Maybe it's because I started using Linux pre-ndiswrapper, but I don't understand all the resistance to it. I think the friendlier distros even pop up ndisgtk for you. Unless you're trying to do something like host an access point, you can pretty much buy a common name brand sight unseen and chances are it will work. A far cry from the "old days."
Actually, it does cost more, because they plan the trunk bandwidth based on everyone not using their full bandwidth at the same time. If you use your full bandwidth a higher percentage of the time than average, especially during peak usage periods, it costs them more either by not being able to sign up as many subscribers, or by needing to invest in more infrastructure. While bytes downloaded per month isn't a direct measure of "the percentage of time you use your full bandwidth," the math works out pretty close and it's a lot easier both to measure and to explain to customers. If you want a guaranteed slice of bandwidth all the time, it gets priced into the contract accordingly.
Linux uses PAE, which basically lets your system have up to 64 GB of RAM, but each process is limited to 4. It's available for Windows 32 as well, but not the editions people buy to put on a $200 computer.
I also wonder who they would get to score the test. My 9 year-old nephew had an assignment recently where part of the instructions were to "put a line under" certain items. He used vertical lines under the items instead of horizontal lines and was heavily marked down. Now, I'm a little biased, but I would have actually given bonus points for creativity. Instead, my sister had to go to bat for him just to get the minimum score he deserved, because his teacher was completely incapable of recognizing a correct answer that happens to differ from the expected one.
This is exactly what distributions do. Only people who really know what they're doing get their kernels directly from kernel.org. Even if you know what you're doing, it's still more convenient for most people to just get security updates from their distro.
A more apt analogy is a car manufacturer putting out a list of recalls, and your dealership giving you a personal call when the most serious recalls are needed.
Is there a threat that the booms won't suck up oil if you get within 64 feet of them?
Actually, yes there is. Not only has there been intentional vandalism, booms have accidentally been damaged by boat propellers. I realize the media is reluctant to report anything that might help BP, but you really should do a little research before spouting off.
Okay, let's do some math. How many successful filibusters did the Republicans mount during Obama's first year in office? Don't need an exact number, ballpark will do. Give you a hint, it rhymes with nero.
What part of filibuster-proof majority is so hard to understand? The reason Dems haven't accomplished much isn't the Republicans, it's that they delved too deeply and had to back off due to public backlash.
1) Had to pass an exam about different types of interference and how to fix them (hint: it's not always the transmitter's fault)
2) Is likely to be passionate about avoiding interference to the point where he is unlikely to use those bands at high power in a residential area even though he has every legal right to do so. Think Linux fanboi level zealotry, but for radio.
3) Is actually familiar enough with ham radio to know that hams are extremely unlikely to use that particular band only during those particular hours, if they use it at all.
4) Is the least likely guy in your neighborhood to have noisy microwaves, cordless phones, or wifi, precisely because he doesn't want interference in his own ultra-sensitive ham receivers.
5) Is the one guy in the neighborhood most likely to have the skills and equipment to track down your interference. There are a lot of hams who live for that kind of opportunity.
Seriously, the FCC is unlikely to intervene without proof. Asking your local ham radio club for help, without blaming them, is probably your best bet.
Most people can only immerse themselves in code and gadgetry for so long
You partially hit on the problem right there. A lot of people get into IT because they like technology, but IT is a service profession. The stress is not intrinsic to the technical part of the work, but in the human element of how expectations are communicated and needs are anticipated before they become crises. In other words, communication skills are at least as important as computer skills, and that's something a lot of techno geeks are ill prepared for.
My first thought upon reading your example is what a pity the two of you couldn't work together. Different developers have different strengths and the most successful projects use the right people for the right layers.
+4 well deserved, but Insightful!? If the moderators also vote in elections, no wonder these kinds of bills keep getting considered in election years. Besides, it's much more effective to just prevent criminals from buying prepaid phones in the first place. Or at least make it illegal to possess them on school property.
Competition is the great thing about Linux. One distro starts falling short in a certain area for a specific set of users and they can just switch. Eventually the distros you leave either die or fix the issues that cause them to lose users. My first distro was redhat, but it didn't focus on the desktop enough so I switched to Mandrake, which was great until I started compiling a ton of libraries myself due to dependency hell so I tried out LinuxFromScratch. Manual compiling got old quickly so I switched to Gentoo. Got tired of manually configuring everything so I switched to Ubuntu, especially the LTS for my wife's computer. Ubuntu started requiring a lot of manual tweaking on my laptop anyway on upgrades so I switched my laptop to Arch (until my daughter ran over it with her wheelchair). My Ubuntu upgrades on my desktop have been flawless, so I'm sticking with Lucid on my desktop.
Interestingly, because they initially lost me and others like me as users because of it, redhat/fedora is greatly improved on the desktop, dependencies are much better in Mandriva, gentoo still has its niche but other distros have sprung up taking the best aspects of gentoo, and I have no doubt Canonical will eventually improve its laptop support and upgrade regression problems with Ubuntu. The end result is linux gets better for everyone.
Agreed, but SPICE can help make sure when you build something it will work. Especially with limited hobbyist resources and without coworkers to perform design reviews.
I agree. I like the solution my data structures professor had better. In that class, your final grade couldn't be higher than one letter grade above your average exam grade. Essentially, exams were only weighted heavier for students with large disparities, presumably those more likely to be cheating on assignments, but there was still a fair bit of leeway for people who don't test well.
If you're going to copy, at least copy from someone competent.
There's much less incentive for a competent student to cheat. He has more to lose and only a few hours of saved effort to gain, whereas an incompetent student stands to gain both a better grade and save effort when it's his turn to copy, and he has a good chance of flunking out anyway so he has little to lose.
I'll buy the noise argument. That's why I hated laptops when I was in college, but they weren't very common in lectures back then. However, the idea that they somehow are so fast the student misses out on learning is laughable. In my experience, only about 20% of any given lecture is useful to the fastest learners in attendance, probably the same 20% is incomprehensible to the slowest learners. Banning technology doesn't make that go away, it only makes it less apparent.
Good elementary school administrators do not tolerate bullying. Good high-school administrators do not tolerate bullying. Good college administrators do not tolerate bullying. Good bosses at firms do not tolerate bullying.
Good bullies do their bullying when authority figures are not around.
And those problems are fixed how by graphing manually? Using a tool the wrong way doesn't make the use of the tool wrong. The whole point of graphing software is that you can easily draw it over and over again with different ranges until you get it right. If you can't find reasonable ranges under those simplified conditions, how will you when you have to spend the time to calculate every point yourself? Teach your son how to use excel properly.
"Non-frothy" conservative arguments are too subtle for a quick discussion like an online forum or a TV sound bite. An overweight conservative could go on a diet and his opponents would accuse him of being anti-food.
No one thinks decent working conditions, etc. are a bad thing. The problem that comes up all too often when a union is involved is that good working conditions in exchange for good productivity ceases to be a voluntary agreement that both sides are happy to hold up, and instead turns into a management vs. labor antagonism where both sides try their hardest to do the absolute minimum forced upon them by a contract with the force of law behind it. Union leaders end up fighting tooth and nail to help workers keep relatively crappy jobs where management doesn't respect them and watches them like a hawk to make sure they're living up to their end of the contract.
No thanks. I was fired from a union job in my youth and will never work for one again. I now work for a company that respects me and keeps working conditions reasonable for no other reason than they want to entice me to voluntarily stay and do a good job for them. On those rare occasions where extra hours are required to meet a deadline, I'm happy to do it because I have respect for them.
TFA is comparing 10pt Monaco with a 12pt font. Put them both at 12pt and Monaco - which is monospaced - the way God intended computer displays to be - wins.
You're missing the point that if you're trying to fit a certain amount of text horizontally on the screen, you can use a bigger font size with a proportional font.
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Maybe it's because I started using Linux pre-ndiswrapper, but I don't understand all the resistance to it. I think the friendlier distros even pop up ndisgtk for you. Unless you're trying to do something like host an access point, you can pretty much buy a common name brand sight unseen and chances are it will work. A far cry from the "old days."
Actually, it does cost more, because they plan the trunk bandwidth based on everyone not using their full bandwidth at the same time. If you use your full bandwidth a higher percentage of the time than average, especially during peak usage periods, it costs them more either by not being able to sign up as many subscribers, or by needing to invest in more infrastructure. While bytes downloaded per month isn't a direct measure of "the percentage of time you use your full bandwidth," the math works out pretty close and it's a lot easier both to measure and to explain to customers. If you want a guaranteed slice of bandwidth all the time, it gets priced into the contract accordingly.
Linux uses PAE, which basically lets your system have up to 64 GB of RAM, but each process is limited to 4. It's available for Windows 32 as well, but not the editions people buy to put on a $200 computer.
Well, theoretically, you'd only need to know how to convert the decimal digits 0-9 to binary in your head.
I also wonder who they would get to score the test. My 9 year-old nephew had an assignment recently where part of the instructions were to "put a line under" certain items. He used vertical lines under the items instead of horizontal lines and was heavily marked down. Now, I'm a little biased, but I would have actually given bonus points for creativity. Instead, my sister had to go to bat for him just to get the minimum score he deserved, because his teacher was completely incapable of recognizing a correct answer that happens to differ from the expected one.
This is exactly what distributions do. Only people who really know what they're doing get their kernels directly from kernel.org. Even if you know what you're doing, it's still more convenient for most people to just get security updates from their distro.
A more apt analogy is a car manufacturer putting out a list of recalls, and your dealership giving you a personal call when the most serious recalls are needed.
Actually, yes there is. Not only has there been intentional vandalism, booms have accidentally been damaged by boat propellers. I realize the media is reluctant to report anything that might help BP, but you really should do a little research before spouting off.
Okay, let's do some math. How many successful filibusters did the Republicans mount during Obama's first year in office? Don't need an exact number, ballpark will do. Give you a hint, it rhymes with nero.
What part of filibuster-proof majority is so hard to understand? The reason Dems haven't accomplished much isn't the Republicans, it's that they delved too deeply and had to back off due to public backlash.
Not to mention your local ham operator:
1) Had to pass an exam about different types of interference and how to fix them (hint: it's not always the transmitter's fault)
2) Is likely to be passionate about avoiding interference to the point where he is unlikely to use those bands at high power in a residential area even though he has every legal right to do so. Think Linux fanboi level zealotry, but for radio.
3) Is actually familiar enough with ham radio to know that hams are extremely unlikely to use that particular band only during those particular hours, if they use it at all.
4) Is the least likely guy in your neighborhood to have noisy microwaves, cordless phones, or wifi, precisely because he doesn't want interference in his own ultra-sensitive ham receivers.
5) Is the one guy in the neighborhood most likely to have the skills and equipment to track down your interference. There are a lot of hams who live for that kind of opportunity.
Seriously, the FCC is unlikely to intervene without proof. Asking your local ham radio club for help, without blaming them, is probably your best bet.
You partially hit on the problem right there. A lot of people get into IT because they like technology, but IT is a service profession. The stress is not intrinsic to the technical part of the work, but in the human element of how expectations are communicated and needs are anticipated before they become crises. In other words, communication skills are at least as important as computer skills, and that's something a lot of techno geeks are ill prepared for.
My first thought upon reading your example is what a pity the two of you couldn't work together. Different developers have different strengths and the most successful projects use the right people for the right layers.
+4 well deserved, but Insightful!? If the moderators also vote in elections, no wonder these kinds of bills keep getting considered in election years. Besides, it's much more effective to just prevent criminals from buying prepaid phones in the first place. Or at least make it illegal to possess them on school property.
Competition is the great thing about Linux. One distro starts falling short in a certain area for a specific set of users and they can just switch. Eventually the distros you leave either die or fix the issues that cause them to lose users. My first distro was redhat, but it didn't focus on the desktop enough so I switched to Mandrake, which was great until I started compiling a ton of libraries myself due to dependency hell so I tried out LinuxFromScratch. Manual compiling got old quickly so I switched to Gentoo. Got tired of manually configuring everything so I switched to Ubuntu, especially the LTS for my wife's computer. Ubuntu started requiring a lot of manual tweaking on my laptop anyway on upgrades so I switched my laptop to Arch (until my daughter ran over it with her wheelchair). My Ubuntu upgrades on my desktop have been flawless, so I'm sticking with Lucid on my desktop.
Interestingly, because they initially lost me and others like me as users because of it, redhat/fedora is greatly improved on the desktop, dependencies are much better in Mandriva, gentoo still has its niche but other distros have sprung up taking the best aspects of gentoo, and I have no doubt Canonical will eventually improve its laptop support and upgrade regression problems with Ubuntu. The end result is linux gets better for everyone.
Agreed, but SPICE can help make sure when you build something it will work. Especially with limited hobbyist resources and without coworkers to perform design reviews.
My wife didn't need any panel rearranging, but she did ask for a blue 'e' to open her web browser for a couple years.
Wouldn't you get a lot of false positives for intro-level assignments compared that way? There are only so many ways to write a simple program.
I agree. I like the solution my data structures professor had better. In that class, your final grade couldn't be higher than one letter grade above your average exam grade. Essentially, exams were only weighted heavier for students with large disparities, presumably those more likely to be cheating on assignments, but there was still a fair bit of leeway for people who don't test well.
If you're going to copy, at least copy from someone competent.
There's much less incentive for a competent student to cheat. He has more to lose and only a few hours of saved effort to gain, whereas an incompetent student stands to gain both a better grade and save effort when it's his turn to copy, and he has a good chance of flunking out anyway so he has little to lose.
I'll buy the noise argument. That's why I hated laptops when I was in college, but they weren't very common in lectures back then. However, the idea that they somehow are so fast the student misses out on learning is laughable. In my experience, only about 20% of any given lecture is useful to the fastest learners in attendance, probably the same 20% is incomprehensible to the slowest learners. Banning technology doesn't make that go away, it only makes it less apparent.
Good elementary school administrators do not tolerate bullying.
Good high-school administrators do not tolerate bullying.
Good college administrators do not tolerate bullying.
Good bosses at firms do not tolerate bullying.
Good bullies do their bullying when authority figures are not around.
And those problems are fixed how by graphing manually? Using a tool the wrong way doesn't make the use of the tool wrong. The whole point of graphing software is that you can easily draw it over and over again with different ranges until you get it right. If you can't find reasonable ranges under those simplified conditions, how will you when you have to spend the time to calculate every point yourself? Teach your son how to use excel properly.
"Non-frothy" conservative arguments are too subtle for a quick discussion like an online forum or a TV sound bite. An overweight conservative could go on a diet and his opponents would accuse him of being anti-food.
No one thinks decent working conditions, etc. are a bad thing. The problem that comes up all too often when a union is involved is that good working conditions in exchange for good productivity ceases to be a voluntary agreement that both sides are happy to hold up, and instead turns into a management vs. labor antagonism where both sides try their hardest to do the absolute minimum forced upon them by a contract with the force of law behind it. Union leaders end up fighting tooth and nail to help workers keep relatively crappy jobs where management doesn't respect them and watches them like a hawk to make sure they're living up to their end of the contract.
No thanks. I was fired from a union job in my youth and will never work for one again. I now work for a company that respects me and keeps working conditions reasonable for no other reason than they want to entice me to voluntarily stay and do a good job for them. On those rare occasions where extra hours are required to meet a deadline, I'm happy to do it because I have respect for them.
TFA is comparing 10pt Monaco with a 12pt font. Put them both at 12pt and Monaco - which is monospaced - the way God intended computer displays to be - wins.
You're missing the point that if you're trying to fit a certain amount of text horizontally on the screen, you can use a bigger font size with a proportional font.
Phew, that was close! Good thing mine's with a porpoise.
And as a bonus, you can forward mail from your domain to your aol mail and get the best of both worlds!
Seriously, I'm in embedded software, not IT, but to me the only thing a personal domain denotes is a certain degree of vanity.