That's mostly well established law - hanging your wash out on a clothesline isn't making the wash legally takeable by the public, putting in a sidewalk that better supports access to an adjacent location is explicitly giving someone permission to walk that way (unless it's marked otherwise). That brings up an interesting point. Is it illegal to "steal" someone's garbage? Does it make a difference if you are dumpster diving at a commercial location vs taking someone's garbage in a residential location?
Yeah...however, the car HAS a parking brake, but by default it not engaged. But the car comes with an owners manual with instructions of how and when to use the parking brake properly. The last Windows user guide I saw was from 3.1 I believe.
That's pretty much standard procedure for most cats I've seen, and what's more, mousing isn't instinctive but is taught by the momma cat (as is using a litter box). I would disagree with the litter box statement. My wife just rescued a stray kitten (basically an alley cat) about 2 weeks ago and the kitten figured out how to use the litter box in a few days, obviously without any help from her dead mother. I think it is instinctive for a cat to cover up its waste. Shredded newspaper, kitty litter, dirty laundry basket, etc makes a good place to cover it up. In our case the litter box eventually made the most sense to the kitten as the first couple days she peed under the lip of the kitchen cabinet and pooped in a corner in the living room. I guess you could make the argument that it wouldn't know how to use the litter box, but they inherently know how to "clean up" and the litter box made the most sense in the house for her to use after she had explored the area and realized what the litter box could/should be used for.
Computers work in base 2 natively and when the field was first started and the closest prefixes for base 2 'round' numbers in that base were adopted by the vast majority. Now this was and is a bit of a kludge, but it's was nearly universal in use (and still dominant) and anyone who was serious about learning computers learned this fairly early on. Lol, no doubt. Nearly 10 years ago as young up and coming HP-UX Jr Sysadmin I learned the difference the hard way. I had to create 20 or so new filesystems one evening and I made the mistake of creating them on base 10 calculations instead of base 2 (can't remember exact details now). I was terribly upset when I realized I was short a good bit of space and had to redo all the work that had taken me a good 3-4 hours to do in the first place.
I also learned a good bit about creating loops in ksh that night as well.;-)
I haven't read 1984, but IIRC, that was one of the premises for a police state. No one goes 55 anyway, it would only fuck up the natural flow of traffic as this video shows:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1121745508403211770&q=speed+limit+georgia+students&total=10&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2 I saw that "Study" a while back. Georgia State students if memory serves (didn't watch the video this time around). Those kids were lucky they didn't get killed or kill anyone. Driving around 285 at 55 MPH is just insane. I did it one time b/c I had a flat and had a little donut spare tire. It was definitely a terrifying experience as most traffic was blowing by me at least by at least 15-20MPH. Atlanta is known for having very fast traffic. It's not uncommon for the left lane traffic to hit 80-85MPH. You typically won't get a ticket unless you are going over 85MPH.
A question for all the wisdom of slashdot:
How does something like AT&T's "Elite" DSL (alleged 6MB/S download, ~700k/s upload) compare in practice to Comcast's cable internet? For me DSL is the only alternative, and I'm getting sick and tired of Comcast's bullshit (I don't use their TV or VOIP, just internet).
Anybody have experience with how much difference there is in DSL and Cable for bittorrent? for other access?
I switched from Comcast 8MB/s to AT&T's 6MB/s about 3 months ago and have been very satisfied so far.
I loved the high upper end speed that Comcast had (especially with the Speedburst or whatever it is called) and the higher upload rate (768k/s), but just as the article states, they start messing with you when you start running torrent traffic. Every couple of months I'd grab the latest *nix distro to play with and I'd get decent speeds (100-200k/s), but nothing spectacular. I really didn't care as I'd just let them run for a few days so I could share data since people were kind enough to share with me. It took me a few cycles to realize what was going on, but I started having these "random" connectivity issues. I'd get home at night and my cable modem would be offline. I'd fiddle with it for 10-15 minutes and finally get back online. After that I would be stable for weeks, not a single outage - until I cranked up my BT client. I would run 2-3 days no issues and then bam, intermittent outages. The type of outages that required me to power cycle my cable modem and router until I got connectivity back. I finally made the connection between torrents and my outages. I also was not (imo) a heavy bandwidth user either. I'd be shocked if I hit 20GB in a given month.
Anyway, I've had DSL for 3+ months now and although my top-end isn't as good as Comcast, it's been very stable. I'll take stable any day over that minor speed increase, which is negligible with regular surfing. I have had a few "outages", but none more than 2-3 minutes and they resolved themselves. I can probably attribute that to my gimped up network at the moment since I've done some crazy wiring recently.
Comcast high-speed internet (without CableTV): $61
Comcast mini-basic CableTV ($15) + high-speed internet: $60
What a racket, eh? It's cheaper to get their mini-basic CableTV and internet than to just get internet solo. Not by much, of course. I wish I could just get high-speed internet for $45 and then that'd be motivation enough to get a nice OTA setup going. Not exactly. Apparently if they run internet over the lines, you get the "mini-basic" cable regardless. They have no way of filtering that out. Crappy yes, but I understand why they do it.
Yahoo NEEDS to increase Inbox sizes... to hold all the spam Yahoo places there.
Yahoo's not my main account, but after a few years I can say that GMail is WAY better at blocking spam.
I must get 200 spams in my Yahoo inbox each month.
With GMail, I get about 12 spams a month, and once in a while (rarely) a false positive such as a newsletter landing in the spam folder.
With Yahoo, I never bother to check my Spam folder because the spam filters are so weak, why bother? It could be a matter of timing, really. My oldest yahoo and msn accounts definitely get tons of spam. My newer ones don't get nearly as much. Gmail is pretty good I will agree. Technology has progressed so much since I've had free email addresses (8, 10 years maybe?) that I definitely notice a difference of spam volumes between my 5+ year old email addresses vs my 1-2 year old email addresses. I'm sure some of it can be attributed my surfing and email address signing up habits (have gotten much better than say 10 years ago), but I would imagine that if you opened up an email account on all the major services on the same day, the amount of spam received over the course of 12 months would be pretty similar. I think it's very subjective and really a matter when you got an address with with specific service that creates bias towards/against those services.
Look, I know language is fascinating; that's why I studied Linguistics. But I can hardly think of another field where more people think they are qualified to talk about it just because of its application in their daily life. Being facile with language and/or knowing some "little-known" facts, etc. implies no deeper or real understanding of the actual evolution and mechanisms of language than being a great lover makes you an expert in Genetics. Human language is not a construct like computer languages, and you can't meaningfully talk about a given language like some discrete 'object' and say "This is the actual real English and every other dialect is a variation of it", in the same way you can point ANSI C and say what's standard C and what's not. Nice. I get into similar arguments with my wife who is from Spain and speaks the "proper" Castilian Spanish. She goes on and on about how Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, South Americans, etc "butcher" her beautiful language. What I think is very funny, and you might be able to confirm this, is the Castilian dialect was formed because a Spanish King spoke with a lisp and everyone in his court mimicked him and it spead throughout the region and eventually became the standard dialect. I haven't researched it, but I still like to get a rise out of my wife by telling her that story.:-)
I can understand your pain. It took nearly three hours for my girlfriend to help a customer get their iPhone activated. For whatever reason it adds several layers of complication because he had a business account and not a personal account. Of course, this particular gentleman (the CEO of a very large and well known nationwide company) had no idea what a USB port was and doesn't use Outlook b/c it is "too complicated" - needless to say, it was quite a process to get his contacts synchronized. lol
Might I ask what your role is? I won't mention names here, but i worked with a couple good guys. Was only up there for 2 weeks, but split time between Dearborn and Huntley (I think one of the Data Centers and a training center was at this location). Really none of my business, but interesting seeing a post from someone i potentially ran into. Plus, it was cool to see how the Liebert's were built that I've seen for years in various data centers throughout my career.:-)
Needless to say, I was not impressed by the Cingular/AT&T people. They were typical of most subscription sales organizations I've run into. They just seemed slimy, and clearly had little concern for their customers, as long as they got their commission. AT&T employees are NOT getting commissions on any iPhone sales. Blame Apple for that one...
I went to an AT&T store and they had me activate in itunes like everyone else. Activation only took about 2-3 mins too. I will say this, The AT&T employees were idiots and very unprepared for the launch.
Btw im making this post from my iPhone. =p I wouldn't blame the AT&T employees for being unprepared for the launch - blame Apple. They were terribly secretive about anything iPhone related, literally hours before launch. My girlfriend has the unfortunate pleasure of working for AT&T, specifically working in the group that supports their "data" phones (Treos, Blackberry's, iPhones, etc). She received exactly 2 hours of iPhone training before launch day. The day of launch she got another 3 hours of training. I'm assuming the employees in the store got less. It's not a surprise they we "unprepared." Apple's fault, not AT&T's. Her group did not even get a demo unit to look at until Friday, a few hours before launch. Apple was so worried about leaks or whatnot before launch. Now that she has had most of today to play with it, she says it's ridiculously easy to use. Unfortunately the caliber of customer that has purchased the unit is more than clueless to say the least. It's amazing the number of CEO's, government officials, entertainers, etc that are completely technology illiterate - sadly, many of those were on the VIP list and first to get phones.
Blasphemy. No mention of perpendicular recording is complete with out a link to this. [hitachigst.com] OMFG! Amazing!!! You just made my Saturday night (as sad as that may be).
Disclaimer: Posting as AC because I work for Liebert. I realize you are AC for obvious reasons, but do you work out of the Columbus area? I was on a very short term gig there earlier this year and it was interesting to see there was a "Liebert Culture" and an "Emerson Culture," at least from the IT side. Pretty neat facility, out in Dearborn if memory serves.
Not to mention you can kiss the game economy good bye. How many games have had their economy ruined because of gold farmers. Blizzard ruined the economy for me since I didn't get the expansion pack. I'd rather have the gold farmers and no expansion any day...
That's the direct impact. The indirect impact is that you end up with "ebay'ed" players who are high level but incompetent to play their class. They may know how to push the attack button, but they don't have 60 or 70 levels of experience in what to do when an odd situation pops up. Such people are a pain to play with. I've played with *many* people that *do* have 60 levels of experience and still don't "know what to do." It's part of life. Think about people you work with. Just b/c someone has 30 years of experience in (insert industry here) doesn't mean they are *good* at their job or can do it better than someone with 5 years of experience. I guess that's why they have friends lists, guilds, etc so you can potentially minimize the "ebay'ed" players or less skillful players for you to group with...
Let's "get behind" in (insert scientific innovation here) and have to play "catch-up." Similar to the space program in the late 50s and 60s. I think that is when Americans shine (or get jealous). They see their neighbor having something cooler/better/shinier and then have to go out and one-up them. It works with houses, cars, bling-bling and scientific discoveries!
Microsoft Windows licenses are restricted to the number of CPU sockets not the number of cores. O RLY?
I guess all those VMWare datacenters running 30+ Windows VMs on a single physical server with 2 Quad cores shouldn't worry when Microsoft comes a knockin' looking for their money for 28 illegally licensed OSes?
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I also learned a good bit about creating loops in ksh that night as well.
I loved the high upper end speed that Comcast had (especially with the Speedburst or whatever it is called) and the higher upload rate (768k/s), but just as the article states, they start messing with you when you start running torrent traffic. Every couple of months I'd grab the latest *nix distro to play with and I'd get decent speeds (100-200k/s), but nothing spectacular. I really didn't care as I'd just let them run for a few days so I could share data since people were kind enough to share with me. It took me a few cycles to realize what was going on, but I started having these "random" connectivity issues. I'd get home at night and my cable modem would be offline. I'd fiddle with it for 10-15 minutes and finally get back online. After that I would be stable for weeks, not a single outage - until I cranked up my BT client. I would run 2-3 days no issues and then bam, intermittent outages. The type of outages that required me to power cycle my cable modem and router until I got connectivity back. I finally made the connection between torrents and my outages. I also was not (imo) a heavy bandwidth user either. I'd be shocked if I hit 20GB in a given month.
Anyway, I've had DSL for 3+ months now and although my top-end isn't as good as Comcast, it's been very stable. I'll take stable any day over that minor speed increase, which is negligible with regular surfing. I have had a few "outages", but none more than 2-3 minutes and they resolved themselves. I can probably attribute that to my gimped up network at the moment since I've done some crazy wiring recently.
...chasing down Ichabaud Crane.There, fixed that for you. How does that compare to 2400 baud?
I can understand your pain. It took nearly three hours for my girlfriend to help a customer get their iPhone activated. For whatever reason it adds several layers of complication because he had a business account and not a personal account. Of course, this particular gentleman (the CEO of a very large and well known nationwide company) had no idea what a USB port was and doesn't use Outlook b/c it is "too complicated" - needless to say, it was quite a process to get his contacts synchronized. lol
Might I ask what your role is? I won't mention names here, but i worked with a couple good guys. Was only up there for 2 weeks, but split time between Dearborn and Huntley (I think one of the Data Centers and a training center was at this location). Really none of my business, but interesting seeing a post from someone i potentially ran into. Plus, it was cool to see how the Liebert's were built that I've seen for years in various data centers throughout my career. :-)
s/peanut/Cell Phone/g
s/20 dollars/1 million pounds/g
Don't you want to start at the top of the file???
Let's "get behind" in (insert scientific innovation here) and have to play "catch-up." Similar to the space program in the late 50s and 60s. I think that is when Americans shine (or get jealous). They see their neighbor having something cooler/better/shinier and then have to go out and one-up them. It works with houses, cars, bling-bling and scientific discoveries!
I guess all those VMWare datacenters running 30+ Windows VMs on a single physical server with 2 Quad cores shouldn't worry when Microsoft comes a knockin' looking for their money for 28 illegally licensed OSes?
Yes, b/c as *everyone* knows, popular and highly rates shows *must* be good.
Or simply lose a lot of cool ("indy") channels that don't get enough sponsorship to survive on their own?