My roommie was just watching VH1's "top ## most outrageous reality TV moment"...and there was this celebrity lady who got taser-ed and was seemingly enjoying it while her friends(?) look amuzed...Sorry, I don't know how any of those "celebrities" are.
sue Microsoft and Mozilla for interpreting their source code. After all, they produce software whose main (if not sole) purpose is to read and interpret their source code. Hey, they are money sucking lawyers and Microsoft's got the dough.
Microsoft can't do math, remember? Just like excel2k7, When window counts the number of files and come up with 16400, it miscalculate to 1,000,000,000...no wonder the leak.
Suppose it happened, but after pissing many player off, they decided to increase the board to 20x20 (by a single line)...how much harder would it takes for the computer?? The number of possible board position scales exponentially.
So I have a question about the complain of removing copper. Previously, people have argued that the infrastructure in the US are so old (mostly copper), that it'd take a fortune to replace them with fiber. Other country don't have this headache because ironically, they weren't technically advanced than us before, so they didn't have all these copper they have to dig up. So people on/. are complaining how we are falling behind in broadband connectivity.
Fair enough. But if fiber is the future. And suppose digging up and selling the copper can offset the some of the cost for a company to lay the fiber...is it really fair to complain about a temporary lost of service (assuming of course that once the fibers are lays, you can get digital phone/tv//internet). There is the issue of monopoly for the company that lays the fiber, but that's another problem. Did I completely misunderstand the issue here??
After watching TFV, I found him a hero not for installing linux (what other practical choice do you have for extremely low-end hardware anyway?), but that 1) He's helping save the environment near me (my family in the bay area). 2) He's hiring people who are discarded by society.
Either of these point are more noble to me than promoting linux...I suppose I am not fanboy enough.
In US, there's a huge demand for undergraduate degree because basically everyone's expected to have a college degree in the US now a day. Many come out of high school are expected to go to college. So university don't actively look for applicants oversea, except for few exceptional cases (I know a single case of a prodigy from China that was recruited, having demonstrated his ability in international high school competition). Most non-US undergraduate student I know are short-term exchange student (just like you can go oversea to some other country).
For graduate advanced degree, the at-home demand is a lot lower. Most US students don't want an advanced degree because they think they'll be making more money with a real jobs few years down the road. But professors still need phd students to do their research, so graduate department actively seeks foreign applicant to fill the spaces.
As for why a particular country/ethnicity, I think it's just global economy. China, India, Korea, Japan has huge CS/EE industry, so many study the subjects as undergraduate, so naturally they will apply to graduate school in the same field.
One thing I always liked about the FOSS/linux world is their package management. e.g. All I have to know is that I trust certain repository maintained by OS developer/enthusiasts. As long as I am pulling apps from them (apt-get, emerge, yum...whatever), I know I am not getting screwed over (Should also check MD5 or something, but usually quite automatic). If I have to use something very special that's not in the repository, then I do my own research (yeah, I know, most user can't be bothered with that).
How is this not essentially the same thing except that Symantec wants to be the middle man and charge everybody for it. So how's this idea: instead of a white/grey/black list maintained by some large Corporation, have some sort of app management program that, whenever an unknown executable runs, make a checksum or hash or whatever, and check against some wiki-ish site that user rate program for trustiness. Surely malware writer can run some bot that boost their rating, but it seems like a technically solvable problem.
Just some though before some large corporation asks me to surrender control of my computer to them.
Are you kidding? The Chinese are not catching up at all!! A weesy beesy $180?? What about punitive damages??
On a serious note, asking for a reasonable amount of money and a public apology does make people think that he's doing this out of principle and conviction, not motivated by greed. If the Chinese civic legal system continue to evolute this way, who knows? Maybe in 50 years, it won't be so bad after all.
By your logic...if someone was caught bringing high explosive onto an airplane (he can be drunk and stupid, who knows?), he should be simply send home because he didn't to kill any body??
FTA:
"7. Flow Measurements Adjusted/Substituted: The software takes an airflow measurement at power-up, and presumes this value is the "zero line" or baseline measurement for subsequent calculations. No quality check or reasonableness test is done on this measurement..."
So, if I blow into the device as soon as it boots, I will always be tested negative??
I can't begin to count the time when people complain "I burned that ubuntu file, but the CD won't boot!!"...Then I tell them, you are suppose to burn it as an disc image, not as a file...then they ask, "What's a CD/DVD image?"
Maybe I have not been thinking about this hard enough, but isn't GPS a passive system in that the receiver only listen to signal but doesn't transmit any. Are they concerned about a GPS reciever that would record the route? My GPS only record the few previous destinations.
So I am no Mac user, but back in high school, I loved ClarisWork on 'em System 9 computer...
So, Apple killed AppleWork, which is the descendant of ClarisWork, and instead links to iWork...Is this just a name change? Or is iWork a completely different piece of software...Sorry for being ignorant about the Mac world...
I am writing this in my IBM T42 running gentoo, but bear with me...
I recently got my first contact with Vista, helping a friend with her new Vista PC. That clustered and confusing interface makes me want to slam her computer on the floor (after half an hour tackling with connecting to my router with WPA and failing that, I just went to the garage, clam her a new CAT-5 cable...). That's when I realized how the simple design of GNOME is so much better than that crap. When I mentioned that, she asked "what's Linux"? Then I show her my computer with the spinning cube and what not. Her impression? "That's pretty, but it looks hard..."
It is a vicious cycle. People like her is never going to hear about linux because no computer they see in BestBuy (or similar) show case it; but of course they don't show case linux because most people never heard of it. And without exposure, people are always going to perceive linux as a geeky niche.
Going back to the GUI, how's BB going to sell computer to JSP? It's going to show case the prettiest, most impressive interface that can impress JSP in 5 minutes, instead of one simple, minimalist, productive that's doesn't demo itself well. People just don't make informed purchase and I don't blame them. For JSP, a computer should just work, windows or linux.
I am sure what I just said have been ranted by/.er over and over...Need to let go of some steam.
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sorry: I meant WHO any of those "celebrities" are.
My roommie was just watching VH1's "top ## most outrageous reality TV moment"...and there was this celebrity lady who got taser-ed and was seemingly enjoying it while her friends(?) look amuzed...Sorry, I don't know how any of those "celebrities" are.
Yes, ASUS violated it, but can we have less sensational headline until AFTER someone ask them to comply and they refused??
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Then again, this is
MIT is housing RMS in the WG building??? Has the planetary alignment gone completely out of whack??
sue Microsoft and Mozilla for interpreting their source code. After all, they produce software whose main (if not sole) purpose is to read and interpret their source code. Hey, they are money sucking lawyers and Microsoft's got the dough.
Microsoft can't do math, remember? Just like excel2k7, When window counts the number of files and come up with 16400, it miscalculate to 1,000,000,000...no wonder the leak.
Suppose it happened, but after pissing many player off, they decided to increase the board to 20x20 (by a single line)...how much harder would it takes for the computer?? The number of possible board position scales exponentially.
So I have a question about the complain of removing copper. Previously, people have argued that the infrastructure in the US are so old (mostly copper), that it'd take a fortune to replace them with fiber. Other country don't have this headache because ironically, they weren't technically advanced than us before, so they didn't have all these copper they have to dig up. So people on /. are complaining how we are falling behind in broadband connectivity.
Fair enough. But if fiber is the future. And suppose digging up and selling the copper can offset the some of the cost for a company to lay the fiber...is it really fair to complain about a temporary lost of service (assuming of course that once the fibers are lays, you can get digital phone/tv//internet). There is the issue of monopoly for the company that lays the fiber, but that's another problem. Did I completely misunderstand the issue here??
After watching TFV, I found him a hero not for installing linux (what other practical choice do you have for extremely low-end hardware anyway?), but that
1) He's helping save the environment near me (my family in the bay area).
2) He's hiring people who are discarded by society.
Either of these point are more noble to me than promoting linux...I suppose I am not fanboy enough.
since when is an disgruntled user ranting in a user forum news?? yawn...
Simple as that I think.
In US, there's a huge demand for undergraduate degree because basically everyone's expected to have a college degree in the US now a day. Many come out of high school are expected to go to college. So university don't actively look for applicants oversea, except for few exceptional cases (I know a single case of a prodigy from China that was recruited, having demonstrated his ability in international high school competition). Most non-US undergraduate student I know are short-term exchange student (just like you can go oversea to some other country).
For graduate advanced degree, the at-home demand is a lot lower. Most US students don't want an advanced degree because they think they'll be making more money with a real jobs few years down the road. But professors still need phd students to do their research, so graduate department actively seeks foreign applicant to fill the spaces. As for why a particular country/ethnicity, I think it's just global economy. China, India, Korea, Japan has huge CS/EE industry, so many study the subjects as undergraduate, so naturally they will apply to graduate school in the same field.
10% the speed of light, huh? Time dilation effect would be quite visible then...Now THAT is a spaceship!!
No more thought experiments. Rejoice physics students everywhere.
One thing I always liked about the FOSS/linux world is their package management. e.g. All I have to know is that I trust certain repository maintained by OS developer/enthusiasts. As long as I am pulling apps from them (apt-get, emerge, yum...whatever), I know I am not getting screwed over (Should also check MD5 or something, but usually quite automatic). If I have to use something very special that's not in the repository, then I do my own research (yeah, I know, most user can't be bothered with that).
How is this not essentially the same thing except that Symantec wants to be the middle man and charge everybody for it. So how's this idea: instead of a white/grey/black list maintained by some large Corporation, have some sort of app management program that, whenever an unknown executable runs, make a checksum or hash or whatever, and check against some wiki-ish site that user rate program for trustiness. Surely malware writer can run some bot that boost their rating, but it seems like a technically solvable problem.
Just some though before some large corporation asks me to surrender control of my computer to them.
What are you talking about? OOXML is proprietary precisely by using "technology"...Can any one else implement it besides a single vendor??
I am sure all Chinese high level legal officials are faithful /.er's.
After all, there are many US bashers here.
Are you kidding? The Chinese are not catching up at all!! A weesy beesy $180?? What about punitive damages?? On a serious note, asking for a reasonable amount of money and a public apology does make people think that he's doing this out of principle and conviction, not motivated by greed. If the Chinese civic legal system continue to evolute this way, who knows? Maybe in 50 years, it won't be so bad after all.
That the link to TFA goes to the second page instead of the first!! It's a big conspiracy I tell ya!!
MSSUCKS??
By your logic...if someone was caught bringing high explosive onto an airplane (he can be drunk and stupid, who knows?), he should be simply send home because he didn't to kill any body??
"7. Flow Measurements Adjusted/Substituted: The software takes an airflow measurement at power-up, and presumes this value is the "zero line" or baseline measurement for subsequent calculations. No quality check or reasonableness test is done on this measurement..."
So, if I blow into the device as soon as it boots, I will always be tested negative??
I can't begin to count the time when people complain "I burned that ubuntu file, but the CD won't boot!!"...Then I tell them, you are suppose to burn it as an disc image, not as a file...then they ask, "What's a CD/DVD image?"
Maybe I have not been thinking about this hard enough, but isn't GPS a passive system in that the receiver only listen to signal but doesn't transmit any. Are they concerned about a GPS reciever that would record the route? My GPS only record the few previous destinations.
...so that's where my socks went.
So I am no Mac user, but back in high school, I loved ClarisWork on 'em System 9 computer... So, Apple killed AppleWork, which is the descendant of ClarisWork, and instead links to iWork...Is this just a name change? Or is iWork a completely different piece of software...Sorry for being ignorant about the Mac world...
I am writing this in my IBM T42 running gentoo, but bear with me...
I recently got my first contact with Vista, helping a friend with her new Vista PC. That clustered and confusing interface makes me want to slam her computer on the floor (after half an hour tackling with connecting to my router with WPA and failing that, I just went to the garage, clam her a new CAT-5 cable...). That's when I realized how the simple design of GNOME is so much better than that crap. When I mentioned that, she asked "what's Linux"? Then I show her my computer with the spinning cube and what not. Her impression? "That's pretty, but it looks hard..."
It is a vicious cycle. People like her is never going to hear about linux because no computer they see in BestBuy (or similar) show case it; but of course they don't show case linux because most people never heard of it. And without exposure, people are always going to perceive linux as a geeky niche.
Going back to the GUI, how's BB going to sell computer to JSP? It's going to show case the prettiest, most impressive interface that can impress JSP in 5 minutes, instead of one simple, minimalist, productive that's doesn't demo itself well. People just don't make informed purchase and I don't blame them. For JSP, a computer should just work, windows or linux.
I am sure what I just said have been ranted by /.er over and over...Need to let go of some steam.