I tend to boycott Apple MP3 players mainly because of their proprietary formats and hardware lock-in. I's like a device I can just drop files on and play, without installing some bloated management software. There's people worse than me as well. I have a friend who was car shopping and rejected one car because it had an iPod connector. Having a custom connector is not even that bad if it can be used free by others, but the iPod connector is definitely not like that. I've recently removed QuickTime from my remaining Windows box because of their pushy update strategy.
You do understand that you can use iPods (as well as many other players) without having to use their proprietary formats, right? iPod will play the standard format MP3s as well its apparent successor, AAC. As for hardware lock-in, you get that with any MP3 player. Wanna use your Sansa case with an iRiver? Nope. Not going to fit. As for managing music goes, I once had a device where I had to drop and drag. Here's the problem with that: It got extremely cumbersome after a dozen songs. You may think you want "control" but when you have to manage 10,000 songs manually, it's a pain.
but you can use any program you want to manage it and even write your own program to manage it
Is the furor over this system they deployed, or over the matter of obtaining warrants to use it? Without such a system, they'd be relatively crippled in their ability to catch real net criminals and cyber-terrorists, and if they failed in that endeavor, everyone would just bitch about how useless they are, why aren't they doing something about crime, etc.
OH NOES teh cyber-terrorists are going to get me, what are they going to do?, blow up my computer? Anyone that uses the term cyber-terrorists seriously loses a lot of credibility
Google should be bitch-slapped for this, everyone at Google involved with this should have to write their "don't be evil" slogan 5,000 times, and turn it into the teacher before the end of the day.
because this is obviously worse thing any company has done. A company the size of Google is not going to be perfect, I doubt the people at Google went out of their way to break these laws like other companies
http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
You would only need 1 windows xp vm, so you would probably only need 1 gig of ram for the virtual machine at most, which doesn't cost that much and 1 copy of windows xp which is only $150 at most I believe
How is DRM not a flawed concept? You can't give someone an encrypted file and the encryption key and stop them from decrypting the file, which is what DRM essentially tries to do.
Sounds like Dr. House for developers. People think because they are smart and/or great at their craft they can basically do anything they want.
Right. And that must be stopped. Because extraordinary results shouldn't result in extraordinary rewards. Genius developers who can solve problems in an hour which could take the rest of your team a month or more should get the same cubicles and be subject to the same strictures as everyone else.
Sorry, I'm not buying it. It's hard to compensate a quirky genius developer. You can pay them well (and usually have to), but that only goes so far -- they generally aren't like CEOs for whom money is the end rather than a means. Perks like an office rather than a cubicle are perfectly reasonable incentives, and so is "slack".
What the GP means is that just because you are smart doesn't mean you don't have to follow the rules. Sure if you do something thats genius, you should get compensated for it, but that doesn't mean you can do whatever you want, you still have to work hard and show up every day
If your genius developer doesn't document his code, a lesser developer can document it in far less time it would take any number of lesser developers to write and document it, or at least one of them isn't worth his salt.
Except when the "lesser-developer" takes a few days just to understand a couple lines of code
Most programming skills you learn in python you can use in any language, presuming you don't focus on teaching syntax and more of how to use basic programming constructs like loops and functions.
#1. Registry is fine. What about "library hell" and "dependency hell" that other operating systems have? or "conf hell"? There are many "hells" we can talk about that exist in all systems. It's the complex nature of how the applications work.
The registry is a horrible idea, you make one mistake in the registry and your computer might not boot. At least with the configure file system, you can screw up a lot and you will still be able to boot at least into recovery mode
If you outlaw aclcohol, it won't stop people from drinking it, look at the prohibition, it never stopped anyone from drinking. During the prohibition there was even more crime then there was before it. So I highly doubt outlawing aclohol will actually stop any crime.
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I was referring to drag and drop mp3 players
You do understand that you can use iPods (as well as many other players) without having to use their proprietary formats, right? iPod will play the standard format MP3s as well its apparent successor, AAC. As for hardware lock-in, you get that with any MP3 player. Wanna use your Sansa case with an iRiver? Nope. Not going to fit. As for managing music goes, I once had a device where I had to drop and drag. Here's the problem with that: It got extremely cumbersome after a dozen songs. You may think you want "control" but when you have to manage 10,000 songs manually, it's a pain.
but you can use any program you want to manage it and even write your own program to manage it
Is the furor over this system they deployed, or over the matter of obtaining warrants to use it? Without such a system, they'd be relatively crippled in their ability to catch real net criminals and cyber-terrorists, and if they failed in that endeavor, everyone would just bitch about how useless they are, why aren't they doing something about crime, etc.
OH NOES teh cyber-terrorists are going to get me, what are they going to do?, blow up my computer? Anyone that uses the term cyber-terrorists seriously loses a lot of credibility
They have bibles with Al Gore on the front cover?
just run xrandr -s 1280x1024 in the terminal and it will change it temporarily
Well you don't see Obama invading random middle eastern countries for oil
Have you even played Nexuiz?, it doesn't look 10 years out of date at all, maybe a year out of date at most
Google should be bitch-slapped for this, everyone at Google involved with this should have to write their "don't be evil" slogan 5,000 times, and turn it into the teacher before the end of the day.
because this is obviously worse thing any company has done. A company the size of Google is not going to be perfect, I doubt the people at Google went out of their way to break these laws like other companies
You actually still use IE?, Why?
Isn't Microsoft the one that calls bugs, features?
http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE You would only need 1 windows xp vm, so you would probably only need 1 gig of ram for the virtual machine at most, which doesn't cost that much and 1 copy of windows xp which is only $150 at most I believe
its called a virtual machine ;)
How is DRM not a flawed concept? You can't give someone an encrypted file and the encryption key and stop them from decrypting the file, which is what DRM essentially tries to do.
You do realize that /root is different then / right?
Why don't you just use a virtual machine instead of 2 seperate computers?
Right. And that must be stopped. Because extraordinary results shouldn't result in extraordinary rewards. Genius developers who can solve problems in an hour which could take the rest of your team a month or more should get the same cubicles and be subject to the same strictures as everyone else.
Sorry, I'm not buying it. It's hard to compensate a quirky genius developer. You can pay them well (and usually have to), but that only goes so far -- they generally aren't like CEOs for whom money is the end rather than a means. Perks like an office rather than a cubicle are perfectly reasonable incentives, and so is "slack".
What the GP means is that just because you are smart doesn't mean you don't have to follow the rules. Sure if you do something thats genius, you should get compensated for it, but that doesn't mean you can do whatever you want, you still have to work hard and show up every day
If your genius developer doesn't document his code, a lesser developer can document it in far less time it would take any number of lesser developers to write and document it, or at least one of them isn't worth his salt.
Except when the "lesser-developer" takes a few days just to understand a couple lines of code
I doubt it would do much of anything except waste money. Generally speaking the teachers that are good aren't usually there for the money
If you don't think a teacher can inspire students, you've never had a good teacher, let alone a great one.
But throwing money at teachers doesn't make them suddenly extremely good
Most programming skills you learn in python you can use in any language, presuming you don't focus on teaching syntax and more of how to use basic programming constructs like loops and functions.
You run GNU hurd?
Safe mode is a good idea until you screw up the registry value that lets you boot into it
#1. Registry is fine. What about "library hell" and "dependency hell" that other operating systems have? or "conf hell"? There are many "hells" we can talk about that exist in all systems. It's the complex nature of how the applications work.
The registry is a horrible idea, you make one mistake in the registry and your computer might not boot. At least with the configure file system, you can screw up a lot and you will still be able to boot at least into recovery mode
If you outlaw aclcohol, it won't stop people from drinking it, look at the prohibition, it never stopped anyone from drinking. During the prohibition there was even more crime then there was before it. So I highly doubt outlawing aclohol will actually stop any crime.
So do you think
1) trackers should be illegal
Well considering there are a few completely legal trackers, no
2) downloading copyrighted software or movies should be illegal
Ubuntu is copyrighted, so no, downloading copyrighted software or movies should not be ilegal
3) uploading software or movies should be illegal
see above point
how are they not innocent?, unless you think hosting .torrent files is ilegal