And the worst thing is that the price might not even cover the conference registration fee!
But for the scientific value is quite interesting, moreover this is more aimed at the scientific community where researchers usually get sponsored by their institutions when publishing a paper and going at conferences
I guess there is no conspiracy at all, just different weights in the ordering algorithm... but hey, it is a cool experiment... unless maybe they are also colluding with CocaCola
Intelligent people do not need the kind of rubberstamp advice you find in self-help books.
Wow, coming from the slashdot crowd, I find this really amazing.
One of the things that kick off problems in a marriage is the "better-than you" attitude.
I find it funny how the guys that tell you "do not read books about good marriage!" proceed to WRITE a whole page of how they think you should proceed, and expect you to follow it.
My "meta"-advice? do both. Check for books, get recommendations on books (a female cousin of mine recommended me three books when I married, I can't remember them unfortunately).
Do however also consult people that seem to have a successful marriage. Or what *you* consider one. (A successful marriage for a CEO may be to leave his wife at home while going on "work" trip to bang other woman). I specially recommend to ask these people after inviting them some alcohol, it helps them loose their tongue.
Last but not least, you should get all the "advice" and "information" you got, lay it on the table along with your beloved one, and talk about what do you (both of you) like and what you don't.
Although I do not have an iPhone, I do have a Nintendo DS with lots of books (thanks to DSLibris)
The problem with that is that either you must remember to take your gadget with you every time you go to the toilet, or you must permanently put one of those in there.
For the second option, my economy does not allow me that. For the first option, I prefer to enter to the toilet and browse to the different "trivial" reading material there (Total Film Magazine, PhDComics, New Scientist, etc...).
In addition, on those times the content selection is more in a "push" (sorry for the pun) like situation. That is, if I get a laptop, I have to *look for* something to read, whereas if I have 4 magazines/books, I just grab the first one I see and do my thing:)
I bought one of the PhD Comics book for two reasons: 1. I really liked the comics and therefore wanted to give back something to the author 2. It is really good stuff to have in the toilet while taking a dump. It provides real inspiration!
The book is made on recyclable paper (IIRC) for your eco-freak needs. And you can even give it another use after you finish;-)
I know it's popular to hate on Word around here, but if you know what you're doing, it's not all that bad.
I used Latex to write my PhD thesis, and it was a dream come true. However, I remember getting a Latex source file from a colleague, who made the impossible to increase fonts and do other stupid things. Needless to say, the document was a total nightmare
On the other hand, nowadays I must use Word to produce documents (it is mainly used by my colleagues in the field I am working) and as you say, I always (every time!) use styles and NEVER use the format boxes. This produces consistent documents which are easily reformatted.
The moral of the story? no matter what tool you use, if you use it correctly you can get good results.
I thought something like Jigdo could be used to achieve just that.
An online web page which let you select what you want your system to have and then created a "jigdo" file containing such downloads will be a powerful tool.
It is illegal to knowingly sell someone a defective product under the guise of it being functional, it's called fraud.
The problem here is that the "product" they are selling you is not a product anymore but more of a "service".
The same way you are expected to pay a ticket to get into the cinema and watch a movie only 1 (one) time. The/thing/ you will be paying for in this case is to "be able to listen to X song for a Y amount of time".
What I would fight for is to enforce the clear, concise and correct specification of the "product" (like the ingredients in the food) they are selling.
There seems to be some slashdotters too who report Win7 RC working as well or better than Linux on their netbooks.
Even Windows XP works better than Linux on Netbooks. You cannot make a decent OS from all the "flavors" of Netbook Linux distros. Being it battery life, wireless networking, screen, lack of multitouch support, sound problems or whatnot.
I really would like to put some Linux distro in my 1000HE, but so far I haven't found any distro that works out of the ISO.
Memory footprint is a misleading metric. Unused ram is wasted ram. I/O speed and other memory benchmarks are far more useful.
Nope, RAM used bye THE OPERATING SYSTEM "main" (for wide definition of main, like antivirus, antimalware, netbios, etc) processes is wasted ram.
If you need 1GB JUST to run your operating system, then it is a resource hog. Of course, if the memory metric used is how much "Physical memory" is free after running OpenOffice+Firefox+Gimp, then THAT is a misleading and stupid metric.
Most people anyway, have never sat down in front of a Vista machine for long enough to get used to it.
And the problem lies just there. People should not need to "get used to it". That is a decrease in productivity.
Getting used to it means two things: Either, it means "fighting" with it until you/understand/ how things are done in Vista, or you take a "Vista course" so that someone teaches you how to do the things you know how to do with XP.
All have the pluses and minuses, I'm just trying to dispel a bit of the bad reputation that Vista (unfairly IMO) has.)
[un]Fortunately, the only experience I have had with vista is with my father's new Laptop. He bought it a year ago, and since then he has sent me several emails asking how to achieve stuff that in XP was quite straightforward (because he was used to it). Also, every time we speak in Skype he always tells me how much he hates Vista. The problem is that, because I am not near, I can not install XP over Vista.
The overwhelming majority of people I have encountered are jerks. That's nothing open source developers, or any kind of developer, has a monopoly on.
Wow, you must live in the USA. From my personal experience I have found that in general people is good and nice by nature. However I have only lived in Mexico, England, and Germany. And have traveled to France, Netherlands, Bulgary, Spain, Scotland, Ireland (north and south), Wales, Czcech Republic, Canada among others.
I was in the USA once, I can not judge the people because I was only 8 years old and I only went to Florida attractions (Universal Studios, Epcot Center, Disney World, etc,etc).
The people I have met who are originally from the USA, did not fall into the "jerk" profile. However, I *do* have seen the typical American (fat, USAteam-baseball cap and Tshirt jerk) trying to get all the attention at the Madame Tussauds museum.
You just described why I mostly use commercial software. Because they take all my complaining with a smile and a nod and get to work.
Nah, they take the complaining with a smile, nod and go back to their "dev center" to laugh out loud about the whining guy who will pay another $100 for the next improved, more synergic version.
You eventually reach a point where you say, "What am I doing this for? No one's appreciating it or saying thanks. I could be out having fun instead of this shit," and then you stop volunteering.
The moment you stop having fun while doing a hobby it stops being a hobby and starts being a chore.
Different people can handle different amounts of pressure until they find dissatisfying what they once thought was cool.
Of course, the "connected with users" nature of open source software means that, people that are using your software get to believe that you are working for them and, some of those users get *really* annoying.
From the team-developers side, if doing a hobby means you've got to swallow orders and insults from guys that thing they are better than you (at what YOU do, they certainly are better at other stuff) then, sooner or later it will stop being funny.
The first poster quote says a lot:
Thanks for all the hard work. Good luck to the next maintainer. Not much else to say./quote
And incidentally much P2P software is written to avoid installing to Program Files and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or any other resource that would require admin rights.
The reason for that would be that the ability to limit the installation of programs is aimed at something other than preventing communication between computers.
The right approach to preventing the transmission of information from one computer to another would be using tools developed for that, such as proxy, firewalling and the like.
However, if I wanted to "leak" something I just need an https connection. Using any anonymyzer + zip,rar,7z program + good password + directory encryption + rapidshare.
Thus, the best (and only) way to avoid information leaking is by ensuring the human factor risk is minimized (or even nullified, which may not be possible)
you used Bing? It kind of sucks. I can only hope it gets better but I don't know - lots of people complain it won't index their websites although I've had no trouble in that area.
Yep, I have used it. I like the maps.bing.com feature of "bird's eye view" which makes it easier to recognize a place I am going to before being there.
Also, I have lately been using it in place of Google search to avoid the miriads of spam sites (say, if you want to find *that* video in Rapidshare, or *that* hardware driver for win xp). One of the advantages of Bing (for now at least) is that it has not been invaded with "search optimized" crap sites.
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It is amazing what less whining and more working can achieve.
And the worst thing is that the price might not even cover the conference registration fee!
But for the scientific value is quite interesting, moreover this is more aimed at the scientific community where researchers usually get sponsored by their institutions when publishing a paper and going at conferences
It is worth trying it for yourself:
http://www.cuil.com/search?q=Why+is+Windows+so+expensive%3F
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Why+is+Windows+so+expensive%3F
http://www.bing.com/search?q=Why+is+Windows+so+expensive%3F
http://us.ask.com/web?q=Why+is+Windows+so+expensive%3F
http://www.cuil.com/search?q=Why+is+Windows+so+expensive%3F
http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=Why+is+Windows+so+expensive%3F&kgs=1&kls=0
I guess there is no conspiracy at all, just different weights in the ordering algorithm... but hey, it is a cool experiment... unless maybe they are also colluding with CocaCola
http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=why+does+pepsi+sucks%3F&kgs=1&kls=0
http://www.bing.com/search?q=why+does+pepsi+sucks%3F&go=&form=QBLH&qs=n
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=why+does+pepsi+sucks%3F&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&fp=CSrKZrhT3_U
What about a cesspool of manure? =oP
Advertisers are gonna love it. You can't switch it off. Great. Thanks.
MUWAHAAHAHAHAH!!
This is maybe one of the top European centers of crap,'
The server 216.178.38.116 is an American server known to have loads of crap too! I hope they also could get it!
Intelligent people do not need the kind of rubberstamp advice you find in self-help books.
Wow, coming from the slashdot crowd, I find this really amazing.
One of the things that kick off problems in a marriage is the "better-than you" attitude.
I find it funny how the guys that tell you "do not read books about good marriage!" proceed to WRITE a whole page of how they think you should proceed, and expect you to follow it.
My "meta"-advice? do both. Check for books, get recommendations on books (a female cousin of mine recommended me three books when I married, I can't remember them unfortunately).
Do however also consult people that seem to have a successful marriage. Or what *you* consider one. (A successful marriage for a CEO may be to leave his wife at home while going on "work" trip to bang other woman). I specially recommend to ask these people after inviting them some alcohol, it helps them loose their tongue.
Last but not least, you should get all the "advice" and "information" you got, lay it on the table along with your beloved one, and talk about what do you (both of you) like and what you don't.
Although I do not have an iPhone, I do have a Nintendo DS with lots of books (thanks to DSLibris)
The problem with that is that either you must remember to take your gadget with you every time you go to the toilet, or you must permanently put one of those in there.
For the second option, my economy does not allow me that. For the first option, I prefer to enter to the toilet and browse to the different "trivial" reading material there (Total Film Magazine, PhDComics, New Scientist, etc...).
In addition, on those times the content selection is more in a "push" (sorry for the pun) like situation. That is, if I get a laptop, I have to *look for* something to read, whereas if I have 4 magazines/books, I just grab the first one I see and do my thing :)
Bah,
I am in the process of editing Teh Bash.org book =o)
Uhh,
I bought one of the PhD Comics book for two reasons:
1. I really liked the comics and therefore wanted to give back something to the author
2. It is really good stuff to have in the toilet while taking a dump. It provides real inspiration!
The book is made on recyclable paper (IIRC) for your eco-freak needs. And you can even give it another use after you finish ;-)
http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/tutorials/citing/harvard.html
I know it's popular to hate on Word around here, but if you know what you're doing, it's not all that bad.
I used Latex to write my PhD thesis, and it was a dream come true. However, I remember getting a Latex source file from a colleague, who made the impossible to increase fonts and do other stupid things. Needless to say, the document was a total nightmare
On the other hand, nowadays I must use Word to produce documents (it is mainly used by my colleagues in the field I am working) and as you say, I always (every time!) use styles and NEVER use the format boxes. This produces consistent documents which are easily reformatted.
The moral of the story? no matter what tool you use, if you use it correctly you can get good results.
I thought something like Jigdo could be used to achieve just that.
An online web page which let you select what you want your system to have and then created a "jigdo" file containing such downloads will be a powerful tool.
Well, some say it is dead while others say that it is not
Apparently, it is now called QuteCom
However, it seems its kind of in a "sleeping" state
It is illegal to knowingly sell someone a defective product under the guise of it being functional, it's called fraud.
The problem here is that the "product" they are selling you is not a product anymore but more of a "service".
The same way you are expected to pay a ticket to get into the cinema and watch a movie only 1 (one) time. The /thing/ you will be paying for in this case is to "be able to listen to X song for a Y amount of time".
What I would fight for is to enforce the clear, concise and correct specification of the "product" (like the ingredients in the food) they are selling.
Even further, audio CD's cannot carry DRM, as per the Red Book standard developed by Philips, and presumably others.
If it contains DRM, its not a CD, its technically something else.
Uhh, you are confusing CD-DA with Compact Disc (CD)
The first is the "Red Book" based standard audio format, the second is the hardware media used to "transport" such data.
What you burn your music to after you get it from bittorrent,
What? is that the new leetspeak for copy to usb ?
I know some of those are supposed to be disposable, but to put fire on them... is it entertaining or something?
There seems to be some slashdotters too who report Win7 RC working as well or better than Linux on their netbooks.
Even Windows XP works better than Linux on Netbooks. You cannot make a decent OS from all the "flavors" of Netbook Linux distros. Being it battery life, wireless networking, screen, lack of multitouch support, sound problems or whatnot.
I really would like to put some Linux distro in my 1000HE, but so far I haven't found any distro that works out of the ISO.
Memory footprint is a misleading metric. Unused ram is wasted ram. I/O speed and other memory benchmarks are far more useful.
Nope, RAM used bye THE OPERATING SYSTEM "main" (for wide definition of main, like antivirus, antimalware, netbios, etc) processes is wasted ram.
If you need 1GB JUST to run your operating system, then it is a resource hog. Of course, if the memory metric used is how much "Physical memory" is free after running OpenOffice+Firefox+Gimp, then THAT is a misleading and stupid metric.
Most people anyway, have never sat down in front of a Vista machine for long enough to get used to it.
And the problem lies just there. People should not need to "get used to it". That is a decrease in productivity.
Getting used to it means two things: Either, it means "fighting" with it until you /understand/ how things are done in Vista, or you take a "Vista course" so that someone teaches you how to do the things you know how to do with XP.
All have the pluses and minuses, I'm just trying to dispel a bit of the bad reputation that Vista (unfairly IMO) has.)
[un]Fortunately, the only experience I have had with vista is with my father's new Laptop. He bought it a year ago, and since then he has sent me several emails asking how to achieve stuff that in XP was quite straightforward (because he was used to it). Also, every time we speak in Skype he always tells me how much he hates Vista. The problem is that, because I am not near, I can not install XP over Vista.
The overwhelming majority of people I have encountered are jerks. That's nothing open source developers, or any kind of developer, has a monopoly on.
Wow, you must live in the USA. From my personal experience I have found that in general people is good and nice by nature. However I have only lived in Mexico, England, and Germany. And have traveled to France, Netherlands, Bulgary, Spain, Scotland, Ireland (north and south), Wales, Czcech Republic, Canada among others.
I was in the USA once, I can not judge the people because I was only 8 years old and I only went to Florida attractions (Universal Studios, Epcot Center, Disney World, etc,etc).
The people I have met who are originally from the USA, did not fall into the "jerk" profile. However, I *do* have seen the typical American (fat, USAteam-baseball cap and Tshirt jerk) trying to get all the attention at the Madame Tussauds museum.
You just described why I mostly use commercial software. Because they take all my complaining with a smile and a nod and get to work.
Nah, they take the complaining with a smile, nod and go back to their "dev center" to laugh out loud about the whining guy who will pay another $100 for the next improved, more synergic version.
You eventually reach a point where you say, "What am I doing this for? No one's appreciating it or saying thanks. I could be out having fun instead of this shit," and then you stop volunteering.
The moment you stop having fun while doing a hobby it stops being a hobby and starts being a chore.
Different people can handle different amounts of pressure until they find dissatisfying what they once thought was cool.
Of course, the "connected with users" nature of open source software means that, people that are using your software get to believe that you are working for them and, some of those users get *really* annoying.
From the team-developers side, if doing a hobby means you've got to swallow orders and insults from guys that thing they are better than you (at what YOU do, they certainly are better at other stuff) then, sooner or later it will stop being funny.
The first poster quote says a lot:
Thanks for all the hard work. Good luck to the next maintainer. Not much else to say./quote
And incidentally much P2P software is written to avoid installing to Program Files and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or any other resource that would require admin rights.
The reason for that would be that the ability to limit the installation of programs is aimed at something other than preventing communication between computers.
The right approach to preventing the transmission of information from one computer to another would be using tools developed for that, such as proxy, firewalling and the like.
However, if I wanted to "leak" something I just need an https connection. Using any anonymyzer + zip,rar,7z program + good password + directory encryption + rapidshare.
Thus, the best (and only) way to avoid information leaking is by ensuring the human factor risk is minimized (or even nullified, which may not be possible)
you used Bing? It kind of sucks. I can only hope it gets better but I don't know - lots of people complain it won't index their websites although I've had no trouble in that area.
Yep, I have used it. I like the maps.bing.com feature of "bird's eye view" which makes it easier to recognize a place I am going to before being there.
Also, I have lately been using it in place of Google search to avoid the miriads of spam sites (say, if you want to find *that* video in Rapidshare, or *that* hardware driver for win xp). One of the advantages of Bing (for now at least) is that it has not been invaded with "search optimized" crap sites.