I'd say the inital letter is less important than the trailing 's'. XWindow (no S) always seemed clunky - and I'm sick of the pedantic among us wailing about those who did tack on an 's'. A name change would be worth the effort just to make them shut up.
Since it seems like we have run out of the 'Ask Slashdot to do my homework' questions, it looks like we have moved on to the 'Ask Slashdot to do my market research' phase.
I'll get the next one started: Slashdot - how do I design and install a network for an international comglomerate, integrate with legacy applications and ensure adequate security across the whole mix?
I wouldn't mind Apple and it's products if it wasn't for: 1. the whole personality cult surrounding Steve Jobs (face it - Steve Wozniak is the real genius)
2. a futuristic vision that only about 40 years out of date. Take the ipod - it looks like it came straight out of the movie '2001', which was released in 1968.
3. rabid myopic fanboys. Yes, I am aware of the irony of posting this on Slashdot.
4. product deficiencies that are actually features. For a great example of this, bring up the single mouse button thing to a bunch on Mac fanatics. You will be informed that a single button is better, that you can compensate by doing this and that and this, and that you don't really need more than a single button anyway.
There has been so many failed attempts at the "Easy on, easy off" case, it's beyond amusing. The first I remember were the old IBM PS/2 model 25's. Nobody could get those stupid cases back together properly. If you showed up at a job, and the two halves were perfectly aligned, you knew that you were the first tech to open the bloody thing since it left the factory.
I don't think IBM's physical engineering has improved much since. Has anyone out there tried to connect a USB cable to one of their RSA cards? The port is located so close to the edge that the insulation on the cable bumps up against the case and doesn't let the cable seat properly. One slight touch and the cable falls out. Wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't the cable that you depend on to administer the server remotely.
Paging Captain Obvious... If that were true, the USSR would be 'destroyed' right now, because they haven't been able to defend themeselves for about 14 years now. What does the fact that the US has shipped aid to the USSR say about your little theory? (Here's a clue - if you are out to 'destroy' someone, you usually don't help them up)
Let's face it. The Cold War worked. The nuclear arms race worked. Instead of taking on the USSR face-on, the US decided to simply keep them in thier place and let corruption and cascading beaurocracy rot the system away from the inside. In retrespect, quite brilliant, and it worked quite well.
Except that the Bush-in-30-seconds thing isn't "informed political debate" it's rabid anti-Bush propagada. What else did anyone expect from judges like Micheal Moore, Carville and Franken? Their goal never was to promote an open, frank discussion of political issues, it was to promote hysteria. And what do Jack Black, Margaret Cho and Eddie Vedder know about politics anyway? An 'informed political debate' involves looking at an issue from all sides and studying all possible ramifications. These guys didn't even pretend to do that.
Feh. I did that when I was a kid, and didn't get paid to do it. It's called working on a farm, and lots of people do that every day and are even grateful for it.
I believe that the difference is in how it's presented. If Google replaced search results with paid-for ads items (ie. didn't give a link to Playboy's page, but to a competing advertiser), that would be trademark infringement. But that's not the case. Google's search results page make it plainly obvious which are the search results, and which are ads.
[X] Never did, but the Slashbots don't understand it.
I don't understand whole 'Bionicles diminish creativity' thing. Have you ever actually watched a kid play with them? Mine do, and the stuff they come up with is pretty wild. They'll look at an instruction book and find something they like, but being too impatient/stubborn to actually follow instructions, they'll figure out how to build it themselves.
The fact is, original Lego is great for building orthagonal structures, but terrible at anything else. Circles, angles, joints, gears, wheels - none of these can be built with 'regular' Lego blocks. Putting these things in gives the builder additional options and enhances creativity rather than diminishing it. Besides, how can you have a decent Rockshi vs. Hogwarts battle without them?
The people complaining about 'diminished creativity' remind me of old farts sitting in their rockers complaining that 'things aren't the same as they used to be'. You (and they) are right - things are different. Lego has changed and that's good.
Sorry, but you're out to lunch on this one. My boys (6 and 9) love them and they're always pulling their bionicles apart and making new ones (usually after I kick them off the Gamecube). Every so often it's "Dad - Dad - Look at this one!", and 'this one' turns out to be some monstrosity with three bodies and five heads. And loads of weapons, naturally. My oldest has even come up with some four-legged varieties.
So they're not making cars or buildings or bridges. So what. The creativity is still there, it's just different.
On the contrary - theories that cannot be disproved are the best to argue about. That way both sides can fling opinions for all eternity because they're easier to come up with than hard facts. Eg. creation vs evolution global warming genetically modified foods stem cell research
" It's like a basics version of half-life for free....except without a plot or quality level design or fun weapons or anything else that makes a game different from an engine demo"
Hey - don't knock it. That's the formula id has been following for years.
The World Summit of Information Society has contracted SportAccess, a Company of Kudelski Group, as the main responsible of an integrated solution for physical access control solution during the United Nations Summit of Information Society.
This stunt proves nothing about the security and privacy practices of WSIS, despite the general clamour in this forum. This was a minor slip-up of a third party, not WSIS itself. SportAccess gave passes to people who misrepresented themselves.
BTW - what's up with the 'bypass physical security' euphemism? I always thought it was called 'sneaking', as in 'I snuck into a bar' or 'I snuck into a movie' and was done by underage punks who wanted to go where they had no business being. Now it's done by 'independant researchers' and it's 'bypassing physical security'? Hmmm... maybe I'll do some 'independant research' of my own at the ROTK premiere next week...
You're right. An 'activist' is someone who screams very loudly about something they know nothing about. Gun control activists whose knowledge of firearms is limited to what they see on TV. Anti-GM food protesters without a working knowlege of genetics. Hordes of anti-globalization weenies who can't explain what globalization is, much less why they're against it, and really only came to the march to hang out with their friends.
Guns aren't designed to kill people. They are designed to accellerate a slug to high rate of speed, propell it out of the barrel in a predictable and repeatable trajectory, and cycle the next shell in as smoothly as possible. Saying guns are designed to kill people is like saying that computers are designed to read email. Both are general-purpose tools with several different applications. You are picking only one.
Sigh. from Wikipedia The inclusion of a charter of rights in the constitution was a much debated issue. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau very much wanted it but many of the provincial leaders did not. Trudeau thus was forced to include the notwithstanding clause to allow provinces to opt out of certain areas of the charter. Pressure from the left in the country, especially the New Democratic Party, prevented Trudeau from including any rights protecting private property
from McGill Law Journal the Charter does not prohibit the "establishment" of religion, nor does it protect property rights explicitly.
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"a single blast of all 20 drugs at once are false."
Otherwise known as formula 51.
What's more - how did this property sell for $100? Is it really worth one and a quarter mil? If so, what's the story behind this apparant gift?
Let's see.
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I'd say the inital letter is less important than the trailing 's'. XWindow (no S) always seemed clunky - and I'm sick of the pedantic among us wailing about those who did tack on an 's'. A name change would be worth the effort just to make them shut up.
Since it seems like we have run out of the 'Ask Slashdot to do my homework' questions, it looks like we have moved on to the 'Ask Slashdot to do my market research' phase.
I'll get the next one started: Slashdot - how do I design and install a network for an international comglomerate, integrate with legacy applications and ensure adequate security across the whole mix?
I wouldn't mind Apple and it's products if it wasn't for:
.
1. the whole personality cult surrounding Steve Jobs (face it - Steve Wozniak is the real genius)
2. a futuristic vision that only about 40 years out of date. Take the ipod - it looks like it came straight out of the movie '2001', which was released in 1968
3. rabid myopic fanboys. Yes, I am aware of the irony of posting this on Slashdot.
4. product deficiencies that are actually features. For a great example of this, bring up the single mouse button thing to a bunch on Mac fanatics. You will be informed that a single button is better, that you can compensate by doing this and that and this, and that you don't really need more than a single button anyway.
When, o when will Mozilla.org release some kind of software that supports roaming bookmarks? How many years has this feature been MIA?
There has been so many failed attempts at the "Easy on, easy off" case, it's beyond amusing. The first I remember were the old IBM PS/2 model 25's. Nobody could get those stupid cases back together properly. If you showed up at a job, and the two halves were perfectly aligned, you knew that you were the first tech to open the bloody thing since it left the factory.
I don't think IBM's physical engineering has improved much since. Has anyone out there tried to connect a USB cable to one of their RSA cards? The port is located so close to the edge that the insulation on the cable bumps up against the case and doesn't let the cable seat properly. One slight touch and the cable falls out. Wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't the cable that you depend on to administer the server remotely.
Paging Captain Obvious ...
If that were true, the USSR would be 'destroyed' right now, because they haven't been able to defend themeselves for about 14 years now. What does the fact that the US has shipped aid to the USSR say about your little theory? (Here's a clue - if you are out to 'destroy' someone, you usually don't help them up)
Let's face it. The Cold War worked. The nuclear arms race worked. Instead of taking on the USSR face-on, the US decided to simply keep them in thier place and let corruption and cascading beaurocracy rot the system away from the inside. In retrespect, quite brilliant, and it worked quite well.
Except that the Bush-in-30-seconds thing isn't "informed political debate" it's rabid anti-Bush propagada. What else did anyone expect from judges like Micheal Moore, Carville and Franken? Their goal never was to promote an open, frank discussion of political issues, it was to promote hysteria. And what do Jack Black, Margaret Cho and Eddie Vedder know about politics anyway? An 'informed political debate' involves looking at an issue from all sides and studying all possible ramifications. These guys didn't even pretend to do that.
Feh. I did that when I was a kid, and didn't get paid to do it. It's called working on a farm, and lots of people do that every day and are even grateful for it.
Thank you.
That was the best Slashdot post in months, if not longer. Good thing I'm not at work right now.
Ah. You are, of course right. I knew that, but for some strange reason, I was thinking Google when I typed in my reply.
I believe that the difference is in how it's presented. If Google replaced search results with paid-for ads items (ie. didn't give a link to Playboy's page, but to a competing advertiser), that would be trademark infringement. But that's not the case. Google's search results page make it plainly obvious which are the search results, and which are ads.
"social negatives"? Is that the polite way to say "sacrifice of human lives" these days? Is "collateral damage" too strong for us?
True, but irrelevant. I'd guess it's because Linus doesn't give a rip about Slashdot.
[X] Never did, but the Slashbots don't understand it.
I don't understand whole 'Bionicles diminish creativity' thing. Have you ever actually watched a kid play with them? Mine do, and the stuff they come up with is pretty wild. They'll look at an instruction book and find something they like, but being too impatient/stubborn to actually follow instructions, they'll figure out how to build it themselves.
The fact is, original Lego is great for building orthagonal structures, but terrible at anything else. Circles, angles, joints, gears, wheels - none of these can be built with 'regular' Lego blocks. Putting these things in gives the builder additional options and enhances creativity rather than diminishing it. Besides, how can you have a decent Rockshi vs. Hogwarts battle without them?
The people complaining about 'diminished creativity' remind me of old farts sitting in their rockers complaining that 'things aren't the same as they used to be'. You (and they) are right - things are different. Lego has changed and that's good.
Sorry, but you're out to lunch on this one. My boys (6 and 9) love them and they're always pulling their bionicles apart and making new ones (usually after I kick them off the Gamecube). Every so often it's "Dad - Dad - Look at this one!", and 'this one' turns out to be some monstrosity with three bodies and five heads. And loads of weapons, naturally. My oldest has even come up with some four-legged varieties.
So they're not making cars or buildings or bridges. So what. The creativity is still there, it's just different.
On the contrary - theories that cannot be disproved are the best to argue about. That way both sides can fling opinions for all eternity because they're easier to come up with than hard facts.
Eg.
creation vs evolution
global warming
genetically modified foods
stem cell research
The Core was a documentary
" It's like a basics version of half-life for free. ...except without a plot
or quality level design
or fun weapons
or anything else that makes a game different from an engine demo"
Hey - don't knock it. That's the formula id has been following for years.
And what's more - they don't take criticism very well.
(see above)
from the article:
... maybe I'll do some 'independant research' of my own at the ROTK premiere next week ...
The World Summit of Information Society has contracted SportAccess, a Company of Kudelski Group, as the main responsible of an integrated solution for physical access control solution during the United Nations Summit of Information Society.
This stunt proves nothing about the security and privacy practices of WSIS, despite the general clamour in this forum. This was a minor slip-up of a third party, not WSIS itself. SportAccess gave passes to people who misrepresented themselves.
BTW - what's up with the 'bypass physical security' euphemism? I always thought it was called 'sneaking', as in 'I snuck into a bar' or 'I snuck into a movie' and was done by underage punks who wanted to go where they had no business being. Now it's done by 'independant researchers' and it's 'bypassing physical security'? Hmmm
You're right. An 'activist' is someone who screams very loudly about something they know nothing about. Gun control activists whose knowledge of firearms is limited to what they see on TV. Anti-GM food protesters without a working knowlege of genetics. Hordes of anti-globalization weenies who can't explain what globalization is, much less why they're against it, and really only came to the march to hang out with their friends.
Guns aren't designed to kill people. They are designed to accellerate a slug to high rate of speed, propell it out of the barrel in a predictable and repeatable trajectory, and cycle the next shell in as smoothly as possible. Saying guns are designed to kill people is like saying that computers are designed to read email. Both are general-purpose tools with several different applications. You are picking only one.
Sigh.
from Wikipedia
The inclusion of a charter of rights in the constitution was a much debated issue. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau very much wanted it but many of the provincial leaders did not. Trudeau thus was forced to include the notwithstanding clause to allow provinces to opt out of certain areas of the charter. Pressure from the left in the country, especially the New Democratic Party, prevented Trudeau from including any rights protecting private property
from McGill Law Journal
the Charter does not prohibit the "establishment" of religion, nor does it protect property rights explicitly.
also links from here
really good discussion of property rights in Canada here
Read this one if your ignore all the rest - good article.
I suggest you find something other than Slashdot for your research.