American devs are undoing offshore devs work? Then what are we paying the American devs for? We could fire them and hire 20x the people offshore to fix the code...
I've been blocking certain sites and services for certain groups like forever. If you live in a specific Asian country you haven't been able to send email to me or any of my users for like ten years.
And we see that this is the second part of the Great Firewall; making sysadmins around the world block China. And all they had to do was spam and hack a little. It was a win/win scenario.
Are you kidding? The ability to lend a book once for 14 days if the publisher allows it? How is that a good thing?
It's so ridiculously restricted it's essentially useless.
And only once. Never ever again to the same kindle device. As if loaning it twice somehow is worse than once. I can see an automatic return after 14 days (I'd love that with real books; too many loaners gone for good), but the only once thing makes it heinous.
I still know a LOT of people who forward X over SSH
I don't think that's relevant. They'll still be able to use encrypted VNC, or some other solution of their choice.
Forwarding an X session (ie running Firefox on the remote machine and having it display on your local X daemon appearing as a local program) is far different from running VNC (using a full desktop environment on the remote machine), even though both can be run via ssh tunnels.
Apple might give you a few updates when you first purchase your device, but they soon stop coming too. First generation iPhone and iPod touch owners are already without the option of upgrading to iOS 4.
Probably because the hardware is not compatible enough anymore. When technology moves as fast as this, a 3 year cycle is still better than what many other manufacturers give us. Networks expect us to get a new phone every two years.
iPhone 2G users also didn't get security patches for the pdf security vulnerability found immediately after the iOS4 release (which was reported to work on older versions). Apple just said "3 years of security updates is enough for any computer that happens to have a phone built in".
This is how google takes over the world! Soon there will be a very small dot somewhere in google maps called "googleland", and then over time the borders will expand. But nobody will question it, because it must be right.
translate.google.com says that German for "Googleland" is Liechtenstein. Start looking! If you find it, tell everyone you know!
Good science fiction can and should also refer to social
sciences by putting people into extreme situations that are probably easier
to conceive in a fictional setting then in a setting of the current world.
That's just fiction, not science fiction. Real science fiction
should have a large science component. That's what it's primarily about.
Stories about people who use science to overcome difficulties, or who
struggle in worlds ruled by scientific principles, etc. Think of it
as fiction based on the core principles of the Age of Enlightenment.
Someone at syfy is reading your comment and writing a newton/leibniz buddy comedy.
"Don't be derivative!" - gottfried's catchphrase
I think Battlestar Galactica raised the standard a little for what is "good" science fiction TV.
Like it or hate it, the drama was better than Trek.
One other thing: The entire series only really requires two technologies "granted": jump drive and strong AI. This is good from a viewer-engagement standpoint (again, compared to Trek).
Regarding firefly and serenity: I didn't see all of the firefly episodes on tv because of the unannounced schedule changes. I didn't see serenity in theaters because it was in the theaters in my (medium sized) city for only one week. I didn't get a chance to see it because of a mix of time constraints and theater stupidity. Even the dollar theaters didn't play it afterward. So I bought serenity on DVD just like I bought firefly. But if they would have been "straight to DVD" productions, I probably would have not bought either.
I think "proportionally" means what you don't think it means. If I get 100% of my income from 0% of my own hard work, then all of my income is coming from society (those around me or the government). There are people on both ends of the spectrum that fit that bill (trust fund babies and people having welfare babies), but there are more on the poor end. Sure, a good amount of my income comes from the infrastructure of society, but it doesn't just land in my lap, I have to prune the infrastructure around me, plant new infrastructure, and reap what I or those before me have sown.
Things tend to be locked down fairly tight around here (Montgomery County, MD)...but I've NEVER encountered anything like this while going to the movies. Sure, I've seen people walk in during opening night to make sure no one is taping the damn thing, but you don't have to go through a security checkpoint or any of that nonsense.
Has anyone?
At a recent Tron preview, a friend said they had to fork over all recording devices and cell phones into a coat-check room.
On a side note I like how the only people they named explicitly were republicans and unnamed were some of the bigger supposed problem accounts. This was pretty obviously a kind of astroturfing, in and of itself... make up a problem where none exists and claim Republicans are at the heart of it, all on election day. Smooth.
Bloomington Indiana is a blue island in a red sea.
Oh please. Do you really think Gore would have invaded Iraq just because his poll numbers dipped for a few months before a midterm election?
Gore would have invaded for the same reason I predicted back when we invaded Afghanistan: as a long-term vice-grip on Iran. Iran has always been the most nuclear foe in the area, and is a foe that pressure will work better with than actual war. Having "permanent" armies on two borders - especially if those two armies aren't really fighting wars - is a strong message.
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Wrong interpretation of big bang.
A little too late for Halloween 2010. Just imagine the party gags!
American devs are undoing offshore devs work? Then what are we paying the American devs for? We could fire them and hire 20x the people offshore to fix the code...
I've been blocking certain sites and services for certain groups like forever. If you live in a specific Asian country you haven't been able to send email to me or any of my users for like ten years.
And we see that this is the second part of the Great Firewall; making sysadmins around the world block China. And all they had to do was spam and hack a little. It was a win/win scenario.
Are you kidding? The ability to lend a book once for 14 days if the publisher allows it? How is that a good thing?
It's so ridiculously restricted it's essentially useless.
And only once. Never ever again to the same kindle device. As if loaning it twice somehow is worse than once. I can see an automatic return after 14 days (I'd love that with real books; too many loaners gone for good), but the only once thing makes it heinous.
And $0.10 of that should go to Apple for losing the sale.
Apple Records, or Apple the computer^W iTunes company?
It's still groundbreaking news. This is a step closer to "woah, I know Kung Fu", since the learning is ++ and the retention is normal.
Linux is Unix
GNU Linux is GNU is not Unix Linux
X is a part of any proper Unix
Always? I was under the impression that having X on some servers is a waste of resources.
I still know a LOT of people who forward X over SSH
I don't think that's relevant. They'll still be able to use encrypted VNC, or some other solution of their choice.
Forwarding an X session (ie running Firefox on the remote machine and having it display on your local X daemon appearing as a local program) is far different from running VNC (using a full desktop environment on the remote machine), even though both can be run via ssh tunnels.
Apple might give you a few updates when you first purchase your device, but they soon stop coming too. First generation iPhone and iPod touch owners are already without the option of upgrading to iOS 4.
Probably because the hardware is not compatible enough anymore. When technology moves as fast as this, a 3 year cycle is still better than what many other manufacturers give us. Networks expect us to get a new phone every two years.
iPhone 2G users also didn't get security patches for the pdf security vulnerability found immediately after the iOS4 release (which was reported to work on older versions). Apple just said "3 years of security updates is enough for any computer that happens to have a phone built in".
This is how google takes over the world! Soon there will be a very small dot somewhere in google maps called "googleland", and then over time the borders will expand. But nobody will question it, because it must be right.
translate.google.com says that German for "Googleland" is Liechtenstein. Start looking! If you find it, tell everyone you know!
How nicely racist of you.
Haven't you heard? Some people say the Kinect is racist.
Have you seen how rabid Harry Potter fans can be?
Can't say I have. Certainly not as crazy as the Dr Who fans anyway.
I know, right? The last Daleks were sacrificed when the new Dr. Who series was launched, and they had just started breeding successfully in captivity!
Right, and it absolutely, positively has nothing to do with diwali. Move along, move along. Blame Harry Potter!
Sacrificing a species into extinction... Did India learn nothing from the Ilwrath?
What rates did lynx/elinks garner? What about IE 6? Does faking a useragent do enough?
That's just fiction, not science fiction. Real science fiction should have a large science component. That's what it's primarily about. Stories about people who use science to overcome difficulties, or who struggle in worlds ruled by scientific principles, etc. Think of it as fiction based on the core principles of the Age of Enlightenment.
Someone at syfy is reading your comment and writing a newton/leibniz buddy comedy.
"Don't be derivative!" - gottfried's catchphrase
I think Battlestar Galactica raised the standard a little for what is "good" science fiction TV.
Like it or hate it, the drama was better than Trek.
One other thing: The entire series only really requires two technologies "granted": jump drive and strong AI. This is good from a viewer-engagement standpoint (again, compared to Trek).
Artificial gravity, super dense energy storage.
Regarding firefly and serenity: I didn't see all of the firefly episodes on tv because of the unannounced schedule changes. I didn't see serenity in theaters because it was in the theaters in my (medium sized) city for only one week. I didn't get a chance to see it because of a mix of time constraints and theater stupidity. Even the dollar theaters didn't play it afterward. So I bought serenity on DVD just like I bought firefly. But if they would have been "straight to DVD" productions, I probably would have not bought either.
I was confused there for a centon.
I think "proportionally" means what you don't think it means. If I get 100% of my income from 0% of my own hard work, then all of my income is coming from society (those around me or the government). There are people on both ends of the spectrum that fit that bill (trust fund babies and people having welfare babies), but there are more on the poor end. Sure, a good amount of my income comes from the infrastructure of society, but it doesn't just land in my lap, I have to prune the infrastructure around me, plant new infrastructure, and reap what I or those before me have sown.
As Adam Smith said, those who benefit more from society should contribute proportionately more of their income to the running of society. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_of_nations#Book_IV:_Of_Systems_of_political_Economy
The unemployed benefit proportionally more from society...
Things tend to be locked down fairly tight around here (Montgomery County, MD)...but I've NEVER encountered anything like this while going to the movies. Sure, I've seen people walk in during opening night to make sure no one is taping the damn thing, but you don't have to go through a security checkpoint or any of that nonsense.
Has anyone?
At a recent Tron preview, a friend said they had to fork over all recording devices and cell phones into a coat-check room.
So it's time to start building a bigger wall.
They have one in China. They had a revolution too.
On a side note I like how the only people they named explicitly were republicans and unnamed were some of the bigger supposed problem accounts. This was pretty obviously a kind of astroturfing, in and of itself... make up a problem where none exists and claim Republicans are at the heart of it, all on election day. Smooth.
Bloomington Indiana is a blue island in a red sea.
Oh please. Do you really think Gore would have invaded Iraq just because his poll numbers dipped for a few months before a midterm election?
Gore would have invaded for the same reason I predicted back when we invaded Afghanistan: as a long-term vice-grip on Iran. Iran has always been the most nuclear foe in the area, and is a foe that pressure will work better with than actual war. Having "permanent" armies on two borders - especially if those two armies aren't really fighting wars - is a strong message.