I think you fundamentally misunderstand what an OS does
And you're deliberately misunderstanding the parent. The term "OS" is commonly used to refer to not just the core OS, but the shell too. Probably more commonly than just the kernel and even user libraries.
For instance, from Ubuntu's home page: "Ubuntu is a community developed [sic], Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers." Note that it does not say "Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system, desktop environment, and set of applications..."
...try convincing someone that when they buy a desk lamp, they're not buying a good, but rather are purchasing the services of the manufacturer of that lamp.
Well, to be fair, buying the lamp pays for both the labor and raw materials. If I took a bunch of raw parts to some guy and gave him some money to turn the parts into a lamp, I think that line becomes much more fuzzy. Just in this case, there are no raw materials.
I'm not sure where the line falls here to be honest. It might depend on how it's marketed or something like that.
(What about this: if you hired someone by the hour to farm gold for you, is that buying the gold or the service?)
(Posting in case anyone is reading at +1 or something; mod the AC up instead of me)
The parent poster is correct... TFA seems to have been changed too to be not stupid. The original version did math wrong and left off three orders of magnitude.
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It's possible someone had remapped your Sun keyboard because they wanted backspace in a more normal location.
Nearly positive that wasn't the case; it wasn't that the key that I thought should be backspace didn't behave as such or anything like that. I'm almost certainly just misremembering.
How? I find it easier to hit, because it's closer.
Because it's smaller and doesn't have a big chunk of empty space above it.
Though actually I'm a bit surprised; I'm looking at images of the Sun keyboard, and it looks like the backspace key is sort of where I have my \ key. That's not where I was remembering it; I thought it was basically the left half of a "normal" backspace key (& the same size as most keys), then `~ was to the right of it.
The actual location is rather less stupid then I was thinking. That seems now like something you'd just get used to as opposed to a location that's fundamentially bad.
I thought the whole beauty and logical design of Pandora to make the streaming legit was the idea of the played music being based on the donated full, legit, and tangible music CDs they received from the community or public domain?
Um, owning a CD is a far cry from having the rights to publicly exhibit/distribute it.
I'm all for getting rid of insert, delete, home, and end.
Home and end?! WTF? I use those keys all the freaking time. I probably use them more than infrequent letters like Q and Z.
Hell, I used it without thinking about it to scroll to the beginning of this post (ctrl-home) so I could past that quote from you in, since I had other stuff typed before and am going through your post out of order but don't want my post to reflect that.
Delete I also use fairly often. Insert less often, but still time-to-time.
Do you use your scroll lock and break key? Lose them, too.
Yes, I do. Scroll lock admittedly even less frequently, but it makes the terminal scroll with the arrow keys and page up/down. Lots of other people will comment that it performs the same function in Excel. Break is used with ctrl to cancel builds in Visual Studio; I use it more than I do Print Screen.
How many function keys do you really need? TWELVE?!?!
I actually use all of them as virtual desktop identifiers; Win-F## will switch to that desktop.
Granted, I would be happy with removing a couple of them (maybe down to 8, but not less) if they were grouped differently so that more were at the ends of a group. (I use the keys at the end of a group far more because they are much easier to hit.)
Don't think the rest of us want our keyboards dumbed down just because you don't use yours to its full potential.
Maybe I didn't use it enough, but I always had trouble typing on one of those SUN keyboards with a few crucial keys in different places.
Sun does a couple other dumb things though, like make backspace 5 times harder to hit.
The ctrl-caps switch is really the only thing right about those keyboards.
I don't know what I'd want in its place, because for Windows typing, the common CTRL functions (X,S,V,C) are all easiest as LCTRL chords, and anchoring your left pinky to where Caps lock is to type these I think feels unnatural.
See, I disagree. After getting over the "wtf" moment with the Sun keyboard that introduced me to the ctrl-caps thing, that position felt like the most natural thing in the world. (Interestingly, the ergonomically split keyboard was much the same.)
You could also rig it up so there are TWO left ctrl keys, at least until people get used to the new location.
Or perhaps you'd leave the right ctrl key where it is and have an asymmetric modifier key layout?
As someone who maps caps to ctrl, yes. What's so wrong about it being asymmetrical? I at least had absolutely no difficulty with adjusting to that ctrl location -- the only problems was adjusting BACK when I used a computer without that.
Obama and other Democrats only had a problem with the secrecy and similar government abuse because it was under a Republican Administration.
I don't know about you, but I'm becoming increasingly disappointed with Obama on these grounds, on the grounds of not doing anything about don't ask don't tell, etc.
We had the press constantly nipping on his heels.
And what good did it do? They didn't solve much of anything, as evidenced by the fact that this crap is around for Obama to continue.
Note that it sounds like it's worth more per viewer to the advertiser, but not to the TV network. The advertiser will pay more for the Hulu version, but since there's only one of them it brings less income to the studio.
So I don't think you can use this story to go "look, the studios should embrace online distribution" on its own.
Pretty sure you're wrong. OTOH, my reading of the MSDNAA license technically excludes the use of its Windows licences for things (like game playing) unrelated to program development.
Hmm... I was assuming (perhaps incorrectly) that he had distributed the photos (maybe posting them online or e-mailing them). Even unwittingly allowing the photos to slip out of his hands is potentially damaging to the subjects.
The father of one of the so-called victims rents from Campbell, found the photographs, and called police.
I don't really care what he does with scissors and glue in his basement.
Defamation consists of the following: (1) a defamatory statement; (2) published to third parties; and (3) which the speaker or publisher knew or should have known was false.
Element (2) wouldn't have been satisfied if he just had them lying around his home.
But I certainly think the guy done wrong (if he did the act that's alleged).
Wrong? Probably. At least very creepy. A criminal or civil offense? Probably not.
A photographer can't publish your photo without your written consent.
That's not always the case. Photojournalism is the clear exception, but not the only one.
Regardless, unless you know something the article doesn't, publication doesn't enter into the picture here, and so the fact that you need a model release for it is a red herring, as is your statement "Publishing an image of my face on someone else's naked body certainly seems like exploitation to me."
I'm being a little facetious, but only a little... it has no atomic commits, has no good changeset support, doesn't version directories, and doesn't handle file renaming. And that doesn't even start to touch on the newfangled distributed VCS stuff that you get with Git and Mercurial and such.
Basically you can find more rudimentary version control -- RCS, SCCS, SourceSafe -- but by today's standards, it is pretty pathetic. I am using CVS for a project now, and while it's better than not using version control, it's not a *lot* better.
Changing just one bit results in an 'avalanche effect' in good ciphers, so quite a lot of bits will be changed.
Not necessarily true. Think a one-time pad; the best cypher out there, unbreakable without the key (well, you have to control for length issues), and doesn't have the avalanche effect.
I can't speak to whether there are or aren't other good cyphers without the avalanche effect, but there is at least one important exception.
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I think you fundamentally misunderstand what an OS does
And you're deliberately misunderstanding the parent. The term "OS" is commonly used to refer to not just the core OS, but the shell too. Probably more commonly than just the kernel and even user libraries.
For instance, from Ubuntu's home page: "Ubuntu is a community developed [sic], Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers." Note that it does not say "Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system, desktop environment, and set of applications..."
And there's just something about it that no CD/DVD/MP3s can match.
Like the ability to get wrapped around the heads in a crappy/broken player? ;-)
...try convincing someone that when they buy a desk lamp, they're not buying a good, but rather are purchasing the services of the manufacturer of that lamp.
Well, to be fair, buying the lamp pays for both the labor and raw materials. If I took a bunch of raw parts to some guy and gave him some money to turn the parts into a lamp, I think that line becomes much more fuzzy. Just in this case, there are no raw materials.
I'm not sure where the line falls here to be honest. It might depend on how it's marketed or something like that.
(What about this: if you hired someone by the hour to farm gold for you, is that buying the gold or the service?)
(Posting in case anyone is reading at +1 or something; mod the AC up instead of me)
The parent poster is correct... TFA seems to have been changed too to be not stupid. The original version did math wrong and left off three orders of magnitude.
It's not completely false... you can't load paid but copy-protected apps onto the Dev Phone.
Good thing that mostly isn't true.
It's possible someone had remapped your Sun keyboard because they wanted backspace in a more normal location.
Nearly positive that wasn't the case; it wasn't that the key that I thought should be backspace didn't behave as such or anything like that. I'm almost certainly just misremembering.
How? I find it easier to hit, because it's closer.
Because it's smaller and doesn't have a big chunk of empty space above it.
Though actually I'm a bit surprised; I'm looking at images of the Sun keyboard, and it looks like the backspace key is sort of where I have my \ key. That's not where I was remembering it; I thought it was basically the left half of a "normal" backspace key (& the same size as most keys), then `~ was to the right of it.
The actual location is rather less stupid then I was thinking. That seems now like something you'd just get used to as opposed to a location that's fundamentially bad.
I thought the whole beauty and logical design of Pandora to make the streaming legit was the idea of the played music being based on the donated full, legit, and tangible music CDs they received from the community or public domain?
Um, owning a CD is a far cry from having the rights to publicly exhibit/distribute it.
Wow, I sure missed that. Feel free to mod my original post into oblivion. ;-)
I'm all for getting rid of insert, delete, home, and end.
Home and end?! WTF? I use those keys all the freaking time. I probably use them more than infrequent letters like Q and Z.
Hell, I used it without thinking about it to scroll to the beginning of this post (ctrl-home) so I could past that quote from you in, since I had other stuff typed before and am going through your post out of order but don't want my post to reflect that.
Delete I also use fairly often. Insert less often, but still time-to-time.
Do you use your scroll lock and break key? Lose them, too.
Yes, I do. Scroll lock admittedly even less frequently, but it makes the terminal scroll with the arrow keys and page up/down. Lots of other people will comment that it performs the same function in Excel. Break is used with ctrl to cancel builds in Visual Studio; I use it more than I do Print Screen.
How many function keys do you really need? TWELVE?!?!
I actually use all of them as virtual desktop identifiers; Win-F## will switch to that desktop.
Granted, I would be happy with removing a couple of them (maybe down to 8, but not less) if they were grouped differently so that more were at the ends of a group. (I use the keys at the end of a group far more because they are much easier to hit.)
Don't think the rest of us want our keyboards dumbed down just because you don't use yours to its full potential.
Maybe I didn't use it enough, but I always had trouble typing on one of those SUN keyboards with a few crucial keys in different places.
Sun does a couple other dumb things though, like make backspace 5 times harder to hit.
The ctrl-caps switch is really the only thing right about those keyboards.
I don't know what I'd want in its place, because for Windows typing, the common CTRL functions (X,S,V,C) are all easiest as LCTRL chords, and anchoring your left pinky to where Caps lock is to type these I think feels unnatural.
See, I disagree. After getting over the "wtf" moment with the Sun keyboard that introduced me to the ctrl-caps thing, that position felt like the most natural thing in the world. (Interestingly, the ergonomically split keyboard was much the same.)
You could also rig it up so there are TWO left ctrl keys, at least until people get used to the new location.
Or perhaps you'd leave the right ctrl key where it is and have an asymmetric modifier key layout?
As someone who maps caps to ctrl, yes. What's so wrong about it being asymmetrical? I at least had absolutely no difficulty with adjusting to that ctrl location -- the only problems was adjusting BACK when I used a computer without that.
How 'bout something like the XLink or one of these similar products?
This isn't what you're asking for, but it might actually be close to what you really want.
(I haven't used anything like these, but a couple people said good things about the XLink one in a previous /. story this was mentioned in.)
Obama and other Democrats only had a problem with the secrecy and similar government abuse because it was under a Republican Administration.
I don't know about you, but I'm becoming increasingly disappointed with Obama on these grounds, on the grounds of not doing anything about don't ask don't tell, etc.
We had the press constantly nipping on his heels.
And what good did it do? They didn't solve much of anything, as evidenced by the fact that this crap is around for Obama to continue.
Note that it sounds like it's worth more per viewer to the advertiser, but not to the TV network. The advertiser will pay more for the Hulu version, but since there's only one of them it brings less income to the studio.
So I don't think you can use this story to go "look, the studios should embrace online distribution" on its own.
OT, but what war ended communism?
Pretty sure you're wrong. OTOH, my reading of the MSDNAA license technically excludes the use of its Windows licences for things (like game playing) unrelated to program development.
Hmm... I was assuming (perhaps incorrectly) that he had distributed the photos (maybe posting them online or e-mailing them). Even unwittingly allowing the photos to slip out of his hands is potentially damaging to the subjects.
The father of one of the so-called victims rents from Campbell, found the photographs, and called police.
I don't really care what he does with scissors and glue in his basement.
Perhaps this is merely defamation of character...
Even that isn't supported by what the article said, because there's no indication in the article that he actually distributed them.
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Element (2) wouldn't have been satisfied if he just had them lying around his home.
But I certainly think the guy done wrong (if he did the act that's alleged).
Wrong? Probably. At least very creepy. A criminal or civil offense? Probably not.
A photographer can't publish your photo without your written consent.
That's not always the case. Photojournalism is the clear exception, but not the only one.
Regardless, unless you know something the article doesn't, publication doesn't enter into the picture here, and so the fact that you need a model release for it is a red herring, as is your statement "Publishing an image of my face on someone else's naked body certainly seems like exploitation to me."
Out of curiosity, what happened to the boy? Was he expelled to?
Can you give a link to In? That seems to be one of those projects that's impossible to find unless you know *just* what to Google for...
You can hardly say CVS is a rudimentary VS
Yes I can: "CVS is a rudimentary VS."
I'm being a little facetious, but only a little... it has no atomic commits, has no good changeset support, doesn't version directories, and doesn't handle file renaming. And that doesn't even start to touch on the newfangled distributed VCS stuff that you get with Git and Mercurial and such.
Basically you can find more rudimentary version control -- RCS, SCCS, SourceSafe -- but by today's standards, it is pretty pathetic. I am using CVS for a project now, and while it's better than not using version control, it's not a *lot* better.
Changing just one bit results in an 'avalanche effect' in good ciphers, so quite a lot of bits will be changed.
Not necessarily true. Think a one-time pad; the best cypher out there, unbreakable without the key (well, you have to control for length issues), and doesn't have the avalanche effect.
I can't speak to whether there are or aren't other good cyphers without the avalanche effect, but there is at least one important exception.