Rich people are rich because they don't spend money. More than half of Canada's debt is caused by the extremely wealthy not paying their fair share. The solution? Raise the middle class' taxes so they can pay the interest!
no GNU/Linux support, but Windows support is on its way.
So, wait for iTunes for Windows, emerge winex, hope to God that the Windows port works, fork over your CC number and start downloading!
Not so easy.:(
I prefer sending money orders of about $5 to the artist/band - skip the RIAA, skip the greedy record company, give more money to the artist and save $20!
I prefer the explaination for T3 that my friend and I generated about two years ago:
Sarah Conner wakes up one morning and discovers that she's still a child! Her entire adult life was only a dream/nightmare. She's so traumatized from dreaming of the terminators that the next day at day care she begins drawing whatever she remembered about them. Dyson arrives at the day care at the end of the day to pick up his son, sees the drawings posted on the wall and is inspired! He creates the chips shortly thereafter and humanity's fate is sealed.
There are a lot of "x discriminates against the blind" posts already, but keep the web is supposed to be universal. Imagine being blind, never being able to experience the majority written works, and then discovering the Web: a huge body of knowledge that can instantly be transformed into voice or braille. Then imagine discovering that most of that has been obfuscated so thoroughly by shitty authoring tools or lazy developers that it too is useless to you.
Put yourself in the shoes of your fellow human being once in a while.
So basically, "GNU/Linux sucks because Adobe won't port Photoshop to it."
Here's a great OS that doesn't cost any money, it's more secure than Windows, it's more stable, it's faster and some people even say that it's easier to use. In addition, Microsoft has broken the law more than once, engages in crooked business practices, and is run by a money-grubbing asshole.
If you need software that you can only get for Windows (and CrossOver won't cut it), use Windows. Whatever works best for you. If you want to complain about a lack of software, write a letter (snail mail, not e-mail) to the company that publishes what you need - it's not the Free software community's fault that Adobe and Macromedia don't care about GNU/Linux.
Pop-up blocking can be handled through user-made addons. What IE needs is a better attempt at standards compliance. Seriously, Internet Explorer is probably the worst thing to ever happen to the Web. CSS layout is basically ignored by web developers and authoring tool developers alike because it's basically useless in IE.
Some Jabber clients are capable of end-to-end encryption, but aren't. However, client-to-server encryption through SSL is quite common.
So, this would work very well in a corporate environment (except for your GNU/Linux users, happily chatting away using Tkabber and GnuPG), but don't trust plain-old Jabber for your personal, confidential communications! You could be snooped on by the admin!
There's also no textmode browsers that grok CSS at all, much less CSS Positioning. That's the whole point. XHTML defines structure and meaning, leaving the rendering up to the user agent.
The <h*> tags really help a lot: when used properly, they make navigating a page a breeze for people using aural browsers.
If people want a document to ALWAYS look a certain way, they should use PDF, not XHTML. CSS lets you take a meaningful document and suggest visual or aural rendering.
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Witness the recent Taco IRC interview where his response to "when will Slashdot validate at the W3c" was "Whatever. Next."
The only reason to use tabular layout (like Slashdot does) is to make things look good in Internet Explorer. Switching to pure CSS (as the W3C recommends) saves bandwidth (as all of the formatting and layout information can be stored in a separate, cacheable file), gives you the freedom to create far more interesting and visually powerful designs, and makes the page accessible.
Slashdot should take a hint from Wired's excellent example and move into the new millenium.
I believe that they started the project with portability in mind. Of course, doing the Linux port probably brought them 90% of the way to having a Mac OS X port, too.
You have to look beyond the fact that "money is being spent". You have to look at where it's going.
If you stick with Windows, it's all going to Bill Gates' pocket. If you move to GNU/Linux or *BSD you spend the money that you save in licensing on training users and perhaps hiring support staff. The difference is that the money is going to many people in your community rather than one rich jerk on the other side of the continent who'll never let it go.
You'll never save money on a large-scale deployment of Free software, but you'll create employment and help real people.
Python is easy to learn, Free, free, fast and portable, but most importantly it's interpreted.
When I was growing up (and using BASIC on the C64) I loved that I could enter a line of code and see the results immediately. It encourages a lot more experimentation as you can effortlessly try anything, be it interactively before you even start writing to test out a concept, or in the middle of executing your program.
"PGP normally compresses the plaintext before encrypting it. It's too late to compress it after it has been encrypted; encrypted data is incompressible. Data compression saves modem transmission time and disk space and more importantly strengthens cryptographic security. Most cryptanalysis techniques exploit redundancies found in the plaintext to crack the cipher. Data compression reduces this redundancy in the plaintext, thereby greatly enhancing resistance to cryptanalysis..." PGP User's Guide, Volume 2
Yup, still does. It uses code from Info-ZIP (so GPG probably uses zlib, same thing) to compress the file before encrypting: a compressed file is, in theory, non-repetitive data and is therefore less crack-able.
So, try tar or compress-less zip to package up a bunch of files and then encrypt with PGP/GPG.
Well, some Jabber clients (such as Tkabber and gabber) will integrate with GPG, and the messages do balloon up.
At work I use Exodus to connect to jabber.org using SSL, which ensures that my messages aren't being read by my boss/the IT department/the organization's ISP. Once they hit jabber.org, however, anyone can read them. Still, it's better than nothing, and it works for any legacy IM system that I connect to (ICQ, AIM, Yahoo!).
The last time that I stayed in a hotel I decided to make a long-distance call to my aunt (who happened to live a two-hour drive away).
Instead of walking down to the payphones, I thought I'd call from the room. When I got the bill, it listed the normal long-distance charges plus a $15 connection fee.
In-room broadband will end up costing $10/hour plus $2 for every Google search made or e-mail sent.
That's the way that many Canadians vote: for the person, not the party.
I know a lot of Americans who have this, "my father was a Republican, and so was his father, and so was HIS father... so dammit, I'm going to be a Republican, too!" thing going on.
God, I have never, EVER had a computer teacher who knew what they were talking about. From computer science to the Cisco Networking Academy, they seemed like little more than babysitters.
Teacher: "Hm.. that method used to take an integer, but then we DID just upgrade JBuilder.. maybe they changed something." Me: "Actually, the newer version of JBuilder uses the same JDK as the version we were using before." Teacher: "... I don't follow you. Hey, let's check the Borland website!" Me: "Whatever." and then I prompty close JBuilder, reload Vim and get back to work.
It's probably for the best, anyway - your average comp-sci classroom ends up working like Extreme Programming.
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Rich people are rich because they don't spend money.
More than half of Canada's debt is caused by the extremely wealthy not paying their fair share. The solution? Raise the middle class' taxes so they can pay the interest!
Hmm...
:(
no GNU/Linux support, but Windows support is on its way.
So, wait for iTunes for Windows, emerge winex, hope to God that the Windows port works, fork over your CC number and start downloading!
Not so easy.
I prefer sending money orders of about $5 to the artist/band - skip the RIAA, skip the greedy record company, give more money to the artist and save $20!
Didn't Reagan introduce trickle-down economics (also known as piss-on-the-bastards economics)?
I know that the US millitary is very Republican, but surely there are other people more worthy of having $5 billion aircraft carrier named after them.
They could've at least called it the USS Reagan. It's more catchy.
"We have to sink the Reagan to the bottom of the sea."
In terms of being shocked, current is far worse than voltage, and phone lines are low-current.
I prefer the explaination for T3 that my friend and I generated about two years ago:
Sarah Conner wakes up one morning and discovers that she's still a child! Her entire adult life was only a dream/nightmare. She's so traumatized from dreaming of the terminators that the next day at day care she begins drawing whatever she remembered about them.
Dyson arrives at the day care at the end of the day to pick up his son, sees the drawings posted on the wall and is inspired!
He creates the chips shortly thereafter and humanity's fate is sealed.
Whadya think? Could I have sold it to Cameron?
There are a lot of "x discriminates against the blind" posts already, but keep the web is supposed to be universal.
Imagine being blind, never being able to experience the majority written works, and then discovering the Web: a huge body of knowledge that can instantly be transformed into voice or braille.
Then imagine discovering that most of that has been obfuscated so thoroughly by shitty authoring tools or lazy developers that it too is useless to you.
Put yourself in the shoes of your fellow human being once in a while.
So basically, "GNU/Linux sucks because Adobe won't port Photoshop to it."
Here's a great OS that doesn't cost any money, it's more secure than Windows, it's more stable, it's faster and some people even say that it's easier to use. In addition, Microsoft has broken the law more than once, engages in crooked business practices, and is run by a money-grubbing asshole.
If you need software that you can only get for Windows (and CrossOver won't cut it), use Windows. Whatever works best for you.
If you want to complain about a lack of software, write a letter (snail mail, not e-mail) to the company that publishes what you need - it's not the Free software community's fault that Adobe and Macromedia don't care about GNU/Linux.
Pop-up blocking can be handled through user-made addons. What IE needs is a better attempt at standards compliance.
Seriously, Internet Explorer is probably the worst thing to ever happen to the Web. CSS layout is basically ignored by web developers and authoring tool developers alike because it's basically useless in IE.
(and pop-ups aren't technically "spam").
Actually, prohibition is what gave the Mafia its foothold.
You'd think that governments would have wisened up by now. They've certainly made enough mistakes.
Some Jabber clients are capable of end-to-end encryption, but aren't. However, client-to-server encryption through SSL is quite common.
So, this would work very well in a corporate environment (except for your GNU/Linux users, happily chatting away using Tkabber and GnuPG), but don't trust plain-old Jabber for your personal, confidential communications! You could be snooped on by the admin!
There's also no textmode browsers that grok CSS at all, much less CSS Positioning.
That's the whole point. XHTML defines structure and meaning, leaving the rendering up to the user agent.
The <h*> tags really help a lot: when used properly, they make navigating a page a breeze for people using aural browsers.
If people want a document to ALWAYS look a certain way, they should use PDF, not XHTML. CSS lets you take a meaningful document and suggest visual or aural rendering.
Witness the recent Taco IRC interview where his response to "when will Slashdot validate at the W3c" was "Whatever. Next."
The only reason to use tabular layout (like Slashdot does) is to make things look good in Internet Explorer.
Switching to pure CSS (as the W3C recommends) saves bandwidth (as all of the formatting and layout information can be stored in a separate, cacheable file), gives you the freedom to create far more interesting and visually powerful designs, and makes the page accessible.
Slashdot should take a hint from Wired's excellent example and move into the new millenium.
I believe that they started the project with portability in mind. Of course, doing the Linux port probably brought them 90% of the way to having a Mac OS X port, too.
If they do a good job, it won't feel VFX heavy because you won't notice it.
You have to look beyond the fact that "money is being spent". You have to look at where it's going.
If you stick with Windows, it's all going to Bill Gates' pocket. If you move to GNU/Linux or *BSD you spend the money that you save in licensing on training users and perhaps hiring support staff. The difference is that the money is going to many people in your community rather than one rich jerk on the other side of the continent who'll never let it go.
You'll never save money on a large-scale deployment of Free software, but you'll create employment and help real people.
Python is easy to learn, Free, free, fast and portable, but most importantly it's interpreted.
When I was growing up (and using BASIC on the C64) I loved that I could enter a line of code and see the results immediately. It encourages a lot more experimentation as you can effortlessly try anything, be it interactively before you even start writing to test out a concept, or in the middle of executing your program.
"PGP normally compresses the plaintext before encrypting it. It's too late to compress it after it has been encrypted; encrypted data is incompressible. Data compression saves modem transmission time and disk space and more importantly strengthens cryptographic security. Most cryptanalysis techniques exploit redundancies found in the plaintext to crack the cipher. Data compression reduces this redundancy in the plaintext, thereby greatly enhancing resistance to cryptanalysis..."
PGP User's Guide, Volume 2
Yup, still does. It uses code from Info-ZIP (so GPG probably uses zlib, same thing) to compress the file before encrypting: a compressed file is, in theory, non-repetitive data and is therefore less crack-able.
So, try tar or compress-less zip to package up a bunch of files and then encrypt with PGP/GPG.
Thank you so much for making Exodus! It's probably the best IM client that I've ever used!
Rock-solid, powerful and light-weight, but still a breeze to use.
Just listen to the audience.
Scooby Doo
*applause*
Dobby
*applause*
Yoda
*louder applause*
Kangaroo Jack
*total silence*
Gollum
*thunderous applause*
Gee, I guess the people won't choke down any old crap that Hollywood puts in front of them afterall.
Well, some Jabber clients (such as Tkabber and gabber) will integrate with GPG, and the messages do balloon up.
At work I use Exodus to connect to jabber.org using SSL, which ensures that my messages aren't being read by my boss/the IT department/the organization's ISP. Once they hit jabber.org, however, anyone can read them. Still, it's better than nothing, and it works for any legacy IM system that I connect to (ICQ, AIM, Yahoo!).
Would it be possible to make an RFID "blaster" (something that would overload it and make it burn out?)
I'd keep one in my pocket and swipe it across every new purchase (right outside the store).
The last time that I stayed in a hotel I decided to make a long-distance call to my aunt (who happened to live a two-hour drive away).
Instead of walking down to the payphones, I thought I'd call from the room. When I got the bill, it listed the normal long-distance charges plus a $15 connection fee.
In-room broadband will end up costing $10/hour plus $2 for every Google search made or e-mail sent.
That's the way that many Canadians vote: for the person, not the party.
I know a lot of Americans who have this, "my father was a Republican, and so was his father, and so was HIS father... so dammit, I'm going to be a Republican, too!" thing going on.
It's cultural.
God, I have never, EVER had a computer teacher who knew what they were talking about. From computer science to the Cisco Networking Academy, they seemed like little more than babysitters.
Teacher: "Hm.. that method used to take an integer, but then we DID just upgrade JBuilder.. maybe they changed something."
Me: "Actually, the newer version of JBuilder uses the same JDK as the version we were using before."
Teacher: "... I don't follow you. Hey, let's check the Borland website!"
Me: "Whatever."
and then I prompty close JBuilder, reload Vim and get back to work.
It's probably for the best, anyway - your average comp-sci classroom ends up working like Extreme Programming.