Nobody should doubt your own story since your Slashdot ID dates from 1997. Obviously you were there. But no doubt getting X working on the wide variety of video chipsets at the time (probably 10 times the selection we have now) and CRT monitors which really could be damaged with the wrong config was a royal pain in the butt. Count yourself one of the lucky ones that didn't spend weeks in the console wondering when you'd be able to use Netscrape and hear audio from x11amp.
Because obviously your experiences with a small company 14 years ago, running a frankly embryonic OS, is relevant to the largest, most successful Linux vendor whose entire business is based on selling support and ensuring that that support is well-regarded.
By all means don't touch Red Hat again -- why should you if Ubuntu works for you? (Which it obviously will carry on doing with the *amazing* and not in the slightest bit undercooked and shit Unity.) But not doing so because of one experience more than a decade back, when their business model and the entire Linux scene has changed entirely, is utterly retarded.
You're retarded.
Actually, you're retarded. For a lot of people, its attitudes like this that keep them away from geek culture. Not just Linux, but geek culture in general.
Like a lot of people here, I've been using computers since I was 4 (1980). I have used practically every interface there has been save a few. I'm 35 now and honestly I can say that a lot of menus and buttons on the iPhone are not obvious. For instance, if I want to see details about a call without actually making a call or if I want to delete a message or stop a program and restart it, how was I supposed to know that clicking on the main button twice would do that. Or that clicking on edit in the list would allow me to delete a message instead of edit a new one. Or that in order to view the details of a call I was supposed to press my 15mm wide finger exactly over a button 4mm wide and that putting it anywhere else on that line would call that person back. And what the hell can I do within a video in order to see the menu so that I can turn down the volume? Still haven't reliably figured that out.
I think what happens is the interface people like to create interfaces that they think are so slick that they can get off too at night, but its not necessarily something that makes sense based on what people already know. You can't just change everything and hope its discoverable. Discoverability is based just as much on people's experience as it is on common sense. Then again, I'm a Linux zealot fanboy, what good is my opinion, right?
I don't think you could keep the old command names, they'd have to be remade. Probably a program called view would be better suited for displaying the intended content in various ways (including reformatting if you want using style configuration) that also has a flag for raw data view or a separate program for that.
But if we moved to this model, how would I give tips on climagic? I'd start having to post links to screen shots. I kid. Sounds like this guy is trying to turn the command line into the multilayer net with protocols between the programs.
It annoys me when certain admins feel that they are freedom fighters when operating their boxes, makes them incredibly annoying to work with.
That's ok, you're equally annoying to work with because you don't take security seriously enough. There are some other people that I know of that didn't take security serious enough, who was that? Oh yeah, the security folk at Boston Logan International.
I bet he takes network security a lot more seriously now. Sysadmins that take security seriously are important because most other people aren't, except the malicious hackers.
For digital signals like HDMI, as long as there is enough data for the receiver to put together a picture, it will form. If there isn't, it will just drop off.
I think a lot of technical people are used to computers and checksums, checkbits, res etc. and think that HDMI is like this. Its not. That's about all I'm going to say because I'm not really qualified and you can read more about it yourself.
So the question I have now is, was Michael Jackson less significant or did the Jackson craze lead to more people knowing about Twitter and thus more people available to tweet about Bid Laden? The world may never know.
Actually, that whole woosy feeling that I got after 9/11 for several years, not unlike getting kicked in the beanbag, has almost gone away. Bringing it back up is kinda like the bully saying "There is that dweeb that I kicked in the balls a few years ago. Ha ha".
It won't be long before we have cases where the president exercises executive powers in the name of freedom and national security which grants them the right to access our computers without our consent.
How about instead of just trying to detect other civilizations that exist along side us, also trying to detect ones that came long before in the previous Universe. If the Universe is cyclic and there was another universe before our "big bang", one thing we could do is see if the particles around us have some kind of signature to them that would be unexpected. It may not be possible right now for us to make such signatures, but perhaps a previous civilization built large devices close to the end of the previous universe that could explode once most of the matter of the Universe was closer together and give many particles such a signature.
The only thing is, how would you determine if something has a signature to it if you have no basis for comparison. Well I guess you could assume that not all the particles had been hit so the test could be to compare some sub atomic particles of one kind with ones of the same kind, but in a different region of space.
Consider things like paying for public works(plowing, winter damage repair to roads, etc), and other operating expenses; then $6 million is about right if it's a smaller town. Otherwise it could get higher than that.
My "wow" wasn't over the size of the budget, but of the percentage that was paid for by speeding tickets alone. I mean, what if nobody speeds some year, which is what you want anyways, right?
After decades of former governmental stability, in the 2000s the town made headlines repeatedly as two of its recent mayors were embroiled in clashes with the town council. One mayor, Joyce Beck was ousted from office after changes to the Town Charter. In June 2009 her successor, Myles Spires, has filed a $15 million dollar lawsuit against the town for malicious prosecution after being cleared of all charges initiated by the town for misuse of town's funds.
Mr. Foreman’s tickets were all issued in Forest Heights, a town of about 2,600 where officials expected $2.9 million in ticket revenue this fiscal year, about half the town’s $5.8 million budget.
Couldn't get people to pay taxes for that new community pool there? Sheesh.
Its not because we have 10 digits, its because we choose to count them that way. Someone with a simpler mind said, "hey, look at these 10 protrusions coming out of my palm." The ancient Sumerians and Babylonians however were base base 60 and counted their hands in a different way, by using the segments between their joints. See? Different minds, different times, different ideas.
You obviously have a very low opinion of the education of people on this forum to have typed all that out. I think everyone here knows the differences between the systems. I think a little memorization and mental math to do the conversions is good for the brain. I can do a lot of the conversions between the systems and within them in my head in just a few seconds. I'm sure many of you can too. What I'm trying to say is that if we do all standardize on the same systems, we're losing the ability to cope with different systems.
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Nobody should doubt your own story since your Slashdot ID dates from 1997. Obviously you were there. But no doubt getting X working on the wide variety of video chipsets at the time (probably 10 times the selection we have now) and CRT monitors which really could be damaged with the wrong config was a royal pain in the butt. Count yourself one of the lucky ones that didn't spend weeks in the console wondering when you'd be able to use Netscrape and hear audio from x11amp.
Because obviously your experiences with a small company 14 years ago, running a frankly embryonic OS, is relevant to the largest, most successful Linux vendor whose entire business is based on selling support and ensuring that that support is well-regarded.
By all means don't touch Red Hat again -- why should you if Ubuntu works for you? (Which it obviously will carry on doing with the *amazing* and not in the slightest bit undercooked and shit Unity.) But not doing so because of one experience more than a decade back, when their business model and the entire Linux scene has changed entirely, is utterly retarded.
You're retarded.
Actually, you're retarded. For a lot of people, its attitudes like this that keep them away from geek culture. Not just Linux, but geek culture in general.
Sorry, typo. My excuse: I'm on a laptop keyboard.
New file format's can't cure something that user education requires.
If there was a "right on" flag, both of you would get it.
Like a lot of people here, I've been using computers since I was 4 (1980). I have used practically every interface there has been save a few. I'm 35 now and honestly I can say that a lot of menus and buttons on the iPhone are not obvious. For instance, if I want to see details about a call without actually making a call or if I want to delete a message or stop a program and restart it, how was I supposed to know that clicking on the main button twice would do that. Or that clicking on edit in the list would allow me to delete a message instead of edit a new one. Or that in order to view the details of a call I was supposed to press my 15mm wide finger exactly over a button 4mm wide and that putting it anywhere else on that line would call that person back. And what the hell can I do within a video in order to see the menu so that I can turn down the volume? Still haven't reliably figured that out.
I think what happens is the interface people like to create interfaces that they think are so slick that they can get off too at night, but its not necessarily something that makes sense based on what people already know. You can't just change everything and hope its discoverable. Discoverability is based just as much on people's experience as it is on common sense. Then again, I'm a Linux zealot fanboy, what good is my opinion, right?
I don't think you could keep the old command names, they'd have to be remade. Probably a program called view would be better suited for displaying the intended content in various ways (including reformatting if you want using style configuration) that also has a flag for raw data view or a separate program for that.
But if we moved to this model, how would I give tips on climagic? I'd start having to post links to screen shots. I kid. Sounds like this guy is trying to turn the command line into the multilayer net with protocols between the programs.
It annoys me when certain admins feel that they are freedom fighters when operating their boxes, makes them incredibly annoying to work with.
That's ok, you're equally annoying to work with because you don't take security seriously enough. There are some other people that I know of that didn't take security serious enough, who was that? Oh yeah, the security folk at Boston Logan International.
And how about this guy from last month:
http://www.geek.com/articles/news/man-wrongly-accused-of-child-porn-learns-to-password-protect-wifi-the-hard-way-20110426/
I bet he takes network security a lot more seriously now. Sysadmins that take security seriously are important because most other people aren't, except the malicious hackers.
For digital signals like HDMI, as long as there is enough data for the receiver to put together a picture, it will form. If there isn't, it will just drop off.
I think a lot of technical people are used to computers and checksums, checkbits, res etc. and think that HDMI is like this. Its not. That's about all I'm going to say because I'm not really qualified and you can read more about it yourself.
So for only $10 millions dollars you can buy a device that is worth billions. Yeah right.
So the question I have now is, was Michael Jackson less significant or did the Jackson craze lead to more people knowing about Twitter and thus more people available to tweet about Bid Laden? The world may never know.
Young Georgie had to get revenge because Saddam made his daddy look bad
Actually, that whole woosy feeling that I got after 9/11 for several years, not unlike getting kicked in the beanbag, has almost gone away. Bringing it back up is kinda like the bully saying "There is that dweeb that I kicked in the balls a few years ago. Ha ha".
It won't be long before we have cases where the president exercises executive powers in the name of freedom and national security which grants them the right to access our computers without our consent.
The only problem is the op hasn't a complete set of information.
Who does?
I am a pseudoscientist, as in I'm not really a scientist. But they wanted imagination.
How about instead of just trying to detect other civilizations that exist along side us, also trying to detect ones that came long before in the previous Universe. If the Universe is cyclic and there was another universe before our "big bang", one thing we could do is see if the particles around us have some kind of signature to them that would be unexpected. It may not be possible right now for us to make such signatures, but perhaps a previous civilization built large devices close to the end of the previous universe that could explode once most of the matter of the Universe was closer together and give many particles such a signature.
The only thing is, how would you determine if something has a signature to it if you have no basis for comparison. Well I guess you could assume that not all the particles had been hit so the test could be to compare some sub atomic particles of one kind with ones of the same kind, but in a different region of space.
I wrote an article about this 8 years ago. Crazy idea? Perhaps. Sometimes crazy ideas help others think in new ways.
Consider things like paying for public works(plowing, winter damage repair to roads, etc), and other operating expenses; then $6 million is about right if it's a smaller town. Otherwise it could get higher than that.
My "wow" wasn't over the size of the budget, but of the percentage that was paid for by speeding tickets alone. I mean, what if nobody speeds some year, which is what you want anyways, right?
Actually, the wikipedia article on Forest Heights, Maryland tells a bit more of the story there:
After decades of former governmental stability, in the 2000s the town made headlines repeatedly as two of its recent mayors were embroiled in clashes with the town council. One mayor, Joyce Beck was ousted from office after changes to the Town Charter. In June 2009 her successor, Myles Spires, has filed a $15 million dollar lawsuit against the town for malicious prosecution after being cleared of all charges initiated by the town for misuse of town's funds.
Mr. Foreman’s tickets were all issued in Forest Heights, a town of about 2,600 where officials expected $2.9 million in ticket revenue this fiscal year, about half the town’s $5.8 million budget.
Couldn't get people to pay taxes for that new community pool there? Sheesh.
Its not because we have 10 digits, its because we choose to count them that way. Someone with a simpler mind said, "hey, look at these 10 protrusions coming out of my palm." The ancient Sumerians and Babylonians however were base base 60 and counted their hands in a different way, by using the segments between their joints. See? Different minds, different times, different ideas.
The metric system also wasn't invented within our lifetime. So why do we care now? The point is, choices that we make now, have a long lasting effect.
You obviously have a very low opinion of the education of people on this forum to have typed all that out. I think everyone here knows the differences between the systems. I think a little memorization and mental math to do the conversions is good for the brain. I can do a lot of the conversions between the systems and within them in my head in just a few seconds. I'm sure many of you can too. What I'm trying to say is that if we do all standardize on the same systems, we're losing the ability to cope with different systems.
I disagree.
And we live on the *same* planet. Just think how someone will think and make different choices being from a different planet.