Who uses MSN? I know 2 people who use MSN Messenger, and it's because AIM doesn't work on their computers. AIM is the default instant messenger. Any time you ask someone "what's your sn?" and they write it down, there is never an @ sign and it's not all numbers, meaning it's not Jabber, MSN, Yahoo, or ICQ. It's AIM.
They teach reverse engineering? Neat! At GWU, we're required to take Computer Architectures 1. 2 is an elective, but that's where you get into ASM. I intend to take it.
Well, I didn't know you lacked a yard, but I was pointing out that for people who think windmills are too expensive in general, they can get money back for it from the electric company, so the cost really comes down quite a bit.
Just so you're aware, if you set up a windmill in your yard and produce your own electricity you CAN go off the power grid and have electricity for free. Staying on the power grid is a better deal though. The power company then pays YOU for the electricity you're producing.
You do not understand economics. Those are examples of natural monopolies. They have extraordinarily high barriers to entry (if you want in on the cable thing, you have to lay cable *everywhere*), so for another company to even attempt to compete requires shelling out extremely large amounts of money just in startup costs before they will ever see any sort of profit. Also, the diminishing marginal returns are different than in a regular market. In a regular market, the marginal returns diminish to the point where producing one more of something will mean paying for its production but not making nearly anything from it, or possibly losing money. This is the average cost (AC). The regular market AC curve is parabolic with the vertex at the lowest point. In the case of a natural monopoly, the AC curve is negatively sloped the entire way because variable costs (costs such as "it costs $5 to produce 1000 watts of electricity" and therefore increase with each increase in units produced) are so thoroughly outweighed by fixed costs (capital, like the building in which the electricity is produced, the wires which had to be laid at the outset, but are fine left on their own, etc.) that they become negligible and it would be realistically impossible to produce at any point where the AC was higher than the money received in exchange for the product. It's a simple matter of economies of scale. It would be just plain stupid for anyone to even try competing because it would cost too much out of pocket to do so.
When you write a term paper for school, if you just reword something from a reference book, it's still plagiarism. If you analyze it, digest it (mentally), and come up with your own conclusions and ideas and write those, you've done it right. They'd have to just be using the GPL'd code as a hardware spec, not rewriting line by line or paragraph (function) by paragraph.
Nope, that's actually probably right, though if they were looking at it as a guide and completely rewriting the way their functions worked going "why'd they do it like that? ugh do it THIS way..." and changing the algorithms entirely, it might not be. They SHOULD have just taken the specs the bcm43xx team released when they finished if they were going to do that though.
Dell's the only big manufacturer willing to give refunds on Windows. If you want to buy a Linux-pre-installed computer, it is doable, yes, but you have to buy online. You can't walk into a store and see if the trackpad on a laptop is rough or too slippery to be usable, if the buttons for that trackpad are oddly sized/shaped so as to be ungainly, how the keyboard feels, how the screen is, etc. With a desktop, I don't suppose it matters much, though if you like to mess with the inside of the computer, you may be interested in how much space is inside and being able to check and see if the case has sufficient airflow, etc.
That's why he said it's okay for temporary development. While it's being developed behind closed doors, so to speak, it's not being distributed, so it's okay. In order for them to distribute it they would have to make the entire thing GPL, or, as you said, it would be copyright violation, and the BSD guys would not like either situation.
I think the way it works here is that if you are paid wages (meaning hourly) and go over 40 hours, then you get 150% for the overtime. If you are salaried though, it's "you get paid $x per week" with no exceptions. If you have a project that involves you spending 44 hours at work that week, your salary doesn't change, because your contract says "$x per week." If you're a slow worker, well, learn to work faster. There is no overtime pay on salaries.
I personally prefer that there are bullets and graphs. The best PPPs I've seen are from my Political Science teacher. He puts a basic outline (1st and 2nd level) on the screen, then each slide shows whatever second-level bullet he is talking about along with whatever the 3rd-level bullets would be underneath it. I tend to lose track of things or not pay much attention when teachers are talking, so being able to glance up and get an overview of what the topic is to get back on track with the lecture is very helpful.
Of course, it'd be best if I never lost track of the lecture, but hey, first day on ADD meds, and it certainly helped. I only paid attention to something else (oh no there's too much clutter on my desktop....organize my files) once during this lecture instead of playing Minesweeper or Bejeweled (Mines or Gweled, really).
You need to go to a better school then. My school requires 3 writing classes. Freshmen take a basic writing course, and then upperclassmen take 2 Writing in the Disciplines classes. One of the ones I'll be taking is Team Project Development and Professional Ethics. It's a class for learning to work in teams developing large applications. It seems to me that being able to write a paper is very fitting in such a class. One must be able to write a good, strong proposal for the software one wishes to produce. One needs to be able to effectively communicate the purpose and need for the program and what development style, languages, etc. will be most efficient and well-suited to the project.
I must disagree with your assertion that demonstration via application shows that one possesses certain knowledge. There are times, for instance, when the comments in a program will say something along the lines of "I don't know why this works, calculus class says it won't, but it does, so screw math." Obviously, the programmer has no idea what he or she is doing. He or she tweaked numbers until they seemed right, but there was no demonstration of knowledge of algorithms at all.
I think in Intel's case there is a closed daemon as well that controls the firmware. I know it shows on my "restricted drivers manager" in Feisty Beta.
Where I work we have been routinely installing OpenOffice on every computer we repair. The other tech and I are both Linux users, and we like promoting OSS. I found out about http://theopencd.org/The Open CD a few weeks ago. It's got 30 OSS Windows apps (OOo, FF, Neverball, Really Slick Screensavers, PDF Creator, GIMP, Blender...) with an easy little installer and info about each. We label them and give them out with fixed computers.
I'll keep a computer til the mobo is dead, then use the parts. I've got one at home that's 9 years old, and if the Windows install gets to be just TOO slow, well, Damn Small Linux.
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Who uses MSN? I know 2 people who use MSN Messenger, and it's because AIM doesn't work on their computers. AIM is the default instant messenger. Any time you ask someone "what's your sn?" and they write it down, there is never an @ sign and it's not all numbers, meaning it's not Jabber, MSN, Yahoo, or ICQ. It's AIM.
They teach reverse engineering? Neat! At GWU, we're required to take Computer Architectures 1. 2 is an elective, but that's where you get into ASM. I intend to take it.
Me too. That's pretty neat.
Well, I didn't know you lacked a yard, but I was pointing out that for people who think windmills are too expensive in general, they can get money back for it from the electric company, so the cost really comes down quite a bit.
Just so you're aware, if you set up a windmill in your yard and produce your own electricity you CAN go off the power grid and have electricity for free. Staying on the power grid is a better deal though. The power company then pays YOU for the electricity you're producing.
You do not understand economics. Those are examples of natural monopolies. They have extraordinarily high barriers to entry (if you want in on the cable thing, you have to lay cable *everywhere*), so for another company to even attempt to compete requires shelling out extremely large amounts of money just in startup costs before they will ever see any sort of profit. Also, the diminishing marginal returns are different than in a regular market. In a regular market, the marginal returns diminish to the point where producing one more of something will mean paying for its production but not making nearly anything from it, or possibly losing money. This is the average cost (AC). The regular market AC curve is parabolic with the vertex at the lowest point. In the case of a natural monopoly, the AC curve is negatively sloped the entire way because variable costs (costs such as "it costs $5 to produce 1000 watts of electricity" and therefore increase with each increase in units produced) are so thoroughly outweighed by fixed costs (capital, like the building in which the electricity is produced, the wires which had to be laid at the outset, but are fine left on their own, etc.) that they become negligible and it would be realistically impossible to produce at any point where the AC was higher than the money received in exchange for the product. It's a simple matter of economies of scale. It would be just plain stupid for anyone to even try competing because it would cost too much out of pocket to do so.
When you write a term paper for school, if you just reword something from a reference book, it's still plagiarism. If you analyze it, digest it (mentally), and come up with your own conclusions and ideas and write those, you've done it right. They'd have to just be using the GPL'd code as a hardware spec, not rewriting line by line or paragraph (function) by paragraph.
They could probably get someone to use diagnostic data recovery tools to get the messages back from the mailserver's hard drive.
Nope, that's actually probably right, though if they were looking at it as a guide and completely rewriting the way their functions worked going "why'd they do it like that? ugh do it THIS way..." and changing the algorithms entirely, it might not be. They SHOULD have just taken the specs the bcm43xx team released when they finished if they were going to do that though.
In that case, you need to invest in a dictionary that was not made for elementary school students.
Gorilla Snot is used to keep drummers from having their sticks fly out of their sweaty hands or guitarists from dropping picks.
Dell's the only big manufacturer willing to give refunds on Windows. If you want to buy a Linux-pre-installed computer, it is doable, yes, but you have to buy online. You can't walk into a store and see if the trackpad on a laptop is rough or too slippery to be usable, if the buttons for that trackpad are oddly sized/shaped so as to be ungainly, how the keyboard feels, how the screen is, etc. With a desktop, I don't suppose it matters much, though if you like to mess with the inside of the computer, you may be interested in how much space is inside and being able to check and see if the case has sufficient airflow, etc.
That's why he said it's okay for temporary development. While it's being developed behind closed doors, so to speak, it's not being distributed, so it's okay. In order for them to distribute it they would have to make the entire thing GPL, or, as you said, it would be copyright violation, and the BSD guys would not like either situation.
I think the way it works here is that if you are paid wages (meaning hourly) and go over 40 hours, then you get 150% for the overtime. If you are salaried though, it's "you get paid $x per week" with no exceptions. If you have a project that involves you spending 44 hours at work that week, your salary doesn't change, because your contract says "$x per week." If you're a slow worker, well, learn to work faster. There is no overtime pay on salaries.
I personally prefer that there are bullets and graphs. The best PPPs I've seen are from my Political Science teacher. He puts a basic outline (1st and 2nd level) on the screen, then each slide shows whatever second-level bullet he is talking about along with whatever the 3rd-level bullets would be underneath it. I tend to lose track of things or not pay much attention when teachers are talking, so being able to glance up and get an overview of what the topic is to get back on track with the lecture is very helpful.
Of course, it'd be best if I never lost track of the lecture, but hey, first day on ADD meds, and it certainly helped. I only paid attention to something else (oh no there's too much clutter on my desktop....organize my files) once during this lecture instead of playing Minesweeper or Bejeweled (Mines or Gweled, really).
You need to go to a better school then. My school requires 3 writing classes. Freshmen take a basic writing course, and then upperclassmen take 2 Writing in the Disciplines classes. One of the ones I'll be taking is Team Project Development and Professional Ethics. It's a class for learning to work in teams developing large applications. It seems to me that being able to write a paper is very fitting in such a class. One must be able to write a good, strong proposal for the software one wishes to produce. One needs to be able to effectively communicate the purpose and need for the program and what development style, languages, etc. will be most efficient and well-suited to the project.
I must disagree with your assertion that demonstration via application shows that one possesses certain knowledge. There are times, for instance, when the comments in a program will say something along the lines of "I don't know why this works, calculus class says it won't, but it does, so screw math." Obviously, the programmer has no idea what he or she is doing. He or she tweaked numbers until they seemed right, but there was no demonstration of knowledge of algorithms at all.
If I was a boy, I'd buy it. Or maybe since I'm a girl, I'd buy it for my boyfriend.
It's on the restricted list because the firmware is closed source, though with Ubuntu it is installed by default.
I think in Intel's case there is a closed daemon as well that controls the firmware. I know it shows on my "restricted drivers manager" in Feisty Beta.
There'd be no wireless. Federal regulations don't allow fully open source wireless drivers. I think it's because they could DoS radio frequencies.
Red Hat's like Debian: old and crufty. If you want something up to date, Fedora or Ubuntu.
not only am i the first woman to respond but i'm the first woman who is in washington dc to respond!
Well see, it links to a blog, so it's totally relevant.
Where I work we have been routinely installing OpenOffice on every computer we repair. The other tech and I are both Linux users, and we like promoting OSS. I found out about http://theopencd.org/The Open CD a few weeks ago. It's got 30 OSS Windows apps (OOo, FF, Neverball, Really Slick Screensavers, PDF Creator, GIMP, Blender...) with an easy little installer and info about each. We label them and give them out with fixed computers.
I'll keep a computer til the mobo is dead, then use the parts. I've got one at home that's 9 years old, and if the Windows install gets to be just TOO slow, well, Damn Small Linux.