HTF does a wikipedia link to "tablet PC" get "+1 Informative" when the person they're replying to says "... a tablet laptop" right there in the comment?
We all know that Solaris doesn't own the desktop. Hell, I'm a Solaris fan as AFAIC they don't even HAVE a desktop.
Just FYI, they _do_ have a desktop--at least, OpenSolaris does.
I really liked what I saw when I tried out the OpenSolaris livecd, but I don't have a valid reason to run it anywhere, so I can't comment on the long-term quality/usability.
I don't even know why shims are a problem. It's not like the API consumer needs to know they exist. Even more so, just use the API correctly and you'll never have compatibility issues in your app. The Microsoft philosophy is to let people to the wrong thing and let it work out right. I don't agree with that, but, hey, it doesn't really matter WHAT Microsoft does with Windows, really.
Did you actually read the document? Do you know what shims are?
The whole reason shims exist is because the APIs change over time, so what was correct usage in Win2000 or WinXP might not be correct in Vista or 7. Shims let applications written for older versions of the API work on the current OS without the current OS having to have all the different API versions simultaneously active*.
Had beautiful graphics and ran on a 386sx with a 128 MB VGA card and a 2D GPU.
So I call Bullshit- the only reason a high powered GPU is necessary is because game programmers have become LAZY.
I call bullshit. 128MB "VGA" cards never existed. The only reason for a card to have more than a few MB of RAM (back in the day) was 3D graphics (i.e. textures). Even today, 16MB of VRAM should be enough for 32bit color depth at 2560x1600. In the days of the 386sx, having 4MB of VRAM was quite a lot. Heck, having 4MB of system RAM wasn't too bad, in those days.
I have wolf spiders > 10 cm running around and often through my home.
I agree with your overall point that the story is a massive exaggeration, but then again...
The wikipedia link you posted says Wolf Spiders don't grow to more than 3cm... so either those aren't Wolf Spiders running around your house or you're rather prone to exaggeration yourself.
Maybe I read this somewhere else, as I can't find it on here.
Anyway this is just some prick trying to get a bunch of publicity over something stupid.
You want a solution? How about this: Windows should only hide file extensions for files that don't use custom icons. IOW, a.doc would show up as a Word document (by icon), so it doens't need the.doc. But if you change the icon of your.exe file to be the word doc icon, then the.exe still shows up.
Now, I'll go make a quick patch and submit the.diff... oh, wait, nevermind.
Well, here in the US (and I would assume in other parts of the world as well), we have a nerd subculture whose members are called "Japanophiles."
I think the proper term is 'Otaku'.
Otaku is a different sort of term. A Japanophile would be a particular type of otaku, since an otaku is someone who is thoroughly obsessed with something. AFAIK, the "something" is not limited to any particular subset, although anime, manga, videogames, and subgenres of those things are common subjects for an otaku to be obsessed with.
Everyone's computer is going to jitter or freeze because the net will be over capacity? Are the rest of you still using Windows 95 or other OS's that don't multithread properly?
Otherwise, the idea that your whole computer will freeze due to a network issue is kind of laughable...
So far, carriers have added capacity often enough to stay ahead of the curve. I don't see why that would change now.
USPS has never, in my entire life, lost or damaged a package or letter of mine. UPS and Fedex have done one or both, repeatedly.
I don't know what the fuck your personal beef is with the USPS, but the fact that they're a monopoly and run both efficiently and extremely competently is pretty amazing to me.
Are you or a relative a postal employee, by chance?
I've had numerous things lost or damaged in the US Mail in the last year. It has been a decade since UPS lost or damaged a single package of mine. I don't use Fedex as often as the US Mail or UPS, so I'll leave them out of it.
Also, different post offices have different levels of competency. Just because your post office & carrier does a good job doesn't mean most of them do. Of the 7 or so post offices I've had substantial experience with (as a resident of their zip code), I would 2 have been horrible, 2 were quite good, and the others average. Note that "average" is below where I would rank UPS.
No, I don't work for UPS, and I don't own their stock or have any other commercial interest in them.
Now I finally understand what Netflix meant when they said it would "cost us too much to switch to machinable envelopes." (That's from memory, so it may be paraphrased.)
That's what I want to know, too. If I had known in 1995 what the specs for my 2009 system would be, I would have freaked out and expected it to boot in milliseconds and do everything else instantly.
So install Windows 98 and Office 97 on a modern system (we'll just pretend there are drivers). It'll fly crazy-fast. Heck, you could install Windows 98 and Office 97 on a RAMDISK and still have plenty of space left over.
What, you want XP SP3 w/ Office 07 & IE 8? Well, then I guess it'll run about the same as a ten year old computer ran with ten year old software.
Because CentOS/RedHat is the old-school way of doing things, and Ubuntu is for the new generation. I'm very happy with Ubuntu Server, it does things the way I expect it to (e.g. I NEVER have to log in to my server as root, no matter what it is I need to do). It's been rock-solid since the day I installed it.
If I were going to consider something other than Ubuntu for a server, it would Solaris x86 (mostly because ZFS is nice), not CentOS/Redhat. I haven't used SuSE in quite a while, it might be worth a look to see what they're up to these days.
I'm pretty sure you've completely misunderstood the point of all this.
When you bookmark in your browser, it's still going to use the long URL. This proposal calls for developers to set up a permanent redirect from their own short URL to the long one, and calls for services like Twitter to add support for auto-shortening (so when you feed it a long URL it will follow the "rev=canonical" to the short URL, and provide that one instead. So, amoral developers could decide to lie in their "rev=canonical" and put in a short URL that doesn't actually "deep link" to the long URL, but that won't affect your bookmarks, or anything doesn't auto-shorten the URLs (which would mostly be messaging services like Twitter and SMS).
It's a shame that such a well thought-out piece is written by someone who either doesn't edit, or doesn't have a firm grasp of the English language.
And by "scientific", I mean that the Yes/No answers returned by the procedure should be repeatable as far as possible, so that different defendants aren't being tried under wildly different standards, where Bob is convicted of possessing an innocuous photo while Alice is acquitted even though she possessed a racier one.
(emphasis added)
Innocuous means harmless... so how can Bob be convicted of possesing a harmless photo?
Perhaps you meant to say "Bob was convicted of possession despite the photo being innocuous" or something like that.
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HTF does a wikipedia link to "tablet PC" get "+1 Informative" when the person they're replying to says "... a tablet laptop" right there in the comment?
*sigh* indeed.
We all know that Solaris doesn't own the desktop. Hell, I'm a Solaris fan as AFAIC they don't even HAVE a desktop.
Just FYI, they _do_ have a desktop--at least, OpenSolaris does.
I really liked what I saw when I tried out the OpenSolaris livecd, but I don't have a valid reason to run it anywhere, so I can't comment on the long-term quality/usability.
Because this whole article is FUD.
I don't even know why shims are a problem. It's not like the API consumer needs to know they exist. Even more so, just use the API correctly and you'll never have compatibility issues in your app. The Microsoft philosophy is to let people to the wrong thing and let it work out right. I don't agree with that, but, hey, it doesn't really matter WHAT Microsoft does with Windows, really.
Did you actually read the document? Do you know what shims are?
The whole reason shims exist is because the APIs change over time, so what was correct usage in Win2000 or WinXP might not be correct in Vista or 7. Shims let applications written for older versions of the API work on the current OS without the current OS having to have all the different API versions simultaneously active*.
*Wow, would that be one heck of a mess.
You've already got +5, but I wanted to say:
That made me laugh out loud, and posts of Slashdot very seldom have that effect.
I agree. I just checked all the machines I have immediate access to, and they are all on 5.1. Why does a vulnrability in 4.7 matter?
Had beautiful graphics and ran on a 386sx with a 128 MB VGA card and a 2D GPU.
So I call Bullshit- the only reason a high powered GPU is necessary is because game programmers have become LAZY.
I call bullshit. 128MB "VGA" cards never existed. The only reason for a card to have more than a few MB of RAM (back in the day) was 3D graphics (i.e. textures). Even today, 16MB of VRAM should be enough for 32bit color depth at 2560x1600. In the days of the 386sx, having 4MB of VRAM was quite a lot. Heck, having 4MB of system RAM wasn't too bad, in those days.
Pest Controller in Australia has to rate right down there ...
Life expectancy: 3.6 days.
I have wolf spiders > 10 cm running around and often through my home.
I agree with your overall point that the story is a massive exaggeration, but then again...
The wikipedia link you posted says Wolf Spiders don't grow to more than 3cm... so either those aren't Wolf Spiders running around your house or you're rather prone to exaggeration yourself.
Perhaps not normal, but here's the math:
Add everything up, and it comes to $20200/year.
Bloody hell, where do you live that insurance is $450 per MONTH?
Or perhaps you owned some crazy car, considering $650/mo payments...
I used to pay about $100/mo for two cars...
Maybe I read this somewhere else, as I can't find it on here.
Anyway this is just some prick trying to get a bunch of publicity over something stupid.
You want a solution? How about this: Windows should only hide file extensions for files that don't use custom icons. IOW, a .doc would show up as a Word document (by icon), so it doens't need the .doc. But if you change the icon of your .exe file to be the word doc icon, then the .exe still shows up.
Now, I'll go make a quick patch and submit the .diff... oh, wait, nevermind.
How often does a story on the Morning Call get posted to slashdot?
This would be like reading about the construction on Route 309 in the Wall Street Journal, or something...
(I'm from the Lehigh Valley, in case that wasn't clear).
Well, here in the US (and I would assume in other parts of the world as well), we have a nerd subculture whose members are called "Japanophiles."
I think the proper term is 'Otaku'.
Otaku is a different sort of term. A Japanophile would be a particular type of otaku, since an otaku is someone who is thoroughly obsessed with something. AFAIK, the "something" is not limited to any particular subset, although anime, manga, videogames, and subgenres of those things are common subjects for an otaku to be obsessed with.
How about the kdawson flu?
=Smidge=
I second that motion.
Everyone's computer is going to jitter or freeze because the net will be over capacity? Are the rest of you still using Windows 95 or other OS's that don't multithread properly?
Otherwise, the idea that your whole computer will freeze due to a network issue is kind of laughable...
So far, carriers have added capacity often enough to stay ahead of the curve. I don't see why that would change now.
Virtual memory is more valuable than full screen editors and garbage collection is just icing on a very tall layer cake...
MMmmmm... Garabage Collection Cake, yum yum.
Is your name Oscar, per chance?
When the only answer slashdotters can imagine is "just pay somebody else to do it," that is the day there is no point reading here.
Hey, that was pretty good. What would you charge to make my posts for me?
I would say 2 were quite good...
*sigh* Even forced preview couldn't save me; I only read the first 2/3rds of it, fixed 2 errors, and clicked submit.
USPS has never, in my entire life, lost or damaged a package or letter of mine. UPS and Fedex have done one or both, repeatedly.
I don't know what the fuck your personal beef is with the USPS, but the fact that they're a monopoly and run both efficiently and extremely competently is pretty amazing to me.
Are you or a relative a postal employee, by chance?
I've had numerous things lost or damaged in the US Mail in the last year. It has been a decade since UPS lost or damaged a single package of mine. I don't use Fedex as often as the US Mail or UPS, so I'll leave them out of it.
Also, different post offices have different levels of competency. Just because your post office & carrier does a good job doesn't mean most of them do. Of the 7 or so post offices I've had substantial experience with (as a resident of their zip code), I would 2 have been horrible, 2 were quite good, and the others average. Note that "average" is below where I would rank UPS.
No, I don't work for UPS, and I don't own their stock or have any other commercial interest in them.
Now I finally understand what Netflix meant when they said it would "cost us too much to switch to machinable envelopes." (That's from memory, so it may be paraphrased.)
That's what I want to know, too. If I had known in 1995 what the specs for my 2009 system would be, I would have freaked out and expected it to boot in milliseconds and do everything else instantly.
So install Windows 98 and Office 97 on a modern system (we'll just pretend there are drivers). It'll fly crazy-fast. Heck, you could install Windows 98 and Office 97 on a RAMDISK and still have plenty of space left over.
What, you want XP SP3 w/ Office 07 & IE 8? Well, then I guess it'll run about the same as a ten year old computer ran with ten year old software.
Because CentOS/RedHat is the old-school way of doing things, and Ubuntu is for the new generation. I'm very happy with Ubuntu Server, it does things the way I expect it to (e.g. I NEVER have to log in to my server as root, no matter what it is I need to do). It's been rock-solid since the day I installed it.
If I were going to consider something other than Ubuntu for a server, it would Solaris x86 (mostly because ZFS is nice), not CentOS/Redhat. I haven't used SuSE in quite a while, it might be worth a look to see what they're up to these days.
MacOS, Linux, and Windows have enough apps that they can be considered full-blown operating systems.
So the iPhone is a full computer? It does run a version of MacOS, and it has tons of apps...
What about Windows Mobile devices?
I don't think either "number of apps" or "mac os/linux/windows" is the identifier for "computer" versus "appliance/phone/etc".
Also, the need to draw a line between the two is rapidly disappearing.
Welcome to the Great Convergance. AI controlled machines will take over the world and eliminate the human race in 3...2...
I'm pretty sure you've completely misunderstood the point of all this.
When you bookmark in your browser, it's still going to use the long URL. This proposal calls for developers to set up a permanent redirect from their own short URL to the long one, and calls for services like Twitter to add support for auto-shortening (so when you feed it a long URL it will follow the "rev=canonical" to the short URL, and provide that one instead. So, amoral developers could decide to lie in their "rev=canonical" and put in a short URL that doesn't actually "deep link" to the long URL, but that won't affect your bookmarks, or anything doesn't auto-shorten the URLs (which would mostly be messaging services like Twitter and SMS).
Ummm... am I the only one who thought this was probably supposed to be *gasp* sarcasm?
What's with all the responses taking it seriously?
I'd give it +1 Funny if I had any mod points.
It's a shame that such a well thought-out piece is written by someone who either doesn't edit, or doesn't have a firm grasp of the English language.
And by "scientific", I mean that the Yes/No answers returned by the procedure should be repeatable as far as possible, so that different defendants aren't being tried under wildly different standards, where Bob is convicted of possessing an innocuous photo while Alice is acquitted even though she possessed a racier one.
(emphasis added)
Innocuous means harmless... so how can Bob be convicted of possesing a harmless photo?
Perhaps you meant to say "Bob was convicted of possession despite the photo being innocuous" or something like that.