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As I write this only 7 people have voted on the article, and given the number of people complaining here about this guy, I'm quite disappointed in the result. If the guy writes shit, vote it down on their site so the people who pay him know about it.
1: Do you use X on linux? 2: No. Y. 1: I was just wondering, what do you use? 2: Y! 1: I'm just curious, now will you please tell me what you use if you don't use X? 2: Y!
ok, that was sorta lame, how about...
tech Support: What desktop environment do you use? user: ummm why? tech: You use Y? Ok, so what you wanna do is... user: What? I don't know what you're talking about.
Come on editors, I've SEEN it used before. Why don't you modify all the links to NYTimes to include the bits for the slashdot partnership (somethin like &PARTNER=SLASHDOT... not sure exactly). That's what it is *there* for isn't it?
How about instead of making it a custom to bitch and moan ("first born required", "right arm and shirt off back required", "anonymous users need not apply",...), why don't we just use the partner link we have???
Funny, this seems to be one of those double standards. People like ESR and Linus are praised and recognized as the fathers of OSS, heros among their kind, but as soon as they say something offensive you disown them.
In life, whether personal, corporate, OSS, whatever, when you associate yourself with an organization, your actions reflect that organization to some degree. If ESR had said "these comments are solely my own and do not represent any organization I take part in", I could agree.
AT&T sold off their cable TV and cable Internet to Comcast. Now they sold off their Wireless branch to Cingular. What do they have left, long distance plans?
Why would they leave themselves with only the things from the past that are likely to die out eventually, and ditch the new technologies?
I often feel that way about things like rocks. Like when I'd pick up a rock out in a field somewhere, that looked like it had been there for quite a while, and threw it. Then I realized it had no way to get back to its home, and how lonely it must be.
Actually, I'm not sure about your example exactly, but here are a few stories I've been told from a friend that works at MS:
Due to the highly political/legal nature of a lot of their projects, when they have meetings with 3rd parties about standards or whatnot, the engineers are not even allowed in the same room. Engineer1 has to ask the mediator a question, mediator goes and asks Engineer2, and mediator brings answer back.
Come to think of it, that myserable process could explain some of the poor standards compliance microsoft has:p (I know, it's more political than that, but wouldn't it be funny... )
I have been shopping for a PDA for a while, and am pretty set on a PocketPC device,but that's beside the point. It got me thinking though, that there aren't any PDAs that are really FOR Macs. Palm does (or now used to) work with them, but PocketPCs don't I'm sure.
Are there any PDAs that work well with Mac? Given Apple's success with iPOD, I can't help but think it would be a great move for them to produce an equally-sexy PDA.
From the article: Part of me wishes this notebook was fueled by the Athlon64 rather than the Athlon XP-M chip because, like with the car, I want ultimate performance--but then I take one look at the machine's lustrous coat, and somehow everything else seems trivial.
Something tells me this thing could have been a Pentium 133 laptop and he'd have been happy if it was shiney and played a neat sound at startup.
That's interesting, cuz a few years ago (2001) my vehicle was vandalized, and since I was living in the dorms at the time the campus cops were the ones to respond. They brought a digital camera to the scene to record the evidence. Of course, I brought mine too which then lead them to believe that I myself had vandalized the truck for insurance fraud, even tho I'd reduced my insurance to liability only just 3 days prior.
God I hate campus cops... but that's another story.
Packages *are* the installers (like MSIs)... only each distribution of linux supports a different one (well, some of them support the same formats).
In windows, "Add/Remove Programs" is the "Package Manager". Think back to Windows 3.11 where if you installed a program and you wanted to remove it, you had to delete the directory, find any files it dropped in c:\windows, delete them, edit your autoexec.bat, config.sys files... etc.
Since there is no uniform package manager for linux, and a lot of stuff is just distributed as source (ie: NO package manager support, you're back to the plane old file drop method in win3.11), it can be kind of frustrating.
For example: Redhat, Mandrake, Suse (and others) all use RPM. Debian uses DEB files Slackware uses.tgz files And anything can usually be found in source format, typically with the extension.tar.gz or.tar.bz2
It's rather sad when you're on Redhat, and you find a package and its either only in DEB format, or it's in SuSE RPM (which has different dependancies than redhat, so you might not be able to use it) or... (you get the idea, it's a pain).
So the point is, we need something equivalent to "Add/Remove Programs" that just *works* on all linux distros.
And then... Mozilla Next 2.0 Mozilla Next Ultra Mozilla Next^2 Mozilla Next^2+1...
hehe, I always find it amusing when things have words like "new", "future", "next" in their title, cuz what's the gameplan for what comes out after that??
Speaking for myself (a geek with a 2+year lasting relationship)... I like to get the geeky stuff myself.
What my girlfriend usually gets me are some clothes that make me look good (I have a tendency to buy comfortable clothes), which i can wear to nice events or dates. This works out because I hate spending more than $20 on a pair of pants or shirt (or clothes in general), because she has better taste than I do, and because it leaves me to pick my own geeky self-presents.
Seriously, if you wanna make your geek happy, buy him some clothes that you think make him look hot and then tell him how great he looks in them.:) Of course, you have to know a bit about his taste too.
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And who is to say that God didn't design the system such that it balances itself in such a way?
People like you seem to take for granted that the universe just exists. That spacial dimensions and time all sort of slid together to happen to be this way. Matter just so happens to work in such a way that that puddle can exist (not just one puddle, but any infinite number of similar but totally different puddles) and sustain an entire eco system.
We can simulate the entire puddle and ecosystem in a computer with mathetmatical models, but it still is not the ecosystem. The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Boy are you guys gonna hate me for even suggesting Microsoft....
A lot of people are asking for alternatives to PalmOS... well, how about it's #1 competator: PocketPC?
I have been playing with the HP iPAQs recently, and am trying to find one at a reasonable price, and lemme tell you I am in love.
I owned a Visor Delux back when they came out, and it just sucked after a while. Handwriting was a pain in the ass; the software worked, but was limited; there was no good solution for document editing/viewing; audio, video and networking functions were nonexistant at the time. Even then, the top of the line HP Journadas could play mp3s and had a color screen.
If you want something to replace your pocket pad of paper, go with a palm I guess. If you want a *computer* in your pocket, go with a PocketPC... I personally am drooling over the HP h1945, h2215, and h4155's.
While what you said was a joke, it made me think of something that might be a good idea.
How about we (geeks, slashdotters, etc) start pattenting all the evil ideas we can come up with? Think if we had the pattents to algorithms used in worms and viruses, or in spyware, etc. Of course, I don't mean we build anything with these evil ideas, but then we could sue the pants off anyone who did.
I know a guy at Microsoft who says they have people to develop worm/virus algorithms just so if someone ever uses it, they can take them down atleast financially, if not legally.
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As I write this only 7 people have voted on the article, and given the number of people complaining here about this guy, I'm quite disappointed in the result. If the guy writes shit, vote it down on their site so the people who pay him know about it.
Actually you can.
At the bottom of the article is a 1-5 scale which you can click to rate the article.
OK, out of curiosity...
:)
What makes it different from a "wimpy WiFi"?
I don't have anything that uses bluetooth, so I'm asking this as an honest question...
BT is slower than WiFi
BT is supposedly shorter range (tho I hear some BT devices can go 300meters)
What's it got that WiFi doesn't? Why couldn't WiFi fill BT's shoes if it were gone?
And mods, please stop modding the parent up until we get these questions answered!
I am too busy using Bluetooth keeping them synced.
:)
IF bluetooth is dying, its for reasons exactly like what you just described. You shouldn't be "busy" syncing devices, they should just do it
Note: I am making no claim as to whether BT is or isn't failing. I do not currently own a BT enabled device and have no experience with it
I care not for starwars or wine... I don't plan on buying it :)
(and yes, I am of legal age)
1: Do you use X on linux?
2: No. Y.
1: I was just wondering, what do you use?
2: Y!
1: I'm just curious, now will you please tell me what you use if you don't use X?
2: Y!
ok, that was sorta lame, how about...
tech Support: What desktop environment do you use?
user: ummm why?
tech: You use Y? Ok, so what you wanna do is...
user: What? I don't know what you're talking about.
Come on editors, I've SEEN it used before. Why don't you modify all the links to NYTimes to include the bits for the slashdot partnership (somethin like &PARTNER=SLASHDOT ... not sure exactly). That's what it is *there* for isn't it?
...), why don't we just use the partner link we have???
How about instead of making it a custom to bitch and moan ("first born required", "right arm and shirt off back required", "anonymous users need not apply",
Funny, this seems to be one of those double standards. People like ESR and Linus are praised and recognized as the fathers of OSS, heros among their kind, but as soon as they say something offensive you disown them.
In life, whether personal, corporate, OSS, whatever, when you associate yourself with an organization, your actions reflect that organization to some degree. If ESR had said "these comments are solely my own and do not represent any organization I take part in", I could agree.
STFU.
I dunno about UFOs, but maybe docking space craft from Earth might find it useful...
AT&T sold off their cable TV and cable Internet to Comcast. Now they sold off their Wireless branch to Cingular. What do they have left, long distance plans?
Why would they leave themselves with only the things from the past that are likely to die out eventually, and ditch the new technologies?
I often feel that way about things like rocks. Like when I'd pick up a rock out in a field somewhere, that looked like it had been there for quite a while, and threw it. Then I realized it had no way to get back to its home, and how lonely it must be.
Those dots are lonely.
Actually, I'm not sure about your example exactly, but here are a few stories I've been told from a friend that works at MS:
:p (I know, it's more political than that, but wouldn't it be funny... )
Due to the highly political/legal nature of a lot of their projects, when they have meetings with 3rd parties about standards or whatnot, the engineers are not even allowed in the same room. Engineer1 has to ask the mediator a question, mediator goes and asks Engineer2, and mediator brings answer back.
Come to think of it, that myserable process could explain some of the poor standards compliance microsoft has
I'd just like to point out what my sig says...
:)
Challege to be modded down, and you will end up +4 or +5 insightful.
Worked for you!
I have been shopping for a PDA for a while, and am pretty set on a PocketPC device,but that's beside the point. It got me thinking though, that there aren't any PDAs that are really FOR Macs. Palm does (or now used to) work with them, but PocketPCs don't I'm sure.
Are there any PDAs that work well with Mac? Given Apple's success with iPOD, I can't help but think it would be a great move for them to produce an equally-sexy PDA.
From the article:
Part of me wishes this notebook was fueled by the Athlon64 rather than the Athlon XP-M chip because, like with the car, I want ultimate performance--but then I take one look at the machine's lustrous coat, and somehow everything else seems trivial.
Something tells me this thing could have been a Pentium 133 laptop and he'd have been happy if it was shiney and played a neat sound at startup.
That's interesting, cuz a few years ago (2001) my vehicle was vandalized, and since I was living in the dorms at the time the campus cops were the ones to respond. They brought a digital camera to the scene to record the evidence. Of course, I brought mine too which then lead them to believe that I myself had vandalized the truck for insurance fraud, even tho I'd reduced my insurance to liability only just 3 days prior.
God I hate campus cops... but that's another story.
Packages *are* the installers (like MSIs)... only each distribution of linux supports a different one (well, some of them support the same formats).
.tgz files .tar.gz or .tar.bz2
... (you get the idea, it's a pain).
In windows, "Add/Remove Programs" is the "Package Manager". Think back to Windows 3.11 where if you installed a program and you wanted to remove it, you had to delete the directory, find any files it dropped in c:\windows, delete them, edit your autoexec.bat, config.sys files... etc.
Since there is no uniform package manager for linux, and a lot of stuff is just distributed as source (ie: NO package manager support, you're back to the plane old file drop method in win3.11), it can be kind of frustrating.
For example: Redhat, Mandrake, Suse (and others) all use RPM.
Debian uses DEB files
Slackware uses
And anything can usually be found in source format, typically with the extension
It's rather sad when you're on Redhat, and you find a package and its either only in DEB format, or it's in SuSE RPM (which has different dependancies than redhat, so you might not be able to use it) or
So the point is, we need something equivalent to "Add/Remove Programs" that just *works* on all linux distros.
And then ... ...
Mozilla Next 2.0
Mozilla Next Ultra
Mozilla Next^2
Mozilla Next^2+1
hehe, I always find it amusing when things have words like "new", "future", "next" in their title, cuz what's the gameplan for what comes out after that??
Speaking for myself (a geek with a 2+year lasting relationship) ... I like to get the geeky stuff myself.
:) Of course, you have to know a bit about his taste too.
What my girlfriend usually gets me are some clothes that make me look good (I have a tendency to buy comfortable clothes), which i can wear to nice events or dates. This works out because I hate spending more than $20 on a pair of pants or shirt (or clothes in general), because she has better taste than I do, and because it leaves me to pick my own geeky self-presents.
Seriously, if you wanna make your geek happy, buy him some clothes that you think make him look hot and then tell him how great he looks in them.
And who is to say that God didn't design the system such that it balances itself in such a way?
People like you seem to take for granted that the universe just exists. That spacial dimensions and time all sort of slid together to happen to be this way. Matter just so happens to work in such a way that that puddle can exist (not just one puddle, but any infinite number of similar but totally different puddles) and sustain an entire eco system.
We can simulate the entire puddle and ecosystem in a computer with mathetmatical models, but it still is not the ecosystem. The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
What a nice bit of FUD. Go try any modern PPC device out in the stores, and you will be quite impressed with how much it has improved.
It is no longer Windows CE. I have seen older CE devices, and your complaints about them are fairly accurate. PPC2003 is quite improved.
Equating a Casio E-100 to a HP h4155 is like equating a Palm III to a Tungsten T3
You think $30 is bad for an OS? Gimme a break.
Most apps for either Palm OR PocketPC run $10-50.
PocketQuicken (which requires a desktop copy of quicken) costs $40.
AOL Instant Messenger for PPC costs $20!
Now... I don't concider $30 bad for an OS, but $20 for AIM?
PowerPC? So now Macintosh computers are taking market share from Palms? ;)
Boy are you guys gonna hate me for even suggesting Microsoft....
A lot of people are asking for alternatives to PalmOS... well, how about it's #1 competator: PocketPC?
I have been playing with the HP iPAQs recently, and am trying to find one at a reasonable price, and lemme tell you I am in love.
I owned a Visor Delux back when they came out, and it just sucked after a while. Handwriting was a pain in the ass; the software worked, but was limited; there was no good solution for document editing/viewing; audio, video and networking functions were nonexistant at the time. Even then, the top of the line HP Journadas could play mp3s and had a color screen.
If you want something to replace your pocket pad of paper, go with a palm I guess. If you want a *computer* in your pocket, go with a PocketPC... I personally am drooling over the HP h1945, h2215, and h4155's.
While what you said was a joke, it made me think of something that might be a good idea.
How about we (geeks, slashdotters, etc) start pattenting all the evil ideas we can come up with? Think if we had the pattents to algorithms used in worms and viruses, or in spyware, etc. Of course, I don't mean we build anything with these evil ideas, but then we could sue the pants off anyone who did.
I know a guy at Microsoft who says they have people to develop worm/virus algorithms just so if someone ever uses it, they can take them down atleast financially, if not legally.