It should be worth noting that the "photoshopping" means using Adobe Photoshop. Retouching is the word for a general process of photo modification regardless of the software used.
In short, every time someone says "photoshopped", they are advertising Adobe Photoshop for no compensation.:)
I'm not quite sure what connection exists between Eastern Europe and "developing world with no experienced opticians nor diagnostic equipment", but I'll let it pass.
(borked the preview)...attributed to individuals, or in the worst case, companies. You may rest now knowing that people like you elsewhere will now think of the U.S. business in general doing this sort of thing.
Those things happen in other places, perpetrated by similarly shady characters, but people like you only bother to note the name of the country. Whereas things happening in the U.S. are
Let's not forget that Linux is just a component of the entire GNU/Linux (I know, I know) system. The accompanying software has grown considerably: GNOME, KDE, browsers, various programming languages and environments, utilities, networking tools, etc. all siphon the interest of a young developer into other areas. Linux is, for all its good and bad sides, stable and feature-full. It's not very tasty to hack on unless you have specific interest in OS internals. So while Linux might be losing the influx of fresh blood, there's still lots of energy around it.
I love it how the know-it-alls jump and say "no, CSS/ads/JavaScript/AJAX/ is guilty".
Timothy's post claims an observed twofold increase in speed in practice. Unless you want to flat-out say that he is lying, your arguments are invalid.
I like to use this, please don't laugh, I am an electronics novice.
http://www.falstad.com/circuit/
It may be too simplistic to warrant being mentioned along the likes of OrCad, Spice, etc. but boy, does it help build intuition!
Pardon me, there is private property in communism. Name one country in the past or present where you don't own the bread you eat (once you were given it). Similarly, in capitalism, you don't own your salary until you've received your paycheck, so try to find your way around that.
It humors me greatly to see the amount of energy and the number of words people in the States need to spend in order to mention anything that has to do with "communism" while not bashing it at the same time.
If you want good randomness: buy a cheap microcontroller, one thermistor, one photoresistor, hook it all up to the charger of your old cell phone (or power from USB but then there's not much noise) and sample away.
Or alternatively just grab that Brownian motion detector.
Cannibalism. Homosexuality. Abortion. Incest. Animals do it, humans do it; those are Mother Nature's inventions, and who are we to try and remove them from the natural order of things? I call for an international effort to form ARCHAIC (Advisory and Regulatory body for the Conservation of Homosexuality, Abortion, Incest and Cannibalism)!
Srsly now, you guys in funny skirts, let's stop pretending like you are above the Nature and stop destroying its fine inventions. =)
Video games are subject to a number of balance issues from which traditional games have largely stayed free. It can be hard finding players of comparable skill-level to create even match-ups, [...]
Author obviously never played basketball with his friends.
[...] diverse gameplay options can quickly become irrelevant if someone finds a broken feature that beats everything else [...]
[...] and some online games make your ability to play competitively a question of how much time and money you've invested in a game, rather than the skill you possess.
Time spent training is a large factor, if not the largest, in attaining a high level of skill. Good equipment helps in real-life games and sports, too. Some even insist that shell and slate stones make them play better go. Go figure.:)
You can set up a *NIX box as your mail server with procmail handling the mail to a dedicated user account. Set up a procmail rule to act on the messages with the subject, say, "Simon says *insert_your_verification_token_here*" and sender's e-mail address matching that of yours. The body can be fed to anything, including bash, and results e-mailed back to you.
But keep in mind that this solution isn't the most secure thing in the world:)
Iridium is extremely rare on Earth, and the high concentration of it at the K-T boundary in the Earth's crust is what suggests a meteor took out the dinosaurs. I am positive that the symbolism of the permanence of Iridium, the reminder that we are star-stuff, and the fact that the ring would be one-of-a-kind would really strike a chord with my girlfriend.
Just call it Ubuntu, SuSE, Fedora, whatever. Simply drop the entire "(GNU/)Linux" thing. Do you hear people talking about NEXTSTEP/FreeBSD/Darwin OS X? Nope. The name (Ubuntu) means a collection of software. Wanna know what exactly goes into the mix? Feel free to read the docs.
While the benefits of having one and only lingua franca are obvious and easy to enumerate, the other side of the coin -- diversity in languages -- is not too obvious. I can provide two arguments for diversity off the top of my head:
1) Language and Culture. Language is a vessel for communicating and embodying culture. Different cultures provide different viewpoints to the same problem, which is very important for the overall adaptability of the humanity. Each culture has its own "fuzzy set" (NB: not Fuzzy Set Theory) of values and starting points when making decisions, and language is the wrench shaped in just such a manner. Different viewpoints provide for different paths to solving a problem, which means that you're more likely get closer to optimal solution.
2) More Connected is Not Always Better. Research in social networks has shown that fully connected graphs (everybody can talk to anybody else) perform worse than partially connected graphs. In short, if a group of agents is searching the problem space and one of them hits an early local maximum, most agents (being able to see its high yield) will probably copy its solution and remain stuck until they break out and innovate. This is not such a big deal with some other network types, for example Small World topology, where the network is comprised of several loosely connected groups with high degrees of intra-connectivity (think clusters of grapes on a vine). Early local maximum will not propagate too fast, so chances are much better that the network as a whole will indeed find a better solution to the search problem (more here, for example). Maintaining local languages is what provides a barrier slowing down information exchange: most of the time it is unwelcome, but the system as a whole benefits from pockets of isolated randomness.
Being a True neutral that I am, however, I am pretty certain that the humanity will adopt the close-to-optimal language topology to further its own ends. (No pun intended.)
We are talking about DHS data, right? Unless I am grossly mistaken, it is governmental and, therefore, either "classified" or "unclassified". If it is unclassified, there can be no theft of data to speak of.
On the other hand, again if I understand you correctly, what is being stolen is the ease of access to the data, not the data itself (which, being governmental and unclassified, can not be stolen). That ease of access can enable the thieves to gain insight into some of the classified data.
If most of what I'm gathering from this is true, then both of us are right: unclassified data can not be stolen, but there can be a case of theft concerning unclassified governmental data. In any case, I maintain that unclassified data per se can not be stolen, which goes contrary to its virtue of being publicly accessible.
And talking about my credit card number, yes, it is classified, only I am not an institution of the government.
Although the hackers lifted data from unclassified systems, Paul Kurtz, a former White House cyber-security adviser, said that even unclassified data, if stolen in large enough quantities, could provide important clues about U.S. military and corporate trade secrets.
In my country it is impossible to steal unclassified data. That doesn't even make any sense.
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Thanks for clarifying and setting me straight on the meaning of "random" in RAM.
You're talking about physical memory, such as SDRAM, DDR, etc. But RAM is a higher, functionally descriptive term. Observe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random-access_memory , third paragraph.
RAM means "random access memory" and thus your Flash, sir, is RAM.
It should be worth noting that the "photoshopping" means using Adobe Photoshop. Retouching is the word for a general process of photo modification regardless of the software used. In short, every time someone says "photoshopped", they are advertising Adobe Photoshop for no compensation. :)
*sigh*
I'm not quite sure what connection exists between Eastern Europe and "developing world with no experienced opticians nor diagnostic equipment", but I'll let it pass.
(borked the preview) ...attributed to individuals, or in the worst case, companies. You may rest now knowing that people like you elsewhere will now think of the U.S. business in general doing this sort of thing.
Those things happen in other places, perpetrated by similarly shady characters, but people like you only bother to note the name of the country. Whereas things happening in the U.S. are
Let's not forget that Linux is just a component of the entire GNU/Linux (I know, I know) system. The accompanying software has grown considerably: GNOME, KDE, browsers, various programming languages and environments, utilities, networking tools, etc. all siphon the interest of a young developer into other areas. Linux is, for all its good and bad sides, stable and feature-full. It's not very tasty to hack on unless you have specific interest in OS internals. So while Linux might be losing the influx of fresh blood, there's still lots of energy around it.
I love it how the know-it-alls jump and say "no, CSS/ads/JavaScript/AJAX/ is guilty". Timothy's post claims an observed twofold increase in speed in practice. Unless you want to flat-out say that he is lying, your arguments are invalid.
I like to use this, please don't laugh, I am an electronics novice. http://www.falstad.com/circuit/ It may be too simplistic to warrant being mentioned along the likes of OrCad, Spice, etc. but boy, does it help build intuition!
Pardon me, there is private property in communism. Name one country in the past or present where you don't own the bread you eat (once you were given it). Similarly, in capitalism, you don't own your salary until you've received your paycheck, so try to find your way around that.
:)
P.S. If you do, I'm your loyal worshipper
It humors me greatly to see the amount of energy and the number of words people in the States need to spend in order to mention anything that has to do with "communism" while not bashing it at the same time.
If you want good randomness: buy a cheap microcontroller, one thermistor, one photoresistor, hook it all up to the charger of your old cell phone (or power from USB but then there's not much noise) and sample away. Or alternatively just grab that Brownian motion detector.
Cannibalism. Homosexuality. Abortion. Incest. Animals do it, humans do it; those are Mother Nature's inventions, and who are we to try and remove them from the natural order of things? I call for an international effort to form ARCHAIC (Advisory and Regulatory body for the Conservation of Homosexuality, Abortion, Incest and Cannibalism)!
Srsly now, you guys in funny skirts, let's stop pretending like you are above the Nature and stop destroying its fine inventions. =)
Author obviously never played basketball with his friends.
You mean this?
Time spent training is a large factor, if not the largest, in attaining a high level of skill. Good equipment helps in real-life games and sports, too. Some even insist that shell and slate stones make them play better go. Go figure. :)
Did anyone else misread this as "smart prick"?
You can set up a *NIX box as your mail server with procmail handling the mail to a dedicated user account. Set up a procmail rule to act on the messages with the subject, say, "Simon says *insert_your_verification_token_here*" and sender's e-mail address matching that of yours. The body can be fed to anything, including bash, and results e-mailed back to you. But keep in mind that this solution isn't the most secure thing in the world :)
Marry me!
Just call it Ubuntu, SuSE, Fedora, whatever. Simply drop the entire "(GNU/)Linux" thing. Do you hear people talking about NEXTSTEP/FreeBSD/Darwin OS X? Nope. The name (Ubuntu) means a collection of software. Wanna know what exactly goes into the mix? Feel free to read the docs.
What a way to show to the millions of young and hip teens the "facts" about Linux.
While the benefits of having one and only lingua franca are obvious and easy to enumerate, the other side of the coin -- diversity in languages -- is not too obvious. I can provide two arguments for diversity off the top of my head:
1) Language and Culture. Language is a vessel for communicating and embodying culture. Different cultures provide different viewpoints to the same problem, which is very important for the overall adaptability of the humanity. Each culture has its own "fuzzy set" (NB: not Fuzzy Set Theory) of values and starting points when making decisions, and language is the wrench shaped in just such a manner. Different viewpoints provide for different paths to solving a problem, which means that you're more likely get closer to optimal solution.
2) More Connected is Not Always Better. Research in social networks has shown that fully connected graphs (everybody can talk to anybody else) perform worse than partially connected graphs. In short, if a group of agents is searching the problem space and one of them hits an early local maximum, most agents (being able to see its high yield) will probably copy its solution and remain stuck until they break out and innovate. This is not such a big deal with some other network types, for example Small World topology, where the network is comprised of several loosely connected groups with high degrees of intra-connectivity (think clusters of grapes on a vine). Early local maximum will not propagate too fast, so chances are much better that the network as a whole will indeed find a better solution to the search problem (more here, for example). Maintaining local languages is what provides a barrier slowing down information exchange: most of the time it is unwelcome, but the system as a whole benefits from pockets of isolated randomness.
Being a True neutral that I am, however, I am pretty certain that the humanity will adopt the close-to-optimal language topology to further its own ends. (No pun intended.)
OK, I think I get it for once. Thanks for taking your time to explain.
We are talking about DHS data, right? Unless I am grossly mistaken, it is governmental and, therefore, either "classified" or "unclassified". If it is unclassified, there can be no theft of data to speak of.
On the other hand, again if I understand you correctly, what is being stolen is the ease of access to the data, not the data itself (which, being governmental and unclassified, can not be stolen). That ease of access can enable the thieves to gain insight into some of the classified data.
If most of what I'm gathering from this is true, then both of us are right: unclassified data can not be stolen, but there can be a case of theft concerning unclassified governmental data. In any case, I maintain that unclassified data per se can not be stolen, which goes contrary to its virtue of being publicly accessible.
And talking about my credit card number, yes, it is classified, only I am not an institution of the government.