Killing a character off for emotional impact then simply saying, "well death is a reversible process in this universe" throws doubt on *everything* in the story.
You can do that twist to in a good way.
That is exactly what happens in the "Inigo's Dreams" substory in Peter F. Hamiltons Void Trilogy. All the main character's friends get killed only for the main character to find out he can reset time in his (alternate) universe. The way this works out for the better is that the rest of that story deals with the problems stemming from his new-found ability (trying not to corrupt the world around him or himself).
That gives the date and time 33 weeks from now, not week number 33. Week 33 this year is (according to ISO 8601) the week starting with 2011-08-15 (your example command gives me 2011-10-21).
Sudo allows pretty fine-grained access to users based upon group or user name, so you can easily allocate permissions as required (well, relatively easily, anyway) -- much more fine-grained than Unix User/Group/Other permissions would allow. For example, with sudo you could allow senior admins (group: admin) and web developers (group: www-dev) read/write permissions to CGI script directories, junior admins (group: jadmin) read-only permissions and all other users (group: users) no access. Uh-oh...we've got four groups here: admins, jadmins, www-dev and users, so doing that with standard Unix permissions is going to be kind of difficult
Also worth noting, the first case resulting from the IPRED law is, to my knowledge (I'm a Swede and all), still going. The ISP that the copyright holders have demanded personal information from is fighting it as hard as they can.
Even though there might be monetary incentives to the ISPs actions, that doesn't seem to be all of it. ISPs here really do seem to care about these things.
There is at least one Swedish company that does deny them, SF Bio (the largest movie theater chain in Sweden). However, in their case there is a good reason; to get the tickets you've bought online with your credit card you have to swipe the same card in their ticket printing machines. You could definitely come up with another way to get the tickets once they are bought, but as long as you have to have the credit card with which you paid to get the tickets, one-time cc numbers are probably out of the question.
"The Swedish Pirate Party did its best election campaign ever. We had more media, more articles, more debates, more handed-out flyers than ever"
How does he figure that? I (a Swede) haven't heard or seen anything from them since the election for the European parliament. I think it would be more correct to call it their worst election campaign ever.
Firefox for J2ME would mean Mozilla would have to run a server containing a specialized Gecko renderer that outputs a simplified form of the page as simple markup, plus a J2ME client that would finish rendering from the simplified output. Great concept but too many problems.
How do you figure that? There is nothing saying that you have to do it the way Opera Mini et al are doing it. Of course you can implement a complete web browser in J2ME (it might however not be practical depending on the specifications of the target devices).
Why should this be any different from what research scientists do all the time (with actual security holes to boot)? Just write up a research paper (or a blog post or whatever) and describe the problem and give some thoughts to possible solutions (user not being mindless idiots anymore) and release it. There is definitely nothing ethically wrong with it in my book (and there shouldn't be in anyone else's either).
Here in Sweden a blogger (without any income from the blog at all) got the verdict that blogging is an occupation and therefore he must either quit blogging or loose his unemployment check.
Sure, for every 100 people starting the M.Sc. programme in Computer Science over here in Stockholm, only around three of them are girls, but hey, I got one of them.
Other than that, there ought to be some nerdy clubs around. Here we've got at least two, Syntax Error and Mikrodisco. The former specializing in videogame music, dance mats and Buffy quizes and the latter in 8-bit music and the like (there's nothing that will draw out the girls like a live music performance on a Gameboy accompanied by a banjo, right...).
A Swedish source (Google translation) says that there where a tax loss of 3.6 million SEK and the total income amounted to 40 million SEK, not that the tax loss was of 40 million SEK. The Swedish source also says nothing of these numbers being annually.
The stated goal - at least from a large portion of the linux community - is to see as many people using Linux as possible.
Yes, that seems to be the goal shouted most often, but I for one think it's the wrong one. I think the goal should be to have an operating system that work as we want it to work, not one that works in such a way that as many people as possible will want to use it, when that way very well might conflict with the way we want it to work.
Linux, IF you want it to reach that "critical mass" market share point, needs to reach a certain bar of compatibility. This doesn't mean that it needs to be compatible with everything known to mankind, but it DOES mean that you need to support, say, the major product lines of the "big three" video board market share holders (NVidia, ATi, Intel), the "big three" styles of audio card (built-in AC'97, Realtek, Creative), and so on. And these need to work without users having to go hunt down some obscure repository, post to 5 messageboard forums, and then follow instructions written like "well obviously you have to bleep fraggle this and sudo command toggle bashznz that and then it'll work, what kind of a lame n00b are you if you don't understand that."
And this is a complaint I've heard once to many from people who only want to have something to complain about. This all comes down to circumstances. The primary reason to why it's sometimes easier to get troublesome/exotic hardware to work with Windows is that you probably have the driver disc that came with the computer. Once you lose that disc, it's not nearly as easy anymore.
I just can't count the times that I've been called over to a friend to help them fix their computer and having to search the web for hours just to find Windows drivers for every piece of hardware in the computer when everything just works when popping in a Linux live CD (and if it wasn't for the Linux live CD, I wouldn't have been able to connect to the internet and find the ethernet driver to begin with).
Selectively quoting does not change what was originally written. If you read on, you will see that PitaBred does in fact provide arguments to why Linux does not lack consistency.
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And what would Open Office that is "target at developers" look like, in contrast to plain ol' vanilla Open Office?
\LaTeX, of course.
And after some further googling I found a measurement for 102 Mb/s in Stockholm.
Downloads over the AT&T network averaged about 24Mbps and peaked at 42.85Mbps, the fastest cellular connection seen to date.
The first mention I found of an actual download speed for the LTE network in Stockholm (you know, the world's first publicly available LTE-service) beats that figure easily, peaking at 59.1 Mb/s. That is a measurement from over a year ago.
Shouldn't this be a requirement for followers of all religions?
Because Blu-ray sucks!
Killing a character off for emotional impact then simply saying, "well death is a reversible process in this universe" throws doubt on *everything* in the story.
You can do that twist to in a good way.
That is exactly what happens in the "Inigo's Dreams" substory in Peter F. Hamiltons Void Trilogy. All the main character's friends get killed only for the main character to find out he can reset time in his (alternate) universe. The way this works out for the better is that the rest of that story deals with the problems stemming from his new-found ability (trying not to corrupt the world around him or himself).
Won't somebody please think of the children!?!
That gives the date and time 33 weeks from now, not week number 33. Week 33 this year is (according to ISO 8601) the week starting with 2011-08-15 (your example command gives me 2011-10-21).
Sudo allows pretty fine-grained access to users based upon group or user name, so you can easily allocate permissions as required (well, relatively easily, anyway) -- much more fine-grained than Unix User/Group/Other permissions would allow. For example, with sudo you could allow senior admins (group: admin) and web developers (group: www-dev) read/write permissions to CGI script directories, junior admins (group: jadmin) read-only permissions and all other users (group: users) no access. Uh-oh...we've got four groups here: admins, jadmins, www-dev and users, so doing that with standard Unix permissions is going to be kind of difficult
That's what you have (POSIX) ACLs for.
Also worth noting, the first case resulting from the IPRED law is, to my knowledge (I'm a Swede and all), still going. The ISP that the copyright holders have demanded personal information from is fighting it as hard as they can.
Even though there might be monetary incentives to the ISPs actions, that doesn't seem to be all of it. ISPs here really do seem to care about these things.
Today your SQL injection tools, tomorrow your nmap?
Why did you have to tell them about nmap for?
Yes. Nexus One is the third developer phone with (slightly modified versions of) HTC Dream and HTC Magic being the first and the second.
There is at least one Swedish company that does deny them, SF Bio (the largest movie theater chain in Sweden). However, in their case there is a good reason; to get the tickets you've bought online with your credit card you have to swipe the same card in their ticket printing machines. You could definitely come up with another way to get the tickets once they are bought, but as long as you have to have the credit card with which you paid to get the tickets, one-time cc numbers are probably out of the question.
How does he figure that? I (a Swede) haven't heard or seen anything from them since the election for the European parliament. I think it would be more correct to call it their worst election campaign ever.
Both deci-metre (dm) and deci-litre (dl) are really common units of measurement in Sweden at least.
Firefox for J2ME would mean Mozilla would have to run a server containing a specialized Gecko renderer that outputs a simplified form of the page as simple markup, plus a J2ME client that would finish rendering from the simplified output. Great concept but too many problems.
How do you figure that? There is nothing saying that you have to do it the way Opera Mini et al are doing it. Of course you can implement a complete web browser in J2ME (it might however not be practical depending on the specifications of the target devices).
Prostitution (i.e. selling sex) is legal, buying it, however, is not.
But, does it have a good text editor?
Why should this be any different from what research scientists do all the time (with actual security holes to boot)? Just write up a research paper (or a blog post or whatever) and describe the problem and give some thoughts to possible solutions (user not being mindless idiots anymore) and release it. There is definitely nothing ethically wrong with it in my book (and there shouldn't be in anyone else's either).
Here in Sweden a blogger (without any income from the blog at all) got the verdict that blogging is an occupation and therefore he must either quit blogging or loose his unemployment check.
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/arbetslos-bloggare-kraver-besked-om-a-kassa-1.842969
Sure, for every 100 people starting the M.Sc. programme in Computer Science over here in Stockholm, only around three of them are girls, but hey, I got one of them.
Other than that, there ought to be some nerdy clubs around. Here we've got at least two, Syntax Error and Mikrodisco. The former specializing in videogame music, dance mats and Buffy quizes and the latter in 8-bit music and the like (there's nothing that will draw out the girls like a live music performance on a Gameboy accompanied by a banjo, right...).
Leonid Brezhnev with lipstick.
Well, still no lipstick, but a start anyway... http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SPpWp0E7Th8/SGJjHYjA_oI/AAAAAAAAAVI/e0wWURoKzHY/s400/brezhnev.jpg
A Swedish source (Google translation) says that there where a tax loss of 3.6 million SEK and the total income amounted to 40 million SEK, not that the tax loss was of 40 million SEK. The Swedish source also says nothing of these numbers being annually.
The stated goal - at least from a large portion of the linux community - is to see as many people using Linux as possible.
Yes, that seems to be the goal shouted most often, but I for one think it's the wrong one. I think the goal should be to have an operating system that work as we want it to work, not one that works in such a way that as many people as possible will want to use it, when that way very well might conflict with the way we want it to work.
Linux, IF you want it to reach that "critical mass" market share point, needs to reach a certain bar of compatibility. This doesn't mean that it needs to be compatible with everything known to mankind, but it DOES mean that you need to support, say, the major product lines of the "big three" video board market share holders (NVidia, ATi, Intel), the "big three" styles of audio card (built-in AC'97, Realtek, Creative), and so on. And these need to work without users having to go hunt down some obscure repository, post to 5 messageboard forums, and then follow instructions written like "well obviously you have to bleep fraggle this and sudo command toggle bashznz that and then it'll work, what kind of a lame n00b are you if you don't understand that."
And this is a complaint I've heard once to many from people who only want to have something to complain about. This all comes down to circumstances. The primary reason to why it's sometimes easier to get troublesome/exotic hardware to work with Windows is that you probably have the driver disc that came with the computer. Once you lose that disc, it's not nearly as easy anymore.
I just can't count the times that I've been called over to a friend to help them fix their computer and having to search the web for hours just to find Windows drivers for every piece of hardware in the computer when everything just works when popping in a Linux live CD (and if it wasn't for the Linux live CD, I wouldn't have been able to connect to the internet and find the ethernet driver to begin with).
Linux does not [...] lack consistency.
Selectively quoting does not change what was originally written. If you read on, you will see that PitaBred does in fact provide arguments to why Linux does not lack consistency.