It's a matter of priniciples. When I signed up, I was promised x, y, and z. Now, just a few days latter, what I'm getting is just x and y. Now I'm sure that if I had actually bothered to read the club rules, there would be the generic "we have the right to change the rules at any time" clause. That's fine. Everybody does it, everyone ignores it until the changes hurt. Shoot, I don't care one bit about SO, I still would have signed up.
But they should have been able to see this coming. The SO announcement has been in the news for weeks. What it does is makes them look bad, like they really don't have a clue. That's what's bad. If the polls and discussions of the users on the club board really supported their decision, then that is the right thing to do. But they shouldn't have been blindsided by this.
And a question: How is someone supposed to do a search for the article on the bbc using ogg when the search says words under 4 characters aren't indexed? I found that article by looking for vorbis, but I shouldn't have had to. And I think it didn't pick find the followup story that said the BBC adopted ogg after the testing.
if the law enforcement officials KNOW a site is child porn then wouldn't they be much better off going after the site itself rather than alerting the site owners by putting them on a hunted list?
Except US law officials can't do anything about the sites in Russia or Singapore. But they can certainly stop the post office, UPS or Fed Ex from delivering those videos you ordered. So what's the difference with stopping the ISP's from delivering the content?
If ISP's are common carriers, like UPS, USPS, FedEx and the phone company, then just like the Government can intercept shipments of contraband shipped through the above carriers, it should be able to intercept delivery of information through an ISP.
Of course, this just means that the non-stupid pedophiles will visit the sites through proxy servers or similar.
It depends on the job, but quite frankly, probably not. First of all, because of your age, you probably fall under the protection of child labor laws. Don't know for sure, but it is a guess. If that is the case, you are limited in the number of hours you can work.
If I were hiring, I wouldn't hire a sysadmin who could only work 20 hours a week and be restricted by law to only work til a certain time. Child Labor laws vary by state, so ymmv.
It would also depend on the job. I work supporting a college in a university. Half of my job is people skills and things you only pick up through experience. The preference here is for people who understand graduate school and have preferably attended one. No matter how good your tech skills are, there are some things that only come through the experience of having done some of the work.
I can't tell you how many times my co-worker and I have diagnosed a problem not because we know the os on the desktop but because we know the person behind the computer.
So for what we do, pure technical skills wouldn't be enough.
I'd say go ahead and get the certs now, then you'll get them out of the way. After a certain point up the ladder it isn't strictly speaking necessary to keep the certs updated, but it is enough to be able to say you did it once. I make a pretty decent wage for the area and for working as an employee at a state university, work 40 hours a week and the highest cert I got was an MCP in windows 95. Of course, I'm also working on a second masters while I work, this time in MIS, so that helps but it certainly isn't require. My boss, who makes about 10k a year more only has a ba in business, but he has the certs and knows his stuff.
Nope, sorry, a legally binding contract does not need to have a lawyer involved at all. Think of how much worse the world would be if this were true! IANAL, but I believe you need the following to have a legally binding contract:
1) An agreement as to the goods being sold. A & B must both understand the contract to cover the same thing, and they must both have the same understanding of the thing.
2) An offer
3) An acceptance of that offer
Now if the the goods are worth more than a certain amount, a written contract may be necessary and there are a lot of clarifications. But certainly no lawyer is needed.
Someone who did better than I did in Contracts in Law School can get into the specifics. Just don't forget to mention Rose of Aberlone.
statistically, the random number of poorly punched cards should be distributed in such a way that it shouldn't alter the basic percentage of votes for each candidate
True enough in theory. But in practice it was not the case. I can't find the cite or the site this morning, but studies that were done by several major newspapers show that votes were disproportionately rejected in primarily black voting districts. In other words, while in theory you are correct, the rejection should have been random, in practice if you were poor and black you had a better chance of getting your vote thrown out. And considering the ultimate margin by which Bush won the state, that disparity in voting cost Gore the election.
I've been consistent. My philosophy is that we are 1 country, and every person in that country should have the same basic rights. And when one state wants to grant more rights to its people, that is its perogative, and the follow through should be that all people in all states have those additional rights. But the reverse when rights are restricted is not true. There are some caveats and addendums to that philosophy, but I've been consistent with it.
Wish I hadn't used up all my mod points. This is a good point. The issue here is not whether the states necessarily agree or disagree with the settlement, what they are doing is protecting their right to deal with the issue themselves. This should go to the Supreme Court. It will be interesting to see how a Republican Supreme Court deals with the issue. Traditionally, Republicans claim to be in favor of states rights over federal rights but this case pits big business and deregulation against that. We'll see what happens.
why were you using FAT32 at all when NTFS is available?
I can tell you why I do it: shared file space for linux that I can write to as well as read from. Maybe it has improved, but the last time I read anything about it, a year or so ago, rw on ntfs was not as easy or stable as fat32. Has that changed?
Another unverified, just my personal experience, YMMV tip is removing any files from your desktop. If you store files there, especially large ones, it will slow windows down. Even a large number of shortcuts can have an effect.
Yes, I know you are not supposed to store things on the desktop, but windows makes it far too easy to do so. Plus it has the advantage that once you have downloaded a file, you can see it immediately without having to navigate to the right directory.
The first, of course, is that the guy is right. Software companies have shown students the value of paying for software. One of the reasons there is a value is that except for the price of the OS, which has risen, the price of most software has fallen.
Another reason is that more computers come prebundled with Office. I remember getting my first computer, and there were very few of the middle tier companies that pushed you into buying Office. Now it is damned difficult not to get office when you get a gateway, for example. YMMV with other OEMs.
I'd like to know how the question was phrased. A lot of the students don't realize that what they are doing is considered theft. At least that's what they tell me at the school I work with when I help students. But their lawyers in training, so they don't think anything they do is illegal.
yEnc will be a part of Free Agent and Agent by March 15th, so the added step of doing yDecode will be moot in a few short weeks for most heavy newgroup users. If you are looking at or listening to binaries from newsgroups, most people on windows migrate to some version of Agent. You are correct about the rar files needing to be recombined. But if all you care about are multimedia, that rarely comes up. It is only when you are looking at getting warez that the rar files come into play.
You young whippersnappers today have it too good! I remember when uudecoding was at this stage.
Ok, how about this. You've got the html renderer and you've got IE that uses it. Distribute windows with the html renderer, but not IE, a set of code that takes advantage of the html render. The ability to make favorites, have security settings, run javascript, go forward and back, those are features of the web browser, i.e., IE. The ability to determine the correct color of a block of text in a paragraph in a table given a specific stylesheet is a feature of the html renderer. That would mean that IE for windows can take advantage of the html renderer that ships with windows. IE for the mac would need to ship with its own html renderer. IE for linux could rely on KDE's html renderer.
because students use the service themselves FIRST and then change their paper until it passes.
I can't get to the site now to see how this works, but there must be a switch that says "don't add the paper I'm checking to your database" otherwise this would never work. Each of their changes would be recorded and show up as something similar to the submitted paper. And the paper that didn't get any hits would be added to the database, so that when the professor checked it, the paper turned in would come up as an exact match of the last paper checked by the student.
Could somebody who actually got to the site elaborate?
Don't file permissions only work on shared folders on drives formatted with NTFS? I just tried to set permissions on executables in an unshared folder on a FAT partition in XP Professional and there was no place to do that. I can only set permissions on shared files, as far as I can see, and that's what I remember from the documentation as well.
That's around 400 megabits per second, about right for an uncapped cable modem. Before the site is swamped of course. I've had two download streams, each going that fast in the past, before they capped us.
But what we got is a judge who is very open about her *personal* feelings about Napster and found rules to support her gut feeling.
Which makes her different from every other judge in America (and several other countries) in what way? If you haven't figured out that every judicial decision is based on a judge's feelings about how a case should turn out, you must not have been paying attention.
It should be obvious that if everybody followed your logic, nobody would be able to use eBay.
Either that or they would use one of the escrow companies. Or use Ebay's escrow service. Never used it, don't know what it's limits are, etc. The idea is buyer sends check to escrow. Escrow notifies seller that the check has been sent and is good. Seller sends goods to buyer. Buyer inspects goods and says goods arrived ok. Presumably there is a time limit for the buyer to respond after which the sale is assumed good. Escrow sends check to seller. Ebay makes money on the interest earned for those few days or weeks.
Sorry, should have been more explicit. The disk tool that ships with Mandrake will automatically pinch off a piece of your hard drive for swap and/. That's the root directory, not the abbreviation for slashdot. I heard that the first version, back in Mandrake 6 or 7, sometimes corrupted disks. I don't know; I used Partition Magic.
I believe Mandrake, like RH, also has or had an option for creating a linux "file" on your dos partition, similar to the way vmware can create a 1 gig file on your linux partition that is a virtual machine. But I've never installed it that way or looked in to the tech behind it. I just remember it was an option if you put a Mandrake disc in your cd while you were in windows. A little install window would pop up asking how you wanted to install.
Well, Mandrake has done this for a couple of years now. The first version of the diskdrake tool, back in 98 or so wasn't as good as using partition magic first, but now it is better. It just finds your windows partition and automatically makes the right lilo entries. Also finds any other partitions and makes mount points for them as well.
It has correctly found my win95 (way back on my p75 in '96), win98, win2k and winxp partitions on various computers over the years.
I suspect RH, SUSE and others are equally adept, and probably have been for years, but I've never used them on a dual boot machine.
What needs to be done is a valid statistical study of Napster users to gauge cd purchasing habits before, during, and after Napster's heyday.
Anecdotal evidence on/. does not equal a valid causal relationship. I have yet to see anyone point to a study that verifies a causal relationship between Napster usage and cd sales.
Again, it depends. The birth/death rate is another way of looking at it, but it doesn't necessarily take into account recent rapid immagration. Or the fact that only a small percentage of people in a population are capable of giving birth at any one time.
Let's say there's an island with 1000 people on it.
If the island is suddenly discovered and a lot of people move in, say 1000 immagrants (50/50 split) are more likely to be younger (say under 50) and so they move in and have children. If the immagrants only have 1 child a piece after moving there, the death rate remains the same or goes up slightly (due to accidents), where the birth rate doubles. But the island's population will not grow that much over time because the new people do not replace themselves.
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It's a matter of priniciples. When I signed up, I was promised x, y, and z. Now, just a few days latter, what I'm getting is just x and y. Now I'm sure that if I had actually bothered to read the club rules, there would be the generic "we have the right to change the rules at any time" clause. That's fine. Everybody does it, everyone ignores it until the changes hurt. Shoot, I don't care one bit about SO, I still would have signed up.
But they should have been able to see this coming. The SO announcement has been in the news for weeks. What it does is makes them look bad, like they really don't have a clue. That's what's bad. If the polls and discussions of the users on the club board really supported their decision, then that is the right thing to do. But they shouldn't have been blindsided by this.
I believe the article said it was 2-3 times the cost of regular concrete.
Search on /. for the stories. The BBC just went to ogg streaming awhile back. Oh heck, I'll even post a link:
3 20 6&mode=flat
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/25/185
And a question: How is someone supposed to do a search for the article on the bbc using ogg when the search says words under 4 characters aren't indexed? I found that article by looking for vorbis, but I shouldn't have had to. And I think it didn't pick find the followup story that said the BBC adopted ogg after the testing.
if the law enforcement officials KNOW a site is child porn then wouldn't they be much better off going after the site itself rather than alerting the site owners by putting them on a hunted list?
Except US law officials can't do anything about the sites in Russia or Singapore. But they can certainly stop the post office, UPS or Fed Ex from delivering those videos you ordered. So what's the difference with stopping the ISP's from delivering the content?
If ISP's are common carriers, like UPS, USPS, FedEx and the phone company, then just like the Government can intercept shipments of contraband shipped through the above carriers, it should be able to intercept delivery of information through an ISP.
Of course, this just means that the non-stupid pedophiles will visit the sites through proxy servers or similar.
The only thinkg I can find in the download area is additional software. No iso's. Do you have a link?
It depends on the job, but quite frankly, probably not. First of all, because of your age, you probably fall under the protection of child labor laws. Don't know for sure, but it is a guess. If that is the case, you are limited in the number of hours you can work.
If I were hiring, I wouldn't hire a sysadmin who could only work 20 hours a week and be restricted by law to only work til a certain time. Child Labor laws vary by state, so ymmv.
It would also depend on the job. I work supporting a college in a university. Half of my job is people skills and things you only pick up through experience. The preference here is for people who understand graduate school and have preferably attended one. No matter how good your tech skills are, there are some things that only come through the experience of having done some of the work.
I can't tell you how many times my co-worker and I have diagnosed a problem not because we know the os on the desktop but because we know the person behind the computer.
So for what we do, pure technical skills wouldn't be enough.
I'd say go ahead and get the certs now, then you'll get them out of the way. After a certain point up the ladder it isn't strictly speaking necessary to keep the certs updated, but it is enough to be able to say you did it once. I make a pretty decent wage for the area and for working as an employee at a state university, work 40 hours a week and the highest cert I got was an MCP in windows 95. Of course, I'm also working on a second masters while I work, this time in MIS, so that helps but it certainly isn't require. My boss, who makes about 10k a year more only has a ba in business, but he has the certs and knows his stuff.
Nope, sorry, a legally binding contract does not need to have a lawyer involved at all. Think of how much worse the world would be if this were true! IANAL, but I believe you need the following to have a legally binding contract:
1) An agreement as to the goods being sold. A & B must both understand the contract to cover the same thing, and they must both have the same understanding of the thing.
2) An offer
3) An acceptance of that offer
Now if the the goods are worth more than a certain amount, a written contract may be necessary and there are a lot of clarifications. But certainly no lawyer is needed.
Someone who did better than I did in Contracts in Law School can get into the specifics. Just don't forget to mention Rose of Aberlone.
statistically, the random number of poorly punched cards should be distributed in such a way that it shouldn't alter the basic percentage of votes for each candidate
True enough in theory. But in practice it was not the case. I can't find the cite or the site this morning, but studies that were done by several major newspapers show that votes were disproportionately rejected in primarily black voting districts. In other words, while in theory you are correct, the rejection should have been random, in practice if you were poor and black you had a better chance of getting your vote thrown out. And considering the ultimate margin by which Bush won the state, that disparity in voting cost Gore the election.
I've been consistent. My philosophy is that we are 1 country, and every person in that country should have the same basic rights. And when one state wants to grant more rights to its people, that is its perogative, and the follow through should be that all people in all states have those additional rights. But the reverse when rights are restricted is not true. There are some caveats and addendums to that philosophy, but I've been consistent with it.
Wish I hadn't used up all my mod points. This is a good point. The issue here is not whether the states necessarily agree or disagree with the settlement, what they are doing is protecting their right to deal with the issue themselves. This should go to the Supreme Court. It will be interesting to see how a Republican Supreme Court deals with the issue. Traditionally, Republicans claim to be in favor of states rights over federal rights but this case pits big business and deregulation against that. We'll see what happens.
why were you using FAT32 at all when NTFS is available?
I can tell you why I do it: shared file space for linux that I can write to as well as read from. Maybe it has improved, but the last time I read anything about it, a year or so ago, rw on ntfs was not as easy or stable as fat32. Has that changed?
Another unverified, just my personal experience, YMMV tip is removing any files from your desktop. If you store files there, especially large ones, it will slow windows down. Even a large number of shortcuts can have an effect.
Yes, I know you are not supposed to store things on the desktop, but windows makes it far too easy to do so. Plus it has the advantage that once you have downloaded a file, you can see it immediately without having to navigate to the right directory.
I can think of many reasons why this could be.
The first, of course, is that the guy is right. Software companies have shown students the value of paying for software. One of the reasons there is a value is that except for the price of the OS, which has risen, the price of most software has fallen.
Another reason is that more computers come prebundled with Office. I remember getting my first computer, and there were very few of the middle tier companies that pushed you into buying Office. Now it is damned difficult not to get office when you get a gateway, for example. YMMV with other OEMs.
I'd like to know how the question was phrased. A lot of the students don't realize that what they are doing is considered theft. At least that's what they tell me at the school I work with when I help students. But their lawyers in training, so they don't think anything they do is illegal.
Just some thoughts.
yEnc will be a part of Free Agent and Agent by March 15th, so the added step of doing yDecode will be moot in a few short weeks for most heavy newgroup users. If you are looking at or listening to binaries from newsgroups, most people on windows migrate to some version of Agent. You are correct about the rar files needing to be recombined. But if all you care about are multimedia, that rarely comes up. It is only when you are looking at getting warez that the rar files come into play.
You young whippersnappers today have it too good! I remember when uudecoding was at this stage.
Ok, how about this. You've got the html renderer and you've got IE that uses it. Distribute windows with the html renderer, but not IE, a set of code that takes advantage of the html render. The ability to make favorites, have security settings, run javascript, go forward and back, those are features of the web browser, i.e., IE. The ability to determine the correct color of a block of text in a paragraph in a table given a specific stylesheet is a feature of the html renderer. That would mean that IE for windows can take advantage of the html renderer that ships with windows. IE for the mac would need to ship with its own html renderer. IE for linux could rely on KDE's html renderer.
Does that make sense?
because students use the service themselves FIRST and then change their paper until it passes.
I can't get to the site now to see how this works, but there must be a switch that says "don't add the paper I'm checking to your database" otherwise this would never work. Each of their changes would be recorded and show up as something similar to the submitted paper. And the paper that didn't get any hits would be added to the database, so that when the professor checked it, the paper turned in would come up as an exact match of the last paper checked by the student.
Could somebody who actually got to the site elaborate?
Don't file permissions only work on shared folders on drives formatted with NTFS? I just tried to set permissions on executables in an unshared folder on a FAT partition in XP Professional and there was no place to do that. I can only set permissions on shared files, as far as I can see, and that's what I remember from the documentation as well.
That's around 400 megabits per second, about right for an uncapped cable modem. Before the site is swamped of course. I've had two download streams, each going that fast in the past, before they capped us.
I actually had a user attempt to put up a web page where each letter of a word was a different color. I swear I am not making this up.
or did this guy not seem to know what the heck he was talking about. Plus he completely ignores languages like Delphi, Kylix, PERL, PHP, etc.
Or is it just that he works for ZD?
But what we got is a judge who is very open about her *personal* feelings about Napster and found rules to support her gut feeling.
Which makes her different from every other judge in America (and several other countries) in what way? If you haven't figured out that every judicial decision is based on a judge's feelings about how a case should turn out, you must not have been paying attention.
It should be obvious that if everybody followed your logic, nobody would be able to use eBay.
Either that or they would use one of the escrow companies. Or use Ebay's escrow service. Never used it, don't know what it's limits are, etc. The idea is buyer sends check to escrow. Escrow notifies seller that the check has been sent and is good. Seller sends goods to buyer. Buyer inspects goods and says goods arrived ok. Presumably there is a time limit for the buyer to respond after which the sale is assumed good. Escrow sends check to seller. Ebay makes money on the interest earned for those few days or weeks.
Sorry, should have been more explicit. The disk tool that ships with Mandrake will automatically pinch off a piece of your hard drive for swap and /. That's the root directory, not the abbreviation for slashdot. I heard that the first version, back in Mandrake 6 or 7, sometimes corrupted disks. I don't know; I used Partition Magic.
I believe Mandrake, like RH, also has or had an option for creating a linux "file" on your dos partition, similar to the way vmware can create a 1 gig file on your linux partition that is a virtual machine. But I've never installed it that way or looked in to the tech behind it. I just remember it was an option if you put a Mandrake disc in your cd while you were in windows. A little install window would pop up asking how you wanted to install.
Well, Mandrake has done this for a couple of years now. The first version of the diskdrake tool, back in 98 or so wasn't as good as using partition magic first, but now it is better. It just finds your windows partition and automatically makes the right lilo entries. Also finds any other partitions and makes mount points for them as well.
It has correctly found my win95 (way back on my p75 in '96), win98, win2k and winxp partitions on various computers over the years.
I suspect RH, SUSE and others are equally adept, and probably have been for years, but I've never used them on a dual boot machine.
Point D is speculation. Correlation != Causation.
/. does not equal a valid causal relationship. I have yet to see anyone point to a study that verifies a causal relationship between Napster usage and cd sales.
What needs to be done is a valid statistical study of Napster users to gauge cd purchasing habits before, during, and after Napster's heyday.
Anecdotal evidence on
Again, it depends. The birth/death rate is another way of looking at it, but it doesn't necessarily take into account recent rapid immagration. Or the fact that only a small percentage of people in a population are capable of giving birth at any one time.
Let's say there's an island with 1000 people on it.
If the island is suddenly discovered and a lot of people move in, say 1000 immagrants (50/50 split) are more likely to be younger (say under 50) and so they move in and have children. If the immagrants only have 1 child a piece after moving there, the death rate remains the same or goes up slightly (due to accidents), where the birth rate doubles. But the island's population will not grow that much over time because the new people do not replace themselves.
Fun with statistics!