Maybe Bing isn't too bad for web searches (I say it is crap), but my experiences with Bing for maps have been nothing short of hilarious. Recently I was planning a road trip from Northern Ohio to New Hampshire and decided to try Bing for directions and maps. I guess MS really didn't want me to stop off in Bath,NY, in the finger lakes region in Western New York. Any search including the town's name, or attempts to route through it, left me with crazy directions to bathrooms and linen stores in New York City. I played around with it a little bit and found no way to fix the results. Scrolling around on the map, you can find Bath, but Bing otherwise does not acknowledge the possibility that you might want to go there. Back to Google Maps I guess, even though it had me get off the Interstate for no reason at one point, take some tiny little country highway for 20 miles, then get back on the interstate. At least I can figure out how to ignore Google's stupidity, while Bing's goes above and beyond all expectations. This was just the best example of several odd ones.
Truly brilliant stuff, or so I hope it will turn out to be upon further examination. I too have never liked the dark matter theories due to the inexplicable nature of the mystery material. It always seemed like it was more likely that we were missing something more elegant, and the so-called dark matter was nothing more than a fudge factor. This may be the missing piece of the puzzle, or lead to it, so we can move on to theories that are more intuitive. I may be a layman, but reading this news made me feel elated for a moment, and produced a brief feeling of relief, since the whole concept of dark matter never sat right with me. I'm crossing my fingers!
I'll truly be happy if inflation can be explained, or explained away, next.
You see there where it says 27% of market share? Listening to Apple users rant on about their phones you'd think they had 99% of share and that there simply is no other phone. But since Apple users fail at life so they feel they need to validate themselves through a trinket, it's not surprising they fail at math too.
So you think 27% of the market is not much? 27%, for one smartphone (essentially one model, depending on how you categorize updates), made by one company? The 50% market share that Android holds is for 36 bazillion different devices made by 40 different companies for EVERY carrier. RIM only accounts for 17%, but I doubt anyone would blow-off Blackberries as insignificant, even if they are only for stuffy suit-and-tie types and they are inferior. Would you also argue that iPods are not popular, even though most people call other-brand players "ipods?" I don't have an iPhone, nor anything made by Apple, but I have to admit they make slick products with a lot of nice features. I won't buy an iPhone because of all of Apple's stupid limitations, not because it isn't a great device, or popular.
Thanks for including the statistics to prove your argument wrong, as I'm sure I would have been too lazy to look up the numbers.
You're missing the point... entirely. The point of linux is not to "win" by securing as many desktops as possible. The idea is for it to work well, to allow users to choose how they do things, and to effectively run non-desktop systems. Yes, it works great on my laptop and my desktop at home, but without a wide variety of choices, I may never have given it a serious try. What should we do, pick names of apps/tools/desktop environments out of a hat, then give up on the rest? I might not be a linux user if the community had agreed on KDE and abandoned Gnome, as one example. What's next, one distro-fits-all? One company making decisions? Hooray for standardization, but I'll pass.
Unity in software selection will not make linux better, and crippling its flexibility to meet wide-ranging needs would kill it. Sorry if such diversity is too confusing. There is a company based in California that is still making products you might like if you don't like having to make any decisions for yourself, or one in Washington that is winning the popularity contest if that is more your thing.
Yes, Doom 3 was both the bee's knees AND the cat's pajamas, in its day. But that was a long time ago when you speak to gamers about gaming rigs. 7 years may not seem like a long time, but think about it like this: how many video cards has a serious game addict been through since then, and how many games have surpassed Doom 3 in key ways? It was a fantastic game, and still is, but releasing the source code now, while a nice gesture, is not likely to spur any dramtic advances, since all legitimate developers have already gone well beyond what Doom 3 offered. Kudos to Carmack and Co. once again, but I have to admit this isn't exciting to me.
Moreover, the statute would be clearly unconstitutional as applied to this video, and the prosecutor and the judge ought to know this. (The prosecutor is Renton Chief Prosecutor Shawn Arthur; the judge on an earlier warrant was James Cayce, but I don’t know what the affidavit said there, and I don’t know the name of the judge who apparently issued the warrant based on the affidavit included with the KIRO story.) A search warrant can only be issued if there is probable cause to believe that it will uncover evidence of a crime; since the material described in the affidavit can’t be made criminal under the cited statute, given the First Amendment, the warrant ought not have been issued. The government is not permitted to use its coercive power to identify the author of this constitutionally protected video.
I am also not a lawyer, though I do pay attention and did study a bit of law, and I believe your epxlanations and analysis are spot on. A statute that broad (I admit I have not read it, nor am at all familiar with Washington state laws) runs afoul of the constitution in such an obvious manner that no prosecutor should attempt to use it in this way, and no judge should allow a case like that to proceed. If prosecution proceeds, and the defendant fights it up through the courts as far as necessary, the only question in the end will be whether this qualifies as malicious prosecution or if the prosecutor acted in good faith in interpreting a poorly written law. The supreme court has, thankfully, held that there are few exceptions to speech being protected, even when it makes some people uncomfortable.
The defense would not be over-reaching in claiming that such prosecution is targeted retribution for criticisms made of police and public officials. And a judge that issues such a merritless warrant should also worry about his own job come election time, if not misconduct investigations. Prosecutors judges, etc. generally enjoy a high level of immunity *IF* they are performing their duties in good faith with reasonable judgement, though they certainly may not do as they please and escape misconduct with a simple declaration of "My bad." Intimidation, improper arrest, and search and seizure for political or other improper motiviations (e.g. som cops are pissed off) are serious offenses, and the tools of tyranny.
But participating willingly in a DDOS attack is a criminal act in my book.
That's great, but no one has read your book, and I doubt the courts have a copy of it, so DDOS attacks are not necessarily criminal in terms of the law.
They have the internet there, you uniformed, racist, insensitive clod! It's Afghanistan where they have just a couple rocks and a donkey, some poppies, and AK-47 rifles.
Not if Google keep banning years-old email accounts for stupid little problems associated with Google+. I wanted to join when my sister sent me an invite (not because it looked that great, but because my sister asked me to join), but I resisted because it was too new and too closely linked to other Google services. I'm glad I did, since Gmail has been my main email provider for several years, including for work, and my Google/Gmail name is not 100% accurate. I'd hate to lose years of email due to some dumb little infringement of an unrealistic TOS agreement. Maybe eventually, but for now there are too many kinks to work out.
What do these figures look like if you take into acocunt the lifespans/years of use of CRTs vs new TVs? Do LCDs/whatevers tend to last as long in service as CRTs, and do we even know yet? If they are discarded much sooner then any savings might be lost. Just wondering, since LCD TV backlights don't last forever (and most people seem to throw away rather than repair broken TVs), and I've seen tons of very old CRT televisions in use. Is a 1:1 ratio of CRTs:LCDs correct? Are there more TVs/monitors per person now than in CRT days? Maybe one TV in 2011 means less waste than 1 TV in 1991, but that is not the whole story.
lol at cellphones as a unit of measure. My parents would say that is a highly apropriate measure for waste.
'Because of the need to stand out on radio and other platforms, there's a strategic advantage to having a new song sound just a little louder than every other song.
Wait, what? If they're all doing this, then how is one still louder than the previous song? And what is this talk of the "radio" platform? You mean the NPR/baseball machine in my car can be used for streaming music? How retro!
One more reason not to listen to shitty pop music.
Good for you. Apple has little direct impact on my life, so should I complain about all the iphone/mac/ipad/apple v. Google stories we see here? Of course not, and neither should you complain about something that doesn't immediately effect someone who never leaves suburban America. I suppose you think talking about 9/11 is pointless since you and your mom weren't there./. isn't just for you. Don't like something? Move along to the next story, or submit a better one why don't you? You CAN contribute, you know.
Submit that story, and get over yourself, please. Why does coverage of any event have to be taken as a slight to the seriousness of some other negative event? I read most every story/. covers, and this one belonged here. I don't think the original poster claimed the Oslo bombing was the worst, most serious event in the history of the world, nor should it need to be to get attention. Nothing is stopping you from contributing something else.
This isn't just some little bomb that annoyed some reindeer in the Arctic Circle, it was a significant terror attack on a country's capital city and its prime minister. We probably don't need 10 stories a day on it, but If this DIDN'T make it onto/. I'd be a little worried about what we've become.
So are you saying they didn't "discover" it, just because they didn't see it and recognize it first? Right, and by that logic I suppose you don't think Columbus discovered America just because there were already tons of people there. How picky! Don't ruin good stories with your facts, you liberal.
The lettering appears to be a kilometer high, not 1000 meters in elevation. Don't be a dimwit, you knew what they meant, or you should have. Or were you both trying to be clever?
If you have more than a few of these projects, SSDs are not yet a good choice for backups. You say price is no issue, but I doubt you'd want to buy 50 SSDs at their current prices. I'd suggest a few "spinny magnets," perhaps in an array if you need more apce than a couple of terabytes. Pros: low cost per terabyte, reasonable transfer speed, decent reliability, easy to implement as a tried and true technology. And of course for added safety, mirror the drive/drives to a second set. USB (if you are refering to removable thumb drives) would not be your best choice, though tape might be worth considering, especially as a secondary backup. I know nothing about Blu-ray, so I won't comment, though the capacity of the disks is a little low, isn't it?. Personally, I'd go with redundant spinny magnets to prevent having your collection on multiple removable drives/discs/whaetevers that can be lost.
Hook up a redundant raid array, or two arrays, put them in a safe place, forget it. Tapes or a portable HD array to be taken off-site to guard destruction against fires, tsunamis, tornados, hurricanes, Godzilla, and bombs. How much data you have, and how frequently you will add to the collection, are factors that need to be considered but aren't mentioned here. My suggestion assumes that you will backup frequently and have a lot of your 40-60GB projects. Less data or less need to back it up might steer you towards something else.
If you are really set on doing this, you could replace the screen. I don't know how to root that particular phone without using the touchscreen, but I do know you can buy a replacement screen for $30-50 or so. Or buy a non-working/broken one on ebay and swap parts? Maybe not what you were looking for, but it could work.
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Maybe Bing isn't too bad for web searches (I say it is crap), but my experiences with Bing for maps have been nothing short of hilarious. Recently I was planning a road trip from Northern Ohio to New Hampshire and decided to try Bing for directions and maps. I guess MS really didn't want me to stop off in Bath,NY, in the finger lakes region in Western New York. Any search including the town's name, or attempts to route through it, left me with crazy directions to bathrooms and linen stores in New York City. I played around with it a little bit and found no way to fix the results. Scrolling around on the map, you can find Bath, but Bing otherwise does not acknowledge the possibility that you might want to go there. Back to Google Maps I guess, even though it had me get off the Interstate for no reason at one point, take some tiny little country highway for 20 miles, then get back on the interstate. At least I can figure out how to ignore Google's stupidity, while Bing's goes above and beyond all expectations. This was just the best example of several odd ones.
I'll truly be happy if inflation can be explained, or explained away, next.
And carpy spell checkers as well.
Carpy spell checkers are common for Chinese phones. The Japanese ones have koiy spell checkers.
You see there where it says 27% of market share? Listening to Apple users rant on about their phones you'd think they had 99% of share and that there simply is no other phone. But since Apple users fail at life so they feel they need to validate themselves through a trinket, it's not surprising they fail at math too.
So you think 27% of the market is not much? 27%, for one smartphone (essentially one model, depending on how you categorize updates), made by one company? The 50% market share that Android holds is for 36 bazillion different devices made by 40 different companies for EVERY carrier. RIM only accounts for 17%, but I doubt anyone would blow-off Blackberries as insignificant, even if they are only for stuffy suit-and-tie types and they are inferior. Would you also argue that iPods are not popular, even though most people call other-brand players "ipods?" I don't have an iPhone, nor anything made by Apple, but I have to admit they make slick products with a lot of nice features. I won't buy an iPhone because of all of Apple's stupid limitations, not because it isn't a great device, or popular.
Thanks for including the statistics to prove your argument wrong, as I'm sure I would have been too lazy to look up the numbers.
Unity in software selection will not make linux better, and crippling its flexibility to meet wide-ranging needs would kill it. Sorry if such diversity is too confusing. There is a company based in California that is still making products you might like if you don't like having to make any decisions for yourself, or one in Washington that is winning the popularity contest if that is more your thing.
Steve Jobs does not have an English accent.
He does when he speaks French.
Yes, Doom 3 was both the bee's knees AND the cat's pajamas, in its day. But that was a long time ago when you speak to gamers about gaming rigs. 7 years may not seem like a long time, but think about it like this: how many video cards has a serious game addict been through since then, and how many games have surpassed Doom 3 in key ways? It was a fantastic game, and still is, but releasing the source code now, while a nice gesture, is not likely to spur any dramtic advances, since all legitimate developers have already gone well beyond what Doom 3 offered. Kudos to Carmack and Co. once again, but I have to admit this isn't exciting to me.
Moreover, the statute would be clearly unconstitutional as applied to this video, and the prosecutor and the judge ought to know this. (The prosecutor is Renton Chief Prosecutor Shawn Arthur; the judge on an earlier warrant was James Cayce, but I don’t know what the affidavit said there, and I don’t know the name of the judge who apparently issued the warrant based on the affidavit included with the KIRO story.) A search warrant can only be issued if there is probable cause to believe that it will uncover evidence of a crime; since the material described in the affidavit can’t be made criminal under the cited statute, given the First Amendment, the warrant ought not have been issued. The government is not permitted to use its coercive power to identify the author of this constitutionally protected video.
I am also not a lawyer, though I do pay attention and did study a bit of law, and I believe your epxlanations and analysis are spot on. A statute that broad (I admit I have not read it, nor am at all familiar with Washington state laws) runs afoul of the constitution in such an obvious manner that no prosecutor should attempt to use it in this way, and no judge should allow a case like that to proceed. If prosecution proceeds, and the defendant fights it up through the courts as far as necessary, the only question in the end will be whether this qualifies as malicious prosecution or if the prosecutor acted in good faith in interpreting a poorly written law. The supreme court has, thankfully, held that there are few exceptions to speech being protected, even when it makes some people uncomfortable.
The defense would not be over-reaching in claiming that such prosecution is targeted retribution for criticisms made of police and public officials. And a judge that issues such a merritless warrant should also worry about his own job come election time, if not misconduct investigations. Prosecutors judges, etc. generally enjoy a high level of immunity *IF* they are performing their duties in good faith with reasonable judgement, though they certainly may not do as they please and escape misconduct with a simple declaration of "My bad." Intimidation, improper arrest, and search and seizure for political or other improper motiviations (e.g. som cops are pissed off) are serious offenses, and the tools of tyranny.
But participating willingly in a DDOS attack is a criminal act in my book.
That's great, but no one has read your book, and I doubt the courts have a copy of it, so DDOS attacks are not necessarily criminal in terms of the law.
They have the internet there, you uniformed, racist, insensitive clod! It's Afghanistan where they have just a couple rocks and a donkey, some poppies, and AK-47 rifles.
You forgot the last part. It should read: I can only say I'm glad they're on our side, when it is convenient for them to be.
Seriously? Here's something you could use, though I doubt you'll get it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_comprehension
Here's something you could use, though I doubt you'll get it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_comprehension
Not if Google keep banning years-old email accounts for stupid little problems associated with Google+. I wanted to join when my sister sent me an invite (not because it looked that great, but because my sister asked me to join), but I resisted because it was too new and too closely linked to other Google services. I'm glad I did, since Gmail has been my main email provider for several years, including for work, and my Google/Gmail name is not 100% accurate. I'd hate to lose years of email due to some dumb little infringement of an unrealistic TOS agreement. Maybe eventually, but for now there are too many kinks to work out.
What do these figures look like if you take into acocunt the lifespans/years of use of CRTs vs new TVs? Do LCDs/whatevers tend to last as long in service as CRTs, and do we even know yet? If they are discarded much sooner then any savings might be lost. Just wondering, since LCD TV backlights don't last forever (and most people seem to throw away rather than repair broken TVs), and I've seen tons of very old CRT televisions in use. Is a 1:1 ratio of CRTs:LCDs correct? Are there more TVs/monitors per person now than in CRT days? Maybe one TV in 2011 means less waste than 1 TV in 1991, but that is not the whole story. lol at cellphones as a unit of measure. My parents would say that is a highly apropriate measure for waste.
'Because of the need to stand out on radio and other platforms, there's a strategic advantage to having a new song sound just a little louder than every other song.
Wait, what? If they're all doing this, then how is one still louder than the previous song? And what is this talk of the "radio" platform? You mean the NPR/baseball machine in my car can be used for streaming music? How retro!
One more reason not to listen to shitty pop music.
Good for you. Apple has little direct impact on my life, so should I complain about all the iphone/mac/ipad/apple v. Google stories we see here? Of course not, and neither should you complain about something that doesn't immediately effect someone who never leaves suburban America. I suppose you think talking about 9/11 is pointless since you and your mom weren't there. /. isn't just for you. Don't like something? Move along to the next story, or submit a better one why don't you? You CAN contribute, you know.
Submit that story, and get over yourself, please. Why does coverage of any event have to be taken as a slight to the seriousness of some other negative event? I read most every story /. covers, and this one belonged here. I don't think the original poster claimed the Oslo bombing was the worst, most serious event in the history of the world, nor should it need to be to get attention. Nothing is stopping you from contributing something else.
This isn't just some little bomb that annoyed some reindeer in the Arctic Circle, it was a significant terror attack on a country's capital city and its prime minister. We probably don't need 10 stories a day on it, but If this DIDN'T make it onto /. I'd be a little worried about what we've become.
So are you saying they didn't "discover" it, just because they didn't see it and recognize it first? Right, and by that logic I suppose you don't think Columbus discovered America just because there were already tons of people there. How picky! Don't ruin good stories with your facts, you liberal.
Someone set up us the CDF!!!
The lettering appears to be a kilometer high, not 1000 meters in elevation. Don't be a dimwit, you knew what they meant, or you should have. Or were you both trying to be clever?
Why not punch cards? Huh huh... so clever!
If you have more than a few of these projects, SSDs are not yet a good choice for backups. You say price is no issue, but I doubt you'd want to buy 50 SSDs at their current prices. I'd suggest a few "spinny magnets," perhaps in an array if you need more apce than a couple of terabytes. Pros: low cost per terabyte, reasonable transfer speed, decent reliability, easy to implement as a tried and true technology. And of course for added safety, mirror the drive/drives to a second set. USB (if you are refering to removable thumb drives) would not be your best choice, though tape might be worth considering, especially as a secondary backup. I know nothing about Blu-ray, so I won't comment, though the capacity of the disks is a little low, isn't it?. Personally, I'd go with redundant spinny magnets to prevent having your collection on multiple removable drives/discs/whaetevers that can be lost.
Hook up a redundant raid array, or two arrays, put them in a safe place, forget it. Tapes or a portable HD array to be taken off-site to guard destruction against fires, tsunamis, tornados, hurricanes, Godzilla, and bombs. How much data you have, and how frequently you will add to the collection, are factors that need to be considered but aren't mentioned here. My suggestion assumes that you will backup frequently and have a lot of your 40-60GB projects. Less data or less need to back it up might steer you towards something else.
If you are really set on doing this, you could replace the screen. I don't know how to root that particular phone without using the touchscreen, but I do know you can buy a replacement screen for $30-50 or so. Or buy a non-working/broken one on ebay and swap parts? Maybe not what you were looking for, but it could work.