I already replied above, but on an unrelated note, it just occurred to me that this license would brilliantly require schools to pay Microsoft subscription fees for all their macs with Intel CPUs. As education is one area where Macs are close to dominant, this is a brilliant move. Kudos.
FTA:
It reminds schools they are legally obliged to have licensed software, but suggests they use instead what is known as "perpetual licensing". Becta is just suggesting they continue to buy software rather than "moving to Microsoft's School Agreement subscription licensing model" even though it may be more expensive initially. This is because under the subscription licensing model, "Microsoft required schools to have licenses for every PC in a school that might use its software, whether they were actually doing so or running something else."
You know, I may have been a bit off topic on this particular article. Sometimes I veer off topic. Sometimes I see connections that other people don't agree exist. Sometimes I miss a bit of humor and reply as though the parent poster were serious. Still, I always try to add something to the conversation. Can you say the same?
First, a criticism that I've heard and experienced myself is that it can be very difficult to customize Gnome to behave as one would like it to. You end up having to resort to using a strange tool to edit something resembling a registry in order to do things that I would expect to be able to do in the GUI, and used to be able to do in the GUI in older version. If I even want to be able to right click on the desktop and open a terminal, I need an extra package.
Second, I can't tell you how many times my Gnome configuration has broken after a major upgrade. Things like panel drawers ceasing to function doesn't make me very happy. Other UIs such as KDE and xfce have not exhibited similar problems across seemingly major upgrades.
Perhaps this isn't really an idealogical issue, but it seems as though KDE does a much better job of encouraging the creation of high quality software for Linux. As one example, I haven't found a disc burning tool of comparable quality to k3b for Linux. Gnome still seems better than xfce on this part though.
Read the HardOCP review of the iBUYPOWER P4 Custom Build. If there is a HardOCP review for something, I trust it more than any other review. They aren't afraid to rate something terribly, and to tell you everything that is wrong with it. They also go through the buying process and refuse any free stuff they are offered.
The fact is, at the moment, Gnome is ideologically flawed. Even in terms of presenting a nice clean UI, xfce-4 does a considerably better job using their own libraries. If only distributions like Ubuntu would stop promoting the idea that Gnome is the de-facto UI of choice for Linux, maybe Gnome would seriously consider their problems and improve.
He pretty much said so on the show. He joked that Doritos couldn't fund the campaign directly, so he would have to find some other excuse to accept their money. He has said in an interview (off his show) that he doesn't want to be President, he just wants to run for it. He is a smart guy, and he is backed by smart lawyers. I'm sure he'll stop before he crosses the line from legal to illegal.
FTA:
White House press secretary Dana Perino said Friday that "it is not a practice that we would employ here at the White House. We certainly don't condone it. We didn't know about it beforehand.... They, I'm sure, will not do it again." If past trends hold, White House press secretary Dana Perino meant that "it is a practice that we employ here at the White House. We certainly condone it. We knew about it beforehand.... They, I'm sure, will do it again." In fact, I believe something very similar might have already happened at the White House.
It won't make you dinner or rub your feet, but nearly one in four Americans say that the Internet can serve as a substitute for a significant other for some period of time You're all I need, Slashdot.
You may be right about his meaning, but his statement is probably more correct. There might be brute force solutions to every static problem. On the other hand, some problems change over time, and brute force might not always work. (e.g. a password system that destroys all data upon receiving 10 incorrect entries in a row)
Note that this ruling is not about the questions you get asked when visiting a website. (e.g. Are you at least 18/21/whatever?) This ruling is on the rules for storing proof of age of the people recorded in sexually explicit photos or videos.
It makes sense that the overly broad ruling made earlier would be overturned due to its potential to conflict with the 1st amendment. It would have become exceptionally difficult to post sexually explicit content without fear of violating the law. Expect a less sweeping law to be put forth shortly. (IANAL)
Anonymous Coward? How fitting. It is precisely because of cowards that we need privacy. If more people accepted people for who they are, and stood up against people who don't, privacy would have little value.
You are right however that the thoughts expressed in my post were incomplete. They were not poorly thought out or intended to troll however.
Hey, my first down moderation. How very exciting. As your post seems to be the only interesting reply, I'll respond to you.
You say that one thing we might wish to keep private is which porn sits we subscribe to. I say the reason one might want to keep such a thing private is very indirect. You aren't worried that others will you look at porn or porn of type $(?). You are worried that there will be a societal backlash. The problem is that society doesn't accept common thoughts and behavior as normal. The problem is not that you are losing your privacy. Privacy in and of itself has no value.
At least, that is my opinion. You are free to disagree. Still, moderators, -1 troll is not a substitute for -1 disagree. At least, that is what I read in someone's sig. It sounded right to me.
Well, if you know that as fact, can you either provide a source, or at least tell us how you know it as fact? You may well be right AFAIK, but I'd really like something I could refer people to in the future.
This was marked "Troll" because it was an oversimplification and an exaggeration. The story I heard goes as follows:
Someone at Atari told Jobs that he would get a $5000 bonus if they could get optimize the breakout machine to use fewer than X parts. He then went to Wozniak and told him that they would get a $2000 bonus that they could split 50:50. Wozniak did most of the work and took his $1000. 10 years and a company founding later, Wozniak finally found out that Jobs both lied to him and shortchanged him. As he and Jobs hadn't exactly seen eye to eye recently, this finally pushed him over the edge and this is why he left Apple.
See no arbitrary 7%, no rubbish about reneging on an agreement, less "Troll"y.
Am I the only one who noticed the advertisement hidden in this otherwise uninspiring webpage? Is that something Google would have to add if they were "designing for Google"?
But seriously, it just occurred to me how awesome this technology would be for video games. Then it occurred to me how useful this would be for the military and for other security-conscious organizations. Someone becomes stressed suddenly at a computer terminal? See what e-mail just arrived. UI applications are a joke OTOH.
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I already replied above, but on an unrelated note, it just occurred to me that this license would brilliantly require schools to pay Microsoft subscription fees for all their macs with Intel CPUs. As education is one area where Macs are close to dominant, this is a brilliant move. Kudos.
You know, I may have been a bit off topic on this particular article. Sometimes I veer off topic. Sometimes I see connections that other people don't agree exist. Sometimes I miss a bit of humor and reply as though the parent poster were serious. Still, I always try to add something to the conversation. Can you say the same?
Alright, I'll try.
First, a criticism that I've heard and experienced myself is that it can be very difficult to customize Gnome to behave as one would like it to. You end up having to resort to using a strange tool to edit something resembling a registry in order to do things that I would expect to be able to do in the GUI, and used to be able to do in the GUI in older version. If I even want to be able to right click on the desktop and open a terminal, I need an extra package.
Second, I can't tell you how many times my Gnome configuration has broken after a major upgrade. Things like panel drawers ceasing to function doesn't make me very happy. Other UIs such as KDE and xfce have not exhibited similar problems across seemingly major upgrades.
Perhaps this isn't really an idealogical issue, but it seems as though KDE does a much better job of encouraging the creation of high quality software for Linux. As one example, I haven't found a disc burning tool of comparable quality to k3b for Linux. Gnome still seems better than xfce on this part though.
Thanks for asking.
Read the HardOCP review of the iBUYPOWER P4 Custom Build. If there is a HardOCP review for something, I trust it more than any other review. They aren't afraid to rate something terribly, and to tell you everything that is wrong with it. They also go through the buying process and refuse any free stuff they are offered.
The fact is, at the moment, Gnome is ideologically flawed. Even in terms of presenting a nice clean UI, xfce-4 does a considerably better job using their own libraries. If only distributions like Ubuntu would stop promoting the idea that Gnome is the de-facto UI of choice for Linux, maybe Gnome would seriously consider their problems and improve.
He pretty much said so on the show. He joked that Doritos couldn't fund the campaign directly, so he would have to find some other excuse to accept their money. He has said in an interview (off his show) that he doesn't want to be President, he just wants to run for it. He is a smart guy, and he is backed by smart lawyers. I'm sure he'll stop before he crosses the line from legal to illegal.
Good to see a Python represented. They were all brilliant, but I suppose they couldn't fit all 6 of them into their list of 50.
This is why I only buy Valve's multiplayer games. Other Valve games I'll play on a friend's computer/console once and forget about.
The official press release is here:
http://www.sandisk.com/Corporate/PressRoom/PressReleases/PressRelease.aspx?ID=4025
Is it public what patents they are suing over yet? There seem to be no real details anywhere...
You may be right about his meaning, but his statement is probably more correct. There might be brute force solutions to every static problem. On the other hand, some problems change over time, and brute force might not always work. (e.g. a password system that destroys all data upon receiving 10 incorrect entries in a row)
Note that this ruling is not about the questions you get asked when visiting a website. (e.g. Are you at least 18/21/whatever?) This ruling is on the rules for storing proof of age of the people recorded in sexually explicit photos or videos.
It makes sense that the overly broad ruling made earlier would be overturned due to its potential to conflict with the 1st amendment. It would have become exceptionally difficult to post sexually explicit content without fear of violating the law. Expect a less sweeping law to be put forth shortly. (IANAL)
Anonymous Coward? How fitting. It is precisely because of cowards that we need privacy. If more people accepted people for who they are, and stood up against people who don't, privacy would have little value.
You are right however that the thoughts expressed in my post were incomplete. They were not poorly thought out or intended to troll however.
Hey, my first down moderation. How very exciting. As your post seems to be the only interesting reply, I'll respond to you.
You say that one thing we might wish to keep private is which porn sits we subscribe to. I say the reason one might want to keep such a thing private is very indirect. You aren't worried that others will you look at porn or porn of type $(?). You are worried that there will be a societal backlash. The problem is that society doesn't accept common thoughts and behavior as normal. The problem is not that you are losing your privacy. Privacy in and of itself has no value.
At least, that is my opinion. You are free to disagree. Still, moderators, -1 troll is not a substitute for -1 disagree. At least, that is what I read in someone's sig. It sounded right to me.
It seems there might not be one. The archive doesn't go back to the Craig Kilborn days (unless I'm missing something).
It seems inevitable that our information will migrate online. It is unfortunate that it is human nature to fear losing privacy.
Well, if you know that as fact, can you either provide a source, or at least tell us how you know it as fact? You may well be right AFAIK, but I'd really like something I could refer people to in the future.
This was marked "Troll" because it was an oversimplification and an exaggeration. The story I heard goes as follows:
Someone at Atari told Jobs that he would get a $5000 bonus if they could get optimize the breakout machine to use fewer than X parts. He then went to Wozniak and told him that they would get a $2000 bonus that they could split 50:50. Wozniak did most of the work and took his $1000. 10 years and a company founding later, Wozniak finally found out that Jobs both lied to him and shortchanged him. As he and Jobs hadn't exactly seen eye to eye recently, this finally pushed him over the edge and this is why he left Apple.
See no arbitrary 7%, no rubbish about reneging on an agreement, less "Troll"y.
Microsoft employees buy another copy of their 13K+ music collections if they want another copy.
Am I the only one who noticed the advertisement hidden in this otherwise uninspiring webpage? Is that something Google would have to add if they were "designing for Google"?
Yeah, 5 years between 2 people is nothing. :)
But seriously, it just occurred to me how awesome this technology would be for video games. Then it occurred to me how useful this would be for the military and for other security-conscious organizations. Someone becomes stressed suddenly at a computer terminal? See what e-mail just arrived. UI applications are a joke OTOH.