It's quite a dilemna for the military. I've read that the Marine Corp, which strives to fill its ranks with the cream of the crop, is having a tough time with the quality of recruits they do get: too many drug problems and gang ties.
ROTC is a pretty good deal if you're smart and willing to serve as an officer (thereby putting off a potentially higher-paying and much lower-risk civilian career), but how to fill the lower ranks with volunteers who aren't total losers with nowhere else to go?
I guess I can't really blame recruiters for being a bit agressive; it's probably good training for a civilian sales job later.
Good point, but I think that as long as there's a Mac "community" and sites such as versiontracker.com, the good apps will get the most word-of-mouth.
If the Mac platform were somehow to become as popular as Windows, then I could see a real danger here because the Mac's quirky uniqueness inspires so many Mac fans, developers among them. I think the removal of perhaps the most distinguishing hardware feature, the PowerPC CPU,
was so upsetting to so many for this reason.
If you'd ever gone phycho, stole your dad's guns, and pulled a "Trenchcoat Mafia" hit on your school, the lawyers would go after your dad for "enabling" your hit; I believe that's what happened to the parents of Harris & Klebold. Such is the world we live in.
Hmmm, I don't have it in front of me now, but I seem to recall that Fedora Core Linux (and probably, therefore, Redhat) works exactly this way: you start with a "$" to designate a Hex key. I do believe that their WEP key dialog actually tells you this though.
What a load of overhyped bantha poodoo is this OS X
That's funny. No OS is going to be absolutely perfect for anybody. XWindows is the only UI that I know of that does the select-to-copy, middle-click-to-paste thing; you're out of luck in that regard with Windows too.
I'm sure that there's some setting or third-party mouse software that'll do it, but it already works with XWindows apps on OS X.
I'd love to have a dual-probe temperature monitor that uses one of these displays; it'd be perfect for my hacked Mac Cube that I'm equipping with a 1.5Ghz G4 and Radeon 9800!
So, how long before someone backports this to the Sun architecures that have been EOL'd: sun4m, sun4d, and dare I say it: sun4c?
I do believe I've heard that it's already running on the sbus-based sun4u's (Ultra 1 and Ultra 2), and there actually is a lot of interest in getting this for the sun4m's (Sparc 4, Sparc 5, Sparc 10, Sparc 20).
It'd be kinda fun to pull my old IPX out of the closet again to try cramming OpenSolaris into it:-)
I've seen the usual posts regarding the lack of personal responsibility most people seem to have, how people want the government to take care of everything for them , etc.
The thing is, the article doesn't really go into detail about what the poll questions actually were or what the respondants' specific concerns were. What it hints at is the desire to see the government take action against fraud and identity theft; those are valid concerns. I saw nothing about wanting the government to do something about porn, for example.
I think this article is just another misleading, provocative piece of flamebait.
Lucas has a reputation as someone with a dislike of actors. If he could pull it off, all of the characters would be done via CG. How can a director with such an attitude possibly elicit a good performance from an actor?
Contrast this with what an actor's director can do; Ron Howard and Rob Reiner are good examples of this.
We have a large number of Dells at my work, and they tend to either fail out of the box (or very soon thereafter), or just keep running forever.
Also, the Optiplex/Latitude lines are higher quality than the Dimension/Inspirons (though I've seen in-warranty failures of all their lines). If your Dell lasts through the warranty period, it'll probably be fine for years. That's been my experience, anyway.
So many articles about OSX for Intel being a possible threat to Linux, but what's interesting is that this speculation implies that Linux is inferior to OS X. Seems that Linux has an image problem.
danamania.com has a lot of fake photoshopped mac pictures and tongue-in-cheek articles like this one (is that a picture of Dana on the front page of the site? Sexy!)
If it was real (or even possible), it would't be marketed as a Cube upgrade, it'd be marketed as an upgrade for G4's, not just the Cube. That's because the Cube uses the same CPU module as the first few Powermac G4's, and there are a lot more of those than there are Cubes.
It's interesting to speculate whether such a thing could be done; I suppose if you throw enough money and work at it, but it would probably cost so much to develop that there'd be no hope of breaking even, at least until OSX for Intel is released.
Also, if anyone did develop an Intel module, it'd have to have it's own DDR SODIMM slot, or at least an L3 cache to have its performance not be totally memory-starved; it'd be a pretty expensive upgrade.
It'd be cool if someone made a replacement Cube motherboard based on the Pentium M, and with all of the components and ports in the same locations as the original board so it'd be a drop-in replacement, but I doubt that there are enough Cubes to justify the cost.
I disagree that Linux (in terms of the most popular distributions) is less bloated. A great example of this was when I tried running Fedora, Mandrake, and Suse on my Sony VAIO laptop with 128 megs of RAM (that's as high as it would go, and why I got rid of it). All three distributions were swapping like crazy with just a standard Gnome or KDE desktop up. Windows XP, on the other hand, ran just fine. Of course there was some swapping, but not too bad; it was quite useable. Modern Linux desktops are more bloated than Windows. Sure, you can use a light desktop, but then it's not really comparable to Windows in terms of useability anymore. I'm talking about what most people will use "out of the box".
I also disagree that stability is an issue. NT4 sucked in terms of stability - I suffered BSODs from simple things like having Eudora running while copying a file scross the network (this was reproducable on my NT4 desktop back in the day). On Win2k and WinXP, the only blue screens I've ever gotten were due to hardware problems, usually bad RAM or bad disk; Linux also crashed on those machines (I dual-boot a lot).
The one area where Linux beats Windows hands down is in security, and a lot of this is due to the fact that it's a real pain to run as an unpriveleged user all the time (though I do it, using runas quite a bit), and that Internet Explorer leaves you wide open to malicious downloads.
Blind hatred of Microsoft will be Linux' undoing; it's far more productive to look at areas where Windows is doing better than Linux, and work on improving them.
So, someone thinks that typing in a search query every time you access new data is easier than simply double-clicking on a folder? Well that would certainly suck much ass. I doubt that anyone in their right mind would get rid of folders. They work fine as they are; queries are a great addition, not a replacement.
Since there are Humans all over the Star Wars galaxy, I'd assume that they evolved on one planet and spread widely once they discovered hyperspace travel; indeed, I believe that's pretty much what an article in an Expanded Universe section of starwars.com said (don't remember where exactly it was).
Given this, the humans on Naboo didn't evolve there (unless Naboo was the Humans' planet of origin, which seems unlikely), they arrived some time in the past.
Here's a scenario: Humans arrive, gradually take over the land, driving away the Gunguns (who may have suffered a fate similar to the Native Americans). Perhaps there was a war. Or maybe it was all peaceful and the Gunguns are simply distrustful by nature. In any case, I can see how they might be distrustful of humans who invaded their world, and why they might therefore move underwater and keep a standing army just in case those pesky humans got any more ideas. They got the raw end of the deal because the Humans were more technologically advanced; the ocean started out being their "reservation".
There ya go, just one possible solution to the Naboo "problem".
As for the differences in technological development, I think it is a good point in general; however, they apparently don't know that the Republic was thousands of years old, and Humans (and presumably non-humans) had probably been spreading through the galaxy for a long time before the Republic. The first hyperspace travelers (human or not) probably did encounter a lot of "backwards" species, but over time due to conquests, enslavement, treaties, trade, and whatever other forms of contact, I imagine that things would have equalized over those millenia. Also, there probably was no "Prime Directive" preventing advanced species from influencing those less advanced.
The non-sociological arguments are more valid, but also typical of Sci-Fi: all atmospheres are breathable, everyone speaks English (Star Wars does better than most with this), all worlds have a single climate, etc.
You're absolutely right, in the case where you're involved with inflicting pain on someone.
In my case (and presumably the person to whom you're responding) we have nothing to do with this trial; we're outside observers, and there's likely little to nothing practical that we could do to affect the outcome of the trial.
Therefore, I think it's OK to hope that an innocent man isn't being convicted.
The ideal outcome of all this would be for him to be proven innocent without a shadow of a doubt, and for him to get the psychological help that he so obviously needs. Unfortunately, that's rather unlikely.
I think it makes sense to compare each platform with its native OS (OK, some would argue that the AMD/Intel's "native" OS is really Windows, but Windows vs Linux has been done to death), because a lot of people evaluating a server platform consider the hardware and OS as a full package.
I also think they should have included Darwin/x86, LinuxPPC (same distro as Intel/AMD), and FreeBSD on both types of hardware, in order to isolate the hardware from the OS as much as possible, and to do the fairest OS comparison possible. They probably just didn't have time to do it yet, but I hope they do it and Slashdot picks up the story.
I mean, my life is boring and sucks, but I still would rather do almost anything than read the inane crap that people write in their "blogs" (lame-ass nonword).
I lost a ZIP drive to the "click-of-death", but was able to persuede Iomega to replace it. The new drive arrived dead. They replaced that one, and its replacement was also dead. The third replacement worked.
My experience with Jaz drives has been, in short, horrible. Never had one that didn't eventually destroy its disks.
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ROTC is a pretty good deal if you're smart and willing to serve as an officer (thereby putting off a potentially higher-paying and much lower-risk civilian career), but how to fill the lower ranks with volunteers who aren't total losers with nowhere else to go?
I guess I can't really blame recruiters for being a bit agressive; it's probably good training for a civilian sales job later.
If the Mac platform were somehow to become as popular as Windows, then I could see a real danger here because the Mac's quirky uniqueness inspires so many Mac fans, developers among them. I think the removal of perhaps the most distinguishing hardware feature, the PowerPC CPU, was so upsetting to so many for this reason.
Yes, I am a cheap bastard.
If you'd ever gone phycho, stole your dad's guns, and pulled a "Trenchcoat Mafia" hit on your school, the lawyers would go after your dad for "enabling" your hit; I believe that's what happened to the parents of Harris & Klebold. Such is the world we live in.
That's spelled "pudu". :-)
I'm sure that there's some setting or third-party mouse software that'll do it, but it already works with XWindows apps on OS X.
I'd love to have a dual-probe temperature monitor that uses one of these displays; it'd be perfect for my hacked Mac Cube that I'm equipping with a 1.5Ghz G4 and Radeon 9800!
I do believe I've heard that it's already running on the sbus-based sun4u's (Ultra 1 and Ultra 2), and there actually is a lot of interest in getting this for the sun4m's (Sparc 4, Sparc 5, Sparc 10, Sparc 20).
It'd be kinda fun to pull my old IPX out of the closet again to try cramming OpenSolaris into it :-)
The thing is, the article doesn't really go into detail about what the poll questions actually were or what the respondants' specific concerns were. What it hints at is the desire to see the government take action against fraud and identity theft; those are valid concerns. I saw nothing about wanting the government to do something about porn, for example.
I think this article is just another misleading, provocative piece of flamebait.
Contrast this with what an actor's director can do; Ron Howard and Rob Reiner are good examples of this.
For what it's worth, I'd give you a Funny mod if I had the points right now.
Also, the Optiplex/Latitude lines are higher quality than the Dimension/Inspirons (though I've seen in-warranty failures of all their lines). If your Dell lasts through the warranty period, it'll probably be fine for years. That's been my experience, anyway.
So many articles about OSX for Intel being a possible threat to Linux, but what's interesting is that this speculation implies that Linux is inferior to OS X. Seems that Linux has an image problem.
... the idea that capitalism == freedom.
If it was real (or even possible), it would't be marketed as a Cube upgrade, it'd be marketed as an upgrade for G4's, not just the Cube. That's because the Cube uses the same CPU module as the first few Powermac G4's, and there are a lot more of those than there are Cubes.
It's interesting to speculate whether such a thing could be done; I suppose if you throw enough money and work at it, but it would probably cost so much to develop that there'd be no hope of breaking even, at least until OSX for Intel is released.
Also, if anyone did develop an Intel module, it'd have to have it's own DDR SODIMM slot, or at least an L3 cache to have its performance not be totally memory-starved; it'd be a pretty expensive upgrade.
It'd be cool if someone made a replacement Cube motherboard based on the Pentium M, and with all of the components and ports in the same locations as the original board so it'd be a drop-in replacement, but I doubt that there are enough Cubes to justify the cost.
I also disagree that stability is an issue. NT4 sucked in terms of stability - I suffered BSODs from simple things like having Eudora running while copying a file scross the network (this was reproducable on my NT4 desktop back in the day). On Win2k and WinXP, the only blue screens I've ever gotten were due to hardware problems, usually bad RAM or bad disk; Linux also crashed on those machines (I dual-boot a lot).
The one area where Linux beats Windows hands down is in security, and a lot of this is due to the fact that it's a real pain to run as an unpriveleged user all the time (though I do it, using runas quite a bit), and that Internet Explorer leaves you wide open to malicious downloads.
Blind hatred of Microsoft will be Linux' undoing; it's far more productive to look at areas where Windows is doing better than Linux, and work on improving them.
So, someone thinks that typing in a search query every time you access new data is easier than simply double-clicking on a folder? Well that would certainly suck much ass. I doubt that anyone in their right mind would get rid of folders. They work fine as they are; queries are a great addition, not a replacement.
You posted a very good explanation solving some major plot holes. It's unfortunate, however, that you had to do it.
Given this, the humans on Naboo didn't evolve there (unless Naboo was the Humans' planet of origin, which seems unlikely), they arrived some time in the past.
Here's a scenario: Humans arrive, gradually take over the land, driving away the Gunguns (who may have suffered a fate similar to the Native Americans). Perhaps there was a war. Or maybe it was all peaceful and the Gunguns are simply distrustful by nature. In any case, I can see how they might be distrustful of humans who invaded their world, and why they might therefore move underwater and keep a standing army just in case those pesky humans got any more ideas. They got the raw end of the deal because the Humans were more technologically advanced; the ocean started out being their "reservation". There ya go, just one possible solution to the Naboo "problem".
As for the differences in technological development, I think it is a good point in general; however, they apparently don't know that the Republic was thousands of years old, and Humans (and presumably non-humans) had probably been spreading through the galaxy for a long time before the Republic. The first hyperspace travelers (human or not) probably did encounter a lot of "backwards" species, but over time due to conquests, enslavement, treaties, trade, and whatever other forms of contact, I imagine that things would have equalized over those millenia. Also, there probably was no "Prime Directive" preventing advanced species from influencing those less advanced.
The non-sociological arguments are more valid, but also typical of Sci-Fi: all atmospheres are breathable, everyone speaks English (Star Wars does better than most with this), all worlds have a single climate, etc.
Not a slam against the modder, who did a fine job, but against the article poster for posting such a misleading article.
In my case (and presumably the person to whom you're responding) we have nothing to do with this trial; we're outside observers, and there's likely little to nothing practical that we could do to affect the outcome of the trial.
Therefore, I think it's OK to hope that an innocent man isn't being convicted.
The ideal outcome of all this would be for him to be proven innocent without a shadow of a doubt, and for him to get the psychological help that he so obviously needs. Unfortunately, that's rather unlikely.
I think it makes sense to compare each platform with its native OS (OK, some would argue that the AMD/Intel's "native" OS is really Windows, but Windows vs Linux has been done to death), because a lot of people evaluating a server platform consider the hardware and OS as a full package.
I also think they should have included Darwin/x86, LinuxPPC (same distro as Intel/AMD), and FreeBSD on both types of hardware, in order to isolate the hardware from the OS as much as possible, and to do the fairest OS comparison possible. They probably just didn't have time to do it yet, but I hope they do it and Slashdot picks up the story.
I mean, my life is boring and sucks, but I still would rather do almost anything than read the inane crap that people write in their "blogs" (lame-ass nonword).
My experience with Jaz drives has been, in short, horrible. Never had one that didn't eventually destroy its disks.
I'll never trust Iomega with my data again.