I read an article a week or so back saying that the rootkit would insert spots of noise into MP3's when you tried to burn them to degrade the quality. Perhaps this is where LAME could be used? Anybody know the article I'm talking about and can link it?
Those "crappy parts" you refer to is actually socialization in progress. It's kind of important, you know. This kid will never be well-adjusted. Seems like a shame to me.
Don't get me wrong. I've been a programmer for quite some time and it sucks, but supply and demand concepts aren't limited to one country. The world is getting smaller and more connected. National economies are merging into a world economy. No amount of artificial propping-up by local governments is going to keep it from happening. Get used to it.
I will not get used to it. There's a difference between competing in a free market and having your own government bring in non-US citizens to compete directly against you. Or giving tax breaks to coporations shipping jobs over to China.
Should we expect any less of a Republican big business administration?
I'm inclined to believe that having two completely different icons for the "save" button, for instance, takes more time for the brain to locate and process. Having consistency increases usability for me because I don't have to switch from one "mode" to another, visually.
For anything substantial, though, it always seem to wind up being more work as I figure out how to configure & trick the persistance layer into giving me my data in the most efficient way. This can be frustrating when you know how to accomplish the same thing in 5 seconds using plain SQL. Maybe it's just me?
If there is something you need to specifically query by hand in SQL you just use find_by_sql in Rails. I'm not sure how this is configuring and tricking it?
Wow, you're right. It's a good thing they don't offer different operating systems on their computer like Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional, Windows 2003 Server. There's obviously a process there already to dealing with multiple images. (I'd assume they use some sort of image duplication technique). So please explain why having a blank one would be different than all those other choices? Really, it'd take less time to image a hard drive with FreeDOS, don't you think?
When I started up my brand new Dell laptop I immediately booted to CD-ROM and installed Linux.
I never agreed to the Windows EULA. You have to be careful when it first starts up because any key will make it accept. So if it comes up you have to shut the power off then start it back up and get to the boot menu before it comes up again.
May want to check out BananaPOS. It's the only Open Source POS system I found after a lot of searching that would be worth using. The feature list looks very nice. Version 2 is just right around the bend but the beta versions are available already.
1) Denial 2) Anger 3) Bargaining — Microsoft, you are HERE. 4) Depression 5) Acceptance
Hey, at least they're working the program. Who would have imagined 2 years ago that they would even acknowledge open source, let alone cooperate. The next 2 steps will be rough for them.
Google should be smart enough to know that extensions work the same in Firefox on every operating system Firefox supports. It's not like we're talking about having to worry about ABI compatability here. It's just a bunch of javascript.
He had stacked a bunch of school books on top of it at home and cracked the screen.
I believe you do what college students who will do the exact same thing do (or worse, drop it): buy accidental insurance.
If you don't get it through the company when purchasing it, you can buy insurance through a company such as SafeWare which actually provides more protection than the standard ones from Dell and such.
For $1,500 worth of coverage, the premium for a K-12 student is $126 a month, with a $100 deductible. You'd have to be an idiot not to get some kind of insurance
Regular People don't want their OK and Cancel buttons reversed -- tossing out years of finely tuned muscle memory.
I'm really sick about this mentality that seems to have actually increased in recent years. Everybody seems to think "well just because it doesn't work like Windows then it is flawed." We should not (and will not) bow down to these kinds of gripes. The coummunity is in the business of producing better software--not equal software.
In none of these write-ups do they care to mention viruses, spyware, or other basic design flaws Windows has. Or how things seem to bit-rot over time. All they do is moan about how things in Linux are different without digging into why it might actually be a better system. Or, if not, seeing what is being developed to solve certain problems.
Don't get me wrong, Linux has a long way to come in some areas. In others it is light-years ahead. I hope more people will join in with me to celebrate Linux's strenghts while being honest about where we are lacking and how to improve.
The firewall isn't a huge issue becacuse it ships with 0 listening services by default. I guess that if you know how to setup SSH, mail server, etc. then you're smart enough to configure the firewall.
The fact is that most people will have to go to college to obtain a successful career. I would imagine that the dropouts who become billionaires would average out to be a statistical fluke.
We live in a different world today than 100 years ago when the elite sent their sons and daughters off to college. Back then, those going to college didn't have to make a living. They already had all the money they needed. They went for pure academic reasons. Your argument is that these circumstances still apply today. They don't.
Today you have a wide middle class instead of just the poor and the rich. Today regular people can go to college. Today regular people can gain successful careers from an otherwise poor upbringing. But today most people must go to college to obtain the standard of living desired.
Sure kids should also want to learn new things and expand their mind. It is still an academic institution, after all. But you cannot discount the fact that the reason parents push their children into going to college is that they need it to survive. And, perhaps, to make sure they don't live in their basement for the rest of their natural born lives. Of yesteryear it may have been normal for children to live their whole lives in the ye ole log cabin.
I have always been told you go to school to learn how to learn. It applies in K-12, and even moreso in college. We should be teaching students concepts, not how to memorize a certain interface. Teach them how to wordprocess a document. There's paragraphs, tabs, fonts, etc. These are the same in Microsoft Word as well as OpenOffice.org.
Teach them how to send an e-mail. There's a to field, subject, and body. Again, the same in any e-mail client. Teach them how to intelligently use a search engine to find information. I'm sure you can see the pattern here. If not, maybe Clippie can help you out.
The point is to teach them the concepts so that they are confident enough later in life to adapt to new things.
Children are not completely fragile objects, contrary to the popular belief by some. Too often today people are treating them like single-celled organisms with no brains. Teach them the concepts and they will be able to thrive on their own in any environment.
That's one thing. The other is (potentially) reduced technical support costs, as counterfeit software may have been repackaged in a less robust way than the original (e.g., missing.DLLs, etc.).
That makes no sense.
Why would it be "repackaged"? Anybody can rip a CD and make a perfect copy. There's no repackaging needed.
Plus, Microsoft doesn't even give free technical support last I recall.
Because it's taken the best base distribution (Debian unstable), stabalized the packages and made a stable release from it while putting its own polish on everything. Debian has the biggest package repository, which is my personal selling point. It's also completely free, in every sense of the word.
People wanted something simple yet functional where they don't have to go RPM hunting all the time. Ubuntu delivered.
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And how are you going to tell that those interviewers are telling you the truth? At least with this guy he has learned his lesson. The others may be waiting to learn their lesson.
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"But I didn't know my Internet connection was being used by my son to download Sony BMG artists' songs!"
"I'm sorry sir but you're the owner. You owe $500,000 in damages."
They don't allow the "but I didn't know" explanation. Why should they be allowed to use it? I say try to nail them. They've done far worse to others.
I read an article a week or so back saying that the rootkit would insert spots of noise into MP3's when you tried to burn them to degrade the quality. Perhaps this is where LAME could be used? Anybody know the article I'm talking about and can link it?
Those "crappy parts" you refer to is actually socialization in progress. It's kind of important, you know. This kid will never be well-adjusted. Seems like a shame to me.
Don't get me wrong. I've been a programmer for quite some time and it sucks, but supply and demand concepts aren't limited to one country. The world is getting smaller and more connected. National economies are merging into a world economy. No amount of artificial propping-up by local governments is going to keep it from happening. Get used to it.
I will not get used to it. There's a difference between competing in a free market and having your own government bring in non-US citizens to compete directly against you. Or giving tax breaks to coporations shipping jobs over to China.
Should we expect any less of a Republican big business administration?
I'm inclined to believe that having two completely different icons for the "save" button, for instance, takes more time for the brain to locate and process. Having consistency increases usability for me because I don't have to switch from one "mode" to another, visually.
If there is something you need to specifically query by hand in SQL you just use find_by_sql in Rails. I'm not sure how this is configuring and tricking it?
Wow, you're right. It's a good thing they don't offer different operating systems on their computer like Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional, Windows 2003 Server. There's obviously a process there already to dealing with multiple images. (I'd assume they use some sort of image duplication technique). So please explain why having a blank one would be different than all those other choices? Really, it'd take less time to image a hard drive with FreeDOS, don't you think?
When I started up my brand new Dell laptop I immediately booted to CD-ROM and installed Linux.
I never agreed to the Windows EULA. You have to be careful when it first starts up because any key will make it accept. So if it comes up you have to shut the power off then start it back up and get to the boot menu before it comes up again.
May want to check out BananaPOS. It's the only Open Source POS system I found after a lot of searching that would be worth using. The feature list looks very nice. Version 2 is just right around the bend but the beta versions are available already.
1) Denial
2) Anger
3) Bargaining — Microsoft, you are HERE.
4) Depression
5) Acceptance
Hey, at least they're working the program. Who would have imagined 2 years ago that they would even acknowledge open source, let alone cooperate. The next 2 steps will be rough for them.
Google should be smart enough to know that extensions work the same in Firefox on every operating system Firefox supports. It's not like we're talking about having to worry about ABI compatability here. It's just a bunch of javascript.
I'm not sure if you're kidding or not, but dogs have been trained to find cancers, so it's not that out of reach.
I definitely used to feel this way about KDE. kio-slaves definitely work a lot better (and more reliably) than gnome-vfs.
However, KDE's design was very straining for me personally. A million options, broke icons, cluttered menus and toolbars.
After a while I just couldn't take it any more and by that time GNOME had matured a little bit more. But I definitely understand your view.
I believe you do what college students who will do the exact same thing do (or worse, drop it): buy accidental insurance.
If you don't get it through the company when purchasing it, you can buy insurance through a company such as SafeWare which actually provides more protection than the standard ones from Dell and such.
For $1,500 worth of coverage, the premium for a K-12 student is $126 a month, with a $100 deductible. You'd have to be an idiot not to get some kind of insurance
I'm really sick about this mentality that seems to have actually increased in recent years. Everybody seems to think "well just because it doesn't work like Windows then it is flawed." We should not (and will not) bow down to these kinds of gripes. The coummunity is in the business of producing better software--not equal software.
In none of these write-ups do they care to mention viruses, spyware, or other basic design flaws Windows has. Or how things seem to bit-rot over time. All they do is moan about how things in Linux are different without digging into why it might actually be a better system. Or, if not, seeing what is being developed to solve certain problems.
Don't get me wrong, Linux has a long way to come in some areas. In others it is light-years ahead. I hope more people will join in with me to celebrate Linux's strenghts while being honest about where we are lacking and how to improve.
You can also have Google convert it outright for you. Just query:
1 femtosecond in seconds
which returns: 1 femtosecond = 1.0 × 10-15 seconds
Wikipedia knows all.
The firewall isn't a huge issue becacuse it ships with 0 listening services by default. I guess that if you know how to setup SSH, mail server, etc. then you're smart enough to configure the firewall.
The fact is that most people will have to go to college to obtain a successful career. I would imagine that the dropouts who become billionaires would average out to be a statistical fluke.
We live in a different world today than 100 years ago when the elite sent their sons and daughters off to college. Back then, those going to college didn't have to make a living. They already had all the money they needed. They went for pure academic reasons. Your argument is that these circumstances still apply today. They don't.
Today you have a wide middle class instead of just the poor and the rich. Today regular people can go to college. Today regular people can gain successful careers from an otherwise poor upbringing. But today most people must go to college to obtain the standard of living desired.
Sure kids should also want to learn new things and expand their mind. It is still an academic institution, after all. But you cannot discount the fact that the reason parents push their children into going to college is that they need it to survive. And, perhaps, to make sure they don't live in their basement for the rest of their natural born lives. Of yesteryear it may have been normal for children to live their whole lives in the ye ole log cabin.
Things change.
I have always been told you go to school to learn how to learn. It applies in K-12, and even moreso in college. We should be teaching students concepts, not how to memorize a certain interface. Teach them how to wordprocess a document. There's paragraphs, tabs, fonts, etc. These are the same in Microsoft Word as well as OpenOffice.org.
Teach them how to send an e-mail. There's a to field, subject, and body. Again, the same in any e-mail client. Teach them how to intelligently use a search engine to find information. I'm sure you can see the pattern here. If not, maybe Clippie can help you out.
The point is to teach them the concepts so that they are confident enough later in life to adapt to new things.
Children are not completely fragile objects, contrary to the popular belief by some. Too often today people are treating them like single-celled organisms with no brains. Teach them the concepts and they will be able to thrive on their own in any environment.
That makes no sense.
Why would it be "repackaged"? Anybody can rip a CD and make a perfect copy. There's no repackaging needed.
Plus, Microsoft doesn't even give free technical support last I recall.
Just a few examples:
* Default install with all the basics (a new person doesn't know how to build Debian up from a basic install into a functioning desktop)
* Stable releases of new software
* Prebuilt binary drivers (nvidia, ati, wireless cards, etc.)
* Other integration tweaks (esd preconfigured where appropriate, etc.)
It's all in the small things.
Because it's taken the best base distribution (Debian unstable), stabalized the packages and made a stable release from it while putting its own polish on everything. Debian has the biggest package repository, which is my personal selling point. It's also completely free, in every sense of the word.
People wanted something simple yet functional where they don't have to go RPM hunting all the time. Ubuntu delivered.
This is not an all or nothing thing. We do not have to turn out the lights on IPv4 before we can start utilizing IPv6.
And how are you going to tell that those interviewers are telling you the truth? At least with this guy he has learned his lesson. The others may be waiting to learn their lesson.