I must have different tastes than a lot of/.rs, as I thought their catalog was sadly lacking. For example, they are woefully light on the incredible restorations done by Criterion.
That took a bit of effort to determine, too, as your choices of categories to browse by are pretty limited, and certainly don't include production house. Their site is generally clunky to browse, as others have mentioned. It's easy to find what you want it you know exactly what it is, but how hard is that?
Cancelling is a hassle, too. You have to speak to a rep and convince them that you really, trully want to leave, you can't just use the site.
They guy I spoke with was surprised that I found their selection so weak. "We stock pretty much everything that gets released," he said. When I mentioned that I couldn't find anything by Ingmar Bergman, he asked, "who's that?" Could explain a few things.
Now, all this said, their actual get it in the mail, keep it 'til you're done service is great. And they gave me no hassle when the second disc they sent me got lost in the mail. If I looked again and saw a broader catalog, I'd sign up.
Additionally someone (cannon, likely) will get a MinDV and a new still digial camera out of it.
Not that you asked, but my reading suggested Sony was the way to go for a MiniDV camera. But on the still front I'm very, very pleased with my Canon Digital Elph, though.
Way back in the 1990's, Sun bought Lighthouse Design. Lighthouse published a suite of top notch productivity apps (spreadsheets, presentation, diagramming) and other good stuff for NextStep and OpenStep -- the predecessors of Mac OS X.
After these apps were end-of-lifed, an effort was made to tidy up their source code and release them as some flavor of open source. For reasons that have never been clear to me, the release did not happen.
Can you shed light on this? Or perhaps give someone or something a nudge and get the balling rolling again?
But I still can't help wondering, if someone is skilled enough to patch Red Hat, why is he working as a sysadmin? Wouldn't he be more suited to a development job?
Because s/he's probably very, very well paid as a sys admin, and likes that kind of work better. I've known plenty of sys admins who were one hell of a lot brighter and more capable than the developers they supported. Your question could be read to infer a bit of snobbery -- might want to watch that around the people who keep your systems going;-)
Can anyone make it clearer what, besides Limbo and the VM, differentiates Inferno from Plan 9? NameSpaces, everything is a file and network transparency are all Plan 9 hallmarks, yes?
Did anyone read the press release? In particular, the bits about AOL pushing net appliances based on Gecko and Linux?
The AOL Gateway family of specialized Internet appliances featuring "Instant AOL" -- which automatically will launch the service as soon as the device is switched on -- include a countertop appliance, wireless Web pad and desktop appliance, a simplified, lower-cost alternative to the PC.
All three devices are powered by Gecko and the open source LINUX operating system.
Seems to me that, even within AOL, Mozilla has a lot broader life than just Netscape.
And really, if they're using it for AOL Anywhere, it seems a good bet that they're going to be ditching IE for mainstream AOL -- something that hasn't been at all clear to date.
This is a charming site, really delightful. Excerpts from their "Statement of Purpose" follow.
It is not the purpose of CODOH to prove "the holocaust never happened," or that European Jews did not suffer a catastrophe during the Hitlerian regime.
I no longer believe the German State pursued a plan to kill all Jews or used homicidal "gassing chambers" for mass murder.
no physical remains of authentic homicidal gassing chambers exist today
there are no war-time generated documents which prove they ever did
For half a century the gas chambers have been at the heart of the holocaust story. The two are absolutely inseperable. No gas chambers, no holocaust. That's the equation.
This argument is ludicrous. Even if he were right about there being no gas chambers, this premise of no chambers => no holocaust is just silly.
I'll have to let my father in law know that the camp that he helped liberate was a clever Zionist propaganda ploy.
Please don't moderate this idiot down. Let people follow the link to get a good taste of intellectual poison, so they'll recognize it when next they see it.
I've been unable to live or code without Emacs since, oh, 1983. The only time I made the jump to an IDE was when the second version of NeXT's Project Builder came out. Note that this is still available as part of Mac OS X server, and as far as I know will continue to be maintained and extended.
The original PB was already an excellent Makefile creation and management tool, scaling up to seriously big projects. Lighthouse Design used it faithfully. However, its text editor was, well, pretty but primitive. (Undo? Never heard of it.)
The second PB was rewritten to improve that Makefile management (converting it from CMU to GNU make), and also with a set goal of converting die-hard Emacs fans, and they did it. It wasn't a lisp environment, so real customization/extension is gone, but the main keystrokes and semantics are very faithful. Undo past save, ctrl-x ctrl-s, incremental search, lots and lots of my muscle memory just works.
This is not to say that you have to be an Emacs-head to use it. It has all the standard friendly menus and commands. It just happens to have a lot of Emacs style goo too.
They also did a decent job of putting a GUI on GDB, especially managing breakpoints.
Caveats: I was strictly an Objective-C boy, really have no idea how it treated C++ developers. However, the Mac OS X version is now a fine Java development environment. That seems to bode well.
For that reason, pretty much every +5 "Insightful" post or +5 "Funny" post seemed like an unfair raise to me, like the moderators were too lazy to look for the other gems deep in the comment page and so merely moderated already-high posts up.
Careful with that axe, Eugene! You're assuming that the "lazy moderator" knew that the post was at four and s/he was bumping it to five. Bad assumption.
Moderation isn't serialized. I imagine it is not uncommon for three moderators to read something with a score of one at the same time, each think "that's worthwhile!", and give it a bump. Presto, it's a four. Now if you m2 it with an unfair, you've just unfairly dinged someone's karma.
Interesting: in the print edition, this was the lead article, page one, above the fold, top right. Also, there was a decent graphic (which I can't find online) accompanying the article.
I've been reading this section with my filtering at 2, and have been impressed by the quality of the conversation. It's like I'm reading a completely different forum from the one you describe.
I think this is a pretty compelling illustration of the moderation scheme working. Way to go,/.
Expensive -- Although this will change if they become popular, flatpanels are still pretty expensive
True. The gap is certainly narrowing though. Would you agree that it's like a factor of two difference these days? And of course, for that premium you're getting all of the pluses you listed above
Narrow viewing angle -- You can only view about 60 degrees to any angle, and less if its from the top
My Apple Studio Display does much better than that from the side. It's pretty amazing, really.
You can't change the resolutions, this includes things like fullscreen VESA modes, so a vast majority of games simply won't work with a flatpanel.
Untrue! At least with Apple's, you can scale down the resolution from max to 640x480, with a few stops along the way, all full screen. That may be proprietary Apple tech., but if they can do it surely others will follow.
Younger technology -- Flatpanels (other than Laptop displays) are a relativly new technology and are going to have more problems than your tried and true CRT, especially w.r.t. manufacturing defects.
Hmm. I've typically seen CRTs get old and tired in too few years, though. I wonder if LCD will suffer from this less.
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I must have different tastes than a lot of /.rs, as I thought their catalog was sadly lacking. For example, they are woefully light on the incredible restorations done by Criterion.
That took a bit of effort to determine, too, as your choices of categories to browse by are pretty limited, and certainly don't include production house. Their site is generally clunky to browse, as others have mentioned. It's easy to find what you want it you know exactly what it is, but how hard is that?
Cancelling is a hassle, too. You have to speak to a rep and convince them that you really, trully want to leave, you can't just use the site.
They guy I spoke with was surprised that I found their selection so weak. "We stock pretty much everything that gets released," he said. When I mentioned that I couldn't find anything by Ingmar Bergman, he asked, "who's that?" Could explain a few things.
Now, all this said, their actual get it in the mail, keep it 'til you're done service is great. And they gave me no hassle when the second disc they sent me got lost in the mail. If I looked again and saw a broader catalog, I'd sign up.
I hope they make it.
Have you written your credit card company to challenge the charge?
I share your view, and I wasn't so outside.
Can we make this any more off topic?
rjrjr
Not that you asked, but my reading suggested Sony was the way to go for a MiniDV camera. But on the still front I'm very, very pleased with my Canon Digital Elph, though.
Way back in the 1990's, Sun bought Lighthouse Design. Lighthouse published a suite of top notch productivity apps (spreadsheets, presentation, diagramming) and other good stuff for NextStep and OpenStep -- the predecessors of Mac OS X.
After these apps were end-of-lifed, an effort was made to tidy up their source code and release them as some flavor of open source. For reasons that have never been clear to me, the release did not happen.
Can you shed light on this? Or perhaps give someone or something a nudge and get the balling rolling again?
Ray Ryan
Former UI Lead of Lighthouse Design
Because s/he's probably very, very well paid as a sys admin, and likes that kind of work better. I've known plenty of sys admins who were one hell of a lot brighter and more capable than the developers they supported. Your question could be read to infer a bit of snobbery -- might want to watch that around the people who keep your systems going ;-)
In fact, Nabokov indulged in all kinds of wonderful anagrams, puzzles and games. Read The Annotated Lolita for a decoder to that book.
Can anyone make it clearer what, besides Limbo and the VM, differentiates Inferno from Plan 9? NameSpaces, everything is a file and network transparency are all Plan 9 hallmarks, yes?
Did anyone read the press release? In particular, the bits about AOL pushing net appliances based on Gecko and Linux?
Seems to me that, even within AOL, Mozilla has a lot broader life than just Netscape.
And really, if they're using it for AOL Anywhere, it seems a good bet that they're going to be ditching IE for mainstream AOL -- something that hasn't been at all clear to date.
Maybe the writer wears suits, but he's hardly a typical non-tech user. As soon as he talks about compiling and vi v. emacs, he's disqualified.
Still a really interesting write-up, though. Just don't point to this as proof that your PHB could survive in a Linux world yet.
This is a charming site, really delightful. Excerpts from their "Statement of Purpose" follow.
This argument is ludicrous. Even if he were right about there being no gas chambers, this premise of no chambers => no holocaust is just silly.
I'll have to let my father in law know that the camp that he helped liberate was a clever Zionist propaganda ploy.
Please don't moderate this idiot down. Let people follow the link to get a good taste of intellectual poison, so they'll recognize it when next they see it.
I've been unable to live or code without Emacs since, oh, 1983. The only time I made the jump to an IDE was when the second version of NeXT's Project Builder came out. Note that this is still available as part of Mac OS X server, and as far as I know will continue to be maintained and extended.
The original PB was already an excellent Makefile creation and management tool, scaling up to seriously big projects. Lighthouse Design used it faithfully. However, its text editor was, well, pretty but primitive. (Undo? Never heard of it.)
The second PB was rewritten to improve that Makefile management (converting it from CMU to GNU make), and also with a set goal of converting die-hard Emacs fans, and they did it. It wasn't a lisp environment, so real customization/extension is gone, but the main keystrokes and semantics are very faithful. Undo past save, ctrl-x ctrl-s, incremental search, lots and lots of my muscle memory just works.
This is not to say that you have to be an Emacs-head to use it. It has all the standard friendly menus and commands. It just happens to have a lot of Emacs style goo too.
They also did a decent job of putting a GUI on GDB, especially managing breakpoints.
Caveats: I was strictly an Objective-C boy, really have no idea how it treated C++ developers. However, the Mac OS X version is now a fine Java development environment. That seems to bode well.
Careful with that axe, Eugene! You're assuming that the "lazy moderator" knew that the post was at four and s/he was bumping it to five. Bad assumption.
Moderation isn't serialized. I imagine it is not uncommon for three moderators to read something with a score of one at the same time, each think "that's worthwhile!", and give it a bump. Presto, it's a four. Now if you m2 it with an unfair, you've just unfairly dinged someone's karma.
The San Francisco Chronicle has a much better article. More technical details are toward the end.
Interesting: in the print edition, this was the lead article, page one, above the fold, top right. Also, there was a decent graphic (which I can't find online) accompanying the article.
I've been reading this section with my filtering at 2, and have been impressed by the quality of the conversation. It's like I'm reading a completely different forum from the one you describe.
I think this is a pretty compelling illustration of the moderation scheme working. Way to go, /.
True. The gap is certainly narrowing though. Would you agree that it's like a factor of two difference these days? And of course, for that premium you're getting all of the pluses you listed above
My Apple Studio Display does much better than that from the side. It's pretty amazing, really.
Untrue! At least with Apple's, you can scale down the resolution from max to 640x480, with a few stops along the way, all full screen. That may be proprietary Apple tech., but if they can do it surely others will follow.
Hmm. I've typically seen CRTs get old and tired in too few years, though. I wonder if LCD will suffer from this less.
Hey, folks. We're the choir. We accomplish nothing by preaching to each other of our personal hells. We've all been there. We all know.
Bring Jon's article to the attention of the mainstream press. E.g., you can reach the editors of the New York Times at letters@nytimes.com