No. That is the best way to guage "Operating Systems Used to Access Google." There is a difference. I doubt that many of the thousands of Windows 3.1 installations out there have been used to access google lately. Many people never upgrade their OS. They might buy a new computer instead. That old computer does not vanish. In fact, many computers are still running today performing the particular task that they were purchased for. For example, I have seen computers running very old operating systems yet still handling payroll, receiving faxes, storing doctor's appointments, or making ID cards.
I've never visited google using my old Perfoma 6200. That doesn't mean that it is not still in existance.
Who knows how many old computers running whatever OS they came with are still quietly chugging away on someone's desk, but not visiting Google. Those machines may be on networks that have nodees infected with worms. If the worm does not target them, they won't be infected.
I'm not trying to say thet there are definately more Win 9x and Win 3.1 computers than Win NT computers out there. What I am saying is that, lacking real evidence, it is foolish to assume that the oposite is true. What happened to all of those old computers?
You have been misinformed. iTunes Music Store sells AAC music. This is a standard, open format used in mpeg4. The files from the store come in a DRM wrapper that prevents you from directly sharing the file with more than three people although you can just burn them to cd. If you want to get at the underlying data, use google. There simple short programs for doing so.
The point is that the files themselves don't move easily. Any audio player that uses quicktime can get to the audio data in the file if the computer on which the application runs is authorized to play those files. That application can do whatever it wants with the audio. There are some applications that have been written expressly for this purpose. I believe that these is a short (~15 lines) implementation in Java. I used it to be able to listen to my music at work before iTunes for Windows came out. The people who recommend burning to cd and re-ripping are the same kind of people who would suggest using a camcorder pointed at a TV to record a broadcast as opposed to simply connecting the cables and hitting record.
The more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry.
Don't fall for this! I now can't do all of my laundry, because I have no place to store my last dozen t-shirts. They are sitting on a chair right now. I started buying more clothes without looking at the volume of my dirty laundry. Now where do I store this stuff? Anyone want a t-shirt?
What software do you use to play those recordings? iTunes was a music player before the store came out with the same name. iTunes (the player) is the best music organization system I've ever used. I use it to listen to my legal Grateful Dead concert recordings. If you want to find recordings, use google. There are tons of sites that have live recordings for download -- often with the artists' permission.
Linus did correct Darl. Darl said that the GPL goes against the constitution by invalidating the profit motive that (he says) is so important to copyright. Linus corrected Darl's interpretation of profit motive by citing U.S. law.
NOTE: I'm using the general "you" here. I'm not talking about you personally.
I think that for software development jobs, experience should be very easy to get. I wrote (simple) shareware in elementary school. Today, anyone can try to contribute to OSS projects. If you find a project that is respected in your particular field and manage to make significant contributions to that project, that experience will be respected.
The point is that if you can't find a job in your industry that matches your level of experience, work somewhere else and make your own experience. Software development isn't like working in construction -- you don't need large tracts of land or heavy machinery, you have all of the resources you need in your computer.
People who lie on resumes amuse me. What do they do when they get the job and then can't perform their tasks? My old roommate did that for a job fair. He tried to lie to Microsoft and IBM about his java experience (zero). They were actually asking technical questions at the fair so he was sol. If someone needs to lie about their experience to get a job, why don't they just go get that experience?
I saw what was probably my first BSOD under Windows XP recently. My neighbor's box would begin to show the loading sequence for windows then BSOD complaining about an illegal instruction in the process1 loader or something like that. It turned out that it was a toasted hd, but still, XP does BSOD.
We had a computer with AOL (the BBS) and we used it to do research in 8th grade. I got in trouble for sending myself an e-mail about some research I was doing at the library computer with a text-based (lynx) connection to the web. Today's kids are more prepared to do online research than I was. I think that discounting the research possibilities that the web presents to kids is missing a big benefits of computers in the classroom.
To read is not a fair use; it's an unregulated use.
I wonder if that juicy line can be used to derail the entire "circumvention device" concept. If you need glasses to read really small print, do they become a "circumvention device?" NO! So if I need some special software or hardware to "read" the data on a CD or DVD, how can the DMCA stop me?
The DMCA argues that breaking encryption, etc. makes illegal in-memory copies of the data. To which I reply, "what about the reflection in my glasses? Someone could read that with a telescope and I'd be accused of contributing to copyright infringement!" No lawyer would prosecute someone for that!
It makes no sense to regulate what someone can do with something they owned on the grounds that it is copyrighted. Hell, I should be able to make a collage out of it as long as I don't copy and resell it.
I've been pulling contract jobs away from companies in India and some guy in Brazil because none of them were able to communicate effectively with one of my clients. The nice part is that I not only get more work, but my client is planning on sticking with U.S. workers from now on. The Indians cost him many thousands of dollars when they blew a deadline and he came to me for emergency service on his web app. They blew the deadline because they didn't understand some of the text in the manual for the software they were configuring. The guy in Brazil was clueless about why adhering to internet standards is important and he was failing to get the content to the end users in a format that they could use. I'm Brazilian my self (it hurts not to use an "s") but I'd rather not export U.S. jobs there, particularly if this guy is going to be making Brazilian tech workers look bad.
If you can't compete on the up front costs, compete with your computer and communication skills. If that doesn't work, remind them that your taxes pay for the U.S. to run and your spending improves the U.S. economy, while offshoring improves the economy elsewhere.
I used to use Enlightenment. I liked it. I like Linux and use it a lot (mostly via the cli). However, the ability for applications to work well together wasn't there when I used Enlightenment (late 90s, IIRC). Even today, I don't see Linux users copying and pasting graphics, video clips, or even formatted text between applications written by different vendors.
What's the point of being able to drag icons between desktops when it doesn't do anything except in a few specific apps? I've never seen two mac apps that support graphics that don't support copy and paste of ANY format graphic data. I can paste bitmaps from photoshop into the folder icon to create custom icons. I've selected text in Write Now!, and pasted it into Microsoft Word and it maintained format. All of this integration is between applications that don't start with the same letter (i.e. g or k).
It's nice that multiple desktops and icon bars allow dragging of icons, but what about other data? Can I drag a selection from the Gimp onto the window some other graphics app in another desktop and have it work? I've yet to see it, but those features may be available today. I only use Linux via X at work an they are using an old version of RedHat.
That's fine when working with separate applications. What if I want to drag a graphic from a website into an e-mail? What if I want to summarize an article from a website in an editor? Having everything of completely separate desktops slows me down unless there is zero application integration. Yesterday I grabbed a file from the Finder, dragged it into the corner of the screen that activates Expose on my Mac, and then dragged it into an e-mail that I was working on. By using Expose I was able to quickly attach a file to my e-mail w/out the hassle of overlapping windows or separate desktops.
I disagree. My PowerBook G4 is a real desktop replacement. The hard drive isn't as fast as the one on my desktop, but the screen is nicer (or will be after they fix the white spots), it has a DVD burner, FW 800 & 400, USB 2.0 (the real one), 802.11g, and s-video and DVI output. It's faster than my desktop, has more ram and a larger hard drive.
It's also light, not to big (I have the 15" screen), and the battery lasts long enough to watch two DVDs on a charge. It has delayed my G5 purchase by at least 8 months. I almost never use my desktop anymore except via ssh to get at my old apps and files.
downloading ten thousand songs for free without paying the artist is copyright infringement and is just civil disobedience
Civil disobedience requires that the person committing it be prepared to pay the consequences. The idea behind civil disobedience is that many people being punished under a law that they consider unjust will send a message to the world. Hiding from the law and complaining uselessly about enforcement is not part of the package. Then again, when Thoreau wrote about it, our civil liberties were not quite as restricted as they are today and a protest from within a jail house would actually be heard.
Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men, generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil. It makes it worse. Why is it not more apt to anticipate and provide for reform? Why does it not cherish its wise minority? Why does it cry and resist before it is hurt? Why does it not encourage its citizens to put out its faults, and do better than it would have them? Why does it always crucify Christ and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?
... Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
There are three shows that I watch on TV: The Family Guy, The Simpsons, and Futurama. Is there an "Adult Swim Only" cable package? Hell, that's the only time I'm ever near a TV anyway.
Isn't it terrible that all that money will go to paying local programmers rather than the Redmond Marketing Machine? How sad it is that Brazilians will now be encouraged to join their own growing national software development and consulting industry.
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That's one of the best ways to gauge marketshare
No. That is the best way to guage "Operating Systems Used to Access Google." There is a difference. I doubt that many of the thousands of Windows 3.1 installations out there have been used to access google lately. Many people never upgrade their OS. They might buy a new computer instead. That old computer does not vanish. In fact, many computers are still running today performing the particular task that they were purchased for. For example, I have seen computers running very old operating systems yet still handling payroll, receiving faxes, storing doctor's appointments, or making ID cards.
I've never visited google using my old Perfoma 6200. That doesn't mean that it is not still in existance.
Who knows how many old computers running whatever OS they came with are still quietly chugging away on someone's desk, but not visiting Google. Those machines may be on networks that have nodees infected with worms. If the worm does not target them, they won't be infected.
I'm not trying to say thet there are definately more Win 9x and Win 3.1 computers than Win NT computers out there. What I am saying is that, lacking real evidence, it is foolish to assume that the oposite is true. What happened to all of those old computers?
There's so many more computers running than 2000/XP than 9x, why bother writing any kind of worm that targets 9x?
Is that true? Can you prove it?
For years after Windows 95 came out, there were more Windows 3.1 systems than there were Windows 95 systems. Why is this?
It's probably for the same reason that there are more dead people than live people.
Don't blame us for their leaders inability to show compassion for his people
Yeah! We should blame the people who put Sadam in power! Oh, wait. That's us again.
You have been misinformed. iTunes Music Store sells AAC music. This is a standard, open format used in mpeg4. The files from the store come in a DRM wrapper that prevents you from directly sharing the file with more than three people although you can just burn them to cd. If you want to get at the underlying data, use google. There simple short programs for doing so.
The point is that the files themselves don't move easily. Any audio player that uses quicktime can get to the audio data in the file if the computer on which the application runs is authorized to play those files. That application can do whatever it wants with the audio. There are some applications that have been written expressly for this purpose. I believe that these is a short (~15 lines) implementation in Java. I used it to be able to listen to my music at work before iTunes for Windows came out. The people who recommend burning to cd and re-ripping are the same kind of people who would suggest using a camcorder pointed at a TV to record a broadcast as opposed to simply connecting the cables and hitting record.
The more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry.
Don't fall for this! I now can't do all of my laundry, because I have no place to store my last dozen t-shirts. They are sitting on a chair right now. I started buying more clothes without looking at the volume of my dirty laundry. Now where do I store this stuff? Anyone want a t-shirt?
What software do you use to play those recordings? iTunes was a music player before the store came out with the same name. iTunes (the player) is the best music organization system I've ever used. I use it to listen to my legal Grateful Dead concert recordings. If you want to find recordings, use google. There are tons of sites that have live recordings for download -- often with the artists' permission.
Linus did correct Darl. Darl said that the GPL goes against the constitution by invalidating the profit motive that (he says) is so important to copyright. Linus corrected Darl's interpretation of profit motive by citing U.S. law.
NOTE: I'm using the general "you" here. I'm not talking about you personally.
I think that for software development jobs, experience should be very easy to get. I wrote (simple) shareware in elementary school. Today, anyone can try to contribute to OSS projects. If you find a project that is respected in your particular field and manage to make significant contributions to that project, that experience will be respected.
The point is that if you can't find a job in your industry that matches your level of experience, work somewhere else and make your own experience. Software development isn't like working in construction -- you don't need large tracts of land or heavy machinery, you have all of the resources you need in your computer.
People who lie on resumes amuse me. What do they do when they get the job and then can't perform their tasks? My old roommate did that for a job fair. He tried to lie to Microsoft and IBM about his java experience (zero). They were actually asking technical questions at the fair so he was sol. If someone needs to lie about their experience to get a job, why don't they just go get that experience?
Gore was talking about his work getting key funding bills passed that had an impact on the growth of the internet. That's it.
I saw what was probably my first BSOD under Windows XP recently. My neighbor's box would begin to show the loading sequence for windows then BSOD complaining about an illegal instruction in the process1 loader or something like that. It turned out that it was a toasted hd, but still, XP does BSOD.
We had a computer with AOL (the BBS) and we used it to do research in 8th grade. I got in trouble for sending myself an e-mail about some research I was doing at the library computer with a text-based (lynx) connection to the web. Today's kids are more prepared to do online research than I was. I think that discounting the research possibilities that the web presents to kids is missing a big benefits of computers in the classroom.
To read is not a fair use; it's an unregulated use.
I wonder if that juicy line can be used to derail the entire "circumvention device" concept. If you need glasses to read really small print, do they become a "circumvention device?" NO! So if I need some special software or hardware to "read" the data on a CD or DVD, how can the DMCA stop me?
The DMCA argues that breaking encryption, etc. makes illegal in-memory copies of the data. To which I reply, "what about the reflection in my glasses? Someone could read that with a telescope and I'd be accused of contributing to copyright infringement!" No lawyer would prosecute someone for that!
It makes no sense to regulate what someone can do with something they owned on the grounds that it is copyrighted. Hell, I should be able to make a collage out of it as long as I don't copy and resell it.
You forgot the "under oath" part. Purgery is an impeachable offense
There is no such thing as Perjury in a Grand Jury. Since you cannot take protection under the 5th amendment, you cannot be prosecuted for lying.
I've been pulling contract jobs away from companies in India and some guy in Brazil because none of them were able to communicate effectively with one of my clients. The nice part is that I not only get more work, but my client is planning on sticking with U.S. workers from now on. The Indians cost him many thousands of dollars when they blew a deadline and he came to me for emergency service on his web app. They blew the deadline because they didn't understand some of the text in the manual for the software they were configuring. The guy in Brazil was clueless about why adhering to internet standards is important and he was failing to get the content to the end users in a format that they could use. I'm Brazilian my self (it hurts not to use an "s") but I'd rather not export U.S. jobs there, particularly if this guy is going to be making Brazilian tech workers look bad.
If you can't compete on the up front costs, compete with your computer and communication skills. If that doesn't work, remind them that your taxes pay for the U.S. to run and your spending improves the U.S. economy, while offshoring improves the economy elsewhere.
I used to use Enlightenment. I liked it. I like Linux and use it a lot (mostly via the cli). However, the ability for applications to work well together wasn't there when I used Enlightenment (late 90s, IIRC). Even today, I don't see Linux users copying and pasting graphics, video clips, or even formatted text between applications written by different vendors.
What's the point of being able to drag icons between desktops when it doesn't do anything except in a few specific apps? I've never seen two mac apps that support graphics that don't support copy and paste of ANY format graphic data. I can paste bitmaps from photoshop into the folder icon to create custom icons. I've selected text in Write Now!, and pasted it into Microsoft Word and it maintained format. All of this integration is between applications that don't start with the same letter (i.e. g or k).
It's nice that multiple desktops and icon bars allow dragging of icons, but what about other data? Can I drag a selection from the Gimp onto the window some other graphics app in another desktop and have it work? I've yet to see it, but those features may be available today. I only use Linux via X at work an they are using an old version of RedHat.
That's fine when working with separate applications. What if I want to drag a graphic from a website into an e-mail? What if I want to summarize an article from a website in an editor? Having everything of completely separate desktops slows me down unless there is zero application integration. Yesterday I grabbed a file from the Finder, dragged it into the corner of the screen that activates Expose on my Mac, and then dragged it into an e-mail that I was working on. By using Expose I was able to quickly attach a file to my e-mail w/out the hassle of overlapping windows or separate desktops.
I disagree. My PowerBook G4 is a real desktop replacement. The hard drive isn't as fast as the one on my desktop, but the screen is nicer (or will be after they fix the white spots), it has a DVD burner, FW 800 & 400, USB 2.0 (the real one), 802.11g, and s-video and DVI output. It's faster than my desktop, has more ram and a larger hard drive.
It's also light, not to big (I have the 15" screen), and the battery lasts long enough to watch two DVDs on a charge. It has delayed my G5 purchase by at least 8 months. I almost never use my desktop anymore except via ssh to get at my old apps and files.
Remember, Liberalism is when A gets together with B to decide how much money C should give to D. YOU'RE C !
The Republicans do it this way:
A gets together with B to decide how much money C should give to A and B. NOBODY'S C ! That's how we build a deficit!
Oh, and look up liberal. You might want to say Democrat instead.
Civil disobedience requires that the person committing it be prepared to pay the consequences. The idea behind civil disobedience is that many people being punished under a law that they consider unjust will send a message to the world. Hiding from the law and complaining uselessly about enforcement is not part of the package. Then again, when Thoreau wrote about it, our civil liberties were not quite as restricted as they are today and a protest from within a jail house would actually be heard.
I have no idea how to actually record panther speech straight to a file.
Use the "say" command.
There are three shows that I watch on TV: The Family Guy, The Simpsons, and Futurama. Is there an "Adult Swim Only" cable package? Hell, that's the only time I'm ever near a TV anyway.
You can use expose or command-tab to switch apps even if one is running in full screen mode.
Saying "Coke is not Pepsi" doesn't mean that Coke doesn't compete with Pepsi.
Isn't it terrible that all that money will go to paying local programmers rather than the Redmond Marketing Machine? How sad it is that Brazilians will now be encouraged to join their own growing national software development and consulting industry.