The Canada Customs union has for years (and rightfully so) been petitioning the government to train and supply all customs officers with firewarms. Think about it, these guys are *guaring the borders to the nation* (even worse they're guarding the world's longest undefended border with one of the most gun-liberal nations in the first world!), and they are unarmed.
So, last year, the union justr said "fine - if you won't arm us, then we are telling all our members that if they feel threatened in any way then they should just walk off the job". And that's what they did, and that is what happened that day.
Frankly, I agree 100% with all their claims. I may not believe in the right of all citizens ot bear arms, but I damn well believe that the people in charge of the peace should be armed. And if I was in a makeshift tool booth with a carful of guys with automatic weapons bearing down on me, I am not going to stick around with my flashlight and billy club.
Isn't this like me releasing a GPL program which is linked to the nvidia or ATI blobs?It isn't, because ATI and NVidia do not link to the kernel. The portions of the NVidia and ATi driver that *do* link directly to the kernel (also known as the "kernel stub"), are indeed GPL. What happns, is the closed source X driver communicates to and from the stub indirectly, not via linking.
It's actually just a different DRM/DRI implementation, which nearly all X drivers use nowadays.
Note in this case DRM does not mean "Digital Rights management", it means "Direct Rendering Manager"
It's not really a "no-brainer" when you consider that $600 phone would be wroth MAX $300 12 months from now.
Cell phones are pretty much the fastest depreciating things around. They lose about 50% of their value every year. Does your insurance premium go down by that much?
Is it a basic right to be allowed to receive e-mail from whomever I desire, or does Comcast have the right to censor as they wish?"
Comcast has the right to do whatever the fuck they want with their own network, as long as it is within the TOS contract you signed (which it probably was since it likely said they can change it at will with little to no notice). Also, you as a consumer have the right to ditch Comcast for any other ISP you want (assuming again you weren't locked into a TOS contract). Welcome to capitalism.
What you say? You have no other options for high speed in your area, or you have to keep your @comcast.com email address since it is not portable? Welcome to monopolies.
This comment sounds like someone who always talks about "how durable" these drives are withotu actually owning one.
I have has my 512 MB thumb drive go through the wash no less than 3 times. I have had it dropped, stepped on countless times. Never once have I lost data and it still wokrs fine to this day.
Flash drives **are durable**, much more so than any DVDR or CDR are. Lexar even makes a hardened case version that can be run over with a car.
Basically, this article is a bunch of fear mongering about not being able to erase your data cause "it's too hard, wah wah".
When have you ever seen a phone without a master reset feature? I know I never have.
They even point this out in TFA:
Palm Inc., which makes the popular Treo phones, puts directions deep within its Web site for what it calls a "zero out reset." It involves holding down three buttons simultaneously while pressing a fourth tiny button on the back of the phone.
But it's so awkward to do that even Palm says it may take two people. A Palm executive, Joe Fabris, said the company made the process deliberately clumsy because it doesn't want customers accidentally erasing their information.
Oh cry me a river - it's supposed to be hard to do a master reset, that's so you don't do it by accident and wipe your phone!
Is it really that difficult to push four buttons at once? What are we now, chimps?
(possibly a BSD distribution using the BSD kernel with GNU tools?),
Why would BSD the various BSDs switch to using the mostly inferior GNU tools??? The BSD userland is more standard and time-tested.
Sure a few GNU apps have some beels and whistles, like the GNU grep and NU awk, but these are mostly just fluff and could easily be added to the BSD userland if anyone actually cared much about the feature.
The market for flat screen TVs is about 50/50 Plasma/LCD. Plasma screens may use more energy on average than a CRT (I really don't know to comment), but I do know that an LCD, even one of far greater size, uses far less.
So it pretty much evens out overall I would wager.
I just ditched my dish for digital cable ( which I ditched less than a year ago for the dish!). The reason? VOD. VOD is swesome, and it's something the dish companies can not do yet, nor will they be able to do for a while (unless they start shipping their boxes with internet capability). Why? Because for VOD to work you need to have a bi-directional pipe. Dish is one way. Therefore you will neve rbe able to do VOD with a dish, unless they come out with a solution that either a) hogs a phone lin (horrible), or b) Uses your existing broadband connection.
The B option seesm feasable, but I have yet to see it even get off the ground - the dish companies are dragging their feet, meanwhile VOD has been around for over a year. VOD is the future - it's going to spell the end for chains like Blockbuster (why drive way down to blockbuster to rent a DVD, when I can order a *HD* version of the same movie from the comfort of my couch for the same price?)
* Yes I know most of these movies aren't true HD, but are just upscaled on the server-side. They still come out better looking than upscaling yourself. And some of them are true HD.
Investigating the parcel is just a small part of the problem. That I can understand - find an electornic device on a plane, guy *says*, it's an iPod, but who knows? Land and check it out to be sure.
But once you *KNOW ITS AN IPOD*, why continue to hassle the guy? From the article they seemed to interrogate him for *hours*. Totally ridiculous. I don't even know why he answrd any of them. I fI was him I would have said somethig to the effect of "Look, I dropped an iPod in the toilet. I am sorry about that, but I don't have to answer any of these questions, and I refuse to unless you provide me with an attorney".
ISO 9000 mainly revolves around the procedures for developing the software being documented. Now, I may be oversimplifying things, but in the Open Source world, isn't *every* procedure documented, since the whole process is totally transparant?
I mean, you can *see* when the code was changed, you can *see* when bugs were fixed, you can see any QA that was done (if any)...
Shouldn't any Open Source product be able to get ISO 9000 certification, if they do the paperwork? I know that paperwork is *massive*, but if this guy's company wants to get NUnit certified, maybe his company could hire the consultant to do just that?
When you can enter any modern house with little more than a leatherman pocket knife and 20 minutes, why bother screwing asround with locks?
Hint - siding -> insulation -> foam -> plastic -> drywall. All cuttable with a decent pocket knife. Find a nice secluded area at the rear of the house and you're in and out, no noise no fuss.
People who coddle their children have them grow into misfits, because they don't know how to act in the real world. On the other hand, people who let their kids run wild have them grow to be criminals and outcasts, because the kids grow witht he notion that it doesn't matter what they do since no one cars.
You should raise a child with plenty of freedom, but make sure the child knows they will be held responsible for their own mistakes. I was given my own car when I was 16 - but I had to pay my own insurance. And I knew if I trashed the thing, or got tickets so my insurance would go up, etc - that Mommy and Daddy would *not* be bailing me out.
Pretend we're talking a year from now and MS is trying to roll out Vista and the 40% of the population that will be using FF by then balks because FF won't run properly.
He says he now lists an item four times on average in order to sell it, up from two listings two years ago.
Well duh, of course it does, there are about 10 times as many listings on eBay as two years ago.
eBay has exploded in popularity, and that means competition. *OF COURSE* it's going to be harder to sell your stuff when there are 10 times as many people selling the same thing today, often cheaper, than 10 years ago. It's called competition in the marketplace, and it's the very concept that makes eBay so popular.
There is no more such thing as "an inherent right of humanity" as their is "an inherent right of millipedes".
Once you realize you are no more important to this universe than a common ant you may gain a bit of perspective on your self-realized importance. Society (and by extension government) grants rights - you are born with none.
If you are chasing a flush, knowing the suits of the other person's two cards can ajust your odds bu a huge factor. For example, if you were four to a flush post-flop (giving you odds of 38/100 to hit your flush), and you all of a sudden know that two cards not in play are *not* of your suit, that ups the odds to 43/100 - this is a huge odd jump in hold-em, and can mean the difference between folding and going all-in in a race situation.
Two players colluding in a game is a huge problem. Even a marginal advantage equals to a huge advantage played out over time.
What confuses me is how the poker openings differ. I would speculate that a program would be some heuristic relating the ratio of bluffing to "playing the odds." I have gambling friends that play poker all the time and they have these rules that they follow when they play initially against people. They say it's the best until you "know" the people you're playing. Once you can read them then you deviate from the rules. The real irony is that the most successful people I know adhere to a system until they learn someone's movements. Sounds to me like I would write an application that specializes in playing the odds until it recognizes a historical action that statistically reveals the player is bluffing/not bluffing.
You can tell you don't play much poker.
Part of what differentiates a pro player to an amatur player in poker, is the ability to "project an image". A pro player will purposefully *project* an image of a bluffer, or a tight player, so that they can exploit that image of themselves when they see fit in the game.
Thusly, it is very difficlt to get a "read" on a good poker player, because not only do you not know what cards they have, but you don't know how they would play for any two given cards, so you can't use their behaviour to prdict the cards they have.
In the end, the above description is what any decent player is aiming for while they play.
Because of this, a computer can have a hard time going beyond implied odds calulations in determining how to play a hand - and any pro ill tell you, implied odds are a good starting point, but they won't make you money in the long run.
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That was a soley union action.
The Canada Customs union has for years (and rightfully so) been petitioning the government to train and supply all customs officers with firewarms. Think about it, these guys are *guaring the borders to the nation* (even worse they're guarding the world's longest undefended border with one of the most gun-liberal nations in the first world!), and they are unarmed.
So, last year, the union justr said "fine - if you won't arm us, then we are telling all our members that if they feel threatened in any way then they should just walk off the job". And that's what they did, and that is what happened that day.
Frankly, I agree 100% with all their claims. I may not believe in the right of all citizens ot bear arms, but I damn well believe that the people in charge of the peace should be armed. And if I was in a makeshift tool booth with a carful of guys with automatic weapons bearing down on me, I am not going to stick around with my flashlight and billy club.
Isn't this like me releasing a GPL program which is linked to the nvidia or ATI blobs?It isn't, because ATI and NVidia do not link to the kernel. The portions of the NVidia and ATi driver that *do* link directly to the kernel (also known as the "kernel stub"), are indeed GPL. What happns, is the closed source X driver communicates to and from the stub indirectly, not via linking.
It's actually just a different DRM/DRI implementation, which nearly all X drivers use nowadays.
Note in this case DRM does not mean "Digital Rights management", it means "Direct Rendering Manager"
It's not really a "no-brainer" when you consider that $600 phone would be wroth MAX $300 12 months from now.
Cell phones are pretty much the fastest depreciating things around. They lose about 50% of their value every year. Does your insurance premium go down by that much?
Is it a basic right to be allowed to receive e-mail from whomever I desire, or does Comcast have the right to censor as they wish?"
Comcast has the right to do whatever the fuck they want with their own network, as long as it is within the TOS contract you signed (which it probably was since it likely said they can change it at will with little to no notice). Also, you as a consumer have the right to ditch Comcast for any other ISP you want (assuming again you weren't locked into a TOS contract). Welcome to capitalism.
What you say? You have no other options for high speed in your area, or you have to keep your @comcast.com email address since it is not portable? Welcome to monopolies.
This comment sounds like someone who always talks about "how durable" these drives are withotu actually owning one.
I have has my 512 MB thumb drive go through the wash no less than 3 times. I have had it dropped, stepped on countless times. Never once have I lost data and it still wokrs fine to this day.
Flash drives **are durable**, much more so than any DVDR or CDR are. Lexar even makes a hardened case version that can be run over with a car.
When have you ever seen a phone without a master reset feature? I know I never have.
They even point this out in TFA:
Palm Inc., which makes the popular Treo phones, puts directions deep within its Web site for what it calls a "zero out reset." It involves holding down three buttons simultaneously while pressing a fourth tiny button on the back of the phone.
But it's so awkward to do that even Palm says it may take two people. A Palm executive, Joe Fabris, said the company made the process deliberately clumsy because it doesn't want customers accidentally erasing their information.
Oh cry me a river - it's supposed to be hard to do a master reset, that's so you don't do it by accident and wipe your phone!
Is it really that difficult to push four buttons at once? What are we now, chimps?
(possibly a BSD distribution using the BSD kernel with GNU tools?),
Why would BSD the various BSDs switch to using the mostly inferior GNU tools??? The BSD userland is more standard and time-tested.
Sure a few GNU apps have some beels and whistles, like the GNU grep and NU awk, but these are mostly just fluff and could easily be added to the BSD userland if anyone actually cared much about the feature.
The market for flat screen TVs is about 50/50 Plasma/LCD. Plasma screens may use more energy on average than a CRT (I really don't know to comment), but I do know that an LCD, even one of far greater size, uses far less.
So it pretty much evens out overall I would wager.
Note the title of my comment. Do you honestly think I am referring to the AAC standard and not Fairplay?
Jesus christ get a clue.
AAC is Apple-only. WMA has been cracked. What are they going to use for DRM? Sony ATRAC? (UGH!!!!)
I just ditched my dish for digital cable ( which I ditched less than a year ago for the dish!). The reason? VOD. VOD is swesome, and it's something the dish companies can not do yet, nor will they be able to do for a while (unless they start shipping their boxes with internet capability). Why? Because for VOD to work you need to have a bi-directional pipe. Dish is one way. Therefore you will neve rbe able to do VOD with a dish, unless they come out with a solution that either a) hogs a phone lin (horrible), or b) Uses your existing broadband connection.
The B option seesm feasable, but I have yet to see it even get off the ground - the dish companies are dragging their feet, meanwhile VOD has been around for over a year. VOD is the future - it's going to spell the end for chains like Blockbuster (why drive way down to blockbuster to rent a DVD, when I can order a *HD* version of the same movie from the comfort of my couch for the same price?)
* Yes I know most of these movies aren't true HD, but are just upscaled on the server-side. They still come out better looking than upscaling yourself. And some of them are true HD.
Investigating the parcel is just a small part of the problem. That I can understand - find an electornic device on a plane, guy *says*, it's an iPod, but who knows? Land and check it out to be sure.
But once you *KNOW ITS AN IPOD*, why continue to hassle the guy? From the article they seemed to interrogate him for *hours*. Totally ridiculous. I don't even know why he answrd any of them. I fI was him I would have said somethig to the effect of "Look, I dropped an iPod in the toilet. I am sorry about that, but I don't have to answer any of these questions, and I refuse to unless you provide me with an attorney".
ISO 9000 mainly revolves around the procedures for developing the software being documented. Now, I may be oversimplifying things, but in the Open Source world, isn't *every* procedure documented, since the whole process is totally transparant?
I mean, you can *see* when the code was changed, you can *see* when bugs were fixed, you can see any QA that was done (if any)...
Shouldn't any Open Source product be able to get ISO 9000 certification, if they do the paperwork? I know that paperwork is *massive*, but if this guy's company wants to get NUnit certified, maybe his company could hire the consultant to do just that?
BTW nice summary. Someone should add a bug UNMANNED in bold in there so people don't get so excited.
Why would they go to all that trouble of making such a huge trip and not land on the planet???
I know maybe it has larger risks but COME ON, it's not like you go to Mars every week.
It would be 2,522,464,794.14 USD according to xe.com
:)
And if the rapdily falling US dollar continues it's decline (yay Bush!) by sometime next year it will be $3,000,000,000 or more.
Go loonie!
When you can enter any modern house with little more than a leatherman pocket knife and 20 minutes, why bother screwing asround with locks?
Hint - siding -> insulation -> foam -> plastic -> drywall. All cuttable with a decent pocket knife. Find a nice secluded area at the rear of the house and you're in and out, no noise no fuss.
So long as he lives in my house, it's my rules in and out of the house. After he leaves, he can get his privacy but not until then.
It's that kind of speaking that has the number of runaway and emancipated teens so high nowadays.
Justtify your actions with reasoning, not with "while you're under my roof" BS. The kid will just take off.
People who coddle their children have them grow into misfits, because they don't know how to act in the real world. On the other hand, people who let their kids run wild have them grow to be criminals and outcasts, because the kids grow witht he notion that it doesn't matter what they do since no one cars.
You should raise a child with plenty of freedom, but make sure the child knows they will be held responsible for their own mistakes. I was given my own car when I was 16 - but I had to pay my own insurance. And I knew if I trashed the thing, or got tickets so my insurance would go up, etc - that Mommy and Daddy would *not* be bailing me out.
If it feels like the first one, then how has combat evolved at all?
Pretend we're talking a year from now and MS is trying to roll out Vista and the 40% of the population that will be using FF by then balks because FF won't run properly.
Wow - food must taste better where you live too!
He says he now lists an item four times on average in order to sell it, up from two listings two years ago.
Well duh, of course it does, there are about 10 times as many listings on eBay as two years ago.
eBay has exploded in popularity, and that means competition. *OF COURSE* it's going to be harder to sell your stuff when there are 10 times as many people selling the same thing today, often cheaper, than 10 years ago. It's called competition in the marketplace, and it's the very concept that makes eBay so popular.
There is no more such thing as "an inherent right of humanity" as their is "an inherent right of millipedes". Once you realize you are no more important to this universe than a common ant you may gain a bit of perspective on your self-realized importance. Society (and by extension government) grants rights - you are born with none.
If you are chasing a flush, knowing the suits of the other person's two cards can ajust your odds bu a huge factor. For example, if you were four to a flush post-flop (giving you odds of 38/100 to hit your flush), and you all of a sudden know that two cards not in play are *not* of your suit, that ups the odds to 43/100 - this is a huge odd jump in hold-em, and can mean the difference between folding and going all-in in a race situation.
Two players colluding in a game is a huge problem. Even a marginal advantage equals to a huge advantage played out over time.
What confuses me is how the poker openings differ. I would speculate that a program would be some heuristic relating the ratio of bluffing to "playing the odds." I have gambling friends that play poker all the time and they have these rules that they follow when they play initially against people. They say it's the best until you "know" the people you're playing. Once you can read them then you deviate from the rules. The real irony is that the most successful people I know adhere to a system until they learn someone's movements. Sounds to me like I would write an application that specializes in playing the odds until it recognizes a historical action that statistically reveals the player is bluffing/not bluffing.
You can tell you don't play much poker.
Part of what differentiates a pro player to an amatur player in poker, is the ability to "project an image". A pro player will purposefully *project* an image of a bluffer, or a tight player, so that they can exploit that image of themselves when they see fit in the game.
Thusly, it is very difficlt to get a "read" on a good poker player, because not only do you not know what cards they have, but you don't know how they would play for any two given cards, so you can't use their behaviour to prdict the cards they have.
In the end, the above description is what any decent player is aiming for while they play.
Because of this, a computer can have a hard time going beyond implied odds calulations in determining how to play a hand - and any pro ill tell you, implied odds are a good starting point, but they won't make you money in the long run.