Hmmm... Lets see... I can go to any city and immediately find around 10 wireless networks, about 3 of them will be unencrypted. Does this too pose a threat to the telecoms? When I can get 100% free Wi-Fi wherever I go that isn't a problem but this is?
Except, where do most of the people who come to the USA and don't know English work? Manual. Labor. They don't have a need for an engineer, few of them are engineers and honestly, it would be a waste of your time. Learn something from a language that has need of engineers (Japanese, Chinese, Russian, German, etc.)
If you're going to stay in the US, you might as well increase your value by learning spanish.
Except for the fact that most of the people speaking Spanish over here, aren't engineers nor can they afford an engineer. Sure, if you were a store clerk, being able to speak Spanish might be nice, for a manager sure, for an engineer? It isn't worth your time.
If you're looking at the EU, learn spanish, italian, german, french, or russian.
If you are going to Spain, Italy, Germany, France or Russia, if you don't know you are going to one of those countries it is rather useless to learn the language.
If you're looking in asia, mandarin.
And Japanese. Both China and Japan are in need of engineers and in Japan human rights aren't sacrificed as much as in China. Plus, the US government are friendly with them.
Sure, but it was suicide. The person decided to kill themselves. It is like saying that a bar can be held responsible if someone decided to ignore the bar's warnings and drive home drunk and kill someone. But we don't hear those cases much.
Yah but in the US, just about everyone who is educated enough to be an engineer knows English. Sure there might be a few on business trips who will only speak other languages, but here in the US unless you are traveling a lot you only need to know English.
Larrabee is the codename for a discrete graphics processing unit (GPU) chip that Intel is developing as a revolutionary successor to its current line of graphics accelerators. The video card containing Larrabee is expected to compete with the GeForce and Radeon lines of video cards from NVIDIA and AMD/ATI respectively. More than just a graphics chip, Intel is also positioning Larrabee for the GPGPU and high-performance computing markets, where NVIDIA and AMD are currently releasing products (NVIDIA Tesla, AMD FireStream) which threaten to displace Intel's CPUs for some tasks. Intel plans to have engineering samples of Larrabee ready by the end of 2008, with public release in late 2009 or 2010.[1]
Seeing the Olympic is an international event you might be able to foreign websites to view streaming video as long as you don't mind it being in your native language.
Ummm.. But assuming that all the people on Slashdot have English as their native language there are lots of other countries that speak English that may have it streaming, though some may have IP blocks for US IPs...
Also, god help you if you visit microsoft's website with firefox, violating their terms of use and getting 5 years of prison time for that.
As much as I hate MS, that is just pure lies. From the Microsoft.com ToS link http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.mspx it doesn't even mention Explorer and the only mention of Windows is when referring to Windows Live search.
But if MS wants to not lose 75% of the marketshare it has to Linux and OS X, they need to do something in Windows 7. Since they managed to kill the last good-for-VMs OS they had (XP) they can't use Vista or XP, and consumer support for Windows 2K has faded and no one is going to use ME or earlier...
What good name? Really Yahoo has 0 reputation right now, good or bad. Google has a reputation, MS has a reputation, but Yahoo has no reputation. I think it is less of tarnishing a reputation and more of trying to hold second place rather then move down with MS.
Not really. Yahoo is dead/dying. Few people search there, most are going to Google. So buying Yahoo is a way to put the three search engines together (MSN, Live, Yahoo) vs Google, Ask and the others.
Then explain why Vista (which is NT based) is so slow (and the MS fanboys have assured me that DRM isn't the issue and that there is no DRM in Vista). Also, why a default install in Vista so huge? Seriously. If I can get a default install in Ubuntu that has more software in 1-2 GB of HD space and I can barely fit an install of Vista on a 5 GB partition. NT might have once been nice, but development either stopped or feature bloat is growing.
Ummm... Yah, but with MS's licenses forbidding VMs in many of the lower-end OSes, do you really want to run Vista $300 edition with the most bloat because you can't use the less expensive edition with a bit less bloat. And even WINE can't emulate some programs perfectly. But with MS dropping support for XP and many licenses of Vista forbidding them being used in VMs, plus the fact that you can't get good performance on Vista as a normal desktop OS let alone in a VM.
So you instead trust MS a company who wants to squeeze out every single penny out of you regardless of how it well it works or not? Seriously, are you going to trust a mission-critical program to run on a Windows box in the first place. Face it, if it is between a company who will sell you a broken version of a program just to get some extra $$$ out of you or a F/OSS project which just hasn't caught up yet, I always choose the F/OSS project because it will at least get better over time, all the proprietary software I know of with the exception of some games get more expensive and less functional and get more bugs.
Lets see... From installing Firefox 3 on my EEE from a directory in my home directory, I still am running at a limited user (as in not root) and can auto-update. You can auto-update just fine as long as Firefox isn't in your/usr/bin directory. And considering that just about every Linux user uses Firefox, I expect that just about every Linux user will run as a limited user.
Yes, but I'm sure that a lot of them prefer IE 6 to IE 7. For me IE 6 was good, rendered pages rather quickly, had a decent looking UI, sure it didn't have tabs, but that wasn't a big deal for me. I had seen IE 7 on another person's computer and I decided not to upgrade to it, it's UI was ugly and it seemed to be a bloated version of IE 6, sure it was more secure but really, when running a Windows box, security isn't that big of a deal. I later wiped the HD and installed Ubuntu.
How pathetic that these are the very sites that they make you have some ultra-secure password for because there is so much personal information on it and may even boast that the servers are stored in some nuclear bunker and mirrored in every country but yet they can't even enforce decent security on the site itself.
Games are readily available online. Technically copyright infringement, but there's not a lot of enforcement, since the software has little or no commercial value.
But I would much rather buy my games then pirate them. Because unlike music what sells well with games determines what gets released more. (So if more RPGs are sold then FPS games, more RPGs will be made)
If we REFUSE to give any money to the people who put effort into publicizing artists, music might as well as be dead. I don't buy the record studio's argument that we need them, but in their absence the grassroots movement needs some funding.
But, if they were HTTP downloads I might agree with them, for FTP downloads or something other then P2P downloads, I would say that it is good for them to charge 15%, but when something that costs minimal bandwidth is being hosted, I find it hard to agree with them charging 15% on donations. Now, don't get me wrong, I think that this is a great idea, but honestly, 15% is kinda expensive considering they don't do much. And when you figure in how every other torrent site does the same thing without taking 15% from "donations to the artist", I find it hard to believe they really are promoting the artist as much as trying to get rich.
But so does every other torrent site. So does Last.fm and other Internet radio stations. It isn't unique to LegalTorrents. And I can bet you that more people will use TPB then LegalTorrents even to get CC licensed works.
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Hmmm... Lets see... I can go to any city and immediately find around 10 wireless networks, about 3 of them will be unencrypted. Does this too pose a threat to the telecoms? When I can get 100% free Wi-Fi wherever I go that isn't a problem but this is?
Here in the US if you can only speak English you may find your job outsourced.
Except for the fact that engineers rarely get outsourced...
Except, where do most of the people who come to the USA and don't know English work? Manual. Labor. They don't have a need for an engineer, few of them are engineers and honestly, it would be a waste of your time. Learn something from a language that has need of engineers (Japanese, Chinese, Russian, German, etc.)
If you're going to stay in the US, you might as well increase your value by learning spanish.
Except for the fact that most of the people speaking Spanish over here, aren't engineers nor can they afford an engineer. Sure, if you were a store clerk, being able to speak Spanish might be nice, for a manager sure, for an engineer? It isn't worth your time.
If you're looking at the EU, learn spanish, italian, german, french, or russian.
If you are going to Spain, Italy, Germany, France or Russia, if you don't know you are going to one of those countries it is rather useless to learn the language.
If you're looking in asia, mandarin.
And Japanese. Both China and Japan are in need of engineers and in Japan human rights aren't sacrificed as much as in China. Plus, the US government are friendly with them.
Sure, but it was suicide. The person decided to kill themselves. It is like saying that a bar can be held responsible if someone decided to ignore the bar's warnings and drive home drunk and kill someone. But we don't hear those cases much.
Yah but in the US, just about everyone who is educated enough to be an engineer knows English. Sure there might be a few on business trips who will only speak other languages, but here in the US unless you are traveling a lot you only need to know English.
Larrabee is the codename for a discrete graphics processing unit (GPU) chip that Intel is developing as a revolutionary successor to its current line of graphics accelerators. The video card containing Larrabee is expected to compete with the GeForce and Radeon lines of video cards from NVIDIA and AMD/ATI respectively. More than just a graphics chip, Intel is also positioning Larrabee for the GPGPU and high-performance computing markets, where NVIDIA and AMD are currently releasing products (NVIDIA Tesla, AMD FireStream) which threaten to displace Intel's CPUs for some tasks. Intel plans to have engineering samples of Larrabee ready by the end of 2008, with public release in late 2009 or 2010.[1]
According to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(GPU)
Seeing the Olympic is an international event you might be able to foreign websites to view streaming video as long as you don't mind it being in your native language.
Ummm.. But assuming that all the people on Slashdot have English as their native language there are lots of other countries that speak English that may have it streaming, though some may have IP blocks for US IPs...
Also, god help you if you visit microsoft's website with firefox, violating their terms of use and getting 5 years of prison time for that.
As much as I hate MS, that is just pure lies. From the Microsoft.com ToS link http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.mspx it doesn't even mention Explorer and the only mention of Windows is when referring to Windows Live search.
Well, I was talking about the C applications not the framework they are based on.
And perhaps this will make open-source web apps possible and needed.
But if MS wants to not lose 75% of the marketshare it has to Linux and OS X, they need to do something in Windows 7. Since they managed to kill the last good-for-VMs OS they had (XP) they can't use Vista or XP, and consumer support for Windows 2K has faded and no one is going to use ME or earlier...
What good name? Really Yahoo has 0 reputation right now, good or bad. Google has a reputation, MS has a reputation, but Yahoo has no reputation. I think it is less of tarnishing a reputation and more of trying to hold second place rather then move down with MS.
Not really. Yahoo is dead/dying. Few people search there, most are going to Google. So buying Yahoo is a way to put the three search engines together (MSN, Live, Yahoo) vs Google, Ask and the others.
Then explain why Vista (which is NT based) is so slow (and the MS fanboys have assured me that DRM isn't the issue and that there is no DRM in Vista). Also, why a default install in Vista so huge? Seriously. If I can get a default install in Ubuntu that has more software in 1-2 GB of HD space and I can barely fit an install of Vista on a 5 GB partition. NT might have once been nice, but development either stopped or feature bloat is growing.
Ummm... Yah, but with MS's licenses forbidding VMs in many of the lower-end OSes, do you really want to run Vista $300 edition with the most bloat because you can't use the less expensive edition with a bit less bloat. And even WINE can't emulate some programs perfectly. But with MS dropping support for XP and many licenses of Vista forbidding them being used in VMs, plus the fact that you can't get good performance on Vista as a normal desktop OS let alone in a VM.
So you instead trust MS a company who wants to squeeze out every single penny out of you regardless of how it well it works or not? Seriously, are you going to trust a mission-critical program to run on a Windows box in the first place. Face it, if it is between a company who will sell you a broken version of a program just to get some extra $$$ out of you or a F/OSS project which just hasn't caught up yet, I always choose the F/OSS project because it will at least get better over time, all the proprietary software I know of with the exception of some games get more expensive and less functional and get more bugs.
Lets see... From installing Firefox 3 on my EEE from a directory in my home directory, I still am running at a limited user (as in not root) and can auto-update. You can auto-update just fine as long as Firefox isn't in your /usr/bin directory. And considering that just about every Linux user uses Firefox, I expect that just about every Linux user will run as a limited user.
And yet half of IE users use an old version.
Yes, but I'm sure that a lot of them prefer IE 6 to IE 7. For me IE 6 was good, rendered pages rather quickly, had a decent looking UI, sure it didn't have tabs, but that wasn't a big deal for me. I had seen IE 7 on another person's computer and I decided not to upgrade to it, it's UI was ugly and it seemed to be a bloated version of IE 6, sure it was more secure but really, when running a Windows box, security isn't that big of a deal. I later wiped the HD and installed Ubuntu.
You mean that your computer can run Vista at an acceptable speed?!?
How pathetic that these are the very sites that they make you have some ultra-secure password for because there is so much personal information on it and may even boast that the servers are stored in some nuclear bunker and mirrored in every country but yet they can't even enforce decent security on the site itself.
Games are readily available online. Technically copyright infringement, but there's not a lot of enforcement, since the software has little or no commercial value.
But I would much rather buy my games then pirate them. Because unlike music what sells well with games determines what gets released more. (So if more RPGs are sold then FPS games, more RPGs will be made)
Well the Wii can emulate the C64... If you live in Europe. Anyone else can't get the games.
If we REFUSE to give any money to the people who put effort into publicizing artists, music might as well as be dead. I don't buy the record studio's argument that we need them, but in their absence the grassroots movement needs some funding.
But, if they were HTTP downloads I might agree with them, for FTP downloads or something other then P2P downloads, I would say that it is good for them to charge 15%, but when something that costs minimal bandwidth is being hosted, I find it hard to agree with them charging 15% on donations. Now, don't get me wrong, I think that this is a great idea, but honestly, 15% is kinda expensive considering they don't do much. And when you figure in how every other torrent site does the same thing without taking 15% from "donations to the artist", I find it hard to believe they really are promoting the artist as much as trying to get rich.
But so does every other torrent site. So does Last.fm and other Internet radio stations. It isn't unique to LegalTorrents. And I can bet you that more people will use TPB then LegalTorrents even to get CC licensed works.