You're making the assumption that the voters are well-enough informed to make the decision to vote for C.
And that C doesn't completely pussy out for some other reason. I generally vote a straight Green ticket, but they weren't on the ballot for the presidential race in '04. Why? I live in New York, and they didn't seek to be on the ballot in traditionally Dem states.
Ah, wonderful. Maybe I can look forward to another batch of emails offering to sell me "roadflares.com", since I own the.org.
Attention asshats -- I'm not a commercial entity. That's why I registered the.org. Am I the only person following the guidelines on this sort of thing?
Remember this, next time someone claims Slashdot is only full of Linux fanboys.
I wish it was. When there were more Linux users here, the comments were a lot more interesting.
I use Macs -- I'm typing this on one, as a matter of fact. But the amount of Apple gushing that happens here lately is just staggering. I used to be able to justify reading Slashdot at work because there were occasional interesting bits of news. How far away that seems now.
The problem is they should ENFORCE fines for "obvious" misuse, such as calls for barking dogs, etc.
A lot of towns don't put a non-emergency number for the police in the phone book any more. I don't think that helps the situation, when 911 is the ONLY way to call.
Any school where students have even read access to the places where teachers keep their grades needs to fire the sysadmin.
Yeah, because I'm sure that the school has a dedicated, well-trained sysadmin.
Whoops, looks like I mistyped "has a chemistry teacher working part time with computer shit he doesn't actually understand". Damned typos.
Seriously, have you ever looked at the payscales in public education? Anyone who could design and lock down the network properly is outside of their financial reach.
If you think the iTunes GUI is bad, check out iCal sometime. The interface was designed by someone at Apple France, and to be honest, it's bad enough to have earned everyone in that country a cock-punching.
My last car was a total beater that I bought on eBay for a few hundred bucks. I never bothered locking it, because I figured that if anyone broke a window to get in, they would cause more damage than the car had cost me in the first place.
Anyway, some douchebag rifled through my car in the dead of night. What did he steal? Half a tin of Altoids.
How little self-respect does a thief have to have to steal _breath mints_?
The university will not pay as much- but you really have to fsck up to get fired from a university. They'll guarantee your income for the forseeable future, and probably also grant you a nice pension.
And probably offer tuition waivers to yourself, your spouse, and your children.
I work for the IT department at a medium-sized college, and I'm working on a second Bachelor's in Computer Science, while my wife is working on her MBA. Total out-of-pocket? About 200 dollars a semester to cover our "fees" and the price of books. And when we have kids that are college age, undergrad is completely free.
Don't even bother emailing Rob Malda. His responses are usually sarcastic and jerky.
Just to throw in my own two cents, the one time that I emailed Malda about a bug in the site, he was very responsive and courteous.
I think he's a perfectly nice person, and a reasonably talented geek, just not much of a journalist. Then again, I don't think he wanted to be one. It just sort of happened.
... along with yaboot, QUIK, and BootX for the PPC Linux users among us. And SILO for Sparc, if I recall properly, and something else entirely for Alphas.
I guess to sum up: OS X is still better than Windows XP and Linux interface-wise, but it's worse (IMO) than OS 9.2.2 was. (In every other arena, speed, security, stability, it's better. But the interface is worse.)
Amen. I'm constantly amazed that there's no X Window System window manager that emulates the old OS 9.2.2 interface. That would be heaven.
I don't like the OS X interface much at all. I generally use Windowmaker on Linux for machines that I actually want to get work done on.
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You're making the assumption that the voters are well-enough informed to make the decision to vote for C.
And that C doesn't completely pussy out for some other reason. I generally vote a straight Green ticket, but they weren't on the ballot for the presidential race in '04. Why? I live in New York, and they didn't seek to be on the ballot in traditionally Dem states.
--saint
Intel is pushing a technology called Treacherous Computing... M$FT...
Oh, goody. Looks like yerricde got another account. Super-duper fanaticism.
--saint
Intel is run by marketdroids, AMD by engineers. Who would you put your money in?
That's why I invested in DEC. Whoops.
--saint
Sounds like you buy flat soda. Pepsi is never flat for me and is blows Coke away. Coke is the most bland cola I've ever tasted.
RC for life, bitches.
(Yeah, I'm the only one. Whatever. At least there's one restaurant in my neighborhood with it.)
--saint
By the same token, don't confuse "programming" with "playing computer games 21 hours a day".
As someone who teaches freshman Computer Science, I wish that they'd put this in the course catalog.
"Arrays? I'm never gonna need that shit. When do we start writing Quake clones?"
--saint
I just checked out the one for the zip where I live (http://14208.com/). Wow, looks like my neighbors are all broke. Hmm, that's not too encouraging.
--saint
Ah, wonderful. Maybe I can look forward to another batch of emails offering to sell me "roadflares.com", since I own the .org.
.org. Am I the only person following the guidelines on this sort of thing?
Attention asshats -- I'm not a commercial entity. That's why I registered the
--saint
Remember this, next time someone claims Slashdot is only full of Linux fanboys.
I wish it was. When there were more Linux users here, the comments were a lot more interesting.
I use Macs -- I'm typing this on one, as a matter of fact. But the amount of Apple gushing that happens here lately is just staggering. I used to be able to justify reading Slashdot at work because there were occasional interesting bits of news. How far away that seems now.
--saint
Maybe he just doesn't want to deal with the hassle of a new piece of equipment right now?
Hell, I know I've turned down upgrades in the past for that reason. It's nota matter of money or marketing, it's just convenience.
--saint
The Pippin? A/UX? The Twentieth Anniversary Mac?
Whoever wrote that horrid fluff piece at Forbes didn't do her research. "Recording record profits" indeed.
--saint
Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.
Hmm. I think I dated her in high school.
--saint
The problem is they should ENFORCE fines for "obvious" misuse, such as calls for barking dogs, etc.
A lot of towns don't put a non-emergency number for the police in the phone book any more. I don't think that helps the situation, when 911 is the ONLY way to call.
--saint
Any school where students have even read access to the places where teachers keep their grades needs to fire the sysadmin.
Yeah, because I'm sure that the school has a dedicated, well-trained sysadmin.
Whoops, looks like I mistyped "has a chemistry teacher working part time with computer shit he doesn't actually understand". Damned typos.
Seriously, have you ever looked at the payscales in public education? Anyone who could design and lock down the network properly is outside of their financial reach.
--saint
... and that's why vegans are stinky.
--saint
(Offtopic)
Insightful?
Only because there's no moderation for "Obvious".
--saint
(It's a joke, son.)
If you think the iTunes GUI is bad, check out iCal sometime. The interface was designed by someone at Apple France, and to be honest, it's bad enough to have earned everyone in that country a cock-punching.
--saint
My last car was a total beater that I bought on eBay for a few hundred bucks. I never bothered locking it, because I figured that if anyone broke a window to get in, they would cause more damage than the car had cost me in the first place.
Anyway, some douchebag rifled through my car in the dead of night. What did he steal? Half a tin of Altoids.
How little self-respect does a thief have to have to steal _breath mints_?
--saint
Don't forget about the "banded-collar shirt that looks like I have a clergyman fetish" era when he first came back to Apple.
--saint
The university will not pay as much- but you really have to fsck up to get fired from a university. They'll guarantee your income for the forseeable future, and probably also grant you a nice pension.
And probably offer tuition waivers to yourself, your spouse, and your children.
I work for the IT department at a medium-sized college, and I'm working on a second Bachelor's in Computer Science, while my wife is working on her MBA. Total out-of-pocket? About 200 dollars a semester to cover our "fees" and the price of books. And when we have kids that are college age, undergrad is completely free.
Another thing to consider if you've got kids.
--saint
Don't even bother emailing Rob Malda. His responses are usually sarcastic and jerky.
Just to throw in my own two cents, the one time that I emailed Malda about a bug in the site, he was very responsive and courteous.
I think he's a perfectly nice person, and a reasonably talented geek, just not much of a journalist. Then again, I don't think he wanted to be one. It just sort of happened.
--saint
Don't be surprised if this IBook is the first to ship without a FireWire port
Didn't the first couple generations of the old toilet seat iBooks ship without Firewire?
I know they shipped without VGA-out, which sucked.
--saint
... along with yaboot, QUIK, and BootX for the PPC Linux users among us. And SILO for Sparc, if I recall properly, and something else entirely for Alphas.
--saint
. If they can fix cron in the next update to Tiger, I'll be very happy.
What sort of problems are you having with cron? Works fine for me.
Send me an email -- address is on my homepage.
--saint
I'm with you. Debian/PPC on three different machines.
Yellow Dog sucks, though.
--saint
I guess to sum up: OS X is still better than Windows XP and Linux interface-wise, but it's worse (IMO) than OS 9.2.2 was. (In every other arena, speed, security, stability, it's better. But the interface is worse.)
Amen. I'm constantly amazed that there's no X Window System window manager that emulates the old OS 9.2.2 interface. That would be heaven.
I don't like the OS X interface much at all. I generally use Windowmaker on Linux for machines that I actually want to get work done on.
--saint