I like to have the latest versions of programs, with the latest features and bug fixes, without having to check the website for the latest available version, download it, compile and install it. Multiply that by tens of programs, and it's no fun at all. Additionally, when installing programs, there's no hunting down dependencies.
A group of wealthy investors wanted to be able to predict the outcome of a
horse race. So they hired a group of biologists, a group of statisticians,
and a group of physicists. Each group was given a year to research the
issue. After one year, the groups all reported to the investors. The
biologists said that they could genetically engineer an unbeatable
racehorse, but it would take 200 years and $100 billion. The statisticians
reported next. They said that they could predict the outcome of any race,
at a cost of $100 million per race, and they would only be right 10% of the
time. Finally, the physicists reported that they could also predict the
outcome of any race, and that their process was cheap and simple. The
investors listened eagerly to this proposal. The head physicist reported,
"We have made several simplifying assumptions... first, let each horse be a
perfect rolling sphere..."
Is it better to keep it secret until a patch comes out and hope that nobody else has discovered the vulnerability, or publicize it and let people know not to use this IE feature until it's patched?
According to Wikipedia, he is a mathematician at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Here is his homepage hosted by the university. Maybe he was a night watchman, but it looks to me like he's a professor now...
I'm in Houston on Comcast and noticed this as well. For the record, I use the OpenDNS servers, so unless multiple DNS servers are having trouble reaching Google, the problem is most likely with Comcast.
I noticed this same thing in Seattle on Comcast. I use my works DNS so its definitely not a DNS issue as I can do a "ping google.com" and get the ip lookup address. The ping times out but typing the ip address into my browser works.
I've experienced problems connecting to google for a couple months and have been following the DSL reports thread. DNS has been eliminated from the equation so it appears that the problem is due to some unforeseen consequence of sandvine filtering or some other massive screwup at Comcast.
Our lab has been buying Dell servers for a few years now, because they certify the machines as being Linux compatible. Instead of checking the hardware specs against the list of available Linux drivers, I can buy knowing that things will just work. Kudos.
I can't wait to sit through a dozen commercials while I try to waste some free time.
Did you RTFA before posting? (I know, I know, it's Slashdot...)
From the article:
The featured adverts are animated semi-transparent banners, or "overlays", that run along the bottom of the screen about 15 seconds into the video. They stay there for 10 seconds, allowing viewers to click on the overlay, which launches a deeper interactive video advert, while the main video is temporarily paused. Or viewers can ignore the overlay, and it will disappear.
Seems to me like a pretty effective, yet not very obtrusive method for advertising.
The sound is closer to Gimmel than Gimel (it's closer to the 'i' in 'is', then the 'i' in 'island'). Anyway, as far as I know there is no official way of spelling Hebrew using English letters. An Israeli would know what you meant with either spelling.
The security model in the Tel Aviv airport isn't simply to search through all of the Arabs' bags. Everyone is interviewed, and the security staff look for these "micro-expressions". As a white person, you can easily be asked ten questions about where you've been, why you've been there, what's in your bags, where you're going, why you're going, etc. When I fly in the US, nobody asks me anything. Nobody looks at me. As long as I don't have more than 3oz of liquid in my carry-on, I'm good to go.
As to the equal rights, do you suggest that Israel search everyone equally? How does that make sense? The terrorist attacks that occur on a regular basis there are almost all carried out by Arabs. However, aside from checkpoints, Arabs have full voting rights, full rights to attend any university, full rights to work anywhere they want, buy anything they want, etc. Do you know the rights of a Jew in an Arab country? The right to be hung.
Some people think that they're going down to a lower-level hell than that:
Today a follow up commercial was shown where the young boy has gone inside to speak to his unconcerned father who is reading a newspaper inside the house, totally dumbfounded and out of touch as the child rattles off the information about the service told by the stranger. The next scene, the child and father are outside watching the Verizon man running wires to a box and the boy tells the father, "you should see his truck".
I used to play in a rock band, and it did impress the girls. What I meant in the original post was that you don't find many girls that are impressed by someone who writes new computer software.
This one sentence told me that this article is BS:
Men have had to conquer foreign lands, win battles and wars, compose symphonies, author books, write sonnets, paint cathedral ceilings, make scientific discoveries, play in rock bands, and write new computer software in order to impress women so that they will agree to have sex with them.
I saw the movie on Monday with 16 other friends. Every single person (even the girls who didn't grow up with the cartoon) enjoyed the movie. The only major complaint was that a lot of the action scenes (especially in the beginning) were not comprehensible. The camera would focus too far in and move around a lot, and it was difficult to tell who was fighting and what was going on.
The movie was almost 2.5 hours long, and although some scenes were a bit too long, overall the movie was very enjoyable (I looked at my watch when the movie was over and was very surprised).
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I like to have the latest versions of programs, with the latest features and bug fixes, without having to check the website for the latest available version, download it, compile and install it. Multiply that by tens of programs, and it's no fun at all. Additionally, when installing programs, there's no hunting down dependencies.
A group of wealthy investors wanted to be able to predict the outcome of a horse race. So they hired a group of biologists, a group of statisticians, and a group of physicists. Each group was given a year to research the issue. After one year, the groups all reported to the investors. The biologists said that they could genetically engineer an unbeatable racehorse, but it would take 200 years and $100 billion. The statisticians reported next. They said that they could predict the outcome of any race, at a cost of $100 million per race, and they would only be right 10% of the time. Finally, the physicists reported that they could also predict the outcome of any race, and that their process was cheap and simple. The investors listened eagerly to this proposal. The head physicist reported, "We have made several simplifying assumptions... first, let each horse be a perfect rolling sphere..."
Editorial coverage includes essential tips for completing a datacenter overhaul
Am I missing something?
Is it better to keep it secret until a patch comes out and hope that nobody else has discovered the vulnerability, or publicize it and let people know not to use this IE feature until it's patched?
While the headline says "GPL", the summary says "I'm not picky about the license". I guess the poster doesn't know what the L in GPL stands for...
According to Wikipedia, he is a mathematician at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Here is his homepage hosted by the university. Maybe he was a night watchman, but it looks to me like he's a professor now...
Maybe they can ask John's siblings Tae Kwon, Dosie, and Cookie?
[joke stolen from the show Psych, with no shame]
Awesome movie, but probably too early for most people to get :)
I saw the words "standard" and "Vista" in the same sentence and had to laugh! :-)
Our lab has been buying Dell servers for a few years now, because they certify the machines as being Linux compatible. Instead of checking the hardware specs against the list of available Linux drivers, I can buy knowing that things will just work. Kudos.
I just called. You need to enter your phone number, billing zip code, and the last 4 digits of your SS#.
The sound is closer to Gimmel than Gimel (it's closer to the 'i' in 'is', then the 'i' in 'island'). Anyway, as far as I know there is no official way of spelling Hebrew using English letters. An Israeli would know what you meant with either spelling.
As to the equal rights, do you suggest that Israel search everyone equally? How does that make sense? The terrorist attacks that occur on a regular basis there are almost all carried out by Arabs. However, aside from checkpoints, Arabs have full voting rights, full rights to attend any university, full rights to work anywhere they want, buy anything they want, etc. Do you know the rights of a Jew in an Arab country? The right to be hung.
This is discussed in the article. It's an experiment by B.F. Skinner, called an operant conditioning chamber.
I used to play in a rock band, and it did impress the girls. What I meant in the original post was that you don't find many girls that are impressed by someone who writes new computer software.
Men have had to conquer foreign lands, win battles and wars, compose symphonies, author books, write sonnets, paint cathedral ceilings, make scientific discoveries, play in rock bands, and write new computer software in order to impress women so that they will agree to have sex with them.
I saw the movie on Monday with 16 other friends. Every single person (even the girls who didn't grow up with the cartoon) enjoyed the movie. The only major complaint was that a lot of the action scenes (especially in the beginning) were not comprehensible. The camera would focus too far in and move around a lot, and it was difficult to tell who was fighting and what was going on.
The movie was almost 2.5 hours long, and although some scenes were a bit too long, overall the movie was very enjoyable (I looked at my watch when the movie was over and was very surprised).
You invented an over-priced, overly complex, huge version of an electric wheelchair!
...he's only watching what they're watching...
Don't drop the soap!