So what you seem to be saying (trying to read between the lines here) is that you used Linux once for a month or so and didn't like it. I assume this was back about a decade ago based on your very vague criticisms. In the mean time I can set my mom or dad up with it and they are good to go (not terribly computer literate and in their 70s). Even my wife can use Linux just fine and she's still proud that she can "google" and "facebook" and "ebay" so this mythical learning curve can't be that bad.
Bah, you kids and your fancy schmancy 1Gb HDD. My first HDD was 10Mb. Of course, it was an upgrade to the 720kb floppy drive on my Atari ST with the massive 512Kb RAM (later upgraded to 1024Kb by soldering more RAM chips). All of these were big upgrades to tape drives (literally audio cassette drives) - the seek times on those were..... disturbingly long. I still have an old 8088 machine in the corner of my lab with a 20Mb hdd (and an ISA monochrome video card).
Although as many have posted it might be hard to demonstrate liability on the owner of the copy it would be easy to prove that someone in possession of a watermarked file are *not* the owner of the copy.
The longer it takes for Vista release the happier I'll be. I have no need for it's bloat and no desire to strip it down till it works well. Here's hoping Apple and Linux can break into the market more in the future and most critically get support from game companies (tho I suspect MS will work hard to block it).
I am jealous, sir. The NEC 1350 (aka XG135) is a masterful piece of technology. Did it come with component inputs or do you have a moome card?
Back on topic, though. How certain are you that all the content you want will be available to your non-hdmi compliant device? Are specs available on the ps3 regarding it's outputs? Another crt projector enthusiast wants to know (cause there's nothing like crt-fp for home theater or gaming!). 1080p on an 8" raster - that has to be difficult to get a non-softened image. Your setup must be extremely good with razor sharp focus.
I would say the brief, while obviously written in attention whore-ese has a valid point. From TFA:
But the government is going after Internet service providers; it's a criminal offense for ISPs to facilitate unauthorized downloading.
This is the relevent portion of the article. It puts a rather difficult task on the plate of the ISP. Block all p2p - somehow - or go to jail. While it's a civil offense for file sharers, it becomes a criminal offense for ISP's. I don't do p2p myself, but even I consider this law to be way over the top. We already have copyright law - that is more than enough. GJ on the 4 digit e-penis waving btw. I'm sure it makes you much smarter than the rest of us and gets you plenty of women.
I just/join #mysql and get access to many highly qualified professionals as well as a bunch of slackers with too much time on their hands. Best part is when my problem turns out to be user error, there's no additional charge.
The funny thing is that you can use MS Access as a front end for either PostgreSQL or MySQL. There are a number of advantages to doing this. First, you get a scalable solution. If your needs grow, your DB can scale. Secondly, for multiple users Access as a back end is horrible. If you have multiple users, use something sane - MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL Server, Oracle, whatever. Thirdly, having a proper back end allows you to later connect your data to other applications should the need arise.
While Access has it's uses, they are generally limited. If there is a possibility that you will need to do more with the data in the future than you are currently using, you should consider an RDBMS. Especially when cheap simple to set up and maintain systems exist like MySQL and PostgreSQL
And Active Directory wasn't the first system to do this. Novell had it back at least as far as 3.xx and I'm pretty sure you have been able to set things like this up on *nix systems for damned near forever.
The only reason I bought NWN was because they promised (and eventually delivered) a Linux client. As an added bonus I got one of the best games I've had in ages. On a sadder note, my kids got Dragonshard recently - which is a quite good game. Unfortunately, the installer for it was completely hosed and I had to manually run the.msi file on the CD to get it to install at all. Once installed, none of the patches would work. It's not like creating a half decent installer or patch installer is rocket science - but they managed to botch it completely. This after doing hte hard part (making the game) reasonably well. It's 'small' mistakes like this that cost them.
Yes, apparently it is a back door. Also it is harder to remove than pretty much any spyware I've heard of. Check the uninstall procedures that have been posted so far for this. It acts as a safe mode driver.
Forget using the built in help files for vim. Just google up one of the many good quick tutorials that teach you the important things you need to know to use vi fairly effectively. After you've done that and used vim for any length of time you can learn how to be an efficient editor of text. By becoming a slave to gui based editors, you lose many of the efficiencies that you can get from text only editors.
Nice dissection of the very poor quality articles the grandparent poster uses as 'proof' of his argument. Mostly opinion pieces. There have been no definitive studies done on marijuana that give solid evidence that it causes cancer despite the 'common sense' conclusions one might make by comparing it to tobacco products.
There have been some credible studies done indicating that a loss of short term memory can occur with chronic use. That said, a good friend of mine had the highest marks in the biology department during his undergrad work and his method of preparing for exams included hotknifing hashish and drinking espresso while studying. In the end he got his PhD from MIT.
I know many consider vi to be difficult to learn, but my experience teaching it to students from grades 9-12 indicates it's actually quite simple to learn with a small amount of instruction.
Since I also teach 3D, I guess I better check into Blender - perhaps it will be just as elegant as vi.
I charge $50/hr for contract work in Canada. I have developed my clients entirely by word of mouth. GIS web programming skills aren't that common I guess. I also take time to teach myself any skills required to be successful in building solutions for my clients. In the meantime I have a day job that pays pretty well although I don't get to do a lot of programming work other than debugging students code.
Parent made a stunningly ignorant remark. The differences between common office applications are relatively small compared to learning how to type, do effective layout, communicate well and and the general tasks that prepare them for the work force. As a teacher, I am just as happy to teach using OpenOffice as MS Office.
The things I'd miss? Flash, Photoshop and Visual Studio's autocomplete.
The things I'd be getting that would be an improvement: bash, php, perl, python, source code.
In an ideal world, we'd have dual boots of both OSs and MS would provide their software for us to train kids for them for free.
4. Finally, as defined by the UTSA, Project: Asteroid "derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from no being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by, other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use, and is the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy."
I believe you are quite possibly incorrect in interpereting part 4. Disclosing trade secrets regarding how a project works internally is much different than revealing that a project exists. I believe it would be very difficult to prove damages to Apple in this case. JMHO and IANAL.
I find the exact opposite to be true with regard to documentation and support. I get immediate support for MySQL as well as excellent documentation. MSSQL, while well documented, does not have the easy support options that MySQL has. IRC is about the handiest support you can get. Where else can you ask the devs and not some support drone a real question?
MySQL is a database with a well established niche that is slowly expanding. If you need a few more features, try Postgres. If you need all the bells and whistles + extreme scalability, Oracle is probably the way to go. Oracle, on the other hand would be extreme overkill for many applications.
It's not that we'd run it on Apple's hardware as much as we'd probably not pay the bloated prices for the (possibly) proprietary hardware. We'd rather get hardware with standardized architecture, excellent speed and install a free open source OS.
If money was no object, I'd add a Mac to my computer collection and happily run OSX on it.
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So what you seem to be saying (trying to read between the lines here) is that you used Linux once for a month or so and didn't like it. I assume this was back about a decade ago based on your very vague criticisms. In the mean time I can set my mom or dad up with it and they are good to go (not terribly computer literate and in their 70s). Even my wife can use Linux just fine and she's still proud that she can "google" and "facebook" and "ebay" so this mythical learning curve can't be that bad.
Bah, you kids and your fancy schmancy 1Gb HDD. My first HDD was 10Mb. Of course, it was an upgrade to the 720kb floppy drive on my Atari ST with the massive 512Kb RAM (later upgraded to 1024Kb by soldering more RAM chips). All of these were big upgrades to tape drives (literally audio cassette drives) - the seek times on those were..... disturbingly long. I still have an old 8088 machine in the corner of my lab with a 20Mb hdd (and an ISA monochrome video card).
I was thinking F60.2 - antisocial personality disorder - would be more appropriate.
http://martypoom.tripod.com/ John 64 and Mel Gibson Safari 3. Thank Marty Poom for the PC versions!
You are right - it isn't 300,000. It's more like 70,000 - bit still, why quibble over the numbers? It's the spirit of the argument that counts.
Although as many have posted it might be hard to demonstrate liability on the owner of the copy it would be easy to prove that someone in possession of a watermarked file are *not* the owner of the copy.
The longer it takes for Vista release the happier I'll be. I have no need for it's bloat and no desire to strip it down till it works well. Here's hoping Apple and Linux can break into the market more in the future and most critically get support from game companies (tho I suspect MS will work hard to block it).
I am jealous, sir. The NEC 1350 (aka XG135) is a masterful piece of technology. Did it come with component inputs or do you have a moome card?
Back on topic, though. How certain are you that all the content you want will be available to your non-hdmi compliant device? Are specs available on the ps3 regarding it's outputs? Another crt projector enthusiast wants to know (cause there's nothing like crt-fp for home theater or gaming!). 1080p on an 8" raster - that has to be difficult to get a non-softened image. Your setup must be extremely good with razor sharp focus.
I would say the brief, while obviously written in attention whore-ese has a valid point. From TFA:
This is the relevent portion of the article. It puts a rather difficult task on the plate of the ISP. Block all p2p - somehow - or go to jail. While it's a civil offense for file sharers, it becomes a criminal offense for ISP's. I don't do p2p myself, but even I consider this law to be way over the top. We already have copyright law - that is more than enough. GJ on the 4 digit e-penis waving btw. I'm sure it makes you much smarter than the rest of us and gets you plenty of women.
I just /join #mysql and get access to many highly qualified professionals as well as a bunch of slackers with too much time on their hands. Best part is when my problem turns out to be user error, there's no additional charge.
The funny thing is that you can use MS Access as a front end for either PostgreSQL or MySQL. There are a number of advantages to doing this. First, you get a scalable solution. If your needs grow, your DB can scale. Secondly, for multiple users Access as a back end is horrible. If you have multiple users, use something sane - MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL Server, Oracle, whatever. Thirdly, having a proper back end allows you to later connect your data to other applications should the need arise. While Access has it's uses, they are generally limited. If there is a possibility that you will need to do more with the data in the future than you are currently using, you should consider an RDBMS. Especially when cheap simple to set up and maintain systems exist like MySQL and PostgreSQL
And Active Directory wasn't the first system to do this. Novell had it back at least as far as 3.xx and I'm pretty sure you have been able to set things like this up on *nix systems for damned near forever.
The only reason I bought NWN was because they promised (and eventually delivered) a Linux client. As an added bonus I got one of the best games I've had in ages. On a sadder note, my kids got Dragonshard recently - which is a quite good game. Unfortunately, the installer for it was completely hosed and I had to manually run the .msi file on the CD to get it to install at all. Once installed, none of the patches would work. It's not like creating a half decent installer or patch installer is rocket science - but they managed to botch it completely. This after doing hte hard part (making the game) reasonably well. It's 'small' mistakes like this that cost them.
Yah - them there Nazis - they were Fascists, not Socialists. The Russians were Communists, not Socialists. The Libertarians? Just confused anarchists.
Yes, apparently it is a back door. Also it is harder to remove than pretty much any spyware I've heard of. Check the uninstall procedures that have been posted so far for this. It acts as a safe mode driver.
Now just how many average people do you figure run Sun Blade 100's? That's right, they don't run obscure server only hardware.
Forget using the built in help files for vim. Just google up one of the many good quick tutorials that teach you the important things you need to know to use vi fairly effectively. After you've done that and used vim for any length of time you can learn how to be an efficient editor of text. By becoming a slave to gui based editors, you lose many of the efficiencies that you can get from text only editors.
Nice dissection of the very poor quality articles the grandparent poster uses as 'proof' of his argument. Mostly opinion pieces. There have been no definitive studies done on marijuana that give solid evidence that it causes cancer despite the 'common sense' conclusions one might make by comparing it to tobacco products. There have been some credible studies done indicating that a loss of short term memory can occur with chronic use. That said, a good friend of mine had the highest marks in the biology department during his undergrad work and his method of preparing for exams included hotknifing hashish and drinking espresso while studying. In the end he got his PhD from MIT.
I know many consider vi to be difficult to learn, but my experience teaching it to students from grades 9-12 indicates it's actually quite simple to learn with a small amount of instruction. Since I also teach 3D, I guess I better check into Blender - perhaps it will be just as elegant as vi.
I charge $50/hr for contract work in Canada. I have developed my clients entirely by word of mouth. GIS web programming skills aren't that common I guess. I also take time to teach myself any skills required to be successful in building solutions for my clients. In the meantime I have a day job that pays pretty well although I don't get to do a lot of programming work other than debugging students code.
Parent made a stunningly ignorant remark. The differences between common office applications are relatively small compared to learning how to type, do effective layout, communicate well and and the general tasks that prepare them for the work force. As a teacher, I am just as happy to teach using OpenOffice as MS Office. The things I'd miss? Flash, Photoshop and Visual Studio's autocomplete. The things I'd be getting that would be an improvement: bash, php, perl, python, source code. In an ideal world, we'd have dual boots of both OSs and MS would provide their software for us to train kids for them for free.
I believe you are quite possibly incorrect in interpereting part 4. Disclosing trade secrets regarding how a project works internally is much different than revealing that a project exists. I believe it would be very difficult to prove damages to Apple in this case. JMHO and IANAL.
I find the exact opposite to be true with regard to documentation and support. I get immediate support for MySQL as well as excellent documentation. MSSQL, while well documented, does not have the easy support options that MySQL has. IRC is about the handiest support you can get. Where else can you ask the devs and not some support drone a real question? MySQL is a database with a well established niche that is slowly expanding. If you need a few more features, try Postgres. If you need all the bells and whistles + extreme scalability, Oracle is probably the way to go. Oracle, on the other hand would be extreme overkill for many applications.
But I came here for a good argument!
It's not that we'd run it on Apple's hardware as much as we'd probably not pay the bloated prices for the (possibly) proprietary hardware. We'd rather get hardware with standardized architecture, excellent speed and install a free open source OS. If money was no object, I'd add a Mac to my computer collection and happily run OSX on it.