Or it was so terribly, unbelievably important that they hung up and dialed someone else so they could talk with a human instead of a machine. If I know who called me, I generally call back.
Technically, GP didn't commit the logical fallacy of Negative Proof. Instead, GP proposed a bet whereby he will win with 100% certainty. Of course there is the implied "X is true because there is no proof that X is false." where X is "we are increasing the temperature of the planet." If the implication was the desired communication, then Parent post's accusation holds.
Or to stick with the spider metaphor: Your friend whips out a can of bug spray. Still potentially deadly, and you'll probably go blind (remember, the spider's on your face), but not quite as obvious as the gun.
Rachel's not dead. There was no body, no funeral, no witness. Since this is a comic book world, that means she _will_ be back.
My take (even from the first movie): She'll be back when al Ghul comes back, and she'll explain to her "Beloved" why she was really sent to Gotham to live and work with the elite. No one woman embodies the romantic life of Bruce more than Talia (except maybe Selena, but we know Rachel's not Catwoman).
latest major version of their preferred web browser
This is not always bad. If they had said latest minor version, I'd be more concerned. Example: FF2 and FF3: both keep getting security patches (at least until this December).
Sure you could, it's kind of like a Company Store where you end up owing more than you earn (earn $1, owe $2 to the government). I can't imagine it would ever be done except as a one-time levy during extreme governmental distress where everyone has to dip into personal savings, and would spell disaster to even the most benevolent of dictators.
Do you really think he's a member of the current Vice Presidential Action Rangers? Hmm... nevermind, it could be that he has promises from all parties to be rehired after the election. Hopefully Gary faked his own death; the Rangers need his chaotic determination to complement Hawking's rigid mathematics.
Because, you actually know more Windows than "clicking teh pretty picshurz" so the FUD doesn't apply to you.
I know more about windows than clicking icons too (pstools, regedit[32]/reg.exe have been my friends for years), but if I forget and leave a cable in when I do a new windows xp install, it gets owned. Updates need to be done offline, even when you installed the base from a slipstreamed CD.
Unix deals with this too; Heck, Solaris 10 ships with a remotely exploitable telnet daemon on by default. Always unplug, install, update offline, _then_ connect to the internet.
Don't think of this as FUD; this is undoubtedly legitimate fear about certain types of remote exploits on unpatched machines with almost any OS that can be prevented easily.
If you have any awareness of what's going on on your system, you can protect a Windows installation pretty easily. That would be why we're not 80% Mac OS now.
I'm pretty sure it's another reason, because very few people are aware of what their systems are doing.
If this were real, USAF would have hired him, hushed it up, and waited until a good time to start crashing machines overseas. The Great Firewall isn't really a firewall, and if TCP packets can be sent to crash any Intel machine, then it'd be darn effective.
It seems so much like snake oil that it better not be true. I am glad that I have AMD in half my machines though, just in case.
What about crashing lots of computers repeatedly and simultaneously?
Even crashing just one computer can be an end goal whether the target computer is your bro ids box or your mom's laptop which was using up shared bandwidth on a wireless connection.
That's because there wasn't "graphics RAM" on SGI machines, it was all tweakable system/graphics RAM. Not a bad setup; much faster than the shared RAM systems we get today on x86 motherboards with built in graphics. Even their SGI Windows NT4 boxes had that hardware setup.
I still play games with good gameplay and bad graphics. I toss aside games with bad gameplay but good graphics.
To game company CEOs, this translates as: "Customer Culture20 occasionally buys games with bad gameplay, but good graphics. We need more of these games for him to buy because we make more profit when he buys multiple crap games and plays them as little as possible."
They don't want me to play the games for years and years. They want me to get bored and buy the next shiny thing.
worms my friend. The _real_ virtual kind, not the fake virtual kind where user intervention is required. Plug a box in, it gets owned. A poor grad student I worked with five years ago learned that the hard way two times in four hours. Fresh install of XP sp1 on her laptop, connected to internet for updates, owned. Ditto a couple hours later. When she came to me I gave her my CD with technet downloaded patches & the batch files (some patches really required reboots back then) that installed them.
Additionally, wouldn't the elves, trolls, and goblins hate Hellboy too? If he's destined to destroy the world, and it's where they keep all there stuff...
I'm an absent minded guy so I figure out various tricks when I need to remember things and not lose things. However, it takes a while for me to set that kind of thing up.
What the non-absent minded don't understand is that it takes a while for absent minded people to remember to set up the memory tricks. There are often more important things to think about.
Apple design is usually about what isn't offered, and that's like a slap in the face to many geeks who measure THEIR penises by feature count.
I measure the usability of my devices by feature count. I measure my penis with a micrometer caliper like everyone else. The exact number of micrometers is left unknown as an exercise for the women.
3G is pretty hot shit-- [...] it's still pretty damn cool to have an SSH session open while I'm on the train.
It would be even cooler with an iphone, but Apple says No SSH For You!
You can buy a Nagios-type app to monitor servers, but no ssh or even free built-in ssh to do anything with those servers.
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Isn't there the possibility of data loss if I close the browser? Maybe they should implement an "Override Close/Exit Button Event" for that scenario.
Or it was so terribly, unbelievably important that they hung up and dialed someone else so they could talk with a human instead of a machine. If I know who called me, I generally call back.
I suppose at a basic level they're the same thing; rendering a 2D image on the desktop from a mathematical function, but their implementations are very different. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_graphics
Who is the sick puppy who moderated that as "Informative"? Gawd...
Probably my ex girlfriend. ;)
BTW, I thought the "informative" moderation was hilarious, although a caliper is a great device for measuring diameter.
But all 222 "web browser users" worldwide voted. Unless someone voted twice.
driving a truck, or waiting on tables, or shuffling paper, or laying bricks [...] they're not exactly riveting
Laying bricks is close (both construction), but nothing is as riveting as... riveting.
Technically, GP didn't commit the logical fallacy of Negative Proof. Instead, GP proposed a bet whereby he will win with 100% certainty. Of course there is the implied "X is true because there is no proof that X is false." where X is "we are increasing the temperature of the planet." If the implication was the desired communication, then Parent post's accusation holds.
Or to stick with the spider metaphor: Your friend whips out a can of bug spray. Still potentially deadly, and you'll probably go blind (remember, the spider's on your face), but not quite as obvious as the gun.
Rachel's not dead. There was no body, no funeral, no witness. Since this is a comic book world, that means she _will_ be back.
My take (even from the first movie): She'll be back when al Ghul comes back, and she'll explain to her "Beloved" why she was really sent to Gotham to live and work with the elite. No one woman embodies the romantic life of Bruce more than Talia (except maybe Selena, but we know Rachel's not Catwoman).
latest major version of their preferred web browser
This is not always bad. If they had said latest minor version, I'd be more concerned. Example: FF2 and FF3: both keep getting security patches (at least until this December).
Sure you could, it's kind of like a Company Store where you end up owing more than you earn (earn $1, owe $2 to the government). I can't imagine it would ever be done except as a one-time levy during extreme governmental distress where everyone has to dip into personal savings, and would spell disaster to even the most benevolent of dictators.
Hypnotoad can only control the meatspace. Once the robot vote goes through, Nixon will win again.
Do you really think he's a member of the current Vice Presidential Action Rangers? Hmm... nevermind, it could be that he has promises from all parties to be rehired after the election. Hopefully Gary faked his own death; the Rangers need his chaotic determination to complement Hawking's rigid mathematics.
Because, you actually know more Windows than "clicking teh pretty picshurz" so the FUD doesn't apply to you.
I know more about windows than clicking icons too (pstools, regedit[32]/reg.exe have been my friends for years), but if I forget and leave a cable in when I do a new windows xp install, it gets owned. Updates need to be done offline, even when you installed the base from a slipstreamed CD.
Unix deals with this too; Heck, Solaris 10 ships with a remotely exploitable telnet daemon on by default. Always unplug, install, update offline, _then_ connect to the internet.
Don't think of this as FUD; this is undoubtedly legitimate fear about certain types of remote exploits on unpatched machines with almost any OS that can be prevented easily.
If you have any awareness of what's going on on your system, you can protect a Windows installation pretty easily. That would be why we're not 80% Mac OS now.
I'm pretty sure it's another reason, because very few people are aware of what their systems are doing.
If this were real, USAF would have hired him, hushed it up, and waited until a good time to start crashing machines overseas. The Great Firewall isn't really a firewall, and if TCP packets can be sent to crash any Intel machine, then it'd be darn effective.
It seems so much like snake oil that it better not be true. I am glad that I have AMD in half my machines though, just in case.
What about crashing lots of computers repeatedly and simultaneously?
Even crashing just one computer can be an end goal whether the target computer is your bro ids box or your mom's laptop which was using up shared bandwidth on a wireless connection.
That's because there wasn't "graphics RAM" on SGI machines, it was all tweakable system/graphics RAM. Not a bad setup; much faster than the shared RAM systems we get today on x86 motherboards with built in graphics. Even their SGI Windows NT4 boxes had that hardware setup.
I still play games with good gameplay and bad graphics. I toss aside games with bad gameplay but good graphics.
To game company CEOs, this translates as: "Customer Culture20 occasionally buys games with bad gameplay, but good graphics. We need more of these games for him to buy because we make more profit when he buys multiple crap games and plays them as little as possible."
They don't want me to play the games for years and years. They want me to get bored and buy the next shiny thing.
worms my friend. The _real_ virtual kind, not the fake virtual kind where user intervention is required. Plug a box in, it gets owned. A poor grad student I worked with five years ago learned that the hard way two times in four hours. Fresh install of XP sp1 on her laptop, connected to internet for updates, owned. Ditto a couple hours later. When she came to me I gave her my CD with technet downloaded patches & the batch files (some patches really required reboots back then) that installed them.
Additionally, wouldn't the elves, trolls, and goblins hate Hellboy too? If he's destined to destroy the world, and it's where they keep all there stuff...
Apparently you haven't seen the movie; it's the singular noun.
I'm an absent minded guy so I figure out various tricks when I need to remember things and not lose things. However, it takes a while for me to set that kind of thing up.
What the non-absent minded don't understand is that it takes a while for absent minded people to remember to set up the memory tricks. There are often more important things to think about.
Apple design is usually about what isn't offered, and that's like a slap in the face to many geeks who measure THEIR penises by feature count.
I measure the usability of my devices by feature count. I measure my penis with a micrometer caliper like everyone else. The exact number of micrometers is left unknown as an exercise for the women.
3G is pretty hot shit-- [...] it's still pretty damn cool to have an SSH session open while I'm on the train.
It would be even cooler with an iphone, but Apple says No SSH For You!
You can buy a Nagios-type app to monitor servers, but no ssh or even free built-in ssh to do anything with those servers.
I am just happy to see some bipartisan cooperation in Washington for a change.
Huh? We see that every time there's a House or Senate pay-raise vote. ;-)