The foo-Nazi expression was popularized into the American cultural mindspace by an (as I am told--haven't seen it, myself) excellent Seinfeld episode featuring a "Soup-Nazi".
SGI is already switching their software distribution and support from RHEL to SuSE on their Altix platform. We installed it on ours yesterday.
Like it or not, that sticks them into the game at many U.S. government/military sites, and that automatically yanks them out of the "me-too" division. Just as SGI is using their government contracts to hang in the market by a thread, SuSE can use it to jump-start a play for major market acceptance as they move in the other direction.
Agreed; I use an optical trackball, and I still have to pull it out every once in awhile to clean out the dust and grime inside and on the ball. Even though the gunk doesn't affect the mouse's ability to understand the ball movement, it does create friction and inconsistency in the movement itself. I find that I can feel it start to "stick" after about a month of constant use.
Even though the scroll ball will get considerably less use than a trackball, it's also much smaller in diameter. This means the dust will likely get cycled down into the mouse much quicker. It is possible that instead of being nested in a socket, the ball is suspended around its circumference somehow, reducing the contact area; however, in general, the lack of the the ability to clean out any interface-oriented moving parts seems like a bad idea.
Actually, if he read the site yesterday, then he would have seen this. It would appear that their search engine has not yet caught up to the changes made to the page in the last 24 hours.
Searched for:
mighty mouse speaker
Apple - MightyMouse - Design ... that responds to your movements. A tiny speaker inside MightyMouse produces button-clicking and Scroll Ball-rolling sound effects....
Notice the trailing end of the previous sentence is the same as the one you quoted.
(Heh...I copied the HTML straight from the page. Interesting that they bother to tag the search terms bold, but then nullify it with CSS.)
Re:Did it hurt? (Score:-1) by Bastard of Subhumani (827601) on 13:22 Tuesday 02 August 2005 (#13223234) When they implanted the control interface plugs into your spine
You mean he's got one?
Re:Did it hurt? (Score:-1) by Gi77 B4t35 (808520) on 13:23 Tuesday 02 August 2005 (#13223243) "When they implanted the control interface plugs into your spine"
You mean he's got one?
Which do you find creepier: the MS Hive Mind or the SlashDot Hive Mind?
Actually, I don't watch television--certainly I don't watch news programs, because they seem to exist only to tell us how terrible things are and have nothing useful to contribute to the daily lives of anyone except the excessively pessimistic looking for new things to be paranoid at ("And now, the news at eleven. Special Coverage: Man Kills 7 Innocent Puppies! Also, something about a rocket, or shuttle, or something...we dunno, it flies and makes lots of fire").
My impressions come from the people I meet, the people I work with, and those with whom I spend my leisure time every day. I see no evidence of "the rabble (that's us, folks) [getting] fed up with it and [deciding] to topple the entire system, society and all."
The fact that you automatically assume that the formulation of an opinion must only derive from inherently-sensationalist televison entertainment businesses (hey, they're looking to make a profit, too, you know) is discouraging.
The history of every major galactic civilization has passed through three distinct and recognizable phases: those of survival, inquiry, and sophistication. Otherwise known as the 'How', 'Why', and 'Where' phases. For instance, the first phase is characterised by the question: "How can we eat?" The second by the question: "Why do we eat?" And the third by the question: "Where should we have lunch?" The history of warfare is similarly subdivided, though here the phases are retribution, anticipation, and diplomacy. Thus, retribution: "I'm going to kill you because you killed my brother." Anticipation: "I'm going to kill you because I killed your brother." And diplomacy: "I'm going to kill my brother and then kill you on the pretext that your brother did it." Meanwhile, the Earthman Arthur Dent--to whom all this can be of only academic interest, as his only brother was long ago nibbled to death by an okapi--is about to be plunged into a real intergalactic war.
Looks like we're still only at phase one. The real trick, however, is the third part:
THANK YOU for pointing this out...I had that same comment cached in my mind to post, but I couldn't for the life of me recall it once I'd finished reading through the rest of the comments.
Are there no interface guidelines against this sort of thing? It's a preference that a user would almost certantly want to set once and never have to worry about except for specialized searches. You shouldn't need multiple clicks every time you want to search for something on google--this defeats half of the point of having the bar there in the first place!
I think that middle-click weirdness is only an issue in Linux (where it does some address-paste-from-clipboard thing that I have never quite been able to figure out). Thankfully, the fix is an easy one.
The reason he was modded down was because it wasn't a comment on the discussion (offtopic--the topic is the new features on the google.com/ig, not business dealings of any kind), it was worded to incite an argument (flamebait), and it was a deliberately false assertion (troll--if Google bought SlashDot/OSDN, we'd know about it). Seems like he's got it all covered, to me.
I think realultimatepower.net deserves a place...then again, maybe not, because I still find it hilarious every time I look at it, and the article seems to focus on stuff that had one huge "wave" and then disappeared to the depths of annoyance.
One area is just some fit-and-finish, and taking basic simple processes and doing it better. We have a feature called Configure Your Server Wizard, which allows you to go in and choose a server role so you can take a file server and (rebuild it as a) media server. That takes four to five clicks of a GUI (graphic user interface) screen to do that, and it takes maybe 15 to 20 minutes (to complete) based on size of server. In comparison, some guys I hired who've only coded on Unix and Linux all their lives showed me how long and the amount of effort it took to do that on Linux.
So you're saying that your premade script works faster than doing it from scratch? How is this an argument? If someone in the Linux world really saw a great need for this task, they could write a script to automate it just as you did (though it probably wouldn't have the same "fit-and-finish" of requiring the user to click through a half-dozen "Welcome" and "Thank you, have a nice day" screens. You got us there.).
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.rocketcarstory.com/
Good read, and well-written. Good story to break up a long work day.
Clippy, of course!
No IP for you!
The foo-Nazi expression was popularized into the American cultural mindspace by an (as I am told--haven't seen it, myself) excellent Seinfeld episode featuring a "Soup-Nazi".
SGI is already switching their software distribution and support from RHEL to SuSE on their Altix platform. We installed it on ours yesterday.
Like it or not, that sticks them into the game at many U.S. government/military sites, and that automatically yanks them out of the "me-too" division. Just as SGI is using their government contracts to hang in the market by a thread, SuSE can use it to jump-start a play for major market acceptance as they move in the other direction.
Agreed; I use an optical trackball, and I still have to pull it out every once in awhile to clean out the dust and grime inside and on the ball. Even though the gunk doesn't affect the mouse's ability to understand the ball movement, it does create friction and inconsistency in the movement itself. I find that I can feel it start to "stick" after about a month of constant use.
Even though the scroll ball will get considerably less use than a trackball, it's also much smaller in diameter. This means the dust will likely get cycled down into the mouse much quicker. It is possible that instead of being nested in a socket, the ball is suspended around its circumference somehow, reducing the contact area; however, in general, the lack of the the ability to clean out any interface-oriented moving parts seems like a bad idea.
Notice the trailing end of the previous sentence is the same as the one you quoted.
(Heh...I copied the HTML straight from the page. Interesting that they bother to tag the search terms bold, but then nullify it with CSS.)
Re:Did it hurt? (Score:-1)
by Bastard of Subhumani (827601) on 13:22 Tuesday 02 August 2005 (#13223234)
When they implanted the control interface plugs into your spine
You mean he's got one?
Re:Did it hurt? (Score:-1)
by Gi77 B4t35 (808520) on 13:23 Tuesday 02 August 2005 (#13223243)
"When they implanted the control interface plugs into your spine"
You mean he's got one?
Which do you find creepier: the MS Hive Mind or the SlashDot Hive Mind?
Actually, I don't watch television--certainly I don't watch news programs, because they seem to exist only to tell us how terrible things are and have nothing useful to contribute to the daily lives of anyone except the excessively pessimistic looking for new things to be paranoid at ("And now, the news at eleven. Special Coverage: Man Kills 7 Innocent Puppies! Also, something about a rocket, or shuttle, or something...we dunno, it flies and makes lots of fire").
My impressions come from the people I meet, the people I work with, and those with whom I spend my leisure time every day. I see no evidence of "the rabble (that's us, folks) [getting] fed up with it and [deciding] to topple the entire system, society and all."
The fact that you automatically assume that the formulation of an opinion must only derive from inherently-sensationalist televison entertainment businesses (hey, they're looking to make a profit, too, you know) is discouraging.
Holy cow, man. What kind of crap do they feed you over there?
Today we salute you, Mr. Free-Software-Advocate Guy.
Don't they own all that stuff, anyway? >8P
THANK YOU for pointing this out...I had that same comment cached in my mind to post, but I couldn't for the life of me recall it once I'd finished reading through the rest of the comments.
Are there no interface guidelines against this sort of thing? It's a preference that a user would almost certantly want to set once and never have to worry about except for specialized searches. You shouldn't need multiple clicks every time you want to search for something on google--this defeats half of the point of having the bar there in the first place!
Yea, but don't be surprised if you see a patent on, say, a shared Stop/Refresh in the near future.
We apologize for the fault in the comments. Those responsible have been sacked.
The reason he was modded down was because it wasn't a comment on the discussion (offtopic--the topic is the new features on the google.com/ig, not business dealings of any kind), it was worded to incite an argument (flamebait), and it was a deliberately false assertion (troll--if Google bought SlashDot/OSDN, we'd know about it). Seems like he's got it all covered, to me.
It may yet happen...and in the meantime, we can say we're "Waiting for gDot".
Except that now you can stick listings from 500 news sites, 30 travel sites, 60 people's random blogs, and your favorite dozen shopping sites.
/duck
Of course, if you wanted that, you could just go straight to Yahoo!.
Currently, it's sporting a redirect to http://www.tabwin.com/puss.html, which contains a .jpg image scaled to 10000000x10000000 pixels.
...finally come back to haunt you.
In Soviet Russia, monkey punches you?
I think realultimatepower.net deserves a place...then again, maybe not, because I still find it hilarious every time I look at it, and the article seems to focus on stuff that had one huge "wave" and then disappeared to the depths of annoyance.
I didn't read the article; I just came in to read comments like this one, because they're funny. >8)
Thank you, sir, for brightening my mood after a long day's work.
What ultra-minority open-source IE community would this be?