Now, the company at best tolerates the hobby community, turning a blind eye to sales of secondhand software, which is forbidden by user agreements.
With assinine "agreements" (like if they did give you the choice...) like that that bind the hands of their customers, it's not wonder that they go down the drain!!!
I can just see all the nerds have competions to see who can get their cell phones to report the highest velocities. I can see every thing rocket motor powered roller skates in the parking lot to spud-guns across the football field.
Many divers use dive computers to maximize their bottom-time whithout having to do decompression stops; a friend of mine received his new computer in the morning, at work. Since he could not go diving during his lunch hour, he went to the pier, and tied it to a line and dunked it in the water for a while, then reeled it back-up.
Turns our that he reeled-it too fast for a safe "human" ascent, and the computer beeped like crazy, and locked into a "safe-mode" where you can't dive for 48 hours...
So he could not try it after work, he had to wait until the week-end...
Have you considered OpenBSD's Authpf? Here's the description and man page.
It runs on an OpenBSD firewall (which may be a pain for you; not sure what you've got installed already).
But isn't BSD dead or dying???
How about plain old fashioned parenting?
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That is, parenting where you actually CHECK what the kids do, and keep track within your head how long they've been sitting on their boxen???
Compiled languages could not care less if your variables names are 1, 2, or 36 characters long, they always compile to the same 16/32/64 bit reference.
The objection may be valid for an interpreted language; however, for this, you can use a pre-processor that will substitute a terse compact name for a long explicit one.
I did that some 15 years ago when I had to maintain 15-20 year old Business-Basic code which did not allow more than 1 letter + 1 digit variables name.
I wrote a pre-compiler that allowed long variable names that you could pre-define (for existing code) and explicit line labels names, as well as permitting do-while and do-until loops (translated as IFs and GOTOs).
The end-code had also plenty of REMarks containing the "source" code so you could see what the program did even by looking at the resulting "object" basic code.
This shows such a lack of business savvy and professionalism it is actually depressing. You can't even invest half a minute into reviewing your work and making sure it's presentable because in your limited view it has nothing to do with your actual job
Perhaps the limited view has been caused by a limited pay? Employers should be aware that with manpower, it is exactly like anywhere else: you get what you pay for.
Wait 40 more years and see where our country is. If we continue to not teach our children and continue to shove jobs onto counties that do....
We be dumb
You ARE dumb. No. Not just plain dumb, but double plusDUMBERER.
The United States did not learn anything from the Sputnik lesson, more than 40 years ago...
The engineers from outside the US were able to do the job. Only the top notch products of the US school system could cope.
It was very sad.
No it was not very sad. It simply means that the US will lose it's technological lead, and with it, it's economic grip on the planet. A very good thing indeed, given how much the US is hell-bent on wrecking the planet...
Accountability should be held on the parents, they should force their children to learn for their own good. Blame decreasing accountability on parents for decreasing academic excellence, don't blame the teachers.
Blame more the bourgois for subverting the mind of the population to be so busy working to consume more that they don't have time anymore for their children.
And some bozoes (always filthy-rich bourgeois) are trumpeting the virtues of homeschooling!!! Ha!
The Us education system has but subverted by the bourgeois. That is, it will cater to bourgeois needs rather than the population's.
The bourgeois have nothing to do with an educated population that will not buy the crap they want to sell, and that will question their motives, and which will not blindingly execute the orders their bosses are giving them at work.
So the public school system has been gutted of any quality so they can turn an endless army of mindless consumer drones that will only serve to fatten the bourgeois' pockets with the toil of their labour.
The bourgeois, on the other hand, send their offspring to private school with a higher quality of education so they can pass-on their upper-status hereditarly.
The Republic of the United States of America is all but dead; the founding ideals of equal opportunity for everyone have but been shattered by the exlusion of most of the population from access to opportunity through education.
Big companies like to be able to move their operations around wherever they want to minimize expenses, but consumers also want to be able to shop wherever they want to minimize prices.
You can't do that. Globalism can only benefit big croporations; over the course of History, the small fry always has been screwed, and why would you think it should be any different nowadays???
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The reason why doughnuts are toroidal is to diminish the maximum dough thickness to insure it gets properly cooked throughout.
Is that the sound of an OC-3 melting???
I don't see the "Chevy Chase" button... :(
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Turns our that he reeled-it too fast for a safe "human" ascent, and the computer beeped like crazy, and locked into a "safe-mode" where you can't dive for 48 hours...
So he could not try it after work, he had to wait until the week-end...
That is, parenting where you actually CHECK what the kids do, and keep track within your head how long they've been sitting on their boxen???
Eleven.
One to unscrew the light bulb and put a new one in, and
ten to keep away all those Californians wishing to share the experience.
The objection may be valid for an interpreted language; however, for this, you can use a pre-processor that will substitute a terse compact name for a long explicit one.
I did that some 15 years ago when I had to maintain 15-20 year old Business-Basic code which did not allow more than 1 letter + 1 digit variables name.
I wrote a pre-compiler that allowed long variable names that you could pre-define (for existing code) and explicit line labels names, as well as permitting do-while and do-until loops (translated as IFs and GOTOs).
The end-code had also plenty of REMarks containing the "source" code so you could see what the program did even by looking at the resulting "object" basic code.
The United States did not learn anything from the Sputnik lesson, more than 40 years ago...
And some bozoes (always filthy-rich bourgeois) are trumpeting the virtues of homeschooling!!! Ha!
The bourgeois have nothing to do with an educated population that will not buy the crap they want to sell, and that will question their motives, and which will not blindingly execute the orders their bosses are giving them at work.
So the public school system has been gutted of any quality so they can turn an endless army of mindless consumer drones that will only serve to fatten the bourgeois' pockets with the toil of their labour.
The bourgeois, on the other hand, send their offspring to private school with a higher quality of education so they can pass-on their upper-status hereditarly.
The Republic of the United States of America is all but dead; the founding ideals of equal opportunity for everyone have but been shattered by the exlusion of most of the population from access to opportunity through education.
This is the same kind of market gouging the MPAA is getting away with, thanks to those DVD region-encoding schemes.
Here's my take on it.
The guy may be somwehat okay with Photoshop, but he oughta learn a bit more physics.
By outlawing a piece of software that can be downloaded from a website located outside the reach of that law?
This is as silly as prohibiting fast-forwarding through commercials...
Where's the profit in all this????