Perhaps a bigger mistake is creating a link between your name and your Slashdot user ID Yeah, you're right... nobody would ever guess that "thomasdz" or "thomas dzubin" might be the same person. My bad.
Ok, I know MS-Windows has 90%+ of the market, Macs have another 5%, Linux has...maybe 3%... but it is irrelevant...
Why do I need an OS-specific downloader? Once I've entered in my credit card info or whatever else is needed, why can't they just put up a link that I "right-click" on (or whatever - some of us occasionally use a non-mouse-non-GUI) and use whatever method MY BROWSER uses to download a file?
When I said "the best way to learn things", I meant: "the best way to learn A NEW PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE" I'm one of those people who just can't learn anything from those "Learn Pearl in 24 hours" kind-of-books... I need to actually do code and get the finger muscles synched with the appropriate brain cells to burn it into my brain.
a few winters ago so I wrote a BASIC interpreter in Perl which wasn't hard, but then from the lessons I learned from that I then wrote the same BASIC interpreter in VMS DCL which was a really interesting week project. (VMS DCL is the Cshell of the VAX/VMS world) Why? I dunno, but I did learn a whole lot about Perl. I think that's the best way to learn things... make up a fake project for yourself (say, a database, or a simple flight simulator)...then implement it. Then revise it.
Is there any hope of retrofitting old existing boxes with these drives or are they all going to come with newer (eg: SATA) interfaces? I have a few older servers which will be too expensive to completely replace, but it would be nice to have solid state drives in
Hasn't SATA been around for five years? I agree it would be nice to keep old interfaces around, but at some time, you're going to have to buckle up and replace your server if you want to use new technologies
I've got all of these frikken lasers lying around ready to be mounted on the sharks swimming in my backyard pool and some %@#^$ contractor with government connections comes in and steals the show. My sharks + really big rubber bands + frikken lasers are going to be much cheaper than this "anti-missle" technology. This is just pork barrel politics rewarding people & companies with "comfortable" ideas. How about we think "outside the box" and start shooting laser-equipped sharks at these missles... I mean, seriously, they've already got fins which are aerodynamic and they could probably fly several hundred miles given a big enough rubber band gun.
Yeah, but before the 1985 "Back to the Future" movie came out, how many "general public" people knew the prefix "Giga"? That's when I started hearing regular people start to use it. We gotta start using the prefixes before they start to become common. I'd rather see "27 Exabytes" followed by a parenthetical comment saying (27 Billion GigaBytes)
"obviously"? No, I've powered up laptops that have been sitting in a cabinet for over a year. Yeah, they didn't last very long (half an hour) until I had to plug them back in, but rechargables last way more that a "matter of weeks" Maybe you've got bad product?
Or bette, they can make bigger cars that get 600 mile range. That seems to me to be the 'tipping point' for acceptance
My current car gets 700km to a tank of gas...so I have to visit a station every 500 miles or so...so yeah the "tipping point" for me would be between 450 and 600 miles on a single charge... I visit somewhere where I either fill up with gas or fill up with electrons... I don't care either way
I've created a new invention that is much better than these "nanowires" and am in the process of patenting it. I call it an "on/off" button. When my special "on/off" button is moved to the "off" position, laptop batteries can last for weeks and weeks. I've even got some reports of a battery lasting over a year with my special "turnitoff" technology.
RE: "Voyager 2 Shows Solar System Is "Dented", and "our solar system is not round" The Wikipedia entry for "Solar System" has a bunch of silly stuff about planets and moons and asteroids and other useless stuff, so I've deleted it all and replaced it with the much more informative: "not round, but Round-ish"...update: Grrr... some wiki-fanboi perfectionist editor has corrected it to read "sphere-ish"... oh well, at least my edit has a reference source so I guess I'll just take it up with Jimmy Wales
hahaha, no sorry, I'm not RMS...that's why I signed my Anonymous Coward post with "TDz" which stands for my real slash id: ThomasDz (I was too lazy to sign in)
I'm not even going to read TFA because of Roland's reputation for spamming Slashdot with links to his blogs/sites/whatevers. I do like the idea of the Natalie Portman carrot cross though.
I hope I'm not being a Troll
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I hope I'm not being a Troll when I say that this Gnome release will Dwarf all other releases. It is a Hobbit of mine to Drag-on puns like this until I have to run off to the bathroom to take a Wiz-ard.
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I know there's a bunch of really good commercials showing up on YouTube today, but I didn't know that there was a football game today.
Yes. and SIMH too
Perhaps a bigger mistake is creating a link between your name and your Slashdot user ID
Yeah, you're right... nobody would ever guess that "thomasdz" or "thomas dzubin" might be the same person.
My bad.
I was an idiot 15 years ago:
http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.protocols.nfs/browse_thread/thread/76662c9239a05257
Who can I talk to in order to erase the fact that I wanted to connect MSDOS and UNIX somehow.
Imagine! Wanting to connect two different operating systems together over Ethernet... how silly.
Ok, I know MS-Windows has 90%+ of the market, Macs have another 5%, Linux has ...maybe 3%... but it is irrelevant...
Why do I need an OS-specific downloader? Once I've entered in my credit card info or whatever else is needed, why can't they just put up a link that I "right-click" on (or whatever - some of us occasionally use a non-mouse-non-GUI) and use whatever method MY BROWSER uses to download a file?
When I said "the best way to learn things", I meant: "the best way to learn A NEW PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE"
I'm one of those people who just can't learn anything from those "Learn Pearl in 24 hours" kind-of-books... I need to actually do code and get the finger muscles synched with the appropriate brain cells to burn it into my brain.
a few winters ago so I wrote a BASIC interpreter in Perl which wasn't hard, but then from the lessons I learned from that I then wrote the same BASIC interpreter in VMS DCL which was a really interesting week project. (VMS DCL is the Cshell of the VAX/VMS world)
Why? I dunno, but I did learn a whole lot about Perl.
I think that's the best way to learn things... make up a fake project for yourself (say, a database, or a simple flight simulator)...then implement it. Then revise it.
Yeah! Me too. It was running on an HP2000F Time Shared system at the University of Saskatchewan. There was also "hunt the Wumpus" and "Gomoku" too
No no, INDUCTANCE is futile, Capacitance is silly, and resistance is sad-but-looking-up
I have a few older servers which will be too expensive to completely replace, but it would be nice to have solid state drives in
Hasn't SATA been around for five years? I agree it would be nice to keep old interfaces around, but at some time, you're going to have to buckle up and replace your server if you want to use new technologies
I've got all of these frikken lasers lying around ready to be mounted on the sharks swimming in my backyard pool and some %@#^$ contractor with government connections comes in and steals the show. My sharks + really big rubber bands + frikken lasers are going to be much cheaper than this "anti-missle" technology. This is just pork barrel politics rewarding people & companies with "comfortable" ideas. How about we think "outside the box" and start shooting laser-equipped sharks at these missles... I mean, seriously, they've already got fins which are aerodynamic and they could probably fly several hundred miles given a big enough rubber band gun.
Yeah, but before the 1985 "Back to the Future" movie came out, how many "general public" people knew the prefix "Giga"? That's when I started hearing regular people start to use it.
We gotta start using the prefixes before they start to become common. I'd rather see "27 Exabytes" followed by a parenthetical comment saying (27 Billion GigaBytes)
But I wake up the next day, and now it's +5 Funny!
I guess the "overnight" moderators have a sense of humor (or else are really drunk)
Yeah, tell me about it... oh well... happy new year to ya!
Damn, I meant to post that as "thomasdz", oh well... I guess I WIN at that also!
"obviously"? No, I've powered up laptops that have been sitting in a cabinet for over a year. Yeah, they didn't last very long (half an hour) until I had to plug them back in, but rechargables last way more that a "matter of weeks"
Maybe you've got bad product?
My current car gets 700km to a tank of gas...so I have to visit a station every 500 miles or so...so yeah the "tipping point" for me would be between 450 and 600 miles on a single charge... I visit somewhere where I either fill up with gas or fill up with electrons... I don't care either way
I've created a new invention that is much better than these "nanowires" and am in the process of patenting it. I call it an "on/off" button. When my special "on/off" button is moved to the "off" position, laptop batteries can last for weeks and weeks. I've even got some reports of a battery lasting over a year with my special "turnitoff" technology.
I'm going to make millions!
TDz.
RE: "Voyager 2 Shows Solar System Is "Dented", and "our solar system is not round" ...update: Grrr... some wiki-fanboi perfectionist editor has corrected it to read "sphere-ish" ... oh well, at least my edit has a reference source so I guess I'll just take it up with Jimmy Wales
The Wikipedia entry for "Solar System" has a bunch of silly stuff about planets and moons and asteroids and other useless stuff, so I've deleted it all and replaced it with the much more informative: "not round, but Round-ish"
hahaha, no sorry, I'm not RMS...that's why I signed my Anonymous Coward post with "TDz" which stands for my real slash id: ThomasDz
(I was too lazy to sign in)
First it says ICANN, then it says I can't
Which is it?
PPC Mac, random Intel boxes, and most importantly, my collection of VAX systems can all be running the same code.
That's why I like it and use it.
You just need to log in to get mod points. How difficult is that?
I'm not even going to read TFA because of Roland's reputation for spamming Slashdot with links to his blogs/sites/whatevers.
I do like the idea of the Natalie Portman carrot cross though.
I hope I'm not being a Troll when I say that this Gnome release will Dwarf all other releases. It is a Hobbit of mine to Drag-on puns like this until I have to run off to the bathroom to take a Wiz-ard.