what we all here at/. always forget is that the success of anything is not largely determined by the technical superiority. Who cares if google is better than anything else when noone knows? I personally think google is the best, that's why I never use any other engines but soooo many people don't know that, or don't know how to use google correctly.
So, all MSN has to do is get enough people to use it, it does not matter how good it is and Microsoft is very good at that. Then they will get more ad-revenue and take that away from google. So while I very much agree with all the comments that google is improving itself and that it has so many services, it's page is lean and everything but unfortunately those are not the only factors that will decide success...
Sheesh. I swear the people on here with their high horses and arrogant assumptions. Do I have to post my whole damn life story to keep people from filling in the blanks with ?
While I agree that a lot of people here on slashdot are a bit arrogant/don't think enough before they post, but one problem with your original post is that you never mentioned your credentials. Maybe if you had included briefly that you work in tech support, then people would have doubted you less. And I don't think that would be including your whole damn life, but might've been effective enough:-).
Your argument is flawed in several ways:
As several other replies have already pointed out, it is a lot easier with guns to kill, you can kill from a distance and this reduces the consequence you feel as a person of the result of the action.
The ONLY dangerous weapon is a person intent on doing harm. ANYTHING can be a weapon in the hands of someone who wants to harm you.
While what you are saying is true, you forget that in most cases, it is not possible to know when someone simply intends to kill. However, when they have a gun available, they are able to do so more easily, as pointed out above.
We need better rock and pointy stick control laws! Think of the children!
This is also a result of your faulty argument. All the examples of "killing instruments" you gave either occur in nature (rocks, fists, pointy sticks) and because of that can hardly be controlled, are used for other purposes besides killing (knives, baseball bats and plastic bags) or require significantly more training than guns to kill (bows). So, your mock argument to have pointy stick control laws does not make any sense at all. However, gun control laws do make sense, because with a pointy stick you cannot drive by a group of people and massacre them in an instant or have these nice school shootings that I'm sure you heard about.
The advantage to a gun is it gives a 98 pound woman the ability to defend herself against a 250 pound attacker.
Yes, this is true. That why it is called "Gun Control" and not "Outlawing of guns". If a physically weak woman wants to buy a gun, and has no record of criminal activity, then she will still be able to despite the gun laws you seem to not like.
I keep a pair of trainers for self defense. When threated I am able to use them to run away
That's fine for you. Now suppose you are responsible for several small children. What do you do now, genius?
I'm sorry but the scenario that you are providing there is not very probable. How often will you be in a situation where you children are threatened by an attacker? I'm pretty sure most thieves and burglars couldn't care less about small children, as it doesn't buy them anything to hurt them. And, as also another reply has posted out, always keeping a gun around for the possibility that a mad-man will come by and attack you and the small children, is a lot less likely than that one of the children hurt themselves with the gun. I don't have statistics for that at hand, but if you use some common sense (gun is always there, madman is not, maybe never will be), you should be able to agree with this.
I can only agree with you. I personally get pretty annoyed by all these submissions that I can just read full text on paper in my living room. However, I must admit that probably not everyone gets Wired and as such some submissions might be interesting to other slashdotters.
But PLEASE stop posting references to Wired articles that came out a long time ago! I think I got the issue that has this article like about 2 weeks ago? Hello? Two weeks ago I wouldn't have mind much to read about it on slashdot, but today it's just annoying. Please stop submitting old stuff!
I am wondering, what was your decision to create yet another distribution? The short answer is probably that you think something is lacking with the current ones, but I wonder if there really is space besides RedHat,SuSE, Debian, Mandrake, Gentoo, UserLinux, Slackware, etc. What makes you think that you can enter the list of significant distros while i.e. progeny has IMHO not yet received this status?
I really hope that doesn't get too widespread... aren't there Videos on the net about the BMW (with Windows) where you can't close the trunk anymore and other fun things like these? Of course, maybe BMW is to blame here BUT Windows just doesn't have the reputation for reliability that I'd want for an OS in my car... no matter how many licenses M$ has already sold, that does not proof that it's good.
I have to disagree with you, I've also been runnin spamassassin for a long time now and in the last couple of months, more and more spam gets through the filter (despite of using sa-learn with a number of emails)...
The development of Mozilla is really not a good comparison. You need to keep in mind that Netscape opened up a closed source code that had only been developed in one company so far. And also that it was technically a lot behind what IE had to offer at the time. So the overhaul of course took longer because there was a lot more catch up work to be done. I don't know at all how the development process works at Gnome but short releases don't have to stop major overhauls because you can work off different code bases. Let's say, they might be working already on the overhaul for 3.0 parallel to 2.10 . So short release cycles don't say anything about the underlying development process.
SpamAssassin used to be super-good for me, but recently it has become a nightmare... even with Bayes filters on and training it with about almost 2000 spam messages that have escaped it before, I STILL get an enourmous amount of spam every day... maybe I'm doing something wrong with the config, I admit that I haven't spent that much time on that, but it seems like it should be working better:-((.
Spam sucks. Everyone stop buying the products advertised and it'll be over. But then again, people will always be too dumb for an easy solution like that (reminds me of the gooback southpark...)
Not completed yet, but it would definately be worth watchin what happens in Munich, Germany, which switched over to Linux. Google for it, there should be lots of material (although some in German of course...)
I can whole-heartedly agree to this. I routinely get 99% cpu usage with stupid little flash animations. Actually, it started to annoy me that much that I just turned flash completely of for the time being... Seriously, get us a good working flash player first, then I'd like to see Flash MX for linux. Also, AFAIK Shockwave is not available for Linux. Not that there are many sites that use it, but there are some and that makes it more difficult for some to use Linux on the deskop.
While I must say the parent poster uses a lot of useless CAPS (someone needs to teach him that they work best when used sparely), I strongly agree with the content. I think the Matrix 2/3 story was barely average, the visual effects were very good, usually well integrated and created a very nice atmosphere. Not including them really is not fair to the movies, because this is an area where they still were extremely good (too bad they could not make a story line as good as Matrix 1!).
There is a mouse out there that does not click when you press the button: http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/gaming/66 89/ At least the older model they sold like 2 years ago did not click because that would make the sniper move the mouse about 1nm and then he'd miss...;-) Maybe a little expensive but a very precise and good mouse - except that maybe the zero-force approach makes you click more often then you intend =). I heard though that you get used to it.
I love to read comics on the net and my favorite is the well known General Protection Fault (GPF). I would really like to support the page but buying the books is not my top priority, because I already have the content on my HDD. I'd like to subscribe, but that is only possible for $4.95 a month (ok, a little cheaper if you subscribe for longer but still)... I know that this includes premium access to a lot of other comics too but I don't really want to read them, I want to read GPF. If I'd had to pay a buck a month or maybe even less, that's what I would conside a micropayment - and that is what the internet is still waaay lacking.
Btw, if anyone wants to start reading it but is new, read it from the beginning. It's worth it and otherwise you won't really understand all of what's going on.
I just checked it out and the quality is really not that good. While the sound was pretty clean, clear and seemed lag free, the picture quality was not good... diagrams were not readable at all and even the text was sometimes only hardly recongizable (Running on a RoadRunner link btw.). Also, I think it is extremely inconvenient that they only broadcast... while I guess it is supposed to save resources, I like computer movies because I have the convenience that I can watch them whenever I want. This somewhat seems like a step back to me. An xvid avi (or matroska for tha matter) with a bittorrent link would be soooo much better IMO.
Yep, would help the guy but _not_ his ISP. His ISP probably does not want to waste the bandwidth created by 30k messages and that is whey they disabled his email. Bouncing, forwarding to/dev/null etc do not help because he will already have accepted the email (and thus wasted the bandwidth). So either you scan already while receiving the email (as several people mentioned before, scan the header for invalid sender ips and then discard the bounces immediately BEFORE the whole email is accepted) or just wait it out.
I feel sorry for everyone out there whose domain gets used that way... =( I hope it dies down soon as his ISP does not seem to want to try to filter.
Your problem can be easily solved: Just replace the find binary with a shell scrpit that adds the error redirection and you have the desired effect without root access! They don't have anything to complain about and no extra work for them (even though an alias on the user configuration could of course do the same but then THEY would have to do it).
In Windows I don't think you can just change an option in the search dialog though...;-) (or if there are, they are (a) more complicated and (b) would probably disappear and/or break after a new service pack)
But you can even survive higher voltages. My favorite middle school teacher used to be a electrician and he told us his story how he worked on a high voltage line (if I remember correctly around 500-1000V, don't know for sure) and he got such a shock that he actually flew a meter or two backwards. He said it hurt like hell but he didn't have any permanent damage.
Obvious "Don't try this yourself" disclaimer, he did mention as well that is was pure luck that he survived this. IMHO it is a matter of muscle reaction. He had the luck that the voltage caused his muscles to flex and that threw him away from the power line. If that hadn't happened, he certainly would not have survived this incident.
Actually, if I remember correctly, there had been an internal iD Software vote on what to produce next and Carmack did not want to develop a new DooM but something new. Unfortunately he got outvoted and now they are doing it. Hopefully it is still going to be a good game, I haven't played a good FPS in ages.
I totally agree... what good are all the news about "great iTunes" if they make the program as OS centric as M$ makes the WindowsMedia stuff?? As nice as Apple stuff can be, first they need to get rid of using the same techniques (-> Keeping everything on their OS) as Microsoft does, then I'll start to like them. Before that, nope.
Then they'll buy the game and find that it has a thin plot that doesn't seem to go anywhere. Seriously, the plot is the same as Zelda... mainly get pieces of this miraculous old-technology and then face the evil of all evils.
I can only agree. I was really disappointed by the story line. I usually liked the way they sat up the levels etc, but the story was just stupid and not well integrated into the levels... I remember walking around and all over sudden the sound of an objective reached can be heard and when you check you're like "Oh, now I am supposed to know happened to these people?".
Sorry, but the original ID games have the same problem. They were brand new to the market, which is why they did so well.
I have to disagree here: the difference is that the original ID games didn't pretend to have a story line; or at least not a serious one. It was obvious to everyone that the story line is just thick enough to maybe give background to the level design, but that's it. In the case with Unreal 2, it actually pretends that there is a nice story line and even worse, it pretends like you have different choices that you can make. When talk to the people on your ship, you can choose from different things to say and sometimes it makes it seem like there are different directions that you can choose your character to walk to, but in the end, it does not matter at all what you say.
Overall I enjoyed the game somewhat, but the only reason I continued playing it was because I had no other game waiting for me....
While reading the platform I came across a few more things that he does mention he would like to do: - He says Debian needs leadership and coordination, this is where he sees his main role. IMHO something that sounds good to me - He wants to find a solution to the release cycle problem - In fact, most of the issues he lists are of organizational value and are less technical, maybe that's why you seemed to have overlooked them?
I have to agree though that he does spend a great deal of time talking about his personal experience / education, which is not that important IMO. However, it's not that bad either, because some people in the outside world actually care if you have a degree in your pocket or not.
I definately agree that schools should have their own id's (that's how German universities do it) instead of using the SSN. However, if somebody that works at the university abuses that he sees SSNs of students, at least they have a clue and can _maybe_ trace that back. There is some connection, unlike when somebody just hacks the webpage and finds the SSNs and works in a job where he has no way of getting them.
Personally I think it would be a disaster if MS would buy Vivendi games, because then the chances of ever getting more linux games are suddenly ZERO. Now, wouldn't it be funny though if MS managers were reading slashdot and would think "Hey, they're all thinking it's bad if we buy Vivendi games, GO let's do it!"
Go to Digital Blasphemy. There are great rendered background pictures on that page (some for free, more for the paying user) and it usually says which program has been used to create the picture.
From reading these comments it seems that each software has its advantages over the other...
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what we all here at /. always forget is that the success of anything is not largely determined by the technical superiority. Who cares if google is better than anything else when noone knows? I personally think google is the best, that's why I never use any other engines but soooo many people don't know that, or don't know how to use google correctly.
So, all MSN has to do is get enough people to use it, it does not matter how good it is and Microsoft is very good at that. Then they will get more ad-revenue and take that away from google. So while I very much agree with all the comments that google is improving itself and that it has so many services, it's page is lean and everything but unfortunately those are not the only factors that will decide success...
While I agree that a lot of people here on slashdot are a bit arrogant/don't think enough before they post, but one problem with your original post is that you never mentioned your credentials. Maybe if you had included briefly that you work in tech support, then people would have doubted you less. And I don't think that would be including your whole damn life, but might've been effective enough
As several other replies have already pointed out, it is a lot easier with guns to kill, you can kill from a distance and this reduces the consequence you feel as a person of the result of the action.
While what you are saying is true, you forget that in most cases, it is not possible to know when someone simply intends to kill. However, when they have a gun available, they are able to do so more easily, as pointed out above.
This is also a result of your faulty argument. All the examples of "killing instruments" you gave either occur in nature (rocks, fists, pointy sticks) and because of that can hardly be controlled, are used for other purposes besides killing (knives, baseball bats and plastic bags) or require significantly more training than guns to kill (bows). So, your mock argument to have pointy stick control laws does not make any sense at all. However, gun control laws do make sense, because with a pointy stick you cannot drive by a group of people and massacre them in an instant or have these nice school shootings that I'm sure you heard about.
Yes, this is true. That why it is called "Gun Control" and not "Outlawing of guns". If a physically weak woman wants to buy a gun, and has no record of criminal activity, then she will still be able to despite the gun laws you seem to not like.
That's fine for you. Now suppose you are responsible for several small children. What do you do now, genius?
I'm sorry but the scenario that you are providing there is not very probable. How often will you be in a situation where you children are threatened by an attacker? I'm pretty sure most thieves and burglars couldn't care less about small children, as it doesn't buy them anything to hurt them. And, as also another reply has posted out, always keeping a gun around for the possibility that a mad-man will come by and attack you and the small children, is a lot less likely than that one of the children hurt themselves with the gun. I don't have statistics for that at hand, but if you use some common sense (gun is always there, madman is not, maybe never will be), you should be able to agree with this.
I can only agree with you. I personally get pretty annoyed by all these submissions that I can just read full text on paper in my living room. However, I must admit that probably not everyone gets Wired and as such some submissions might be interesting to other slashdotters.
But PLEASE stop posting references to Wired articles that came out a long time ago! I think I got the issue that has this article like about 2 weeks ago? Hello? Two weeks ago I wouldn't have mind much to read about it on slashdot, but today it's just annoying. Please stop submitting old stuff!
I am wondering, what was your decision to create yet another distribution?
The short answer is probably that you think something is lacking with the current ones, but I wonder if there really is space besides RedHat,SuSE, Debian, Mandrake, Gentoo, UserLinux, Slackware, etc. What makes you think that you can enter the list of significant distros while i.e. progeny has IMHO not yet received this status?
I really hope that doesn't get too widespread... aren't there Videos on the net about the BMW (with Windows) where you can't close the trunk anymore and other fun things like these? Of course, maybe BMW is to blame here BUT Windows just doesn't have the reputation for reliability that I'd want for an OS in my car... no matter how many licenses M$ has already sold, that does not proof that it's good.
~Squisher
I have to disagree with you, I've also been runnin spamassassin for a long time now and in the last couple of months, more and more spam gets through the filter (despite of using sa-learn with a number of emails)...
The development of Mozilla is really not a good comparison. You need to keep in mind that Netscape opened up a closed source code that had only been developed in one company so far. And also that it was technically a lot behind what IE had to offer at the time. So the overhaul of course took longer because there was a lot more catch up work to be done.
I don't know at all how the development process works at Gnome but short releases don't have to stop major overhauls because you can work off different code bases. Let's say, they might be working already on the overhaul for 3.0 parallel to 2.10 . So short release cycles don't say anything about the underlying development process.
~Squisher
SpamAssassin used to be super-good for me, but recently it has become a nightmare... even with Bayes filters on and training it with about almost 2000 spam messages that have escaped it before, I STILL get an enourmous amount of spam every day... maybe I'm doing something wrong with the config, I admit that I haven't spent that much time on that, but it seems like it should be working better :-((.
Spam sucks. Everyone stop buying the products advertised and it'll be over. But then again, people will always be too dumb for an easy solution like that (reminds me of the gooback southpark...)
Not completed yet, but it would definately be worth watchin what happens in Munich, Germany, which switched over to Linux. Google for it, there should be lots of material (although some in German of course...)
I can whole-heartedly agree to this. I routinely get 99% cpu usage with stupid little flash animations. Actually, it started to annoy me that much that I just turned flash completely of for the time being...
Seriously, get us a good working flash player first, then I'd like to see Flash MX for linux. Also, AFAIK Shockwave is not available for Linux. Not that there are many sites that use it, but there are some and that makes it more difficult for some to use Linux on the deskop.
While I must say the parent poster uses a lot of useless CAPS (someone needs to teach him that they work best when used sparely), I strongly agree with the content.
I think the Matrix 2/3 story was barely average, the visual effects were very good, usually well integrated and created a very nice atmosphere. Not including them really is not fair to the movies, because this is an area where they still were extremely good (too bad they could not make a story line as good as Matrix 1!).
There is a mouse out there that does not click when you press the button: http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/gaming/66 89/ ;-) Maybe a little expensive but a very precise and good mouse - except that maybe the zero-force approach makes you click more often then you intend =). I heard though that you get used to it.
At least the older model they sold like 2 years ago did not click because that would make the sniper move the mouse about 1nm and then he'd miss...
~Squisher
I love to read comics on the net and my favorite is the well known General Protection Fault (GPF). I would really like to support the page but buying the books is not my top priority, because I already have the content on my HDD. I'd like to subscribe, but that is only possible for $4.95 a month (ok, a little cheaper if you subscribe for longer but still)... I know that this includes premium access to a lot of other comics too but I don't really want to read them, I want to read GPF. If I'd had to pay a buck a month or maybe even less, that's what I would conside a micropayment - and that is what the internet is still waaay lacking.
Btw, if anyone wants to start reading it but is new, read it from the beginning. It's worth it and otherwise you won't really understand all of what's going on.
~Squisher
I just checked it out and the quality is really not that good. While the sound was pretty clean, clear and seemed lag free, the picture quality was not good... diagrams were not readable at all and even the text was sometimes only hardly recongizable (Running on a RoadRunner link btw.).
Also, I think it is extremely inconvenient that they only broadcast... while I guess it is supposed to save resources, I like computer movies because I have the convenience that I can watch them whenever I want. This somewhat seems like a step back to me. An xvid avi (or matroska for tha matter) with a bittorrent link would be soooo much better IMO.
~Squisher
Yep, would help the guy but _not_ his ISP. His ISP probably does not want to waste the bandwidth created by 30k messages and that is whey they disabled his email. Bouncing, forwarding to /dev/null etc do not help because he will already have accepted the email (and thus wasted the bandwidth).
So either you scan already while receiving the email (as several people mentioned before, scan the header for invalid sender ips and then discard the bounces immediately BEFORE the whole email is accepted) or just wait it out.
I feel sorry for everyone out there whose domain gets used that way... =( I hope it dies down soon as his ISP does not seem to want to try to filter.
~Squisher
Their response?? That's too much work.
;-) (or if there are, they are (a) more complicated and (b) would probably disappear and/or break after a new service pack)
Your problem can be easily solved: Just replace the find binary with a shell scrpit that adds the error redirection and you have the desired effect without root access! They don't have anything to complain about and no extra work for them (even though an alias on the user configuration could of course do the same but then THEY would have to do it).
In Windows I don't think you can just change an option in the search dialog though...
~Squisher
But you can even survive higher voltages. My favorite middle school teacher used to be a electrician and he told us his story how he worked on a high voltage line (if I remember correctly around 500-1000V, don't know for sure) and he got such a shock that he actually flew a meter or two backwards. He said it hurt like hell but he didn't have any permanent damage.
Obvious "Don't try this yourself" disclaimer, he did mention as well that is was pure luck that he survived this. IMHO it is a matter of muscle reaction. He had the luck that the voltage caused his muscles to flex and that threw him away from the power line. If that hadn't happened, he certainly would not have survived this incident.
~Squisher
Actually, if I remember correctly, there had been an internal iD Software vote on what to produce next and Carmack did not want to develop a new DooM but something new. Unfortunately he got outvoted and now they are doing it. Hopefully it is still going to be a good game, I haven't played a good FPS in ages.
So long,
Squisher
I totally agree... what good are all the news about "great iTunes" if they make the program as OS centric as M$ makes the WindowsMedia stuff??
As nice as Apple stuff can be, first they need to get rid of using the same techniques (-> Keeping everything on their OS) as Microsoft does, then I'll start to like them. Before that, nope.
Bye,
Squisher
Then they'll buy the game and find that it has a thin plot that doesn't seem to go anywhere. Seriously, the plot is the same as Zelda... mainly get pieces of this miraculous old-technology and then face the evil of all evils.
I can only agree. I was really disappointed by the story line. I usually liked the way they sat up the levels etc, but the story was just stupid and not well integrated into the levels... I remember walking around and all over sudden the sound of an objective reached can be heard and when you check you're like "Oh, now I am supposed to know happened to these people?".
Sorry, but the original ID games have the same problem. They were brand new to the market, which is why they did so well.
I have to disagree here: the difference is that the original ID games didn't pretend to have a story line; or at least not a serious one. It was obvious to everyone that the story line is just thick enough to maybe give background to the level design, but that's it. In the case with Unreal 2, it actually pretends that there is a nice story line and even worse, it pretends like you have different choices that you can make. When talk to the people on your ship, you can choose from different things to say and sometimes it makes it seem like there are different directions that you can choose your character to walk to, but in the end, it does not matter at all what you say.
Overall I enjoyed the game somewhat, but the only reason I continued playing it was because I had no other game waiting for me....
Bye,
David
While reading the platform I came across a few more things that he does mention he would like to do:
- He says Debian needs leadership and coordination, this is where he sees his main role. IMHO something that sounds good to me
- He wants to find a solution to the release cycle problem
- In fact, most of the issues he lists are of organizational value and are less technical, maybe that's why you seemed to have overlooked them?
I have to agree though that he does spend a great deal of time talking about his personal experience / education, which is not that important IMO. However, it's not that bad either, because some people in the outside world actually care if you have a degree in your pocket or not.
I definately agree that schools should have their own id's (that's how German universities do it) instead of using the SSN. However, if somebody that works at the university abuses that he sees SSNs of students, at least they have a clue and can _maybe_ trace that back. There is some connection, unlike when somebody just hacks the webpage and finds the SSNs and works in a job where he has no way of getting them.
Bye,
Squisher
Personally I think it would be a disaster if MS would buy Vivendi games, because then the chances of ever getting more linux games are suddenly ZERO.
Now, wouldn't it be funny though if MS managers were reading slashdot and would think "Hey, they're all thinking it's bad if we buy Vivendi games, GO let's do it!"
Go to Digital Blasphemy. There are great rendered background pictures on that page (some for free, more for the paying user) and it usually says which program has been used to create the picture.
From reading these comments it seems that each software has its advantages over the other...
Bye, Squisher