Most open source software doesn't really require money to develop, just people time. Wikipedia requires not just people with time, but bandwidth. Oodles and oodles of bandwidth.
Perhaps it needs a P2P-based hosting system to serve up its content. That would be quite the task, though.
Those stopped being common since the ATX standard came into play. Sometimes you see them as a feature of the power supply, mounted on the back, but most computers I've dealt with don't even have that.
(No, a software-controlled power switch doesn't count. Even if holding the button in for four seconds is supposed to turn the computer off.)
As a person who was diagnosed with PDD-NOS at one time (Later narrowed down to Asperger's), I can say this: Lighten up, and focus on getting your kid through school alive.
I know he's under a huge amount of stress every day he's at school. And he's probably under a lot of stress at home, too.
This will (mostly) work on worms which attack flaws which behave in a nondeterministic fashion; A worm isn't guaranteed an infection by only one connection attempt. I don't think it would work for flaws that require only one connection to infect, though.
That could be improved by setting up a pool of computers which combine their connection details, but that poses privacy concerns, along with the possibility of misidentifying a host. If someone running a cjb.net server gets assigned a new IP address, and someone keeps attempting to connect to the old IP (Say, via a badly-configured DNS cache like they have at my college), that whole pool of computers would block the client, possibly harming his participation in P2P networks.
I have Asperger's as well. What I've found is that if one treats socialization as a field of study, one can learn, and even make habits of, proper social etiquette.
For the past four years, I've worked as a student tutor in a computer lab, where I work with hundreds of people a year. For the past three years, I've been an officer at my college's Computer Club.
The reason the article is on the front page of Slashdot is because the findings imply that it's possible to reverse autistic-spectrum disorders through things like gene therapy. These findings will lead to research that doesn't just apply it to Rett's Syndrome and other physically-debilitating diseases, but to purely mental ones like Asperger's.
You can? I used to submit that feature request every couple weeks, until I gave up.
Guess it doesn't matter now that the ISP my old email address ran under is now gone. I suppose I could set up domain-specific email addresses on my sites, though.
Almost all of my friends use GMail. However, I work as a student tutor, working with literally hundreds of students per semester. Geeks' friends have heard of GMail, but the average person hasn't.
I moved my grandparents over to GMail because their previous ISP was going under. I set up their existing Outlook installation to work through Google's POP3 and SMTP. All they do is pass around a different email address. (Which they did this past Christmas.)
I see my.edu email address as transitory. If I'm not a student there for a semester, it goes away.
Same with work addresses; I doubt I'll be at one company, with a stable email naming system, my entire career. My GMail address, though, will stick with me as long as GMail is around.
As he says, we really should have two different words for the "feeling of security" and "security". I thought we called that "comfort". As in, "I'm comfortable running Linux." or "I'm uncomfortable running Windows without antivirus software."
I checked the Wikipedia article. However, given that the only proper interface for the iPod is iTunes, and the behavior i observed in iTunes, I wasn't sure I trusted the content of the article.
Also, where did you import "your friend's" music from? If you copied from another computer, iTunes leaves it in the format it was originally. If you ripped it from a CD, yes, it defaults to AAC, but you can change it to any format iTunes supports. (BTW, AAC has better sound quality than MP3 at the same bitrate. If you are an audiophile, rip your songs in Apple Lossless, or leave them as WAV files.) Her My Music folder; That's where she keeps her music.
Just because everything supports it doesn't make it "where it's at." Unless by "Where it's at" you mean "lowest common denominator".
I'm not even certain that iPods play MP3s. When I set up iTunes on my roommate's computer, it converted her music collection to an internal format. (AAC, I believe.)
As for other portable music players that don't support MP3s, how about the Walkman or Discman? Or my PDA, for that matter; 3rd-party software (Real) is required for me to listen to my music on my Palm.
I wouldn't want to work on Windows...Microsoft's quality control sucks balls. Linux developers enjoy working with a decent product and a decently-written codebase.
Exactly my point. You hate Microsoft. You may even be willing to do ANYTHING to get others to stop using it. Because, your mission to force people to use Linux is so much more moral than Microsoft's equivalent.
You're extrapolating a bit too far. I don't care if other people use Windows. You want to use it? Feel free. I'll fix your computer for you, if it breaks. For free, even.
Linux isn't for everyone, at least not yet. If I feel someone may be able to hold their own after a few weeks usage, I'll recommend they try a LiveCD. Otherwise, I'll let them continue running Windows. I might install some antivirus and antispyware tools for them.
Seriously, you should try trolling over there...you'll get a lot more bang for your buck
Trolling? So THAT'S what you call extinguishing hypocritical Linux FUD.
Nah. That's what I call posting messages intended to elicit an angered response. You've heard about the "silent majority" in politics? The same thing exists in the Linux community. Most Linux users don't really care if you use Linux or not.
.Does Windows not crash for you? Does it not run slow? Whenever I try doing things outside of the norm (or even "normal" things, if you're a gamer.), Windows gets unstable
Nope, and nope. Is that what this is about? Your pirated copy of Windows ME crashed once when you tried to use 64-bit drivers on it, and you lost your beastiality porn? And yes, I'm a gamer (and developer), and no, I'm not running on a pre-built or in any way 'average' PC.
I've never run a pirated copy of Windows in my life. I own licenses for Win3.11, Win95, WinME, Win2K and WinXP. I'm just not running any of those operating systems right now.
Congratulations on your uptime streak, and managing to secure your computer against bad video card drivers, network worms and email viruses.
Sure, there's things you can do to speed up Windows, but the fact remains it doesn't hold up well to advanced usage.
Sure, there's things you can do to increase the usability of Linux for the average user, but the fact remains it doesn't hold up well to the most basic of usage.
I like that line.:-)
While it's true that using the command-line requires one to learn new things, modern distributions like Ubuntu work pretty well.
You sound like you're on meth...
Avoiding the question I see. Nice move!
The question implied a logical fallacy.
A central, community-minded advocacy and software development organization?
Is that anything like the central development organization called Microsoft, and the community-minded advocacy group called the Windows developer community?
The Windows developer community is fine. I know a few people who develop exclusively on Windows; They're usually fine. I only know one or two advocates.
I wouldn't count Microsoft as community-minded, "developers!" chant aside. Perhaps it's a philosophical thing.
I don't hate them, but I don't respect them as a software development company.
Maybe you should read this [slashdot.org] and then get back to me when you've managed to remove your knee from the back of your throat.
How amusing that you point to a Slashdot post, of all places, for your desperate fact-finding mission which, even if true, is totally irrelevent to the discussion. Surely you've noticed the obvious bias Slashdot has? What are you waiting for, a negative karma moderation specifically for "Non-Anti-Microsoft Behaviour"? (At the moment, t
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Most open source software doesn't really require money to develop, just people time. Wikipedia requires not just people with time, but bandwidth. Oodles and oodles of bandwidth.
Perhaps it needs a P2P-based hosting system to serve up its content. That would be quite the task, though.
Those stopped being common since the ATX standard came into play. Sometimes you see them as a feature of the power supply, mounted on the back, but most computers I've dealt with don't even have that.
(No, a software-controlled power switch doesn't count. Even if holding the button in for four seconds is supposed to turn the computer off.)
As a person who was diagnosed with PDD-NOS at one time (Later narrowed down to Asperger's), I can say this: Lighten up, and focus on getting your kid through school alive.
I know he's under a huge amount of stress every day he's at school. And he's probably under a lot of stress at home, too.
This will (mostly) work on worms which attack flaws which behave in a nondeterministic fashion; A worm isn't guaranteed an infection by only one connection attempt. I don't think it would work for flaws that require only one connection to infect, though.
That could be improved by setting up a pool of computers which combine their connection details, but that poses privacy concerns, along with the possibility of misidentifying a host. If someone running a cjb.net server gets assigned a new IP address, and someone keeps attempting to connect to the old IP (Say, via a badly-configured DNS cache like they have at my college), that whole pool of computers would block the client, possibly harming his participation in P2P networks.
I have Asperger's as well. What I've found is that if one treats socialization as a field of study, one can learn, and even make habits of, proper social etiquette.
For the past four years, I've worked as a student tutor in a computer lab, where I work with hundreds of people a year. For the past three years, I've been an officer at my college's Computer Club.
Drop me an IM some time if you want to talk.
The reason the article is on the front page of Slashdot is because the findings imply that it's possible to reverse autistic-spectrum disorders through things like gene therapy. These findings will lead to research that doesn't just apply it to Rett's Syndrome and other physically-debilitating diseases, but to purely mental ones like Asperger's.
Being "special" doesn't make me special. Accomplishing things makes me special. Helping people make me special.
I take pride in my accomplishments, not my limits.
You can? I used to submit that feature request every couple weeks, until I gave up.
Guess it doesn't matter now that the ISP my old email address ran under is now gone. I suppose I could set up domain-specific email addresses on my sites, though.
Almost all of my friends use GMail. However, I work as a student tutor, working with literally hundreds of students per semester. Geeks' friends have heard of GMail, but the average person hasn't.
I moved my grandparents over to GMail because their previous ISP was going under. I set up their existing Outlook installation to work through Google's POP3 and SMTP. All they do is pass around a different email address. (Which they did this past Christmas.)
I see my .edu email address as transitory. If I'm not a student there for a semester, it goes away.
Same with work addresses; I doubt I'll be at one company, with a stable email naming system, my entire career. My GMail address, though, will stick with me as long as GMail is around.
Almost everyone in the Computer Club here has a Gmail account. But I'm at a community college, not a technical college.
Most people I meet on campus have never even heard of GMail.
With Google holding the top search engine spot, they need only add a link to GMail to the search page, and they'll get millions more users.
It's there.
I wonder if we'll see a drop in storage capacity with the increased number of users.
Also, my GMail account still says I only have 73 invites left. If it's open, why don't they drop the limited number of invites?
I don't bother munging my gmail address...The spam filtering works pretty well.
How about $10 for mikemol@gmail.com?
Just because everything supports it doesn't make it "where it's at." Unless by "Where it's at" you mean "lowest common denominator".
I'm not even certain that iPods play MP3s. When I set up iTunes on my roommate's computer, it converted her music collection to an internal format. (AAC, I believe.)
As for other portable music players that don't support MP3s, how about the Walkman or Discman? Or my PDA, for that matter; 3rd-party software (Real) is required for me to listen to my music on my Palm.
I wouldn't want to work on Windows...Microsoft's quality control sucks balls. Linux developers enjoy working with a decent product and a decently-written codebase.
Exactly my point. You hate Microsoft. You may even be willing to do ANYTHING to get others to stop using it. Because, your mission to force people to use Linux is so much more moral than Microsoft's equivalent.
You're extrapolating a bit too far. I don't care if other people use Windows. You want to use it? Feel free. I'll fix your computer for you, if it breaks. For free, even.
Linux isn't for everyone, at least not yet. If I feel someone may be able to hold their own after a few weeks usage, I'll recommend they try a LiveCD. Otherwise, I'll let them continue running Windows. I might install some antivirus and antispyware tools for them.
Seriously, you should try trolling over there...you'll get a lot more bang for your buck
Trolling? So THAT'S what you call extinguishing hypocritical Linux FUD.
Nah. That's what I call posting messages intended to elicit an angered response. You've heard about the "silent majority" in politics? The same thing exists in the Linux community. Most Linux users don't really care if you use Linux or not.
.Does Windows not crash for you? Does it not run slow? Whenever I try doing things outside of the norm (or even "normal" things, if you're a gamer.), Windows gets unstable
Nope, and nope. Is that what this is about? Your pirated copy of Windows ME crashed once when you tried to use 64-bit drivers on it, and you lost your beastiality porn? And yes, I'm a gamer (and developer), and no, I'm not running on a pre-built or in any way 'average' PC.
I've never run a pirated copy of Windows in my life. I own licenses for Win3.11, Win95, WinME, Win2K and WinXP. I'm just not running any of those operating systems right now.
Congratulations on your uptime streak, and managing to secure your computer against bad video card drivers, network worms and email viruses.
Sure, there's things you can do to speed up Windows, but the fact remains it doesn't hold up well to advanced usage.
Sure, there's things you can do to increase the usability of Linux for the average user, but the fact remains it doesn't hold up well to the most basic of usage.
I like that line. :-)
While it's true that using the command-line requires one to learn new things, modern distributions like Ubuntu work pretty well.
You sound like you're on meth...
Avoiding the question I see. Nice move!
The question implied a logical fallacy.
A central, community-minded advocacy and software development organization?
Is that anything like the central development organization called Microsoft, and the community-minded advocacy group called the Windows developer community?
The Windows developer community is fine. I know a few people who develop exclusively on Windows; They're usually fine. I only know one or two advocates.
I wouldn't count Microsoft as community-minded, "developers!" chant aside. Perhaps it's a philosophical thing.
I don't hate them, but I don't respect them as a software development company.
Maybe you should read this [slashdot.org] and then get back to me when you've managed to remove your knee from the back of your throat.
How amusing that you point to a Slashdot post, of all places, for your desperate fact-finding mission which, even if true, is totally irrelevent to the discussion. Surely you've noticed the obvious bias Slashdot has? What are you waiting for, a negative karma moderation specifically for "Non-Anti-Microsoft Behaviour"? (At the moment, t
Oh! Sorry about that. I missed a portion when adding tags. I didn't intend to apply that text to you.