We have to enter a 16 character password each month that cannot compare in any digits to the previous twelve passwords.
You can't reuse any characters for 12 passwords? I'm having trouble believing that. If you have 26 alpha characters times two for case, plus 10 numeric characters, plus maybe another 25 special characters, you'd have 87 possible characters. If you used 16 character passwords and didn't reuse any characters you'd only be able to change it five times.
The reason it won't work on iPods is because Apple won't let it work on iPods. If they offered FairPlay up for licensing, I guarantee you Microsoft would be interested. But since Apple wants their store to be the only one truly compatible with their device, Microsoft has no choice.
I think what the parent meant was that DRM is causing the issue. You can put non-DRM'd MP3s on almost any device, including iPods. However, the fact that M$ DRM and Apple DRM and whatever else exists out there is completely incompatible is causing the problem.
The worst part is that this is not just a problem for us consumers. It's a real problem for content suppliers and device makers. I think DRM is a pretty stupid idea, myself, but if this is going to work for anyone in the long run they're going to need to suck it up and work together.
...both Evolution and ID are Theories, and therefore perfectly legitimate to be discussed
In scientific terms, evolution is a theory, ID is not. You should read up on how the scientific community works before making such statements.
...also, if you are so sure ID is incorrect, where is the fear coming from that it cannot even be mentioned and discussed by rational thinking people.
The issue is not what rational people discuss, but what is taught as science in a school.
I'm sorry but this is forcing religious belief on the students - the belief that those that believe in a creator are wrong is a religious belief.
Evolution does not say that there is no creator. Again, you should read up on this stuff.
Prove beyond a doubt that Evolution is the way we got here and we can all call if fact - until you can do that, Evolution requires every bit as much faith as ID.
Again, science doesn't work that way. We have an explanation of how something works. It's been proven right again and again. This isn't a "truth", just an explanation of facts. It takes no faith to understand the theory of evolution.
Jacob Dylan said it best - "Every man, woman, and child on the planet is a religious zealot. The only difference is what their religion is."
The The announcement was also heavy on the Java side, with both Red Hat and Novell pledging a 'reinforced commitment' to the Java developer community and J2EE.
If ID is to be taught as science, it must be subject to the same tests every scientific theory is subjected to. You can't wave your arms and yell "My religion is being oppressed" simply because ID gets the same treatment as any other theory.
I'm sure you didn't mean to do this, but I really hate when ID is called a theory. In scientific terms it is not a theory. A theory, in science, is:
"...a theory is a systematic and formalized expression of all previous observations made that is predictive, logical, testable, and has never been falsified."
I shoot a lot of photos and I ended up buying a couple external harddrives. They're certainly more stable in the long run than DVDs and it's easier to organize and view the photos than if they were on hundreds of DVDs. Almost all external drives have USB 2.0 or Firewire connections, so moving them onto the drive isn't too painful.
If I did photography professionally I'd look at an external RAID solution. It's too expensive for a prosumer like me, but a pro should be willing to pay for something like that.
...in addition, the ILAR license states that "You are not authorized to use the Program for productive purposes" -- so make sure that your time spent with these downloads is as unproductive as possible.
When placing 2 buttons left-right, it is extremely likely that people mix them up.
Extremely likely that people mix them up? My mother, who asks if things are 'in' the Internet and once asked me not to 'burn' a disc because she might want to use it someday, uses a 2 button (left 'n right) mouse without incident.
Now, I know Apple likes to think that their products are mostly fool-proof, but I think you're confusing fool with braindead.
"The use of paid shills to create the impression of a popular movement, through means like letters to newspapers from soi-disant 'concerned citizens', paid opinion pieces, and the formation of grass-roots lobbying groups that are actually funded by a PR group (AstroTurf is fake grass; hence the term)."
Although I don't particularly agree with your fervor on this, I have to agree with the message. The other day I was flipping through the TV dial and found a program about the lives of the children of successful entertainers. Some of these kids (young kids) have Mercedes, houses, and multiple nannies! That's insane.
It got me to thinking about what on earth their parents do for society that warrants that kind of compensation. I couldn't, in good faith, think of it. I mean, I love music. Life would really suck without it. But, a 13 year-old kid with a Mercedes? That's insane. It's time the entertainment industry comes down to reality. It's time CDs and DVDs become reasonably priced. It's time an actor makes $100,000 a movie instead of $10,000,000.
I'm not one for pirating music or movies. I haven't really done it in the past. But after thinking about this quite a bit, I'm having a hard time feeling sorry for these people. I'm having a hard time justifying paying what I do for my entertainment.
In my experience, the quality of the software that's implimented is the biggest cause of success or failure. If we build from scratch (or using open source), we can almost always pull a failing system out of the fire by throwing a few more quality development and analysis hours at it. If we buy good quality software to impliment, it works about the same. If we buy terrible software and try to impliment it, no amount of time or money can save us.
A number of times we've had a software buying decision from a PHB for some crappy system just to see the project fail. I've never seen (in my 10 years as a developer) a project fail that had good, open development behind it.
No doubt that changing requirements can make a project suffer (and keep us developers in super-overtime-mode). However, if you keep the users in check (project mgr to the rescue) and have a good in-charge developer to manage the technical side, I don't think you can get in too much trouble.
However, if this review makes the front page, Gnome is toast.
I'm sorry, but if Gnome is toast based on a single review from a single magazine, we've got big problems. Frankly, I can't imagine a person considering Gnome/Linux instead of Windows, reading this article, and deciding to go with Windows instead. Most of the people who read this will be either pro-Gnome geeks who will discard this as infamitory, anti-Gnome geeks who will consider the whole thing slightly interesting, or non-geeks who probably have never heard of Gnome and will continue using Windows as always.
I didn't read the article carefully, but if it's true that it pops new windows while you navigate the file system, I'd guess Gnome users will be up in arms. From my persepective that's about the most annoying part of old OSs' UI. However, having a bad review like this is not the cause of possible defections as much as the 'bad' funcationality itself.
To a certain extent you'll use almost any math you take. You probably won't need any of the exact examples, but an understanding of the algorythms and the general concepts are very useful
As far as how much is actually used in programming, I think that depends a lot on what you're writting. I've written some programs that were very math-heavy and some that required almost none. Still, don't skip any math classes just because you don't think you'll need them. The act of learning math is maybe more important than the ability to actually do complicated things with it.
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We have to enter a 16 character password each month that cannot compare in any digits to the previous twelve passwords.
You can't reuse any characters for 12 passwords? I'm having trouble believing that. If you have 26 alpha characters times two for case, plus 10 numeric characters, plus maybe another 25 special characters, you'd have 87 possible characters. If you used 16 character passwords and didn't reuse any characters you'd only be able to change it five times.
Am I missing something here?
Does it play mp3s?
If it doesn't play Ogg Vorbis, I don't want it!
The reason it won't work on iPods is because Apple won't let it work on iPods. If they offered FairPlay up for licensing, I guarantee you Microsoft would be interested. But since Apple wants their store to be the only one truly compatible with their device, Microsoft has no choice.
I think what the parent meant was that DRM is causing the issue. You can put non-DRM'd MP3s on almost any device, including iPods. However, the fact that M$ DRM and Apple DRM and whatever else exists out there is completely incompatible is causing the problem.
The worst part is that this is not just a problem for us consumers. It's a real problem for content suppliers and device makers. I think DRM is a pretty stupid idea, myself, but if this is going to work for anyone in the long run they're going to need to suck it up and work together.
In scientific terms, evolution is a theory, ID is not. You should read up on how the scientific community works before making such statements.
The issue is not what rational people discuss, but what is taught as science in a school.
I'm sorry but this is forcing religious belief on the students - the belief that those that believe in a creator are wrong is a religious belief.
Evolution does not say that there is no creator. Again, you should read up on this stuff.
Prove beyond a doubt that Evolution is the way we got here and we can all call if fact - until you can do that, Evolution requires every bit as much faith as ID.
Again, science doesn't work that way. We have an explanation of how something works. It's been proven right again and again. This isn't a "truth", just an explanation of facts. It takes no faith to understand the theory of evolution.
Jacob Dylan said it best - "Every man, woman, and child on the planet is a religious zealot. The only difference is what their religion is."
Good quote, but off-topic.
The The announcement was also heavy on the Java side, with both Red Hat and Novell pledging a 'reinforced commitment' to the Java developer community and J2EE.
IBM is slipping. Don't they know that Java is so 90's?If ID is to be taught as science, it must be subject to the same tests every scientific theory is subjected to. You can't wave your arms and yell "My religion is being oppressed" simply because ID gets the same treatment as any other theory.
I'm sure you didn't mean to do this, but I really hate when ID is called a theory. In scientific terms it is not a theory. A theory, in science, is:
Source: Wikipedia - Theory
ID is not predictive, logical, or testible. ID is not science, plain and simple.
I shoot a lot of photos and I ended up buying a couple external harddrives. They're certainly more stable in the long run than DVDs and it's easier to organize and view the photos than if they were on hundreds of DVDs. Almost all external drives have USB 2.0 or Firewire connections, so moving them onto the drive isn't too painful.
If I did photography professionally I'd look at an external RAID solution. It's too expensive for a prosumer like me, but a pro should be willing to pay for something like that.
My favorite quote from TFA...
Vanatu seems like a really nice place to live. I found this on their government's news site:
Vanuatu has a new Government. Please revisit this site next week
When placing 2 buttons left-right, it is extremely likely that people mix them up.
Extremely likely that people mix them up? My mother, who asks if things are 'in' the Internet and once asked me not to 'burn' a disc because she might want to use it someday, uses a 2 button (left 'n right) mouse without incident.
Now, I know Apple likes to think that their products are mostly fool-proof, but I think you're confusing fool with braindead.
I don't understand the significance of this term. Can someone explain?
See The Jargon File's definition:
"The use of paid shills to create the impression of a popular movement, through means like letters to newspapers from soi-disant 'concerned citizens', paid opinion pieces, and the formation of grass-roots lobbying groups that are actually funded by a PR group (AstroTurf is fake grass; hence the term)."
Although I don't particularly agree with your fervor on this, I have to agree with the message. The other day I was flipping through the TV dial and found a program about the lives of the children of successful entertainers. Some of these kids (young kids) have Mercedes, houses, and multiple nannies! That's insane.
It got me to thinking about what on earth their parents do for society that warrants that kind of compensation. I couldn't, in good faith, think of it. I mean, I love music. Life would really suck without it. But, a 13 year-old kid with a Mercedes? That's insane. It's time the entertainment industry comes down to reality. It's time CDs and DVDs become reasonably priced. It's time an actor makes $100,000 a movie instead of $10,000,000.
I'm not one for pirating music or movies. I haven't really done it in the past. But after thinking about this quite a bit, I'm having a hard time feeling sorry for these people. I'm having a hard time justifying paying what I do for my entertainment.
Funny.
Hitting the submit button with a misspeling is like locking your keys in the car. It happens in slow motion. :)
In my experience, the quality of the software that's implimented is the biggest cause of success or failure. If we build from scratch (or using open source), we can almost always pull a failing system out of the fire by throwing a few more quality development and analysis hours at it. If we buy good quality software to impliment, it works about the same. If we buy terrible software and try to impliment it, no amount of time or money can save us.
A number of times we've had a software buying decision from a PHB for some crappy system just to see the project fail. I've never seen (in my 10 years as a developer) a project fail that had good, open development behind it.
No doubt that changing requirements can make a project suffer (and keep us developers in super-overtime-mode). However, if you keep the users in check (project mgr to the rescue) and have a good in-charge developer to manage the technical side, I don't think you can get in too much trouble.
I built a computer for a friend's dad once. He gave me a case of 12 year old, single malt scotch! That was maybe the best 'extra' I've ever recieved.
However, if this review makes the front page, Gnome is toast.
I'm sorry, but if Gnome is toast based on a single review from a single magazine, we've got big problems. Frankly, I can't imagine a person considering Gnome/Linux instead of Windows, reading this article, and deciding to go with Windows instead. Most of the people who read this will be either pro-Gnome geeks who will discard this as infamitory, anti-Gnome geeks who will consider the whole thing slightly interesting, or non-geeks who probably have never heard of Gnome and will continue using Windows as always.
I didn't read the article carefully, but if it's true that it pops new windows while you navigate the file system, I'd guess Gnome users will be up in arms. From my persepective that's about the most annoying part of old OSs' UI. However, having a bad review like this is not the cause of possible defections as much as the 'bad' funcationality itself.
To a certain extent you'll use almost any math you take. You probably won't need any of the exact examples, but an understanding of the algorythms and the general concepts are very useful
As far as how much is actually used in programming, I think that depends a lot on what you're writting. I've written some programs that were very math-heavy and some that required almost none. Still, don't skip any math classes just because you don't think you'll need them. The act of learning math is maybe more important than the ability to actually do complicated things with it.
Since the Speaker (who decides where bills go) is Republican ...
Actually, if you read the article you'd note that this is actually much more supported by the Democratic party, not the Republican.