I've suspected this for a while and I'm now comfortable saying that tech4 is another Microsoft shill doing mostly negative marketing, similar to ge7, but he learned to post a better balance of personal stuff to throw off suspicion.
As a non-American I'm not intimately familiar with the American election process, but does Obama have to run as the only Democrat candidate in this election? You couldn't elect a different Democrat?
Am I in any way happy or relieved that Jobs is dead? Nope, I am sad that he died. Am I relieved that his influence is gone? Yes.
This sums it up for me. Personally I don't think Jobs even meant any harm by bringing about curated computing. I don't even think it was greed. It was his way of controlling how his art was delivered. I honestly think that's how he thought. He wasn't really a techie, he was an artist and the computer was his medium. I think he was oblivious to the damage he was doing so I don't hate him and I'm not happy that he's dead, but I'm glad his influence is gone.
I'm mostly supportive of Stallman but I really wish he would improve his personal hygiene a little. Dress decently (glad to see he's not wearing a poncho there), keep his hair and beard tidy, wear closed shoes and not eat things stuck to his foot x_x
True, there was nothing really wrong with his uncompromising message, it's just unfortunate that the public is closely aligned with the curated computing movement which is diametrically opposed to the free software movement, and is hardly aware of open source at all (it at all), so it will seem inflammatory to them. To a more centrist position it wouldn't seem so bad.
I disagree. I'm glad the FSF has someone as uncompromising as Stallman. Even if his perceived extremism is bad for corporate open source software, it's better for the free software to survive in its current state as a hobbyist movement than to devolve into openwashing and flourish, which is exactly what corporations want, to turn OSS into nothing more than a nifty marketing label while they control the product with an iron fist. This is why I support the GPLv3 and am against any "pragmatist" ideas of allowing for Tivoization and patent traps so that companies will be more likely to adopt and use open source.
Android is a good example of what happens to open source software when corporations get their way with it. It flourishes, but so what? Who benefits from the openness, apart from the few geeks who download the source code (for certain versions) and hack it onto a few devices? To the average customer it's as closed as iOS for all practical purposes. At the end of the day, this situation is at best, no better than the stereotypical obscure neckbeard-run FOSS project critics fear the "idealist" position would lead to in terms of openness, except that a company got rich by ripping off the open source community and contributing a little code back for the uber-geeks to tinker with. And it's a good thing there are a few tablets and phones out there with unlocked bootloaders and VMs are an option or the hobbyist wouldn't be able to do a damn thing with the Android source. If Google really wanted to tivo-lock Android, nothing's stopping them.
This is going to make bullying worse. And, it will break up the "nerd groups" so they won't even have safety in numbers, since the ability to pass a school test doesn't necessarily indicate intelligence and vice-versa. When I was a kid I aced science & computer stuff, did pretty good in language (even French with bloody hard pronunciation ARRGH), and just scraped by with everything else. On average my grades were nothing special. Few of the nerdy kids were top performers all-around - the top performers were mostly just culturally average kids who weren't especially intellectual who had good memory or seemed to be enthusiastic about school somehow.
I'm using Outlook 2007 with the search indexer disabled (I imagine that slows it down a bit, with the upside of not having to index). It has the McAffee toolbar (we have a strong NEGFFBIBM attitude around here) but is otherwise standard. What am I doing wrong? Should I enable the search indexer?
Partition backups are unwieldy, inefficient and inconvenient. They basically assume that you'll be restoring to the same hard drive model. Back up files instead. I use rsync on Linux and vshadow+robocopy on Windows.
Stupid doesn't have much to do with it. The education system, especially high school and lower, rewards memory ability above all else. You can have shit-poor reasoning and logical skills and be the top student if you have a really good memory.
I'm sort of the opposite. I have good reasoning and logical skills but a shit-poor memory. I always tried to beat the system by learning the underlying rules and trying to come up with algorithms to allow me to derive information without memorizing massive data sets. I was always scraping by (doesn't help that I have ADD, an awful mental disorder that makes it very difficult to pay attention to boring things). Ask any of my friends, family or coworkers who don't know and they'd never believe it. They'd imagine that I was a top student
Really I don't think that creating this grade-based caste system in schools is going to do anything but lead to more arrogant PHBs and even more stress and humiliation on the school's "lower classes" - that means more child suicides and school shootings.
They'll have either 12 or 24 volt power, and the lack of a cig socket is a minor inconvenience. The power hookup is no problem. The data side will be more complicated...
The thing is that it doesn't just fail to list APs, it also disconnects from the current AP, disconnecting my messaging accounts. If there's some error message that consistently shows up when this happens I could write a minutely cron script or a daemon to watch for it and reload the modules, which takes about 10 seconds.
I don't know what's scarier, the fact that these things run Windows, the fact that the ports weren't sealed off or the fact that some doofus who doesn't know how to check for Autorun viruses and/or wasn't a computer professional didn't see a problem with plugging a flash drive in there.
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I've suspected this for a while and I'm now comfortable saying that tech4 is another Microsoft shill doing mostly negative marketing, similar to ge7, but he learned to post a better balance of personal stuff to throw off suspicion.
Any way to enable it without installing Windows Search? I hate that thing.
For once Cowboy Neal isn't the joke vote!
Posting anonymously because most Slashdotters are Republican, are angry, and have mod points.
Most? Hah I doubt it. Definitely enough to mod you into the ground though.
As a non-American I'm not intimately familiar with the American election process, but does Obama have to run as the only Democrat candidate in this election? You couldn't elect a different Democrat?
What's Jobs guilty of? Making products that people want to buy, at prices they want to pay.
I read this line in Andrew Ryan's voice.
Yes the GPLv3 closed loopholes you could use to completely go against the spirit of the GPLv2 and lock down open source software. OH NOES!
Am I in any way happy or relieved that Jobs is dead? Nope, I am sad that he died. Am I relieved that his influence is gone? Yes.
This sums it up for me. Personally I don't think Jobs even meant any harm by bringing about curated computing. I don't even think it was greed. It was his way of controlling how his art was delivered. I honestly think that's how he thought. He wasn't really a techie, he was an artist and the computer was his medium. I think he was oblivious to the damage he was doing so I don't hate him and I'm not happy that he's dead, but I'm glad his influence is gone.
Oh jeez :-O###
I'm mostly supportive of Stallman but I really wish he would improve his personal hygiene a little. Dress decently (glad to see he's not wearing a poncho there), keep his hair and beard tidy, wear closed shoes and not eat things stuck to his foot x_x
True, there was nothing really wrong with his uncompromising message, it's just unfortunate that the public is closely aligned with the curated computing movement which is diametrically opposed to the free software movement, and is hardly aware of open source at all (it at all), so it will seem inflammatory to them. To a more centrist position it wouldn't seem so bad.
I disagree. I'm glad the FSF has someone as uncompromising as Stallman. Even if his perceived extremism is bad for corporate open source software, it's better for the free software to survive in its current state as a hobbyist movement than to devolve into openwashing and flourish, which is exactly what corporations want, to turn OSS into nothing more than a nifty marketing label while they control the product with an iron fist. This is why I support the GPLv3 and am against any "pragmatist" ideas of allowing for Tivoization and patent traps so that companies will be more likely to adopt and use open source.
Android is a good example of what happens to open source software when corporations get their way with it. It flourishes, but so what? Who benefits from the openness, apart from the few geeks who download the source code (for certain versions) and hack it onto a few devices? To the average customer it's as closed as iOS for all practical purposes. At the end of the day, this situation is at best, no better than the stereotypical obscure neckbeard-run FOSS project critics fear the "idealist" position would lead to in terms of openness, except that a company got rich by ripping off the open source community and contributing a little code back for the uber-geeks to tinker with. And it's a good thing there are a few tablets and phones out there with unlocked bootloaders and VMs are an option or the hobbyist wouldn't be able to do a damn thing with the Android source. If Google really wanted to tivo-lock Android, nothing's stopping them.
Wait, I'm sorry, I must apologize. That was unfair to Nigeria which at least tried to shut down it's scams.
Check out Utah, the Nigeria of America. All the bullshit health product & MLM scams operate from there.
I have no blind faith in capitalism either, for the record.
This is going to make bullying worse. And, it will break up the "nerd groups" so they won't even have safety in numbers, since the ability to pass a school test doesn't necessarily indicate intelligence and vice-versa. When I was a kid I aced science & computer stuff, did pretty good in language (even French with bloody hard pronunciation ARRGH), and just scraped by with everything else. On average my grades were nothing special. Few of the nerdy kids were top performers all-around - the top performers were mostly just culturally average kids who weren't especially intellectual who had good memory or seemed to be enthusiastic about school somehow.
I'm no libertarian, but looking back at history, colleges have always responded to an increase in students' ability to pay with higher prices...
I'm using Outlook 2007 with the search indexer disabled (I imagine that slows it down a bit, with the upside of not having to index). It has the McAffee toolbar (we have a strong NEGFFBIBM attitude around here) but is otherwise standard. What am I doing wrong? Should I enable the search indexer?
Partition backups are unwieldy, inefficient and inconvenient. They basically assume that you'll be restoring to the same hard drive model. Back up files instead. I use rsync on Linux and vshadow+robocopy on Windows.
Stupid doesn't have much to do with it. The education system, especially high school and lower, rewards memory ability above all else. You can have shit-poor reasoning and logical skills and be the top student if you have a really good memory.
I'm sort of the opposite. I have good reasoning and logical skills but a shit-poor memory. I always tried to beat the system by learning the underlying rules and trying to come up with algorithms to allow me to derive information without memorizing massive data sets. I was always scraping by (doesn't help that I have ADD, an awful mental disorder that makes it very difficult to pay attention to boring things). Ask any of my friends, family or coworkers who don't know and they'd never believe it. They'd imagine that I was a top student
Really I don't think that creating this grade-based caste system in schools is going to do anything but lead to more arrogant PHBs and even more stress and humiliation on the school's "lower classes" - that means more child suicides and school shootings.
Or Outlook, which takes freaking eons to search, and starts by displaying the oldest results first.
That said I still use search rather than folders. I just do something else while the search runs. Gives me a chance to get up from my desk.
They'll have either 12 or 24 volt power, and the lack of a cig socket is a minor inconvenience. The power hookup is no problem. The data side will be more complicated...
The thing is that it doesn't just fail to list APs, it also disconnects from the current AP, disconnecting my messaging accounts. If there's some error message that consistently shows up when this happens I could write a minutely cron script or a daemon to watch for it and reload the modules, which takes about 10 seconds.
Is there a way to do this on a system with no GUI?
CryEngine on Flash!? I think we have a new benchmark, everyone!
THIS
I don't know what's scarier, the fact that these things run Windows, the fact that the ports weren't sealed off or the fact that some doofus who doesn't know how to check for Autorun viruses and/or wasn't a computer professional didn't see a problem with plugging a flash drive in there.