Yeah, that's a great argument. Since it's not impossible to be falsely accused and convicted, let's give them all the rights to watch cable tv and host their own web site.
And as for capital punishment, the only people that end up losing 10 years of appeals are the ones that are truly guilty. I don't understand why people have this concept that innocents are being executed all the time because they never had a chance to appeal a verdict.
I don't know. Wasteful government spending is one thing. It's usually paying many times what some average Joe could buy at Walmart or Home Depot. But the government spending money on new technology can be a good thing. People on/. love to bitch about how US companies don't actually invent anything new. So maybe the government investing in technology is good for the country in the long run.
I mean, hell, where would the internet have come from?
Which just goes to show you that distributing software through package managers instead spending $300 on a CD every two years leads to better security in practice. Any distro that uses a package manager to automatically check for software upgrades would be a good leg up in preventing outdated software from being exploited.
Well, if by Linux you mean DEs like KDE. I already have this feature, but I don't use it because I prefer the detailed list. It does make browsing through pictures easier.
I'm still trying to figure out what innovation we're seeing here. So far it just looks like a collection of eye candy taken from OSX and KDE. As for security? They should go require one root account and regular user accounts. They have enough time to let other software companies know the details so if their software won't function properly they can fix it.
I mean if they want to simply copy features left and right, then I don't really care so much. But they shouldn't act like these are important innovations.
They could have worded the question, "Do you feel it's right to censor blogs of content such as your children's address, telephone number, screen name, email address, school address, bus route, and time between they arrive home and the parents arrives home from work?"
and everybody would have said "Yes! That's ridiculous." How you word a question can persuade people to agree with you without realizing it. And as some other posts indicated, this probably is fuel for a fire to come.
You seem to be going through a lot of hoops just because your network card isn't supported. Not to sound like a troll, but a NIC is about $15, I'd think the hassle isn't worth it. And even if this is a laptop, I'm sure a PCMCIA card can't be that much if you shop around.
One of the best things about linux is ordinary users don't have write access to the entire computer. This means that if one day linux malware does become a problem (as Microsoft predicts), then it will only affect individual accounts and not the entire computer.
Aside from malware that probably doesn't exist yet, it's still a good idea to have a window pop up or a console to prompt you for a root password because it lets the user know the action they take may harm their computer. It also hinders mistakes like deleting necessary files from happening accidentally. Security should be the main concern of a computer connected to a network or in an area more than one person can use. This enforces that concept and can greatly protect a computer than if it was always running as root.
At first, I thought, yeah this is crap. But you can still challenge your grade. And maybe that's the whole point. I wouldn't be satisfied with a paper I spent hours being graded by a computer, and neither should his students.
Thanks for shedding some light on his ignorance. Memory speeds have also lowered, comparative to clock speed, over the years. Several years ago, memory was at 100 mhz and cpu speed was at 500 mhz. Now that difference is over 10x. However, they've been beefing up the cache to hedge the performance hit. So they're going up the memory hierarchy, why the grandparent is sitting at the bottom reading Dvorak wondering why "System Idle" is eating all his cpu cycles.
you might want to throw a float in there too. I'm sure the integer ALU consumes a lot less power than the float ALU. I think something like a video game would also be good for this. It tests integers, floats, and cache. All together, those will generate some serious heat. And since this guy is interested in heat, why not utilize the entire data path plus the cache?
I was being sarcastic. Not being negative to people in the IT field, but to schools that treat comp sci as corporate programming skills. Computer science is a respectable discipline, and it frustrates me when I see professors try to bastardize it.
Here's an example. I'm a computer engineering student. CE is very similar to electrical engineering. The only difference, at my school, is several additional programming classes in the comp sci department. During our Comp Sci 3 presentations in which a group had to develop a simple software program, in this case a game, a professor walked in to comment on the presentations. One of the general requirements was to use CVS in the project, but no students could get it working and our professor didn't really care in the end. But the other professor who walked in started yelling at a group while they were presenting that they need these skills because the company they work for is going to expect them. Now he was directing this at comp sci majors.
And I sat their wondering how CVS is crucial to computer science. Sure, if you want to be a programmer, you're going to need to know how to use a versioning system, but I saw this as taking computer science and treating it like just programming. Needless to say, I don't think my comp sci department is all that good and which is why I'm in the engineering department.
I looked at the questions and I was surprised they didn't include some basic computer skills. No where did they ask how to install an operating system. Compiling a kernel wasn't mentioned. Configuring a license server? Nope! MySQL? Not a damn reference.
It's obvious to me that these "computer scientists" aren't skilled for the real world and will never get a respectable IT job.
What chaps my ass is how they only support areas easy and cheap for them to support. Whenever I see those commercials about the guy in the middle of the desert getting service, I wonder why can't they offer decent coverage in northern New Jersey. You'd think the most densely populated state where almost everyone I know between the age of 18-50 has a phone should be a higher priority.
I'm not too worried about viruses on phones now. However, if I ever see an "Antivirus Fee.....$3.23" on my cell phone bill, my head is going to explode.
Yeah, I've seen this issue raised before, however, when I download a song I don't start a record company and try to sell it under my label.
Yes, both cases are copyright infringement, but I guess "it's worse" when you take code, repackage it, call it your own, deny you stole it, and try to sell it.
If you can find a good partition tool, it makes this process easy. With Partition Magic, you can split your NTFS into two partition and make one of them FAT32. Windows and Linux can both easily write and read FAT32. Now this means you can either move all your data to the new drive, replace the NTFS with a linux partition (ext, reiser, etc.) or if you have enough space, keep windows and linux and the data partition.
This might be good to try out linux and see if you like it.
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Yeah, that's a great argument. Since it's not impossible to be falsely accused and convicted, let's give them all the rights to watch cable tv and host their own web site.
And as for capital punishment, the only people that end up losing 10 years of appeals are the ones that are truly guilty. I don't understand why people have this concept that innocents are being executed all the time because they never had a chance to appeal a verdict.
I think it depends on the crime. If you rape or murder someone, they should lock you up and throw away the key.
I wouldn't blame this on the mozilla team. They just release the source code and let the distros figure the rest out.
as far as I'm concerned, Trent Reznor could join Microsoft and I'd go put a pre-order on longhorn.
You're exactly right. As long as users keep clicking through EULAs and agreeing to those terms, this will stay legal in practice.
I don't know. Wasteful government spending is one thing. It's usually paying many times what some average Joe could buy at Walmart or Home Depot. But the government spending money on new technology can be a good thing. People on /. love to bitch about how US companies don't actually invent anything new. So maybe the government investing in technology is good for the country in the long run.
I mean, hell, where would the internet have come from?
Which just goes to show you that distributing software through package managers instead spending $300 on a CD every two years leads to better security in practice. Any distro that uses a package manager to automatically check for software upgrades would be a good leg up in preventing outdated software from being exploited.
Well, if by Linux you mean DEs like KDE. I already have this feature, but I don't use it because I prefer the detailed list. It does make browsing through pictures easier.
I'm still trying to figure out what innovation we're seeing here. So far it just looks like a collection of eye candy taken from OSX and KDE. As for security? They should go require one root account and regular user accounts. They have enough time to let other software companies know the details so if their software won't function properly they can fix it.
I mean if they want to simply copy features left and right, then I don't really care so much. But they shouldn't act like these are important innovations.
They could have worded the question, "Do you feel it's right to censor blogs of content such as your children's address, telephone number, screen name, email address, school address, bus route, and time between they arrive home and the parents arrives home from work?"
and everybody would have said "Yes! That's ridiculous." How you word a question can persuade people to agree with you without realizing it. And as some other posts indicated, this probably is fuel for a fire to come.
I think we've just hit on a new data type: Linked Google List
Good point. I'm sure most linux users use some means other than mozilla.org to get firefox. However, Linux users don't represent a large population.
I don't trust metrics based on use by number of downloads. I think there is too much room for error on both sides.
You seem to be going through a lot of hoops just because your network card isn't supported. Not to sound like a troll, but a NIC is about $15, I'd think the hassle isn't worth it. And even if this is a laptop, I'm sure a PCMCIA card can't be that much if you shop around.
One of the best things about linux is ordinary users don't have write access to the entire computer. This means that if one day linux malware does become a problem (as Microsoft predicts), then it will only affect individual accounts and not the entire computer.
Aside from malware that probably doesn't exist yet, it's still a good idea to have a window pop up or a console to prompt you for a root password because it lets the user know the action they take may harm their computer. It also hinders mistakes like deleting necessary files from happening accidentally. Security should be the main concern of a computer connected to a network or in an area more than one person can use. This enforces that concept and can greatly protect a computer than if it was always running as root.
At first, I thought, yeah this is crap. But you can still challenge your grade. And maybe that's the whole point. I wouldn't be satisfied with a paper I spent hours being graded by a computer, and neither should his students.
Thanks for shedding some light on his ignorance. Memory speeds have also lowered, comparative to clock speed, over the years. Several years ago, memory was at 100 mhz and cpu speed was at 500 mhz. Now that difference is over 10x. However, they've been beefing up the cache to hedge the performance hit. So they're going up the memory hierarchy, why the grandparent is sitting at the bottom reading Dvorak wondering why "System Idle" is eating all his cpu cycles.
you might want to throw a float in there too. I'm sure the integer ALU consumes a lot less power than the float ALU. I think something like a video game would also be good for this. It tests integers, floats, and cache. All together, those will generate some serious heat. And since this guy is interested in heat, why not utilize the entire data path plus the cache?
AndbecauseGermansdonotwastebytesonspaces
Ubuntu, sounds like a baseball strategy.
Mandriva, sounds like a bunch of guys driving down the road
Mepis, Me piss?
At least I can say, "well Gentoo is a species of penguins you ignorant pisser."
I was being sarcastic. Not being negative to people in the IT field, but to schools that treat comp sci as corporate programming skills. Computer science is a respectable discipline, and it frustrates me when I see professors try to bastardize it.
Here's an example. I'm a computer engineering student. CE is very similar to electrical engineering. The only difference, at my school, is several additional programming classes in the comp sci department. During our Comp Sci 3 presentations in which a group had to develop a simple software program, in this case a game, a professor walked in to comment on the presentations. One of the general requirements was to use CVS in the project, but no students could get it working and our professor didn't really care in the end. But the other professor who walked in started yelling at a group while they were presenting that they need these skills because the company they work for is going to expect them. Now he was directing this at comp sci majors.
And I sat their wondering how CVS is crucial to computer science. Sure, if you want to be a programmer, you're going to need to know how to use a versioning system, but I saw this as taking computer science and treating it like just programming. Needless to say, I don't think my comp sci department is all that good and which is why I'm in the engineering department.
I looked at the questions and I was surprised they didn't include some basic computer skills. No where did they ask how to install an operating system. Compiling a kernel wasn't mentioned. Configuring a license server? Nope! MySQL? Not a damn reference.
It's obvious to me that these "computer scientists" aren't skilled for the real world and will never get a respectable IT job.
What chaps my ass is how they only support areas easy and cheap for them to support. Whenever I see those commercials about the guy in the middle of the desert getting service, I wonder why can't they offer decent coverage in northern New Jersey. You'd think the most densely populated state where almost everyone I know between the age of 18-50 has a phone should be a higher priority.
I'm not too worried about viruses on phones now. However, if I ever see an "Antivirus Fee.....$3.23" on my cell phone bill, my head is going to explode.
Yeah, I've seen this issue raised before, however, when I download a song I don't start a record company and try to sell it under my label.
Yes, both cases are copyright infringement, but I guess "it's worse" when you take code, repackage it, call it your own, deny you stole it, and try to sell it.
If you can find a good partition tool, it makes this process easy. With Partition Magic, you can split your NTFS into two partition and make one of them FAT32. Windows and Linux can both easily write and read FAT32. Now this means you can either move all your data to the new drive, replace the NTFS with a linux partition (ext, reiser, etc.) or if you have enough space, keep windows and linux and the data partition.
This might be good to try out linux and see if you like it.
Then they'll call it "ExtremeX!"
I feel bad for the engineers who come up with these designs which are then crapped on by their marketting department.