And network bit rates have always been measured in powers of ten, like disks, not 2, like memory. It's memory that's the odd one out, not disks or networks.
I had 1Mbps and 2Mbps decent (and expensive) symmetric links from two different ISPs, both matched real rather than drivermaker's megabits pretty closely, with IP but not lower layers' overhead. With most packets at the MTU and full queues the variance was very low.
And these companies are scummy enough to make sure if they can skimp on something reasonably, they will. So if they didn't cheat, I assume a good deal of other ISPs don't cheat here either.
False advertising _is_ a negative thing. Verizon advertises 21Mbps speeds while they offer 18kbps (assuming drivemaker's gigabytes which they surely use). They should be allowed to advertise the bigger number at most as a burst speed it is.
And how exactly are you supposed to authenticate users on FTP? The protocol, barring incompatible extensions, doesn't allow for anything but plain text. It should be never used except for tightly controlled environments and if you have it tightly controlled, why won't you use something sane and secure?
With non-anonymous FTP being a bad idea, having anonymous access as the default makes sense.
Or Russia... Litvinenko released data about FSB staging false-flag bombings, and see how ended up. And instead of a plausible accident, Russians went a long way to leave their signature on his assassination.
And why exactly the life of the author should matter? Are works by a 15 years old more valuable than those by a centogenarian geezer?
The original US copyright length, 7 extensible to 14, was already at the max of what can be argued to be reasonable -- in times when you needed several weeks to travel.
Sadly, even though the cause of the war is known to be falsified, there is no direct proof Bush indeed ordered that -- even though the contrary would be ridiculous.
If you want a clear-cut case, it's FISA warrantless wiretapping -- which is a federal felony to which he admitted. And paid no consequences, even though he should be sitting in prison -- preferably in the same cell as Obama who ordered the wiretapping to continue.
Kernel drivers are free -- not all are present in vanilla kernels, but the patches are available. The non-free stuff that is important includes hardware acceleration for the display (not strictly vital) and a tiny little detail that is battery charging -- both live in the userspace.
Other non-free bits on N900 are parts of Maemo which is on the way out -- you don't need them if you want a replacement. Any new systems would be most likely based on Meego (like the current Debian project is).
I bought mine online for just 40% of the price, slightly used (3 months), nary a scratch, missing headphones, UK charger instead of an Euro one (the seller was in-country and included a converter).
I managed to give it a nasty scratch on the display before I learned why you shouldn't put it in the same compartment as your keys without the sheath, but otherwise, it works just perfectly.
N900 is not as friendly to untechnical users, so it's likely you can buy one barely used for a small fraction of the price. And unlike even Android, you get a fully programmable subnotebook instead of a toy with a few "apps" and DRM that prevents you from replacing the system.
I find advertising strongly objectionable, and nowadays I have to go to great lengths to get rid of that crap (currently a DNS-based list + AdBlock + abuse of Stylish). Could I please get the govt to require people to opt in to advertising? Oh, and I find censorship strongly objectionable as well. Please make that opt in too.
Actually, a non-negligible amount of babies get mistakenly switched around in hospitals. This is the reason why many hospitals nowadays (at least in Poland) give newborns bracelets with the name of their parent -- but there are claims that they still manage to get it wrong quite often.
Less seriously: I was born a stupid, ugly but work-loving baby, yet an evil midwife switched me in the crib.
What's elitist about mentioning that a large majority of food there is abysmal? If X samples show that most of the food is bad, it's a valid observation that suggests the average is bad as well.
Of course you can find good food, no doubts about that, but if a significant part of the population cared about food quality, I wouldn't have trouble finding something palatable.
No, I never been to a McDonalds there -- or rather, I entered one, saw a monstrously dirty place that stank and quickly ran away. Heck, in a backwards place like Poland McDonalds are safe food, among the better fast food places, priced so the poor can't afford to eat there (or at least couldn't ~10 years ago, things change fast) -- yet in the US they seem to be the lowest of the low.
My sample comes mostly from going out several times with people from that university I've been to for the summer, and trying out various eateries in the city on my won the rest of the time.
It might be something like those mythical microbrews people on/. praise whenever someone dares to mention American beer -- yet try going into a shop and choose a beer you didn't try yet. There's 99.9% chance it's pure shit.
I don't deny there's good food and good beer there -- but if anything you pick at random is that bad, it says well what the _average_ is.
I been there a month, and did put some effort into trying to find something good -- other Polacks there usually made their own food, I'm an abysmal cook and I wanted to try the local food rather than eating things I can have at home. A guy from China recommended to me several places, these served real Chinese food instead of the westernized faux stuff we're used to so it was too weird to me -- but not bad.
In the end, the only sources of good food I managed to find were a couple of Italian places and a bar that served omelettes.
On the other hand, when in Switzerland I failed to find a single bad consumable -- everything I tried was superb (been there only 3 days, but still...), and in Germany or Denmark, the food quality is as good as in Poland. And in Sweden, you just need to know to avoid gems like sugared sausage.
A wheelchair has the advantage of being simpler to program, yes. But walking using human muscles is merely a programming problem, one that needs some research effort spent on it. It's certainly not a trivial one, yet I guess it's not well-solved only because no one made a serious attempt there. Bipedal robots use a custom set of "muscles" rather than something even similar to human ones.
If you have two audio systems, and one has significantly more fidelity than the other, you can process the sound to emulate the artifacts of the weaker system with no perceivable difference.
Of course, PRICE does not mean quality -- not with loads of gear that don't stand to blind hearing tests and outright scams like Monster Cable.
That tube amps you mention -- their only upside is that they fail more nicely at the point of clipping, starting to lose gain before the cap so the transition isn't that abrupt. You can of course easily emulate that with newer gear or in software. And the whole exercise is moot -- if any clipping occurs, any quality is already lost. Of course, the music industry doesn't care here.
That the technically better system can be used wrongly -- and often is -- does mean you should use worse ones just because they can't be misused this way.
Which is nice because it does support the necessary protected path audio
The protected audio path is suddenly "necessary" and "nice"?!?
What the hell... man, please get an audio player software that disregards DRM (Blu-Ray DRM has been defeated) and you'll be able to send this to any sound card no matter if it degrades to the protected audio path or not.
Vinyl is strictly worse than any semi-modern solution when technical merits are concerned. The only reason you can have vinyls that sound better is because of the bastard recording industry and their loudness war.
In civilized countries money transfers already cost 0, at least within a group of connected banks. It's just the US where PayPal can gouge you for _less_ than banks do (and screw you other ways).
Banks already get to use my money, so they're not at a loss. And they do take a per-account fee if your balance is below a certain limit, but that fee is fixed.
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A few hours is better than nothing -- which is what most people get.
You can't force parents to do their job, such a short course would guarantee everyone has at least the dimmest clue.
And network bit rates have always been measured in powers of ten, like disks, not 2, like memory. It's memory that's the odd one out, not disks or networks.
I had 1Mbps and 2Mbps decent (and expensive) symmetric links from two different ISPs, both matched real rather than drivermaker's megabits pretty closely, with IP but not lower layers' overhead. With most packets at the MTU and full queues the variance was very low.
And these companies are scummy enough to make sure if they can skimp on something reasonably, they will. So if they didn't cheat, I assume a good deal of other ISPs don't cheat here either.
False advertising _is_ a negative thing. Verizon advertises 21Mbps speeds while they offer 18kbps (assuming drivemaker's gigabytes which they surely use). They should be allowed to advertise the bigger number at most as a burst speed it is.
Except that both McAfee and Norton affect the computer worse than several concurrent malware infestations.
"pharming" (DNS redirect)
The name comes from "Phorm", right?
And how exactly are you supposed to authenticate users on FTP? The protocol, barring incompatible extensions, doesn't allow for anything but plain text. It should be never used except for tightly controlled environments and if you have it tightly controlled, why won't you use something sane and secure?
With non-anonymous FTP being a bad idea, having anonymous access as the default makes sense.
Or Russia... Litvinenko released data about FSB staging false-flag bombings, and see how ended up. And instead of a plausible accident, Russians went a long way to leave their signature on his assassination.
And why exactly the life of the author should matter? Are works by a 15 years old more valuable than those by a centogenarian geezer?
The original US copyright length, 7 extensible to 14, was already at the max of what can be argued to be reasonable -- in times when you needed several weeks to travel.
... and like those 1x1 transparent gifs, they deserve nothing but getting added to AdBlock -- or your DNS-based block list.
Sadly, even though the cause of the war is known to be falsified, there is no direct proof Bush indeed ordered that -- even though the contrary would be ridiculous.
If you want a clear-cut case, it's FISA warrantless wiretapping -- which is a federal felony to which he admitted. And paid no consequences, even though he should be sitting in prison -- preferably in the same cell as Obama who ordered the wiretapping to continue.
Kernel drivers are free -- not all are present in vanilla kernels, but the patches are available. The non-free stuff that is important includes hardware acceleration for the display (not strictly vital) and a tiny little detail that is battery charging -- both live in the userspace.
Other non-free bits on N900 are parts of Maemo which is on the way out -- you don't need them if you want a replacement. Any new systems would be most likely based on Meego (like the current Debian project is).
I bought mine online for just 40% of the price, slightly used (3 months), nary a scratch, missing headphones, UK charger instead of an Euro one (the seller was in-country and included a converter).
I managed to give it a nasty scratch on the display before I learned why you shouldn't put it in the same compartment as your keys without the sheath, but otherwise, it works just perfectly.
N900 is not as friendly to untechnical users, so it's likely you can buy one barely used for a small fraction of the price. And unlike even Android, you get a fully programmable subnotebook instead of a toy with a few "apps" and DRM that prevents you from replacing the system.
they joked about it because it had ceased to be meaningful in any way
In order to cease, you need to start first.
I find advertising strongly objectionable, and nowadays I have to go to great lengths to get rid of that crap (currently a DNS-based list + AdBlock + abuse of Stylish). Could I please get the govt to require people to opt in to advertising? Oh, and I find censorship strongly objectionable as well. Please make that opt in too.
Actually, a non-negligible amount of babies get mistakenly switched around in hospitals. This is the reason why many hospitals nowadays (at least in Poland) give newborns bracelets with the name of their parent -- but there are claims that they still manage to get it wrong quite often.
Less seriously: I was born a stupid, ugly but work-loving baby, yet an evil midwife switched me in the crib.
What's elitist about mentioning that a large majority of food there is abysmal? If X samples show that most of the food is bad, it's a valid observation that suggests the average is bad as well.
Of course you can find good food, no doubts about that, but if a significant part of the population cared about food quality, I wouldn't have trouble finding something palatable.
No, I never been to a McDonalds there -- or rather, I entered one, saw a monstrously dirty place that stank and quickly ran away. Heck, in a backwards place like Poland McDonalds are safe food, among the better fast food places, priced so the poor can't afford to eat there (or at least couldn't ~10 years ago, things change fast) -- yet in the US they seem to be the lowest of the low.
My sample comes mostly from going out several times with people from that university I've been to for the summer, and trying out various eateries in the city on my won the rest of the time.
It might be something like those mythical microbrews people on /. praise whenever someone dares to mention American beer -- yet try going into a shop and choose a beer you didn't try yet. There's 99.9% chance it's pure shit.
I don't deny there's good food and good beer there -- but if anything you pick at random is that bad, it says well what the _average_ is.
I been there a month, and did put some effort into trying to find something good -- other Polacks there usually made their own food, I'm an abysmal cook and I wanted to try the local food rather than eating things I can have at home. A guy from China recommended to me several places, these served real Chinese food instead of the westernized faux stuff we're used to so it was too weird to me -- but not bad.
In the end, the only sources of good food I managed to find were a couple of Italian places and a bar that served omelettes.
On the other hand, when in Switzerland I failed to find a single bad consumable -- everything I tried was superb (been there only 3 days, but still...), and in Germany or Denmark, the food quality is as good as in Poland. And in Sweden, you just need to know to avoid gems like sugared sausage.
Actually, after visiting the US, I'd say the food there is abysmal. For something edible, you need to look into something italian/chinese/etc.
The rampant obesity there comes from quantity not quality.
A wheelchair has the advantage of being simpler to program, yes. But walking using human muscles is merely a programming problem, one that needs some research effort spent on it. It's certainly not a trivial one, yet I guess it's not well-solved only because no one made a serious attempt there. Bipedal robots use a custom set of "muscles" rather than something even similar to human ones.
Or, since this device can control the leg muscles, what about skipping pedaling and turning it into a walking device? Using, you know, legs.
No, CDDL was _designed_ to be GPL incompatible, on purpose (ref: Denise Cooper's talk on DebConf 6).
Thus, the blame lies entirely on Sun's side.
If you have two audio systems, and one has significantly more fidelity than the other, you can process the sound to emulate the artifacts of the weaker system with no perceivable difference.
Of course, PRICE does not mean quality -- not with loads of gear that don't stand to blind hearing tests and outright scams like Monster Cable.
That tube amps you mention -- their only upside is that they fail more nicely at the point of clipping, starting to lose gain before the cap so the transition isn't that abrupt. You can of course easily emulate that with newer gear or in software. And the whole exercise is moot -- if any clipping occurs, any quality is already lost. Of course, the music industry doesn't care here.
That the technically better system can be used wrongly -- and often is -- does mean you should use worse ones just because they can't be misused this way.
Which is nice because it does support the necessary protected path audio
The protected audio path is suddenly "necessary" and "nice"?!?
What the hell... man, please get an audio player software that disregards DRM (Blu-Ray DRM has been defeated) and you'll be able to send this to any sound card no matter if it degrades to the protected audio path or not.
Vinyl is strictly worse than any semi-modern solution when technical merits are concerned. The only reason you can have vinyls that sound better is because of the bastard recording industry and their loudness war.
In civilized countries money transfers already cost 0, at least within a group of connected banks. It's just the US where PayPal can gouge you for _less_ than banks do (and screw you other ways).
Banks already get to use my money, so they're not at a loss. And they do take a per-account fee if your balance is below a certain limit, but that fee is fixed.