No, I definitely am not. I had to attend a Seven Habits indoctrination at a job I worked at for an oil company back in 1998. Certainly, the seminar wasn't overtly religious but the covert subtext was visible if you were looking. This is, of course, based on his seminars and video tapes much more so than his book. While Covey has made claims that his book is also a facet of his attempt to convert people to Mormonism, I cannot speak to that.
Geez, don't read the Seven Habits. Covey's trademarked[tm] every other[tm] word, pretty[tm] much. Additionally, even Covey admits he does everything he can to convert you to his religion.
Rather than buying a license, why not just go to their ftp site and download the source code to the Linux kernel? SCO is still distributing the Linux kernel sources under the GPL.
This is slightly off-topic, I apologise. I have several Windows machines (specifically, Win2k and several XP machines). They are all set to download updates automatically and notify me when they are ready to be installed. However, despite me clicking to install the patches, none of them ever do.
And when I go to windowsupdate.com and try that way, I see the updates and tell the system to go ahead. The updates are downloaded (though some are obviously already in the cache) and the install starts. Part way through, it aborts and I'm told none of the installs were successful and to try again.
Now, this worked in the past. I currently have 'only' 5 critical vulnerabilities to patch. But it's not working now. I've tried removing the download cache area and that didn't help. Is it really time to reformat?
Okay, so kids are soon not going to be able to write cursive. So what? Very few kids these days know how to use a calligraphy pen properly, yet these were mandatory while I was in grade school (1978 on, in England). And you know what, I don't care. While I can still write using my calligraphy pen (and that means using it properly, writing in a typeface suited to it), I don't. It is, for me, a dead art. There's no call for it, not for me in my day-to-day life. Same, I suspect, with cursive writing.
So yeah, maybe it will die out. But the question really is should we care?
Microsoft promised way back when that they would never charge for Microsoft Internet Explorer. If they refuse to release a stand-alone version, this presumably means the only way to acquire MSIE legally is to purchase it. You just happen to get a whole operating system as a free bonus. However, as Microsoft swore they'd never charge for MSIE, this presumably means all future Microsoft operating systems will be free.
Bittorrent is a great protocol, similar in many ways (but clearly superior, for large files, to) ftp. Like ftp, though, there's no way to easily search for files. It seems to me torrents should have some additional metainformation in the.torrent file itself (such as the content type, bitrate, etc.), instead of just the file name. And then perhaps you or someone else could easily write a global torrent search system. Have you given much thought to this sort of thing? Any plans? Or are you hoping someone else will take these ideas and run with them?
See the section marked 'Aren't These Cheats Just Optimizations...' here. These aren't driver optimisations. The drivers are claiming to do work they are not actually doing.
Actually, it is against the law, at least in Canada.
380. (1) Fraud -- Every one who, by deceit, falsehood or other fraudulent means, whether or not it is a false pretence within the meaning of this Act, defrauds the public or any person, whether ascertained or not, of any property, money or valuable security or any service [is guilty of fraud, a criminal offence]...
Nvidia (and ATI before) are guilty of using deceit to attempt to sell more video cards. Thus, they are guilty of fraud.
You claim that the only difference between the 95 style and the XP style is the look of the widgets. They even look the same now.
I show the Control Panel as a counterexample.
You, correctly, claim that it can be made to look the same (though not by default) but you ignore my other points such as browser configuration, folder view options, etc. while claiming I have no other arguments.
You state that Mandrake (which I no longer use, by the way) has poor cut-and-paste in comparison to Windows.
I point out that Windows apps often do not even allow you to cut and paste, and that I never have problems with cut-and-paste in Linux. For some reason, you think this argument is silly... Why? Why is this less silly than claiming that Windows cut-and-paste is better even though it simply doesn't work in many cases?
This may be true but I've never seen any examples of it. I run KDE on my Gentoo Linux box. I have no problem installing and using Gnome apps such as Gimp, Gnumeric, etc. etc.
Oh, of course I need to have the Gnome libraries installed. But that hardly means I have essentially two splintered OS's on my system. I have one. When I fire up Gimp or Gnumeric, I'm not even aware (apart from the name) that these are Gnome apps. I run them at the same time as running, say, KMail.
So I'm not quite sure where you are coming from. Could you please explain?
I truly do not know what you mean here. Do you mean that, for example, the 'x' to close a window is in the same location in Windows 95 and Windows XP? Or do you mean that the Control Panel looks the same (sans more colour) in Windows 95 and in Windows XP? If the former, you are certainly right. If the latter, you aren't. You can modify the control panel in Windows XP to look more like it did in Windows 95 but by default, it doesn't look like it used to. IIRC, there are other significant differences such as where the 'folder view options' are located, the browser configuration settings (cookie handling and other security settings leap to mind, there could be other differences), etc.
In my experience, cut-and-paste works better in Linux in general than in Windows. I have often wanted to copy read-only text from a dialog in Windows and been unable to do so. I have not yet had this experience in Linux though there's no fundamental reason why this should be the case.
MS has also put pressure on various commercial software houses not to use GPL'ed tools such as doxygen, grep, emacs, etc. if they are developing using MS tools. Even if the software they are developing will be released under a commercial license, not the GPL.
The Visual C++ compiler included in Visual Studio.NET 2003 is a vast improvement over previous versions. I believe it even compiles the loki library now.:)
Seriously, what you say is correct for Visual C++ 6 (which was god-awful) and for Visual C++.NET 2002 (which was only slightly better) but I think you probably haven't tried out the newest one yet.
We had a 80 - 90% drop-or-transfer rate from the first computer science course in first year to the graduating class. Our first computer class had 434 students in the first semester. Some additional students, perhaps as many as 200, didn't take it until second semester, however. The population of my graduating class was around 60.
Of course, most of these students ended up transferring into arts or engineering or something similar. I believe as many as 60% of all first year students at my post-secondary school return for second year.
This is a good idea except many schools restrict how long you have from the time you take your first course to the time you take your last course. My school restricts this to eight years for an undergrad term. Given the average salary for a person without post-secondary education here in Canada, it is unlikely you could make enough working half time to pay for school.
I'm curious, were you able to get any help at all from Rackspace? I haven't ever had an experience like yours (thank God), but I did find for a time that about 90% of my spam was coming from Rackspace. All attempts to contact them (and I _didn't_ just try abuse@rackspace.com) led to nothing and I ended up having to ban their entire domain and all the IPs they control from connecting to my server and the servers I was administrating. I guess I just determined that Rackspace was quite happy to host known-spammers (and checking my logs, they still are), but perhaps your experience was different?
I'd hardly list 5GB+ as my ideal. I had a Nomad Jukebox 3 (20 gig edition) and subsequently lost it on a plane. While I didn't fill up all 20 gigs, I certainly came close. 5 gigs is probably fine if you are carrying around music for a day or a weekend but if you want enough music for, say, a vacation, 5 gigs just isn't enough. At 20 gigs or more, I can put most of my music collection on there with good quality. At 5 gigs, I'm going to be _very_ picky about what music I store on my player.
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No, I definitely am not. I had to attend a Seven Habits indoctrination at a job I worked at for an oil company back in 1998. Certainly, the seminar wasn't overtly religious but the covert subtext was visible if you were looking. This is, of course, based on his seminars and video tapes much more so than his book. While Covey has made claims that his book is also a facet of his attempt to convert people to Mormonism, I cannot speak to that.
Geez, don't read the Seven Habits. Covey's trademarked[tm] every other[tm] word, pretty[tm] much. Additionally, even Covey admits he does everything he can to convert you to his religion.
Rather than buying a license, why not just go to their ftp site and download the source code to the Linux kernel? SCO is still distributing the Linux kernel sources under the GPL.
This is slightly off-topic, I apologise. I have several Windows machines (specifically, Win2k and several XP machines). They are all set to download updates automatically and notify me when they are ready to be installed. However, despite me clicking to install the patches, none of them ever do.
And when I go to windowsupdate.com and try that way, I see the updates and tell the system to go ahead. The updates are downloaded (though some are obviously already in the cache) and the install starts. Part way through, it aborts and I'm told none of the installs were successful and to try again.
Now, this worked in the past. I currently have 'only' 5 critical vulnerabilities to patch. But it's not working now. I've tried removing the download cache area and that didn't help. Is it really time to reformat?
C99 added C++-style comments, iirc. So C++ can no longer be viewed as C with those // comments.
You can moderate moderations. It's called metamoderation and I do it almost every day.
Hey! I already reviewed this book. Right here on slashdot. Almost three years ago.
Okay, so kids are soon not going to be able to write cursive. So what? Very few kids these days know how to use a calligraphy pen properly, yet these were mandatory while I was in grade school (1978 on, in England). And you know what, I don't care. While I can still write using my calligraphy pen (and that means using it properly, writing in a typeface suited to it), I don't. It is, for me, a dead art. There's no call for it, not for me in my day-to-day life. Same, I suspect, with cursive writing.
So yeah, maybe it will die out. But the question really is should we care?
Microsoft promised way back when that they would never charge for Microsoft Internet Explorer. If they refuse to release a stand-alone version, this presumably means the only way to acquire MSIE legally is to purchase it. You just happen to get a whole operating system as a free bonus. However, as Microsoft swore they'd never charge for MSIE, this presumably means all future Microsoft operating systems will be free.
Bittorrent is a great protocol, similar in many ways (but clearly superior, for large files, to) ftp. Like ftp, though, there's no way to easily search for files. It seems to me torrents should have some additional metainformation in the .torrent file itself (such as the content type, bitrate, etc.), instead of just the file name. And then perhaps you or someone else could easily write a global torrent search system. Have you given much thought to this sort of thing? Any plans? Or are you hoping someone else will take these ideas and run with them?
See the section marked 'Aren't These Cheats Just Optimizations...' here. These aren't driver optimisations. The drivers are claiming to do work they are not actually doing.
Nvidia (and ATI before) are guilty of using deceit to attempt to sell more video cards. Thus, they are guilty of fraud.
(Serious question) Do you have linux drivers for this card? If you do, which of the 'standards' does the Linux driver support?
Okay, so let me summarise.
You claim that the only difference between the 95 style and the XP style is the look of the widgets. They even look the same now.
I show the Control Panel as a counterexample.
You, correctly, claim that it can be made to look the same (though not by default) but you ignore my other points such as browser configuration, folder view options, etc. while claiming I have no other arguments.
You state that Mandrake (which I no longer use, by the way) has poor cut-and-paste in comparison to Windows.
I point out that Windows apps often do not even allow you to cut and paste, and that I never have problems with cut-and-paste in Linux. For some reason, you think this argument is silly... Why? Why is this less silly than claiming that Windows cut-and-paste is better even though it simply doesn't work in many cases?
This may be true but I've never seen any examples of it. I run KDE on my Gentoo Linux box. I have no problem installing and using Gnome apps such as Gimp, Gnumeric, etc. etc.
Oh, of course I need to have the Gnome libraries installed. But that hardly means I have essentially two splintered OS's on my system. I have one. When I fire up Gimp or Gnumeric, I'm not even aware (apart from the name) that these are Gnome apps. I run them at the same time as running, say, KMail.
So I'm not quite sure where you are coming from. Could you please explain?
I truly do not know what you mean here. Do you mean that, for example, the 'x' to close a window is in the same location in Windows 95 and Windows XP? Or do you mean that the Control Panel looks the same (sans more colour) in Windows 95 and in Windows XP? If the former, you are certainly right. If the latter, you aren't. You can modify the control panel in Windows XP to look more like it did in Windows 95 but by default, it doesn't look like it used to. IIRC, there are other significant differences such as where the 'folder view options' are located, the browser configuration settings (cookie handling and other security settings leap to mind, there could be other differences), etc.
In my experience, cut-and-paste works better in Linux in general than in Windows. I have often wanted to copy read-only text from a dialog in Windows and been unable to do so. I have not yet had this experience in Linux though there's no fundamental reason why this should be the case.
As opposed to, say, Windows, where you have the classic Windows 95-style interface and the newer Windows XP-style interface.
Oh, but perhaps you can claim that Windows XP has a standard UI. In that case, you can similarly claim that Mandrake Linux has a standard UI.
MS has also put pressure on various commercial software houses not to use GPL'ed tools such as doxygen, grep, emacs, etc. if they are developing using MS tools. Even if the software they are developing will be released under a commercial license, not the GPL.
The Visual C++ compiler included in Visual Studio .NET 2003 is a vast improvement over previous versions. I believe it even compiles the loki library now. :)
.NET 2002 (which was only slightly better) but I think you probably haven't tried out the newest one yet.
Seriously, what you say is correct for Visual C++ 6 (which was god-awful) and for Visual C++
Someone please mod the parent up.
We had a 80 - 90% drop-or-transfer rate from the first computer science course in first year to the graduating class. Our first computer class had 434 students in the first semester. Some additional students, perhaps as many as 200, didn't take it until second semester, however. The population of my graduating class was around 60.
Of course, most of these students ended up transferring into arts or engineering or something similar. I believe as many as 60% of all first year students at my post-secondary school return for second year.
This is a good idea except many schools restrict how long you have from the time you take your first course to the time you take your last course. My school restricts this to eight years for an undergrad term. Given the average salary for a person without post-secondary education here in Canada, it is unlikely you could make enough working half time to pay for school.
I'm curious, were you able to get any help at all from Rackspace? I haven't ever had an experience like yours (thank God), but I did find for a time that about 90% of my spam was coming from Rackspace. All attempts to contact them (and I _didn't_ just try abuse@rackspace.com) led to nothing and I ended up having to ban their entire domain and all the IPs they control from connecting to my server and the servers I was administrating. I guess I just determined that Rackspace was quite happy to host known-spammers (and checking my logs, they still are), but perhaps your experience was different?
I'd hardly list 5GB+ as my ideal. I had a Nomad Jukebox 3 (20 gig edition) and subsequently lost it on a plane. While I didn't fill up all 20 gigs, I certainly came close. 5 gigs is probably fine if you are carrying around music for a day or a weekend but if you want enough music for, say, a vacation, 5 gigs just isn't enough. At 20 gigs or more, I can put most of my music collection on there with good quality. At 5 gigs, I'm going to be _very_ picky about what music I store on my player.
This would only be true if you were not running inside of the .NET CLR.