So what if I just want to have one application's sounds be louder? Or what if I don't have an amplifier or external speakers (hint, laptops often don't have a dedicated hardware volume control)?
Charisma isn't necessarily that - its getting people to believe said promises, whether or not they are true. And whether or not Obama was lying when he made those promises, he has been very good at getting people to believe in him. I don't think it was just because he "said the correct things to the correct people no matter what his actual plans were."
Replace "kid" with "anyone who doesn't understand the basics of computer security". Grandma who clicks on anything is more of a risk than a kid who knows what they are doing.
If by "so much religious diversity" you mean "mainly lots of different types of Protestant Christians", you'd be right. There are plenty of people of other religions, but the majority is still definitely Protestant.
It might be idiotic if A/V programs didn't totally ruin system usability for on-line protection. And if you just run random scans, or scans of known-downloaded things, you'll still lose against any sort of automated attack (which is where anyone reasonably computer savvy might get attacked through).
Thats interesting. I haven't lost any data to any of those but the first.
I'm very skeptical of your claims that anything is likely to hose your filesystem other than user error, or maybe malware. And I've never had data mysteriously disappear due to software bugs, nor have I ever heard of it happening to someone.
Still, backups are definitely the right solution much of the time.
Even against viruses, trojans and worms, it really won't stop them from getting owned. It may help against old viruses spreading, but it is unlikely to help much against new ones. And new ones often will take out the antivirus, leaving you with an even falser sense of security.
Speaking as someone currently in university for CS, I pretty much agree. Thats what internships and more practical classes are for. On the other hand, if its just that they don't know the particular language you're using, they ought (bad colleges and incompetent students aside) to be able pick up the language quickly.
That's just plain stupid. Take a look at the map of the city I live in. It's 30 miles in diameter, and there's nothing but other cities outside those city limits. There simply is no means by which a mass transit system could replace the road system in my city, as there is absolutely no "center" that people go to--- everyone lives somewhere else and goes to a different place to work. You probably live in one of those "cities" with 300K people that can easily be served by two light rail lines and a dozen buses. When you have a greater metropolitan area that's home to 12 million plus people that spans a dozen city entities in two counties, mass transit becomes a much bigger problem than can be solved by an idiotic handwave of "just ban cars from city limits".
That's perfectly doable. It would cost a lot, but I bet it would cost less then everyone buying those cars.
I won't even begin to address the issue of what you consider "cars" and what constitutes a legitimately necessary vehicle. No... I will. Do you expect supermarkets to get food deliveries by bus? Is the plumber going to bring tools and 10-foot lengths of copper pipe to your house on the subway? Are old people who can barely walk expected to somehow drag 30 pounds of groceries home a kilometer from the nearest transit station? No, I'm guessing you'd suggest some sort of "permit" system that'd allow certain "special" classes of people to have personal vehicles... and like any such system, those with money would be able to game it and drive as they please. So what you're really suggesting is that poor people should be banned from driving in the city.
Now thats the actual legitimate argument for cars. They are in fact very useful for transporting heavy stuff, and often that sort of thing is a many-many relation. I suspect that with a good enough system you could do this just fine, but it would definitely be tricky.
I can understand the arguments behind learning assembly or c++. (Well, scratch assembly, you shouldn't start with that, and I'd recommend C over C++) But I really don't see anything ML buys you over python, and fortran is only used in certain narrow fields. Saying they should learn Visual Basic is just a joke.
If you are getting an allocation failure in Java when you actually have the memory available (if you include garbage), then your VM probably sucks and should be changed. The sun VM may eventually not check extremely long lived objects, I don't recall, but in general if you would run out of memory when allocating the VM should do a GC pass first before throwing an error.
There are several very important differences there. First is that a police officer is a public official with significant power, and thus should be held to a significantly higher standard than any random person. Second, detaining someone is much more severe than being a minor smartass.
On a 32-bit platform it adds three additional bytes to the string over a null terminator. If you have thousands of very short strings, it could be wasteful of memory. Most times you have much longer strings, and in even the case of say a 20 character string, 21 bytes vs 24 bytes is generally pretty insignificant.
C++ is perhaps better than object oriented C, but it is generally much much easier to use a C library from some other language than a C++ library, if it is possible to use C++ at all. Since many people prefer languages that aren't either of these, C has portability advantages in this respect.
Just as a note, assuming your touchpad is a synaptics one, you should be able to get two-finger right click. I'm not sure exactly what the package name would be on ubuntu, but look for gsynaptics - it can change the settings for the touchpad w/o having to touch xorg.conf or restart X.
That, and the fact that it is highly unlikely that neo-cavemen would even be ABLE to dig hundreds of feet down into bedrock to get close enough to the waste for it to do any harm.
But hopefully those neo-cavemen would advance and gain the technology level of today (or the moderately recent past), perhaps before the waste became harmless. How would you warn a beginning industrial society that this area was dangerous, and shouldn't be mined?
I don't have the numbers - but how much of the income do the top 5 and 1 percent make up? At least if you look at total wealth (which depending on your viewpoint may or may not be relevant), I'm pretty sure the numbers are way up there.
Your problem there is less the PDFs (which could be searched by a sufficiently intelligent program, as the spec is out there), than the fact that your PDFs are no better than a tarball of images. Alternatives to PDFs won't help because the best you'll get is MSPDFs full of scanned images that will still be unsearchable.
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So what if I just want to have one application's sounds be louder? Or what if I don't have an amplifier or external speakers (hint, laptops often don't have a dedicated hardware volume control)?
Charisma isn't necessarily that - its getting people to believe said promises, whether or not they are true. And whether or not Obama was lying when he made those promises, he has been very good at getting people to believe in him. I don't think it was just because he "said the correct things to the correct people no matter what his actual plans were."
Replace "kid" with "anyone who doesn't understand the basics of computer security". Grandma who clicks on anything is more of a risk than a kid who knows what they are doing.
I suspect they sell/rent their own ones, or maybe rebranded tivos or something.
Now try to do that while running X. Oops.
Not only do they do that, they pretty much have to do that in many places given the ridiculous laws that are out there.
If by "so much religious diversity" you mean "mainly lots of different types of Protestant Christians", you'd be right. There are plenty of people of other religions, but the majority is still definitely Protestant.
It might be idiotic if A/V programs didn't totally ruin system usability for on-line protection. And if you just run random scans, or scans of known-downloaded things, you'll still lose against any sort of automated attack (which is where anyone reasonably computer savvy might get attacked through).
Thats interesting. I haven't lost any data to any of those but the first. I'm very skeptical of your claims that anything is likely to hose your filesystem other than user error, or maybe malware. And I've never had data mysteriously disappear due to software bugs, nor have I ever heard of it happening to someone. Still, backups are definitely the right solution much of the time.
Even against viruses, trojans and worms, it really won't stop them from getting owned. It may help against old viruses spreading, but it is unlikely to help much against new ones. And new ones often will take out the antivirus, leaving you with an even falser sense of security.
Speaking as someone currently in university for CS, I pretty much agree. Thats what internships and more practical classes are for. On the other hand, if its just that they don't know the particular language you're using, they ought (bad colleges and incompetent students aside) to be able pick up the language quickly.
That's just plain stupid. Take a look at the map of the city I live in. It's 30 miles in diameter, and there's nothing but other cities outside those city limits. There simply is no means by which a mass transit system could replace the road system in my city, as there is absolutely no "center" that people go to--- everyone lives somewhere else and goes to a different place to work. You probably live in one of those "cities" with 300K people that can easily be served by two light rail lines and a dozen buses. When you have a greater metropolitan area that's home to 12 million plus people that spans a dozen city entities in two counties, mass transit becomes a much bigger problem than can be solved by an idiotic handwave of "just ban cars from city limits".
That's perfectly doable. It would cost a lot, but I bet it would cost less then everyone buying those cars.
I won't even begin to address the issue of what you consider "cars" and what constitutes a legitimately necessary vehicle. No... I will. Do you expect supermarkets to get food deliveries by bus? Is the plumber going to bring tools and 10-foot lengths of copper pipe to your house on the subway? Are old people who can barely walk expected to somehow drag 30 pounds of groceries home a kilometer from the nearest transit station? No, I'm guessing you'd suggest some sort of "permit" system that'd allow certain "special" classes of people to have personal vehicles... and like any such system, those with money would be able to game it and drive as they please. So what you're really suggesting is that poor people should be banned from driving in the city.
Now thats the actual legitimate argument for cars. They are in fact very useful for transporting heavy stuff, and often that sort of thing is a many-many relation. I suspect that with a good enough system you could do this just fine, but it would definitely be tricky.
I can understand the arguments behind learning assembly or c++. (Well, scratch assembly, you shouldn't start with that, and I'd recommend C over C++) But I really don't see anything ML buys you over python, and fortran is only used in certain narrow fields. Saying they should learn Visual Basic is just a joke.
If you are getting an allocation failure in Java when you actually have the memory available (if you include garbage), then your VM probably sucks and should be changed. The sun VM may eventually not check extremely long lived objects, I don't recall, but in general if you would run out of memory when allocating the VM should do a GC pass first before throwing an error.
There are several very important differences there. First is that a police officer is a public official with significant power, and thus should be held to a significantly higher standard than any random person. Second, detaining someone is much more severe than being a minor smartass.
, as bash doesn't write history until it exits.
On a 32-bit platform it adds three additional bytes to the string over a null terminator. If you have thousands of very short strings, it could be wasteful of memory. Most times you have much longer strings, and in even the case of say a 20 character string, 21 bytes vs 24 bytes is generally pretty insignificant.
C++ is perhaps better than object oriented C, but it is generally much much easier to use a C library from some other language than a C++ library, if it is possible to use C++ at all. Since many people prefer languages that aren't either of these, C has portability advantages in this respect.
Just as a note, assuming your touchpad is a synaptics one, you should be able to get two-finger right click. I'm not sure exactly what the package name would be on ubuntu, but look for gsynaptics - it can change the settings for the touchpad w/o having to touch xorg.conf or restart X.
No, but it takes at least a team of researchers to get the government to listen.
Also, if you run a proxy like squid, that will deal with it too.
That, and the fact that it is highly unlikely that neo-cavemen would even be ABLE to dig hundreds of feet down into bedrock to get close enough to the waste for it to do any harm.
But hopefully those neo-cavemen would advance and gain the technology level of today (or the moderately recent past), perhaps before the waste became harmless. How would you warn a beginning industrial society that this area was dangerous, and shouldn't be mined?
I don't have the numbers - but how much of the income do the top 5 and 1 percent make up? At least if you look at total wealth (which depending on your viewpoint may or may not be relevant), I'm pretty sure the numbers are way up there.
Build it on a computer, burn to cd/dvd, done?
Your problem there is less the PDFs (which could be searched by a sufficiently intelligent program, as the spec is out there), than the fact that your PDFs are no better than a tarball of images. Alternatives to PDFs won't help because the best you'll get is MSPDFs full of scanned images that will still be unsearchable.