Disposable income may also be a factor. Being able to afford a Mac might make one likely to have a (relatively) cheap $400 computer around as a spare / alternate.
Well, they may be charging for the gimmicky nature of the wireless charging, but it's pretty cheap to implement. See many models of electric toothbrushes.
WHAT?!? Pianos are far from everywhere. Unless it's an electric keyboard, which puts it in the same size/cost/commonality range as a guitar (acoustic). Pianos are huge, expensive, and not extremely common.
Why should there be an Estate? James Joyce is dead, he's had his incentive to create literary works. His son doesn't need his father's incentive, the ability for him to create his own, copyrighted work is his incentive. Time to give James' works to the public, where they belong.
Anybody with the smarts to sell a PC with competence has the smarts to not be in retail.
I see this bandied about a lot here, but I still think it's not any kind of explanation. It is ENTIRELY possible to be extremely knowledgeable with the handling, crash rating, safety features, towing capacity, braking abilities, fuel economy and what have you about a vehicle, while having NO F*ING CLUE how the internal combustion engine or ABS system actually works. It entirely possible to compare such metrics between all the cars on the lot, despite having no idea how the AC unit works.
Likewise, the PC sales people do not need to be programmers, CPU architects or Electrical Engineers to know how to compare the relative performance of a netbook versus a mid-end vs a high-end gaming rig. If a person comes in and wants to use MyFaceSpaceTwitBook and upload their camera pictures, use their mp3 player, and print book reports, the sales person should be able to guide them to the right tool for the job.
The real problem is lack of training and no genuine desire to help the customer.
Nobody would tolerate that today. Except, maybe, for an ATM.
Hehe, I'm picturing an ATM that lock you inside until you take your card and cash with you.
Better still is getting rid of retarded ATM's that actually take your card inside them. What the hell is wrong with just letting me swipe it? Why give me the opportunity to forget it unless you plan on making a service charge out if it?
Or someone would want to quickly glance at some information, but the computer would be locked and they'd either have to unlock it themselves or find someone else to unlock it.
We have this problem a lot at my work. WinXP pro machines. Once locked, the only way to get back into them is to forcefully restart the computer. Big time waster. Unfortunately there is not much we can do, as logging in and out every time someone goes on a 30 minute service call would waste even more time (logging in to computer, logging in to 2 websites, getting applications set up, etc) while students are waiting in line to be helped.
is there some other screen that admin can log in from?
The whole idea is that users DO NOT LOGIN AS ADMIN, EVER. In fact, with ubuntu, you should not even have an admin password at all.
sudo provides the functionality you need, as you discovered.
Now as to why your network configs were locked, I haven't a clue. Maybe there was a bug in 8.04 (I was only on it a short time, but don't remember that issue) Or perhaps something went wrong with your install. But I do seem to remember there being an "unlock" button to press occasionally.
In 8.10, network manager handles networking configuration, and network-admin only deals with proxy settings, so I'm not sure what you are talking about.
But really, our anecdotes are kinda useless, and perhaps some of the issues you had were growing pains from 64 bit (lots of things still have trouble, esp on Windows.) Just speculating, as you didn't remember specific problems you had.
A family with three children might buy just one Wii or PlayStation to share, but those children will probably have cellphones of their own and download and play games, Mr. Kitaue said."
...And now we can make them pay for the same game three times! (Evil Laugh Here)
I'd also argue that *text* conveys information in a more reliable manner than *icons*. That is every person will see the same word(s). If the word(s) are chosen well, the menu will be easy to navigtate.
This has actually been a frustration for me in OpenOffice.org. I clicked the paintbrush icon to try to change font color. This was actually the 'Format Paintbrush' which would let me 'paint' formatting over areas of text. An interesting and perhaps useful tool, but perhaps a bit ambiguous.
Now, there is of course tooltips, but they are slow, and still require me to memorize the meaning of all the icons to use the interface rapidly rather then being able to just READ.
My point is was that it is self-fulfilling. Why does the economy slow? Because people stop spending money. Why do people stop spending money? Because they don't have enough. Why don't they have enough, because they are losing their jobs, not getting paid well etc. because the economy is slow...
How do we get out of this? Raise minimum wage. Get rid of stupid ideas like $3 an hour minimum wage for waiter/servers and let tips be for when people actually do an exceptional job, not for just doing their job.
Increase pay all across the board for lower to minimum income earners, and let the over-payed "But I make big decisions" people take a pay cut to keep the economy going.
It is up to those with the means to fix things to do so. Companies should start seeing themselves as a team effort and reduce the disparity between the highest wages and the lowest. When CEOs and business owners start driving Civics, cancel their cable TV service, stop going out to dinner and start shopping at Walmart, take coach class instead of business/First class flights, THEN I would say they are doing something to help. Laying people off while still enjoying luxuries is just shameful.
Of course all this is my idealistic, naive *opinion*.
Bull. Just today, had to re-install MS Office 07 on a user's computer. I think she installed a business version from CD's over the trial that came with the computer, and in doing so, the software would not accept license key anymore.
Anyways, went to programs and features. Click on Office (copy 1) and choose uninstall. Wait 6 minutes, system requires reboot. For OFFICE SOFTWARE! wtf? Now, need to remove the other Office entry (copy 2) Asked me to reboot AGAIN. Then I removed the powerpoint viewer, which led to ANOTHER reboot. Finally, installing Office 07 required, you guessed it, another reboot!
Thats 5 reboots, to mess with OFFICE. Again, WTF?
Look at Ubuntu: Basically "Uncheck" (Deselect) all software packages I wish to remove, and "Check" (Select) all packages I want to install. Press the button, and off we go. Few minutes later, no reboots, and everything is done. All in ONE STEP.
Windows should have required a unified program install interface from day one. They have lots of catching up to do, IMHO.
The average citizen thinks you can just grab stuff off the web and use it. The average citizen thinks that if it's there it must be legal. And I'm willing to bet that your average congressman knows not much more than your average citizen.
If this is the case, and has been going on for a long time, but Photogs, Musicians, Movie Producers, Actors, Newspapers, etc all make money despite it, then perhaps it isn't such a big deal?
Besides, what makes copyright infringement so damn important, that it, and not a million other laws, needs to be taught in schools? More people die from accidents caused by assholes not using their turn signals or tailgating than from copyright infringement.
If i'm not mistaken, isn't there some part of the IPv6 standard (perhaps private nets?) where addressing works by having hosts pick a completely random number and use that, since the chances of collision are so slim?
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addressing 34 vulnerabilities ... Most of these updates require a restart so please factor that into your deployment planning."
Great... 34 restarts... :P
That's genuinely funny, and makes me wanna squeeze em for laughs. But don't they use saline today? (which supposedly don't seem as real)
Disposable income may also be a factor. Being able to afford a Mac might make one likely to have a (relatively) cheap $400 computer around as a spare / alternate.
1) Promise $$$$$ upon return to send people on space exploration mission.
2) Send them to space and have them radio back results of experiments etc.
3) Conveniently run out of fuel and lose radio contact with explorer
4) Explorer: ?????
5) Profit $$$$$$$!!!!!
Well, they may be charging for the gimmicky nature of the wireless charging, but it's pretty cheap to implement. See many models of electric toothbrushes.
Should the elephant be pink?
WHAT?!? Pianos are far from everywhere. Unless it's an electric keyboard, which puts it in the same size/cost/commonality range as a guitar (acoustic). Pianos are huge, expensive, and not extremely common.
Why should there be an Estate? James Joyce is dead, he's had his incentive to create literary works. His son doesn't need his father's incentive, the ability for him to create his own, copyrighted work is his incentive. Time to give James' works to the public, where they belong.
Anybody with the smarts to sell a PC with competence has the smarts to not be in retail.
I see this bandied about a lot here, but I still think it's not any kind of explanation. It is ENTIRELY possible to be extremely knowledgeable with the handling, crash rating, safety features, towing capacity, braking abilities, fuel economy and what have you about a vehicle, while having NO F*ING CLUE how the internal combustion engine or ABS system actually works. It entirely possible to compare such metrics between all the cars on the lot, despite having no idea how the AC unit works.
Likewise, the PC sales people do not need to be programmers, CPU architects or Electrical Engineers to know how to compare the relative performance of a netbook versus a mid-end vs a high-end gaming rig. If a person comes in and wants to use MyFaceSpaceTwitBook and upload their camera pictures, use their mp3 player, and print book reports, the sales person should be able to guide them to the right tool for the job.
The real problem is lack of training and no genuine desire to help the customer.
Nobody would tolerate that today. Except, maybe, for an ATM.
Hehe, I'm picturing an ATM that lock you inside until you take your card and cash with you.
Better still is getting rid of retarded ATM's that actually take your card inside them. What the hell is wrong with just letting me swipe it? Why give me the opportunity to forget it unless you plan on making a service charge out if it?
Or someone would want to quickly glance at some information, but the computer would be locked and they'd either have to unlock it themselves or find someone else to unlock it.
We have this problem a lot at my work. WinXP pro machines. Once locked, the only way to get back into them is to forcefully restart the computer. Big time waster. Unfortunately there is not much we can do, as logging in and out every time someone goes on a 30 minute service call would waste even more time (logging in to computer, logging in to 2 websites, getting applications set up, etc) while students are waiting in line to be helped.
is there some other screen that admin can log in from?
The whole idea is that users DO NOT LOGIN AS ADMIN, EVER. In fact, with ubuntu, you should not even have an admin password at all.
sudo provides the functionality you need, as you discovered.
Now as to why your network configs were locked, I haven't a clue. Maybe there was a bug in 8.04 (I was only on it a short time, but don't remember that issue) Or perhaps something went wrong with your install. But I do seem to remember there being an "unlock" button to press occasionally.
In 8.10, network manager handles networking configuration, and network-admin only deals with proxy settings, so I'm not sure what you are talking about.
But really, our anecdotes are kinda useless, and perhaps some of the issues you had were growing pains from 64 bit (lots of things still have trouble, esp on Windows.) Just speculating, as you didn't remember specific problems you had.
that's a liveable wage if you're halfway talented.
Well *There's* your problem!
A family with three children might buy just one Wii or PlayStation to share, but those children will probably have cellphones of their own and download and play games, Mr. Kitaue said."
Can his roll sideways?
Is that "The Martian Chronicles" by Bradbury? (A book, btw)
I'd also argue that *text* conveys information in a more reliable manner than *icons*. That is every person will see the same word(s). If the word(s) are chosen well, the menu will be easy to navigtate.
This has actually been a frustration for me in OpenOffice.org. I clicked the paintbrush icon to try to change font color. This was actually the 'Format Paintbrush' which would let me 'paint' formatting over areas of text. An interesting and perhaps useful tool, but perhaps a bit ambiguous.
Now, there is of course tooltips, but they are slow, and still require me to memorize the meaning of all the icons to use the interface rapidly rather then being able to just READ.
My point is was that it is self-fulfilling. Why does the economy slow? Because people stop spending money. Why do people stop spending money? Because they don't have enough. Why don't they have enough, because they are losing their jobs, not getting paid well etc. because the economy is slow...
How do we get out of this? Raise minimum wage. Get rid of stupid ideas like $3 an hour minimum wage for waiter/servers and let tips be for when people actually do an exceptional job, not for just doing their job.
Increase pay all across the board for lower to minimum income earners, and let the over-payed "But I make big decisions" people take a pay cut to keep the economy going.
It is up to those with the means to fix things to do so. Companies should start seeing themselves as a team effort and reduce the disparity between the highest wages and the lowest. When CEOs and business owners start driving Civics, cancel their cable TV service, stop going out to dinner and start shopping at Walmart, take coach class instead of business/First class flights, THEN I would say they are doing something to help. Laying people off while still enjoying luxuries is just shameful.
Of course all this is my idealistic, naive *opinion*.
Microsoft and many big companies can afford to hire people, or pay existing people more. It's just trendy to blame being cheap on the economy.
Smoke signals very well should be banned from being used to sign your name. What good is the document when it's on fire?
Bull. Just today, had to re-install MS Office 07 on a user's computer. I think she installed a business version from CD's over the trial that came with the computer, and in doing so, the software would not accept license key anymore.
Anyways, went to programs and features. Click on Office (copy 1) and choose uninstall. Wait 6 minutes, system requires reboot. For OFFICE SOFTWARE! wtf? Now, need to remove the other Office entry (copy 2) Asked me to reboot AGAIN. Then I removed the powerpoint viewer, which led to ANOTHER reboot. Finally, installing Office 07 required, you guessed it, another reboot!
Thats 5 reboots, to mess with OFFICE. Again, WTF?
Look at Ubuntu: Basically "Uncheck" (Deselect) all software packages I wish to remove, and "Check" (Select) all packages I want to install. Press the button, and off we go. Few minutes later, no reboots, and everything is done. All in ONE STEP.
Windows should have required a unified program install interface from day one. They have lots of catching up to do, IMHO.
But when are they gonna have Core memory to go with it? :P
The average citizen thinks you can just grab stuff off the web and use it. The average citizen thinks that if it's there it must be legal. And I'm willing to bet that your average congressman knows not much more than your average citizen.
If this is the case, and has been going on for a long time, but Photogs, Musicians, Movie Producers, Actors, Newspapers, etc all make money despite it, then perhaps it isn't such a big deal?
Besides, what makes copyright infringement so damn important, that it, and not a million other laws, needs to be taught in schools? More people die from accidents caused by assholes not using their turn signals or tailgating than from copyright infringement.
But WHY WOULD firefox download the file and then chmod +x it? That wouldn't make any sense.
.deb files, sort of. Ubuntu requires me to enter my password when I attempt to install a .deb file.
However, Your point does hold for
As far as I'm concerned, every OS will have one vulnerability. It's user(s).
If i'm not mistaken, isn't there some part of the IPv6 standard (perhaps private nets?) where addressing works by having hosts pick a completely random number and use that, since the chances of collision are so slim?