The Cable Companies should do more infastructure work before they load even more users onto the systems. I had my Cable Modem installed Monday by Telewest (Blueyonder). It's great when it works (40k/sec), but it needs to work first. The hardware link is fine, but i'm buggered if i've managed to keep an IP level connection going for more than 30Minutes before it craps out and i have to wait another 30 Minutes to get a connection again. Wash, Rinse, Repeat.
Now, i havn't had it long enough to say that this is a recurent problem, but my mates who have Cable Modems from the same company have also had problems, and Telewest themselves have admited that some of their routers seriously suck. They say they're in the process of replacing them, but god knows how long that will take.
The same thing happened when they introduced their Surf Unlimited package in Febuary, so i am expecting the service to get better. I'd just like it sooner rather than later, and before they overload the system so much with new users that it stops working completly.
Given that TCP/IP is designed to be used reliably over the dodgiest connection you can imagine, I highly doubt that this is a real problem. Also bear in mind that Uni of Hawaii had a wireless packet based network way back when (And is where the basis for Ethernet comes from).
If you yourself are at all talented, you quickly realize that you are getting customers who have called others in your call center only to have a terrible experience because your coworkers are by and large average, hence not very good at being excellent.
I know what you're talking about. Unfourtunatly, actually providing Customer Service usually goes against the business case of trying to get your call & Wrap time down. I actually lost my job because I was being too helpful!
Still, I view being released from that call centre as one of the best things that ever happened to me. So it's not all bad.:)
For a start, that's co-location. Secondly, you have to supply your own hardware, and some places have restrictions on the type of OS you can run (You'll be connected to their network remember). Third, it costs more than $45 a month. Fourth, it's not much use if you're still on a DSL line at home.
So, stop trying to get in an early post & gain some "Interesting" mod points.
I'm not saying fucking planets over is a good thing...
You need to make up your mind.
One thing that people always seems to forget when discusing colonisation of other planets & "fucking them up", is that in order for us as humans to survive on another planet, we have to fuck it up.
For example, Mars does not have a natural Nitrogen / Oxygen atmosphere. We would need to change the entire planets atmosphere in order to live comfortably there. What if there is microbacterial life there? We'd probably kill that pretty effectivly by changing the atmosphere.
If that isn't fucking up a planet, i don't know what is. It is Human nature to fuck things up.
I now have the most pounding headache just looking at the initial pattern, let alone reading the description. How the hell did the guy figure out the components of a Turing machine with discrete Life patterns? How the hell did he get them to work together like that? How the hell do you manage to convert something as esotoric as a "Stack" into a Life pattern?
Anyone who cannot create a working, properly laid out GUI without using a Visual IDE shoudln't be able to class themselves as any type of coder at all. When it comes to getting a job in the market place, and they run into a shop that doesn't use Visual Foo#++ (Embeded application development, languages that just don't have a Visual IDE GUI designer etc etc) they're going to find it mighty hard to get anything done.
Of course i may be biased as I orginally wrote my first ever GUI application in Blitz Basic on an Amiga, and that sure as hell didn't have a Visual Layout tool;)
f you have an OEM CD-ROM that came with a particular machine, it's not transferrable off that machine.
If i upgrade my motherboard and CPU, can i still install that same OEM copy on my computer? Is it the same computer, or now a diferent one? What if i move the motherboard into a new case? Can i install it then? The problem is, what is the "same" computer and what is a "diferent" computer? Provided i am only using one installed copy of the OEM disk, where is the infringment of the EULA?
Hello. I'm the AC who you decided to blast for no good reason. As you are so offended by my wish for anonymity (By the way, can you post your full name, address, telephone number [work & home please], so we can all get in contact? Won't be a problem will it? Thanks!)
I think you'll find that the overall problems with Slashdot are actually due to the bunch of sad wankers who inhabit this website. Most of them are under the delusional impression that they know everything there is to know about life, the universe, and everything. It seems that you also believe this is true of yourself.
The thing that most people who do the whinging around here forget, is that Slashdot is owned and run by a handfull of geeks. They can do what they want with the site, and you have no say in the matter. Thats it. Period. If you don't like, please take my previous advice, and fuck off.
I am also aware of the irony of posting a complaint to Slashdot. Please don't bother to correct me. Thank you.
Only if you work in a shit software house. In a proper development enviroment, the product doesn't shift until QA says it can, and if that means the deadline is missed, so be it.
User Acceptence testing is certainly something that a lot of OSS projects could do with. Given that most OSS is writen by a hacker, who gives more thought to "function rather than form", some OSS is absolutly horrible software to use from a users perspective.
The best person to assure quality is the developer? No chance! I assume you've never worked in a commercial development enviroment?
As a QA tester, i can assure you that a developer is not the best person to assure quality. They just don't see their own bugs, or code that isn't to spec. (This may not always apply to OSS projects). The only person who can assure quality is a third party (Non developer), who does a full QA test on it. Trust me on this one.
We're already living under fascist electronic surveillance. We managed to do that all on our own too. No help needed from the Germans for that one thank you very much!
Yay UK politics. We have three major parties, and they all tell the same lies, walk the same walk. It's boring. Why can't someone just stand up and tell the truth: "You want better services? Better Policing, a better NHS, better education and a better life? Then we need to raise taxes. Will you seriously miss a 1 pound Income Tax rise? One pound a week? Not much is it...". Now that would be refreshing.
"Inovations" such as Smart Menus and Inteligent Agents (That PaperClip, you all know the one) are simply examples of GUI design gone horribly wrong. That's not to say that computers are "too easy" to use.
Maybe what is needed is something like Xerox PARC, were design Geeks can all get together and start from scratch again. A true reserach institute.
GUI design has stagnated, with every copying evryone else, and doing daft things such as Smart Menus to try and make it appear as though they are really improving the GUI. Lets have some real inovation.
Where are the closing tags?;) AmigaOS is one the best examples of "how to build an OS", it's intuative and easy to use, but at the same time, it doesn't exclude the user from poking about at a low level. Not like the MacOS way of obscruring everything about the system it can so as not to scare the poor users, or the UNIX way of doing things "in your face", so that you *have* to deal with the OS at a low level.
No, but i have succesfully booted Shapshifter (The Amiga - Macintosh emulator) on UAE running on Windows. It was worth the effort just to seriously confuse people in college by switching between a Windows, Mac & Amiga desktops with Alt-Tab;)
Actually, i was speaking to a guy on IRC last night, who also had kernel panics on a Duron. The kernel for the Redhat installer worked fine though. I don't know if he managed to fix the problem (He was compiling a 2.2.16 kernel on another machine to try when i left him). Seems to be some sort of problem with 2.2.x & Duron/Socket A motherboards...
Bah, i havn't even been able to get a ppp connection with the 2.4.0-test(x) kernels, and the 2.4 pppd. The best bit is, pppd 2.4 works fine with kernel 2.2.16. I'm damned if i can figure it out.:/
You would simply have to put the relevent information into the RPM Database, which IIRC is just a text file. You can even do this manually if you install something from a tarball. (RPM's can sometimes be horribly out of date, as anyone who has tried to use a 2.4.0 kernel on a Redhat system will atest to.)
Um, what you're talking about are FSM SIM cards. In countries with a developed and unified GSM network(s) such as most of the countries in Europe, Asia etc. GSM is the one standard. Therefore, all our phones have SIM cards that can be swaped. It works very, very, well.
Want a Nokia 7110 on One2One, but have an Erikson? No problem, pop the SIM out, and stick it in the 7110. Same network, same number, diferent phone.
If the US would/had settled on a single network standard, instead of the (Three?) systems they currently have, You Too could experience the benifits of such a system. As it is now, you sound pretty screwed.
I'm actually quiet upset that Mr Lucas has choosen to go with Kenny after all. I mean, when i heard that he had done the sensible thing, and gone with CGI, i was really looking forward to EP:2. After, all, if it was anything as good as EP:1, it's going to be briliant!
George Lucas should reconsider his decision not to use CGI for R2D2. It's not fair to abuse Kenny any farther by forcing him into that tiny costume to play a robot any more, when CGI can deliver the results much cheaper, and create a far more realistic looking robot than a costum ever could.
Oh well, i can only hope George comes to his senses.
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The Cable Companies should do more infastructure work before they load even more users onto the systems. I had my Cable Modem installed Monday by Telewest (Blueyonder). It's great when it works (40k/sec), but it needs to work first. The hardware link is fine, but i'm buggered if i've managed to keep an IP level connection going for more than 30Minutes before it craps out and i have to wait another 30 Minutes to get a connection again. Wash, Rinse, Repeat.
Now, i havn't had it long enough to say that this is a recurent problem, but my mates who have Cable Modems from the same company have also had problems, and Telewest themselves have admited that some of their routers seriously suck. They say they're in the process of replacing them, but god knows how long that will take.
The same thing happened when they introduced their Surf Unlimited package in Febuary, so i am expecting the service to get better. I'd just like it sooner rather than later, and before they overload the system so much with new users that it stops working completly.
Maybe you should check the sort of product Opera produce. They actually make money from the browser based on the fact that it is good and useful
Not all Linux users want everything for free. I'm certainly prepared to pay for decent software. Opera certainly falls into that catagory.
Given that TCP/IP is designed to be used reliably over the dodgiest connection you can imagine, I highly doubt that this is a real problem. Also bear in mind that Uni of Hawaii had a wireless packet based network way back when (And is where the basis for Ethernet comes from).
If you yourself are at all talented, you quickly realize that you are getting customers who have called others in your call center only to have a terrible experience because your coworkers are by and large average, hence not very good at being excellent.
:)
I know what you're talking about. Unfourtunatly, actually providing Customer Service usually goes against the business case of trying to get your call & Wrap time down. I actually lost my job because I was being too helpful!
Still, I view being released from that call centre as one of the best things that ever happened to me. So it's not all bad.
For a start, that's co-location. Secondly, you have to supply your own hardware, and some places have restrictions on the type of OS you can run (You'll be connected to their network remember). Third, it costs more than $45 a month. Fourth, it's not much use if you're still on a DSL line at home.
So, stop trying to get in an early post & gain some "Interesting" mod points.
I'm not saying fucking planets over is a good thing...
You need to make up your mind.
One thing that people always seems to forget when discusing colonisation of other planets & "fucking them up", is that in order for us as humans to survive on another planet, we have to fuck it up.
For example, Mars does not have a natural Nitrogen / Oxygen atmosphere. We would need to change the entire planets atmosphere in order to live comfortably there. What if there is microbacterial life there? We'd probably kill that pretty effectivly by changing the atmosphere.
If that isn't fucking up a planet, i don't know what is. It is Human nature to fuck things up.
I now have the most pounding headache just looking at the initial pattern, let alone reading the description. How the hell did the guy figure out the components of a Turing machine with discrete Life patterns? How the hell did he get them to work together like that? How the hell do you manage to convert something as esotoric as a "Stack" into a Life pattern?
This just scares me....
Anyone who cannot create a working, properly laid out GUI without using a Visual IDE shoudln't be able to class themselves as any type of coder at all. When it comes to getting a job in the market place, and they run into a shop that doesn't use Visual Foo#++ (Embeded application development, languages that just don't have a Visual IDE GUI designer etc etc) they're going to find it mighty hard to get anything done.
;)
Of course i may be biased as I orginally wrote my first ever GUI application in Blitz Basic on an Amiga, and that sure as hell didn't have a Visual Layout tool
Mac OS X is like BSD with a new GUI on top. It uses the tcsh shell, and has standard Unix tools. The fs directory structure is diferent. Whooop.
f you have an OEM CD-ROM that came with a particular machine, it's not transferrable off that machine.
If i upgrade my motherboard and CPU, can i still install that same OEM copy on my computer? Is it the same computer, or now a diferent one? What if i move the motherboard into a new case? Can i install it then? The problem is, what is the "same" computer and what is a "diferent" computer? Provided i am only using one installed copy of the OEM disk, where is the infringment of the EULA?
Hello. I'm the AC who you decided to blast for no good reason. As you are so offended by my wish for anonymity (By the way, can you post your full name, address, telephone number [work & home please], so we can all get in contact? Won't be a problem will it? Thanks!)
I think you'll find that the overall problems with Slashdot are actually due to the bunch of sad wankers who inhabit this website. Most of them are under the delusional impression that they know everything there is to know about life, the universe, and everything. It seems that you also believe this is true of yourself.
The thing that most people who do the whinging around here forget, is that Slashdot is owned and run by a handfull of geeks. They can do what they want with the site, and you have no say in the matter. Thats it. Period. If you don't like, please take my previous advice, and fuck off.
I am also aware of the irony of posting a complaint to Slashdot. Please don't bother to correct me. Thank you.
I don't need to imagine what it's like to have a blind spot in centre-vision. I have one. Trust me guys, it sucks.
Only if you work in a shit software house. In a proper development enviroment, the product doesn't shift until QA says it can, and if that means the deadline is missed, so be it.
User Acceptence testing is certainly something that a lot of OSS projects could do with. Given that most OSS is writen by a hacker, who gives more thought to "function rather than form", some OSS is absolutly horrible software to use from a users perspective.
The best person to assure quality is the developer? No chance! I assume you've never worked in a commercial development enviroment?
As a QA tester, i can assure you that a developer is not the best person to assure quality. They just don't see their own bugs, or code that isn't to spec. (This may not always apply to OSS projects). The only person who can assure quality is a third party (Non developer), who does a full QA test on it. Trust me on this one.
We're already living under fascist electronic surveillance. We managed to do that all on our own too. No help needed from the Germans for that one thank you very much!
Yay UK politics. We have three major parties, and they all tell the same lies, walk the same walk. It's boring. Why can't someone just stand up and tell the truth: "You want better services? Better Policing, a better NHS, better education and a better life? Then we need to raise taxes. Will you seriously miss a 1 pound Income Tax rise? One pound a week? Not much is it...". Now that would be refreshing.
"Inovations" such as Smart Menus and Inteligent Agents (That PaperClip, you all know the one) are simply examples of GUI design gone horribly wrong. That's not to say that computers are "too easy" to use.
Maybe what is needed is something like Xerox PARC, were design Geeks can all get together and start from scratch again. A true reserach institute.
GUI design has stagnated, with every copying evryone else, and doing daft things such as Smart Menus to try and make it appear as though they are really improving the GUI. Lets have some real inovation.
Where are the closing tags? ;) AmigaOS is one the best examples of "how to build an OS", it's intuative and easy to use, but at the same time, it doesn't exclude the user from poking about at a low level. Not like the MacOS way of obscruring everything about the system it can so as not to scare the poor users, or the UNIX way of doing things "in your face", so that you *have* to deal with the OS at a low level.
:)
But then, you already knew that. Silly me
No, but i have succesfully booted Shapshifter (The Amiga - Macintosh emulator) on UAE running on Windows. It was worth the effort just to seriously confuse people in college by switching between a Windows, Mac & Amiga desktops with Alt-Tab ;)
Actually, i was speaking to a guy on IRC last night, who also had kernel panics on a Duron. The kernel for the Redhat installer worked fine though. I don't know if he managed to fix the problem (He was compiling a 2.2.16 kernel on another machine to try when i left him). Seems to be some sort of problem with 2.2.x & Duron/Socket A motherboards...
Bah, i havn't even been able to get a ppp connection with the 2.4.0-test(x) kernels, and the 2.4 pppd. The best bit is, pppd 2.4 works fine with kernel 2.2.16. I'm damned if i can figure it out. :/
Fusion started on the Amiga. :)
You would simply have to put the relevent information into the RPM Database, which IIRC is just a text file. You can even do this manually if you install something from a tarball. (RPM's can sometimes be horribly out of date, as anyone who has tried to use a 2.4.0 kernel on a Redhat system will atest to.)
Um, what you're talking about are FSM SIM cards. In countries with a developed and unified GSM network(s) such as most of the countries in Europe, Asia etc. GSM is the one standard. Therefore, all our phones have SIM cards that can be swaped. It works very, very, well.
Want a Nokia 7110 on One2One, but have an Erikson? No problem, pop the SIM out, and stick it in the 7110. Same network, same number, diferent phone.
If the US would/had settled on a single network standard, instead of the (Three?) systems they currently have, You Too could experience the benifits of such a system. As it is now, you sound pretty screwed.
I'm actually quiet upset that Mr Lucas has choosen to go with Kenny after all. I mean, when i heard that he had done the sensible thing, and gone with CGI, i was really looking forward to EP:2. After, all, if it was anything as good as EP:1, it's going to be briliant!
George Lucas should reconsider his decision not to use CGI for R2D2. It's not fair to abuse Kenny any farther by forcing him into that tiny costume to play a robot any more, when CGI can deliver the results much cheaper, and create a far more realistic looking robot than a costum ever could.
Oh well, i can only hope George comes to his senses.