Anecdotally, IME it still is common. Everyone whom I talk to uses windows, and they all have their computer crash every so often, even the XP users. Of course this could be hardware problems etc.
Hmm, you're right about scandisk, but my windows 3.1 certainly had no media player, and explorer is so different from file manager it's a real stretch to call them the same program. Weren't you able to use the old file manager in windows 95, separately from the new one?
The company hiring has their bottom line as the central consideration, if hiring a black person is going to lose them money overall compared to a white person, for any reason, isn't that a legitimate reason not to hire them?
I'm using the windows code through a wine-style layer, so the quality will be as good as on windows, and as you mentioned for real I'm using straight real code. Quicktime doesn't support linux at all, and although MS doesn't either it's much easier to get wmv working (IME of course), so I favour real and wmv over Quicktime. I'm talking about shoutcast streams from anywhere, they don't work at all in arts-based players, xine/kaffeine require me to manually dig the url out of the m3u file before they'll play it, and xmms gets skippy after a while.
Why? If they're paying attention to IIS surely they're just as likely to reduce the rankings for certain types of sites on IIS (SEO spam link sites, for example) as increase the rankings for good sites on IIS (much harder to recognise than bad sites). So if anything I would expect testing on IIS to reduce the ranking of IIS sites.
Nope. If the sig is 1024 bits, erasing the bits that are different from another random download will still leave 512 of them there, enough to identify you uniquely among 2^512 or about 1 with 150 zeroes different customers. And the signature will only depend on the customer, so you'll need to use different accounts for each download. And you can never be sure when you've got enough out that you can't be identified.
Ooh, that makes it ok then. If apple's selling it, it can't possibly be a bad product for customers. After all, they would never sell a bad product rather than no product in order to turn a profit, would they? Not apple, no, they're always thinking of the customer above all else.
But the GPL lets you relicense, so it can't really be taken away. Yesterday I gave my brother a copy of the linux kernel under the GPL. The GPL I got from Linus says I can do that. Now, if today Linus says he's revoking my license, my brother still has his license, because I gave him a license while I still had permission to, and I'm not revoking it. So there will still be plenty of GPL copies of linux.
But your typical distribution - redhat or suse or whatever - contains more code from the GNU than any other source - iirc ~20%. Naming it after the hundred or two mb of kernel compared to all the GNU code seems unfair.
Why do we need to fork it? Just work on KOffice more. It existed before OOo, it's free, it's got all the bits we need. (I would say gnome office too, but that seems to be missing several important components). Koffice was going fine before OOo came along, if it got the developer attention OOo does it would quickly become the best. I honestly believe OOo set back efforts to get a truly free office suite.
Since they became evil. More seriously, a few months. I'm watching them and getting ready to jump ship as soon as they drop the blue background (make no mistake, they will do it).
Hmm. Under UK law they have 6 months to pick them up at their expense (or pay postage for you to return them) if they want to, after that it's yours. Seems a fairer system to me.
It doesn't seem to be monthly, just random averaging about once a month, and this is post-SP2. Could be hardware but memtest ran ok and there's not much else which could go wrong. The nic is quite old but they tend to run forever, the one in the linux box is from the same time. It seems to be good old random windows instability to me, though admittedly I'm biased.
Single sign on is vital, along with very generous expiry. Yes it means a single point of failure, but it's better than the alternative. Most people can come up with one good password, or two, perhaps even 10, but no more. I think two-factor authentication is the way to go if you need more security than that.
90-day expiration is a great way to bring the post-it problem right back, if it's not there already. Some users will be unable to remember strong passwords no matter what you do, and either laugh at your attempts to persuade them to change, or write one down and tell their friends. Plus focusing on them and bugging them about it is a great way to get them to tell it to everyone.
I've found it's pretty much the opposite of what you say. Quicktime is horrible on linux, but both real and wmv play perfectly in my browser (konqueror) with kaffeine, with no difficulty at all unless there's a stupid player detection thing. The quality looks fine, wmv gets blocky at high compression rates like jpeg but that's all. Oddly I have more difficulty with radio streams than video, none of my normal mp3 players play them reliably, and kaffeine feels like overkill.
Don't criticise real, just this once. They introduced it, they were doing it over 28kbps modems (which is probably where all the buffering lines come from...it doesn't happen anymore, it didn't happen on a decent connection, what do you want them to do on a connection so slow, it's not funny), we should salute them.
Devil's advocate here: what if it's in a place where most people are basically racist? If people are going to be less comfortable speaking to a black guy behind the counter, should the company have the right to not hire black people? And if not, why is that any different for people who stink?
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Anecdotally, IME it still is common. Everyone whom I talk to uses windows, and they all have their computer crash every so often, even the XP users. Of course this could be hardware problems etc.
Hmm, you're right about scandisk, but my windows 3.1 certainly had no media player, and explorer is so different from file manager it's a real stretch to call them the same program. Weren't you able to use the old file manager in windows 95, separately from the new one?
The company hiring has their bottom line as the central consideration, if hiring a black person is going to lose them money overall compared to a white person, for any reason, isn't that a legitimate reason not to hire them?
I'm using the windows code through a wine-style layer, so the quality will be as good as on windows, and as you mentioned for real I'm using straight real code. Quicktime doesn't support linux at all, and although MS doesn't either it's much easier to get wmv working (IME of course), so I favour real and wmv over Quicktime. I'm talking about shoutcast streams from anywhere, they don't work at all in arts-based players, xine/kaffeine require me to manually dig the url out of the m3u file before they'll play it, and xmms gets skippy after a while.
If you're a developer, you can pick it up and work on it, and make it more of what you want than the commercial version is.
Why? If they're paying attention to IIS surely they're just as likely to reduce the rankings for certain types of sites on IIS (SEO spam link sites, for example) as increase the rankings for good sites on IIS (much harder to recognise than bad sites). So if anything I would expect testing on IIS to reduce the ranking of IIS sites.
But exactly the same is true of people who stink.
A "government conspiracy" normally involves the government conspiring with oil companies, local steel or similar.
Nope. If the sig is 1024 bits, erasing the bits that are different from another random download will still leave 512 of them there, enough to identify you uniquely among 2^512 or about 1 with 150 zeroes different customers. And the signature will only depend on the customer, so you'll need to use different accounts for each download. And you can never be sure when you've got enough out that you can't be identified.
Ooh, that makes it ok then. If apple's selling it, it can't possibly be a bad product for customers. After all, they would never sell a bad product rather than no product in order to turn a profit, would they? Not apple, no, they're always thinking of the customer above all else.
But the GPL lets you relicense, so it can't really be taken away. Yesterday I gave my brother a copy of the linux kernel under the GPL. The GPL I got from Linus says I can do that. Now, if today Linus says he's revoking my license, my brother still has his license, because I gave him a license while I still had permission to, and I'm not revoking it. So there will still be plenty of GPL copies of linux.
No, you can compile it with ICC and a different toolchain if you want and can afford it.
But your typical distribution - redhat or suse or whatever - contains more code from the GNU than any other source - iirc ~20%. Naming it after the hundred or two mb of kernel compared to all the GNU code seems unfair.
Why do we need to fork it? Just work on KOffice more. It existed before OOo, it's free, it's got all the bits we need. (I would say gnome office too, but that seems to be missing several important components). Koffice was going fine before OOo came along, if it got the developer attention OOo does it would quickly become the best. I honestly believe OOo set back efforts to get a truly free office suite.
Since they became evil. More seriously, a few months. I'm watching them and getting ready to jump ship as soon as they drop the blue background (make no mistake, they will do it).
But how can they do that while suing think secret with a straight face?
Hmm. Under UK law they have 6 months to pick them up at their expense (or pay postage for you to return them) if they want to, after that it's yours. Seems a fairer system to me.
There's a simpler algoritm that works just as well. Just always give them the s block.
It doesn't seem to be monthly, just random averaging about once a month, and this is post-SP2. Could be hardware but memtest ran ok and there's not much else which could go wrong. The nic is quite old but they tend to run forever, the one in the linux box is from the same time. It seems to be good old random windows instability to me, though admittedly I'm biased.
Single sign on is vital, along with very generous expiry. Yes it means a single point of failure, but it's better than the alternative. Most people can come up with one good password, or two, perhaps even 10, but no more. I think two-factor authentication is the way to go if you need more security than that.
90-day expiration is a great way to bring the post-it problem right back, if it's not there already. Some users will be unable to remember strong passwords no matter what you do, and either laugh at your attempts to persuade them to change, or write one down and tell their friends. Plus focusing on them and bugging them about it is a great way to get them to tell it to everyone.
I've found it's pretty much the opposite of what you say. Quicktime is horrible on linux, but both real and wmv play perfectly in my browser (konqueror) with kaffeine, with no difficulty at all unless there's a stupid player detection thing. The quality looks fine, wmv gets blocky at high compression rates like jpeg but that's all. Oddly I have more difficulty with radio streams than video, none of my normal mp3 players play them reliably, and kaffeine feels like overkill.
That's because it's exactly true. Businesses are sociopaths. It's time we got rid of them.
Don't criticise real, just this once. They introduced it, they were doing it over 28kbps modems (which is probably where all the buffering lines come from...it doesn't happen anymore, it didn't happen on a decent connection, what do you want them to do on a connection so slow, it's not funny), we should salute them.
Devil's advocate here: what if it's in a place where most people are basically racist? If people are going to be less comfortable speaking to a black guy behind the counter, should the company have the right to not hire black people? And if not, why is that any different for people who stink?