Even if your webcam is fully supported in-kernel on Linux, with which software are you going to use it? MSN? Hehheh. Skype? Still lots of incompatibilities. Ekiga? None of your friends use it.
I don't see your point. I see it the same way as a painting. Sometimes you don't buy a painting, but the artist makes a limited number of screen-printed copies. You buy a copy and you can watch it all day long. If it's burned, it's lost. There are other copies around, however yours is lost. If there are scratches on it, your copy has scratches.
Note that I hate the RIAA and record companies as much as the next guy, but I'm trying to clarify a couple of misconceptions.
as I understand it anybody who purchases a CD (or other physical media) is legally allowed to download a song on that CD because they have already paid for a license of that song
Source please. I think you're wrong. When you bought a CD, you just did only that. You can listen to the CD, borrow it, sell it, or what knows. There isn't a booklet in there saying that you can suddenly now legally download tracks on that CD.
A comparable thing happened to my wife. When she told me, I started mirroring her fears and it turns out that wasn't a good idea. I gave her the advice to look around. That was just one possible advice, fueled by anxiety. She basically had to solicit for her own position. We did so, but actually aimed higher. Turns out in the new situation she's much better off.
Now I'm not saying that's going to happen here. First, take the FUD out of your head and put it besides you on the couch. Then, ask around. It's better to find out more from your manager and HR if possible. In the new situation, what kind of jobs are availailable. For young people there are often opportunities here. Keep all options open, but shop around internally as well.
I can't recall the last time I wrote out a full sentence. I probably haven't done more than a dozen in the last ten years. It's just notes and lables now.
I like writing letters. When I was young, I'd write letters to my favorite uncle and grandma, and now when I'm older and support two Plan International children, I write letters to those.
I'm European and have an Indian friend with a 6-year-old. For his birthday, I wrote a letter to the little guy, who was totally amazed that someone would write him a real letter:-)
To pick on one of the points you make, there is no filing copyright suits. It's GPL code and released under a license. I could fork it today and call it VegetableFS.
At first, I wanted to reply with something snarky, "oh this one has a crystal ball". But then I realized the first thing I do when my laptop is booted... is opening a terminal emulator... to get to the UNIX commandline. Which was created in 1969, almost fourty years ago.
I think it's a nice tool. I started using Twitter when an old college pal introduced me to a local scene of young freelancers who used Twitter. I got to know a few interesting people through Twitter and tell me this: what's wrong with that?
When you have chosen a particular color scheme, perhaps you should try to increase your font size for a few days. Maybe you're straining your eyes too much because of small fonts and not so much because of a poor color scheme.
plenty of demand for programmers who will never get to do anything particularly interesting for their company.
Not particularly interesting to you. Maybe it's interesting to someone else, like the people who pay them.
I have to say you're sounding pretty arrogant here.
Myself, I program at the edge of hardware/software and work together with electronics engineers. My Java-coding friends think it's interesting. My girlfriend thinks it's boring.
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Even if your webcam is fully supported in-kernel on Linux, with which software are you going to use it? MSN? Hehheh. Skype? Still lots of incompatibilities. Ekiga? None of your friends use it.
Lots of reasons to use a cam under Windows.
Providing direction isn't hard, it just requires supervision. I've had the same experience as you do and now I work more in iterations.
Yeah, let's set the death penalty for sarcasm, I'm tired of it already :-)
Hmm it seems I landed in a pub. Have you ever driven beyond the speed limit? I suggest you be shot as well.
Actually, I'm just horsing around -- I'm a resident of the area :-)
in the US you often get single fee for continental US, but here you get single fee for ... Belgium or The Netherlands!
Of course it's a single fee for Belgium and The Netherlands. Belgium is a province of The Netherlands.
On the other hand, I had expected a single fee for Germany and the two above, since The Netherlands is
one of Germany's Bundeslander.
I don't see your point. I see it the same way as a painting. Sometimes you don't buy a painting, but the artist makes a limited number of screen-printed copies. You buy a copy and you can watch it all day long. If it's burned, it's lost. There are other copies around, however yours is lost. If there are scratches on it, your copy has scratches.
Note that I hate the RIAA and record companies as much as the next guy, but I'm trying to clarify a couple of misconceptions.
I of course have a couple of niggles but that is due to hardware and their drivers not 4 Linux kind of situation (my printer)...
The printer situation is easily remedied. Any HP printer is perfectly supported. A second-hand deskjet will set you back a staggering $20.
Source please. I think you're wrong. When you bought a CD, you just did only that. You can listen to the CD, borrow it, sell it, or what knows. There isn't a booklet in there saying that you can suddenly now legally download tracks on that CD.
Hint: I'm a professional photographer. I'm on /. because I'm a reformed geek
You don't fool us, buddy. You're still a geek! :-D
A comparable thing happened to my wife. When she told me, I started mirroring her fears and it turns out that wasn't a good idea. I gave her the advice to look around. That was just one possible advice, fueled by anxiety. She basically had to solicit for her own position. We did so, but actually aimed higher. Turns out in the new situation she's much better off.
Now I'm not saying that's going to happen here. First, take the FUD out of your head and put it besides you on the couch. Then, ask around. It's better to find out more from your manager and HR if possible. In the new situation, what kind of jobs are availailable. For young people there are often opportunities here. Keep all options open, but shop around internally as well.
students learn very early on not to set large bodies of type with decorative fonts.
Oh My God! You think it was a mistake to set my thesis in Comic Sans MS?
I can't recall the last time I wrote out a full sentence. I probably haven't done more than a dozen in the last ten years. It's just notes and lables now.
I like writing letters. When I was young, I'd write letters to my favorite uncle and grandma, and now when I'm older and support two Plan International children, I write letters to those.
:-)
I'm European and have an Indian friend with a 6-year-old. For his birthday, I wrote a letter to the little guy, who was totally amazed that someone would write him a real letter
Oh yes much more proper! However, when this new filesystem isn't fed a steady supply of reads and writes, it slowly whithers :D
To pick on one of the points you make, there is no filing copyright suits. It's GPL code and released under a license. I could fork it today and call it VegetableFS.
At first, I wanted to reply with something snarky, "oh this one has a crystal ball". But then I realized the first thing I do when my laptop is booted... is opening a terminal emulator... to get to the UNIX commandline. Which was created in 1969, almost fourty years ago.
All other computers I used at work before the Pet required me to enter a bootstrap program in binary before they would start the OS.
That would be PDPs you used at work then?
Here's a nice test case: google for "customer login" and use the following password:
' or 1=1 and password='
I tried and within the first 50 hits I got in.
Our original file server was kenny. Eventually we really did kill kenny...
YOU BASTARDS!
Burning DVDs? Real man don't make backups. They just upload them to an FTP server and let the rest of the world mirror it, you know that.
I think it's a nice tool. I started using Twitter when an old college pal introduced me to a local scene of young freelancers who used Twitter. I got to know a few interesting people through Twitter and tell me this: what's wrong with that?
If you want an iphone you don't want this and if you want this you probably don't want an iphone.
Are you kidding me? They've both got:
EVERYTHING that fulfills both requirements will be mine.
Everything?
EVERYTHING.
When you have chosen a particular color scheme, perhaps you should try to increase your font size for a few days. Maybe you're straining your eyes too much because of small fonts and not so much because of a poor color scheme.
EVERY one of these damn reasons applies to my CIO. And I am my own one-man company!
Not particularly interesting to you. Maybe it's interesting to someone else, like the people who pay them.
I have to say you're sounding pretty arrogant here.
Myself, I program at the edge of hardware/software and work together with electronics engineers. My Java-coding friends think it's interesting. My girlfriend thinks it's boring.