I don't even know those people personally. I heard that story from one of their neighbours. If I had known them personally, you can bed that I had offered my services to rescue all data I can.
Would you find anyone willing to pay even 100€ for a 1.9GHz/512Meg machine? With 500€ machines readily available including a flatscreen, anything I can offer isn't going to bring in any money. Technically these machines are pretty useful, economically they are worthless.
Yup, you beat me. Got a couple of 1GHz+ Athlons too, but no 2GHz class machines yet. I hoped that Vista would be a tremendous success: imagine what kind of computers would be routinely thrown away!
Huh? Well, it is impossible to run software in Limited User mode without fiddling with ACLs.... Do you understand the problem now? I don't fiddle often with ACLs at all, only after installing a program (typically a legally bought game) that needs write access to the folder where it was installed. Now, how exactly do you expect a normal user to do that without a graphical interface?
If your filesystem supports permissions, the graphical user interface must support them so that casual users can change them. I don't care for anything else in Windows XP Pro but the ACL interface....
You are saying me that a home user may not use the Limited User functionality.... Anyone actually using that feature (that Windows XP Home has built-in) needs to upgrade to Win XP Pro.... Yeah, right!
Isn't something "Terminal" often a big bad virus/malware infection? For many people it is and they do not know how to back up their data. USB disk or not.... I have heard of people that lost the first three years of their childs digital photos due to a "computer failure". I bet it was a big bad virus infection and they just replaced the machine without even trying to save it.
Look, I've found a P-IV 1.9GHz/512Meg RAM in the dumpster a while ago.... Completely functional.... W2k fully infected.... A clean Linux install and I was working with it again. Sure, it isn't the fastest machine, but it's nothing to spit at either. The W2k license sticker was still on it too....
But yes, I agree that it was bad advice from the tech to avoid mentioning backups. However, people have gotten used to losing data due to "Terminal Computer failure" or when buying a new system. It's just how computers are supposed to work... at least that's what they think.
My problem with XP Home is that it has disabled the ACLs of the NTFS filesystem. That sucks a lot if you want to run Limited User instead of Administrator. (Oh, yes, I do that and it works fine... a bit more work, but it works)
On Windows XP Home you have to use a command line tool called "calcs" to change filesystem permissions. How insane is that, eh? I don't know how Media Center handles it, I have it on my new laptop but it's still in crapified state and I run as Admin on that one. It's due for a reinstall with Debian though, once I get some spare time.
I do.... One of the main reasons was that it ate memory for breakfast in a time that memory was expensive and that we lived with the 640KByte barrier. Many programs by then required a good 500KByte to 520KByte free. With MS DOS 4.x that was pretty much impossible, with MS DOS 3.3 and MS DOS 5.0 and later MS DOS 6.22 it was possible.
I also wonder about that, and I think it's a logarithmic scale up to 6. You can throw in all the power you want, it's only going to approach 6, never attain it.
Actually, there are three modes: the box before "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts" is unchecked. In that case nothing at all is done. The second is "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts" and the method "Standard" is selected. Finally the third is "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts" and the method "ClearType" is selected.
By default, it is the second possibility two that is chosen.
turn a cold shoulder towards them whenever they even mildly reach out, you're essentially becoming them on the other side of the mirror.
Are we? Sure we are, but it is self-protection. For now, Microsoft has proven themselves to be untrustworthy. Let them prove themselves to be trustworthy, then we'll talk again. I'm not going to make the same mistake of trusting Microsoft once again. I've been bitten once, I won't be bitten twice.
Years ago, I found my sister buying Audio CD-Rs. I asked her why she bought those to burn her music, after all a normal CD wouldn't make a difference and the Audio CD-Rs were more expensive due to the levy of the music industry. Turned out she didn't know that data CDs could be used to copy music. I explained her that the only reason Audio CD-Rs exist is for non-computer burners and that she pays a "tax" by buying those.
The reaction was: Hey, that's cool... because of this tax my pirating is legal
Now aside form how true that statement is, my sister is an actual music lover and now that she is employed, she is in the process of buying every single CD she copied (and liked, of course) in her student years. Did I mention that she's an audio engineer now?
Have you ever tried to read Knuth? Unless you love maths, you'll put the Art of Computer Programming down in no time. Of course that's what the joke is about;-)
That said, I do not agree that "everything (science) is math". I would categorize Biology as science, but it's not math. A lot of science is math though, or is mainly composed out of math. Physics, for example, has a lot of math, but just as in biology you need observation of nature. That's what differs with pure math and (ironically) computer science: both do not relate to natural constructs. Everything in maths (and also computer science) is in essence man-made. Truths that stand on themselves and no natural observation is required. Thus is the nature of maths, and since all this also applies to computer science, one can safely say that computer science is a part of maths. Even without trying out Bubblesort, you can prove that the worst case complexity is O(n^2). Proving something is only possible in maths: it is not possible in any other science.
Actually, "Informatics" (which is, as you say, an incorrect term in English) is used in other languages to label "Computer Science". In Dutch it is "Informatica", in German it is "Informatik" and in French is "Informatique" (sorry, I now am at the boundaries of my own language skills). All there translate to "Computer Science".
I have to admit that I prefer the English term, because it says much more than the Dutch, French and German terms. Fact is: "Informatics" is the same thing as "Computer Science".
Go to wikipedia, search for "Computer Science" and see what the languages I mention translate to. (Try "Nederlands", "Français" and "Deutsch" in the left hand column.
Actually, I think the author of the article grew some stuff himself, and it wasn't a filesystem or a kernel. Okay, he planted kernels, so that he could see pretty colours after smoking the dried remains of the female flowers....
There are of course parts of CS that are less involved in math, but it is still overall a fundamental part.
Not even that.... Computer Science is a subsection of Maths. That's it.... Theoretically, you can complete CS without ever touching a computer.
I was never the best at maths (even though, I beat the best of our class in the final maths exam, but that must have been pure luck. He is a math PhdD at Harvard now, so....). Luckily the parts of maths that are useful to CS, were within my reach;-)
The hymn project uses a debug hook to get the unencrypted stream. They can't stop that, it simply is impossible. My iTunes (installed not so long ago) is 7.2.0.35 and it is supported in the QTFairUse6.cfg file. It seems that 7.3 is out now, but give the Hymn people the time and don't be an upgrade bitch. I'm not... I upgrade when I feel it's necessary...
Hymn is not the hymn that it used to be that really decrypted the files itself.... Now, it simply uses iTunes to do so. Works only on Windows though.
Oh, and since iTunes Plus came out, I simply refuse to buy non-iTunes Plus songs. I heard a cool song today, and checked... Yes, it was on iTunes, no it wasn't "Plus". No sale for them.... I also upgraded and completed all my songs that were elegible for iTunes Plus upgrades. Of course, I already decypted all songs before that, but that's only thanks to Hynm.
WWI was still very fresh in the minds of everybody and all things military weren't very popular.
Oddly enough, after over 60 years WWII is still quite fresh in the minds of the Europeans and all things military aren't still popular. I don't expect that to change anytime in the next 50 years. I'm European, and I'm from the second generation after the war. I have never experience it myself and still I think war is something to absolutely avoid. I know few people willing to join the military, and most of the time the military is despised.
Americans have a very hard time to understand that, mainly because they haven't had a war with enourmous atrocities on their own soil. Wars are events in far away countries for them. Atrocities are done by despots in far away countries, and atrocities commited by the US are labelled as "necessary".
In another post, I pointed out that I knew how they were named. My argument was not that a 1.8l is better than a 2.0l engine (it depends on what you look, if you look for mileage, you'll probably be better with a 1.8l), but you have to look at the whole package. A 318 is better than a 320 if the 318 is fully equipped and the 320 is bare (a bare BMW is really very bare...)
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Their geek cards? Geek cards?!?
I don't even know those people personally. I heard that story from one of their neighbours. If I had known them personally, you can bed that I had offered my services to rescue all data I can.
Would you find anyone willing to pay even 100€ for a 1.9GHz/512Meg machine? With 500€ machines readily available including a flatscreen, anything I can offer isn't going to bring in any money. Technically these machines are pretty useful, economically they are worthless.
Yup, you beat me. Got a couple of 1GHz+ Athlons too, but no 2GHz class machines yet. I hoped that Vista would be a tremendous success: imagine what kind of computers would be routinely thrown away!
If your filesystem supports permissions, the graphical user interface must support them so that casual users can change them. I don't care for anything else in Windows XP Pro but the ACL interface....
You are saying me that a home user may not use the Limited User functionality.... Anyone actually using that feature (that Windows XP Home has built-in) needs to upgrade to Win XP Pro.... Yeah, right!
Isn't something "Terminal" often a big bad virus/malware infection? For many people it is and they do not know how to back up their data. USB disk or not.... I have heard of people that lost the first three years of their childs digital photos due to a "computer failure". I bet it was a big bad virus infection and they just replaced the machine without even trying to save it.
Look, I've found a P-IV 1.9GHz/512Meg RAM in the dumpster a while ago.... Completely functional.... W2k fully infected.... A clean Linux install and I was working with it again. Sure, it isn't the fastest machine, but it's nothing to spit at either. The W2k license sticker was still on it too....
But yes, I agree that it was bad advice from the tech to avoid mentioning backups. However, people have gotten used to losing data due to "Terminal Computer failure" or when buying a new system. It's just how computers are supposed to work... at least that's what they think.
My problem with XP Home is that it has disabled the ACLs of the NTFS filesystem. That sucks a lot if you want to run Limited User instead of Administrator. (Oh, yes, I do that and it works fine... a bit more work, but it works)
On Windows XP Home you have to use a command line tool called "calcs" to change filesystem permissions. How insane is that, eh? I don't know how Media Center handles it, I have it on my new laptop but it's still in crapified state and I run as Admin on that one. It's due for a reinstall with Debian though, once I get some spare time.
I don't know much about why DOS 4 sucked...
I do.... One of the main reasons was that it ate memory for breakfast in a time that memory was expensive and that we lived with the 640KByte barrier. Many programs by then required a good 500KByte to 520KByte free. With MS DOS 4.x that was pretty much impossible, with MS DOS 3.3 and MS DOS 5.0 and later MS DOS 6.22 it was possible.
I also wonder about that, and I think it's a logarithmic scale up to 6. You can throw in all the power you want, it's only going to approach 6, never attain it.
Actually, I was more like: "What, only 2Gig RAM? That's the minimum for Vista. I wouldn't get an XP machine without 2Gig of RAM these days".
A Swiss company is competing with another in Australia to be the first to commercially develop a geothermal power plant.
I think they should go on a trip to Iceland... Frankly...
Actually, there are three modes: the box before "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts" is unchecked. In that case nothing at all is done. The second is "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts" and the method "Standard" is selected. Finally the third is "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts" and the method "ClearType" is selected.
By default, it is the second possibility two that is chosen.
turn a cold shoulder towards them whenever they even mildly reach out, you're essentially becoming them on the other side of the mirror.
Are we? Sure we are, but it is self-protection. For now, Microsoft has proven themselves to be untrustworthy. Let them prove themselves to be trustworthy, then we'll talk again. I'm not going to make the same mistake of trusting Microsoft once again. I've been bitten once, I won't be bitten twice.
Years ago, I found my sister buying Audio CD-Rs. I asked her why she bought those to burn her music, after all a normal CD wouldn't make a difference and the Audio CD-Rs were more expensive due to the levy of the music industry. Turned out she didn't know that data CDs could be used to copy music. I explained her that the only reason Audio CD-Rs exist is for non-computer burners and that she pays a "tax" by buying those.
The reaction was: Hey, that's cool... because of this tax my pirating is legal
Now aside form how true that statement is, my sister is an actual music lover and now that she is employed, she is in the process of buying every single CD she copied (and liked, of course) in her student years. Did I mention that she's an audio engineer now?
Have you ever tried to read Knuth? Unless you love maths, you'll put the Art of Computer Programming down in no time. Of course that's what the joke is about ;-)
That said, I do not agree that "everything (science) is math". I would categorize Biology as science, but it's not math. A lot of science is math though, or is mainly composed out of math. Physics, for example, has a lot of math, but just as in biology you need observation of nature. That's what differs with pure math and (ironically) computer science: both do not relate to natural constructs. Everything in maths (and also computer science) is in essence man-made. Truths that stand on themselves and no natural observation is required. Thus is the nature of maths, and since all this also applies to computer science, one can safely say that computer science is a part of maths. Even without trying out Bubblesort, you can prove that the worst case complexity is O(n^2). Proving something is only possible in maths: it is not possible in any other science.
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
That petty much closes my case... Please feel free to play again....
For those who do not know what hazmat means... I didn't...
Actually, "Informatics" (which is, as you say, an incorrect term in English) is used in other languages to label "Computer Science". In Dutch it is "Informatica", in German it is "Informatik" and in French is "Informatique" (sorry, I now am at the boundaries of my own language skills). All there translate to "Computer Science".
I have to admit that I prefer the English term, because it says much more than the Dutch, French and German terms. Fact is: "Informatics" is the same thing as "Computer Science".
Go to wikipedia, search for "Computer Science" and see what the languages I mention translate to. (Try "Nederlands", "Français" and "Deutsch" in the left hand column.
Actually, I think the author of the article grew some stuff himself, and it wasn't a filesystem or a kernel. Okay, he planted kernels, so that he could see pretty colours after smoking the dried remains of the female flowers....
There are of course parts of CS that are less involved in math, but it is still overall a fundamental part.
Not even that.... Computer Science is a subsection of Maths. That's it.... Theoretically, you can complete CS without ever touching a computer.
I was never the best at maths (even though, I beat the best of our class in the final maths exam, but that must have been pure luck. He is a math PhdD at Harvard now, so....). Luckily the parts of maths that are useful to CS, were within my reach ;-)
The hymn project uses a debug hook to get the unencrypted stream. They can't stop that, it simply is impossible. My iTunes (installed not so long ago) is 7.2.0.35 and it is supported in the QTFairUse6.cfg file. It seems that 7.3 is out now, but give the Hymn people the time and don't be an upgrade bitch. I'm not... I upgrade when I feel it's necessary...
Hymn is not the hymn that it used to be that really decrypted the files itself.... Now, it simply uses iTunes to do so. Works only on Windows though.
Oh, and since iTunes Plus came out, I simply refuse to buy non-iTunes Plus songs. I heard a cool song today, and checked... Yes, it was on iTunes, no it wasn't "Plus". No sale for them.... I also upgraded and completed all my songs that were elegible for iTunes Plus upgrades. Of course, I already decypted all songs before that, but that's only thanks to Hynm.
You can also rerip. It's a crappy solution to get it onto a non-iPod player, but it's possible. Do other solutions offer this?
Yes, on an iTunes Plus song, right-click in iTunes and select "Convert to MP3". Done.... Also works if you accidentally ripped to AAC instead of MP3.
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WWI was still very fresh in the minds of everybody and all things military weren't very popular.
Oddly enough, after over 60 years WWII is still quite fresh in the minds of the Europeans and all things military aren't still popular. I don't expect that to change anytime in the next 50 years. I'm European, and I'm from the second generation after the war. I have never experience it myself and still I think war is something to absolutely avoid. I know few people willing to join the military, and most of the time the military is despised.
Americans have a very hard time to understand that, mainly because they haven't had a war with enourmous atrocities on their own soil. Wars are events in far away countries for them. Atrocities are done by despots in far away countries, and atrocities commited by the US are labelled as "necessary".
You should also try to enhance your reading comprehension. I quote myself: "Yeah, yeah, I know you're kidding... "
I was very aware that the post was sarcasm....
PDF containing the 318i. Ironically, it has a 2.0l engine (1995ccm, the same as the 320i, but the 320i produces more HP)
In another post, I pointed out that I knew how they were named. My argument was not that a 1.8l is better than a 2.0l engine (it depends on what you look, if you look for mileage, you'll probably be better with a 1.8l), but you have to look at the whole package. A 318 is better than a 320 if the 318 is fully equipped and the 320 is bare (a bare BMW is really very bare...)