I'm a professional bean counter. I think you're not only wrong about failing to see the bigger picture, I think you're way off on the value of IT.
IT doesn't drive product. It doesn't drive sales. It supports those functions, just as HR or Finance does. IT is not an asset... it is a cost center than maintains an asset.
Enough! I'm a software developer and you ruined my day. Excuse me while I go and cry in the corner.
You would be correct if you suggested that the US government has encouraged nations to pass copyright protection laws. But even in doing so, they acknowledge that each country has its own legal jurisdiction and legal system.
... and thus is responsible for itself. That is what you imply, right? Well, to me it sounds like "What a nice business relationship with a US company you have there. It would be a shame if something bad happened to it, don't you think?".
I just made sure it was empty when passing through security,
Web page of the airport in my capital city states: With liquids, it is not the actual volume of the liquid in the container, but rather the volume stated on the container that will be considered.
This. If the goal is spiritual and personal - then you really need to cultivate the self control to avoid using a gadget at all.
I the goal is spiritual and personal, then I absolutely want to capture the moment at my camera. However I'm not allowed to. (I would understand ban on using flashlight, though.)
I asked and got an explanation why a GPS receiver can be a problem. Anybody can provide at least a little bit plausible explanation why a camera (without a flashlight) or a videorecorder is a problem?
I have two Finance degrees and close to a Master's..... Essentially, Apple is saying "our shares are undervalued".
I also have a degree in Finance and a Masters... Or, they don't have a clue what to do with the money because they're out of ideas; which is a bad sign.
So let me get this straight. We have a clearly defined activity on the market. And two people with top-level education in the area. And they have completely opposite explanations. No offense guys, but if the economy is driven by such level of understanding, then it explains a lot about current state of affairs.
The -best- answer to most virtual desktop questions is -actually- to close some damn windows. I watch people clutter up their desktop with crap, then want extra virtual desktops so that the can spread their clutter.
I disagree. Currently I have open Visual Studio, Eclipse, another Windows instance in VirtualBox, Lotus Notes for e-mail, WinCVS a few cmd windows each with some different useful commandline in history (and a few other things). Almost all of them are fullscreen or nearly fullscreen. I get a request in e-mail, I implement it in VS, I test the change in VM, commit it to CVS and I deliver the changed file to tester. I don't want to close VS because I need it 40% of the time. I don't want to close Eclipse because I need it 40% of the time. And they both take 15 seconds to load the project. Just like booting the VM. I don't want to close Lotus Notes because I want to be notified when a new e-mail arrives and I don't want to log into Lotus every hour. I don't want to close the cmd windows, because I'd loose the history of commands. I don't want to close WinCVS because it again it takes 10-15 seconds for it to scan the whole project directory. Etc. etc.
There are legitimate reasons to have many windows open.
Rather than swipe the card, the loaded card is traded itself, wholesale. The "20$ card" is treated as a $20 bill would be.
Excelent. And we could make those cards from paper to keep the price down. And each card would have a serial number, a picture of a dead president and a nominal value.
no viruses - I can count the number of viruses and other malware I've gotten on my Windows computers over the last 20 years on one hand
Does Windows inform you that you should be running a antivirus? Yes. Does any Linux do that? No. Ok, the current Windows versions are more immune. However it still asks me to run an antivirus.
no forced upgrades - this is 100% controllable by the user, simply choose to not install updates/upgrades
better functionality (stuff like kioslaves, etc...) - What? That you think this is an imprtant "feature" proves you are out of the mainstream.
Yes, I'm out of the mainstream. The mainstream did not discover that you can edit the files directly on ftp server or on system accessible only over ssh. So what? I'm just saying that Linux works better in this regard than Windows and that makes it an argument asked for by TFA.
customization - What kind of customization? Desktop theme? Windows if extremely customizable.
Example: I like the theme installed by default. But I want the taskbar icon to flash in red color (as opposed to default slight change of tint) when the application needs an attention. I can do that (and did) in Linux. How do I do that on Windows? Another example: Can I put an additional button on the titlebar that tells the window to stay on top? I can in Linux. Can I tell one application to have locale X and another application to have locale Y? I can in Linux...
price Windows 7 came bundled with my $400 Dell Desktop, which has the same specs as the $450 "Linux" computer I saw on line...
Why you compare the price of computers when I compared the price of OS is beyond me. However I'm a counter example to your anecdotal evidence because it cost me 100 bucks to get Windows 7 for my computer and it cost me a few cents to download a Linux distro.
the system does what I tell it to do. Not more, not less, and not what some DRM/*AA/SW vendors wants - That is a function of the applications you choose to use, not the OS.
Is a printer driver a part of the OS? If we agree on that, then explain to me why it has tens or hundreds of megabytes? Does it do just what I need or load of other crap? Am I free to get a less bloated driver from another source? Another example is - file search. Since Vista windows does not provide a GUI tool that does a real search for files based on the string in the file content. It pretends to do that but it does some lookup in files in indexed locations.
Seriously? When four hundred dollar bills gets you a quad-core CPU of 3 GHz and 8 gigs of RAM and a terabyte of hard drive space, how big a concern is "squeezing" the last little bit of performance out of a seven year-old computer to the average user?
Seriously. There are developed countries where 400 dollars is monthly income. Also if I leave Windows alone for half an hour, two things happens: 1) the antivirus decides that the machine is idle and starts trashing the disk, 2) the system swaps out. The result is that when I get back to the machine again, it takes it 5 minutes to start to be responsive again.
The inability to nail down problems like this is one of the reasons open source is not always taken seriously in the business world. You can't claim to be a good alternative to the paid thing if your product doesn't do what it's supposed to do.
Let me explain that to you: OpenOffice/LibreOffice is supposed to allow word processing, creating and editing spreadsheets and presentations. It is not a product supposed to import Microsoft files. Once you accept that, you have to say that OOo/LOo do what they are supposed to do. And they do it well.
In last weeks I'm watching Stanford Programming Methodology course on Youtube. The lecturer does exactly that. He throws a candy to anybody who correctly answers a question and to anybody who asks a question. I thought he would do that only at first lesson, but he keeps doing that. Hitting ceiling/camera/wrong student by mistake gives a bit of entertainment too.
I have my own tiny boring.org domain. I'm in a country that does not have English as official language, but I want to have some English content in there and also other languages. So I did not want national domain. I'm not a commercial entity and I'm also not educational organization. I'm just me. So I opted for.org..name did not exist at that time, but now you may say that I should switch to.name - is there any guarantee that US will not assert jurisdiction over.name?
Because as soon as you bring it to the UN you give equal footing to regimes that shouldn't have any say. Just like when Kadaffi's Libya was in charge of the UN commission on Human Rights.
As far as I know, the USA forced UN to do a vote on who should be the chair in Human Rights Commission. And when the majority of votes went for Libya's candidate it suddenly said that it does not like the outcome.
Perhaps the solution is changing the system to give more votes to bigger countries, rather than US having the same vote weight than Libya. But a common forum for all nations and democratic voting is not a bad idea in my opinion.
how prepared do you think the US congress is going to be to hand their control of the Internet over to China and Russia?
Ah I see. China and Russia are the bad guys and need to be prevented from ruling the internet at all costs. What is your reason for preventing Finland, Swiss or Australia from participating in ruling of the Internet?
Of course it is broken - since the government of US is passing legislation and it can strongarm other governments to pass legislation that allows someone to erase a foreign site off the Internet because of alleged copyright violation or publishing inconvenient information.
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Here. My $0.02. They are now yours. That's all you'll get.
(In a few months:) That would require to un-hide the address bar in first step. Only hackers do that.
Can't be the extra body energy just transformed in higher rotation speed? (I guess it would take asymmetric distribution of mass within the body.)
Enough! I'm a software developer and you ruined my day. Excuse me while I go and cry in the corner.
US Threatens Spain For Not Implementing SOPA-Like Law
Web page of the airport in my capital city states: With liquids, it is not the actual volume of the liquid in the container, but rather the volume stated on the container that will be considered.
I the goal is spiritual and personal, then I absolutely want to capture the moment at my camera. However I'm not allowed to. (I would understand ban on using flashlight, though.) I asked and got an explanation why a GPS receiver can be a problem. Anybody can provide at least a little bit plausible explanation why a camera (without a flashlight) or a videorecorder is a problem?
Ever heard of a dildo?
(Seen on /. eons ago: )
So let me get this straight. We have a clearly defined activity on the market. And two people with top-level education in the area. And they have completely opposite explanations. No offense guys, but if the economy is driven by such level of understanding, then it explains a lot about current state of affairs.
I disagree. Currently I have open Visual Studio, Eclipse, another Windows instance in VirtualBox, Lotus Notes for e-mail, WinCVS a few cmd windows each with some different useful commandline in history (and a few other things). Almost all of them are fullscreen or nearly fullscreen. I get a request in e-mail, I implement it in VS, I test the change in VM, commit it to CVS and I deliver the changed file to tester. I don't want to close VS because I need it 40% of the time. I don't want to close Eclipse because I need it 40% of the time. And they both take 15 seconds to load the project. Just like booting the VM. I don't want to close Lotus Notes because I want to be notified when a new e-mail arrives and I don't want to log into Lotus every hour. I don't want to close the cmd windows, because I'd loose the history of commands. I don't want to close WinCVS because it again it takes 10-15 seconds for it to scan the whole project directory. Etc. etc.
There are legitimate reasons to have many windows open.
Excelent. And we could make those cards from paper to keep the price down. And each card would have a serial number, a picture of a dead president and a nominal value.
Does Windows inform you that you should be running a antivirus? Yes. Does any Linux do that? No. Ok, the current Windows versions are more immune. However it still asks me to run an antivirus.
MS Installs New Software Without Permission
Yes, I'm out of the mainstream. The mainstream did not discover that you can edit the files directly on ftp server or on system accessible only over ssh. So what? I'm just saying that Linux works better in this regard than Windows and that makes it an argument asked for by TFA.
Example: I like the theme installed by default. But I want the taskbar icon to flash in red color (as opposed to default slight change of tint) when the application needs an attention. I can do that (and did) in Linux. How do I do that on Windows? Another example: Can I put an additional button on the titlebar that tells the window to stay on top? I can in Linux. Can I tell one application to have locale X and another application to have locale Y? I can in Linux ...
Why you compare the price of computers when I compared the price of OS is beyond me. However I'm a counter example to your anecdotal evidence because it cost me 100 bucks to get Windows 7 for my computer and it cost me a few cents to download a Linux distro.
Is a printer driver a part of the OS? If we agree on that, then explain to me why it has tens or hundreds of megabytes? Does it do just what I need or load of other crap? Am I free to get a less bloated driver from another source? Another example is - file search. Since Vista windows does not provide a GUI tool that does a real search for files based on the string in the file content. It pretends to do that but it does some lookup in files in indexed locations.
Seriously. There are developed countries where 400 dollars is monthly income. Also if I leave Windows alone for half an hour, two things happens: 1) the antivirus decides that the machine is idle and starts trashing the disk, 2) the system swaps out. The result is that when I get back to the machine again, it takes it 5 minutes to start to be responsive again.
In no particular order:
Let me explain that to you: OpenOffice/LibreOffice is supposed to allow word processing, creating and editing spreadsheets and presentations. It is not a product supposed to import Microsoft files. Once you accept that, you have to say that OOo/LOo do what they are supposed to do. And they do it well.
Can anybody provide an explanation that explains (and that is at least a little bit plausible) how a GPS receiver can be a problem?
In last weeks I'm watching Stanford Programming Methodology course on Youtube. The lecturer does exactly that. He throws a candy to anybody who correctly answers a question and to anybody who asks a question. I thought he would do that only at first lesson, but he keeps doing that. Hitting ceiling/camera/wrong student by mistake gives a bit of entertainment too.
Obligatory wanna bet?
TFA says that also .org allegedly also belongs under US jurisdiction. The wikipedia says that The com, net, and org TLDs, despite their originally specific goals, are now open for use for any purpose. . I don't see there "are now open for any purpose in US only". Wikipedia also says It was originally intended for non-profit organizations or organizations of a non-commercial character that did not meet the requirements for other gTLDs. ... Registrations in the org are processed via accredited registrars worldwide. Anyone can register an org second-level domain .. Emphasis mine.
I have my own tiny boring .org domain. I'm in a country that does not have English as official language, but I want to have some English content in there and also other languages. So I did not want national domain. I'm not a commercial entity and I'm also not educational organization. I'm just me. So I opted for .org. .name did not exist at that time, but now you may say that I should switch to .name - is there any guarantee that US will not assert jurisdiction over .name?
As far as I know, the USA forced UN to do a vote on who should be the chair in Human Rights Commission. And when the majority of votes went for Libya's candidate it suddenly said that it does not like the outcome.
Perhaps the solution is changing the system to give more votes to bigger countries, rather than US having the same vote weight than Libya. But a common forum for all nations and democratic voting is not a bad idea in my opinion.
Ah I see. China and Russia are the bad guys and need to be prevented from ruling the internet at all costs. What is your reason for preventing Finland, Swiss or Australia from participating in ruling of the Internet?
Of course it is broken - since the government of US is passing legislation and it can strongarm other governments to pass legislation that allows someone to erase a foreign site off the Internet because of alleged copyright violation or publishing inconvenient information.
Only if you measure the punishment in dollar units rather than in percentage units.
You fool! Do you also believe in Greece GDP data? Or Greeks bearing gifts?
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