Why are they deliberately fucking up their OS? Don't they have enough competition? If so, bring in the anti-trust people, or fire the department responsible for this kind of brain-damage.
The importance of running to early Homo is, of course, conjectural. But it does make sense: few other animals are capable of long-distance running, and none can do so under a blazing sun. (Wolves and hyenas, for example, require cold weather or nightfall for long-distance hunting; otherwise they overheat.) Endurance running might have set early humans apart from the pack.
According to study co-author and Harvard University anthropologist Daniel Lieberman, many modern anatomical features make sense in the context of savannah marathons. Achilles tendons act as springs to store energy. Our hind limbs have extra-large joints. Our buttocks muscles are perfect for stabilization, as are regions of the brain uniquely sensitive to the physical pitching generated by the motion of running.
What I'd like to see is this: I go to Amazon, buy a book/movie/game/music and they'll send it just as we're used to. Then there's the option, like a gift wrap, to download the thing for another 3 bucks (gotta pay for bandwidth and server storage after all).
Nah, that's redundant. Why should I have to pay to get dead trees when I only want to read it on the screen? You like dead trees, that's fine, but I don't have the skyscrapers to put all my downloaded books in. (Naturally, all from a legal source, and naturally, I wouldn't have this many if I had to build a library to store them.)
Maybe download could be a delivery option, but forcing me to get it in two formats is just weird.
You can't throw that out there without doing a two way translation or at the very least tell us what it'd be equivalent to in English!
The idiom does not exist. If you translate it word for word, people take it literally.
Just for you, here's an example: "Nincsen rózsa tövis nélkül", lit. "There are no roses without thorns". Translated as "every bean has its black". Just knowing all the words in the sentence does not give you the full meaning.
Excercise 1: decode the following: "Don't look at the teeth of a gift horse."/"If the horse is a gift, don't look at the teeth." "He has slipped on a banana-peel." "It's below the bottom of a frog." "He issues a certificate of poverty of himself." "It's like peas thrown against the wall." (The word itself is an archaic form of "throw", in modern.hu, it means "vomit".) "The hoar-frost is still to come for the dog." "I shall teach you to pipe into gloves." (Should be "in gloves", but pronounced it's not so clear.)
And my favorite: "They are as far apart as Makó (in Hungary) is from Jerusalem." This is actually mistranslated, Makó was a person who got lost and thought he arrived in Jerusalem, but there's a town called Makó now, so people get confused.
So. Which one do you think can be translated algorithmically?
You do realize, Mr. Wack, that most translations are done by machine nowadays?
Most: maybe, the good ones: no. And if you can show me something that translates to Hungarian, I'll take your argument at face value. Regardless, if you think that there are algorithms to translate The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy in a way that it retains its qualities, you're a moron. Go learn another language.
When was the last time you read a machine-translated text that didn't have glaring semantical errors?
And IF the work is done by a good translator do you really honestly believe they deserve as much credit as the AUTHOR? What planet are you from anyway?
The author conveys his thoughts. The translator conveys someone elses thoughts. We can argue about which one is harder all day. And no, word-for-word things are not translations. If you say "there's more than one way to skin a cat" in Hungarian, you get an uncomfortable silence and you won't get invited to parties.
I suppose you actually think copyright infringement is a right too, right?
I suppose you think the whole world is under US jurisdiction, right?
it was to ail a very real problem of people taking literature, translating it and selling it in foreign countries with no revenue going to the original artist or publisher.
OMFG THE WRITER HAS TO WORK FOR A LIVING! Seriously. If your country is not big enough for you, move to China.
Besides, you think translating is a free action? It takes a significant amount of creativity and talent to produce the same text in another language, another set of cultural conventions and references, idioms, etc. If the translator does a good job, they deserve as much credit as the writer.
Except that as you said, the chip is passive, and completely unpowered unless it is being scanned, because it gets its power from the scanner. And because of that, they can't transmit with more power than they are getting from the scanning field.
Except that as you said, the chip is passive, and completely unpowered, so the scanner emits a signal enough to power up an integrated fucking circuit and make it transmit back. Microwave ovens should be closed for a reason.
Oh, you thought the chip itself was harmful?
I'd stop worrying, especially as the (official) scanners are so short range that you have to take your passport out of your pocket (and away from your genitals) for it to be read, so your genitals would never actually be (officially) exposed to the RFID chip's radio broadcast.
That's about implanted RFID chips causing cancer, which sounds quite plausible - putting a foreign object in your body usually isn't a good idea. There's no evidence to suggest that an RFID chip in your passport has any effect on you (except for psychological implications).
Passive RFID works by getting radio waves powerful enough to power a chip. You think that's a good idea if it's only near your crotch, not in it?
While I would agree that overwriting GRUB/LiLo/Your Bootloader Here is annoying, the average user is orders of magnitude more likely to have an issue with a corrupted, windows-written bootloader than a conflict with an intentionally installed one.
Well, I'm not the average user, and if Microsoft can't accept it, I won't pay them.
Even at that, Windows would have to be added to the list. To my knowledge, that would have to be done manually by the user.
"[ ] Don't install bootloader (WARNING: say yes only if you know why!)" There. Was it so difficult? And those who know why, know how.
If CAPTCHAs do continue, I'd like the next problem to be facial recognition software. I'd love a package that could look at a picture and tag it "Nicholas and Andrea" or "Glen and Helene".
Given the likeliness of Linux being the test platform, this will work for female genitalia first.
yeah, Sweden is socialist country in many areas and for many decades, but it kinda works so well that free-market evangelists never mention anything about it, they prefer talking about Cuba.
And when you hear Chinese immigrants laughing about how the whole world thinks they're Commies but they're actually National Socialists makes you wonder whether any labels are to be trusted anymore. Like Democracy.
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Why are they deliberately fucking up their OS? Don't they have enough competition? If so, bring in the anti-trust people, or fire the department responsible for this kind of brain-damage.
Never -- the RIAA doesn't control the copyright of the melody itself, only recordings of it made by RIAA-affiliated performers.
You mean how Disney doesn't control Mickey Mouse?
The importance of running to early Homo is, of course, conjectural. But it does make sense: few other animals are capable of long-distance running, and none can do so under a blazing sun. (Wolves and hyenas, for example, require cold weather or nightfall for long-distance hunting; otherwise they overheat.) Endurance running might have set early humans apart from the pack.
According to study co-author and Harvard University anthropologist Daniel Lieberman, many modern anatomical features make sense in the context of savannah marathons. Achilles tendons act as springs to store energy. Our hind limbs have extra-large joints. Our buttocks muscles are perfect for stabilization, as are regions of the brain uniquely sensitive to the physical pitching generated by the motion of running.
Informative indeed.
Or concrete.
Yeah, the ground in the savannah is much softer, and doesn't even have any small rocks and stuff like that.
What I'd like to see is this: I go to Amazon, buy a book/movie/game/music and they'll send it just as we're used to. Then there's the option, like a gift wrap, to download the thing for another 3 bucks (gotta pay for bandwidth and server storage after all).
Nah, that's redundant. Why should I have to pay to get dead trees when I only want to read it on the screen? You like dead trees, that's fine, but I don't have the skyscrapers to put all my downloaded books in. (Naturally, all from a legal source, and naturally, I wouldn't have this many if I had to build a library to store them.)
Maybe download could be a delivery option, but forcing me to get it in two formats is just weird.
I bow before your mighty anti-pirate list with China, Cuba and Thailand on it.
You can't throw that out there without doing a two way translation or at the very least tell us what it'd be equivalent to in English!
The idiom does not exist. If you translate it word for word, people take it literally.
Just for you, here's an example: "Nincsen rózsa tövis nélkül", lit. "There are no roses without thorns". Translated as "every bean has its black". Just knowing all the words in the sentence does not give you the full meaning.
Excercise 1: decode the following: .hu, it means "vomit".)
"Don't look at the teeth of a gift horse."/"If the horse is a gift, don't look at the teeth."
"He has slipped on a banana-peel."
"It's below the bottom of a frog."
"He issues a certificate of poverty of himself."
"It's like peas thrown against the wall." (The word itself is an archaic form of "throw", in modern
"The hoar-frost is still to come for the dog."
"I shall teach you to pipe into gloves." (Should be "in gloves", but pronounced it's not so clear.)
And my favorite: "They are as far apart as Makó (in Hungary) is from Jerusalem." This is actually mistranslated, Makó was a person who got lost and thought he arrived in Jerusalem, but there's a town called Makó now, so people get confused.
So. Which one do you think can be translated algorithmically?
(MS probably wants to rule out installation errors caused by the user).
"Hey, I deleted your life's work for no good reason, but at least I installed cleanly."
By the way, what errors can the user cause when an OS installer is running?
You do realize, Mr. Wack, that most translations are done by machine nowadays?
Most: maybe, the good ones: no. And if you can show me something that translates to Hungarian, I'll take your argument at face value. Regardless, if you think that there are algorithms to translate The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy in a way that it retains its qualities, you're a moron. Go learn another language.
When was the last time you read a machine-translated text that didn't have glaring semantical errors?
And IF the work is done by a good translator do you really honestly believe they deserve as much credit as the AUTHOR? What planet are you from anyway?
The author conveys his thoughts. The translator conveys someone elses thoughts. We can argue about which one is harder all day. And no, word-for-word things are not translations. If you say "there's more than one way to skin a cat" in Hungarian, you get an uncomfortable silence and you won't get invited to parties.
I suppose you actually think copyright infringement is a right too, right?
I suppose you think the whole world is under US jurisdiction, right?
it was to ail a very real problem of people taking literature, translating it and selling it in foreign countries with no revenue going to the original artist or publisher.
OMFG THE WRITER HAS TO WORK FOR A LIVING! Seriously. If your country is not big enough for you, move to China.
Besides, you think translating is a free action? It takes a significant amount of creativity and talent to produce the same text in another language, another set of cultural conventions and references, idioms, etc. If the translator does a good job, they deserve as much credit as the writer.
Basically, he needs to relax the requirements -- pricing, power, or ruggedization required. Probably pricing and power at least.
Basically, he needs to get substandard equipment that's not going to get the job done? Might as well give up and go to art school.
I'm sure he has a reason for those numbers.
Wow, reading more I see how blatantly WRONG this summary is.
1. You RTFA
2. You assume the summary is right
What's wrong with you?
I read the tag as Tsartrek. Quite fitting.
It's not like the chip attracts the field or anything.
So what are the scanners for and why can't they scan it from a mile away?
Except that as you said, the chip is passive, and completely unpowered unless it is being scanned, because it gets its power from the scanner. And because of that, they can't transmit with more power than they are getting from the scanning field.
Except that as you said, the chip is passive, and completely unpowered, so the scanner emits a signal enough to power up an integrated fucking circuit and make it transmit back. Microwave ovens should be closed for a reason.
Oh, you thought the chip itself was harmful?
I'd stop worrying, especially as the (official) scanners are so short range that you have to take your passport out of your pocket (and away from your genitals) for it to be read, so your genitals would never actually be (officially) exposed to the RFID chip's radio broadcast.
Fixed that for you.
That's about implanted RFID chips causing cancer, which sounds quite plausible - putting a foreign object in your body usually isn't a good idea. There's no evidence to suggest that an RFID chip in your passport has any effect on you (except for psychological implications).
Passive RFID works by getting radio waves powerful enough to power a chip. You think that's a good idea if it's only near your crotch, not in it?
I believe there is some soft of international standard on this.
For the sake of humanity, I hope not.
Fun fact: RFID chips cause cancer.
While I would agree that overwriting GRUB/LiLo/Your Bootloader Here is annoying, the average user is orders of magnitude more likely to have an issue with a corrupted, windows-written bootloader than a conflict with an intentionally installed one.
Well, I'm not the average user, and if Microsoft can't accept it, I won't pay them.
Even at that, Windows would have to be added to the list. To my knowledge, that would have to be done manually by the user.
"[ ] Don't install bootloader (WARNING: say yes only if you know why!)" There. Was it so difficult? And those who know why, know how.
If CAPTCHAs do continue, I'd like the next problem to be facial recognition software. I'd love a package that could look at a picture and tag it "Nicholas and Andrea" or "Glen and Helene".
Given the likeliness of Linux being the test platform, this will work for female genitalia first.
Well, next time, we're going to try their OS in a nice VM where we can test such behavior... while using Ubuntu or other choice Linux distro.
Amen. Next time I'm installing Windows is the next release that doesn't overwrite GRUB without asking.
I'd be very surprised to find a college or ISP that didn't monitor their network in this fashion.
That's like wondering what sysadmin doesn't want the latest porn of their users.
Microsoft hasn't had much success with any OSes released since 2002 so it's probably not wise to dick people around too much.
But this time it's going to be perfect. They promised!
yeah, Sweden is socialist country in many areas and for many decades, but it kinda works so well that free-market evangelists never mention anything about it, they prefer talking about Cuba.
And when you hear Chinese immigrants laughing about how the whole world thinks they're Commies but they're actually National Socialists makes you wonder whether any labels are to be trusted anymore. Like Democracy.
It supports greasemonkey scripts if you append --enable-user-scripts to its shortcut.
And now you have two problems.
Now that you mention it... Maybe we should try launching politicians up there to collect the debris. Or bankers.
Can we build something cheap enough to launch them all?