'NAT firewall' is ponied around too much by clueless people who don't realise that NAT and firewall are two separate parts (that happen to be implemented in the same module).
I think most of these people are trying to say "NAT/firewall", as in "a device that both does NAT and is a firewall". Something such as "firewall/router" might be better, though I think even most off-the-shelf consumer routers have a firewall these days.
The term 'RAID' bothers me too because now you can get "raid" controllers in commodity PC hardware everyone suddely "has a raid".
That has nothing to do with the term and everything to do with stupid people. That's like saying the term "RAM" is annoying because so many people don't know the difference between it and a hard disk.
What is a web app, exactly?
It's an abbreviation for "web-based application", which is an application where a user uses a web browser to access it. They normally use, though are not required to use all of, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, a web server (such as Apache), and a server-side scripting language (Perl, Python, PHP, even some languages with a 'P' in the name). This is as opposed to what are often called "desktop" applications, which use languages such as C/C+++, Java, or C#, and libraries such as Qt.
Are there any DSL providers where that isn't a requirement? The brief time that I had Verizon DSL several years ago I also had to have phone service through them.
The problem isn't that the subjects of the messages might be offended, it's that some less-than-genius hiring manager might see and believe the messages. You can't sue someone for offending you, but you can sue someone for lying about you and costing you employment.
Amusingly enough, the Google ads for the article are for a couple sites that sell lobsters.
Stories like this actually make me proud of my home state. Maine has had a good streak of independence for quite a few years now. It's nice seeing independent, reasonable thought maintaining its presence.
I do remember reading about some headset microphones that actually pick up sound from the vibration of your skull instead of from the vibration of the air.
The news story that I saw about this a couple days ago mentioned a few details about the harpoon. Apparently it was a type that was only manufactured and sold for a few years in the 1890's. It's possible that the harpoon wasn't used on the whale until 30 years after it was manufactured, but it's fairly unlikely.
Personally, I think making the ESRB ratings in the US legally binding would, at least in theory, work well. I think the problem is that, in reality, the federal government would then start exerting control over the ESRB, until it reaches the point where any game that even uses the color red would be labeled as violent. I wouldn't mind seeing a law that says "Stores can't sell games to children younger than what the ESRB says the game is for, but the government won't interfere with the ratings." If only our government didn't feel the need to directly control everybody's lives.
For example, the article points out that he was supposed to be denied a gun due to his psychiatric diagnosis but the info was never forwarded from Virginia to the federal database.
If there are already laws that would have prevented the person from legally purchasing a gun, why is the government focusing on passing new laws to remove even more citizens' rights instead of doing something to enforce the existing laws?
I am not going to type out a long response as to why it still costs the government money, because I don't have the time
How about because you aren't correct? Marketers pay for the deliver of advertising mail, not the government. If I remember correctly, the United States Postal Service isn't even part of the federal government anymore, nor do they receive any money from the government. The Postal Service actually makes enough money charging for mail delivery to be self-sufficient.
The solution then might be to read each car's odometer periodically and compute a tax based on the miles driven adjusted for the weight of the vehicle.
A lot of people are mentioning this idea. Maybe it's just been the two states I've lived in, but don't you have to provide your odometer reading when you register your car (Maine was every year, I think Massachusetts is every two years) already?
Here is one: if I make a mistake, and send myself a message into the past saying "don't make this mistake," and hence I don't make the mistake, I have just destroyed my incentive to send the message. More fundamentally: the changing of an event that has already happened will result in further changes along the chain of cause-and-effect, thus changing the event which caused a previous event to change...and the whole universe falls into an infinitely recursive loop until it runs out of memory and crashes.
Some science fiction writers have managed to get time travel that is at least consistent by disallowing scenarios like this. You can travel back in time, but you can't "change" the future. Because you traveled back in time, following events always occur as if you appeared. For a good treatment of consistent time travel, take a look at Babylon 5's episodes "War Without End". The line "I tried to warn them, but it all happened just the way I remember" sums it up fairly well.
More recently, several states, such as my home state of Maine, passed laws that essentially made marijuana a prescription drug. It's nice to see states that are willing to go against the federal government and do what they believe is best for their residents.
How can people stay positive on an economy that seems neither ultimately market-based rather than litigation based and where what used to be virtues (hard work, creativity, taking a chance) are punished by the government and unworthy trolls/big_players get the gains instead?
If we didn't stay positive about our economy, we'd have to face the reality of it. At that point, the only people that would have jobs would be psychiatrists.
And it helps to have alcohol. Lots and lots of alcohol.
Last time I tried it on Pidgin 2.0 it didn't work.
As for dealing with a.gtkrc file for stuff, I definitely agree. I'm using Gaim now (Pidgin hasn't made it into the Ubuntu repositories), but I'm definitely looking forward to the progress Kopete should be making in the next year or two.
And here I thought newer music sounded flat because the band consists of an electric guitar player that knows at most two chords, a drummer that can only bang out quarter notes on the cymbal, and a lead singer that screams more than sings.
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And what about when that 8th son of an 8th son is actually a girl?
One more reason to dislike Verizon then. I'm with you being stuck on Comcast, since (I think) those are my only two options around here.
The problem isn't that the subjects of the messages might be offended, it's that some less-than-genius hiring manager might see and believe the messages. You can't sue someone for offending you, but you can sue someone for lying about you and costing you employment.
Amusingly enough, the Google ads for the article are for a couple sites that sell lobsters.
Stories like this actually make me proud of my home state. Maine has had a good streak of independence for quite a few years now. It's nice seeing independent, reasonable thought maintaining its presence.
"So who's going to handle the calls we'll get about the Ubuntu systems?"
"Well, there's Joe and Larry."
"Anyone else?"
"Nope."
"Oh."
I do remember reading about some headset microphones that actually pick up sound from the vibration of your skull instead of from the vibration of the air.
The news story that I saw about this a couple days ago mentioned a few details about the harpoon. Apparently it was a type that was only manufactured and sold for a few years in the 1890's. It's possible that the harpoon wasn't used on the whale until 30 years after it was manufactured, but it's fairly unlikely.
Personally, I think making the ESRB ratings in the US legally binding would, at least in theory, work well. I think the problem is that, in reality, the federal government would then start exerting control over the ESRB, until it reaches the point where any game that even uses the color red would be labeled as violent. I wouldn't mind seeing a law that says "Stores can't sell games to children younger than what the ESRB says the game is for, but the government won't interfere with the ratings." If only our government didn't feel the need to directly control everybody's lives.
More recently, several states, such as my home state of Maine, passed laws that essentially made marijuana a prescription drug. It's nice to see states that are willing to go against the federal government and do what they believe is best for their residents.
And it helps to have alcohol. Lots and lots of alcohol.
Last time I tried it on Pidgin 2.0 it didn't work.
.gtkrc file for stuff, I definitely agree. I'm using Gaim now (Pidgin hasn't made it into the Ubuntu repositories), but I'm definitely looking forward to the progress Kopete should be making in the next year or two.
As for dealing with a
And here I thought newer music sounded flat because the band consists of an electric guitar player that knows at most two chords, a drummer that can only bang out quarter notes on the cymbal, and a lead singer that screams more than sings.
That is great. I'm kinda curious where that game was, though. Usually there's a 10-foot tall piece of plexiglass between the players and the crowd.