But, if you're going to be posting a review it ought to be under your real name. It's the only way for their to be any accountability. This isn't like a restaurant where you can be pretty sure about what is and is not the fault of the restauranteur, with medicine it's tricky and doctors can end up being negatively rated for things which they have no control over.
That's not true. My health insurance company doesn't cover treatments which aren't backed by evidence. Which means that while they will cover complementary care of a certain type, they don't necessarily cover all of the services that the specialty provides. And there have been several cases in recent years where medicines pulled by the FDA were never covered because they didn't have sufficient evidence to back them.
Yes, but they could have avoided that by just making it optional from the get go. Considering the other crap they're considering for inclusion, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a status bar. Especially given all the folks that use Firefox on their desktop.
That's been my complaint with Firefox lately, they seem to forget that some of us have large monitors and that it's actually a decrease in usability to take away parts of the interface. I've got a 1900x1200 display, I've got no problem having a status bar and a URL bar, I've still got probably 1100 pixels or more of height to work with. If they're so obsessed about being space efficient, perhaps they ought to move those things to the side of the window as horizontal space tends to be poorly utilized anyways. And with the increased focus on 16:9 displays, that's even more significant than it used to be.
Nice trolling there. You do realize that Firefox 4.x is marked faster than the 3.x series, right? And that the 2.x series had that terrible memory leak to it as well.
As for the reason to use a recent release, part of it is better standards compliance with recent standards and part of it is that it is really annoying to have to spend a lot of time waiting for the page to load.
I'm sorry, but I'm correct. The free market never prices in externalities when the prices are being negotiated. Hence why the best solution rarely if ever gets picked.
One issue is that it's illegal in the US to create ones own currency, and I'd wager that it's not just the US that takes that view. Prior to that being made federal law, states and even banks would have their own currency leading to all sorts of confusion. Gift cards get a bit of a free pass in that they're sold and drawn upon legal tender and really just represent a promissory note.
Additionally, because of the way that the system is set up, it looks a bit too much like a Ponzi scheme for my comfort. There's something unsettling about a currency which isn't based upon anything tangible and that doesn't come with any claims or guarantees about getting to use it either.
I doubt that would work. What surprises me about this screw up is that they apparently didn't have any other evidence to go on that this was a grow operation prior to searching the premises. I doubt very much that there would be no other evidence to back the suspicion if this had been a grow operation, especially a massive one..
The reason is that the phone company owns the phone cables coming into a person's house, and the cable company owns the cable cable coming into a person's house. And the cable company isn't required to lease capacity to anybody else. Now with some areas having fiber those would have possibly a third set of wires connected potentially owned by a 3rd company.
Actually $7 per watt is a really good deal. The main question is going to be what the operating costs are. Given that solar facilities only have maintenance costs after construction rather than requiring truck loads of fuel. Solar, like nuclear, is very costly up front and quite cheap as an ongoing energy producer.
Well, for one thing this isn't about financial sense. The market has failed to provide the best solution as usual and so the best solution turns out to not be the cheapest.
I realize that there's a lot of free market believers out there, but the free market at best provides the cheapest solution to a problem, and rarely if ever is the cheapest solution the best. And frequently it isn't even the cheapest solution as huge amounts of money go to paying the executives to rob the consumers blind.
You don't happen to think that the "greens" don't have a point? Most of the US is set up under an adversarial system, if there isn't somebody on both sides then things tend to get pushed to the extremes. Not having somebody point out the potential flaws makes it damn near impossible to mitigate them.
But then again, it's not like formerly green energies have been discovered to have some pretty obnoxious side effects. Oh, wait, you say that hydroelectric dams have contributed significantly to severely damaging fisheries?
Nuclear reactors don't make radioactive waste. The depleted fuel was radioactive prior to use in the reactor, otherwise they wouldn't be using it as fuel. The main difference is that unlike the radioactive waste from a coal plant, the nuclear plant's waste is bundle up for disposal rather than being spread all over the planet.
If he's genuinely that indispensable then he should just ask for a portion of his compensation in the form of equity. But, if he's just working on a contract basis the OP shouldn't be in a position to be that valuable to the company.
However, if he is going to make that sort of request, he's going to need to give something more than he's been giving. Probably sign some sort of longer term contract. I'd be really curious to know why those other folks are choosing to be contractors rather than take an equity stake in the operation.
Right, and you typically can't access any of that information without a court order. This will go through the discovery phase and maybe it will pan out and maybe it won't. But if they don't file suit they're almost certain not to get any information.
Indeed, I'd say that it's a fair compromise. Probably the other option would be a dynamically created PDF complete with ads. It's generous to give away a book, even with advertising.
I'm not going to mod it, but those mods would have a point. The implication that the GP is making is that commercial vendors don't slap together code like a bunch of cowboys. The problem is that some outfits will and others won't, at least with the open source option you can take a quick look and see. Granted a non-coder isn't going to know conclusively, but if the comments are there and the formatting looks good, the chances are also good that whoever it was that coded the program was taking at least some pride in their work.
Sub $500 laptops actually last a lot better than you might imagine. Of the 3 that members of my family bought, they've lasted quite well. Granted that's a tiny sample size, but they outlasted what my $2000 laptop did by quite a bit.
But then again, it really depends upon what you're doing with it, and ultimately, I'd be a lot more worried about thermal dissipation that price.
I'd put an additional qualifier, that they didn't drag the process out so that the technology would be embedded in society before the patent was granted. It shouldn't take more than a few years under normal circumstances for a patent to be granted once the application starts.
But as far as the kernel goes, that would be a really bad idea. You shouldn't be installing kernel modules in this fashion, even temporarily, I could see this as a means of soft upgrading to a new version to make sure that nobody pulls a Ubuntu on you. Mixing distros though would likely be a bad idea given the lack of agreement over aspects of OS design.
It depends how it's handled. It's definitely bad for memory, but it really depends how it's handled. PCBSD seems to do pretty well with its PBIs which do include their own dependencies. So, you waste space, although not as much in the future with ZFS and dedupe, but you gain stability, you know that if you install a PBI that it won't screw up the rest of the computer via dependency issues.
No. I've used Windows and I've never had trouble with viruses. It's because I'm careful and have antivirus software. The reason why it's a problem for some people is that they're not careful and install from untrusted sources.
Personally, I like FreeBSD's ports as well as some of the better Linux repository systems. RPM can rot in hell for all I care, hopefully they've finally managed to figure out that making users download each item for an update isn't the way to go, especially without providing a list of dependencies for the entire process.
But, the reason why those systems work isn't because of the centralized nature, it's because you've got folks paying attention, monitoring and in some cases auditing them. There's no inherent reason why a malware package couldn't make it into ports other than people keeping an eye on what they're adding.
The bigger issue by far is the lack of a centralized means of identifying which applications are out of date and tracking vulnerabilities. If you had something like that, then central or no, things would likely be a lot more secure.
I wish the photos had been taken at the same angle. Granted I doubt that it's sufficient to make a significant difference, but when comparing a product like that, spend a bit of time to make sure the angle is as close to the original as possible.
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But, if you're going to be posting a review it ought to be under your real name. It's the only way for their to be any accountability. This isn't like a restaurant where you can be pretty sure about what is and is not the fault of the restauranteur, with medicine it's tricky and doctors can end up being negatively rated for things which they have no control over.
That's not true. My health insurance company doesn't cover treatments which aren't backed by evidence. Which means that while they will cover complementary care of a certain type, they don't necessarily cover all of the services that the specialty provides. And there have been several cases in recent years where medicines pulled by the FDA were never covered because they didn't have sufficient evidence to back them.
Yes, but they could have avoided that by just making it optional from the get go. Considering the other crap they're considering for inclusion, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a status bar. Especially given all the folks that use Firefox on their desktop.
That's been my complaint with Firefox lately, they seem to forget that some of us have large monitors and that it's actually a decrease in usability to take away parts of the interface. I've got a 1900x1200 display, I've got no problem having a status bar and a URL bar, I've still got probably 1100 pixels or more of height to work with. If they're so obsessed about being space efficient, perhaps they ought to move those things to the side of the window as horizontal space tends to be poorly utilized anyways. And with the increased focus on 16:9 displays, that's even more significant than it used to be.
Nice trolling there. You do realize that Firefox 4.x is marked faster than the 3.x series, right? And that the 2.x series had that terrible memory leak to it as well.
As for the reason to use a recent release, part of it is better standards compliance with recent standards and part of it is that it is really annoying to have to spend a lot of time waiting for the page to load.
I'm sorry, but I'm correct. The free market never prices in externalities when the prices are being negotiated. Hence why the best solution rarely if ever gets picked.
One issue is that it's illegal in the US to create ones own currency, and I'd wager that it's not just the US that takes that view. Prior to that being made federal law, states and even banks would have their own currency leading to all sorts of confusion. Gift cards get a bit of a free pass in that they're sold and drawn upon legal tender and really just represent a promissory note.
Additionally, because of the way that the system is set up, it looks a bit too much like a Ponzi scheme for my comfort. There's something unsettling about a currency which isn't based upon anything tangible and that doesn't come with any claims or guarantees about getting to use it either.
I doubt that would work. What surprises me about this screw up is that they apparently didn't have any other evidence to go on that this was a grow operation prior to searching the premises. I doubt very much that there would be no other evidence to back the suspicion if this had been a grow operation, especially a massive one..
Do you have any actual evidence that pot is the least damaging drug or are you just spreading that as a "fact" to rationalize your personal worldview?
I can't help but notice that much of this point is paranoid and lacking in any actual evidence as well.
The reason is that the phone company owns the phone cables coming into a person's house, and the cable company owns the cable cable coming into a person's house. And the cable company isn't required to lease capacity to anybody else. Now with some areas having fiber those would have possibly a third set of wires connected potentially owned by a 3rd company.
Actually $7 per watt is a really good deal. The main question is going to be what the operating costs are. Given that solar facilities only have maintenance costs after construction rather than requiring truck loads of fuel. Solar, like nuclear, is very costly up front and quite cheap as an ongoing energy producer.
Well, for one thing this isn't about financial sense. The market has failed to provide the best solution as usual and so the best solution turns out to not be the cheapest.
I realize that there's a lot of free market believers out there, but the free market at best provides the cheapest solution to a problem, and rarely if ever is the cheapest solution the best. And frequently it isn't even the cheapest solution as huge amounts of money go to paying the executives to rob the consumers blind.
You don't happen to think that the "greens" don't have a point? Most of the US is set up under an adversarial system, if there isn't somebody on both sides then things tend to get pushed to the extremes. Not having somebody point out the potential flaws makes it damn near impossible to mitigate them.
But then again, it's not like formerly green energies have been discovered to have some pretty obnoxious side effects. Oh, wait, you say that hydroelectric dams have contributed significantly to severely damaging fisheries?
Nuclear reactors don't make radioactive waste. The depleted fuel was radioactive prior to use in the reactor, otherwise they wouldn't be using it as fuel. The main difference is that unlike the radioactive waste from a coal plant, the nuclear plant's waste is bundle up for disposal rather than being spread all over the planet.
If he's genuinely that indispensable then he should just ask for a portion of his compensation in the form of equity. But, if he's just working on a contract basis the OP shouldn't be in a position to be that valuable to the company.
However, if he is going to make that sort of request, he's going to need to give something more than he's been giving. Probably sign some sort of longer term contract. I'd be really curious to know why those other folks are choosing to be contractors rather than take an equity stake in the operation.
Right, and you typically can't access any of that information without a court order. This will go through the discovery phase and maybe it will pan out and maybe it won't. But if they don't file suit they're almost certain not to get any information.
Indeed, I'd say that it's a fair compromise. Probably the other option would be a dynamically created PDF complete with ads. It's generous to give away a book, even with advertising.
I'm not going to mod it, but those mods would have a point. The implication that the GP is making is that commercial vendors don't slap together code like a bunch of cowboys. The problem is that some outfits will and others won't, at least with the open source option you can take a quick look and see. Granted a non-coder isn't going to know conclusively, but if the comments are there and the formatting looks good, the chances are also good that whoever it was that coded the program was taking at least some pride in their work.
Sub $500 laptops actually last a lot better than you might imagine. Of the 3 that members of my family bought, they've lasted quite well. Granted that's a tiny sample size, but they outlasted what my $2000 laptop did by quite a bit.
But then again, it really depends upon what you're doing with it, and ultimately, I'd be a lot more worried about thermal dissipation that price.
Thanks that definitely has potential. Considering how common my situation is, I was half expecting somebody to have a solution for it.
I'd put an additional qualifier, that they didn't drag the process out so that the technology would be embedded in society before the patent was granted. It shouldn't take more than a few years under normal circumstances for a patent to be granted once the application starts.
This whole project is somewhat similar to Cameyo
But as far as the kernel goes, that would be a really bad idea. You shouldn't be installing kernel modules in this fashion, even temporarily, I could see this as a means of soft upgrading to a new version to make sure that nobody pulls a Ubuntu on you. Mixing distros though would likely be a bad idea given the lack of agreement over aspects of OS design.
It depends how it's handled. It's definitely bad for memory, but it really depends how it's handled. PCBSD seems to do pretty well with its PBIs which do include their own dependencies. So, you waste space, although not as much in the future with ZFS and dedupe, but you gain stability, you know that if you install a PBI that it won't screw up the rest of the computer via dependency issues.
No. I've used Windows and I've never had trouble with viruses. It's because I'm careful and have antivirus software. The reason why it's a problem for some people is that they're not careful and install from untrusted sources.
Personally, I like FreeBSD's ports as well as some of the better Linux repository systems. RPM can rot in hell for all I care, hopefully they've finally managed to figure out that making users download each item for an update isn't the way to go, especially without providing a list of dependencies for the entire process.
But, the reason why those systems work isn't because of the centralized nature, it's because you've got folks paying attention, monitoring and in some cases auditing them. There's no inherent reason why a malware package couldn't make it into ports other than people keeping an eye on what they're adding.
The bigger issue by far is the lack of a centralized means of identifying which applications are out of date and tracking vulnerabilities. If you had something like that, then central or no, things would likely be a lot more secure.
I wish the photos had been taken at the same angle. Granted I doubt that it's sufficient to make a significant difference, but when comparing a product like that, spend a bit of time to make sure the angle is as close to the original as possible.