I use Ubuntu more than I've ever used Vista, but from both experiences, I see sudo/password requests when it makes sense and the UAC dialog when it makes sense.
Slashdot shares its privacy policy with SourceForge and at nearly 3500 words of legalese they're able to declare themselves "self-certified" under the Safe Harbor principles set up by the US Department of Commerce. There's even a fancy image to prove it.
I like this part of the policy:
Photographs
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Someone please let me know when Slashdot wants my picture for promotional use! I could be the face of Slashdot, or more appropriately, freshmeat.com
Wow, I honestly thought it had two touch screens... Now I honestly don't see the point of it besides the cameras. Interesting. Especially since Nintendo is considering it a different platform than the DS.
Modding the Xbox wasn't the quasi-legal gray area, unless you consider modifying hardware you own illegal. It was that the compiled binaries for the Xbox had to be compiled from the developer SDK and that was only available to developers who were approved by Microsoft and paid for it.
I've never understood the drive for a 3D GUI on a computer.
Haven't you ever seen Jurassic Park? When there's an emergency and you have to lock the doors, there's no more efficient way than flying through 3D space finding the right 3D box to click!
Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of processors in this country. The Core 2 Duo was the processor to own. Then the other guy came out with a three-core processor. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called the Quad Core. That's four processors and an aloe heatsink. For cooling. But you know what happened next? Shut up, I'm telling you what happenedâ"the bastards went to five cores. Now we're standing around with our cocks in our hands, selling four cores and a heatsink. Cooling or no, suddenly we're the chumps. Well, fuck it. We're going to six cores.
Sure, we could go to five cores next, like the competition. That seems like the logical thing to do. After all, four worked out pretty well, and five is the next number after four. So let's play it safe. Let's make a thicker aloe heatsink and call it the QuadCoreSuperHeatsinkTurbo. Why innovate when we can follow? Oh, I know why: Because we're a business, that's why!
You think it's crazy? It is crazy. But I don't give a shit. From now on, we're the ones who have the edge in the multi-core game. Are they the best a man can get? Fuck, no. Intel is the best a man can get.
What part of this don't you understand? If two cores is good, and three cores is better, obviously six cores would make us the best fucking processor that ever existed. Comprende? We didn't claw our way to the top of the processor game by clinging to the two-core industry standard. We got here by taking chances. Well, five core is the biggest chance of all.
Here's the report from Engineering. Someone put it in the bathroom: I want to wipe my ass with it. They don't tell me what to inventâ"I tell them. And I'm telling them to stick two more cores in there. I don't care how. Make the cores so thin they're invisible. Put some on the handle. I don't care if they have to cram the sixth core in perpendicular to the other five, just do it!
You're taking the "safety" part of "safety processor" too literally, grandma. Cut the strings and soar. Let's hit it. Let's roll. This is our chance to make processor history. Let's dream big. All you have to do is say that six cores can happen, and it will happen. If you aren't on board, then fuck you. And if you're on the board, then fuck you and your father. Hey, if I'm the only one who'll take risks, I'm sure as hell happy to hog all the glory when the six-core processor becomes the shaving tool for the U.S. of "this is how we compute now" A.
People said we couldn't go to four. It'll cost a fortune to manufacture, they said. Well, we did it. Now some egghead in a lab is screaming "Six's crazy?" Well, perhaps he'd be more comfortable in the labs at IBM, working on fucking PowerPCs. RISC architecture, my white ass!
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe we should just ride in AMD's wake and make pens. Ha! Not on your fucking life! The day I shadow a penny-ante outfit like AMD is the day I leave the processor game for good, and that won't happen until the day I die!
The market? Listen, we make the market. All we have to do is put her out there with a little jingle. It's as easy as, "Hey, computing with anything less than six cores is like folding your proteins by hand." Or "You'll be so fast, you'll be finding Mersenne primes like a guy on speed." Try "You'll have so many cores, there won't be enough space radio signals for you to pretend to find aliens out of."
I know what you're thinking now: What'll people say? Mew mew mew. Oh, no, what will people say?! Grow the fuck up. When you're on top, people talk. That's the price you pay for being on top. Which Intel is, always has been, and forever shall be, Amen, six cores, sweet Jesus in heaven.
Stop. I just had a stroke of genius. Are you ready? Open your mouth, baby birds, cause Mama's about to drop you one sweet, fat nightcrawler. Here she comes: Put another aloe heatsink on that fucker, too. That's right. Six cores, two heatsinks, and make the second one lather. You heard meâ"the second heatsink lathers. It's a whole new way to think about processing. Don't question it. Don't say a word. Just key the music, and call the chorus girls, because we're on the edgeâ"the Moore's edgeâ"and I feel like dancing.
And EA still has no obligation to fulfill more than 3/5 installs. 10 years from now when I want to play Spore will those staff still be standing by to help me out or will they instead suggest to buy Spore 3 and go screw myself?
You don't have the receipts? I'd recommend ordering from somewhere online in the future like Newegg. I ordered a graphics card from them in 2002 and when it died in 2005 I was able to pull up the order and print/email the "receipt" from there.
The Prius features the raindrop design, which has a lower drag coefficient compared to most other consumer level cars. For example the Honda Civic has a drag coefficient of.36 while the Prius is.26. The Bugatti Veyron is.36 and a Hummer H2 is.57.
Verizon can stop their customers from downloading whatever they want, as those customers can drop Verizon and go somewhere else. Violating the First Amendment is a government issue.
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I use Ubuntu more than I've ever used Vista, but from both experiences, I see sudo/password requests when it makes sense and the UAC dialog when it makes sense.
Slashdot shares its privacy policy with SourceForge and at nearly 3500 words of legalese they're able to declare themselves "self-certified" under the Safe Harbor principles set up by the US Department of Commerce. There's even a fancy image to prove it.
I like this part of the policy:
Someone please let me know when Slashdot wants my picture for promotional use! I could be the face of Slashdot, or more appropriately, freshmeat.com
Sometimes Virgin just isn't interested in sex.
Wow, I honestly thought it had two touch screens... Now I honestly don't see the point of it besides the cameras. Interesting. Especially since Nintendo is considering it a different platform than the DS.
But you can also insert an SD card directly into the DSi now, I'm sure they will find a way.
Not to mention the cup of coffee with the alt tag "Java" representing a javascript story.
I upconvert, I'm talking about the 720p tv rips that are available from eztv, etc. Don't work for me.
Modding the Xbox wasn't the quasi-legal gray area, unless you consider modifying hardware you own illegal. It was that the compiled binaries for the Xbox had to be compiled from the developer SDK and that was only available to developers who were approved by Microsoft and paid for it.
Agreed, it's the center of my media center at home. I just wish the Xbox could handle 720p, but not a big deal for me right now.
The interface is top notch, my wife can navigate with ease, of course, we have a remote to interact with it.
I've never understood the drive for a 3D GUI on a computer.
Haven't you ever seen Jurassic Park? When there's an emergency and you have to lock the doors, there's no more efficient way than flying through 3D space finding the right 3D box to click!
Kid, don't let the looters destroy you.
Well now it's just getting pointless and annoying.
The problem here is that google sends you to outdated documentation, sometimes as far as 7 years old javadocs from old versions.
That's why when I'm googling for Sun api, I'll usually search "java 6 string" and it will bring me to the Java 6 api for the String class.
I'd also recommend Javaranch for people beginning Java, I discovered it when I was going for certification and it helped immensely.
Don't you have something better to do with your life than post redundant copies of Onion stories with cheap find-and-replace jobs run on them?
I'm at work, so figure it out.
Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of processors in this country. The Core 2 Duo was the processor to own. Then the other guy came out with a three-core processor. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called the Quad Core. That's four processors and an aloe heatsink. For cooling. But you know what happened next? Shut up, I'm telling you what happenedâ"the bastards went to five cores. Now we're standing around with our cocks in our hands, selling four cores and a heatsink. Cooling or no, suddenly we're the chumps. Well, fuck it. We're going to six cores.
Sure, we could go to five cores next, like the competition. That seems like the logical thing to do. After all, four worked out pretty well, and five is the next number after four. So let's play it safe. Let's make a thicker aloe heatsink and call it the QuadCoreSuperHeatsinkTurbo. Why innovate when we can follow? Oh, I know why: Because we're a business, that's why!
You think it's crazy? It is crazy. But I don't give a shit. From now on, we're the ones who have the edge in the multi-core game. Are they the best a man can get? Fuck, no. Intel is the best a man can get.
What part of this don't you understand? If two cores is good, and three cores is better, obviously six cores would make us the best fucking processor that ever existed. Comprende? We didn't claw our way to the top of the processor game by clinging to the two-core industry standard. We got here by taking chances. Well, five core is the biggest chance of all.
Here's the report from Engineering. Someone put it in the bathroom: I want to wipe my ass with it. They don't tell me what to inventâ"I tell them. And I'm telling them to stick two more cores in there. I don't care how. Make the cores so thin they're invisible. Put some on the handle. I don't care if they have to cram the sixth core in perpendicular to the other five, just do it!
You're taking the "safety" part of "safety processor" too literally, grandma. Cut the strings and soar. Let's hit it. Let's roll. This is our chance to make processor history. Let's dream big. All you have to do is say that six cores can happen, and it will happen. If you aren't on board, then fuck you. And if you're on the board, then fuck you and your father. Hey, if I'm the only one who'll take risks, I'm sure as hell happy to hog all the glory when the six-core processor becomes the shaving tool for the U.S. of "this is how we compute now" A.
People said we couldn't go to four. It'll cost a fortune to manufacture, they said. Well, we did it. Now some egghead in a lab is screaming "Six's crazy?" Well, perhaps he'd be more comfortable in the labs at IBM, working on fucking PowerPCs. RISC architecture, my white ass!
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe we should just ride in AMD's wake and make pens. Ha! Not on your fucking life! The day I shadow a penny-ante outfit like AMD is the day I leave the processor game for good, and that won't happen until the day I die!
The market? Listen, we make the market. All we have to do is put her out there with a little jingle. It's as easy as, "Hey, computing with anything less than six cores is like folding your proteins by hand." Or "You'll be so fast, you'll be finding Mersenne primes like a guy on speed." Try "You'll have so many cores, there won't be enough space radio signals for you to pretend to find aliens out of."
I know what you're thinking now: What'll people say? Mew mew mew. Oh, no, what will people say?! Grow the fuck up. When you're on top, people talk. That's the price you pay for being on top. Which Intel is, always has been, and forever shall be, Amen, six cores, sweet Jesus in heaven.
Stop. I just had a stroke of genius. Are you ready? Open your mouth, baby birds, cause Mama's about to drop you one sweet, fat nightcrawler. Here she comes: Put another aloe heatsink on that fucker, too. That's right. Six cores, two heatsinks, and make the second one lather. You heard meâ"the second heatsink lathers. It's a whole new way to think about processing. Don't question it. Don't say a word. Just key the music, and call the chorus girls, because we're on the edgeâ"the Moore's edgeâ"and I feel like dancing.
More insightful than funny. Why do we need DECE-ready devices to support this when plenty of no copyright-bit-detecting devices already exist?
And EA still has no obligation to fulfill more than 3/5 installs. 10 years from now when I want to play Spore will those staff still be standing by to help me out or will they instead suggest to buy Spore 3 and go screw myself?
You don't have the receipts? I'd recommend ordering from somewhere online in the future like Newegg. I ordered a graphics card from them in 2002 and when it died in 2005 I was able to pull up the order and print/email the "receipt" from there.
Everybody who thinks this is some kind of evil scheme by Google to rob content should now leave Slashdot, for they are doing exactly the same thing.
Fine! I'm leaving forever! Just as soon as I retire...
Sorry, missed the other Civics on the list, good point.
The Prius features the raindrop design, which has a lower drag coefficient compared to most other consumer level cars. For example the Honda Civic has a drag coefficient of .36 while the Prius is .26. The Bugatti Veyron is .36 and a Hummer H2 is .57.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile_drag_coefficients
it would finally give dudes a good excuse to play a hot chick in an MMO.
Besides the excuse that if I'm going to stare at a character's butt for 100+ hours I'd rather see a girl's?
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
- Ayn Rand
Verizon can stop their customers from downloading whatever they want, as those customers can drop Verizon and go somewhere else. Violating the First Amendment is a government issue.