Does anyone get the feeling that China may be the cause of a new, strange war? Not shooting, but economic, robotic, worker-ethic, or something even stranger?
We already hear complaints that everything is "Made in China" (or Taiwan, but we shall ignore for this discussion). Ok, shoes, T-shirts, etc.,... but now cars?!?
Can China's cheap labor outdo even "Western Civilization's" tech by just throwing enough bodies at it? Toyota is scared that their non-smart bots are non-competitive against China's workforce? What next, Oracle is competing against a billion data enterers? (OK, a bit jokey).\
It just seems that a lot of stuff points back to China as a problem for many countries. [Put on tin foil hat now]
I am just wondering if there will be in the near future (or whatever future in the US's case; and yes I am American) some kind of trade war, social war (China being bad on human rights), maybe terroristic war by who knows who, or just straight out weirdness because China is becoming so powerfull by utilizing a labor method outgrown by pretty much every other world power a long time ago (ie, something akin to slavery- I know this is a powerful and loaded term, and correct, but I could not think of another suitable term that would describe some of the conditions that China lives under.
I just wrote a 5 paragraph reply to you post, but I had to redo it because of, well, misunderstandings in your post. Such as "printed.. on my PC" and "Didn't print correctly on Windows/Mac". At first glance I thought you were a complete idiot.
When you got to the part about printing address labels, I was about to shut down the window when I got to the part about printing "on my PC", and "Didn't print correctly on Windows/Mac", until I figured out you meant "Office/Mac" (and if you really meant "Windows/Mac", just delete your account).
I don't know about the AnandTech article, because such usage tests usually depend on the individual, and I don't know his background.
Sorry to jump to conclusions. I would also like have Project and Visio on the Mac.
Just wondering, how important is it that the "Address Book" doesn't display some LDAP information that most people will not use. How important is it to use LDAP? Is it really _hugely_ important to use _completion_ from a server?
These are real questions, because I've never used LDAP, nor as far as I can quickly think of come across it. From your post I assume that you DO use LDAP, and probably extensively, so I will not begrudge you your views, for they may be totally valid in your usage. But I think you may be a bit biased by calling these shortcoming "half-assed" since your comparison of Apple and Microsoft is completely based on the implementation of LDAP. I've been trying to think of something similar, but I really can't because your choice of comparison is really trivial in comparison of the topic "open source".
As for the "completion" thing- I can't really comment on this without getting abusive, because this is just damn silly. Really, you can't type an extra few characters?
(Disclaimer- I had an Apple II+, then a PC, then a Mac from '97-'01, then a PC till now.)
"...and the only way to make it happen without starting over was to integrate the OS and browser."
Well first, that is just a stupid statement. "Must be easier to integrate a browser in to the OS than just create a stand-alone program". Sure. And it wasn't until Win98 that IE got tied into the OS. Remember during the anti-monopoly tials MS said they couldn't disentangle IE, then someone came up with a program called Win98Lite (or something like that) that stripped IE out of 98?
I smell astroturfer.
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Not to comment on the validity of any of your points, but '39-'45 is six years, and I don't think any future big wars will last six years. Heck, maybe not even 2 weeks. How this applies, I dunno. Just sayin'.
Perhaps you have some kind of problem? Say you are browsing for 10 hours per day, that's 50 pages per hour. That's a little over 1 minute per page for 10 straight hours.
Just wondering what you you could be doing that you would hit 500 pages a day? Unless you are so ADD that you can't read more than a paragraph on every page and just keep clicking onto something else.
Don't know if this is still true, but PSU's IT department was fairly good when I went there (compared to stories on/. about other schools). At the old computer store (I believe now rolled into the main bookstore) they had equal numbers of PC and Mac models, which by itself shows that they at least allow for differing computer types. A guy I knew, as a senior project, had to make an OS based on this "Linux" thingy, which in '97 I never even heard of.
"if you watch football it is also the team with the money with the better players"
Well, not really. The NFL has salary caps which limits every team's total payroll, so you don't have a situation like the MLB where the Yankees outspend every other team by $90 million or so. Another thing, look at how the Eagles are doing, and they are a couple of million under the cap; now compare that to the Redskins, who have been consistently over the cap for about 4 years.
Just wanted to let you know I added you as a Friend because of your really good insights into how adult sites work and the credit card stuff. I don't check out porn stuff (happily married), but it's interesting to see how a "fringe" part of society works, such as the stealing of images, passwords, and the credit card chargebacks. I'll have to store that in my "Very Weird Info" block of memory for the future.
Well, I've been out of a job for a year now, and resorted to working for a lawn service. I have skills, I keep current, I've tried basically everything except a headhunter, and yet... zip. I see and answer ads for jobs in the paper and online, sometimes I get a response, mostly not. And I see the same jobs advertised over and over, for months, and yet oddly I fit most of their requirements (most notably the 5 years of Win2K experience, I kid you not) but never even recieved a call.
So I see no boom. Anyone in the Phily area need a network/systems engineer?
I love "The Evil Dead", "Evil Dead 2", and "Army of Darkness". I own every DVD version of them made, including Anchor Bay's numbered editions. I own foam rubber mask version. Have I mentioned I like thses movies?
But you know that this remake will just be sad, disappointing, and make you feel like your testecles were soundly wrenched. First, Raimi not directing?!?! Second, they can't make a sequel? Third, is Bruce going to act in it, or just produce? 4th, is Ted going to act in it in 300 lb rubber outfits, or just produce? 5th, no way in hell could they accurately remake Dead without cleaning it up so much that it looks like "Leave it to Beaver".
I can not describe how much I fear this will blow. This will blow like Moby Dick (no pun intended) on crack with a sneeze. You know what I'm imaging in my head right now- "Wing Commander" crossed with "I know what you did last summer". I'm seeing Deadites crawling out of TV sets and saying "Groovy- I see dead people" while looking in a mirror. I see a CGI dog.
Maybe I'll be wrong, maybe it will be good. Maybe it will be a cinematic tour-de-force of epic proportions. Maybe I'll win the lottery (and I don't even play it).
Excuse me while I go out to find religion so I can pray that this will be good.
I've seen a couple of Walmarts do this, also. Mainly in New Jersey. Make your own conclusions.
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Just my 2 cents of ancedotal evidence: Neither, my family, or anyone I know fairly well has anything against the Swiss, except for those cases where Jewish Holocaust survivors couldn't get their money/possessions back (but this was not a widespread problem and I believe limited to just a few banks).
"honk off companies like BlockBuster and Hollywood Video"
Problem 3
I can't see studios broadcasting movies, especially HD, without having some super "No Copy" bit, which will probably be broken anyway. Aside from bandwidth issues, it's interesting that there are no legitimate movie download sites. I agree this would be a great thing- rent a movie over cable, then be able to keep it if you like it- but too many people lose control or revenue streams for it to happen easily.
Nothing really. The real problem is that with a lot of wind turbines we will slow down the earth. Slow it down to much and we will lose the moon. I'm pretty sure that if we put up too many wind turbines that we would eventually stop the earth and make it spin backwards (with respect to the current rotation).
I just have to say kudos to you and your boss for putting yourselves out there to the/. community; good chance to get skewered by a bunch of geeks no matter what you say or do.
I don't stream much media anymore so I don't have an informed opinion besdes I didn't like Real Player from about 4 years ago, but good luck in your endeavors.
I don't know much about satellites, but as for radio stations- there are 20-some 50kW stations around the country, and most other stations are 5kW or less. I don't know what frequencies Ka and Ku use, nor what kind of attenuation the signals will receive, but 4.3kW may be just fine.
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Does anyone get the feeling that China may be the cause of a new, strange war? Not shooting, but economic, robotic, worker-ethic, or something even stranger?
We already hear complaints that everything is "Made in China" (or Taiwan, but we shall ignore for this discussion). Ok, shoes, T-shirts, etc.,... but now cars?!?
Can China's cheap labor outdo even "Western Civilization's" tech by just throwing enough bodies at it? Toyota is scared that their non-smart bots are non-competitive against China's workforce? What next, Oracle is competing against a billion data enterers? (OK, a bit jokey).\
It just seems that a lot of stuff points back to China as a problem for many countries. [Put on tin foil hat now]
I am just wondering if there will be in the near future (or whatever future in the US's case; and yes I am American) some kind of trade war, social war (China being bad on human rights), maybe terroristic war by who knows who, or just straight out weirdness because China is becoming so powerfull by utilizing a labor method outgrown by pretty much every other world power a long time ago (ie, something akin to slavery- I know this is a powerful and loaded term, and correct, but I could not think of another suitable term that would describe some of the conditions that China lives under.
Sorry for rambling so much.
I just wrote a 5 paragraph reply to you post, but I had to redo it because of, well, misunderstandings in your post. Such as "printed.. on my PC" and "Didn't print correctly on Windows/Mac". At first glance I thought you were a complete idiot.
When you got to the part about printing address labels, I was about to shut down the window when I got to the part about printing "on my PC", and "Didn't print correctly on Windows/Mac", until I figured out you meant "Office/Mac" (and if you really meant "Windows/Mac", just delete your account).
I don't know about the AnandTech article, because such usage tests usually depend on the individual, and I don't know his background.
Sorry to jump to conclusions. I would also like have Project and Visio on the Mac.
Have a good one!
(Did I just babble a whole lot? Must go to bed)
Just wondering, how important is it that the "Address Book" doesn't display some LDAP information that most people will not use. How important is it to use LDAP? Is it really _hugely_ important to use _completion_ from a server?
These are real questions, because I've never used LDAP, nor as far as I can quickly think of come across it. From your post I assume that you DO use LDAP, and probably extensively, so I will not begrudge you your views, for they may be totally valid in your usage. But I think you may be a bit biased by calling these shortcoming "half-assed" since your comparison of Apple and Microsoft is completely based on the implementation of LDAP. I've been trying to think of something similar, but I really can't because your choice of comparison is really trivial in comparison of the topic "open source".
As for the "completion" thing- I can't really comment on this without getting abusive, because this is just damn silly. Really, you can't type an extra few characters?
(Disclaimer- I had an Apple II+, then a PC, then a Mac from '97-'01, then a PC till now.)
" integrate the entire browser into... ...just about every major system has done so (OS X, KDE, GNOME) ?"
Could you explain how OS X has integrated Safari into the OS, please?
"...and the only way to make it happen without starting over was to integrate the OS and browser."
Well first, that is just a stupid statement. "Must be easier to integrate a browser in to the OS than just create a stand-alone program". Sure. And it wasn't until Win98 that IE got tied into the OS. Remember during the anti-monopoly tials MS said they couldn't disentangle IE, then someone came up with a program called Win98Lite (or something like that) that stripped IE out of 98?
I smell astroturfer.
Not to comment on the validity of any of your points, but '39-'45 is six years, and I don't think any future big wars will last six years. Heck, maybe not even 2 weeks. How this applies, I dunno. Just sayin'.
Perhaps you have some kind of problem? Say you are browsing for 10 hours per day, that's 50 pages per hour. That's a little over 1 minute per page for 10 straight hours.
Just wondering what you you could be doing that you would hit 500 pages a day? Unless you are so ADD that you can't read more than a paragraph on every page and just keep clicking onto something else.
Don't know if this is still true, but PSU's IT department was fairly good when I went there (compared to stories on /. about other schools). At the old computer store (I believe now rolled into the main bookstore) they had equal numbers of PC and Mac models, which by itself shows that they at least allow for differing computer types. A guy I knew, as a senior project, had to make an OS based on this "Linux" thingy, which in '97 I never even heard of.
Good school. Bad football team. Go JoePa.
"if you watch football it is also the team with the money with the better players"
Well, not really. The NFL has salary caps which limits every team's total payroll, so you don't have a situation like the MLB where the Yankees outspend every other team by $90 million or so. Another thing, look at how the Eagles are doing, and they are a couple of million under the cap; now compare that to the Redskins, who have been consistently over the cap for about 4 years.
Just wanted to let you know I added you as a Friend because of your really good insights into how adult sites work and the credit card stuff. I don't check out porn stuff (happily married), but it's interesting to see how a "fringe" part of society works, such as the stealing of images, passwords, and the credit card chargebacks. I'll have to store that in my "Very Weird Info" block of memory for the future.
Thanks!
And have a good Thanksgiving.
Well, I've been out of a job for a year now, and resorted to working for a lawn service. I have skills, I keep current, I've tried basically everything except a headhunter, and yet... zip. I see and answer ads for jobs in the paper and online, sometimes I get a response, mostly not. And I see the same jobs advertised over and over, for months, and yet oddly I fit most of their requirements (most notably the 5 years of Win2K experience, I kid you not) but never even recieved a call.
So I see no boom. Anyone in the Phily area need a network/systems engineer?
I love "The Evil Dead", "Evil Dead 2", and "Army of Darkness". I own every DVD version of them made, including Anchor Bay's numbered editions. I own foam rubber mask version. Have I mentioned I like thses movies?
But you know that this remake will just be sad, disappointing, and make you feel like your testecles were soundly wrenched. First, Raimi not directing?!?! Second, they can't make a sequel? Third, is Bruce going to act in it, or just produce? 4th, is Ted going to act in it in 300 lb rubber outfits, or just produce? 5th, no way in hell could they accurately remake Dead without cleaning it up so much that it looks like "Leave it to Beaver".
I can not describe how much I fear this will blow. This will blow like Moby Dick (no pun intended) on crack with a sneeze. You know what I'm imaging in my head right now- "Wing Commander" crossed with "I know what you did last summer". I'm seeing Deadites crawling out of TV sets and saying "Groovy- I see dead people" while looking in a mirror. I see a CGI dog.
Maybe I'll be wrong, maybe it will be good. Maybe it will be a cinematic tour-de-force of epic proportions. Maybe I'll win the lottery (and I don't even play it).
Excuse me while I go out to find religion so I can pray that this will be good.
I've seen a couple of Walmarts do this, also. Mainly in New Jersey. Make your own conclusions.
Just my 2 cents of ancedotal evidence: Neither, my family, or anyone I know fairly well has anything against the Swiss, except for those cases where Jewish Holocaust survivors couldn't get their money/possessions back (but this was not a widespread problem and I believe limited to just a few banks).
To summarize- viva la Swiss!
I am not sure if I should be plesed by this, humored, or just hang my head until the upcoming election fiasco.
that cavemen didn't create an evolving language like a billion years ago.
oh, wait.
"If the cable/satelite companies get wise..."
Problem 1
"The biggest problem is the studios..."
Problem 2
"honk off companies like BlockBuster and Hollywood Video"
Problem 3
I can't see studios broadcasting movies, especially HD, without having some super "No Copy" bit, which will probably be broken anyway. Aside from bandwidth issues, it's interesting that there are no legitimate movie download sites. I agree this would be a great thing- rent a movie over cable, then be able to keep it if you like it- but too many people lose control or revenue streams for it to happen easily.
But I've applied for a job down there (no reply so out for this year); anyone work down there and have any advice for getting a foot in the door?
Thanks
in oral heaven. It's called....
:)
oh, _aural_ heaven. Nope, don't know anything about that.
Except that CDs sound better when coated with a green highlighter.
Nothing really. The real problem is that with a lot of wind turbines we will slow down the earth. Slow it down to much and we will lose the moon. I'm pretty sure that if we put up too many wind turbines that we would eventually stop the earth and make it spin backwards (with respect to the current rotation).
...(have the celebrities play someone besides themselves).
This and News Radio and the reasons why Phil Hartman's wife should burn in hell for a long time.
I just have to say kudos to you and your boss for putting yourselves out there to the /. community; good chance to get skewered by a bunch of geeks no matter what you say or do.
I don't stream much media anymore so I don't have an informed opinion besdes I didn't like Real Player from about 4 years ago, but good luck in your endeavors.
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Now plese post your address so we can come and peruse your possessions.
I don't know much about satellites, but as for radio stations- there are 20-some 50kW stations around the country, and most other stations are 5kW or less. I don't know what frequencies Ka and Ku use, nor what kind of attenuation the signals will receive, but 4.3kW may be just fine.
" Oh, and the soccer game ends in a scoreless tie."
That's not a spoiler, that's just normal!