There's no travel destination in the US which is only accessible by controlled-access highway, AFAIK. Sure, the non-interstate highways aren't as fast, but that's partially due to the higher speed limits and low incidence of stopping. If you're riding a horse or walking, the increased speed wouldn't help you anyway, so you may as well take the highway. As far as court deadlines, there's this thing called a continuance which allows court dates to be moved out. And there's always "stick a slow-moving-vehicle sign on the back of a riding mower"...
Yeah, but then when they took away old people's licenses, Grandpa Marsh called the AARP and they stormed the town. If it hadn't been for quick-thinking children blockading the doors at the Country Kitchen Cafe, we'd all be in big trouble right now.
256MB requires you to either carry not much music or record at a sample rate so low that it's not the earbuds limiting sound quality.:)
If the mp3 player was detachable, then you'd just have some sunglasses, earbuds, and an mp3 player. You can already get that if you zip-tie the earbuds to the sunglasses earpieces. I'd take a picture and make a fake product page if I was as bored as I'd like to be...
I simply misspelled the name of a project which for some reason I always think is spelled differently than the symbol (perhaps because *nix is full of "creative" spellings). Obviously, the mistype didn't affect anyone's understanding of the message. Besides, it's not like I was totally wrong about the origins of duck tape's name or something *actually* moronic.
Oh, you might also want to note that "moronboi" isn't a word, Captain Corrections. Those people who call you "moron boy" all the time are using two english words, not some mythical single word insult. It's no good to reuse insults when you don't know how to spell them. This assumes that you weren't referring to Moroni, the angel who supposedly contacted Joseph Smith, in which case your response would make absolutely no sense.
I'm pretty sure that there's a list of contributors included with the kernel and we know who wrote busybox + uclibc. What else do you need to run a voting machine?
With Asterick and an appropriate (and inexpensive) analog card, you can make your home POTS line accessible from anywhere on the internet. VOIP negates the usefulness of regular phone lines, too, to a certain extent...
The heat comes off of the back where there are vents. That part of the TV's usually slanted and would be difficult to put things on. The front of the TV, which is also the only level part where a console would balance, should be not much more than ambient.
But to answer the other part of the question, no I'm not serious. I know that everyone who buys an X-box is an idiot by definition, there's no talking "reason" to them.;)
Because gamers are too damned stupid to read and follow directions? Didn't Warcraft / Starcraft / WhateverCraft sell like a bajillion copies, all of which require reading the instructions in order to actually do well? Sit the console on top of the tube part of the TV. If you can afford a flatscreen and a $400 console, you can probably also afford some nice wood floors or a piece of aluminum foil or something. If the 13" TV in your trailer home is too small for the console, pull back that astroturf/carpet and put the console on the steel floor.:)
You meant Rotozip - a sawzall is good for demolition and rough work, but not so much for outlet boxes. Those rotary cutters are way more useful for that kid of thing.:) I love my RotoZip...
Wait, you read Slashdot frequently enough to get a well-moderated "first post" on an article, but you think poorly of *everyone* who reads Slashdot? That's like writing some obfuscated C which you'll run though your own compiler to generate bytecode for an obscure microprocessor which drives a large graphical display with the text "you are all nerds!"
Oh, I don't see the problem with selecting between "server" (install a stripped-down bare minimum system that doesn't even have an ssh server for goodness sake) and "desktop" (install a whole bunch of games, and a few desktop apps, whether you want that or not - and still no ssh server). Wait, maybe I do see the problem...
Then, I also have a problem with Ubuntu requiring 64MB RAM to install, even though the installed system only requires 32 (and I think that number was pulled out of thin air). It makes installing on a couple of my low memory systems (router/firewall/non-caching DNS/etc - don't need lots of RAM) a royal pain. Debian and Gentoo are the same. Stupid ramdisks, even with netboot. The installer should only need a kernel with maybe some modules, init, and mount on an initrd - the rest can be NFS mounted. At least Slackware still works on those systems. Having a single distro on all machines would be handy, though, and reduce my local mirror size by reducing the number of things I have to mirror.:)
Evolution has a connector that one can use to connect to an Exchange server and do the important Exchange stuff. All distros don't come with that particular package for a variety of reasons (licensing probably being the bog one). So, having Evolution doesn't equal having Exchange connectivity, but ti's a step in the right direction.
Evolution and Connector are open source, drop-in subsitutes, though they don't do quite everything. They also require some particular settings on the Exchange server, so it's not something the subversive can do easily without also being mail admin (or friends with the mail admin). I can't use Evolution at work, for example, 'cause the mail guy doesn't care.:)
If you don't trust your ISP to store your email for privacy reasons, you have bigger problems than merely synchronising email between two machines. If you don't trust them for backup reasons, then just set one of the machines (or both) to download the full messages locally. Most default to just getting headers, but it's pretty trivial to get all the mail locally, to set up a filter which auto-copies mail to local folders, etc. But really, just doing periodic backups fo the imap stuff (copy everything to a local folder) shoudl be adequate if the ISP doesn't suck. If the ISP does suck, well, it's time to move on. Email's too important now to leave to a suck-ass ISP.
You have Slackware users confused with Gentoo newbies, and automation confused with GUIs. Slackware is quite automated, but only does what you tell it to do. Slackware users generally take some pride in operating minimalist but easy to use systems and system tools, while Gentoo users think that increasing binary size beyond the size of processor cache with things like -funroll-loops and -O3 applied globally somehow makes their system faster and makes them more 'leet.
I get paid to work with Redhat and SuSE, I run Ubuntu/Debian, Slackware, and Gentoo at home. Gentoo is being phased out because it's a 'leet pain, while Slackware's going no where because it's about the only remaining major distribution that doesn't require 64MB+ for just the installer - and because it's got nice admin tools for things that need tools, and has a handy tool called "vim" for the things where fancy tools get in the way of someone who knows what they're trying to do. SuSE was phased out at home a while back, because it doens't offer anything over Ubuntu/Debian Gnu/Linux, and I hate RPM.
IMHO, people who can't figure out how to configure things like bind and apache without a GUI should really 1) learn more about the software and 2) learn more about the protocol they're serving to. It's not a "real sysadmins" thing, it's a "know your trade" thing. Then, I don't go to mechanics who say things like "you can't work on modern cars, with all those computers and things" or "The computer says the problem is..." either. Well, I don't go to mechanics at all, but if I did...:) But I'm rambling now...
Heck, for $500, I won't buy an Xbox, and I'll actively try to stop 9 other people from buying one. That's about a 150% return on their investment in me - they can't lose!
He risked $500,000 of someone else's money. Sure, idea guy's idea was great, but it seems like perhaps a little more cridit could be given to the person who invented the dissapearing ink which gave rise to several more ideas. That's my beef - the idea guy certainly deserves lots of credit for the idea...:)
Finnish director? Does he live in Finland? Was he working in Finland at the time those films were made? Was he even born in Finland? I don't know, but I'll bet at least a couple of those are "no"...
He came up with the idea 11 years ago, but in the end, it took one chemist about one year to solve the problem - this guy just had the idea and a bad implementation until he hired someone with "da mad chmical skillz". Of course, the article doesn't really mention the chemist - he only did the hard work part - we should really focus on the guy with the "ideas".:(
Not that I necessarily think it was worth 11 years, but having spent more than that on my own pet project I can well understand someone getting a tad fanatical about something no one else necessarily sees a use for.:)
Unless, of course, that project somehow involved cow manure?:)
Yes, the thread and article are about a variety of things, including your opinion that web pages are generally better now than before. The post you replied to was about not using flash or graphic text where HTML works just fine, not about using a web browser as an application platform - or did you overlook that in your rush to get another post logged under your account? Here's what you replied to, since you obviously haven't read it yet (or maybe that failing grade in reading comprehension is just coming back to bite you now):
You have a strange definition of "better" if you think that using flash and graphics where text makes sense is "better". Hooray for wasting bandwidth in order to provide a "media-rich" experience, when utilizing actual valid HTML would work just as well *and* provide a means of formatting for a variety of different output devices.
You don't have to design to the "lowest common denominator" if you use proper HTML 4.1 with CSS, but you do have to think about making a page that degrades gracefully. It's not really even hard - but thanks to IE and Netscape adding their own screwy tags + cheerfully accepting ill-formed HTML, web developers are among the laziest, worst informed developers around. Yeah, things sure are better now.
In response, you said that I should tell that to Gmail. If your response was not to my post, perhaps it would have been better stated in some way other than replying to the quoted post. I don't think you're *that* stupid, though, and therefore presume that you were intending to "reply" to what I typed when you clicked "reply".
So, I'll ask again, which part of what I typed does Gmail not already do? Gmail 1) designs to the lowest common denominator that they choose to support, 2) uses actual valid HTML, and 3) doesn't waste bandwidth. Glancing at gmail.com, they even roughly use HTML 4.1 and CSS (validation problems with the login page mostly stem from some quoting/javascript issues). I think that, if I told them to do those things, they'd say "you're an idiot, we already do that".
Furthermore, if you think that you can make statements which make absolutely no sense in context - on a public forum - without people judging you to be as slow-witted as your comments make you sound, then you may well have a lot to learn about the world, or at least about how "threading" and "replies" work. Also, it would behoove you to learn about Ad Hominem attacks, as part of that learning. I claimed that you're wrong *and* confused, I don't think that you're wrong *because* you're confused. My reply does not in any way lose validity if the reader doesn't buy into my claim that you're a lazy, dull-witted web developer who only responded without thinking because your feelings were hurt by the claim that web developers are generally the bottom feeders of programming. Ergo, there's no ad hominem in there.
Tell them what? I'm not sure I understand, though with insightful comments like that, I'm sure you're used to people responding with "huh?".
You might go check out gmail someday and find which textual parts (other than their logo) are done with graphic text, and which parts use flash or anything else which does not add a significant functionality/usability improvement. You might also check out anything Google does, and notice that one of the big reasons they're so popular is precisely *because* they don't use excessive junk when simple elegance will do. It's amazing to a dumb web developer like yourself, presumably, how Google's simple and well thought-out interfaces work fine on most any browser, degrade nicely, and even work on cell phones.
It's almost as if Gmail and Google in general is a shining example of what I said needs to be done. So tell me, what is it that I need to tell them? Should I tell them that Malc thinks web pages all need midi files with no way to stop, and 1600x1200 images scaled using the img tag's width/height features? Or should I just tell them that Malc failed "reading comprehension skills" in grade school?
Excess and laziness are not the best way to create web content. "Get used to it".
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There's no travel destination in the US which is only accessible by controlled-access highway, AFAIK. Sure, the non-interstate highways aren't as fast, but that's partially due to the higher speed limits and low incidence of stopping. If you're riding a horse or walking, the increased speed wouldn't help you anyway, so you may as well take the highway. As far as court deadlines, there's this thing called a continuance which allows court dates to be moved out. And there's always "stick a slow-moving-vehicle sign on the back of a riding mower"...
:)
Just FYI.
Yeah, but then when they took away old people's licenses, Grandpa Marsh called the AARP and they stormed the town. If it hadn't been for quick-thinking children blockading the doors at the Country Kitchen Cafe, we'd all be in big trouble right now.
256MB requires you to either carry not much music or record at a sample rate so low that it's not the earbuds limiting sound quality. :)
If the mp3 player was detachable, then you'd just have some sunglasses, earbuds, and an mp3 player. You can already get that if you zip-tie the earbuds to the sunglasses earpieces. I'd take a picture and make a fake product page if I was as bored as I'd like to be...
I simply misspelled the name of a project which for some reason I always think is spelled differently than the symbol (perhaps because *nix is full of "creative" spellings). Obviously, the mistype didn't affect anyone's understanding of the message. Besides, it's not like I was totally wrong about the origins of duck tape's name or something *actually* moronic.
Oh, you might also want to note that "moronboi" isn't a word, Captain Corrections. Those people who call you "moron boy" all the time are using two english words, not some mythical single word insult. It's no good to reuse insults when you don't know how to spell them. This assumes that you weren't referring to Moroni, the angel who supposedly contacted Joseph Smith, in which case your response would make absolutely no sense.
I'm pretty sure that there's a list of contributors included with the kernel and we know who wrote busybox + uclibc. What else do you need to run a voting machine?
With Asterick and an appropriate (and inexpensive) analog card, you can make your home POTS line accessible from anywhere on the internet. VOIP negates the usefulness of regular phone lines, too, to a certain extent...
The heat comes off of the back where there are vents. That part of the TV's usually slanted and would be difficult to put things on. The front of the TV, which is also the only level part where a console would balance, should be not much more than ambient.
;)
But to answer the other part of the question, no I'm not serious. I know that everyone who buys an X-box is an idiot by definition, there's no talking "reason" to them.
Because gamers are too damned stupid to read and follow directions? Didn't Warcraft / Starcraft / WhateverCraft sell like a bajillion copies, all of which require reading the instructions in order to actually do well? Sit the console on top of the tube part of the TV. If you can afford a flatscreen and a $400 console, you can probably also afford some nice wood floors or a piece of aluminum foil or something. If the 13" TV in your trailer home is too small for the console, pull back that astroturf/carpet and put the console on the steel floor. :)
You meant Rotozip - a sawzall is good for demolition and rough work, but not so much for outlet boxes. Those rotary cutters are way more useful for that kid of thing. :) I love my RotoZip...
So, their sales team was bad to work with, but you ended up using their product anyway? Sounds like they're doing just fine... :)
Wait, you read Slashdot frequently enough to get a well-moderated "first post" on an article, but you think poorly of *everyone* who reads Slashdot? That's like writing some obfuscated C which you'll run though your own compiler to generate bytecode for an obscure microprocessor which drives a large graphical display with the text "you are all nerds!"
Hello pot, I'm kettle.
Oh, I don't see the problem with selecting between "server" (install a stripped-down bare minimum system that doesn't even have an ssh server for goodness sake) and "desktop" (install a whole bunch of games, and a few desktop apps, whether you want that or not - and still no ssh server). Wait, maybe I do see the problem...
:)
Then, I also have a problem with Ubuntu requiring 64MB RAM to install, even though the installed system only requires 32 (and I think that number was pulled out of thin air). It makes installing on a couple of my low memory systems (router/firewall/non-caching DNS/etc - don't need lots of RAM) a royal pain. Debian and Gentoo are the same. Stupid ramdisks, even with netboot. The installer should only need a kernel with maybe some modules, init, and mount on an initrd - the rest can be NFS mounted. At least Slackware still works on those systems. Having a single distro on all machines would be handy, though, and reduce my local mirror size by reducing the number of things I have to mirror.
Next time, just stand on your head to get the top side. Then you won't have those "it was too short to reach through the feed slot" moments... :)
Evolution has a connector that one can use to connect to an Exchange server and do the important Exchange stuff. All distros don't come with that particular package for a variety of reasons (licensing probably being the bog one). So, having Evolution doesn't equal having Exchange connectivity, but ti's a step in the right direction.
:)
Evolution and Connector are open source, drop-in subsitutes, though they don't do quite everything. They also require some particular settings on the Exchange server, so it's not something the subversive can do easily without also being mail admin (or friends with the mail admin). I can't use Evolution at work, for example, 'cause the mail guy doesn't care.
If you don't trust your ISP to store your email for privacy reasons, you have bigger problems than merely synchronising email between two machines. If you don't trust them for backup reasons, then just set one of the machines (or both) to download the full messages locally. Most default to just getting headers, but it's pretty trivial to get all the mail locally, to set up a filter which auto-copies mail to local folders, etc. But really, just doing periodic backups fo the imap stuff (copy everything to a local folder) shoudl be adequate if the ISP doesn't suck. If the ISP does suck, well, it's time to move on. Email's too important now to leave to a suck-ass ISP.
You have Slackware users confused with Gentoo newbies, and automation confused with GUIs. Slackware is quite automated, but only does what you tell it to do. Slackware users generally take some pride in operating minimalist but easy to use systems and system tools, while Gentoo users think that increasing binary size beyond the size of processor cache with things like -funroll-loops and -O3 applied globally somehow makes their system faster and makes them more 'leet.
:) But I'm rambling now...
I get paid to work with Redhat and SuSE, I run Ubuntu/Debian, Slackware, and Gentoo at home. Gentoo is being phased out because it's a 'leet pain, while Slackware's going no where because it's about the only remaining major distribution that doesn't require 64MB+ for just the installer - and because it's got nice admin tools for things that need tools, and has a handy tool called "vim" for the things where fancy tools get in the way of someone who knows what they're trying to do. SuSE was phased out at home a while back, because it doens't offer anything over Ubuntu/Debian Gnu/Linux, and I hate RPM.
IMHO, people who can't figure out how to configure things like bind and apache without a GUI should really 1) learn more about the software and 2) learn more about the protocol they're serving to. It's not a "real sysadmins" thing, it's a "know your trade" thing. Then, I don't go to mechanics who say things like "you can't work on modern cars, with all those computers and things" or "The computer says the problem is..." either. Well, I don't go to mechanics at all, but if I did...
Too much synergy would clearly be as bad or worse than not enough, but these simple crashes are clearly caused by undersynergization.
Heck, for $500, I won't buy an Xbox, and I'll actively try to stop 9 other people from buying one. That's about a 150% return on their investment in me - they can't lose!
He risked $500,000 of someone else's money. Sure, idea guy's idea was great, but it seems like perhaps a little more cridit could be given to the person who invented the dissapearing ink which gave rise to several more ideas. That's my beef - the idea guy certainly deserves lots of credit for the idea... :)
Finnish director? Does he live in Finland? Was he working in Finland at the time those films were made? Was he even born in Finland? I don't know, but I'll bet at least a couple of those are "no"...
:)
Ok, so I feel like nit picking today.
Yup, not enough synergy in the leveraging of ROM bits, it'll get your z-buffer out of sync with your bit blitter every time. When will they learn?
He came up with the idea 11 years ago, but in the end, it took one chemist about one year to solve the problem - this guy just had the idea and a bad implementation until he hired someone with "da mad chmical skillz". Of course, the article doesn't really mention the chemist - he only did the hard work part - we should really focus on the guy with the "ideas". :(
Not that I necessarily think it was worth 11 years, but having spent more than that on my own pet project I can well understand someone getting a tad fanatical about something no one else necessarily sees a use for. :)
:)
Unless, of course, that project somehow involved cow manure?
In response, you said that I should tell that to Gmail. If your response was not to my post, perhaps it would have been better stated in some way other than replying to the quoted post. I don't think you're *that* stupid, though, and therefore presume that you were intending to "reply" to what I typed when you clicked "reply".
So, I'll ask again, which part of what I typed does Gmail not already do? Gmail 1) designs to the lowest common denominator that they choose to support, 2) uses actual valid HTML, and 3) doesn't waste bandwidth. Glancing at gmail.com, they even roughly use HTML 4.1 and CSS (validation problems with the login page mostly stem from some quoting/javascript issues). I think that, if I told them to do those things, they'd say "you're an idiot, we already do that".
Furthermore, if you think that you can make statements which make absolutely no sense in context - on a public forum - without people judging you to be as slow-witted as your comments make you sound, then you may well have a lot to learn about the world, or at least about how "threading" and "replies" work. Also, it would behoove you to learn about Ad Hominem attacks, as part of that learning. I claimed that you're wrong *and* confused, I don't think that you're wrong *because* you're confused. My reply does not in any way lose validity if the reader doesn't buy into my claim that you're a lazy, dull-witted web developer who only responded without thinking because your feelings were hurt by the claim that web developers are generally the bottom feeders of programming. Ergo, there's no ad hominem in there.
Tell them what? I'm not sure I understand, though with insightful comments like that, I'm sure you're used to people responding with "huh?".
You might go check out gmail someday and find which textual parts (other than their logo) are done with graphic text, and which parts use flash or anything else which does not add a significant functionality/usability improvement. You might also check out anything Google does, and notice that one of the big reasons they're so popular is precisely *because* they don't use excessive junk when simple elegance will do. It's amazing to a dumb web developer like yourself, presumably, how Google's simple and well thought-out interfaces work fine on most any browser, degrade nicely, and even work on cell phones.
It's almost as if Gmail and Google in general is a shining example of what I said needs to be done. So tell me, what is it that I need to tell them? Should I tell them that Malc thinks web pages all need midi files with no way to stop, and 1600x1200 images scaled using the img tag's width/height features? Or should I just tell them that Malc failed "reading comprehension skills" in grade school?
Excess and laziness are not the best way to create web content. "Get used to it".