It's possible, but does this Toyota have a much higher rate of accidents than other cars? Another possibility is that poor drivers will blame the car when they hear rumours of a possibly highly profitable class action lawsuit.
No, I'm saying they possibly won't be autists at all. It might be an attractive development platform for people who aren't immediately attracted to technical minutiae.
Yes, I'm serious, and no, the G4 iMac wasn't released in '96 -- in fact, the first iMac (G3) was introduced in 1998, whose latest supported OS was Panther (2003). Oh, and the latest supported OS for the original G4 iMac was 10.4.11. Don't bother much with facts, do you?
You don't know that. This might be the perfect path into programming for kids, giving them an easy way to implement ideas and learning from each other. Who knows what kind of ideas they may come up with? If it's easy enough to learn so that any smart kid can make their own bluetooth-enabled card game or whatever, I can see this sparking a lot of creativity, and perhaps even make geeking around with technology cool -- phones are social gadgets, after all. Perhaps software development no longer will be the domain of reclusive autists who don't care about the end user.
Sure, the apps will mostly be hacks, but hacking is educational. And no one forces you to install anything on your phone, just like no one forces anyone to upload their hackish card games to the market.
They certainly have done some things well, but I just don't agree with the belief that they postpone things until they do them "right". If so, OS X should come without a basic file manager. But even a great file manager isn't reason to upgrade the OS, so Apple hasn't bothered with fixing Finder.
Since Apple is notorious for forcing old hardware into obsolescence (not so much their phones as their computers: it's not like HTC isn't worse), I'm not going to give them the benefit of doubt, which is something you seem to be going out of your way to do. No, the piss poor camera in the first generations were not due to a "small engineering team"; a camera is a commodity. 3G, likewise. It's only now that the competition has caught up with it in usability that the iPhone is starting to compete in hardware -- features that the fanboy would claim as "irrelevant" until... oops, time to upgrade again now that the iPhone 4 has a great camera and one of the best screens you can get. You're fooling yourselves.
How many of the people lining up for the 3G already had the first gen? 90%?
You don't seriously think Apple held back 3G, a half-decent camera, etc., simply because they wanted to do it "right"? Apple will hold back on basic features because then they can get their users to buy the same product again in 12 months. There's nothing more to it.
Is that so? Let's see if we take a phrase from your own comment: "a higher incidence of matching phrases". One hit. Not bothering with linking to them all, but how about "rips it from his predecessors"? One hit. "strings that are duplicated between the books"? One hit. "his programming background came directly from Unix"? One hit. "open any dozen books"? One.
I have, of course, duplicated them in this comment, meaning there will be two hits very soon. BTW, these are all the strings I searched for, giving your comment a 100% originality rating (admittedly, I didn't search for "I'm not a coder", which I expect would show up several times).
Duplication of whole sentences in ordinary human language is actually quite uncommon for all but the most trivial declarations and stock phrases ("Just do the search" gives 3 million hits; "Just do the twist" gives 105 000).
You can get Android phones almost as light as that. I've got the SE X10 Mini myself. It's 88 grams and only a 2.55" touch screen. I think the iPhone and the bigger Android phones are quite a bit more pleasant to use as a web surfing gadget, but the X10 Mini is certainly a lot nicer to carry in your pocket when hiking or running, and there's really nothing it can't do. It's surprisingly easy to use, too. I would recommend it if you're in the market for a tiny smartphone.
The N900 is cool, but something of a niche product, and the only one of its kind. It's not for those of us who would consider Maemo but not the 181 grams. The iPhone seems to have aimed for a sweet spot between pocket friendliness and usability, and Android comes in just about every form factor if you have other priorities. Nokia is in trouble if the N900 is the only competitive smartphone they sell.
What do you mean "this" is a problem with Linux, when you readily admit that you don't at all know what you're talking about, and can't come up with a single example? Fact is, drag & drop and cut & paste, simply work in virtually all apps any new user would come across. Some ancient apps, perhaps not. The same apps wouldn't magically get functional if running on that other popular unix, Mac OS X.
The problem with "Linux", or rather Slashdot, is that a bunch of idiots repeat what other idiots on Slashdot say, and that a bunch of bigger morons think they are "insightful" because they've read the same complaints before. How about growing a fucking clue.
As a long time Linux user with an ATI card, I can tell you with absolute certainty that you don't know what you're talking about, and neither did the Mac fanboys who modded you "insightful". I can come with numerous examples of drag and drop that works (sound files from amarok into konqueror or chrome; image links dragging the entire linked document from chrome or konq into OO.o Writer with images and all, or into kate -- a pure text editor -- with image links instead of the images themselves; images from the web or the local file system into attachments in kmail.
Give an example of where drag and drop is sorely missing or accept that you're just another fraud.
LOL, you don't give up, do you? I've never claimed to be an expert -- in fact, my qualifications are irrelevant -- but I have, without question, exposed you as a fraud. You're the one with something to prove, and the only thing you've proven is that you don't know how to maintain a Linux system.
The only time I used Red Hat was the infamous 6.0 (1999), and yes, I did build vanilla Linux kernels on it, which was my habit back when RAM was a concern. Same with Suse 6.3, the only version of Suse I ever used (although a good, solid distro). Back then, I was pretty much a noob, but configuring and compiling a kernel wasn't really all that difficult, since I used the tools that come with the Linux kernel (I used make menuconfig) instead of insisting on shooting myself in the foot by manually editing a file that wasn't even suited for the kernel version I wanted to use it on. The point is: configuring a kernel the way you mentioned is retarded, and no experienced Linux user would consider doing it that way.
You just don't know what you're talking about. You're a fraud. That's all.
You'll often have to reconfigure your kernel if upgrading between vanilla kernels as well, but configuring it by hand editing "a copy of/proc/config.gz" (better unpack it first) from the old kernel is going to suck, no matter what. Just do a 'make oldconfig' and take it from there, if you want to keep your sanity.
To reiterate: everything you've said just makes it evident that you're a pretentious cunt.
See, this is why I think you're a faux-elitist moron: there is nothing keeping you from installing a stock kernel in other distros. Saying you're "stuck" with a hacked-about version is simply untrue. Slack is far from the only distro that allows you to install a minimal system. Arch is notorious for it, Debian can be remarkably lean, and I'm pretty sure you can do it with Fedora or even Suse if you know what you're doing. There's no distro that installs 10 gigs by default: even Ubuntu still has a 1 CD install, AFAIK.
You say you've written more unix systems code than I've ever seen (you must be old), but since you also say so many things that prove you don't know what you're talking about, you just come across as a pretentious cunt.
What is it with Slackware that attracts so many wannabe "hacker" types like yourself? Those "Wannabe-Windows clones" you speak of can all be just as "hardcore" (as if compiling a kernel is hardcore in any way), and the only notable architectural difference between Slack and "Wannabe-Windows clones" is that Slack uses a BSD style init instead of the not exactly Windows-like SysV.
Yes, Slack is good and well respected, but I swear that among the clueless faux-elitist morons I've come across, more are using Slack than all the other OSes combined.
Not true at all, unless you define "original" in such a way that it means no original work has ever been created, which would just make it meaningless instead.
Successful creators often get sued by less successful opportunists, though, but that's got more to do with the U.S. legal system being played like the lottery.
And besides, the idea that "the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics" was hardly original to Plato, nor to modern science, it was a pretty widespread belief among the pythagoreans. I would have read the article if it wasn't for the idiotic sensationalism.
Mozilla proposed Theora as the W3's html video standard. If accepted, it would have been an actual standard. Apple worked against it.
I'm not buying into the newspeak that actual open standards can be locked down with patents, even though it's a popular belief popular among corporate drones. It's just fraudulent advertising. Let's rather call it what it is: a closed, proprietary standard. I prefer using terms that convey meaning instead of hiding it.
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It's possible, but does this Toyota have a much higher rate of accidents than other cars? Another possibility is that poor drivers will blame the car when they hear rumours of a possibly highly profitable class action lawsuit.
No, I'm saying they possibly won't be autists at all. It might be an attractive development platform for people who aren't immediately attracted to technical minutiae.
Yes, I'm serious, and no, the G4 iMac wasn't released in '96 -- in fact, the first iMac (G3) was introduced in 1998, whose latest supported OS was Panther (2003). Oh, and the latest supported OS for the original G4 iMac was 10.4.11. Don't bother much with facts, do you?
You don't know that. This might be the perfect path into programming for kids, giving them an easy way to implement ideas and learning from each other. Who knows what kind of ideas they may come up with? If it's easy enough to learn so that any smart kid can make their own bluetooth-enabled card game or whatever, I can see this sparking a lot of creativity, and perhaps even make geeking around with technology cool -- phones are social gadgets, after all. Perhaps software development no longer will be the domain of reclusive autists who don't care about the end user.
Sure, the apps will mostly be hacks, but hacking is educational. And no one forces you to install anything on your phone, just like no one forces anyone to upload their hackish card games to the market.
They certainly have done some things well, but I just don't agree with the belief that they postpone things until they do them "right". If so, OS X should come without a basic file manager. But even a great file manager isn't reason to upgrade the OS, so Apple hasn't bothered with fixing Finder.
Since Apple is notorious for forcing old hardware into obsolescence (not so much their phones as their computers: it's not like HTC isn't worse), I'm not going to give them the benefit of doubt, which is something you seem to be going out of your way to do. No, the piss poor camera in the first generations were not due to a "small engineering team"; a camera is a commodity. 3G, likewise. It's only now that the competition has caught up with it in usability that the iPhone is starting to compete in hardware -- features that the fanboy would claim as "irrelevant" until ... oops, time to upgrade again now that the iPhone 4 has a great camera and one of the best screens you can get. You're fooling yourselves.
How many of the people lining up for the 3G already had the first gen? 90%?
You don't seriously think Apple held back 3G, a half-decent camera, etc., simply because they wanted to do it "right"? Apple will hold back on basic features because then they can get their users to buy the same product again in 12 months. There's nothing more to it.
Is that so? Let's see if we take a phrase from your own comment: "a higher incidence of matching phrases". One hit. Not bothering with linking to them all, but how about "rips it from his predecessors"? One hit. "strings that are duplicated between the books"? One hit. "his programming background came directly from Unix"? One hit. "open any dozen books"? One.
I have, of course, duplicated them in this comment, meaning there will be two hits very soon. BTW, these are all the strings I searched for, giving your comment a 100% originality rating (admittedly, I didn't search for "I'm not a coder", which I expect would show up several times).
Duplication of whole sentences in ordinary human language is actually quite uncommon for all but the most trivial declarations and stock phrases ("Just do the search" gives 3 million hits; "Just do the twist" gives 105 000).
You can get Android phones almost as light as that. I've got the SE X10 Mini myself. It's 88 grams and only a 2.55" touch screen. I think the iPhone and the bigger Android phones are quite a bit more pleasant to use as a web surfing gadget, but the X10 Mini is certainly a lot nicer to carry in your pocket when hiking or running, and there's really nothing it can't do. It's surprisingly easy to use, too. I would recommend it if you're in the market for a tiny smartphone.
So? People stood in even longer lines for The Phantom Menace. Standing in lines is a display of brand loyalty, nothing more.
The N900 is cool, but something of a niche product, and the only one of its kind. It's not for those of us who would consider Maemo but not the 181 grams. The iPhone seems to have aimed for a sweet spot between pocket friendliness and usability, and Android comes in just about every form factor if you have other priorities. Nokia is in trouble if the N900 is the only competitive smartphone they sell.
What do you mean "this" is a problem with Linux, when you readily admit that you don't at all know what you're talking about, and can't come up with a single example? Fact is, drag & drop and cut & paste, simply work in virtually all apps any new user would come across. Some ancient apps, perhaps not. The same apps wouldn't magically get functional if running on that other popular unix, Mac OS X.
The problem with "Linux", or rather Slashdot, is that a bunch of idiots repeat what other idiots on Slashdot say, and that a bunch of bigger morons think they are "insightful" because they've read the same complaints before. How about growing a fucking clue.
You should look up the definition of the word strawman, moron. Congrats on your "insightful" apologetics.
As a long time Linux user with an ATI card, I can tell you with absolute certainty that you don't know what you're talking about, and neither did the Mac fanboys who modded you "insightful". I can come with numerous examples of drag and drop that works (sound files from amarok into konqueror or chrome; image links dragging the entire linked document from chrome or konq into OO.o Writer with images and all, or into kate -- a pure text editor -- with image links instead of the images themselves; images from the web or the local file system into attachments in kmail.
Give an example of where drag and drop is sorely missing or accept that you're just another fraud.
LOL, you just refuted the AC by way of apologetics (consoles are toys, and thus irrelevant). Way to fail, fanboy.
LOL, you don't give up, do you? I've never claimed to be an expert -- in fact, my qualifications are irrelevant -- but I have, without question, exposed you as a fraud. You're the one with something to prove, and the only thing you've proven is that you don't know how to maintain a Linux system.
The only time I used Red Hat was the infamous 6.0 (1999), and yes, I did build vanilla Linux kernels on it, which was my habit back when RAM was a concern. Same with Suse 6.3, the only version of Suse I ever used (although a good, solid distro). Back then, I was pretty much a noob, but configuring and compiling a kernel wasn't really all that difficult, since I used the tools that come with the Linux kernel (I used make menuconfig) instead of insisting on shooting myself in the foot by manually editing a file that wasn't even suited for the kernel version I wanted to use it on. The point is: configuring a kernel the way you mentioned is retarded, and no experienced Linux user would consider doing it that way.
You just don't know what you're talking about. You're a fraud. That's all.
You'll often have to reconfigure your kernel if upgrading between vanilla kernels as well, but configuring it by hand editing "a copy of /proc/config.gz" (better unpack it first) from the old kernel is going to suck, no matter what. Just do a 'make oldconfig' and take it from there, if you want to keep your sanity.
To reiterate: everything you've said just makes it evident that you're a pretentious cunt.
See, this is why I think you're a faux-elitist moron: there is nothing keeping you from installing a stock kernel in other distros. Saying you're "stuck" with a hacked-about version is simply untrue. Slack is far from the only distro that allows you to install a minimal system. Arch is notorious for it, Debian can be remarkably lean, and I'm pretty sure you can do it with Fedora or even Suse if you know what you're doing. There's no distro that installs 10 gigs by default: even Ubuntu still has a 1 CD install, AFAIK.
You say you've written more unix systems code than I've ever seen (you must be old), but since you also say so many things that prove you don't know what you're talking about, you just come across as a pretentious cunt.
What is it with Slackware that attracts so many wannabe "hacker" types like yourself? Those "Wannabe-Windows clones" you speak of can all be just as "hardcore" (as if compiling a kernel is hardcore in any way), and the only notable architectural difference between Slack and "Wannabe-Windows clones" is that Slack uses a BSD style init instead of the not exactly Windows-like SysV.
Yes, Slack is good and well respected, but I swear that among the clueless faux-elitist morons I've come across, more are using Slack than all the other OSes combined.
Not true at all, unless you define "original" in such a way that it means no original work has ever been created, which would just make it meaningless instead.
Successful creators often get sued by less successful opportunists, though, but that's got more to do with the U.S. legal system being played like the lottery.
No, it's not.
And besides, the idea that "the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics" was hardly original to Plato, nor to modern science, it was a pretty widespread belief among the pythagoreans. I would have read the article if it wasn't for the idiotic sensationalism.
Mozilla proposed Theora as the W3's html video standard. If accepted, it would have been an actual standard. Apple worked against it.
I'm not buying into the newspeak that actual open standards can be locked down with patents, even though it's a popular belief popular among corporate drones. It's just fraudulent advertising. Let's rather call it what it is: a closed, proprietary standard. I prefer using terms that convey meaning instead of hiding it.
The format can hardly be called "free" when the codec requires a patent license.