I agree. I used to have this 30+ year old ugly green chair at work. I loved it. It was comfortable and had a real high back which was great for a 6'6" person. I had that in front of my folding table (you know the ones that every place has - the two legs that collapse underneath). Everything was perfect.
Then a new boss came in. She bought cubicle furniture to put in the offices (which wasted tons of space) and got these "wonderful" new chairs. I have been in pain ever since.
Though Sam's Club has a nice $70 chair that I love.
Gee...in their rush to bash MS, they left out the Motif "check" boxes. They piss me off everytime I see them. They are either one shade or blue or another, with a little beveling that makes it ambigious as to whether they are pushed in or not.
In my experience Open Source apps are no better (or no worse) than many of the winders apps out there. There are some gems and there are some turds...on both sides of the fence.
I would love to see another Tron. When we got our VCR it was the first movie we rented...I love that movie.
But too often today, when they try to tie into something from the past, they feel they have to completely change it to make it cool for the current generation (of course, alienating the people that are most looking forward to it.)
So, for Tron, since it is computer related, it would be a guess that they would probably want to make it a Matrix type thing. Then mention on Aint-it-cool-news.com of the light cycles still being there however is a good sign.
If done right, then perhaps we would have something close to the MetaVerse (until someone finally makes SnowCrash!) Think about it, in Tron, all the characters were processes on one machine, some mainframe. Now, think of all the processes running on machines, with all these machines interconnected.
I think they are gonna need some faster lightcycles to get around!
Great response. I was laughing pretty loud at the part where the Canadian agency is quoting US court rulings.
However, perhaps this: is a _general purpose_ P2P search engine, which lets users search for any type of file (including documents, programs, source code, images), not just recorded music. should be rewritten
is a _general purpose_ P2P search engine, which lets users search for any type of file (including term papers, warez, source code, porn), not just pirated mp3's.
If you're so easily discouraged that you can't be bothered to spend 10 seconds refining a search, maybe you shouldn't be installing & configuring an operating system.
More of the same elitist attitude. If you're too stupid to figure it out yourself, then fuck off and go back to windows?
Yes, I could have found it pretty easy, however, the point I was trying to make is that all these people that are being told that it's easy to find this and that have a great frame of reference for finding things - yes it is easy for them, but maybe not for the person at the other end of the line. http://www.linux-howto.com would always be a great and fast answer instead.
Just b/c someone told you to RTFM does not mean you should whine all over the place about it. Honestly, getting the mouse to work in X is covered in just about every document there is on the Internet. If you are too lazy to look first before you ask, then they are too lazy to help you
Yup...sad thing is, the above it the exact elitism that drives people away. You saw just X mouse setup is covered real well.
Assuming I'm a home user that just got Linux and was trying it out. I went to yahoo and searched on "linux x windows mouse". According to your "solution is everywhere" one of the the returned documents should have answered it. Try it and see what you get back.
Japanese scalable fonts? Motif Programming? Aqua? A vague question about someone not getting their mouse to work? and of course X windows vs Win9x/NT.
So, which of these FM's should I have read that covered it?
Look at documentation for some config files. A lot of programs tend to define the language structure that makes up their files:
and think they have fully documented everything. yes...technically they have, and for someone who deals with that kinda stuff, it probably helps them out. But all it is doing is creating more of an elitist state, where you practically need a CS degree just to RTFM, which is NEVER going to get Linux into the desktops, at least not for the average user that everyone thinks will have no problem running linux.
Okay...pretty much everytime I have something that needs Java, trying to run it in IE, unless it's a bouncing ball, is a pain. So, you download the JRE and you're set.
But saying they're doing it for security reasons is just a joke. IIRC, Java applets can only connect back to the server they came from. IIRC, Java doesn't have the Win32 API and can't open your address book and make MAPI calls to spam everyone you know.
Sure, there may be a 1% chance that some hack will be twarted because of them removing Java, but as little as I try to bash MS, until they fix Outlook/Outlook express and the security problem with html/attachments, it's not going to matter.
It seems like every other week there is a new hack via Outlook...I don't even think the most recent one made it on/. - we're sick of hearing about it too.
I dunno. This part from the parent quote (can't get to the patent site) "and the predetermined information is reproduced in a material object at the point of sale location" seems to hurt it.
It sounds like what Sam Goody's used to have - where you could pick 6 songs and have a custom made tape in 5 minutes. Put a card in, pick a file, and it spits out a floopy/cd-rom.
Howdver, where is the point-of-sale location? I would imagine that it would be at the location of the web server, as that is where the transaction is validated, logged, etc...
Well, when you do that, the floor is soaking wet. Kinda a pain if you want to use the toilet up to a day after you shower - floor stays wet!
I guess I'm odd - at age 17 I never had an urge to just trash something. Though there have been times lately (many moons later) where I have really felt like walking around with a 30 pound sledge!
Plain and simple - Hampton Inn, who has the thinnest curtains I've ever seen, that suck inwards at the utterance of the words "I'm going to take a shower", needs to install some magnets on the bottom, or just spend an extra dollar per room for a real curtain.
Better yet, the plexiglass doors...that'd be one shower to make them bow in!
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You could equip it with some nice telescopes that would have much better views than on earth, though it'd have to be on the dark side then, or during the correct phase of the moon.
There is always sex in low gravity. Get Heidi Fleis up there.
Then again, Dennis Tito payed $20mil to float around in a tin can for a week!
You become 31337 by DDoSing another server and taking over that channel to see that you worthy of the password to talk about the design of the zippers on the new Enterprise series.
Actually, it should just open a URL and let the OS handle it. The OS should know what app is registered for handling URL's and launch it.
Now, if they decide to put a control inside their application to handle HTML, etc..., then yes, they probably will use the Microsoft Internet control, which will still be there, since so much uses that now.
I work for the State. The three of us that support the network and servers had cel phones, paid for by the state - $45 a month for 450minutes. Never once did any of us go over that. We even had a cool app we wrote where we could dial in and press 1 to do this sorta thing.
Some state idiot was using his cel phone a LOT for personal calls, and the local paper (Atlanta Urinal and Constipation...er Journal and Constitution) ran an article on it - typical "Your Tax Dollars at work" sorta shit.
Well, before long, if you were not the head of an institution/organization, no cel phone. We now have palm pilots with the wireless internet service...a decent, but not as good substitute.
HOWEVER, as I mentioned, even with a "Do we need milk?" call once in a while, there was $0.00 cost to the state. I guess part of their justification was "perhaps the employee didn't need one for their job function".
Okay, well, I had a second phone line to my house to dial into work and do stuff from home...never seen any reimbursement for that, nor for the power I use at my house while working on something remotely.
Though, I can get my own personal cel phone and have the state reimburse me for any minutes used for work. 450 minutes for $45, works out to.10 a minute, even though I'd probably stay under my usage. And due to the paperwork involved, I just wouldn't answer any work calls on it.
So, all in all, the state now has an unhappy employee who is less productive. All because of one poorly-written one sided article in the paper.
I work for the State of Ga. I don't want to have to install an illegal copy of photoshop to print up some fake licenses for all my machines running Linux just to satisfy to bean-counter.
I'm sorry - but I don't see where the BSA should be able to install any software on a machine at my company.
"Yes...this is the main server for my companies 24x7 OLAP money-machine...go right ahead an install some software I know nothing about - no problem answering Yes to the "Reboot?" question."
The question comes down to when you install the Kodak software, does it do everything it needs to do to let it be the one notified when a camera is plugged in?
Yes, they worked with MS to develop a standard, and now this standard is in Whislter. So, since the user may have Whistler/XP, a camera but no software, MS has included some default software to deal with the camera - same way Media Player can play MP3's but is not the best task for the job.
So, did Kodak do everything possible to make their software be the application on XP that does this? It sounds, from the article, that someone just decided to try it on XP on a whim.
I would be interested to know what those nine-clicks were that are required to change the settings. Why doesn't their install program do that - or was it only designed for 9x?
Hell, I upgraded to HPUX 11 recently and it comes with CIFS. Should I be suing HP saying they are trying to shut out Samba by having that installed on port 139, or be happy they are adding a feature?
As for the whole charge-for-pictures thing, bummer, but they didn't have to sign the contract. Interesting revenue streams though.
Turns out the GPS on him showed him doing 35km/h in a hallway that had a posted speed limit of 25km/h. ACME car rental sent then a notice of the violation.
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I agree. I used to have this 30+ year old ugly green chair at work. I loved it. It was comfortable and had a real high back which was great for a 6'6" person. I had that in front of my folding table (you know the ones that every place has - the two legs that collapse underneath). Everything was perfect.
Then a new boss came in. She bought cubicle furniture to put in the offices (which wasted tons of space) and got these "wonderful" new chairs. I have been in pain ever since.
Though Sam's Club has a nice $70 chair that I love.
Gee...in their rush to bash MS, they left out the Motif "check" boxes. They piss me off everytime I see them. They are either one shade or blue or another, with a little beveling that makes it ambigious as to whether they are pushed in or not.
In my experience Open Source apps are no better (or no worse) than many of the winders apps out there. There are some gems and there are some turds...on both sides of the fence.
I would love to see another Tron. When we got our VCR it was the first movie we rented...I love that movie.
But too often today, when they try to tie into something from the past, they feel they have to completely change it to make it cool for the current generation (of course, alienating the people that are most looking forward to it.)
So, for Tron, since it is computer related, it would be a guess that they would probably want to make it a Matrix type thing. Then mention on Aint-it-cool-news.com of the light cycles still being there however is a good sign.
If done right, then perhaps we would have something close to the MetaVerse (until someone finally makes SnowCrash!) Think about it, in Tron, all the characters were processes on one machine, some mainframe. Now, think of all the processes running on machines, with all these machines interconnected.
I think they are gonna need some faster lightcycles to get around!
Great response. I was laughing pretty loud at the part where the Canadian agency is quoting US court rulings.
However, perhaps this: is a _general purpose_ P2P search engine, which lets users search for any type of file (including documents, programs, source code, images), not just recorded music. should be rewritten
is a _general purpose_ P2P search engine, which lets users search for any type of file (including term papers, warez, source code, porn), not just pirated mp3's.
:)
Fair enough - I chose nupedia cause that is the one people were mentioning over and over.
So, instead of one source for info now, we have to hit several - google for encyclopedias? Search them all at once?
All of our apache servers were hit about 29-35 times with the recent IIS bug (the .ida one). Several times from the same client.
Our NT IIS servers where hit 0-2 times.
Duh!
go to nupedia, type Egypt into the search.
NOTHING!
Yet, if you look at the list of recent articles, at least I know it's got Snobol 4 covered.
So, use smtp_auth. Doesn't matter where they come from - they have to validate themselves before they can send e-mail.
From someone who hosts domains.
We got the statue in 1886, which if math still works, was well before two wars.
:)
So either our help in the wars was a thank you for it, or they still owe us
If you're so easily discouraged that you can't be bothered to spend 10 seconds refining a search, maybe you shouldn't be installing & configuring an operating system.
More of the same elitist attitude. If you're too stupid to figure it out yourself, then fuck off and go back to windows?
Yes, I could have found it pretty easy, however, the point I was trying to make is that all these people that are being told that it's easy to find this and that have a great frame of reference for finding things - yes it is easy for them, but maybe not for the person at the other end of the line. http://www.linux-howto.com would always be a great and fast answer instead.
Just b/c someone told you to RTFM does not mean you should whine all over the place about it. Honestly, getting the mouse to work in X is covered in just about every document there is on the Internet. If you are too lazy to look first before you ask, then they are too lazy to help you
Yup...sad thing is, the above it the exact elitism that drives people away. You saw just X mouse setup is covered real well.
Assuming I'm a home user that just got Linux and was trying it out. I went to yahoo and searched on "linux x windows mouse". According to your "solution is everywhere" one of the the returned documents should have answered it. Try it and see what you get back.
Japanese scalable fonts? Motif Programming? Aqua? A vague question about someone not getting their mouse to work? and of course X windows vs Win9x/NT.
So, which of these FM's should I have read that covered it?
Look at documentation for some config files. A lot of programs tend to define the language structure that makes up their files:
object = ( atoms )
atom = ( ( neutron && protron ) || nucleus )
neutron = keyword1 || keyword2
and think they have fully documented everything. yes...technically they have, and for someone who deals with that kinda stuff, it probably helps them out. But all it is doing is creating more of an elitist state, where you practically need a CS degree just to RTFM, which is NEVER going to get Linux into the desktops, at least not for the average user that everyone thinks will have no problem running linux.
Okay...pretty much everytime I have something that needs Java, trying to run it in IE, unless it's a bouncing ball, is a pain. So, you download the JRE and you're set.
/. - we're sick of hearing about it too.
But saying they're doing it for security reasons is just a joke. IIRC, Java applets can only connect back to the server they came from. IIRC, Java doesn't have the Win32 API and can't open your address book and make MAPI calls to spam everyone you know.
Sure, there may be a 1% chance that some hack will be twarted because of them removing Java, but as little as I try to bash MS, until they fix Outlook/Outlook express and the security problem with html/attachments, it's not going to matter.
It seems like every other week there is a new hack via Outlook...I don't even think the most recent one made it on
I thought the people with skills, or the script kiddies still in diapers, were bringing down efnet?
I dunno. This part from the parent quote (can't get to the patent site) "and the predetermined information is reproduced in a material object at the point of sale location" seems to hurt it.
It sounds like what Sam Goody's used to have - where you could pick 6 songs and have a custom made tape in 5 minutes. Put a card in, pick a file, and it spits out a floopy/cd-rom.
Howdver, where is the point-of-sale location? I would imagine that it would be at the location of the web server, as that is where the transaction is validated, logged, etc...
Well, when you do that, the floor is soaking wet. Kinda a pain if you want to use the toilet up to a day after you shower - floor stays wet!
I guess I'm odd - at age 17 I never had an urge to just trash something. Though there have been times lately (many moons later) where I have really felt like walking around with a 30 pound sledge!
Plain and simple - Hampton Inn, who has the thinnest curtains I've ever seen, that suck inwards at the utterance of the words "I'm going to take a shower", needs to install some magnets on the bottom, or just spend an extra dollar per room for a real curtain.
Better yet, the plexiglass doors...that'd be one shower to make them bow in!
You could equip it with some nice telescopes that would have much better views than on earth, though it'd have to be on the dark side then, or during the correct phase of the moon.
There is always sex in low gravity. Get Heidi Fleis up there.
Then again, Dennis Tito payed $20mil to float around in a tin can for a week!
You become 31337 by DDoSing another server and taking over that channel to see that you worthy of the password to talk about the design of the zippers on the new Enterprise series.
Actually, it should just open a URL and let the OS handle it. The OS should know what app is registered for handling URL's and launch it.
Now, if they decide to put a control inside their application to handle HTML, etc..., then yes, they probably will use the Microsoft Internet control, which will still be there, since so much uses that now.
I work for the State. The three of us that support the network and servers had cel phones, paid for by the state - $45 a month for 450minutes. Never once did any of us go over that. We even had a cool app we wrote where we could dial in and press 1 to do this sorta thing.
.10 a minute, even though I'd probably stay under my usage. And due to the paperwork involved, I just wouldn't answer any work calls on it.
Some state idiot was using his cel phone a LOT for personal calls, and the local paper (Atlanta Urinal and Constipation...er Journal and Constitution) ran an article on it - typical "Your Tax Dollars at work" sorta shit.
Well, before long, if you were not the head of an institution/organization, no cel phone. We now have palm pilots with the wireless internet service...a decent, but not as good substitute.
HOWEVER, as I mentioned, even with a "Do we need milk?" call once in a while, there was $0.00 cost to the state. I guess part of their justification was "perhaps the employee didn't need one for their job function".
Okay, well, I had a second phone line to my house to dial into work and do stuff from home...never seen any reimbursement for that, nor for the power I use at my house while working on something remotely.
Though, I can get my own personal cel phone and have the state reimburse me for any minutes used for work. 450 minutes for $45, works out to
So, all in all, the state now has an unhappy employee who is less productive. All because of one poorly-written one sided article in the paper.
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
I work for the State of Ga. I don't want to have to install an illegal copy of photoshop to print up some fake licenses for all my machines running Linux just to satisfy to bean-counter.
So there will be an increase in the number of times the XP CD from work gets a lift from the office to the employees house.
I can just see it now.
Benefits Package - Dental, Health, Vision, Volume-Priced version of Windows, Employee Discounts
I'm sorry - but I don't see where the BSA should be able to install any software on a machine at my company.
"Yes...this is the main server for my companies 24x7 OLAP money-machine...go right ahead an install some software I know nothing about - no problem answering Yes to the "Reboot?" question."
The question comes down to when you install the Kodak software, does it do everything it needs to do to let it be the one notified when a camera is plugged in?
Yes, they worked with MS to develop a standard, and now this standard is in Whislter. So, since the user may have Whistler/XP, a camera but no software, MS has included some default software to deal with the camera - same way Media Player can play MP3's but is not the best task for the job.
So, did Kodak do everything possible to make their software be the application on XP that does this? It sounds, from the article, that someone just decided to try it on XP on a whim.
I would be interested to know what those nine-clicks were that are required to change the settings. Why doesn't their install program do that - or was it only designed for 9x?
Hell, I upgraded to HPUX 11 recently and it comes with CIFS. Should I be suing HP saying they are trying to shut out Samba by having that installed on port 139, or be happy they are adding a feature?
As for the whole charge-for-pictures thing, bummer, but they didn't have to sign the contract. Interesting revenue streams though.
Turns out the GPS on him showed him doing 35km/h in a hallway that had a posted speed limit of 25km/h. ACME car rental sent then a notice of the violation.