I would purchase them again today. Horses are not especially more intelligent than cows.
Horse meat is also very tasty -- I like it better than beef. Unfortunately, it's very difficult to buy where I live. One restaurant offered it, but there was a huge uproar about it and I believe they've now taken it off their menu.
It's really not fair that I should have to change my diet because of a bunch of loud-mouthed activisits. Either meat is legal or it isn't, and -- except for reasons of public health -- I don't see why some species should be considered 'OK' and others not.
You sir are an idiot - of course there was harm done. An innocent, intent, driven student was arrested for no good reason other than sheer lunacy by faculty with delusions of grandeur.
I agree he was arrested without good cause, but how do you know he is innocent? There simply isn't enough information given in the article for anyone to make that call.. What were these chemicals, and what were the quantities? i.e. 50 kilos of ammonium nitrate or a large vat of nitric acid is a little different then finding a 12oz jar of saltpetre and a bag of charcoal.
Don't immediately assume fauit with the authorities (except maybe for the initial arrest, which was unjustified based solely on a drawing and odd behavior), when it may just as well be bad writing.
If you spend most of your computer time loading and closing applications, booting or rebooting, or sifting through large directories of files - then an SSD is probably a good buy.
Personally, I don't spend much of my time doing any of those things. In the morning my computer resumes from sleep in 3 seconds. My web browser is still open, and I can continue from my last session. There is hardly any disk access. My work involves a lot of writing, a lot of programming, and a lot of MATLAB. None of these things involve disk accesses, because I already started these applications a month ago when I last booted.
Occasionally I play a game. Except between levels, there are no disk accesses.
For me, given that my hard drive is hardly accessed as it is, I don't really see the point. The only time I've ever wished for an SSD is when I run out of RAM. Make sure you have enough RAM, and - at least in my experience - disk speed is rarely an issue. I have 1.5 TB in my laptop, and couldn't imagine sacrificing that space just to speed up my once-a-month boot.
I agree with your concerns, but the cats been out of the bag for years. Video cameras are ubiquitous, as are telescopes and binoculars.
I wish there was a way to block these technologies or legislate them, but practically it's not going to happen. Younger people are going to grow up in a world with much less expectation of privacy, and with fewer taboos. In some ways, maybe that's a good thing, but it's not the way I want to live.
This isn't like anything else I've seen of DRM. This is just plain handy.
Really? Are you sure you're a linux user? apt-get install game
Steam is a glorified, locked down package manager. It's a system of locks that allows you to donate money to developers, except that you must first pay a cut to Valve. I guess that's not all bad - it's no worse than paypal I'm sure.
That's because the actual contents don't matter - they're completely bypassed by the "small part" of the bill.
I don't care to read the rest of the bill, because it doesn't matter. If all one needs to do is slap a digital lock on a work to completely bypass fair use, then why should I read the rest of the bill?
The digital lock provision isn't a "small part" of the bill.
Ubuntu is hardly representative of all linux distros. It is just one distribution, and there are many other better tested distributions. I use Ubuntu currently, and it is among the slowest and buggiest of all the distros I've tried.
Many applications don't work well under Wine. Endnote for example. Office for another. (It runs, but some features don't work properly - like the equation editor, macros, etc. At least, not without futzing around with config files)
Linux does not work well on a laptop. I have a thinkpad T60 - a fairly mainstream notebook - and it hasn't worked 100% with Ubuntu 6.06, 6.10, 7.04, 7.10, 8.04, or 8.10. In three years, it has not been able to suspend/resume with any degree of reliability. The fan makes a high pitched noise on battery (fixes exist, but again involve tweaking which is a waste of time when other OS's just work). Wireless was a nightmare until very recently, when the latest NetworkManager made it somewhat tolerable. Java (specifically Swing) performance is poor compared to windows, and there is occasionally artifacts. I could go on and on....
I use Ubuntu every day - it's my work machine. There's a lot to like, but the desktop experience definitely isn't there.
I fail to see why this is a "deeply symbolic moment in the history of operating systems" and not merely a moderately interesting moment in the corporate history of the respective companies (or, more specifically, in Red Hat's corporate history). Red Hat may represent Linux, but it's not Linux, and market capitalization, being a function of share price, is a less interesting metric then any measurement of the actual use of the operating systems these companies produce. Anyone who remembers the Red Hat IPO will know that share price is more closely tied to hype than to particularly signficant tecnical advances.
I fail to see why people insist on saying "fail to see" instead of "don't see". It doesn't make you sound intelligent, it makes you sound pompous.
Well presumably you'd be moving at the same velocity of the earth, unless some force was applied to slow you. i.e. inertia would carry you through space along with the earth, with no special effort.
It's actually pretty difficult. I did a BASc in computer engineering from U of T, but even so it's difficult to become certified - mostly because of the "experience requirement". They require that you work for some period of time under someone else who is certified - but, in the software field, most people are not certified engineers. Satisfying this experience requirement requires one to be quite picky about the development jobs they will accept.
I think they had a reasonable expectation that the tiger would not be able to escape its enclosure and rend them limb from limb.
If they got kicked out of the zoo or fined, that would be their fault - it's reasonable to expect such an outcome.
If anybody is at fault, it's the zoo for not designing proper enclosures, or enforcing some kind of don't-taunt-the-tigers-because-our-walls-are-too-low rule.
XP is nice and all, but it only has support for 3GB of memory.
There's always XP64, but last time I checked driver support was pretty sketchy.
I run Vista for this reason alone. Any performance decrease relative to XP is more than made up for by the fact that I'm not running out of memory and swapping.
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I would purchase them again today.
Horses are not especially more intelligent than cows.
Horse meat is also very tasty -- I like it better than beef. Unfortunately, it's very difficult to buy where I live. One restaurant offered it, but there was a huge uproar about it and I believe they've now taken it off their menu.
It's really not fair that I should have to change my diet because of a bunch of loud-mouthed activisits. Either meat is legal or it isn't, and -- except for reasons of public health -- I don't see why some species should be considered 'OK' and others not.
I agree he was arrested without good cause, but how do you know he is innocent? There simply isn't enough information given in the article for anyone to make that call.. What were these chemicals, and what were the quantities? i.e. 50 kilos of ammonium nitrate or a large vat of nitric acid is a little different then finding a 12oz jar of saltpetre and a bag of charcoal.
Don't immediately assume fauit with the authorities (except maybe for the initial arrest, which was unjustified based solely on a drawing and odd behavior), when it may just as well be bad writing.
If you spend most of your computer time loading and closing applications, booting or rebooting, or sifting through large directories of files - then an SSD is probably a good buy.
Personally, I don't spend much of my time doing any of those things. In the morning my computer resumes from sleep in 3 seconds. My web browser is still open, and I can continue from my last session. There is hardly any disk access. My work involves a lot of writing, a lot of programming, and a lot of MATLAB. None of these things involve disk accesses, because I already started these applications a month ago when I last booted.
Occasionally I play a game. Except between levels, there are no disk accesses.
For me, given that my hard drive is hardly accessed as it is, I don't really see the point. The only time I've ever wished for an SSD is when I run out of RAM. Make sure you have enough RAM, and - at least in my experience - disk speed is rarely an issue. I have 1.5 TB in my laptop, and couldn't imagine sacrificing that space just to speed up my once-a-month boot.
Agree with most of this - but I would also add variable width fonts to the list.
I agree with your concerns, but the cats been out of the bag for years. Video cameras are ubiquitous, as are telescopes and binoculars.
I wish there was a way to block these technologies or legislate them, but practically it's not going to happen. Younger people are going to grow up in a world with much less expectation of privacy, and with fewer taboos. In some ways, maybe that's a good thing, but it's not the way I want to live.
This isn't like anything else I've seen of DRM. This is just plain handy.
Really? Are you sure you're a linux user? apt-get install game
Steam is a glorified, locked down package manager. It's a system of locks that allows you to donate money to developers, except that you must first pay a cut to Valve. I guess that's not all bad - it's no worse than paypal I'm sure.
That's because the actual contents don't matter - they're completely bypassed by the "small part" of the bill.
I don't care to read the rest of the bill, because it doesn't matter. If all one needs to do is slap a digital lock on a work to completely bypass fair use, then why should I read the rest of the bill?
The digital lock provision isn't a "small part" of the bill.
Then you'd win the contest, but all your winnings would be needed for your legal defense.
Ubuntu is hardly representative of all linux distros. It is just one distribution, and there are many other better tested distributions. I use Ubuntu currently, and it is among the slowest and buggiest of all the distros I've tried.
What, paying you isn't enough? What makes you more deserving of appreciation than any other profession?
Umm, root?
and it comes with a free black turtleneck!
Why would you want hardware RAID? All you get is vendor lock-in and a small decrease in cpu usage.
Why is there a race? Why aren't they working together to find it?
...and period3 means that you're 12 years old and just started puberty?
I don't get it.
My T60 laptop is called t60. My Antec computer is called antec. My media server is called mythtv.
Names should have meaning.
Many applications don't work well under Wine. Endnote for example. Office for another. (It runs, but some features don't work properly - like the equation editor, macros, etc. At least, not without futzing around with config files)
Linux does not work well on a laptop. I have a thinkpad T60 - a fairly mainstream notebook - and it hasn't worked 100% with Ubuntu 6.06, 6.10, 7.04, 7.10, 8.04, or 8.10. In three years, it has not been able to suspend/resume with any degree of reliability. The fan makes a high pitched noise on battery (fixes exist, but again involve tweaking which is a waste of time when other OS's just work). Wireless was a nightmare until very recently, when the latest NetworkManager made it somewhat tolerable. Java (specifically Swing) performance is poor compared to windows, and there is occasionally artifacts. I could go on and on....
I use Ubuntu every day - it's my work machine. There's a lot to like, but the desktop experience definitely isn't there.
I understand your point, and the left brain agrees.
The right brain wonders how ROI is even measured, and why numbers that can be traded for tasty snacks should set the course for the future of mankind.
I'm going to go buy a cookie.
I fail to see why this is a "deeply symbolic moment in the history of operating systems" and not merely a moderately interesting moment in the corporate history of the respective companies (or, more specifically, in Red Hat's corporate history). Red Hat may represent Linux, but it's not Linux, and market capitalization, being a function of share price, is a less interesting metric then any measurement of the actual use of the operating systems these companies produce. Anyone who remembers the Red Hat IPO will know that share price is more closely tied to hype than to particularly signficant tecnical advances.
I fail to see why people insist on saying "fail to see" instead of "don't see". It doesn't make you sound intelligent, it makes you sound pompous.
Well presumably you'd be moving at the same velocity of the earth, unless some force was applied to slow you. i.e. inertia would carry you through space along with the earth, with no special effort.
It's actually pretty difficult. I did a BASc in computer engineering from U of T, but even so it's difficult to become certified - mostly because of the "experience requirement". They require that you work for some period of time under someone else who is certified - but, in the software field, most people are not certified engineers. Satisfying this experience requirement requires one to be quite picky about the development jobs they will accept.
I think they had a reasonable expectation that the tiger would not be able to escape its enclosure and rend them limb from limb.
If they got kicked out of the zoo or fined, that would be their fault - it's reasonable to expect such an outcome.
If anybody is at fault, it's the zoo for not designing proper enclosures, or enforcing some kind of don't-taunt-the-tigers-because-our-walls-are-too-low rule.
Look, Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to quit because she's losing? Well I say, hard cheese!
XP is nice and all, but it only has support for 3GB of memory.
There's always XP64, but last time I checked driver support was pretty sketchy.
I run Vista for this reason alone. Any performance decrease relative to XP is more than made up for by the fact that I'm not running out of memory and swapping.
What about support for 4 GB of memory? Gamers will move away from XP once 4GB of memory becomes the norm.
Personally the problem I have with turnitin is that someone else is profiting off of *my* work, and I don't have a choice about it.
Undergraduate education isn't about learning anymore - it's just about getting grades.