When I was young and single I used to want to find an attractive recently divorced older woman looking for a boytoy. I never heard about Cougars until recently and didn't know that they existed back then. I'm happily married to a woman one year younger than me, but it sure could have been fun back when I was single.
Were I in law enforcement, I would institute a policy where electronic devices were put into a signal inhibiting box (Faraday cage) upon acquisition. Said box could then be taken to a room for analysis. It won't necessarily prevent the wipe, but it will help a lot. Would also help in situations where the bad guys were doing something with the phone signal (like trying to locate where the cops were staked out).
I know I'm not the only one who read that blurb and then looked down at the keyboard under their fingers.....what self-respecting computer geek CAN'T operate their computer without the mouse? I find that for speed, I switch to keyboard shortcuts and command line....mostly because my keyboard has a BUFFER and I can stack commands while others are processing. My mouse isn't that smart.
Visual viruses.....
Old school viruses were pretty visual. They weren't so much malicious as they were "Kilroy was here" type of messages. My favorite virus (which I should still have an infected 5 1/4 around here somewhere) was Pong. It could infect a file multiple times and for each infection, it would create a single bouncy dot that went around your screen. I remember seeing a computer that had like 6 or 7 dots all going around at once. Sure, the new ones are about theft, but the old school ones would do exactly what was described.
I simply read it as: they burn more natural gas for lime-ash, using the heat from the lime-ash process to turn turbines. This generates more electricity than is required by their day to day operations. Thus, more electricity than they use. The excess electricity is then sold. Nothing there violates your sacred law. I think you just skipped over the part about burning natural gas.
They aren't the only hospital in town? Even the small area I grew up in had three in the largest city area plus others in some of the nearby towns. You didn't go to the closest because it was closest, you went to the best (if given a choice). And how else would you know it was best unless there was a marketing department to tell you.
Trade secrets are only protected by secrecy. Patents are protected by law. Copyrights are protected by law. Doesn't matter whether it's California or not. The KFC recipie, the Coke recipie, etc. are trade secrets. This is why companies sue other companies for stealing their employees -- for fear of losing control of their trade secrets.
1. Follow @ThatKevinSmith on Twitter (he's funny, but man does he Tweet a lot). 2. Set up SMS notification from Twitter. 3. Set phone on vibrate and place in pants. 4. "Profit"
Scale matters. Either way, I'm rooting against Apple.
Disclaimer: I'm currently a WinMo user and my next phone will be either Android or Windows Phone 7. Luckily, I have some time before I have to decide which (stupid contracts)....and hopefully the choice will be much clearer then.
Now, if I could only get another 99 people to put in their two cents, I could buy the software! Whereever would I find a site where so many people would be willing to voice their opinions.:)
That's because in Hollywood, computers all have this 3D hand-wavy activated interface and can infini-zoom beyond a single (dark) pixel to continue to enlarge and clarify an image to catch "perps". These 500GB drives are considered antiques. Once it's an antique, the price goes up a billion-fold.
Oh, but they do. Car & Driver will give you the performance character and their reliability and what options are available (and what cost). All sorts of information that you can use to make a decision based on your needs. If you want a car that goes from 0 to 60 quickly, that info is there. If you want a car that doesn't break down much, that info is there. etc. For Linux, if you ask which is the best desktop environment for me (and by me, I mean ME), you still never get a solid answer.
If you can follow threads, my response was in a chain that was talking about FreeBSD and a response that they thought it was dead. Sure, offtopic of the article, but not the current line of commenting.
And as for my point, it's that I wish that all the Linux distros in all of their many flavors would come to a point where they merge into one so that I can actually switch to Linux. There are so many distros and so many desktop environments and so many package managers and and and..... Sure, choice is nice and all, but I've yet to see a really good post that tells me (in one place) why I would choose one distro over another or why I should pick Gnome or KDE or whatever. I'm not afraid of Unix/Linux -- I've used several versions. But if a user picks the wrong version of Linux, they'll have a horrible experience with it and probably never come back. Until every (most?) users who tries it has an experience that matches their needs, Linux will always be a small component of the desktop world. And if that never happens, I (and most users) could care less if OpenSolaris or FreeBSD or whatever other flavor has their license jerked around by the likes of Oracle or whoever runs the flavor you perfer.
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The news is that we now understand how and why they do it.
Jane Seymore, Diane Lane, Jackquelyn Smith, .....
When I was young and single I used to want to find an attractive recently divorced older woman looking for a boytoy. I never heard about Cougars until recently and didn't know that they existed back then. I'm happily married to a woman one year younger than me, but it sure could have been fun back when I was single.
Were I in law enforcement, I would institute a policy where electronic devices were put into a signal inhibiting box (Faraday cage) upon acquisition. Said box could then be taken to a room for analysis. It won't necessarily prevent the wipe, but it will help a lot. Would also help in situations where the bad guys were doing something with the phone signal (like trying to locate where the cops were staked out).
Switching to keyboard.....
I know I'm not the only one who read that blurb and then looked down at the keyboard under their fingers.....what self-respecting computer geek CAN'T operate their computer without the mouse? I find that for speed, I switch to keyboard shortcuts and command line....mostly because my keyboard has a BUFFER and I can stack commands while others are processing. My mouse isn't that smart.
Visual viruses.....
Old school viruses were pretty visual. They weren't so much malicious as they were "Kilroy was here" type of messages. My favorite virus (which I should still have an infected 5 1/4 around here somewhere) was Pong. It could infect a file multiple times and for each infection, it would create a single bouncy dot that went around your screen. I remember seeing a computer that had like 6 or 7 dots all going around at once. Sure, the new ones are about theft, but the old school ones would do exactly what was described.
I simply read it as: they burn more natural gas for lime-ash, using the heat from the lime-ash process to turn turbines. This generates more electricity than is required by their day to day operations. Thus, more electricity than they use. The excess electricity is then sold. Nothing there violates your sacred law. I think you just skipped over the part about burning natural gas.
They aren't the only hospital in town? Even the small area I grew up in had three in the largest city area plus others in some of the nearby towns. You didn't go to the closest because it was closest, you went to the best (if given a choice). And how else would you know it was best unless there was a marketing department to tell you.
I've watched all of those Hollywood cop dramas. The police are corrupt.
Trade secrets are only protected by secrecy. Patents are protected by law. Copyrights are protected by law. Doesn't matter whether it's California or not. The KFC recipie, the Coke recipie, etc. are trade secrets. This is why companies sue other companies for stealing their employees -- for fear of losing control of their trade secrets.
Actually, there was a post on Gizmodod about how the guy who found it called up Apple and the phone reps said "what prototype".
http://gizmodo.com/5520729/why-apple-couldnt-get-the-lost-iphone-back
1. Follow @ThatKevinSmith on Twitter (he's funny, but man does he Tweet a lot).
2. Set up SMS notification from Twitter.
3. Set phone on vibrate and place in pants.
4. "Profit"
5. Clean phone
1000% of 100
vs
1% of 1,000,000,000
Scale matters. Either way, I'm rooting against Apple.
Disclaimer: I'm currently a WinMo user and my next phone will be either Android or Windows Phone 7. Luckily, I have some time before I have to decide which (stupid contracts)....and hopefully the choice will be much clearer then.
Goodwill and Dell do some tech recycling, too. Plus, if it can be repurposed, I think Goodwill does that first before dismantling it.
Saw a line about spoofing caller id info. That isn't legal.....now.
Oh yeah, and in case anyone thinks I don't know what I'm talking about -- have a look at https://www.ohloh.net/p/opensolaris/contributors -- that would be my name at the top of list.
I didn't see Anonymous Coward in that list anywhere.
Share price means less than market cap.
Oracle - 130.25B
Red Hat - 5.87B
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These days it feels like all games are being made within 48-hours.
Counter point: Duke Nukem Forever
Now, if I could only get another 99 people to put in their two cents, I could buy the software! Whereever would I find a site where so many people would be willing to voice their opinions. :)
That's because in Hollywood, computers all have this 3D hand-wavy activated interface and can infini-zoom beyond a single (dark) pixel to continue to enlarge and clarify an image to catch "perps". These 500GB drives are considered antiques. Once it's an antique, the price goes up a billion-fold.
I'll code in MS Robotics Studio, then. It doesn't rely on all of those silly characters in your patent.
Like this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncizu6OV3fk
Uses coke bottles filled with water and bleach. (Bleach is there to reduce algae growth.)
SDL? I'm pretty sure someone could write Reversi using SDL and C or Python and have it work pretty much everywhere.
Oh, but they do. Car & Driver will give you the performance character and their reliability and what options are available (and what cost). All sorts of information that you can use to make a decision based on your needs. If you want a car that goes from 0 to 60 quickly, that info is there. If you want a car that doesn't break down much, that info is there. etc. For Linux, if you ask which is the best desktop environment for me (and by me, I mean ME), you still never get a solid answer.
I have a snake and a chick, you know what to do!
Sad thing is that the srsly@ e-mail doesn't work.
If you can follow threads, my response was in a chain that was talking about FreeBSD and a response that they thought it was dead. Sure, offtopic of the article, but not the current line of commenting.
And as for my point, it's that I wish that all the Linux distros in all of their many flavors would come to a point where they merge into one so that I can actually switch to Linux. There are so many distros and so many desktop environments and so many package managers and and and..... Sure, choice is nice and all, but I've yet to see a really good post that tells me (in one place) why I would choose one distro over another or why I should pick Gnome or KDE or whatever. I'm not afraid of Unix/Linux -- I've used several versions. But if a user picks the wrong version of Linux, they'll have a horrible experience with it and probably never come back. Until every (most?) users who tries it has an experience that matches their needs, Linux will always be a small component of the desktop world. And if that never happens, I (and most users) could care less if OpenSolaris or FreeBSD or whatever other flavor has their license jerked around by the likes of Oracle or whoever runs the flavor you perfer.