Did you ever stop to ask yourself why 21st century American working conditions are better than those from the 19th? A lot of it comes down to health and safety regulation, including child-labor laws. The existence of sweatshops and ill-run factories all over the third world shows that companies are willing (and always will be willing) to sacrifice the lives of their workers as long as it is profitable for them to do so. Repealing that legislation would be a sure way to go right back to the sort of working conditions we had in American in the 1800s and the sort of working conditions we find in China today.
The problem isn't searching in the ordinary case. The problem is searching in the failure case. I can grep a truncated, mangled text file. If I truncate and mangle your BerkeleyDB can you still search it?
Well, DBAN is open source. If you have suspicions, you're welcome to review the source compile your own version with a trusted compiler. If that isn't to your liking, there are commercial tools that do the same thing.
As for, "What if a drive is mishandled and doesn't get wiped," well, isn't that a concern with physical destruction too?
There is software out there (like D-BAN) which will repeatedly overwrite the data on a hard drive, rendering it unrecoverable. Why not use that, rather than relying on encryption?
Last I checked no window manager on Linux requires Firefox to be installed. However, in Windows 8, Internet Explorer will be required for the "Metro" window manager.
OSX is designed for a single hardware specification, Linux runs on countless of hardware, and we have to reverse engineer some drivers and try to make most hardware work. Your comments are clearly disrespectful, and you should go bitch the hardware manufacturers instead.
In that vein, a registry of some kind that told you what hardware was compatible with your Linux distro would be a godsend. I mean, I've seen various half-hearted attempts to start something like this, but they've always petered out. Then when you find them on Google, you get your hopes up, only to have them dashed by lists upon lists of laptops, video cards, sound cards, etc. that were EOL'd years ago.
That's a bad idea. Administrators may be in a position of power on Wikipedia, but that doesn't mean that they have a commensurate level of power in the real world. Forcing real name use just opens up administrators to possible personal harassment and physical attack.
No, this is NIMBY-ism, plain and simple. The argument of the Osage people is exactly the same, and just as invalid, as that of the Massachusetts landowners who complained that an offshore windfarm would ruin the view from their beachfront homes.
At the university I went to they run a scan to see if you're running the 'approved' anti-virus software, and won't let you onto the network if you're not running it. That said, the IT folks I spoke with were fairly clued-in and put in exceptions for your MAC address if you were running Linux, OSX or some other OS.
As another commenter pointed out, some degree programs (Computer Engineering, being a prime example) really only work if they're stretched out over a 5-year period. I just wish universities would be honest with their students and say, "Yeah, this degree can be finished in 4 years, but realistically, it'll take 5." I think that would go a long way towards helping those of us who take a little longer to understand a given concept.
In any case, I ended up getting my degree in 5 years. I tried to do the grind for three years (like you), then I burned out, spent two semesters off working, and then returned to school to finish my degree.
This is why you purchase a display that's capable of rotation. There's nothing like seeing a massive document fit on one 19" screen rotated to be portrait instead of landscape.
Think for example user interfaces for managing hardware, system settings (user accounts, security, firewall, wired and wireless network), etc.
There's no reason that any of those things require low level hooks. Every single one of those functions is managed by a command-line program that can be called from anywhere (GUI control panel, CLI, shell script, etc.). All GNOME has to do is call the same command line utilities that shell scripts do.
GNOME depends on various background daemons that must be started at boot.
Indeed it does, and this very discussion is about one of those daemons. The Linux-only crowd is saying that GNOME should require systemd as a dependency. Unfortunately, systemd only runs on Linux. I think that GNOME should not depend on systemd until it has been ported to other operating systems (e.g. BSD, Solaris). Once systemd is available on all the platforms that GNOME supports, GNOME can rely on it being available.
On windows the gnome support helps port over many familiar Linux based apps to a windows world which is great for Linux people who are forced to work in a windows world, but the apps have little to zero adoption from 'Windows users' themselves.
I disagree with this. Two GTK apps, at least (GIMP and Pidgin), have very strong adoption in the Windows world. Pidgin is a damn good multi-platform/multi-protocol chat client, and lots of Windows users use despite having never been exposed to Linux. GIMP doesn't have as much adoption (thanks to Photoshop), but its used by Windows users who can't afford Photoshop, and don't want to go through the risks of pirating it.
I don't use GNU/Linux because its free. I use it because its the best tool for my job. If Windows supported the tools I need for my development activities, I'd use Windows. As it is, web development is far simpler in a Unix/Linux environment than a Windows environment (and the production server is running Linux), so I use Linux for development.
That's the impression I got too. There was a glitch in the update; the satellite went into safe mode; NASA analyzed and fixed the issue, and now all's well again. Certainly, not the ideal scenario, but things could have gone much more badly.
It only looks like its moving slowly and gradually because you're looking at it from a helicopter. If you compare the water's speed with the size of the objects being carried (e.g. houses and boats), you'll see that the wave is actually moving quite quickly. In the video (if you look carefully), you can see a car speeding down the road in an attempt to get away. The wave is moving almost as fast as the car.
The people on the bridge were likely there because it was the highest/sturdiest structure in the area, not necessarily because they wanted to gawk at the tsunami.
The summary gets its info from one of TFAs, which states:
The VW is made from carbon fibre-reinforced plastics, which saves on metal and makes the car incredibly light, aiding its reduced fuel consumption. Fully fueled, the VW weighs only 380kg (838 pounds).
On the other hand, if you made that statement in a public forum, and I didn't steal anything, I could sue for slander. You would be making false statements with the intent of damaging my reputation. Its arguable that Microsoft did the same thing here, by branding this person as a cheater in its XBox Live service.
Eventually working Americans will grow tired of working to enrich others while they suffer from illiteracy and treatable diseases. They will seize control of the state and industrial structures and finally determine their own future.
Not to be overly nihilistic here, but every time such a revolution has occurred, the common man has ended up right back at the bottom of the socio-economic power structure. The last famous person who said something like that was Marx, and we all know how those revolutions ended up.
I lean more towards the quote attributed to Churchill: "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others." Similarly, capitalism is the worst economic system... except for all the others.
Not necessarily. I'm no "Greed is Good," follower of Rand, but a lot of ideas and inventions get marketed because of greed. Greed is an influence on a person's personality, just like everything else. Too much of it distorts, but the right amount of greed makes for a driven individual that can accomplish great things.
If you're using OSS software on Windows, SourceForge is the place to go. This fact lends support to my hypothesis that the attack was cover for injecting malware into open-source projects. Windows is malware's biggest target, and users are beginning to gravitate towards using open source tools over piracy (mainly due to fears of malware, ironically enough). With that in mind, I guess Sourceforge was a pretty big target for crackers.
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Did you ever stop to ask yourself why 21st century American working conditions are better than those from the 19th? A lot of it comes down to health and safety regulation, including child-labor laws. The existence of sweatshops and ill-run factories all over the third world shows that companies are willing (and always will be willing) to sacrifice the lives of their workers as long as it is profitable for them to do so. Repealing that legislation would be a sure way to go right back to the sort of working conditions we had in American in the 1800s and the sort of working conditions we find in China today.
The problem isn't searching in the ordinary case. The problem is searching in the failure case. I can grep a truncated, mangled text file. If I truncate and mangle your BerkeleyDB can you still search it?
Well, DBAN is open source. If you have suspicions, you're welcome to review the source compile your own version with a trusted compiler. If that isn't to your liking, there are commercial tools that do the same thing.
As for, "What if a drive is mishandled and doesn't get wiped," well, isn't that a concern with physical destruction too?
There is software out there (like D-BAN) which will repeatedly overwrite the data on a hard drive, rendering it unrecoverable. Why not use that, rather than relying on encryption?
Last I checked no window manager on Linux requires Firefox to be installed. However, in Windows 8, Internet Explorer will be required for the "Metro" window manager.
OSX is designed for a single hardware specification, Linux runs on countless of hardware, and we have to reverse engineer some drivers and try to make most hardware work. Your comments are clearly disrespectful, and you should go bitch the hardware manufacturers instead.
In that vein, a registry of some kind that told you what hardware was compatible with your Linux distro would be a godsend. I mean, I've seen various half-hearted attempts to start something like this, but they've always petered out. Then when you find them on Google, you get your hopes up, only to have them dashed by lists upon lists of laptops, video cards, sound cards, etc. that were EOL'd years ago.
That's why you check those handy little citation tags that they have. If you don't believe the article, check its sources.
That's a bad idea. Administrators may be in a position of power on Wikipedia, but that doesn't mean that they have a commensurate level of power in the real world. Forcing real name use just opens up administrators to possible personal harassment and physical attack.
CCP is already getting paid with its players' monthly subscriptions. This is rent-seeking, plain and simple.
No, this is NIMBY-ism, plain and simple. The argument of the Osage people is exactly the same, and just as invalid, as that of the Massachusetts landowners who complained that an offshore windfarm would ruin the view from their beachfront homes.
At the university I went to they run a scan to see if you're running the 'approved' anti-virus software, and won't let you onto the network if you're not running it. That said, the IT folks I spoke with were fairly clued-in and put in exceptions for your MAC address if you were running Linux, OSX or some other OS.
As another commenter pointed out, some degree programs (Computer Engineering, being a prime example) really only work if they're stretched out over a 5-year period. I just wish universities would be honest with their students and say, "Yeah, this degree can be finished in 4 years, but realistically, it'll take 5." I think that would go a long way towards helping those of us who take a little longer to understand a given concept.
In any case, I ended up getting my degree in 5 years. I tried to do the grind for three years (like you), then I burned out, spent two semesters off working, and then returned to school to finish my degree.
This is why you purchase a display that's capable of rotation. There's nothing like seeing a massive document fit on one 19" screen rotated to be portrait instead of landscape.
Think for example user interfaces for managing hardware, system settings (user accounts, security, firewall, wired and wireless network), etc.
There's no reason that any of those things require low level hooks. Every single one of those functions is managed by a command-line program that can be called from anywhere (GUI control panel, CLI, shell script, etc.). All GNOME has to do is call the same command line utilities that shell scripts do.
GNOME depends on various background daemons that must be started at boot.
Indeed it does, and this very discussion is about one of those daemons. The Linux-only crowd is saying that GNOME should require systemd as a dependency. Unfortunately, systemd only runs on Linux. I think that GNOME should not depend on systemd until it has been ported to other operating systems (e.g. BSD, Solaris). Once systemd is available on all the platforms that GNOME supports, GNOME can rely on it being available.
I disagree with this. Two GTK apps, at least (GIMP and Pidgin), have very strong adoption in the Windows world. Pidgin is a damn good multi-platform/multi-protocol chat client, and lots of Windows users use despite having never been exposed to Linux. GIMP doesn't have as much adoption (thanks to Photoshop), but its used by Windows users who can't afford Photoshop, and don't want to go through the risks of pirating it.
I don't use GNU/Linux because its free. I use it because its the best tool for my job. If Windows supported the tools I need for my development activities, I'd use Windows. As it is, web development is far simpler in a Unix/Linux environment than a Windows environment (and the production server is running Linux), so I use Linux for development.
Can Google Voice do video? For me the main attraction to Skype is that its video-calling seems to be more stable than any of the alternatives.
Really? That hasn't been my experience. For shipping in the contiguous US USPS media mail has hard to beat rates.
That's the impression I got too. There was a glitch in the update; the satellite went into safe mode; NASA analyzed and fixed the issue, and now all's well again. Certainly, not the ideal scenario, but things could have gone much more badly.
It only looks like its moving slowly and gradually because you're looking at it from a helicopter. If you compare the water's speed with the size of the objects being carried (e.g. houses and boats), you'll see that the wave is actually moving quite quickly. In the video (if you look carefully), you can see a car speeding down the road in an attempt to get away. The wave is moving almost as fast as the car.
The people on the bridge were likely there because it was the highest/sturdiest structure in the area, not necessarily because they wanted to gawk at the tsunami.
The summary gets its info from one of TFAs, which states:
The VW is made from carbon fibre-reinforced plastics, which saves on metal and makes the car incredibly light, aiding its reduced fuel consumption. Fully fueled, the VW weighs only 380kg (838 pounds).
On the other hand, if you made that statement in a public forum, and I didn't steal anything, I could sue for slander. You would be making false statements with the intent of damaging my reputation. Its arguable that Microsoft did the same thing here, by branding this person as a cheater in its XBox Live service.
Eventually working Americans will grow tired of working to enrich others while they suffer from illiteracy and treatable diseases. They will seize control of the state and industrial structures and finally determine their own future.
Not to be overly nihilistic here, but every time such a revolution has occurred, the common man has ended up right back at the bottom of the socio-economic power structure. The last famous person who said something like that was Marx, and we all know how those revolutions ended up.
I lean more towards the quote attributed to Churchill: "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others." Similarly, capitalism is the worst economic system... except for all the others.
Not necessarily. I'm no "Greed is Good," follower of Rand, but a lot of ideas and inventions get marketed because of greed. Greed is an influence on a person's personality, just like everything else. Too much of it distorts, but the right amount of greed makes for a driven individual that can accomplish great things.
If you're using OSS software on Windows, SourceForge is the place to go. This fact lends support to my hypothesis that the attack was cover for injecting malware into open-source projects. Windows is malware's biggest target, and users are beginning to gravitate towards using open source tools over piracy (mainly due to fears of malware, ironically enough). With that in mind, I guess Sourceforge was a pretty big target for crackers.