I find it interesting that you see the solution to the problem of homelessness as moving the problem to somewhere where you can no longer see it. They are actually people, you know. You may be a medical problem that your insurance refuses to cover away from joining them.
In large parts of CA is going without air conditioning also fine?
Unless you buy Macs. At least here (New Zealand) the second-hand prices are insanely high; I have several friends who upgraded from MBPs to the new one lump of aluminium things with not too much gap in price. I have no idea why this is; feel free to pretend I put an insulting statement about people who buy second-hand Macs here if you like.
For me, this is a reason not to buy Macs -- I can't get a cheap second hand one, and I prefer Linux anyway.
However, with the massive advances in computing, old (or new) cheap PCs are quite adequate for many uses. My PC at home is a first-generation EeeBox driving a 24" LCD. Filling a garage with servers if you want to teach yourself is fairly cheap, although the power bills aren't so great.
It's really hard to see the bias against a group in society unless you're a member of it. You're not going to get all the crap that flies at a group unless you're a member of it; the unwanted comments, the insults. This applies to more problems than sexism; racism, discrimination against the poor... you name it. And discriminating against people on the basis of something other than their willingness to work on FOSS stuff *is* a problem for FOSS.
Of course it's easy to say that "none of this is a problem" if you're not a member of a group that gets treated badly by large sections of society.
And being a Republican doesn't count; to most of the outside world American politics look absolutely insane, and people can't tell you're a republican when they see you walking down the street.
If their "software per PC" number is based on a reasonable survey of actual PCs, and they account for enough sold software, that might not be a bad way to estimate piracy.
If they assume that everyone buys Windows, MS Office and random ghastly antivirus product... then everyone running OpenOffice and AVG, even on windows, would add to their wildly-inflated numbers.
Objective-Law++ -- so a language for dealing with two semi-immiscible legal systems simultaneously, while still allowing the user to leave a dangling subclause that ends up assigning ownership of their house to the neighbour's cat?
Good old high schools. I showed the teacher who set up our intranet how the password-protection (done via client side JavaScript) could be bypassed. I didn't get in trouble, and they didn't bother improving it; I think the claim was that those pages weren't especially secret and that students who could "break in" were somewhat rare.
I'm pretty sure it's the Slashdot that's the problem. When I was finishing up my thesis I reconfigured my web browser to be incapable of accessing Slashdot and Google Reader. This helped a lot.
But you were planning on having your thesis finished by now, I seem to recall. You're practically required to take longer than you expected. It's the rules.
You have to go pretty low-powered to find a system that can't cope with a small SQL database these days. And you have to go pretty high up in the newb ranks to find people who would be comfortable recompiling a kernel, even if it's "easy". Or editing configuration files.
So, er, no one demanded to be released or they'd call the police? Or, if this was in those days before ubiquitous cellphones, attempt to break down the door using whatever large heavy objects were at hand (computers)?
The party now in government, of course, voted for the original law (bill? whatever you call them) with section 92a in it -- in fact pretty much everyone but the Greens did. Which is probably why it's taken so long to get pulled -- there's some loss of face involved in saying a law you voted for is a actually an unworkable, unfair, unjust piece of crap.
Thirded! Most (all?) rehashes of Ubuntu for the Eee break things in fundamental ways, such that things like upgrading the kernel break your machine. The array.org method does things the right way (proper packages, proper repository), and things don't break.
Doing work directly for a charity is likely to be much more fulfilling than doing the same sort of work, highly paid, for annoying customers, and giving the proceeds to charity.
Hours and dollars are easy to measure numerically but that doesn't mean they're the whole story.
A static IP is one that doesn't change. See: any dictionary. It can be assigned via DHCP, or configured statically somewhere in your computer's network config, but none of this means that all the other IPs in the same subnet will be allocated to you.
But you're an AC so I doubt you'll read this anyway.
The iPhone is superior. The iPhone uses EDGE. Therefore, EDGE is superior.
Which is a load of crap. UMTS does need more power than 2G GSM (don't know about EDGE), and latency isn't wonderful -- but no worse than EDGE.
Radio protocols designed to run IP (even WiFi) have forward error correction (i.e. ability to cope with noise) to reduce dropped packets and thus keep TCP happy.
Why are blog posts of people who don't know what they're talking about ending up on the slashdot front page?
The choice was easy for me: they're the cheapest player per GB, if you go for a large one. I don't like iTunes, and preferred the UI on my Rio Karma -- but no one seems to be completing with them on price, at least in the large HDD player end of the market.
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"The West" mostly has universal healthcare already; it's the US that are the laggards. It seems to be coping pretty well.
I find it interesting that you see the solution to the problem of homelessness as moving the problem to somewhere where you can no longer see it. They are actually people, you know. You may be a medical problem that your insurance refuses to cover away from joining them.
In large parts of CA is going without air conditioning also fine?
I've heard claims Windows gets upset by out of order TCP, but never had the chance to try it out.
Unless you buy Macs. At least here (New Zealand) the second-hand prices are insanely high; I have several friends who upgraded from MBPs to the new one lump of aluminium things with not too much gap in price. I have no idea why this is; feel free to pretend I put an insulting statement about people who buy second-hand Macs here if you like.
For me, this is a reason not to buy Macs -- I can't get a cheap second hand one, and I prefer Linux anyway.
However, with the massive advances in computing, old (or new) cheap PCs are quite adequate for many uses. My PC at home is a first-generation EeeBox driving a 24" LCD. Filling a garage with servers if you want to teach yourself is fairly cheap, although the power bills aren't so great.
It's really hard to see the bias against a group in society unless you're a member of it. You're not going to get all the crap that flies at a group unless you're a member of it; the unwanted comments, the insults. This applies to more problems than sexism; racism, discrimination against the poor... you name it. And discriminating against people on the basis of something other than their willingness to work on FOSS stuff *is* a problem for FOSS.
Of course it's easy to say that "none of this is a problem" if you're not a member of a group that gets treated badly by large sections of society.
And being a Republican doesn't count; to most of the outside world American politics look absolutely insane, and people can't tell you're a republican when they see you walking down the street.
If their "software per PC" number is based on a reasonable survey of actual PCs, and they account for enough sold software, that might not be a bad way to estimate piracy.
If they assume that everyone buys Windows, MS Office and random ghastly antivirus product ... then everyone running OpenOffice and AVG, even on windows, would add to their wildly-inflated numbers.
Objective-Law++ -- so a language for dealing with two semi-immiscible legal systems simultaneously, while still allowing the user to leave a dangling subclause that ends up assigning ownership of their house to the neighbour's cat?
The people who prefer the Economist. Duh. I wouldn't necessarily agree with their view on things but it's a good read nonetheless.
Ah, to live in a time when "bare metal" is a high level graphics API and an OS with multitasking and memory protection.
In my day we took the data bus uphill both ways in the snow. With no shoes. Also the bus had only one wheel.
Yeah, and now we know what happens when they do leak actual secrets Apple cares about -- at least when they work for a Chinese contractor...
Good old high schools. I showed the teacher who set up our intranet how the password-protection (done via client side JavaScript) could be bypassed. I didn't get in trouble, and they didn't bother improving it; I think the claim was that those pages weren't especially secret and that students who could "break in" were somewhat rare.
I'm pretty sure it's the Slashdot that's the problem. When I was finishing up my thesis I reconfigured my web browser to be incapable of accessing Slashdot and Google Reader. This helped a lot.
But you were planning on having your thesis finished by now, I seem to recall. You're practically required to take longer than you expected. It's the rules.
Typical American lack of geography. Everyone knows that New Zealand is a state of Australia.
That's a troll, right?
You have to go pretty low-powered to find a system that can't cope with a small SQL database these days. And you have to go pretty high up in the newb ranks to find people who would be comfortable recompiling a kernel, even if it's "easy". Or editing configuration files.
So, er, no one demanded to be released or they'd call the police? Or, if this was in those days before ubiquitous cellphones, attempt to break down the door using whatever large heavy objects were at hand (computers)?
Well, a 128K video card would have been pretty odd -- even EGA cards had 256K.
My 386, being woefully behind the times, had CGA. Sixteen kilobytes of glorious video memory, uphill both ways in the snow.
The party now in government, of course, voted for the original law (bill? whatever you call them) with section 92a in it -- in fact pretty much everyone but the Greens did. Which is probably why it's taken so long to get pulled -- there's some loss of face involved in saying a law you voted for is a actually an unworkable, unfair, unjust piece of crap.
At least if you're in NZ/AU you can, er, convert the plug with a pair of pliers. Which is what I'll do when mine arrives :-)
Thirded! Most (all?) rehashes of Ubuntu for the Eee break things in fundamental ways, such that things like upgrading the kernel break your machine. The array.org method does things the right way (proper packages, proper repository), and things don't break.
Actually, yes. IBM got sued for antitrust violations in 1969, and according to a documentary I saw on TV once, was a major factor in their decision to release the PC with a manual that included full BIOS source code and circuit schematics.
Doing work directly for a charity is likely to be much more fulfilling than doing the same sort of work, highly paid, for annoying customers, and giving the proceeds to charity.
Hours and dollars are easy to measure numerically but that doesn't mean they're the whole story.
Er. No.
A static IP is one that doesn't change. See: any dictionary. It can be assigned via DHCP, or configured statically somewhere in your computer's network config, but none of this means that all the other IPs in the same subnet will be allocated to you.
But you're an AC so I doubt you'll read this anyway.
...solving captchas for, if not fun, at least profit?
The iPhone is superior. The iPhone uses EDGE. Therefore, EDGE is superior.
Which is a load of crap. UMTS does need more power than 2G GSM (don't know about EDGE), and latency isn't wonderful -- but no worse than EDGE.
Radio protocols designed to run IP (even WiFi) have forward error correction (i.e. ability to cope with noise) to reduce dropped packets and thus keep TCP happy.
Why are blog posts of people who don't know what they're talking about ending up on the slashdot front page?
The choice was easy for me: they're the cheapest player per GB, if you go for a large one. I don't like iTunes, and preferred the UI on my Rio Karma -- but no one seems to be completing with them on price, at least in the large HDD player end of the market.