I am incredibly amused by the fact that the introductory video shows backup to the Wuala servers and Wuala cloud as if they are two separate places, and storing in both places is what makes the storage redundant.:c)
An anti-copyright activist will agree with this, while disagreeing with copyright itself, on the basis that, yes, people deserve do get paid for their work while they're working. Being paid for work they did, but aren't doing anymore, on the other hand, is by no means deserved, no.
Artists and others are very often paid by commission, where they are not paid for the time spent, but for the completed work which was done in the past.
If I can get someone to agree to pay me under any terms, then I do deserve to get paid according to our agreement.
Yeah, yeah, or look up the first one in a cache. The second link has the same pretty pictures as the first, but the first one is actually written by the guy who did the work.
Not exactly... all I get are Server 500 errors. That's not what I pictured an alien sunset looking like.
The slashdot effect works the same way there that it does here. You don't actually have to go there to know that making the slashdot front page will cripple their servers.
(Disclaimer: I work for Google, and part of my work is related to Wallet, but I have carefully restricted my comments to exactly what I would have said based on the knowledge I had before joining Google.)
Partitioning your knowledge like this is an interesting and valuable skill. Did they teach you this before or after teaching you the secret of levitation?
Are jurors asked if they can apply the laws as written, or if they will apply the laws as written? You used both words in this thread. I am capable apply the laws as written, but I may not if they seem unjust. If it's the former, and then I nullify the law while on a jury, I am not convinced that is perjury.
Why the deuce is this rated higher than its parent?
I can't believe Amazon is shipping this crap.
So, a system that is designed to be 100% Amazon supported for everyone who wants it to be, but is designed intentionally to be easy to jailbreak for those that don't, is automatically crap? This is idiotic. The fact that it is easy to jailbreak isn't a bug, IT IS A FEATURE.
The reason the GP called it crap is that now I have to worry about MP3s running arbitrary code on my tablet. Not only can they execute code, but they can gain root access and then execute code! Until I know more about the security of this device, it is making me very nervous. I want jailbreaking to be easy, but I don't want it to be effected by the same kind of action that I use every day for non-jailbreaking activities.
I wonder if there could be a custom window manager installed for which students could log out, then switch to ManacledWM when the time comes for testing? This would allow the overall configuration of each user account and system to remain intact: when done testing, they switch back to FVWM or Gnome or whatever they normally use. IT may be willing to install additional packages. This would be much quicker than rebooting from a Live CD, as some have proposed, and would allow test-takers to use their own accounts, if that is somehow important to the collecting of the test results. And if this sort of solution to the problem is amenable (and available in a nice package), IT may be able to carry the day with their savvy.
On the other hand, only yesterday I pointed out to my wife that Ctrl+Z does undo. She has been using Windows and Word for years, and it never occurred to her that there is a keyboard shortcut for that sort of thing. (It came up for discussion because she is now being forced to make the transition from Office 2003 to 2010, and the Ribbon is turning her world upside down.)
How is this sort of chording discoverable by the end user? The "intuitive" interface is a myth.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't meta moderate any more because they made it a pain in the ass to see the comments in context.
I just open the comment in a new tab. Is that so hard?
Disclaimer: I discovered this thread just now while metamoderating.
Are you kidding? It was hilarious!
Orwell was going to call the book 2012, but he was writing it in 1948, and figured an anagram would be catchier.
Never heard of Wuala before, thanks.
I am incredibly amused by the fact that the introductory video shows backup to the Wuala servers and Wuala cloud as if they are two separate places, and storing in both places is what makes the storage redundant. :c)
People deserve to get paid for their work.
An anti-copyright activist will agree with this, while disagreeing with copyright itself, on the basis that, yes, people deserve do get paid for their work while they're working. Being paid for work they did, but aren't doing anymore, on the other hand, is by no means deserved, no.
Artists and others are very often paid by commission, where they are not paid for the time spent, but for the completed work which was done in the past.
If I can get someone to agree to pay me under any terms, then I do deserve to get paid according to our agreement.
"This domain has been reserved from registration."
I find it amusing that the article linked for this story has some atrocious typography of its own.
Really? What I see is a single sentence in a black serifed font on a white page. No ads; nothing. It is beautiful:
Error establishing a database connection
Yeah, yeah, or look up the first one in a cache. The second link has the same pretty pictures as the first, but the first one is actually written by the guy who did the work.
And here's a Google cache, for those of us who are behind firewalls which block "Hacking/Proxy Avoidance Systems":
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.exoclimes.com/paper-outlines/the-sunset-on-hd-209458-b/+
Not exactly... all I get are Server 500 errors. That's not what I pictured an alien sunset looking like.
The slashdot effect works the same way there that it does here. You don't actually have to go there to know that making the slashdot front page will cripple their servers.
B-b-but, Elvis is alive!
(Disclaimer: I work for Google, and part of my work is related to Wallet, but I have carefully restricted my comments to exactly what I would have said based on the knowledge I had before joining Google.)
Partitioning your knowledge like this is an interesting and valuable skill. Did they teach you this before or after teaching you the secret of levitation?
(+1, Flamebait)
Am I doing it right?
Good point. If I were given those sorts of instructions by a judge, I would be inclined to walk out of the courtroom.
Are jurors asked if they can apply the laws as written, or if they will apply the laws as written? You used both words in this thread. I am capable apply the laws as written, but I may not if they seem unjust. If it's the former, and then I nullify the law while on a jury, I am not convinced that is perjury.
Why the deuce is this rated higher than its parent?
I can't believe Amazon is shipping this crap.
So, a system that is designed to be 100% Amazon supported for everyone who wants it to be, but is designed intentionally to be easy to jailbreak for those that don't, is automatically crap? This is idiotic. The fact that it is easy to jailbreak isn't a bug, IT IS A FEATURE.
The reason the GP called it crap is that now I have to worry about MP3s running arbitrary code on my tablet. Not only can they execute code, but they can gain root access and then execute code! Until I know more about the security of this device, it is making me very nervous. I want jailbreaking to be easy, but I don't want it to be effected by the same kind of action that I use every day for non-jailbreaking activities.
I wonder if there could be a custom window manager installed for which students could log out, then switch to ManacledWM when the time comes for testing? This would allow the overall configuration of each user account and system to remain intact: when done testing, they switch back to FVWM or Gnome or whatever they normally use. IT may be willing to install additional packages. This would be much quicker than rebooting from a Live CD, as some have proposed, and would allow test-takers to use their own accounts, if that is somehow important to the collecting of the test results. And if this sort of solution to the problem is amenable (and available in a nice package), IT may be able to carry the day with their savvy.
Doesn't solve the Virtual TTY problem, though.
*swoosh*
No, they will still mod you down. But it will take between minutes and weeks for you to realize it has happened.
Quite so. The tooltips give the name of the application you would be starting, but no hints on using the interface more effectively.
I'm trying to give Unity a fair shake at the moment, but if I go back to Linux Mint, I'm also going back to the Awesome window manager.
It's a shame you didn't make the first post. ;c)
Or maybe there was nothing unusual about his 16" scope.
At least keyboard shortcuts for Edit menu items are listed in the right column of the Edit menu[...]
Heh. Except that with the new ribbon, those keyboard shortcuts are not shown any longer. ...Oh, wait. They are still shown on the tool tips.
A lot of applications for Linux still have nonexistent help files,
Yes, this is something that bothers me greatly.
or help files that are unavailable while not connected to the Internet.
And this is a situation that I greatly deplore. If I wanted 'documentation as a service', I would be using 'software as a service'.
This sounds more like shooting someone in the head while standing on Canadian soil.
On the other hand, only yesterday I pointed out to my wife that Ctrl+Z does undo. She has been using Windows and Word for years, and it never occurred to her that there is a keyboard shortcut for that sort of thing. (It came up for discussion because she is now being forced to make the transition from Office 2003 to 2010, and the Ribbon is turning her world upside down.)
How is this sort of chording discoverable by the end user? The "intuitive" interface is a myth.