that Apple has such an intuitive and easy-to-use interface. That's why people buy Apple\Mac computers, because of the interface. It's the selling point. If it wasn't easy to use... who would buy it? Limited hardware and software, and damn expensive. So if someone went out and tried to mimic their selling point... wouldn't you be a little upset too?
Except that Auqa doesn't give you a Mac interface. It's still enlightenment, using enlightenment's interface and enlightenment's menus and options. It doesn't actually change the way the interface acts all that much, it has much more of an effect upon the look. Put Aqua-style images into Windows, and it doesn't suddenly become a Mac (though MS did borrow heavily from Apple). It remains windows but the checkboxes look similar to Apple's.
Actually... ive never really seen the whole point of keeping a lover "locked up"....
Me neither. I've never liked the way our society tends to treat significant others as property. "That person is mine, s/he belongs to me, don't even look at him/her." Seems a tad on the demeaning side to me.
Do you really think that criminals comit crimes "because they are bad people"?
Often, yes.
Ive known people who were "criminals" in their past, made their money stealing and cheating. They weren't "bad people", they were people doing what they knew how to do because they could make more money doing that than any legitimate job that they were qualified for.
And somehow that makes it ok? Stealing and cheating others out of money because it gives you a greater income is an activity that very easily falls into my definition of a "bad person." How could it not? For me, a "good person" avoids such things because they are bad, not because they are afraid of getting caught. This is of course, a generalization, as all statements that deal with such sweeping phrases like "good and bad" will tend to be.
like it or not, patents have evolved into a corporate weapon, under the current model, how can anyone fault cddb, or amazon for patenting anything they can.
I can very easily fault any business for unethical business practices. There are a fair number of business apologists who say that a company cannot be faulted for legal though unethical practices. Why would that be so? Businesses are not magically above being held to a moral code by consumers.
Bah, that's not what the "Picard Maneuver" refers to. The Picard Maneuver is the act of pulling your shirt/vest down just a tad whenever you stood up. Picard did it quite a fair amount due to his short shirt and tight pants.
Microsoft cannot stop me from doing this. You sure? Do MS' EULAs forbid reporting bugs and security holes? If not, they will soon...:-)
Would such a thing actually hold up in court if they decided to sue you? A contract requires consideration. If a contract is loaded by one side to completely screw the other, it stands a good chance of being declared invalid in court.
Now let's see MS claim that NT scales better than Linux.
I'm afraid it still does.
NT scale from "large workstation" to "small server". Linux now *commercially* scale from embedded devices and hand-helds over cash-registers to mainframes and supercomputers.
Well, not quite. It's not that Linux is driving this big huge mainframe, a more accurate picture would be that the mainframe is pretending that it's 30,000 minicomputers, each of which a single copy of Linux is familiar with. I don't see why NT, with heavy tweaking, couldn't do the same thing. Configuring those things would be a pain though.. there's only so much that ghost could do.;) I'm still not sure that would be that much a problem though.
A quick traceroute confirms my suspicions, their router isn't routing to the backbone link. Ok, no problem, call tech support. I then spend about 15 minutes with a COMPLETE idiot trying to "troubleshoot" my problem. I finally hung up after she suggested that I should install dialup networking. I don't know where she got the idea that would help.
Wow. This sounds painfully familiar. I had a problem with my email server that certail random emails would freeze the pop3 connections in the middle of transfering the email. It would show this when I telneted to the pop3 port and manually grabbed the 1.5k mail. It would do this from my University account, my home machine, any machine in the world. And I simply could not get the tech support person to focus past "did you try to re-install Netscape?" (this was the solution they thought would help).
Eventually the problem seemed to go away on its own, but it left me with the feeling that if I ever have another problem with my Pacbell account, I'll probably be on my own.
Movies and products released by Sony, however, would be better served as 3rd-level domains.
Yeah, not a bad idea from a neat-freak no-namesolution-pollution perspective, but it's not a grea idea from a practical standpoint. Is someone going to remember movie1.newline.com? No, they will remember movie1.com. People don't ask each other, "Hey, did you see that great new movie from New Line Cinema?" Unless it's a Disney or Lucasfilm movie, most people won't know what studio a movie came from, and probably won't remember if you told them.
I fully agree with you that you must stand up for your rights, and routinely defend them. I just never remember being granted the right to reverse engineer whatever I want. Why do you think you have that right?
You are not granted this right. You can only have it taken away. Being allowed to look at something and carry away knowledge of it is a right we implicitly have at all times. It can only be suspended at certain times. So saying "Can we do that? I don't recall being granted that right" is the wrong way to look at the issue.
Kinda like that Reagan "Well, I don't remember trading guns to terrorists because I needed to win the election" lie?
Actually, considering Reagan's worsening Alzheimer's Disease, it's quite likely that he was being truthful and really didn't remember much of what he had done.
I've found something similar as well. If I slept 8 hours a day, I'd be just fine. If I slept 11+ hours, I would feel more tired than if I only got 8 hours.
Actually the movie ratings system is NOT government mandated or government imposed. It was put in place by the MPAA in the fear that if they didn't, the government would impose something more restrictive. So in this case, it's self-rating for fear of government censorship.
At least Americans don't put Coca-Cola ads on their damn baseball jerseys like Europeans do with their soccer ones.
No, they put on a bunch of Nike swishes, which have grown so common that we don't even notice them anymore.
Swearing in front of children is illegal (cant exactly remember the case/details)
This I agree is not good. It's been upheld by one court in one instance, though in general laws against swearing are never enforced.
I think I might know which case might be addressed here. Some nitwit fell out of a canoe, and when he returned to the surface, let loose with a long constant (and I mean constant) string of profanities, I believe even after said mother with child asked him to stop.
Hacker doesn't neccesarily mean "l33t h4x0r." It can simply mean an expert programmer, or the like.
Only to other hackers and many computer geeks. When the word "hacker" comes from a judge or most major media outlets, you can pretty much assume it's a slur, or at least with a non-flattering intention.
Slashdot.org really should be slashdot.com
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the Slashdot core has turned for-profit ever since the Andover.net buyout
I know this is quite a popular opinion among some Slashdot readers, but it is incorrect. Do you think Slashdot has ever turned a profit off that banner ad up there? Do you think
they ever will? Being owned by a commercial entity does not make something commercial by association.
A commercial entity doesn't have to be talented when it comes to turning a proft (though it helps!), but that doesn't make them any less a commercial organization.
There's a need for programmers because the companies are bogus. They don't know the first thing about the industry. They come in ready to IPO like on the first day.
You're talking (mostly) about dot-coms. When I talk about the need for programmers, I'm refering to the fact that almost everything is becoming computerized these days, and I'm not talking about programmers just pounding out web applications or even store-shelf software. I'm refering also to programmers who write the code on embedded systems chips that actually do the driving in new cars, the chips that can be found almost everywhere these days. I'm refering to programmers, yes, at the dot-coms, but also at the large respected companies with a good vision like Sun, HP, Microsoft, and Apple (and sure, why not, RedHat too).
Disillusion in the dot-com world? Sure, I'll give you that. But the real reason people aren't jumping into the field is society's disregard and even disdain for "nerdy" professions. By the time teenagers grow out of that phase, they can be stuck in a non-technical job with no technical skills.
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Except that Auqa doesn't give you a Mac interface. It's still enlightenment, using enlightenment's interface and enlightenment's menus and options. It doesn't actually change the way the interface acts all that much, it has much more of an effect upon the look. Put Aqua-style images into Windows, and it doesn't suddenly become a Mac (though MS did borrow heavily from Apple). It remains windows but the checkboxes look similar to Apple's.
Me neither. I've never liked the way our society tends to treat significant others as property. "That person is mine, s/he belongs to me, don't even look at him/her." Seems a tad on the demeaning side to me.
Often, yes.
Ive known people who were "criminals" in their past, made their money stealing and cheating. They weren't "bad people", they were people doing what they knew how to do because they could make more money doing that than any legitimate job that they were qualified for.
And somehow that makes it ok? Stealing and cheating others out of money because it gives you a greater income is an activity that very easily falls into my definition of a "bad person." How could it not? For me, a "good person" avoids such things because they are bad, not because they are afraid of getting caught. This is of course, a generalization, as all statements that deal with such sweeping phrases like "good and bad" will tend to be.
I can very easily fault any business for unethical business practices. There are a fair number of business apologists who say that a company cannot be faulted for legal though unethical practices. Why would that be so? Businesses are not magically above being held to a moral code by consumers.
Would such a thing actually hold up in court if they decided to sue you? A contract requires consideration. If a contract is loaded by one side to completely screw the other, it stands a good chance of being declared invalid in court.
On the other hand, I completely agree about Heroes of M&M 3.
I just sounds extremely childish. Then again, there's a reason people call them "script kiddies."
I'm afraid it still does.
NT scale from "large workstation" to "small server". Linux now *commercially* scale from embedded devices and hand-helds over cash-registers to mainframes and supercomputers.
Well, not quite. It's not that Linux is driving this big huge mainframe, a more accurate picture would be that the mainframe is pretending that it's 30,000 minicomputers, each of which a single copy of Linux is familiar with. I don't see why NT, with heavy tweaking, couldn't do the same thing. Configuring those things would be a pain though.. there's only so much that ghost could do. ;) I'm still not sure that would be that much a problem though.
Wow. This sounds painfully familiar. I had a problem with my email server that certail random emails would freeze the pop3 connections in the middle of transfering the email. It would show this when I telneted to the pop3 port and manually grabbed the 1.5k mail. It would do this from my University account, my home machine, any machine in the world. And I simply could not get the tech support person to focus past "did you try to re-install Netscape?" (this was the solution they thought would help).
Eventually the problem seemed to go away on its own, but it left me with the feeling that if I ever have another problem with my Pacbell account, I'll probably be on my own.
Linux's greatest enemy isn't Microsoft, it's the zealots within its ranks.
Yeah, not a bad idea from a neat-freak no-namesolution-pollution perspective, but it's not a grea idea from a practical standpoint. Is someone going to remember movie1.newline.com? No, they will remember movie1.com. People don't ask each other, "Hey, did you see that great new movie from New Line Cinema?" Unless it's a Disney or Lucasfilm movie, most people won't know what studio a movie came from, and probably won't remember if you told them.
You are not granted this right. You can only have it taken away. Being allowed to look at something and carry away knowledge of it is a right we implicitly have at all times. It can only be suspended at certain times. So saying "Can we do that? I don't recall being granted that right" is the wrong way to look at the issue.
Actually, considering Reagan's worsening Alzheimer's Disease, it's quite likely that he was being truthful and really didn't remember much of what he had done.
*chuckle*
Now please take your turtle-neck, silly artists cap, latte drinking, socialist self away
Holy shit, man, you just described half the people here in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. O_o
No, they put on a bunch of Nike swishes, which have grown so common that we don't even notice them anymore.
This I agree is not good. It's been upheld by one court in one instance, though in general laws against swearing are never enforced.
I think I might know which case might be addressed here. Some nitwit fell out of a canoe, and when he returned to the surface, let loose with a long constant (and I mean constant) string of profanities, I believe even after said mother with child asked him to stop.
Only to other hackers and many computer geeks. When the word "hacker" comes from a judge or most major media outlets, you can pretty much assume it's a slur, or at least with a non-flattering intention.
You should teach them HOW to use the calendar feature: ie, assuming someone is available for the meeting until they've actually confirmed it.
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the Slashdot core has turned for-profit ever since the Andover.net buyout
I know this is quite a popular opinion among some Slashdot readers, but it is incorrect. Do you think Slashdot has ever turned a profit off that banner ad up there? Do you think they ever will? Being owned by a commercial entity does not make something commercial by association.
A commercial entity doesn't have to be talented when it comes to turning a proft (though it helps!), but that doesn't make them any less a commercial organization.
You're talking (mostly) about dot-coms. When I talk about the need for programmers, I'm refering to the fact that almost everything is becoming computerized these days, and I'm not talking about programmers just pounding out web applications or even store-shelf software. I'm refering also to programmers who write the code on embedded systems chips that actually do the driving in new cars, the chips that can be found almost everywhere these days. I'm refering to programmers, yes, at the dot-coms, but also at the large respected companies with a good vision like Sun, HP, Microsoft, and Apple (and sure, why not, RedHat too).
Disillusion in the dot-com world? Sure, I'll give you that. But the real reason people aren't jumping into the field is society's disregard and even disdain for "nerdy" professions. By the time teenagers grow out of that phase, they can be stuck in a non-technical job with no technical skills.