I tried mouse gestures back when Firefox was called Phoenix. I wondered why the browser navigated randomly, until I realized that I follow my read point with my mouse.
That was really annoying. And don't get me started on the "radial menu" overnight fad. I tried that, too, and it seemed totally pointless, requiring extra effort to figure out where each of the context menu items were.
If you hide out of fear of a violent reprisal, then the problem is that you are not truely secure in your rights to life and liberty. Fix that problem, don't mask it with a thin veil of anonymity. Fix it, how? By demanding that other people protect me, the same people I might be criticizing? Or by fortifying myself?
Self fortification isn't something that should be necessary in order to speak an opinion. That's why we have punishments for violent crimes. The problem is, no punishment can be a sufficient deterrent for some motivations, or we wouldn't have people who martyr themselves for good or for ill.
Not to mention that effective means of self-fortification are often either illegal (as in the case of firearms for people not permitted to have them, or who live in states that prohibit carry), frowned upon (Sure, it's not illegal, in most states, to carry a pistol in a TAC holster. But you know someone's going to call 911 if you walk into that mall.), or requires years of training to obtain any degree of skill (i.e. martial arts).
In short, fear of violent reprisal is not something that can be allayed.
If you are afriad of social reprisals, well then you have some soul searching to do about your friends. Uh, social reprisal isn't limited to my friends. It also includes my coworkers and anybody who might recognize my face.
The only other reason that Immediately occurs to me to "need" anonymity, is because you are ashamed of your actions or you are doing something illegal. Shame is a social construct, a method of many people imposing their way of life on a few individuals, and is intended to represent when one violates what others consider decent behavior.
Illegal acts are merely those acts for which government (which may or may not be based on the will of society, depending on the case) has deemed it necessary to punish.
I see no reason to protect those with a supposed "right". Then you logically throw out the concept of individuality in its entirety.
BTW...you missed financial reprisal. That's rather surprising, because SLAPP and big-pockets-versus-little-pockets is a daily topic around here.
One could argue that the lack of anonymity places a burdon on the press by exposing the speaker to burdons which should not be associated with speech. For example, someone who says something controversial on a hot-button topic can be subsequently exposed to death threats, financial ruin, etc.
Speech should not be associated with reputation, and credentials only serve to build the reputation of a speaker. If you want me to believe something, give me logic I can judge for myself, based on facts which may be verified.
The only current down-side of anonymity is the necessity that an accused individual needs to be able to face his attackers. Our courts and culture are structured (and being further restructured) with the assumption of guilt, with the accused required to support his own position. This is true both in law (with the government paying a salaried lawyer to put you in jail) and in society (where 90% of communication is gossip).
Vista seems to work with Samba fine, at least for what I used it for. I went to a LAN party Wednesday, and had my Linux laptop's network shares accessed by a Vista machine on the network, with no issues.
Yeah, yeah, not exactly "Enterprise" activity, but still...
Wouldn't the difference between the refractive index of the brass polish and the CD plastic cause problems? Or is the angle of incidence high enough that refraction doesn't matter?
This is just plain stupid. Why don't you divide a CD into three virtual sectors, and treat each as an independent storage area to be joined in RAID 5? Perhaps because seek times on optical media are abysmally slow?
She is an Officer of the United States Navy. (And, yes, to people associated with the military, that means a hell of a lot.) When you're an officer, you get held to higher standards, because you hold in your hands the honor of the US military. It's well known and accepted that that includes your behavior off the clock.
When you're assigned to prestigious duty in the name of the Unites States of America, you better damn well be spotless, because you're holding the honor of the country in your hands.
And that's not even thinking about whether behaving poorly under emotional stress should disqualify you from things like spending six months in only a couple tens of meters of cubic space with other people. That kind of contact would drive normal people insane; Astronauts have to be more stable than a concrete slab.
You missed the point of the post you originally replied to. Technician was pointing out that these are all questions Windows users would need to have answered (whether asked or not!) when switching environments.
If all one ever knows is Windows, one tends to make assumptions based on a Windows environment. Not having to reboot the computer to switch users is something that can be difficult with Windows, depending on situation and user management software installed. A user accustomed to Windows might not look for the "Switch User" button if his entire computer lifetime has been spent knowing that there isn't any such beast.
Prediction of user assumptions is important in predicting user behavior, and predicting user behavior is important in developing software and training programs.
Just as your skin and extremities will cool down before your core. You'll cool down eventually; clothing just adds one more layer of insulation.
Besides, I don't think anybody has been suggesting these things would keep you alive in space. If you wind up in an environment without air and pressure, you're sill screwed.
I'm a *long* time Debian (eight years) and Ubuntu (year-and-a-half) user.
I installed FC6 the Saturday before last, tried it, and enjoyed it. Except for two things. First, cinelerra (the reason I installed it; There's no package for Ubuntu, and the build scripts were broken beyond my ability to repair.) crashed whenever I tried to import video. Second, it only came with Firefox 1.5, and FF2(From an upstream tarball) segfaulted every time I ran it. However, I switched back to Ubuntu because I suspected something was wrong with the Fedora init scripts. (I'd been losing about 7GB of data after every rebooted; I'd thought the scripts weren't unmounting my external drive properly, but it turned out my firewire card went at the same time as I'd installed Fedora. Gotta update that bug report...)
I really liked yum, though. It's slightly slower than apt-get, but rolls the features of apt-get and apt-cache into one program, and behaves in a more reliable fashion.
I'm trying to burn CentOS discs now. I'm going to hit the professional workforce in a couple years, and it would be nice to have Red Hat experience.
No, it's illegal for states to discriminate against residents of other states. It's not illegal for the federal government to give preferrential treatment. The constitution specifically grants the federal government the sole right to regulate interstate commerce, and air travel easily falls under that category.
As for federal employment? I've never heard of federal laws against residency-based employment restrictions.
I love PDF, too. My comment was in reference to the ubiquity of Word documents, which previously only required that one have MS Windows or a compatible application. (A fair assumption, given WordPad for XP, and OpenOffice for Linux.) However, with the removal of Word document support in Wordpad in Vista, one will need to get software one isn't likely to get on a clean install of an operating system.
Though with that in mind, PDF pulls ahead, since Acrobat Reader is free, while Word isn't.
Don't just vote with your own dollars, get others to vote with theirs. Tell people about your experiences. Losing one sale won't hurt a large business much, but the threat of losing many may have an impact.
For instance, Newegg fucked up in handling a $650 order of the GRCC Computer Club, and their customer service rep laughed at our secretary when she called. It's taken over a month to get the whole thing sorted out.
Yes, Newegg screwed up. They couldn't find a check which was included in the same envelope as an order, until over a week later. (Of course, they cancel the order if they "don't get the money" after seven days of receiving the order) Yes, their fuckup significantly wasted a half-semester, setting back the timeline for the club's major project. But it's not just that. It'll be a cold day in hell when I order from a company that treats my people like shit.
Manufacturers don't want to spend more than a certain percentage of their sales on warranty replacements, so they limit their warranty periods to a value that would yield a comfortably low number of RMAs.
By comparing manufacturer warranty rates, one can get a rough idea of how confident different manufacturers are about the lifetime of their products.
However, the only justification I can think of for not relying on a drive beyond the warranty would be that one doesn't get a free drive as replacement if it fails. But buying a new drive every three-to-five years, just because one can't get a free drive, seems silly to me.
WordPad isn't Notepad...Wordpad (for XP, apparently) can read Word documents, Windows Write documents, Rich Text Format documents and Unicode text documents, all in addition to regular text documents. (I should add that I occasionally use WordPad to read and edit source and text files previously saved using UNIX-style newlines (LF) instead of DOS-style newlines (CRLF).)
That they've dropped Word support from Wordpad for Vista is interesting, to say the least. That puts Word documents on the same footing as, say, PDF files for archival purposes.
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I tried mouse gestures back when Firefox was called Phoenix. I wondered why the browser navigated randomly, until I realized that I follow my read point with my mouse.
That was really annoying. And don't get me started on the "radial menu" overnight fad. I tried that, too, and it seemed totally pointless, requiring extra effort to figure out where each of the context menu items were.
I don't care what reputation depends son...I simply don't believe speech should be dependent on it.
Self fortification isn't something that should be necessary in order to speak an opinion. That's why we have punishments for violent crimes. The problem is, no punishment can be a sufficient deterrent for some motivations, or we wouldn't have people who martyr themselves for good or for ill.
Not to mention that effective means of self-fortification are often either illegal (as in the case of firearms for people not permitted to have them, or who live in states that prohibit carry), frowned upon (Sure, it's not illegal, in most states, to carry a pistol in a TAC holster. But you know someone's going to call 911 if you walk into that mall.), or requires years of training to obtain any degree of skill (i.e. martial arts).
In short, fear of violent reprisal is not something that can be allayed. If you are afriad of social reprisals, well then you have some soul searching to do about your friends. Uh, social reprisal isn't limited to my friends. It also includes my coworkers and anybody who might recognize my face. The only other reason that Immediately occurs to me to "need" anonymity, is because you are ashamed of your actions or you are doing something illegal. Shame is a social construct, a method of many people imposing their way of life on a few individuals, and is intended to represent when one violates what others consider decent behavior.
Illegal acts are merely those acts for which government (which may or may not be based on the will of society, depending on the case) has deemed it necessary to punish. I see no reason to protect those with a supposed "right". Then you logically throw out the concept of individuality in its entirety.
BTW...you missed financial reprisal. That's rather surprising, because SLAPP and big-pockets-versus-little-pockets is a daily topic around here.
One could argue that the lack of anonymity places a burdon on the press by exposing the speaker to burdons which should not be associated with speech. For example, someone who says something controversial on a hot-button topic can be subsequently exposed to death threats, financial ruin, etc.
Speech should not be associated with reputation, and credentials only serve to build the reputation of a speaker. If you want me to believe something, give me logic I can judge for myself, based on facts which may be verified.
The only current down-side of anonymity is the necessity that an accused individual needs to be able to face his attackers. Our courts and culture are structured (and being further restructured) with the assumption of guilt, with the accused required to support his own position. This is true both in law (with the government paying a salaried lawyer to put you in jail) and in society (where 90% of communication is gossip).
It's called tmpfs these days.
Vista seems to work with Samba fine, at least for what I used it for. I went to a LAN party Wednesday, and had my Linux laptop's network shares accessed by a Vista machine on the network, with no issues.
Yeah, yeah, not exactly "Enterprise" activity, but still...
"arms" -> "claws"
It was a pun...
The question then becomes what the OP meant by "artificial fabric"...
Wouldn't the difference between the refractive index of the brass polish and the CD plastic cause problems? Or is the angle of incidence high enough that refraction doesn't matter?
She is an Officer of the United States Navy. (And, yes, to people associated with the military, that means a hell of a lot.) When you're an officer, you get held to higher standards, because you hold in your hands the honor of the US military. It's well known and accepted that that includes your behavior off the clock.
When you're assigned to prestigious duty in the name of the Unites States of America, you better damn well be spotless, because you're holding the honor of the country in your hands.
And that's not even thinking about whether behaving poorly under emotional stress should disqualify you from things like spending six months in only a couple tens of meters of cubic space with other people. That kind of contact would drive normal people insane; Astronauts have to be more stable than a concrete slab.
You missed the point of the post you originally replied to. Technician was pointing out that these are all questions Windows users would need to have answered (whether asked or not!) when switching environments.
If all one ever knows is Windows, one tends to make assumptions based on a Windows environment. Not having to reboot the computer to switch users is something that can be difficult with Windows, depending on situation and user management software installed. A user accustomed to Windows might not look for the "Switch User" button if his entire computer lifetime has been spent knowing that there isn't any such beast.
Prediction of user assumptions is important in predicting user behavior, and predicting user behavior is important in developing software and training programs.
Last semester, I could have bought Windows XP through my college for $10. Now the list Vista.
I wish I'd had the money to stock up on XP licenses before Vista rolled out.
Just as your skin and extremities will cool down before your core. You'll cool down eventually; clothing just adds one more layer of insulation.
Besides, I don't think anybody has been suggesting these things would keep you alive in space. If you wind up in an environment without air and pressure, you're sill screwed.
I'm a *long* time Debian (eight years) and Ubuntu (year-and-a-half) user.
I installed FC6 the Saturday before last, tried it, and enjoyed it. Except for two things. First, cinelerra (the reason I installed it; There's no package for Ubuntu, and the build scripts were broken beyond my ability to repair.) crashed whenever I tried to import video. Second, it only came with Firefox 1.5, and FF2(From an upstream tarball) segfaulted every time I ran it. However, I switched back to Ubuntu because I suspected something was wrong with the Fedora init scripts. (I'd been losing about 7GB of data after every rebooted; I'd thought the scripts weren't unmounting my external drive properly, but it turned out my firewire card went at the same time as I'd installed Fedora. Gotta update that bug report...)
I really liked yum, though. It's slightly slower than apt-get, but rolls the features of apt-get and apt-cache into one program, and behaves in a more reliable fashion.
I'm trying to burn CentOS discs now. I'm going to hit the professional workforce in a couple years, and it would be nice to have Red Hat experience.
True Slashdot fashion? Use technology!
:-)
Try doing a Google search for "relativity java applets".
Java has a use, after all.
No, it's illegal for states to discriminate against residents of other states. It's not illegal for the federal government to give preferrential treatment. The constitution specifically grants the federal government the sole right to regulate interstate commerce, and air travel easily falls under that category.
As for federal employment? I've never heard of federal laws against residency-based employment restrictions.
I love PDF, too. My comment was in reference to the ubiquity of Word documents, which previously only required that one have MS Windows or a compatible application. (A fair assumption, given WordPad for XP, and OpenOffice for Linux.) However, with the removal of Word document support in Wordpad in Vista, one will need to get software one isn't likely to get on a clean install of an operating system.
Though with that in mind, PDF pulls ahead, since Acrobat Reader is free, while Word isn't.
We're college students. The club had more money than most of us combined. Nobody had enough money at the time to put that kind of purchase on plastic.
Don't just vote with your own dollars, get others to vote with theirs. Tell people about your experiences. Losing one sale won't hurt a large business much, but the threat of losing many may have an impact.
For instance, Newegg fucked up in handling a $650 order of the GRCC Computer Club, and their customer service rep laughed at our secretary when she called. It's taken over a month to get the whole thing sorted out.
Yes, Newegg screwed up. They couldn't find a check which was included in the same envelope as an order, until over a week later. (Of course, they cancel the order if they "don't get the money" after seven days of receiving the order) Yes, their fuckup significantly wasted a half-semester, setting back the timeline for the club's major project. But it's not just that. It'll be a cold day in hell when I order from a company that treats my people like shit.
Manufacturers don't want to spend more than a certain percentage of their sales on warranty replacements, so they limit their warranty periods to a value that would yield a comfortably low number of RMAs.
By comparing manufacturer warranty rates, one can get a rough idea of how confident different manufacturers are about the lifetime of their products.
However, the only justification I can think of for not relying on a drive beyond the warranty would be that one doesn't get a free drive as replacement if it fails. But buying a new drive every three-to-five years, just because one can't get a free drive, seems silly to me.
WordPad isn't Notepad...Wordpad (for XP, apparently) can read Word documents, Windows Write documents, Rich Text Format documents and Unicode text documents, all in addition to regular text documents. (I should add that I occasionally use WordPad to read and edit source and text files previously saved using UNIX-style newlines (LF) instead of DOS-style newlines (CRLF).)
That they've dropped Word support from Wordpad for Vista is interesting, to say the least. That puts Word documents on the same footing as, say, PDF files for archival purposes.
I thought that the original Sound Blasters were just Adlib cards with joystick controllers thrown in.
Odd. It used to be a subscriber feature.