One of the best features of IE are the zone settings for security. I would love to see Mozilla adopt a similar approach (without the security holes). I set IE to not run any unsigned scripts or apps, and to prompt me on the signed ones. I also don't accept permanent cookies. That's how I do the Internet zone. The restricted zone is reserved for the various ad servers, and I don't allow anything at all there. The trusted zone is what I use to basically allow cookies. I still like to be prompted for all ActiveX controls.
"Logic . . . merely enables one to be wrong with authority"
How? Once someone becomes savvy, the knowledge they have becomes their own. I doubt if they would have much trouble going to another ISP after a while on the net. Just because I picked up a lot of my Linux and NT knowledge on a job, and received a great benefit from it, does not mean that I can't transfer the skills I have developed elsewhere. Similarly go the skills required to use the Internet. Just because they developed them from using a benefit provided by Ford does not mean that they can't go elsewhere. I think that the computers will help job satisfaction.
"Logic . . . merely enables one to be wrong with authority"
Computer companies, schools and
governments ought to be mortified that they didn't think of it first.
Hate to be the one to break it to you, but giving away computers and Internet access is not a government responsibility. A car is much more useful to most, but the government does not give those away. I don't work for the government. If my employer wants to add something to the deal we made when I agreed to work for him, fine, so long as he does not implement this deal unilaterally at the expense of that to which we agreed. If a government does this, it does it by using force to take the money away from someone else. And while you praise this for what it could do to the net, there could be a dark side. When AOL dumped thousands of clueless people on the net, it was a tremendous pain in the rear. Now, we are talking about a bunch of people who didn't even want the Internet in the first place being given it. (These people have good jobs, and you can get access for free and computers for pittance.) What will be the result of all these people jumping aboard the latest fad? I agree that this is a good thing, but I don't think it should be expected, nor do I think it is an appropriate program for a government to implement.
"Logic . . . merely enables one to be wrong with authority"
Actually, I think it would be a good idea for colleges to come up with something like this. A standard configuration for distribution to staff and students. Once the early adopters get the kinks out, I think having such a distribution available could make adoption by less technically adventurous schools much more likely.
"Logic . . . merely enables one to be wrong with authority"
I think you have to start with true classics. War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea for example. 2001: A Space Odyssey has to be one of the ones to read. I would read Ringworld first among Niven simply because it is his most popular, which is the sort of thing you typically read first to establish a foundation in just about any discipline. The hardest choice for me would be whether to include Vonnegut. His stuff has a different appeal than most sci-fi. When you get to Heinlein, I suggest starting with Starship Troopers and some of the other juvenile series, then progressing to The Door into Summer and Friday, then to some of the Lazarus Long stuff. Don't even bother with Stranger in a Strange Land until later unless the child is extraordinarily sophisticated.
"Logic . . . merely enables one to be wrong with authority"
We can't just trust the end-user to solve these problems themselves
Of course Microsoft, with its proven track record regarding security, quality code, and rapid implementation of bug fixes, is sooo much more trustworthy than any of us are.
"Logic . . . merely enables one to be wrong with authority"
But many people sign up for the account when they first begin to use the internet, and don't want the trouble of migrating even after they acquire cluefullness.
Also, that is one way to get around the firewall at work and check your home email.
I don't think this is a problem
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If a company can't sell it, there is much less reason for them to hold on to source code, anyway. Indeed, for some companies, the good will incurred by releasing source code for useful things developed in-house might make it well worth it to do so. Not to mention that I doubt if a company could develop much which is really useful to the public for internal use only. It would really have to be a massive company, and if it were that large, word would get out and someone would create a public version anyway.
his cant be good for business so to speak. But does it really make any difference, even if the GPL is violated by someone, legal or illegal, who will represent GPL in sueing their asses???
I believe the Free Software Foundation would represent the GPL. I seem to recall that question coming up before.
Obviously, open source is not a reasonable option for every product, particularly if large portions of revenue are derived from sales, but has Corel ever considered an open source release of products which are not good revenue producers?
Oh, give me a break! Linux is not leading Windows 2000. Does linux have an MS Office 2000 clone? 100% word compatibility? No, then it's dead in the water for corporate adoption. If there's one thing that linux enthusiasts should take to heart it is the lesson that MS has taught the entire industry: controlling one market allows you to rapidly extend into other (related) markets and then embrace the tech, subvert it, and take that market over.
Well, the article indicated the he was talking about server market share. Office compatibility is moot on a server. In fact, an admin who runs Office on a production server has a particular designation: idiot. Linux will allow Windows clients to connect to a share containing Office fine.
She's the opposite of Homer. You can't deny he's probably a right-winger, and he goes all the way along the political spectrum to the realm of hard-core, crazy gun toters!
Yeah, but Homer is an idiot, and while some right-wingers are probably idiots, most are reasonably intelligent. I think Homer is just a crowd-follower
Man, since we are on the subject of USENET, maybe slashdot should implement some sort of killfile. Some people just aren't worth listening to. I like the fact that we can filter authors of articles, but maybe it's getting to be time to expound upon the concept a bit.
I guess since the world didn't end with Y2K, CNN is desperate for anything with a buzzword in it. I'm looking forward to the day when we see something like "Linux inventor combines DNA with well known athlete" and they talk about his daughter. Tabloidism is the order of the day.
Now, there are a great many problems with censorware, but I have no problem with the concept that public funds not be used on certain things if the community does not want it. No one is forbidding an individual's access to pr0n or whatever. What people may do, is restrict what a public library will buy. I think the way to do it is to have a board decide what the library will allow, and have this board elected by the local people. If people are not happy with the way the board is spending their money, who has more of a right? This is not an issue of preventing someone doing something with their own property, this is a right of poeple to decide that they do not want to use their own money to go to a purpose from which they do not extract any perceived benefit. This may be the best argument out for privatizing the library system.
Don't you think this is a bit melodramatic?
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One of the darkest days for the net? I think that is a bit ridiculous, quite frankly. I don't have any problem with these companies merging. It may well make for a better bottom line, which is a major objective of corporations. I think they have a perfect right to merge as they see fit. If the government would get out of a lot of this stuff (that includes using its monopoly on force in enforcing bogus intellectual property laws for 95 years or more), things would be a lot better.
On what principle do you operate to say that the government should prevent this? Government creates more problems than it solves here. Now, I disagree fundamentally with libertarians on some issues, but regarding goverment jumping into this sort of thing, I am more or less in agreement with them. I think a reasonable argument can be made to sanction or even break up a company after wrongdoing is discovered, but I am very uncomfortable with disallowing voluntary mergers before the fact.
What sort of hardware support is available under Linux. Can I use, say, a Layla or a Gina by Echo under it? I would love to go full bore into home recording. What about sample editing?
I have been very satisfied with WingSpan Bank so far. Their customer service is at least as good as my local bank, and they have the best situation regarding fees I have yet seen. I have never been charged a fee of any kind by them. They even refund up to $5.00 a month in ATM fees charged by the machine. They have online investing as well as credit cards. They update the transactions online just about simultaneously with the real world, and of course, they offer online bill paying, which is a pretty good thing for me. I tried Bank of America, but I got tired of the fees. They charge you for a deposit slip if you go in a branch and don't have one and have to get one there. I had never heard of such a thing before.
The Pink Panther and A Shot in The Dark were both filmed simultaneously, and although A Shot in the Dark was meant to be the first story in the series, The Pink Panther was released first.
This is interesting, as when a friend and I rented this in college, I found the two to not be of comparable quality. Panther was okay, but Shot absolutely had all of us on the floor laughing. No way I would have suspected they were filmed together.
Actually, a lot of times I don't find User Friendly funny because it can be too PC. I cannot count the number of times I have gotten calls from users who had never cracked open the how-to book in the manual. The question they ask is right there, in the opening of the book! I have never understood how you can spend $2500 on a computer and never read the book. I read the manual on my car. I read it on a $99 microwave from K-Mart. What is so difficult about taking 15 minutes, or, even better, keepin it open and following the step-by-step instructions? Some manuals are horrible, so sometimes this is not possible for a new user, but some don't try. I once had someone call in because the computer would not come on. It wasn't plugged in. Another guy bought a modem and called when he could not get on the Internet, but the problem was that he didn't even have a computer . He thought all you needed for the Internet was a fast modem. I'm sorry, but that is funny to me. I understand that if you have no exposure to the technology at all, and all you have heard are rumors, how this can happen, but please, ask the guy in the store.
The guy who clipped his own dome with a chainsaw must have been looking to die. That could not possibly have been an unforseen consequence. Is it even possible to get that drunk?
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One of the best features of IE are the zone settings for security. I would love to see Mozilla adopt a similar approach (without the security holes). I set IE to not run any unsigned scripts or apps, and to prompt me on the signed ones. I also don't accept permanent cookies. That's how I do the Internet zone. The restricted zone is reserved for the various ad servers, and I don't allow anything at all there. The trusted zone is what I use to basically allow cookies. I still like to be prompted for all ActiveX controls.
"Logic . . . merely enables one to be wrong with authority"
How? Once someone becomes savvy, the knowledge they have becomes their own. I doubt if they would have much trouble going to another ISP after a while on the net. Just because I picked up a lot of my Linux and NT knowledge on a job, and received a great benefit from it, does not mean that I can't transfer the skills I have developed elsewhere. Similarly go the skills required to use the Internet. Just because they developed them from using a benefit provided by Ford does not mean that they can't go elsewhere. I think that the computers will help job satisfaction.
"Logic . . . merely enables one to be wrong with authority"
Hate to be the one to break it to you, but giving away computers and Internet access is not a government responsibility. A car is much more useful to most, but the government does not give those away. I don't work for the government. If my employer wants to add something to the deal we made when I agreed to work for him, fine, so long as he does not implement this deal unilaterally at the expense of that to which we agreed. If a government does this, it does it by using force to take the money away from someone else. And while you praise this for what it could do to the net, there could be a dark side. When AOL dumped thousands of clueless people on the net, it was a tremendous pain in the rear. Now, we are talking about a bunch of people who didn't even want the Internet in the first place being given it. (These people have good jobs, and you can get access for free and computers for pittance.) What will be the result of all these people jumping aboard the latest fad? I agree that this is a good thing, but I don't think it should be expected, nor do I think it is an appropriate program for a government to implement.
"Logic . . . merely enables one to be wrong with authority"
Actually, I think it would be a good idea for colleges to come up with something like this. A standard configuration for distribution to staff and students. Once the early adopters get the kinks out, I think having such a distribution available could make adoption by less technically adventurous schools much more likely.
"Logic . . . merely enables one to be wrong with authority"
That is one of the things I like about Mandrake 7.0.
"Logic . . . merely enables one to be wrong with authority"
I think you have to start with true classics. War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea for example. 2001: A Space Odyssey has to be one of the ones to read. I would read Ringworld first among Niven simply because it is his most popular, which is the sort of thing you typically read first to establish a foundation in just about any discipline. The hardest choice for me would be whether to include Vonnegut. His stuff has a different appeal than most sci-fi. When you get to Heinlein, I suggest starting with Starship Troopers and some of the other juvenile series, then progressing to The Door into Summer and Friday, then to some of the Lazarus Long stuff. Don't even bother with Stranger in a Strange Land until later unless the child is extraordinarily sophisticated.
"Logic . . . merely enables one to be wrong with authority"
Of course Microsoft, with its proven track record regarding security, quality code, and rapid implementation of bug fixes, is sooo much more trustworthy than any of us are.
"Logic . . . merely enables one to be wrong with authority"
I know I would be much more likely to forget to do something if it comes up every ten years as opposed to every year.
Also, that is one way to get around the firewall at work and check your home email.
If a company can't sell it, there is much less reason for them to hold on to source code, anyway. Indeed, for some companies, the good will incurred by releasing source code for useful things developed in-house might make it well worth it to do so. Not to mention that I doubt if a company could develop much which is really useful to the public for internal use only. It would really have to be a massive company, and if it were that large, word would get out and someone would create a public version anyway.
I believe the Free Software Foundation would represent the GPL. I seem to recall that question coming up before.
Obviously, open source is not a reasonable option for every product, particularly if large portions of revenue are derived from sales, but has Corel ever considered an open source release of products which are not good revenue producers?
Well, the article indicated the he was talking about server market share. Office compatibility is moot on a server. In fact, an admin who runs Office on a production server has a particular designation: idiot. Linux will allow Windows clients to connect to a share containing Office fine.
I didn't think I would ever see a show in which the episodes were as consistently funny as Sanford and Son, but The Simpsons has done it, I think
Yeah, but Homer is an idiot, and while some right-wingers are probably idiots, most are reasonably intelligent. I think Homer is just a crowd-follower
Man, since we are on the subject of USENET, maybe slashdot should implement some sort of killfile. Some people just aren't worth listening to. I like the fact that we can filter authors of articles, but maybe it's getting to be time to expound upon the concept a bit.
I guess since the world didn't end with Y2K, CNN is desperate for anything with a buzzword in it. I'm looking forward to the day when we see something like "Linux inventor combines DNA with well known athlete" and they talk about his daughter. Tabloidism is the order of the day.
Now, there are a great many problems with censorware, but I have no problem with the concept that public funds not be used on certain things if the community does not want it. No one is forbidding an individual's access to pr0n or whatever. What people may do, is restrict what a public library will buy. I think the way to do it is to have a board decide what the library will allow, and have this board elected by the local people. If people are not happy with the way the board is spending their money, who has more of a right? This is not an issue of preventing someone doing something with their own property, this is a right of poeple to decide that they do not want to use their own money to go to a purpose from which they do not extract any perceived benefit. This may be the best argument out for privatizing the library system.
One of the darkest days for the net? I think that is a bit ridiculous, quite frankly. I don't have any problem with these companies merging. It may well make for a better bottom line, which is a major objective of corporations. I think they have a perfect right to merge as they see fit. If the government would get out of a lot of this stuff (that includes using its monopoly on force in enforcing bogus intellectual property laws for 95 years or more), things would be a lot better.
On what principle do you operate to say that the government should prevent this? Government creates more problems than it solves here. Now, I disagree fundamentally with libertarians on some issues, but regarding goverment jumping into this sort of thing, I am more or less in agreement with them. I think a reasonable argument can be made to sanction or even break up a company after wrongdoing is discovered, but I am very uncomfortable with disallowing voluntary mergers before the fact.
What sort of hardware support is available under Linux. Can I use, say, a Layla or a Gina by Echo under it? I would love to go full bore into home recording. What about sample editing?
I have been very satisfied with WingSpan Bank so far. Their customer service is at least as good as my local bank, and they have the best situation regarding fees I have yet seen. I have never been charged a fee of any kind by them. They even refund up to $5.00 a month in ATM fees charged by the machine. They have online investing as well as credit cards. They update the transactions online just about simultaneously with the real world, and of course, they offer online bill paying, which is a pretty good thing for me. I tried Bank of America, but I got tired of the fees. They charge you for a deposit slip if you go in a branch and don't have one and have to get one there. I had never heard of such a thing before.
This is interesting, as when a friend and I rented this in college, I found the two to not be of comparable quality. Panther was okay, but Shot absolutely had all of us on the floor laughing. No way I would have suspected they were filmed together.
Actually, a lot of times I don't find User Friendly funny because it can be too PC. I cannot count the number of times I have gotten calls from users who had never cracked open the how-to book in the manual. The question they ask is right there, in the opening of the book! I have never understood how you can spend $2500 on a computer and never read the book. I read the manual on my car. I read it on a $99 microwave from K-Mart. What is so difficult about taking 15 minutes, or, even better, keepin it open and following the step-by-step instructions? Some manuals are horrible, so sometimes this is not possible for a new user, but some don't try. I once had someone call in because the computer would not come on. It wasn't plugged in. Another guy bought a modem and called when he could not get on the Internet, but the problem was that he didn't even have a computer . He thought all you needed for the Internet was a fast modem. I'm sorry, but that is funny to me. I understand that if you have no exposure to the technology at all, and all you have heard are rumors, how this can happen, but please, ask the guy in the store.
Has anyone ever heard of filming a sequel simultaneously with the original? This is a interesting concept.
The guy who clipped his own dome with a chainsaw must have been looking to die. That could not possibly have been an unforseen consequence. Is it even possible to get that drunk?