Windows, when you're not running as Admnistrator, is easily just a 'secure' as Linux not running as root, for definitions of 'secure' that mean one user can't kill the whole system, and the Admin account is not compromised.
That said, Windows has a big red 'X' painted on it as far as scumware authors are concerned.
Of course, while Linux users are smart enough to not run as root, they will almost never run Windows as anything less than an admin; it's just more of a jab in the nuts to do. (ie: how do you do things as root in Linux? precede every command with 'sudo' or 'gksudo', or just run 'sudo su').
Ok, how about the two hours of sleep I had gotten. Point was, I wasn't even half awake. Maybe 15%. I mean, seriously. That's only about 30 times more working brains than your average AC.
Oh, no. I trust my agent pretty well. Sweet old lady.
Besides, she's shown ridiculous trust in me; she asked me to fix her Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop. Had a busted HD. When I told her that, I asked what she wanted to do about it, told her her options were get a new HD and call me to install it, or get a new laptop. She opted for the latter, handed me her credit card, and told me to pick one out.
This was the first time I met the lady. That's a trusting human. And, like bored people are usually boring, trusting people, in my experience are very trustworthy.
I ended up with that laptop, too. Told her she could sell it for parts on eBay or have Dell recycle it. She told me, take it home and deal with the sale, consider it payment (I had, to that point, refused payment on the unspoken grounds that I want the lady to work hard for my girl and I). I got a new 160G drive and a TRENDNet wifi card (picked for being an atheros-based card) for it and have a shiny new Ubuntu laptop.
Right. The thing is TZ calc is trivial. Why does NTP not have a provision for arbitrary adjustment for a given TZ, autosetting DST based on the current time and local laws?
Hell, a zip/post code lookup is less trivial, but still not what one would call processor intensive. Just adjust time automatically for a given post code.
"So you are suggesting that the EASIER solution than changing the clocks is to get 300 million people to all switch to your new "government standard hours," adjust to every business being open different hours, etc., as opposed to everyone doing a "spring forward, fall back?""
Actually, if you think about it that's EXCACTLY what the gov't has done. DST is a useful macro for that.
The government's been mucking about in when 6am is since the start of the US. If you want to bitch, at least bitch about a new and shocking problem, not one that's been around for some 200 years.
At the very least, bitch about something that was first imposed within the last century, like income taxes (first imposed 1913, so just barely in range).
With this age of modern technology, how difficult would it be to simply have places open for business 1 hour after sun-up, instead of at a fixed time?
I mean, at the very least, it's a less-aliased way of obtaining optimal active sunlight time than the current binary system of offsets.
Or maybe: 6am is defined as 6 hours before the sun reaches its zenith, regardless of location, and is adjusted daily. GMT stands as the scheduling mean.
I dunno. I always wake up cranky the first Monday after the Spring DST shift, and I always think, "There's gotta be a better way"
Hm. Wouldn't it be nifty if other people's comments could be edited all wiki-style, as long as the first and last characters of each word remain the same?
Seriously; a very large number of grammar and spelling nazis would get their fix without annoying people.
Herm. Won't Inuit bare nutty if or piss corns cold bale end amal... etc...
"you can not be an idiot and graduate form Harvard with a Masters"
Excuse me? He's got an MBA. Knowing enough Harvard MBAs personally, I'm going to have to disagree with you. You can certainly be an idiot with a Harvard MBA.
I asked one of the profs I work for how you get an MBA, prefacing it with, 'I know for a BS you have to do the coursework and do a thesis, and for a PhD you have to publish, take the GRE, and such. What do you have to do to get an MBA?'
My girlfriend's after a house with a south-facing yard, so as to catch all the sun it can (she's a garden enthusiast). It's amazing how many estate agents don't actually know which direction a given house faces.
'cept, while ther are many OSI licenses, the GPL/LGPL is by far the most popular (by software-user count), followed by BSD, AFPL (ghostscript is in EVERYTHING). If you stick to free software with just the major licenses, you only have to answer the question a few times, while you get access to a very large number of programs.
What I don't get is the SaaS issue; if you're only providing software to one client, you only have to provide source code to that one client to be compliant with, say the GPL. And there's nothing in the GPL that says you can't sell modified GPL'ed work; just that you have to have the source code available to anyone you distribute (sell) it to. Even then, you only have to provide the bits of code that are within the same scope as the GPL'ed code (ie: if you use a modified KDE in your product, you have to provide the source for that modified KDE. You do not, on the other hand, have to provide the self-built kernel and X server that it runs atop.)
Also, those who go for SaaS code aren't generally in the business of selling software; they want something that they can use internally, or as an app to run on a server. If you want anything more than a one-shot, wouldn't you want your own development team?
"Wake me up when Libertarians solve the basic problem of people acting like self-centred greedy fucks"
Wake me when democraticists (?) do. Or, show your intellectual dishonesty by telling me that the US government isn't chock full of politicians who want nothing more than to squeeze a few more pennies out of each member of their constituency.
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Windows, when you're not running as Admnistrator, is easily just a 'secure' as Linux not running as root, for definitions of 'secure' that mean one user can't kill the whole system, and the Admin account is not compromised.
That said, Windows has a big red 'X' painted on it as far as scumware authors are concerned.
Of course, while Linux users are smart enough to not run as root, they will almost never run Windows as anything less than an admin; it's just more of a jab in the nuts to do. (ie: how do you do things as root in Linux? precede every command with 'sudo' or 'gksudo', or just run 'sudo su').
Oh, I'm quite aware of how much the price of gasoline has been subsidized in the US.
Ok, how about the two hours of sleep I had gotten. Point was, I wasn't even half awake. Maybe 15%. I mean, seriously. That's only about 30 times more working brains than your average AC.
Oh, no. I trust my agent pretty well. Sweet old lady.
Besides, she's shown ridiculous trust in me; she asked me to fix her Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop. Had a busted HD. When I told her that, I asked what she wanted to do about it, told her her options were get a new HD and call me to install it, or get a new laptop. She opted for the latter, handed me her credit card, and told me to pick one out.
This was the first time I met the lady. That's a trusting human. And, like bored people are usually boring, trusting people, in my experience are very trustworthy.
I ended up with that laptop, too. Told her she could sell it for parts on eBay or have Dell recycle it. She told me, take it home and deal with the sale, consider it payment (I had, to that point, refused payment on the unspoken grounds that I want the lady to work hard for my girl and I). I got a new 160G drive and a TRENDNet wifi card (picked for being an atheros-based card) for it and have a shiny new Ubuntu laptop.
Right. The thing is TZ calc is trivial. Why does NTP not have a provision for arbitrary adjustment for a given TZ, autosetting DST based on the current time and local laws?
Hell, a zip/post code lookup is less trivial, but still not what one would call processor intensive. Just adjust time automatically for a given post code.
"I just filled up my car at $3.49/gallon. I'm pretty sure the last fill (probably 2 weeks ago) was under $3/gal."
Welcome to springtime! Look forward to paying $5 at the pump by midsummer.
Ah, but that doesn't reduce the GDP, it just changes its distribution. The resulting change in GDP is still -0.25 * 0.03.
"So you are suggesting that the EASIER solution than changing the clocks is to get 300 million people to all switch to your new "government standard hours," adjust to every business being open different hours, etc., as opposed to everyone doing a "spring forward, fall back?""
Actually, if you think about it that's EXCACTLY what the gov't has done. DST is a useful macro for that.
The government's been mucking about in when 6am is since the start of the US. If you want to bitch, at least bitch about a new and shocking problem, not one that's been around for some 200 years.
At the very least, bitch about something that was first imposed within the last century, like income taxes (first imposed 1913, so just barely in range).
I wonder, though.
With this age of modern technology, how difficult would it be to simply have places open for business 1 hour after sun-up, instead of at a fixed time?
I mean, at the very least, it's a less-aliased way of obtaining optimal active sunlight time than the current binary system of offsets.
Or maybe: 6am is defined as 6 hours before the sun reaches its zenith, regardless of location, and is adjusted daily. GMT stands as the scheduling mean.
I dunno. I always wake up cranky the first Monday after the Spring DST shift, and I always think, "There's gotta be a better way"
Hm. Wouldn't it be nifty if other people's comments could be edited all wiki-style, as long as the first and last characters of each word remain the same?
... etc...
Seriously; a very large number of grammar and spelling nazis would get their fix without annoying people.
Herm. Won't Inuit bare nutty if or piss corns cold bale end amal
Ok, guess not.
"you can not be an idiot and graduate form Harvard with a Masters"
Excuse me? He's got an MBA. Knowing enough Harvard MBAs personally, I'm going to have to disagree with you. You can certainly be an idiot with a Harvard MBA.
I asked one of the profs I work for how you get an MBA, prefacing it with, 'I know for a BS you have to do the coursework and do a thesis, and for a PhD you have to publish, take the GRE, and such. What do you have to do to get an MBA?'
'Fall asleep in class, as far as I can tell.'
Actually, I think most college students think they're smarter than any politician you can name.
And, excepting policy majors and MBA students, I think they're probably right.
"It does not change the planets tilt, rotation speed, or smell."
Really? I swear to god, when I cam into work this morning, the whole campus smelled different.
Of course, that could have something to do with the freshly-laid mulch.
I'm so confused...
My girlfriend's after a house with a south-facing yard, so as to catch all the sun it can (she's a garden enthusiast). It's amazing how many estate agents don't actually know which direction a given house faces.
I do like DST time better than standard, if noly that it makes 9 to 5 really 10 to 6.
But honestly, I'd rather just work 10 to 6 all year round, and screw the DST.
Wow. My coffee-starved brain read that and believed it for a whole three paragraphs. I'm shocked at my own gullibility.
That said, funny shit.
^_^ Very good point, and something my coffee-starved brain didn't even think of.
*slurps coffee*
Yep, still seems like a good point. I always find it weird that internet-connected devices don't check the time once in a while.
Defining science by government intervention. There's a precedent, you know. As far as interstate tariffs are concerned, a tomato is a vegetable.
Of course, that doesn't make it a sane decision.
Oops. Missed Apache in that list. It's probably even with the GPL in end-user count
'cept, while ther are many OSI licenses, the GPL/LGPL is by far the most popular (by software-user count), followed by BSD, AFPL (ghostscript is in EVERYTHING). If you stick to free software with just the major licenses, you only have to answer the question a few times, while you get access to a very large number of programs.
What I don't get is the SaaS issue; if you're only providing software to one client, you only have to provide source code to that one client to be compliant with, say the GPL. And there's nothing in the GPL that says you can't sell modified GPL'ed work; just that you have to have the source code available to anyone you distribute (sell) it to. Even then, you only have to provide the bits of code that are within the same scope as the GPL'ed code (ie: if you use a modified KDE in your product, you have to provide the source for that modified KDE. You do not, on the other hand, have to provide the self-built kernel and X server that it runs atop.)
Also, those who go for SaaS code aren't generally in the business of selling software; they want something that they can use internally, or as an app to run on a server. If you want anything more than a one-shot, wouldn't you want your own development team?
"Wake me up when Libertarians solve the basic problem of people acting like self-centred greedy fucks"
Wake me when democraticists (?) do. Or, show your intellectual dishonesty by telling me that the US government isn't chock full of politicians who want nothing more than to squeeze a few more pennies out of each member of their constituency.
Depends of which one you're using. KDrive (which is what this uses) is purty derned small.
What I want to see is the BIOS config done via a pretty GUI, and the normal process to chainload to another OS.
Or, how about booting a Disk-On-Chip with Linux on it; the HD is used only for data.