<joke> Slashdot. Teach the kid the fine art of karma whoring. Or maybe even trolling. It's great for the ego! Teach them to turn on the "show link target" option so they don't go to goatse.cx. Teach them about the insensetive clods chasing Natalie Portman with a bowl of hot grits through soviet russia while you build a beowulf cluster of CowboyNeals. </joke>
Unless they're legally or contractually required to keep up old systems, there's nothing wrong with dropping support for a lame, outdated OS.
Now mind you, I think MS stinks. I am a mac addict 125%. It's not a habit of mine to defend MS for anything.
But it's not extortion. Nobody's forcing you to upgrade. If Bill Gates (or Steve Ballmer) came to your house and put a gun to your head and threatened to shoot you if you didn't upgrade, that would be extortion. But no matter how evil you may consider the dudes, they aren't going to shoot you.
Not to mention that you could always upgrade to Linux. Or Mac OS X.:-P
I think REBOL would be a good beginning language because you can stick with it for a long time and it'll remain useful.
It doesn't have the stupid limitations of BASIC. It's incredibly easy to parse strings, retrieve data from internet, do stuff with arrays (called blocks in REBOL), TCP/IP etc. It handles user advancement pretty darn well, going all the way to GUI programming.
REBOL for Dummies is a very well-written book, although it's dated by a few versions. I strongly suggest reading it.
You can get REBOL at REBOL.com. It's free and runs on a huge number of platforms.
Modems that use the current method of compression have NOT been around that long. Sheez, dude.
The way I understand it, modems compress in two ways: 1. They modulate multiple bits in a single tone (yeah, it probably doesn't count as "real" compression) 2. They actually run data thru a compressor.
Excuse my extreme naivete, but if division is measuring how many times you can take one number from another, wouldn't dividing anything by zero give you infiniti?
IE: 4 / 2 = 2 because you can remove 2 twice from 4 before you get a number less than 2 (0).
So then, since removing 0 from anything has no effect, you can do it an infinite number of times with no change, right? (Kinda like a geek asking a babe for a date... heh)
Konqueror when it does that AND has a Mac OS version
It's called Safari. Duh. Same rendering engine, nice and stable (during beta at that!) and very fast. Or Chimera -- I mean Camino, which is essentially Mozilla without the bloat (and the kitchen sink) with the native Mac OS X interface. Again, fast and stable.
Or are you still mired in the world of the classic Mac OS? If so, that's sad.
Great! Now if I could only get some of those (other) pro-Saddam songs they're playing on Iraqi media... at least those are in a language I can't understand.
In soviet russia, your sig says "Super lemons clone YOU!" And aren't the grits supposed to go in the pants? I don't think you can compare Portman's rack to Anderson's.
But seriously, go easy on these jokes. I found out the hard way that nobody but you and me find them funny anymore. My karma's been like a yo-yo lately. (here it goes again!)
gimp is the Gnu answer to photoshop. about as powerful though a little less freindly and fast.
Mega-dittoes on the GIMP. The GIMP is the only image editing app I have on my powerbook and it's the only one I need. (iPhoto doesn't really count and neither does PixelNhance, although it is a cool app) I make a lot of original tiled wallpapers with it, but I also use it to recompress images for the web.
iPhoto exports massive files, and there's nothing more annoying than a webpage with massive graphics. The compression preview makes it a cinch to find the perfect balance of quality and compression, although for some reason it won't tell me the actual size in KB (like it claims it should be doing).
Yeah I was wondering, does it run cooler/quieter than a standard XServe?
Just wait until some freak with cash to spare sets up a cluster of these (no, not *that* kind of cluster) and runs SETI@home or one of those crypto-cracking things... interesting.
My 667Mhz PowerBook G4 (see user bio for complete specs) is OK on my lap. The really annoying thing is the fan noise. One thing to note is it's hotter when it's plugged in.
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I guess they thought 3 copies of the same story would be a bit excessive.
Thanks for reposting this, in case anybody missed BOTH storied about this on the front page...
How's this for a hoax: "Slashdot: No dupes."
(You can ignore this post.)
Oh, no! It's a playground remote-control arms race!
You forgot the most important one!
<joke>
Slashdot. Teach the kid the fine art of karma whoring. Or maybe even trolling. It's great for the ego! Teach them to turn on the "show link target" option so they don't go to goatse.cx. Teach them about the insensetive clods chasing Natalie Portman with a bowl of hot grits through soviet russia while you build a beowulf cluster of CowboyNeals.
</joke>
I can't believe you forgot this.
Unless they're legally or contractually required to keep up old systems, there's nothing wrong with dropping support for a lame, outdated OS.
:-P
Now mind you, I think MS stinks. I am a mac addict 125%. It's not a habit of mine to defend MS for anything.
But it's not extortion. Nobody's forcing you to upgrade. If Bill Gates (or Steve Ballmer) came to your house and put a gun to your head and threatened to shoot you if you didn't upgrade, that would be extortion. But no matter how evil you may consider the dudes, they aren't going to shoot you.
Not to mention that you could always upgrade to Linux. Or Mac OS X.
I think REBOL would be a good beginning language because you can stick with it for a long time and it'll remain useful.
:-)
It doesn't have the stupid limitations of BASIC. It's incredibly easy to parse strings, retrieve data from internet, do stuff with arrays (called blocks in REBOL), TCP/IP etc. It handles user advancement pretty darn well, going all the way to GUI programming.
REBOL for Dummies is a very well-written book, although it's dated by a few versions. I strongly suggest reading it.
You can get REBOL at REBOL.com. It's free and runs on a huge number of platforms.
No, I don't work for them.
Huh? My computer doesn't need any underwear. (or would that be "underware?")
and spend countless hours perfectly satisfied with my TiBook. It's about personal preference though, in the end.
:-)
That is one biiiiig troll lure if I ever saw one.
11 - Host a site linked from a Slashdot.org article without getting slashdotted
Modems that use the current method of compression have NOT been around that long. Sheez, dude.
The way I understand it, modems compress in two ways:
1. They modulate multiple bits in a single tone (yeah, it probably doesn't count as "real" compression)
2. They actually run data thru a compressor.
Interesting. All along I thought I just had a dumb-butt idea that somebody was going to shoot down in a half a second.
:-)
It's kinda both positive infinity and negative infinity at the same time.
Wouldn't that make it exactly zero because of +/- infinity cancelling out?
Oh well, there goes the kewlness of infinity.
Excuse my extreme naivete, but if division is measuring how many times you can take one number from another, wouldn't dividing anything by zero give you infiniti?
IE: 4 / 2 = 2 because you can remove 2 twice from 4 before you get a number less than 2 (0).
So then, since removing 0 from anything has no effect, you can do it an infinite number of times with no change, right? (Kinda like a geek asking a babe for a date... heh)
In these days of 4GB systems, what does that mean for the lifespans of today's geeks?
A 4 million year old geek, now that's SCARY!
Konqueror when it does that AND has a Mac OS version
It's called Safari. Duh. Same rendering engine, nice and stable (during beta at that!) and very fast. Or Chimera -- I mean Camino, which is essentially Mozilla without the bloat (and the kitchen sink) with the native Mac OS X interface. Again, fast and stable.
Or are you still mired in the world of the classic Mac OS? If so, that's sad.
No, I just said the songs were in a language I could understand. (I think...)
Great! Now if I could only get some of those (other) pro-Saddam songs they're playing on Iraqi media... at least those are in a language I can't understand.
(Prediction: this post will be moderated.)
In soviet russia, your sig says "Super lemons clone YOU!" And aren't the grits supposed to go in the pants? I don't think you can compare Portman's rack to Anderson's.
But seriously, go easy on these jokes. I found out the hard way that nobody but you and me find them funny anymore. My karma's been like a yo-yo lately. (here it goes again!)
P.S. You forgot the beow... never mind.
First it was "glowing cyber balls", now "Making the GPL easier to swallow"? Is slashdot trying to make troll-friendly stories?
It's a geek version of the Oscars, except the jokes aren't funny (beowulf clusters, anyone?) and most people at the party will be fully dressed.
Finally, a bug that's beneficial to computers!
Yeah my guess is that the GPU gets hotter when being used more (just like the CPU), because the fan *always* goes on when I play 4x4 Evolution 2.
gimp is the Gnu answer to photoshop. about as powerful though a little less freindly and fast.
Mega-dittoes on the GIMP. The GIMP is the only image editing app I have on my powerbook and it's the only one I need. (iPhoto doesn't really count and neither does PixelNhance, although it is a cool app) I make a lot of original tiled wallpapers with it, but I also use it to recompress images for the web.
iPhoto exports massive files, and there's nothing more annoying than a webpage with massive graphics. The compression preview makes it a cinch to find the perfect balance of quality and compression, although for some reason it won't tell me the actual size in KB (like it claims it should be doing).
Definitely get the GIMP.
Yeah I was wondering, does it run cooler/quieter than a standard XServe?
Just wait until some freak with cash to spare sets up a cluster of these (no, not *that* kind of cluster) and runs SETI@home or one of those crypto-cracking things... interesting.
You know what they say about the size of a geek's BSD...
My 667Mhz PowerBook G4 (see user bio for complete specs) is OK on my lap. The really annoying thing is the fan noise. One thing to note is it's hotter when it's plugged in.