Seconded. Those Entertainment Packs have other fantastic games too: Chip's Challenge, Tetris, JezzBall, Taipei, etc. 2D graphics implemented using only Windows GDI, and damn solid shit.
Well, as we are looking at the category of "diets tailored for programmers", I guess The Hacker's Diet is an obligatory mention. I guess most of you know that book already though. Tell me if you know any others.
you didn't hear about IBM/Lenovo requiring you to use *THEIR* wifi cards in the laptops? A non-IBM braneded but exactly the same model, wouldn't work because the BIOS checks for it. Pretty widely reported here on slashdot.
I remember when people wrote free software because it scratched an itch. Kickstarter seems to be setting a trend where people won't write free software unless they get paid. (Or they will write it and refuse to release it unless they get paid). That's not FREE software, it's hostage software.
I have always wanted that OSS devs get paid properly. Programming even small apps from start to finish is surprisingly hard and time-consuming. I hate when there is some free software app hanging at version 0.6 for years because there is not enough resources to keep the project running.
What I find a bit annoying is that many organizations and ISPs still limit the standard user mailbox to 100MB. Can't it be cranked up in this day and age already? Make 1GB the new de facto standard, I say.
We, as social mammals, cannot regulate our central nervous systems by ourselves. We need other people to do that.
Maybe you can't.
Exactly. Other people can offer encouragement and support, and that can be valuable, but it's not that you cannot be motivated alone to quit. It's about life values, thinking, and taking care of health, which make you quit, not some social mammal central nervous system control stuff.
That is why, when you go to an AA meeting, the folks have been sober for months or years and yet are chugging coffee and chain-smoking at 8 p.m. with angry and impatient scowls on their weathered faces.
Heh, it's so true. Someone may carry a medal how you are not drinking, but never tell that they have picked up some other vice. For example Penn Jillette has often mentioned how he has never touched drugs, but looking at the shape of him I bet he likes to guzzle down some junk food.
I have the wireless HP 3070A printer/scanner and the basic drivers package (which includes full support for wireless printing and scanning) is only 22MB.
We're up to four terabytes now, and growing rapidly.
Maybe I'm nitpicking, but we are not growing that rapidly... The 4TB disk has been available for over couple of years already. The next bump will require the research in perpendicular recording or heat-assisted magnetic recording to be incorporated into a real manufacturing process. The labs are probably working on it, but it's unknown when they have something which can be made into a serially manufactured product.
That's why I'd really think the school districts (or the state) should just scrap the BYOD idea and shell the cash for bunch of cheap (around €200 or so) laptops.
The whole BYOD thing might enable an überwizard to hide some completely discrete systems inside his laptop and communicate with them using special hot keys while the main OS is running normally.:) It's quite hard to engineer something like that, but a thing that should be given a thought.
In any case, the prizes should be spicy enough that it's a better deal to reveal the vulnerability in the contest rather than to keep it to yourself and then later exploit it in the exam.
Considering that I would not have bought most of the stuff I have pirated anyways, there is no money or sales potential lost at all.
I have pirated some stuff that I later wound up buying, just because I enjoyed it so much, so if anything, piracy helps sales potential for the few quality products out there.
That is somewhat reasonable argument, but there are still people who don't think about this stuff, and it becomes hard to choose to whom we give the free copy. Because many of those people actually would have bought the product if it wasn't there for free and, they won't be buying it even if they enjoy it in the long term.
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You need to know your basil metabolic rate to really do this.
That's no problem. I'll head to the greenhouse right away.
Seconded. Those Entertainment Packs have other fantastic games too: Chip's Challenge, Tetris, JezzBall, Taipei, etc. 2D graphics implemented using only Windows GDI, and damn solid shit.
Well, as we are looking at the category of "diets tailored for programmers", I guess The Hacker's Diet is an obligatory mention. I guess most of you know that book already though. Tell me if you know any others.
At least he didn't insult anyone.
That is party spirit in Finland.
The enzyme profile of human is not very good digesting corn.
As the poster above explained, there's a requirement to meet an FCC-approved whitelist, but not a Dell-specific lockout.
Why would there be an FCC-approved whitelist? Generally all WiFi cards are FCC-approved anyway.
you didn't hear about IBM/Lenovo requiring you to use *THEIR* wifi cards in the laptops? A non-IBM braneded but exactly the same model, wouldn't work because the BIOS checks for it. Pretty widely reported here on slashdot.
WiFi card whitelisting is actually quite rare.
It's worth noting that GIFs may overlay multiple image blocks with separate color pallets, resulting in true color images.
True, but it's kind of a hack.
I remember when people wrote free software because it scratched an itch. Kickstarter seems to be setting a trend where people won't write free software unless they get paid. (Or they will write it and refuse to release it unless they get paid). That's not FREE software, it's hostage software.
I have always wanted that OSS devs get paid properly. Programming even small apps from start to finish is surprisingly hard and time-consuming. I hate when there is some free software app hanging at version 0.6 for years because there is not enough resources to keep the project running.
Aren't you overengineering a bit? Who needs a SWF container or motion compensation for a simple animation?
The current kitsch fad seems to be these short video captures where someone repeats a wacky gesture over and over.
What I find a bit annoying is that many organizations and ISPs still limit the standard user mailbox to 100MB. Can't it be cranked up in this day and age already? Make 1GB the new de facto standard, I say.
That's a good point, the replacement can be something positive too.
Yeah, you can fit quite a lot x86 code in 22MB. :)
Well, you're right, ultimately that is true.
We, as social mammals, cannot regulate our central nervous systems by ourselves. We need other people to do that.
Maybe you can't.
Exactly. Other people can offer encouragement and support, and that can be valuable, but it's not that you cannot be motivated alone to quit. It's about life values, thinking, and taking care of health, which make you quit, not some social mammal central nervous system control stuff.
That is why, when you go to an AA meeting, the folks have been sober for months or years and yet are chugging coffee and chain-smoking at 8 p.m. with angry and impatient scowls on their weathered faces.
Heh, it's so true. Someone may carry a medal how you are not drinking, but never tell that they have picked up some other vice. For example Penn Jillette has often mentioned how he has never touched drugs, but looking at the shape of him I bet he likes to guzzle down some junk food.
I have the wireless HP 3070A printer/scanner and the basic drivers package (which includes full support for wireless printing and scanning) is only 22MB.
Not enough. You have to take out the battery and put it back.
We're up to four terabytes now, and growing rapidly.
Maybe I'm nitpicking, but we are not growing that rapidly... The 4TB disk has been available for over couple of years already. The next bump will require the research in perpendicular recording or heat-assisted magnetic recording to be incorporated into a real manufacturing process. The labs are probably working on it, but it's unknown when they have something which can be made into a serially manufactured product.
In Finland the access to the site has been restored for most places when they moved to the thepiratebay.sx domain.
Sigh...
That's why I'd really think the school districts (or the state) should just scrap the BYOD idea and shell the cash for bunch of cheap (around €200 or so) laptops.
The whole BYOD thing might enable an überwizard to hide some completely discrete systems inside his laptop and communicate with them using special hot keys while the main OS is running normally. :) It's quite hard to engineer something like that, but a thing that should be given a thought.
In any case, the prizes should be spicy enough that it's a better deal to reveal the vulnerability in the contest rather than to keep it to yourself and then later exploit it in the exam.
Considering that I would not have bought most of the stuff I have pirated anyways, there is no money or sales potential lost at all.
I have pirated some stuff that I later wound up buying, just because I enjoyed it so much, so if anything, piracy helps sales potential for the few quality products out there.
That is somewhat reasonable argument, but there are still people who don't think about this stuff, and it becomes hard to choose to whom we give the free copy. Because many of those people actually would have bought the product if it wasn't there for free and, they won't be buying it even if they enjoy it in the long term.