The Apple haters seem to have forgotten recent history. Since the Apple ][ every Apple design has been copied. When the graphic interface was commercialized the hacker crowd said 'who needs a mouse and pretty graphic screen when a green command line works just fine'. And then Microsoft spent 20 years trying to emulate the Macintosh and now you hackers are all using a graphic interface. Did anyone thank Apple? No, they copied and still copy and all the while put Apple down.
I think it would be nice if someone besides Apple & Google think for themselves and come up with something refreshing.
The marketplace has innovators and it has mass marketers. It has leaders and followers. It has companies who invest in R&D and it has cost cutting copycats. I'll support those with R&D.
You are in the restaurant business. You have a full plate, so to speak, with managing many urgent activities. If you want to be an IT geek, an accountant, a dishwasher or a short-order cook, then you've made a mistake. Sell the restaurant.
If you want the restaurant to be a success, then manage it full time and hire others to give you peace of mind handling the details of the operation. And spend some time with your wife instead of fussing over the stupid computer.
Well this gives me hope that my theory will be accepted in my lifetime. I can't yet prove that zombies are visitors from our own future or that they evolved due to excessive use of facebook, twitter and cell phones. I'm getting pressure from certain manufacturers and service providers who conspire to dumb down the masses. I hope to survive the threats and innuendo long enough to see acceptance of my theory and a revival of good healthy Old Time Radio.
"I don't think it's particularly balanced to note he "may have a connection," when there is the word of only one person backing up that particular claim."
I can't get the original blog any more but Mr. Lee did say at one point that he didn't have any connection to one candidate, and by implication he did have a connection to the other.
Hey, I think I enjoyed your drivers license story more than you did.
With so much overwhelming support for Mr. Lee and so much vitriol against the unstable Ms. Shwagger, there should be at least one voice questioning the matter...
If you read TFA you might note that Jay Lee may have a connection to the political candidate Candice hates so much. You will also note his connection with the newspaper, but not his role (does he or his close associates report on politics?).
We can't really determine from the information he has provided whether there is any ulterior motive for his takedown notice.
He seems to have sent notices to other infringers- but how many? Five or fifty? If five then one might possibly suspect that he was out to get her or the political candidate she supports. He seems surprised that GoDaddy would shut down her sites; but how can we be sure he didn't know?
Not saying it's true, and I admit that he sounds like a reasonable person, but with all the words flying around there is still a shortage of solid information or assurances to defend his innocence.
Mozillaâ(TM)s Executive Director, Mark Surman speaks of "That maker spirit". We used to have that in the US. Now we have devolved into a consumer society. I wonder if we can recapture that attitude with these new affordable tools, or if the third world will grab the opportunity alone.
Photos from orbit will show earth looking more and more like a prune with all that sucking of water, oil & gas from below even as the surging tides flow in to fill the wrinkles that appear. The earth will turn in on itself and shrink like a raisin with the remaining ice caps to look like a tasty sugar frosting. The end will come when a giant spoon scoops up the planet and it is crushed by immense teeth and devoured in a potent mix of saliva and digestive juices. Or maybe I'm letting my imagination carry the concept too far...
Could this have anything to do with the large population of Somali immigrants in Minneapolis? There are indications of a criminal minority among them.
"Over the past 25 years, the United States has admitted about 84,000 Somali refugees [they've got that figure about right, but they don't include all those who got in through other immigration programs or who came in illegally and have disappeared---ed]. Close to 40 percent live in Minnesota." http://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/why-so-many-somalis-in-minneapolis/
To say it is happening in that city is to ignore that it may be targeting a particular population. Or maybe there are other security risks in that city that I am unaware of...
So the power cord on your toaster is faulty. Easy fix, right? You steal a cord from your broken radio, get out your soldering gun and have at it. No radio? The hardware store can give you a cord at much lower cost than a new toaster.
New toaster $25. Cost to repair $4. Easy math, right? Let's forget that your radio cord can't handle the wattage of the toaster and it starts a fire that burns the house down.
Instead, focus on time. You took 3 hours to fix the toaster. Your job pays you $42/hr plus benefits worth $18. Your time is worth $60/hr, so the toaster repair cost you $180!
Of course you only work 8 hours/day, 5 days/wk, $2400/wk which is actually 188 hours. Your average for those hours is $12.77/hour, so the repair cost $38.30- about double the cost of a new toaster. Now you have an old crumby toaster that will work a while longer and you've messed up the kitchen table and pissed off your wife.
Is there nothing better that you could have done with that time? Mother's day is Sunday this week. Spend the $38 on flowers and buy a new toaster.
I helped develop several affordable apartment complexes that have a kitchen unit as you describe. I managed one of the buildings (36 units) and observed how the computers were used.
The residents qualified for living there based on their low income. There were no college grads. Some were too poor or ignorant to buy a proper computer.
Of the 36 units, about 10 used their computers, and that quite rarely (mostly the young children). I used mine sometimes to stream videos or music during extended kitchen stays. I did look up a recipe on two occasions in 15 months.
The computers had mouse and keyboard which could be removed as the touch screen served well for most activities. They were wall mounted to conserve counter space, and high enough to require effort for kids to reach. There were almost no maintenance problems.
There is probably a day coming when everyone has a computer in every room; but not as we know them now. Most likely a Siri type unit that speaks and listens and can play music or report news (no video). I can think of no good reason for anyone, educated or not, to have a permanent computer in their kitchen, bathroom or closet. I don't know anyone, male, female, young, old, rich, poor... who would benefit from one enough to make it worthwhile.
I stay with Slashdot out of habit I suppose; sometimes the discussions are insightful. The moderation system is adequate. I think there's room for some clever indexing and searching of past discussions. Most of the rest is fluff and the web is saturated with it.
Slashdot could well add additional forums for other topics. If kept as simple and direct as possible, they could succeed, but they should not be mixed into the main system. Not interested in videos, but perhaps a 'future forum' that allows anticipating trends instead of reporting yesterday's news...
I was happy with the old text based BBS systems when the discussions were relevant. That kind of simplicity can keep Slashdot unique, worthwhile and accessible in places where fancy programming just doesn't work.
Billions of neurons and trillions of synaptic connectors can not explain the miracle of memory, learning or inspiration. The higher function of the brain is to connect us with the infinite found in another dimension. There it connects with a storehouse of information and wisdom partly shared with others.
Given sufficient energy, the brain accesses this storehouse more or less efficiently and produces results that lead to intelligence and success in navigating what we perceive as the world around us.
It would be premature at this time to introduce the idea that this storehouse is shared with brains on other worlds, but it's worth considering for those with hyper connectivity.
Let me speak for users here (as opposed to hackers).
I use Microsoft and other business software but I mostly work with creative media software (Everything by Adobe, Apple and others). These are massive & complex systems capable of hugely complex rendering operations.
I was a programmer/hacker decades ago but now all I want is reliable documents, audio, animation and video that will print or play as intended. The computer is nearly invisible to me and I don't care what's under the hood if it does the job and doesn't get in the way.
Similarly, I used to prefer cars with stick shift, muscle and a bit of noise. Now I want to get from point A to point B efficiently, safely and in comfort.
When you say one OS is better than another, you might ask yourself "for who?" - not everyone has your priorities.
Jo'eb climbed to the top of the rusting hulk and did a double somersault in the air to express his joy. One almost never saw one of these automobiles outside a museum, and there you weren't allowed to touch. Jo'eb finished with a dance, then rolled down the glass and metal back to the wheat field. Through the open door he could see the foot controls and far above the steering device and a number of instruments and buttons.
He beamed the experience to his friends back home. They had never been outside the city. He knew that they would be jealous as the flow of data reached them. All the nerves in their bodies would light up with the experience of touching the coarse metal and bouncing on the springs of a chair made for giants. Much better than the bland recordings you sense in a museum!
It was easy to forget that the ancestors were six feet tall; easy until confronted with this hard evidence. But fortunately for us that they had the sense to engineer the elimination of wasteful bulk. Imagine having to carry 200 pounds everywhere you go! Imagine the quantities of food you would need. Imagine the steaming mountains of waste you would produce. Even a bodyweight of two pounds was considered excessive for a modern human.
Jo'eb was getting feedback from his friends. Of course Abel wanted him to show the power unit of the automobile. He imagined it the size of his house. Jo'eb tried to comply but he was unable to lift the cover. Instead he climbed up from underneath and scrambled around the dusty motor compartment. Hard to see in the poor light and then only a few parts at a time but Abel was impressed and seemed to understand the function of some of the parts.
Elise wasn't interested in the vehicle itself, but she shared an imaginary scene with two ancestors encased in these tons of iron, propelled recklessly down a vast pathway at high speed, oblivious to anything around them smaller than a tree or mountain. Abel added sounds to the vision including wind, rubbery tire sounds and what he imagined the power plant sounded like. Together they generated a compelling scene that was probably altogether wrong, yet satisfying.
All this reminded Jo'eb that he hadn't actually seen Elise in weeks. Sharing through the net was nice, but no psynet could substitute for proximity and the physical intimacy that might ensue. Jo'eb did not share his thoughts that immediately followed.
In the US, what would have happened if the public were to opine about Negro rights in the South or Irish, Italian or Puerto Rican immigrants in New York? What would have happened after the World Trade Center disaster to Muslim immigrants?
Public opinion is volatile, easily swayed by raw emotion, religious fervor and yellow journalism, and requires the moderation of level heads before being rushed into legislation.
Twice you used the phrase "been tasked with". This is not the English you learned in school. Is your wife 'tasked with' washing the dishes?
There is a certain kind of lizard who embraces corporate speak, perhaps to kiss the ass of management or impress co-workers. This is a soulless sort of individual who is doomed to a lifetime of servitude.
If you reclaim your dignity, speak correctly and stand up straight you will either be respected or fired. Either way you will have found a better path in life.
Any sensible person can see that this is a corrupt practice, and Slashdot readers have seen it all before. Is Soulskill trying to incite more useless rants?
The only useful comment here would be a pointer to someone who could/would resolve the problem.
If your comment can't offer useful information, please keep it to yourself.
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OP here-
I apologize. Some at /. have long memories undistorted by prejudice.
OP here-
I agree. Many innovators die on the vine. Apple nearly failed several times. Sad that Amiga never reached its full potential.
I'm sorry, did I say Apple invented these things?
The Apple haters seem to have forgotten recent history. Since the Apple ][ every Apple design has been copied. When the graphic interface was commercialized the hacker crowd said 'who needs a mouse and pretty graphic screen when a green command line works just fine'. And then Microsoft spent 20 years trying to emulate the Macintosh and now you hackers are all using a graphic interface. Did anyone thank Apple? No, they copied and still copy and all the while put Apple down.
I think it would be nice if someone besides Apple & Google think for themselves and come up with something refreshing.
The marketplace has innovators and it has mass marketers. It has leaders and followers. It has companies who invest in R&D and it has cost cutting copycats. I'll support those with R&D.
Yes, hire an expert.
You are in the restaurant business. You have a full plate, so to speak, with managing many urgent activities. If you want to be an IT geek, an accountant, a dishwasher or a short-order cook, then you've made a mistake. Sell the restaurant.
If you want the restaurant to be a success, then manage it full time and hire others to give you peace of mind handling the details of the operation. And spend some time with your wife instead of fussing over the stupid computer.
Well this gives me hope that my theory will be accepted in my lifetime. I can't yet prove that zombies are visitors from our own future or that they evolved due to excessive use of facebook, twitter and cell phones. I'm getting pressure from certain manufacturers and service providers who conspire to dumb down the masses. I hope to survive the threats and innuendo long enough to see acceptance of my theory and a revival of good healthy Old Time Radio.
(wiping sweat from brow)
I thought for a moment that TFA said 4 million years.
Hey, 4 billion is a long time. No need to panic.
"I don't think it's particularly balanced to note he "may have a connection," when there is the word of only one person backing up that particular claim."
I can't get the original blog any more but Mr. Lee did say at one point that he didn't have any connection to one candidate, and by implication he did have a connection to the other.
Hey, I think I enjoyed your drivers license story more than you did.
Thoughtful reply. Sorry I don't have points to mod you up.
I also read her blog. It reads like the venomous Rush Limbaugh bile. Too bad he couldn't shut it down permanently.
With so much overwhelming support for Mr. Lee and so much vitriol against the unstable Ms. Shwagger, there should be at least one voice questioning the matter...
If you read TFA you might note that Jay Lee may have a connection to the political candidate Candice hates so much. You will also note his connection with the newspaper, but not his role (does he or his close associates report on politics?).
We can't really determine from the information he has provided whether there is any ulterior motive for his takedown notice.
He seems to have sent notices to other infringers- but how many? Five or fifty? If five then one might possibly suspect that he was out to get her or the political candidate she supports. He seems surprised that GoDaddy would shut down her sites; but how can we be sure he didn't know?
Not saying it's true, and I admit that he sounds like a reasonable person, but with all the words flying around there is still a shortage of solid information or assurances to defend his innocence.
Mozillaâ(TM)s Executive Director, Mark Surman speaks of "That maker spirit". We used to have that in the US. Now we have devolved into a consumer society. I wonder if we can recapture that attitude with these new affordable tools, or if the third world will grab the opportunity alone.
Photos from orbit will show earth looking more and more like a prune with all that sucking of water, oil & gas from below even as the surging tides flow in to fill the wrinkles that appear. The earth will turn in on itself and shrink like a raisin with the remaining ice caps to look like a tasty sugar frosting. The end will come when a giant spoon scoops up the planet and it is crushed by immense teeth and devoured in a potent mix of saliva and digestive juices. Or maybe I'm letting my imagination carry the concept too far...
Could this have anything to do with the large population of Somali immigrants in Minneapolis? There are indications of a criminal minority among them.
"Over the past 25 years, the United States has admitted about 84,000 Somali refugees [they've got that figure about right, but they don't include all those who got in through other immigration programs or who came in illegally and have disappeared---ed]. Close to 40 percent live in Minnesota."
http://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/why-so-many-somalis-in-minneapolis/
To say it is happening in that city is to ignore that it may be targeting a particular population. Or maybe there are other security risks in that city that I am unaware of...
I keep my lunch in a biohazard bag in the refrigerator at work. Things sometimes disappear there, but not my lunch.
If your stuff was in a container that suggested unpleasant contents, it might be a bit safer.
Consider advertising the contents as a live organ. Back up your deception by wearing a lab coat, thick glasses and a pocket protector.
So the power cord on your toaster is faulty. Easy fix, right? You steal a cord from your broken radio, get out your soldering gun and have at it. No radio? The hardware store can give you a cord at much lower cost than a new toaster.
New toaster $25. Cost to repair $4. Easy math, right? Let's forget that your radio cord can't handle the wattage of the toaster and it starts a fire that burns the house down.
Instead, focus on time. You took 3 hours to fix the toaster. Your job pays you $42/hr plus benefits worth $18. Your time is worth $60/hr, so the toaster repair cost you $180!
Of course you only work 8 hours/day, 5 days/wk, $2400/wk which is actually 188 hours. Your average for those hours is $12.77/hour, so the repair cost $38.30- about double the cost of a new toaster. Now you have an old crumby toaster that will work a while longer and you've messed up the kitchen table and pissed off your wife.
Is there nothing better that you could have done with that time? Mother's day is Sunday this week. Spend the $38 on flowers and buy a new toaster.
So Microsoft is going green.
Easy for a company that makes ones and zeros.
Not so easy for a steel mill, a trucking company or auto manufacturer.
I helped develop several affordable apartment complexes that have a kitchen unit as you describe. I managed one of the buildings (36 units) and observed how the computers were used.
The residents qualified for living there based on their low income. There were no college grads. Some were too poor or ignorant to buy a proper computer.
Of the 36 units, about 10 used their computers, and that quite rarely (mostly the young children). I used mine sometimes to stream videos or music during extended kitchen stays. I did look up a recipe on two occasions in 15 months.
The computers had mouse and keyboard which could be removed as the touch screen served well for most activities. They were wall mounted to conserve counter space, and high enough to require effort for kids to reach. There were almost no maintenance problems.
There is probably a day coming when everyone has a computer in every room; but not as we know them now. Most likely a Siri type unit that speaks and listens and can play music or report news (no video). I can think of no good reason for anyone, educated or not, to have a permanent computer in their kitchen, bathroom or closet. I don't know anyone, male, female, young, old, rich, poor ... who would benefit from one enough to make it worthwhile.
I stay with Slashdot out of habit I suppose; sometimes the discussions are insightful. The moderation system is adequate. I think there's room for some clever indexing and searching of past discussions. Most of the rest is fluff and the web is saturated with it.
Slashdot could well add additional forums for other topics. If kept as simple and direct as possible, they could succeed, but they should not be mixed into the main system. Not interested in videos, but perhaps a 'future forum' that allows anticipating trends instead of reporting yesterday's news...
I was happy with the old text based BBS systems when the discussions were relevant. That kind of simplicity can keep Slashdot unique, worthwhile and accessible in places where fancy programming just doesn't work.
Billions of neurons and trillions of synaptic connectors can not explain the miracle of memory, learning or inspiration. The higher function of the brain is to connect us with the infinite found in another dimension. There it connects with a storehouse of information and wisdom partly shared with others.
Given sufficient energy, the brain accesses this storehouse more or less efficiently and produces results that lead to intelligence and success in navigating what we perceive as the world around us.
It would be premature at this time to introduce the idea that this storehouse is shared with brains on other worlds, but it's worth considering for those with hyper connectivity.
Let me speak for users here (as opposed to hackers).
I use Microsoft and other business software but I mostly work with creative media software (Everything by Adobe, Apple and others). These are massive & complex systems capable of hugely complex rendering operations.
I was a programmer/hacker decades ago but now all I want is reliable documents, audio, animation and video that will print or play as intended. The computer is nearly invisible to me and I don't care what's under the hood if it does the job and doesn't get in the way.
Similarly, I used to prefer cars with stick shift, muscle and a bit of noise. Now I want to get from point A to point B efficiently, safely and in comfort.
When you say one OS is better than another, you might ask yourself "for who?" - not everyone has your priorities.
Here's my take on the finished product of such a program, written a year ago...
giants of the past
© t swell - 110303
Jo'eb climbed to the top of the rusting hulk and did a double somersault in the air to express his joy. One almost never saw one of these automobiles outside a museum, and there you weren't allowed to touch. Jo'eb finished with a dance, then rolled down the glass and metal back to the wheat field. Through the open door he could see the foot controls and far above the steering device and a number of instruments and buttons.
He beamed the experience to his friends back home. They had never been outside the city. He knew that they would be jealous as the flow of data reached them. All the nerves in their bodies would light up with the experience of touching the coarse metal and bouncing on the springs of a chair made for giants. Much better than the bland recordings you sense in a museum!
It was easy to forget that the ancestors were six feet tall; easy until confronted with this hard evidence. But fortunately for us that they had the sense to engineer the elimination of wasteful bulk. Imagine having to carry 200 pounds everywhere you go! Imagine the quantities of food you would need. Imagine the steaming mountains of waste you would produce. Even a bodyweight of two pounds was considered excessive for a modern human.
Jo'eb was getting feedback from his friends. Of course Abel wanted him to show the power unit of the automobile. He imagined it the size of his house. Jo'eb tried to comply but he was unable to lift the cover. Instead he climbed up from underneath and scrambled around the dusty motor compartment. Hard to see in the poor light and then only a few parts at a time but Abel was impressed and seemed to understand the function of some of the parts.
Elise wasn't interested in the vehicle itself, but she shared an imaginary scene with two ancestors encased in these tons of iron, propelled recklessly down a vast pathway at high speed, oblivious to anything around them smaller than a tree or mountain. Abel added sounds to the vision including wind, rubbery tire sounds and what he imagined the power plant sounded like. Together they generated a compelling scene that was probably altogether wrong, yet satisfying.
All this reminded Jo'eb that he hadn't actually seen Elise in weeks. Sharing through the net was nice, but no psynet could substitute for proximity and the physical intimacy that might ensue. Jo'eb did not share his thoughts that immediately followed.
In the US, what would have happened if the public were to opine about Negro rights in the South or Irish, Italian or Puerto Rican immigrants in New York? What would have happened after the World Trade Center disaster to Muslim immigrants?
Public opinion is volatile, easily swayed by raw emotion, religious fervor and yellow journalism, and requires the moderation of level heads before being rushed into legislation.
Isn't it enough that Apple products are already prone to fires and explosions?
Twice you used the phrase "been tasked with". This is not the English you learned in school. Is your wife 'tasked with' washing the dishes?
There is a certain kind of lizard who embraces corporate speak, perhaps to kiss the ass of management or impress co-workers. This is a soulless sort of individual who is doomed to a lifetime of servitude.
If you reclaim your dignity, speak correctly and stand up straight you will either be respected or fired. Either way you will have found a better path in life.
Any sensible person can see that this is a corrupt practice, and Slashdot readers have seen it all before. Is Soulskill trying to incite more useless rants?
The only useful comment here would be a pointer to someone who could/would resolve the problem.
If your comment can't offer useful information, please keep it to yourself.