... The only problem with Ubuntu is that it needs more testing and validation before each release cycle.
This is exactly the reason Ubuntu has created the LTS release. The supported lifetime of the LTS release is geared towards businesses that don't need to be on the bleeding edge.
I second the motion computing. The ones I've seen at work also include a detachable USB keyboard, so you have a faster input device on hand when it's needed.
Without any complaints from Apple? Are you living in the same world I'm living in? Apple constantly breaks these third party apps with each new version of iTunes. They're like the kid on the playground with the ball, who really doesn't want the other kids to play with it. To play with the ball, you gotta play by their rules, but they keep changing the rules to make sure they win.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not condoning what Palm did. I just don't think anyone is in the right in this situation. Palm has proven it, there's really no reason to have to rely on third party apps to integrate with iTunes, other than that's the way Apple wants it.
It's like I tell my kids: It'd be nice, and I'd prefer it, if they shared, but really, it's their toy, and I can't make them.
The other thing is that the Taser works a longer range than the baton, and so doesn't require the officer to put himself into the suspects range. It subdues a suspect faster than the use of a baton, and doesn't have that "Rodney King" stigma attached (though it's rapidly gaining its own level of infamy).
I plan on passing my slashdot account on to my children. That way, people will see a six figure number and think they're just an old curmudgen and ignore them. Kids need opposition to learn and grow.
Good profs at the very least work on a 4 semester rotation of courses where you're going to have to dig up a student from a few years ago at least before you have an easy "tweak and resubmit" assignment. Any instructor that dishes out the exact same projects semester after semester isn't showing any commitment, and certainly isn't staying with the times. Computer science is in such a continuous state of flux that any prof that isn't consistently reworking their coursework isn't doing their job.
Depends on the school. I'm and adjunct professor at a local satellite campus, and I teach the same class every year. The topic is data structures, and not a lot changes year over year when you're talking about something so fundamental. I have changed my curriculum each year, but only because I have yet to find a book that I feel really treats the topic well. Each book has some high points and some glaring low points, but I dream of the day when my lectures actually become somewhat static. I spend way too much time tweaking my lecture notes.
Also, you don't seem to have considered that in some courses, each programming assignment builds on the one before. By posting his assignments, even after the due dates, he may be influencing his fellow students in the follow on assignments.
The Windows XP version does come with a hard drive double the size for just $50 more, but notice that is after $25 of "instant savings." Make of that what you will.
Actually, I would expect to encounter pockets of super heated gasses riding on top of the magma. I think the point here is that they can punch more holes in and study the magma, which it wouldn't really be safe to do in the crater.
That sound my friends is the sound of the/. community following a blogger as he leaps to conclusions right off a cliff. First, there's the fact that the DHS letter contains only a vague mention of "improving airport security," while mentioning some other very specific uses. I can think of a number of ways that the bracelet could be used to "improve airport security" that don't involve forcing every passenger to wear one. The blogger assumes that this vague reference to airport security means that DHS wants to replace the boarding pass with the bracelet. And you know what you do when you assume...
Second. Anyone else notice that the promo video (from which he gets all his information) is at least 5 years old, and likely a year older than that? That means that this video was made barely a year after 9/11. At that point people were entertaining any idea that might possibly prevent a repeat of the hijackings. The letter is much more recent, but still around 2 years old. It seems to me (and I admit this is purely anecdotal) that the number of restrictions being declared have tapered off. The most recent one I can remember was the liquids one (which was in response to intel around some threats of liquid explosives) and has been in place for a little more than a year.
Personally, I'll raise a fuss if I hear there's a pilot program under way (there's no way that something like this would get rolled out without one). Until then, I refuse to jump around screaming like a paranoid delusional individual.
OK, to everyone that says that you need a "model release" to use the photograph commercially, I think that this is incorrect. Why do you think that photographers hang out outside clubs frequented by celebrities? Because, if they are standing on a public location, like a sidewalk, then they are free to use the picture in any way they like, without a release from the subject. This is also how Google gets away with pictures that include people in their new street view service. If this councilor happened to be standing on public property, then that photo could be used in any way he saw fit. And, since he EXPLICITLY released it using a creative commons license (he had to go in and actually select that license, the default is All Rights Reserved), Virgin Mobile Australia had every right to use the picture in their ad campaign.
Additionally, the article points out that the suit is seeking monetary recompense for the photographer too, not just the girl and her family. The photographer doesn't have a leg to stand on, and his portion of the suit, if it can be decoupled from the rest, will likely be thrown out. The parent to my post pointed out some interesting theories in the area of libel, and that could possibly pan out, though the fact that the ads aired on an entirely different continent certainly muddies the water (libel laws make allowances for sphere of influence). I think that this suit may have some side effects on the internet, since the only way the girl and her friends could have known about the ad is via that medium, though there are already some cases on record that decrease the sphere of influence defense with regard to the internet.
But summoning it through all the protections of Gringotts? I don't think it was at Gringotts. The goblin (I forget his name right now) had already stated he wasn't welcome there. I suspect that he fled the scene in the confusion created by Harry co. So, it wasn't clear that the sword was actually at Gringotts when Neville pulled it from the hat.
Molly Weasley kills Bellatrix Lestrange.
One of the most feared duelers on Voldemort's side is killed by Molly Weasley? Sure, she's a member of the OotP, but the only spells she had shown in the previous books were household charms. It shows JK Rowling's opinion of a mother's love. But that is going too far in my opinion. Made me laugh when I read it. Yeah, I totally wanted Neville to do her in.
Snape's patronus is a doe.
I understand that Snape loved Lily, but why does a doe represent Lily? Sure, James (secret!) animagus form was a stag, but that would imply that Snape cared about James. Lily's patronus was a doe, but why would Snape's be the same? I assume Lily's was a doe to represent James (even though a stag would make more sense), but again, that implies that Snape cared about James. I think Lily's was a doe because she was Lily, not because she married James, and so Snape's patronus changing to a doe in conjunction to his feelings for Lily had nothing to do with James.
Gryffindor's sword in the Sorting Hat.
I thought that Griphook took it? If he cared so much about it, why wouldn't he protect it in some way? This one got to me too, until I talked to my wife and she pointed out that in the Chamber of Secrets, Dumbledore points out to Harry that any true Gryffindor in need can pull the sword from the sorting hat. So, that one was set up books ago.
The Taboo.
So the Ministry can detect when and where a certain word is said throughout the whole country? Why didn't they use it before to find out when someone used the Unforgivables? Or when someone mentioned Death Eaters? Or plenty of other ways it could have been used. Totally. I see this in shows and movies all the time. They establish some super powerful thing, and then it never comes back into play later, even if it seems like a perfect fit for the situation they're in. OTOH, you also see the ones where they use the exact same thing over and over again, even when it seems like it has no bearing on the current situation too, so...
The epilogue.
If she insisted on doing an epilogue to destroy any future books, couldn't she have at least mentioned what happened to the other characters? The Ministry? Weasely Wizarding Wheezes? It mentioned that Ted Lupin wasn't living with Harry, but where else would he live if not his godfather?
Yeah. This was the one thing that bothered my wife. What did Harry do for a career? Ron, Hermione? ANYONE but Neville, who obviously is the potions professor at Hogwarts. I suspect that Ted was raised by his grandmother, which was who he was left with when Tonks and Lupin left to join the battle at Hogwarts.
All these things aside, I really enjoyed this book. The earlier books always started kind of slow, with the necessary interaction with the Dursleys, as if we needed to be beat over the head with the fact that Harry had to return to live with them during the Summer because of the protective spells on him. This book took off fairly quickly, and didn't really seem to suffer from any pacing issues. I did get lost when they discovered that the one horcrux in Beatrix's vault was the hufflepuff cup. I didn't see what made them think that was it. So, I'll have to re-read that part to try and catch that.
Anyone who claims they can't find training materials and services for Open Office doesn't *want* to find said services. Typing "Open Office Training" in Google resulted in a lot of free online training resources, and consultants who provide 1 hour, 1 day, and 1 week training sessions.
So, I'm glad Vista's working out for you. I personally don't want Microsoft to control my life to that degree. So, for me, XP is as far as I'm going until Microsoft officially EOL's it. At that point, I MAY switch, but it's far more likely I'll look for Linux based alternatives to the software that my wife uses and go full Linux. Whenever I read another security article about how much data Vista is collecting and sending to Microsoft, I feel better about that decision. I know it will likely end my gaming hobby, but I'm not sure that I want to risk my privacy by moving to Vista.
OK, I should have spelled out the DRM restriction on Halo 2. Microsoft, when they announced that Halo 2 would only run on Vista, also stated that the reason for this restriction is that they would be using the DRM scheme that came with Vista. That is why the game will not work on XP. So, in essence, Halo 2 became the poster child for Vista DRM.
No, circumventing DRM is against the law. But DRM itself is not the law. Legal MP3's can be obtained without breaking ANY laws whatsoever, and that was my point. There is no law saying that you can't use any OS you chose to play MP3's, as long as they are legally obtained. The parent was using playing MP3's as one of his "Vista plus points." I can play MP3's on Linux, Mac, or Windows, as long as I have obtained them legally. DRM is a scheme that the RIAA has put in to play to limit that. If we as consumers continue to allow them to lock up their content via DRM, eventually we will see even further restrictions that enforce how many times you may play their content, or at what time of day.
Believe me, I'm well aware of the DMCA, and I speak out against it whenever I can. IMHO, it is a piece of legislation that should never have seen the light of day. Violating copyright was already a crime, and that is where it should have ended. Reverse engineering and the like have been a big part of computer history, and making that type of thing illegal, while at the same time benefiting from that activity is hypocritical at best.
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... The only problem with Ubuntu is that it needs more testing and validation before each release cycle.
This is exactly the reason Ubuntu has created the LTS release. The supported lifetime of the LTS release is geared towards businesses that don't need to be on the bleeding edge.
I second the motion computing. The ones I've seen at work also include a detachable USB keyboard, so you have a faster input device on hand when it's needed.
Without any complaints from Apple? Are you living in the same world I'm living in? Apple constantly breaks these third party apps with each new version of iTunes. They're like the kid on the playground with the ball, who really doesn't want the other kids to play with it. To play with the ball, you gotta play by their rules, but they keep changing the rules to make sure they win.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not condoning what Palm did. I just don't think anyone is in the right in this situation. Palm has proven it, there's really no reason to have to rely on third party apps to integrate with iTunes, other than that's the way Apple wants it.
It's like I tell my kids: It'd be nice, and I'd prefer it, if they shared, but really, it's their toy, and I can't make them.
Yeah, but it's not the tasing that people remember, it's the physical violence against him.
The other thing is that the Taser works a longer range than the baton, and so doesn't require the officer to put himself into the suspects range. It subdues a suspect faster than the use of a baton, and doesn't have that "Rodney King" stigma attached (though it's rapidly gaining its own level of infamy).
It's got what plants crave!
I plan on passing my slashdot account on to my children. That way, people will see a six figure number and think they're just an old curmudgen and ignore them. Kids need opposition to learn and grow.
Good profs at the very least work on a 4 semester rotation of courses where you're going to have to dig up a student from a few years ago at least before you have an easy "tweak and resubmit" assignment. Any instructor that dishes out the exact same projects semester after semester isn't showing any commitment, and certainly isn't staying with the times. Computer science is in such a continuous state of flux that any prof that isn't consistently reworking their coursework isn't doing their job.
Depends on the school. I'm and adjunct professor at a local satellite campus, and I teach the same class every year. The topic is data structures, and not a lot changes year over year when you're talking about something so fundamental. I have changed my curriculum each year, but only because I have yet to find a book that I feel really treats the topic well. Each book has some high points and some glaring low points, but I dream of the day when my lectures actually become somewhat static. I spend way too much time tweaking my lecture notes.
Also, you don't seem to have considered that in some courses, each programming assignment builds on the one before. By posting his assignments, even after the due dates, he may be influencing his fellow students in the follow on assignments.
I mean, he was watching the Bears vs. the Lions. No network should be forced to even touch that traffic.
The lone Linux netbook?
A Dell Inspiron with 512 MB of RAM and 4 GB of Flash for $350.
"Not sold in stores."
Obviously, someone didn't look at Dell.com before they posted...
Dell Inspirion mini 9 with Ubuntu linux, and all the above specs: $249
The Windows XP version does come with a hard drive double the size for just $50 more, but notice that is after $25 of "instant savings." Make of that what you will.
If these "college kids" are extra special then we as a nation are completely and utterly doomed.
Fortunately, the nation in question is Canada...
Actually, I would expect to encounter pockets of super heated gasses riding on top of the magma. I think the point here is that they can punch more holes in and study the magma, which it wouldn't really be safe to do in the crater.
That sound my friends is the sound of the /. community following a blogger as he leaps to conclusions right off a cliff. First, there's the fact that the DHS letter contains only a vague mention of "improving airport security," while mentioning some other very specific uses. I can think of a number of ways that the bracelet could be used to "improve airport security" that don't involve forcing every passenger to wear one. The blogger assumes that this vague reference to airport security means that DHS wants to replace the boarding pass with the bracelet. And you know what you do when you assume...
Second. Anyone else notice that the promo video (from which he gets all his information) is at least 5 years old, and likely a year older than that? That means that this video was made barely a year after 9/11. At that point people were entertaining any idea that might possibly prevent a repeat of the hijackings. The letter is much more recent, but still around 2 years old. It seems to me (and I admit this is purely anecdotal) that the number of restrictions being declared have tapered off. The most recent one I can remember was the liquids one (which was in response to intel around some threats of liquid explosives) and has been in place for a little more than a year.
Personally, I'll raise a fuss if I hear there's a pilot program under way (there's no way that something like this would get rolled out without one). Until then, I refuse to jump around screaming like a paranoid delusional individual.
Shame on you for not throwing your child under a bus to save yourself...
OK, to everyone that says that you need a "model release" to use the photograph commercially, I think that this is incorrect. Why do you think that photographers hang out outside clubs frequented by celebrities? Because, if they are standing on a public location, like a sidewalk, then they are free to use the picture in any way they like, without a release from the subject. This is also how Google gets away with pictures that include people in their new street view service. If this councilor happened to be standing on public property, then that photo could be used in any way he saw fit. And, since he EXPLICITLY released it using a creative commons license (he had to go in and actually select that license, the default is All Rights Reserved), Virgin Mobile Australia had every right to use the picture in their ad campaign.
Additionally, the article points out that the suit is seeking monetary recompense for the photographer too, not just the girl and her family. The photographer doesn't have a leg to stand on, and his portion of the suit, if it can be decoupled from the rest, will likely be thrown out. The parent to my post pointed out some interesting theories in the area of libel, and that could possibly pan out, though the fact that the ads aired on an entirely different continent certainly muddies the water (libel laws make allowances for sphere of influence). I think that this suit may have some side effects on the internet, since the only way the girl and her friends could have known about the ad is via that medium, though there are already some cases on record that decrease the sphere of influence defense with regard to the internet.
I was about to moderate parent off topic... but, this sounds exactly like a question and answer that should be part of the /. faq.
I think a NSFW warning is in order here...
Point of clarification, the 2004 and 2006 figures don't include any soft money contributions (They're listed as NA in the chart on opensecrets).
Yeah. This was the one thing that bothered my wife. What did Harry do for a career? Ron, Hermione? ANYONE but Neville, who obviously is the potions professor at Hogwarts. I suspect that Ted was raised by his grandmother, which was who he was left with when Tonks and Lupin left to join the battle at Hogwarts.
All these things aside, I really enjoyed this book. The earlier books always started kind of slow, with the necessary interaction with the Dursleys, as if we needed to be beat over the head with the fact that Harry had to return to live with them during the Summer because of the protective spells on him. This book took off fairly quickly, and didn't really seem to suffer from any pacing issues. I did get lost when they discovered that the one horcrux in Beatrix's vault was the hufflepuff cup. I didn't see what made them think that was it. So, I'll have to re-read that part to try and catch that.
Actually, I thought the faculty advisor for house Slytherin returned to fight after the members of Slytherin had left through the passageway.
Anyone who claims they can't find training materials and services for Open Office doesn't *want* to find said services. Typing "Open Office Training" in Google resulted in a lot of free online training resources, and consultants who provide 1 hour, 1 day, and 1 week training sessions.
So, I'm glad Vista's working out for you. I personally don't want Microsoft to control my life to that degree. So, for me, XP is as far as I'm going until Microsoft officially EOL's it. At that point, I MAY switch, but it's far more likely I'll look for Linux based alternatives to the software that my wife uses and go full Linux. Whenever I read another security article about how much data Vista is collecting and sending to Microsoft, I feel better about that decision. I know it will likely end my gaming hobby, but I'm not sure that I want to risk my privacy by moving to Vista.
OK, I should have spelled out the DRM restriction on Halo 2. Microsoft, when they announced that Halo 2 would only run on Vista, also stated that the reason for this restriction is that they would be using the DRM scheme that came with Vista. That is why the game will not work on XP. So, in essence, Halo 2 became the poster child for Vista DRM.
No, circumventing DRM is against the law. But DRM itself is not the law. Legal MP3's can be obtained without breaking ANY laws whatsoever, and that was my point. There is no law saying that you can't use any OS you chose to play MP3's, as long as they are legally obtained. The parent was using playing MP3's as one of his "Vista plus points." I can play MP3's on Linux, Mac, or Windows, as long as I have obtained them legally. DRM is a scheme that the RIAA has put in to play to limit that. If we as consumers continue to allow them to lock up their content via DRM, eventually we will see even further restrictions that enforce how many times you may play their content, or at what time of day.
Believe me, I'm well aware of the DMCA, and I speak out against it whenever I can. IMHO, it is a piece of legislation that should never have seen the light of day. Violating copyright was already a crime, and that is where it should have ended. Reverse engineering and the like have been a big part of computer history, and making that type of thing illegal, while at the same time benefiting from that activity is hypocritical at best.