The real question is, if that was how it worked, how do you know that the plugin reporting the security information, number of connections, phone-home indicator etc are all telling the truth and not covering up some other kind of reporting?
I'm actually starting to think that my tinfoil hat is letting through some mind-altering brainrays which are convincing me that my tinfoil hat is working fine! How's that for a headfuck?!
And if I didn't have a computer I'd make sure that the BBC bought me one, because what's the point in them delivering content in a form I can't recieve? I paid the license fee, goddammit!
If you've been using Perl since 1998 you'll probably remember that a number of programmers used to display years by using the "half-assed" method of concatenating '19' with the year value from localtime.
When a counterexample appeared that broke this behaviour (the year 2000), did programmers kick up a fuss and call for a change to the function? Or did they just start using the correct method to achieve their goal?
Every once in a while you get lucky, and find exactly what you want, but most often you just hit the back button and feel stupid for pressing that button in the first place
Which part of "I'm feeling lucky" was it that you didn't understand?
Try again, that's a 5.2% increase in a month...after more than doubling in the previous year. That is huge. If adoption doubled every year as a percentage of the marketplace, Linux would have 100% of the market within 7 years.
Wow! And the year after that Linux would have 200% of.. oh, this kind of calculation is completely meaningless.
Try imagining 0.4% as 4 geeks in the front (or back, whatever) row of a crowd of 1000 people and it doesn't seem so significant.
As a web developer, we put put Google Analytics on all our sites. We don't have any AdSense on any of the sites we build (if any of our clients make money it's through purchases through the site).
We regularly use Analytics to work out how users are navigating our site so we can tweak it to make things easier for them. We could probably write our own bespoke application to do this tracking but it seems pointless while Analytics is a free service.
But it's ok if people like you block analytics at the source, enough people don't have your paranoia that we still get a lot of useful results which help both us, our clients and their users get a better web experience.
Does the default set of packages even matter? I keep hearing that it only takes 5 minutes to get your favourite set of packages downloading and installing. I'd rather hear about the things that's it's harder/impossible to get changed without voiding warranty: yes, like RAM/HDD/colours.
What happens when the "click here to fix all the problems" GUI does not launch?
With Windows, you bring it to me.
With Ubuntu, you don't have to. You type "apt-get install --reinstall foo" and it works again.
BZZZT! Wrong answer.
The people who needed to bring the Windows box to you will be the same ones who need to bring the Ubuntu box to you. The people who would be able to understand apt-get install --reinstall foo are generally the people who have the aptitude to work out how to do whatever you'd be doing to their Windows boxes.
You can't even claim that my anecdotal evidence about people being unable to transition between OSs is cancelled out by your anecdotal evidence that they are able to. I'm not denying that some people will understand a command line OS, whereas you seem to think there isn't anyone who will struggle with it
Almost certainly the IRS doesn't have exactly 100,000 employees. That number is rounded to one significant figure, and therefore 1 s.f. is as accurate as you can make calculations based on it
The house bot can never win because it generates $0 profit (since the money supplied to the bot originally came from the house)
Originally, yes, the stake money comes from the house. However the winnings - the money that it wins from the other players - by definition comes from other players, and is therefore profit.
That will be why there is a box on the "Add Application" screen saying
[_] Know who I am and access my information
which if you uncheck gives you the message
Granting access to information is required to add applications. If you are not willing to grant access to your information, do not add this application.
It all goes back to the simple addage, if you don't want your information available, don't put it online!
As far as I know (and I'd check if I was worried about it) applications only have access to your limited account anyway.
Microsoft were a big investor in The Island, and since this technology has been in secret development since 2001 (apparently under the codename Milan) it's not too much of a stretch to think that the interface from the 2005 film was directly inspired by this product.
Please, if you take an introduction to programming course, don't go for one that teaches PHP. It might be easy to learn and quick at getting results for small projects, but PHP is to programming as table layouts are to web design - ugly and very bad at teaching you good style.
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To my non-lawyer mind, that's an idea. An implementation is when you actually do it.
The real question is, if that was how it worked, how do you know that the plugin reporting the security information, number of connections, phone-home indicator etc are all telling the truth and not covering up some other kind of reporting?
I'm actually starting to think that my tinfoil hat is letting through some mind-altering brainrays which are convincing me that my tinfoil hat is working fine! How's that for a headfuck?!
And if I didn't have a computer I'd make sure that the BBC bought me one, because what's the point in them delivering content in a form I can't recieve? I paid the license fee, goddammit!
(no, that's not a Perl joke)
If you've been using Perl since 1998 you'll probably remember that a number of programmers used to display years by using the "half-assed" method of concatenating '19' with the year value from localtime.
When a counterexample appeared that broke this behaviour (the year 2000), did programmers kick up a fuss and call for a change to the function? Or did they just start using the correct method to achieve their goal?
Which part of "I'm feeling lucky" was it that you didn't understand?
As a web developer, we put put Google Analytics on all our sites. We don't have any AdSense on any of the sites we build (if any of our clients make money it's through purchases through the site).
We regularly use Analytics to work out how users are navigating our site so we can tweak it to make things easier for them. We could probably write our own bespoke application to do this tracking but it seems pointless while Analytics is a free service.
But it's ok if people like you block analytics at the source, enough people don't have your paranoia that we still get a lot of useful results which help both us, our clients and their users get a better web experience.
Exactly where we are today, but with better spelling
Does the default set of packages even matter? I keep hearing that it only takes 5 minutes to get your favourite set of packages downloading and installing. I'd rather hear about the things that's it's harder/impossible to get changed without voiding warranty: yes, like RAM/HDD/colours.
BZZZT! Wrong answer.
The people who needed to bring the Windows box to you will be the same ones who need to bring the Ubuntu box to you. The people who would be able to understand apt-get install --reinstall foo are generally the people who have the aptitude to work out how to do whatever you'd be doing to their Windows boxes.
You can't even claim that my anecdotal evidence about people being unable to transition between OSs is cancelled out by your anecdotal evidence that they are able to. I'm not denying that some people will understand a command line OS, whereas you seem to think there isn't anyone who will struggle with it
Almost certainly the IRS doesn't have exactly 100,000 employees. That number is rounded to one significant figure, and therefore 1 s.f. is as accurate as you can make calculations based on it
Bah, that'll teach me for queueing up several stories to read at once.
Sudo forget I ever posted this...
the source of this joke:
Sudo make me a sandwich
Of course most of you probably already knew that.
But in Omaha the opponent has 4 face-down hole cards. Which is 4 x 1/45 chances. Which is 4/45
Well I'm glad it passes a test that claims "Acid2 does not guarantee conformance with any specification." and not some of the published tests - example
Maybe we just have a different definition of 'perfect'.
And 'fanboi'
which if you uncheck gives you the message
It all goes back to the simple addage, if you don't want your information available, don't put it online!
As far as I know (and I'd check if I was worried about it) applications only have access to your limited account anyway.
Yes, however the point is that from public Wifi you have no guarantee that addons.mozilla.org actually is addons.mozilla.org
Microsoft were a big investor in The Island, and since this technology has been in secret development since 2001 (apparently under the codename Milan) it's not too much of a stretch to think that the interface from the 2005 film was directly inspired by this product.
That would be the cover to Abbey Road, the Beatles album?
Please, if you take an introduction to programming course, don't go for one that teaches PHP. It might be easy to learn and quick at getting results for small projects, but PHP is to programming as table layouts are to web design - ugly and very bad at teaching you good style.
Google also applies the association the other way around