Would this finally mean we get nice gui utilities showing you how much bandwidth you've used during the month, and how close you are to the cap so you know when you're close to getting cut off? Maybe take it one step further and generalize this to have networking join cpu and disk I/O in being first-class citizens when it comes to resource scheduling?
I'm going to go to BestBuy *TODAY*. Can anyone here tell me which wireless network adapter will work 100% out of the box. I'd like for it to support WPA and WEP and not require any WINDOWS DRIVERS or any of that crap.
Ask a salesperson about their return policy, and about which wireless cards are guaranteed to work with the version of Linux you're asking for. You may also want to drag along a Knoppix cd to live-boot a system and see if it recognizes and enables the wireless card.
If the salesperson says you have a 30-day return policy and neither they nor the Geek Squad can give you a definitive answer on Linux compatibility:
Buy a bunch of their cards with a credit card and get a written copy of their return policy -- both to make sure you can return the cards you don't keep.
Bring them home, and look them up on the net to see which model is the (cheapest, most reliable, most compatible, most featureful).
Plug that card in and try it out.
Return the rest, giving as your 'reason for return' that nobody in the store could tell you whether the cards were Linux compatible or not.
It'll take a bit longer, but should get you a working card, and get the point across to Best Buy that they need to take Linux compatibility seriously, and pass that on to their suppliers.
Also note that he re-defined Free Software, confusing it with Freeware.
He's using and furthering the confusion that people already have over the 'free' moniker. If RMS had called it 'Freedom' or 'Liberty' or 'Libre' or 'Ecosystem' software from the beginning -- or even decided to do so now, for that matter -- it would have averted a lot of the confusion of most people and the press-enhanced FUD from Microsoft. Opponents can FUD one of the definitions of 'free' , but try that with 'freedom' or 'liberty' and see how far you get.
'Open source' is a good technical definition, but doesn't have the same gut appeal. IMO, choosing a new name for free software would be cheap marketing with a real impact.
When I got my Powerbook G4, I suspected this was one of the reasons it was aestetically pleasing. That, plus even if it has lower resolution, the aspect ratio is good for 2-up document display.
this was very distracting in the tiered rooms, where about 15 students behind the "perpetrator" could see what was happening.
If the students or profs cant find a middle ground on this, reserve the front tiers for no-laptop use, middle tiers for laptop on but network off, and upper tiers for internet access use. The justifications people have expressed for their positions seem reasonable -- it shouldn't take a arbitration theoreticist to figure out how to accommodate nearly everybody's needs.
So... in addition to voting for politicians who promise to do what I want, I now should pay to become an anonymous member of a large group that promises to do what I want, so that group can in turn bribe the politicians I already voted for?
You can visit their site and use their templates to send quite non-anonymous letters to remind the politicians you voted for to do what you want, completely free of charge or obligation to Consumer's Union. You don't even have to pay the $26/year to subscribe to their quite useful magazine.
They are super efficient as carrying devices but then what?
One bag of groceries produces some amount less than a bag of trash. Using those -- especially the nice large WalMart, Whole Foods, and Target ones -- as trash can liners for the small rectangular trash cans means I don't have to separately buy trash can bags, reuses the bags, and reduces the amount of space I need to store the empty ones in the house.
The 'Tines' from this book started changing their behavior when given radio. What you describe are motivations; the internet has already radically changed the expressions of those motivations -- aka, behavior.
So yeah, that chunk of the seven deadly sins won't change, but how you actually see it happening in the world already has.
In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is indeed quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive
Frink:
N'hey hey! Ahem, n'hey, so the compression and expansion of the
longitudinal waves cause the erratic oscillation -- you can see
it there -- of the neighboring particles.
Girl:
Can I play with it?
Frink:
No, you can't play with it; you won't enjoy it on as many levels
as I do.
[he chuckles as he plays with it] The colors, children!
I then had to go off and search how to add MP3 support, multimedia streaming and DVD playback. 3/4 hour later of enable this repository, apt-get this and a fair bit of sudo this and that and it's all done. OK, got MP3 support in Rythmbox and VLC is doing a tremendous job of playing DVDs. Firefox seems to be OK although Realplayer streaming on the BBC News website only works in standalone player.
or:
Would you like to register/buy Roxio CD burner?
Would you like to register/buy your Windows Media Player?
Would you like to register/buy (whatever DVD player comes with Windows)
Or maybe leave science to the scientists, Catholicism to the Pope, and ethics to the ethicists. Unless one doesn't consider ethics as a formal or 'formalizable' discipline.
What's really needed is to develop a culture of documentation within the company. Ideally, whenever anyone asks a question that's been asked before, the response would be "It's in the wiki somewhere. Try searching for...."
I'd also recommend someone pay for a top-quality search engine, maybe a google appliance. There have been times I've been tempted to pay for one out-of-pocket for work, just so I could get find documents quickly -- both in terms of having relevant results show up at the top, and having the speed of a separate, dedicated search engine.
When new hires start, tell them which wiki pages to read, and tell them they are authorized [/encouraged/exhorted] to fix any inaccuracies they find.... Summarize important offline discussions in the wiki.
With the wiki's automatic versioning, this is a real safety net to let new hires know they can't screw anything up severely, and gently introduces them to making their own contribution to knowledge-sharing and the 'culture of documentation'. Frankly, I feel these two suggestions cover 90% of the solution.
I'm going to take an optimistic approach and say that perhaps he has waited until he has money to push this because nobody listens to poor people
Not an exact comparison, but he personally ranks about 70 in the world's economies. Talk is cheap -- why doesn't he buy his own country and actually run the experiment?
I loved his classes but almost every one of my colleagues hated the teacher's guts. They preferred to be spoon-fed with information, and that teacher committed the worst of sins: make them think.
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you. -- Don Marquis
Oh yeah, we're so stupid that we're going to let some reporter just find this filing we're trying to hide... NOTHING TO SEE HERE!
The Art of war has been around since 5 BC, misinformation has been around longer than that...
And stupidity and bureaucracy have been around for... ?
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Would this finally mean we get nice gui utilities showing you how much bandwidth you've used during the month, and how close you are to the cap so you know when you're close to getting cut off? Maybe take it one step further and generalize this to have networking join cpu and disk I/O in being first-class citizens when it comes to resource scheduling?
Ask a salesperson about their return policy, and about which wireless cards are guaranteed to work with the version of Linux you're asking for. You may also want to drag along a Knoppix cd to live-boot a system and see if it recognizes and enables the wireless card.
If the salesperson says you have a 30-day return policy and neither they nor the Geek Squad can give you a definitive answer on Linux compatibility:
It'll take a bit longer, but should get you a working card, and get the point across to Best Buy that they need to take Linux compatibility seriously, and pass that on to their suppliers.
He's using and furthering the confusion that people already have over the 'free' moniker. If RMS had called it 'Freedom' or 'Liberty' or 'Libre' or 'Ecosystem' software from the beginning -- or even decided to do so now, for that matter -- it would have averted a lot of the confusion of most people and the press-enhanced FUD from Microsoft. Opponents can FUD one of the definitions of 'free' , but try that with 'freedom' or 'liberty' and see how far you get.
'Open source' is a good technical definition, but doesn't have the same gut appeal. IMO, choosing a new name for free software would be cheap marketing with a real impact.
When I got my Powerbook G4, I suspected this was one of the reasons it was aestetically pleasing. That, plus even if it has lower resolution, the aspect ratio is good for 2-up document display.
As portrayed in this informational video -- provided in handy cartoon form!
If the students or profs cant find a middle ground on this, reserve the front tiers for no-laptop use, middle tiers for laptop on but network off, and upper tiers for internet access use. The justifications people have expressed for their positions seem reasonable -- it shouldn't take a arbitration theoreticist to figure out how to accommodate nearly everybody's needs.
You can visit their site and use their templates to send quite non-anonymous letters to remind the politicians you voted for to do what you want, completely free of charge or obligation to Consumer's Union. You don't even have to pay the $26/year to subscribe to their quite useful magazine.
One bag of groceries produces some amount less than a bag of trash. Using those -- especially the nice large WalMart, Whole Foods, and Target ones -- as trash can liners for the small rectangular trash cans means I don't have to separately buy trash can bags, reuses the bags, and reduces the amount of space I need to store the empty ones in the house.
More developers will be able to write parallel code when there exists the proper tools to support such development:
- a proper parallel debugger which fully makes use of multiple GUI windows
- a test harness capable of slowing down and speeding up threads to trigger race conditions
Seriously, aren't these prerequisites to being able to even talk about developing parallel code?It would take a lot longer than nine months if it was just that one (cell) processor doing all the work of dividing.
So yeah, that chunk of the seven deadly sins won't change, but how you actually see it happening in the world already has.
I can't help but be reminded of this simpsons episode:
Frink: N'hey hey! Ahem, n'hey, so the compression and expansion of the longitudinal waves cause the erratic oscillation -- you can see it there -- of the neighboring particles. Girl: Can I play with it? Frink: No, you can't play with it; you won't enjoy it on as many levels as I do. [he chuckles as he plays with it] The colors, children!I'm certain this man would completely disagree with you on that point.
Isn't IPV6 one of them, and doesn't it have some provisions that prevent anonymity?
At least you didn't have this guy's experience. I guess in some cases you literally 'sign your soul away' in those EULA's.
Mmmm ... cookies.
I then had to go off and search how to add MP3 support, multimedia streaming and DVD playback. 3/4 hour later of enable this repository, apt-get this and a fair bit of sudo this and that and it's all done. OK, got MP3 support in Rythmbox and VLC is doing a tremendous job of playing DVDs. Firefox seems to be OK although Realplayer streaming on the BBC News website only works in standalone player.
or:
This article makes a similar point. I kept looking around for it, but I never thought I'd find it on Microsoft's own site :-)
And in one scenario, they (or a close competitor) have.
Or maybe leave science to the scientists, Catholicism to the Pope, and ethics to the ethicists. Unless one doesn't consider ethics as a formal or 'formalizable' discipline.
I'd also recommend someone pay for a top-quality search engine, maybe a google appliance. There have been times I've been tempted to pay for one out-of-pocket for work, just so I could get find documents quickly -- both in terms of having relevant results show up at the top, and having the speed of a separate, dedicated search engine.
When new hires start, tell them which wiki pages to read, and tell them they are authorized [/encouraged/exhorted] to fix any inaccuracies they find. ... Summarize important offline discussions in the wiki.
With the wiki's automatic versioning, this is a real safety net to let new hires know they can't screw anything up severely, and gently introduces them to making their own contribution to knowledge-sharing and the 'culture of documentation'. Frankly, I feel these two suggestions cover 90% of the solution.
Not an exact comparison, but he personally ranks about 70 in the world's economies. Talk is cheap -- why doesn't he buy his own country and actually run the experiment?
There, fixed that for you.
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you. -- Don Marquis
And stupidity and bureaucracy have been around for ... ?