Thank you, didn't know these. To be honest, I think it looks pretty nice that way! Much less of a clutter than it's currently.
Also, it seems like the ribbon is limited to take about 2/3 menu rows of space, which is what most of us loose to it now anyway.
The main problem, but this is not microsoft's fault, is that (wide)screens have most space in the horizontal direction, but this is a problem everywhere, I guess a menu-bar/ribbon on the left wouldn't work psychologically.
actually, the IAU just introduced pluto to make sure they wouldn't be sued by Holst's lawyers for IP infringement. Since probably his work is into the public domain by now, it's finally safe again to leave it out.
I didn't read the article, but your post actually makes sense. If she proves that one can rate pacman violent, that means that the rating of videogames is just a piece of crap. All you people here should be glad she did this study, not oppose it!
Oh, and can some tell me how tetris rates in this system? Destroying whole rows of blocks, by stoning them with huge blocks, it must be violent!
You're right, everyone who once owned a bike in Amsterdam knows this by experience. A lock is just a way to win time from being robbed. In the case of bikes in Amsterdam, a bike is worth about 25 euro, which is enough for a junk to buy new stuff. So there's enought incentive to buy any bike, not just the expensive ones.
What can you do? One should always use at least 2 locks, and they should be based on different mechanisms. The people stealing are mostly specialized in one type of lock, so combining 2 or 3 different types will let them think twice from stealing your bike. Say they can do 'their' lock in 2 minutes, but the other one in 5 or 10, that will already let them think twice for doing this undisturbed. In a quiet area, it might still happen that your bike gets stolen though! Furthermore, lock all the parts that can be stolen. Lock the front wheel to the frame, and in extreme cases even the saddle. Lock the bike to a post. Combining loose front wheels and loose frames from different bikes makes a new bike! The amount of locks you'll have on your bike will already be a scare-off.
Same goes for houses I guess. Mixing different types of locks, not forgetting your back door, etc. all will help, but just a few minutes more. Those can make the difference anyway. Also, if you overdo it, you might actually lock yourself in in case of emergencies, so you wouldn't even want to have your house look like a money-safe.
Yeah, but take care of the Manure Industry Association of America, who won't be pleased with you uploading all that shit for free, so they'll have problems getting their costumers to pay for their crap.
We were all expecting that sentence to go into another direction, indeed!
Anyway, agree with you on the SD cards, these rock and will probably the "floppy disk" for at least the next couple of years. I bought a sandisk ultra II plusrecently, which doubles as a full size SD card and a USB stick. Already helped me in copying big files several times, since I can just keep it in my camera and have it with me, so I don't have to carry an extra USB stick. I am also considering to buy a car radio with SD player, as they're gretting pretty cheap now, and I won't have to hussle with cds or stick a huge usb stick in the car radio.
The normal SD size is convenient enough to handle, and the smaller ones can all be read as a normal sized one by just using an adapter. Very useable!
For instance, I got an incredible blow job from a girl when I was a sophomore in high school. Thanks to sex ed. I did not have sex with her -- we did not have a condom.
A slashdotter got a blow job once. Is this a hypothetical example? Or else, why isn't it an article the front page?
But seriously, I think the GP is not so much off-topic, but interesting for the case. A bit of a lawyer can probably get a mathematician to declare on oath that 6 is 5, and prove how that is linked to any case they might be in for court there. I guess this deposition means big time trouble, and they need to do a lot of training with this ex-employee.
(BTW, what does he have to gain by this. He'll not likely be paid for what he's doing, in the end he most likely will try to get rid of it as soon as possible for his own personal good, and this might be very nice for the SCO people to get him to tell want they want to hear.)
Of course, in a logical way, nothing bad can happen, but hey, who needs logic when you have a shaky court system.
Anyone should be able to evaluate the license, it's not like they're asked to show the source of their kernel, they're asked to show the license which is the contract any person that deals with the software has to follow (and the other way around). A license is a public thing. How about you getting a mortgage at bank A, and the bank won't tell you their coniditions because it's part of their secret business plan. Would you deal with them, or go to bank B which tells you exactly what they are doing?
Come to think of it, a bank will/has to be very open about how they will invest your money. If they wouldn't, you wouldn't think about investing your money there. By doing so, other banks could just copy their ideas, but that is not the main concern of the costumers, because they'll stick to the bank that has the correct service etc. Software should be like this. Full disclosure, because it's where your money goes and you have the right to know what's in your hand. The fact that in many cases it isn't, probably shows that the costumers in IT (the people responsible for buying in IT solutions for their company), have less long-term financial insight than those at the financial department. Maybe because it't tought to be not important there, but who knows, maybe it'll change in the future, it would be about time!
I remember, but not sure how true it is, that Al previously objected against people publishing his lyrics on the internet and was not so much open minded about music sharing. Seeing the problems he had with that 'Your Pitiful' song, he probably found out how much record companies suck, and apparently got smart and changed his mind (lyrics are just on his myspace page). Gotta love this guy.
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What if he actually ment what he sang is this song? Anyone considered that????? !!
Yes, but what if a astronomic pluton would crash into earth, how would the geologists describe this then? Although I guess when a astronomic pluton hits the earth, the poets won't have to spend any meter on parking meters anymore, the physchologists won't get depressed about meteorologic depressions anymore, and, most fortunate, we're finally saved from Pluto
Maybe it's just a scam or viral marketing campaign to get addresses of scientists to be used for job applications, or something else. I at least get the impression that after some point they'll say 'got ya' and then introduce something completely different.
I don't really see the problem. $600 is not that expensive for a server license (look at IBM licencse costs if you don't believe me), and you end up with a clear contract showing who provided what software etc. etc. Furthermore you're not forced to use closed source. If I were you I would surely stay at a place like that!
I'm now in germany, so the OS on the pcs here is Suse (originaly german linux distribution). There might be better ones, but why should I care, because except for administration, it works exactly as any other linux OS, and I get to do my thing.
The versions older than 9.* apparently couldn't handle the gmail interface properly. As I don't use the betas I installed the official 9.0 when it came out a few months ago. Before, I opened gmail with firefox instead. For the rest I'm not always pleased with the opera updates, the most recent one seems to be noticeable slower and is buggy when it comes to showing video (had some crashes already).
It's now time for a rescue campaign to free the artists from the labels! Stop buying music!
The artists won't earn anything less than they get now anyway.
I wonder if it's ok to go to concerts or maybe that all goes to the labels as well?
A situation like this was once in the newspaper in Holland: pump owners had all the date, but police couldn't be bothered. The newspaper coverage increased the amount of pump-and-run cases a bit (hey, if it's that easy...), but it also made it clear to government and police officials that they had to take this seriously, and I guess they improved since then.
Makes you sometimes wish you were in a corruptable regime, there you could have Police officers at least help you if you gave them money. You'd have to give more money than the crooks of course, but anyway there you know then why they won't help you (if you offer too little), and that is better then not being able to get anything done with the police due to random reasons.
I'm not really sure about those machines, it looks like they have some real problems coming onto them after being dropped, just look:
Drop Test
The Drop test was performed in accordance with MIL-STD-810F, Method 516.5, Procedure IV (Transit Drop Test). The Toughbook 28 was sequentially dropped in non-operating mode, onto each face, edge and corner for a total of 26 drops from a height of 36 inches. The drop surface was defined as two-inch-thick plywood over a steel plate over concrete. (...)
Results
The Toughbooks boot Windows® following each drop.
I should paste one of these standard "Ask Slashdot" forms here, like: "I work for a top 500 company and am responsible for the new e-mail system, should I use some obscure undocumented mailing system because an 18yr old on slashdot has good experiences with this on his home server?"
I'm a nerd as all of you, and the subject is pretty cool (pun!) and interesting. Also there are nice reactions from people that actually dealt with situations like this (in the antartics, yay!). But the company of the poster is running a business, and can not afford to fool around. Monitoring systems in food or chemical industry are a field on its own. There are huge industry expositions and specialized journals that focus just on this subject. Probably there is also a lot of regulation that has to be taken care of as well. If the company the original poster is working for is not in that field, it should either make a serious and costly effort to get into this field if they're interested, or just acknowledge that other people are better suited for the job. Just like parent here, I think that is the only way to solve this problem.
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Indeed! But the problem is how to learn someone this 'approximate knowledge'. I have the impression that this is mostly a matter of personality. Many people stop after the first try, then give up. Other people will turn the malfunctioning device off and on again (this works for a lot of things!). Other will go even further, try to find extra options, then there are the people that takes something apart and put it back together again as it was, and in the end there are the people that start testing currents and whatever, but here we are already way into nerd-world:)
What actually has to be learned is that people get to be a bit of a nerd. Just try other things than the standard ones. Actually this line of thinking will be beneficial in all parts of life.
I'm also in favor of having things that are easy to use in the first place, but as even those will malfunction at some point (programmers/engineers are also people, luckily), it will still be necessary to be a bit of a geek.
I think that this is very much "fair use". I don't want to have all my original CD's lying around in my car. But I'm not trying to make money of copying stuff or giving it away to strangers. But, makes me think, isn't putting it on a P2P network equivalent to giving away to strangers?
And do I read correctly, that you can make copies of the graphic transcription of the music for anything older than 2 year? Or in any case when you did the copy by handwriting? This would be good news for those guitar tabs and lyrics websites. Most of these lyrics were written by someone who listened to text and wrote it down anyway, not from the booklet. I don't know how else there are so many mistakes in them:)
Otherwise, why would they ever start to examine these things close enough to find out there were small particles in it.
Furthermore, I don't think they were talking about just malfunctioning of the batch of batteries, because I guess general malfunctioning was not an issue with these batteries. Otherwise the batteries that exploded would have already been returned to Dell before they could even get the chance to explode. Or where these all brand new batteries that exploded? And how many stories are there about malfunctioning batteries on Dells, except for the exploding ones?
Indeed, shocking! And how can something excessive from 60 hours still support a healthy work-life balance?
From another point, these people are probably building together your precision apple hardware. One might wonder why apple has no reputation for the reliability of its hardware.
Actually this reminds me of the story I heard from a factory owner that moved from korea to china. Labour there is cheap, but the education was a bit lower, and the people worked sloppier (no wonder, how is your work concentration after 10 hours). In the end he needed 3 times the amount of employees and had a doubled amount of faulty products that had to be discarded before leaving the factory.
The solution to this is higher education of the chinese people, which is luckily for them hapenning (although the amount of places in university is till lower than the amount of people that want and could get in). But in the end, this will mean they get more expensive as employees and the benefit of outsourcing to china will be much smaller. By that time Chinese companies will probably be able to get a big part of the marketshare in the world, leaving the original companies in troubles. I won't mind too much as long as I can still buy quality products in stead of crap, no matter where it's made.
A similar thing happened to Ireland. Labour there was very cheap about a decade ago. IT and car companies went there (AMD, some memory factory etc.) and in due time, wages went up. Now, the movement is more towards eastern europe, but won't be a matter of time before the same will happen there.
I don't oppose all this outsourcing when it comes to better living conditions for the people in countries who can use the improvement. What I do oppose is the fact that products made by outsourcing are still as expensive as before, and the gain goes only to a very small point of people. Not to the costumers, not to the employees, but to management and stockholders. This will eventually widen the gap between poor and rich worldwide, which is not something we need at the moment.
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Thank you, didn't know these. To be honest, I think it looks pretty nice that way! Much less of a clutter than it's currently. Also, it seems like the ribbon is limited to take about 2/3 menu rows of space, which is what most of us loose to it now anyway. The main problem, but this is not microsoft's fault, is that (wide)screens have most space in the horizontal direction, but this is a problem everywhere, I guess a menu-bar/ribbon on the left wouldn't work psychologically.
actually, the IAU just introduced pluto to make sure they wouldn't be sued by Holst's lawyers for IP infringement. Since probably his work is into the public domain by now, it's finally safe again to leave it out.
Oh, and can some tell me how tetris rates in this system? Destroying whole rows of blocks, by stoning them with huge blocks, it must be violent!
What can you do? One should always use at least 2 locks, and they should be based on different mechanisms. The people stealing are mostly specialized in one type of lock, so combining 2 or 3 different types will let them think twice from stealing your bike. Say they can do 'their' lock in 2 minutes, but the other one in 5 or 10, that will already let them think twice for doing this undisturbed. In a quiet area, it might still happen that your bike gets stolen though! Furthermore, lock all the parts that can be stolen. Lock the front wheel to the frame, and in extreme cases even the saddle. Lock the bike to a post. Combining loose front wheels and loose frames from different bikes makes a new bike! The amount of locks you'll have on your bike will already be a scare-off.
Same goes for houses I guess. Mixing different types of locks, not forgetting your back door, etc. all will help, but just a few minutes more. Those can make the difference anyway. Also, if you overdo it, you might actually lock yourself in in case of emergencies, so you wouldn't even want to have your house look like a money-safe.
Yeah, but take care of the Manure Industry Association of America, who won't be pleased with you uploading all that shit for free, so they'll have problems getting their costumers to pay for their crap.
I didn't know scanners came with multiple cores. I also wonder why they bundled Mac OS X with it...
Anyway, agree with you on the SD cards, these rock and will probably the "floppy disk" for at least the next couple of years. I bought a sandisk ultra II plusrecently, which doubles as a full size SD card and a USB stick. Already helped me in copying big files several times, since I can just keep it in my camera and have it with me, so I don't have to carry an extra USB stick. I am also considering to buy a car radio with SD player, as they're gretting pretty cheap now, and I won't have to hussle with cds or stick a huge usb stick in the car radio.
The normal SD size is convenient enough to handle, and the smaller ones can all be read as a normal sized one by just using an adapter. Very useable!
A slashdotter got a blow job once. Is this a hypothetical example? Or else, why isn't it an article the front page?
But seriously, I think the GP is not so much off-topic, but interesting for the case. A bit of a lawyer can probably get a mathematician to declare on oath that 6 is 5, and prove how that is linked to any case they might be in for court there. I guess this deposition means big time trouble, and they need to do a lot of training with this ex-employee.
(BTW, what does he have to gain by this. He'll not likely be paid for what he's doing, in the end he most likely will try to get rid of it as soon as possible for his own personal good, and this might be very nice for the SCO people to get him to tell want they want to hear.)
Of course, in a logical way, nothing bad can happen, but hey, who needs logic when you have a shaky court system.
Come to think of it, a bank will/has to be very open about how they will invest your money. If they wouldn't, you wouldn't think about investing your money there. By doing so, other banks could just copy their ideas, but that is not the main concern of the costumers, because they'll stick to the bank that has the correct service etc. Software should be like this. Full disclosure, because it's where your money goes and you have the right to know what's in your hand. The fact that in many cases it isn't, probably shows that the costumers in IT (the people responsible for buying in IT solutions for their company), have less long-term financial insight than those at the financial department. Maybe because it't tought to be not important there, but who knows, maybe it'll change in the future, it would be about time!
OR
What if he actually ment what he sang is this song? Anyone considered that????? !!
Yes, but what if a astronomic pluton would crash into earth, how would the geologists describe this then? Although I guess when a astronomic pluton hits the earth, the poets won't have to spend any meter on parking meters anymore, the physchologists won't get depressed about meteorologic depressions anymore, and, most fortunate, we're finally saved from Pluto
Maybe it's just a scam or viral marketing campaign to get addresses of scientists to be used for job applications, or something else. I at least get the impression that after some point they'll say 'got ya' and then introduce something completely different.
I'm now in germany, so the OS on the pcs here is Suse (originaly german linux distribution). There might be better ones, but why should I care, because except for administration, it works exactly as any other linux OS, and I get to do my thing.
The versions older than 9.* apparently couldn't handle the gmail interface properly. As I don't use the betas I installed the official 9.0 when it came out a few months ago. Before, I opened gmail with firefox instead. For the rest I'm not always pleased with the opera updates, the most recent one seems to be noticeable slower and is buggy when it comes to showing video (had some crashes already).
Yeah, but he meant gigabit wireless connections of course. Hey, nothing wrong with a bit of daydreaming!
I wonder if it's ok to go to concerts or maybe that all goes to the labels as well?
Thank you for not misusing "fud" for this one! And thank you for tagging anyway, tags seem to be sparse this time of year.
Makes you sometimes wish you were in a corruptable regime, there you could have Police officers at least help you if you gave them money. You'd have to give more money than the crooks of course, but anyway there you know then why they won't help you (if you offer too little), and that is better then not being able to get anything done with the police due to random reasons.
Drop Test The Drop test was performed in accordance with MIL-STD-810F, Method 516.5, Procedure IV (Transit Drop Test). The Toughbook 28 was sequentially dropped in non-operating mode, onto each face, edge and corner for a total of 26 drops from a height of 36 inches. The drop surface was defined as two-inch-thick plywood over a steel plate over concrete. (...)
Results
The Toughbooks boot Windows® following each drop.
I should paste one of these standard "Ask Slashdot" forms here, like: "I work for a top 500 company and am responsible for the new e-mail system, should I use some obscure undocumented mailing system because an 18yr old on slashdot has good experiences with this on his home server?"
I'm a nerd as all of you, and the subject is pretty cool (pun!) and interesting. Also there are nice reactions from people that actually dealt with situations like this (in the antartics, yay!). But the company of the poster is running a business, and can not afford to fool around. Monitoring systems in food or chemical industry are a field on its own. There are huge industry expositions and specialized journals that focus just on this subject. Probably there is also a lot of regulation that has to be taken care of as well. If the company the original poster is working for is not in that field, it should either make a serious and costly effort to get into this field if they're interested, or just acknowledge that other people are better suited for the job. Just like parent here, I think that is the only way to solve this problem.
What actually has to be learned is that people get to be a bit of a nerd. Just try other things than the standard ones. Actually this line of thinking will be beneficial in all parts of life.
I'm also in favor of having things that are easy to use in the first place, but as even those will malfunction at some point (programmers/engineers are also people, luckily), it will still be necessary to be a bit of a geek.
And do I read correctly, that you can make copies of the graphic transcription of the music for anything older than 2 year? Or in any case when you did the copy by handwriting? This would be good news for those guitar tabs and lyrics websites. Most of these lyrics were written by someone who listened to text and wrote it down anyway, not from the booklet. I don't know how else there are so many mistakes in them :)
Furthermore, I don't think they were talking about just malfunctioning of the batch of batteries, because I guess general malfunctioning was not an issue with these batteries. Otherwise the batteries that exploded would have already been returned to Dell before they could even get the chance to explode. Or where these all brand new batteries that exploded? And how many stories are there about malfunctioning batteries on Dells, except for the exploding ones?
From another point, these people are probably building together your precision apple hardware. One might wonder why apple has no reputation for the reliability of its hardware.
Actually this reminds me of the story I heard from a factory owner that moved from korea to china. Labour there is cheap, but the education was a bit lower, and the people worked sloppier (no wonder, how is your work concentration after 10 hours). In the end he needed 3 times the amount of employees and had a doubled amount of faulty products that had to be discarded before leaving the factory.
The solution to this is higher education of the chinese people, which is luckily for them hapenning (although the amount of places in university is till lower than the amount of people that want and could get in). But in the end, this will mean they get more expensive as employees and the benefit of outsourcing to china will be much smaller. By that time Chinese companies will probably be able to get a big part of the marketshare in the world, leaving the original companies in troubles. I won't mind too much as long as I can still buy quality products in stead of crap, no matter where it's made.
A similar thing happened to Ireland. Labour there was very cheap about a decade ago. IT and car companies went there (AMD, some memory factory etc.) and in due time, wages went up. Now, the movement is more towards eastern europe, but won't be a matter of time before the same will happen there.
I don't oppose all this outsourcing when it comes to better living conditions for the people in countries who can use the improvement. What I do oppose is the fact that products made by outsourcing are still as expensive as before, and the gain goes only to a very small point of people. Not to the costumers, not to the employees, but to management and stockholders. This will eventually widen the gap between poor and rich worldwide, which is not something we need at the moment.
right on the point, there!