tee? Really? What the hell sort of DESKTOP APPLICATIONS produce all of their output on the terminal? OpenOffice? GIMP? KMail? GVim?
No, the only solution is the Jesus rule. Save your files. Save them early, save them often. Not just because the system is going to crash, but because you never know when the power will fail, lightning will strike, or a cow-orker will trip over your power cord.
Meanwhile, you're transferring the gold certificates around, complete with fees for every transaction (straight to the vault owner, naturally) and he still has an impervious vault full of gold. If society breaks down--which gold buyers seem to expect--you really think he'll honor those scraps of paper? No, he'll be riding it out inside the vault.
I'm too paranoid to buy gold, I invested in seed corn. Too large to steal, too real to lose value.
The HOSTS file was never intended as a filtering mechanism, and MS, et al have no obligation to make it work or continue to work for that purpose. Run a proxy or firewall.
The ludicrously minimal built-in firewall was never intended to be an anti-spyware utility. If you want to run dangerous code on your system, and not have it bypass your security, then relying on any version of Windows' firewall is insane. More than half of the windows GUI runs SUID root, for chrissakes!
My car leaks enough oil that going 80,000 without a "change" isn't necessarily a problem. Then again, I'm also in a sort of contest with myself to see how long I can ignore the check engine light. 13,283 miles so far, I believe that means I'm winning!
You cannot blame your inability to communicate in written English on a game you played. Take the minimal effort to type well enough that you don't resemble a mouth-breather, for your own good.
I can think of a whole laundry list of reasons why that's not possible, but...you're absolutely right. That would be so awesome you could bottle it and sell it to the guys that make those wolf t-shirts. Somebody please, please, make this dream become a reality.
In a CRT, there are two practical considerations that set the upper limit for resolution: One is the dot pitch of the phosphor, the other is the speed/flexibility of the onboard signal processor. There's also, I assume, some upper limit for switching the electron gun. CPU is fairly cheap, and dot pitches of 0.22mm were common in the CRT era. At that pitch, the highest resolution would be something like 2048x1536. Contrast that to an LCD monitor, where every pixel is a discrete LCD element, complete with wires and transistors for addressing. LCD dot pitches are in the 0.5-0.6mm range, and making them smaller is very expensive currently. Sadly, only us geeks seem to care that there is such a disparity with the "new and improved" technology.
I can't disagree with your point, so I'm going to nitpick to prove my own point: He was using the game's equivalent of violent force to tell people how to play the game and not respecting people when they said that they didn't like playing the way he did. Nobody likes someone who goes around ganking people for "playing wrong."
No. He was being a good guy who beat up the bad guys; the ultimate super hero fantasy. Personally, I'm utterly shocked and flabbergasted that people flagged for PvP or in a PvP area would cry that PvP had occurred. It goes against everything I know and believe for PvP fans to whine and cry over any one player or detail. All sarcasm aside, I don't think, at any point, did he threaten any good characters, nor did he take or threaten any action against the players of the "evil" characters. As far as I understand the article, he didn't try to make anyone play his way, he just played the way he wanted to. It was the players who, if you'll forgive the hyperbole, had heart attacks over clusters of pixels.
I don't even comprehend your second statement. Are you unaware that iGoogle is essentially a pretty front-end to a bunch of RSS feeds, all chosen by the user? There can be as much or as little "media company" influence as you desire.
Careful, your Microsft uniform is showing. Ratchet back the shilling for a couple posts, then try it again more carefully. Also, "Windows anti-exploit code is insane" is not an approved meme. We don't want people thinking Windows drools on itself, now do we?
It's always been this way. Microsoft rests on their laurels until an upstart company starts making money at their expense. Between Mac, Linux, and the insane proliferation of general crapware, MS has a real image problem on their hands. Luckily for Microsoft, the best and the brightest can be wooed by the kind of money they're able to throw around. When they throw their top programmers at a job, the results are stunning, just witness the turnaround from early Vista to the current beta of Windows 7. Sadly, the end result will be bad for consumers. Other security companies will be badly hurt by the release of this freebie, and MS will go back to sleep, leaving the security marketplace to stagnate like the pre-Firefox browser market stagnated.
It's almost as if you don't know that "the illicit uploading of 24 songs" and "the use of Eugene Sandulenko's work illegally" *both* make a complete mockery of a great deal of effort on the parts of both content creators.
I tend to not "know" facts that are complete hogwash. Sharing 24 songs is perhaps illegal in a specific way, but tell me why there's any difference morally with donating a CD to a public library. Also, I noticed you've ignored completely the profit aspect, which legally makes a big difference, and was the entire point of my post. So there's both a moral and legal difference, and I submit, sir, that you are being willfully ignorant of reality.
Are you claiming to be too dumb to know the difference between the illicit uploading of 24 songs without thought of profit, and the use of Eugene Sandulenko's work illegally solely for profit?
I ask only for clarification, i.e., are you stupid or willfully ignorant?
You really need to work on your English comprehension. A few spelling errors shouldn't screw you up like that.
What GP said, was: People who don't understand magnets, and think they produce 'free' energy are too far gone [to be rational].
Which is really an application of the TANSTAAFL principle. TANSTAAFL really ought to be taught alongside Newton's laws, and in every grade from kindergarten on.
My phone has 5 megapixel camera, opera mini as browser and full Java support. And it's not a high end phone.... SSH to my computer...
My phone has none of that. Stupid cheap plastic junk. It does, however, have dozens of probably infringing ringtones. My favorite is a redub of Aerosmith's "Eat the Rich" that goes "Fuck the RIAA". The meter doesn't quite scan, but the point gets across.
In case, for some ungodly reason, you go on a cruise and your iphone checks your mail every 10 minutes over the cruise ship's cell network. How else would they know that you can pay them the ten thousand dollar roaming charges?
What, a major surgery took five weeks to go from diagnosis to recovery, and you're whining about it? Hell, it takes that long to get my insurance company to approve a required test.
Canada has "socialized medicine" and they spend 10% of their GDP funding it. The USA has a tangled hodgepodge of insurance companies that deny valid claims, overpay their CEOs, and refuse any coverage of any pre-existing conditions, and they spend 15% of their GDP funding it, while also bankrupting countless families without enough insurance. Great Britain has the National Health Service, and they spend 7.5% of GDP funding it.
Tell me how the US can't do better than Canada and England. No really, how could we suck badly enough to be worse than Canada at national health care?
There are 50 million uninsured. Health care costs are 15.2% of GDP, that's like a hidden 15 cent tax on every dollar you make. Insurance companies--who are already too large to successfully sue--send their CEOs home with millions of dollars, yet deny the coverage of cancer victims for the pettiest of reasons. And just *try* getting insurance when you have any kind of pre-existing condition. HMOs award their employees huge bonuses for denying medical care to sick people. The free market has utterly failed.
Malpractice is the greatest example of "Succeed, and receive a good salary. Fail, and we'll ruin your life." that exists in the world. Did you know that a malpractice lawsuit can result in the doctor becoming homeless and in massive debt, with his future earnings taken by the "victim" as long as he lives? The doctor doesn't even have to make an honest mistake. Sometimes people can't be saved by medicine; their family uses the tragic death as though they just won the lottery. There is no provision for an honest mistake to be fairly compensated, letting the doctor keep working and benefiting society. If malpractice went away forever, where's the harm? If a doctor does something malicious or careless, press charges in a legal court. If your wife dies because an incompetent sewed a towel inside her, that sounds like second-degree manslaughter to me, but you don't deserve to hit the jackpot over that tragedy.
Meanwhile my sister in law with Down's syndrome is completely covered by Medicare. All of her expensive surgeries were payed for by my family's tax dollars. And I know doctors complain about how Medicare pays those bills, mostly because the rates only pay a reasonable price for medical care, not the insanely inflated prices the other insurance companies have to pay. And as far as the DMV goes, I can't remember the last time I stood in a long line there, or experienced the kind of evil comedians joke about.
What needs to happen is some senators need to get cancer, and have their insurance company deny coverage based on them mis-reporting their weight 15 years prior. We'll see some shit change real damn fast when that finally happens.
I can buy a terabyte hard drive for around $100. For the same hundred dollars, the best SSD I can find is 32GB. On my computer, Steam's cache folder is bigger than 32GB. My music player has a 120GB drive, my DVR has a 350GB drive, and my backup server has a 1.5TB raid. Just because expensive mobile gadgets use expensive solid-state drives does not mean hard drives are dead, dying, or even decaying.
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tee? Really? What the hell sort of DESKTOP APPLICATIONS produce all of their output on the terminal? OpenOffice? GIMP? KMail? GVim?
No, the only solution is the Jesus rule. Save your files. Save them early, save them often. Not just because the system is going to crash, but because you never know when the power will fail, lightning will strike, or a cow-orker will trip over your power cord.
Meanwhile, you're transferring the gold certificates around, complete with fees for every transaction (straight to the vault owner, naturally) and he still has an impervious vault full of gold. If society breaks down--which gold buyers seem to expect--you really think he'll honor those scraps of paper? No, he'll be riding it out inside the vault.
I'm too paranoid to buy gold, I invested in seed corn. Too large to steal, too real to lose value.
The HOSTS file was never intended as a filtering mechanism, and MS, et al have no obligation to make it work or continue to work for that purpose. Run a proxy or firewall.
The ludicrously minimal built-in firewall was never intended to be an anti-spyware utility. If you want to run dangerous code on your system, and not have it bypass your security, then relying on any version of Windows' firewall is insane. More than half of the windows GUI runs SUID root, for chrissakes!
My car leaks enough oil that going 80,000 without a "change" isn't necessarily a problem. Then again, I'm also in a sort of contest with myself to see how long I can ignore the check engine light. 13,283 miles so far, I believe that means I'm winning!
You cannot blame your inability to communicate in written English on a game you played. Take the minimal effort to type well enough that you don't resemble a mouth-breather, for your own good.
I can think of a whole laundry list of reasons why that's not possible, but...you're absolutely right. That would be so awesome you could bottle it and sell it to the guys that make those wolf t-shirts. Somebody please, please, make this dream become a reality.
In a CRT, there are two practical considerations that set the upper limit for resolution: One is the dot pitch of the phosphor, the other is the speed/flexibility of the onboard signal processor. There's also, I assume, some upper limit for switching the electron gun. CPU is fairly cheap, and dot pitches of 0.22mm were common in the CRT era. At that pitch, the highest resolution would be something like 2048x1536.
Contrast that to an LCD monitor, where every pixel is a discrete LCD element, complete with wires and transistors for addressing. LCD dot pitches are in the 0.5-0.6mm range, and making them smaller is very expensive currently. Sadly, only us geeks seem to care that there is such a disparity with the "new and improved" technology.
And it's good for +5 insightful at LEAST once a day!
I can't disagree with your point, so I'm going to nitpick to prove my own point:
He was using the game's equivalent of violent force to tell people how to play the game and not respecting people when they said that they didn't like playing the way he did. Nobody likes someone who goes around ganking people for "playing wrong."
No. He was being a good guy who beat up the bad guys; the ultimate super hero fantasy. Personally, I'm utterly shocked and flabbergasted that people flagged for PvP or in a PvP area would cry that PvP had occurred. It goes against everything I know and believe for PvP fans to whine and cry over any one player or detail. All sarcasm aside, I don't think, at any point, did he threaten any good characters, nor did he take or threaten any action against the players of the "evil" characters. As far as I understand the article, he didn't try to make anyone play his way, he just played the way he wanted to. It was the players who, if you'll forgive the hyperbole, had heart attacks over clusters of pixels.
And if you really got worked up, a TIME CUBE reference wouldn't've been too hard, you educated stupid one-dimensional DULLARD.
IANAL, and I always marvel at the absolutely bizarre ways lawyers can twist laws to mean absolutely anything, assuming they've been payed well enough.
I don't even comprehend your second statement. Are you unaware that iGoogle is essentially a pretty front-end to a bunch of RSS feeds, all chosen by the user? There can be as much or as little "media company" influence as you desire.
Careful, your Microsft uniform is showing. Ratchet back the shilling for a couple posts, then try it again more carefully. Also, "Windows anti-exploit code is insane" is not an approved meme. We don't want people thinking Windows drools on itself, now do we?
It's always been this way. Microsoft rests on their laurels until an upstart company starts making money at their expense. Between Mac, Linux, and the insane proliferation of general crapware, MS has a real image problem on their hands. Luckily for Microsoft, the best and the brightest can be wooed by the kind of money they're able to throw around. When they throw their top programmers at a job, the results are stunning, just witness the turnaround from early Vista to the current beta of Windows 7.
Sadly, the end result will be bad for consumers. Other security companies will be badly hurt by the release of this freebie, and MS will go back to sleep, leaving the security marketplace to stagnate like the pre-Firefox browser market stagnated.
It's almost as if you don't know that "the illicit uploading of 24 songs" and "the use of Eugene Sandulenko's work illegally" *both* make a complete mockery of a great deal of effort on the parts of both content creators.
I tend to not "know" facts that are complete hogwash. Sharing 24 songs is perhaps illegal in a specific way, but tell me why there's any difference morally with donating a CD to a public library. Also, I noticed you've ignored completely the profit aspect, which legally makes a big difference, and was the entire point of my post. So there's both a moral and legal difference, and I submit, sir, that you are being willfully ignorant of reality.
Are you claiming to be too dumb to know the difference between the illicit uploading of 24 songs without thought of profit, and the use of Eugene Sandulenko's work illegally solely for profit?
I ask only for clarification, i.e., are you stupid or willfully ignorant?
You really need to work on your English comprehension. A few spelling errors shouldn't screw you up like that.
What GP said, was: People who don't understand magnets, and think they produce 'free' energy are too far gone [to be rational].
Which is really an application of the TANSTAAFL principle. TANSTAAFL really ought to be taught alongside Newton's laws, and in every grade from kindergarten on.
My phone has 5 megapixel camera, opera mini as browser and full Java support. And it's not a high end phone. ... SSH to my computer ...
My phone has none of that. Stupid cheap plastic junk. It does, however, have dozens of probably infringing ringtones. My favorite is a redub of Aerosmith's "Eat the Rich" that goes "Fuck the RIAA". The meter doesn't quite scan, but the point gets across.
In case, for some ungodly reason, you go on a cruise and your iphone checks your mail every 10 minutes over the cruise ship's cell network. How else would they know that you can pay them the ten thousand dollar roaming charges?
What, a major surgery took five weeks to go from diagnosis to recovery, and you're whining about it? Hell, it takes that long to get my insurance company to approve a required test.
Canada has "socialized medicine" and they spend 10% of their GDP funding it. The USA has a tangled hodgepodge of insurance companies that deny valid claims, overpay their CEOs, and refuse any coverage of any pre-existing conditions, and they spend 15% of their GDP funding it, while also bankrupting countless families without enough insurance. Great Britain has the National Health Service, and they spend 7.5% of GDP funding it.
Tell me how the US can't do better than Canada and England. No really, how could we suck badly enough to be worse than Canada at national health care?
I'm sorry maybe I'm being stupid but I'm not still not clear how this list hangs together. It just seems like "list of stuff I don't like"
"Hey you kids, get off my search engine!"
There are 50 million uninsured. Health care costs are 15.2% of GDP, that's like a hidden 15 cent tax on every dollar you make. Insurance companies--who are already too large to successfully sue--send their CEOs home with millions of dollars, yet deny the coverage of cancer victims for the pettiest of reasons. And just *try* getting insurance when you have any kind of pre-existing condition. HMOs award their employees huge bonuses for denying medical care to sick people. The free market has utterly failed.
Malpractice is the greatest example of "Succeed, and receive a good salary. Fail, and we'll ruin your life." that exists in the world. Did you know that a malpractice lawsuit can result in the doctor becoming homeless and in massive debt, with his future earnings taken by the "victim" as long as he lives? The doctor doesn't even have to make an honest mistake. Sometimes people can't be saved by medicine; their family uses the tragic death as though they just won the lottery. There is no provision for an honest mistake to be fairly compensated, letting the doctor keep working and benefiting society. If malpractice went away forever, where's the harm? If a doctor does something malicious or careless, press charges in a legal court. If your wife dies because an incompetent sewed a towel inside her, that sounds like second-degree manslaughter to me, but you don't deserve to hit the jackpot over that tragedy.
Meanwhile my sister in law with Down's syndrome is completely covered by Medicare. All of her expensive surgeries were payed for by my family's tax dollars. And I know doctors complain about how Medicare pays those bills, mostly because the rates only pay a reasonable price for medical care, not the insanely inflated prices the other insurance companies have to pay. And as far as the DMV goes, I can't remember the last time I stood in a long line there, or experienced the kind of evil comedians joke about.
Suggested mod: +5, Sad but true.
What needs to happen is some senators need to get cancer, and have their insurance company deny coverage based on them mis-reporting their weight 15 years prior. We'll see some shit change real damn fast when that finally happens.
I can buy a terabyte hard drive for around $100. For the same hundred dollars, the best SSD I can find is 32GB. On my computer, Steam's cache folder is bigger than 32GB. My music player has a 120GB drive, my DVR has a 350GB drive, and my backup server has a 1.5TB raid. Just because expensive mobile gadgets use expensive solid-state drives does not mean hard drives are dead, dying, or even decaying.