About the Netherlands: Yes, they are reasonably easy to come by. No, it is/not legal/ to sell a multi-region DVD player off the shelf. (makers tend to have their DVD license revoked) Most stores will 'reprogram' it for a reasonable price.
Most brand-name players will still honor the do-not-skip setting, even if they are set to multi-region.
Unfortunately, my PS3 is single-region, so I still have to keep a dedicated DVD player around...
To make matters worse: I have, in fact bought several CD's twice. Mostly because the original got lost or I wore out the CD (Car CD player).
I can't tell you how many Hitchhiker's guides I have bought by now, only to be given away at birthdays and other special events. OK, I accidentally bought FarCry twice, but it was still worth it.
Having bought crap in my early years because of merchandising (T2 game?), I now prefer to try a game before I buy it. That still means I will buy a game if I like it. I am willing to spend $40 on a good game, upto $60 for gaming nirvana. I was/not/ willing to spend $75 on Unreal Tournament III, so I waited until it hit the $60 mark.
And it does work, sometimes. The recording industry has realized people will not buy a CD if it only has 3 decent songs on it.
Indeed, and I have piles of Play DVD's:-) Unfortunately, they don't carry as much Japanese and French movies/series as I would like.
Play actually provides the convenience Jedi_Alec seems to want, except you have to rely on your local postal company for delivery (some things get lost in transit).
They do, however try to keep you happy you if something does get lost.
The article says that a lot of pirates are people that enjoy the content. Sometimes, they even enjoy the content so much, they buy the official copy, just to inform the publisher that this formula works.
I'm one of them, I have piles of illegal movies and games and even bigger piles of CD's, DVD's and BD-ROMS of stuff I actually like) Also, not all piracy is done because 'they want it for free'. If you want English subtitles in the Netherlands, you either have to import (illegal, won't play on DVD player) or download your movies, so I but the movie with dutch subs and download the one with English subs.
Oh, and yes,/sometimes/ it is worth the money to import (Ghost in the Shell, Evangelion), even if it costs >$75 to buy.
I have to admit that I am not a professional programmer and that I have never heard of a DAG model. I'm more of a Prince2 (project-oriented) person.
Projects tent to be defined by the fact that they have a deadline. What most managers want to know is: will I still amke my deadline? If something threatens that deadline, they want to be the first to know, so they can work on a (re)solution (apply pressure, different program, hire (bribe) the FOSS programmer, hire an expert, re-allocate resources, extend deadline, anything).
From what I have experienced, a good manager will check your plans, then quietly observe as the experts 'do their thing' and occasionally inquires to the status (AKA can I help)? As soon as the project sets off, the manager is only really needed to provide resources and report to the management layer.
The programmer in the back of my mind will lynch me for saying this, but this is the only way I see out of the gordian knot: Define them all as issues in one giant project and try to map out all the dependencies. That way, you know what bugs are awaiting what (forwards) and which bug you can work on when a certain bug was fixed (forwards). Ths only problem is assigning the management of the chart (or parts of it). Probably the person in charge of the team that reported the bug.
Should a bug fail to make any progress, the offending external package might be swapped out for something else.
From what I have learned in the US College system, teachers have to use only questions that have been asked in the book (God forbid students think for themselves). If all you can use are the questions in the book, there is a finite pool of questions for the exam and all it takes to pass the exam is to study the last 3 versions of the exam.
Aside from that, I think it's really curious of the teacher wants people to destroy their notes. Personally, I think there's a bullshit remark in there that she does not want to go public about.
If his blackberry is wires into the Gov't Blackberry Enterprise Server, you can rest assured all his communications on it are still 'logged' on the system, I simply hope he doesn't use it for personal gains.
If it's his private blackberry, I simply hope he keeps it separate from his work.
What Bush did wrong, was using Republican Party resources for personal and work means and then keeping everything inside it 'private'.
After months of fighting with Explorer (I don't want to know the details of all images and videos), I decided to drop Explorer by installing xplorer2 lite. If you want to get rid of Explorer altogether you'll need to install a new graphical shell (like Blackbox), which saves RAM, CPU cycles and (can be) easier on the eyes.
I have set up several domains based on XP clients with a Samba Server as Domain Controller. It will handle user authentication, profiles, user shares, group shares and domain trusts. (even sucurity policy through ntconfig.pol ) Using LDAP as authentication backend also gives you a Directory Service (as in Address Book)
From what I have heard, recent versions of Samba (less that 3 years old) can serve up a full AD implementation, but you need a Windows Workstation to administer the domain.
Mostly simple on-line orders. Most bills are not encrypted, because the company would have to set up a seperate decryption key for every person they send the mail to.
What about storing the PDF documents yourself? All my e-bills get sent to me by e-mail and I store them myself. That way -I- control how long they are made available.
This does mean, though, that companies have to make the bills available as a downloadable document. (or users need to use a print-to-PDF program)
2/ The banks protect their assets by foreclosing on the house if the client can't make their payments. Banks are not parents. They should not have to treat their clients like children. If people are about to buy a house, I assume they are adults, who know what responsibility is.
3/ IANAB, but doesn't the Federal Reserve tell the banks how much money they are allowed to invest in the economy? (by allowing people to buy a house) If the banks have run out of money, the Federal Reserve has set up bad rules.
In the current system, private banks are for-profit businesses but government regulation places restrictions on what they can do.
Do you, by any chance, mean the in-house developers ar SUN that created the original StarOffice? Or the people at RedHat, Novell, IBM and Intel who, together, supplied 20% of the Linux kernel? Keep in mind that a lot of opensource developers are professionals, some of whom get paid to do opensource programming.
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I am weary, and their deaths will bring me little joy.
Of course, sometimes, a little is enough.
Then again, that was a vampire...
About the Netherlands: /not legal/ to sell a multi-region DVD player off the shelf. (makers tend to have their DVD license revoked)
Yes, they are reasonably easy to come by.
No, it is
Most stores will 'reprogram' it for a reasonable price.
Most brand-name players will still honor the do-not-skip setting, even if they are set to multi-region.
Unfortunately, my PS3 is single-region, so I still have to keep a dedicated DVD player around...
http://www.getfirefox.com/
To make matters worse:
I have, in fact bought several CD's twice.
Mostly because the original got lost or I wore out the CD (Car CD player).
I can't tell you how many Hitchhiker's guides I have bought by now, only to be given away at birthdays and other special events.
OK, I accidentally bought FarCry twice, but it was still worth it.
Having bought crap in my early years because of merchandising (T2 game?), I now prefer to try a game before I buy it. /not/ willing to spend $75 on Unreal Tournament III, so I waited until it hit the $60 mark.
That still means I will buy a game if I like it. I am willing to spend $40 on a good game, upto $60 for gaming nirvana.
I was
And it does work, sometimes.
The recording industry has realized people will not buy a CD if it only has 3 decent songs on it.
Indeed, and I have piles of Play DVD's :-)
Unfortunately, they don't carry as much Japanese and French movies/series as I would like.
Play actually provides the convenience Jedi_Alec seems to want, except you have to rely on your local postal company for delivery (some things get lost in transit).
They do, however try to keep you happy you if something does get lost.
OK. I'll bite.
The article says that a lot of pirates are people that enjoy the content.
Sometimes, they even enjoy the content so much, they buy the official copy, just to inform the publisher that this formula works.
I'm one of them, I have piles of illegal movies and games and even bigger piles of CD's, DVD's and BD-ROMS of stuff I actually like)
Also, not all piracy is done because 'they want it for free'. If you want English subtitles in the Netherlands, you either have to import (illegal, won't play on DVD player) or download your movies, so I but the movie with dutch subs and download the one with English subs.
Oh, and yes, /sometimes/ it is worth the money to import (Ghost in the Shell, Evangelion), even if it costs >$75 to buy.
I have to admit that I am not a professional programmer and that I have never heard of a DAG model.
I'm more of a Prince2 (project-oriented) person.
Projects tent to be defined by the fact that they have a deadline.
What most managers want to know is: will I still amke my deadline?
If something threatens that deadline, they want to be the first to know, so they can work on a (re)solution (apply pressure, different program, hire (bribe) the FOSS programmer, hire an expert, re-allocate resources, extend deadline, anything).
From what I have experienced, a good manager will check your plans, then quietly observe as the experts 'do their thing' and occasionally inquires to the status (AKA can I help)?
As soon as the project sets off, the manager is only really needed to provide resources and report to the management layer.
The programmer in the back of my mind will lynch me for saying this, but this is the only way I see out of the gordian knot:
Define them all as issues in one giant project and try to map out all the dependencies.
That way, you know what bugs are awaiting what (forwards) and which bug you can work on when a certain bug was fixed (forwards).
Ths only problem is assigning the management of the chart (or parts of it).
Probably the person in charge of the team that reported the bug.
Should a bug fail to make any progress, the offending external package might be swapped out for something else.
Keep in mind that XP x64 is not actually XP, but Win2003 x64 with some changes to make it look and feel like XP.
Please mod parent up.
On a serious matter:
Thanks for stopping by in person for the heads-up.
I Appreciate it.
There are 2 ways I use cat like that:
1/ 'sudo cat'
2/ as placeholder for another program (awk/grep/head/tail)
I realize that those programs also allow the use of stdin, but It still find if convenient.
Nasty apppend-as-root hack (>>): 'sudo tee -a'
From what I have learned in the US College system, teachers have to use only questions that have been asked in the book (God forbid students think for themselves).
If all you can use are the questions in the book, there is a finite pool of questions for the exam and all it takes to pass the exam is to study the last 3 versions of the exam.
Aside from that, I think it's really curious of the teacher wants people to destroy their notes. Personally, I think there's a bullshit remark in there that she does not want to go public about.
Apple decides to release the software without 'protection' and announces the next day that there might be infected versions out on the internet.
From what I recall, installing a 'non-official' copy has always come with a risk of 'undocumented extras'.
iWonder who released the 'bugged' version of iWork...
From what I gather, though, at least the Democrats want everyone to go to school, so they can learn to think for themselves.
If his blackberry is wires into the Gov't Blackberry Enterprise Server, you can rest assured all his communications on it are still 'logged' on the system, I simply hope he doesn't use it for personal gains.
If it's his private blackberry, I simply hope he keeps it separate from his work.
What Bush did wrong, was using Republican Party resources for personal and work means and then keeping everything inside it 'private'.
Good news on the /. frontpage:
Active Directory Comes To Linux With Samba 4
It's actually underway!
After months of fighting with Explorer (I don't want to know the details of all images and videos), I decided to drop Explorer by installing xplorer2 lite.
If you want to get rid of Explorer altogether you'll need to install a new graphical shell (like Blackbox), which saves RAM, CPU cycles and (can be) easier on the eyes.
Please don't ever make references to that entry mode again.
It has taken me years to forget how HP's stack-based calculator works.
Now I can start all over again.
Crap, that text has been in there since Samba3 was released.
I had hoped this would speed up since MS realeased that pile of documentation.
Apparently, all AD functionality will be put in Samba4, which is still Alpha:
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/FAQ
I'm afraid I disagree with you there.
I have set up several domains based on XP clients with a Samba Server as Domain Controller.
It will handle user authentication, profiles, user shares, group shares and domain trusts.
(even sucurity policy through ntconfig.pol )
Using LDAP as authentication backend also gives you a Directory Service (as in Address Book)
From what I have heard, recent versions of Samba (less that 3 years old) can serve up a full AD implementation, but you need a Windows Workstation to administer the domain.
Mostly simple on-line orders.
Most bills are not encrypted, because the company would have to set up a seperate decryption key for every person they send the mail to.
Mote insightful comments at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1084151&cid=26370787
What about storing the PDF documents yourself?
All my e-bills get sent to me by e-mail and I store them myself.
That way -I- control how long they are made available.
This does mean, though, that companies have to make the bills available as a downloadable document.
(or users need to use a print-to-PDF program)
1/Pardon my Engrish, ECON101 was 10 years ago.
2/ The banks protect their assets by foreclosing on the house if the client can't make their payments. Banks are not parents. They should not have to treat their clients like children. If people are about to buy a house, I assume they are adults, who know what responsibility is.
3/ IANAB, but doesn't the Federal Reserve tell the banks how much money they are allowed to invest in the economy? (by allowing people to buy a house) If the banks have run out of money, the Federal Reserve has set up bad rules.
In the current system, private banks are for-profit businesses but government regulation places restrictions on what they can do.
Do you, by any chance, mean the in-house developers ar SUN that created the original StarOffice?
Or the people at RedHat, Novell, IBM and Intel who, together, supplied 20% of the Linux kernel?
Keep in mind that a lot of opensource developers are professionals, some of whom get paid to do opensource programming.