Well said! I was with you in those trenches of Amiga fanboihood in the late 80s, preaching Amiga religion to anybody who would listen and hating on those who wouldn't. Let's face it, it was the only "modern" consumer OS at the time, with proper preemptive multitasking and coprocessing subsystems and a proper driver system for external hardware and message queues. Plus it had a very powerful UNIX style CLI with advanced scripting beyond anything outside of UNIX, a power user's wet dream. And you could open as many shells as you wanted and run simultaneous scripts. So yeah, it didn't have memory protection, but hey:) Oh, and until AmigaOS 2.0 with its Motif look the GUI looked like total shite, like something a bunch of Crayola wielding preschoolers came up with. I still loved that A500 with all my heart though, wouldn't have switched to a PC for anything. I still had the ROM Kernel Manuals sitting around until recently, pounds and pounds of them. Ah, the memories...
You're implying that you're a Linux user but find Android "a confusing mess"? LOL!!! Never mind that in a way you can think of Android as a window manager on top of Linux, but its GUI and settings system are more consistent than most WMs I've seen on Linux. For someone who supposedly likes Linux-like flexibility to prefer anything but Android out of those three is sheer nonsense.
I played around with it some, and for anything but relatively simple apps it can get a little unwieldy, even though you can encapsulate and collapse functional blocks in their own modules so you don't have to see your entire app layout all the time. It is still awfully cumbersome to do simple things like specifying the input parameters to a function, or the conditions for a loop, things that take a second in text. That said, the main limitation I ran into was that they didn't have a proper component for web service calls, something that any connected app nowadays can't really live without. Abandoned any further evaluation when I found that out.
Not so sure about that. I'm running Ubuntu on an Athlon 2700+ and both Chromium and Firefox absolutely choke on anything with more than one Flash animation on it. This is particularly bad with Google Reader rendering Flash loaded tech feeds, so much so that the scroll wheel on the mouse is totally useless--scrolling the page takes about 1 second for each jump. Booting into Windows XP and reading the very same feeds is buttery smooth, so the machine still has plenty of horsepower. And yes, Flash, Ubuntu, both browsers, and the Nvidia proprietary drivers are all on the latest versions. Considering that web use makes up 90% of my use of the machine this makes for a very unsatisfying experience, even though I very much prefer to live a Windows-less life.
Not necessarily. Take for example Dr. Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace. He did a complete 180 on nuclear power, seeing it now as one of the few vital long-term energy sources.
Agree 100%! That's the thing with this man: while possibly brilliant in some respects, his entire world is so foreign to what most people are familiar or could ever be comfortable with. I still expect him to cut off his ear one of these days...
Wow, careful there, cowboy--them's some mighty big words and concepts you're wielding there! You do realize you're posting on Slashdot, right? Still, this reaffirms my belief that it's not all just Lemmings and brain stem functionality ruling/.
Not only that, but the very thought of all these micro particles floating around in the cabin atmosphere and inevitably also being breathed in makes me cringe. Iron filings anyone?
It did have an at times great soundtrack though. I discovered several bands through them, including the Eels (yeah, I know, more than a decade late)--specifically Agony, which played during the very steamy blue lighted opening sequence of an episode in spring. So it wasn't a total wash for me.
Same here, although the installer glitched out on me and wiped out my previous Ubuntu AND my Windows partitions, replacing both with 10.10 instead. After an initial F*****CK moment I realized I could actually live without whatever I'd had on that Windows partition and 10.10 is actually quite nice. The only issue so far is that Firefox totally chokes on flash sites, and they don't even have to be particularly flash heavy--scrolling slows down to a total crawl.
Yep, a mobile phone is a much more natural way of doing that. Why pay for yet another contract?! Using WiFi Tether on Android whenever the need arises.
That's a lot of half-truths there. "Staatsangehöriger" does not mean "subject of" the state except in the most oblique interpretation, but rather "member of" or someone who "belongs to" the state in a non-possessive fashion. It's a non-hierarchical term, unlike "subject of" would imply. Of course after the war citizens couldn't be called Reichsbürger anymore, because Germany wasn't a Reich or kingdom anymore, but a federal republic. By the way, an equally common term today is Staatsbürger, which has none of the negative connotations that you are implying.
Oh, and homosexuality was prosecuted in Germany about as much as anal intercourse is in Tennessee where I live and where such laws are still in the books. About the only kernel of truth in what you said is that Germany is indeed very twitchy about political parties or organizations with agitative or brain washing tendencies, for obvious historical reasons. Some of course decry that as anti-democratic, but they're damned if they do and they're damned if they don't. The best Germany can do is walk a tightrope between truly being a democratic society (which btw they are, in some respects more so than the US) and trying hard to avoid the mistakes of the Weimar Republic.
> First and foremost, by handing you children off to someone you don't even know, > you are teaching your children that you don't care about them and that you are > not concerned about their well being.
Yep, that was our primary consideration when my wife and I decided to pawn our kids off onto the indifferent public school system. After carefully weighing all the options we determined that it was the best way to demonstrate to them our lack of concern and love for them.
Statements like these remove any doubt that a significant proportion of home schoolers are indeed whack jobs that do it for ideological and dogmatic rather than pragmatic reasons. Sadly we will have to subsume the results of your educational efforts into our greater society sooner or later. If my own fundamentalist upbringing and experience is any indication, they will either follow in your footsteps or they will hate your guts for the freaks that you are. I haven't observed terribly much middle ground, and my money is on the latter.
You've been able to buy 120" displays for a couple of years now, though they will probably never be sold at your local BB for two obvious reasons: they're too damn big to fit through most people's doors, and they're too damn expensive. Pixel Qi and Mirasol are definitely imminent, no need to get all cynical about those.
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Well said! I was with you in those trenches of Amiga fanboihood in the late 80s, preaching Amiga religion to anybody who would listen and hating on those who wouldn't. Let's face it, it was the only "modern" consumer OS at the time, with proper preemptive multitasking and coprocessing subsystems and a proper driver system for external hardware and message queues. Plus it had a very powerful UNIX style CLI with advanced scripting beyond anything outside of UNIX, a power user's wet dream. And you could open as many shells as you wanted and run simultaneous scripts. So yeah, it didn't have memory protection, but hey :) Oh, and until AmigaOS 2.0 with its Motif look the GUI looked like total shite, like something a bunch of Crayola wielding preschoolers came up with. I still loved that A500 with all my heart though, wouldn't have switched to a PC for anything. I still had the ROM Kernel Manuals sitting around until recently, pounds and pounds of them. Ah, the memories...
You're implying that you're a Linux user but find Android "a confusing mess"? LOL!!! Never mind that in a way you can think of Android as a window manager on top of Linux, but its GUI and settings system are more consistent than most WMs I've seen on Linux. For someone who supposedly likes Linux-like flexibility to prefer anything but Android out of those three is sheer nonsense.
I played around with it some, and for anything but relatively simple apps it can get a little unwieldy, even though you can encapsulate and collapse functional blocks in their own modules so you don't have to see your entire app layout all the time. It is still awfully cumbersome to do simple things like specifying the input parameters to a function, or the conditions for a loop, things that take a second in text. That said, the main limitation I ran into was that they didn't have a proper component for web service calls, something that any connected app nowadays can't really live without. Abandoned any further evaluation when I found that out.
Not so sure about that. I'm running Ubuntu on an Athlon 2700+ and both Chromium and Firefox absolutely choke on anything with more than one Flash animation on it. This is particularly bad with Google Reader rendering Flash loaded tech feeds, so much so that the scroll wheel on the mouse is totally useless--scrolling the page takes about 1 second for each jump. Booting into Windows XP and reading the very same feeds is buttery smooth, so the machine still has plenty of horsepower. And yes, Flash, Ubuntu, both browsers, and the Nvidia proprietary drivers are all on the latest versions. Considering that web use makes up 90% of my use of the machine this makes for a very unsatisfying experience, even though I very much prefer to live a Windows-less life.
Wow, two posts and we already slammed solidly into Godwin's law. Nice!
Have you seen Kyle?
I think your reference eludes most /. readers nowadays. If you quoted Justin Bieber OTOH...
Not necessarily. Take for example Dr. Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace. He did a complete 180 on nuclear power, seeing it now as one of the few vital long-term energy sources.
http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2007/11/moore_qa
Agree 100%! That's the thing with this man: while possibly brilliant in some respects, his entire world is so foreign to what most people are familiar or could ever be comfortable with. I still expect him to cut off his ear one of these days...
Wow, careful there, cowboy--them's some mighty big words and concepts you're wielding there! You do realize you're posting on Slashdot, right? Still, this reaffirms my belief that it's not all just Lemmings and brain stem functionality ruling /.
Not only that, but the very thought of all these micro particles floating around in the cabin atmosphere and inevitably also being breathed in makes me cringe. Iron filings anyone?
Come on now, there's all sorts of wrong with making Justene Bieber lunch boxes, mate!!! FFS, what were you thinking?!
That Victoria Bitter for the non-Aussies in the crowd. Not the best of Aussie beers, but hey, better than XXXX I guess.
It did have an at times great soundtrack though. I discovered several bands through them, including the Eels (yeah, I know, more than a decade late)--specifically Agony, which played during the very steamy blue lighted opening sequence of an episode in spring. So it wasn't a total wash for me.
Same here, although the installer glitched out on me and wiped out my previous Ubuntu AND my Windows partitions, replacing both with 10.10 instead. After an initial F*****CK moment I realized I could actually live without whatever I'd had on that Windows partition and 10.10 is actually quite nice. The only issue so far is that Firefox totally chokes on flash sites, and they don't even have to be particularly flash heavy--scrolling slows down to a total crawl.
Yep, a mobile phone is a much more natural way of doing that. Why pay for yet another contract?! Using WiFi Tether on Android whenever the need arises.
Actually, I think he came for abuse. That's in 12A next door.
> "information that harms stability or the people"
Yeah, because there's nothing like "dangerous information". If mere information can destabilize a country, that tells you a lot about that country!
That's a lot of half-truths there. "Staatsangehöriger" does not mean "subject of" the state except in the most oblique interpretation, but rather "member of" or someone who "belongs to" the state in a non-possessive fashion. It's a non-hierarchical term, unlike "subject of" would imply. Of course after the war citizens couldn't be called Reichsbürger anymore, because Germany wasn't a Reich or kingdom anymore, but a federal republic. By the way, an equally common term today is Staatsbürger, which has none of the negative connotations that you are implying.
Oh, and homosexuality was prosecuted in Germany about as much as anal intercourse is in Tennessee where I live and where such laws are still in the books. About the only kernel of truth in what you said is that Germany is indeed very twitchy about political parties or organizations with agitative or brain washing tendencies, for obvious historical reasons. Some of course decry that as anti-democratic, but they're damned if they do and they're damned if they don't. The best Germany can do is walk a tightrope between truly being a democratic society (which btw they are, in some respects more so than the US) and trying hard to avoid the mistakes of the Weimar Republic.
> First and foremost, by handing you children off to someone you don't even know,
> you are teaching your children that you don't care about them and that you are
> not concerned about their well being.
Yep, that was our primary consideration when my wife and I decided to pawn our kids off onto the indifferent public school system. After carefully weighing all the options we determined that it was the best way to demonstrate to them our lack of concern and love for them.
Statements like these remove any doubt that a significant proportion of home schoolers are indeed whack jobs that do it for ideological and dogmatic rather than pragmatic reasons. Sadly we will have to subsume the results of your educational efforts into our greater society sooner or later. If my own fundamentalist upbringing and experience is any indication, they will either follow in your footsteps or they will hate your guts for the freaks that you are. I haven't observed terribly much middle ground, and my money is on the latter.
You've been able to buy 120" displays for a couple of years now, though they will probably never be sold at your local BB for two obvious reasons: they're too damn big to fit through most people's doors, and they're too damn expensive. Pixel Qi and Mirasol are definitely imminent, no need to get all cynical about those.
Yeah, spreading information, shining a light on your dark mind. Perish the thought!
You should be sorry, because this IS big time news.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/09/qualcomm-mirasol-display-video-hands-on-in-glorious-1080p/
'Nuff said!
Then you haven't seen Qualcomm's Mirasol display tech. It is flippin' awesome:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/09/qualcomm-mirasol-display-video-hands-on-in-glorious-1080p/
Not only is it full color and full motion, but they even claim 6x better energy efficiency. What's not to like?!
"He does not consider gravity as fundamental, but as an emergent phenomenon that arises from a deeper microscropic reality."
If that doesn't make you the life of the party in one fell swoop, NOTHING ever will.