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Pakled writes:
I teach a high school multimedia course. We were scheduled to get new software this year but due to several pointy haired bosses, no software was ordered. The software I have to teach is Flash 5, Dreamweaver 2000, Photoshop 7 and (god help me) Movie Maker. The question is: is it better to teach old commercial software or their open source counterparts (Komposer, Gimp, etc.)?
Is the steep learning curve and slightly less uniform design worth a little student frustration to teach them software written in the past 5 years?
410753
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twilight30 writes:
Tuesday's Globe and Mail is reporting that 'A security flaw in Passport Canada's website has allowed easy access to the personal information — including social insurance numbers, dates of birth and driver's licence numbers — of people applying for new passports. The breach was discovered last week by an Ontario man completing his own passport application. He found he could easily view the applications of others by altering one character in the Internet address displayed by his Web browser. "I was expecting the site to tell me that I couldn't do that," said Jamie Laning of Huntsville. "I'm just curious about these things so I tried it, and boom, there was somebody else's name and somebody else's data." That data included social insurance numbers, driver's licence numbers and addresses.'
410349
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DECS writes:
RDM outlines how Low Def video is counterintuitively bigger than the celebrated HD, and why it is successfully competing alongside HD in the market. Daniel Eran Dilger writes, "While it's uncontroversial that HDTV can deliver an exceptional picture for users of the latest large flat screen displays, sometimes a high pitched marketing message can drown out more interesting realities. In 2008, it appears that low definition video will actually have a bigger impact on consumers. Here's why Low Def is big and getting bigger-and why it's bigger than HD." Why Low Def is the New HD.
410347
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Lumenary7204 writes:
According to this blog entry over at ZDNet by Dana Blankenhorn, Likewise Software (formerly Centeris) has developed a product to allow Linux users and workstations to authenticate to Active Directory using RPC, Microsoft's ubiquitous native COM implementation. "Why not just use LDAP," you ask? Because according to Barry Crist, CEO of Likewise, Active Directory is so wrapped up in RPC code that it "would cost Microsoft pain to change, just as much as it would us..." More detailed information from Likewise Software.
410201
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Weyoun writes:
In 2003 I interviewed at Google and was rejected (for unexplained reasons). Last week, I was contacted by a Google recruiter, who told me that Google wanted to talk to me again since they were "very impressed by the feedback from the interviews". Four years later? Incredulous, I asked for an explanation, and the recruiter came clean: "While we have a high hiring bar now, we had an even higher hiring bar then." Odd, since standards have only gone up at the very successful company I joined instead. Anyone else had this happen to them?