That's not what they were asked because the Chinese government did not approve of the question. They were asked if they approved of government control. The two are very different, especially in a socialist state where the government controls everything.
Apple wants to control the experience. They want to spec high values of hardware. And they don't want to support mutt-hardware and end up like SP3.
I wouldn't exactly call AMD mutt-hardware...
Interestingly, the hardware control Apple exercises that you say is a good thing is exactly what bothers me with Apple. I know people hate hearing this, but I feel like Apple's operating systems are a cop-out. Sure, everything looks nice and just works...because they spent several months working on a single piece of hardware (which is often no longer on the bleeding edge). And the support is likely no more than a series of kludges, just like in Microsoft and Linux operating systems. Where's the ability to use brand-new hardware? Where's the ability to make whatever modifications you wish to the computer and then simply download a driver for it (easily, I mean)?
Yes, I know Linux often has trouble supporting new hardware, but that's simply the nature of open-source: things take time. But Linux is also free. Apple is proprietary and expensive, and Microsoft is able to support a vast array of hardware and Windows compared to Mac's tiny amount (partially because the vendors are biased towards Microsoft in making drivers, but I don't see Apple encouraging them for the above reasons).
Given all this, I don't understand why people insist on hacking the Mac for use on PCs. Why not use Linux? Even on bizarre hardware this would give a more pleasant experience.
Hey, it works with text messaging. Why wouldn't they charge large amounts for something that costs them a lot less?
On a side note, Verizon has been doing that for a while with their "data plans". Last I checked they were limiting my phone to 100 MB per month. Good thing I don't use it for internet.
For the record, VBA is still widely used in the engineering world, and given the stubbornness of some of the people around me in the engineering world that's not likely to change soon. So for the rest of us required to use VBA but not wanting to use Excel, this is a welcome addition and one I have been toying with since they introduced it.
Furthermore, after reviewing this GPL our lawyers advised us that any products compiled with GPL'ed tools - such as gcc - would also have to its source code released. This was simply unacceptable.
Now that is an outright lie. Do you realize how many commercial programs were compiled with gcc? The only time you must release your source is if you were linking GPL'd libraries...and at that, the legal issues are still unresolved.
If, after you're dead, unsavory details about you surface... will it hurt your feelings?
No, but depending on your culture it might hurt your family.
Where I live there was a high-profile case of a friend who destroyed all information of his deceased friend for this very reason. Turns out they were both from India and highly religious, so despite the deceased friend not requesting this the friend did it anyway. Had he not done it the family would have been "shamed" (although they apparently were anyway since he didn't do it discreetly).
Also, not all companies are required to disclose passwords of the deceased, so simply using the death certificate may not even work.
I'm just saying: hacking people's accounts after they die might not always be a good thing, or even harmless.
I know it's asking for trouble, but this is why all your accounts including username and password should be written down and stored in a separate location. Regardless if it's suicide or getting run over by a wildebeast, someone, somewhere, will need to be able to get into your accounts to clear things up.
Yes, but what if what they find in your accounts are things you never wanted them to know?
I also recently inadvertently triggered an argument between my parents on the virtues of IDEs in software development. My dad likes them, my mom regards them as the bane of true programmers everywhere. What does/. think?
IDEs? I love 'em. Granted, I only use them to manage multiple source code files and compile everything automatically, but still, I like using them for the quality-check utilities and debugging.
Now, to stay relatively on topic: a major company hand-coding is not news. I do it for my company all the time, and I know plenty of other people who also hand-code. And only one that does not.
Good luck with that. "Pretty Good" is more tongue-in-cheek than fact...I don't think you could crack it by brute force during your lifetime.
That being said, PGP is only safe if both people are capable of avoiding surveillance techniques. Otherwise, no amount of encryption will help. The smart lawyers probably already know/have been told this.
It's not their fault that Firefox 3 isn't ready yet. It's just like how Gutsy shipped with the release candidate for the Gimp 2.4 and not the final. I could understand if the Ubuntu developers were also responsible for building Firefox, but as it stands there was no reason to postpone the release of the entire operating system just because Firefox was a stage away from production.
This would be why I usually wait a month or so before I upgrade to the newest version of Ubuntu. I expect open-source stuff to have bugs but they fix most of them; it just takes little time. For now I'm hanging on to Gutsy until the rush dies down.
As for the WPA password...did you check the Keyring settings? Chances are that a config file was modified, switching the default save setting...if I had to guess.
Yeah, same for me if I switch general.useragent.vendor in Firefox's about:config from "Ubuntu" to "Windows". In fact, it works flawlessly. But I shouldn't have to.
We see this in Hillary Clinton, who in other times might have been described as a moderate republican, by here views. This stance makes sense, so that she can capture the middle of the spectrum. We saw this in the last 7 years, as democrats scrambled to be almost as conservative as the republicans, because that is what made political sense.
Except that she doesn't capture the middle spectrum because it seems everyone there with even the slightest conservative lean despises her. That myth needs to go away.
Occam's Razor proved wise again, yet I doubt that it will cause you or the moderators of your comment to reconsider the basis of your opinions of the people we have in power. It should.
No, it shouldn't. Besides misinterpreting my post (which was not a jab at the government), your suggestion is inane. If I were to say the government was involved in a cover-up and was proven wrong, I now have to have a positive opinion of the government?
And as to your first part: welcome to the conversation much later than it started. Since the story broke it has been refuted, but after the comment you replied to was posted. But before you tie this into the whole "it's easier to say something was wrong after the point and you just said so yourself" Iraq war justification (I can see that coming from someone), keep in mind that I posted a comment and did not attack a country.
Political pressure tends to be pro impending doom these days.
Err...yes, I would agree with that sentiment, but I think that's exactly why they wouldn't predict doom.
Bear with me for a moment (and feel free to rip the argument apart later): if NASA predicted impeding doom from the asteroid then people would panic and NASA would receive tons of funding, but for all the wrong reasons. Instead of attempting to focus on research and possible Mars visits they would be forced to spend tons of time and effort trying to avert an Armageddon that would likely never come. This would most likely set the program years back.
If they instead ignored the thing until it was certain to collide with the Earth, then they would have several years to find a relatively easy solution, and up until that point they would have twenty years of advances under their belt.
Maybe this is the lack of sleep combined with hours of work and six cups of coffee talking, but I think that NASA had/has very good reasons for keeping this thing quiet.
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Red scare madness? I was simply reporting their official stance regardless of the truth.
It's almost as though Microsoft is actively trying to fail.
That's not what they were asked because the Chinese government did not approve of the question. They were asked if they approved of government control. The two are very different, especially in a socialist state where the government controls everything.
I wouldn't exactly call AMD mutt-hardware...
Interestingly, the hardware control Apple exercises that you say is a good thing is exactly what bothers me with Apple. I know people hate hearing this, but I feel like Apple's operating systems are a cop-out. Sure, everything looks nice and just works...because they spent several months working on a single piece of hardware (which is often no longer on the bleeding edge). And the support is likely no more than a series of kludges, just like in Microsoft and Linux operating systems. Where's the ability to use brand-new hardware? Where's the ability to make whatever modifications you wish to the computer and then simply download a driver for it (easily, I mean)?
Yes, I know Linux often has trouble supporting new hardware, but that's simply the nature of open-source: things take time. But Linux is also free. Apple is proprietary and expensive, and Microsoft is able to support a vast array of hardware and Windows compared to Mac's tiny amount (partially because the vendors are biased towards Microsoft in making drivers, but I don't see Apple encouraging them for the above reasons).
Given all this, I don't understand why people insist on hacking the Mac for use on PCs. Why not use Linux? Even on bizarre hardware this would give a more pleasant experience.
Hey, it works with text messaging. Why wouldn't they charge large amounts for something that costs them a lot less?
On a side note, Verizon has been doing that for a while with their "data plans". Last I checked they were limiting my phone to 100 MB per month. Good thing I don't use it for internet.
For the record, VBA is still widely used in the engineering world, and given the stubbornness of some of the people around me in the engineering world that's not likely to change soon. So for the rest of us required to use VBA but not wanting to use Excel, this is a welcome addition and one I have been toying with since they introduced it.
I certainly hope not anywhere in the "free world".
Now that is an outright lie. Do you realize how many commercial programs were compiled with gcc? The only time you must release your source is if you were linking GPL'd libraries...and at that, the legal issues are still unresolved.
You mean Gobuntu? It's there.
No, but depending on your culture it might hurt your family.
Where I live there was a high-profile case of a friend who destroyed all information of his deceased friend for this very reason. Turns out they were both from India and highly religious, so despite the deceased friend not requesting this the friend did it anyway. Had he not done it the family would have been "shamed" (although they apparently were anyway since he didn't do it discreetly).
Also, not all companies are required to disclose passwords of the deceased, so simply using the death certificate may not even work.
I'm just saying: hacking people's accounts after they die might not always be a good thing, or even harmless.
Hey! Losing emails is hard work!
Or that the aides are manually sorting emails. What a crappy job.
Yes, but what if what they find in your accounts are things you never wanted them to know?
IDEs? I love 'em. Granted, I only use them to manage multiple source code files and compile everything automatically, but still, I like using them for the quality-check utilities and debugging.
Now, to stay relatively on topic: a major company hand-coding is not news. I do it for my company all the time, and I know plenty of other people who also hand-code. And only one that does not.
Good luck with that. "Pretty Good" is more tongue-in-cheek than fact...I don't think you could crack it by brute force during your lifetime.
That being said, PGP is only safe if both people are capable of avoiding surveillance techniques. Otherwise, no amount of encryption will help. The smart lawyers probably already know/have been told this.
It's not their fault that Firefox 3 isn't ready yet. It's just like how Gutsy shipped with the release candidate for the Gimp 2.4 and not the final. I could understand if the Ubuntu developers were also responsible for building Firefox, but as it stands there was no reason to postpone the release of the entire operating system just because Firefox was a stage away from production.
This would be why I usually wait a month or so before I upgrade to the newest version of Ubuntu. I expect open-source stuff to have bugs but they fix most of them; it just takes little time. For now I'm hanging on to Gutsy until the rush dies down.
As for the WPA password...did you check the Keyring settings? Chances are that a config file was modified, switching the default save setting...if I had to guess.
Yeah, but then the FBI would raid /. for kiddie porn.
Yeah, same for me if I switch general.useragent.vendor in Firefox's about:config from "Ubuntu" to "Windows". In fact, it works flawlessly. But I shouldn't have to.
It's one thing to not support Linux, but to actively block it...that's absurd.
Except that she doesn't capture the middle spectrum because it seems everyone there with even the slightest conservative lean despises her. That myth needs to go away.
Now, now: have some sensitivity for the colorblind!
Then please explain what it meant and what it "meant" (denotation and connotation). It would be appreciated.
No, it shouldn't. Besides misinterpreting my post (which was not a jab at the government), your suggestion is inane. If I were to say the government was involved in a cover-up and was proven wrong, I now have to have a positive opinion of the government?
And as to your first part: welcome to the conversation much later than it started. Since the story broke it has been refuted, but after the comment you replied to was posted. But before you tie this into the whole "it's easier to say something was wrong after the point and you just said so yourself" Iraq war justification (I can see that coming from someone), keep in mind that I posted a comment and did not attack a country.
Err...yes, I would agree with that sentiment, but I think that's exactly why they wouldn't predict doom.
Bear with me for a moment (and feel free to rip the argument apart later): if NASA predicted impeding doom from the asteroid then people would panic and NASA would receive tons of funding, but for all the wrong reasons. Instead of attempting to focus on research and possible Mars visits they would be forced to spend tons of time and effort trying to avert an Armageddon that would likely never come. This would most likely set the program years back.
If they instead ignored the thing until it was certain to collide with the Earth, then they would have several years to find a relatively easy solution, and up until that point they would have twenty years of advances under their belt.
Maybe this is the lack of sleep combined with hours of work and six cups of coffee talking, but I think that NASA had/has very good reasons for keeping this thing quiet.