I doubt it, it's probably a valid Word file for the most part. Linux could be vulnerable to the same trick if a privilege escalation bug is found that is able to be exploited just by loading the file.
The DS makes a great little reading gadget. I mainly use it to browse online texts and it's perfect. Much better for casual reading than a laptop. Perhaps you should try it before being overly dismissive.
Use an old basic like the GP recommends, with a simple text editor or interpreter environment. Kids do not need the complexity of visual basic or visual studio interfering with their comprehension of the fundamentals.
It's quite a good troll. Just enough indignation and ignorance without making it obvious. If you don't believe it's a troll, perhaps his post on Vista is more revealing:
Vista is the Future
Its clearly evident that vista is the future.
One only has to watch TV for a short period of time and see the advertising.
WOW !!
I personally love the part where the young man is taking a stroll in the delightful snow covered streets, and sees firsthand a young deer with a gleefull glint in its eye. It sends a shiver down my spine. WOW is all I can say.
Vista is clearly the future of enterprise computing.
Again, well balanced and written, but clearly just a troll.
Imagine you are the head of the student council body and you wish to contact a selected number of faculty members about a proposal before the deadline expired. Would you write each a personal email or would you just CC it to the relevant parties? Note that she only mailed the 390ish that she thought it was relevant to out of around 5000 faculty members.
How on earth would running non-GPL code on a GPL'd virtual machine violate the GPL? I'm really confused about your second point. Unless someone is modifying the GPL'd code such as the VM itself, there should be no problems right?
As a student I would say she has the right to engage in dialogue with the entire faculty on such matters as extending and reducing the length of a semester, and not just those instructors she is in direct contact with. I would argue that a student does not need to solicit approval to communicate with the faculty, and that by sending it to a selected set of addresses all of whom she wished to express her concerns towards that it wasn't in any way spam.
Censorship only works while the public remains silent. The media is not at fault, it's our corrupt political system. We are resisting with words, with public protest which will come to blows. We will prevail.
well, given that comets inhabit the outer reaches of our solar system already, it wouldn't take too much effort. Add in the vastness of space and the fact that gravitational attraction exists I'd conjecture that any body heading in our general direction would be captured by our gravitational pull. It wouldn't have to aim straight at us, just in the general vicinity.
His point still stands. Take someone who has grown up in an isolated area far from the modern world, living a life similar to our ancient hunter-gatherer ancestors, dump them in a metropolis and they'll adjust fairly quickly.
Think of all the changes you listed, and note that you've adjusted to them all in your lifetime. Humans are very adaptable to new environments and technologies.
How is it aimed at all at piracy? Pirates don't use activation keys, they use cracks. It's a shoplifting measure at most, and retailers already keep games and keys behind the counter with empty boxes on the shelves. It's a solution to a non-existent problem that will just cause more hassle for the legitimate consumer and be bypassed as usual by pirates.
The FSF are a bunch of close minded zealots, worse then MS and Adobe in this regard. I agree with the core of their philosophy, but not to the point of opposing not only closed source but many open source licenses including the BSD licenses. Free as in beer code for embedded devices is not unethical, its useful and practical. You don't need to modify hardware, same goes for the firmware. If for some unlikely reason you do want to modify the hardware, I doubt it would be covered by warranty. Would you prefer open source firmware that if modified voided the warranty? It's a tricky balance to strike, and I think the BSD team has it right - they don't need to see the code, it's part of the hardware. They just need the hardware to function as a black box.
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Perhaps because your average luser is on XP SP1 at most, and considering perhaps installing SP2, and haven't even heard of SP3.
I doubt it, it's probably a valid Word file for the most part. Linux could be vulnerable to the same trick if a privilege escalation bug is found that is able to be exploited just by loading the file.
The DS makes a great little reading gadget. I mainly use it to browse online texts and it's perfect. Much better for casual reading than a laptop. Perhaps you should try it before being overly dismissive.
Well, seeing as you can get the flash plugin for Windows, Mac and Linux really it's not all that bad, there will be very few who cannot access it.
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Use an old basic like the GP recommends, with a simple text editor or interpreter environment. Kids do not need the complexity of visual basic or visual studio interfering with their comprehension of the fundamentals.
It's quite a good troll. Just enough indignation and ignorance without making it obvious. If you don't believe it's a troll, perhaps his post on Vista is more revealing:
Vista is the Future
Its clearly evident that vista is the future.
One only has to watch TV for a short period of time and see the advertising.
WOW !!
I personally love the part where the young man is taking a stroll in the delightful snow covered streets, and sees firsthand a young deer with a gleefull glint in its eye. It sends a shiver down my spine. WOW is all I can say.
Vista is clearly the future of enterprise computing.
Again, well balanced and written, but clearly just a troll.
Why do people insist that rhetorical questions don't need a reply? This is a rhetorical question, don't bother replying.
Hate to burst your bubble, but one links to a Karen Ciesla and the other to a Karen Kenworthy. Your google-fu needs some work, grasshopper.
Imagine you are the head of the student council body and you wish to contact a selected number of faculty members about a proposal before the deadline expired. Would you write each a personal email or would you just CC it to the relevant parties? Note that she only mailed the 390ish that she thought it was relevant to out of around 5000 faculty members.
How on earth would running non-GPL code on a GPL'd virtual machine violate the GPL? I'm really confused about your second point. Unless someone is modifying the GPL'd code such as the VM itself, there should be no problems right?
As a student I would say she has the right to engage in dialogue with the entire faculty on such matters as extending and reducing the length of a semester, and not just those instructors she is in direct contact with. I would argue that a student does not need to solicit approval to communicate with the faculty, and that by sending it to a selected set of addresses all of whom she wished to express her concerns towards that it wasn't in any way spam.
READ BULLETIN 1147, PEOPLE!
It's kinda like the rule 34 of philosophy.
Can someone pass the mindbleach?
Censorship only works while the public remains silent. The media is not at fault, it's our corrupt political system. We are resisting with words, with public protest which will come to blows. We will prevail.
1 in a million is 1 too many.
well, given that comets inhabit the outer reaches of our solar system already, it wouldn't take too much effort. Add in the vastness of space and the fact that gravitational attraction exists I'd conjecture that any body heading in our general direction would be captured by our gravitational pull. It wouldn't have to aim straight at us, just in the general vicinity.
I'd opt for a triangle myself. Perhaps 30/60/90.
His point still stands. Take someone who has grown up in an isolated area far from the modern world, living a life similar to our ancient hunter-gatherer ancestors, dump them in a metropolis and they'll adjust fairly quickly.
Think of all the changes you listed, and note that you've adjusted to them all in your lifetime. Humans are very adaptable to new environments and technologies.
Chained to a rock for all eternity while vultures devour your liver doesn't sound so great either...
What of half-elves and half-orcs then? There must be a common ancestor, hence they are at most of different genus.
If you have three Pepsis and drink one, how much more refreshed are you?
How is it aimed at all at piracy? Pirates don't use activation keys, they use cracks. It's a shoplifting measure at most, and retailers already keep games and keys behind the counter with empty boxes on the shelves. It's a solution to a non-existent problem that will just cause more hassle for the legitimate consumer and be bypassed as usual by pirates.
Yeah that plan you had to deposed him was sublime in its genius. Getting rid of him by letting him serve his full term of office was a masterstroke.
The FSF are a bunch of close minded zealots, worse then MS and Adobe in this regard. I agree with the core of their philosophy, but not to the point of opposing not only closed source but many open source licenses including the BSD licenses. Free as in beer code for embedded devices is not unethical, its useful and practical. You don't need to modify hardware, same goes for the firmware. If for some unlikely reason you do want to modify the hardware, I doubt it would be covered by warranty. Would you prefer open source firmware that if modified voided the warranty? It's a tricky balance to strike, and I think the BSD team has it right - they don't need to see the code, it's part of the hardware. They just need the hardware to function as a black box.