And California is nothing but Surfers, Vegetarians and Movie Stars. Meanwhile, everyone in New York has a Brooklyn accent and they all subsist entirely on Pizza. And everyone in Texas lives on a ranch and raises cattle.
Florida is a very big and very diverse state. Your post is utterly preposterous. It's obvious you've never even been to Florida, since anyone who has already knows that the old people here don't even use their turn signals.
Boohoo. It's about time someone started telling the little fatties the truth instead of feeding them the nonsense like "you're not fat, you're just big boned". I did find this quote in the linked story to be hilarious
The problem is that it's basing this on BMI, a factor of weight and height which is horribly innacurate for determining anything about body composition. Fat, muscle, bone and retained water are all treated the same. So it's hardly a case of "telling the little fatties the truth" and more of damaging a young girl's already weak self-image who may be driven to starve herself or worse to obtain a better "grade" amongst her peers. This is supposed to be Wii Fit, not Wii Eating Disorder.
No. When you compile every application and dependancy, you tend to skip anything you're not going to use. The pre-made distros load all sorts of processes that a particular user may never touch. Knock those out, and you get noticeable performance gains from freed memory and clock cycles as well as faster boot and shutdown. Just because it's Gentoo and they're compiling their own binaries, doesn't mean they're ricers who think every little compiler flag is going to be some huge performance booster.
I'll see your Debian and raise you a copy of Linux from Scratch. Small, light, and does everything I need it to.:-)
I'm unfamiliar with your needs, but if you want to rapidly deploy a reasonably feature complete lightweight OS to a menagerie of older donated/found/sitting in a closet gathering dust computers, it's easier to use a pre-made distro.
Then the other company has won their business fair and square, because, as you said, "he's better at marketing and making deals with other businesses."
At some point this other businessman saw your fabulous algorithm and determined it would be cheaper to reimplement what you've done through trial and error/reverse engineering than buying you out or licensing your code.
I don't have a problem with this so long as the other guy mimicked your method and didn't outright steal your code. And being the better marketer suggests he a better business man all around. You figured out how to do something clever. he figured out how to do it better and market it to more people and ate your lunch. That's capitalism!/p.
Several thousand voter registrations were invalidated and "purged" from the rolls erroneously by several county supervisors of elections. The mandatory recount (which happens in EVERY election in Florida with such a small margin) was only partially completed. Some supervisors felt that simply retabulating the memory cards from the optical scan voting machines was an adequate recount rather than re-feeding the actual ballots through the machines (this is all before we even MENTION the punch card ballots). Bush won Florida, and thus the presidency by a mere 516 votes. Well within margin of error territory.
And as a Floridian voter who was informed, in no uncertain terms, that the democratic primary would be rendered a non-binding beauty contest, I decided to re-register as a republican so my vote would actually count for something (even if it was half strength).
I'm far from the only one who did that. Even more simply stayed home. The biggest thing on the ballot for the primaries was a property tax amendment which was especially a big draw for elderly voters who owned their own homes.
The democratic primary vote here was deeply flawed and those delegates should not be seated. The only truly fair way of doing it would be to hold new primaries, which the logistics make exceedingly unlikely. I could accept a compromise and seat the Florida delegation at half strength, but knock it off with this popular vote bullshit. It "disenfranchises" every state that held a caucus because Hillary doesn't like those (because she did poorly in caucuses).
If the tables were turned and Hillary had an insurmountable lead while Obama won the non-binding Florida and Michigan primaries, do you think for a second she'd be lifting a finger to get those delegates seated?
Are you really trying to compare a 17 inch, 12-pound desktop replacement "notebook" to an >10 inch 2lb ultra compact? A dogdge minivan gets greater range on a tank than . . . say . . . a SMART. Vastly different target audiences who will use them for vastly different purposes.
Yeah, but I didn't know where the option was--they were asking me over the phone and I don't have a mac of my own. He needed his schedule ASAP so I just told them to D/L Firefox and use that. It is what they were accustomed to from their old PC anyway, so might as well.
and any distro would require a minimum of one hour's worth of time for the reformat, install and setup
I just installed Xubuntu (hardy) over an existing Windows install yesterday. Took under 30 minutes (using the text installer). And this is on an old P3 Thinkpad T21.
I haven't used it much, only sporadically at my parents' house who have a mac. I did have to switch them to Firefox, though. Despite Safari's standards compliance, they were accustomed to Firefox from their old PC and his work-schedule website demanded IE or Firefox, and I didn't know how to switch the user agent in Safari and wasn't where I could look up how to. Easier to just get them to download and install Firefox and be on their way.
Reasons why he's dead wrong (in no particular order and by no means comprehensive):
-TPM in and of itself won't protect against piracy at all if the implementation is botched.
-Tying purchased software or media to a specific hardware device p*sses people off when they repair, replace or upgrade and their DRMed stuff no longer works.
-Talk about opening up Asian markets, etc, is proceeding under the flawed assumption that those who acquire illegal copies of a game would even purchase a legit copy.
-Restricting your potential install base in this manner will reduce exposure, popularity, and ultimately sales of your game despite the opposite being your goal.
A fossil's a fossil whether it's large and complex or a microbe. I think either would be equally important. If Mars was in fact habitable in its past, it wasn't for very long and more complex life might not have had time to evolve. I don't think there will be as much contention with fossilized microbes as there has been in the past, as it would be a fossilized microbe found *on Mars* not a rock in Antarctica that might've been contaminated by Earth.
It would also give us a ballpark for the time frame life existed on Mars and possibly answer some questions about abiogenesis. If Mars had its own life, it could lead to a funding push for some dedicated missions to the other two best candidate worlds for life (Titan and Europa). I hope we finally get to do that robo-sub mission to Europa they've been pondering for years.
Currencies fluctuate in value relative to each other, taxes and logistical considerations vary from region to region, there are different marketing expenses and the comparative "value" of the system will vary along with the disposable incomes of consumers across different regions as well. Why in the world shoudn't Nintendo charge different prices in different regions when there are so many other fluctuating variables across different markets?
On the bright side, the netroots is attracting the attention of politicians primarily for our "death by a thousand papercuts" fundraising ability (and irritating habit of picking apart speeches and doing troublesome fact checking). There's a chance we might actually get some sane IP reform legislation to shut down or at least sedate rackets like the RIAA.
Not at all if I could avoid it, that's for sure. Why can't the consultant import the data into the new package on-site? Even the most secure transmission method can't stop someone outside of your control exposing that data. I'd be talking to my HR people and begging them not to send this data out. Probably a good idea to talk to Legal too.
How about quantum entanglement? That seems to take care of the speed of light problem.
No it doesn't. Quantum Entanglement does not transmit information faster than light. It's just a clever trick. Once you observe or measure one particle in an entangled pair, you'll instantly know how the distant "partner" particle is going to look, but doing so breaks the link. So you can't for instance, twiddle one particle and expect the partner particle to twiddle simultaneously on the other end.
Every single conjectured/theorized method for FTL communications we've come up with relies either on exotic particles that *might* exist that we've never observed, exotic exceptions to physics that *might* exist and we've never observed, or "optical illusions" that appear FTL until you take a closer look.
^Most people probably do have lots of pseudo-random data on their drives. All the "deleted" data remains on a hard drive until it is overwritten. In fact, it would probably look more suspicious to have a lot clean "empty" space, indicating the drive was recently zeroed out (or brand new).
And most (real, not the jingoist xenophobic crap that passes for it now) threats to national security are surrounded by innocent civilians who lack the "sophistication" (or are just scared sh*tless) to overthrow an opressive regime themselves.
Now, since we're not talking about injuring or killing people--just essentially jamming their net connection for a little while, and maybe messing up their computers--I'm much less concerned about "civilian casualties" of a botnet war. (That is, until the botnets send the robots to come kill us).
A hostile ant isn't biting you because it's mean, it's instinct since you've been perceived as a threat to the colony. Hostile antbites also don't result in millions of dollars lost when mission critical infrastructure is brought down.
Actually, if you are an author, I think quite the opposite is true. Nothing will make people want to read your book more than being told by the government that they aren't allowed to. I'm sure the publicity resulting from all this nonsense has done wonders for the sale of his book worldwide.
There. Fixed that for you.
Seriously. After 10,000 years or so of recorded history and civilizations and all, you'd think everybody would've gotten the memo by now. Good or bad, ideas are a bitch to kill. Shoot/torture/maim/imprison the messenger, they become a martyr. Ban saying the words out loud, they get whispered even further.
We're upitty little animals, and scolding and yelling at us about what not to do is about as effective as telling junior not to put peas up his nose. We'll do it just to spite you.
If you're serious about banning hate speech--that is, any works that advocate or could incite the killing of other people--then throw the Bible, the Torah, the Koran, Nietzsche, Machiavelli, and probably a good half or more of the rest of the sum total of religious and literary texts throughout human history onto that fire.
The only way to kill a bad idea is to give it attention and discuss why it's wrong.
The plantiffs in this case are "Alantic Recording Group, etc. et al" so it looks like the actual RIAA member company/companies are on the hook for this.
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And California is nothing but Surfers, Vegetarians and Movie Stars. Meanwhile, everyone in New York has a Brooklyn accent and they all subsist entirely on Pizza. And everyone in Texas lives on a ranch and raises cattle.
Florida is a very big and very diverse state. Your post is utterly preposterous. It's obvious you've never even been to Florida, since anyone who has already knows that the old people here don't even use their turn signals.
The problem is that it's basing this on BMI, a factor of weight and height which is horribly innacurate for determining anything about body composition. Fat, muscle, bone and retained water are all treated the same. So it's hardly a case of "telling the little fatties the truth" and more of damaging a young girl's already weak self-image who may be driven to starve herself or worse to obtain a better "grade" amongst her peers. This is supposed to be Wii Fit, not Wii Eating Disorder.
No. When you compile every application and dependancy, you tend to skip anything you're not going to use. The pre-made distros load all sorts of processes that a particular user may never touch. Knock those out, and you get noticeable performance gains from freed memory and clock cycles as well as faster boot and shutdown. Just because it's Gentoo and they're compiling their own binaries, doesn't mean they're ricers who think every little compiler flag is going to be some huge performance booster.
^My favorite thing about DSL is that (with sufficient memory) it loads the whole shooting match into RAM, so it's quite snappy.
I'm unfamiliar with your needs, but if you want to rapidly deploy a reasonably feature complete lightweight OS to a menagerie of older donated/found/sitting in a closet gathering dust computers, it's easier to use a pre-made distro.
Then the other company has won their business fair and square, because, as you said, "he's better at marketing and making deals with other businesses."
At some point this other businessman saw your fabulous algorithm and determined it would be cheaper to reimplement what you've done through trial and error/reverse engineering than buying you out or licensing your code.
I don't have a problem with this so long as the other guy mimicked your method and didn't outright steal your code. And being the better marketer suggests he a better business man all around. You figured out how to do something clever. he figured out how to do it better and market it to more people and ate your lunch. That's capitalism!/p.
Several thousand voter registrations were invalidated and "purged" from the rolls erroneously by several county supervisors of elections. The mandatory recount (which happens in EVERY election in Florida with such a small margin) was only partially completed. Some supervisors felt that simply retabulating the memory cards from the optical scan voting machines was an adequate recount rather than re-feeding the actual ballots through the machines (this is all before we even MENTION the punch card ballots). Bush won Florida, and thus the presidency by a mere 516 votes. Well within margin of error territory.
And as a Floridian voter who was informed, in no uncertain terms, that the democratic primary would be rendered a non-binding beauty contest, I decided to re-register as a republican so my vote would actually count for something (even if it was half strength).
I'm far from the only one who did that. Even more simply stayed home. The biggest thing on the ballot for the primaries was a property tax amendment which was especially a big draw for elderly voters who owned their own homes.
The democratic primary vote here was deeply flawed and those delegates should not be seated. The only truly fair way of doing it would be to hold new primaries, which the logistics make exceedingly unlikely. I could accept a compromise and seat the Florida delegation at half strength, but knock it off with this popular vote bullshit. It "disenfranchises" every state that held a caucus because Hillary doesn't like those (because she did poorly in caucuses).
If the tables were turned and Hillary had an insurmountable lead while Obama won the non-binding Florida and Michigan primaries, do you think for a second she'd be lifting a finger to get those delegates seated?
Are you really trying to compare a 17 inch, 12-pound desktop replacement "notebook" to an >10 inch 2lb ultra compact? A dogdge minivan gets greater range on a tank than . . . say . . . a SMART. Vastly different target audiences who will use them for vastly different purposes.
Yeah, but I didn't know where the option was--they were asking me over the phone and I don't have a mac of my own. He needed his schedule ASAP so I just told them to D/L Firefox and use that. It is what they were accustomed to from their old PC anyway, so might as well.
I just installed Xubuntu (hardy) over an existing Windows install yesterday. Took under 30 minutes (using the text installer). And this is on an old P3 Thinkpad T21.
Oh bother. Where's Senator Clinton when you need her?
I haven't used it much, only sporadically at my parents' house who have a mac. I did have to switch them to Firefox, though. Despite Safari's standards compliance, they were accustomed to Firefox from their old PC and his work-schedule website demanded IE or Firefox, and I didn't know how to switch the user agent in Safari and wasn't where I could look up how to. Easier to just get them to download and install Firefox and be on their way.
Isn't that the other way around? I thought flash memory's "blank" state was all 1s?
Reasons why he's dead wrong (in no particular order and by no means comprehensive):
-TPM in and of itself won't protect against piracy at all if the implementation is botched.
-Tying purchased software or media to a specific hardware device p*sses people off when they repair, replace or upgrade and their DRMed stuff no longer works.
-Talk about opening up Asian markets, etc, is proceeding under the flawed assumption that those who acquire illegal copies of a game would even purchase a legit copy.
-Restricting your potential install base in this manner will reduce exposure, popularity, and ultimately sales of your game despite the opposite being your goal.
Isn't the whole (pre-Vista) network stack cribbed from BSD?
A fossil's a fossil whether it's large and complex or a microbe. I think either would be equally important. If Mars was in fact habitable in its past, it wasn't for very long and more complex life might not have had time to evolve. I don't think there will be as much contention with fossilized microbes as there has been in the past, as it would be a fossilized microbe found *on Mars* not a rock in Antarctica that might've been contaminated by Earth.
It would also give us a ballpark for the time frame life existed on Mars and possibly answer some questions about abiogenesis. If Mars had its own life, it could lead to a funding push for some dedicated missions to the other two best candidate worlds for life (Titan and Europa). I hope we finally get to do that robo-sub mission to Europa they've been pondering for years.
Currencies fluctuate in value relative to each other, taxes and logistical considerations vary from region to region, there are different marketing expenses and the comparative "value" of the system will vary along with the disposable incomes of consumers across different regions as well. Why in the world shoudn't Nintendo charge different prices in different regions when there are so many other fluctuating variables across different markets?
On the bright side, the netroots is attracting the attention of politicians primarily for our "death by a thousand papercuts" fundraising ability (and irritating habit of picking apart speeches and doing troublesome fact checking). There's a chance we might actually get some sane IP reform legislation to shut down or at least sedate rackets like the RIAA.
Not at all if I could avoid it, that's for sure. Why can't the consultant import the data into the new package on-site? Even the most secure transmission method can't stop someone outside of your control exposing that data. I'd be talking to my HR people and begging them not to send this data out. Probably a good idea to talk to Legal too.
No it doesn't. Quantum Entanglement does not transmit information faster than light. It's just a clever trick. Once you observe or measure one particle in an entangled pair, you'll instantly know how the distant "partner" particle is going to look, but doing so breaks the link. So you can't for instance, twiddle one particle and expect the partner particle to twiddle simultaneously on the other end.
Every single conjectured/theorized method for FTL communications we've come up with relies either on exotic particles that *might* exist that we've never observed, exotic exceptions to physics that *might* exist and we've never observed, or "optical illusions" that appear FTL until you take a closer look.
^Most people probably do have lots of pseudo-random data on their drives. All the "deleted" data remains on a hard drive until it is overwritten. In fact, it would probably look more suspicious to have a lot clean "empty" space, indicating the drive was recently zeroed out (or brand new).
And most (real, not the jingoist xenophobic crap that passes for it now) threats to national security are surrounded by innocent civilians who lack the "sophistication" (or are just scared sh*tless) to overthrow an opressive regime themselves.
Now, since we're not talking about injuring or killing people--just essentially jamming their net connection for a little while, and maybe messing up their computers--I'm much less concerned about "civilian casualties" of a botnet war. (That is, until the botnets send the robots to come kill us).
A hostile ant isn't biting you because it's mean, it's instinct since you've been perceived as a threat to the colony. Hostile antbites also don't result in millions of dollars lost when mission critical infrastructure is brought down.
There. Fixed that for you.
Seriously. After 10,000 years or so of recorded history and civilizations and all, you'd think everybody would've gotten the memo by now. Good or bad, ideas are a bitch to kill. Shoot/torture/maim/imprison the messenger, they become a martyr. Ban saying the words out loud, they get whispered even further.
We're upitty little animals, and scolding and yelling at us about what not to do is about as effective as telling junior not to put peas up his nose. We'll do it just to spite you.
If you're serious about banning hate speech--that is, any works that advocate or could incite the killing of other people--then throw the Bible, the Torah, the Koran, Nietzsche, Machiavelli, and probably a good half or more of the rest of the sum total of religious and literary texts throughout human history onto that fire.
The only way to kill a bad idea is to give it attention and discuss why it's wrong.
The plantiffs in this case are "Alantic Recording Group, etc. et al" so it looks like the actual RIAA member company/companies are on the hook for this.