Police in Penang last week launched "Operation Green Ribbon" to nab peddlers of illegal CDs and VCDs and Mazlan said they had already arrested four retailers and seized over 1,000 pirated copies.
I went to Penang just recently and there were literally multi-floor malls selling professional copies of Oracle for $20, dvds for $2-5 (based upon quality), Adobe products, MS products, etc. It was so vast it was staggering. One guy took a duffel bag overflowing with dvds/software back with us.
Basically what I'm getting at is if they've only found 1000 pirated copies, then they are either totally inept or not trying very hard.
Now my friends will finally be happy and I'll stop complaining that a "Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy" would have been a much better move to make then LOTR. (Note: I like LOTR, but I love Hitchiker)
teachers spend 8-12 hours a day in the classroom, then go home and try to relax. free time? hah. like any adult, it's just the weekends.
12 hours seems a little much. I'd say 8-10 is more appropriate (and still probably a little generous)
Assuming the average person goes to bed at 12am this leaves them with potentially 6 hours of surf time. Factor in a 30 minute commute and dinner and you're down to 5 hrs. Obviously people have other things to do some of the time, but at the very least they could switch the tv off for a few nights and surf a little themselves or see a movie, practice playing an instrument, or kill a neighbor.
I personally don't think it is a matter of time as much as 1. education and 2. pride. Many of my teachers, even sadly those in the CS department seemed to have very dated knowledge. It was almost as if they reached a point and decided learning wasn't crucial any more.
In my humble opinion, HBO is not something to emulate. They've replaced regular commercials (which is good) with more repetitive, mind numbing ads for their own show (which is terrible). If HBO sold a tv-guide like periodical and played all shows/movies back to back I'd love it. I don't need to be reminded what is on later than day 400 times while waiting for the one movie I want to see to start.
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Vim looks like someone ate fruitloops and vomited on my screen.
That's terribly funny, and the worst part of all the vim guys make it some damned hard to disable that crap. You have to get to
start vim
make sure your in normal mode
type:syntax off
Those bastards. This may seem deceptively short, but those three steps with literally take years off your life. Don't even get me started about editing the damned ~/.vimrc file. I'm only 24, yet my hands haven't stopped shaking since.
because vi is modal. and I never know what
freakin mode I'm in until it does the wrong
thing.
Well, you're in luck. Vim with nocompatible set prints a message identifying which mode it is currently in at the lower left hand corner.
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There is nothing about Vim that anyone here uses that isn't part of vi.
My favorites:
multi-level undo
expandtab - I don't need messy tabs in my code
syntax hilighting! hooray for anything that makes my day a little less dreary.
thesarus and spellcheck options
word/line completion/duplication
Amazing community - they've even got trivia questions on the sf website
editable command line
browsable Command line history
A big plus for me is that arrow keys function correctly. You may laugh, but the version of HPUX vi I used at my old job didn't do this
I also like the fact they're aren't too many cntrl-X combinations
acceptable start up time
good memory footprint
Less buggy than real vi's I've used, e.g. it doesn't appear to have a max-line length or max file size, doesn't crash by itself and send me an annoying email message about it
it reminds me if a recovery file is out there for the file I'm working on
warns me when the file has changed due to outside sources
children in Uganda
This is why I like vim, but I also like emacs. People say I'm a little weird.
You make a valid point, but please, please in the future use paragraphs, extra lines, bullets, anything.
Can you provide some reference documentation to some of these commands?
I think the confusion people experience is that windows has hidden away the command prompt so expertly with pretty widgets and now those cool balloons (weeeeee!).
I myself use cygwin for the perfect "fake unix" experience, but I've been told I'm weird.
The whole reason that money's out there to begin with is they want you to work for them, instead of the competition.
I'm sorry,perhaps I misread the previous comments. My understanding what not that a company wanted to steal away employees as much a sabotage the competion. In the case of sabotage you most certainly would pay a large amount to never see a certain rival company's employee ever again.
Our company is rated as one of the 50 best companies to work for [fortune.com] by its own employees.
I fail to see your argument here. for a large sum of money I would have a very hard time doing the "right thing", even involving murder, theft, etc. Perhaps I'm cynical, but I feel everyone has a price and it's typically not much more than a few million.
Working for a great company is one thing, but making enough to never have to work again is, in a word, priceless.
Is this not why managers exist? They should be dividing tasks and setting dead lines for each of developer.
Come now, you really didn't think the typical manager spent the entire day struggling to create the perfect powerpoint presentation or flooding eachother with scathing emails now did you?
The obvious, although impractical solution, is to find out why people want to destroy a bloody plane they are currently flying sending everyone on board to a fiery death.
Yes, I know the answer is 'Terrorists hate Americans', but why? If we are doing something to piss them off then stop it.
Or we could just sedate all passengers before the trip. This would save $ (no more flight attendants, no more little peanuts)
Also, anyone know why they bother with oxygen masks and seats that may be used a floatation devices? My understanding was that when a plane went down the death ratio was most likely very high.
Wouldn't be quite so funny if it was a kit car that comes in 5,000 pieces that runs linux, now would it?:P
Although you are joking, I probably would buy one. I'd love a new project and a linux-car would be great for the sheer geek factor. I could get a stupid vanity plate and have it key'd everywhere I go. Woopee!
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Police in Penang last week launched "Operation Green Ribbon" to nab peddlers of illegal CDs and VCDs and Mazlan said they had already arrested four retailers and seized over 1,000 pirated copies.
I went to Penang just recently and there were literally multi-floor malls selling professional copies of Oracle for $20, dvds for $2-5 (based upon quality), Adobe products, MS products, etc. It was so vast it was staggering. One guy took a duffel bag overflowing with dvds/software back with us.
Basically what I'm getting at is if they've only found 1000 pirated copies, then they are either totally inept or not trying very hard.
Now my friends will finally be happy and I'll stop complaining that a "Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy" would have been a much better move to make then LOTR. (Note: I like LOTR, but I love Hitchiker)
You built a time mach... I mean perpetual motion machine ... out of a Delorean?
why do you think Apple called the underlying BSD system Darwin. :)
Clearly it's due to the dolphin on SeaQuest.
> but... no smoking.. :(
Thank the lord!
Say what you want, but smoking and drinking are all I have left to shorten my existence on this cursed rock. I'll take what I can get.
Hmmm, I think there's some bleach under my sink, how bad do you think that will taste?
teachers spend 8-12 hours a day in the classroom, then go home and try to relax. free time? hah. like any adult, it's just the weekends.
12 hours seems a little much. I'd say 8-10 is more appropriate (and still probably a little generous)
Assuming the average person goes to bed at 12am this leaves them with potentially 6 hours of surf time. Factor in a 30 minute commute and dinner and you're down to 5 hrs. Obviously people have other things to do some of the time, but at the very least they could switch the tv off for a few nights and surf a little themselves or see a movie, practice playing an instrument, or kill a neighbor.
I personally don't think it is a matter of time as much as 1. education and 2. pride. Many of my teachers, even sadly those in the CS department seemed to have very dated knowledge. It was almost as if they reached a point and decided learning wasn't crucial any more.
In my humble opinion, HBO is not something to emulate. They've replaced regular commercials (which is good) with more repetitive, mind numbing ads for their own show (which is terrible). If HBO sold a tv-guide like periodical and played all shows/movies back to back I'd love it. I don't need to be reminded what is on later than day 400 times while waiting for the one movie I want to see to start.
Vim looks like someone ate fruitloops and vomited on my screen.
That's terribly funny, and the worst part of all the vim guys make it some damned hard to disable that crap. You have to get to
Those bastards. This may seem deceptively short, but those three steps with literally take years off your life. Don't even get me started about editing the damned ~/.vimrc file. I'm only 24, yet my hands haven't stopped shaking since.
(# searches for the next occurance of the word under the cursor.)
Hi, just wanted to clear something up. '#' searches for the previous occurrence of the word under the cursor. '*' searches for the next. Good day.
because vi is modal. and I never know what freakin mode I'm in until it does the wrong thing.
Well, you're in luck. Vim with nocompatible set prints a message identifying which mode it is currently in at the lower left hand corner.
There is nothing about Vim that anyone here uses that isn't part of vi.
My favorites:
This is why I like vim, but I also like emacs. People say I'm a little weird.
It will be interesting to see if the PS2 also gets Doom III
You make a valid point, but please, please in the future use paragraphs, extra lines, bullets, anything.
Can you provide some reference documentation to some of these commands?
I think the confusion people experience is that windows has hidden away the command prompt so expertly with pretty widgets and now those cool balloons (weeeeee!).
I myself use cygwin for the perfect "fake unix" experience, but I've been told I'm weird.
My last name is Cordes as well. You're not some long lost relative are you? (I do have an uncle Peter :)
The whole reason that money's out there to begin with is they want you to work for them, instead of the competition.
I'm sorry,perhaps I misread the previous comments. My understanding what not that a company wanted to steal away employees as much a sabotage the competion. In the case of sabotage you most certainly would pay a large amount to never see a certain rival company's employee ever again.
Our company is rated as one of the 50 best companies to work for [fortune.com] by its own employees.
I fail to see your argument here. for a large sum of money I would have a very hard time doing the "right thing", even involving murder, theft, etc. Perhaps I'm cynical, but I feel everyone has a price and it's typically not much more than a few million.
Working for a great company is one thing, but making enough to never have to work again is, in a word, priceless.
Ask yourself this: as annoyed as you might be, if you suddenly had a need for a tiny hidden camera... where would you go to buy it?
That's hilarious. I can't even think of another vendor of these except the master of pop ups/unders. Damn you X10.
Is this not why managers exist? They should be dividing tasks and setting dead lines for each of developer.
Come now, you really didn't think the typical manager spent the entire day struggling to create the perfect powerpoint presentation or flooding eachother with scathing emails now did you?
No, the cars would get keyed regularly. Just like open-source developers get beat up by the cool kids regularly.
That settles it, I'll need to start working on plans for the anti-cool kid cow-catcher and skull crushing tires.
The obvious, although impractical solution, is to find out why people want to destroy a bloody plane they are currently flying sending everyone on board to a fiery death.
Yes, I know the answer is 'Terrorists hate Americans', but why? If we are doing something to piss them off then stop it.
Or we could just sedate all passengers before the trip. This would save $ (no more flight attendants, no more little peanuts)
Also, anyone know why they bother with oxygen masks and seats that may be used a floatation devices? My understanding was that when a plane went down the death ratio was most likely very high.
are you some God-hating, anti-American, anti-Capitalist, communist-terrorist?? fuck Y0U!
What? No of course not! Well, actually... Yes.
Wouldn't be quite so funny if it was a kit car that comes in 5,000 pieces that runs linux, now would it? :P
Although you are joking, I probably would buy one. I'd love a new project and a linux-car would be great for the sheer geek factor. I could get a stupid vanity plate and have it key'd everywhere I go. Woopee!
The best part from the comparison page is in the scaling/performance block:
This can tie the OEM to a particular, potentially financially unstable Linux vendor and its support programs...
Microsoft is worried that a particular software package may tie users to a particular vendor. Oh the irony...
BTW - anyone know what a karma value of 'Excellent' means? Does this mean I've reached the cap?
an idea/innovation existed prior to the creation of a patent, has just been filed by yours truly. I can't believe they fell for it!
Says a Rep from Texas: 'A mouse can be just as dangerous as a bullet or a bomb.'"
If this is the case I see no reason why Best Buy should not be allowed to stock bombs.
Imagine the possibilities. This could bring smiles back to the faces of teens everywhere.