You had me until the "college sports with world wide fan bases". I seriously hope our dear friends in the US of A don't think the rest of the world cares about OSU vs. LSU football, much less baseball, which admittedly have a huge domestic fan base.
From a user standpoint, I take umbrage with the password policy set by "security professionals". It's fine to require a strong password, it's fine to expect a user to remember a strong password much as one remembers many other details you mentioned.
However it's completely ridiculous to expect a user to mention a new strong password that is completely different from your old password every few months.
Nothing else in our brains keeps changing like that. If you changed your own phone number or SIN every couple of months, you'd have trouble remembering those too.
Nevermind having a different 4th grade crush all the time, complete with punctuation - mmm, "kathy47,##!thompSoN"
Lovely video indeed. I hope people really aren't naive enough to think it's just a coincidence that a russian girl who speaks perfect english and just happened to be "on vacation" in a conflict zone is somehow "found" for foreign media?
"introduced 1995.08.25 at $6,500 (5300ce); "
In 2007, $6,500.00 from 1997 is worth:
$8,397.03 using the Consumer Price Index
$8,162.43 using the GDP deflator
$9,408.66 using the value of consumer bundle *
$8,671.87 using the unskilled wage *
$9,765.17 using the nominal GDP per capita
$10,807.50 using the relative share of GDP
Rich. For that money today one could get a laptop with 128G SSD...and...another 15 x 128G SSD drives on top of it. Thanks for shopping with us!
Except that you're again making the mistake of thinking of Russia as reasonable. With the events of today, it seems pretty clear Russia is determine to annihilate Georgia. First they outright a peace treaty and now they've actually invaded. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7554507.stm
Let this be a lesson to whoever still thinks russians are to be trusted. As of two days ago, the russian government fully insisted it has no plans to enter Georgian territory. Nevermind that they have now begun to threaten other bordering countries - russia's ambassador to Latvia officially warned the Latvian government from even making remarks supporting Georgia, saying that will have "dire and permanent consequences".
Weeeelll....actually it's more like Russia has been planning this for years. Those Ossetian peaceniks you talk about opened fire across the "border" at Georgian villages, knowing Georgia had vowed to protect their territory. Of course they wouldn't have done this without knowing Russia had an invasion plan ready.
Or do you really believe a country whose leadership insists that "we can't control this, our volunteers have taken action", while fighter jets and bombers are flying about and tank columns are rolling in.
The best "proof" for anything is Russia's continued threats to all of its neighbours, whether to attack the Czech Republic or Poland over any planned missile shield, attack Georgia if they dared join NATO, attack the Baltic States for pretty much the same reason as Georgia now - "mistreatment" of russian citizens living there.
Russia is trying to set a precedent here - if our citizens are living in another sovereign nation, we reserve the right to use military force to act in their interest. While the good folks of Brighton Beach likely don't have much to worry about, Russia's neighbouring countries do.
FUD much? I think if one gave you a default install XP SP2 to play with remotely, you'd get frustrated oh in about 30 minutes, shrug and go back to WoW.
I guess not so much lately though...Losing 35% of your stock price in 5 months (that's around $80 billion USD if you must know) doesn't paint the rosiest picture.
>But, in the end, the proof is in the pudding. There are about 130 to 140 million Firefox users today, coming up on our third major release.
Oh. Wait, just earlier someone linked to a post of yours from 3 weeks ago...
"Mozilla has used search-related revenue to grow from about 10 full-time employees and a few million users back in 2004 to more than 100 employees supporting over 120 million Firefox users today..."
Quite impressive growth indeed, 3 weeks and tens of millions of users. Or how about finally agreeing to stop using bullshit download numbers as your installed user base? Might make your calculations a little easier too. I could see how forgetting wget on a loop might add a good number of new "users" overnight.
But remember that F/OSS is developed in the open. They'll have some of the best minds critiquing their patches. And they'll be able to see how a project evolves, in real time.
That kind of interaction with skilled programmers on an evolving project just can't be had at most colleges.
Allow them to travel? To where? Who wanted to travel from one soviet community to another? They certainly weren't allowed to travel outside the Soviet Union.
You also talk about the Krushchev warming...but what about the Brezhnev freezing right after? Many things, such as persecutions, whether political or otherwise, returned to how they were during Stalin.
How about the invasion of Hungary by Krushchev, and the subsequent killings and deportations, was that another welcome change?
How about the invasion of Czechoslovakia under Brezhnev, was that another welcome change?
How about the continued attempt at genocide in the border republics, especially the Baltic states, by shipping in unskilled Russian workers, and giving them first access to food and shelter?
You mention a welcome change being not planning for WW3...that's a little hard to comprehend, because it was Krushchev who almost caused not only WW3, but a nuclear war, with the Cuban missile crisis.
I think it's a pretty safe bet you're a Russian, who is sad for the demise of the "great" Soviet Union, but please, don't spew your communist propaganda on Slashdot.
You can always easily use an app called TweakVI to easily change the colour and transparency of Glass. It also lets you do many more customizations and optimizations on Vista. Basic version is freeware.
Many, if not most, of the "citizens" of the Soviet Union didn't care because the collapse was something they had been hoping for ever since Russia occupied their countries. It meant they could actually buy food in stores, cross the border and not have to support the ethnic russian population. Nevermind the fact that the Soviet Union made Hitler seem relatively harmless considering the number of people murdered or sent to prison camps.
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You had me until the "college sports with world wide fan bases". I seriously hope our dear friends in the US of A don't think the rest of the world cares about OSU vs. LSU football, much less baseball, which admittedly have a huge domestic fan base.
From a user standpoint, I take umbrage with the password policy set by "security professionals". It's fine to require a strong password, it's fine to expect a user to remember a strong password much as one remembers many other details you mentioned. However it's completely ridiculous to expect a user to mention a new strong password that is completely different from your old password every few months.
Nothing else in our brains keeps changing like that. If you changed your own phone number or SIN every couple of months, you'd have trouble remembering those too.
Nevermind having a different 4th grade crush all the time, complete with punctuation - mmm, "kathy47,##!thompSoN"
Updated reference
Lovely video indeed. I hope people really aren't naive enough to think it's just a coincidence that a russian girl who speaks perfect english and just happened to be "on vacation" in a conflict zone is somehow "found" for foreign media?
"introduced 1995.08.25 at $6,500 (5300ce); " In 2007, $6,500.00 from 1997 is worth: $8,397.03 using the Consumer Price Index $8,162.43 using the GDP deflator $9,408.66 using the value of consumer bundle * $8,671.87 using the unskilled wage * $9,765.17 using the nominal GDP per capita $10,807.50 using the relative share of GDP Rich. For that money today one could get a laptop with 128G SSD...and...another 15 x 128G SSD drives on top of it. Thanks for shopping with us!
Except that you're again making the mistake of thinking of Russia as reasonable. With the events of today, it seems pretty clear Russia is determine to annihilate Georgia. First they outright a peace treaty and now they've actually invaded. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7554507.stm Let this be a lesson to whoever still thinks russians are to be trusted. As of two days ago, the russian government fully insisted it has no plans to enter Georgian territory. Nevermind that they have now begun to threaten other bordering countries - russia's ambassador to Latvia officially warned the Latvian government from even making remarks supporting Georgia, saying that will have "dire and permanent consequences".
Weeeelll....actually it's more like Russia has been planning this for years. Those Ossetian peaceniks you talk about opened fire across the "border" at Georgian villages, knowing Georgia had vowed to protect their territory. Of course they wouldn't have done this without knowing Russia had an invasion plan ready.
Or do you really believe a country whose leadership insists that "we can't control this, our volunteers have taken action", while fighter jets and bombers are flying about and tank columns are rolling in.
The best "proof" for anything is Russia's continued threats to all of its neighbours, whether to attack the Czech Republic or Poland over any planned missile shield, attack Georgia if they dared join NATO, attack the Baltic States for pretty much the same reason as Georgia now - "mistreatment" of russian citizens living there.
Russia is trying to set a precedent here - if our citizens are living in another sovereign nation, we reserve the right to use military force to act in their interest. While the good folks of Brighton Beach likely don't have much to worry about, Russia's neighbouring countries do.
FUD much? I think if one gave you a default install XP SP2 to play with remotely, you'd get frustrated oh in about 30 minutes, shrug and go back to WoW.
1. Claim moon 2. Sell the parts you don't want 3. PROFIT!!!
I guess not so much lately though...Losing 35% of your stock price in 5 months (that's around $80 billion USD if you must know) doesn't paint the rosiest picture.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=GOOG&t=6m
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/2/2008/2/google_disaster__comscore_reports_awful_january
Memory stick, SD card, whatever you want, our friends like IOGear make this a moot point - eg. http://www.iogear.com/product_images/main/format3/GFR202SD.jpg
>But, in the end, the proof is in the pudding. There are about 130 to 140 million Firefox users today, coming up on our third major release.
Oh. Wait, just earlier someone linked to a post of yours from 3 weeks ago...
"Mozilla has used search-related revenue to grow from about 10 full-time employees and a few million users back in 2004 to more than 100 employees supporting over 120 million Firefox users today..."
Posted by asa on October 25, 2007 10:41 AM
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2007/10/firefox_finance.html
Quite impressive growth indeed, 3 weeks and tens of millions of users. Or how about finally agreeing to stop using bullshit download numbers as your installed user base? Might make your calculations a little easier too. I could see how forgetting wget on a loop might add a good number of new "users" overnight.
But remember that F/OSS is developed in the open. They'll have some of the best minds critiquing their patches. And they'll be able to see how a project evolves, in real time.
That kind of interaction with skilled programmers on an evolving project just can't be had at most colleges.
Urm yeah. Until they run into Theo and the like.
Well...
Allow them to travel? To where? Who wanted to travel from one soviet community to another? They certainly weren't allowed to travel outside the Soviet Union.
You also talk about the Krushchev warming...but what about the Brezhnev freezing right after? Many things, such as persecutions, whether political or otherwise, returned to how they were during Stalin.
How about the invasion of Hungary by Krushchev, and the subsequent killings and deportations, was that another welcome change?
How about the invasion of Czechoslovakia under Brezhnev, was that another welcome change?
How about the continued attempt at genocide in the border republics, especially the Baltic states, by shipping in unskilled Russian workers, and giving them first access to food and shelter?
You mention a welcome change being not planning for WW3...that's a little hard to comprehend, because it was Krushchev who almost caused not only WW3, but a nuclear war, with the Cuban missile crisis.
I think it's a pretty safe bet you're a Russian, who is sad for the demise of the "great" Soviet Union, but please, don't spew your communist propaganda on Slashdot.
You can always easily use an app called TweakVI to easily change the colour and transparency of Glass. It also lets you do many more customizations and optimizations on Vista. Basic version is freeware.
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http://www.totalidea.com/content/tweakvi/tweakvi-
Many, if not most, of the "citizens" of the Soviet Union didn't care because the collapse was something they had been hoping for ever since Russia occupied their countries. It meant they could actually buy food in stores, cross the border and not have to support the ethnic russian population. Nevermind the fact that the Soviet Union made Hitler seem relatively harmless considering the number of people murdered or sent to prison camps.