The BBC is awesome. After relying on BBC News for a while, the major US networks all look pretty Las Vegas. Streaming Radio 6 gets me through the workday.
And The Office/Young Ones/Cutting It/Little Britain... damn!
Every last one of you. You're all latte-sipping, iMac-using, suburban-living tertiary-industry-working WASPs who offer absolutely no new insights on anything whatsoever apart from maybe one specialist field if we're lucky.
I had the same problem with my iPod; everything showed up as grey and unplayable in iTunes. Changing the prefs for the iPod in iTunes to 'Manually manage songs and playlists' made the songs available.
Damn! Thanks, Akki, for actually RTFA rather than just posting anecdotes.
Despite the slant given by the story's poster ('the paper...could indirectly explain the previous stories covered by Slashdot'), this paper was obviously going to be slanted favorably towards EA ('meritocracy', long hours resulting from 'great passion', etc.); he's making recommendations on curriculum for students who want to work there. There wouldn't be much point to say that the place is a sweatshop; never mind about what courses you might need to work there, because you don't don't want to...
They ain't never gonna find a cure for AIDS! There's no money in a cure. They'll give you a treatment. That's how drug dealers work, they get you on the come back. --Chris Rock
Linux and Macs are not immune to being attacked in similar ways.
Absolutely true.
I like this definition of myth: a (usually collective) tale, fable, or dogma that unconsciously symbolizes the activities of the collective unconscious.
While 'the rest of us' are certainly not immune, we don't* get high-level advisories that the leading server/browser combos for our operating systems work together to screw us in innovative (and yet unavoidable) ways.
Maybe that's where the myth comes in...
xox, Dead Nancy
*Yeah, yeah. It could happen here, if that agitates you.
At least he said "this attack" instead of "attacks".
Hoorah! Lord knows Code Red, Nimda, Blaster, Sasser and the like were nightmares for us Mac and Linux people.
Really, tho: to what recent widespread non-Windows "attacks" are you referring?
xox, Dead Nancy
Re:Mir Scientists Study Effects of Weightlessness
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ISS Spacewalk Cut Short
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· Score: 2, Funny
"We have also taken huge leaps in our understanding of the patterns created when one wets his pants in the weightlessness of space," Solovyov said. "The urine spreads out in an expanding sphere, something we did not expect."
Hmm...
A riskier-than-usual spacewalk outside the international space station was cut short Thursday night because of a malfunction that left one of the two crewmen with a warm, damp suit.
However to the masses it likely sounds like there are issues with systems based on Linux.
I think even these 'masses' can read:
Based on the Linux operating system, Roku runs its own user interface that looks slightly like that of TiVo, another Linux-based set-top box that's seen significant success as a personal video recorder (PVR).
It seems pretty clear that the author's making no general statement about issues with Linux-based systems. (Or if he is, choosing a 'signifigant success' is a lousy way to do it...)
Such a tired argument. It's more that marketshare that makes Windows such a target. This has been so well discussed that it hardly bears repeating, but: insanely liberal permissions on default install, heavy browser/os integration, and so on. I don't think Windows would have spread MyDoom and SoBig so rapidly if a security dialog had popped up asking the user to supply these worms with admin passwords as would have had to happen under OS X no matter what marketshare it had.
THANK YOU. Finally! My first thought on getting my iPod (a gift) wasn't Damn. People are going to immediately assume my white earphones are an affected attempt to display status!
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So if Japan, China and South Korea got this OS together and into the marketplace, and Microsoft sued, and won, and same countries had silly ideas about their own national sovereignties and economies and told MS to feck off, would Redmond petition the U.S. to intervene militarily to enforce fair market practices?
Absurd, but so is MS attempting to dictate tech policy to foreign nations.
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Can I offer an a-MEN?
The BBC is awesome. After relying on BBC News for a while, the major US networks all look pretty Las Vegas. Streaming Radio 6 gets me through the workday.
And The Office/Young Ones/Cutting It/Little Britain... damn!
DN
and the Angels.
dn
the true winner for ugly Apple products...
I'd nominate the eMate.
You are all pretentious twats
Every last one of you. You're all latte-sipping, iMac-using, suburban-living tertiary-industry-working WASPs who offer absolutely no new insights on anything whatsoever apart from maybe one specialist field if we're lucky.
Quite an enjoyable rant.
xox,
Dead Nancy
I had the same problem with my iPod; everything showed up as grey and unplayable in iTunes. Changing the prefs for the iPod in iTunes to 'Manually manage songs and playlists' made the songs available.
xox,
Dead Nancy
Damn! Thanks, Akki, for actually RTFA rather than just posting anecdotes.
Despite the slant given by the story's poster ('the paper...could indirectly explain the previous stories covered by Slashdot'), this paper was obviously going to be slanted favorably towards EA ('meritocracy', long hours resulting from 'great passion', etc.); he's making recommendations on curriculum for students who want to work there. There wouldn't be much point to say that the place is a sweatshop; never mind about what courses you might need to work there, because you don't don't want to...
xox,
Dead Nancy
They ain't never gonna find a cure for AIDS! There's no money in a cure. They'll give you a treatment. That's how drug dealers work, they get you on the come back. --Chris Rock
But can you see the carcass of the little bunny that NASA cruelly murdered?
xox,
Dead Nancy
---
For all of the armchair critics who claim to know that Apple "should have" bought Konfabulator to serve as the basis for Dashboard, I ask:
Have you used Konfabulator? If so, have you measured its memory consumption?
Do you think Apple's OS engineers should be concerned about performance and resource consumption?
Do you think you know more about performance and resource allocation than Apple's engineers?
Do you believe reasonable engineering opinions can be drawn by looking at screenshots?
Do you realize how insulting it is to have someone who knows nothing about the details of your work tell you that they know better than you do?
Linux and Macs are not immune to being attacked in similar ways.
Absolutely true.
I like this definition of myth: a (usually collective) tale, fable, or dogma that unconsciously symbolizes the activities of the collective unconscious.
While 'the rest of us' are certainly not immune, we don't* get high-level advisories that the leading server/browser combos for our operating systems work together to screw us in innovative (and yet unavoidable) ways.
Maybe that's where the myth comes in...
xox,
Dead Nancy
*Yeah, yeah. It could happen here, if that agitates you.
At least he said "this attack" instead of "attacks".
Hoorah! Lord knows Code Red, Nimda, Blaster, Sasser and the like were nightmares for us Mac and Linux people.
Really, tho: to what recent widespread non-Windows "attacks" are you referring?
xox,
Dead Nancy
Hmm...
A riskier-than-usual spacewalk outside the international space station was cut short Thursday night because of a malfunction that left one of the two crewmen with a warm, damp suit.
Indeed!
xox,
Dead Nancy
I understand the "spider walk" in the re-release of The Exorcist is also pretty creepy.
Damn. Reading that, I just broke out in goose bumps thinking about the scene. It was about the creepiest shit I've ever seen.
xox,
Dead Nancy
check google...
Thanks for your suggestion! Google turned up this bit of gallows humor.
xox,
Dead Nancy
However to the masses it likely sounds like there are issues with systems based on Linux.
I think even these 'masses' can read:
Based on the Linux operating system, Roku runs its own user interface that looks slightly like that of TiVo, another Linux-based set-top box that's seen significant success as a personal video recorder (PVR).
It seems pretty clear that the author's making no general statement about issues with Linux-based systems. (Or if he is, choosing a 'signifigant success' is a lousy way to do it...)
xox,
Dead Nancy
I don't see it. Wasn't it across the street from Moe's?
The rats didn't seem to have to to travel very far to get there...
It's filthy, and it's mine!
xox,
Dead Nancy
Such a tired argument. It's more that marketshare that makes Windows such a target. This has been so well discussed that it hardly bears repeating, but: insanely liberal permissions on default install, heavy browser/os integration, and so on. I don't think Windows would have spread MyDoom and SoBig so rapidly if a security dialog had popped up asking the user to supply these worms with admin passwords as would have had to happen under OS X no matter what marketshare it had.
IHBT. IHL.
xox,
Dead Nancy
LEGO (C) Hand Held Stabilizer
xox,
Dead Nancy
THANK YOU. Finally! My first thought on getting my iPod (a gift) wasn't Damn. People are going to immediately assume my white earphones are an affected attempt to display status!
Please.
xox,
Dead Nancy
So basically people just want to show off...
(Score:-1, Tragic Lack of Fashion Sense)
Some of us enjoy life.
xox,
Dead Nancy
Linux on iPod
xox,
Dead Nancy
GET SOME, HARRY!
Re:Before everyone say WHY BOTHER? (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 02, @06:06PM (#7863874)
sure is a lot of post copying lately [slashdot.org]
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So if Japan, China and South Korea got this OS together and into the marketplace, and Microsoft sued, and won, and same countries had silly ideas about their own national sovereignties and economies and told MS to feck off, would Redmond petition the U.S. to intervene militarily to enforce fair market practices?
Absurd, but so is MS attempting to dictate tech policy to foreign nations.
xox,
Dead Nancy