Those are neither future features nor examples of FUD. I'm an iPod owner who read up a little on the Nomad recently and the Nomad playlist editing is different from the iPod's.
The new On-The-Go playlists for the iPod allow you to add songs to the playlist and clear playlists. When you plug the iPod into your Mac for syncing, the On-The-Go playlist is automatically wiped.
On the Nomad, you can not only create playlists, but you can name them, and they will persist on the device. I don't know about the software for Windows but I assume it syncs back the playlists from the Nomad.
Now, I love my iPod; I bought a 10G iPod last August and just bought a 30G one when they came out last week. That said, nobody benefits from this kind of rabid, ill-informed advocacy.
Next time you want to make an argument for the iPod against the Nomad, make sure you have all the facts. If you're not willing to do that, don't waste people's time.
I realize this guy is just a karma whore, but this is simply absurd.
6 or 7 years ago, I'd take my girlfriend to the local 3-screen theatre and we'd watch a first-run movie for about $5 a head, plus a shared $8 combo. Total cost, after taxes, $18. Now, the ticket price at my local 12-screen megaplex is $13 per ticket, and the cheapest popcorn+soda combo runs $9 plus tax. Total cost, after taxes, $38.
Now, at $18 for a night out, it was worth it. But once the cost of the experience exceeds the price of owning the movie on DVD, I get a little hesitant about running out to the theatre every weekend. So now, unless it's a movie that will truly benefit from the big-screen experience (i.e., Clones), I simply wait and buy the DVD. That's right, I buy the DVD, even if I'm not sure I'll like the movie. Know why? Because it's still cheaper than seeing it in the theatre, and plus, I get to keep the movie. So even if the movie sucked, hey, at least I still have something to show for it. If it had sucked on the big screen, all I'd walk out with would be some butter on my fingers.
Earth to dipshit, we have this thing called rental. For that 18-38$ that you're spending on a DVD, I spend the same amount of money to rent 5 movies from Blockbuster. New releases have to be back in a day or two, but everything else can be kept out for a week at my blockbuster. Buying these movies on DVD that you don't even know if you like is just stupid. You can rent them for far cheaper, and how often are you going to watch these DVDs you buy anyway?
I think this was one of the reasons I liked "Memento" so much - I'd never seen Guy Pearce before.
You're an uncultured clod. Guy Pearce gave a great lead performance (well, shared with Russell Crowe) in L.A. Confidential, a movie released in 1997. It received 9 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won Best Adapted Screenplay (Kim Basinger also won Best Supporting Actress).
You clearly are arguing from a position of staggeringly profound ignorance. In the future, when you feel the urge to post, DON'T.
This doesn't follow logically. "Only Linux users know how to fix broken hardware" would only work if the original statement had been "He's a windows user, therefore he had to send his machine away to be fixed."
However, the statement was "He had to send his machine away to be fixed, therefore he is a windows user." The valid conclusion from this would be "Linux users don't need to send their machines way to be fixed."
Of course, that doesn't even address the fact that not all computer users use one of Linux and Windows.
I mean, what other group have you listened to lately that features lyrics like
(blahblahblah political lyrics that don't scan)
to a hard rock beat?
Megadeth ("Countdown to Extinction", amongst others), Corrosion of Conformity ("Technocracy", "Damned For All Time", "Vote With a Bullet", many more), Queensryche ("Empire"), Galactic Cowboys ("If I Were a Killer", "Ribbon", "Media Slant", "Hey Mr.", though those are all right-wing, not left-wing).
Politically charged lyrics with big words are hardly a new thing. While I'm not familiar with System of a Down, the bands I listed (though Queensryche is kind of a poor example) are all good musicians, use thick, fast metal, and generally have better lyrics than the ones you mentioned.
It's not about Microsoft, it's about shitty proprietary software. If their software was good and they'd fix stupid behaviors like this, there wouldn't be a problem. If their software was free, people could patch it to display the emails without problems.
2). I've invested too much in MS-DOS and Windows software that I still want to run now and then. "Sam and Max Hit The Road" being a good example. I bought it for my 386, and three computers later I still haven't finished with it. Virtual PC would probably run this just fine.
3). No compelling reason to switch. I can manage pictures and create MP3's and CD's on my old Pentium. I can create a VCD on my reconditioned Pentium III. Why would any reasonable person want to create his own DVDs? Even creating a VCD is a very time consuming process (capture the video in real time, then compress it for eight-twelve hours). Who has the equipment to create a professional quality DVD anyway? If it isn't going to be professional quality, why not just make a VCD instead?
VCD's use MPEG1 and as I recall can hold about an hour per disc. It amazes me that the benefits here aren't obvious. MPEG2, and variable bitrates allowing for up to 4 hours per disc easily. (Yes, yes, I realize iDVD 2 only allows 90 mins per disc, but DVD Studio Pro (which is overpriced) allows higher compression rates.)
4). Mac users seem to be an elitist bunch. They look down on people that actually write software and enjoy tinkering with computers. Like Jeff Goldblum in the ads: "I don't want to be that person!" and "You can have a computer and not be a computer person." Who needs that?
You're posting on slashdot and arguing that technical choices should be made through an evaluation of the attitudes of a technology's advocates? Are you fucking insane?
Your reasons for not buying a Mac are your own and you don't need to justify yourself to others, but if you're going to, at least put forth GOOD justifications.
I tend to keep my gaming consoles running for a long time, and my first PS2 died within a week. I've had freezeups with Gran Turismo 3 (not using the wheel), and Dave Mirra 2 (which has an annoying bug where it'll freeze up and do this odd blinking thing after a long period of continuous use.
I've seen 3 Dreamcasts fail because of bad CD drives. On one, the motor died, on the others, it was the actual CD logic board. The software was more solid though.
Really, as we get more and more moving parts into consoles, they're going to become less reliable. That's just how it works. I bought a well-worn SNES on eBay a few years ago and it had over a year-long uptime. Same with my N64. However, my PS2 and Dreamcasts, with CD drives and fans, have been noticably less reliable. When you see hard disks come into the fray, expect this to increase significantly.
Firepro Wrestling A (I believe that's the title) is one game for the GBA that will never be released here for idiotic copyright reasons. Real shame if you're into puroresu...
Actually, according to Fighting Spirit's FPA site Fire Prowestling A will be released in North America, in fact. I can't imagine what they'll do about using people's likenesses, though.
On another note, I think you're being a little presumptuous about these being "for idiotic copyright reasons". While I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other on the actual issue, it seems a little icky to essentially model someone down to their appearance and movement and make money off of it while having them reap no direct benefits from it.
Yes, it's annoying that for what are most likely ego reasons, it's unlikely you'll ever see a licensed game with wrestlers from promotions as small as Toryumon and Osaka Pro alongside WWF wrestlers, but I'm not sure that necessarily makes the copyright laws in question idiotic.
Realistically, if you're into puroresu, you're already pretty used to having 90% of the speech and text be incomprehensible, what's a little more?:)
I read somewhere (I don't recall the source) that the GBA will likely not be region-locked, so the only barrier to purchasing a Japanese version of FPA for the GBA would be the Japanese language used in it. --
Kevin Doherty
kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
If I base my conclusion that 2+2=4 on astrology, is my conclusion wrong? Nope.
Your conclusion isn't wrong, but it is useless. Stating something that is factually correct is far different from proving something that is factually correct. I could say that the weather in my area today was cloudy because I ate breadsticks. It's true that I ate breadsticks, and it's true that clouds were in the sky, but I have no valid evidence of a causal effect, and so such a statement is worthless. --
Kevin Doherty
kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
On the contrary, I would argue that the simulated murder in video games is done with the intent of exciting the player. It's not done to encourage murder, but if the simulated murder in games like doom, quake, etc. didn't arouse a desirable sensation, people wouldn't play them.
On the same note, I think that the simulated child porn isn't necessarily done to provoke people into actually going out and molesting children, but for just general arousal. It seems unlikely that people making this are doing it with the express direct intention of encouraging real life pedophilia, but rather just to arouse generally desirable feelings in certain people.
Considering the popularity of video games that show lots of simulated violence with blood and such (Mortal Kombat being the easiest target as it was a horrid game that only had gore going for it), I really don't see this as a valid distinction. We feel extreme distaste at even the suggestion of _simulated_ child porn, so I don't see how you can therefore trivialize those same feelings in others that are aroused by gorey video games. They feel just as much disgust as you do. --
Kevin Doherty
kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
Actually, while I like Sega a lot, what I've heard is more that it was a royal pain in the ass to get your hands on an ethernet adapter for testing. The Quake 3 developers probably got it because they're developing one of the games Sega hopes to build their marketing structure around for broadband capabilities. --
Kevin Doherty
kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
As has been pointed out, contributing code immediately is probably not the best step. Support, documentation, etc. are all fine, but if you're interested in contributing code, I think your best bet is to really examine the existing codebase first.
For instance, I gained a lot of understanding of UNIX systems programming through reading the CircleMUD codebase. That isn't to say I necessarily write code the same way, but that I learned a lot by examining the code and just evaluating the solutions to various problems and what other possible solutions there might be. It was a simple matter of just picking a file, and reading it. Understand the functions there, where they're called elsewhere, etc..
While I haven't contributed back to it, beyond a third party feature patch, (and CircleMUD, being based off of DIKU, isn't open source), I found that I gained a much better understanding of the code and was far more capable of making my own modifications.
By doing this, you'll become familiar with the style used in that codebase, and be better equipped to contribute when you see a bug that needs fixing or a feature that should be implemented.
Er, Sci-Fi is basic cable. They'll be blocking on drug and sexual content far more than they'll be blocking on anything else. --
Kevin Doherty
kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
I would also hesitate to call the PS2 a glorified DVD player.. it is a video game console that happens to be able to play dvds:)
While calling it a glorified DVD player may be a bit harsh, I find it rather disturbing that Sony is screwing the tech-savvy people who already have a DVD player. --
Kevin Doherty
kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
This is a wonderful way, however, for families which don't already have a DVD player to get into DVD and to supply a new video game system for the kids at the same time.
Yeah, and it's a wonderful way to bend current DVD player owners over and fuck them up the ass.
I have a DVD player. Moreover, I have a GOOD DVD player that's better than the PS2 one and so Sony putting a DVD player into the PS2 is completely and utterly useless to me, and in fact incurs the additional cost of paying for shit I don't want or need.
Fuck families. Fuck the kids. I want a game console, dammit. --
Kevin Doherty
kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
I've seen the opinion that your professor expressed put forth many times before, and there's really one problem that always sticks out for me.
In college, knowledge is one's reward, so to speak. One is paying the college for the privilege of being taught by their professors, using their facilities, etc. In the workplace, one's employer is the person who's paying for services.
Personally, in school, I felt very unmotivated for this very reason. If I found a class boring, or a waste of my time, then my money was being wasted. The best I could do to motivate myself was "oh, well, I'll get a degree, and that'll help me get a job". Needless to say, that's not too motivational.
If I'm working on a project that I feel is a waste of my time at work, I at least have the fact that I'm actually being paid, and it's up to my employer to determine how my time is spent at work (to a point).
I feel much more obligation and responsibility in the workplace than I ever did in school, and this affects my actual output significantly. --
Kevin Doherty
kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
And, as a side note, why do so many peoplethink that mail/news are usuless[?]
It's very simple. I already have a mail client, mutt; a news client, slrn; and an IRC client, epic. I don't need another of these, and I certainly don't need them GUI. However, web browsing is something that I DO need to have a GUI, because the nature of the content is graphical and many bits of it lend themselves poorly to text interfaces.
People are pissed off about the mail/news crap because it's simply duplication of effort, and web browsing is the primary concern here. -- Kevin Doherty kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
Actually, the one thing you're overlooking is the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop. It not only had a commandline, but was just a pretty sweet development environment in general. As I recall, it was either free or cost a trivial amount. The real problem was just the fact that it was so complete that it was slow as hell on any Mac due to memory usage.
As for hardware upgrades, given the timeframe for the early Macs, they weren't much worse than anything else out there. My dad's Mac 512Ke had a daughtercard to upgrade to 2M of RAM, so I was happy:)
And I really don't see copious documentation as being a flaw. The API was kinda wonky if only because of the weird Pascalish feel, but that was my biggest gripe. It was fairly well documented, so who cares?
In any case, this post really doesn't merit being moderated up this high. While one could sort of make an argument of Apple not being "friendly" to Open Source, calling it the antithesis of everything the Open Source philosophy represents is just stupid trolling. -- Kevin Doherty kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
For the moment I'll ignore the problems with providing incentives and possible false positives, as one of the things I didn't see addressed was notification of the parents of a potential "problem" student. Everything documented seemed geared towards notifying the school (and, more generally, protecting the school rather than helping the problem students, but that's another story).
If there is a sensitive issue that needs to be taken care of, it needs to be treated as gently as possible, and I would think that going through the parents first would allow for the least harmful and intrusive way of dealing with the situation. Certainly there would be situations where the parents would be ineffective or unwilling to cooperate for various reasons ("My child is perfectly normal", etc.), but by going through the school, you force that situation to be handled in the primary public social forum that the child is a part of.
While one could argue that the school's first course of action should be contacting the parents, that really begs the question "Why the hell do we need WAVE America in the first place?" There's no aspect of this that requires coordination on anything but a school by school basis. Why can't the school simply have a box for anonymous reports? Sure, WAVE America does some pre-processing and gets specific information, but when it all comes down to it, WAVE America still relies on the school to take those reports and act on them appropriately.
I'm sure that Pinkerton has good intentions (protection of students) in mind, but I really fail to see how this program could in any way be construed as a good idea. -- Kevin Doherty kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
You completely missed the point. ORBS is not immediately about blocking spam, it's about closing open relays, which can be used by anyone to send mail to anywhere, frequently abused by spammers to spam anonymously.
Just because some spammers use AOL doesn't mean that AOL should be in ORBS; AOL should only be there if it operates open relays. -- Kevin Doherty kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
One thing that makes me slightly suspicious about this is that ORBS not only blacklists open relays, but it blacklists any intermediate mail servers. So if you run a mail server that allows customers to smart host through you, and they happen to be open relays, you get listed in ORBS. Your server isn't an open relay in and of itself and only acquires that quality through a clueless customer, and whether or not your customer smarthosted or not, they'd be the ones with the open relay.
It's quite possible that AOL is completely irresponsible here and has an open relay and ORBS could be completely right, but I think some caution is due here before throwing down on AOL (which a vast majority of the posters here seem to be doing without knowing anything about mail transport or mail blackhole lists). -- Kevin Doherty kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
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Those are neither future features nor examples of FUD. I'm an iPod owner who read up a little on the Nomad recently and the Nomad playlist editing is different from the iPod's.
The new On-The-Go playlists for the iPod allow you to add songs to the playlist and clear playlists. When you plug the iPod into your Mac for syncing, the On-The-Go playlist is automatically wiped.
On the Nomad, you can not only create playlists, but you can name them, and they will persist on the device. I don't know about the software for Windows but I assume it syncs back the playlists from the Nomad.
Now, I love my iPod; I bought a 10G iPod last August and just bought a 30G one when they came out last week. That said, nobody benefits from this kind of rabid, ill-informed advocacy.
Next time you want to make an argument for the iPod against the Nomad, make sure you have all the facts. If you're not willing to do that, don't waste people's time.
I realize this guy is just a karma whore, but this is simply absurd.
6 or 7 years ago, I'd take my girlfriend to the local 3-screen theatre and we'd watch a first-run movie for about $5 a head, plus a shared $8 combo. Total cost, after taxes, $18. Now, the ticket price at my local 12-screen megaplex is $13 per ticket, and the cheapest popcorn+soda combo runs $9 plus tax. Total cost, after taxes, $38.
Now, at $18 for a night out, it was worth it. But once the cost of the experience exceeds the price of owning the movie on DVD, I get a little hesitant about running out to the theatre every weekend. So now, unless it's a movie that will truly benefit from the big-screen experience (i.e., Clones), I simply wait and buy the DVD. That's right, I buy the DVD, even if I'm not sure I'll like the movie. Know why? Because it's still cheaper than seeing it in the theatre, and plus, I get to keep the movie. So even if the movie sucked, hey, at least I still have something to show for it. If it had sucked on the big screen, all I'd walk out with would be some butter on my fingers.
Earth to dipshit, we have this thing called rental. For that 18-38$ that you're spending on a DVD, I spend the same amount of money to rent 5 movies from Blockbuster. New releases have to be back in a day or two, but everything else can be kept out for a week at my blockbuster. Buying these movies on DVD that you don't even know if you like is just stupid. You can rent them for far cheaper, and how often are you going to watch these DVDs you buy anyway?
I think this was one of the reasons I liked "Memento" so much - I'd never seen Guy Pearce before.
You're an uncultured clod. Guy Pearce gave a great lead performance (well, shared with Russell Crowe) in L.A. Confidential, a movie released in 1997. It received 9 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won Best Adapted Screenplay (Kim Basinger also won Best Supporting Actress).
You clearly are arguing from a position of staggeringly profound ignorance. In the future, when you feel the urge to post, DON'T.
This doesn't follow logically. "Only Linux users know how to fix broken hardware" would only work if the original statement had been "He's a windows user, therefore he had to send his machine away to be fixed."
However, the statement was "He had to send his machine away to be fixed, therefore he is a windows user." The valid conclusion from this would be "Linux users don't need to send their machines way to be fixed."
Of course, that doesn't even address the fact that not all computer users use one of Linux and Windows.
I mean, what other group have you listened to lately that features lyrics like
(blahblahblah political lyrics that don't scan)
to a hard rock beat?
Megadeth ("Countdown to Extinction", amongst others), Corrosion of Conformity ("Technocracy", "Damned For All Time", "Vote With a Bullet", many more), Queensryche ("Empire"), Galactic Cowboys ("If I Were a Killer", "Ribbon", "Media Slant", "Hey Mr.", though those are all right-wing, not left-wing).
Politically charged lyrics with big words are hardly a new thing. While I'm not familiar with System of a Down, the bands I listed (though Queensryche is kind of a poor example) are all good musicians, use thick, fast metal, and generally have better lyrics than the ones you mentioned.
I particularly liked the commercial for the movie where they had review quotes such as "Hilarious... and mandatory."
I think inserting tab A into slot D is unsupported behavior, though.
It's not about Microsoft, it's about shitty proprietary software. If their software was good and they'd fix stupid behaviors like this, there wouldn't be a problem. If their software was free, people could patch it to display the emails without problems.
2). I've invested too much in MS-DOS and Windows software that I still want to run now and then. "Sam and Max Hit The Road" being a good example. I bought it for my 386, and three computers later I still haven't finished with it.
Virtual PC would probably run this just fine.
3). No compelling reason to switch. I can manage pictures and create MP3's and CD's on my old Pentium. I can create a VCD on my reconditioned Pentium III. Why would any reasonable person want to create his own DVDs? Even creating a VCD is a very time consuming process (capture the video in real time, then compress it for eight-twelve hours). Who has the equipment to create a professional quality DVD anyway? If it isn't going to be professional quality, why not just make a VCD instead?
VCD's use MPEG1 and as I recall can hold about an hour per disc. It amazes me that the benefits here aren't obvious. MPEG2, and variable bitrates allowing for up to 4 hours per disc easily. (Yes, yes, I realize iDVD 2 only allows 90 mins per disc, but DVD Studio Pro (which is overpriced) allows higher compression rates.)
4). Mac users seem to be an elitist bunch. They look down on people that actually write software and enjoy tinkering with computers. Like Jeff Goldblum in the ads: "I don't want to be that person!" and "You can have a computer and not be a computer person." Who needs that?
You're posting on slashdot and arguing that technical choices should be made through an evaluation of the attitudes of a technology's advocates? Are you fucking insane?
Your reasons for not buying a Mac are your own and you don't need to justify yourself to others, but if you're going to, at least put forth GOOD justifications.
I tend to keep my gaming consoles running for a long time, and my first PS2 died within a week. I've had freezeups with Gran Turismo 3 (not using the wheel), and Dave Mirra 2 (which has an annoying bug where it'll freeze up and do this odd blinking thing after a long period of continuous use.
I've seen 3 Dreamcasts fail because of bad CD drives. On one, the motor died, on the others, it was the actual CD logic board. The software was more solid though.
Really, as we get more and more moving parts into consoles, they're going to become less reliable. That's just how it works. I bought a well-worn SNES on eBay a few years ago and it had over a year-long uptime. Same with my N64. However, my PS2 and Dreamcasts, with CD drives and fans, have been noticably less reliable. When you see hard disks come into the fray, expect this to increase significantly.
Firepro Wrestling A (I believe that's the title) is one game for the GBA that will never be released here for idiotic copyright reasons. Real shame if you're into puroresu...
:)
Actually, according to Fighting Spirit's FPA site Fire Prowestling A will be released in North America, in fact. I can't imagine what they'll do about using people's likenesses, though.
On another note, I think you're being a little presumptuous about these being "for idiotic copyright reasons". While I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other on the actual issue, it seems a little icky to essentially model someone down to their appearance and movement and make money off of it while having them reap no direct benefits from it.
Yes, it's annoying that for what are most likely ego reasons, it's unlikely you'll ever see a licensed game with wrestlers from promotions as small as Toryumon and Osaka Pro alongside WWF wrestlers, but I'm not sure that necessarily makes the copyright laws in question idiotic.
Realistically, if you're into puroresu, you're already pretty used to having 90% of the speech and text be incomprehensible, what's a little more?
I read somewhere (I don't recall the source) that the GBA will likely not be region-locked, so the only barrier to purchasing a Japanese version of FPA for the GBA would be the Japanese language used in it.
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Kevin Doherty
kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
If I base my conclusion that 2+2=4 on astrology, is my conclusion wrong? Nope.
Your conclusion isn't wrong, but it is useless. Stating something that is factually correct is far different from proving something that is factually correct. I could say that the weather in my area today was cloudy because I ate breadsticks. It's true that I ate breadsticks, and it's true that clouds were in the sky, but I have no valid evidence of a causal effect, and so such a statement is worthless.
--
Kevin Doherty
kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
On the contrary, I would argue that the simulated murder in video games is done with the intent of exciting the player. It's not done to encourage murder, but if the simulated murder in games like doom, quake, etc. didn't arouse a desirable sensation, people wouldn't play them.
On the same note, I think that the simulated child porn isn't necessarily done to provoke people into actually going out and molesting children, but for just general arousal. It seems unlikely that people making this are doing it with the express direct intention of encouraging real life pedophilia, but rather just to arouse generally desirable feelings in certain people.
Considering the popularity of video games that show lots of simulated violence with blood and such (Mortal Kombat being the easiest target as it was a horrid game that only had gore going for it), I really don't see this as a valid distinction. We feel extreme distaste at even the suggestion of _simulated_ child porn, so I don't see how you can therefore trivialize those same feelings in others that are aroused by gorey video games. They feel just as much disgust as you do.
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Kevin Doherty
kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
Actually, while I like Sega a lot, what I've heard is more that it was a royal pain in the ass to get your hands on an ethernet adapter for testing. The Quake 3 developers probably got it because they're developing one of the games Sega hopes to build their marketing structure around for broadband capabilities.
--
Kevin Doherty
kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
As has been pointed out, contributing code immediately is probably not the best step. Support, documentation, etc. are all fine, but if you're interested in contributing code, I think your best bet is to really examine the existing codebase first.
For instance, I gained a lot of understanding of UNIX systems programming through reading the CircleMUD codebase. That isn't to say I necessarily write code the same way, but that I learned a lot by examining the code and just evaluating the solutions to various problems and what other possible solutions there might be. It was a simple matter of just picking a file, and reading it. Understand the functions there, where they're called elsewhere, etc..
While I haven't contributed back to it, beyond a third party feature patch, (and CircleMUD, being based off of DIKU, isn't open source), I found that I gained a much better understanding of the code and was far more capable of making my own modifications.
By doing this, you'll become familiar with the style used in that codebase, and be better equipped to contribute when you see a bug that needs fixing or a feature that should be implemented.
--
Kevin Doherty
kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
Er, Sci-Fi is basic cable. They'll be blocking on drug and sexual content far more than they'll be blocking on anything else.
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Kevin Doherty
kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
Sure, you can secure Outlook/Exchange against
bugs. But what about securing it against
features.
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Kevin Doherty
kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
My friend's comment upon seeing that was "Playstation 2! Eventually, it won't suck!"
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Kevin Doherty
kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
I would also hesitate to call the PS2 a glorified DVD player.. it is a video game console that happens to be able to play dvds :)
While calling it a glorified DVD player may be a bit harsh, I find it rather disturbing that Sony is screwing the tech-savvy people who already have a DVD player.
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Kevin Doherty
kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
This is a wonderful way, however, for families which don't already have a DVD player to get into DVD and to supply a new video game system for the kids at the same time.
Yeah, and it's a wonderful way to bend current DVD player owners over and fuck them up the ass.
I have a DVD player. Moreover, I have a GOOD DVD player that's better than the PS2 one and so Sony putting a DVD player into the PS2 is completely and utterly useless to me, and in fact incurs the additional cost of paying for shit I don't want or need.
Fuck families. Fuck the kids. I want a game console, dammit.
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Kevin Doherty
kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
I've seen the opinion that your professor expressed put forth many times before, and there's really one problem that always sticks out for me.
In college, knowledge is one's reward, so to speak. One is paying the college for the privilege of being taught by their professors, using their facilities, etc. In the workplace, one's employer is the person who's paying for services.
Personally, in school, I felt very unmotivated for this very reason. If I found a class boring, or a waste of my time, then my money was being wasted. The best I could do to motivate myself was "oh, well, I'll get a degree, and that'll help me get a job". Needless to say, that's not too motivational.
If I'm working on a project that I feel is a waste of my time at work, I at least have the fact that I'm actually being paid, and it's up to my employer to determine how my time is spent at work (to a point).
I feel much more obligation and responsibility in the workplace than I ever did in school, and this affects my actual output significantly.
--
Kevin Doherty
kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
And, as a side note, why do so many peoplethink that mail/news are usuless[?]
It's very simple. I already have a mail client, mutt; a news client, slrn; and an IRC client, epic. I don't need another of these, and I certainly don't need them GUI. However, web browsing is something that I DO need to have a GUI, because the nature of the content is graphical and many bits of it lend themselves poorly to text interfaces.
People are pissed off about the mail/news crap because it's simply duplication of effort, and web browsing is the primary concern here.
--
Kevin Doherty
kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
Actually, the one thing you're overlooking is the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop. It not only had a commandline, but was just a pretty sweet development environment in general. As I recall, it was either free or cost a trivial amount. The real problem was just the fact that it was so complete that it was slow as hell on any Mac due to memory usage.
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As for hardware upgrades, given the timeframe for the early Macs, they weren't much worse than anything else out there. My dad's Mac 512Ke had a daughtercard to upgrade to 2M of RAM, so I was happy
And I really don't see copious documentation as being a flaw. The API was kinda wonky if only because of the weird Pascalish feel, but that was my biggest gripe. It was fairly well documented, so who cares?
In any case, this post really doesn't merit being moderated up this high. While one could sort of make an argument of Apple not being "friendly" to Open Source, calling it the antithesis of everything the Open Source philosophy represents is just stupid trolling.
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Kevin Doherty
kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
For the moment I'll ignore the problems with providing incentives and possible false positives, as one of the things I didn't see addressed was notification of the parents of a potential "problem" student. Everything documented seemed geared towards notifying the school (and, more generally, protecting the school rather than helping the problem students, but that's another story).
If there is a sensitive issue that needs to be taken care of, it needs to be treated as gently as possible, and I would think that going through the parents first would allow for the least harmful and intrusive way of dealing with the situation. Certainly there would be situations where the parents would be ineffective or unwilling to cooperate for various reasons ("My child is perfectly normal", etc.), but by going through the school, you force that situation to be handled in the primary public social forum that the child is a part of.
While one could argue that the school's first course of action should be contacting the parents, that really begs the question "Why the hell do we need WAVE America in the first place?" There's no aspect of this that requires coordination on anything but a school by school basis. Why can't the school simply have a box for anonymous reports? Sure, WAVE America does some pre-processing and gets specific information, but when it all comes down to it, WAVE America still relies on the school to take those reports and act on them appropriately.
I'm sure that Pinkerton has good intentions (protection of students) in mind, but I really fail to see how this program could in any way be construed as a good idea.
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Kevin Doherty
kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
You completely missed the point. ORBS is not immediately about blocking spam, it's about closing open relays, which can be used by anyone to send mail to anywhere, frequently abused by spammers to spam anonymously.
Just because some spammers use AOL doesn't mean that AOL should be in ORBS; AOL should only be there if it operates open relays.
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Kevin Doherty
kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net
One thing that makes me slightly suspicious about this is that ORBS not only blacklists open relays, but it blacklists any intermediate mail servers. So if you run a mail server that allows customers to smart host through you, and they happen to be open relays, you get listed in ORBS. Your server isn't an open relay in and of itself and only acquires that quality through a clueless customer, and whether or not your customer smarthosted or not, they'd be the ones with the open relay.
It's quite possible that AOL is completely irresponsible here and has an open relay and ORBS could be completely right, but I think some caution is due here before throwing down on AOL (which a vast majority of the posters here seem to be doing without knowing anything about mail transport or mail blackhole lists).
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Kevin Doherty
kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net