This isn't just the case of Chinese, either. It's all dynastic peoples. The japanese are well known for this trait - embrace and extend. They don't do conceptual leaps and bounds well, but they're obscenely good at implimenting current ideas to the letter and improving on the current implimentations.
I, too, have been drooling like a rabid cheerleader over the Fujitsu Lifebook P-series. I've yet to see one in person, and despite all their shortcomings in linux (as well as the sky-high price:( ), I'm still anticipating having the funds to purchase one. I'd love to be able to put one in a daybag and not have to worry about batteries, etc.
Oh, and lack of heft is nice, too. THough, like I said, I've yet to see one myself.:(
IIRC, cellular numbars are relegated to seperate 'precincts'. At least around here, you can tell which numbers are cell numbers and which are landlines by the second set of 3 numbers: 250, 251, 257, etc. for cell phones, 252, 253 for land lines. This might simply be due to the fact that seperate companies have control of these numbers, though.
What I wonder is how companies get cell phone numbers in the first place, to 'accidentially' call. Cell phones are all unlisted for a reason. This means they were either sold the numbers by the cell company, or they're randomly calling folks.
Going through numbers in random/sequential order is illigal, IIRC. It's considered right up there with prank phone calls and the like, which (again, IIRC) you can be prosecuted for if found out. The problem is, you can rarely find out precisely who called you. Phone networks don't exactly have whois. That, and the only realistic way to do something like this is a class-action suit. That involves a lot of dirt digging by many people - something that isn't practical in the least.
I've got a 120M IDE drive in a router/firewall. Almost as slow as a floppy drive.:P I still have a couple drives that are functional and 50M, as well, but they're way too small to use for anything. There's also the 386 IBM laptop w/ the 40M drive. I had DOSlinux on that a couple years ago.
I also have a couple ancient floppy drives (that are the 'dark biege' color, not the newer light beige color. Or maybe that's just because they're aged) that are in commission across my network and the networks of family members, when floppy drives are used at all in the first place.
Once again, why do people think that grade schoolers need computers at all (beyond the most basic), let alone in such abundance?
How is such institutional lock-in on hardware any different than lock-in on software? There are millions of dollars spent annually on computers for school children when the basics are being ignored. Most kids - even the 'smart' ones in well-funded districts - can barely write, let alone write well, when they graduate nowadays. It's fucking disgusting.
It's things like this that are the cause of why my children will never be put into public education. I'd rather have them in a high-quality "holy roller" school than in an environment that produces ignorant masses as it's primary goal. I'd rather them not go to school at all, and just sit around the house/roam about outdoors finding things to amuse themselves! at least then they'd have the freedom, time, and opportunity to learn at their own rate.
These people are crazy. I don't think I've heard of anything more wasteful and useless in my life. I thought it was bad when South Dakota's previous governor kept putting Dell desktops in computer labs throughout public schools and universities, because they rarely ever got used. Not only that, but they were expensive, and kept getting replaced.
Now, there's this. Laptops for 6th graders. What braindead politician came up with this one? For one, a 6th grade kid is usually not responsible enough to take care of his bicycle, let alone a commercial electronics device with sensitive equipment that costs 5 times as much. They'll be broken within days as they put them in their laptops and lug them about.
That is, if they last for more than day to begin with. As someone else has mentioned, kids like money. Unless these kids are hardcore geeks, careful, and can run like a bat out of hell, chances are these laptops will a) be stollen or b) be sold within the first couple days. A laptop that is seen as primarily for writing reports and papers, is big (for their age) and heavy, and has to be lugged around is not something that a kid would want, when they could sell it and buy, say, two or three years of the most trendy clothing and toys. These are middle schoolers we're talking about, here.
What's more, they're 6th graders. I don't know if you guys remember 6th grade or not, but the majority of 6th graders in my school were affraid of the upper classmen (7th and 8th), because there were always a few that would pick fights, and there was always the chacne that your stuff would be stollen. I'm sure some 7th or 8th grader that didn't get a laptop will want one, and know just where to get one.
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With Windows, you don't own anything, MS still retains legal rights. Thus, MS owns the computers, or at least the software, and can press charges for violation of the DMCA, because they didn't give permission.
What about studying these crackers so that they/we can determine how a cracker thinks, for the purpose of designing a better system in the first place? Say, design the system so that it's counter-intuitive to cracking attempts, at least at a security level (as opposed to a UI level).
Unless this film comes out on VHS or DVD, I will have absolutely no chance of ever seeing it.:( It's unfortunate, because I've been waiting for over a year and a half for this film to be released - since I initially heard of it's conception. Campbell's acting is by far superior to most other stuff out there. Been waiting for a while for another film with him.
Now they need to make Evil Dead 4.:) Somehow I think it would be better than Indy 4.
Rollerballs are where it's at. I prefer the "fine" variety, but "medium" is also nice. Rollerballs are far superior to felt-tip when you've got any serious quantity to write - felt tips will go dry just as a marker will, quickly, even if it's not entirely out of ink. I find the best kind of rollerball to be the kind with the invisible side, allowing you to see the ink (as opposed to the kind with the absorbant felt material inside). That way, you get more ink to use per pen, and can tell when the pen is about to run dry without opening it up.
Sometimes you'll run into a poorly made variety of rollerball, and it won't write well at too much of an angle, unfortunately.
Personally, I carry around a.5 no.2 mechanical pencil or two, and black and red rollerball pens whenever I'm expecting to have to do soem writing. I find that, since I infrequently write with such devices, my hand cramps quickly. Switching from a pen to a pencil will sometimes temporarily relieve that tension without limitting my ability to scribe.
I'd recommend a Fujitsu Lifebook P1000-series, or something similar, running linux. with the optimizations that can be made to the boot process (as recently reported here), you can likely get it to boot in under a second without too much hastle.
What's the point in this? We can already get linux to boot in under a second using various tweaks. Why do we need more speed than that?
Additionally, what's the point of making a functional and simplistic design such as the current init more complex? It doesn't need to be more complex to do what it does. It starts your computer and the processes.
The design is flat for a reason - it doesn't need to be anything but flat. Reimplimenting it is about as aburd as using PowerPoint for a bulleted list of things you need to accomplish in a day, when notepad or a pad of paper will do just fine.
Most linux systems reboot, what, once every month, if that? (desktops varying frequency, of course) Seems like a hell of a lot of effort for nothing.
Besides your complete lack of knowledge in the area of history (too much Xena, maybe?) that you demonstrate, I'd have to agree with you. That is, I agree, we put too much emphasis on moving quickly. Otherwise you're way off the wall.
The only thing is, this is nothing new. People have been driven to work quickly since the beginning of time. Always in the quest for a single thing: comfort.
Either it was for want of more food, want of a warmer home, the desire to not be beaten by their overlord (yes, most peoples have been unliberated and used for labor throughout history), or some other facet of comfort. Comfort is why all these lovely inventions such as computers abound around you - people want to make their lives more comfortable.
You must be some version of a predetermination evolutionist, if there is such a thing. So our DNA tells us what to do, now? That sounds even more rediculous than religion. No, we all have choice. You choose in the morning whether you want to get up at 5 to drive two hours into the city. If not that morning, you chose that fate months ago when you'd accepted the job. You have an option (that is, choice) when you could go golfing with the boss and chat business, spend a couple hours in traffic, or head up to the mountains for a 3-day weekend of solitude and meditation.
The world of living on the back burner isn't dead to you. I know a construction worker from Jersey that lives just about as contented and slow paced a life as you could ask for: work construction season, then take off and see the world. Spends a week upstate NY and just communes with nature. If a construction worker can do it, anyone can do it.
The only reason these people are "thickies" is because they've been conditioned to be so by the system. You're very likely a "thickie" too, compared to many/most Asian students, or historical American figures like Washington or Franklin (or any fully self-educated person, really). People are not stupid by default. The reason they're stupid is because they've been conditioned to be so by the system, so they'll be willing followers.
I went to a private high school with some incredibly unintelligent people. All of them were able to buckle down and do the work, though. Why? Because it was difficult, and it challenged them. Because it was fast paced and wasn't just shit for the sake of shitting.
Now, if the person's already been cultured and molded into a simpleton, there's not much hope for proper teaching. You've got to hold their hands all along the way, unfortunately.
The same arguement can be used of windows: all those context menus, all the layers of different options, tabs, lack of concrete ways to get from one point to the next, etc.
It's called a technical skill for a reason. You obviously didn't read what I said very clearly. It's a matter of perspective.
No, no more so than it's a "privilege" to be smart, good looking, or have the skills required to make it big in hollywood.
If you don't have the ability or qualification to do something, you simply can't do it. Period. If you're a dumbass that can't tell the difference between two very distinctly different visual elements on a monitor, you've got a fucking problem. You probably shouldn't be allowed to drive, either. (But I s'pose you consider driving a right, too, huh?)
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This isn't just the case of Chinese, either. It's all dynastic peoples. The japanese are well known for this trait - embrace and extend. They don't do conceptual leaps and bounds well, but they're obscenely good at implimenting current ideas to the letter and improving on the current implimentations.
Or so my Japanese uncle tells me.
I, too, have been drooling like a rabid cheerleader over the Fujitsu Lifebook P-series. I've yet to see one in person, and despite all their shortcomings in linux (as well as the sky-high price :( ), I'm still anticipating having the funds to purchase one. I'd love to be able to put one in a daybag and not have to worry about batteries, etc.
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Oh, and lack of heft is nice, too. THough, like I said, I've yet to see one myself.
IIRC, cellular numbars are relegated to seperate 'precincts'. At least around here, you can tell which numbers are cell numbers and which are landlines by the second set of 3 numbers: 250, 251, 257, etc. for cell phones, 252, 253 for land lines. This might simply be due to the fact that seperate companies have control of these numbers, though.
What I wonder is how companies get cell phone numbers in the first place, to 'accidentially' call. Cell phones are all unlisted for a reason. This means they were either sold the numbers by the cell company, or they're randomly calling folks.
Going through numbers in random/sequential order is illigal, IIRC. It's considered right up there with prank phone calls and the like, which (again, IIRC) you can be prosecuted for if found out. The problem is, you can rarely find out precisely who called you. Phone networks don't exactly have whois. That, and the only realistic way to do something like this is a class-action suit. That involves a lot of dirt digging by many people - something that isn't practical in the least.
I'm typing this on a 1986 IBM Model M keyboard.
:P I still have a couple drives that are functional and 50M, as well, but they're way too small to use for anything. There's also the 386 IBM laptop w/ the 40M drive. I had DOSlinux on that a couple years ago.
I've got a 120M IDE drive in a router/firewall. Almost as slow as a floppy drive.
I also have a couple ancient floppy drives (that are the 'dark biege' color, not the newer light beige color. Or maybe that's just because they're aged) that are in commission across my network and the networks of family members, when floppy drives are used at all in the first place.
Fortunately, Google can remember the past. Long live history, down with big brother!
Once again, why do people think that grade schoolers need computers at all (beyond the most basic), let alone in such abundance?
How is such institutional lock-in on hardware any different than lock-in on software? There are millions of dollars spent annually on computers for school children when the basics are being ignored. Most kids - even the 'smart' ones in well-funded districts - can barely write, let alone write well, when they graduate nowadays. It's fucking disgusting.
It's things like this that are the cause of why my children will never be put into public education. I'd rather have them in a high-quality "holy roller" school than in an environment that produces ignorant masses as it's primary goal. I'd rather them not go to school at all, and just sit around the house/roam about outdoors finding things to amuse themselves! at least then they'd have the freedom, time, and opportunity to learn at their own rate.
You should get the woody 2.4-xfs netinst ISO, then. that's what you want. it's available on debian.org.
These people are crazy. I don't think I've heard of anything more wasteful and useless in my life. I thought it was bad when South Dakota's previous governor kept putting Dell desktops in computer labs throughout public schools and universities, because they rarely ever got used. Not only that, but they were expensive, and kept getting replaced.
Now, there's this. Laptops for 6th graders. What braindead politician came up with this one? For one, a 6th grade kid is usually not responsible enough to take care of his bicycle, let alone a commercial electronics device with sensitive equipment that costs 5 times as much. They'll be broken within days as they put them in their laptops and lug them about.
That is, if they last for more than day to begin with. As someone else has mentioned, kids like money. Unless these kids are hardcore geeks, careful, and can run like a bat out of hell, chances are these laptops will a) be stollen or b) be sold within the first couple days. A laptop that is seen as primarily for writing reports and papers, is big (for their age) and heavy, and has to be lugged around is not something that a kid would want, when they could sell it and buy, say, two or three years of the most trendy clothing and toys. These are middle schoolers we're talking about, here.
What's more, they're 6th graders. I don't know if you guys remember 6th grade or not, but the majority of 6th graders in my school were affraid of the upper classmen (7th and 8th), because there were always a few that would pick fights, and there was always the chacne that your stuff would be stollen. I'm sure some 7th or 8th grader that didn't get a laptop will want one, and know just where to get one.
With Windows, you don't own anything, MS still retains legal rights. Thus, MS owns the computers, or at least the software, and can press charges for violation of the DMCA, because they didn't give permission.
What about studying these crackers so that they/we can determine how a cracker thinks, for the purpose of designing a better system in the first place? Say, design the system so that it's counter-intuitive to cracking attempts, at least at a security level (as opposed to a UI level).
I think I can sense a new Mozilla browser feature approaching. Optional, of course.
Unless this film comes out on VHS or DVD, I will have absolutely no chance of ever seeing it. :( It's unfortunate, because I've been waiting for over a year and a half for this film to be released - since I initially heard of it's conception. Campbell's acting is by far superior to most other stuff out there. Been waiting for a while for another film with him.
:) Somehow I think it would be better than Indy 4.
Now they need to make Evil Dead 4.
Rollerballs are where it's at. I prefer the "fine" variety, but "medium" is also nice. Rollerballs are far superior to felt-tip when you've got any serious quantity to write - felt tips will go dry just as a marker will, quickly, even if it's not entirely out of ink. I find the best kind of rollerball to be the kind with the invisible side, allowing you to see the ink (as opposed to the kind with the absorbant felt material inside). That way, you get more ink to use per pen, and can tell when the pen is about to run dry without opening it up.
.5 no.2 mechanical pencil or two, and black and red rollerball pens whenever I'm expecting to have to do soem writing. I find that, since I infrequently write with such devices, my hand cramps quickly. Switching from a pen to a pencil will sometimes temporarily relieve that tension without limitting my ability to scribe.
Sometimes you'll run into a poorly made variety of rollerball, and it won't write well at too much of an angle, unfortunately.
Personally, I carry around a
I'd recommend a Fujitsu Lifebook P1000-series, or something similar, running linux. with the optimizations that can be made to the boot process (as recently reported here), you can likely get it to boot in under a second without too much hastle.
WTF?
What's the point in this? We can already get linux to boot in under a second using various tweaks. Why do we need more speed than that?
Additionally, what's the point of making a functional and simplistic design such as the current init more complex? It doesn't need to be more complex to do what it does. It starts your computer and the processes.
The design is flat for a reason - it doesn't need to be anything but flat. Reimplimenting it is about as aburd as using PowerPoint for a bulleted list of things you need to accomplish in a day, when notepad or a pad of paper will do just fine.
Most linux systems reboot, what, once every month, if that? (desktops varying frequency, of course) Seems like a hell of a lot of effort for nothing.
What do you mean, DNF looks like Half-Life 2? as in, the actual gameplay...? *confused*
hahaha :) first time I've actually laughed at a slashdot post in -ages-. got a good chorkle out of that one. :)
Besides your complete lack of knowledge in the area of history (too much Xena, maybe?) that you demonstrate, I'd have to agree with you. That is, I agree, we put too much emphasis on moving quickly. Otherwise you're way off the wall.
The only thing is, this is nothing new. People have been driven to work quickly since the beginning of time. Always in the quest for a single thing: comfort.
Either it was for want of more food, want of a warmer home, the desire to not be beaten by their overlord (yes, most peoples have been unliberated and used for labor throughout history), or some other facet of comfort. Comfort is why all these lovely inventions such as computers abound around you - people want to make their lives more comfortable.
You must be some version of a predetermination evolutionist, if there is such a thing. So our DNA tells us what to do, now? That sounds even more rediculous than religion. No, we all have choice. You choose in the morning whether you want to get up at 5 to drive two hours into the city. If not that morning, you chose that fate months ago when you'd accepted the job. You have an option (that is, choice) when you could go golfing with the boss and chat business, spend a couple hours in traffic, or head up to the mountains for a 3-day weekend of solitude and meditation.
The world of living on the back burner isn't dead to you. I know a construction worker from Jersey that lives just about as contented and slow paced a life as you could ask for: work construction season, then take off and see the world. Spends a week upstate NY and just communes with nature. If a construction worker can do it, anyone can do it.
You are a drone, and your comment is PC.
Wow, you so totally got owned on that one.
That was an intentional mistake.
The only reason these people are "thickies" is because they've been conditioned to be so by the system. You're very likely a "thickie" too, compared to many/most Asian students, or historical American figures like Washington or Franklin (or any fully self-educated person, really). People are not stupid by default. The reason they're stupid is because they've been conditioned to be so by the system, so they'll be willing followers.
I went to a private high school with some incredibly unintelligent people. All of them were able to buckle down and do the work, though. Why? Because it was difficult, and it challenged them. Because it was fast paced and wasn't just shit for the sake of shitting.
Now, if the person's already been cultured and molded into a simpleton, there's not much hope for proper teaching. You've got to hold their hands all along the way, unfortunately.
The same arguement can be used of windows: all those context menus, all the layers of different options, tabs, lack of concrete ways to get from one point to the next, etc.
It's called a technical skill for a reason. You obviously didn't read what I said very clearly. It's a matter of perspective.
No, no more so than it's a "privilege" to be smart, good looking, or have the skills required to make it big in hollywood.
If you don't have the ability or qualification to do something, you simply can't do it. Period. If you're a dumbass that can't tell the difference between two very distinctly different visual elements on a monitor, you've got a fucking problem. You probably shouldn't be allowed to drive, either. (But I s'pose you consider driving a right, too, huh?)
my pointt was:
Me: never done Windows admin (don't know how it works), find it difficult
Him: never done linux admin (don't know how it works), find it difficult
It had nothign to do with the relative quality of said devices. Pay attention.
That was my fucking point, retard.
Me: never done Windows admin (don't know how it works), find it difficult
Him: never done linux admin (don't know how it works), find it difficult