Well maybe he is buying incompetently, or maybe I am too. But I've had an unacceptably high failure rate compared to incandescent, and beyond that I hate the look of the light too. I have a few friends that have as well. But then maybe there are some good ones, and some bad ones. Either way, I don't think your post, or my post, or the GP post is a representative sample, so lets just wait until the stats are out, huh? Until then I'll be hoarding my incandescents, until we can come up with something decent. I actually get depressed when I have to turn on my arctic white CF in the kitchen (all the while trying to convince myself that I'll get used to it ONE day (its been two years now))....
I've experimented with/. alot in the last two years. In fact the more I posted the more I found that more or less everyone ignored me. By that I mean I got a +1 for the majority of my posts, and then later a +2 automatically for some reason, presumably because I'd posted past a certain qouta.
I got a -1 troll once -- for reasons I can't fathom -- and I probably should have gotten a -1 asshole for my last post (I'd just gotten home from the bar, and had been debating with Liberterians -- always puts me in a bad mood:), although I was completely right (aren't we always on/. ?). In the end I got just a regular +1.
At the end of the day though when I got a +5 it was completely by surprise. So I just ignore everyone now. I ignore the moderation (because it seems to have very little connection with whats actually posted), and I ignore the scores attributed to my posts. I try and read as low as I can based on the time I have (ie: setting the filter to +2 / +1, etc).
I found from time to time that what I found most rewarding in/. was when I posted something that I put some time into, and someone responed to THAT comment with obviously some good feedback. We almost always got +1s but at least there was a real exchange going on. Thats why I kinda hang out on reddit more these days anyways. It beats the pants off of the competitive / liberterian / physicist / kill your nearest intellectual competition / i hate young people who don't know what mainframes are / i hate you old people who can't figure out why CP/M is dead / etc / etc.
Wow. Its really been a long time since I've seen someone be so completely wrong on the internet. You really must be one of these scientiffic materialists that missed the boat.
Its encoded right into the whole idea of natural selection that the "fittest survive". Or rather that when selection pressures act on a specific biological group, the members of that group which are most able to survive the selection pressure, continue on to reproduce. Of course the trick is that a good set of DNA gets better and better at dealing with more diverse selection pressure events, and therefor become more robust. In the end this means that DNA gets better and better at dealing with life. This is definately progroess. The higher quality adaptiveness that exists within that line of DNA clearly makes it better. I don't think citing three mammals that existed in the last 50,000 years is a great way to look at the real and actual progress of life that has happened since the beginning.
And as a side note, I think that being able to adapt to the point where you can lift yourself and your kind off of the planet and into another part of the universe, is a really great way of avoiding local calamity. And therefore it obviously is a progress and an evolutionairy one. If we don't kill ourselves, and actually do end up succesfully colonizing outside our solar system, then I think we have a good case for progress.
I don't think I would ever trust Machiavelli's idea of success. Unless I wanted to die alone of poisining in my throne room with all my courtiers outside listening at the door to hear my final breath. The modern equivilant being of heart attack in an empty white hospital room, with all the family members waiting for me to croak, while they decide in their mind who's going to split up the estate.
If I remember correctly, this was part of a Max Headroom episode, where they had old satelite debries falling from space, kind of like an intense meteor shower. The relation, is that it seemed to happen during like "satelite debries" season, and was announced on the weather in the episode. It was a bit goofy, because everyone took to using these flourescent umbrellas while walking outside, which seemed to me to be a bit of underkill. And this was just twenty minutes into the future...
So if I don't agree with the deal, as an Author can I opt out? If I don't join the Authors Guild does this mean I'm automatically NOT part of the deal?
A mildly amusing snipe, until you realize that its exactly the GP's post thats causing Microsoft's troubles in the OS market place today -- and Apple's success. Vista is a bloated dead horse. And while yes, it will perform "acceptably" on current hardware (2 gigs of ram, dual core, etc), when you "downgrade" that hardware to XP, you experience for one of the first time in recent windows history, what an operating should really be like. Lite, fast and snappy. And with no real loss of functionality, which is they key point here.
On the other hand Mac OS X is already like this. In fact its last version (Tiger) works almost equally well on my orange iBook (300mhz, circa 1999) as it does on my other Intel laptop. Granted there is a speed difference, but this is mostly seen at the application level, not the OS level. Says something, huh?
And with Apple focusing almost entirely on performance optimizations for Snow Lepoard, I can't even really imagine how your comment is really relevant. The OS should be the framwork layer that programs use to hook into to do what they need. If its taking up more than 10% of any system resources in a system, something is almost definately wrong.
I'm not an Apple fanboi for what its worth. Its just insanely obvious putting the two operating systems side by side on equivialant hardware which one is faster and better, and works in a smaller memory foot print.
Seagate Barracude 7200s? I saw this happen before once in the mid 90s with a friend of mine. Something like four out of six went pretty much all at once...
If we go strictly by the NT line it makes perfect sense.
1 - Windows NT 3.1 2 - Windows NT 3.51 3 - Windows NT 4 4 - Windows 2000 (NT 5.0) 5 - WIndows XP (NT 5.1) 6 - Windows Vista (NT 6.0) 7 - Windows 7 (NT 7.0)
Now this little bit about the kernel being 6.1 might be a bit tricky, if its true and if you are assuming that OS versions are based on their kernel, but in Microsoft's world this isn't always the case. I have at home an HP Jornada that has Windows CE 3.0 burned into its rom, but its clearly CE 2.11 that's the kernel (even says so in the system information). Its just that all the bundled pocket applications have 3.0 in the about box.
Where the hell are you in Canada? In my duplex (in the Montreal area), I use electric heating which I find pretty efficient if used with a thermostat in each room. Some places have water heating which is a bit more onerous. I guess you must live in a small town or something.
Dude! You are the problem at wikipedia! This is why me and a bunch of other people don't even bother to take our time to edit anymore. Go hang yourself, digitally speaking.
In which case there is Linux, which requires you (aside perhaps from Ubuntu) to learn an insane amount of stuff just to control a bit of it. And I say this being someone who's used all three, and built my own Linux distros up until around 2000 (Base + X + etc, etc). Like NeXT, OS X just lets you get down to work. And if you want to tweak just as much as Linux (with the exception of say drivers and kernel -- and even then there are ways around it as the osx86 community has shown) then its all there for you.
I suspect that half the time that Linux users get in such a tizzy about the Mac stuff, is that Mac did it better, Mac is successful, and Linux to some degree is still the lunatic fringe element in alot of the general public's mind. That I'd guess creates resentment in alot of people.
Encryption will not help you here, but your privacy is not violated either -- or not nearly as much, as the "Heil Bush" moron would like you to think.
"Heil Bush" moron and legalities aside, whether this is a privacy violation or not, would largely be a matter of opinion from person to person, wouldn't it? I certainly think it would be.
And even beyond the so called "public space", can they follow where I am inside my house from room to room? If not now, but in the future they could, wouldn't that be an invasion of privacy? There are alot of issues here, that can't just be tossed out with your one liner.
I like the stalking approach that some people have taken. We forget the idea behind stalking, which is that an ever present menace reduces our quality of life, and forces us to alter how we live our lives. Is this not basically the same thing?
Wow! Do you suffer from obsessive/. story reading disorder so much you can't skip this stuff?
I've really enjoyed this one and the last one.
The degree of negativity and cynicism on/. these days is making me really understand why digg and reddit are becoming so popular -- and why k5 eventually died.
Wow! What's with the negativity, dude? This is after all a humour post...maybe you need to go to your doctor and have your humour gland reinserted...I hear they sometimes take it out when you become a GOM (Grumpy Old Man).
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Well maybe he is buying incompetently, or maybe I am too. But I've had an unacceptably high failure rate compared to incandescent, and beyond that I hate the look of the light too. I have a few friends that have as well. But then maybe there are some good ones, and some bad ones. Either way, I don't think your post, or my post, or the GP post is a representative sample, so lets just wait until the stats are out, huh? Until then I'll be hoarding my incandescents, until we can come up with something decent. I actually get depressed when I have to turn on my arctic white CF in the kitchen (all the while trying to convince myself that I'll get used to it ONE day (its been two years now))....
I've experimented with /. alot in the last two years. In fact the more I posted the more I found that more or less everyone ignored me. By that I mean I got a +1 for the majority of my posts, and then later a +2 automatically for some reason, presumably because I'd posted past a certain qouta.
I got a -1 troll once -- for reasons I can't fathom -- and I probably should have gotten a -1 asshole for my last post (I'd just gotten home from the bar, and had been debating with Liberterians -- always puts me in a bad mood :), although I was completely right (aren't we always on /. ?). In the end I got just a regular +1.
At the end of the day though when I got a +5 it was completely by surprise. So I just ignore everyone now. I ignore the moderation (because it seems to have very little connection with whats actually posted), and I ignore the scores attributed to my posts. I try and read as low as I can based on the time I have (ie: setting the filter to +2 / +1, etc).
I found from time to time that what I found most rewarding in /. was when I posted something that I put some time into, and someone responed to THAT comment with obviously some good feedback. We almost always got +1s but at least there was a real exchange going on. Thats why I kinda hang out on reddit more these days anyways. It beats the pants off of the competitive / liberterian / physicist / kill your nearest intellectual competition / i hate young people who don't know what mainframes are / i hate you old people who can't figure out why CP/M is dead / etc / etc.
Wow. Its really been a long time since I've seen someone be so completely wrong on the internet. You really must be one of these scientiffic materialists that missed the boat.
Its encoded right into the whole idea of natural selection that the "fittest survive". Or rather that when selection pressures act on a specific biological group, the members of that group which are most able to survive the selection pressure, continue on to reproduce. Of course the trick is that a good set of DNA gets better and better at dealing with more diverse selection pressure events, and therefor become more robust. In the end this means that DNA gets better and better at dealing with life. This is definately progroess. The higher quality adaptiveness that exists within that line of DNA clearly makes it better. I don't think citing three mammals that existed in the last 50,000 years is a great way to look at the real and actual progress of life that has happened since the beginning.
And as a side note, I think that being able to adapt to the point where you can lift yourself and your kind off of the planet and into another part of the universe, is a really great way of avoiding local calamity. And therefore it obviously is a progress and an evolutionairy one. If we don't kill ourselves, and actually do end up succesfully colonizing outside our solar system, then I think we have a good case for progress.
I don't think I would ever trust Machiavelli's idea of success. Unless I wanted to die alone of poisining in my throne room with all my courtiers outside listening at the door to hear my final breath. The modern equivilant being of heart attack in an empty white hospital room, with all the family members waiting for me to croak, while they decide in their mind who's going to split up the estate.
If I remember correctly, this was part of a Max Headroom episode, where they had old satelite debries falling from space, kind of like an intense meteor shower. The relation, is that it seemed to happen during like "satelite debries" season, and was announced on the weather in the episode. It was a bit goofy, because everyone took to using these flourescent umbrellas while walking outside, which seemed to me to be a bit of underkill. And this was just twenty minutes into the future...
So if I don't agree with the deal, as an Author can I opt out? If I don't join the Authors Guild does this mean I'm automatically NOT part of the deal?
A mildly amusing snipe, until you realize that its exactly the GP's post thats causing Microsoft's troubles in the OS market place today -- and Apple's success. Vista is a bloated dead horse. And while yes, it will perform "acceptably" on current hardware (2 gigs of ram, dual core, etc), when you "downgrade" that hardware to XP, you experience for one of the first time in recent windows history, what an operating should really be like. Lite, fast and snappy. And with no real loss of functionality, which is they key point here.
On the other hand Mac OS X is already like this. In fact its last version (Tiger) works almost equally well on my orange iBook (300mhz, circa 1999) as it does on my other Intel laptop. Granted there is a speed difference, but this is mostly seen at the application level, not the OS level. Says something, huh?
And with Apple focusing almost entirely on performance optimizations for Snow Lepoard, I can't even really imagine how your comment is really relevant. The OS should be the framwork layer that programs use to hook into to do what they need. If its taking up more than 10% of any system resources in a system, something is almost definately wrong.
I'm not an Apple fanboi for what its worth. Its just insanely obvious putting the two operating systems side by side on equivialant hardware which one is faster and better, and works in a smaller memory foot print.
Seagate Barracude 7200s? I saw this happen before once in the mid 90s with a friend of mine. Something like four out of six went pretty much all at once...
Here we go again. Sigh.
Well it was going to come up *somewhere* in the thread, so he was just being preemptive about it.
If we go strictly by the NT line it makes perfect sense.
1 - Windows NT 3.1
2 - Windows NT 3.51
3 - Windows NT 4
4 - Windows 2000 (NT 5.0)
5 - WIndows XP (NT 5.1)
6 - Windows Vista (NT 6.0)
7 - Windows 7 (NT 7.0)
Now this little bit about the kernel being 6.1 might be a bit tricky, if its true and if you are assuming that OS versions are based on their kernel, but in Microsoft's world this isn't always the case. I have at home an HP Jornada that has Windows CE 3.0 burned into its rom, but its clearly CE 2.11 that's the kernel (even says so in the system information). Its just that all the bundled pocket applications have 3.0 in the about box.
How easily the world forgets the iBook G3 graphics chip defect....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBook#Quality_issues
Where the hell are you in Canada? In my duplex (in the Montreal area), I use electric heating which I find pretty efficient if used with a thermostat in each room. Some places have water heating which is a bit more onerous. I guess you must live in a small town or something.
The other one I like is the choice not to use it -- which is pretty cool. I wish I could say the same about Windows in the work place.
Dude! You are the problem at wikipedia! This is why me and a bunch of other people don't even bother to take our time to edit anymore. Go hang yourself, digitally speaking.
And my mod points just expired yesterday.... .o.
In which case there is Linux, which requires you (aside perhaps from Ubuntu) to learn an insane amount of stuff just to control a bit of it. And I say this being someone who's used all three, and built my own Linux distros up until around 2000 (Base + X + etc, etc). Like NeXT, OS X just lets you get down to work. And if you want to tweak just as much as Linux (with the exception of say drivers and kernel -- and even then there are ways around it as the osx86 community has shown) then its all there for you.
I suspect that half the time that Linux users get in such a tizzy about the Mac stuff, is that Mac did it better, Mac is successful, and Linux to some degree is still the lunatic fringe element in alot of the general public's mind. That I'd guess creates resentment in alot of people.
I have a parrot!
Well they sure hit the Slashdot demographic with that one, didn't they?
That of course is entirely subjective.
What the hell is going on this morning? First qoutes from Conan, and now this? I'm going back to bed!
-=d
Encryption will not help you here, but your privacy is not violated either -- or not nearly as much, as the "Heil Bush" moron would like you to think.
"Heil Bush" moron and legalities aside, whether this is a privacy violation or not, would largely be a matter of opinion from person to person, wouldn't it? I certainly think it would be.
And even beyond the so called "public space", can they follow where I am inside my house from room to room? If not now, but in the future they could, wouldn't that be an invasion of privacy? There are alot of issues here, that can't just be tossed out with your one liner.
I like the stalking approach that some people have taken. We forget the idea behind stalking, which is that an ever present menace reduces our quality of life, and forces us to alter how we live our lives. Is this not basically the same thing?
That will mean LOTS more RAM. Stop worrying and just buy more RAM
Or we could exercise our right of choice and just not use it...
Wow! Do you suffer from obsessive /. story reading disorder so much you can't skip this stuff?
I've really enjoyed this one and the last one.
The degree of negativity and cynicism on /. these days is making me really understand why digg and reddit are becoming so popular -- and why k5 eventually died.
Wow! What's with the negativity, dude? This is after all a humour post...maybe you need to go to your doctor and have your humour gland reinserted...I hear they sometimes take it out when you become a GOM (Grumpy Old Man).