I don't need a schematic for the power supply. It's not that complex. I can open it up, trace the circuit with a probe, and learn everything there is to know about it without much difficulty.
Keeping error under control during data analysis is hard enough already. The GP is perfectly reasonable in wanting to be able to examine every bit of his toolchain, especially when he might be purchasing very expensive CPU time to actually run his code, and surprisingly small data errors could completely hose his results even if his algorithm and implementation are perfect.
Personally, I don't use Google apps, as a JavaScript implementation of notepad.exe doesn't come close to satisfying my document management needs, and I can't imagine any serious business would disagree.
Actually, I've found Google Docs even less useful than that. Notepad at least maintains the indents in my code...
I'm surprised this even still comes up. By definition sales fall when copy protection is cracked, otherwise nobody would bother developing it in the first place.
Does it? I'd love to see some actual numbers to back up that claim.
Unless you actually believe all the executives at all the movie studios and their major shareholders are so stupid they can't read a graph, of course.
Have you ever worked in the corporate environment? Executives make stupid decisions all the time, even when there are pretty graphs available to show them that the choice doesn't make sense for their business. So yes, based on what I have personally witnessed, I have little trouble believing that.
If you're paranoid enough that you don't trust rand(), writing your own random number generator isn't that hard (the hard part, determining good magic numbers, has already been done for you).
Times have changed, though, and the ability to monopolize the hearts and minds of kids with the only computer they're exposed to is long gone. Many of the kids will already have PCs at home, many will have (or at least have played) X-Boxes, PS3s, Wiis and a host of other devices, including smart phones. I don't think this can have the same social effect that Apple had on us 30 years ago, because the environment is now so different. The novelty won't be there.
No, the ability to monopolize the hearts and minds of kids is still there, and that's precisely the problem. The key now is to show them that there are usable alternatives to Microsoft. even if they stick with Windows at home, plenty of them might question the need to pay for MS Office when they know that OpenOffice is free and covers their needs.
As the recent milk scandal in China has demonstrated, a capitalist profit motive is a fine and good thing, as long as the government (or at least the multinationals looking to sell this stuff in the West) is doing its part to oversee legal compliance, and the press is allowed to report when it's failing to occur.
Well now, that's the catch, isn't it? Note that in the milk scandal you mentioned, they only started doing anything about when some foreign (Taiwan) kids died. Then, all of a sudden, it turns out there have been something like 53,000 children affected in the PRC. Either the government didn't care, or the press wasn't allowed to report on it. They couldn't keep a lid on it outside their borders though, so they were forced to do something about it. Had those products not been sold outside the PRC, you can bet it would still be going on.
It is rare that I would not find the answer to a Windows problem for free and without a wait on the Web(i.e. question asked, answer already posted.) For a Linux installtion there is a very good chance that I will not find the answer, and that I will have to post a question on a Blog somewhere...
I don't know, I keep hearing this, and yet my experience is consistently the opposite.
The only times I've not been able to find a nice, clear solution to a Linux problem were when I was dealing with hardware that had just been released. Sometimes the solution is to a problem that is not exactly the same but similar enough that I can adapt it to my situation easily since all the config files are designed to be human readable.
For every single Windows problem I've had to deal with recently I've only been able to find a solution to something similar, but the solution seems to always involve putting some magic value into the registry, with no clues that help me figure out what magic value I need, even though I generally have a pretty good guess as to where it should go.
Both platforms have plenty of issues that seem to have no known solutions. I'll agree that Windows solutions tend to be written with a friendlier tone, but that doesn't really count for much when the information is basically useless to me.
It's both amazing and sad that I had to read this far down before I saw a post that said "talk to a lawyer". There have been some good suggestions so far, but every single one of them should have had "have a lawyer work look over it before you sign anything" tacked onto the end.
Yes, lawyers are evil, but this sort of thing is exactly what they're for, and I'll bet you the cost of your legal fees that the contract you're being offered now was written by a lawyer hired by the company. Don't put yourself at a disadvantage from the get-go, that's just stupid.
Not all of us American supported war, nor do we all support bailing out Wall Street.
Indeed, I saw a report last night that said communications to senators/congressmen during discussion of the bailout bill were 9:1 against it. I expect (and hope) there will be serious consequences for those that passed it, given that election day is so close at hand.
They also blacklist software capable of mounting ISOs as virtual discs, as I found out a few years ago. Except in that case, the choice was "Uninstall the software or do not play the games you bought." Fucking blow me Sony. There's cracks everywhere and we both know it, so let me play the damn game.
Sony explicitly granted you the right to play the game when you agreed to the EULA. Sue them for breach of contract.
I'm starting to think that the solution here is a couple of big lawsuits against companies that use DRM that interferes with normal use of the product. After all, I think any court will agree that we have a right to use what we purchase, and I think the EULA actually strengthens that claim, since the only consideration is that you get to use the software. By burdening the product with DRM, they are creating a situation where, in order for that side of the contract to be satisfied, the consumer is forced to break the law (a crack is a circumvention device, which violates the DMCA).
It could be an interesting case if argued properly. If it were me, though, I'd just demand my money back from the store that sold it to me, or just not buy the product in the first place.
The main point is, the people making these decision only understand money. If you want them to change their behavior, you have to hit them in the pocketbook.
He looked me up and down and said "Who says its hard to use" and turned away.
A perfectly reasonable response IMO, and one you should have been prepared to answer if you expected anything more than that.
Who does say it's hard to use? In my experience they fall into two groups: Those who's markets are being threatened, and those who can't be bothered to learn something new. In both cases you really have to consider the messenger to determine whether the claim has any validity, and you provided nothing in your question to indicate that you had done so.
I haven't tried Scilab. I recently took a look at Maxima, and I like it so far. It doesn't really cover the same range of problems, though. It's more like a replacement for my TI-89.
so Blackberry and Palm don't figure into it at all.
Palm pretty much doesn't. There are so few phones running PalmOS that it might as well be dead. I really wish that weren't the case, as I happen to like PalmOS, especially compared to the Blackberry I have now.
I see. Stuff like that exists in the US as well, for example I think Coinstar machines print a receipt like that which you then take to a cashier at the store the machine is in to get the cash (it's been a while since I used one last).
You can encode anything you want and write it out in the bar code font. That's just a one time code though, not a UPC.
It was true, but the people he featured weren't poor, they were middle class. You see, here in America we take from the middle class and give to the rich and the poor.
You really should see the movie, because you are making bad assumptions from a position of ignorance. The basic gist, though, is that the insurance companies get to decide what is medically necessary and what is not, and their decisions tend to be based on money, not medicine.
Only in Europe. In the US the barcode doesn't carry price information.
I doubt they do in Europe either, because that would be stupid.
You get the pricing information from the internet. You use the barcode scanner to avoid having to type in the name/model of the product you're interested in.
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I don't need a schematic for the power supply. It's not that complex. I can open it up, trace the circuit with a probe, and learn everything there is to know about it without much difficulty.
Keeping error under control during data analysis is hard enough already. The GP is perfectly reasonable in wanting to be able to examine every bit of his toolchain, especially when he might be purchasing very expensive CPU time to actually run his code, and surprisingly small data errors could completely hose his results even if his algorithm and implementation are perfect.
I'm not convinced that particle decay is random, I think it's more likely that we simply haven't found the trigger yet.
And for an added bonus, I recall that wine works under cygwin (though I haven't tried it personally).
Personally, I don't use Google apps, as a JavaScript implementation of notepad.exe doesn't come close to satisfying my document management needs, and I can't imagine any serious business would disagree.
Actually, I've found Google Docs even less useful than that. Notepad at least maintains the indents in my code...
I never heard anything about the halting problem until my 300 level algorithms class. Then again, I'm just going to a CSU, not a "good" school.
I believe that's 11 kinds
I'm surprised this even still comes up. By definition sales fall when copy protection is cracked, otherwise nobody would bother developing it in the first place.
Does it? I'd love to see some actual numbers to back up that claim.
Unless you actually believe all the executives at all the movie studios and their major shareholders are so stupid they can't read a graph, of course.
Have you ever worked in the corporate environment? Executives make stupid decisions all the time, even when there are pretty graphs available to show them that the choice doesn't make sense for their business. So yes, based on what I have personally witnessed, I have little trouble believing that.
These things are pretty trivial to write.
If you're paranoid enough that you don't trust rand(), writing your own random number generator isn't that hard (the hard part, determining good magic numbers, has already been done for you).
Times have changed, though, and the ability to monopolize the hearts and minds of kids with the only computer they're exposed to is long gone. Many of the kids will already have PCs at home, many will have (or at least have played) X-Boxes, PS3s, Wiis and a host of other devices, including smart phones. I don't think this can have the same social effect that Apple had on us 30 years ago, because the environment is now so different. The novelty won't be there.
No, the ability to monopolize the hearts and minds of kids is still there, and that's precisely the problem. The key now is to show them that there are usable alternatives to Microsoft. even if they stick with Windows at home, plenty of them might question the need to pay for MS Office when they know that OpenOffice is free and covers their needs.
As the recent milk scandal in China has demonstrated, a capitalist profit motive is a fine and good thing, as long as the government (or at least the multinationals looking to sell this stuff in the West) is doing its part to oversee legal compliance, and the press is allowed to report when it's failing to occur.
Well now, that's the catch, isn't it? Note that in the milk scandal you mentioned, they only started doing anything about when some foreign (Taiwan) kids died. Then, all of a sudden, it turns out there have been something like 53,000 children affected in the PRC. Either the government didn't care, or the press wasn't allowed to report on it. They couldn't keep a lid on it outside their borders though, so they were forced to do something about it. Had those products not been sold outside the PRC, you can bet it would still be going on.
It is rare that I would not find the answer to a Windows problem for free and without a wait on the Web(i.e. question asked, answer already posted.) For a Linux installtion there is a very good chance that I will not find the answer, and that I will have to post a question on a Blog somewhere...
I don't know, I keep hearing this, and yet my experience is consistently the opposite.
The only times I've not been able to find a nice, clear solution to a Linux problem were when I was dealing with hardware that had just been released. Sometimes the solution is to a problem that is not exactly the same but similar enough that I can adapt it to my situation easily since all the config files are designed to be human readable.
For every single Windows problem I've had to deal with recently I've only been able to find a solution to something similar, but the solution seems to always involve putting some magic value into the registry, with no clues that help me figure out what magic value I need, even though I generally have a pretty good guess as to where it should go.
Both platforms have plenty of issues that seem to have no known solutions. I'll agree that Windows solutions tend to be written with a friendlier tone, but that doesn't really count for much when the information is basically useless to me.
It's both amazing and sad that I had to read this far down before I saw a post that said "talk to a lawyer". There have been some good suggestions so far, but every single one of them should have had "have a lawyer work look over it before you sign anything" tacked onto the end.
Yes, lawyers are evil, but this sort of thing is exactly what they're for, and I'll bet you the cost of your legal fees that the contract you're being offered now was written by a lawyer hired by the company. Don't put yourself at a disadvantage from the get-go, that's just stupid.
Not all of us American supported war, nor do we all support bailing out Wall Street.
Indeed, I saw a report last night that said communications to senators/congressmen during discussion of the bailout bill were 9:1 against it. I expect (and hope) there will be serious consequences for those that passed it, given that election day is so close at hand.
Jesus can't be president, he's not a natural born citizen.
They also blacklist software capable of mounting ISOs as virtual discs, as I found out a few years ago. Except in that case, the choice was "Uninstall the software or do not play the games you bought." Fucking blow me Sony. There's cracks everywhere and we both know it, so let me play the damn game.
Sony explicitly granted you the right to play the game when you agreed to the EULA. Sue them for breach of contract.
I'm starting to think that the solution here is a couple of big lawsuits against companies that use DRM that interferes with normal use of the product. After all, I think any court will agree that we have a right to use what we purchase, and I think the EULA actually strengthens that claim, since the only consideration is that you get to use the software. By burdening the product with DRM, they are creating a situation where, in order for that side of the contract to be satisfied, the consumer is forced to break the law (a crack is a circumvention device, which violates the DMCA).
It could be an interesting case if argued properly. If it were me, though, I'd just demand my money back from the store that sold it to me, or just not buy the product in the first place.
The main point is, the people making these decision only understand money. If you want them to change their behavior, you have to hit them in the pocketbook.
He looked me up and down and said "Who says its hard to use" and turned away.
A perfectly reasonable response IMO, and one you should have been prepared to answer if you expected anything more than that.
Who does say it's hard to use? In my experience they fall into two groups: Those who's markets are being threatened, and those who can't be bothered to learn something new. In both cases you really have to consider the messenger to determine whether the claim has any validity, and you provided nothing in your question to indicate that you had done so.
Something tells me there aren't a lot of personal injury lawyers in whereverthatisville.
That's true of basically anywhere in Asia.
I haven't tried Scilab. I recently took a look at Maxima, and I like it so far. It doesn't really cover the same range of problems, though. It's more like a replacement for my TI-89.
MATLAB runs just fine (native) on Linux, you know. I haven't tried Octave on Windows, though.
so Blackberry and Palm don't figure into it at all.
Palm pretty much doesn't. There are so few phones running PalmOS that it might as well be dead. I really wish that weren't the case, as I happen to like PalmOS, especially compared to the Blackberry I have now.
I see. Stuff like that exists in the US as well, for example I think Coinstar machines print a receipt like that which you then take to a cashier at the store the machine is in to get the cash (it's been a while since I used one last).
You can encode anything you want and write it out in the bar code font. That's just a one time code though, not a UPC.
It was true, but the people he featured weren't poor, they were middle class. You see, here in America we take from the middle class and give to the rich and the poor.
You really should see the movie, because you are making bad assumptions from a position of ignorance. The basic gist, though, is that the insurance companies get to decide what is medically necessary and what is not, and their decisions tend to be based on money, not medicine.
Only in Europe. In the US the barcode doesn't carry price information.
I doubt they do in Europe either, because that would be stupid.
You get the pricing information from the internet. You use the barcode scanner to avoid having to type in the name/model of the product you're interested in.