Not to mention how degrading it must be for the women he actually want an IT job : to be hired not for your competence, but because you are a women. Quota's are sexist.
Also, I have never seen quota's the other way around ( there are jobs which typically are occupied by a lot of women and only men ) .
Just hire the most competent person for the job, regardless of gender or sexual preference.
On the other hand, women and men often have different viewpoints, so it can be an advantage to have both men and women in a team.
If the content industry adapts it's business model, then most people will not go through the effort of pirating. However, there will always be people who pirate, because they have the technical expertise, and so it's still easier for them.
In short : if the content industry adapts there business model, they will increase their revenue again. However , they will never stop piracy completely, no matter how hard they try ( and waste money on it ).
Really, I don't see the problem with the user interface, certainly not in Mint : everything is neatly ordered, I find everything instantly. However, it's true that if you come from a Windows background, then anything 'not windows', will seem difficult. I recon it's the same the other way around though.
Point is , Mint has one of the friendliest GUI i have seen, and it's not that hard to learn how to use it. Infact, that's one of the reasons I switched from Ubuntu to Mint, because the Ubuntu desktop is horrible to me.
So, to answer the GP : yes, Mint is a very good alternative to Ubuntu, certainly for a novice.
Who is talking about connecting to an outside server : just have one ntp server running in the hospital, and all devices synchronize to that. Then at least all the devices in the hospital will be synchronized, which I guess is the most important.
Comparing piracy to childhood cancer, that's pretty low.
Be real : Greece doesn't need this now, they first need to get back on their feet. There is nothing copyright groups can achieve by this : if you don't have enough to buy food, you are not going to buy music/videos just because you can't pirate them.
I suspect a different reason : using the 'piracy' excuse to block websites, it opens the door for blocking any website. For example any website which provides a dissident voice to the government, or is used announce protests/rallies , etc... As the country is in chaos, they will have no problem doing this, and the EU will turn a blind eye on this one, as it suits them well.
This is nothing new : there are plenty of companies out there, with the soul purpose of poisoning torrents so they are harded to download. Torrent clients are already smart enough to ban peers which are offering poisoned contents.
All it will do, is slow down traffic a bit, but you will never stop it.
Just looked at the code : that's function isn't even needed , Java will throw an IndexOutOfBoundsException, you could just catch that and handle it. You might as well copyright a for each loop.
There is a difference between releasing the source code , and building your own car. If I build a car, and I want to drive with it, the software needs to be certified. Whether I invented it myself, or from a tweaked open source design , makes no difference.
Just because I use an open source J2EE application server, doesn't mean any user can access my admin console.
So if I'm going to a pub, and it has Coca-Cola posters, than Coca-Cola can sue them ? It's a theme, that's all.
I agree that paying some royalties, would solve this problem, but I'm sure the pub would do that, if asked, and if the cost was reasonable. However, in this case : they are just being fined into oblivion, after 20 years.
However, this is not about the pub : it's a cheap way for the film producer to get the film under attention. And judging for slashdot , it's working.
You are right that we feel less likely to give to charity, because we have already payed it in taxes.
It's an argument I hear all the time, mainly because where I live, our taxes are high, but you get very little back with regard to social security. What I find more infuriating, is that the people who actually need it, also get very little. So it seems to me our government is not spending that money very well.
So, cars, golf clubs, mobile computers and desktop computers are toys?
Are you familiar with the saying 'Men don't mature when they grow up , they just get bigger toys' . You don't ever get that feeling of awe when looking at a brand new car, or the latest iPad ? I do.
I don't know, I have no problem with English people. I have been there a few times, and most are indeed quite kind ( but your food is horrible, sorry about that ).
However, being called 'cunt' , doesn't exactly help to improve relations. Judging all people of a country by it's lowest lifeforms, doesn't help either.
I suggest we put our petty prejudices aside for a moment, and focus on the mutual enemy we have : groups like SABAM, RIAA ( and whatever the English counterpart is ).
Belgian swine here. Please don't judge all my people by the actions of the lowest scum in the country ( SABAM ). I don't judge U.S citizens by what RIAA does. However, for the libraries, it probably just means they will raise the annual fee for your library card, so the libraries will make it,
In this case, it's someone giving away their product for free, and then, 3 months later coming to your house and demanding you to pay for the usage of the past 3 months.
I don't know if there is a law to product the consumer in this case, but there should be.
It's not circumventing criticism, unless you think Mother Theresa will be answering on slashdot. In the above example, you are judging someone who clearly was a good person in regard to her actions, for a specific 'bad' opinion she had, and enlarging it.
So despite all the good she might have done, you still hate her guts, just for that particular opinion. So, thanks for again providing a perfect example to his point.
I don't appreciate attacking people who cannot defend themselves. I only hope people will be kinder on you, when your time comes.
There's an interesting story there : he made videos ( on math) , because he was tutoring family members and didn't have time to tutor each. Their reaction was that they preffered his videos over the real life variation, because they could rewind it, didn't have to ask him, etc...
The idea of Khan Academy are the following : - Videos are superior to large room lectures ( you can rewind easily, the teacher isn't distracted having to keep the class in order, and you only need to create them once )
- Inversion of homework/lectures : watch the videos at home, and do the homework in the classroom : the videos work better because children can rewind them, and in the classroom, the teacher now has more time to actually help the children with what they don't understand
- Traditional education discourages experimentation, but does not expect mastery . Khan Academy encourages experimentation, but expects mastery :
The main reason I use Paypal , is because it that allows bank transfers. I don't have a credit card. All the other systems I've seen ( including Google Wallet from what I've seen ) require a credit card.
Sure there is a way to be happy : invest in small companies that do something you ideologically support ( for example green energy ). And only invest what you can do without.
If it turns out well, you will make a lot of money, and you will have supported a company you like. If it turn out bad, you haven't lost that much money, and at least it was for good cause.
And......? That silly semantic game is an advantage how exactly?
It isn't. The difference is more than semantic though, but it's hard to call one 'more free' than the other. Short answer : GPL is liberalism . BSD is libertarianism .
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Not to mention how degrading it must be for the women he actually want an IT job : to be hired not for your competence, but because you are a women.
Quota's are sexist.
Also, I have never seen quota's the other way around ( there are jobs which typically are occupied by a lot of women and only men ) .
Just hire the most competent person for the job, regardless of gender or sexual preference.
On the other hand, women and men often have different viewpoints, so it can be an advantage to have both men and women in a team.
Actually, they are both right :
If the content industry adapts it's business model, then most people will not go through the effort of pirating.
However, there will always be people who pirate, because they have the technical expertise, and so it's still easier for them.
In short : if the content industry adapts there business model, they will increase their revenue again.
However , they will never stop piracy completely, no matter how hard they try ( and waste money on it ).
Really, I don't see the problem with the user interface, certainly not in Mint : everything is neatly ordered, I find everything instantly.
However, it's true that if you come from a Windows background, then anything 'not windows', will seem difficult. I recon it's the same the other way around though.
Point is , Mint has one of the friendliest GUI i have seen, and it's not that hard to learn how to use it.
Infact, that's one of the reasons I switched from Ubuntu to Mint, because the Ubuntu desktop is horrible to me.
So, to answer the GP : yes, Mint is a very good alternative to Ubuntu, certainly for a novice.
But it's not Windows, so don't expect it to be.
Who is talking about connecting to an outside server : just have one ntp server running in the hospital, and all devices synchronize to that.
Then at least all the devices in the hospital will be synchronized, which I guess is the most important.
Or wait until someone ports it.
I'm sure someone could make a MUD from it , and that would probably run fine on Raspberry Pi.
You are right. Mixed up the analogy.
Sorry about that, I guess I shouldn't comment before I am completely awake.
Comparing piracy to childhood cancer, that's pretty low.
Be real : Greece doesn't need this now, they first need to get back on their feet.
There is nothing copyright groups can achieve by this : if you don't have enough to buy food, you are not going to buy music/videos just because you can't pirate them.
I suspect a different reason : using the 'piracy' excuse to block websites, it opens the door for blocking any website. For example any website which provides a dissident voice to the government, or is used announce protests/rallies , etc... As the country is in chaos, they will have no problem doing this, and the EU will turn a blind eye on this one, as it suits them well.
This is nothing new : there are plenty of companies out there, with the soul purpose of poisoning torrents so they are harded to download.
Torrent clients are already smart enough to ban peers which are offering poisoned contents.
All it will do, is slow down traffic a bit, but you will never stop it.
Just looked at the code : that's function isn't even needed , Java will throw an IndexOutOfBoundsException, you could just catch that and handle it.
You might as well copyright a for each loop.
I created an account just to tell you how ignorant you are.
Verdict: Extremely Ignorant.
I wish there was a +1 , Redundant .
There is a difference between releasing the source code , and building your own car.
If I build a car, and I want to drive with it, the software needs to be certified. Whether I invented it myself, or from a tweaked open source design , makes no difference.
Just because I use an open source J2EE application server, doesn't mean any user can access my admin console.
So if I'm going to a pub, and it has Coca-Cola posters, than Coca-Cola can sue them ?
It's a theme, that's all.
I agree that paying some royalties, would solve this problem, but I'm sure the pub would do that, if asked, and if the cost was reasonable.
However, in this case : they are just being fined into oblivion, after 20 years.
However, this is not about the pub : it's a cheap way for the film producer to get the film under attention. And judging for slashdot , it's working.
You are right that we feel less likely to give to charity, because we have already payed it in taxes.
It's an argument I hear all the time, mainly because where I live, our taxes are high, but you get very little back with regard to social security.
What I find more infuriating, is that the people who actually need it, also get very little. So it seems to me our government is not spending that money very well.
So, cars, golf clubs, mobile computers and desktop computers are toys?
Are you familiar with the saying 'Men don't mature when they grow up , they just get bigger toys' .
You don't ever get that feeling of awe when looking at a brand new car, or the latest iPad ? I do.
Belgian cunt here.
I don't know, I have no problem with English people. I have been there a few times, and most are indeed quite kind ( but your food is horrible, sorry about that ).
However, being called 'cunt' , doesn't exactly help to improve relations.
Judging all people of a country by it's lowest lifeforms, doesn't help either.
I suggest we put our petty prejudices aside for a moment, and focus on the mutual enemy we have : groups like SABAM, RIAA ( and whatever the English counterpart is ).
So the libraries will make it trough just fine, it's the people who will have to pay a little more.
Belgian swine here. Please don't judge all my people by the actions of the lowest scum in the country ( SABAM ). I don't judge U.S citizens by what RIAA does.
However, for the libraries, it probably just means they will raise the annual fee for your library card, so the libraries will make it,
In this case, it's someone giving away their product for free, and then, 3 months later coming to your house and demanding you to pay for the usage of the past 3 months.
I don't know if there is a law to product the consumer in this case, but there should be.
It's not circumventing criticism, unless you think Mother Theresa will be answering on slashdot.
In the above example, you are judging someone who clearly was a good person in regard to her actions, for a specific 'bad' opinion she had, and enlarging it.
So despite all the good she might have done, you still hate her guts, just for that particular opinion.
So, thanks for again providing a perfect example to his point.
I don't appreciate attacking people who cannot defend themselves. I only hope people will be kinder on you, when your time comes.
For ideas on education, look at Khan Academy : http://www.khanacademy.org/
There's an interesting story there : he made videos ( on math) , because he was tutoring family members and didn't have time to tutor each.
Their reaction was that they preffered his videos over the real life variation, because they could rewind it, didn't have to ask him, etc...
The idea of Khan Academy are the following :
- Videos are superior to large room lectures ( you can rewind easily, the teacher isn't distracted having to keep the class in order, and you only need to create them once )
- Inversion of homework/lectures : watch the videos at home, and do the homework in the classroom : the videos work better because children can rewind them, and in the classroom, the teacher now has more time to actually help the children with what they don't understand
- Traditional education discourages experimentation, but does not expect mastery . Khan Academy encourages experimentation, but expects mastery :
The main reason I use Paypal , is because it that allows bank transfers. I don't have a credit card.
All the other systems I've seen ( including Google Wallet from what I've seen ) require a credit card.
Sure there is a way to be happy : invest in small companies that do something you ideologically support ( for example green energy ). And only invest what you can do without.
If it turns out well, you will make a lot of money, and you will have supported a company you like.
If it turn out bad, you haven't lost that much money, and at least it was for good cause.
And......?
That silly semantic game is an advantage how exactly?
It isn't.
The difference is more than semantic though, but it's hard to call one 'more free' than the other.
Short answer : GPL is liberalism . BSD is libertarianism .
I think this was posted a week early ?
How about religions - any good ideas there?
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That's an interesting approach towards religions.