Not really. gksudo asks you if you know what you are doing and are allowed it. If UAC sees three doubts, it asks three questions, because its primary task seems to be to distrust the machine's own programs. gksudo just knows it has asked you a second ago and assumes you still are the same user with the same skills and rights.
In other words: gksudo focusses on the user, UAC on the program actions
So then people like me, who deny all cookies from advertising networks, are then committing click-fraud by not allowing the ad to be traced?
Or some special sub-site, HTTP parameter or... If you are going through the payment system, you probably have cookies switched on or any other means for maintaining the session
Are clicks still being sold? It is not interesting how many visits you get, but how many items are bought. So companies don't want visitors, they want customers. The salesmen I encountered were never interested in clicks, but were interested in "ad provision".
Compared to Windows NT. I was working as a consultant for Autodesk Inventor at that time and the system requirements were "Windows NT or above". We quickly dropped the "or above" as the first complaints of customers came in. For your information, Autodesk Inventor was a heavily optimized program to do 3D CAD modelling. On Windows NT, it was amazingly fast, even for complex, large models. On Windows 2000, we did not even dare to demo it, because the most simple example did not even come close to an acceptable performance.
And I did not change to Linux that early. I swore I would never install XP one one of my machines and remained with the most stable Windows in my opinion: Windows 98SE. Only when most programs would not support it anymore, I switched to Xubuntu (7.04, so 2½ years ago).
Windows 200 had major problems with hardware drivers. Printing was a real pain, and running both AutoCAD and office on the same machine was almost impossible. Running Autodesk Inventor was near to impossible because it was so slow you could draw the screen by pencil faster.
Windows XP's "Genuine" disadvantage was the main reason I switched to Linux. I do value my privacy.
I'm afraid they can. They can force it on every new machine, like Vista. They can pre-install their office suite. With their influence on the resellers, they effectively have a monopoly.
They can force DRM down the customer's throat, Make every new version a pain to rediscover where all the existing features are, and have customers look out for the new version, because "everything will magically be better in the new version".
Well, my knowledge of history is not that detailed.
But I know a nice historical text, where somebody in the early medieval Netherlands did not like Vikings, also because "they combed their hair every day!". Nowadays, people are discriminated because of the cloth covering their head. Nothing's changed really....
Around here, the cheapest food is probably the deep frozen pizza in the supermarket. With fake cheese and fake anything. And enough conservatives to prevent your body to decompose if you die of malnutrition...
The real crime is exposing sensitive data through the internet. If a hacker shows his concern and makes it clear that the government is exposing sensitive data, the criminal is the government, not the hacker.
The funny thing is that the real crimes are often not legally the real crimes. In the Netherlands, it is not a crime to have a system full of sensitive data that is hardly secured. But it IS a crime for anyone to expose this insecurity. The Dutch government has created a special "theft of processor time" law to ensure this.
What's even more important: is it energy-effective? In other words, does the solar panel generate more energy in its entire life than it takes to build one? At least for a decade ago, that did not seem to be the case for any solar panel.
Ah, so the "interview" is really a "job interview". You basically buy or recruit an expert and "milk" his knowledge. There's plenty of prior art in that.
Sorry for being ignorant, but where is the invention? Reading the "patent" (I really cannot call it that), I see a lot of buzzword bingo (hint: put XML on your list) and not a single shard of how they want to accomplish that task. They do not explain what the interviewer has to do. I think that interviewer has to be an expert in his field himself.
Furthermore, the text does not say how the knowledge is extracted from an interview, other than that it is "semantically parsed". Where is the invention itself? A system that COULD extract "knowledge" (if you can define the word at all) should be brilliant in itself. Now a patent should be explaining the invention and I cannot see the inventions themselves. Only that those mystery inventions are applied, and it is the application of those magical inventions that seems to be patented here.
Furthermore, a magic box that could convert boring knowledge (I DO read manuals) to games is also high order magic to Ponder about. As a side note, I'd rather look up the manual page than blast all those aliens to their deaths first.
Given the fact that a lot of models were offered with Linux or Windows on it, the Linux devices suffered from the same limitations as the Windows ones. That is not exactly a "reason to promote Linux".
I know that, for instance, the aspire One had a different hard drive with Windows, but I guess it would be quite expensive for Acer to alter the screen resolution, internal memory and the number of USB ports as well.
What makes you think that? According to the article, the new author was selected by Robert Jordan's widow.
I think it is one of the most difficult jobs in the world to finish a bestseller series. You can almost never do it right. You are always "not the original author" and therefore second best or worse. I certainly hope that Mr Jordan left enough notes for the series to be finished in a consistent state. I think it takes a lot of courage to take up this task.
Oh. And I am grateful that I will know how the story further develops!
It's no Concorde in any sense. The Concorde was created to make an efficient aircraft, not a fast one. This is the history I learned in college:
Jet engines are more economical the faster you get. Too bad the air friction (drag) gets worse the faster you get. For subsonic aircraft with single flow engines, the optimum lies just a bit below the speed of sound. As there were only single-flow jet engines at that time, the Concorde was created to try to shift the optimum to above the speed of sound. They succeeded in that.
But then, the multi-flow jet engine was invented. Instead of blowing the air out even faster, a more powerful jet engine could now mount an extra turbine that drove an extra flow of air, thereby spreading the power over more air, that was accelerated less. Bummer. Now the Concorde was just a fancy fast-flying airliner.
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It's just Microsoft's version of gksudo.
Not really. gksudo asks you if you know what you are doing and are allowed it. If UAC sees three doubts, it asks three questions, because its primary task seems to be to distrust the machine's own programs. gksudo just knows it has asked you a second ago and assumes you still are the same user with the same skills and rights.
In other words: gksudo focusses on the user, UAC on the program actions
So then people like me, who deny all cookies from advertising networks, are then committing click-fraud by not allowing the ad to be traced?
Or some special sub-site, HTTP parameter or... If you are going through the payment system, you probably have cookies switched on or any other means for maintaining the session
Are clicks still being sold? It is not interesting how many visits you get, but how many items are bought. So companies don't want visitors, they want customers. The salesmen I encountered were never interested in clicks, but were interested in "ad provision".
Well, water water with organic compounds. If it is drinkable, it could fit the definition of beer. Do you mind beer on the rocks?
Compared to what?
Compared to Windows NT. I was working as a consultant for Autodesk Inventor at that time and the system requirements were "Windows NT or above". We quickly dropped the "or above" as the first complaints of customers came in. For your information, Autodesk Inventor was a heavily optimized program to do 3D CAD modelling. On Windows NT, it was amazingly fast, even for complex, large models. On Windows 2000, we did not even dare to demo it, because the most simple example did not even come close to an acceptable performance.
And I did not change to Linux that early. I swore I would never install XP one one of my machines and remained with the most stable Windows in my opinion: Windows 98SE. Only when most programs would not support it anymore, I switched to Xubuntu (7.04, so 2½ years ago).
Add to that list: Windows 200 and Windows XP.
Windows 200 had major problems with hardware drivers. Printing was a real pain, and running both AutoCAD and office on the same machine was almost impossible. Running Autodesk Inventor was near to impossible because it was so slow you could draw the screen by pencil faster.
Windows XP's "Genuine" disadvantage was the main reason I switched to Linux. I do value my privacy.
... They can't afford to get it wrong.
I'm afraid they can. They can force it on every new machine, like Vista. They can pre-install their office suite. With their influence on the resellers, they effectively have a monopoly.
They can force DRM down the customer's throat, Make every new version a pain to rediscover where all the existing features are, and have customers look out for the new version, because "everything will magically be better in the new version".
Well, my knowledge of history is not that detailed.
But I know a nice historical text, where somebody in the early medieval Netherlands did not like Vikings, also because "they combed their hair every day!". Nowadays, people are discriminated because of the cloth covering their head. Nothing's changed really....
You mean like Franks, Saxons, Walloons/Welsh and Frisians all living in one country?
Outrageous! That would be like a database with more than one engine!
Oh wait...
Around here, the cheapest food is probably the deep frozen pizza in the supermarket. With fake cheese and fake anything. And enough conservatives to prevent your body to decompose if you die of malnutrition...
The real crime is exposing sensitive data through the internet. If a hacker shows his concern and makes it clear that the government is exposing sensitive data, the criminal is the government, not the hacker.
The funny thing is that the real crimes are often not legally the real crimes. In the Netherlands, it is not a crime to have a system full of sensitive data that is hardly secured. But it IS a crime for anyone to expose this insecurity. The Dutch government has created a special "theft of processor time" law to ensure this.
What's even more important: is it energy-effective? In other words, does the solar panel generate more energy in its entire life than it takes to build one? At least for a decade ago, that did not seem to be the case for any solar panel.
Ah, so the "interview" is really a "job interview". You basically buy or recruit an expert and "milk" his knowledge. There's plenty of prior art in that.
Sorry for being ignorant, but where is the invention? Reading the "patent" (I really cannot call it that), I see a lot of buzzword bingo (hint: put XML on your list) and not a single shard of how they want to accomplish that task. They do not explain what the interviewer has to do. I think that interviewer has to be an expert in his field himself.
Furthermore, the text does not say how the knowledge is extracted from an interview, other than that it is "semantically parsed". Where is the invention itself? A system that COULD extract "knowledge" (if you can define the word at all) should be brilliant in itself. Now a patent should be explaining the invention and I cannot see the inventions themselves. Only that those mystery inventions are applied, and it is the application of those magical inventions that seems to be patented here.
Furthermore, a magic box that could convert boring knowledge (I DO read manuals) to games is also high order magic to Ponder about. As a side note, I'd rather look up the manual page than blast all those aliens to their deaths first.
And now I'm waiting for the "discovery" that this gene is activated by the vast amount of sugars and starchy stuff we eat...
Given the fact that a lot of models were offered with Linux or Windows on it, the Linux devices suffered from the same limitations as the Windows ones. That is not exactly a "reason to promote Linux".
I know that, for instance, the aspire One had a different hard drive with Windows, but I guess it would be quite expensive for Acer to alter the screen resolution, internal memory and the number of USB ports as well.
Just to remind you of Windows XP SP2:
* A tiny sip for each time you have to confirm that yes, that file should also be upgraded, even if the upgrade routine itself just blocked it.
It took me a full working day just to install a service pack.
Note: Even though it states a "tiny sip", this one is guaranteed to ruin your liver if this "feature" is still there.
This give a new meaning to "cloud computing". Just look at the clouds to see the results coming in!
What makes you think that? According to the article, the new author was selected by Robert Jordan's widow.
I think it is one of the most difficult jobs in the world to finish a bestseller series. You can almost never do it right. You are always "not the original author" and therefore second best or worse. I certainly hope that Mr Jordan left enough notes for the series to be finished in a consistent state. I think it takes a lot of courage to take up this task.
Oh. And I am grateful that I will know how the story further develops!
Most games started with a one-line basic program:
100 SYS 2100:REM [backspace][backspace][backspace]
This way, the program could be loaded like any other and run like any other. The real game would then start at memory address 2100.
Finally a worthy brainfuck program! ++!
(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck)
It's no Concorde in any sense. The Concorde was created to make an efficient aircraft, not a fast one. This is the history I learned in college:
Jet engines are more economical the faster you get. Too bad the air friction (drag) gets worse the faster you get. For subsonic aircraft with single flow engines, the optimum lies just a bit below the speed of sound. As there were only single-flow jet engines at that time, the Concorde was created to try to shift the optimum to above the speed of sound. They succeeded in that.
But then, the multi-flow jet engine was invented. Instead of blowing the air out even faster, a more powerful jet engine could now mount an extra turbine that drove an extra flow of air, thereby spreading the power over more air, that was accelerated less. Bummer. Now the Concorde was just a fancy fast-flying airliner.
Great slogan! We'll use it for Windows 2000!
Oh wait...
Through the Windows, you mean?