I switched from MacOS 8 to Linux a bunch of years ago, and then started back in the OS X 10.1 days. For a while I dual booted Yellow Dog frequently, and used a Gentoo desktop box -- like you say, I've just gotten sick of having to fight with Linux all the time and have been asymptotically approaching 100% Mac use at home. An XFree to Xorg migration fiasco that wiped out the Gentoo installation was largely the last straw.
...I'd never heard of Jack Thompson until Zonk stated namechecking him every single day. It's not like you have to give him free publicity every time he opens his mouth.
Also, I would add that while Hemos is correct that non-literal interpretations of Genesis have been widely (if not universally) accepted in Judaism for thousands of years, his overall understanding of Jewish theology as expressed here is so head-spinningly mistaken that I'd advise him to pick less public opportunities to hold forth on it.
168 comments and no one seems to get it -- this is a joke! It's a joke for internal consumption! The Yahoo Mail guys finished a project and this tongue-in-cheek "statue" was given to them. All this hyperventilating about Godwin's Law makes it sound like this is an official, straight-faced company announcement.
Yeesh, I like Google, too, and I use GMail, but it's not my freaking religion. Next we're going to have to learn GCreationism in high school biology class...
If they wanted attention and glory, they'd all be playing football.
Errr, no, I suspect the Yahoo Mail engineers have not, in fact, all turned down offers from the NFL.
Think about all the old classic Sci-Fi movies or classic movies that are only available on TCM on occasion? What if you really could watch them "on demand" rather than waiting for them to rotate through.
I dunno -- I tend to watch that stuff mostly as "Poker, poker, Suze Orman, poker, Law & Order, Everybody Loves Raymond, poker -- ooh, Fred Astaire!" I don't know how many people are sitting around waiting for the chance to pay $4 to see Follow The Fleet.
As someone else has already explained, your approach is using the database as a giant Excel table, not as a database. You could do exactly the same thing with a text file and get your performance advantage that way.
I don't work with databases, just with enormous flat text and SAS files spit out by them, but -- isn't the proper way to do that with one table with user, question# (1-100), and response (0,1) and another with question# and question?
Your method may be technically correct (I could never get those normal things straight) but as the GP points out, it's an unwieldy, inflexible way to do it.
There are so many forms of competition that multiple humans can engage in. Why the obscession with combat in MMORPGs?
Just a guess -- warfare has serious consequences in real life for both oneself and others, so pursuing it in a virtual form is more attractive than doing something online that could be done as safely in reality.
The point is rather that innovation for the sake of innovation when 95% of the world is completely happy with what they use every day of their lives is sort of a waste of time.
Sure, but that's why (real) innovation is **hard**!!!! People here use "innovation" in a way that's almost an inversion of its proper meaning. It's not just making a minor variation on someone else's invention and then complaining that the patent system is stifling your "innovation".
But, in any case, you're begging the question. Let's say that there's no prospect for making an open-source product that improves significantly over Windows. So why should anyone stop using Windows, however low the barrier to switching becomes?
Anyhow, the article was saying how the Linux desktop needs to innovate rather than simply copy whatever the current market leader (Windows) does.
Uh, yeah. That guy was right and you're wrong.
There's this persistent delusion that people will all switch to Linux once there's not a reason not to. Except for (as that guy had noted) a handful of tinkerers and rabid Microsoft haters, users will change because there's a reason to change, not because there's not a reason not to change. When open-source desktops provide one, the users will be there.
(Incidentally -- 5%? Where the hell do you get a consensus for 5%? It's under 1%.)
Did you expect that we'd not want to admit that you can't make money by selling Free Software? You can't.
Excuse me... WHAT?!?!?
Putting aside the faux surprise that anyone might think such a thing -- don't you think this might have been mentioned earlier? Like, back in, say, 1998?!?
There is no way that their move into Linux was ever going to keep them going at their past levels. That's neither surprising, nor is it Linux's fault. You can make a decent business out of FOSS, but it's not going to be a cash cow like Windows or the old Novell.
I'd say that's a pretty fair assessment of Novell's situation.
Apple did what nobody else was able to do - they made having an MP3 player cool.
Neuros players are "cool", too -- for people who think tinkering with your MP3 player is fun. For the market of people who want to be following message boards and constantly updating their firmware, it's the best thing there is. It's silly to think, though, that that market has much room for growth.
For my part, I've been moving away from Linux and more and more onto OS X because I'm tired of needing to treat having a working computer as a hobby. The last thing I needed from an MP3 player is a *new* hobby.
Well, the "choice" is to wait 24 hours instead of jumping into the mosh pit to be one of the first 20 Norwegians in the door on December 2.
I certainly regard these schemes to use consumer frenzies for PR as degrading to human dignity, but it's not like you have to be one of the idiots trampling each other at 5 am on "Black Friday".
Most likely he has the rights to the films, but I'd recommend leaving the originals in his record and getting copies made. That's a routine request, and not expensive even if his benefits don't cover it.
I would strongly recommend *not* screwing around with any homebrew methods when his health depends on it.
Not so fast! If a company goes broke and they sell just the name as an asset, the next company is not accountable for the obligations of the former company. Those things are happening all the time. Same guys, same name, but different entity.
The AC is correct. See Air America's shenanigans (under a new corporate entity that's largely the same as the old ownership) over the grant money to care for Alzheimer's patients that was improperly lent to them.
Windows Live is a painfully bad rip off of Google's Personal Homepage. It all just Microsoft up to their old tricks: copy someone elses idea then try to extend it.
That's what used to be known as a "portal". About 10 years ago, anyone who could slap together a page like that could instantly IPO for a billion dollars. It's hardly something Google invented.
If you're making a useful, free product that people use and benefit from (or just something you take pride in), who cares what a bunch of Lunix-obsessed 14-year-old loudmouths think? Your users know who is useful and who is just a noisy jackass.
I have long since given up participating in discussions on women in gaming.
And therefore, I shall now declaim a pompous, long-winded pulled-out-of-my-ass speech on that very same subject, about how evolution has shaped men as a hunters and women as nurturers -- an idea no one has *EVAR* thought of before!
Honestly, we get this story here literally every week. (This is sort-of the second one this afternoon.) Have any of them ever made a single useful point?
Gee whiz, Methuselah -- I guess I play too much Tony Hawk, because my first thought was to wonder why on earth anyone would want less grind! Hey, check my one-footed switch Casper!!!
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I switched from MacOS 8 to Linux a bunch of years ago, and then started back in the OS X 10.1 days. For a while I dual booted Yellow Dog frequently, and used a Gentoo desktop box -- like you say, I've just gotten sick of having to fight with Linux all the time and have been asymptotically approaching 100% Mac use at home. An XFree to Xorg migration fiasco that wiped out the Gentoo installation was largely the last straw.
...I'd never heard of Jack Thompson until Zonk stated namechecking him every single day. It's not like you have to give him free publicity every time he opens his mouth.
Also, I would add that while Hemos is correct that non-literal interpretations of Genesis have been widely (if not universally) accepted in Judaism for thousands of years, his overall understanding of Jewish theology as expressed here is so head-spinningly mistaken that I'd advise him to pick less public opportunities to hold forth on it.
Yeesh, I like Google, too, and I use GMail, but it's not my freaking religion. Next we're going to have to learn GCreationism in high school biology class...
If they wanted attention and glory, they'd all be playing football.
Errr, no, I suspect the Yahoo Mail engineers have not, in fact, all turned down offers from the NFL.
It's OK, Bender -- there's no such thing as a 9!
I dunno -- I tend to watch that stuff mostly as "Poker, poker, Suze Orman, poker, Law & Order, Everybody Loves Raymond, poker -- ooh, Fred Astaire!" I don't know how many people are sitting around waiting for the chance to pay $4 to see Follow The Fleet.
It's in the contest rules...
As someone else has already explained, your approach is using the database as a giant Excel table, not as a database. You could do exactly the same thing with a text file and get your performance advantage that way.
Your method may be technically correct (I could never get those normal things straight) but as the GP points out, it's an unwieldy, inflexible way to do it.
Just a guess -- warfare has serious consequences in real life for both oneself and others, so pursuing it in a virtual form is more attractive than doing something online that could be done as safely in reality.
Sure, but that's why (real) innovation is **hard**!!!! People here use "innovation" in a way that's almost an inversion of its proper meaning. It's not just making a minor variation on someone else's invention and then complaining that the patent system is stifling your "innovation".
But, in any case, you're begging the question. Let's say that there's no prospect for making an open-source product that improves significantly over Windows. So why should anyone stop using Windows, however low the barrier to switching becomes?
Uh, yeah. That guy was right and you're wrong.
There's this persistent delusion that people will all switch to Linux once there's not a reason not to. Except for (as that guy had noted) a handful of tinkerers and rabid Microsoft haters, users will change because there's a reason to change, not because there's not a reason not to change. When open-source desktops provide one, the users will be there.
(Incidentally -- 5%? Where the hell do you get a consensus for 5%? It's under 1%.)
Excuse me ... WHAT?!?!?
Putting aside the faux surprise that anyone might think such a thing -- don't you think this might have been mentioned earlier? Like, back in, say, 1998?!?
That's precisely what I was going to say -- I didn't even know there were iPod message boards!
I'd say that's a pretty fair assessment of Novell's situation.
I suppose it beats working at Sun and getting "garbage collected"...
I'd had a feeling that that story wasn't going to get posted here...
Neuros players are "cool", too -- for people who think tinkering with your MP3 player is fun. For the market of people who want to be following message boards and constantly updating their firmware, it's the best thing there is. It's silly to think, though, that that market has much room for growth.
For my part, I've been moving away from Linux and more and more onto OS X because I'm tired of needing to treat having a working computer as a hobby. The last thing I needed from an MP3 player is a *new* hobby.
I certainly regard these schemes to use consumer frenzies for PR as degrading to human dignity, but it's not like you have to be one of the idiots trampling each other at 5 am on "Black Friday".
I would strongly recommend *not* screwing around with any homebrew methods when his health depends on it.
The AC is correct. See Air America's shenanigans (under a new corporate entity that's largely the same as the old ownership) over the grant money to care for Alzheimer's patients that was improperly lent to them.
That's what used to be known as a "portal". About 10 years ago, anyone who could slap together a page like that could instantly IPO for a billion dollars. It's hardly something Google invented.
If you're making a useful, free product that people use and benefit from (or just something you take pride in), who cares what a bunch of Lunix-obsessed 14-year-old loudmouths think? Your users know who is useful and who is just a noisy jackass.
And therefore, I shall now declaim a pompous, long-winded pulled-out-of-my-ass speech on that very same subject, about how evolution has shaped men as a hunters and women as nurturers -- an idea no one has *EVAR* thought of before!
Honestly, we get this story here literally every week. (This is sort-of the second one this afternoon.) Have any of them ever made a single useful point?
Gee whiz, Methuselah -- I guess I play too much Tony Hawk, because my first thought was to wonder why on earth anyone would want less grind! Hey, check my one-footed switch Casper!!!