Stupid question time: why can't you believe that they'd pick gnome for technical reasons. I've never heard or seen anything concrete one way or the other; I've found that they perform similarly, and gnome has a nicer look/feel/layout (imo).
Any link or direct explination (unbiased preferably) as to the pluses/minuses would be nice.
Or better yet, why not make a klingon series. Nice, dirty, subtitled. No english, just klingon, subtitled. Have it last for a set number of years. Explore honor and responsibility. Then let it end after those years, because it's going to grow tired quickly.
Umm iirc this case isn't because Rambus invented the iron-steel-copper interconnecting rails and patented them, it's because they invented them, got everyone to agree to make them the standard, retool their factories to make them AND THEN patented them, pretty much screwing them.
Indeed, my dad is a lifer (same systems for 25+ years even). Doesn't know many (modern) languages, but has been keeping the system he's worked on up, running, and maintained to modern needs while the company cycles through less competant engineers (and managers).
The article points out that the same company came out with cigs that did kill you less (70% less they say), and they didn't sell at all. It might be neat if they made nicotine free, not kill you so bad cigs.
Maybe because that was on the run where the ATI drivers actually didn't crash their test machine?:]
In all seriousness though, nVidia has been known to have 'slow' cards until 3-4 driver revisions down the road. Personally, I have a GeForce 2, and haven't found anything to tax it yet. Why should I replace it? Antialiasing? I think not.
This "bug" was fixed in the 1.3.1(?) patch, which made the creative benefit much more costly. Though even with that there were quite a few 'tricks' that unbalanced the game significantly.
Oh I don't need to wonder about that. I'm sure someone checks at least a few of them. I'm also sure that person has no influence what so ever over anything.:]
if they actually check the comments to see if they're made by American citizens... of course they can't really do that, because there's no guarantee an IP's location, and even if you could there's no guarantee an American IP has an American behind the keyboard.
Thanks for the confirmation. I'm not sure what the lawsuit could get except for damages caused if information was taken from the modems (quite likely now, but hard to prove) and perhaps force Sprint to recall the dsl modems and compensate users for downtime.
I've used Zyxel (sp?) dsl modems before, and iirc their admin interfaces were only inwardly pointing (only accessable via the ethernet i/f) Is this the case and Wired is overstating the problem, or is the outward admin IF turned on and Sprint are dumbasses? Or is there no way to set it and my memory is shot?
Peh, why not play DDR or something similar? Alot more challenging, and alot better workout. Don't like the high impact? Why not try PPP? Like ddr, only with hand waving and arm movements rather than alot of stomping.
This is especially great for telemarketters that can't hang up the phone (either because rules say so, or because a computer handles the dialing and the such). MCI for example has such a setup. They eventually try to get you to hangup by making the same looped argument, even after you explain why their service is inferior
I do not find it to be a step forward, I find it to be another step to dumb down computers for people rather that actually teaching people what they should know in the first place.
And may I note that (unfortunately?) it will be some time still before any user un-skilled enough to not remember filenames or organize directories uses KDE.
And with this law they can buy out/merge with a nice large ISP (earthlink, juno anyone?) and then make all of their "content" (discounted music rights) available to only their isp's customers.
Not to mention that here in the SF Bay Area (and most everywhere it seems) Clear Channel owns ~80% of the music radio stations, and ~100% of the large concert venues. Making the radio universally similar.
I've always said similar things about welfare systems (a bit jokingly). Why should we help people who cannot help or support themselves? Didn't humans evolve to such a state by letting the monkeys that weren't clever get eaten by the lions?
(this of course assumes that said people would not turn to robery and murder to sustain themselves, and that their children would not gain beneficial "mutations")
And vice versa, there's many universities who simply give out degrees without education.
Unfortunately for me, I just wanted sex; not a degree or education. I got none of them of course, but alot of time dicking around online instead of going to classes turned out to be very educational; even though the university had less practical applications.
Except of course that the law requires him, or the people he directly traded the secrets with to have economic gains from the secrets. He has not, and as far as anyone knows none of the direct contacts have (as the docs haven't lead to cracking the cards).
If it's an NDA issue, then deal with it via breach of contract.
I think that the guy should be arrested, as what he did was wrong, but I worry that this law is not the one he broke.
It depends on the situation as well. My only experience with a phd caliber programmer was in a startup environment. Unfortunately he had a tendancy to do everything "right". Full documentation, proper procedures and checks, the whole shebang. And his project was a failure. At the time we didn't really need phd quality software, just something 'good enough'. Sell now, promise patches later.
Now that my company has grown into something much more mature, he would likely do better when everyone has the luxury of having enough resources...
No offense, but win2k should've come with a util to do it out of the box. Everything else in the past has (previous versions of nt as well), and it's not as though they aren't used...
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Ah my apologies; you are right. I was under the impression that KDE was not packaged for BSD's (and took some fiddling to get working via src).
Perception not holding to truth.
I asked this the other day. The main difference is that KDE's file manager is average, and gnome's is below average. (so people seem to agree)
gnome seems to be more portable.
I've not used KDE in ~3 years, and I've just started using gnome2 so I cannot say myself.
Ah, I've little use for a file manager; probably why I didn't notice. ty
Stupid question time: why can't you believe that they'd pick gnome for technical reasons. I've never heard or seen anything concrete one way or the other; I've found that they perform similarly, and gnome has a nicer look/feel/layout (imo).
Any link or direct explination (unbiased preferably) as to the pluses/minuses would be nice.
Or better yet, why not make a klingon series. Nice, dirty, subtitled. No english, just klingon, subtitled. Have it last for a set number of years. Explore honor and responsibility. Then let it end after those years, because it's going to grow tired quickly.
Umm iirc this case isn't because Rambus invented the iron-steel-copper interconnecting rails and patented them, it's because they invented them, got everyone to agree to make them the standard, retool their factories to make them AND THEN patented them, pretty much screwing them.
Indeed, my dad is a lifer (same systems for 25+ years even). Doesn't know many (modern) languages, but has been keeping the system he's worked on up, running, and maintained to modern needs while the company cycles through less competant engineers (and managers).
The article points out that the same company came out with cigs that did kill you less (70% less they say), and they didn't sell at all. It might be neat if they made nicotine free, not kill you so bad cigs.
Maybe because that was on the run where the ATI drivers actually didn't crash their test machine? :]
In all seriousness though, nVidia has been known to have 'slow' cards until 3-4 driver revisions down the road. Personally, I have a GeForce 2, and haven't found anything to tax it yet. Why should I replace it? Antialiasing? I think not.
This "bug" was fixed in the 1.3.1(?) patch, which made the creative benefit much more costly. Though even with that there were quite a few 'tricks' that unbalanced the game significantly.
Oh I don't need to wonder about that. I'm sure someone checks at least a few of them. I'm also sure that person has no influence what so ever over anything. :]
if they actually check the comments to see if they're made by American citizens... of course they can't really do that, because there's no guarantee an IP's location, and even if you could there's no guarantee an American IP has an American behind the keyboard.
Thanks for the confirmation. I'm not sure what the lawsuit could get except for damages caused if information was taken from the modems (quite likely now, but hard to prove) and perhaps force Sprint to recall the dsl modems and compensate users for downtime.
I've used Zyxel (sp?) dsl modems before, and iirc their admin interfaces were only inwardly pointing (only accessable via the ethernet i/f) Is this the case and Wired is overstating the problem, or is the outward admin IF turned on and Sprint are dumbasses? Or is there no way to set it and my memory is shot?
Peh, why not play DDR or something similar? Alot more challenging, and alot better workout. Don't like the high impact? Why not try PPP? Like ddr, only with hand waving and arm movements rather than alot of stomping.
This is especially great for telemarketters that can't hang up the phone (either because rules say so, or because a computer handles the dialing and the such). MCI for example has such a setup. They eventually try to get you to hangup by making the same looped argument, even after you explain why their service is inferior
I do not find it to be a step forward, I find it to be another step to dumb down computers for people rather that actually teaching people what they should know in the first place.
And may I note that (unfortunately?) it will be some time still before any user un-skilled enough to not remember filenames or organize directories uses KDE.
And with this law they can buy out/merge with a nice large ISP (earthlink, juno anyone?) and then make all of their "content" (discounted music rights) available to only their isp's customers.
Not to mention that here in the SF Bay Area (and most everywhere it seems) Clear Channel owns ~80% of the music radio stations, and ~100% of the large concert venues. Making the radio universally similar.
I think it's clear that we've not reached what we're aiming for :P
I've always said similar things about welfare systems (a bit jokingly). Why should we help people who cannot help or support themselves? Didn't humans evolve to such a state by letting the monkeys that weren't clever get eaten by the lions?
(this of course assumes that said people would not turn to robery and murder to sustain themselves, and that their children would not gain beneficial "mutations")
And vice versa, there's many universities who simply give out degrees without education.
Unfortunately for me, I just wanted sex; not a degree or education. I got none of them of course, but alot of time dicking around online instead of going to classes turned out to be very educational; even though the university had less practical applications.
Except of course that the law requires him, or the people he directly traded the secrets with to have economic gains from the secrets. He has not, and as far as anyone knows none of the direct contacts have (as the docs haven't lead to cracking the cards).
If it's an NDA issue, then deal with it via breach of contract.
I think that the guy should be arrested, as what he did was wrong, but I worry that this law is not the one he broke.
It depends on the situation as well. My only experience with a phd caliber programmer was in a startup environment. Unfortunately he had a tendancy to do everything "right". Full documentation, proper procedures and checks, the whole shebang. And his project was a failure. At the time we didn't really need phd quality software, just something 'good enough'. Sell now, promise patches later.
Now that my company has grown into something much more mature, he would likely do better when everyone has the luxury of having enough resources...
No offense, but win2k should've come with a util to do it out of the box. Everything else in the past has (previous versions of nt as well), and it's not as though they aren't used...