You don't know anything about users, do you? You can always get a user to something stupid, no matter what OS they're running. It's just that Windows usually makes it easier to do stupid things. Keeping the OS updated isn't even hard -- hell, you configure it once and never click anything again -- but users can't seem to do it. I don't care if everyone on the planet ran BSD or AIX or Trusted Solaris or friggin' VMS; there would still be plenty of morons who would be unable to keep their boxes patched to even remotely current levels, and even more who would happily type in their root password to get a "free web accelerator!" or to see "so cool a movie." It doesn't matter how secure an OS is if the computer has a stupid operator.
Go straight to Lisp or another recursive language. If the kid learns to grok Lisp at age 7, he'll be able to understand anything that comes down the pipes after that. There's nothing more difficult than trying to learn Lisp after years and years of imperative programming.
Also, don't just sit the kid in front of the monitor and leave a sign that says, "Before you ask daddy, RTFM!" Program with the kid. Let him watch how you approach problems, help him solve some of his own. Something like BASIC or Pascal is perfect for this -- you get graphics very easily and have something the kid can get interested in. Write games with the kid and then challenge him to make changes. (I remember when I got started with BASIC. I took the sample "Gorillas" game that came with about half of the various versions of BASIC and turned the bananas into bombs.)
The three media players I can find available to my SuSE Pro 9.3 install are amaroK, Kaffeine, and xmcd, all of which are GPL'd. Do you have any examples? I'm genuinely interested.
It's really a simple formula. You should buy the ebook iff:
E Where E is the price of the E-book, U is the price of the same book used, and S is the sell-back price of the book. We know that E is always 67% of N, the price of the book new. U tends to be 50-80% of N, depending on the book (and whether or not it includes a CD), so there go most situations right there. S can range from 5-25% of N. Hence, it's only a small portion of cases wherein you youd be justified by price.
Of course, you should also consider whether or not you'll be reinstalling your OS during the semester, or hoping to use the same book on a dual-boot system, ever wanting to read your book anywhere but the computer, or the possibility that it turns out to be a damn good book that you want to keep. Frankly, I don't think the end savings of maybe $10 is worth it. (Best case savings is actually 12%, so it could be marginally more. Still not worth it.)
How is SuSE not free as in freedom? I know there was some concern over YaST a while ago, but they open sourced it. Obviously, Novell has a lot of non-free products, but how is SuSE not free?
Uh, you must have had a very different sales team than I had. When we met with Novell IRL, they were happy to hear that we ran a lot of Linux, so they pushed SuSE, Open Enterprise Server, and Linux support. They mentioned Netware very briefly (mostly to note it wasn't a good fit for us) and never mentioned Groupwise. They seemed more interested in selling us Linux, as well as products like eDirectory and their web services stuff.
Never met with Redhat, though. Ironically, we're running four (paid-for) Redhat servers and zero paid-for SuSE servers, simply because it's cheaper.
I'm pretty sure you and I are both looking down the barrel of lawsuits, as I'm pretty sure "A Method of Attempting to be Humorous by Inventing Specious Patents and Posting them as Comments to a Story on Specious Patents" has been patented. Damn! I'm taking donations for my legal fund if anyone wants to help fight the good fight.
We'd need to open source not the individual pictures, but the repositories. That way, you could be assured that the buggery with sailors would be winnowed out of "milk-squirtin-tatties-v2.02" by other reviewers. Admittedly, there'd be a lot more consumers than contributors, but as long as you made sure that the repositories themselves were open source. After all, some people might want to download "girls-of-questionable-hotness-0.15b" or "big-fat-fatties-3.1rc2."
Bias will always exist. So hey, let's just ignore it!
No, I think not. I'm opposed to the death penalty for the same reasons as the parent. I also agree with you: the same biases that make me oppose the death penalty have always and will always exist. That makes me think I should always oppose the death penalty, not suddenly switch to supporting it.
Huh, wireless works OOTB on my SuSE box. And there's a slick GUI for configuring it, etc. So maybe this isn't so much a monolithic problem with Linux as a problem with [some|most] distros.
It's a selection of problems from the Online-Judge problem set.
Yes yes yes! That problem set is wonderful, and would have been my recommendation had you not cold-heartedly stolen it. The problems range from easy to friggin' impossible, most are fun, some are even funny, and, as noted, you can get the results online. There are also, IIRC, message boards somewhere if you need help with a problem. Great and extremely large problem set.
You know, it just occured to me that anyone savvy enough to download the Hot Coffee mod would also be savvy enough to download the whole damn game. So who have they stopped from seeing a poorly-rendered, fully-clothed comic sex game? Not a single goddamned person. They have, however, prevented plenty of innocent 17- to 26-year-old white males from knowing the sublime joy that is unloading two sawed-off shotguns into a cop.
Forget that, why is a poorly rendered, fully clothed comic sex game considered less serious than, say, any of the fucking porn on the Internet? Seriously! The difference is that someone actually has to spend the US$50 for the former, plus have an Internet connection and be a reasonably savvy user; for the latter, you just need to Google titties.
You don't even need to bring the whole sex vs. violence debate into this. The fact is that GTA is a video game, so it must be evil, even if to unlock the sex scenes, you have to download and install a mod.
Gah!! There's just so much stupidity in the world! No, I take that back. There's just so much stupidity in the government!
Hey, they're sysadmins, not designers. They're too busy keeping the box running (despite the attempts of half a million/. nerds) to make a pretty site.
Heck, I'm amazed they even used colors. I half expected it to look a lot like the Lynx website.
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Sir, you have out-pedanted me.
You don't know anything about users, do you? You can always get a user to something stupid, no matter what OS they're running. It's just that Windows usually makes it easier to do stupid things. Keeping the OS updated isn't even hard -- hell, you configure it once and never click anything again -- but users can't seem to do it. I don't care if everyone on the planet ran BSD or AIX or Trusted Solaris or friggin' VMS; there would still be plenty of morons who would be unable to keep their boxes patched to even remotely current levels, and even more who would happily type in their root password to get a "free web accelerator!" or to see "so cool a movie." It doesn't matter how secure an OS is if the computer has a stupid operator.
Actually, it would be due to generous amounts of sudden decelleration. I'd be very surprised if any of them experienced more gravity than you or I.
Also, don't just sit the kid in front of the monitor and leave a sign that says, "Before you ask daddy, RTFM!" Program with the kid. Let him watch how you approach problems, help him solve some of his own. Something like BASIC or Pascal is perfect for this -- you get graphics very easily and have something the kid can get interested in. Write games with the kid and then challenge him to make changes. (I remember when I got started with BASIC. I took the sample "Gorillas" game that came with about half of the various versions of BASIC and turned the bananas into bombs.)
The three media players I can find available to my SuSE Pro 9.3 install are amaroK, Kaffeine, and xmcd, all of which are GPL'd. Do you have any examples? I'm genuinely interested.
But does that claw hammer run BSD?
That'll teach me to use the preview button.
That'll teach me to use the preview button. The formula is:
E < U - S
E Where E is the price of the E-book, U is the price of the same book used, and S is the sell-back price of the book. We know that E is always 67% of N, the price of the book new. U tends to be 50-80% of N, depending on the book (and whether or not it includes a CD), so there go most situations right there. S can range from 5-25% of N. Hence, it's only a small portion of cases wherein you youd be justified by price.
Of course, you should also consider whether or not you'll be reinstalling your OS during the semester, or hoping to use the same book on a dual-boot system, ever wanting to read your book anywhere but the computer, or the possibility that it turns out to be a damn good book that you want to keep. Frankly, I don't think the end savings of maybe $10 is worth it. (Best case savings is actually 12%, so it could be marginally more. Still not worth it.)
How is SuSE not free as in freedom? I know there was some concern over YaST a while ago, but they open sourced it. Obviously, Novell has a lot of non-free products, but how is SuSE not free?
Never met with Redhat, though. Ironically, we're running four (paid-for) Redhat servers and zero paid-for SuSE servers, simply because it's cheaper.
I'm pretty sure you and I are both looking down the barrel of lawsuits, as I'm pretty sure "A Method of Attempting to be Humorous by Inventing Specious Patents and Posting them as Comments to a Story on Specious Patents" has been patented. Damn! I'm taking donations for my legal fund if anyone wants to help fight the good fight.
I guess we could just burn them, huh?
Friggin' woot. Most insightful post of the whole story.
We'd need to open source not the individual pictures, but the repositories. That way, you could be assured that the buggery with sailors would be winnowed out of "milk-squirtin-tatties-v2.02" by other reviewers. Admittedly, there'd be a lot more consumers than contributors, but as long as you made sure that the repositories themselves were open source. After all, some people might want to download "girls-of-questionable-hotness-0.15b" or "big-fat-fatties-3.1rc2."
No, I think not. I'm opposed to the death penalty for the same reasons as the parent. I also agree with you: the same biases that make me oppose the death penalty have always and will always exist. That makes me think I should always oppose the death penalty, not suddenly switch to supporting it.
10 years? You didn't get a multi-buttoned mouse until 1995? Try 20+ years too late.
Huh, wireless works OOTB on my SuSE box. And there's a slick GUI for configuring it, etc. So maybe this isn't so much a monolithic problem with Linux as a problem with [some|most] distros.
Oh, wow. I guess that puts a different face on it. In Soviet Australia,...
You know, it just occured to me that anyone savvy enough to download the Hot Coffee mod would also be savvy enough to download the whole damn game. So who have they stopped from seeing a poorly-rendered, fully-clothed comic sex game? Not a single goddamned person. They have, however, prevented plenty of innocent 17- to 26-year-old white males from knowing the sublime joy that is unloading two sawed-off shotguns into a cop.
You don't even need to bring the whole sex vs. violence debate into this. The fact is that GTA is a video game, so it must be evil, even if to unlock the sex scenes, you have to download and install a mod.
Gah!! There's just so much stupidity in the world! No, I take that back. There's just so much stupidity in the government!
Heck, I'm amazed they even used colors. I half expected it to look a lot like the Lynx website.
Ugh, that's not even funny in Soviet Russia. Seriously. The KGB killed people with "jokes" like that.