Dependancy hell is terrible in Linux. I was trying to remove MySQL in Kubuntu, to install Percona, and it told me that it had to remove all of KDE if I wanted to remove MySQL. And I couldn't install Percona because it conflicted with MySQL. I understand some advantages of shared libraries, but sometimes they cause a lot of grief.
This is like saying Ford controls the car components market because they have factories exclusively supplying them with parts. Just because you own a factory the produces certain things, doesn't mean that somebody else can't create their own factory creating the exact same things. It would actually make sense for Apple to have control of a few factories to ensure supply, rather than relying on factories that also supplied other companies, meaning they could have shortages if some other company had an increase in business. How stupid would Apple look if you couldn't get your new iPad because some new fancy table was taking the availablity of all their parts?
Yeah, I hate them, you hate them, but you really have to think about everybody else in the world. They (the computer industry) have been trying to sell industrial and commercial level computers to home consumers since the advent of the computer. Apple is the first company to focus exclusively on the home user. This makes their products very attractive for a lot of people. While you may not like, and have no use for their products, there are many who like Apple products simple because they are designed from the ground up to be easy for the average person to use at home.
Temperature for me really isn't a problem. Remember, cross country skiers deal with this kind of weather all the time. Once you get moving, your body generates its own heat. The reason that I don't ride in the winter is the sheer amount of snow we get. Start with a layer of freezing rain, add a bit of snow on top, and you are asking for trouble. Not to mention the salt they put on the roads. That's terrible for your bike.
They aren't doing anything illegal. All their doing is selling tools. What people choose to do with those tools is up to them. Cisco has no control over what the end user does with the items they sell. And as others have mentioned, the US, UK, and others are using the exact same devices to do the exact same thing to their own citizens. Why is it all right for the some countries to do this but not other
While you are technically correct, the majority of people use chomping. I know that doesn't make it right, but just because you are right, doesn't mean people won't look at you like you have 3 head when you say "champing at the bit".
And as a publicly traded company, Cisco has an obligation to make as much money as they can for their shareholders. So unless it is illegal to export these products to China, they would be in the wrong to not sell their products to China, since they probably make quite a bit of money from them. The only reason they wouldn't sell their products to China would be if it caused customers to leave based on the fact that they were selling to China. I don't think most of their major customers care in the least about them selling to China. Some might even see it as a good thing. "If it's good enough for the Chinese government, it's good enough for me" could be one outlook I could see from many customers..
I've seen a couple of the productions on this VODO site, namely Pioneer One, and The Tunnel. Both were watchable, but I would say they are both not quite as good as a Hollywood production. The acting seems to be noticeably worse. I'm not sure what it is, but it seems that in these low budget movies, they seem to just keep the shot as long as the lines are correct as per the script, and don't seem to worry about whether or not they are delivered properly. At lot of the dialog seems really unnatural. Whereas in hollywood they would make the actors redo the scene until it was perfect, it seems that in indie films this just doesn't happen. Overall, I think that indie movies have their place, but that big budget movies aren't going anywhere. Although they may change their distribution model a little bit.
This is where Android really should be beating iOS. You should be able to download an Android build directly from Google and load it on your phone. You shouldn't have to get an update from the manufacturer. You don't have to contact HP to upgrade windows (or Linux for that matter) on your HP laptop. I think we should push for the same functionality with phones. At least if you buy and iPhone/iPad you can be reasonably sure that you will get updates for the thing, directly from Apple. With Android devices, there's no saying when, if ever, you will get an update.
My university had a co-operative education program. After second year we would do 1 term of school followed by a term of work and continue for this through the summer. Every single co-op position was paid. I'm in Canada, so maybe things are different here. I've heard about this unpaid internship thing in the US, and it is BS. The students are providing valuable work for the companies they are working for. They should be paid for it. How do they get around minimum wage laws if people are basically working for free? Sure we didn't get paid as much as the people working there full time, but we got pretty good wages.
But if your friend has a picture, and chooses to share it with your parents, there isn't much you can do about it. Granted Google's system is much better. It's nice that the default is to share thing only with specific groups of people.
Yeah, I mean, you really can't quit the utilities or the bank. Most people don't even have a choice for utilities, and if you do have a choice, they are all about the same price and evilness anyways. For banks, you could get by without a bank account, but it would be probably more difficult than just having a bank account that sucks anyway. Facebook on the other hand, is completely optional. Getting off facebook would probably give many people a lot more free time.
This is the problem with the Wii. Since it had motion control, everybody thought they just had to use motion control in some aspect, or their game would fail. The worse example I can think of this is Fallout. It make you shake the controller to jump. This was fine until you had to make a precise jump to get on top of something. The combined action of shaking the wiimote, and moving forward was something I found quite difficult. They could have easily mapped jump to a button, but they made it so you had to shake the wiimote, making the game very frustrating. Some of the best games (single player) on the wii use very little if any, motion control.
Not to mention the "Fluffy Kitty.jpg.exe" trick. Windows to this day still hides the extensions of known files by default. Tie that in there with a nice exe icon that looks like a cat, and you are set.
Corporations need to fill the USB drives with epoxy. People are stupid. Not only that, even if they are smart, they would rather plug it in at work, than risk plugging it in at home. Short solution is that corporations needs to have software installed on the machines that can limit what devices can be plugged into the computer. This is entirely possible. My company uses it. If people want to take work files home, they shouldn't. They should use a VPN to log into the network from home and access the files over the internet. People shouldn't have the authority to plug in random hardware.
Along the same lines as you mentioned, create a USB stick with a battery that discharge all at once upon plugging it in, frying the USB port. I'm not sure how big the batter would have to be, but it could probably be done. What happens if you short the USB power lines?
I tried to install it on my shared host. Didn't get very far. I may try again. That's what they really need to work if they want it to take off. People need to be able to easily host their own nodes.
Except for the part where Google hosts all the data, a lot of the features sound a lot like Diaspora. That project sounded quite interesting. Too bad it seems to have not moved anywhere in a very long time.
Sunlight does fall under the definition of radiation, but not the kind of radiation we're talking about here. While you do need certain amounts of UV and visible light radiation, what you don't need is x-ray radiation. Any amount of that is bad for you.
Of course, it would be completely impossible to install 2 versions of a single browser on a single machine. Oh, wait it isn't. If these companies really have that much of a reliance on old browsers, maybe they should figure out a way to keep the version they want that works with apps that don't support newer browsers, and then just use newer browsers for the rest.
How about they fix their plugin system so that determining whether or not plugin will work is not dependent on version numbers. This is equivalent to checking user agent strings to determine if your javascript will run. We discovered a long time ago that that was a bad practice. What we really need is a way for the browser to check which functionality the plugins are trying to use to determine whether or not it will run correctly And then just give the option to the user to run the plugin anyway. It's not like the plugins are compiled against specific version of Firefox anyway. They are just interpreted javascript code. The worst that should happen is that a warning should be displayed, letting the user know that the plugin hasn't been tested against the specific version. If the user decides it isn't working, they can disable the plugin if they want.
You only have to change it once if you set the version number high enough. Set it to 100, and the it'll probably never complain about version numbers again. The plugins might eventually stop working, but worry about that when it happens. Mozilla knows which APIs the plugins are calling, and it knowns which APIs have changed in the upgrade. They really should be able to figure this out for themselves.
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Dependancy hell is terrible in Linux. I was trying to remove MySQL in Kubuntu, to install Percona, and it told me that it had to remove all of KDE if I wanted to remove MySQL. And I couldn't install Percona because it conflicted with MySQL. I understand some advantages of shared libraries, but sometimes they cause a lot of grief.
This is like saying Ford controls the car components market because they have factories exclusively supplying them with parts. Just because you own a factory the produces certain things, doesn't mean that somebody else can't create their own factory creating the exact same things. It would actually make sense for Apple to have control of a few factories to ensure supply, rather than relying on factories that also supplied other companies, meaning they could have shortages if some other company had an increase in business. How stupid would Apple look if you couldn't get your new iPad because some new fancy table was taking the availablity of all their parts?
Yeah, I hate them, you hate them, but you really have to think about everybody else in the world. They (the computer industry) have been trying to sell industrial and commercial level computers to home consumers since the advent of the computer. Apple is the first company to focus exclusively on the home user. This makes their products very attractive for a lot of people. While you may not like, and have no use for their products, there are many who like Apple products simple because they are designed from the ground up to be easy for the average person to use at home.
Temperature for me really isn't a problem. Remember, cross country skiers deal with this kind of weather all the time. Once you get moving, your body generates its own heat. The reason that I don't ride in the winter is the sheer amount of snow we get. Start with a layer of freezing rain, add a bit of snow on top, and you are asking for trouble. Not to mention the salt they put on the roads. That's terrible for your bike.
I wasn't aware that facebook had a blog feature.
They aren't doing anything illegal. All their doing is selling tools. What people choose to do with those tools is up to them. Cisco has no control over what the end user does with the items they sell. And as others have mentioned, the US, UK, and others are using the exact same devices to do the exact same thing to their own citizens. Why is it all right for the some countries to do this but not other
While you are technically correct, the majority of people use chomping. I know that doesn't make it right, but just because you are right, doesn't mean people won't look at you like you have 3 head when you say "champing at the bit".
And as a publicly traded company, Cisco has an obligation to make as much money as they can for their shareholders. So unless it is illegal to export these products to China, they would be in the wrong to not sell their products to China, since they probably make quite a bit of money from them. The only reason they wouldn't sell their products to China would be if it caused customers to leave based on the fact that they were selling to China. I don't think most of their major customers care in the least about them selling to China. Some might even see it as a good thing. "If it's good enough for the Chinese government, it's good enough for me" could be one outlook I could see from many customers..
I've seen a couple of the productions on this VODO site, namely Pioneer One, and The Tunnel. Both were watchable, but I would say they are both not quite as good as a Hollywood production. The acting seems to be noticeably worse. I'm not sure what it is, but it seems that in these low budget movies, they seem to just keep the shot as long as the lines are correct as per the script, and don't seem to worry about whether or not they are delivered properly. At lot of the dialog seems really unnatural. Whereas in hollywood they would make the actors redo the scene until it was perfect, it seems that in indie films this just doesn't happen. Overall, I think that indie movies have their place, but that big budget movies aren't going anywhere. Although they may change their distribution model a little bit.
This is where Android really should be beating iOS. You should be able to download an Android build directly from Google and load it on your phone. You shouldn't have to get an update from the manufacturer. You don't have to contact HP to upgrade windows (or Linux for that matter) on your HP laptop. I think we should push for the same functionality with phones. At least if you buy and iPhone/iPad you can be reasonably sure that you will get updates for the thing, directly from Apple. With Android devices, there's no saying when, if ever, you will get an update.
My university had a co-operative education program. After second year we would do 1 term of school followed by a term of work and continue for this through the summer. Every single co-op position was paid. I'm in Canada, so maybe things are different here. I've heard about this unpaid internship thing in the US, and it is BS. The students are providing valuable work for the companies they are working for. They should be paid for it. How do they get around minimum wage laws if people are basically working for free? Sure we didn't get paid as much as the people working there full time, but we got pretty good wages.
But if your friend has a picture, and chooses to share it with your parents, there isn't much you can do about it. Granted Google's system is much better. It's nice that the default is to share thing only with specific groups of people.
Yeah, I mean, you really can't quit the utilities or the bank. Most people don't even have a choice for utilities, and if you do have a choice, they are all about the same price and evilness anyways. For banks, you could get by without a bank account, but it would be probably more difficult than just having a bank account that sucks anyway. Facebook on the other hand, is completely optional. Getting off facebook would probably give many people a lot more free time.
This is the problem with the Wii. Since it had motion control, everybody thought they just had to use motion control in some aspect, or their game would fail. The worse example I can think of this is Fallout. It make you shake the controller to jump. This was fine until you had to make a precise jump to get on top of something. The combined action of shaking the wiimote, and moving forward was something I found quite difficult. They could have easily mapped jump to a button, but they made it so you had to shake the wiimote, making the game very frustrating. Some of the best games (single player) on the wii use very little if any, motion control.
I was aware of the XKCD comic. But I thought it would be funny anyway. The Mac command symbol looks roughly like a butterfly.
Not to mention the "Fluffy Kitty.jpg.exe" trick. Windows to this day still hides the extensions of known files by default. Tie that in there with a nice exe icon that looks like a cat, and you are set.
Corporations need to fill the USB drives with epoxy. People are stupid. Not only that, even if they are smart, they would rather plug it in at work, than risk plugging it in at home. Short solution is that corporations needs to have software installed on the machines that can limit what devices can be plugged into the computer. This is entirely possible. My company uses it. If people want to take work files home, they shouldn't. They should use a VPN to log into the network from home and access the files over the internet. People shouldn't have the authority to plug in random hardware.
Along the same lines as you mentioned, create a USB stick with a battery that discharge all at once upon plugging it in, frying the USB port. I'm not sure how big the batter would have to be, but it could probably be done. What happens if you short the USB power lines?
Butterfly? But I'm not using a Mac keyboard.
I tried to install it on my shared host. Didn't get very far. I may try again. That's what they really need to work if they want it to take off. People need to be able to easily host their own nodes.
Except for the part where Google hosts all the data, a lot of the features sound a lot like Diaspora. That project sounded quite interesting. Too bad it seems to have not moved anywhere in a very long time.
Or just make it run mazes?
Sunlight does fall under the definition of radiation, but not the kind of radiation we're talking about here. While you do need certain amounts of UV and visible light radiation, what you don't need is x-ray radiation. Any amount of that is bad for you.
Of course, it would be completely impossible to install 2 versions of a single browser on a single machine. Oh, wait it isn't. If these companies really have that much of a reliance on old browsers, maybe they should figure out a way to keep the version they want that works with apps that don't support newer browsers, and then just use newer browsers for the rest.
How about they fix their plugin system so that determining whether or not plugin will work is not dependent on version numbers. This is equivalent to checking user agent strings to determine if your javascript will run. We discovered a long time ago that that was a bad practice. What we really need is a way for the browser to check which functionality the plugins are trying to use to determine whether or not it will run correctly And then just give the option to the user to run the plugin anyway. It's not like the plugins are compiled against specific version of Firefox anyway. They are just interpreted javascript code. The worst that should happen is that a warning should be displayed, letting the user know that the plugin hasn't been tested against the specific version. If the user decides it isn't working, they can disable the plugin if they want.
You only have to change it once if you set the version number high enough. Set it to 100, and the it'll probably never complain about version numbers again. The plugins might eventually stop working, but worry about that when it happens. Mozilla knows which APIs the plugins are calling, and it knowns which APIs have changed in the upgrade. They really should be able to figure this out for themselves.