there are other considerations as well. i'm not familiar with terminal services, but i am with X clients. my guess, and from what i've heard from some who've used it, is that with term. services (and correct me if i'm wrong here), you need a helluva lot more overhead on hardware. and you are running multiple instances of windows. so it is hugely resouce hungry. but with X, for all its faults, if you allocated 50mb or so per user you can run several user cncurrently. i had a P3 933 512mb box in my classroom last year running seven X clients with OO.org, moz, etc., without a glitch. i had over 150 days uptime. only pulled the plug for summer vacation.
also, you have to pay for not just term services, but every user. if you think about it, that can be several hundred dollars. basically, microsoft doesn't want you to do it. what they have term services for, and citrix is good for, is rich firms that buy major hardware, and want to load the expense up front, and save on admin costs. which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but, it is not viable in all but a few cases.
i used to be tech coordinator at my school. oh the headaches. anyways, i'd get all kinds of lame ass questions about how to do simple things. people learned how to use windows. just like riding a bike, it takes time. windows UI's break lots of guidelines. ever look at all the dialog boxes, like the font box, or the print dialog. they are 1st class abortions. and how 'bout office. what, a toolbar button that is a pop up menu, which can then double (or triple?) as a pull off floating toolbar? (it's a desert topping, it's a floor polish!) windows has had the luxury of being how things are done, and people learn to use it. so, anything that doesn't do it that way is "wrong" and "difficult". it's no different that driving on the right side of the road, with the pedals on the left side of the car. (here in the US) linux desktop by default has to emulate/mirror windows (mis)feature for feature. now, there are lots of bonuses like in konq, but 100 cool things doesn't make up for the 1 thing it doesn't do like windows. the best hope for linux desktop is new users without the pre-conditioned actions. i had several linux desktops in my old 7th grade class. you'd be amazed that kids with little computer training can pick up kde or gnome. it's just that they're not stuck, as it were, doing things the redmond way.
good observation. many jobs and employers would like to go to a 4 day, 10 hour per day week. in fact, when my mom worked for the school district in accounting, she actually quit because sometimes an 8 hour day was over at noon, and sometimes she needed to stay until 7 the next, and leaving mid way screwed things up, so she said she gets flex hours, or she stays gone. they said fine. but the union pressure is great, and people don't quite get that employers are not an endless supply of funds. especially today with online competition. they just can't compete without things changing. the recent supermarket strike was typical. 5 months and the final agreement was the original offer in the first place.
My dad gave me some very good advice. He said, never argue with a fool, because to an observer, it will be hard to tell you apart. look, the above posters all posted AC. and they obiously don't know squat abotu stalin and russia. so i never respond to an AC.
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i teach high school history. from many of text books, you would think that the US is the greatest perpetrator of evil in the world. or at least, no better than most other nations. (okay slash trolls, flame on)
textbooks are notoriously bad, for the most part. textbook publishers have to sell textbooks and there are a whole range of issues they have to deal with. i was a member of the textbook adoption committee a few years ago and i had the privilege (?) of speaking with a few of the reps. holy crap!! it should be no different i IT. the people who have the loudest voices (i.e. political groups who squak about "representation") or the most money (corporations that need product placement), get their voices heard the loudest. it is disgusting, which is why i use the text for very little of the class.
here's a blatant example of the 10th grade Mod Civ book. Hitler and the holocaust get an entire section in the WW2 chapter, yet the multiple 10's of millions Stalin killed gets 2 sentences. hmmm...
You can always play the song and record it in real time on an analog source.
unless you control the bios and have software control of sound cards, etc. what if you make it playable ONLY in players, or only out of certain soundcards, or, you have an adapter, or you have a slightly different earpiece plugin. looking at microsoft's activation schemes in the past ocuple of years, it doesn't sound to far fetched. or, what if you added to the analog source a note beyond human hearing, but noticable by the OS? just somewhere in the song. then the import crashes.
Has Apple iTunes been hacked yet? As in giving people un-encrypted, un-watermarked AAC files?
actually, i think someone did. there's also i think a windows/itunes app that captures the stream. but more importantly, the whole drm thing is moot. you can go
aac -> cd audio (for car, etc.) then go cd -> aac/mp3. the resulting aac/mp3 is drm free. (i kow becasue the mp3's play fine on my linux box as well as my ibook). and i haven't noticed a drop in quality from aac w/drm -> cd -> aac w/o drm. so the whole cracked scheme is not important. all it takes is a $.25 cd and a few minutes.
note: no, i did md5sum the two aac files, becasue they would of course be different. but, if someone has audio software to measure levels, etc., i'd be curious.
are you out of your fscking mind. have you heard about the oil-for-food fiasco. please. i'd rather have the boys from enron dole out domains. okay, it's a tie.
as long as iTunes lets you burn audio cd's it doesn't matter. AAC is suuposedly not a lossy format. so, create an audio cd, then re-rip the cd in non-DRM format. big deal. a couple of extra steps. i have bought music from iTMS and burned a cd for the car. sounds pretty good to me. now, if i had a $3000 stereo, all kinds of eq's and mixers, and a sophisticated ear for music, well then, i might notice a difference. but i can't. thus any DRM technology that let's you do that is useless. but what it does do, is put the burden on the end user. which is fine but should have been done from the get-go.
fraud is never okay, but people think they can get things on the cheap on ebay. you get what you pay for. i see lots of 17" powerbooks for like $999. i'm thinking, yeah right. but i read where some guys got hosed on these "deals". people are stupid for thinking they can find deals on ebay that are too good to be true. my wife buys and sells kids clothes. but she bought her canon 10D at a brick and mortar store, though she could've got it for a lot less on ebay. so why? well, you pay for service. and it is safer. you pay for that too. i have no sympathy for people who drop big dollars to people they have no way of verifying, especially if it's in some BFE country. they should use sense. though ebay has a responsibility, they can't possibly track the millions (and millions) of auctions. it is incumbent on the bidder. there are great deals on refurb'd laptops. but i'd only buy them from legit ebay stores. i wouldn't buy it from a regular user.
the operation happened in the US. Why? we have the best medicine in the world. we have the best system in the world. period. because of our free market system. yes, we can find ways to help out those without coverage. but to revamp, er, destroy, our system is asinine.
(1)Why would Microsoft, who has a failing ISP, want to buy AOL, who is a failing ISP? (2)AOL are in competition with Microsoft.
1) for millions AOL is the internet. and with millions of new subscibers, they direct HUGE traffic towards their sites. remember the smart tags in office. think AOL keywords. bingo.
2) and, you buy them. ain't like microsoft has never done this before.
remember, they are no longer, if they ever were, an innovation company. they have a US market share at which the only direction is down. their foreign share is tenuous at best with the rise of linux and gov't's, etc., becoming increasingly wary of microsoft. the biggest part fo their angst regarding linux is they can't buy it. they can't stop it. and they're not happy. aol just solidifes their hold on US market.
an installer and a test drive are totally different. you don't play with the OS on install. (except for that tetris game on the old caldera, remember that one?) a test dirve is like knoppix, et al. where you actually use the OS for real stuff. i would argue that an installer is totally not relevant to a distro. how many people install windows? few. installation of an OS should never be a factor. period. what matters is what happens when you use the OS. desktop linux will happen when it comes pre-installed/configured. until then, when you have to get a CD then do your own install, it is a niche OS on the desktop.
i imagine that is was not a cut and paste operation. and i am barely beyond the Teach Yourself C in 21 days proficiency, so it ain't like i could lend a hand. i just seems to me that c code should be somewhat portable. but hey, if they did the kernel in perl or php, maybe i could help!!
which is something i don't understand. why haven't they been able to incorporate other BSD code for SMP? i understand the GPL limitations, but BSD code doesn't have the same burden (forced gpl'ing, etc.). isn't that the whole point of open source?
this is the same guy who wouldn't stop the SF mayor from issuing gay mariage licenses. whatever you think of gay marriage, an AG is supposed to uphold the law, and let the courst/legislators make changes. he is a favorite for governor. and you wonder why my great state is so fsck'd up.
this doesn't make sense. they can charge people for a product, then not deliver it? i have always doubted this claim. not that i'd want an oem copy of windows, but hell, if i paid for it...i just can't believe that.
All of these lower the barriers to proficiency in the language, and make it possible for more people to get started writing code, which will eventually lead to a larger population of talented coders, and to better software.
not true. a skilled programmer can code in a variety of languages. for example, someone who is proficient in java (or OO languages) should pick up python rapidly (i know from first hand experience). also, software engineering is not dependent on the language. good software can be written in any language. IDEs and languages do not make for better software. there is much more to it. have you ever played with cocoa/obj-c? if you did, you'd think.net a piece of crap. if apple ever ported aqua to linux, oh boy. but then i have to remind myself that apple is a hardware company. anyways, back to original point. languages don't make a programmer any more than brushes make a painter.
what are you smoking? we coaxed him to attack kumwait? saudi arabia was never in danger from saddam. we gave him permission? look, you can rewrite history all you want. grow up, get a clue, and stop reading michael moore.
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there are other considerations as well. i'm not familiar with terminal services, but i am with X clients. my guess, and from what i've heard from some who've used it, is that with term. services (and correct me if i'm wrong here), you need a helluva lot more overhead on hardware. and you are running multiple instances of windows. so it is hugely resouce hungry. but with X, for all its faults, if you allocated 50mb or so per user you can run several user cncurrently. i had a P3 933 512mb box in my classroom last year running seven X clients with OO.org, moz, etc., without a glitch. i had over 150 days uptime. only pulled the plug for summer vacation.
also, you have to pay for not just term services, but every user. if you think about it, that can be several hundred dollars. basically, microsoft doesn't want you to do it. what they have term services for, and citrix is good for, is rich firms that buy major hardware, and want to load the expense up front, and save on admin costs. which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but, it is not viable in all but a few cases.
i used to be tech coordinator at my school. oh the headaches. anyways, i'd get all kinds of lame ass questions about how to do simple things. people learned how to use windows. just like riding a bike, it takes time. windows UI's break lots of guidelines. ever look at all the dialog boxes, like the font box, or the print dialog. they are 1st class abortions. and how 'bout office. what, a toolbar button that is a pop up menu, which can then double (or triple?) as a pull off floating toolbar? (it's a desert topping, it's a floor polish!) windows has had the luxury of being how things are done, and people learn to use it. so, anything that doesn't do it that way is "wrong" and "difficult". it's no different that driving on the right side of the road, with the pedals on the left side of the car. (here in the US) linux desktop by default has to emulate/mirror windows (mis)feature for feature. now, there are lots of bonuses like in konq, but 100 cool things doesn't make up for the 1 thing it doesn't do like windows. the best hope for linux desktop is new users without the pre-conditioned actions. i had several linux desktops in my old 7th grade class. you'd be amazed that kids with little computer training can pick up kde or gnome. it's just that they're not stuck, as it were, doing things the redmond way.
I'm a typical slashdot type, hell, programming pays my bills
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if programming actually pays your bills, you're not a typical
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good observation. many jobs and employers would like to go to a 4 day, 10 hour per day week. in fact, when my mom worked for the school district in accounting, she actually quit because sometimes an 8 hour day was over at noon, and sometimes she needed to stay until 7 the next, and leaving mid way screwed things up, so she said she gets flex hours, or she stays gone. they said fine. but the union pressure is great, and people don't quite get that employers are not an endless supply of funds. especially today with online competition. they just can't compete without things changing. the recent supermarket strike was typical. 5 months and the final agreement was the original offer in the first place.
My dad gave me some very good advice. He said, never argue with a fool, because to an observer, it will be hard to tell you apart. look, the above posters all posted AC. and they obiously don't know squat abotu stalin and russia. so i never respond to an AC.
i teach high school history. from many of text books, you would think that the US is the greatest perpetrator of evil in the world. or at least, no better than most other nations. (okay slash trolls, flame on)
textbooks are notoriously bad, for the most part. textbook publishers have to sell textbooks and there are a whole range of issues they have to deal with. i was a member of the textbook adoption committee a few years ago and i had the privilege (?) of speaking with a few of the reps. holy crap!! it should be no different i IT. the people who have the loudest voices (i.e. political groups who squak about "representation") or the most money (corporations that need product placement), get their voices heard the loudest. it is disgusting, which is why i use the text for very little of the class.
here's a blatant example of the 10th grade Mod Civ book. Hitler and the holocaust get an entire section in the WW2 chapter, yet the multiple 10's of millions Stalin killed gets 2 sentences. hmmm...
You can always play the song and record it in real time on an analog source.
unless you control the bios and have software control of sound cards, etc. what if you make it playable ONLY in players, or only out of certain soundcards, or, you have an adapter, or you have a slightly different earpiece plugin. looking at microsoft's activation schemes in the past ocuple of years, it doesn't sound to far fetched. or, what if you added to the analog source a note beyond human hearing, but noticable by the OS? just somewhere in the song. then the import crashes.
Has Apple iTunes been hacked yet? As in giving people un-encrypted, un-watermarked AAC files?
actually, i think someone did. there's also i think a windows/itunes app that captures the stream. but more importantly, the whole drm thing is moot. you can go
aac -> cd audio (for car, etc.) then go cd -> aac/mp3. the resulting aac/mp3 is drm free. (i kow becasue the mp3's play fine on my linux box as well as my ibook). and i haven't noticed a drop in quality from aac w/drm -> cd -> aac w/o drm. so the whole cracked scheme is not important. all it takes is a $.25 cd and a few minutes.
note: no, i did md5sum the two aac files, becasue they would of course be different. but, if someone has audio software to measure levels, etc., i'd be curious.
when i blast the shit out of the little bastards with my shotgun, your gonna grumble something about data integrity and security.
are you out of your fscking mind. have you heard about the oil-for-food fiasco. please. i'd rather have the boys from enron dole out domains. okay, it's a tie.
as long as iTunes lets you burn audio cd's it doesn't matter. AAC is suuposedly not a lossy format. so, create an audio cd, then re-rip the cd in non-DRM format. big deal. a couple of extra steps. i have bought music from iTMS and burned a cd for the car. sounds pretty good to me. now, if i had a $3000 stereo, all kinds of eq's and mixers, and a sophisticated ear for music, well then, i might notice a difference. but i can't. thus any DRM technology that let's you do that is useless. but what it does do, is put the burden on the end user. which is fine but should have been done from the get-go.
yes you are right. the minute i hit submit, i said, "crap, it was marquee". anyways, regarding mnicrosoft and html, think frontpage. what an abortion.
and microsoft has fsck'd that one up too. like the damn tag.
fraud is never okay, but people think they can get things on the cheap on ebay. you get what you pay for. i see lots of 17" powerbooks for like $999. i'm thinking, yeah right. but i read where some guys got hosed on these "deals". people are stupid for thinking they can find deals on ebay that are too good to be true. my wife buys and sells kids clothes. but she bought her canon 10D at a brick and mortar store, though she could've got it for a lot less on ebay. so why? well, you pay for service. and it is safer. you pay for that too. i have no sympathy for people who drop big dollars to people they have no way of verifying, especially if it's in some BFE country. they should use sense. though ebay has a responsibility, they can't possibly track the millions (and millions) of auctions. it is incumbent on the bidder. there are great deals on refurb'd laptops. but i'd only buy them from legit ebay stores. i wouldn't buy it from a regular user.
the operation happened in the US. Why? we have the best medicine in the world. we have the best system in the world. period. because of our free market system. yes, we can find ways to help out those without coverage. but to revamp, er, destroy, our system is asinine.
(1)Why would Microsoft, who has a failing ISP, want to buy AOL, who is a failing ISP? (2)AOL are in competition with Microsoft.
1) for millions AOL is the internet. and with millions of new subscibers, they direct HUGE traffic towards their sites. remember the smart tags in office. think AOL keywords. bingo.
2) and, you buy them. ain't like microsoft has never done this before.
remember, they are no longer, if they ever were, an innovation company. they have a US market share at which the only direction is down. their foreign share is tenuous at best with the rise of linux and gov't's, etc., becoming increasingly wary of microsoft. the biggest part fo their angst regarding linux is they can't buy it. they can't stop it. and they're not happy. aol just solidifes their hold on US market.
an installer and a test drive are totally different. you don't play with the OS on install. (except for that tetris game on the old caldera, remember that one?) a test dirve is like knoppix, et al. where you actually use the OS for real stuff. i would argue that an installer is totally not relevant to a distro. how many people install windows? few. installation of an OS should never be a factor. period. what matters is what happens when you use the OS. desktop linux will happen when it comes pre-installed/configured. until then, when you have to get a CD then do your own install, it is a niche OS on the desktop.
which is why i won't be submitting any kernel patched anytime soon!!
i imagine that is was not a cut and paste operation. and i am barely beyond the Teach Yourself C in 21 days proficiency, so it ain't like i could lend a hand. i just seems to me that c code should be somewhat portable. but hey, if they did the kernel in perl or php, maybe i could help!!
which is something i don't understand. why haven't they been able to incorporate other BSD code for SMP? i understand the GPL limitations, but BSD code doesn't have the same burden (forced gpl'ing, etc.). isn't that the whole point of open source?
this is the same guy who wouldn't stop the SF mayor from issuing gay mariage licenses. whatever you think of gay marriage, an AG is supposed to uphold the law, and let the courst/legislators make changes. he is a favorite for governor. and you wonder why my great state is so fsck'd up.
this doesn't make sense. they can charge people for a product, then not deliver it? i have always doubted this claim. not that i'd want an oem copy of windows, but hell, if i paid for it...i just can't believe that.
All of these lower the barriers to proficiency in the language, and make it possible for more people to get started writing code, which will eventually lead to a larger population of talented coders, and to better software.
.net a piece of crap. if apple ever ported aqua to linux, oh boy. but then i have to remind myself that apple is a hardware company. anyways, back to original point. languages don't make a programmer any more than brushes make a painter.
not true. a skilled programmer can code in a variety of languages. for example, someone who is proficient in java (or OO languages) should pick up python rapidly (i know from first hand experience). also, software engineering is not dependent on the language. good software can be written in any language. IDEs and languages do not make for better software. there is much more to it. have you ever played with cocoa/obj-c? if you did, you'd think
the software constituted an unacceptable gift--one valued at more than $20
that's fairly generous for office, wouldn't you say, eh?
what are you smoking? we coaxed him to attack kumwait? saudi arabia was never in danger from saddam. we gave him permission? look, you can rewrite history all you want. grow up, get a clue, and stop reading michael moore.