Freaks & Geeks was a show that seemed popular with a lot of us nerds and yet it was struck down before it's time. I think we need our own tv network.. not just showing PBS type stuff.. but something like TLC, Cartoon Network, Spike TV, Comedy Central, etc all mixed together to have the shows that most appeal to nerds. Anime, Junkyard Wars, Freaks and Geeks, Red Dwarf, and Southpark. Maybe throw in Dead Like Me and MXC for good measure. To be fun we should make some opensourced shows just to see how things work out.
I'm a major geek and am experienced in all forms of the art.. recently I let the ISP of the company I work for know that we were having major connection problems.. resulting in a total lack of usability. First they told me that I was wrong. Then they told me it was our companies fault because we were obviously infected with some horrible virus (they told me ICQ was to blame). They told me because we were swamping the broadband connection (running an ssh session and doing some minor web browsing). Then they told me it was because we were the target of someone trying a DoS attack. Finally they made some adjustments to the antenea (wireless is all we can get in our location) and instantly everything is fixed. I have to wonder if it's really good business to blame your customers for a problem especially when it's obvious that they know as much about the topic as you do. It really lowered my opinion of their company. Another example of such support and we'll be switching to a different ISP.
I remember a certain version of Windows that did pretty much that when it was released. I won't disagree that it's a serious flaw that should have been fixed before release but I do remember Windows making such a mistake too.:)
Why not just record some nice unique data like their fingerprints and just palm for stuff? Just as easy and you don't have to have weird shit implanted in your body.. and you have to actually make an action to do it.. so nobody can walk buy and just scan and charge you.
I have FC1 on an ancient 233Mhz laptop with 64MB of ram and like a 4GB hdd. Works great for me.. but then I did a lot of customization. If you mean with all the default software loaded then yeh it might be a bit much but then what do you expect? You can't have all the goodies and have fast and low memory requirments?
Did you try torrent? Lots of people were complaining that it was dead slow for them. Bandwidth isn't much of a problem and this should be easier for the majority of people that don't use BT. I'll not cut off new downloads until I see it sucking down more than a couple hundred gigs of bandwidth for today.
Subscriptions are for dorks. I'm not spending money to look at a discussion board. Besides, it still must be a wussy connection to be down so quickly. Wonder how long my server would last under the strain...:)
Opera became a usable product faster than Mozilla did but it wasn't nearly as ambitious and IMO isn't nearly as usable as Mozilla now. Both Firefox and Thunderbird are excellent. Opera isn't horrible but it could be better, especially since, as you said, it was out ahead.
Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, RealPlayerOne, MSAccess, Quicktime (Sorenson), and iTunes are all examples of commercial products that people pay money for, and would like to have ported to Linux. While Open Source alternatives exist for some of them, they are either comparatively immature or have certain legal encumbrances that prevent them from being introduced into a commercial distro.
But do any of these programs have good usability? Not in my experience. I haven't used iTunes so maybe it's the exception. RealPlayer and MS Access rank, IMO, among the worst user interfaces ever forced on the public.
I'll agree that Gnome 2 had (has?) some problems but a lot of them stemmed from the commercial interests involved in it. A lot of arrogance has gone on that wasn't a problem for Gnome 1. How many users have any chance at getting their desired features added to the current version of a commercial software product they are using? Sure money talks but you'll find it a lot easier to hire someone to add a feature to an opensource product of your choice than to add the same feature to most commercial products.
I'd have to disagree and include you closed source under opensource.
There is no deadline so there is plenty of time to focus on usability. I might agree if you say that because closed source software has deadlines it forces usability to be addressed sooner. Sadly I don't see many closed source projects that have very good usability so that reasoning evidently doesn't work out very well.
I get much quicker times on support from most opensource. I can ask a question on a mailing list or irc and almost instantly have an answer. If there is a patch needed then often I can have that patch within a couple hours. For that kind of service with closed source you usually need to spend a lot of money and even then you're often out of luck.
As far as resources I think it depends on the project. If expensive equipment is needed then a company will be more likely to find the money for that equipment quickly. As far as man hours and a wide range of cheaper equipment though the community-oriented nature of opensource wins.
I believe they are illegal in Canada and for use on public property (such as roads) in much of the US. We were talking about it on the MLUG mailing list recently. Many drivers evidently feel it's their ride to have all of the road and so there is a lot of pressure to keep these off the roads and even out of bicycle lanes. To bad, they are all most of us need for going to work or to grab a loaf of bread and would save us a lot of money.
I built a wifi voip phone a couple years ago and tried pitching it to Sprint (with never a response). Guess I picked the wrong company to try to sell the idea too!;)
Just live your life and tell the terrorists to go fuck themselves. We should just require all Americans take kung fu classes and carry big fat revolvers. Some assholes show up and start some shit we handle it the American way and kick their asses. All this 1984 crap is just a bad idea designed to keep us, as individuals, from having to take responsibility for ourselves. Yes, without all this spy game crap and taking away more and more of our freedoms we're open to attacks.. but even with all these steps we're barely, if at all, better protected. We're just proving that terrorism works by allowing these terrorists to impact our lives.
Run Firefox, on Linux (custom secure install, which has security patches installed daily), on a read-only filesystem. Pretty darn secure. I'd be impressed by anyone that could infect it.;)
Sounds reasonable. I wonder if they could work this into the Linux kernel. I don't know if it's highly specific code or if it's something anyone could code now that they have a clue to try. Any reason this wouldn't benefit all the networking code, not just wireless? Such that if it's implemented in firmware then it can be left to the hardware, else the kernel kicks in support itself.
You're seriously going to compare the worry that breakers might not be enough against the worry of your car blowing up in a big ball of fire? I've known people that died because their cars exploded in an accident. I don't know of anyone that's died because their car shocked them to death.
Of course brochures are, for liability reasons, going to tell you to do the safest thing. That doesn't mean you really need to. Most manuals say to unplug a PC from the wall before adding a minor bit of hardware like a hdd or a pci card. I'm sure most of us don't always do that and are still alive to tell the story.:)
Batteries, such as these cars use, are something like 97% recyclable. Often you are required to turn in the old batteries when they die. They have very low enviromental impact. Similar to the batteries used in solar/wind/hydro power.
Photoshop is powerful but IMO is a pain to use. I've been using Photoshop longer but I still can work faster in Gimp. Not that I never use Photoshop.. it's a good program and sometimes it can do things Gimp can't. I think anyone whining that it's interface isn't Mac-like enough is missing the point of how it's interface is designed. The way it is designed is very functional, if not beautiful. Gimp is my favorite photo editing app, then Paint Shop Pro, and finally Photoshop.
My only real complaint about Gimp is that it lacks basic tools for drawing that'd be pretty easy to add. It really does seem to be more of a image manipulation program than an image creation program. I'd like to see this isse addressed.
For that matter do we treat spaces as being friends? If we don't go into our room for a while don't we come back and think that it looks lonely? As if it may have missed us?
We do that to all familiar things I think. Spaces, computers, cars, a favorite pair of shoes, or whatever. The things that make us comfortable become part of our family and we attach emotions to them as such. This is hardly anything new. Children often have toys or blankets they are attached to and often even throughout adulthood we'll hang on to these items. Or maybe as adults we'll have a favorite shirt.. it may be ratty and stained but we hang on to it because it means something to us. We attach memories to it. We'll comfortable with it. We'd miss it if we tossed it.
SIP would be good too. Really, IMO, the more you can support the better. It's a shame none of these IM companies choose to set a public standard. It's great if they want to create a better protocol but it's not much use if it's not a public standard.
How hard can it be? Just pop up your router, or whatever your firewall is, and set the ports you need open. It's hardly a protocols fault if you have a crappy firewall or don't know how to use it.
Not to say H.323 is wonderful.. I just don't see complexity as a sign of a bad protocol.
There is nothing wrong with H.323. It's just that the IM companies like to use their own protocols so they can lock users in. I'd like to see support for all of those protocols and H.323.
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Freaks & Geeks was a show that seemed popular with a lot of us nerds and yet it was struck down before it's time. I think we need our own tv network.. not just showing PBS type stuff.. but something like TLC, Cartoon Network, Spike TV, Comedy Central, etc all mixed together to have the shows that most appeal to nerds. Anime, Junkyard Wars, Freaks and Geeks, Red Dwarf, and Southpark. Maybe throw in Dead Like Me and MXC for good measure. To be fun we should make some opensourced shows just to see how things work out.
I'm a major geek and am experienced in all forms of the art.. recently I let the ISP of the company I work for know that we were having major connection problems.. resulting in a total lack of usability. First they told me that I was wrong. Then they told me it was our companies fault because we were obviously infected with some horrible virus (they told me ICQ was to blame). They told me because we were swamping the broadband connection (running an ssh session and doing some minor web browsing). Then they told me it was because we were the target of someone trying a DoS attack. Finally they made some adjustments to the antenea (wireless is all we can get in our location) and instantly everything is fixed. I have to wonder if it's really good business to blame your customers for a problem especially when it's obvious that they know as much about the topic as you do. It really lowered my opinion of their company. Another example of such support and we'll be switching to a different ISP.
I remember a certain version of Windows that did pretty much that when it was released. I won't disagree that it's a serious flaw that should have been fixed before release but I do remember Windows making such a mistake too. :)
Why not just record some nice unique data like their fingerprints and just palm for stuff? Just as easy and you don't have to have weird shit implanted in your body.. and you have to actually make an action to do it.. so nobody can walk buy and just scan and charge you.
I have FC1 on an ancient 233Mhz laptop with 64MB of ram and like a 4GB hdd. Works great for me.. but then I did a lot of customization. If you mean with all the default software loaded then yeh it might be a bit much but then what do you expect? You can't have all the goodies and have fast and low memory requirments?
Did you try torrent? Lots of people were complaining that it was dead slow for them. Bandwidth isn't much of a problem and this should be easier for the majority of people that don't use BT. I'll not cut off new downloads until I see it sucking down more than a couple hundred gigs of bandwidth for today.
Hell.. go for it. Anyone looking for ISOs of FC2? Free to the first couple hundred..
Subscriptions are for dorks. I'm not spending money to look at a discussion board. Besides, it still must be a wussy connection to be down so quickly. Wonder how long my server would last under the strain... :)
I use rug, part of Red Carpet, for updates and IMO it's much better than up2date. Yum, apt-get, etc are also popular methods.
The post has been up for 10 seconds and already the site is Slashdotted? :P
Opera became a usable product faster than Mozilla did but it wasn't nearly as ambitious and IMO isn't nearly as usable as Mozilla now. Both Firefox and Thunderbird are excellent. Opera isn't horrible but it could be better, especially since, as you said, it was out ahead.
Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, RealPlayerOne, MSAccess, Quicktime (Sorenson), and iTunes are all examples of commercial products that people pay money for, and would like to have ported to Linux. While Open Source alternatives exist for some of them, they are either comparatively immature or have certain legal encumbrances that prevent them from being introduced into a commercial distro.
But do any of these programs have good usability? Not in my experience. I haven't used iTunes so maybe it's the exception. RealPlayer and MS Access rank, IMO, among the worst user interfaces ever forced on the public.
I'll agree that Gnome 2 had (has?) some problems but a lot of them stemmed from the commercial interests involved in it. A lot of arrogance has gone on that wasn't a problem for Gnome 1. How many users have any chance at getting their desired features added to the current version of a commercial software product they are using? Sure money talks but you'll find it a lot easier to hire someone to add a feature to an opensource product of your choice than to add the same feature to most commercial products.
I'd have to disagree and include you closed source under opensource.
There is no deadline so there is plenty of time to focus on usability. I might agree if you say that because closed source software has deadlines it forces usability to be addressed sooner. Sadly I don't see many closed source projects that have very good usability so that reasoning evidently doesn't work out very well.
I get much quicker times on support from most opensource. I can ask a question on a mailing list or irc and almost instantly have an answer. If there is a patch needed then often I can have that patch within a couple hours. For that kind of service with closed source you usually need to spend a lot of money and even then you're often out of luck.
As far as resources I think it depends on the project. If expensive equipment is needed then a company will be more likely to find the money for that equipment quickly. As far as man hours and a wide range of cheaper equipment though the community-oriented nature of opensource wins.
I believe they are illegal in Canada and for use on public property (such as roads) in much of the US. We were talking about it on the MLUG mailing list recently. Many drivers evidently feel it's their ride to have all of the road and so there is a lot of pressure to keep these off the roads and even out of bicycle lanes. To bad, they are all most of us need for going to work or to grab a loaf of bread and would save us a lot of money.
I built a wifi voip phone a couple years ago and tried pitching it to Sprint (with never a response). Guess I picked the wrong company to try to sell the idea too! ;)
Just live your life and tell the terrorists to go fuck themselves. We should just require all Americans take kung fu classes and carry big fat revolvers. Some assholes show up and start some shit we handle it the American way and kick their asses. All this 1984 crap is just a bad idea designed to keep us, as individuals, from having to take responsibility for ourselves. Yes, without all this spy game crap and taking away more and more of our freedoms we're open to attacks.. but even with all these steps we're barely, if at all, better protected. We're just proving that terrorism works by allowing these terrorists to impact our lives.
How does this compare to Ogg Tarkin?
Run Firefox, on Linux (custom secure install, which has security patches installed daily), on a read-only filesystem. Pretty darn secure. I'd be impressed by anyone that could infect it. ;)
Sounds reasonable. I wonder if they could work this into the Linux kernel. I don't know if it's highly specific code or if it's something anyone could code now that they have a clue to try. Any reason this wouldn't benefit all the networking code, not just wireless? Such that if it's implemented in firmware then it can be left to the hardware, else the kernel kicks in support itself.
Does this need to be on both ends of the connection or on just one end?
You're seriously going to compare the worry that breakers might not be enough against the worry of your car blowing up in a big ball of fire? I've known people that died because their cars exploded in an accident. I don't know of anyone that's died because their car shocked them to death.
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Of course brochures are, for liability reasons, going to tell you to do the safest thing. That doesn't mean you really need to. Most manuals say to unplug a PC from the wall before adding a minor bit of hardware like a hdd or a pci card. I'm sure most of us don't always do that and are still alive to tell the story.
Batteries, such as these cars use, are something like 97% recyclable. Often you are required to turn in the old batteries when they die. They have very low enviromental impact. Similar to the batteries used in solar/wind/hydro power.
Photoshop is powerful but IMO is a pain to use. I've been using Photoshop longer but I still can work faster in Gimp. Not that I never use Photoshop.. it's a good program and sometimes it can do things Gimp can't. I think anyone whining that it's interface isn't Mac-like enough is missing the point of how it's interface is designed. The way it is designed is very functional, if not beautiful. Gimp is my favorite photo editing app, then Paint Shop Pro, and finally Photoshop.
My only real complaint about Gimp is that it lacks basic tools for drawing that'd be pretty easy to add. It really does seem to be more of a image manipulation program than an image creation program. I'd like to see this isse addressed.
For that matter do we treat spaces as being friends? If we don't go into our room for a while don't we come back and think that it looks lonely? As if it may have missed us?
We do that to all familiar things I think. Spaces, computers, cars, a favorite pair of shoes, or whatever. The things that make us comfortable become part of our family and we attach emotions to them as such. This is hardly anything new. Children often have toys or blankets they are attached to and often even throughout adulthood we'll hang on to these items. Or maybe as adults we'll have a favorite shirt.. it may be ratty and stained but we hang on to it because it means something to us. We attach memories to it. We'll comfortable with it. We'd miss it if we tossed it.
SIP would be good too. Really, IMO, the more you can support the better. It's a shame none of these IM companies choose to set a public standard. It's great if they want to create a better protocol but it's not much use if it's not a public standard.
How hard can it be? Just pop up your router, or whatever your firewall is, and set the ports you need open. It's hardly a protocols fault if you have a crappy firewall or don't know how to use it.
Not to say H.323 is wonderful.. I just don't see complexity as a sign of a bad protocol.
There is nothing wrong with H.323. It's just that the IM companies like to use their own protocols so they can lock users in. I'd like to see support for all of those protocols and H.323.