The concept of patriotism is in my opinion, absurd.
Somehow what you say makes sense, why should one feel pride when one was born in a place "by accident"... However, some have chosen to move out of "bad" places to go to "better" places (with, unfortunately, different definitions for better, sometimes it's "more freedom", sometimes it's something else entirely).
Humans will feel strongly for their (chosen) "group" (family, tribe, nation, religion)...
I recently found this quote of Gen. Charles De Gaulle (French national hero icon and former president) : Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
I don't mind "patriotism", but I do have an issue with nationalism.
I get a network error on the original Vance Haemmerle’s 1997 VAXBar website, but in any case, converting an old DEC VAX into a bar is awesome to mine eyes.
You're only stuck with the keyboard layout on the laptop that you bought. In other words: you made your choice.
Furthermore, you had your choice. And that's the point.
You don't always have (much) choice...
I suppose you live in North America, I live in Europe.
Here we have (to chose between) several different "standards"... almost every country uses a different "standard"... The UK uses QWERTY (AFAIK), the French (and French-speaking belgians) use (variants of) the AZERTY keyboard, the Germans use QWERTZ, the Swiss use a variant of QWERTZ -- which is mostly used as "international keyboard" as it has both German and French accents. I must admit I have no idea what "standard" is used inSpain or Italy or...
I personally prefer the QWERTZ with the Swiss-FR layout. But I can work with almost no problem with the German or the US-QWERTY layout. I _cannot_ work with the French AZERTY (efficiently) even though I used it for 4 years at university.
When I buy a laptop, I have to see what I can get in the store(s)... I don't always have a choice of "this brand, this model... with this keyboard" !
Several years ago, I got myself a specific laptop, but it came with the French keyboard as there was a price difference of ~700 USD in buying the same laptop in France, Germany or Belgium (~50km or ~35miles distance). So ?
I ordered the keyboard layout from the manufacturer and replaced the keyboard. It only took 3 trials and 7 months to get the correct keyboard.
You're only stuck with the keyboard layout on the laptop that you bought. In other words: you made your choice.
Furthermore, you had your choice. And that's the point.
+1
(Hell I wish I could give a +100!)
How come I could get a quite good 1600x1200 screen on a basic good laptop (with a 15.4" screen) 7 years ago and I can't get more than 1080 pts vertical now ? (if even).
I've been looking for a good laptop since September and it's frustrating.
As you put it, "Some of us actually work with our laptop, not just use them..." to view DVDs (or blue-rays, or downloaded vids) .
it depends on WHAT?! NoSQL people keep touting features, SQL people keep touting history, neither say "well, RDBMS is best suited for [insert descriptions here], while MongoDB is best suited for [insert descriptions here] and Lucene/Solr is best suited for [insert descriptions here]".
That's why you have to study.
Don't expect people to give you all the answers. Go forth and conquer, aks slashdot;) Alternatively, go to school (highschool, university, whatever) and study.
Read books.
"It depends" is true for any tool. And computers are tools, and software is tool (are tools?)
You, aka The User [tm] have to learn how to (best) use your tools and which tools are best for which task. (Perhaps here I might come close enough to accepting the limitation in the EULA that says a program may not be fit for just any use:] hmmm )
This is true for hammers, screwdrivers, books, cars... of course, it is also true for computers and such.
I guess I've never used McAfee from a home end user perspective, but from a corporate perspective it is a pretty solid product. (...)
I don't see how any of this is a bad thing. (...)
Home computing is not the bigger market here.
Couldn't agree more. I'm getting tired of whiners who can't help complaining about McAfee... as you mention, I guess they're mostly home users. Last time I used (stopped using) McAfee on a home computer was about 1999.
Been using (managing) it at work for some years now and I'm quite happy. It does take 'some memory' not too much CPU (depends on the config) and it keeps computers are work (reasonably) safe. No software is perfect and this one is no exception, but it's definitely not worse than any other and better than many (or most). And it's definitely more manageable!
I guess this will bring mostly change in the embedded world and possibly in appliances.
Serge
PS: for the conspiracy theorists (help, they're gonna introduce special 'kill AMD feature') get a life (or a brain, or both).
Considering they are having issues with the EU Commission and some European Publishers as to what one may consider as having "passed into the public domain", I believe there are reasons to question what they are doing.
S
(PS: not trying anything... just in a bit of a rush)
Google has scanned books that are still under copyright. Now you may go and print those books avoiding the editors and publishers and Google and ODB get a buck each, while the authors and copyright holders (families and such) don't...
So now, it seems that Intellectual Property (in this case it is) only works for some...
I don't know of any teacher who told their students NOT to use Wikipedia. As a teacher I use Wikipedia, I tell my students to use it... However, I also tell them that Wikipedia is not a source to quote !
Use Wikipedia to do basic research and get fundamental and background information, then follow the links at the end of the articles and then you have a full dataset. Quote the original source do not quote a generalistic encyclopedia.
Those are two different issues and (some) people seem to confuse them. But then, I also (try to) teach them how to use Wikipedia.
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The concept of patriotism is in my opinion, absurd.
Somehow what you say makes sense, why should one feel pride when one was born in a place "by accident"... However, some have chosen to move out of "bad" places to go to "better" places (with, unfortunately, different definitions for better, sometimes it's "more freedom", sometimes it's something else entirely). Humans will feel strongly for their (chosen) "group" (family, tribe, nation, religion)...
I recently found this quote of Gen. Charles De Gaulle (French national hero icon and former president) : Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
I don't mind "patriotism", but I do have an issue with nationalism.
I get a network error on the original Vance Haemmerle’s 1997 VAXBar website, but in any case, converting an old DEC VAX into a bar is awesome to mine eyes.
I found a reference here.
Dushnock
You're only stuck with the keyboard layout on the laptop that you bought. In other words: you made your choice.
Furthermore, you had your choice. And that's the point.
You don't always have (much) choice...
I suppose you live in North America, I live in Europe.
Here we have (to chose between) several different "standards"... almost every country uses a different "standard"... The UK uses QWERTY (AFAIK), the French (and French-speaking belgians) use (variants of) the AZERTY keyboard, the Germans use QWERTZ, the Swiss use a variant of QWERTZ -- which is mostly used as "international keyboard" as it has both German and French accents. I must admit I have no idea what "standard" is used inSpain or Italy or...
I personally prefer the QWERTZ with the Swiss-FR layout. But I can work with almost no problem with the German or the US-QWERTY layout. I _cannot_ work with the French AZERTY (efficiently) even though I used it for 4 years at university.
When I buy a laptop, I have to see what I can get in the store(s)... I don't always have a choice of "this brand, this model... with this keyboard" !
Several years ago, I got myself a specific laptop, but it came with the French keyboard as there was a price difference of ~700 USD in buying the same laptop in France, Germany or Belgium (~50km or ~35miles distance). So ?
I ordered the keyboard layout from the manufacturer and replaced the keyboard. It only took 3 trials and 7 months to get the correct keyboard.
You're only stuck with the keyboard layout on the laptop that you bought. In other words: you made your choice.
Furthermore, you had your choice. And that's the point.
Right... Not always right... Serge
+1
(Hell I wish I could give a +100!)
How come I could get a quite good 1600x1200 screen on a basic good laptop (with a 15.4" screen) 7 years ago and I can't get more than 1080 pts vertical now ? (if even).
I've been looking for a good laptop since September and it's frustrating.
As you put it, "Some of us actually work with our laptop, not just use them..." to view DVDs (or blue-rays, or downloaded vids)
.
it depends on WHAT?! NoSQL people keep touting features, SQL people keep touting history, neither say "well, RDBMS is best suited for [insert descriptions here], while MongoDB is best suited for [insert descriptions here] and Lucene/Solr is best suited for [insert descriptions here]".
That's why you have to study. ;)
Don't expect people to give you all the answers. Go forth and conquer, aks slashdot
Alternatively, go to school (highschool, university, whatever) and study.
Read books.
"It depends" is true for any tool. And computers are tools, and software is tool (are tools?) :] hmmm )
You, aka The User [tm] have to learn how to (best) use your tools and which tools are best for which task. (Perhaps here I might come close enough to accepting the limitation in the EULA that says a program may not be fit for just any use
This is true for hammers, screwdrivers, books, cars... of course, it is also true for computers and such.
Huh ? I always thought the answer is (was) 42 !!?
You mean Life is finally beginning to look like Games ?
Gosh, what they do today with reality...
(Seems I went into the matrix only yesterday.)
Couldn't agree more. I'm getting tired of whiners who can't help complaining about McAfee... as you mention, I guess they're mostly home users. Last time I used (stopped using) McAfee on a home computer was about 1999.
Been using (managing) it at work for some years now and I'm quite happy. It does take 'some memory' not too much CPU (depends on the config) and it keeps computers are work (reasonably) safe. No software is perfect and this one is no exception, but it's definitely not worse than any other and better than many (or most). And it's definitely more manageable!
I guess this will bring mostly change in the embedded world and possibly in appliances.
Serge
PS: for the conspiracy theorists (help, they're gonna introduce special 'kill AMD feature') get a life (or a brain, or both).
I remember an English teacher of mine writing the following sentence :
"Woman without her man is nothing!"
then he told us to put the commas in the sentence and explain the meaning of the sentence. I kinda like that...
I bet yoda uses a lot of commas :)
Commas, misplaced, will be.
Didn't you want to write something like...
"Misplaced, Commas, will be"
;)
Turns you into a paraplegic, obviously.
I'm paraplegic you insensitive clod... ;)
[I actually am and I'd rather stay in the chair than lose my sight.]
Nah, that's the NULL position. That's where programming languages go to die.
Programming languages never die, they just decompile. (hint: http://www.bored.com/agehumor/)
Considering they are having issues with the EU Commission and some European Publishers as to what one may consider as having "passed into the public domain", I believe there are reasons to question what they are doing.
S
(PS: not trying anything... just in a bit of a rush)
And what about copyright holders ?
Google has scanned books that are still under copyright. Now you may go and print those books avoiding the editors and publishers and Google and ODB get a buck each, while the authors and copyright holders (families and such) don't...
So now, it seems that Intellectual Property (in this case it is) only works for some...
File permissions security isn't all that useful on removable media like it is on the boot drive (and other internal drives).
Actually, I'd say that file permission are completely useless on removable media. As someone pointed out :
If I have the drive in my hand, I can plug it into any computer I want and access it as root anyway.
That's why, when you think of security w.r.t. portable drives, you go for encryption !
sma
Let's not confuse the issue(s).
I don't know of any teacher who told their students NOT to use Wikipedia.
As a teacher I use Wikipedia, I tell my students to use it... However, I also tell them that Wikipedia is not a source to quote !
Use Wikipedia to do basic research and get fundamental and background information, then follow the links at the end of the articles and then you have a full dataset.
Quote the original source do not quote a generalistic encyclopedia.
Those are two different issues and (some) people seem to confuse them.
But then, I also (try to) teach them how to use Wikipedia.