This is why it's bad that Windows doesn't include a basic PDF reader. Mac OS X uses Preview (an independent reimplentation) and Unix uses derivatives of Ghostscript (an independent reimplementation).
Whereas KDE policy is "If you disKover some empty spaKe, add an useless feature or somethinK very very irritatinK. The iKon must be shiny, rotatinK, and Kontain at least one K.", the GNOME policy is the opposite: "If you find a feature, it might confuse a user, so remove it."
The alpha 3.0 release, Project Topaz, will be the perfect GNOME's desktop, as it will have absolutely Gno features at all. It will simply use excessive amounts of system resources, and do Gnothing but sit there. This final version will contain only a single button. When the user pushes it, it pops up a beautifully anti-aliased text box on a white screen telling the user to use a pen and a piece of paper to do their work and to shut their computer off.
GNOME 2.30 will be renamed to 3.0 because it will require 3GB of RAM and a modern graphics card with OpenGL 3.0 support; the graphical debugger requires a 128-bit processor, which has Gnot yet been invented, and a 3GB video card with optional 5-D rendering capability.
GNOME's logo is a huge footprint, but it is Gnot clearly established whether it is a huge memory footprint or a huge disk footprint.
Look at that curve - it's the growth rate for so many things. See the beginning? That's exponential growth that will NEVER END!! See the end? That's diminishing returns.
Technological advance is a series of sigmoids. This article warns they're slacking on coming up with the next one.
As others have said, you're doing fine and your attitude is quite healthy. I would suggest that you spend your money on good quality food instead of ramen. But technology? Pfeh.
I have never been able to acclimatise myself to spending money on computer hardware. I know how obsolescent it is. I think of current computers as things that employers pay for.
We have five computers for four people. The toddler has an ancient Mac G4 with Cinema Display that is her television - it's a depreciated-to-zero ex-publishing machine we got for free. Girlfriend and teenager have Dell Mini 10 they bought new. I have a Dell Mini 9 I got off eBay 'cos I really wanted the slightly smaller machine (£100 and £30 for 2GB RAM). The teenager also has a gaming rig her mother built which was about £600 total for parts and OS, which is not bad for a gaming rig.
My phone is a £10 dumbphone that does voice and texts. The teenager's is similar. The girlfriend's is a Blackberry Curve 'cos she got a better deal on it than her previous contract, and it's quite smart enough thanks.
They really read Kerrang. I bought them both subscriptions for Christmas. Its coverage these days is emo brats (for the emo brat readers), because the music is bad sub-metal with bad sub-Metallica solos. It's what the kids read these days instead of Smash Hits. Stickers and posters all over their bedrooms and computers.
"Pop music has become so irredeemably shitty that the so-called generation gap is all but gone."
I must admit, it's great fun playing the hideous noise music of the 1980s around the resident teenage emo brats and having them look at me like I shat in their ears personally. Nice to know I've still got it.
Whitehouse. As offensive musically as lyrically. The all-time champion leasebreaker!
My house has teenagers in it. They are actively interested in music, read Kerrang! (which is now a land of sensitive boys with floppy fringes ripping off bad Metallica solos) and are in every way the desperately desired target demographic of the music industry in general. They get music off YouTube. They use it as their jukebox. Quite a bit from official label channels.
The kids don’t listen to radio, or any similar controlled stream fed to them by a consumption model. The dilemma is how to advertise the music without people being able to hear it first. Or something. Crupnick suggests creating a form of “artificial scarcity.” Let me know how that works out for you.
“We never really made the digital transformation,” says Crupnick. No shit.
Welcome to Proprietary-Land! We have a piece of software we absolutely rely on that is only certified for Java 5. That was end-of-lifed in late 2009. We're asking them about certifiying for a version of Java that isn't DEAD AND ROTTED.
Vendors. Can't rip their hearts out with a rusty meathook... 'cos they haven't got any.
There's a reason my MP3 player and netbook both use flash. The MP3 skidded across the pavement as I was getting home this evening, and I have a 3yo daughter who delights in knocking things over.
What horrifies me about this article is that he had to write it. He had to actually say "if you just reboot at trouble, you haven't fixed the problem." This is actually a story worth him writing and worth someone putting on Slashdot.
Mind you, I administer Solaris for a living and rebooting is something we do rather more often than we want to. It works way too often, too. We don't tell the NT admins this because they tend to snicker.
Oracle haven't a goddamn clue what to do with the business they bought.
I have nine years' Solaris on my resume. I advised my boss and boss's boss to move us from Solaris to Linux as soon as Oracle bought them. Even paying Red Hat, at least they'll do more with our money than snort it on Larry Ellison's yacht. Even running the Oracle database, we'll run it on Linux. Solaris has no future, only a slowly dwindling present.
Your SPARC hardware is now decorative relics. Well, it was already. But Solaris on Dell runs fantastically well... until Oracle started charging £300 for the privilege of doing so for a year. HAVE YOU HEARD OF LINUX? I HEAR IT'S QUITE A POPULAR x86 UNIX-LIKE.
They can't even patent-troll the sort of victim who'll roll over. No, they had to start on Google. Good Lord.
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This is why it's bad that Windows doesn't include a basic PDF reader. Mac OS X uses Preview (an independent reimplentation) and Unix uses derivatives of Ghostscript (an independent reimplementation).
Whereas KDE policy is "If you disKover some empty spaKe, add an useless feature or somethinK very very irritatinK. The iKon must be shiny, rotatinK, and Kontain at least one K.", the GNOME policy is the opposite: "If you find a feature, it might confuse a user, so remove it."
The alpha 3.0 release, Project Topaz, will be the perfect GNOME's desktop, as it will have absolutely Gno features at all. It will simply use excessive amounts of system resources, and do Gnothing but sit there. This final version will contain only a single button. When the user pushes it, it pops up a beautifully anti-aliased text box on a white screen telling the user to use a pen and a piece of paper to do their work and to shut their computer off.
GNOME 2.30 will be renamed to 3.0 because it will require 3GB of RAM and a modern graphics card with OpenGL 3.0 support; the graphical debugger requires a 128-bit processor, which has Gnot yet been invented, and a 3GB video card with optional 5-D rendering capability.
GNOME's logo is a huge footprint, but it is Gnot clearly established whether it is a huge memory footprint or a huge disk footprint.
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There are many David Gerards, but yes, I'm the one from the Internet ;-)
I used to drive a Volkswagen Beetle to compensate for my penis.
Yep. Progress always goes on a sigmoid curve.
Look at that curve - it's the growth rate for so many things. See the beginning? That's exponential growth that will NEVER END!! See the end? That's diminishing returns.
Technological advance is a series of sigmoids. This article warns they're slacking on coming up with the next one.
As others have said, you're doing fine and your attitude is quite healthy. I would suggest that you spend your money on good quality food instead of ramen. But technology? Pfeh.
I have never been able to acclimatise myself to spending money on computer hardware. I know how obsolescent it is. I think of current computers as things that employers pay for.
We have five computers for four people. The toddler has an ancient Mac G4 with Cinema Display that is her television - it's a depreciated-to-zero ex-publishing machine we got for free. Girlfriend and teenager have Dell Mini 10 they bought new. I have a Dell Mini 9 I got off eBay 'cos I really wanted the slightly smaller machine (£100 and £30 for 2GB RAM). The teenager also has a gaming rig her mother built which was about £600 total for parts and OS, which is not bad for a gaming rig.
My phone is a £10 dumbphone that does voice and texts. The teenager's is similar. The girlfriend's is a Blackberry Curve 'cos she got a better deal on it than her previous contract, and it's quite smart enough thanks.
Just Enough Technology. Computers are dross.
They really read Kerrang. I bought them both subscriptions for Christmas. Its coverage these days is emo brats (for the emo brat readers), because the music is bad sub-metal with bad sub-Metallica solos. It's what the kids read these days instead of Smash Hits. Stickers and posters all over their bedrooms and computers.
"Pop music has become so irredeemably shitty that the so-called generation gap is all but gone."
I must admit, it's great fun playing the hideous noise music of the 1980s around the resident teenage emo brats and having them look at me like I shat in their ears personally. Nice to know I've still got it.
Whitehouse. As offensive musically as lyrically. The all-time champion leasebreaker!
"I have a hard time hearing the music in it at all. Just shouting and a beat."
It's poetry. The most successful form of poetry in history. Kids on street corners practice their poetry and aspire to be poets when they grow up!
The kids don't listen to radio any more. Radio is for old people.
http://rocknerd.co.uk/?p=1368
My house has teenagers in it. They are actively interested in music, read Kerrang! (which is now a land of sensitive boys with floppy fringes ripping off bad Metallica solos) and are in every way the desperately desired target demographic of the music industry in general. They get music off YouTube. They use it as their jukebox. Quite a bit from official label channels.
The kids don’t listen to radio, or any similar controlled stream fed to them by a consumption model. The dilemma is how to advertise the music without people being able to hear it first. Or something. Crupnick suggests creating a form of “artificial scarcity.” Let me know how that works out for you.
“We never really made the digital transformation,” says Crupnick. No shit.
The story is an ad-banner trolling exercise in synthesizing a controversy. Thanks for helping them, Slashdot!
"That sounds like horrible software."
Welcome to Proprietary-Land! We have a piece of software we absolutely rely on that is only certified for Java 5. That was end-of-lifed in late 2009. We're asking them about certifiying for a version of Java that isn't DEAD AND ROTTED.
Vendors. Can't rip their hearts out with a rusty meathook ... 'cos they haven't got any.
Every time our Unix boxes reboot we discover something essential we had running that we forgot to put in /etc/init.d/ .
There's a reason my MP3 player and netbook both use flash. The MP3 skidded across the pavement as I was getting home this evening, and I have a 3yo daughter who delights in knocking things over.
What horrifies me about this article is that he had to write it. He had to actually say "if you just reboot at trouble, you haven't fixed the problem." This is actually a story worth him writing and worth someone putting on Slashdot.
Mind you, I administer Solaris for a living and rebooting is something we do rather more often than we want to. It works way too often, too. We don't tell the NT admins this because they tend to snicker.
And DIgital Radio Mondiale is an audio format. Microsoft just aren't making sense here.
You're ex-Sun? For God's sake, get out while you still can.
Worst Sun product ever in the universe:
Sun One web server. Formerly (a long time ago) Netscape Server.
Good Lord, if ever a product deserved brutal murder ... but that thing can't die.
I leave it off my resume. I even still have ClearCase there and I leave Sun One web server off.
"Ponytail went too far in open sourcing everything he could, he literally slashed Sun's throat"
Sun was already fucked before Schwartz. He went hell for open source as a last ditch Hail Mary pass.
I just so, so wish they'd gone with IBM not Oracle. I'd still be able to do Solaris for a living.
+1
Oracle haven't a goddamn clue what to do with the business they bought.
I have nine years' Solaris on my resume. I advised my boss and boss's boss to move us from Solaris to Linux as soon as Oracle bought them. Even paying Red Hat, at least they'll do more with our money than snort it on Larry Ellison's yacht. Even running the Oracle database, we'll run it on Linux. Solaris has no future, only a slowly dwindling present.
Your SPARC hardware is now decorative relics. Well, it was already. But Solaris on Dell runs fantastically well ... until Oracle started charging £300 for the privilege of doing so for a year. HAVE YOU HEARD OF LINUX? I HEAR IT'S QUITE A POPULAR x86 UNIX-LIKE.
They can't even patent-troll the sort of victim who'll roll over. No, they had to start on Google. Good Lord.
Yuh, but that was on a commercial lockup basis. This is LGPL.
Consulting, yeah. The Cygwin model more than the Red Hat model.
Who wants or needs consulting on a toolkit?
Perhaps on more of KDE. Get KDE back into the public eye more.
Open source businesses exist and do quite well in many cases. What approaches would work here?
Let's imagine a bunch of upset Qt devs get together and form a company to develop Qt outside Nokia.
What's their business plan?