This is all well and good, and there's no doubt that an engineering/logical approach is very important in engineering, but there is something of an art about engineering as well. I can slog all day designing/building/coding/prototyping away, working from diagrams, notes and even flowcharts (though not formalized ones, I'll admit, like days gone by), but sometimes my best and most productive work are those creative flashes I get, when any kind of formal process is tossed out the door. Sure, I have to go back later and document my work so that even I can understand it, but there will always be that creative aspect to engineering, and that ain't necessarily bad.
I'm pretty sure that if you will be building a mobile phone and deciding to use this chip then you will be responsible for writing whatever software glue you think is necessary. Whether you are running Linux or something else is irrelevant.
OP made it sound like he thought this was some sort of USB dongle he could buy to stick in his laptop.
It will be up to the people making use of this chip to make sure their devices work on Linux. This thing is designed for mobile phones more than anything else.
The repulsion and attraction between current carriers in high voltage DC transmission systems is a non-trivial engineering issue. It is a non-issue in high voltage AC transmission systems.
Seems to me you are talking about the concept of self-guilt here. Honestly, I think you two are talking about completely different things. I agree with you both, except I don't agree with circletimesquare that FTC has some sort of logical contradiction in his point. Obviously it would be best for the woman to accept what has happened and move on, without beating herself up about it for the rest of her life. Hopefully she learns from the experience, something a bit more general than "beware of Nigerian scammers".
I second this idea. Alternatively, make all access through a remote desktop session (be it RDP, VNC, SSGD, Sun Ray, NX, etc). Don't allow access to the intranet or file servers or other server applications expect the remote desktop.
This way, when they log in to the work session they feel like they are logged in at work.
Is it so bad if a business that you have chosen to buy from in the past will try to maintain a relationship with you? I mean, seriously, you get a lot more real spam. Surely a fortnightly or monthly newsletter containing something that might mildly interest you is only a very minor inconvenience at worst.
I agree that they should have an opt in or out at the time of initial contact.
An OEM can ship a pre-configured Linux desktop or laptop with a 'standard' setup with the need for the end user to use the console at all. The vast majority of people buy their computers with Windows pre-installed by the OEM.
Of course, a 'Power User' will have no problem tinkering.
Overpopulation is a myth. The problem is with resource allocation. Don't take my word for it, do your own research before you go about propagating such a dangerous myth.
This has been discussed on slashdot before.
What are you doing letting Windows format a disk?? You should look into creating a few generic images that should cover most of your hardware and brands. You'll save yourself a lot of time and your employer a lot of money.
Looks like they've re-introduced the RGB bug that makes flash content look funny on a Sun Ray. Rather than querying the X server for the RGB masks, the plugin just assumes red=0xff0000, green=0xff00, blue=0xff, when in fact on a Sun Ray the red and blue are swapped around.
They had this fixed in the last of the 9 series, but with 10 the bug has re-emerged.
I want to punch every one of those assholes who buys products advertised by spam e-mail in his face. I've been saying for years that, if the supply of gullible idiots with credit cards dried up, the spammers would increase their efforts drastically.
Okay, that was a joke. Seriously though, for the bulk of the audience of Slashdot, I strongly encourage getting familiar with LaTeX. It is such a relief the forget about formatting and just focus on what you want to write.
Not for everyone, but certainly a great option for anyone not scared of a markup language and some command line tools.
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Who is complaining? Most people seem to think it is a great idea.
*knock* *kno
... would have been so much funnier.
As far as OpenOffice vs StarOffice, I believe the latter includes some proprietary licensed code that cannot be open sourced.
Hope that clears things up for ya!
What econ 101 teaches you is that a realistic estimate of the losses does not equal the retail price times the number of pirated copies.
You'd have to be daft to not realise that that is not what he meant by:
Piracy != losses; most (or at least many) people who pirate would not otherwise purchase the product.
This is all well and good, and there's no doubt that an engineering/logical approach is very important in engineering, but there is something of an art about engineering as well. I can slog all day designing/building/coding/prototyping away, working from diagrams, notes and even flowcharts (though not formalized ones, I'll admit, like days gone by), but sometimes my best and most productive work are those creative flashes I get, when any kind of formal process is tossed out the door. Sure, I have to go back later and document my work so that even I can understand it, but there will always be that creative aspect to engineering, and that ain't necessarily bad.
OP made it sound like he thought this was some sort of USB dongle he could buy to stick in his laptop.
It will be up to the people making use of this chip to make sure their devices work on Linux. This thing is designed for mobile phones more than anything else.
From the block diagram, it looks like there are three distinct RF front-ends.
The Holocaust is...
Isn't this where the thread comes to an end?
Disruption Tolerant Network protocols certainly have a place in ad-hoc wireless networks where bit-error rates are high and link outages are common.
One of the drawbacks of a DTN is the fact that intermediate nodes require greater complexity and memory for the store-and-forward.
The repulsion and attraction between current carriers in high voltage DC transmission systems is a non-trivial engineering issue. It is a non-issue in high voltage AC transmission systems.
Seems to me you are talking about the concept of self-guilt here. Honestly, I think you two are talking about completely different things. I agree with you both, except I don't agree with circletimesquare that FTC has some sort of logical contradiction in his point. Obviously it would be best for the woman to accept what has happened and move on, without beating herself up about it for the rest of her life. Hopefully she learns from the experience, something a bit more general than "beware of Nigerian scammers".
I second this idea. Alternatively, make all access through a remote desktop session (be it RDP, VNC, SSGD, Sun Ray, NX, etc). Don't allow access to the intranet or file servers or other server applications expect the remote desktop.
This way, when they log in to the work session they feel like they are logged in at work.
I agree that they should have an opt in or out at the time of initial contact.
Good thing you can't patent an idea, only an innovation.
An OEM can ship a pre-configured Linux desktop or laptop with a 'standard' setup with the need for the end user to use the console at all. The vast majority of people buy their computers with Windows pre-installed by the OEM. Of course, a 'Power User' will have no problem tinkering.
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Overpopulation is a myth. The problem is with resource allocation. Don't take my word for it, do your own research before you go about propagating such a dangerous myth. This has been discussed on slashdot before.
You can't, you just posted.
What are you doing letting Windows format a disk?? You should look into creating a few generic images that should cover most of your hardware and brands. You'll save yourself a lot of time and your employer a lot of money.
Go to http://www.google.com.au/ig For now anyway...
Looks like they've re-introduced the RGB bug that makes flash content look funny on a Sun Ray. Rather than querying the X server for the RGB masks, the plugin just assumes red=0xff0000, green=0xff00, blue=0xff, when in fact on a Sun Ray the red and blue are swapped around.
They had this fixed in the last of the 9 series, but with 10 the bug has re-emerged.
The way I understood it the 197 metre drop (doubt it was a total nosedive) happened in between the autopilot coming off, and the pilot taking control.
AFAIK, cruising at that altitude it wouldn't take much to cause that sort of drop.
I want to punch every one of those assholes who buys products advertised by spam e-mail in his face. I've been saying for years that, if the supply of gullible idiots with credit cards dried up, the spammers would increase their efforts drastically.
There, fixed that for you.
Okay, that was a joke. Seriously though, for the bulk of the audience of Slashdot, I strongly encourage getting familiar with LaTeX. It is such a relief the forget about formatting and just focus on what you want to write.
Not for everyone, but certainly a great option for anyone not scared of a markup language and some command line tools.