You mean aside from the 420-character limit for posts, the lack of threading in comments, the way that everything is so poorly organized that it's impossible to keep a sustained conversation going, that the layout was done by someone from 1979, where displays are a fixed format and layouts rigid, so on wide screens you end up with a lot of useless white space, and that it is possibly the first site to demonstrate what photo-chemists and astronomers taking long-term exposures call "reciprocity failure", or that the "network effect" has an optimal peak, and beyond that it actually devalues the network?
Oh, and of course, the privacy issues. Mustn't forget that.
The nytimes story is beyond stupid. slashdot is not digg, and if it became like digg, And hackernews? Come off it.
Why would anyone want slashdot to became like that piece of sh*t known as facebook (if there's one site that has a worse UI than slashdot it HAS to be facebook). Tis is a tech web site, not myspace.
http://www.redat.com/ iGATE Powers Its Mission-Critical ManageMe Application on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (close call on that one...)
http://www.mandriva.com/ 1st para : More than 3 million people in the world enjoy our Mandriva Linux platform on their computer.
http://http//fedoraproject.org/: Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software.
http:///linuxmint.com/ : it's in their url, title, ect: Linux Mint 9 KDE Linux Mint 9 KDE is out!
http://www.debian.org/: Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux.
pclinuxos, puppy linux, etc...
It's funny how Canonical wants to be seen as the "canonical linux distro", but it's all just marketing fluff and FUGLY color schemes.
Se... I already know you were in a car accident 10 years ago, that you have lingering pain, and therefore blah blah blah. Insurance providers like that sort of info, as do employers (so that if you hurt yourself on the job they can say "pre-existing condition").
If I'm sitting on the bus and you sit down near me and say hello, I'll go ahead and say hello back. If you then comment about the weather I'll respond about the weather. We can have a nice conversation about a local sports team, you might ask me if I was at the game yesterday and I'll tell you no, I wasn't. You can go ahead and pat yourself on the back about extracting that information with your mad social engineering skills, but the reality is all you've done is be part of normal conversation.
I sit on the bus next to you. I quietly lean over, and point out someone I don't know, and say - "If he looks a bit familiar, it's because he's been keeping tabs on you. We know what you did. It would be such a shame... There's a restaurant at the next bus stop. I think it would be worth your while to join me there for a coffee."
Then I get up and go to the bus exit.
If you follow, then I know two things:
You're hiding something
You can be blackmailed over it
Given that, it's only a matter of time to find out *what*. Because almost everyone has a dirty little secret.
Of course,if you set this up properly, by finding out where your "pigeon" lives first, you can take a few picture. At your meeting, you say something like "how do you think this will affect her?" as you slide a photo of his kid towards him. "Don't say anything - just think about it for a minute." Keep a few other pictures face down (they can be kittens for all you care). Now offer to let him off the hook - and get a reward - in return for the information you want. "Despite all this, I think we can arrange something of mutual benefit. I know someone who is willing to pay (name bogus price) for certain information on your employer. They want a copy of the company employee address book, 50 envelopes and 100 letterheads, and the contact information for 3 medium-sized customers. This last bit is just to verify that the address book is legit, after which they might have some more work for you."
So, if he falls for it, you've got legitimate company stationary and 3 mid-sized clients contact info. THAT can be sold. Letters of recommendation, references, and now they have someone inside the company to call as a contact person to verify the references. The pigeon has to play along. So, how much is a good reference from a competitor worth in today's job market? More than a cup of coffee, for sure.
I noticed on the list that they didn't say medical was out of the question. "Hi - we're calling from [insert local hospital name]. There's nothing to be alarmed about - just a minor computer glitch - we have two entries with the same first and last names. Have you ever seen Dr. [insert bogus doctor] in emergency? You're not sure? How about doctor [insert another] in the past two weeks? No. Thank you. To prevent any future problems, I'm going to enter your full name into the computer system - just remember to use your FULL name, including your middle name, in the future. How shall I spell it? Thank you very much. Have a nice day."
Well, you're in for a surprise in 3 years. The 16-core chips on the roadmap are aimed at the consumer market.
Did this really just happen?
Check out AMDs roadmap. 16 cores in 2014 - for the masses, not the server market.
They remember the "good old days" when people would pay $500 or more just for a cpu, or $6,000 (in pre-dot-com-boom-bust) for a PC that had way less power than the cheapest game console.
We can expect dual and quad 48-core systems (96/192 cores) by the end of the decade.
There's already one company selling a specialized 892-core system-on-a-chip (or maybe it's 982 cores) for simultaneous multiple video stream real-time manipulation, and it's only in the low 5 figures.
Maybe it doesn't support rounded corners, but now that all the major crap has been fixed, I'll do my rounded corners with a few css background: (url://foo.com/round.png) and call it good.
I can now do web sites entirely within linux, boot a laptop temporarily into windows, and guess what - it WORKS.
I don't need any browser sniffing, any shims, any of the crap that people have been using for years. xmlhttprequest is the same object across all browsers now so no checking for different methods for creating a new one.
THAT is what we've been asking for for a decade.
Now as for this:
Most creative and software development companies are forced by government department clients to build websites for IE6 when most of the industry has moved on.
Nobody is forced - you can always give them a separate url with a fugly site and tell them that it's to partition off the insecure users of IE6. Bring along a laptop to show them what they're missing. Tell them they don't have to upgrade from IE6 - they can always use Opera or Forefox in addition... it's not a binary either-or choice.
After all, a fully-patched system is also just as safe for Firefox or Opera as it is for IE6. Or don't they really believe that their systems are secure, and it's just hand-waving.
I ran into a $16 billion company Thursday that still is on IE6. Will I change anything so my product works with them? No - its chasing the tail of the market. At some point in the next year or two they're going to have to upgrade anyway.
The last boss who insisted on pixel-perfect IE6 compatibility stopped complaining all of a sudden when his favorite porn site (or was it his favorite poker site) forced the upgrade issue. If you believe that people's reasons for not upgrading are based on logic or economics, you're mistaken. Those are justifications or excuses, but the real reason is inertia (or they would have switched to Firefox or Opera long ago).
No tinfoil hat involved. You cannot tell a person's race or cultural background or where they live by how they sound over the phone, and anyone who believes otherwise is living in the past.
Just like you cannot tell where a person is calling from based on the area code. Those days are LONG gone.
I have called their tech support directly in Texas many times before.
That means NOTHING. Indians have the southern twang down to a tee. They use it to make fun of you all the time. Don't you ever watch the comedians on TV? It's like when I go to the states and everyone assumes I'm a local because I pick up the local accent in a few hours. I even stop saying "eh!". Now a Bronx accent... that's harder. but Texas, aw shucks...
And with VoIP, your local call can easily be half a world away and you wouldn't know it.
There's a difference between tribalism and calling Shuttleworth out on being a poseur (who wants to see a return on his investment). Ubuntu isn't that great a distro, and aside from Ubuntu what does Canonical have in the bag? Nada. And trying to chase the cloud isn't going to fix that.
Others invested in linux as a way to further their other business goals, so cooperation in linux is smart. It adds value to their other lines of business. Canonical? They are one of the least significant contributors to the kernel, and in a patent war, they'd be the first to either go under or strike a deal (they're already licensing patented codecs).
That's not tribalism - that's pointing out the differences in motivations between Canonical and other linux distributors. Even RedHat has other products.
And sometimes it's just the truth. Case in point - Ubuntu's fugly color schemes. I made fun of them for years, and all the ubuntu fanbois defended them - until all of a sudden "THE WORD" came down that they are going to be changed (without admitting that they're fugly).
Of course, they're still fugly. And my pointing out that a fugly colour scheme will NOT get you into corporate offices is not "tribalism" - it's the truth.
But - and this is important - it doesn't matter. Honestly, if you are so thin-skinned that some criticism of your colour scheme will get you all bent out of shape, no wonder you see tribalism behind every comment, instead of what it is - the usual slashdot-style ribbing. Lighten up, take a chill pill, whatever, it's not that serious.
We need people from across the spectrum, and that includes some of the extremes, including, for example, RMS, despite what some of the "more moderate" people claim.
In other words, people should be less insecure; we will not win the desktop war no matter what. Even if everone worked together starting tomorrow, we will not win it. That's a simple fact. What we have to do is get nice and comfy in second or third place, and then wait for #1 to screw up.
Of course, that goes against the plans of people who *need* to have their distro start returning their investment as a product in and of itself, as opposed as a gateway product into corporate offices. That's the flaw with Ubuntu, and always has been. And trying to zoom off in a dozen different directions isn't helping any.
So-called "tribalism" is not that big a problem, except to people who want to exert control over the various "tribes" and be seen as the unifying voice, they saviour, the great white hope, whatever...
It's certainly NOT a problem in the open source world. I poke fun at Ubuntu because it's fugly. So what? I prefer opensuse, because it works (and from the griping of people complaining about ubuntu, I made the right choice). That makes me tribal? Fuddle-duddle! Instead of claiming to use professional designers, Ubuntu users should embrace their gay side and show a bit of style - it worked wonders for Apple:-)
Our job isn't to take over the world, beat Microsoft, or anything else. Our job is to be number two or three, not number one. Then you become #1 when the ones in front of you screw up.
We have the luxury of being able to be diverse. Microsoft can't afford to be. Apple can't afford to be. We can. Embrace it. It's our strength. Stop with the st00pid talk of "tribalism". It underwhelms.
That's what they want you to believe - and you're dumb enough to believe it. Sheesh. Oh, right, you buys buy Dell. Sorry, don't let me stop you getting back on the short bus for the ride home.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, and of course, the privacy issues. Mustn't forget that.
Because that static page is what xfire is showing the public. Go to the forums instead: http://www.xfire.com/forums/182619/
Why would anyone want slashdot to became like that piece of sh*t known as facebook (if there's one site that has a worse UI than slashdot it HAS to be facebook). Tis is a tech web site, not myspace.
If it weren't gnu, it would be something else. Some ideas are just inevitable.
2) Duct tape something ("including the installation of a jumper cable to maintain proper cooling to the Zarya module in the Russian segment");
3) Problem solved!
http://www.opensuse.com/ : redirects to http://en.opensuse.org/Main_Page : 1st sentence "Project: The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux everywhere
http://www.redat.com/ iGATE Powers Its Mission-Critical ManageMe Application on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (close call on that one ...)
http://www.mandriva.com/ 1st para : More than 3 million people in the world enjoy our Mandriva Linux platform on their computer.
http://http//fedoraproject.org/: Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software.
http:/// linuxmint.com/ : it's in their url, title, ect: Linux Mint 9 KDE Linux Mint 9 KDE is out!
http://www.debian.org/: Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux.
pclinuxos, puppy linux, etc ...
It's funny how Canonical wants to be seen as the "canonical linux distro", but it's all just marketing fluff and FUGLY color schemes.
So take a marker and convert the '3' in your mp3 player to an '8'. Certainly an mp8 player's got to be WAY better than an \mp5\ player.
That is awful. You have my sympathies.
Se ... I already know you were in a car accident 10 years ago, that you have lingering pain, and therefore blah blah blah. Insurance providers like that sort of info, as do employers (so that if you hurt yourself on the job they can say "pre-existing condition").
I sit on the bus next to you. I quietly lean over, and point out someone I don't know, and say - "If he looks a bit familiar, it's because he's been keeping tabs on you. We know what you did. It would be such a shame ... There's a restaurant at the next bus stop. I think it would be worth your while to join me there for a coffee."
Then I get up and go to the bus exit.
If you follow, then I know two things:
Given that, it's only a matter of time to find out *what*. Because almost everyone has a dirty little secret.
Of course,if you set this up properly, by finding out where your "pigeon" lives first, you can take a few picture. At your meeting, you say something like "how do you think this will affect her?" as you slide a photo of his kid towards him. "Don't say anything - just think about it for a minute." Keep a few other pictures face down (they can be kittens for all you care). Now offer to let him off the hook - and get a reward - in return for the information you want. "Despite all this, I think we can arrange something of mutual benefit. I know someone who is willing to pay (name bogus price) for certain information on your employer. They want a copy of the company employee address book, 50 envelopes and 100 letterheads, and the contact information for 3 medium-sized customers. This last bit is just to verify that the address book is legit, after which they might have some more work for you."
So, if he falls for it, you've got legitimate company stationary and 3 mid-sized clients contact info. THAT can be sold. Letters of recommendation, references, and now they have someone inside the company to call as a contact person to verify the references. The pigeon has to play along. So, how much is a good reference from a competitor worth in today's job market? More than a cup of coffee, for sure.
I noticed on the list that they didn't say medical was out of the question. "Hi - we're calling from [insert local hospital name]. There's nothing to be alarmed about - just a minor computer glitch - we have two entries with the same first and last names. Have you ever seen Dr. [insert bogus doctor] in emergency? You're not sure? How about doctor [insert another] in the past two weeks? No. Thank you. To prevent any future problems, I'm going to enter your full name into the computer system - just remember to use your FULL name, including your middle name, in the future. How shall I spell it? Thank you very much. Have a nice day."
Check out AMDs roadmap. 16 cores in 2014 - for the masses, not the server market.
They remember the "good old days" when people would pay $500 or more just for a cpu, or $6,000 (in pre-dot-com-boom-bust) for a PC that had way less power than the cheapest game console.
We can expect dual and quad 48-core systems (96/192 cores) by the end of the decade.
There's already one company selling a specialized 892-core system-on-a-chip (or maybe it's 982 cores) for simultaneous multiple video stream real-time manipulation, and it's only in the low 5 figures.
So just cut the on-board trace from the reset button. They can press it all they want at that point.
Heck, I can see a new market niche - unresetable calculators. Hey, Ferris, you want to make some quick money to fund your next day off?
Maybe it doesn't support rounded corners, but now that all the major crap has been fixed, I'll do my rounded corners with a few css background: (url://foo.com/round.png) and call it good.
I can now do web sites entirely within linux, boot a laptop temporarily into windows, and guess what - it WORKS.
I don't need any browser sniffing, any shims, any of the crap that people have been using for years. xmlhttprequest is the same object across all browsers now so no checking for different methods for creating a new one.
THAT is what we've been asking for for a decade.
Now as for this:
Nobody is forced - you can always give them a separate url with a fugly site and tell them that it's to partition off the insecure users of IE6. Bring along a laptop to show them what they're missing. Tell them they don't have to upgrade from IE6 - they can always use Opera or Forefox in addition ... it's not a binary either-or choice.
After all, a fully-patched system is also just as safe for Firefox or Opera as it is for IE6. Or don't they really believe that their systems are secure, and it's just hand-waving.
I ran into a $16 billion company Thursday that still is on IE6. Will I change anything so my product works with them? No - its chasing the tail of the market. At some point in the next year or two they're going to have to upgrade anyway.
The last boss who insisted on pixel-perfect IE6 compatibility stopped complaining all of a sudden when his favorite porn site (or was it his favorite poker site) forced the upgrade issue. If you believe that people's reasons for not upgrading are based on logic or economics, you're mistaken. Those are justifications or excuses, but the real reason is inertia (or they would have switched to Firefox or Opera long ago).
No tinfoil hat involved. You cannot tell a person's race or cultural background or where they live by how they sound over the phone, and anyone who believes otherwise is living in the past.
Just like you cannot tell where a person is calling from based on the area code. Those days are LONG gone.
That means NOTHING. Indians have the southern twang down to a tee. They use it to make fun of you all the time. Don't you ever watch the comedians on TV? It's like when I go to the states and everyone assumes I'm a local because I pick up the local accent in a few hours. I even stop saying "eh!". Now a Bronx accent ... that's harder. but Texas, aw shucks ...
And with VoIP, your local call can easily be half a world away and you wouldn't know it.
Others invested in linux as a way to further their other business goals, so cooperation in linux is smart. It adds value to their other lines of business. Canonical? They are one of the least significant contributors to the kernel, and in a patent war, they'd be the first to either go under or strike a deal (they're already licensing patented codecs).
That's not tribalism - that's pointing out the differences in motivations between Canonical and other linux distributors. Even RedHat has other products.
And sometimes it's just the truth. Case in point - Ubuntu's fugly color schemes. I made fun of them for years, and all the ubuntu fanbois defended them - until all of a sudden "THE WORD" came down that they are going to be changed (without admitting that they're fugly).
Of course, they're still fugly. And my pointing out that a fugly colour scheme will NOT get you into corporate offices is not "tribalism" - it's the truth.
But - and this is important - it doesn't matter. Honestly, if you are so thin-skinned that some criticism of your colour scheme will get you all bent out of shape, no wonder you see tribalism behind every comment, instead of what it is - the usual slashdot-style ribbing. Lighten up, take a chill pill, whatever, it's not that serious.
We need people from across the spectrum, and that includes some of the extremes, including, for example, RMS, despite what some of the "more moderate" people claim.
In other words, people should be less insecure; we will not win the desktop war no matter what. Even if everone worked together starting tomorrow, we will not win it. That's a simple fact. What we have to do is get nice and comfy in second or third place, and then wait for #1 to screw up.
Of course, that goes against the plans of people who *need* to have their distro start returning their investment as a product in and of itself, as opposed as a gateway product into corporate offices. That's the flaw with Ubuntu, and always has been. And trying to zoom off in a dozen different directions isn't helping any.
So-called "tribalism" is not that big a problem, except to people who want to exert control over the various "tribes" and be seen as the unifying voice, they saviour, the great white hope, whatever ...
It's certainly NOT a problem in the open source world. I poke fun at Ubuntu because it's fugly. So what? I prefer opensuse, because it works (and from the griping of people complaining about ubuntu, I made the right choice). That makes me tribal? Fuddle-duddle! Instead of claiming to use professional designers, Ubuntu users should embrace their gay side and show a bit of style - it worked wonders for Apple :-)
Our job isn't to take over the world, beat Microsoft, or anything else. Our job is to be number two or three, not number one. Then you become #1 when the ones in front of you screw up.
We have the luxury of being able to be diverse. Microsoft can't afford to be. Apple can't afford to be. We can. Embrace it. It's our strength. Stop with the st00pid talk of "tribalism". It underwhelms.
And don't forget that after all that, they only want to pay you a starter salary to see if you work out ...
Short answer - you're a non-techie. Otherwise, you would have already been poking around doing things.
Someone should send him a plane ticket to the US "to meet his new beloved."
That's what they want you to believe - and you're dumb enough to believe it. Sheesh. Oh, right, you buys buy Dell. Sorry, don't let me stop you getting back on the short bus for the ride home.
It's one of the great strengths of open source. Or would you rather a mono-culture (and we can guess who you want at the top).
The more fps you generate, the more heat the cpu and gpu put out.
Or all you guys into fapping at porn, just put your laptop on your ... um ... lap. "No pain, no gain", right?
Sounds great. Publish it as a spec. Or start your own "filter your facebook" site. Users certainly have the right to access their own data ...