Ok, so my mom wanted something like that just a few years back. Turns out that Sierra has a product suite for $30 called Home Architect. You can recreate your entire house easily. I'm a blender adept, but for something look for that thing. It's got fairly comprehensive tutorials, many templates and you can take digital pictures of your furniture and have your existing home in place to later modify and experiment with.
Hope this helps. It works on windows XP. I might try it on wine, but since I still have an XP box at home, I just let my mom use that.
Alright, so, maybe I'm not the most qualified person to give you advice, but I did move from a lifetime spent in eastern France to Southern California two summers ago.
1: Make sure you bring food with you in a move. If you've got a sizeable amount of items you're bringing with you people won't open the container with all your stuff (especially for US citizens). Bring in canned goods, and anything you don't expect to find here.
2: as mentioned in the first reply, trips back to Japan are going to happen, whatever you think of it.
3: power adapters/converters. I don't know what Japan uses for voltage, but France uses 240 V, the US 110V. Make sure you have powerful power converters for them. Frequency differences (50 Hz in France, 60 Hz in US) will wreck your stereo equipment, so if you know there's a frequency difference, don't bring that stuff, the tape players are especially sensitive (happened on all 3 stereos we brought with us, 2 were sony, one was a pioneer, all in perfect shape). TV: afaik, Japan uses NTSC, but double check, and again, voltage/frequency sensitive equipment.
4: computers: not an issue, if they're laptops, the power adapters should be able to handle any power you plug them into. Desktops: about $30 for a new supply if there's a voltage difference and no voltage selector on your current ones.
5: Data storage. Travelling can destroy some of your data. Containers on ships have temps that reach up to 60 degrees Celsius, high enough to damage any CDR you have with you. Bring them on the plane, ideally in carry-on luggage (assuming it's not 500 disks). pressed and audio CDs will be fine. Backup your hard drives before hand, even external ones can lose data while travelling.
6: computer screens. check your existing ones to see what power input they accept. If they're frequency sensitive (CRTs most likely) then better buy a new one here. LCDs are more likely to handle frequency differences, unlike CRTs.
7: washing machine, dishwasher, dryer, fridge.
Most people selling houses/appartments in the US sell those appliances too. We even got 2 TVs in addition to the whole set.
8: closets/wardrobe furniture. Americans seem to prefer walk-in closets in houses. I don't know about appartments, but bringing over too many shelves or stand-alone closets can be a hindrance, because it's a pain to get rid of them.
9: internet connectivity. Make sure you get the net as soon as you get a computer setup. It's muc cheaper to use msn audio or skype when you want to talk to people across an ocean. Skype even lets you call regular landlines/cellphones from the computer, provided you pay a fee, much cheaper for international calls.
10: washing machines and dryers in the US are basically very clothing unfriendly. If you have delicate clothing, spend $1000 on a decent machine. Same for the dryers, only they're a little cheaper. American machines are basically 20 years old in technology compared to european/japanese machines. Get a german machine (can't remember the brand name), they're the "rolls of the washing machines".
11: choosing where to go. If I were you, I'd look for a job in the country first, then locate lodging in that area, then plan a move. Trips to the US for interviews and house hunting mandatory. It also helps identify what the culture shock will be like, and prepare accordingly.
12: cars. Most used cars in large traffic areas are automatic transmissions. LA: about 95% of cars are automatics. Portland, ME: 95% cars are manual. Depending on what your preference is, you'll have more or less trouble finding used cars with the kind of transmission you like. I'll never willingly drive an automatic, but I was taught to drive on a manual. If you buy a new car, no problem there, but expect imported cars to be on average more expensive than US cars. Lots of people bash Ford, but they made a real comeback with the Focus. Lots of people will tell you it's a small car, but coming from Japan where parking space is sort of an issue, I doubt you'll be used to seeing pick-ups and SUVs accounting for a fifth of the automob
I don't know where that guy's been lately, he might be smart, but last time I compiled my kernel, I had more drivers available than in Windows natively, and I run a laptop (think exotic hardware!). So maybe it might be true on the whole, but Linux does run on so many more things than windows, find me one portable mp3 player that runs windows embedded, whereas this site has several times reported a plethora of those running linux embedded. Honestly, I don't buy his argument. And MS won't kill linux, no matter how hard they try.
To quote Starwars "The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip from your fist."
I don't believe MS has what it takes to kill linux, namely: a worthy competitor.
Ok, so, Gould Academy is where I went, and they use linux for everyday use, in the labs, classrooms and even faculty offices. Mostly what students learned to use was IceWM, Konqueror as a file manager, OpenOffice, Mozilla (although Firefox might be a better choice), gAIM (not in class!), the Gimp and xpdf. They didn't have a big budget for the computers, so they used the old 386 (true, I've used them!) and a bunch of old machines, bought a dual Xeon 733 MHz server, and ran LTSP on the whole thing. They had a special file server with a quota of about 1 Gig for students in their home directory, which was plenty, and a separate mail server. I think that if you install those PIII with LTSP you'll be missing out on responsiveness, so instead maybe install the same distro on all of them, and use a NIS domain for login (with gdm, or even better, Entrance, which is prettier than gdm to look at!) and getting one machine with several drives to use as NFS server for the/home directories would be good. Then if you want to start a multimedia class, it turns out a lot of people are actually thrilled when using Blender. A whole bunch of people active on Blender forums right now are not much older than 13. I've basically taught my Linux professor at Gould to use blender, and the Advanced Linux class at the same time. I think that's plenty of things to show eye-candy and the real horse-power you can get in the managing of such a lab with linux. Also, most of these programs have spanish localizations, iirc.
it's degenerating mostly now because people coming into college are losing grammar and spelling skills. I don't know if it's just because they think it's cool or what, but they're losing all the fundamentals that were left of the english language before the internet boom. I'm still in college, and not an english major, but even some of my professors get annoyed at my pickiness with spelling. There's a reason words are spelled a certain way, and I don't see why people think they can ignore the rules. They do respect the road's rules, no? Why not the same with language? There's a reason for rules to exist, and people ignoring rules is a problem.
I've never read Chaucer, but I do know for a fact that France is the only country to have such an institution.
no, I didn't know the origin of spam, otherwise I would've used that example too. In French there is not one instance I can think of where the name of a product was actually used in the language. The role of the Academie Francaise is to prevent such transpositions, and instead use existing words to describe the phenomenon, or create a new one based on what the phenomenon actually is originally. A perfect example is the create of "courriel" instead of just incorporating "email" in the language. Email is totally foreign to French in origin, and in ethymology is so far from everything known that they decided not to use it. Instead they combined "courrier"(mail) and "electronique" to create the corresponding word. But there was a conscious decision made in the creation, which is evolution, as opposed to degeneration of incorporating all forms of new foreign words, losing proper spelling and grammar, and eventually losing the language altogether.
That's the main reason the institution was created, partly out of pride, partly out of concern for efficient communication between people if the language itself divides itself like in the case of english between Americans and Britons.
I use degenerate because evolution does not mean creating new words for everything. See another/. article, about "spimming". That's what I mean by degeneration. It's based on erratic word creation, especially for laziness, in this case creating 'spimming' instead of referring to "instant message spamming". That is degeneration. French people are not stuck up. They study history and preserve history more in their culture. Of course the youth of the US prevents such an idea, because the only culture you'd be able to preserve is that imported 600 years ago from England.
French are not stuck up, they're more conservative on their cultural values. And I use conservative in a non-political sense.
France has a history to look back at, so far back in fact that many eras of it's evolution are still disputed by historians. That makes for a national myth that binds everyone together one way or another. There is no myth about the US, just a bunch of facts. Which might be part of why Americans are so damned materialistic.
I'm actually a dual citizen of both the US and France, and guess what?
BOTH COUNTRIES ARE FULL OF STUCK UP IDIOTS!
Get it through your head.
The difference is that the American language is not regulated the same way the French language is.
France has the so called "Academie Francaise" which defines the official french dictionary definitions and which terms are what. The fact that the people in that institution are old and old-fashioned (they don't even write using ball point pens, which I find preposterous, they use goose feathers instead) is just secondary to the importance of such institution.
The fact is that France, because of the Academie Francaise, is preventing language degeneration, unlike in the US, where any word you want you can put in a dictionary and people will start to use it. Spelling is also an issue. French and English both have roots that go back very far, but English has evolved and degenerated so much that in fact there are now at least two english languages: American english and British english, with different spelling and grammar rules. French is still very much held together, and the ethymology of French words is easier to retrace, because in many cases the spelling still reflects the origin of a given word.
Now, to answer your stupid post about French hating google, that's not even true. Afore-mentioned Academie Francaise has included "googler" as an official vocabulary verb with all it's declinations in all tenses in their official dictionary about three years ago.
Also note that the reason I don't like jokes about French is because people in France always made jokes about Americans. I hate discrimination both ways, not just one way. I got my French classmates to not joke about Americans, I hope I can get my American classmates to not joke about French people. It's just a matter of respect.
although I dislike MS more every day, I've got to say that they're not necessarily benefitting all that much from it.
If I understand it properly, it'll prohibit MS from collecting any user information other than whether it's a legal copy or not. I'm sure that if it turned out MS was actually downloading information on what browser you use, or if you read slashdot instead of msn, you could take them to court and win. Because hopefully their EULA doesn't prohibit any specific website, and thus checking where you've been, or what software you have installed is illegal.
So, I have to say that this is a decent compromise for both users and corporations fighting piracy.
I don't say I encourage MS, I just say it's fair to them. Redhat does the same thing, if I recall. And they should have a right to do so, no matter how ugly their other practices are.
hey, don't blame me, I think the thing is silly by itself, it'd just be a matter of insurance companies changing their policies if I were in charge, but what can I say, they were smart enough to elect the governator. I didn't have a say in it. Just reporting what I read on/. a while ago.
forbidden under California law.
You're not allowed to keep a powered screen other than for navigational aid ahead of the driver's seat headrest, unless you're driving a cab or an emergency response vehicle.
So unless you can add GPS as well as other statistics coming on it, CA won't let you use it.
Ok so I haven't read the article, but from the disclaimer, it doesn't sound like it's possible to make a fair test.
What I mean, is that IE is EMBEDDED in windows. IE loads when you open windows explorer, or "My computer" or whatever else file-viewing window it's IE behind it. So there are no real "cold starts" for IE.
So that's my first comment on comparing "cold starts" and "hot starts".
Second, Firefox shows much more speed on a linux platform. I don't know if that's because I'm running gentoo with a bunch of USE flags to speed up and prelink on top of that, or if it's just because it's linux. Now on the other hand, there's no IE for linux (thankfully!!!). Besides, most users are concerned not about rendering pages but about connection speed and features of their browsers. Not the speed on the machine. Only at work or in a college dorm will you have a connection that could make those speeds perceptible to the user.
So, next, comparing Opera to Firefox. Great.
Whatever happened to the saying "don't look at gift horse in the mouth?". Opera is not free. Firefox is. Why would you compare something free with something you want a better quality from?
It's fine if you want to determine whether it's worth spending the money on another browser, but then you're looking at features, not at speeds. After all, if the whole of the industry wanted lots of speed from their systems, they'd all have dual processor machines running a linux-smp enabled kernel, with blackbox only, right?
So, while it may be interesting to compare the ALGORITHMS behind it all, it's not that interesting to me to compare actual speeds, because they're going to vary by environment, machine and user. Someone who has several apps open in the background will notice everything slow down a bit, when someone who only browses without popups will find it more responsive, at least for local operations.
Just my $.02 worth.
I really don't think it's going to change much. Let them try. Most of the spammers are outside the US. Pfizer might be a little more lucky.
It sounds kinda useful, but in the end it probably won't change much to the 500+ spam messages I get a day.
no. I'm not Jew and I hate nazis all the same./. is not a hating place. if you want to display something like this, get your own stupid website and find ways to attract people to it. Don't force people to see a sign of hatred on a news site. You're just a fucking ass that doesn't understand what a nightmare that sign can be.
With Linux corporations coming along with much cheaper alternatives to the Windows and Microsoft solutions, has Microsoft reviewed it's Windows Licenses price range for the general public, or will it ever happen?
actually, forgot to mention that you want revision A, revision B uses another chipset not supported yet... Or at least if I remember what alpha.dyndns.org was saying...
honestly, for a cheap webcam ($30!), the D-Link DSB-C310 is great. It's got an ov518+ chipset, which is supported by the kernel, all you need is the module from http://alpha.dyndns.org/, load ovcamchip and ov511 and you're rolling with xawtv or any other v4l application.
Great price, not too ugly to look at, and decent quality video. I'd buy another one if I were to get a webcam again.
IIRC, the big downtime that happened in the UK after the airport system update was because the WINDOWS server had to be rebooted every 30 days. Why should such a system ever be rebooted to start with? If someone thinks that Windows will ever be ready to run for critical applications, they're smoking crack, or something they shouldn't. I would never trust my life with windows. Imagine if you had to reboot the plane's onboard OS while in flight because it crashed and put you in a downwards spiral and you can't control anything anymore? Can you afford to wait for the OS to reboot on the plane? Not if it's windows, not if it's linux or anything else that's not embedded. Linux embedded is ok, but not Windows, because it WILL crash, and cost lives. And can MS be held accountable? NO! Their EULA states that. How would anyone ever take a chance with Windows in critical environments with such terms?
Repeat after me: WINDOWS IS NOT READY FOR CRITICAL COMPUTING. What, they don't know that NASA is using *NIX or OS X? It's been on/. before. I wish that big IT heads would read/. articles and follow a bit of what was going on, then the Linux advocates like me would have less trouble trying to convince a College IT department that using firefox will reduce spyware on lab computers by almost 90% overnight. I find it ridiculous to have the IT head email me about not using facebook.com because it's not necessarily secure, when he promotes the use of IE on MACS! How much stupidity can you manage? I think he's reached the limit, and his department is divided on one hand by the consultant, on the other by the people that care, like me (nerdy student) and other IT staffers.
If you seriously can't see the difference between having to run "make install" (oh, and good luck if autoconf didn't get things right) and "java -jar myapp.jar" you have never developed an application worth the name.
I think that's also a bit more than flame bait. I'm learning both C and java. C is lower level, but at least I find it easier to write and read. And I don't have to worry about classes, filenames capitalized, commands that are extremely long and have so many "." and other weird things going on.
So don't insult other people like that. I'd rather do a make install for a program that'll use the gtk interface like the rest of my system than do java -jar myapp.jar and have something that is totally off and disturbs the eye flow on my desktop. I'm sorry, but I'm picky enough to do this. If you're not, it's your problem, but don't yell at others for wanting something smooth.
man, if you don't wanna throw it away, sell it on ebay, and then with the money you make buy something adequate for it. I'll buy some of that ram myself, if you have a 512 meg bar. Seriously, that ram is worth cash, get the cash, then buy what you've been looking at that was out of your budget before.
I'm only a college student, but it seems to me (especially looking at my Computer science professors here on campus) that since you're more than fairly experienced in programming, you'd be more than an adequate "mentor" for computer science students. Besides, working as a professor gets you quite a few benefits, especially if you're thinking of raising a family (think long vacations!). I don't know how demanding the educational field is, but you're probably likely to find schools willing to keep you for as long as you like.
Just my own $0.02 worth of ideas.
since it's going to be unified, its' going to be easier to crack and hack the mp3 players to play it.
I think that in this case the multitude of formats was the strength of DRM, multiple strengths divided to crack protection. Now they're going to unify...
I won't be in it though.
How come we hear about this because it's a French guy working in the US?
Aren't there many many many other security researchers who do exactly the same thing, and might've found the exact same bug before him?
I'm sick of seeing all this junk in the US happening to French citizens. He was doing his job, if he's working at Harvard, then he's not at fault, Harvard's at fault, because assuming he's a researcher there, then it's an organization policy that's wrong, not his own actions.
But nooo, they don't dare try to sue harvard (who produces a decent team of lawyers), so they sue the poor guy who stumbled on it, and to top it off he's French. Of course with all the political mess going on, this is only oil added to the fire, and the American public's going to believe it was a conspiracy from France, thus blindly penalizing a guy that was doing his job right.
Does this mean we're headed towards a totalitarian system, where you're fired if you do nothing and you're in jail if you do something right?
the FCC considers one home in a zip code with broadband to mean that entire zip code is 'serviced.'
Wait a minute, lemme get this straight. The FCC goes by Zip code to determine a percentage of the broadband service. In fact, one home in that zone means the rest of the zip area is serviced. Gees... Sounds like they're actually encouraging wireless routers to be setup and range extenders for the entire neighborhood. Or else I don't understand how all the people in that zip code could access the broadband internet.
Still, I think that the real issue at hand is not the people that can have internet access with a decent speed, what matters is the percentage of people who have access to the web and their phone line at the same time. Because in their definition of broadband, I wonder if they don't include ISDN phone lines (remember, those can "speed up" to 128Kbps).
Statistics don't mean much anyway, what they should look at are how many people actually want broadband these days. A good deal of people that don't have it yet might think twice about it, because even on the no-call list, having your phone available means phone spamming. Another reason to have dialup is that you're less likely to interest a hacker, and viruses can't do all that much damage if you're offline most of the time, at least not to other computers.
Remember the Blaster worm (oh yes, it's still around, nasty little thing) would only crash your computer when it's hooked up to the web, and many of its sequels might be exactly the same thing. Not to mention that being on dialup rules you out of those huge windows botnets that we on/. joke about.
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Ok, so my mom wanted something like that just a few years back. Turns out that Sierra has a product suite for $30 called Home Architect. You can recreate your entire house easily. I'm a blender adept, but for something look for that thing. It's got fairly comprehensive tutorials, many templates and you can take digital pictures of your furniture and have your existing home in place to later modify and experiment with. Hope this helps. It works on windows XP. I might try it on wine, but since I still have an XP box at home, I just let my mom use that.
Alright, so, maybe I'm not the most qualified person to give you advice, but I did move from a lifetime spent in eastern France to Southern California two summers ago. 1: Make sure you bring food with you in a move. If you've got a sizeable amount of items you're bringing with you people won't open the container with all your stuff (especially for US citizens). Bring in canned goods, and anything you don't expect to find here. 2: as mentioned in the first reply, trips back to Japan are going to happen, whatever you think of it. 3: power adapters/converters. I don't know what Japan uses for voltage, but France uses 240 V, the US 110V. Make sure you have powerful power converters for them. Frequency differences (50 Hz in France, 60 Hz in US) will wreck your stereo equipment, so if you know there's a frequency difference, don't bring that stuff, the tape players are especially sensitive (happened on all 3 stereos we brought with us, 2 were sony, one was a pioneer, all in perfect shape). TV: afaik, Japan uses NTSC, but double check, and again, voltage/frequency sensitive equipment. 4: computers: not an issue, if they're laptops, the power adapters should be able to handle any power you plug them into. Desktops: about $30 for a new supply if there's a voltage difference and no voltage selector on your current ones. 5: Data storage. Travelling can destroy some of your data. Containers on ships have temps that reach up to 60 degrees Celsius, high enough to damage any CDR you have with you. Bring them on the plane, ideally in carry-on luggage (assuming it's not 500 disks). pressed and audio CDs will be fine. Backup your hard drives before hand, even external ones can lose data while travelling. 6: computer screens. check your existing ones to see what power input they accept. If they're frequency sensitive (CRTs most likely) then better buy a new one here. LCDs are more likely to handle frequency differences, unlike CRTs. 7: washing machine, dishwasher, dryer, fridge. Most people selling houses/appartments in the US sell those appliances too. We even got 2 TVs in addition to the whole set. 8: closets/wardrobe furniture. Americans seem to prefer walk-in closets in houses. I don't know about appartments, but bringing over too many shelves or stand-alone closets can be a hindrance, because it's a pain to get rid of them. 9: internet connectivity. Make sure you get the net as soon as you get a computer setup. It's muc cheaper to use msn audio or skype when you want to talk to people across an ocean. Skype even lets you call regular landlines/cellphones from the computer, provided you pay a fee, much cheaper for international calls. 10: washing machines and dryers in the US are basically very clothing unfriendly. If you have delicate clothing, spend $1000 on a decent machine. Same for the dryers, only they're a little cheaper. American machines are basically 20 years old in technology compared to european/japanese machines. Get a german machine (can't remember the brand name), they're the "rolls of the washing machines". 11: choosing where to go. If I were you, I'd look for a job in the country first, then locate lodging in that area, then plan a move. Trips to the US for interviews and house hunting mandatory. It also helps identify what the culture shock will be like, and prepare accordingly. 12: cars. Most used cars in large traffic areas are automatic transmissions. LA: about 95% of cars are automatics. Portland, ME: 95% cars are manual. Depending on what your preference is, you'll have more or less trouble finding used cars with the kind of transmission you like. I'll never willingly drive an automatic, but I was taught to drive on a manual. If you buy a new car, no problem there, but expect imported cars to be on average more expensive than US cars. Lots of people bash Ford, but they made a real comeback with the Focus. Lots of people will tell you it's a small car, but coming from Japan where parking space is sort of an issue, I doubt you'll be used to seeing pick-ups and SUVs accounting for a fifth of the automob
I don't know where that guy's been lately, he might be smart, but last time I compiled my kernel, I had more drivers available than in Windows natively, and I run a laptop (think exotic hardware!). So maybe it might be true on the whole, but Linux does run on so many more things than windows, find me one portable mp3 player that runs windows embedded, whereas this site has several times reported a plethora of those running linux embedded.
Honestly, I don't buy his argument. And MS won't kill linux, no matter how hard they try.
To quote Starwars "The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip from your fist."
I don't believe MS has what it takes to kill linux, namely: a worthy competitor.
Ok, so, Gould Academy is where I went, and they use linux for everyday use, in the labs, classrooms and even faculty offices. Mostly what students learned to use was IceWM, Konqueror as a file manager, OpenOffice, Mozilla (although Firefox might be a better choice), gAIM (not in class!), the Gimp and xpdf. /home directories would be good.
They didn't have a big budget for the computers, so they used the old 386 (true, I've used them!) and a bunch of old machines, bought a dual Xeon 733 MHz server, and ran LTSP on the whole thing. They had a special file server with a quota of about 1 Gig for students in their home directory, which was plenty, and a separate mail server.
I think that if you install those PIII with LTSP you'll be missing out on responsiveness, so instead maybe install the same distro on all of them, and use a NIS domain for login (with gdm, or even better, Entrance, which is prettier than gdm to look at!) and getting one machine with several drives to use as NFS server for the
Then if you want to start a multimedia class, it turns out a lot of people are actually thrilled when using Blender. A whole bunch of people active on Blender forums right now are not much older than 13. I've basically taught my Linux professor at Gould to use blender, and the Advanced Linux class at the same time.
I think that's plenty of things to show eye-candy and the real horse-power you can get in the managing of such a lab with linux.
Also, most of these programs have spanish localizations, iirc.
it's degenerating mostly now because people coming into college are losing grammar and spelling skills. I don't know if it's just because they think it's cool or what, but they're losing all the fundamentals that were left of the english language before the internet boom. I'm still in college, and not an english major, but even some of my professors get annoyed at my pickiness with spelling. There's a reason words are spelled a certain way, and I don't see why people think they can ignore the rules. They do respect the road's rules, no? Why not the same with language?
There's a reason for rules to exist, and people ignoring rules is a problem.
I've never read Chaucer, but I do know for a fact that France is the only country to have such an institution.
no, I didn't know the origin of spam, otherwise I would've used that example too. In French there is not one instance I can think of where the name of a product was actually used in the language. The role of the Academie Francaise is to prevent such transpositions, and instead use existing words to describe the phenomenon, or create a new one based on what the phenomenon actually is originally. A perfect example is the create of "courriel" instead of just incorporating "email" in the language. Email is totally foreign to French in origin, and in ethymology is so far from everything known that they decided not to use it. Instead they combined "courrier"(mail) and "electronique" to create the corresponding word. But there was a conscious decision made in the creation, which is evolution, as opposed to degeneration of incorporating all forms of new foreign words, losing proper spelling and grammar, and eventually losing the language altogether. That's the main reason the institution was created, partly out of pride, partly out of concern for efficient communication between people if the language itself divides itself like in the case of english between Americans and Britons.
I use degenerate because evolution does not mean creating new words for everything. See another /. article, about "spimming". That's what I mean by degeneration. It's based on erratic word creation, especially for laziness, in this case creating 'spimming' instead of referring to "instant message spamming". That is degeneration. French people are not stuck up. They study history and preserve history more in their culture. Of course the youth of the US prevents such an idea, because the only culture you'd be able to preserve is that imported 600 years ago from England.
French are not stuck up, they're more conservative on their cultural values. And I use conservative in a non-political sense.
France has a history to look back at, so far back in fact that many eras of it's evolution are still disputed by historians. That makes for a national myth that binds everyone together one way or another. There is no myth about the US, just a bunch of facts. Which might be part of why Americans are so damned materialistic.
I'm actually a dual citizen of both the US and France, and guess what? BOTH COUNTRIES ARE FULL OF STUCK UP IDIOTS! Get it through your head. The difference is that the American language is not regulated the same way the French language is. France has the so called "Academie Francaise" which defines the official french dictionary definitions and which terms are what. The fact that the people in that institution are old and old-fashioned (they don't even write using ball point pens, which I find preposterous, they use goose feathers instead) is just secondary to the importance of such institution. The fact is that France, because of the Academie Francaise, is preventing language degeneration, unlike in the US, where any word you want you can put in a dictionary and people will start to use it. Spelling is also an issue. French and English both have roots that go back very far, but English has evolved and degenerated so much that in fact there are now at least two english languages: American english and British english, with different spelling and grammar rules. French is still very much held together, and the ethymology of French words is easier to retrace, because in many cases the spelling still reflects the origin of a given word. Now, to answer your stupid post about French hating google, that's not even true. Afore-mentioned Academie Francaise has included "googler" as an official vocabulary verb with all it's declinations in all tenses in their official dictionary about three years ago. Also note that the reason I don't like jokes about French is because people in France always made jokes about Americans. I hate discrimination both ways, not just one way. I got my French classmates to not joke about Americans, I hope I can get my American classmates to not joke about French people. It's just a matter of respect.
watch out where you go with Lynx, it could get you JAILED!!!
although I dislike MS more every day, I've got to say that they're not necessarily benefitting all that much from it. If I understand it properly, it'll prohibit MS from collecting any user information other than whether it's a legal copy or not. I'm sure that if it turned out MS was actually downloading information on what browser you use, or if you read slashdot instead of msn, you could take them to court and win. Because hopefully their EULA doesn't prohibit any specific website, and thus checking where you've been, or what software you have installed is illegal. So, I have to say that this is a decent compromise for both users and corporations fighting piracy. I don't say I encourage MS, I just say it's fair to them. Redhat does the same thing, if I recall. And they should have a right to do so, no matter how ugly their other practices are.
hey, don't blame me, I think the thing is silly by itself, it'd just be a matter of insurance companies changing their policies if I were in charge, but what can I say, they were smart enough to elect the governator. I didn't have a say in it. Just reporting what I read on /. a while ago.
forbidden under California law. You're not allowed to keep a powered screen other than for navigational aid ahead of the driver's seat headrest, unless you're driving a cab or an emergency response vehicle. So unless you can add GPS as well as other statistics coming on it, CA won't let you use it.
Ok so I haven't read the article, but from the disclaimer, it doesn't sound like it's possible to make a fair test. What I mean, is that IE is EMBEDDED in windows. IE loads when you open windows explorer, or "My computer" or whatever else file-viewing window it's IE behind it. So there are no real "cold starts" for IE. So that's my first comment on comparing "cold starts" and "hot starts". Second, Firefox shows much more speed on a linux platform. I don't know if that's because I'm running gentoo with a bunch of USE flags to speed up and prelink on top of that, or if it's just because it's linux. Now on the other hand, there's no IE for linux (thankfully!!!). Besides, most users are concerned not about rendering pages but about connection speed and features of their browsers. Not the speed on the machine. Only at work or in a college dorm will you have a connection that could make those speeds perceptible to the user. So, next, comparing Opera to Firefox. Great. Whatever happened to the saying "don't look at gift horse in the mouth?". Opera is not free. Firefox is. Why would you compare something free with something you want a better quality from? It's fine if you want to determine whether it's worth spending the money on another browser, but then you're looking at features, not at speeds. After all, if the whole of the industry wanted lots of speed from their systems, they'd all have dual processor machines running a linux-smp enabled kernel, with blackbox only, right? So, while it may be interesting to compare the ALGORITHMS behind it all, it's not that interesting to me to compare actual speeds, because they're going to vary by environment, machine and user. Someone who has several apps open in the background will notice everything slow down a bit, when someone who only browses without popups will find it more responsive, at least for local operations. Just my $.02 worth.
I really don't think it's going to change much. Let them try. Most of the spammers are outside the US. Pfizer might be a little more lucky. It sounds kinda useful, but in the end it probably won't change much to the 500+ spam messages I get a day.
no. I'm not Jew and I hate nazis all the same. /. is not a hating place. if you want to display something like this, get your own stupid website and find ways to attract people to it. Don't force people to see a sign of hatred on a news site. You're just a fucking ass that doesn't understand what a nightmare that sign can be.
With Linux corporations coming along with much cheaper alternatives to the Windows and Microsoft solutions, has Microsoft reviewed it's Windows Licenses price range for the general public, or will it ever happen?
actually, forgot to mention that you want revision A, revision B uses another chipset not supported yet... Or at least if I remember what alpha.dyndns.org was saying...
honestly, for a cheap webcam ($30!), the D-Link DSB-C310 is great. It's got an ov518+ chipset, which is supported by the kernel, all you need is the module from http://alpha.dyndns.org/, load ovcamchip and ov511 and you're rolling with xawtv or any other v4l application. Great price, not too ugly to look at, and decent quality video. I'd buy another one if I were to get a webcam again.
IIRC, the big downtime that happened in the UK after the airport system update was because the WINDOWS server had to be rebooted every 30 days. Why should such a system ever be rebooted to start with? If someone thinks that Windows will ever be ready to run for critical applications, they're smoking crack, or something they shouldn't. I would never trust my life with windows. Imagine if you had to reboot the plane's onboard OS while in flight because it crashed and put you in a downwards spiral and you can't control anything anymore? Can you afford to wait for the OS to reboot on the plane? Not if it's windows, not if it's linux or anything else that's not embedded. Linux embedded is ok, but not Windows, because it WILL crash, and cost lives. And can MS be held accountable? NO! Their EULA states that. How would anyone ever take a chance with Windows in critical environments with such terms?
/. before. /. articles and follow a bit of what was going on, then the Linux advocates like me would have less trouble trying to convince a College IT department that using firefox will reduce spyware on lab computers by almost 90% overnight. I find it ridiculous to have the IT head email me about not using facebook.com because it's not necessarily secure, when he promotes the use of IE on MACS! How much stupidity can you manage? I think he's reached the limit, and his department is divided on one hand by the consultant, on the other by the people that care, like me (nerdy student) and other IT staffers.
Repeat after me:
WINDOWS IS NOT READY FOR CRITICAL COMPUTING.
What, they don't know that NASA is using *NIX or OS X? It's been on
I wish that big IT heads would read
If you seriously can't see the difference between having to run "make install" (oh, and good luck if autoconf didn't get things right) and "java -jar myapp.jar" you have never developed an application worth the name.
I think that's also a bit more than flame bait. I'm learning both C and java. C is lower level, but at least I find it easier to write and read. And I don't have to worry about classes, filenames capitalized, commands that are extremely long and have so many "." and other weird things going on.
So don't insult other people like that. I'd rather do a make install for a program that'll use the gtk interface like the rest of my system than do java -jar myapp.jar and have something that is totally off and disturbs the eye flow on my desktop.
I'm sorry, but I'm picky enough to do this. If you're not, it's your problem, but don't yell at others for wanting something smooth.
man, if you don't wanna throw it away, sell it on ebay, and then with the money you make buy something adequate for it. I'll buy some of that ram myself, if you have a 512 meg bar.
Seriously, that ram is worth cash, get the cash, then buy what you've been looking at that was out of your budget before.
I'm only a college student, but it seems to me (especially looking at my Computer science professors here on campus) that since you're more than fairly experienced in programming, you'd be more than an adequate "mentor" for computer science students. Besides, working as a professor gets you quite a few benefits, especially if you're thinking of raising a family (think long vacations!). I don't know how demanding the educational field is, but you're probably likely to find schools willing to keep you for as long as you like. Just my own $0.02 worth of ideas.
since it's going to be unified, its' going to be easier to crack and hack the mp3 players to play it. I think that in this case the multitude of formats was the strength of DRM, multiple strengths divided to crack protection. Now they're going to unify... I won't be in it though.
How come we hear about this because it's a French guy working in the US? Aren't there many many many other security researchers who do exactly the same thing, and might've found the exact same bug before him? I'm sick of seeing all this junk in the US happening to French citizens. He was doing his job, if he's working at Harvard, then he's not at fault, Harvard's at fault, because assuming he's a researcher there, then it's an organization policy that's wrong, not his own actions. But nooo, they don't dare try to sue harvard (who produces a decent team of lawyers), so they sue the poor guy who stumbled on it, and to top it off he's French. Of course with all the political mess going on, this is only oil added to the fire, and the American public's going to believe it was a conspiracy from France, thus blindly penalizing a guy that was doing his job right. Does this mean we're headed towards a totalitarian system, where you're fired if you do nothing and you're in jail if you do something right?
the FCC considers one home in a zip code with broadband to mean that entire zip code is 'serviced.'
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Wait a minute, lemme get this straight. The FCC goes by Zip code to determine a percentage of the broadband service. In fact, one home in that zone means the rest of the zip area is serviced. Gees... Sounds like they're actually encouraging wireless routers to be setup and range extenders for the entire neighborhood. Or else I don't understand how all the people in that zip code could access the broadband internet.
Still, I think that the real issue at hand is not the people that can have internet access with a decent speed, what matters is the percentage of people who have access to the web and their phone line at the same time. Because in their definition of broadband, I wonder if they don't include ISDN phone lines (remember, those can "speed up" to 128Kbps).
Statistics don't mean much anyway, what they should look at are how many people actually want broadband these days.
A good deal of people that don't have it yet might think twice about it, because even on the no-call list, having your phone available means phone spamming. Another reason to have dialup is that you're less likely to interest a hacker, and viruses can't do all that much damage if you're offline most of the time, at least not to other computers.
Remember the Blaster worm (oh yes, it's still around, nasty little thing) would only crash your computer when it's hooked up to the web, and many of its sequels might be exactly the same thing. Not to mention that being on dialup rules you out of those huge windows botnets that we on