What a waste of vast, vast amounts of screen real estate. The excessive whitespace would be bad enough on its own, but to layer on an equal amount of empty bluespace...?
The new Control Panel looks like an e-commerce website or something -- I half-expect each device to have an "add to cart" icon next to it. Hateful.
In the new United States, being right doesn't mean you're going to win. It's all about money now folks.
And IBM has FAR more money than SCO right now. And because a judgment in SCO's favor would severely damage their bottom line, IBM will give their legal team enough money to assure a win.
'Being right' and 'having the most money' are not mutually exclusive.
Since when is divx.com the only place to obtain a copy of the Divx codec? Copies of the codec are everywhere.
If the folks at divx.com try to force adware down users' throats, they'll soon find that more copies of their codec are being 'pirated' than being downloaded 'legitimately.'
The cat's out of the bag and they can't get it back in.
I guess they need to make everything obsolete to sell more hardware and keep the PC market afloat.
The Pentium 90 I bought almost ten years ago had PCI slots in it. PCI has been a performance bottleneck for years already -- AGP slots have been standard in desktops for years, because PCI graphics cards just couldn't handle the necessary throughput.
This is not artificial "planned obsolescence"--it is actual obsolescence.
a screen shot of some comments from the late 70's only shows that those particular comments were not stolen.
It also demonstrates that SCO's methodology for ascertaining which parts of the code are infringing is imperfect to say the least. That weakens their claims against infringement in other parts of the code.
Not the best solution if your business can't get anything done without power (and really, what busines can...).
You might have to have a build a clean second power distro center next to the original crufty one, and migrate things over piece-by-piece. And by "you", I obviously mean "hire licensed electricians to do it", come on. It won't be quick or cheap, but there's really no other way to stay in business.
About time. Fauxsters, and the people who link with them, have seriously diluted the usefulness of Frienster as a social device.
If I see an interesting profile of someone who knows a friend of mine, that's a legitimate social connection. But if the chain of relationships goes through "Mr. T", "New York City", and "Sex", it means nothing.
I do worry that actual celebrities might get incorrectly labeled as fake and have their accounts deleted. I've come across a few minor celebrities in my network (the Snickers voiceover guy, the Pets.com sockpuppet) and although mutual acquaintances have confirmed to me that they are who they are, it would be easy for a Friendster Cleanup Agent to assume it was fraudulent.
90% of hardware improvements are essentially wasted by programmer inefficiency.
Programmers' time is a resource that can also be used inefficiently.
If it takes Coder A one day to write an infrequently-called routine in a high-level language like Java, and it requires 10,000 instructions to run, and Coder B spends 2 weeks tweaking an identical routine in assembly code so that it requires only 1000 instructions, and the CPU it's going to run on is capable of executing 10,000,000 instructions per second, which coder acted more wastefully?
In the earlier days of computing, when storage and processing power were scarce, every tiny bit of performance you could eke out was essential. Today, your processor is going to be idle a good chunk of the time whether your code is optimized or not.
If you want to run 15-year-old software blazingly fast on an emulated 6502, feel free. But wouldn't you rather get the benefits of modern software that have been made possible by a decade and a half of hardware improvements?
What annoys me about these stories is that they are always based on small (eg 45) groups
People: small sample sizes alone do NOT NECESSARILY indicate that an experiment will produce unreliable results!
Statistical analysis doesn't work that way. It's also important to look at specifics about the participants in the sample groups. A selection of 50 individuals exhibiting a certain trait can give you less error-prone results than a random selection of 2,000 individuals.
People that were spoon fed windows are never going to try out KDE and think its actually MORE usable.
Step one towards increasing acceptance of Linux GUI systems is to stop treating the Windows desktop metaphor as if it were pabulum that is only choked down by infants who don't know anymore. The Windows interface may not be perfect, but it's more than usable for the vast majority of the desktop market.
There's no such thing as a "false sense of intuitiveness". The only truly intuitive interface is the nipple ($1 to whoever said that). Any usability study worth its salt has to take into consideration the subjects' previous experiences. Being different from Windows IS a usability issue to most people who are familiar with Windows.
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It's not sending your credit cards, your clickstream or your data files.
But it very easily could.
Don't like it? Don't steal it.
Non-stolen copies have the exact same behavior.
That line wasn't in the English section of the EUL? Tough Titty! You clicked - You agreed - You entered a legal agreement -- You now owe!
Do you honestly think that any court in the English-speaking world would uphold a license clause that's not written in English?
What a waste of vast, vast amounts of screen real estate. The excessive whitespace would be bad enough on its own, but to layer on an equal amount of empty bluespace...?
The new Control Panel looks like an e-commerce website or something -- I half-expect each device to have an "add to cart" icon next to it. Hateful.
In the new United States, being right doesn't mean you're going to win. It's all about money now folks.
And IBM has FAR more money than SCO right now. And because a judgment in SCO's favor would severely damage their bottom line, IBM will give their legal team enough money to assure a win.
'Being right' and 'having the most money' are not mutually exclusive.
He's been smart enough to keep his mouth shut about things he can't prove.
This leads me to conclude that were Linus a Slashdot poster, his comments would never get modded up.
Since when is divx.com the only place to obtain a copy of the Divx codec? Copies of the codec are everywhere.
If the folks at divx.com try to force adware down users' throats, they'll soon find that more copies of their codec are being 'pirated' than being downloaded 'legitimately.'
The cat's out of the bag and they can't get it back in.
I guess they need to make everything obsolete to sell more hardware and keep the PC market afloat.
The Pentium 90 I bought almost ten years ago had PCI slots in it. PCI has been a performance bottleneck for years already -- AGP slots have been standard in desktops for years, because PCI graphics cards just couldn't handle the necessary throughput.
This is not artificial "planned obsolescence"--it is actual obsolescence.
It's going to be a long time before manually enterable -- and verifiable -- hostnames become redundant (if they ever do).
Not if they step up the production and distribution of CueCat wands! Man, those things are great!
a screen shot of some comments from the late 70's only shows that those particular comments were not stolen.
It also demonstrates that SCO's methodology for ascertaining which parts of the code are infringing is imperfect to say the least. That weakens their claims against infringement in other parts of the code.
Linux 0.01 (Sep 1991) is 10239 lines of code, 0.2 MB. ...
Linux 2.5.37 (Sep 2002) is 5100081 lines of code, 152 MB.
Let's keep this in mind the next time we complain about software bloat, huh?
you really have nobody to "fight" if it decides you are nailed.
You don't have anybody to "fight" anyway.
Casinos are private property, and as such the ownership can request that you leave at any time, for any reason.
Of COURSE the deck is marked -- it would be hard to tell how well you're doing if every card were blank.
I don't doubt the casino will use every advantage they can get.
Then you shouldn't doubt the game players would do the very same thing.
It's a gambling arms race.
Cut the damn power and start it from scratch.
Not the best solution if your business can't get anything done without power (and really, what busines can...).
You might have to have a build a clean second power distro center next to the original crufty one, and migrate things over piece-by-piece. And by "you", I obviously mean "hire licensed electricians to do it", come on. It won't be quick or cheap, but there's really no other way to stay in business.
"I am going to ask you a leading question. Will you do me the favor of responding with the answer I wish to hear?"
I still call the doohickeys that the company produces "PalmPilots", even though they dropped that name years ago...
They didn't even make it fully buzzword compliant. There's no '.' in there or 'e' anywhere...
What's that squiggly little round letter at the end of the name 'PalmOne' then...?
>so the truly paranoid can take it with them when they travel."
pfftt, like there is anyone on Slashdot that is paranoid.
pfftt, like there is anyone on Slashdot that ever travels (or even leaves their basement).
About time. Fauxsters, and the people who link with them, have seriously diluted the usefulness of Frienster as a social device.
If I see an interesting profile of someone who knows a friend of mine, that's a legitimate social connection. But if the chain of relationships goes through "Mr. T", "New York City", and "Sex", it means nothing.
I do worry that actual celebrities might get incorrectly labeled as fake and have their accounts deleted. I've come across a few minor celebrities in my network (the Snickers voiceover guy, the Pets.com sockpuppet) and although mutual acquaintances have confirmed to me that they are who they are, it would be easy for a Friendster Cleanup Agent to assume it was fraudulent.
If he is capable of reading some of these posts, Archimedes must be revolving in his grave.
If he were capable of reading these posts, he probably wouldn't be in a grave.
Anything floating in water displaces a volume of water EXACTLY equivalent to its own weight.
???
Volume and weight are different measurements. You're using them interchangeably.
90% of hardware improvements are essentially wasted by programmer inefficiency.
Programmers' time is a resource that can also be used inefficiently.
If it takes Coder A one day to write an infrequently-called routine in a high-level language like Java, and it requires 10,000 instructions to run, and Coder B spends 2 weeks tweaking an identical routine in assembly code so that it requires only 1000 instructions, and the CPU it's going to run on is capable of executing 10,000,000 instructions per second, which coder acted more wastefully?
In the earlier days of computing, when storage and processing power were scarce, every tiny bit of performance you could eke out was essential.
Today, your processor is going to be idle a good chunk of the time whether your code is optimized or not.
If you want to run 15-year-old software blazingly fast on an emulated 6502, feel free. But wouldn't you rather get the benefits of modern software that have been made possible by a decade and a half of hardware improvements?
[Microsoft tests] their code far more thoroughly than ANYONE who does open source including Red Hat, IBM and others.
You may have worked for MS and known what kind of testing they do, but nowhere in your post do you claim to have done the same at RedHat or IBM.
How, then, can you make such a claim?
What annoys me about these stories is that they are always based on small (eg 45) groups
People: small sample sizes alone do NOT NECESSARILY indicate that an experiment will produce unreliable results!
Statistical analysis doesn't work that way. It's also important to look at specifics about the participants in the sample groups. A selection of 50 individuals exhibiting a certain trait can give you less error-prone results than a random selection of 2,000 individuals.
She commented that "How would I have known to click 'k3b' to burn CDs?" I replied, "How would you have known to use Nero?"
Nero was an emperor. He fiddle while Rome burned. CD-R's are also 'burned'. Therefore, one might guess that Nero is a program for burning CD's with.
On the other hand, what the hell does "k3b" mean?
Product names are a component of usability just as much as interface and widget design.
People that were spoon fed windows are never going to try out KDE and think its actually MORE usable.
Step one towards increasing acceptance of Linux GUI systems is to stop treating the Windows desktop metaphor as if it were pabulum that is only choked down by infants who don't know anymore. The Windows interface may not be perfect, but it's more than usable for the vast majority of the desktop market.
There's no such thing as a "false sense of intuitiveness". The only truly intuitive interface is the nipple ($1 to whoever said that).
Any usability study worth its salt has to take into consideration the subjects' previous experiences. Being different from Windows IS a usability issue to most people who are familiar with Windows.