Assembler is just a pseudo-english version of the opcodes anyhow. Instead of using numbers for specific registers and other arithmetic needed to generate the proper op code for certain instructions (e.g. on x86, to calculate what number to use so that MOVL knows whether to use a certain register, a certain word in memory, etc.), it is only slightly simplified so that you can remember 3-8 (CMP8XCHG comes to mind:P) letter "words" instead of arbitrary numbers. It's very possible to write a program using just the opcodes, but why do that when the assembler will just convert it for you?
NCAA basketball, equivalent to playoffs. I don't know if there's a "Final Four" tournament in other NCAA sports, but the basketball one is going on currently.
A lot of people who read Slashdot and post here have a lot of influence in what people buy related to IT, and that includes operating systems, database software, mail servers, web servers, and even videogame consoles. If Microsoft can get people here to think that Microsoft products are worth renting, they win new customers.
The "Average American" (or as we call them, Joe Sixpack and Grandma, although Grandma is politically active and horrible with computers, while Joe Sixpack owns far too much technology he doesn't know how to use) also doesn't give a shit about "consumer issues", and thus they won't be going to The Consumerist's website. The people who would care, however, were already there, so that news did affect the results.
Sony is a major member of the RIAA (Sony BMG), and they were hated on pretty badly. The other main publishers, EMI, Universal, and Warner, are also pretty hated in their own respects as well. Perhaps not EMI as much since they don't also publish movies and aren't associated with Hollywood, but the others are hated in their own respects.
Also, the fact that a generally well-liked (at least in the past) electronics company like Sony can be hated and boycotted so much due to a sibling company like Sony BMG just shows that nobody (not even Google) is safe when you associate with the MAFIAA.
Well, a couple options for you then would be Magnatune ($5/album, downloadable, no DRM, your choice of FLAC, VBR MP3, Vorbis, and/or AAC; also lets you download 128k MP3 files of all the songs gratis so you know what you're buying) or a used CD/anything store or website like Half.com (used CDs). If you know of a used CD store nearby, you could always go there to check out what they've got, and perhaps they have a way for you to sample the CDs like so many of them do.
But what about civil lawsuits against corporations? What if you used to work at a company that [insert nasty corporate thing here], but the employers were forced to sign NDAs (however unenforceable they may be) before they were hired and were thus too afraid to tell anyone? Or perhaps the company keeps a "trade secret" of said abuse, and perhaps whistleblowing isn't damning enough to use in court anymore. Now you've got hardly any evidence but your own word, and that's not going to be good enough for a 100% "beyond a reasonable doubt" sort of case.
Maybe corporations shouldn't be allowed to sue individuals (but could sue other corporations in corporate matters). That should help fix a lot of problems.
Well, if we're both thinking of the term in regards to an invalid method of proving something (e.g. in [mathematical] logic) where you assume the conclusion is true (or false), then I can see why you're annoyed by his invalid use of the term. Although, Wikipedia says this about the improper use of the phrase:
Today, the phrase is also frequently seen in a different usage with the meaning "raise the question." In educated contexts this use is rare and widely regarded as incorrect, but it has nevertheless become very common in the news media.
Then how can you explain why Wii games only cost $50 still? I blame the increased graphical power of the 360 and PS3 which increases the development costs due to the developers' (or publishers?) need to utilise all graphical power available.
Well, if anyone important (i.e. licensed) gets affected by it, they can just increase their signal and drown you out since they have the right to do so. That should give you the hint to change to a different frequency.
Well, GNU existed much earlier, but they sat on their asses and never got around to writing a kernel for it until recently, and even that kernel is pretty alpha and slow to develop. GNU originally was made to replace Unix, so at first it was distributed as a way to replace your Unix programs (e.g. GCC over a proprietary C compiler, coreutils, binutils, etc.) but still run on your current Unix platform. If Hurd (or some other kernel) had been developed earlier, we could've had a completely free operating system before DOS even existed. Because of that damn kernel, you couldn't exactly run GNU on cheap PC hardware since there weren't any Unixes for it (or if there were, they were very expensive).
Now that we've finally got a working kernel with tons of hardware support, we're still having fun trying to get people to use it due to Microsoft lock-in and "power users" spreading FUD about GNU/Linux systems (I can't change the options via registry hacks! *cries* Linux isn't ready for the desktop [until it's the same exact thing as Windows]). The use cases for GNU/Linux only continue to broaden, so more and more people can try it without having to worry about hardware support and other annoyances common to Linux about 10 years ago.
Janitors (and maintenance men/women in general) are typically in what's called a union. I take it you've never heard of them since you think janitors are so easily exploitable. Unions exist in order to prevent said exploitation from occurring. You see, this idea was popularised around a century ago in the US, and also in many other areas of the world at different times.
All the shit he had to go through to still not have his scanner working in Windows due to the crapware in Dell machines has driven off about 95% of Dell's customers (see? I can make bullshit statistics too).
Also, apparently nobody used computers until about Windows XP where you didn't need the command line for anything (because it was beyond crippled, and if you couldn't do it via some obscure menu, you're fucked). I call bullshit.
So you're assuming that they only offer one version of Windows? Have you heard of the six different versions? Twelve if you count the "upgrade" versions of each. Don't forget that XP had XP Home, XP Professional, and Media Center editions.
When you go the "Linux" route, you can easily support a few major distros (e.g. Red Hat (or Fedora), SuSE, Ubuntu (or Linspire?), and Mandriva), each of which provide their own method of support in which Dell could help link the customer to for their support calls. Also, providing the Linux kernel version (along with any custom patches as required by the GPL) would be monumentally helpful for those who wish to use any distro that includes a kernel of that version (hardware support would be guaranteed basically). They could also just go with 1 or 2 distros instead and just provide the Linux kernel version as well for those who want to use their own distro.
Also, companies like Dell flash the operating system on the fly onto the machines (especially since you're customising the machine in the first place). And if companies like Dell, HP, etc., were offering a Linux distro as an operating system on their computers, they would be able to strong-arm their hardware suppliers (or their own hardware divisions) to provide open Linux drivers so that it would work. For the companies that refuse to write the drivers (or give open specifications to Linux developers), they can miss out on providing the computer manufacturers with parts and thus losing out on a good deal of profits in order to "protect their precious intellectual property" (are you a hardware manufacturer or not!?).
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Assembler is just a pseudo-english version of the opcodes anyhow. Instead of using numbers for specific registers and other arithmetic needed to generate the proper op code for certain instructions (e.g. on x86, to calculate what number to use so that MOVL knows whether to use a certain register, a certain word in memory, etc.), it is only slightly simplified so that you can remember 3-8 (CMP8XCHG comes to mind :P) letter "words" instead of arbitrary numbers. It's very possible to write a program using just the opcodes, but why do that when the assembler will just convert it for you?
NCAA basketball, equivalent to playoffs. I don't know if there's a "Final Four" tournament in other NCAA sports, but the basketball one is going on currently.
A lot of people who read Slashdot and post here have a lot of influence in what people buy related to IT, and that includes operating systems, database software, mail servers, web servers, and even videogame consoles. If Microsoft can get people here to think that Microsoft products are worth renting, they win new customers.
The "Average American" (or as we call them, Joe Sixpack and Grandma, although Grandma is politically active and horrible with computers, while Joe Sixpack owns far too much technology he doesn't know how to use) also doesn't give a shit about "consumer issues", and thus they won't be going to The Consumerist's website. The people who would care, however, were already there, so that news did affect the results.
Sony is a major member of the RIAA (Sony BMG), and they were hated on pretty badly. The other main publishers, EMI, Universal, and Warner, are also pretty hated in their own respects as well. Perhaps not EMI as much since they don't also publish movies and aren't associated with Hollywood, but the others are hated in their own respects.
Also, the fact that a generally well-liked (at least in the past) electronics company like Sony can be hated and boycotted so much due to a sibling company like Sony BMG just shows that nobody (not even Google) is safe when you associate with the MAFIAA.
Well, a couple options for you then would be Magnatune ($5/album, downloadable, no DRM, your choice of FLAC, VBR MP3, Vorbis, and/or AAC; also lets you download 128k MP3 files of all the songs gratis so you know what you're buying) or a used CD/anything store or website like Half.com (used CDs). If you know of a used CD store nearby, you could always go there to check out what they've got, and perhaps they have a way for you to sample the CDs like so many of them do.
My guess is that the case could continue on with her heir (or spouse if still alive) or something like that.
But what about civil lawsuits against corporations? What if you used to work at a company that [insert nasty corporate thing here], but the employers were forced to sign NDAs (however unenforceable they may be) before they were hired and were thus too afraid to tell anyone? Or perhaps the company keeps a "trade secret" of said abuse, and perhaps whistleblowing isn't damning enough to use in court anymore. Now you've got hardly any evidence but your own word, and that's not going to be good enough for a 100% "beyond a reasonable doubt" sort of case.
Maybe corporations shouldn't be allowed to sue individuals (but could sue other corporations in corporate matters). That should help fix a lot of problems.
Apparently, nobody has ever used microsoftsucks as a tag. At least, not enough people for the system to care.
You do know that's just an example of the broken window fallacy, right?
Then how can you explain why Wii games only cost $50 still? I blame the increased graphical power of the 360 and PS3 which increases the development costs due to the developers' (or publishers?) need to utilise all graphical power available.
Well, if anyone important (i.e. licensed) gets affected by it, they can just increase their signal and drown you out since they have the right to do so. That should give you the hint to change to a different frequency.
Well, the guy you're downloading from is probably committing copyright infringement, but that's for him to worry about.
So where can I download a secure by default Windows distro?
Well, GNU existed much earlier, but they sat on their asses and never got around to writing a kernel for it until recently, and even that kernel is pretty alpha and slow to develop. GNU originally was made to replace Unix, so at first it was distributed as a way to replace your Unix programs (e.g. GCC over a proprietary C compiler, coreutils, binutils, etc.) but still run on your current Unix platform. If Hurd (or some other kernel) had been developed earlier, we could've had a completely free operating system before DOS even existed. Because of that damn kernel, you couldn't exactly run GNU on cheap PC hardware since there weren't any Unixes for it (or if there were, they were very expensive).
Now that we've finally got a working kernel with tons of hardware support, we're still having fun trying to get people to use it due to Microsoft lock-in and "power users" spreading FUD about GNU/Linux systems (I can't change the options via registry hacks! *cries* Linux isn't ready for the desktop [until it's the same exact thing as Windows]). The use cases for GNU/Linux only continue to broaden, so more and more people can try it without having to worry about hardware support and other annoyances common to Linux about 10 years ago.
Fox already owns the trademark for using LOL in a televisual manner; expect your C&D letter in a couple days.
— News Corp.
No, .01% = .0001, so .0001 * 11.5 million = 1150.
Well, Nabisco isn't owned or heavily influenced by any members of the current Executive office...
Janitors (and maintenance men/women in general) are typically in what's called a union. I take it you've never heard of them since you think janitors are so easily exploitable. Unions exist in order to prevent said exploitation from occurring. You see, this idea was popularised around a century ago in the US, and also in many other areas of the world at different times.
And I'd rather have Microsoft use the already ISO-standardised and widely used ODF standard.
All the shit he had to go through to still not have his scanner working in Windows due to the crapware in Dell machines has driven off about 95% of Dell's customers (see? I can make bullshit statistics too).
Also, apparently nobody used computers until about Windows XP where you didn't need the command line for anything (because it was beyond crippled, and if you couldn't do it via some obscure menu, you're fucked). I call bullshit.
So you're assuming that they only offer one version of Windows? Have you heard of the six different versions? Twelve if you count the "upgrade" versions of each. Don't forget that XP had XP Home, XP Professional, and Media Center editions.
When you go the "Linux" route, you can easily support a few major distros (e.g. Red Hat (or Fedora), SuSE, Ubuntu (or Linspire?), and Mandriva), each of which provide their own method of support in which Dell could help link the customer to for their support calls. Also, providing the Linux kernel version (along with any custom patches as required by the GPL) would be monumentally helpful for those who wish to use any distro that includes a kernel of that version (hardware support would be guaranteed basically). They could also just go with 1 or 2 distros instead and just provide the Linux kernel version as well for those who want to use their own distro.
Also, companies like Dell flash the operating system on the fly onto the machines (especially since you're customising the machine in the first place). And if companies like Dell, HP, etc., were offering a Linux distro as an operating system on their computers, they would be able to strong-arm their hardware suppliers (or their own hardware divisions) to provide open Linux drivers so that it would work. For the companies that refuse to write the drivers (or give open specifications to Linux developers), they can miss out on providing the computer manufacturers with parts and thus losing out on a good deal of profits in order to "protect their precious intellectual property" (are you a hardware manufacturer or not!?).