Yep. I owned the same one. I can confirm it, without Netcraft even. It was crap. The configuration interface was just... broken. It didn't even render right in certain browsers, IIRC. The firewall config, in particular, was crap. And it had a telnet backdoor. And a passwordless admin account. And it quit working after a year.
It's no accident that lawyers and doctors tend to be in much better shape than the general population.
I don't know. It probably couldn't be that doctors and lawyers tend to make more money than the general population and therefore have more time and money to spend on going to the gym, buying healthy foods, hiring a nutritionist, hiring a personal trainer, etc., could it?
I guess what the parent is trying to say, Ray, is that he thinks that if it were in your client's best interests to not have it broadcast on the Internet, you'd be whining and moaning at the judge, too. After all, as a professional, you have to maintain a fiduciary relationship with your clients, which means that you always have to represent your client's best interests.
What you seem to be saying is that your ethics don't allow you to choose clients who fight dirty. I can respect that, but as a fellow consultant, I will also say that I, too, always try to do and recommend what is best for my clients. That would seem to make the most sense.
Example: One client wanted a file server and requested that Linux would be the OS that they wanted to run. They also specified that they wanted it to be easy to maintain from a Web interface. It was a small shop and they weren't going to hire IT staff full-time. Even though ethically I love free software, I told them it would probably be in their best interests to get a pre-packaged file serving appliance rather than trying to build one and load free software on it. Even though the free software would have been my own choice, I knew that something that came prepackaged with support would be in their best interests monetarily. So I steered them in that direction. I did let them know what the alternative would be -- I could build it out and provide support for my usual rate per call, but I also showed them how the dedicated equipment would save them money. They went with the dedicated equipment.
I'll bet that this is the real reason that the iPhone doesn't have a keyboard.
When was the last time Apple based a product on what their lawyers told them? Seriously. Apple has a long and flagrant history of violating 'intellectual property' laws starting with name of the company itself. Anybody remember the 'sosueme' audio file?
According to the announcement by Circuit City, nothing. In fact, InterTAN (the company that owns the RadioShack/Source by Circuit City" chain in Canada) is trying to buy out its parent company, Circuit City, before it goes under.
You mean except for WalMart. Sorry, but very often on electronics and computer accessories, the prices one can get a WalMart are very competitive with online retailers these days.
OTOH, WalMart only stocks limited items. If they don't have what you want, it doesn't really matter.
No. It's a loose coupling of different applications and such into services, and then coupling those services with business logic to produce a new application. Think middleware.
But you still didn't answer my question. If we suppose the universe is all discrete and therefore 'grainy', the size of the grains seems rather irrelevant as to whether those grains are constituents of a hologram.
Sand is grainy. We can measure the graininess of sand. But sand isn't a hologram. See what I'm saying?
In my opinion, churches that take stances on political issues like that should lose their tax-exempt status, as the clause under which they are tax exempt clearly prohibits political activism.
As someone who has done treasury work for a tax-exempt ecclesiastical organization (aka a 'church'), I can tell you that churches can't take stances on specific ballot initiatives or political candidates.
What they can say is things like 'We don't believe in gay marriage and we think nobody should support legislation or political candidates that support gay marriage' or 'Most of our members tell us that they won't be voting for Proposition 8'.
It's a fine line, but technically what they can't say is 'We do not support Prop 8'.** But, they can say anything just short of that.
** Note that this is only an example and I realize that Prop 8 is not a ballot issue at this point, so at this point they can say/do whatever they want WRT Prop 8 specifically.
So, um, how does this translate into the universe being a hologram? Maybe it's just me, but it seems that just because the universe may be all discrete doesn't mean it's a hologram.
Doesn't that amount fall into the "danger" range for hallucinations?
Yes.
I wonder if there's any relationship between the parts of the brain that would be responsible for hallucinating and the parts that cause Alzheimer's?
Yes. Alzheimer's causes dementia.
Also, if coffee can help block damage caused by cholesterol, would meds like Lipitor do the same thing?
Maybe. There is a link between cholesterol levels and Alzheimer's.
If it's a matter of antioxidants, wouldn't taking decent amounts of Vitamin C (which has a relatively high toxicity rate) do the same?
Not really. Vitamin C is water-soluble and it is therefore difficult to maintain decent levels of it in your blood.
Or drinking green tea? (And idea how common Alzheimer's is in cultures where tea is a regularly consumed beverage?)
I think I read somehwere that Alzheimer's was less common in the Far East. OTOH, diets are also very different, so that doesn't mean that green tea helps prevent Alzheimer's. But maybe it does.
Not necessarily, no, but I acknowledge the possibility since the story was submitted an anonymous reader. Maybe the submitter and that poster weren't the same guy, but even so, what does the AC have to gain by lying? Nothing that I can see other than maybe he gets his jollies off misleading other people.
As always, you are expected to take everything you read on the Intarwebs with a grain of salt.
For all I, you and the rest of Slashdot knows, Kogan is lying about the reason it is issuing refunds and delaying manufacturing.
Because most of the other distros don't make it easy to install the non-free and patent encumbered stuff.
With Ubuntu, I install it, it detects I have an Nvidia card and notifies me. Then I say "Yeah, install the resricted driver" and it just does and then the video card just works. If I hit a site that has a QuickTime movie, it downloads the open-source-but-patent-violating QuickTime codecs and then the media just plays just play. If I have, say, a Broadcom wireless adapter, it lets me know and then I say "Yeah, install the restricted driver" and it just does and then the wireless adapter just works.
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Yep. I owned the same one. I can confirm it, without Netcraft even. It was crap. The configuration interface was just ... broken. It didn't even render right in certain browsers, IIRC. The firewall config, in particular, was crap. And it had a telnet backdoor. And a passwordless admin account. And it quit working after a year.
Don't ever buy one of these. Ever. I mean it.
Ummm, you do know that after you post in a thread, your mods in that thread get cancelled out, right?
What was that? Whoooosh? Dammit!
It's no accident that lawyers and doctors tend to be in much better shape than the general population.
I don't know. It probably couldn't be that doctors and lawyers tend to make more money than the general population and therefore have more time and money to spend on going to the gym, buying healthy foods, hiring a nutritionist, hiring a personal trainer, etc., could it?
I guess what the parent is trying to say, Ray, is that he thinks that if it were in your client's best interests to not have it broadcast on the Internet, you'd be whining and moaning at the judge, too. After all, as a professional, you have to maintain a fiduciary relationship with your clients, which means that you always have to represent your client's best interests.
What you seem to be saying is that your ethics don't allow you to choose clients who fight dirty. I can respect that, but as a fellow consultant, I will also say that I, too, always try to do and recommend what is best for my clients. That would seem to make the most sense.
Example: One client wanted a file server and requested that Linux would be the OS that they wanted to run. They also specified that they wanted it to be easy to maintain from a Web interface. It was a small shop and they weren't going to hire IT staff full-time. Even though ethically I love free software, I told them it would probably be in their best interests to get a pre-packaged file serving appliance rather than trying to build one and load free software on it. Even though the free software would have been my own choice, I knew that something that came prepackaged with support would be in their best interests monetarily. So I steered them in that direction. I did let them know what the alternative would be -- I could build it out and provide support for my usual rate per call, but I also showed them how the dedicated equipment would save them money. They went with the dedicated equipment.
So I take it you've never seen Matlock? ;)
*ducking*
In fact, aren't Einstein's equations on gravity themselves nonlinear?
Mod parent up. ITC != (USPTO || US Court System).
I'll bet that this is the real reason that the iPhone doesn't have a keyboard.
When was the last time Apple based a product on what their lawyers told them? Seriously. Apple has a long and flagrant history of violating 'intellectual property' laws starting with name of the company itself. Anybody remember the 'sosueme' audio file?
I have the same deck and have had it for about 2 years now. I also bought it from Walmart -- 100% problem free.
According to the announcement by Circuit City, nothing. In fact, InterTAN (the company that owns the RadioShack/Source by Circuit City" chain in Canada) is trying to buy out its parent company, Circuit City, before it goes under.
You mean except for WalMart. Sorry, but very often on electronics and computer accessories, the prices one can get a WalMart are very competitive with online retailers these days.
OTOH, WalMart only stocks limited items. If they don't have what you want, it doesn't really matter.
Of course, their high pressure sales tactics didn't help either
A habit they undoubtedly picked up from their involvement with InterTAN, which never did get rid of their Tandy Brain Damage.
No. It's a loose coupling of different applications and such into services, and then coupling those services with business logic to produce a new application. Think middleware.
But you still didn't answer my question. If we suppose the universe is all discrete and therefore 'grainy', the size of the grains seems rather irrelevant as to whether those grains are constituents of a hologram.
Sand is grainy. We can measure the graininess of sand. But sand isn't a hologram. See what I'm saying?
In my opinion, churches that take stances on political issues like that should lose their tax-exempt status, as the clause under which they are tax exempt clearly prohibits political activism.
As someone who has done treasury work for a tax-exempt ecclesiastical organization (aka a 'church'), I can tell you that churches can't take stances on specific ballot initiatives or political candidates.
What they can say is things like 'We don't believe in gay marriage and we think nobody should support legislation or political candidates that support gay marriage' or 'Most of our members tell us that they won't be voting for Proposition 8'.
It's a fine line, but technically what they can't say is 'We do not support Prop 8'.** But, they can say anything just short of that.
** Note that this is only an example and I realize that Prop 8 is not a ballot issue at this point, so at this point they can say/do whatever they want WRT Prop 8 specifically.
Apparently you haven't met Keanu. He isn't acting. :-P
So, um, how does this translate into the universe being a hologram? Maybe it's just me, but it seems that just because the universe may be all discrete doesn't mean it's a hologram.
What about curry? Lots of Indian dishes have curry.
I think that you may already have one.
Yes. Yes, you do.
Well, so long as you have a wired connection the Broadcom wireless will just work, after you've downloaded the driver via wired connection.
Doesn't that go without saying?
Doesn't that amount fall into the "danger" range for hallucinations?
Yes.
I wonder if there's any relationship between the parts of the brain that would be responsible for hallucinating and the parts that cause Alzheimer's?
Yes. Alzheimer's causes dementia.
Also, if coffee can help block damage caused by cholesterol, would meds like Lipitor do the same thing?
Maybe. There is a link between cholesterol levels and Alzheimer's.
If it's a matter of antioxidants, wouldn't taking decent amounts of Vitamin C (which has a relatively high toxicity rate) do the same?
Not really. Vitamin C is water-soluble and it is therefore difficult to maintain decent levels of it in your blood.
Or drinking green tea? (And idea how common Alzheimer's is in cultures where tea is a regularly consumed beverage?)
I think I read somehwere that Alzheimer's was less common in the Far East. OTOH, diets are also very different, so that doesn't mean that green tea helps prevent Alzheimer's. But maybe it does.
I rtfa but it didn't say how to apply the Coffee Can!
To the head. At high velocity.
Ouch!
Not necessarily, no, but I acknowledge the possibility since the story was submitted an anonymous reader. Maybe the submitter and that poster weren't the same guy, but even so, what does the AC have to gain by lying? Nothing that I can see other than maybe he gets his jollies off misleading other people.
As always, you are expected to take everything you read on the Intarwebs with a grain of salt.
For all I, you and the rest of Slashdot knows, Kogan is lying about the reason it is issuing refunds and delaying manufacturing.
Seriously, why do people focus on Ubuntu?
Because most of the other distros don't make it easy to install the non-free and patent encumbered stuff.
With Ubuntu, I install it, it detects I have an Nvidia card and notifies me. Then I say "Yeah, install the resricted driver" and it just does and then the video card just works. If I hit a site that has a QuickTime movie, it downloads the open-source-but-patent-violating QuickTime codecs and then the media just plays just play. If I have, say, a Broadcom wireless adapter, it lets me know and then I say "Yeah, install the restricted driver" and it just does and then the wireless adapter just works.
Other distros don't work this way.