Most software licenses have waivers of liability, and have a limit on the monetary damages. The limit is usually the purchase cost of the software. So, you can get a refund, and that's it. The only place I see that isn't waived are safety-critical applications, like medical devices, nuclear devices, vehicles, and factory floors. These are typically hard real-time systems. Besides, you can always blame the owner for not patching the system! The "unlock your car or home from your iphone" apps really worry me.
This sounds almost exactly like a library catalog system. If the system doesn't index articles, then just treat each article as a book in a multi-volume set. I know that several open source library system exist. Look into those.
What really tipped me off about the insanity of the bureaucracy was when my doctor's billing person didn't know what what my insurance would pay. They just submit it and see what the insurance will pay.
Get the company to frequently sponsor pizza parties or some other type of food event. People tend to connect while eating. Also start hobby-based groups. Start a running/cycling group, a golfing group, a knitting group, etc. The hobby groups are how people tend to connect outside of their departments.
Developers should have admin rights, but programs should be able to install without admin rights unless there is a darn good reason to have admin rights. Maybe if developers were forced to install without admin rights, then software installation on locked-down corporate desktops wouldn't be so painful.
I love Linux, but I have seen a properly run MS network where the users don'es have administrator rights. We have next to no malware problems. so in defense of MS, it can't be included in the TCO because you can avoid it by proper security. The problem is that so many apps assume that normal users are admins, so that makes restricting users very painful.
You really have to be ignorant of US history not to realize the importance of the labor movement. By the way, since the all-out attack on unions started, real income of American middle and lower-class workers has declined at a steady rate. If it hadn't been the ready availability of easy credit, our standard of living would have plummeted. Now that the bill's coming due you're going to see very clearly what damage anti-union policies have done.
Unfortunately, my history classes rarely made it to the 20th century, and it might have been 1 class session, if that. I would have loved to know more about the 20th century. FYI, yes, I went to public schools. The sad part is that I haven't done much to fill that gap in my knowledge besides watching the History channel. I do see value in labor unions, but I probably don't have the historical knowledge to fully appreciate their role in history.
If a vendor does something to piss you off, don't buy from that vendor! Buy an android phone or Nokia Internet Tablet. It amazes me how many people buy Apple products to hack them when Apple is so hostile to hacking their devices.
Oh god, please don't offer vendors and programmers the choice of accuracy over speed. It's one more variable to screw up, and I can just hear the screams from users who don't understand the trade-offs. Vendor: "hey, we can get a 10x speed boost over our competitor by using the less accurate processor. We'll just put the accuracy caveat in the fine print."
Statistics you can't trust : a friendly guide to clear thinking about statistics in everyday life by Campbell, Stephen Kent. Parker, Colo. : Think Twice Publishing, 1999. ISBN: 0966617150 (pbk.) :
MS: Hello congress? Congress: yes? MS: We'd like you to nullify the GPL. Congress: OK, that'll be 10 billion dollars. How would you like to pay? MS: The normal off-shore accounts. Congress: Very good. Consider it done. MS: Excellent. We'll have the Linux problem solved in no time.
Because they are patient and wait to see how the new rules are broken in the US. Then, they craft more effective rules and use the US as a bad example of why the rules need to be harsher.
I would prefer that research funded by public tax dollars be in the public domain. Is there some type of public-domain patent for government research? I think it was called SIR.
It doesn't disturb me me that university owns the patent instead of the student, but what does disturb me is that the university owns the patent for research paid by public tax dollars.
I have always wondered. Is it better to have enough solar panels to cover most/all of the household usage or have a generator? I guess that the solar is more expensive up-front, but at least it has a long-term payoff.
OK, I'm guilty of doing #1 and encouraging other folks to email screen shots in a word doc. I know there are better ways, but 1) most people know how to open Word, but not MS paint and 2) word auto-scales the image so you don't have to worry about the resolution of the screenshot. It also lets me zoom into the photo once it gets to me, which is nice.
I've been looking for a USB-connected LED display on Thinkgeek, but no luck. I saw the PioLCD, but everything else seems $300+. What other LED/LCD displays are available for under $200 USD and work with Linux?
If you RTFA, then you would know that the ISP is denying him access to his data, and he has no other copies because his local hard drive died. Summary: Murphy struck and his ISP is holding the only copy of his data hostage until he can prove that he owns the copyright on the files.
One could argue that his local hard drive was the backup to his ISP and vice versa. I have a co-worker who says you should always keep three copies of important data in different places. This lends weight to the three copies idea.
How about we just plant more trees? They would capture the carbon dioxide. It's much cheaper than building these ships that could be stolen by pirates. The wood could be harvested and put at the bottom of a lake or something.
That's pointless. You will annoy the programming students and researchers who compile code while not preventing the determined people. To get around this, just run the linux loader as the command with the/home/user/executable name as the second parameter. Try it yourself like this: "cp/bin/ls ~/bin/foo; chmod -x ~/bin/foo;/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 ~/bin/foo" (Tested on centos 5 x86_64... adjust for 32bit platforms as needed)
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Get a cat instead, they probably work better.
Most software licenses have waivers of liability, and have a limit on the monetary damages. The limit is usually the purchase cost of the software. So, you can get a refund, and that's it. The only place I see that isn't waived are safety-critical applications, like medical devices, nuclear devices, vehicles, and factory floors. These are typically hard real-time systems. Besides, you can always blame the owner for not patching the system! The "unlock your car or home from your iphone" apps really worry me.
This sounds almost exactly like a library catalog system. If the system doesn't index articles, then just treat each article as a book in a multi-volume set. I know that several open source library system exist. Look into those.
What really tipped me off about the insanity of the bureaucracy was when my doctor's billing person didn't know what what my insurance would pay. They just submit it and see what the insurance will pay.
Get the company to frequently sponsor pizza parties or some other type of food event. People tend to connect while eating. Also start hobby-based groups. Start a running/cycling group, a golfing group, a knitting group, etc. The hobby groups are how people tend to connect outside of their departments.
Developers should have admin rights, but programs should be able to install without admin rights unless there is a darn good reason to have admin rights. Maybe if developers were forced to install without admin rights, then software installation on locked-down corporate desktops wouldn't be so painful.
I love Linux, but I have seen a properly run MS network where the users don'es have administrator rights. We have next to no malware problems. so in defense of MS, it can't be included in the TCO because you can avoid it by proper security. The problem is that so many apps assume that normal users are admins, so that makes restricting users very painful.
You really have to be ignorant of US history not to realize the importance of the labor movement. By the way, since the all-out attack on unions started, real income of American middle and lower-class workers has declined at a steady rate. If it hadn't been the ready availability of easy credit, our standard of living would have plummeted. Now that the bill's coming due you're going to see very clearly what damage anti-union policies have done.
Unfortunately, my history classes rarely made it to the 20th century, and it might have been 1 class session, if that. I would have loved to know more about the 20th century. FYI, yes, I went to public schools. The sad part is that I haven't done much to fill that gap in my knowledge besides watching the History channel. I do see value in labor unions, but I probably don't have the historical knowledge to fully appreciate their role in history.
Hmmmm, maybe those five are bailing out while they have the chance? I mean these opportunities only come along once per president.
OK. So by this metric, people who forward chain letters and jokes will get a better rating?
Hmmm, it's no wonder that we don't have more bandwidth on Cable ISP's vs other countries. All the bandwidth has been held back to send targeted ads!
Hmmm, forcing everyone to hire IT professionals... Is this part of the stimulus package?
If a vendor does something to piss you off, don't buy from that vendor! Buy an android phone or Nokia Internet Tablet. It amazes me how many people buy Apple products to hack them when Apple is so hostile to hacking their devices.
Oh god, please don't offer vendors and programmers the choice of accuracy over speed. It's one more variable to screw up, and I can just hear the screams from users who don't understand the trade-offs. Vendor: "hey, we can get a 10x speed boost over our competitor by using the less accurate processor. We'll just put the accuracy caveat in the fine print."
Statistics you can't trust : a friendly guide to clear thinking about statistics in everyday life
by Campbell, Stephen Kent.
Parker, Colo. : Think Twice Publishing, 1999.
ISBN:
0966617150 (pbk.) :
MS: Hello congress?
Congress: yes?
MS: We'd like you to nullify the GPL.
Congress: OK, that'll be 10 billion dollars. How would you like to pay?
MS: The normal off-shore accounts.
Congress: Very good. Consider it done.
MS: Excellent. We'll have the Linux problem solved in no time.
Because they are patient and wait to see how the new rules are broken in the US. Then, they craft more effective rules and use the US as a bad example of why the rules need to be harsher.
I would prefer that research funded by public tax dollars be in the public domain. Is there some type of public-domain patent for government research? I think it was called SIR.
It doesn't disturb me me that university owns the patent instead of the student, but what does disturb me is that the university owns the patent for research paid by public tax dollars.
I have always wondered. Is it better to have enough solar panels to cover most/all of the household usage or have a generator? I guess that the solar is more expensive up-front, but at least it has a long-term payoff.
OK, I'm guilty of doing #1 and encouraging other folks to email screen shots in a word doc. I know there are better ways, but 1) most people know how to open Word, but not MS paint and 2) word auto-scales the image so you don't have to worry about the resolution of the screenshot. It also lets me zoom into the photo once it gets to me, which is nice.
I've been looking for a USB-connected LED display on Thinkgeek, but no luck. I saw the PioLCD, but everything else seems $300+. What other LED/LCD displays are available for under $200 USD and work with Linux?
If you RTFA, then you would know that the ISP is denying him access to his data, and he has no other copies because his local hard drive died. Summary: Murphy struck and his ISP is holding the only copy of his data hostage until he can prove that he owns the copyright on the files.
One could argue that his local hard drive was the backup to his ISP and vice versa. I have a co-worker who says you should always keep three copies of important data in different places. This lends weight to the three copies idea.
How about we just plant more trees? They would capture the carbon dioxide. It's much cheaper than building these ships that could be stolen by pirates. The wood could be harvested and put at the bottom of a lake or something.
That's pointless. You will annoy the programming students and researchers who compile code while not preventing the determined people. To get around this, just run the linux loader as the command with the /home/user/executable name as the second parameter. Try it yourself like this: "cp /bin/ls ~/bin/foo; chmod -x ~/bin/foo; /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 ~/bin/foo" (Tested on centos 5 x86_64... adjust for 32bit platforms as needed)