Yes, but so are the people that use open source, the people that refuse to use software that's overpriced and under featured. And of course you'll notice that they're whining about those bastards that buy software second hand as well.
The BSA is every bit as corrupt, ignorant and greedy as the RIAA and MPAA, the difference is that they've got a pretend right to demand access to business networks to look for "pirated" software.
It's not as much of an issue. You might be using a product for which Data Liberation Front hasn't gotten to, but Google does have people working on any of those applications to make it possible to make ones own back up. I'm not sure what specifically triggered that, but I keep a backup of any important information on my computer which is backed up to my local backup mirror and remotely.
Precisely, and that's why I store the local version of my backups on a 1gb ZMIRROR, sure it's more than I need in terms of space, but it tells me when things are going bad without having to go through and check everything constantly myself. And as you suggest, it does not get you out of the trouble of backing up offsite, as a flood, fire or theft, not to mention operator error, could cause complete data loss, but it does solve the data corruption problem nicely.
It also happens to be wonderfully easy to backup using snapshots, which if you start immediately often times allows for nice chunks as the data goes in and you can later on consolidate them into sane start points at your leisure. Believe me I wouldn't have put up with this convoluted Open Solaris in a Virtualbox set up if it wasn't totally worth it.
I wonder if this means that MS is going to put in ZFS like pretty much everybody else for a future release. I know that Apple pulled it out of their most recent release, but I doubt very much that it's a permanent removal, more likely they didn't have time to perfect it and were afraid of being caught like that other major data loss bug from several years back.
You can remove it, you just have to create a custom install disc, which is far more work than one should need to put in. Why MS can't conceive that people don't want a lot of that crap is beyond me.
Eh, and something like virtualbox isn't an option? Unless you're being paid to test out games, in which case I hate you, there aren't that many applications that really require the computer to be Windows. Right now I'm running Win XP with an Open Solaris virtual machine providing access to my ZFS array. And I'm still not seeing any meaningful degradation in performance.
Unfortunately same goes for other things like lithium and Neodymium. Not that they're really that closely related to this, but one of the things that nobody likes to talk about is that a lot these really important elements are just not common enough for the amount of use we need. We'll need more high efficiency technologies and to use less at some point in the equation.
Unlikely, given the speedy installation, it's a pretty good bet that the system is installed as a set of larger shingles pre-attached to each other. These are most likely then wired into whatever electronics handle the power management. There's a trade off between percentage of roof covered per unit and cost of replacing a broken or defective cell.
If you need a new roof, this might be a decent deal, but if you don't, the break even point for these appears to be roughly the same as with tradtional cells. However it's probably longer since you're not really able to control the orientation and you can't set up tracking systems.
I was worried about Skynet, then I found this site with these funny felines that say silly baby talkish things and became less concerned. Clearly we don't have to worry until they get bored with that.
And that's the only reason why I'm willing to let them hold any of my data. I regularly back my email and such up to my local disk where it gets backed up to a different remote server. Given that data loss incident they had a couple years back, I'm not sure that I'm willing to trust them to have proper backups. But OTOH that recent incident with the judge ordering an account blocked without cause is another reason to be wary of cloud service that doesn't allow backups of some sort to ones own computer.
Of course they should be. The information does not belong to them, they make money off of using your data to sell ad space. It's one thing for a site like/. to not have the ability to easily download ones content, and quite another for a site that regularly hosts things that a person actually cares about. Information here is of little value outside the context of being on the web, and often even little value in the proper context.
Just because it's a private business does not give them special rights to hold a person's information hostage or to potentially abuse the copyrights involved.
DHS is not the same thing as TSA. DHS is the Department of Homeland Security, and this sort of thing falls well within the grounds of securing the nation from terrorism and similar threats.
Right and I suppose what we could really afford is having a major cyber attack and then have to spend trillions of dollars fighting stupid wars because half the country is terrified of its own shadow. Yes we can't really afford to put everything on the charge card, but if the Republicans hadn't wasted so much cash on stupid wars that had were actively harmful to the purpose of national security, perhaps we would be more easily able to pay.
Except that none of the major anti-virus companies will hire black hat types and I'd be surprised if other forms of anti-malware were going to hire those sorts. It's just more hassle than it's worth. You're not sure when, if ever, they'll be arrested, if they're still active at their craft, going to try and sneak out proprietary information for sale to others.
It's not accident that reputable companies won't hire them.
It was quite progressive, but at this point they're pretty much the only ones that insist on binary blobs. Intel, as bad as there graphics cards were, did provide a whole lot of documentation and support for OSS years ago when nobody else of note was. These days AMD is working on releasing all the code they can. Which leaves nVidia in the sort of position where they'll write drivers for a platform but won't provide any of the source for developers to do it on their own if it's going to be a long wait.
That's bullshit, you're going to have to cite that. The US government does have issues with corruption, but it's not any worse that most places. And definitely not "EXTREMELY" corrupt. If you want to know what extreme corruption looks like take a looksy at all those African nations that have ultra riches in minerals but mysteriously can't find the money to pay for food for their own people and somehow manage to do worse than nations without any resources to speak of.
In this case I'd say it's about damn time, that's probably a good starting point considering that so much of the military network is so completely hopeless right now, depending upon who their looking for it would take a goodly number of entry level employees just to get the simple stuff done. Let alone the more complex tasks.
I'd say it's a good bet that he succeeded in some form, if you're talking about a short enough distance and can tolerate a low enough efficiency, it's not that much different than some of the inventions that he's gotten credit for. He definitely knew about and worked with induction which is usually what this sort of technology is based upon.
I'd say that it's also a good bet that whatever he managed was impressive by the standards of the day, but of no lasting significance. Most likely he managed to light a small lightbulb from a few inches away using way too much electricity.
Or better yet, just make you're own stuff and barter it for things you can't make and vote against Republicans and anybody else that fights against the consumer/lower classes.
You can sue for any amount you like here, pretty much, however getting it is another matter. Depending upon jurisdiction you might have to prove the damages or get some judicial buy in on that and some amounts are so large as to be unconstitutional. Then there's the part about actually collecting, which isn't necessarily easy as some types of wealth and income can't be garnished. That's who OJ was living such a lavish lifestyle up until his arrest and subsequent conviction.
That's ignorant. As it is we're wasting kids time with this bullshit. When exactly are kids supposed to grow up if they're constantly in school? Most schools out there are stifling and don't allow for the time or space to actually grow up. People in the US work hard enough once they graduate.
We're losing ground because the time spent in school isn't time well spent. If we were properly covering the basics and prepping our kids for college we wouldn't be having any issues. For the moment US colleges are still sought after resources by students in most parts of the world, including ones which have quality college.
It's also worth noting, that when studies show that we're behind, they rarely if ever factor in for the fact that any kid here can go to college if he or she can find the funding, whereas in other nations they've already split off the kids that aren't going to college earlier on.
True, but lengthening the year is something he's talking about and it's a terrible idea. If we want to be more competitive what we need is better teaching and less homework. Homework has never been a particularly reliable indicator of anything other than the ability to sit at home for some period of time and do it. Given that it's rarely if ever actually tailored to the individual or even the class, it's no wonder that it doesn't have much impact.
But, having schools open on the weekends and or late isn't really a bad idea, it all depends upon how it's handled. If there's people there that can help get the homework finished and possibly have extra stuff to help with weak spots it might very well be a worthwhile proposition.
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Yes, but so are the people that use open source, the people that refuse to use software that's overpriced and under featured. And of course you'll notice that they're whining about those bastards that buy software second hand as well.
The BSA is every bit as corrupt, ignorant and greedy as the RIAA and MPAA, the difference is that they've got a pretend right to demand access to business networks to look for "pirated" software.
It's not as much of an issue. You might be using a product for which Data Liberation Front hasn't gotten to, but Google does have people working on any of those applications to make it possible to make ones own back up. I'm not sure what specifically triggered that, but I keep a backup of any important information on my computer which is backed up to my local backup mirror and remotely.
Precisely, and that's why I store the local version of my backups on a 1gb ZMIRROR, sure it's more than I need in terms of space, but it tells me when things are going bad without having to go through and check everything constantly myself. And as you suggest, it does not get you out of the trouble of backing up offsite, as a flood, fire or theft, not to mention operator error, could cause complete data loss, but it does solve the data corruption problem nicely.
It also happens to be wonderfully easy to backup using snapshots, which if you start immediately often times allows for nice chunks as the data goes in and you can later on consolidate them into sane start points at your leisure. Believe me I wouldn't have put up with this convoluted Open Solaris in a Virtualbox set up if it wasn't totally worth it.
I wonder if this means that MS is going to put in ZFS like pretty much everybody else for a future release. I know that Apple pulled it out of their most recent release, but I doubt very much that it's a permanent removal, more likely they didn't have time to perfect it and were afraid of being caught like that other major data loss bug from several years back.
You can remove it, you just have to create a custom install disc, which is far more work than one should need to put in. Why MS can't conceive that people don't want a lot of that crap is beyond me.
Eh, and something like virtualbox isn't an option? Unless you're being paid to test out games, in which case I hate you, there aren't that many applications that really require the computer to be Windows. Right now I'm running Win XP with an Open Solaris virtual machine providing access to my ZFS array. And I'm still not seeing any meaningful degradation in performance.
Unfortunately same goes for other things like lithium and Neodymium. Not that they're really that closely related to this, but one of the things that nobody likes to talk about is that a lot these really important elements are just not common enough for the amount of use we need. We'll need more high efficiency technologies and to use less at some point in the equation.
Unlikely, given the speedy installation, it's a pretty good bet that the system is installed as a set of larger shingles pre-attached to each other. These are most likely then wired into whatever electronics handle the power management. There's a trade off between percentage of roof covered per unit and cost of replacing a broken or defective cell.
If you need a new roof, this might be a decent deal, but if you don't, the break even point for these appears to be roughly the same as with tradtional cells. However it's probably longer since you're not really able to control the orientation and you can't set up tracking systems.
I was worried about Skynet, then I found this site with these funny felines that say silly baby talkish things and became less concerned. Clearly we don't have to worry until they get bored with that.
And that's the only reason why I'm willing to let them hold any of my data. I regularly back my email and such up to my local disk where it gets backed up to a different remote server. Given that data loss incident they had a couple years back, I'm not sure that I'm willing to trust them to have proper backups. But OTOH that recent incident with the judge ordering an account blocked without cause is another reason to be wary of cloud service that doesn't allow backups of some sort to ones own computer.
Of course they should be. The information does not belong to them, they make money off of using your data to sell ad space. It's one thing for a site like /. to not have the ability to easily download ones content, and quite another for a site that regularly hosts things that a person actually cares about. Information here is of little value outside the context of being on the web, and often even little value in the proper context.
Just because it's a private business does not give them special rights to hold a person's information hostage or to potentially abuse the copyrights involved.
DHS is not the same thing as TSA. DHS is the Department of Homeland Security, and this sort of thing falls well within the grounds of securing the nation from terrorism and similar threats.
Right and I suppose what we could really afford is having a major cyber attack and then have to spend trillions of dollars fighting stupid wars because half the country is terrified of its own shadow. Yes we can't really afford to put everything on the charge card, but if the Republicans hadn't wasted so much cash on stupid wars that had were actively harmful to the purpose of national security, perhaps we would be more easily able to pay.
Except that none of the major anti-virus companies will hire black hat types and I'd be surprised if other forms of anti-malware were going to hire those sorts. It's just more hassle than it's worth. You're not sure when, if ever, they'll be arrested, if they're still active at their craft, going to try and sneak out proprietary information for sale to others.
It's not accident that reputable companies won't hire them.
It was quite progressive, but at this point they're pretty much the only ones that insist on binary blobs. Intel, as bad as there graphics cards were, did provide a whole lot of documentation and support for OSS years ago when nobody else of note was. These days AMD is working on releasing all the code they can. Which leaves nVidia in the sort of position where they'll write drivers for a platform but won't provide any of the source for developers to do it on their own if it's going to be a long wait.
Hmm, I tried that and it gave me some sort of funky error. Perhaps the dozen languages I tried weren't the one you're using.
Am I leet enough to get into super sekrit organization?
That's bullshit, you're going to have to cite that. The US government does have issues with corruption, but it's not any worse that most places. And definitely not "EXTREMELY" corrupt. If you want to know what extreme corruption looks like take a looksy at all those African nations that have ultra riches in minerals but mysteriously can't find the money to pay for food for their own people and somehow manage to do worse than nations without any resources to speak of.
In this case I'd say it's about damn time, that's probably a good starting point considering that so much of the military network is so completely hopeless right now, depending upon who their looking for it would take a goodly number of entry level employees just to get the simple stuff done. Let alone the more complex tasks.
I'd say it's a good bet that he succeeded in some form, if you're talking about a short enough distance and can tolerate a low enough efficiency, it's not that much different than some of the inventions that he's gotten credit for. He definitely knew about and worked with induction which is usually what this sort of technology is based upon.
I'd say that it's also a good bet that whatever he managed was impressive by the standards of the day, but of no lasting significance. Most likely he managed to light a small lightbulb from a few inches away using way too much electricity.
It's a matter of degrees. remind me again who pushes deregulation, for the repeal of worker's rights and against universal healthcare?
Clearly Democrats are just as much in the pockets of corporate interest for wanting a public option.
But then again, socialism is clearly evil, how dare workers expect the pay and benefits for work.
It's the inability to tell degrees that makes people like you so damaging to the nation.
Or better yet, just make you're own stuff and barter it for things you can't make and vote against Republicans and anybody else that fights against the consumer/lower classes.
You can sue for any amount you like here, pretty much, however getting it is another matter. Depending upon jurisdiction you might have to prove the damages or get some judicial buy in on that and some amounts are so large as to be unconstitutional. Then there's the part about actually collecting, which isn't necessarily easy as some types of wealth and income can't be garnished. That's who OJ was living such a lavish lifestyle up until his arrest and subsequent conviction.
That's odd, but they left the stick in place?
That's ignorant. As it is we're wasting kids time with this bullshit. When exactly are kids supposed to grow up if they're constantly in school? Most schools out there are stifling and don't allow for the time or space to actually grow up. People in the US work hard enough once they graduate.
We're losing ground because the time spent in school isn't time well spent. If we were properly covering the basics and prepping our kids for college we wouldn't be having any issues. For the moment US colleges are still sought after resources by students in most parts of the world, including ones which have quality college.
It's also worth noting, that when studies show that we're behind, they rarely if ever factor in for the fact that any kid here can go to college if he or she can find the funding, whereas in other nations they've already split off the kids that aren't going to college earlier on.
True, but lengthening the year is something he's talking about and it's a terrible idea. If we want to be more competitive what we need is better teaching and less homework. Homework has never been a particularly reliable indicator of anything other than the ability to sit at home for some period of time and do it. Given that it's rarely if ever actually tailored to the individual or even the class, it's no wonder that it doesn't have much impact.
But, having schools open on the weekends and or late isn't really a bad idea, it all depends upon how it's handled. If there's people there that can help get the homework finished and possibly have extra stuff to help with weak spots it might very well be a worthwhile proposition.
I wouldn't be so hard on them, it's not like they get invited to all the cool parties like Apple does.
Quite so, cloud gaming might actually become a reasonable reality.
And that's not Uhura.