I work at Office Depot, and we do the same thing. Anything a customer comes back with saying "it's broken" gets put in the D&D pile, which is later smashed, shredded and hit with red spray paint. We generally don't check if it is broken, either. Yes, it sucks, but what to do? Our entire economic system is based on enforcing artificial scarcity.
If I wanted my cellphone, pager, and organizer all in one device, I suppose that'd be fine. But tell me: how the hell are you going to discuss your appointment calendar when the screen is pasted to your cheek?
The important thing is to show employers you have what it takes to get a college education.
"what it takes". What exactly is that? All I've seen from the friends who are in/have gone to college is that it's the ability to sit and fester for years on end while paying money out the wazoo, learning things that the person in question may or may not have better luck learning through other channels. Most of them admit, "It's useless, but everyone looks for that piece of paper. Just bite the bullet and get it."
Well, guess what? I have no intention of paying thousands upon thousands of dollars, and, more importantly, years of my life, for a useless piece of paper.
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The following works perfectly on my laptop. Normally it uses the touchpad, and as soon as I plug in a USB mouse it is recognized and used. Make sure to have the hid and mousedev modules loaded...
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Are you on crack? Linux is a kernel. Cygwin is a set of POSIX APIs on top of Win32. Cygwin is not Linux. Linux is not Cygwin. They can run some of the same software, though.
Honestly, the best way to see if they're paying attention is to check their test scores. (You do have tests that are remotely related to actual skills in the subject at hand, right?) If they aren't paying attention to the teacher, who cares? Either they can learn on their own, in which case I don't see how it's any business of yours, or they will justly fail the class.
They're prisoners already. At least let them try to complete their drudgerous busywork in the time completed and be graded on that.
Think about lowered curbs at corners. Initially, they were created for people in wheel chairs in mind. Alas, everyone found them handy - people with stroller, bikers, pedestrians, everyone. In the end, it ended up benefitting everyone.
Except blind people, who are now unable to use their cane to find the edge of the curb...
It really is not Apple's fault that Linux developers have payed so little attention to developing Linux based solutions for Apple formats. I finbd it amazing how much of the horrible proprietary windows junk finds it's way to my linux/BSD boxen and how poor support is for Apple things. And then the galling thing is that Apple takes the blame for it here.
Um. The Sorenson codec, currently the most popular for.mov, is patented. Any player solution for Linux or any non-licensed platform would be illegal.
The 3-digit validation code from the back of the card. Paypal, C2IT, and most "online cash" places demand it now; many merchants do as well.
That might not be so crucial. I don't know about other places, but at the unnamed large chain office supply store where I work, we only check the CID on AmEx. I point out that Visa and MasterCard have both had it for years, and ask why we don't check that too. "Because only American Express has it." "That's not true. Look here." "Oh. Well, that's just the way it is."
And of course, for point-of-sale you don't need the address, and I don't need to explain how rarely cashiers do a proper signature or ID check...
Your servers run X? For something as complicated as this, chances are it's a server... Most of my servers don't even have X libraries, video cards, or mice, so your X toolkit won't work...
I'm pleased with my HipZip. Cost me ~$150, and for another $99 you can get the car accessory pack, which includes, among other things, a car charger, cassette adapter, and 4 extra disks. I think you can also get this stuff in a giant combo pack which is cheaper.
The player itself is of good quality; it sounds great both on headphones and plugged into my car stereo. It includes an equalizer and a backlit display. Unfortunately, the OS itself is a bit spartan; there's no way to save the playlist through a power cycle, and the random play function resets itself on every powerup. I suspect these issues may be resolved with a newer version of Dadio, and for now I just randomize the playlist before loading it onto the player, as tracks are sorted in load order.
There are several interesting features of this player. The first is that it takes Iomega's 40MB Clik! (now Pocket Zip) disks, which run about $10 each retail. It acts as an ordinary USB mass storage device, which means you can copy any files to/from it without restriction, and also use it to exchange ordinary data files. (Unfortunately, as always with Win98, you can't just plug in the player and copy files; you have to install the drivers first, despite its being a perfectly generic USB disk drive. Completely plug-and-play in Linux, though.)
The 40MB size of the Clik! disks is a little annoying, but the ability to carry 5 or 6 of the disks around in the media wallet without significant expense makes up for that, and I'm able to store much more music (with the hassle of changing disks) than I was with my Rio 500 expanded to 128MB. Additionally (and this is the reason I bought the player), it will support Ogg Vorbis as soon as the format reaches 1.0. (There is a beta firmware that supports it now, but it won't play files encoded with >beta4.) Ogg Vorbis will let me easily degrade bitrates without re-encoding, and at 96kb/s.ogg I will be able to store quite a bit on 1 disk.
One interesting problem: When hooked to the line-in of my car CD player, there is an audible hiss if I have it simultaneously plugged into the charger. As soon as I disconnect it from the charger, it disappears. I don't know if I wired the stereo strangely or what, because it's not there with headphones. Weird.
The Justice Department responds by noting that, since last April, it has made numerous presentations and met repeatedly with business and other private-sector interests. It is "about as open a process as I can think of," says Betty Shave of Justice's computer crime and intellectual property section, who has represented the department in negotiations.
So now getting corporate approval is the most open process available. I think I'm going to go be ill now.
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I don't use Opera, but it sounds as if you need to read about the X11 selection mechanism.
I work at Office Depot, and we do the same thing. Anything a customer comes back with saying "it's broken" gets put in the D&D pile, which is later smashed, shredded and hit with red spray paint. We generally don't check if it is broken, either. Yes, it sucks, but what to do? Our entire economic system is based on enforcing artificial scarcity.
I am reminded of Bud at the beginning of The Diamond Age.
Headset.
"what it takes". What exactly is that? All I've seen from the friends who are in/have gone to college is that it's the ability to sit and fester for years on end while paying money out the wazoo, learning things that the person in question may or may not have better luck learning through other channels. Most of them admit, "It's useless, but everyone looks for that piece of paper. Just bite the bullet and get it."
Well, guess what? I have no intention of paying thousands upon thousands of dollars, and, more importantly, years of my life, for a useless piece of paper.
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Emulate3Buttons"
Option "Emulate3Timeout" "100"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse2"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "SendCoreEvents"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Are you on crack? Linux is a kernel. Cygwin is a set of POSIX APIs on top of Win32. Cygwin is not Linux. Linux is not Cygwin. They can run some of the same software, though.
No, I've never seen anyone selling 40 gigabit hard drives.
Do you have URLs for these other places?
So would Microsoft, I'm guessing, since they own 15% of Apple, and those Macs would likely be used to run Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer...
So just drop all packets from their scanning server. Problem solved.
Working in a brick-and-mortar store, let me just tell you:
HAHAHAHAHA!
We routinely sell items for at least twice the PriceWatch price. And people continue to buy from us.
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.
Why, no! Everyone uses RH7.2 on x86, and everyone has the current directory in their PATH. Stop encouraging anarchy!
They're prisoners already. At least let them try to complete their drudgerous busywork in the time completed and be graded on that.
End rant.
Except blind people, who are now unable to use their cane to find the edge of the curb...
Um. The Sorenson codec, currently the most popular for .mov, is patented. Any player solution for Linux or any non-licensed platform would be illegal.
jailbreakist did it! :-)
Ours don't.
But yes, I understand the reasoning behind such precautions.
That might not be so crucial. I don't know about other places, but at the unnamed large chain office supply store where I work, we only check the CID on AmEx. I point out that Visa and MasterCard have both had it for years, and ask why we don't check that too. "Because only American Express has it." "That's not true. Look here." "Oh. Well, that's just the way it is."
And of course, for point-of-sale you don't need the address, and I don't need to explain how rarely cashiers do a proper signature or ID check...
Why not just install the libraries? Then you can:
The player itself is of good quality; it sounds great both on headphones and plugged into my car stereo. It includes an equalizer and a backlit display. Unfortunately, the OS itself is a bit spartan; there's no way to save the playlist through a power cycle, and the random play function resets itself on every powerup. I suspect these issues may be resolved with a newer version of Dadio, and for now I just randomize the playlist before loading it onto the player, as tracks are sorted in load order.
There are several interesting features of this player. The first is that it takes Iomega's 40MB Clik! (now Pocket Zip) disks, which run about $10 each retail. It acts as an ordinary USB mass storage device, which means you can copy any files to/from it without restriction, and also use it to exchange ordinary data files. (Unfortunately, as always with Win98, you can't just plug in the player and copy files; you have to install the drivers first, despite its being a perfectly generic USB disk drive. Completely plug-and-play in Linux, though.)
The 40MB size of the Clik! disks is a little annoying, but the ability to carry 5 or 6 of the disks around in the media wallet without significant expense makes up for that, and I'm able to store much more music (with the hassle of changing disks) than I was with my Rio 500 expanded to 128MB. Additionally (and this is the reason I bought the player), it will support Ogg Vorbis as soon as the format reaches 1.0. (There is a beta firmware that supports it now, but it won't play files encoded with >beta4.) Ogg Vorbis will let me easily degrade bitrates without re-encoding, and at 96kb/s .ogg I will be able to store quite a bit on 1 disk.
One interesting problem: When hooked to the line-in of my car CD player, there is an audible hiss if I have it simultaneously plugged into the charger. As soon as I disconnect it from the charger, it disappears. I don't know if I wired the stereo strangely or what, because it's not there with headphones. Weird.
I would like to take this moment to point out that C++ is a preprocessor.
Thank you.
So now getting corporate approval is the most open process available. I think I'm going to go be ill now.
He said "macros", something that only Common Lisp really offers.