But this makes your password recovery questions worthless in case you actually do forget your passwords, so you might as well enter "ashfiuwafewufiawhf" as your answer.
Some basic mouse gestures have been added which I've found incredibly useful, like dragging a window to the side of the screen to have it resize and take up that half of the screen...
This is so annoying. Please tell me how to turn it off. As with OS X, I don't want my computer telling me how big my windows should be.
BTW it would be Definition Nazi, not Grammar Nazi. I was calling you out on misuse of a word, not on incorrect grammar. Of course, the misuse was not yours but the OP's.
the groups were shown sets of two red rectangles alone or surrounded by two, four or six blue rectangles. Each configuration was flashed twice, and the participants had to determine whether the two red rectangles in the second frame were in a different position than in the first frame.
After being shown sequences of alphabetical letters, the high multitaskers did a lousy job at remembering when a letter was making a repeat appearance.
The test subjects were shown images of letters and numbers at the same time and instructed what to focus on. When they were told to pay attention to numbers, they had to determine if the digits were even or odd. When told to concentrate on letters, they had to say whether they were vowels or consonants.
Given three single tasks, they found that "light multitaskers" performed better than "heavy multitaskers." Why is this surprising?
If you're using a command-line and 'rm' stuff though, that's entirely your fault for using such a low-level power-user interface for file management.
No, it's not. 'rm' is by no means a "low-level power-user interface." That doesn't even make sense. While it is arguably for "power-users," it is not anyone's fault for using this high-level userspace tool for file management. The perception that it is low-level annoys me.
First, I'd like to note that you have no idea what you're talking about.
The journals I've published in would accept.doc,.pdf,.docx, and a variety of other formats (.doc generally pretty strongly preferred), with.tif images for plots, but I can't recall if I've even seen TeX listed as an acceptable format for submission.
(La)TeX generates PDFs.
I've only ever encountered one person who used TeX, and that was a summer student (Physics major) at the lab who used it essentially as a form of rebellion because no one else did: he just wanted to be different.
I highly doubt that this is a fair characterization of his reasons for using TeX.
This is the same kind of crap that stops people from using command-line interfaces.
You have the misconception that it is something scary with no understanding of it at all. Word, InDesign, and others have a learning curve too. You were forced to learn Word, you were not forced to learn LaTeX, and so you perceive things that are not like Word to be scary and incomprehensible.
No, that's not a sensible way to define a monopoly.
Under your definition, all companies hold a monopoly on their own products.
It's a fine way to define a monopoly. The company that sold me the shirt I'm wearing does not hold a monopoly on shirts because there are plenty of reasonable substitutes for things to cover my torso. The company that sold me my mouse does not hold a monopoly on mice because there are plenty of reasonable substitutes for pointing input devices with at least two buttons and a scrollwheel.
Apple doesn't have a monopoly on "operating systems," but that's irrelevant because the issue is that Apple has a monopoly on computers running OS X, which is relevant because OS X has no reasonable substitute (where a "reasonable substitute" is defined as an OS capable of running OS X software).
The company that sold me OSX (no, I don't own a copy) does have a monopoly on OSs capable of runing OSX software. because there is no reasonable substitute.
You have 24 hours to download it. If you want to download it at 1 AM your time, you can do so. If you want to download it at 11 PM your time, you can also do so. In fact, I'd daresay that you can download it at any time you want!
So, to summarize: Consumers need to wise up and realize that they need to pay instead of going for the free beer price in P2P networks. Similarly, the people selling the product need to realize that they're charging too much and DRM is a band-aid "solution."
If I read you correctly, $10 is closer to the value of the CD off a shelf. And it's certainly the latter's obligation to set the price at $10 so that the former can pay that figure.
NOT A SINGLE *NIX USER, on various flavors of *NIX (including the oft touted 'super-secure' BSD variants OR SELinux) COULD SURPASS THAT SCORE, because not a 1 posted a score
And, no - benchmarks are "not everything", only gauges (what else do we have? If you can find a better, more comprehensive gauge than this one that is also multiplatform?? I'll give it a shot too, but to date? I have NOT been able to find a better one, than CIS Tool!
"I don't have the evidence, therefore I'm right." Or, to be fair to you, "I don't have any evidence to say that I'm wrong, therefore I'M RIGHT."
Deciding that you have an unbelievably safe system based on lack of challenge and an arbitrarily defined scale is...stupid.
You don't even understand what we're talking about when we say "Administrator." Yes, we're all aware that there's a (semi-)hidden account called "Administrator." No, that's not what we're talking about.
The obvious issue here is that this test is not "multiplatform" in the way you think it is. A score on your system is as comparable to a Linux system as the SAT is to the ACT. For crying out loud, there's even a MySQL benchmark; it's not even an OS.
they "ran", or evaded the test with b.s. (why not take it? I am fairly CERTAIN many did but did NOT like the results they saw, & that their systems were not as "(insert *NIX variant here) is more secure than Windows" was proven WRONG)
I believe I am feeding a troll here...... However using that tool cannot give you an apples to apples comparison of windows to any other OS. Your photo evidence shows a score for "Registry Permissions".... This is therefore a weighted mark, because some OS's do not include a registry, and thus cannot be scored on this basis.
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This sort of test, can *only* score known vulnerabilities. The problem with security is the unknown vulnerabilities. Even if you have addressed 100% of known vulnerabilities, it only takes 1 to get cracked.
Which is what I said. It seems you have either ignored the post and are calling it BS (why not reply to it? I am fairly CERTAIN [why did you capitalize this word?] you did but did NOT like your total inability to come up with an answer because you were proven WRONG).
By the way, I noticed that, for the first two items, you passed 0/1 major service pack and hotfix requirements and passed 1/1 minor ones, earning you a score of 12.5/25.
And finally, it failed to run on my system. After pointing it to the location of my java.exe, it gave a NoClassDefFoundError. Besides, I'm running XP Home. http://members.cisecurity.org/kb/article.php?id=01 3
"While we are well aware it's not public domain, the argument here is that it should be."
I don't see how you got that from what was posted. It wasn't your comment either.
The article made it sound like MS defined it as a standard. This means that everyone should have free access to it, no?
It wasn't my comment...so?
No, it's just plain English. You do need to have basic reading comprehension skills hoewever [sic].
What is "it?" By being vague with words like "it" and "the problem," I feel there is really no way to respond to you here. I've explained the argument already: standards should be for everyone; otherwise they're not standards. This is called implication. It may also be categorized as logic. You can call it "slashthinking" if you want, just like you can call me illiterate, but it is you that are the fool.
"Perhaps, after 6 years, MS realized it had achieved font lock-in?"
That's six years that the FSF and RMS could have came out with their own solution. Instead we have proof that the cathedral model still rules for the most important things.
A solution to what? The font problem? There was no problem after a standard was defined, and MS did that already.
Unless you mean the problem to lock-in. In which case...
"It seems to me, if you give something out, then its out, and not yours to later revoke."
That's slashthinking for you. Just because something is on the internet doesn't mean it's public domain. Besides they aren't "revoking" it to individuals, but giving Apple permission to continue to use them.
While we are well aware it's not public domain, the argument here is that it should be. Damn, do we need to be as explicit as lawyers here?
From what I can tell (not that I've looked into this at all), MS said that these fonts would be safe to use on the web because everyone would have them. In other words, it would be a standard. In that sense, they are definitely to blame for revoking it (or, as you would like to put it, defining-it-as-a-standard-and-then-charging-for-th e-use-of).
With Ubuntu, it simply reported "sync out of range" and there was nothing that could be done. Safe mode generated the same error, and with no UI to interact with, that's the end of it.
Ctrl+Alt+F1
Now this experience obviously isn't typical either, but it demonstrates the main problem with Ubuntu: when it fails, there's no way to get help. Your options are basically to whine on forums, and then get completely useless advice like editing configuration files on a read-only CD with an OS that doesn't display a UI.
With Windows, there's a support number you can call, or you can take it to a local computer store, or ask for help among the massive number of Windows users - in short, you're not stuck with snobs on forums who think you should be able to hand-edit configuration files without being able to see anything on the screen.
Try the IRC channels (like #kubuntu on FreeNode).
IMO, Windows has a large support base, but a larger percentage of that support base has no idea what they're talking. Poking around in config files is much more useful than "restart, scan for virii, scandisk, scan for spyware, or reformat," the advice you usually get.
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But this makes your password recovery questions worthless in case you actually do forget your passwords, so you might as well enter "ashfiuwafewufiawhf" as your answer.
Though I doubt you did it purposely, it was the section you snipped that makes them "socialist":
funded by a tax on everyone for the benefit of everyone
This is so annoying. Please tell me how to turn it off. As with OS X, I don't want my computer telling me how big my windows should be.
BTW it would be Definition Nazi, not Grammar Nazi. I was calling you out on misuse of a word, not on incorrect grammar. Of course, the misuse was not yours but the OP's.
And what kind of Nazi are you now?
So the tests the experiments used were:
the groups were shown sets of two red rectangles alone or surrounded by two, four or six blue rectangles. Each configuration was flashed twice, and the participants had to determine whether the two red rectangles in the second frame were in a different position than in the first frame.
After being shown sequences of alphabetical letters, the high multitaskers did a lousy job at remembering when a letter was making a repeat appearance.
The test subjects were shown images of letters and numbers at the same time and instructed what to focus on. When they were told to pay attention to numbers, they had to determine if the digits were even or odd. When told to concentrate on letters, they had to say whether they were vowels or consonants.
Given three single tasks, they found that "light multitaskers" performed better than "heavy multitaskers." Why is this surprising?
"Stereotypical?"
Anyway, I challenge you to do the same on a Windows machine. As the other reply to your comment says, Windows does not have an easier learning curve.
If you're using a command-line and 'rm' stuff though, that's entirely your fault for using such a low-level power-user interface for file management.
No, it's not. 'rm' is by no means a "low-level power-user interface." That doesn't even make sense. While it is arguably for "power-users," it is not anyone's fault for using this high-level userspace tool for file management. The perception that it is low-level annoys me.
That's a great idea. While you're at it, make browsers W3C compliant too.
I'm aware, but this still is irrelevant to the original comment.
Yes, of course that's a solution, but that hardly falls under the OP's "little or no effort required."
First, I'd like to note that you have no idea what you're talking about.
The journals I've published in would accept .doc, .pdf, .docx, and a variety of other formats (.doc generally pretty strongly preferred), with .tif images for plots, but I can't recall if I've even seen TeX listed as an acceptable format for submission.
(La)TeX generates PDFs.
I've only ever encountered one person who used TeX, and that was a summer student (Physics major) at the lab who used it essentially as a form of rebellion because no one else did: he just wanted to be different.
I highly doubt that this is a fair characterization of his reasons for using TeX.
This is the same kind of crap that stops people from using command-line interfaces.
You have the misconception that it is something scary with no understanding of it at all. Word, InDesign, and others have a learning curve too. You were forced to learn Word, you were not forced to learn LaTeX, and so you perceive things that are not like Word to be scary and incomprehensible.
How is that an issue...?
And I suppose Bob's dynamic pages mark themselves up, which is why he doesn't do "both" like Jerry.
Who maintains the list of titles known to be unavailable for free?
Also, as stated by other posters, titles are insufficient for determining content.
Once you violate your principles, they are no longer your principles.
No, that's not a sensible way to define a monopoly.
Under your definition, all companies hold a monopoly on their own products.
It's a fine way to define a monopoly. The company that sold me the shirt I'm wearing does not hold a monopoly on shirts because there are plenty of reasonable substitutes for things to cover my torso. The company that sold me my mouse does not hold a monopoly on mice because there are plenty of reasonable substitutes for pointing input devices with at least two buttons and a scrollwheel.
Apple doesn't have a monopoly on "operating systems," but that's irrelevant because the issue is that Apple has a monopoly on computers running OS X, which is relevant because OS X has no reasonable substitute (where a "reasonable substitute" is defined as an OS capable of running OS X software).
The company that sold me OSX (no, I don't own a copy) does have a monopoly on OSs capable of runing OSX software. because there is no reasonable substitute.
It was a joke.
You have 24 hours to download it. If you want to download it at 1 AM your time, you can do so. If you want to download it at 11 PM your time, you can also do so. In fact, I'd daresay that you can download it at any time you want!
It protects them from having their software copied.
So, to summarize:
Consumers need to wise up and realize that they need to pay instead of going for the free beer price in P2P networks.
Similarly, the people selling the product need to realize that they're charging too much and DRM is a band-aid "solution."
If I read you correctly, $10 is closer to the value of the CD off a shelf.
And it's certainly the latter's obligation to set the price at $10 so that the former can pay that figure.
Deciding that you have an unbelievably safe system based on lack of challenge and an arbitrarily defined scale is...stupid.
You don't even understand what we're talking about when we say "Administrator." Yes, we're all aware that there's a (semi-)hidden account called "Administrator." No, that's not what we're talking about.
The obvious issue here is that this test is not "multiplatform" in the way you think it is. A score on your system is as comparable to a Linux system as the SAT is to the ACT. For crying out loud, there's even a MySQL benchmark; it's not even an OS.
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=243071&cidLet's take a poke at the reply: Which is what I said. It seems you have either ignored the post and are calling it BS (why not reply to it? I am fairly CERTAIN [why did you capitalize this word?] you did but did NOT like your total inability to come up with an answer because you were proven WRONG).
By the way, I noticed that, for the first two items, you passed 0/1 major service pack and hotfix requirements and passed 1/1 minor ones, earning you a score of 12.5/25.
And finally, it failed to run on my system. After pointing it to the location of my java.exe, it gave a NoClassDefFoundError. Besides, I'm running XP Home. http://members.cisecurity.org/kb/article.php?id=01 3
It wasn't my comment...so? What is "it?" By being vague with words like "it" and "the problem," I feel there is really no way to respond to you here. I've explained the argument already: standards should be for everyone; otherwise they're not standards. This is called implication. It may also be categorized as logic. You can call it "slashthinking" if you want, just like you can call me illiterate, but it is you that are the fool.
Unless you mean the problem to lock-in. In which case...
While we are well aware it's not public domain, the argument here is that it should be. Damn, do we need to be as explicit as lawyers here?From what I can tell (not that I've looked into this at all), MS said that these fonts would be safe to use on the web because everyone would have them. In other words, it would be a standard. In that sense, they are definitely to blame for revoking it (or, as you would like to put it, defining-it-as-a-standard-and-then-charging-for-th e-use-of).