Unfortunately it is a bit demented - it prefers to minimize walking time over trip time. By simply walking 5 minutes longer I can shave a half hour off of its recommended commute. Of course it is easier to use than to try and interpret the bus schedules oneself.
I did the same thing - the web site reports that I have not paid, but I got an email that seems to confirm that I did indeed pay. Seems that pubservice needs to hire better developers.
Reading this, I came to the quick conclusion that the author only performed a cursary summary of the four sites, without actualy participating in them, or interviewing the people behind them. It is unfortunate, I would be up for a good news argregator and discussion site disertation.
Since when do all posters have toe the slashdot line? A varied bunch post here, so you can not really expect the message to be consistent can you. Some of us like microsoft, some of us would rather have billy dead, some think cd sales are directly proportional of the size of J.Lo's ass, some think the inverse. (And some don't really think at all). Are really surprised that the posters of the dotslash are hypocrites when sampled as a single group?
Anyways, the fact remains that when CD sales are down,
It's because few people are buying fewer CDs.
And when CD sales are up,
It's because more people are buying more CDs.
Beyond that simple observation, everyone, including myself, is talking shit.
I have 2.2.18 installed on my AMD K6 400 machine at work. I never upgraded, well, because, I did not have the time, and if IT did the upgrade I would loose root. Fortunately,
they now permit remote logged sudo, which means I could upgrade to what ever latest RedHat image they have. Or I could also choose NetBSD.
That said, I am in no rush, as all the machine ever runs is X, xmms, rxvt and vim. Sometimes mozilla. All the real work is done on the big hardware. Why spend the man's money (no not that man's money) when I don't have to?
I seem to have the ability to kill of magazines by getting subscriptions to them. I do not think that I ever personally had a subscription to a magazine that has not gone under. The last one was Revolution (I think), a cute techno slash
hip-hop magazine that came with sampler cds. And now Shift. Either I am
a carrier of the magazine plague, or I just like quirkier magazines.
Shift was a faily good read, but it always felt like they were either trying to
be like Wired, or trying not to be like Wired. It is too bad that they could not reach critical mass. I think they could have done some interesting things.
or the person with the screaming baby in the theater.
People with babies who want to see movies with said babies should check out cinebabies, or start something similar if it is not available in their area. I am suprised that movie theaters do not do this kind of thing on their own. The theater is always packed so they are certainly not loosing money. They keep the lights on low, turn down the volume a touch, and even supply diapers. It is quite surreal to hear 50 sceaming babies at once - it does not have the annoying edge of a soloist. That said, my little guy loves the movies and typically pays attention the whole time.
Bring it on I say. Let Intel, Microsoft, and all of their friends commit corporate suicide! I still have my pen and my paper. I still have books and printing presses. I still have money in my pocket, and a local store at which to spend it. I still have my guitar and I still have my tools. I still have soil in the back yard and seeds to sow!
I do not need smart computers, digital right management and all that crap. I can survive on my own. And if someone tells me that I need to have drm enabled I will say "No, sir, I do not" and walk away. If people do not want to do business with me. I will not do it with them. I eagerly wait for the demise Disney et al
This is all fine and every one is happy, until some fucker steals your Octane. Then it becomes a royal pain in the ass. Fortunatelte for us though, we had academic licenses, so it was not as expensive as it could have been.
As an old aside, SGI used to send software licenses in a big box and it would take a few weeks to get the damn thing. Talk about efficient.
I do not care what anyone says. I do not want to p2p TV, I do not want to steal TV, I do not want digital TV, I do not really want TV in its current state at all. I do not want to organize my free time around someone else's schedual. And, I do not want to pay monthly fees for that privelage. I do not want to own a TiVo or more hardware in my house.
All I want is on demand television. I want to sit down when I want, and watch what ever I want on my TV without restrictions. I want to pay a small fee per show, but I do not want to pay more that I would for cable today[1]. I want freedom of entertainment.
I know this is possible, and not to much to ask. So why can't I have it?
[1] A monthly cap, much like Bell Canada has on my long distance charges would be great.
... it is the Java that kills me. I hate sites that simply use java for
their menu systems. Java just kills my poor little PII 300, and
as such I do not have it installed. The fun thing is that this makes
so many sites simply un-navigatable, as the maintainers don't even
provide a simple link to an index or something. Why do they bother
getting fancy, when the fancy does not even work? (And when it does not work,
I take my money else where!)
... and it is not base 10. It is radians (abbreviated as rad). You see - days, weeks, months, and years are all periodic - so what better unit is there than the friendly rad? One day - two pi rad. I can just see it now:
Man, I am so tired - I went to bed at half pi last night.
Or,
Korea scored the wining goal just a touch before one eight pi!
Why don't they just legislate.kids or.notpron, and simply permit no conent unsuitable for children on sites with that domain. Then, if one were to want to ensure that kids don't see anything unsuitable ban them from going to all other domains. Corporations catering to kids and the vulnerable would most certainly jump on board (as they do not have to rid themselves of their old domains) and I am sure google.kids would be easy to get online. Enforcement is dead easy. Why do the guys coming up with this stuff think in such convoluted ways?
Like most everyone and their monkey has pointed out, this would be useless for coding and so forth. But, man, I would love to be able to input math type stuff with a pen. I managed to hand most of my assignements in university nicely typeset in LaTeX, and I would have to say that a pen interface would have made that less a feat!
I doubt this is the application they were looking for, as mathematicians are a small market, and most worth their salt have secrataries.. umm grad students to do it for them.
Ha. It ain't funny until one tries to get various
versions of IRIX talking to various versions of HP-UX, espeacially when NFS is involved. "What do you mean patch level X is incompatible with patch level X+1?" Then its real fun!
I am wondering how they will figure out which song you were listening to, when using the service. Most radio stations I know about can not even seem recall their play lists from the past five minutes... then add on the problem of which cd - the single? the album? the muchmusic compilation? the japanesse import? the movie sound track? on top of it all, add in the problems with timing - I meant to get song x, but I was too slow and got song y instead... I really have a hard time seeing how this will work on the old analogue radio.
Rather than having a nice set of reusable stock libraries, such as the win32 api, or gtk, we need a standard broad interface definition. I want to take program Z and replace its file browser dialog. I want to have a standard OS wide spell checking untility. I want to be able to change widowmanagers. I want to be able to drive every single program though scripts. I want to change my ui. I want to change all of this on a whim - some of parts should be changable dynamically, others might need a recompile. I do not want to be stuck with some guys "good idea" of a usable interface.
My point is that most people here are saying we need a complete set of standard libraries. I am saying we need acomplete document describing how a standard libaries should interact. Then we build hundreds of libraries to this standard. The unix way, where everything is a file is a very basic implimentation of this - say I do something like: someprog | sed | cut | awk > file (flags striped), for some task, but find that set|cut|awk is not poweful eneugh. An hour later I can do someprog | perl > file. No changes to someprog no changes to the file. No changes to the mythical pion who depends on post processing the output of someprog. I want options. I do not want some idiotic stock library designed my some fool.
Rott had selectable characters of differing origins. So it is not that hard. The hard part is convincing the geek programers on superiority fantasy that people might acctually want to assume the role of someone not white male.
One would not write in the native VLIW - one would create a new instruction set that hid the VLIW, but used its best features, and interacted with the hardware better - ie saved the optimizations and the branch predictions for the next time the program is run. One need not write in VLIW to get rid on the x86 instruction set. ( I wonder if one could design an instruction set to run one's favorite operating system ( linux - *bsd... )
Now that win2000 is supposedly comming out, and it supposedly needs fewer reboots, Linux uptime counters are going to have much more competition. Therefore, I call for hot-swapable kernels! I do not want to stop what I am doing, just to upgrade (or down-grade) my operating system! I want an uptime measured in decades!
I agree fully. It is like that internet thing - if every site only had a standard interface, it would just take off. But right now each and every one has a different look and feel -nobody can use it. The net is even worse than programs written for X, at least in X one has ten or so different ui's all very similar, none to hard to figure out. But the net? Every site is different - you can not tell most links from images or underlined words. If _they_ would just fix it, it would be the next big thing.
Get paid to do this! The other day I saw a job description for a Java obfusticator (SP?). Finally a job for those who do not know how to program properly.
But they did not use any Genetic Methods!
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This study is useless! They took a survey of allready painted painting - out of these paintings which one do you like the best? The concludion should be - If people are forced to buy a crappy painting they prefer blue and green crappy paintings. Maybe blue and green are less offensive because in our past most everything we saw was blue or green on average (ever hear anyone say "wow - that is a very pretty non-descript blue sky?"). Anyways - to do this prefered painting thing properly requires the application of genetic algorithms. The results would be cool - like that project finding the most attractive face.
( Note I origionally wrote .. to buy a cray painting - what does that mean Pysc. people?)
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Unfortunately it is a bit demented - it prefers to minimize walking time over trip time. By simply walking 5 minutes longer I can shave a half hour off of its recommended commute. Of course it is easier to use than to try and interpret the bus schedules oneself.
I did the same thing - the web site reports that I have not paid, but I got an email that seems to confirm that I did indeed pay. Seems that pubservice needs to hire better developers.
Reading this, I came to the quick conclusion that the author only performed a cursary summary of the four sites, without actualy participating in them, or interviewing the people behind them. It is unfortunate, I would be up for a good news argregator and discussion site disertation.
Anyways, the fact remains that when CD sales are down,
- It's because few people are buying fewer CDs.
And when CD sales are up,- It's because more people are buying more CDs.
Beyond that simple observation, everyone, including myself, is talking shit.I have 2.2.18 installed on my AMD K6 400 machine at work. I never upgraded, well, because, I did not have the time, and if IT did the upgrade I would loose root. Fortunately, they now permit remote logged sudo, which means I could upgrade to what ever latest RedHat image they have. Or I could also choose NetBSD. That said, I am in no rush, as all the machine ever runs is X, xmms, rxvt and vim. Sometimes mozilla. All the real work is done on the big hardware. Why spend the man's money (no not that man's money) when I don't have to?
Shift was a faily good read, but it always felt like they were either trying to be like Wired, or trying not to be like Wired. It is too bad that they could not reach critical mass. I think they could have done some interesting things.
People with babies who want to see movies with said babies should check out cinebabies, or start something similar if it is not available in their area. I am suprised that movie theaters do not do this kind of thing on their own. The theater is always packed so they are certainly not loosing money. They keep the lights on low, turn down the volume a touch, and even supply diapers. It is quite surreal to hear 50 sceaming babies at once - it does not have the annoying edge of a soloist. That said, my little guy loves the movies and typically pays attention the whole time.
I do not need smart computers, digital right management and all that crap. I can survive on my own. And if someone tells me that I need to have drm enabled I will say "No, sir, I do not" and walk away. If people do not want to do business with me. I will not do it with them. I eagerly wait for the demise Disney et al
This is all fine and every one is happy, until some fucker steals your Octane. Then it becomes a royal pain in the ass. Fortunatelte for us though, we had academic licenses, so it was not as expensive as it could have been.
As an old aside, SGI used to send software licenses in a big box and it would take a few weeks to get the damn thing. Talk about efficient.
All I want is on demand television. I want to sit down when I want, and watch what ever I want on my TV without restrictions. I want to pay a small fee per show, but I do not want to pay more that I would for cable today[1]. I want freedom of entertainment.
I know this is possible, and not to much to ask. So why can't I have it?
[1] A monthly cap, much like Bell Canada has on my long distance charges would be great.
This is the exact same reason as to why high definition television has not caught on. As everyone knows porn is the primary driver of technology.
... it is the Java that kills me. I hate sites that simply use java for their menu systems. Java just kills my poor little PII 300, and as such I do not have it installed. The fun thing is that this makes so many sites simply un-navigatable, as the maintainers don't even provide a simple link to an index or something. Why do they bother getting fancy, when the fancy does not even work? (And when it does not work, I take my money else where!)
Why don't they just legislate .kids or .notpron, and simply permit no conent unsuitable for children on sites with that domain. Then, if one were to want to ensure that kids don't see anything unsuitable ban them from going to all other domains. Corporations catering to kids and the vulnerable would most certainly jump on board (as they do not have to rid themselves of their old domains) and I am sure google.kids would be easy to get online. Enforcement is dead easy. Why do the guys coming up with this stuff think in such convoluted ways?
Like most everyone and their monkey has pointed out, this would be useless for coding and so forth. But, man, I would love to be able to input math type stuff with a pen. I managed to hand most of my assignements in university nicely typeset in LaTeX, and I would have to say that a pen interface would have made that less a feat!
I doubt this is the application they were looking for, as mathematicians are a small market, and most worth their salt have secrataries.. umm grad students to do it for them.
Ha. It ain't funny until one tries to get various
versions of IRIX talking to various versions of HP-UX, espeacially when NFS is involved. "What do you mean patch level X is incompatible with patch level X+1?" Then its real fun!
are all here.
I am wondering how they will figure out which song you were listening to, when using the service. Most radio stations I know about can not even seem recall their play lists from the past five minutes... then add on the problem of which cd - the single? the album? the muchmusic compilation? the japanesse import? the movie sound track? on top of it all, add in the problems with timing - I meant to get song x, but I was too slow and got song y instead... I really have a hard time seeing how this will work on the old analogue radio.
Rather than having a nice set of reusable stock libraries, such as the win32 api, or gtk, we need a standard broad interface definition. I want to take program Z and replace its file browser dialog. I want to have a standard OS wide spell checking untility. I want to be able to change widowmanagers. I want to be able to drive every single program though scripts. I want to change my ui. I want to change all of this on a whim - some of parts should be changable dynamically, others might need a recompile. I do not want to be stuck with some guys "good idea" of a usable interface.
My point is that most people here are saying we need a complete set of standard libraries. I am saying we need acomplete document describing how a standard libaries should interact. Then we build hundreds of libraries to this standard. The unix way, where everything is a file is a very basic implimentation of this - say I do something like: someprog | sed | cut | awk > file (flags striped), for some task, but find that set|cut|awk is not poweful eneugh. An hour later I can do someprog | perl > file. No changes to someprog no changes to the file. No changes to the mythical pion who depends on post processing the output of someprog.
I want options. I do not want some idiotic stock library designed my some fool.
Rott had selectable characters of differing
origins. So it is not that hard. The hard part is convincing the geek programers on superiority fantasy that people might acctually want to assume the role of someone not white male.
One would not write in the native VLIW - one would create a new instruction set that hid the VLIW, but used its best features, and interacted with the hardware better - ie saved the optimizations and the branch predictions for the next time the program is run. One need not write in VLIW to get rid on the x86 instruction set. ( I wonder if one could design an instruction set to run one's favorite operating system ( linux - *bsd ... )
Now that win2000 is supposedly comming out, and it supposedly needs fewer reboots, Linux uptime counters are going to have much more competition. Therefore, I call for hot-swapable kernels! I do not want to stop what I am doing, just to upgrade (or down-grade) my operating system! I want an uptime measured in decades!
I agree fully. It is like that internet thing - if every site only had a standard interface, it would just take off. But right now each and every one has a different look and feel -nobody can use it. The net is even worse than programs written for X, at least in X one has ten or so different ui's all very similar, none to hard to figure out. But the net? Every site is different - you can not tell most links from images or underlined words. If _they_ would just fix it, it would be the next big thing.
Get paid to do this!
The other day I saw a job description for a Java obfusticator (SP?). Finally a job for those who do not know how to program properly.
This study is useless! They took a survey of allready painted painting - out of these paintings which one do you like the best? The concludion should be - If people are forced to buy a crappy painting they prefer blue and green crappy paintings. Maybe blue and green are less offensive because in our past most everything we saw was blue or green on average (ever hear anyone say "wow - that is a very pretty non-descript blue sky?"). Anyways - to do this prefered painting thing properly requires the application of genetic algorithms. The results would be cool - like that project finding the most attractive face.
.. to buy a cray painting - what does that mean Pysc. people?)
( Note I origionally wrote