I was going to comment "lolfrontrow", but a quick Google search to make sure of that revealed...Apple's a platform elitist! Only iMacs are allowed to run Front Row. And, best of all, after a clever coder cracked the controls, they sent a cease-and-desist! Jerks. Thankfully, there's at least two proprietary and one open-source media centers that will run on your elderly machines. Check out equinox's MediaCenter, snarb.tk's XHub, and the open-source MythTV, which runs on anything better than an 800MHZ G4.
The iPhone emphatically does NOT pull off a quick startup. I've just timed mine, it took 43 seconds to go from pushing the power button to having the springboard appear. It does, however, sleep and wake as quickly as any other mac computer.
Infect? no. It would have to be a custom targeted virus. You're fine as long as you don't have that exact setup, and run random.exes in wine, and piss off some bored geek.
Mr. Beckerman, I don't live in a democracy. I don't like democracy. Democracy has never been shown to work as a national government, and I frankly don't believe it can. I live in a representative republic. The howling masses screaming about every single action the president-elect takes are the only proof I need that democracy is a bad idea.
I've reread the thread in hopes there was an actual argument that I missed, or a disagreement with a policy Obama intends to enact. All I can find is the shrill and unfounded claim that Obama will lie as bad or worse than the Bush/Cheney camp has lied for the last 8 years. This is not disagreeing with what he's doing or has done, this is simple minds hating without reason. I stand by my insult of "asstard" for everybody engaging in that action.
He's either a career politician, xor he's a completely inexperienced nobody. (cf. republican propaganda during election season)
I'm getting a little tired of the relentless bashing of the guy a genuine majority of the country elected. Where were you asstards when Bush "won" with less than 49% of the voters?
Nobody sane suggests it was a "good" thing to give smallpox blankets to the natives.
And there's a massive difference between the two. One kills a single entity (which might grow to be a human) because there is nobody willing to care for it. The other is the possibility of genociding an entire ecosystem, essentially, for laughs.
Both have some level of bad, but it's sheer folly to suggest that societal willingness to commit one of these acts directly translates to rendering the other act "good".
Don't mind the children. Eventually the unwashed masses will forget about V, Anonymous, and Scientology. Then they'll have some other set of memes to spout on unrelated websites in the hopes of appearing "in" or "cool".
Demonstrate one single ad (or ad type) that Privoxy (or similar tools) can block, but Adblock cannot block (or requires unreasonable effort to block). If you cannot immediately do so, my suspicion will be confirmed: you are a fanboy with no data to back your claim. Please also note that automatically-updating filter sets are a major feature of Adblock...if the ad in question is already blocked automatically, it wouldn't at all be a valid demonstration.
Because my choice of a "right-click ad and select block" option is somehow valued less than your choice of "open config file in vi and type '4g2oblock adsite.com:wq'" Mindlessly dismissing a simple working solution because there is a more complex solution available is no better than the Microsoft-only shills that forbid their students to use Linux.
This needs a +6 insightful. I've never understood why the group that believes we didn't do it think that means we can continue being oblivious. Climate change is climate change, man-made or not. It will cause problems, and we do need to think ahead.
Insightful has never meant "correct". Sadly. Most of the moderators don't have a working knowledge of physics beyond "speedy thing goes up, speedy thing comes down". Hell, I had to wiki just to know what a Dirac equation is, and I don't even understand 90% of the page.
If we did that, the internet would only be secure by means of nobody using it. There's no server in the world that could handle every single net-connected device requesting an IP address from it. And I can't conceive of how you would tie the DHCP server into a DNS server at that scale, but I bet it would be incredibly complicated and need unbelievably beefy hardware.
If you're not a member of the group I was addressing, then I wasn't talking to you. If that's the case, kindly excuse yourself from this private conversation.
That's a hasty back-peddling move. Expect to see this repeated in about a year. We are the frog in the slowly boiling water, and EA just tried to turn up the heat.
Last month, I almost looked past the horrible DRM to buy Spore. Now, I'm even more glad I haven't handed EA a single penny out of my pocket since the original Sims.
The Christians say, "by their fruits you will know them". And boy, do I know EA now.
I work full-time and make $68,000 per year, and I'm a Democrat. My brother-in-law works full-time and makes $24,000 per year, and he's a Republican. But then again...I have a college degree and he doesn't.
It's quite easy to say, "just hire the good programmers". But it's frighteningly hard to select just "good" programmers from a pool of applicants. You can offer tests...but most tests merely discover knowledge of trivia, or an ability to look into the tester's mindset. After all this, once you've found your elite group of star programmers, you'd discover you had to pay them a huge wage to keep them on: twice the average might be much less than a start-up aping Google would pay.
There is a place for junior programmers, though...doing the grunt code. Any significant project will have grunt code that merely has to be written. It doesn't have to be super elegant, it just has to do its job. Paying a star programmer to write getters and setters all day is surely a huge waste of his abilities.
You fool! Don't you know better than to actually announce our meddling in the time stream? It's bad enough simply being here, but actually confessing to it? You'll surely cause a massive parado-@#$%&#^%^!@#$#...ERROR NO CARRIER
The US has tried de-legalizing alcohol. If you don't know or remember how well that turned out, go find out. Consider the results of Prohibition before you suggest doing it again. I would lay 5:1 odds that any complete ban of tobacco products would have an identical result.
Here's a hint: It went very poorly for everybody involved, except the people selling alcohol. They got rich.
Hey now, Girl Genius is AWESOME. But...it's storyline-based. At the moment, they're having a fake fight to stir up a mob so they can storm the castle properly. A fake fight with intelligent-sounding dialogue would just be... odd.
I feel that I am alive. But then again...if I wasn't truly self-aware, I'd still say that. Nobody can know the contents of my id. At least, not with current technology.
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It's easy to say in the abstract. But if you were convicted to the electric chair for a murder you didn't commit, you might rethink your position.
I was going to comment "lolfrontrow", but a quick Google search to make sure of that revealed...Apple's a platform elitist! Only iMacs are allowed to run Front Row. And, best of all, after a clever coder cracked the controls, they sent a cease-and-desist! Jerks.
Thankfully, there's at least two proprietary and one open-source media centers that will run on your elderly machines. Check out equinox's MediaCenter, snarb.tk's XHub, and the open-source MythTV, which runs on anything better than an 800MHZ G4.
The iPhone emphatically does NOT pull off a quick startup. I've just timed mine, it took 43 seconds to go from pushing the power button to having the springboard appear. It does, however, sleep and wake as quickly as any other mac computer.
http://www.linux.com/articles/42031
Infect? no. It would have to be a custom targeted virus. You're fine as long as you don't have that exact setup, and run random .exes in wine, and piss off some bored geek.
Mr. Beckerman, I don't live in a democracy. I don't like democracy. Democracy has never been shown to work as a national government, and I frankly don't believe it can. I live in a representative republic. The howling masses screaming about every single action the president-elect takes are the only proof I need that democracy is a bad idea.
I've reread the thread in hopes there was an actual argument that I missed, or a disagreement with a policy Obama intends to enact. All I can find is the shrill and unfounded claim that Obama will lie as bad or worse than the Bush/Cheney camp has lied for the last 8 years. This is not disagreeing with what he's doing or has done, this is simple minds hating without reason. I stand by my insult of "asstard" for everybody engaging in that action.
He's either a career politician, xor he's a completely inexperienced nobody. (cf. republican propaganda during election season)
I'm getting a little tired of the relentless bashing of the guy a genuine majority of the country elected. Where were you asstards when Bush "won" with less than 49% of the voters?
Nobody sane suggests it was a "good" thing to give smallpox blankets to the natives.
And there's a massive difference between the two. One kills a single entity (which might grow to be a human) because there is nobody willing to care for it. The other is the possibility of genociding an entire ecosystem, essentially, for laughs.
Both have some level of bad, but it's sheer folly to suggest that societal willingness to commit one of these acts directly translates to rendering the other act "good".
The furry crowd has the highest amounts of "out" hermaphrodite or oddly-gendered people. At least in my experience, that is.
Don't mind the children. Eventually the unwashed masses will forget about V, Anonymous, and Scientology. Then they'll have some other set of memes to spout on unrelated websites in the hopes of appearing "in" or "cool".
Demonstrate one single ad (or ad type) that Privoxy (or similar tools) can block, but Adblock cannot block (or requires unreasonable effort to block). If you cannot immediately do so, my suspicion will be confirmed: you are a fanboy with no data to back your claim. Please also note that automatically-updating filter sets are a major feature of Adblock...if the ad in question is already blocked automatically, it wouldn't at all be a valid demonstration.
"for noobs"
Because my choice of a "right-click ad and select block" option is somehow valued less than your choice of "open config file in vi and type '4g2oblock adsite.com:wq'"
Mindlessly dismissing a simple working solution because there is a more complex solution available is no better than the Microsoft-only shills that forbid their students to use Linux.
You are the first person to have ever made that particular joke, and it is highly amusing. To sum: Hah.
This needs a +6 insightful. I've never understood why the group that believes we didn't do it think that means we can continue being oblivious. Climate change is climate change, man-made or not. It will cause problems, and we do need to think ahead.
Insightful has never meant "correct". Sadly. Most of the moderators don't have a working knowledge of physics beyond "speedy thing goes up, speedy thing comes down". Hell, I had to wiki just to know what a Dirac equation is, and I don't even understand 90% of the page.
If we did that, the internet would only be secure by means of nobody using it. There's no server in the world that could handle every single net-connected device requesting an IP address from it. And I can't conceive of how you would tie the DHCP server into a DNS server at that scale, but I bet it would be incredibly complicated and need unbelievably beefy hardware.
If you're not a member of the group I was addressing, then I wasn't talking to you. If that's the case, kindly excuse yourself from this private conversation.
That's not a correction or a misunderstanding.
That's a hasty back-peddling move. Expect to see this repeated in about a year. We are the frog in the slowly boiling water, and EA just tried to turn up the heat.
Last month, I almost looked past the horrible DRM to buy Spore. Now, I'm even more glad I haven't handed EA a single penny out of my pocket since the original Sims.
The Christians say, "by their fruits you will know them". And boy, do I know EA now.
I work full-time and make $68,000 per year, and I'm a Democrat.
My brother-in-law works full-time and makes $24,000 per year, and he's a Republican. But then again...I have a college degree and he doesn't.
It's simple, Bert64:
Fast CPU - cheap, and getting cheaper
Good programmer - expensive, and getting more pricey
Obviously, optimize the most expensive part first, i.e. get a cheaper programmer and have him use a "kiddie" language.
It's quite easy to say, "just hire the good programmers". But it's frighteningly hard to select just "good" programmers from a pool of applicants. You can offer tests...but most tests merely discover knowledge of trivia, or an ability to look into the tester's mindset. After all this, once you've found your elite group of star programmers, you'd discover you had to pay them a huge wage to keep them on: twice the average might be much less than a start-up aping Google would pay.
There is a place for junior programmers, though...doing the grunt code. Any significant project will have grunt code that merely has to be written. It doesn't have to be super elegant, it just has to do its job. Paying a star programmer to write getters and setters all day is surely a huge waste of his abilities.
You fool! Don't you know better than to actually announce our meddling in the time stream? It's bad enough simply being here, but actually confessing to it? You'll surely cause a massive parado-@#$%&#^%^!@#$#...ERROR NO CARRIER
The US has tried de-legalizing alcohol. If you don't know or remember how well that turned out, go find out. Consider the results of Prohibition before you suggest doing it again. I would lay 5:1 odds that any complete ban of tobacco products would have an identical result.
Here's a hint: It went very poorly for everybody involved, except the people selling alcohol. They got rich.
Hey now, Girl Genius is AWESOME. But...it's storyline-based. At the moment, they're having a fake fight to stir up a mob so they can storm the castle properly. A fake fight with intelligent-sounding dialogue would just be ... odd.
I feel that I am alive. But then again...if I wasn't truly self-aware, I'd still say that. Nobody can know the contents of my id. At least, not with current technology.