OTOH, the fact that students can easily get Linux at home is a reason -not- to use it. Providing a lab of Sun's will give students experience on 'real' Unix machines that they would otherwise be unable to get.
Personally, I think school money would be better spent on a lab of Linux machins, just pointing out that there is a flipside to the argument...
For me, Slackware and my first love are very much intertwined memories. I lost the girl to time & distance, but thanks to Pat, I've still got a good OS.
It could be worse; at least they think they're adding something good for you. Here, they can't even get the water clean enough to drink without a filter.
Actually, a much better idea would be to make the user infertile UNTIL a specified age. I'm just turning 25 and I'd love to be sterile for the next 5yr, as long as it was trivially reversible.
Too bad that junkies have a tendency to force others to support their habits. From prostitutes spreading disease to muggers and car thieves, this is the problem. Legalization of the 'hard drugs' would just lead to these people robbing drug stores instead of private citizens.
I remember an old ESDI controller (16-bit ISA) I had for a while had these same sorts of Knight Rider lights. Not only did they jump during drive activity, but they were used to display error codes.
Not to mention that, from pictures & videos I've seen of these, there's no way to make a single LED light up. It's a meter made up of a row of LEDs, rather than 10LEDs that can be individually controled.
It all sounds good in theory, but unfortunately it's nothing like that; if you've ever talked to anyone who's spent time in one (as an inmate or as an officer), rehabilitation is about as far from what goes on as is imaginable. The popular idea is that incarceration can be justified in 3 ways : rehabilitation, punishment/retribution and separation from society. Very little effort's put into the first, the 2nd makes taxpayers feel good but, especialy considering draconian mandatory sentencing rules, the 3rd is really all the gov't concerned with.
The problem with most collections agencies is that the 'good' ones don't take 'no' for an answer; if they stopped calling a number every time that somebody said they had a wrong number or the person they were looking for no longer lives there, they'd never get anything done.
If some deadbeat owes you money, this can be a good thing; if they think you're a deadbeat, it's not so good.
Running Mozilla isn't going to save you when you've got some malware that hijacks your TCP/IP stack and snoops HTTP trafic, popping up ads without touching the browser.
The case was just U-Haul bitching about not getting their own ads seen. Just because they aren't breaking laws in changing what advertising you see doesn't mean they're not breaking some other laws by decieving people and tricking them into installing the software in the first place.
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OTOH, the fact that students can easily get Linux at home is a reason -not- to use it. Providing a lab of Sun's will give students experience on 'real' Unix machines that they would otherwise be unable to get.
Personally, I think school money would be better spent on a lab of Linux machins, just pointing out that there is a flipside to the argument...
For me, Slackware and my first love are very much intertwined memories. I lost the girl to time & distance, but thanks to Pat, I've still got a good OS.
It could be worse; at least they think they're adding something good for you. Here, they can't even get the water clean enough to drink without a filter.
Actually, a much better idea would be to make the user infertile UNTIL a specified age. I'm just turning 25 and I'd love to be sterile for the next 5yr, as long as it was trivially reversible.
Umm... Maybe because the ATI drivers for Linux suck.
How about the DIMM slot, that's a reasonable size to vizualize (at least for me; I've got like 10-12 of 'em on my desk).
Or for a better idea, Mini-ITX boards are almost the same size as a std. CD jewel case.
Any decent computerized cataloging system will have location codes that tell you which building (and often on which floor) a given title is on.
..but within a year, GTA:VC or Madden is going to sitting on the shelves for $10/copy while everquest is going to keep pulling in that revenue.
It's the same as how MSFT wants subscriptions; constant revenue streams are better than selling somebody software that you -hope- they upgrade.
I, for one, welcome our new cliche overlords.
For free?
Going from legalizing and regulation of drugs to socializing the distribution is a big jump...
Too bad that junkies have a tendency to force others to support their habits. From prostitutes spreading disease to muggers and car thieves, this is the problem. Legalization of the 'hard drugs' would just lead to these people robbing drug stores instead of private citizens.
Even if the candidate you vote for doesn't win, you're still sending a message to the winner
...that he can keep fucking you over and still win an election.
PRIOR ART ...get a lawyer now.
C++ is just a scenic detour, it's not really the next step in evolution; that honor belongs to Python (or maybe Prolog).
Too bad that most online petitions are worth less than the paper they're printed on.
Personally, I think a compromise is reachable; We can stop taking their best engineers if they stop taking our development jobs.
They should be heatsinks, but that assumes they actually do anything about heat rather than just being a cosmetic thing.
I remember an old ESDI controller (16-bit ISA) I had for a while had these same sorts of Knight Rider lights. Not only did they jump during drive activity, but they were used to display error codes.
Not to mention that, from pictures & videos I've seen of these, there's no way to make a single LED light up. It's a meter made up of a row of LEDs, rather than 10LEDs that can be individually controled.
It all sounds good in theory, but unfortunately it's nothing like that; if you've ever talked to anyone who's spent time in one (as an inmate or as an officer), rehabilitation is about as far from what goes on as is imaginable. The popular idea is that incarceration can be justified in 3 ways : rehabilitation, punishment/retribution and separation from society. Very little effort's put into the first, the 2nd makes taxpayers feel good but, especialy considering draconian mandatory sentencing rules, the 3rd is really all the gov't concerned with.
The problem with most collections agencies is that the 'good' ones don't take 'no' for an answer; if they stopped calling a number every time that somebody said they had a wrong number or the person they were looking for no longer lives there, they'd never get anything done.
If some deadbeat owes you money, this can be a good thing; if they think you're a deadbeat, it's not so good.
An ego trip.
Running Mozilla isn't going to save you when you've got some malware that hijacks your TCP/IP stack and snoops HTTP trafic, popping up ads without touching the browser.
The case was just U-Haul bitching about not getting their own ads seen. Just because they aren't breaking laws in changing what advertising you see doesn't mean they're not breaking some other laws by decieving people and tricking them into installing the software in the first place.
It's probably for Business students; if they 'learn java' they'll be able to manage the entire programming/IT division.