The problem with this argument is that the "class" will tend to get more and more wrong over time, creating a pretty awful piece, even if any given moment has well-tuned harmony.
I suppose one caveat is smart people who have to exchange a LOT of files with people with stupid behavior. For example, professors who get a zillion student assignment submissions (I'm not saying that students are generally stupid, but when there are a zillion of them, there's probably 1 with a virus).
Having worked retail repair within the last three years, I can safely say you are a liar.
Perhaps you retail experience has left you jaded (giving you the benefit of the doubt that you're not just a total ass:-P). I've run Windows machines (as well as Linux, dual-boot, and MacOS) machines for the past 11 years.* That's Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows XP (and the occasional NT in there). I've never had to re-install Windows (excluding initial machine set-ups and after a hard-drive crash). I've never had a virus or spyware. No, I do not run anti-virus software. Yes, I have on occasion run a virus checker as a sanity check (whenever anything significant goes wrong under Windows, a virus of some kind is always a natural suspicion). I do realize that Win95 and Win98 probably would not be safe anymore without at least a firewall (which I have been running for the past two or three years).
Windows definitely has lots of problems that I've had to deal with. But most spyware and viruses can be avoided by avoiding stupid behavior. I do keep my system patched with auto-updates to keep the worms and such at bay (and yes, auto-update has sometimes itself been the source of Windows problems and headaches, but that's a different story). So everyone who is not "bolting for the exits" is not a liar.
*prefer Linux for coding, Latex, basic web browsing, etc. prefer Windows for MS Office, browsing web pages that don't play nice with Linux, etc. OSX looks nice, but I think I'll go nuts if my usage splits equally across 3 operating systems -- (haven't had to do that since grad school).
I'm curious to hear about what kind of locking you are referring to (so I know if I need to do things differently). If files are modified during their synchronization, unison skips over them and reports it in the log file. They would just get sync'd next time. The only real special handling I do is skipping the unison log file and copying that separately after the synchronization.
I use unison. Why would you need to run it manually every time? It can be run in batch mode. I am mostly using it for live backups these days rather than true bidirectional synchronization, so I could really use rsync and some scripts, but I've gotten pretty comfortable with unison.
What if pirates get ahold of multiple MP3s? Why bother? Pirates can hijack the ships that carry CDs across the sea and rip the CDs themselves, making MP3s that don't contain watermarks.
I had a client who wanted me to do that. We managed to get Thunderbird to download new email from Hotmail, but getting the old stuff out via Outlook Express or Outlook was nearly impossible.
Please give me a link to a copy of the Professional Write 3 (PW) software app. for MSDOS 6.
Yep, I had that very problem some years ago when I was cleaning my room and found several 5 1/4 disquettes which contained the.pw extension. No way to find the program.
That seems totally incorrect to me. If anonymizing makes things k times slower with current disk/network speeds, it will still make things k times slower when disks/networks are faster.
You're starting with the wrong question. The first question to ask and answer is, "what things would you like the layperson to understand about the internet?" THEN you can figure out an easy-to-understand way to describe the internet.
However, elections are coming up for the Republican party, and he needs to show the people that the Republicans are thinking of the children. It doesn't matter what the ultimate fate of the bill is, this is just political posturing for himself and the Republican party.
I guess this could be insightful if Spitzer wasn't a Democrat.
Look at a print magazine. Most of them have remarkably good layout - ads are clearly ads, and text flows around the ads naturally.
Okay, now you've gone and hit one of my pet peeves. Try finding the table of contents, page numbers, or the actual articles in most print magazines. You generally have to wade through a sea of ad pages.
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Nice and light.
The problem with this argument is that the "class" will tend to get more and more wrong over time, creating a pretty awful piece, even if any given moment has well-tuned harmony.
Well.... yeah.
I suppose one caveat is smart people who have to exchange a LOT of files with people with stupid behavior. For example, professors who get a zillion student assignment submissions (I'm not saying that students are generally stupid, but when there are a zillion of them, there's probably 1 with a virus).
Having worked retail repair within the last three years, I can safely say you are a liar.
:-P). I've run Windows machines (as well as Linux, dual-boot, and MacOS) machines for the past 11 years.* That's Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows XP (and the occasional NT in there). I've never had to re-install Windows (excluding initial machine set-ups and after a hard-drive crash). I've never had a virus or spyware. No, I do not run anti-virus software. Yes, I have on occasion run a virus checker as a sanity check (whenever anything significant goes wrong under Windows, a virus of some kind is always a natural suspicion). I do realize that Win95 and Win98 probably would not be safe anymore without at least a firewall (which I have been running for the past two or three years).
Perhaps you retail experience has left you jaded (giving you the benefit of the doubt that you're not just a total ass
Windows definitely has lots of problems that I've had to deal with. But most spyware and viruses can be avoided by avoiding stupid behavior. I do keep my system patched with auto-updates to keep the worms and such at bay (and yes, auto-update has sometimes itself been the source of Windows problems and headaches, but that's a different story). So everyone who is not "bolting for the exits" is not a liar.
*prefer Linux for coding, Latex, basic web browsing, etc. prefer Windows for MS Office, browsing web pages that don't play nice with Linux, etc. OSX looks nice, but I think I'll go nuts if my usage splits equally across 3 operating systems -- (haven't had to do that since grad school).
Ah. Very useful information. I hadn't thought about simultaneous synchronizations. Thanks!
I'm curious to hear about what kind of locking you are referring to (so I know if I need to do things differently). If files are modified during their synchronization, unison skips over them and reports it in the log file. They would just get sync'd next time. The only real special handling I do is skipping the unison log file and copying that separately after the synchronization.
I use unison. Why would you need to run it manually every time? It can be run in batch mode. I am mostly using it for live backups these days rather than true bidirectional synchronization, so I could really use rsync and some scripts, but I've gotten pretty comfortable with unison.
What if pirates get ahold of multiple MP3s? Why bother? Pirates can hijack the ships that carry CDs across the sea and rip the CDs themselves, making MP3s that don't contain watermarks.
Not if they stop making CDs...
I had a client who wanted me to do that. We managed to get Thunderbird to download new email from Hotmail, but getting the old stuff out via Outlook Express or Outlook was nearly impossible.
Did you try FreePops?
You also have to be careful about what sheet music you are using. There are projects that distribute properly free sheet music:_ Music_Project
http://www.mutopiaproject.org/
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_Sheet
http://www.cpdl.org/
http://www.imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://icking-music-archive.org/
Please give me a link to a copy of the Professional Write 3 (PW) software app. for MSDOS 6. Yep, I had that very problem some years ago when I was cleaning my room and found several 5 1/4 disquettes which contained the .pw extension. No way to find the program.
Try this.
That seems totally incorrect to me. If anonymizing makes things k times slower with current disk/network speeds, it will still make things k times slower when disks/networks are faster.
No, you can't open it in your text editor...
Ah, emacs. http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/sql.el
Okay, maybe that's not quite what you meant, but it's close.
Not everyone has access to MSWord, after all. Meanwhile, PDF readers are free.
I also prefer PDF distribution. But MS does distribute a free viewer for Word 2003 (I don't see one for Word 2007 yet, though).
No one said "how much money", but how well its graduates do (in other words, based on the reputations of the places that employ their graduates).
Ummm, because "big things" are more important than "little things", perhaps?
Maybe he could install a garbage disposal. Problem solved.
Perhaps you should just try reading the article?
How is this insightful. Bait and switch financing deals are not just bad service.
What kernel do computer science students study in school today?
What computer science students?
You're starting with the wrong question. The first question to ask and answer is, "what things would you like the layperson to understand about the internet?" THEN you can figure out an easy-to-understand way to describe the internet.
However, elections are coming up for the Republican party, and he needs to show the people that the Republicans are thinking of the children. It doesn't matter what the ultimate fate of the bill is, this is just political posturing for himself and the Republican party.
I guess this could be insightful if Spitzer wasn't a Democrat.
Look at a print magazine. Most of them have remarkably good layout - ads are clearly ads, and text flows around the ads naturally.
Okay, now you've gone and hit one of my pet peeves. Try finding the table of contents, page numbers, or the actual articles in most print magazines. You generally have to wade through a sea of ad pages.
CDs are almost as expensive as DVDs, and concerts are certainly more expensive than movie tickets.
:-) I'm with you on the part about the cost of purchasing the recordings, though.
You know that most concerts are LIVE, right?
If their computer slows to a crawl they assume it's "running out of memory and need to delete some files."
In my experience, if a computer is slow, it means it has anti-virus software installed.