Also, if you aren't done with your gift shopping, and have another geek in the family and friends, or a kid you want to introduce to the concept of people working because the love their work, and not necessarily for money, gift them the Humble Indie Bundle #2. Yes, that is back, and you can donate all you pay to the EFF. Linkage: http://www.humblebundle.com/
This work is just a tiny part of a much larger, decades-long, global research effort by thousands of scientists (note lack of scare quotes) to try and take traditional medicine and other practices (including westerners: aspirin, for example), discover what works, how it works, and make that knowledge generally available.....
and then patent it (e.g. turmeric), so they can use it commercially. The patent then raises the specter of legal threats against the people who use it and have been using it traditionally over hundreds of years.
Every time I read a new material or new technology or gadget using nano-technology and nanotubes and such, I always wonder whether the inventors have thought of how they would dispose of the stuff so it doesn't harm the environment when it is EOL'ed. This, IMO, is a much neglected part of any news story which extols the virtues of nano-technology enabled foobar invention.
Dumb question - What was wrong with the old Rupee symbol?
It wasn't a symbol, but rather just two letters ("Rs"). Which isn't "cool", I guess...
It wasn't a symbol AND Pakistan , Sri Lanka and Nepal all use the name rupee for their currency, and the INR needed to be distinguished from these, since rupee, or Rs. 500, for example is equally valid for the currency of all 4 nations.
I'll second this one. The place that I work runs almost all of its commands via bat jobs that run from simple to complex. When I started here, I installed Strawberry Perl on my win32 system. I have, since, replaced every functionality that the bat jobs used to do with perl scripts (primarily for my own purposes, but most of my coworkers don't mind them either). The primary reason I did this was readability.
That's the first time I've heard Perl and better readability together.
...asking the main devs for help to START contributing. Like every one of them came into the world coding real life code in all the languages. Well, hello people, some people need a friendly welcome and less ego on part of you guys. KDE > GNOME on that count.
(Though quite a bit of it didn't get Vista drivers at all—I'm looking at you, HP.)
Strangely enough, if MS Windows Vista bombs, everyone blames the hardware manufacturers for not providing drivers, as above. If the kernel in a distro doesn't work with a particular hardware, it's linux teh suxorz. What hypocrisy.
"' According to Microsoft, this solves a 'problem inherent in open architecture systems,' i.e., 'they are generally licensed with complete use rights and/or functionality that may be beyond the need or desire of the system purchaser."[SIC]
The above should be actually.....'they are generally licensed with complete use rights and/or functionality that may be beyond the need or desire of the system SELLER."
I think you need to re-examine your algorithm.It's as follows:
1.Install XP(wait 2 (precious)hours for installation)
2.Search frantically through a CD wallet of driver CDs to find something which is obscurely labelled as something to do with sound.
3.Pop it in,click Next an endless no of times,accept a restrictive EULA,and wait another 15 (precious)mins(conservative estimate) for installation.
4.Enjoy(I accept that this works because the hardware manufacturer built the driver,and I guess he knows his hardware)
And not to forget,you get to possess another copy of some obscure version of libs on your system which is exclusively placed there,so that the sound driver works.
Hmm,that wasn't supposed to be funny.That was to be indignation as how you can make an opinion from the (few) Hollywood movies which are always depicting the seamier side of life in India.And because Westerners aren't allowed into China,China is apparently "the world's factory" and no flip side of the coin at all.
Isn't that exactly the kind of situation something called the "Live CD" was invented?So that you could check out whether all your hardware works before you install.Or was that too newbie for you?
How about helping other kids in the surrounding area(underprivileged or otherwise) with computers and introducing them to Linux and related FOSS software?This is only if your school gives permission,of course....I don't think they should have a problem with their used hardware being used to educate kids,increasing their Corporate(Schoold) Social Responsibility image in the process.
Next thing they will come up with is that you can be sued for watching the stuff,because you have probably recorded the DRM crippled,encrypted stream into one of those cyborg devices you have lying around[proof?Who needs proof?He's next in line] and you will probably spread the story,thus acting as spoiler.You should be in jail now,because you read this comment.
The only problem is that they can't even keep their servers up.Knowing that it's spam,I clicked the link to find out what crap they put up to support their claim,Last time I tried,FF 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.04 errored out with Cannot connect to Server.
At the very least,they should be sure they can serve out the malware they advertise so gratuitously.
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Also, if you aren't done with your gift shopping, and have another geek in the family and friends, or a kid you want to introduce to the concept of people working because the love their work, and not necessarily for money, gift them the Humble Indie Bundle #2. Yes, that is back, and you can donate all you pay to the EFF. Linkage: http://www.humblebundle.com/
and then patent it (e.g. turmeric), so they can use it commercially. The patent then raises the specter of legal threats against the people who use it and have been using it traditionally over hundreds of years.
Now it doesn't.
Every time I read a new material or new technology or gadget using nano-technology and nanotubes and such, I always wonder whether the inventors have thought of how they would dispose of the stuff so it doesn't harm the environment when it is EOL'ed. This, IMO, is a much neglected part of any news story which extols the virtues of nano-technology enabled foobar invention.
Dumb question - What was wrong with the old Rupee symbol?
It wasn't a symbol, but rather just two letters ("Rs"). Which isn't "cool", I guess...
It wasn't a symbol AND Pakistan , Sri Lanka and Nepal all use the name rupee for their currency, and the INR needed to be distinguished from these, since rupee, or Rs. 500, for example is equally valid for the currency of all 4 nations.
I'll second this one. The place that I work runs almost all of its commands via bat jobs that run from simple to complex. When I started here, I installed Strawberry Perl on my win32 system. I have, since, replaced every functionality that the bat jobs used to do with perl scripts (primarily for my own purposes, but most of my coworkers don't mind them either). The primary reason I did this was readability.
That's the first time I've heard Perl and better readability together.
It's North Carolina State University, not University of North Carolina.
Nope, I own the patent on that. Its actually called the identity codec though.
...asking the main devs for help to START contributing. Like every one of them came into the world coding real life code in all the languages. Well, hello people, some people need a friendly welcome and less ego on part of you guys. KDE > GNOME on that count.
Actually reminded me more of Little Brother
(Though quite a bit of it didn't get Vista drivers at all—I'm looking at you, HP.)
Strangely enough, if MS Windows Vista bombs, everyone blames the hardware manufacturers for not providing drivers, as above. If the kernel in a distro doesn't work with a particular hardware, it's linux teh suxorz. What hypocrisy.
"' According to Microsoft, this solves a 'problem inherent in open architecture systems,' i.e., 'they are generally licensed with complete use rights and/or functionality that may be beyond the need or desire of the system purchaser."[SIC] The above should be actually .....'they are generally licensed with complete use rights and/or functionality that may be beyond the need or desire of the system SELLER."
I think you need to re-examine your algorithm.It's as follows: 1.Install XP(wait 2 (precious)hours for installation) 2.Search frantically through a CD wallet of driver CDs to find something which is obscurely labelled as something to do with sound. 3.Pop it in,click Next an endless no of times,accept a restrictive EULA,and wait another 15 (precious)mins(conservative estimate) for installation. 4.Enjoy(I accept that this works because the hardware manufacturer built the driver,and I guess he knows his hardware) And not to forget,you get to possess another copy of some obscure version of libs on your system which is exclusively placed there,so that the sound driver works.
Hmm,that wasn't supposed to be funny.That was to be indignation as how you can make an opinion from the (few) Hollywood movies which are always depicting the seamier side of life in India.And because Westerners aren't allowed into China,China is apparently "the world's factory" and no flip side of the coin at all.
Let me guess,you watched Slumdog Millionaire,right?
ScuttleMonkey,You insensitive clod. /. counts many nationalities among it's readers!
Isn't that exactly the kind of situation something called the "Live CD" was invented?So that you could check out whether all your hardware works before you install.Or was that too newbie for you?
How about helping other kids in the surrounding area(underprivileged or otherwise) with computers and introducing them to Linux and related FOSS software?This is only if your school gives permission,of course....I don't think they should have a problem with their used hardware being used to educate kids,increasing their Corporate(Schoold) Social Responsibility image in the process.
Next thing they will come up with is that you can be sued for watching the stuff,because you have probably recorded the DRM crippled,encrypted stream into one of those cyborg devices you have lying around[proof?Who needs proof?He's next in line] and you will probably spread the story,thus acting as spoiler.You should be in jail now,because you read this comment.
and stop kneeling in front of the media producers,for /. 's sake.YOU have the monopoly,not THEM.
Somebody forgot the tensions between India and China.
The only problem is that they can't even keep their servers up.Knowing that it's spam,I clicked the link to find out what crap they put up to support their claim,Last time I tried,FF 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.04 errored out with Cannot connect to Server. At the very least,they should be sure they can serve out the malware they advertise so gratuitously.