"Of course schools often discredit this by having teachers who will grade down an entire team because of a slacker or two's stupidity, whereas in the real world the slackers would get fired for bad performance. I have had a class before in college where I got graded off because another team screwed up and made it impossible for my team to finish our work."
well if the team gets marked down because of a few slackers, then the team's at fault for not having sorted those slackers out themselves...
"Gates: More has been invested in making IE secure than any browser on the planet by a long shot. Nothing is going to change. That's the one over 90% of people are going to keep using."
yeah he's right... more has been invested than any other browser on the planet... but what he's not saying is whether that investment is actually working...
""If we opened it up to that, it would simply become another one of the message boards that our detractors use to try and overwhelm us," Stowell said."
what does he mean by "try"???
Do or do not, there is no "try"... I personally think Groklaw is doing a pretty comprehensive job of exposing every stupid statement from SCO to the harsh light of day... they can't hide from it, there are several thousand outraged geeks scouring all the nooks and crannies of the internet for evidence of SCO's stupidities.
and just who says you HAVE to move everyone over to Linux in one fell swoop??? keep a few ms-windows machines for running "legacy" applications on if you find those "legacy" applications don't run using WINE or CrossOverOffice.
My last publishing outfit I worked at still has some old 386's running dos 3 for some old wordprocessing apps so they can read in files written ages ago on those packages and then save them out into a friendlier format for recovering the text.
It's great, except there's no good way to change the starting page number. Unless the starting page doesn't exceed the length of the document, you have to force a page to do it, so if you have any serious editing left to do, you have to edit it without the actual page numbers if the document is part of a larger project (e.g. a dissertation chapter). This is quite ridiculous and I just can't understand why it hasn't been done better.
Or use a master document and let the page numbers in the chapters get sorted out when the entire document gets previewed... here's a link to a tutorial on how to do it...
considering the event is still in progress, there's plenty of time to still be worried in. Last time, it built up the same way, the big "Kaboom" as you call it, occured after the side of the dome gave way, releasing the pressure quickly, allowing the magma to explosively release it's dissolved gases.
"Consistent with this belief, Novell will use its patent portfolio to protect itself against claims made against the Linux kernel or open source programs included in Novell's offerings, as dictated by the actions of others."
That sounds more like, if you make claims that are offending our business, we would not take it lightly. It definitely does not sound like they would have a sue-first think-later kinda attitude.
Sounds just like the reasoning the superpowers use to explain why they possess nuclear weapons... "purely defensive of course, we'll never use them for a first strike, but just defensively... and of course, we don't want anyone else not in our little club to aquire the technology..."
Ah, but now you're going to have to throw away your PC and broadband internet connection because it has now been deemed to fall into that class of devices whhich are TV capable and thus have a license fee due for them.
and what about those who've dumped their TV because there's only cr@p available and now use a PC but don't stream TV on it??? It's effectively an Internet Tax... and I don't want our Chancellor of the Exchequer to get the same idea over here in the UK. I don't have a TV purely because there's far more interesting things to do than watch the pap they broadcast, therefore I don't have to have a TV license. I view DVDs using my computer, I play my CDs using my computer, I have broadband, but don't watch streamed TV over it... why the F should I have to pay 17 Euros a month extra for something I don't F'ing want???
They're effectively redefining a Broadband connection as a "TV receiver", and therefore because you've got a "TV receiver", you have to pay this tax whether you use it for that purpose or not... It's the same with Video recorders, because they've got TV signal demodulators in them, they are classed as "TV receivers" for the purposes of licensing fee recovery... therefore, even though you don't have a TV antenna and only watch pre-recorded video cassettes using it, you still have to pay the licence fee.
ah but it does... even niced nicely, the damned thing still has an impact on other processes wanting access to resources. Not only that, it will have the CPU fan and the PSU fan maxed out all of the time anyway, contributing to premature failure of the fan and thus frying the cpu/psu when it does go... This is the reason I don't run seti@home on my server anymore, the PSU fan was on continuously while the program was running purely because of the extra power required to service the cpu.
What annoyed me about the seti program was the lack of an option to throttle it to use, say, only 50% maximum or whatever... so that the program could still be run, admittedly much slower, but not causing the fans on the box to switch on...
"Civil Disobedience" my @rse... they were attempting to exercise their legitimate rights. The fact that you have those ridiculous "No Free Speech" zones is the frightening thing... and that those who wish to exercise their rights to protest get herded into zones well away from the event is another abomination...
Don't even need to break out a shell to play in... just open the.war file with Konqueror in browser mode and then when it's loaded in, click the up arrow and, hey presto... a directory listing of the contents of that archive.
It is absolutely sad to see that a company that develops, implements, and pushes forward a field such as computing, and thefore society, can be sued by a company that created a vaguely similar idea that it abandoned because of their lack of vision.
It's far, far worse than that... Kodak didn't even create the idea... merely bought it from a company that went belly up years ago...
Is it just my imagination, or are/. editors selecting more and more trollish/flamebait articles for publication, and rejecting more and more interesting/timely ones?
This may be a frequently posed question, but I doubt you'll get an answer...
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what do you need the control key for??? a three button mouse frees up one hand completely...
well if the team gets marked down because of a few slackers, then the team's at fault for not having sorted those slackers out themselves...
arrggghhh... those lines..., this one's better ;) really check your printer/camera combination out...
especially as it was self-inflicted...
Evidently you haven't broken their fingers often enough with the cluestick for them to have learned not to install stupid programs...
why the heck are people dragging Linux into the discussion... this is purely a problem with Microsoft Windows...
yeah he's right... more has been invested than any other browser on the planet... but what he's not saying is whether that investment is actually working...
20th Century surely... the heyday of observation blimps was from WWI to WWII... their use started petering out after that
what does he mean by "try"???
Do or do not, there is no "try"... I personally think Groklaw is doing a pretty comprehensive job of exposing every stupid statement from SCO to the harsh light of day... they can't hide from it, there are several thousand outraged geeks scouring all the nooks and crannies of the internet for evidence of SCO's stupidities.
My last publishing outfit I worked at still has some old 386's running dos 3 for some old wordprocessing apps so they can read in files written ages ago on those packages and then save them out into a friendlier format for recovering the text.
By the way, this product looks rather interesting for running legacy apps on Linux thin clients...
Or use a master document and let the page numbers in the chapters get sorted out when the entire document gets previewed... here's a link to a tutorial on how to do it...
would that be "Earth" normal or "American" normal??? GDR
considering the event is still in progress, there's plenty of time to still be worried in. Last time, it built up the same way, the big "Kaboom" as you call it, occured after the side of the dome gave way, releasing the pressure quickly, allowing the magma to explosively release it's dissolved gases.
Sounds just like the reasoning the superpowers use to explain why they possess nuclear weapons... "purely defensive of course, we'll never use them for a first strike, but just defensively... and of course, we don't want anyone else not in our little club to aquire the technology..."
yup, and there are some mods who have had a sense of humour failure...
invest in companies that produce Umbrellas, Raincoats and Wellington Boots (galoshes for you USAnians)???
Ah, but now you're going to have to throw away your PC and broadband internet connection because it has now been deemed to fall into that class of devices whhich are TV capable and thus have a license fee due for them.
no, instead, you have the very great privilege of watching mind-numbingly irritating and boring trailers instead...
no, they included PCs with TV cards in them as falling into the trap... not PCs with broadband connections
They're effectively redefining a Broadband connection as a "TV receiver", and therefore because you've got a "TV receiver", you have to pay this tax whether you use it for that purpose or not... It's the same with Video recorders, because they've got TV signal demodulators in them, they are classed as "TV receivers" for the purposes of licensing fee recovery... therefore, even though you don't have a TV antenna and only watch pre-recorded video cassettes using it, you still have to pay the licence fee.
This proposal of theirs sucks... big time...
What annoyed me about the seti program was the lack of an option to throttle it to use, say, only 50% maximum or whatever... so that the program could still be run, admittedly much slower, but not causing the fans on the box to switch on...
"Civil Disobedience" my @rse... they were attempting to exercise their legitimate rights. The fact that you have those ridiculous "No Free Speech" zones is the frightening thing... and that those who wish to exercise their rights to protest get herded into zones well away from the event is another abomination...
Don't even need to break out a shell to play in... just open the .war file with Konqueror in browser mode and then when it's loaded in, click the up arrow and, hey presto... a directory listing of the contents of that archive.
It's far, far worse than that... Kodak didn't even create the idea... merely bought it from a company that went belly up years ago...
This may be a frequently posed question, but I doubt you'll get an answer...