But you can't avoid the "You've been disconnected" type messages. You can get 20+ of those fuckers popped up on your window in a couple hours with a bad connection.
What you outlined here is basically what I thought would happen with Sun's 'mobile desktop' initiative (or whatever it was called), where they had everyone in the company not have a specific "workstation" but had them in pods.
I think a better idea would be to give everyone their own cart with their own equipment. The cart would have a PC, monitor, and what have you, as well as an attached chair of some sort (possibly customizeable? maybe have the chair seperate). The carts/PCs (or just give everyone a laptop, they're almost cheap enougn now) would have wireless, and the seperate WLANs of the building would be connected via cable. There would also be cable and power plugins throughout the room (floor, walls, and what have you) so that people could easily access resources. The power and network cords would be similar to vacuum cables: they'd self-coil so that the user wouldn't have to concern themselves with a tangle of wires. Their workstations would have a collapseable "desktop" so that the unit oculd be moved easily (pull a couple cotter pins, and move it down the hall), as well as a built-in file cabinet and even bookshelf for important things that they need to perform their job.
Then the person could work anywhere in the office,get together with a couple people and work on a specific project, and what have you, while the users would still be able to have their 'safety zone' - their area that they work, and that they're familiar with. Everyone has a comfort zone (determined by personality, mood, and other such factors), and if you're forced to work outside of it, you become less efficient. People should at least have the option of having an office or cubical (I'd vote against cubes in general, personally).
I see these as trivial features: there are other applications that can do voice/video already.
What I see gaim as needing is:
- proper, functional file transfer support. And if both users are behind a firewall, make it so gaim doesn't kill itself - stop popping up the "you've been disconnected" messages, et al! They're irritating beyond belief. Especially, stop the bloody thing from repeatedly "warning" me of the lack of connectivity when it's trying to autoconnect, ffs. - make it so it's easy to manage contacts. I should be able to easily add a friend's account to a specific user, and be able to group existing friend accounts into single "buddy contacts".
IMO, these things are some fairly large useability hindrances - certainly much more than the lack of video and voice conferencing. Of course, fixing flaws isn't as fun as "innovation," now is it? (If only people would realize that a functional UI is innovating...)
The only gripe I have with EULAs is that they leave exception for companies to take pretty damned near any of your information once you agree to the EULA in many cases (not that they couldn't do that anyway, being closed source, but that's another topic of discussion entirely).
Absolutely. I'd wager a good half of the problems are due to the copious amount of legalese.
That's yet another advantage of open source. There is only a relatively small number of licenses: GPL, LGPL, BSD, and a couple others. "This software uses the GPL." You have to read it once, and you then have an idea what subsequent GPL-licensed software allows (or doesn't allow).
Why not make businesses agree on a standard license model that can be used by everyone? "This software conforms to the American Business Ethical License, with the following additions:" (ie, no exceptions, because that would allow for spyware, etc.) or such. It might not be as "free" (as in speech) as OSS, but it will at least provide a standard by which corporations and other companies can be held accountable.
But then again, whoever heard of ethics in business? Certainly not the last couple generations.
A huge part of the problem is the omnipresence of those goddamn ActiveX objects.
I use Mozilla. I don't miss the "content" that oh so many of these objects supposedly allow me to access. I don't even know it's missing, most of the time. Most people get so many of these that they just instinctively click "yes," because otherwise something "might not work right".
And yet people are inundated by their scourge many times daily, "Do you trust this person?" Why should I, or anyone else, have to make a value judgement on the person (or company) who set up a web page just to view their content? I shouldn't.
You can blame MS for this mis-feature, as it's nothing but a crude hack for the inherrently insecure design in ActiveX.
Um, no, EULAs are not 'getting' to be so broad that they mirror the (as you say) "OSS" example of, "If this software eats your hard drive, we are not responsible."
That's been the clause of software packages since, um, forever. Same for hardware. You're out of your fucking mind if you think otherwise: the only way you'd not be in such a scenario is if you paid mucho denero to a company for insurance and/or some sort of odd support contract. You get no gaurantees.
No, these EULAs (spyware, microsoft's, and many others) are more the equivilant of, "You agree to let us fuck you in the ass repeatedly" or, "You agree that we can sell your personal information without your explicit permission," or "You agree that you don't mind these goddamned popups every several seconds." It's like someone saying, "Let us use your lawn to watch the fireworks" and they bulldoze your house to put in bleachers.
I also think you're too young to be married, but your early marriage is associated with your personal needs to grow as individual. Maybe you've already grown all you want.
I'm sure I'll get marked as flaimbait as this, but the following is my personal life experience.
I find sentiments as your's often come from emotionally immature people. I've found that the more emotionally mature people, and even the people that want to grow more as individuals, are the ones that marry young (well, amongst intelligent folks). marrying young doesn't indicate a lacking of growth. That's just shallow thinking.
The original storyline provides a -lot- of world material to work with. Of course, it would have to be done by a good scifi/action director, or it'd be hosed.
I'd say that there's simply a lacking of good movies in general; it's not exclusively endemic of game => movie adaptations. Hollywood excels at cranking out shit. The Hulk, anyone? There are dozens of forgetable movies every year.
Here's a link to the google cache of the geocities site. You'd think an EE would have more sense than this.
Doesn't appear the site has anything useful anyway. I'd say go with a $500 - ~1k$ unit, if you can afford it. They seem to be of high enough quality for my liking, and should be able to get a good enough picture at a sufficient resolution for anyone but the most anal.
Simple: you could tell them to not run such bloated CAD software.
Unless you're doing highly advanced, specialized CAD work, what do you need the latest-greatest CAD package for? Use something that's old and for Unix, if you can find it. If not, just use an older version (still using ACAD R14 here) which plays nicely.
Those 600Mb+ installs and high RAM requirements likely have very little to do with the compactness of the code. They're more directly related to the number and size of textures, number of polygons, and what have you - which are generated and combined by code, yes, so there is a little overhead there. But the code itself? Negligible.
Maybe you could explain this for me - why are they going from 200 to 300mm wafers? Isn't it a general trend to -decrease- the size of your components and the amount of resources needed to make them, not increase? or is their a practical reason for increasing the wafers 100mm?
Absolutely. Put the data on a raid array, and back up to tape routinely (or mirror to another unattached drive, whatever). Just maintain your data like a good sysadmin, and you should be fine - don't mess around with CDRs or what have you unless you need that medium.
Data needs maintanance. There's no way around it, currently. It's just like any other medium, but somewhat more fragile - but it's a much, much higher storage density, too, compared to say, paper.
If indeed it is warming (it is - though not for the reasons they're claiming), then there are bigger and more immediate concerns. Namely, the effect it will have on the food baskets of the world: the United States Midwest, namely. I don't know which other 'food baskets' there are (Canada? the Mediterranean? Central Europe? Japan?) as I'm just a US-centric American, but if the Midwestern US were to have drastic climate changes, then the world is in for some general starvation, as the US produces the most food of any nation, followed by Canada, I believe (and then Europe and Japan?).
Over the last couple years, I've personally noticed the weather having changed. The winters are warmer, the summers are cooler, and there is significantly less precipitation (particularly in the winter, when it's most needed). Farmers are always bitching about there not being enough snow in the winter around here, and I can only imagine it's getting worse. There was a crisis two summers ago (in South Dakota) where the resivoirs were nearly depleted and ranchers were not able to water their herds in the western part of the state.
So basically, this might prove to be a fairly immediate problem. However, I'd say the fact that all food production currently depends heavily (ie, entirely) on fossil fuels is more of a cripling factor, if indeed fossil fuels are as in short supply as everyone is claiming (something else I don't believe, as it's in the best interests of those that are claiming this as fact to do so - inflating prices and increasing demand. But that's another topic for another day.:P)
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Which is pretty useless, if you're trying to impliment Samba 3 features. I think that was the whole point - Samba 3 vs. Samba 2.
Um, the only reason that the RTFM attitude has to exist is because the wrong people are trying to use computers. No, computing shouldn't be for everyone, just like physics isn't for everyone. Consumers should have consumer products, not computers.
Ah, so that would explain why SuSe's stock kernels seem to make their system run like shit. Install a stock kernel.org kernel, and things start to pick back up to sane levels of performance.
Then why is it that every single blue-tinted headlight that I pass on the road blinds me? I don't think there are too many ricer fools that drive SUVs or other yuppie vehicles.
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But you can't avoid the "You've been disconnected" type messages. You can get 20+ of those fuckers popped up on your window in a couple hours with a bad connection.
What you outlined here is basically what I thought would happen with Sun's 'mobile desktop' initiative (or whatever it was called), where they had everyone in the company not have a specific "workstation" but had them in pods.
,get together with a couple people and work on a specific project, and what have you, while the users would still be able to have their 'safety zone' - their area that they work, and that they're familiar with. Everyone has a comfort zone (determined by personality, mood, and other such factors), and if you're forced to work outside of it, you become less efficient. People should at least have the option of having an office or cubical (I'd vote against cubes in general, personally).
I think a better idea would be to give everyone their own cart with their own equipment. The cart would have a PC, monitor, and what have you, as well as an attached chair of some sort (possibly customizeable? maybe have the chair seperate). The carts/PCs (or just give everyone a laptop, they're almost cheap enougn now) would have wireless, and the seperate WLANs of the building would be connected via cable. There would also be cable and power plugins throughout the room (floor, walls, and what have you) so that people could easily access resources. The power and network cords would be similar to vacuum cables: they'd self-coil so that the user wouldn't have to concern themselves with a tangle of wires. Their workstations would have a collapseable "desktop" so that the unit oculd be moved easily (pull a couple cotter pins, and move it down the hall), as well as a built-in file cabinet and even bookshelf for important things that they need to perform their job.
Then the person could work anywhere in the office
I see these as trivial features: there are other applications that can do voice/video already.
What I see gaim as needing is:
- proper, functional file transfer support. And if both users are behind a firewall, make it so gaim doesn't kill itself
- stop popping up the "you've been disconnected" messages, et al! They're irritating beyond belief. Especially, stop the bloody thing from repeatedly "warning" me of the lack of connectivity when it's trying to autoconnect, ffs.
- make it so it's easy to manage contacts. I should be able to easily add a friend's account to a specific user, and be able to group existing friend accounts into single "buddy contacts".
IMO, these things are some fairly large useability hindrances - certainly much more than the lack of video and voice conferencing. Of course, fixing flaws isn't as fun as "innovation," now is it? (If only people would realize that a functional UI is innovating...)
The only gripe I have with EULAs is that they leave exception for companies to take pretty damned near any of your information once you agree to the EULA in many cases (not that they couldn't do that anyway, being closed source, but that's another topic of discussion entirely).
Absolutely. I'd wager a good half of the problems are due to the copious amount of legalese.
That's yet another advantage of open source. There is only a relatively small number of licenses: GPL, LGPL, BSD, and a couple others. "This software uses the GPL." You have to read it once, and you then have an idea what subsequent GPL-licensed software allows (or doesn't allow).
Why not make businesses agree on a standard license model that can be used by everyone? "This software conforms to the American Business Ethical License, with the following additions:" (ie, no exceptions, because that would allow for spyware, etc.) or such. It might not be as "free" (as in speech) as OSS, but it will at least provide a standard by which corporations and other companies can be held accountable.
But then again, whoever heard of ethics in business? Certainly not the last couple generations.
A huge part of the problem is the omnipresence of those goddamn ActiveX objects.
I use Mozilla. I don't miss the "content" that oh so many of these objects supposedly allow me to access. I don't even know it's missing, most of the time. Most people get so many of these that they just instinctively click "yes," because otherwise something "might not work right".
And yet people are inundated by their scourge many times daily, "Do you trust this person?" Why should I, or anyone else, have to make a value judgement on the person (or company) who set up a web page just to view their content? I shouldn't.
You can blame MS for this mis-feature, as it's nothing but a crude hack for the inherrently insecure design in ActiveX.
Yeah, no kidding. It's not like the amount of spam I've received hasn't doubled or trippled since then or anything.
Um, no, EULAs are not 'getting' to be so broad that they mirror the (as you say) "OSS" example of, "If this software eats your hard drive, we are not responsible."
That's been the clause of software packages since, um, forever. Same for hardware. You're out of your fucking mind if you think otherwise: the only way you'd not be in such a scenario is if you paid mucho denero to a company for insurance and/or some sort of odd support contract. You get no gaurantees.
No, these EULAs (spyware, microsoft's, and many others) are more the equivilant of, "You agree to let us fuck you in the ass repeatedly" or, "You agree that we can sell your personal information without your explicit permission," or "You agree that you don't mind these goddamned popups every several seconds." It's like someone saying, "Let us use your lawn to watch the fireworks" and they bulldoze your house to put in bleachers.
Note, he said "superpower", not "supermoney". MS has much, much more control in the industry (and thus, power) than IBM.
Power is a direct leverage on money.
I also think you're too young to be married, but your early marriage is associated with your personal needs to grow as individual. Maybe you've already grown all you want.
I'm sure I'll get marked as flaimbait as this, but the following is my personal life experience.
I find sentiments as your's often come from emotionally immature people. I've found that the more emotionally mature people, and even the people that want to grow more as individuals, are the ones that marry young (well, amongst intelligent folks). marrying young doesn't indicate a lacking of growth. That's just shallow thinking.
Which movie did you see that in?
I've seen that quote floating about on slashdot as a sig.
I'd suggest: Deus Ex
The original storyline provides a -lot- of world material to work with. Of course, it would have to be done by a good scifi/action director, or it'd be hosed.
I'd say that there's simply a lacking of good movies in general; it's not exclusively endemic of game => movie adaptations. Hollywood excels at cranking out shit. The Hulk, anyone? There are dozens of forgetable movies every year.
Here's a link to the google cache of the geocities site. You'd think an EE would have more sense than this.
Doesn't appear the site has anything useful anyway. I'd say go with a $500 - ~1k$ unit, if you can afford it. They seem to be of high enough quality for my liking, and should be able to get a good enough picture at a sufficient resolution for anyone but the most anal.
Simple: you could tell them to not run such bloated CAD software.
Unless you're doing highly advanced, specialized CAD work, what do you need the latest-greatest CAD package for? Use something that's old and for Unix, if you can find it. If not, just use an older version (still using ACAD R14 here) which plays nicely.
Those 600Mb+ installs and high RAM requirements likely have very little to do with the compactness of the code. They're more directly related to the number and size of textures, number of polygons, and what have you - which are generated and combined by code, yes, so there is a little overhead there. But the code itself? Negligible.
Maybe you could explain this for me - why are they going from 200 to 300mm wafers? Isn't it a general trend to -decrease- the size of your components and the amount of resources needed to make them, not increase? or is their a practical reason for increasing the wafers 100mm?
They already do that. I'd say at least 95% of those that I've seen buy Dell or other OEM machines only buy the 'core' without any upgrades.
Of course, if they were to buy upgrades, it wouldn't be a "deal" anymore, anyway.
Absolutely. Put the data on a raid array, and back up to tape routinely (or mirror to another unattached drive, whatever). Just maintain your data like a good sysadmin, and you should be fine - don't mess around with CDRs or what have you unless you need that medium.
Data needs maintanance. There's no way around it, currently. It's just like any other medium, but somewhat more fragile - but it's a much, much higher storage density, too, compared to say, paper.
If indeed it is warming (it is - though not for the reasons they're claiming), then there are bigger and more immediate concerns. Namely, the effect it will have on the food baskets of the world: the United States Midwest, namely. I don't know which other 'food baskets' there are (Canada? the Mediterranean? Central Europe? Japan?) as I'm just a US-centric American, but if the Midwestern US were to have drastic climate changes, then the world is in for some general starvation, as the US produces the most food of any nation, followed by Canada, I believe (and then Europe and Japan?).
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Over the last couple years, I've personally noticed the weather having changed. The winters are warmer, the summers are cooler, and there is significantly less precipitation (particularly in the winter, when it's most needed). Farmers are always bitching about there not being enough snow in the winter around here, and I can only imagine it's getting worse. There was a crisis two summers ago (in South Dakota) where the resivoirs were nearly depleted and ranchers were not able to water their herds in the western part of the state.
So basically, this might prove to be a fairly immediate problem. However, I'd say the fact that all food production currently depends heavily (ie, entirely) on fossil fuels is more of a cripling factor, if indeed fossil fuels are as in short supply as everyone is claiming (something else I don't believe, as it's in the best interests of those that are claiming this as fact to do so - inflating prices and increasing demand. But that's another topic for another day.
- evidence of aliens creating Atlantis is found
- Christ came back the second time in 1948
- little green men found on Mars
- SCO funds humanitarian expeditions to Iraq
- Bush quits politics and goes into biotech
- New miracle cure for obeisity
- Increase your penis size by inches!!!
- p1n1s Rocket 2000 TM!
Which is pretty useless, if you're trying to impliment Samba 3 features. I think that was the whole point - Samba 3 vs. Samba 2.
Yeah, I don't think that would've happened even if she were available.
:) She'd have told Lucas where to shove it, I suspect.
Knightley is a much better acress, much more attractive, and well. A bit more priss.
Not that I'd have minded seeing her in Ep2 - she's a hell of a lot more attractive than Portman. And she can act fairly well.
Um, the only reason that the RTFM attitude has to exist is because the wrong people are trying to use computers. No, computing shouldn't be for everyone, just like physics isn't for everyone. Consumers should have consumer products, not computers.
Ah, so that would explain why SuSe's stock kernels seem to make their system run like shit. Install a stock kernel.org kernel, and things start to pick back up to sane levels of performance.
Is that so?
Then why is it that every single blue-tinted headlight that I pass on the road blinds me? I don't think there are too many ricer fools that drive SUVs or other yuppie vehicles.