pronouncing "gnu" as "new" is actually the correct way to say it.
oh good. i've always been under the impression that gnu was *supposed* to be pronounced with a hard G and that i was committing geek heresy for refusing to do so because it sounded so stupid. the below post mentions gnumeric, a good example of why gnu with the hard G is so dumb. up til now, though, i've just considered myself lucky not to run into a grammar nazi geek who would ridicule me for my "new" pronunciation. but now i have at least 2/. posts to back me up. woot!
"I have called SCO three times, and each time, an operator took my contact info and said I would get a fat cock up the ass soon. But I have had nothing.
hey mod, how about reading it before modding up the trolls?
yeah, being cool and being utilitarian aren't mutually exclusive. i have a 12" powerbook. best laptop i've ever owned for a number of reasons. yeah it looks super cool and the OS is really slick, but more than that it's an amazing tool. i truck it everywhere. the thing is very sturdy, rarely crashes, all the ports are in the same damn place, etc. bottom line is that it has increased my productivity as far as laptop-based work goes. artsy people might use Apples in part because they look cool, but when it comes to creating their works, i think they want the best tool for the job too.
Apple has pushed its "it just works" mantra for a while now. maybe they are trying to transition that into the IT sphere where, in part because of the shitty economy and drum-tight budgets, the suits are beginning to look at things like computer downtime very seriously. Apple's argument would probably sound like: hey our computers rarely crash, rarely break, don't get those nasty virii, and on top of all that your workplace would look pretty damn cool with one on every desk. oh and we don't have those restrictive liscensing schemes. TCO is a term that's getting bandied about quite a bit. many businesses are willing to pay a little more up front for the hardware if the lifetime TCO is cheaper. i think they have to start out with small businesses where the money really is tight and there aren't a bunch of PCs already sitting around that will worry them about compatibility (as big a misconception as that is).
if he's a gamer, he probably won't regret the decision. one thing i miss about living on campus were the obscenely low pings that i would have while deathmatching. unfortunately, the mac is a limited platform when it comes to available games. that's slowly changing, though, and i'm crossing my fingers that these uber-fast G5s will help to turn that around even more. there is nothing more that i would like to do than to ditch my Winbox gaming rig in favor of an Apple. i absolutely love my Apple laptop.
whats the big deal about cancelling windowsupdate.com?
it isn't, but what if the worm had been written to attack microsoft.com instead? would they redirect all of their traffic for that URL to microsoft.com.microsoft.com? it just seems like a hackneyed fix. they lucked out that the worm won't follow a redirect and that it was for a URL they could afford to surrender.
i doubt it. one of the biggest reasons people like console games so much is that you can have multiplayer with your friends. kick your buddy's ass in the game? mock him face to face!
now, if you can connect this thing to a tv and hook multiple controllers to it, then, yes, i think ps2 sales would drop.
when i had to study for an exam, or do some work that didn't require the computer, i would use it as an opportunity to defrag my HDDs. keeps you away from the computer/web/games and might just force you to get osmething done.
seriously, though. i've never heard of the porn industry being up in arms over people pirating their copyrighted material on p2p networks. and i _know_ that there is a lot of porn being shared online. and the porn industry makes gobs (don't giggle at that word) of money. does the porn industry have a cooler head about file sharing or is it that the media wouldn't carry their story anyway?
hope you have IE or you won't get into the site. and of course you'll need WMP 9 in order to actually listen to the music.
the price seems to be right (lower that iTMS!), but for someone like me who is terribly averse to IE and considers WMP to be akin to a virus, this is not an enticing service. 'course with the sheer volume of windows users who aren't like me, buy.com might be onto something. they've beaten apple to the punch as far as the windows platform goes.
and since i got turned away from the site for not using IE and got so disgusted that i left, i don't know what kind of restrictions besides WMP 9 they have put on the music (burn songs to cd? share with others? etc.).
1. Popup blocking. 2. Block images by server (waiting for block Flash by server...) 3. Tabbed browsing. 4. Bookmark groups of tabs.
does the current netscape-based AOL have these features? if AOL moves away from mozilla/netscape to IE, won't they be losing these features (assuming IE doesn't incorporate them come IE7)?
i would hate to be an AOLer who uses these features who then 'upgrades' to the newest IE7-based AOL and loses them.
Really my main beef with linux is how hard it is to set the thing up when you haven't gone through the process in the last six months.
this i can agree with, but
Windows on the other hand . . . it's intuitive
shows me that you have become thoroughly entrenched in the windows ui. you've used it so much and just "know" where everything is that you don't even realize how horribly cryptic/confusing it truly is. were you to exclusively use another os for a year or two (ie, forget everything about the windows ui) then were you to convert back to windows i think you would have an appreciation for how crappily things are arranged in windows.
if you have the opportunity, i suggest playing with os x for a while and get an idea of what a more intuitive ui is like. it's far from perfect but things are arranged much more instinctive.
i'm not a lawyer, but i believe that you can't sample beats. i believe public enemy was taken to court for sampling beats. which is kind of odd cause you can just sample a small portion and then loop it:) but i guess since the final result is the same as the original, it's not kosher.
but playing snippets of a song is ok/free. i even recall an episode of the simpsons where krusty is hosting another retirement special and yells to the band 'stop stop stop! play any more of that song and we have to pay for it.'
Apple's audience itself would rather use any Apple app over a third party app.
as an apple user, and one who knows many other apple users, i don't buy this argument. suppose i want/need a certain type of app for my mac, i look around to see what the offerings are and choose the one i like best. if it so happens that apple offers an app of the type that i am looking for, i'm certainly not going to automatically use that one just because it was developed by apple. why would i ignore things like features, usability, and price? apple users may be fanatical, but they aren't stupid.
i think it just so happens that most of the software that apple develops exceeds the 3rd party developers' in quality. that's the fault of those developers for not getting their asses in gear and creating a competitive product.
i vaguely recall reading an article in car & driver wherein the author tagged along with one of the guys who test-drives lamborginis. these are, of course, very expensive, hand-built cars. so, naturally, each one gets a test drive after build completion to make sure that everything is in working order and that it lives up to lamborgini's reputable performance expectations. of course, in order to test those performance expectations, one must drive the car very fast. apparently one portion of their quality assurance tests is that they drive the cars on the narrow, winding roads of rural italy around where the cars are built. i remember in the article how the author was a passenger in the car while the test driver was cruising down these roads at ~100 mph when all of a sudden a delapidated truck pulls out a few hundred yards in front of them. the author noted how this must have been a daily occurrence for the driver because he non-chalantly stood on the brake and heel-toed the car down until it was about 2 feet off the truck's back bumper.
so, yes, there are perhaps jobs as cool as or ever cooler than the guy who blows things up for a living.
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something like 70 per cent of most websites goes unread
don't you mean, we're not the only ones not reading the articles?
you're right, and as a mac user i always have those reservations in the back of my head, "how long until something happens in the tech community to cause this company (apple) to go belly up?" i have friends that, when they see my 12" powerbook or ibook, say, "wow that's really cool." when i say yes, and then try to expound on how REALLY cool OS X is, they give me a glossy gaze and i've totally lost them.
OS X rocks, but i'm grounded enough to know that joe schmo only sees the really slick hardware. my wallet would LOVE an x86 implementation of OS X, but i know that if apple did such a thing, it would be their death toll. they are a hardware-selling complany that happens to make some wicked software too. case-in-point: they give a whole lot of it away for free when you buy the computer.
and it's too bad. apple put lots of resources into making (what i think is) software that works very well, but your would-be switchers don't look deep enough into their own computer-using experience to realize that there is a better alternative to windows out there.
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pronouncing "gnu" as "new" is actually the correct way to say it.
/. posts to back me up. woot!
oh good. i've always been under the impression that gnu was *supposed* to be pronounced with a hard G and that i was committing geek heresy for refusing to do so because it sounded so stupid. the below post mentions gnumeric, a good example of why gnu with the hard G is so dumb. up til now, though, i've just considered myself lucky not to run into a grammar nazi geek who would ridicule me for my "new" pronunciation. but now i have at least 2
and i could pretty much do it on one item. just throw in some software.
how do you all pronounce VoIP?
cause i say it as one word, kind of like poi (the food) but with a P at the end and a V instead of a P at the front. am i insane for doing this?
course i pronounce gnu as "new" but that's just my own heresy.
V-A-P-O-R ...and Phantom was it's name-o
V-A-P-O-R
V-A-P-O-R
*no i wasn't yelling with all those caps*
i think you meant to day Jigawatts.
"I have called SCO three times, and each time, an operator took my contact info and said I would get a fat cock up the ass soon. But I have had nothing.
hey mod, how about reading it before modding up the trolls?
yeah, being cool and being utilitarian aren't mutually exclusive. i have a 12" powerbook. best laptop i've ever owned for a number of reasons. yeah it looks super cool and the OS is really slick, but more than that it's an amazing tool. i truck it everywhere. the thing is very sturdy, rarely crashes, all the ports are in the same damn place, etc. bottom line is that it has increased my productivity as far as laptop-based work goes. artsy people might use Apples in part because they look cool, but when it comes to creating their works, i think they want the best tool for the job too.
Apple has pushed its "it just works" mantra for a while now. maybe they are trying to transition that into the IT sphere where, in part because of the shitty economy and drum-tight budgets, the suits are beginning to look at things like computer downtime very seriously. Apple's argument would probably sound like: hey our computers rarely crash, rarely break, don't get those nasty virii, and on top of all that your workplace would look pretty damn cool with one on every desk. oh and we don't have those restrictive liscensing schemes. TCO is a term that's getting bandied about quite a bit. many businesses are willing to pay a little more up front for the hardware if the lifetime TCO is cheaper. i think they have to start out with small businesses where the money really is tight and there aren't a bunch of PCs already sitting around that will worry them about compatibility (as big a misconception as that is).
if he's a gamer, he probably won't regret the decision. one thing i miss about living on campus were the obscenely low pings that i would have while deathmatching. unfortunately, the mac is a limited platform when it comes to available games. that's slowly changing, though, and i'm crossing my fingers that these uber-fast G5s will help to turn that around even more. there is nothing more that i would like to do than to ditch my Winbox gaming rig in favor of an Apple. i absolutely love my Apple laptop.
whats the big deal about cancelling windowsupdate.com?
it isn't, but what if the worm had been written to attack microsoft.com instead? would they redirect all of their traffic for that URL to microsoft.com.microsoft.com? it just seems like a hackneyed fix. they lucked out that the worm won't follow a redirect and that it was for a URL they could afford to surrender.
i doubt it. one of the biggest reasons people like console games so much is that you can have multiplayer with your friends. kick your buddy's ass in the game? mock him face to face!
now, if you can connect this thing to a tv and hook multiple controllers to it, then, yes, i think ps2 sales would drop.
try quietpc.com. that'll be easier that rerouting your ductwork.
when i had to study for an exam, or do some work that didn't require the computer, i would use it as an opportunity to defrag my HDDs. keeps you away from the computer/web/games and might just force you to get osmething done.
obligatory simpson's quote:
Krusty: Have you gone completely ferkakta? Hey! I got my comedy "k's" back. King Kong, cold-cock, Kato Kaelin.
seriously, though. i've never heard of the porn industry being up in arms over people pirating their copyrighted material on p2p networks. and i _know_ that there is a lot of porn being shared online. and the porn industry makes gobs (don't giggle at that word) of money. does the porn industry have a cooler head about file sharing or is it that the media wouldn't carry their story anyway?
when my neighbor gets his letter, i'll let you know.
hope you have IE or you won't get into the site. and of course you'll need WMP 9 in order to actually listen to the music.
:)
the price seems to be right (lower that iTMS!), but for someone like me who is terribly averse to IE and considers WMP to be akin to a virus, this is not an enticing service. 'course with the sheer volume of windows users who aren't like me, buy.com might be onto something. they've beaten apple to the punch as far as the windows platform goes.
and since i got turned away from the site for not using IE and got so disgusted that i left, i don't know what kind of restrictions besides WMP 9 they have put on the music (burn songs to cd? share with others? etc.).
oh well, good thing i have a Mac
too late. outlook opened it for you 30 seconds ago.
Maybe Slashdot needs a "-1 Ugh" moderation
1. Popup blocking. ...)
2. Block images by server (waiting for block Flash by server
3. Tabbed browsing.
4. Bookmark groups of tabs.
does the current netscape-based AOL have these features? if AOL moves away from mozilla/netscape to IE, won't they be losing these features (assuming IE doesn't incorporate them come IE7)?
i would hate to be an AOLer who uses these features who then 'upgrades' to the newest IE7-based AOL and loses them.
Really my main beef with linux is how hard it is to set the thing up when you haven't gone through the process in the last six months.
this i can agree with, but
Windows on the other hand . . . it's intuitive
shows me that you have become thoroughly entrenched in the windows ui. you've used it so much and just "know" where everything is that you don't even realize how horribly cryptic/confusing it truly is. were you to exclusively use another os for a year or two (ie, forget everything about the windows ui) then were you to convert back to windows i think you would have an appreciation for how crappily things are arranged in windows.
if you have the opportunity, i suggest playing with os x for a while and get an idea of what a more intuitive ui is like. it's far from perfect but things are arranged much more instinctive.
i'm not a lawyer, but i believe that you can't sample beats. i believe public enemy was taken to court for sampling beats. which is kind of odd cause you can just sample a small portion and then loop it :) but i guess since the final result is the same as the original, it's not kosher.
but playing snippets of a song is ok/free. i even recall an episode of the simpsons where krusty is hosting another retirement special and yells to the band 'stop stop stop! play any more of that song and we have to pay for it.'
Apple's audience itself would rather use any Apple app over a third party app.
as an apple user, and one who knows many other apple users, i don't buy this argument. suppose i want/need a certain type of app for my mac, i look around to see what the offerings are and choose the one i like best. if it so happens that apple offers an app of the type that i am looking for, i'm certainly not going to automatically use that one just because it was developed by apple. why would i ignore things like features, usability, and price? apple users may be fanatical, but they aren't stupid.
i think it just so happens that most of the software that apple develops exceeds the 3rd party developers' in quality. that's the fault of those developers for not getting their asses in gear and creating a competitive product.
so, yes, there are perhaps jobs as cool as or ever cooler than the guy who blows things up for a living.
something like 70 per cent of most websites goes unread
don't you mean, we're not the only ones not reading the articles?
you're right, and as a mac user i always have those reservations in the back of my head, "how long until something happens in the tech community to cause this company (apple) to go belly up?" i have friends that, when they see my 12" powerbook or ibook, say, "wow that's really cool." when i say yes, and then try to expound on how REALLY cool OS X is, they give me a glossy gaze and i've totally lost them.
OS X rocks, but i'm grounded enough to know that joe schmo only sees the really slick hardware. my wallet would LOVE an x86 implementation of OS X, but i know that if apple did such a thing, it would be their death toll. they are a hardware-selling complany that happens to make some wicked software too. case-in-point: they give a whole lot of it away for free when you buy the computer.
and it's too bad. apple put lots of resources into making (what i think is) software that works very well, but your would-be switchers don't look deep enough into their own computer-using experience to realize that there is a better alternative to windows out there.