The issue for me is when someone demands that ALL developers drop what they're doing and start working on feature X to accomplish the goal of market domination. I don't particularly *want* market domination for linux. This is why I actually like Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu: he saw the need for his own itch to be scratched and started a foundation to scratch that itch.
Personally, I write scripts that execute from the command line to add functionality to my box; I don't see the need to add a GUI to a script that appends a command to.bashrc.
If you're willing to go the whole hog, with a lot of applications you can change the install folder from the default to My Documents/Program Files/ and they'll install just fine, not needing the administrator privileges to install.
I was reading an interview with Steve Jobs recently in which he claimed that the reason the iPod was Mac exclusive was that record companies wanted a small sandbox in which to try out this new device, so that if it all went wrong they'd not have suffered any real damage.
While I realise this isn't on topic entirely, I have to say this. Normally, I enjoy Zonk's postings here. They're gaming related a lot of the time, sometimes slanted in my preferences, sometimes not. But this looks like the laziest editing for a post I've ever seen. " with 23 of them are developed" "with 12 are made by Sony" and so on.
I understand that it may have been submitted by someone who doesn't speak English as a first language, or even someone who does speak English natively but doesn't understand the finer rules of grammar, but the editors are meant to fix this kind of thing.
I actually decided to try this out, as someone who has had to use photoshop for his job. I had heard Gimp was nasty and unusable compared to photoshop.
At first, it was confusing and difficult. But after about an hour or so, I was finding my way around it quite quickly and had worked out where ninety percent of the stuff was and how to use it. I do still have some basic issues, but I can't relate to the idea that gimp is unusable.
No. If you start digging a hole, it seems fine for the first few feet. However, the soil is not infinitely stiff and eventually you need to support the sides of your hole to prevent it collapsing in on itself. The cost of the supports for a hole miles deep and the strength that the supports at the bottom need to have in order to remain upright is prohibitive.
Yeah, the software they're distributing not only claims office compatability, it claims to look like office too: http://www.ability.com/v4/newv4.php?ln=us
Has anyone been to a tesco and confirmed this? I checked their website and the nearest they had for office http://direct.tesco.com/search/default.aspx?search =office&confirm.x=0&confirm.y=0was office chairs. Google mentions press releases that confirm this, but no one seems to know exactly what the office suite contains, and most importantly I couldn't find any mention of compatability with MS Office. If it *is* compatible with Office, that'd be kind of neat.
Of course, I suspect, like many others, that's it's just repackaged OpenOffice.org, but we'll have to see.
I actually used several of these pieces of software to show someone the power of open source. He wanted to be able to unzip something that windows xp didn't support by default (something like a bz2 or some other odd compression) but didn't want to have winzip's nag screen, so I showed him 7-zip. I showed him firefox and how it was both cool and had plugins that enhanced functionality. I showed him Open Office, and he installed it on ihs five computers at home that didn't have an office suite. Next he was preaching open office to people and firefox to people and he approached me and asked me to help him through an Ubuntu install. Now *he* is the one thoroughly impressed by how Ubuntu required no network setup; it just worked, finding shared folders.
A week ago he installed FreeNAS because he thought it looked cool. Now he doesn't need someone to hold his hand, becuase he has made open source software a part of his technological outlook on life.
In that case, the sensible thing to do would be for turnitin.com to create software that is sold to a department. The department then keeps track of its own papers.
"And the software manufacturer isn't profiting off of your IP itself, just a way to check it against the IP of others."
You don't teach programming, do you? What's going on here is the software manufacturer has an algorithm that performs a comparison and assigns based upon that comparison a value of the likelihood that this essay was copied. Without the algorithm, the database of papers would be useless for quick comparison. Without the database, the algorithm would be useless for anything at all. Each is useless without the other, so in a very real way the software manufacturer *does* need the IP of the students to have a viable product.
As has been stated elsewhere, the student automatically is granted copyright upon the student's paper. Without asking for permission to retain a full copy of that paper, the student's copyright has been violated. It doesn't matter that your opinion of student's awareness of their rights is that their knowledge is low, there is still a set of laws protecting those rights that are being broken.
No, some things are 50/50. If you played, you have a greater than 50% chance of losing, so that isn't 50/50. Now, I'd also argue that you can either choose to play or choose not to play and, as playinh has potential negative consequences, you're less likely to choose playing. So that wouldn't be 50/50 either.
The O'Reilly "learning python" book is good if you've already got a little (only a tiny amount needed) background in a language. Even shell scripting is good enough. It's pretty dense, so you have to accept that as part and parcel of it, but it's solid.
Not to take you to task or anything, but I used to ride my bicycle four miles to the bus stop along a freeway, pop my bike on the bus, ride for thirty-five minutes and then ride my bike the last three miles to work. That distance isn't the reason you're not riding the bus to work.
See, I can accept the argument to a certain extent. The problem for me comes with obfuscation of communcation: sometimes I read a post on slashdot or on a forum somewhere and there's genuinely a great nugget of insight there, but I can't get to it. When other posters come along and tease the meaning of some posts out for me, I can be very impressed at the interesting or unique point of view being expressed.
The fact is that, for me, when using a written method of communication I see extraordinary value in rules of grammar and spelling simply so that I can follow along what's being said. It's not an assholish thing when I cringe and ask an individual to clarify whether they're intending to mean X or Y, it's because I actually want to know what's being said. So when I say that it's best to go to a formal source and discover what is considered common usage, it's actually to help the discussion along.
Not that anything outside of the first sentence or so of this response addresses anything you said.
I suppose it might help for you to know that I actually don't know what this specific word (i.e. 'irregardless') is intended to mean in some contexts. If you had meant "regardless", your sentence above means "it doesn't matter whether they want to pick apart the merits of these two terms, we know what was intended". If you actually meant to mean something closer to "regardful" above, your sentence means something closer to"everyone knows what they mean, even though they want to pick apart what was being said." Subtle differences mask meaning.
Either way, I don't want to get into a grammar Nazi fight here, so I'll quietly leave now. I appreciate your response, though, because there is definitely a valid point that language does change.
Languages evolve, but checking http://merriamwebster.com/dictionary/irregardless> a reputable source will show that it hasn't reached accepted usage. Defending "that's an ungrammatical clause" with "language evolves" or defending "that isn't a real word" with "language evolves" is lazy.
From the original press release: " Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI), IBM Corporation (IBM) and Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba) announced today plans to research and develop an advanced chip architecture for a new wave of devices in the emerging broadband era."
While it doesn't mention the Playstation 3, the mention of Sony being involved would certainly seem to indicate that Playstation 3 was considered.
I see. You'
re saying "we're bad" and your only 'defense' is "you're bad too!". Sorry, it doesn't work for linux distros saying "windows is also shit" and it doesn't work for you either.
Gmail + GCalendar = Microsoft Exchange replacement. Google recently released this package with a couple of other things like Page Creator. It was misreported on slashdot as an Office killer, when in fact it targeted exchange and will probably kick its ass if they release a version that's bundled with their OneBox service so that you could run it entirely locally instead of on their remote servers.
That's one of the most hilarious replies I've seen; dry, witty and straight to the point of showing off exactly what was wrong with the grandparent's comment.
If I had the points I'd do it myself. But I don't.
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The issue for me is when someone demands that ALL developers drop what they're doing and start working on feature X to accomplish the goal of market domination. I don't particularly *want* market domination for linux. This is why I actually like Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu: he saw the need for his own itch to be scratched and started a foundation to scratch that itch.
.bashrc.
Personally, I write scripts that execute from the command line to add functionality to my box; I don't see the need to add a GUI to a script that appends a command to
If you're willing to go the whole hog, with a lot of applications you can change the install folder from the default to My Documents/Program Files/ and they'll install just fine, not needing the administrator privileges to install.
I can't believe this wasn't modded as funny.
I was reading an interview with Steve Jobs recently in which he claimed that the reason the iPod was Mac exclusive was that record companies wanted a small sandbox in which to try out this new device, so that if it all went wrong they'd not have suffered any real damage.
While I realise this isn't on topic entirely, I have to say this. Normally, I enjoy Zonk's postings here. They're gaming related a lot of the time, sometimes slanted in my preferences, sometimes not. But this looks like the laziest editing for a post I've ever seen. " with 23 of them are developed" "with 12 are made by Sony" and so on.
I understand that it may have been submitted by someone who doesn't speak English as a first language, or even someone who does speak English natively but doesn't understand the finer rules of grammar, but the editors are meant to fix this kind of thing.
I actually decided to try this out, as someone who has had to use photoshop for his job. I had heard Gimp was nasty and unusable compared to photoshop.
At first, it was confusing and difficult. But after about an hour or so, I was finding my way around it quite quickly and had worked out where ninety percent of the stuff was and how to use it. I do still have some basic issues, but I can't relate to the idea that gimp is unusable.
No. If you start digging a hole, it seems fine for the first few feet. However, the soil is not infinitely stiff and eventually you need to support the sides of your hole to prevent it collapsing in on itself. The cost of the supports for a hole miles deep and the strength that the supports at the bottom need to have in order to remain upright is prohibitive.
Yeah, the software they're distributing not only claims office compatability, it claims to look like office too:
http://www.ability.com/v4/newv4.php?ln=us
Has anyone been to a tesco and confirmed this? I checked their website and the nearest they had for office http://direct.tesco.com/search/default.aspx?search =office&confirm.x=0&confirm.y=0was office chairs. Google mentions press releases that confirm this, but no one seems to know exactly what the office suite contains, and most importantly I couldn't find any mention of compatability with MS Office. If it *is* compatible with Office, that'd be kind of neat.
Of course, I suspect, like many others, that's it's just repackaged OpenOffice.org, but we'll have to see.
For those not wanting all the crud that surrounds the article on the linked view http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2006/09/23/AR2006092300510_pf.htmlhere is the print view.
I actually used several of these pieces of software to show someone the power of open source. He wanted to be able to unzip something that windows xp didn't support by default (something like a bz2 or some other odd compression) but didn't want to have winzip's nag screen, so I showed him 7-zip. I showed him firefox and how it was both cool and had plugins that enhanced functionality. I showed him Open Office, and he installed it on ihs five computers at home that didn't have an office suite. Next he was preaching open office to people and firefox to people and he approached me and asked me to help him through an Ubuntu install. Now *he* is the one thoroughly impressed by how Ubuntu required no network setup; it just worked, finding shared folders.
A week ago he installed FreeNAS because he thought it looked cool. Now he doesn't need someone to hold his hand, becuase he has made open source software a part of his technological outlook on life.
In that case, the sensible thing to do would be for turnitin.com to create software that is sold to a department. The department then keeps track of its own papers.
"And the software manufacturer isn't profiting off of your IP itself, just a way to check it against the IP of others."
You don't teach programming, do you? What's going on here is the software manufacturer has an algorithm that performs a comparison and assigns based upon that comparison a value of the likelihood that this essay was copied. Without the algorithm, the database of papers would be useless for quick comparison. Without the database, the algorithm would be useless for anything at all. Each is useless without the other, so in a very real way the software manufacturer *does* need the IP of the students to have a viable product.
As has been stated elsewhere, the student automatically is granted copyright upon the student's paper. Without asking for permission to retain a full copy of that paper, the student's copyright has been violated. It doesn't matter that your opinion of student's awareness of their rights is that their knowledge is low, there is still a set of laws protecting those rights that are being broken.
No, some things are 50/50. If you played, you have a greater than 50% chance of losing, so that isn't 50/50. Now, I'd also argue that you can either choose to play or choose not to play and, as playinh has potential negative consequences, you're less likely to choose playing. So that wouldn't be 50/50 either.
The O'Reilly "learning python" book is good if you've already got a little (only a tiny amount needed) background in a language. Even shell scripting is good enough. It's pretty dense, so you have to accept that as part and parcel of it, but it's solid.
Otherwise, http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/ is as good as many and better than most.
Not to take you to task or anything, but I used to ride my bicycle four miles to the bus stop along a freeway, pop my bike on the bus, ride for thirty-five minutes and then ride my bike the last three miles to work. That distance isn't the reason you're not riding the bus to work.
Just to make sure everyone noticed, wii.com just updated to English too.
See, I can accept the argument to a certain extent. The problem for me comes with obfuscation of communcation: sometimes I read a post on slashdot or on a forum somewhere and there's genuinely a great nugget of insight there, but I can't get to it. When other posters come along and tease the meaning of some posts out for me, I can be very impressed at the interesting or unique point of view being expressed.
The fact is that, for me, when using a written method of communication I see extraordinary value in rules of grammar and spelling simply so that I can follow along what's being said. It's not an assholish thing when I cringe and ask an individual to clarify whether they're intending to mean X or Y, it's because I actually want to know what's being said. So when I say that it's best to go to a formal source and discover what is considered common usage, it's actually to help the discussion along.
Not that anything outside of the first sentence or so of this response addresses anything you said.
I suppose it might help for you to know that I actually don't know what this specific word (i.e. 'irregardless') is intended to mean in some contexts. If you had meant "regardless", your sentence above means "it doesn't matter whether they want to pick apart the merits of these two terms, we know what was intended". If you actually meant to mean something closer to "regardful" above, your sentence means something closer to"everyone knows what they mean, even though they want to pick apart what was being said." Subtle differences mask meaning.
Either way, I don't want to get into a grammar Nazi fight here, so I'll quietly leave now. I appreciate your response, though, because there is definitely a valid point that language does change.
Languages evolve, but checking http://merriamwebster.com/dictionary/irregardless> a reputable source will show that it hasn't reached accepted usage. Defending "that's an ungrammatical clause" with "language evolves" or defending "that isn't a real word" with "language evolves" is lazy.
From the original press release: " Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI), IBM Corporation (IBM) and Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba) announced today plans to research and develop an advanced chip architecture for a new wave of devices in the emerging broadband era."
While it doesn't mention the Playstation 3, the mention of Sony being involved would certainly seem to indicate that Playstation 3 was considered.
YOu have a source on that flamebait?
I see. You' re saying "we're bad" and your only 'defense' is "you're bad too!". Sorry, it doesn't work for linux distros saying "windows is also shit" and it doesn't work for you either.
What's the link on the future direction of windows? Sounds like an interesting read.
Gmail + GCalendar = Microsoft Exchange replacement. Google recently released this package with a couple of other things like Page Creator. It was misreported on slashdot as an Office killer, when in fact it targeted exchange and will probably kick its ass if they release a version that's bundled with their OneBox service so that you could run it entirely locally instead of on their remote servers.
That's one of the most hilarious replies I've seen; dry, witty and straight to the point of showing off exactly what was wrong with the grandparent's comment.
If I had the points I'd do it myself. But I don't.