Even aside from the fact that someone can only require a moon-visitor a permit if they *own* the moon (a right that AFAIK most if not all governments signed away).
Our freedom is restricted enough as it is. You don't *need* a permit to land on the moon any more than you *need* a passport to move between countries. A permit or passport serves no purpose to that end. Passports are just an invention of xenophobic bureaucrats.
The only reason that I can think of in favor of permits is to regulate who can go there. But for now the difficulty in getting there is sufficient regulation. X-prize apart, it is most likely that anyone getting there is a government, and governments will not give a damn about permits as soon as they find out a way to make lots and lots of money on the moon.
Currently I'm getting transfer rates of about 16 megabyte per second on hard drives connected via USB. That's roughly 160 megabit per second, whereas USB 2.0 can transfer up to 480 megabit per second. While I'm all for faster and better, the bottleneck seems to be elsewhere in this case.
Why? Because AV vendors want your money. I once released a commercial anti-virus and got this type of comment all the time and got really tired of it. I understand your train of thinking, but remember that the AV guys are supposed to be the good guys.
More toxic pollution in poor/developing countries. Right there where it is an issue to spending the money to prevent it.
Seems a bit like a feel-good list to me though, given the (surprisingly low) impact. A few hundred thousand people? That's not a lot compared to the impact of pollution by greenhouse-gases, mostly by industrial nations. </treehugginghippy>
I've used Photoshop once or twice, but am used to the GIMP, and for regular web design/UI artwork it does the trick for me. Overall, I find the user interface very consistent, but there is room for improvement- especially from a newbie point of view.
The biggest problem are the magical key combinations sometimes needed. Want to draw a line in MS paint? Select the line tool and draw away. If you want to draw a line in the GIMP, you will need to *happen to know* that you need to hold the shift key for drawing lines (you're not going to guess just like that). Some similar key combo is needed to close a path selection (can't even remember which right now). Also, I find the gradient editor rather confusing- fortunately I rarely need it because the presets are pretty usable.
When a newbie user can't figure out even the most basic of things without a manual, is it strange that they're turned off by the software and abandon it?
... for giving teenagers access to 'inappropriate' content. It is not a technical problem, but a pedagogical one. NO COMPUTERS ARE NEEDED to access porn, neo-nazi propaganda, bomb-making manuals, holy books of the "wrong" religion or whatever it is that the parent deems inappropriate.
Point is, what this mother wants is nothing more but flat-out censorship. How did mother-dear deal with the issue when she was a kid? I see two possibilities- Either the pot is calling the kettle black, or she has double standards. Either way, if she doesn't trust her kids, she did a lousy job raising them.
It still is a lot better to allow the kids all that content, openly discuss the subjects and -heaven forbid- guide the kids to deal with it wisely, than to forbid them the same content and have them access it behind your back and beyond your control (at a friends house whose parents are out, for instance).
Also, whatever kids can not access in writing, they'll probably learn from experience. Hmmm... interesting.
So your boss doesn't like the answer "Give up now"? Pity for her. It's the only realistic answer to trying to solve a non-technical problem in a technical manner. Tell her again.
Over 90% of the IT coworkers I've had in the past 10 years of my IT career had NO education in IT whatsoever. I'm also sorry to report that it reflects in the quality of their work.
It's a criminal offense to harm them. If it is a crime to try to survive, the monkeys have already won, and the villagers will starve to death.
Seriously though. Last time I checked, fighting for survival never stopped being a right of every living thing on the planet. Even a court will have to recognize this. The villagers have tried to get rid of the monkeys without harming them, and it doesn't work- it has driven them to famine relief. Should they kill monkeys from now on, I don't think a lawyer would have any trouble defending the case. Even if someone ends up doing jail time, it's better to be tried by 12 than to be carried by 6.
Furthermore, these monkeys are probably intelligent enough to stay away once they understand that they can be killed. Shooting blanks from that point on should be enough from that point on (it would probably even work for creatures as intelligent as humans).
By allowing everyone the same rights, neither side has an advantage over the other- it can be used both for good and evil by either side. Rather than contemplating if said open source does anything for "the enemy", it would make more sense to restrict the use of said open source in war situations. This will help make sure the open source in question is not used for evil by your own people as well.
Have you listened to a modern pressed record played on a modern (made this year) turntable?
Yes, it was a modern turntable (it even was USB-enabled). Which doesn't necessarily say anything about its quality, of course. Yes, the frequency range is nothing like a CD, but the dynamic range is SO much better. Around 75dB for vinyl vs >90dB for CD, last time I checked. I don't dispute the fact that crappy CDs are made. But as a medium they are an improvement over anything that existed before it, (intended to be) addressing pretty much the entire audio range that the human ear of a normal person can perceive.
We are now getting spoon-fed the worst quality audio since wax recordings and the Western Electric "Noiseless" recording system of movies from the 30-40's. Yes, there are CDs out there which have their dynamic range over-compressed. That's something that is reported on Slashdot monthly, more or less. Yes, there is a quality loss associated with the lossless data compression of lossy formats. Duh. But you mustn't have listened to a hissing tape or a crackling vinyl record for a long time. It is amazing how tolerant our (grand)parents were to the poor quality of these media. I listened to a vinyl record only days ago, and am amazed by how little dynamic range even a well-recorded vinyl record has. Is it acceptable? Hell yes. Fact is, each medium has its own audible artifacts. Why would those of CD be worse than those of other media? That's just a value judgement.
That said, a lot of the audible artifacts of digital media can be prevented and they're not. But you can do your share. Don't like the quality of MP3? Don't do lossy compression then (you *do* have the original CD, right?) Unsatisfied with the sound quality of a CD because too much dynamic range compression is going on? Then don't buy it. This will ultimately force the studios to do their share to release a quality product.
More like the waiter asking you 40-50 questions about how you want each part of your meal prepared Ah like at the Golden Arcs? Have you ever tried to order a meal there without counter-questions? I have, but rarely manage. They should allow you to order a f* default meal "like on the picture", it sure would save a lot of question-and-answer time.
>>> Just increase the "number of copies" value in the print dialog and off you go. >> From TFA >> Each printed coupon has its own unique serial code. >> So, they really don't care (that much) if you print x copies of the one coupon, >> but you aren't supposed to get more than n (= 2) coupons of each type.
The same principle applies for credit card numbers. Just because you have the LUHN-10 algorithm which allows you to generate credit card numbers, that doesn't mean you'll have unlimited credit, because there is an additional layer of security: credit card numbers are verified against legal, registered numbers.
But these people designed their software in such a poor way that every re-install would generate a brand new set of serial numbers, *all of which would be considered valid*. This is where the problem is- it is just a big gaping security hole. And they're trying to blame their poor performance on a (admittedly smart-ass) user. If said software company would have been a bank, it would be blamed and not the customer.
If a bank would rely on just the checksum of credit card numbers to verify validity, rather than verifying said number against officially issued numbers, credit card fraud would soar. Of course fraud is illegal, but that doesn't mean that the bank has no responsibility to try to prevent it. The software company in question here has not taken precisely that responsibility, and they're trying to blame the user- but in reality both are wrong.
The 'one password for everything' concept is fundamentally broken. It is like having one key for everything you own- your house, your car. During a vacation, I *want* to be able to give the housekeeper access to my house, but I also want to *prevent* her from going for a joyride in my brand new expensive car. The fact that I have neither a housekeeper nor a brand new expensive car is a minor detail.
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If memory serves well, sesame street has had this for a long time. And without the virtual reality masks too.
Even aside from the fact that someone can only require a moon-visitor a permit if they *own* the moon (a right that AFAIK most if not all governments signed away).
Our freedom is restricted enough as it is. You don't *need* a permit to land on the moon any more than you *need* a passport to move between countries. A permit or passport serves no purpose to that end. Passports are just an invention of xenophobic bureaucrats.
The only reason that I can think of in favor of permits is to regulate who can go there. But for now the difficulty in getting there is sufficient regulation. X-prize apart, it is most likely that anyone getting there is a government, and governments will not give a damn about permits as soon as they find out a way to make lots and lots of money on the moon.
...but I didn't see my surroundings. All I saw was dead people.
Currently I'm getting transfer rates of about 16 megabyte per second on hard drives connected via USB. That's roughly 160 megabit per second, whereas USB 2.0 can transfer up to 480 megabit per second. While I'm all for faster and better, the bottleneck seems to be elsewhere in this case.
Why? Because AV vendors want your money. I once released a commercial anti-virus and got this type of comment all the time and got really tired of it. I understand your train of thinking, but remember that the AV guys are supposed to be the good guys.
a distant galaxy, far far away... Score: 1, Redundant- That labeling seems accurate.
More toxic pollution in poor/developing countries. Right there where it is an issue to spending the money to prevent it.
Seems a bit like a feel-good list to me though, given the (surprisingly low) impact. A few hundred thousand people? That's not a lot compared to the impact of pollution by greenhouse-gases, mostly by industrial nations.
</treehugginghippy>
I've used Photoshop once or twice, but am used to the GIMP, and for regular web design/UI artwork it does the trick for me. Overall, I find the user interface very consistent, but there is room for improvement- especially from a newbie point of view.
The biggest problem are the magical key combinations sometimes needed. Want to draw a line in MS paint? Select the line tool and draw away. If you want to draw a line in the GIMP, you will need to *happen to know* that you need to hold the shift key for drawing lines (you're not going to guess just like that). Some similar key combo is needed to close a path selection (can't even remember which right now). Also, I find the gradient editor rather confusing- fortunately I rarely need it because the presets are pretty usable.
When a newbie user can't figure out even the most basic of things without a manual, is it strange that they're turned off by the software and abandon it?
"The only computer in the house"? You must be new here. Let me be the first to welcome you to slashdot.
Live CD.
... for giving teenagers access to 'inappropriate' content. It is not a technical problem, but a pedagogical one. NO COMPUTERS ARE NEEDED to access porn, neo-nazi propaganda, bomb-making manuals, holy books of the "wrong" religion or whatever it is that the parent deems inappropriate.
Point is, what this mother wants is nothing more but flat-out censorship. How did mother-dear deal with the issue when she was a kid? I see two possibilities- Either the pot is calling the kettle black, or she has double standards. Either way, if she doesn't trust her kids, she did a lousy job raising them.
It still is a lot better to allow the kids all that content, openly discuss the subjects and -heaven forbid- guide the kids to deal with it wisely, than to forbid them the same content and have them access it behind your back and beyond your control (at a friends house whose parents are out, for instance).
Also, whatever kids can not access in writing, they'll probably learn from experience. Hmmm... interesting.
So your boss doesn't like the answer "Give up now"? Pity for her. It's the only realistic answer to trying to solve a non-technical problem in a technical manner. Tell her again.
I was going to suggest a VT100. Then I remembered aalib.
How does MacGuyver escape from a prison cell that only has a wooden chair? Simple- he makes a bomb from all natural ingredients.
Gunpowder consists of charcoal, sulphur and salpeter.
To get charcoal, burn the chair. Without matches, rub pieces of broken chair together- this may not burn the chair but it will char it.
Instead of sulphur, phosphorus will do- you can obtain it by evaporating urine.
Shit is a good source for salpeter (KNO3).
Phosphorus, charcoal and salpeter are then mixed in a 1:2:9 ratio.
... because I know it and I know it does the job. Also saves me the work of figuring out what CakePHP and RoR is.
Over 90% of the IT coworkers I've had in the past 10 years of my IT career had NO education in IT whatsoever. I'm also sorry to report that it reflects in the quality of their work.
It's a criminal offense to harm them. If it is a crime to try to survive, the monkeys have already won, and the villagers will starve to death.
Seriously though. Last time I checked, fighting for survival never stopped being a right of every living thing on the planet. Even a court will have to recognize this. The villagers have tried to get rid of the monkeys without harming them, and it doesn't work- it has driven them to famine relief. Should they kill monkeys from now on, I don't think a lawyer would have any trouble defending the case. Even if someone ends up doing jail time, it's better to be tried by 12 than to be carried by 6.
Furthermore, these monkeys are probably intelligent enough to stay away once they understand that they can be killed. Shooting blanks from that point on should be enough from that point on (it would probably even work for creatures as intelligent as humans).
By allowing everyone the same rights, neither side has an advantage over the other- it can be used both for good and evil by either side. Rather than contemplating if said open source does anything for "the enemy", it would make more sense to restrict the use of said open source in war situations. This will help make sure the open source in question is not used for evil by your own people as well.
...and it was overlooked all this time. How's that for a security flaw?
Have you listened to a modern pressed record played on a modern (made this year) turntable? Yes, it was a modern turntable (it even was USB-enabled). Which doesn't necessarily say anything about its quality, of course. Yes, the frequency range is nothing like a CD, but the dynamic range is SO much better. Around 75dB for vinyl vs >90dB for CD, last time I checked. I don't dispute the fact that crappy CDs are made. But as a medium they are an improvement over anything that existed before it, (intended to be) addressing pretty much the entire audio range that the human ear of a normal person can perceive.
Where I live, the shops that sell CDs allow you to listen to them first. If your CD shop doesn't offer this service, find another shop.
We are now getting spoon-fed the worst quality audio since wax recordings and the Western Electric "Noiseless" recording system of movies from the 30-40's. Yes, there are CDs out there which have their dynamic range over-compressed. That's something that is reported on Slashdot monthly, more or less. Yes, there is a quality loss associated with the lossless data compression of lossy formats. Duh. But you mustn't have listened to a hissing tape or a crackling vinyl record for a long time. It is amazing how tolerant our (grand)parents were to the poor quality of these media. I listened to a vinyl record only days ago, and am amazed by how little dynamic range even a well-recorded vinyl record has. Is it acceptable? Hell yes. Fact is, each medium has its own audible artifacts. Why would those of CD be worse than those of other media? That's just a value judgement.
That said, a lot of the audible artifacts of digital media can be prevented and they're not. But you can do your share. Don't like the quality of MP3? Don't do lossy compression then (you *do* have the original CD, right?) Unsatisfied with the sound quality of a CD because too much dynamic range compression is going on? Then don't buy it. This will ultimately force the studios to do their share to release a quality product.
More like the waiter asking you 40-50 questions about how you want each part of your meal prepared Ah like at the Golden Arcs? Have you ever tried to order a meal there without counter-questions? I have, but rarely manage. They should allow you to order a f* default meal "like on the picture", it sure would save a lot of question-and-answer time.
or make peace.
>>> Just increase the "number of copies" value in the print dialog and off you go.
>> From TFA
>> Each printed coupon has its own unique serial code.
>> So, they really don't care (that much) if you print x copies of the one coupon,
>> but you aren't supposed to get more than n (= 2) coupons of each type.
The same principle applies for credit card numbers. Just because you have the LUHN-10 algorithm which allows you to generate credit card numbers, that doesn't mean you'll have unlimited credit, because there is an additional layer of security: credit card numbers are verified against legal, registered numbers.
But these people designed their software in such a poor way that every re-install would generate a brand new set of serial numbers, *all of which would be considered valid*. This is where the problem is- it is just a big gaping security hole. And they're trying to blame their poor performance on a (admittedly smart-ass) user. If said software company would have been a bank, it would be blamed and not the customer.
If a bank would rely on just the checksum of credit card numbers to verify validity, rather than verifying said number against officially issued numbers, credit card fraud would soar. Of course fraud is illegal, but that doesn't mean that the bank has no responsibility to try to prevent it. The software company in question here has not taken precisely that responsibility, and they're trying to blame the user- but in reality both are wrong.
The 'one password for everything' concept is fundamentally broken. It is like having one key for everything you own- your house, your car. During a vacation, I *want* to be able to give the housekeeper access to my house, but I also want to *prevent* her from going for a joyride in my brand new expensive car. The fact that I have neither a housekeeper nor a brand new expensive car is a minor detail.