I actually just graduated a couple months ago, and was lucky enough to get a job at a small but growing division in a large company. Our product ships on multiple versions of about 8 OS's, so we've got Unix coming out the wazoo. I'm having fun working here, and I hope you get the same chance.
And the beauty of Linux is that you have that choice. I like Gnome, I've enjoyed KDE at various points in the past...but sometimes, something like xfce or fluxbox is good. I don't see it as a shame that "bloated" environments exist. I see it as a benefit that the choice is available for those that miss a Windows-like interface.
I agree with deacon, but I'd like to add....the guy's posting AC. Why the heck would someone waste mod points on someone logged in, unless that AC were being a jerk?
But in Chinese culture, they don't mind the abridgment of their rights. The government is the all-knowing authority figure, and what it says must be right.
As a piece of anecdotal evidence, the three people I know running Vista have had problems with vlc. It would run properly for perhaps a months, and then would refuse to play video. I had to change the video output mode manually (in VLC's settings) to get it working again. On one of those three machines, the Windows Media Player stopped displaying video at the same time. These issues haven't been fixed by any of Microsoft's patches.
As an American, I'm not convinced either way. I believe that both parties are working purely toward their own ends, rather than for my benefit. I feel trapped in the middle of the whole thing, being given two options, neither of which I wholly approve of.
In California, certain categories of IT workers (such as programmers and software engineers) are not allowed to be overtime-exempt employees. We're required to be hourly and be eligible for overtime to counteract exactly what it is that Apple is being accused of.
I'm thinking that they mean that the systems should be recoded to make it possible to do Schwarzenegger's changes as quickly as he wants them, and that they would need Cobol programmers to help port the code.
You've only hit on part of what free software is about. It's also about being unencumbered by patent messes, so the same code isn't reimplemented in a dozen different ways, and programmers aren't figuring out work-arounds for existing patents.
The word for this is "desperate". The people see something that they think might get them a better situation, and they'll stop at nothing to jump on it.
NTFS supports "alternate data streams", and there's no reason a diff couldn't be stored in a different file or something. My first thought was actually vim, where (depending on settings) it saves a file ~ that contains the old version of the file. That could be used to generate a diff patch.
The 10 Commandments are fundamental to Jewish beliefs. They are part of God's pact with Moses and the Jews. Christians basically have 2: "Love God" and "do unto others".
I would disagree rather strongly that WoW has particularly good gameplay. I tried it, and I only found the same repetitive trudging as in every other MMORPG. It's being able to play with friends that makes it any good, and WoW isn't even *close* to alone in being able to do that.
It's not about the practical matter of how effective DRM is. In theory, DRM is effective. That's how the law treats it, and that's how companies market it. Hardware companies have to play along with the charade, or find themselves unable to obtain the necessary licenses for whatever the new whiz-bang entertainment technology is in a few years.
It depends on if your intent/purpose is to import it from elsewhere. Making something scarce and making something illegal are vastly different, even if on the surface they have similar results (in some cases)
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I actually just graduated a couple months ago, and was lucky enough to get a job at a small but growing division in a large company. Our product ships on multiple versions of about 8 OS's, so we've got Unix coming out the wazoo. I'm having fun working here, and I hope you get the same chance.
And the beauty of Linux is that you have that choice. I like Gnome, I've enjoyed KDE at various points in the past...but sometimes, something like xfce or fluxbox is good. I don't see it as a shame that "bloated" environments exist. I see it as a benefit that the choice is available for those that miss a Windows-like interface.
I agree with deacon, but I'd like to add....the guy's posting AC. Why the heck would someone waste mod points on someone logged in, unless that AC were being a jerk?
Nah, we'll have the ansible by then...and alien bugs to contend with =/
So....bacon makes you a genius! Awesome!
No, you're confusing whales and elephants with the otters....those damned, super-intelligent otters!
I conduct scientific research every time I design a new algorithm and run a test program to figure out how good it is. Someone please come lock me up.
Or right, even.
But in Chinese culture, they don't mind the abridgment of their rights. The government is the all-knowing authority figure, and what it says must be right.
Well....I got it =)
For those in the dark, "mist" is crap.
As a piece of anecdotal evidence, the three people I know running Vista have had problems with vlc. It would run properly for perhaps a months, and then would refuse to play video. I had to change the video output mode manually (in VLC's settings) to get it working again. On one of those three machines, the Windows Media Player stopped displaying video at the same time. These issues haven't been fixed by any of Microsoft's patches.
As an American, I'm not convinced either way. I believe that both parties are working purely toward their own ends, rather than for my benefit. I feel trapped in the middle of the whole thing, being given two options, neither of which I wholly approve of.
In California, certain categories of IT workers (such as programmers and software engineers) are not allowed to be overtime-exempt employees. We're required to be hourly and be eligible for overtime to counteract exactly what it is that Apple is being accused of.
Once again, the NES doesn't run on a z80, it's a modified m6502 chip, the 2a03.
I'm thinking that they mean that the systems should be recoded to make it possible to do Schwarzenegger's changes as quickly as he wants them, and that they would need Cobol programmers to help port the code.
You've only hit on part of what free software is about. It's also about being unencumbered by patent messes, so the same code isn't reimplemented in a dozen different ways, and programmers aren't figuring out work-arounds for existing patents.
The word for this is "desperate". The people see something that they think might get them a better situation, and they'll stop at nothing to jump on it.
NTFS supports "alternate data streams", and there's no reason a diff couldn't be stored in a different file or something. My first thought was actually vim, where (depending on settings) it saves a file ~ that contains the old version of the file. That could be used to generate a diff patch.
The 10 Commandments are fundamental to Jewish beliefs. They are part of God's pact with Moses and the Jews. Christians basically have 2: "Love God" and "do unto others".
Part of the point is that his back story doesn't really matter. Making a movie about the Joker's back story would be rather pointless.
Please use full sentences. Parsing your subject-less rant was annoying.
I would disagree rather strongly that WoW has particularly good gameplay. I tried it, and I only found the same repetitive trudging as in every other MMORPG. It's being able to play with friends that makes it any good, and WoW isn't even *close* to alone in being able to do that.
It's not about the practical matter of how effective DRM is. In theory, DRM is effective. That's how the law treats it, and that's how companies market it. Hardware companies have to play along with the charade, or find themselves unable to obtain the necessary licenses for whatever the new whiz-bang entertainment technology is in a few years.
DivX and AVC are vastly different codecs. That's part of the difference here.
It depends on if your intent/purpose is to import it from elsewhere. Making something scarce and making something illegal are vastly different, even if on the surface they have similar results (in some cases)