In technically oriented colleges like RPI and MIT there are still more males than females. There may be more women attending college, but they are not majoring in engineering. (I don't have numbers for that, but the fact that this article was written suggests that it is true.)
Ummm what's the difference? Surely, they could not give a contract to Dell to get it cheap, but if an individual could install it, why couldn't Dell pre-install it if they wanted to?
Umm... why would credit card numbers ever be unencrypted. Even if the network is not using WEP or WPA, the data would still be sent over HTTPS for an online store.
No. Read the Constitution. The relevant sections are the 9th and 10th amendments discussed in this thread and article I section 8. That section lists what Congress can make laws about. Clause 18 (called the Elastic Clause) makes things blurry. The Commerce Clause only applies to interstate commerce. As soon as you run into commerce that stays within a single state, federal laws cannot touch it.
VLC (on Windows XP) lets me play DVDs without the region code set on my DVD drive, so I assume it has DeCSS. That would be a good reason to not distribute it in the US.
The Alien and Sedition Acts were a clearly illegal/unconstitutional political move. Claiming they are representative of the beliefs of the founding fathers is rediculous.
For those who don't know, in the Norby books by Isaac Asimov, one of the the friendly, highly advanced aliens belonging to a race called the Others used the name Rembrandt in place of his actual unpronouncable name.
I use more than one browser. I mainly use FireFox, but I also have Opera and IE. Also, I use SSH forwarding and use my home privoxy install whereever I am.
I only use automatic updates, which is a separate program which does not use IE (at least, not obviously). I think it was added in XP SP2, but it might be older than that.
That is probably true, but if Linux is pre-installed, then the vendor is saying they will support Linux drivers for the system. I have a Dell laptop that I run Linux on, and although it works well enough, I cannot get it to sleep (I just use hibernate) and it has an SD card slot that is unusable under Linux. Also, it has an ATI graphics card, so leave hardware acceleration off because it locks-up often otherwise.
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I don't know about the C# message dialog, but Java's Swing has a very similar method to which you can add an array of new names for the buttons. I would expect the C# method to allow for the same.
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Eh, I do not like the way ClearType looks on CRTs, but that is just my personal preference. It looks very nice on LCDs.
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Could you explain? I use Windows XP on my desktop and Gentoo Linux on laptop (window manager is XFCE4). They both use the same or similar true type fonts and look almost identical, except I have font AA enabled on my laptop and disabled on my desktop. (I dislike the look of font AA on a CRT.) Default install, by the way, I did not change any settings relating to fonts.
AduiumX is just Gaim with an Aqua frontend. Theoretically, nothing is stopping a win32 frontend project for Gaim except that GTK+ for win32 works fine.
Although the AIM protocol does support file transfers, all the AIM viruses I have encountered have asked the user to click a link to download the virus; that cannot be disabled by the IM software. Although, as another poster mentioned, a warning could be given for links pointing to executable files, but that is more the job of the browser, isn't it?
I know windows won't let me use the OS in every way I want. For example, they have DRM that is enforced, DVD players under windows can lock you into a region. A friend had a linux laptop that was not locked into any region.
Umm... I use VLC under both Windows and Linux. It ignores region-locking (the region is not set on my DVD drive). The OS does not enforce DRM, applications do. (At least, until "trusted computing" is reality.)
Too bad no one has ever performed a scientific experiment in attempt to answer the (as of yet unanswered) question of the origin of life, which, as another poster pointed out, is separate from the theory of evolution.
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In technically oriented colleges like RPI and MIT there are still more males than females. There may be more women attending college, but they are not majoring in engineering. (I don't have numbers for that, but the fact that this article was written suggests that it is true.)
You can do priorities "High", "Normal", "Low", and "Don't Download" for each file.
Ummm what's the difference? Surely, they could not give a contract to Dell to get it cheap, but if an individual could install it, why couldn't Dell pre-install it if they wanted to?
Umm... why would credit card numbers ever be unencrypted. Even if the network is not using WEP or WPA, the data would still be sent over HTTPS for an online store.
No. Read the Constitution. The relevant sections are the 9th and 10th amendments discussed in this thread and article I section 8. That section lists what Congress can make laws about. Clause 18 (called the Elastic Clause) makes things blurry. The Commerce Clause only applies to interstate commerce. As soon as you run into commerce that stays within a single state, federal laws cannot touch it.
On OS X, OpenOffice requires either X11 which does not even attempt to integrate with Aqua or NeoOffice/J, which no one seems to like.
VLC (on Windows XP) lets me play DVDs without the region code set on my DVD drive, so I assume it has DeCSS. That would be a good reason to not distribute it in the US.
The Alien and Sedition Acts were a clearly illegal/unconstitutional political move. Claiming they are representative of the beliefs of the founding fathers is rediculous.
Yeah, whatever happened to that?
Although, I agree that Wikipedia would be a better choice.
I have not read the books in a while, but I think they stayed in their spaceships.
For those who don't know, in the Norby books by Isaac Asimov, one of the the friendly, highly advanced aliens belonging to a race called the Others used the name Rembrandt in place of his actual unpronouncable name.
I believe gdi32.dll is the main DLL for drawing Windows GUI components. So, yes, it is too important to be removed.
I use more than one browser. I mainly use FireFox, but I also have Opera and IE. Also, I use SSH forwarding and use my home privoxy install whereever I am.
Use privoxy. There is no reason to tie your ad-blocking to your browser.
I only use automatic updates, which is a separate program which does not use IE (at least, not obviously). I think it was added in XP SP2, but it might be older than that.
That is probably true, but if Linux is pre-installed, then the vendor is saying they will support Linux drivers for the system. I have a Dell laptop that I run Linux on, and although it works well enough, I cannot get it to sleep (I just use hibernate) and it has an SD card slot that is unusable under Linux. Also, it has an ATI graphics card, so leave hardware acceleration off because it locks-up often otherwise.
I don't know about the C# message dialog, but Java's Swing has a very similar method to which you can add an array of new names for the buttons. I would expect the C# method to allow for the same.
Eh, I do not like the way ClearType looks on CRTs, but that is just my personal preference. It looks very nice on LCDs.
Could you explain? I use Windows XP on my desktop and Gentoo Linux on laptop (window manager is XFCE4). They both use the same or similar true type fonts and look almost identical, except I have font AA enabled on my laptop and disabled on my desktop. (I dislike the look of font AA on a CRT.) Default install, by the way, I did not change any settings relating to fonts.
And these packets are not encrypted because ?
AduiumX is just Gaim with an Aqua frontend. Theoretically, nothing is stopping a win32 frontend project for Gaim except that GTK+ for win32 works fine.
I thought DVD players could output 480p. Are they just converting from 480i?
Too bad no one has ever performed a scientific experiment in attempt to answer the (as of yet unanswered) question of the origin of life, which, as another poster pointed out, is separate from the theory of evolution.