Everyone should embrace differences, just like we do.
To the Japanese culture, this is a huge deal. The ideology is about hard work and dedication. To the Japanese, not following this ideal is upsetting as not allowing freedom to make different choices is to Americans.
It's not automatic, but with social engineering, it might as well might me. Most people won't even blink when the message appears on the screen asking for their PIN.
I wonder if cell-phone companies will start having to provide fraud protection to protect if your phone is used fraudulently, like credit-card companies do.
Exactly. I install both KDE and GNOME. That way I can use KDE for WM tasks and have all th gt libraries to run GNOME and other gtk apps. Except for poorly written/designed apps, the KDE Look&Feel renders GNOME apps consitently with the KDE fare.
Most of my Linux experience was with Mandrake, and even that uses GNOME by default. I've always prefered the Look&Feel of KDE, though. Having said that, I've yet to use a K app that I liked.
This was reported on CRN this morning, and apparently InfoWeek. Google News lists articles of this from Business Wire, GeekCoffee, and eWeek, among others.
Why the fuck does everyone think you need TWO hands on the steering wheel at all times to be a safe driver? From what the grandparent posted, it sounds like he does it without looking and takes no more time than it takes to shift a standard transmission. So is my standard transmission vehicle inherently unsafe because I have to take my hand of the wheel to shift? Get over yourself please.
Why should Macromedia care that someone is using a 3rd party renderer as a replacement to their free renderer? Now if somebody wrote a third party flash creation program, there would be problems
According to Reuters: The new default formats for Word, Excel and Powerpoint will change, respectively, from."doc," ".xls" and ".ppt" to ".docx," ".xlsx" and ".pptx," Microsoft said.
Great, now I'll have people calling me up asking "what program do I use to open a 'dot D O C X' file with?"
Exactly. Unfortunately, by that definition, I am addicted to email, napping at work, and slashdot. If it's been 2 hours since I last checked slashdot, I simply cannot concentrate on my work at all, I need to read the latest commments.
an addiction is something you do because you NEED to. a routine is something you do becuase its a habit and it needs to get done.
If you have 6 email addresses and you check them as soon as you wake up, as soon as you get to work, several times during the day at work, as soon as you get home, after dinner, just before going to bed, and at random times in between, then it might be considered an addiction
Man I'm glad I don't work where you do. Here if someone says, "I can't figure out this word processor" they are quickly asked to find a new job, elsewhere.
I'd love to work where you are. I'm not even in the IT department, but I still get questions like "How do I add a comment in Excel?" And of course, when I worked the Tech Help Desk for a local university, those were exactly the kinds of questions I was hired to answer.
I was actually rather impressed with M$ rumored foresight at creating a version of XP to run on old machines that are still running 95 or 98. Who here doesn't have a few (dozen) friends with eMachines that they bought 6 years ago and are running on limited RAM, limited disk space, and everything else?
If I understand the basic idea behind the cell proccessor in that there are 8 proccessing units in one cell proccessor, wouldn't a cell be a Beowulf cluster by itself?
FOr example, in my life, there are very few books that I have read in digital format that I have bought to have as a hard copy.
This is the same argument that the RIAA uses against filesharing, that allowing people to download for free directly correlates to a lost sale. I download songs, if I like them, I tend to buy albums by the artist. If I don't like it enough to shell out $15, downloading the song isn't what kept me from buying the album in the first place. If I read 20 books that I downloaded from Google, and don't buy any of them, I didn't cause publishers from loosing out on 20 sales, 10 sales, or even 1 sale. No more than reading the book at the libary, sure, I can keep forever the digital copy, but my guess is that most people won't.
Believe me, I did everything in my power to try to convince her to not buy a Dell. I try everything in my power to convince anyone to not buy a Dell. But she did anyway, and has regretted it ever since.
Besides, competition keeps the world healty. Without it, what desire is there to continue developing new and better technologies? Not to mention the matter of helping our fellow man.
Not that I'm condoning it, but the article does mention that it would be needed for dual-use technologies, which means things that could be used to advance another country's military technology. There are alerady licensing issues when exporting the technologies themselves (Want to launch a satelite from Brazil? Expect a lot of paperwork). THis is the realization that students could easily learn this in the US and then simply take their textbook, notebook, or even just memory back home to advance military science of their home country.
That said, I find the inherent racism of brainhum appaling. What makes an Iranian or Saudi inherently more dangerous than a Mexican, Indian, Russian, German, etc? And an Iranian-born Canadian citizen? jeez!
Actually, it's probably more an issue of liability. If Apple is made aware of a potential problem that could cause injury or death, and doesn't act on it, if another person is injured by the product, they are negligent and open to lawsuit. If they know it happened six times, and they know that same configuration occured more than six times, then they know it can happen again.
And if they didn't recall, groups like Consumer Report and Action News would be all over them about it.
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To the Japanese culture, this is a huge deal. The ideology is about hard work and dedication. To the Japanese, not following this ideal is upsetting as not allowing freedom to make different choices is to Americans.
Why is everybody so convinced that electronic voting machines don't work? My town has had electronic voting machines for a decade with no problems.
I wonder if cell-phone companies will start having to provide fraud protection to protect if your phone is used fraudulently, like credit-card companies do.
I wonder how long it would take with Pentium 4 disabled.
Yeah, yeah, I already acknowledged the mistake. Maybe I should reinstall my OS tonite just to keep myself on my toes.
Exactly. I install both KDE and GNOME. That way I can use KDE for WM tasks and have all th gt libraries to run GNOME and other gtk apps. Except for poorly written/designed apps, the KDE Look&Feel renders GNOME apps consitently with the KDE fare.
Did I? Shit. Guess that's what happens when you manage to go a 6 months without reinstalling an OS...you go soft and forget things.
Most of my Linux experience was with Mandrake, and even that uses GNOME by default. I've always prefered the Look&Feel of KDE, though. Having said that, I've yet to use a K app that I liked.
CRN, GeekCoffee, Business Wire, and eWeek
This was reported on CRN this morning, and apparently InfoWeek. Google News lists articles of this from Business Wire, GeekCoffee, and eWeek, among others.
Why the fuck does everyone think you need TWO hands on the steering wheel at all times to be a safe driver? From what the grandparent posted, it sounds like he does it without looking and takes no more time than it takes to shift a standard transmission. So is my standard transmission vehicle inherently unsafe because I have to take my hand of the wheel to shift? Get over yourself please.
Why should Macromedia care that someone is using a 3rd party renderer as a replacement to their free renderer? Now if somebody wrote a third party flash creation program, there would be problems
Great, now I'll have people calling me up asking "what program do I use to open a 'dot D O C X' file with?"
Or just change the default. XP lets you place the My Documents Folder anywhere on the computer you want.
if the act of going to work causes endorphins to be released, it may be
Exactly. Unfortunately, by that definition, I am addicted to email, napping at work, and slashdot. If it's been 2 hours since I last checked slashdot, I simply cannot concentrate on my work at all, I need to read the latest commments.
If you have 6 email addresses and you check them as soon as you wake up, as soon as you get to work, several times during the day at work, as soon as you get home, after dinner, just before going to bed, and at random times in between, then it might be considered an addiction
What happens when cloning becomes mainstream? Will we have to patent ourselves to make sure someone doesn't make unauthorized copies of ourselves?
I'd love to work where you are. I'm not even in the IT department, but I still get questions like "How do I add a comment in Excel?" And of course, when I worked the Tech Help Desk for a local university, those were exactly the kinds of questions I was hired to answer.
That wasn't a "full" OS, but a thin client.
If I understand the basic idea behind the cell proccessor in that there are 8 proccessing units in one cell proccessor, wouldn't a cell be a Beowulf cluster by itself?
This is the same argument that the RIAA uses against filesharing, that allowing people to download for free directly correlates to a lost sale. I download songs, if I like them, I tend to buy albums by the artist. If I don't like it enough to shell out $15, downloading the song isn't what kept me from buying the album in the first place. If I read 20 books that I downloaded from Google, and don't buy any of them, I didn't cause publishers from loosing out on 20 sales, 10 sales, or even 1 sale. No more than reading the book at the libary, sure, I can keep forever the digital copy, but my guess is that most people won't.
Believe me, I did everything in my power to try to convince her to not buy a Dell. I try everything in my power to convince anyone to not buy a Dell. But she did anyway, and has regretted it ever since.
Not that I'm condoning it, but the article does mention that it would be needed for dual-use technologies, which means things that could be used to advance another country's military technology. There are alerady licensing issues when exporting the technologies themselves (Want to launch a satelite from Brazil? Expect a lot of paperwork). THis is the realization that students could easily learn this in the US and then simply take their textbook, notebook, or even just memory back home to advance military science of their home country.
That said, I find the inherent racism of brainhum appaling. What makes an Iranian or Saudi inherently more dangerous than a Mexican, Indian, Russian, German, etc? And an Iranian-born Canadian citizen? jeez!
And if they didn't recall, groups like Consumer Report and Action News would be all over them about it.