I think that the way it works makes it less prone to bias than traditional news reading. Normal people go to cnn.com, or cbc.ca or bbc.co.uk or (god forbid) foxnews.com (see, I just inserted my bias. Wouldn't you like to be able to read a similar post from a right wing viewpoint to counterbalance mine right now?). Each of those sites has its own bias, and its own editors who may or may not be upfront about their agendas. The beauty of google news is that I can look at what each of these news sources has to say about the same story and get a better understanding of the actual story. For example it was very interesting to read the difference in opinion coming from Toronto and Miami when Canada passed same sex marriage legislation. Or today, I like to see at a glance what the Americans, Australians, and heck, even the French think about Last night's election
And one of those strategies is to use any system other than the MS system. Have you used IMF on Exchange? On mine, about 90% of the spam still gets through and about 60% of what is caught is false positive. And the only tuning possible is ever increasing white/blacklists.
I thought about this today. People are scared and lock their doors at home (I don't) and their car doors, but they are too stupid to buy a gun to defend themselves, their family, and their property.
So, to bring this argument back to the computer world, you're advocating that instead of locking down my systems, I load them up with all of the hottest h4x0r tools and bring down any system that port scans me? I don't think I want to play on that internet... thanks anyway.
Shudder.
Just got flashbacks of a former manager (in charge of IT budget) who, before approving the purchase of a computer, would need to know its "Gigabyte rating" (Disk space), its "Megabyte rating" (RAM (confused the hell out of him when I spec'ed a DB server with RAM in the Gigabytes)) and "Pentium Level" (PII? P4? (Just before I left, I got him an AMD -- again confused the hell out of him ("What's the Pentium Level of an Athlon?"))).
I wake up every day happy knowing that I no longer have to see his weasely face.
Only in that it's white and rectangular....Same could be said for my forehead.
I think the innovation (although that's argued above) is the modularity.
As far as design, it look more like the LaCie products to me.
Yeah, I have found that as a native english speaker, it's very easy to be lazy about the local language when travelling. Someone around you (and almost all service people) will speak english. Definitely not the same experience you'd get coming to North America speaking only Polish.
High school physics taught by a phys ed teacher. We were doing vectors and the examples leading up to the exam were things like "Plane goes 300mph max, 50mph headwind, what's the groundspeed". Teacher made up his own question for the exam -- something like "dude can bike 30kph max, how fast does he go into a 5kph wind" I knew he wanted 25, but that is clearly not the true answer so I said "something less than 30 but greater than 25" with a brief explaination of drag. He marked me wrong and 15 years later I still haven't forgiven the ignorant fuck.
The problem with subscription based is: who pays for startup shows? Would you pay for a new series in September before you know whether it will be worth it (say, Battelstar Galactica) or not (say, Enterprise). And what if you subscribed to a Fox show? Think they'll give your money back when they cancel it mid season? In the current model, the advertizers and producers take the risk -- and I'd rather it be them than me.
Also, is there anyway that MicroSoft can beat back the Google threat on the mobile front, based on the fact that they make the OS that many of these phones use?
Microsoft is already way ahead of google on this front. OMA has been available for exchange for as long as I've been using it.
I'd check with a lawyer before giving up even if there is a non-compete. At least in my juristiction, a non compete does not override your right to seek employment. So if you are an IT geek and the only option for getting an IT geek job is to compete with your former employer, then they have no case against you. It comes more in when you jump ship and go work for Major Competator across the street (taking clients with you) when you could also have gone to work for Unrelated Company across town.
Clearly then, changing settings is something that should be looked at in a usability study. Start with the defaults and include details on changing settings to fit your desires as part of the study.
Another important thing is that there is no way a usability study done by one Phd student is going to give any resonable results whatsoever. Something like this would have to include impressions from a broad range of people -- hopefully many who are unfamiliar with both KDE and Gnome so they don't come in full of biases.
The other benefit of a reboot is that, in the case of weird problems, even if it doesn't work it gives you two minutes to think about other possible causes without having the user nagging you.
What he said plus I can't listen to it on the subway. Until there is a viable wireless solution that has 100% penetration (subways, tunnels, basements, interior rooms, elevators, etc) people (like me) will prefer items that are syncable rather than 100% online.
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Not just the 3rd world -- farmers in general. I ran screaming from the prairies because there are no jobs and no money there. More markets for farmers are a Good Thing.
1. Most of the manufacturers haven't released any specs so the driver writing has needed lots of reverse engineering.
Speaking of which, has anyone burned down Broadcom yet (the miserable fucks)? ndiswrappers are a sweet thing, but I'd much prefer a native driver.
Have you even been on a Gov't development project? There are (by necessity, I might add, but that's an argument for another day) so many layers and approvals and hurdles to jump through to develop something for government that it's always more efficient to develop it privately and sell the package. Then let their IT support it.
Nothing happens. It works like a normal CD. The rootkit (and all of the DRM) is Windows only. I can't find the link right now, but using a Mac is one of Sony's recommended solutions to importing their DRMed cds to an iPod.
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I think that the way it works makes it less prone to bias than traditional news reading. Normal people go to cnn.com, or cbc.ca or bbc.co.uk or (god forbid) foxnews.com (see, I just inserted my bias. Wouldn't you like to be able to read a similar post from a right wing viewpoint to counterbalance mine right now?). Each of those sites has its own bias, and its own editors who may or may not be upfront about their agendas. The beauty of google news is that I can look at what each of these news sources has to say about the same story and get a better understanding of the actual story. For example it was very interesting to read the difference in opinion coming from Toronto and Miami when Canada passed same sex marriage legislation. Or today, I like to see at a glance what the Americans, Australians, and heck, even the French think about Last night's election
And again, how is this site any different than any other website on the net in terms of the information available to it?
And one of those strategies is to use any system other than the MS system. Have you used IMF on Exchange? On mine, about 90% of the spam still gets through and about 60% of what is caught is false positive. And the only tuning possible is ever increasing white/blacklists.
You can't avoid virtual machines with computers. You just can't. :(
I miss peeking and poking bits on my C=64
I thought about this today. People are scared and lock their doors at home (I don't) and their car doors, but they are too stupid to buy a gun to defend themselves, their family, and their property.
So, to bring this argument back to the computer world, you're advocating that instead of locking down my systems, I load them up with all of the hottest h4x0r tools and bring down any system that port scans me? I don't think I want to play on that internet... thanks anyway.
Shudder.
Just got flashbacks of a former manager (in charge of IT budget) who, before approving the purchase of a computer, would need to know its "Gigabyte rating" (Disk space), its "Megabyte rating" (RAM (confused the hell out of him when I spec'ed a DB server with RAM in the Gigabytes)) and "Pentium Level" (PII? P4? (Just before I left, I got him an AMD -- again confused the hell out of him ("What's the Pentium Level of an Athlon?"))).
I wake up every day happy knowing that I no longer have to see his weasely face.
Only in that it's white and rectangular....Same could be said for my forehead.
I think the innovation (although that's argued above) is the modularity.
As far as design, it look more like the LaCie products to me.
Yeah, I have found that as a native english speaker, it's very easy to be lazy about the local language when travelling. Someone around you (and almost all service people) will speak english. Definitely not the same experience you'd get coming to North America speaking only Polish.
High school physics taught by a phys ed teacher. We were doing vectors and the examples leading up to the exam were things like "Plane goes 300mph max, 50mph headwind, what's the groundspeed". Teacher made up his own question for the exam -- something like "dude can bike 30kph max, how fast does he go into a 5kph wind" I knew he wanted 25, but that is clearly not the true answer so I said "something less than 30 but greater than 25" with a brief explaination of drag. He marked me wrong and 15 years later I still haven't forgiven the ignorant fuck.
So, kinda like the channel in hotels that shows you all the porn you could be watching if you did pay per view?
The problem with subscription based is: who pays for startup shows? Would you pay for a new series in September before you know whether it will be worth it (say, Battelstar Galactica) or not (say, Enterprise). And what if you subscribed to a Fox show? Think they'll give your money back when they cancel it mid season? In the current model, the advertizers and producers take the risk -- and I'd rather it be them than me.
You mean sites like this one?
Also, is there anyway that MicroSoft can beat back the Google threat on the mobile front, based on the fact that they make the OS that many of these phones use?
Microsoft is already way ahead of google on this front. OMA has been available for exchange for as long as I've been using it.
I'd check with a lawyer before giving up even if there is a non-compete. At least in my juristiction, a non compete does not override your right to seek employment. So if you are an IT geek and the only option for getting an IT geek job is to compete with your former employer, then they have no case against you. It comes more in when you jump ship and go work for Major Competator across the street (taking clients with you) when you could also have gone to work for Unrelated Company across town.
Clearly then, changing settings is something that should be looked at in a usability study. Start with the defaults and include details on changing settings to fit your desires as part of the study.
Another important thing is that there is no way a usability study done by one Phd student is going to give any resonable results whatsoever. Something like this would have to include impressions from a broad range of people -- hopefully many who are unfamiliar with both KDE and Gnome so they don't come in full of biases.
nope. the simulator runs Solaris.
The other benefit of a reboot is that, in the case of weird problems, even if it doesn't work it gives you two minutes to think about other possible causes without having the user nagging you.
And this once again proves my time tested theory that Germans Are Scary People.
What he said plus I can't listen to it on the subway. Until there is a viable wireless solution that has 100% penetration (subways, tunnels, basements, interior rooms, elevators, etc) people (like me) will prefer items that are syncable rather than 100% online.
Like this? Don't worry, it's probably safe for work.
Not just the 3rd world -- farmers in general. I ran screaming from the prairies because there are no jobs and no money there. More markets for farmers are a Good Thing.
1. Most of the manufacturers haven't released any specs so the driver writing has needed lots of reverse engineering.
Speaking of which, has anyone burned down Broadcom yet (the miserable fucks)? ndiswrappers are a sweet thing, but I'd much prefer a native driver.
I have Unbuntu 5.10 running beautifully inside VMware. Maybe you should use a better virtual machine....
Have you even been on a Gov't development project? There are (by necessity, I might add, but that's an argument for another day) so many layers and approvals and hurdles to jump through to develop something for government that it's always more efficient to develop it privately and sell the package. Then let their IT support it.
Nothing happens. It works like a normal CD. The rootkit (and all of the DRM) is Windows only.
I can't find the link right now, but using a Mac is one of Sony's recommended solutions to importing their DRMed cds to an iPod.