Oktoberfest is about quantity not quality. I would very much like to taste some quality American beers though, I'm sure there must be some but they don't seem to be exported to Belgium. Only the piss-poor stuff makes it over here, unfortunately.
I know, this is old fashioned thinking, but people need to understand the concepts of bits, bytes, words, longwords, binary/octal/hex numbers, thinking sequentially and logically, what an operating system actually does, what an IO system is and does, how a computer actually does math, etc., etc., etc. You know, all the stuff we learned 40 years ago. Make 'em learn a programming language too.
MK
I agree but I'd start more basic :
First trimester: what's a computer, explain cpu's, difference between a disk and memory (seems like I'm always explaining that one to people), etc. The goal is to have the student understand what makes up his computer and to be able to read & understand system requirements or ads. Second trimester: what's an OS, how do I interact with the computer, basic GUI components radiobuttons, checkboxes,etc. The goal is to easily locate and recognize visual elements in an application and interact with them. Third trimester: binary, programming languages, how do I get to the computer to do something I what to do. The goal is to have the student write a little program or shell script (even VB script or something.)
Here's some photos of my hand with black bocks over everything. But they're prototypes. I swear. Please don't buy something from Apple.
It's sad. Sad in a middle aged business man who buys a Vanilla Ice album to be "down with the kids" sort of way. Why don't they just churn out the grey corporate stuff like they do so well ?
Just speculation but a conductive surface registers as a touch, so different size magnets could register as different size touches. Maybe the cards have some sort of tape on the bottom that consists of patches of conductive surface mixed with non-conductive surface which would register as a pattern of touches, sort of like braille.
As to the allegation of cheating on the one video, the admin claims (in french) in the comments he grazed the screen with his finger and this is why the touch seemed to register before the figurine hit.
I did something similar, creating a blind map of my city for my girlfriend to use in a geography class. But I just used one of the editors to do it. JOSM or Merkaartor I'm not sure which I ended up using, I tried both at the time.
How about some government support ? Governments already have to have accurate maps on hand and should have the data. So pitch it to them as a way to both outsource the hosting of the data and make it freely and easily available for their citizens and businesses. As a plus they could then easily integrate it into their online offerings too, which in my experience often are lacking in the map area. If data doesn't exist yet in digital form (or in an incompatible form) then the openstreetmap community could be leveraged to digitize it.
Pride ? Please. There's nothing wrong with going to a superior system of writing (easier to learn, easier to mechanically write) and it has fuck all to do with culture. You might as well give up the evil western internal combustion engine or evil western integrated circuits and become taliban. Old western (medieval) scripts are difficult to read too, should we go back to ancients cursives for fear of loosing an imaginary past identity ? I dread the day your kind is once again allowed to deem the choice of not wearing a hijab "unnatural garb", a sign of an unhealthy western influence. This is exactly why most people resist Turkey joining the EU.
How does a fault in a single SAN controller cause an outage of the entire data storage network? Expensive SAN solutions are expensive & highly redundant for reason. This smells like a "Let's buy the cheaper solution" and/or an infrastructure design fail.
On the plus side if the US government ever builds Skynet we know where to strike.
I was talking about "people" not geeks. I know plenty of people who are computer literate enough to be able to use one but who after a time are stumped by Linux when they veer off the path because everything is different enough that their experience doesn't matter. Linux is OK when you install it for people with a static hardware setup and software need, when you can "set it and forget it."
Wow. There is ANY percentage of people that are not likely to die?
I shall never sit again!
A highlander ? But since there can be only one it's probably well within the error bars. Now that I think of it I didn't see him do much sitting either.
If you ask people to switch from Windows XP to Windows 7, or from Windows XP to the default Ubuntu set up. Which would they find easier? I guess it would be a tie between the two.
Until they need to install their shiny new printer, or install a piece of software.
For the time being you can still play that song after getting pulled over. Just be prepared to be pulled over again so they can keep you longer. They cannot arrest you for playing a song. The police do get annoyed by that song. I did that a bunch of times back in the early 90's. Never got a ticket. The yelling between the police office and who ever he was talking to on the radio was funny.
If you're seriously considering this as a possibility, I'd say treat it like a DR drill. Burn everything down to bare metal and restore only the data. It's the only way to be sure...
However, before taking my advice, I'd suggest you get your boss to sign off on it, whichever way. Present a list of options from 'ignore it' to 'burn everything' and have them pick. This way, whatever happens, you're covered.
That takes care of backdoors in the OS assuming you run everything stock. But if you're running custom in-house software that might have backdoors too so it'll still need to be audited. I wouldn't recommend this approach except for the most extreme cases anyway. Best is just to keep a log of all installs and changes from stock and have outside auditors come in regularly to check for anything that can't be accounted for as well as audits of all installations. Not to mention having a strictly enforced change management process.
One of many reasons CEOs are given golden parachutes are to keep them quiet about trade secrets and certain contacts. Whether or not that happens is debatable, but discretion is basically paid for.
Why not give similar parachutes to IT admins to follow these unwritten practices? If the CEOs are the frontmens, ITs are the infrastructure of the organization. Treat them like gatekeepers instead of disposable footmen. They have the keys to the castle. And all the secret entrances.
The janitor has all the keys to the building and the cook could poison everyone if he wanted but those people aren't afforded the respect they deserve either. CEO's are given golden parachutes by their buddies who they'll see at the golf club and who they can maybe return the favor later on the board of some other company. We're just staff and staff don't get golden parachutes, they get concrete shoes.
But really, the best thing to do is to treat your IT staff properly in the first place.
This. I don't understand why it's so hard to grasp for some organizations. Pissing off IT is like telling your mechanic he's an asshole while he's working on your brakes. Sure most are consummate professionals but sooner or later you'll hit on one that isn't and then there'll be hell to pay.
Although I honestly don't remember the commercials, and Windows 95 was the first OS I bought (or pirated? I don't remember now) on CD. I do recall that 95 was the first windows release that actually required you to enter a registration key at installation; 3.1 would graciously let you "enter it later".
I only remember the OS/2 nuns but I was still using an Amiga at the time so the whole thing passed me by. When I finally did get a PC a couple of years later as you said it asked for a registration key which, coming from Amiga, I thought was really weird. The PC didn't come with any CD's so I called the shop, their answer: "Call a friend who uses Windows and ask them for their registration key.":-) I don't think I ever paid for a single piece of software while using Windows. Now I use a mac and the vast majority of my software is legit.
You program it in Java (the language), it contains the Apache Harmony Java class library implementation and Android fanbois crow about how you can leverage your existing Java skill set when you make apps for Android. Maybe you can argue the finer technical points but if it quacks like a duck, waggles like a duck and tastes good with orange then you can't act all surprised when people think its a duck.
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Oktoberfest is about quantity not quality. I would very much like to taste some quality American beers though, I'm sure there must be some but they don't seem to be exported to Belgium. Only the piss-poor stuff makes it over here, unfortunately.
I know, this is old fashioned thinking, but people need to understand the concepts of bits, bytes, words, longwords, binary/octal/hex numbers, thinking sequentially and logically,
what an operating system actually does, what an IO system is and does, how a computer actually does math, etc., etc., etc. You know, all the stuff we learned 40 years ago. Make 'em learn a
programming language too.
MK
I agree but I'd start more basic :
First trimester: what's a computer, explain cpu's, difference between a disk and memory (seems like I'm always explaining that one to people), etc. The goal is to have the student understand what makes up his computer and to be able to read & understand system requirements or ads.
Second trimester: what's an OS, how do I interact with the computer, basic GUI components radiobuttons, checkboxes,etc. The goal is to easily locate and recognize visual elements in an application and interact with them.
Third trimester: binary, programming languages, how do I get to the computer to do something I what to do. The goal is to have the student write a little program or shell script (even VB script or something.)
I've seen it happen. Sometimes EXIF data contains a thumbnail image of the uncensored pic.
Here's some photos of my hand with black bocks over everything. But they're prototypes. I swear. Please don't buy something from Apple.
It's sad. Sad in a middle aged business man who buys a Vanilla Ice album to be "down with the kids" sort of way. Why don't they just churn out the grey corporate stuff like they do so well ?
Just speculation but a conductive surface registers as a touch, so different size magnets could register as different size touches. Maybe the cards have some sort of tape on the bottom that consists of patches of conductive surface mixed with non-conductive surface which would register as a pattern of touches, sort of like braille.
As to the allegation of cheating on the one video, the admin claims (in french) in the comments he grazed the screen with his finger and this is why the touch seemed to register before the figurine hit.
I did something similar, creating a blind map of my city for my girlfriend to use in a geography class. But I just used one of the editors to do it. JOSM or Merkaartor I'm not sure which I ended up using, I tried both at the time.
How about some government support ? Governments already have to have accurate maps on hand and should have the data. So pitch it to them as a way to both outsource the hosting of the data and make it freely and easily available for their citizens and businesses. As a plus they could then easily integrate it into their online offerings too, which in my experience often are lacking in the map area. If data doesn't exist yet in digital form (or in an incompatible form) then the openstreetmap community could be leveraged to digitize it.
Pride ? Please. There's nothing wrong with going to a superior system of writing (easier to learn, easier to mechanically write) and it has fuck all to do with culture. You might as well give up the evil western internal combustion engine or evil western integrated circuits and become taliban. Old western (medieval) scripts are difficult to read too, should we go back to ancients cursives for fear of loosing an imaginary past identity ? I dread the day your kind is once again allowed to deem the choice of not wearing a hijab "unnatural garb", a sign of an unhealthy western influence. This is exactly why most people resist Turkey joining the EU.
How does a fault in a single SAN controller cause an outage of the entire data storage network? Expensive SAN solutions are expensive & highly redundant for reason. This smells like a "Let's buy the cheaper solution" and/or an infrastructure design fail.
On the plus side if the US government ever builds Skynet we know where to strike.
Here's some more yiddish for you: putz. It describes you perfectly.
I was talking about "people" not geeks. I know plenty of people who are computer literate enough to be able to use one but who after a time are stumped by Linux when they veer off the path because everything is different enough that their experience doesn't matter. Linux is OK when you install it for people with a static hardware setup and software need, when you can "set it and forget it."
What you need is an excuse to go outside and stroll around at regular intervals. Like smoking.
The always relevant IT Crowd: "You cannot smoke here, they are moving us to a new smoking area."
Wow. There is ANY percentage of people that are not likely to die?
I shall never sit again!
A highlander ? But since there can be only one it's probably well within the error bars. Now that I think of it I didn't see him do much sitting either.
You know... I'm pretty sure everyone is 100% likely to die...
That's no reason to take it sitting down. (Ba-dum-tssss)
If you ask people to switch from Windows XP to Windows 7, or from Windows XP to the default Ubuntu set up. Which would they find easier? I guess it would be a tie between the two.
Until they need to install their shiny new printer, or install a piece of software.
Cool. I want a self replicating replicator!
It's called a woman but I don't like your odds of inserting your raw material to start the replication process.
Virus scan on a Linux box? Huh? What am I missing here?
You can use ClamAV on OSX or Linux. In case you get an usb drive that you might have to connect to a Windows PC at some point. No use being a carrier.
For the time being you can still play that song after getting pulled over. Just be prepared to be pulled over again so they can keep you longer. They cannot arrest you for playing a song. The police do get annoyed by that song. I did that a bunch of times back in the early 90's. Never got a ticket. The yelling between the police office and who ever he was talking to on the radio was funny.
I prefer Cop Killer.
I bet this will go over like a lead balloon with their Android partners.
This thread seems to be full of people who work for organised crime.
I work for a bank, which I guess is close enough.
If you're seriously considering this as a possibility, I'd say treat it like a DR drill. Burn everything down to bare metal and restore only the data. It's the only way to be sure...
However, before taking my advice, I'd suggest you get your boss to sign off on it, whichever way. Present a list of options from 'ignore it' to 'burn everything' and have them pick. This way, whatever happens, you're covered.
That takes care of backdoors in the OS assuming you run everything stock. But if you're running custom in-house software that might have backdoors too so it'll still need to be audited. I wouldn't recommend this approach except for the most extreme cases anyway. Best is just to keep a log of all installs and changes from stock and have outside auditors come in regularly to check for anything that can't be accounted for as well as audits of all installations. Not to mention having a strictly enforced change management process.
One of many reasons CEOs are given golden parachutes are to keep them quiet about trade secrets and certain contacts. Whether or not that happens is debatable, but discretion is basically paid for.
Why not give similar parachutes to IT admins to follow these unwritten practices? If the CEOs are the frontmens, ITs are the infrastructure of the organization. Treat them like gatekeepers instead of disposable footmen. They have the keys to the castle. And all the secret entrances.
The janitor has all the keys to the building and the cook could poison everyone if he wanted but those people aren't afforded the respect they deserve either. CEO's are given golden parachutes by their buddies who they'll see at the golf club and who they can maybe return the favor later on the board of some other company. We're just staff and staff don't get golden parachutes, they get concrete shoes.
But really, the best thing to do is to treat your IT staff properly in the first place.
This. I don't understand why it's so hard to grasp for some organizations. Pissing off IT is like telling your mechanic he's an asshole while he's working on your brakes. Sure most are consummate professionals but sooner or later you'll hit on one that isn't and then there'll be hell to pay.
Although I honestly don't remember the commercials, and Windows 95 was the first OS I bought (or pirated? I don't remember now) on CD. I do recall that 95 was the first windows release that actually required you to enter a registration key at installation; 3.1 would graciously let you "enter it later".
I only remember the OS/2 nuns but I was still using an Amiga at the time so the whole thing passed me by. When I finally did get a PC a couple of years later as you said it asked for a registration key which, coming from Amiga, I thought was really weird. The PC didn't come with any CD's so I called the shop, their answer: "Call a friend who uses Windows and ask them for their registration key." :-) I don't think I ever paid for a single piece of software while using Windows. Now I use a mac and the vast majority of my software is legit.
What a bunch of morons.
Dalvik (what android runs) is not Java
You program it in Java (the language), it contains the Apache Harmony Java class library implementation and Android fanbois crow about how you can leverage your existing Java skill set when you make apps for Android. Maybe you can argue the finer technical points but if it quacks like a duck, waggles like a duck and tastes good with orange then you can't act all surprised when people think its a duck.