I know you're joking, but in the US there seems to be this trend to equating harsh sentencing with being tough on crime. The problem is that there's never been any sort of evidence available that tougher sentences actually lead to less crime. Back during the days of the wild west, the main reason for the hangings was that the outlaws regularly broke out of jail which wasn't really much of a challenge with the thin walls and small number of guards.
The problem is that MS is not likely to let on if the Windows 7 phones are as big a flop as the Kin was. I've heard several figures for that debacle, none of which is over 10k units sold. Other than that, I'm not sure where you'd go to get real numbers from, perhaps AT&T.
Yeah, that's probably a part of it. AT&T is already home to the iPhone as well as several Android handsets, choosing a different carrier like say Verizon or Sprint would've made it a lot easier on them.
Not really, just because we're using Windows doesn't mean that we like it. But for a lot of us there's an app or service which isn't available on Linux and we haven't paid for Apple hardware so we'd have to go Hacintosh if we were going to use OSX.
To be fair, it's been sliding for a while. Just compensation in my view shouldn't allow for the government to condemn property and pay peanuts for it. Doesn't strike mas as particularly just. Yes, under certain circumstances the government does need certain specific property for things like building bridges or roads, but paying anything other than the assessed value doesn't strike me as particularly just.
Technically yes, more accurately no. Few people would be able to go anywhere online without DNS. Few people at this point go around the net by IP address and trying to do so is difficult as things can and do change and you're not really going to know without a bit of extra effort whether or not that's a legitimate redirect. Having to manually check each one is a pain.
Just like the hawks that decided to invade Iraq for no particular reason. The problem is that there's a lot of cowards and morons out there that will gladly hand it over in order to buy a little bit of safety. Family Guy did an entire episode about it.
We're not going to get real change until the voters grow a spine and actually research the issues rather than voting for whomever it is that scares them the most.
But it's Canadian nationalism. Isn't that a bit like being proud to be a generic white guy as opposed to one of them ethnic white guys that nobody can tell isn't a generic white guy?
Actually, that's probably one of Linux's biggest problems in that respect. People are used to getting really good games for free or not being able to have them at all without Wine. It's a tough cycle to break because somebody has to release something in order for it to be bought, and gamers expect to have something to play or they won't ditch Windows.
It's getting a lot better than it used to be, the commercially available Linux games are far better than they used to be in every way.
It's a catch 22 sort of a situation. Which is why when I buy a game which is available on Mac, PC and Linux that I choose the Linux version or tell them that my main system is Linux.
I have a copy of HoMM3 bought from Loki before they went belly up, unfortunate since the produce was quite well polished and plays just as well as the Windows copy I now own.
More than that though, there's an awful lot of free Linux games out there, and Linux hasn't really drawn enough attention from either games or developers to make it a gaming platform. Crossover Games helps, but it's really not anywhere near good enough. Not to mention that the developer has no way of knowing that it's being played on Linux and that DRM schemes often foil it.
I'm guessing it's to get word out. But more than that I suspect that they're hoping that by giving out the engine that it will help a community develop from which developers can recruit the talent. Talent that's used to working with their engine. Probably not a bad idea.
It will be interesting to see how this turns out, but it definitely could work. The downside is that since only the winner gets a free license, I'm interested to know how many people are going to be willing to work on that, knowing that they'll not be able to redistribute their game if they don't either win or pay up.
Doubtful, it would have been as dangerous had it emerged today. Part of the problem was that it was incorrectly believed to be a strain of bacteria rather than a strain of virus. Plus we have much more available in terms of antivirals and a much better understanding of how to keep people safe. The masks probably did more harm than good as they only blocked the influenza virus in airborne spit.
Additionally, much less of the work that people do requires people to actually leave the home, and we now know that the further away you stand the less likely you are to get infected. Take a look at what happened with the H1N1, if you don't believe me.
No, but the tracking system should tell you where the items went. It's one thing to lose benign easily replaceable items, and quite another to lose radioactive materials. Granted the materials were fairly low grade, but that's still radioactive material that's lost and could be irradiating anybody as we speak.
Plus, while this stuff is apparently relatively harmless, it is quite useful if you're wanting to scare the crap out of people with a radiation scare.
I'd hazard a guess that the reason why they have a separate system for it is because the consequences are so much higher than for other packages. Consequently I would assume that they're charging more and paying closer attention.
Um, past experiences with unregulated businesses pretty strongly implies that that would be the case. Corporations have a tendency to find the acceptable loss to the end user that maximizes their profits, never mind that people assume, and rightly so that the business is going to be taking things more seriously than that.
While it's unreasonable to assume that 100% of packages will get where they need to go, that's not the same thing as letting a carrier off the hook for making decisions primarily upon cost efficiency.
I think that was the idea behind Screening Passengers by Observation Techniques. The problem with it was that it's largely bunk. It is worthwhile in the sense that it raises the bar, but during the time it's been used in the US they've caught precisely no terrorism suspects with it and all the people they did successfully bust were accused of much lesser crimes. On top of which they're success rate was amazingly low.
I'm guessing that the GP is suggesting that we then execute the people the Republicans and anybody else that supports the policy. That seems more than a little too close to the policies of Hitler, Stalin and other authoritarian dictators.
OTOH, forcing them to go back to school and study up on the history and other topics that led them to be so terribly uniformed is probably not unreasonable. A lot of the arguments I see coming from over there are based upon "common sense" which is nothing more than fear being enshrouded in common sense and nothing is more difficult to eliminate.
Um, you do realize that idiots like you apparently lack the intellect to understand that terrorists are sneaky. If they find out that sending old ladies with explosives is the way to avoid the extra screenings, any guess who they're going to focus on recruiting?
Seriously, racial profiling does not work, all you do is change the demographic of who you're needing to bust, and that always lags the actual changes being made.
I strongly disagree on that. Since we don't have the equipment or ability to screen every liquid which goes on the plane, limiting the amount makes perfect sense.
The bigger problem which the TSA apparently lacks the intellect to deal with is that the liquids all get thrown into a trash can near where they're doing the screenings. Hmm, don't have to get through the screening, but just have to get the IED tossed into the garbage can next to the massive line of people trying to get on their plane.
Yeah, that's implausible and totally paranoid. What's next? Suicide bombers hitting markets, yeah that never happens.
That's a bullshit argument to make. The reason why you can't racially profile in the US is that we're sensible enough not to do it. Racial profiling does not work, never has and never will.
It's especially ineffective against the Islamist extremists that are apparently more dangerous than anybody else for the simple reason that Islam is very diverse. Consequently it's not that tough to find people of any racial or ethnic background to recruit. The bigger issue is finding ones that are desperate and angry enough to go though with it.
Not necessarily. You'll get a functional device in that case yes, but whenever USB enters a new major revision they've had to tack on a new chip to the mix. And there's no guarantee that the new chip will be completely compatible in terms of protocol with the older ones. In fact I'd suggest that they aren't compatible otherwise they wouldn't need a separate chip for it.
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I know you're joking, but in the US there seems to be this trend to equating harsh sentencing with being tough on crime. The problem is that there's never been any sort of evidence available that tougher sentences actually lead to less crime. Back during the days of the wild west, the main reason for the hangings was that the outlaws regularly broke out of jail which wasn't really much of a challenge with the thin walls and small number of guards.
And when backblaze supports Linux I might very well.
The problem is that MS is not likely to let on if the Windows 7 phones are as big a flop as the Kin was. I've heard several figures for that debacle, none of which is over 10k units sold. Other than that, I'm not sure where you'd go to get real numbers from, perhaps AT&T.
Yeah, that's probably a part of it. AT&T is already home to the iPhone as well as several Android handsets, choosing a different carrier like say Verizon or Sprint would've made it a lot easier on them.
Not really, just because we're using Windows doesn't mean that we like it. But for a lot of us there's an app or service which isn't available on Linux and we haven't paid for Apple hardware so we'd have to go Hacintosh if we were going to use OSX.
To be fair, it's been sliding for a while. Just compensation in my view shouldn't allow for the government to condemn property and pay peanuts for it. Doesn't strike mas as particularly just. Yes, under certain circumstances the government does need certain specific property for things like building bridges or roads, but paying anything other than the assessed value doesn't strike me as particularly just.
Technically yes, more accurately no. Few people would be able to go anywhere online without DNS. Few people at this point go around the net by IP address and trying to do so is difficult as things can and do change and you're not really going to know without a bit of extra effort whether or not that's a legitimate redirect. Having to manually check each one is a pain.
Just like the hawks that decided to invade Iraq for no particular reason. The problem is that there's a lot of cowards and morons out there that will gladly hand it over in order to buy a little bit of safety. Family Guy did an entire episode about it.
We're not going to get real change until the voters grow a spine and actually research the issues rather than voting for whomever it is that scares them the most.
But it's Canadian nationalism. Isn't that a bit like being proud to be a generic white guy as opposed to one of them ethnic white guys that nobody can tell isn't a generic white guy?
Actually, that's probably one of Linux's biggest problems in that respect. People are used to getting really good games for free or not being able to have them at all without Wine. It's a tough cycle to break because somebody has to release something in order for it to be bought, and gamers expect to have something to play or they won't ditch Windows.
It's getting a lot better than it used to be, the commercially available Linux games are far better than they used to be in every way.
It's a catch 22 sort of a situation. Which is why when I buy a game which is available on Mac, PC and Linux that I choose the Linux version or tell them that my main system is Linux.
I have a copy of HoMM3 bought from Loki before they went belly up, unfortunate since the produce was quite well polished and plays just as well as the Windows copy I now own.
More than that though, there's an awful lot of free Linux games out there, and Linux hasn't really drawn enough attention from either games or developers to make it a gaming platform. Crossover Games helps, but it's really not anywhere near good enough. Not to mention that the developer has no way of knowing that it's being played on Linux and that DRM schemes often foil it.
I'm guessing it's to get word out. But more than that I suspect that they're hoping that by giving out the engine that it will help a community develop from which developers can recruit the talent. Talent that's used to working with their engine. Probably not a bad idea.
It will be interesting to see how this turns out, but it definitely could work. The downside is that since only the winner gets a free license, I'm interested to know how many people are going to be willing to work on that, knowing that they'll not be able to redistribute their game if they don't either win or pay up.
Doubtful, it would have been as dangerous had it emerged today. Part of the problem was that it was incorrectly believed to be a strain of bacteria rather than a strain of virus. Plus we have much more available in terms of antivirals and a much better understanding of how to keep people safe. The masks probably did more harm than good as they only blocked the influenza virus in airborne spit.
Additionally, much less of the work that people do requires people to actually leave the home, and we now know that the further away you stand the less likely you are to get infected. Take a look at what happened with the H1N1, if you don't believe me.
No, but the tracking system should tell you where the items went. It's one thing to lose benign easily replaceable items, and quite another to lose radioactive materials. Granted the materials were fairly low grade, but that's still radioactive material that's lost and could be irradiating anybody as we speak.
Plus, while this stuff is apparently relatively harmless, it is quite useful if you're wanting to scare the crap out of people with a radiation scare.
I'd hazard a guess that the reason why they have a separate system for it is because the consequences are so much higher than for other packages. Consequently I would assume that they're charging more and paying closer attention.
Um, past experiences with unregulated businesses pretty strongly implies that that would be the case. Corporations have a tendency to find the acceptable loss to the end user that maximizes their profits, never mind that people assume, and rightly so that the business is going to be taking things more seriously than that.
While it's unreasonable to assume that 100% of packages will get where they need to go, that's not the same thing as letting a carrier off the hook for making decisions primarily upon cost efficiency.
I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but I've had far fewer problems with UPS than either Fed Ex or USPS.
I think that was the idea behind Screening Passengers by Observation Techniques. The problem with it was that it's largely bunk. It is worthwhile in the sense that it raises the bar, but during the time it's been used in the US they've caught precisely no terrorism suspects with it and all the people they did successfully bust were accused of much lesser crimes. On top of which they're success rate was amazingly low.
I'm guessing that the GP is suggesting that we then execute the people the Republicans and anybody else that supports the policy. That seems more than a little too close to the policies of Hitler, Stalin and other authoritarian dictators.
OTOH, forcing them to go back to school and study up on the history and other topics that led them to be so terribly uniformed is probably not unreasonable. A lot of the arguments I see coming from over there are based upon "common sense" which is nothing more than fear being enshrouded in common sense and nothing is more difficult to eliminate.
Cpt. James Yee, the guy that shot up Fort Hood wasn't identifiable as Muslim without actually speaking with him.
You can scratch Asians, don't forget that Cpt. James Yee is of Asian descent and shot up Fort Hood
Um, you do realize that idiots like you apparently lack the intellect to understand that terrorists are sneaky. If they find out that sending old ladies with explosives is the way to avoid the extra screenings, any guess who they're going to focus on recruiting?
Seriously, racial profiling does not work, all you do is change the demographic of who you're needing to bust, and that always lags the actual changes being made.
I strongly disagree on that. Since we don't have the equipment or ability to screen every liquid which goes on the plane, limiting the amount makes perfect sense.
The bigger problem which the TSA apparently lacks the intellect to deal with is that the liquids all get thrown into a trash can near where they're doing the screenings. Hmm, don't have to get through the screening, but just have to get the IED tossed into the garbage can next to the massive line of people trying to get on their plane.
Yeah, that's implausible and totally paranoid. What's next? Suicide bombers hitting markets, yeah that never happens.
That's a bullshit argument to make. The reason why you can't racially profile in the US is that we're sensible enough not to do it. Racial profiling does not work, never has and never will.
It's especially ineffective against the Islamist extremists that are apparently more dangerous than anybody else for the simple reason that Islam is very diverse. Consequently it's not that tough to find people of any racial or ethnic background to recruit. The bigger issue is finding ones that are desperate and angry enough to go though with it.
Not necessarily. You'll get a functional device in that case yes, but whenever USB enters a new major revision they've had to tack on a new chip to the mix. And there's no guarantee that the new chip will be completely compatible in terms of protocol with the older ones. In fact I'd suggest that they aren't compatible otherwise they wouldn't need a separate chip for it.
Could be worse, at least we haven't Fryed Slashdot.