Sprint sucks. Their customer service is abominable (until you understand how to "work it"). Their phone selection is poor -- no bluetooth, no Sony Ericsson or Nokia phones. Reception is pretty poor and varies widely depending on which phone you have. They don't have support for true SMS messages.
Still, I've stayed with them. Why? Well, for one thing, I don't want to change my number. Phone number portability may encourage me to look into other providers. Why else? I've been with Sprint for 7 years. I recently called them to complain about the poor reception my phone was getting. After being passed around from person to person in customer service, then in "retention", I finally found someone who (1) gave me a brand new phone that gets good reception, (2) lowered my monthly cost by $10, (3) increased my "anytime" minutes by 50% and (4) changed my night-weekend begin time from 9PM to 8PM.
Bottom line: If I can get AT&T service with the Sony Ericsson t68i and a comparable service plan with the same phone number, I will make the switch.
You write a GPLed application... let's say for the sake of argument it is software to manage web servers. You write it in C.
Microsoft later releases their own web server management software written in C#. You are a certified Microsoft developer and you get the code through their "shared source" program. Upon inspection, you believe that they just took your C code and rewrote it in C#.
Aerobic exercise burns calories. You can exercise at low, moderate or high intensity. When doing aerobic exercise at low intensity, a larger percentage of the calories you burn will come from fat (50%). Alternatively, at high intensity, a larger percentage of the calories come from carbs / sugars (60%).
Your best bet is do do _extended_ periods of low-intensity aerobic exercise. That means you want your heart rate to be at 60% of its maximum threshold. So, instead of doing step aerobics for 30 minutes, go slow-jogging for an hour.
Sorry to reply to myself, but I spoke to Ben Marsh. He sent me these two graphs that show grade-inflation in effect at Bucknell University. Disturbing, indeed.
I went to Bucknell University. My senior year, I took a class with a guy named Ben Marsh. It was a physical geography course. On the first day of class, he walks in, goes up to the board and draws a gigantic bell-shape. On the left side of it, he writes 'F'. On the right side of it, he writes 'A'. He turns to the class and says, "I don't believe in grade inflation. I don't curve. Most of you will get Cs. A few will get Ds or Bs. Even fewer of you will fail or get an A. If you don't want a C, leave my class now, because you'll probably get one.
The class was HARD. He was a really cool professor, though, and I've had the utmost respect for him ever since that day.
Furthermore, it's hard enough to get people to give their documents reasonable names. Convincing them to tag their files with accurate meta-data seems like an exercise in futility.
No kidding. You don't know how many "My Documents" folders I've seen with names like "New Document.doc", "New Document 1.doc", "New Document 2.doc", etc.
The music industry, chiefly in the guise of the RIAA has done more in the last year or two to erode our civil rights than anything else that I can think of.
One last request, and the most important (I can't believe I forgot it in my original post). Session management!
When I log out and back into KDE, the same programs are right there, right where I left them, editing the same files, on the same web page, etc. Anything like that in OS X?
I might have considered switching to OSX full-time (I have an iLamp^H^H^H^HMac) if I could figure out how to have the focus follow the mouse pointer, as well as a few other "goodies" that I like about KDE. Here they are, in no particular order. I would like all of these without running a rooted X-Server:
focus follows mouse
multiple desktops
key bindings to avoid the necessity for using the mouse, i.e. -- "warp"ing to different apps / desktops, etc.
That being said, here are the things I dislike about KDE:
Kclipboard sucks... I wish I could only have the X clipboard active in non-KDE apps (the only one I use is Emacs) and everywhere else I'd just like the sensible Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V
more difficult to do multimedia stuff (iPhoto, iTunes, iDVD, iMovie are all amazing pieces of software)
need CodeWeavers to run MS Office
Anyone managed to get either of these desktop environments into the state that I want? I'd love to hear about it.
I've followed Bruce's public actions since the early days of Debian when he was very active in that community. I have loads of respect for his consistency in his views.
He is always willing to "get in on" the conversations on/. that correspond to our "digital rights" and is always the first one to come to the defense of the people he disagrees with if they are being unfairly "bashed".
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Ummm. This is *OLD* news. See the hymn project.
I am NOT changing my name to Barnaby ...
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The DMCA has NOT been overturned
The sky is NOT falling
Since when is news what is NOT happening?
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I once sat next to a really nice older woman on a plane who told me that her grandson had downloaded the internet the night before.
Everything You Wanted to Know About iTunes Music Store DRM
Sprint sucks. Their customer service is abominable (until you understand how to "work it"). Their phone selection is poor -- no bluetooth, no Sony Ericsson or Nokia phones. Reception is pretty poor and varies widely depending on which phone you have. They don't have support for true SMS messages.
Still, I've stayed with them. Why? Well, for one thing, I don't want to change my number. Phone number portability may encourage me to look into other providers. Why else? I've been with Sprint for 7 years. I recently called them to complain about the poor reception my phone was getting. After being passed around from person to person in customer service, then in "retention", I finally found someone who (1) gave me a brand new phone that gets good reception, (2) lowered my monthly cost by $10, (3) increased my "anytime" minutes by 50% and (4) changed my night-weekend begin time from 9PM to 8PM.
Bottom line: If I can get AT&T service with the Sony Ericsson t68i and a comparable service plan with the same phone number, I will make the switch.
You write a GPLed application ... let's say for the sake of argument it is software to manage web servers. You write it in C.
Microsoft later releases their own web server management software written in C#. You are a certified Microsoft developer and you get the code through their "shared source" program. Upon inspection, you believe that they just took your C code and rewrote it in C#.
Do *you* sue?
Eventually, these processes may become cheaper than manufacturing glass.
Read "The Diamond Age".
We just need a way to rip the DRM stuff out of the files is all ...
Aerobic exercise burns calories. You can exercise at low, moderate or high intensity. When doing aerobic exercise at low intensity, a larger percentage of the calories you burn will come from fat (50%). Alternatively, at high intensity, a larger percentage of the calories come from carbs / sugars (60%).
Your best bet is do do _extended_ periods of low-intensity aerobic exercise. That means you want your heart rate to be at 60% of its maximum threshold. So, instead of doing step aerobics for 30 minutes, go slow-jogging for an hour.
Here you go!
Every few lines there was a line that was exactly the same as code in the Linux kernel source tree.
These lines contained one and only one character: '\n'
Covalent provides support and services for Apache, and many customers can be referenced.
- X is not slow
- Some X video drivers are slow.
- The slowdown caused by Network transparency is negligible.
- KDE and GNOME are piggishly slow. I use both because I'm willing to sacrifice speed for functionality.
Facts about X usability:- Configuration is difficult, even for experienced users.
- Cut-and-paste style should be configurable.
What X needs:- A way to send less data over the wire for toolkits such as QT / GTK+.
- Easier configuration and setup.
- Pluggable cut-and-paste architecture that can be more easily used by the other toolkits.
- Better video drivers*.
* I knowI'd like to try the IP address directly.
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/marsh/BU_business /gpa_projection.html
s /grades.htm
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/marsh/BU_busines
I went to Bucknell University. My senior year, I took a class with a guy named Ben Marsh. It was a physical geography course. On the first day of class, he walks in, goes up to the board and draws a gigantic bell-shape. On the left side of it, he writes 'F'. On the right side of it, he writes 'A'. He turns to the class and says, "I don't believe in grade inflation. I don't curve. Most of you will get Cs. A few will get Ds or Bs. Even fewer of you will fail or get an A. If you don't want a C, leave my class now, because you'll probably get one. The class was HARD. He was a really cool professor, though, and I've had the utmost respect for him ever since that day.
No kidding. You don't know how many "My Documents" folders I've seen with names like "New Document.doc", "New Document 1.doc", "New Document 2.doc", etc.
Forget it!
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Simply put, if your worried about this, use Debian.
One last request, and the most important (I can't believe I forgot it in my original post). Session management!
When I log out and back into KDE, the same programs are right there, right where I left them, editing the same files, on the same web page, etc. Anything like that in OS X?
- focus follows mouse
- multiple desktops
- key bindings to avoid the necessity for using the mouse, i.e. -- "warp"ing to different apps / desktops, etc.
That being said, here are the things I dislike about KDE:- Kclipboard sucks
... I wish I could only have the X clipboard active in non-KDE apps (the only one I use is Emacs) and everywhere else I'd just like the sensible Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V
- more difficult to do multimedia stuff (iPhoto, iTunes, iDVD, iMovie are all amazing pieces of software)
- need CodeWeavers to run MS Office
Anyone managed to get either of these desktop environments into the state that I want? I'd love to hear about it.I've followed Bruce's public actions since the early days of Debian when he was very active in that community. I have loads of respect for his consistency in his views.
/. that correspond to our "digital rights" and is always the first one to come to the defense of the people he disagrees with if they are being unfairly "bashed".
... hip ... Hooray!
He is always willing to "get in on" the conversations on
Three cheers for Bruce!
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