I'd be more interested in seeing a study in which half the group tried it on GNU/Linux,KDE first then on Windows, and the other half, vice versa. I've never heard from someone who has never used either operating system having new experiences with both of them.
I wonder, did they consider experience with Windows 9x as _no_ experience with Windows XP?
Since we all know this is really about SPAM. . .
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Just add an element to the SMTP protocol. If the message is so riddled with gramatical mistakes that Strong Bad wouldn't know where to start, drop it. That would take care of every piece of spam (and email from people I wouldn't mind hearing from when they're sober) I've ever gotten.
I have an easy answer to eliminate spam. Delete them. Don't buy from them. Don't click on any links in them. Beat it into your friends and relatives to do likewise. If there is no money in it, it will stop.
Websites should read like books. The content should get most of the space, with a bit on the top of the page for the title and chapter, a bit on the bottom for location (page number), and a bit on the side for navigation (ala tabs in a book). The front page (cover) should be easy to get to and give the basic information. The back cover should also be easy to get to, and give information such as publisher and contact information. Images not adding to content should be scarce.
Hmm. A scene depicting love. That probably would add to character development. I was very impressed with the original Matrix for the lack of sex. I talked to a friend today who told me of the sex scene that bordered on pornographic, complete with porno music. I will not be seeing the movie until it shows on TV with that scene deleted. The MPAA's and RIAA's lack of moral sense bothers me far more than their fair use and consumer rights abuses.
I'm not proposing lots of links and symlinks and scripts, but a file system that is a multi-dimentional array instead of a tree, and you could see different stuff depending on which way you looked at it.
Also, in the/usr/someprogram/ I see init scripts, default user dot-files (why on earth don't we just have a $HOME/etc/ ?), and a file to be processed by update-env (Is that just a gentoo thing?). Maybe a seperated out/tmp/ could also be used.
rm -rf/usr/someprogram would completely delete the program, no having to go into/usr/bin/,/usr/share/,/etc/,/var/log/, et cetera individually.
Your $PATH would only need to be/bin/all/, your $LDPATH would only need to be/lib/all/
The same form could be followed for 'info', 'man', 'sbin', 'lock', 'include', et cetera. You could have programs in/opt/ and/local/ as well as/usr/, and/bin/,/lib/, . . . would also pull out of those.
Its the dual-purpose F density curve, proposed by on of my professors: In any give class, The first exam(s) will have the most Fs, the middle will have the least, and the final will approach the first, leading to something resembling an inverted bell curve, biased to the low end. It is also a plot of frequency of the F word versus intelligence.
I plan to continue living like a poor college student after college until I am completely out of debt. If you owe money, you pay it back. Most people graduate, get a job in the 30-50 USD/year range, and think "Wow! I'm rich! Now I can go buy that new japanese sports car wannabe and put a three foot spoiler on it, a brand new $4000 computer, a $5000 stereo, and live in a $1000/mo apartment by myself." Congratulations, now you're 30, you still have 15,000 in student loans, and you have 10,000 in credit card debt at 18%APR. Pay off your debt first.
Does the ink actually last 4 and a half years? After that point, is the print quality noticable worse? If so, it could be that the companies are trying to limit bad prints coming out of thier printers and hurting thier image just because some people print one page per year.
Just so I don't get flamed, I will add that it should be legal to hack the stuff to get it to work anyways.
What happens when the timing belt goes on your reciprocating piston engine falls into one of two scenarios. If you have a "non-interference" engine, the valves stop moving in proper relation to the piston, your air, fuel, and exhaust just goes wherever it can, and the engine stops. You probably only need a new belt and to get the timing reset. If you have an "interference" engine, the valves will run into the piston. This can have catestrophic affects. Such as valves getting pushed right up through the head, and possibly even right through the hood. Then you're lucky if you only need new pistons, new valves, and a new head. But you're probably not lucky.
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You have to show the scores to a moderator. The problem, I believe, is that people don't take the current score into consideration. Lets take a post that starts at +1. Its a good post. It is something that many people were already thinking, but would be insightful to a few. It deserves to be +2. If the next moderator sees the post, and also things that it should be +2, but doesn't take into account that it is already +2, you get a +3. And it goes to +5. Thats why if you plot the number of posts at +1,+2,+3,+4, and +5 it is an inverse bell curve; not an inverse, as it should be.
Legacy stuff gets killed, and its a shame. Gone are the days of cases made of.060 thick steel that you could throw down stairs. Keyboards that you could pound on for years without breaking them. And who doesn't miss seeing "Insert disk 2 of 17" when installing software?
Okay, I'm actually going to talk about the article:
In the 3. Someone will fork it. section:
"If the boxed price is low enough, the fork is unlikely to clone the proprietary features."
This is not at all true. Geeks will clone something for the sole reason of that it is not Open Source. Even if their version is identical to the proprietary one. The proprietary version will then be labeled as "evil". Project would fork to GNUProject, nothing would ever get actively contributed to MS Project, and it would likely deviate to the point of incompatibility (of the programs and extensions, not the file formats). Microsoft would essentially be giving their product away free, not becoming involved in the Open Source community and development.
Does anyone have examples pertaining to this line of thinking?
It would be like a bank being held liable for criminals stashing money from the drug trade in it.
It would be more like the bank being held liable for criminals stashing drugs in deposit boxes and handing out copies of the keys. Is the bank liable for this?
They also block incoming port 25 on resnet, presumably so we can't run open relays. Of course, I'd rather they block 25 out, and make us use their SMTP server to send out. (Or would this not fix the problem?) At any rate, I can't run my own mail server. And to make matters worse, RIT doesn't have SSL on their IMAP servers.
The article seems to imply that this will not apply to phone companies, airline companies, and banks. It has been my experience that THESE THREE MAKE ALL THE CALLS!!!!
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I'd be more interested in seeing a study in which half the group tried it on GNU/Linux,KDE first then on Windows, and the other half, vice versa. I've never heard from someone who has never used either operating system having new experiences with both of them.
I wonder, did they consider experience with Windows 9x as _no_ experience with Windows XP?
Just add an element to the SMTP protocol. If the message is so riddled with gramatical mistakes that Strong Bad wouldn't know where to start, drop it. That would take care of every piece of spam (and email from people I wouldn't mind hearing from when they're sober) I've ever gotten.
This is hpcalc.org, a fan site, not hp.com. 10 to 1 says its a hoax.
Could it be that everyone already has the music they want, and the RIAA isn't putting out anything new worth getting? It had to happen eventually.
I have an easy answer to eliminate spam. Delete them. Don't buy from them. Don't click on any links in them. Beat it into your friends and relatives to do likewise. If there is no money in it, it will stop.
Unless the plane doesn't have passengers. The next attack will be with a FedEx plane or something.
Even if Microsoft had the power to veto top stories, they wouldn't. Remember, there is no such thing as bad publicity.
Also, someone who rants constantly about something will be taken less seriously than someone who points out a few key facts once in a while.
Websites should read like books. The content should get most of the space, with a bit on the top of the page for the title and chapter, a bit on the bottom for location (page number), and a bit on the side for navigation (ala tabs in a book). The front page (cover) should be easy to get to and give the basic information. The back cover should also be easy to get to, and give information such as publisher and contact information. Images not adding to content should be scarce.
Hmm. A scene depicting love. That probably would add to character development. I was very impressed with the original Matrix for the lack of sex. I talked to a friend today who told me of the sex scene that bordered on pornographic, complete with porno music. I will not be seeing the movie until it shows on TV with that scene deleted. The MPAA's and RIAA's lack of moral sense bothers me far more than their fair use and consumer rights abuses.
You all are just mad that you didn't think of it (and patent it) first.
Why is John Lithgow on the $20 bill?
I'm not proposing lots of links and symlinks and scripts, but a file system that is a multi-dimentional array instead of a tree, and you could see different stuff depending on which way you looked at it.
/usr/someprogram/ I see init scripts, default user dot-files (why on earth don't we just have a $HOME/etc/ ?), and a file to be processed by update-env (Is that just a gentoo thing?). Maybe a seperated out /tmp/ could also be used.
Also, in the
Would it be possible to have some sort of combination of file system and organization such that:
/usr/someprogram/bin/ /usr/someprogram/lib/ /usr/someprogram/log/ /usr/someprogram/etc/ /usr/someprogram/share/ /bin/*/* (== /usr/*/bin/*) /lib/*/* (== /usr/*/lib/*)
/usr/someprogram would completely delete the program, no having to go into /usr/bin/, /usr/share/, /etc/, /var/log/, et cetera individually.
/bin/all/, your $LDPATH would only need to be /lib/all/
/opt/ and /local/ as well as /usr/, and /bin/, /lib/, . . . would also pull out of those.
/bin/someprogram/ ==
/lib/someprogram/ ==
/log/someprogram/ ==
/etc/someprogram/ ==
/share/someprogram/ ==
/bin/all/ ==
/lib/all/ ==
rm -rf
Your $PATH would only need to be
The same form could be followed for 'info', 'man', 'sbin', 'lock', 'include', et cetera. You could have programs in
Just me foaming at the brain.
Its the dual-purpose F density curve, proposed by on of my professors:
In any give class, The first exam(s) will have the most Fs, the middle will have the least, and the final will approach the first, leading to something resembling an inverted bell curve, biased to the low end. It is also a plot of frequency of the F word versus intelligence.
I plan to continue living like a poor college student after college until I am completely out of debt. If you owe money, you pay it back. Most people graduate, get a job in the 30-50 USD/year range, and think "Wow! I'm rich! Now I can go buy that new japanese sports car wannabe and put a three foot spoiler on it, a brand new $4000 computer, a $5000 stereo, and live in a $1000/mo apartment by myself." Congratulations, now you're 30, you still have 15,000 in student loans, and you have 10,000 in credit card debt at 18%APR. Pay off your debt first.
Then they print stuff anyway. And it looks bad. Somebody asks them what kind of printer they have. . .
Does the ink actually last 4 and a half years? After that point, is the print quality noticable worse? If so, it could be that the companies are trying to limit bad prints coming out of thier printers and hurting thier image just because some people print one page per year.
Just so I don't get flamed, I will add that it should be legal to hack the stuff to get it to work anyways.
What happens when the timing belt goes on your reciprocating piston engine falls into one of two scenarios. If you have a "non-interference" engine, the valves stop moving in proper relation to the piston, your air, fuel, and exhaust just goes wherever it can, and the engine stops. You probably only need a new belt and to get the timing reset. If you have an "interference" engine, the valves will run into the piston. This can have catestrophic affects. Such as valves getting pushed right up through the head, and possibly even right through the hood. Then you're lucky if you only need new pistons, new valves, and a new head. But you're probably not lucky.
You have to show the scores to a moderator. The problem, I believe, is that people don't take the current score into consideration. Lets take a post that starts at +1. Its a good post. It is something that many people were already thinking, but would be insightful to a few. It deserves to be +2. If the next moderator sees the post, and also things that it should be +2, but doesn't take into account that it is already +2, you get a +3. And it goes to +5. Thats why if you plot the number of posts at +1,+2,+3,+4, and +5 it is an inverse bell curve; not an inverse, as it should be.
Legacy stuff gets killed, and its a shame. .060 thick steel that you could throw down stairs. Keyboards that you could pound on for years without breaking them. And who doesn't miss seeing "Insert disk 2 of 17" when installing software?
Gone are the days of cases made of
Okay, I'm actually going to talk about the article:
In the 3. Someone will fork it. section:
"If the boxed price is low enough, the fork is unlikely to clone the proprietary features."
This is not at all true. Geeks will clone something for the sole reason of that it is not Open Source. Even if their version is identical to the proprietary one. The proprietary version will then be labeled as "evil". Project would fork to GNUProject, nothing would ever get actively contributed to MS Project, and it would likely deviate to the point of incompatibility (of the programs and extensions, not the file formats). Microsoft would essentially be giving their product away free, not becoming involved in the Open Source community and development.
Does anyone have examples pertaining to this line of thinking?
It would be like a bank being held liable for criminals stashing money from the drug trade in it.
It would be more like the bank being held liable for criminals stashing drugs in deposit boxes and handing out copies of the keys. Is the bank liable for this?
They also block incoming port 25 on resnet, presumably so we can't run open relays. Of course, I'd rather they block 25 out, and make us use their SMTP server to send out. (Or would this not fix the problem?) At any rate, I can't run my own mail server. And to make matters worse, RIT doesn't have SSL on their IMAP servers.
The article seems to imply that this will not apply to phone companies, airline companies, and banks. It has been my experience that THESE THREE MAKE ALL THE CALLS!!!!
linux guy: "You're operating system isn't secure by default!"
windows guy: "You're operating system isn't anything by default!"
I use Linux. My system wasn't anything by default. But by not being anything, it was secure.