I (Sean) have been hired by Google, moved to Seattle, and have been working on the Google Talk team for about a month and a half. The goal of Google Talk is to make real-time communication as open as possible, and in that regard, I've been working to offer all of Google Talk's features into other clients. Currently, I'm working on making it as easy as possible for other clients to use Google Talk's voice features. You can expect Gaim and other clients to be interoperable with Google Talk's voice features in the near future.
HTTP was originally developed between 1989-1991, but didn't take off until there was a useful browser which could display inline images.
That is debatable. Some might say it had something to do with Mosaic's ease of install, some might say it had something to do with Tim's WorldWideWeb being available for NeXT machines only.
Although I do agree in part with Vegan Pagan that the series does seem to reflect the small minded prejudices of the producers, I need to correct one thing.
When Archer referred to the Suliban making a "deal with the devil", he was referring to where they were getting their genetic engineering from, with "future guy" in the devil role. He was not referring to the actual genetic engineering itself.
I was in McDonalds the other day and Elvis was in the queue infront of me. I asked him what he had been doing over the last few decades. He ***confirmed*** he has in fact been working in a range of convenience stores across the United States.
Do I get modded up to (Score:4, Informative) now too?
Yesterday I posted a comment about the TheRegister.
After seeing the picture at the bottom of the news article linked above, I take it all back. TheRegister is the most accurate news site I've ever seen. Their fact checking skills are so l33t they make it seem like they haven't done any at all.
What age is Andrew Orlowski? How can he really believe this? Royal Guards on Segways.
You need to keep in mind that TheRegister is a tabloid of the tech news world.
They repeatedly take a little piece of news, and try to infer some big story out of it.
A few years ago they posted a story that Microsoft had decided to cancel the Windows98 Second Edition project only a month or two before it's release.
What had actually happened was Microsoft had moved some of their programmers from the Win98 team to the Windows 2000 team.
Everyone else reported the programmers being moved, TheReg reported that Win98SE was cancelled.
They do this kind of thing all the time. Also they rarely list their sources, so when a story from TheReg is repeated at Slashdot or OSNews or wherever, it makes it impossible to check the authenticity of the story.
They are a tabloid. I wish everyone would just ignore them, or take everything they post with the pinch of salt it requires.
Next thing you know Slashdot will post links to stories in The Sun.
I have to disagree with you about child labor laws. Why on earth would you want to have a full time job at 12 years old. You may have a higher IQ and be more intelligent than your average 12 year old, but you're still 12. You're a kid. You need to get out and do things that other kids your age do. You'll have plenty of time to slave away behind a desk when you're older. Get out now and enjoy your youth. These laws were created to protect children exactly like you!
How condescending is this?
Isn't the idea about being a kid, learning how to deal with life as an adult. If this guy has the smarts and the ability needed to hold down a full time job now then why should he have to wait eight years?
Just because you make no secret of the fact you hate your job, it doesn't mean that everyone else hates their jobs.
Usually when a computer enthusiast is ridiculed in the media, most people on Slashdot rush to defend them. Why is it different this time?
Has anyone taken a moment to read anything about this aside from the two links CmdrTaco posted above.
The reason he fired his attorney is that she told him he would lose the case if he plead not guilty. Now I don't know about you, but if I was innocent and my lawyer told me to plead guilty or go to jail, I'd start looking for new representation too.
Also the article linked on HackerDigest is inaccurate on at least one count. qmail is not owned by Qualcomm. qmail was not the program that Jerome discovered the exploit in. qpopper is.
For information that may be more accurate or at least present the other side of the argument, try here http://www.freesk8.org/.
> Well, Linux is a pretty hard bandwagon to jump onto.
I actually had a few guys in mind when I wrote that. They keep trying to install Linux, fail miserably and end putting Windows back on when they get bored with the struggle. And each time they blame the specific distro they tried to install (or even on occasion Microsoft), instead of admitting that they always give up too easily.
Also anytime anyone asks what they run on their machines they claim Linux, but I've never once witnessed either of them having a working Linux system aside from untouched installs in dual-boot configs that always default to Windows.
Anyway if they actually ever get around to running Linux as their OS, the only reason will be because they see it as the cool anti-microsoft OS. Not because they actually know anything positive about it.
So actually you are right, Linux is a pretty hard bandwagon for them to jump onto. But each time a new distro comes out you can bet they'll have a go, simply because they know that Windows is evil, and Linux is cool.
You speak about "ease of use" as if that is a bad thing. Boiling a kettle is a pretty easy task, does that mean everyone should rush out and buy more complicated kettles. Would we then say that these people are more intelligent? Hell no, you'd take the piss out of them for being idiotic.
> the public does not want to spend
> time thinking or learning
The idea that only Linux users think, while users of Microsoft products are sheep, is arrogant in the extreme. You could just as easily argue the opposite point, that many Linux users are sheep for jumping on the aint-it-cool free open-source anti-microsoft bandwagon.
Why should anyone have to learn about patching kernels, editing.conf files and all that nonsense? An OS should just sit there quietly in the background causing as little disturbance as possible while the user gets on with the real work/play/whatever he/she/it bought the computer for in the first place.
Isn't 'ease of use' the main thing that Red Hat, Mandrake, Slackware, Debian, etc, are all working towards? Does that mean that we now have to go off and find an even more complex OS to be worthy intelligent computer users?
And before everyone rushes to condemn me, I just would like to point out that I use Linux, Windows 2000 and Mac OS X.
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But this depends on the Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) kernel module which doesn't seem to be available for Mac OS X.
Remeber the driver layer in Mac OS X wasn't imported from FreeBSD, Apple developed their own called I/O Kit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I/O_Kit
So you know, "Just hired" as in a month and a half ago.
Excuse my language. None of the British's things I listed are channels either, they are news programmes that appear on regular tv channels.
In our defense. Fox is a television news channel. The Sun is a newspaper.
If you are going to compare the Fox News to something the UK, you should compare it to BBC News, ITN, Channel4 News, Five News or Sky News.
Even the trashy news channels here, Five and ITN stand head and shoulders above Fox "Bees That Kill!!! after these messages..." News.
That is debatable. Some might say it had something to do with Mosaic's ease of install, some might say it had something to do with Tim's WorldWideWeb being available for NeXT machines only.
...called WorldWideWeb written by Tim Berners-Lee.
The first version was completed on Xmas day 1990.
That makes the WWW twelve now and thirteen on Xmas day this year.
You said and I quote,
You didn't explicitly say you meant only on a RAID system. Hence the confusion.
BTW Resorting to calling them "fools" twice and "dorks" doesn't help your credibility.
Although I do agree in part with Vegan Pagan that the series does seem to reflect the small minded prejudices of the producers, I need to correct one thing.
When Archer referred to the Suliban making a "deal with the devil", he was referring to where they were getting their genetic engineering from, with "future guy" in the devil role. He was not referring to the actual genetic engineering itself.
Anyway apart from that I agree.
So what did the humans call it?
Been ages since I watched any.
I thougt "The Tenth Planet" was called Mondas.
No offense meant to TheTomcat but...
I was in McDonalds the other day and Elvis was in the queue infront of me. I asked him what he had been doing over the last few decades. He ***confirmed*** he has in fact been working in a range of convenience stores across the United States.
Do I get modded up to (Score:4, Informative) now too?
Yesterday I posted a comment about the TheRegister.
After seeing the picture at the bottom of the news article linked above, I take it all back. TheRegister is the most accurate news site I've ever seen. Their fact checking skills are so l33t they make it seem like they haven't done any at all.
What age is Andrew Orlowski? How can he really believe this? Royal Guards on Segways.
Ohhh kayyyy...
They repeatedly take a little piece of news, and try to infer some big story out of it.
A few years ago they posted a story that Microsoft had decided to cancel the Windows98 Second Edition project only a month or two before it's release.
What had actually happened was Microsoft had moved some of their programmers from the Win98 team to the Windows 2000 team.
Everyone else reported the programmers being moved, TheReg reported that Win98SE was cancelled.
They do this kind of thing all the time. Also they rarely list their sources, so when a story from TheReg is repeated at Slashdot or OSNews or wherever, it makes it impossible to check the authenticity of the story.
They are a tabloid. I wish everyone would just ignore them, or take everything they post with the pinch of salt it requires.
Next thing you know Slashdot will post links to stories in The Sun.
The original "Based on the Newton's 'Print Recognizer'" text is still on the Inkwell page of Apple's Asia site.
It will probably change soon.
http://www.asia.apple.com/macosx/10.2/inkwell.html
However it looks like the Apple UK site hasn't been updated since MacWorld, so maybe not.
How condescending is this?
Isn't the idea about being a kid, learning how to deal with life as an adult. If this guy has the smarts and the ability needed to hold down a full time job now then why should he have to wait eight years?
Just because you make no secret of the fact you hate your job, it doesn't mean that everyone else hates their jobs.
So how do you know he is "clearly guilty"?
Usually when a computer enthusiast is ridiculed in the media, most people on Slashdot rush to defend them. Why is it different this time?
Has anyone taken a moment to read anything about this aside from the two links CmdrTaco posted above.
The reason he fired his attorney is that she told him he would lose the case if he plead not guilty. Now I don't know about you, but if I was innocent and my lawyer told me to plead guilty or go to jail, I'd start looking for new representation too.
Also the article linked on HackerDigest is inaccurate on at least one count. qmail is not owned by Qualcomm. qmail was not the program that Jerome discovered the exploit in. qpopper is.
For information that may be more accurate or at least present the other side of the argument, try here http://www.freesk8.org/.
> Well, Linux is a pretty hard bandwagon to jump onto.
I actually had a few guys in mind when I wrote that. They keep trying to install Linux, fail miserably and end putting Windows back on when they get bored with the struggle. And each time they blame the specific distro they tried to install (or even on occasion Microsoft), instead of admitting that they always give up too easily.
Also anytime anyone asks what they run on their machines they claim Linux, but I've never once witnessed either of them having a working Linux system aside from untouched installs in dual-boot configs that always default to Windows.
Anyway if they actually ever get around to running Linux as their OS, the only reason will be because they see it as the cool anti-microsoft OS. Not because they actually know anything positive about it.
So actually you are right, Linux is a pretty hard bandwagon for them to jump onto. But each time a new distro comes out you can bet they'll have a go, simply because they know that Windows is evil, and Linux is cool.
I'm sorry but I really have to disagree with you.
.conf files and all that nonsense? An OS should just sit there quietly in the background causing as little disturbance as possible while the user gets on with the real work/play/whatever he/she/it bought the computer for in the first place.
You speak about "ease of use" as if that is a bad thing. Boiling a kettle is a pretty easy task, does that mean everyone should rush out and buy more complicated kettles. Would we then say that these people are more intelligent? Hell no, you'd take the piss out of them for being idiotic.
> the public does not want to spend
> time thinking or learning
The idea that only Linux users think, while users of Microsoft products are sheep, is arrogant in the extreme. You could just as easily argue the opposite point, that many Linux users are sheep for jumping on the aint-it-cool free open-source anti-microsoft bandwagon.
Why should anyone have to learn about patching kernels, editing
Isn't 'ease of use' the main thing that Red Hat, Mandrake, Slackware, Debian, etc, are all working towards? Does that mean that we now have to go off and find an even more complex OS to be worthy intelligent computer users?
And before everyone rushes to condemn me, I just would like to point out that I use Linux, Windows 2000 and Mac OS X.