Yes Mark, you're right. Documentation QUANTITY for Samba under Linux is high, therefore documentation QUALITY must be impeccable.
Come ON.
In fact, the more different versions of the documentation there are, the worse it is to try to follow them. How do you know which version is the best? How do you know which versions are even CORRECT?
Look, you can cop your RTFM/PEBKAC attitude all you want, just stay away from the newbies, ok? You're not doing anyone any favors otherwise.
A few spelling errors doesn't change what you get.
Or maybe it does.
I bought a console a little while ago, it looked like a PSOne and named "Polystation". Someone less observant might assume that this was a Playstation model and someone had mistyped the console name -- but I knew that inside, it was one of many knockoff Famicom systems to have cropped up recently.
Spelling counts. Maybe the "Deramcast" is really just a bootleg Colecovision?
IANAL either, but as far as I can tell advertisements are covered by copyright laws the same as any other content. The copyright holders are understandably hesitant to restrict the distribution of commercials, as the more people who have access to the ad, the more effective it can be.
Way to pick just about the only feature in Windows that should be removable but isn't. Practically everything else can be effectively disabled or even purged from disk entirely.
If you're going to argue that a Linux distro can be customized beyond its default install options, you have to acknowledge the Windows "Add/Remove Programs" capabilities also.
IANATE (I am not a telecomms engineer), but from what I was told in an engineering class at university a few years ago, POTS service is only circuit-switched from the handset to the local phone company's central office. Everything that travels long-distance over the phone backbones is packet-switched.
Not even mentioning which, there's no good reason for the default interface of a Windows application to try and emulate the look/feel of an OS X application.
The primary design consideration should be consistency. On Windows, the interface should be Windows-like; on Mac, Mac-like; in KDE or Gnome, KDE- or Gnome-like. If users want to use a different model, that's what themes are for. Provide an OS X theme for WinFirefox, sure, but don't make it the DEFAULT theme.
Unless you're also removing the IE code from your Windows system (which, as Microsoft alleges, is impossible), you still really do need to keep IE well-patched, even if you make Firefox the default browser.
While most applications that hook into the Windows API for web stuff respect the preferred browser settings, there are still many that don't. Click on a link in the wrong IRC client or mailreader, and IE might pop up regardless of your browser preference. Or maybe you have to visit one of the rare sites that still doesn't work properly in Mozilla, so you fire up IE on purpose.
Bang! You're wide open unless you've been keeping up on your IE patches.
I'm pretty sure that fits Webster's definition of extortion.
No, I'm pretty sure the definition you're looking for is "Internet service not being subject to government accessibility regulations, Verizon has no obligation to offer you service directly, or even at all." Sounds to me like they already sold the rights to offer Internet service in your area to that ISP, which is why their "circuits are full" -- maybe they're not all ACTIVE, but they're all SPOKEN FOR already.
To be fair, the FCC DID NOT throw Howard Stern off the radio. Indeed, his employers did - in order to avoid being fined by the FCC.
No, to be fair, the FCC deliberately targeted Stern and his employers by levying fines on them for behavior which was not considered improper before (at least if the FCC's prior lack of action is any indicator), and by levying larger fines within the span of a few months than throughout the previous several years cumulatively. The FCC's actions were not part of an even-handed attempt to enforce decency regulations across the spectrum, but rather a targeted effort to stifle a certain type of programming.
It may not constitute censorship in the legal sense, but it sure as hell is coercion.
The website admins to every site you use a password for have access to it
Um, they shouldn't, not if they have good practices. There's no reason the Unixy practice of storing a hash of the password in a shadow file and comparing it against a hash of the user's login attempt shouldn't also be used for Web-based authentication.
"Is this yet another case of overreaching patents gone amok?"
Being that I'm not a patent lawyer, nor can I be considered an expert on patent law, I think I'm speaking for all of Slashdot when I say "I don't know. Can you give me more information about it?"
With digital cameras, now you can take as many photos as you like.
Speed is still a concern though, especially for documenting fast moving situations (like sports, or trying to snap a shot of something out the window of a moving vehicle)
With a film camera, the next shot can be taken just about as quickly as the next exposure on the strip can be spooled into place. With a digital camera, though, the image has to be captured, digitized, compressed to JPEG, and written to the storage medium. Granted, any digital camera over $30 will have dedicated encoders and data buffers and fast media to help minimize the problem, but even a rate of one shot per second is enough to overwhelm a good percentage of the digital still cameras on the market.
these pictures of my friends and familty are good enough for me to remember the good times.
I'm glad that yours came out "good enough", but my videotapes of friends and family from 10 years ago are mostly dark and shadowy, and barely better than having no record of the events at all. If we had bothered to learn how to take 2 minutes and get a white balance before taping, or even taught why white balancing was important, the videos that were created would have been of a much higher quality.
I don't know what the videocard industry is thinking sometimes. Maybe instead of sinking so many hours of coder time in creating these pretty bits of eye candy for each new product release, they should assign some more resources to the development and QA testing of the actual drivers.
I dunno about you, but I think the last time I bought a video card that came with a rock-solidly stable video driver was the VGA card that came with my 386. For every card since, it seems like it's been a buggy, 90% functional driver at release, an update to 95% functionality and fewer bugs three or four months later, and then no further driver releases as the driver teams have all moved on to the next bleeding-edge chipset.
Its time for goverments to step in and force standards.
Oh god no. If we let the government force a web markup standard on us now, fifty years from now we'll STILL be writing pages in HTML 4.0 Transitional with marginal amounts of CSS 1.0.
When has a government EVER kept pace with the rapidly changing technological world?
If I had $5,000 to spend on a gaming system, I would buy an Xbox... and a PS2, and a Gamecube, and a Gameboy Player, and a Dreamcast, and an N64, plus a few extra controllers for each console, plus a big screen TV and 5.1 speaker system to run them all into.
My only problem would be figuring out how to spend all the money I'd have left over...
It's already been documented that silicon valley has the highest incidence of autism in children, as well as a growing rate of infertility.
Correlation does not prove causation.
I have four friends with recently diagnosed autistic kids, Parents: radiation technician, nurse, medical equipment technician, programmer, data administrator.
I've never met a project manager that didn't think they were a lot smarter than he really were
Grammar like this is exactly why Project Managers are necessary. You Developers have to be kept away from the clients, be grateful that PMs are there to deal with them for you.
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Yes Mark, you're right. Documentation QUANTITY for Samba under Linux is high, therefore documentation QUALITY must be impeccable.
Come ON.
In fact, the more different versions of the documentation there are, the worse it is to try to follow them. How do you know which version is the best? How do you know which versions are even CORRECT?
Look, you can cop your RTFM/PEBKAC attitude all you want, just stay away from the newbies, ok? You're not doing anyone any favors otherwise.
A few spelling errors doesn't change what you get.
Or maybe it does.
I bought a console a little while ago, it looked like a PSOne and named "Polystation". Someone less observant might assume that this was a Playstation model and someone had mistyped the console name -- but I knew that inside, it was one of many knockoff Famicom systems to have cropped up recently.
Spelling counts. Maybe the "Deramcast" is really just a bootleg Colecovision?
well I'd pay a banner ad or two and settle for a few digital pictures.
I'd just look at the pictures on the eBay listing, for free.
Anyone know the relevant laws ???
IANAL either, but as far as I can tell advertisements are covered by copyright laws the same as any other content. The copyright holders are understandably hesitant to restrict the distribution of commercials, as the more people who have access to the ad, the more effective it can be.
they seem slower because the way XFree86 does things
Perception is everything, though.
I don't care if A is faster than B in terms of clock cycles, if B "feels snappier" to me, then B is the faster of the two, period.
We're not really talk about speed here, though -- we're talking about RESPONSIVENESS.
Konquerer is a feature. IE is bloat.
Way to pick just about the only feature in Windows that should be removable but isn't. Practically everything else can be effectively disabled or even purged from disk entirely.
If you're going to argue that a Linux distro can be customized beyond its default install options, you have to acknowledge the Windows "Add/Remove Programs" capabilities also.
Phone calls work better when circuit switched...
IANATE (I am not a telecomms engineer), but from what I was told in an engineering class at university a few years ago, POTS service is only circuit-switched from the handset to the local phone company's central office. Everything that travels long-distance over the phone backbones is packet-switched.
Not even mentioning which, there's no good reason for the default interface of a Windows application to try and emulate the look/feel of an OS X application.
The primary design consideration should be consistency. On Windows, the interface should be Windows-like; on Mac, Mac-like; in KDE or Gnome, KDE- or Gnome-like. If users want to use a different model, that's what themes are for. Provide an OS X theme for WinFirefox, sure, but don't make it the DEFAULT theme.
So there is no need to patch IE.
Unless you're also removing the IE code from your Windows system (which, as Microsoft alleges, is impossible), you still really do need to keep IE well-patched, even if you make Firefox the default browser.
While most applications that hook into the Windows API for web stuff respect the preferred browser settings, there are still many that don't. Click on a link in the wrong IRC client or mailreader, and IE might pop up regardless of your browser preference. Or maybe you have to visit one of the rare sites that still doesn't work properly in Mozilla, so you fire up IE on purpose.
Bang! You're wide open unless you've been keeping up on your IE patches.
Maybe he doesn't care if the crowd here thinks he's a fool? Maybe that's not who he is writing for?
Who else in the world GIVES A DAMN if the "Linix colonel" or whatever was written from scratch by one guy or not?
We're all there is, quite frankly.
I'm pretty sure that fits Webster's definition of extortion.
No, I'm pretty sure the definition you're looking for is "Internet service not being subject to government accessibility regulations, Verizon has no obligation to offer you service directly, or even at all." Sounds to me like they already sold the rights to offer Internet service in your area to that ISP, which is why their "circuits are full" -- maybe they're not all ACTIVE, but they're all SPOKEN FOR already.
What's with the sense of entitlement?
To be fair, the FCC DID NOT throw Howard Stern off the radio. Indeed, his employers did - in order to avoid being fined by the FCC.
No, to be fair, the FCC deliberately targeted Stern and his employers by levying fines on them for behavior which was not considered improper before (at least if the FCC's prior lack of action is any indicator), and by levying larger fines within the span of a few months than throughout the previous several years cumulatively. The FCC's actions were not part of an even-handed attempt to enforce decency regulations across the spectrum, but rather a targeted effort to stifle a certain type of programming.
It may not constitute censorship in the legal sense, but it sure as hell is coercion.
The website admins to every site you use a password for have access to it
Um, they shouldn't, not if they have good practices. There's no reason the Unixy practice of storing a hash of the password in a shadow file and comparing it against a hash of the user's login attempt shouldn't also be used for Web-based authentication.
"Is this yet another case of overreaching patents gone amok?"
Being that I'm not a patent lawyer, nor can I be considered an expert on patent law, I think I'm speaking for all of Slashdot when I say "I don't know. Can you give me more information about it?"
With digital cameras, now you can take as many photos as you like.
Speed is still a concern though, especially for documenting fast moving situations (like sports, or trying to snap a shot of something out the window of a moving vehicle)
With a film camera, the next shot can be taken just about as quickly as the next exposure on the strip can be spooled into place. With a digital camera, though, the image has to be captured, digitized, compressed to JPEG, and written to the storage medium. Granted, any digital camera over $30 will have dedicated encoders and data buffers and fast media to help minimize the problem, but even a rate of one shot per second is enough to overwhelm a good percentage of the digital still cameras on the market.
these pictures of my friends and familty are good enough for me to remember the good times.
I'm glad that yours came out "good enough", but my videotapes of friends and family from 10 years ago are mostly dark and shadowy, and barely better than having no record of the events at all. If we had bothered to learn how to take 2 minutes and get a white balance before taping, or even taught why white balancing was important, the videos that were created would have been of a much higher quality.
I don't know what the videocard industry is thinking sometimes. Maybe instead of sinking so many hours of coder time in creating these pretty bits of eye candy for each new product release, they should assign some more resources to the development and QA testing of the actual drivers.
I dunno about you, but I think the last time I bought a video card that came with a rock-solidly stable video driver was the VGA card that came with my 386. For every card since, it seems like it's been a buggy, 90% functional driver at release, an update to 95% functionality and fewer bugs three or four months later, and then no further driver releases as the driver teams have all moved on to the next bleeding-edge chipset.
Its time for goverments to step in and force standards.
Oh god no. If we let the government force a web markup standard on us now, fifty years from now we'll STILL be writing pages in HTML 4.0 Transitional with marginal amounts of CSS 1.0.
When has a government EVER kept pace with the rapidly changing technological world?
If I had $5,000 to spend on a gaming system, I would buy an Xbox... and a PS2, and a Gamecube, and a Gameboy Player, and a Dreamcast, and an N64, plus a few extra controllers for each console, plus a big screen TV and 5.1 speaker system to run them all into.
My only problem would be figuring out how to spend all the money I'd have left over...
I wonder if the software was written off shore?
You mean Prince Edward Island?
It's already been documented that silicon valley has the highest incidence of autism in children, as well as a growing rate of infertility.
Correlation does not prove causation.
I have four friends with recently diagnosed autistic kids, Parents: radiation technician, nurse, medical equipment technician, programmer, data administrator.
Nor does anecdotal evidence.
Redundant Enlightened Array of Monks -- REAM them!
In Soviet Russia, MEN OF THE CLOTH REAM-- no, I shouldn't say it...
flash is only good for a limitted number of writes so the failure rate is much worse.
As opposed to Bernoulli hard drives, which have a MTBF of a million billion years...
I'm time-travelling forward RIGHT NOW!
(At a steady rate of one second per second.)
I've never met a project manager that didn't think they were a lot smarter than he really were
Grammar like this is exactly why Project Managers are necessary. You Developers have to be kept away from the clients, be grateful that PMs are there to deal with them for you.
(just fanning the flames a little...)