Irrelevant; the article is specifically about using computers in an office setting. Yes, some people do use computers to goof off - I still have a 5-year old Quake II install that gets used every now and then - but we're talking about getting work done. Eye candy and "configurability" keep real work from getting done: how many times have you found an office computer with some stupid screen saver on it, every widget color changed, and the default title bar font set to "Comic Sans"? That shit takes time to do, and it's time that should be spent working. Or goofing off. But not "goofing of while appearing to be working".
Ah, the logical fallacy of thinking that because that you don't like today's music, it means nobody else does.
Dicto simpliciter? Well first, I didn't say that I didn't like "today's music", but I did say that a lot of it is boring and uninspired. The bands the top the charts are the ones that are easy to promote, i.e. sound like last week's chart toppers. What precentage of "hit music" is actually unique?
This is Slashdot, where people think The Who is still a relevant band.
"I hope I die before I get old" sounds a little funny from someone so damn old, but you know what? This song is particularly relevant today.
If today's music is so crap, why do so many people pirate it?
1) I made no mention of pirating. 2) Just because it is pirated doesn't mean it's not crap. In the hay days of Napster people were downloading & resharing gigabytes of music they never even listened to.
You're implying piracy will go down if they make good music
I made no such implication... but I would be willing to bet that lowering the price of CD's would lower piracy.
So in summation,
You've really done nothing but attack me and what you think I perceive as good music.
You've ignored half my argument ("it's the price, bung hole").
You throw "piracy" around to bolster your arguments, even though (with the exception of CD singles), album purchases have been on the rise for the past couple of years! (as reported and linked from/. more than once).
and you know what? If these fuckers would only do something to make people want to buy the CD, say by lowering the price, or maybe actually producing good music, then there wouldn't be an issue. But no, it's easier to spend billions of dollars on R&D than it is to actually find and develop artists, instead of just spoonfeeding us the trite crap that they are now. BAH.
<singing>But I'm just preaching to the choir...</singing>
How is a raw, bitwise copy of anything going to degrade over time?
... and when this turns out to be the solution, how long will it be before some one ports dd to Win32 & adds a nice GUI to it?
CD's aren't 'secure', and I don't see how they can be made 'secure' and backwards compatible. The (industry) perfered medium for distributing music is going to have to change before they can really enforce any kind of non- or limited-copying scheme.
Teach her how so user her "Start" menu. (How quickly an analogy gets lost... none of the [l]users I know look past their desktops for programs; they never start with "Start".)
Teach her what the difference between a "shortcut" and an actual program/file is.
Teach her about computer security, at least to the extent that if a website ever wants to run programs on her computer, click the "No" button.
There are so many better things to teach her that will allow her to get more out of this tool than showing her how to write "Hello World" in twenty different languages.
I've been working on computers (hardware, software, and as a trainer) since the early 70s. I've NEVER heard of a byte being defined as anything other than 8 bits, no matter what the word size of the cpu.
Wow, it really takes guts to admit something like that...
Because sometimes xxxx is easier than defining and importing a style sheet.
If you don't want to go to the trouble of creating a style sheet, or specifing your styles in the <head>ing, then <span style="color:red;">this works just as well</span> and will leave you feeling all warm & fuzzy.
Yes, I do. I've run three websites throught them for over 2 and a half years now; I've been with them through their growing pains and have seen many of the limits (HD space, inodes, throughput) quadruple or more in that time.
PowWeb still makes changes that will catch you with your pants down (apache/php/sql configuration changes, changing your IP address [a real problem if they don't manage your DNS], and others), and they still have problems with email -- the latest SNAFU is that the POP & SMTP servers advertise SSL but the certificate is for "*.powweb.com", not "*.yourdomain.tld".
Not that I wanted to make this a "bash PowWeb" conversation; no matter whom your service provider is, telling your clients to start checking a different email account is still an impractical pain in the ass.
First, that "solution" forces his clients to check another email account. Major PITA(?).
Second, while PowWeb provides good web hosting for $7.77 a month, bear in mind that you get what you pay for, and that I have been less-than-happy with some randomly introduced email issues.
What? "Funny" mods don't give a karma bonus? What lies are you going to tell me next, that CmdrTaco says my Karma isn't Sexcellent? You blasphemous heathen...
"According to the technical specification for ACNS, the group is working with a university that has installed the system using its Cisco routers."
Sounds like a case of buzzworditus... can one even legally install Open Source software on Cisco harware? I mean, besides the Open Source stuff that Cisco has pirated.
I understand adding case windows, lighted fans, extra knobs, hell even a cigarette lighter if that's your thing. And I understand (and enjoy) doing interesting things with slower, "outdate" hardware. But a good case mod -- while maybe taking up an impracticle foot print (for the sake of being seen) -- should not sacrifice usability.
Besides the fact that buying a $30 mousepad hardly qualifies as a "case mod" or anything deserving any sort of 1337ness.
No, you impress the critics when you write a kick-ass FPS that I can play on my pile of 486s.
I mean, it's cool and everything that the program is small... I'm not going to knock anyone for doing something simply "because they can". But what's the point of making a program that fits on a floppy when most modern computers meeting the requirments don't even ship with floppy drives anymore?
Personally the idea of using a chemical as a coolant doesn't put me at ease...
I completely concur; I keep hearing about the dangers (and pervasiveness!) of Dihydrogen Monoxide, and don't understand why the Powers that Be haven't done anything about this health and environmental danger yet...
I'll fix the spamming problem by putting a black hole transparent proxy between the machine running their program and the internet.
That was my first thought... but I'm sure that every 100 or so spams they send out, one is bound for a Virtual MDA owned machine to test out that you're actually sending these message. It would also be fairly easy to ad some kind of tracking device to the out-bound emails to check click-through and, at the very least, whether anyone is even opening the emails you're sending out. Too low of a "message read" rate and I'm sure you get das boot. Uhm, the boot.
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Irrelevant; the article is specifically about using computers in an office setting. Yes, some people do use computers to goof off - I still have a 5-year old Quake II install that gets used every now and then - but we're talking about getting work done. Eye candy and "configurability" keep real work from getting done: how many times have you found an office computer with some stupid screen saver on it, every widget color changed, and the default title bar font set to "Comic Sans"? That shit takes time to do, and it's time that should be spent working. Or goofing off. But not "goofing of while appearing to be working".
The real question is: If they're "an official Not-For-Profit Corporation in the United States", what exactly is going to happen six months from now?
I don't mean to nit-pick, but that submission could have used a little proof-reading; it just doesn't logically parse...
Dicto simpliciter? Well first, I didn't say that I didn't like "today's music", but I did say that a lot of it is boring and uninspired. The bands the top the charts are the ones that are easy to promote, i.e. sound like last week's chart toppers. What precentage of "hit music" is actually unique?
"I hope I die before I get old" sounds a little funny from someone so damn old, but you know what? This song is particularly relevant today.
1) I made no mention of pirating. 2) Just because it is pirated doesn't mean it's not crap. In the hay days of Napster people were downloading & resharing gigabytes of music they never even listened to.
I made no such implication... but I would be willing to bet that lowering the price of CD's would lower piracy.
So in summation,
and you know what? If these fuckers would only do something to make people want to buy the CD, say by lowering the price, or maybe actually producing good music, then there wouldn't be an issue. But no, it's easier to spend billions of dollars on R&D than it is to actually find and develop artists, instead of just spoonfeeding us the trite crap that they are now. BAH.
<singing>But I'm just preaching to the choir...</singing>
man 1 dd
How is a raw, bitwise copy of anything going to degrade over time?
... and when this turns out to be the solution, how long will it be before some one ports dd to Win32 & adds a nice GUI to it?
CD's aren't 'secure', and I don't see how they can be made 'secure' and backwards compatible. The (industry) perfered medium for distributing music is going to have to change before they can really enforce any kind of non- or limited-copying scheme.
Teach her DOS.
Teach her what her file system looks like.
Teach her how so user her "Start" menu. (How quickly an analogy gets lost... none of the [l]users I know look past their desktops for programs; they never start with "Start".)
Teach her what the difference between a "shortcut" and an actual program/file is.
Teach her about computer security, at least to the extent that if a website ever wants to run programs on her computer, click the "No" button.
There are so many better things to teach her that will allow her to get more out of this tool than showing her how to write "Hello World" in twenty different languages.
No, Kawasaki makes the Ninja... the Hayabusa is made by Suzuki...
Wow, it really takes guts to admit something like that...
OpenBSD. Theo's hard-line open source policy keeps even GPLed code out of the kernal, and out of userland as much as possible.
Add in unparalleled documentation and security, and I think your quest for the best Open-Source OS distribution is over :-)
If you don't want to go to the trouble of creating a style sheet, or specifing your styles in the <head>ing, then <span style="color:red;">this works just as well</span> and will leave you feeling all warm & fuzzy.
Yes, I do. I've run three websites throught them for over 2 and a half years now; I've been with them through their growing pains and have seen many of the limits (HD space, inodes, throughput) quadruple or more in that time.
PowWeb still makes changes that will catch you with your pants down (apache/php/sql configuration changes, changing your IP address [a real problem if they don't manage your DNS], and others), and they still have problems with email -- the latest SNAFU is that the POP & SMTP servers advertise SSL but the certificate is for "*.powweb.com", not "*.yourdomain.tld".
Not that I wanted to make this a "bash PowWeb" conversation; no matter whom your service provider is, telling your clients to start checking a different email account is still an impractical pain in the ass.
First, that "solution" forces his clients to check another email account. Major PITA (?) .
Second, while PowWeb provides good web hosting for $7.77 a month, bear in mind that you get what you pay for, and that I have been less-than-happy with some randomly introduced email issues.
Yes, a 747 is much more stable than the orginal proposal of mounting the lasers on shark's heads.
What? "Funny" mods don't give a karma bonus? What lies are you going to tell me next, that CmdrTaco says my Karma isn't Sexcellent? You blasphemous heathen...
From the article:
And:
Sounds like a case of buzzworditus... can one even legally install Open Source software on Cisco harware? I mean, besides the Open Source stuff that Cisco has pirated.
I understand adding case windows, lighted fans, extra knobs, hell even a cigarette lighter if that's your thing. And I understand (and enjoy) doing interesting things with slower, "outdate" hardware. But a good case mod -- while maybe taking up an impracticle foot print (for the sake of being seen) -- should not sacrifice usability.
Besides the fact that buying a $30 mousepad hardly qualifies as a "case mod" or anything deserving any sort of 1337ness.
The review said it has a small mousing surface, but that 'cons' were easy to get used to. BAH. Who wants to sacrafice usability for blinkenlights?
If I wanted style of substance I'd buy a k-rad black & grey Compaq. Or Windows XP.
OK, so your password is IagmuplMafasHIadifGAnnito? Forget the password, how do you remember that mnemonic?
TCP/IP over Avian Carrier, obviously.
Duh.
Man, I wish I had a longer liver... with the amount of drinking I do, an extra-long liver might just keep me alive longer.
No, you impress the critics when you write a kick-ass FPS that I can play on my pile of 486s.
I mean, it's cool and everything that the program is small... I'm not going to knock anyone for doing something simply "because they can". But what's the point of making a program that fits on a floppy when most modern computers meeting the requirments don't even ship with floppy drives anymore?
I completely concur; I keep hearing about the dangers (and pervasiveness!) of Dihydrogen Monoxide, and don't understand why the Powers that Be haven't done anything about this health and environmental danger yet...
That was my first thought... but I'm sure that every 100 or so spams they send out, one is bound for a Virtual MDA owned machine to test out that you're actually sending these message. It would also be fairly easy to ad some kind of tracking device to the out-bound emails to check click-through and, at the very least, whether anyone is even opening the emails you're sending out. Too low of a "message read" rate and I'm sure you get das boot. Uhm, the boot.
So, "We only use Linux" cries the slashdot crowd...
Then why the hell is windowsupdate.microsoft.com slashdoted? You bastards.