I know gmail has amazing spam filters, but even I wouldn't tempt fate like that.
I've had slashdot display my email address in clear text in every comment i've made here for years now. I've never received any mail to tanguyr+slashdot@gmail.com (gmail lets you add a "+whatever" to your email), and i very rarely get a spam message in my inbox. These days, with so much email being spam, i don't think that being coy about your email address is really a valid strategy anymore. You've got to give it out to use it, and who knows what the heck the people you give it out to are doing with it?
Since copying movies is not permissible by fair use then you are violating copyright by making a backup and therefore stealing.
Depends, here in Europe there have been several court judgements (belgium, germany, denmark iirc) that held that it is permissible to make backup copies of CDs or DVDs you have bought legally, and that you may "rip" the content of said disks in order to watch them in a different format on a different player (i.e. ipod, whatever).
Given a man, a saw, a speedboat, a scuba suit and time (to search for the cable), this seems trivial.
I would imagine that "simple to cut" = "simple to fix", especially given that the people who maintain these cables have waaaaaay bigger resources than a guy with a saw and a speedboat. On the other hand, cable breaks in deeper water would be much more expensive (and dangerous) to fix.
I'm also curious as to how you came up with your "million a piece" estimate?/t
However, the showstopper for many developers are two things. First, Qt4 is written in C++ (in fact, C++ with some non-standard features). Second, if you ever want to use Qt for non-free software, there is a large up-front cost. Second part first: This *was* the case prior to Qt4, which is available under an open source license for Windows (as well as GNU/Linux and Mac OS).
And i don't think being written in C++ is a "showstopper". Real software is written in a real language. Besides, you don't need to write C++ in order to use QT, there are a number of libraries out there like PyQt (for python).
It's a humbling experience switching away from a platform you know to a platform you don't.
Couldn't agree more. It's normal to feel frustrated when it takes you four hours to figure out how to achieve something that you can do in four mouse clicks on windows, but that doesn't automatically mean that linux is somehow "not as good" as windows. If you have ten years experience using windows, you just can't expect to reach that level of proficiency on linux (or any other OS for that matter) in ten weeks. You need to learn, and you need to *want* to learn. Don't just beg and whine on the forums till somebody gives you the "magic" command line args you need to paste into the terminal to make your laptop autodetect your bluetooth mouse - learn about how the linux bluetooth stack works, which are the important components, what are the configuration options, and so forth. I mean, it's just a bunch of googling?
In many ways, increased understanding is the upside of fixing problems, and not the other way around.
The first one took months because relatively few people had iPhones. As the number of iPhone owners increases, i would think that the amount of time needed for future unlock hacks will actually decrease. Remember: you only need one person to figure it out and post it on some website or other. By the time the DMCA takedown notice arrives, the info has been posted to digg and reddit (and maybe even this place) countless times.
I also recommend the book Building Scalable Web Sites, also from O'Reilly. Loads of good ideas on clustering, performance monitoring, even some ideas on scaling the development process itself. Scalability and high availability are not the same thing, but much of the material covered in this book is relevant to both./t
Those who are not so technically minded and buy the thing candidly thinking that they will come home and install World of Warcraft or Photoshop and use iTunes will be having a hard time with this...
That's kind of unlikely, given that the windows and linux versions are not on the same page, so you really have to *want* to buy a linux machine. I'm sure there will be a few people out there who will do what you describe, but, really, anybody that dim would have problems with any operating system.
Once you start adding the price of office and other commercial software with a solid foss alternative the gap widens even more. Of course, that's if you don't count the cost of your time spent managing your computer and its software. Depending on how familiar you are with one OS or the other, that could be a lot. Most importantly, linux should not be promoted as " just" a low cost alternative to windows. Keep in mind that it's also higher quality;) (i can hear the hackles rising from here)
Force quit X (alt-ctrl-backspace) switch to a virtual console (alt-ctrl-F1) do as suggested above ( sudo apt-get yadda yadda, sudo vim/etc/X11/xorg.conf,...) startx/t
3) I say "no" all the time. Well, not directly. I say "Sure, how much money you got". There is NOTHING impossible with Tech, the only questions are "how much" and "what's it worth to you?"
LOL! Same here - i've found that the best way to calm down user exuberance is to ask "What's your budget number?"
He said the split between chimps and humans was 5mil ago; that doesn't mean they split off directly into chimps and humans, but into the genetic predecessors of each. Probably erectus or something.
That's not what the GP is talking about here. The GGP said that "Our closest homo relatives, Homo Neanderthalis [sic], died out a mere 200,000 years ago.", to which the GP replied that "Homo sapiens showed up around 200,000 years ago, but the last Neanderthals hung around until ~30-40k bp (depending on who you talk to)."
This exchange isn't about chimps and humans, it's about Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis.
Jobs talked so much smack on the Zune's WiFi capability, that I doubt he'd throw wifi into an iPod that would have a stronger functionality and actually keep your battery from discharging on power-up.
You mean like he "talked so much smack" about the Intel processors a couple of years back?
The trains themselves are perfectly smooth, except that a lot of the mechanical noises are higher in pitch than you might expect. It doesn't feel that fast until you look out the window.
It really sinks in when you cross another thalys going in the opposite direction. These are **looooong** trains, but since they close at over six hundred kilometers per hour it's like... "what was that noise?"
As for the "passing the cars on the highway" bit, it's even better from within the train. Not so much from a speed perspective, but rather from the "half asleep in a comfy seat drinking a beer" perspective. Well, i guess you could try that in a car too.
You *can* rotate the cube "over the top", but basically it will flip over as it rotates, so, no, you never wind up with an "upside down" desktop.
Now, to get back to the OP of this thread: Leopard may - or may not - incorporate these kinds of "blingtop" technologies when it comes out this summer. Beryl (and Compiz) are available now.
Yeah, about that flying DeLorean... I'm afraid the boys down at the tool shed have run into a hitch. Don't worry, they tell me they can fix it, absolutely nothing to it... but we might be just a little bit late with the delivery.
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I know gmail has amazing spam filters, but even I wouldn't tempt fate like that.
I've had slashdot display my email address in clear text in every comment i've made here for years now. I've never received any mail to tanguyr+slashdot@gmail.com (gmail lets you add a "+whatever" to your email), and i very rarely get a spam message in my inbox. These days, with so much email being spam, i don't think that being coy about your email address is really a valid strategy anymore. You've got to give it out to use it, and who knows what the heck the people you give it out to are doing with it?
hey cheers for that link!
Since copying movies is not permissible by fair use then you are violating copyright by making a backup and therefore stealing.
Depends, here in Europe there have been several court judgements (belgium, germany, denmark iirc) that held that it is permissible to make backup copies of CDs or DVDs you have bought legally, and that you may "rip" the content of said disks in order to watch them in a different format on a different player (i.e. ipod, whatever).
http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/got_questions_quxz.html
Given a man, a saw, a speedboat, a scuba suit and time (to search for the cable), this seems trivial.
/t
I would imagine that "simple to cut" = "simple to fix", especially given that the people who maintain these cables have waaaaaay bigger resources than a guy with a saw and a speedboat. On the other hand, cable breaks in deeper water would be much more expensive (and dangerous) to fix.
I'm also curious as to how you came up with your "million a piece" estimate?
And i don't think being written in C++ is a "showstopper". Real software is written in a real language. Besides, you don't need to write C++ in order to use QT, there are a number of libraries out there like PyQt (for python).
It's a humbling experience switching away from a platform you know to a platform you don't.
Couldn't agree more. It's normal to feel frustrated when it takes you four hours to figure out how to achieve something that you can do in four mouse clicks on windows, but that doesn't automatically mean that linux is somehow "not as good" as windows. If you have ten years experience using windows, you just can't expect to reach that level of proficiency on linux (or any other OS for that matter) in ten weeks. You need to learn, and you need to *want* to learn. Don't just beg and whine on the forums till somebody gives you the "magic" command line args you need to paste into the terminal to make your laptop autodetect your bluetooth mouse - learn about how the linux bluetooth stack works, which are the important components, what are the configuration options, and so forth. I mean, it's just a bunch of googling?
In many ways, increased understanding is the upside of fixing problems, and not the other way around.
mod up "useless yet fascinating"
The first one took months because relatively few people had iPhones. As the number of iPhone owners increases, i would think that the amount of time needed for future unlock hacks will actually decrease. Remember: you only need one person to figure it out and post it on some website or other. By the time the DMCA takedown notice arrives, the info has been posted to digg and reddit (and maybe even this place) countless times.
The same way I either don't visit IE-only sites, or I change my referrer
s/referrer/user agent/
I also recommend the book Building Scalable Web Sites, also from O'Reilly. Loads of good ideas on clustering, performance monitoring, even some ideas on scaling the development process itself. Scalability and high availability are not the same thing, but much of the material covered in this book is relevant to both. /t
OpenOffice works both in windows and linux.
;)
It is unfair to include the cost of office when comparing the cost of windows vs linux.
That's true (that it works), but it's pre-installed in Ubuntu. Same with Firefox. Gotta count for something.
Still, you do have a valid point.
Damn you
Those who are not so technically minded and buy the thing candidly thinking that they will come home and install World of Warcraft or Photoshop and use iTunes will be having a hard time with this...
That's kind of unlikely, given that the windows and linux versions are not on the same page, so you really have to *want* to buy a linux machine. I'm sure there will be a few people out there who will do what you describe, but, really, anybody that dim would have problems with any operating system.
Once you start adding the price of office and other commercial software with a solid foss alternative the gap widens even more. Of course, that's if you don't count the cost of your time spent managing your computer and its software. Depending on how familiar you are with one OS or the other, that could be a lot. Most importantly, linux should not be promoted as " just" a low cost alternative to windows. Keep in mind that it's also higher quality ;) (i can hear the hackles rising from here)
Force quit X (alt-ctrl-backspace) /etc/X11/xorg.conf, ...) /t
switch to a virtual console (alt-ctrl-F1)
do as suggested above ( sudo apt-get yadda yadda, sudo vim
startx
3) I say "no" all the time. Well, not directly. I say "Sure, how much money you got". There is NOTHING impossible with Tech, the only questions are "how much" and "what's it worth to you?"
LOL! Same here - i've found that the best way to calm down user exuberance is to ask "What's your budget number?"
He said the split between chimps and humans was 5mil ago; that doesn't mean they split off directly into chimps and humans, but into the genetic predecessors of each. Probably erectus or something.
That's not what the GP is talking about here. The GGP said that "Our closest homo relatives, Homo Neanderthalis [sic], died out a mere 200,000 years ago.", to which the GP replied that "Homo sapiens showed up around 200,000 years ago, but the last Neanderthals hung around until ~30-40k bp (depending on who you talk to)."
This exchange isn't about chimps and humans, it's about Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis.
Jobs talked so much smack on the Zune's WiFi capability, that I doubt he'd throw wifi into an iPod that would have a stronger functionality and actually keep your battery from discharging on power-up.
You mean like he "talked so much smack" about the Intel processors a couple of years back?
Well, two things:
...impressive star explosion that took place some tens of millions of years ago...
Oooooooold news!
The trains themselves are perfectly smooth, except that a lot of the mechanical noises are higher in pitch than you might expect. It doesn't feel that fast until you look out the window.
It really sinks in when you cross another thalys going in the opposite direction. These are **looooong** trains, but since they close at over six hundred kilometers per hour it's like... "what was that noise?"
As for the "passing the cars on the highway" bit, it's even better from within the train. Not so much from a speed perspective, but rather from the "half asleep in a comfy seat drinking a beer" perspective. Well, i guess you could try that in a car too.
You *can* rotate the cube "over the top", but basically it will flip over as it rotates, so, no, you never wind up with an "upside down" desktop.
Now, to get back to the OP of this thread: Leopard may - or may not - incorporate these kinds of "blingtop" technologies when it comes out this summer. Beryl (and Compiz) are available now.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/04/30
Yeah, about that flying DeLorean... I'm afraid the boys down at the tool shed have run into a hitch. Don't worry, they tell me they can fix it, absolutely nothing to it... but we might be just a little bit late with the delivery.
We are also substantially smell and hearing challenged, but you probably already knew that.
But on the bright side, all those animals with better smell and hearing taste great!