I can't remember the exact year. Mid 90's. I installed Slackware from floppies on a Xerox laptop with 10 MB HD and 4 MB RAM. I used it to write and compile c code for school.
I still have that laptop, but nowadays not even DSL will run on it:(
I'm not a lawyer, but since as you say, the airwaves are public then doesn't the Constitution apply to them. Laws passed by congress still need to be held up against the Constitution, and this clearly violates free speech.
I'm pretty sure your argument is backwards. Private institutions can implement their own rules and regulations and not be held to constitutional guidelines. Like when the Boy Scout controversy over gays flared up. Like it or not, the Boy Scouts, as a private institution, has the right to choose its members.
And as Americans we need to start looking out. Every hypothesis like "if we let people say 'fuck' on television then America will go to hell in a hand basket." has been played out somewhere else in the world. And bad news, countries who allow nudity and profane language on their "public" airwaves have not, as yet, gone to hell.
I think the trap people fall into is thinking Sharepoint is Just Another Wiki, when its kind of a different thing. Only time will tell whether it'll be successful in the long run, but I see lots of Medium and large org shops who love it, and find it the 'just-right' set of features and ease-of-use to be compelling.
Exactly! Medium and large shops, who've grown up on MS Office, love it. That's my point. How many of those shops have taken a serious look at, say, Confluence (http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/)?
5. Sharepoint. I haven't seen anything as easy to use from the FOSS community.
Sharepoint is an absolutely brilliant product. They took the information sharing of a Wiki, which is editor agnostic, and tightly coupled it with Office. If you've never used a Wiki, or any other editor agnostic information sharing tools, and 'grew up' on Office, you can do nothing but think Sharepoint is the greatest invention since network drives.
If you've used a Wiki before, then you know Sharepoint is a crappy Office tie-in.
Yea, but they make it so easy. Like John Stewart and the current administration. Soooooo much material, so little time.
I for one have noticed that Microsoft is at least attempting to make better 'stuff' now that they have some competition. That certainly was not true 5 or 10 years ago.
I'm sure they did their best to make Vista better too, I just can't see how you do such a thing with thousands of programmers hacking millions of lines of code. Frankly I'm amazed it even boots.
Like others have said before, Microsoft long ago stopped being a software company and became a marketing company. PT Barnum would be proud.
Goddammit, Sir, why did you have to post after I used all my mod points? You have provided, not only for the OSS world but developers in general, the single most important point when it comes to maintainability.
I've contributed to three OSS projects over the last few months and spent very little lead time doing it. So:
1. I'm really really super duper smarter than y'all
2. I managed to randomly pick the three OSS projects that are easy to grok
3. This statement is not true
Hint: I'm not that smart and statistically, if MOST OSS projects are too complex to grok, then me picking three randomly that are is very improbable.
I have tried to cuddle up with linux and give it a shot, but i have yet to find a distro that works with my wireless card.
That's not Linux, that's the wireless card vendor. There are still hardware venders out there that will not make linux drivers or distribute the info necessary to make one.
What is the point of having ratings if they aren't enforced? If the game says M, only those only over 17 should be able to buy it. If you are under that age, there should be a penalty of some sort.
First, they are helpfull to parents like me who like to get a feel for how much violence/sex etc.. are in the game.
Unfortunately, the ratings are terribly inconsistent. X-Men Legends is rated T for "Graphic depictions of blood", while The Nightmare Before Christmas is E-12 or something like that because the violence is fantasy. In TNBC, the currency is 'souls' you steal from people by whipping them to death.
What I was pointing out, and perhaps should have been more specific, is that there is an open standard for word processing and spreadsheet documents, but they seem to be focused on the proprietary formats. Which, yes, is not 'open'.
They seem so proud of themselves for being open source. Come to find out, their product only exists so users of MS Office can share their documents. Anyone else see the irony in that?
She declined to say how many reports Microsoft had received and said that calls reporting the issue to the company represented a "very, very small fraction" of units sold.
Because the majority of units sold were bought to be resold on Ebay and haven't been played yet.
Is this a derivative of the methodologies behind Lean Six Sigma?
No, it's based on the ideas behind lean manufacturing like the Toyota Production System. It kind of parallels the book Lean Thinking which was a followup to The Machine That Changed The World. Both books cover the Toyota Production System.
It's also not a repackaging of XP. Lean Software Development is based on a set of principles that can be applied whether you are doing XP, Waterfall, Scrum, RUP or whatever.
How about encrypted file systems? If the authorities sieze my computer, they'll first have to decrypt the/home partition before they can even begin to try and figure out where I surfed.
And I keep my porn in a.xxx directory, which, at their current rate, they'll never find.
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I can't remember the exact year. Mid 90's. I installed Slackware from floppies on a Xerox laptop with 10 MB HD and 4 MB RAM. I used it to write and compile c code for school.
I still have that laptop, but nowadays not even DSL will run on it :(
I'm not a lawyer, but since as you say, the airwaves are public then doesn't the Constitution apply to them. Laws passed by congress still need to be held up against the Constitution, and this clearly violates free speech.
I'm pretty sure your argument is backwards. Private institutions can implement their own rules and regulations and not be held to constitutional guidelines. Like when the Boy Scout controversy over gays flared up. Like it or not, the Boy Scouts, as a private institution, has the right to choose its members.
And as Americans we need to start looking out. Every hypothesis like "if we let people say 'fuck' on television then America will go to hell in a hand basket." has been played out somewhere else in the world. And bad news, countries who allow nudity and profane language on their "public" airwaves have not, as yet, gone to hell.
Exactly! Medium and large shops, who've grown up on MS Office, love it. That's my point. How many of those shops have taken a serious look at, say, Confluence (http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/)?
Sharepoint is an absolutely brilliant product. They took the information sharing of a Wiki, which is editor agnostic, and tightly coupled it with Office. If you've never used a Wiki, or any other editor agnostic information sharing tools, and 'grew up' on Office, you can do nothing but think Sharepoint is the greatest invention since network drives.
If you've used a Wiki before, then you know Sharepoint is a crappy Office tie-in.
Yea, but they make it so easy. Like John Stewart and the current administration. Soooooo much material, so little time.
I for one have noticed that Microsoft is at least attempting to make better 'stuff' now that they have some competition. That certainly was not true 5 or 10 years ago.
I'm sure they did their best to make Vista better too, I just can't see how you do such a thing with thousands of programmers hacking millions of lines of code. Frankly I'm amazed it even boots.
Like others have said before, Microsoft long ago stopped being a software company and became a marketing company. PT Barnum would be proud.
I've contributed to three OSS projects over the last few months and spent very little lead time doing it. So:
1. I'm really really super duper smarter than y'all
2. I managed to randomly pick the three OSS projects that are easy to grok
3. This statement is not true
Hint: I'm not that smart and statistically, if MOST OSS projects are too complex to grok, then me picking three randomly that are is very improbable.
I was wondering what all the hubbub was about. I too followed the link and was able to watch a video on my Linux box using the mplayer plugin.
Of course, this is illegal in the US, since I am using unlicensed drivers, but those counsel meetings are just so intriguing that I'll risk it.
I have tried to cuddle up with linux and give it a shot, but i have yet to find a distro that works with my wireless card.
That's not Linux, that's the wireless card vendor. There are still hardware venders out there that will not make linux drivers or distribute the info necessary to make one.
What is the point of having ratings if they aren't enforced? If the game says M, only those only over 17 should be able to buy it. If you are under that age, there should be a penalty of some sort.
First, they are helpfull to parents like me who like to get a feel for how much violence/sex etc.. are in the game.
Unfortunately, the ratings are terribly inconsistent. X-Men Legends is rated T for "Graphic depictions of blood", while The Nightmare Before Christmas is E-12 or something like that because the violence is fantasy. In TNBC, the currency is 'souls' you steal from people by whipping them to death.
What I was pointing out, and perhaps should have been more specific, is that there is an open standard for word processing and spreadsheet documents, but they seem to be focused on the proprietary formats. Which, yes, is not 'open'.
They seem so proud of themselves for being open source. Come to find out, their product only exists so users of MS Office can share their documents. Anyone else see the irony in that?
Isn't a hippocampus where fat people go to school?
Right after all keyboards are Dvorak and we measure everything in metric.
That's why I use eMusic. Sure, no BIG name artists with their latest stuff, but after a month of membership, I'm discovering some really good music.
Because the majority of units sold were bought to be resold on Ebay and haven't been played yet.
Is this a derivative of the methodologies behind Lean Six Sigma?
No, it's based on the ideas behind lean manufacturing like the Toyota Production System. It kind of parallels the book Lean Thinking which was a followup to The Machine That Changed The World. Both books cover the Toyota Production System.
It's also not a repackaging of XP. Lean Software Development is based on a set of principles that can be applied whether you are doing XP, Waterfall, Scrum, RUP or whatever.
How about encrypted file systems? If the authorities sieze my computer, they'll first have to decrypt the /home partition before they can even begin to try and figure out where I surfed.
.xxx directory, which, at their current rate, they'll never find.
And I keep my porn in a