I realize that its common for developers to write barebones HTML 1.0 compliant web pages, but if your asking people for money, you need something that looks a little better than this.
HTML 1.0 has nothing to do with it. It's just a poor site design.
AFAIK, the problem is that those packages are designed to work with Debian, not Ubuntu, so you end up with more problems than you'd have if you just ran Debian sid.
Personally, I feel that Ubuntu is sort of a Debian for Beginners. As soon as you're no longer a beginner, Debian proper is probably a better option. That said, I still recommend Ubuntu to people who I know are beginners.
There's no HDCP path on the 360, so either the movie studios forget all about their latest copy-protection scheme and don't set the ICT flag on the discs (sh'yeah, right)...
They'll probably surprise us one day. I mean, they've got to figure out eventually that copy protection isn't worth the mess it makes, right?
I bought Lindows once, just before Lindows changed its name to Lin---s and then to Linspire. It was very glitzy, but it certainly wasn't a distro for people who didn't want to spend money. IIRC, without a paid subscription to their service, you couldn't even do things with it that you could do a normal Debian installation, such as updating non-proprietary software.
If you find that's still the case, I suggest you try Ubuntu (or Debian itself, if you're more technically-oriented). Less BS and more getting-stuff-done, IMHO.
I will probably never write anything in Python because I feel that the alternatives suit my needs and control structures based on whitespace are stupid,
Wow, there are people who are still hung up on that? Care to explain (or provide an URL reference that explains) why Python's use of whitespace for syntax is so "stupid" that it's not worth using the language?
This comes right after delivery of new ISS components and right before the arrival of a new crew and first female space tourist.
News flash: In 2006, in the western world, except when it comes to physical activity, being a woman while X is not notable unless X is notable by itself. Being the "first female space tourist" is not a "first" that anyone should care about. Being one of the first few space tourists is. Being behind the Ansari X-Prize is. Being a woman is not.
Anyway, the post is wrong. Ansari isn't the first female space tourist, Laika, was, or perhaps some American fruit flies were.
If they are wise (Personal Opinion) I would scrap the entire codebase of IE and start with an entireley new one for VISTA and change the name so the product gets a new start at life.
They could just adopt Firefox if they wanted to, but they won't because it's Not Invented Here.
"It should be understood that the discs in the drawings have been simplified for the sake of clarity and that various layers, including glue and resin layers well known to those skilled in the art have been omitted."
Hmm. I wonder if it really is obvious where the glue and resin layers should go, or if they're trying to bypass the disclosure requirement.
... rather than people with the experience to avoid the problems in the first place.
Riddles are great when you want creativity, so they might be good for research jobs, but I'm not so sure they're really all that smart for IT.
Also, riddles can be bad. A notorious example is the nine-dots, think outside the box. Typically, you are given nine dots arranged in a 3x3 square, and asked to connect all the dots by drawing four straight, continuous lines without lifting the pencil. An experienced person will look at this set of customer requirements, and naturally assume that the customer really wants you to also stay within the constraints of the square, and try to negotiate the requirements. A creative, arrogant, smartass PFY will either draw the 4 lines outside the box (which happens to be the correct answer in the riddle, but would rarely be so in real life), or ask the customer a bunch of stupid questions before doing so anyway.
The only reliable way I know of selecting employees is to first hire a bunch of people as temporary workers (co-op/interships are great for that), then use your temp worker pool as a source for permanent employees. For the the workers who suck, you just don't renew their contracts.
I realize that (and I still think it's a dubious claim), but the way the article is written, it looks as if "public IP addresses == legal problems". Murphy's law dictates that those people will be on the other end of your tech support call.
I remember reading somewhere that the Chinese censors don't care all that much about English-language content, so Slashdot is probably exempt. This might be, however.
Figure out whether you think you have a case, then get a bunch of people together to split the cost of hiring a lawyer to write up a nastygram to send to the landlords.
And I'll tell you, for $112.50 for four months my kid can't expect the same kind of service that I pay $70/month for here at home.
Indeed, but the option should be there. Keep in mind that not every student is fresh out of high school, and even the ones that are might need more Internet access if they're in technical fields than they would in, say, language arts.
Sure you have options. It's called "a different school". If internet access is that important then find another university with policies that you like. Let the market decide.
I'm tired of hearing "let the market decide" from people who don't understand even the most basic economic theory.
You only took introductory Economics, didn't you? Apparently you missed the part about the effects of elasticity and barriers-to-entry on efficiency.
Higher education isn't a commodity in a perfectly competitive market. Except in densely-populated areas, it's not even close. Thus, there is no reason to believe that "letting the market decide" would result in an efficient outcome.
But if my son had made his decision based on which school had the lowest latency for gaming then I would have questioned his priorities.
Yes. However, that's irrelevant here. For starters, gaming uses a negligible amount of bandwidth.
What right do they even have to tell you where you can live?
None, but how many first-year students can afford a lawyer to fight it? Heck, how many students have time to launch a class-action lawsuit for this kind of crap?
The same kind of crap happened at my university. They implemented a mandatory health/dental plan (which doesn't even cover major things like reconstructive surgery) at my former university. You could "opt out", but only if you proved to the insurance company that you had equivalent-or-better service. Never mind that it's neither Sun Life's nor the university's business what insurance I have (privacy), or that the university has a monopoly for post-secondary education in the region and therefore shouldn't be able to dictate matters in the insurance industry (anti-trust), or that this is in a province that already has public health care.
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HTML 1.0 has nothing to do with it. It's just a poor site design.
AFAIK, the problem is that those packages are designed to work with Debian, not Ubuntu, so you end up with more problems than you'd have if you just ran Debian sid.
Personally, I feel that Ubuntu is sort of a Debian for Beginners. As soon as you're no longer a beginner, Debian proper is probably a better option. That said, I still recommend Ubuntu to people who I know are beginners.
It prevents you from doing EVERYTHING except what is explicitly allowed. Goodbye, creativity.
They'll probably surprise us one day. I mean, they've got to figure out eventually that copy protection isn't worth the mess it makes, right?
I bought Lindows once, just before Lindows changed its name to Lin---s and then to Linspire. It was very glitzy, but it certainly wasn't a distro for people who didn't want to spend money. IIRC, without a paid subscription to their service, you couldn't even do things with it that you could do a normal Debian installation, such as updating non-proprietary software.
If you find that's still the case, I suggest you try Ubuntu (or Debian itself, if you're more technically-oriented). Less BS and more getting-stuff-done, IMHO.
I'm curious: Is parallax and other image distortion a significant problem when you take pictures of a paper vs. scanning it?
Wow, there are people who are still hung up on that? Care to explain (or provide an URL reference that explains) why Python's use of whitespace for syntax is so "stupid" that it's not worth using the language?
Good. Then the issues would be discovered and fixed faster.
Pff. You guys and your overengineered complexity.
Real men use base64-decode | dd of=/dev/kmem ...
Not quite. Their patent application doesn't claim the "obvious" stuff.
Funny, I am a man, so you calling me "dear" makes you sound awfully like a homosexual. Not that there would be anything wrong with that.
News flash: In 2006, in the western world, except when it comes to physical activity, being a woman while X is not notable unless X is notable by itself. Being the "first female space tourist" is not a "first" that anyone should care about. Being one of the first few space tourists is. Being behind the Ansari X-Prize is. Being a woman is not.
Anyway, the post is wrong. Ansari isn't the first female space tourist, Laika, was, or perhaps some American fruit flies were.
Of course not! Exploits don't exist until somebody announces them publicly!
They could just adopt Firefox if they wanted to, but they won't because it's Not Invented Here.
Aw, crap. Yeah...
My pathetic excuse is that I was tired when I wrote that.
I'm not the genius who just failed to communicate my thoughts clearly, and then blamed the somebody else for it.
No, I don't have a technical answer. It's not a technical problem, as you have already pointed out.
Hmm. I wonder if it really is obvious where the glue and resin layers should go, or if they're trying to bypass the disclosure requirement.
But then somebody would have to settle on a standard that doesn't involve tons of patent royalties to them.
... rather than people with the experience to avoid the problems in the first place.
Riddles are great when you want creativity, so they might be good for research jobs, but I'm not so sure they're really all that smart for IT.
Also, riddles can be bad. A notorious example is the nine-dots, think outside the box. Typically, you are given nine dots arranged in a 3x3 square, and asked to connect all the dots by drawing four straight, continuous lines without lifting the pencil. An experienced person will look at this set of customer requirements, and naturally assume that the customer really wants you to also stay within the constraints of the square, and try to negotiate the requirements. A creative, arrogant, smartass PFY will either draw the 4 lines outside the box (which happens to be the correct answer in the riddle, but would rarely be so in real life), or ask the customer a bunch of stupid questions before doing so anyway.
The only reliable way I know of selecting employees is to first hire a bunch of people as temporary workers (co-op/interships are great for that), then use your temp worker pool as a source for permanent employees. For the the workers who suck, you just don't renew their contracts.
I realize that (and I still think it's a dubious claim), but the way the article is written, it looks as if "public IP addresses == legal problems". Murphy's law dictates that those people will be on the other end of your tech support call.
I remember reading somewhere that the Chinese censors don't care all that much about English-language content, so Slashdot is probably exempt. This might be, however.
Figure out whether you think you have a case, then get a bunch of people together to split the cost of hiring a lawyer to write up a nastygram to send to the landlords.
Indeed, but the option should be there. Keep in mind that not every student is fresh out of high school, and even the ones that are might need more Internet access if they're in technical fields than they would in, say, language arts.
I'm tired of hearing "let the market decide" from people who don't understand even the most basic economic theory.
You only took introductory Economics, didn't you? Apparently you missed the part about the effects of elasticity and barriers-to-entry on efficiency.
Higher education isn't a commodity in a perfectly competitive market. Except in densely-populated areas, it's not even close. Thus, there is no reason to believe that "letting the market decide" would result in an efficient outcome.
Yes. However, that's irrelevant here. For starters, gaming uses a negligible amount of bandwidth.
None, but how many first-year students can afford a lawyer to fight it? Heck, how many students have time to launch a class-action lawsuit for this kind of crap?
The same kind of crap happened at my university. They implemented a mandatory health/dental plan (which doesn't even cover major things like reconstructive surgery) at my former university. You could "opt out", but only if you proved to the insurance company that you had equivalent-or-better service. Never mind that it's neither Sun Life's nor the university's business what insurance I have (privacy), or that the university has a monopoly for post-secondary education in the region and therefore shouldn't be able to dictate matters in the insurance industry (anti-trust), or that this is in a province that already has public health care.