Who gives a small rat's ass how grateful the students might be? The students are in college for no other purpose than to learn how to solve problems. So - dump all the worst problems that all the buggy fucking software in the world can create, sit back, and see how the students solve the problems.
Being spoonfed a "solution" that one particular corporation finds to be profitable is NOT an education.
gksudo prompt? Really? I've had my browser hijacked by scareware, but I've never had anything ask for sudo privileges. Maybe it was just cheap software, and wasn't smart enough to realize it should ask for sudo?
Please - you're giving a bad name to no-class buffoons. Plus, you're opening yourself up to a libel suit. Some lawyer, somewhere, will soon be filing a class action suit against you on behalf of no-class buffoons from around the world.
If you're the only person who holds a point of view, in a sea of people with various opposing opinions, that doesn't necessarily mean that you are wrong. But, it DOES mean that you might benefit from reexamining your position.
Software patents are simply WRONG. Microsoft wants to raise the Microsoft Tax, and extend it to places where they can't compete at all, let alone directly. "If you use ANY computing device, you must PAY US!"
In the case of software patents, I hope he is serious. And the rest of the world needs to get serious about it. If, however, he is unable to distinguish between real patents, and software patents, then I'll agree with you. Let's hope he's not serious.
As I recall, it wasn't a Republican who granted "most favored trading partner" status to China. Republicans have no monopoly on destroying the American economy. They may be more efficient than the Democrats, but that hasn't been proven yet. After all, the most liberal state in this nation was the first to go bankrupt, as a result of liberal policies.
Misconduct by an international megacorporation is now equivalent to childish pranks done by anonymous geeks? Misconduct for profit equates to some kind of misguided political activism?
Let me be blunt - I want Rupert Murdoch's head on a pig pole. Knowing that the "gubbermint" is looking for these miscreants in this story is good enough for me. These little freaks don't actually threaten my freedoms, while Murdoch does. Murdoch's vision for the world is endorsed by dozens of MP and congressmen around the world, and he uses his money and influence to move forward with his plans. The freaks hacking emails have no influence, little money (if any) and cannot sway any parliament or congress to pass asinine laws that will increase their wealth.
It's a matter of priority. When being stalked by predators, you deal with the biggest, baddest, meanest, and most dangerous predator first. In this case, that is Rupert Murdoch.
We've all heard that myth before. XP at launch was a decent system. Vista at launch sucked. Vista sucked after it's service packs. Microsoft has all but abandoned Vista, because it sucked so bad. Upgrade to Win7, dude. Better yet, upgrade to a Unix-like.
Stupid bills that want to become stupid laws, but are defeated, are just reintroduced in the following legislative session, usually as a rider on some other, far more important bill. Or, possibly even worse, the bill is defeated repeatedly, until something like ACTA is signed as a treaty.
Stupid bills never just go away, their authors just get sneaky about pushing the thing through the legislative body in some other fashion.
Traffic outside yields to traffic inside - how else could the traffic circle ever empty? The other way around, traffic would flow in, but be snarled once it was in the circle. Have you ever seen a traffic circle that worked that way? I doubt it . . .
Being an American, I'm not really ready for a roundabout. I don't expect them. I very nearly ran up on the center island of a roundabout in Texas. And, to be honest, I'm not sure how long that roundabout had been there. I THINK it might have been newly installed, because I know that I had passed through that town a time or two before and didn't remember it. But, the pavement didn't really look "new", either.
Whatever - until people do grow accustomed to them, we will have people driving right into the center island, or into the guard rail, whichever applies.
Actually, it is not LEGAL to ride a bicycle on the sidewalk You're part of the problem that Bing is referring to. A bicycle isn't just a toy, it is a vehicle, subject to vehicle laws in each state.
"The first British-style roundabout appeared in the U.S. in 1990"
That's bullshit. I'll admit that there aren't a lot of roundabouts in the US, but I've driven them many a time in Massachusetts. Ask any resident of Mass about them. I think the first one I ever saw here, was in Lynn, Mass. I've also driven around them in Indiana, Kentucky, and I'm pretty sure about Ohio as well. And, that doesn't even count extra large circles in downtown areas, that flow around a courthouse. I remember one, especially in Ohio - I think it was Washington, Ohio, but not real certain. Texarkana, Texas has a kind of squashed traffic circle, with the post office in the middle, and the state line runs right through the post office.
So, no, the first roundabout did NOT appear in the US in 1990. Bullshit.
Granted, our engines suck. But, using that Model A as an example - when, and how did we improve on those engines? We used what we had, and implemented small, minor improvements along the way. Fuel delivery and fuel pressure on one hand, and oxygen supply on another hand, exhaust was another issue, better timing, overall balance of the engine's moving parts - one problem solved at a time, then solved again for even better improvements. How old is the gasoline engine now? 120 years? And, how many billions of miles have they been driven?
Constant use, with millions of people thinking about and playing with those engines, striving for better performance, and better fuel mileage has gotten us where we are today.
That is the problem in a nutshell. The government's highest achievement was to put a few men on the moon. And, that is only a small first step on the road to space. Putting MEN AND WOMEN on the moon, and leaving them there to accomplish a mission, would have been a remarkable achievement. Putting a few men there, then bringing them home, not so much.
I posted just above - but the whole shuttle idea is a distraction. The shuttle should have been a subordinate project to the real goal of putting mankind into deep space, and onto other planets, and into some kind of space habitat. The shuttle is only a support mechanism for serious space exploration. NASA, Washington, and the United States forgot what space exploration is all about when they got hung up on a shuttle program.
Low earth orbit is not space. Geosynchronous orbit isn't space. Real space doesn't begin until you're about 3/4 of the way to the moon, where the gravity of another body begins to influence you almost as much as earth's gravity.
Look at it like a well. Here, we are at the bottom of a huge gravity well - let's say it's a 1000 foot deep well. We've climbed up the sides of the well several times, to an elevation of maybe 400 to 600 feet. We see more and more light, the closer we get to the top of the well, but we always stop short of the top. We never climb out of the well, and start exploring. Only a couple times have we actually sent men to stand just at the top of the well - then like frightened cave dwellers, we brought them back down to the bottom.
Frigging cave men. Maybe mankind really are a bunch of bottom feeders.
Wow, a sane post that is on subject. (Sorry - theism and chiro takes far to much of the page!)
I remember watching the space flights on television in school. All us little kids sitting there, "Ooooh!" "Ahhhh!" And, our teachers were oohing and aaahing right along with us.
And, I remember arguing against that space shuttle when it was first proposed, and publicized. The object of going in to space is to go into SPACE. Low earth orbit isn't space. A space plane that never had the capability of going into deep space was just a distraction from the real goals. Although they did carry out some scientific experiments aboard the shuttles, basically they were just so much bread and circus.
There have been some damned good posts made here in the past, suggesting alternatives to those damned shuttles. Space elevators, rail guns, bigger badder Apollos, and more. Today, I really think that private enterprise has the best possible chance of accomplishing anything in space. They better, or it will be China that finally leads the way.
Who wants to bet that China will have difficulty finding hundreds of serious volunteers to take that one way flight to Mars? If the top dogs in China say that a colony will be established, then it will, by God, be established. Unlike the United States, where seemingly intelligent men and women argue "Why?"
I'm no Trekkie, and I was only a Star Wars fan for a short time - but dammit, the future is in space. Mankind needs to get off it's collective ass, and get out there!
Jesus H. Christ. Manning in the same sentence with "morality" and "courage". You haven't read a damned thing that has been published about Manning, have you? He's a spoiled kid, who stole and released all that data out of spite. Jealous pique. He thought he wasn't receiving the recognition that he deserved. He didn't think that other soldiers should have been promoted over him.
By your standards, if my boss doesn't give me the raise that I think I deserve, then it would be moral and courageous of me to steal what I thought I deserved. And, if you fail to tip the waitress as she expects, she can stomp the shit out of you, and take your wallet. (Or have her bull dyke girl friend do it for her)
Correction - civilian law does apply to military personnel, but military law is like an overlay on top of civilian law.
Example, a sailor who commits a robbery in Virginia Beach is apprehended by the police, and charged. He can and will be charged by the state of Virginia with whatever various and sundry crimes they can attach to that robbery, stand trial, and probably be sentenced. The Navy, meanwhile, will carry him as "UA", or an unauthorized absence. If and when our sailor gets out of jail, he should then report to his commanding officer - who will likely then file charges of being UA and/or desertion.
In Manning's case, I'm fairly sure that the DOJ could make a number of civilian federal laws stick - but they aren't likely to go to that much trouble. Military law is quite adequate for the case.
Cite the law then. It should probably begin with USC blah blah blah. Don't cite anything from a lesser authority, and do NOT cite any military laws, rules, or regulations. Only USC laws could possibly apply.
Yeah, yeah, yeah - and IF I were living in Byzantine times, then some cleric or another could have me executed for heresy or some similar thing, because I don't believe in any of their gods. So, yeah, IF Wikileaks were subject to American law, THEN they would have broken some laws.
In short, you seem to be saying that you don't like wikileaks, and you want to see them punished. However, the law only works like that under tyrants.
Yes, it is our place to decide when a company is being a complete horse's ass. If they can't process payments to Wikileaks, then I will take my business elsewhere - and I hope that several million other Americans are smart enough to do the same.
Oh - wait - millions of smart Americans? Sorry, smart Americans are an inverse propotion to the number of Americans who watch American Idiot, and Dancing with the Stars, and Biggest Losers, and, I'll quit now. That's enough to give you the idea, at least.
So - what, exactly, do you do to "take care of our hard drives"?
Personally, I don't do anything. My machine is plugged into a UPS, to protect from power surges. That's it. Ext4 file system does it's own maintenance, I don't even defrag. So, how can I improve my hard drive's life expectancy?
Hard drives do die, just like any and all other hardware devices. The only way to ensure that you don't lose data, is to BACK UP THAT DATA! And, repetitive redundancy is a good thing, when it comes to backups.
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Who gives a small rat's ass how grateful the students might be? The students are in college for no other purpose than to learn how to solve problems. So - dump all the worst problems that all the buggy fucking software in the world can create, sit back, and see how the students solve the problems.
Being spoonfed a "solution" that one particular corporation finds to be profitable is NOT an education.
So, we start a campaign to educate users, right? "If you see a popup, asking if you wish to install Windows, click "Cancel" immediately!"
gksudo prompt? Really? I've had my browser hijacked by scareware, but I've never had anything ask for sudo privileges. Maybe it was just cheap software, and wasn't smart enough to realize it should ask for sudo?
No one in their right mind wants to recover anything with "microsoft" in the name.
Please - you're giving a bad name to no-class buffoons. Plus, you're opening yourself up to a libel suit. Some lawyer, somewhere, will soon be filing a class action suit against you on behalf of no-class buffoons from around the world.
If you're the only person who holds a point of view, in a sea of people with various opposing opinions, that doesn't necessarily mean that you are wrong. But, it DOES mean that you might benefit from reexamining your position.
Software patents are simply WRONG. Microsoft wants to raise the Microsoft Tax, and extend it to places where they can't compete at all, let alone directly. "If you use ANY computing device, you must PAY US!"
Simple bullshit.
In the case of software patents, I hope he is serious. And the rest of the world needs to get serious about it. If, however, he is unable to distinguish between real patents, and software patents, then I'll agree with you. Let's hope he's not serious.
As I recall, it wasn't a Republican who granted "most favored trading partner" status to China. Republicans have no monopoly on destroying the American economy. They may be more efficient than the Democrats, but that hasn't been proven yet. After all, the most liberal state in this nation was the first to go bankrupt, as a result of liberal policies.
Misconduct by an international megacorporation is now equivalent to childish pranks done by anonymous geeks? Misconduct for profit equates to some kind of misguided political activism?
Let me be blunt - I want Rupert Murdoch's head on a pig pole. Knowing that the "gubbermint" is looking for these miscreants in this story is good enough for me. These little freaks don't actually threaten my freedoms, while Murdoch does. Murdoch's vision for the world is endorsed by dozens of MP and congressmen around the world, and he uses his money and influence to move forward with his plans. The freaks hacking emails have no influence, little money (if any) and cannot sway any parliament or congress to pass asinine laws that will increase their wealth.
It's a matter of priority. When being stalked by predators, you deal with the biggest, baddest, meanest, and most dangerous predator first. In this case, that is Rupert Murdoch.
We've all heard that myth before. XP at launch was a decent system. Vista at launch sucked. Vista sucked after it's service packs. Microsoft has all but abandoned Vista, because it sucked so bad. Upgrade to Win7, dude. Better yet, upgrade to a Unix-like.
Stupid bills that want to become stupid laws, but are defeated, are just reintroduced in the following legislative session, usually as a rider on some other, far more important bill. Or, possibly even worse, the bill is defeated repeatedly, until something like ACTA is signed as a treaty.
Stupid bills never just go away, their authors just get sneaky about pushing the thing through the legislative body in some other fashion.
Traffic outside yields to traffic inside - how else could the traffic circle ever empty? The other way around, traffic would flow in, but be snarled once it was in the circle. Have you ever seen a traffic circle that worked that way? I doubt it . . .
Being an American, I'm not really ready for a roundabout. I don't expect them. I very nearly ran up on the center island of a roundabout in Texas. And, to be honest, I'm not sure how long that roundabout had been there. I THINK it might have been newly installed, because I know that I had passed through that town a time or two before and didn't remember it. But, the pavement didn't really look "new", either.
Whatever - until people do grow accustomed to them, we will have people driving right into the center island, or into the guard rail, whichever applies.
Actually, it is not LEGAL to ride a bicycle on the sidewalk You're part of the problem that Bing is referring to. A bicycle isn't just a toy, it is a vehicle, subject to vehicle laws in each state.
How 'bout a "bogus story" title?
"The first British-style roundabout appeared in the U.S. in 1990"
That's bullshit. I'll admit that there aren't a lot of roundabouts in the US, but I've driven them many a time in Massachusetts. Ask any resident of Mass about them. I think the first one I ever saw here, was in Lynn, Mass. I've also driven around them in Indiana, Kentucky, and I'm pretty sure about Ohio as well. And, that doesn't even count extra large circles in downtown areas, that flow around a courthouse. I remember one, especially in Ohio - I think it was Washington, Ohio, but not real certain. Texarkana, Texas has a kind of squashed traffic circle, with the post office in the middle, and the state line runs right through the post office.
So, no, the first roundabout did NOT appear in the US in 1990. Bullshit.
Granted, our engines suck. But, using that Model A as an example - when, and how did we improve on those engines? We used what we had, and implemented small, minor improvements along the way. Fuel delivery and fuel pressure on one hand, and oxygen supply on another hand, exhaust was another issue, better timing, overall balance of the engine's moving parts - one problem solved at a time, then solved again for even better improvements. How old is the gasoline engine now? 120 years? And, how many billions of miles have they been driven?
Constant use, with millions of people thinking about and playing with those engines, striving for better performance, and better fuel mileage has gotten us where we are today.
That is the problem in a nutshell. The government's highest achievement was to put a few men on the moon. And, that is only a small first step on the road to space. Putting MEN AND WOMEN on the moon, and leaving them there to accomplish a mission, would have been a remarkable achievement. Putting a few men there, then bringing them home, not so much.
I posted just above - but the whole shuttle idea is a distraction. The shuttle should have been a subordinate project to the real goal of putting mankind into deep space, and onto other planets, and into some kind of space habitat. The shuttle is only a support mechanism for serious space exploration. NASA, Washington, and the United States forgot what space exploration is all about when they got hung up on a shuttle program.
Low earth orbit is not space. Geosynchronous orbit isn't space. Real space doesn't begin until you're about 3/4 of the way to the moon, where the gravity of another body begins to influence you almost as much as earth's gravity.
Look at it like a well. Here, we are at the bottom of a huge gravity well - let's say it's a 1000 foot deep well. We've climbed up the sides of the well several times, to an elevation of maybe 400 to 600 feet. We see more and more light, the closer we get to the top of the well, but we always stop short of the top. We never climb out of the well, and start exploring. Only a couple times have we actually sent men to stand just at the top of the well - then like frightened cave dwellers, we brought them back down to the bottom.
Frigging cave men. Maybe mankind really are a bunch of bottom feeders.
Wow, a sane post that is on subject. (Sorry - theism and chiro takes far to much of the page!)
I remember watching the space flights on television in school. All us little kids sitting there, "Ooooh!" "Ahhhh!" And, our teachers were oohing and aaahing right along with us.
And, I remember arguing against that space shuttle when it was first proposed, and publicized. The object of going in to space is to go into SPACE. Low earth orbit isn't space. A space plane that never had the capability of going into deep space was just a distraction from the real goals. Although they did carry out some scientific experiments aboard the shuttles, basically they were just so much bread and circus.
There have been some damned good posts made here in the past, suggesting alternatives to those damned shuttles. Space elevators, rail guns, bigger badder Apollos, and more. Today, I really think that private enterprise has the best possible chance of accomplishing anything in space. They better, or it will be China that finally leads the way.
Who wants to bet that China will have difficulty finding hundreds of serious volunteers to take that one way flight to Mars? If the top dogs in China say that a colony will be established, then it will, by God, be established. Unlike the United States, where seemingly intelligent men and women argue "Why?"
I'm no Trekkie, and I was only a Star Wars fan for a short time - but dammit, the future is in space. Mankind needs to get off it's collective ass, and get out there!
Jesus H. Christ. Manning in the same sentence with "morality" and "courage". You haven't read a damned thing that has been published about Manning, have you? He's a spoiled kid, who stole and released all that data out of spite. Jealous pique. He thought he wasn't receiving the recognition that he deserved. He didn't think that other soldiers should have been promoted over him.
By your standards, if my boss doesn't give me the raise that I think I deserve, then it would be moral and courageous of me to steal what I thought I deserved. And, if you fail to tip the waitress as she expects, she can stomp the shit out of you, and take your wallet. (Or have her bull dyke girl friend do it for her)
You're a douche, simple as that.
Correction - civilian law does apply to military personnel, but military law is like an overlay on top of civilian law.
Example, a sailor who commits a robbery in Virginia Beach is apprehended by the police, and charged. He can and will be charged by the state of Virginia with whatever various and sundry crimes they can attach to that robbery, stand trial, and probably be sentenced. The Navy, meanwhile, will carry him as "UA", or an unauthorized absence. If and when our sailor gets out of jail, he should then report to his commanding officer - who will likely then file charges of being UA and/or desertion.
In Manning's case, I'm fairly sure that the DOJ could make a number of civilian federal laws stick - but they aren't likely to go to that much trouble. Military law is quite adequate for the case.
Cite the law then. It should probably begin with USC blah blah blah. Don't cite anything from a lesser authority, and do NOT cite any military laws, rules, or regulations. Only USC laws could possibly apply.
Yeah, yeah, yeah - and IF I were living in Byzantine times, then some cleric or another could have me executed for heresy or some similar thing, because I don't believe in any of their gods. So, yeah, IF Wikileaks were subject to American law, THEN they would have broken some laws.
In short, you seem to be saying that you don't like wikileaks, and you want to see them punished. However, the law only works like that under tyrants.
Yes, it is our place to decide when a company is being a complete horse's ass. If they can't process payments to Wikileaks, then I will take my business elsewhere - and I hope that several million other Americans are smart enough to do the same.
Oh - wait - millions of smart Americans? Sorry, smart Americans are an inverse propotion to the number of Americans who watch American Idiot, and Dancing with the Stars, and Biggest Losers, and, I'll quit now. That's enough to give you the idea, at least.
So - what, exactly, do you do to "take care of our hard drives"?
Personally, I don't do anything. My machine is plugged into a UPS, to protect from power surges. That's it. Ext4 file system does it's own maintenance, I don't even defrag. So, how can I improve my hard drive's life expectancy?
Hard drives do die, just like any and all other hardware devices. The only way to ensure that you don't lose data, is to BACK UP THAT DATA! And, repetitive redundancy is a good thing, when it comes to backups.