True... but does that mean kids don't want the ability to play the latest games on their laptops?
True. So true. The only reason I still have dual boot is games. Ubuntu feisty 64 bit is fine for all my other needs and wine will run notepad and crap, but to play my windows games with 3D acceleration and good sound I still need Ubuntu feisty 32 bit with wine.
Or how about Iran verses the rest of the world in peaceful co-existence? We're only enriching uranium for peaceful purposes. We only lie to infidels, as our religion [of peace] instructs us to.
Yeah. Or Isreal peacefully co-existing with the world. Or the United States of America.
In seriousness, please remember that you are in the middle of a big world of propaganda with a political agenda. These opinions about other governments are just opinions, they are not facts. If you look purely at facts and actions of nations, ignoring the swell of patriotic pride, it's hard to see the United States as any less evil than Iran. Zionists invented terrorism for fucks sake.
No I am not muslim or from the middle east or anti semitic, just a bit of a realist.
No, see that's just prior art. The real Microsoft point of difference and innovation here is that they were the ones who devised a method for attaching said tubular structure to the forehead of a male human being. It's an enabling technology.
I've wondered about this push to include more and more features. I do however use some of the features in my phone.
I do:
Use the camera for quick happy snaps and giving directions. I have sent pictures to friends so that they can find a place that's tricky by address alone.
Play games on the train, simple games. The thought of playing a fps on something that size makes me want to book in at the osteopath, but tetris, golf, etc are a good way to kill time.
Listen to mp3s. Some people have a phone and a seperate player, I find the combination convenient.
I don't:
Use the web browser. It costs extra in network access and hurts my eyes. I maintain that the iPhone would be better named iStrain
Use it to do more than simple text messaging and editing.
Use it to edit photos, audio production, database, office apps, development, etc. That's what my PC is for.
Phones are just too small. When I'm doing PC type work, I want a laptop or a PC, not a tiny hand held thing, and especially not one that will "enable my digital lifestyle" (read prevent me from doing anything that does provide revenue for Microsoft).
It's in the roast -- the method of roasting -- as much as the variety. Freshness counts, variety counts, but it's the roast that matters the most.
I agree that the roast is incredibly important, but other factors are just as important.
You could get the worlds best roast, grind it finely and leave it in a paper bag on top of the fridge and after a few weeks you may as well be drinking the filter percolator crap from McDonalds.
Freshness is as important as the roast. The oils that make a good coffee beans are volatile and grinding them and/or warm storage allows the oils to vapourise easier, that's why grinding coffee smells so good. Freshly ground coffee that has been stored in an air tight container before grinding is excellent.
Once it's been ground, the actual method (is a "french press" a plunger???) is less important, although the grind should be adjusted to the method. Finer for espresso, courser for a plunger, extremely fine for a turkish style.
As far as beans go, I live a long way from Jamaica, but I find East Timor produces some excellent coffee, and buying it helps the people their and their economy recover from some serious trauma.
IANAL, but simply saying "You are using software that infringes on x patents of ours and you'd better pay up" sounds a lot like extortion to me. If I'm working for an organisation in Australia that gets asked to pay these license fees, I think I'll have to decline until they can show which patents are being infringed and if they refuse to list them, I'll have to refer the matter to the ACCC.
It would be interesting to see how Microsoft would approach this if the US had a body like the ACCC.
America is undoubtedly the worst 1st world country when it comes to geography. ..... A tool like this attached to Google Earth would help in keeping the interest of children.
A tool like this could also help educate sound guys working on Hollywood movies. I've lost count of the number of movies set in jungles in Asia, Africa or South America where you suddenly hear kookaburras whip birds and bell birds. For all you geographically and/or ornithologically challenged types out there, that's a bit like using the sound of Tibetan gongs and chanting to signify that the bustling city scape you're looking at is New York.
At least this would provide a tool to correct that great injustice.
I was actually thinking about this issue just last night. Why is it that every UI sun comes up with on their own looks and feels like a hat full of arseholes? I just recently had my first play on a Java Desktop (Solaris with gnome2) and even there they have somehow managed to use a theme that shows Gnome in its ugliest possible light. I've used their Dev tools and the are ugly and irritating to use. Why, Sun, why do you put so much effort into making human interaction with machines so unpleasant?
If making Solaris more Linuxy means they'll get the hell away from UI design and leave it to competent people, like say those at Canonical, that's great. A decent free audio architecture would get me interested too. But zfs and a bunch of legacy legacy is nowhere near enough for me to switch on the desktop. zfs on the server is a different story......
But those are getting scarce nowadays, on low-price PC systems and laptops.
How much lower price can you get than a ten year old Pentium?;-P
Seriously though, two days ago I bought a new Gigabyte AM2 socket mobo (don't have the model number with me now) for $A100 which has an RS232 connector on the back. If you want cheaper than that, buy second hand.
Step 1: Pray you have SP2 to enable firewall. ...... Step 11: Disable tons of services in mmc services panel.
Wow... my list is so much shorter.
Xp:
Step 1: Use IE to obtain an Ubuntu CD. Step 2: Install it. Give it the entire disk, but create separate/home partition for unforseen circumstances. Step 3: Use synaptic to install kubuntu-desktop (for my good lady wife)
I've been waiting for UbuntuStudio myself and a quick look at this list shows that the packages are there. No more stuffing around to get things working with an upgrade! Joy!
Lotus notes has got nothing on the toy car my two year old son has. It plays Wiggles songs when he pushes it around. It's almost as bad as the little iron that makes stupid sound effects when he pushes it around or the doll that plays twinkle twinkle little star when he sqeezes it's belly. He has a toy aeroplane that sings a song so annoying that even he couldn't stand it and asked me in whimpery toddler speak to remove the batteries.
Whenever I see these stupid lists on/. and then read all the "Tech product X is way worse" comments, it just re-enforces in my mind the stereotype that slashdotters don't have kids. I agree that AOL, Lotus Notes, Norton Anti Virus and anything by Microsoft are pretty bad, but if you want a real list of annoying tech products, take the inventory of a toy shop and cross out anything without batteries. Seriously.
Imagine a solid structure being put under pressure, as the pressure increased a tiny fraction of the material is turned into liquid, my immediate idea is that this would weaken the structure increasing the risk of a collapse.
I was wondering about this as well. For as long as the liquid is, well, liquid, surely it wouldn't have any structural strength, so this would effectively make a building more likely to fall apart under stress. Or if the liquid solidifies quickly, what happens when a gap gets filled under temporary expansion and is then suddenly compressed? I'd put money on rubble.
In my opinion, a much more sensible idea for housing in earthquake prone areas can be found here (warning: contains video). It's designed to stay up and not crush people while an earthquake is happening. After the earthquake it can be safely demolished and rebuilt for a fraction of the cost of automagichanical fluidic nanobeads or fancy electrological shock absorber doodads.
But then low tech and simple solutions that just work are never as cool as nano electronic opto whatsits. Certainly not as profitable.
Then the phone calls came. I tell them all that I have already consolidated, yet they continue.
Hi, you called <me/>, first class provider of premium customer service coaching for dodgey loan consolidation services providers. Before we begin, I'm obliged to tell you that this call is being recorded for customer service and validation reasons and that by continuing to use this coaching service, you are agreeing on behalf of your dodgey loan consolidation service provider to be bound by the terms and conditions available online at <free_host_where_I_posted_an_outrageous_contract>. Also you are reminded that if this is a second call by a respresentative of the dodgey loan consolidation service provider you represent, you are agreeing their behalf to the conditions of our $250000 per minute premium service as described in section 3.6a subsection z of the contract found at <free_host_where_I_posted_an_outrageous_contract>, do you understand?
..... If things get any further..... .....
Thank you, but I have already consolidated my loans and I'm really not interested.
Now I would advise, in order to provide the best possible customer service, you hang up. If this doesn't work for you, please call back for a premium consultation. Have a nice day. *click*
One Pentium floating-point problem was bad enough.
You just don't get it, do you? See now you can buy your new fangled octocore 10.3GHz 128bit processor with Ultra-Uber-Hyper-Mega Transport(tm) onboard, patch it and get the performance of a Pentium without the bug!!!!
Second, every business may be running on differents noons. making business meeting, email server and many other things you small mind can't comprehend, nearly impossible to manage.
The GP wasn't talking about all businesses changing their clocks. Changing clocks does make these things hard to manage. Take DST for example. It changes from time to time, requiring software patches. Doing international business becomes more difficult when one has to keep track of arbitrary timezone changes around the world.
You seem to be stuck on the concept that the time of day is purely a reflection of your working hours. Are you really stupid, or do you think the world revolves around you? Your definition of noon stems from where people pretty much live in office hives with no connection with the natural world or of any reality outside economics.
In other words, it's 'quaint'
Again the GP suggested changing business hours, as "open from 8:00 to 5:30", not clocks.
"How dare you! Linux *is* a religion, the heathens shall repent!"
Yep that about sums up why I use BSD instead.
Linux is a religion. It has a pope and a bunch of cardinals and a moral structure whereby everyone who doesn't conform to the ideology is damned to hell.
BSD is a whacko cult which is forbidden from viewing mainstream media and must live a subsistance existence within isolated communities. Occasionally some hippies borrow the more romantic parts of the doctrine and practice them without all the dirty and difficult parts.
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True. So true. The only reason I still have dual boot is games. Ubuntu feisty 64 bit is fine for all my other needs and wine will run notepad and crap, but to play my windows games with 3D acceleration and good sound I still need Ubuntu feisty 32 bit with wine.
Yeah. Or Isreal peacefully co-existing with the world. Or the United States of America.
In seriousness, please remember that you are in the middle of a big world of propaganda with a political agenda. These opinions about other governments are just opinions, they are not facts. If you look purely at facts and actions of nations, ignoring the swell of patriotic pride, it's hard to see the United States as any less evil than Iran. Zionists invented terrorism for fucks sake.
No I am not muslim or from the middle east or anti semitic, just a bit of a realist.
Brilliant. Anyone who uses linux, or open office on any platform, who doesn't sign up is chickenshit.
No, see that's just prior art. The real Microsoft point of difference and innovation here is that they were the ones who devised a method for attaching said tubular structure to the forehead of a male human being. It's an enabling technology.
Uell maybe some people don't uant a querty. I knou all it does for me is rwin my typing and enswre I have to wse the spell checker.
I've wondered about this push to include more and more features. I do however use some of the features in my phone.
I do:
I don't:
Phones are just too small. When I'm doing PC type work, I want a laptop or a PC, not a tiny hand held thing, and especially not one that will "enable my digital lifestyle" (read prevent me from doing anything that does provide revenue for Microsoft).
I have no mod points, but thank you. You motivated me to figure out /. bookmarks
I agree that the roast is incredibly important, but other factors are just as important.
You could get the worlds best roast, grind it finely and leave it in a paper bag on top of the fridge and after a few weeks you may as well be drinking the filter percolator crap from McDonalds.
Freshness is as important as the roast. The oils that make a good coffee beans are volatile and grinding them and/or warm storage allows the oils to vapourise easier, that's why grinding coffee smells so good. Freshly ground coffee that has been stored in an air tight container before grinding is excellent.
Once it's been ground, the actual method (is a "french press" a plunger???) is less important, although the grind should be adjusted to the method. Finer for espresso, courser for a plunger, extremely fine for a turkish style.
As far as beans go, I live a long way from Jamaica, but I find East Timor produces some excellent coffee, and buying it helps the people their and their economy recover from some serious trauma.
Hello, 2000 called and said they'd like their "Linux is just for hard core geeks who do everything in an xterm" cliche back.
But they do have Tom Cruise, and that more than makes up for the rest.
IANAL, but simply saying "You are using software that infringes on x patents of ours and you'd better pay up" sounds a lot like extortion to me. If I'm working for an organisation in Australia that gets asked to pay these license fees, I think I'll have to decline until they can show which patents are being infringed and if they refuse to list them, I'll have to refer the matter to the ACCC.
It would be interesting to see how Microsoft would approach this if the US had a body like the ACCC.
A tool like this could also help educate sound guys working on Hollywood movies. I've lost count of the number of movies set in jungles in Asia, Africa or South America where you suddenly hear kookaburras whip birds and bell birds. For all you geographically and/or ornithologically challenged types out there, that's a bit like using the sound of Tibetan gongs and chanting to signify that the bustling city scape you're looking at is New York.
At least this would provide a tool to correct that great injustice.
I was actually thinking about this issue just last night. Why is it that every UI sun comes up with on their own looks and feels like a hat full of arseholes? I just recently had my first play on a Java Desktop (Solaris with gnome2) and even there they have somehow managed to use a theme that shows Gnome in its ugliest possible light. I've used their Dev tools and the are ugly and irritating to use. Why, Sun, why do you put so much effort into making human interaction with machines so unpleasant?
If making Solaris more Linuxy means they'll get the hell away from UI design and leave it to competent people, like say those at Canonical, that's great. A decent free audio architecture would get me interested too. But zfs and a bunch of legacy legacy is nowhere near enough for me to switch on the desktop. zfs on the server is a different story......
How much lower price can you get than a ten year old Pentium? ;-P
Seriously though, two days ago I bought a new Gigabyte AM2 socket mobo (don't have the model number with me now) for $A100 which has an RS232 connector on the back. If you want cheaper than that, buy second hand.
Can U spell hypocracy?
Wow... my list is so much shorter.
Xp:
Step 1: Use IE to obtain an Ubuntu CD. /home partition for unforseen circumstances.
Step 2: Install it. Give it the entire disk, but create separate
Step 3: Use synaptic to install kubuntu-desktop (for my good lady wife)
Did I miss anything?
I've been waiting for UbuntuStudio myself and a quick look at this list shows that the packages are there. No more stuffing around to get things working with an upgrade! Joy!
Wow, I haven't used my computer fist since last time I had to punch in a CD key for Win98SE.
Not now that someone has already cornered the dental floss market.
Lotus notes has got nothing on the toy car my two year old son has. It plays Wiggles songs when he pushes it around. It's almost as bad as the little iron that makes stupid sound effects when he pushes it around or the doll that plays twinkle twinkle little star when he sqeezes it's belly. He has a toy aeroplane that sings a song so annoying that even he couldn't stand it and asked me in whimpery toddler speak to remove the batteries.
Whenever I see these stupid lists on /. and then read all the "Tech product X is way worse" comments, it just re-enforces in my mind the stereotype that slashdotters don't have kids. I agree that AOL, Lotus Notes, Norton Anti Virus and anything by Microsoft are pretty bad, but if you want a real list of annoying tech products, take the inventory of a toy shop and cross out anything without batteries. Seriously.
I was wondering about this as well. For as long as the liquid is, well, liquid, surely it wouldn't have any structural strength, so this would effectively make a building more likely to fall apart under stress. Or if the liquid solidifies quickly, what happens when a gap gets filled under temporary expansion and is then suddenly compressed? I'd put money on rubble.
In my opinion, a much more sensible idea for housing in earthquake prone areas can be found here (warning: contains video). It's designed to stay up and not crush people while an earthquake is happening. After the earthquake it can be safely demolished and rebuilt for a fraction of the cost of automagichanical fluidic nanobeads or fancy electrological shock absorber doodads.
But then low tech and simple solutions that just work are never as cool as nano electronic opto whatsits. Certainly not as profitable.
Hi, you called <me/>, first class provider of premium customer service coaching for dodgey loan consolidation services providers. Before we begin, I'm obliged to tell you that this call is being recorded for customer service and validation reasons and that by continuing to use this coaching service, you are agreeing on behalf of your dodgey loan consolidation service provider to be bound by the terms and conditions available online at <free_host_where_I_posted_an_outrageous_contract>. Also you are reminded that if this is a second call by a respresentative of the dodgey loan consolidation service provider you represent, you are agreeing their behalf to the conditions of our $250000 per minute premium service as described in section 3.6a subsection z of the contract found at <free_host_where_I_posted_an_outrageous_contract>, do you understand?
.....
If things get any further.....
.....
Thank you, but I have already consolidated my loans and I'm really not interested.
Now I would advise, in order to provide the best possible customer service, you hang up. If this doesn't work for you, please call back for a premium consultation. Have a nice day. *click*
You just don't get it, do you? See now you can buy your new fangled octocore 10.3GHz 128bit processor with Ultra-Uber-Hyper-Mega Transport(tm) onboard, patch it and get the performance of a Pentium without the bug!!!!
Brilliant!!!
The GP wasn't talking about all businesses changing their clocks. Changing clocks does make these things hard to manage. Take DST for example. It changes from time to time, requiring software patches. Doing international business becomes more difficult when one has to keep track of arbitrary timezone changes around the world.
You seem to be stuck on the concept that the time of day is purely a reflection of your working hours. Are you really stupid, or do you think the world revolves around you? Your definition of noon stems from where people pretty much live in office hives with no connection with the natural world or of any reality outside economics.
In other words, it's 'quaint'
Again the GP suggested changing business hours, as "open from 8:00 to 5:30", not clocks.
Linux is a religion. It has a pope and a bunch of cardinals and a moral structure whereby everyone who doesn't conform to the ideology is damned to hell.
BSD is a whacko cult which is forbidden from viewing mainstream media and must live a subsistance existence within isolated communities. Occasionally some hippies borrow the more romantic parts of the doctrine and practice them without all the dirty and difficult parts.
Couldn't resist.