Unless your wife has some very specific needs I'd say just hit Staples or Best Buy and see what's on sale. Any off the shelf name brand laptop will run Windows Fine. Strip off the factory supplied junkware (read: Norton/Symantec), add MS Office, and likely she's good to go.
Of course, I then installed Ubuntu via a Windows installer, and haven't looked back...
how musicians in other nations would be compensated
SOCAN (and most other country's performing rights organizations) collects foreign royalties for members of ASCAP, BMI etc through reciprocal international agreements.
So in answer, USian composers whose work is played in Canada still get royalties.
Please, please please tell me this can be used with my Google Blogger account!
Actually, how about we add some carefully crafted counter-referring Google Adsense and Microsoft adCenter ads and see if we can bring the whole house of cards down!
Gotta say, the linked article was a great education for me, one who's interested but never had time to dig into some of the arcana of stuff like SQL injection.
In watching Wikileaks, OpenLeaks, Egypt, the Palestine papers,and now HB Gary, I'm thinking that we're at the edge of something monumental. I expect we'll see a lot more formerly secret data become public, and see governments and corporations either clean up their acts, or become increasing desperate and hostile in trying to keep their inside info secret.
Why on earth would the government need a "kill switch" when the large corporations will bend over backwards to do what the government wants already. As shown by Amazon, Visa, Mastercard, Vodaphone, Google with respect to Wikileaks, Egypt, and China respectively.
On one hand I do use Gmail and just yesterday came away pretty impressed by http://pixlr.com./ I like the convenience, and I like the way many of of these services keep my desktop and Android phone in sync.
It's one thing to know that your data lives on a specific server box in a specific geographical location. Are we reaching a point where you can't even nail down a specific country that is home to your information?
Believe it or not, I'm not new here, but this has to be the most garbled incoherent summary in memory.
"reverse the polarity of a swimming pool"
"likening the result to the 4th of July"
"someone attempted to 'double-delete' the computer's browsing history"
I guess if I knew who the hell "Mark Jensen" was it might make more sense. Better run out and read some tabloids.
I am more than a bit astonished that Slashdot eds, much less the poster would refer to El Reg as a "newspaper."
Do none of these people honestly know that The Register is one long lived, entertaining, and generally informative tech web site, and that it was the creator of the ever popular and true to life adventures of BOFH?
Oh right, their URL ends with.co.uk, so they're not Amurrican....
This kind of change really requires a much wider consultation, and probably more skills than you have developed.
First, you haven't made a case for the changes you propose. Not an "I like Linux - Windows is evil" case, but a business case.
Begin by looking at the current costs of running and supporting your IT operations, then develop a projection of the real costs of implementing and supporting the changes - including retraining and fighting with software that doesn't quite work the way people are used to.
Even if you can make a convincing argument that there could be some cost savings internally, you also need to accept that business more or less runs on Windows and to lesser extent OSX - sooner or later something that you need to do will be incompatible.
Finally I have to ask: aren't there some more immediate and critical things that you could be working on?
If and when you've made the case to management, and they have accepted it, then yeah, you can likely make it work. I recently switched to Ubuntu from Windows 7 and Vista, and have had few problems, including running the parts of MS Office that I need, and even Photoshop in a pinch.
A year ago I wouldn't have said so, but now I'll say that you can replace Windows with Linux and have a happy transition.
That doesn't mean that you can force it on people though.
Slashdot Mirror
.. that if they give 'em an inch, they'll take a mile.
Unless your wife has some very specific needs I'd say just hit Staples or Best Buy and see what's on sale. Any off the shelf name brand laptop will run Windows Fine. Strip off the factory supplied junkware (read: Norton/Symantec), add MS Office, and likely she's good to go.
Of course, I then installed Ubuntu via a Windows installer, and haven't looked back...
Transparent Huge Pages
It doesn't matter what that is*, it's got "Buy Me!" written all over it!
OSX might have the Dock, and Windows might be up to version 7, but my Ubuntu machine has Transparent Huge Pages!
*save your breath, I actually looked it up.
Sigh... yes this is Slashdot, but still I dream of editors with some minimal grasp of the English language.
IANAL but will still say that non-one has been fined for anything.
They were sued, lost, and the plaintiff was awarded damages
Ack! TFA is a seven or eight page "slideshow" that has pretty much zero actual comment. What a waste.
And I actually really LIKE Chrome (on the PC; Opera on the phone).
how musicians in other nations would be compensated
SOCAN (and most other country's performing rights organizations) collects foreign royalties for members of ASCAP, BMI etc through reciprocal international agreements.
So in answer, USian composers whose work is played in Canada still get royalties.
Please, please please tell me this can be used with my Google Blogger account!
Actually, how about we add some carefully crafted counter-referring Google Adsense and Microsoft adCenter ads and see if we can bring the whole house of cards down!
I bet within a year, two at most, nearly all laptops will have this port
At which time Apple will discontinue it on all of their machines....
Gotta say, the linked article was a great education for me, one who's interested but never had time to dig into some of the arcana of stuff like SQL injection.
In watching Wikileaks, OpenLeaks, Egypt, the Palestine papers,and now HB Gary, I'm thinking that we're at the edge of something monumental. I expect we'll see a lot more formerly secret data become public, and see governments and corporations either clean up their acts, or become increasing desperate and hostile in trying to keep their inside info secret.
Either way we're in for a wild ride!
Why on earth would the government need a "kill switch" when the large corporations will bend over backwards to do what the government wants already. As shown by Amazon, Visa, Mastercard, Vodaphone, Google with respect to Wikileaks, Egypt, and China respectively.
I'll have you know, some of my best friends are mathematicians!
Wow! Now I have something to talk about over brewskis between periods while we watch the Sabres/Islanders game tonight!
Good thing, 'cause the economic impact of Hu Jintao's visit had pretty been hashed out already.
I'm really torn on the whole "cloud" idea.
On one hand I do use Gmail and just yesterday came away pretty impressed by http://pixlr.com./ I like the convenience, and I like the way many of of these services keep my desktop and Android phone in sync.
It's one thing to know that your data lives on a specific server box in a specific geographical location. Are we reaching a point where you can't even nail down a specific country that is home to your information?
I submitted a story about Crimestoppers having a Facebook page! I can't believe the Eds didn't run it!
They also didn't run my story about Block Parents having a FB page, or Neighbourhood Watch, or Big Sisters!
Am I alone in thinking that MySpace was Geocities for the new millennium?
Believe it or not, I'm not new here, but this has to be the most garbled incoherent summary in memory.
"reverse the polarity of a swimming pool"
"likening the result to the 4th of July"
"someone attempted to 'double-delete' the computer's browsing history"
I guess if I knew who the hell "Mark Jensen" was it might make more sense. Better run out and read some tabloids.
And these are the people that we set loose with big guns, exploding doohickeys, and nukes.
Of course the logical progression is to ban the use of cameras, photocopiers, cel phones, paper, pencils, and people with photographic memories.
...North Korea and other nations who would like to have ultimate strategic superiority over us...
Yeah, like I'm lying awake nights worrying about that!
Team America! Fuck YEAH!
I am more than a bit astonished that Slashdot eds, much less the poster would refer to El Reg as a "newspaper."
.co.uk, so they're not Amurrican....
Do none of these people honestly know that The Register is one long lived, entertaining, and generally informative tech web site, and that it was the creator of the ever popular and true to life adventures of BOFH?
Oh right, their URL ends with
This kind of change really requires a much wider consultation, and probably more skills than you have developed.
First, you haven't made a case for the changes you propose. Not an "I like Linux - Windows is evil" case, but a business case.
Begin by looking at the current costs of running and supporting your IT operations, then develop a projection of the real costs of implementing and supporting the changes - including retraining and fighting with software that doesn't quite work the way people are used to.
Even if you can make a convincing argument that there could be some cost savings internally, you also need to accept that business more or less runs on Windows and to lesser extent OSX - sooner or later something that you need to do will be incompatible.
Finally I have to ask: aren't there some more immediate and critical things that you could be working on?
If and when you've made the case to management, and they have accepted it, then yeah, you can likely make it work. I recently switched to Ubuntu from Windows 7 and Vista, and have had few problems, including running the parts of MS Office that I need, and even Photoshop in a pinch.
A year ago I wouldn't have said so, but now I'll say that you can replace Windows with Linux and have a happy transition.
That doesn't mean that you can force it on people though.
AOL was incredibly overvalued that they bought media giant Time Warner.
Fixed that for you.
Sure as hell not mine! Most six year olds I know these days know of at least a couple same sex couples, and honestly couldn't care less.
Now if you want to warn people away from America's Next Top Model, I'm with you - no child should be traumatized by watching that!
Notes, ideas, documents - anything that I might want to find later. G-mail is my filing cabinet these days.
get people killed by releasing it with out at least removing names
Who? Has anyone documented a case where this happened? from what I read WL were pretty careful in vetting the material.
Without names and places this is FUD.
Hmmph - if it's rogue content that you want, go for this - at your own risk.. nothing cute and cuddly here.