Speak for yourself. I'm 25 I'm going white (not gray, white). I have been since 21. My dad was completely white by 30. It's the best of both words. When I was in a college town and I would go out girls thought I looked 'distinguished'. A bit older... awesome.
When I'm not in college towns I get some of those Cougars and 30 somethings that come up to me and think that I look amazing for being in my younger 30s.
This has already happened. I wish my google-fu was strong enough to find the article.
A guy slips and falls in a store. Gets injured sues the store for failing to put up signs, etc. Grocery store comes back with "He purchases this much alcohol per week, he must be an alcoholic" Despite being sober at the time, the grocery store won.
The point of linux isn't to secure 1000s of Linux users in the future.
The reason for linux is it's free. If I have to make something for as cheap as possible am I going to be able to get there paying a license to some company for their OS?
They were a bit over $100 when I got mine 6 years ago. Do you honestly think they haven't done any R&D in the last 6 years to cut prices down? The whole thing could probably be done on a single chip now.
Not sure if you meant it to be a hyperbole or if you're just that dumb, but
Europe: 10,180,000 sqkm United States: 9,826,630 sqkm
Also note that of those 1,717,855 sqkm are taken by Alaska alone so if you're just talking about the continental United States Europe is 2 million sqkm larger.
Volunteer, Get involved in 'hands on' classes. Volunteer with FIRST (If canada has it) or at other local high schools teaching kids something. Or take a course where the result isn't just a grade. I took a grad level course my senior year to help get me more knowledgeable with robots. I was asked more questions about how my robot worked on interviews than "Oh I see you know 50 programming languages."
College doesn't teach you everything you need to know in the workplace. I'm a Mechanical engineer and I work for a big company that makes big mechanical things. I don't know anyone that's sat down and actually done a FE (finite element analysis) by hand. We have tools, but you also have to know the concepts behind it.
I'm a 'bastard ME' as I'm actually in Mechatronics. (I took a liking to Matlab and went that path). I had some classes in building robots and I had those on my resume. I also had some completely unrelated experience. I found a job that I love. But in no way did any of those fully prepare me for what I needed to know, for example:
I know Matlab, PHP, C, C++ and some Assembly. Mangers and other engineers still love Excel and Powerpoint to view data. I had to learn VB. I didn't have VB on my resume, but given that I knew some different languages my boss knew I wouldn't have a problem picking those up. I'm now learning how to interface Powerpoint with Matlab via ActiveX so that we can get some plots automatically generated. Again, I learned none of this in college. I don't even know if we had classes on it. But I knew the basics (for, if, while) and I learned to adapt that to other languages. I'm sure it's not prefect, but it gets me high ratings and it gets the job done.
I can't wait until someone releases the cube with the +5,+12V Analog IO. $299 for a networked (Ethernet AND Wireless) Serial ported, USB Programmable box doesn't seem too bad.
Ok, I've seen this in about every thread on slashdot for the last few weeks.
WTF does it mean? I mean I don't have a problem with people pushing a political agenda in Spam, but I have a hard enough time following the post. I think it's Anti-Bush, but then we have some stuff like Global Warming thrown in.
To the AC, clean up your wording and maybe more people will listen.
You also sorted by seeds. How many seeds does that first album have?
I've gotten full movies with no more than 1 seeder. Typically older movies will only have this many seeders.
I skipped ahead some pages on the the browse. Depending on where your musical interests lie I found some things I wouldn't consider "commercial rubbish"
Page 30, Soundtrack - [The Phantom Of The Opera (Special Edit 2004), 68 Seeders, Should have it in about 30 minutes Page 44, Luciano Pavarotti - The best [2007], Seeders 50 Page 100, Bee Gees - Idea 1968, 29 Seeders
And if you STILL consider that "commercial rubbish"
I did a search for some classical stuff: Ludwig Van Beethoven (MP3@320Kbps), 143 Seeders Philips Complete Mozart Edition (180 CDs) [192kbps] (All 14GB of it), 28 seeders
Don't blame the tools because you don't know how to use them.
Little miss dolly dots who can barely operate MSWord and her email client is going to have the expertise to "Control the processing of information directly"? Fuck no. People like that couldn't spill pee out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel. BOB SLYDELL So what you do is you take the specifications from the customers and you bring them down to the software engineers?
TOM That, that's right.
BOB PORTER Well, then I gotta ask, then why can't the customers just take the specifications directly to the software people, huh?
TOM Well, uh, uh, uh, because, uh, engineers are not good at dealing with customers.
BOB SLYDELL You physically take the specs from the customer?
TOM Well, no, my, my secretary does that, or, or the fax.
BOB SLYDELL Ah.
BOB PORTER Then you must physically bring them to the software people.
TOM Well...no. Yeah, I mean, sometimes.
BOB SLYDELL Well, what would you say... you do here?
TOM Well, look, I already told you. I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to!! I have people skills!! I am good at dealing with people!!! Can't you understand that?!? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!!!!!!!
If I've never heard of it, the millions of people on facebook probably haven't heard about it. Exposure > Quality any day of the week. If someone logs in to see what their BFF JILL did this weekend and sees something about politics they might take notice. They're not going to nagivagte to some random site.
There seems to be a big misconception about how Facebook works that I keep seeing repeated by slashdotters that don't have it.
If you go to type in someones name that has *default settings*, if you're not in their network all it shows you is their face and name and what network they are on. (A network was originally a 'college', but has since been expanded to "Work" and "Regional"). From there the privacy settings are very very customizable.
I can make it so NO ONE can find me in search. More or less invisible and I have to add friends. I can make it so only 1 network (Say my college network) can see my drunken bar photos while only my Work network can see me helping old ladies across the street. I can put people on a limited profile so that crazy stalker girl I can add as a friend and not have her see my phone number. But just because someone can find you on search doesn't mean they get ANY of your personal information and even then you can limit it.
It's really very flexible.
I don't see why everyone is up in arms about facebook 'privacy' concerns . So Facebook knows my name and movies. I don't care. I'd rather have them try and push a new ad to a movie I'd like than a chick flick. And until I start putting in either financial information and SSN, I really don't care if they store the passwords in plain text.
I'm guessing you also don't pay much attention to maxi-pad or home pregnancy test ads. There's a reason the word "Demographics" exists. Everyone on slashdot (and I'm not saying you) seems to think that because THEY do or don't do something that EVERYONE must think the way they do. If you don't like social networks fine. There are plenty of us who do. Just like there are plenty of us who prefer Debian over Ubuntu and OS X over XP.
You don't have a facebook account because you don't like keeping in touch with your family? And should you ever become a widower or divorced you never want to go on dates again? Especially not with someone you knew. -
I WAS able to get my family on board. I've been trying for a while to setup a portal where we could all post pictures or keep in touch. 8 kids and 12 grandkids and 5 (so far) great-great grankids under my late grandmother. All a relatively close knit family but didn't quite make it into the digital age. We don't have places to share picture, something that used to be done via postal mail or just the next time we got together.
Well could never talk them into my OSS portal. They didn't want to create an account, blah blah. Well since my mom saw me log into facebook she was more or less hooked. I showed her how to sign up. She uploaded some pictures with the java applet, tagged me ("Oh wow, this is so nice you can pick out who is in each picture!").
Since then she's added a college roommate some people from work. She loves it.
The people hacking their iPhones are not the people Apple wants as customers anyway. The target demographic for the iPhone is not the Slashdot crowd. I was in an Apple store over the holidays and there was some guy in there with his 13 or so year old daughter. He was going to get her an iPhone. (Aside from wtf buys a 13 year old a phone like that, etc). She didn't care that it didn't run Wiki or what ever 3rd party apps were available. She wanted an iPhone. She wanted it to just work(tm). If Apple bricked her phone I know that her dad would have been up in arms.
Slashdotters and hackers saw a nifty piece of hardware and decided that they were entitled to doing stuff to it and got up in arms when Apple fixed security holes, etc.
The iPhone/Apple dig had nothing to do with the article and was normal slashdot FUD.
Why does everyone keep going after Apple for possible bricking of iPhones? You're applying 3rd party hacks which mess with the firmware, bricking is a possibility. No one has gone after Linksys for a bricked router after trying to apply 3rd party firmware.
Apple ships the iPhone with firmware: #AAAAAAAAAAAA
Some 3rd party comes along and hacks that firmware to do nifty stuff, even if it is a hack. Firmware is now. #AAAAFFFFFFFF
Apple decides to update all the firmware in their iPhones to #BBBBBBBBBBBA
However since you applied your hack, you now have firmware: #BBBBBBBBBBBF
Which could very well possibly brick the iPhone. Apple doesn't have the resources to test with every single firmware hack out there. They test their firmware with what they shipped, if nothing bad happens it gets pushed as an update. If I secretly swap a Ford engine into my GM engine and take it back to the dealer, they're not going to fix it no problem.
If you don't want the iPhone and Apple's product model, get an open source phone. Get another brand. Apple makes stable platforms for people who sometimes don't want to tinker. Things may be tinker friendly, but if you fuck something up don't go suing or crying to Apple.
I got into an argument at work about living in one of the more socialist countries (Full healthcare, full welfare, full retirement, etc) and then I bring up income tax (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Income_Taxes_By_Country.svg) and they start bitching about how much the USA already takes, who in their right mind would let someone take MORE.
There are trade-offs to every single thing in the world. Make up your fucking mind and take the good with the bad. No, you're not entitled and no you can't have everything the way you like it.
The reason it's like a second grade class room is because majority of users are of that mentality now. Just look at most of the "groups" now. Maybe they existed and I didn't notice before but all my groups were rather sane, now they're "IF U JOIN THIS GRUP WORLD PEACE WILL START!"
I've been on facebook since the beginning. And every minor improvement seemed to rock. They added photos. I was able to share photos in one place with most of my friends. I could invite friends over to a party with out having to e-mail every one. Yes, sometimes in college you don't get the opportunity to SEE all your friends every day.
And then the flood gates opened. The Developer thread was flooded with "HEAY I LOVE FACEBOOK CAN U MKE IT SO MUSIC PLAYS LIKE MYSPACE." People would kindly remind them that the whole thread was FOR developers. People could make 3rd party apps and it seemed pretty good because all the 3rd party apps were external. Then came the day that they let those 3rd party apps on everyones website. Then it just went to hell.
Which is why I maintain 2 accounts. My 'professional' account. Uses my work address. All my college friends and people I know well. You can't find it anywhere. You can't search for it by name. Even if you know me I have to add you. Then my "Hi I just met you at the bar and I'm going to add you" account. Basic info. Searchable. Etc.
There's PLENTY of high quality freeware for the Mac. http://www.trailrunnerx.com/ If you're into running and like keeping logs. http://handbrake.fr/ Does DVD->iPod almost seamless. I'm still pounding my head against debian and ffmpeg (What do you MEAN mp4 is an unrecognized format). http://www.transmissionbt.com/ Is an excellent torrent client, free.
(The later two have since been ported to Linux)
Some of the 'shareware' is pretty cheap also. Graphic converter (http://www.lemkesoft.com/) is nothing short of amazing. $35 too. I'd copy and paste the number of image formats it supports but it might not make it past the filter.
I haven't run across many Linux programs that come close to being that 'pretty' nor as integrated into the OS. I mean Trailrunner will import your GPS info, map it in google earth with one click. It'll track your running times, etc. Sync with your iPod+Nike, heart rate monitors. And it's FREE.
What is available for Ubuntu that won't run on the Mac? Right now my Mac laptop is running Apache2, PHP and MySQL. I have nmap installed and a ton of other 'unix' programs. I always search sourceforge for programs to see if someone's already written something command line.
If you don't like gcc and compiling stuff your self there's always fink which is built around apt-get. fink install...
There's even a GUI for it so that it's no different than Synaptic.
OS X lets you drag and drop files onto the terminal and it will automatically insert the file name. It's a nice mix between GUI and command line (rsync -a [drag folder] remotehost:dest)
One day I tried deleting a ton of files doing rm -rf [drag folders]. Problem is I had too many and it truncated the input. I ended up doing a rm -rf or lots of files and/etc/
And then the competition comes along and offers that Exec 2x what he's making. As my sibling post pointed out. No company is going to risk something like that.
It's how it worked in the 'college' market. "Well if the government is giving everyone 10k, we might as well still make parents pay." Tuition is at an all time high. It's how it worked for health care. "Well most people have insurance anyway. No reason not to charge $150 for a pair of crutches". Health care is at an all time high.
Sophomore year I accidentally cracked my student ID. It had a barcode on it with my student ID that we used to get access to meals. After getting fed up with having to hold the cracked one just right I ended up just printing off my own using a barcode font.
I did use my own ID, but if I wanted to I'm sure I could have gotten free meals. The lunch lady didn't care. When a card got too bent up to be used I printed off 5 more (and then folded the paper to keep a stiff stock).
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Even better, we'll have cattle that don't need to be brought in for the winter.
Breyer's is about as close as you're going to get even then that's only on their "All Natural" line.
(Vanilla)
INGREDIENTS: MILK, CREAM, SUGAR, NATURAL FLAVOR, NATURAL TARA GUM.
Here is their "Fat Free" Vanilla:
INGREDIENTS: SKIM MILK, SUGAR, POLYDEXTROSE, CORN SYRUP, MALTODEXTRIN, NATURAL FLAVOR, CREAM, PROPYLENE GLYCOL MONOESTERS, MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, CELLULOSE GUM, CAROB BEAN GUM, GUAR GUM, CARRAGEENAN, ANNATTO (FOR COLOR), VITAMIN A PALMITATE, ICE STRUCTURING PROTEIN.
Loose is an adjective, the opposite of tight or contained.
My shoes are loose. I have a loose tooth. There's a dog running loose in the street
Lose: Lose is a verb that means to suffer the loss of, to miss.
I win, you lose. Don't lose your keys. I never lose bets.
Speak for yourself. I'm 25 I'm going white (not gray, white). I have been since 21. My dad was completely white by 30. It's the best of both words. When I was in a college town and I would go out girls thought I looked 'distinguished'. A bit older... awesome.
When I'm not in college towns I get some of those Cougars and 30 somethings that come up to me and think that I look amazing for being in my younger 30s.
Win. Win.
This has already happened. I wish my google-fu was strong enough to find the article.
A guy slips and falls in a store. Gets injured sues the store for failing to put up signs, etc.
Grocery store comes back with "He purchases this much alcohol per week, he must be an alcoholic"
Despite being sober at the time, the grocery store won.
The point of linux isn't to secure 1000s of Linux users in the future.
The reason for linux is it's free. If I have to make something for as cheap as possible am I going to be able to get there paying a license to some company for their OS?
By not taking as much of a profit as TI does?
They were a bit over $100 when I got mine 6 years ago. Do you honestly think they haven't done any R&D in the last 6 years to cut prices down? The whole thing could probably be done on a single chip now.
Not sure if you meant it to be a hyperbole or if you're just that dumb, but
Europe: 10,180,000 sqkm
United States: 9,826,630 sqkm
Also note that of those 1,717,855 sqkm are taken by Alaska alone so if you're just talking about the continental United States Europe is 2 million sqkm larger.
Volunteer, Get involved in 'hands on' classes. Volunteer with FIRST (If canada has it) or at other local high schools teaching kids something. Or take a course where the result isn't just a grade. I took a grad level course my senior year to help get me more knowledgeable with robots. I was asked more questions about how my robot worked on interviews than "Oh I see you know 50 programming languages."
College doesn't teach you everything you need to know in the workplace. I'm a Mechanical engineer and I work for a big company that makes big mechanical things. I don't know anyone that's sat down and actually done a FE (finite element analysis) by hand. We have tools, but you also have to know the concepts behind it.
I'm a 'bastard ME' as I'm actually in Mechatronics. (I took a liking to Matlab and went that path). I had some classes in building robots and I had those on my resume. I also had some completely unrelated experience. I found a job that I love. But in no way did any of those fully prepare me for what I needed to know, for example:
I know Matlab, PHP, C, C++ and some Assembly. Mangers and other engineers still love Excel and Powerpoint to view data. I had to learn VB. I didn't have VB on my resume, but given that I knew some different languages my boss knew I wouldn't have a problem picking those up. I'm now learning how to interface Powerpoint with Matlab via ActiveX so that we can get some plots automatically generated. Again, I learned none of this in college. I don't even know if we had classes on it. But I knew the basics (for, if, while) and I learned to adapt that to other languages. I'm sure it's not prefect, but it gets me high ratings and it gets the job done.
I can't wait until someone releases the cube with the +5,+12V Analog IO. $299 for a networked (Ethernet AND Wireless) Serial ported, USB Programmable box doesn't seem too bad.
Ok, I've seen this in about every thread on slashdot for the last few weeks.
WTF does it mean? I mean I don't have a problem with people pushing a political agenda in Spam, but I have a hard enough time following the post. I think it's Anti-Bush, but then we have some stuff like Global Warming thrown in.
To the AC, clean up your wording and maybe more people will listen.
You also sorted by seeds. How many seeds does that first album have?
I've gotten full movies with no more than 1 seeder. Typically older movies will only have this many seeders.
I skipped ahead some pages on the the browse. Depending on where your musical interests lie I found some things I wouldn't consider "commercial rubbish"
Page 30, Soundtrack - [The Phantom Of The Opera (Special Edit 2004), 68 Seeders, Should have it in about 30 minutes
Page 44, Luciano Pavarotti - The best [2007], Seeders 50
Page 100, Bee Gees - Idea 1968, 29 Seeders
And if you STILL consider that "commercial rubbish"
I did a search for some classical stuff:
Ludwig Van Beethoven (MP3@320Kbps), 143 Seeders
Philips Complete Mozart Edition (180 CDs) [192kbps] (All 14GB of it), 28 seeders
Don't blame the tools because you don't know how to use them.
Yes, sounds like someone didn't Sanitize their input.
If only they had little Bobby Tables doing the testing.
So what you do is you take the specifications from the customers and
you bring them down to the software engineers?
TOM
That, that's right.
BOB PORTER
Well, then I gotta ask, then why can't the customers just take the
specifications directly to the software people, huh?
TOM
Well, uh, uh, uh, because, uh, engineers are not good at dealing with
customers.
BOB SLYDELL
You physically take the specs from the customer?
TOM
Well, no, my, my secretary does that, or, or the fax.
BOB SLYDELL
Ah.
BOB PORTER
Then you must physically bring them to the software people.
TOM
Well...no. Yeah, I mean, sometimes.
BOB SLYDELL
Well, what would you say... you do here?
TOM
Well, look, I already told you. I deal with the goddamn customers so
the engineers don't have to!! I have people skills!! I am good at
dealing with people!!! Can't you understand that?!? WHAT THE HELL IS
WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!!!!!!!
If I've never heard of it, the millions of people on facebook probably haven't heard about it. Exposure > Quality any day of the week. If someone logs in to see what their BFF JILL did this weekend and sees something about politics they might take notice. They're not going to nagivagte to some random site.
There seems to be a big misconception about how Facebook works that I keep seeing repeated by slashdotters that don't have it.
If you go to type in someones name that has *default settings*, if you're not in their network all it shows you is their face and name and what network they are on. (A network was originally a 'college', but has since been expanded to "Work" and "Regional"). From there the privacy settings are very very customizable.
I can make it so NO ONE can find me in search. More or less invisible and I have to add friends. I can make it so only 1 network (Say my college network) can see my drunken bar photos while only my Work network can see me helping old ladies across the street. I can put people on a limited profile so that crazy stalker girl I can add as a friend and not have her see my phone number. But just because someone can find you on search doesn't mean they get ANY of your personal information and even then you can limit it.
It's really very flexible.
I don't see why everyone is up in arms about facebook 'privacy' concerns . So Facebook knows my name and movies. I don't care. I'd rather have them try and push a new ad to a movie I'd like than a chick flick. And until I start putting in either financial information and SSN, I really don't care if they store the passwords in plain text.
I'm guessing you also don't pay much attention to maxi-pad or home pregnancy test ads. There's a reason the word "Demographics" exists. Everyone on slashdot (and I'm not saying you) seems to think that because THEY do or don't do something that EVERYONE must think the way they do. If you don't like social networks fine. There are plenty of us who do. Just like there are plenty of us who prefer Debian over Ubuntu and OS X over XP.
You don't have a facebook account because you don't like keeping in touch with your family?
:)
And should you ever become a widower or divorced you never want to go on dates again? Especially not with someone you knew.
-
I WAS able to get my family on board. I've been trying for a while to setup a portal where we could all post pictures or keep in touch. 8 kids and 12 grandkids and 5 (so far) great-great grankids under my late grandmother. All a relatively close knit family but didn't quite make it into the digital age. We don't have places to share picture, something that used to be done via postal mail or just the next time we got together.
Well could never talk them into my OSS portal. They didn't want to create an account, blah blah. Well since my mom saw me log into facebook she was more or less hooked. I showed her how to sign up. She uploaded some pictures with the java applet, tagged me ("Oh wow, this is so nice you can pick out who is in each picture!").
Since then she's added a college roommate some people from work. She loves it.
My family (adults) also have my limited profile
The people hacking their iPhones are not the people Apple wants as customers anyway. The target demographic for the iPhone is not the Slashdot crowd. I was in an Apple store over the holidays and there was some guy in there with his 13 or so year old daughter. He was going to get her an iPhone. (Aside from wtf buys a 13 year old a phone like that, etc). She didn't care that it didn't run Wiki or what ever 3rd party apps were available. She wanted an iPhone. She wanted it to just work(tm). If Apple bricked her phone I know that her dad would have been up in arms.
Slashdotters and hackers saw a nifty piece of hardware and decided that they were entitled to doing stuff to it and got up in arms when Apple fixed security holes, etc.
The iPhone/Apple dig had nothing to do with the article and was normal slashdot FUD.
Why does everyone keep going after Apple for possible bricking of iPhones? You're applying 3rd party hacks which mess with the firmware, bricking is a possibility. No one has gone after Linksys for a bricked router after trying to apply 3rd party firmware.
Apple ships the iPhone with firmware:
#AAAAAAAAAAAA
Some 3rd party comes along and hacks that firmware to do nifty stuff, even if it is a hack. Firmware is now. #AAAAFFFFFFFF
Apple decides to update all the firmware in their iPhones to
#BBBBBBBBBBBA
However since you applied your hack, you now have firmware:
#BBBBBBBBBBBF
Which could very well possibly brick the iPhone. Apple doesn't have the resources to test with every single firmware hack out there. They test their firmware with what they shipped, if nothing bad happens it gets pushed as an update. If I secretly swap a Ford engine into my GM engine and take it back to the dealer, they're not going to fix it no problem.
If you don't want the iPhone and Apple's product model, get an open source phone. Get another brand. Apple makes stable platforms for people who sometimes don't want to tinker. Things may be tinker friendly, but if you fuck something up don't go suing or crying to Apple.
I got into an argument at work about living in one of the more socialist countries (Full healthcare, full welfare, full retirement, etc) and then I bring up income tax (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Income_Taxes_By_Country.svg) and they start bitching about how much the USA already takes, who in their right mind would let someone take MORE.
There are trade-offs to every single thing in the world. Make up your fucking mind and take the good with the bad. No, you're not entitled and no you can't have everything the way you like it.
Get over it.
They let the highschoolers and world in.
The reason it's like a second grade class room is because majority of users are of that mentality now. Just look at most of the "groups" now. Maybe they existed and I didn't notice before but all my groups were rather sane, now they're "IF U JOIN THIS GRUP WORLD PEACE WILL START!"
I've been on facebook since the beginning. And every minor improvement seemed to rock. They added photos. I was able to share photos in one place with most of my friends. I could invite friends over to a party with out having to e-mail every one. Yes, sometimes in college you don't get the opportunity to SEE all your friends every day.
And then the flood gates opened. The Developer thread was flooded with "HEAY I LOVE FACEBOOK CAN U MKE IT SO MUSIC PLAYS LIKE MYSPACE." People would kindly remind them that the whole thread was FOR developers. People could make 3rd party apps and it seemed pretty good because all the 3rd party apps were external. Then came the day that they let those 3rd party apps on everyones website. Then it just went to hell.
Thankfully Grease Monkey and scripts like:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/11992
This exist.
Which is why I maintain 2 accounts. My 'professional' account. Uses my work address. All my college friends and people I know well. You can't find it anywhere. You can't search for it by name. Even if you know me I have to add you. Then my "Hi I just met you at the bar and I'm going to add you" account. Basic info. Searchable. Etc.
There's PLENTY of high quality freeware for the Mac.
...
http://www.trailrunnerx.com/ If you're into running and like keeping logs.
http://handbrake.fr/ Does DVD->iPod almost seamless. I'm still pounding my head against debian and ffmpeg (What do you MEAN mp4 is an unrecognized format).
http://www.transmissionbt.com/ Is an excellent torrent client, free.
(The later two have since been ported to Linux)
Some of the 'shareware' is pretty cheap also. Graphic converter (http://www.lemkesoft.com/) is nothing short of amazing. $35 too. I'd copy and paste the number of image formats it supports but it might not make it past the filter.
I haven't run across many Linux programs that come close to being that 'pretty' nor as integrated into the OS. I mean Trailrunner will import your GPS info, map it in google earth with one click. It'll track your running times, etc. Sync with your iPod+Nike, heart rate monitors. And it's FREE.
What is available for Ubuntu that won't run on the Mac? Right now my Mac laptop is running Apache2, PHP and MySQL. I have nmap installed and a ton of other 'unix' programs. I always search sourceforge for programs to see if someone's already written something command line.
If you don't like gcc and compiling stuff your self there's always fink which is built around apt-get. fink install
There's even a GUI for it so that it's no different than Synaptic.
Yes.
/etc/
OS X lets you drag and drop files onto the terminal and it will automatically insert the file name. It's a nice mix between GUI and command line (rsync -a [drag folder] remotehost:dest)
One day I tried deleting a ton of files doing rm -rf [drag folders]. Problem is I had too many and it truncated the input. I ended up doing a rm -rf or lots of files and
That was fun.
And then the competition comes along and offers that Exec 2x what he's making. As my sibling post pointed out. No company is going to risk something like that.
It's how it worked in the 'college' market. "Well if the government is giving everyone 10k, we might as well still make parents pay." Tuition is at an all time high.
It's how it worked for health care. "Well most people have insurance anyway. No reason not to charge $150 for a pair of crutches". Health care is at an all time high.
Sophomore year I accidentally cracked my student ID. It had a barcode on it with my student ID that we used to get access to meals. After getting fed up with having to hold the cracked one just right I ended up just printing off my own using a barcode font.
I did use my own ID, but if I wanted to I'm sure I could have gotten free meals. The lunch lady didn't care. When a card got too bent up to be used I printed off 5 more (and then folded the paper to keep a stiff stock).