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When I booted my laptop, it went into recovery mode as though someone turned it on, saw the linux boot up screen and thought, "wtf is this crap?! Jeez... I can't sell this...
Nine out of ten thieves agree, Linux is not ready for prime time.
At home I run windowmaker, but also have kde and gnome installed so I can use their apps. At work I use kde, but also have gnome installed for the apps. Switching/switching back wouldn't be difficult. I also run windows under vmware. Rather than making absolute choices I prefer 'all of the above'.
Now we can board the boats and steal them........but it's not a major thing
You might want to run that first point through an internal logic checker. Unless you're seriously advocating security through obscurity as adequate protection, in which case the logic is fine, it's just the premise which is questionable.
Rip your cd's to ogg. While that doesn't guarantee that you haven't violated copyright, it's unlikely that a large collection of music files in a minority format were all acquired through file sharing.
I don't know how things are today, but when I was going to university the student discount for Office was significant. The whole suite, including Publisher, was about a hundred dollars. Free is still better than a C note, but the regular retail price might not be a discouraging factor for students if they're not paying anything close.
And as another poster noted, the bookstore is selling stuff for profit. Perhaps the library could have a stack of OO.o CDs.
Well its all about prespective. From our distance it appears as one object. I'm sure if you asked a molecule if he was part of an object with the next molecule he would disagree.:)
But hopefully they would recognize each other's right to exist. It wouldn't be good for the object if they started firing missiles at each other.
Maybe it's time to consider moving those outsourced tech jobs back to a safe, terrorism-free city like London, Madrid or New York.
I would have moddeded that rhetorical question as interesting.
Obviously no major city can be considered as perfectly safe. In addition to terrorist threat, there is also natural disaster. And recently a building in New York blew up all on its own. The issue isn't safety so much as disaster recovery. How prepared were companies operating out of the Word Trade Center? How did companies in New Orleans cope in the aftermath of the hurricane? Are developed nations any better in this regard than developing nations? Off site/alternative site backup and operation centres are not difficult concepts, but they cost money. Those trying to do things for bottom dollar might be tempted to skimp. If it were the case that bottom dollar skimping didn't occur in developed nations, then it would be easy to say that you're safer not outsourcing. But I know of that sort of skimping occuring and I'm sure a lot of other slashdot readers in developed nations do too.
Because copyright law in the US is constitutional only insofar as a work is protected for a "limited time."
10,000 years is a limited time. They wouldn't extend it that much all at once, just a bit every time it looks like Mickey Mouse is going to fall into the public domain. It's effectively unlimited, without being technically unlimited, since every extension will establish a longer 'limited time'.
It seems like a lot of people who have pirated Windows XP just go ahead and use Windows XP Corporate (which doesn't require activation or a license key).
For XP the absence of something, product activation, is a 'feature'. If you require that feature and can't get a legal copy of the Corporate Edition, what are your options?
I wonder if product activation doesn't encourage more infringement than it prevents.
We (and whatever country the registrar is based in) have NO BUSINESS imposing law or right/wrong on another sovergn country OR IT'S CITIZENS OR BUSINESSES. We can yell/scream/make noise/threaten as much as we want, but we cannot enforce our views on them.
With Linux you can do lean installs. But try doing a default install of a contemporary distro. Long gone are the days when installing from floppies was realistically doable. 10GB may be a bit on the large side for an 'everything' install, but not by much.
I saw plenty of nudie pics and porn as a child and I'm pretty well-adjusted as an adult.
Why then you must be an old guy. We were more robust back then. We were exposed to the likes of titties and communism and D.H. Lawrence and we grew up just fine. Kids today are so fragile, probably ought to be kept in bubbles with variable transparency/opacity programmed to go opaque when exposed to danger.
Prior to application of advanced regular expressions, if a simple regular expression search comes up with something naughty, it might be a good idea to check the name against a dictionary that has the naughty words removed. 'Basement', for example, would be identified as a regular word.
And as you point out, nothing better than having an actual human check flagged words. The human's feedback could also be used to refine the automated checker.
I'd be a bit more comfortable with the unit having a fan when it does reach load temperatures.
Wise. I had a fanless Silenx psu. It last almost two years before it died. I wonder how long the psu reviewed will last before it dies, esp. since the reviewer states "Heat is something we should make mention here as the PSU spent a lot of time with the red temperature light on in the tests."
Public schools have Sex Ed classes where they teach you how to reduce your risk of getting HIV and the Clap... how about Computer Safety classes where they teach you how to reduce your risk of getting viruses or spyware?
In Republican states that would amount to "Don't use computers, kids, and you won't get infected. Take the computer abstinence pledge."
I think more like AMD. 'Intel Inside' meant something when they were clearly the market leader with a few other processor companies struggling to keep up. Now someone could see 'Intel Inside' and have that not be a selling point. Now it may be better for retailers not to have the processor identified conspicuously on the machine, don't even raise the question.
Bob: Hello, Carol, I'm Bob.
Carol: Hello Bob, what can I do for you?
Bob: I request letsdance.mp3 from you.
Carol: Ok, here you go.
Bob is a client, Carol is a server. Bob doesn't just come by and take something that's lying around, there's an active exchange where Carole (acting on behalf of her owner) decides to give or not give the file requested. Any client/server type exchange is going to have something of that, so the foundation for the legality of file sharing (as opposed to simply leeching which is clearly legal) in Canada seems a little unclear.
It would be nice if the Canadian gov't would come up with something like the French and just make the whole thing clearly legal. There would still be a market for pay sites based on convenience, and I think the CD will remain if only as a handy container/backup medium. Prices have got to come down though.
If we're going to include emacs, we should include vim -- equal time and all that.
Bram Moolenaar isn't looking for donations to himself or the project, but would prefer vim users donate to iccf, an organization that helps kids in Kibaale, Uganda. Here's a link to a copy of the readme file.
You can see that Wikipedia is much more informative.
What's that? I could get more info from Britannica if I paid for a membership or went to the library? Ha ha ha ha, right.
Britannica might be able to compete with Wikipedia if they tried, but they aren't interested. They are firmly wedded to the 'pay for content' model that has been their bread and butter for a very long time. The open web is just a marketing tool for them.
Long term, no, it doesn't look as though Canada is 'safe' when it comes to privacy. Short term, if federal elections become annual as minority gov'ts are successively defeated, perhaps they'll have a hard time passing much of anything. Any Canadians thinking about voting Liberal in January should consider this bill before doing so.
'Beep, Beep' has a certain charm as well, remembering that these songs came out not long after Sputnik and that's largely what satelites did. Here's a link to a Sputnik page that has a sound file.
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Nine out of ten thieves agree, Linux is not ready for prime time.
Of course, it can also be difficult to hear the person on the other end of the phone.
At home I run windowmaker, but also have kde and gnome installed so I can use their apps. At work I use kde, but also have gnome installed for the apps. Switching/switching back wouldn't be difficult. I also run windows under vmware. Rather than making absolute choices I prefer 'all of the above'.
You might want to run that first point through an internal logic checker. Unless you're seriously advocating security through obscurity as adequate protection, in which case the logic is fine, it's just the premise which is questionable.
Rip your cd's to ogg. While that doesn't guarantee that you haven't violated copyright, it's unlikely that a large collection of music files in a minority format were all acquired through file sharing.
And as another poster noted, the bookstore is selling stuff for profit. Perhaps the library could have a stack of OO.o CDs.
But hopefully they would recognize each other's right to exist. It wouldn't be good for the object if they started firing missiles at each other.
Please forward the details of your bank account plus a processing fee so that we may deposit the hundred million dollars to your account.
I would have moddeded that rhetorical question as interesting.
Obviously no major city can be considered as perfectly safe. In addition to terrorist threat, there is also natural disaster. And recently a building in New York blew up all on its own. The issue isn't safety so much as disaster recovery. How prepared were companies operating out of the Word Trade Center? How did companies in New Orleans cope in the aftermath of the hurricane? Are developed nations any better in this regard than developing nations? Off site/alternative site backup and operation centres are not difficult concepts, but they cost money. Those trying to do things for bottom dollar might be tempted to skimp. If it were the case that bottom dollar skimping didn't occur in developed nations, then it would be easy to say that you're safer not outsourcing. But I know of that sort of skimping occuring and I'm sure a lot of other slashdot readers in developed nations do too.
10,000 years is a limited time. They wouldn't extend it that much all at once, just a bit every time it looks like Mickey Mouse is going to fall into the public domain. It's effectively unlimited, without being technically unlimited, since every extension will establish a longer 'limited time'.
For XP the absence of something, product activation, is a 'feature'. If you require that feature and can't get a legal copy of the Corporate Edition, what are your options?
I wonder if product activation doesn't encourage more infringement than it prevents.
I wish you were president.
If it gets stuck in the goatse guy, the test is a total failure.
With Linux you can do lean installs. But try doing a default install of a contemporary distro. Long gone are the days when installing from floppies was realistically doable. 10GB may be a bit on the large side for an 'everything' install, but not by much.
Why then you must be an old guy. We were more robust back then. We were exposed to the likes of titties and communism and D.H. Lawrence and we grew up just fine. Kids today are so fragile, probably ought to be kept in bubbles with variable transparency/opacity programmed to go opaque when exposed to danger.
And as you point out, nothing better than having an actual human check flagged words. The human's feedback could also be used to refine the automated checker.
Wise. I had a fanless Silenx psu. It last almost two years before it died. I wonder how long the psu reviewed will last before it dies, esp. since the reviewer states "Heat is something we should make mention here as the PSU spent a lot of time with the red temperature light on in the tests."
In Republican states that would amount to "Don't use computers, kids, and you won't get infected. Take the computer abstinence pledge."
I think more like AMD. 'Intel Inside' meant something when they were clearly the market leader with a few other processor companies struggling to keep up. Now someone could see 'Intel Inside' and have that not be a selling point. Now it may be better for retailers not to have the processor identified conspicuously on the machine, don't even raise the question.
Carol: Hello Bob, what can I do for you?
Bob: I request letsdance.mp3 from you.
Carol: Ok, here you go.
Bob is a client, Carol is a server. Bob doesn't just come by and take something that's lying around, there's an active exchange where Carole (acting on behalf of her owner) decides to give or not give the file requested. Any client/server type exchange is going to have something of that, so the foundation for the legality of file sharing (as opposed to simply leeching which is clearly legal) in Canada seems a little unclear.
It would be nice if the Canadian gov't would come up with something like the French and just make the whole thing clearly legal. There would still be a market for pay sites based on convenience, and I think the CD will remain if only as a handy container/backup medium. Prices have got to come down though.
Bram Moolenaar isn't looking for donations to himself or the project, but would prefer vim users donate to iccf, an organization that helps kids in Kibaale, Uganda. Here's a link to a copy of the readme file.
Brittanica
Wikipedia
You can see that Wikipedia is much more informative.
What's that? I could get more info from Britannica if I paid for a membership or went to the library? Ha ha ha ha, right.
Britannica might be able to compete with Wikipedia if they tried, but they aren't interested. They are firmly wedded to the 'pay for content' model that has been their bread and butter for a very long time. The open web is just a marketing tool for them.
Well called.
Bill C-74
Long term, no, it doesn't look as though Canada is 'safe' when it comes to privacy. Short term, if federal elections become annual as minority gov'ts are successively defeated, perhaps they'll have a hard time passing much of anything. Any Canadians thinking about voting Liberal in January should consider this bill before doing so.
'Beep, Beep' has a certain charm as well, remembering that these songs came out not long after Sputnik and that's largely what satelites did. Here's a link to a Sputnik page that has a sound file.
My favourites are 'The Ballad of Sir Isaac Newton' and 'Why Does the Sun Shine'.