This really does smell of bullshit. I have a lot of trouble figuring how they can make the digital outs on my CD player work when connected to an external DAC, but not when connected to the digital in of a sound card.
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Not only do they not pay you to insert their advertising, they're actively stealing users from your site by modifying the way your site gets displayed. Additionally a link from one site to another creates an implied relationship, thus making it seem as though the sites that TopText takes the user to are recommended by your site when in fact they may be getting taken to a direct competitor.
Most of my career has been spent as the engineering liaison to operations, supporting embedded products, thus the systems category is one which I know well enough to make suggestions. If I made recommendations for books in other fields, I'd be doing a disservice to anybody who read my post, as I wouldn't know the difference, for example, between a good user interface book and a great one.
Perhaps you are knowledgeable enough in one of the aforementioned fields that you can give knowledgeable recommendations, beyond 'my professor said this one is really good'? --
Not to be all x-files, but isn't it entirely possible that the government wanted to arrest him for some crime that the public will never hear about, and that's why the government won't drop the case even though Adobe has tried to make that happen. --
Trademarks are categorized. There's absolutely no problem with two different products having a trademark on the same term, as long as they are for unique products, and the trademarks don't cause confusion as to the source of the goods.
Minrad's trademark on Light Saber (they have a live, valid trademark too) is for "G & S: Surgical instruments, namely syringes, trokars, biopsy needles, drills and cannulas adapted to be guided by an energy beam targeting and directing system".
On the other hand, Lucas Licensing's trademark on Light Saber is for "G & S: TOY SWORD".
This is merely a free publicity grab, and it worked. --
I used to use dedicated e-mail addresses as my slashdot return address. A few greps of my mailbox archives tells me that in the year 2000 I got 589 messages to this dedicated slashdot address. If memory serves me correctly, I've received, at max, six actual messages from slashdot users posting private followups.
this is why i changed my address to abuse@att.com... i figure why not let the spammers report themselves? --
who cares about any of this? somebody wants to create a walled garden, and not allow access to the outside world, uncensored? they're allowed to do that right now, no problem.
somebody wants an SLA which guarantees a certain QoS to certain customers? well that's possible too, and for large networks it's not even particularly unusual.
this is an article which changes nothing, except that it makes Bud Michels, and by association CSP look extremely stupid, or desperate. I'm not sure which.
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No Unix mail program would ever do such a thing because it's so obviously stupid
setup your mailcap files and use almost every unix mail app. WHOOPS, they autoexecute code too! hell, EMACS was one of the first apps to make the 'execute untrusted code' screwup.
way to provide a link, slick. even knowing it's name, i couldn't find it in an acceptable amount of time (less than 2 minutes), seeing as you gave no useful information. --
it only solves the first issue, and that still depends on what theme you use. you can still logout with one click (or be presented with the 'do you wish to logout' dialog if you have confirmation on). --
my point is to be intelligent about what you copy. did you see me say it was a bad idea to adapt the start menu? no, because that's a UI element that almost everybody understands with very little transition time. In fact, gnome and kde improved it by not calling it 'start', thus eliminating the whole 'to shutdown the computer, first click start' nonsense. Once a user is shown that the 'K' or the foot is a menu, they understand.
The problem is that almost nobody takes the time to think about what they're doing to decide if it's a good idea or not. Try navigating on a windows machine without a mouse; after a few minutes it's pretty easy. Try that with GNOME. Switch between apps and see if the keystrokes are consistent. see if the focus goes where you think it will in a complex form. most of the time, GNOME keyboard shortcuts are implemented as a complete afterthought, and it shows. If there's a GNOME standard for this, it's followed poorly.
Additionally, most of the original desktop themes are just plain useless. they're:
geeky and useless -- okay, tell me where i click to minimize, maximize, close, or stick the windows.
just plain dumb -- who the fuck knows how this works? i sure as hell don't, and I have better things to do than figuring it out.
And the scary thing is all these themes have 10k+ downloads, and it took me about a minute to find these examples. I'm sure if I really cared I found find much better examples of what I'm talking about.
I just spent 15 minutes looking for a truly good theme somewhere without success. that's a tragedy. that will hurt linux's mainstream acceptance far more than the fact that cmdrtaco was too dumb to buy a supported scanner.
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Studies like this will help make GNOME as usable as KDE, and maybe some day, both of these desktop systems will make an attempt to create usable UI, instead of simply copying MicroSoft, and calling it innovation.
For example, why does everybody copy the design that the 'window kill' button should be right next to 'maximize'? That's horrible design, put window kill on the left, maximize and minize on the right.
Why is it possible to click down on the 'K', move the mouse a few pixels up, release the mouse, and log yourself out. If you have a fast computer, and you use KDE, you've probably done this before.
GNOME allows an application to use the entire task tray, then when you have two applications, it uses half that size.... and it squeezes down. It's efficient use of space, but it's inconsistent and makes it harder to tell with a single glance what's running. KDE makes good use of the space without this annoying inconsistancy.
What the hell are these icons? Stop being cute, start being useful. If you're running KDE, hit the K menu now and tell me what the following icons mean 'quick browser', 'bookmarks', 'toys', 'system', 'preferences' (these last two are way too similar), multimedia or graphics. None of those icons gives you any intuitive notion of what you're about to launch.
Additionally, I doubt I'm the only one who has taken the less-used apps in the menu for each level, made a folder called 'sewer' and stuck them in there. Yes, we're all proud that there are lots of applications now. No, we don't use 90% of them, and having them in our menus just slows us down.
Things are improving, but it's still terribly ironic, the way copying Microsoft is referred to as innovation, yet when Microsoft copies, that's just plain wrong. --
maybe because there's no such thing as PCM out or in. there's s/pdif or aes/ebu, and aes/ebu doesn't send track markings down, so if you want to copy cds, you use s/pdif. --
My MOTU 2408 has a perfectly functional, non-resampling s/pdif input, and my MOTU 308 has 8 of them. If you're on a budget, i think you can hack a zoltrix nightingale for $50 to have non-resampling S/PDIF. --
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I'll be both impressed and pissed off it they can pull it off.
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This practice is ethically shady at best.
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Perhaps you are knowledgeable enough in one of the aforementioned fields that you can give knowledgeable recommendations, beyond 'my professor said this one is really good'?
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Not to be all x-files, but isn't it entirely possible that the government wanted to arrest him for some crime that the public will never hear about, and that's why the government won't drop the case even though Adobe has tried to make that happen.
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- The Art of Computer Programming -- Knuth
- Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment -- Stevens
- C/C++/Java How To Program -- Deital & Deital stupid titles, good beginning books
- The Practical SQL Handbook -- Bowman
- Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties
- Essential System Administration -- Frisch
- TCP/IP Network Administration -- Hunt
- Modern Operating Systems --- Tanenbaum
- The Mythical Man Month -- Brooks
- The C++ Programming Language -- Stroustroup
- Generic Programming and the STL... -- Austern
- Computer Networks -- Tanenbaum
- Upgrading and Repairing PCs -- Mueller
- Applied Cryptography -- Schneir
- C Programming Language -- K&R
- Internetworking with TCP/IP 1, 2 & 3 -- Comer
- Unix Network Programming 1&2-- Stevens
Nothing else comes to mind offhand...--
Minrad's trademark on Light Saber (they have a live, valid trademark too) is for "G & S: Surgical instruments, namely syringes, trokars, biopsy needles, drills and cannulas adapted to be guided by an energy beam targeting and directing system".
On the other hand, Lucas Licensing's trademark on Light Saber is for "G & S: TOY SWORD".
This is merely a free publicity grab, and it worked.
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What public outcry? The only thing I said was "fucking retard".
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this is why i changed my address to abuse@att.com... i figure why not let the spammers report themselves?
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somebody wants an SLA which guarantees a certain QoS to certain customers? well that's possible too, and for large networks it's not even particularly unusual.
this is an article which changes nothing, except that it makes Bud Michels, and by association CSP look extremely stupid, or desperate. I'm not sure which.
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yeah, there are NO viruses for outlook express. oh wait, i was thinking of netscape on macintosh, my bad!
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setup your mailcap files and use almost every unix mail app. WHOOPS, they autoexecute code too! hell, EMACS was one of the first apps to make the 'execute untrusted code' screwup.
everything old is new again!
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way to provide a link, slick. even knowing it's name, i couldn't find it in an acceptable amount of time (less than 2 minutes), seeing as you gave no useful information.
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Not all /. users hate macs. I have all my audio equipment hooked to a mac, and my laptop is a mac.
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it only solves the first issue, and that still depends on what theme you use. you can still logout with one click (or be presented with the 'do you wish to logout' dialog if you have confirmation on).
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The problem is that almost nobody takes the time to think about what they're doing to decide if it's a good idea or not. Try navigating on a windows machine without a mouse; after a few minutes it's pretty easy. Try that with GNOME. Switch between apps and see if the keystrokes are consistent. see if the focus goes where you think it will in a complex form. most of the time, GNOME keyboard shortcuts are implemented as a complete afterthought, and it shows. If there's a GNOME standard for this, it's followed poorly.
Additionally, most of the original desktop themes are just plain useless. they're:
- pretty but useless -- how do you maximize one of those windows?
- geeky and useless -- okay, tell me where i click to minimize, maximize, close, or stick the windows.
- just plain dumb -- who the fuck knows how this works? i sure as hell don't, and I have better things to do than figuring it out.
And the scary thing is all these themes have 10k+ downloads, and it took me about a minute to find these examples. I'm sure if I really cared I found find much better examples of what I'm talking about.I just spent 15 minutes looking for a truly good theme somewhere without success. that's a tragedy. that will hurt linux's mainstream acceptance far more than the fact that cmdrtaco was too dumb to buy a supported scanner.
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i do use a scheme that has this changed, but it wasn't the default. flexibility is nice, but it's even better when things just work.
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For example, why does everybody copy the design that the 'window kill' button should be right next to 'maximize'? That's horrible design, put window kill on the left, maximize and minize on the right.
Why is it possible to click down on the 'K', move the mouse a few pixels up, release the mouse, and log yourself out. If you have a fast computer, and you use KDE, you've probably done this before.
GNOME allows an application to use the entire task tray, then when you have two applications, it uses half that size.... and it squeezes down. It's efficient use of space, but it's inconsistent and makes it harder to tell with a single glance what's running. KDE makes good use of the space without this annoying inconsistancy.
What the hell are these icons? Stop being cute, start being useful. If you're running KDE, hit the K menu now and tell me what the following icons mean 'quick browser', 'bookmarks', 'toys', 'system', 'preferences' (these last two are way too similar), multimedia or graphics. None of those icons gives you any intuitive notion of what you're about to launch.
Additionally, I doubt I'm the only one who has taken the less-used apps in the menu for each level, made a folder called 'sewer' and stuck them in there. Yes, we're all proud that there are lots of applications now. No, we don't use 90% of them, and having them in our menus just slows us down.
Things are improving, but it's still terribly ironic, the way copying Microsoft is referred to as innovation, yet when Microsoft copies, that's just plain wrong.
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God bless the hypocritical /. admins who implement the very technologies they deride.
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How long until http://www.satirewire.com/news/0103/support_our_sp onsors.shtml isn't be a parody anymore? I give it a week and a half.
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WinXP will never be mainstream because it doesn't support my HP ScanJet Plus. Riiiiiight.
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let me know when your million geek march is, so i can arrange the million bully march to kick your whiny little ass.
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fucking retard.
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good quality PCI alternatives? you mean like the $40 zoltrix nightingale that i mentioned in the previous post?
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maybe because there's no such thing as PCM out or in. there's s/pdif or aes/ebu, and aes/ebu doesn't send track markings down, so if you want to copy cds, you use s/pdif.
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My MOTU 2408 has a perfectly functional, non-resampling s/pdif input, and my MOTU 308 has 8 of them. If you're on a budget, i think you can hack a zoltrix nightingale for $50 to have non-resampling S/PDIF.
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