Now I live in Alabama and judging from how many amendments we have, I think the procedure we use is sneak into the courthouse with a pen. It is much less of a hassle on the voters and lets our politicians do more important things like get into fist fights.
"On the other hand, if something is wrong, it doesn't matter how many people agree with a wrong view, they are still wrong."
Just curious, how do we define wrong in an unambiguous, culturally- and time-insensitive manner?
"50% of those questions are, why doesn't ubuntu work like windows..:("
Seriously, what is wrong with this question? Noone is going to switch from Windows to *NIX, if they can't do the things they want, or at the very least have it explained to them why they can't or shouldn't in a non-condescending way.
For this company, a major mistake in the previously secret code means that any conviction from the device's results is now under suspicion. They will have lost the trust of their ONLY customer market. Not to mention the fact that they will be named as defendants in any resulting lawsuit.
Puting trade secrets at risk means more money up front. The companies don't mind so much if the price is right, but the taxpayer balks at the fact that the copy of XP pro they run at home for $300 suddenly costs their state government $15000 a seat.
Well the linux community's answer seems to be if we ridicule people enough they will stop being intellectually lazy and learn something, which from my perspective seems to be itself intellectually lazy.
If all us tech folks weren't afraid of even the most basic attempt at bridging the gap from technical work to actual human interaction, then there wouldn't be such a big deal about forcing people to make even the most basic comments in their code. Most of us hate to do that type of work, and the biggest problem with FOSS is that people get to volunteer for their tasks; so, the things companies have to force out of their developers and have to hire dedicated people to get done are severely underserved. The truely sad thing for adoption is the community wants to supplant Microsoft's dominance but not take actually have to deal with Microsoft's typical users.
They appear to have some sort of formula for spitting out games year after year with little variation. It seems to be working well for them. Although truth be told most gamers hate it.
Absolutely. If they scheduled you for a 9/80 and are working you on your day off then go back to 10/80. If you aren't scheduled to work then either don't go in or match the days they are having you work. If you can't do that then they aren't offering you 9/80 they are offering you 10/88+ with no extra compensation. If the other bonuses to working their outweigh that then I guess you just have to deal with it, but if that is a major problem for you find something else.
It was TV that was blamed for violence/bad behavior before videogames were so mainstream because (shock) bad behavior manifests most often in adolecent boys and adolecent boys are also more likely to be involved in the popular leisure activities of the country for the time period... Someone should do a study on blaming media and the studies linking them to bad behavior. Well they should if any news outlet would carry the results, but they won't cause they earn their money demonizing the latest leisure activities.
We tried it over the summer. I loved it so much that I begged my boss to let me continue on. What we did while everyone was doing it was have people familiar with a project alternate fridays so if the customer needed something it looked like there was someone knowledgable here all the time. The only difficult parts are making up time missed. Holidays cost you an hour of vacation if your company does 8hr(normal workday) holidays.
A rise in domestic violence involving kitchen knives following Britian's more stringent controls on guns, prompted the major British Medical university to suggest to the ruling bodies that all kitchen knives be 3 inches or less. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4581871.stm There will always be people who want to protect us from even useful instruments of harm. There will always be people who want to protect us from dangerous media. The rest of us just want the people who occasionally cause harm to be punished harshly enough to be a deterant without taking all our freedom. But thats ok, society is showing me that it is ok for me to take away freedoms as long as they are freedoms I don't exercise and am afraid of.
Sounds infinitely more useful if they could make the leap to making it fix pictures made by crappy cameras than using it to sell useless crap. Oh wait. This isn't about use it is about profit. Sorry, I slipped into thinking like a person rather than a mindless consumer there for a moment.
"It would be incredibly interesting if some people with more experience of school education software could put together a top 10 or top 20 list of common applications which are used throughout the country."
I think you could find such a list but the standard deviation between counts would be so low as to make the numbers useless. There would be plenty of one-off software that is absolutely vital to a couple of teachers. Replace the top 10-20, you still aren't going to be able to replace windows. It is the one-offs that will be the most difficult to replace and the dropping of which will be the most vocal of resistance. I'll guarantee the top 4-8 are probably already replaced in a manner that is as good or better than the comperable Microsoft product. The problem is when Mrs. Smith can't replace her XXX software with something that doesn't run on Linux, it won't run well on Wine, you ask the district's only sysadmin to get it working and he has to allocate several weeks to figuring it out, and you have 4-8 similar requests from teachers around the district.
If you are so afraid of your child learning MS products then teach them Linux at home. And if you don't see it during high school and are technically inclined, then it isn't like you won't bump into Linux later.
That is because the good congressman is from California and his best interest is to see his constituents' (Hollywood) big compettitors reduced to rubble or at least barred from taking their customers.
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Now I live in Alabama and judging from how many amendments we have, I think the procedure we use is sneak into the courthouse with a pen. It is much less of a hassle on the voters and lets our politicians do more important things like get into fist fights.
"On the other hand, if something is wrong, it doesn't matter how many people agree with a wrong view, they are still wrong."
Just curious, how do we define wrong in an unambiguous, culturally- and time-insensitive manner?
Yes, but then he would miss out on the resulting condescending comments...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104990/ This will take the edge off...
on bittorrent?
Coffee, it is this year's margarine or butter or black or something.
"50% of those questions are, why doesn't ubuntu work like windows.. :("
Seriously, what is wrong with this question? Noone is going to switch from Windows to *NIX, if they can't do the things they want, or at the very least have it explained to them why they can't or shouldn't in a non-condescending way.
I'm getting rock band for my son tomorrow... Daddy's got a new retirement plan. If that fails, I can always get the next one GTA.
Oh I agree. I was just answering the question presented.
For this company, a major mistake in the previously secret code means that any conviction from the device's results is now under suspicion. They will have lost the trust of their ONLY customer market. Not to mention the fact that they will be named as defendants in any resulting lawsuit.
Puting trade secrets at risk means more money up front. The companies don't mind so much if the price is right, but the taxpayer balks at the fact that the copy of XP pro they run at home for $300 suddenly costs their state government $15000 a seat.
Well the linux community's answer seems to be if we ridicule people enough they will stop being intellectually lazy and learn something, which from my perspective seems to be itself intellectually lazy.
If all us tech folks weren't afraid of even the most basic attempt at bridging the gap from technical work to actual human interaction, then there wouldn't be such a big deal about forcing people to make even the most basic comments in their code. Most of us hate to do that type of work, and the biggest problem with FOSS is that people get to volunteer for their tasks; so, the things companies have to force out of their developers and have to hire dedicated people to get done are severely underserved. The truely sad thing for adoption is the community wants to supplant Microsoft's dominance but not take actually have to deal with Microsoft's typical users.
They appear to have some sort of formula for spitting out games year after year with little variation. It seems to be working well for them. Although truth be told most gamers hate it.
Absolutely. If they scheduled you for a 9/80 and are working you on your day off then go back to 10/80. If you aren't scheduled to work then either don't go in or match the days they are having you work. If you can't do that then they aren't offering you 9/80 they are offering you 10/88+ with no extra compensation. If the other bonuses to working their outweigh that then I guess you just have to deal with it, but if that is a major problem for you find something else.
Or are watching you, which they would be in the case of a study...
It was TV that was blamed for violence/bad behavior before videogames were so mainstream because (shock) bad behavior manifests most often in adolecent boys and adolecent boys are also more likely to be involved in the popular leisure activities of the country for the time period... Someone should do a study on blaming media and the studies linking them to bad behavior. Well they should if any news outlet would carry the results, but they won't cause they earn their money demonizing the latest leisure activities.
We tried it over the summer. I loved it so much that I begged my boss to let me continue on. What we did while everyone was doing it was have people familiar with a project alternate fridays so if the customer needed something it looked like there was someone knowledgable here all the time. The only difficult parts are making up time missed. Holidays cost you an hour of vacation if your company does 8hr(normal workday) holidays.
A rise in domestic violence involving kitchen knives following Britian's more stringent controls on guns, prompted the major British Medical university to suggest to the ruling bodies that all kitchen knives be 3 inches or less. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4581871.stm There will always be people who want to protect us from even useful instruments of harm. There will always be people who want to protect us from dangerous media. The rest of us just want the people who occasionally cause harm to be punished harshly enough to be a deterant without taking all our freedom. But thats ok, society is showing me that it is ok for me to take away freedoms as long as they are freedoms I don't exercise and am afraid of.
The competing teams building the lunar straw house and the lunar stick house are still searching for suitable materials.
Sounds infinitely more useful if they could make the leap to making it fix pictures made by crappy cameras than using it to sell useless crap. Oh wait. This isn't about use it is about profit. Sorry, I slipped into thinking like a person rather than a mindless consumer there for a moment.
The multiplatform thing can be huge if you consider that Halo 3 is single platform and sold a third of that level in its first week.
"It would be incredibly interesting if some people with more experience of school education software could put together a top 10 or top 20 list of common applications which are used throughout the country."
I think you could find such a list but the standard deviation between counts would be so low as to make the numbers useless. There would be plenty of one-off software that is absolutely vital to a couple of teachers. Replace the top 10-20, you still aren't going to be able to replace windows. It is the one-offs that will be the most difficult to replace and the dropping of which will be the most vocal of resistance. I'll guarantee the top 4-8 are probably already replaced in a manner that is as good or better than the comperable Microsoft product. The problem is when Mrs. Smith can't replace her XXX software with something that doesn't run on Linux, it won't run well on Wine, you ask the district's only sysadmin to get it working and he has to allocate several weeks to figuring it out, and you have 4-8 similar requests from teachers around the district.
If you are so afraid of your child learning MS products then teach them Linux at home. And if you don't see it during high school and are technically inclined, then it isn't like you won't bump into Linux later.
My phone camera can't even make out a human face much less an intricate pattern of colors and shapes.
Actually X-play mentioned this last night. The numbers are skewed by expensive peripherals, multi-platform release, and DLC.
That is because the good congressman is from California and his best interest is to see his constituents' (Hollywood) big compettitors reduced to rubble or at least barred from taking their customers.