Reminds me of a newspaper article I read maybe 9 months ago suggesting something (admittedly only rather tangentially) related. Far from helping subscribers avoid "legal harrassment", the UK mobile networks were reportedly looking into message-bombing phones reported stolen (i.e. sending them ten text messages every minute saying "THIS PHONE IS STOLEN"). I guess in the end they came up with a cheaper idea, though, because there's now a poster campaign saying that once you report a phone stolen, its IMEI will simply be blacklisted and it'll never work in the UK again.
Cute story, but it doesn't work in MS Word - ^D just brings up the "Font" requester, after which ^S and ^L have no effect. In fact, the only letter groupings that this would work for are ^A,^X,^S and ^A,^V,^S - the latter assuming, of course, that you don't have your entire document in the copy buffer. And even after you hit ^S, you can still hit ^Z to get your text back (at least in Word 2002).
Still, I'm quite prepared to believe it works in Word Perfect, or OpenOffice or what have you.
Um. If you really don't have any agreement with this company (which frankly I doubt - contracts don't have to be written and signed to be effective), that certainly doesn't mean you're entitled to free access to its services. Otherwise you could just walk into a shop and stuff your pockets with whatever you could carry, on the grounds that you never agreed to pay for it.
If you GET flooded, then you take it up with your isp and take action against the culprit.
It's quite possible to be flooded by 10,000 different IP addresses (e.g. by having your obscure fan page suddenly feature in the news). Do you want to spend time tracing each user to bill them.001% of the total bandwidth cost?
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Not a particularly common one. This is the only reference in the OED:
googly. Cricket. An off-break ball bowled with leg-break action. Hence googlev. of the ball or bowler, googler.
On the contrary, students use email 24/7. And when you use email 24/7, you can glance at each piece of email as it comes in, and delete it if it's spam. It's much less of a pain than when you only check your mail once every day or so and you have to wade through everything all in one go.
Personally, I see less than 5% of the spam that gets sent to me anyway, thanks to POPFile.
When other young men his age were playing "Pac Man", "Asteroids", and "D & D", Linus was finding his dungeons and dragons in the registers and machine code of microprocessors.
Just to be trollish for a moment... maybe Linus doesn't like it because MS will have those breakthroughs first?
(Trollish because anyone familiar with Linus' work and character will know that this is extremely unlikely to be a secret factor in Linus' appraisal - plus, of course, there's no particular reason OSS volunteers can't come up with an Itanium-optimised compiler before MS. After all, it doesn't need billions of dollars, just time and commitment.)
replacing 25 pc's with new ones or replacing them with 28 terminals and a 4GB dual Xeon 2.8GHz server is about equally expensive.
Yeah, but NB unless the 25 PCs are actually broken, you can use them as terminals. Thus the actual cost comparison is 25 new PCs vs. 3 terminals and a server.
Believe me, trying to use a 256MB PC for real work is painful.
I wish I could send this comment back in time, even by just five years.
But seriously - wtf do you consider real work?? I use my Windows 2000 PC to do work in Quark and Photoshop - as well as Office and internet stuff like Mozilla and KaZaA - and I've never, ever, found my 192Mb to be restrictive. Unless you want to edit video at maximum warp, or keep some vast database in RAM, I honestly don't see where the pain comes in.
This isn't to say that there's no advantage to having lots of RAM. But in my experience you can run almost any current application on a modern PC in 256Mb perfectly satisfactorily. More RAM is a luxury, not a necessity.
And to be honest, I don't see that figure going up by sixteen times over the life of my next PC. What the hell is going to happen that needs that much extra memory? Sure, you might get another release of Windows that (once again) doubles your basic RAM requirement. Office 11 might turn out to be 50% bigger than Office XP. Office 12 might be 50% bigger again. You're still talking 1Gb of RAM at most. I honestly don't see what people are expecting to happen that's going to need over 4Gb of RAM in any foreseeable future!
Then again, maybe I just don't have enough faith in Redmond's ability to keep on increasing the memory demands of their software.
NB genres don't always have the same names in different countries. I was a bit stunned the first time I heard an American say they liked "Britpop" like the Pet Shop Boys and Eurythmics!
(The term "Britpop" in Britain generally refers to a moddish indie scene in the mid to late nineties, involving bands like Elastica, Sleeper and Ash.)
Neither does Windows, unless you count showing a blank blue screen on request as a "feature." I wish people would stop posting this as if it were somehow funny and interesting.
My guess is that this was going to be an Easter Egg, but someone somewhere along the line thought better of it.
Searched the web for "Jack's Law". Results 1 - 10 of about 93. Search took 0.13 seconds.
You searched without the quotes, so you got a lot of pages that contained both words, but not the actual phrase. Easy enough to miss, though, as the first few hits for that search do (naturally) refer to Jack's Law.
In case anyone was wondering, by the way, it appears there is no "official" Jack's Law. The search results refer to many different rules-of-thumb whose only common factor is that they were all proposed by people called Jack.
It's not a purely Communist system, though. Jiang Zemin and Shi Guangsheng have apparently been working towards a "Socialist Market Economy." No, I don't quite understand it either.
How many speeches by Bruce Perens, Linus Torwalds have to be made over and over. How many more books and magazine articles need to be written.
My boss doesn't read Wired, and he sure as hell doesn't listen to speeches by people he's never heard of.
Communicating effectively isn't just about clarity, it's about reaching your audience. To my mind, the best way to get the message across effectively would be a month-long campaign of full-page ads in the business magazines that we don't read but our managers do. Just something simple, like 200 easy-to-understand words on "why using Linux can only help your business," including a very clear and concise explanation of why the GPL isn't harmful. And then maybe some pretty charts, and at the end a slogan like "why aren't you using Linux?" - because, after all, they probably won't know the answer, and it can only help if they then go and start talking to someone who would actually know how to make it happen.
Of course, the thing about giving stuff away free is that you don't have the budget to do this kind of stuff. Hmm.
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Pure profit, at the expense of the government.
(Or, you might say, the taxpayer.)
Reminds me of a newspaper article I read maybe 9 months ago suggesting something (admittedly only rather tangentially) related. Far from helping subscribers avoid "legal harrassment", the UK mobile networks were reportedly looking into message-bombing phones reported stolen (i.e. sending them ten text messages every minute saying "THIS PHONE IS STOLEN"). I guess in the end they came up with a cheaper idea, though, because there's now a poster campaign saying that once you report a phone stolen, its IMEI will simply be blacklisted and it'll never work in the UK again.
MacOnLinux... In stylish blood red colors.
:) *clink*
That would be MacOnRouge then?
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Maybe they could do something like the "Switch" adverts. The campaign could be called "people who use the Margay."
Cute story, but it doesn't work in MS Word - ^D just brings up the "Font" requester, after which ^S and ^L have no effect. In fact, the only letter groupings that this would work for are ^A,^X,^S and ^A,^V,^S - the latter assuming, of course, that you don't have your entire document in the copy buffer. And even after you hit ^S, you can still hit ^Z to get your text back (at least in Word 2002).
Still, I'm quite prepared to believe it works in Word Perfect, or OpenOffice or what have you.
Um. If you really don't have any agreement with this company (which frankly I doubt - contracts don't have to be written and signed to be effective), that certainly doesn't mean you're entitled to free access to its services. Otherwise you could just walk into a shop and stuff your pockets with whatever you could carry, on the grounds that you never agreed to pay for it.
If you GET flooded, then you take it up with your isp and take action against the culprit.
.001% of the total bandwidth cost?
It's quite possible to be flooded by 10,000 different IP addresses (e.g. by having your obscure fan page suddenly feature in the news). Do you want to spend time tracing each user to bill them
Not a particularly common one. This is the only reference in the OED:
googly . Cricket. An off-break ball bowled with leg-break action. Hence google v. of the ball or bowler, googler .
On the contrary, students use email 24/7. And when you use email 24/7, you can glance at each piece of email as it comes in, and delete it if it's spam. It's much less of a pain than when you only check your mail once every day or so and you have to wade through everything all in one go.
Personally, I see less than 5% of the spam that gets sent to me anyway, thanks to POPFile.
Just to be the ultra-pedant, the subjunctive is a mood, not a tense. It works like a tense though.
When other young men his age were playing "Pac Man", "Asteroids", and "D & D", Linus was finding his dungeons and dragons in the registers and machine code of microprocessors.
Jon? Is that you?
Just to be trollish for a moment... maybe Linus doesn't like it because MS will have those breakthroughs first?
(Trollish because anyone familiar with Linus' work and character will know that this is extremely unlikely to be a secret factor in Linus' appraisal - plus, of course, there's no particular reason OSS volunteers can't come up with an Itanium-optimised compiler before MS. After all, it doesn't need billions of dollars, just time and commitment.)
replacing 25 pc's with new ones or replacing them with 28 terminals and a 4GB dual Xeon 2.8GHz server is about equally expensive.
Yeah, but NB unless the 25 PCs are actually broken, you can use them as terminals. Thus the actual cost comparison is 25 new PCs vs. 3 terminals and a server.
Believe me, trying to use a 256MB PC for real work is painful.
I wish I could send this comment back in time, even by just five years.
But seriously - wtf do you consider real work?? I use my Windows 2000 PC to do work in Quark and Photoshop - as well as Office and internet stuff like Mozilla and KaZaA - and I've never, ever, found my 192Mb to be restrictive. Unless you want to edit video at maximum warp, or keep some vast database in RAM, I honestly don't see where the pain comes in.
This isn't to say that there's no advantage to having lots of RAM. But in my experience you can run almost any current application on a modern PC in 256Mb perfectly satisfactorily. More RAM is a luxury, not a necessity.
And to be honest, I don't see that figure going up by sixteen times over the life of my next PC. What the hell is going to happen that needs that much extra memory? Sure, you might get another release of Windows that (once again) doubles your basic RAM requirement. Office 11 might turn out to be 50% bigger than Office XP. Office 12 might be 50% bigger again. You're still talking 1Gb of RAM at most. I honestly don't see what people are expecting to happen that's going to need over 4Gb of RAM in any foreseeable future!
Then again, maybe I just don't have enough faith in Redmond's ability to keep on increasing the memory demands of their software.
People like you are the reason I get email from colleagues "Re: Wednesday's meeting" which actually contains figures I asked for by phone on Monday.
They need to get it up to three if they want to compete with the Fender Strat though. That, or start publicising "the pickups myth."
NB genres don't always have the same names in different countries. I was a bit stunned the first time I heard an American say they liked "Britpop" like the Pet Shop Boys and Eurythmics!
(The term "Britpop" in Britain generally refers to a moddish indie scene in the mid to late nineties, involving bands like Elastica, Sleeper and Ash.)
From the article:
"These booklets are roughly comparable to "The Courier" in physical quality, but at $3.50 each are priced rather high.
Indeed. This put Dungeons & Dragons beyond the means of the Loch Ness Monster, for example.
Neither does Windows, unless you count showing a blank blue screen on request as a "feature." I wish people would stop posting this as if it were somehow funny and interesting.
My guess is that this was going to be an Easter Egg, but someone somewhere along the line thought better of it.
Ahem.
Searched the web for "Jack's Law". Results 1 - 10 of about 93. Search took 0.13 seconds.
You searched without the quotes, so you got a lot of pages that contained both words, but not the actual phrase. Easy enough to miss, though, as the first few hits for that search do (naturally) refer to Jack's Law.
In case anyone was wondering, by the way, it appears there is no "official" Jack's Law. The search results refer to many different rules-of-thumb whose only common factor is that they were all proposed by people called Jack.
There are also laws in North Carolina, as I have discovered to my cost. :(
It's not a purely Communist system, though. Jiang Zemin and Shi Guangsheng have apparently been working towards a "Socialist Market Economy." No, I don't quite understand it either.
*lol* The sample (on that page) of RMS "singing" the song is the funniest thing I've heard in days.
How many speeches by Bruce Perens, Linus Torwalds have to be made over and over. How many more books and magazine articles need to be written.
My boss doesn't read Wired, and he sure as hell doesn't listen to speeches by people he's never heard of.
Communicating effectively isn't just about clarity, it's about reaching your audience. To my mind, the best way to get the message across effectively would be a month-long campaign of full-page ads in the business magazines that we don't read but our managers do. Just something simple, like 200 easy-to-understand words on "why using Linux can only help your business," including a very clear and concise explanation of why the GPL isn't harmful. And then maybe some pretty charts, and at the end a slogan like "why aren't you using Linux?" - because, after all, they probably won't know the answer, and it can only help if they then go and start talking to someone who would actually know how to make it happen.
Of course, the thing about giving stuff away free is that you don't have the budget to do this kind of stuff. Hmm.