Not that I have much sympathy for the man, but he did serve his sentence, sending spam isn't a sex offense, and denying someone internet access is a pretty harsh punishment these days. How about giving him a second chance?
I agree. To err is human, to forgive divine. Besides, if he's denied a legitimate job, what's he gonna do?
Maybe he inherently likes RIM because they provide jobs in his neighbourhood, and contribute a significant amount to Canada's GDP. But he has criticisms about their future plans. One of those tech does not equal US stories. Maybe he hopes they take their thumb out of their ass and provide an alternative to Android. Or IOS, obviously.
So how do you explain the NeXT's failure to deliver a popular product? Jobs is lucky and Jonathan Ives is the real genius behind Apple, or some lucky combination of the two. Jobs didn't even want an App Store. He gets credited with too much that went right, when it went right despite him, not because of him.
I do want to say I hope he beats the cancer again. He's proven himself a real fighter there, so I'll gratefully respect that. You can't take that away from him.
Hmmm. Perhaps a mechanical flag would be better, with thin metal supports in the cloth controlled by a mechanism running down to pole. That way, a central controller could track the wind and wave a little 'off'..
You mean like the one they used when they faked the moon landings?
This is so off the wall and I feel so conflicted. I can't help it. One part of me is disgusted because you're a Michael Jackson fan, another part of me completely agrees with you. Leaks don't stop the people who buy games from buying the game. They want to own the game. The people who download the leak and play it but don't go on to buy it were never going to buy it in the first place. You can't change human nature. Pirates don't want to pay, they imagine they're a smooth criminal beating the system but they're just leeches. If that's you then take a hard look at the man in the mirror and feel sorry for him. You're not bad, you're not dangerous, you're scum, no better than the lowest street walker. It's that black or white.
Isn't there at least one reasonably modern field of study they're interested in? Intelligent Design. It even has Intelligent in the name. Not intellectuals? pfft.
I think the point is that it isn't backed by anybody. I've read up on the website and I've read the Wikipedia entry and I understand how to mine bitcoins, but I haven't figured out what they get out of it. I thought maybe it was a cloud computing for hire service using the distributed clients but that doesn't seem to be it.
Interesting idea. I wish it well but I'll go back to not caring about it.
I used to commute using the Northern Ireland railway service back in the days when the Belfast to Dublin rail line was regularly closed due to "suspicious" items on the tracks.
Honestly, I like the idea of a US infrastructure project that would begin to rival what China is doing, but China has virtually no internal opposition. Anyway, the US has less to fear from terrorism and more to fear from internal bickering, local refuseniks and union lobbying. It'll never happen.
Bombing bridges would be a lot easier than bombing trains. No security checks to worry about, as you would when boarding a train. You just load a truck up with a couple of tons of crude explosives and find a martyr prepared to park it in the middle of a bridge. Doesn't have to bring the bridge down, it would be enough to scuff it and paralyze the system for months while the bridge is confirmed to be safe. Imagine the chaos that could be created in Manhattan. Over and above the usual chaos.
It'd be a lot quicker to get damaged track up and running again and replace the rolling stock.
You sound like you're arguing in favour of a "high speed" metro train system. What's being proposed is an intercity system which won't have much affect on traffic congestion, which typically occurs as local traffic tries to squeeze itself through a small area concentrated in the commercial district. The high speed intercity network will be hub to hub between cities, and is probably more about freight than passenger service.
Which is not to say that a higher speed metro system isn't a bad idea but it's a lot harder to integrate into an existing infrastructure unless you either go overhead or underground like the New York/London subway systems. You get light railways and tram systems in plenty of other cities. Metro railways wouldn't typically carry much freight beyond package size, if that.
Desktop Dungeons got cloned ( Rock Paper Shotgun story on it ) and people were forming lynch mobs, but because it's Tetris the principles involved are different. Apparently.
I'm from Norn Iron. My problem is with off-shored help-deskers understanding me, but in general they're better at handling it and make fewer "amusing" references to the IRA than English staff.
Anyway, "UK Call Centre" is meaningless when almost 20% of the WORKING population has English as a second language.
I've had few problems (beyond them understanding me) with non-native-English-speaking help desk staff, and many problems with snotty natives.
It's probably at least partially a Microsoft problem because they have a contract with the PC manufacturers which prohibits revealing the prices that they are paying for their volume licenses. With revenue gained by bundling crapware on their machines the manufacturers could offer a bare machine with no OS, but it would cost more than the same machine with pre-installed software. I suspect they don't want to stir up that wasp's nest, particularly in Europe (though WASPs are thin on the ground in Italy) because it would likely provoke more investigations if the scale of the problem was widely understood (fat chance of any tech issue being widely understood). So back to my original issue - if it was a cut and dried case of saying that the PC with Windows costs X dollars, and the cost without the copy of Windows is X minus15 bucks, because they pay MS $15, then Microsoft would wave a lawyer at them for revealing confidential information.
Online you could have a list of options: PC without OS installed = €400.00 Option to have Windows installed +€50.00 Option to have Windows installed alongside a bunch of crap you'll never need or use -€20.00
It's the size that gets me. A quart-sized accumulator is no big deal. They're used in construction equipment for ride-smoothing or for emergency operation in any number of hydraulic circuits (just remember to isolate the accumulator before doing any maintenance, as any number of amputees will tell you).
But 14.4 GALLONS at 5000 psi? Surface area squares as you double any dimension so that 5000psi is going to be acting on a LOT of surface area. The energy being stored is huge, which I guess is the idea.
Couldn't agree more. There's an argument that identifying "Al Qaeda" as a global terrorist network, effectively galvanized disparate groups into making or strengthening informal links. The Power of Nightmares (BBC documentary from years back) made a strong argument for this. Power of Nightmares
Now everyone who wants to justify their own lax security is blaming "Wikileaks" as if they are actively ferreting out their secrets. It also gives a visible "showcase" for drive by hackers to post whatever dirt they happen to dig out in passing, whereas before the information wouldn't have circulated outside a select group.
Google is starting to eat Apple's lunch on mobile phones and will do so on the desktop/laptop/tablet if...
If Apple start sacrificing virgins to Shogoth they still don't need to worry about Android "eating their lunch". Oh. DUH. When there were eleventy billion dumb phones around, did Apple worry? Why would they worry when Android soaks up a percentage of the large percentage of business they don't want? They don't want market share, they want profit.
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Cos... oh, yeah... photographing police is against the law here.
No need for this or that. Just, wham, against the law.
So I can kick the crap out of Jar Jar as soon as he pops up.
Not that I have much sympathy for the man, but he did serve his sentence, sending spam isn't a sex offense, and denying someone internet access is a pretty harsh punishment these days. How about giving him a second chance?
I agree. To err is human, to forgive divine. Besides, if he's denied a legitimate job, what's he gonna do?
Maybe he inherently likes RIM because they provide jobs in his neighbourhood, and contribute a significant amount to Canada's GDP. But he has criticisms about their future plans. One of those tech does not equal US stories. Maybe he hopes they take their thumb out of their ass and provide an alternative to Android. Or IOS, obviously.
So how do you explain the NeXT's failure to deliver a popular product? Jobs is lucky and Jonathan Ives is the real genius behind Apple, or some lucky combination of the two. Jobs didn't even want an App Store. He gets credited with too much that went right, when it went right despite him, not because of him.
I do want to say I hope he beats the cancer again. He's proven himself a real fighter there, so I'll gratefully respect that. You can't take that away from him.
Scott McNealy is an epic dude. He's never been afraid to speak his mind even when the rest of the world thinks he's crazy.
Shine on.
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom was good. His recent YA stories are weak.
I get the impression that he would have been more forthright about this, as he has been about other abuses of DRM, if they weren't his own publisher.
Advent Vega vs Galaxy Tab
£250 vs what WAS about £600, currently around £400 since the new version is in the works.
Hmmm. Perhaps a mechanical flag would be better, with thin metal supports in the cloth controlled by a mechanism running down to pole. That way, a central controller could track the wind and wave a little 'off'..
You mean like the one they used when they faked the moon landings?
This is so off the wall and I feel so conflicted. I can't help it. One part of me is disgusted because you're a Michael Jackson fan, another part of me completely agrees with you. Leaks don't stop the people who buy games from buying the game. They want to own the game. The people who download the leak and play it but don't go on to buy it were never going to buy it in the first place. You can't change human nature. Pirates don't want to pay, they imagine they're a smooth criminal beating the system but they're just leeches. If that's you then take a hard look at the man in the mirror and feel sorry for him. You're not bad, you're not dangerous, you're scum, no better than the lowest street walker. It's that black or white.
Crytek, please just keep the faith!
...and every time I hear someone talk about Symbian I think about the Howard Stern show. Confusing.
Isn't there at least one reasonably modern field of study they're interested in? Intelligent Design. It even has Intelligent in the name. Not intellectuals? pfft.
Probably similar to Germany in that they're okay with killing non-humans and nobody outside of the US hates tits.
To break into the would-be attackers apartments the night before and shoot them? Too pro-active?
I think the point is that it isn't backed by anybody. I've read up on the website and I've read the Wikipedia entry and I understand how to mine bitcoins, but I haven't figured out what they get out of it. I thought maybe it was a cloud computing for hire service using the distributed clients but that doesn't seem to be it.
Interesting idea. I wish it well but I'll go back to not caring about it.
I used to commute using the Northern Ireland railway service back in the days when the Belfast to Dublin rail line was regularly closed due to "suspicious" items on the tracks.
Honestly, I like the idea of a US infrastructure project that would begin to rival what China is doing, but China has virtually no internal opposition. Anyway, the US has less to fear from terrorism and more to fear from internal bickering, local refuseniks and union lobbying. It'll never happen.
Bombing bridges would be a lot easier than bombing trains. No security checks to worry about, as you would when boarding a train. You just load a truck up with a couple of tons of crude explosives and find a martyr prepared to park it in the middle of a bridge. Doesn't have to bring the bridge down, it would be enough to scuff it and paralyze the system for months while the bridge is confirmed to be safe. Imagine the chaos that could be created in Manhattan. Over and above the usual chaos.
It'd be a lot quicker to get damaged track up and running again and replace the rolling stock.
You sound like you're arguing in favour of a "high speed" metro train system. What's being proposed is an intercity system which won't have much affect on traffic congestion, which typically occurs as local traffic tries to squeeze itself through a small area concentrated in the commercial district. The high speed intercity network will be hub to hub between cities, and is probably more about freight than passenger service.
Which is not to say that a higher speed metro system isn't a bad idea but it's a lot harder to integrate into an existing infrastructure unless you either go overhead or underground like the New York/London subway systems. You get light railways and tram systems in plenty of other cities. Metro railways wouldn't typically carry much freight beyond package size, if that.
Desktop Dungeons got cloned ( Rock Paper Shotgun story on it ) and people were forming lynch mobs, but because it's Tetris the principles involved are different. Apparently.
I'm from Norn Iron. My problem is with off-shored help-deskers understanding me, but in general they're better at handling it and make fewer "amusing" references to the IRA than English staff. Anyway, "UK Call Centre" is meaningless when almost 20% of the WORKING population has English as a second language. I've had few problems (beyond them understanding me) with non-native-English-speaking help desk staff, and many problems with snotty natives.
I might have dreamed this, but I thought ipv6 doesn't use NAT so it would be a short-term solution at best.
It's probably at least partially a Microsoft problem because they have a contract with the PC manufacturers which prohibits revealing the prices that they are paying for their volume licenses. With revenue gained by bundling crapware on their machines the manufacturers could offer a bare machine with no OS, but it would cost more than the same machine with pre-installed software. I suspect they don't want to stir up that wasp's nest, particularly in Europe (though WASPs are thin on the ground in Italy) because it would likely provoke more investigations if the scale of the problem was widely understood (fat chance of any tech issue being widely understood). So back to my original issue - if it was a cut and dried case of saying that the PC with Windows costs X dollars, and the cost without the copy of Windows is X minus15 bucks, because they pay MS $15, then Microsoft would wave a lawyer at them for revealing confidential information.
Online you could have a list of options: PC without OS installed = €400.00 Option to have Windows installed +€50.00 Option to have Windows installed alongside a bunch of crap you'll never need or use -€20.00
In a shop, not so easy.
It's the size that gets me. A quart-sized accumulator is no big deal. They're used in construction equipment for ride-smoothing or for emergency operation in any number of hydraulic circuits (just remember to isolate the accumulator before doing any maintenance, as any number of amputees will tell you).
But 14.4 GALLONS at 5000 psi? Surface area squares as you double any dimension so that 5000psi is going to be acting on a LOT of surface area. The energy being stored is huge, which I guess is the idea.
No! It WAS magic. Jeeze. RTFA.
Couldn't agree more. There's an argument that identifying "Al Qaeda" as a global terrorist network, effectively galvanized disparate groups into making or strengthening informal links. The Power of Nightmares (BBC documentary from years back) made a strong argument for this. Power of Nightmares
Now everyone who wants to justify their own lax security is blaming "Wikileaks" as if they are actively ferreting out their secrets. It also gives a visible "showcase" for drive by hackers to post whatever dirt they happen to dig out in passing, whereas before the information wouldn't have circulated outside a select group.
Google is starting to eat Apple's lunch on mobile phones and will do so on the desktop/laptop/tablet if ...
If Apple start sacrificing virgins to Shogoth they still don't need to worry about Android "eating their lunch". Oh. DUH. When there were eleventy billion dumb phones around, did Apple worry? Why would they worry when Android soaks up a percentage of the large percentage of business they don't want? They don't want market share, they want profit.