The Asus Eee PC I'm posting this from was four hundred dollars from newegg. It's not perfect, but as a student, it's great for web browsing, notetaking, etc.
Sounds like these guys and Monster Cable should talk shop.
I do this at home... when I'm puttering around and might want to be bothered, but only if it's extremely interesting, I put up some sort of quote or joke in an away message. If I don't respond, people assume I'm not at the computer.
Current Away Message: I WILL DESTROY YOU PAUL MITCHELL
The scouts are a private organization, and I respect their right to set rules for their organization
But my biggest pet peeve is that the BSA claims this is based on Christian values. It isn't. Any church I've been to (I'm a lapsed Catholic) would love to have a homosexual or atheist come to mass, and probably offer to have a priest available to talk to the visitor afterwards.
Turning away "sinners" goes against everything Christianity is about. God decides who's a sinner, NOT the BSA.
Somehow I think the open source community won't flock to this cause.
An altered image often has gaps in the histogram, or sudden spikes The original flows smoothly. Both look very real, but one is not. Even small lighting adjustments cause the histogram to betray the meddler.
We have established MULTIPLE times that the actions of Media Defender were illegal. That was was established, and discussed fully about 30 posts in (with me browsing at +5).
I know the kneejerk reaction is to mod up anyone dissing media offender, but PLEASE mods, don't be afraid of the "redundant" tag. I for one am having trouble gleaning any new information from the pile of +5 "HURR DOS HURRR THATS BAD" posts.
I've never used a separate application for email. Born in 1988, I spent my formative years with free webmail, bouncing from hotmail to yahoo before finally settling with gmail. I actually just stopped using iCal and started using Google Calendar.
I just don't see a reason, unless I were to desire a custom domain.
Had some problems with Filevault not deleting encrypted images upon waking from sleep... anyways I had to reinstall the OS, and had lost my Office Mac CD, so I installed NeoOffice, intending to buy a new copy if I ran into any major problems. That was about two years ago.
I recently had drop everything in the middle of finals week, because my twelve year old cousin had been killed by a drunk driver, and her dad was in a coma and it was unclear if he would live.
I am angry yes. I'm angry that some 18 year old punk thought he could drive with a.39 BAC. I'm angry that my city has a travesty of a public transport system that causes a lot of people to choose to drive. I'm angry that the insanely high drinking age and draconian laws regarding it prevent parents from introducing alchohol to their kids in a safe environment, teaching them responsible habits, like the Europeans do.
But _anyone_ who seriously thinks someone will decide to drive drunk based on playing a video game is mentally deficient. Besides, how are these kids getting the games anyways? In my area, all the stores card for M rated games. But it doesn't matter, since the kids just get their parents to buy it for them. Back when San Andreas came out I actually saw some guy in his 40s screaming at a clerk for refusing to sell his ~12 year old kid a copy.
In my opinion, that's why so many people want to blame video games, or anything else for that matter. It draws the attention away from their shitty parenting.
Exactly. For example, if someone attacks me in real life, and I use my martial arts skills to subdue them, I would not be charged with a crime - it would be self defense.
It would be great if we could get a law to acknowledge some sort of "electronic self defense" right.
I'm an Information Science major, but I have a strong interest in photography and graphic design.
If Adobe ported Photoshop to Linux, I'd switch. Even on my my Mac I use mostly open source software... (Neo Office, Firefox, VLC, etc), but Photoshop and the rest of the creative suite have no equivalent on Linux
Please do not mention the Gimp. I need CMKY for one thing. Many users don't use Photoshop's advanced features, and that's fine, I'm glad there's a product out there for them that doesn't cost them any money.
And on the topic of businesses, Office 2008 for Mac removed VBA support for it. What is a business to use? Neo Office? It's a great tool, but it does have a lot of bugs, mainly when dealing with complex documents. Neo Office currently supports all 2007 VBA and related fun, but it's also prone to frustrating formatting issues and other glitches.
Considering that so many businesses stupidly decided their IDE of choice should be Excel for all their random back office calculations, this could be a big consideration.
I have a nice little padded zipper case I got at the Apple Store, only slightly larger than my Macbook. My "laptop bag" just just your usual generic backpack.
When in public, I don't allow it out of my site. If I leave it in my dorm, I make sure to lock the door.
In the off chance it would still be stolen, anything important is encrypted.
That's ridiculous. At my college there was an emergency door that had an alarm in the dorm. It had to be their to provide access to the emergency exit, due to coding issues, but is not meant to be used normally as it separates the living area from the administrative. It emits a high pitched alarm for about 2 minutes if you go through it.
So I got a nerf gun and started blasting people who went through the door since my room was a few doors down. It worked wonders. Someone eventually called security, who laughed in their face.
Google should have asked for a court order.
What if the next time it's just street view on a street with a recruiting office on it?
Or the van happens to go by a protest in front of a US monument?
Where is the line drawn?
Maybe this specific request was reasonable. But what about future requests?
I was invited to a fraternity party recently by a friend who, while intelligent, was a bit to focused on the party scene and had to transfer to a state school.
I'm not normally the frathouse type, but I figured it was something to try once. Anyways, at the house they had a "study room". In it was a filing cabinet with folders for almost any class you can think of. After any tests, homework, etc were graded, the frat brothers put it in the corresponding folder.
I was told most of the professors know this goes on, and don't care, since they change the exams and homework each semester, so unless the underlying concepts are understood, the old tests won't help.
That to me seems to be the way an academic institution should look at this sort of thing.
The article also mentioned the students were physics students, so it's to be expected that in the real world they will collaborate on projects.
Or maybe teens will simply download anonymously from the multitude of unsecured wireless access points in dorms, apartments, and office buildings nationwide.
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The Asus Eee PC I'm posting this from was four hundred dollars from newegg. It's not perfect, but as a student, it's great for web browsing, notetaking, etc.
Sounds like these guys and Monster Cable should talk shop.
The Russians used a pencil
I used the OSx86 optimized build... any idea how much between the official release and mine will be?
I do this at home... when I'm puttering around and might want to be bothered, but only if it's extremely interesting, I put up some sort of quote or joke in an away message. If I don't respond, people assume I'm not at the computer. Current Away Message: I WILL DESTROY YOU PAUL MITCHELL
The scouts are a private organization, and I respect their right to set rules for their organization
But my biggest pet peeve is that the BSA claims this is based on Christian values. It isn't. Any church I've been to (I'm a lapsed Catholic) would love to have a homosexual or atheist come to mass, and probably offer to have a priest available to talk to the visitor afterwards.
Turning away "sinners" goes against everything Christianity is about. God decides who's a sinner, NOT the BSA.
Somehow I think the open source community won't flock to this cause.
"According to Wikipedia..."
I stopped reading at that point. Wikipedia, unless it cites it's claims to some sort of scholarly source, is not an acceptable source.
And for the record, the same is true of any encyclopedia, ask any English 101 professor.
Look at the levels in Photoshop or Gimp.
An altered image often has gaps in the histogram, or sudden spikes The original flows smoothly. Both look very real, but one is not. Even small lighting adjustments cause the histogram to betray the meddler.
We have established MULTIPLE times that the actions of Media Defender were illegal. That was was established, and discussed fully about 30 posts in (with me browsing at +5).
I know the kneejerk reaction is to mod up anyone dissing media offender, but PLEASE mods, don't be afraid of the "redundant" tag. I for one am having trouble gleaning any new information from the pile of +5 "HURR DOS HURRR THATS BAD" posts.
I've never used a separate application for email. Born in 1988, I spent my formative years with free webmail, bouncing from hotmail to yahoo before finally settling with gmail. I actually just stopped using iCal and started using Google Calendar. I just don't see a reason, unless I were to desire a custom domain.
Skifree taught me a lot about life.
Whenever you think things are going well, a giant monster will run out of the woods and attack you.
Had some problems with Filevault not deleting encrypted images upon waking from sleep... anyways I had to reinstall the OS, and had lost my Office Mac CD, so I installed NeoOffice, intending to buy a new copy if I ran into any major problems. That was about two years ago.
If I wanted to make my fingers cry out in pain, I'd use eMacs.
I use the screencapture command in terminal to take screenshots.
We should lobby to have a label for diet coke and mentos warning not to mix the two.
Here's my perspective.
.39 BAC. I'm angry that my city has a travesty of a public transport system that causes a lot of people to choose to drive. I'm angry that the insanely high drinking age and draconian laws regarding it prevent parents from introducing alchohol to their kids in a safe environment, teaching them responsible habits, like the Europeans do.
I recently had drop everything in the middle of finals week, because my twelve year old cousin had been killed by a drunk driver, and her dad was in a coma and it was unclear if he would live.
I am angry yes. I'm angry that some 18 year old punk thought he could drive with a
But _anyone_ who seriously thinks someone will decide to drive drunk based on playing a video game is mentally deficient. Besides, how are these kids getting the games anyways? In my area, all the stores card for M rated games. But it doesn't matter, since the kids just get their parents to buy it for them. Back when San Andreas came out I actually saw some guy in his 40s screaming at a clerk for refusing to sell his ~12 year old kid a copy.
In my opinion, that's why so many people want to blame video games, or anything else for that matter. It draws the attention away from their shitty parenting.
Exactly. For example, if someone attacks me in real life, and I use my martial arts skills to subdue them, I would not be charged with a crime - it would be self defense. It would be great if we could get a law to acknowledge some sort of "electronic self defense" right.
I'm an Information Science major, but I have a strong interest in photography and graphic design.
If Adobe ported Photoshop to Linux, I'd switch. Even on my my Mac I use mostly open source software... (Neo Office, Firefox, VLC, etc), but Photoshop and the rest of the creative suite have no equivalent on Linux
Please do not mention the Gimp. I need CMKY for one thing. Many users don't use Photoshop's advanced features, and that's fine, I'm glad there's a product out there for them that doesn't cost them any money.
And on the topic of businesses, Office 2008 for Mac removed VBA support for it. What is a business to use? Neo Office? It's a great tool, but it does have a lot of bugs, mainly when dealing with complex documents. Neo Office currently supports all 2007 VBA and related fun, but it's also prone to frustrating formatting issues and other glitches.
Considering that so many businesses stupidly decided their IDE of choice should be Excel for all their random back office calculations, this could be a big consideration.
I always went for the low tech.
I have a nice little padded zipper case I got at the Apple Store, only slightly larger than my Macbook. My "laptop bag" just just your usual generic backpack.
When in public, I don't allow it out of my site. If I leave it in my dorm, I make sure to lock the door.
In the off chance it would still be stolen, anything important is encrypted.
Why would anyone choose Safari over Firefox? (I'm being serious.)
That's ridiculous. At my college there was an emergency door that had an alarm in the dorm. It had to be their to provide access to the emergency exit, due to coding issues, but is not meant to be used normally as it separates the living area from the administrative. It emits a high pitched alarm for about 2 minutes if you go through it.
So I got a nerf gun and started blasting people who went through the door since my room was a few doors down. It worked wonders. Someone eventually called security, who laughed in their face.
Couldn't the guy have thought of a better name? Bum-bot sounds like a marital aid.
I have this image of a bum in the local pawn shop, trying to hawk the stolen bum-bot.
Google should have asked for a court order. What if the next time it's just street view on a street with a recruiting office on it? Or the van happens to go by a protest in front of a US monument? Where is the line drawn? Maybe this specific request was reasonable. But what about future requests?
I was invited to a fraternity party recently by a friend who, while intelligent, was a bit to focused on the party scene and had to transfer to a state school. I'm not normally the frathouse type, but I figured it was something to try once. Anyways, at the house they had a "study room". In it was a filing cabinet with folders for almost any class you can think of. After any tests, homework, etc were graded, the frat brothers put it in the corresponding folder. I was told most of the professors know this goes on, and don't care, since they change the exams and homework each semester, so unless the underlying concepts are understood, the old tests won't help. That to me seems to be the way an academic institution should look at this sort of thing. The article also mentioned the students were physics students, so it's to be expected that in the real world they will collaborate on projects.
My guess is that Airmen were replacing .gov with .com when typing emails.
Or maybe teens will simply download anonymously from the multitude of unsecured wireless access points in dorms, apartments, and office buildings nationwide.