Or, Trolly McSourface, if you read the myriad of other responses, it works just fine. Simply don't install games in the default OS install (trivial), and mount the filesystems as noexec (can you even do that in Windows, your oh so powerful OS? Not that I'm aware of...). Done.
And yeah, that doesn't make it any less of a dumb idea.
In windows, the user just downloads some stupid solitaire off the web, or brings one from home that or something that doesn't require installation.
I think "One does not write a web server in Bash" is like "One does not simply walk into Mordor." You're practically daring short people with hairy feet to attempt it.
Yeah but Linus is already working on the kernel...
I've heard that prostitutes sell used condoms for this very reason. I can't find any links on the web to this effect so maybe its simply a urban legend.
Dear God. I shudder to think of the context ads you'll be getting in the near future.
change.gov seemed 48 hours after Obama was elected to have (under the title agenda) a detailed policy list. This however disappeared quite quickly
It wasn't removed, just re-arranged. In fact it's still under "Agenda", the fifth tab in from the right and under the "Change.gov" logo at the top. From there you can click on any particular policy you want to know about.
Another site however seems to have all his policy details but is by a group called Obama for America, who are they, please post if you have any detail.
This was his campaign website during the elections. Pretty sure a lot of the policy stuff is the same, here.
Also it's not exactly a news - wiki entry dates from four years ago.
We'll just see about that! I bet you also weren't aware that the number of 11,000 year old Temples found in Turkey have tripled in the last six months!
I wouldn't hammer a nail in with a screwdriver. I wouldn't buy a point-and-shoot POS over a SLR if I was a newspaper photographer.
Of course not.
I wouldn't get a Macbook if I needed to do any kind of video editing.
That's not a logical statement. You *would* get a macbook if you were a film student on a budget. You *would* get a macbook if you wanted to do light video editing while traveling. You would get a macbook if you were interested in starting out in video as a hobby. As a matter of fact, a week ago getting a macbook was a *great* idea if you wanted to get your feet wet with film.
Now getting a dell is a better idea. Or maybe a hackintosh. I know several people for whom the decision to buy a mac at all was based on the fact that they could do easy video editing cheaply on a laptop. Sure it might be slower than Pro, but the point you're missing here is that these aren't Pro's. They're consumers... "hobbyists" is about as far as it goes and until a week ago they were served.
My brother's video camera does not have USB out (or his external HDD). My mother's video camera does not have USB out. My father's camera does not have USB out. My friend's video camera does not have USB out. I know the plural of anecdote is not data, but that is 4 people I know for whom USB will not suffice. In these cases, it doesn't matter who much dedicated bandwidth they need (and these are not expensive cameras, for that matter) USB simply does not do what they need. These are not high-end users. It's not a matter of Firewire >? USB because they simply aren't always interchangeable.
My parents do home videos, and my brother and my friend both are amateur film students - interested, but not nearly prepared to go "Pro". If these last MacBook line lacked FireWire, they wouldn't have bought them, and would have instead just "made do" with a windows machine. They certainly would not have spent several hundred dollars more just for a firewire port on a MacBook pro.
I'm not railing against Apple or anything, it just seems like a pretty foolish idea to ignore this portion of the market (or hope to up-sell them). It seems perfectly logical to me that people would be annoyed at a decrease in features. For myself, I don't have a MacBook, but I have used the Target Disk Mode feature several times in the past on my iBook and other people's Mac's and it's a bit disappointing that this feature is left in the cold, too.
The problem is that "being liable" has come to mean more and more excessive punishments in a lot of cases. I don't like it either, but does what this kid did really deserve 250K and 5 years? Really?
oh and BTW, the windshield is necessary to allow a human driver to continue breathing at today's highway speeds. it's very hard to properly exhale at 50-60 mph.
Uh huh. And the various (admittedly foolish) motorcycle drivers I see riding on their bikes at 80mph without helmets are just holding their breath?
Why did you click on it? If you're browsing at work, the responsibility falls on you to monitor your own browsing. The web will not censor itself just because you're at work.
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Yeah, seriously, wtf?
His game persona should be pretty well known to anyone who would care about the games enough to post a story to /.
Yeah, I got this earlier today....
I knew it... lolcats is a grassroots movement started by the Libertarians to... uhh... get... cheezeburgers?
Tags break April Fools gags :o(
has achievement?
Or, Trolly McSourface, if you read the myriad of other responses, it works just fine. Simply don't install games in the default OS install (trivial), and mount the filesystems as noexec (can you even do that in Windows, your oh so powerful OS? Not that I'm aware of...). Done.
And yeah, that doesn't make it any less of a dumb idea.
In windows, the user just downloads some stupid solitaire off the web, or brings one from home that or something that doesn't require installation.
Or information other people have put out about people with the same name as you?
Yeah but Linus is already working on the kernel...
Quick, start printing all the pr0n? ;o)
Dear God. I shudder to think of the context ads you'll be getting in the near future.
*whoosh*
Cowboy Neal, is that you?
I'm never drinking Mountain Dew again.
It wasn't removed, just re-arranged. In fact it's still under "Agenda", the fifth tab in from the right and under the "Change.gov" logo at the top. From there you can click on any particular policy you want to know about.
Or just go to: http://www.change.gov/agenda/
This was his campaign website during the elections. Pretty sure a lot of the policy stuff is the same, here.
HTH,
Bill
We'll just see about that! I bet you also weren't aware that the number of 11,000 year old Temples found in Turkey have tripled in the last six months!
Yes, mod parent down because he *is* a troll.
Pay attention and RTFA!
As others have pointed out, the community service is not mandatory... its an incentive to get a tax break on college tuition/credits.
Sorry, I really do agree with you but can't help myself...
MmmmmMMMmmmmmm.... Patagonia....
Actually no, this is the geek version of that.
Of course not.
That's not a logical statement. You *would* get a macbook if you were a film student on a budget. You *would* get a macbook if you wanted to do light video editing while traveling. You would get a macbook if you were interested in starting out in video as a hobby. As a matter of fact, a week ago getting a macbook was a *great* idea if you wanted to get your feet wet with film.
Now getting a dell is a better idea. Or maybe a hackintosh. I know several people for whom the decision to buy a mac at all was based on the fact that they could do easy video editing cheaply on a laptop. Sure it might be slower than Pro, but the point you're missing here is that these aren't Pro's. They're consumers... "hobbyists" is about as far as it goes and until a week ago they were served.
Sorry, but no.
My brother's video camera does not have USB out (or his external HDD). My mother's video camera does not have USB out. My father's camera does not have USB out. My friend's video camera does not have USB out. I know the plural of anecdote is not data, but that is 4 people I know for whom USB will not suffice. In these cases, it doesn't matter who much dedicated bandwidth they need (and these are not expensive cameras, for that matter) USB simply does not do what they need. These are not high-end users. It's not a matter of Firewire >? USB because they simply aren't always interchangeable.
My parents do home videos, and my brother and my friend both are amateur film students - interested, but not nearly prepared to go "Pro". If these last MacBook line lacked FireWire, they wouldn't have bought them, and would have instead just "made do" with a windows machine. They certainly would not have spent several hundred dollars more just for a firewire port on a MacBook pro.
I'm not railing against Apple or anything, it just seems like a pretty foolish idea to ignore this portion of the market (or hope to up-sell them). It seems perfectly logical to me that people would be annoyed at a decrease in features. For myself, I don't have a MacBook, but I have used the Target Disk Mode feature several times in the past on my iBook and other people's Mac's and it's a bit disappointing that this feature is left in the cold, too.
The problem is that "being liable" has come to mean more and more excessive punishments in a lot of cases. I don't like it either, but does what this kid did really deserve 250K and 5 years? Really?
So what you're saying is that if it rolls a 20 it could do double damage? Like, Duh.
Uh huh. And the various (admittedly foolish) motorcycle drivers I see riding on their bikes at 80mph without helmets are just holding their breath?
Not to flame you or anything but....
Why did you click on it? If you're browsing at work, the responsibility falls on you to monitor your own browsing. The web will not censor itself just because you're at work.
Bill