My suggestion to anybody taking advantage of growing employment in the tech industry is make sure that severance pay is written into your contract and that it covers at least 6 months of job searching level lifestyle.
Pfft. Do this, and every job you apply for will go to someone else with more realistic expectations.
is that it uses the assumption that teenagers - a group that have grown with modern technology - do not understand the basic concepts of computing, privacy etc. I would argue this isn't actually true.
I'm here to tell you that there's plenty of teenage lusers out there whose computer knowlege amounts to how to use Kazaa and play games.
I also assume the book includes a degree of uninformed scaremongering. Firewalls are not required - indeed, you can safely use the internet without a software firewall simply because they can be easily bypassed by anyone caring enough to bypass them - ie trojan writes.
Hello? MS Blaster?
Viruschecking software is not essential if you are smart enough to know what you're running and don't run the average VBS file or P2P fraud (PHOTOSHOP 7.0.REAL.EXE). 4 years with yearly virus checks confirms this.
You forgot "as long as nobody else touches your computer and you don't ever use the thing with your brain on autopilot".
Please. Our DNA code could be interpreted as a code from an alien civilization, and you could get damn-near any meaning you wanted out of it, just like the n "decryptions" of the "Bible code".
After AMD whipped their butts in Doom 3 performance with much cheaper A64 parts, they threw in the towel.
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but they will not extradite a soldier by the name of Jenkins, who "disappeared" into North Korea while in the US military guarding the 38th parallel some 20 or so years ago.
Jenkin's not going to meet with the woman on Japanese soil. In fact, the meeting will be inside a country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the US.
I see pro FPSing as being similar to the old Roman sport of gladiatorial matches, with the exception that nobody gets killed and there's no Christians being thrown to the lions. It's a guilt-free bloodsport.
Rather, you are missing the point. The problem is not that Gnome and KDE are too large for small systems, it is that mainstream distros don't offer lighter-weight WMs as an install option.
I envision something like "we've detected that you don't have enough [RAM|CPU|HD space] for our default environment. For your convenience, we have included a lighter-weight environment more suited to your PC", and then installing one of the aforementioned lighter WMs with some distro-specific themes, icons, and such.
Same with the other things you mentioned. Need a decent smaller browser? Epiphany or Galeon. Word processor? Abiword.
My office is full of non-techincal people. Looking around most people only have 1 (yes, one) IE window open. When I mention tabbed browsing, most people confirm my observations - that is, they only have one (and occasionally two) windows open. With cases like this, tabbed browsing could be seen as overkill to a problem that doesn't really exist (for them).
Before I had a tabbed browser, I only had one or maybe two windows open at once, because it was so inconvenient to switch between windows. After going tabbed with a late beta of Mozilla, I would sometimes have a dozen tabs open at once.
Wow, since daily US oil consumption is what, 20 *million* barrels per day, I'm
sure it will be no problem to set up another 10,000 of these plants, and there
will be absolutely no government or corporate resistance
There very well could be citizen resistance. I've driven near this plant, and on some days there is a horrible smell of oily offal up to about a mile away.
I have to wonder if Israel is a good location to have Intel's design shop, given the continuing violence between the Israelis and Palestinians. It'd suck a P-M designer or two was killed in an attack.:-(
Let me see. It's another Diebold story, so we're going to have n posts about how pen-and-paper votes are much better, m posts about how different methods of vote-counting are better, ad nauseam.
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Ridiculous is spelled "ridiculous", mmmkay?
Their CSS evidently needs a little work, though.
Someone who needs that $130 to pay for groceries or the rent?
Furrfu, who modded this fool up?
That's because violence is the military's job. Would you expect a baker to be a good butcher?
For that matter, so does using sit.slashdot.org, fnord.slashdot.org, games.slashdot.org, and slashdot.org.
Meh. Slashdot is using servernames instead of CSS. Put in a "standard" slashdot servername for any article and you get that server's color scheme.
Please. Our DNA code could be interpreted as a code from an alien civilization, and you could get damn-near any meaning you wanted out of it, just like the n "decryptions" of the "Bible code".
After AMD whipped their butts in Doom 3 performance with much cheaper A64 parts, they threw in the towel.
Have you a cite for your CRT claim?
No, it hasn't been fixed, at least not on the Win32 version.
I see pro FPSing as being similar to the old Roman sport of gladiatorial matches, with the exception that nobody gets killed and there's no Christians being thrown to the lions. It's a guilt-free bloodsport.
What was old is new again, no?
Units is also your friend. There's also a Cygwin port for you Windows types.
Anybody got a torrent of the 3.0-final release? I only see 3.0-rc3 on their website.
Mine, of course.
I envision something like "we've detected that you don't have enough [RAM|CPU|HD space] for our default environment. For your convenience, we have included a lighter-weight environment more suited to your PC", and then installing one of the aforementioned lighter WMs with some distro-specific themes, icons, and such.
Same with the other things you mentioned. Need a decent smaller browser? Epiphany or Galeon. Word processor? Abiword.
OTOH maybe they can add exhaust-stack filters.
OTGH, maybe they already *do*. {shudder}
I have to wonder if Israel is a good location to have Intel's design shop, given the continuing violence between the Israelis and Palestinians. It'd suck a P-M designer or two was killed in an attack. :-(
Me, I have an old Pentium-90 box for playing DOS games on. Works lots better than trying it with Windows on my Athlon 2600+.
Seriously, people. Give it a rest.