Me. And I appreciate not having people smoke at the bar, be it a smoking building or not. Because the smoke sticks to the glasses, leaves a residue on surfaces, taints the colour of displays (Optic badges etc) and makes the ceiling a really shitty yellow colour. Smokers also tend to leave ash strewn on the bar.
It's not just down to whether I like the smoke or not (I'm not a big fan, but I can live with it if I have to), it's down to whether people want to drink their pint out of a glass which is greasy with smoke. And yes, we do put the glasses through a washer regularly. It doesn't always make a difference, especially in the wine glasses which are suspended over the bar for easy reach.
I propose an alternative to your suggestion - if you want to smoke, don't do it near the bar. It's not that hard.
Nah, a fake ID is illegal full stop. It's a similar idea to banknotes having to have "SAMPLE" written on them even if they're obviously not banknotes ie on other printed material - it is (afaik, ianal) illegal to reproduce or attempt to reproduce or imitate any official document even if it has incorrect information. For example, any form of 'fake ID' runs afoul of this but there is nothing to stop me creating my own 'ID Card' with my false information, as long as it doesn't look too much like an official one.
I had to sign a contract before my high school user/pass was enabled basically saying I wouldn't attempt to break into the systems, install applications or circumvent security.
Admittedly, this was rewritten after I pointed out that running Firefox from a memory stick did nothing to the systems, didn't install anything and just didn't bother with the proxy in the first place. But although schools should have to use some form of sensible policy in securing their systems, they should also know the difference between convenient loopholes which allow select students to actually get things done, and people maliciously trying to circumvent the proxy.
For example, running everything through a freely available web proxy to view porn is bad, and liable to be caught by the badwords filter. On the other hand, running everything through a proxy you're hosting yourself which encrypts page content (So it can't be filtered) to actually get to that damn reference site is perfectly sensible.
Smoking places second-hand smoke into the environment. I go for a drink somewhere with smokers (Only one or two), I come home smelling of cigarette smoke. I go for a drink somewhere with homosexuals (Only one or two), I do not come home gay.
I dislike people who pollute my local environment. This includes people who thing playing dance music on their phone at full volume is the height of cool and those who otherwise do things which irritate me if I'm not really paying attention. Smoking falls into this category, and I fail to see how things like 'noise pollution' can be covered by laws yet 'smoking pollution' can't.
This is the crux of my argument in favour of UAC and the new permissions Vista places on the filesystem. You now *cannot* assume the user will be running as admin, because even if they are you still get a UAC prompt if your application tries do something funky outside of its own 'walled garden' registry and application directories.
Result: The applications are written to behave properly and not try write garbage all over your hard disk. Proper user-specific configurations are much easier to manage. All is good!
Depends which bits you read. Yeah, the genealogy stuff is boring (A was the son of B... was the son of Y was the son of Z and they all lived happily ever after in the land of Somewhereia) but other chapters of often the same book have just as much literary value as many of the 'classics' people so love. Revelations even has an angel saying "I know where you live" (NIV 2:12, he's got a sharp double-edged sword as well)
It's a good point, however there *must* be something specifying how those modules should behave when errors occur, handle input etc or the whole thing reaches the stage Linux has now where it works, and works well for the vast majority of tasks, but only if you remember the right combination of switches to make one module talk nicely to another module provided that you pipe it through a shell script to do something trivial like remove blank lines, because the first app includes them for readability but the developers of the second app decided that they should correspond to an EOF.
The 'unix way' is great, don't get me wrong, but it's now reached the stage where there should be a central body saying "Here are various behaviours, you should use these switches to achieve them. Here is how you should format your output. If this happens, throw this specific error." and so on. People, especially businesses, don't like to have to learn the nuances of every individual app because the developers use -E and not -e.
I suppose it depends on what you're trying to load up and how much you've optimised your boot sequence (Some things are absolute ballaches it's better to leave loading in the background, on both systems). Just out of curiosity, do any Linux distros do filesystem optimisations for boot? Last time my Vista was defragging (or optimising or whatever they call it now) I noticed it trying to move files referenced in the boot sequence to the start of the disk, so things like background tasks didn't need to send the disk head all over the place whilst the rest of the system was coming up.
I was just pondering the same. As far as I can tell, the crisis is that we we're wrong with an initial assumption and now need to update some of the calculations to compensate.
Hell yes, given that if the lose on this one the patent will affect (as far as I can tell) most forms of skinnable application, common UI and widget toolkits. Of course I could be wrong as patents are written so that you need a team of lawyers and a map to work out what they mean.
On the subject of disks, RAID etc I remember and article about Google's data storage, and how more could be added to the pool and have redundancy etc automatically dealt with.
Why can't the archive make use of a similar, media independent system? As long as there is some capability in the system to talk to a) the old media and b) the new media (Which can easily be achieved as long as the system is used, because hardware and software are easy enough to build 'bridges' into) then updating the archive is no more complex than adding whatever the latest readily available mass storage is, and letting old and defunct hardware vanish off the far end.
The system itself does all the data integrity, moving data around to make sure it's always available in a couple of places etc so in the event of an old array failing, it just goes "Ah, I've lost that copy. Better make a new one on this new empty array here to make sure I've still got X copies".
On the codec front, again the automation should help make this easier. Presuming the studios are too stupid to archive in a straight file format (Won't surprise me) the system could still be programmed to do the conversion. As long as it can read the old filetype and write the new one, it can be set to automatically update archives to the latest format.
A massive amount of work certainly, and of course it'll need some ongoing support to make sure the support for new hardware/codecs is implemented, but once it's up it just makes sure the archived content is always in a readable format on readable media.
Hang on, where did he say that the user was forced to run the application? Most IRC clients have quite comprehensive security options about how to react to DCC sends, commands from the server etc so simply setting an eggdrop to tell people to run a file isn't a problem. By your argument, observe my criminal activity:
Oh Gods no, you've gotta be joking. I have far too many numbers as it is, and most of them come from government agencies. National Insurance, NHS, Student Number, Driver Number, Passport Number, Voter Number, Birth Record ID, Disclosure ID Number.
How about keeping the common identifier so you don't have to remember if your number to put on the form is 184763X/HH8 or 0156-857-39, or maybe even Q-384DS09 and coming up with a decent security infrastructure so you can't have your entire identity stolen by somebody knowing only your number? How about something using a revokable licence mechanism which means individual groups of people can have their access to a common database of information limited to what they need and nothing more?
Just think, if you move house all those various groups you give your address to will just know. Your taxes could be done a lot quicker because the tax system can cross-reference automatically...
But of course then the evil government knows... uh... your address! And your tax details! And other details which they never knew before and couldn't possibly collate across all the government agencies that you tell these things to anyway!
Seriously, forcing less cooperation between agencies? Some branches of government in the UK have entire offices dedicated to keeping tabs on the paperwork required to exchange information with other agencies. I need to fill out a mass of paperwork in order to claim my student loan, all of which a government body somewhere will know anyway. My parents earnings are kept by inland revenue, my education details are known by UCAS (Not strictly government, but not far off) and my LEA, and my earnings are known by inland revenue. The fact I'm living in a house with my parents should be collated from the electoral roll and my birth certificate. It's not hard!
End rant, sorry but it's late and this kind of "The government wants to subvert us all if I tell them my address" gets on my nerves.
A reasonable person would not pull out their handgun and shoot the other unless there was a clear motive to aggravated kidnapping, murder, sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault, robbery, or aggravated robbery. Pulling out your handgun and asking the person to step away might make sense, especially there was an air of intent, but shooting for no discernible reason other than "he knocked him out" won't hold up in any sensible court of law. That said, it is the US justice system, so anything could happen.
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Not sure why Outlook poses a problem here though.
I was always taught BIDMAS:
Brackets
Indices
Division
Multiplication
Addition
Subtraction
Seems to be how everything works over here in the UK, and all US devices I've come across follow that order as well.
Me. And I appreciate not having people smoke at the bar, be it a smoking building or not. Because the smoke sticks to the glasses, leaves a residue on surfaces, taints the colour of displays (Optic badges etc) and makes the ceiling a really shitty yellow colour. Smokers also tend to leave ash strewn on the bar.
It's not just down to whether I like the smoke or not (I'm not a big fan, but I can live with it if I have to), it's down to whether people want to drink their pint out of a glass which is greasy with smoke. And yes, we do put the glasses through a washer regularly. It doesn't always make a difference, especially in the wine glasses which are suspended over the bar for easy reach.
I propose an alternative to your suggestion - if you want to smoke, don't do it near the bar. It's not that hard.
I was woken up at 3:45 this morning by Windows rebooting. Bloody thing.
Nah, a fake ID is illegal full stop. It's a similar idea to banknotes having to have "SAMPLE" written on them even if they're obviously not banknotes ie on other printed material - it is (afaik, ianal) illegal to reproduce or attempt to reproduce or imitate any official document even if it has incorrect information. For example, any form of 'fake ID' runs afoul of this but there is nothing to stop me creating my own 'ID Card' with my false information, as long as it doesn't look too much like an official one.
I had to sign a contract before my high school user/pass was enabled basically saying I wouldn't attempt to break into the systems, install applications or circumvent security.
Admittedly, this was rewritten after I pointed out that running Firefox from a memory stick did nothing to the systems, didn't install anything and just didn't bother with the proxy in the first place. But although schools should have to use some form of sensible policy in securing their systems, they should also know the difference between convenient loopholes which allow select students to actually get things done, and people maliciously trying to circumvent the proxy.
For example, running everything through a freely available web proxy to view porn is bad, and liable to be caught by the badwords filter. On the other hand, running everything through a proxy you're hosting yourself which encrypts page content (So it can't be filtered) to actually get to that damn reference site is perfectly sensible.
Smoking places second-hand smoke into the environment. I go for a drink somewhere with smokers (Only one or two), I come home smelling of cigarette smoke. I go for a drink somewhere with homosexuals (Only one or two), I do not come home gay.
I dislike people who pollute my local environment. This includes people who thing playing dance music on their phone at full volume is the height of cool and those who otherwise do things which irritate me if I'm not really paying attention. Smoking falls into this category, and I fail to see how things like 'noise pollution' can be covered by laws yet 'smoking pollution' can't.
Yes, yes they are. And they *still* get slated from half the Linux community.
"Windows sucks, it doesn't have a good shell!"
to
"Windows sucks, because although they built a good shell they copied it from us!"
This is the crux of my argument in favour of UAC and the new permissions Vista places on the filesystem. You now *cannot* assume the user will be running as admin, because even if they are you still get a UAC prompt if your application tries do something funky outside of its own 'walled garden' registry and application directories.
Result: The applications are written to behave properly and not try write garbage all over your hard disk. Proper user-specific configurations are much easier to manage. All is good!
If they won't pass a polling station on the day, they have absentee ballot papers.
Depends which bits you read. Yeah, the genealogy stuff is boring (A was the son of B ... was the son of Y was the son of Z and they all lived happily ever after in the land of Somewhereia) but other chapters of often the same book have just as much literary value as many of the 'classics' people so love. Revelations even has an angel saying "I know where you live" (NIV 2:12, he's got a sharp double-edged sword as well)
It's a good point, however there *must* be something specifying how those modules should behave when errors occur, handle input etc or the whole thing reaches the stage Linux has now where it works, and works well for the vast majority of tasks, but only if you remember the right combination of switches to make one module talk nicely to another module provided that you pipe it through a shell script to do something trivial like remove blank lines, because the first app includes them for readability but the developers of the second app decided that they should correspond to an EOF.
The 'unix way' is great, don't get me wrong, but it's now reached the stage where there should be a central body saying "Here are various behaviours, you should use these switches to achieve them. Here is how you should format your output. If this happens, throw this specific error." and so on. People, especially businesses, don't like to have to learn the nuances of every individual app because the developers use -E and not -e.
I suppose it depends on what you're trying to load up and how much you've optimised your boot sequence (Some things are absolute ballaches it's better to leave loading in the background, on both systems). Just out of curiosity, do any Linux distros do filesystem optimisations for boot? Last time my Vista was defragging (or optimising or whatever they call it now) I noticed it trying to move files referenced in the boot sequence to the start of the disk, so things like background tasks didn't need to send the disk head all over the place whilst the rest of the system was coming up.
I was just pondering the same. As far as I can tell, the crisis is that we we're wrong with an initial assumption and now need to update some of the calculations to compensate.
I believe this is a process known as "science".
Actually, my Vista boot goes faster than my Ubuntu boot with roughly equivalent services and applications installed on each (IM, office suite etc).
In some parts of the US, it's also known as "Science Textbook".
If you're on my lawn I'll suppress your free speech. Just watch.
Defend isn't the same as attack. America will probably defend itself (Probably by political means), but won't attack.
Hell yes, given that if the lose on this one the patent will affect (as far as I can tell) most forms of skinnable application, common UI and widget toolkits. Of course I could be wrong as patents are written so that you need a team of lawyers and a map to work out what they mean.
On the subject of disks, RAID etc I remember and article about Google's data storage, and how more could be added to the pool and have redundancy etc automatically dealt with.
Why can't the archive make use of a similar, media independent system? As long as there is some capability in the system to talk to a) the old media and b) the new media (Which can easily be achieved as long as the system is used, because hardware and software are easy enough to build 'bridges' into) then updating the archive is no more complex than adding whatever the latest readily available mass storage is, and letting old and defunct hardware vanish off the far end.
The system itself does all the data integrity, moving data around to make sure it's always available in a couple of places etc so in the event of an old array failing, it just goes "Ah, I've lost that copy. Better make a new one on this new empty array here to make sure I've still got X copies".
On the codec front, again the automation should help make this easier. Presuming the studios are too stupid to archive in a straight file format (Won't surprise me) the system could still be programmed to do the conversion. As long as it can read the old filetype and write the new one, it can be set to automatically update archives to the latest format.
A massive amount of work certainly, and of course it'll need some ongoing support to make sure the support for new hardware/codecs is implemented, but once it's up it just makes sure the archived content is always in a readable format on readable media.
Hang on, where did he say that the user was forced to run the application? Most IRC clients have quite comprehensive security options about how to react to DCC sends, commands from the server etc so simply setting an eggdrop to tell people to run a file isn't a problem. By your argument, observe my criminal activity:
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Oh Gods no, you've gotta be joking. I have far too many numbers as it is, and most of them come from government agencies. National Insurance, NHS, Student Number, Driver Number, Passport Number, Voter Number, Birth Record ID, Disclosure ID Number.
How about keeping the common identifier so you don't have to remember if your number to put on the form is 184763X/HH8 or 0156-857-39, or maybe even Q-384DS09 and coming up with a decent security infrastructure so you can't have your entire identity stolen by somebody knowing only your number? How about something using a revokable licence mechanism which means individual groups of people can have their access to a common database of information limited to what they need and nothing more?
Just think, if you move house all those various groups you give your address to will just know. Your taxes could be done a lot quicker because the tax system can cross-reference automatically...
But of course then the evil government knows... uh... your address! And your tax details! And other details which they never knew before and couldn't possibly collate across all the government agencies that you tell these things to anyway!
Seriously, forcing less cooperation between agencies? Some branches of government in the UK have entire offices dedicated to keeping tabs on the paperwork required to exchange information with other agencies. I need to fill out a mass of paperwork in order to claim my student loan, all of which a government body somewhere will know anyway. My parents earnings are kept by inland revenue, my education details are known by UCAS (Not strictly government, but not far off) and my LEA, and my earnings are known by inland revenue. The fact I'm living in a house with my parents should be collated from the electoral roll and my birth certificate. It's not hard!
End rant, sorry but it's late and this kind of "The government wants to subvert us all if I tell them my address" gets on my nerves.
iTunes is a bloated gui? Most command line apps have a more bloated UI!
Okay, not that far, but it's pretty minimalistic. As in, I've never had to click a button to make my iPod sync.
A reasonable person would not pull out their handgun and shoot the other unless there was a clear motive to aggravated kidnapping, murder, sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault, robbery, or aggravated robbery. Pulling out your handgun and asking the person to step away might make sense, especially there was an air of intent, but shooting for no discernible reason other than "he knocked him out" won't hold up in any sensible court of law. That said, it is the US justice system, so anything could happen.
$50/user/year gets you a nice uptime guarantee with Enterprise Apps from Google, not sure about a data integrity clause though.