BitTorrent depends the popularity of the torrent. If these guys are offering free, DRM-free downloads of (depending on your perspective, maybe *ridiculously*) obscure stuff, they're in business.
UAC is closer to sudo than you think. If UAC pops up retardedly often, it's because the program is trying to do something that requires elevated permissions when it shouldn't.
Microsoft has more than a decade's worth of legacy applications for Windows, and it would be nice if most of them ran on Vista. Security has been sorely lacking, and while new programs can be written so as not to require administrative privileges, MS has to provide users with some way of opening the door for a legacy app that wants to be root for a little while.
I bet you'll see most new applications eliminating UAC prompts (by working around the need for elevate privileges), but for old applications UAC might actually be a good way for you to keep using an app that would otherwise not work on your system.
If you switched to another OS, you'd have applications available to you that have been written to operate without administrative rights (these rights wouldn't be exactly the same as in Vista, they would be something analagous).
Personally I'd love for everyone to ditch Vista, but I have to observe that UAC probably won't be much of an issue in year or so, if important software publishers can patched their stuff.
Ubuntu was chosen for its notoriety. There's buzz associated with Ubuntu, that's all. It's a good product, which one reason for the buzz, but there are other good distributions out there.
or was it because it has the best compatibility with hardware[?]
All linux distributions have pretty much the same compatability with hardware. The real work in writing a driver is in making the device work with the Linux kernel. If Ubuntu had drivers that no other distribution was offering, they would soon be adopted the others.
You sound like exactly the kind of slashtard who becomes an editor, if you can just learn to end your posts with polarizing, tangentially-related questions.
The bay that you're talking about is supposed to be swappable with no tools. I don't have firsthand experience with any other laptops, but I highly doubt that swapping out the optical drive on an IBM or HP laptop requires a screwdriver.
I have a d600, and so do many of my friends (university deal, like yours). Several had the plastic shells deteriorate, and generally the build quality wasn't consistent over four years. The d620 does look better though. I started shopping intending to get something more solid than my d600, and I was suprised to find that the d620 is exactly that.
If coal power can reach the market so competitively, our governments should tax it to make up for the harm it does. The same applies to gasoline. European governments tax the hell out of it, which encourages people to minimize their consumption.
These governments should not be seen as "meddling," or overly liberal. Economic theory allows for the possibility that some activities might damage public property (like the environment) and authorizes governments to extract a toll whenever these resources are damaged, to pay for their repair.
He's got more imagination than sense. Don't worry about him. He's thinking of crystalline creatures from Star Trek and generic "energy-beigns", and if you dismiss these things, he'll just say you're closed-minded.
In advance, to any GNOME fanboys (because I feel like I'm on the front lines of that holy war): this doesn't mean people shouldn't be able to do things. If it's easy to learn how to do things, then it's *great* to be able to do things. By 'things', I mean reassigning hotkeys, and changing the contents of the toolbar. The interface for these actions is uniform across all of the core KDE apps and many of the peripheral ones, so after learning just one simple gui, the user gains great control over all the programs in his KDE desktop.
It's *pretty* bad. The guitar is really buzzy and Stallman's voice is pretty toneless. I approve of his politics and often I even say GNU/Linux, but I'm not impressed at this offering.
A lot of the time he's correcting for hitting the wrong notes, too. Did they just keep the first take?
I meant for video processing. The scant editing I've done has never required many operations by me (I admit, I've only been cutting things together) but the real burden comes when it is time to encode. The encoding, since it takes a while and doesn't need any input from me, would be better done on a central server. Only jobs that can be effectively require a lot of cpu time and very little input are appropriate for thin clients.
The article doesn't give a figure (or maybe I missed it). How much data does the digital original of a feature film comprise? My wild guess is a terrabyte or two, but I guess I can imagine it's much more. It would kind of have to be a lot for this to be a serious issue, or else redundancy would be cheap enough to make this a non-issue.
If long-term data-loss is such a problem, there's an eminently fillable niche for utterly immortal data storage. There are some definite tyranny-of-numbers problems here, but the movie industry has money.
It's not so much "even hobbyists" as "only hobbyists." Well, hobbyists and freelance professionals. For professionals working together, you could save a lot of money by doing all the heavy lifting through a thin client. Thin clients are great for anything that's going to take more than a few seconds, because it doesn't matter that you lose snappiness.
Under the present system, you need the CC numbers for billing, but wouldn't it be better if the consumer instructed the CC company to periodically make a payment to a certain account, rather than the consumer providing the vendor with the information needed to extract money?
There's no reason for vendors and service providers to deal so directly with the CC company.
I used to do that, but lately I just make a prototype password that's a real word or pair of words, and figure out what changes would let me type it faster. Then I change it, making it both a stronger password (not a word any more) and easier to type. And it's memorable because of the process of deciding what would be the best way to change it.
Anyway, I like the idea of letting the password evolve a little.
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BitTorrent depends the popularity of the torrent. If these guys are offering free, DRM-free downloads of (depending on your perspective, maybe *ridiculously*) obscure stuff, they're in business.
UAC is closer to sudo than you think. If UAC pops up retardedly often, it's because the program is trying to do something that requires elevated permissions when it shouldn't.
Microsoft has more than a decade's worth of legacy applications for Windows, and it would be nice if most of them ran on Vista. Security has been sorely lacking, and while new programs can be written so as not to require administrative privileges, MS has to provide users with some way of opening the door for a legacy app that wants to be root for a little while.
I bet you'll see most new applications eliminating UAC prompts (by working around the need for elevate privileges), but for old applications UAC might actually be a good way for you to keep using an app that would otherwise not work on your system.
If you switched to another OS, you'd have applications available to you that have been written to operate without administrative rights (these rights wouldn't be exactly the same as in Vista, they would be something analagous).
Personally I'd love for everyone to ditch Vista, but I have to observe that UAC probably won't be much of an issue in year or so, if important software publishers can patched their stuff.
Are you sure? I mean, it's not like people hate Ballmer enough to sign up for Cingular and put down $500 for iPhones just to spite him, is it?
Ubuntu was chosen for its notoriety. There's buzz associated with Ubuntu, that's all. It's a good product, which one reason for the buzz, but there are other good distributions out there.
or was it because it has the best compatibility with hardware[?]
All linux distributions have pretty much the same compatability with hardware. The real work in writing a driver is in making the device work with the Linux kernel. If Ubuntu had drivers that no other distribution was offering, they would soon be adopted the others.
http://tools.morningstar.com/charts/Mcharts.aspx?S ecurity=DELL&sLevel=A
Dell's not doing so badly.
...maried,...
...more then...
You sound like exactly the kind of slashtard who becomes an editor, if you can just learn to end your posts with polarizing, tangentially-related questions.
(boy do you sound like a shill :P)
The bay that you're talking about is supposed to be swappable with no tools. I don't have firsthand experience with any other laptops, but I highly doubt that swapping out the optical drive on an IBM or HP laptop requires a screwdriver.
I have a d600, and so do many of my friends (university deal, like yours). Several had the plastic shells deteriorate, and generally the build quality wasn't consistent over four years. The d620 does look better though. I started shopping intending to get something more solid than my d600, and I was suprised to find that the d620 is exactly that.
If coal power can reach the market so competitively, our governments should tax it to make up for the harm it does. The same applies to gasoline. European governments tax the hell out of it, which encourages people to minimize their consumption.
These governments should not be seen as "meddling," or overly liberal. Economic theory allows for the possibility that some activities might damage public property (like the environment) and authorizes governments to extract a toll whenever these resources are damaged, to pay for their repair.
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/jerry.html
Apparently "jerry-built" and "jury-rigged" are the correct phrases. Apparently the one you want is "jury-rigged."
It came as a surprise to me as well.
He's got more imagination than sense. Don't worry about him. He's thinking of crystalline creatures from Star Trek and generic "energy-beigns", and if you dismiss these things, he'll just say you're closed-minded.
Star Trek also made a big deal about how life might not fit our assumptions. What's that famous quote?
"It's life, Jim, but not as we know it."
backslash: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/22/15 51236 m l
and the original Joel blog post: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/21.ht
In advance, to any GNOME fanboys (because I feel like I'm on the front lines of that holy war): this doesn't mean people shouldn't be able to do things. If it's easy to learn how to do things, then it's *great* to be able to do things. By 'things', I mean reassigning hotkeys, and changing the contents of the toolbar. The interface for these actions is uniform across all of the core KDE apps and many of the peripheral ones, so after learning just one simple gui, the user gains great control over all the programs in his KDE desktop.
Possible? - Maybe.
Gee, you sure are going out on a limb there....
I can't think of anything much less critical to national security than high-end consumer electronics.
I guess this means we'll still have AllOfMP3 for the foreseeable future. I wonder if Putin is in bed with Paula Jones?
It's not *inspired*, but it's competent.
It's unregistered. I wonder if anyone will grab it, now.
It's *pretty* bad. The guitar is really buzzy and Stallman's voice is pretty toneless. I approve of his politics and often I even say GNU/Linux, but I'm not impressed at this offering.
A lot of the time he's correcting for hitting the wrong notes, too. Did they just keep the first take?
I meant for video processing. The scant editing I've done has never required many operations by me (I admit, I've only been cutting things together) but the real burden comes when it is time to encode. The encoding, since it takes a while and doesn't need any input from me, would be better done on a central server. Only jobs that can be effectively require a lot of cpu time and very little input are appropriate for thin clients.
The article doesn't give a figure (or maybe I missed it). How much data does the digital original of a feature film comprise? My wild guess is a terrabyte or two, but I guess I can imagine it's much more. It would kind of have to be a lot for this to be a serious issue, or else redundancy would be cheap enough to make this a non-issue.
If long-term data-loss is such a problem, there's an eminently fillable niche for utterly immortal data storage. There are some definite tyranny-of-numbers problems here, but the movie industry has money.
It's not so much "even hobbyists" as "only hobbyists." Well, hobbyists and freelance professionals. For professionals working together, you could save a lot of money by doing all the heavy lifting through a thin client. Thin clients are great for anything that's going to take more than a few seconds, because it doesn't matter that you lose snappiness.
Under the present system, you need the CC numbers for billing, but wouldn't it be better if the consumer instructed the CC company to periodically make a payment to a certain account, rather than the consumer providing the vendor with the information needed to extract money?
There's no reason for vendors and service providers to deal so directly with the CC company.
I used to do that, but lately I just make a prototype password that's a real word or pair of words, and figure out what changes would let me type it faster. Then I change it, making it both a stronger password (not a word any more) and easier to type. And it's memorable because of the process of deciding what would be the best way to change it.
Anyway, I like the idea of letting the password evolve a little.