I would personally call not installing unknown software equivalent to learning to guage an oncoming car's relative direction to yours and judging if it will collide or not.
There are a LOT of learned skills in driving - from assessing the feedback through the wheel, judging your inner ear, etc - things we just don't think about because we do them every day now. Computers have similar tasks, which people don't care to learn because they won't die if they fuck up.
There has to be a limit, otherwise we end up having to define "man in the middle" and "LAN" and "content filtering", etc.
I think that stating "network protocol analyzer" is sufficient - it indicates the general concept area, and gives the reader enough information to decide if it's something he should be going to dig deeper on or not.
I do agree with a different responder that some things that could have been hyperlinked weren't.
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1. A plant considered undesirable, unattractive, or troublesome, especially one growing where it is not wanted, as in a garden.
2. Rank growth of such plants.
2. A water plant, especially seaweed.
3. The leaves or stems of a plant as distinguished from the seeds: dill weed.
4. Something useless, detrimental, or worthless, especially an animal unfit for breeding.
5. Slang.
1. Tobacco.
2. A cigarette.
3. Marijuana.
No, because it's a CMS. It -runs websites-. This means that sure, you may not have installed it, but you have probably visited a website that does run it. That's a fair bit different from other types of software where if you don't have a need for it you won't get exposed to it.
PostNuke is one of the most common content management systems out there. Not to flame or anything, but if you've never heard of them the rock must have been very comfortable to be under.
The test is if the loss of productivity due to lockdowns is overall LESS than the loss of productivity due to virus/malware/spyware plus corporate danger due to piracy plus extra admin time to support all kinds of whacked-out PC's.
If having them locked down costs the company less, then guess what - you get to put in change requests for that software install.
You're saying that he can't critique a NEWS SHOW on the basis of providing NEWS without his COMEDY SHOW being judged as a NEWS SHOW?
This is like saying I can't say if my doctor does a good job at treating me, unless I first find out how many cases of cancer I've cured by running UNIX boxes.
Apples and oranges. He can most certainly say "You are a news show that falls short" while preventing them from deflecting the issue with their "but your show isn't a great news show either".
I'm reading the "Master and Commander" books right now, and it's a blizzard of topsail, topgallantsail, stun'sl, spritsails, jibs of a half dozen types, staysails, etc etc etc - probably thirty-plus sails. And that's not even counting the rigging, masts, stays, cannons, etc. It makes my head spin and I was in Sea Cadets for eight years learning this kind of stuff!
Computing just chooses to try to make the complexity a bit faster to type by acronymization, that's all.
But then there's aircraft law, where I believe the system is that you are covered by the destination country's law, either right after you take off, or right when you hit international airspace.
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I would personally call not installing unknown software equivalent to learning to guage an oncoming car's relative direction to yours and judging if it will collide or not.
There are a LOT of learned skills in driving - from assessing the feedback through the wheel, judging your inner ear, etc - things we just don't think about because we do them every day now. Computers have similar tasks, which people don't care to learn because they won't die if they fuck up.
There has to be a limit, otherwise we end up having to define "man in the middle" and "LAN" and "content filtering", etc.
I think that stating "network protocol analyzer" is sufficient - it indicates the general concept area, and gives the reader enough information to decide if it's something he should be going to dig deeper on or not.
I do agree with a different responder that some things that could have been hyperlinked weren't.
I'd be surprised if it was that low, really. Those things aren't compact to ship, weigh a fair amount, and are usually built fairly solidly.
He's not asking how it works - he's asking why this is radically different from other things that have used metadata before this.
It's also FedorA, not FedorE, as far as I've ever seen.
No, I said that rather than attacking the chart, attack the SOURCE. Read my post before you reply.
Read the bottom of the chart. It cites the source it used for the IQ's. You can then support or refute that study based on it's own merits.
In fact, dictionary.com agrees with me.
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1. A plant considered undesirable, unattractive, or troublesome, especially one growing where it is not wanted, as in a garden.
2. Rank growth of such plants.
2. A water plant, especially seaweed.
3. The leaves or stems of a plant as distinguished from the seeds: dill weed.
4. Something useless, detrimental, or worthless, especially an animal unfit for breeding.
5. Slang.
1. Tobacco.
2. A cigarette.
3. Marijuana.
Nowhere does it contain your definition.
I always understood the definition of a weed to be quite literally, a plant growing where you don't want it.
A rose, growing in the middle of what you want to be grass, is a weed.
That was my number one reason for deciding to adblock ads on Slashdot.
I thought that was my fault for Adblock-ing out essential parts of the layout. ;)
No, because it's a CMS. It -runs websites-. This means that sure, you may not have installed it, but you have probably visited a website that does run it. That's a fair bit different from other types of software where if you don't have a need for it you won't get exposed to it.
Depends if the title says "Smartr bus routing program". CMS was right in the title of the story, and isn't a strange acronym.
PostNuke is one of the most common content management systems out there. Not to flame or anything, but if you've never heard of them the rock must have been very comfortable to be under.
I would be surprised if the licensing process alone costs less than $100K, unless you're planning to have a coverage area of about five blocks.
The test is if the loss of productivity due to lockdowns is overall LESS than the loss of productivity due to virus/malware/spyware plus corporate danger due to piracy plus extra admin time to support all kinds of whacked-out PC's.
If having them locked down costs the company less, then guess what - you get to put in change requests for that software install.
This is a ridiculous concept.
You're saying that he can't critique a NEWS SHOW on the basis of providing NEWS without his COMEDY SHOW being judged as a NEWS SHOW?
This is like saying I can't say if my doctor does a good job at treating me, unless I first find out how many cases of cancer I've cured by running UNIX boxes.
Apples and oranges. He can most certainly say "You are a news show that falls short" while preventing them from deflecting the issue with their "but your show isn't a great news show either".
A great one for the NOAA sat is here:
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http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=10
This one has the pictures that are enough to make anyone wince and shake their head sadly.
Actually, there was some controversy because one of the bills displays the Canadian RED ENSIGN, which is different from the Canadian FLAG.
There's a very informative page on the subject here
Except for the fact than an offshoot of Mt Baker comes up smack dab in the middle of Vancouver.
I kid you not. The Mount Bloedel Conservatory is perched on top of it.
Of course, I went looking for some confirmation of this online and came up blank, so YMMV.
Everything has it's complexities.
I'm reading the "Master and Commander" books right now, and it's a blizzard of topsail, topgallantsail, stun'sl, spritsails, jibs of a half dozen types, staysails, etc etc etc - probably thirty-plus sails. And that's not even counting the rigging, masts, stays, cannons, etc. It makes my head spin and I was in Sea Cadets for eight years learning this kind of stuff!
Computing just chooses to try to make the complexity a bit faster to type by acronymization, that's all.
It also had a failover component which didn't work right. That could be administrative or programmatic, it's hard to tell from here.
Makes sense - you can trivially copy the music. You can't trivially copy the players.
But then there's aircraft law, where I believe the system is that you are covered by the destination country's law, either right after you take off, or right when you hit international airspace.
Keep in mind that SpaceShipOne is a manned vessel.
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Things get somewhat easier when you don't need to accomodate for those annoying carbon based life forms and their needs of water, food, and air.