I keep repeating this: Buy vendors that do offer open source drivers.
Typical Reply: Boo hoo, Intel is too slow, boo hoo.
My reply: Intel's graphic cards won't get faster if no one buys them. Other companies won't open source their drivers if you keep buying them with closed source drivers. Other companies will only open their drivers if they see it works for Intel.
I know many parents who still use VCRs regularly (like me!). Little kids aren't clamoring for better-than-DVD quality. They don't care or know the difference, and parents aren't going to fork over extra $$ for it.
Having everyone pulling power willy-nilly from a facility with limited output is a dumb idea. Regulating a more even amount of power to everyone is smarter.
We hire grad school interns occasionally for the research work we do, which is high performance computing. Many of our interviewees have experience in Java and/or.NET on Windows. Ug. Very few have experience in real systems (*NIX) or fast computing languages, such as C.
data flows in encrypted format from the source to display device Pay attention. That is not the case here, which is why I included the statement about software DRM. If you don't like hardware DRM, don't purchase hardware with DRM in it, just like you should not purchase software with DRM in it (e.g. Vista).
You Free(TM) OS fanboys are all fucking idiots. Perhaps. But we know what we're doing.
Because my computer allows me to send an unrestricted HDTV feed to my monitor, Hollywood has decided to revoke my ability to stream 480 resolution video files... This is obviously software DRM, not hardware.
DRM can be implemented in ANY operating system with or without cooperation from the authors of the OS But on an OS to which I have the code, I can dump any data that flows to my video or sound card and reencode it as I wish, rendering the DRM useless. If everyone used such open source OS systems, companies would not bother implementing DRM.
Here's a suggestion: Don't shop Circuit City even if it is convenient. Find a nice mom & pop electronics store. They're harder to find, but worth the effort.
set up Postfix or create mail directories, which may have been necessary had I run Pine on my own computer
You don't need to run your own mail transfer agent if you don't want to. You can have alpine read from an IMAP mailbox on another computer, e.g. inbox-path={mail.foofoo.com/ssl/user=pants}INBOX and you can have it send mail directly to a mail transfer agent on another computer: smtp-server=smtp.myisp.net
So what's the point in having it in there then? The vendors who don't want to implement it won't, and the people wanting an open baseline won't get one.
You could make the same remark about the entire standard: "vendors who don't want to implement it won't". Does this mean that we should not have standards?
No, standards are very important, but in general are not required.
I have to agree with parent post. Browsers don't read just any data format. There are specific ones that are standard on the web for text rendering? What about standards for video and audio rendering? Why don't these exist? It is almost 2008 for gosh sakes.
but please excuse me for being a bit skeptical of what the government thinks about medical advice... Does anyone honestly believe that politicians know what is best for our health? Or that they care one whit about what is in our best interest?
"The government" is not just politicians. In fact it is mostly not politicians, fortunately. It is made of career scientists, engineers, and medical doctors among others. Many of them know more about vaccines and studies involving vaccines than anyone else in the world (I personally know some of them). JAMA does not publish articles by pure politicians in general.
The truth is that anybody can set up their own DNS servers and populate them with whatever names they want to.
I think it is telling that all these other countries have not gotten together and actually done so. If many other countries united and put together their own DNS system, lots of people would use it. They probably can't even agree and work together.
See the subject line. I am willing to bet that your kiosk may have 1 of the dozens of videos that I have rented from Netflix. The selection is wonderful, far greater than Blockbuster. And searching for videos is easy. The DVDs are always working and relatively scratch-free (something I can not say of Blockbuster). I do not have to go to the store to get the video. No late fees.
The fact that people have to explicitly explain this fact shows that everyone expects it to be that way.
"Everyone"?? If you asked 98% of people how many bytes there are in a gigabyte, they would not be able to tell you. Of the 2% that could, 98% of those would say "a billion", not "1.07 billion". A very small fraction of computer geeks in the population would say "2^30".
SI units be damned, this is the way it has always been and there is no reason for it to be changed.
No! SI units have been around a lot longer than computers have, and just because a few come-lately computer nerds have started abusing and misusing SI units, is no reason to drop their real meaning. Science is exact. Giga means 10^9 period. If "computer scientists" want to consider themselves real scientists they need to get with the f---ing program.
I remember trying Enlightenment back in 1998. My.enlightenment files still have that date on them. I ended up not using it because it was too slow and bloated for my 133MHz computer. Gosh...
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Seriously, what really matters is:
#!/usr/bin/python2
or
#!/usr/bin/python3
And I'm betting someone will come up with
#!/usr/bin/python
that will automatically determine which python it is from the syntax.
I keep repeating this: Buy vendors that do offer open source drivers.
Typical Reply: Boo hoo, Intel is too slow, boo hoo.
My reply: Intel's graphic cards won't get faster if no one buys them. Other companies won't open source their drivers if you keep buying them with closed source drivers. Other companies will only open their drivers if they see it works for Intel.
My son started playing Pokemon when he was 3. By the time he was 5 he could read all of it and follow the story without my help.
Of course, this happened because when he played it, I played it with him, and I asked him to read words where he could.
Games are what kids love. And they are great tools if you can get games that require thought or reading like Pokemon.
Now he is older and I'm teaching him to make his own video games with Blender. Fun for me too!
I know many parents who still use VCRs regularly (like me!).
Little kids aren't clamoring for better-than-DVD quality. They don't care or know the difference, and parents aren't going to fork over extra $$ for it.
http://www.cityofames.org/ElectricWeb/PrimeTimePower/Default.htm
Having everyone pulling power willy-nilly from a facility with limited output is a dumb idea. Regulating a more even amount of power to everyone is smarter.
What is the OS?
We hire grad school interns occasionally for the research work we do, which is high performance computing. Many of our interviewees have experience in Java and/or .NET on Windows. Ug.
Very few have experience in real systems (*NIX) or fast computing languages, such as C.
Here's a suggestion: Don't shop Circuit City even if it is convenient. Find a nice mom & pop electronics store. They're harder to find, but worth the effort.
You don't need to run your own mail transfer agent if you don't want to. You can have alpine read from an IMAP mailbox on another computer, e.g.
inbox-path={mail.foofoo.com/ssl/user=pants}INBOX
and you can have it send mail directly to a mail transfer agent on another computer:
smtp-server=smtp.myisp.net
Mut just is not nearly as easy to use as pine/alpine is. I tried mutt once, it went like this:
...
Q:How do I get mutt to send mail directly to my ISP's SMTP server?
A:Mutt is a mail user agent not a mail transfer agent
Q: How do I get mutt to read mail from my IMAP mailbox?
A:Mutt is a mail user agent not a mail transfer agent
Q: How do I get mutt to keep an address book?
A: Use this extra 3rd party perl script, or this 3rd party perl script or
Isn't that the one in the short skirt and the V-neck sweater?
So what's the point in having it in there then? The vendors who don't want to implement it won't, and
the people wanting an open baseline won't get one.
You could make the same remark about the entire standard: "vendors who don't want to implement it
won't". Does this mean that we should not have standards?
No, standards are very important, but in general are not required.
I have to agree with parent post. Browsers don't read just any data format. There are specific ones that are standard on the web for text rendering? What about standards for video and audio rendering? Why don't these exist? It is almost 2008 for gosh sakes.
but please excuse me for being a bit skeptical of what the government thinks about medical advice... Does anyone honestly believe that politicians know what is best for our health? Or that they care one whit about what is in our best interest?
"The government" is not just politicians. In fact it is mostly not politicians, fortunately. It is made of career scientists, engineers, and medical doctors among others. Many of them know more about vaccines and studies involving vaccines than anyone else in the world (I personally know some of them). JAMA does not publish articles by pure politicians in general.
And accounting costs money.
I read that the thing does not handle PDFs. Is this true?
If it doesn't, why would anyone buy it?
The truth is that anybody can set up their own DNS servers and populate them with whatever names they want to.
I think it is telling that all these other countries have not gotten together and actually done so. If many other countries united and put together their own DNS system, lots of people would use it. They probably can't even agree and work together.
So I leave my wifi open, but I only allow outgoing secure OpenVPN connections?
Is that the idea?
From yesterday:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/07/AR2007110700006.html?sub=AR
See the subject line.
I am willing to bet that your kiosk may have 1 of the dozens of videos that I have rented from Netflix. The selection is wonderful, far greater than Blockbuster. And searching for videos is easy.
The DVDs are always working and relatively scratch-free (something I can not say of Blockbuster).
I do not have to go to the store to get the video.
No late fees.
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/history.html
The name "SI" came about in 1960, but the units and prefixes existed long before that in standards and scientific usage.
"Everyone"?? If you asked 98% of people how many bytes there are in a gigabyte, they would not be able to tell you. Of the 2% that could, 98% of those would say "a billion", not "1.07 billion".
A very small fraction of computer geeks in the population would say "2^30".
No! SI units have been around a lot longer than computers have, and just because a few come-lately computer nerds have started abusing and misusing SI units, is no reason to drop their real meaning. Science is exact. Giga means 10^9 period. If "computer scientists" want to consider themselves real scientists they need to get with the f---ing program.
I remember trying Enlightenment back in 1998. My .enlightenment files still have that date on them. I ended up not using it because it was too slow and bloated for my 133MHz computer.
Gosh...