You want to call names? Fuck off. You didn't address any of his points - the fact that (purposely) breaching a levee doesn't "relieve the pressure" on the rest. Instead you bitch and moan about some dipshit conspiracy theory that has absolutely nothing to do with the physical fact that it won't work other than making it "particularly easy to believe".
Well, probably the world's perception - adding a small warning would probably be pretty easy, and effective. The whole point and flexibility of Firefox is the fact that an add-on, which is mostly Javascript, can essentially rewrite the browser, as the browser is basically written in Javascript (as I understand).
That's the reason they don't call them plugins or "browser helper objects". They're not subordinate and can arbitrarily replace bits of the browser. The browser can't sandbox it or check it, you need to trust it.
That's analogous to having a problem where a program can fuck up your home directory and asking "What's easier to fix? The OS or the world's perception?" You can't have a useful OS if a program can't do anything, so you must fix the world's perception.
The fix is the same - trusted repositories. There was a disconnect between what people thought addons.mozilla.org was (completely trusted repos), and what it actually is (likely safe, but you don't know).
Mod parent down - that's a load of horseshit. DNS resolves hostnames, whether it's doubleclick.net or bankofamerica.cz. You break the Internet when that delibrately stops working - even just by yourself. And God help you if you run a webserver on your computer.
A filtering proxy is the way to go. That's what they're for, and a proxy is expected to modify the content.
I think AT&T had a case here. Verizon is talking about their 3g as roughly equivalent to AT&T's EDGE. They're showing their EDGE-equivalence next to AT&T's HSDPA coverage.
For what it's worth, AT&T says that all their towers have EDGE - that is, their entire coverage area. And HSDPA is ridiculously fast - theoretically it can be something like 30Mbps, but I've tested it in real-life to 6Mbps. I don't think Verizon even has anything to match that.
It's a reasonable idea for an ad, because I think Verizon's coverage is generally larger than AT&T's, but the mostly-full AT&T map next to the fuller Verizon map wouldn't be so dramatic. And that's what they'd need to be fair.
In short, AT&T wants them to compare apples to apples.
I'm going to assume this isn't a troll, and instead is a real question. Crash course for everyone else:
Unlike OSX and Windows, the graphics subsystem is (almost) completely independent from the core of the OS (kernel). This means that the graphics can be completely removed with little-to-no effort, leaving just a text-based system.
This is because the X-windows system is implemented by Xorg the program. Like any other program it can be killed/removed, etc. This program just happens to take over a terminal window and show pictures.
A program wishing to do graphics talks to X and tells it to do stuff, using the X11 protocol. This can be direct memory access, a Unix socket, or a network socket - X doesn't care.
However, this is a pain. X (delibrately) doesn't specify any widgets like buttons, etc. Moreover, if you draw a window it will take up the whole screen - X has no concept of multiple windows.
So, you need a window manager. This basically hands X one "window" (composed of all the others, including the taskbar and window decoration like titles, etc). GNOME and KDE include window managers (Metacity and kwin, respectively).
But we still don't have buttons or other widgets. For that, we use a library - usually GTK or Qt. There are whole packages of software, plus glue (like settings managers), built on these libraries - the desktop environments GNOME and KDE.
None of these parts are dependent on each other. You can run a GTK window in a KDE environment, or a Qt program in a GNOME environment (it's just a library, the widgets will be different). You can use Metacity in KDE.
So for a graphical desktop you need: X (somewhere, locally or remotely)
Bullshit. Roads, bridges, and yes the act of governance requires money. That's what taxes are for. Don't give me this moose drip about the failure of the popular to do it themselves - everybody benefits so everybody pays in.
More philosophically, humans are selfish by nature. This is a fact. If there was no governance, then nothing expensive, like a bridge, tunnel, or road through the woods, would ever get done because no selfish human would pay for it. Even groups of people - if ten people need a road built to their houses for 500K, they'd each be in for 50K each. Meanwhile, if the cost was spread over a whole county of a million people, each person is in for 50c and taxes wouldn't even need to be raised.
Disclaimer: I'm a CS major in the engineering school of an Ivy.
Look, computer science has nothing to do with programming. It's about taking a problem and coming up with a series of steps to solve it. Taking that mental representation of an algorithm and turning it into code is the least of your troubles.
In a tech school, I imagine that's not really the focus. Someone can be a great codemonkey coming from a technical school, but I'm not so sure that they could reliably come up with an elegant, efficient algorithm to do most anything - and more importantly, understand why.
Plus, at a university, you have the opportunity to expand yourself as a person by learning other things - which helps in any job. For example, I'm taking a (required) writing seminar that's basically about rhetoric. It's the first (and likely) only rhetorical training I'll ever receive, and I'm extremely glad I'm doing it.
Computer science is (I think) like other engineering. A computer scientist is like a structural engineer building a bridge - he might not actually build the bridge himself, but he'll figure out how to build each piece and makes sure it'll all fit together. The guys actually building the bridge (welders, crane operators, etc) are still skilled, but mostly following a cookbook.
Eh, to be fair 600MHz is pretty low. Granted, offloading any and all DSP helps make things feel a lot faster, but 600MHz was new over 10 years ago. That's like a slow P3. Now, I know a bunch of people still using P4s (1.5-2GHz) from 02-03ish, and those still work fine.
Yes, but the BBC isn't really looking for "new ways to project its political views". In fact, it's ridiculously neutral compared to literally anything I've seen state-side (even NPR and PBS, which come closest).
Reporting != indoctrinating.
Frankly I'm not too fussed about the Chinese, everyone knows they won't be able to keep this up.
In this case, it's Microsoft getting screwed by Microsoft. They are on the verge of paying, or have already paid, $2000 out-of-pocket to a guy who did a simple GET.
Entirely Microsoft's problem - except it'll become the guy's problem when he gets prosecuted for fraud. Faking a $100k transaction is not a smart move. The $1 transaction is a perfectly fine proof-of-concept.
Parent is not a troll. This guy is seriously in for it - the FBI et.al frowns upon people who cheat companies out of literally thousands of dollars. The six cents would've been overlooked, and prove the point nicely.
$2k will certainly not be overlooked. Even if he never collects it... he's still fucked.
Hah. Evolution is as weak a theory as gravity. But since gravity's wrong and you're floating in mid-air at the moment, evolution may be wrong.
Stupid people like yourself need to shut up about things they don't understand - like gravity, or science, or facts in general. How do you even function in the real world? I'd feel bad for you if you hadn't brought all this upon yourself. It would be slightly amusing, except all you stupid people keep trying to drag our (once) great country back into the dark ages while the world passes us by.
You - like myself at one point - are giving the creationists too much credit. See, I thought that everybody without some level of mental deficiency would be forced to reevaluate their beliefs when confronted with facts that contradicted them.
Not so with creationists. They avoid that little "problem" by simply asserting that the fact doesn't exist. Since it's not a fact, there's no cognitive dissonance, right?
Check this out: http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Lenski_affair . In short, the good ol' boys over at Conservapedia (created by a high-school social studies teacher Andrew Schlafly who thought Wikipedia had a liberal bias) had a problem with an experiment run by Richard Lenski. He was one of the scientists a few years back who proved that organisms evolve over time through selective pressures, by showing that a colony of E. Coli evolved to metabolize a new substrate.
This "teacher" had a problem with this peer-reviewed rigorous scientific fact, and since as a social-studies teacher he knew more about science than they did, he took it upon himself to challenge this respected researcher. What followed was the most epic smackdown by a scientist in recent memory.
tl;dr Schlafly, out of a bout of extreme hubris and well-supported by his community, decided to question the findings of people much, much, much smarter than himself. This is evidence that these young-earth creationists will try to change - and later ignore - facts that contradict their belief.
In Linux, you generally use Xvnc as your X server. Applications run on that, and the 'monitor' is any network client. Unlike Windows, it's never even trying to output anything to the screen.
* If you don't have a fever or body aches or chills or a headache, you have a cold. * If you have a runny nose and are slightly tired, and sneezing or a sore throat, and a slow onset of a few days, you have the normal flu. * If it shows up over 3-6 hours, with chills, severe aches, headache, and a fever, it's swine flu.
They're really quite different. No test is needed for most cases...
I'm pro-copyright. It needs to be shorter than it originally was (since dissemination is so much easier now than in 1787) and personal copying shouldn't be penalized.
But what this guy did - selling a copyrighted work that wasn't his, for profit - is and should be wrong for a reason. The only one who should have the right to attempt to profit from a copyrighted work is the holder.
A more interesting idea is, this work shouldn't be under copyright anymore - shouldn't have been later than the mid 80s - so this act wouldn't have been illegal... But it currently is
Of course. If you bridge it with your finger, you would probably survive with a nasty burn. If you grab 110v hot and neutral with each hand, you're as dead as on 220v.
It's just a lot less common to actually complete a circuit. I once turned on a light with a broken socket and touched the hot wire. It was unpleasant as hell, but I didn't make a circuit so I was fine. Had I made a circuit I'd be in a lot more trouble...
I admittedly don't know what happens if you grab one leg of a 220v circuit, but I can't help but assume it'd be worse than some discomfort. Correct me if I'm wrong.
The US is still a 220v system. We just get it in two "hot" wires (of 110v) and a neutral. Draw from both of those, you have 220v w.r.t neutral. Draw from only one, it's 110v.
Just about every house that has power in the US has easy access to 220v. It's just not standard; that is to say it's a seperate circuit (generally) dedicated to a single appliance, or hardwired.
I have residential 220v dual-phase no problem for when I need to deploy my 15kW rack... I just typically only use half at a time. Why does my floor lamp, computer, TV, or radio need 220v and all the problems that come with it?
I've seen plenty of electric kettles in the states that do a rolling boil in about 20 seconds. Maybe slightly longer. And they run on 110v15a
That doesn't seem to be a function of voltage. Maybe we just don't drink as much tea for it to be so common. Many Americans barely ever boil water on its own.
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You want to call names? Fuck off. You didn't address any of his points - the fact that (purposely) breaching a levee doesn't "relieve the pressure" on the rest. Instead you bitch and moan about some dipshit conspiracy theory that has absolutely nothing to do with the physical fact that it won't work other than making it "particularly easy to believe".
How stupid are you? Dumbass
Well, probably the world's perception - adding a small warning would probably be pretty easy, and effective. The whole point and flexibility of Firefox is the fact that an add-on, which is mostly Javascript, can essentially rewrite the browser, as the browser is basically written in Javascript (as I understand).
That's the reason they don't call them plugins or "browser helper objects". They're not subordinate and can arbitrarily replace bits of the browser. The browser can't sandbox it or check it, you need to trust it.
That's analogous to having a problem where a program can fuck up your home directory and asking "What's easier to fix? The OS or the world's perception?" You can't have a useful OS if a program can't do anything, so you must fix the world's perception.
The fix is the same - trusted repositories. There was a disconnect between what people thought addons.mozilla.org was (completely trusted repos), and what it actually is (likely safe, but you don't know).
Mod parent down - that's a load of horseshit. DNS resolves hostnames, whether it's doubleclick.net or bankofamerica.cz. You break the Internet when that delibrately stops working - even just by yourself. And God help you if you run a webserver on your computer.
A filtering proxy is the way to go. That's what they're for, and a proxy is expected to modify the content.
Holy crap, my professor wrote that. I've been using it for years without even realizing it...
I think AT&T had a case here. Verizon is talking about their 3g as roughly equivalent to AT&T's EDGE. They're showing their EDGE-equivalence next to AT&T's HSDPA coverage.
For what it's worth, AT&T says that all their towers have EDGE - that is, their entire coverage area. And HSDPA is ridiculously fast - theoretically it can be something like 30Mbps, but I've tested it in real-life to 6Mbps. I don't think Verizon even has anything to match that.
It's a reasonable idea for an ad, because I think Verizon's coverage is generally larger than AT&T's, but the mostly-full AT&T map next to the fuller Verizon map wouldn't be so dramatic. And that's what they'd need to be fair.
In short, AT&T wants them to compare apples to apples.
I'm going to assume this isn't a troll, and instead is a real question. Crash course for everyone else:
Unlike OSX and Windows, the graphics subsystem is (almost) completely independent from the core of the OS (kernel). This means that the graphics can be completely removed with little-to-no effort, leaving just a text-based system.
This is because the X-windows system is implemented by Xorg the program. Like any other program it can be killed/removed, etc. This program just happens to take over a terminal window and show pictures.
A program wishing to do graphics talks to X and tells it to do stuff, using the X11 protocol. This can be direct memory access, a Unix socket, or a network socket - X doesn't care.
However, this is a pain. X (delibrately) doesn't specify any widgets like buttons, etc. Moreover, if you draw a window it will take up the whole screen - X has no concept of multiple windows.
So, you need a window manager. This basically hands X one "window" (composed of all the others, including the taskbar and window decoration like titles, etc). GNOME and KDE include window managers (Metacity and kwin, respectively).
But we still don't have buttons or other widgets. For that, we use a library - usually GTK or Qt. There are whole packages of software, plus glue (like settings managers), built on these libraries - the desktop environments GNOME and KDE.
None of these parts are dependent on each other. You can run a GTK window in a KDE environment, or a Qt program in a GNOME environment (it's just a library, the widgets will be different). You can use Metacity in KDE.
So for a graphical desktop you need:
X (somewhere, locally or remotely)
Window Manager \
Widget Library - - compose a Desktop Environment (KDE, Enlightment, GNOME, Xfce)
Utility programs /
I may be wrong on some details, but this is it in general.
Bullshit. Roads, bridges, and yes the act of governance requires money. That's what taxes are for. Don't give me this moose drip about the failure of the popular to do it themselves - everybody benefits so everybody pays in.
More philosophically, humans are selfish by nature. This is a fact. If there was no governance, then nothing expensive, like a bridge, tunnel, or road through the woods, would ever get done because no selfish human would pay for it. Even groups of people - if ten people need a road built to their houses for 500K, they'd each be in for 50K each. Meanwhile, if the cost was spread over a whole county of a million people, each person is in for 50c and taxes wouldn't even need to be raised.
In short, you are deluded.
a significant minority of Americans who are very, VERY against the entire idea of humans having children
You're talking out your ass. Citation Needed
Security devices can't get it up?
Of course not - many security devices require you to get it up before you can even install them.
Disclaimer: I'm a CS major in the engineering school of an Ivy.
Look, computer science has nothing to do with programming. It's about taking a problem and coming up with a series of steps to solve it. Taking that mental representation of an algorithm and turning it into code is the least of your troubles.
In a tech school, I imagine that's not really the focus. Someone can be a great codemonkey coming from a technical school, but I'm not so sure that they could reliably come up with an elegant, efficient algorithm to do most anything - and more importantly, understand why.
Plus, at a university, you have the opportunity to expand yourself as a person by learning other things - which helps in any job. For example, I'm taking a (required) writing seminar that's basically about rhetoric. It's the first (and likely) only rhetorical training I'll ever receive, and I'm extremely glad I'm doing it.
Computer science is (I think) like other engineering. A computer scientist is like a structural engineer building a bridge - he might not actually build the bridge himself, but he'll figure out how to build each piece and makes sure it'll all fit together. The guys actually building the bridge (welders, crane operators, etc) are still skilled, but mostly following a cookbook.
Eh, to be fair 600MHz is pretty low. Granted, offloading any and all DSP helps make things feel a lot faster, but 600MHz was new over 10 years ago. That's like a slow P3. Now, I know a bunch of people still using P4s (1.5-2GHz) from 02-03ish, and those still work fine.
Yes, but the BBC isn't really looking for "new ways to project its political views". In fact, it's ridiculously neutral compared to literally anything I've seen state-side (even NPR and PBS, which come closest).
Reporting != indoctrinating.
Frankly I'm not too fussed about the Chinese, everyone knows they won't be able to keep this up.
In this case, it's Microsoft getting screwed by Microsoft. They are on the verge of paying, or have already paid, $2000 out-of-pocket to a guy who did a simple GET.
Entirely Microsoft's problem - except it'll become the guy's problem when he gets prosecuted for fraud. Faking a $100k transaction is not a smart move. The $1 transaction is a perfectly fine proof-of-concept.
Parent is not a troll. This guy is seriously in for it - the FBI et.al frowns upon people who cheat companies out of literally thousands of dollars. The six cents would've been overlooked, and prove the point nicely.
$2k will certainly not be overlooked. Even if he never collects it... he's still fucked.
Hah. Evolution is as weak a theory as gravity. But since gravity's wrong and you're floating in mid-air at the moment, evolution may be wrong.
Stupid people like yourself need to shut up about things they don't understand - like gravity, or science, or facts in general. How do you even function in the real world? I'd feel bad for you if you hadn't brought all this upon yourself. It would be slightly amusing, except all you stupid people keep trying to drag our (once) great country back into the dark ages while the world passes us by.
You - like myself at one point - are giving the creationists too much credit. See, I thought that everybody without some level of mental deficiency would be forced to reevaluate their beliefs when confronted with facts that contradicted them.
Not so with creationists. They avoid that little "problem" by simply asserting that the fact doesn't exist. Since it's not a fact, there's no cognitive dissonance, right?
Check this out: http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Lenski_affair . In short, the good ol' boys over at Conservapedia (created by a high-school social studies teacher Andrew Schlafly who thought Wikipedia had a liberal bias) had a problem with an experiment run by Richard Lenski. He was one of the scientists a few years back who proved that organisms evolve over time through selective pressures, by showing that a colony of E. Coli evolved to metabolize a new substrate.
This "teacher" had a problem with this peer-reviewed rigorous scientific fact, and since as a social-studies teacher he knew more about science than they did, he took it upon himself to challenge this respected researcher. What followed was the most epic smackdown by a scientist in recent memory.
tl;dr Schlafly, out of a bout of extreme hubris and well-supported by his community, decided to question the findings of people much, much, much smarter than himself. This is evidence that these young-earth creationists will try to change - and later ignore - facts that contradict their belief.
In Linux, you generally use Xvnc as your X server. Applications run on that, and the 'monitor' is any network client. Unlike Windows, it's never even trying to output anything to the screen.
There's a chart. In summary:
* If you don't have a fever or body aches or chills or a headache, you have a cold.
* If you have a runny nose and are slightly tired, and sneezing or a sore throat, and a slow onset of a few days, you have the normal flu.
* If it shows up over 3-6 hours, with chills, severe aches, headache, and a fever, it's swine flu.
They're really quite different. No test is needed for most cases...
If you're not joking:
I'm pro-copyright. It needs to be shorter than it originally was (since dissemination is so much easier now than in 1787) and personal copying shouldn't be penalized.
But what this guy did - selling a copyrighted work that wasn't his, for profit - is and should be wrong for a reason. The only one who should have the right to attempt to profit from a copyrighted work is the holder.
A more interesting idea is, this work shouldn't be under copyright anymore - shouldn't have been later than the mid 80s - so this act wouldn't have been illegal... But it currently is
AHA! You're from Jersey, aren't you?
Everything in Jersey is a half hour, 15 minutes, 45 minutes away. Nobody talks about distance...
1. Yes/no.
2. See above. Nobody cares about Shockwave, though.
3. Yes.
It's called Gnash. See http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
There's also a few others, such as http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/wiki/ . Gnash is probably better.
Hah. Go join SSCCATAG.
Of course. If you bridge it with your finger, you would probably survive with a nasty burn. If you grab 110v hot and neutral with each hand, you're as dead as on 220v.
It's just a lot less common to actually complete a circuit. I once turned on a light with a broken socket and touched the hot wire. It was unpleasant as hell, but I didn't make a circuit so I was fine. Had I made a circuit I'd be in a lot more trouble...
I admittedly don't know what happens if you grab one leg of a 220v circuit, but I can't help but assume it'd be worse than some discomfort. Correct me if I'm wrong.
The US is still a 220v system. We just get it in two "hot" wires (of 110v) and a neutral. Draw from both of those, you have 220v w.r.t neutral. Draw from only one, it's 110v.
Just about every house that has power in the US has easy access to 220v. It's just not standard; that is to say it's a seperate circuit (generally) dedicated to a single appliance, or hardwired.
I have residential 220v dual-phase no problem for when I need to deploy my 15kW rack... I just typically only use half at a time. Why does my floor lamp, computer, TV, or radio need 220v and all the problems that come with it?
I've seen plenty of electric kettles in the states that do a rolling boil in about 20 seconds. Maybe slightly longer. And they run on 110v15a
That doesn't seem to be a function of voltage. Maybe we just don't drink as much tea for it to be so common. Many Americans barely ever boil water on its own.