The Search Dog was one thing that whenever I installed XP and had to sit through it before being able to turn it off had me asking myself "and this is 'enterprise' software?" Why have a cartoon built into your operating system?
You're right about implementation with respect to my "human-readable" comment - in practice it wouldn't be much different if there were a standard and ls could tell me the file type as well (kind of an integration of file and ls... which wouldn't be hard to hack together just to see what it would look like, but I digress).
But I still think there are situations in which there is no way to get that info - e.g. a list of links on a page, each to a file of a different type. If it says http://example.com/file.doc, you know what to expect. Metadata sufficient to render file extensions obsolete would leave us with http://example.com/file, with no way to tell what it contains.
There may be a quick fix to this situation that I'm overlooking, but my point remains - there are some times when it's just good to know from the filename what you'll be dealing with.
Primary and secondary are both on the same utility circuit, that unfortunately experiences frequent outages. So in function it is more like a secondary DNS, but strictly speaking is tertiary.
Just wanted to get something on a completely different IP block and, most importantly, utility circuit.
American's service will cost laptop users $12.95 on flights longer than three hours, and $9.95 on shorter ones. Travelers using handheld devices, such as smartphones and PDAs, will pay $7.95 no matter the length of the flight.
Because, you know, those small devices use less internets...
My physics teacher (who was awesome) did an experiment where we hung a bowling ball from the ceiling, then he sat in a chair, pulled the bowling ball back to his face, and let it go. This was to prove that as it swung, the ball lost energy and would not hit him in the nose when it swung back. We videotaped it and though the bowling ball obeyed the laws of physics and did not hit him, the look on his face was priceless.
Anyway, I think the computer-related stuff is alright, but I agree that physical stuff has more impact and will stick in their feeble young minds longer.
To everyone who bashes this because it's not "useful," how about spinning rims? They're heavier, less practical, and more expensive than regular rims - not "useful" at all - and (some) people love them. I look at this the same way. If you think it's stupid, OK. But just admit that while you find it stupid, there are a lot of people who would love it (like the parent post says).
This post has the "personal computer" thing right. It's not a whole lot different than the purely cool-looking window effects that Compiz provides.
I agree. I have a crappy Motorola flip phone. Most of the time, the one-line display on the outer shell has the time, and it's really convenient. BUT, when I have no service, it instead says "No service."
This is SUPER annoying e.g. when I'm underground on the metro - I know I have no service, I just want to see the time. Why not keep the clock and just use the bars indicator to tell me I have no service?
Actually, for Sprint/Nextel they may just want to alert me to the rare moments when I have service. But I digress...
The LCD's in question were not sold directly to consumers, they were in devices like cell phones and ipods. The cost was absorbed by the manufacturers of these devices, and if it drops, good for them... but do you really think they'll pass that directly on to consumers? The illegal markup per unit probably isn't all that big. This will amount to a small increase in the profit margins of the device manufacturers, if it amounts to anything at all.
Watching the video, I thought, "great, a jackhammer that drives around."
Still, it's a cool idea, especially if you build something like an exercise-bike powered air compressor. If filling the whole tank this way is too much work, you could use it to put a few psi in the tank.
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The Search Dog was one thing that whenever I installed XP and had to sit through it before being able to turn it off had me asking myself "and this is 'enterprise' software?" Why have a cartoon built into your operating system?
You're right about implementation with respect to my "human-readable" comment - in practice it wouldn't be much different if there were a standard and ls could tell me the file type as well (kind of an integration of file and ls... which wouldn't be hard to hack together just to see what it would look like, but I digress).
But I still think there are situations in which there is no way to get that info - e.g. a list of links on a page, each to a file of a different type. If it says http://example.com/file.doc, you know what to expect. Metadata sufficient to render file extensions obsolete would leave us with http://example.com/file, with no way to tell what it contains.
There may be a quick fix to this situation that I'm overlooking, but my point remains - there are some times when it's just good to know from the filename what you'll be dealing with.
Why are suffixes so enduring?
Because the human using the computer wants a quick way to determine what the file most likely contains.
Primary and secondary are both on the same utility circuit, that unfortunately experiences frequent outages. So in function it is more like a secondary DNS, but strictly speaking is tertiary.
Just wanted to get something on a completely different IP block and, most importantly, utility circuit.
...and also, why not?
OT, but I have a 16-year-old P1 doing firewall, dhcp, and tertiary DNS. The thing rocks.
Wow, Apple includes bash version SEVENTY-SIX! (bash-76.2) Here in linux-land we're only up to bash v.4.
Now I know why people use Macs. MacOS really is the software of the future.
American's service will cost laptop users $12.95 on flights longer than three hours, and $9.95 on shorter ones. Travelers using handheld devices, such as smartphones and PDAs, will pay $7.95 no matter the length of the flight.
Because, you know, those small devices use less internets...
My kingdom for a mod point, just for that last paragraph...
Additioanlly most of us have/will have sex,...
Remember, this is Slashdot...
Yeah, I almost feel bad even going for such low-hanging fruit.
Thank the fuck for that.
With respect to Slashdot's lack of inline images, this doesn't strike me as a troll response.
My physics teacher (who was awesome) did an experiment where we hung a bowling ball from the ceiling, then he sat in a chair, pulled the bowling ball back to his face, and let it go. This was to prove that as it swung, the ball lost energy and would not hit him in the nose when it swung back. We videotaped it and though the bowling ball obeyed the laws of physics and did not hit him, the look on his face was priceless.
Anyway, I think the computer-related stuff is alright, but I agree that physical stuff has more impact and will stick in their feeble young minds longer.
(I mis-read the statement in the exact same was as the OP, incidentally.)
Likewise. It's a poorly-written and ambiguous sentence.
To everyone who bashes this because it's not "useful," how about spinning rims? They're heavier, less practical, and more expensive than regular rims - not "useful" at all - and (some) people love them. I look at this the same way. If you think it's stupid, OK. But just admit that while you find it stupid, there are a lot of people who would love it (like the parent post says).
This post has the "personal computer" thing right. It's not a whole lot different than the purely cool-looking window effects that Compiz provides.
There's always the matter of a no-password "sudo" setup.
Do any linux distros come set up for this by default? How long until they do?
Your comment is stupid, but I'm going to reply to it anyway.
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Don't feed the trolls - when an AC says something stupid, let it slide.
Heh.
Hear, hear. A button rather than an autosubmit would have prevented my previous post.
But I guess that just wouldn't be slick enough - buttons are SOOOO 'Web 1.0.'
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Agreed, which is why I tried to mod you up, but accidentally modded down, so now I'm undoing that moderation.
Cool, they duplicated the Vista/Windows 7 look almost down to a T.
Does no one realize that the fish on the wallpaper is a Beta? Get it? Beta?
I agree. I have a crappy Motorola flip phone. Most of the time, the one-line display on the outer shell has the time, and it's really convenient. BUT, when I have no service, it instead says "No service."
This is SUPER annoying e.g. when I'm underground on the metro - I know I have no service, I just want to see the time. Why not keep the clock and just use the bars indicator to tell me I have no service?
Actually, for Sprint/Nextel they may just want to alert me to the rare moments when I have service. But I digress...
...and I STRONGLY suggest you opt for the latter.
Is that some anecdotal evidence? I LOVE anecdotal evidence!
The LCD's in question were not sold directly to consumers, they were in devices like cell phones and ipods. The cost was absorbed by the manufacturers of these devices, and if it drops, good for them... but do you really think they'll pass that directly on to consumers? The illegal markup per unit probably isn't all that big. This will amount to a small increase in the profit margins of the device manufacturers, if it amounts to anything at all.
Watching the video, I thought, "great, a jackhammer that drives around."
Still, it's a cool idea, especially if you build something like an exercise-bike powered air compressor. If filling the whole tank this way is too much work, you could use it to put a few psi in the tank.
I had no problem building it without sound on a Slackware 12.1 system, and after installing portaudio the sound is working as well.
I agree about the binaries though; especially having a prebuilt Windows binary.