Actually, I thought the above post should be marked funny. Yes, it's relatively simple and I've done similar for my nvidia drivers in the past. The problem is, you really can't expect end users to use a CLI to install anything.
End users should be told to go to one place. For now, that's synaptic. Maybe in the future it will be some click'n'run thing. Don't instruct them to
1. download a driver from a particular website.
2. open up a shell.
3. enter a cryptic line.
4. pray.
Plus, is the CLI way going to survive when a kernel upgrade is released? Presumably when the proprietary drivers are in synaptic they will be updated to work with the kernel updates.
Is recovery software so hard? At the very least, each government laptop should ping a particular site on every bootup (maybe via custom BIOS). If pings come from an unauthorized IP address, start looking for it.
Heck, my desktop has a name via DynDNS. If someone manages to steal it and connect it to the internet without wiping the drive, I would have a start at where to look for it.
Actually, I expect that the form factor of ipods will continue at the same rate. In ~5 years, Steve Jobs will get up at a developers conference, take some white powder out of an envelope, and inhale it, claiming that the new ipod costs $500 per gram.
The envelope will have printed on it: "Don't share your stash."
People will line up for it like you wouldn't believe.
Besides this particular individual, who would waste computer resources being involved in a tracker unless they were sharing bits in the torrent?
I thought court cases involving copyright law was based on "reasonable doubt", not "beyond all shadow of a doubt". It certainly sounds reasonable that being on a torrent means there is intent on sharing bits in the torrent.
As for the bit about an individual hanging out on the corner with drug sellers: It does sound reasonable for police officers to question people associated with illegal acts, right?
Most people don't ask for invitations to new email systems. They use what they have or try to register a new one. GMail in the U.S. has been open so long as you have a valid (cell?) phone number, which is pretty good penetration.
If someone wants a new service (particularly for increased storage), they would likely have heard about the increased storage (compared to what they had in the past, at least) at Yahoo mail and Hotmail as well.
All that needs to be done is have a "second face" to wikipedia, where the article visible to the general population is the "last good version" okayed by an administrator or long-time user. This is being done on one of the foreign wikipedias already (wasn't there a/. article about it?)
Besides, who wants to reproduce all the wikipedia knowledge into a new database? Let's just improve the one we have already. (Yes, the new database can just copy wikipedia's content, but they then have to credit wikipedia indefinitely.)
Well, according to earlier replies to this article, this is also fixed if you are running windows 2K or later. (well, not exactly fixed, but the exploit is nearly impossible given the number of assumptions made on stock win 2K/XP/Vista systems) So yes, this is probably fixed on your system as well.:-)
Feel free not to see a physician if you don't trust us. It's actually the lack of trust that causes most malpractice lawsuit, as I'm sure most of you know. (Errors happen much more often: We are all human.)
I suppose we can change the fee structure in the U.S. so that everyone in the country was paid the same rate/hour. With education, drive, experience, and expertise not making any difference. I have a B.S. degree in computer science. I would go back to it in a heartbeat. Except that I am very good as a physician-teacher. At least that's what my students tell me.
As for insurance rates: I assume you're talking about malpractice insurance. I'd be somewhat surprised if a physician talked to patients about malpractice rates except in the aggregate. Malpractice rates are based on the individual physicians' faults. However, they are also based on the specialty the physician practices.
For instance, in the state of Pennsylvania, recently there was an exodus of practicing high-risk obstetricians due to the increase in malpractice insurance for the specialty. It's a particularly high-risk specialty because (if I recall correctly) the child has the right to sue until he reaches 21 (at least).
As for being able to trust a hospital more than a physician: The worry is always continuity of care. A number of bigger hospitals are offering "Hospitalist" services. These are physicians who are payed by the hospital to take care of patients in the hospital. They save money overall because they don't have outpatient practices of their own; in this way, private physicians don't need to enter the hospital at all. They just entrust the hospitalist to take care of their patients until they are discharged. This leads to less continuity of care. The hospitalists don't really know the patients as well as the physician who may have been treating the patient for a decade or more. Also, the hospitalist is pressured by the hospital (who pays his bills) to discharge patients early to make way for more admissions.
Continuity of care is also the problem with limiting resident hours while on call. The resident who was taking care of a sick patient during the day will sign off to someone else who covers for the night and really doesn't get invested in the patient's wellbeing. I'm not saying residents should live in the hospital, but a 36 hour call may be of more benefit to patients in general, with the caveat that the resident is not allowed to do procedures if he is in the hospital for more than 24 hours.
Actually, I got off easy compared to the previous generation. My father did training in cardiothoracic surgery (heart surgery). My mom would talk about the times when he went in for a weekend call. She wouldn't see him from Friday morning (5am) until Tuesday evening (~8pm). And they lived across the street from the hospital. She would occasionally go to the hospital to bring him food when she could find someone to watch me and my brother.
My dad laughs when I say I was on call for 24 hours and didn't get any sleep whatsoever. My dad wasn't even allowed to go home after a night's call. (The laws in NY state have changed since then. Maybe not for the better.)
As a physician, I may squeeze patients a little bit. But that's more because HMOs and the government are squeezing me for every nickel they can. I would love to spend an hour seeing every new patient and half an hour on every followup. I am limited on how much the HMOs will pay me to see those patients, however. And my overhead is somewhat fixed (have to pay that secretary that works for me, etc.) If I spend less time seeing each patient, I get to see more patients and hopefully break even.
Yes, I make decent income now. However, I did 8 years schooling (that I am still paying for) followed by 7 years of residency and fellowship training in which I made $50K for 80 hour weeks + overnight in hospital calls and every third weekend on call. I think I'm due a bit more than average U.S. income, thank-you-very-much.
I've been reading comic books since ~1980. Trade paperbacks are killing the industry from my point of view. I don't buy single issues anymore. I'll download the torrent and (if it's good) I'll buy the TPBs. And I've bought more TPBs in the last two years than ever before.
On the other hand, I introduced a fellow collector to comic book torrents. He used to buy most DC TPBs as they came out. Now, after reading everything as.cbr/.cbz files, he hasn't even mentioned buying a single book in the last 6 months.
Single issue comics are still going to live for the juvenile stuff (the recent Infinite Crisis and Civil War excepted). The more mature titles will be pushed more towards TPBs. If I recall correctly, Lucifer sells much better as a TPB than as individual issues. It's probably not alone, either.
Slightly off-topic: The children's DVD movie section of my local library has a rich collection of DVDs (at least a couple hundred), including a bunch of movies that Disney has "put into the vault".
In other words, I can find Disney DVDs at the library that are essentially out of print elsewhere. When my kids outgrow their movies, my library will get a windfall.:-)
Not just reading. My local library has a few hundred DVDs, VHS tapes, and music CDs available for anyone to borrow for free!!!.
Frankly, when it comes time for me to start getting rid of my CDs and DVDs, I'm donating them to a local library. That way others can enjoy them in the future.
But if everyone was copying FFIX and not buying another game that they otherwise would have (because they are busy playing FFIX), someone isn't making a sale.
The thing with games is that people can only play a limited number of them. I had an atari 2600 and bought ~30 games for it. A few years later I bought a Commodore-64 and bought a total of 2 games for it. The rest (probably ~50 games) were copied tapes and floppy discs. Because of my piracy those media companies sold less C-64 games.
Most books are not cheap. An average paperback in the fiction section of a Waldenbooks is probably > 5 US $. That's for maybe 300 pages of low quality paper and black on white print. Downloading it yourself and printing it on decent paper is cheaper. But, it is inconvenient.
What's worse is comic books (for those that are into that thing). A single 30 page comic (containing 6 pages of advertisements!) costs > 2 US $. Go to a comic book.torrent site and you can download every comic published this month in less than half an hour.
The comic book industry will implode when.torrents become mainstream. The resale value of a single issue went downhill about a decade ago and will never go back up.
What exactly is the tie-in? You can certainly use an ipod without itunes (I'm doing it on my Ubuntu box right now, as a matter of fact). You can just as easily use the itunes music store without owning an ipod. Neither of these require owning an apple iMac or MacPro, either.
I suppose the only real tie-in is that you cannot reasonably use an ipod without having access to a computer. Given how popular ipods are now a days, I bet some people did try that along the ways.:-)
As for using ipods with other music download sites, the devices play mp3s, which are what most music is currently distributed in (just ask the RIAA!). It's the other sites that are being incompatible.
I've been using Thunar on Ubuntu (compiling my own from the release), and it's a great file manager. I especially like the compact view it gives, which is very similar to the compact view in MS Windows Explorer.
The one issue I have is that the Trash is not shared with the standard Gnome trash can. Hopefully this can be fixed in time for Feisty.
Reminds me of the quote: "I want to save the world for my children, but not my children's children. Because I don't think children should be having sex."
Damn straight, it was the warmest year ever recorded. However, most scientists would agree that it was probably warmer during the Cretaceous Period, and certainly warmer when the earth was a molten ball of lead, a few billion years ago.
We're not going to do anything to the earth that it wont be able to shrug off in a few million years. Doing something to ourselves is another matter.
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End users should be told to go to one place. For now, that's synaptic. Maybe in the future it will be some click'n'run thing. Don't instruct them to
1. download a driver from a particular website.
2. open up a shell.
3. enter a cryptic line.
4. pray.
Plus, is the CLI way going to survive when a kernel upgrade is released? Presumably when the proprietary drivers are in synaptic they will be updated to work with the kernel updates.
Is recovery software so hard? At the very least, each government laptop should ping a particular site on every bootup (maybe via custom BIOS). If pings come from an unauthorized IP address, start looking for it.
Heck, my desktop has a name via DynDNS. If someone manages to steal it and connect it to the internet without wiping the drive, I would have a start at where to look for it.
The most popular portable video player (by far) is the ipod. Do the math.
Actually, I expect that the form factor of ipods will continue at the same rate. In ~5 years, Steve Jobs will get up at a developers conference, take some white powder out of an envelope, and inhale it, claiming that the new ipod costs $500 per gram.
The envelope will have printed on it: "Don't share your stash."
People will line up for it like you wouldn't believe.
Besides this particular individual, who would waste computer resources being involved in a tracker unless they were sharing bits in the torrent?
I thought court cases involving copyright law was based on "reasonable doubt", not "beyond all shadow of a doubt". It certainly sounds reasonable that being on a torrent means there is intent on sharing bits in the torrent.
As for the bit about an individual hanging out on the corner with drug sellers: It does sound reasonable for police officers to question people associated with illegal acts, right?
Most people don't ask for invitations to new email systems. They use what they have or try to register a new one. GMail in the U.S. has been open so long as you have a valid (cell?) phone number, which is pretty good penetration.
If someone wants a new service (particularly for increased storage), they would likely have heard about the increased storage (compared to what they had in the past, at least) at Yahoo mail and Hotmail as well.
All that needs to be done is have a "second face" to wikipedia, where the article visible to the general population is the "last good version" okayed by an administrator or long-time user. This is being done on one of the foreign wikipedias already (wasn't there a /. article about it?)
Besides, who wants to reproduce all the wikipedia knowledge into a new database? Let's just improve the one we have already. (Yes, the new database can just copy wikipedia's content, but they then have to credit wikipedia indefinitely.)
Well, according to earlier replies to this article, this is also fixed if you are running windows 2K or later. (well, not exactly fixed, but the exploit is nearly impossible given the number of assumptions made on stock win 2K/XP/Vista systems) So yes, this is probably fixed on your system as well. :-)
Feel free not to see a physician if you don't trust us. It's actually the lack of trust that causes most malpractice lawsuit, as I'm sure most of you know. (Errors happen much more often: We are all human.)
I suppose we can change the fee structure in the U.S. so that everyone in the country was paid the same rate/hour. With education, drive, experience, and expertise not making any difference. I have a B.S. degree in computer science. I would go back to it in a heartbeat. Except that I am very good as a physician-teacher. At least that's what my students tell me.
As for insurance rates: I assume you're talking about malpractice insurance. I'd be somewhat surprised if a physician talked to patients about malpractice rates except in the aggregate. Malpractice rates are based on the individual physicians' faults. However, they are also based on the specialty the physician practices.
For instance, in the state of Pennsylvania, recently there was an exodus of practicing high-risk obstetricians due to the increase in malpractice insurance for the specialty. It's a particularly high-risk specialty because (if I recall correctly) the child has the right to sue until he reaches 21 (at least).
As for being able to trust a hospital more than a physician: The worry is always continuity of care. A number of bigger hospitals are offering "Hospitalist" services. These are physicians who are payed by the hospital to take care of patients in the hospital. They save money overall because they don't have outpatient practices of their own; in this way, private physicians don't need to enter the hospital at all. They just entrust the hospitalist to take care of their patients until they are discharged. This leads to less continuity of care. The hospitalists don't really know the patients as well as the physician who may have been treating the patient for a decade or more. Also, the hospitalist is pressured by the hospital (who pays his bills) to discharge patients early to make way for more admissions.
Continuity of care is also the problem with limiting resident hours while on call. The resident who was taking care of a sick patient during the day will sign off to someone else who covers for the night and really doesn't get invested in the patient's wellbeing. I'm not saying residents should live in the hospital, but a 36 hour call may be of more benefit to patients in general, with the caveat that the resident is not allowed to do procedures if he is in the hospital for more than 24 hours.
Actually, I got off easy compared to the previous generation. My father did training in cardiothoracic surgery (heart surgery). My mom would talk about the times when he went in for a weekend call. She wouldn't see him from Friday morning (5am) until Tuesday evening (~8pm). And they lived across the street from the hospital. She would occasionally go to the hospital to bring him food when she could find someone to watch me and my brother.
My dad laughs when I say I was on call for 24 hours and didn't get any sleep whatsoever. My dad wasn't even allowed to go home after a night's call. (The laws in NY state have changed since then. Maybe not for the better.)
As a physician, I may squeeze patients a little bit. But that's more because HMOs and the government are squeezing me for every nickel they can. I would love to spend an hour seeing every new patient and half an hour on every followup. I am limited on how much the HMOs will pay me to see those patients, however. And my overhead is somewhat fixed (have to pay that secretary that works for me, etc.) If I spend less time seeing each patient, I get to see more patients and hopefully break even.
Yes, I make decent income now. However, I did 8 years schooling (that I am still paying for) followed by 7 years of residency and fellowship training in which I made $50K for 80 hour weeks + overnight in hospital calls and every third weekend on call. I think I'm due a bit more than average U.S. income, thank-you-very-much.
Plus it's still easier and cheaper for An Actual Human to simply shoot you with a conventional gun, rather than use Wii-eqipped sword holding robots.
For now.
Fine. Novell can violate any microsoft IP with impunity.
My question is: Can they release that code under the GPL, knowing that it cannot be freely distributed?
I've been reading comic books since ~1980. Trade paperbacks are killing the industry from my point of view. I don't buy single issues anymore. I'll download the torrent and (if it's good) I'll buy the TPBs. And I've bought more TPBs in the last two years than ever before.
.cbr/.cbz files, he hasn't even mentioned buying a single book in the last 6 months.
On the other hand, I introduced a fellow collector to comic book torrents. He used to buy most DC TPBs as they came out. Now, after reading everything as
Single issue comics are still going to live for the juvenile stuff (the recent Infinite Crisis and Civil War excepted). The more mature titles will be pushed more towards TPBs. If I recall correctly, Lucifer sells much better as a TPB than as individual issues. It's probably not alone, either.
Slightly off-topic: The children's DVD movie section of my local library has a rich collection of DVDs (at least a couple hundred), including a bunch of movies that Disney has "put into the vault".
:-)
In other words, I can find Disney DVDs at the library that are essentially out of print elsewhere. When my kids outgrow their movies, my library will get a windfall.
Not just reading. My local library has a few hundred DVDs, VHS tapes, and music CDs available for anyone to borrow for free!!!.
Frankly, when it comes time for me to start getting rid of my CDs and DVDs, I'm donating them to a local library. That way others can enjoy them in the future.
But if everyone was copying FFIX and not buying another game that they otherwise would have (because they are busy playing FFIX), someone isn't making a sale.
The thing with games is that people can only play a limited number of them. I had an atari 2600 and bought ~30 games for it. A few years later I bought a Commodore-64 and bought a total of 2 games for it. The rest (probably ~50 games) were copied tapes and floppy discs. Because of my piracy those media companies sold less C-64 games.
Most books are not cheap. An average paperback in the fiction section of a Waldenbooks is probably > 5 US $. That's for maybe 300 pages of low quality paper and black on white print. Downloading it yourself and printing it on decent paper is cheaper. But, it is inconvenient.
.torrent site and you can download every comic published this month in less than half an hour.
.torrents become mainstream. The resale value of a single issue went downhill about a decade ago and will never go back up.
What's worse is comic books (for those that are into that thing). A single 30 page comic (containing 6 pages of advertisements!) costs > 2 US $. Go to a comic book
The comic book industry will implode when
This should work great for the next Firefly movie. Or the Star Trek New Voyages TV show.
Except that it doesn't work in real life. These things are expensive to produce.
What exactly is the tie-in? You can certainly use an ipod without itunes (I'm doing it on my Ubuntu box right now, as a matter of fact). You can just as easily use the itunes music store without owning an ipod. Neither of these require owning an apple iMac or MacPro, either.
:-)
I suppose the only real tie-in is that you cannot reasonably use an ipod without having access to a computer. Given how popular ipods are now a days, I bet some people did try that along the ways.
As for using ipods with other music download sites, the devices play mp3s, which are what most music is currently distributed in (just ask the RIAA!). It's the other sites that are being incompatible.
I've been using Thunar on Ubuntu (compiling my own from the release), and it's a great file manager. I especially like the compact view it gives, which is very similar to the compact view in MS Windows Explorer.
The one issue I have is that the Trash is not shared with the standard Gnome trash can. Hopefully this can be fixed in time for Feisty.
Reminds me of the quote: "I want to save the world for my children, but not my children's children. Because I don't think children should be having sex."
Damn straight, it was the warmest year ever recorded. However, most scientists would agree that it was probably warmer during the Cretaceous Period, and certainly warmer when the earth was a molten ball of lead, a few billion years ago.
We're not going to do anything to the earth that it wont be able to shrug off in a few million years. Doing something to ourselves is another matter.
How about ext3 support on Intel macs? I tried the sourceforge project about a year ago and it didn't work.