Boycott would be the answer, but the sad thing is I'm already boycotting commercial software, TV, movie, media, and record industries about 1000 times over for every law they've bribed their way into existence. The only industry left that I can support is the porn industry.
Take the most common 20% of the options, the ones most likely to be used by the 80% of the users, and present those. At the bottom, have an "advanced" button that reveals the other 80% of the configuration options.
If this woman had a gun, we'd have 14 less Syrian musicians. Point being, self defense may not be bad for rational people like you (well, at least you sound rational), but there are far too many idiots out there. Or do you think those idiots would eventually be weeded out by being shot?
...that no upcoming movie becomes named "stdio.h" or we're all screwed.
If that happened maybe the MPAA and SCO would just get caught in an endless loop of suing each other for various infringements until they were both broke.
The above posters sound like good advice. If they don't work, you could try asking at a Mac store and see what they use. I'm not sure if or what they use, but their systems are always pretty clean. They must use something to reinstall their systems regularly.
There are over 30,000,000 functional illiterates here in the United States. 29,302,757 represents 10% of our population, rendering that a staggering figure.
What's staggering is that based on UN research, the figure is actually much lower than 10% in the US, between 1 and 5% depending on which study you look at. That's below the world average of 16%, which might be brought down by other regions like the mid-east, where men are around 25% illiterate, and women 50%. It's also worth noting that the world-wide illiteracy rate of 16% is dropping dramatically from 44% when the UN first began collecting the data in 1950.
Of course I'd prefer looking at quality over quantity, but I doubt there are statistics for that.
I tried plugging a cheap Realtek NIC into a running machine once...and was greeted by a very visible arc that left a soot trail on the PCI connector. Two of the pins on the card itself were burned completely off. The overload protection in the PSU tripped and I had to replug the thing to get it to boot again. But boot it did, and I all lost was a $5 NIC. Never doing that again though...
Oh that reminded me -- I was changing drives in my first 386, and forgot the thing was powered on. There was an arc when I tried to plug in the drive. When I powered up, it would start to boot the os (Windows 95 at thetime) but then lock up. I reinstalled the OS, nothing, tried a new harddrive, nothing, swapped out whatever hardware I could find, nothing.
At the time I was experimenting with Linux. I found that it would install and boot without a glitch, so I started using that as my OS full-time instead.
There's an online poker site I play (with play money) that has a nice alert sounds when it's my turn to play. I play it in the background while coding, and flip back to it every time I hear the alert. It somehow keeps me relatively sane.
My favorite is when I su to to root, exec bash, and habitually source my.bash_profile. About once a year I accidentally source my.bash_history, which of course has dangerous things like "rm tmp/*" The good news is I'm breaking the habit and forcing myself to use sudo instead.
I'm so glad someone else noticed this. I think in the entire time I used Windows, I don't think I bought one program. I used tons and tons of shareware that I never bothered paying for, and instead shrugged off the nagging splash screen. I mean come on, who actually bought WinZip or WinAmp? Why? None of it seemed worth it.
Now with OS, not only have I paid for every version and update of OSX since 10.0, but every single piece of shareware is paid for, including some I used for only a few weeks. I've also purchased tons of commercial software.
I probably should've been more specific. "How" isn't the problem.. it's "What" and "Why." I'm looking for an educational article for real neophytes that explains what a browser is, and why an alternative should be used. For example: when I tell my mom to open a web page she says "ok I'll open Google" She thinks that the web browser is a program called Google because someone set google to her home page. And she's one of the smarter users I know!
I'm not a windows user, but tons of my friends and family are. I worry more and more that they will fall victim to IE-based exploits. This recent issue is finally causing me to act.
Can someone point me to an easy-to-read article that explains the problems with IE, what alternatives like Firefox exist, and how to switch? I want to send it to everyone I know, urging them to switch away from IE.
If it's quiet around you, you can probably hear the collective screaming of the Longhorn team from Redmond WA that sounds like "AGHGHGHGHHGHHHHHH!!!!"
"Peter, did you copy all that down?" "I got only the first half before I fainted. You?" "I got most of it. Ok, the Longhorn features spec meeting is Wednesday morning, we have two days to put all that new Tiger stuff in!"
Wow, it's going to be such a long time before Microsoft copies OSX Tiger, and Linux gets around to copying Microsoft Longhorn. Attention Linux developers: cut out the middle-man and start copying Tiger directly.
Good timing being an election year. I'm sure they could bribe^h^h^h^h^h lobby for an amendment to make any cheating (or any enabling of cheating such as talking about cheating, linking to sites about cheating, even whispering the word cheating in a low breath) punishable brutal whipping.
Too bad DMCA already stands for Digital Millennium Copyright Act. It would be a nice acronym for the Digital Millennium Cheater Act. Maybe it could be TATTLE (Technology Amendment To Target Lying game Enthusiasts)
In case there's anyone out there that thinks that exposure to so-called obscene or profane content, be it on the radio, TV, movies, music, or Internet, look at me. I'm in my mid-30s, happily married, make close to 6 figures, a great contributor to society, do plenty of charity work, I don't do anything illegal, and I recycle. Yet from the ages of 13 till 17 I listened to Howard Stern every afternoon. Sure I learned the meaning of things like "slippin' a mickey" when I was 15, but it never affected my life. And those few individuals whose activities would be somehow tainted by such things are the exception, and would be eventually be affected by something anyway.
It's quite possible that having the ability to sell a game as used makes an increased (but difficult to measure) value of a game, and could lead to increased sales. For example, if I buy "Parappa the Rappa 2", I know that if and when I get sick of the game, I could turn around and sell it used. In other words, resale value, just like you would see in a house or car, but of course on a much smaller scale. That hidden value makes me more likely to purchase the game in the first place. That's all part of a huge web of micro economics in the used game realm, complete with its own multi-layered supply and demand systems, probably worthy of an academic paper.
I say you should download every mail list, usenet archive, and online discussion group, then print it all out on 10,000 pages. Throw in RFCs and source code to bulk it up a bit.
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Ban voting. It also can also affect election outcome. Unless you live in Florida.
Boycott would be the answer, but the sad thing is I'm already boycotting commercial software, TV, movie, media, and record industries about 1000 times over for every law they've bribed their way into existence. The only industry left that I can support is the porn industry.
Take the most common 20% of the options, the ones most likely to be used by the 80% of the users, and present those. At the bottom, have an "advanced" button that reveals the other 80% of the configuration options.
...Me. After 150,324,123 mysterious write-in votes.
I'm sure if you did this, your opponent would mysteriously have 150,324,124 votes.
If this woman had a gun, we'd have 14 less Syrian musicians. Point being, self defense may not be bad for rational people like you (well, at least you sound rational), but there are far too many idiots out there. Or do you think those idiots would eventually be weeded out by being shot?
...that no upcoming movie becomes named "stdio.h" or we're all screwed.
If that happened maybe the MPAA and SCO would just get caught in an endless loop of suing each other for various infringements until they were both broke.
The above posters sound like good advice. If they don't work, you could try asking at a Mac store and see what they use. I'm not sure if or what they use, but their systems are always pretty clean. They must use something to reinstall their systems regularly.
There are over 30,000,000 functional illiterates here in the United States. 29,302,757 represents 10% of our population, rendering that a staggering figure.
What's staggering is that based on UN research, the figure is actually much lower than 10% in the US, between 1 and 5% depending on which study you look at. That's below the world average of 16%, which might be brought down by other regions like the mid-east, where men are around 25% illiterate, and women 50%. It's also worth noting that the world-wide illiteracy rate of 16% is dropping dramatically from 44% when the UN first began collecting the data in 1950.
Of course I'd prefer looking at quality over quantity, but I doubt there are statistics for that.
I tried plugging a cheap Realtek NIC into a running machine once...and was greeted by a very visible arc that left a soot trail on the PCI connector. Two of the pins on the card itself were burned completely off. The overload protection in the PSU tripped and I had to replug the thing to get it to boot again. But boot it did, and I all lost was a $5 NIC. Never doing that again though...
Oh that reminded me -- I was changing drives in my first 386, and forgot the thing was powered on. There was an arc when I tried to plug in the drive. When I powered up, it would start to boot the os (Windows 95 at thetime) but then lock up. I reinstalled the OS, nothing, tried a new harddrive, nothing, swapped out whatever hardware I could find, nothing.
At the time I was experimenting with Linux. I found that it would install and boot without a glitch, so I started using that as my OS full-time instead.
There's an online poker site I play (with play money) that has a nice alert sounds when it's my turn to play. I play it in the background while coding, and flip back to it every time I hear the alert. It somehow keeps me relatively sane.
People in the states all feel they are equal and won't let themselves feel subservant. ...
That's an amazing observation. As an American I would love to know where this originated from.
My favorite is when I su to to root, exec bash, and habitually source my .bash_profile. About once a year I accidentally source my .bash_history, which of course has dangerous things like "rm tmp/*" The good news is I'm breaking the habit and forcing myself to use sudo instead.
I'm so glad someone else noticed this. I think in the entire time I used Windows, I don't think I bought one program. I used tons and tons of shareware that I never bothered paying for, and instead shrugged off the nagging splash screen. I mean come on, who actually bought WinZip or WinAmp? Why? None of it seemed worth it.
Now with OS, not only have I paid for every version and update of OSX since 10.0, but every single piece of shareware is paid for, including some I used for only a few weeks. I've also purchased tons of commercial software.
Work for Qualcomm? Isn't that an understatement? :)
I probably should've been more specific. "How" isn't the problem.. it's "What" and "Why." I'm looking for an educational article for real neophytes that explains what a browser is, and why an alternative should be used. For example: when I tell my mom to open a web page she says "ok I'll open Google" She thinks that the web browser is a program called Google because someone set google to her home page. And she's one of the smarter users I know!
I'm not a windows user, but tons of my friends and family are. I worry more and more that they will fall victim to IE-based exploits. This recent issue is finally causing me to act.
Can someone point me to an easy-to-read article that explains the problems with IE, what alternatives like Firefox exist, and how to switch? I want to send it to everyone I know, urging them to switch away from IE.
If it's quiet around you, you can probably hear the collective screaming of the Longhorn team from Redmond WA that sounds like "AGHGHGHGHHGHHHHHH!!!!"
"Peter, did you copy all that down?"
"I got only the first half before I fainted. You?"
"I got most of it. Ok, the Longhorn features spec meeting is Wednesday morning, we have two days to put all that new Tiger stuff in!"
Wow, it's going to be such a long time before Microsoft copies OSX Tiger, and Linux gets around to copying Microsoft Longhorn. Attention Linux developers: cut out the middle-man and start copying Tiger directly.
Apple thought of this already. One of the banners at WWDC said "Introducing Longhorn" as well as a few other jabs at MS.
Good timing being an election year. I'm sure they could bribe^h^h^h^h^h lobby for an amendment to make any cheating (or any enabling of cheating such as talking about cheating, linking to sites about cheating, even whispering the word cheating in a low breath) punishable brutal whipping.
Too bad DMCA already stands for Digital Millennium Copyright Act. It would be a nice acronym for the Digital Millennium Cheater Act. Maybe it could be TATTLE (Technology Amendment To Target Lying game Enthusiasts)
In case there's anyone out there that thinks that exposure to so-called obscene or profane content, be it on the radio, TV, movies, music, or Internet, look at me. I'm in my mid-30s, happily married, make close to 6 figures, a great contributor to society, do plenty of charity work, I don't do anything illegal, and I recycle. Yet from the ages of 13 till 17 I listened to Howard Stern every afternoon. Sure I learned the meaning of things like "slippin' a mickey" when I was 15, but it never affected my life. And those few individuals whose activities would be somehow tainted by such things are the exception, and would be eventually be affected by something anyway.
Stop "thinking about the children." They're fine.
According to Moore's law, we should get this power in our desktops in about 4 and a half years from now.
It's quite possible that having the ability to sell a game as used makes an increased (but difficult to measure) value of a game, and could lead to increased sales. For example, if I buy "Parappa the Rappa 2", I know that if and when I get sick of the game, I could turn around and sell it used. In other words, resale value, just like you would see in a house or car, but of course on a much smaller scale. That hidden value makes me more likely to purchase the game in the first place. That's all part of a huge web of micro economics in the used game realm, complete with its own multi-layered supply and demand systems, probably worthy of an academic paper.
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I say you should download every mail list, usenet archive, and online discussion group, then print it all out on 10,000 pages. Throw in RFCs and source code to bulk it up a bit.
Is that you Jimmy?