Posts by Mark 65 3439 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2009
Errr, you're not really answering his post which was that updates from a repo can break manually installed software. You seem not to care. Take that attitude to a corporate environment (which you clearly don't work in) and watch your sorry arse get bounced out of the front door post haste.
True, but you cannot sign away your statutory rights and if said company are seen to have breached RIPA or any other comms/privacy related law then they're fucked. They can monitor your internet usage but they certainly cannot legally MITM your connection to your internet banking. That is interception of communication.
TVs probably aren't the best example for this behaviour as they are often appallingly badly setup in the stores with really garish settings. I was happy to buy mine off the internet after reading multiple reviews and round-ups from sources such as What Hi-Fi (minus ridiculously expensive cable hyperbole) . Had never seen it before. Thoroughly impressed with the item.
I'm struggling with the idea of camera manufacturers creating yet more mounts. It's bad enough that you have to buy into a system with the full sized SLRs but now it's happening on the minis. Unless the licensing is ridiculous (which it may be) I don't know why you'd go past m4/3. Sure, you don't have any lock-in with the lenses but then only those planning on slacking off on R&D down the track would need that wouldn't they? 5.5x crop-factor? Yuck.
I'm thinking Linux as in "the packaged article the end user sees" i.e. Mint, Ubuntu, etc etc rather than the kernel. I'd like to see it become more than a project, hobby, or geek/enthusiast toy as it has genuine benefits to offer. However, switching interfaces on a whim or being held to ransom by the upstream project just won't cut it. Users don't want to keep learning changed interfaces for the sake of it. Microsoft may have gotten away with it but they are the exception for the reasons I previously stated. Linux (the bundled end-user part) could and should be so much more than it currently is and I'm hoping Mint will provide that as Ubuntu was a big change for the positive when I moved over from Mandrake Linux.
This is the very point though. Although Microsoft have brought about change seemingly for change sake (the ribbon is growing on me, a bit like fungus would) they still support the old way for a long time. XP is over 10 years old, and Office 2003's extended support ends 2014 (normal ended 2009). The fact is their corporate wealth and size allows them to do this whereas Linux shops would no doubt have problems competing on this front. As such I would argue strongly (and in agreement) that in order to compete Linux must offer stability of its interface - they can't support multiple versions so keep it familiar and stable i.e. no Unity. However this also raises the issue of GNOME developers making whimsical changes that all inherit and I applaud the Linux Mint people for doing their level best to do the right thing.
I can't help but think that they missed a trick by seemingly convincing themselves they could take a bite from Apple's pie. Indeed, why would anyone use Ubuntu over Android? Apple certainly don't put OS X on an iPad. I would have welcomed a much more stable fixed up environment and no doubt so would anyone willing to part with money.
Microsoft may up and change user interfaces (ribbon) but they still keep the alternatives up and running for a considerable time (mainstream office 2003 support ended 2009 and extended support ends 2014) which is why they are still hard to displace in the enterprise. I don't think Ubuntu have earned that privilege and I'm not sure who they understand their user base to be.
"My theory is that the people who drive fast and corner hard are the ones who are interested in cars and excited about driving and pay more attention and do a better job of it."
My theory is that the people who drive fast and corner hard are a fucking liability and a danger to other road users. They are also likely to be rat-boys driving cars that look like they've been covered in superglue and driven through Halfords. Fast driving and hard cornering belongs on a track. You want to do it then pay and enjoy yourself - just don't think that road tax entitles you to use the public highway as such.
What I think the OP is getting at is that everyone will pay higher insurance and those without such a device will pay higher still due to lobbying/bullshit practices whereby it's claimed to "make the roads safer" and/or "lead to more effective calculation of premiums". It's all bullshit, they just want to rob you blind - home and car/vehicle owners are just sitting ducks.
They are promised to be "over 100Gb/s". So, we have approximately (depending on Gbit vs Gibit) 100,000/12 = 8,333 simultaneous connections at full download bandwidth per satellite. They want the two satellites to provide access to over 200,000 premises. Then of course you have weather effects. Anyone see a problem with this?
Couple it with 1+second round-trip and time division multiplexing for uploads and I can see lots of complaints if there is large-scale take up. Personally I don't think people choosing to live in the middle of nowhere can really complain at this but I doubt it'll stop them.
Naivety in operation. Random speed traps that people don't know about doesn't stop them speeding, it just raises revenue. The only ones that get people (more often) to slow down are "average speed" cameras/traps and then that's only "on average" as Clarkson showed on Top Gear. There is no foolproof scheme as the tales of banned drivers driving away from court proves. Perhaps the concept of seizing and/or destroying their vehicle may help.
Indeed, I went in to the missus' school a couple of times and couldn't believe the cheap tacky legacy shite (PIIIs in 2005/6) they'd been sold totally encumbered with poxy, inefficient crappy software. Supplier of overpriced underperformant educational computer hardware makes loss - who'd have thunk it?
The unexpected item comes from changes in the weight on the scales. Each item is assigned a weight in file maintenance and likely a tolerance. For small light items this goes out of the window. It is a monumental pain in the arse. Stores where this doesn't occur likely have a higher tolerance and so are also likely to be easier to fool (i.e. steal from) but they have placed customer experience over losses from theft. This is all theoretical as I don't work for said stores.
I think you'll find the memory needs to be hit with something nearer liquid nitrogen (though possibly not too cold as to fuck the component) in situ and was somewhat of a contrived result. By the time you've released the cover to access the memory I'd say the window has closed. Also, see the earlier comments on Truecrypt and the memory location used to store the key.
"Huh? The Python is naturally equipped for its role. If you were just walking through the grass and one of them started wrapping itself around you there is nothing you could do. Man is only the "Apex Predator" when prepared and hunting with tools/traps. "
Thus his intelligence and ability to use tools made him apex, like it or not.
"It could mean that GS thinks FB has a rock solid business plan and that FB "value" is based on fundamental asset values.
It could equally mean that GS thinks that there are bigger suckers (or greedier people) out there that will buy from them."
I believe that all their trades rely on the latter.
Apple's situation is interesting. They clearly operate on the lines of charging the very most that the market will accept and are making hay whilst the sun shines. Clearly at some point in the future this will come to an end. The market (in size) will no longer be prepared to pay their premium and they will once more become niche. Their competitors currently do not innovate as much as they need to and the company itself is once more becoming a touch too arrogant. End it will, but who knows when. I speak as someone who has bought their products but is rapidly getting pissed off by their attitude.
I think we are reaching a turning point with utility companies and pricing. Sure, they are all robbing bastards who will fleece a freezing dying pensioner for their last penny, but Governments will soon come to realise that they need to do something about rising living costs on several fronts:
1. Price rises are all about profits not costs
2. Successive Governments not addressing the dwindling disposable incomes of households have made them all less electable in the eyes of the voter
3. The consumer cannot start to spend to bring the World out of recession if they've got no fucking money.
Point 3 is becoming particularly poignant in that they want you to consume in order for businesses and the economy to thrive but all people have money for is taxes and bills. It started off as a debt induced problem but rising bills mean there is rapidly occurring cost of living poverty.
I don't see how it can be legal to force someone to stump up such a large sum of money - for plenty of people that is a huge amount of disposable income - in order to help the utility companies increase their profits. Sure, you can write a law that says so but, as plenty of high court and EU court decisions have shown in other areas, that doesn't make it legal.
"Because the change is global, and because the various currents have warmed pretty much in step, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Michael McPhaden said the synchronized change in ocean circulation is “most likely [caused by] anthropogenic greenhouse gas forcing.""
Data -> Warming -> Man must have done it. Reliable data going back how long? Inferred (i.e. poxy) data going back until when? Conclusion that will no doubt gain more funding - man did it. This is what shits most people about the climate change "debate", accurate data that goes back not very far at all and also coincides with industrialisation being used to infer man as the cause. Coincidence, correlation, causality - not the same thing. The planet has been here a very long time and we really don't understand how it works that well so I suggest the scientists come up with some pretty concrete irrefutable evidence if they want to impoverish the human race whilst it tries to push shit uphill.
I think that by acting like a bunch of lying, deceitful, word twisting pricks Jones et al may possibly have killed off the acceptance of evidence (if strong evidence for it being our fault exists) for a generation. Any scientist knows that for your analysis and conclusion to be accepted you need to provide the data and methodology used and defend it from criticism with sound, well reasoned arguments and not lies and deceit.
Not to mention that I've always found LG screens to have a horrid picture, LCD/LED to have garish over processed images and plasmas to be the only realistic watchable images. Given Pioneer's left the game, that leaves a Panasonic plasma as my next purchase. The reviews do indeed smack of a quick feature list rating.
Price? Hmmm. Hard drive rather than SSD? As long as it's easily swapped. Screen resolution is utter shit. 1024x600? Seriously? They could have gotten another inch of diagonal out of that screen if it didn't have the worlds fattest bezel. Suits have moved on and have either got an "ultrabook" or a tablet (or both). IT people see the point of a netbook but they'll just laugh at that spec.
My biggest issue is with all these different manufacturers bringing out their own lens systems rather than standardising - then again when you standardise you need to have continually good gear as there's no other lock-in. I'd much prefer it if they stuck to the m4/3 or something. Adaptors are all well and good but then that's another bloody thing to buy. Canon and Nikon can have their own systems as they have a massive lens range of fantastic quality. Samsung? Meh.
As a wise man once said: "you're not buying a camera, you're buying a system". That's something worth remembering and why I'd favour m4/3 (although I don't like a 2x crop factor).
You are so clueless it isn't even funny. No spine? Coming from, in all probability, a cosseted little Westerner writing their dissenting little words of rebellion from the comfort of their home protected from the threat of torture and abduction by their Government that is pretty rich. Most nations ruled by dictators look backwards as it seems easier to keep control of a population by letting them have fuck all.
"Hate to break it to you but no, this is not a distorted view, a place and its society is reflected by the rules and penalties that society lives under - their government."
If so, are all Americans c*nts? No, of course not. Likewise, Iranians probably choose their moments to speak out knowing full well that such a society has unknown numbers of spies and whistleblowers living in their midst. I doubt I'd be too vocal if I knew one wrong word meant the torture of myself and/or my family, and I firmly suspect the same holds true for you.
The Syrians don't seem to like their Government much but it doesn't seem to be working out too well for them does it?
The other thing to note is that, given the quad core architecture of the Transformer Prime and its keyboard, at what point is an Android tablet really like what we are considering to be a PC? It is as if Linux has found it's route onto the desktop of the common man by first appearing on phones then utilising the low energy ARM architecture that MS doesn't currently work on to sneak up on it. Manufacturers like the price (even with MS tax) and MS cannot force them to dispense with it as they have nothing to offer in its place.
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