Okay is giving a website to your family who is computer ILLITERATE somewhat like giving a Ferrari to your 90 year old grandmother in a wheel chair?
Well okay maybe that was a drastic comparison, but come on... give them something they might actually WANT and CAN use...i.e. gift certificates for some computer literacy classes...
Agreeing to some degree, there is also a LOT of hella cryptic 'help files/man pages' in the 3 linux distros I've used. They assume a higher degree of knowledge than 95% of all windows users have, and rarely point at where to attain that knowledge other than jumping into the muck and getting your hands dirty...Many do not want to fiddle with this specific setting and that specific setting just to get a package to work. They want to run a little file like 'setup.exe' and poof have a nifty little walk through that says 'click next button' and poof it works!
and if they DO need something special they want it written in ENGLISH,...,NOT techno-uber-linux-geek language...
some of us have a basic knowledge and understanding of things and some man pages confuse the hell out of us because of how they are written/structured etc...
well the "trailer" bit right before the trailer of "Shrek 2" was this nifty little banter about how piracy of movies is wrong and affects the stunt-man, yada yada...that the big guys always get their HUGE salaries but the little guys are the ones affected... so yeah...teach 'em stealing is bad...and teach them to take existing IP and improve upon it and develop more...so they can be like Disney and take old stories and animate them and make them popular and then copywrite it and extend that copywrite beyond the standard term through lobbying and other political bribery...
they'll need exchange...IIS... perhaps some huge bandwidth... powdered donuts, guarana(beats the hell outta Mt. Dew), and (with machine to make said drink), and all the neato little geek trinkets and apparrel.
The difference is that you get to CHOOSE which security holes you are installing in Linux, in windows its called 'standard features', and then when it is 'update' time for security patches and the like, well...you are basically installing another security hole to plug another often enough.
And I as a non-programmer barely understanding the concept of buffer overflows which seem to plague many many many packages...still do not understand why it is so difficult to develop secure code in the first place?
Laziness? Lack of thorough testing? Ignorance? Just wondering really...
will contain 65,000 processors and 16 trillion bytes of memory.
Okay, I thought that around the mid 1980's or so, we actually quit measuring in bytes... So much for 'progressive' technology, I guess 16 trillion just sounded a lot better than a few gig...damn marketing people
They're still trying to figure out who could have given birth to tech-heads whose main social outlet is http://slashdot.org/
Thus the witty banter we are constantly bombarded with.
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Odd, i just asked for a demo of a bluetooth hands free device for a cell phone and it required you to point the ear piece to what appeared to be an IR diode on the phone and then punch in a code, in order to simply use the ear piece with the phone...
a two or three week turn around? Hell I wish I could respond to my customers' complaints/troubles in that time frame...I'd have more time to play each day!
Bundle them all...give me 'upgrade insurance' so the latest releases I can get as well...and oh...please send them via CD-ROM in a neat little AOL-like TIN...with varying game art on the TIN, like the boxes the old cartridges came in...
Just last Saturday my wife and I flew to Orlando from Atlanta, the cell phone worked the entire trip, my wife forgot to turn it off. The plane didn't crash or go off course and the landing was smooth as could be...
*shrugs* better safe than sorry I guess. Maybe a cell phone is what caused that Airforce Thunderbird F-16 to crash at the airshow...
Due to the people at slashdot.org linking to this site without asking the owners or the hosters, asciipr0n.com is offline until further notice. Maybe you guys should start mirroring the sites you link to...
silly idiots...why would someone need permission..it's the WORLD WIDE FREAK'N WEB!
What they REALLY want...
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...is to reduce their loss to shop-lifters. The marketing issues involved they can track via their sales registers, they have no need for radio tracking to gain this stuff. Why do you think they ask for your zip code or phone number at many shops when you are at checkout, and why grocery stores have those little "savings" cards...
I have a classroom full of them...Here we call them 'Freshmen'...and to them the word 'intuitive' has something to do with the number 2 inside something...this year they are pretty dense.
So might I suggest that when looking for newbies, hit up the local high school freshmen =)
yeah..there are the media cards like those used in cameras...128megs...hrm...my original zip drive only held 100...and they have those cute little plastic cases for them too =) it is sad when students still come to me asking for a floppy to save work on to take home... of course I have my own collection for emergency use =) but come on folks...especially y'all bios people...get with the program and make it so you can boot off of anything connected to any port on a mother board!
CAIDA researchers are seeking to understand why any root server would receive such an enormous number of broken queries daily from lower level servers.
El Smack quotes the 'belief' researchers have in answer to the question above. I fail to see why they are calling this a 'belief'...it is most certainly a FACT...how many semi-literate people are in position of network administrator at small businesses/schools/homes...and don't have bullet-proof mechanisms(or as near as possible) to deal with DNS let alone all other forms of network traffic. Far from an expert on the topic I merely know that MANY businesses say "Oh Frank, you know how to use a computer, you get to manage the network here as well as your other functions. ENJOY!"...and thus it has begun and been perpetuated.
I would like to see more mainstream products being used that incorporate Linux. the Sharp Zaurus is simply gorgeous. I'm glad to see IBM working out the details to develop another PDA utilizing Linux.
For someone who is supposed to be an utmost authority in crypto...his article was very lacking in anything that remotely addressed the issue of the question at the heading 'Is open-source software better for security than proprietary software?'
It addressed secrecy as a form of security...proprietary software is NOT secrect software.
I just feel that someone with his credentials should have been able to come up with some arguement or form of support. All in all I wouldn't recommend the article to be read at all, for it lacks any insight on the topic it was supposed to address.
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Okay is giving a website to your family who is computer ILLITERATE somewhat like giving a Ferrari to your 90 year old grandmother in a wheel chair?
Well okay maybe that was a drastic comparison, but come on... give them something they might actually WANT and CAN use...i.e. gift certificates for some computer literacy classes...
Just a thought =)
Agreeing to some degree, there is also a LOT of hella cryptic 'help files/man pages' in the 3 linux distros I've used. They assume a higher degree of knowledge than 95% of all windows users have, and rarely point at where to attain that knowledge other than jumping into the muck and getting your hands dirty...Many do not want to fiddle with this specific setting and that specific setting just to get a package to work. They want to run a little file like 'setup.exe' and poof have a nifty little walk through that says 'click next button' and poof it works!
and if they DO need something special they want it written in ENGLISH,...,NOT techno-uber-linux-geek language...
some of us have a basic knowledge and understanding of things and some man pages confuse the hell out of us because of how they are written/structured etc...
well the "trailer" bit right before the trailer of "Shrek 2" was this nifty little banter about how piracy of movies is wrong and affects the stunt-man, yada yada...that the big guys always get their HUGE salaries but the little guys are the ones affected... so yeah...teach 'em stealing is bad...and teach them to take existing IP and improve upon it and develop more...so they can be like Disney and take old stories and animate them and make them popular and then copywrite it and extend that copywrite beyond the standard term through lobbying and other political bribery...
Go find some Asians...they love those little 'blue tooth' features cuz they are techno junkies...
Yes yes...flamebait, generalizations, stereotypes and all that.. if it weren't true it wouldn't be a stereotype.
they'll need exchange...IIS...
perhaps some huge bandwidth...
powdered donuts, guarana(beats the hell outta Mt. Dew), and (with machine to make said drink), and all the neato little geek trinkets and apparrel.
The difference is that you get to CHOOSE which security holes you are installing in Linux, in windows its called 'standard features', and then when it is 'update' time for security patches and the like, well...you are basically installing another security hole to plug another often enough.
And I as a non-programmer barely understanding the concept of buffer overflows which seem to plague many many many packages...still do not understand why it is so difficult to develop secure code in the first place?
Laziness? Lack of thorough testing? Ignorance?
Just wondering really...
kudos to your originality and artistic expression...your CLI preview humor'd me =)
will contain 65,000 processors and 16 trillion bytes of memory.
Okay, I thought that around the mid 1980's or so, we actually quit measuring in bytes...
So much for 'progressive' technology, I guess 16 trillion just sounded a lot better than a few gig...damn marketing people
Actually Jack was their Dad...
They're still trying to figure out who could have given birth to tech-heads whose main social outlet is http://slashdot.org/
Thus the witty banter we are constantly bombarded with.
Odd, i just asked for a demo of a bluetooth hands free device for a cell phone and it required you to point the ear piece to what appeared to be an IR diode on the phone and then punch in a code, in order to simply use the ear piece with the phone...
Could be wrong, I bought a Samsung anyway =)
Well they gotta learn sometime!
Bah, make it a part of their history class, where they must memorize the pledge...and recite it orally for credit... =)
Screw the Government and Special Interest Groups!
a two or three week turn around? Hell I wish I could respond to my customers' complaints/troubles in that time frame...I'd have more time to play each day!
Bundle them all...give me 'upgrade insurance' so the latest releases I can get as well...and oh...please send them via CD-ROM in a neat little AOL-like TIN...with varying game art on the TIN, like the boxes the old cartridges came in...
Then I would be satisfied!
--Huck
Just last Saturday my wife and I flew to Orlando from Atlanta, the cell phone worked the entire trip, my wife forgot to turn it off. The plane didn't crash or go off course and the landing was smooth as could be...
*shrugs* better safe than sorry I guess. Maybe a cell phone is what caused that Airforce Thunderbird F-16 to crash at the airshow...
Would be nice if it went directly to the individual(s) they phoned instead of into some politician's pocket.
I got this:
Due to the people at slashdot.org linking to this site without asking the owners or the hosters, asciipr0n.com is offline until further notice. Maybe you guys should start mirroring the sites you link to...
silly idiots...why would someone need permission..it's the WORLD WIDE FREAK'N WEB!
...is to reduce their loss to shop-lifters.
The marketing issues involved they can track via their sales registers, they have no need for radio tracking to gain this stuff. Why do you think they ask for your zip code or phone number at many shops when you are at checkout, and why grocery stores have those little "savings" cards...
"Now I won't have to ignore my telephone when it rings since more than 50 percent of my calls are from telemarketers."
Might wanna get out more often and make some friends so you can get phone calls from someone besides telemarketers =)
the most difficult things to find was a newbie
I have a classroom full of them...Here we call them 'Freshmen'...and to them the word 'intuitive' has something to do with the number 2 inside something...this year they are pretty dense.
So might I suggest that when looking for newbies, hit up the local high school freshmen =)
yeah..there are the media cards like those used in cameras...128megs...hrm...my original zip drive only held 100...and they have those cute little plastic cases for them too =)
it is sad when students still come to me asking for a floppy to save work on to take home...
of course I have my own collection for emergency use =) but come on folks...especially y'all bios people...get with the program and make it so you can boot off of anything connected to any port on a mother board!
CAIDA researchers are seeking to understand why any root server would receive such an enormous number of broken queries daily from lower level servers.
El Smack quotes the 'belief' researchers have in answer to the question above. I fail to see why they are calling this a 'belief'...it is most certainly a FACT...how many semi-literate people are in position of network administrator at small businesses/schools/homes...and don't have bullet-proof mechanisms(or as near as possible) to deal with DNS let alone all other forms of network traffic. Far from an expert on the topic I merely know that MANY businesses say "Oh Frank, you know how to use a computer, you get to manage the network here as well as your other functions. ENJOY!"...and thus it has begun and been perpetuated.
--Huck
I would like to see more mainstream products being used that incorporate Linux. the Sharp Zaurus is simply gorgeous. I'm glad to see IBM working out the details to develop another PDA utilizing Linux.
For someone who is supposed to be an utmost authority in crypto...his article was very lacking in anything that remotely addressed the issue of the question at the heading 'Is open-source software better for security than proprietary software?'
It addressed secrecy as a form of security...proprietary software is NOT secrect software.
I just feel that someone with his credentials should have been able to come up with some arguement or form of support. All in all I wouldn't recommend the article to be read at all, for it lacks any insight on the topic it was supposed to address.
How much will the refill cartridges cost for the robot?
--Huck