While Sony isn't very popular on slashdot for obvious reasons, they have some kind of rock solid customer base who keeps buying/upgrading their products.
I'm one of those. I absolutely love Sony hardware: their headphones and earbuds are the best for reasonably-priced consumer brands. However, anything that depends on Sony _software_ is a big no-no.
I can tell what they should stock. Input Devices, lots and lots of them, all models and they should allow people to try them physically.
Just like with Sony, I love Microsoft hardware. I just bought a new MS ergonomic keyboard and I love it to death. All my input devices are now MS, and I don't have a single MS operating system in the house (four computers).
Moodle is a preexisting OSS project, this is just a plugin for making Windows Live web services work with it. This does suggest that MS doesn't think that they can kill moodle; but it isn't their offering.
Actually, it might lead to courses that use Moodle (my university does) to require Windows Live Messenger for each student. That means that Linux users, who otherwise could use the Moodle coursework, will now not be able to interoperate fully with the rest of their coursemates. This seems to me to be adding an option for a _dependency_ on Windows to Moodle. I am afraid that many courses will exercise that option.
This happened in Israeli too a few years ago. Hamas terrorists created a fake Israeli Army jeep and drove it laden with explosives to a border crossing. However, instead of the Hebrew letter "tzadik" they painted the letter "ain" on the jeep, and it was identified before it got to the border. When they were discovered the paniced terrorists blew up the jeep prematurely, killing other Palestinian motorists nearby.
You know, it _doesn't matter_ if this launch was for a communications satellite. Just because this rocket contained a benign payload, doesn't mean the next one will.
You know, it _doesn't matter_ if the Mexicans crossing the border were smuggling pot or not. Just because this van contained a benign payload, doesn't mean the next one will.
North Korea doesn't have the spare money to spend on building their own satellite launching systems when it's so much cheaper to buy a satellite launch from someone else.
That is called dependence, and is also the reason that the US is developing a space program. Why not simply rely on the Russians? Does the US have the resources for Constellation? How many starving people live in the US?
Of course not. But, most people would agree that they are more likely (no matter how small that probability may be) to launch a first strike than the US, Russia, or China
Really, just like Iraq made the first strike against the US? Tell me, what benefit to DPRK would attacking the US have?
They are a relatively small, backward, unstable, and unpredictable nation.
You seem to know so much about them. Or is that what you media tell you?
They simply have less to lose.
I would argue that the US could wipe out N.Korea before N.Korea would wipe out the US. Who has more to lose? For that matter, what balances are in place to prevent the US from attacking N.Korea for little to no reason? Do I have to start linking to the wikipedia articles of various Asian, Latin American, and South American countries to make the point that the US is an aggressor nation?
I have no delusions as to the dangers of N.Korea. But I have no delusions about US interests, either.
I'm not a developer, but I am interested enough in technology to read/. and be on the OpenMoko mailing list. I have been waiting almost two years for them to release a phone that I could buy and use. I don't care if it is buggy, I put up with that on my home computer as well (Fedora). I do care that it will make phone calls. I've been waiting two years for them to get that far! I don't know what they were working on (well, really, I do but I don't care) but they managed to not have a reliable PHONE in there with the rest of the software.
The GP has a valid point. Sure, OpenMoko dying is sad. But to people writing open source software who *also want their software to be used by people*, there are important lessons here. Listen to users. Prioritize so that basic functionality (oh, I dunno, battery life) is working before getting carried away with GUIs, etc. Aim at a user community which is not just developers from day one if you want a product that non-developers can later use. Too many projects act as if being open-source is the most important thing that matters for success, and this just leads to wasted effort within the community.
I only wish that the KDE devs would get this. I know that KDE 4.0 and 4.1 were not meant for end users, but KDE 4.2 is meant for end users and they are completely throwing usability out the window for a few prominent developers' pet projects. Of course, with no business model behind KDE this may be more acceptable than doing so with OpenMoko, however, I feel betrayed after 8 years of loyalty to KDE.
Typo in summary? How about programo in TFA? To watch the ad you need to install Silverlight, which pretty much makes you already a Windows customer now doesn't it?
It would be the case if they had continued working on that model, but they didn't. So basically you would be saying that Windows is stable because Unix is old, which doesn't add up.
From the summary: "...and builds on 1960s technology to make it safer."
Israel handled it by making mails advertising a paid service without prior communication illegal. As politicians are not advertising a service that the email receiver directly pays for, it is legal. This past election, I actually abstained from voting because the party that I intended to vote for sent me spam.
Thanks, I meant primitive. There was a mention of it in some online science magazine, in fact, I found the link to it here on slashdot. I'll try to dig it up.
You'd think that with that 'big ass table' they've been so proudly parading around they'd have this figured out.
I mean, letting everyone think it was a touch screen, when in reality it uses several cameras down below the glass to track motion - you'd hope they'd get it right when it came to something that actually utilized touch...why are we not surprised to learn they've stuffed this up.
The Microsoft Surface was never billed as a touchscreen. It was meant as a language-less user interface. In that regard it works rather well: even primate peoples who have been shown the device could operate it, moving files, opening photos, and such. It is not a general purpose computer in any sense.
Those wires inside the cable are extremely tiny and are joined with nylon thread (probably for endurance) which makes those signal wires almost impossible to handle by hand. So unless you have some special tools and alot of patience I can't recommend cutting the cables.
That special tool is called fire! Half a second under flame and the nylon fibers ball up near the bottom, and the copper wires can then be twisted together. Everything has those fibers now, and you need this technique to modify everything from a cellphone charger to a bluetooth headset to a standalone DVD player.
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While Sony isn't very popular on slashdot for obvious reasons, they have some kind of rock solid customer base who keeps buying/upgrading their products.
I'm one of those. I absolutely love Sony hardware: their headphones and earbuds are the best for reasonably-priced consumer brands. However, anything that depends on Sony _software_ is a big no-no.
I can tell what they should stock. Input Devices, lots and lots of them, all models and they should allow people to try them physically.
Just like with Sony, I love Microsoft hardware. I just bought a new MS ergonomic keyboard and I love it to death. All my input devices are now MS, and I don't have a single MS operating system in the house (four computers).
Apple pulls it off because they've got flash, Nike pulls it off because they've got the same thing Apple has.
Great, now we're going to get proprietary vector animation in our shoes?
They need someone to put the ribbon on the presents.
Unfortunately, the presents no longer open the way that they always have.
They do if you know the right tricks:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=remove+ribbon+in+Gift+2009
Moodle is a preexisting OSS project, this is just a plugin for making Windows Live web services work with it. This does suggest that MS doesn't think that they can kill moodle; but it isn't their offering.
Actually, it might lead to courses that use Moodle (my university does) to require Windows Live Messenger for each student. That means that Linux users, who otherwise could use the Moodle coursework, will now not be able to interoperate fully with the rest of their coursemates. This seems to me to be adding an option for a _dependency_ on Windows to Moodle. I am afraid that many courses will exercise that option.
What did you do with the robe and the wizard's hat?
Those are mine.
This happened in Israeli too a few years ago. Hamas terrorists created a fake Israeli Army jeep and drove it laden with explosives to a border crossing. However, instead of the Hebrew letter "tzadik" they painted the letter "ain" on the jeep, and it was identified before it got to the border. When they were discovered the paniced terrorists blew up the jeep prematurely, killing other Palestinian motorists nearby.
I cannot find an English language link, sorry.
You know, it _doesn't matter_ if this launch was for a communications satellite. Just because this rocket contained a benign payload, doesn't mean the next one will.
You know, it _doesn't matter_ if the Mexicans crossing the border were smuggling pot or not. Just because this van contained a benign payload, doesn't mean the next one will.
North Korea doesn't have the spare money to spend on building their own satellite launching systems when it's so much cheaper to buy a satellite launch from someone else.
That is called dependence, and is also the reason that the US is developing a space program. Why not simply rely on the Russians? Does the US have the resources for Constellation? How many starving people live in the US?
Of course not. But, most people would agree that they are more likely (no matter how small that probability may be) to launch a first strike than the US, Russia, or China
Really, just like Iraq made the first strike against the US? Tell me, what benefit to DPRK would attacking the US have?
They are a relatively small, backward, unstable, and unpredictable nation.
You seem to know so much about them. Or is that what you media tell you?
They simply have less to lose.
I would argue that the US could wipe out N.Korea before N.Korea would wipe out the US. Who has more to lose? For that matter, what balances are in place to prevent the US from attacking N.Korea for little to no reason? Do I have to start linking to the wikipedia articles of various Asian, Latin American, and South American countries to make the point that the US is an aggressor nation?
I have no delusions as to the dangers of N.Korea. But I have no delusions about US interests, either.
I'm not a developer, but I am interested enough in technology to read /. and be on the OpenMoko mailing list. I have been waiting almost two years for them to release a phone that I could buy and use. I don't care if it is buggy, I put up with that on my home computer as well (Fedora). I do care that it will make phone calls. I've been waiting two years for them to get that far! I don't know what they were working on (well, really, I do but I don't care) but they managed to not have a reliable PHONE in there with the rest of the software.
Een-gleesh?
Do you speak it motherfucker?!?
The GP has a valid point. Sure, OpenMoko dying is sad. But to people writing open source software who *also want their software to be used by people*, there are important lessons here. Listen to users. Prioritize so that basic functionality (oh, I dunno, battery life) is working before getting carried away with GUIs, etc. Aim at a user community which is not just developers from day one if you want a product that non-developers can later use. Too many projects act as if being open-source is the most important thing that matters for success, and this just leads to wasted effort within the community.
I only wish that the KDE devs would get this. I know that KDE 4.0 and 4.1 were not meant for end users, but KDE 4.2 is meant for end users and they are completely throwing usability out the window for a few prominent developers' pet projects. Of course, with no business model behind KDE this may be more acceptable than doing so with OpenMoko, however, I feel betrayed after 8 years of loyalty to KDE.
and reminds you that there is an ongoing chicken holocaust worldwide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckethead
Why is this modded troll? This guy played in G'f'n'R for a while. Actually, it's the first thing that I though of too when I saw the word "bucket".
This just in: Buying from the manufacture cheaper then going with someone else.
Your news is sure to rock the automotive world.
Buying replacement wipers for my 2007 Ford Focus cost half as much at the Ford dealer than it did anywhere else. Surprised me too.
Typo in summary? How about programo in TFA? To watch the ad you need to install Silverlight, which pretty much makes you already a Windows customer now doesn't it?
I saw this on /. once, seems appropriate right about now:
The difference between Silverlight and Moonlight
No, they're replacing the obsolete 1980s technology (shuttles) with modern, 1960s technology. It's progress.
No, no, Progress is Russian:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_spacecraft
when we get to watch em die light minutes from earth in space.
Even with that risk, I'd sign up as the first to go.
It would be the case if they had continued working on that model, but they didn't. So basically you would be saying that Windows is stable because Unix is old, which doesn't add up.
From the summary:
"...and builds on 1960s technology to make it safer."
So, apparently, they did!
Israel handled it by making mails advertising a paid service without prior communication illegal. As politicians are not advertising a service that the email receiver directly pays for, it is legal. This past election, I actually abstained from voting because the party that I intended to vote for sent me spam.
And certainly steer the conversation away from computers, microsoft, digital rights management, politics, etc.
So, D&D is alright? Yes!
I meant primitive. There was a mention and link in a comment here on slashdot in one of the Surface dupes.
Thanks, I meant primitive. There was a mention of it in some online science magazine, in fact, I found the link to it here on slashdot. I'll try to dig it up.
Inconceivable!
(fixed that for you)
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
(Were you expecting maybe a different meme?)
You'd think that with that 'big ass table' they've been so proudly parading around they'd have this figured out.
I mean, letting everyone think it was a touch screen, when in reality it uses several cameras down below the glass to track motion - you'd hope they'd get it right when it came to something that actually utilized touch...why are we not surprised to learn they've stuffed this up.
The Microsoft Surface was never billed as a touchscreen. It was meant as a language-less user interface. In that regard it works rather well: even primate peoples who have been shown the device could operate it, moving files, opening photos, and such. It is not a general purpose computer in any sense.
Those wires inside the cable are extremely tiny and are joined with nylon thread (probably for endurance) which makes those signal wires almost impossible to handle by hand. So unless you have some special tools and alot of patience I can't recommend cutting the cables.
That special tool is called fire! Half a second under flame and the nylon fibers ball up near the bottom, and the copper wires can then be twisted together. Everything has those fibers now, and you need this technique to modify everything from a cellphone charger to a bluetooth headset to a standalone DVD player.
If something is really, really private, don't have a record of it at all, keep it just in your head.
That didn't work so well for the developers of Fogbank.