Come on? All this over trying to prepend GNU/ to Linux? Seriously. Why aren't these people battling the real issues, instead of waring amongst themselves. I don't care if Linus called it Linus Torvald's Very Own Operating System, I don't care. And neither should anyone else. When does it end? What if someone else contribs tons of code to Linux? Should we then have New/Gnu/Linux, when does the madness end?. It's Linux, live with it. If you don't like it, you are welcome to fork it.
Thats like asking all the Internet Application developers to please just develop one do-it-all Internet application that uses the same Protocol.
The point is to have choice. Just because something becomes popular, lots of users start using it, and there is competition doesn't mean they have to interoperate or anything. Sure that would be a cool feature, but thats up to the developer, not the users. I don't go telling Linus Torvalds I want him to make sure Linux runs Windows binaries natively, at any cost.
Its not the telephone system, its not an essential service that all should have free access to. Hell, everyone still has free access to use AOL IM AND MSN, AND YAHOO! AND JABBER. They're only complaining because its a "hassle" to have all those programs installed to chat.
What next? The government decides AIM should interface with the public phone system so users without computers can still chat? Give me a break. There are no monopolies here. Its good healthy competition and it should remain like this. I wasn't forced to use AOL, I wasn't forced to use MSN, and I certainly wasn't forced to use Yahoo!. I'm still not even forced to have a home phone. Alright, enough ranting.
Lets hope they didn't pull a Palm and its really 10.9993949929 Megapixels. Whew, dodge a bullet there.
But in all seriousiness. I sure hope it's really 11 Megapixels and not "11 Megapixels if you count these as individual pixels even though the industry standard doesn't, rar rar rar rar rar.."
10 Nanometer you say? Whats that in Thickness of Human Hair?
Yes, this is good news for me as well.
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I'm a UUNET (gasp Worldcom) customer who uses Covad for my telco. When I first heard about Covad filing Chapter 11, I immediately called UUNET/Worldcom to determine what to do if Covad were go out of business. Worldcom, essentially said I would be shit out of luck. So for the last 6 months or so, I've been a little on edge about whats happening with Covad, but now that I see Covad recovering, I'm happy.
And then Worldcom filed Chapter 11.. Luckily Covad supports more than just Worldcom in my area, unlike how Covad is the only telco that can provide me DSL.. Funny how Covad uses Verizon lines, yet Verizon can't qualify me for DSL and Covad can..
You're damn right it affects coding quality, and work quality. How can I be expected to work well, with a clean mind and plan if I no longer have my own personal life.
These 8 hour days have to stop, we need to be working 15 hours a day and weekends, balls to the wall.
The company doesn't own me. Period. If I heard that statement from my boss, I'd be in my car and on my way home before she had a chance to even blink at me. Despite I do frequent Slashdot, I have a life outside work. When I get hired by X company, I didn't sign on so I could spend my every waking hour and moment working for that company. Any manager who doesn't realize an employee has a life outside the company isn't qualified to manage employees. Period...8 hours day have to stop.. BULLSHIT. Period.
Will this technology usher a new type of online piracy when DVD-Audio and surround sound systems become more commonplace?
Then we have the comment from chrisd:
While this is only audio, it is a good step in the right direction.
Yeah, finding new ways to easily pirate software is a step in the right direction. Wrong. Getting the manufactures and owners of such technology to start believing that not all people are theives and they can allow open standards to exist to allow copying for backups, personal use such as having a copy of said music in my car player; while in my house; or at work is a step in the right direction. All this will do is piss off the RIAA/MPAA, they'll lobby for stricter laws, and we're back here again.
What? No Code Red Mountain Dew? Seriously. It's a new drink. Not as new as the rest, but still fairly new considering its been about 10 years since the latest "outside the box" drink release.
But, even if Code Red was listed, I still agree, Red Fusion tops them all. I love the stuff. Ever since the day it came out, I've been drinking the stuff daily. I sure hope they come out with a diet formula that tastes just as good as Diet Dr. Pepper (the only diet drink except lemon twist I can tolerate).
Red Fusion is light, refreshing. I only hope everyone else agrees with me, else in about a year it'll probably be phased out. At which point I will have a warehouse stock pile of the stuff.
Just like Mouse Gestures, one could have Motion Macros, move your hand in a specific pattern while typing, and have it insert predefined text. Depending on sensitivity, one could do really cool stuff while typing with the Power Glove on.
It's just not there, and will be a while before it is. Last time I checked even the guys over at Square had a very difficult time emulating the look of fabrics. When I hear stuff like this, I'm reminded of an IBM commercial with the actor that played Sisco (Cisco?)..
WHERE ARE ALL THE FLYING CARS? I WAS PROMISED FLYING CARS?!
I'm assuming she can move both her hands minimally. So take two different working suggestions or ideas you come up with, and have them setup on both hands. This way if for some reason one of them fails, the other has a high chance of still working. Using two different ideas also increases the chances incase the reason the one isn't working is a defect that another one would also share. I'm assuming this isn't life-or-death is it?
No, I'm not an O'Reilly employee, I'm just a big fan . O'Reilly has the best technical manuals I have ever seen from one place. But Safari is even better, it's a collection of 100's of good O'Reilly books, put into online format.
Of course something like this isn't free, but its not expensive either. About 10 bucks a month gets you the ability to "subscribe" to about 5 books for 30 days and read them online, or print them! (yes, the terms allow for printing). At the end of the 30 days you can trade in your books and subscribe to new ones. There are other levels of subscription also. It's been one of the best programming resources I've used in a long time. Not just articles and tutorials like you normally find, but real, published, books online, chapters of information. You can even bookmark pages, and add notes to them.
.. but the advertising is already working. I doubt they'll even get it on headstones. Someone will make enough fuss to prevent it. But all the while, guess what, they're getting free advertising off this fuss. Now everyone on Slashdot knows about the game. People reading the news will know, eventually more people will go, "Hey did you hear about Acclaim, they're trying to advertise video games on graves."
Thats the advertising they want, they could care less about having a little plaque on a grave. Seriously, how many people are going to see that headstone other than family members and grounds keepers? The pay off is in the shock and hype. We're feeding it right now.
He has a few points, sure. A lot of them he obviously didn't try hard enough, despite what he says. Fonts for example, I have beautiful anti-aliased fonts under X, using KDE3/QT3. I've even managed to get some GTK Applications with good fonts using gdkxft. And when there is an application I can't get AA fonts with, I set the fonts to a well drawn font. No problems there... However, the one point he does drive home is games. If you are a home user who wants to play lots of PC games, then there is only one real choice, Windows. Sure you can play games on Linux, even good ones like Quake 3, and various WineX emulated ones like Halflife and StarCraft. But to play the variety of games available, without problems, and without having to post to mailling lists on why such and such doesn't work correctly in WineX, then Windows it is.
I still use Linux as my desktop of choice, and I have been for over 5 years. Before that I had OS/2, and before that DOS with Desqview (not/X). The only times I use Windows now are at work, or my laptop, and I get just about everything I need done without a lot of hassle. All in all, the article only reiterates what we already known. Linux has come a long way, and still has a long way to go. However, some of this can hardly be blamed on Linux. It's not Linux's fault that popular games aren't written and distributed for it. It's not Linux's fault that hardware is designed for Windows only with propertitary protocols that are closed source and protected by IP laws. Linux is doing the best it can.
Whoever said it was bad having different networks? It's competition, you know, the same thing we all want to happen with Operating Systems. If all the networks united into one big monolithic network, chances are eventually someone would use that to their advantage and we'd be back here, again, bitching that there are no instant messaging alternatives. I say keep it the way it is.
My Netopia SDSL Router does the same thing. Of course its SDSL Only, plus its technically a business class router, its about the same price, but I got it free with the business SDSL I signed up with uunet. It has two SDSL ports on the back, by default you can only use the second one as a backup, which switches on only when the primary fails. However a 20 dollar firmware upgrade lets me bond them. So for example, if I had two 384k bonded connections, I'd have one 768k connection. Too bad its too expense to make it worth my while =)
I'm looking at this as these companies are representing individuals, even though they obviously aren't, and no money would be given to individuals, but at least Gator wouldn't exist or wouldn't be so annoying.
And no, I didn't install Gator by choice, it got piggyback installed on an application I need for a one time use. I attempted to uninstall it, and for a while I thought I did. Then I noticed I was getting pop-up ads on Slashdot one day. I emailed CmdrTaco and Hemos, the assured me Slashdot wasn't doing popup ads, but this was around the time new subscriptions were being implemented so I wasn't sure, anyhow I investigated my system and found that Gator upon uninstall actually installed a minimal installation in C:\WINNT\System\G, with one exec, G.EXE. When it ran, it had no visible task bar icon, but it would display popups whenever you went to a page. Since almost 100% of the other pages I go to have popups I never noticed, until Slashdot started having them. I do believe that was the intended result, to fool the user that Gator was uninstalled but continue to run as if it were popups from web pages.
Consider this, would you rather use an Operating System, where the community just shrugs off the frequently once a week remote holes with simply, "go grab the updates"..
.. or an Operating System where the community is surprised and in disbelief that a remote hole was found after 5 years which causes entire community to start bitch fights over the right to claim its the most secure Operating System still, despite the fact the remote hole was found by the Operating System developers, and fixed before it has actually been exploited.
You don't have to be Stephen Wolfram to figure this one out.
I live about 15 minutes from D.C. north in Maryland and we have the same traffic cameras. Same up all over baltimore city. My father works as a Fleet Manager for a contracting company that rents out trucks to do city work for Baltimore city. They get about 10 of those traffic citations a day.
My father tells me there are only 2 ways to win a case in court contesting the citation. One, you have convince the judge that the license plate on the vechicle in the picture isn't yours, or isn't clear enough to establish 100% that it is indeed your license plate.
Or two, you have to prove the yellow light you were photographed at wasn't 4 seconds. State law mandates that the yellow lights must be at least 4 seconds long, so if the yellow light was say 3, the light was malfunctioning and you weren't at fault. This of course means you have to go out there with a video camera and get the light being yellow for less than 4 seconds.
Down near DC they don't seem to use flash photography, I think they use actual video cameras, all the cameras around my place are the security camera style ones. Up in Baltimore City they're flash style, and you can tell when you've gotten caught because they produce a large flash. They also look a little like bird houses on a poll next to the intersection.
Thats about all I know personally about these, I don't care for them that much, but ever since they put them in, I carefully pick and chose which yellow lights I'm going to try and go through.
If the memory of my middle school history class serves me right, weren't a lot of Indians killed by a plague brought along with the settlers that landed in the New World? Wasn't this plague similar to the Cold virus, or perhaps flu? Something that most of the english had immune systems over time built up for, but the Indians immune systems had absolutely no way to deal with it, and it became an epidemic.
If there is even a remotely possiblity of any kind of bacteria/virual form of life existing on mars, we must be extremely careful. The bacteria/virus could potentially be so radically different than any strand here on earth, it could potentially wipe out entire species..
Then again, if not it'll make a good movie, I suggest casting Bruce Willis to lead a team of doctors to mars to attempt to find a "counter-virus."
I can't sit down and program for hours unless I have a good chair.. I have to feel as if I'm sitting on nothing.. Uncomfortable pressure points will surely annoy me the entire time I'm attempting to program. It's the key to getting into the zone entirely.
Next to that is a good mouse (if you're doing any GUI work or Graphics with the program) and Keyboard that has that great feel. It's different for everyone, I like my keyboards to click where I can feel I've hit a key. I find I have less typos that way.
And finally, ample supply of drinks and snacks readily available within an arms reach, otherwise I'm forced to break my concentration to get up and to refill my drink or snack. Some good music helps too, with headphones if you aren't alone, it helps you tune out the rest of the world around you.
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Come on? All this over trying to prepend GNU/ to Linux? Seriously. Why aren't these people battling the real issues, instead of waring amongst themselves. I don't care if Linus called it Linus Torvald's Very Own Operating System, I don't care. And neither should anyone else. When does it end? What if someone else contribs tons of code to Linux? Should we then have New/Gnu/Linux, when does the madness end?. It's Linux, live with it. If you don't like it, you are welcome to fork it.
Flying cars, auto-pilot cars, robot maids, colonies on the moon and mars, tasty sugarfree candy, blah blah blah..
Thats like asking all the Internet Application developers to please just develop one do-it-all Internet application that uses the same Protocol.
The point is to have choice. Just because something becomes popular, lots of users start using it, and there is competition doesn't mean they have to interoperate or anything. Sure that would be a cool feature, but thats up to the developer, not the users. I don't go telling Linus Torvalds I want him to make sure Linux runs Windows binaries natively, at any cost.
Its not the telephone system, its not an essential service that all should have free access to. Hell, everyone still has free access to use AOL IM AND MSN, AND YAHOO! AND JABBER. They're only complaining because its a "hassle" to have all those programs installed to chat.
What next? The government decides AIM should interface with the public phone system so users without computers can still chat? Give me a break. There are no monopolies here. Its good healthy competition and it should remain like this. I wasn't forced to use AOL, I wasn't forced to use MSN, and I certainly wasn't forced to use Yahoo!. I'm still not even forced to have a home phone. Alright, enough ranting.
Whatever.
Lets hope they didn't pull a Palm and its really 10.9993949929 Megapixels. Whew, dodge a bullet there.
But in all seriousiness. I sure hope it's really 11 Megapixels and not "11 Megapixels if you count these as individual pixels even though the industry standard doesn't, rar rar rar rar rar.."
10 Nanometer you say? Whats that in Thickness of Human Hair?
I'm a UUNET (gasp Worldcom) customer who uses Covad for my telco. When I first heard about Covad filing Chapter 11, I immediately called UUNET/Worldcom to determine what to do if Covad were go out of business. Worldcom, essentially said I would be shit out of luck. So for the last 6 months or so, I've been a little on edge about whats happening with Covad, but now that I see Covad recovering, I'm happy.
And then Worldcom filed Chapter 11.. Luckily Covad supports more than just Worldcom in my area, unlike how Covad is the only telco that can provide me DSL.. Funny how Covad uses Verizon lines, yet Verizon can't qualify me for DSL and Covad can..
Oh well, I don't like Verizon anyway, Go Covad!
Where are all the flying cars? I was promised Flying cars!
You're damn right it affects coding quality, and work quality. How can I be expected to work well, with a clean mind and plan if I no longer have my own personal life.
..8 hours day have to stop.. BULLSHIT. Period.
These 8 hour days have to stop, we need to be working 15 hours a day and weekends, balls to the wall.
The company doesn't own me. Period. If I heard that statement from my boss, I'd be in my car and on my way home before she had a chance to even blink at me. Despite I do frequent Slashdot, I have a life outside work. When I get hired by X company, I didn't sign on so I could spend my every waking hour and moment working for that company. Any manager who doesn't realize an employee has a life outside the company isn't qualified to manage employees. Period.
Will this technology usher a new type of online piracy when DVD-Audio and surround sound systems become more commonplace?
Then we have the comment from chrisd:
While this is only audio, it is a good step in the right direction.
Yeah, finding new ways to easily pirate software is a step in the right direction. Wrong. Getting the manufactures and owners of such technology to start believing that not all people are theives and they can allow open standards to exist to allow copying for backups, personal use such as having a copy of said music in my car player; while in my house; or at work is a step in the right direction. All this will do is piss off the RIAA/MPAA, they'll lobby for stricter laws, and we're back here again.
What? No Code Red Mountain Dew? Seriously. It's a new drink. Not as new as the rest, but still fairly new considering its been about 10 years since the latest "outside the box" drink release.
But, even if Code Red was listed, I still agree, Red Fusion tops them all. I love the stuff. Ever since the day it came out, I've been drinking the stuff daily. I sure hope they come out with a diet formula that tastes just as good as Diet Dr. Pepper (the only diet drink except lemon twist I can tolerate).
Red Fusion is light, refreshing. I only hope everyone else agrees with me, else in about a year it'll probably be phased out. At which point I will have a warehouse stock pile of the stuff.
Just like Mouse Gestures, one could have Motion Macros, move your hand in a specific pattern while typing, and have it insert predefined text. Depending on sensitivity, one could do really cool stuff while typing with the Power Glove on.
It's just not there, and will be a while before it is. Last time I checked even the guys over at Square had a very difficult time emulating the look of fabrics. When I hear stuff like this, I'm reminded of an IBM commercial with the actor that played Sisco (Cisco?) ..
WHERE ARE ALL THE FLYING CARS? I WAS PROMISED FLYING CARS?!
This isn't exactly an answer, but my $0.02..
I'm assuming she can move both her hands minimally. So take two different working suggestions or ideas you come up with, and have them setup on both hands. This way if for some reason one of them fails, the other has a high chance of still working. Using two different ideas also increases the chances incase the reason the one isn't working is a defect that another one would also share. I'm assuming this isn't life-or-death is it?
No, I'm not an O'Reilly employee, I'm just a big fan . O'Reilly has the best technical manuals I have ever seen from one place. But Safari is even better, it's a collection of 100's of good O'Reilly books, put into online format.
Of course something like this isn't free, but its not expensive either. About 10 bucks a month gets you the ability to "subscribe" to about 5 books for 30 days and read them online, or print them! (yes, the terms allow for printing). At the end of the 30 days you can trade in your books and subscribe to new ones. There are other levels of subscription also. It's been one of the best programming resources I've used in a long time. Not just articles and tutorials like you normally find, but real, published, books online, chapters of information. You can even bookmark pages, and add notes to them.
.. but the advertising is already working. I doubt they'll even get it on headstones. Someone will make enough fuss to prevent it. But all the while, guess what, they're getting free advertising off this fuss. Now everyone on Slashdot knows about the game. People reading the news will know, eventually more people will go, "Hey did you hear about Acclaim, they're trying to advertise video games on graves."
Thats the advertising they want, they could care less about having a little plaque on a grave. Seriously, how many people are going to see that headstone other than family members and grounds keepers? The pay off is in the shock and hype. We're feeding it right now.
He has a few points, sure. A lot of them he obviously didn't try hard enough, despite what he says. Fonts for example, I have beautiful anti-aliased fonts under X, using KDE3/QT3. I've even managed to get some GTK Applications with good fonts using gdkxft. And when there is an application I can't get AA fonts with, I set the fonts to a well drawn font. No problems there. .. However, the one point he does drive home is games. If you are a home user who wants to play lots of PC games, then there is only one real choice, Windows. Sure you can play games on Linux, even good ones like Quake 3, and various WineX emulated ones like Halflife and StarCraft. But to play the variety of games available, without problems, and without having to post to mailling lists on why such and such doesn't work correctly in WineX, then Windows it is.
/X). The only times I use Windows now are at work, or my laptop, and I get just about everything I need done without a lot of hassle. All in all, the article only reiterates what we already known. Linux has come a long way, and still has a long way to go. However, some of this can hardly be blamed on Linux. It's not Linux's fault that popular games aren't written and distributed for it. It's not Linux's fault that hardware is designed for Windows only with propertitary protocols that are closed source and protected by IP laws. Linux is doing the best it can.
I still use Linux as my desktop of choice, and I have been for over 5 years. Before that I had OS/2, and before that DOS with Desqview (not
Whoever said it was bad having different networks? It's competition, you know, the same thing we all want to happen with Operating Systems. If all the networks united into one big monolithic network, chances are eventually someone would use that to their advantage and we'd be back here, again, bitching that there are no instant messaging alternatives. I say keep it the way it is.
My Netopia SDSL Router does the same thing. Of course its SDSL Only, plus its technically a business class router, its about the same price, but I got it free with the business SDSL I signed up with uunet. It has two SDSL ports on the back, by default you can only use the second one as a backup, which switches on only when the primary fails. However a 20 dollar firmware upgrade lets me bond them. So for example, if I had two 384k bonded connections, I'd have one 768k connection. Too bad its too expense to make it worth my while =)
Slap on the wrist, slight embarrassment, wait 6 months, repeat.
I'm looking at this as these companies are representing individuals, even though they obviously aren't, and no money would be given to individuals, but at least Gator wouldn't exist or wouldn't be so annoying.
And no, I didn't install Gator by choice, it got piggyback installed on an application I need for a one time use. I attempted to uninstall it, and for a while I thought I did. Then I noticed I was getting pop-up ads on Slashdot one day. I emailed CmdrTaco and Hemos, the assured me Slashdot wasn't doing popup ads, but this was around the time new subscriptions were being implemented so I wasn't sure, anyhow I investigated my system and found that Gator upon uninstall actually installed a minimal installation in C:\WINNT\System\G, with one exec, G.EXE. When it ran, it had no visible task bar icon, but it would display popups whenever you went to a page. Since almost 100% of the other pages I go to have popups I never noticed, until Slashdot started having them. I do believe that was the intended result, to fool the user that Gator was uninstalled but continue to run as if it were popups from web pages.
So I'm happy, go get 'em guys.
This could be flamebait, but it should be said.
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Consider this, would you rather use an Operating System, where the community just shrugs off the frequently once a week remote holes with simply, "go grab the updates"
.. or an Operating System where the community is surprised and in disbelief that a remote hole was found after 5 years which causes entire community to start bitch fights over the right to claim its the most secure Operating System still, despite the fact the remote hole was found by the Operating System developers, and fixed before it has actually been exploited.
You don't have to be Stephen Wolfram to figure this one out.
Ha Ha!
I live about 15 minutes from D.C. north in Maryland and we have the same traffic cameras. Same up all over baltimore city. My father works as a Fleet Manager for a contracting company that rents out trucks to do city work for Baltimore city. They get about 10 of those traffic citations a day.
My father tells me there are only 2 ways to win a case in court contesting the citation. One, you have convince the judge that the license plate on the vechicle in the picture isn't yours, or isn't clear enough to establish 100% that it is indeed your license plate.
Or two, you have to prove the yellow light you were photographed at wasn't 4 seconds. State law mandates that the yellow lights must be at least 4 seconds long, so if the yellow light was say 3, the light was malfunctioning and you weren't at fault. This of course means you have to go out there with a video camera and get the light being yellow for less than 4 seconds.
Down near DC they don't seem to use flash photography, I think they use actual video cameras, all the cameras around my place are the security camera style ones. Up in Baltimore City they're flash style, and you can tell when you've gotten caught because they produce a large flash. They also look a little like bird houses on a poll next to the intersection.
Thats about all I know personally about these, I don't care for them that much, but ever since they put them in, I carefully pick and chose which yellow lights I'm going to try and go through.
If the memory of my middle school history class serves me right, weren't a lot of Indians killed by a plague brought along with the settlers that landed in the New World? Wasn't this plague similar to the Cold virus, or perhaps flu? Something that most of the english had immune systems over time built up for, but the Indians immune systems had absolutely no way to deal with it, and it became an epidemic.
If there is even a remotely possiblity of any kind of bacteria/virual form of life existing on mars, we must be extremely careful. The bacteria/virus could potentially be so radically different than any strand here on earth, it could potentially wipe out entire species..
Then again, if not it'll make a good movie, I suggest casting Bruce Willis to lead a team of doctors to mars to attempt to find a "counter-virus."
I can't sit down and program for hours unless I have a good chair.. I have to feel as if I'm sitting on nothing.. Uncomfortable pressure points will surely annoy me the entire time I'm attempting to program. It's the key to getting into the zone entirely.
Next to that is a good mouse (if you're doing any GUI work or Graphics with the program) and Keyboard that has that great feel. It's different for everyone, I like my keyboards to click where I can feel I've hit a key. I find I have less typos that way.
And finally, ample supply of drinks and snacks readily available within an arms reach, otherwise I'm forced to break my concentration to get up and to refill my drink or snack. Some good music helps too, with headphones if you aren't alone, it helps you tune out the rest of the world around you.