In my opinion, it seems that the current generation of schools raising kids on Microsoft can reduce the quality of a computer education, and the school systems should take a look not only at costs, but whether they are providing the skills that people need to be the next generation of innovators and free thinkers.
In my mind, Microsoft's created a segment of computer users who depend on wizards to solve problems. This has led to people with computer educations that tells them how to do something as long as it the job has a fairly linear set of requirements. Front Page allows you to build web pages won't teach you HTML. Office wizards lets you write papers, but it won't teach you how to use your computer (or any other computer, or 95% of office's features), and too often there is confusion between "productivity (doing work)" and "education (knowing what it takes to do work)"
Wizards are nice, but are no substitute for teaching how to think out of the (wizard dialog) .
I've got system administrators at my company that can't figure out networking problems, system uptime problems, mail problems, etc, if there isn't a Windows wizard to fix it.
Most of the new features are quite nice in kmail, notably they've made the PGP integration probably one of the best that I've ever seen in a mail client. The body markings now show PGP-info formatting when kmail's in a secure style, and the key fingerprints show up in the pop up box.
Other look & feel differences - they took out the k-gear in the Fancy headers! I liked it, I wish I could have that put back in.
Also missing - the delete Trash messages older than X days. I liked that feature too. I haven't got around to learning the expired messages feature yet.
Also - the colors and font settings are a little TOO customizeable now, it takes a bit of time to set all the colors and the fonts because there are so many different places they can be configured.
The identity features are much improved over the 2.2.2 version, everything is laid out much more clearly.
All in all, it remains my favorite client, however I do miss some of the look & feel options of the old one.
As great of an idea that LMGRD sounds (a commercial license management program that requires a flatfile of software-enabling codes), there is always a machine somewhere that has it license expires at the most inopportune time, requiring an all-hell breaks loose call to the vendor to get new license files installed.
This happens at all the customer site's i've visted for one of my former employer's products, all of them dealing with one product. Imagine what kind of pandemonium that you would have with hundreds of time-bombed programs, expiring at different times of the year, running on a mission critical systems. I bet that would feel like trying to run a business on a box full of unregistered shareware
One of the terms of service for turning POP access on was that you subscribe to Yahoo Delivers. Thus turning it off, they are enacting an EXISTING rule, not adding a new one
Courtney Love pointed this out in a VERY interesting speech a while back, noting that recording companies slipped in this clause to hold a tight grip on their artists. Other recording artists I've spoken to say the very same thing.
" Over the years record companies have tried to put "work for hire" provisions in their contracts, and Mr. Glazier claims that the "work for hire" only "codified" a standard industry practice. But copyright laws didn't identify sound recordings as being eligible to be called "works for hire," so those contracts didn't mean anything."
Not long ago, Internet startups were burning up 8.6M VC money on chairs and pool tables. If they can pull off tidal electricity with 8.6M then I'd say that's money well spent.
I think that the film plays linus fairly close to his public personality (carefree about the implications of linux, doing it because he likes it), and it does show raymond, perens, and tienman as the evangelists.
But the most suprising portroyal is how Stallman comes out. It shows a much more ballanced view of the GNU philosophy without coloring it with all the other stuff that Stallman gets knocked around for. They do show some of the conflict coming out between Stallman and his view of Linux, especially the footage of the LinuxWorld 99 acceptance speech.
Movie is better than I expected, and I like the fact that there is so much story behind where Linux came from, although it does paint a fairly narrow view of where Linux is going. Majority of it comes from the linux-mania of 99, and a footnote regarding VA Linux's stock runup and down.
Have you determined that you need all that stuff to complete your project? It sure sounds like what I deal with everyday... someone walks in with a checklist of stuff, of which they only use 10% of the criteria. Most of the time, they would be far better off using something that does their high priority criteria exteremly well, instead of choosing something that does everything not so well.
The Mac IIsi, a 20mhz 68030 machine internally looked very similar to the Mac IIci 25 mhz machine. People got around to just soldering in a new socket to swap in a new clock chip.
I broke open my $1800 mac, trusting my non-existant soldering skills and did it, and a $20 upgrade for 25% extra performance was really something. I could almost run Marathon on it:>)
I sneer at the BIOS OCers, if it doesn't require solder then I don't want it:>)
Most of my things don't have to do with the board form factor but rather irks about cases that mount the board.
1) Improve the layout to facillitate air flow. Perhaps if there was a way to vent the cpu, vid card, and power supply and atmospher cool the rest, then perhaps it could be done with fewer fans.
2) Make front-mounted slots a standard so that adding front mounted devices such as the Creative EAX, USB and Firewire ports, headphone jack, could all be done without making custom modifications or using up an external drive bay.
3) Edge-mounted cabling? Nothing bugs me more than having to unplug all of my IDE drives to change ram.
4) How about let's all de-evolve into s-bus computers form factor, then scale by adding cpu-self contained boards (what was that, the compaq 386?) that plug in the bus.
5) screwless drive bays?
6) how about a 1U alternative designed for the home?. I'd think more home appliances things with WiFI could be made with a equipment rack-mounted system if it didn't take up so much room.
This device shown at CES promises to be a PVR (with 1394 support), Internet Gateway, DVD player, Sat/Cable box, MP3/CD jukebox AND a wireless multi-room transmission unit. It doesn't mention DRM but does state that DVD's won't play wirelessly.
If that's the only catch, I have no problem with it. It's a lot easier to buy an extra $99 dvd player than it is to wire coax/s-vid/RCA cables to the rest of my house.
The Audi hack as mentioned above deals with the engine managment for performance purposes. Even more interesting is the hacking work that's going on with OBD-II. I'm not an OBD-II expect, but basically it's a standard system for talking with car computers.
Hackers are using a "hack" to tap into the computer without implementing the full OBD-II functionality. To do this with a VW or a Audi, you need a cable that will conect your laptop to the connector, and you need software to do this. There was a former product called VW Tool (or was it VAG-COM, I forgot) which is no longer being made, that hackers have gotten a hold of, and they are using homemade cables to link them up. There are others too. Using this software, you can set the various parameters of your car.
Here are some of the things you can do with an Audi A4's computer with a VAG tool
http://www.audiworld.com/tech/elec13.shtml
If you want to buy a kit with cable and software, check these guys
http://www.ross-tech.com/
Other car hacking efforts include Toyota Prius hacking
There's usually a direct relationship between gaming addiction, level of responsibility (social, family or work), and the amount of non-medicinal controlled substances used.
I know you're working with Jim Carrey in an upcoming film, how did that come together and is it something you enjoy? I've always thought that his performance from "The Mask" borrowed heavily from Evil Ash, so I wondered what you thought.
The market would be far more fair if there were two monopolies Microsoft instead of one. Right now, there is no business model that can make money and beat Microsoft at the OS market share or displace Office. So Microsoft can go along and develop applications at loss leaders, integrate them into windows for market share, and continue to draw money by making Office upgrades
For instance, Microsoft didn't have a monopoly with Exchange, IE, NT or Office 5 years ago. But it did have a lock on the home user market. all of sudden, new applications appear in Windows, integration only really works when you use windows, so before you know it, all of these markets fall apart and become absorbed in the Microsoft monolith. If they had been an Internet -applications company, a business-productivity applications company and an OS company, I doubt that Microsoft would be the single ruler of all of those markets.
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In my mind, Microsoft's created a segment of computer users who depend on wizards to solve problems. This has led to people with computer educations that tells them how to do something as long as it the job has a fairly linear set of requirements. Front Page allows you to build web pages won't teach you HTML. Office wizards lets you write papers, but it won't teach you how to use your computer (or any other computer, or 95% of office's features), and too often there is confusion between "productivity (doing work)" and "education (knowing what it takes to do work)"
Wizards are nice, but are no substitute for teaching how to think out of the (wizard dialog) .
I've got system administrators at my company that can't figure out networking problems, system uptime problems, mail problems, etc, if there isn't a Windows wizard to fix it.
Most of the new features are quite nice in kmail, notably they've made the PGP integration probably one of the best that I've ever seen in a mail client. The body markings now show PGP-info formatting when kmail's in a secure style, and the key fingerprints show up in the pop up box.
Other look & feel differences - they took out the k-gear in the Fancy headers! I liked it, I wish I could have that put back in.
Also missing - the delete Trash messages older than X days. I liked that feature too. I haven't got around to learning the expired messages feature yet.
Also - the colors and font settings are a little TOO customizeable now, it takes a bit of time to set all the colors and the fonts because there are so many different places they can be configured.
The identity features are much improved over the 2.2.2 version, everything is laid out much more clearly.
All in all, it remains my favorite client, however I do miss some of the look & feel options of the old one.
when it was a VHS copy that was edited.
Before users could play DVDs on Mac and Windows, but not linux. Now perhaps there are CDs that don't play on Mac and Windows, but only Linux
This happens at all the customer site's i've visted for one of my former employer's products, all of them dealing with one product. Imagine what kind of pandemonium that you would have with hundreds of time-bombed programs, expiring at different times of the year, running on a mission critical systems. I bet that would feel like trying to run a business on a box full of unregistered shareware
One of the terms of service for turning POP access on was that you subscribe to Yahoo Delivers. Thus turning it off, they are enacting an EXISTING rule, not adding a new one
Courtney Does the Math
" Over the years record companies have tried to put "work for hire" provisions in their contracts, and Mr. Glazier claims that the "work for hire" only "codified" a standard industry practice. But copyright laws didn't identify sound recordings as being eligible to be called "works for hire," so those contracts didn't mean anything."
Not long ago, Internet startups were burning up 8.6M VC money on chairs and pool tables. If they can pull off tidal electricity with 8.6M then I'd say that's money well spent.
Seems like a nice board, albeit I would want a board that had a socketd CPU, not one that's soldered into the board.
But the most suprising portroyal is how Stallman comes out. It shows a much more ballanced view of the GNU philosophy without coloring it with all the other stuff that Stallman gets knocked around for. They do show some of the conflict coming out between Stallman and his view of Linux, especially the footage of the LinuxWorld 99 acceptance speech.
Movie is better than I expected, and I like the fact that there is so much story behind where Linux came from, although it does paint a fairly narrow view of where Linux is going. Majority of it comes from the linux-mania of 99, and a footnote regarding VA Linux's stock runup and down.
As I'm not a programmer, what can I grep to search stuff I've compiled from source to determine what's using staticly linked zlib?
Did anyone catch this - Microsoft may play hardball by threatening to pull its OS's off the market
Microsoft Outlines Next Move In AntiTrust Case
Have you determined that you need all that stuff to complete your project? It sure sounds like what I deal with everyday ... someone walks in with a checklist of stuff, of which they only use 10% of the criteria. Most of the time, they would be far better off using something that does their high priority criteria exteremly well, instead of choosing something that does everything not so well.
I broke open my $1800 mac, trusting my non-existant soldering skills and did it, and a $20 upgrade for 25% extra performance was really something. I could almost run Marathon on it :>)
I sneer at the BIOS OCers, if it doesn't require solder then I don't want it :>)
Read the story HERE
1) Improve the layout to facillitate air flow. Perhaps if there was a way to vent the cpu, vid card, and power supply and atmospher cool the rest, then perhaps it could be done with fewer fans.
2) Make front-mounted slots a standard so that adding front mounted devices such as the Creative EAX, USB and Firewire ports, headphone jack, could all be done without making custom modifications or using up an external drive bay.
3) Edge-mounted cabling? Nothing bugs me more than having to unplug all of my IDE drives to change ram.
4) How about let's all de-evolve into s-bus computers form factor, then scale by adding cpu-self contained boards (what was that, the compaq 386?) that plug in the bus.
5) screwless drive bays?
6) how about a 1U alternative designed for the home?. I'd think more home appliances things with WiFI could be made with a equipment rack-mounted system if it didn't take up so much room.
If that's the only catch, I have no problem with it. It's a lot easier to buy an extra $99 dvd player than it is to wire coax/s-vid/RCA cables to the rest of my house.
Moxi
Boba Fet(t)
I wonder what game (cough cough) that this woman is refering to? Computer Games Are Addictive
for supporting one of the top Windows applications, and especially allowing me to minimize without the evidence showing up on the task window.
Hackers are using a "hack" to tap into the computer without implementing the full OBD-II functionality. To do this with a VW or a Audi, you need a cable that will conect your laptop to the connector, and you need software to do this. There was a former product called VW Tool (or was it VAG-COM, I forgot) which is no longer being made, that hackers have gotten a hold of, and they are using homemade cables to link them up. There are others too. Using this software, you can set the various parameters of your car.
Here are some of the things you can do with an Audi A4's computer with a VAG tool
http://www.audiworld.com/tech/elec13.shtml If you want to buy a kit with cable and software, check these guys
http://www.ross-tech.com/
Other car hacking efforts include Toyota Prius hacking
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/autos/news/c09h ackcar.htm
There's usually a direct relationship between gaming addiction, level of responsibility (social, family or work), and the amount of non-medicinal controlled substances used.
that they named a Star Trek character after a Quake demo!
I know you're working with Jim Carrey in an upcoming film, how did that come together and is it something you enjoy? I've always thought that his performance from "The Mask" borrowed heavily from Evil Ash, so I wondered what you thought.
For instance, Microsoft didn't have a monopoly with Exchange, IE, NT or Office 5 years ago. But it did have a lock on the home user market. all of sudden, new applications appear in Windows, integration only really works when you use windows, so before you know it, all of these markets fall apart and become absorbed in the Microsoft monolith. If they had been an Internet -applications company, a business-productivity applications company and an OS company, I doubt that Microsoft would be the single ruler of all of those markets.