Let's say you're psychic, or a witch, or some other controller of paranormal/supernatural powers. Let's say you're the real deal. What would you gain by stepping into the spotlight and announcing yourself?
Frankly, I would think the truly powerful would let the fakes draw the media attention, and let the discreditors have their day. At a certain level of power, such vainglorious attention-whoring is beneath you. It's easier to get on with one's life and work without all that attention.
There are several universities in the United States that are considering this, not just for technology, but a variety of subjects. Preliminary studies seem to show that a student who participate in making their own textbook learn and retain more, and they enjoy the class more too.
I was practically raised by the DragonLance Saga (definitely Weis and Hickman, though don't avoid Knack's The Legend of Huma), which taught me a lot of my morals. Good guys wear silver armour, bad guys wear black. Honour and chilvary are paramount. Tears that honour life are OK, and we must never give up hope.
I think I cracked my first DragonLance novel around the age of eight or nine. Definitely grade A fantasy for the younglings.
As others have mentioned, McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern novels are all great, and Mercedes Lackey has a wide range of novels (The Free Bards is a good one for younger readers). I also recommend my wife's favourite, Diana Wynne Jones and the various Chrestomanci books. She read them as a child and we still read them. Diane Duane's Support Your Local Wizard is another great young adult fantasy novel.
Which is why you disable AB on sites you enjoy (like, say NYTimes, Slashdot, or Penny-Arcade) and leave it for sites you don't (in my case, MySpace). See the ads you want, block those you don't.
Or just install openSUSE 10.3. It comes with a version of OpenOffice.org that can open/save.docx documents, runs brilliantly on my Gateway m250 tablet with 512mb of RAM, and even has the fancy desktop effects (though not Compiz, that'd be a bit too much for it. Still, rotating cubes and panorama views get people saying "Ooh"). Others who are running XP on the same tablet (you simply can't run Vista) are impressed with its performance.
The biggest issue isn't a lack of (software or physical) security regarding the machine, but a lack of a security policy in these instances. At our institution, machines have unique names, unique passwords (when they have to scan to a network drive), and are behind the campus firewall. But a user could get one, hook it up (putting it behind the firewall) and not change the default password and we'd 1) be none the wiser and 2) have no control over the machine. If a department gets one, it's their printer, not ours.
Still, with client-side antivirus and firewalls, and the control we have over the servers (for a multifunction printer to be able to scan to a server, it has to be given specific access, which doesn't happen lightly), it doesn't seem like being able to access the web interface can pose a whole lot of a threat. An attacker could potentially waste a ream of paper or two, a bit of toner, but I don't foresee any major consequences.
Borrow an iPod Touch from someone to play with and you'll find your justification. The people I know who have gotten one wish they had the original iPod (or something not-a-Touch).
The main issue for people is that, although cool, the touch screen gets in the way of basic functionality. iPod in your pocket and you want to turn the volume up? You can't without taking it out, tapping on the screen a few times, then turning it up. Switching songs is the same way. With my iPod 5g, I can just hit the wheel through fabric or whatever and turn up the volume, change songs, etc.
Concerning 3.5 combat, I'd agree that it's easy for the battle to swing between extremes, but a DM can pretty easily make a challenging battle for the NPCs that doesn't wipe them out but still provides a good fight.
The problem with my group is that they don't think through things very well... so when they die, they start making another character, turn their sheet over, and say, "Huh, I forgot I found that potion of healing... probably should have used that."
Give a monkey a tool and he'll just bang himself on the head with it.
To be fair, Facebook has always responded to its users rather well, and rather quickly. When the various Feeds came out, there was an outcry about privacy, and a few other features have set users off during the short history of the site. Therefore, Facebook instituted granular privacy controls and the owner issued a public apology. My continual impression of Facebook is that they get so wrapped up in cool features and wanting to see what they can do with the site that they forget about the users' concerns. When the users voice their concerns, the site changes to accommodate them. This is just business as usual for Facebook: serving the desires of their userbase.
Right, because Ron Paul, 100% supporter of a free market and the libertarian-turned-republican who advocates small federal government with little or no interventionism is certainly going to be in favour of passing laws that restrict the privileges of business and copyright holders.
Ron Paul is not the cure-all miracle tonic for our country. If you want to vote for him, fine, but at least be honest about what he stands for. His response to companies abusing IP and copyright would probably be that people should boycott those companies. Don't buy or use the goods long enough and the companies will change. The "free market" will work itself out on its own. It's not the government's job to fix people's problems.
There's nothing moral about it. Nothing immoral, either. If anything, his stance is amoral in my opinion.
As we understand it, CALEA doesn't apply to us (a state university), and therefore we have no obligation to do anything in response to CALEA, other than exercise normal due diligence. Which isn't, when you get into it, a whole lot.
Who CALEA applies to is our ISP, not us. This is what the law says and what our ISP says; they don't want us doing it, they want to handle it. Therefore, we can have ethernet jacks that anyone can plug into and use (though they're outside our firewall). You have to have an ID to access our wireless, but that's for reasons other than CALEA.
IANAL, but as a computer tech, this is what has been passed down to me, and it sounds plausible enough to accept without my researching further.
I've been running Gutsy for a month now (alpha, obviously). If you're trying to decide whether to upgrade or not, I can vouch that it is quite shiny (though the GUI for dual-monitor support fails with my work desktop's ATI card, unsurprisingly). I'm really liking it.
That being said, I've got OpenSUSE 10.3 on my work tablet and it has been fantastic. October's the new nerd-Christmas!
It's fantastic to see such purported demand for Ubuntu, but I have trouble envisioning the conversion of our servers to their distro. The article itself reports that the server product is in its early days and that there are gaps in its functionality, and the biggest gap seems to be in support. I seriously doubt that Dell is going to pick up the bill for enterprise-level 24x7 support, and the offerings from Canonical seem to be local individuals who put their name on Ubuntu's website, so there's little guarantee regarding their expertise or availability.
I just can't help but worry that Canonical is overextending themselves (even if it is in reaction to Dell asking them to do so), and that the distro will eventually cave once bad PR builds up from a few high-profile failures at the enterprise/corporation level. Those in the FOSS community might not care about bad corporate PR, but it would certainly set Linux back quite a bit adoption-wise to have its golden front-runner made to look extremely foolish.
The iPhone doesn't work on my university's network due to its poor (non-existent?) implementation of 802.1x. The final conclusion was that there is nothing we can do about it; Apple made their phone where it will not work on secured networks. Depending on where you live/work, the lack of real wifi is a deal-breaker to me.
If I wanted something like the iPhone, I'd wait for the Neo1973.
It looks like Ubuntu has one available in.deb, but I haven't had time to look at the licensing. Was going to install the.rpm using Alien, but I guess I don't need to.
I think this is unrelated to 2.3, but I was excited to see yesterday that Novell now has an OOXML Translator for OO.o. I was going to have to buy Office 2007 for my fiance soon because she needs to open.docx files that are emailed to her regularly. Now I don't have to bother.
Whatever you say about Novell, I appreciate their work.
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Sorry, the above AC post was me. Apparently, if you type in the wrong password, /. goes ahead and posts as AC rather than notifying you.
Let's say you're psychic, or a witch, or some other controller of paranormal/supernatural powers. Let's say you're the real deal. What would you gain by stepping into the spotlight and announcing yourself?
Frankly, I would think the truly powerful would let the fakes draw the media attention, and let the discreditors have their day. At a certain level of power, such vainglorious attention-whoring is beneath you. It's easier to get on with one's life and work without all that attention.
There are several universities in the United States that are considering this, not just for technology, but a variety of subjects. Preliminary studies seem to show that a student who participate in making their own textbook learn and retain more, and they enjoy the class more too.
I was practically raised by the DragonLance Saga (definitely Weis and Hickman, though don't avoid Knack's The Legend of Huma), which taught me a lot of my morals. Good guys wear silver armour, bad guys wear black. Honour and chilvary are paramount. Tears that honour life are OK, and we must never give up hope.
I think I cracked my first DragonLance novel around the age of eight or nine. Definitely grade A fantasy for the younglings.
As others have mentioned, McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern novels are all great, and Mercedes Lackey has a wide range of novels (The Free Bards is a good one for younger readers). I also recommend my wife's favourite, Diana Wynne Jones and the various Chrestomanci books. She read them as a child and we still read them. Diane Duane's Support Your Local Wizard is another great young adult fantasy novel.
Rather than go on, feel free to check out the books in our library tagged as young adult and fantasy.
Which is why you disable AB on sites you enjoy (like, say NYTimes, Slashdot, or Penny-Arcade) and leave it for sites you don't (in my case, MySpace). See the ads you want, block those you don't.
Or just install openSUSE 10.3. It comes with a version of OpenOffice.org that can open/save .docx documents, runs brilliantly on my Gateway m250 tablet with 512mb of RAM, and even has the fancy desktop effects (though not Compiz, that'd be a bit too much for it. Still, rotating cubes and panorama views get people saying "Ooh"). Others who are running XP on the same tablet (you simply can't run Vista) are impressed with its performance.
The biggest issue isn't a lack of (software or physical) security regarding the machine, but a lack of a security policy in these instances. At our institution, machines have unique names, unique passwords (when they have to scan to a network drive), and are behind the campus firewall. But a user could get one, hook it up (putting it behind the firewall) and not change the default password and we'd 1) be none the wiser and 2) have no control over the machine. If a department gets one, it's their printer, not ours.
Still, with client-side antivirus and firewalls, and the control we have over the servers (for a multifunction printer to be able to scan to a server, it has to be given specific access, which doesn't happen lightly), it doesn't seem like being able to access the web interface can pose a whole lot of a threat. An attacker could potentially waste a ream of paper or two, a bit of toner, but I don't foresee any major consequences.
Borrow an iPod Touch from someone to play with and you'll find your justification. The people I know who have gotten one wish they had the original iPod (or something not-a-Touch).
The main issue for people is that, although cool, the touch screen gets in the way of basic functionality. iPod in your pocket and you want to turn the volume up? You can't without taking it out, tapping on the screen a few times, then turning it up. Switching songs is the same way. With my iPod 5g, I can just hit the wheel through fabric or whatever and turn up the volume, change songs, etc.
Concerning 3.5 combat, I'd agree that it's easy for the battle to swing between extremes, but a DM can pretty easily make a challenging battle for the NPCs that doesn't wipe them out but still provides a good fight.
The problem with my group is that they don't think through things very well... so when they die, they start making another character, turn their sheet over, and say, "Huh, I forgot I found that potion of healing... probably should have used that."
Give a monkey a tool and he'll just bang himself on the head with it.
v4.0: WoW edition.
Grab SMplayer. I was a bit shocked at the "lack of a playlist" comment until I realized you were running without a frontend.
I assumed the OP was in a country other than the USA. American software tends to be more expensive in the UK, Australia, etc.
To be fair, Facebook has always responded to its users rather well, and rather quickly. When the various Feeds came out, there was an outcry about privacy, and a few other features have set users off during the short history of the site. Therefore, Facebook instituted granular privacy controls and the owner issued a public apology. My continual impression of Facebook is that they get so wrapped up in cool features and wanting to see what they can do with the site that they forget about the users' concerns. When the users voice their concerns, the site changes to accommodate them. This is just business as usual for Facebook: serving the desires of their userbase.
Right, because Ron Paul, 100% supporter of a free market and the libertarian-turned-republican who advocates small federal government with little or no interventionism is certainly going to be in favour of passing laws that restrict the privileges of business and copyright holders.
Ron Paul is not the cure-all miracle tonic for our country. If you want to vote for him, fine, but at least be honest about what he stands for. His response to companies abusing IP and copyright would probably be that people should boycott those companies. Don't buy or use the goods long enough and the companies will change. The "free market" will work itself out on its own. It's not the government's job to fix people's problems.
There's nothing moral about it. Nothing immoral, either. If anything, his stance is amoral in my opinion.
Whoosh!
As we understand it, CALEA doesn't apply to us (a state university), and therefore we have no obligation to do anything in response to CALEA, other than exercise normal due diligence. Which isn't, when you get into it, a whole lot.
Who CALEA applies to is our ISP, not us. This is what the law says and what our ISP says; they don't want us doing it, they want to handle it. Therefore, we can have ethernet jacks that anyone can plug into and use (though they're outside our firewall). You have to have an ID to access our wireless, but that's for reasons other than CALEA.
IANAL, but as a computer tech, this is what has been passed down to me, and it sounds plausible enough to accept without my researching further.
Also, Cedega. I subscribe for the sole reason of furthering gaming on Linux. The more support they get, the better games will work on Linux.
I've been running Gutsy for a month now (alpha, obviously). If you're trying to decide whether to upgrade or not, I can vouch that it is quite shiny (though the GUI for dual-monitor support fails with my work desktop's ATI card, unsurprisingly). I'm really liking it.
That being said, I've got OpenSUSE 10.3 on my work tablet and it has been fantastic. October's the new nerd-Christmas!
No, but it's not disproof either.
It's fantastic to see such purported demand for Ubuntu, but I have trouble envisioning the conversion of our servers to their distro. The article itself reports that the server product is in its early days and that there are gaps in its functionality, and the biggest gap seems to be in support. I seriously doubt that Dell is going to pick up the bill for enterprise-level 24x7 support, and the offerings from Canonical seem to be local individuals who put their name on Ubuntu's website, so there's little guarantee regarding their expertise or availability.
I just can't help but worry that Canonical is overextending themselves (even if it is in reaction to Dell asking them to do so), and that the distro will eventually cave once bad PR builds up from a few high-profile failures at the enterprise/corporation level. Those in the FOSS community might not care about bad corporate PR, but it would certainly set Linux back quite a bit adoption-wise to have its golden front-runner made to look extremely foolish.
WPA2 Enterprise through PEAP with the key type as Dynamic WEP (I have to configure it on Linux).
The iPhone doesn't work on my university's network due to its poor (non-existent?) implementation of 802.1x. The final conclusion was that there is nothing we can do about it; Apple made their phone where it will not work on secured networks. Depending on where you live/work, the lack of real wifi is a deal-breaker to me.
If I wanted something like the iPhone, I'd wait for the Neo1973.
Apple's firmware division is not in charge of Gundam.
It looks like Ubuntu has one available in .deb, but I haven't had time to look at the licensing. Was going to install the .rpm using Alien, but I guess I don't need to.
I think this is unrelated to 2.3, but I was excited to see yesterday that Novell now has an OOXML Translator for OO.o. I was going to have to buy Office 2007 for my fiance soon because she needs to open .docx files that are emailed to her regularly. Now I don't have to bother.
Whatever you say about Novell, I appreciate their work.