Um, these days, won't a simple "...we think they may be, or are contributing to, terrorism..." be enough to trump that law and grab what info they have, as well as the video cam tapes of them buying the stamps...?
What is needed is a real, visible, public, long-term effort to get Hatch replaced in his state. Sure, he is just one guy, but if we can get this one prominent and powerful guy booted out for someone with a better sense of what his job is supposed to be, and more technically inclined, too, then maybe some of the others will rethink their positions. And I don't mean he is the only one who needs out, but start with one, then move on to others next election.
As it always is with propoganda, they want it seen and heard by everyone in any way possible as many times as possible so that if you see/hear it enough times you will start to believe it hook, line, and sinker, no matter how much B.S. it really is. The only difference between this loser and someone like him in China is that in China they would force you to see it every day.
...at least for GM vehicles. I used to work at a Chevy dealership. Occasionally someone would bring their vehicle in *insisting* that the mileage sucked and they couldn't be reasoned with. The customers method was usually recording the mileage and gallons at each fillup and doing whatever magic math they deemed correct to come up with mpg numbers. Oh, yeah, and most of the time it was a manual shift vehicle.
We had a locally built rig to use to check the mileage. It was a 1 gallon container, an electric fuel pump, a pressure line and a return line. We would connect it up to the vehicle, start it, and run it out of fuel to start the fuel system completely empty. Then we would put exactly 1 gallon of gas in the container, record the mileage on the vehicle,as well as the mileage on the chase car (to verify the odometer was correct) and both cars would take off. We made sure to drive the car easy without being a grandma driver, no hotrodding or heavy acceleration. Simply going with the slower flow and keeping within the speed limits. We would drive until the car drained the gallon container. Then we pulled onto the shoulder and compared miles traveled.
The route was planned to include a mix of city and highway driving in hopes we would end up with miles traveled in between the 2 advertised numbers. The route included about 6 miles of in town traffic, with at least 3-10 stops, depending on the lights and traffic, and 5-20 mile stretches of open highway in between.
We performed this task no less than 10 times during my 7 year stint at the dealership and the results were fairly conclusive. It beat the advertised highway mileage *every single time*.
Why not do it much more sensibly by using configurable menus and/or config files. When installing ask whether you want Lite/Regular/Full Blown config and setup accordingly. Choose Lite if that's what you want. Later, when you need more features just go to options and choose Regular, Professional, or just add the feature you need to your current set. Why stop there, save different configs so you can load the feature set you want as needed.
How about, I'm the user and I know what I want and if *I* want them both the same color that is MY business? Just do a check similar to changing the resolution on a Windows box... Here is what you chose. If you can read it click ok, otherwise I'll revert back to what we started with in 15 seconds...
If he, like me, an avid computer user, can't find it or figure it out, what does that tell you about the masses of Joe User's they are supposedly trying to get to make use of it??? They won't have his patience. They'll just say "I tried Linux, it SUCKS" and go back to Windows.
I'll probably get modded as flamebait for this but I'm being perfectly serious...
I despise them both.
They are both resource hogs.
K's QT isn't truely OSS since you have to pay out the ass to use it on Windows, so I avoid it on principle. But at least it looks crisp and professional.
Gnome is OSS but more confusing each release. It just plain looks 'cheezy'. There is no 'ala Windows Explorer' type app that I can ever *find* on the menu to browse the filesystem, so I have to resort to opening the Home icon then going 'up' a level, but that feels really hokey. Don't tell me it's there. If I look and look and can't find it, they have either hidden it or chosen a poor name for the icon. And I'm not poor Joe User either... Just think about him trying to find something. True or not, I'll always think of Icazza as some sort of MS schill which is another strike against it. Mark my words, the.NET cloning will come back and bite someday!
Line Item Veto is definately the RIGHT idea. The whole reason we have SO MANY bad laws on the books now is because these BAD 'riders' get attached to GOOD legislation, that otherwise would *NEVER* become a law on their own. The legislature is always making the right choice in voting down one of these loaded bills, and if they don't have the guts to do it, that is exactly why the President has the power of vetoing it.
Personally I don't think they should be able to attach extra, unrelated riders to any bill anyway. That way, each and every bill would be debated and voted on for its own merits, and you would not even need to have a line item veto.
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Geez, I feel stupid. As my glazed eyes scanned the article, I was thinking, wow, a book of notes (notebook) on gaming... Maybe the best strategies on winning FPS games, or even notes on designing/programming great games...
I don't have much faith in Iain Laskey's Article after he made the following comment:
"...Otherwise any grease or dirt on your fingers can start to damage them - especially the underside where the recording surface is..."
As everyone know, you can really scratch the heck out of the underside and they will usually play fine, but put a slight scratch on the top and it's toast!
I was actually just trying to be funny, as a take off on the ol' "no man will stop and ask for directions" line, but I see it sure tripped your trigger!:) Us geeks DO RTFM, but in reality Joe User doesn't, and if the UI was designed worth a crap he shouldn't usually HAVE to dig out the manual, which was one of her points.
1. UI Design
I'll certainly agree with this one! Discounting the Mozilla family, from what I've seen, a large portion of our OSS has GUI's that blow chuncks. Referring to ESR's recent rant I can see where this thought comes from. Quite often, even in the major distro's, UI's will act with random flakiness at a minimum, and crash with some regularity, but at least they don't take down the whole machine.
2. Documentation
Ok, but only because the UI is so poorly designed you NEED dox to figure it out. In all my years of using Windows programs, I can't think of but a time or two when I really ever needed dox to figure it out, but on OSS stuff I find myself digging through them all the time, simply because the UI isn't intuitive enough to 'show me the way'.
3. Features
I'm not so sure about this one, at least on command line programs and daemons. Options are what it's all about...making it do more with less! more bang for the buck! I'ts back to #1 again for me. It's really mostly the GUI programs that exhibit this 'problem'.
4. Self
Yes and no. Quite often, the only reason the OSS version exists is because someone wanted/needed more features than the existing proprietary version supplied, and that's all the reason one needs to write it. The solution here is really one of get your own hands in there and add whatever enhancements(I hate that word) you feel are needed and improve it for everyone....
5. Religious blindness
Again, back to #1. Proprietary software has UI designers and marketers that we seem to not have. Although I can't see how much of anyone can avoid being exposed to Windows programs on a regular basis even if they don't use it at their own home of work. With 90% on the desktop, that means 9 out of 10 pc's you touch are running it
I'd say overall we need to solve #1 in a bad way and then these other 4 will domino into nothingness.
And as everyone knows, females are the only members of the species who seem to need documentation anyway... What male would ever admit to needing such a thing, unless he was out of toilet paper!
Not too familiar with Cisco gear, but if you can upgrade the firmware via software to 'fix' the problem, could you not later simply downgrade the firmware back to what it was before to recreate the problem?
As the father of several small children, I can personally attest that before I bought a CD burner for the PC, I had to, on several occasions, buy a game a second time because of mishandled CD's by the children. We have 3 retail copies of Counterstrike. I recently had to buy a 2nd copy of Tony Hawk 3 for my son, but he 'doesn't know how' the first one got toasted, and I can't see any physical defect on it either, but it refuses to boot on our PS2 or the neighbors anymore. As soon as the price drop on the PS2 hits I will be getting another one and sending it right off to be modded for that very reason. We DO buy lots of games, and rent several PS2 titles regularly. (substitute "chose to" for "had to" in the above if you wish, but don't lecture me on getting more when they tear it up. My sanity is worth more than the cost of a few games.)
OTOH, I won't lie and try to tell you I've never grabbed a few warez on occasion. I've grabbed plenty since my early C-64 days. I've bought plenty more. I might have taken a different path in life if I had not been utterly burned on 4 of the first 5 games I bought way back when. (Box art and product descriptions almost never matched up to the games indide in those days, and sometimes still don't!)
Besides, it's MY PS2 and no one is going to tell me I can't take the cover off and use a soldering iron on it. I'd do for spite.
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Um, these days, won't a simple "...we think they may be, or are contributing to, terrorism..." be enough to trump that law and grab what info they have, as well as the video cam tapes of them buying the stamps...?
...coming in a dead tree package and requiring no power supply...
What is needed is a real, visible, public, long-term effort to get Hatch replaced in his state. Sure, he is just one guy, but if we can get this one prominent and powerful guy booted out for someone with a better sense of what his job is supposed to be, and more technically inclined, too, then maybe some of the others will rethink their positions. And I don't mean he is the only one who needs out, but start with one, then move on to others next election.
As it always is with propoganda, they want it seen and heard by everyone in any way possible as many times as possible so that if you see/hear it enough times you will start to believe it hook, line, and sinker, no matter how much B.S. it really is. The only difference between this loser and someone like him in China is that in China they would force you to see it every day.
...at least for GM vehicles. I used to work at a Chevy dealership. Occasionally someone would bring their vehicle in *insisting* that the mileage sucked and they couldn't be reasoned with. The customers method was usually recording the mileage and gallons at each fillup and doing whatever magic math they deemed correct to come up with mpg numbers. Oh, yeah, and most of the time it was a manual shift vehicle.
We had a locally built rig to use to check the mileage. It was a 1 gallon container, an electric fuel pump, a pressure line and a return line. We would connect it up to the vehicle, start it, and run it out of fuel to start the fuel system completely empty. Then we would put exactly 1 gallon of gas in the container, record the mileage on the vehicle,as well as the mileage on the chase car (to verify the odometer was correct) and both cars would take off. We made sure to drive the car easy without being a grandma driver, no hotrodding or heavy acceleration. Simply going with the slower flow and keeping within the speed limits. We would drive until the car drained the gallon container. Then we pulled onto the shoulder and compared miles traveled.
The route was planned to include a mix of city and highway driving in hopes we would end up with miles traveled in between the 2 advertised numbers. The route included about 6 miles of in town traffic, with at least 3-10 stops, depending on the lights and traffic, and 5-20 mile stretches of open highway in between.
We performed this task no less than 10 times during my 7 year stint at the dealership and the results were fairly conclusive. It beat the advertised highway mileage *every single time*.
What does it actually cost to recharge this baby? If my gas bill goes down but my electric bill triples, then what am I really saving?
All of the above.
Why not do it much more sensibly by using configurable menus and/or config files. When installing ask whether you want Lite/Regular/Full Blown config and setup accordingly. Choose Lite if that's what you want. Later, when you need more features just go to options and choose Regular, Professional, or just add the feature you need to your current set. Why stop there, save different configs so you can load the feature set you want as needed.
How about, I'm the user and I know what I want and if *I* want them both the same color that is MY business? Just do a check similar to changing the resolution on a Windows box... Here is what you chose. If you can read it click ok, otherwise I'll revert back to what we started with in 15 seconds...
If he, like me, an avid computer user, can't find it or figure it out, what does that tell you about the masses of Joe User's they are supposedly trying to get to make use of it??? They won't have his patience. They'll just say "I tried Linux, it SUCKS" and go back to Windows.
I'll probably get modded as flamebait for this but I'm being perfectly serious...
.NET cloning will come back and bite someday!
I despise them both.
They are both resource hogs.
K's QT isn't truely OSS since you have to pay out the ass to use it on Windows, so I avoid it on principle. But at least it looks crisp and professional.
Gnome is OSS but more confusing each release. It just plain looks 'cheezy'. There is no 'ala Windows Explorer' type app that I can ever *find* on the menu to browse the filesystem, so I have to resort to opening the Home icon then going 'up' a level, but that feels really hokey. Don't tell me it's there. If I look and look and can't find it, they have either hidden it or chosen a poor name for the icon. And I'm not poor Joe User either... Just think about him trying to find something. True or not, I'll always think of Icazza as some sort of MS schill which is another strike against it. Mark my words, the
Line Item Veto is definately the RIGHT idea. The whole reason we have SO MANY bad laws on the books now is because these BAD 'riders' get attached to GOOD legislation, that otherwise would *NEVER* become a law on their own. The legislature is always making the right choice in voting down one of these loaded bills, and if they don't have the guts to do it, that is exactly why the President has the power of vetoing it.
Personally I don't think they should be able to attach extra, unrelated riders to any bill anyway. That way, each and every bill would be debated and voted on for its own merits, and you would not even need to have a line item veto.
Geez, I feel stupid. As my glazed eyes scanned the article, I was thinking, wow, a book of notes (notebook) on gaming... Maybe the best strategies on winning FPS games, or even notes on designing/programming great games...
I don't have much faith in Iain Laskey's Article after he made the following comment:
"...Otherwise any grease or dirt on your fingers can start to damage them - especially the underside where the recording surface is..."
As everyone know, you can really scratch the heck out of the underside and they will usually play fine, but put a slight scratch on the top and it's toast!
I had this same thing rejected not 2 hours ago!
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Who do you have to do to get something accepted around here?
I was actually just trying to be funny, as a take off on the ol' "no man will stop and ask for directions" line, but I see it sure tripped your trigger! :) Us geeks DO RTFM, but in reality Joe User doesn't, and if the UI was designed worth a crap he shouldn't usually HAVE to dig out the manual, which was one of her points.
I think she meant gui instead of core.... then I would agree with her.
1. UI Design
I'll certainly agree with this one! Discounting the Mozilla family, from what I've seen, a large portion of our OSS has GUI's that blow chuncks. Referring to ESR's recent rant I can see where this thought comes from. Quite often, even in the major distro's, UI's will act with random flakiness at a minimum, and crash with some regularity, but at least they don't take down the whole machine.
2. Documentation
Ok, but only because the UI is so poorly designed you NEED dox to figure it out. In all my years of using Windows programs, I can't think of but a time or two when I really ever needed dox to figure it out, but on OSS stuff I find myself digging through them all the time, simply because the UI isn't intuitive enough to 'show me the way'.
3. Features
I'm not so sure about this one, at least on command line programs and daemons. Options are what it's all about...making it do more with less! more bang for the buck! I'ts back to #1 again for me. It's really mostly the GUI programs that exhibit this 'problem'.
4. Self
Yes and no. Quite often, the only reason the OSS version exists is because someone wanted/needed more features than the existing proprietary version supplied, and that's all the reason one needs to write it. The solution here is really one of get your own hands in there and add whatever enhancements(I hate that word) you feel are needed and improve it for everyone....
5. Religious blindness
Again, back to #1. Proprietary software has UI designers and marketers that we seem to not have. Although I can't see how much of anyone can avoid being exposed to Windows programs on a regular basis even if they don't use it at their own home of work. With 90% on the desktop, that means 9 out of 10 pc's you touch are running it
I'd say overall we need to solve #1 in a bad way and then these other 4 will domino into nothingness.
... The writer is *female*....
And as everyone knows, females are the only members of the species who seem to need documentation anyway... What male would ever admit to needing such a thing, unless he was out of toilet paper!
Not too familiar with Cisco gear, but if you can upgrade the firmware via software to 'fix' the problem, could you not later simply downgrade the firmware back to what it was before to recreate the problem?
I seem to recall some program like this for Linux and/or Win but can't remember what it was called
If you don't like MY smoke, don't come into MY house... or MY business.
If God didn't want us to look at naked women, why did he make their bodies so beautiful to the eye?
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64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE
READY.
Actually it is 37.9K usable bytes for BASIC programs without any fancy tricks, a lot more for ASM and trickery...
As the father of several small children, I can personally attest that before I bought a CD burner for the PC, I had to, on several occasions, buy a game a second time because of mishandled CD's by the children. We have 3 retail copies of Counterstrike. I recently had to buy a 2nd copy of Tony Hawk 3 for my son, but he 'doesn't know how' the first one got toasted, and I can't see any physical defect on it either, but it refuses to boot on our PS2 or the neighbors anymore. As soon as the price drop on the PS2 hits I will be getting another one and sending it right off to be modded for that very reason. We DO buy lots of games, and rent several PS2 titles regularly.
(substitute "chose to" for "had to" in the above if you wish, but don't lecture me on getting more when they tear it up. My sanity is worth more than the cost of a few games.)
OTOH, I won't lie and try to tell you I've never grabbed a few warez on occasion. I've grabbed plenty since my early C-64 days. I've bought plenty more. I might have taken a different path in life if I had not been utterly burned on 4 of the first 5 games I bought way back when. (Box art and product descriptions almost never matched up to the games indide in those days, and sometimes still don't!)
Besides, it's MY PS2 and no one is going to tell me I can't take the cover off and use a soldering iron on it. I'd do for spite.