That's a good point, people shouldn't get to skip the phase where typing "del." doesn't completely wipe the partition. It makes them better appreciate when an OS does some degree of sanity checking on obvious syntax errors.
And qualified educators can in most instances do a much better job than relying upon computers anyways. Computers have their place, but by and large education is still best done by real people, not those phony ones that live in the box and make strange grinding sounds.
That's how the justice system works. Cruel and unusual punishment doesn't really apply AFAIK. It doesn't matter whether a judgment is excessive or not when considering that prohibition. It's more aimed at cases like people accused of torture can't themselves face being abused as a part of the punishment. People that are found guilty of being slum lords can't themselves generally be forced to live in maggot infested cesspools.
That's the sort of thing that's regarded as cruel. Since the penalties are a rarity, they might get away with arguing that it's unusual, however the lack of a substantial number of cases where people were tried in that sense may or may not hurt.
Which is why you need to install my patented automatic bitch slap device. It comes out and smacks anybody that tries to use the cupholder for anything other than coasters and anytime somebody attempts to open up IE6.
Which is the point, the French have been using lab tests to cheat at the Tour for quite a while. Ever notice how mysteriously one of the samples for Lance Armstrong went "missing" after the other was tested positive? The French just can't stand the idea that they were beaten fair and square by Americans so they trump up charges and try and get the results tossed out.
Note, they possibly could still do it, it's not out of the realm of possibility that the higgs boson is going to require more than fermilab can throw at it. Additionally if it turns out that the higgs boson doesn't exist, you're probably going to want the LHC and possibly something bigger to really nail it down. Rather than just eliminate the larger sizes. I don't expect that this sort of research will really settle the question unless there's a positive result and somebody actually discovers it.
As opposed to wasting trillions of dollars to destabilize the middle east? Yeah, that's a useful expenditure of tax payer dollars. Perhaps next year we can pay to remove all references to electrons from the chemistry text books while we're at it.
Seriously, the applications for a lot of this stuff doesn't become apparent until after it's been discovered, I'm not sure what people thought they'd be able to do with Maxwell's equations, but I doubt very much that they thought we'd get super colliders and computers out of it.
Not quite, those things get passed because wealthy constituents want it and stupid morons will vote for anything that the Republicans tell them to because voting against ones own self interest is the best way to get back at those damned liberal elites. Never mind that there's been a huge wealth redistribution in the last couple decades from the poor to the wealthy.
One of our chief problems here in Washington is that we don't have any personal income tax at all. Meaning that right now to make up our budget deficit we're left with far less appetizing choices. We can increase sales tax, B&O tax, property tax, gas tax and that's about it. All of those are more damaging to the state economy in the current recession than a minor bump to the income tax would be. But the residents of that state, myself included, are very much concerned that we'll end up with our current tax burden plus an income tax. Trying to figure out how to give us an income tax to replace some of the other taxes is a really tough problem as people on both sides of the aisle are pretty skeptical that it would be a replacement rather than add on tax.
An increase to income tax is dollar for dollar more effective at raising revenue than raising the taxes that we have available. Plus you get a subsidy from the federal government that we don't really get. Technically we do often get a sales tax write off, but it sucks and is a serious pain in the ass to actually get back as you have to do a lot of paper work to substantiate for it.
It's probably because they'll have the cable modem service out for several hours every day and one not know and two not care enough to fix it. And the fact that there cable television service for the longest time was less viewable on certain channels than using a TV without an antenna downstairs for local broadcasts.
If they actually cared enough to address your concern you should count yourself lucky, because around here they would have to actively work at caring less about the customer because standard apathy isn't going to reach that level of incompetence. It's not really a shock that satellite dishes are popping up around here with such frequency. DirecTV in particular actually called my parents up because their monitoring software indicated that the services was probably not living up to their standards. (For the record it actually still beat the pants off of Comcrap, but caring about quality earns points with me especially when their standards are higher than mine)
I take it you don't recall the name Richard Reid, AKA the shoe bomber. Had he managed to light his shoes that entire flight would've probably crashed, or at least suffered a serious decompression incident. Which was mind boggling since at that time you could legitimately take lighters with you one US flights.
What the Israeli security services do is far above and beyond anything we've seen in the US. With the possible exception of torture, I'm not really familiar enough on Israeli policy there, I certainly haven't ever heard their head of state saying that it was OK to torture.
In the US we've got a few armed air marshal's on a number of flights, and if I understand correctly, the Israelis have a pair of obviously armed security officers there with automatic weapons to take down anybody that tries to get into the cockpit without appropriate cause.
Which is nice if you're wanting to ensure that you've got the lowest possible reliability and safety for your data. While you're at it, make sure you're using a striped non-redundant array of disks as well, best use at least 4 in the array, otherwise you might get some of your data back.
You've got it exactly backwards, people shouldn't be partitioning disks into one huge partition. They should be able to split things up a bit to keep rapidly changing directories from mostly static ones and to manage the risk of filesystem corruption destroying important files.
That's true, but it's also true that having hardware lie to the OS isn't a great situation to be in. At the very least there should be some way of forcing it to be honest for the benefit of OSes that can handle the reality. A lot of the gunk and instability in computing comes from hardware that does things that are more appropriately done by software and vice versa.
Forcing users to optimize isn't inherently wrong, it's just that they shouldn't need to do it for things which are somewhat standard as a work around for weird hardware designs. And yes, I realize that the 4096byte sectors aren't being implemented arbitrarily.
The reason they can do it is that the people currently doing it are doing a terrible job. The point of this is that it's good for Google to have people wired with fast connections. They're in the business of selling ad space and other internet services which improve greatly with higher bandwidth connections. There's also the corporate benevolence angle which tends to help as they try to keep growing as large as possible. A positive corporate image can do wonders for keeping people from demanding anti-trust investigations and such.
If they do a halfway decent job in one city it should scare the regional monopoly players enough that they start upgrading and lowering prices to try and keep Google off their turf.
Seattle's been adding quite a bit more lately in the downtown core as there isn't enough available dark fiber to keep up with demand. It's quite possible that there's a lot of it strung elsewhere that's not in use, but at least in downtown Seattle there isn't really any that isn't in use at the moment.
Um, unless I'm missing something to be a lawyer you generally have to have a JD. That's JD as in Juris Doctor, and it's something that you generally need to practice law. There are a few exceptions like here in WA where you can do something akin to apprenticing as a path to being a fully fledged attorney.
Vanilla Ice tried the equivalent and when caught was only able to muster a "it's not the same, it's different" response. Which was incredibly lame since anybody listening to the two songs would recognize the overwhelming similarity. That's equivalent to pagiarism, not MC Hammer sampling portions of Rick James' work.
That's really the point. When the Beastie Boy's released Paul's Boutique, there was a huge amount of layering and interplay between the various samples and their own new work in such a way that it was far more than the sum of the samples. With literature, it's not really the same thing, you can reference other works, but when they creep into your supposedly new work, it's very hard to do that without misappropriating somebody else's ideas and style.
It also tends to be difficult to do in a way which fits with the rest of the writing in the book.
Gun bans don't work, for only one reason. That it's easy to get them smuggled in, converted from replicas or in some other manner get ones hands on them. Suggesting that guns aren't a significant part of the cause is ignorant.
The calculus of whether or not I rob a house, store or shoot at a police car changes significantly when one doesn't have access to assault weapons. Even when one is limited to hunting appropriate rifles.
You're missing the point, bans work only as effectively as the means to enforce them are. Beer is easy to brew by oneself and marijuana is surprisingly hard to keep from being smuggled. The suggestion you're making isn't one that's particularly apt.
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That's a good point, people shouldn't get to skip the phase where typing "del ." doesn't completely wipe the partition. It makes them better appreciate when an OS does some degree of sanity checking on obvious syntax errors.
And qualified educators can in most instances do a much better job than relying upon computers anyways. Computers have their place, but by and large education is still best done by real people, not those phony ones that live in the box and make strange grinding sounds.
That's how the justice system works. Cruel and unusual punishment doesn't really apply AFAIK. It doesn't matter whether a judgment is excessive or not when considering that prohibition. It's more aimed at cases like people accused of torture can't themselves face being abused as a part of the punishment. People that are found guilty of being slum lords can't themselves generally be forced to live in maggot infested cesspools.
That's the sort of thing that's regarded as cruel. Since the penalties are a rarity, they might get away with arguing that it's unusual, however the lack of a substantial number of cases where people were tried in that sense may or may not hurt.
Which is why you need to install my patented automatic bitch slap device. It comes out and smacks anybody that tries to use the cupholder for anything other than coasters and anytime somebody attempts to open up IE6.
Which is the point, the French have been using lab tests to cheat at the Tour for quite a while. Ever notice how mysteriously one of the samples for Lance Armstrong went "missing" after the other was tested positive? The French just can't stand the idea that they were beaten fair and square by Americans so they trump up charges and try and get the results tossed out.
Ah, but I can do it for $12 in sharpies. Even cheaper.
Note, they possibly could still do it, it's not out of the realm of possibility that the higgs boson is going to require more than fermilab can throw at it. Additionally if it turns out that the higgs boson doesn't exist, you're probably going to want the LHC and possibly something bigger to really nail it down. Rather than just eliminate the larger sizes. I don't expect that this sort of research will really settle the question unless there's a positive result and somebody actually discovers it.
As opposed to wasting trillions of dollars to destabilize the middle east? Yeah, that's a useful expenditure of tax payer dollars. Perhaps next year we can pay to remove all references to electrons from the chemistry text books while we're at it.
Seriously, the applications for a lot of this stuff doesn't become apparent until after it's been discovered, I'm not sure what people thought they'd be able to do with Maxwell's equations, but I doubt very much that they thought we'd get super colliders and computers out of it.
Not quite, those things get passed because wealthy constituents want it and stupid morons will vote for anything that the Republicans tell them to because voting against ones own self interest is the best way to get back at those damned liberal elites. Never mind that there's been a huge wealth redistribution in the last couple decades from the poor to the wealthy.
One of our chief problems here in Washington is that we don't have any personal income tax at all. Meaning that right now to make up our budget deficit we're left with far less appetizing choices. We can increase sales tax, B&O tax, property tax, gas tax and that's about it. All of those are more damaging to the state economy in the current recession than a minor bump to the income tax would be. But the residents of that state, myself included, are very much concerned that we'll end up with our current tax burden plus an income tax. Trying to figure out how to give us an income tax to replace some of the other taxes is a really tough problem as people on both sides of the aisle are pretty skeptical that it would be a replacement rather than add on tax.
An increase to income tax is dollar for dollar more effective at raising revenue than raising the taxes that we have available. Plus you get a subsidy from the federal government that we don't really get. Technically we do often get a sales tax write off, but it sucks and is a serious pain in the ass to actually get back as you have to do a lot of paper work to substantiate for it.
It's probably because they'll have the cable modem service out for several hours every day and one not know and two not care enough to fix it. And the fact that there cable television service for the longest time was less viewable on certain channels than using a TV without an antenna downstairs for local broadcasts.
If they actually cared enough to address your concern you should count yourself lucky, because around here they would have to actively work at caring less about the customer because standard apathy isn't going to reach that level of incompetence. It's not really a shock that satellite dishes are popping up around here with such frequency. DirecTV in particular actually called my parents up because their monitoring software indicated that the services was probably not living up to their standards. (For the record it actually still beat the pants off of Comcrap, but caring about quality earns points with me especially when their standards are higher than mine)
I take it you don't recall the name Richard Reid, AKA the shoe bomber. Had he managed to light his shoes that entire flight would've probably crashed, or at least suffered a serious decompression incident. Which was mind boggling since at that time you could legitimately take lighters with you one US flights.
What the Israeli security services do is far above and beyond anything we've seen in the US. With the possible exception of torture, I'm not really familiar enough on Israeli policy there, I certainly haven't ever heard their head of state saying that it was OK to torture.
In the US we've got a few armed air marshal's on a number of flights, and if I understand correctly, the Israelis have a pair of obviously armed security officers there with automatic weapons to take down anybody that tries to get into the cockpit without appropriate cause.
You already don't have to go there ever again. I've never been there and I'm still alive.
Which is nice if you're wanting to ensure that you've got the lowest possible reliability and safety for your data. While you're at it, make sure you're using a striped non-redundant array of disks as well, best use at least 4 in the array, otherwise you might get some of your data back.
You've got it exactly backwards, people shouldn't be partitioning disks into one huge partition. They should be able to split things up a bit to keep rapidly changing directories from mostly static ones and to manage the risk of filesystem corruption destroying important files.
Trust me, it's right after adding GPT support to Windows XP home on their agenda. Shouldn't take more than, I don't know forever to add.
That's true, but it's also true that having hardware lie to the OS isn't a great situation to be in. At the very least there should be some way of forcing it to be honest for the benefit of OSes that can handle the reality. A lot of the gunk and instability in computing comes from hardware that does things that are more appropriately done by software and vice versa.
Forcing users to optimize isn't inherently wrong, it's just that they shouldn't need to do it for things which are somewhat standard as a work around for weird hardware designs. And yes, I realize that the 4096byte sectors aren't being implemented arbitrarily.
The reason they can do it is that the people currently doing it are doing a terrible job. The point of this is that it's good for Google to have people wired with fast connections. They're in the business of selling ad space and other internet services which improve greatly with higher bandwidth connections. There's also the corporate benevolence angle which tends to help as they try to keep growing as large as possible. A positive corporate image can do wonders for keeping people from demanding anti-trust investigations and such.
If they do a halfway decent job in one city it should scare the regional monopoly players enough that they start upgrading and lowering prices to try and keep Google off their turf.
Seattle's been adding quite a bit more lately in the downtown core as there isn't enough available dark fiber to keep up with demand. It's quite possible that there's a lot of it strung elsewhere that's not in use, but at least in downtown Seattle there isn't really any that isn't in use at the moment.
Um, unless I'm missing something to be a lawyer you generally have to have a JD. That's JD as in Juris Doctor, and it's something that you generally need to practice law. There are a few exceptions like here in WA where you can do something akin to apprenticing as a path to being a fully fledged attorney.
Or, you know, make sure that kids have to live closer to where they go to school and then make them walk to school. Even cheaper than duct tape.
Vanilla Ice tried the equivalent and when caught was only able to muster a "it's not the same, it's different" response. Which was incredibly lame since anybody listening to the two songs would recognize the overwhelming similarity. That's equivalent to pagiarism, not MC Hammer sampling portions of Rick James' work.
That's really the point. When the Beastie Boy's released Paul's Boutique, there was a huge amount of layering and interplay between the various samples and their own new work in such a way that it was far more than the sum of the samples. With literature, it's not really the same thing, you can reference other works, but when they creep into your supposedly new work, it's very hard to do that without misappropriating somebody else's ideas and style.
It also tends to be difficult to do in a way which fits with the rest of the writing in the book.
Gun bans don't work, for only one reason. That it's easy to get them smuggled in, converted from replicas or in some other manner get ones hands on them. Suggesting that guns aren't a significant part of the cause is ignorant.
The calculus of whether or not I rob a house, store or shoot at a police car changes significantly when one doesn't have access to assault weapons. Even when one is limited to hunting appropriate rifles.
You're missing the point, bans work only as effectively as the means to enforce them are. Beer is easy to brew by oneself and marijuana is surprisingly hard to keep from being smuggled. The suggestion you're making isn't one that's particularly apt.