The recent press, I believe CNN.com and a few others, have mentioned the competition between Firefox and Internet Explorer. One thing I noticed is statements from Microsoft, and otherwise, about how Firefox may have a bit of a challenge on its hands when the next version of Windows is released with an improved Internet Explorer.... The problem is that all of these articles cite "Improved Security" as a feature.
Now, I don't know about you, but the notion of Microsoft allowing their current IE offering to stagnate while developing on their next offering with the big feature being security improvements.... That just strikes me as wrong. They need to take care of their current customers who have already thrown their load in with MS, rather than set them up for future sells based on improvments that should never be labeled as a "Feature"...
Selling security improvments on a browser is like improving selling new gas tanks designs on a Ford so they would be less likely to explode.
"It seems to me that standardized Federal election procedures would help ensure a fair election."
Dear kkrista,
There are Federal election procedures in place. This is known as the "Electoral College". The citizenry of each state does not vote on anything higher than Senators, Representatives, and Electors. Those are state representatives that serve in federal government.
"The ability to filibuster is there for a reason -- to stop a President and 51 Senators (or in this case 55) from the same party from putting an extremist on the Supreme Court."
And all along, I thought the filibuster was a way for senate minority leaders to place undue influence on the political process without fear of retaliation...
I've just put together a page on this topic. It explains how a picture of Morgan Webb that was removed from a server over 7 months ago can still drive traffic to a website from Google Images.
Things like "clicking" are remnants of using a mouse to indicate things, but it's not absolutely necessary. A more natural way to deal with a display on a desk would use something like a pen.
Things like "pens" are remnants of using a lead-based marking utensils to transfer ideas to paper. A more natural way to deal with a display on a desk would use something like a neural information extractor.
Just because it's older doesn't mean it's more natural. Personally, I much prefer mice and keyboards to pens for almost everything I do on the computer... and most of it is graphics related.
Of course, you claim to be part of an HCI-related research group yet you fanboy KDE, so I was having a hard time swallowing that post anyway.:)
A quick timeline: 1) Arrival of Saint IGNUcius 2) The "acid trip" speech by Gil 3) Saint IGNUcius thinks the analogy to legalizing drugs was a bit to freaky
Seriously, page 4: "And Stallman was like, Wait a minute there, that's not quite the way it went," Gil recalls. "It freaked him a little to think I was associating the free software movement with the movement to legalize drugs.""
All I can say is wow. And that I wish I had more mod points.
While a good deal of posters will take the objective viewpoint, I don't think you'll find a ton of sympathy for the female players here in slashdot.... Let's face it, most of these folk happen to be guys that are discriminated against by females every day.
- Disks fail. When you stick a server in a rack and leave it running for 5 or 6 years (unlike your average/.'ers desktop which probably gets a shake-up far more often), you won't regret being able to hot-swap a failed drive on your RAID array with a spare.
- Power supplies fail... To be honset, this isn't nearly as big a deal in the hot-swap arena as the hard drives. However, having 2 power supplies in a server machine means that things are significantly less bad when or if one of them happens to fail.
- Vendor commitment. From those old Compaq Proliants to the new Dell Poweredge machines, they were built to be stuffed in a rack and left untouched (unless something fails... see above). They'll come with hardware that those vendors usually stake their reputation on or even had a hand in building. Even the management software isn't always bad....
Slightly offtopic, but I see great things for the future of women in politics if such a situation was agreed upon by the parties for the next set of debates.
"I have a half-completed design doc for System Shock 3: Earth, a MMORPG (it's a good idea, trust me)."
1) What are you smoking?
2) Can I have some?
Article is way off base... such as...
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"Rap, for one, started as do-it-yourself music among lower-income black men from distressed urban neighborhoods, recorded by artists on inexpensive equipment and distributed on handmade tapes by local labels. Yet within two decades, rap has become the dominant popular music across the world."
Two decades ago... when Run DMC "walk this way" with Aerosmith, right? Can't get much more amateur than that.
Rap? "... the dominant popular music across the world." I don't think so. Maybe if you include the various ins-and-outs of hip-hop and pop-hop, you get closer... but still, I wouldn't call it dominant.
"Likewise, according to one estimate, 90% of the content in The Sims is created by a Pro-Am sector of The Sims ' playing community."
I'd guess at least 90% of the worlds video games are created by amateurs. Doesn't mean that they have 90% of the audience, not by a long shot.
It doesn't help that the article's author is a one trick pony... For months, years, whatever, Charles Leadbeater has been doing this "Amareur Revolution" crying, just check google. I'm not sure what would make this article stand out.
If they really want to make a ton of money and have this product take off, try selling it to adults. Please. Then build it into gamespy and various game servers. There's nothing more annoying than playing an FPS when some 12-year-old bowl-of-brain-mush comes in and decides to use all of the latest words he's picked up before they go out of style. "Hey, you Nazi-licking (%black slang%) baby (%illegal activity%) roosterface! Yeah, I'm talking to you!"
Okay, so we all know they don't use caps and punctuation, but you get the point. I'd pay good money to know that other people I'm playing against aren't as likely to be mentally damamged, even if it means locking out the good teen gamers.
Try running OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Evolution and GNOME on the same system - it slows to a crawl. There are LOADS of people with 64 and 128M boxes out there who can't run a modern, desktop Linux effectively because it's getting so large and sluggish, and there are endless posts around the Net from newcomers who're puzzled as to why Linux is 'so slow'.
SuSE won't even install on 64MB systems, last I tried.
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The recent press, I believe CNN.com and a few others, have mentioned the competition between Firefox and Internet Explorer. One thing I noticed is statements from Microsoft, and otherwise, about how Firefox may have a bit of a challenge on its hands when the next version of Windows is released with an improved Internet Explorer.... The problem is that all of these articles cite "Improved Security" as a feature.
Now, I don't know about you, but the notion of Microsoft allowing their current IE offering to stagnate while developing on their next offering with the big feature being security improvements.... That just strikes me as wrong. They need to take care of their current customers who have already thrown their load in with MS, rather than set them up for future sells based on improvments that should never be labeled as a "Feature"...
Selling security improvments on a browser is like improving selling new gas tanks designs on a Ford so they would be less likely to explode.
"It seems to me that standardized Federal election procedures would help ensure a fair election."
Dear kkrista,
There are Federal election procedures in place. This is known as the "Electoral College". The citizenry of each state does not vote on anything higher than Senators, Representatives, and Electors. Those are state representatives that serve in federal government.
"The ability to filibuster is there for a reason -- to stop a President and 51 Senators (or in this case 55) from the same party from putting an extremist on the Supreme Court."
And all along, I thought the filibuster was a way for senate minority leaders to place undue influence on the political process without fear of retaliation...
Then Tom Daschle had to prove me wrong.
I've just put together a page on this topic. It explains how a picture of Morgan Webb that was removed from a server over 7 months ago can still drive traffic to a website from Google Images.
And yet, there's been no mention hot sweedish blondes that prefer gadgets...
I learned everything I know about Sweeden from the Internet.
Remember to vote, or P. Diddy will kill you.
Probably the crime was actually to let customers read the New York Times. In China communists eyes, that is high treason.
I guess China wants to limit access, only allowing specific brands of fabricated news.
I'm finding gnome slicker simpler and speedier than kde these days... odd?
In my opinion, it's not odd at all.
Yes, I'm biased.
Things like "clicking" are remnants of using a mouse to indicate things, but it's not absolutely necessary. A more natural way to deal with a display on a desk would use something like a pen.
:)
Things like "pens" are remnants of using a lead-based marking utensils to transfer ideas to paper. A more natural way to deal with a display on a desk would use something like a neural information extractor.
Just because it's older doesn't mean it's more natural. Personally, I much prefer mice and keyboards to pens for almost everything I do on the computer... and most of it is graphics related.
Of course, you claim to be part of an HCI-related research group yet you fanboy KDE, so I was having a hard time swallowing that post anyway.
"I use Mandrake, so that makes me suave and sophisticated."
In other news, Bud Light gets you lots of chicks. In bikinis. And twins.
Oh, well... It's a Saturday.
Apparently you do, Ali.
A quick timeline:
1) Arrival of Saint IGNUcius
2) The "acid trip" speech by Gil
3) Saint IGNUcius thinks the analogy to legalizing drugs was a bit to freaky
Seriously, page 4: "And Stallman was like, Wait a minute there, that's not quite the way it went," Gil recalls. "It freaked him a little to think I was associating the free software movement with the movement to legalize drugs.""
All I can say is wow. And that I wish I had more mod points.
While a good deal of posters will take the objective viewpoint, I don't think you'll find a ton of sympathy for the female players here in slashdot.... Let's face it, most of these folk happen to be guys that are discriminated against by females every day.
Trust me, GNOME Aisleriot has completely overtaken MS Solitaire. Have you seen the latest 1600x1200 screenshot?
It's obvious to tell by the design that the Nintendo DS was built around another, completely different classic game: Battleship.
- Disks fail. When you stick a server in a rack and leave it running for 5 or 6 years (unlike your average /.'ers desktop which probably gets a shake-up far more often), you won't regret being able to hot-swap a failed drive on your RAID array with a spare.
- Power supplies fail... To be honset, this isn't nearly as big a deal in the hot-swap arena as the hard drives. However, having 2 power supplies in a server machine means that things are significantly less bad when or if one of them happens to fail.
- Vendor commitment. From those old Compaq Proliants to the new Dell Poweredge machines, they were built to be stuffed in a rack and left untouched (unless something fails... see above). They'll come with hardware that those vendors usually stake their reputation on or even had a hand in building. Even the management software isn't always bad....
Slightly offtopic, but I see great things for the future of women in politics if such a situation was agreed upon by the parties for the next set of debates.
"I have a half-completed design doc for System Shock 3: Earth, a MMORPG (it's a good idea, trust me)."
1) What are you smoking?
2) Can I have some?
"Rap, for one, started as do-it-yourself music among lower-income black men from distressed urban neighborhoods, recorded by artists on inexpensive equipment and distributed on handmade tapes by local labels. Yet within two decades, rap has become the dominant popular music across the world."
Two decades ago... when Run DMC "walk this way" with Aerosmith, right? Can't get much more amateur than that.
Rap? "... the dominant popular music across the world." I don't think so. Maybe if you include the various ins-and-outs of hip-hop and pop-hop, you get closer... but still, I wouldn't call it dominant.
"Likewise, according to one estimate, 90% of the content in The Sims is created by a Pro-Am sector of The Sims ' playing community."
I'd guess at least 90% of the worlds video games are created by amateurs. Doesn't mean that they have 90% of the audience, not by a long shot.
It doesn't help that the article's author is a one trick pony... For months, years, whatever, Charles Leadbeater has been doing this "Amareur Revolution" crying, just check google. I'm not sure what would make this article stand out.
I'd better run before the moderators come and take me away again. Here's hoping a highly-charged political topic rescues me. :)
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The "Linux to Windows Migration" is all about migrating from Windows to Linux.
... once you have a good infrastructure and a big middle class, then THAT is when you need to enact tariffs and erect trade barriers.
That sounds great, because we all know America doesn't depend on foreign resources at the moment. (/sarcasim)
If they really want to make a ton of money and have this product take off, try selling it to adults. Please. Then build it into gamespy and various game servers. There's nothing more annoying than playing an FPS when some 12-year-old bowl-of-brain-mush comes in and decides to use all of the latest words he's picked up before they go out of style. "Hey, you Nazi-licking (%black slang%) baby (%illegal activity%) roosterface! Yeah, I'm talking to you!"
Okay, so we all know they don't use caps and punctuation, but you get the point. I'd pay good money to know that other people I'm playing against aren't as likely to be mentally damamged, even if it means locking out the good teen gamers.
Try running OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Evolution and GNOME on the same system - it slows to a crawl. There are LOADS of people with 64 and 128M boxes out there who can't run a modern, desktop Linux effectively because it's getting so large and sluggish, and there are endless posts around the Net from newcomers who're puzzled as to why Linux is 'so slow'.
SuSE won't even install on 64MB systems, last I tried.
I completely agree. Niagra is a thing of the past in this shop.