items of interest here.
DNS servers disappear (1 IP address apart, so no real redundancy when we get one of the frequent outages); commonly cannot connect to regular addresses (like/.); poor security on POP and SMTP;...
Rather than keeping Chrysler afloat for that, we could have built our own Leopard IIs, which, for that theater, are at least as good, if not better, and cheaper, allowing either wider deployment of the tanks, or using the difference to fund other projects. It was the decision to buy the M1 in the first place, without competitive analysis or competition, that was the gift.
When the US gov't gifted Chrysler with the M1 "designed for the European theater" contract to a facilitate THAT bailout, it used a 105 mm main gun, while the "NATO Standard" was 120 mm, which the Abrams later adopted. Really silly to have to carry a completely different set of ammunition: "We've got 10,000 rounds of main battle tank main gun ammo, Sir, but none of it fits the tanks that happen to be near our ammo carrier, so should we just throw the rounds at the Russians?".
I just hope the Saudi crews perform as well in the Leopard II as the Iraqis did in the T72, in case we ever have to suppress yet another US-backed potentate gone rogue.
What if I need to accelerate to avoid a hazard? How does "braking", which I assume the poster meant but does not understand, help me regain control?
I've heard that "cruise control" systems allow temporary acceleration, then fall back to the desired speed, while braking puts them into a sort of standby mode which can be resumed. Maybe they should consider something similar.
Running VMS 3.7 or 3.8, IIIRC. He really liked the vt200 keypad integration of EDT. Was a bit envious of the multiple buffers we had though, and then I wrote an elisp program to convert assembly language listing back to source so we could produce product-specific documentation for the regulators; that was too much. He switched to emacs+edt mode.
My favorite emacs story though is still the guy I worked with who used it as his login shell on BSD.
Except on his car, with the hand controls, brakes are directly activated, even if running through some ABS nonsense. Even a Bugatti Veyron (1200 BHP) doesn't have enough power to overcome the brakes, when fully applied; press the throttle and brakes full on the car will stop, it will just take longer. Your straw-man drivers are also unlikely to be driveing a 1200 BHP car, and it does not take much braking power to overcome a 200 BHP engine. There is NOT "always more power"; an engine only has, within a few percent, what the manufacturer rates it to have.
Hand controls, OTOH require servo activation, not just assist, and if the servo electronics get confused, you may well need an assist
Drive the car in only the optimum temperature for the batteries and engine; preferably at a high enough altitude to minimize drag; have it driven by someone of the stature of a Thoroughbred jockey, who provides their own light weight thermal compensation to eliminate heater/AC use, and, of course, their own sound system; turn off the lights; always drive down hill and with the wind.
Using these techniques, it is likely you will achieve the advertised range, otherwise, much, much less. Top Gear had the same issue with the sports car (drive it "fun" and the range is nearly nothing) and prevailed.
These work as well for liquid-fueled (gasoline, diesel, alcohol) automobiles and motorcycles, but, for those, you can carry extra fuel in case you're really going to be a long way from one of the much more plentiful liquid fuel stations.
Attorneys, particularly IP attorneys, operate in a world almost totally disjoint from humans. Sometimes, their actions are reasonable and useful, but, mostly, the game is rigged to keep them flourishing at the expense of 99.999% of humans.
Legally, how could a selective (not whole page/site) image blocker for blocking "objectionable" (whatever that means) content, that "happens" to block advertising be actionable?
I've seen so many fads come and go that I don't get very excited about the new one. Even persistent things like smart phones don't attract me much; I have a phone, and a small tablet, because I prefer to separate the uses. Causes a bit of ribbing from the fanboy crowd, but, when they cannot figure out why what they're doing isn't working well on an embedded system, or just want to bounce a few ideas around (and they do often have good ones), they're at my cubicle.
Too many younger programmers and managers mistake buzz for value, but the good ones also recognize the value of experience.
The paranoid nutcases that determine whether, or not, someone is a "security risk" have no clue how to determine that (how many spies have been publicly exposed within the CIA, etc. ?). They fall back on "I'm a good security risk, if I do say so myself, so people like me must also be potentially good security risks.", and, therefore, everyone "not like me" is a bad security risk.
The primary "like me" criterion is the willingness to have your entire life exposed to your bosses and other, less visible, auditors. While the TSA perverts have been getting a lot of people used to being in public scrutiny, right down to detailed images of their genitals, the number of people who can think "sneaky" (in order to foil those who really are sneaks) AND are willing to "bare it all" is, apparently, not that high.
I realize that it is probably intentional on their part, like stripping the time signature (downstream-only NTP-alike) from the local PBS station, but Time Warner Cable's guide is wrong consistently. I cannot program my DVR reliably, nor, even make viewing choices based on the guide. I just have to manually scan the channels to see if there's anything on I want to watch.
Lived in Chattanooga for a while "back when"; school trips sometimes went out to Oak Ridge. Souvenirs included a dime in a little case, and it was "fun" to watch a Geiger counter react to it.
Doesn't surprise me that Bruce could get near a non-weapons reactor.
Compared to skin (heals rapidly, and can be kept clean while healing with modern methods), puncturing the alimentary canal (mouth to anus) is REALLY stupid. Bathed in dangerous chemicals, hostile bacteria (when not confined to their natural environment), and requiring tricky nutrition for the patient while healing), that is no place to be poking holes into the interior of the body (remember, topologically, it's the same as the outside).
Using the "snakes" to treat polyps, ulcers, cancers, or other issues within the alimentary canal does have some potential advantages over the combination of both puncturing the skin and the alimentary canal to reach them.
and quoted, below (Sir Humphrey is a senior civil servant and Mr. Woolley, his junior):
Sir Humphrey Appleby: [demonstrating how public surveys can reach opposite conclusions] Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the rise in crime among teenagers? Bernard Woolley: Yes. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Do you think there is lack of discipline and vigorous training in our Comprehensive Schools? Bernard Woolley: Yes. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Do you think young people welcome some structure and leadership in their lives? Bernard Woolley: Yes. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Do they respond to a challenge? Bernard Woolley: Yes. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Might you be in favour of reintroducing National Service? Bernard Woolley: Er, I might be. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes or no? Bernard Woolley: Yes. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Of course, after all you've said you can't say no to that. On the other hand, the surveys can reach opposite conclusions. [survey two] Sir Humphrey Appleby: Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the danger of war? Bernard Woolley: Yes. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Are you unhappy about the growth of armaments? Bernard Woolley: Yes. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Do you think there's a danger in giving young people guns and teaching them how to kill? Bernard Woolley: Yes. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Do you think it's wrong to force people to take arms against their will? Bernard Woolley: Yes. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Would you oppose the reintroduction of conscription? Bernard Woolley: Yes. [does a double-take] Sir Humphrey Appleby: There you are, Bernard. The perfectly balanced sample.
Where I work, I use Windows XP to run an Exchange client, deal with some intranet sites that only work with IE, and run a Cygwin X server.
Most of my work is in Linux; whatever docs I need to read from the Microsoft "productivity" suite, I can read with OpenOffice or one of its variants, and I never need to create or edit one, so that doesn't matter.
I don't use Adobe ANYTHING, cause I'm a bit too security conscious (or, paranoid, if you prefer); evince, again, is close enough (actually, better, most of the time) for PDFs.
Why should the company piss away the license cost and three days to a week of my time (~USD$2000/week) to get back to a usable work environment, for absolutely no benefit from a Windows 7 "upgrade"?
Yeah, board (and card) games are still a lot of fun for the dollar.
Bought a copy of Munchkin for my mother to play with the great-grandchildren. We had a lot of fun with it and it turns out one of my nieces and her boyfriend play, too, so it was a good choice.
Had a few good Cataan sessions, too, and, rather than a LAN party, will probably be getting together with the same guys to play board/card games.
I really like that the industry no longer wants to sell me games; I've saved hundreds of dollars not buying must-be-connected-to-the-internet games, and a couple of thousand not upgrading my PC to run them.
The difference has gone into an exploration of finer Scotch and Irish whiskies that would otherwise have been out-of-budget.
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1: ads are a VERY common way to get Windows infections; can you GUARANTEE that none of your ads will EVER infect a reader/casual visitor? It would require hosting the ads on YOUR site and vetting every single one of them. If you don't do that, please go out of business.
2: many/most/nearly all ads are annoying, even if not destructive; constant "I went to a site and the damn commercials nearly fried my speakers", "that flashing crap caused a petite mal event", ... mean, again, that I'd rather you disappeared.
3: tracking cookies; why would anyone with an IQ higher than a houseplant's want that done to them?
4: offer me a box on the screen with something, presumably of interest since I'm at your site, then allow me to "click to play" if it's video/animation, "click for link", and, you know what, I may (have in fact) followed them. /. allows me to kill ads, but I haven't bothered on my tablet. I have found items of interest here.
Why pay their outrageous top-tier prices for it?
DNS servers disappear (1 IP address apart, so no real redundancy when we get one of the frequent outages); commonly cannot connect to regular addresses (like /.); poor security on POP and SMTP; ...
; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
search socal.rr.com
nameserver 209.18.47.61
nameserver 209.18.47.62
Maybe if they offered a decent product, and cut back on the excessive cost of cable and Internet, I'd be more likely to get a faster service.
Since you let them know about it, they're probably trying to pin the breach on you.
Rather than keeping Chrysler afloat for that, we could have built our own Leopard IIs, which, for that theater, are at least as good, if not better, and cheaper, allowing either wider deployment of the tanks, or using the difference to fund other projects. It was the decision to buy the M1 in the first place, without competitive analysis or competition, that was the gift.
When the US gov't gifted Chrysler with the M1 "designed for the European theater" contract to a facilitate THAT bailout, it used a 105 mm main gun, while the "NATO Standard" was 120 mm, which the Abrams later adopted. Really silly to have to carry a completely different set of ammunition: "We've got 10,000 rounds of main battle tank main gun ammo, Sir, but none of it fits the tanks that happen to be near our ammo carrier, so should we just throw the rounds at the Russians?".
I just hope the Saudi crews perform as well in the Leopard II as the Iraqis did in the T72, in case we ever have to suppress yet another US-backed potentate gone rogue.
Don't have one to check.
What if I need to accelerate to avoid a hazard? How does "braking", which I assume the poster meant but does not understand, help me regain control?
I've heard that "cruise control" systems allow temporary acceleration, then fall back to the desired speed, while braking puts them into a sort of standby mode which can be resumed. Maybe they should consider something similar.
Running VMS 3.7 or 3.8, IIIRC. He really liked the vt200 keypad integration of EDT. Was a bit envious of the multiple buffers we had though, and then I wrote an elisp program to convert assembly language listing back to source so we could produce product-specific documentation for the regulators; that was too much. He switched to emacs+edt mode.
My favorite emacs story though is still the guy I worked with who used it as his login shell on BSD.
American judges, at least in Texas, are dirt cheap.
Except on his car, with the hand controls, brakes are directly activated, even if running through some ABS nonsense. Even a Bugatti Veyron (1200 BHP) doesn't have enough power to overcome the brakes, when fully applied; press the throttle and brakes full on the car will stop, it will just take longer. Your straw-man drivers are also unlikely to be driveing a 1200 BHP car, and it does not take much braking power to overcome a 200 BHP engine. There is NOT "always more power"; an engine only has, within a few percent, what the manufacturer rates it to have.
Hand controls, OTOH require servo activation, not just assist, and if the servo electronics get confused, you may well need an assist
Drive the car in only the optimum temperature for the batteries and engine; preferably at a high enough altitude to minimize drag; have it driven by someone of the stature of a Thoroughbred jockey, who provides their own light weight thermal compensation to eliminate heater/AC use, and, of course, their own sound system; turn off the lights; always drive down hill and with the wind.
Using these techniques, it is likely you will achieve the advertised range, otherwise, much, much less. Top Gear had the same issue with the sports car (drive it "fun" and the range is nearly nothing) and prevailed.
These work as well for liquid-fueled (gasoline, diesel, alcohol) automobiles and motorcycles, but, for those, you can carry extra fuel in case you're really going to be a long way from one of the much more plentiful liquid fuel stations.
THAT POS came with the bastardized !GCC 2.96, totally butchered by RH.
Ugly, ugly incompatibilities abounded. Even "build from source" didn't work very well, since the compiler was not really "C", or any other language.
You must have missed the Jack Daniel's article:
http://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/07/23/129216/jack-daniels-shows-how-to-write-a-cease-and-desist-letter/
Attorneys, particularly IP attorneys, operate in a world almost totally disjoint from humans. Sometimes, their actions are reasonable and useful, but, mostly, the game is rigged to keep them flourishing at the expense of 99.999% of humans.
Legally, how could a selective (not whole page/site) image blocker for blocking "objectionable" (whatever that means) content, that "happens" to block advertising be actionable?
I've seen so many fads come and go that I don't get very excited about the new one. Even persistent things like smart phones don't attract me much; I have a phone, and a small tablet, because I prefer to separate the uses. Causes a bit of ribbing from the fanboy crowd, but, when they cannot figure out why what they're doing isn't working well on an embedded system, or just want to bounce a few ideas around (and they do often have good ones), they're at my cubicle.
Too many younger programmers and managers mistake buzz for value, but the good ones also recognize the value of experience.
The paranoid nutcases that determine whether, or not, someone is a "security risk" have no clue how to determine that (how many spies have been publicly exposed within the CIA, etc. ?). They fall back on "I'm a good security risk, if I do say so myself, so people like me must also be potentially good security risks.", and, therefore, everyone "not like me" is a bad security risk.
The primary "like me" criterion is the willingness to have your entire life exposed to your bosses and other, less visible, auditors. While the TSA perverts have been getting a lot of people used to being in public scrutiny, right down to detailed images of their genitals, the number of people who can think "sneaky" (in order to foil those who really are sneaks) AND are willing to "bare it all" is, apparently, not that high.
see previous post?
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3189805&cid=41675371
I realize that it is probably intentional on their part, like stripping the time signature (downstream-only NTP-alike) from the local PBS station, but Time Warner Cable's guide is wrong consistently. I cannot program my DVR reliably, nor, even make viewing choices based on the guide. I just have to manually scan the channels to see if there's anything on I want to watch.
More work than it's worth, often.
"Pictures, or it didn't happen":
http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/medalsmementoes/dimes.htm
Lived in Chattanooga for a while "back when"; school trips sometimes went out to Oak Ridge. Souvenirs included a dime in a little case, and it was "fun" to watch a Geiger counter react to it.
Doesn't surprise me that Bruce could get near a non-weapons reactor.
Compared to skin (heals rapidly, and can be kept clean while healing with modern methods), puncturing the alimentary canal (mouth to anus) is REALLY stupid. Bathed in dangerous chemicals, hostile bacteria (when not confined to their natural environment), and requiring tricky nutrition for the patient while healing), that is no place to be poking holes into the interior of the body (remember, topologically, it's the same as the outside).
Using the "snakes" to treat polyps, ulcers, cancers, or other issues within the alimentary canal does have some potential advantages over the combination of both puncturing the skin and the alimentary canal to reach them.
http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0030014/quotes
and quoted, below (Sir Humphrey is a senior civil servant and Mr. Woolley, his junior):
Sir Humphrey Appleby: [demonstrating how public surveys can reach opposite conclusions] Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the rise in crime among teenagers?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Do you think there is lack of discipline and vigorous training in our Comprehensive Schools?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Do you think young people welcome some structure and leadership in their lives?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Do they respond to a challenge?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Might you be in favour of reintroducing National Service?
Bernard Woolley: Er, I might be.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes or no?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Of course, after all you've said you can't say no to that. On the other hand, the surveys can reach opposite conclusions.
[survey two]
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the danger of war?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Are you unhappy about the growth of armaments?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Do you think there's a danger in giving young people guns and teaching them how to kill?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Do you think it's wrong to force people to take arms against their will?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Would you oppose the reintroduction of conscription?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
[does a double-take]
Sir Humphrey Appleby: There you are, Bernard. The perfectly balanced sample.
Where I work, I use Windows XP to run an Exchange client, deal with some intranet sites that only work with IE, and run a Cygwin X server.
Most of my work is in Linux; whatever docs I need to read from the Microsoft "productivity" suite, I can read with OpenOffice or one of its variants, and I never need to create or edit one, so that doesn't matter.
I don't use Adobe ANYTHING, cause I'm a bit too security conscious (or, paranoid, if you prefer); evince, again, is close enough (actually, better, most of the time) for PDFs.
Why should the company piss away the license cost and three days to a week of my time (~USD$2000/week) to get back to a usable work environment, for absolutely no benefit from a Windows 7 "upgrade"?
Yeah, board (and card) games are still a lot of fun for the dollar.
Bought a copy of Munchkin for my mother to play with the great-grandchildren. We had a lot of fun with it and it turns out one of my nieces and her boyfriend play, too, so it was a good choice.
Had a few good Cataan sessions, too, and, rather than a LAN party, will probably be getting together with the same guys to play board/card games.
I really like that the industry no longer wants to sell me games; I've saved hundreds of dollars not buying must-be-connected-to-the-internet games, and a couple of thousand not upgrading my PC to run them.
The difference has gone into an exploration of finer Scotch and Irish whiskies that would otherwise have been out-of-budget.
I'd like to hang around to see if humans, or any descendent species, ever achieves species-wide intelligence. Homo sapiens sapiens certainly hasn't.