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Konqueror (and presumably KDE) seems to have its own set of standards for control keys. I can't tell you how annoying it is that "reload page" isn't control-R, but is instead mapped to a function key.
I live in WA, where we've had a spam no send list for quite awhile (unfortunately, no no call list as of yet). It hasn't done me one bit of good - you have to register individual addresses (I have hundreds of aliases at my domain and they all come to me - I often don't remember specific ones), and even my main address, which has been registered for a couple of years, receives way too much spam.
Also, we've seen how many "wins" from these laws? a handful at best? There's obviously something not right with the system yet.
Granted, heavy modifications to courier's bofh file (blocking bad addresses/mx's) has narrowed that down from 50-100 to 5-10 daily. But it's still annoying.
I've never understood this whole thing about media monopolies... It's not like I ever had a choice about which cable company to use when I moved into my new apartment. Many cities/counties break up the area and give the pieces to specific providers. Thus, I wanted Millennium cable since their internet access is pretty decent speed-wise, etc. However, I live on 13th Ave. and their area only goes to 12th Ave (literally!), so I had to go with ATT. And since I don't trust them (and I need someone friendly to my running a mail server, etc) I went with DSL.
Anyway, so what's up with this? It's like when AT&T got chopped up, but all that did was create a bunch of little baby monopolies that didn't compete with each other, or anyone else.
Not just this, but there are a number of studies out (unfortunately, I have no links) that talk about correllations between overuse of antibacterial soaps and resistent bacteria strains. The thing is that the antibacterial soaps almost all use a form of the most powerful antibacterial agent out there, which used to be used only as a last resort (and thus bacteria weren't immune/resistent to it), but now that it's so prevalent in our sewers, etc., more and more resistent strains are showing up.
So just use regular soap, sterilize things with alcohol or bleach, and don't eat meat (besides the antibiotics, there's all KINDS of other nasty stuff in that stuff)
Unfortunately, selling console systems at a loss seems to be a fairly standard practice. It's my understanding that both Nintendo and Sony do the same thing.
Actually, that's pretty much exactly what happened (didn't go into detail since it's mildly off-topic). I guess it was actually "rape, pillage, burn, CONVERT"..:)
With unilateral mailings for credit cards, I simply scribble all over the application such messages as
A friend of mine once told me of someone he knew who would fill those return envelopes with old fishing weights before mailing them back with a note saying he wished to be removed from their mailing list, and to thank them for properly disposing of his toxic lead waste. Wish I had some old fishing weights.
A few years back. I had the opportunity to work with Thor Heyerdahl (for those who don't know, he's the guy who did Kon Tiki). At the time, he was working on a book about how the RC Church knew about the existence of the New World long before Columbus sailed (not sure if this has been translated into english yet, especially considering his recent death). Anyway, I remember him commenting on the difficulty of acquiring information from the Vatican library, not only because of political issues (which he was able to circumvent due to who he knew), but because when you want data from that library, instead of requesting something by row, shelf, etc, you first have to specify which KILOMETER your book lies within. As nice as it would be to get that all online, it would take DECADES to scan things in (especially since not just anyone knows how to handle antique books).
My personal experience is that a nice quality video doesn't fit on a 700MB cd-rw.
I've been encoding svcd's of my dvd's for a couple of years now (long story short, macrovision + tv/vcr combo does NOT work) and have come to the conclusion that you can put 60 minutes MAX onto an svcd (multipass vbr, 192 or 160 audio) before the video quality degrades to that of a standard VCD. Still, it's cheaper than video tape and doesn't degrade over time.
My point is, that kind of integration is just not the way to go for desktop on linx[sic.].
I think the point is that if *nix OS's are going to make it in the world of desktops, they need to be usable by "normal" people. Personally, I do 99% of my file management work in the console, but that's because nautilus is slow (even on my dual athlon) and lacks a lot of the intuitive keystroke mapping that something like MacOS has. "Normal" people don't want to know what "ls" and "cd" and "rm -f" are, they just want to point and click their files where they need them to go.
If you want to be recognized, don't follow the (questinable) ideas of others.
I'm all for changing UI standards, but until someone comes up with a better way to represent a file tree (or something better than a file tree), the "explorer" is about as good as it gets.
Then again, I really miss the tab-down folders of MacOS (konqueror does this, why not nautilus?) that turns every view into a tree view.
MAC SYSTEM 8: You get in the car to go to the store and the car drives you to church.
I never quiet understood this reference. Wouldn't this behavior be more indicative of Windows XP? (like how the first time I tried to manually enter an IP, it too me 25 minutes to convince it that I really didn't want to sign up for MSN or have it auto-configure my cable/dsl connection for me)
No kidding... hasn't anyone here seen Johny Mnemonic? I'm as geeky as the next, but I try to keep all of those wireless things as far away from me as I can (which is why my cell phone lives in my back pocket - I figure that if I get cancer, it'll be in a place I can spare to lose a few pounds when it's removed)
I'll admit that I don't know much about the technical side of xml (and I really can't see all of the great advantages to it, either), but since when does a parser care about whitespace? Wouldn't it make more sense to let the newline character match that of the overlying OS so people can actually TYPE those newline characters? Switching to unicode is fine and dandy, but what about all of those legacy systems that don't support it?
From what I recall (it was from one of those "history of computers" documentaries that were on PBS a couple of years ago), it wasn't the sex that bothered Apple, but the fact that people were DUMB and were catching (and spreading) all kinds of nasty STD's throughout the company.
Spokespeople for the big three cite disproportionate costs of in-warranty service vs. rate of failure, need to cut costs to remain competitive, advancements in technology used in manufacture of drives ("they're so reliable and cheap, you won't need a warranty anyway")
Does this bother anyone else? They claim that warranty service is costing them too much money because their drives have too high of a failure rate, but then they claim that they're "so reliable" that we wouldn't need a warranty?
... is not to repeal the DMCA, but if you read that first paragraph, they want to see if there are certain TYPES of work that should be exempted from the current broad coverage of the DMCA.
The problem with this is that the items many of us feel should be exempted are exactly the types of things that the DMCA was enacted to "protect" (cd's, dvd's, etc), and it would be very unlikely that the government would do anything to change that in such a "minor" alteration of the act.
yeah, except that a "telesync" refers to a camcorder shot for the video, with audio coming from a direct line in. My guess is that if someone has access to a direct line in for the audio, they also have access to the "off" switch on that jamming device.
My idea of a way to fix the system is that we should have the money and item go through ebay.
This is called a proxy, and back when online auctions were young, there were several companies around that did this... You paid them a slight fee and they'd check that the product you ordered was in the condition that the seller claimed. Then, they'd forward your payment to the seller and the product on to you.
Thompson Multimedia, holders of the patent in question, have not unilaterally stated that Linux distributors are exempt from the licensing fees associated with providing MP3 decoding functionality in a non-free product.
It's my understanding that RH removed mp3 functionality because of GNU GPL issues, not Thompson's licensing. Apparently, the GPL prevents including code from patented, non-open/free protocols (I don't know the exact clause, but I'm pretty sure it's true). This means that all of the mp3 players out there are actually in violation of the GPL.
Ok, this has got to be about the biggest beef I have against OSX right now (other than the fact that it won't run on my 8600)... I spend 10-12 hours every day in front of a big, bright 19" screen (both at home and at work). It's like staring into a 60 watt light bulb all day. To compensate for this, I tweak my OS to have dark colors and light text - which considerably reduces eyestrain. I *hate* the look of Aqua solely for the fact that it is black-on-white, and staring at it for hours on end would KILL my eyes.
I hope to someday get a new mac, but if Apple keeps preventing people from even changing the colors of the interface, I may just have to stick with my favorite free OS, that I can tweak so it doesn't hurt my eyes so much.
I'd recommend a general objective, instead of customization per company. Use the cover letter for that
Actually, use the cover letter for ALL of that. I've been told by numerous career counselors at GOOD universities to never, EVER put an objective on your resume. Granted, it MIGHT help, but the changes (and they are good chances) that it WON'T far outweigh any help you might get. And has been stated in another comment, you've just wasted valuable skill-listing space with a comment that doesn't do more than say that you want a rewarding job to challenge and enhance your skills - um, EVERYONE wants that, and employers know it. Unless it's some incredibly-well-written objective, it'll just end up making you look inexperienced.
Use your cover letter to explain what kind of job you're looking for, or expand on specific uses of your skills that might have been too lengthy to put in your resume - and if THOSE get too long, cut them and save them for the interview.
Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm not), but aren't there a number of pay-for linux/unix programs? ncftpd (the server, not the client) being the one that jumps readily into my mind. What about games like NWN, TuxRacer 1.x, etc? Even Oracle has a linux version. Lots of people seem happy to pay for linux programs.
Heck, I'm sure that some people would be MORE than happy to get Word for Linux if it ever came out (well, unless Microsoft actually opens the source to the document format so AbiWord and OpenOffice aren't forced to lag behind by reverse-engineering).
Having just gotten married, and paid well for my photographer, I can understand the sentiment here. I'm an amateur photographer, and wanted the ability to do my own prints, but after researching, my wife and I found that NO GOOD PHOTOGRAPHER will ever give/sell you the negatives. We had to beg our photographer to sell us our negatives after a 5-year (or possibly more) wait. I'm cool with that, since I really just wanted to have them in case our kids someday want to reprint things (which I did for my parents back on their 25th anniversary).
Anyway, when you hire a wedding photographer, you buy a package. The most basic packages include the photographer showing up to the event, and a reasonably-sized copy of every good photo taken at the event. Other packages include more and more copies of prints of various sizes. This is how they make their money. My photographer offers many different kinds of prints, from archival-ink digital prints (photoshop-edited for redeye, etc) to hand-painted color on B&W prints on canvas.
Most photographers these days don't even do their own developing, and they're probably not making very much money off of those copies, either. But think. A lucky photographer does one wedding per week. At a basic price of $700-800 per wedding (for a good photographer), that's NOT very much money. Let them have their IP, enter the photos of you in any contest they want to enter, or at least don't bitch when you have to pay extra to have them sell it to you. You coders out there (I'm one of you) can't REALLY expect me to believe that you delete all backups of a project that you sell off.
This "squishy DRM" system, which puts a unique identifier in each record
I don't see how this will stop piracy. When I copy a cd to ogg, or a dvd to svcd (I actually have to do this because my tv-vcr combo trips the macrovision sensors), all of that "digital" information is getting converted into something else.
Besides, what's the point? I don't see what some id code (or even a watermark, which is a little more stable across conversions) is going to do to help them identify pirated music/movies that listening/watching doesn't already do. It's not like they'd put a unique identifier on every single track of every single cd that's ever pressed.
The problem with many vegetarians is that they merely remove meat (and yes, fish is meat, too) from their diets, but fail to re-add things that meat formerly provided. Thus, if you only eat salad and pasta, you're missing out on a lot of nutrition (not to mention flavor).
I've been a veterian for about 8 years now, and am far healthier than I was before (might also be because I cut out most artificial color and flavor, too). But most of my vegetarian friends who actually EAT RIGHT, are the same way (my wife has had all kinds of wonderful health things happen since she stopped eating meat a year or so ago).
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Konqueror (and presumably KDE) seems to have its own set of standards for control keys. I can't tell you how annoying it is that "reload page" isn't control-R, but is instead mapped to a function key.
Also, we've seen how many "wins" from these laws? a handful at best? There's obviously something not right with the system yet.
Granted, heavy modifications to courier's bofh file (blocking bad addresses/mx's) has narrowed that down from 50-100 to 5-10 daily. But it's still annoying.
Anyway, so what's up with this? It's like when AT&T got chopped up, but all that did was create a bunch of little baby monopolies that didn't compete with each other, or anyone else.
So just use regular soap, sterilize things with alcohol or bleach, and don't eat meat (besides the antibiotics, there's all KINDS of other nasty stuff in that stuff)
Unfortunately, selling console systems at a loss seems to be a fairly standard practice. It's my understanding that both Nintendo and Sony do the same thing.
Actually, that's pretty much exactly what happened (didn't go into detail since it's mildly off-topic). I guess it was actually "rape, pillage, burn, CONVERT".. :)
A friend of mine once told me of someone he knew who would fill those return envelopes with old fishing weights before mailing them back with a note saying he wished to be removed from their mailing list, and to thank them for properly disposing of his toxic lead waste. Wish I had some old fishing weights.
A few years back. I had the opportunity to work with Thor Heyerdahl (for those who don't know, he's the guy who did Kon Tiki). At the time, he was working on a book about how the RC Church knew about the existence of the New World long before Columbus sailed (not sure if this has been translated into english yet, especially considering his recent death). Anyway, I remember him commenting on the difficulty of acquiring information from the Vatican library, not only because of political issues (which he was able to circumvent due to who he knew), but because when you want data from that library, instead of requesting something by row, shelf, etc, you first have to specify which KILOMETER your book lies within. As nice as it would be to get that all online, it would take DECADES to scan things in (especially since not just anyone knows how to handle antique books).
I've been encoding svcd's of my dvd's for a couple of years now (long story short, macrovision + tv/vcr combo does NOT work) and have come to the conclusion that you can put 60 minutes MAX onto an svcd (multipass vbr, 192 or 160 audio) before the video quality degrades to that of a standard VCD. Still, it's cheaper than video tape and doesn't degrade over time.
I think the point is that if *nix OS's are going to make it in the world of desktops, they need to be usable by "normal" people. Personally, I do 99% of my file management work in the console, but that's because nautilus is slow (even on my dual athlon) and lacks a lot of the intuitive keystroke mapping that something like MacOS has. "Normal" people don't want to know what "ls" and "cd" and "rm -f" are, they just want to point and click their files where they need them to go.
If you want to be recognized, don't follow the (questinable) ideas of others.
I'm all for changing UI standards, but until someone comes up with a better way to represent a file tree (or something better than a file tree), the "explorer" is about as good as it gets.
Then again, I really miss the tab-down folders of MacOS (konqueror does this, why not nautilus?) that turns every view into a tree view.
I never quiet understood this reference. Wouldn't this behavior be more indicative of Windows XP? (like how the first time I tried to manually enter an IP, it too me 25 minutes to convince it that I really didn't want to sign up for MSN or have it auto-configure my cable/dsl connection for me)
No kidding... hasn't anyone here seen Johny Mnemonic? I'm as geeky as the next, but I try to keep all of those wireless things as far away from me as I can (which is why my cell phone lives in my back pocket - I figure that if I get cancer, it'll be in a place I can spare to lose a few pounds when it's removed)
I'll admit that I don't know much about the technical side of xml (and I really can't see all of the great advantages to it, either), but since when does a parser care about whitespace? Wouldn't it make more sense to let the newline character match that of the overlying OS so people can actually TYPE those newline characters? Switching to unicode is fine and dandy, but what about all of those legacy systems that don't support it?
From what I recall (it was from one of those "history of computers" documentaries that were on PBS a couple of years ago), it wasn't the sex that bothered Apple, but the fact that people were DUMB and were catching (and spreading) all kinds of nasty STD's throughout the company.
Does this bother anyone else? They claim that warranty service is costing them too much money because their drives have too high of a failure rate, but then they claim that they're "so reliable" that we wouldn't need a warranty?
The problem with this is that the items many of us feel should be exempted are exactly the types of things that the DMCA was enacted to "protect" (cd's, dvd's, etc), and it would be very unlikely that the government would do anything to change that in such a "minor" alteration of the act.
yeah, except that a "telesync" refers to a camcorder shot for the video, with audio coming from a direct line in. My guess is that if someone has access to a direct line in for the audio, they also have access to the "off" switch on that jamming device.
This is called a proxy, and back when online auctions were young, there were several companies around that did this... You paid them a slight fee and they'd check that the product you ordered was in the condition that the seller claimed. Then, they'd forward your payment to the seller and the product on to you.
Wonder what happened to those kinds of places.
It's my understanding that RH removed mp3 functionality because of GNU GPL issues, not Thompson's licensing. Apparently, the GPL prevents including code from patented, non-open/free protocols (I don't know the exact clause, but I'm pretty sure it's true). This means that all of the mp3 players out there are actually in violation of the GPL.
I hope to someday get a new mac, but if Apple keeps preventing people from even changing the colors of the interface, I may just have to stick with my favorite free OS, that I can tweak so it doesn't hurt my eyes so much.
Actually, use the cover letter for ALL of that. I've been told by numerous career counselors at GOOD universities to never, EVER put an objective on your resume. Granted, it MIGHT help, but the changes (and they are good chances) that it WON'T far outweigh any help you might get. And has been stated in another comment, you've just wasted valuable skill-listing space with a comment that doesn't do more than say that you want a rewarding job to challenge and enhance your skills - um, EVERYONE wants that, and employers know it. Unless it's some incredibly-well-written objective, it'll just end up making you look inexperienced.
Use your cover letter to explain what kind of job you're looking for, or expand on specific uses of your skills that might have been too lengthy to put in your resume - and if THOSE get too long, cut them and save them for the interview.
Heck, I'm sure that some people would be MORE than happy to get Word for Linux if it ever came out (well, unless Microsoft actually opens the source to the document format so AbiWord and OpenOffice aren't forced to lag behind by reverse-engineering).
Anyway, when you hire a wedding photographer, you buy a package. The most basic packages include the photographer showing up to the event, and a reasonably-sized copy of every good photo taken at the event. Other packages include more and more copies of prints of various sizes. This is how they make their money. My photographer offers many different kinds of prints, from archival-ink digital prints (photoshop-edited for redeye, etc) to hand-painted color on B&W prints on canvas.
Most photographers these days don't even do their own developing, and they're probably not making very much money off of those copies, either. But think. A lucky photographer does one wedding per week. At a basic price of $700-800 per wedding (for a good photographer), that's NOT very much money. Let them have their IP, enter the photos of you in any contest they want to enter, or at least don't bitch when you have to pay extra to have them sell it to you. You coders out there (I'm one of you) can't REALLY expect me to believe that you delete all backups of a project that you sell off.
I don't see how this will stop piracy. When I copy a cd to ogg, or a dvd to svcd (I actually have to do this because my tv-vcr combo trips the macrovision sensors), all of that "digital" information is getting converted into something else.
Besides, what's the point? I don't see what some id code (or even a watermark, which is a little more stable across conversions) is going to do to help them identify pirated music/movies that listening/watching doesn't already do. It's not like they'd put a unique identifier on every single track of every single cd that's ever pressed.
I've been a veterian for about 8 years now, and am far healthier than I was before (might also be because I cut out most artificial color and flavor, too). But most of my vegetarian friends who actually EAT RIGHT, are the same way (my wife has had all kinds of wonderful health things happen since she stopped eating meat a year or so ago).