They are, however, massively useful for what we use them for. I don't mean to be derogatory, however your comment (and it's certainly a popular one around here) seems very much like "I don't understand it, therefore I will make fun of those who use what I don't understand."
Which essentially translates to "I am a fanboy, and I won't listen to anything against Apple"
I'd say ditto for food reviews, movie reviews etc generally published on magazines and newspapers. They are written by youngsters with just a good command over language who don't actually understand the subject. Or worse the reviewers get sometimes paid to write favorable reviews. In Amazon Vine's case, reviews are sponsored by the seller of the product, you can hardly expect them to be honest in any way.
But others say building a private cloud takes a lot more than just throwing some code on top of a RHEL OS
And somehow those "others" also believe Red Hat to be incapable of doing any more than just throwing some code on top of RHEL?
Others in fact also believe Red Hat to be incapable of doing any more than just throwing some code on top of GNU/Linux.
This somewhat sounds more correct.
I wish had points to mod you down - for saying that Windows 3.51 was a pretty good OS. You never really tried to make it work as a domain controller (or whatever it was called at that release, i don't recall), or tried to make it to work as a gateway or went deep under the registry tree to tweak key value, to just make a replacement hard drive work?
NT promised to be a riddance from Unix which it never quite was - more like an attempt to mount a truck body on a car chassis. And that pathetic attempt continues to this day, with Windows 2008.
Of course, human hubris knows no bounds, so chances of humanity accepting the limitations of the human body or the physical universe are pretty much nil. And to be sure, this will be celebrated as a triumph of the human spirit or somesuch.
Makes sense..but the idea might take off - some gadgets are created to make existing tasks easier and some are just created to do things that we really don't need at the first place. They start as a fad and end up as a necessity. Glass belongs to the this category.
Hope I am not the only one here who is praying that this stupid thing never comes into production.
Its hard to believe that Slashdot editing standards have sunk so deep that they can't even write a decent troll summary in English for their April Fool's Day stories. Logged in to Slashdot after two weeks, maybe next time it will be three more weeks before i see Slashdot again.
I concur, this machine isn't old at all by Slashdot Unix Graybeard Users standards. What should i call my HP-UX PA-RISC B2000 workstation after reading this story; manufactured somewhere around BC?
"this person infringed a patent willingly" requires that they haven't just harmed the patent owner, but they've harmed society because they're diminishing the exclusive incentive behind granting that patent
Is this only me who can't get the subtle meaning in this statement. Can this be put in more realistic terms?
Umm..you can start with any fruit or vegetable available at your local store. As a caution please avoid eating a coconut without first removing its shell.
It safe to assume that its just another flamebait BBC report not to be taken seriously. While the publisher (S Chand) is certainly of some repute in this country, it isn't known if this textbook has actually been adopted by any school.A textbook cannot be formally adopted by any school unless it gets approved by government institutions in charge of secondary education like NCERT or CBSE. This furore might have made sense if this textbook was being actually taught to kids; which isn't the case here.
As an aside, the human body isn't really adapted for consuming meat. Neither do we have incisor or canine teeth to cut into raw flesh nor a digestive system capable enough to digest meat. So in defense of vegans, meat eating doesn't come naturally to humans.
$1.5 M iPads get pilfered from airport...okay..whats tech-worthy here: the fact that stolen goods were iPads, or that the dramatic way in which the heist was carried out?
..The government is powerless or incompetent to protect you're rights...
Even if the government were competent enough, would you really like the government to protect yourself from a DDoS attack? On one hand you would want government not to police or censor the Internet and on the other you want it to protect you from petty cyber criminals?
ET Bell was an American mathematician and SF author whose couple of books Men of Mathematics and Development of Mathematics are considered quite remarkable.
but if Amazon cares about the quality of their marketplace, they ought to be careful about letting any random person scrape a community-created document from the internet and publish it as an ebook.
By that definition, every tech book should be treated as non-original work since the information it conveys to the reader is already available freely on the web, though not consolidated as in a book. I think they (Amazon) need to understand that they are just sellers, not publishers and they need to be least concerned about what experience a user might derive after reading a book purchased by them.
I too always thought that this "unification" or interoperability within Microsoft products is their biggest advantage; until recently I tried to saddle a Sharepoint application with IIS, SQL server and Active Directory - It was as painful as OpenLDAP, MIT Kerberos and Samba integration I did a couple of years back.
Regardless of the marketing PR, an Apple fanboy will always buy Apple and invent some reason to like it; no matter how much similar competing products are available at lesser price in the market.
Using touch screen controls on a car is akin to texting on your mobile; taking eyes off the road to see your dashboard or stereo controls is an inherently bad idea.
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I never got to like CDE but it still was a precursor to many dekstops of today. The Mac OSX panel not only looks very much like CDE panel but is functionally too quite similar ; I neither liked the CDE panel nor the Mac's. The Solaris CDE had an additional optional panel on the left, if i can recall, and that was as ugly as the one Unity sports now. Also the square block icons of Windows 8 appear like a throwback of CDE.
What do I care if some doofus loudmouth on the bus, or a convenience store, or a random psychological experiment I got thrown in, thinks they're funny or has nutjob political or religious beliefs? The chance of my opinion changing them is close to zero.
That's a good argument. I am losing my mod points to post this. Your point is that we are polite (sic impersonal) to people whom we aren't closely associated. That's true up to an extent but we are living in a society that actually encourages overconfident (sic rude) and boisterous behavior. In a family, the assertive sibling prevails over the quieter ones, more looked after by the parents, at work the loudmouth employee prevails over his peers and is more favored by the boss.
Consciously or subconsciously we all appreciate overconfident behavior unless it affects us personally. But there is a visible shift in social perception of overconfidence, what was considered overconfident behavior in past (say 60's) is now more acceptable, and a standard behavior more or less.
Dell does offer a "N Series" model on their Vostro family of laptops and desktops, that are shipped without any pre-installed OS.. All you get is a FreeDOS installation disk for free; better still there is no "Designed for Windows xx" logo on these machines.
And interestingly, Apple is smart enough to understand that the tablet/smartphone UI isn't optimal for a PC based OS. They seem to have no intention to force their touch screen UI on Mac OSX, as GNOME, Unity and now Windows 8 seem to be doing.
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They are, however, massively useful for what we use them for. I don't mean to be derogatory, however your comment (and it's certainly a popular one around here) seems very much like "I don't understand it, therefore I will make fun of those who use what I don't understand."
Which essentially translates to "I am a fanboy, and I won't listen to anything against Apple"
I'd say ditto for food reviews, movie reviews etc generally published on magazines and newspapers. They are written by youngsters with just a good command over language who don't actually understand the subject. Or worse the reviewers get sometimes paid to write favorable reviews. In Amazon Vine's case, reviews are sponsored by the seller of the product, you can hardly expect them to be honest in any way.
But others say building a private cloud takes a lot more than just throwing some code on top of a RHEL OS
And somehow those "others" also believe Red Hat to be incapable of doing any more than just throwing some code on top of RHEL?
Others in fact also believe Red Hat to be incapable of doing any more than just throwing some code on top of GNU/Linux.
This somewhat sounds more correct.
NT promised to be a riddance from Unix which it never quite was - more like an attempt to mount a truck body on a car chassis. And that pathetic attempt continues to this day, with Windows 2008.
Of course, human hubris knows no bounds, so chances of humanity accepting the limitations of the human body or the physical universe are pretty much nil. And to be sure, this will be celebrated as a triumph of the human spirit or somesuch.
Makes sense..but the idea might take off - some gadgets are created to make existing tasks easier and some are just created to do things that we really don't need at the first place. They start as a fad and end up as a necessity. Glass belongs to the this category.
Hope I am not the only one here who is praying that this stupid thing never comes into production.
Same here..I could never understand the reason behind xkcd fan following. This strip in particular, whats "so great" in it..?
Its hard to believe that Slashdot editing standards have sunk so deep that they can't even write a decent troll summary in English for their April Fool's Day stories. Logged in to Slashdot after two weeks, maybe next time it will be three more weeks before i see Slashdot again.
I concur, this machine isn't old at all by Slashdot Unix Graybeard Users standards. What should i call my HP-UX PA-RISC B2000 workstation after reading this story; manufactured somewhere around BC?
"this person infringed a patent willingly" requires that they haven't just harmed the patent owner, but they've harmed society because they're diminishing the exclusive incentive behind granting that patent
Is this only me who can't get the subtle meaning in this statement. Can this be put in more realistic terms?
Umm..you can start with any fruit or vegetable available at your local store. As a caution please avoid eating a coconut without first removing its shell.
It safe to assume that its just another flamebait BBC report not to be taken seriously. While the publisher (S Chand) is certainly of some repute in this country, it isn't known if this textbook has actually been adopted by any school.A textbook cannot be formally adopted by any school unless it gets approved by government institutions in charge of secondary education like NCERT or CBSE. This furore might have made sense if this textbook was being actually taught to kids; which isn't the case here.
As an aside, the human body isn't really adapted for consuming meat. Neither do we have incisor or canine teeth to cut into raw flesh nor a digestive system capable enough to digest meat. So in defense of vegans, meat eating doesn't come naturally to humans.
$1.5 M iPads get pilfered from airport...okay..whats tech-worthy here: the fact that stolen goods were iPads, or that the dramatic way in which the heist was carried out?
..The government is powerless or incompetent to protect you're rights...
Even if the government were competent enough, would you really like the government to protect yourself from a DDoS attack? On one hand you would want government not to police or censor the Internet and on the other you want it to protect you from petty cyber criminals?
ET Bell was an American mathematician and SF author whose couple of books Men of Mathematics and Development of Mathematics are considered quite remarkable.
but if Amazon cares about the quality of their marketplace, they ought to be careful about letting any random person scrape a community-created document from the internet and publish it as an ebook.
By that definition, every tech book should be treated as non-original work since the information it conveys to the reader is already available freely on the web, though not consolidated as in a book. I think they (Amazon) need to understand that they are just sellers, not publishers and they need to be least concerned about what experience a user might derive after reading a book purchased by them.
Yep, and regedit is as intuitive as vi.
I too always thought that this "unification" or interoperability within Microsoft products is their biggest advantage; until recently I tried to saddle a Sharepoint application with IIS, SQL server and Active Directory - It was as painful as OpenLDAP, MIT Kerberos and Samba integration I did a couple of years back.
Regardless of the marketing PR, an Apple fanboy will always buy Apple and invent some reason to like it; no matter how much similar competing products are available at lesser price in the market.
Using touch screen controls on a car is akin to texting on your mobile; taking eyes off the road to see your dashboard or stereo controls is an inherently bad idea.
I never got to like CDE but it still was a precursor to many dekstops of today. The Mac OSX panel not only looks very much like CDE panel but is functionally too quite similar ; I neither liked the CDE panel nor the Mac's. The Solaris CDE had an additional optional panel on the left, if i can recall, and that was as ugly as the one Unity sports now. Also the square block icons of Windows 8 appear like a throwback of CDE.
What do I care if some doofus loudmouth on the bus, or a convenience store, or a random psychological experiment I got thrown in, thinks they're funny or has nutjob political or religious beliefs? The chance of my opinion changing them is close to zero.
That's a good argument. I am losing my mod points to post this. Your point is that we are polite (sic impersonal) to people whom we aren't closely associated. That's true up to an extent but we are living in a society that actually encourages overconfident (sic rude) and boisterous behavior. In a family, the assertive sibling prevails over the quieter ones, more looked after by the parents, at work the loudmouth employee prevails over his peers and is more favored by the boss. Consciously or subconsciously we all appreciate overconfident behavior unless it affects us personally. But there is a visible shift in social perception of overconfidence, what was considered overconfident behavior in past (say 60's) is now more acceptable, and a standard behavior more or less.
Dell does offer a "N Series" model on their Vostro family of laptops and desktops, that are shipped without any pre-installed OS.. All you get is a FreeDOS installation disk for free; better still there is no "Designed for Windows xx" logo on these machines.
And interestingly, Apple is smart enough to understand that the tablet/smartphone UI isn't optimal for a PC based OS. They seem to have no intention to force their touch screen UI on Mac OSX, as GNOME, Unity and now Windows 8 seem to be doing.