THat way, when you graduate - you won't be prepared for the workforce, where most companies do use microsoft.
Bullshit. In most companies, most staff type text into MS Word. No different from typing text into any other word processor. I've used at least 20 in my time, including ten different versions of MS Word (Word Mac 4, 5, 6, 98; Word DOS 5, 6, Word Win 2, 95, 97, 2k). And Linux Office apps slavishly copy MS's interface, you can hardly tell the difference.
Except that the legal system aren't the ones making the laws that 'protect' Hollywood, it's the legislative system
How many legislators and lobbyists are lawyers by profession? Almost all of them. If a problem affects lawyers, they've got the connections to get attention better than any other group.
This guy says "Wikis dominating the internet as dense and highly-searchable information repositories". Bollocks. I have a few dozen forums in my bookmarks, on all kinds of subject areas I vist when I need to. NONE of them have Wikis. Most have collections of articles, some better organised than others, that usually began as posts.
He also never seems ot have heard of Usenet, and the FAQs that are the ancestors of the Wiki idea. Most FAQs have permamnent homes on web pages now, as opposed to periodic postings, but most are still maintained by a single enthusiast. Anyone who wants to could load these up into Wikipedia, but so far few have.
If you want to see updated TOS CGI, see Star Wreck, a really silly Finnish fan movie that sets Captain "Pirk" against Babylon 5. The whole thing was done in bluescreen, except for some scenes in a fast food shop.... but really, the CGI ships are cool.
TFA says "Since finishing her thesis last year, the 34-year-old has had a daughter and is turning her thesis into an academic text." So it probably will be published.
Star Wars is fantasy, the Force, etc; but Trek presents itself as science fiction. The most annoying thing about recent Trek for me is the blatant nonsense presented as science. For instance, chemistry: a meteor is radioactive, instead of being uranium or another real element that would have worked plotwise, it's some made-up substance "beresium". On another episode, there are "deuterium miners" on a desert planet. There are radioactive space storms that travel FTL. There are... innumerable plot devices made up by writers who barely remember science learnt in primary school. I know in SF you're allowed to bend real science, but Trek writers use fake science not because they need to to advance the plot, but because they're ignorant.
Why do I watch it? Optimism; perhaps nostalgia. Not mental stimulation.
The real problem is whether these things NEED 10,000 words written about them.
How is this a "real problem"? It's not like the authors would be curing cancer if they didn't write 10,000 words on Klingon slang; or if they are preventing anyone else from publishing more worthy work.
I've heard of "Measure of a Man" used in an ai class or something similar....The episode was essentially about what constitutes life.)
Not knocking this; but this theme goes back to the very first SF story, Frankenstein (1818). And more recently, Isaac Asimov's robot stories in the 1940s and 50s. Trek is fun, but not highly original in its storylines.
NOTE that Netscape Communications Corp. has claimed that false transmissions of `Mozilla' as the User-Agent are a copyright infringement, which will be prosecuted. DO NOT misrepresent Wget as Mozilla.
That's total bullshit. You can't copyright a single word. (Trademark is another thing; but many browsers say "Mozilla compatible" and that can't be illegal as there is no attempt to say that it actually IS Mozilla.)
.... I'd wager most OSX users would be far more adept at spotting a trojan/other virus than most Windows users.
Most of the Mac users I know use them exactly because they don't know, or want to know, what happens under the hood. Of course, there are Mac geeks, but proportionally few.
Stupid idea. But no one is saying that. Try RTFA. (Yes, the Slashdot summary says "the troubles an African-language Wikipedia faces"... but that does not imply there is ONLY one African wikipedia, and TFA mentions that 38 already exist.)
All in all I'm all for finding a cheaper way to get the material I need.
I used to borrow a textbook and spend an hour at the photocopier. Copy it double sided for best effect; if the type is large reduce it. Then visited an office that had a binding machine and I had my personalised edition.
If it comes in PDF files that are ad supported, I'm all for that.
As long as they're not locked down with DRM. Some otherwise useful texts have even selecting text disabled, so you can't copy and paste notes. That was the time to try Elcomsoft's AEBPR (that got Sklyarov arrested).
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That's the dumbest thing about this. The kid is going to hog one of the few lavatories on the airplane so he can sit and jam out on his iPod? He couldn't just leave it for a few minutes, if his visit was intended for a shorter duration?
Obviously not. He just had it clipped to his belt. If he'd been listening to it, he would have noticed when it went down the tube and yanked his earbuds out.
Newspaper editors also get to paraphrase newswire articles (much the same as doing a writeup for a blog) when the article itself is deemed to long and boring; but they can also edit down (or fluff up) AP pieces. The latter is not an option for blogs, since they don't have a license to distribute altered content - the newspaper have licenses from the newswires to cut up pieces.
(Most) blogs don't have any right to distribute any content at all. They may be able to summarise, under "fair use". Actually, if they "fluffed up" a story with their own additions it would be more legitimate than a straight copy.
How do you prevent making one large botnet powered by a bunch of third-world children turning hand cranks?
If you'd read any of the stories about the OLPC you'd know the crank was dropped from the design months ago. People keep using that image to stigmatise it. Your "third world" qualification only adds to that odour.
But to your actual point: I hardly think the laptops will be a threat to you in your first world home. Internet connectivity between the third and first worlds is poor and likely to remain so. Even if your imagined botnet materialised their attacks would trickle out and be easily blocked. And why would anyone bother when there are tens of millions of wide-open Windows PCs on fat pipes in rich countries?
and dissappears menu items.
It also wrecks the grammar in your internet posts.
Granted, he misspelled "disappeared", but it's quite legitimate to use it as a verb, though usually in the sense of "Pinochet disappeared the protesters". Sometimes Word does seem rather dictatorial in the way it insists you do things .
Sure, no problem. I understand how hard it is to have no long term memory. Here's a book. Here's a news article.
Yes, funny how I can't remember something that never happened. Funny that there are NO FIGURES in your citation, just an anecdote, one single case basically. Maybe you should have mentioned Baghdad. Everyone has a gun, and look how safe everyone is there.
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Of course it was linked to the water. They have the responsibility to make sure the ingredinets they're using are safe.
And I could care less if they can't sell their expensive sugar water drinks. They're hardly good for health, most especially of children.
Bullshit. In most companies, most staff type text into MS Word. No different from typing text into any other word processor. I've used at least 20 in my time, including ten different versions of MS Word (Word Mac 4, 5, 6, 98; Word DOS 5, 6, Word Win 2, 95, 97, 2k). And Linux Office apps slavishly copy MS's interface, you can hardly tell the difference.
Even non-communist states set policies for the software they buy. They're not stopping businesses from doing so.
How many legislators and lobbyists are lawyers by profession? Almost all of them. If a problem affects lawyers, they've got the connections to get attention better than any other group.
He also never seems ot have heard of Usenet, and the FAQs that are the ancestors of the Wiki idea. Most FAQs have permamnent homes on web pages now, as opposed to periodic postings, but most are still maintained by a single enthusiast. Anyone who wants to could load these up into Wikipedia, but so far few have.
Yes, but I would be amused a lot more if it was a bit smarter.
If you want to see updated TOS CGI, see Star Wreck, a really silly Finnish fan movie that sets Captain "Pirk" against Babylon 5. The whole thing was done in bluescreen, except for some scenes in a fast food shop.... but really, the CGI ships are cool.
TFA says "Since finishing her thesis last year, the 34-year-old has had a daughter and is turning her thesis into an academic text." So it probably will be published.
Star Wars is fantasy, the Force, etc; but Trek presents itself as science fiction. The most annoying thing about recent Trek for me is the blatant nonsense presented as science. For instance, chemistry: a meteor is radioactive, instead of being uranium or another real element that would have worked plotwise, it's some made-up substance "beresium". On another episode, there are "deuterium miners" on a desert planet. There are radioactive space storms that travel FTL. There are... innumerable plot devices made up by writers who barely remember science learnt in primary school. I know in SF you're allowed to bend real science, but Trek writers use fake science not because they need to to advance the plot, but because they're ignorant.
Why do I watch it? Optimism; perhaps nostalgia. Not mental stimulation.
How is this a "real problem"? It's not like the authors would be curing cancer if they didn't write 10,000 words on Klingon slang; or if they are preventing anyone else from publishing more worthy work.
Not knocking this; but this theme goes back to the very first SF story, Frankenstein (1818). And more recently, Isaac Asimov's robot stories in the 1940s and 50s. Trek is fun, but not highly original in its storylines.
That's total bullshit. You can't copyright a single word. (Trademark is another thing; but many browsers say "Mozilla compatible" and that can't be illegal as there is no attempt to say that it actually IS Mozilla.)
Most of the Mac users I know use them exactly because they don't know, or want to know, what happens under the hood. Of course, there are Mac geeks, but proportionally few.
Stupid idea. But no one is saying that. Try RTFA. (Yes, the Slashdot summary says "the troubles an African-language Wikipedia faces" ... but that does not imply there is ONLY one African wikipedia, and TFA mentions that 38 already exist.)
I used to borrow a textbook and spend an hour at the photocopier. Copy it double sided for best effect; if the type is large reduce it. Then visited an office that had a binding machine and I had my personalised edition.
If it comes in PDF files that are ad supported, I'm all for that.
As long as they're not locked down with DRM. Some otherwise useful texts have even selecting text disabled, so you can't copy and paste notes. That was the time to try Elcomsoft's AEBPR (that got Sklyarov arrested).
Obviously not. He just had it clipped to his belt. If he'd been listening to it, he would have noticed when it went down the tube and yanked his earbuds out.
Well, they're only paying "up to" $1000/month for 250 stories. Reporters don't get much, but that's pretty pathetic.
(Most) blogs don't have any right to distribute any content at all. They may be able to summarise, under "fair use". Actually, if they "fluffed up" a story with their own additions it would be more legitimate than a straight copy.
There are millions of Macs running OSX (aka BSD Unix). Why hasn't anyone released this ridicualously easy bot to take them over?
BFs (BeOS).
If you'd read any of the stories about the OLPC you'd know the crank was dropped from the design months ago. People keep using that image to stigmatise it. Your "third world" qualification only adds to that odour.
But to your actual point: I hardly think the laptops will be a threat to you in your first world home. Internet connectivity between the third and first worlds is poor and likely to remain so. Even if your imagined botnet materialised their attacks would trickle out and be easily blocked. And why would anyone bother when there are tens of millions of wide-open Windows PCs on fat pipes in rich countries?
It also wrecks the grammar in your internet posts.
Granted, he misspelled "disappeared", but it's quite legitimate to use it as a verb, though usually in the sense of "Pinochet disappeared the protesters". Sometimes Word does seem rather dictatorial in the way it insists you do things .
Yes, funny how I can't remember something that never happened. Funny that there are NO FIGURES in your citation, just an anecdote, one single case basically. Maybe you should have mentioned Baghdad. Everyone has a gun, and look how safe everyone is there.
Citation? A real one, not some gun nut blog.