I've got excellent karma, so if the little mayor bloombergs of slashdot want to mod me down for expressing an honest opinion, lets see how low they can mod me down while it doesn't effect me at all.
Wow, modded down to "1" as a troll for expressing an opinion probably dozen of other people have. I'm impressed. I never thought Slashdot would be taken over by Microsoft fanboys.
Sorry people, my comment wasn't aimed at upsetting Microsoft fanbodys. I really do think "surface" is a 100% lame attempt at a name for a product that is copycat entry and now sounds like one with the name they chose.
I paid $3.26 a gallon for gas this morning. A short time back it was pushing $4 a gallon in my area. Gas prices always go up in the summer, yet this year gas prices are coming down.
I'm still seeing Republicans who are fighting for Mitt Romney getting stopped in video interviews after claiming that President Obama has "done nothing about high gas prices".
I don't think the President can do much about gas prices at all, though I would love to give credit to President Obama.
BTW, I highly recommend this site and paying in cash. You will get a MUCH better deal than you could hope to get with any gas/credit card and the place you will get it at will likely be around the corner from where you live or work:
It is Larry Ellision's money, he is 100% entitled to do with it what he wants, I am not jealous of him. Having said that there is something out of whack in the world when so many people live in huts, don't have shoes, struggle to eat and in the US are scared to death for the future while this one person gets to own his own island.
I heard on CNN the other day that millionaires make up 0.001 % of the global population.
Like I wrote, it is Ellison's money, he is entitled to do with it whatever he wants. Maybe instead of buying an island he should think about directing that money to help the world.
Slashdot or at least "ask slashdot" just jumped the shark with this post. How to introduce a friend to Star Trek, really?
All of the WORTHY posts that get rejected without a note and this thread gets allowed..........and........in a new feature set up to be helpful with technical questions?
No offense to the original poster or anyone running Slashdot, but it is no longer a "news for nerds" site, it is "People Magazine Online For Nerds".
Again, nothing personal, my comments are about this thread being allowed and in this section especially. It isn't anything personal about the people who let it happen.
It is positive sign that they care enough about the Linux community to bother to have their PR department give the usual empty corporate zero content response.
I have a 9 year old custom built box at home and have been using Ubuntu on it since Ubuntu came out.
When I tried to upgrade to 12.04 I got all sorts of kernel error messages during the install and related problems later.
It is my understanding ( less than perfect ) that support for hardware fell through the cracks between changes NVIDIA made and changes Canonical made.
I've been window shopping for a new PC system and several people told me that onboard video has improved substantially in the last 9 years, that since I am not a gamer, that I do not need to get a separate video card anymore.
I think this contest is a great idea. Linux needs apps that are unique to Linux that people love.
It seems like every other OS has some, that people miss when they leave that platform and maybe find a sustitute that isn't quite the same thing.
There are no apps like that on Linux for me. My main apps are apps that run answhere: Firefox, Visual Slickedit, Eclipse, Gmail Chat.
The closest I've come to feeling enthusiastic about a linux desktop app is the KDE file manager Dolphin. With just a few easy preferences choices I was able to make it into something very much like Total Commander on Windows, but in some ways better. I love the convenience of the Places panel for quickly finding mounted drives
The only reason this happened because Rand Paul himself got inconvenienced and offended.........like the resut of us.
Don't mistake it for a sese of civic duty or patriotism.
Like the blurb said, the changes are neglible beyond privatizing airport security. Translation: the TSA made Paul angry so now he is getting even by trying to make them go away.
Paul would be fine if we were all working sub minimum wage in company towns like the kind that existed in the 19th century where the owners got away with shooting their workers.
The Tsunami was natural. If the Tsunami brings new species to the West coast than that is a natural process. Are the species "invasive" or is just another iteration of a long standing natural cycle? What about if the Tsunami is partially man-made via global climate change?
I sort of agree with the blurb that started this thread.
Instead of being a skilled professional with power to change things and work on a problem, when you go to the cloud you demote yourself to a gopher who can only make complaints via a phone call when things don't work.
Aside from making yourself much more dispensable ( "Well, gee, *I* can call and complain too") you get the frustration of feeling powerless. At least with your own systems you can go in, take readings and try things.
I haven't used the KDE for years. I started using Ubuntu with the first release. I would peak at the KDE on a livecd once every few years, but have only used GNOME via Ubuntu.
Having a normal, non-huge monitor, I gave KUbuntu a try when Ubuntu 12.04 forced Unity on people.
I was pleasantly surprised!
The KDE looked slick.
With just a few clicks I was able to get the file manager, Dolphin, to resemble something like Total Commander. First time in years I actually feel attached to linux software versus software that will run on linux.
With another click I was able to set the first day of the week to Monday, in all apps with a calendar. In GNOME the force the "standard" on you listed for your country. It takes editing config files, and doing it again with each daylight savings time update to do that GNOME.
The "File | Save As" dialog boxes also let you rename, move, delete files/dirs like you can in Windows. A feature always lacking in linux ( by THEIR choice ) that I always found to be seriously annoying.
Configuring the KDE was also very easy. All pointing and clicking with the many, many, options gracefully hidden away but easy to find when you want them. Custom keybinding were EASY, no horrid GNOME sysconfig editor.
I like the "new" KDE so much I decided to get a new PC to run it instead of migrating to the Mac.
I get where you are coming from. I used EMACS in college for everything when I was learning to program. After school, I have used Visual Slickedit since it has the benefits of an IDE with the features of an advanced text editor.
I've started learning Eclipse since I am a Java programmer and it seems to be a defacto standard in many Java shops.
I've been very impressed so far. My only disappointment is the loss of a few text editing features, some of which have been replaced by this extension: http://tkilla.ch/column_mode/
I don't know how well Eclipse would appeal to non-Java programmers or people who do many different things. It seems to work on a very different paradign from Emacs and text editor centric IDEs.
Instead of "open any file and crunch text" it is organized around projects and one way of doing things. I know, that sounds bad, but with the features they have and the thought they put into it, it actually does relieve the Java programmer of a lot of pain.
Maybe back in the 90s there was a reason for the existence of either:
"Gee what if some poor programmer is stranded in India programming on a 386 where s/he can't use the much more convenient non-archaic development software".
Well, now India has as nice as computers as Americans and Europeans do.
James Gosling, the founder of EMACS ( and Java ) has even posted pieces on the web begging people to stop living in the past and move on.
There are better things now than EMACS and VI, even free as in beer for the cheapskates who don't want to spend money for their career.
I think continued use of either piece of software reflects a rigid anti-change mentality that is stuck in the past and against learning new things.
The IT sector will likely only be free of this software after a generation of IT people literally dies off.
Looks like Microsoft is taking lessons from the General Accounting Office for The United States in regards to convention behavior.
Looks like a number of people haven't gotten the message yet that in 2012 if you behave badly, someone will see it as we live in the internet age and the age of Big Brother.
Drinking regular soda is like having a piece of cake or a sandwich, but without the satisfaction. Diet has nasty chemicals. Both contribute to osteoporosis and tooth decay.
Tea, on the other hand, has caffeine, comes in a variety of strengths, has next to no calories, does not hurt your stomach like coffee, is CHEAP, is great hot and is great cold.
Forget Lipton and other teas you find in the supermarket. Other countries know that Americans do not know tea and they send us their crap.
Order something nice online, even a pricier tea will be competitive per serving against a tall bottle of soda from a soda machine.
Drink your tea plain. If you can't get used to the taste 1 tsp of sugar will help and is only about 20 calories ( versus 200 + in a soda ). Mixed blends with things like orange or lemon grass will make the tea tasty enough that you may not need to add anything at all.
I find that tea has a "cleaner burn" than soda. I feel alert but calm also at the same time and I've read that the other chemicals in tea do that. Soda after a point makes me irritable.
People who just bought Big Gulps are not going to hang around where they bought it. It is grab and go, so they aren't likely to hang around for refills.
I think this is pretty debatable. Most sites for general public use should probably work in some form for ie7 and ie8. For most, there is probably still enough market share there to justify the effort.
I think the only people left using the dreaded IE 6 are orgs who built webapps hardcoded to it and maybe a few people with very ancient computers. The first group is not really relevant to the kind of site the startup is making ( and they likely have modern machines where other modern browsers are likely installed ).
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Like most Americans I probably have some knee jerk prejudice against Iranians. No doubt some of that is from our media.
Regardless, I've gotten to know a few Iranians through work over the years. The wamest, most intelligent people I have ever met.
Please do not confuse the Iranian government and their noise for who Iranians are.
I've got excellent karma, so if the little mayor bloombergs of slashdot want to mod me down for expressing an honest opinion, lets see how low they can mod me down while it doesn't effect me at all.
Wow, modded down to "1" as a troll for expressing an opinion probably dozen of other people have. I'm impressed. I never thought Slashdot would be taken over by Microsoft fanboys.
Sorry people, my comment wasn't aimed at upsetting Microsoft fanbodys. I really do think "surface" is a 100% lame attempt at a name for a product that is copycat entry and now sounds like one with the name they chose.
Was "Surface" the best name they could come up with? Geeze.
It even makes them sound like a copycat who is coming up a day late and dollar short.
Makes "zune" seem like something they actually had a marketing professional come up with by comparrison.
I paid $3.26 a gallon for gas this morning. A short time back it was pushing $4 a gallon in my area. Gas prices always go up in the summer, yet this year gas prices are coming down.
I'm still seeing Republicans who are fighting for Mitt Romney getting stopped in video interviews after claiming that President Obama has "done nothing about high gas prices".
I don't think the President can do much about gas prices at all, though I would love to give credit to President Obama.
BTW, I highly recommend this site and paying in cash. You will get a MUCH better deal than you could hope to get with any gas/credit card and the place you will get it at will likely be around the corner from where you live or work:
gasbuddy.com
It is Larry Ellision's money, he is 100% entitled to do with it what he wants, I am not jealous of him. Having said that there is something out of whack in the world when so many people live in huts, don't have shoes, struggle to eat and in the US are scared to death for the future while this one person gets to own his own island.
I heard on CNN the other day that millionaires make up 0.001 % of the global population.
Like I wrote, it is Ellison's money, he is entitled to do with it whatever he wants. Maybe instead of buying an island he should think about directing that money to help the world.
workers themselves, who all too often turn down good jobs at good wages.
I saw the article the original poster referred to in his/her blurb.
The phrase the they used went something like
"shortage of skilled workers willing to take those jobs at the pay offered".
Translation: not necessarily a shortage of skilled workers, but skilled workers willing to work for the lower pay companies wanted them to accept.
Slashdot or at least "ask slashdot" just jumped the shark with this post. How to introduce a friend to Star Trek, really?
All of the WORTHY posts that get rejected without a note and this thread gets allowed..........and........in a new feature set up to be helpful with technical questions?
No offense to the original poster or anyone running Slashdot, but it is no longer a "news for nerds" site, it is "People Magazine Online For Nerds".
Again, nothing personal, my comments are about this thread being allowed and in this section especially. It isn't anything personal about the people who let it happen.
Happy Thursday
It is positive sign that they care enough about the Linux community to bother to have their PR department give the usual empty corporate zero content response.
I switched to KUbuntu 11.10
Can you see a "news" headline like this
I have a 9 year old custom built box at home and have been using Ubuntu on it since Ubuntu came out.
When I tried to upgrade to 12.04 I got all sorts of kernel error messages during the install and related problems later.
It is my understanding ( less than perfect ) that support for hardware fell through the cracks between changes NVIDIA made and changes Canonical made.
I've been window shopping for a new PC system and several people told me that onboard video has improved substantially in the last 9 years, that since I am not a gamer, that I do not need to get a separate video card anymore.
Goodbye NVIDA.
I think this contest is a great idea. Linux needs apps that are unique to Linux that people love.
It seems like every other OS has some, that people miss when they leave that platform and maybe find a sustitute that isn't quite the same thing.
There are no apps like that on Linux for me. My main apps are apps that run answhere: Firefox, Visual Slickedit, Eclipse, Gmail Chat.
The closest I've come to feeling enthusiastic about a linux desktop app is the KDE file manager Dolphin. With just a few easy preferences choices I was able to make it into something very much like Total Commander on Windows, but in some ways better. I love the convenience of the Places panel for quickly finding mounted drives
The only reason this happened because Rand Paul himself got inconvenienced and offended.........like the resut of us.
Don't mistake it for a sese of civic duty or patriotism.
Like the blurb said, the changes are neglible beyond privatizing airport security. Translation: the TSA made Paul angry so now he is getting even by trying to make them go away.
Paul would be fine if we were all working sub minimum wage in company towns like the kind that existed in the 19th century where the owners got away with shooting their workers.
Paul is a first rate scum bag.
The Tsunami was natural. If the Tsunami brings new species to the West coast than that is a natural process. Are the species "invasive" or is just another iteration of a long standing natural cycle? What about if the Tsunami is partially man-made via global climate change?
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I sort of agree with the blurb that started this thread.
Instead of being a skilled professional with power to change things and work on a problem, when you go to the cloud you demote yourself to a gopher who can only make complaints via a phone call when things don't work.
Aside from making yourself much more dispensable ( "Well, gee, *I* can call and complain too") you get the frustration of feeling powerless. At least with your own systems you can go in, take readings and try things.
I haven't used the KDE for years. I started using Ubuntu with the first release. I would peak at the KDE on a livecd once every few years, but have only used GNOME via Ubuntu.
Having a normal, non-huge monitor, I gave KUbuntu a try when Ubuntu 12.04 forced Unity on people.
I was pleasantly surprised!
The KDE looked slick.
With just a few clicks I was able to get the file manager, Dolphin, to resemble something like Total Commander. First time in years I actually feel attached to linux software versus software that will run on linux.
With another click I was able to set the first day of the week to Monday, in all apps with a calendar. In GNOME the force the "standard" on you listed for your country. It takes editing config files, and doing it again with each daylight savings time update to do that GNOME.
The "File | Save As" dialog boxes also let you rename, move, delete files/dirs like you can in Windows. A feature always lacking in linux ( by THEIR choice ) that I always found to be seriously annoying.
Configuring the KDE was also very easy. All pointing and clicking with the many, many, options gracefully hidden away but easy to find when you want them. Custom keybinding were EASY, no horrid GNOME sysconfig editor.
I like the "new" KDE so much I decided to get a new PC to run it instead of migrating to the Mac.
I get where you are coming from. I used EMACS in college for everything when I was learning to program. After school, I have used Visual Slickedit since it has the benefits of an IDE with the features of an advanced text editor.
I've started learning Eclipse since I am a Java programmer and it seems to be a defacto standard in many Java shops.
I've been very impressed so far. My only disappointment is the loss of a few text editing features, some of which have been replaced by this extension:
http://tkilla.ch/column_mode/
I don't know how well Eclipse would appeal to non-Java programmers or people who do many different things. It seems to work on a very different paradign from Emacs and text editor centric IDEs.
Instead of "open any file and crunch text" it is organized around projects and one way of doing things. I know, that sounds bad, but with the features they have and the thought they put into it, it actually does relieve the Java programmer of a lot of pain.
No second scandal ( yet.....LOL ), my mistake
Yep and it is sad.
Maybe back in the 90s there was a reason for the existence of either:
"Gee what if some poor programmer is stranded in India programming on a 386 where s/he can't use the much more convenient non-archaic development software".
Well, now India has as nice as computers as Americans and Europeans do.
James Gosling, the founder of EMACS ( and Java ) has even posted pieces on the web begging people to stop living in the past and move on.
There are better things now than EMACS and VI, even free as in beer for the cheapskates who don't want to spend money for their career.
I think continued use of either piece of software reflects a rigid anti-change mentality that is stuck in the past and against learning new things.
The IT sector will likely only be free of this software after a generation of IT people literally dies off.
Looks like Microsoft is taking lessons from the General Accounting Office for The United States in regards to convention behavior.
Looks like a number of people haven't gotten the message yet that in 2012 if you behave badly, someone will see it as we live in the internet age and the age of Big Brother.
Dumbasses.
Drinking regular soda is like having a piece of cake or a sandwich, but without the satisfaction. Diet has nasty chemicals. Both contribute to osteoporosis and tooth decay.
Tea, on the other hand, has caffeine, comes in a variety of strengths, has next to no calories, does not hurt your stomach like coffee, is CHEAP, is great hot and is great cold.
Forget Lipton and other teas you find in the supermarket. Other countries know that Americans do not know tea and they send us their crap.
Order something nice online, even a pricier tea will be competitive per serving against a tall bottle of soda from a soda machine.
Drink your tea plain. If you can't get used to the taste 1 tsp of sugar will help and is only about 20 calories ( versus 200 + in a soda ). Mixed blends with things like orange or lemon grass will make the tea tasty enough that you may not need to add anything at all.
I find that tea has a "cleaner burn" than soda. I feel alert but calm also at the same time and I've read that the other chemicals in tea do that. Soda after a point makes me irritable.
Soda has no redeeming value and a lot of nasty things. People need to drink less.
However, being a liberal, never having voted Republican, I am against the government telling people what they can and can't eat.
I'm surprised that Mayor Bloomberg, a Republican, a party known for beating that drum is initiating this ban.
People who just bought Big Gulps are not going to hang around where they bought it. It is grab and go, so they aren't likely to hang around for refills.
I think this is pretty debatable. Most sites for general public use should probably work in some form for ie7 and ie8. For most, there is probably still enough market share there to justify the effort.
I think the only people left using the dreaded IE 6 are orgs who built webapps hardcoded to it and maybe a few people with very ancient computers. The first group is not really relevant to the kind of site the startup is making ( and they likely have modern machines where other modern browsers are likely installed ).