In a lot of places it's the only thing keeping engineering and manufacturing from being outsourced.
Why can't the Americans compete based on price or quality? If you need a law saying that you have to buy from a certain set of companies, then by my understanding capitalism has broken...
(I am aware that this might come across as flamebait, but it is an actual honest question, I just can't think of a more polite way of asking it)
this is akin to suggesting people learn how to balance their checkbooks before learning how to add and subtract.
No, it's more akin to suggesting learning to balance checkbooks before learning the esoteric theories of our number system, the formal proof that 1+1=2, etc -- one can do the mid-level perfectly well without understanding the lowest-level
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you have fed him for a lifetime...
Exactly, we should be teaching people to fish -- not teaching them the inner workings of fish psychology (as much as that might be useful to them, it will only be useful when placed underneath a more general practical understanding)
...teach them how basic computers work, then teach them the principles behind how software works, THEN teach them about things like IT
What possible benefit does this have to any career path other than programming? Bare in mind that time in school is limited -- the more time you teach the lower levels, the less is left for the higher. While I agree that it's good to know everything in detail, someone who only had time to learn word processing skills will have many more opportunities than someone who only had time for basic use of pointers.
Ditto that; and doing a survey of "Comment #33340074 and its responses", we so far have 4 votes for "happy if their favorite game
worked on linux whether it was closed source or open source, native linux or WINE" and zero votes for "open source is truth and justice and you shall have nothing else", so your guess of 50% seems low:) (Sure, the sample size is tiny, but it's better than the ass-pulled figures that the grandparent was stating)
Instead of a human voice in real time, you have a typed message. A step backwards.
Personally I find polling my phone for messages much more efficient than dealing with the interruption of calls, I actually save time since I don't need to repeat everything to account for line / background noise, and text scales better with many conversation participants -- IRC on my phone is pretty much my idea of a perfect communication method (granted, phone keyboards suck, and IRC is a somewhat dated protocol, but as a concept I can't think of anything more efficient)
turns out the eeePC identifies itself as having a stereo mic but only a mono is installed, and if signal comes in on both channels they cancel each other out
I'm pretty sure that there are actually two mics, but they're designed for background noise cancellation rather than stereo, and the linux drivers are doing it wrong (I have the same problem with my 1201n -- in linux, I can disable one channel to have the other channel and no noise cancellation which is very noisy; in windows, both channels are active, but it does noise cancellation properly, so the sound is crystal clear)
Scanning down the comment list, it looks like every (+2 or more) comment has read the article and is quoting from it -- what has happened to the slashdot I knew and loved?
Maybe I'm in a minority, but I already feel an odd sensation of "pain" when I use that odd textured (array of bumps?) on some netbook touchpads
I used to get a really weird sensation from those bumps too -- not pain as such, but quite unpleasant. After a couple of weeks of daily use I seem to have become numb to it though... It would be interesting to know where that feeling comes from.
The entire point of Linux is the philosophy. There's other choices for the "Just-Works" proprietary synergies.
Speaking as an open source developer, please stop speaking on my behalf -- While I do like the philosophy, the fact that it works well (ubuntu in particular) is the main reason I use it myself, and the only reason I'm allowed to use it in the office; my own software is GPL not because of philosophy, but because I believe that open source is a technically better development method.
I taught myself programming to a commercially acceptable level before entering university, and as such, lectures didn't teach me anything directly useful; however, I still consider the £20,000 debt worth it, as it has been a lot of fun, and I have enough contacts within the industry to keep me employed by word of mouth for life (assuming there's no giant recession that means they all close their job openings at once... doh.)
# Specify which IP address to listen on. The default is to listen on all IP addresses
# This parameter is one of the only security measures that memcached has, so make sure
# it's listening on a firewalled interface.
-l 127.0.0.1
Are there any distros that don't have it locked down by default? I would hope not, but if something has it insecure out of the box with no warning that might explain it... (though a good sysadmin would firewall all internal services, whether the documentation tells them to or not)
Dear armchair-scientists of Slashdot. can somebody tell me why this is a bad idea? I would guess that the airship structure would need to be built differently (pressure pushing in rather than out), and we'd never get 100% volume so it'd never be 100% efficient; are those real show-stoppers, or is there more to it?
And over time the only people left with that motivation, when there are gate-keepers, are going to be...
Personally I got into open source to scratch my own itches, and trade scratches with other people with the same set of itches; Ubuntu might be taking my work and giving it to an entirely new audience, but that's not stopping me from doing what I've been doing all along. Also I think the issue of them being gate-keepers is somewhat exaggerated -- while they are attracting users with a very shiny gate, the garden has no walls, so even if they locked it up people could still come and go as they please.
What happened to the tilde (~), I thought that was pretty universal as sarcasm.
In fansubbing it's used to indicate a long vowel, eg waaaaaaaaaaaah --> waah~
I'm personally in the habit of using it to end sentences where a full stop seems too sudden, and ellipsis are too emo~
I've only ever seen it used for sarcasm a couple of times, both on slashdot, both by people with "~ = sarcasm" in their sigs to explain it, so I have my doubts about the universality of it
http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Legal_torrent_sites Omg I did 250,000 torrents and only went to the above link for 29 trackers. New article: Study analyses 29 trackers, more then previously, finds 100% torrents legal.
Looking down that list, one tracker jumps out as being one of the largest old anime fansub trackers (the copyright holders don't live in the USA, but that doesn't make it legal...); and unless Disney have recently started giving things away for free, I'm pretty sure some of their stuff has been uploaded without permission too...
Perhaps the reason the original study was so small was because they wanted to actually *do* the study, rather than just making shit up as evidence that their personal opinion is right?;)
So far everyone seems to be saying that the version number is a publicity thing; but I've been using chrome for about 6 months and have no idea what my version number is. What sort of publicity stunt hides in the background only visible to people who go out of their way to check the "about" menu?
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In a lot of places it's the only thing keeping engineering and manufacturing from being outsourced.
Why can't the Americans compete based on price or quality? If you need a law saying that you have to buy from a certain set of companies, then by my understanding capitalism has broken...
(I am aware that this might come across as flamebait, but it is an actual honest question, I just can't think of a more polite way of asking it)
I am currently using Windows 7 and XBMC, but the case is too big and noisy, I don't particularly care for Windows
So get a small and quiet case, and run XBMC-Linux on it.
-- Yours sincerely, Captain Obvious
this is akin to suggesting people learn how to balance their checkbooks before learning how to add and subtract.
No, it's more akin to suggesting learning to balance checkbooks before learning the esoteric theories of our number system, the formal proof that 1+1=2, etc -- one can do the mid-level perfectly well without understanding the lowest-level
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you have fed him for a lifetime...
Exactly, we should be teaching people to fish -- not teaching them the inner workings of fish psychology (as much as that might be useful to them, it will only be useful when placed underneath a more general practical understanding)
...teach them how basic computers work, then teach them the principles behind how software works, THEN teach them about things like IT
What possible benefit does this have to any career path other than programming? Bare in mind that time in school is limited -- the more time you teach the lower levels, the less is left for the higher. While I agree that it's good to know everything in detail, someone who only had time to learn word processing skills will have many more opportunities than someone who only had time for basic use of pointers.
Ditto that; and doing a survey of "Comment #33340074 and its responses", we so far have 4 votes for "happy if their favorite game worked on linux whether it was closed source or open source, native linux or WINE" and zero votes for "open source is truth and justice and you shall have nothing else", so your guess of 50% seems low :) (Sure, the sample size is tiny, but it's better than the ass-pulled figures that the grandparent was stating)
If you know that my wireless card is in there, why not turn it on by default?
Because the driver license makes it illegal to distribute in that way?
Instead of a human voice in real time, you have a typed message. A step backwards.
Personally I find polling my phone for messages much more efficient than dealing with the interruption of calls, I actually save time since I don't need to repeat everything to account for line / background noise, and text scales better with many conversation participants -- IRC on my phone is pretty much my idea of a perfect communication method (granted, phone keyboards suck, and IRC is a somewhat dated protocol, but as a concept I can't think of anything more efficient)
how about you make like a tree and get the hell out of here.
Speaking of geek phrases -- "Make like freenode and split"
turns out the eeePC identifies itself as having a stereo mic but only a mono is installed, and if signal comes in on both channels they cancel each other out
I'm pretty sure that there are actually two mics, but they're designed for background noise cancellation rather than stereo, and the linux drivers are doing it wrong (I have the same problem with my 1201n -- in linux, I can disable one channel to have the other channel and no noise cancellation which is very noisy; in windows, both channels are active, but it does noise cancellation properly, so the sound is crystal clear)
Scanning down the comment list, it looks like every (+2 or more) comment has read the article and is quoting from it -- what has happened to the slashdot I knew and loved?
if you don't know what a "good" URL looks like
What does the URL of an iframe look like?
Maybe I'm in a minority, but I already feel an odd sensation of "pain" when I use that odd textured (array of bumps?) on some netbook touchpads
I used to get a really weird sensation from those bumps too -- not pain as such, but quite unpleasant. After a couple of weeks of daily use I seem to have become numb to it though... It would be interesting to know where that feeling comes from.
You should really use aptitude instead of apt-get, especially for installs. It's better at tracking down the vestigial requisites when removing things
Apt-get has that feature too at last; not sure if they share a database though...
Along with the unnessary server software on a desktop or the unnessary X on a server.
I think you may have mis-labelled your "Ubuntu Desktop" and "Ubuntu Server" CDs...
apt-get purge empathy evolution gwibber ubuntu-shitty-games ubuntuone-client rhythm-ghettoblaster canonical-census
If you want a distro that isn't featureful (/bloated) out of the box, just use debian :-P
The entire point of Linux is the philosophy. There's other choices for the "Just-Works" proprietary synergies.
Speaking as an open source developer, please stop speaking on my behalf -- While I do like the philosophy, the fact that it works well (ubuntu in particular) is the main reason I use it myself, and the only reason I'm allowed to use it in the office; my own software is GPL not because of philosophy, but because I believe that open source is a technically better development method.
I taught myself programming to a commercially acceptable level before entering university, and as such, lectures didn't teach me anything directly useful; however, I still consider the £20,000 debt worth it, as it has been a lot of fun, and I have enough contacts within the industry to keep me employed by word of mouth for life (assuming there's no giant recession that means they all close their job openings at once... doh.)
Debian's default config says:
# Specify which IP address to listen on. The default is to listen on all IP addresses
# This parameter is one of the only security measures that memcached has, so make sure
# it's listening on a firewalled interface.
-l 127.0.0.1
Are there any distros that don't have it locked down by default? I would hope not, but if something has it insecure out of the box with no warning that might explain it... (though a good sysadmin would firewall all internal services, whether the documentation tells them to or not)
OK, so let's fill our airships with vacuum
Dear armchair-scientists of Slashdot. can somebody tell me why this is a bad idea? I would guess that the airship structure would need to be built differently (pressure pushing in rather than out), and we'd never get 100% volume so it'd never be 100% efficient; are those real show-stoppers, or is there more to it?
That's a train on stilts (which is a hilarious idea, but I hope they can make it work)
And over time the only people left with that motivation, when there are gate-keepers, are going to be ...
Personally I got into open source to scratch my own itches, and trade scratches with other people with the same set of itches; Ubuntu might be taking my work and giving it to an entirely new audience, but that's not stopping me from doing what I've been doing all along. Also I think the issue of them being gate-keepers is somewhat exaggerated -- while they are attracting users with a very shiny gate, the garden has no walls, so even if they locked it up people could still come and go as they please.
What happened to the tilde (~), I thought that was pretty universal as sarcasm.
In fansubbing it's used to indicate a long vowel, eg waaaaaaaaaaaah --> waah~
I'm personally in the habit of using it to end sentences where a full stop seems too sudden, and ellipsis are too emo~
I've only ever seen it used for sarcasm a couple of times, both on slashdot, both by people with "~ = sarcasm" in their sigs to explain it, so I have my doubts about the universality of it
http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Legal_torrent_sites Omg I did 250,000 torrents and only went to the above link for 29 trackers. New article: Study analyses 29 trackers, more then previously, finds 100% torrents legal.
Looking down that list, one tracker jumps out as being one of the largest old anime fansub trackers (the copyright holders don't live in the USA, but that doesn't make it legal...); and unless Disney have recently started giving things away for free, I'm pretty sure some of their stuff has been uploaded without permission too...
Perhaps the reason the original study was so small was because they wanted to actually *do* the study, rather than just making shit up as evidence that their personal opinion is right? ;)
So far everyone seems to be saying that the version number is a publicity thing; but I've been using chrome for about 6 months and have no idea what my version number is. What sort of publicity stunt hides in the background only visible to people who go out of their way to check the "about" menu?