Hey guys, seriously, if the schools want to use Windows, they should pay for it. They pay for books, they pay for pencils, they pay for desks. Granted if Microsoft wanted schools to use Windows, they should give it to the schools for free (which I hear they routinely do).
This is a pretty dumb move imo of course as it will do nothing but drive the schools to look to cheaper (free) OSes, but it's well within Microsoft's right to do dumb things.
I've heard of/know of a few companies that require their executives to use PGP when communicating via email. Usually this is sped along if one of the more enterprising young/disgruntled employees diseminates something that perhaps wasn't supposed to be diseminated...
Probably they are trying to get what they can and run. Opt-out for all the contact info (read: the valuable stuff) is still pretty great for companies, and crappy for people.
The way things are looking, and the way people think, it's looking more and more like something that is Opt-in for everything could pass. This would be "bad" for Hollings' 'constituants'...
I wasn't talking about the system. I was talking about the laws. It is debatable that an adversarial system is good or just. But since America has an adversarial system, the laws should fit within the system.
Of course one could argue the lawyers do the laws this way because they can abuse them for the few years before the Supreme Court smacks them, but that is of course another argument.
IMO modifying images of children under the age of consent should be under the same law as photographing children under the age of consent.
As for the 'reasonable age'... It with codified law that some people will be able to have the right to drive/drink/pr0n before or after the age. So an age is chosen that will encompass the most people.
Personally I believe people should be (legally) responsible for their actions well before 18.
Law cannot be 'up for interpretation'. This is why the drinking age is 21, why the pr0n age is 18. Once you make things open for interpretation, cops are suddenly 'biased' and governments are suddenly tyrannical.
When things are clear cut there is no argument. You either broke the law or you didn't. There will always be the few extrordinary circumstances (is abortion murder or self mutilation? one is illegal, one is not.) which is why the judicial system exists. Not to interpret.
This might be dumb/silly but isn't it more that Universities usually give out research funds via department? and the deparements rarely ever share? and because this sort of research requires both CS/CE knowledge *and* psychology?
The Gateway commercial is fun, but their Web site is nothing but a gateway to misinformation," Rosen said.
Do you have any idea how stupid you sound given the blatant fact biasing found in every single RIAA report?
"If only they would devote a little bit of the millions of dollars they're spending on this ad campaign to help stop illegal downloading... but that wouldn't help them sell more CD burners, would it?" RIAA president and CEO Hilary Rosen asked rhetorically.
No, nor if you gave a few million dollars to the underground artists, that wouldn't improve the quality of music available for sale would it?
Most geeks will argue that SCSI gives you much greater access time, and you're wasting all the irqs with ide.
True, and true.
But does it matter...? Seriously. This is a motherboard targeted for home use. Power home use, but still, home desktop use. It's not going to do database lookups, or web services. It's going to probably play games (load data once per map) or download mp3's (prolly via dsl/cable @~300kps).
Space matters, cost matters, ease of use matters. IDE trounces SCSI in the later 2 (sorry, picking between incompatable SCSI versions is not ease of use) (pricewatch: ide 75gb $138 scsi 73.5 gb $443)
I'd love to see Textpad come with win*. It's free as in annoyware (popup every 5th save?) though it's only $30 to register (to support more plugins).
You can get plugins to do syntax highlighting for pretty much anything immaginable. Reads/saves pc or unix, built in spellchecker, nice and light. What wordpad would be if you actually had to use it.
I currently work for the private sector, and while I concur that this sector is more cutthroat, and likely to fire me, after the bubble burst (and a un-connected disillusionment) I've not worked extra hours.
My bosses require me to be in for 8 hours (+1hr lunch) so I stay for 8 hours. If anyone complains, I say that the company seems to be paying me for being here 8 hours, not doing my work. Bye.
Granted, I've been getting my work done. Still nobody's ever been able to argue, because they know I'm right. People should get paid for doing work, not for wasting their time.
What I've always wondered is why are all lines, network speed, and general capability defined in speed (mb/s), but charged via the integral of that (mb).
I mean there's something inherently shady about selling (or even leasing) John Q a 768kps line, advertising the speed of the line, and then only giving him 200mb/month (.08kps)
The Secret Service also does similar programs. One of my floormates in college was under agreement with them (to combat counterfitting and wire fraud eventually)
My appologies, I did not mean hard as in difficult, I meant hard as in the way the parent used it. Akin to the way everyone in America uses 'stupid'.
I was relating my first experiences with root level on a spare machine. I'd used dos for 4-6 years, even userland bsd (simple looking around, chmod-ing web files, nothing near fancy), win9x,nt for 2 years. This was maybe 6 years ago. Altavista was less than helpful. Certainly I'd experience on machines, though nil with root level.
I found it eventually, but there was no good way to just look around and find out; or to even take an educated guess. Look through the 1000+ files in my path (assuming the path was even correct)?
Win2k will provide choices that someone with any sort of deductive ability can figure out where it is. (my computer>control panel>users, or start>settings>control panel>users, or my computer>programs>administrative tools>users, or...)
As for adduser:
The useradd utility first appeared in NetBSD 1.5.
*or*
Copyright (C) 1994 Ian Murdock. adduser is free software; see the GNU General Public Licence version 2 or later for copying conditions. There is no warranty.
*or*
Solaris, that has had useradd since the dawn of time.
My appologies once again for sounding trollish in the previous post; My meaning was perhaps slightly different than the words I chose.
From what I understand this is more akin to storage and retransmission.
The energy itself I believe is lost, though the waveform of the light, and its pattern is stored in the arrangement/orientation of the atoms. Shining another light into the atoms causes the eminating light to be of the same waveform/pattern.
A better analogy would be intercepting a streaming movie going across your network, waiting a while, and then re-transmitting it. You're not sending the same electrons, but you're sending the same bits.
I agree that Windows cannot do everything Unix can do. I also submit that Unix cannot (currently) do everything Windows can do (mainly due to driver/api support, but the same goes for windows...)
As for computations crashing a win2k machine:
Umm what?
C:\>uptime
8:52am up 42 days, 16:45
C:\>uname -a Windows2000 MORIA 5.0.2195 5.0.2195 Service Pack 2 AT/AT Compatible 586
all the while busy doing the sieving portion of a quadratic sieve. (no hard drive access)
Win2k is not a third rate product. It's simply one of the best general purpose desktop OSes today (I've not seen OSX, though I've heard good things). As stable (never goes down except for power outage) as my bsd machines, or any of the sun boxen at work. Despite being a windows admin by trade, windows is not, and should not be a server OS... Microsoft's other products (SQL, Exchange, IIS) are easily 3rd rate, but the OS itself is not nearly as bad as you make out.
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My father now works for IBM (bought and outsourced to them) so he gets all the newsletters and the such. Last year IBM had something akin to 20x mainframe sales after the linux initiative. It pretty much saved the department.
The only problem I've seen is most current admins are used to/learned linux on little dinky spare desktop machines. 'Mainframe' carries a big scary connotation. The name itself intimidates, like a *nix prompt scares most MCSE's.
Plus most bosses 'know' that mainframes are *so* 1970's...
In all honesty Unix is fairly "hard" to do simple things in if you've never used a CLI. Even then it has its own nuances which (until recently) were very poorly documented (and are still poorly documented). adduser isn't difficult, but finding out that the command is adduser, or that man will provide help isn't very apparent for the super-newbie.
Though once you get past that, doing everything else is much easier than on Windows machines. And better yet, anything you want to do on *nix machines you can.
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Hey guys, seriously, if the schools want to use Windows, they should pay for it. They pay for books, they pay for pencils, they pay for desks. Granted if Microsoft wanted schools to use Windows, they should give it to the schools for free (which I hear they routinely do).
This is a pretty dumb move imo of course as it will do nothing but drive the schools to look to cheaper (free) OSes, but it's well within Microsoft's right to do dumb things.
I've heard of/know of a few companies that require their executives to use PGP when communicating via email. Usually this is sped along if one of the more enterprising young/disgruntled employees diseminates something that perhaps wasn't supposed to be diseminated...
Probably they are trying to get what they can and run. Opt-out for all the contact info (read: the valuable stuff) is still pretty great for companies, and crappy for people.
The way things are looking, and the way people think, it's looking more and more like something that is Opt-in for everything could pass. This would be "bad" for Hollings' 'constituants'...
Actually, what is wrong with the US today is people not taking responsibilty for their actions, blaming others, or their age, or TV, or drugs, or...
This is a slight offshoot where corperations mask the individual's responsibility for doing "bad things" in the name of the Buck. imo of course
I wasn't talking about the system. I was talking about the laws. It is debatable that an adversarial system is good or just. But since America has an adversarial system, the laws should fit within the system.
Of course one could argue the lawyers do the laws this way because they can abuse them for the few years before the Supreme Court smacks them, but that is of course another argument.
Of course, and I agree.
IMO modifying images of children under the age of consent should be under the same law as photographing children under the age of consent.
As for the 'reasonable age'... It with codified law that some people will be able to have the right to drive/drink/pr0n before or after the age. So an age is chosen that will encompass the most people.
Personally I believe people should be (legally) responsible for their actions well before 18.
This is the problem with modern law:
Law cannot be 'up for interpretation'. This is why the drinking age is 21, why the pr0n age is 18. Once you make things open for interpretation, cops are suddenly 'biased' and governments are suddenly tyrannical.
When things are clear cut there is no argument. You either broke the law or you didn't. There will always be the few extrordinary circumstances (is abortion murder or self mutilation? one is illegal, one is not.) which is why the judicial system exists. Not to interpret.
Yeah, but now we know how to do things, and hopefully we can do them "right" this time.
Bob the Analyst says:
"duh."
This might be dumb/silly but isn't it more that Universities usually give out research funds via department? and the deparements rarely ever share? and because this sort of research requires both CS/CE knowledge *and* psychology?
True true, though then what does that say about Dell and the 3? computer sellers above Gateway...?
Do you have any idea how stupid you sound given the blatant fact biasing found in every single RIAA report?
No, nor if you gave a few million dollars to the underground artists, that wouldn't improve the quality of music available for sale would it?
Here here.
Most geeks will argue that SCSI gives you much greater access time, and you're wasting all the irqs with ide.
True, and true.
But does it matter...? Seriously. This is a motherboard targeted for home use. Power home use, but still, home desktop use. It's not going to do database lookups, or web services. It's going to probably play games (load data once per map) or download mp3's (prolly via dsl/cable @~300kps).
Space matters, cost matters, ease of use matters. IDE trounces SCSI in the later 2 (sorry, picking between incompatable SCSI versions is not ease of use) (pricewatch: ide 75gb $138 scsi 73.5 gb $443)
Save SCSI for the NOC.
I have =]
I'd love to see Textpad come with win*. It's free as in annoyware (popup every 5th save?) though it's only $30 to register (to support more plugins).
You can get plugins to do syntax highlighting for pretty much anything immaginable. Reads/saves pc or unix, built in spellchecker, nice and light. What wordpad would be if you actually had to use it.
I currently work for the private sector, and while I concur that this sector is more cutthroat, and likely to fire me, after the bubble burst (and a un-connected disillusionment) I've not worked extra hours.
My bosses require me to be in for 8 hours (+1hr lunch) so I stay for 8 hours. If anyone complains, I say that the company seems to be paying me for being here 8 hours, not doing my work. Bye.
Granted, I've been getting my work done. Still nobody's ever been able to argue, because they know I'm right. People should get paid for doing work, not for wasting their time.
What I've always wondered is why are all lines, network speed, and general capability defined in speed (mb/s), but charged via the integral of that (mb).
I mean there's something inherently shady about selling (or even leasing) John Q a 768kps line, advertising the speed of the line, and then only giving him 200mb/month (.08kps)
Does not work properly on win2k. Warcraft does.
Good thing I'm not a big RTS fan...
The Secret Service also does similar programs. One of my floormates in college was under agreement with them (to combat counterfitting and wire fraud eventually)
Heh, sorry, My comp>properties doesn't paste as nicely as uname =]
and IMO a good machine has both a good gui and a good cli.
cygwin *almost* makes cmd a good cli.
My appologies, I did not mean hard as in difficult, I meant hard as in the way the parent used it. Akin to the way everyone in America uses 'stupid'.
I was relating my first experiences with root level on a spare machine. I'd used dos for 4-6 years, even userland bsd (simple looking around, chmod-ing web files, nothing near fancy), win9x,nt for 2 years. This was maybe 6 years ago. Altavista was less than helpful. Certainly I'd experience on machines, though nil with root level.
I found it eventually, but there was no good way to just look around and find out; or to even take an educated guess. Look through the 1000+ files in my path (assuming the path was even correct)?
Win2k will provide choices that someone with any sort of deductive ability can figure out where it is. (my computer>control panel>users, or start>settings>control panel>users, or my computer>programs>administrative tools>users, or...)
As for adduser:
The useradd utility first appeared in NetBSD 1.5.
*or*
Copyright (C) 1994 Ian Murdock. adduser is free software; see the GNU General Public Licence version 2 or later for copying conditions. There is no warranty.
*or*
Solaris, that has had useradd since the dawn of time.
My appologies once again for sounding trollish in the previous post; My meaning was perhaps slightly different than the words I chose.
From what I understand this is more akin to storage and retransmission.
The energy itself I believe is lost, though the waveform of the light, and its pattern is stored in the arrangement/orientation of the atoms. Shining another light into the atoms causes the eminating light to be of the same waveform/pattern.
A better analogy would be intercepting a streaming movie going across your network, waiting a while, and then re-transmitting it. You're not sending the same electrons, but you're sending the same bits.
As for computations crashing a win2k machine:
Umm what?
all the while busy doing the sieving portion of a quadratic sieve. (no hard drive access)
Win2k is not a third rate product. It's simply one of the best general purpose desktop OSes today (I've not seen OSX, though I've heard good things). As stable (never goes down except for power outage) as my bsd machines, or any of the sun boxen at work. Despite being a windows admin by trade, windows is not, and should not be a server OS... Microsoft's other products (SQL, Exchange, IIS) are easily 3rd rate, but the OS itself is not nearly as bad as you make out.
My father now works for IBM (bought and outsourced to them) so he gets all the newsletters and the such. Last year IBM had something akin to 20x mainframe sales after the linux initiative. It pretty much saved the department.
The only problem I've seen is most current admins are used to/learned linux on little dinky spare desktop machines. 'Mainframe' carries a big scary connotation. The name itself intimidates, like a *nix prompt scares most MCSE's.
Plus most bosses 'know' that mainframes are *so* 1970's...
In all honesty Unix is fairly "hard" to do simple things in if you've never used a CLI. Even then it has its own nuances which (until recently) were very poorly documented (and are still poorly documented). adduser isn't difficult, but finding out that the command is adduser, or that man will provide help isn't very apparent for the super-newbie.
Though once you get past that, doing everything else is much easier than on Windows machines. And better yet, anything you want to do on *nix machines you can.