Some clients just don't have the budget for a big site. First, to pay you to make it, and then to maintain it after you're done. $20k might be a typical development cost for a good site, but not if it's an intranet site for the local donut shop.
The important thing is figuring out what will best suit their needs before you're 2 months into development. Suppose that 2 months cost them $20k, that's a lot of money compared to say, hiring a guy for 2 days, one to talk design, and the other to produce 4 pages. You've gotta try to explain their options in terms of cost. A two month site is probably not going to be even twice as effective as a two week site, but will cost four times as much. And you'd be surprised what you might be able to pull off in two days, if the needs are well understood.
Shield your ethernet cables before sealing them behind drywall. That should be obvious to the installer, but you can never be too sure. Otherwise, it's unlikely that either of those will cause a problem, since they operate at far different frequency ranges.
governments that standardise on open-source software are hurting their local software vendors as they can't make the money needed to invest in their own software products.
You'd expect a government to buy direct. The only "local" software vendor here is Microsoft.
building open-source software is a "waste of money" and that a company was in effect giving away its intellectual property, preventing it from getting future benefits. "If you are compelled to give back to the community, then you don't have the opportunity to benefit from that knowledge,"
Their benefits are (1) The free use of software that they CAN imrove on, (2) The use of those improvements in their own line of business (If you need a new feature or bugfix in a commercial product, your options are limited, as in your only option is to wait and see), and (3) The use of improvements made by businesses who are using the software because of your improvements. Etc.
even companies that support open source are just as motivated by commercial interests as any other commercial software vendor.
Yeah, what's wrong with expecting a little well earned profit?
Intellectual property rights fuel sustained innovation
Need is a pretty big motivation to innovate. Some call it the root of all invention. You keep your IP rights, enough to relicense and enforce against commercial pirates. And open source won't prohibit you from making commercial software, on your own, and seeing how far those IP rights get you when nobody wants to pay to use your software because you're competing with Microsoft. And how was 15 years of DOS, an OS that was a decade outdated when it was created, defended heavily by litigation and anti-competitive tactics, and based entirely on the works of others any without credit or compensation, a shining example of innovation fueled by IP rights? Quite the opposite.
Or what about the fear of patent litigation if I invent something that someone else invented independently? Non-innovators need not worry about such things.
With open source, there is no way to make more software
I agree. Forced password changes create a big security risk. The only problem they fix is if someone has already broken a password, the time they have to use it is limited. But there's not too much you can do with a stolen password in a 3 months that you can't do in 3 hours.
Here's my own strong password generator. The thing to do is generate a good password and put it in your wallet. You'll probably only need to pull it out 3 or 4 times before you've memorized it. If your wallet is stolen, change your passwords.
It works pretty well for me. A lot of the bugs that bothered me in earlier test releases appear to have been resolved.
When booting the cd, quickly type "linux reiserfs" at the boot prompt or else you'll be stuck with installing to the slower but probably more stable ext3 filesystem.
Choose custom package install, then where it gives you the choice of what to install, scroll all the way to the bottom and select the "everything" option.
If you don't hear any sound during the install's sound test, it's probably because Fedora is shipped with the headphone volume set to zero and your speakers are plugged into the headphone out (some cheap pc's lack a real speaker out).
After installing, you'll probably want something for playing DVD's. Mplayer should work. You'll just have to download and instal the rpm's. Surprisingly there was no Java either. I heard MP3 support was removed as well, but I don't know for sure because I use Ogg.
Up2date may give you problems. Feel free to download the source and fix it. Some people have better luck with yum (basically the same, but console based), but that too can be a nightmare under certain conditions.
But aside from that, it's a pretty stable desktop running the new 2.6 kernel.
My first and last home install of Mandrake (9.1, not the latest) was pretty painful. First use of the update utility, during my first day of use, broke enough programs that I just installed a new distribution.
Slackware has always been a favorite of mine. It's small, fast, simple, stable, and includes everything a console loving beginner could ever want. But it's main focus is not the desktop.
Suse is stable a has some nice user friendly features, but it's pretty bare for anything beyond home use.
I have not tried Debian. It looks very difficult to obtain and install.
According to Google Zeitgeist, Windows has accounted for the same 95% of Google's search traffic since 2001. MacOS and Linux accounted for 4% and 1%. This isn't the same as market share, but it's better than a lot of those sponsored studies that only count license purchases.
Part of the reason Windows is still highly ranked could be attributed to education of Windows users, who switch from their default search engine to google, while the rest of us are already well informed, but that would just mean that the 2001 95% estimate was biased against Windows.
until we can expect one of the big oil companies to obtain the patent to this and kill it like they have with the all the other dozens of promising recent solar and other clean energy technologies? I'm almost certain GW's boss Dick Cheney will find a way to make it happen, one way or another.
I got those back in FC2Test1. Strangely, it never really froze. Within the hour, up2date would always suddenly resume and complete the update. So no infinite loop, just horribly inefficient coding. There's a really bad O() somewhere in there.
I'd just write a program using genetic algorithms to brute force a good paper using words from the program's training set. And release it under the GPL.
Pros: Every student is treated equally. Emotion and prejudice are taken out of the equation. No more "I got a bad grade because the teacher didn't like me or got PMS the last day of grading." Faster grading. Might saves money. Grade a small sample of papers by hand, combine your results with that of others grading similar papers, or papers from previous years, and let the program grade the rest.
Cons: Papers much better than the norm may be penalized if they are unlike anything in the training set. A student can just write what the kind of language that's expected, with all the right buzzwords, and probably get a good score without any research of other hard work. Though I don't have the software to test this theory. "George Washington freed the slaves from Abraham Lincoln in 1812 in the battle of Gettysburg Address against the British indian pilgrims." There will be disputes. Students and parents may very well spend as much time arguing with teachers over the results as teachers save in reduced grading time.
An attacker won't be able to extract the contents from your zip files without your assistance.
To summarize their main concerns: * The file listing is not encrypted, allowing attacker to see file names, sizes, compression ratios, and dates. * The files are encrypted using an AES based stream cipher, whereby if the attacker replaces the encrypted contents, gets you to decrypt them, and gets a hold of the decrypted garbage that resulted, they can use the "garbage" to decrypt the original. * An attacker can rename files in the zip.
The only one that reveals the contents of your data requires a bit of social engineering to get you to decrypt a chosen ciphertext and send them the result. Without tricking you into helping them, all an attacker can do is get a file listing, which may not be useful if they already knew what they were after.
Don't forget SDL for the rest of the stuff that DirectX does that OpenGL doesn't. With the SDL+OpenGL combination, whatever small games I write for Windows compile and run seamlessly on Linux, and vice versa, with no platform specific code. Plus it's much easier to learn and use than DirectX has been for me.
Look at this claim: 9. The computer system of claim 8, wherein said first translucent state is 20% translucent and said second translucent state is 40% translucent.
Does that mean that something that steps up the translucency either more or less gradually would not be infringing?
americans tend to vote against candidates they don't want rather that for the candidates they want. This mentality tends to shut out alternative voting such as green party, libertarian or independants
The problem is not with the voters. It's with the election. The system of single plurality (one vote, one candidate), is mathematically a very unfair, almost undemocratic way to run an election whenever there are 3 or more candidates. Using a better system like instant runoff or one of the many others would enable people to vote for their favorite candidate, without helping their least favorite to win by doing so. But until then, Republicans will love the Green party.
The Indian EVM machine appears to use the same single plurality vote, supporting up to 16 candidates. If someone wants to win, they'll convince a dozen other candidates with the same beliefs as their opponents to run and fill up the rest of the candidate list. The results may be quite accurate, but who knows if the winner was really who the voters wanted?
Print out an alternate list of candidates, with your opponent swapped with an unlikely candidate. Stick it to the front of the voting machine. Anyone with 3 seconds unsupervised access to the machine can pull this off, and it may go unnoticed if it otherwise looks exactly like the original.
Even a cheap mic will still capture a lot of information. And you can supposedly turn any thin, reflective surface into a mic using a laser. With several mics, you can probably tap an entire computer lab, using one NN to distinguish which keyboard it's coming from, and another set of NN's, each trained to a specific keyboard.
It sounds very difficult in practice, but so did things like Tempest, where it was eventually determined that in practice a crt display could (and still can) be read from a mile away based on its electromagnetic emissions, just by pointing a small dish at it, even through trees, buildings, and such, and averaging several hundred frames worth of output together to produce a readable image of what's on the screen. And the US could track Soviet subs in the 70's from thousands of miles away just by placing underwater mics along the coastline and filtering out everything but the frequencies produced by the engines. Practice is just theory plus money to those guys.
RFID tags get several meters of range. More if you put a dish or trough collector on the reader, focusing the sensitivity to line of site or to a plain.
If we ever use these on prison inmates, we'd have to put them somewhere they can't dig them out.
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Some clients just don't have the budget for a big site. First, to pay you to make it, and then to maintain it after you're done. $20k might be a typical development cost for a good site, but not if it's an intranet site for the local donut shop.
The important thing is figuring out what will best suit their needs before you're 2 months into development. Suppose that 2 months cost them $20k, that's a lot of money compared to say, hiring a guy for 2 days, one to talk design, and the other to produce 4 pages. You've gotta try to explain their options in terms of cost. A two month site is probably not going to be even twice as effective as a two week site, but will cost four times as much. And you'd be surprised what you might be able to pull off in two days, if the needs are well understood.
Shield your ethernet cables before sealing them behind drywall. That should be obvious to the installer, but you can never be too sure. Otherwise, it's unlikely that either of those will cause a problem, since they operate at far different frequency ranges.
governments that standardise on open-source software are hurting their local software vendors as they can't make the money needed to invest in their own software products.
You'd expect a government to buy direct. The only "local" software vendor here is Microsoft.
building open-source software is a "waste of money" and that a company was in effect giving away its intellectual property, preventing it from getting future benefits. "If you are compelled to give back to the community, then you don't have the opportunity to benefit from that knowledge,"
Their benefits are (1) The free use of software that they CAN imrove on, (2) The use of those improvements in their own line of business (If you need a new feature or bugfix in a commercial product, your options are limited, as in your only option is to wait and see), and (3) The use of improvements made by businesses who are using the software because of your improvements. Etc.
even companies that support open source are just as motivated by commercial interests as any other commercial software vendor.
Yeah, what's wrong with expecting a little well earned profit?
Intellectual property rights fuel sustained innovation
Need is a pretty big motivation to innovate. Some call it the root of all invention. You keep your IP rights, enough to relicense and enforce against commercial pirates. And open source won't prohibit you from making commercial software, on your own, and seeing how far those IP rights get you when nobody wants to pay to use your software because you're competing with Microsoft. And how was 15 years of DOS, an OS that was a decade outdated when it was created, defended heavily by litigation and anti-competitive tactics, and based entirely on the works of others any without credit or compensation, a shining example of innovation fueled by IP rights? Quite the opposite.
Or what about the fear of patent litigation if I invent something that someone else invented independently? Non-innovators need not worry about such things.
With open source, there is no way to make more software
??? With FUD, there is no way to make more sense?
I agree. Forced password changes create a big security risk. The only problem they fix is if someone has already broken a password, the time they have to use it is limited. But there's not too much you can do with a stolen password in a 3 months that you can't do in 3 hours.
Here's my own strong password generator. The thing to do is generate a good password and put it in your wallet. You'll probably only need to pull it out 3 or 4 times before you've memorized it. If your wallet is stolen, change your passwords.
The two winners had the highest average bitrates, 135 and 136 kbit, giving them an advantage over the encoders that outputted the correct bitrate.
It works pretty well for me. A lot of the bugs that bothered me in earlier test releases appear to have been resolved.
When booting the cd, quickly type "linux reiserfs" at the boot prompt or else you'll be stuck with installing to the slower but probably more stable ext3 filesystem.
Choose custom package install, then where it gives you the choice of what to install, scroll all the way to the bottom and select the "everything" option.
If you don't hear any sound during the install's sound test, it's probably because Fedora is shipped with the headphone volume set to zero and your speakers are plugged into the headphone out (some cheap pc's lack a real speaker out).
After installing, you'll probably want something for playing DVD's. Mplayer should work. You'll just have to download and instal the rpm's. Surprisingly there was no Java either. I heard MP3 support was removed as well, but I don't know for sure because I use Ogg.
Up2date may give you problems. Feel free to download the source and fix it. Some people have better luck with yum (basically the same, but console based), but that too can be a nightmare under certain conditions.
But aside from that, it's a pretty stable desktop running the new 2.6 kernel.
My first and last home install of Mandrake (9.1, not the latest) was pretty painful. First use of the update utility, during my first day of use, broke enough programs that I just installed a new distribution.
Slackware has always been a favorite of mine. It's small, fast, simple, stable, and includes everything a console loving beginner could ever want. But it's main focus is not the desktop.
Suse is stable a has some nice user friendly features, but it's pretty bare for anything beyond home use.
I have not tried Debian. It looks very difficult to obtain and install.
According to Google Zeitgeist, Windows has accounted for the same 95% of Google's search traffic since 2001. MacOS and Linux accounted for 4% and 1%. This isn't the same as market share, but it's better than a lot of those sponsored studies that only count license purchases.
Part of the reason Windows is still highly ranked could be attributed to education of Windows users, who switch from their default search engine to google, while the rest of us are already well informed, but that would just mean that the 2001 95% estimate was biased against Windows.
until we can expect one of the big oil companies to obtain the patent to this and kill it like they have with the all the other dozens of promising recent solar and other clean energy technologies? I'm almost certain GW's boss Dick Cheney will find a way to make it happen, one way or another.
It had over 90% cpu usage too when I experienced the problem. At least through most of the delays.
I got those back in FC2Test1. Strangely, it never really froze. Within the hour, up2date would always suddenly resume and complete the update. So no infinite loop, just horribly inefficient coding. There's a really bad O() somewhere in there.
I'd just write a program using genetic algorithms to brute force a good paper using words from the program's training set. And release it under the GPL.
Pros:
Every student is treated equally. Emotion and prejudice are taken out of the equation. No more "I got a bad grade because the teacher didn't like me or got PMS the last day of grading."
Faster grading. Might saves money. Grade a small sample of papers by hand, combine your results with that of others grading similar papers, or papers from previous years, and let the program grade the rest.
Cons:
Papers much better than the norm may be penalized if they are unlike anything in the training set.
A student can just write what the kind of language that's expected, with all the right buzzwords, and probably get a good score without any research of other hard work. Though I don't have the software to test this theory. "George Washington freed the slaves from Abraham Lincoln in 1812 in the battle of Gettysburg Address against the British indian pilgrims."
There will be disputes. Students and parents may very well spend as much time arguing with teachers over the results as teachers save in reduced grading time.
You to.
fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
Now where am I going to move when the US tech industry goes to hell?
So you want Redhat to go fuck themselves because they distribute free software, but offer paid support to the businesses that demand it?
You can download their server versions for free as well (last time I checked, it's been a while).
An attacker won't be able to extract the contents from your zip files without your assistance.
To summarize their main concerns:
* The file listing is not encrypted, allowing attacker to see file names, sizes, compression ratios, and dates.
* The files are encrypted using an AES based stream cipher, whereby if the attacker replaces the encrypted contents, gets you to decrypt them, and gets a hold of the decrypted garbage that resulted, they can use the "garbage" to decrypt the original.
* An attacker can rename files in the zip.
The only one that reveals the contents of your data requires a bit of social engineering to get you to decrypt a chosen ciphertext and send them the result. Without tricking you into helping them, all an attacker can do is get a file listing, which may not be useful if they already knew what they were after.
Don't forget SDL for the rest of the stuff that DirectX does that OpenGL doesn't. With the SDL+OpenGL combination, whatever small games I write for Windows compile and run seamlessly on Linux, and vice versa, with no platform specific code. Plus it's much easier to learn and use than DirectX has been for me.
Look at this claim:
9. The computer system of claim 8, wherein said first translucent state is 20% translucent and said second translucent state is 40% translucent.
Does that mean that something that steps up the translucency either more or less gradually would not be infringing?
The two letters that are seperated from the rest: Married couple's first initials.
The rest of the letters: Their children.
Interesting, and slightly related: http://www.snopes.com/photos/grave.asp
And with an impaired copy of Dabber you can disinfect it for them.
americans tend to vote against candidates they don't want rather that for the candidates they want. This mentality tends to shut out alternative voting such as green party, libertarian or independants
The problem is not with the voters. It's with the election. The system of single plurality (one vote, one candidate), is mathematically a very unfair, almost undemocratic way to run an election whenever there are 3 or more candidates. Using a better system like instant runoff or one of the many others would enable people to vote for their favorite candidate, without helping their least favorite to win by doing so. But until then, Republicans will love the Green party.
The Indian EVM machine appears to use the same single plurality vote, supporting up to 16 candidates. If someone wants to win, they'll convince a dozen other candidates with the same beliefs as their opponents to run and fill up the rest of the candidate list. The results may be quite accurate, but who knows if the winner was really who the voters wanted?
Print out an alternate list of candidates, with your opponent swapped with an unlikely candidate. Stick it to the front of the voting machine. Anyone with 3 seconds unsupervised access to the machine can pull this off, and it may go unnoticed if it otherwise looks exactly like the original.
Even a cheap mic will still capture a lot of information. And you can supposedly turn any thin, reflective surface into a mic using a laser. With several mics, you can probably tap an entire computer lab, using one NN to distinguish which keyboard it's coming from, and another set of NN's, each trained to a specific keyboard.
It sounds very difficult in practice, but so did things like Tempest, where it was eventually determined that in practice a crt display could (and still can) be read from a mile away based on its electromagnetic emissions, just by pointing a small dish at it, even through trees, buildings, and such, and averaging several hundred frames worth of output together to produce a readable image of what's on the screen. And the US could track Soviet subs in the 70's from thousands of miles away just by placing underwater mics along the coastline and filtering out everything but the frequencies produced by the engines. Practice is just theory plus money to those guys.
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Yeah, but so will everyone else. And it's a zero sum game.
RFID tags get several meters of range. More if you put a dish or trough collector on the reader, focusing the sensitivity to line of site or to a plain.
If we ever use these on prison inmates, we'd have to put them somewhere they can't dig them out.