As long as the Chinese govt keeps its citizens segregated from the Internet as a whole I don't see how "Chinese" (Mandarin? Cantonese? Shanghainese? etc etc) can become its dominant language. Maybe Arabic (on the back of Islam) is more likely to
become the dominant language?
Actually plain soap doesn't do shit. It's an emulsifier, not a panacea. Plain soap simply binds oils and water, the theory being that if you take the oil off your skin you're magically "clean". It does not "kill" "germs" (the non-scientific catchall term which includes viruses which aren't even alive in the first place according to the classical definition of life) any more than other emulsifiers like lecithin or egg yolks do.
Soap is a detergent which is a class of surfactant which is a class of emulsifier. You're being a little too general in classing egg yolks with soap.
Soap helps you remove bacteria embedded in the grease on your skin. Washing with soap and water removes most of the harmful bacteria that might cause nasty stomach issues or serious infections while leaving behind the generally "beneficial" bacteria.
This is exactly what I was going to say. If you're using Windows workstations in an Active Directory domain this is a fairly straightforward piece of work. Create your own CA. Add the CA's cert to the Trusted Root store on workstations using GPOs. Done. We actually have this configuration - it automates a lot of cert management processes. I can't imagine that it's much harder in a Linux/Unix/Mac OS X environment.
If the power was out he/she wouldn't be able to read your useless/. post but would, in fact, be able to make a 'phone call from his/her landline. The landlines ("subscriber loops") are powered by the telcos. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_telephone_service
You subscribe to a newspaper or return to the page, or look at other stories with headlines adjacent to the first story etc. You are paying attention to the content in some way. You are "engaging" with the author/editor. Similarly - Slashdot attracts an audience that might not always comment or moderate a specific story but the audience does pay some attention to the site. Conversely - the authors of the study are finding that most tweets are simply not interesting enough to generate discussion, or are intended to be one-way announcements. Twitter seems designed to appease narcissists who are convinced that everything they do or say is of earth-shattering consequence.
Just let me know your address, and what time you leave for work so I can meet you.
BTW - how big is your residence? A small van's-worth? A small moving truck size? Bigger?
This points up a major risk to US computer infrastructure. Any program with remote update is potentially capable of taking down vast numbers of systems. Ones like McAfee or Windows Update, which deploy updates to all targets simultaneously, can cause widespread damage quickly. Remote updating by vendors may need to be regulated, as a public policy issue.
In a corporate/enterprise/govt environment shouldn't IT people be testing and piloting those updates before deploying them en masse? I'm not excusing McAfee's incompetence, but as sysadmins we shouldn't blindly trust vendors. My company has been burned by bad McAfee DATs before so we actually delay the DAT deployment for about 18 hours - we let someone else have the pain of being on the bleeding edge. Although one of the EPO servers was misconfigured (lazy admin) and the DAT went out immediately - took out hundreds of PCs in one office.
No, not "GREEN", more like "It's a helluva lot less expensive to just not print the manuals!"
On-line help in HTML or PDF form would suffice for a "manual" and often does in many games nowadays.
Besides, I have seen manuals get smaller and smaller and smaller to the point where they are really just a few pages of basic "How to install game" paragraphs and "How to contact support" *plus* two pages of advertisements for the company's other games, subscriptions, merchandise, etc.
Don't forget the 10 pages of disclaimers and legalese. If these jokers really wanted to be green they'd make the packaging out of recycled cardboard instead of plastic.
It still has to travel thru email servers & routers costing money via electrical & bandwidth costs.
Aren't people around here rather fond of making the claim that bandwidth doesn't cost money, at least whenever we see a story pop up about some ISP wanting to impose caps or metered billing?
The bandwidth and electrial costs of spam are negligible. You would have made a better argument by pointing out the lost productivity when humans need to divert time away from useful tasks to clean out their inbox.
The complaint is that people around here are paying for a certain amount of bandwidth and are not being allowed to use it as they wish. If the ISP sold bandwidth with a cap or max throughput or metered billing or whatever then fine; but they don't. They oversell and underdeliver; and then blame the customer for their own inadequate infrastructure.
In any case I don't pay for bandwidth and mail servers so that I can process spam, I expect to run my business with them.
>These companies should move their factories to US or EU. But it's cheaper there and this is one of the reasons why. As long as it's cheaper, they don't care about ethics.
As long as customers care about the price, companies will care about their manufacturing costs. Maybe the companies could take a smaller profit margin; but then they wouldn't be as profitable, wouldn't have money to invest in R&D and wouldn't be as attractive to investors. Ethics cost money - start buying stuff made in factories/countries with labor protection laws or with a solid support of human rights.
mod parent "Informative" please. Same thing here.
I just nominated the whole of New York City. I frigging hate Time Warner but it's the best/only option I have. Verizon's nowhere near getting FiOS in my 'hood and there are no other providers.
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As long as the Chinese govt keeps its citizens segregated from the Internet as a whole I don't see how "Chinese" (Mandarin? Cantonese? Shanghainese? etc etc) can become its dominant language. Maybe Arabic (on the back of Islam) is more likely to become the dominant language?
Actually plain soap doesn't do shit. It's an emulsifier, not a panacea. Plain soap simply binds oils and water, the theory being that if you take the oil off your skin you're magically "clean". It does not "kill" "germs" (the non-scientific catchall term which includes viruses which aren't even alive in the first place according to the classical definition of life) any more than other emulsifiers like lecithin or egg yolks do.
Soap is a detergent which is a class of surfactant which is a class of emulsifier. You're being a little too general in classing egg yolks with soap.
Soap helps you remove bacteria embedded in the grease on your skin. Washing with soap and water removes most of the harmful bacteria that might cause nasty stomach issues or serious infections while leaving behind the generally "beneficial" bacteria.
This is exactly what I was going to say. If you're using Windows workstations in an Active Directory domain this is a fairly straightforward piece of work. Create your own CA. Add the CA's cert to the Trusted Root store on workstations using GPOs. Done. We actually have this configuration - it automates a lot of cert management processes. I can't imagine that it's much harder in a Linux/Unix/Mac OS X environment.
TL; DR.
If the power was out he/she wouldn't be able to read your useless /. post but would, in fact, be able to make a 'phone call from his/her landline. The landlines ("subscriber loops") are powered by the telcos. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_telephone_service
I'm not on Death Row but I'd volunteer for this. I'd love to be the first human on Mars. Even if it's a 1-way trip.
Don't worry: logging on, starting IE12 and Outlook 2015 will still take 10 minutes.
There's an app for that, probably.
DRDOS!
You subscribe to a newspaper or return to the page, or look at other stories with headlines adjacent to the first story etc. You are paying attention to the content in some way. You are "engaging" with the author/editor. Similarly - Slashdot attracts an audience that might not always comment or moderate a specific story but the audience does pay some attention to the site. Conversely - the authors of the study are finding that most tweets are simply not interesting enough to generate discussion, or are intended to be one-way announcements. Twitter seems designed to appease narcissists who are convinced that everything they do or say is of earth-shattering consequence.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
I was searching the comments to see if someone has already commented on exercizzzze... LOL
Thanks for the update, I was just wondering what you were doing.
Relax. It's just an example of /.'s new Twitter integration. You can now post your mundane, narcissistic, self-absorbed comments directly from Twitter.
Just let me know your address, and what time you leave for work so I can meet you.
BTW - how big is your residence? A small van's-worth? A small moving truck size? Bigger?
Hook these up to a motion sensor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHMbN_epe4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8hlj4EbdsE
And complaints from the neighbours.
On Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard - CTRL+ALT/OPTION+CMD+8 will change the machine to "negative" theme.
They're under the PhotoShop for Linux DVDs.
This points up a major risk to US computer infrastructure. Any program with remote update is potentially capable of taking down vast numbers of systems. Ones like McAfee or Windows Update, which deploy updates to all targets simultaneously, can cause widespread damage quickly. Remote updating by vendors may need to be regulated, as a public policy issue.
In a corporate/enterprise/govt environment shouldn't IT people be testing and piloting those updates before deploying them en masse? I'm not excusing McAfee's incompetence, but as sysadmins we shouldn't blindly trust vendors. My company has been burned by bad McAfee DATs before so we actually delay the DAT deployment for about 18 hours - we let someone else have the pain of being on the bleeding edge. Although one of the EPO servers was misconfigured (lazy admin) and the DAT went out immediately - took out hundreds of PCs in one office.
No, not "GREEN", more like "It's a helluva lot less expensive to just not print the manuals!"
On-line help in HTML or PDF form would suffice for a "manual" and often does in many games nowadays.
Besides, I have seen manuals get smaller and smaller and smaller to the point where they are really just a few pages of basic "How to install game" paragraphs and "How to contact support" *plus* two pages of advertisements for the company's other games, subscriptions, merchandise, etc.
Don't forget the 10 pages of disclaimers and legalese. If these jokers really wanted to be green they'd make the packaging out of recycled cardboard instead of plastic.
It still has to travel thru email servers & routers costing money via electrical & bandwidth costs.
Aren't people around here rather fond of making the claim that bandwidth doesn't cost money, at least whenever we see a story pop up about some ISP wanting to impose caps or metered billing?
The bandwidth and electrial costs of spam are negligible. You would have made a better argument by pointing out the lost productivity when humans need to divert time away from useful tasks to clean out their inbox.
The complaint is that people around here are paying for a certain amount of bandwidth and are not being allowed to use it as they wish. If the ISP sold bandwidth with a cap or max throughput or metered billing or whatever then fine; but they don't. They oversell and underdeliver; and then blame the customer for their own inadequate infrastructure.
In any case I don't pay for bandwidth and mail servers so that I can process spam, I expect to run my business with them.
>These companies should move their factories to US or EU. But it's cheaper there and this is one of the reasons why. As long as it's cheaper, they don't care about ethics.
As long as customers care about the price, companies will care about their manufacturing costs. Maybe the companies could take a smaller profit margin; but then they wouldn't be as profitable, wouldn't have money to invest in R&D and wouldn't be as attractive to investors. Ethics cost money - start buying stuff made in factories/countries with labor protection laws or with a solid support of human rights.
Thats eleven words.
Of course. He turned it up from ten because he/she really really meant it.
The US Govt should decide that he can have it back; and mail it to him.
The conversion software available to ePub is a bit primitive at the moment, but it does exist, from practically any format you can care to name.
Try Calibre: http://calibre-ebook.com/
mod parent "Informative" please. Same thing here. I just nominated the whole of New York City. I frigging hate Time Warner but it's the best/only option I have. Verizon's nowhere near getting FiOS in my 'hood and there are no other providers.