As someone who lives an hour and a half from the canadian border, I can assure you that is not true. You do need some form of ID to cross from Canada to the U.S., but a birth certificate (if you are from the U.S.) or a driver's license will do just fine.
Actually, you're allowed to refuse to show your receipt, and they can't use it as a reason to detain you. Remind me to never shop at circuit city again.
The GUI is just as fearsome for the uninitiated. As I said, a professional should not operate a tool without proper training. If my doctor was using a computer and assuming it was accurate to within.0000000001% then he should not be operating a computer. If a doctor runs an MRI without training, very bad things can happen (particularly if something magnetic is inside the person). Use of a computer is usually not quite as dangerous, but used the wrong way it could be. The "it's just my job I don't have to understand it" defense doesn't apply here. If you're too afraid of a computer to understand it, don't use it for something important. Carpentry and medicine both involve the potential for lethal mistakes.
Assuming software is actually useful in an occupation, with the exception of truly graphical programs like CAD, these same people would have been using a console 15 years ago. 15 years is a long time in computers, but not in the rest of the world. GUIs are nice frontends to useful tools but someone who is scared of a console has no business using it for business. You should not depend on anything for your business if you are scared of it, certainly not something you use every day.
No, it wasn't obvious you were referring to 'simpletons' and if you are that thin-skinned, GTFO. You should be no more scared of a console than a GUI. You shouldn't operate either of them for business without documentation and instructions.
Sometimes you have to move slowly to get things right. I have a computer that XP pops up the 'Your resolution is too low' window on and then procedes to throw the monitor into an unsupported resolution (so no image at all). Thanks for assuming I wanted *that* one MS.
As an OS X user that used to use (and still does from time to time) linux, I have to say this is one of my most missed features. The fact is that any graphical system or program crashes from time to time. More often than not I could go to a VT and kill the offending process. Now about once a week I have to hard-shutdown my mac to get it working again, a definite downgrade.
While I can't remember the last time I actually needed to do this, yes, it works. Often for distros like Ubuntu software that has to be distributed like this is distributed as a.deb package. You download this to your desktop and double-click it. It works like a one-step installer (open it and click 'install') usually. I think it is also possible to do some configuration with those. Like I said, programs that are distributed like this are rare.
Go use synaptic, I've often found Windows installation (and especially uninstallation) to be far more complicated. There are no gory details, search, click package, click apply. Installation happens, program appears in the Gnome Menu / K Menu / Whatever. There are 18 different installer 'tools' for Windows, each with its own quirks, especially with uninstalls. YOU'RE denying the gory details. Now please, go get a computer with Norton pre-installed and try to remove it, without using google.
I grew up on DOS, can I make the world go back to that? It was the 'predominant' interface. The console is natural to me, and I stopped using windows when A) The DOS box became really just an emulator and B) I found myself opening cygwin on every boot.
'Predominant' interfaces change, even on PCs. For macs, well, the second computer I ever used was an Apple II. Later on I used a powerbook and a Macintosh LC, plus a Quadra in there somewhere. Now I have a macbook, the interface is totally different.
I named the first PPT presentation I ever made in 8.3 file format, I even got the file extension correct. Windows completely broke a DOS user's expectation. The first question I had was 'what is the path of desktop?' Likewise I have trouble on vista, part of that can be attributed to inexperience, but part of it is the lack of menus, standard on virtually all GUIs for at least the last 15 years, now gone. I think in just the past few years manufacturer's have finally got the message 'go ahead and change whatever you want! throw out the old junk!' Of course, new PCs still come with PS/2 ports, and usually with LPT ports as well. As far as I know, Windows also still supports OS/2 programs, though that might have been dropped by now.
Sorry for the rambling, I'll go to bed now (maybe).
Please read about the following countries: The UAE, Bahrain, and Turkey. Qatar is also making progress. Stop being a bigot. (Note: I'm atheist, I don't like muslims anymore than I like christians, and I don't much care for christians.)
Don't assume that all muslim countries are backwards hellholes. I'll do my part by not assuming all the red states still think democracy is a better idea than theocracy.
The binary was probably generated correctly, and cc was probably called correctly as well. Your system isn't behaving because you installed something that deals with permissions in a non-standard way (standard == POSIX). If the makers of your distro make sure the binaries they generate are tagged properly for whatever system they are using that is great, but I find it unlikely that there is anything in the binary that is there specifically for SE Linux.
For your first argument, the GPL allows you to do what you want with your copy of something, so someone's car and home being GPL would only mean they had to give you the designs for them if they gave them to you.
As for the real argument. Why does a company need the right to dictate what you can and can't do with their product? Car companies don't tell me I can't modify the car to add a new engine or upgrade the air conditioner. Once I purchase a product, the manufacturer no longer owns it, and they cannot tell me how I can or cannot use it. They can tell me that I can't copy the contents of the disk and give those contents to other people, as that might hurt their ability to sell more TiVos. However, me modifying my TiVo should not hurt their ability to sell more of them. Only the DMCA allows them to enforce their restrictions.
Put another way, does a company that sells hammers have the right to tell me I can only use their brand of nails with the hammer? Or that I can't take apart the hammer?
Your class was very different from what is taught in Spencerport. There was nothing about masturbation, and they specifically said they thought teaching anything about condoms was irresponsible. The only movies shown were about abortion (both sides, presumably to avoid problems with the few liberals in town) with the Pro-life side showing lots of dead fetuses and a far less repugnant pro-choice side. As for values, that is up to parents, not schools. You might note that I have nothing against conservatism, I do have something against religious fanatics, which a lot of the conservatives I've seen are. The entire class was abstinence.
And before you decide I'm bashing conservatives again, the agrarian conservatives in this area (as opposed to the big business conservatives in washington) would be great if they didn't believe that anyone who disagreed with them was going to hell, and told you so.
There are extremely few liberals in town. The issue was pressed a few years ago, but there was a lot of resistance from other parents. And yes, the conservatives around here are bad, they're the closest things to religious fanatics you'll find in the area. If full blown sex ed means movies of dead fetuses and hearing about how bad homosexuals are, then yes, we had it. If it means teaching more than just "don't have sex or you'll die!" then no, we didn't. Our Sex Ed class was more about "having a wholesome life" than anything useful.
I live in Spencerport, NY in Upstate New York. My High School had an abstinence only curriculum. The class considered anything else to be completely unacceptable. This is the public High School. I hope _YOU_ haven't ever been to the U.S., this is very common around here.
...and thousands of years of democracy go down the drain.
We're entitled to everything, we give up some things to ensure safety and equality. How much we give up is also up to us, or at least it is supposed to be. To say the opposite is to invite totalitarianism, which is the proper word for what most people mean by 'communism.' A society without freedom can happen no matter what you call your government or what the idiots in office preach.
Stopping the government from doing stupid things (in the absence of a reliable voting system) means protest. Protest means organization. The right to assemble is protected by the first amendment. To nullify this right you only need two ingredients: the ability to investigate and detain any criminal without oversight, and a policy of 'those who speak against the government in wartime are criminals.' All surveillance without oversight does is make it easy to assume everyone is guilty without actually saying it. We punish criminals by taking their rights and freedoms, the purpose of the criminal justice system is to way the potential for taking the rights of the innocent versus the public interest in taking the rights of the guilty.
We are in yet another endless war, millions of our people won't die, so no one will think to do anything to stop it. Instead yet more of our rights will be lost, and our country will start looking even more fundamentalist. We added "under god" to the pledge to respond to 'the evil communist atheists.' What will we do to respond to 'the evil terrorist muslims?' Maybe we'll put a crucifix on the flag, or on the Great Seal. It's true that symbolic actions like this take away no one's rights, but they contribute to a culture of intolerance, which is exactly what is intended.
They can probably replicate the number. I think I remember a ruling (by the Library of Congress?) recently that users can unlock their phones. You can already use an unlocked phone (with manufacturer's firmware) with phone companies, I imagine there are relatively few restrictions in that firmware.
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As someone who lives an hour and a half from the canadian border, I can assure you that is not true. You do need some form of ID to cross from Canada to the U.S., but a birth certificate (if you are from the U.S.) or a driver's license will do just fine.
Did they pay the same amount for college, too?
Same in NY, it's either $10 or $15 for a non-driver ID card here.
Actually, you're allowed to refuse to show your receipt, and they can't use it as a reason to detain you. Remind me to never shop at circuit city again.
The GUI is just as fearsome for the uninitiated. As I said, a professional should not operate a tool without proper training. If my doctor was using a computer and assuming it was accurate to within .0000000001% then he should not be operating a computer. If a doctor runs an MRI without training, very bad things can happen (particularly if something magnetic is inside the person). Use of a computer is usually not quite as dangerous, but used the wrong way it could be. The "it's just my job I don't have to understand it" defense doesn't apply here. If you're too afraid of a computer to understand it, don't use it for something important. Carpentry and medicine both involve the potential for lethal mistakes.
Assuming software is actually useful in an occupation, with the exception of truly graphical programs like CAD, these same people would have been using a console 15 years ago. 15 years is a long time in computers, but not in the rest of the world. GUIs are nice frontends to useful tools but someone who is scared of a console has no business using it for business. You should not depend on anything for your business if you are scared of it, certainly not something you use every day.
No, it wasn't obvious you were referring to 'simpletons' and if you are that thin-skinned, GTFO. You should be no more scared of a console than a GUI. You shouldn't operate either of them for business without documentation and instructions.
Sometimes you have to move slowly to get things right. I have a computer that XP pops up the 'Your resolution is too low' window on and then procedes to throw the monitor into an unsupported resolution (so no image at all). Thanks for assuming I wanted *that* one MS.
As an OS X user that used to use (and still does from time to time) linux, I have to say this is one of my most missed features. The fact is that any graphical system or program crashes from time to time. More often than not I could go to a VT and kill the offending process. Now about once a week I have to hard-shutdown my mac to get it working again, a definite downgrade.
While I can't remember the last time I actually needed to do this, yes, it works. Often for distros like Ubuntu software that has to be distributed like this is distributed as a .deb package. You download this to your desktop and double-click it. It works like a one-step installer (open it and click 'install') usually. I think it is also possible to do some configuration with those. Like I said, programs that are distributed like this are rare.
Go use synaptic, I've often found Windows installation (and especially uninstallation) to be far more complicated. There are no gory details, search, click package, click apply. Installation happens, program appears in the Gnome Menu / K Menu / Whatever. There are 18 different installer 'tools' for Windows, each with its own quirks, especially with uninstalls. YOU'RE denying the gory details. Now please, go get a computer with Norton pre-installed and try to remove it, without using google.
I grew up on DOS, can I make the world go back to that? It was the 'predominant' interface. The console is natural to me, and I stopped using windows when A) The DOS box became really just an emulator and B) I found myself opening cygwin on every boot.
'Predominant' interfaces change, even on PCs. For macs, well, the second computer I ever used was an Apple II. Later on I used a powerbook and a Macintosh LC, plus a Quadra in there somewhere. Now I have a macbook, the interface is totally different.
I named the first PPT presentation I ever made in 8.3 file format, I even got the file extension correct. Windows completely broke a DOS user's expectation. The first question I had was 'what is the path of desktop?' Likewise I have trouble on vista, part of that can be attributed to inexperience, but part of it is the lack of menus, standard on virtually all GUIs for at least the last 15 years, now gone. I think in just the past few years manufacturer's have finally got the message 'go ahead and change whatever you want! throw out the old junk!' Of course, new PCs still come with PS/2 ports, and usually with LPT ports as well. As far as I know, Windows also still supports OS/2 programs, though that might have been dropped by now.
Sorry for the rambling, I'll go to bed now (maybe).
Because clearly what some relative of yours did makes you better than everyone else. Sorry, you only get credit for what you do.
The NSA isn't licensing that yet.
You live in Rochester, too? Sucks doesn't it.
Dear Idiot,
Please read about the following countries: The UAE, Bahrain, and Turkey. Qatar is also making progress. Stop being a bigot. (Note: I'm atheist, I don't like muslims anymore than I like christians, and I don't much care for christians.)
Don't assume that all muslim countries are backwards hellholes. I'll do my part by not assuming all the red states still think democracy is a better idea than theocracy.
Interesting, except ld builds PIC libs by default.
Speaking as a developer:
The binary was probably generated correctly, and cc was probably called correctly as well. Your system isn't behaving because you installed something that deals with permissions in a non-standard way (standard == POSIX). If the makers of your distro make sure the binaries they generate are tagged properly for whatever system they are using that is great, but I find it unlikely that there is anything in the binary that is there specifically for SE Linux.
For your first argument, the GPL allows you to do what you want with your copy of something, so someone's car and home being GPL would only mean they had to give you the designs for them if they gave them to you.
As for the real argument. Why does a company need the right to dictate what you can and can't do with their product? Car companies don't tell me I can't modify the car to add a new engine or upgrade the air conditioner. Once I purchase a product, the manufacturer no longer owns it, and they cannot tell me how I can or cannot use it. They can tell me that I can't copy the contents of the disk and give those contents to other people, as that might hurt their ability to sell more TiVos. However, me modifying my TiVo should not hurt their ability to sell more of them. Only the DMCA allows them to enforce their restrictions.
Put another way, does a company that sells hammers have the right to tell me I can only use their brand of nails with the hammer? Or that I can't take apart the hammer?
Your class was very different from what is taught in Spencerport. There was nothing about masturbation, and they specifically said they thought teaching anything about condoms was irresponsible. The only movies shown were about abortion (both sides, presumably to avoid problems with the few liberals in town) with the Pro-life side showing lots of dead fetuses and a far less repugnant pro-choice side. As for values, that is up to parents, not schools. You might note that I have nothing against conservatism, I do have something against religious fanatics, which a lot of the conservatives I've seen are. The entire class was abstinence.
And before you decide I'm bashing conservatives again, the agrarian conservatives in this area (as opposed to the big business conservatives in washington) would be great if they didn't believe that anyone who disagreed with them was going to hell, and told you so.
There are extremely few liberals in town. The issue was pressed a few years ago, but there was a lot of resistance from other parents. And yes, the conservatives around here are bad, they're the closest things to religious fanatics you'll find in the area. If full blown sex ed means movies of dead fetuses and hearing about how bad homosexuals are, then yes, we had it. If it means teaching more than just "don't have sex or you'll die!" then no, we didn't. Our Sex Ed class was more about "having a wholesome life" than anything useful.
Connecticut is a bit more liberal than here. Upstate NY is unfortunately very conservative.
I live in Spencerport, NY in Upstate New York. My High School had an abstinence only curriculum. The class considered anything else to be completely unacceptable. This is the public High School. I hope _YOU_ haven't ever been to the U.S., this is very common around here.
I am pretty sure that Athens was around >2000 years ago. So yes, thousands.
...and thousands of years of democracy go down the drain.
We're entitled to everything, we give up some things to ensure safety and equality. How much we give up is also up to us, or at least it is supposed to be. To say the opposite is to invite totalitarianism, which is the proper word for what most people mean by 'communism.' A society without freedom can happen no matter what you call your government or what the idiots in office preach.
Stopping the government from doing stupid things (in the absence of a reliable voting system) means protest. Protest means organization. The right to assemble is protected by the first amendment. To nullify this right you only need two ingredients: the ability to investigate and detain any criminal without oversight, and a policy of 'those who speak against the government in wartime are criminals.' All surveillance without oversight does is make it easy to assume everyone is guilty without actually saying it. We punish criminals by taking their rights and freedoms, the purpose of the criminal justice system is to way the potential for taking the rights of the innocent versus the public interest in taking the rights of the guilty.
We are in yet another endless war, millions of our people won't die, so no one will think to do anything to stop it. Instead yet more of our rights will be lost, and our country will start looking even more fundamentalist. We added "under god" to the pledge to respond to 'the evil communist atheists.' What will we do to respond to 'the evil terrorist muslims?' Maybe we'll put a crucifix on the flag, or on the Great Seal. It's true that symbolic actions like this take away no one's rights, but they contribute to a culture of intolerance, which is exactly what is intended.
They can probably replicate the number. I think I remember a ruling (by the Library of Congress?) recently that users can unlock their phones. You can already use an unlocked phone (with manufacturer's firmware) with phone companies, I imagine there are relatively few restrictions in that firmware.