> nowadays suddenly there are quite a few games that will break if you don't install them on C:
That's been typical of Microsoft in recent years.
They've even got a whole bunch of applications and OS-updates that will break your OS if you remove the installer file. Oh, and they often keep copies of the installer files.
MS Office 2003 is a great example - it makes a hidden folder called 'msocache' which sucks 400mb of hdd space. They make this on a random drive (i.e. often not C:) and if you remove it then Office'll often break.
Things with.Net are worse, if you remove the 'uninstall' directories WU makes under C:\Windows you'll find yourself unable to apply later updates.
If it wasn't for gaming and Office I'd switch to Linux tomorrow. Even the broken mess that is Kubuntu (ever tried changing screen res?) it's preferable to what MS is now doing.
I can speak some dutch, and that link adds nothing new that isn't in the summary. Well, except for a link explaining how Demoniod was taken down previously by Brein (the dutch consumerscrewing association).
Training sounds the same as here to me. Depends on the employer though, some invest lots in their staff.
My current employers are like that, they put a lot of time into training me (in my case language, I'm English living here in Netherlands). If I need any study time for IT stuff then it's almost never a problem.
Flip side is that you then become more loyal. It would take a big change or a crazy offer for me to want to move in the next few years.
Depending on where you live, cost of living in US is compatible or less than it is in Europe. No idea why their IT salaries are so high. Maybe they're more open about how much they earn than people in some parts of Europe are?
That may well be true, but unfortunately the vast majority of consumers are unaware of their rights and companies will do their best to make it hard for you to exercise them.
Things in UK cost more because people aren't so price-conscious as our American cousins. It's not as socially acceptable to talk about money as it is in the US. Same thing effects wages - it's a taboo to discuss what you earn for us Brits (and is often actively discouraged by employers).
However, during a discovery process, I'd assume that the lawyer could request a copy of correspondances from MediaDefender. They'd have a hard time destroying these emails (there is a probability of this happening), as they've been published for the whole world to see.
> except for the Netherlands, where the courts astutely saw through their scam from the outset.
After watching a few (bought) films, I guess we figured that the piracy thing wouldn't really happen here because there isn't a loss-making black market prostitution and hash industry that needs subsidizing from music/video download revenue;-)
That's not really the point - what's happening here is you're downloading patches from someone who's a compete stranger and not associated with Microsoft.
So yeah, the chances of compromises are much higher than distribution from a fixed point controlled by Microsoft themselves.
You'd most likely be one of the first to crucify Microsoft if a similar system results in large numbers of PCs being controlled by some Russian ID-theft or botnet criminals..
It's about security: if you're not downloading the patches direct from Microsoft, there's more of a chance of them being compromised. Sure, it may not have happened yet but that's not to say it won't happen in the future.
Now what would be useful, is for Microsoft themselves to make it very easy for you to download and burn an 'windows update' DVD that'll take each version of XP up to date. Downloadable direct from Microsoft.
Alternatively, they could offer hashes for the downloads on Microsoft's servers, which Autopatcher can be pointed at in order to verify the downloads.
Had they done that, then they'd avoid all the negative PR!
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Spot on, that's a really terrible summary. It's like a reverse summary really as there are few to no IDEs which come close to Visual Studio. Even Eclipse, for all its niceness doesn't compare well. Which sucks, as I spend most of my development time working with Eclipse and its variants.
You're quite correct in saying that Intel won't ramp up 45nm over their entire range.
However, they will certainly release a range topping chip based to ensure they keep the performance hat, and get a nice bit of cheap marketing exposure. As it would be a premium piece, they'd not have to build many.
Except I'm not defending it. I'm putting it into perspective in comparison with the procedure done to females.
My stance on the issue is that unless there's a good medical reason for it, then any surgery is a bad idea. It should be the patient's decision as to whether to go ahead with it. Babies and children can't make that decision, ergo it's wrong.
However it is nothing like as evil as the female procedure. It's like comparing falling off of your bike and grazing a knee to driving your Ferrari Enzo headon into a brick wall at 160MPH.
> As I claimed in my post, female circumcision generally refers to > the removal of the hood. As I claimed, that is absolutely analogous > to removal of the foreskin.
Not according to the WHO:
"Female genital mutilation (FGM), often referred to as 'female circumcision', comprises all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs whether for cultural, religious or other non-therapeutic reasons."
> I understand that the original post referred to "genital mutilation" > which also includes the kinds of things you are talking about. But > if you even glanced at my post it should be clear what I am talking > about and that I am not equating it to complete removal of the clitoris.
As I posted above, if the WHO says they're synonyms then it's a futile arguing anything different.
> Also it should be perfectly clear I'm against any such practices. > If an adult decides to go out and get himself circumcised, that's > all good. If someone else does it to him (even if it's when he's a child) > that's not good at all.
>"The worst side effect to male circumcision is that..." the surgery goes bad and you lose your penis.
The worst that could happen to you would be to bleed to death as the results of the surgery. However, that's as uncommon as loosing a penis to male circumcision.
In practical terms, male circumcision is both safe "risk in a competently performed medical circumcision is very low" (http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint /105/1/S2/246) there are also some pretty major benefits according to recent research (http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/20 07/s04/en/index.html).
Can't believe that anyone would be stupid enough to equate female circumcision to male circumcision.
Do you even know what function the clit fulfills?
Okay okay, I'm on slashdot, so most people probably don't have hands on experience. Those that do are probably female.
Without the clit, it's going to be real hard for a woman to reach orgasm. The worst side effect to male circumcision is that it makes your schlong more long.
All arguments and bigotry aside, if your pastor was correct then AIDs wouldn't be the problem it is today.
Looking at this map of AIDs infection per African country in 2001, you can see that some countries are closing in on having 40% of their population infected.
Now, these figures are hard to estimate, but this site provides some figures on the number of people whom have experimented with same-sex partners http://www.avert.org/hsexu1.htm. Lets take 10% as a figure, for example - that's still a quarter of the number required to make your Pastor's comments anything but pure BS.
Just look at the stats: this disease is killing a huge number of people, the people who are among the poorest and least educated in the world. There are literally millions of kids who are born HIV infected. These kids right now have little chance of even reproducing. What life they do have is plagued by sickness.
As a Christian you should be the first to empathize and want to do something to help these people. You should be he first people cheering news articles such as this one. Unless of course the Trollish race got the philosophies of Hitler and JC muddled up..
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Quick, someone send a DMCA copyright takedown for their breach of the GPL! ;-)
> But is there even a remote possibility for an independent artist
> to win the lottery and make it to the big time without a major label?
Yes, the Artic Monkeys have certainly done well and they have never been involved with the majors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_monkeys
Signed to a fairly big indie label now.
> nowadays suddenly there are quite a few games that will break if you don't install them on C:
.Net are worse, if you remove the 'uninstall' directories WU makes under C:\Windows you'll find yourself unable to apply later updates.
That's been typical of Microsoft in recent years.
They've even got a whole bunch of applications and OS-updates that will break your OS if you remove the installer file. Oh, and they often keep copies of the installer files.
MS Office 2003 is a great example - it makes a hidden folder called 'msocache' which sucks 400mb of hdd space. They make this on a random drive (i.e. often not C:) and if you remove it then Office'll often break.
Things with
If it wasn't for gaming and Office I'd switch to Linux tomorrow. Even the broken mess that is Kubuntu (ever tried changing screen res?) it's preferable to what MS is now doing.
I can speak some dutch, and that link adds nothing new that isn't in the summary. Well, except for a link explaining how Demoniod was taken down previously by Brein (the dutch consumerscrewing association).
Training sounds the same as here to me. Depends on the employer though, some invest lots in their staff.
My current employers are like that, they put a lot of time into training me (in my case language, I'm English living here in Netherlands). If I need any study time for IT stuff then it's almost never a problem.
Flip side is that you then become more loyal. It would take a big change or a crazy offer for me to want to move in the next few years.
Someone else lives in Netherlands, then? ;-)
Depending on where you live, cost of living in US is compatible or less than it is in Europe. No idea why their IT salaries are so high. Maybe they're more open about how much they earn than people in some parts of Europe are?
That may well be true, but unfortunately the vast majority of consumers are unaware of their rights and companies will do their best to make it hard for you to exercise them.
Things in UK cost more because people aren't so price-conscious as our American cousins. It's not as socially acceptable to talk about money as it is in the US. Same thing effects wages - it's a taboo to discuss what you earn for us Brits (and is often actively discouraged by employers).
He's wrong, not a troll. Unfortunately you can't mod posts 'wrong'.
The copies from here can't.
However, during a discovery process, I'd assume that the lawyer could request a copy of correspondances from MediaDefender. They'd have a hard time destroying these emails (there is a probability of this happening), as they've been published for the whole world to see.
> except for the Netherlands, where the courts astutely saw through their scam from the outset.
;-)
After watching a few (bought) films, I guess we figured that the piracy thing wouldn't really happen here because there isn't a loss-making black market prostitution and hash industry that needs subsidizing from music/video download revenue
That's not really the point - what's happening here is you're downloading patches from someone who's a compete stranger and not associated with Microsoft.
So yeah, the chances of compromises are much higher than distribution from a fixed point controlled by Microsoft themselves.
You'd most likely be one of the first to crucify Microsoft if a similar system results in large numbers of PCs being controlled by some Russian ID-theft or botnet criminals..
It's about security: if you're not downloading the patches direct from Microsoft, there's more of a chance of them being compromised. Sure, it may not have happened yet but that's not to say it won't happen in the future.
Now what would be useful, is for Microsoft themselves to make it very easy for you to download and burn an 'windows update' DVD that'll take each version of XP up to date. Downloadable direct from Microsoft.
Alternatively, they could offer hashes for the downloads on Microsoft's servers, which Autopatcher can be pointed at in order to verify the downloads.
Had they done that, then they'd avoid all the negative PR!
Spot on, that's a really terrible summary. It's like a reverse summary really as there are few to no IDEs which come close to Visual Studio. Even Eclipse, for all its niceness doesn't compare well. Which sucks, as I spend most of my development time working with Eclipse and its variants.
..is that it's too flippin' loud!
You're quite correct in saying that Intel won't ramp up 45nm over their entire range.
However, they will certainly release a range topping chip based to ensure they keep the performance hat, and get a nice bit of cheap marketing exposure. As it would be a premium piece, they'd not have to build many.
Except I'm not defending it. I'm putting it into perspective in comparison with the procedure done to females.
My stance on the issue is that unless there's a good medical reason for it, then any surgery is a bad idea. It should be the patient's decision as to whether to go ahead with it. Babies and children can't make that decision, ergo it's wrong.
However it is nothing like as evil as the female procedure. It's like comparing falling off of your bike and grazing a knee to driving your Ferrari Enzo headon into a brick wall at 160MPH.
> As I claimed in my post, female circumcision generally refers to
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> the removal of the hood. As I claimed, that is absolutely analogous
> to removal of the foreskin.
Not according to the WHO:
"Female genital mutilation (FGM), often referred to as 'female circumcision', comprises all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs whether for cultural, religious or other non-therapeutic reasons."
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs241/e
(I'd not recommend reading all of that, it's sickening).
Top google results return the same thing.
Also from Oxford university, which carries similar definitions to the WHO:
http://www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/gazette/previousissues
> I understand that the original post referred to "genital mutilation"
> which also includes the kinds of things you are talking about. But
> if you even glanced at my post it should be clear what I am talking
> about and that I am not equating it to complete removal of the clitoris.
As I posted above, if the WHO says they're synonyms then it's a futile arguing anything different.
> Also it should be perfectly clear I'm against any such practices.
> If an adult decides to go out and get himself circumcised, that's
> all good. If someone else does it to him (even if it's when he's a child)
> that's not good at all.
Good, and I pretty much agree with that.
"The most common type of female genital mutilation is excision of the clitoris and the labia minora, accounting for up to 80% of all cases"
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t /105/1/S2/246) there are also some pretty major benefits according to recent research (http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/20 07/s04/en/index.html).
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs241/e
>"The worst side effect to male circumcision is that..." the surgery goes bad and you lose your penis.
The worst that could happen to you would be to bleed to death as the results of the surgery. However, that's as uncommon as loosing a penis to male circumcision.
In practical terms, male circumcision is both safe "risk in a competently performed medical circumcision is very low" (http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprin
> Frankly, sir, you're an idiot.
SURE.
Can't believe that anyone would be stupid enough to equate female circumcision to male circumcision.
Do you even know what function the clit fulfills?
Okay okay, I'm on slashdot, so most people probably don't have hands on experience. Those that do are probably female.
Without the clit, it's going to be real hard for a woman to reach orgasm. The worst side effect to male circumcision is that it makes your schlong more long.
..is down to dangly bits.
Surprised that they didn't add the PS3 to the list.
Boom boom.
I'm pretty sure that Disney bought that 'right'..
* Googles 'Group Action' *
Where do I sign up?!
But we don't have a Class Action 'ability' to sign away.
All arguments and bigotry aside, if your pastor was correct then AIDs wouldn't be the problem it is today.
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Looking at this map of AIDs infection per African country in 2001, you can see that some countries are closing in on having 40% of their population infected.
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Now, these figures are hard to estimate, but this site provides some figures on the number of people whom have experimented with same-sex partners http://www.avert.org/hsexu1.htm. Lets take 10% as a figure, for example - that's still a quarter of the number required to make your Pastor's comments anything but pure BS.
Just look at the stats: this disease is killing a huge number of people, the people who are among the poorest and least educated in the world. There are literally millions of kids who are born HIV infected. These kids right now have little chance of even reproducing. What life they do have is plagued by sickness.
As a Christian you should be the first to empathize and want to do something to help these people. You should be he first people cheering news articles such as this one. Unless of course the Trollish race got the philosophies of Hitler and JC muddled up..