iTunes doesn't have more functionality (or featurality, since you claim those words describe the same idea) than Media Player. It has less, as far as I can tell. That's why iTunes is better, though - it does a few things well, and presents them in an easy to use interface. The interface is easy ot use, because it doesn't have as many things to do.
Apple in general does this often. They take the things most people won't likely have to do, and hide or remove the ability to do those things.
Back on topic, all of those extra features in phones generally mean less time to properly debug the critical features. The phones I've had which just did phone stuff - dialing, keeping address books, and maybe a calendar - have all been rock-solid reliable. Since I've been using phones with more features, though, I have more quirky prolems.
Some examples: My Nokia 6225 has been reliable, and though it does have a couple of bundled games, I was able to remove them - so now I just have a phone with a calendar/scheduler (which doesn't work well and I don't use) and a camera (which is only able to upload images through Sprint's photomail service, depite the infrared link capability). My wife's Samsung "Blade" has UI problems and occasionally hangs up - but it has more features. Our olf LG phones had more features, and they would occasionally crash. My phone would crash! How does an embedded device get released with the potential to randomly crash?! The Samsung phone I had before these, had more features, and occasionally had interface glitches.
In general, people like flash and features. No one buys a phone for stability. That's why PCs all come with Windows now, and phoens aren't stable. Because the development efforts have to choose between stability and features/functions, and stability usually loses.
I'm pretty sure RTF also has a "the upcoming data is N bytes long", and that any OLE object would need something along those lines... Besides, since when was MS concerned about not adhering to the spirit of a spec? If they wanna make whitespace significant, they'll do it in a second.
You're right. That 50% who don't vote? They think exactly the same as the 25% or so whose vote presently counts. Yup, 75% of our contry thinks the same way - but 2/3 of those people know that the other 1/3 will take care of things for them.
Sigh.
I'll agree on one point - voter education is more important than voter turnout, though we presently have neither.
English is not German, and you can't just cram all of your words together to make one uberword simply because you think it'd look cool. So cut it out, buddy.:)
I'd recommend studying through the semester instead of trying to cram a month's worth of studying into one evening. You get more sleep, and you're more apt to actually remember that information that's probably somehow relevant to your degree.
But sure, I guess throwing money away on stimulants works, too. Kinda.
It's worked so far. Since Sept. 11 2001, I can't sign up for a new bank account without providing my driver's license and social security card now, and no one has crashed two airplanes into another large building. Coincidence? I think not!
Do you know anyone who didn't vote? Has that same person ever complained about anything even remotely related to the government? That person's the reason you don't have a new government. Maybe let him or her know next time you see them. I'd appreciate it.
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I was just driving in St. Louis this weekend. Please, if you happen to meet anyone even remotely related to the synchronization of stoplights there, kick him/her in the shins for me.
Augh. Not a single green light down there. Some of the surrounding towns are alright, but in the city proper...
What's the criteria for entry to a Best Buy? Do you have to pay a membership, or pass a test? Do you have to be associated with a certain club? If not, then our friends in the government call that a public place. A theater where you pay for a ticket - that's a public place. A restaurant where you pay for food, that's a public place. A retail establishment without membership requirements? Also a public place. When in doubt, think to yourself "if there's no fire, but I shout 'fire' anyway just to freak people out, will I be in trouble with the police or the property owner?" If the answer is "police", you're in a public place.
Cause if you were still a man or had memory of when you were a teenager you would know that "wanting to get to know her as a person" is a pickup line. It is what you tell them to get them drop their pants.
This may be difficult to understand, being a/. troll and all, but not all men are as big of jerks as your former boyfriends have been. Keep looking, and try to work through the trauma of your previous relationships / rape / whatever skewed your impression of men.
Actually, several places gave immigrants paid time off to protest. I guess it'd be racist or discriminitory to not pay people who are protesting enforcement of perfectly legitimite laws...
At least one Slashdotter works on several clusters daily - his job involves benchmarking applications and tuning the hardware such that customers running specific applications can have an officially recommended hardware configuration that will help them to optimize their expensive hardware. He might be interested in reading about new cluster interconnects.../glad Slashdot is almost geared to my personal interests for once;)
Or you could just use round-robin DNS with MySQL replication and set your mysql_connect wrapper to loop until it connects, providing generally adequate fault-tolerance and load balancing with a minimum of thought.
I've found that applying for yearly contract work reduces the frequency that I hear that question.:)
Though, I still hear "tell me about a time you weere in a contrived situation that you may well have never been in" often - usually from interviewers I perceive to be underexperienced...
Well, maybe you'd have better luck applying at the national chain of grocery stores called "Kroger". This "Kroger's" must be some half-assed local monm-n-pop who obviously doesn't have the budget to hire an IT staff, let alone enough to pay you to stock the shelves. The big chain with a similar name might be a better bet, and would probably offer more stability.
Or, you're a dumbass who didn't even know the name of the store at which you were applying to work, which often is a disqualifying attribute. That would explain the inability to type letters into boxes on a computerized application.
Thank goodness you didn't say "the truth is", since a fact can be false. In this case, I'd suggest that it *is* false. Entertainment isn't exclusively present across societies simply because a lot of people hate their job and need distracted so they don't realize they hate their job.
And that's apparently where the elitist jackass opinion comes in - because you claim that anyone who enjoys a form of entertainment that you don't personally enjoy must, therefore, be a foolish victim of a brainwashing scam. You've somehow avoided this and become more enlightened, because you're able to "fully engage your brain", while those who watch TV obviously can't engage theirs. Shockingly, that comes across as insulting to some who use a different gauge for measuring how fulfilling their life may be. Odds are good that most people use a different gauge than you do. Consider how many people look down upon those who *don't* watch TV...
I think the expression you're looking for is "heartfelt", not "heart-filled". They sound similar, and perhaps even literlaly translate the same, but only one's in actual usage...:)
My comment didn't say I was giving them the root password.
You mentioned needing the real root account for root's mail reading, and for locking. I guess that just implied that everyone gets the password - it's where I got that from.
There isn't any "hacked-up shell" to deal with. The root users can pick from whatever is installed.
Yeah, but then you lose the logging if they're not using the special Bash. They can pick a shell *and* still have the logging with sudo.:)
I can't think of a large shop that uses it, but it's still nice
I'm normally not big on dropping names, but: Until tomorrow (end of contract), I work for Intel (but do not speak for them), specifically as a Linux sysadmin on production and pre-production systems used for application benchmarking in a clustered environment. I'd consider "Intel" to be a rather large shop. We use sudo extensively in our work (there are usually at least two people with admin access on a given cluster). It's been almost a year since I last did the "systems administrator security training course", but as I recall, the use of sudo is specifically required in the corporate security guidelines, and the use of multiple acocunts with shared UIDs is explicitly prohibited. The rational is that shared IDs do not provide accountability for user activity.
From what I know about the even larger Fortune 50 company I'll be working with starting next week, sudo is also used. So, there's a couple of examples for future reference.:)
As far as sudo being "babying", any competent admin knows that "sudo -s" or "sudo su -" will get him access to the root account when neccesary. He'll also know that it's almost never necesary. As far as I'm concerned, knowing about *nix's reliance on UIDs to uniquely identify users and then taking advantage of that internal knowledge by creating multiple "users" with the sameID is just a kludgy workaround for which a "proper" solution exists. Never mind that there are now *two* accounts per admin, greatly increaseing the places to mess something up. Sudo is one good solution that maintains the UID "black box" without the ugly hack feel. Both work though, I suppose, and I'm obligated to tell people that "it works for you" is more important than "it's what I'd do", but I've yet to see any benefits to *not* using sudo. Only alternatives...:)
To maintain the offtopic discussion at the same time:
You could always reprogram your auto with chip that is written with mileage in mind but most are meant for performance.
Actually, most automatic transmission reprogramming I've seen will help both mileage and performance. When reprogramming automatic behavior, typically you'd want to shorten shift times, increase line pressure for firmer shifts (and less slippage in general), and move shift points around. The first two changes you can also get by installing a shift kit - and they help with both mielage and performance. The factory extends shifts to make them softer, both to lessen stresses on internal parts *and* to decrease driver perceptions of harshness. You can tighten things up quite a bit without overstressing internal parts, usually.
The other thing tuned is shift points (and potentially convertor lock-up points). Any ECU that controls a transmission is going to have a table of shift point v/s throttle position. Since I'm a GM guy, I'll point out that the TH20-4R (starting in the early 80s, was on things like the Buick Grand National) and the 700-R4 (pre-'87 they sucked, then the name was changed to 4L60 in the 90s) use a cable attached to the throttle to vary shift firmness and RPM level based on throttle position (and sometimes engine vacuum). Later electronic trannys, like the 4L60E in my '95 and '96 Caprices, and the 4L80E in larger trucks, use a throttle position sensor. But the point is that a modern automatic can be more consistent than a stick driver (why do bracket racers all run auto
Just say Linux in those meetings. There's no reason to discuss the specific distribution with anyone who's gonna get confused by version numbers or perfectly valid non-english words like Ubuntu. Those people won't know the difference between RedHat and Debian anyway.
Yeah, something that doesn't sound silly would be better. Something like "Red Hat". Which, BTW, that same 99% of people think is synonymous with Linux, or old ladies.
My 1971 Chevelle - which came with four-wheel manual drum brakes (and still has them, as far as the insurance company knows) - and 1975 El Camino (disk/drum, no ABS) both cost less to insure than 1995 Caprice (disk/drum w/ ABS) or my 1996 Caprice or 2003 Grand Am - both of which have four-wheel power disks with ABS. My 2005 Suzuki AN400K5 has two wheels and no ABS, and it also costs less than the ABS cars, too. So there, non-ABS vehicles cost less than ABS-equippend vehicles.:)
Some people on/. think that "out of the city" means "in the suburbs". They have no idea that places exist where no one lives, and almost no one drives. The amusing part is that places like this make up most of the country...
I'd bet there's some "balance bar" effect from the steering wheel - you feel more stable, and thus you are. Maybe.:) There's definitely some bracing going on, but anyone driving with enough "spirit" to make that significant should also have enough bolstering and support that they don't actually need the wheel. Otherwise, they're just bad drivers.;)
I still think it has more to do with "I know it's coming", because when something happens like the clutch grabbing too fast or my foot slipping off - for example - I've jerked just as much as the passengers...
Regarding training costs, you're right. It'd be oscenely expensive, and lots of people would end up excluded. The money would probably end back up in the economy due to reduced expenses due to accidents, though. Or at least some of the money. Not that it'll ever happen, of course. People have gotten too used to driving being a right, not a privilege. But my thing is, just because we can't afford to do it right, that doesn't mean we should implement some half-assed solution instead. And what if I'm just using the antenna on the phone to scratch my head? Will it be illegal to hold the phone up, to talk on it, or what? How will a cop prove that you're not just pretending to talk so other drivers will think you're a bigshot? Maybe you're singing along to music played from the phone - music playback devices aren't illegal yet, so long as you have one free ear...
Yeah, laws need to be directed. Kinda like how "reckless driving" and "exhibition of speed" are so clearly defined. What about "driving too fast for conditions" - you see that one applied in accidents all the time. Targeting cell phones just has a "witch hunt" kind of feel to it. It'll just end up being one of those things cops use during "safety checks" to halp compensate for budgetary underruns.
Weren't wearing your seatblet? That endagers others somehow. $50 please. That cellphone looks warm - were you talking on it recently? Another $75. Oh, it looks like your license plate light burned out when you turned it on this evening. $75. And what are you doing with an air freshener hanging from the rear view mirror? It's illegal to add anything between the driver and the windshield. $50. Sounds like maybe you changed the exhaust, too. It's illegal to make any changes to your exhaust system that increase the sound level above OE specs. $75 and a "fix it" ticket. Oh, and that window tinting film you put on? I don't care if it's lighter than the stock tinted glass on the new trucks - your film is illegal. $75 and another "fix it" that'll land you contempt of court if it's not fixed in 30 days.
Cellphones are just the current hot topic for "safety concerns". Vans with DVD players in back, portable video players in general, gaming systems, etc - there's something to worry about. Heck, even interesting talk radio, if there is such a thing. AM radios should be banned!
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iTunes doesn't have more functionality (or featurality, since you claim those words describe the same idea) than Media Player. It has less, as far as I can tell. That's why iTunes is better, though - it does a few things well, and presents them in an easy to use interface. The interface is easy ot use, because it doesn't have as many things to do.
Apple in general does this often. They take the things most people won't likely have to do, and hide or remove the ability to do those things.
Back on topic, all of those extra features in phones generally mean less time to properly debug the critical features. The phones I've had which just did phone stuff - dialing, keeping address books, and maybe a calendar - have all been rock-solid reliable. Since I've been using phones with more features, though, I have more quirky prolems.
Some examples: My Nokia 6225 has been reliable, and though it does have a couple of bundled games, I was able to remove them - so now I just have a phone with a calendar/scheduler (which doesn't work well and I don't use) and a camera (which is only able to upload images through Sprint's photomail service, depite the infrared link capability). My wife's Samsung "Blade" has UI problems and occasionally hangs up - but it has more features. Our olf LG phones had more features, and they would occasionally crash. My phone would crash! How does an embedded device get released with the potential to randomly crash?! The Samsung phone I had before these, had more features, and occasionally had interface glitches.
In general, people like flash and features. No one buys a phone for stability. That's why PCs all come with Windows now, and phoens aren't stable. Because the development efforts have to choose between stability and features/functions, and stability usually loses.
I'm pretty sure RTF also has a "the upcoming data is N bytes long", and that any OLE object would need something along those lines... Besides, since when was MS concerned about not adhering to the spirit of a spec? If they wanna make whitespace significant, they'll do it in a second.
You're right. That 50% who don't vote? They think exactly the same as the 25% or so whose vote presently counts. Yup, 75% of our contry thinks the same way - but 2/3 of those people know that the other 1/3 will take care of things for them.
Sigh.
I'll agree on one point - voter education is more important than voter turnout, though we presently have neither.
English is not German, and you can't just cram all of your words together to make one uberword simply because you think it'd look cool. So cut it out, buddy. :)
I'd recommend studying through the semester instead of trying to cram a month's worth of studying into one evening. You get more sleep, and you're more apt to actually remember that information that's probably somehow relevant to your degree.
But sure, I guess throwing money away on stimulants works, too. Kinda.
It's worked so far. Since Sept. 11 2001, I can't sign up for a new bank account without providing my driver's license and social security card now, and no one has crashed two airplanes into another large building. Coincidence? I think not!
Do you know anyone who didn't vote? Has that same person ever complained about anything even remotely related to the government? That person's the reason you don't have a new government. Maybe let him or her know next time you see them. I'd appreciate it.
I was just driving in St. Louis this weekend. Please, if you happen to meet anyone even remotely related to the synchronization of stoplights there, kick him/her in the shins for me.
Augh. Not a single green light down there. Some of the surrounding towns are alright, but in the city proper...
What's the criteria for entry to a Best Buy? Do you have to pay a membership, or pass a test? Do you have to be associated with a certain club? If not, then our friends in the government call that a public place. A theater where you pay for a ticket - that's a public place. A restaurant where you pay for food, that's a public place. A retail establishment without membership requirements? Also a public place. When in doubt, think to yourself "if there's no fire, but I shout 'fire' anyway just to freak people out, will I be in trouble with the police or the property owner?" If the answer is "police", you're in a public place.
Cause if you were still a man or had memory of when you were a teenager you would know that "wanting to get to know her as a person" is a pickup line. It is what you tell them to get them drop their pants.
/. troll and all, but not all men are as big of jerks as your former boyfriends have been. Keep looking, and try to work through the trauma of your previous relationships / rape / whatever skewed your impression of men.
This may be difficult to understand, being a
Actually, several places gave immigrants paid time off to protest. I guess it'd be racist or discriminitory to not pay people who are protesting enforcement of perfectly legitimite laws...
At least one Slashdotter works on several clusters daily - his job involves benchmarking applications and tuning the hardware such that customers running specific applications can have an officially recommended hardware configuration that will help them to optimize their expensive hardware. He might be interested in reading about new cluster interconnects... /glad Slashdot is almost geared to my personal interests for once ;)
Or you could just use round-robin DNS with MySQL replication and set your mysql_connect wrapper to loop until it connects, providing generally adequate fault-tolerance and load balancing with a minimum of thought.
And everything on *that* site has the "boobies" tag. So I've heard.
Though, I could swear that I saw a SFW "boobies" on the main page within the last month or so, but I'm not reading through the archives to find it...
I've found that applying for yearly contract work reduces the frequency that I hear that question. :)
Though, I still hear "tell me about a time you weere in a contrived situation that you may well have never been in" often - usually from interviewers I perceive to be underexperienced...
Well, maybe you'd have better luck applying at the national chain of grocery stores called "Kroger". This "Kroger's" must be some half-assed local monm-n-pop who obviously doesn't have the budget to hire an IT staff, let alone enough to pay you to stock the shelves. The big chain with a similar name might be a better bet, and would probably offer more stability.
Or, you're a dumbass who didn't even know the name of the store at which you were applying to work, which often is a disqualifying attribute. That would explain the inability to type letters into boxes on a computerized application.
Thank goodness you didn't say "the truth is", since a fact can be false. In this case, I'd suggest that it *is* false. Entertainment isn't exclusively present across societies simply because a lot of people hate their job and need distracted so they don't realize they hate their job.
And that's apparently where the elitist jackass opinion comes in - because you claim that anyone who enjoys a form of entertainment that you don't personally enjoy must, therefore, be a foolish victim of a brainwashing scam. You've somehow avoided this and become more enlightened, because you're able to "fully engage your brain", while those who watch TV obviously can't engage theirs. Shockingly, that comes across as insulting to some who use a different gauge for measuring how fulfilling their life may be. Odds are good that most people use a different gauge than you do. Consider how many people look down upon those who *don't* watch TV...
HTH.
I think the expression you're looking for is "heartfelt", not "heart-filled". They sound similar, and perhaps even literlaly translate the same, but only one's in actual usage... :)
My comment didn't say I was giving them the root password.
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You mentioned needing the real root account for root's mail reading, and for locking. I guess that just implied that everyone gets the password - it's where I got that from.
There isn't any "hacked-up shell" to deal with. The root users can pick from whatever is installed.
Yeah, but then you lose the logging if they're not using the special Bash. They can pick a shell *and* still have the logging with sudo.
I can't think of a large shop that uses it, but it's still nice
I'm normally not big on dropping names, but: Until tomorrow (end of contract), I work for Intel (but do not speak for them), specifically as a Linux sysadmin on production and pre-production systems used for application benchmarking in a clustered environment. I'd consider "Intel" to be a rather large shop. We use sudo extensively in our work (there are usually at least two people with admin access on a given cluster). It's been almost a year since I last did the "systems administrator security training course", but as I recall, the use of sudo is specifically required in the corporate security guidelines, and the use of multiple acocunts with shared UIDs is explicitly prohibited. The rational is that shared IDs do not provide accountability for user activity.
From what I know about the even larger Fortune 50 company I'll be working with starting next week, sudo is also used. So, there's a couple of examples for future reference.
As far as sudo being "babying", any competent admin knows that "sudo -s" or "sudo su -" will get him access to the root account when neccesary. He'll also know that it's almost never necesary. As far as I'm concerned, knowing about *nix's reliance on UIDs to uniquely identify users and then taking advantage of that internal knowledge by creating multiple "users" with the sameID is just a kludgy workaround for which a "proper" solution exists. Never mind that there are now *two* accounts per admin, greatly increaseing the places to mess something up. Sudo is one good solution that maintains the UID "black box" without the ugly hack feel. Both work though, I suppose, and I'm obligated to tell people that "it works for you" is more important than "it's what I'd do", but I've yet to see any benefits to *not* using sudo. Only alternatives...
To maintain the offtopic discussion at the same time:
You could always reprogram your auto with chip that is written with mileage in mind but most are meant for performance.
Actually, most automatic transmission reprogramming I've seen will help both mileage and performance. When reprogramming automatic behavior, typically you'd want to shorten shift times, increase line pressure for firmer shifts (and less slippage in general), and move shift points around. The first two changes you can also get by installing a shift kit - and they help with both mielage and performance. The factory extends shifts to make them softer, both to lessen stresses on internal parts *and* to decrease driver perceptions of harshness. You can tighten things up quite a bit without overstressing internal parts, usually.
The other thing tuned is shift points (and potentially convertor lock-up points). Any ECU that controls a transmission is going to have a table of shift point v/s throttle position. Since I'm a GM guy, I'll point out that the TH20-4R (starting in the early 80s, was on things like the Buick Grand National) and the 700-R4 (pre-'87 they sucked, then the name was changed to 4L60 in the 90s) use a cable attached to the throttle to vary shift firmness and RPM level based on throttle position (and sometimes engine vacuum). Later electronic trannys, like the 4L60E in my '95 and '96 Caprices, and the 4L80E in larger trucks, use a throttle position sensor. But the point is that a modern automatic can be more consistent than a stick driver (why do bracket racers all run auto
Just say Linux in those meetings. There's no reason to discuss the specific distribution with anyone who's gonna get confused by version numbers or perfectly valid non-english words like Ubuntu. Those people won't know the difference between RedHat and Debian anyway.
Yeah, something that doesn't sound silly would be better. Something like "Red Hat". Which, BTW, that same 99% of people think is synonymous with Linux, or old ladies.
My 1971 Chevelle - which came with four-wheel manual drum brakes (and still has them, as far as the insurance company knows) - and 1975 El Camino (disk/drum, no ABS) both cost less to insure than 1995 Caprice (disk/drum w/ ABS) or my 1996 Caprice or 2003 Grand Am - both of which have four-wheel power disks with ABS. My 2005 Suzuki AN400K5 has two wheels and no ABS, and it also costs less than the ABS cars, too. So there, non-ABS vehicles cost less than ABS-equippend vehicles. :)
Some people on /. think that "out of the city" means "in the suburbs". They have no idea that places exist where no one lives, and almost no one drives. The amusing part is that places like this make up most of the country...
woodland creatures != other cars with people in them to endanger
I'd bet there's some "balance bar" effect from the steering wheel - you feel more stable, and thus you are. Maybe. :) There's definitely some bracing going on, but anyone driving with enough "spirit" to make that significant should also have enough bolstering and support that they don't actually need the wheel. Otherwise, they're just bad drivers. ;)
I still think it has more to do with "I know it's coming", because when something happens like the clutch grabbing too fast or my foot slipping off - for example - I've jerked just as much as the passengers...
Regarding training costs, you're right. It'd be oscenely expensive, and lots of people would end up excluded. The money would probably end back up in the economy due to reduced expenses due to accidents, though. Or at least some of the money. Not that it'll ever happen, of course. People have gotten too used to driving being a right, not a privilege. But my thing is, just because we can't afford to do it right, that doesn't mean we should implement some half-assed solution instead. And what if I'm just using the antenna on the phone to scratch my head? Will it be illegal to hold the phone up, to talk on it, or what? How will a cop prove that you're not just pretending to talk so other drivers will think you're a bigshot? Maybe you're singing along to music played from the phone - music playback devices aren't illegal yet, so long as you have one free ear...
Yeah, laws need to be directed. Kinda like how "reckless driving" and "exhibition of speed" are so clearly defined. What about "driving too fast for conditions" - you see that one applied in accidents all the time. Targeting cell phones just has a "witch hunt" kind of feel to it. It'll just end up being one of those things cops use during "safety checks" to halp compensate for budgetary underruns.
Weren't wearing your seatblet? That endagers others somehow. $50 please. That cellphone looks warm - were you talking on it recently? Another $75. Oh, it looks like your license plate light burned out when you turned it on this evening. $75. And what are you doing with an air freshener hanging from the rear view mirror? It's illegal to add anything between the driver and the windshield. $50. Sounds like maybe you changed the exhaust, too. It's illegal to make any changes to your exhaust system that increase the sound level above OE specs. $75 and a "fix it" ticket. Oh, and that window tinting film you put on? I don't care if it's lighter than the stock tinted glass on the new trucks - your film is illegal. $75 and another "fix it" that'll land you contempt of court if it's not fixed in 30 days.
Cellphones are just the current hot topic for "safety concerns". Vans with DVD players in back, portable video players in general, gaming systems, etc - there's something to worry about. Heck, even interesting talk radio, if there is such a thing. AM radios should be banned!