A bit of clarification: the drive in a MacBook is super-cinchy to replace: take out the battery, loosen three captive screws, take off the cover, slide out the drive. MacBook Pros (MacBooks Pro?), on the other hand, are a huge PITA--you've practically got to take apart the whole machine. Awesome guides for these and many other Macs are here. (I have no connection to them, I'm just a happy reader.)
If not you should try to be more objective. Slashdot is unapologetically intellectual - embrace that.
Sounds like you never read below +5.;-) (And even then, only half the comments.)
Anyway, this is a discussing worth having.
True, and I enjoy good conversation, and you sound like you'd be fun to have this discussion with--I agree with most of what you're saying here, but there a few nits I'd like to pick--but I've got two jobs and an almost-2-year-old baby soaking up most of my free time. Good luck with the band.
Many people regard them as total sellouts and possessive to no actual talent or creativity... they are a hit generator, which is exactly the kind of thing that they play on pop/rock radio
Someday, there will be a thread about the RIAA without all this elitist bullshit. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH POP? I like meatloaf, bubblegum, McDonald's hamburgers, pizza, Mountain Dew, and pop music. Music is not the center of my life, nor is it the apex of the arts. It's enjoyable noise that makes my commute more pleasant. You don't like pop? Fine. The rest of the world does. Not because it's what's been forced down their throats, but because they didn't study enough to learn that they're not supposed to like it--whatever the fuck that means.
Go find a classical music snob and ask him what he thinks about the music you like. ("Radiohead? HA!") While you're at it, ask a chef what he thinks of your dinner selection, a car enthusiast what he thinks of your ride, and the unwashed masses of Slashdot about your operating environment and text editor of choice. Maybe send these folks a picture of what you're wearing right now. There is no dispute concerning taste. (And I refer to the Latin form of that phrase not because I'm a language snob but to make the point that this idea has been around for a long, long time.) And while you're out gathering all these opinions (as if they matter), I highly recommend hitting a bookstore (NOT a video store) and checking out High Fidelity.
Note that this doesn't mean I like the RIAA's tactics, but that's unrelated to what they happen to sell. They could sell bottled water, or own baseball teams, or make operating systems and office suites--they'd behave the same way and they'd still be assholes for doing it.
If your reflex is to tell me "Nirvana really sucked, Pearl Jam and Soundagarden were the real geniuses" then you're missing my point--ignore the band I chose as an example. Just imagine any band you like in their place.
PS: I'm not picking on you in particular. I could have replied to any of a dozen posts in this thread.
Thanks, that was pretty sweet. It gave me an idea: how cool would it be to make a game where you fought EVERYONE? Like, they licensed every possible character--Terminators, Robocops, ED-209s, Aliens, Predators, those things from Doom...
I use the same system. If it's ever released, I'll have to make more changes to address that than I had to make to address the recent change in Daylight Savings Time.
... to whoever posted the "The Last Boy Scout" reference in the tags. ("That's nine zeroes, son!") I love the twangy way that guy delivered that line. Makes me want to watch it tonight.:-)
How cyclical: first there were tags... then there were people using tags for comments... I've seen tags that said 'dontcommentintags'... and now there are comments suggesting how to tag.:-)
Everything that Acid2 tests is specified in a Web standard, but not all Web standards are tested. Acid2 does not guarantee conformance with any specification.
And, from what I've read before, it tests how browsers handle incorrect code as much as anything else--i.e., if it deals with errors correctly. I'd rather have it handle every bit of the spec correctly in the first place, and if it fails gracefully, that's nice too.
It'll also be nice it it handles transparent PNGs properly with nothing more than an <img> tag--like how IE/5 Mac did almost eight fucking years ago.Here's how much progress they had made as of 6/2006. (Yeah, it's been a while, and maybe they've fixed that, but c'mon.... it was 2006!) Too bad they lined up the Mac guys against a wall and shot them, ensuring that it would take almost a decade to get that one feature into IE/Win.
Feel free to correct me if I've made any factual errors in this post.* Flame if you want, but nicely worded, verifiable responses are preferred and worth a lot more to readers in general.
* aside from the part about shooting the Mac team--I'm (pretty) sure that didn't happen.
There is a very real chance that a chunk of rock the size of a basketball court could come at us tomorrow. A very very small, but very real chance. Asteroids that come from the sunward side of Earth's orbit are harder to detect because they are obscured by the Sun. One could come from that direction and astronomers may never see it.
Gentlemen, it is clear that we only have one possible course of action: we must destroy the sun.
I've got one bit of good news for you--ringtones are freely-creatable now. You've got to jump through some hoops to get purchased music on there, but anything you ripped on your own--any audio that you can get into GarageBand at all--will work. And as for third-party apps, Apple said before the launch that they wouldn't be allowed, and now they're going to put out an SDK will be out in a month or two after all. Furthermore, Apple never said it would be anything but an AT&T exclusive, so I really don't know where you got the idea that it was going to free us from telcos, feed the hungry, bring peace to Earth, etc. It is hardly the first piece of hardware--from Apple or any other PC or electronics (*cough*sony*cough*) company--whose capabilities are artificially limited.
Yeah. Having the world's most obvious domain name is crucial to the success of the new film because if there's one thing ST fans are notoriously bad at, it's using the Internet.
Because, to be honest, that isn't very much bandwidth. Say you get one 25KB image spam per minute. That's 1.5 MB/hour. So unless you want to take 467 hours (over 19 days) to move one 700 MB.iso, there's your answer. If you want to add in all the bounces and forwards--hell, let's just be REALLY liberal with our numbers and multiply everything by ten. That's still almost 48 hours--two whole days--to move 700 MB. Considering that it should only be a couple HOURS to move 700 MB, we're talking about an order of magnatude difference.
All together, spam is a lot of bandwidth, but it's obviously not worth the economic burden of most ISPs to fight--if it were, they'd be doing it.
No, seriously--this is great! This looks interesting but I'm mainly interested in the discussion here. (I've got my ideas; I'm curious how other people see it.) It just so happens I was pretty busy yesterday and didn't catch this story. Now I don't have to wait an hour for there to be a good number of +5 comments--I can just check out yesterday's! Thanks, Slashdot!
Dupes: they're not a bug, they're a feature!:-)
My opinion, in case anyone cares: I dislike MS and IE as much as anyone else here, but I think Opera is full of shit on this one.
I have to disagree. If that were the case, eventually every would-be spammer would buy $1,000 worth of spams, get $500 in sales, and quit. My inbox begs to differ. Now, there certainly is a very, very large population of assholes who will someday be spammers and plenty of them will be too dumb to give up, but if none of them made meney, the problem would go away. Selling spam services to spammers might be easier money but the spammers are turning a profit. Remember, a 0.001 percent response rate on ten million messages == profit.
And since stolen computers and stolen bandwidth cost the supplier very little, IF the number of spammers drops, the spam-suppliers will just make more enticing offerings: "The last round of 50 million messages didn't work? I've got a special this month: 500 million for the same price." The net result on your inbox will be the same.
who's the considerate jerk who tagged this story 'thanks'? We don't work that way here at Slashdot, buddy. When a company does something like this, you're supposed to tag it 'whocares' or 'toolittletoolate' or something equally dismissive. Damn noobs...
There are times when you know the problem is pretty serious--you can't connect to a server you connect to daily, and you haven't changed anything--but the guy on the other end insists on jumping you through all kinds of hoops. These times--when you know that IT/support/whoever is wrong--are when it is most important to follow their dopey script. Even if you've already done all the steps yourself, you won't get anywhere with them until they themselves can see that their method has not fixed the problem. Once they run out of ideas, then you can start telling them how to do their job. ("Call this guy on the first floor and ask him if he...") Besides the fact that it's just better to be polite--you'll get nowhere if you piss of the guy for no reason--you'll get to an actual resolution faster if you let them lead the way and run out of ideas.
I have quite a few books myself and I'm contemplating doing exactly this (except for about 50 books that are rare, super-expensive or used often).
As long as we're making value judgments for strangers, here's my suggestion for you: why don't you sell those last 50 books of yours and give the money to the homeless? If they're valuable, they're worth a lot! If they're rare, then those are the ones that it's most important that you not hoard, right? </smart-assery>
No one has the right to tell someone else what to do with their possessions. And who are you to say he'll never read them? Even so, a book's value isn't only in being read cover-to-cover. Maybe he refers to them every so often. Maybe he wants to keep them for his kids. Maybe he parades his friends through the house and they all borrow books all the time. He's going through great effort to catalog them. That implies that they see some use. If they just sat on the shelves, untouched, he could type up a list as a text file--hell, with a typewriter--and be done with it.
Besides, on a practical note, I don't think there's a terrible shortage of books in the world. I visit my local library often and the shelves are literally 99.9% full at any given moment. If you look at his profile, he's in freaking Cambridge, Mass. I think they're pretty well set for books in that town. And before the "send them to Podunk, IA!" responses come in: go back to my original argument--it's not up to you to decide what someone else should do with their stuff.
One of my favorite articles ever, and the one that immediately popped into my mind when reading the headline: Chiat Day in Wired, Feb '99. Some of the problems came from a shortage of supplies and other eccentricities, but mostly it came down to, people just want have their own space.
Plus there are some practical considerations: "Auslander became exasperated with wandering round and round the 30,000-foot New York office, and came up with the 'three-time around' rule: 'If I walked around the entire office three times and still couldn't find the person I was looking for, that was it,' he says. 'At that point, I was going home.' "
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Congratulations on the best mental image, evar. And yeah, it's taking a while: here he is talking about Perl 6 over five years ago. (Home of the famous "big knob" quote.)
I wonder how this guy turned out: "Given this approach to learning Perl (just for a general working knowledge, maybe light usage,) is it really worth spending a lot of my time learning Perl now, or should I wait for the big Perl6 revision?":-)
I was being serious. It was pretty sweet... seven years ago. Every browser was buggier back then, and CSS was still pretty new. IE5/Mac was out two whole years before Mozilla 1.0, and it was miles better than Netscape 4.0, which was nearly three years old at the time (and sucked out loud since the day it was released.) And of course nobody should use it now--MS quit developing it four whole years ago. (Right after Apple released Safari.)
WEB STANDARDS Like its predecessor, the new version of IE5/Mac thoroughly supports CSS1 (along with a good deal of CSS2), JavaScript/ECMAScript, HTML/XHTML, PNG, and much of the W3C standard DOM.
BUGS 'N THINGS Several readers have claimed that this version of IE5/Mac fixes a long-standing anchor link bug. Not so. This version does fix a few very minor CSS rendering bugs, and it renders pages a bit faster than its predecessor, which was pretty darned peppy to begin with.
DEP'T. OF DISINFORMATION An ill-informed journalist has stated that IE5.1/Macintosh now handles CSS "similar(ly) to the Windows version of Internet Explorer 5.5." Uh-uh. IE5.0/Mac was the first browser to get CSS right. The Windows version did not catch up until IE6. The new Mac browser is not imitating the flaws of an old Windows browser; it's merely cleaning up a few of its own.
Of course, there were other "factions" too like the TI99/4A and even the Coleco Adam.... but I daresay these never achieved the market popularity of the other brands.
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A bit of clarification: the drive in a MacBook is super-cinchy to replace: take out the battery, loosen three captive screws, take off the cover, slide out the drive. MacBook Pros (MacBooks Pro?), on the other hand, are a huge PITA--you've practically got to take apart the whole machine. Awesome guides for these and many other Macs are here. (I have no connection to them, I'm just a happy reader.)
Hi there,
;-) (And even then, only half the comments.)
I appreciate your thoughtful post.
Are you Chad Kroeger?
Nope.
If not you should try to be more objective. Slashdot is unapologetically intellectual - embrace that.
Sounds like you never read below +5.
Anyway, this is a discussing worth having.
True, and I enjoy good conversation, and you sound like you'd be fun to have this discussion with--I agree with most of what you're saying here, but there a few nits I'd like to pick--but I've got two jobs and an almost-2-year-old baby soaking up most of my free time. Good luck with the band.
You contradicted yourself right there. You listen to it because it's there during your commute. But it's not forced down peoples throats.
Wrong. I don't listen to the radio when I drive. I use my iPod. Half of what's on my iPod is rap that can't be played on the radio.
Many people regard them as total sellouts and possessive to no actual talent or creativity... they are a hit generator, which is exactly the kind of thing that they play on pop/rock radio
Someday, there will be a thread about the RIAA without all this elitist bullshit. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH POP? I like meatloaf, bubblegum, McDonald's hamburgers, pizza, Mountain Dew, and pop music. Music is not the center of my life, nor is it the apex of the arts. It's enjoyable noise that makes my commute more pleasant. You don't like pop? Fine. The rest of the world does. Not because it's what's been forced down their throats, but because they didn't study enough to learn that they're not supposed to like it--whatever the fuck that means.
Go find a classical music snob and ask him what he thinks about the music you like. ("Radiohead? HA!") While you're at it, ask a chef what he thinks of your dinner selection, a car enthusiast what he thinks of your ride, and the unwashed masses of Slashdot about your operating environment and text editor of choice. Maybe send these folks a picture of what you're wearing right now. There is no dispute concerning taste. (And I refer to the Latin form of that phrase not because I'm a language snob but to make the point that this idea has been around for a long, long time.) And while you're out gathering all these opinions (as if they matter), I highly recommend hitting a bookstore (NOT a video store) and checking out High Fidelity.
Note that this doesn't mean I like the RIAA's tactics, but that's unrelated to what they happen to sell. They could sell bottled water, or own baseball teams, or make operating systems and office suites--they'd behave the same way and they'd still be assholes for doing it.
Ask yourself this: pick any band you like. Imagine they get picked up by the RIAA. Does that make their music bad? Imagine they become unexpectedly, insanely popular and spawn a whole new world of music, Sprite ads, flannel-based fashion, and extreme sports. Does that make their music bad?
If your reflex is to tell me "Nirvana really sucked, Pearl Jam and Soundagarden were the real geniuses" then you're missing my point--ignore the band I chose as an example. Just imagine any band you like in their place.
PS: I'm not picking on you in particular. I could have replied to any of a dozen posts in this thread.
Thanks, that was pretty sweet. It gave me an idea: how cool would it be to make a game where you fought EVERYONE? Like, they licensed every possible character--Terminators, Robocops, ED-209s, Aliens, Predators, those things from Doom...
I use the same system. If it's ever released, I'll have to make more changes to address that than I had to make to address the recent change in Daylight Savings Time.
... to whoever posted the "The Last Boy Scout" reference in the tags. ("That's nine zeroes, son!") I love the twangy way that guy delivered that line. Makes me want to watch it tonight. :-)
How cyclical: first there were tags... then there were people using tags for comments... I've seen tags that said 'dontcommentintags'... and now there are comments suggesting how to tag. :-)
It'll also be nice it it handles transparent PNGs properly with nothing more than an <img> tag--like how IE/5 Mac did almost eight fucking years ago. Here's how much progress they had made as of 6/2006. (Yeah, it's been a while, and maybe they've fixed that, but c'mon.... it was 2006!) Too bad they lined up the Mac guys against a wall and shot them, ensuring that it would take almost a decade to get that one feature into IE/Win.
Feel free to correct me if I've made any factual errors in this post.* Flame if you want, but nicely worded, verifiable responses are preferred and worth a lot more to readers in general.
* aside from the part about shooting the Mac team--I'm (pretty) sure that didn't happen.
I've got one bit of good news for you--ringtones are freely-creatable now. You've got to jump through some hoops to get purchased music on there, but anything you ripped on your own--any audio that you can get into GarageBand at all--will work. And as for third-party apps, Apple said before the launch that they wouldn't be allowed, and now they're going to put out an SDK will be out in a month or two after all. Furthermore, Apple never said it would be anything but an AT&T exclusive, so I really don't know where you got the idea that it was going to free us from telcos, feed the hungry, bring peace to Earth, etc. It is hardly the first piece of hardware--from Apple or any other PC or electronics (*cough*sony*cough*) company--whose capabilities are artificially limited.
Yeah. Having the world's most obvious domain name is crucial to the success of the new film because if there's one thing ST fans are notoriously bad at, it's using the Internet.
Because, to be honest, that isn't very much bandwidth. Say you get one 25KB image spam per minute. That's 1.5 MB/hour. So unless you want to take 467 hours (over 19 days) to move one 700 MB .iso, there's your answer. If you want to add in all the bounces and forwards--hell, let's just be REALLY liberal with our numbers and multiply everything by ten. That's still almost 48 hours--two whole days--to move 700 MB. Considering that it should only be a couple HOURS to move 700 MB, we're talking about an order of magnatude difference.
All together, spam is a lot of bandwidth, but it's obviously not worth the economic burden of most ISPs to fight--if it were, they'd be doing it.
PS: the funniest part is... if MS did make a feature-full, standards-compliant browser, wouldn't that lower Opera usage?
No, seriously--this is great! This looks interesting but I'm mainly interested in the discussion here. (I've got my ideas; I'm curious how other people see it.) It just so happens I was pretty busy yesterday and didn't catch this story. Now I don't have to wait an hour for there to be a good number of +5 comments--I can just check out yesterday's! Thanks, Slashdot!
:-)
Dupes: they're not a bug, they're a feature!
My opinion, in case anyone cares: I dislike MS and IE as much as anyone else here, but I think Opera is full of shit on this one.
I have to disagree. If that were the case, eventually every would-be spammer would buy $1,000 worth of spams, get $500 in sales, and quit. My inbox begs to differ. Now, there certainly is a very, very large population of assholes who will someday be spammers and plenty of them will be too dumb to give up, but if none of them made meney, the problem would go away. Selling spam services to spammers might be easier money but the spammers are turning a profit. Remember, a 0.001 percent response rate on ten million messages == profit.
And since stolen computers and stolen bandwidth cost the supplier very little, IF the number of spammers drops, the spam-suppliers will just make more enticing offerings: "The last round of 50 million messages didn't work? I've got a special this month: 500 million for the same price." The net result on your inbox will be the same.
who's the considerate jerk who tagged this story 'thanks'? We don't work that way here at Slashdot, buddy. When a company does something like this, you're supposed to tag it 'whocares' or 'toolittletoolate' or something equally dismissive. Damn noobs...
There are times when you know the problem is pretty serious--you can't connect to a server you connect to daily, and you haven't changed anything--but the guy on the other end insists on jumping you through all kinds of hoops. These times--when you know that IT/support/whoever is wrong--are when it is most important to follow their dopey script. Even if you've already done all the steps yourself, you won't get anywhere with them until they themselves can see that their method has not fixed the problem. Once they run out of ideas, then you can start telling them how to do their job. ("Call this guy on the first floor and ask him if he...") Besides the fact that it's just better to be polite--you'll get nowhere if you piss of the guy for no reason--you'll get to an actual resolution faster if you let them lead the way and run out of ideas.
All those pics are upside-down! :-)
PS: from TFA:
Total books - About 3,500
Sold, given away, or recycled - About 500
Cataloged - 1,634
Exempted - about 200
I have quite a few books myself and I'm contemplating doing exactly this (except for about 50 books that are rare, super-expensive or used often).
As long as we're making value judgments for strangers, here's my suggestion for you: why don't you sell those last 50 books of yours and give the money to the homeless? If they're valuable, they're worth a lot! If they're rare, then those are the ones that it's most important that you not hoard, right? </smart-assery>
No one has the right to tell someone else what to do with their possessions. And who are you to say he'll never read them? Even so, a book's value isn't only in being read cover-to-cover. Maybe he refers to them every so often. Maybe he wants to keep them for his kids. Maybe he parades his friends through the house and they all borrow books all the time. He's going through great effort to catalog them. That implies that they see some use. If they just sat on the shelves, untouched, he could type up a list as a text file--hell, with a typewriter--and be done with it.
Besides, on a practical note, I don't think there's a terrible shortage of books in the world. I visit my local library often and the shelves are literally 99.9% full at any given moment. If you look at his profile, he's in freaking Cambridge, Mass. I think they're pretty well set for books in that town. And before the "send them to Podunk, IA!" responses come in: go back to my original argument--it's not up to you to decide what someone else should do with their stuff.
One of my favorite articles ever, and the one that immediately popped into my mind when reading the headline: Chiat Day in Wired, Feb '99. Some of the problems came from a shortage of supplies and other eccentricities, but mostly it came down to, people just want have their own space.
Plus there are some practical considerations: "Auslander became exasperated with wandering round and round the 30,000-foot New York office, and came up with the 'three-time around' rule: 'If I walked around the entire office three times and still couldn't find the person I was looking for, that was it,' he says. 'At that point, I was going home.' "
Congratulations on the best mental image, evar. And yeah, it's taking a while: here he is talking about Perl 6 over five years ago. (Home of the famous "big knob" quote.)
:-)
I wonder how this guy turned out: "Given this approach to learning Perl (just for a general working knowledge, maybe light usage,) is it really worth spending a lot of my time learning Perl now, or should I wait for the big Perl6 revision?"
There's a great back-in-the-day review here: Lots of other good stuff in that article.
Of course, there were other "factions" too like the TI99/4A and even the Coleco Adam .... but I daresay these never achieved the market popularity of the other brands.
:-)
Tomy Tutor FTW!!!!11
Poor little Tomy Tutor... so unloved it doesn't even have a Wikipedia page.