Sony is generally a lot more hacker friendly that major competitors Apple and Microsoft.
Can you back this up with ANY evidence whatsoever? My only experience with Sony's "hackability" is that their MiniDiscs use encryption while uploading music over USB, meaning that the people working on the linux port managed to reverse engineer the entire USB protocol (they can list/rename/delete etc tracks), but they can't upload music onto it because that action is encrypted and they can't break the encryption.
Well, the stupid slashdot RSS feed has the occaisional ad showing up in it (not on all stories, but some it seems). It really bothers me because my feed reader doesn't have the same "block images from server" that I'm used to using with firefox.
Also, even those aren't necessary as both Ubuntu and Fedora will automatically have a systray icon appear when updates are available. Ubuntu uses the very slick synaptic by default, where Fedora uses some custom in-house tool to do it that (IMHO) isn't as good.
Actually, the difference is very subtle. I used to think that nobody I knew said "aboot", but when I was working as a customer service rep for a large american cellphone company, a number of my customers asked me where in Canada I was from, and I'd ask them how they knew, and it was always the "aboot" that gave it away. The difference is very subtle and hard to describe in text, but it's there. It's not so much that Canadians say "aboot", it's more that Americans pronounce it more like "abowt", while Canadians are more like "about".
Oh, come back, proud Canadians To before you had TV, No hockey night in Canada, There was no CBC (Oh, my God!). In 1812, Madison was mad, He was the president, you know Well, he thought he'd tell the British where they ought to go He thought he'd invade Canada, He thought that he was tough Instead we went to Washington.... And burned down all his stuff!
And the White House burned, burned, burned, And we're the one's that did it! It burned, burned, burned, While the president ran and cried. It burned, burned, burned, And things were very historical. And the Americans ran and cried like a bunch of little babies Waa waa waah! In the War of 1812!
Now some hillbillies from Kentucky, Dressed in green and red, Left home to fight in Canada, But they returned home dead It's the only war the Yankees lost, except for Vietnam And also the Alamo... and the Bay of... ham. The loser was America, The winner was ourselves, So join right in and gloat about the War of 1812
And the White House burned, burned, burned, And we're the one's that did it! It burned, burned, burned, While the president ran and cried. It burned, burned, burned, And things were very historical. And the Americans ran and cried like a bunch of little babies Waa waa waah! In the War of 1812!
In 1812, we were just sittin' around, Mindin' our own business, puttin' crops into the ground. We heard the soldiers coming and we didn't like that sound. So we took a boat to Washington and burned it to the ground.
Oh... we... fired our guns, but the Yankees kept-a coming, There wasn't quite as many as there was a while ago. We fired once more and the Yankees started running, Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico, oh, oh.... They ran through the snow and they ran through the forest, They ran through the bushes where the beavers wouldn't go. They ran so fast, they forgot to take their culture, Back to America, and Gulf and Texaco
So, if you go to Washington, its buildings clean and nice, Bring a pack of matches, and we'll burn the White House twice!
And the White House burned, burned, burned, But the Americans won't admit it It burned, burned, burned, It burned and burned and burned It burned, burned, burned, Now, I bet that made them mad And the Americans ran and cried like a bunch of little babies Waa waa waah! In the War of 1812!
You will force your kids to then go to their FRIENDS house, where their parents don't force anyone to ride a damn bike to watch the weather channel or MTV.
Clearly, we must pass a law to for ALL televisions to be retrofitted with the bicycle generator as their sole source of power! Think of the children!
Then don't give them your business. Both of my banks happily allow me to do my banking with firefox/linux. No stupid browser checks, no VB, no activex, no bullshit.
I've always felt that name was backwards... WSU sounds like it ought to be implementing win32 api on a linux system, not bringing unix goodies to windows. They should call it Unix Services for Windows.
Hell yes. I have both the Schick Quattro and the Gillette Mach3, and the Quattro is terrible with getting clogged up with hair... Maybe if I shaved every day it wouldn't be a problem, but I only shave once a week, and the Quattro is just unusable. After every stroke, it's so clogged that I literally have to pull the hairs out by running my thumb over the blades (the opposite way, so it doesn't cut my thumb). The Mach3 is an absolute godsend in rinseability.
3. Relevance: Yes: feedback scoring mechanisms (such as/. moderation system) help good stories bubble-up and bad stories drop to invisibility.
What planet are you on? The/. moderation system only controls user comments, not stories. As a result, the stories are whatever crap the editors decided to slap together, while the only comments that get modded up are the ones that agree with the worldview of the moderators...
I think you're thinking of something like kuro5hin, where the users actually can vote for the stories themselves and not just moderating comments.
I went searching for that, I couldn't find anything close to that searching for "mango", and neither for "juice", but I think I found the one you're thinking of when I searched for "TMI":
<@David> Yay I get laid today! Been a month.... needing it by now <@Sony>........... <@Sony> TMI TMI TMI <@David> Only a few hundred pounds but its better than nothing <Malpine> Thanks for the info <@David> eh? <@David> damn i meant PAID <@David> I get PAID today <@David> dammit
The reality is that if a school switches to FOSS and saves $100,000 a year, that much money will just be cut from their budget. It's not like they'll get to keep the money and use it for something else. Why bother.
If this is truly the case, then a switch to FOSS needs to be mandated from up on high, so that that money can be put to better use elsewhere.
In my city there's talks about shutting down a few schools, and the communities are outraged because they want to keep their schools. If the province mandated FOSS across all school boards, there'd be plenty of surplus in the budget to keep those schools open and build some new ones, even. Even though each individual school wouldn't directly benefit from the cost savings of the switch (as their budget shrinks anyway), the city as a whole benefits as we don't have to shut the schools and the student to teacher ratio doesn't increase.
Joking aside, I usually use "curl --head" when I want to look at HTTP headers.
curl's a neat program, it's a lot like wget, except it defaults to displaying output on STDOUT instead of saving it to a file like wget does. Can be useful in some cases...;)
Seriously though, folks, this name is very telling. As there are 360 degrees in a circle (no doubt how they chose the name), it means that Microsoft is simply going round and round in circles. A downward spiral, you might call it...
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Sony is generally a lot more hacker friendly that major competitors Apple and Microsoft.
Can you back this up with ANY evidence whatsoever? My only experience with Sony's "hackability" is that their MiniDiscs use encryption while uploading music over USB, meaning that the people working on the linux port managed to reverse engineer the entire USB protocol (they can list/rename/delete etc tracks), but they can't upload music onto it because that action is encrypted and they can't break the encryption.
And if they use it in a prison, could they call it a... oh, forget it.
Pshaw! Add some zeros? I hate to break this to you, but what are zeros? THEY'RE NOTHING!!
;)
Add all the zeros you want
Well, the stupid slashdot RSS feed has the occaisional ad showing up in it (not on all stories, but some it seems). It really bothers me because my feed reader doesn't have the same "block images from server" that I'm used to using with firefox.
Oh, so you think just because you read some study, now you know everything about the topic? Why don't you just shut up and leave this to the experts?
I'm not a neuroscientist, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Actually, the difference is very subtle. I used to think that nobody I knew said "aboot", but when I was working as a customer service rep for a large american cellphone company, a number of my customers asked me where in Canada I was from, and I'd ask them how they knew, and it was always the "aboot" that gave it away. The difference is very subtle and hard to describe in text, but it's there. It's not so much that Canadians say "aboot", it's more that Americans pronounce it more like "abowt", while Canadians are more like "about".
So there.
Oh, come back, proud Canadians
To before you had TV,
No hockey night in Canada,
There was no CBC (Oh, my God!).
In 1812, Madison was mad,
He was the president, you know
Well, he thought he'd tell the British where they ought to go
He thought he'd invade Canada,
He thought that he was tough
Instead we went to Washington....
And burned down all his stuff!
And the White House burned, burned, burned,
And we're the one's that did it!
It burned, burned, burned,
While the president ran and cried.
It burned, burned, burned,
And things were very historical.
And the Americans ran and cried like a bunch of little babies
Waa waa waah!
In the War of 1812!
Now some hillbillies from Kentucky,
Dressed in green and red,
Left home to fight in Canada,
But they returned home dead
It's the only war the Yankees lost, except for Vietnam
And also the Alamo... and the Bay of... ham.
The loser was America,
The winner was ourselves,
So join right in and gloat about the War of 1812
And the White House burned, burned, burned,
And we're the one's that did it!
It burned, burned, burned,
While the president ran and cried.
It burned, burned, burned,
And things were very historical.
And the Americans ran and cried like a bunch of little babies
Waa waa waah!
In the War of 1812!
In 1812, we were just sittin' around,
Mindin' our own business, puttin' crops into the ground.
We heard the soldiers coming and we didn't like that sound.
So we took a boat to Washington and burned it to the ground.
Oh... we... fired our guns, but the Yankees kept-a coming,
There wasn't quite as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and the Yankees started running,
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico, oh, oh....
They ran through the snow and they ran through the forest,
They ran through the bushes where the beavers wouldn't go.
They ran so fast, they forgot to take their culture,
Back to America, and Gulf and Texaco
So, if you go to Washington, its buildings clean and nice,
Bring a pack of matches, and we'll burn the White House twice!
And the White House burned, burned, burned,
But the Americans won't admit it
It burned, burned, burned,
It burned and burned and burned
It burned, burned, burned,
Now, I bet that made them mad
And the Americans ran and cried like a bunch of little babies
Waa waa waah!
In the War of 1812!
Your stalker will look up your IP address and come knocking at your door to harass you.
What you see as a great feature, I see as a huge threat to anonymity on the internet.
SCOX: Cleansing the economic gene pool since 2003!
You will force your kids to then go to their FRIENDS house, where their parents don't force anyone to ride a damn bike to watch the weather channel or MTV.
Clearly, we must pass a law to for ALL televisions to be retrofitted with the bicycle generator as their sole source of power! Think of the children!
No IE, no VB, No service :-(
Then don't give them your business. Both of my banks happily allow me to do my banking with firefox/linux. No stupid browser checks, no VB, no activex, no bullshit.
I've been away so long, I may go wrong and lose my way...
I've always felt that name was backwards... WSU sounds like it ought to be implementing win32 api on a linux system, not bringing unix goodies to windows. They should call it Unix Services for Windows.
Hell yes. I have both the Schick Quattro and the Gillette Mach3, and the Quattro is terrible with getting clogged up with hair... Maybe if I shaved every day it wouldn't be a problem, but I only shave once a week, and the Quattro is just unusable. After every stroke, it's so clogged that I literally have to pull the hairs out by running my thumb over the blades (the opposite way, so it doesn't cut my thumb). The Mach3 is an absolute godsend in rinseability.
3. Relevance: Yes: feedback scoring mechanisms (such as /. moderation system) help good stories bubble-up and bad stories drop to invisibility.
/. moderation system only controls user comments, not stories. As a result, the stories are whatever crap the editors decided to slap together, while the only comments that get modded up are the ones that agree with the worldview of the moderators...
What planet are you on? The
I think you're thinking of something like kuro5hin, where the users actually can vote for the stories themselves and not just moderating comments.
Lol, that's not a keyboard, it's a tank.
For once, an Intelligent Design argument that I can agree with ;)
The reality is that if a school switches to FOSS and saves $100,000 a year, that much money will just be cut from their budget. It's not like they'll get to keep the money and use it for something else. Why bother.
If this is truly the case, then a switch to FOSS needs to be mandated from up on high, so that that money can be put to better use elsewhere.
In my city there's talks about shutting down a few schools, and the communities are outraged because they want to keep their schools. If the province mandated FOSS across all school boards, there'd be plenty of surplus in the budget to keep those schools open and build some new ones, even. Even though each individual school wouldn't directly benefit from the cost savings of the switch (as their budget shrinks anyway), the city as a whole benefits as we don't have to shut the schools and the student to teacher ratio doesn't increase.
This is the problem with bureaucracy...
Rodents tend to eat pretty much everything (Cat5 cables, cardboard, styrofoam, cafeteria food).
Whoa! I won't even eat cafeteria food!
You Earthians crack me up.
Joking aside, I usually use "curl --head" when I want to look at HTTP headers.
;)
curl's a neat program, it's a lot like wget, except it defaults to displaying output on STDOUT instead of saving it to a file like wget does. Can be useful in some cases...
What happened to the other 358 versions?
Seriously though, folks, this name is very telling. As there are 360 degrees in a circle (no doubt how they chose the name), it means that Microsoft is simply going round and round in circles. A downward spiral, you might call it...
You've definitely probably made a good point there.