Interfering with something as harmless as a Debian ISO download can be very dangerous. What if the file is altered on the fly? There are readily available programs that make this easy...
I've never downloaded a Debian ISO but all the Mandrake ISO's I've gotten have an MD5 sum on the server that I compare to a locally calculated MD5 sum to make sure the binary is identical.
Probably the most compelling reason to upgrade to windows XP is remote desktop connections.
This has existed in Windows for a while now and it's free. NetMeeting 3 allows you to share your desktop remotely. We use it at work to control some NT 4 machines that are in another building and it does an admirable job. Don't upgrade to XP for this feature, just go to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/netmeeting and download it for free.
I had a Dell Dimension that would freeze on a regular basis. I narrowed it down to some sort of static electricity problem as it would occur when I moved my chair on one of those chair mats that the computer was partly standing on. The strangest thing is that putting my Palm V in the cradle would unfreeze it about 75% of the time. Another 20% of the time I'd have to press the HotSync button to get my computer up and running again. Strange stuff.
I believe the overhead of transactionally-aware auto-increment fields would be far to greater that they are worth. Sequences are very simple to partition to prevent primary key collisions and don't have the burden of transactional awareness. This is especially useful in asychronously replicated environments as it allows for fault-tolerance on the connection between the DB's.
So, how does the digestive system respond to fructose in the presence of lactose?
Lactose is also a disaccharide composed of glucose and galactose and is split into the its component sugars by lactase. Assuming you produce lactose in sufficient quantities, the resultant glucose will aid in the conversion of fructose to glucose.
It is interesting to note that high fructose intake can lead to very similar symptoms to lactose intolerance for the same reason: the sugars are not converted to glucose and absorbed by the blood so they reach the colon where bacteria can ferment them, causing gas and cramps. Probably more than you wanted to know.;)
Fructose is a simpler carbohydrate than sucrose (which is a fructose/glucose pair), and therefore even more easily absorbed by the digestive system, and turned into fat.
You are partially correct. Fructose is a single sugar molecule as opposed to table sugar which is the disaccharide sucrose that is composed of two single sugars, glucose and fructose bound together. Unfortunately, after such a good start, you lose credibility fast. Here is the truth about fructose:
When table sugar reaches your intestines, the double table sugar, sucrose, is immediately split into its single sugars, glucose and fructose. Almost all of the glucose is absorbed immediately into your bloodstream. In the presence of glucose in your intestines, most of the fructose is also converted to glucose which is rapidly absorbed into your bloodstream.
Remember, regular table sugar contains both glucose and fructose so most is absorbed and there is very little that remains in the intestinal tract. However, when you take fructose without glucose, the fructose is not converted rapidly to glucose/ and fructose is absorbed relatively poorly into the bloodstream.
But what scares me most is prions. It's the bug in mad cow disease. It is the hardest to destroy.
Except that prions are not bugs, they are proteins. Thus, they cannot be "killed", only rendered non-infectious via combustion or with certain solvents.
Jews (the race, not the religion) are decendants of Judah, a son of Israel née Jacob and great-grandson of Abraham. Judaism (the religion, not the race) did not really begin until after the tribe of Judah was separated from the rest of the tribes of Israel when they were taken captive to Assyria by Shalmaneser in 721 B.C. although the essential elements if Judaism pre-date this separation and are common to some other religions.
When I moved recently, the cable guy was amazingly cool about the whole thing. I told him I had a BSD box running NAT and all I needed him to do was make sure I had block sync. I guess, in retrospect, it makes sense as I saved him 30 some odd minutes of work futzing with yet another Windows box.
I was watching T.V. this weekend and saw an AT&T broadband commercial touting their download speeds by saying that you can download a song at lightning-fast speeds. Interestingly enough, their TOS says:
Any.mp3 files that you wish to distribute must not be copyrighted material. Most.mp3 files found on the internet today are illegal copies of copyrighted music. Distribution of these files violates copyright infringement law and can not be distributed over the AT&T Road Runner service.
I noticed problems with this part of the TOS before this commercial and when I tried to point out the incongruity, they told me that they don't interpret legal documents. I responded that I was merely pointing out a mistake in their terms of service and that I intended to violate that specific clause by creating an.mp3 of my own (poor) musical performance that would be copyrighted (with myself as the copyright holder) and distribute the file over their service. The forwarded the e-mail to their abuse department and that was the last I heard from them.
I figure either someone got the message and the TOS hasn't been updated yet.:)
Of course, the more likely scenario is that their ad agency isn't bright enough to breathe, let alone be familiar with their TOS!
What many of you seem to forget is that illegal clauses in a contract are unenforceable. Just because they say one thing, that doesn't mean the law won't see it correctly.
For example, even though parking lots routinely disclaim any responsibility for damage to your car, if they are negligent, the are absolutely responsible, hold-harmless clauses notwithstanding.
>use record companies in particular are so inefficient, a big chunk of the cost of the CD is in manufacturing and distribution
I believe you are incorrect. The most widely cited figure is $1.00 for pressing and printing a commercial CD in the quantities we are talking about here. This is how BMG and Colombia House can afford the 12 CD's for a penny promotions.
They could charge somewhere in the neighborhood of $5.00 for new media in a case like this and still make money.
This announcement does not mean that Kylix will be released under an Open Source approved license. As far as I can tell, it simply is an effort by Borland to make Kylix interoperable with GNOME. This is a Good Thing(TM) but not the coup d'état that you may think it is.
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Anybody else notice that "Killing an Arab" by the Cure was conspicuously absent from the list?
I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them.
Well with your bad knee Bruce, you shouldn't throw anybody.
Interfering with something as harmless as a Debian ISO download can be very dangerous. What if the file is altered on the fly? There are readily available programs that make this easy...
I've never downloaded a Debian ISO but all the Mandrake ISO's I've gotten have an MD5 sum on the server that I compare to a locally calculated MD5 sum to make sure the binary is identical.
malfunct wrote:
This has existed in Windows for a while now and it's free. NetMeeting 3 allows you to share your desktop remotely. We use it at work to control some NT 4 machines that are in another building and it does an admirable job. Don't upgrade to XP for this feature, just go to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/netmeeting and download it for free.
I'm so smart, i'm so smart, S-M-R-T ! D'oh
I believe the correct quote is
I had a Dell Dimension that would freeze on a regular basis. I narrowed it down to some sort of static electricity problem as it would occur when I moved my chair on one of those chair mats that the computer was partly standing on. The strangest thing is that putting my Palm V in the cradle would unfreeze it about 75% of the time. Another 20% of the time I'd have to press the HotSync button to get my computer up and running again. Strange stuff.
Randominity?
It's a perfectly crumulent word.
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I believe the overhead of transactionally-aware auto-increment fields would be far to greater that they are worth. Sequences are very simple to partition to prevent primary key collisions and don't have the burden of transactional awareness. This is especially useful in asychronously replicated environments as it allows for fault-tolerance on the connection between the DB's.
Of course, it will make a lot more sense if you are familar all things Shuttlecocky and especially SMC's inimitable style.
It's one of SMC's better works and kicks the pants off of anything Katz has ever done
Do you self a favor: hop on over to The Brunching Shuttlecocks and visit the Self-Made Critics review of Memento.
So, how does the digestive system respond to fructose in the presence of lactose?
Lactose is also a disaccharide composed of glucose and galactose and is split into the its component sugars by lactase. Assuming you produce lactose in sufficient quantities, the resultant glucose will aid in the conversion of fructose to glucose.
It is interesting to note that high fructose intake can lead to very similar symptoms to lactose intolerance for the same reason: the sugars are not converted to glucose and absorbed by the blood so they reach the colon where bacteria can ferment them, causing gas and cramps. Probably more than you wanted to know. ;)
Fructose is a simpler carbohydrate than sucrose (which is a fructose/glucose pair), and therefore even more easily absorbed by the digestive system, and turned into fat.
You are partially correct. Fructose is a single sugar molecule as opposed to table sugar which is the disaccharide sucrose that is composed of two single sugars, glucose and fructose bound together. Unfortunately, after such a good start, you lose credibility fast. Here is the truth about fructose:
When table sugar reaches your intestines, the double table sugar, sucrose, is immediately split into its single sugars, glucose and fructose. Almost all of the glucose is absorbed immediately into your bloodstream. In the presence of glucose in your intestines, most of the fructose is also converted to glucose which is rapidly absorbed into your bloodstream.
Remember, regular table sugar contains both glucose and fructose so most is absorbed and there is very little that remains in the intestinal tract. However, when you take fructose without glucose, the fructose is not converted rapidly to glucose/ and fructose is absorbed relatively poorly into the bloodstream.
But what scares me most is prions. It's the bug in mad cow disease. It is the hardest to destroy.
Except that prions are not bugs, they are proteins. Thus, they cannot be "killed", only rendered non-infectious via combustion or with certain solvents.Jews (the race, not the religion) are decendants of Judah, a son of Israel née Jacob and great-grandson of Abraham. Judaism (the religion, not the race) did not really begin until after the tribe of Judah was separated from the rest of the tribes of Israel when they were taken captive to Assyria by Shalmaneser in 721 B.C. although the essential elements if Judaism pre-date this separation and are common to some other religions.
When I moved recently, the cable guy was amazingly cool about the whole thing. I told him I had a BSD box running NAT and all I needed him to do was make sure I had block sync. I guess, in retrospect, it makes sense as I saved him 30 some odd minutes of work futzing with yet another Windows box.
That is unethical and you may have a legal case against your attorney. Negligence at best and possibly gross misconduct. Of course, IANAL. . .
Then they'd sue you back to the the industrial revolution. Not worth the risk.
Netscape (and Mozilla) are the most standards-compliant browsers out there.
Doesn't Amaya hold that crown?
the receiver is going to limit the quality of any other component in the system
You meant to say speakers, right? Repeat after me:Speakers are the single most important component of any audio system.
I was watching T.V. this weekend and saw an AT&T broadband commercial touting their download speeds by saying that you can download a song at lightning-fast speeds. Interestingly enough, their TOS says:
I noticed problems with this part of the TOS before this commercial and when I tried to point out the incongruity, they told me that they don't interpret legal documents. I responded that I was merely pointing out a mistake in their terms of service and that I intended to violate that specific clause by creating an .mp3 of my own (poor) musical performance that would be copyrighted (with myself as the copyright holder) and distribute the file over their service. The forwarded the e-mail to their abuse department and that was the last I heard from them.
I figure either someone got the message and the TOS hasn't been updated yet. :)
Of course, the more likely scenario is that their ad agency isn't bright enough to breathe, let alone be familiar with their TOS!
What many of you seem to forget is that illegal clauses in a contract are unenforceable. Just because they say one thing, that doesn't mean the law won't see it correctly.
For example, even though parking lots routinely disclaim any responsibility for damage to your car, if they are negligent, the are absolutely responsible, hold-harmless clauses notwithstanding.
That is not true. If the expression is considered obscene by community standards, it is not protected.
Maybe they should preach to the choir until they are converted before attempting to take this to the teeming millions.
>use record companies in particular are so inefficient, a big chunk of the cost of the CD is in manufacturing and distribution
I believe you are incorrect. The most widely cited figure is $1.00 for pressing and printing a commercial CD in the quantities we are talking about here. This is how BMG and Colombia House can afford the 12 CD's for a penny promotions.
They could charge somewhere in the neighborhood of $5.00 for new media in a case like this and still make money.
This announcement does not mean that Kylix will be released under an Open Source approved license. As far as I can tell, it simply is an effort by Borland to make Kylix interoperable with GNOME. This is a Good Thing(TM) but not the coup d'état that you may think it is.