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I know a lot more people would consider Linux on the desktop/laptop if a name-brand, respected company like Dell were offering it.
Dammit, this is Slashdot. I thought we were supposed to hate Dell along with all of the other Wintel computer manufacturers and brag about how our beige-box PCs built with parts cobbled together in our Mother's basement had been running Debian and had uptimes over 1000+ days? I'm so confused, what should I do?
I don't know why Congress doesn't just stop fucking around and ban thoughtcrime.
It's already illegal according to the Patriot act. And Jose fucking Padilla is on trial this week just because he thought about doing nasty things to Americans... Hey Alberto Gonzales: Minority Report called and they want their movie idea back...
But they failed with ADB, NuBus, Firewire, ADC, and PCI-X to name a few. Apple has far more misses than hits when it comes to introducing the "new standard".
I beg to differ on a couple of those. Firewire is *the* standard for DV, and PCI-X is used quite heavily in servers and professional applications where PCI bandwidth is necessary. PCI Express hasn't quite caught on yet in the server space (but is coming up to speed rapidly).
Creating titles such as Little Computer People and Pitfall made him Activision's star programmer.
Wow I remember Little Computer People. This was an amazing game for it's time. It was like the Sims, only about 10 years before the Sims ever was released. The god complex you got from playing this game was amazing. I used to delight in torturing the poor little guy. It was very funny to watch.
That may seem insignificant, but even moderate use of breaking platoons has saved me up to 30 minutes in a 4 hour trip, based on software estimates vs actual time-in-flight.
Sorry but that sounds like total BS to me. In order to save 30 minutes on a 4 hour trip you'd have to travel 12.5% faster on average. If you were driving an average speed of 75 mph, you would have to bump that up to 84.375 mph average to get there a half hour early. Now, driving roughly 10 mph faster than usual definitely will get you there faster, but I have a hard time believing that one slow driver in the fast lane or "platoon leader" could hold you up for 4 hours and make you stuck. What I find pretty entertaining sometimes is that the truly reckless drivers, you know, the ones that tailgate in the fast lane at 85 mph just inches away from your bumper and swerve in and out of lanes like flies darting back and forth, are usually only about 2 car lengths ahead of the rest of traffic when they finally get off the freeway. I've literally watched someone spend a half hour endangering all of the motorists around them just to get 2 car lengths ahead of the pack and get of the freeway about 5 seconds sooner than me. All of that effort, wasted gas, and risked lives for 5 seconds of saved driving time? No thanks, my life means more to me than those 5 seconds.
Excellent points. Really excellent points. You made me stop for a minute and consider just how fortunate I am. And, also, how much I need to add a little more detail so that people don't get the wrong idea.
You know the reason why I wrote the response was that I see a lot of the same personality traits in you that I see in myself. There is some saying that I can't remember right now about seeing the same faults in others that you have in yourself:-) I too have been known as the go-to guy on my team on more than one occasion. I have also been known to have a "career limiting" mouth. I think there is something to being highly qualified technically that means we have a lower threshold for incompetence.
Of course I work in the private sector so I don't have anything as great as a pension or guaranteed retirement to look forward too. Thanks for the insight though. Consider yourself friended.
I love my job and I do it well; that's why I'm willing to stand up for it. Stand up for yours, if you've got the balls.
That's nice that you love your job and are supposedly willing to stand up for it, but I think you're giving some bad advice.
Also, for you young whippersnappers who think everything in government is bad and anyone who spends more than 6 months on a single job is a loser, I'd like to point out that the speech cited above is a perfect example of why it's great to work under civil service protections and even better to work there long enough that even if management tried to fire you, you could just tell 'me to FO, retire, and take your pension.
So you just said you are willing to stand up for your job, but you also said that you're a civil servant that can't be fired and can just tell them to FO... Hmm... Somehow I don't think it takes any balls at all to tell someone to FO when they can't take your job away. Look, you have a real attitude problem and even though you can't see it now, someday it will come back to bite you in the ass. The speech you gave sounds all high and mighty and probably seriously offended the executive you gave it to. Sure they might not be able to do anything about it, but I've found from personal experience that it's best not to make enemies when you can avoid it. Hopefully you don't have to learn this the hard way.
Ballmer's job seems to be to cast aspersions on any IT company that might be encroaching on Microsoft's world in the hope that people will pay attention, whereas it just looks like fear and loathing. Cool dance moves though.
Does anyone else here think that the relationship between Gates and Ballmer must be something like the relationship between Bush and Cheney? Insurgent attacks in Iraq got you down? Just send the attack dog Cheney out to hit the Sunday morning political talk show circuit... Apple market share and iPod sales got you down? Send Ballmer out to interview with USA Today.
There is so much spin and marketing crap that gets foisted upon us as news it makes me sick sometimes. In the end it's all just spin. Whoever can weave the best lies, or tell the most "nuanced" truths gets their message across.
Most people will not shell out $500 for a phone. He does say that Apple may find the iPhone very profitable (i.e. it will be a high-margin item, for sure, like most Apple products), just that they wont get a huge marketshare.
Sure, the first one will cost $500, just like the first iPod did. Do you think people were lining up around the block to pay $500 for a 5GB music player that was about 3 times the size of the current iPod? No, but the early adopters bought them, then the rest of us saw how well the worked, and the rest is history. All Apple has to do is make a sexy, innovative product that, most important of all, actually fucking works as intended and is easy to use. They seem to have a history of that and that is why their products do sell. Sure, only a million or so "early adopters" will buy the first ones, but pretty soon they'll be $99 with contract and everyone will want them. I give it 1 year from the first model is out, to when they have a smaller, more powerful model that is selling for at least a couple hundred less.
Also, doesn't the US have a constitution which makes freedom of expression an absolute right?
The problem is that our modern society has determined that kids (defined as anyone under the age of 18) have fewer rights than adults. This means they can be arrested, grounded, locked up, or what-have-you willy nilly because they're not even considered citizens yet. I think this is one of the most serious problems our society has. I remember going through a lot of depression during high school as I was confined to my room for 3 straight years because my grades were only B's and not the A's that my parents wanted me to get. My parents called it grounding, but even 15 years later I still think it is cruel and inhumane treatment for kids to be "grounded" or locked up in their rooms as punishment.
You are wrong. Clinton was impeached for PERJURY, meaning he lied under oath, which is illegal and rather unbecoming for a president. He was impeached for a valid reason.
Ok, you got me there, but the fact that it was a witch-hunt was very relevant. If somebody put you under oath and started asking you exteremely embarassing and personal questions about your sex life, like number of partners, frequency of masturbation activities, etc., wouldn't it be reasonable for you to not have to answer those questions, or lie even? Ken Starr had no respect for the privacy of an individual's personal life, and the entire Clinton witch-hunt was just that, a witch-hunt, designed to find illegal activity, and when none could be found, personal scandal was the best they could do.
Funny last I checked people clone users mac addresses as they leave to surf for free and anonymously. Since open wifi is a shared medium it's easy to do.
Good point and I'm not surprised that people do this since all you would need is a copy of Ethereal and a little know-how. If I ever get sued for sharing songs at a Starbucks can I hire you as an expert witness?:-)
They had production mail servers that'd been up for 3 years.
You also said:
They'd probably set up those systems for no more than $10,000, including hardware, BSD/OS, the battery backups, and the installation.
Based on what you've just told me, the 3 years of uptime was purely luck. It costs a hell of a lot more than $10,000 to guarantee uptime, and even then, you're still rolling the dice. What would have happened if your A/C went out in the building during that time period and you had to shut down the mail servers to avoid the risk of overheating? I can guarantee you that redundant N+1 A/C costs more than $10,000. What happens when your UPS dies? Does $10,000 buy you N+1 redundancy on your UPS? What happens if city power runs out for longer than your battery lasts? Do you have generators? Now, what happens when you fire up your generator and it doesn't work? Do you have N+1 redundancy on your power generation plant? These things are expensive, and the fact that a company you worked for had 4 PCs running as mail servers that just happened to be lucky enough to not be affected by HVAC, power, or other technical issues for 3 years does not mean you can do it properly for cheap.
Uptime costs money, and companies like Google that can offer good uptime for hosted solutions will usually always have superior uptime to a few PCs running in your mom's basement.
Actually, I'm still waiting for the RIAA to send letters to TMobile asking for user names of those who downloaded files from a Starbucks hotspot.
This would seem to be the best test of that little IP == user question.
Except for the fact that the case you mention might just be the *only* case where they could actually tie your credit card information to the IP address issued to that card-holder thereby proving it was either you, or somebody with access to your credit card that did the downloading... Not the best "test case."
Perhaps you are joking, but I've often wondered if quantum effects are caused by the universe having limited floating-point accuracy.
Interesting theory, but let me ask you this: If the universe itself has limited floating-point accuracy, how is it possible for an entity within that universe to make a more precise floating-point calculation? To me that would be like trying to stuff an 8-byte float into a 4-byte float...
The Good news is normally played over and over and over, to the point where we can mute the TV and say exactly what they are
This is called propaganda and it's used to bolster the morale of troops who might otherwise find out from the "real news" (whatever that is, perhaps NPR?) what is really going on over there and how badly we are losing. You might ask yourself: Why are they repeating that one good story about the mobile hospital fixing vision problems for poor Iraqis over and over again? Is it because that is the only good news they could find and they wanted to boost the morale of the troops? Or is it because repetition matters (you said yourself you could mute the TV and repeat every word verbatim) and they want to program you to think that you are doing a good thing over there?
Ask yourself some tough questions, and maybe you might come to the conclusion that just as Americans not in the war might get an overly negative view of the war, those getting their news from propaganda central might be getting just the opposite. The truth is somewhere in between.
This is what that little 1-800 number on the back of your credit card is for. This is what you do: First of all, call Newegg and tell them you have not been given your upgrade to MS Vista as promised when you purchased XP. Give them an opportunity to either refund your money or send you a copy of Vista. If they refuse or say they are unable to, call your bank and issue a chargeback. It's that simple. It will take about 5 minutes of your time and you'll have the money refunded back to your credit card in a couple of days.
I don't understand why people complain about getting blatantly ripped off like this by shady business tactics. Your agreement with your bank and their agreement with the merchant give you all the power in the world to get your money back, you just need to give them a call.
An appropriate title for both Vista and Quicktime!
Is anybody here old enough to remember the saying "DOS ain't done until Lotus won't run!" Well, I wouldn't be surprised if MS is up to their usual tricks with iTunes/Quicktime. It's not very far-fetched to see that even if MS found a bug that was blue-screening Vista whenever Quicktime runs, they wouldn't have much incentive to fix it in a timely manner... I mean, why not let people suffer for a while since they're using your competitor's software.
iTunes and Quicktime are the biggest threat to MS dominance of the media delivery market. 2+2 doesn't always equal 4, but in most cases it does...
Off-topic I know, but that reminds me of Stephen Colbert's speech at the White House press club dinner. "Fox News is fair and balanced. They tell both sides of the story: The president's, and the vice-president's..."
Senator Fritz Hollings, aka Senator Disney, is a Democrat.
I could name about 5 times as many Republican Senators that are owned by big oil companies that actually kill innocent civilians in foreign countries to do business. When we're talking about corruption on that scale, being owned by Disney is relatively insignificant in comparison. I'm not saying I support copyright extension; I hate it with a passion, but let's be realistic here.
The DMCA was signed into law by Bill Clinton, a Democrat.
Given the choice between the DMCA and the clusterfuck that is the Iraq war I'll take the DMCA any day. At least we won't be paying with thousands of american soldiers' lives over decades to come because of the DMCA. I could name about a million worse laws that George W. Bush has signed into law, but let's just name the one that tops them all: P.A.T.R.I.O.T. act.
Politics in America is about picking the lesser of two evils, and right now I'll take the mildly in the pocket of hollywood/riaa Democrats over the fully fucking evil drinking innocent babies blood and burning people at the stake Republicans any day. The fact that you even compare the two is just ridiculous.
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Quite a lot of work has gone into GTK (a couple of cycles ago, actually) and metacity in order to get focus stealing right. A lot of *hard* work, really. (Other window managers, specially the new ones which do lots of bling, tend to ignore such things...) If you are not running metacity, try it; if you are, please try to figure out a pattern which causes the problem and report it as a bug (probably to both metacity and gaim).
That's good to know. Using FC6 which is the new aiglx window manager (I believe), so that might explain why focus stealing is broken again. Users "need" for eye-candy seems to outweigh usability at this point. It's nice to know that people are working hard on solving this issue, because Microsoft sure doesn't seem to care.
I'm glad my car doesn't go 200mph, because the temptation of all that raw horsepower will be too great to resist. High speed pursuits and law enforcement derived beatings will certainly ensue. It's a used geo metro for me.
I'm still not buying that argument. Sure you may not need to and shouldn't go 200mph, which is why most cars that fast have speed limiters installed in them; however, if you need to accelerate to get out of the way of an 18-wheeler on the freeway you're going to be glad you're in the car that can go 200mph, as opposed to the Geo metro that just got crushed like a bug.
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Of course I work in the private sector so I don't have anything as great as a pension or guaranteed retirement to look forward too. Thanks for the insight though. Consider yourself friended.
There is so much spin and marketing crap that gets foisted upon us as news it makes me sick sometimes. In the end it's all just spin. Whoever can weave the best lies, or tell the most "nuanced" truths gets their message across.
Uptime costs money, and companies like Google that can offer good uptime for hosted solutions will usually always have superior uptime to a few PCs running in your mom's basement.
Ask yourself some tough questions, and maybe you might come to the conclusion that just as Americans not in the war might get an overly negative view of the war, those getting their news from propaganda central might be getting just the opposite. The truth is somewhere in between.
I don't understand why people complain about getting blatantly ripped off like this by shady business tactics. Your agreement with your bank and their agreement with the merchant give you all the power in the world to get your money back, you just need to give them a call.
iTunes and Quicktime are the biggest threat to MS dominance of the media delivery market. 2+2 doesn't always equal 4, but in most cases it does...
Politics in America is about picking the lesser of two evils, and right now I'll take the mildly in the pocket of hollywood/riaa Democrats over the fully fucking evil drinking innocent babies blood and burning people at the stake Republicans any day. The fact that you even compare the two is just ridiculous.