They either specifically requested, or at least tacitly approved of, measures by the municipal governments to keep people far away from the actual convention meeting sites. If they merely kept protesters out of the building that would be one thing (and quite reasonable, as a matter of fact, since it is a private gathering and private property), but to stick them on the other side of town because they don't agree with you is pretty low.
The issue with the Dixie Chicks is not that people were upset that they made such remarks--the Jefferson Muzzle doesn't blame the fans who burned their Dixie Chicks CDs, etc--but rather the reaction of the State Legislature. Consider: what if you made those remarks. Does it make sense that government be allowed to tell you that you have to go to a foreign and dangerous country and give a free performance to soldiers as penance? No? Then it's a violation of equal protection (not to mention cruel and unusual punishment, but that's wrt the soldiers...)
And, under no circumstances should the State gov't have told them they have to apologize. Free speech means never having to recant your beliefs. Ever. I find it as annoying as you do that all these celebrities go around taking advantage of their fame to get a free pulpit for expounding their views. But I'm not about to go around telling people they don't get first amendment rights just because they're famous.
Everyone always talks about how, especially in third-world type places, computers with Linux pre-installed just end up getting an illegal copy of Windows put on, and either ignoring or erasing the linux installation. How much does anyone want to bet that the same thing happens with XP Starter Edition?
Sure, maybe, maybe some people just use Starter Edition for a while, then realize its limitations and decide to upgrade. If they can hardly afford a $300 computer, will they really be able to afford a $260 OS upgrade? Chances are, they'll talk to everyone about how they need an upgrade, until the kid from city hears about it and comes along with a CD-case full of cracked Windows CDs and installs it for $10.
Switching to Mac development is like switching to the Mac in all other respects. If you're hoping for something that looks and behaves exactly like Windows, but has all the chick appeal of a Mac, you're not going to be happy. Apple does things very differently than Microsoft, and that is true of handling files, users, system programs, and so forth, and also of application development. Conventions are different for users, and they are different for developers as well. Apple gives *very* sage advice wrt interfaces; they've been at it, and been doing it better most of the time, than anyone else in the business.
If you want help programming, plenty of people have given links. If you want help with the interface end of things, try using some of the best Apple applications and see how things "work"--iTunes, The Omni Group, Bare Bones Software, Lemkesoft's Graphic Converter, Rancho's NetNewsWire. There are many others, but trying these on should give you a feel for what makes a great Mac App. Also, it is a commonly-perceived problem that there is no great mac Word-processing software. There are acceptable entries, including MS Office, and several others, but this is one area where OS X is gravely deficient (if you want to write the best Mac WP ever, feel free! I'd even buy a copy).
Lots of people (i.e., Windows & Linux Fanpersons) will deride many interface trends as "fluff"; do not make this mistake. Apple is pretty careful about what stuff they include, and while there might be a few things in there for no real reason (animated screensavers as you desktop background?), most of the "fluff" has a damn good reason to be there.
Instead of steali^H^H^H^H^H "illegally copying" right of the bat, you could always call or email an Apple store and explain your plight. If you give them the electronic equivalent of puppydog eyes (no, not smileys), they might have leniency on your unworthy soul and let you get the upgrade.
Actually, if this became widespread, it would exacerbate the spam problem. Currently, if a spam mail server gets a bounced message, it has no reason to believe that the bounce is fake, then it may actually remove the address from its list in order to conserve resources. On the other hand, if programmers know that spam is being bounced even if it is sent to a valid address, they will just keep sending to that address. Hence spam-related traffic will nearly double (original message + bounce), but it won't go down in the future either.
Maybe. But the stats I've seen say that the average American white-collar worker does a lot less work per day than his peers in other countries. Something on the order of less than half the day is spent doing real, productive, work, and most of the rest is spent socializing, waiting, or just screwing around.
You could probably implement this by using the setuid bit, but that would require creating a whole bunch of excess users for no other purpose than limiting the access of already-existing users.
The bigger issue is allowing the file manager to supply the file selection dialog without compromising security; it's a neat trick if you can do it.
If you read the article, it is not being portrayed as perception.
"Study shows Microsoft and Linux Neck-and-Neck" Not "Perceived as Roughly Equivalent"
"Most U.S. businesses say there is very little difference between the cost of maintaining a Windows versus a Linux-based corporate computing environment." Many of whom, the article goes on to say, don't really bother to keep track of the costs in the first place.
"In the independent study, 88 percent of respondents said that the quality, performance and reliability of Windows was equal to or better than Linux." The article does not say that the quality, performance, and reliability seems to be equal or better, but that it is.
It's also worth noting that it never says a) whether the company has actually used both OSs recently, and who precisely is doing the response. If I were the Director of the IT department or some such at a corporation, the last thing I'd do is admit to anyone, even if they said they were taking a survey (they might be a spy from President's office) that the system we had in place was anything less than the best possible. Even if I knew it for a fact to be otherwise.
What do you do when or if your computer crashes?
1) Hit the computer
2) Swear
3) Coax computer into giving your data back
4) Sigh and reboot
5) drop into kdb
6) Call Cowboy Neal for Tech support
Then the comments section could be flooded by Mac/Linux fanboys who say "What? Crash? What's that? My leet system is t3h sold OMGLOLROFL!1! " On second thought, maybe the poll's not such a good idea.
The actual name (in appropriate Greek script) is "he Apokalypsis tou Agiou Ioannou Theologou". What it's actually calledby people is another matter entirely.
You left out profit schemes, running Linux, Beowulf clusters, BSD dying, iPod Killers, MiniMacs, Soviet Russia, elderly South Koreans, and now maybe even the Israeli army.
The article about this that I read said that, since going to different ownership in the 90s, COMDEX has gotten smaller and more tightly focused on IT. So don't look at it as being canceled, rather, it's just the natural result of its evolution--becoming the absolute smallest and topic-focused convention it could possibly be.
Or, more to the point, how would one go about trying to effectively and objectively compare competing search engines? In what areas have people found Google to have become obsolete for their purposes? Have less ignorant people than myself figured out ways to test a competing search engine's efficacy for themselves?
Is my knowledge of English failing me, or does this guy actually ask for what the opposite of what the title says? If it interests you what Google searching is lousy for, search for different kinds of things and see what is impossible to find with Google.
In any event, I find google practically useless for finding any kind of file other than html, pdf, doc, images, and a few others. Sounds, videos, archives, etc. are all pretty difficult for me to find with Google. Dedicated media searches like alltheweb or altavista (they're the same people now, right?) work better for these things.
I know someone who spent two full years studying video game development, got an entry-level job and hated it so much it quit after six months (He's now unemployed).
Everyone I ever talked to about video game development says to avoid doing it for someone else, since to them you're just another code monkey whose mind, body, and soul can be owned 24 hours a day for some chump change (once you figure in unpaid overtime etc) and Mountain Dew.
You're best bet is to make some cool game that becomes moderately popular, and then gets bought out. That way you wouldn't be hired as an expendenable punk (you might still get laid off after six months though, so maybe get your contract vetted by lawyer).
Hardly. I'm a college student, so the people around me are young enough that they have been surrounded by computers from the day they were born. And yet, many of them are clueless.
Incidentally, these are also the people who have been surrounded from birth by members of the opposite sex. Really, which would you prefer?
In your new-fangled rules system maybe. In my day, the only limit to the damage you could do with a fireball was how many d6s you could roll. Our miniatures had to crawl through dungeons in three feet of snow, sloped downward both ways. That's the way we liked it!
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They either specifically requested, or at least tacitly approved of, measures by the municipal governments to keep people far away from the actual convention meeting sites. If they merely kept protesters out of the building that would be one thing (and quite reasonable, as a matter of fact, since it is a private gathering and private property), but to stick them on the other side of town because they don't agree with you is pretty low.
The issue with the Dixie Chicks is not that people were upset that they made such remarks--the Jefferson Muzzle doesn't blame the fans who burned their Dixie Chicks CDs, etc--but rather the reaction of the State Legislature. Consider: what if you made those remarks. Does it make sense that government be allowed to tell you that you have to go to a foreign and dangerous country and give a free performance to soldiers as penance? No? Then it's a violation of equal protection (not to mention cruel and unusual punishment, but that's wrt the soldiers...)
And, under no circumstances should the State gov't have told them they have to apologize. Free speech means never having to recant your beliefs. Ever. I find it as annoying as you do that all these celebrities go around taking advantage of their fame to get a free pulpit for expounding their views. But I'm not about to go around telling people they don't get first amendment rights just because they're famous.
Sure, maybe, maybe some people just use Starter Edition for a while, then realize its limitations and decide to upgrade. If they can hardly afford a $300 computer, will they really be able to afford a $260 OS upgrade? Chances are, they'll talk to everyone about how they need an upgrade, until the kid from city hears about it and comes along with a CD-case full of cracked Windows CDs and installs it for $10.
If you want help programming, plenty of people have given links. If you want help with the interface end of things, try using some of the best Apple applications and see how things "work"--iTunes, The Omni Group, Bare Bones Software, Lemkesoft's Graphic Converter, Rancho's NetNewsWire. There are many others, but trying these on should give you a feel for what makes a great Mac App. Also, it is a commonly-perceived problem that there is no great mac Word-processing software. There are acceptable entries, including MS Office, and several others, but this is one area where OS X is gravely deficient (if you want to write the best Mac WP ever, feel free! I'd even buy a copy).
Lots of people (i.e., Windows & Linux Fanpersons) will deride many interface trends as "fluff"; do not make this mistake. Apple is pretty careful about what stuff they include, and while there might be a few things in there for no real reason (animated screensavers as you desktop background?), most of the "fluff" has a damn good reason to be there.
Bzzt! If you ask me, DNA's got plent of carbon in it.
In the absense of a monopoly, he says...
Do you mean Theater of Living Arts or Three-Letter Acronym?
Instead of steali^H^H^H^H^H "illegally copying" right of the bat, you could always call or email an Apple store and explain your plight. If you give them the electronic equivalent of puppydog eyes (no, not smileys), they might have leniency on your unworthy soul and let you get the upgrade.
Actually, if this became widespread, it would exacerbate the spam problem. Currently, if a spam mail server gets a bounced message, it has no reason to believe that the bounce is fake, then it may actually remove the address from its list in order to conserve resources. On the other hand, if programmers know that spam is being bounced even if it is sent to a valid address, they will just keep sending to that address. Hence spam-related traffic will nearly double (original message + bounce), but it won't go down in the future either.
In that sense, Google Hacking is eye-popping
That's what she said!
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You're not kidding.
Maybe. But the stats I've seen say that the average American white-collar worker does a lot less work per day than his peers in other countries. Something on the order of less than half the day is spent doing real, productive, work, and most of the rest is spent socializing, waiting, or just screwing around.
You could probably implement this by using the setuid bit, but that would require creating a whole bunch of excess users for no other purpose than limiting the access of already-existing users. The bigger issue is allowing the file manager to supply the file selection dialog without compromising security; it's a neat trick if you can do it.
"Study shows Microsoft and Linux Neck-and-Neck"
Not "Perceived as Roughly Equivalent"
"Most U.S. businesses say there is very little difference between the cost of maintaining a Windows versus a Linux-based corporate computing environment."
Many of whom, the article goes on to say, don't really bother to keep track of the costs in the first place.
"In the independent study, 88 percent of respondents said that the quality, performance and reliability of Windows was equal to or better than Linux."
The article does not say that the quality, performance, and reliability seems to be equal or better, but that it is.
It's also worth noting that it never says a) whether the company has actually used both OSs recently, and who precisely is doing the response. If I were the Director of the IT department or some such at a corporation, the last thing I'd do is admit to anyone, even if they said they were taking a survey (they might be a spy from President's office) that the system we had in place was anything less than the best possible. Even if I knew it for a fact to be otherwise.
Yeah, but in South Korea, only old people
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They can always look into working for SCO, it's in the same state.
What do you do when or if your computer crashes? 1) Hit the computer 2) Swear 3) Coax computer into giving your data back 4) Sigh and reboot 5) drop into kdb 6) Call Cowboy Neal for Tech support Then the comments section could be flooded by Mac/Linux fanboys who say "What? Crash? What's that? My leet system is t3h sold OMGLOLROFL!1! " On second thought, maybe the poll's not such a good idea.
The actual name (in appropriate Greek script) is "he Apokalypsis tou Agiou Ioannou Theologou". What it's actually calledby people is another matter entirely.
Remember what they say about education--as the years go by, you learn more and more about less and less until you know everything about nothing.
You left out profit schemes, running Linux, Beowulf clusters, BSD dying, iPod Killers, MiniMacs, Soviet Russia, elderly South Koreans, and now maybe even the Israeli army.
The article about this that I read said that, since going to different ownership in the 90s, COMDEX has gotten smaller and more tightly focused on IT. So don't look at it as being canceled, rather, it's just the natural result of its evolution--becoming the absolute smallest and topic-focused convention it could possibly be.
Is my knowledge of English failing me, or does this guy actually ask for what the opposite of what the title says? If it interests you what Google searching is lousy for, search for different kinds of things and see what is impossible to find with Google.
In any event, I find google practically useless for finding any kind of file other than html, pdf, doc, images, and a few others. Sounds, videos, archives, etc. are all pretty difficult for me to find with Google. Dedicated media searches like alltheweb or altavista (they're the same people now, right?) work better for these things.
I know someone who spent two full years studying video game development, got an entry-level job and hated it so much it quit after six months (He's now unemployed).
Everyone I ever talked to about video game development says to avoid doing it for someone else, since to them you're just another code monkey whose mind, body, and soul can be owned 24 hours a day for some chump change (once you figure in unpaid overtime etc) and Mountain Dew.
You're best bet is to make some cool game that becomes moderately popular, and then gets bought out. That way you wouldn't be hired as an expendenable punk (you might still get laid off after six months though, so maybe get your contract vetted by lawyer).
Incidentally, these are also the people who have been surrounded from birth by members of the opposite sex. Really, which would you prefer?
I like it. Sounds pretty classy, like it's a step up from Something Whatsit-Pro, or Gold, or Enterprise. Mozilla Preferred.
In your new-fangled rules system maybe. In my day, the only limit to the damage you could do with a fireball was how many d6s you could roll. Our miniatures had to crawl through dungeons in three feet of snow, sloped downward both ways. That's the way we liked it!