I've upgraded the OS while running production, with only one reboot required. I also moved the (production) OS install to another hard drive, also while running production - with only one reboot (the community on the misc mailing list was a great help).
This is why a cashier is unable to figure the change for $20 when the total is $17.23 - if the machine is not calculating the change for her. Way to go, America!
One can learn all the useful things by oneself, without attending university.
The university degree is just a proof that one has gone through the rigid system of an university and proved that he/she can learn, generate knowledge and is very likely to do the same in a job. Basically, if you survived/graduated univeristy, you are more likely to survive a real-life hard job. That all the degree means.
Where I come from there is a saying: In school one does not learn what's in a book, but one learns where to open the book.
#6 does not apply to Windows and Linux equally: Windows Update is not updating Adobe for you every time a patch is released. You need to have a program running to check for updates and each program tends to have its own little utility sitting in the tray area and using resources.
Both my grandfathers fought the Russians and the Germans. Also, they might have shot a few shells on American planes, too. Could you please remove these, too?
2) I read in a 1990 issue of "Science et Vie" that Russia developed a radar station capable of detecting the stealth planes: one (or more) square kilometers covered with radar antennas (100-150 meters between any two) that would work as a fly's eye. Any tiny bit of noise that is reported to have the same position and/or velocity by a certain number of antennas is reported a flying object, even though it would not pass the treshold for a traditional radar.
Maybe, for you, it is perfectly reasonable that the whole world should read and speak English.
But guess what? The two best mathematical schools in the world do not have English as first language. They don't even use the Roman alphabet, actually. How would be the American scientists able to understand and use the mathematics produced by world's best mathematicians if there wasn't for the standard classic mathematical notations?
Mathematics is an exact science. It is supposed to be very formal and have a rigorous syntax.
I was amazed that otherwise bright north-american university students (majoring in computerscience and math) were unable to create a simple (half a page) calculus demonstration without using WORDS. They came from highschool with no knowledge of basic mathematical symbols like "exists", "whatever", "it results that", "non". Greek alphabet was, well, greek for them - they were assigning random names to greek letters (omicron was epsilon, epsilon was tau etc).
With Mandriva, all the hardware on my Linux unfriendly HP tablet (Broadcomm wireless included) worked from the very beginning - that is during the setup process. This made me switch the tablet to Mandriva.
High schools is not a trade school. There are other countries were children go to highschool or to a trade school. When they graduate from the trade school, they get a diploma and are qualified in that trade.
Graduating the highschool is not a requirement for those who want to work the land, be janitors etc. Also, failing will teach them that you get things in life not just because other get it, too, but because you work for it. And life is not fair and not all the people cand do/learn/achieve the same things at the same level. Some kids just cannot learn enough for passing. Afterall, why would I strive to learn a lot be first in school, when - years after graduation - all others will see is a highschool diploma, just like the village idiot has?
Let's not forget the drivers. They were dumb enough to not know that puting the transmission in N(eutral) would disconnect the engine from the wheels and stop the car. Add this to the fact that Toyota has surpassed and humiliated all the American car manufacturers and the American media doesn't like a competitor that can thrive where all American manufacturers fail. Also, add the tendency of stupid people to blame anybody but themselves to the American legal system and what do you get? Let's all blame Toyota! BTW, Toyota was not the only manufacturer to be acused of sudden acceleration, but it has the biggest market share.
if, say, port 80 traffic were completely unfettered in a bi-directional manner and incomming connections were allowed without a previously established outgoing connection, chances are quite high that would be abused
Any port can be abused. According to you, all incoming connection should be forbidden, right? What about direct connections for online gaming, for audio/video chats or for peer-to-peer file transfers?
Afterall, I can write a command and control protocol that uses - take your pick - ICMP, UDP, SNMP. Commands can also be requested/sent via http requests, STMP, DNS requests/replies, finger, gopher, ftp. Then what? Block the whole Internet?
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America was already inhabited, so it wasn't colonized - it was invaded.
The intention (proven!) to commit a crime should be punished the same as the actual crime. Actually, in some jurisdictions it is.
I've upgraded the OS while running production, with only one reboot required. I also moved the (production) OS install to another hard drive, also while running production - with only one reboot (the community on the misc mailing list was a great help).
This is why a cashier is unable to figure the change for $20 when the total is $17.23 - if the machine is not calculating the change for her. Way to go, America!
One can learn all the useful things by oneself, without attending university. The university degree is just a proof that one has gone through the rigid system of an university and proved that he/she can learn, generate knowledge and is very likely to do the same in a job. Basically, if you survived/graduated univeristy, you are more likely to survive a real-life hard job. That all the degree means. Where I come from there is a saying: In school one does not learn what's in a book, but one learns where to open the book.
1/9 = 0.(1) From here on, all your computation is wrong.
#6 does not apply to Windows and Linux equally: Windows Update is not updating Adobe for you every time a patch is released. You need to have a program running to check for updates and each program tends to have its own little utility sitting in the tray area and using resources.
The map is missing a continent! (Antarctica)
Yeah, right. Wait till it happens to you :D
What about those that have VoIP for landline? Is it right to remove their ability to call 911 because their computer was infected?
Both my grandfathers fought the Russians and the Germans. Also, they might have shot a few shells on American planes, too. Could you please remove these, too?
Sort of like the Mafia vs Castro, right?
Right, Castro seems to be the good guy here.
He certainly felt (and was) insulted, but he was too polite to show it :-)
Mandriva is able to use Broadcom wireless chipsets from the very beginning: during the installation process.
In Mandriva they do.
2) I read in a 1990 issue of "Science et Vie" that Russia developed a radar station capable of detecting the stealth planes: one (or more) square kilometers covered with radar antennas (100-150 meters between any two) that would work as a fly's eye. Any tiny bit of noise that is reported to have the same position and/or velocity by a certain number of antennas is reported a flying object, even though it would not pass the treshold for a traditional radar.
Maybe, for you, it is perfectly reasonable that the whole world should read and speak English.
But guess what? The two best mathematical schools in the world do not have English as first language. They don't even use the Roman alphabet, actually. How would be the American scientists able to understand and use the mathematics produced by world's best mathematicians if there wasn't for the standard classic mathematical notations?
Mathematics is an exact science. It is supposed to be very formal and have a rigorous syntax. I was amazed that otherwise bright north-american university students (majoring in computerscience and math) were unable to create a simple (half a page) calculus demonstration without using WORDS. They came from highschool with no knowledge of basic mathematical symbols like "exists", "whatever", "it results that", "non". Greek alphabet was, well, greek for them - they were assigning random names to greek letters (omicron was epsilon, epsilon was tau etc).
A metal wheel has better grip and is easier to free than a rubber wheel.
The 3 HP laptops I bought broke a total of 5 times during warranty - in the first year.
With Mandriva, all the hardware on my Linux unfriendly HP tablet (Broadcomm wireless included) worked from the very beginning - that is during the setup process. This made me switch the tablet to Mandriva.
High schools is not a trade school. There are other countries were children go to highschool or to a trade school. When they graduate from the trade school, they get a diploma and are qualified in that trade.
Graduating the highschool is not a requirement for those who want to work the land, be janitors etc. Also, failing will teach them that you get things in life not just because other get it, too, but because you work for it. And life is not fair and not all the people cand do/learn/achieve the same things at the same level. Some kids just cannot learn enough for passing. Afterall, why would I strive to learn a lot be first in school, when - years after graduation - all others will see is a highschool diploma, just like the village idiot has?
Let's not forget the drivers. They were dumb enough to not know that puting the transmission in N(eutral) would disconnect the engine from the wheels and stop the car. Add this to the fact that Toyota has surpassed and humiliated all the American car manufacturers and the American media doesn't like a competitor that can thrive where all American manufacturers fail. Also, add the tendency of stupid people to blame anybody but themselves to the American legal system and what do you get? Let's all blame Toyota! BTW, Toyota was not the only manufacturer to be acused of sudden acceleration, but it has the biggest market share.
if, say, port 80 traffic were completely unfettered in a bi-directional manner and incomming connections were allowed without a previously established outgoing connection, chances are quite high that would be abused
Any port can be abused. According to you, all incoming connection should be forbidden, right? What about direct connections for online gaming, for audio/video chats or for peer-to-peer file transfers?
Afterall, I can write a command and control protocol that uses - take your pick - ICMP, UDP, SNMP. Commands can also be requested/sent via http requests, STMP, DNS requests/replies, finger, gopher, ftp. Then what? Block the whole Internet?