One of the key difficulties is if you are including attachments in encrypted e-mails. This often results in your e-mail being quarantined by (depending on your viewpoint) over judicious anti-virus software as it is unable to scan the encrypted e-mail and guarantee it is virus-free. Your e-mail never arriving rather defeats the purpose of sending it in the first place.
I appreciate that a well configured system can get round this difficulty, but most end-users do not have well configured systems, they have the operating system or software's default settings which are rarely if ever encryption friendly. (If encryption came by default, how would the likes of the NSA and GCHQ spy on us?)
There is an argument that, unlike American Football, Association Football is not a play by play game and is free flowing with the ball often in play for 5 to 10 minutes between breaks in play for a corner, throw in or goal kick. The reluctance to "break up play" by going to the video referee for every foul or debatable decision is understandable. Additionally, the room for and level of interpretation from referees is much greater in soccer (and rugby) than in the NFL. For instance a replay of a tackle might not result in an increase in clarity as to whether a foul has occurred and the line between a foul and diving (or simulation) is often very thin.
The lack of goal-line technology or replays to determine whether a ball has crossed the goal line (as occurred in the England vs Germany game during the World Cup) is again a topic of controversy and one that's being discussed by FIFA and is likely to be introduced by the next World Cup: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14322449.stm
The only part of Association Football (soccer in your parlance) that is luddite is the use of action replays to allow the referee to make a better decision. Even that is on the agenda for change. On the contrary, Technology is being used widely in soccer, Rugby Union and Rugby League to measure the performance of players both on the pitch and off it in training.
Technologies like Prozone http://www.prozonesports.com/index.html and opta http://www.optasports.com/sports/football.html provide detailed statistics to the Management/Coaching staff. Almost none of the top league European Soccer sides do not use some variant of these technologies, and if they don't, they won't be top league for much longer. Almost every successful side owes a fair part of their recent success to video analysis both on and off the pitch.
In Wales we have grown used to seeing our Rugby Union coaches sat infront of laptops during matches, watching the laptops almost as much as the game. Players are biometrically monitored during training to ensure that they are neither slacking off nor overdoing it and risking injury during training.
Rugby League has led the way in the use of action replays for the referees to watch in order to review infringements and borderline decisions, typically during the act of scoring a try.
Cricket and tennis have championed the use of Hawk-eye http://www.hawkeyeinnovations.co.uk/ to decide whether a ball would have hit the wicket or was in or out respectively.
So, no, soccer is not luddite, and the NFL could certainly be doing and allowing more technological innovation.
That's because the law can comprehend the difference between faiths and fanboyism and making a joke on a mandatory census. This is where the law is sensible. However, where the legislation fails is when it does not protect people against discrimination based on their place of birth or language, should that be within the UK. For example, were you to discriminate against someone based on the fact that they were English, Welsh or Scottish, or even Cornish, Northern or from Norfolk, Kernow or Cymraeg speaking or any one of many other ways that people are "different" then you would be quite entitled to do so. e.g. Anne Robinson's comments. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1279679.stm
Given the parlous state of the entire Eurozone at the moment you'd have to be a shill or blinkered by the propaganda of your country's press to consider the economy of any of the Eurozone countries as "going very good". Whilst Germany is probably in a better state than most of the Eurozone, it would only take one default from one of the smaller nations to result in a long-term down cycle.
Having read the article, I'm still unclear as to whether in this case x86 means only x86-32 or whether it means x86-32 and x86-64. These days x86 is usually used to refer specifically to x86-32 and x64 is used to refer to x86-64.
I'm assuming that common sense would suggest that the article means both x86-32 and x86-64, but the ambiguity in the use of x86 reduces clarity and does no-one any favours.
I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I've realized that you are not actually mammals. (Smiles) Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment. But you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. (Leans forward) There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague. And we are... the cure.
- That is the sound of inevitability.
Getting one thing right once in a while does not make up for the lack of accountability, NIMBY syndrome, waste and general stupidity that the EU manages to achieve. Even a broken clock is right twice a day, assuming that it's analog. IMO it deserves the terrible press that it gets, particularly in the UK.
Herein lies the problem with Slashdot. A great, informative post like this is at score 2. Why? Because the skim-readers can't be bothered to read anything beyond the one-line posts. Long posts like this rarely get the credit they deserve. Oh, for mod points...
"Binging it?" Do add yourself to your list of shills. I'm sure you're already on GameBoyRMH's list...
App search is one of the long list of things that, whilst not perfect on the N900, is a hell of a lot better than anything Android, Apple or Microsoft have offered so far.
There are some surprising omissions and poor categorizations in there. For instance:
The Belgariad (Eddings) is reached by following the Sword and Sorcery - NO option and the 'five or six books enough for you' - YES option (rather than the No - I shall require at least ten option) when in fact there are 12/13 books set in the Belgariad universe.
If you're going to include Thomas Covenant in the fantasy section, you should without doubt include Donaldson's far superior Gap Series in the Sci-Fi section.
There are plenty of other inconsistencies, omissions and strange categorizations of books. I shan't bore you with them. I admire the effort put in, and it's not an awful flowchart per se, but I think that it most usefully demonstrates the limitations of a flowchart or tree diagram and that it isn't the best way to categorize books.
I don't think there's any non-lethal alternative that can't cause long-term injury.
Quite simply you'd fill it with a canister of tear gas or similar non-lethal gas that temporarily renders your victim blind, paralysed or otherwise unable to defend himself.
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Oblig xkcd reference: Voting Machines
http://xkcd.com/463/
Do you wait to see if the car is actually going to change lanes or do you go to the right hand lane and pass the car on the right.
You never undertake. Never.
...unless you want to visit an undertaker...
Given its performance in crash testing, you may find yourself dead should you crash one.
One of the key difficulties is if you are including attachments in encrypted e-mails. This often results in your e-mail being quarantined by (depending on your viewpoint) over judicious anti-virus software as it is unable to scan the encrypted e-mail and guarantee it is virus-free. Your e-mail never arriving rather defeats the purpose of sending it in the first place.
I appreciate that a well configured system can get round this difficulty, but most end-users do not have well configured systems, they have the operating system or software's default settings which are rarely if ever encryption friendly. (If encryption came by default, how would the likes of the NSA and GCHQ spy on us?)
There is an argument that, unlike American Football, Association Football is not a play by play game and is free flowing with the ball often in play for 5 to 10 minutes between breaks in play for a corner, throw in or goal kick. The reluctance to "break up play" by going to the video referee for every foul or debatable decision is understandable. Additionally, the room for and level of interpretation from referees is much greater in soccer (and rugby) than in the NFL. For instance a replay of a tackle might not result in an increase in clarity as to whether a foul has occurred and the line between a foul and diving (or simulation) is often very thin.
The lack of goal-line technology or replays to determine whether a ball has crossed the goal line (as occurred in the England vs Germany game during the World Cup) is again a topic of controversy and one that's being discussed by FIFA and is likely to be introduced by the next World Cup: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14322449.stm
The only part of Association Football (soccer in your parlance) that is luddite is the use of action replays to allow the referee to make a better decision. Even that is on the agenda for change. On the contrary, Technology is being used widely in soccer, Rugby Union and Rugby League to measure the performance of players both on the pitch and off it in training.
Technologies like Prozone http://www.prozonesports.com/index.html and opta http://www.optasports.com/sports/football.html provide detailed statistics to the Management/Coaching staff. Almost none of the top league European Soccer sides do not use some variant of these technologies, and if they don't, they won't be top league for much longer. Almost every successful side owes a fair part of their recent success to video analysis both on and off the pitch.
In Wales we have grown used to seeing our Rugby Union coaches sat infront of laptops during matches, watching the laptops almost as much as the game. Players are biometrically monitored during training to ensure that they are neither slacking off nor overdoing it and risking injury during training.
Rugby League has led the way in the use of action replays for the referees to watch in order to review infringements and borderline decisions, typically during the act of scoring a try.
Cricket and tennis have championed the use of Hawk-eye http://www.hawkeyeinnovations.co.uk/ to decide whether a ball would have hit the wicket or was in or out respectively.
So, no, soccer is not luddite, and the NFL could certainly be doing and allowing more technological innovation.
Oblig xkcd reference: http://www.xkcd.com/985/
That's because the law can comprehend the difference between faiths and fanboyism and making a joke on a mandatory census. This is where the law is sensible.
However, where the legislation fails is when it does not protect people against discrimination based on their place of birth or language, should that be within the UK. For example, were you to discriminate against someone based on the fact that they were English, Welsh or Scottish, or even Cornish, Northern or from Norfolk, Kernow or Cymraeg speaking or any one of many other ways that people are "different" then you would be quite entitled to do so. e.g. Anne Robinson's comments. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1279679.stm
The only time I think about stability is when I'm playing Words with Friends and it crashes and vanishes.
...and gets you thrown off an American Airlines plane?
But that might have been in a different room...
Anyway, the title "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" reminded me of the early translation engines, which translated it to "Invisible, Idiot".
Given the parlous state of the entire Eurozone at the moment you'd have to be a shill or blinkered by the propaganda of your country's press to consider the economy of any of the Eurozone countries as "going very good". Whilst Germany is probably in a better state than most of the Eurozone, it would only take one default from one of the smaller nations to result in a long-term down cycle.
http://download.wsusoffline.net/
WSUS Offline Update. For those who can't/won't run a Microsoft WSUS Server but have enough machines to need one. Can be run on Linux.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who opened the page and immediately looked at the source. You missed the comment at the bottom of the source:
<!-- if the lhc actually destroys the earth & this page isn't yet updated
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Sadly, the last line of Tom Lehrer's "The Elements" is getting more and more out of date as the years go by.
Even the list of new elements at the end of this animation is getting out of date... http://privatehand.com/flash/elements.html
Having read the article, I'm still unclear as to whether in this case x86 means only x86-32 or whether it means x86-32 and x86-64. These days x86 is usually used to refer specifically to x86-32 and x64 is used to refer to x86-64.
I'm assuming that common sense would suggest that the article means both x86-32 and x86-64, but the ambiguity in the use of x86 reduces clarity and does no-one any favours.
Obligatory Matrix Reference:
I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I've realized that you are not actually mammals. (Smiles) Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment. But you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. (Leans forward) There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague. And we are... the cure.
- That is the sound of inevitability.
Getting one thing right once in a while does not make up for the lack of accountability, NIMBY syndrome, waste and general stupidity that the EU manages to achieve. Even a broken clock is right twice a day, assuming that it's analog. IMO it deserves the terrible press that it gets, particularly in the UK.
5... Profit!
Mod parent(s) up Informative
Herein lies the problem with Slashdot. A great, informative post like this is at score 2. Why? Because the skim-readers can't be bothered to read anything beyond the one-line posts. Long posts like this rarely get the credit they deserve. Oh, for mod points...
"Binging it?" Do add yourself to your list of shills. I'm sure you're already on GameBoyRMH's list...
App search is one of the long list of things that, whilst not perfect on the N900, is a hell of a lot better than anything Android, Apple or Microsoft have offered so far.
There are some surprising omissions and poor categorizations in there. For instance:
The Belgariad (Eddings) is reached by following the Sword and Sorcery - NO option and the 'five or six books enough for you' - YES option (rather than the No - I shall require at least ten option) when in fact there are 12/13 books set in the Belgariad universe.
If you're going to include Thomas Covenant in the fantasy section, you should without doubt include Donaldson's far superior Gap Series in the Sci-Fi section.
There are plenty of other inconsistencies, omissions and strange categorizations of books. I shan't bore you with them. I admire the effort put in, and it's not an awful flowchart per se, but I think that it most usefully demonstrates the limitations of a flowchart or tree diagram and that it isn't the best way to categorize books.
I don't think there's any non-lethal alternative that can't cause long-term injury.
Quite simply you'd fill it with a canister of tear gas or similar non-lethal gas that temporarily renders your victim blind, paralysed or otherwise unable to defend himself.
Consider how many Slashdotters taught ourselves how to work with computers with only the internet as a major resource.
Consider how many Slashdotters taught ourselves how to work with computers long before the internet was a major resource.
The Acid 3 test was revised and now all of the major browsers get 100%. It is no longer relevant.
The phrase you were looking for was "I couldn't care less..." not "I could care less..."