Everyone who plays 3D games or uses their gpu for any sort of distributed computing cares. Intel graphics solutions are simply not worth having on a primary desktop and I'm damned sure not going to stop doing the things I enjoy out of some fucked up sense of idealism. Most of us, even among linux users, aren't code-hippies. Sure, we'd prefer FOSS drivers but as long as there is a working solution we really don't care.
If you want to paint yourself a little sign and go picket outside their offices, have at it. The rest of us will be over here not giving a damn.
Or just buy a cooler and keep your tech in it. No ice necessary just to avoid sealed car baking.
If you need it cooler than ambient air temp, put a layer of bricks in the bottom first thing in the morning. They'll keep the temp a little cooler without having to worry about condensation.
No, if we, as natural animals, cause the extinction of another species it is because it was unfit to survive and should be left extinct. Human beings are not outside nature and its methods of determining which species are worthy of survival.
And still, spamming is not allowed. Note the severe lack of viagra ads.
If he'd had a question about something relating to distributing his book with bittorrent, fine. If he was ranting about how tracker.foo.se was giving him grief and asking for suggestions, fine. If he was talking about how it was cool that an author that wasn't him released his shat as a torrent, peachy.
But he wasn't. He was promoting his content. That is advertising. Nobody asked him to, so it was also unsolicited. Unsolicited advertising is spam.
That's pretty much expected given that the uTorrent forums aren't for file sharing but for discussion of the client. By strict definition, you were spamming.
Yeah, assuming he's being absolutely truthful, it's a lot like a maffia Don using his protection money to feed the homeless. That's great and all but he's still a scumbag.
I get what you mean but what you mean does not include the word "neutral". Every search engine algorithm is based on the premise of promoting some content and lowering other so that the users can better find what they want. There is nothing even a little bit neutral about that. Neutral would be taking all matching search results and running them through a randomizing algorithm.
I've seen the lack of knowledge of it get someone fired from a blue-collar job. He calculated the remaining fuel volume in a horizontally oriented, cylindrical fuel tank like it was a cuboid instead of a cylinder. The resulting millions of dollars of damage when they ran out of fuel did not ingratiate him to management.
Trademark is not copyright. It is not a right businesses have but a consumer protection and only applies when a moron in a hurry might mistake one product for the other. Is there any chance you might mistake a news for nerds site for a piece of opensource hardware?
Granted, salting passwords can be useful if done properly but we're talking about people who make a conscious decision to limit the user's pass to a pathetic size. Odds are pretty good they're still using MD5 and not salting at all.
Pffft, how hard is it to remember a password like 'God damnit!!1! What the fuck was my password for ?'? No, I don't use that specifically but it's 50+ characters and is unique to each site. And since every unsalted eight or less character password can be cracked in an hour or so by anyone with the hash, no, your eight character password is not remotely enough.
On the other hand, a hell of a lot of services limit password length for some insane reason. Given the choice, I never use a password under 30 characters in length but there are sites I use that limit me to as little as eight characters. Nearly any (over 95%) possible password of eight characters or less can be looked up in a rainbow table in less than an hour by a single computer. With distributed rainbow table generation today, counting on hashing functions to be one way is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
No, labor unions were a good idea back in the 30s when unemployment rates meant you had to take what they gave or be jobless. Today, with unemployment being a very workable eight-ish percent, they exist solely to enrich their members at the expense of the health of the companies they work for. As near as I can tell, their formula is take the average wage for the position, double it, ask for 25% more worth of benefits, and make it all but impossible to fire anyone even if they're incapable of or unwilling to doing their job.
Why bother? They're doing a fine job of destroying themselves by strangling the businesses they extort. Every union job held directly causes the unemployment of the person the other half of their wage could have paid.
Living wage my ass. Union shovel/broom-jockeys in my neck of the woods make twice what any other entry-level position in the area pays and they get benefits on top of that.
You, sir or madam, are an imbecile. Descendants are not an issue if we do not continue to survive. The dead to not procreate. Without fossil fuels, there is no food transportation and food production is cut back to horse and plow levels of productivity. Yes, everyone currently living in a city will starve to death in a matter of months if they do not immediately leave and even then their odds are extremely bad.
When we have the means to do without fossil fuels, fine. Peachy damned keen. I'll help you kick them in the ass on their way out the door. Spouting the tripe you just did only exposes you as either a moron or a psychopath though.
You think? If we stopped gathering fossil fuels tomorrow, half the nation would be dark as soon as the coal ran out, most of the nation would be unable to get to their jobs as soon as the gas ran out, and most of the food would run out as soon as the diesel ran out. Those are just the primary effects.
Why? Because we do not have an infrastructure that is capable of switching over to another energy source immediately or even within a decade. There may be alternative energy sources but without a slow and steady rise in the price of fossil fuels to make alternatives financially viable, they will never be able to build up the production capacity needed to supply an entire nation.
Whether fracking is scientifically sound or not, we have just got to stop this desperate scrabbling to dig up any scrap of fossil fuel we can find..
Why, exactly? You have a specific reason in mind as to why we should avoid continued gathering of an existing resource when we've got no currently viable alternative?
Honestly, if you can deal with the character set, the names of the internals are irrelevant. You'll spend long enough learning their idiosyncrasies that you won't be able to help memorizing the tiny fraction of English you need to write and read code. Your biggest problem will be the documentation not the code itself.
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Everyone who plays 3D games or uses their gpu for any sort of distributed computing cares. Intel graphics solutions are simply not worth having on a primary desktop and I'm damned sure not going to stop doing the things I enjoy out of some fucked up sense of idealism. Most of us, even among linux users, aren't code-hippies. Sure, we'd prefer FOSS drivers but as long as there is a working solution we really don't care.
If you want to paint yourself a little sign and go picket outside their offices, have at it. The rest of us will be over here not giving a damn.
Or just buy a cooler and keep your tech in it. No ice necessary just to avoid sealed car baking.
If you need it cooler than ambient air temp, put a layer of bricks in the bottom first thing in the morning. They'll keep the temp a little cooler without having to worry about condensation.
No, if we, as natural animals, cause the extinction of another species it is because it was unfit to survive and should be left extinct. Human beings are not outside nature and its methods of determining which species are worthy of survival.
It's on the Internet, so both.
Po-tay-toe, po-tah-toe. The politicians are just better at it.
And still, spamming is not allowed. Note the severe lack of viagra ads.
If he'd had a question about something relating to distributing his book with bittorrent, fine. If he was ranting about how tracker.foo.se was giving him grief and asking for suggestions, fine. If he was talking about how it was cool that an author that wasn't him released his shat as a torrent, peachy.
But he wasn't. He was promoting his content. That is advertising. Nobody asked him to, so it was also unsolicited. Unsolicited advertising is spam.
Advertising is promoting a product, yeah? Sounds pretty much exactly like what he did, even if said product was at the price of $0.
That's pretty much expected given that the uTorrent forums aren't for file sharing but for discussion of the client. By strict definition, you were spamming.
Yeah, assuming he's being absolutely truthful, it's a lot like a maffia Don using his protection money to feed the homeless. That's great and all but he's still a scumbag.
I get what you mean but what you mean does not include the word "neutral". Every search engine algorithm is based on the premise of promoting some content and lowering other so that the users can better find what they want. There is nothing even a little bit neutral about that. Neutral would be taking all matching search results and running them through a randomizing algorithm.
I've seen the lack of knowledge of it get someone fired from a blue-collar job. He calculated the remaining fuel volume in a horizontally oriented, cylindrical fuel tank like it was a cuboid instead of a cylinder. The resulting millions of dollars of damage when they ran out of fuel did not ingratiate him to management.
Trademark is not copyright. It is not a right businesses have but a consumer protection and only applies when a moron in a hurry might mistake one product for the other. Is there any chance you might mistake a news for nerds site for a piece of opensource hardware?
It lacks civil suit consequence, not criminal prosecution consequence.
Granted, salting passwords can be useful if done properly but we're talking about people who make a conscious decision to limit the user's pass to a pathetic size. Odds are pretty good they're still using MD5 and not salting at all.
Pffft, how hard is it to remember a password like 'God damnit!!1! What the fuck was my password for ?'? No, I don't use that specifically but it's 50+ characters and is unique to each site. And since every unsalted eight or less character password can be cracked in an hour or so by anyone with the hash, no, your eight character password is not remotely enough.
On the other hand, a hell of a lot of services limit password length for some insane reason. Given the choice, I never use a password under 30 characters in length but there are sites I use that limit me to as little as eight characters. Nearly any (over 95%) possible password of eight characters or less can be looked up in a rainbow table in less than an hour by a single computer. With distributed rainbow table generation today, counting on hashing functions to be one way is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
No, labor unions were a good idea back in the 30s when unemployment rates meant you had to take what they gave or be jobless. Today, with unemployment being a very workable eight-ish percent, they exist solely to enrich their members at the expense of the health of the companies they work for. As near as I can tell, their formula is take the average wage for the position, double it, ask for 25% more worth of benefits, and make it all but impossible to fire anyone even if they're incapable of or unwilling to doing their job.
Why bother? They're doing a fine job of destroying themselves by strangling the businesses they extort. Every union job held directly causes the unemployment of the person the other half of their wage could have paid.
Living wage my ass. Union shovel/broom-jockeys in my neck of the woods make twice what any other entry-level position in the area pays and they get benefits on top of that.
You, sir or madam, are an imbecile. Descendants are not an issue if we do not continue to survive. The dead to not procreate. Without fossil fuels, there is no food transportation and food production is cut back to horse and plow levels of productivity. Yes, everyone currently living in a city will starve to death in a matter of months if they do not immediately leave and even then their odds are extremely bad.
When we have the means to do without fossil fuels, fine. Peachy damned keen. I'll help you kick them in the ass on their way out the door. Spouting the tripe you just did only exposes you as either a moron or a psychopath though.
Because some people want their great-great grand children
You see what happens when you quote half a sentence without important qualifying clauses?
You think? If we stopped gathering fossil fuels tomorrow, half the nation would be dark as soon as the coal ran out, most of the nation would be unable to get to their jobs as soon as the gas ran out, and most of the food would run out as soon as the diesel ran out. Those are just the primary effects.
Why? Because we do not have an infrastructure that is capable of switching over to another energy source immediately or even within a decade. There may be alternative energy sources but without a slow and steady rise in the price of fossil fuels to make alternatives financially viable, they will never be able to build up the production capacity needed to supply an entire nation.
Whether fracking is scientifically sound or not, we have just got to stop this desperate scrabbling to dig up any scrap of fossil fuel we can find..
Why, exactly? You have a specific reason in mind as to why we should avoid continued gathering of an existing resource when we've got no currently viable alternative?
Because of the Pizza Rule. Any more than three people can't even agree on pizza toppings. There are a lot more than three scientists.
Honestly, if you can deal with the character set, the names of the internals are irrelevant. You'll spend long enough learning their idiosyncrasies that you won't be able to help memorizing the tiny fraction of English you need to write and read code. Your biggest problem will be the documentation not the code itself.