Hating on the current quality of movies/games/music automatically gets you karma points even if you haven't the least bit of idea of what you're talking about....
How you extended crappy movies to multiple genres to get an interesting ranking seems to be the sad state of Slashdot. The GP focused on movies but unfortunately didn't take the time to elaborate on what they meant by crappy. I'm betting they were singling out the shallow screenplays and low budgets towards casting being covered up by the Wow factor.
If even 1% of the population of the US did the same...
So where does the notion of doing it for Justice come in if all we fixate on is Greed? I'm glad a brilliant lawyer is bringing sanity to the equation, but dumping a pot of gold on him insults the verdict.
Apple outsources their internal IT work, and the Indian vendors tend to be the low bidders. Product development is a different story.
-jcr
Then things have changed since I left. The IT Department was the single largest budget after us NeXT folks arrived. They had over 500 employees, 180 internally developed applications and were a bit overwhelmed when we downsized to a more modest amount and cranked up efficiencies. However, we didn't send them to India.
Washington State is the 26th out of 50 states for business taxes. Bill Gates and his company can be my guest and get the hell out of Dodge. They don't contribute squat outside of a 50 mile radius to Washington state. They've skated out of paying for overpass projects and connecting paths to their main campus and branch campus to the tune of several hundred million. They can kiss my ass.
Thank You. It's nice to see a grown up cutting down these fallacious claims that most certainly stem from some adolescent ideal of conservatism or libertarianism that somehow they think the Founders embraced. It's amazing how many quotes attributed to the past ignore the context of the past in which they were applied.
...I'd say that the moment silicon valley (a dynamic, spontaneous effusion of capitalism on the tech frontier) requires GOVERNMENT intervention to remain viable, you can probably stick a fork in it.
Adam Smith cringes in disgust.
Not at the Government but at the Greed of Corporations will Smith cringe in disgust.
Wealth of Nation's main premise presumes all basic needs of Society are stable and manageable before the Free Market drives it as if it's a separate, closed system that won't impact an already stable system of zero needs.
California was too expensive to live in back before the Dot com Boom and worse today. You have regions around the US where the cost of developing sectors of R&D are a fraction of that in Silicon Valley and would better serve spreading the talent around the US instead of concentrating it into a zone where you drown in debt while gaining experience.
I left Apple a year after my former company, NeXT, merged with Apple because the cost of living and going through a divorce was bankrupting my ass. The cost has far surpassed the cost of living adjustments and it is not worth going back.
Right on the heels of MS 2010 beta. Doesn't appear to be much new things, it's just faster. Still. Openoffice is the best office suite out there in my opinion.
Native OpenType Postcript fonts alone makes it finally worth exploring Writer.
Go back 100 years. Live for 10 days. Come back and apologise.
One hundred years ago I could travel the world freely [monetary means my own responsibility], smoke opium, hashish, snort cocaine, consume Coca Leaf, have concubines to teach me foreign languages and much much more. Today, I can sit on my ass, read great stories of fiction and non-fiction from the likes of Twain, Crowley, Sir Richard F. Burton and others who saw it all, while now I can virtually watch porn, buy sanctioned booze and be bored out of my skull with TV. Trains weren't an after thought. Hell, even the food was healthier for us.
Not everything had it's rustic charms as you are implying, but one observation has become abundantly clear--instead of advancements affording the average non-formally educated person a broader and deeper understanding of human existence, it's created a generation of inarticulate, undereducated simpletons who nearly bankrupted the world in just a fraction of the time it took to build it up.
We already bitch and moan about our privacy and how much information we want any single company to have.
Now you're excited about giving the internet's biggest data-miner 100% of your browsing traffic and behavior?
Just because someone agrees with you doesn't mean the people who disagreed somehow changed their mind. Perhaps they just didn't read you comment, or didn't bother replying...
As for Amarok 2, I personally don't see what's wrong with it. It does what I want it to do (organize and play music) and stays out of the way.
If that's what you classify as, ``stays out of the way,'' I'd hate to see what you consider in your face.
The entire aim of Amarok is to provide contextual information about your library (and all other music sources you play) to help you rediscover your music.
There are simple players like Juk.
If you want a really simple client, then Amarok is not for you. If you liked Amarok 1.4, but don't like the defaults in Amarok 2, it takes less than a minute to configure it how you want.
I'm not seeing any reasonable explanation for someone being upset that Amarok 2 being MORE FLEXIBLE than Amarok 1.4 when it comes to making it look and operate how you want.
I already know the music I own and it's accompanying context. Hell I follow the bands I like, buy their CDs, even rip them to flac/mp3/ogg/whatever when I'm at my workstation to have background music [assuming I'm not doing heavy compiles and then I turn to the standard home system]. I have the liner notes, know what gear they used, etc. Amarok is still a POS design and those fat buttons at the top look like a 12 year old designed them. The interface looks like a bad version of Kopete's contact list, mixed with a center piece for the Artwork and other stuff with the right column being a narcissistic opportunity to rate my own music. I bought it. I already like it.
> desktop widgets are basically small applications that don't scale
they scale visually, and they scale to different device form factors. if you are looking for them to scale in functionality to, say, replace Digikam or Kdenlive, that won't happen. they are helpers and quick tools. they aren't supposed to replace applications on their own, just as an application like Digikam is never going to be something you'd put in a nice photo frame device to show some photo collection:)
> use a different window manager
they aren't windows in form or function. unless you consider the objects in inkscape, oo impress, etc. to be windows as well.
> WHO WANTS TO ROTATE A FUCKING WIDGET?
while many seem to enjoy positioning photos just as they'd like on their desktop (which is a fairly minimal reason for rotation), it's actually rather useful when you have a large flat surface that lays horizontally.
given that rotation is couple of lines of code and has resulted in ~zero maintenance overhead and does not impact your usage if you don't care about rotation, this seems like a molehill rather than a mountain.
> At least with Gnome every panel and panel applet is optional
it is the same with KDE Plasma Desktop.
in KDE 3 you were always stuck with a minimum of one panel, actually, and that is gone with Plasma Desktop where you can remove all the panels if you wish.
Everybody raise their hands if they have a table top display. I didn't think so. Rotation should be disabled, by default. Translation and constrained aspect ratio scaling enabled, of course.
No. Currently, a few nagging bugs in 4.3.4 supposedly fixed in 4.3.5 is crashing the connection to kdeinit
tyrione@horus:~$ kate
kbuildsycoca4 running...
KCrash: Application 'kbuildsycoca4' crashing...
sock_file=/home/tyrione/.kde/socket-horus/kdeinit4__0
kdeinit4: preparing to launch/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi
ERROR: Running KSycoca failed.
KCrash: Application 'kate' crashing...
sock_file=/home/tyrione/.kde/socket-horus/kdeinit4__0
kdeinit4: preparing to launch/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi
[1]+ Stopped kate
tyrione@horus:~$
Having purged KDE 4.3.4 [including config files] and reinstalling KDE4.3.4 on Debian Sid hasn't improved it at all. Luckily I keep a fresh GNOME installed as well.
Wow almost a meg for the front png file slide4.png... easy to understand why site inst responding already....
It's painfully slow. They must have something against a jpg file format when it comes to the large graphics size or they just can't figure out you can create layers [divs] to duplicate that front pay with alpha transparency in pngs while the background including the shadow and rounded rectangles can actually be a jpg inline. It would most likely take > 1MB and cut it down to around 200K.
I agree with Google's aim: Prevent orphaned works from disappearing.
I disagree with the way they are trying to do it because it tramples all over the law to do so, -and- guarantees a monopoly while it's doing it. I think the DOJ is saying the same.
Leave that up to the US Copyright Office to manage, not a corporation.
Suddenly P2P programs can't get accredited anywhere, regardless of their legitimate use because they 'don't meet standards' or other such vague explanation, and exorbitant fees are charged for processing applications that cut the smaller players out of the market.
You know, kinda like the app store.
Greetings from Orion, RAW Here. You just lost the right to have Fnord in your name! Someone reject your app that you're that butt-sore about it?
Even here in the U.S., one of the most common Internet-related
questions that I receive is also one of the most deeply disturbing:
Why can't the U.S. require an Internet "driver's license" so that
there would be no way (ostensibly) to do anything anonymously on the
Net?
The road to ruin was paved with good intentions. However, that includes ludicrous ideas.
Hi, I'm Separation of Powers, and I take laws that Congress makes and give them to the Executive branch so they can enforce them.
In other news, you really don't know what those words you said mean, do you?
Wrong movie. Cyber warriors are like road warriors except the "road" is the information super-highway. Now, I know that's confusing because the Internets are more like tubes than like dumptrucks, but still, the Internet is exactly like a highway for information only superer.
So much as you'd expect, these cyber warriors will be riding around in cyber-cars (aka computers) trying to hoard cyber-gasoline, and perhaps trying to get revenge for their murdered cyber-wives. I know, it sounds funny, but you'd totally understand if you were a hacker who was familiar with cyberspace. The most important thing is to make sure all the T1s don't break through your firewalls and get access to your IP addresses.
And you thought he was interested in an analogous reference? It was meant to be tongue-firmly-in-cheek.
Slashdot Mirror
with the help of the Obama Administration. The PBMR with Westinghouse should finally give Ernesto Fermi his due.
It's the Jungian shadow. Where there is great light, there is great darkness.
I'd mod you up if I had points.
Hating on the current quality of movies/games/music automatically gets you karma points even if you haven't the least bit of idea of what you're talking about....
How you extended crappy movies to multiple genres to get an interesting ranking seems to be the sad state of Slashdot. The GP focused on movies but unfortunately didn't take the time to elaborate on what they meant by crappy. I'm betting they were singling out the shallow screenplays and low budgets towards casting being covered up by the Wow factor.
Move to a country with almost 100% coverage and stop complaining.
I'll sell you a phone like that for £20. BNIB. 30 day contract. No ID needed.
That's cost effective. Just relocate your belongings to a foreign country, set up residency, get a job all for the chance to have 5 bars. Brilliant!
If even 1% of the population of the US did the same...
So where does the notion of doing it for Justice come in if all we fixate on is Greed? I'm glad a brilliant lawyer is bringing sanity to the equation, but dumping a pot of gold on him insults the verdict.
"There was no governement mandate for Verizon to do this, and Verizon spent a boatload of money laying all the fiber."
Telecommunications Act of 1996 - we were supposed to have had 45mbit symmetrical a few YEARS ago.
The OP is just not that smart in thinking Verizon is just laying out the cash w/o any compensation by the US Government.
Apple outsources their internal IT work, and the Indian vendors tend to be the low bidders. Product development is a different story.
-jcr
Then things have changed since I left. The IT Department was the single largest budget after us NeXT folks arrived. They had over 500 employees, 180 internally developed applications and were a bit overwhelmed when we downsized to a more modest amount and cranked up efficiencies. However, we didn't send them to India.
Washington State is the 26th out of 50 states for business taxes. Bill Gates and his company can be my guest and get the hell out of Dodge. They don't contribute squat outside of a 50 mile radius to Washington state. They've skated out of paying for overpass projects and connecting paths to their main campus and branch campus to the tune of several hundred million. They can kiss my ass.
Thank You. It's nice to see a grown up cutting down these fallacious claims that most certainly stem from some adolescent ideal of conservatism or libertarianism that somehow they think the Founders embraced. It's amazing how many quotes attributed to the past ignore the context of the past in which they were applied.
...I'd say that the moment silicon valley (a dynamic, spontaneous effusion of capitalism on the tech frontier) requires GOVERNMENT intervention to remain viable, you can probably stick a fork in it.
Adam Smith cringes in disgust.
Not at the Government but at the Greed of Corporations will Smith cringe in disgust.
Wealth of Nation's main premise presumes all basic needs of Society are stable and manageable before the Free Market drives it as if it's a separate, closed system that won't impact an already stable system of zero needs.
California was too expensive to live in back before the Dot com Boom and worse today. You have regions around the US where the cost of developing sectors of R&D are a fraction of that in Silicon Valley and would better serve spreading the talent around the US instead of concentrating it into a zone where you drown in debt while gaining experience.
I left Apple a year after my former company, NeXT, merged with Apple because the cost of living and going through a divorce was bankrupting my ass. The cost has far surpassed the cost of living adjustments and it is not worth going back.
Right on the heels of MS 2010 beta. Doesn't appear to be much new things, it's just faster. Still. Openoffice is the best office suite out there in my opinion.
Native OpenType Postcript fonts alone makes it finally worth exploring Writer.
Go back 100 years. Live for 10 days. Come back and apologise.
One hundred years ago I could travel the world freely [monetary means my own responsibility], smoke opium, hashish, snort cocaine, consume Coca Leaf, have concubines to teach me foreign languages and much much more. Today, I can sit on my ass, read great stories of fiction and non-fiction from the likes of Twain, Crowley, Sir Richard F. Burton and others who saw it all, while now I can virtually watch porn, buy sanctioned booze and be bored out of my skull with TV. Trains weren't an after thought. Hell, even the food was healthier for us.
Not everything had it's rustic charms as you are implying, but one observation has become abundantly clear--instead of advancements affording the average non-formally educated person a broader and deeper understanding of human existence, it's created a generation of inarticulate, undereducated simpletons who nearly bankrupted the world in just a fraction of the time it took to build it up.
this is nothing but good in my book.
We already bitch and moan about our privacy and how much information we want any single company to have. Now you're excited about giving the internet's biggest data-miner 100% of your browsing traffic and behavior?
I'll take it he works for Google.
Just because someone agrees with you doesn't mean the people who disagreed somehow changed their mind. Perhaps they just didn't read you comment, or didn't bother replying... As for Amarok 2, I personally don't see what's wrong with it. It does what I want it to do (organize and play music) and stays out of the way.
If that's what you classify as, ``stays out of the way,'' I'd hate to see what you consider in your face.
The entire aim of Amarok is to provide contextual information about your library (and all other music sources you play) to help you rediscover your music.
There are simple players like Juk.
If you want a really simple client, then Amarok is not for you. If you liked Amarok 1.4, but don't like the defaults in Amarok 2, it takes less than a minute to configure it how you want.
I'm not seeing any reasonable explanation for someone being upset that Amarok 2 being MORE FLEXIBLE than Amarok 1.4 when it comes to making it look and operate how you want.
I already know the music I own and it's accompanying context. Hell I follow the bands I like, buy their CDs, even rip them to flac/mp3/ogg/whatever when I'm at my workstation to have background music [assuming I'm not doing heavy compiles and then I turn to the standard home system]. I have the liner notes, know what gear they used, etc. Amarok is still a POS design and those fat buttons at the top look like a 12 year old designed them. The interface looks like a bad version of Kopete's contact list, mixed with a center piece for the Artwork and other stuff with the right column being a narcissistic opportunity to rate my own music. I bought it. I already like it.
> desktop widgets are basically small applications that don't scale
they scale visually, and they scale to different device form factors. if you are looking for them to scale in functionality to, say, replace Digikam or Kdenlive, that won't happen. they are helpers and quick tools. they aren't supposed to replace applications on their own, just as an application like Digikam is never going to be something you'd put in a nice photo frame device to show some photo collection :)
> use a different window manager
they aren't windows in form or function. unless you consider the objects in inkscape, oo impress, etc. to be windows as well.
> WHO WANTS TO ROTATE A FUCKING WIDGET?
while many seem to enjoy positioning photos just as they'd like on their desktop (which is a fairly minimal reason for rotation), it's actually rather useful when you have a large flat surface that lays horizontally.
given that rotation is couple of lines of code and has resulted in ~zero maintenance overhead and does not impact your usage if you don't care about rotation, this seems like a molehill rather than a mountain.
> At least with Gnome every panel and panel applet is optional
it is the same with KDE Plasma Desktop.
in KDE 3 you were always stuck with a minimum of one panel, actually, and that is gone with Plasma Desktop where you can remove all the panels if you wish.
Everybody raise their hands if they have a table top display. I didn't think so. Rotation should be disabled, by default. Translation and constrained aspect ratio scaling enabled, of course.
Is debian alright ?
No. Currently, a few nagging bugs in 4.3.4 supposedly fixed in 4.3.5 is crashing the connection to kdeinit
/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi
tyrione@horus:~$ kate
kbuildsycoca4 running...
KCrash: Application 'kbuildsycoca4' crashing...
sock_file=/home/tyrione/.kde/socket-horus/kdeinit4__0
kdeinit4: preparing to launch
ERROR: Running KSycoca failed.
KCrash: Application 'kate' crashing...
sock_file=/home/tyrione/.kde/socket-horus/kdeinit4__0
kdeinit4: preparing to launch
[1]+ Stopped kate
tyrione@horus:~$
Having purged KDE 4.3.4 [including config files] and reinstalling KDE4.3.4 on Debian Sid hasn't improved it at all. Luckily I keep a fresh GNOME installed as well.
Wow almost a meg for the front png file slide4.png ... easy to understand why site inst responding already....
It's painfully slow. They must have something against a jpg file format when it comes to the large graphics size or they just can't figure out you can create layers [divs] to duplicate that front pay with alpha transparency in pngs while the background including the shadow and rounded rectangles can actually be a jpg inline. It would most likely take > 1MB and cut it down to around 200K.
Just wait until there is ..
no more powerline!
That would clean up a lot of space :)
Bury the power lines. Problem solved.
I agree with Google's aim: Prevent orphaned works from disappearing.
I disagree with the way they are trying to do it because it tramples all over the law to do so, -and- guarantees a monopoly while it's doing it. I think the DOJ is saying the same.
Leave that up to the US Copyright Office to manage, not a corporation.
Suddenly P2P programs can't get accredited anywhere, regardless of their legitimate use because they 'don't meet standards' or other such vague explanation, and exorbitant fees are charged for processing applications that cut the smaller players out of the market.
You know, kinda like the app store.
Greetings from Orion, RAW Here. You just lost the right to have Fnord in your name! Someone reject your app that you're that butt-sore about it?
The road to ruin was paved with good intentions. However, that includes ludicrous ideas.
Hi, I'm Separation of Powers, and I take laws that Congress makes and give them to the Executive branch so they can enforce them. In other news, you really don't know what those words you said mean, do you?
Touché.
Wrong movie. Cyber warriors are like road warriors except the "road" is the information super-highway. Now, I know that's confusing because the Internets are more like tubes than like dumptrucks, but still, the Internet is exactly like a highway for information only superer.
So much as you'd expect, these cyber warriors will be riding around in cyber-cars (aka computers) trying to hoard cyber-gasoline, and perhaps trying to get revenge for their murdered cyber-wives. I know, it sounds funny, but you'd totally understand if you were a hacker who was familiar with cyberspace. The most important thing is to make sure all the T1s don't break through your firewalls and get access to your IP addresses.
And you thought he was interested in an analogous reference? It was meant to be tongue-firmly-in-cheek.