They may not be the only problem, but they are a definite problem. Look at Cognizant, a company that I used to work for. It's headquartered here in the US, but 90% of it's workforce is in or from India. They're the #2 consumer of L1 visas in the US. How is it that an American company can get away with having more foreign nationals working in the US than US citizens?
L1 visas. Because unlike the H1B, they don't have to advertise a job publicly before granting it to the overseas person, they can just fill the job. And blanket L1 visas (like what Cognizant uses) belong to the company, not the person, so at any point they can shift one foreign citizen back home and bring in someone else to replace them... without giving them time to find another way to stay in the country if they want. So not only is it shitty to us as American citizens, it allows for great abuse of the people in the country under that visa.
If that doesn't scream "this is wrong", I don't know what does.
Blargh. I guess they're removing the classic desktop option in 11.10 and falling back to Unity 2D instead. Depends on exactly how that plays with GLX Dock, because that's what I use at the moment... I might have to look into XFCE.
Considering that there's a popup to install proprietary drivers like nvidia if your system detects it (and a few clicks to get it running), it's really much less of an issue than you're making it.
That said, isn't Lucid switching to Noveau by default?
I believe it was Solaris which first allowed live kernel updates without reboots... at the expense of a minor amount of memory being inaccessible until the box was rebooted. I think that was one of the big features of Solaris 7/8?
Um, no. I initially went directly to the WoW client, but switched my shortcuts to go to the launcher instead because I do like seeing the news that they put up regularly on the launcher. I did this to easily keep tabs on further information about TBC.
Just because people use the launcher doesn't make them incompetent.
Have you been paying any attention to what (in)Human Resources have been saying for the past 5 years?
"In the workplace" is wherever two or more coworkers gather together.
So, if my girlfriend and I worked at the same company (which we did at the time)... our bedroom was classified as "in the workplace". The D&D group that met on the weekend... was "in the workplace".
HR's response to the first? "This is why we advocate that people do not date coworkers."
Gotta love it. Yeah, I'm gonna give up my relationship of 4+ years just because a larger company bought us? Don't think so.
Considering that google.com is not filtered by Coogle in China, only google.cn... I'm still trying to figure out why everyone thinks Google is being so evil by setting up something that works more reliably for data the Chinese government doesn't care about.
Washington Post never requires me to log in. And the last thread I saw this mentioned in, other people said the same thing.
Not like you can't use BugMeNot.com to get past it anyways. I've never received spam from NYT, which I do have my own account for since I do use it for news reading when I'm bored and between slashdot posts.
unless you need to produce software for sale to end-users on the Windows platform, in which case it very difficult to distribute java apps commercially.
I don't personally follow this logic. Just make your installer check for Java, if it isn't installed, install it. IIRC, that's what LimeWire does...
There are enough Windows installer apps that you don't need (or really want) to write a Java-based installer, so this seems like it would solve the problem easily enough, no?
I didn't see anything on their site that they were releasing it via torrent... are we sure this is truly an official release and not someone just tossing it up without permission?
I see a LumenLab banner at the top of Free2Code's site, but with a referrer link like they're an affiliate.
Maybe I'm just paranoid, but this doesn't feel legit.
People often misconstrue the concept of free speech. Your right to free speech is only protected from the government, not other private parties. You don't have the right to say whatever you want in someone else's home, place of business, etc. -- or rather, they have the right to act however they want in response, which can involve evicting you from the premises.
It's pretty scummy what the school is trying to do-- but as a private school, they do have the legal right and ability to do something this asinine.
They do, from time to time. Take a look at the Extended Window Manager Hints Spec (that I was involved in administrating for a bit before it got too technical for me...).
They don't always work together very well, but given the basic design differences in architecture, that's to be expected technically. Personality wise... well, it's my experience that the more intelligent a geek is, the higher probability that they believe that anyone who disagrees with them is an idiot. (De Raat, Stallman, etc) That just breeds personality conflicts. (Linus seems to be an exception to that, for the most part.)
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They may not be the only problem, but they are a definite problem. Look at Cognizant, a company that I used to work for. It's headquartered here in the US, but 90% of it's workforce is in or from India. They're the #2 consumer of L1 visas in the US. How is it that an American company can get away with having more foreign nationals working in the US than US citizens?
L1 visas. Because unlike the H1B, they don't have to advertise a job publicly before granting it to the overseas person, they can just fill the job. And blanket L1 visas (like what Cognizant uses) belong to the company, not the person, so at any point they can shift one foreign citizen back home and bring in someone else to replace them... without giving them time to find another way to stay in the country if they want. So not only is it shitty to us as American citizens, it allows for great abuse of the people in the country under that visa.
If that doesn't scream "this is wrong", I don't know what does.
Blargh. I guess they're removing the classic desktop option in 11.10 and falling back to Unity 2D instead. Depends on exactly how that plays with GLX Dock, because that's what I use at the moment... I might have to look into XFCE.
Thanks for the heads up.
Blah, forgot to log in. That comment belongs to me.
Considering that there's a popup to install proprietary drivers like nvidia if your system detects it (and a few clicks to get it running), it's really much less of an issue than you're making it.
That said, isn't Lucid switching to Noveau by default?
I believe it was Solaris which first allowed live kernel updates without reboots... at the expense of a minor amount of memory being inaccessible until the box was rebooted. I think that was one of the big features of Solaris 7/8?
http://www.realvnc.com/oem.html
RealVNC offers multiple products, only one of which is licensed under the GPL.
Next time, don't be so damn lazy.
Um, no. I initially went directly to the WoW client, but switched my shortcuts to go to the launcher instead because I do like seeing the news that they put up regularly on the launcher. I did this to easily keep tabs on further information about TBC.
Just because people use the launcher doesn't make them incompetent.
Mod parent up. Tried to search around CNN to find it but didn't manage to.
http://www.cafepress.com/objectivemin.29369752
If they look around long enough they'll realize it's satire.
Yes it is. The key phrase is "in the workplace."
Have you been paying any attention to what (in)Human Resources have been saying for the past 5 years?
"In the workplace" is wherever two or more coworkers gather together.
So, if my girlfriend and I worked at the same company (which we did at the time)... our bedroom was classified as "in the workplace". The D&D group that met on the weekend... was "in the workplace".
HR's response to the first? "This is why we advocate that people do not date coworkers."
Gotta love it. Yeah, I'm gonna give up my relationship of 4+ years just because a larger company bought us? Don't think so.
Considering that google.com is not filtered by Coogle in China, only google.cn... I'm still trying to figure out why everyone thinks Google is being so evil by setting up something that works more reliably for data the Chinese government doesn't care about.
Washington Post never requires me to log in. And the last thread I saw this mentioned in, other people said the same thing.
Not like you can't use BugMeNot.com to get past it anyways. I've never received spam from NYT, which I do have my own account for since I do use it for news reading when I'm bored and between slashdot posts.
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MOD. PARENT. UP.
If ActiveX was off by default, how would people use Windows Update?
I'm not disagreeing with you in general, but on that point, I can definitely see why they'd leave it on by default.
Mojo-jojo... and I'm ashamed to even admit knowing that.
unless you need to produce software for sale to end-users on the Windows platform, in which case it very difficult to distribute java apps commercially.
I don't personally follow this logic. Just make your installer check for Java, if it isn't installed, install it. IIRC, that's what LimeWire does...
There are enough Windows installer apps that you don't need (or really want) to write a Java-based installer, so this seems like it would solve the problem easily enough, no?
Further investigation into the forums (which I originally assumed were 100% locked to guests, which proved not to be correct) led to this:
c =2898&st=40
http://www.lumenlab.com/forums/index.php?showtopi
So it does indeed look legit. Surprised they don't have something a little more visible regarding the announcement, though.
I didn't see anything on their site that they were releasing it via torrent... are we sure this is truly an official release and not someone just tossing it up without permission?
I see a LumenLab banner at the top of Free2Code's site, but with a referrer link like they're an affiliate.
Maybe I'm just paranoid, but this doesn't feel legit.
It's a quote from "Princess Bride"...
I do not think that word means what you think it means...
Blasé, not blaze. Blaze is fire.
People often misconstrue the concept of free speech. Your right to free speech is only protected from the government, not other private parties. You don't have the right to say whatever you want in someone else's home, place of business, etc. -- or rather, they have the right to act however they want in response, which can involve evicting you from the premises.
It's pretty scummy what the school is trying to do-- but as a private school, they do have the legal right and ability to do something this asinine.
I think the grandparent means "we" as in industrial humanity, not just America.
They do, from time to time. Take a look at the Extended Window Manager Hints Spec (that I was involved in administrating for a bit before it got too technical for me...).
They don't always work together very well, but given the basic design differences in architecture, that's to be expected technically. Personality wise... well, it's my experience that the more intelligent a geek is, the higher probability that they believe that anyone who disagrees with them is an idiot. (De Raat, Stallman, etc) That just breeds personality conflicts. (Linus seems to be an exception to that, for the most part.)
Emailed the on-duty before it got posted, but... *sigh* Apparently noone was watching...
Actually in his writeup he mentions that Alex did it, and why the errors were probably caught the way they were.
RTFA.