You expect nerds and geeks to give their actual weight online?!
Knowing Slashdot, nerds and geeks here would be lining up to give their actual weight in Klingon units of mass, or something similar (Mayan, ancient Egyptian...)
Why is it that the only copyright violations that upset the/. masses are those involving code under the GPL?
You don't kill Bambi.. but it OK to kill other animals. It's all about cuteness. Linux is cute. Windows is ugly.
Besides, if the GPL stuff is free, then you really are a mongrel if you abuse it. They were really nice to you and you kicked them in the teeth. Bad you!
But the proprietary folk are waging war against us users - it's producer versus consumer in a no-holds-barred contest of wills and greed. And all's fair when you are fighting a greedy corporate monster - it is just self-defence. They will shaft you too when they get an opportunity.
See Windows is founded on greed, so it begets greed in the user - equal opposite forces. But the GPL is founded on giving and freedom, and it rightly expects the same back.
Luckily airports are only ever full of relaxed, calm people who have no fear of flying whatsoever.
And being dragged off to be interrogated as a terrorist in some darkened back-room by three of four rent-a-thugs can only serve to ease their fears of flying...
You're too right! An hour or two with the thugs and a person usually afraid of flying would be racing for the airplane: 'Get me outta here!"
Why not integrate the mouse with the mobile phone (aka cellphone)?
It just needs a trackball underneath and a BlueTooth connection to the system unit.
Heck, some phones already have motion sensors in them - you could use them to control all sorts of things in the PC: a combined mouse, joystick, communication device, microphone, and speaker.
Personal responsibility is a pure fiction in a deterministic universe.
Except that quantum mechanics implies that we are not in a deterministic universe. Replay the same actions twice and you won't necessarily get the same outcome.
And quantum mechanics has nothing to do with free will. It simply adds randomness, not moral responsibility, to the causation of behaviour.
For $699 I can get two eee 10" netbooks. Forget it!
And then, even if the web goes down, you can have your own little network running.
You'll be offline and online at the same time.
"Hey I just found a website with heaps of free pron on it!...Oh, it's the webserver on my other eee-book.... Well, at least I am getting great bandwidth from it."
How can a board of directors "look out for the interests of the stockholder" if the directors cannot understand the business of the company?
Um, drink champagne at board meetings, vote themselves larger fees, do a few sweetheart deals for friends, and plan how to close the next AGM before anyone asks probing questions?
The interests of the directors may well be in conflict with the interests of other shareholders. Just as the interests of the government may well conflict with the interests of the citizens (e.g. privacy).
By "very good" integration between hardware and software, do you mean deliberately crippling the software on hardware that could otherwise run it perfectly well?
Mac hardware is not mystically special. It is just expensive. You no more need Mac hardware to run MacOSX than you need a Rolls Royce to drive to the corner shop. Of course, you will need a Rolls Royce to get to the corner shop if there is an army of goons who will block your path unless you are driving a Rolls Royce. That is the "experience" that Apple is providing.
I think I will start selling books that you are only licensed to read if you are wearing my expensive brand of clothing. Oh, look. I can't, because I cannot physically enforce it. Apple gets away with artificially restricting their software because they can physically enforce it. It is simply an artificial revenue-maintenance restriction: it is anti-competitive.
Do notice the tilde next to USD$200. It commonly (in mathematics circles, anyway) stands for "approximately." I hope you agree that USD$200 is not far off enough to invalidate the tilde.
I hope YOU agree that $230 is closer to $250 (the AUD price) than it is to $200 (the incorrect USD "equivalent" given in the article). In other words, the author would have been LESS wrong if he gave no equivalent and left everyone to assume that the $250 was USD.
Can't you see that the accuracy went *backwards* when he gave an "equivalent"?
How hard is it to look up an online currency service like xe.com and get a current figure?
Windows 95 had a great version of Windows Explorer: it was a plain, native file manager. It ran fast, worked great.
Then Microsoft got this notion that the file manager had to be a web browser. It had to have all sorts of extra graphics and features that made it less efficient at managing files. This was the same time that they also decided that the desktop should be "web enabled" too - thereby slowing it down.
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First we run short of petroleum.
Then we run short of uranium.
I just hope we don't hit peak solar power too soon.
English is not most people's first language. Be glad they want to write comments in English at all.
Some lines of Perl look like they were written by a baby at the keyboard.
34;#(*$(*%)FKF))#$_
Surprisingly, that is a valid Perl program.
My problem is that my 24" 1920x1200 widescreen LCD is the only thing that I can see without glasses.
I need glasses to read close up. I need glasses to see far away. But I can see the screen perfectly clear.
Moral: spend you life glued to the screen and your eyes will adapt (to nothing else).
Actually, I am both short-sighted and long-sighted. My screen just happens to sit at the happy midpoint.
As a metaphysical idealist, we are all just amusing thoughts in the mind of the Absolute.
(Of course, I am his favourite thought.)
On OS X you do contol-F2, F, S, and get to the save menu. It is just one more keystroke.
So a Mac is more like ... emacs?
So Firefox fixes its vulnerabilities - and that is a bad thing?
And IE fixes fewer vulnerabilities, and that is a good thing?
Personally, I prefer to have all my browser vulnerabilities fixed, not half of them.
And by vulnerabilities we mean silly things like SQL injection?
Time to shoot the messenger, I think.
Anybody want to weigh in?
You expect nerds and geeks to give their actual weight online?!
Knowing Slashdot, nerds and geeks here would be lining up to give their actual weight in Klingon units of mass, or something similar (Mayan, ancient Egyptian...)
And, happily, the irony - if MS really is using open source in its first "better" product in a long time, that's a fun little fact to know.
"Open Source. So good, even Microsoft is stealing it!"
Why is it that the only copyright violations that upset the /. masses are those involving code under the GPL?
You don't kill Bambi .. but it OK to kill other animals. It's all about cuteness. Linux is cute. Windows is ugly.
Besides, if the GPL stuff is free, then you really are a mongrel if you abuse it. They were really nice to you and you kicked them in the teeth. Bad you!
But the proprietary folk are waging war against us users - it's producer versus consumer in a no-holds-barred contest of wills and greed. And all's fair when you are fighting a greedy corporate monster - it is just self-defence. They will shaft you too when they get an opportunity.
See Windows is founded on greed, so it begets greed in the user - equal opposite forces. But the GPL is founded on giving and freedom, and it rightly expects the same back.
Luckily airports are only ever full of relaxed, calm people who have no fear of flying whatsoever.
And being dragged off to be interrogated as a terrorist in some darkened back-room by three of four rent-a-thugs can only serve to ease their fears of flying...
You're too right! An hour or two with the thugs and a person usually afraid of flying would be racing for the airplane: 'Get me outta here!"
See? They're cured!
We have nothing to fear but [the smell of] fear itself.
Thus spawning a whole new market for deodorants.
Why not integrate the mouse with the mobile phone (aka cellphone)?
It just needs a trackball underneath and a BlueTooth connection to the system unit.
Heck, some phones already have motion sensors in them - you could use them to control all sorts of things in the PC: a combined mouse, joystick, communication device, microphone, and speaker.
Personal responsibility is a pure fiction in a deterministic universe.
Except that quantum mechanics implies that we are not in a deterministic universe. Replay the same actions twice and you won't necessarily get the same outcome.
And quantum mechanics has nothing to do with free will. It simply adds randomness, not moral responsibility, to the causation of behaviour.
Freewill != indeterminism
You left out "They are sick" - and that includes genetic and other congenital disabilities (google "thalidomide babies" for an example).
For $699 I can get two eee 10" netbooks. Forget it!
And then, even if the web goes down, you can have your own little network running.
You'll be offline and online at the same time.
"Hey I just found a website with heaps of free pron on it! ...Oh, it's the webserver on my other eee-book. ... Well, at least I am getting great bandwidth from it."
How can a board of directors "look out for the interests of the stockholder" if the directors cannot understand the business of the company?
Um, drink champagne at board meetings, vote themselves larger fees, do a few sweetheart deals for friends, and plan how to close the next AGM before anyone asks probing questions?
The interests of the directors may well be in conflict with the interests of other shareholders. Just as the interests of the government may well conflict with the interests of the citizens (e.g. privacy).
The solution is easy, we just have to breed smarter cats and let them loose. What could possibly go wrong?
We might not be able to breed smarter dogs to chase the smarter cats?
...very good integration between the two.
By "very good" integration between hardware and software, do you mean deliberately crippling the software on hardware that could otherwise run it perfectly well?
Mac hardware is not mystically special. It is just expensive. You no more need Mac hardware to run MacOSX than you need a Rolls Royce to drive to the corner shop. Of course, you will need a Rolls Royce to get to the corner shop if there is an army of goons who will block your path unless you are driving a Rolls Royce. That is the "experience" that Apple is providing.
I think I will start selling books that you are only licensed to read if you are wearing my expensive brand of clothing. Oh, look. I can't, because I cannot physically enforce it. Apple gets away with artificially restricting their software because they can physically enforce it. It is simply an artificial revenue-maintenance restriction: it is anti-competitive.
They already knew this gene effected memory...
Well ... maybe they forgot!
Maybe THEY could have this gene too?
but it may or may not have been consensual.
"May or may not"?
"Your honor, the jury has come to a verdict that the accused may or may not be guilty."
Everyone keeps talking like neanderthals are an extinct sub-human species. ...
The US Congress is full of them.
According to Wikipedia:
The brains of most species of Australopithecus were roughly 35% of the size of that of a modern human brain.
That sounds more like politicians, doesn't it?
Do notice the tilde next to USD$200. It commonly (in mathematics circles, anyway) stands for "approximately." I hope you agree that USD$200 is not far off enough to invalidate the tilde.
I hope YOU agree that $230 is closer to $250 (the AUD price) than it is to $200 (the incorrect USD "equivalent" given in the article). In other words, the author would have been LESS wrong if he gave no equivalent and left everyone to assume that the $250 was USD.
Can't you see that the accuracy went *backwards* when he gave an "equivalent"?
How hard is it to look up an online currency service like xe.com and get a current figure?
Sheesh! I though this was a nerd website.
If a place smells like a moose just died in it, ...
Canadians feel at home?
Windows 95 had a great version of Windows Explorer: it was a plain, native file manager. It ran fast, worked great.
Then Microsoft got this notion that the file manager had to be a web browser. It had to have all sorts of extra graphics and features that made it less efficient at managing files. This was the same time that they also decided that the desktop should be "web enabled" too - thereby slowing it down.
Karmic Koala is fine, but I just can't wait for Masterbating Monkey to be released!
Hopefully to be followed a year later by Orthographic Orang-utan.