>> PLEASE, can we get some opinions from some other schools please. There is nothing this professor is saying that hasn't already been said a thousand times on slashdot.
Indeed. Quotes from my professors that are regularly on Slashdot:
"In our discussion on type systems last session, we noted that, in Soviet Russia, systems type YOU!"
"A lambda term is in normal form if it contains neither a redex nor hot grits."
"In Korea, only old people use the nameless lambda calculus."
"An ALU may consist of an adder, a block carry circuit, an input circuit, ?????, and profit."
It's a bit of a stretch to link cigarette and meat tariffs to download tariffs. Just because it might sound good and logical to you doesn't make it so. There are plenty of other possible sources/reasons for this.
Though it looks like the point was a Byrd Amendment rant more than anything.
>> Their conversations online and by phone became increasingly explicit, the lawsuit says. They were preparing to meet on the girl's 17th birthday when one of the monitor's co-workers became suspicious and prevented the encounter.
>> But I still prefer reading my books on paper. And most people I know feel the same.
Kinda like people that like the "warm" sound distortions from vinyl records, because that's what they grew up knowing. Doesn't make it intrinsically better, but personal preference can be hard to break, and it's often unnecessary.
The generation growing up on the Web will probably be much more keen to reading books & such in electronic format than the generations before them.
The reason I won't touch Fedora is the fact that I have to play hide-and-seek with 14 different 3rd party repositories just to get the damn software I get by typing the words "universe" and "multiverse" in a couple of spots, or that I get from ground 0 in portage in Gentoo.
If Debian were to close down, how many of those package maintainers dealing with Debian unstable would just move on to Ubuntu?
I bet the number would be far from insignificant. Certainly not 100%, but a good number. Plus, if Ubuntu put out the "we need package maintainers!" cry, plenty would come running.
Marketing goes across the board to draw in the money of everyone they can get it from. It doesn't change the product in any way. They're not "catering" to anyone - they're marketing to everyone.
...but getting older programs working in XP was bad enough. Something like this is probably going to break 3/4 of the old Windows software out there, a nightmare for those of us in the corporate worlds. Cause, you know, Sue in Financials has 10 years worth of expense reports locked up in PeachTree Accounting 4.4 for Windows 95 and doesn't see why she should use anything else, and Doug in Facilities has a master key database in dBase 2.5 for DOS that nothing on the fucking planet can read any more.
Well if Sue's running a Win95 app and Doug is running a DOS app, give Sue an old system running Win95 and Doug an old system running DOS. Keep both systems off the network.
If Sue and Doug want on the network, make it clear to them - you want a modern machine running on the modern network, you're gonna use a modern OS running modern software. If you want to stick with your old outdated software, then you get the old machines that it runs on, and you're not on the network.
>> 1. Most users will just log in as an admin and stay that way forever. Far easier and quicker than typing a password every time you want to install software.
As it stands now, yes. But that's because the system does not bug them about this bad behavior.
Were the system to badger the user every time they tried to use general apps & such from the admin account, they would quickly stop using it.
Users do need to be hassled away from the admin account, no question. Just because that is not how things are now does not mean there is a reason why it can't be.
But asking for the password is better than nothing. And the password pops up at predictable times - when installing software, changing system settings, etc.
Were it to pop up at an unusual time, I'd think a decent number of people would be suspicious. And for those that weren't, it would at least give them something to reference back to as to "where they went wrong". Problem with Windows is that the "security" fails silently, and soon you have a compromised system and no idea how it got that way.
... acronyms and missing info in titles, and usually they're just being tools. But for this story, I think it would help to say "Mac OS X 10.4" instead of just "10.4". At least it had the "Apple: " part prefixing it.
I don't know about that, but I have a four year old Pringles can in my pantry. One glance through the clear lid reveals the chips are looking black and ominous themselves...
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Indeed. Quotes from my professors that are regularly on Slashdot:
"In our discussion on type systems last session, we noted that, in Soviet Russia, systems type YOU!"
"A lambda term is in normal form if it contains neither a redex nor hot grits."
"In Korea, only old people use the nameless lambda calculus."
"An ALU may consist of an adder, a block carry circuit, an input circuit, ?????, and profit."
Not by much these days! :(
I saw someone confuse the Canadian price of a video game recently as being just a slightly-high price of an American video game.
I miss the days of, "$100 Canadian? Izzn'at like t'ree-fi'ty US?"
Though it looks like the point was a Byrd Amendment rant more than anything.
OMFG what a cockblock that was.
(And no, I'm not going to drop $9 to find out - I'll let everyone else do that)
Kinda like people that like the "warm" sound distortions from vinyl records, because that's what they grew up knowing. Doesn't make it intrinsically better, but personal preference can be hard to break, and it's often unnecessary.
The generation growing up on the Web will probably be much more keen to reading books & such in electronic format than the generations before them.
NBC Can't Kill ABC
AMD Can't Kill Intel
The question, of course, is, "so?"
A product doesn't have to kill its competition in order to be successful. In fact, they have a word for that...
"Xbox Next" is a bit awkward.
It's no coincidence that the new consoles will be:
PlayStation Three
Xbox Three..... Sixty
I bet the number would be far from insignificant. Certainly not 100%, but a good number. Plus, if Ubuntu put out the "we need package maintainers!" cry, plenty would come running.
Well if Sue's running a Win95 app and Doug is running a DOS app, give Sue an old system running Win95 and Doug an old system running DOS. Keep both systems off the network.
If Sue and Doug want on the network, make it clear to them - you want a modern machine running on the modern network, you're gonna use a modern OS running modern software. If you want to stick with your old outdated software, then you get the old machines that it runs on, and you're not on the network.
As it stands now, yes. But that's because the system does not bug them about this bad behavior.
Were the system to badger the user every time they tried to use general apps & such from the admin account, they would quickly stop using it.
Users do need to be hassled away from the admin account, no question. Just because that is not how things are now does not mean there is a reason why it can't be.
Were it to pop up at an unusual time, I'd think a decent number of people would be suspicious. And for those that weren't, it would at least give them something to reference back to as to "where they went wrong". Problem with Windows is that the "security" fails silently, and soon you have a compromised system and no idea how it got that way.
I don't know about that, but I have a four year old Pringles can in my pantry. One glance through the clear lid reveals the chips are looking black and ominous themselves...
My calculator says 3.9999999.... I think it's using one of those 'good enough' chips though...