You can have my copy of XP when you pry it from my cold dead hands. As long as there are people out there using hardware that won't run Vista (ie anybody not working on the Human Genome Project or running a cluster) there will be people working on and patching XP.
I'm running the triple-crown right now (XP, OSX, and Ubuntu) in my graphics lab. For a laugh I put a Vista machine in. The students refused to use it and I ended up giving it to one of our faculty. The render stats for Maya and Studio Max are well in XP's favor.
I would definitely agree that advertising is what keeps the vast majority of websites afloat. I suppose my complaint is primarily against bad advertising, the in-your-face MySpace style versus the classier Facebook approach. Ads targeted to certain websites (if I visit a technology site, seeing banner ads for CDW or NewEgg is fine) are certainly reasonable, but if I'm running a search for gardening tips I don't want to be assaulted with ads for seed producers, mulch manufacturers or whatever the heck else goes into gardening (I should have picked an analogy I know more about).
Your last point is excellent although I may go a little off-topic talking about it. When people ask me how I condone music sharing I use a very similar analogy, when people shout across a room that information is open. When a radio station pumps out a signal that too should be considered open since they are making it publicly available. You can argue about quality and sampling but that's for a different submission.
And what kind of privacy do we expect when we use the postal system? I mean we're basically sending packets of information over open lines. Maybe I'm odd but I really don't like the idea of my behavior being used to try and sell me things. When I do buy things online I make it a point to not use any kind of targeted advertisements to reach the sellers.
The billboard analogy doesn't really hold water since it's not targeted, and is much less intrusive and potentially misleading than most online adverts. Plus I'm not paying for the bandwidth to view the ad like I do with the online world.
To be completely fair ramming of ships wasn't a common practice until well after the Bronze Age. Galleys and other warships were built extremely solid and ramming was used more as a way of getting your fighters over to the other ship than to actually debilitate it. Now if you want to talk about wooden shrapnel from oars being destroyed the hypothetical slave would be equally at risk wherever they were on the ship. In addition even if the slaves nearer the ship had to move their arms a lesser distance, they still had to use their legs to force the oar through the water. The fact that distance between rowing stations on early medieval Ottoman galleys is roughly equal throughout the length of the ship says that the distance covered by the oar would be equal throughout as well.
You were modded funny but you bring up a really good point about the myth of the noble savage. There are mass kill sites all over North America where various American Indian tribes stampeded thousands of buffalo over cliffs in order to get a few hundred pounds of meat. I doubt very much that there was much in the way of ancient, mystic, natural magic going on. The average life span of a Neolithic man was somewhere in the range of 29 years.
I tried it and quickly switched back to Gnome. I have a session chock full of eye-candy and effects to show people what Linux can do. But when it comes down I'm a minimalist and tend to turn the fluff off to save my battery life and to get all of the cycles I can when I'm rendering. That said I do like the leaps and bounds that KDE has been taking to modernize itself.
I'll drink to that. The version we use is slow, buggy, and completely unintuitive. For most./ers that doesn't mean much, but when you're trying to guide a room full of PhDs through the process of posting assignments and grades it's a different story.
I think Blackboards problem is that they tried to jam too many features in and didn't worry enough about ease of use and navigation.
I'm not going to answer your questions. If you question Microsoft, you question America. If Microsoft loses then the terrorists have already won. Is that what you want?
I'm not entirely sure what the big deal is. My tech department gave the same advice for XP SP1. It may be a little bit different for Vista since the release version (and I use that term very loosely) was so awful. What's the term...once bitten twice shy? It's not that we don't trust Microsoft...oh wait, that's exactly it.
It's been almost 30 minutes since the last iPhone story. I was getting nervous for a while there. Next on the docket, is a marriage between a man and his Apple product protected by the constitution?
Just like my undergraduate days, my karma was fun while it lasted...
A buddy of mine, when he and his girlfriend split, the biggest argument was how to split the WoW crap that they had accumulated. When my girlfriend eventually corners me into marriage I'm going to insist that we register at Fry's
I always hear on Slashdot, "won't somebody think of the children!" well it's good to see video game manufacturers finally doing something. Kudos to them.
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Here we go again with the Spanish. Although I can't wait to see the new line of Conquistadors in their jaunty uniforms.
The police department will not be held responsible for the robbery of any house not armed with bulletproof glass, anti-personal mines, and a moat.
You can have my copy of XP when you pry it from my cold dead hands. As long as there are people out there using hardware that won't run Vista (ie anybody not working on the Human Genome Project or running a cluster) there will be people working on and patching XP.
I'm running the triple-crown right now (XP, OSX, and Ubuntu) in my graphics lab. For a laugh I put a Vista machine in. The students refused to use it and I ended up giving it to one of our faculty. The render stats for Maya and Studio Max are well in XP's favor.
I would definitely agree that advertising is what keeps the vast majority of websites afloat. I suppose my complaint is primarily against bad advertising, the in-your-face MySpace style versus the classier Facebook approach. Ads targeted to certain websites (if I visit a technology site, seeing banner ads for CDW or NewEgg is fine) are certainly reasonable, but if I'm running a search for gardening tips I don't want to be assaulted with ads for seed producers, mulch manufacturers or whatever the heck else goes into gardening (I should have picked an analogy I know more about). Your last point is excellent although I may go a little off-topic talking about it. When people ask me how I condone music sharing I use a very similar analogy, when people shout across a room that information is open. When a radio station pumps out a signal that too should be considered open since they are making it publicly available. You can argue about quality and sampling but that's for a different submission.
And what kind of privacy do we expect when we use the postal system? I mean we're basically sending packets of information over open lines. Maybe I'm odd but I really don't like the idea of my behavior being used to try and sell me things. When I do buy things online I make it a point to not use any kind of targeted advertisements to reach the sellers. The billboard analogy doesn't really hold water since it's not targeted, and is much less intrusive and potentially misleading than most online adverts. Plus I'm not paying for the bandwidth to view the ad like I do with the online world.
To be completely fair ramming of ships wasn't a common practice until well after the Bronze Age. Galleys and other warships were built extremely solid and ramming was used more as a way of getting your fighters over to the other ship than to actually debilitate it. Now if you want to talk about wooden shrapnel from oars being destroyed the hypothetical slave would be equally at risk wherever they were on the ship. In addition even if the slaves nearer the ship had to move their arms a lesser distance, they still had to use their legs to force the oar through the water. The fact that distance between rowing stations on early medieval Ottoman galleys is roughly equal throughout the length of the ship says that the distance covered by the oar would be equal throughout as well.
You were modded funny but you bring up a really good point about the myth of the noble savage. There are mass kill sites all over North America where various American Indian tribes stampeded thousands of buffalo over cliffs in order to get a few hundred pounds of meat. I doubt very much that there was much in the way of ancient, mystic, natural magic going on. The average life span of a Neolithic man was somewhere in the range of 29 years.
I tried it and quickly switched back to Gnome. I have a session chock full of eye-candy and effects to show people what Linux can do. But when it comes down I'm a minimalist and tend to turn the fluff off to save my battery life and to get all of the cycles I can when I'm rendering. That said I do like the leaps and bounds that KDE has been taking to modernize itself.
I'll drink to that. The version we use is slow, buggy, and completely unintuitive. For most ./ers that doesn't mean much, but when you're trying to guide a room full of PhDs through the process of posting assignments and grades it's a different story.
I think Blackboards problem is that they tried to jam too many features in and didn't worry enough about ease of use and navigation.
I'm not going to answer your questions. If you question Microsoft, you question America. If Microsoft loses then the terrorists have already won. Is that what you want?
I'm not entirely sure what the big deal is. My tech department gave the same advice for XP SP1. It may be a little bit different for Vista since the release version (and I use that term very loosely) was so awful. What's the term...once bitten twice shy? It's not that we don't trust Microsoft...oh wait, that's exactly it.
I would start with Al Gore, the amount of hot air and smug that comes from him must have had some effect on the environment.
It's been almost 30 minutes since the last iPhone story. I was getting nervous for a while there. Next on the docket, is a marriage between a man and his Apple product protected by the constitution? Just like my undergraduate days, my karma was fun while it lasted...
What does any of this have to do with the iPhone? If I want non iPhone news I'll ask for it!
Will this make Sony feel...blue?
A buddy of mine, when he and his girlfriend split, the biggest argument was how to split the WoW crap that they had accumulated. When my girlfriend eventually corners me into marriage I'm going to insist that we register at Fry's
I don't think so, but if you wait until the special edition comes out you may be able to get to hear the director's commentary
Well you know what they say, if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate
Do they give the Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?
Just like the million man march, only there'd actually be a million men there. (I enjoyed my karma while it lasted.)
I always hear on Slashdot, "won't somebody think of the children!" well it's good to see video game manufacturers finally doing something. Kudos to them.
Pink bunny suit optional
It may not be the most interesting article I've ever read, but at least it's not about the iPhone.
Now if only somebody could figure out a way to do this to automobiles remotely...oh the fun!
What kind of parallel world is this? Will I have a goatee or will I be colored gold?