Ammonia. One ppm you smell it. two ppm you're dead.
I'll take my chances with the nerve gas. I'm sure this isn't the whole story. Perhaps this assumes several hours of exposure? A friend of mine cleans his floors with ammonia, and it's overpowering. I'm reasonably sure that the quantity in the air is well over twice the minimum that would be necessary for me to smell it. But his family is alive and healthy. This can't be true, or my friend would be dead.
He thought installing Gnome would fix a network problem. Again, you don't seem to have read the article very carefully. As explained in the article, Gnome has a GUI called Gnome Network Manager, which I'd used successfully in the past to get the same wifi chipset working on Ubuntu, without resorting to the command line. gOS has something called Exalt, which failed with an error message when I tried to run it by clicking on its icon. I think this is a pretty reasonable thing to do. Actually, I did something more extreme--I installed ubuntu just to get Gnome Network Manager and nm-applet (because I didn't know what those two programs were called).
You could argue, "Sure, but better deals for new artists will come along," but that's little consolation to an artist *now* that can't find work. You speak as if "work for hire/one time payment" is the only business model right now. If that model became unprofitable, you really think the record labels would suddenly curl up and die, leaving thousands of starving artists? Please. I worded my thoughts badly. What will happen (in the short run, at least) is that the job market will become worse for musicians.
If not a penny goes to the artist anymore, what is the difference between downloading and buying? This is somewhat similar to the patent situation. In the situation you describe, the artist has already been paid. The company that paid him did so to gain some return on investment. Mass piracy => no return on investment (well, that's a different debate. let's assume it's true). If that happens, the record company will not stay in the market, and future artists will not be paid.
You could argue, "Sure, but better deals for new artists will come along," but that's little consolation to an artist *now* that can't find work.
All kidding aside, what do you think of something a little more up to date but still minimalist like blackbox, or Xfce? My opinion is possible irrelevant (because maybe/everyone/ that uses/any/ window manager may feel this way about their respective WM), but I use Xfce, and it doesn't feel overly minimal. It seems very fully featured, with simple customization (that's not strictly necessary). In short, Xfce seems (to me) more fully featured than Gnome, and comparable with KDE in terms of features and ease of use. It's faster/lighter than either, too.
I'd say that the main problem with this scenario is the idea of a business being benevolent. I don't trust them to not screw me... but isn't that the author's point? It's an interesting concept, even if it likely wouldn't execute well. At the very least, the idea of somehow measuring a customer's willingness to just click the "yes" button is worth some thought. From the business' perspective, their trustworthiness is not an issue. And from yours, you are very free to say "no". If you don't trust them not to screw you, you probably also don't trust all the other providers of ActiveX scripts not to screw you--hence, you are probably secure.
Another undistributable: MPlayer. Breaks DCMA garbage. Another: the libcss and friends. DCMA shit again. I know that the DMCA allows for reverse-engineering for the sake of interoperability. It seems like playing DVDs on linux (or with other video players) is interoperability. However, it is also a direct technological circumvention of technology that was meant to protect copyright. Hence, don't know whether this is legal, and I don't think it's been tested in court (anybody that knows more, please feel free to correct me or add details).
Is Murdoch counting on the proposition that WSJ readers too dumb to use ad blockers like the Fireox/Adblock Pro combination? First off, not everyone that allows ads is dumb. I allow slashdot's ads so they get a few cents from me, now and then (correct me if I'm wrong--if it's pay per click, I might as well turn the ads back off).
But I agree with you. Maybe it's possible to make ad revenue right now, but it might become increasingly difficult, as more people adopt ad blocking technologies. If the ultimate goal is free news, ad blocking is harmful.
I never really got it what the draw of anime is, can someone please enlighten me ? One advantage of anime over traditional TV is that (for most series) the story continues between episodes, and this can allow for a more intricate plot. (Of course, in some animes, each episode stands alone, and some TV shows have a plot line that continues throughout a season.)
Other than that, I'm not sure what the pull is. I know that most of it is made for adults, so you can't really compare a lot of it to kids' shows. Maybe part of it is selection--there's a whole lot of anime out there. Maybe I just don't like the sitcoms and reality TV shows that are on TV, nowadays. It's hard to say.
You wrote a bunch of counterexamples to show that the poster was wrong, and that his statement really just meant, "everyone that doesn't agree with me is an idiot." And then you called him an idiot. Good job.
How do they know they're accurately converting the signals to sound, if they're basing this off a man who has no ability to speak? My apologies if someone has already pointed out, but 80% should be enough for a human to understand it, mostly, and a system that made that only/seemed/ to be synthesizing his speech would have to pass the turing test. I must say, that would be a great accomplishment, on its own.
YouTube was terrible from the very beginning. Terrible for what? I've used it rarely, and mostly for educational purposes (I don't surf for funny videos), and it works great for watching short presentations, instructional videos, or other clips. It's even good for "what's the melody of that song?"
YouTube is a hell of a lot better than the alternative that existed when it all started: uploading videos to a web server somewhere. (Nobody uploaded videos, back when you had to be a computer geek to do so.) YouTube works well enough that my computer illiterate psych professor can show us old footage of psych studies. That is technology working for us.
I'm not saying it has no flaws, or that it's the best. I'm saying that YouTube is doing a service to our world. It is permanently changing the way information is disseminated.
It's just the protocol header that is encrypted with Bittorrent, not the data and it is not particularly good encryption and it doesn't really stop ISPs from specifically throttling Bittorrent traffic (which is the issue today). I have used three clients extensively (the others haven't impressed me): azureus, utorrent, and rtorrent. Azureus and rtorrent have the option for full encryption, but it appears bittorrent doesn't. Hopefully it will be added, if it hasn't been yet.
- Format the windows partition (to make sure you're not weaseling out and going back, and this button should *not* pop up a 'Are you sure?' nag)
- Tell you to insert a FreeBSD installation CD or ask for a server address from where to install over the net
- Reboot when done
Once that's in place, I might actually use windows for serious matters, a single time... I determined that FreeBSD doesn't actually exist, after trying to install the newest version on two different desktops--neither installation got past the initial installer screen. I experienced three fatal errors during my tests on those two computers. The only logical conclusion is that FreeBSD does not in fact exist--it's just a big conspiracy to make linux users feel that we aren't elite enough.
When you're a monopoly, you can make products that suit you, not your customers. It is a fact that in a market with free flow of information, if you make a shittier product, people will pay less for it. Not even monopolies are free from the realities of economics. And your notion of "products that suit you" is sort of silly--at the end of the day, every firm produces whatever the hell they want. It's up to you whether to buy it.
Seriously, the difference between "races" is hardly so vast that the algorithms will have to be rewritten from scratch. In fact, they probably won't have to be rewritten at all. Are there really any facial feature that are unique to geographic regions? Are you kidding? My Vietnamese girlfriend always jokingly asks me why all Westerners look so old, and I ask her why all Asians are so small (or why they look so young). If the algorithm isn't a learning one, it absolutely will not succeed at this task. I witnessed the introduction of an Israeli girl and a Japanese woman. The Israeli asked in English, "How old are you?", and the Japanese woman said, "Thirty." My Israeli friend said, "No, you couldn't possibly be thirteen..." She misheard, because this woman looked very much younger than thirty.
Would that woman have looked so young to another Japanese person? Probably not. So, learning to tell the age of one race leads to incorrect judgements about the age of another. Hence, the machine won't work on Westerners.
I'm very glad to help cancer research, but will this also result in the development of drug patents that (a) bankrupt some patients, and (b) prevent other researchers from improving on those drugs? I agree with you, in principle (that it's just not fair for you to gain nothing), but isn't donating your CPU time still the best solution? I mean, it's not as though there's some choice you could make that would likely lead to a better outcome for you.
As for being maladjusted... compare the US to Scandinavia. In Scandinavia, far more parents are working, and the crime rates are much, much lower than the US. I'm sorry, but there's so much difference between the US and Scandinavia that there is no comparison. You may conclude that "parents working does not always lead to maladjusted children", but that's all. After all, we aren't talking about Scandinavian culture, here. (Though I don't know where the grandparent poster is from.)
Ok, so they go do some non-bit-banging code for a bit just to keep themselves limber while they're waiting for a "kernel programming problem" to fall in their lap. Is that flamebait? Anyway, these are people we are talking about. They aren't volunteers. They probably all have job contracts, that they signed and agreed to work on the kernel. Asking them to work on something else is unfair, and why would they want to? You seem to think that programming one thing is the same as programming any other. For example, say you work in an office, doing sales, and the boss tells you that you're gonna work in marketing for a while. Is that okay with you? It's probably not, if you're constantly trying to improve yourself in your job (improving at sales) like good programmers do.
Do bayesian filters not work for you? I am not that careful with my e-mail address (it's published on a web site, and available through my school's directory), but thunderbird's filter gets between 90-95% of my spam. I know that for some people that's not good enough, but it works, for now. I'm concerned if the trend is that this type of filter is becoming less effective. Anyway, have you tried statistical filters like this?
The heavier it is, the faster it falls from the sky. Actually, Galileo demonstrated that weight does not change the speed at which something falls. You might want to go back and take your high school physics class again. Only in a system without air resistance. You just try dropping a feather and a brick at the same time. I dare you to tell me they land at the same time.
I own a house and now isn't exactly the best time to be trying to sell. Right, but keep in mind that it's the best time to buy. I wouldn't presume to give you advice, but keep in mind that what you lose on one end, you will gain on the other, assuming the same market.
We have a guy at the office who really wants to switch to Outlook, but we just can't transfer over his messages from Eudora. When I have problems like this, I use an IMAP account. This type of account stores messages on the server, rather than locally. Copy all the old messages to the IMAP account, kiss Eudora goodbye, set up Outlook and set up your two accounts (your normal e-mail account and the IMAP), and transfer your beloved messages back from the IMAP to Outlook. When I have to do this, I use a local IMAP server (running on the same computer as the e-mail clients), but that might be a bit too much for a lot of people. Perhaps your sysadmin could help, if you don't have easy access to an IMAP e-mail account.
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I'll take my chances with the nerve gas. I'm sure this isn't the whole story. Perhaps this assumes several hours of exposure? A friend of mine cleans his floors with ammonia, and it's overpowering. I'm reasonably sure that the quantity in the air is well over twice the minimum that would be necessary for me to smell it. But his family is alive and healthy. This can't be true, or my friend would be dead.
Again, you don't seem to have read the article very carefully. As explained in the article, Gnome has a GUI called Gnome Network Manager, which I'd used successfully in the past to get the same wifi chipset working on Ubuntu, without resorting to the command line. gOS has something called Exalt, which failed with an error message when I tried to run it by clicking on its icon. I think this is a pretty reasonable thing to do. Actually, I did something more extreme--I installed ubuntu just to get Gnome Network Manager and nm-applet (because I didn't know what those two programs were called).
Actually, until recently, scarcity was caused by the expense of content distribution [citation needed].
You could argue, "Sure, but better deals for new artists will come along," but that's little consolation to an artist *now* that can't find work.
Another: the libcss and friends. DCMA shit again. I know that the DMCA allows for reverse-engineering for the sake of interoperability. It seems like playing DVDs on linux (or with other video players) is interoperability. However, it is also a direct technological circumvention of technology that was meant to protect copyright. Hence, don't know whether this is legal, and I don't think it's been tested in court (anybody that knows more, please feel free to correct me or add details).
You made me laugh out loud in class! Luckily the teacher wasn't actually lecturing at the moment...
But I agree with you. Maybe it's possible to make ad revenue right now, but it might become increasingly difficult, as more people adopt ad blocking technologies. If the ultimate goal is free news, ad blocking is harmful.
Other than that, I'm not sure what the pull is. I know that most of it is made for adults, so you can't really compare a lot of it to kids' shows. Maybe part of it is selection--there's a whole lot of anime out there. Maybe I just don't like the sitcoms and reality TV shows that are on TV, nowadays. It's hard to say.
You wrote a bunch of counterexamples to show that the poster was wrong, and that his statement really just meant, "everyone that doesn't agree with me is an idiot." And then you called him an idiot. Good job.
YouTube is a hell of a lot better than the alternative that existed when it all started: uploading videos to a web server somewhere. (Nobody uploaded videos, back when you had to be a computer geek to do so.) YouTube works well enough that my computer illiterate psych professor can show us old footage of psych studies. That is technology working for us.
I'm not saying it has no flaws, or that it's the best. I'm saying that YouTube is doing a service to our world. It is permanently changing the way information is disseminated.
- Tell you to insert a FreeBSD installation CD or ask for a server address from where to install over the net
- Reboot when done
Once that's in place, I might actually use windows for serious matters, a single time... I determined that FreeBSD doesn't actually exist, after trying to install the newest version on two different desktops--neither installation got past the initial installer screen. I experienced three fatal errors during my tests on those two computers. The only logical conclusion is that FreeBSD does not in fact exist--it's just a big conspiracy to make linux users feel that we aren't elite enough.
Do bayesian filters not work for you? I am not that careful with my e-mail address (it's published on a web site, and available through my school's directory), but thunderbird's filter gets between 90-95% of my spam. I know that for some people that's not good enough, but it works, for now. I'm concerned if the trend is that this type of filter is becoming less effective. Anyway, have you tried statistical filters like this?