the point of linking to/tmp, means it will delete the contents during a boot.. doesnt matter wheat options are in the cookie, the os will whipe the folder clean unless you set permissions to have the file retained during a boot... unless I'm missing something?
does anyone know if they're applying this to other ISP who lease bandwidth from bell? Such as Teksavvy and the like? I'm switching from bell anyhow, but I'd be pissed if they force that on other ISPs too (along with throttling).
refund fine, but that should be something the owner of the device would need to consent to at the time, not Amazon arbitrarily deciding for them.
If I accept the refund policy, then for that instance alone, I'm allowing the service to enter the device and remove the media in exchange for my funds being returned.
Business accounts are also throttled by Bell, atleast our connection at work is. You can set your clock to it, 2am, wham! full speed.
So we pay twice the price of "your 29.99 home dsl line", and we're still throttled.
Bell throttles everything except their higest priced wholesale accounts, for example the type Primus has. I would find it hard to imagine small or even larger business are willing to fork out the coin for that service. Regular wholesale accounts are throttled in the same way, as was disclosed in the CRTC hearing yesterday.
corporation doesn't mean for-profit. non-profits can be corporations too, usually consist of a board of directors, executive director, management, staff etc.
Average user benchmarking is pretty biased from what I'm getting by your suggestion, considering that most people are used to using windows. This would only work in a sample of "average" people completely new to using any operating system. Especially if you take into consideration the big inconsistencies between GUI operations in GNU/linux vs. windows (windows users have specific habits that affect their experience on a GNU/linux machine, and vice versa)
Also I believe branding would be an issue, people assume a system is "windows" because its the defacto operating system, and is also used to describe general window management in by non-techies (I know because I work with a lot of homeless people, most of which think youtube is the same as the internet which is located inside the harddrive, referring to the case). Strip both operating systems of logos or titles prior to testing. But then it would no longer be a benchmark that you're suggesting, but really a survey of user experience. Completely different, but I agree 100% in context.
Benchmarks aside, GNU/linux users generally use it for reasons above and beyond just simple outperforming windows in benchmarks, and most windows users can't grasp that idea.
could be an issue with a missing font. I installed steam a couple of years ago in wine, and until I installed some sort of truetype font it would recognize, all the pages were blank. I remember it took some digging and wasn't too obvious of a solution on the wineHQ site.
I haven't tried wine since then since I've never needed it. so I could be way off in my guess work.
I think the response was justified to say it freed people from microsoft. The teacher is convinced that there's no other option, as she put it (in different phrasing). The rebuttal was acknowledging her view and countering it with another extreme point.
Trying to shed light in a dark room, by turning on the light switch.
The problem with that is, like with turning on the lights full blast, people tend to shut their eyes quickly.
Perhaps using a "dimmer switch" and bring light of the subject a little without the intensity of both his argument and the tone would be more effective. Suggesting that Micro$oft is the prime example of a closed source world, and provide other examples of closed software that dominate the market, beyond just OS's.
I think its a tough call to make in the case of Mr Stark, he wasn't really trying to sell his software to the teacher, he was defending it from false claims. Naturally I think almost anyone can relate to getting your back up when someone attacks one of your passions. I personally stopped trying to sell linux to people in the traditional sense, since most people don't care. The most effective approach I found (other than forcing it upon all my coworkers since I run the computer systems which use a LAMP stack), was just using it. People see it being used, and occasionally find themselves intrigued by an alternative.. some people accept change quicker than others I guess..
a miranda warning like that, basically tells you that now since you're in custody of the law, anything you say is taken as part of your statement, and is legal evidence in the case. Has very little if anything to do with defamation of character. IANAL though.. just seems pretty straight forward.
I agree though, tax on cd/dvd's should be thrown out. With the increase of digital content players (ipods, pmp's, generic mp3 players), the cd/dvd is hardly useful for anything but iso's. My father burned me a copy of some music he had recorded, he's old school, so I had to remind him that he could have just put it on a usb stick and prevent more waste in the world by burning it to a disc.
I don't think choice is the problem, I see the "common user" as the problem.
Years ago a computer was something you needed a degree in just to understand the concept of how it worked, let alone use it. The idea that computers would be sitting on everyone's desk at work manifested and blew up to the point of having many computers around the "common user" at all times. A computer for work, computer at home, and now netbooks to carry around in our pockets.
What happened to researching the system that's being used? We can throw words around like "zealot" and "elitist", but its a pride thing. We shouldn't feel guilty for going the extra mile to understand and use a system that may not fit the mainstream mold. The "common user" doesn't fit that category, because they lack the drive to understand anything they can't quickly click a few times to grasp the concept of. This is a problem because they're more prone to being suckered into pop-up adds claiming their system needs fixing by the ad in the pop-up. The attitude changes when they want someone who knows the system to come in and fix it for them.
All it takes is a little thinking, will power and the want to understand the system that they're using. Thats what seperated us "geeks" or "nerds" from Joe Average with computing. Why has this suddenly become the opposite. That the computer should just be simplistic, and it's a bad thing to use our brains to comprehend the system we're using. This isn't just a linux problem, this is a problem for all computing. Apathy, and expecting the system to do something you weren't telling it to do correctly. Linux supporters shouldn't feel bad for having a system that takes thinking to use. We should be encouraging more thought and brain power being used in everyday life, it's what makes us smarter people.
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the point of linking to /tmp, means it will delete the contents during a boot.. doesnt matter wheat options are in the cookie, the os will whipe the folder clean unless you set permissions to have the file retained during a boot... unless I'm missing something?
does anyone know if they're applying this to other ISP who lease bandwidth from bell? Such as Teksavvy and the like? I'm switching from bell anyhow, but I'd be pissed if they force that on other ISPs too (along with throttling).
refund fine, but that should be something the owner of the device would need to consent to at the time, not Amazon arbitrarily deciding for them.
If I accept the refund policy, then for that instance alone, I'm allowing the service to enter the device and remove the media in exchange for my funds being returned.
Business accounts are also throttled by Bell, atleast our connection at work is. You can set your clock to it, 2am, wham! full speed.
So we pay twice the price of "your 29.99 home dsl line", and we're still throttled.
Bell throttles everything except their higest priced wholesale accounts, for example the type Primus has. I would find it hard to imagine small or even larger business are willing to fork out the coin for that service. Regular wholesale accounts are throttled in the same way, as was disclosed in the CRTC hearing yesterday.
I think I'm in *****, and would like to learn about ********, the **** ****, etc etc.. ?
you should take a look in the "about" section of their page http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/about/whatismozilla.html
corporation doesn't mean for-profit. non-profits can be corporations too, usually consist of a board of directors, executive director, management, staff etc.
Average user benchmarking is pretty biased from what I'm getting by your suggestion, considering that most people are used to using windows. This would only work in a sample of "average" people completely new to using any operating system. Especially if you take into consideration the big inconsistencies between GUI operations in GNU/linux vs. windows (windows users have specific habits that affect their experience on a GNU/linux machine, and vice versa)
Also I believe branding would be an issue, people assume a system is "windows" because its the defacto operating system, and is also used to describe general window management in by non-techies (I know because I work with a lot of homeless people, most of which think youtube is the same as the internet which is located inside the harddrive, referring to the case). Strip both operating systems of logos or titles prior to testing. But then it would no longer be a benchmark that you're suggesting, but really a survey of user experience. Completely different, but I agree 100% in context.
Benchmarks aside, GNU/linux users generally use it for reasons above and beyond just simple outperforming windows in benchmarks, and most windows users can't grasp that idea.
could be an issue with a missing font. I installed steam a couple of years ago in wine, and until I installed some sort of truetype font it would recognize, all the pages were blank. I remember it took some digging and wasn't too obvious of a solution on the wineHQ site.
I haven't tried wine since then since I've never needed it. so I could be way off in my guess work.
.. didn't even load the slideshow.. but reading these comments, it doesn't seem worth the "allow temporary permissions" option.
I think the response was justified to say it freed people from microsoft. The teacher is convinced that there's no other option, as she put it (in different phrasing). The rebuttal was acknowledging her view and countering it with another extreme point.
Trying to shed light in a dark room, by turning on the light switch.
The problem with that is, like with turning on the lights full blast, people tend to shut their eyes quickly.
Perhaps using a "dimmer switch" and bring light of the subject a little without the intensity of both his argument and the tone would be more effective. Suggesting that Micro$oft is the prime example of a closed source world, and provide other examples of closed software that dominate the market, beyond just OS's.
I think its a tough call to make in the case of Mr Stark, he wasn't really trying to sell his software to the teacher, he was defending it from false claims. Naturally I think almost anyone can relate to getting your back up when someone attacks one of your passions. I personally stopped trying to sell linux to people in the traditional sense, since most people don't care. The most effective approach I found (other than forcing it upon all my coworkers since I run the computer systems which use a LAMP stack), was just using it. People see it being used, and occasionally find themselves intrigued by an alternative.. some people accept change quicker than others I guess..
not sure this is the same issue..
a miranda warning like that, basically tells you that now since you're in custody of the law, anything you say is taken as part of your statement, and is legal evidence in the case. Has very little if anything to do with defamation of character. IANAL though.. just seems pretty straight forward.
shhhh.. stop giving them more ideas!
I agree though, tax on cd/dvd's should be thrown out. With the increase of digital content players (ipods, pmp's, generic mp3 players), the cd/dvd is hardly useful for anything but iso's. My father burned me a copy of some music he had recorded, he's old school, so I had to remind him that he could have just put it on a usb stick and prevent more waste in the world by burning it to a disc.
Generic taxing like this is a total scam, plus its insulting to say that EVERY Canadian with internet service is a pirate, and a supporter of infringement... even if its partially true: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/26/1840231&tid=188/
I don't think choice is the problem, I see the "common user" as the problem. Years ago a computer was something you needed a degree in just to understand the concept of how it worked, let alone use it. The idea that computers would be sitting on everyone's desk at work manifested and blew up to the point of having many computers around the "common user" at all times. A computer for work, computer at home, and now netbooks to carry around in our pockets. What happened to researching the system that's being used? We can throw words around like "zealot" and "elitist", but its a pride thing. We shouldn't feel guilty for going the extra mile to understand and use a system that may not fit the mainstream mold. The "common user" doesn't fit that category, because they lack the drive to understand anything they can't quickly click a few times to grasp the concept of. This is a problem because they're more prone to being suckered into pop-up adds claiming their system needs fixing by the ad in the pop-up. The attitude changes when they want someone who knows the system to come in and fix it for them. All it takes is a little thinking, will power and the want to understand the system that they're using. Thats what seperated us "geeks" or "nerds" from Joe Average with computing. Why has this suddenly become the opposite. That the computer should just be simplistic, and it's a bad thing to use our brains to comprehend the system we're using. This isn't just a linux problem, this is a problem for all computing. Apathy, and expecting the system to do something you weren't telling it to do correctly. Linux supporters shouldn't feel bad for having a system that takes thinking to use. We should be encouraging more thought and brain power being used in everyday life, it's what makes us smarter people.