Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. It's not a platform for investigative reporting (that's Wikinews), it's not a place to publicise leaked information. So yeah, of course the link was removed. Every spamming activist claims administrator bias. This rubbish happens all the time.
Apple has announced its new iPod Shuffle, the smallest yet. The new Shuffle offers more storage, better sound, a talking interface ("the first talking interface on an MP3 player! Except Rockbox, but only freetards use that and they don't count") and superior abilities to pick up chicks.
Controversy has surrounded the new hardware requirements for the Shuffle, including new Apple-branded headphones, Apple-branded music and surgical attachment of the device to one's genital region. "Total quality control," said Steve Jobs. "All competitors are inferior by definition and will be crushed."
Apple fan blogs were unanimous in their praise of the "iButtPlug" installation procedure. The hardware lock-in was a brilliant business move on Apple's part, the best possible thing for the consumer and a moral and ethical requirement to sell MP3 players at all, wrote Daniel Eran Dilger on RoughlyDrafted. He also intimated that all negative press on the matter was yet more Microsoft astroturf and vaporware.
Microsoft countered with a preannouncement of its new Zune LP player, which works with 9.5" vinyl discs manufactured with the PlaysYouBetcha!(tm) process and a cubic zirconia stylus.
"There's no such things as Zunes," laughed Jobs. "They're a fairy tale we invented to get young Apple Store employees to behave."
For programmers we had three additional tests. Was the person genuinely smart? If so, could they actually get things done? And finally, since a few good hackers have unbearable personalities, could we stand to have them around?
That last test filters out surprisingly few people. We could bear any amount of nerdiness if someone was truly smart. What we couldn't stand were people with a lot of attitude. But most of those weren't truly smart, so our third test was largely a restatement of the first.
When nerds are unbearable it's usually because they're trying too hard to seem smart. But the smarter they are, the less pressure they feel to act smart. So as a rule you can recognize genuinely smart people by their ability to say things like "I don't know," "Maybe you're right," and "I don't understand x well enough."
This technique doesn't always work, because people can be influenced by their environment. In the MIT CS department, there seems to be a tradition of acting like a brusque know-it-all. I'm told it derives ultimately from Marvin Minsky, in the same way the classic airline pilot manner is said to derive from Chuck Yeager. Even genuinely smart people start to act this way there, so you have to make allowances.
It helped us to have Robert Morris, who is one of the readiest to say "I don't know" of anyone I've met. (At least, he was before he became a professor at MIT.) No one dared put on attitude around Robert, because he was obviously smarter than they were and yet had zero attitude himself.
Apple has announced its new iPod Shuffle, the smallest yet. The new Shuffle offers more storage, better sound, a talking interface ("the first talking interface on an MP3 player! Except Rockbox, but only freetards use that and they don't count") and superior abilities to pick up chicks.
Controversy has surrounded the new hardware requirements for the Shuffle, including new Apple-branded headphones, Apple-branded music and surgical attachment of the device to one's genital region. "Total quality control," said Steve Jobs. "All competitors are inferior by definition and will be crushed."
Apple fan blogs were unanimous in their praise of the "iButtPlug" installation procedure. The hardware lock-in was a brilliant business move on Apple's part, the best possible thing for the consumer and a moral and ethical requirement to sell MP3 players at all, wrote Daniel Eran Dilger on Roughly Drafted. He also intimated that all negative press on the matter was the work of Microsoft astroturfers.
Microsoft countered with a preannouncement of its new Zune LP player, which works with 9.5" vinyl discs manufactured with the PlaysYouBetcha! process and a cubic zirconia stylus.
"There's no such things as Zunes," laughed Jobs. "They're a fairy tale we invented to get young Apple Store employees to behave."
Lovefilm is the borg itself. Remember that Lovefilm bought out ScreenSelect, which bought out DVD365, who were who we originally signed up with. Customer service has been, ehh, variable.
I've at no point said he was wrong that the apps are shittily coded. However, he's missing the point that those shitty apps are an important part of what his shiny new file system (the aspiring default) is for. Just because what he's supporting is written by developers with red noses and long floppy shoes doesn't mean there isn't a problem for him to address. As he eventually agreed, in addressing it.
Oh yeah, and full points to Ted. It's just that he could barely accept that not having badly-written user apps run on his lovely file system could constitute a reportable bug.
None yet, but the problem first showed when Ubuntu 9.04 offered it as an install option. "WAY FASTER! W00T!!andalsobuggersyourdesktop." Ted T'so quite correctly stated that ext4 was behaving precisely per spec and the apps' coding was questionable. Unfortunately, this ignored the consideration that those are the apps ext4 would frequently be running underneath. Apps first, system second.
ext4 is perfect. See, here's the spec that says so! That the two most popular desktop distros are horribly fucked by using it is their fault for being crappy, not mine for writing something that doesn't support real-world use. Look, I can prove it.
No idea, sorry. All-Intel chipsets are good basically because Intel give a damn about Linux drivers. I live on laptops, and crappy Intel graphics and OK Intel wifi means I have a working system.
With Linux: if your hardware has drivers, you get Mac-like levels of "it just works." If it doesn't, you have a world of pain. This will change only as manufacturers start supporting Linux properly. Which is slowly happening - Dell is gently pressuring suppliers to make the parts work with Linux.
I found it useful to say "Those who have a business need for Photoshop, here's the link to get the company to buy it. Turnaround is several weeks. In the meantime, here's where Gimp is on the company server, and here's the manuals." Even in Gimp 1.2 days, that was quite enough in practice. Even on Windows.
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As does KDE 4. Redmond, start your photocopiers.
KDE 4. Microsoft saw it was incredibly pretty and also didn't bloody work and thought, "I gotta get me some o' that!"
The etch-a-sketch.
Also, you know how the beta background is the beams of light shining down? About two screens above that is Steve Ballmer's ass.
It's usually called "the PFY."
64-bit Linux host and as absolutely much memory as you can possibly install.
Three cores to run GNOME, one core to run Firefox.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. It's not a platform for investigative reporting (that's Wikinews), it's not a place to publicise leaked information. So yeah, of course the link was removed. Every spamming activist claims administrator bias. This rubbish happens all the time.
Apple has announced its new iPod Shuffle, the smallest yet. The new Shuffle offers more storage, better sound, a talking interface ("the first talking interface on an MP3 player! Except Rockbox, but only freetards use that and they don't count") and superior abilities to pick up chicks.
Controversy has surrounded the new hardware requirements for the Shuffle, including new Apple-branded headphones, Apple-branded music and surgical attachment of the device to one's genital region. "Total quality control," said Steve Jobs. "All competitors are inferior by definition and will be crushed."
Apple fan blogs were unanimous in their praise of the "iButtPlug" installation procedure. The hardware lock-in was a brilliant business move on Apple's part, the best possible thing for the consumer and a moral and ethical requirement to sell MP3 players at all, wrote Daniel Eran Dilger on RoughlyDrafted. He also intimated that all negative press on the matter was yet more Microsoft astroturf and vaporware.
Microsoft countered with a preannouncement of its new Zune LP player, which works with 9.5" vinyl discs manufactured with the PlaysYouBetcha!(tm) process and a cubic zirconia stylus.
"There's no such things as Zunes," laughed Jobs. "They're a fairy tale we invented to get young Apple Store employees to behave."
Because a Windows VM floating in the sea of VMs means not having to buy another frickin' box just to run frickin' Windows.
It should run Wordpad on Windows 8 reasonably. With new ribbon interface!
In my continued and repeated experience, the real geniuses aren't arseholes. They may be socially inept, but they aren't contemptuous about it.
Paul Graham talks about this in How to start a startup:
Apple has announced its new iPod Shuffle, the smallest yet. The new Shuffle offers more storage, better sound, a talking interface ("the first talking interface on an MP3 player! Except Rockbox, but only freetards use that and they don't count") and superior abilities to pick up chicks.
Controversy has surrounded the new hardware requirements for the Shuffle, including new Apple-branded headphones, Apple-branded music and surgical attachment of the device to one's genital region. "Total quality control," said Steve Jobs. "All competitors are inferior by definition and will be crushed."
Apple fan blogs were unanimous in their praise of the "iButtPlug" installation procedure. The hardware lock-in was a brilliant business move on Apple's part, the best possible thing for the consumer and a moral and ethical requirement to sell MP3 players at all, wrote Daniel Eran Dilger on Roughly Drafted. He also intimated that all negative press on the matter was the work of Microsoft astroturfers.
Microsoft countered with a preannouncement of its new Zune LP player, which works with 9.5" vinyl discs manufactured with the PlaysYouBetcha! process and a cubic zirconia stylus.
"There's no such things as Zunes," laughed Jobs. "They're a fairy tale we invented to get young Apple Store employees to behave."
Lovefilm is the borg itself. Remember that Lovefilm bought out ScreenSelect, which bought out DVD365, who were who we originally signed up with. Customer service has been, ehh, variable.
Fair enough :-)
I've at no point said he was wrong that the apps are shittily coded. However, he's missing the point that those shitty apps are an important part of what his shiny new file system (the aspiring default) is for. Just because what he's supporting is written by developers with red noses and long floppy shoes doesn't mean there isn't a problem for him to address. As he eventually agreed, in addressing it.
Oh, I have no doubt. I have little reason to trust ZFS either, see other comment ...
Oh yeah, and full points to Ted. It's just that he could barely accept that not having badly-written user apps run on his lovely file system could constitute a reportable bug.
"Use this crashproof file system!" *
"* warning: filesystem will not crash, KDE/GNOME will. Badly."
Like saying "Linux is crashproof!" when X most certainly isn't.
None yet, but the problem first showed when Ubuntu 9.04 offered it as an install option. "WAY FASTER! W00T!! andalsobuggersyourdesktop." Ted T'so quite correctly stated that ext4 was behaving precisely per spec and the apps' coding was questionable. Unfortunately, this ignored the consideration that those are the apps ext4 would frequently be running underneath. Apps first, system second.
ext4 is perfect. See, here's the spec that says so! That the two most popular desktop distros are horribly fucked by using it is their fault for being crappy, not mine for writing something that doesn't support real-world use. Look, I can prove it.
8.10 runs flawlessly on this here HP 6710b.
No idea, sorry. All-Intel chipsets are good basically because Intel give a damn about Linux drivers. I live on laptops, and crappy Intel graphics and OK Intel wifi means I have a working system.
With Linux: if your hardware has drivers, you get Mac-like levels of "it just works." If it doesn't, you have a world of pain. This will change only as manufacturers start supporting Linux properly. Which is slowly happening - Dell is gently pressuring suppliers to make the parts work with Linux.
This would be funnier if he weren't actually using it to run Windows 2008.
All-Intel chipset and you'll be very happy indeed. Except your graphics will be crappy. But they'll work!
(Do you have links to where you asked? I'm somewhat surprised you got no response.)
I found it useful to say "Those who have a business need for Photoshop, here's the link to get the company to buy it. Turnaround is several weeks. In the meantime, here's where Gimp is on the company server, and here's the manuals." Even in Gimp 1.2 days, that was quite enough in practice. Even on Windows.