That is so awesome, I am currently backing up my system to reinstall Windows, so it will be great to get this on there to start with... thanks Hairyfeet!
Windows users are probably safer because they know of the dangers out there
Not necessarily. I believed the same thing until I married my (non-tech savvy) wife three months ago. After we got married and she started using my computer I found it started to slow down... because of malware. I never used AV protection before because it seemed to slow down my PC more than the malware would. But I didn't realize just how clueless she was until I saw her clicking on the images of the "Close X" to close a pop-up (that somehow got past Firefox... because she disabled the pop-up blocking and no-script), and the click-through took her to a site that supposedly sped up computers, but I'm pretty sure would only slow them down. Now I'm faced with trying to figure out a way to keep my computer fast and I'm not sure which way to go...
I see your point, and you make a good one. But I think you are missing the crux of the grandparent's argument. Yes, it is difficult modify a new car due to the way they are typically manufactured, but it is not as if the manufacturers went out of their way to make it difficult to prevent modifications. They just build it the efficient way possible. Contrast that with many of today's devices such as "the iPod and it's ilk" which go out of their way to prevent modifications.
Yes, there are devices out there which are built to be easily modified (see Android and it's ilk), but it feels wrong for the manufacturers to intentionally make their devices hard to modify, which they do.
Is it possible that the real point of the book is not to really suggest that we eat our pets, but rather to raise awareness and get people talking about the environment? If so, perhaps they have succeeded.
Perelandra is good, but my personal favorite of Lewis' SciFi/Fantasy work is "That Hideous Strength". It just sucked me in and never let me go when I read it in high school.
But there still has to be someone that finds it first and reports it. This cannot come from traditional media sites if they self-censor, but instead must come from true internet journalists.
It may be hefty for a single user, but multiply it by a family of six (consider teenagers and young adults instead of young children) and that 250 GB is eaten up much quicker than you would expect.
What's next, a "Comcast High Speed Internet Family Share Plan", a la the current cell phone financing structure?
Does anyone know why the image Slashdot and Science News choose to display depicts the "Voorwerp" as Green while a Google Image Search depicts the "Voorwerp" as blue in all of the top results?
WOW! That just gave me an idea! One of the laptops had Folding@Home installed on it as a service (thieves won't know) and was over 80% finished with the current WU. I know it's a complete long shot, and it's likely the hard drive is already wiped... but I wonder if Stanford tracks the IP address of WUs submitted to them...?
AU could be a super-power if it had enough water to support a population of 300 million. Instead it is so dry they are lucky to have 1/10 of that at about 22 million. And yet somehow Australia is always the continent that is the most coveted in games of Risk.
There is a balance that is easy to talk but hard to walk. Love your job while you're there and love your home while you're there.
Great companies recognize that this is better in the long run and encourage their employees to separate work and home life. In doing so they will not burn out their employees or risk lessening returns the more time their employees spend at the office (or with the laptop, or on the Cr^H^H Blackberry).
And according to TFA, Earth is likely to become inhospitable even before the probability of a massive object hitting it approaches 100%.
Regardless of whether Earth will ultimately be vaporized, as the sun heats up, our planet will become too hot to live on before then. "After a billion years or so you've got an Earth with no atmosphere, no water and a surface temperature of hundreds of degrees, way above the boiling point of water,"
Lately I've been thinking that our satellites are similar to the Triremes of Greece times (which are bound to stay close to our shores), the Apollo/Space Shuttle is like Viking ships (which couldn't (or weren't) be used to setup a new settlement), and then this would be the equivalent of the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria (except they will be called Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, and Lincoln). Play much Civilization?;)
They don't know about how technologies work and how to deal with it. And governments will continue on oblivious until we elect people who do know how technologies work and how to do with them. This election year (now for primaries, and in November for President and other offices) we have the chance to vote with more than just our dollars (as/. is so fond of saying with regard to the MAFIAA). Educate yourself, tell others and make your vote count.
Or else we will just be stuck with the status quo until the "tech generation" grows up and gets themselves into office.
That a Linux machine is sold out at Walmart suggests that plain folks -- not like you and me -- know and respect Linux. The lesson is that there is a ready market, in middle America, for Linux-based applications. Don't flame me, but I don't believe that's the case. I think a much more likely reason these PCs sold out was because they appealed to two types of people:
1) Linux Geeks ("geek" in the best possible connotation)
2) Cheap PC shoppers ("cheap" meaning inexpensive)
In all actuality, I bet people bought this PC not because Linux applications appealed to them, but because it was only $200.
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That is so awesome, I am currently backing up my system to reinstall Windows, so it will be great to get this on there to start with... thanks Hairyfeet!
Windows users are probably safer because they know of the dangers out there
Not necessarily. I believed the same thing until I married my (non-tech savvy) wife three months ago. After we got married and she started using my computer I found it started to slow down... because of malware. I never used AV protection before because it seemed to slow down my PC more than the malware would. But I didn't realize just how clueless she was until I saw her clicking on the images of the "Close X" to close a pop-up (that somehow got past Firefox... because she disabled the pop-up blocking and no-script), and the click-through took her to a site that supposedly sped up computers, but I'm pretty sure would only slow them down. Now I'm faced with trying to figure out a way to keep my computer fast and I'm not sure which way to go...
...the theft raises the possibility that attackers could analyze the code to find new exploits to take advantage of in the future.
Many Bothans died to bring you this information...
I see your point, and you make a good one. But I think you are missing the crux of the grandparent's argument. Yes, it is difficult modify a new car due to the way they are typically manufactured, but it is not as if the manufacturers went out of their way to make it difficult to prevent modifications. They just build it the efficient way possible. Contrast that with many of today's devices such as "the iPod and it's ilk" which go out of their way to prevent modifications.
Yes, there are devices out there which are built to be easily modified (see Android and it's ilk), but it feels wrong for the manufacturers to intentionally make their devices hard to modify, which they do.
Any suggestions on a decent transmitter? All the ones I have tried can barely get across a room, let alone through a wall.
Is it possible that the real point of the book is not to really suggest that we eat our pets, but rather to raise awareness and get people talking about the environment? If so, perhaps they have succeeded.
Perelandra is good, but my personal favorite of Lewis' SciFi/Fantasy work is "That Hideous Strength". It just sucked me in and never let me go when I read it in high school.
Mine cross references Google's street view database with homes in areas that make the news with key words "Affluent" and "Burglaries".
But there still has to be someone that finds it first and reports it. This cannot come from traditional media sites if they self-censor, but instead must come from true internet journalists.
It may be hefty for a single user, but multiply it by a family of six (consider teenagers and young adults instead of young children) and that 250 GB is eaten up much quicker than you would expect.
What's next, a "Comcast High Speed Internet Family Share Plan", a la the current cell phone financing structure?
So perhaps there should be different rules for companies and individuals?
So why not create a scoop that functions more like a human hand and could "crumble" it out? (Of course, hindsight is 20-20.)
Does anyone know why the image Slashdot and Science News choose to display depicts the "Voorwerp" as Green while a Google Image Search depicts the "Voorwerp" as blue in all of the top results?
WOW! That just gave me an idea! One of the laptops had Folding@Home installed on it as a service (thieves won't know) and was over 80% finished with the current WU. I know it's a complete long shot, and it's likely the hard drive is already wiped... but I wonder if Stanford tracks the IP address of WUs submitted to them...?
X-COM FTW!
There is a balance that is easy to talk but hard to walk. Love your job while you're there and love your home while you're there.
Great companies recognize that this is better in the long run and encourage their employees to separate work and home life. In doing so they will not burn out their employees or risk lessening returns the more time their employees spend at the office (or with the laptop, or on the Cr^H^H Blackberry).
Likely because Chinese products are superior in price.
Or else we will just be stuck with the status quo until the "tech generation" grows up and gets themselves into office.
Also I don't know of any software to "learn cooking" on the DS any better than you can "learn guitar" on the PS2.
Um... Guitar Hero?
Liar! That's not a valid tracking number!
Just read this a few hours ago, not sure if it helps or not but it certainly seems worthwhile. http://www.binaryfortress.com/2007/12/how-to-survive-a-traffic-spike-with-wordpress/
1) Linux Geeks ("geek" in the best possible connotation)
2) Cheap PC shoppers ("cheap" meaning inexpensive)
In all actuality, I bet people bought this PC not because Linux applications appealed to them, but because it was only $200.