While at first I agree with you there is the whole problem of free speech. But then I realized it's slander so, yeah, they could (or should be) easily be convicted.
The problem with Windows is that, while the desktop shows up really quick, the boot is not done yet and the system is so overloaded you can't do much until they're all finished loading. With my Linux install the boot takes a while but when the desktop shows up it's all done and ready for use.
They're basing how secure it is by how little it's fixed? Couldn't that just mean that they're not fixing the holes and hoping that nobody will notice them?
I'm with you, good luck on swaying me, my personality type is cunningly called "Anti-Microsoft"...
In addition to making shitty software that I'm pretty much forced to use, isn't very customizable, is a resource hog, won't tell me what's wrong with it, won't do what I want it to when I want it to do it, etc. (hey, it's kinda like women... only less pretty...) I don't like Microsoft's business practices. Microsoft is an example of how Capitalism is a failed system. I'm not saying that Communism is any better, really they attempt to solve the same problems with vastly different approaches but end up causing the same kinds of issues and failing in similar ways. What we need is a mix of Socialism and Capitalism, hell, even China has figured this out and has been changing itself to accommodate some Capitalist ideas (like personal property). We're (the US is) changing even slower than China is (and some would think that quite difficult).
Anyhoo, that's my rant for the evening, now I'd better go to bed before my eyeballs fall out...
They called MAA (Mars Automobile Association), and they told them they'd be there between an hour and an hour and a half. Two hours later the tow-rover arrived, but the scientists realized that they'd left their membership card at home, which was several million miles away. Bummer. And besides, they'd already used their three visit limit after they locked their keys in the rover several times.
In your country they teach you that America is no a continent but a union of two continets, but in every other place they teach that America is a continent It really depends on how you want to define continent, if you're going to rely on the relatively small sliver of Panama to say that the continents are one, then you may as well call Afroeurasia one. The planet consists of three major landmasses, usually referred to as super-continents, broken down into several continents, and one or two sub-continents.
Ahh, that kinda makes sense (My brain is a bit burnt out at the moment). So the probability that PI will have a palendromic segment is 1/9 in base 10? Now, I don't understand it enough to be able to tell if this takes into account the fact that the repeated segment can be reversed or not...
For that matter, shouldn't it be that it can't be a non-reversed repeated segment?
I wasn't talking about the Neo-whatever just the green phone. Granted they might (probably) have ulterior motives behind the restrictions, but that's their explanation, and it's not too far fetched. There's nothing stopping you from designing and building your own hardware, except maybe expertise.
Yeah, it'd be great if there was blank phone hardware available at a cheap price, but there's not until you make it. Their explanation is pretty reasonable when you consider that they're selling it as a development machine, it's NOT for consumers, it's for developers.
This is specialized hardware not just some plain old computer. When Apple was gearing up for the Intel release the developers were using Dells and other such plain Intel machines, unspecialized hardware. Now, had Apple sold them special pre-release development machines it probably would have been against the license to install another OS on it.
The phone is a development model, meant so that developers can write qtopia-based mobile operating systems which can then be put into mass production. The phone itself is not the product, not even a prototype, but a potential for a prototype. The developer writes the software using the greenphone as a testbed, and then builds the prototype hardware based on what the software needs, if the software doesn't have camera capabilities then there's no point in putting one in the phone.
The greenphone has just about everything, that's why it's so expensive. It's a development tool, that's why there's that licensing. You could always write your software from scratch and use your own license free hardware, but that'd be expensive and re-inventing the wheel.
Now IANAP, but it seems to me that the reason string theory has not been disprovable is that it's in such constant flux that it can be molded around any issue that comes around. String theorists are attempting to explain the Universe, thus when something comes around that is outside their current explanation they adapt it to explain the anomaly. Maybe the problem is that it doesn't seem like string theory is really all that solid, perhaps once there are enough people who can fully understand what it's attempting to say then it can become science, until then it's still an evolving theory.
String theory isn't science it's physics, which is math... Math creates theories, science tests them. Actually, other things can create theories too, like the crazy bag lady who complains that there's ferns growing out of her ears, or millennia old books that say some old dude made everything in six days and then declared that all stores must close before 6 on Sundays. However, science is still the only thing that can test the theories, like that they're not ferns, per say, but a more sophisticated slime mold or that the old dude actually created the universe accidentally through a process known as the "Big Bang", had he remembered to take his Beano the universe may never have been created.
Had my grandmother's bank in upstate New York not had a drive through option I wouldn't have known what you were talking about. I think that one's gone now too, they've been replaced by drive through ATMs.
Of posting a video of an open source item in an extremely closed source codec? Why not post it in a nearly 100% compatible format, like, say MPEG...
(just FYI, I'm an idiot, I figured that by getting an AMD64 chip I'd still be able to run 32 bit things with no problem, apparently not since flash won't work without a chroot and neither will mplayer's windows codec pack...)
In the case of the Golden Gate Bridge you'd have a problem, there are six lanes total and anywhere from two to four lanes in a particular direction. At night it's usually two lanes in each direction, in the morning it's usually four lanes south and two north, in the afternoon it's the other way around, and finally on weekends it's usually three lanes each.
So, in European speak what would you call that?:)
I tend to always be confused when someone says "a # lane freeway" since I'm not sure if they're talking about total or per direction. Usually per direction makes more sense to me since, in many cases, the different directions aren't neccessarily right next to each other (they split up to go around a hill or one goes over while one stays lower, there are train tracks in the middle, one is on top of the other, etc.)
You're probably right, it shouldn't be cited. However, it could be a good starting point, it lists references which you can, in turn, reference. It can help in understanding what you're researching, and understanding more about it can help you find more information about it.
For example, if someone was starting a research paper on how to fix a computer they might not even realize that the monitor is NOT the computer. This little detail would be ironed out by reading the computer article...
Except that they both produce closed source products that are extremely important. Of course, the problem with the voting booths is that, in addition to being important, it's also your only choice on the day.
I think it'd be interesting to see what would happen if they provided a paper ballet booth for those of us who think the electronic booths are a problem. It wouldn't solve the underlying problem as most people will probably still use the electronic booths, but it might show that there's a significant number of people who believe that the e-booths are a problem.
Robin Williams' movie Man Of The Year is a really good (though extremely simplified) example of why black box voting is a bad idea.
You seem to forget that if this guy has the information, other people do as well. Again, it's the whole, Open Source Security vs. Closed. In just about every case I can think of Open is more secure, assuming it's important enough that many people use it.
If the voting machines were open source then I'd feel 99% better about using them (as it is I'm labeled as a permanent absentee voter). An election is important enough that there are going to be vastly more people trying to FIX the problems than would be trying to exploit them.
In a related thought, the company who makes the voting machines also makes ATMs (notice I didn't repeat machine), they should be open source too. I'm not saying they have to be GPLed or anything, but it would be nice to have a QA department that includes every programmer who uses ATMs...
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While at first I agree with you there is the whole problem of free speech. But then I realized it's slander so, yeah, they could (or should be) easily be convicted.
The problem with Windows is that, while the desktop shows up really quick, the boot is not done yet and the system is so overloaded you can't do much until they're all finished loading. With my Linux install the boot takes a while but when the desktop shows up it's all done and ready for use.
They're basing how secure it is by how little it's fixed? Couldn't that just mean that they're not fixing the holes and hoping that nobody will notice them?
I'm with you, good luck on swaying me, my personality type is cunningly called "Anti-Microsoft"...
In addition to making shitty software that I'm pretty much forced to use, isn't very customizable, is a resource hog, won't tell me what's wrong with it, won't do what I want it to when I want it to do it, etc. (hey, it's kinda like women... only less pretty...) I don't like Microsoft's business practices. Microsoft is an example of how Capitalism is a failed system. I'm not saying that Communism is any better, really they attempt to solve the same problems with vastly different approaches but end up causing the same kinds of issues and failing in similar ways. What we need is a mix of Socialism and Capitalism, hell, even China has figured this out and has been changing itself to accommodate some Capitalist ideas (like personal property). We're (the US is) changing even slower than China is (and some would think that quite difficult).
Anyhoo, that's my rant for the evening, now I'd better go to bed before my eyeballs fall out...
They called MAA (Mars Automobile Association), and they told them they'd be there between an hour and an hour and a half. Two hours later the tow-rover arrived, but the scientists realized that they'd left their membership card at home, which was several million miles away. Bummer. And besides, they'd already used their three visit limit after they locked their keys in the rover several times.
By the time you're drunk the dress is already off, awesome time saver!
Ahh, that kinda makes sense (My brain is a bit burnt out at the moment). So the probability that PI will have a palendromic segment is 1/9 in base 10? Now, I don't understand it enough to be able to tell if this takes into account the fact that the repeated segment can be reversed or not...
For that matter, shouldn't it be that it can't be a non-reversed repeated segment?
I wasn't talking about the Neo-whatever just the green phone. Granted they might (probably) have ulterior motives behind the restrictions, but that's their explanation, and it's not too far fetched. There's nothing stopping you from designing and building your own hardware, except maybe expertise.
Yeah, it'd be great if there was blank phone hardware available at a cheap price, but there's not until you make it. Their explanation is pretty reasonable when you consider that they're selling it as a development machine, it's NOT for consumers, it's for developers.
This is specialized hardware not just some plain old computer. When Apple was gearing up for the Intel release the developers were using Dells and other such plain Intel machines, unspecialized hardware. Now, had Apple sold them special pre-release development machines it probably would have been against the license to install another OS on it.
Considering it's an infinitely long number then at some point along the line it'll repeat itself digit for digit in reverse.
The phone is a development model, meant so that developers can write qtopia-based mobile operating systems which can then be put into mass production. The phone itself is not the product, not even a prototype, but a potential for a prototype. The developer writes the software using the greenphone as a testbed, and then builds the prototype hardware based on what the software needs, if the software doesn't have camera capabilities then there's no point in putting one in the phone.
The greenphone has just about everything, that's why it's so expensive. It's a development tool, that's why there's that licensing. You could always write your software from scratch and use your own license free hardware, but that'd be expensive and re-inventing the wheel.
Of course, my response to that is "No, most people just hate you..."
Now IANAP, but it seems to me that the reason string theory has not been disprovable is that it's in such constant flux that it can be molded around any issue that comes around. String theorists are attempting to explain the Universe, thus when something comes around that is outside their current explanation they adapt it to explain the anomaly. Maybe the problem is that it doesn't seem like string theory is really all that solid, perhaps once there are enough people who can fully understand what it's attempting to say then it can become science, until then it's still an evolving theory.
String theory isn't science it's physics, which is math... Math creates theories, science tests them. Actually, other things can create theories too, like the crazy bag lady who complains that there's ferns growing out of her ears, or millennia old books that say some old dude made everything in six days and then declared that all stores must close before 6 on Sundays. However, science is still the only thing that can test the theories, like that they're not ferns, per say, but a more sophisticated slime mold or that the old dude actually created the universe accidentally through a process known as the "Big Bang", had he remembered to take his Beano the universe may never have been created.
You forget, it's going to be renamed "Urectum" to put an end to those jokes...
Compared to a photon a hair is gigantic...
Had my grandmother's bank in upstate New York not had a drive through option I wouldn't have known what you were talking about. I think that one's gone now too, they've been replaced by drive through ATMs.
Microsoft fails to fix known problem in any less than six months? How could this possibly be? They've always been so prompt about that kind of thing.
And while I'm at it, my unicorn swallowed my key to the TARDIS, can I borrow yours?
Of posting a video of an open source item in an extremely closed source codec? Why not post it in a nearly 100% compatible format, like, say MPEG...
(just FYI, I'm an idiot, I figured that by getting an AMD64 chip I'd still be able to run 32 bit things with no problem, apparently not since flash won't work without a chroot and neither will mplayer's windows codec pack...)
Dern you yur'peans 'nd yur fancy wurds.
In the case of the Golden Gate Bridge you'd have a problem, there are six lanes total and anywhere from two to four lanes in a particular direction. At night it's usually two lanes in each direction, in the morning it's usually four lanes south and two north, in the afternoon it's the other way around, and finally on weekends it's usually three lanes each.
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So, in European speak what would you call that?
I tend to always be confused when someone says "a # lane freeway" since I'm not sure if they're talking about total or per direction. Usually per direction makes more sense to me since, in many cases, the different directions aren't neccessarily right next to each other (they split up to go around a hill or one goes over while one stays lower, there are train tracks in the middle, one is on top of the other, etc.)
Only on Slashdot can a first post be redundant...
You're probably right, it shouldn't be cited. However, it could be a good starting point, it lists references which you can, in turn, reference. It can help in understanding what you're researching, and understanding more about it can help you find more information about it.
For example, if someone was starting a research paper on how to fix a computer they might not even realize that the monitor is NOT the computer. This little detail would be ironed out by reading the computer article...
Except that they both produce closed source products that are extremely important. Of course, the problem with the voting booths is that, in addition to being important, it's also your only choice on the day.
I think it'd be interesting to see what would happen if they provided a paper ballet booth for those of us who think the electronic booths are a problem. It wouldn't solve the underlying problem as most people will probably still use the electronic booths, but it might show that there's a significant number of people who believe that the e-booths are a problem.
Robin Williams' movie Man Of The Year is a really good (though extremely simplified) example of why black box voting is a bad idea.
You seem to forget that if this guy has the information, other people do as well. Again, it's the whole, Open Source Security vs. Closed. In just about every case I can think of Open is more secure, assuming it's important enough that many people use it.
If the voting machines were open source then I'd feel 99% better about using them (as it is I'm labeled as a permanent absentee voter). An election is important enough that there are going to be vastly more people trying to FIX the problems than would be trying to exploit them.
In a related thought, the company who makes the voting machines also makes ATMs (notice I didn't repeat machine), they should be open source too. I'm not saying they have to be GPLed or anything, but it would be nice to have a QA department that includes every programmer who uses ATMs...