That's probably because you have this thing called "taste"; Redbox is blatantly aimed at the lowest common denominator, with the newest, flashiest garbage getting top billing; just the locations (supermarkets and drugstores) should be a tip off that they ain't gonna be pushing Kubrick.
This is vaguely interesting, but shouldn't be news to anyone here; I suspect most of us have had this capability via rsync|git+ssh+a barebones UNIX/Linux server for decades. I know I have. For the rest of you (including Time Capsule users), welcome to the 1990's:-)
In any case, people are usually more complex than the first thing that pops into your mind. I often don't like coders because they're such a poor judge of people.
Oh, the hypocrisy. And I didn't even have to pull out the ellipsis for that little gem. Much of the advice here applies fairly well to a number of (unspecified) situations. As a coder, I can tell you that when someone comes to me with a vague problem (as the OP did), I'll start throwing out vague answers and trying to make assumptions to force their hand. That'll teach the stupid git to be vague.
Coming back to the topic at hand, let's look at the possibilities and possible solutions:
Time wasting - obvious lack of discipline, modify the user's habits.
they're sick of wading through garbage online - modify the user's habits; there is plenty of really good stuff online.
they got burned by participating in some online community - modify the user's habits; there are plenty of good communities online.
they have some internet-related non-time-wasting addiction - modify the user's habits, and no, cold turkey usually doesn't work.
Now, I'll grant you, maybe quitting the Internet altogether is not a bad idea for the OP, or even just taking a vacation from it (heck, I try to do the same at least once a year). But the vast, incredible usefulness of the Internet leads many of us here to ask "are you sure it's the Internet that is having a negative influence on your life? Maybe you're doing it wrong.".
Chrome is getting to be as intrusive as IE used to be.
How do you mean? Are there websites which require you to use to Chrome to access them? Has Google intentionally broken standards in Chrome to "enhance" its users web experience? Does GMail or any of Google's other services turn you away if you're not using Chrome? Does Google use undocumented APIs to make Chrome run faster than other browsers? Is Chrome so deeply embedded in the OS (on purpose) that you can't uninstall it completely without using a third party hack?
Asking the Internet how to go without the Internet? Well, I've heard of weirder things. To explain my subject line, though, don't take it negatively: what I mean by perspective is that you need to take some time off, a vacation, not just from work, but from the Internet, and possibly civilization in general. Go backpacking somewhere where there is no cell service, and don't take a satphone with you. At least a week if you can manage it. Take some time to clear your head and ask yourself: do you really need to forego the Internet completely at home, or could you just make some adjustments to your habits and ways of thinking that will help turn the Internet into a vital tool and put control of your experience of it back in your hands.
This code builds with no warnings using the most paranoid settigns and has a silent lint analysis. But it's completely unacceptable.
Funny thing, I can pick two (perfectly valid) warning flags for gcc that no function definition will compile silently with. I won't be a tease and just tell you upfront: -Wtraditional -Wold-style-definition. They aren't mutually exclusive (like they probably should be), at least in gcc 4.4.5. Warnings are a good start and help condition people to better coding habits, but you are right that they are not the end all and be all of code checking.
I *wish* I had code reviews! Granted, I would also like to choose my reviewers, or at least set a minimum bar ("first, write the FizzBuzz program in the language that the code we are reviewing was written in"). I can understand not wanting to subject yourself to people who really shouldn't be reviewing code (one comic I saw had a "reviewer" stating "all those curly brackets and semicolons really ruin the feng shui of the code"). And maybe some (very rare) people don't need code reviews (I suspect that most people would get more out of reviewing Ken Thompson's code than Ken Thompson would get in return; in other words, learn from the greats). But most code seriously needs to be reviewed. Just drop the ego, get over yourself, and set some standards for reviewers and coding style, then review.
Funny, but often true. It's useful knowing enough to know what your translators are actually telling them you said.
Classic joke:
On one hot dusty day in 1860, a lone Mexican bandit crossed the border into Texas. After robbing a small bank and shooting up the town, he led the posse on a merry chase through the desert. On the sixth day of the chase he was apprehended.
Sheriff-to-interpreter: "Ask him where the money is."
Interpreter-to-bandit: "He wants to know where you hid the money."
Bandit-to-interpreter: "I'll never tell, never!"
Interpreter-to-sheriff: "He says he'll never tell, senor." At this point, the sheriff loses his cool. His town has been shot up, his bank robbed, he's spent a week in the desert tracking this guy, and now he says he'll never tell. So he takes his pistol, jams it under the bandits' chin, and, with the veins standing out on his neck, screams "Tell him to tell me where the money is, or I'm gonna blow his brains all over the desert!"
Interpreter-to-bandit: "He says if you don't tell him where the
money is right now, he will kill you here."
Bandit-to-interpreter: "Do not kill me, senor, the money is hidden
under the big tree at the pass!"
Interpreter-to-sheriff: "He says you ain't got the balls..."
Yes, if you know what you are doing. The problem with straight razors is not how close of a shave you get, it is the amount of practice one needs to get it right. There is a reason that "safety razors" are so named.
Even with practice you still need to have darn near absolute concentration. Just last week I cut myself something fierce because my mind was somewhere else. How many people buzz over their face with an electric while going over other things in their mind?
How do you explain to the person you are talking to that checking the time is seemingly more important than what they are saying?
Maybe what they are saying isn't that important? Be honest, do you browse slashdot at -1? Politeness has its place, but sometimes it's overrated. Life is short, don't waste time listening to unimportant blather. Maybe if you are lucky the bore will realize he (or she) doesn't have anything important to say and shut up. Maybe they'll think harder before opening their mouth in the future.
Crap, that sounds worse than I meant. Do I get the asperger's prize yet?;p
It's not so much that these "heritage-macho" types are using straight razors so much as they don't really have a lot to shave.
They might own a straight razor, and have it placed just so on their dresser next to a bone-handled shaving brush, but they are certainly not using them.
I'll admit I don't have to shave that often, but I resent the "heritage-macho" label, and further resent the implication that I bought my razors out of a sense of fashion. I could go the hipster route by saying I bought my razors back when it wasn't cool (which I did), but I mainly bought them as a way to reduce waste, reduce my bills, and I *hate* shopping (haven't bought or charged a razor since), and as sort of a mini-hobby. I do like sharp things, and being able to put a sharp edge on things even more. Hence the straight razors and nice kitchen knives. Shaving properly with a straight razor also tends to irritate my face less than other methods.
Wristwatches never went out of style. It's much easier to tell time with a device on your wrist than with a device in your pocket or on your belt.
I admit, I only wear a wristwatch while exercising, and that's because it's an HRM. I do have a windup pocketwatch, which I used to wear all the time in lieu of a wristwatch because I don't like the feel of wristwatches on my skin, but it would get scratched too much, and the smartphone serves the timekeeping purpose well enough. I mostly keep the pocketwatch (which again, takes no batteries) for showmanship at the big band dances I play at (for checking the time for countoff). The ticking is also comforting to me.
Has slashdot descended so far that news for nerds is now "animal makes noise with its dick"? Really now...
I can't think of anything more nerdy than science (which this is). It just happens to also be highly amusing. Not to mention the last line of TFS is intriguing, and could really matter: what if you could one day buy a speaker no bigger than your fingernail, but it could fill a room?
What, would you rather see the latest bullshit about pop-star-drama-du-jour? Or how about what the next color iThing will be?
Hot damn! Can we go for the trifecta of FUD? First, comments on the blog questioning the post are deleted; second, we find out that there is only one post to the blog; anybody want to go for number three and find out which one of Microsoft or Apple was paying this fraud? Or maybe the character is completely made up by an Apple or MS FUDster. I'd laugh, but I've seen this joke too many times before.
Or, alternatively, you can just install Debian. I've pretty much abandoned Ubuntu at this point.
Seconded. I only ran Ubuntu because it's what came with my system76 laptop; after it started having issues and crashing randomly(!), I backed up my files, wiped it and installed a fresh version of Debian (also wanted to do that from the start since Ubuntu didn't have encrypted drives out of the box). Surprise! My laptop no longer randomly crashes or locks up. I'm guessing it was the proprietary, binary only drivers, but what's weird is that I'm sure I'm running at least one binary blob under Debian that is probably identical to Ubuntu (the wireless driver). Oh well; if you Ubuntu users like teh shiny, that's fine by me. As long as I get to play with my 8 DVDs of science/engineering/sw dev packages, I'll be happy:)
No, it was quite clearly *not* a social problem (polluted water? technical problem) and the "solution" was at best half technical. Last I checked, passing laws wasn't a technical solution, and if it had really been a social problem, people would have continued to pollute and drink from the Thames even after it was pointed out that was a bad idea.
This is equivalent to hoping that you could fix with software the failure of a CPU.... Not likely to work.
That would depend on the nature of the failure. Have you heard of the Pentium F00F bug?
Not to mention things like Google, where their whole operation runs on HW that isn't anywhere near "enterprise grade", but commodity off the shelf desktops (basically). How do they handle the inevitable failures? They design the software to deal with it.
Either someone else hosts the service, does the maintenance, and as such has physical access, or you use your own server, in which you have to do maintenance.
I've never understood why people consider running their own servers so hard; I certainly don't consider myself some hotshot admin (although I do have a bit more experience than most amateurs), and it's always seemed simple to me: get a business line with static IP (DSL or cable), setup a Debian box, lock it down with Bastille (or IPTables by hand at a minimum), and setup SSH+{rsync|git} or whatever suits your fancy (as long as the connection is encrypted and you use keys for auth). Seriously, what's so hard about this?
I keep telling people, check the friggin' firehose! At least once a day!
Guess there are a lot more Apple fanboys on Slashdot then I thought
You don't know the half of it. As if MacRumors, or the half a dozen other Apple websites weren't enough for them, they have to come here, a site originally founded about open source and Linux in particular, to shit all over the place with FUD and slashvertisements. It's bad enough having to deal with the Microsoft shills and FUDsters, but at least they don't have as many rabid fanbois as Apple.
I use git, which uses SSH by default, and since I already had SSH keys setup, it works pretty smoothly. Someone suggested staying away from git because you can't purge old versions, but that's a feature in my book. As for Android, I do not know what git support is like, but it works great on my N900, laptop & servers. Automatic merges, versioning, fully distributed repos and more just makes it nice. I don't know about GUI support as I don't need it, but automating it shouldn't be hard. Would make for an interesting project to slick it up and replace time machine & drop box in one swell foop.
And it wouldn't hurt to take a lesson in etiquette from the Japanese. There was a comment on slashdot on a cell phone jamming article a while back where someone mentioned that in his time he spent in Japan, it was remarkable that he didn't hear a cell phone ring *once*. Also, dozens of people on public transportation would talk in a whisper on their cell phones at the same time, because they understood that the technology was good enough to reduce noise and amplify their voice.
Why can't we have that here in America? Why doesn't everyone keep their cell phone on vibrate by default? Is it really necessary to hear some insipid pop garbage every time someone gets a text or phone call? I attribute it to the egotistical culture of "ME ME ME". Maybe unapologetic attention seeking whores would like to spend an hour in the stocks? Maybe that would satisfy their craving for attention.
Credit card companies, as much maligned as they are, treat their customers (both vendors and shoppers) far better than Paypal has ever done for their own customers.
Credit card companies are maligned for a reason: they acted just like Paypal before the eeebil gubbermint stepped in and and regulated them. If it weren't for government regulations, people would be still getting fucked over by CC companies and banks (and despite the regulations, people *still* get screwed). This is why Paypal keeps wanting to play it both ways and insist "we're not a bank!" because it means they'd be subject to a whole pile of rules to prevent exactly what they do.
I'm no Apple fan, but damn do people elect stupid people to City Council. That Kris lady or whatever doesn't care about anything besides "Free WiFi" [goto 13:19]. That's what she wants for the city. Screw tax revenue, new residents, etc, etc, no, she wants Apple to give her free WiFi.
Again, I don't like Apple, but Steve's response was great, basically, (paraphrased), "We'll give you WiFi when you stop taxing us, since that's what taxes are for, public works projects".
To which, no doubt, Jobs will gripe about being taxed more, or he'll probably bribe someone to shutdown a tax-funded free WiFi project.
Seriously, half of the stories that get posted on/. now are from trolls, particularly the ones about Android. It's gotten so bad that I really feel guilty that I'm continuing to read slashdot - I think it is wrong of me to continue to give my attention to such a low quality source of news and discussion when surely there are higher quality outlets available and more deserving of our attention.
Try using the firehose; I try to go there at least once a day and downvote the trolls, spam and other BS, and upvote the truly interesting stories.
So, what are those other sites? Has some other site picked up where/. left off? A site where they (or their system) somehow weeds out the lowest quality items before accepting them?
I don't know; I have noticed that many people who used to post regularly aren't anymore. The sad truth is, slashdot may still be better than the alternatives, and at least we have some input here.
If only there were a version of Nethack that used graphics--oh wait! Nethack has had graphics (optional, but usually on by default) for well over a decade; there's even a 3D isometric version based on GL.
Wait, they're down to only one GL version? I thought there were at least two!
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That's probably because you have this thing called "taste"; Redbox is blatantly aimed at the lowest common denominator, with the newest, flashiest garbage getting top billing; just the locations (supermarkets and drugstores) should be a tip off that they ain't gonna be pushing Kubrick.
This is vaguely interesting, but shouldn't be news to anyone here; I suspect most of us have had this capability via rsync|git+ssh+a barebones UNIX/Linux server for decades. I know I have. For the rest of you (including Time Capsule users), welcome to the 1990's :-)
Oh, the hypocrisy. And I didn't even have to pull out the ellipsis for that little gem. Much of the advice here applies fairly well to a number of (unspecified) situations. As a coder, I can tell you that when someone comes to me with a vague problem (as the OP did), I'll start throwing out vague answers and trying to make assumptions to force their hand. That'll teach the stupid git to be vague.
Coming back to the topic at hand, let's look at the possibilities and possible solutions:
Now, I'll grant you, maybe quitting the Internet altogether is not a bad idea for the OP, or even just taking a vacation from it (heck, I try to do the same at least once a year). But the vast, incredible usefulness of the Internet leads many of us here to ask "are you sure it's the Internet that is having a negative influence on your life? Maybe you're doing it wrong.".
How do you mean? Are there websites which require you to use to Chrome to access them? Has Google intentionally broken standards in Chrome to "enhance" its users web experience? Does GMail or any of Google's other services turn you away if you're not using Chrome? Does Google use undocumented APIs to make Chrome run faster than other browsers? Is Chrome so deeply embedded in the OS (on purpose) that you can't uninstall it completely without using a third party hack?
Asking the Internet how to go without the Internet? Well, I've heard of weirder things. To explain my subject line, though, don't take it negatively: what I mean by perspective is that you need to take some time off, a vacation, not just from work, but from the Internet, and possibly civilization in general. Go backpacking somewhere where there is no cell service, and don't take a satphone with you. At least a week if you can manage it. Take some time to clear your head and ask yourself: do you really need to forego the Internet completely at home, or could you just make some adjustments to your habits and ways of thinking that will help turn the Internet into a vital tool and put control of your experience of it back in your hands.
Funny thing, I can pick two (perfectly valid) warning flags for gcc that no function definition will compile silently with. I won't be a tease and just tell you upfront: -Wtraditional -Wold-style-definition. They aren't mutually exclusive (like they probably should be), at least in gcc 4.4.5. Warnings are a good start and help condition people to better coding habits, but you are right that they are not the end all and be all of code checking.
I *wish* I had code reviews! Granted, I would also like to choose my reviewers, or at least set a minimum bar ("first, write the FizzBuzz program in the language that the code we are reviewing was written in"). I can understand not wanting to subject yourself to people who really shouldn't be reviewing code (one comic I saw had a "reviewer" stating "all those curly brackets and semicolons really ruin the feng shui of the code"). And maybe some (very rare) people don't need code reviews (I suspect that most people would get more out of reviewing Ken Thompson's code than Ken Thompson would get in return; in other words, learn from the greats). But most code seriously needs to be reviewed. Just drop the ego, get over yourself, and set some standards for reviewers and coding style, then review.
Classic joke:
On one hot dusty day in 1860, a lone Mexican bandit crossed the border into
Texas. After robbing a small bank and shooting up the town, he led the posse
on a merry chase through the desert. On the sixth day of the chase he was
apprehended.
Sheriff-to-interpreter: "Ask him where the money is."
Interpreter-to-bandit: "He wants to know where you hid the money."
Bandit-to-interpreter: "I'll never tell, never!"
Interpreter-to-sheriff: "He says he'll never tell, senor."
At this point, the sheriff loses his cool. His town has been shot up, his
bank robbed, he's spent a week in the desert tracking this guy, and now he
says he'll never tell. So he takes his pistol, jams it under the bandits'
chin, and, with the veins standing out on his neck, screams "Tell him to tell
me where the money is, or I'm gonna blow his brains all over the desert!"
Interpreter-to-bandit: "He says if you don't tell him where the
money is right now, he will kill you here."
Bandit-to-interpreter: "Do not kill me, senor, the money is hidden
under the big tree at the pass!"
Interpreter-to-sheriff: "He says you ain't got the balls..."
Even with practice you still need to have darn near absolute concentration. Just last week I cut myself something fierce because my mind was somewhere else. How many people buzz over their face with an electric while going over other things in their mind?
Maybe what they are saying isn't that important? Be honest, do you browse slashdot at -1? Politeness has its place, but sometimes it's overrated. Life is short, don't waste time listening to unimportant blather. Maybe if you are lucky the bore will realize he (or she) doesn't have anything important to say and shut up. Maybe they'll think harder before opening their mouth in the future.
Crap, that sounds worse than I meant. Do I get the asperger's prize yet? ;p
I'll admit I don't have to shave that often, but I resent the "heritage-macho" label, and further resent the implication that I bought my razors out of a sense of fashion. I could go the hipster route by saying I bought my razors back when it wasn't cool (which I did), but I mainly bought them as a way to reduce waste, reduce my bills, and I *hate* shopping (haven't bought or charged a razor since), and as sort of a mini-hobby. I do like sharp things, and being able to put a sharp edge on things even more. Hence the straight razors and nice kitchen knives. Shaving properly with a straight razor also tends to irritate my face less than other methods.
I admit, I only wear a wristwatch while exercising, and that's because it's an HRM. I do have a windup pocketwatch, which I used to wear all the time in lieu of a wristwatch because I don't like the feel of wristwatches on my skin, but it would get scratched too much, and the smartphone serves the timekeeping purpose well enough. I mostly keep the pocketwatch (which again, takes no batteries) for showmanship at the big band dances I play at (for checking the time for countoff). The ticking is also comforting to me.
I can't think of anything more nerdy than science (which this is). It just happens to also be highly amusing. Not to mention the last line of TFS is intriguing, and could really matter: what if you could one day buy a speaker no bigger than your fingernail, but it could fill a room?
What, would you rather see the latest bullshit about pop-star-drama-du-jour? Or how about what the next color iThing will be?
Hot damn! Can we go for the trifecta of FUD? First, comments on the blog questioning the post are deleted; second, we find out that there is only one post to the blog; anybody want to go for number three and find out which one of Microsoft or Apple was paying this fraud? Or maybe the character is completely made up by an Apple or MS FUDster. I'd laugh, but I've seen this joke too many times before.
Seconded. I only ran Ubuntu because it's what came with my system76 laptop; after it started having issues and crashing randomly(!), I backed up my files, wiped it and installed a fresh version of Debian (also wanted to do that from the start since Ubuntu didn't have encrypted drives out of the box). Surprise! My laptop no longer randomly crashes or locks up. I'm guessing it was the proprietary, binary only drivers, but what's weird is that I'm sure I'm running at least one binary blob under Debian that is probably identical to Ubuntu (the wireless driver). Oh well; if you Ubuntu users like teh shiny, that's fine by me. As long as I get to play with my 8 DVDs of science/engineering/sw dev packages, I'll be happy :)
No, it was quite clearly *not* a social problem (polluted water? technical problem) and the "solution" was at best half technical. Last I checked, passing laws wasn't a technical solution, and if it had really been a social problem, people would have continued to pollute and drink from the Thames even after it was pointed out that was a bad idea.
Not to mention things like Google, where their whole operation runs on HW that isn't anywhere near "enterprise grade", but commodity off the shelf desktops (basically). How do they handle the inevitable failures? They design the software to deal with it.
I've never understood why people consider running their own servers so hard; I certainly don't consider myself some hotshot admin (although I do have a bit more experience than most amateurs), and it's always seemed simple to me: get a business line with static IP (DSL or cable), setup a Debian box, lock it down with Bastille (or IPTables by hand at a minimum), and setup SSH+{rsync|git} or whatever suits your fancy (as long as the connection is encrypted and you use keys for auth). Seriously, what's so hard about this?
I keep telling people, check the friggin' firehose! At least once a day!
You don't know the half of it. As if MacRumors, or the half a dozen other Apple websites weren't enough for them, they have to come here, a site originally founded about open source and Linux in particular, to shit all over the place with FUD and slashvertisements. It's bad enough having to deal with the Microsoft shills and FUDsters, but at least they don't have as many rabid fanbois as Apple.
I use git, which uses SSH by default, and since I already had SSH keys setup, it works pretty smoothly. Someone suggested staying away from git because you can't purge old versions, but that's a feature in my book. As for Android, I do not know what git support is like, but it works great on my N900, laptop & servers. Automatic merges, versioning, fully distributed repos and more just makes it nice. I don't know about GUI support as I don't need it, but automating it shouldn't be hard. Would make for an interesting project to slick it up and replace time machine & drop box in one swell foop.
And it wouldn't hurt to take a lesson in etiquette from the Japanese. There was a comment on slashdot on a cell phone jamming article a while back where someone mentioned that in his time he spent in Japan, it was remarkable that he didn't hear a cell phone ring *once*. Also, dozens of people on public transportation would talk in a whisper on their cell phones at the same time, because they understood that the technology was good enough to reduce noise and amplify their voice.
Why can't we have that here in America? Why doesn't everyone keep their cell phone on vibrate by default? Is it really necessary to hear some insipid pop garbage every time someone gets a text or phone call? I attribute it to the egotistical culture of "ME ME ME". Maybe unapologetic attention seeking whores would like to spend an hour in the stocks? Maybe that would satisfy their craving for attention.
Credit card companies are maligned for a reason: they acted just like Paypal before the eeebil gubbermint stepped in and and regulated them. If it weren't for government regulations, people would be still getting fucked over by CC companies and banks (and despite the regulations, people *still* get screwed). This is why Paypal keeps wanting to play it both ways and insist "we're not a bank!" because it means they'd be subject to a whole pile of rules to prevent exactly what they do.
Haven't you heard? God has been dead since at least 1882 (if he ever existed).
And yet Google provides free WiFi for Mountain View without even being asked..
To which, no doubt, Jobs will gripe about being taxed more, or he'll probably bribe someone to shutdown a tax-funded free WiFi project.
Try using the firehose; I try to go there at least once a day and downvote the trolls, spam and other BS, and upvote the truly interesting stories.
I don't know; I have noticed that many people who used to post regularly aren't anymore. The sad truth is, slashdot may still be better than the alternatives, and at least we have some input here.
Wait, they're down to only one GL version? I thought there were at least two!