They really ought to know enough Perl to read and write files and manipulate numbers, and know a little programming.
I know and use many programming languages, but Perl is not something that anyone outside of a programming professional "ought to know". If anything, it's the opposite: they ought to stay away from it, and learn a language with a halfway sane syntax and semantics, as opposed to a warmed-over Unixy shell scripting language that went through a brief period of overuse during the dotcom bubble.
End-users with prior Windows experience tend to take to KDE much better. That's only partly because KDE is more similar to what they're used to in Windows. What's often missed in the aim for "simplified" is that for real-world use in business etc., simplified doesn't mean that it should lack functionality, only that the functionality should be well-integrated.
Gnome fails on that front. Speculating, I wonder if it's because geeks designing the interface they think is suitably simplified for use by those different from themselves gives the worst of both worlds - geeks often aren't good at figuring out what people other than themselves want.
I used Gnome myself for years before switching to KDE, and I have to say switching totally transformed my "Linux desktop experience". Admittedly,
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But I know salespeople who've tried both Gnome and KDE and come down firmly on the KDE side.
Oh my gosh. Did you know it has been a dream of mine for at least 10 years, to do that?
Can't say that I knew that, no. But now that I click the "read user's mind" link on your profile page, I see it says that right near the top, under the Dreams section - how could I have missed it!
Retinal images can be faked. The only truly accurate test would involve taking a sample of your flesh and analyzing that. To meet basic security criteria, you want a multi-factor analysis: for example, blood type and nuclear DNA. You'd also want to perform multiple tests and compare the results, to make sure you're not working with a doctored sample of someone else's flesh.
To support the requisite multiple tests, flesh samples should not be smaller than about 1/4" cubed. In order to obtain the samples, it is likely that local anasthesia will be required. Since you'll be injecting the subject anyway, you may as well inject them with a general tranquilizing agent, preferable addictive, to reduce the chance that they cause you trouble in future. Oh, and you may as well use the opportunity to implant a subdermal identification chip.
The result will be a society that's at least 17.4% safer than it currently is. Clearly, the security benefits outweigh any possible extremist concerns about individual rights. This system should be welcomed by everyone, except those who have something to hide. You don't have anything to hide, do you??
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I saw an extreme example when I switched my MX record and months later received an email on my old mail server, which was still running but not pointed to by any public MX records. The email came from someone I knew at MetLife, and was sent via Lotus Notes. I kind of imagined Notes might be at fault, but I don't know what DNS servers MetLife uses.
It appears that "access to culture" is FSF France's phrase to describe circumventing DRM - so e.g. ripping a Britney Spears CD qualifies as "access to culture" (counterintuitive as that may seem!)
The phrase probably resonates in France what with all the emphasis on preserving & celebrating French culture. (Message to France: just surrender to US cultural imperialism already, you know you want to!)
It's a wonderfully loaded phrase, as in "you don't want to deny the people access to culture, do you?"
It's hard to ignore Microsoft when all your non-techie friends, family, co-workers etc. rely on Microsoft's products and take them for granted, just like that air-breathing business you mentioned. Microsoft's plans can be important because they can affect what you'll be dealing with in the world around you in the months and years to come. Ignoring them is like ignoring cockroaches - they're only going to multiply and grow bigger and stronger.
I keep my KDE with the Windows style to tempt all the other Windows users in the office. They look at it and go "That's Linux?" and I say "yup!" If they're interested, I hand them a Knoppix CD. If I continue converting people at my current rate, the whole world will be running Linux by... hmm, well it could take a while.
What on earth does not supporting Konqueror (yet?) have to do with being evil? That said, the idea that one of the most richly capitalized public companies on the planet will be able to live up to the promise to do no evil is laughable.
Just ask anyone who's dealt with e.g. Google's trademark enforcement lawyers just how friendly and non-evil they are.
I think what you're really saying is that the fact that Slashdot is a for-profit corporate entity should have a positive effect on its quality. However, do you really think that it's actually had such an effect? For example, submissions that are accepted for publication hardly ever seem to be edited, checked for accuracy, etc., which is something that could easily be done by paid, professional editors. Regardless of the corporate aspect, ultimately the product is still "just a blog by some dude[s]".
Hemos' post was just a reminder that/. is just a blog that got popular. It's just another semi-coherent blog entry, like millions of others that get posted every day about people's cats or the latest cool toy they played with.
The claim "Bush doesn't care about black people" can be justified by the evidence. Although to be fair to Mr. Bush, it's more like "Bush doesn't care about poor people".
Funny how so many of the responses in this thread mirror the response of someone who's just been exposed to Snow Crash: "weird - the screen just went all static-y. But I'm fine... aren't I???"
As you say, AOL keywords were a private form of DNS, so that example demonstrates the importance of name registries.
Also, what your customers spend on SEO has no real bearing on the importance of DNS: although search engines and SEO have an overlapping purpose, they don't have the same purpose. If anything, the need to spend money on SEO demonstrates the need for a more reliable and persistent means of addressing, i.e. as I said, what to put on a business card and in commercials.
It could certainly be argued that there's a "limited" need for DNS, but there's a limited need for most things. That doesn't take away from their importance.
In general, I think you're confusing searching for a name with the name itself. Do you think search engines eliminate the need for URLs entirely, so that every web resource will just have e.g. a numeric GUID, and no other name? There's a need for the name of a resource to have semantic content that's meaningful to humans. Domain names are an important part of that.
Your points all have merit, but people and companies still want something to put in their email, on business cards, and in commercials, which uniquely identifies them and is hopefully memorable and comprehensible. Saying "just type Sony into Google" doesn't really cut it for that purpose.
Clearly, if you're going to open a can of whoop-ass, you want to make sure the ass-whooping effects are directed towards the intended target. Thus, regardless of whether it's the act of opening the can or the contents of the can which result in the ass-whooping, the correct thing to say is "Time to open a can of whoop-ass on you", assuming "you" is the intended target.
However, it would be redundant to say "Time to open a can of whoop-ass on your ass", and your English teacher would definitely penalize you for using such a construction.
"should we ban anybody who makes more than $100,000/year from running for political office? (Hell, yes/hell yes)"
If you're an adult without disabilities living in the United States, and you're making less than $100,000/year, you aren't competent to run for political office. All it takes to make over $100,000 in the US is half a brain and a bit of a work ethic. How do you think that limiting your politicians to people who aren't capable of achieving even the most basic personal economic success is going to help the country?
Bush's plan isn't amnesty, it's a pragmatic "we need cheap labor so we may as well legalize it". What he's really proposing is, essentially, to give work visas to people who already have jobs here. The only reason he uses the term "amnesty" is to con the Democrats/liberals and aliens themselves into going along with the plan.
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End-users with prior Windows experience tend to take to KDE much better. That's only partly because KDE is more similar to what they're used to in Windows. What's often missed in the aim for "simplified" is that for real-world use in business etc., simplified doesn't mean that it should lack functionality, only that the functionality should be well-integrated.
Gnome fails on that front. Speculating, I wonder if it's because geeks designing the interface they think is suitably simplified for use by those different from themselves gives the worst of both worlds - geeks often aren't good at figuring out what people other than themselves want.
I used Gnome myself for years before switching to KDE, and I have to say switching totally transformed my "Linux desktop experience". Admittedly,
But I know salespeople who've tried both Gnome and KDE and come down firmly on the KDE side.
Retinal images can be faked. The only truly accurate test would involve taking a sample of your flesh and analyzing that. To meet basic security criteria, you want a multi-factor analysis: for example, blood type and nuclear DNA. You'd also want to perform multiple tests and compare the results, to make sure you're not working with a doctored sample of someone else's flesh.
To support the requisite multiple tests, flesh samples should not be smaller than about 1/4" cubed. In order to obtain the samples, it is likely that local anasthesia will be required. Since you'll be injecting the subject anyway, you may as well inject them with a general tranquilizing agent, preferable addictive, to reduce the chance that they cause you trouble in future. Oh, and you may as well use the opportunity to implant a subdermal identification chip.
The result will be a society that's at least 17.4% safer than it currently is. Clearly, the security benefits outweigh any possible extremist concerns about individual rights. This system should be welcomed by everyone, except those who have something to hide. You don't have anything to hide, do you??
I saw an extreme example when I switched my MX record and months later received an email on my old mail server, which was still running but not pointed to by any public MX records. The email came from someone I knew at MetLife, and was sent via Lotus Notes. I kind of imagined Notes might be at fault, but I don't know what DNS servers MetLife uses.
I wonder how many of the Captain Obviouses responding here have heard of scare quotes.
Search for "TMD" (tuned mass damper) on this page.
You must be a geek. If you were a nerd, you'd understand.
Turn on your pun detector and reread the thread.
It appears that "access to culture" is FSF France's phrase to describe circumventing DRM - so e.g. ripping a Britney Spears CD qualifies as "access to culture" (counterintuitive as that may seem!)
The phrase probably resonates in France what with all the emphasis on preserving & celebrating French culture. (Message to France: just surrender to US cultural imperialism already, you know you want to!)
It's a wonderfully loaded phrase, as in "you don't want to deny the people access to culture, do you?"
It's hard to ignore Microsoft when all your non-techie friends, family, co-workers etc. rely on Microsoft's products and take them for granted, just like that air-breathing business you mentioned. Microsoft's plans can be important because they can affect what you'll be dealing with in the world around you in the months and years to come. Ignoring them is like ignoring cockroaches - they're only going to multiply and grow bigger and stronger.
Just install debian, do apt-get install kde, and be done with it.
I keep my KDE with the Windows style to tempt all the other Windows users in the office. They look at it and go "That's Linux?" and I say "yup!" If they're interested, I hand them a Knoppix CD. If I continue converting people at my current rate, the whole world will be running Linux by... hmm, well it could take a while.
What on earth does not supporting Konqueror (yet?) have to do with being evil? That said, the idea that one of the most richly capitalized public companies on the planet will be able to live up to the promise to do no evil is laughable.
Just ask anyone who's dealt with e.g. Google's trademark enforcement lawyers just how friendly and non-evil they are.
I think what you're really saying is that the fact that Slashdot is a for-profit corporate entity should have a positive effect on its quality. However, do you really think that it's actually had such an effect? For example, submissions that are accepted for publication hardly ever seem to be edited, checked for accuracy, etc., which is something that could easily be done by paid, professional editors. Regardless of the corporate aspect, ultimately the product is still "just a blog by some dude[s]".
Hemos' post was just a reminder that /. is just a blog that got popular. It's just another semi-coherent blog entry, like millions of others that get posted every day about people's cats or the latest cool toy they played with.
The claim "Bush doesn't care about black people" can be justified by the evidence. Although to be fair to Mr. Bush, it's more like "Bush doesn't care about poor people".
Funny how so many of the responses in this thread mirror the response of someone who's just been exposed to Snow Crash: "weird - the screen just went all static-y. But I'm fine... aren't I???"
As you say, AOL keywords were a private form of DNS, so that example demonstrates the importance of name registries.
Also, what your customers spend on SEO has no real bearing on the importance of DNS: although search engines and SEO have an overlapping purpose, they don't have the same purpose. If anything, the need to spend money on SEO demonstrates the need for a more reliable and persistent means of addressing, i.e. as I said, what to put on a business card and in commercials.
It could certainly be argued that there's a "limited" need for DNS, but there's a limited need for most things. That doesn't take away from their importance.
In general, I think you're confusing searching for a name with the name itself. Do you think search engines eliminate the need for URLs entirely, so that every web resource will just have e.g. a numeric GUID, and no other name? There's a need for the name of a resource to have semantic content that's meaningful to humans. Domain names are an important part of that.
Your points all have merit, but people and companies still want something to put in their email, on business cards, and in commercials, which uniquely identifies them and is hopefully memorable and comprehensible. Saying "just type Sony into Google" doesn't really cut it for that purpose.
Clearly, if you're going to open a can of whoop-ass, you want to make sure the ass-whooping effects are directed towards the intended target. Thus, regardless of whether it's the act of opening the can or the contents of the can which result in the ass-whooping, the correct thing to say is "Time to open a can of whoop-ass on you", assuming "you" is the intended target.
However, it would be redundant to say "Time to open a can of whoop-ass on your ass", and your English teacher would definitely penalize you for using such a construction.
Bush's plan isn't amnesty, it's a pragmatic "we need cheap labor so we may as well legalize it". What he's really proposing is, essentially, to give work visas to people who already have jobs here. The only reason he uses the term "amnesty" is to con the Democrats/liberals and aliens themselves into going along with the plan.
Sorry, I'm having a bit of difficulty wrapping my head around that concept...