Wait a sec. You can't hide a spy satellite inside the upper stage of a large rocket launching a legitimate satellite, because legitimate satellites require the propellant inside the upper stage to reach orbit. So, in essence, you need to construct two upper stages - a real upper-stage to launch your satellite, and a faux upper stage to hide your spy satellite. I'm pretty sure that people would notice if you used a huge rocket to launch a tiny satellite into low orbit.
apt-get update if you're an Ubuntu user... but what if you're a RedHat/Fedora user?
Ummm... its not that much more difficult. Simply replace apt-get with yum if you're on RedHat/Fedora. But, addressing the larger point, pretty much every distro has a GUI updater tool. On Debian/Ubuntu, its synaptic, on Fedora its pup, on SuSE its YaST, etc. When you actually install the distro, the first thing you usually see on your desktop is the update tool asking to connect to the internet and download updates.
She's already said that she doesn't actually expect to get $54 million. She just felt that Best Buy was completely ignoring her, and said that, after exhausting all other ways to get their attention, she was turning to the legal system. The extremely large amount is to ensure that she gets Best Buy (and the media) to look at their business practices, and encourage change.
Long term planning is unfeasible when working against fast-moving threats like Al Quaeda, but it is feasible when working against other established world powers (like China) that have long term plans of their own. It'd be awfully shortsighted to specialize on counter-insurgency and abandon conventional weapons and tactics completely.
That's because you have a graphics card. Like it or not, all of the "el-cheapo" computers being sold today with Vista have integrated graphics, which means that Aero is eating system RAM when it runs.
That's a bad habit though because the more different OS's are out there being worked on the better off we all are.
Well, I have to respectfully disagree. I feel that it would be better off for the Haiku concepts to be integrated into an existing operating system (Linux, or one of the BSDs, perhaps) rather than having those developers go out and attempt to create another operating system from whole cloth.
That said, I can't criticize them too much, because, by my logic, Linus would have been better off improving the Minix kernel than trying to create a new one.
Haiku's network performance is better, for instance, because the networking functionality is integrated directly into the kernel rather than running in userspace as it did in BeOS.
Am I the only one that thinks that this is a horrible idea from a security perspective? Also, wouldn't the integration of network functionality mean that Haiku is about as much of a microkernel as Windows NT?
I wouldn't for any adult not suffering from a mental disorder.
That's one of the populations that researchers are trying to help with this device. There are a large number of elderly out there who are suffering from mild to moderate dementia and neurological problems. Current practice is to check up on them on a frequent basis and remind them verbally to take their medications. An automated reminder system would help this system considerably.
Would MS pay $46 billion to further advertise open source technologies and operating systems like FreeBSD?
No, but it might be worth $46 billion to destroy one of the larger installations of open source software out there, in addition to starving open source projects like Zimbra of corporate support.
If the FTC should be acting against anyone in the search space, it should be Google. Even if Microsoft and Yahoo combine their user-bases with no losses, their combined share of the search space will still be around 25%, as compared to Google, who has close to 60% market share in the US..
Not necessarily. You're not making a distinction between voting and non-voting shares. In order to achieve a buyout, Microsoft only has to convince the voting shareholders, which may be a substantially smaller number than the total shareholders.
I don't know what you mean by point 1, so I'll wait for you to clarify on that. Related to points 3 and 4, though, I host a web server out of my house right now, and I don't have any issues. Bittorrent throttling hasn't been an issue either.
I guess what it comes down to is that, while I am concerned about Comcast's practices on others, I haven't been directly affected by any of them yet. And until I have been impacted, I don't think I'm willing to switch to a service that is inferior on bandwidth terms.
(2) start losing customers to ISPs who don't screw with their customers connections constantly.
Too bad then, that Comcast and form a duopoly in my area. I e-mailed the Qwest representative (they're the local Baby Bell) recently, and they said that they would only promise 2 megabits per second download and 1 megabit per second upload to my house. Comcast, despite all of their despicable practices delivers 5 megabits per second download (though I'm promised 8 megabits per second). Both services are comparable in price. Which choice would you make? Principles, or double bandwidth?
Still, the errors that you miss will be those for which the specification and the program are wrong in THE SAME WAY, which should be very uncommon.
You assume that the code isn't generated directly from the model. Given that there are many tools that do just that (Rational Rose, et. al.), I'd say that the parent is correct. We've simply moved our correctness requirements up one level of abstraction.
And if Gore had insisted on recounts and not conceded when he did, we might not have had to suffer through all these years of GW.
I'm conflicted on that. The partisan in me wanted Gore to win because he was the better candidate, and I thought he deserved the presidency way more than Bush. However, I really have to respect Gore for bowing to the courts even when their decision was arguably unjust because it showed a respect for the legal and judicial system that has been completely lacking in the current administration.
The reason your party is so hated amongst the Democrats is because it was Nader's attractiveness on the far left that drew votes away from Gore, and prevented him from having a clear victory in the national race. Like it or not, it was Ralph Nader and the Green Party that acted as spoilers and placed George W. Bush in a position where he could use his connections to finagle a win for himself. I don't care how bad you thought Gore was, I find it difficult to believe that you think he would have done a worse job than George W. Bush.
Some people prefer the printed page. For some people, learning to use a new operating system is as difficult as learning a new programming language would be for us. I know that I'd prefer to learn programming languages from a book - something that I can prop up on the table beside my monitor while I code. I can certainly see how that would be the same for novice users confronted with a new and quirky operating system.
Don't lots of older reactors use graphite control rods? I know that Chernobyl did, since those very rods caught fire from the heat of the runaway reaction.
Reactors don't use carbon as a mediator. They use carbon (graphite) for the control rods that control the output of the reactor. The mediator that carries away the heat is usually water or some kind of liquid metal, like sodium.
It might seem like that, but, the fact is, Congress has a pretty weak role in US foreign policy these days. Most real foreign policy initiatives are pushed by the executive, and the legislature has a reactive "approve or deny" role. Therefore, while foreign policy might be a more prestigious assignment, the scope for coming up with new and harmful policies is more limited.
The only winning move is not to play. Not to play the Bismarkian game.
Funny. I was under the impression that not playing was the guaranteed losing move. If you "don't play", and withdraw from the world, you leave yourself at the mercy of other countries. I'd rather have military power and be able to negotiate on an equal (or even superior footing).
In fact that's actually my criticism against the Iraq war. Militaries should not be committed for long-term nation building projects, because that saps your saps your strength, and you've no guarantee that they country you build (or re-build in this case) will be able or willing to help your interests in the region. This leaves you in an off-balance situation for an extended period of time, hampering your ability to deal with other threats and unexpected situations (read: North Korea, Pakistan) as they arise.
Why not? If a major multi-billion dollar military system is turning into a Charlie-Foxtrot, I'd damn well like to know, before it fails in combat, preferably.
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Wait a sec. You can't hide a spy satellite inside the upper stage of a large rocket launching a legitimate satellite, because legitimate satellites require the propellant inside the upper stage to reach orbit. So, in essence, you need to construct two upper stages - a real upper-stage to launch your satellite, and a faux upper stage to hide your spy satellite. I'm pretty sure that people would notice if you used a huge rocket to launch a tiny satellite into low orbit.
Ummm... its not that much more difficult. Simply replace apt-get with yum if you're on RedHat/Fedora. But, addressing the larger point, pretty much every distro has a GUI updater tool. On Debian/Ubuntu, its synaptic, on Fedora its pup, on SuSE its YaST, etc. When you actually install the distro, the first thing you usually see on your desktop is the update tool asking to connect to the internet and download updates.
She's already said that she doesn't actually expect to get $54 million. She just felt that Best Buy was completely ignoring her, and said that, after exhausting all other ways to get their attention, she was turning to the legal system. The extremely large amount is to ensure that she gets Best Buy (and the media) to look at their business practices, and encourage change.
Long term planning is unfeasible when working against fast-moving threats like Al Quaeda, but it is feasible when working against other established world powers (like China) that have long term plans of their own. It'd be awfully shortsighted to specialize on counter-insurgency and abandon conventional weapons and tactics completely.
That's because you have a graphics card. Like it or not, all of the "el-cheapo" computers being sold today with Vista have integrated graphics, which means that Aero is eating system RAM when it runs.
Well, I have to respectfully disagree. I feel that it would be better off for the Haiku concepts to be integrated into an existing operating system (Linux, or one of the BSDs, perhaps) rather than having those developers go out and attempt to create another operating system from whole cloth.
That said, I can't criticize them too much, because, by my logic, Linus would have been better off improving the Minix kernel than trying to create a new one.
Am I the only one that thinks that this is a horrible idea from a security perspective? Also, wouldn't the integration of network functionality mean that Haiku is about as much of a microkernel as Windows NT?
Isn't Microsoft also in the content provider space? I thought that they had their own music store.
That's one of the populations that researchers are trying to help with this device. There are a large number of elderly out there who are suffering from mild to moderate dementia and neurological problems. Current practice is to check up on them on a frequent basis and remind them verbally to take their medications. An automated reminder system would help this system considerably.
No, but it might be worth $46 billion to destroy one of the larger installations of open source software out there, in addition to starving open source projects like Zimbra of corporate support.
If the FTC should be acting against anyone in the search space, it should be Google. Even if Microsoft and Yahoo combine their user-bases with no losses, their combined share of the search space will still be around 25%, as compared to Google, who has close to 60% market share in the US..
Not necessarily. You're not making a distinction between voting and non-voting shares. In order to achieve a buyout, Microsoft only has to convince the voting shareholders, which may be a substantially smaller number than the total shareholders.
I don't know what you mean by point 1, so I'll wait for you to clarify on that. Related to points 3 and 4, though, I host a web server out of my house right now, and I don't have any issues. Bittorrent throttling hasn't been an issue either.
I guess what it comes down to is that, while I am concerned about Comcast's practices on others, I haven't been directly affected by any of them yet. And until I have been impacted, I don't think I'm willing to switch to a service that is inferior on bandwidth terms.
Too bad then, that Comcast and form a duopoly in my area. I e-mailed the Qwest representative (they're the local Baby Bell) recently, and they said that they would only promise 2 megabits per second download and 1 megabit per second upload to my house. Comcast, despite all of their despicable practices delivers 5 megabits per second download (though I'm promised 8 megabits per second). Both services are comparable in price. Which choice would you make? Principles, or double bandwidth?
You assume that the code isn't generated directly from the model. Given that there are many tools that do just that (Rational Rose, et. al.), I'd say that the parent is correct. We've simply moved our correctness requirements up one level of abstraction.
I'm conflicted on that. The partisan in me wanted Gore to win because he was the better candidate, and I thought he deserved the presidency way more than Bush. However, I really have to respect Gore for bowing to the courts even when their decision was arguably unjust because it showed a respect for the legal and judicial system that has been completely lacking in the current administration.
The reason your party is so hated amongst the Democrats is because it was Nader's attractiveness on the far left that drew votes away from Gore, and prevented him from having a clear victory in the national race. Like it or not, it was Ralph Nader and the Green Party that acted as spoilers and placed George W. Bush in a position where he could use his connections to finagle a win for himself. I don't care how bad you thought Gore was, I find it difficult to believe that you think he would have done a worse job than George W. Bush.
Some people prefer the printed page. For some people, learning to use a new operating system is as difficult as learning a new programming language would be for us. I know that I'd prefer to learn programming languages from a book - something that I can prop up on the table beside my monitor while I code. I can certainly see how that would be the same for novice users confronted with a new and quirky operating system.
Forget car accidents. More people have died yearly from lightning than from shark attacks.
Don't lots of older reactors use graphite control rods? I know that Chernobyl did, since those very rods caught fire from the heat of the runaway reaction.
Reactors don't use carbon as a mediator. They use carbon (graphite) for the control rods that control the output of the reactor. The mediator that carries away the heat is usually water or some kind of liquid metal, like sodium.
It might seem like that, but, the fact is, Congress has a pretty weak role in US foreign policy these days. Most real foreign policy initiatives are pushed by the executive, and the legislature has a reactive "approve or deny" role. Therefore, while foreign policy might be a more prestigious assignment, the scope for coming up with new and harmful policies is more limited.
The proposal isn't asking the CEO to levy fines. Its levying fines on the CEO.
Funny. I was under the impression that not playing was the guaranteed losing move. If you "don't play", and withdraw from the world, you leave yourself at the mercy of other countries. I'd rather have military power and be able to negotiate on an equal (or even superior footing).
In fact that's actually my criticism against the Iraq war. Militaries should not be committed for long-term nation building projects, because that saps your saps your strength, and you've no guarantee that they country you build (or re-build in this case) will be able or willing to help your interests in the region. This leaves you in an off-balance situation for an extended period of time, hampering your ability to deal with other threats and unexpected situations (read: North Korea, Pakistan) as they arise.
Why not? If a major multi-billion dollar military system is turning into a Charlie-Foxtrot, I'd damn well like to know, before it fails in combat, preferably.