E-Mail is not that great either. Where I work, there are only about 15 or so employees, but of course (this is government) there are three managers. My desk is on everyone else's way to the kitchen; this is important.
My main boss, who spend her day in her office writing e-mails, is so non-confrontational that she will e-mail my immediate boss to ask for me to do something. My immediate boss, who spends all day in her office 15 feet from me writing e-mail all day, will then e-mail me. Before I get the e-mail (its webmail, so have to actively check it), both of them will have walked past me at least 10 times.
They will inevitably complain that I don't check my e-mail often enough.
A perfectly valid point of concern. I think, though, that at least some of the larger distributions, like Debian, would almost certainly remain.
To go somewhat off topic, the one concern I have is that the hardware companies start doing the Tivo and lock down their machines so they only do certain specified tasks. This would certainly be something a bit off on the horizon, but even the potential demise/greatly increased cost of a general purpose computer makes me anxious.
It seems to be the case that, while the Year of the Linux Desktop may never arive, 2008 may be the Year of the Linux n(ote|et)book.
In trying to compete for the desktop, the open source guys have managed to get a strong foothold on the newest, latest, cheapest portables. Perhaps not the particular victory which was sought, but perhaps victory here would gradually translate into victory on the desktop. If people like what they use most of the time (Linux on the portable), it would be reasonable that they would want the same thing on their own desktops.
Here and there, I've seen a number of people gush over the PDP 11's assembly stuff. Not knowing assembly, I of course, cannot judge, but seeing as no one fawns over other architectures like that, I'll assume they know what they are talking about.
I'm old but new to programming and I've been (unconsciously) doing CamelCase in my C for my functions. I haven't thought too much about it, except that it was easier to read than thisisabsolutleyillegible. As there does seem to be genuine hostility against CamelCase, I'll give underscores a try.
That is not a grant of power. The "common defense and general welfare of the United States" is a limit on the purposes to which Congress may use the money gotten by taxes, duties, imposts and excises.
The common defense and the general welfare are to accomplished using the powers expressly granted to the legislative branch of the Federal government.
Don't get me wrong, this is not how it actually works. The constitution never did recover from FDR.
If Windows is so easy to use for the computer illiterate, why have I spent untold hours fixing other peoples Windows machines, teaching people how to double click on icons, teaching people not to double click on anything which is not an icon, teaching people how to connect to a wireless hotspot, etc etc etc?
Who do you think the "No, I will not fix your computer." t-shirts were inspired by? Mac users? Linux users?
Fisher-Price today announced that, rumors to the contrary, they do not intend to introduce notebooks for children. A company spokesman gave the company's reasoning in prepared remarks, "These laptops survived being buried, broiled, frozen and drowned for a weekend? That is a typical lazy Sunday for our products in the hands of our customers. We are supposed to be impressed by that? No, our customers would scoff at such fragility."
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E-Mail is not that great either. Where I work, there are only about 15 or so employees, but of course (this is government) there are three managers. My desk is on everyone else's way to the kitchen; this is important.
My main boss, who spend her day in her office writing e-mails, is so non-confrontational that she will e-mail my immediate boss to ask for me to do something. My immediate boss, who spends all day in her office 15 feet from me writing e-mail all day, will then e-mail me. Before I get the e-mail (its webmail, so have to actively check it), both of them will have walked past me at least 10 times.
They will inevitably complain that I don't check my e-mail often enough.
A perfectly valid point of concern. I think, though, that at least some of the larger distributions, like Debian, would almost certainly remain.
To go somewhat off topic, the one concern I have is that the hardware companies start doing the Tivo and lock down their machines so they only do certain specified tasks. This would certainly be something a bit off on the horizon, but even the potential demise/greatly increased cost of a general purpose computer makes me anxious.
It seems to be the case that, while the Year of the Linux Desktop may never arive, 2008 may be the Year of the Linux n(ote|et)book.
In trying to compete for the desktop, the open source guys have managed to get a strong foothold on the newest, latest, cheapest portables. Perhaps not the particular victory which was sought, but perhaps victory here would gradually translate into victory on the desktop. If people like what they use most of the time (Linux on the portable), it would be reasonable that they would want the same thing on their own desktops.
Its all about the ponies.
Did the coastal wizards kill it with a fireball? :)
"One of my favorite characters was LE... I don't fit that alignment at all"
yeah, you keep telling yourself that...
What are the stats for the p0N13z?
Upon entering the final level, you realize that it all looks suspiciously familiar...
It is the first level!
The game is an infinite loop!
You have to play Duke Nukem forever!
Here and there, I've seen a number of people gush over the PDP 11's assembly stuff. Not knowing assembly, I of course, cannot judge, but seeing as no one fawns over other architectures like that, I'll assume they know what they are talking about.
Bell Labs ported UNIX to run on the 8086. An overview of the porting was given in the Lab's October 1984 Technical Journal.
So Happy Birthday to the first x86 processor to run UNIX!
Debian: That Saucy Little Mynx
They need to build the building out of what ever they build the servers out of.
You know a game made an impression when all that is needed is an absurd match-up to know what game it is.
All those battleships I lost to the almighty men with sticks... it still rankles.
I'm old but new to programming and I've been (unconsciously) doing CamelCase in my C for my functions. I haven't thought too much about it, except that it was easier to read than thisisabsolutleyillegible. As there does seem to be genuine hostility against CamelCase, I'll give underscores a try.
(Brain Interface Lets Monkeys Control Prosthetic Limbs) + (New Robots Developed to Climb Walls) + (U.S. Plan for "Thinking Machines" Repository)
*sigh*
I, for one, welcome our new U.S. monkey brain controlled wall climbing robotic thinking machine overlords.
This isn't as easy as it used to be...
People complaining about classic keyboards and no one has mentioned the Unix layout available? What the hell happened to this place....
*mutter*peskykids*grumble*needtogetofmydamnlawn*underbreathcursing*
"interested in shallow stuff like shopping and external appearance"
Hate to break it to you man, but that's 98% of women, including most of the lesbians and man hating feminists.
All computers scattered all over a county are hand configured; there is no DHCP. Reason given: security.
All computers are required to have only Internet Explorer 6. Reason given: security.
All computers have their CD-Rom drive disabled. Reason given: security.
All computers allow USB flash drives. Reason given: security.
Nothing like a grammar parsing topic to bring out the language Nazis.
That is not a grant of power. The "common defense and general welfare of the United States" is a limit on the purposes to which Congress may use the money gotten by taxes, duties, imposts and excises.
The common defense and the general welfare are to accomplished using the powers expressly granted to the legislative branch of the Federal government.
Don't get me wrong, this is not how it actually works. The constitution never did recover from FDR.
The Dilbert bit was preceeded by a few decades by "Unics is a castrated Multics" It became Unix because of that joke.
So which of Congress's enumerated powers did this fall under?
If Windows is so easy to use for the computer illiterate, why have I spent untold hours fixing other peoples Windows machines, teaching people how to double click on icons, teaching people not to double click on anything which is not an icon, teaching people how to connect to a wireless hotspot, etc etc etc?
Who do you think the "No, I will not fix your computer." t-shirts were inspired by? Mac users? Linux users?
sudo believe in global warming ;)
Fisher-Price today announced that, rumors to the contrary, they do not intend to introduce notebooks for children. A company spokesman gave the company's reasoning in prepared remarks, "These laptops survived being buried, broiled, frozen and drowned for a weekend? That is a typical lazy Sunday for our products in the hands of our customers. We are supposed to be impressed by that? No, our customers would scoff at such fragility."