Are you proposing that Internet Access should be regulated, licensed
Yes.
The person-of-record on the Customer Agreement should pass a Computer+Internet Literacy Test, in order to demonstrate that the person knows how to secure the machines at the site against all the variations of types of viruses & worms that can infect the operating systems at the site.
So apparently they want younger (and probably more technical) people to read the contract so the 70+ people know what they're getting. Stupid, but it's not a rule without a reason.
Except there are lots of brainless sub-septuagenarians.
Our data center has three backbones coming through here.
If we're down, we know for sure that we have bigger problems than an outage
Unless all those backbones happen to share transit points.
Lots of companies that thought they were buying redundancy got a rude awakening on 9/11 when they discovered that ATT, MCI, Sprint, etc all ran their trunks under the WTC.
Remember how Microsoft screwed over IBM's Windows-on-OS/2 compatability with really minor changes to Windsows 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, etc? And IBM had access to the Windows 3.x source code, too. Anytime Gnash comes close to fully emulating Flash version N, expect to see Flash version N+1 released.
MSFT had valid concerns about OS/2 back in 1993-1994.
If you think that Adobe really gives a rat's arse about gnash, then you've smoked one too many torpedo.
Is it still that bad? I used Red Hat 5.1 for awhile, then switched to Debian Potato (man, I hated that configuration tool, dselect?), then got tired of downloading utilities only to find they were some high-school senior's CS project and only worked with a specific (obsolete) version of some common library that I couldn't install because it would conflict with the current version which I needed for everything else. So I moved on to NetBSD and never looked back. I've been thinking about loading Ubuntu on one of my mothballed machines, but maybe I won't bother...
Those were released a looooooong time ago. RH5.2 in Nov-1998 and Potato in Aug-2000. Lots and lots and lots of things have changed since then.
I started using Debian with Woody, and it has always(*) been a "just works" system, even though I quickly migrated to Unstable/Sid.
(*) The only time it barfs is when I try to upgrade when a major transition is underway, and half the relevant packages have not yet been uploaded.
Why don't we change the rules here on/. and for once chage the language in wich all of us write? Why should it be in english? Why do all of the non-natively english speaking people have learn a second language and people who natively speaks english does not?
This site is hosted in the USA. English is the primary language in the USA.
If for some brain-dead reason I decided to put a Minitel terminal in my living room, I would not bitch, moan and complain because it is all in French.
I'd a chat with some Google engineers that used to work for Microsoft. One guy was proud of the fact that not one line of code or one bugfix he'd put in over seven years ever made it into a product that shipped.
For the same reason(s) that e-books haven't pushed books aside.
I wish I could verbalize why reading the same text from a book is "better" than reading it from a screen.
Why waste time looking through encyclopedias on paper when you can simultaneously search every encyclopedia, news article, and sound bite that is relevent to your topic of research?
I reject your assertion that reading a dead-tree encyclopedia is a waste of time.
Poring thru books, learning context, background and "side knowledge" gives you a fuller grasp of the subject. Having to manually copy it to note cards, and then read and organize them helps to burn it into you.
OTOH, Googling + "copy and paste" is just lazy. And that's bad for students.
'm still annoyed by what the teacher wrote -- "books must be opened, not computers turned on"
The be glad I'm not your father, because I'd back that teacher up 100%.
Going to the library, using the card catalog, reading encyclopedias, looking thru the magazine index books is good for your intellectual development. It gives you a depth of understanding, a foundation that you can't get with Google.
A "glorified typewriter" (black/white, Courier New 10) is all that a computer should be to students. The KayPro 4 with WordStar 3.3, dBaseII and TurboPascal 3.0 is all that (High School and younger) students need. And whenever they complain, they should be made to use a mechanical typewriter.
A lot of guys don't like the girls around because they feel really uncomfortable that they might say "the wrong thing", and the next minute they are having a "sensitivity training" session with Human Resources.
That is sooooo incredibly true. She'd never be asked to after-work drinks, and usually not to lunch.
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Are you proposing that Internet Access should be regulated, licensed
Yes.
The person-of-record on the Customer Agreement should pass a Computer+Internet Literacy Test, in order to demonstrate that the person knows how to secure the machines at the site against all the variations of types of viruses & worms that can infect the operating systems at the site.
and taxed?
No.
Yeah, so they'd shoot most people.
What's your point?
Except there are lots of brainless sub-septuagenarians.
If we're down, we know for sure that we have bigger problems than an outage
Unless all those backbones happen to share transit points.
Lots of companies that thought they were buying redundancy got a rude awakening on 9/11 when they discovered that ATT, MCI, Sprint, etc all ran their trunks under the WTC.
And geeks wonder why MSFT is gaining market share and has 100 jillion dollars in the bank...
Zero.
32-bit Unix had been running on the VAX & MC 68000 for years. Porting it to the AT platform was trivial.
Oh, wait, did you mean Windows? But you said real OS.
Is that because you need more Server 2k3 boxes to get the job done?
Funny, but sad.
I'm old enough to remember watching the Watergate hearings on TV.
Since this is a viral marketing spoof, I see know reason why they would not put a grainy portrait of W up there as a bit of humor or political satire.
On the right is Gerald R. Ford, Nixon's VP after Agnew resigned
I know what Ford looks like. That's not Ford.
MSFT had valid concerns about OS/2 back in 1993-1994.
If you think that Adobe really gives a rat's arse about gnash, then you've smoked one too many torpedo.
Those were released a looooooong time ago. RH5.2 in Nov-1998 and Potato in Aug-2000. Lots and lots and lots of things have changed since then.
I started using Debian with Woody, and it has always(*) been a "just works" system, even though I quickly migrated to Unstable/Sid.
(*) The only time it barfs is when I try to upgrade when a major transition is underway, and half the relevant packages have not yet been uploaded.
This site is hosted in the USA. English is the primary language in the USA.
If for some brain-dead reason I decided to put a Minitel terminal in my living room, I would not bitch, moan and complain because it is all in French.
Apparently those have more potential flash users than x86-64 right now.
Embedded kiosks?
Two words: grade inflation.
Are they even going to have more than a token low-end HS anymore, or relegate the low-end to AMD64, with overlap in the middle?
I'd a chat with some Google engineers that used to work for Microsoft. One guy was proud of the fact that not one line of code or one bugfix he'd put in over seven years ever made it into a product that shipped.
Why is that something to be proud of?
Am I missing something?
Did he invent his own compiler, his own make, his own shell?
For the same reason(s) that e-books haven't pushed books aside.
I wish I could verbalize why reading the same text from a book is "better" than reading it from a screen.
Why waste time looking through encyclopedias on paper when you can simultaneously search every encyclopedia, news article, and sound bite that is relevent to your topic of research?
I reject your assertion that reading a dead-tree encyclopedia is a waste of time.
Poring thru books, learning context, background and "side knowledge" gives you a fuller grasp of the subject. Having to manually copy it to note cards, and then read and organize them helps to burn it into you.
OTOH, Googling + "copy and paste" is just lazy. And that's bad for students.
The be glad I'm not your father, because I'd back that teacher up 100%.
Going to the library, using the card catalog, reading encyclopedias, looking thru the magazine index books is good for your intellectual development. It gives you a depth of understanding, a foundation that you can't get with Google.
A "glorified typewriter" (black/white, Courier New 10) is all that a computer should be to students. The KayPro 4 with WordStar 3.3, dBaseII and TurboPascal 3.0 is all that (High School and younger) students need. And whenever they complain, they should be made to use a mechanical typewriter.
That is sooooo incredibly true. She'd never be asked to after-work drinks, and usually not to lunch.
Why can't OpenBSD subsume NetBSD's prime feature: extreme portability?
If the Linux kernel can do it, why not OBSD? With all those code reviews, "cleanness" should enhance it's ability to port to different architectures.
Well heck, that's not very broad of a statement, is it?
this could truly redefine the "embedded" market.
Oh, wait, you're trying to be funny. Ha ha. Not.
I've used it since soon after it was released.
- The audio and video are out of sync which makes many videos unwatchable.
The a/v have never been out of sync for me.
- It's rather unstable and can cause frequent browser crashes.
Flash 7 is incredibly stable. While Flash 6.x crashed Mozilla constantly, Flash 7 and FF are a marvel of stability.
Maybe Debian "Unstable" is just more stable than the distro you use.