And yes, I do dive with a digital camera in an underwater housing. Canon Powershot S40. I want the Gameboy *too*.
Hey, that would be perfect for those long decompression stops necessitated by having spent the last three hours playing video games at four atmospheres ambient. Better bring an extra air tank...
According to Eugenia, 9.1rc3 is also the final version, as she points out in an update to her article. (She get no points for grammar on that one. I've seen the language butchered much more thoroughly, but she's supposed to be a professional.)
...because apparently point-oh releases scare people away.
Yeah, and often for good reason too. Many times there is great pressure to release.0 version as soon as possible. I guess that's because users see.0 releases as indicating a major upgrade for that program. Whether it is or not is not the point. Due to that pressure, things are often left incomplete or poorly implemented. Point releases often clear that up.
In my own case, I installed mdk9.0 because it includes KDE 3.something and several other important upgrades. But there are glaring (if unimportant) deficiencies with this release, least of which is the logout window. Sometimes it's the nice one with the dragon and options to restart/shutdown/logout, and sometimes it's just the crappy one with options to logout/cancel only. A nitpicking detail for sure, but it demonstrates my point. I also feel that 9.0 is not as stable as it could be, but that may be due to my incessent hacking at it. I tend to break things sometimes;)
As far as redhat goes, I'll try this one as always, but I suspect I'll be back with Mandrake.
Wow, should I be flattered or insulted that somebody copied my question word for word?
At any rate, I still wish the question had been asked. Although Nick delved deeply into the methods use for the study cited, he said nothing about wider statistics usage and methods. That is something I would have liked to hear from him, especially the point about the various websites devoted to these things.
You still need a Windows installation in order to copy the game data, but the good news is that the downloadable is only 4.4 MB.
Do you actually need to have windows installed, or can you just copy the files from some other installation, or maybe from the game CD? I no longer use unlicensed software, and I refuse to pay for Windows. That does limit my options somewhat.
During a recent hearing of the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property, the Republican congressman said jailing college students who download copyrighted music would help stop piracy.
Aye, it's those rowdy hooligans! Leave us be, matey. Aarrrr..
I wonder about the strength of this policy. Probably it varies from state to state. Companies can put almost anything they like in a public policy or agreement. That does not necessarily mean that they are protected by it.
There are two big reasons why this is so:
1) If I see an item advertised by a retailer at a certain price, I expect to pay that price. A disclaimer is not likely to catch my attention or change my mind if I do take notice. I suspect courts may feel the same way.
2) Companies must honor their advertised prices, otherwise there is nothing to stop a dishonest business from advertising whatever it wants so that customers will come to their store instead of another (more honest) competitor's. Once the customer is in the store, the chances of a sale is much better than they were before the customer entered (duh).
I wonder, does he have children? If not, would he relish the idea of them constantly being hit with sex ads?
Clearly he doesn't care. We're talking about a guy who violated his public oath as a peace officer to make money by selling drugs on the street. In my opinion, breaking that oath is a far worse crime than selling drugs because it illustrates a perfect lack of integrity that the simple act of selling illegal drugs does not. Someone who would sell out the citizens he has sworn to protect certainly would not care about how spam affects other people - just so long as he makes money off of it.
rant <<EOR;
I am amazed that officers are not imprisoned more often for this sort of behaviour. While breaking a public oath of office may not be a crime, selling illegal drugs certainly is. Ordinary citizens get serious jail time for that. Peace officers - apparently - just get fired, as though all that they had done was break their oath, for which they should be fired. What I want to know is: how did his superiors find enough evidence of wrongdoing that they can terminate him, yet not bring him up on criminal charges for the activities that led to his dismissal?
The system is backward. His crime, apparently, was willfully and maliciously engaging in conduct that materially breaches his oath as a police officer. That should be a very serious, jailable offense, not simply grounds for termination. We depend upon these people for our very lives - those who would take advantage of that for their own enrichment endanger all of us as surely as do those whom they are sworn to protect us from.
If you advertise something for sale at a given price, you must sell it at that price until you can change the erroneous add, sticker, sign, web page, what have you. Typos are no exception, it's your sign, you are responsible for what it says. The only exception is where a third party (eg: a newspaper) mistakely quotes a wrong price.
In this case, Amazon mistakenly listed iPods at a ridiculously low price - on their website. It's their mistake, their responsibility, and so they must honor that price for all customers who placed an order at that price. And that's everyone who managed to get an order in before they corrected the oversight.
What?? You mean slashdot doesn't carry the most topical world news? Next thing you'll tell me is that I shouldn't get my tech news from Better Homes and Gardens. What kind of geek are you?
What are the primary means of assessing Linux on the Desktop usage statistics, and how reliable are these methods? Also, what types of methods are used to offset each method's failings?
There are websites that track such statistics. In your opinion, how reliable are these sites in general?
Slashdot Mirror
No, this year the joke is that all the articles will be legitimate and topical on April 1.
Hey, that would be perfect for those long decompression stops necessitated by having spent the last three hours playing video games at four atmospheres ambient. Better bring an extra air tank...
According to Eugenia, 9.1rc3 is also the final version, as she points out in an update to her article. (She get no points for grammar on that one. I've seen the language butchered much more thoroughly, but she's supposed to be a professional.)
...because apparently point-oh releases scare people away.
.0 version as soon as possible. I guess that's because users see .0 releases as indicating a major upgrade for that program. Whether it is or not is not the point. Due to that pressure, things are often left incomplete or poorly implemented. Point releases often clear that up.
;)
Yeah, and often for good reason too. Many times there is great pressure to release
In my own case, I installed mdk9.0 because it includes KDE 3.something and several other important upgrades. But there are glaring (if unimportant) deficiencies with this release, least of which is the logout window. Sometimes it's the nice one with the dragon and options to restart/shutdown/logout, and sometimes it's just the crappy one with options to logout/cancel only. A nitpicking detail for sure, but it demonstrates my point. I also feel that 9.0 is not as stable as it could be, but that may be due to my incessent hacking at it. I tend to break things sometimes
As far as redhat goes, I'll try this one as always, but I suspect I'll be back with Mandrake.
Yeah, but Who's on second. What's on first.
Design engineer 2 ? Dunno. It just doesn't sound right.
OK, how about Design Engineer 2.0?
Proper capitalization, minor number... much better don't you think?
Wow, should I be flattered or insulted that somebody copied my question word for word?
At any rate, I still wish the question had been asked. Although Nick delved deeply into the methods use for the study cited, he said nothing about wider statistics usage and methods. That is something I would have liked to hear from him, especially the point about the various websites devoted to these things.
oops 12 hours.
Moral of this story: never post until your caffeine/sugar level has been adjusted. Next time I'll finish my coffee first. I promise.
Hey, man, they went 25 hours without a story. They had to do something.
I was going to watch it, but the download was taking too long.
Wha?? Oh, you... don't like speed racer... ooohhh, when I get my... if I catch... you, u, ugh, ... I'm gonna... mmph.. err...
Aw, forget it... fucking troll.
No, man, it's O.K. You can go back to sleep now. We'll let you know when Duke Nukem Forever is released.
33.
*sigh*
You still need a Windows installation in order to copy the game data, but the good news is that the downloadable is only 4.4 MB.
Do you actually need to have windows installed, or can you just copy the files from some other installation, or maybe from the game CD? I no longer use unlicensed software, and I refuse to pay for Windows. That does limit my options somewhat.
Dunno. How about -1 Flamebait?
TED, On Phone: "Uh, Dude? Why is there a Radio Shack monster truck banging into my wastebasket with a post-it-note that says 'Impotent' on it?
It's just frustrated by it's impotency, try to be sensitive about it.
During a recent hearing of the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property, the Republican congressman said jailing college students who download copyrighted music would help stop piracy.
Aye, it's those rowdy hooligans! Leave us be, matey. Aarrrr..
-Long John
Can you see a country blocking microsoft?
There's always hope.
oops...
;)
iPaqs, not iPods
I wonder about the strength of this policy. Probably it varies from state to state. Companies can put almost anything they like in a public policy or agreement. That does not necessarily mean that they are protected by it.
There are two big reasons why this is so:
1) If I see an item advertised by a retailer at a certain price, I expect to pay that price. A disclaimer is not likely to catch my attention or change my mind if I do take notice. I suspect courts may feel the same way.
2) Companies must honor their advertised prices, otherwise there is nothing to stop a dishonest business from advertising whatever it wants so that customers will come to their store instead of another (more honest) competitor's. Once the customer is in the store, the chances of a sale is much better than they were before the customer entered (duh).
I wonder, does he have children? If not, would he relish the idea of them constantly being hit with sex ads?
Clearly he doesn't care. We're talking about a guy who violated his public oath as a peace officer to make money by selling drugs on the street. In my opinion, breaking that oath is a far worse crime than selling drugs because it illustrates a perfect lack of integrity that the simple act of selling illegal drugs does not. Someone who would sell out the citizens he has sworn to protect certainly would not care about how spam affects other people - just so long as he makes money off of it.
rant <<EOR;
I am amazed that officers are not imprisoned more often for this sort of behaviour. While breaking a public oath of office may not be a crime, selling illegal drugs certainly is. Ordinary citizens get serious jail time for that. Peace officers - apparently - just get fired, as though all that they had done was break their oath, for which they should be fired. What I want to know is: how did his superiors find enough evidence of wrongdoing that they can terminate him, yet not bring him up on criminal charges for the activities that led to his dismissal?
The system is backward. His crime, apparently, was willfully and maliciously engaging in conduct that materially breaches his oath as a police officer. That should be a very serious, jailable offense, not simply grounds for termination. We depend upon these people for our very lives - those who would take advantage of that for their own enrichment endanger all of us as surely as do those whom they are sworn to protect us from.
EOR
(IANAL, Applies to US law....)
If you advertise something for sale at a given price, you must sell it at that price until you can change the erroneous add, sticker, sign, web page, what have you. Typos are no exception, it's your sign, you are responsible for what it says. The only exception is where a third party (eg: a newspaper) mistakely quotes a wrong price.
In this case, Amazon mistakenly listed iPods at a ridiculously low price - on their website. It's their mistake, their responsibility, and so they must honor that price for all customers who placed an order at that price. And that's everyone who managed to get an order in before they corrected the oversight.
What?? You mean slashdot doesn't carry the most topical world news? Next thing you'll tell me is that I shouldn't get my tech news from Better Homes and Gardens. What kind of geek are you?
Girlfriend need a cat-sitter? Don't do it. She'll only blame you when it dies a month later.
Yeah, well.... she shoulda seen it coming. I've always hated that cat of hers.
I mean, really.
What are the primary means of assessing Linux on the Desktop usage statistics, and how reliable are these methods? Also, what types of methods are used to offset each method's failings?
There are websites that track such statistics. In your opinion, how reliable are these sites in general?