1) Put the bong down and back away slowly. Never, ever pick it back up again.
2) Do your damn homework. Getting into a good college is going to require more than a 1380 on your SAT's.
3) There's going to be a brunette with an amazing body and deep green eyes. Stay away from her and UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ARE YOU TO MARRY HER!
4) When you get your first road bike buy a good radar detector. Never, ever just don't show up for a speeding ticket. If you don't show, the next time you get popped for 120mph on the Banfield they're going to give you some shiny bracelets and a ride downtown and you'll learn all about "Bench Warrants", "Bail Bondsmen" and "Lawyers".
When you think about it, overall, what does television (even cable) really bring you that you can't get elsewhere?
News: Radio, websites, local, national and international simulcast streams, newspapers, etc
Movies: Theater, rentals, public library
Series: The fact is most series are crap, and simply an airtime filler between commericals. The best/most popular are becoming available on DVD anyway.
The only real sticking point is live sports, which are better viewed live if possible, or in a public or semi-public place.
So when you really, honestly evaluate it what do you need television for anyway?
Kill your television and be done with it. I bet you wont miss it at all after three months or so.
All my local stations together would probably be worth about $7/mo to me if they were to be commercial free. Can they make money with that?
I was listening to Harry Shearer's radio show on KCRW a few weeks ago and he read an item from a study that stated that the cost of completely commercial free tv (local stations as well as cable) would cost every cable subscriber in the country about $240 per household per year extra.
They need electricity from somewhere to power the electric motors, whether it be oil/coal/nuclear. The only solution might be geo-thermal/solar/wind/wave...
Why? I bought a cheap Chinese electric scooter for $125 that has a range of 17mi per charge, a top speed of 12mph, and is only about 15lbs. And I can fold it up into a sholder bag and walk away with it.
Why buy one of these heavy, big, overpriced monsters when you can get something with similar capabilities for less money?
From the article: how does a Best Buy salesman explain the difference in 25 words or less, especially with inexpensive DVD recorders about to the hit the market?
1) You'll the capacity for ninetyeight *hours* of programming at medium quality once you drop in an extra seventy dollar hardrive.
2) You'll never have to remeber to swap another tape in your VCR. Ever.
Asked why it has taken Microsoft 25 years to get trustworthy computing into the forefront of its efforts, he said: "Because customers wouldn't pay for it until recently." Admitting this was a flippant answer to a flippant question, Mundie said that chief information officers had only recently begun to demand security
I wouldn't say that was a flippant question. Obvious yes, and valid to be sure. But how is that question supposed to be 'flippant'? Why has it taken 25 years for you to take security seriously? Nevermind that you're asking me to *pay* for something that should have been an intrinsic part of the product from the start. Seems like a good question to me.
Is there something in the Micros~1 corporate culture that breeds contempt for anyone that dares to ask an valid, though perhaps embarrassing question?
There's a big difference in keymapping between VT100 and VT102. (Had you spent any time on DEC hardware you'd know this). Gee maybe that's why I stated I wanted VT102.
These are terrible ideas. The idea behind OS X....
Exactly how is including an option (as in optional) a bad idea? Why not leave the defaults as they are and put in the options for those of us that would like that behavior instead of simply enforcing some dogmatic behavior on the user? Hmmm...what other large software comapany has a tendency to do that?
Just like you have the option to set your desktop icons to 128 pix. It's probably not a good thing for you, but for a small child it might not be a bad idea
There is a global icon size setting: With a finder window open, select "Show View Options" from the View menu. The first choice at the top of the preferences window is "This Window Only" or "All Windows".
10.2 is oh so much nicer than previous releases, but I still wish for:
VT102 emulation (FKeys damnit) in terminal. GlTerm works for now. I guess.
At least an *option* for sloppy focus / click to raise - click-to-focus-and-raise just sucks ass.
Where is the 1400x1050 screen resolution? This res works just fine on my 19" Sony under Linux.
Can I please have a *global* icon size setting and a *global* view style - nav down through a folder heiarchy in 10.2 and the view will automagically switch from list view to icon view. Super annoying.
How about a 0-100% transparency setting for the dock.
An API for a real honest-to-god VWM. Space works for now. I guess.
If Apple are serious about wooing *nix users they really need to fix at least some of these. Most of these are minor issues and should be easily fixed. It's beyond me why they haven't been fixed yet.
(I didn't even bother to mention middle-mouse-button paste).
The same guy who was responsible for VMS is responsible for Windows NT
Yes, his name is Dave Cutler. IIRC he quit working for M$ in discust about the time NT 3.5.1 was released (please correct me here).
So, if you want to get that "old VMS feeling", just fire up a Windows NT or XP machine and type at the command line--it's roughly the same.
No. The Win cmd shell is nothing like VMS. Not even close. It's really a glorified DOS shell, and has nothing whatever to do VMS. Ever used a logical under a Win cmd shell? I thought not.
I was a sysadmin on VMS systems for about 1 1/2 years, and right after that I wrote desktop apps that used RDB on VMS as a data source for about 3 years. I have at least a passing familiarity with it. It is without a doubt the most stable OS I've ever used including SunOS, Solaris, Linux, and WinNT*.
It's really too bad that DEC/Compaq continually bled their VMS/Alpha customers dry. Software, hardware, support were all obscenely expensive, and this more than anything else is what killed VMS and DEC in the long run.
"But the producers were so, so reassuring. They wanted to have an intelligent discussion, to avoid sensationalism, to give me a chance to make my arguments."
And the author believed that shit? C'mon man, what were you thinking? (Although in fairness he was pretty nice to Ralph Nader on the Enron show.)
Having worked in the entertainment industry for some time I'd sooner belive the Power Puff Girls are coming to dinner.
In Hollywood 'trust me' is just another way to say 'trust me, I'm going to fuck you the first chance I get because it might further my career a tiny little bit'.
I really miss the pizza-box workstation form factor of the old Suns I used to have.
I would buy 2 or 3 of these right away if they were available as long as they were reasonably quiet and had at least one open PCI slot.
But I dont think Apple would make a pizza-box form factor anytime soon for a couple reasons 1) they keep the number of their product lines fairly small these days and 2) unless Apple is planning on making a large run at the business desktop it probably wouldn't make much sense for them to do it (render farms maybe?).
The devil came to my house, so I let him in. He sat at my table, so I gave him a cup of tea. He offered me a wish, so I made one. And then he stole my soul and left.
I suppose I have only myself to blame, but he seemed like a nice fellow despite what others have said about him. Perhaps I should have kept dear the warnings of the others that have fallen before me.
Minion is dead thanks to the RIAA and the new CARP rates. Also see Soma FM and RAIN.
This is a very black day for freedom. The RIAA and the recording industry as a whole can't see past their greed far enough to see that internet radio stations actually benefit them by presenting music and artists that listeners otherwise would not have been exposed to.
I can't count the number of artists that I've 'found' on the various Soma FM channels, Monkey Radio, Epihany, The Downbeat, and several others. Artists and music that, once I found, I bought. Now they've pissed me off and I will not be buying any music from any RIAA artist, ever again. But that's OK - there's plenty of excellent music coming from small independents all over the world.
I can only hope that this latest greed-fest, courtesy of bought-and-paid-for politicians, will lead the artists and fans once step closer to an arts and media system that is based on self produced and promoted art. This is the future the RIAA and the major lables are terrified of - a world of music production in which they've become irrelevent. A world where music is promoted via word-of-mouth, a world where quality matters more than image and hype. The American music industry, and their hired enforcers the RIAA, have been shoving crap like Brittany down the throats of consumers for so long they can't imagine any other way of doing business.
Fine guys, you want to play it this way? That's ok. You will always have a part of the population that is tasteless and suggestable to buy your manufactured pop stars, and your yet-another-hair-band-that-sounds-just-like-the-ot her-hair-bands. And when record sales tank, and they will sooner or later, you can always scream and shout about piracy. (I own the CD for every single track that was on Minion by the way).
But for many of us this is probably the very begining of a new age, an age of the artists actually controlling the art they create. It will no doubt be a painfull and frustrating transition for many, but in the end the people that really care about quality music will find ways to flourish and prosper without the oppression of the music industry, and their paid enforcers the RIAA.
In the past even the US Army has moved its web servers over to MacOS in the mistaken belief that they will be more secure.
Yes please, lets compare the security records of IIS vs. Apache. Or better yet lets compare the security records of WinNT/2K and FreeBSD (which Darwin was based on IIRC). Give me a fuxking break.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, I submitted this story as well. At 7:00am PST this morning. But I'm not bitter. Much.
1) Put the bong down and back away slowly. Never, ever pick it back up again.
2) Do your damn homework. Getting into a good college is going to require more than a 1380 on your SAT's.
3) There's going to be a brunette with an amazing body and deep green eyes. Stay away from her and UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ARE YOU TO MARRY HER!
4) When you get your first road bike buy a good radar detector. Never, ever just don't show up for a speeding ticket. If you don't show, the next time you get popped for 120mph on the Banfield they're going to give you some shiny bracelets and a ride downtown and you'll learn all about "Bench Warrants", "Bail Bondsmen" and "Lawyers".
I generally let horrific spelling slide, but you are such a flagrant case I was compelled to respond.
Here are some suggestions:
1) Try typing your responses in a word processor with a capable spell-checker and then copy/paste into the web form.
2) Buy a damn dictionary already
3) http://dictionary.reference.com/
4) Try not posting until you have better than a sixth grade education.
Hope this helps
The Slashdot story link above points to a 404 Yahoo story.
/. ed's would just inline a small detail like that instead of linking it in.
The only ref I came across (in, we'll 5 seconds of looking. Damn that ADD) was this one from 2002-12-20 which states that only Greece has passed it.
Sure be nice if the
When you think about it, overall, what does television (even cable) really bring you that you can't get elsewhere?
News: Radio, websites, local, national and international simulcast streams, newspapers, etc
Movies: Theater, rentals, public library
Series: The fact is most series are crap, and simply an airtime filler between commericals. The best/most popular are becoming available on DVD anyway.
The only real sticking point is live sports, which are better viewed live if possible, or in a public or semi-public place.
So when you really, honestly evaluate it what do you need television for anyway?
Kill your television and be done with it. I bet you wont miss it at all after three months or so.
All my local stations together would probably be worth about $7/mo to me if they were to be commercial free. Can they make money with that?
I was listening to Harry Shearer's radio show on KCRW a few weeks ago and he read an item from a study that stated that the cost of completely commercial free tv (local stations as well as cable) would cost every cable subscriber in the country about $240 per household per year extra.
Anybody have a url for the study?
However, no public transportation system anywhere makes money
WRONG . Lies, damn lies, and just plain talking out your arsehole.
They need electricity from somewhere to power the electric motors, whether it be oil/coal/nuclear. The only solution might be geo-thermal/solar/wind/wave ...
Ever hear of Hydroelectric power? Like we use in the NW.....
Why? I bought a cheap Chinese electric scooter for $125 that has a range of 17mi per charge, a top speed of 12mph, and is only about 15lbs. And I can fold it up into a sholder bag and walk away with it.
Why buy one of these heavy, big, overpriced monsters when you can get something with similar capabilities for less money?
is Chili. Won't Hormel and 8 million Texans be surprised.
In other news the country formerly know as Chile is now pursuing legal action against several major US food packagers.
From the article: how does a Best Buy salesman explain the difference in 25 words or less, especially with inexpensive DVD recorders about to the hit the market?
1) You'll the capacity for ninetyeight *hours* of programming at medium quality once you drop in an extra seventy dollar hardrive.
2) You'll never have to remeber to swap another tape in your VCR. Ever.
3) Seasons Pass.
I'm sure you kind folks can think up your own.
Asked why it has taken Microsoft 25 years to get trustworthy computing into the forefront of its efforts, he said: "Because customers wouldn't pay for it until recently." Admitting this was a flippant answer to a flippant question, Mundie said that chief information officers had only recently begun to demand security
I wouldn't say that was a flippant question. Obvious yes, and valid to be sure. But how is that question supposed to be 'flippant'? Why has it taken 25 years for you to take security seriously? Nevermind that you're asking me to *pay* for something that should have been an intrinsic part of the product from the start. Seems like a good question to me.
Is there something in the Micros~1 corporate culture that breeds contempt for anyone that dares to ask an valid, though perhaps embarrassing question?
The names it creates are hard to read and remember, impossible to pronounce
Ever look at the linux kernel code? Besides, who ever pronounces them out loud anyway?
It doesn't scale very well beyond a few native types
This is just wrong IMHO, you can use a prefix for any type. Care to give an example?
how many meaningful prefixes is a programmer supposed to remember?
As many as it takes. Usually about 15-20. How many meaningfull syntactical rules is a programmer supposed to remember?
How many characters of a variable name are you willing to devote to type information?
Nomally 1-3.
And finally, the type of a variable is usually obvious from it's context, and it can be commented where it isn't.
C'mon man, we're talking about programmers here. Who the fux comments as much as they should, if at all?
Damn good call. VirtualDesktops used to be kind of crap, but this is really sweet. Terms on multiple desktops and everything! Thanks for the tip.
Damn dude, you must really miss System 7and your old Amiga.
Open up a terminal window and select .....
....
There's a big difference in keymapping between VT100 and VT102. (Had you spent any time on DEC hardware you'd know this). Gee maybe that's why I stated I wanted VT102.
These are terrible ideas. The idea behind OS X
Exactly how is including an option (as in optional) a bad idea? Why not leave the defaults as they are and put in the options for those of us that would like that behavior instead of simply enforcing some dogmatic behavior on the user? Hmmm...what other large software comapany has a tendency to do that?
Just like you have the option to set your desktop icons to 128 pix. It's probably not a good thing for you, but for a small child it might not be a bad idea
There is a global icon size setting: With a finder window open, select "Show View Options" from the View menu. The first choice at the top of the preferences window is "This Window Only" or "All Windows".
Yup. And it's broken. Has been for quite awhile.
10.2 is oh so much nicer than previous releases, but I still wish for:
VT102 emulation (FKeys damnit) in terminal. GlTerm works for now. I guess.
At least an *option* for sloppy focus / click to raise - click-to-focus-and-raise just sucks ass.
Where is the 1400x1050 screen resolution? This res works just fine on my 19" Sony under Linux.
Can I please have a *global* icon size setting and a *global* view style - nav down through a folder heiarchy in 10.2 and the view will automagically switch from list view to icon view. Super annoying.
How about a 0-100% transparency setting for the dock.
An API for a real honest-to-god VWM. Space works for now. I guess.
If Apple are serious about wooing *nix users they really need to fix at least some of these. Most of these are minor issues and should be easily fixed. It's beyond me why they haven't been fixed yet.
(I didn't even bother to mention middle-mouse-button paste).
The same guy who was responsible for VMS is responsible for Windows NT
Yes, his name is Dave Cutler. IIRC he quit working for M$ in discust about the time NT 3.5.1 was released (please correct me here).
So, if you want to get that "old VMS feeling", just fire up a Windows NT or XP machine and type at the command line--it's roughly the same.
No. The Win cmd shell is nothing like VMS. Not even close. It's really a glorified DOS shell, and has nothing whatever to do VMS. Ever used a logical under a Win cmd shell? I thought not.
I was a sysadmin on VMS systems for about 1 1/2 years, and right after that I wrote desktop apps that used RDB on VMS as a data source for about 3 years. I have at least a passing familiarity with it. It is without a doubt the most stable OS I've ever used including SunOS, Solaris, Linux, and WinNT*.
It's really too bad that DEC/Compaq continually bled their VMS/Alpha customers dry. Software, hardware, support were all obscenely expensive, and this more than anything else is what killed VMS and DEC in the long run.
"But the producers were so, so reassuring. They wanted to have an intelligent discussion, to avoid sensationalism, to give me a chance to make my arguments."
And the author believed that shit? C'mon man, what were you thinking? (Although in fairness he was pretty nice to Ralph Nader on the Enron show.)
Having worked in the entertainment industry for some time I'd sooner belive the Power Puff Girls are coming to dinner.
In Hollywood 'trust me' is just another way to say 'trust me, I'm going to fuck you the first chance I get because it might further my career a tiny little bit'.
I really miss the pizza-box workstation form factor of the old Suns I used to have.
I would buy 2 or 3 of these right away if they were available as long as they were reasonably quiet and had at least one open PCI slot.
But I dont think Apple would make a pizza-box form factor anytime soon for a couple reasons 1) they keep the number of their product lines fairly small these days and 2) unless Apple is planning on making a large run at the business desktop it probably wouldn't make much sense for them to do it (render farms maybe?).
The devil came to my house, so I let him in. He sat at my table, so I gave him a cup of tea. He offered me a wish, so I made one. And then he stole my soul and left.
I suppose I have only myself to blame, but he seemed like a nice fellow despite what others have said about him. Perhaps I should have kept dear the warnings of the others that have fallen before me.
Minion is dead thanks to the RIAA and the new CARP rates. Also see Soma FM and RAIN.
t her-hair-bands. And when record sales tank, and they will sooner or later, you can always scream and shout about piracy. (I own the CD for every single track that was on Minion by the way).
This is a very black day for freedom. The RIAA and the recording industry as a whole can't see past their greed far enough to see that internet radio stations actually benefit them by presenting music and artists that listeners otherwise would not have been exposed to.
I can't count the number of artists that I've 'found' on the various Soma FM channels, Monkey Radio, Epihany, The Downbeat, and several others. Artists and music that, once I found, I bought. Now they've pissed me off and I will not be buying any music from any RIAA artist, ever again. But that's OK - there's plenty of excellent music coming from small independents all over the world.
I can only hope that this latest greed-fest, courtesy of bought-and-paid-for politicians, will lead the artists and fans once step closer to an arts and media system that is based on self produced and promoted art. This is the future the RIAA and the major lables are terrified of - a world of music production in which they've become irrelevent. A world where music is promoted via word-of-mouth, a world where quality matters more than image and hype. The American music industry, and their hired enforcers the RIAA, have been shoving crap like Brittany down the throats of consumers for so long they can't imagine any other way of doing business.
Fine guys, you want to play it this way? That's ok. You will always have a part of the population that is tasteless and suggestable to buy your manufactured pop stars, and your yet-another-hair-band-that-sounds-just-like-the-o
But for many of us this is probably the very begining of a new age, an age of the artists actually controlling the art they create. It will no doubt be a painfull and frustrating transition for many, but in the end the people that really care about quality music will find ways to flourish and prosper without the oppression of the music industry, and their paid enforcers the RIAA.
Thanks for listening
I just saw the first ad (Mark Frauenfelder) on MSNBC. The irony of Apple ads targeted to MS users on MSNBC is just soooo good. I bet Bill is pissed.
this is my favorite part:
In the past even the US Army has moved its web servers over to MacOS in the mistaken belief that they will be more secure.
Yes please, lets compare the security records of IIS vs. Apache. Or better yet lets compare the security records of WinNT/2K and FreeBSD (which Darwin was based on IIRC). Give me a fuxking break.