If you were actually doing your job - your preferred solution would be that which was better for your employer. Instead, what's clear, is you place your own religious beliefs ahead of any other consideration.
What? You're suggesting he stop going to church and spend his Sundays writing his own solution? How do know he's a church goer?
Actually, my son old figured out the mouse at 18 months with xeyes. Had it doing funny full screen eye movements with his own specific sound effects. Clicking stuff he figured out by just having a blank desktop. I've given him his own account, and sometimes when he bugs me at the computer, I log him in, let him play for a bit and come back to have a chuckle at what he's managed to do. He gets bored pretty quickly and I think that's a good thing at his age (now 2yo).
I tend to think that kids at pre school age will learn more if they involve their entire bodies in play, so while having a computer might be interesting, I think blocks, cardboard boxes, crayons, paint and other children are by far the most valuable learning tools.
You can learn the basics of electronic machine control from turning a light on and off, or playing with a DVD remote. PCs don't really become meaningful until a bit later, and if anything they may be detrimental. I personally subscribe to the view that it's better to learn to interact in a world without undo or reset/reboot before being exposed to Ctrl+Z. I've watched my two year old son figure out loads of logical and physical truths by playing with cups of water, and found it really interesting to see him figure things out that I know might apply later such as learning the beginings of arithmetic by climbing stairs.
I think everyone would agree that the trick is to support and encourage them to incorporate learning in their play, I just don't see how artificially introducing new fangled kinds of play with machines is any better all the fun stuff around already.
It definitely shows you're more caring than if you gave flowers. Especially if she's one of those ultra sensitive types who think plants have feelings.
I know if I were a flowering plant, I'd be all like "Go with the spaceship idea, it's gold! Seriously, she'll love it! No!! Put the secateurs away. No, not that! AAAAARRRRGH!!!!! Aaaawww, did you have to hang a card from it?
Any EXE with "setup" or "patch" in the name will be assumed to require elevation, because no programs to date have manifests which specify whether they need to be elevated or not;
Ouch! I think this is MS making the same stupid design descisions again, and in this case it's the one where a 'special*' filename is treated in a 'special*' way.
I'm not talking 'special*' as in/boot is special - if I write an executable at/boot/banana/kill_all_humans, my system will ignore it, just as it will ignore C:\Kill~1.exe. I'm talking 'special*' as in a file with a particular name will be treated in a particular way, regardless of the contents. Think of all those old exploits where someone put an executable in an email with a jpg or other extension. This is the same brand of stupid all over again.
I'm not saying that correct naming isn't important, I'm just saying that the file contents are more important than its name. If someone offers me "chocolate" and hands me dried cat shit, I'm not going to eat it. I'll dispose of it and most likely take violent action against whoever told me it was chocolate. I expect my computer to behave the same way, apart from the violence bit of course.
They could have changed the executable format and provided a sandboxed legacy OS for older software as other posters have suggested. If there is no easy way of recognising different kinds of.exes, their contents and privileges required, it just highlights the problem MS is having in retrospectively fitting security to a broken model. The fact that they are still using 'special*' executable installers highlights that they haven't really thought these issues through. The fact that they are still using 'special*' filenames shows that they are adding to there existing legacy of 'special*' architecture.
For the record, I'm not an anti MS zealot. I own an xbox, I just don't let Windows near my home PC.
All those crazy "climate change has nothing to do with carbon levels" crackpots are going to have a field day. And all the "Yes it bloody well does!!" crackpots are going to get all defensive and who's going to win in the end? The trolls. That's who. The trolls.
In all this I'm reminded of a mock argument I heard on the radio between a geologist and a biologist about the source of oxygen in out atmosphere. Both "experts" were convinced that it was largely due to some effect described in their field of study and dismissed the other.
What I'm trying to say is that there is solid evidence that carbon in the atmosphere can trap heat. If we now discover that cosmic rays are warming the planet, that doesn't exclude the effect of carbon as an insulator from the equation. Now if both theories are true we have a serious problem. Cosmic radiation is warming the planet at a higher rate and carbon is preventing it from cooling.
If reducing cosmic rays can be done along the lines of Mr. Burns blocking out the sun with his big dish, I'm all for it, as long as I'm the one who owns the dish. Otherwise, with sincere apologies all the "I'm gonna fcsking well drive my big Ford SUV 2 blocks to buy my cheese in a can" crackpots, but it has to be option 1.
That's an interseting point. Perhaps the advantage is localised generation rather than isolated power stations. Perhaps they will be used in individual PCs, laptops, etc instead of batteries. I don't get how increasing the friction of a large scale system will increase it's efficiency, and I don't really get where the hydrogen comes from either.
I'd be a lot more exceited about artificial photosynthesis
After minutes of suggesting he may switch to orange juice with breakfast, Karl Emorphowitz has decided to stick with coffee, along with an extra tab of artificial sweetener.
Why do you have to equal the defensive behaviour of one's own language on one's own soil with anti-americanism ?
It simply does not make sense.
The reason is simple. Any individual or group who sees themselves as particularly important will think that the actions of others are design to effect them.
The neo-conservative propaganda that the US is the force for good in the world makes this more prevelent at the moment, even unconciously amongst people who don't buy into the crap.
Having read TFA, my take on it is that the only real news is that Linspire is changing from Debian base to Ubuntu base. Ubuntu is, as you say, basic and that's the appeal. I installed it and everything just worked, easier than any version of windows. If I want to build my own binaries, tweak things, etc, I can. My wife, btw, gets a glazed look if I show her a terminal, but here is a system with which we are both happy.
At first I was also a bit concerned about the sudo only approach, until I figured it out. I restrict access to sudo for all the normal users, myself included, and create a hidden account for super user tasks. This prevents us from inadvertantly screwing things up in day to day operation. It also means that if someone broke in, they'd have a harder time figuring out how to get root access than if they could su or could log in as "root". Apart from that, security isn't much better than other distros.
CNR is an free tool that makes it easy for people to find and install non-free blobs and Linspire have already announced that they would make it avalaible to other distros. Ubuntu already allows easy installation of free software, so Ubuntu saying they will include CNR is barely news. The only news is that Linspire is changing it's base, oh and perhaps that the companies are announcing cooperation.
Perhaps you're just trolling, or perhaps you are a religious zealot. If the latter, please RTFA again and realise that, at least as far as Ubuntu goes, not much has really changed. In any case, as you're obviously not interested in Linspire, or Ubuntu for that matter, please STFU.
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I remember a fuss made about a town called Fish Kil. An animal rights group was demanding they change the name of the town to something fish friendly. When locals pointed out it meant Fish River in Gaelic the group wasn't impressed and still wanted it changed. Intent is everything and sometimes the insult is in the eye of the beholder.
Nothing new here. How about feminists who want to replace the suffix "man", from the latin word for hand, with person? Don't you realise person ends with son?!? It should be peroffspring, you insensitive clod!
Hey! Bring back freedom *cough* fries *cough* *cough*!
Giving away software instead of buying quality American products from Microsoft. F**king commies! Even copied the flag then try and tell me they had red white and blue first!! I'll show 'em. From now on I'm gonna salute the brown, baby poo green and brown! That'll show those hippy pinko snail eating hole sniffers! That'll teach 'em for trying to punish us for killing a few worthless Arabs by giving free software away to kids!
Scum!
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That, people, was not feeding a troll, that was shitting on a troll and it felt really good!
I think you'd be making a BIG mistake taking that attitude.
Instead of threatening them with police involvement, try inviting them politely in to a special waiting room with modern looking, yet incredibly uncomfortable, furniture and ask them to wait until your company's Microsoft Purchasing Officer is ready to answer their queries.
When it's time to lock up and go home, tell them they are welcome to come again the next business day, or you can call them when you actually hire a Microsft Purchasing Officer if they'd prefer.
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What? You're suggesting he stop going to church and spend his Sundays writing his own solution? How do know he's a church goer?
Except in one case you're scribbling on steel, in the other case YOU'RE TEARING THE SEXUAL ORGANS OFF A LIVING THING AND GIVING THEM AS A GIFT!!!
-Imagine if the tables were turned-
Cabbage 1: Happy Valentines Day darling!
Cabbage 2: Oh Raoul, this human penis smells delightful!
Actually, my son old figured out the mouse at 18 months with xeyes. Had it doing funny full screen eye movements with his own specific sound effects. Clicking stuff he figured out by just having a blank desktop. I've given him his own account, and sometimes when he bugs me at the computer, I log him in, let him play for a bit and come back to have a chuckle at what he's managed to do. He gets bored pretty quickly and I think that's a good thing at his age (now 2yo).
I tend to think that kids at pre school age will learn more if they involve their entire bodies in play, so while having a computer might be interesting, I think blocks, cardboard boxes, crayons, paint and other children are by far the most valuable learning tools.
You can learn the basics of electronic machine control from turning a light on and off, or playing with a DVD remote. PCs don't really become meaningful until a bit later, and if anything they may be detrimental. I personally subscribe to the view that it's better to learn to interact in a world without undo or reset/reboot before being exposed to Ctrl+Z. I've watched my two year old son figure out loads of logical and physical truths by playing with cups of water, and found it really interesting to see him figure things out that I know might apply later such as learning the beginings of arithmetic by climbing stairs .
I think everyone would agree that the trick is to support and encourage them to incorporate learning in their play, I just don't see how artificially introducing new fangled kinds of play with machines is any better all the fun stuff around already.
It definitely shows you're more caring than if you gave flowers. Especially if she's one of those ultra sensitive types who think plants have feelings.
I know if I were a flowering plant, I'd be all like "Go with the spaceship idea, it's gold! Seriously, she'll love it! No!! Put the secateurs away. No, not that! AAAAARRRRGH!!!!! Aaaawww, did you have to hang a card from it?
Oh wait.... this is
never mind....
Ouch! I think this is MS making the same stupid design descisions again, and in this case it's the one where a 'special*' filename is treated in a 'special*' way.
I'm not talking 'special*' as in /boot is special - if I write an executable at /boot/banana/kill_all_humans, my system will ignore it, just as it will ignore C:\Kill~1.exe. I'm talking 'special*' as in a file with a particular name will be treated in a particular way, regardless of the contents. Think of all those old exploits where someone put an executable in an email with a jpg or other extension. This is the same brand of stupid all over again.
I'm not saying that correct naming isn't important, I'm just saying that the file contents are more important than its name. If someone offers me "chocolate" and hands me dried cat shit, I'm not going to eat it. I'll dispose of it and most likely take violent action against whoever told me it was chocolate. I expect my computer to behave the same way, apart from the violence bit of course.
They could have changed the executable format and provided a sandboxed legacy OS for older software as other posters have suggested. If there is no easy way of recognising different kinds of .exes, their contents and privileges required, it just highlights the problem MS is having in retrospectively fitting security to a broken model. The fact that they are still using 'special*' executable installers highlights that they haven't really thought these issues through. The fact that they are still using 'special*' filenames shows that they are adding to there existing legacy of 'special*' architecture.
For the record, I'm not an anti MS zealot. I own an xbox, I just don't let Windows near my home PC.
* In Canada, special means retarded.....then he discovered he could encourage them to join the army and send them to Iraq
Nothing like a good belly laugh
"Elvis Presley is dead, but not all of the class of dead people is Elvis Presley"
All those crazy "climate change has nothing to do with carbon levels" crackpots are going to have a field day. And all the "Yes it bloody well does!!" crackpots are going to get all defensive and who's going to win in the end? The trolls. That's who. The trolls.
In all this I'm reminded of a mock argument I heard on the radio between a geologist and a biologist about the source of oxygen in out atmosphere. Both "experts" were convinced that it was largely due to some effect described in their field of study and dismissed the other.
What I'm trying to say is that there is solid evidence that carbon in the atmosphere can trap heat. If we now discover that cosmic rays are warming the planet, that doesn't exclude the effect of carbon as an insulator from the equation. Now if both theories are true we have a serious problem. Cosmic radiation is warming the planet at a higher rate and carbon is preventing it from cooling.
What do we do about it?
1. Reduce carbon emissions.
2. reduce Earth's exposure to cosmic rays
If reducing cosmic rays can be done along the lines of Mr. Burns blocking out the sun with his big dish, I'm all for it, as long as I'm the one who owns the dish. Otherwise, with sincere apologies all the "I'm gonna fcsking well drive my big Ford SUV 2 blocks to buy my cheese in a can" crackpots, but it has to be option 1.
Hey, as a member of the oldest profession in the world, the moderators mother was incorporated, you insensitive clod!!!
I'm really so very sorry. The pun was obviously bad enough to be flamebait.
"Are you sure you want to move Copy of Copy of Shortcut to Windows Direct Live Connect Delivery IcyHotmail Interface Hub.lnk to the Recycle Bin?"
But if one hits a short member arab ruler on the head with a flashlight while he's wearing his micro-turbin, surely that's a sultan battery?
Ouch. I'm so sorry everyone.
That's an interseting point. Perhaps the advantage is localised generation rather than isolated power stations. Perhaps they will be used in individual PCs, laptops, etc instead of batteries. I don't get how increasing the friction of a large scale system will increase it's efficiency, and I don't really get where the hydrogen comes from either.
I'd be a lot more exceited about artificial photosynthesis
The hydrogen comes from the kittens, doofus!
After minutes of suggesting he may switch to orange juice with breakfast, Karl Emorphowitz has decided to stick with coffee, along with an extra tab of artificial sweetener.
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If you'd bothered to read TFA, you see that he also had to upgrade his main windows PC to Vista. No wonder it took so long
The reason is simple. Any individual or group who sees themselves as particularly important will think that the actions of others are design to effect them.
The neo-conservative propaganda that the US is the force for good in the world makes this more prevelent at the moment, even unconciously amongst people who don't buy into the crap.
Do I have to pay to put that on a t-shirt?
Having read TFA, my take on it is that the only real news is that Linspire is changing from Debian base to Ubuntu base. Ubuntu is, as you say, basic and that's the appeal. I installed it and everything just worked, easier than any version of windows. If I want to build my own binaries, tweak things, etc, I can. My wife, btw, gets a glazed look if I show her a terminal, but here is a system with which we are both happy.
At first I was also a bit concerned about the sudo only approach, until I figured it out. I restrict access to sudo for all the normal users, myself included, and create a hidden account for super user tasks. This prevents us from inadvertantly screwing things up in day to day operation. It also means that if someone broke in, they'd have a harder time figuring out how to get root access than if they could su or could log in as "root". Apart from that, security isn't much better than other distros.
CNR is an free tool that makes it easy for people to find and install non-free blobs and Linspire have already announced that they would make it avalaible to other distros. Ubuntu already allows easy installation of free software, so Ubuntu saying they will include CNR is barely news. The only news is that Linspire is changing it's base, oh and perhaps that the companies are announcing cooperation.
Perhaps you're just trolling, or perhaps you are a religious zealot. If the latter, please RTFA again and realise that, at least as far as Ubuntu goes, not much has really changed. In any case, as you're obviously not interested in Linspire, or Ubuntu for that matter, please STFU.
Thanks, that's better.
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Nothing new here. How about feminists who want to replace the suffix "man", from the latin word for hand, with person? Don't you realise person ends with son?!? It should be peroffspring, you insensitive clod!
Hey! Bring back freedom *cough* fries *cough* *cough*!
Giving away software instead of buying quality American products from Microsoft. F**king commies! Even copied the flag then try and tell me they had red white and blue first!! I'll show 'em. From now on I'm gonna salute the brown, baby poo green and brown! That'll show those hippy pinko snail eating hole sniffers! That'll teach 'em for trying to punish us for killing a few worthless Arabs by giving free software away to kids!
Scum!
--That, people, was not feeding a troll, that was shitting on a troll and it felt really good!
I think you'd be making a BIG mistake taking that attitude.
Instead of threatening them with police involvement, try inviting them politely in to a special waiting room with modern looking, yet incredibly uncomfortable, furniture and ask them to wait until your company's Microsoft Purchasing Officer is ready to answer their queries.
When it's time to lock up and go home, tell them they are welcome to come again the next business day, or you can call them when you actually hire a Microsft Purchasing Officer if they'd prefer.