Even then I wouldn't recommend it; generally when you use your "low" UID to support some sweeping statement or other, some other bugger comes along with a UID an order of magnitude lower than yours.
Besides, what the hell is it supposed to prove anyway? Well done, you've been here a while - assuming you didn't buy the account from the original owner - so what?
My parent's TV died at the ripe old age of 21. A TV I bought a few years ago developed colour issues and had to be replaced (fortunately under warranty). I've seen fridges break, and I have personally broken a hammer in normal usage conditions (it was a small hammer and a big job).
Your assertion that fridges don't break is actually laughable, as they contain moving parts. Moving parts means frictional wear, which means eventual breakage.
It doesn't even mean that. It means that no Adobe product has successfully completed the "Made for Windows Vista" certification program. That may be because they fail it for a serious reason (eg won't run) or for a trivial reason, or it may be that Adobe simply hasn't submitted them for testing yet.
This is a complete non-story, which I can only imagine was posted because the editors know it'll generate a lot of debate and hence a lot of ad impressions. Never forget that slashdot is a business.
To be fair, although it did prompt her to register, I don't believe it will prompt her for a purchase until the end of the sixty days.
In my admittedly (and blessedly) limited experience, it'll start nagging her to purchase from 2-4 weeks before the end of the period. That's based on my parents' installation of the full version, which started nagging from around the 28 days to go mark.
Presumably she needs more than just an antivirus program (ClamAV). If anyone has any recommendations on a well-behaved, friendly security program for Windows XP that isn't in your face all the time, I'd love to hear it.
I use Windows Defender, the built-in firewall, a hardware firewall on my modem/router, and AVG from grisoft. Personally I wouldn't touch one of those integrated, all-in-one security suites with a bargepole, although I know plenty of people (including my ex-programmer boss) do.
When was this? Java has been a download, 'double-click, click "next" a few times to install' affair for years. At most you might need to add the path to the bin directory to your path (it's been so long since I installed Java on a fresh machine that I forget).
Swing doesn't take any "setting up", it's a core API.
Tomcat runs pretty-much out of the box, although porting web-apps to it from other servlet containers can be problematic (especially if you foolishly use container-specific extensions).
Eclipse can be troublesome in that the website doesn't make it entirely clear what it is you should be downloading. As long as you get it right, however (and it's not really that hard, certainly much easier than it used to be) then you just extract it and double-click the executable to run it.
Now I'll grant that perhaps you might have trouble integrating Eclipse and Tomcat (as I've never tried it I can't comment), and you'd certainly have trouble trying to use Swing in a web-app, but without more detail I really can't see where on Earth you could be going wrong.
people have to show an id card when they use a credit card in Sweden
How does that work for online purchases? (Or mail order, telephone orders, etc)
those guys are by no means the worst case illegal immigrant in these post 9/11 days
Oh please. The UK dealt with a terrorist threat for decades without having to resort to ID cards, and the July 7th bombers in London were all British citizens.
And in so-doing, they'd intentionally be giving Vista horrible performance in real-world situations, thus ensuring that uptake was abysmal as people either stuck with XP or migrated to other platforms.
MS may be evil at times, but one thing they most definitely are not is stupid (or suicidal).
Essentially this says nothing other than that a number of people have filled in an online feedback form to say they'd like an option to have Linux preinstalled on Dell's computers. Unless the form is somehow restricted to only Dell customers, it doesn't even say that a percentage of Dell users want that option. Yes, most of them are likely to be Dell customers, but it's entirely possible (as the GP pointed out) that most or all of the responses are due to a vocal minority with an axe to grind.
That said, while I wouldn't buy one myself, having Dell offer preinstalled Linux would be a good thing. This story, however, proves nothing either way about the actual level of demand for such a thing.
They do, and their definition is pretty much "regardless of whether the program is completely harmless and improves a crappy aspect of our game, it's still cheating if it allows a player to play our game in any way that wasn't determined solely by us."
Another way of saying "playing our game in the way that was determined solely by us" is "playing by the rules". Playing in a way not allowed by the rules is generally called "cheating".
Yeah since information only flows through laptops... right?
No, but given that common first moves in a full-scale invasion tend to include taking out of telephone, radio, television and other communications infrastructure, you'd expect that now to include internet resources. A remotely-activated kill switch installed in a significant proportion of PCs would certainly make that easier.
Remember, you don't have to take out *all* lines of communication to everyone, just enough that proper communication (and so organisation) becomes hard. People who don't know what's happening are generally more afraid and so easier to subjugate than those who are better informed.
But if they're US residents, running the site from within the US, they're still bound by US laws. The fact that the server they're using is physically located in another country doesn't make any difference - they are physically located in the US, (allegedly) breaking a US law. Look at it this way - I'm in the UK. If I make threatening 'phone calls to someone in the US, I can still be arrested and tried in the UK.
Disclaimer: IANAL, this is not legal advice, if you get your legal advice from slashdot you're a moron, etc.
Once your man has recorded a record all you have to do is plant some evidence/drugs and make an anonymous phone-call. Heck, if you're lucky those cops might be the trigger happy sort
If he's that good, surely you'd want him to record more than one record before he goes down in a hail of bullets...
However, one really does have to wonder if the majority of hardened criminals driving the rap industry are actually the sort that wears three-piece suits.
Most of the people who get rich from crime are essentially businessmen willing to break the law to make money; the front-line grunts might make a lot compared to their law-abiding peers, but they'll be getting a fraction of what the men at the top get. The top guys may not actually wear suits, but they might as well; they certainly wouldn't be in any danger of getting them dirty.
You do realise that most of the settlements in Australia were founded by free settlers and weren't penal colonies at all, don't you? Most modern-day Australians are not descended from British petty crims at all...
By your logic, the company could also legitimately discriminate on the basis of politics, colour or religion. After all, it's their computer, right?
No, because there are laws against discriminating against people on those bases. There is no law preventing you from discriminating against someone based on whether or not they visit porn sites, however, especially if they do it with your resources.
But if they start applying these unevenly, allowing employees to waste time all day on personal e-mails, irrelevant websites and tabloid newspapers, and then only jump on the employee visiting a site or reading a paper they don't like, then that's illegitimate control.
Not if they're up front about it. If they're going to be "uneven" about things, then as long as they declare an exhaustive list of categories of activity that will get you fired, I don't see how you can have a problem with it. If the computer use policy says "no porn" but doesn't say "no personal emails" (and I'd be amazed if it doesn't say something about it, possibly allowing "reasonable use" or similar) then personal email are fine and porn isn't and that's that. There's no guessing, there's no unfairness - everyone knows where they stand. It's not uneven when the rules apply equally to everyone.
don't know how to edit it (tell me if there's a way)
You can't edit comments once they've been posted. The ability to do so would be wide open to abuse - e.g. edit comments to change what you said to make respondents look stupid, edit highly-rated posts to add/change a link to point to goatse or similar, etc.
I used to use TWM, but these days I use Enlightenment
Neither of those are desktop environments, they're window managers. DEs include a WM, but provide a whole lot more, such as an integrated file manager (e.g. Nautilus or Konqueror), settings applet, taskbar, applications menu, associated services, etc.
From the sound of it you don't actually want a DE, you want a WM, which is fine - everyone's different and has different preferences.
Consumers don't get the opportunity to "own" media, consumers get no ownership rights at all, we cant resell, get a refund etc like you can with a TV you buy.
Rubbish. With the possible exception of refunds (although even then if you're firm enough you'll get one) you most certainly do have those rights when you buy content on a physical medium. There's nothing in copyright law that prevents one from reselling a CD, DVD or any other item which is protected by copyright. You're not allowed to distribute copies, or to sell the original on and keep a backup copy you made previously, but they're the only restrictions.
DRM makes it easier to restrict these usage rights which takes us further away from what they would call "ownership".
Now there I do agree - if you pay to download a file and the DRM system ties it irrevocably to your account (or hardware, etc) then you can't transfer ownership to anyone else. However, that's not the case with iTunes songs, and I'd be surprised if it's the case with ones bought from other music stores (although I'm willing to concede that I don't know, so it may be). They do have counterparts in the physical world, however - here in the UK at least, tickets for public transport are generally not transferable. For example, if I buy a season ticket for the London Underground, I'm not allowed to give (or sell) it to anyone else. It doesn't stop anyone, and you used to get touts at most stations selling on used tickets until they cracked down on it (but I digress).
However, I do agree that rental seems to me to cost a lot more than ownership in the long run, and quite possibly in the medium term too. I've bought 8 or so songs from iTunes at a cost of 79p each. I can't see a realistically-priced rental service being cheaper than that for me. Now, I appreciate that I'm something of a special case (an extremely light user), but you'd have to be downloading a lot of music/videos per rental period to actually make a saving.
The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Charlie Chaplin, B.B King, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Martin Scorcese, Stanley Kubrick, even Steven Spielberg created their work in a pre-DRM era and somehow managed to sell their work.
They also created their work in a pre-Internet era, in which essentially zero cost distribution to potentially hundreds of millions of people simply wasn't possible.
I'm no fan of DRM, but you're (intentionally?) ignoring the fact that copyright infringement is a lot easier and on scales orders of magnitude greater now than in the period you're talking about, even ignoring the (solved) problem of generational loss of quality.
The author says this as though it's unusual to see anybody questioning lofty claims.
That wasn't the author, that was Zonk. In a summary, anything not in blockquote tags was written by the posting "editor". Apart from that, I agree, that's the way it's supposed to work - someone makes a claim, experts in the field scrutinise and challenge it. The claim is either upheld, or refuted. That's science. Duh.
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reviewers should only be looking for specific problems, code formatting is not one of them
On the contrary, if you have a code formatting standard (and imho you should), then formal code reviews most certainly should flag transgressions.
UT2k7 has been renamed UT3; apparently 2k3 and 2k4 are being counted as a single title. That's almost fair enough, given that from what I remember, 2k4 is essentially equivalent to a service pack to 2k3 (although it's been a long time since I played 2k3), albeit a rather expensive one...
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Even then I wouldn't recommend it; generally when you use your "low" UID to support some sweeping statement or other, some other bugger comes along with a UID an order of magnitude lower than yours.
Besides, what the hell is it supposed to prove anyway? Well done, you've been here a while - assuming you didn't buy the account from the original owner - so what?
My parent's TV died at the ripe old age of 21. A TV I bought a few years ago developed colour issues and had to be replaced (fortunately under warranty). I've seen fridges break, and I have personally broken a hammer in normal usage conditions (it was a small hammer and a big job).
Your assertion that fridges don't break is actually laughable, as they contain moving parts. Moving parts means frictional wear, which means eventual breakage.
It doesn't even mean that. It means that no Adobe product has successfully completed the "Made for Windows Vista" certification program. That may be because they fail it for a serious reason (eg won't run) or for a trivial reason, or it may be that Adobe simply hasn't submitted them for testing yet.
This is a complete non-story, which I can only imagine was posted because the editors know it'll generate a lot of debate and hence a lot of ad impressions. Never forget that slashdot is a business.
I've not had mod points in years (fucking editurds ;)), but consider this a +1, Funny from me :)
http = hypertext transport protocol; www = world wide web therefore gww = galaxy wide web
Remember, the protocol is (or should be) independent of the application...
Not to be pedantic, but that would more likely be http://gww.google.com.../
it's natural gas idiot - it's as clean burning as it gets.
Even cleaner than a pure H2/O2 mix? Didn't think so.
Burning methane produces CO2, which is a greenhouse gas. It is not clean-burning in that sense.
To be fair, although it did prompt her to register, I don't believe it will prompt her for a purchase until the end of the sixty days.
In my admittedly (and blessedly) limited experience, it'll start nagging her to purchase from 2-4 weeks before the end of the period. That's based on my parents' installation of the full version, which started nagging from around the 28 days to go mark.
Presumably she needs more than just an antivirus program (ClamAV). If anyone has any recommendations on a well-behaved, friendly security program for Windows XP that isn't in your face all the time, I'd love to hear it.
I use Windows Defender, the built-in firewall, a hardware firewall on my modem/router, and AVG from grisoft. Personally I wouldn't touch one of those integrated, all-in-one security suites with a bargepole, although I know plenty of people (including my ex-programmer boss) do.
When was this? Java has been a download, 'double-click, click "next" a few times to install' affair for years. At most you might need to add the path to the bin directory to your path (it's been so long since I installed Java on a fresh machine that I forget).
Swing doesn't take any "setting up", it's a core API.
Tomcat runs pretty-much out of the box, although porting web-apps to it from other servlet containers can be problematic (especially if you foolishly use container-specific extensions).
Eclipse can be troublesome in that the website doesn't make it entirely clear what it is you should be downloading. As long as you get it right, however (and it's not really that hard, certainly much easier than it used to be) then you just extract it and double-click the executable to run it.
Now I'll grant that perhaps you might have trouble integrating Eclipse and Tomcat (as I've never tried it I can't comment), and you'd certainly have trouble trying to use Swing in a web-app, but without more detail I really can't see where on Earth you could be going wrong.
people have to show an id card when they use a credit card in Sweden
How does that work for online purchases? (Or mail order, telephone orders, etc)
those guys are by no means the worst case illegal immigrant in these post 9/11 days
Oh please. The UK dealt with a terrorist threat for decades without having to resort to ID cards, and the July 7th bombers in London were all British citizens.
And in so-doing, they'd intentionally be giving Vista horrible performance in real-world situations, thus ensuring that uptake was abysmal as people either stuck with XP or migrated to other platforms.
MS may be evil at times, but one thing they most definitely are not is stupid (or suicidal).
Essentially this says nothing other than that a number of people have filled in an online feedback form to say they'd like an option to have Linux preinstalled on Dell's computers. Unless the form is somehow restricted to only Dell customers, it doesn't even say that a percentage of Dell users want that option. Yes, most of them are likely to be Dell customers, but it's entirely possible (as the GP pointed out) that most or all of the responses are due to a vocal minority with an axe to grind.
That said, while I wouldn't buy one myself, having Dell offer preinstalled Linux would be a good thing. This story, however, proves nothing either way about the actual level of demand for such a thing.
They do, and their definition is pretty much "regardless of whether the program is completely harmless and improves a crappy aspect of our game, it's still cheating if it allows a player to play our game in any way that wasn't determined solely by us."
Another way of saying "playing our game in the way that was determined solely by us" is "playing by the rules". Playing in a way not allowed by the rules is generally called "cheating".
Yeah since information only flows through laptops... right?
No, but given that common first moves in a full-scale invasion tend to include taking out of telephone, radio, television and other communications infrastructure, you'd expect that now to include internet resources. A remotely-activated kill switch installed in a significant proportion of PCs would certainly make that easier.
Remember, you don't have to take out *all* lines of communication to everyone, just enough that proper communication (and so organisation) becomes hard. People who don't know what's happening are generally more afraid and so easier to subjugate than those who are better informed.
But if they're US residents, running the site from within the US, they're still bound by US laws. The fact that the server they're using is physically located in another country doesn't make any difference - they are physically located in the US, (allegedly) breaking a US law. Look at it this way - I'm in the UK. If I make threatening 'phone calls to someone in the US, I can still be arrested and tried in the UK.
Disclaimer: IANAL, this is not legal advice, if you get your legal advice from slashdot you're a moron, etc.
Once your man has recorded a record all you have to do is plant some evidence/drugs and make an anonymous phone-call. Heck, if you're lucky those cops might be the trigger happy sort
If he's that good, surely you'd want him to record more than one record before he goes down in a hail of bullets...
However, one really does have to wonder if the majority of hardened criminals driving the rap industry are actually the sort that wears three-piece suits.
Most of the people who get rich from crime are essentially businessmen willing to break the law to make money; the front-line grunts might make a lot compared to their law-abiding peers, but they'll be getting a fraction of what the men at the top get. The top guys may not actually wear suits, but they might as well; they certainly wouldn't be in any danger of getting them dirty.
You do realise that most of the settlements in Australia were founded by free settlers and weren't penal colonies at all, don't you? Most modern-day Australians are not descended from British petty crims at all...
By your logic, the company could also legitimately discriminate on the basis of politics, colour or religion. After all, it's their computer, right?
No, because there are laws against discriminating against people on those bases. There is no law preventing you from discriminating against someone based on whether or not they visit porn sites, however, especially if they do it with your resources.
But if they start applying these unevenly, allowing employees to waste time all day on personal e-mails, irrelevant websites and tabloid newspapers, and then only jump on the employee visiting a site or reading a paper they don't like, then that's illegitimate control.
Not if they're up front about it. If they're going to be "uneven" about things, then as long as they declare an exhaustive list of categories of activity that will get you fired, I don't see how you can have a problem with it. If the computer use policy says "no porn" but doesn't say "no personal emails" (and I'd be amazed if it doesn't say something about it, possibly allowing "reasonable use" or similar) then personal email are fine and porn isn't and that's that. There's no guessing, there's no unfairness - everyone knows where they stand. It's not uneven when the rules apply equally to everyone.
don't know how to edit it (tell me if there's a way)
You can't edit comments once they've been posted. The ability to do so would be wide open to abuse - e.g. edit comments to change what you said to make respondents look stupid, edit highly-rated posts to add/change a link to point to goatse or similar, etc.
I used to use TWM, but these days I use Enlightenment
Neither of those are desktop environments, they're window managers. DEs include a WM, but provide a whole lot more, such as an integrated file manager (e.g. Nautilus or Konqueror), settings applet, taskbar, applications menu, associated services, etc.
From the sound of it you don't actually want a DE, you want a WM, which is fine - everyone's different and has different preferences.
Consumers don't get the opportunity to "own" media, consumers get no ownership rights at all, we cant resell, get a refund etc like you can with a TV you buy.
Rubbish. With the possible exception of refunds (although even then if you're firm enough you'll get one) you most certainly do have those rights when you buy content on a physical medium. There's nothing in copyright law that prevents one from reselling a CD, DVD or any other item which is protected by copyright. You're not allowed to distribute copies, or to sell the original on and keep a backup copy you made previously, but they're the only restrictions.
DRM makes it easier to restrict these usage rights which takes us further away from what they would call "ownership".
Now there I do agree - if you pay to download a file and the DRM system ties it irrevocably to your account (or hardware, etc) then you can't transfer ownership to anyone else. However, that's not the case with iTunes songs, and I'd be surprised if it's the case with ones bought from other music stores (although I'm willing to concede that I don't know, so it may be). They do have counterparts in the physical world, however - here in the UK at least, tickets for public transport are generally not transferable. For example, if I buy a season ticket for the London Underground, I'm not allowed to give (or sell) it to anyone else. It doesn't stop anyone, and you used to get touts at most stations selling on used tickets until they cracked down on it (but I digress).
However, I do agree that rental seems to me to cost a lot more than ownership in the long run, and quite possibly in the medium term too. I've bought 8 or so songs from iTunes at a cost of 79p each. I can't see a realistically-priced rental service being cheaper than that for me. Now, I appreciate that I'm something of a special case (an extremely light user), but you'd have to be downloading a lot of music/videos per rental period to actually make a saving.
The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Charlie Chaplin, B.B King, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Martin Scorcese, Stanley Kubrick, even Steven Spielberg created their work in a pre-DRM era and somehow managed to sell their work.
They also created their work in a pre-Internet era, in which essentially zero cost distribution to potentially hundreds of millions of people simply wasn't possible.
I'm no fan of DRM, but you're (intentionally?) ignoring the fact that copyright infringement is a lot easier and on scales orders of magnitude greater now than in the period you're talking about, even ignoring the (solved) problem of generational loss of quality.
The author says this as though it's unusual to see anybody questioning lofty claims.
That wasn't the author, that was Zonk. In a summary, anything not in blockquote tags was written by the posting "editor". Apart from that, I agree, that's the way it's supposed to work - someone makes a claim, experts in the field scrutinise and challenge it. The claim is either upheld, or refuted. That's science. Duh.
reviewers should only be looking for specific problems, code formatting is not one of them
On the contrary, if you have a code formatting standard (and imho you should), then formal code reviews most certainly should flag transgressions.
Epic has UE3 running on the PC already (UT2k7)
UT2k7 has been renamed UT3; apparently 2k3 and 2k4 are being counted as a single title. That's almost fair enough, given that from what I remember, 2k4 is essentially equivalent to a service pack to 2k3 (although it's been a long time since I played 2k3), albeit a rather expensive one...