I found the question about the future of ReiserFS absolutely appropriate for a Slashdot article, especially since as another poster pointed out, if it weren't for ReiserFS, this wouldn't be on Slashdot at all.
Other people seem to disagree, saying it's insensitive to discuss such things. I find that to be an absurd and immature attitude. I think most of the off-color jokes were in response to exactly this: the idea that discussing the future of ReiserFS is inappropriate is so childish, that we'll throw in a similarly-absurd off-color joke, because the discussion has already been lowered to that level.
When you lose someone close to you, of course you grieve for them, but if there are mundane day-to-day issues that need attention, you deal with them, postponing your grief if necessary. In this case, most of us don't know anything about the Reiser family personally - I'd be surprised if more than a handful here were aware of Nina's disappearance. It's tragic, but no more so than the millions of other tragic deaths that occur each year, unless you had some connection to the family, which we don't.
No. Here's a better solution. Apple or somebody has to set up either prepaid accounts that parents can initiate for their kids, or quotas that their kids can't bypass.
No, Coca Cola is sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup, not real sugar.
Is this also true in the UK? I know it is here in the US (mostly due to corn subsidies and sugar tariffs, I believe), but when I was in Europe a decade ago Coke was made with sugar (and sold in 33cL steel cans, slightly smaller than our 12floz aluminum cans).
It's not unknown for them to spend between 12-24 months "grooming" a potential target, and if you don't see where it might be useful to be able to masquerade as a kid who is a known member of a kids' community, then I both envy and pity your lack of cynicism.
OK, I guess I can see how that could be useful, but I can't imagine that when you weigh the benefits of being able to impersonate a real kid (as opposed to pretending to be a purely fictional kid) against the technical difficulty of hacking into an ISP so you can run a packet sniffer on their router and capture somebody's password.
Ground beef is commonly referred to as hamburger, but the actual package in the supermarket is labeled ground beef. You can also buy ground turkey, but I don't recall seeing other ground meats for sale. You can probably pick whatever meat you want and ask them to grind it for you, but it's not particularly common.
he's in his van outside the video arcade (or whatever it is kids do now).
In many cases, what kids do now is sit in front of their computer. You don't have to pump it full of quarters.
If Junior's posts to the Pokemon Masters forum can be sniffed by you, they can probably be sniffed by the bad guys too.
I think you're overestimating the bad guys. The ones we're talking about aren't interested in sniffing Junior's passwords, they're interested in sniffing Junior's ass. Besides, you can set a proxy server to log HTTPS connections (just not the content of the connection), so you can see connections to www.pokemonmasters.com on port 443 and have some idea what it probably is.
DRM'd content is not a secret "message," it's media.
A secret message is a form of media too, is it not?
But you do have a point - if the software and hardware manufacturers can get coordinated enough to prevent decrypted DRM content from going anywhere other than approved output devices, that leaves the "analog hole"... but an analog recording will be lossy.
Although, it occurs to me... what about recording digital S/PDIF audio? Would that be lossless, if it never gets converted to analog?
One of the reasons for the existence of iTunes, the iTunes Store, and the iPod, is Macintosh compatibility. The #1 music download store and the #1 portable music player both work just as well on Mac OS X as they do on Windows. If Apple hadn't made them, that might not be the case, which would be one more reason not to buy a Mac.
So yeah, the iTunes Store doesn't make a huge amount of cash, but it's constantly expanding and adding new kinds of content (first music, then audiobooks, then music videos, then TV shows, then movies...), so it will become more useful to people. If Apple wasn't doing this, somebody else would be, but that somebody else might not support Macs. Thus, the mere existence of iTunes is a huge benefit to the Mac platform, even if Apple weren't making a dime directly.
This is separate from the "halo effect", which is when Windows users buy iPods or use iTunes, then later decide to buy a computer from the same company.
Ah, I see what you're saying - this keyboard has Ctrl and Alt, but has no Windows key, so there's nothing to map to the Mac's Command key. Yeah, it sounds like mapping Caps Lock to something is probably your best option. Maybe map Alt to Command and Caps Lock to Option? Or if you're an old-school UNIX nerd, map Caps Lock to Ctrl, and map Ctrl and Alt to Opt and Cmd respectively.
I need to find out if the layout works with the Mac's Command key, which normally maps to the Windows key on PC keyboards. The virtual keyboard doesn't include a Windows key, but if I can work around that I'm definitely getting one.
System Preferences -> Keyboard and Mouse -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys
You can remap the Command, Option, Control, and Caps Lock keys as needed.
Thanks. Just so you know, I did verify the quote (with a quick Google search) before posting; I'm not the only one who has heard it attributed to Barnum.
Not quite. Neither supports Windows 95/98/ME, and there are still quite a few Win98 users out there. iTunes works on Windows 2000, XP or Vista; apparently Zune will not work on 2000 or XP without Service Pack 2.
You could do it back in 1994 if you installed Microsoft Office 6.
In fact, Apple's implementation was pretty broken prior to OSX 10.3; I used the Microsoft Office Manager on classic Mac OS, then LiteSwitch X. The former could be downloaded for free from Microsoft's web site, and was a huge improvement over what Apple had. The makers of the latter accused Apple of ripping them off in 10.3.
I would love to see a gas station start advertising that they're bringing sanity to their prices, by charging $0.001 more than the competition. With the right anti-stupidity marketing, I think it could be successful.
But then there's P. T. Barnum's quote, "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people." Oh well.
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I found the question about the future of ReiserFS absolutely appropriate for a Slashdot article, especially since as another poster pointed out, if it weren't for ReiserFS, this wouldn't be on Slashdot at all.
Other people seem to disagree, saying it's insensitive to discuss such things. I find that to be an absurd and immature attitude. I think most of the off-color jokes were in response to exactly this: the idea that discussing the future of ReiserFS is inappropriate is so childish, that we'll throw in a similarly-absurd off-color joke, because the discussion has already been lowered to that level.
When you lose someone close to you, of course you grieve for them, but if there are mundane day-to-day issues that need attention, you deal with them, postponing your grief if necessary. In this case, most of us don't know anything about the Reiser family personally - I'd be surprised if more than a handful here were aware of Nina's disappearance. It's tragic, but no more so than the millions of other tragic deaths that occur each year, unless you had some connection to the family, which we don't.
Yes we can, but the damn things keep chewing on people's brains.
Mmmmmm, BRRAAAAAIINS!
Skip Count is new in iTunes 7, which is why it's blank for songs you've only skipped prior to upgrading.
And I don't consider allofmp3 "legit" even if it's legal. (Is it legal?)
My understanding is that it's legal in Russia, but not legal for someone in the US (or most other countries).
No. Here's a better solution. Apple or somebody has to set up either prepaid accounts that parents can initiate for their kids, or quotas that their kids can't bypass.
Apple already did this years ago.
No, Coca Cola is sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup, not real sugar.
Is this also true in the UK? I know it is here in the US (mostly due to corn subsidies and sugar tariffs, I believe), but when I was in Europe a decade ago Coke was made with sugar (and sold in 33cL steel cans, slightly smaller than our 12floz aluminum cans).
It's not unknown for them to spend between 12-24 months "grooming" a potential target, and if you don't see where it might be useful to be able to masquerade as a kid who is a known member of a kids' community, then I both envy and pity your lack of cynicism.
OK, I guess I can see how that could be useful, but I can't imagine that when you weigh the benefits of being able to impersonate a real kid (as opposed to pretending to be a purely fictional kid) against the technical difficulty of hacking into an ISP so you can run a packet sniffer on their router and capture somebody's password.
if the Mac developers of OpenOffice had put in a little more then 5 seconds of work.
They've put in a HUGE amount of work to get it running on OSX as well as it does. If you think you can do better, feel free to volunteer.
Ground beef is commonly referred to as hamburger, but the actual package in the supermarket is labeled ground beef. You can also buy ground turkey, but I don't recall seeing other ground meats for sale. You can probably pick whatever meat you want and ask them to grind it for you, but it's not particularly common.
he's in his van outside the video arcade (or whatever it is kids do now).
In many cases, what kids do now is sit in front of their computer. You don't have to pump it full of quarters.
If Junior's posts to the Pokemon Masters forum can be sniffed by you, they can probably be sniffed by the bad guys too.
I think you're overestimating the bad guys. The ones we're talking about aren't interested in sniffing Junior's passwords, they're interested in sniffing Junior's ass. Besides, you can set a proxy server to log HTTPS connections (just not the content of the connection), so you can see connections to www.pokemonmasters.com on port 443 and have some idea what it probably is.
And you, Mr. Coward, are apparently so new that you've failed to recognize a "you must be new here" joke.
has at least one (1) customer (Microsoft? haha)
Well, I can't think of any other good reason why the Zune won't support PlaysForSure DRM....
DRM'd content is not a secret "message," it's media.
A secret message is a form of media too, is it not?
But you do have a point - if the software and hardware manufacturers can get coordinated enough to prevent decrypted DRM content from going anywhere other than approved output devices, that leaves the "analog hole"... but an analog recording will be lossy.
Although, it occurs to me... what about recording digital S/PDIF audio? Would that be lossless, if it never gets converted to analog?
One of the reasons for the existence of iTunes, the iTunes Store, and the iPod, is Macintosh compatibility. The #1 music download store and the #1 portable music player both work just as well on Mac OS X as they do on Windows. If Apple hadn't made them, that might not be the case, which would be one more reason not to buy a Mac.
So yeah, the iTunes Store doesn't make a huge amount of cash, but it's constantly expanding and adding new kinds of content (first music, then audiobooks, then music videos, then TV shows, then movies...), so it will become more useful to people. If Apple wasn't doing this, somebody else would be, but that somebody else might not support Macs. Thus, the mere existence of iTunes is a huge benefit to the Mac platform, even if Apple weren't making a dime directly.
This is separate from the "halo effect", which is when Windows users buy iPods or use iTunes, then later decide to buy a computer from the same company.
Ah, I see what you're saying - this keyboard has Ctrl and Alt, but has no Windows key, so there's nothing to map to the Mac's Command key. Yeah, it sounds like mapping Caps Lock to something is probably your best option. Maybe map Alt to Command and Caps Lock to Option? Or if you're an old-school UNIX nerd, map Caps Lock to Ctrl, and map Ctrl and Alt to Opt and Cmd respectively.
I need to find out if the layout works with the Mac's Command key, which normally maps to the Windows key on PC keyboards. The virtual keyboard doesn't include a Windows key, but if I can work around that I'm definitely getting one.
System Preferences -> Keyboard and Mouse -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys
You can remap the Command, Option, Control, and Caps Lock keys as needed.
Thanks. Just so you know, I did verify the quote (with a quick Google search) before posting; I'm not the only one who has heard it attributed to Barnum.
Not quite. Neither supports Windows 95/98/ME, and there are still quite a few Win98 users out there. iTunes works on Windows 2000, XP or Vista; apparently Zune will not work on 2000 or XP without Service Pack 2.
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You could do it back in 1994 if you installed Microsoft Office 6.
In fact, Apple's implementation was pretty broken prior to OSX 10.3; I used the Microsoft Office Manager on classic Mac OS, then LiteSwitch X. The former could be downloaded for free from Microsoft's web site, and was a huge improvement over what Apple had. The makers of the latter accused Apple of ripping them off in 10.3.
Most comprehensive? Please explain.
I would love to see a gas station start advertising that they're bringing sanity to their prices, by charging $0.001 more than the competition. With the right anti-stupidity marketing, I think it could be successful.
But then there's P. T. Barnum's quote, "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people." Oh well.
If leaving the case open helps with ventilation, your engineering sucks ass.
He's right. It does something completely different on Tuesday.
There's a (massive) difference.
Good Lord, that was a horrible pun.