Right - I believe that was my point. That we should be paying roughly similar amounts (below $200 at least).
I'll agree with the fact that Miami with 100% RH and 100F feels like murder, but until you've opened the car door and left a bright red mark on your hand it's not hot:)
It gets HOT. The building AC thing is weird like that here, too - it adds to the shock when you leave an office set to 65 or 70 into an exterior that's 115-120.
Ironically, in the winter, they set the buildings to almost 90 when it's 60 out.
You pay $847 a month?? Holy cow, I live in AZ where it actually gets hot (not like Northern California - I mean REALLY hot) and I only pay $100 a month for a house about that size.
You seriously should consider weather stripping and insulation!
BTW - 100 isn't hot. 120 is hot. AZ it gets hot enough that they ground airplanes. If you're complaining from Dubai, I can understand that.
If they killed my hot water during the summer in AZ, I'd be ok with that. As it is I take the coldest showers I can get, because going to work when it's already 90 is the suck.
I find it interesting that your sig supports personal freedom and independence (against government influence, considering that the crew of Serenity were smugglers and pirates), but your personal stance is one of asking the government to make the world safe for you.
I smoke, on occasion, when I feel like it. A cigar once a month, sometimes a pipe if I'm in the mood. Not exactly a pack a day sort of thing, but I have a real problem with people trying to make this illegal, or tax it unfairly.
What I do in my home is my problem. Don't smoke in yours.
The bar thing drove me nuts too - I ended up having to join a 'club' instead so that I could still have a whiskey and a smoke when I felt like it instead of having to stand outside like dog.
There was an RDP/VNC type app that let us remote control a user's desktop to provide support for things like installing printers and such. I can't seem to find what that was called, and well... it's been over 10 years now:D
I am one of them:D Ran it, wrote code for it, supported it for 10,000 users from version 2 to version 4.
Unfortunately, they kind of pulled the wind out of the sails around the time Win 95/98 came out, so it didn't really make sense to stay with it.
I still miss little things like being able to reset the video to the default driver with a key combo, SNA/3270 support (which matters if you're not addicted to using a VB front-end for your mainframe), the first graphical remote desktop support, and a really great CDE style dock.
Oh, and REXX. I loved REXX... that was a great language.
Exactly! Ship a standard, and as long as a user can tweak it to their tastes, it's all good.
This is part of my dislike of OSX, BTW. It's just sick that Windows is more customizable a GUI than OSX.
I don't care where Canonical puts the buttons on their 'default GUI', I will only care if they remove the ability for me to easily put them anywhere I like.
For those who feel a need to have complete control over their own desktops.
I see the arguments each direction on this one - and my own view is 'whatever happened to letting the users decide themselves?' I have spent ages playing with themes on KDE, Gnome, WindowMaker and Enlightenment. If you're not able to customize, just run OSX or Windows and get an OS that someone controls and will actually provide real support for (including paying off vendors to write drivers).
Linux is supposed to be about the anarchy of self-expression and total control of your machine. Canonical, RedHat, SuSE and many others provide varying levels of 'corporate stability' that you can buy into if you're into that sort of thing.
Once again, people are unwilling to take responsibility for their own free-market actions. The reason we have the government we deserve is because we're unwilling to take responsibility for our own actions.
If this had been a case where he was injured because the saw turned itself on due to a bad switch, or some other example of extremely bad design it would be different. This is a case where he bought a cheap saw KNOWING it was a cheap saw.
Anyone who hasn't seen this coming to the US for 20 years is a completely idiot. I keep telling people that globalization leads to a flatter market. The problem is that even distribution of wealth means that the 3rd world improves a little and the 1st world declines a LOT.
There's plenty of good quotes about it - this is hardly new. It's been going on for at least a hundred years (and 20 or more right here in the US).
Well, that is certainly a choice. Using a firewall for example provides you with a much safer neighborhood - though it's still only 3 blocks from the warzone;)
Not sure if you check your firewall logs regularly, but I see dozens of port scans and intrusion attempts on my firewall every day.
Regarding the pants? Yes, that was intended to be humorous. Obviously nudists and several cultures dispense with pants entirely. Still sucks when you sit on a rough park bench though:D
There are Atari, Commodore, NES, SNES, Sega, and a variety of other emulators (and MAME). Flash has worked on Linux for ages. It's been out so long, it's even on PC-BSD by default. Opera 10 is available for Linux and BSD. Try their download page, and I confirmed it installs on Debian. http://www.opera.com/browser/download/?custom=yes Never tried RealPlayer. Can't help there:) Ipod-encoded MP4/AAC non-encypted works fine with handbrake and other such apps.
There are plenty of reasons not to use Linux (preference, look and feel, specific games, photoshop, etc) but most of these aren't it.
Anti-virus may not protect against the 'heavy artillery' style attacks, but it does protect against the millions of older ones. Naturally, just like the Marine Corps can't protect people directly from shelling, it can protect them against some of the small arms fire, random bits of flying debris, and (most importantly) help keep them in contact with their command structure.
Running a computer with no AV exposes you not just to massive malware, it exposes you to everything. It's nice to at least get an alert "Hi, program XYZ is attempting to send emails. Is this ok?" It also provides information back to the vendors (or should) regarding the most commonly found attacks.
Just because you can't be 100% safe with any given product is no reason to abandon it entirely. You should still wear pants even though they don't stop bullets:)
There is an old saying "you don't just trust a person, you trust everyone they trust". The idea is that if you have a friend who is a publicly exposed amateur photographer who posts everything and writes detailed exposes on their life - you just might be in it.
If you know more than a couple of these people, they can tell a lot about you just by your association.
Hang out with 30 white kids who went to B dorm in 2005? Well, the chances are you're a white kid who went to B dorm in 2005. Sure, you might have been the Hawaiian homeless kid from the project that they hung out with... but that's an outlier. They would probably also comment on this. Frequently.
Actually it's in my GeekCode, which is in my bio on/.
So basically the point was - "publicly volunteered information is public" (gasp)
Much like my point regarding sharing info on facebook, the geek code is just far older and less personally revealing than party pics and detailed contact info.:) It also doesn't say much that can be linked to friends.
(Regarding the other thread dissecting my use of LOL as opposed to lol or lawl or an emoticon... seriously guys, don't you have work to do?)
Guess I'm nobody, since I have no facebook account LOL
But yeah, people shouldn't be surprised that publicly documenting every facet of your life results in less privacy, for you, and for everyone you know.
I don't think I'd buy this as a web browser. I think I'd buy this to replace my moleskine - which right now is a big mess of drawings, notes, and clips of things taped into place. It holds everything from code samples to to UI mockups - and I write much faster with a pen (like Graffiti 1/2 or paper) than on a slow on screen keyboard.
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Right - I believe that was my point. That we should be paying roughly similar amounts (below $200 at least).
I'll agree with the fact that Miami with 100% RH and 100F feels like murder, but until you've opened the car door and left a bright red mark on your hand it's not hot :)
I'll submit as reference (aside from having been here)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19900627&id=8uYNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eXUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7078,925768
http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MH&s_site=miami&p_multi=MH&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB340F09FEA23DA&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
It gets HOT.
The building AC thing is weird like that here, too - it adds to the shock when you leave an office set to 65 or 70 into an exterior that's 115-120.
Ironically, in the winter, they set the buildings to almost 90 when it's 60 out.
You pay $847 a month?? Holy cow, I live in AZ where it actually gets hot (not like Northern California - I mean REALLY hot) and I only pay $100 a month for a house about that size.
You seriously should consider weather stripping and insulation!
BTW - 100 isn't hot. 120 is hot. AZ it gets hot enough that they ground airplanes. If you're complaining from Dubai, I can understand that.
If they killed my hot water during the summer in AZ, I'd be ok with that. As it is I take the coldest showers I can get, because going to work when it's already 90 is the suck.
Anyone who works with medium to high megapixel digital images, for example... though I can't image why *anyone* on Slashdot would do that...
I find it interesting that your sig supports personal freedom and independence (against government influence, considering that the crew of Serenity were smugglers and pirates), but your personal stance is one of asking the government to make the world safe for you.
You might want to rethink this a bit.
Exactly.
I smoke, on occasion, when I feel like it. A cigar once a month, sometimes a pipe if I'm in the mood. Not exactly a pack a day sort of thing, but I have a real problem with people trying to make this illegal, or tax it unfairly.
What I do in my home is my problem. Don't smoke in yours.
The bar thing drove me nuts too - I ended up having to join a 'club' instead so that I could still have a whiskey and a smoke when I felt like it instead of having to stand outside like dog.
OS/2 Warp was interesting, but Warp 4 was really phenomenal.
I don't think I ever tried running it on non-IBM desktops, though, so maybe that's why.
No - I must have stated that badly.
There was an RDP/VNC type app that let us remote control a user's desktop to provide support for things like installing printers and such. I can't seem to find what that was called, and well... it's been over 10 years now :D
I am one of them :D
Ran it, wrote code for it, supported it for 10,000 users from version 2 to version 4.
Unfortunately, they kind of pulled the wind out of the sails around the time Win 95/98 came out, so it didn't really make sense to stay with it.
I still miss little things like being able to reset the video to the default driver with a key combo, SNA/3270 support (which matters if you're not addicted to using a VB front-end for your mainframe), the first graphical remote desktop support, and a really great CDE style dock.
Oh, and REXX. I loved REXX... that was a great language.
I wouldn't say OSX, Windows, or Linux have gotten this one yet...
It actually depends on the plugins. I have SongBird running off a Portable Apps thumbdrive right now, and it's using 80MB. Of 16 GB of RAM.
So, what's the big deal even if it used 140? What is this, 1999?
Very true, and while I dislike Flash in general, it is a very powerful and accessible web platform.
Probably the best 'ramp' to Web 3.0 (gag) I've ever seen.
Exactly!
Ship a standard, and as long as a user can tweak it to their tastes, it's all good.
This is part of my dislike of OSX, BTW. It's just sick that Windows is more customizable a GUI than OSX.
I don't care where Canonical puts the buttons on their 'default GUI', I will only care if they remove the ability for me to easily put them anywhere I like.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
For those who feel a need to have complete control over their own desktops.
I see the arguments each direction on this one - and my own view is 'whatever happened to letting the users decide themselves?'
I have spent ages playing with themes on KDE, Gnome, WindowMaker and Enlightenment. If you're not able to customize, just run OSX or Windows and get an OS that someone controls and will actually provide real support for (including paying off vendors to write drivers).
Linux is supposed to be about the anarchy of self-expression and total control of your machine. Canonical, RedHat, SuSE and many others provide varying levels of 'corporate stability' that you can buy into if you're into that sort of thing.
Exactly.
Once again, people are unwilling to take responsibility for their own free-market actions.
The reason we have the government we deserve is because we're unwilling to take responsibility for our own actions.
If this had been a case where he was injured because the saw turned itself on due to a bad switch, or some other example of extremely bad design it would be different. This is a case where he bought a cheap saw KNOWING it was a cheap saw.
Yup - and so ends another empire.
Anyone who hasn't seen this coming to the US for 20 years is a completely idiot. I keep telling people that globalization leads to a flatter market. The problem is that even distribution of wealth means that the 3rd world improves a little and the 1st world declines a LOT.
There's plenty of good quotes about it - this is hardly new. It's been going on for at least a hundred years (and 20 or more right here in the US).
Sort of like installing little Linux LPARs and such. Very amusing.
Mainframes are still the very best power/performance out there... and probably always will be :)
Well, that is certainly a choice. Using a firewall for example provides you with a much safer neighborhood - though it's still only 3 blocks from the warzone ;)
Not sure if you check your firewall logs regularly, but I see dozens of port scans and intrusion attempts on my firewall every day.
Regarding the pants? Yes, that was intended to be humorous. Obviously nudists and several cultures dispense with pants entirely. Still sucks when you sit on a rough park bench though :D
Oh please - that's just trolling.
There are Atari, Commodore, NES, SNES, Sega, and a variety of other emulators (and MAME). :)
Flash has worked on Linux for ages. It's been out so long, it's even on PC-BSD by default.
Opera 10 is available for Linux and BSD. Try their download page, and I confirmed it installs on Debian. http://www.opera.com/browser/download/?custom=yes
Never tried RealPlayer. Can't help there
Ipod-encoded MP4/AAC non-encypted works fine with handbrake and other such apps.
There are plenty of reasons not to use Linux (preference, look and feel, specific games, photoshop, etc) but most of these aren't it.
I think your first analogy is more apt.
Anti-virus may not protect against the 'heavy artillery' style attacks, but it does protect against the millions of older ones.
Naturally, just like the Marine Corps can't protect people directly from shelling, it can protect them against some of the small arms fire, random bits of flying debris, and (most importantly) help keep them in contact with their command structure.
Running a computer with no AV exposes you not just to massive malware, it exposes you to everything. It's nice to at least get an alert "Hi, program XYZ is attempting to send emails. Is this ok?" It also provides information back to the vendors (or should) regarding the most commonly found attacks.
Just because you can't be 100% safe with any given product is no reason to abandon it entirely. You should still wear pants even though they don't stop bullets :)
That's not a surprise, or shouldn't be.
There is an old saying "you don't just trust a person, you trust everyone they trust". The idea is that if you have a friend who is a publicly exposed amateur photographer who posts everything and writes detailed exposes on their life - you just might be in it.
If you know more than a couple of these people, they can tell a lot about you just by your association.
Hang out with 30 white kids who went to B dorm in 2005? Well, the chances are you're a white kid who went to B dorm in 2005. Sure, you might have been the Hawaiian homeless kid from the project that they hung out with... but that's an outlier. They would probably also comment on this. Frequently.
Actually it's in my GeekCode, which is in my bio on /.
So basically the point was - "publicly volunteered information is public" (gasp)
Much like my point regarding sharing info on facebook, the geek code is just far older and less personally revealing than party pics and detailed contact info. :) It also doesn't say much that can be linked to friends.
(Regarding the other thread dissecting my use of LOL as opposed to lol or lawl or an emoticon... seriously guys, don't you have work to do?)
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GCS d+ s: C++++ UBLAIS++++$ P+++ L+++ E--- W++ N++ o K-- w-- O++ M+++ V+++$ PS+ PE Y++ PGP t+ 5- X- R* tv-- b+++ DI-- D+++ G+ e+>+++ h* r+++ y?
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
Guess I'm nobody, since I have no facebook account LOL
But yeah, people shouldn't be surprised that publicly documenting every facet of your life results in less privacy, for you, and for everyone you know.
I don't think I'd buy this as a web browser. I think I'd buy this to replace my moleskine - which right now is a big mess of drawings, notes, and clips of things taped into place.
It holds everything from code samples to to UI mockups - and I write much faster with a pen (like Graffiti 1/2 or paper) than on a slow on screen keyboard.