It's not a matter of letting them buy a computer with an OS; It's a matter of letting them buy the computer and the OS separately, possibly from different vendors.
You are correct, I have no empirical data to back up my hypothesis, but nonetheless from what I have seen of average computer buyers, the vast majority are Windows users exclusively, while the vast minority are OSX users. The number of Linux/UNIX/etc users are so small that I do not believe there would be a significant market.
Tough. If you want to sell computers in France, you have to give people the option to buy the computer without the OS or other software (and get the corresponding discount). If you don't want to do it, there are plenty of French computer integrators that would be happy to take your place.
Could the Slashdot editors please define the term "zero-day exploit"? I was under the---apparently mistaken---impression that it meant an exploit that was released on or before the day that a given piece of software was released.
The only reason I can see for arguing they shouldn't go off the air yet is that the current arc with the Ori seems to be a bit too deep and epic to resolve in the half-season that remains.
I should also mention that this has been happening for a while. Spock used the word "logical" way too much, even where it didn't make any sense, for example.
However, there is one Sci-Fi show that still amuses me: Futurama.
I've noticed the same thing, and I've usually just assumed that it's an artifact of the reality that the writing, producing, and acting is all done by liberal arts majors, many of whom are little more than your stereotypical airheads.
Being cynical is one thing. Being as antisocial as he is only results in being marginalized. And then there's his tendency for saying "it will never work" when it really will. It's poor writing all the way around.
1. Realize that you are only qualified to do so much with this. Your job here is to facilitate these students' independent learning, rather than to try to teach them C programming, since you barely understand that yourself.
2. Get a few copies of The C Programming Language, Second Edition, by Kernighan & Ritchie. Aside from the ISO standards, it's the authoritative source for C, and it describes the language in detail without a lot of fluff. As a side benefit, it will also familiarize them with the K&R coding style (but this is by no means important at this stage).
3. Give them some existing code (read: games) to modify. They'll learn a lot just by looking at what other programmers have done, and it they'll be able to see results quickly, which is important if you want to maintain their interest. If you're using Linux, there's a ton of open-source code they'll be able to use. If not, you might be better off with something like writing Quake II mods.
It's a trade-off. Debian's flat text-based database means that it essentially does a --rebuilddb, and stores the resulting database in RAM, nearly every time you invoke the package manager.
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Shtarker! Zis is Slashdot! Ve don't "think rationally" here!
It's not a matter of letting them buy a computer with an OS; It's a matter of letting them buy the computer and the OS separately, possibly from different vendors.
Tough. If you want to sell computers in France, you have to give people the option to buy the computer without the OS or other software (and get the corresponding discount). If you don't want to do it, there are plenty of French computer integrators that would be happy to take your place.
They're aiming at the vast majority of Windows users, for whom emotional propaganda is what works, sadly.
So then how is it different from an exploit for an "unpatched" vulnerability?
Methinks it's a recently-made-up scare word.
[Insert comment about misuse of "irony" here]
Could the Slashdot editors please define the term "zero-day exploit"? I was under the---apparently mistaken---impression that it meant an exploit that was released on or before the day that a given piece of software was released.
Hmm... DigiView is a logic analyzer now? I remember when it was a peripheral you could attach to your A1000 parallel port.
They could always blow up Earth. The end.
Doesn't Red Hat/SELinux have some sort of signed kernel module check?
I should also mention that this has been happening for a while. Spock used the word "logical" way too much, even where it didn't make any sense, for example.
However, there is one Sci-Fi show that still amuses me: Futurama.
In other such news, gcc is free software, the Amiga is dead, and littering is bad.
I've noticed the same thing, and I've usually just assumed that it's an artifact of the reality that the writing, producing, and acting is all done by liberal arts majors, many of whom are little more than your stereotypical airheads.
I was referring to the submitter. I thought you were saying he should be strict.
Being cynical is one thing. Being as antisocial as he is only results in being marginalized. And then there's his tendency for saying "it will never work" when it really will. It's poor writing all the way around.
Regarding game programming, I should also mention Allegro, and allegro.cc.
Strict teachers are only good when they are experts in the field they are teaching.
1. Realize that you are only qualified to do so much with this. Your job here is to facilitate these students' independent learning, rather than to try to teach them C programming, since you barely understand that yourself.
2. Get a few copies of The C Programming Language, Second Edition, by Kernighan & Ritchie. Aside from the ISO standards, it's the authoritative source for C, and it describes the language in detail without a lot of fluff. As a side benefit, it will also familiarize them with the K&R coding style (but this is by no means important at this stage).
3. Give them some existing code (read: games) to modify. They'll learn a lot just by looking at what other programmers have done, and it they'll be able to see results quickly, which is important if you want to maintain their interest. If you're using Linux, there's a ton of open-source code they'll be able to use. If not, you might be better off with something like writing Quake II mods.
4. If it's not fun, you are failing.
What would you call it, then?
It's a trade-off. Debian's flat text-based database means that it essentially does a --rebuilddb, and stores the resulting database in RAM, nearly every time you invoke the package manager.
Your five-year-old sister? How old are you?
Gasp!
Learn what? Futurama was much better than The Simpsons.
And you are like Hitler.
Unfortunately, all the technical jargon would have to be in an incomprehensible dead language.
So: Carter wears absurdly tight clothing, but we have to see O'Neill tear his shirt every episode. Hmm...