Eh... For some reason, I loved _Tale of Two Cities_, but I got bored with LoTR. Maybe it was just the age difference (it was a couple of years ago that I got LoTR), but LoTR was unexciting when I picked it up as a kid.
My sister's account has been sending out bunches of these lately, even when she herself is asleep. I changed her password and scanned her machine for viruses, as well as removing a bunch of Facebook "apps". Didn't do anything for it.
Eh... kind of both. I've had certain chipsets that network manager couldn't deal with, but worked fine if operated manually. If you think you might be in that situation:
iwlist wlan0 scan iwconfig wlan0 essid "Some ESSID You Just Located in Your Scan" dhclient wlan0
If you don't have dhclient, use whatever your distro's dhcp client is.
As you may have guessed by his subject had you read it, his comment was addressed to Adobe, meaning "fix your stupid PDF reader" rather than "someone get me one that works, and quick!".
If I were a phone maker, I'd say, "Thank you for locking out our toughest competitor." The problem with that logic is that Apple's agreement with AT&T only lasts for five years. Five years from now, the iPhone could fare as well in France as it has in the United States (it might even do better, as it will have had a chance to establish and improve itself through a new generation or two).
The advantage that this gives French phone companies, instead, is to create a similar device and establish it as the de-facto standard. If, over a period of five years, a comparable smartphone established itself as the standard in businesses, it would be more difficult for businesses to make the switch to the iPhone due to software incompatibilities, and the expectations the users would have of the interface.
The idea would be to use this time to create a phone "just different enough" to be incompatible and steal the iPhone's place in the market before the iPhone ever gets there.
He's being modded troll because the moderator (probably) assumed that the vast majority of the Slashdot readership already knew that the device actually costs more than $100. Were that true for all Slashdot users, then saying "Hey, it costs more than $100!" would be restating known point to emphasize the negative evocation of that point, which would be...
trolling.
I'm not saying that the moderator was right to make such assumptions, but that is the apparent answer to your question.
In any case, the post should have been modded down for redundancy.
I found your concept interesting as someone who was introduced to BlueJ (and Eclipse) as a first year programming student. I found the BlueJ interface to be pretty damn useless (one window to edit each source file--wtf?). I had to swap code with other students who used other IDEs (JCreator and BlueJ), and I would import their projects all the time. All I had to do was put the source files in their own directory, and attempt to "create" a project in the same place. Eclipse automatically noticed the files that were there and offered to import them for me.
The only technological topic addressed by Mitt Romney on his recent trip to my part of Texas was this: "We've got to get pornography off the internet!" And why not? The internet seems like the most reasonable place to get it to me.
as someone who is in school right now and has pretty awful grades at the moment, this wouldn't encourage me to get my grades up at all. I know where my grades stand, and I know what I have to do to improve them. I'm working on doing that, and I don't need some jerk at gamestop to tell me that I need better grades. I'd just shop somewhere else, or not shop at all. Either way, it's Gamestop's loss.
Give Amarok a whirl. I use it to manage my second-gen Nano (8GB, Black) without any problems. Worked with the firmware it came with three weeks ago (just before the latest gen came out!) from a direct-order from Apple.com. That oughta do the trick.:-)
PS: Note that you have to specify what model of iPod it is for Amarok to successfully transfer album covers.
The specifications to date don't seem to include enough information to produce a good 3D driver. Dead on! Those are only the 2D specs. The 3D specs will allegedly be released "soon" (and judging by AMD's expedience in releasing the 2D specs, I think I actually believe them).
I'm not at a Linux box right now, so I can't test, but in most Linux WMs you can alt+click to move a window from anywhere. Can someone try this to see if they can see the borders?
But maybe the workplace isn't where you should take that shot from. I don't mean to troll, but there are lots of opportunities for you to learn a language, practice theory, and play with a better developer's source code. I'm not even through with high school yet, but I know that development is something I want to do and I want to do well, so after I took a class or two and picked up a "teach yourself C++" book, I realized that stopping there wouldn't really get me anywhere. I decided to grab the Amarok source and start picking through for some small part of it that I think I could rewrite or some large part of it that I could learn from and do those things for practice.
Maybe after I familiarize myself with some of that code I can start doing some real work on the project. By the time I'm looking for a job in development, I can say "I've been contributing to an open source music playing and management system called Amarok for x years. I wrote the code that does x, y, z."/And/ I'll have the potential benefit of learning from the code of an "uber programmer" or two.
I installed an Alpha build on Windows a while ago and the answer is... yes and no. Many of the applications run, but setup is a pain and some weird dependency issues are there. The basic backend for browsing files isn't implemented yet, so you can't use Konqueror, Dolphin, or select a file with anything. The only app that I tried that worked fine already was Kate, but I'm sure there are more. By the time the final KDE 4.0 comes out for Linux, the Windows version should be at least usable, and maybe even as stable and the same as the Linux release.
Some of the smartest people I know (to some degree, myself included) do poorly in certain classes or in school altogether. Arrogance is an issue for a lot of intelligent people I know (look, me again!). I've gone through an entire class doing the homework the night before or the morning it's due, or not doing it at all, and then a slightly lower grade on a test than I expected hurts me a lot more than it should.
A friend of mine is a math genius, in my opinion. He was studying calculus (studying, not just carrying a book around and pretending to read it) in 8th grade. He can do rather complex math very quickly in his head. But he can't work. He's got ADHD, he's emotionally unstable and he's just a quirky guy. Sometimes it's a matter of maturity.
And then there's another friend of mine who is very smart, and can buckle down and do his work and come through--when he wants to. I've talked to him about a couple classes he underperformed in (failed one). He said "It was freshman year, and I decided that doing the boring work for Photo I was below my dignity." Not "I couldn't find time to do the work" or "it was too hard."
On the flipside, some of the best students I know just aren't that sharp. They don't pick things up quickly, they don't read the news, they don't have any particular talent for anything scholarly, except that they know how and are willing to work hard consistently.
There's no good way to measure intelligence. Some people don't do work or can't find it on time, but perform very well on tests. Do they understand the material? Others go through the entire class and do all of the work consistently and correctly the first time, but get so nervous taking tests that they fail them. Do their test scores reflect their ability or understanding?
She just has to get used to the idea of working from her home directory instead of the root. Setting up symbolic links may help. I use a secondary partition for storage of important data, and symbolic links to make things easy/convenient for me.
Working from the home directory and using "bookmarks" in KDE/Konqueror and "places" in Gnome/Nautilus will simplify the way you interact with the file structure greatly.
I personally like the way KDE handles compression and extraction. With the context menu, you can directly choose extract, which opens up a little submenu, allowing you to "extract here," "extract to...", "extract to $ZIP_FILE_NAME". Double clicking on it will open it in Konqueror with "zip:///home/pxc/zipfile.zip" and it will look just like a regular folder. You can copy and paste files the same way you normally would to any other folder to extract whatever files you want.
Personally, both Gnome's UI and Windows' UI fall short for me in customization, usability, and appearance. Particularly in the department of file management. Konqueror is incredibly well integrated, versatile (it's a decent web browser, great file manager, powerful FTP client, handles Samba shares, compressed files, etc very well). I'm very excited to see KDE 4.0 come to Windows.
And it works fine. The only problem is that SuSe 10.1 doesn't load the fuse module before it tries to mount the fstab, so after I boot I have to do a "modprobe fuse" and "sudo mount -a" to get it to work...
PS: I've tried both ntfsmount and captive-ntfs on this same system and neither have worked.
To me, they have totally different uses. I take notes at school on a palm pilot with a keyboard because for me, it would be way overkill to carry around a laptop. Besides that, most computing tools (website, general applications) are designed with the PC in mind, formatted for it, supposed to be compatible with it. Changes definitely won't be instant.
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Eh... For some reason, I loved _Tale of Two Cities_, but I got bored with LoTR. Maybe it was just the age difference (it was a couple of years ago that I got LoTR), but LoTR was unexciting when I picked it up as a kid.
My sister's account has been sending out bunches of these lately, even when she herself is asleep. I changed her password and scanned her machine for viruses, as well as removing a bunch of Facebook "apps". Didn't do anything for it.
Anyone know anything more about this?
As you may have guessed by his subject had you read it, his comment was addressed to Adobe, meaning "fix your stupid PDF reader" rather than "someone get me one that works, and quick!".
*If you're halfway competent and intelligent, you continue to learn from experience, and very soon know MORE than your teachers chose to teach you.
There, fixed it for you.
The advantage that this gives French phone companies, instead, is to create a similar device and establish it as the de-facto standard. If, over a period of five years, a comparable smartphone established itself as the standard in businesses, it would be more difficult for businesses to make the switch to the iPhone due to software incompatibilities, and the expectations the users would have of the interface.
The idea would be to use this time to create a phone "just different enough" to be incompatible and steal the iPhone's place in the market before the iPhone ever gets there.
He's being modded troll because the moderator (probably) assumed that the vast majority of the Slashdot readership already knew that the device actually costs more than $100. Were that true for all Slashdot users, then saying "Hey, it costs more than $100!" would be restating known point to emphasize the negative evocation of that point, which would be...
trolling.
I'm not saying that the moderator was right to make such assumptions, but that is the apparent answer to your question.
In any case, the post should have been modded down for redundancy.
I found your concept interesting as someone who was introduced to BlueJ (and Eclipse) as a first year programming student. I found the BlueJ interface to be pretty damn useless (one window to edit each source file--wtf?). I had to swap code with other students who used other IDEs (JCreator and BlueJ), and I would import their projects all the time. All I had to do was put the source files in their own directory, and attempt to "create" a project in the same place. Eclipse automatically noticed the files that were there and offered to import them for me.
as someone who is in school right now and has pretty awful grades at the moment, this wouldn't encourage me to get my grades up at all. I know where my grades stand, and I know what I have to do to improve them. I'm working on doing that, and I don't need some jerk at gamestop to tell me that I need better grades. I'd just shop somewhere else, or not shop at all. Either way, it's Gamestop's loss.
That joke might be funny next week, but it isn't funny tonight.
Give Amarok a whirl. I use it to manage my second-gen Nano (8GB, Black) without any problems. Worked with the firmware it came with three weeks ago (just before the latest gen came out!) from a direct-order from Apple.com. That oughta do the trick. :-)
PS: Note that you have to specify what model of iPod it is for Amarok to successfully transfer album covers.
Uh... guys? I don't think he was kidding.
I'm not at a Linux box right now, so I can't test, but in most Linux WMs you can alt+click to move a window from anywhere. Can someone try this to see if they can see the borders?
But maybe the workplace isn't where you should take that shot from. I don't mean to troll, but there are lots of opportunities for you to learn a language, practice theory, and play with a better developer's source code. I'm not even through with high school yet, but I know that development is something I want to do and I want to do well, so after I took a class or two and picked up a "teach yourself C++" book, I realized that stopping there wouldn't really get me anywhere. I decided to grab the Amarok source and start picking through for some small part of it that I think I could rewrite or some large part of it that I could learn from and do those things for practice.
/And/ I'll have the potential benefit of learning from the code of an "uber programmer" or two.
Maybe after I familiarize myself with some of that code I can start doing some real work on the project. By the time I'm looking for a job in development, I can say "I've been contributing to an open source music playing and management system called Amarok for x years. I wrote the code that does x, y, z."
I installed an Alpha build on Windows a while ago and the answer is... yes and no. Many of the applications run, but setup is a pain and some weird dependency issues are there. The basic backend for browsing files isn't implemented yet, so you can't use Konqueror, Dolphin, or select a file with anything. The only app that I tried that worked fine already was Kate, but I'm sure there are more. By the time the final KDE 4.0 comes out for Linux, the Windows version should be at least usable, and maybe even as stable and the same as the Linux release.
Some of the smartest people I know (to some degree, myself included) do poorly in certain classes or in school altogether. Arrogance is an issue for a lot of intelligent people I know (look, me again!). I've gone through an entire class doing the homework the night before or the morning it's due, or not doing it at all, and then a slightly lower grade on a test than I expected hurts me a lot more than it should. A friend of mine is a math genius, in my opinion. He was studying calculus (studying, not just carrying a book around and pretending to read it) in 8th grade. He can do rather complex math very quickly in his head. But he can't work. He's got ADHD, he's emotionally unstable and he's just a quirky guy. Sometimes it's a matter of maturity. And then there's another friend of mine who is very smart, and can buckle down and do his work and come through--when he wants to. I've talked to him about a couple classes he underperformed in (failed one). He said "It was freshman year, and I decided that doing the boring work for Photo I was below my dignity." Not "I couldn't find time to do the work" or "it was too hard." On the flipside, some of the best students I know just aren't that sharp. They don't pick things up quickly, they don't read the news, they don't have any particular talent for anything scholarly, except that they know how and are willing to work hard consistently. There's no good way to measure intelligence. Some people don't do work or can't find it on time, but perform very well on tests. Do they understand the material? Others go through the entire class and do all of the work consistently and correctly the first time, but get so nervous taking tests that they fail them. Do their test scores reflect their ability or understanding?
She just has to get used to the idea of working from her home directory instead of the root. Setting up symbolic links may help. I use a secondary partition for storage of important data, and symbolic links to make things easy/convenient for me.
/home/pxc/Downloads -> /lin/shared/inet /home/pxc/docs -> /win/c/Documents & Settings/patrick/My Documents
...", "extract to $ZIP_FILE_NAME". Double clicking on it will open it in Konqueror with "zip:///home/pxc/zipfile.zip" and it will look just like a regular folder. You can copy and paste files the same way you normally would to any other folder to extract whatever files you want.
IE:
Working from the home directory and using "bookmarks" in KDE/Konqueror and "places" in Gnome/Nautilus will simplify the way you interact with the file structure greatly.
I personally like the way KDE handles compression and extraction. With the context menu, you can directly choose extract, which opens up a little submenu, allowing you to "extract here," "extract to
Personally, both Gnome's UI and Windows' UI fall short for me in customization, usability, and appearance. Particularly in the department of file management. Konqueror is incredibly well integrated, versatile (it's a decent web browser, great file manager, powerful FTP client, handles Samba shares, compressed files, etc very well). I'm very excited to see KDE 4.0 come to Windows.
Everyone knows Windows users aren't that sensible!
brilliant!
anyone else notice that the Linux guy was using SuperKaramba on Gnome?
And it works fine. The only problem is that SuSe 10.1 doesn't load the fuse module before it tries to mount the fstab, so after I boot I have to do a "modprobe fuse" and "sudo mount -a" to get it to work...
PS: I've tried both ntfsmount and captive-ntfs on this same system and neither have worked.
To me, they have totally different uses. I take notes at school on a palm pilot with a keyboard because for me, it would be way overkill to carry around a laptop. Besides that, most computing tools (website, general applications) are designed with the PC in mind, formatted for it, supposed to be compatible with it. Changes definitely won't be instant.