If the colleges and universities switch to online courses, what's the benefit of paying them so many thousands of dollars for an education that you can get for free from something like the Khan Academy videos? People need and want an education, not a video lecture series.
A degree, which certifies that you have met some sort of minimum.
While I agree with your post in general, you don't have to derive your competitive advantage from your server infrastructure to not use a PaaS. Sometimes it's just difficult to abstract away all of those things (hardware, OS, other details).
Alternatively, you're a business that simply deals with requests beyond the 100 per second range; this doesn't make you one of the largest players in 2011.
It doesn't apply to checking out large repositories. It's faster at pretty much everything (except git clone vs svn checkout, which it still comes close for).
See http://johan.kiviniemi.name/blag/svn-diff-git-diff-speed/ and http://thinkvitamin.com/code/why-you-should-switch-from-subversion-to-git/, particularly the "Not Just for Teams of Coders" section.
I think you meant to say that the latter (unfortunate password with same hash as "ppp") is improbable so the former (password actually was chosen to be "ppp") is more likely.
I'm a not very good programmer who is a good system admin.
I disagree.
I can just see my last employer waiting as I read through 10k lines of source code to figure out why X isn't working with Y.
Have you heard of grep?
One 'benefit' of DRM is that it should make lending or even reselling trivial. Frankly I don't mind if there's even a small admin charge to cover the DRM costs.
Except the part where the DRM is fundamentally flawed, won't ever work, and only hurts legitimate consumers. "Benefit" indeed.
And the DRM will stop people from pirating it, just like with every other form of digitized data that has been DRM-ed, right?
The issue with DRM is not that it's useless, but that it's impossible to implement. Additionally, it can only hurt legitimate consumers who are willing to pay.
On top of that, the frames are then compressed into GIFs as opposed to the lossless PNG and then uploaded with a
Furthermore, in a video comparison, is audio even included in the file and, even worse, why is the audio encoded differently? This throws some doubt on fairness of the result since the filesize of the overall files are very close but the audio portions of the file likely take up different amounts of space.
Finally, why is VP8 thrown in the "WebM" container (which is just MKV) and the H.264 video thrown in the mp4 container?
* Yes I can.
* I don't need to paste the code into another editor just to get custom coloring.
* It sounds like all of your issues are with e-mail clients that assume the 80 column crap. In other words, with e-mail clients that have trouble with text. OK, so they're not your e-mail client, but it's still not the fault of the text.
* Charset has little to do with the argument at hand.
You can't do lists in plain text? Try harder.
I don't want your syntax highlighting. I can do my own highlighting, thanks.
Your e-mail client can't handle wrapping of text? Try harder.
Text is text. How it is interpreted should be left up to the user (in this case, the receiver, not the sender). It seems that whatever software you're using really sucks at interpreting text, but don't blame the text for your problems.
Digital data is still more reliable. You can backup the data so that when the computer breaks, you can resume your work at some point in the future. When you spill some coffee on a stack of papers and you didn't go through the cost of backing that up, you lose.
Off-line use. I can refer to paper copies and make notes on them even when I'm not around the computer.
I don't think this is a fair argument for either side. Paperless people spend more time on the computer; people with lots of paper spend more time away from it.
Change control. Many times documents can be changed in the computer and, while it records that there was a change, there's no record anymore of what the document said before the change. The paper copies in my drawer can't be changed and I can pull them out to prove that yes that was what was originally specified.
That's exactly what version control is for. VCS's are better, though, because it's easier to create old versions and it may be harder to forge an old version.
Reliability. I don't have to worry about the contents of my desk drawers and noteboard going *poof* when a system upgrade goes south and it turns out the restore process requires things IT can't afford to do.
Backing up digital data is far easier than paper. On the other hand, spilling coffee on a stack of papers is generally irrecoverable.
So your software sucks, even though better, more reliable alternatives exist.
Because sudo is a commandline tool and UAC a graphical tool.
And XP users are already accustomed to the CLI?
Sudo behaves like UAC when you try to launch a Gnome or KDE app that requires root.
That's gksu/kdesu.
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