You may not read this, but I just noticed your reply on my page, so this is the best I can do.
Despite your repeated use of "Duh", I will say it again: there was nothing insightful about your original post. Oddly enough, there actually *were* a couple interesting points in your second - why didn't you post them?
It's strange that you rant about slashdot becoming hysterically angry, but then "Duh" "Duh" "Duh#3" away. Also strange that you seem to be decrying knee-jerk negative reactions, when that's exactly what your original post expressed - a complaint that a fine and a sanction was just a drop in the bucket (*you* might think about what you said for a minute as well).
Your justification for this is all based on completely unfounded conjecture - and you want me to glean all that conjecture from your post. First off, there is nothing to prevent *anyone* from going to russia, getting a mail-order bride (why he would want to do that is beyond me) and spamming... but outlawing someone from continuing (their current) business in a country is pretty severe, about as severe a non-violent sanction as a government can bring down upon a person. And sure, he may have made 10 million, or 10 billion, but how do we know, and how is pooh-poohing a fine in relation to what he might have made relevant? I might even argue that at least a lower fine is more likely to be enforced. And how do you know what his wife does or does not do?
Indeed, as you say, he hasn't paid anything yet, and may never will... perhaps *this* should have been the topic of your original post, because it is a tad bit more insightful than the primary point.
What stood out to me in your original post was that the detail you lacked was pretty key - unlike a spelling error, it hinted at the fact that you hadn't read the article. Even that would have been a big deal if it weren't for my perception (flawed as it may be) that your post was absolutely the most obvious reaction to the slashdot posting, and that it expressed a point that is comes up in every single article about spammer fines - something to the effect of "So what? It's a drop in the bucket".
So, to me, "most obvious reaction" coupled with "missing clearly stated details" made me think you hadn't bothered to read or truly think about what was going on... I apologize if this wasn't true.
I wouldn't always argue that heirarchy, per se, is the best way to *organize* files, or to search them, or to view them.
But lets not pretend that hard drives are some kind of abstraction, like the "desktop" concept. The fact is, the data *does* exist on those disks (whatever they're made out of, or whatever they may be in the future). Until the entire computer is one large solid state device, I really want to know *where* my files are, and I don't want the computer trying to gloss over that with some "new" paradigm.
Besides, what's so clumsy about the idea that ideas, files, programs, *exist somewhere*? If I have a four-year old drive, I don't want my important sh!t on it, period. If I want to move files to a faster drive, then I should be able to account for that.
*Addressing* files for paradigm shifted searches or displays is no problem with me - if the new, cool way of looking at and/or searching for files works for me, I'll use it... but I sure as hell don't want to be isolated from the things that actually do the work. Really, I'm not sure that creating some overblown metaphorical space for something so simple as, "the files exist *here*," is appropriate or necessary. And I also doesn't think that means I'll get left behind, as you seem to imply.
Not to mention that they have been prevented from doing managing an internet advertising business, as many people have brought up.
Y'know, I don't mean to whine, but posts like your parent just make me sad, not because someone posts a knee-jerk reaction (no, I'm not new here), or because they obviously haven't read the article (there were *two* spammers involved, not just a "him"), it's because the *moderators* don't even take their points seriously enough to read the articles themselves.
I mean, the ol' "moderators on crack" is nothing new, but geez people, you should be ashamed of yourself for modding that post up. I saw it at +3 and thought, "okay, there's one or two people out there dumb enough to get suckered into a lame post," - but +5? Whatever, I should go on my way and not let it bother me...
They are built by people who started out making hearing aids, so they have a frequency reproduction that doesn't come out of the "speakers" flat, but ends up perfectly flat after engaging the geometry of the ear.
They also happen to make earplugs that decrease *all* frequencies equally (very useful for musicians who want to hear the full tonal range of the music without its full volume). At only $20, they're worth picking up a pair.
It's actually a complement to the Ipod that the reviewer actually thinks it outputs sounds good enough to buy good headphones for.
Besides, the Etymotic earphones are great for the airplane - because they block out 20db of outside sound. Kickass.
Yeah, I heard someone who was saying things that were untrue about computers in a computer store... so y'know, all those fast computers aren't really worth buying. I mean, after all, if a *salesperson* makes things up about a product, it must mean a product isn't buying.
So, what, if someone said something about the gut-wrenching feel of driving an aston martin, you would think that aston martin's are all a bunch of horseshit and hype because they don't actually "wrench" your "gut"?
It doesn't make any sense. Superiour engineering, superiour construction, and superiour materials *will* make a better product (or didn't they teach you that as an EE?).
"Warmth", "Depth", and "Presence" actually *DO* have technical measures behind them, just as much as do "balance" and "timbre" (go tell any professional instrument-maker or musician that those terms have no technical meaning and they'll laugh at you). Sometimes the stuff is hype- so what else is new, but coming up with words to describe something technical is not a bad thing, as humans relate in *experience*. Bad salesman, too, are not new, in any field, but acting like bad salesman mean that an entire field of study, research, and passion is worthless is just silly.
See my post above for my own experience with audiophilism, but please at least try to exorcise your ignorance about the subject (yes, you are ignorant about it, EE or no) by reading something intelligent about it instead of bashing salespeople... you might even *enjoy* learning about the phyics behind the phenomenons that are described as "Depth" and "Presence".
WHY is it, that on a page with a bunch of geeks, audiophilism is so derided on slashdot?
I can't figure it out - cool gadgets, pursuit of purist engineering - what's the not for the inner geek to like?
This article in particular was short on figures, but go look in any audiophile mag (if you can get over your judgement) and you'll see tons of data to back up the statements. Besides, just like a car magazine reviews, or video camera reviews, often people like to read about more than just the numbers. They value an impression of how the thing *feels*, about what the *experience* of it is - and they value a person's professional *opinion* about that. I, for one, don't see what's wrong with that.
And no, I can't afford to get into audiophilism because near-perfect musical reproduction is not worth unbalancing the rest of my life for - just like I won't mortgage everything to buy a ferrari - but I've heard a properly set up "good" audiophile system, and I'll never hear the two songs I listened to on it the same way again... they can bring out things in the music that even those fluffy cliches fail to do justice to. There IS something to the hype, and if people want to pursue it, like if people want to pursue putting linux on a toaster, I say power to them.
Interesting that "buy drum covers" was one of the top entertainment searches in august. WFT? Over such generics as Ticketmaster... I have to say I'm surprised.
Will be interesting if the random slashdot search phrases from last week show up.
What sucks even more is that if a page looks bad in IE, they discredit the page. If it looks bad in Opera or Moz, they discredit the browser. #$@(% pisses me off...
I have one niggle with your post. I *like* having two different resolutions. It's nice to have one larger monitor running in high res and a smaller one that is okay for web browsing (most pages won't sprawl properly anyway, so why waste the real estate) and other stuff.
I'm sure it's just a preference thing, like the way some people prefer symmetry to asymmetry... but I'll tell you, for web development, it truly is killer to be able to check a page in 800x600 or 1024x768 (res' I would never normally want to run) without having to flip resolutions.
Even worse are the "search engine" sites that show up with just a copy of the search you just typed in... and to top it all, there are never even any matching links, paid or not...
...or the damnable epinions pages, with absolutely no comments or useful information.
Bastards. I wish google would just "mod them down" manually - there can't be that many of them.
The first one degenerated after the first 15 minutes, the second one was one of the most boring movies I've ever seen, and while I have to say I'll check the third out on DVD, there's no way they're getting any more of my money for trite (and yes, it is trite, recycled crap, for all of those of you who think it's somehow novel) platitudes and scenes that are so totally transparent in their motives that they numb the mind...
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Oh really? I can edit video on the web? I can do 3D modeling, or audio composition online?
Even if the bandwidth was there, the latency means that an entire subset of programs - the ones that will get *more* popular as computers get faster and storage cheaper - will not be web based or cross platform (unless one counts WINE as a cross-platform tool).
I agree (and I don't drive an insight) - I think it's sweet looking, as does everyone I talk to about it. And the Prius - great car, but so clunky looking...
Y'know, this is always the kind of stuff that *sounds* like a good idea... and maybe it is, for you.
But I've found that I can more quickly access files if I *know exactly where they are* than if the computer tries to put them in the "best" order for me.
I've noticed with the recent windows abreviated menus that it's harder for me to find stuff, even if I use it often enough to appear in the "often used" section. It just means that I have to look for it every damned time rather than just knowing where it should be. I think this reflects how our brains are able to sift through information - for instance, in a menu, it's usually faster to go through tons of options if one knows where the particular option should be, than it is to try to find said option in a more chaotic, but abbreviated and sorted (however cleverly) list.
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Rush Limbaugh expresses what's in the mind of many people too.
You may not read this, but I just noticed your reply on my page, so this is the best I can do.
Despite your repeated use of "Duh", I will say it again: there was nothing insightful about your original post. Oddly enough, there actually *were* a couple interesting points in your second - why didn't you post them?
It's strange that you rant about slashdot becoming hysterically angry, but then "Duh" "Duh" "Duh#3" away. Also strange that you seem to be decrying knee-jerk negative reactions, when that's exactly what your original post expressed - a complaint that a fine and a sanction was just a drop in the bucket (*you* might think about what you said for a minute as well).
Your justification for this is all based on completely unfounded conjecture - and you want me to glean all that conjecture from your post. First off, there is nothing to prevent *anyone* from going to russia, getting a mail-order bride (why he would want to do that is beyond me) and spamming... but outlawing someone from continuing (their current) business in a country is pretty severe, about as severe a non-violent sanction as a government can bring down upon a person. And sure, he may have made 10 million, or 10 billion, but how do we know, and how is pooh-poohing a fine in relation to what he might have made relevant? I might even argue that at least a lower fine is more likely to be enforced. And how do you know what his wife does or does not do?
Indeed, as you say, he hasn't paid anything yet, and may never will... perhaps *this* should have been the topic of your original post, because it is a tad bit more insightful than the primary point.
What stood out to me in your original post was that the detail you lacked was pretty key - unlike a spelling error, it hinted at the fact that you hadn't read the article. Even that would have been a big deal if it weren't for my perception (flawed as it may be) that your post was absolutely the most obvious reaction to the slashdot posting, and that it expressed a point that is comes up in every single article about spammer fines - something to the effect of "So what? It's a drop in the bucket".
So, to me, "most obvious reaction" coupled with "missing clearly stated details" made me think you hadn't bothered to read or truly think about what was going on... I apologize if this wasn't true.
I wouldn't always argue that heirarchy, per se, is the best way to *organize* files, or to search them, or to view them.
But lets not pretend that hard drives are some kind of abstraction, like the "desktop" concept. The fact is, the data *does* exist on those disks (whatever they're made out of, or whatever they may be in the future). Until the entire computer is one large solid state device, I really want to know *where* my files are, and I don't want the computer trying to gloss over that with some "new" paradigm.
Besides, what's so clumsy about the idea that ideas, files, programs, *exist somewhere*? If I have a four-year old drive, I don't want my important sh!t on it, period. If I want to move files to a faster drive, then I should be able to account for that.
*Addressing* files for paradigm shifted searches or displays is no problem with me - if the new, cool way of looking at and/or searching for files works for me, I'll use it... but I sure as hell don't want to be isolated from the things that actually do the work. Really, I'm not sure that creating some overblown metaphorical space for something so simple as, "the files exist *here*," is appropriate or necessary. And I also doesn't think that means I'll get left behind, as you seem to imply.
Not to mention that they have been prevented from doing managing an internet advertising business, as many people have brought up.
Y'know, I don't mean to whine, but posts like your parent just make me sad, not because someone posts a knee-jerk reaction (no, I'm not new here), or because they obviously haven't read the article (there were *two* spammers involved, not just a "him"), it's because the *moderators* don't even take their points seriously enough to read the articles themselves.
I mean, the ol' "moderators on crack" is nothing new, but geez people, you should be ashamed of yourself for modding that post up. I saw it at +3 and thought, "okay, there's one or two people out there dumb enough to get suckered into a lame post," - but +5? Whatever, I should go on my way and not let it bother me...
For god's sakes, the rebuttal to that quote is *in the article links themselves* and *still* you drag it out...
I guess the moderators don't RTFAs either.
I read about a group of people who think Exchange is god's gift to administration. Sysadmins have lost all credibility in my eyes.
Seriously, does a whole group lose their dignity because of a few morons? On second thought, maybe I don't want the answer to that.
Thank you. You put it much better than I did (more enlightenment, less flame).
Those phones *are* good. That's why.
They are built by people who started out making hearing aids, so they have a frequency reproduction that doesn't come out of the "speakers" flat, but ends up perfectly flat after engaging the geometry of the ear.
They also happen to make earplugs that decrease *all* frequencies equally (very useful for musicians who want to hear the full tonal range of the music without its full volume). At only $20, they're worth picking up a pair.
It's actually a complement to the Ipod that the reviewer actually thinks it outputs sounds good enough to buy good headphones for.
Besides, the Etymotic earphones are great for the airplane - because they block out 20db of outside sound. Kickass.
Yeah, I heard someone who was saying things that were untrue about computers in a computer store... so y'know, all those fast computers aren't really worth buying. I mean, after all, if a *salesperson* makes things up about a product, it must mean a product isn't buying.
So, what, if someone said something about the gut-wrenching feel of driving an aston martin, you would think that aston martin's are all a bunch of horseshit and hype because they don't actually "wrench" your "gut"?
It doesn't make any sense. Superiour engineering, superiour construction, and superiour materials *will* make a better product (or didn't they teach you that as an EE?).
"Warmth", "Depth", and "Presence" actually *DO* have technical measures behind them, just as much as do "balance" and "timbre" (go tell any professional instrument-maker or musician that those terms have no technical meaning and they'll laugh at you). Sometimes the stuff is hype- so what else is new, but coming up with words to describe something technical is not a bad thing, as humans relate in *experience*. Bad salesman, too, are not new, in any field, but acting like bad salesman mean that an entire field of study, research, and passion is worthless is just silly.
See my post above for my own experience with audiophilism, but please at least try to exorcise your ignorance about the subject (yes, you are ignorant about it, EE or no) by reading something intelligent about it instead of bashing salespeople... you might even *enjoy* learning about the phyics behind the phenomenons that are described as "Depth" and "Presence".
WHY is it, that on a page with a bunch of geeks, audiophilism is so derided on slashdot?
I can't figure it out - cool gadgets, pursuit of purist engineering - what's the not for the inner geek to like?
This article in particular was short on figures, but go look in any audiophile mag (if you can get over your judgement) and you'll see tons of data to back up the statements. Besides, just like a car magazine reviews, or video camera reviews, often people like to read about more than just the numbers. They value an impression of how the thing *feels*, about what the *experience* of it is - and they value a person's professional *opinion* about that. I, for one, don't see what's wrong with that.
And no, I can't afford to get into audiophilism because near-perfect musical reproduction is not worth unbalancing the rest of my life for - just like I won't mortgage everything to buy a ferrari - but I've heard a properly set up "good" audiophile system, and I'll never hear the two songs I listened to on it the same way again... they can bring out things in the music that even those fluffy cliches fail to do justice to. There IS something to the hype, and if people want to pursue it, like if people want to pursue putting linux on a toaster, I say power to them.
Agreed.
If you can't search 'em, here's a hint:
www.opera.com
Interesting that "buy drum covers" was one of the top entertainment searches in august. WFT? Over such generics as Ticketmaster... I have to say I'm surprised.
Will be interesting if the random slashdot search phrases from last week show up.
Sweeeet. ;)
What sucks even more is that if a page looks bad in IE, they discredit the page. If it looks bad in Opera or Moz, they discredit the browser. #$@(% pisses me off...
The real problem is lazy web designers. Some pages don't work outside of IE and some web designers don't care. They Suck.
I have one niggle with your post. I *like* having two different resolutions. It's nice to have one larger monitor running in high res and a smaller one that is okay for web browsing (most pages won't sprawl properly anyway, so why waste the real estate) and other stuff.
I'm sure it's just a preference thing, like the way some people prefer symmetry to asymmetry... but I'll tell you, for web development, it truly is killer to be able to check a page in 800x600 or 1024x768 (res' I would never normally want to run) without having to flip resolutions.
Count me in... Once all the opera & moz users are rounded up, where else would I want to be?
Even worse are the "search engine" sites that show up with just a copy of the search you just typed in... and to top it all, there are never even any matching links, paid or not...
...or the damnable epinions pages, with absolutely no comments or useful information.
Bastards. I wish google would just "mod them down" manually - there can't be that many of them.
ummm... he did talk about working out and eating better...
I agree with the other stuff, but geez, RTFA before critiquing
Nice comment. I dig the comparison.
At least the fast and the furious doesn't try to pretend it's anything more than a flippant flick...
The first one degenerated after the first 15 minutes, the second one was one of the most boring movies I've ever seen, and while I have to say I'll check the third out on DVD, there's no way they're getting any more of my money for trite (and yes, it is trite, recycled crap, for all of those of you who think it's somehow novel) platitudes and scenes that are so totally transparent in their motives that they numb the mind...
Oh really? I can edit video on the web? I can do 3D modeling, or audio composition online?
Even if the bandwidth was there, the latency means that an entire subset of programs - the ones that will get *more* popular as computers get faster and storage cheaper - will not be web based or cross platform (unless one counts WINE as a cross-platform tool).
I agree (and I don't drive an insight) - I think it's sweet looking, as does everyone I talk to about it. And the Prius - great car, but so clunky looking...
In between the sport bike and the veyron you have the wcm ultralite - very cool, very fast, and not really that expensive.
Y'know, this is always the kind of stuff that *sounds* like a good idea... and maybe it is, for you.
But I've found that I can more quickly access files if I *know exactly where they are* than if the computer tries to put them in the "best" order for me.
I've noticed with the recent windows abreviated menus that it's harder for me to find stuff, even if I use it often enough to appear in the "often used" section. It just means that I have to look for it every damned time rather than just knowing where it should be. I think this reflects how our brains are able to sift through information - for instance, in a menu, it's usually faster to go through tons of options if one knows where the particular option should be, than it is to try to find said option in a more chaotic, but abbreviated and sorted (however cleverly) list.