Clearly, the word he meant to use was verisimilituduousness.
DUH.
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The final stress test beta has been going on a couple days, and it's supposed to be a week-long, followed immediately by open beta, at which point the stress beta accounts will be migrated over.
I suspect the bigger differentiating factor is that if you record it to VHS, you likely haven't stripped out the commercials that they paid to have seen.
Most of the downloaded versions I've seen "shared" online have all the commercials stripped.
If it's a re-broadcast of a network show, I honestly don't think that they mind so much IF the commercials are intact.
Of course, that gets into where it's being shared, as the commercials I see on Fox in Memphis are probably not the same commercials someone in San Francisco would see, so that's another issue as well.
If he thought he was downloading Bad Religion's "Against the Grain" album, and realized that it was incorrectly named from whatever Britney Spears' latest album is, renaming it doesn't make it Bad Religion.
That might have been unexpected, but it's seldom lethal. Your car will drive just fine without any power steering fluid (assuming you don't burn out the pump and innards of course), as that is how all cars used to be.
If you'd accelerated a little bit, you'd have noticed it got easier to turn, as the tires have less constant contact with the ground.
Basically, the point I'm making is that if power steering fails, it's a little harder to turn. If steering-by-wire fails, the car DOES NOT turn at all, and you die. Granted, I'm sure that there would be some sort of failover in place before it was ever actually implemented, but that's the difference.
Having to put some muscle into it is a whole lot better than the wheel spinning freely with no effect.
If you'd read the initial article, it was a magnetic ignition, and I think the only way to turn those off are to expel the keys (or at least the fob) from the car and hope it works.
While I mostly agree, I think a more correct analogy would be to equate the virus with a drought, and the cold to the spark. HIV is the drought that causes the field to be more susceptible to the spark, not the spark itself.
Possibly, but if you get to the google job page without having Linux.org as the referrer, that might tip them off that you didn't actually solve the problem.
Actually, I'm thinking second-to-last really. As the third-to-last person on the earth, I may choose to encrypt a document entitled "How to kill Fred and Bill" so that that the other two may not access it.
If I recall correctly, MSSQL has an aging algorhithm that re-caches the execution plan when it becomes less effective.
Of course, being closed source, nobody knows how it works other than Microsoft, but I believe it doesn't stick with the same execution plan just to do so.
Your logic is right, but backwards. In "The Price is Right", if a car costs $15,000 (x), there are only a finite amount of numbers between zero and x. There are an infinite amount of numbers greater than x, so, "going over" is predicting in the infinite space rather than the finite space.
The key is guess within the finite space and be closer than the other guy.
"Besides which, what does a GUI actually add to the package management experience?"
Because it lets my wife install the newest version of Solitaire without me having to be bothered at work?
Because it keeps her from having to know which repositories are available?
Because it lets her get the latest security patch from/wherever/ via point and click install, so I don't have to walk her through a bunch of arcane commands involving utilities she may or may not have access to use?
Yes, I know that there are plugins for this one, but keeping bookmarks in sync on multiple machines via server storage. Since I got my laptop, it's not a big issue, but I hate having to go back to my other machine cause that's where the bookmark is.
Enabling persistent storage of passwords. I honestly don't know how much or little of a security hole this would be, but I am constantly using the "remember my password" feature in Moz/FF, and it KILLS me when I have to reinstall and start adding them all again. Have it store that file to a spot on the hard drive (or better, server sync if that option is turned on), and allow me to keep that data even if I have to uninstall/reinstall the application.
Are you serious? Almost every suggestion made was in regards to an existing problem. For example:
"2. Create a full-text index in real-time of every page that has been browsed. When the user visits any web page, display a sidebar of "Related previously-viewed pages."
I am constantly browsing pages doing research, regardless the topic. Say I google for "read process memory", and come up with 100 results. The way I browse is to open the first 15-20 results as tabs, and close out the ones that don't apply as I run across them.
I can't tell you how many times I've run into a page that had the exact answer to a problem I didn't have yet, like "read process memory 0x00e32 errors". When I performed the initial search, I didn't need that, because I didn't have that error yet... however, after I found the answer to my initial problem, I _do_ need that page. The problem is, I didn't bookmark it because it didn't apply at the time.
Given the solution proposed, I could simply pull up the bookmark of the page I did use, and it would relate that to the page that I need.
This might sound obscure, and it might be a bad example, but it happens to me quite frequently, for numerous reasons, and I've never even given thought to how to fix it, and since the problem is with me, never even registered that it could be solved.
Linky looks nice, but seems more complicated than spiderzilla (too lazy to find the link right now, but it's on the mozdev active projects page). SpiderZilla works exactly how I like it. Tools->Download this site, and it presents you with something very similar to a GUI interface to WGET, with (seemingly) all of the available options present.
"but where are the plug-ins that will improve productivity for the Corporate user?"
Write them. In anticipation of our company's decision to stop using IE (currently in discussion because SP2 breaks the IE Trusted Sites), I wrote an XUL mozilla interface that acts as kind of a google search bar, but for our IT Knowledge Base.
This will prevent the help desk and LAN administrators from having to keep a window open with the knowledge base, as they'll be able to query, search and browse it from their mozilla window no matter what site they're at.
Granted, this might never come to fruition, and was mostly written as incentive to help them migrate from IE, but there's really no reason we all couldn't do the same and sell more companies on Mozilla.
The more corporate-friendly features available, the more corporations will realize it. And with at least a few big names teetering on the edge of continued IE support, now's a better time than ever to push.
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Judge Dredd had this years ago.
How is this news?
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Clearly, the word he meant to use was verisimilituduousness.
DUH.
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The final stress test beta has been going on a couple days, and it's supposed to be a week-long, followed immediately by open beta, at which point the stress beta accounts will be migrated over.
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I suspect the bigger differentiating factor is that if you record it to VHS, you likely haven't stripped out the commercials that they paid to have seen.
Most of the downloaded versions I've seen "shared" online have all the commercials stripped.
If it's a re-broadcast of a network show, I honestly don't think that they mind so much IF the commercials are intact.
Of course, that gets into where it's being shared, as the commercials I see on Fox in Memphis are probably not the same commercials someone in San Francisco would see, so that's another issue as well.
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In related news, Bush made certain to call "No take backs" during Kerry's congratulatory phone call.
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But, if the data weren't available in the first place, one couldn't apply any analysis algorithms to it.
How easy the information is to find doesn't matter, if it CAN be found at all. Ease is a matter of how much effort one is willing to invest.
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Michael Rosenbaum is a SPECTACULAR Lex Luthor. I think his work on Smallville will add several layers of humanity and depth to future LLs.
I'm not touting the show in general, because while I enjoy it, it's not the best show in the world; However, Rosenbaum's Lex Luthor is pinnacle.
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If he thought he was downloading Bad Religion's "Against the Grain" album, and realized that it was incorrectly named from whatever Britney Spears' latest album is, renaming it doesn't make it Bad Religion.
Deletion is the only option.
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With Charisma Carpenter potentially up for the role of the new Lois, that could change as well. :)
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That might have been unexpected, but it's seldom lethal. Your car will drive just fine without any power steering fluid (assuming you don't burn out the pump and innards of course), as that is how all cars used to be.
If you'd accelerated a little bit, you'd have noticed it got easier to turn, as the tires have less constant contact with the ground.
Basically, the point I'm making is that if power steering fails, it's a little harder to turn. If steering-by-wire fails, the car DOES NOT turn at all, and you die. Granted, I'm sure that there would be some sort of failover in place before it was ever actually implemented, but that's the difference.
Having to put some muscle into it is a whole lot better than the wheel spinning freely with no effect.
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If you'd read the initial article, it was a magnetic ignition, and I think the only way to turn those off are to expel the keys (or at least the fob) from the car and hope it works.
I wouldn't have done it.
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While I mostly agree, I think a more correct analogy would be to equate the virus with a drought, and the cold to the spark. HIV is the drought that causes the field to be more susceptible to the spark, not the spark itself.
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Michael Moore DID encourage downloading of his movie via Bittorrent, and other means.
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Possibly, but if you get to the google job page without having Linux.org as the referrer, that might tip them off that you didn't actually solve the problem.
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Actually, I'm thinking second-to-last really. As the third-to-last person on the earth, I may choose to encrypt a document entitled "How to kill Fred and Bill" so that that the other two may not access it.
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If I recall correctly, MSSQL has an aging algorhithm that re-caches the execution plan when it becomes less effective.
Of course, being closed source, nobody knows how it works other than Microsoft, but I believe it doesn't stick with the same execution plan just to do so.
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Agreed. Or possibly he means Mazda, which is Ford's foreign sister-company. Not sure which.
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It's okay. He's at the helm of Alan Moore's up and coming Watchment movie, which ought to blow this Batman film out of the proverbial water.
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Your logic is right, but backwards. In "The Price is Right", if a car costs $15,000 (x), there are only a finite amount of numbers between zero and x. There are an infinite amount of numbers greater than x, so, "going over" is predicting in the infinite space rather than the finite space.
The key is guess within the finite space and be closer than the other guy.
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"Besides which, what does a GUI actually add to the package management experience?"
/wherever/ via point and click install, so I don't have to walk her through a bunch of arcane commands involving utilities she may or may not have access to use?
Because it lets my wife install the newest version of Solitaire without me having to be bothered at work?
Because it keeps her from having to know which repositories are available?
Because it lets her get the latest security patch from
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Yes, I know that there are plugins for this one, but keeping bookmarks in sync on multiple machines via server storage. Since I got my laptop, it's not a big issue, but I hate having to go back to my other machine cause that's where the bookmark is.
Enabling persistent storage of passwords. I honestly don't know how much or little of a security hole this would be, but I am constantly using the "remember my password" feature in Moz/FF, and it KILLS me when I have to reinstall and start adding them all again. Have it store that file to a spot on the hard drive (or better, server sync if that option is turned on), and allow me to keep that data even if I have to uninstall/reinstall the application.
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Are you serious? Almost every suggestion made was in regards to an existing problem. For example:
"2. Create a full-text index in real-time of every page that has been browsed. When the user visits any web page, display a sidebar of "Related previously-viewed pages."
I am constantly browsing pages doing research, regardless the topic. Say I google for "read process memory", and come up with 100 results. The way I browse is to open the first 15-20 results as tabs, and close out the ones that don't apply as I run across them.
I can't tell you how many times I've run into a page that had the exact answer to a problem I didn't have yet, like "read process memory 0x00e32 errors". When I performed the initial search, I didn't need that, because I didn't have that error yet... however, after I found the answer to my initial problem, I _do_ need that page. The problem is, I didn't bookmark it because it didn't apply at the time.
Given the solution proposed, I could simply pull up the bookmark of the page I did use, and it would relate that to the page that I need.
This might sound obscure, and it might be a bad example, but it happens to me quite frequently, for numerous reasons, and I've never even given thought to how to fix it, and since the problem is with me, never even registered that it could be solved.
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Linky looks nice, but seems more complicated than spiderzilla (too lazy to find the link right now, but it's on the mozdev active projects page). SpiderZilla works exactly how I like it. Tools->Download this site, and it presents you with something very similar to a GUI interface to WGET, with (seemingly) all of the available options present.
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"but where are the plug-ins that will improve productivity for the Corporate user?"
Write them. In anticipation of our company's decision to stop using IE (currently in discussion because SP2 breaks the IE Trusted Sites), I wrote an XUL mozilla interface that acts as kind of a google search bar, but for our IT Knowledge Base.
This will prevent the help desk and LAN administrators from having to keep a window open with the knowledge base, as they'll be able to query, search and browse it from their mozilla window no matter what site they're at.
Granted, this might never come to fruition, and was mostly written as incentive to help them migrate from IE, but there's really no reason we all couldn't do the same and sell more companies on Mozilla.
The more corporate-friendly features available, the more corporations will realize it. And with at least a few big names teetering on the edge of continued IE support, now's a better time than ever to push.
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That's easy enough... Suse.
Easiest Linux install I've ever done.
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