pkzip is 50k. "install" is just copy one file (or two with pkunzip)
2) Over HTTP, port 80, accessible from any webbrowser. FTP is way too often blocked (or even just unconfigured) at firewall/router.
You're using the system for a legit purpose, demand they unblock it.
Sorry, I don't have the patience to think of more "user-friendly" methods. Shrug and tell them to RTFM.
If users spend 2 minutes to learn how to use this simple software they'll be fine.
It wasn't an 'editorial". It was "submitted by the author to take part in our contest"; i.e a random, unnamed person. It sounds like it was written by a student, perhaps at high school from the way he talks about assignments and school libraries. Nevertheless, we have hundreds of posts reminiscing about floppies and thumb drives, as happens every time they run a story about how Dell or someone wants to eliminate the floppy.
As I pointed out in my other post, what if the parents AND the children are employed
Basically, it means that the salaries being paid to the adults are too low to support their families. Which is immoral in my opinion. Perhaps you're a social Darwinist and think children labouring in coalmines and destroying their health while not getting an education is just a stage their country has to go through. I'm sorry, the desire of CEOs to be rich beyond any rational need is not good enough a reason to exploit children.
Agreed, they work terrible hours, get no rights, and get paid very little - but if they didn't do the work, they would not get paid AT ALL.
No, but their parents might. But adults are harder to push around, so if they can hire children, and pay them half an adult's wage to do 2/3 of an adult's work, they will.
China is really trying (largely succefully) to seperate its Internet from the rest of the World; secondly, it may be possible to use technology to circumvent restrictions, but that makes them no less onoreous
Three spelling mistakes in one sentence? Sadly, not unusual.
While civil liberties are an important facet of China's development, its fast degrading eco-structure is a more telling and scary indicator.
They're related, Chinese who've been poisoned by industrial waste are persecuted by local governments if they protest; newspapers which cover these stories are shut down or have their editors fired.
Companies are there to make money not for moral or social values. I'm not saying that's a good thing but that's how the system works. If there is money to be made in China, they will play by their rules to get it.
IBM Germany was happy to make punch card systems to help the Nazis run their concentration camps. Companies are run by human beings. Decisions are made by human beings. We can blame the human beings who make immoral choices. Nuremberg established the principle that "I was just followong orders" does not absolve you of personal responsibility. Even less does it mean they cannot be criticised.
FedEx... UPS handles the warehousing and shipping operations for several companies; I'm sure they are up to the task as well.
Maybe. But it would be a huge spike and they'd probably need to get extra staff, pay overtime, for something there is no need for such a panic. More importantly, physical distribution of books is what distributors do; their costs are already paid basically -- their trucks are making deliveries on, say, a weekly basis regardless -- so anything extra for a one-off HP launch is lost profits. Also, many book stores are using HP as loss leaders, selling at a discount from day 1 to bring people into the store.
Personally, I'll wait six months or a year and get it from the library. I'm a couple of volumes behind anyway now.
You may want to check your own law. A work is not considered published until it has been published in some form. That it has been printed with the intent to publish is not sufficient.
The text you apparently refer to is :
"Publication" is the distribution of copies or phonorecords of a work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending. The offering to distribute copies or phonorecords to a group of persons for purposes of further distribution, public performance, or public display, constitutes publication.
It seems to me, as a layman, that a book shop putting a book on display and accepting money for it fulfills the conditions of the first sentence. Further, the 2nd sentence was fulfilled when the publishers delivered books to the distributors, let alone retailers.
You may also want to read Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. v. The Nation Enters for a ruling by the Supreme court where the Nation obtained a printed copy of Ford's memoairs before release, much like this case.
That was about a magazine PUBLISHING an excerpt that they had obtained surreptitously. That has no bearing on the part of this story that is so shocking, that they can apparently prevent a purchaser of the book in good faith from discussing it.
the stores enter into a voluntary agreement (if they do not agree the books arent shipped until after the release date) that they recieve it early
That's all fine. But what the fuck has it to do with demanding that customers who purchased a book from said stores return them? Nothing; unless they're shrink-wrapping EULAs on books now.
So if we really want to be honest about the count-down,
In some parliaments, (eg, Australia, UK) sometimes a piece of legislation is absolutely required to be passed on a certain date. But when midnight approaces debate is still continuing, so then an official will ceremonially physically stop the clock in the hall until the motion has passed, and it is recorded as passing at the time on the clock.
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they just want to see some escapist entertainment. We are in a time where many people are very uncertain about the future. I don't what to sound like Jon Katz here but events like 9/11 have really affected people deeply.
Get a grip, only 3000 people died on Sept 11. Forty million or so in WWII, upwards of 5 million in Vietnam; not to consider the deadly ever-present threat of nuclear war for most of 1950-1990 at least. As for economic uncertainty; try the Great Depression for size. All those periods produced thoughtful as well as escapist entertainment.
However, considering it _has_ been out since 1998, I'm not entirely sure why it's suddenly such a big shock and outrage that it doesn't support anything other than windows.
They don't have the excuse that it's a new app that takes time to be ported; it shows they have no intention of even trying.
I'm pretty sure most people using alternative OSes have access to a windows box at work/uni/friends house. Why make the government waste more money then they already do?
Because it sets a precedent and eventually when submitting your tax electronically is mandatory; applying for school placings, unemployed payments, etc, etc, you will have to be running Windows or spend a day standing in a queue to get the paperwork.
He said "great" not "so bad it hurts AND involving elementary school children".
Many actually involve HIGH school children. One precis at random:
The Maid's Story
Have you ever wanted to realize your dreams of having a job where you live in a mansion and train and sexually assault three young maids? The Maid's Story helps you realize this plausible fantasy. You play a jobless college graduate who is offered a job out of the blue training three maids with the help of an attractive personal secretary. Training includes cooking, cleaning, laundry, and about 50 sex acts among various other tasks. When one of the maids seems reluctant you're more than willing to ask her "how about a roaring fist?"
In Heinlein's Starman Jones (1953) Jones is a youth who takes his uncle's astrogation tables and tries to join the Astrogation Guild. But he's rejected and eventually gets work as a crewman. The rest I crib from here
In the end, Max saves the day when the crazy assistant astrogator destroys the navigation books before dying himself. Max's memory and astrogation skills allow him to take the ship back through a difficult reverse Jump and save everyone. (Now exactly how Max saves the day is ludicrous. Computers are used to navigate the ship, but they're more like giant pocket calculators than anything else and need operators. Furthermore, they can't produce human-readable output, but require translation, so part of the astrogator's tools are books of transformation tables, like binary-decimal conversion tables. Max's perfect memory allows him to navigate once the mad astrogator has destroyed the ship's copies. Well, RAH may have been a great writer, but once again we see that he was a lousy prophet!)
In the 60s when I first read it it was a bit unlikely, now it's a real period piece. In many of Heinlein's space novels of the 40s and 50s slide rules are mentioned, notably "Slipstick Libby" who turned up in several stories, like Methuselah's Children, inventing an FTL drive. Heinlein did catch up with computing later, as with Mike in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
I work with students at a University who have trouble using a machine because the My Computer icon has been moved from its usual location. I had to explain to someone how to type the capital letters in her password.
You've just demonstrated that some people ALREADY have problems with using Windows; yet paradoxically use this as an argument against even trying anything else. No interface is instinctive, users have to invest some time to use them effectively. At a university this should not be a burden. Presumably you're doing some support job. Surely the amount of work saved cleaning up viruses, zombies and such would be greater than that spent in explaining which icon to click on on a Linux desktop?
But it is likely they will encounter Windows in their everyday experiences. If they only know how to use *NIX with X windows manager / desktop environment, will they be able to competently work with a Start menu? Sure, the differences aren't necessarily too prononced, but any hesitation or lack of experience may be considered by a future employer
Who can avoid learning how to "competently work with the Start Menu" in this world of pervasive Windows? My six year old daughter can just by watching me. What you're advocating is people who only know one way to do anything. Will learning how to play badminton mean you will be incompetent at tennis? Will learning the backstroke mean you will be handicapped at breaststroke? Will learning German mean you can't learn French.... etc ad absurdum.
The one and only "IT skill" that a school can teach that won't go out of date before they graduate is touch typing. If they need to learn a specific package for their jobs they can get the latest "MS Whatever for complete retards in 24 hours" and do it themselves.
FTPing in browser didn't allow you to upload but in Netscape, last time i checked
Amazing. You could use one of the dozens of free, user-friendly FTP apps then. When I got my first ISP account it came with a floppy with Eudora, Netscape and WS-FTP. Are university students really so stupid they can't work this out? If so, let them save their files on a stone tablet.
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pkzip is 50k. "install" is just copy one file (or two with pkunzip)
2) Over HTTP, port 80, accessible from any webbrowser. FTP is way too often blocked (or even just unconfigured) at firewall/router.
You're using the system for a legit purpose, demand they unblock it.
Sorry, I don't have the patience to think of more "user-friendly" methods. Shrug and tell them to RTFM. If users spend 2 minutes to learn how to use this simple software they'll be fine.
Actually, they used the term "Definitive".
These are in fact dead. Printers use almost exclusively USB now
You'll pry my HP Laserjet 4 from my cold dead hands...
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It wasn't an 'editorial". It was "submitted by the author to take part in our contest"; i.e a random, unnamed person. It sounds like it was written by a student, perhaps at high school from the way he talks about assignments and school libraries. Nevertheless, we have hundreds of posts reminiscing about floppies and thumb drives, as happens every time they run a story about how Dell or someone wants to eliminate the floppy.
Basically, it means that the salaries being paid to the adults are too low to support their families. Which is immoral in my opinion. Perhaps you're a social Darwinist and think children labouring in coalmines and destroying their health while not getting an education is just a stage their country has to go through. I'm sorry, the desire of CEOs to be rich beyond any rational need is not good enough a reason to exploit children.
No, but their parents might. But adults are harder to push around, so if they can hire children, and pay them half an adult's wage to do 2/3 of an adult's work, they will.
You'd think so. I do. But they are now extraditing an Australian in the Drink or Die warez group.
Three spelling mistakes in one sentence? Sadly, not unusual.
They're related, Chinese who've been poisoned by industrial waste are persecuted by local governments if they protest; newspapers which cover these stories are shut down or have their editors fired.
IBM Germany was happy to make punch card systems to help the Nazis run their concentration camps. Companies are run by human beings. Decisions are made by human beings. We can blame the human beings who make immoral choices. Nuremberg established the principle that "I was just followong orders" does not absolve you of personal responsibility. Even less does it mean they cannot be criticised.
Maybe. But it would be a huge spike and they'd probably need to get extra staff, pay overtime, for something there is no need for such a panic. More importantly, physical distribution of books is what distributors do; their costs are already paid basically -- their trucks are making deliveries on, say, a weekly basis regardless -- so anything extra for a one-off HP launch is lost profits. Also, many book stores are using HP as loss leaders, selling at a discount from day 1 to bring people into the store.
Personally, I'll wait six months or a year and get it from the library. I'm a couple of volumes behind anyway now.
The text you apparently refer to is :
It seems to me, as a layman, that a book shop putting a book on display and accepting money for it fulfills the conditions of the first sentence. Further, the 2nd sentence was fulfilled when the publishers delivered books to the distributors, let alone retailers.You may also want to read Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. v. The Nation Enters for a ruling by the Supreme court where the Nation obtained a printed copy of Ford's memoairs before release, much like this case.
That was about a magazine PUBLISHING an excerpt that they had obtained surreptitously. That has no bearing on the part of this story that is so shocking, that they can apparently prevent a purchaser of the book in good faith from discussing it.
Not for millions of books to thousands of locations on the same day. (Just think of it as a paper version of the Slashdot effect.)
That's all fine. But what the fuck has it to do with demanding that customers who purchased a book from said stores return them? Nothing; unless they're shrink-wrapping EULAs on books now.
In some parliaments, (eg, Australia, UK) sometimes a piece of legislation is absolutely required to be passed on a certain date. But when midnight approaces debate is still continuing, so then an official will ceremonially physically stop the clock in the hall until the motion has passed, and it is recorded as passing at the time on the clock.
Get a grip, only 3000 people died on Sept 11. Forty million or so in WWII, upwards of 5 million in Vietnam; not to consider the deadly ever-present threat of nuclear war for most of 1950-1990 at least. As for economic uncertainty; try the Great Depression for size. All those periods produced thoughtful as well as escapist entertainment.
They don't have the excuse that it's a new app that takes time to be ported; it shows they have no intention of even trying.
Because it sets a precedent and eventually when submitting your tax electronically is mandatory; applying for school placings, unemployed payments, etc, etc, you will have to be running Windows or spend a day standing in a queue to get the paperwork.
Many actually involve HIGH school children. One precis at random:
The Japanese make lots, some translated to English. See Hentai Game Reviews.
You've just demonstrated that some people ALREADY have problems with using Windows; yet paradoxically use this as an argument against even trying anything else. No interface is instinctive, users have to invest some time to use them effectively. At a university this should not be a burden. Presumably you're doing some support job. Surely the amount of work saved cleaning up viruses, zombies and such would be greater than that spent in explaining which icon to click on on a Linux desktop?
Who can avoid learning how to "competently work with the Start Menu" in this world of pervasive Windows? My six year old daughter can just by watching me. What you're advocating is people who only know one way to do anything. Will learning how to play badminton mean you will be incompetent at tennis? Will learning the backstroke mean you will be handicapped at breaststroke? Will learning German mean you can't learn French.... etc ad absurdum.
The one and only "IT skill" that a school can teach that won't go out of date before they graduate is touch typing. If they need to learn a specific package for their jobs they can get the latest "MS Whatever for complete retards in 24 hours" and do it themselves.
Amazing. You could use one of the dozens of free, user-friendly FTP apps then. When I got my first ISP account it came with a floppy with Eudora, Netscape and WS-FTP. Are university students really so stupid they can't work this out? If so, let them save their files on a stone tablet.