Some languages work better for different jobs. Depending on what processing jobs your project calls for, choose the language best suited. Hell, even C++ allows inline assembly for jobs where assembly is better suited than letting the compiler choose what registers to fill and so on.
I didn't say the achievements weren't serious. I said the world won't take them seriously, and they won't have nearly as many if they keep a culture of separation and nigh-dictatorship.
There's no reason that the media cannot be provided to you in a format that allows you to exercise your fair-use rights, and DRM is usually built to limit or remove those rights. You may not notice it because you're using it within the parameters they allow, but that's not the same as having proper rights. It's like having free speech as long as you don't say the President is an idiot.
Enlist the kids to help, too. I know we did that in my high school. The actual district techs were all but useless, so the one on-site tech teacher had a few of us in an independent study class that we fixed the issues we could around the school, basically telling teachers that the printer had to be on before it would print, fixing local computer issues and so on. It takes a lot of the load off of your suggested traveling tech so he can concentrate on the big problems.
No. You're using "GUI" as the yardstick. Linux is not GUI-centric like Windows is. Windows has NOTHING if the GUI doesn't work, so of course they have fallback mechanisms. If the GUI on Linux doesn't work, there's text-mode. Again, you're trying to compare them on even terms... they're not the same. Different thought patterns, different operating patterns. Windows is better at restarting the GUI stuff because the only interface is the GUI.
You may think you're not making assumptions, but you are.
DRM is never enabling. It is ALWAYS restricting. That's the whole point... it restricts what can happen with the content. It doesn't enable you to have subscription music or watch Netflix movies. It enables the companies that own the copyright on that content control how you use your media. Let's see... can you put your subscription music on a CD and play it in your car? Doubt it. What exactly DOES the DRM in the Netflix movies allow you to do that an unencrypted movie wouldn't allow? Right. Nothing.
The problem is that Iran has a habit of doing things like photoshopping missiles. You can't trust their scientific achievements until they're independently verified, which will always keep them second class. Until they learn about transparency and start to have a human rights record that people can look at without revulsion, then Iran can start being looked at as an equal. As it is, they're a very violent, unstable country with a leader that spouts nonsense and has not given the world reason to take them seriously that has made a few interesting discoveries. But the few good things they have done does not automatically put them at par with the rest of the world. Our scientific capabilities didn't come in spite of our political situation... they came BECAUSE of it. And until Iran changes that, things won't really change.
It's "way behind" in some aspects, but also way ahead in others. Ever had a device that didn't work in Windows? I have a scanner that just won't work with anything past XP. No drivers, never will be. Hardware is still awesome (2400x1200dpi flatbed, USB), but it just doesn't work with any recent Windows. It has worked with every single distro of Linux I've thrown at it, though.
And display drivers are getting better, especially lately. I can build Ubuntu packages with the latest ATI installer if I want the latest and greatest, or just use the restricted driver manager if I want the distro version.
Not to mention my Linux just keeps everything updated. I don't have 15 auto-updaters running all the time, I don't have each program checking for itself. Windows is way behind in update capabilities.
Linux is only behind if you define "ahead" as "what windows does". Guess what... Linux is not Windows. If you compare them, Windows will be better at what Windows does, and Linux will be better at what Linux does. The question is what do you want your computer to do? Locked in, proprietary software that you don't get much support for that if it doesn't work, you're just SOL, or open source software that's not as pretty, but can do a lot more if you spend some time working on it, and is completely free, doesn't get viruses, etc.? It's your choice. But don't think that "Linux" is a free Windows, or you can compare them directly in all aspects.
The problem is that DRM in all forms is bad for the consumer. It's a removal of capabilities, and Microsoft shipping with it is a tacit approval of that. Microsoft disrespects the consumer, as does Hollywood, and I refuse to be part of it. As should everyone. The problem is that it's being forced on people, the same as IE was.
If you don't stand up for your rights when it's hard, you don't deserve them when it's easy.
...won't be able to call or text anyone? I use T-Mobile and travel for my job. Hell, I even got good data signal over a lot of Alaska when I went up there. I have yet to work in a city that T-Mobile doesn't work well at.
You must not know very many people. I have gotten many valid messages of that caliber of spelling and grammar. Hell, I'm lucky if they even have a subject sometimes.
How is it a "performance"? A performance includes a person doing it. This is no different than using a magnifying glass to make text larger. It's a tool, it's not a "derivative work".
There's a point where the ubiquity of an acronym is so much that it doesn't NEED explaining. Do you need me to type that I live in the United States of America (USA)? Or would you get it from the context of what I was saying because it's a common acronym? The AP has been around for so long and has it's name in so many places that I'd think almost all people reading it would know it.
Wait... so Microsoft provides an upgrade path from XP->Vista, and from Vista->Windows 7, but they suggest you don't use them together? How much can you trust your Vista install then? Or Windows 7 install? I mean, really... it's not really an "upgrade" if you aren't making XP into Vista in all cases, is it?
I'm sure no Fortune 500 sysadmin would do it that way, but what about end users? Or even smaller businesses? Those are a large portion of Microsoft's business, and they aren't being provided with an upgrade path?
No, a bleeding edge Linux kernel is an alpha, at best. Windows specifically released the beta so that people would test it. If it's regularly failing during testing, that's a bad thing. If it only did it every now and then, sure, those are to be the expected lack of polish. But the way the quote puts it? That's a major failure, and there's no excuse that it got out to customers to test in that condition.
Even small companies build custom images for Windows deployments, putting all their company software in it so they can rebuild a machine in minutes when Windows inevitably tanks.
A motherboard isn't a "component" any more than your car's engine is a "component". It's made of lots of parts that all have to work together. Integrated audio chips, SATA controllers, IDE controllers, memory controllers, PCI bridge, BIOS and ACPI interaction, and various other integrated components. You're talking around 20-30 "components" that all need separate drivers in a typical PC, at minimum.
I'm not saying that it shouldn't be 100% compatible, I'm just saying that there's a lot more in a computer than just the parts you listed, and it's not as simple as it may seem at first glance from putting together a computer from "individual" parts.
No, the fairness doctrine was stupid. Sometimes there aren't two sides that you need to give equal time to. Like evolution and Intelligent Design. Evolution is the only one that even reasonably needs discussed.
Or there are more than two sides, more valid viewpoints than two overarching "types" could adequately represent. There are a hell of a lot of people in the US that are perfectly fine with gay marriage AND being fiscally responsible. That doesn't fit into the "liberal" or "conservative" bracket, though.
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Some languages work better for different jobs. Depending on what processing jobs your project calls for, choose the language best suited. Hell, even C++ allows inline assembly for jobs where assembly is better suited than letting the compiler choose what registers to fill and so on.
Nope! That's why it's news.
I didn't say the achievements weren't serious. I said the world won't take them seriously, and they won't have nearly as many if they keep a culture of separation and nigh-dictatorship.
Can you stream any video that Netflix has? No? That's DRM harming you right there.
Oh, and: http://philsplace.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/watch-out-for-the-limits-in-netflixs-unlimited-watch-now-downloads/
There's DRM harming him.
There's no reason that the media cannot be provided to you in a format that allows you to exercise your fair-use rights, and DRM is usually built to limit or remove those rights. You may not notice it because you're using it within the parameters they allow, but that's not the same as having proper rights. It's like having free speech as long as you don't say the President is an idiot.
Enlist the kids to help, too. I know we did that in my high school. The actual district techs were all but useless, so the one on-site tech teacher had a few of us in an independent study class that we fixed the issues we could around the school, basically telling teachers that the printer had to be on before it would print, fixing local computer issues and so on. It takes a lot of the load off of your suggested traveling tech so he can concentrate on the big problems.
No. You're using "GUI" as the yardstick. Linux is not GUI-centric like Windows is. Windows has NOTHING if the GUI doesn't work, so of course they have fallback mechanisms. If the GUI on Linux doesn't work, there's text-mode. Again, you're trying to compare them on even terms... they're not the same. Different thought patterns, different operating patterns. Windows is better at restarting the GUI stuff because the only interface is the GUI.
You may think you're not making assumptions, but you are.
DRM is never enabling. It is ALWAYS restricting. That's the whole point... it restricts what can happen with the content. It doesn't enable you to have subscription music or watch Netflix movies. It enables the companies that own the copyright on that content control how you use your media. Let's see... can you put your subscription music on a CD and play it in your car? Doubt it. What exactly DOES the DRM in the Netflix movies allow you to do that an unencrypted movie wouldn't allow? Right. Nothing.
The problem is that Iran has a habit of doing things like photoshopping missiles. You can't trust their scientific achievements until they're independently verified, which will always keep them second class. Until they learn about transparency and start to have a human rights record that people can look at without revulsion, then Iran can start being looked at as an equal. As it is, they're a very violent, unstable country with a leader that spouts nonsense and has not given the world reason to take them seriously that has made a few interesting discoveries. But the few good things they have done does not automatically put them at par with the rest of the world. Our scientific capabilities didn't come in spite of our political situation... they came BECAUSE of it. And until Iran changes that, things won't really change.
It's "way behind" in some aspects, but also way ahead in others. Ever had a device that didn't work in Windows? I have a scanner that just won't work with anything past XP. No drivers, never will be. Hardware is still awesome (2400x1200dpi flatbed, USB), but it just doesn't work with any recent Windows. It has worked with every single distro of Linux I've thrown at it, though.
And display drivers are getting better, especially lately. I can build Ubuntu packages with the latest ATI installer if I want the latest and greatest, or just use the restricted driver manager if I want the distro version.
Not to mention my Linux just keeps everything updated. I don't have 15 auto-updaters running all the time, I don't have each program checking for itself. Windows is way behind in update capabilities.
Linux is only behind if you define "ahead" as "what windows does". Guess what... Linux is not Windows. If you compare them, Windows will be better at what Windows does, and Linux will be better at what Linux does. The question is what do you want your computer to do? Locked in, proprietary software that you don't get much support for that if it doesn't work, you're just SOL, or open source software that's not as pretty, but can do a lot more if you spend some time working on it, and is completely free, doesn't get viruses, etc.? It's your choice. But don't think that "Linux" is a free Windows, or you can compare them directly in all aspects.
The problem is that DRM in all forms is bad for the consumer. It's a removal of capabilities, and Microsoft shipping with it is a tacit approval of that. Microsoft disrespects the consumer, as does Hollywood, and I refuse to be part of it. As should everyone. The problem is that it's being forced on people, the same as IE was.
If you don't stand up for your rights when it's hard, you don't deserve them when it's easy.
...won't be able to call or text anyone? I use T-Mobile and travel for my job. Hell, I even got good data signal over a lot of Alaska when I went up there. I have yet to work in a city that T-Mobile doesn't work well at.
If the Von Neumann architecture goes out of style in 10-20 years, I'll eat my shorts.
And an overly sensitive n key at the same time?
You must not know very many people. I have gotten many valid messages of that caliber of spelling and grammar. Hell, I'm lucky if they even have a subject sometimes.
How is it a "performance"? A performance includes a person doing it. This is no different than using a magnifying glass to make text larger. It's a tool, it's not a "derivative work".
Wait... so the kindle is what's creating the value, but the author wants a piece of it? Shit, you did work yesterday. Give me a dollar.
Damn you for getting my hopes up :( I went to ebay and searched... alas, nothing slashdot related at all there, much less accounts.
Headphones?
There's a point where the ubiquity of an acronym is so much that it doesn't NEED explaining. Do you need me to type that I live in the United States of America (USA)? Or would you get it from the context of what I was saying because it's a common acronym? The AP has been around for so long and has it's name in so many places that I'd think almost all people reading it would know it.
You answered your own question.
Wait... so Microsoft provides an upgrade path from XP->Vista, and from Vista->Windows 7, but they suggest you don't use them together? How much can you trust your Vista install then? Or Windows 7 install? I mean, really... it's not really an "upgrade" if you aren't making XP into Vista in all cases, is it?
I'm sure no Fortune 500 sysadmin would do it that way, but what about end users? Or even smaller businesses? Those are a large portion of Microsoft's business, and they aren't being provided with an upgrade path?
No, a bleeding edge Linux kernel is an alpha, at best. Windows specifically released the beta so that people would test it. If it's regularly failing during testing, that's a bad thing. If it only did it every now and then, sure, those are to be the expected lack of polish. But the way the quote puts it? That's a major failure, and there's no excuse that it got out to customers to test in that condition.
Even small companies build custom images for Windows deployments, putting all their company software in it so they can rebuild a machine in minutes when Windows inevitably tanks.
A motherboard isn't a "component" any more than your car's engine is a "component". It's made of lots of parts that all have to work together. Integrated audio chips, SATA controllers, IDE controllers, memory controllers, PCI bridge, BIOS and ACPI interaction, and various other integrated components. You're talking around 20-30 "components" that all need separate drivers in a typical PC, at minimum.
I'm not saying that it shouldn't be 100% compatible, I'm just saying that there's a lot more in a computer than just the parts you listed, and it's not as simple as it may seem at first glance from putting together a computer from "individual" parts.
No, the fairness doctrine was stupid. Sometimes there aren't two sides that you need to give equal time to. Like evolution and Intelligent Design. Evolution is the only one that even reasonably needs discussed.
Or there are more than two sides, more valid viewpoints than two overarching "types" could adequately represent. There are a hell of a lot of people in the US that are perfectly fine with gay marriage AND being fiscally responsible. That doesn't fit into the "liberal" or "conservative" bracket, though.