Personally, I favor MS Word 5.1 for the Mac, which is over ten years old. No word processor, before or since, on any platform has matched the power, simplicity and functionality.
Now of course Linux can have productivity apps that don't suck. It's just that no one has written them yet.
No, there hasn't. And the productivity suites that run on Unix/Linux still haven't caught up -- and even if they did, we still lack a coherent, consistent, elegant and usable "desktop" interface.
Are you implying that an industry would turn down something free (as in beer)?
Linux will never make it to the desktops, the productivity applications will forever be 5+ years behind. But on the other side, in the render farms, Linux has already replaced more expensive solutions like SGI and Solaris. It's free, and it works just as well or better. People in charge of enormous corporations like that sort of thing.
You're wrong -- if MS had patented this (say, for a color-morphing keyboard), I'd be all for it. It's a cool idea that no one has brought to market yet.
'depleted' means that it's no longer suitable for uses which depend on high radioactivity (like bombs and reactors). it is still radioactive as hell on an absolute scale, and to me, filling a country (enemy or friend) with radioactive dust is a short-sighted, evil, dirty way to fight.
if DU were all the US had to protect ourselves out there, it would be a different story. however you and I both know that the US could have taken Iraq with totally conventional weaponry and we'd be in the same strategic status we are today: "victorious", but taking potshots of gunfire and RPGs from Iraqis pissed off that we're occupying -- er, "protecting" their homeland.
Thanks for bringing MS into the fold. You represent everything stupid about Slashdot. Mods: -1, Retarded parent. (and of course my comment will hit -1, Flamebait -- that's ok, i'll take the karma hit)
Once I figure out how to hack Hiawatha, I will crapflood the Boston Globe itself! No one will notice -- they'll just think they bought the Herald instead!
Physics explanation: You are carrying your weight to a higher altitude, thereby raising your potential energy. Conservation of energy dictates that you've gotta put equivalent kinetic energy in there yourself.
I ride a fixed gear bicycle, which disallows coasting in favor of a direct mechanical connection between pedals and rear wheel. There is exactly one gear. I find that this helps the psychological aspect of hills -- basically, you know you have no choice but to stand up and work harder, so you just do it and get it over with.
The "best" design for a cycle depends on the situation, the environment, and most of all the rider. You ride; you know this.
The bicycle where you saw the rider low to the ground is called a "recumbent". These fuckers really scream, due to the vast aerodynamic advantage over a conventional bike. You see some pretty nerdy dudes riding these.
Anyway, this book doesn't put forth the hard-and-fast "best" design, but merely explains all the physical forces acting on a bicycle so that the engineer can plan accordingly.
Keith Winstein is not a hothead; he was merely trying to debate the point with Jack, and when you have the 100% opposite opinion it is tough to come across as being on the interviewee's side. He had the choice of risking exposure as a 'hothead', or ignoring the one burning issue that comprises the entire reason for the interview (and chatting instead about football or VHS vs. Betamax or something).
keithw also had the popularity-disadvantage of being much, much more informed about the subject matter than Valenti, in both the technical and libertarian aspects. The subject needed no further rhetoric than what he offered.
It's funny that you mention this, because I spent this morning searching for a text editor on Windows that does not suck.
I eventually settled for EditPlus, which became a lot more elegant after I'd turned off all the up-in-your-face shit and wrote some syntax highlighting rules for Fortran.
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Personally, I favor MS Word 5.1 for the Mac, which is over ten years old. No word processor, before or since, on any platform has matched the power, simplicity and functionality.
Now of course Linux can have productivity apps that don't suck. It's just that no one has written them yet.
No, there hasn't. And the productivity suites that run on Unix/Linux still haven't caught up -- and even if they did, we still lack a coherent, consistent, elegant and usable "desktop" interface.
Are you implying that an industry would turn down something free (as in beer)?
Linux will never make it to the desktops, the productivity applications will forever be 5+ years behind. But on the other side, in the render farms, Linux has already replaced more expensive solutions like SGI and Solaris. It's free, and it works just as well or better. People in charge of enormous corporations like that sort of thing.
You're wrong -- if MS had patented this (say, for a color-morphing keyboard), I'd be all for it. It's a cool idea that no one has brought to market yet.
Luckily, Apple acted on it first -- as usual.
This is obviously the first hack anyone is going to write for it. The color and pattern is software-controlled, and therefore application-agnostic.
Second, someone (it could be me) will figure out how to goatse your case.
Dude didn't you hear? They ported NextSTEP to the Mac!!! The days of cooperative multitasking are over!
Good thing no one has a patent on hyperbole -- you'd be in some serious trouble with the above post.
probably by having multiple tri-color LEDs dimmed by pulse-width modulation.
I gotta say, it will be pretty neat having the entire case give me information about CPU/memory usage.
because my game is nethack!
I was waiting for Napster to die again.
yeah, right now they spring for name-brand Dew. even pizza sometimes, too.
What if Slashdot gave $503 for every 503 Service Unavailable?
Malda and company would be living off ramen and store-brand Mountain Dew in less than a week.
Wait 5000 years.
'depleted' means that it's no longer suitable for uses which depend on high radioactivity (like bombs and reactors). it is still radioactive as hell on an absolute scale, and to me, filling a country (enemy or friend) with radioactive dust is a short-sighted, evil, dirty way to fight.
if DU were all the US had to protect ourselves out there, it would be a different story. however you and I both know that the US could have taken Iraq with totally conventional weaponry and we'd be in the same strategic status we are today: "victorious", but taking potshots of gunfire and RPGs from Iraqis pissed off that we're occupying -- er, "protecting" their homeland.
You'd think that would discourage the use of depleted uranium in modern warfare.
But you'd be wrong.
America fights dirty.
Thanks for bringing MS into the fold. You represent everything stupid about Slashdot. Mods: -1, Retarded parent. (and of course my comment will hit -1, Flamebait -- that's ok, i'll take the karma hit)
Once I figure out how to hack Hiawatha, I will crapflood the Boston Globe itself! No one will notice -- they'll just think they bought the Herald instead!
I ride a fixed gear and run NetBSD, and have zero problems with either!
Physics explanation: You are carrying your weight to a higher altitude, thereby raising your potential energy. Conservation of energy dictates that you've gotta put equivalent kinetic energy in there yourself.
I ride a fixed gear bicycle, which disallows coasting in favor of a direct mechanical connection between pedals and rear wheel. There is exactly one gear. I find that this helps the psychological aspect of hills -- basically, you know you have no choice but to stand up and work harder, so you just do it and get it over with.
The "best" design for a cycle depends on the situation, the environment, and most of all the rider. You ride; you know this.
The bicycle where you saw the rider low to the ground is called a "recumbent". These fuckers really scream, due to the vast aerodynamic advantage over a conventional bike. You see some pretty nerdy dudes riding these.
Anyway, this book doesn't put forth the hard-and-fast "best" design, but merely explains all the physical forces acting on a bicycle so that the engineer can plan accordingly.
Keith Winstein is not a hothead; he was merely trying to debate the point with Jack, and when you have the 100% opposite opinion it is tough to come across as being on the interviewee's side. He had the choice of risking exposure as a 'hothead', or ignoring the one burning issue that comprises the entire reason for the interview (and chatting instead about football or VHS vs. Betamax or something).
keithw also had the popularity-disadvantage of being much, much more informed about the subject matter than Valenti, in both the technical and libertarian aspects. The subject needed no further rhetoric than what he offered.
No thanks -- vi is my console editor of choice, but I prefer using tools written since the Stone Age when I'm on a GUI.
Exactly. This happens all the time -- just take hick.org as an example.
It's funny that you mention this, because I spent this morning searching for a text editor on Windows that does not suck.
I eventually settled for EditPlus, which became a lot more elegant after I'd turned off all the up-in-your-face shit and wrote some syntax highlighting rules for Fortran.
It's no BBEdit though...