yeah it's true. yo i love slashdot (duh) but there are weird bugs which make me wonder what the subscription money goes for. Sure, hosting is expensive. I understand. But why is it that when I try to change my threshhold from 3 to 2, the menu doesn't display the correct number of articles at each threshhold? It used to. That bug popped up when they switched to the new slashcode (remember that?) and I figured they'd fix it pretty quckly. Nope.
also, isn't it about time we let the threshholds go up to six or seven? i mean, if I only have time for a couple dozen comments, i go with threshhold five and even then i can only read some of the articles on the page.
Someone in this discussion said that Windows is more popular because it supports more hardware. I've never really tried to connect anything weird to a Linux box, so I've always found its hardware support perfect, but do consider this:
When I got a PowerBook, I wanted to put some other operating system on my old iMac, so I chose the only non-Apple OS I could think of that would run on an iMac -- Yellow Dog Linux. These are the only two boxen I own so it probably would have been more useful to have a Windows machine, but the "pathetic hardware support" for Windows made that impossible.
1.) it's a "knife" not a "knive"; but "knives" is correct.
2.) it's illegal to carry a knife in Wales? WTF? what kind of crazy ass-backward law is that? isn't Wales a "free" state? jesus remind me not to ever go there. i wonder what other crazy laws they have. how about as an excuse: "i like knives, i like to whittle, and i've never stabbed anyone in my life -- now get off my back, government!"
No one really thinks t.v. is a great medium, anyway. It's passive. That was the complaint all along -- people rotting their brains watching a passive medium for hours and hours. It should be no surprise that other exciting electrical mediums like games and (more important to me) the internet will supplant television. I don't think t.v. is going to go away because sometimes a passive video medium is appropriate (sitcoms and dramas as we know them can't really be interactive; movies; etc.), but viewership will shrink (in terms of average hours watched).
Nobody thinks this is a bad thing. Yo, if someone is going to waste their time consuming hollow, useless things they may as well do it actively, interactively, rather than watching produced, linear shows.
When I run into someone who insists on a Word document, I generally send them an RTF file. RTF is (of course) a Microsoft format, so Word opens it perfectly. Nowadays, Mac OS X has TextEdit which can save to Word format, but it just makes my skin crawl, you know.
PostScript isn't really something most people can open. PDF is probably less openable than RTF, but a good choise. I've run into trouble recently, though, with PDFs saved from one program that wouldn't open in Acrobat Reader or in OS X's Preview.
dude, you have a computer that crashes? time to buy a Macintosh.
Yo I'm kidding but only partially -- i have crashed OS X, but not in well over a year, not since i was running 10.0. But applications still crash from time to time.
Dogg I understand that Firefox wasn't so great for you, but man you aren't using Explorer, are you? god DAMN that browser sucks. i mean, do you realize that IE is the ONLY browser that has popups? every now and then i turn off my popup blocking (in Safari) and i immediately get hit with like five popups! how does anyone keep using a browser that does that to them?
Yo also, good comment how "the tabs concept is great". I am shocked that you can go back to a browser without tabs. I often wonder what the hell I was ever doing without tabs. (No, the little Windows taskbar thing is *not* as good.)
seriously. it defeats the first reason i use tabs at all: command-click to open a link in a new page, then immediately either go back in history or try to click over to a different tab. but no! can't do that! gotta wait for that other tab to finish doing its thing before i can use any other tabs.
if it makes you feel better (and it probably won't, and shouldn't) Safari has the same "bug" (problem). drives me crazy!
PS i think Moz's first big need is a new default UI theme. theirs sucks! even the backup one it comes with sucks! i didn't really realize how much it sucked until i started also using Safari. i think the one in Firefox is pretty nice, though.
writing software is a manufacturing job, even if you get to sit down while you do it. there are lots of people making money in the united states, and they don't care about your oversimplified white-collar/blue-collar argument.
not "all of the work of the hands is gone" and not "all of the work of the mind" is gone, either. stop crying wolf. if you can't find a job in software (i can't), find a job in something else (i'm trying).
while that's a very romantic argument, i would like to proffer that industry has less influence over government, and that The System is less corrupt, than it has been in the past (think of Standard Oil or something).
Jobs writing software *are* manufacturing jobs, and as such it makes historical sense for them to eventually leave this country to be done somewhere cheaper. We might expect the software market to behave the same way all the other markets have: leaving us with fewer manufacturing jobs but lots of jobs providing service around software. For instance, not as many cars are built in the USA anymore, but there is plenty of work for mechanics, car salesmen, junkyard operators, tow trucks, customizers, etc.
I used to write software for a living. Now I'm unemployed. As much as I'd like to go on writing software for a living, because I like it, I figure it's time to compete in this global world and move into a speciality which I can rely on to be in this country for a while.
That really doesn't seem like unreasonable behavior to you?
It does to me. I think it would be crazy for a car to start beeping and whining just because the key designed for it was used properly in the door. What is the alarm reporting? KEY USED! KEY USED! If a thief is breaking into your car, he shouldn't have your key. And if he has your key, doesn't he probably have your keyless entry?
i can tell you haven't listened to the material in question, or you would have no trouble understanding that Danger Mouse did indeed write his own songs.
as for who am i? i am, at least, a citizen of a democratic country. doesn't that qualify me to have an opinion on the laws and institutions that govern me? really, i'm pretty surprised you would even argue with the merits of democratic involvement.
it's not like someone took Beatles songs wholesale and spliced some new lyrics over them; this Danger Mouse guy took sub-one-second samples and used them to create *ENTIRELY*NEW*MUSIC*. having control over your own song is one thing, but having control over infintessimal snippits of it, rearranged and mixed with lots of other stuff, resulting in something which bears no resemblance whatsoever to the original, is another completely.
i'm listening to it right now. it doesn't sound anything like the White Album. i can hardly even pick out any of the samples. in my opinion, the Beatles have no artistic claim on this new album.
i love freedom, and i'm always happy when someone chooses freedom over oppression (using a bit of hyperbole here). nevertheless, no i don't have to *respect* the *choice* of someone who *chooses* oppression.
if i think that choosing freedom is good, then it follows that i think choosing oppression is bad; and that people who choose oppression are bad.
this case is actually a pretty good example of copyright oppression: the use of copyright to directly destroy a new form of artistic expression.
not that i think all copyright protection is oppression, only some of it, in some cases, like this one.
me, too. i'm listening to it right now. it's good. the samples are the best part -- i'm not a Jay Z fan. maybe i should say, i wasn't a Jay Z fan until i started listening to this album.
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yeah it's true. yo i love slashdot (duh) but there are weird bugs which make me wonder what the subscription money goes for. Sure, hosting is expensive. I understand. But why is it that when I try to change my threshhold from 3 to 2, the menu doesn't display the correct number of articles at each threshhold? It used to. That bug popped up when they switched to the new slashcode (remember that?) and I figured they'd fix it pretty quckly. Nope.
also, isn't it about time we let the threshholds go up to six or seven? i mean, if I only have time for a couple dozen comments, i go with threshhold five and even then i can only read some of the articles on the page.
yo i'm just sayin'. i do love slashdot.
Someone in this discussion said that Windows is more popular because it supports more hardware. I've never really tried to connect anything weird to a Linux box, so I've always found its hardware support perfect, but do consider this:
When I got a PowerBook, I wanted to put some other operating system on my old iMac, so I chose the only non-Apple OS I could think of that would run on an iMac -- Yellow Dog Linux. These are the only two boxen I own so it probably would have been more useful to have a Windows machine, but the "pathetic hardware support" for Windows made that impossible.
peace
1.) it's a "knife" not a "knive"; but "knives" is correct.
2.) it's illegal to carry a knife in Wales? WTF? what kind of crazy ass-backward law is that? isn't Wales a "free" state? jesus remind me not to ever go there. i wonder what other crazy laws they have. how about as an excuse: "i like knives, i like to whittle, and i've never stabbed anyone in my life -- now get off my back, government!"
No one really thinks t.v. is a great medium, anyway. It's passive. That was the complaint all along -- people rotting their brains watching a passive medium for hours and hours. It should be no surprise that other exciting electrical mediums like games and (more important to me) the internet will supplant television. I don't think t.v. is going to go away because sometimes a passive video medium is appropriate (sitcoms and dramas as we know them can't really be interactive; movies; etc.), but viewership will shrink (in terms of average hours watched).
Nobody thinks this is a bad thing. Yo, if someone is going to waste their time consuming hollow, useless things they may as well do it actively, interactively, rather than watching produced, linear shows.
if it's your resume, I hope you used "you're" instead of "your"
When I run into someone who insists on a Word document, I generally send them an RTF file. RTF is (of course) a Microsoft format, so Word opens it perfectly. Nowadays, Mac OS X has TextEdit which can save to Word format, but it just makes my skin crawl, you know.
PostScript isn't really something most people can open. PDF is probably less openable than RTF, but a good choise. I've run into trouble recently, though, with PDFs saved from one program that wouldn't open in Acrobat Reader or in OS X's Preview.
don't forget tabs.
after tabs, we'll still have better image and cookie filtering (though they could be better for sure).
it's not really right to say that "mozilla is built off of Netscape". as I understand it, they created an entirely new codebase.
peace
dude, you have a computer that crashes? time to buy a Macintosh.
Yo I'm kidding but only partially -- i have crashed OS X, but not in well over a year, not since i was running 10.0. But applications still crash from time to time.
Dogg I understand that Firefox wasn't so great for you, but man you aren't using Explorer, are you? god DAMN that browser sucks. i mean, do you realize that IE is the ONLY browser that has popups? every now and then i turn off my popup blocking (in Safari) and i immediately get hit with like five popups! how does anyone keep using a browser that does that to them?
Yo also, good comment how "the tabs concept is great". I am shocked that you can go back to a browser without tabs. I often wonder what the hell I was ever doing without tabs. (No, the little Windows taskbar thing is *not* as good.)
seriously. it defeats the first reason i use tabs at all: command-click to open a link in a new page, then immediately either go back in history or try to click over to a different tab. but no! can't do that! gotta wait for that other tab to finish doing its thing before i can use any other tabs.
if it makes you feel better (and it probably won't, and shouldn't) Safari has the same "bug" (problem). drives me crazy!
PS i think Moz's first big need is a new default UI theme. theirs sucks! even the backup one it comes with sucks! i didn't really realize how much it sucked until i started also using Safari. i think the one in Firefox is pretty nice, though.
writing software is a manufacturing job, even if you get to sit down while you do it. there are lots of people making money in the united states, and they don't care about your oversimplified white-collar/blue-collar argument.
not "all of the work of the hands is gone" and not "all of the work of the mind" is gone, either. stop crying wolf. if you can't find a job in software (i can't), find a job in something else (i'm trying).
while that's a very romantic argument, i would like to proffer that industry has less influence over government, and that The System is less corrupt, than it has been in the past (think of Standard Oil or something).
what onrushing demise do you see coming?
Jobs writing software *are* manufacturing jobs, and as such it makes historical sense for them to eventually leave this country to be done somewhere cheaper. We might expect the software market to behave the same way all the other markets have: leaving us with fewer manufacturing jobs but lots of jobs providing service around software. For instance, not as many cars are built in the USA anymore, but there is plenty of work for mechanics, car salesmen, junkyard operators, tow trucks, customizers, etc.
I used to write software for a living. Now I'm unemployed. As much as I'd like to go on writing software for a living, because I like it, I figure it's time to compete in this global world and move into a speciality which I can rely on to be in this country for a while.
man you're a 1999 gay CS major from Dartmouth? were you a Sigma Nu?
yo i don't think Dartmouth offers a BS in CS.
yes
It does to me. I think it would be crazy for a car to start beeping and whining just because the key designed for it was used properly in the door. What is the alarm reporting? KEY USED! KEY USED! If a thief is breaking into your car, he shouldn't have your key. And if he has your key, doesn't he probably have your keyless entry?
I'm just sayin'.
"don't forget to drink your ovaltine"
yo this guy's user number must be worth some money to a dyslexic satanist somewhere
i can tell you haven't listened to the material in question, or you would have no trouble understanding that Danger Mouse did indeed write his own songs.
as for who am i? i am, at least, a citizen of a democratic country. doesn't that qualify me to have an opinion on the laws and institutions that govern me? really, i'm pretty surprised you would even argue with the merits of democratic involvement.
it's not like someone took Beatles songs wholesale and spliced some new lyrics over them; this Danger Mouse guy took sub-one-second samples and used them to create *ENTIRELY*NEW*MUSIC*. having control over your own song is one thing, but having control over infintessimal snippits of it, rearranged and mixed with lots of other stuff, resulting in something which bears no resemblance whatsoever to the original, is another completely.
i'm listening to it right now. it doesn't sound anything like the White Album. i can hardly even pick out any of the samples. in my opinion, the Beatles have no artistic claim on this new album.
i love freedom, and i'm always happy when someone chooses freedom over oppression (using a bit of hyperbole here). nevertheless, no i don't have to *respect* the *choice* of someone who *chooses* oppression.
if i think that choosing freedom is good, then it follows that i think choosing oppression is bad; and that people who choose oppression are bad.
this case is actually a pretty good example of copyright oppression: the use of copyright to directly destroy a new form of artistic expression.
not that i think all copyright protection is oppression, only some of it, in some cases, like this one.
i disagree. i think it's great.
maybe it depends on what kind of music you otherwise like. i like hip hop.
i downloaded it from gnutella, for what it's worth.
me, too. i'm listening to it right now. it's good. the samples are the best part -- i'm not a Jay Z fan. maybe i should say, i wasn't a Jay Z fan until i started listening to this album.
i'm always shocked at the weird windowing preferences people have.
no, but the RIAA can sue you if you turn around and make a song just like it
just a thought