There's a save button for the same reason we wrap SQL statements in BEGIN TRANSACTION... COMMIT TRANSACTION. Sometimes you want changes to be all-or-none, and not in some unknown state where some of your intended edits are in place but not others. Maybe the answer to that argument is to save the entire edit history in some kind of infinite undo buffer, but personally I like Ctrl-S. There's autosave, but I still like to save things manually to reflect the states in which I'd actually want the document to exist.
When I gave notice at my last job, I PRAYED they'd just let me leave, but instead they kept me on and hired a contractor and had me try and teach him everything I'd learned there in 2 days. It was a miserable place to work, so bad that I don't even list it on my resume. I would have relished a 2-week vacation before starting up my next job. The lame-duck period is sort of awkward too, they had me sitting in on planning meetings and everything as if I was going to be able to do 3-month projects in my remaining 2 weeks.
Agreed - this letter is non news. I very much doubt a single letter had anything to do with the ultimate decision. Just another lamer hyping his own crap on Slashdot, as per usual.
But at the time of the case I don't think Sony had yet bought their movie studio and was just an electronics company. I doubt the Sony of today would argue such a point.
We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
The device handled multiple people using (it has permissions built-in) eaisly, and do uploads & downloads of big VOB files, MP3 directories, normal files - it shrugged it off.
These "sentences" are embarrassing. What happened to proofreading? Seriously, you guys beg for test hardware to play with, and then you write a review that's barely English? Come on. We all have deadlines, but is it too much to ask that the editor proofread his own work to make sure it's coherent?
We've only had ours for about 2 weeks but we've been pleased with it so far - no problems yet. Our previous solution was a homebrew system that required a lot of maintenance.
"I want to do a bunch of things. How many ways can I do them?"
Anyway, what we're currently doing where I work is, we have a Barracuda for spam/virus filtering, and that relays mail to our Exchange server for delivery. Barracuda has some nice features, including LDAP validation of recipient email addresses, and it's been working pretty well for us so far. If you're dealing with a large volume of mail, a turnkey solution is a nice time saver.
Well the onus shouldn't fall on the readership to sort out the dupes, it should fall on the editors, since on a site like this, that's all they do. They clearly don't do any "editing" of the content, they just sift through the submissions and choose a few to post. They are the ones who need to do the dupe checking, and while Slashdot's search feature is indeed crappy, Google has a pretty fresh crawl of Slashdot in its db:
Most dupes could be avoided with simple searches like that on the part of the editors, and being programmers they could easily tie the submission process in to Google's search API, but for whatever reason choose not to.
There's a "See more products by this manufacturer," and the manufacturer is "Dr. MOZ," so once again this is just a guy/corporation spamming Slashdot with his product as a way to line his own pocket. Additionally, Amazon lists this product as having been first released on January 29, 2005, nearly 10 months ago, so this isn't even a new product. I wonder how many times this guy has submitted this thing before it was finally accepted?
It would be great if the Slashdot admins would make some sort of statement about the clear increase in press release/marketing material that's wending its way into Slashdot as "Stuff that matters," because the last I heard about it was the supposed April Fools joke about Slashvertisements, but it seems to be happening for real more and more - yesterday's "story" about a "blazingly fast" USB thumb drive was almost sickening in that not only was it a crappy ad disguised as a pseudo-article, it was for a crappy product! This GoodFather thing is neither relevant nor new. I don't mind off-topic discussions (I'm really not a "THAT'S NOT NEWS FOR NERS!!!!!" type), but if you're going to be running ads as stories, at least follow Google's lead and make them targeted.
Ah, but isn't the whole point of those warranties (and all insurance) that it isn't such a common occurrence? If they warrantied something that broke that frequently they'd either have to raise the price of the warranty or discontinue it.
(Yes, I realize the post wasn't entirely serious.)
Slashdot frequently gets spamvertisements like these, but it seems that the product being spammed is more the website than the stupid drive itself - judging by the fact that the submitter's URL is the same as that of the story, this is clearly just a ploy to drive people to his site to spike his ad revenue.
1. Write review of stupid product/service. 2. Submit to Slashdot 3. Profit 4. Goto 1
Slashdot's story queue is probably overflowing with trash like this "article." I can't believe that the one they accepted was about a "blazing" thumb drive. How fast can a fucking thumb drive be, and who fucking cares?
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Keep in mind that this OS is running on a new architecture, so I don't know that the stability of the NT 5.x kernel on x86 serves as any kind of indicator of how it runs on PPC, if that's even what they're using. Certainly I've seen Microsoft's PDA OS crash quite frequently.
I've done it before, maybe I'm using the wrong term. I used to have a big receiver that all my components plugged into. I added a Y cable and ran it to my PC. Everything worked fine, I had that setup for like 5 years.
Monopolies are not inherently bad, and nobody hates Microsoft for having had a monopoly, but rather for their abuse of their OS monopoly, i.e. using it to worm their way into other markets. Monopolies have inherent downsides - raising the barrier to entry, stifling innovation - but the problem with Microsoft was their abusive leverage of their monopoly status. And probably the fact that they had a monopoly based on a crap product plays into some of the vitriol. But frankly, complaining that the US is keeping control of DNS seems silly to me, given the history of the Internet. We made it, we've run it relatively well (certainly better than many other nations would), frankly the only reason I see for other nations wanting control is national pride.
I need 2 4x6's. Sure, they're $0.14 online, but add $4.95 in shipping and off you go.
With Wal-Mart, Target, and CVS, you can upload the pics and then go pick them up in-store and not pay shipping. Or you can just go there with your memory card or CD and use the kiosk. Sure, it's like 29 cents/print instead of 14 cents, but for 2 pics the price difference isn't that much.
I have to say, we purchased RHEL 4 for our database machine, and when the performance of the new machine was 1/4 the performance of a machine with half the number of processors, we naturally wanted to speak to someone at Red Hat. After all, support was the only reason we went with RHEL over CentOS. Well after a lot of phone tag we finally scheduled a conference call with one of their engineers. We call them up and we're placed on the phone with a sales engineer who said he'd relay our questions to a real engineer, and suggested that we look for help in online resources. Really! Now, I can understand their not wanting to put a software engineer on the phone when he has better things to do, but when we ask to speak with a technical person, we want to speak with someone who can answer our questions. We don't need an intermediary to relay stuff. Anyway, after that we ditched RedHat and moved back to CentOS. With the support not there, there's really no reason to buy a RHEL license. It's sad, but if you're charging for support, you better make sure it's some damn good support. And yeah, we only had one license, like $1200 or something, but if we'd known we'd be getting such a low level of support we'd have not even spent that. Don't get me wrong, I think RHEL is a great product, but if you're charging for support, then that should be pretty good support.
Well, I don't want to start an ideological war here, but global warming isn't happening, and it won't wipe out life, or even humanity, and it won't raise the sea level by melting the polar ice caps. Having deadly chemicals in the drinking water is a far more pressing, and far more realistic problem than the theory of global warming.
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There's a save button for the same reason we wrap SQL statements in BEGIN TRANSACTION ... COMMIT TRANSACTION. Sometimes you want changes to be all-or-none, and not in some unknown state where some of your intended edits are in place but not others. Maybe the answer to that argument is to save the entire edit history in some kind of infinite undo buffer, but personally I like Ctrl-S. There's autosave, but I still like to save things manually to reflect the states in which I'd actually want the document to exist.
When I gave notice at my last job, I PRAYED they'd just let me leave, but instead they kept me on and hired a contractor and had me try and teach him everything I'd learned there in 2 days. It was a miserable place to work, so bad that I don't even list it on my resume. I would have relished a 2-week vacation before starting up my next job. The lame-duck period is sort of awkward too, they had me sitting in on planning meetings and everything as if I was going to be able to do 3-month projects in my remaining 2 weeks.
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Except, they are.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharman_Networks
Agreed - this letter is non news. I very much doubt a single letter had anything to do with the ultimate decision. Just another lamer hyping his own crap on Slashdot, as per usual.
Thanks... don't know why that short description wasn't included in the blurb.
I have no idea who Eolas is or what their patent dispute is with Microsoft. Some more info would have been great.
Answer: Sony, a member of both the RIAA and MPAA
But at the time of the case I don't think Sony had yet bought their movie studio and was just an electronics company. I doubt the Sony of today would argue such a point.
These "sentences" are embarrassing. What happened to proofreading? Seriously, you guys beg for test hardware to play with, and then you write a review that's barely English? Come on. We all have deadlines, but is it too much to ask that the editor proofread his own work to make sure it's coherent?
We've only had ours for about 2 weeks but we've been pleased with it so far - no problems yet. Our previous solution was a homebrew system that required a lot of maintenance.
"I want to do a bunch of things. How many ways can I do them?"
Anyway, what we're currently doing where I work is, we have a Barracuda for spam/virus filtering, and that relays mail to our Exchange server for delivery. Barracuda has some nice features, including LDAP validation of recipient email addresses, and it's been working pretty well for us so far. If you're dealing with a large volume of mail, a turnkey solution is a nice time saver.
Well the onus shouldn't fall on the readership to sort out the dupes, it should fall on the editors, since on a site like this, that's all they do. They clearly don't do any "editing" of the content, they just sift through the submissions and choose a few to post. They are the ones who need to do the dupe checking, and while Slashdot's search feature is indeed crappy, Google has a pretty fresh crawl of Slashdot in its db:
d ot.org+db2+ubuntu&btnG=Google+Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Aslash
Most dupes could be avoided with simple searches like that on the part of the editors, and being programmers they could easily tie the submission process in to Google's search API, but for whatever reason choose not to.
Cool, double certification must be better than single, right?
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http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/09
Because I for one am constantly staring at my mouse when I have a gigantic monitor right in front of me. Cough.
This doesn't make any sense. You acknowledge the stupidity of the product and post the article (Slashvertisement) anyway?
If you look at the Amazon.com product info page for this thing:
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There's a "See more products by this manufacturer," and the manufacturer is "Dr. MOZ," so once again this is just a guy/corporation spamming Slashdot with his product as a way to line his own pocket. Additionally, Amazon lists this product as having been first released on January 29, 2005, nearly 10 months ago, so this isn't even a new product. I wonder how many times this guy has submitted this thing before it was finally accepted?
It would be great if the Slashdot admins would make some sort of statement about the clear increase in press release/marketing material that's wending its way into Slashdot as "Stuff that matters," because the last I heard about it was the supposed April Fools joke about Slashvertisements, but it seems to be happening for real more and more - yesterday's "story" about a "blazingly fast" USB thumb drive was almost sickening in that not only was it a crappy ad disguised as a pseudo-article, it was for a crappy product! This GoodFather thing is neither relevant nor new. I don't mind off-topic discussions (I'm really not a "THAT'S NOT NEWS FOR NERS!!!!!" type), but if you're going to be running ads as stories, at least follow Google's lead and make them targeted.
Ah, but isn't the whole point of those warranties (and all insurance) that it isn't such a common occurrence? If they warrantied something that broke that frequently they'd either have to raise the price of the warranty or discontinue it.
(Yes, I realize the post wasn't entirely serious.)
Slashdot frequently gets spamvertisements like these, but it seems that the product being spammed is more the website than the stupid drive itself - judging by the fact that the submitter's URL is the same as that of the story, this is clearly just a ploy to drive people to his site to spike his ad revenue.
1. Write review of stupid product/service.
2. Submit to Slashdot
3. Profit
4. Goto 1
Slashdot's story queue is probably overflowing with trash like this "article." I can't believe that the one they accepted was about a "blazing" thumb drive. How fast can a fucking thumb drive be, and who fucking cares?
Keep in mind that this OS is running on a new architecture, so I don't know that the stability of the NT 5.x kernel on x86 serves as any kind of indicator of how it runs on PPC, if that's even what they're using. Certainly I've seen Microsoft's PDA OS crash quite frequently.
He's on the jazz again...
I've done it before, maybe I'm using the wrong term. I used to have a big receiver that all my components plugged into. I added a Y cable and ran it to my PC. Everything worked fine, I had that setup for like 5 years.
Put some speakers all over your house, run them to an amp, run a cable from the amp to your PC. What's the problem?
Thank god there's no other way to hurt people besides with airplanes!
Monopolies are not inherently bad, and nobody hates Microsoft for having had a monopoly, but rather for their abuse of their OS monopoly, i.e. using it to worm their way into other markets. Monopolies have inherent downsides - raising the barrier to entry, stifling innovation - but the problem with Microsoft was their abusive leverage of their monopoly status. And probably the fact that they had a monopoly based on a crap product plays into some of the vitriol. But frankly, complaining that the US is keeping control of DNS seems silly to me, given the history of the Internet. We made it, we've run it relatively well (certainly better than many other nations would), frankly the only reason I see for other nations wanting control is national pride.
I need 2 4x6's. Sure, they're $0.14 online, but add $4.95 in shipping and off you go.
With Wal-Mart, Target, and CVS, you can upload the pics and then go pick them up in-store and not pay shipping. Or you can just go there with your memory card or CD and use the kiosk. Sure, it's like 29 cents/print instead of 14 cents, but for 2 pics the price difference isn't that much.
I have to say, we purchased RHEL 4 for our database machine, and when the performance of the new machine was 1/4 the performance of a machine with half the number of processors, we naturally wanted to speak to someone at Red Hat. After all, support was the only reason we went with RHEL over CentOS. Well after a lot of phone tag we finally scheduled a conference call with one of their engineers. We call them up and we're placed on the phone with a sales engineer who said he'd relay our questions to a real engineer, and suggested that we look for help in online resources. Really! Now, I can understand their not wanting to put a software engineer on the phone when he has better things to do, but when we ask to speak with a technical person, we want to speak with someone who can answer our questions. We don't need an intermediary to relay stuff. Anyway, after that we ditched RedHat and moved back to CentOS. With the support not there, there's really no reason to buy a RHEL license. It's sad, but if you're charging for support, you better make sure it's some damn good support. And yeah, we only had one license, like $1200 or something, but if we'd known we'd be getting such a low level of support we'd have not even spent that. Don't get me wrong, I think RHEL is a great product, but if you're charging for support, then that should be pretty good support.
Well, I don't want to start an ideological war here, but global warming isn't happening, and it won't wipe out life, or even humanity, and it won't raise the sea level by melting the polar ice caps. Having deadly chemicals in the drinking water is a far more pressing, and far more realistic problem than the theory of global warming.