Yeah, the Back button is "up" for a down-growing vertical stack, but it's also "left" for a right-growing horizontal one. They're each equally intuitive and consistent, and the "left" model seems to be a pretty well-entrenched standard. I don't see any reason to mess with what is probably the easiest to use UI element in any modern web browser.
Now, this is cool tech, so it's a fun read. But is anyone really holding there breath for this thing? This thing is doomed without support from Microsoft, and they are going to be in bed with Intel as usual. AMD should stick to what it does best, emulating Intel's CPUs, until it can amass enough market share and forge enough partnerships with OS makers to strike out on their own.
So instead of buying SCSI drives, you save money by getting cheaper, faster, but less dependable IDE drives and then shell out the price difference to adapt it to your slower SCSI bus. This seems like the worst of both worlds to me. Am I missing something?
I can't believe how these archaic laws that are necessarily steeped in obsolete technology are being abused to limit online speech, which is by nature completely free and above the laws of any one nation.
Regulation of print journalism was necessary because the barriers to entry were so high; it was not reasonable to expect Joe Sixpack to purchase his own printing press and retaliate against libellous allegations. The Internet does away with all that. Anyone can, and has, speak their mind and defend their good name.
This misapplication of outmoded laws is a direct result of the media and justice systems being run by the Washington fat cats and the Jewish media moguls in New York and Hollywood. The Internet is truly a medium of, by, and for the people, and it disgusts me to see these insiders and common gangsters trample all over the rights our forefathers died for.
Oh man, just what I needed to perk me up on a Thursday afternoon. I think my favorite has to be "Microsoft is coming to town." Funny because it's true!
2-Click shopping is just two 1-Click shoppings daisy chained together. The patent office gave them the 1-Click patent, so that's who the 2-Click one should go to two. Uh, too.
While it may seem frustrating, remember that the 2 minute "time out," like its analogue in kindy-garden, plays an important role in protecting you from all kinds of dastardly things. Thanks to the 2 minute rule, evil trolls are limited to 24 * 60 / 2 = 720 posts a day, an amount easily managed by the fleet of dedicated moderators.
This is more of a curiosity than any sort of danger. Most of us, when we get a new mp3 file, give it a listen to make sure it's not mislabeled, doesn't cut off in the middle of the song, and sounds okay. We throw out or fix the ones that aren't up to our standards. So the number of people who would let one of these dangerous mp3s just sit there and be scanned is probably pretty small. And as is usually the case when something like this is discovered, they probably deserve what they get for being such idiots.
Obviously this is just an attempt at a troll (and not a very good one, at that). But I feel I need to correct a few of your points so that nobody is confused.
GNU license is vile and repugnant.
The [L]GPL is just another license; developers can read it, understand it, and evaluate it before choosing to license their software under its terms. Some of its properties (specifically the "viral" aspect) make some people uncomfortable, but we must assume that the software creators are aware of these, and choose the GPL anyway. And in the end, we must respect the wishes of the authors.
*BSD is dying.
LOL. Mac OS X seems to be doing fine, on the desktop no less, and OpenBSD practically owns the firewall market. *BSD is a lot healthier than GNU's operating system, the HURD.
FreeBSD is already dead.
I don't know what you mean by this. They have had some difficulties with leadership in the last year, but they are far from dead. The latest news on their web site is from just a few weeks ago. The ports collection continues to grow, and the developer community is burgeoning. FreeBSD is far from dead.
I realize you are trolling here, but things are slow at work, so I'll just go ahead and answer anyway.
If you can't be the best, do something kind of zany and creative in hopes of keeping your business afloat.
Okay, maybe you have not used Opera lately, but many people, including smart people like Joel Sponsky, would argue that Opera is the best. Considering what a small market they're dealing with (those people who don't use IE and are willing to pay for a web browser), the fact that they're still around should be enough evidence of this.
Hey, I guess they figured it works for Apple and could maybe work for them.
Apple is simply meeting a niche demand for stylish computers that are almost as good a price/performance value as competing PCs. You pay a small premium for a stylish design, which is worth it to many people (e.g., people who wear nice athletic gear or drive Mitsubishis).
I think you're either a) jealous that you can't afford Opera or an iMAC, or b) one of those Linux freaks who thinks they have a right to get everything for free. Either way, you're definitely not older than 16, so come back when you're grown up. Thanks.
This guy did the same thing with Star Wars. He can be pursuasive, and his essays are fun to read, but I urge people not to be sucked in. His opposition to the good/evil dichotomy and benevolent monarchy smack of moral relativism and a devotion to the global superstate. The end of his reasoning is the destruction of the individual in favor of the collective. He's threatened by the notion of heroes, because heroism is essentially individualistic. Just another cardboard intellectual selling out our liberty.
Enough already. There's more to life than consumer electronics and parts for your PC. "Geeks" has become synonymous with "xtreme consumer." You don't need a TiVo (or even a TV, for that matter), or a watch that uses Bluetooth to irradiate your testicles (okay, maybe that's a keeper), or a new Palm Pilot for writing out next year's Christmas list. Go outside, read a good book, snuggle with a loved one.
Sure, it's cool that they're getting drivers out the door, especially with nVIDIA's history of buggy drivers. But "almost as fast as Windows" isn't going to cut it. We Linux users are used to, and demand, superior software. Mozilla, Nautilus, XMMS, the GIMP, EMACS...these applications blow away anything available for Windows. 95-99% of Windows speed is "too little, too late."
I will be the first to agree that the USian tech sector is not what it once was, but to say that it's "whithering" seems a little pessimistic. We're in a slump, but I'm sure we'll bounce back, stronger than before.
How can I be so sure? Simply because nobody else has what it takes to match us: a devotion to free enterprise, a strong workforce, a wealth of natural resources, social mobility, and a government and military that will do whatever it takes to protect those things. Many places have some of these characteristics. Asia has free enterprise, but locks workers into slave wages, offering no motivation to work efficiently. Europe has decent working conditions, but lacks natural resources and smothers industry. South America and Africa don't have the strong governments necessary to protect economic interests.
In the end, the US is the only nation that can give the technology industry all that it needs to flourish.
I don't want to look a gift, hoarse in the mouth, but isn't this a little late in coming? I thought that Linux had taken great strides in hardware support in general and game support in particular. Personally, I only use Linux for development and serving Apache web applets, and I've never been much of a gamer. Hell, I don't even have KDE installed, and I guess that's standard now. But the point is, I'm surprised that simple video card drivers took this long to release. ATI has had Linux drivers out forever, correct? I just don't know what to make of this. Maybe Linux users are just too smart to waste their time playing games, or maybe hardware vendors don't see much of a future in Linux. Is it time to jump ship?
That's what you get when you chase all of the good engineers and scientists to the US with socialist policies. Here, we value intelligence and ingenuity, and don't see any problem with rewarding the people who possess those traits with wealth. That is why you will never see a disaster of this magnitude in the American space program.
I'll see it, I'm sure, but I'm skeptical as to whether the true spirit of the originals will persist. The ideas and expressions that once comprised pop culture have changed so much that the original Mad Max themes of individualist strength and moral integrity will probably be cast aside in favor of a more contemporary populist sensibility.
By way of comparison, consider that "Popeye" had a character called Wimpy, who was addicted to hamburgers (a stand-in for alcohol in those more sensitive times). He was continuously broke, and to finance his habit was reduced to trying to con other characters out of their money ("I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today"). His crippling addiction lost him everything, even his dignity. He was not a hero, but a character to be pitied for his devotion to something so artificial and his lack of work ethic.
Look at today's children's cartoons and you'll find nothing like Wimpy. Instead, you'll see obviously gay characters like Spongebob Squarepants, who epitomizes and glorifies chronic laziness and disrespect for authority. Even his name, "Squarepants," alludes to the angular uniforms of China's Red Army. Is it any surprise that generation Xers grow up with no work ethic and a feeling of entitlement, when they have been indoctrinated with this kind of skewed moral framework? The values expressed in the original Mad Max films are completely alien to them, and I'm not optimistic that they'll come through at all.
"A case in point?" What does that mean? Why is this even news? A bunch of companies did some stuff and went out of business, but the stuff they did is still around...film at 11? And "case in point?" Huh? What is the "point?"
I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous. The "usability expert" dictates the formatting, and it's not only incredibly ugly and clashes with the already shaky Slashdot look and feel, but it's confusing as well. For God's sake, the question titles are bigger than the headline!
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Yeah, the Back button is "up" for a down-growing vertical stack, but it's also "left" for a right-growing horizontal one. They're each equally intuitive and consistent, and the "left" model seems to be a pretty well-entrenched standard. I don't see any reason to mess with what is probably the easiest to use UI element in any modern web browser.
Now, this is cool tech, so it's a fun read. But is anyone really holding there breath for this thing? This thing is doomed without support from Microsoft, and they are going to be in bed with Intel as usual. AMD should stick to what it does best, emulating Intel's CPUs, until it can amass enough market share and forge enough partnerships with OS makers to strike out on their own.
This combines my two favorite things, RPGs and Lord of the Rings. I'm there.
So instead of buying SCSI drives, you save money by getting cheaper, faster, but less dependable IDE drives and then shell out the price difference to adapt it to your slower SCSI bus. This seems like the worst of both worlds to me. Am I missing something?
I can't believe how these archaic laws that are necessarily steeped in obsolete technology are being abused to limit online speech, which is by nature completely free and above the laws of any one nation.
Regulation of print journalism was necessary because the barriers to entry were so high; it was not reasonable to expect Joe Sixpack to purchase his own printing press and retaliate against libellous allegations. The Internet does away with all that. Anyone can, and has, speak their mind and defend their good name.
This misapplication of outmoded laws is a direct result of the media and justice systems being run by the Washington fat cats and the Jewish media moguls in New York and Hollywood. The Internet is truly a medium of, by, and for the people, and it disgusts me to see these insiders and common gangsters trample all over the rights our forefathers died for.
It's cool that it works with pf. But is anyone working on one that doesn't spew?
Oh, you mean like "Star Tours?" And the Robocop ride at the fair? The hat she is old.
Oh man, just what I needed to perk me up on a Thursday afternoon. I think my favorite has to be "Microsoft is coming to town." Funny because it's true!
2-Click shopping is just two 1-Click shoppings daisy chained together. The patent office gave them the 1-Click patent, so that's who the 2-Click one should go to two. Uh, too.
While it may seem frustrating, remember that the 2 minute "time out," like its analogue in kindy-garden, plays an important role in protecting you from all kinds of dastardly things. Thanks to the 2 minute rule, evil trolls are limited to 24 * 60 / 2 = 720 posts a day, an amount easily managed by the fleet of dedicated moderators.
How many books can you say were really fun to read
Um, why do you read them, then?
Anyway, this book sounds awful.
1. Write novel about sex and computers.
2. Get it reviewed on Slashdot.
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!
I have better things to spend my money on.
This is more of a curiosity than any sort of danger. Most of us, when we get a new mp3 file, give it a listen to make sure it's not mislabeled, doesn't cut off in the middle of the song, and sounds okay. We throw out or fix the ones that aren't up to our standards. So the number of people who would let one of these dangerous mp3s just sit there and be scanned is probably pretty small. And as is usually the case when something like this is discovered, they probably deserve what they get for being such idiots.
Obviously this is just an attempt at a troll (and not a very good one, at that). But I feel I need to correct a few of your points so that nobody is confused.
GNU license is vile and repugnant.
The [L]GPL is just another license; developers can read it, understand it, and evaluate it before choosing to license their software under its terms. Some of its properties (specifically the "viral" aspect) make some people uncomfortable, but we must assume that the software creators are aware of these, and choose the GPL anyway. And in the end, we must respect the wishes of the authors.
*BSD is dying.
LOL. Mac OS X seems to be doing fine, on the desktop no less, and OpenBSD practically owns the firewall market. *BSD is a lot healthier than GNU's operating system, the HURD.
FreeBSD is already dead.
I don't know what you mean by this. They have had some difficulties with leadership in the last year, but they are far from dead. The latest news on their web site is from just a few weeks ago. The ports collection continues to grow, and the developer community is burgeoning. FreeBSD is far from dead.
I realize you are trolling here, but things are slow at work, so I'll just go ahead and answer anyway.
If you can't be the best, do something kind of zany and creative in hopes of keeping your business afloat.
Okay, maybe you have not used Opera lately, but many people, including smart people like Joel Sponsky, would argue that Opera is the best. Considering what a small market they're dealing with (those people who don't use IE and are willing to pay for a web browser), the fact that they're still around should be enough evidence of this.
Hey, I guess they figured it works for Apple and could maybe work for them.
Apple is simply meeting a niche demand for stylish computers that are almost as good a price/performance value as competing PCs. You pay a small premium for a stylish design, which is worth it to many people (e.g., people who wear nice athletic gear or drive Mitsubishis).
I think you're either a) jealous that you can't afford Opera or an iMAC, or b) one of those Linux freaks who thinks they have a right to get everything for free. Either way, you're definitely not older than 16, so come back when you're grown up. Thanks.
This guy did the same thing with Star Wars. He can be pursuasive, and his essays are fun to read, but I urge people not to be sucked in. His opposition to the good/evil dichotomy and benevolent monarchy smack of moral relativism and a devotion to the global superstate. The end of his reasoning is the destruction of the individual in favor of the collective. He's threatened by the notion of heroes, because heroism is essentially individualistic. Just another cardboard intellectual selling out our liberty.
Enough already. There's more to life than consumer electronics and parts for your PC. "Geeks" has become synonymous with "xtreme consumer." You don't need a TiVo (or even a TV, for that matter), or a watch that uses Bluetooth to irradiate your testicles (okay, maybe that's a keeper), or a new Palm Pilot for writing out next year's Christmas list. Go outside, read a good book, snuggle with a loved one.
Sure, it's cool that they're getting drivers out the door, especially with nVIDIA's history of buggy drivers. But "almost as fast as Windows" isn't going to cut it. We Linux users are used to, and demand, superior software. Mozilla, Nautilus, XMMS, the GIMP, EMACS...these applications blow away anything available for Windows. 95-99% of Windows speed is "too little, too late."
I will be the first to agree that the USian tech sector is not what it once was, but to say that it's "whithering" seems a little pessimistic. We're in a slump, but I'm sure we'll bounce back, stronger than before.
How can I be so sure? Simply because nobody else has what it takes to match us: a devotion to free enterprise, a strong workforce, a wealth of natural resources, social mobility, and a government and military that will do whatever it takes to protect those things. Many places have some of these characteristics. Asia has free enterprise, but locks workers into slave wages, offering no motivation to work efficiently. Europe has decent working conditions, but lacks natural resources and smothers industry. South America and Africa don't have the strong governments necessary to protect economic interests.
In the end, the US is the only nation that can give the technology industry all that it needs to flourish.
I'm going to go post an Amazon review calling into question the validity of "Ask Slashdot" responses.
I don't want to look a gift, hoarse in the mouth, but isn't this a little late in coming? I thought that Linux had taken great strides in hardware support in general and game support in particular. Personally, I only use Linux for development and serving Apache web applets, and I've never been much of a gamer. Hell, I don't even have KDE installed, and I guess that's standard now. But the point is, I'm surprised that simple video card drivers took this long to release. ATI has had Linux drivers out forever, correct? I just don't know what to make of this. Maybe Linux users are just too smart to waste their time playing games, or maybe hardware vendors don't see much of a future in Linux. Is it time to jump ship?
That's what you get when you chase all of the good engineers and scientists to the US with socialist policies. Here, we value intelligence and ingenuity, and don't see any problem with rewarding the people who possess those traits with wealth. That is why you will never see a disaster of this magnitude in the American space program.
Sounds like Slashdot.
I'll see it, I'm sure, but I'm skeptical as to whether the true spirit of the originals will persist. The ideas and expressions that once comprised pop culture have changed so much that the original Mad Max themes of individualist strength and moral integrity will probably be cast aside in favor of a more contemporary populist sensibility.
By way of comparison, consider that "Popeye" had a character called Wimpy, who was addicted to hamburgers (a stand-in for alcohol in those more sensitive times). He was continuously broke, and to finance his habit was reduced to trying to con other characters out of their money ("I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today"). His crippling addiction lost him everything, even his dignity. He was not a hero, but a character to be pitied for his devotion to something so artificial and his lack of work ethic.
Look at today's children's cartoons and you'll find nothing like Wimpy. Instead, you'll see obviously gay characters like Spongebob Squarepants, who epitomizes and glorifies chronic laziness and disrespect for authority. Even his name, "Squarepants," alludes to the angular uniforms of China's Red Army. Is it any surprise that generation Xers grow up with no work ethic and a feeling of entitlement, when they have been indoctrinated with this kind of skewed moral framework? The values expressed in the original Mad Max films are completely alien to them, and I'm not optimistic that they'll come through at all.
"A case in point?" What does that mean? Why is this even news? A bunch of companies did some stuff and went out of business, but the stuff they did is still around...film at 11? And "case in point?" Huh? What is the "point?"
I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous. The "usability expert" dictates the formatting, and it's not only incredibly ugly and clashes with the already shaky Slashdot look and feel, but it's confusing as well. For God's sake, the question titles are bigger than the headline!