So if they started benefitting from the sales of blank CDs somehow, I'd get removable hard-disks and I'd stop using CDs at once.
A bit like here in Finland, where the local [RI|MP]AA-type organization Teosto collects a small part of the sale of every blank cd. I'm not sure if it applies to hard disks yet, but it sure does apply to iPods and the like (31 euros of the purchase price of an iPod mini)...
Well, the job of marketing is to create the illusion of need.
I wouldn't have bought an iPod though, since I try to be as critical of marketing as I can (I hate it when people sing songs from commercials), and there's no way any ad campaign is going to talk me out of 300€ for a music player -- however, my employer was kind enough to give me one as a christmas present:)
Fact of the matter is, nothing that has pure entertainment value is something people "need" as in "can't live without" (although I would argue that life without music isn't much of a life).
My former ISP had blocked out all incoming requests to ports <1024. Hence, we never really had that problem. However, after moving to another city and changing ISP, my girlfriend's WinXP machine was down in minutes.
Lucky I'm running linux.
Anyway, the reason some people don't experience attacks could be that incoming traffic is blocked.
The biggest problem with.NET development seems to be ease of disassembly. IlDASM produces (I admit I tested it with simple classes only) damn near 1:1 sources from a compiled assembly.
Ever wonder why Microsoft products such as Office aren't written to run on the CLR?
I've been a long-time windows man myself, but about four weeks ago I installed SuSE to coexist with windows xp.
After spending a bit over a week using SuSE I decided to ditch XP. It really is that good (for me at least).
I'm now running Debian since it suits me better than SuSE (I'm a reasonably fast learner), and I think I'm going to give Gentoo a try too, but SuSE was a great stepping stone, and it gave me the confidence to get rid of Windows entirely.
The only complaint I have about SuSE is that every time I ran YaST it bugged me for the password, and every time I clicked on the "remember password" box. Although it might be a KDE issue, I dunno.
There's always MonoDevelop, but it's a long long way from being a mature dev environment yet. However, having used SharpDevelop on windows, I believe that when MonoDevelop reaches the same stage of maturity, it will be, if not quite Visual Studio, an excellent IDE.
If you go for mono, it's likely that you're a F/OSS type of guy. Are you going to pay the licence fees for VS.NET? I didn't think so.
"IIS 6.0 came out with a different threading model that broke some old applications. I was shocked to discover that our customers with Windows Server 2003 were having trouble running FogBugz. Then.NET 1.1 was not perfectly backwards compatible with 1.0. And now that the cat was out of the bag, the OS team got into the spirit and decided that instead of adding features to the Windows API, they were going to completely replace it. Instead of Win32, we are told, we should now start getting ready for WinFX: the next generation Windows API. All different. Based on.NET with managed code. XAML. Avalon. Yes, vastly superior to Win32, I admit it. But not an upgrade: a break with the past."
How about a strong moral conviction that you don't wish to learn how to kill, and as the civil service is twice as long, you feel like you shouldn't have to endure a punishment for said conviction? this is what they are referring to.
I meant for the army, not in the army. Believe me, I'm well acquainted with the finnish drinking habits:P
What I was aiming at was that the military doesn't really do anything to prevent alcoholism, whereas I believe they enforce a steady zero-tolerance policy for people who do drugs.
I don't know about you, but to me, at the gentle age of eighteen, it was a big deal that somebody wanted half a year of my life, especially when I believe there's no real need for an army of conscripts in Finland anymore.
In addition to that, the problem I have with the finnish military is that if you choose civil service, you serve for 13 months, period. It's like a punishment for not being a good boy and doing as was told.
We use cell phones more than the internet, at least for now, so keeping in touch really isn't the thing internet is used for (cheap broadband is available in the south, the rest will have to pay their asses off on dialup or expensive broadband.)
The alcoholism isn't a problem for the military, since the drinking occurs on the soldiers' free time.
The thing about finnish military service is it's mandatory. If you don't want to do the punishment of 13 months of civil service, it's at least 6 months in the army. If you refuse both, you go to jail. Amnesty considers Finland one of the few countries that take prisoners because of their ideology.
The way to avoid service is to come up with a reason for them not to want you. The most common would probably be mental illness of sorts. There are countless stories about people doing the weirders stuff to convince their superiors they should be dismissed.
I think that would explain the net addiction. Somebody came up with a new way to avoid doing their time for another two years.
That's often the case with software that's "just built" instead of designed. When you're creating a product that hasn't been done before, it's kind of hard to know the exact use cases, as there won't be any at that point.
Of course, one can always build a prototype, but as often is the case with programming, the prototype evolves to become the product, and the program isn't designed with the use cases in mind, but instead adapted, and as such it will most likely never be as good as it could be.
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Same thing with GRUB, only you don't have to run anything after editing the config file :)
No, it works for Type O Negative -- their singer lost so much he died!
... if you catch an elephant to work every morning, are you perhaps posting to Slashdot using IP-over-pigeons? :)
A bit like here in Finland, where the local [RI|MP]AA-type organization Teosto collects a small part of the sale of every blank cd. I'm not sure if it applies to hard disks yet, but it sure does apply to iPods and the like (31 euros of the purchase price of an iPod mini)...
Well, the job of marketing is to create the illusion of need.
:)
I wouldn't have bought an iPod though, since I try to be as critical of marketing as I can (I hate it when people sing songs from commercials), and there's no way any ad campaign is going to talk me out of 300€ for a music player -- however, my employer was kind enough to give me one as a christmas present
Fact of the matter is, nothing that has pure entertainment value is something people "need" as in "can't live without" (although I would argue that life without music isn't much of a life).
Remove my iPod mini from me and people will lose life and/or limb pretty soon thereafter :)
You're mistaken.
See Drawing / Mono.
I'll spare the comment about your unit conversion skills, but I'm pretty sure 42.2cm will impress the ladies, no matter how you convert it ;)
My former ISP had blocked out all incoming requests to ports <1024. Hence, we never really had that problem. However, after moving to another city and changing ISP, my girlfriend's WinXP machine was down in minutes.
Lucky I'm running linux.
Anyway, the reason some people don't experience attacks could be that incoming traffic is blocked.
Yes there is. It's called all-in-one gestures. Look for it at http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/ under "mouse gestures". It's very configurable.
After a bunch of KIsos, Konquerors, Kasablancas, Karbons and so forth, you sort of grow numb to it :P
I think you meant to say 'klearer'
Shouldn't that be orange hardware? ... no, wait, that would make benchmarking impossible :P
The biggest problem with .NET development seems to be ease of disassembly. IlDASM produces (I admit I tested it with simple classes only) damn near 1:1 sources from a compiled assembly.
Ever wonder why Microsoft products such as Office aren't written to run on the CLR?
Beer googles ? :P
Perhaps they just shut down their database to save us the trouble? :)
I've been a long-time windows man myself, but about four weeks ago I installed SuSE to coexist with windows xp.
After spending a bit over a week using SuSE I decided to ditch XP. It really is that good (for me at least).
I'm now running Debian since it suits me better than SuSE (I'm a reasonably fast learner), and I think I'm going to give Gentoo a try too, but SuSE was a great stepping stone, and it gave me the confidence to get rid of Windows entirely.
The only complaint I have about SuSE is that every time I ran YaST it bugged me for the password, and every time I clicked on the "remember password" box. Although it might be a KDE issue, I dunno.
There's always MonoDevelop, but it's a long long way from being a mature dev environment yet. However, having used SharpDevelop on windows, I believe that when MonoDevelop reaches the same stage of maturity, it will be, if not quite Visual Studio, an excellent IDE.
If you go for mono, it's likely that you're a F/OSS type of guy. Are you going to pay the licence fees for VS.NET? I didn't think so.
How about a strong moral conviction that you don't wish to learn how to kill, and as the civil service is twice as long, you feel like you shouldn't have to endure a punishment for said conviction? this is what they are referring to.
I meant for the army, not in the army. Believe me, I'm well acquainted with the finnish drinking habits :P
What I was aiming at was that the military doesn't really do anything to prevent alcoholism, whereas I believe they enforce a steady zero-tolerance policy for people who do drugs.
I don't know about you, but to me, at the gentle age of eighteen, it was a big deal that somebody wanted half a year of my life, especially when I believe there's no real need for an army of conscripts in Finland anymore.
In addition to that, the problem I have with the finnish military is that if you choose civil service, you serve for 13 months, period. It's like a punishment for not being a good boy and doing as was told.
Um, let's see -- point at them and laugh?
We use cell phones more than the internet, at least for now, so keeping in touch really isn't the thing internet is used for (cheap broadband is available in the south, the rest will have to pay their asses off on dialup or expensive broadband.)
The alcoholism isn't a problem for the military, since the drinking occurs on the soldiers' free time.
The thing about finnish military service is it's mandatory. If you don't want to do the punishment of 13 months of civil service, it's at least 6 months in the army. If you refuse both, you go to jail. Amnesty considers Finland one of the few countries that take prisoners because of their ideology.
The way to avoid service is to come up with a reason for them not to want you. The most common would probably be mental illness of sorts. There are countless stories about people doing the weirders stuff to convince their superiors they should be dismissed.
I think that would explain the net addiction. Somebody came up with a new way to avoid doing their time for another two years.
That's often the case with software that's "just built" instead of designed. When you're creating a product that hasn't been done before, it's kind of hard to know the exact use cases, as there won't be any at that point.
Of course, one can always build a prototype, but as often is the case with programming, the prototype evolves to become the product, and the program isn't designed with the use cases in mind, but instead adapted, and as such it will most likely never be as good as it could be.