If a solution algorithm is reasonably correct, then it will flag EVERYONE who uses it as a potential cheater.
How do you determine who copied from whom (or if any copying took place) when the analysis shows that 100 students in a class of 300 turned in similar code?
Apple has a history of putting out buggy system software with new technology in it, and then quickly replacing it with a much more stable version of that same technology.
Same claim could be made about Microsoft and its OSes, so why bother arguing this point?
Show me an ATX case that can be opened in 2 secs with full access to all swapable components like my G4 can, and I'll let you have the ease of use crown on the hardware front.
How often do you need to swap an internal component, though? That's a red herring in evaluating hardware ease-of-use.
And besides, the iMac hardware design philosophy appears to be "Never upgrade hardware"...
And putting a menu bar at the top of the window
like that requires more time and precision to use it than when it is against the side of the screen.
Depends on where your active window is on the screen, doesn't it? Takes longer to move from the window to the menu if you have to go all the way across the screen.
I think it's a matter of personal preference. I myself prefer a menu on every window, since in my usage of Macs I waste time searching the menus for an option I can't find, only to realize that the wrong app is running foreground and I've been looking at the wrong menus... YMMV.
they later combined with MS-DOS to make it a
true OS in a final effort to prevent DR-DOS from gaining market share
Or maybe because Win95 and NT were great leaps forward in design and usability from the kludges of Win 1.x/2.x/3.x...? Not every single "innovation" of Microsoft's has been designed solely to destroy competition.
Do any of the outlet stores actually label what you consider to be the 'CD section' as such?
Typically CDs are shelved in the 'Music' section or similar. There's no legal recourse to intershelving Philips-approved 'compact discs' and copy-prevention-enabled 'audio disks' then.
Both Word and Excel have extensive "Save As..." features. These dumb users that you complain about don't need to install a copy of EMACS to send you a plain text file.
And by telling them you "don't do Windows" instead of explaining the real problem -- that MS Office file formats are not universally interoperable and all-too-often can be used to propagate harmful virii -- you're confusing the issue and coming across as stubborn.
she is now screwed, as in order to be productive she cant use windows95 and office 95 anymore she is now forced to upgrade.
What? Why? Did I miss something?
AFAIK, Win95 doesn't refuse to boot once Microsoft declares it 'unsupported'. You don't need the latest release of DirectX to type a letter into Word95. Old software will continue to run on old hardware.
You might argue that MS changes their Office file formats and that compels users to upgrade, but I would retaliate by noting that Linux office suites have at least as many compatibility problems with MS Office formats as older versions of MS products do. And besides, the average home user doesn't share electronic documents with other computers.
Not to disparage any other product, open source
or not, but if Word is crashing on you regularily,
you are doing something wrong.
Oh, SHUT UP.
A program crashing should NEVER be the result of something the end-user does. If a software crash is EVER possible, it's because someone wrote some poor code somewhere.
(Yes, if the user has an unreliable RAM chip in their system or something else that causes hardware wonkiness, then a program crash is understandable. But that wouldn't be "something [the user] did"...)
If online shopping services convert over to
.NET or god forbid my bill payment services, it's
going to be very difficult to avoid having to
make that Passport account and start using.NET.
Not at all.
If that happens, you can go back to doing your shopping and paying your bills offline, the way most people still do.
As long as there is a physical world outside of the Internet, you will never need to sign up for MS Passport.
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It will be almost impossible for oppressed people's to violently object to tyranny in such a
scenario.
Especially on Skynet develops the technology to send androids back in time to kill troublesome revolutionaries before they're born...
Unless you've written to and/or spoken in person to your elected representatives, from local up to state and federal, you have no right to claim that you don't have a voice.
Whining on a website isn't going to fix anything. If you don't like what your government is doing, LET THEM KNOW.
So what should Nintendo do? Simple. Modify the
gamecube to play DVDs from any region. Make sure
the DVD decoding is totally controled by one
EASILY removable chip that is accessable by simply
lifting a simple panel.
How is this simple? What you're suggesting would require a COMPLETE redesign of the Cube hardware.
That's a nice little pipe dream you have there, but it's not going to happen. If you want a DVD player, buy a DVD player. Don't expect Nintendo to spend millions on R&D for a Gamecube 2.0 and risk making an enemy of Big Media just so you don't have to spend $200 for a separate DVD unit at Best Buy.
The established position is that any "information" product you buy, like a book, video,
magazine, LP, CD or whatever, is sold to you on the condition that you do not reproduce it in any
way.
Absolutely not.
Unless other contract language applies to the purchase, copyright law grants me certain "fair use" rights. I can copy the media however I want if it's for my own personal use, I can take and re-publish excerpts for the purpose of academic study; I agree not to charge money for letting other people experience it.
No one was actually going to boycott the MPAA and the DVD format. And no, a dozen Slashdot readers don't count.
There's nothing bad about the DVD technology (with regard to "fair use" and "free speech" ramifications) that can't be corrected with more technology. You're not surrendering your freedom in any conceivable way by watching a DVD.
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I overclocked the 6809 in my TRS-80 Color Computer to a L33T 1.97MHz!!!! PH3AR!!!
Here you go, script kiddies:
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20 POKE 65497,1
30 ? "W00T"
I already love it everytime windows warns me that I am about to do something dangerous
"You are about to do something dangerous and stupid. Do it anyway? [Cancel] [OK]"
Is that really security?
Time Warner sold World Championship Wrestling off to WWF Entertainment, Inc. almost a year ago.
Please check your facts before posting lies to Slashdot. I always do!
If a solution algorithm is reasonably correct, then it will flag EVERYONE who uses it as a potential cheater.
How do you determine who copied from whom (or if any copying took place) when the analysis shows that 100 students in a class of 300 turned in similar code?
Coincidence? I think not.
I think so.
WE'RE IN A RECESSION.
Apple has a history of putting out buggy system software with new technology in it, and then quickly replacing it with a much more stable version of that same technology.
Same claim could be made about Microsoft and its OSes, so why bother arguing this point?
Show me an ATX case that can be opened in 2 secs with full access to all swapable components like my G4 can, and I'll let you have the ease of use crown on the hardware front.
How often do you need to swap an internal component, though? That's a red herring in evaluating hardware ease-of-use.
And besides, the iMac hardware design philosophy appears to be "Never upgrade hardware"...
And putting a menu bar at the top of the window
like that requires more time and precision to use it than when it is against the side of the screen.
Depends on where your active window is on the screen, doesn't it? Takes longer to move from the window to the menu if you have to go all the way across the screen.
I think it's a matter of personal preference. I myself prefer a menu on every window, since in my usage of Macs I waste time searching the menus for an option I can't find, only to realize that the wrong app is running foreground and I've been looking at the wrong menus... YMMV.
they later combined with MS-DOS to make it a
true OS in a final effort to prevent DR-DOS from gaining market share
Or maybe because Win95 and NT were great leaps forward in design and usability from the kludges of Win 1.x/2.x/3.x...? Not every single "innovation" of Microsoft's has been designed solely to destroy competition.
That still doesn't explain what the massive functional benefit is from letting the screen swivel.
How often do you reposition the screen of your computer? You set it up on your desk once and that's it.
The new iMac's lamp-neck is a gimmick. It won't make anyone more productive than they were with the old CRT-based iMac.
Cites? I don't believe your story.
And no, the citations aren't valid if the point to a work of fiction by Douglas Adams.
Funny, I would have thought ANY project would have to use Operating System software...
WARNING: blind zealot-like advocacy ahead!
Too bad. [BeOS is] the perfect answer for those Mac people who hate PCs.
Yeah, it's got the same dearth of available software as the Mac, but it runs on x86 hardware! Splendid!
Honestly, I would imagine the perfect answer for Mac people who hate PCs would be... a Mac?
Do any of the outlet stores actually label what you consider to be the 'CD section' as such?
Typically CDs are shelved in the 'Music' section or similar. There's no legal recourse to intershelving Philips-approved 'compact discs' and copy-prevention-enabled 'audio disks' then.
Why do you assume that competitors to MS Word must be Open Source?
Perhaps you remember a little application called "WordPerfect"? It was the marketshare leader for about a decade, if I recall correctly...
Both Word and Excel have extensive "Save As..." features. These dumb users that you complain about don't need to install a copy of EMACS to send you a plain text file.
And by telling them you "don't do Windows" instead of explaining the real problem -- that MS Office file formats are not universally interoperable and all-too-often can be used to propagate harmful virii -- you're confusing the issue and coming across as stubborn.
If it was RMS that said it, everytime you say that, you have to recite the GNU Copyleft, too.
2) Cars cost hundred times more than word processors.
Why is that relevant? Does your right to study the workings of a product increase linearly with the amount of money it costs?
Does that mean you shouldn't have access to the source for Linux and BSD because they're Free-Beer?
she is now screwed, as in order to be productive she cant use windows95 and office 95 anymore she is now forced to upgrade.
What? Why? Did I miss something?
AFAIK, Win95 doesn't refuse to boot once Microsoft declares it 'unsupported'. You don't need the latest release of DirectX to type a letter into Word95. Old software will continue to run on old hardware.
You might argue that MS changes their Office file formats and that compels users to upgrade, but I would retaliate by noting that Linux office suites have at least as many compatibility problems with MS Office formats as older versions of MS products do. And besides, the average home user doesn't share electronic documents with other computers.
-Poot
Not to disparage any other product, open source
or not, but if Word is crashing on you regularily,
you are doing something wrong.
Oh, SHUT UP.
A program crashing should NEVER be the result of something the end-user does. If a software crash is EVER possible, it's because someone wrote some poor code somewhere.
(Yes, if the user has an unreliable RAM chip in their system or something else that causes hardware wonkiness, then a program crash is understandable. But that wouldn't be "something [the user] did"...)
-Poot
If online shopping services convert over to .NET.
.NET or god forbid my bill payment services, it's
going to be very difficult to avoid having to
make that Passport account and start using
Not at all.
If that happens, you can go back to doing your shopping and paying your bills offline, the way most people still do.
As long as there is a physical world outside of the Internet, you will never need to sign up for MS Passport.
It will be almost impossible for oppressed people's to violently object to tyranny in such a
scenario.
Especially on Skynet develops the technology to send androids back in time to kill troublesome revolutionaries before they're born...
'Sexist twat' is an interesting self-contradictory kind of insult, don't you think?
Unless you've written to and/or spoken in person to your elected representatives, from local up to state and federal, you have no right to claim that you don't have a voice.
Whining on a website isn't going to fix anything. If you don't like what your government is doing, LET THEM KNOW.
"X-No-Archive: yes" says hi.
IMO Usenet has a stronger sense of community than ever, despite the changes you lament.
So what should Nintendo do? Simple. Modify the
gamecube to play DVDs from any region. Make sure
the DVD decoding is totally controled by one
EASILY removable chip that is accessable by simply
lifting a simple panel.
How is this simple? What you're suggesting would require a COMPLETE redesign of the Cube hardware.
That's a nice little pipe dream you have there, but it's not going to happen. If you want a DVD player, buy a DVD player. Don't expect Nintendo to spend millions on R&D for a Gamecube 2.0 and risk making an enemy of Big Media just so you don't have to spend $200 for a separate DVD unit at Best Buy.
The established position is that any "information" product you buy, like a book, video,
magazine, LP, CD or whatever, is sold to you on the condition that you do not reproduce it in any
way.
Absolutely not.
Unless other contract language applies to the purchase, copyright law grants me certain "fair use" rights. I can copy the media however I want if it's for my own personal use, I can take and re-publish excerpts for the purpose of academic study; I agree not to charge money for letting other people experience it.
No one was actually going to boycott the MPAA and the DVD format. And no, a dozen Slashdot readers don't count.
There's nothing bad about the DVD technology (with regard to "fair use" and "free speech" ramifications) that can't be corrected with more technology. You're not surrendering your freedom in any conceivable way by watching a DVD.