I certainly would have never bought a Handspring, Ipaq, nor Nokia 770 if I couldn't have loaded 3rd party apps on them. This is going to be a deal breaker for many people. during the dog and pony show I was in #maemo on freenode and when it was revealed that there will be no 3rd party apps I think everyone that was considering an iPhone in place of the n800 made up their mind: n800 wins.
And for browsing, it's a step backwards from a $100 (with 2 year contract) phone with bluetooth with a $350 770. And you have the benifit of leaving the size and weight of the multimedia device and just taking the small phone with you on daily routine trips.
Would you allow your pregnant daughter to go through this procedure of donating amniotic fluid?
The better question would be "would you allow yourself or your pregnant wife...". I would hope that if/when my daughter becomes pregnant that she's old and healthy enough that my permission would be totaly irrelevant. Assuming the pregnancy is going well, I would certainly consider donating a bit of amniotic fluid, in the same way that I would donate blood or bone marrow. Saving a life is saving a life, and if it causes me and my family no harm then why shouldn't I?
i think you missed the point. the point is not that they figured out how poeple make purchasing descisions, but that they figured our what parts of the brain are involved and what the process looks like under MRI. it's not "how to make descisions", it's "how does the brain allow/enable someone to make the descision" which is a bit different a question.
Re: US thing, maybe, but still the providers
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and not all the providers, and not all of the same.
For instance, Cingular took the hardware that performs the WiFi functions out of their HTC based 2125 phone while T-Mobile leaves it active in their version of the same HTC based phone. Verizon has a long history of disabling DUN in its phones, both bluetooth and datacable.
sometimes it is the phones though, for many phones you need special software to be able to transfer pictures and ringtones, so you still have to pay to get them there either way.
a journalism and film school wouldn't just try to train journalists and special effect people for large media companies as the other replies make note of, but mostly the students will be the behind the scenes people and work for small buisness people. Even a firm as large as Anheuser-Busch hires marketing and advertizing out to smaller companies which most definatly do use Windows and MacOS and some of the tools mentioned. There are very few companies that can justify a SGI rendering farm, but there are many thousands that can afford a Mac and Final Cut. In the end though, it's a school's job to train the students on what buisness is actualy using, ALL of it, including the Linux stuff. I'd never recomend a school teach only Linux and F/OSS apps, nor only MS apps or even only Apple. I would recomend teaching primarily the concepts, with some introduction to many apps (the mostly all work about the same anyway) and at some point even let the kids choose what they like.
and one last thing to note in general, whatever office apps we teach high schoolers now is not the app they will be using after they graduate from a university anyway. Think about it, 4 years ago many people were using MS Office 97 and Office 2000 was teh latest and greatest, and now Office 2007 is about to be released and it's VERY different! Teach many tools, and todays kids won't have a problem picking up the new versions or even completely new software later.
tried a little experiment, My 14 year old daughter was sitting about 5 ft from me doing homework, I turned up the speakers to about 3/4 volume (relitively good ones, with a wide range) and played it. I could hear it and it is anoying but it didn't bother me that much, my daughter squealed and put her fingers in her ears and said it hurt. I could just hear it just well enough that I could hear a bit of choppiness in the tone, maybe due to it being an mp3.
as a raw PCM and via a high quality loudspeaker this could definatly disorient some people for a short time. if nothing else, they stop what they are doing and stick their fingers in their ears.
... because it's very thorough, covers all the bases for a way around exclutions. if only more coders were so diligent.
take a look at a security update pach some time, in many cases the diff shows 5 lines of original code expanding to 10-15 lines of "secure" code, just to prevent a single type of exploit. that legalese manages to cover 11 types of expoits, if you will, in one single sentance. nice, i say.
In many states, it is ILLEGAL for businesses to have caller ID.
uh, then why do all enterpise class phone systems (and many small systems as well) support inbound caller id with call routing based on it, including some extra-charge features for more advanced call handling? if it were illegal in more than a handfull of places you'd think that phone vendors would spend fewer resources creating such features.
there are many schools with a purely computer based curriculum in the US, and they are very successful. the problem with widespread adoption is the same as the 3rd world: hardware cost and teacher training. only the more well funded school systems can afford to implement such a curriculum, you are basically looking at $600 to $1000 per child (including servers, spares, networking equipment, projectors and smart boards) depending on the classes and software needed. a book based curriculum cost more like $300-$500 per child in materials, and some school districts even have the parents fork over up to $100 in book and lab fees, per year.
from the first time I heard of the OLPC project I thought it was ridiculous, they need to put them in 1st world schools first and develop a working curriculum and efficient teacher training programs that really do end up at that golden $100 mark.
about 20 years ago, the company my dad worked for made flooring materials, like the epoxies and such. one the projects he worked on was for an electronics company's (may have even been Intel) clean rooms. the problem they had at the time as I understood it was that epoxy floors, which are fairly easily made impermiable and anti-static, caused small, conductive, particles to be released for years as it continued the "curing" process. these particles were just big enough to get stuck in the chips and short them out. I don't know that he ever told me the solution, or if he was even involved in solving it, and I was 15 at the time so maybe I understood it wrong. I do recall being impressed that tiny things you couldn't possibly see were flying up out of the floor and shorting out electronics.
What is all this "shutting down" and "locking out" you guys speak of? Have you ever even seen WGA trigger on an invalid (or "false positive") key? I have, and I read the text that goes along with it. Here's the short version: You are NOT locked out, you are NOT hunted down by rabid lawyers. You ARE entitled to critical security patches and you ARE nagged and annoyed to no end by a tray icon and info bubble. That's all, no more. It simply and politely calls you out as a thief on a regular schedule and denies your attempts to install non-critical patches and additional Microsoft utilities, such as WMP and the.NET runtime, in an easy way. Clearly, the "advantage" in WGA is Microsofts, but this issue isn't as bad as many of you are making it sound.
Speaking of, did you visit McDanolds.com? It exists, and has links on it like "First Ever Happy Meal" and "Food Chart For Mcdanolds". It's been registered for less than 6 months though, maybe McDee's lawyers are just being a bit slow?
Since typo-parked domains don't offer the same services as the domains they target, where's the legal ground? In meatspace, say McDonald's Book Shop opend up right next to a McDonald's burger joint, would the latter have any legal ground to have the former closed? After all, McDonald's Book Shop has an established buisness and is simply expanding to an atractive area.
typo parking isn't going away, but eventualy, pay-pre-view ads will. they are already failrly worthless.
the free version doesn't have any of the features of either paid version
the only differences between OCE and standard for V2 are that OCE has an ad supported Opera browser as the default, Mozilla could still be install and set default from Xandros Networks, and the integrated cd burning in their file manager was speed limited to 1x or 2x (I don't recall) but cdrdao and cdrecord, which most other burning programs use, are not limited at all. So, yes it's cut down, but -2 features is a lot different that -all features.
Xandros was a migration distro for me too, but from Mandrake to Debain. Started with V1 and beta tested V2, before the new Sarge installer was "done". Having a working Debain based system helped me learn the "debian way" and thus rid myself of the once-a-year-clean-reinstall that Mandrake requires when you install more than just what comes on the CD and want to upgrade, and the every changing urpmi sources nightmare. ftp.us.debian.org rocks any urpmi mirror that ever existed.
Not hard to do, I wrote a timeclock that does basicly the same thing.
standalone PC with a dot matrix printer and a network connection to a database server
1) clock in/clock out is recorded first to a local file
2) clock in/clock out is recorded next to a line on a dot matrix printer
3) clock in/clock out is recorded is recorded in the database
and furthure, if the database or network is down it creates yet another file formated specificaly to make it quick and accurate to impoer the clockin/out records back into the database when connectivity returns. Printer is check once a week for operation and paper. We figure that is we loos teh database, and the PC's HD, and and printer all in one shot then well have bigger things to worry about than paying people.
dpkg can do this too (the dpkg command is to apt/.deb what the rpm command is to urpmi/.rpm)
dpkg -S/path/to/some/file
One thing I like better about apt/.deb/dpkg is its ability to run an interactive script pre/post install to help the admin setup whatever is being installed.
one thing I like better about urpmi is that if the package has a config file that differs from what's currently install it offers to show you the diffs and gives the option of using the new one and keeping the old as foo.rpmold, using the old and keeping the new as foo.rpmnew, or just discarding the new. 95% of the time I discard the new, but it's occationaly been usefull to have the other options.
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so, you tried to steal Sony's buisness plan and they got wind and blocked out #4 huh
I certainly would have never bought a Handspring, Ipaq, nor Nokia 770 if I couldn't have loaded 3rd party apps on them. This is going to be a deal breaker for many people. during the dog and pony show I was in #maemo on freenode and when it was revealed that there will be no 3rd party apps I think everyone that was considering an iPhone in place of the n800 made up their mind: n800 wins. And for browsing, it's a step backwards from a $100 (with 2 year contract) phone with bluetooth with a $350 770. And you have the benifit of leaving the size and weight of the multimedia device and just taking the small phone with you on daily routine trips.
IE7 doens't autostart and load a page asking you to register it. and it doesn't popup a message bubble saying you need to buy an update
only on slashdot could this be modded insightfull and its parent funny
Would you allow your pregnant daughter to go through this procedure of donating amniotic fluid?
The better question would be "would you allow yourself or your pregnant wife...". I would hope that if/when my daughter becomes pregnant that she's old and healthy enough that my permission would be totaly irrelevant. Assuming the pregnancy is going well, I would certainly consider donating a bit of amniotic fluid, in the same way that I would donate blood or bone marrow. Saving a life is saving a life, and if it causes me and my family no harm then why shouldn't I?
i think you missed the point. the point is not that they figured out how poeple make purchasing descisions, but that they figured our what parts of the brain are involved and what the process looks like under MRI. it's not "how to make descisions", it's "how does the brain allow/enable someone to make the descision" which is a bit different a question.
and not all the providers, and not all of the same.
For instance, Cingular took the hardware that performs the WiFi functions out of their HTC based 2125 phone while T-Mobile leaves it active in their version of the same HTC based phone. Verizon has a long history of disabling DUN in its phones, both bluetooth and datacable.
sometimes it is the phones though, for many phones you need special software to be able to transfer pictures and ringtones, so you still have to pay to get them there either way.
a journalism and film school wouldn't just try to train journalists and special effect people for large media companies as the other replies make note of, but mostly the students will be the behind the scenes people and work for small buisness people. Even a firm as large as Anheuser-Busch hires marketing and advertizing out to smaller companies which most definatly do use Windows and MacOS and some of the tools mentioned. There are very few companies that can justify a SGI rendering farm, but there are many thousands that can afford a Mac and Final Cut. In the end though, it's a school's job to train the students on what buisness is actualy using, ALL of it, including the Linux stuff. I'd never recomend a school teach only Linux and F/OSS apps, nor only MS apps or even only Apple. I would recomend teaching primarily the concepts, with some introduction to many apps (the mostly all work about the same anyway) and at some point even let the kids choose what they like.
and one last thing to note in general, whatever office apps we teach high schoolers now is not the app they will be using after they graduate from a university anyway. Think about it, 4 years ago many people were using MS Office 97 and Office 2000 was teh latest and greatest, and now Office 2007 is about to be released and it's VERY different! Teach many tools, and todays kids won't have a problem picking up the new versions or even completely new software later.
tried a little experiment, My 14 year old daughter was sitting about 5 ft from me doing homework, I turned up the speakers to about 3/4 volume (relitively good ones, with a wide range) and played it. I could hear it and it is anoying but it didn't bother me that much, my daughter squealed and put her fingers in her ears and said it hurt. I could just hear it just well enough that I could hear a bit of choppiness in the tone, maybe due to it being an mp3.
as a raw PCM and via a high quality loudspeaker this could definatly disorient some people for a short time. if nothing else, they stop what they are doing and stick their fingers in their ears.
... because it's very thorough, covers all the bases for a way around exclutions. if only more coders were so diligent.
take a look at a security update pach some time, in many cases the diff shows 5 lines of original code expanding to 10-15 lines of "secure" code, just to prevent a single type of exploit. that legalese manages to cover 11 types of expoits, if you will, in one single sentance. nice, i say.
In many states, it is ILLEGAL for businesses to have caller ID.
uh, then why do all enterpise class phone systems (and many small systems as well) support inbound caller id with call routing based on it, including some extra-charge features for more advanced call handling? if it were illegal in more than a handfull of places you'd think that phone vendors would spend fewer resources creating such features.
there are many schools with a purely computer based curriculum in the US, and they are very successful. the problem with widespread adoption is the same as the 3rd world: hardware cost and teacher training. only the more well funded school systems can afford to implement such a curriculum, you are basically looking at $600 to $1000 per child (including servers, spares, networking equipment, projectors and smart boards) depending on the classes and software needed. a book based curriculum cost more like $300-$500 per child in materials, and some school districts even have the parents fork over up to $100 in book and lab fees, per year.
from the first time I heard of the OLPC project I thought it was ridiculous, they need to put them in 1st world schools first and develop a working curriculum and efficient teacher training programs that really do end up at that golden $100 mark.
about 20 years ago, the company my dad worked for made flooring materials, like the epoxies and such. one the projects he worked on was for an electronics company's (may have even been Intel) clean rooms. the problem they had at the time as I understood it was that epoxy floors, which are fairly easily made impermiable and anti-static, caused small, conductive, particles to be released for years as it continued the "curing" process. these particles were just big enough to get stuck in the chips and short them out. I don't know that he ever told me the solution, or if he was even involved in solving it, and I was 15 at the time so maybe I understood it wrong. I do recall being impressed that tiny things you couldn't possibly see were flying up out of the floor and shorting out electronics.
What is all this "shutting down" and "locking out" you guys speak of? Have you ever even seen WGA trigger on an invalid (or "false positive") key? I have, and I read the text that goes along with it. Here's the short version: You are NOT locked out, you are NOT hunted down by rabid lawyers. You ARE entitled to critical security patches and you ARE nagged and annoyed to no end by a tray icon and info bubble. That's all, no more. It simply and politely calls you out as a thief on a regular schedule and denies your attempts to install non-critical patches and additional Microsoft utilities, such as WMP and the .NET runtime, in an easy way. Clearly, the "advantage" in WGA is Microsofts, but this issue isn't as bad as many of you are making it sound.
Speaking of, did you visit McDanolds.com? It exists, and has links on it like "First Ever Happy Meal" and "Food Chart For Mcdanolds". It's been registered for less than 6 months though, maybe McDee's lawyers are just being a bit slow?
Since typo-parked domains don't offer the same services as the domains they target, where's the legal ground? In meatspace, say McDonald's Book Shop opend up right next to a McDonald's burger joint, would the latter have any legal ground to have the former closed? After all, McDonald's Book Shop has an established buisness and is simply expanding to an atractive area.
typo parking isn't going away, but eventualy, pay-pre-view ads will. they are already failrly worthless.
the free version doesn't have any of the features of either paid version
the only differences between OCE and standard for V2 are that OCE has an ad supported Opera browser as the default, Mozilla could still be install and set default from Xandros Networks, and the integrated cd burning in their file manager was speed limited to 1x or 2x (I don't recall) but cdrdao and cdrecord, which most other burning programs use, are not limited at all. So, yes it's cut down, but -2 features is a lot different that -all features.
Xandros was a migration distro for me too, but from Mandrake to Debain. Started with V1 and beta tested V2, before the new Sarge installer was "done". Having a working Debain based system helped me learn the "debian way" and thus rid myself of the once-a-year-clean-reinstall that Mandrake requires when you install more than just what comes on the CD and want to upgrade, and the every changing urpmi sources nightmare. ftp.us.debian.org rocks any urpmi mirror that ever existed.
Not hard to do, I wrote a timeclock that does basicly the same thing.
standalone PC with a dot matrix printer and a network connection to a database server
1) clock in/clock out is recorded first to a local file
2) clock in/clock out is recorded next to a line on a dot matrix printer
3) clock in/clock out is recorded is recorded in the database
and furthure, if the database or network is down it creates yet another file formated specificaly to make it quick and accurate to impoer the clockin/out records back into the database when connectivity returns. Printer is check once a week for operation and paper. We figure that is we loos teh database, and the PC's HD, and and printer all in one shot then well have bigger things to worry about than paying people.
you meanlike XSLT? which, btw, IE does support.
i for one welcome our new open source....
oh nevermind
anonymous, secure and resilient the P2P-network really is.
anonymous? they send youy IP to everyone, not anonymous.
secure? no encryption, no auth, where's the secure?
resilient? any one person can screw up a p2p net by continuoisly introducing a bunch of falsely named douments.
I don't get it.
Let me be the first to say: I for one welcome our new Dragonflu overlords!
great, another new strain of the flu
> Is just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world? short answer: Yes. your sig is perfect end to your comment :)
1. adopt a "longer than the USA uses" global barcode standard
2. ???
3. profit!
"typing on the iPod requires turning the scroll wheel until the right character appears"
/dev/urandom until you what you wanted
only slightly better than filtering
dpkg can do this too (the dpkg command is to apt/.deb what the rpm command is to urpmi/.rpm)
/path/to/some/file
dpkg -S
One thing I like better about apt/.deb/dpkg is its ability to run an interactive script pre/post install to help the admin setup whatever is being installed.
one thing I like better about urpmi is that if the package has a config file that differs from what's currently install it offers to show you the diffs and gives the option of using the new one and keeping the old as foo.rpmold, using the old and keeping the new as foo.rpmnew, or just discarding the new. 95% of the time I discard the new, but it's occationaly been usefull to have the other options.