1. People using XP aren't going to replace XP with this. After all, they already paid for XP so why pay for Xandros Desktop OS 3 Business Edition? At $129, it's not that cheap.
2. People comfortable with XP who are in the market for a new computer aren't going to go through the effort to find a great deal on a computer, buy the OS, install and configure the OS.
Think what you may, but Windows XP is now pretty secure. Use Firefox and Thunderbird, keep your AV up to date, and the biggest worry is the phishing scams. No OS can protect a user against being a sucker...
I'm sorry, your reply to my reply is much too thoughtful and polite. I've notified the Slashdot editors to remove your account because clearly you don't belong in this community.
The HD-DVDs are a product. It is their media. You are welcome to make DRM-free HD-DVDs, books, audio recordings, sculptures, crop circles, whatever. However, if you want access to their product you have to abide by their rules.
If you want to be upset about restrictions, get upset about passports. What kind of world are we living in where you can't travel where you want at any given time? You need a passport, a visa, and in some cases (Cuba) that's not enough. The US government has said it's illegal to go to certain locations on the Earth. Perhaps you're free from travel restrictions in Canada, but you see what I'm getting at.
Hey, why is this on your site?
Redistributing, duplicating or selling of BandWich comics or characters is strictly prohibited.
You don't want others distributing your content...
If you wish to use a comic on your site, or to distribute it/them, permission must be granted by Joel Kelly or Brian Dodge
but you're upset that content that took hundreds of people to create and millions of dollars to produce may have restrictions on it?
To be fair - it's not just Microsoft. The next generation of digital content will, by and large, be protected to the display. Recently Toshiba released their HD-DVD specifications and have dictated HDMI/HDCP as a display requirement for playing back high-definition content. Most expect Blu-ray to have similar restrictions.
You don't think Apple is going to do this too? What will happen with Linux though? With Linux making inroads into set top boxes there will be some solution for Linux, though I don't think it will make its way to the desktop (legally).
Actually, it's my wife's subscription. She first started buying music from iTunes because she was afraid I'd get busted for downloading music illegally (I have a security clearance, and for the record, the polygraphers don't care. I fessed up to all my digital crimes: downloading music, copying software...yeah, that's about it. I told my polygrapher and he said, "great, now let's talk about real crimes"). At $0.99 a pop it gets expensive and she likes a lot of music.
For her birthday I got her a Creative Zen Micro and a subscription to Yahoo Music Unlimited. Sure, it's an annual payment but for $60/year she has access to a growing catalog of music. None of the tracks are fake either, like you find elsewhere these days. She has no need to burn CDs (I also got her an FM transmitter for the car) and the Zen Micro comes in chick-friendly colors.
I may subscribe to the service myself in fact...there's a lot of good music I wouldn't mind having easy access to. Unfortunately I can't bring the player into work...only store-bought pre-burned music CDs can be brought in.
For massive runways, you can't beat those at old SAC bases. I was stationed at Loring AFB and the runway there is 12,000' x 300'. I'm sure similar runways exists at other former B-52/B-36 bases. Talk about a way to revitalize a community...space travel!
I'm at Java One now and was at the general session where this was announced. It was made very clear by at least 2 speakers that this was only the first small step in opening up source code. I'm sure more will follow...
1. More girls don't need industry jobs. The industry needs more "girls" to fill existing jobs.
2. Girls? No, women. You don't see articles stating most of the industry's jobs are filled with boys.
While I have nothing against the term "girls" (my wife occasionally goes out for "girls' night out"), the workplace is not a good place for that term. It's either a reflection of a condescending attitude or leads to one.
The bottom line: avoid referring to female professionals as girls. Unfortunately, many females feel the term "woman" makes them sound old, so to be safe, use the term "chick".
Ok, I had to throw in a joke, but I meant the rest.
I bought a Creative Zen Micro and an annual subscription to Yahoo Unlimited Music for my wife and she loves it. She also has iTunes but her collection wasn't that big, at $1 per song. Now, for $60, she has access to a really huge catalog (except the Beatles...what's up with that?). With an adapter she can take the music in the car. She doesn't need to burn CDs (though if she did, it would be $0.79 a song) so the Zen Micro works out great.
She didn't like me downloading music illegally, so this works out well. And $60/year is a small price to pay for such a huge catalog.
Yawn. Apparently you're new here. "Go to hell MS" went out years ago. That bandwagon left...but there's a new one every hour. The "Patriot Act" bandwagon makes frequent stops...may I suggest a nice "go to hell Bush" for you?
I've used PasswordSafe for a years now and haven't had any trouble with it at all. PasswordSafe was originally written by Bruce Schneier, the oft-quoted security expert. It's now open source and has picked up some nice functionality. From Schneier's web site:
"Password Safe protects passwords with the Blowfish encryption algorithm, a fast, free alternative to DES. The program's security has been thoroughly verified by Counterpane Labs under the supervision of Bruce Schneier, author of Applied Cryptography and creator of the Blowfish algorithm."
Based on what? His entries are about as banal as any other's, and his writings pale compared to Sterling's (yes, apples and oranges). Perhaps his left-leaning self-important tone carries the day...
I am inexperienced with the Chinese language. I am having difficulty learning it because I find it ridiculously complicated. Please simplify it.
Signed,
VolciMaster"
As for the layout managers, you just need practice with them. My suggestion is to stick with BorderLayout, FlowLayout, and BoxLayout (with some widgets from the Box class). You can easily nest panels using those layout managers to get what you want, 99% of the time.
Do you know what frustrates me about Windows development (using C++ Builder)? Absolute positioning. I place things where I want them, run the app, resize the window, and nothing moves! Only the window gets bigger. Once you get the hang of layout managers you'll see how easy they are to use and how much nicer your UIs will be.
Every once in a while I like to change some information to something ridiculous, but subtle (and false). Attribute a generic quote to Martin Luther King Jr that really belongs to David Duke, for example. Change some date. Little things that no one would know off the top of his head and would require work to verify, but go unverified because the change seems reasonable.
It's a game, actually, like that one where people try to find search terms that return no pages from Google. How many changes can I (and others) insert that stick? There's no good reason to do it, just to see if I can get away with it. Like hackers that penetrate systems to see if they can (except what I do is malicious).
Yes, people like me are the reason I won't use Wikipedia.
I hope no one takes what I said 14 years ago and uses it against me. I'm quite sure my opinions on many things have changed over time. RMS has fallen out of the news lately so he had to dig up something to get noticed. He's the North Korea of software. If he's not getting attention he has to make some noise, no matter how silly, so people will look his way.
Are you in the Baltimore/DC area or are you willing to move there? Are you and and your fiancee US citizens? If the answers are "yes", what's your e-mail address?
In my job as a contractor for a government agency, I've had the opportunity to read a lot about the history of crytopgrahy and code breaking. If there's one thing I've learned, it's that one time pads are unbreakable (when properly created and handled). Does quantum computing affect this unbreakability?
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Probably not. Who is going to switch?
1. People using XP aren't going to replace XP with this. After all, they already paid for XP so why pay for Xandros Desktop OS 3 Business Edition? At $129, it's not that cheap.
2. People comfortable with XP who are in the market for a new computer aren't going to go through the effort to find a great deal on a computer, buy the OS, install and configure the OS.
Think what you may, but Windows XP is now pretty secure. Use Firefox and Thunderbird, keep your AV up to date, and the biggest worry is the phishing scams. No OS can protect a user against being a sucker...
I'm sorry, your reply to my reply is much too thoughtful and polite. I've notified the Slashdot editors to remove your account because clearly you don't belong in this community.
our media??
The HD-DVDs are a product. It is their media. You are welcome to make DRM-free HD-DVDs, books, audio recordings, sculptures, crop circles, whatever. However, if you want access to their product you have to abide by their rules.
If you want to be upset about restrictions, get upset about passports. What kind of world are we living in where you can't travel where you want at any given time? You need a passport, a visa, and in some cases (Cuba) that's not enough. The US government has said it's illegal to go to certain locations on the Earth. Perhaps you're free from travel restrictions in Canada, but you see what I'm getting at.
Hey, why is this on your site?
Redistributing, duplicating or selling of BandWich comics or characters is strictly prohibited.
You don't want others distributing your content...
If you wish to use a comic on your site, or to distribute it/them, permission must be granted by Joel Kelly or Brian Dodge
but you're upset that content that took hundreds of people to create and millions of dollars to produce may have restrictions on it?
From the article:
You don't think Apple is going to do this too? What will happen with Linux though? With Linux making inroads into set top boxes there will be some solution for Linux, though I don't think it will make its way to the desktop (legally).
Yahoo! Music Unlimited
Actually, it's my wife's subscription. She first started buying music from iTunes because she was afraid I'd get busted for downloading music illegally (I have a security clearance, and for the record, the polygraphers don't care. I fessed up to all my digital crimes: downloading music, copying software...yeah, that's about it. I told my polygrapher and he said, "great, now let's talk about real crimes"). At $0.99 a pop it gets expensive and she likes a lot of music.
For her birthday I got her a Creative Zen Micro and a subscription to Yahoo Music Unlimited. Sure, it's an annual payment but for $60/year she has access to a growing catalog of music. None of the tracks are fake either, like you find elsewhere these days. She has no need to burn CDs (I also got her an FM transmitter for the car) and the Zen Micro comes in chick-friendly colors.
I may subscribe to the service myself in fact...there's a lot of good music I wouldn't mind having easy access to. Unfortunately I can't bring the player into work...only store-bought pre-burned music CDs can be brought in.
Liberate it, perhaps. I think any method of actually making it would come with its own set of problems.
For massive runways, you can't beat those at old SAC bases. I was stationed at Loring AFB and the runway there is 12,000' x 300'. I'm sure similar runways exists at other former B-52/B-36 bases. Talk about a way to revitalize a community...space travel!
I'm at Java One now and was at the general session where this was announced. It was made very clear by at least 2 speakers that this was only the first small step in opening up source code. I'm sure more will follow...
The other way to make the moon smaller is to turn around, bend over, and look at it between your legs.
Yes, it sounds like a prank but it's not. We actually studied this illusion as part of a course dealing with optics and perception in college.
1. More girls don't need industry jobs. The industry needs more "girls" to fill existing jobs.
2. Girls? No, women. You don't see articles stating most of the industry's jobs are filled with boys.
While I have nothing against the term "girls" (my wife occasionally goes out for "girls' night out"), the workplace is not a good place for that term. It's either a reflection of a condescending attitude or leads to one.
The bottom line: avoid referring to female professionals as girls. Unfortunately, many females feel the term "woman" makes them sound old, so to be safe, use the term "chick".
Ok, I had to throw in a joke, but I meant the rest.
I bought a Creative Zen Micro and an annual subscription to Yahoo Unlimited Music for my wife and she loves it. She also has iTunes but her collection wasn't that big, at $1 per song. Now, for $60, she has access to a really huge catalog (except the Beatles...what's up with that?). With an adapter she can take the music in the car. She doesn't need to burn CDs (though if she did, it would be $0.79 a song) so the Zen Micro works out great.
She didn't like me downloading music illegally, so this works out well. And $60/year is a small price to pay for such a huge catalog.
Yawn. Apparently you're new here. "Go to hell MS" went out years ago. That bandwagon left...but there's a new one every hour. The "Patriot Act" bandwagon makes frequent stops...may I suggest a nice "go to hell Bush" for you?
I've used PasswordSafe for a years now and haven't had any trouble with it at all. PasswordSafe was originally written by Bruce Schneier, the oft-quoted security expert. It's now open source and has picked up some nice functionality. From Schneier's web site:
"Password Safe protects passwords with the Blowfish encryption algorithm, a fast, free alternative to DES. The program's security has been thoroughly verified by Counterpane Labs under the supervision of Bruce Schneier, author of Applied Cryptography and creator of the Blowfish algorithm."
In other other news, studies show that any guy using "grok" as part of his normal vocabulary will not have a girlfriend.
Based on what? His entries are about as banal as any other's, and his writings pale compared to Sterling's (yes, apples and oranges). Perhaps his left-leaning self-important tone carries the day...
Replace "Marlon Brando" with "Cowboy Neal".
...either the film or the comic book after visiting the web site.
However, it does not further the species if I live in my parents' basement. I've found getting paid to write software is a nice way to make a living.
It's not an either/or proposition. It's possible to write software for profit and contribute to open source software.
"Dear China,
I am inexperienced with the Chinese language. I am having difficulty learning it because I find it ridiculously complicated. Please simplify it.
Signed,
VolciMaster"
As for the layout managers, you just need practice with them. My suggestion is to stick with BorderLayout, FlowLayout, and BoxLayout (with some widgets from the Box class). You can easily nest panels using those layout managers to get what you want, 99% of the time.
Do you know what frustrates me about Windows development (using C++ Builder)? Absolute positioning. I place things where I want them, run the app, resize the window, and nothing moves! Only the window gets bigger. Once you get the hang of layout managers you'll see how easy they are to use and how much nicer your UIs will be.
No, their first task should be to stop people from using "Google" as a verb.
Perhaps he drives a Sob?
Every once in a while I like to change some information to something ridiculous, but subtle (and false). Attribute a generic quote to Martin Luther King Jr that really belongs to David Duke, for example. Change some date. Little things that no one would know off the top of his head and would require work to verify, but go unverified because the change seems reasonable.
It's a game, actually, like that one where people try to find search terms that return no pages from Google. How many changes can I (and others) insert that stick? There's no good reason to do it, just to see if I can get away with it. Like hackers that penetrate systems to see if they can (except what I do is malicious).
Yes, people like me are the reason I won't use Wikipedia.
I hope no one takes what I said 14 years ago and uses it against me. I'm quite sure my opinions on many things have changed over time. RMS has fallen out of the news lately so he had to dig up something to get noticed. He's the North Korea of software. If he's not getting attention he has to make some noise, no matter how silly, so people will look his way.
In other words, nothing to see here, move along.
Are you in the Baltimore/DC area or are you willing to move there? Are you and and your fiancee US citizens? If the answers are "yes", what's your e-mail address?
In my job as a contractor for a government agency, I've had the opportunity to read a lot about the history of crytopgrahy and code breaking. If there's one thing I've learned, it's that one time pads are unbreakable (when properly created and handled). Does quantum computing affect this unbreakability?