[yaaaawn] The 'ole hackneyed "Fix windows by installing (insert your favorite oss tool here)" gripe.
Come on... It shows *some* integrity for a company with historic ethical issues to come out with a recommendation such as they have (remove MS from trusted partners). Either grow up or try and come up with something original for once.
This type of shit is exactly why I think the "News for Nerds" slogan is misused. This isn't news for nerds, this isn't educated discussion, this is a bunch of babies cracking the same boring jokes and bitching about how *everything* sucks.
I know these things because I write the ad delivery server for a company that has about 10% online penetration (one in ten americans online have 'hit' my ad server at some point.)
In those 1 in 10 Americans that have 'hit' your ad server, I'm sure that 9 of 10 would like to 'hit' something else.
There's a much easier way to do this: "Don't use open, just make sure the file is in a directory on your path, then drag the file 'ASCIIMoviePlayer' to your terminal.app, next pull the movie you want to see onto the terminal and press return.
Tip: use a movie that is not too large, or reduce your terminal font very small. Also, you get the best results by changing the Terminal window settings to white on black. "
Credit this trinket to: sao http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php? s=&th readid=7095
Haven't been reading Slashdot in a while, eh? Over the last year, this discussion is rehashed almost every day... Search apple.slashdot.org for answers to your questions.
You need to get out of the house more, kid. I'm sick and tired of hearing the incessant bitching and whining about the slashdot moderation system. This is slashdot - your comments and views are being thrown into the mix with 12 year olds, the janitor from Radio Shack, legit geeks, and bored out of work guys.
By looking at your profile, you've been around long enough and certainly posted more than enough to be an occasional moderator yourself. Put up or shut up - the only worthwhile thing you can do is moderate responsibly. Whining about it is a waste of your time, my time, and any other poor schmuck who bothered to read your post.
If someone mods you down, remember, this is just slashdot! I swear some people need to go into therapy just because their shitty post got modded down by a thirteen year old.
There is a popular misconception in today's culture that all geeks use and endorse Linux.
"Geeks may argue about which Linux distro is best..."
I would classify myself as a geek and I never felt terribly comfortable using Linux. I've dabbled here and there, kept Linux boxen lying around, but have never used any as my primary machine. I've been a devout BSD fan...until OS X came along.
"...but they all know that a Good OS Has to Be Free. "
bullshit. A good OS has to be good. I'll pay for an operating system that I think is solid. I had no problems paying $129 for Jaguar a few weeks ago.
Geeks are people who are curious about technology and make a living and a hobby out of utilizing technology different ways. Oh wait.... I forgot what site I was posting on. Long live Linux and down with those imperial Microsuck bastards
...should an employer some day down the road still be using it
You sound quite young and naive. Companies in the past, today and tomorrow are not going abandon productivity suites such as MSOffice because of these vulnerabilities/exploits. The reason why the majority of schools teach proficiencies in these products is that the majority of businesses *use* them.
I used to be a zealot as well. A few years of working every day has turned me into a realist.
Thank god I downloaded openoffice last night. Phew, that was a close one!
...to see how people underestimate the value of a good night's sleep to your health. I'd rather get a little less done during the day than deal with the whole laundry list of problems you are opening yourself up to when you are sleep deprived. Ever notice that people who don't get much sleep get sick a lot?
Sleep is fundamental, period. There are no substitutions.
If this doesn't show the power of linux scalability, nothing EVER will I would expect these over-generalized, broad assumptions from Mr. Katz... not from Slashdot readers. There are folks out there currently researching many dimensions of the scalability of Linux that delve deaper than the challenges creating of a supercomputer.
it's nice to see these companies working together to further common platforms. Don't be so quick to buy into the Mr. DeMillo's corporate rhetoric. Pacific Northwest made an educated business decision (*that's* why this is a good thing). For Linux to be truly embraced in the business world, organizations must realize the business value that this OS can provide for their company. Companies do not undertake large expenditures such as this to 'further common platforms'.
Next time you're in your local electronics store and the sales sharks notice you glance at one of their HDTV's, make sure to ask them about all the additional hardware you would potentially need to actually view HDTV. See how honest of an answer they give you... Its been my experience lately that these guys have been so hard up to unload these TVs on people ("HDTV is the thing of the future... And that future is now!") they'll tell you pratically anything. I had one guy tell me that I could receive HDTV signals from *any* local cable provider. I wonder how many truly uninformed folks are out there with new TVs thinking they are watching HDTV.
you're obviously missing the point, because the equation is a joke. I was just trying to verify (from my experience, at least) the existence of this problem and its inexactness as a science.
In a software engineering class in college, I remember a professor joking around that the catch-all equation for software estimation is 2x+7, where x (can be in any units like hours, days, weeks, minutes) is your estimate for how long you think the component will take. So for example, If one of your developers estimates that developing some component will take 4 hours (so x = 4), in *reality* it will take them 2x+7 = 15 hours to complete.
After gaining a few years of "real world" experience in software engineering (and I know that the very term real world experience is debatable:-), I'm realizing that this professor wasn't that crazy, and his crude estimation mechanism (which is a joke) isn't any more or any less accurate than a lot of modern techniques I have seen people use in the field.
A personal anecdote about why I ask you to read your new calculator's instruction manual before using it:
In college, I was taking an introductory Electrical Engineering course which dealt primarily with the basics of circuits and such. Our second test of the semester (we only had two tests, so this was a biggie) required you to use complex algebra to solve all of the problems. Now, complex algebra is not difficult, rather its a pain in the ass, meticulous and time consuming. So I heard that the bookstore was selling this new calculator (HP x46 or something like that) that performed complex algebra with the press of a button. Sweet! I was able to convince my parents to cough up $100 so I could run down to the store and buy one of these technological wonders. I picked one up, and sure enough - it performed complex algebra with the press of a button. I took the test the next day (which was rather easy) in record time.
When I received the test back and my score was 5 out of 100, I realized that I had been pressing the WRONG BUTTON during the entire test. Damn. Drop class, do not collect $200, go directly to the Registrar's office.
Please - learn from my mistakes and read the manual (RTFM!). One more request - no "you stupid asshole" comments; I know it was retarded.
Takes all the fun out of screwing with telemarketers!
Telemarketer: Sir, would you like to know how we can help you save money on your telephone bill?
"Uhhhh, actually, I've been trying to spend more money lately."
Telemarketer: But Sir! We know for a fact that you are spending too much money on your long distance service. We can help reduce your rates by....
"See, that's just the thing. I've been making a concerted effort to start spending *more* money these days. I've been a pretty cheap bastard in my days. Do you have any programs where I could spend more on my long distance calls?"
... who are going to keep using your AC adapters, please read up on your fire safety. I don't want there to be a new/. poll next week around how many reader's homes burned down.
Another use of the technology would be for video game controllers. Instead of placing multiple buttons on a controller (Sony's controller for the PlayStation 2 has eight buttons, not even counting the four direction buttons and the start and select buttons), a single button or a few buttons could be used for all the functions, with each finger denoting a particular action.
This would mean a fundamental change to gaming interaction. Instead of training our hands/fingers to move according to a certain button pattern on an input device, we would need to train our hands/fingers to react in different combinations.
Take a simple example: Imagine you are sitting in a completely closed off room (some isolated test environment) and you are told that you need to press buttons (provided in the room) to get food and water. So you learn to press this button over here to get food and that button over there to get water, and so on. Now, the test environment changes and removes the buttons from your little room. Now, you must learn to perform certain actions to get food and water like raising your right hand for food and raising your left hand for water.
Would this change of approach be benificial to gaming?
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I understand the joke. The problem is that its just not funny anymore... (although it used to be three years ago)
I haven't had any rogue ActiveX controls even attempt to infect my system since I started running Mozilla
yeah, me neither.
[yaaaawn] The 'ole hackneyed "Fix windows by installing (insert your favorite oss tool here)" gripe.
Come on... It shows *some* integrity for a company with historic ethical issues to come out with a recommendation such as they have (remove MS from trusted partners). Either grow up or try and come up with something original for once.
This type of shit is exactly why I think the "News for Nerds" slogan is misused. This isn't news for nerds, this isn't educated discussion, this is a bunch of babies cracking the same boring jokes and bitching about how *everything* sucks.
I know these things because I write the ad delivery server for a company that has about 10% online penetration (one in ten americans online have 'hit' my ad server at some point.)
In those 1 in 10 Americans that have 'hit' your ad server, I'm sure that 9 of 10 would like to 'hit' something else.
The KleverKart web site just gave my team's graphic designer a heart attack.
pulled from macosxhints:
? s=&th readid=7095
There's a much easier way to do this:
"Don't use open, just make sure the file is in a directory on your path, then drag the file 'ASCIIMoviePlayer' to your terminal.app, next pull the movie you want to see onto the terminal and press return.
Tip: use a movie that is not too large, or reduce your terminal font very small.
Also, you get the best results by changing the Terminal window settings to white on black. "
Credit this trinket to: sao
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php
jeez... here's the search page for slashdot:
select "Apple" from the Topics menu. Start searching away for relevent topics. You should probably include words like "switch", "OS X", "guide", etc.
RTFM
Haven't been reading Slashdot in a while, eh? Over the last year, this discussion is rehashed almost every day... Search apple.slashdot.org for answers to your questions.
Horse is dead, let's move on.
And thus, I leave slashdot.
You need to get out of the house more, kid. I'm sick and tired of hearing the incessant bitching and whining about the slashdot moderation system. This is slashdot - your comments and views are being thrown into the mix with 12 year olds, the janitor from Radio Shack, legit geeks, and bored out of work guys.
By looking at your profile, you've been around long enough and certainly posted more than enough to be an occasional moderator yourself. Put up or shut up - the only worthwhile thing you can do is moderate responsibly. Whining about it is a waste of your time, my time, and any other poor schmuck who bothered to read your post.
If someone mods you down, remember, this is just slashdot! I swear some people need to go into therapy just because their shitty post got modded down by a thirteen year old.
its been awhile since a /. comment made me lol
cheers
agreed. good feedback.
There is a popular misconception in today's culture that all geeks use and endorse Linux.
..."
"Geeks may argue about which Linux distro is best
I would classify myself as a geek and I never felt terribly comfortable using Linux. I've dabbled here and there, kept Linux boxen lying around, but have never used any as my primary machine. I've been a devout BSD fan...until OS X came along.
"...but they all know that a Good OS Has to Be Free. "
bullshit. A good OS has to be good. I'll pay for an operating system that I think is solid. I had no problems paying $129 for Jaguar a few weeks ago.
Geeks are people who are curious about technology and make a living and a hobby out of utilizing technology different ways. Oh wait.... I forgot what site I was posting on. Long live Linux and down with those imperial Microsuck bastards
...should an employer some day down the road still be using it
You sound quite young and naive. Companies in the past, today and tomorrow are not going abandon productivity suites such as MSOffice because of these vulnerabilities/exploits. The reason why the majority of schools teach proficiencies in these products is that the majority of businesses *use* them.
I used to be a zealot as well. A few years of working every day has turned me into a realist.
Thank god I downloaded openoffice last night.
Phew, that was a close one!
met some girl who's into skateboarding/linux/punk rock and slashdot..
/me raises eyebrow
thats scary when I'm wasted
hmmm.... now it all makes sense.
Agreed. I'm a bit in the dark on *how* this guy came up with his numbers.
I calculated a percentage for each of these points based on the total number of results found with no date specified.
IMHO, This is a bit vague to be called anything but conjecture.
...to see how people underestimate the value of a good night's sleep to your health. I'd rather get a little less done during the day than deal with the whole laundry list of problems you are opening yourself up to when you are sleep deprived. Ever notice that people who don't get much sleep get sick a lot?
Sleep is fundamental, period. There are no substitutions.
If this doesn't show the power of linux scalability, nothing EVER will
I would expect these over-generalized, broad assumptions from Mr. Katz... not from Slashdot readers. There are folks out there currently researching many dimensions of the scalability of Linux that delve deaper than the challenges creating of a supercomputer.
it's nice to see these companies working together to further common platforms.
Don't be so quick to buy into the Mr. DeMillo's corporate rhetoric. Pacific Northwest made an educated business decision (*that's* why this is a good thing). For Linux to be truly embraced in the business world, organizations must realize the business value that this OS can provide for their company. Companies do not undertake large expenditures such as this to 'further common platforms'.
Next time you're in your local electronics store and the sales sharks notice you glance at one of their HDTV's, make sure to ask them about all the additional hardware you would potentially need to actually view HDTV. See how honest of an answer they give you... Its been my experience lately that these guys have been so hard up to unload these TVs on people ("HDTV is the thing of the future... And that future is now!") they'll tell you pratically anything. I had one guy tell me that I could receive HDTV signals from *any* local cable provider. I wonder how many truly uninformed folks are out there with new TVs thinking they are watching HDTV.
you're obviously missing the point, because the equation is a joke. I was just trying to verify (from my experience, at least) the existence of this problem and its inexactness as a science.
In a software engineering class in college, I remember a professor joking around that the catch-all equation for software estimation is 2x+7, where x (can be in any units like hours, days, weeks, minutes) is your estimate for how long you think the component will take. So for example, If one of your developers estimates that developing some component will take 4 hours (so x = 4), in *reality* it will take them 2x+7 = 15 hours to complete.
:-), I'm realizing that this professor wasn't that crazy, and his crude estimation mechanism (which is a joke) isn't any more or any less accurate than a lot of modern techniques I have seen people use in the field.
After gaining a few years of "real world" experience in software engineering (and I know that the very term real world experience is debatable
A personal anecdote about why I ask you to read your new calculator's instruction manual before using it:
In college, I was taking an introductory Electrical Engineering course which dealt primarily with the basics of circuits and such. Our second test of the semester (we only had two tests, so this was a biggie) required you to use complex algebra to solve all of the problems. Now, complex algebra is not difficult, rather its a pain in the ass, meticulous and time consuming. So I heard that the bookstore was selling this new calculator (HP x46 or something like that) that performed complex algebra with the press of a button. Sweet! I was able to convince my parents to cough up $100 so I could run down to the store and buy one of these technological wonders. I picked one up, and sure enough - it performed complex algebra with the press of a button. I took the test the next day (which was rather easy) in record time.
When I received the test back and my score was 5 out of 100, I realized that I had been pressing the WRONG BUTTON during the entire test. Damn. Drop class, do not collect $200, go directly to the Registrar's office.
Please - learn from my mistakes and read the manual (RTFM!). One more request - no "you stupid asshole" comments; I know it was retarded.
That's funny, my copy was $100, and that was with the upgrade discount
/. account revoked for linking to Microsoft, but this is one of the most ridiculous comments I've ever read.
Sorry dude - Either you're a great troll, or a bit thick in the head: The download is FREE.
I know that I'll get my
They are really cheap on on eBay.
Takes all the fun out of screwing with telemarketers!
Telemarketer: Sir, would you like to know how we can help you save money on your telephone bill?
"Uhhhh, actually, I've been trying to spend more money lately."
Telemarketer: But Sir! We know for a fact that you are spending too much money on your long distance service. We can help reduce your rates by....
"See, that's just the thing. I've been making a concerted effort to start spending *more* money these days. I've been a pretty cheap bastard in my days. Do you have any programs where I could spend more on my long distance calls?"
"Hello?"
... who are going to keep using your AC adapters, please read up on your fire safety. /. poll next week around how many reader's homes burned down.
I don't want there to be a new
Another use of the technology would be for video game controllers. Instead of placing multiple buttons on a controller (Sony's controller for the PlayStation 2 has eight buttons, not even counting the four direction buttons and the start and select buttons), a single button or a few buttons could be used for all the functions, with each finger denoting a particular action.
This would mean a fundamental change to gaming interaction. Instead of training our hands/fingers to move according to a certain button pattern on an input device, we would need to train our hands/fingers to react in different combinations.
Take a simple example: Imagine you are sitting in a completely closed off room (some isolated test environment) and you are told that you need to press buttons (provided in the room) to get food and water. So you learn to press this button over here to get food and that button over there to get water, and so on. Now, the test environment changes and removes the buttons from your little room. Now, you must learn to perform certain actions to get food and water like raising your right hand for food and raising your left hand for water.
Would this change of approach be benificial to gaming?