I guess I would have to concede that point. Besides knowing how to suck the milk out and how to find the nipple, babies don't know how to "get the milk out of the nipple." They have to be taught in some form of baby-language known by the nurses to use the interface, since they can't do the remaining step of...um...well, whatever they can't do.
This is not true. I have three younger sisters. Two of them are young enough that I remember it, and besides, there's abundant scientific proof. I leave the burden of getting it on you since you're the one who doesn't believe, and I believe other readers will find this obvious.
Newborns automatically know all the mechanics of how to feed, defacate, and cry. Walking and crawling are also known to be built-in, though they don't take effect until babies are capable of doing it.
The typewriter interface has been with us for over a century. We've become accustomed to it.
I remember watching Minority Report and thinking "people don't like computers now. Do you think they'll be willing to learn such an obviously unintuitive and totally new interface?"
This seemed like it would be especially true outside the tech sector, such as, for instance, in law enforcement.
Remember that the only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything else is learned. Some people may use this, yes, but I doubt most. I don't think most can deal with anything beyond using the mouse and keyboard.
Otherwise, the following things would be used, since they're faster even though they have a higher learning curve:
-mouse gestures would be HUGELY in use
-keyboard shortcuts would be known by almost everyone
-everyone would be using vi or emacs in a wysiwsg mode instead of wordpad/notepad/word.
-User interfaces with only a single type of action (clicky-clicky) wouldn't be popular.
When and if this is ever true of most of society, then we'll be ready for the new interfaces.
I seem to remember something like that. Except that I remember it as PM coming out and we thought the rest of the movies would probably suck.
Then AoC came out and removed all doubt by actually being worse than the first one. I've seen better acting in a high school play. Even if I'd never seen the original, the movie was very bad.
Tech support companies the world over are tired of people calling up and asking, "Is your internet better than the internets of other companies?" They made a plea to the US government to do something about it, who, out of embarassment for the American people's stupidity, promptly made up a new reason to make another, lower quality internet.
From now on, rather than spending several hours trying to explain the concept of the internet to people who have trouble walking and chewing gum at the same time, tech supporters will be able to simple say, "Yes."
Following this announcement, SCO announced that the Linux desktop AND enterprise markets are dead, encouraging people to switch over to Windows.
"It just makes sense," said CEO Daryll, speaking to his other brother Daryll, "we have practically cornered the market through our tactful legal abilities, and besides, we've redesigned our entire codebase for the purpose of clubbing baby seals. We don't need Linux, even though we own it."
SCO then encouraged RedHat to enter the lucrative Baby Seal clubbing market.
Most of these companies already have their own research labs and fund people to work in this area in actual colleges with actual labs.
Think about it. They know how much this stuff costs.
A million is peanuts compared to what it costs for development. Its worth much more to be the first to market with the new technologies. Most of these companies are doing it because they don't really control how the research is done, or what is done with it. The colleges do, and because it gets them nice publicity, they're doing it. Of course, they're "sponsored," but that's mostly because the companies want first dibbs on the technology and that's how you get it.
Well...maybe a few are doing it for the publicity.
Slower at what? Access times? Add another server, it's not like you have to tell the clients. Write times? I don't know about that, I wouldn't want to run a database off the thing, but that's not what it's for. Slower access times. It takes ten times the network traffic that Samba does, so you can't access your files quickly, if, for instance, you want to stream the data for some reason. Over a 100Mbit link, 10 times slower means a lot. Since this is one of the only filesystems with a Windows client, it could supplant Samba, save for this flaw. I have no idea what you're talking about regarding it choking on large files. I haven't seen that. Well, I have. That was what killed it eventually, actually. I tried to delete a 1 GB file, and the partition corrupted beyond repair. Every time I tried that I got either: 1) File system corruption (followed by the watchdog taking the system offline, repairing it, and putting it back online with that file still there). 2) 30 minutes of waiting during which time the file was deleted.
I tried it last year, and I compiled everything myself. Maybe it's just really unstable when you don't get the executable straight from the website, or it's much better now.
In my experience, it's one of those "it would be a wonderful thing if it worked."
It requires it's own partition for each mount of it; you can't just share disks you've already got.
Setup also takes hours, and it probably won't work the first time. Online documentation is incredibly outdated, which doesn't help matters at all. It also takes a hefty chunk of computer to run it, because it requires a lot of watchdog type programs to fix the frequent corruption that happens to it as you use it.
The servers time has to be matched exactly, so it's also best if you've got an NTP server running and clients on all the machines.
It's also about ten times slower than Samba (which you might use instead to share with Windows machines), and it chokes when you try to move/copy/delete large files.
I tried it for a month before it completely corrupted it's own partition and I switched back to NFS and Samba.
I can't wait for the day when these problems are but a memory and such a system works flawlessly.
You can buy a LaserJet 4 on e-bay for about $50, with $40 in shipping.
They're rated for approximately 500,000 sheets, and most that you buy used have about 100,000.
Cartridges are about $80, and are rated to print about 35,000 sheets each. That comes out to about $.03 per sheet, compared to about $.20 a sheet for normal inkjets.
Obviously, you don't have to change such printers as often. I print about 20 pages per week. By my estimate, I'll have to change the cartridge in a decade or so.
Is it rather strange that a poll on the subject would show that the most commonly thought of weasely things are weasely?
I suppose you'd expect things to show up that aren't weasely? Nuns instead of lawyers? FSF instead of Microsoft?
Opinion polls generally indicate stereotypes, since they point out what people think about things. Its a tautology, really - a stereotype is a generalization of something that people believe is the norm. Opinion polls ask people what the norm is, therefore the result of an opinion poll is a stereotype.
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Don't forget, you also get more availability! So more people will be able to see your data when they decide to browse through the files on your box when they hack it.
Well, I could see that making it smoke a bit, and possibly cracking the screen...
Then there were the lasers. That vaporized a chunk. And the elephants.
The elephants?
Don't get me started on the elephants. They were almost as bad as the marching band that walked over it. Of course, I could have fixed it at that point, but then someone installed Windows XP on it without the latest security patches and left it connected to the net without a firewall for four hours.
This is not exclusively true. When writing stuff in Verilog for use with Synopsys or Cadence, for example, you don't get to specify quantum effects (though CPU chip designers wouldn't be using something so high-level for most of the design).
Quantum effects are what you get with such small transistors, and the interactions are a lot harder to predict than is, for instance, the adherence of a transistor to it's response curve.
You can do an okay job, yes, but that doesn't mean that the thing is going to positively always work as well as you want it to.
And don't forget the problems with the fabrication process. How sensitive to errors is your chip to subtle flaws in the fabrication? This is a question that people are still looking for a very reliable way to simulate.
If they had educated the parents on EM fields a little more, they might not have the problem they have now. Of course, such ignorance might be unstoppable.
Things that are invisibly harmful provoke more superstitions of harm than things that are more well known, like sunlight (and by that I'm not just referring to the visible spectrum).
I wonder what currently educated children will complain about when they're adults? Photographs that steal people's souls (giving them cancer)? The evil, cancer-causing voodoo magic of the internet? That salvation (from cancer) can only be had by following everything our benevolent media masters tell us to do?
A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but half a mind is a terrible thing.
You mean the way that nobody used Netscape back at version 4?
Actually, netscape had the lions share of the market at the time, but by the time they rebuilt the browser from scratch, Microsoft had them beat.
Today, Mozilla and IE are about the same for most people's use, so why bother switching? (I know that Mozilla has gestures, tabbed browsing, and a number of other features, but I haven't met a lot of people who have been interested in switching when I told what Mozilla can do).
And IE still has some points that it can stick to Mozilla - it renders dynamic pages a tad faster and doesn't go modal on all pages when loading one of them, and it takes less memory. (I could be wrong about the memory thing. All I have is my personal test - loading Windows 98 and running IE under Win4Lin takes less memory than all the versions of Mozilla on average for me except Firebird.)
If Mozilla had a clear advantage over IE, there would certainly be a jump as there was from IE to netscape in times gone by.
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I guess I would have to concede that point. Besides knowing how to suck the milk out and how to find the nipple, babies don't know how to "get the milk out of the nipple." They have to be taught in some form of baby-language known by the nurses to use the interface, since they can't do the remaining step of...um...well, whatever they can't do.
This is not true. I have three younger sisters.
Two of them are young enough that I remember it, and besides, there's abundant scientific proof. I leave the burden of getting it on you since you're the one who doesn't believe, and I believe other readers will find this obvious.
Newborns automatically know all the mechanics of how to feed, defacate, and cry. Walking and crawling are also known to be built-in, though they don't take effect until babies are capable of doing it.
It won't work.
The typewriter interface has been with us for over a century. We've become accustomed to it.
I remember watching Minority Report and thinking "people don't like computers now. Do you think they'll be willing to learn such an obviously unintuitive and totally new interface?"
This seemed like it would be especially true outside the tech sector, such as, for instance, in law enforcement.
Remember that the only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything else is learned. Some people may use this, yes, but I doubt most. I don't think most can deal with anything beyond using the mouse and keyboard.
Otherwise, the following things would be used, since they're faster even though they have a higher learning curve:
-mouse gestures would be HUGELY in use
-keyboard shortcuts would be known by almost everyone
-everyone would be using vi or emacs in a wysiwsg mode instead of wordpad/notepad/word.
-User interfaces with only a single type of action (clicky-clicky) wouldn't be popular.
When and if this is ever true of most of society, then we'll be ready for the new interfaces.
I seem to remember something like that. Except that I remember it as PM coming out and we thought the rest of the movies would probably suck.
Then AoC came out and removed all doubt by actually being worse than the first one. I've seen better acting in a high school play. Even if I'd never seen the original, the movie was very bad.
Tech support companies the world over are tired of people calling up and asking, "Is your internet better than the internets of other companies?" They made a plea to the US government to do something about it, who, out of embarassment for the American people's stupidity, promptly made up a new reason to make another, lower quality internet.
From now on, rather than spending several hours trying to explain the concept of the internet to people who have trouble walking and chewing gum at the same time, tech supporters will be able to simple say, "Yes."
Following this announcement, SCO announced that the Linux desktop AND enterprise markets are dead, encouraging people to switch over to Windows.
"It just makes sense," said CEO Daryll, speaking to his other brother Daryll, "we have practically cornered the market through our tactful legal abilities, and besides, we've redesigned our entire codebase for the purpose of clubbing baby seals. We don't need Linux, even though we own it."
SCO then encouraged RedHat to enter the lucrative Baby Seal clubbing market.
Riiigght.
Most of these companies already have their own research labs and fund people to work in this area in actual colleges with actual labs.
Think about it. They know how much this stuff costs.
A million is peanuts compared to what it costs for development. Its worth much more to be the first to market with the new technologies. Most of these companies are doing it because they don't really control how the research is done, or what is done with it. The colleges do, and because it gets them nice publicity, they're doing it. Of course, they're "sponsored," but that's mostly because the companies want first dibbs on the technology and that's how you get it.
Well...maybe a few are doing it for the publicity.
Slower at what? Access times? Add another server, it's not like you have to tell the clients. Write times? I don't know about that, I wouldn't want to run a database off the thing, but that's not what it's for.
Slower access times. It takes ten times the network traffic that Samba does, so you can't access your files quickly, if, for instance, you want to stream the data for some reason. Over a 100Mbit link, 10 times slower means a lot. Since this is one of the only filesystems with a Windows client, it could supplant Samba, save for this flaw.
I have no idea what you're talking about regarding it choking on large files. I haven't seen that.
Well, I have. That was what killed it eventually, actually. I tried to delete a 1 GB file, and the partition corrupted beyond repair.
Every time I tried that I got either:
1) File system corruption (followed by the watchdog taking the system offline, repairing it, and putting it back online with that file still there).
2) 30 minutes of waiting during which time the file was deleted.
I tried it last year, and I compiled everything myself. Maybe it's just really unstable when you don't get the executable straight from the website, or it's much better now.
In my experience, it's one of those "it would be a wonderful thing if it worked."
It requires it's own partition for each mount of it; you can't just share disks you've already got.
Setup also takes hours, and it probably won't work the first time. Online documentation is incredibly outdated, which doesn't help matters at all. It also takes a hefty chunk of computer to run it, because it requires a lot of watchdog type programs to fix the frequent corruption that happens to it as you use it.
The servers time has to be matched exactly, so it's also best if you've got an NTP server running and clients on all the machines.
It's also about ten times slower than Samba (which you might use instead to share with Windows machines), and it chokes when you try to move/copy/delete large files.
I tried it for a month before it completely corrupted it's own partition and I switched back to NFS and Samba.
I can't wait for the day when these problems are but a memory and such a system works flawlessly.
You're right...but I haven't had that price experience with my printers.
.0022.
Those old printers tend to jam a lot, bringing the price a little higher than
Also, Epson Stylus is one of the more affordable inkjets.
Most waste more ink "warming up" than the Epsons.
My old printer would get about 100 sheets to a cartridge, and a cartridge was $30.
$30/100=$.30
Some do better, some do worse. Obviously you've got a very good inkjet if you've gotten it down to $.008 per sheet.
You can buy a LaserJet 4 on e-bay for about $50, with $40 in shipping.
They're rated for approximately 500,000 sheets, and most that you buy used have about 100,000.
Cartridges are about $80, and are rated to print about 35,000 sheets each. That comes out to about $.03 per sheet, compared to about $.20 a sheet for normal inkjets.
Obviously, you don't have to change such printers as often. I print about 20 pages per week. By my estimate, I'll have to change the cartridge in a decade or so.
How about Windows XP when Microsoft decides they're not going to support it, officially, ever again?
People won't be able to register with Microsoft's online registration because that will be shut down.
Obviously Microsoft won't be selling that version ever again.
That would qualify as such abandonware, right?
When that happens, we'll be able to crack it in order to install it, right?
I look forward to that day. Maybe then I'll actually buy a copy of XP.
Maybe they'll change their marketing strategy and I'll stop boycotting them.
They're the sales leader in home automation tech, and if their ad campain wasn't so sleazy, I'd definitely buy from them.
This is probably of concern, therefore, to some slashdotters besides myself.
I suppose that's true from a certain point of view.
After all, excrement is a part of your body before leaving your digestive tract, right?
I don't see a problem here.
The CCD is the most delicate part of the hardware, and the device will work without it.
Just break it off.
Point out the
prizes that aren't and have him look for them.
Is it rather strange that a poll on the subject would show that the most commonly thought of weasely things are weasely?
I suppose you'd expect things to show up that aren't weasely? Nuns instead of lawyers? FSF instead of Microsoft?
Opinion polls generally indicate stereotypes, since they point out what people think about things. Its a tautology, really - a stereotype is a generalization of something that people believe is the norm. Opinion polls ask people what the norm is, therefore the result of an opinion poll is a stereotype.
Don't forget, you also get more availability! So more people will be able to see your data when they decide to browse through the files on your box when they hack it.
Yay!
Why did you bring me this pile of dust?
It's my laptop. It got blown up.
Blown up?
Well, first someone put it in the microwave.
Well, I could see that making it smoke a bit, and possibly cracking the screen...
Then there were the lasers. That vaporized a chunk. And the elephants.
The elephants?
Don't get me started on the elephants. They were almost as bad as the marching band that walked over it. Of course, I could have fixed it at that point, but then someone installed Windows XP on it without the latest security patches and left it connected to the net without a firewall for four hours.
And that made it crumble to dust?
Yes.
I see.
This is not exclusively true. When writing stuff in Verilog for use with Synopsys or Cadence, for example, you don't get to specify quantum effects (though CPU chip designers wouldn't be using something so high-level for most of the design).
Quantum effects are what you get with such small transistors, and the interactions are a lot harder to predict than is, for instance, the adherence of a transistor to it's response curve.
You can do an okay job, yes, but that doesn't mean that the thing is going to positively always work as well as you want it to.
And don't forget the problems with the fabrication process. How sensitive to errors is your chip to subtle flaws in the fabrication? This is a question that people are still looking for a very reliable way to simulate.
If they had educated the parents on EM fields a little more, they might not have the problem they have now. Of course, such ignorance might be unstoppable.
Things that are invisibly harmful provoke more superstitions of harm than things that are more well known, like sunlight (and by that I'm not just referring to the visible spectrum).
I wonder what currently educated children will complain about when they're adults? Photographs that steal people's souls (giving them cancer)? The evil, cancer-causing voodoo magic of the internet? That salvation (from cancer) can only be had by following everything our benevolent media masters tell us to do?
A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but half a mind is a terrible thing.
Ah...because all proofs involving infinity involve seeing the infinite?
I suppose you're not sure if there are an infinite number of real numbers, are you?
You mean the way that nobody used Netscape back at version 4?
Actually, netscape had the lions share of the market at the time, but by the time they rebuilt the browser from scratch, Microsoft had them beat.
Today, Mozilla and IE are about the same for most people's use, so why bother switching? (I know that Mozilla has gestures, tabbed browsing, and a number of other features, but I haven't met a lot of people who have been interested in switching when I told what Mozilla can do).
And IE still has some points that it can stick to Mozilla - it renders dynamic pages a tad faster and doesn't go modal on all pages when loading one of them, and it takes less memory. (I could be wrong about the memory thing. All I have is my personal test - loading Windows 98 and running IE under Win4Lin takes less memory than all the versions of Mozilla on average for me except Firebird.)
If Mozilla had a clear advantage over IE, there would certainly be a jump as there was from IE to netscape in times gone by.
Hmm...I don't know. I can't think of any distros that start with W and end with indows.
Which distro are you talking about?
UPS doesn't have to dig and bury wires on government owned property the way that the cable company does.
Don't you think it'd be a bit of a problem if there were eight cable companies in your area and eight cable lines running to every house?
The sides of roads would look like battlefields as each company digs, accidentally breaks the other guys lines, and repairs their own lines.
And who knows how many homegrown cable networks might exist that way...