yeah. And I see google countering this with
Error: Google has determined that, considering your history, you aren't really interested in what you typed. Google has ignored your query.
Well, since everyone seems to name titles, I need to mention Mafia, which had a very dramatic story. I admit it, it made me drop a tear at the end. Apart from that game, I can't think of another game which made me feel strong emotions (other than stress, which I don't consider as an emotion).
There are many movies showing the horror of war. Maybe a videogame to denounce such a tragedy and to disgust people would be good. Make something in the lines of Manhunt, which will make people sick of violence and it may not be all bad.
Last time I scanned my system for porn, all that was detected was LaTex (which isn't porn). I hope it doesn't delete tex files or I know a lot of people who will get frustrated.
Ah! I can remember why I began programming. It was not so long ago, in 1998. My father bought a computer for the family some years before. But at that time appeared games that required 3d accelerated hardware. Too old to run those games, my computer was making me sad. Then I discovered a book. It was called "Programming games in visual Basic". It wasn't great at all, but it brought interest of programming in my life. I was thinking that "If current games cannot run on my old machine, I'll make games that can". Later, I learned c/c++, php, shellscripting, etc.
I don't say this is the best way/reason to learn to prog. The trick is catching the interest. Once that is done, people can see the true power of simplicity that scripting your life brings. Programming isn't for computer gods or geeks. It's for anyone who understands what he does enough to write a generic receipe. Once you see how simple it may be or how useful it can be, programming gets attractive. For that, I hope Squeak gets popular. It is a wonderful tool to catch interest of non programmers.
"The kind (of batteries) that power your cell phone may power your car in the future,"
Now that's getting interesting. I was waiting for efficient and usable electric cars and here they are. The only thing that I'm wondering is about the life of those batteries. What I mean is how long before they can't hold their charge and must be replaced. Life of a cell phone battery is around one year. If this is the same for those cars and if the cost of batteries are high, maybe this isn't such a great deal.
The problem isn't entirely the fault of the Linux community. What I mean is that as GNU/Linux software is often independant, not all coders give support to their software. Tech support is (often) a boring job. Most developper don't have time/will to spend time on support. And users often tend to ask questions to developpers when they only address they can find in their quest for support is the coder's e-mail. Asking a good question to the wrong people does give discouraging answers. So we need independent projects to give support.
Were Apple to ship OS X for "bog-standard 32-bit PC hardware", it would be just as frustrating as Windows.
So, the advantage of sticking with Mac hardware is that they only have to develop for it. I think they should consider using linux as their Kernel then. Not too much developper time and they get a great, mature and highly compatible kernel for their system. Darwin is *nix. Can't they just ship Linux and stick aqua on the top of it? But this isn't all...
If they were to ship OS X for any old PC, customers would say to themselves, "I can have a Mac experience with cheaper PC hardware,"
True, but I can remember Microsoft using a similar strategy the opposite way back in the days. Remember? They sold Pcdos to IBM and kept selling another, better version, on their side. Maybe that's the key. If apple sells Mac OS pc version to users to attact people and keep the better, more polished version for their hardware, they win on both sides: they attract users to apple software and keep their hardware market.
Next on your favorite news site: "A friend of mine has a serious problem. He is addicted to Slashdot. While most of us are able to disconnect from the site to take care of our own affairs, he keep reading dupes to the exclusion of his friends, his job and his life."
Again! Each time they say it's for real and that they will start shipping "this year". They probably meant that they will start shipping as soon as they finish testing the defragmenting capabilities of the drive.
Everyone will agree that the less you use your root account, the less vulnerable your system is. People are lazy. If they can su and do everything as root, they tend to do so. However if you "block" the root account and force the user to use sudo and type in their pass each time, they tend do use less root, thus increasing the security.
Note patents are not a way to reward those who invent things. They are a way to distribute information about an invention to stimulate creativity. By patenting an invention, you also make available informtation about that invention to anyone. Please stop seeing a patent only as a reward or a way to make money; it is much more than that.
Is it only me or do the screenshots look like FF 1.5. I don't see any differences between what I'm currently using. I think the article should be renamed:
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Alpha peeking out
Won't people understand this! Coffee may be good, like plenty of other things. But anything can be bad if you abuse. It's a matter of balance. Stop believing that something is bad for your health because if you take too much it has nasty consequences. Taking too much coffee is unhealthy, as can be taking too much water, so I don't believe we should take too seriously that article.
Maybe it doesn't show a trendline straight on the chart, but at least ooCalc has a function to calculate it. With it, I was able to do all my college lab reports without Excel.
isn't there already enough junk in space?
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I remember a lab I was admin at college. There were some old P2 233 on Win9x which nobody would use. Easy to understand since there was brand new P4 (WinXP) beside them. So I deployed some linux on the oldest machines and made some of them remote X terminals running XPDE. Funny enough people started using them. I even heared some people say they prefered those.
Sadly , when I leaved, the next admin installed Win2k on the terminals and the machines where thrown to garbage soon after, since nobody would use them.
Bottom line linux runs well on old hardware and makes cheap/efficient terminals for websurfing, writing docments, etc.
I have no idea of what this worm is nor do I care. From the top of my linux box it'll be another friday like the others, where I may have the pleasure to see more Win users complain about their OS, without them doing anything to change OS.
It may be a bit cruel, but I'm already impatient to say my old "I told you so!" to everyone who wouldn't do the switch to linux.
This may be a bit offtopic here, but I need to say it. There are not too much bad book reviews because there are not too much bad books. A book is a point of view on a topic. Everyone can't always find a book that matches him. Some books may seem plainly useless for you, but people having trouble understanding some concepts may appreciate them.
I believe the work of the reviewer isn't to judge if a book is good or bad. It's job is more into orienting the reader and helping him know if this is the book he will appreciate or if it is oriented toward a different public.
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yeah. And I see google countering this with
whatever you do, they know who you are...Error: Google has determined that, considering your history, you aren't really interested in what you typed. Google has ignored your query.
Well, since everyone seems to name titles, I need to mention Mafia, which had a very dramatic story. I admit it, it made me drop a tear at the end. Apart from that game, I can't think of another game which made me feel strong emotions (other than stress, which I don't consider as an emotion).
There are many movies showing the horror of war. Maybe a videogame to denounce such a tragedy and to disgust people would be good. Make something in the lines of Manhunt, which will make people sick of violence and it may not be all bad.
Last time I scanned my system for porn, all that was detected was LaTex (which isn't porn). I hope it doesn't delete tex files or I know a lot of people who will get frustrated.
yes, it is. But that doesn't make it less funny!
as long as the toilets in the northern hemisphere still flush clockwise.
"...from highly explosive..."
hmmm I see... They plan to eliminate bird flu by making every sick bird explode. clever!
Ah! I can remember why I began programming. It was not so long ago, in 1998. My father bought a computer for the family some years before. But at that time appeared games that required 3d accelerated hardware. Too old to run those games, my computer was making me sad. Then I discovered a book. It was called "Programming games in visual Basic". It wasn't great at all, but it brought interest of programming in my life. I was thinking that "If current games cannot run on my old machine, I'll make games that can". Later, I learned c/c++, php, shellscripting, etc.
I don't say this is the best way/reason to learn to prog. The trick is catching the interest. Once that is done, people can see the true power of simplicity that scripting your life brings. Programming isn't for computer gods or geeks. It's for anyone who understands what he does enough to write a generic receipe. Once you see how simple it may be or how useful it can be, programming gets attractive. For that, I hope Squeak gets popular. It is a wonderful tool to catch interest of non programmers.
"The kind (of batteries) that power your cell phone may power your car in the future,"
Now that's getting interesting. I was waiting for efficient and usable electric cars and here they are. The only thing that I'm wondering is about the life of those batteries. What I mean is how long before they can't hold their charge and must be replaced. Life of a cell phone battery is around one year. If this is the same for those cars and if the cost of batteries are high, maybe this isn't such a great deal.The problem isn't entirely the fault of the Linux community. What I mean is that as GNU/Linux software is often independant, not all coders give support to their software. Tech support is (often) a boring job. Most developper don't have time/will to spend time on support. And users often tend to ask questions to developpers when they only address they can find in their quest for support is the coder's e-mail. Asking a good question to the wrong people does give discouraging answers. So we need independent projects to give support.
So, the advantage of sticking with Mac hardware is that they only have to develop for it. I think they should consider using linux as their Kernel then. Not too much developper time and they get a great, mature and highly compatible kernel for their system. Darwin is *nix. Can't they just ship Linux and stick aqua on the top of it? But this isn't all...
True, but I can remember Microsoft using a similar strategy the opposite way back in the days. Remember? They sold Pcdos to IBM and kept selling another, better version, on their side. Maybe that's the key. If apple sells Mac OS pc version to users to attact people and keep the better, more polished version for their hardware, they win on both sides: they attract users to apple software and keep their hardware market.
I see I am not the only one to have IE under wine just to test those funny vulnerabilities!
Next on your favorite news site: "A friend of mine has a serious problem. He is addicted to Slashdot. While most of us are able to disconnect from the site to take care of our own affairs, he keep reading dupes to the exclusion of his friends, his job and his life."
Again! Each time they say it's for real and that they will start shipping "this year". They probably meant that they will start shipping as soon as they finish testing the defragmenting capabilities of the drive.
Everyone will agree that the less you use your root account, the less vulnerable your system is. People are lazy. If they can su and do everything as root, they tend to do so. However if you "block" the root account and force the user to use sudo and type in their pass each time, they tend do use less root, thus increasing the security.
Note patents are not a way to reward those who invent things. They are a way to distribute information about an invention to stimulate creativity. By patenting an invention, you also make available informtation about that invention to anyone. Please stop seeing a patent only as a reward or a way to make money; it is much more than that.
So, if I understand well, I should not let people walk over my ears if I don't want to become deaf?
Is it only me or do the screenshots look like FF 1.5. I don't see any differences between what I'm currently using. I think the article should be renamed:
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Alpha peeking out
Won't people understand this! Coffee may be good, like plenty of other things. But anything can be bad if you abuse. It's a matter of balance. Stop believing that something is bad for your health because if you take too much it has nasty consequences. Taking too much coffee is unhealthy, as can be taking too much water, so I don't believe we should take too seriously that article.
Maybe it doesn't show a trendline straight on the chart, but at least ooCalc has a function to calculate it. With it, I was able to do all my college lab reports without Excel.
... apparently not!
Sadly , when I leaved, the next admin installed Win2k on the terminals and the machines where thrown to garbage soon after, since nobody would use them.
Bottom line linux runs well on old hardware and makes cheap/efficient terminals for websurfing, writing docments, etc.
When they ship, I'll order 2 of them. They'll be perfect to make a backup of that /dev/random file.
I have no idea of what this worm is nor do I care. From the top of my linux box it'll be another friday like the others, where I may have the pleasure to see more Win users complain about their OS, without them doing anything to change OS.
It may be a bit cruel, but I'm already impatient to say my old "I told you so!" to everyone who wouldn't do the switch to linux.
This may be a bit offtopic here, but I need to say it. There are not too much bad book reviews because there are not too much bad books. A book is a point of view on a topic. Everyone can't always find a book that matches him. Some books may seem plainly useless for you, but people having trouble understanding some concepts may appreciate them.
I believe the work of the reviewer isn't to judge if a book is good or bad. It's job is more into orienting the reader and helping him know if this is the book he will appreciate or if it is oriented toward a different public.
Just my 2 cents.