Although it doesn't say what kind of coin was involved, I would guess it's almost certainly the two dollar coin. Mainly because I'd guess it's easy to pop out the center part of it that is a different metal. Even if you put plastic in there, the metal frame around it would make it feel pretty similar to a normal coin. There is also an advantage that when you cross the border you can't unload $1 and $2 coins. You can try to pawn off the small change to people who aren't paying attention (a problem in itself for northern states), but no one is going to take the big change - some won't take American dollar coins for that matter. Anyway that means they are more likely to keep the coin at least until they return to Canada.
Also it's better if vending machines reject the coin. If you can't spend it in a soda machine you're going to just keep the coin, and probably try another.
This is one of the reasons MS is in bad shape; they just have too many hands in different baskets. Instead of trying to create a better, easier to use Operating System for consumers, they are also trying to push an online music store, a digital music player, a media center PC, and their own media formats (for licensing lock-in down the road assumably). With so many different interests, the consumer will always get the short end of the stick with MS products when it comes to digital licensed content.
The numbers game is mainly done by Sony here. From what I see where I live you still cannot get a Wii - so pretty much all units produced were sold. The PS3 is sitting on the shelves however. Often 5-8 units per store. This is extrapolating where I live across the entire U.S. so obviously that isn't that accurate, but I've heard similar stories from people across the U.S. and Canada.
Assuming you have two drives and one is twice the density as the first and both are at 50% capacity, then assuming the data is on the first half, the head should have to travel half the distance where the density is twice as high. That should affect latency as well as twice as much data will pass under the head per revolution.
I'm pulling that explanation out of my ass though:)
It will be interesting to see if all the bugs blamed on QT3 are really bugs from QT. I know QT3 is cited as being the bane of Kword for instance. I doubt it is to blame for the crappy spell checker though:)
because var and swap will destroy a CF card? The idea behind using a CF card is to save power, when you are still using a HD you are using MORE power (HD + CF). You could use a CF card and run var/swap off of a memory filesystem via PCMCIA adapter, but you've been able to do that for years.
4. A system administrator got it into his head that rackmounting was the way to go (I agree). So he begged for a 19" rack to be ordered, and placed all of his servers into it. Except he doesn't have a single rack mountable server, and he didn't get the rails for any of the cases either. So now he has one $500 rack, and 8 $100 shelves to go in it.
Heh, been there myself actually. I was hired as the "computer guy" for a business that had no IT person period, just some contractor who would come in every few months. Our business was growing so we added a new server every 2-3 months. But none of them were rack mountable. I said over and over that we should go to rack mounting, but we had no rack mountable servers, so it was a catch 22. Eventually I said screw it and got the 19' rack anyway and a bunch of shelves. I then had ONE rack mountable server in the rack. Time has gone on, but I still have two ATX cases on their side in the rack.
Didn't Microsoft resolve the backwards compatibility over time? I thought they were still working on it. I'm just curious if this could be an indicator of lack of support from MS that we could expect in the future. I have yet to hear good things about compatibility in the PS3 for that matter.
There's nothing on those game discs that could have been fit on a DVD at this point...
Even if Bluray comes later it becomes irrelevant for games. It's the game console addon problem. Addons do not work for consoles, because game developers will always aim at the base model. When you have an install base of 1 million PS3s that don't have bluray drives in them, who in the hell is going to publish games on a bluray disk and exclude those customers? Especially since they're most likely the early adapters who go the most crazy over new games.
Thus Sony knew that if they wanted to put bluray in, it had to be all or nothing. Gabling on a laser that isn't widely produced or they didn't have stockpiled was obviously not the greatest decision short term.
While the product is free obviously someone has some monetary interest in it somewhere. That makes us the customer. If KDE doesn't want to support the customer all they have to do is say so and we can go elsewhere just like any other customer.
Sorry, but the fact that you do not purchase or are required to use a product means you are NOT a customer. A customer is a person who purchases goods or services from another; buyer; patron. This is why the KDE team doesn't have to show anything for their work, BECAUSE of the fact that you are free to go anywhere else but are not poorer because of any transaction.
I want written proof and not you're made-up bullshit to support that 80% of the features are gone.
Too bad, it's a 100% BS claim I have no obligation to substantiate. =) My point is that with all of it's massive resources MS is having a hard time releasing Vista, I hardly believe that manpower and resources automatically pushes better products out the door, as the author was somehow claiming.
And why does the KDE team have to show you ANYTHING?
KDE's biggest problem is a lack of manpower and financial backing by big companies.
Proof?
Microsoft has not been resting on its laurels either. Windows Vista is already available.
After how many YEARS? Sorry but everyone seems to agree that the Vista development has been a cluster fuck and that with 80% of the targeted features thrown out, it's not the revolution that MS claimed it was going to be.
KDE finally became my desktop some years ago around 3.2, and let me tell you I eagerly await each minor revision, because I'm seeing real results and improvements. KDE works just fine and is improving at a good rate. KDE is also working quite hard in many aspects under the hood, not just wiz bang 3d windows flying around. The adaptation of dbus by both Gnome and KDE is going to show some real results towards bridging the gap between environments. KDE is STILL the only freaking window environment that gives me freaking previews of images that I may overwrite instead of asking me if I want to overwrite the old 001.jpg with the new one. How about the damn simple button to suggest a new name automatically instead of requiring me to make one up in the case of overwriting? If I recall correctly MS and Mac don't allow you to even change the name, they just abort the copy/move operation.
The KDE team has done just fine in my opinion, and I have full confidence that they will continue to make my computer less of a pain in the ass to use in the future.
Isn't that supposed to be one of the intended consequences of naming a product or business after yourself? You are expected to hold your name in good standing not only for yourself but for your business/product - which is more than likely your lively hood as well. I think back in the day this was a selling point that a real name actually stood behind something instead of generic brand X.
There is also a philosophy that putting a name behind something can put more power behind it. See Trump's book.
This is probably inherited from the jscript engine which is a part of windows scripting host. Or possibly it was inherited from the help system. Or maybe it's one of the umpteen million other problems that were created by integrating IE with windows. What is surprising is how the clipboard feature wasn't at least put under the control of the internet zones trust model. Not that there hasn't been enough security problems with that, but it is at least acknowledging that it's something arbitrary websites shouldn't do.
Open Source can mean a lot of things, not just for the community. I'm sure it's not uncommon for someone to improve packages for themselves.
The problem with open source projects such as Debian is that they're volunteer and that people need to have continual interest in it in order for it to survive - with pay developers or no. That may sound like a obvious point, but it seems that more than a few open source projects are stagnating because of waning interest. NetBSD also comes to mind. What happens to Debian will be interesting not only because of Debian itself, but because the "waning interest" scenario will happen to many open source projects in the future that look perfectly healthy today. I guess I'd say it's a point of maturity we haven't really reached before.
My problem with that approach is that when people are administrator, you have absolutely no way of telling where the problems are coming from. Some people do God knows what with the machines, others innocently just fubar it and have no clue why. And yes, user ignorance is considered a valid excuse where I work.
When I migrated the company to windows 98 my policy was you're responsible for the computer. That just totally didn't fly. Then with windows 2000 we actually had passwords and supposedly had accountability. But someone else may have been on the computer, or maybe they had the user's password, or often no one logged off so ANYONE could install stuff on the computer. Users always had ways of fucking up their machine but passing the buck in a way that I couldn't hold them accountable.
So today I have a lockdown policy on computers. I advocated they use firefox, so I don't restrict their web browsing. They can't install programs on their computers, however I will install just about any program (aside from IM) on their machines. If you have the GUTS to ask me to install something like a crossword puzzle generator, then I'll do that - and I have done that BTW.
And as far as that goes I'd prefer two biased views that continually counterpoint each other in a reasonable manner. When you see these "unbiased" reviews that typically means that the person in question hasn't used both extensively enough to have a very good understanding of either. The real guts comes out when you have people use this stuff in the trenches in real life scenarios. Usually this will cause people to gravitate to one or the other for some reason or another. These experiences are the guts of a good comparison.
one loophole, which I've seen done and done on occasion myself; is doing something like
$x=`blah`
Now I'm sure we'd all say together, we'd catch that after testing the script. I'd agree, and I'm not sure what the article was trying to get at when talking about quoting variables - you'd see it's not working correctly if you bothered testing it and saw instances where $x was always blank.
The shell is good for nice quick, or at least very simple things, but it is often abused and extensions can leave you with unexpected results at the very least. Not to mention the linux-ism that expects that sh is ALWAYS bash.
Although some people will pipe in with their number crunching sever stories, are there any normal usage servers that really come in at 100% CPU usage? For the 20 odd servers I run few ever run at that rate for more than 30 minutes a day or so - and usually doing backups for that matter. Other system components often keep you from reaching that target, and most 24-7 servers I've seen do most of their work during a certain period then spend the rest of their time twiddling their thumbs.
I'd think it could also backfire and be demoralizing. Lets say I work for Microsoft as an example and they give me stock options. I bust my ass to try to make the company advance, but the endless amounts of red tape and BS is obviously choking the company and there's nothing I can do about it. Instead of at least getting a raise, I have a bunch of stock that is going no where and there's nothing I can do about it.
Stock options worked great for the MS of old, but not so great as the current MS. Basically I'd think it comes down to 'when it's good it works, when its bad it may contribute to breaking stuff even worse'
When the parent is sneaking off to the bathroom to look at a blackberry, they're obviously taking a hands off approach to parenting. In avoiding conflict, they're basically avoiding parenting - and there is probably no pretending really going on here, I'm sure the kids are really driving the bus in this family. The flip side could also be that she is an active parent, but feels guilty over the blackberry thing and thus tells her kids that she will quit but really doesn't. I have my doubts though.
In ten years I'm sure a common message sent by this person on their blackberry will be "Why are my kids so fucked up?"
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Although it doesn't say what kind of coin was involved, I would guess it's almost certainly the two dollar coin. Mainly because I'd guess it's easy to pop out the center part of it that is a different metal. Even if you put plastic in there, the metal frame around it would make it feel pretty similar to a normal coin. There is also an advantage that when you cross the border you can't unload $1 and $2 coins. You can try to pawn off the small change to people who aren't paying attention (a problem in itself for northern states), but no one is going to take the big change - some won't take American dollar coins for that matter. Anyway that means they are more likely to keep the coin at least until they return to Canada.
Also it's better if vending machines reject the coin. If you can't spend it in a soda machine you're going to just keep the coin, and probably try another.
This is one of the reasons MS is in bad shape; they just have too many hands in different baskets. Instead of trying to create a better, easier to use Operating System for consumers, they are also trying to push an online music store, a digital music player, a media center PC, and their own media formats (for licensing lock-in down the road assumably). With so many different interests, the consumer will always get the short end of the stick with MS products when it comes to digital licensed content.
The numbers game is mainly done by Sony here. From what I see where I live you still cannot get a Wii - so pretty much all units produced were sold. The PS3 is sitting on the shelves however. Often 5-8 units per store. This is extrapolating where I live across the entire U.S. so obviously that isn't that accurate, but I've heard similar stories from people across the U.S. and Canada.
Assuming you have two drives and one is twice the density as the first and both are at 50% capacity, then assuming the data is on the first half, the head should have to travel half the distance where the density is twice as high. That should affect latency as well as twice as much data will pass under the head per revolution.
:)
I'm pulling that explanation out of my ass though
It will be interesting to see if all the bugs blamed on QT3 are really bugs from QT. I know QT3 is cited as being the bane of Kword for instance. I doubt it is to blame for the crappy spell checker though :)
because var and swap will destroy a CF card? The idea behind using a CF card is to save power, when you are still using a HD you are using MORE power (HD + CF). You could use a CF card and run var/swap off of a memory filesystem via PCMCIA adapter, but you've been able to do that for years.
4. A system administrator got it into his head that rackmounting was the way to go (I agree). So he begged for a 19" rack to be ordered, and placed all of his servers into it. Except he doesn't have a single rack mountable server, and he didn't get the rails for any of the cases either. So now he has one $500 rack, and 8 $100 shelves to go in it.
Heh, been there myself actually. I was hired as the "computer guy" for a business that had no IT person period, just some contractor who would come in every few months. Our business was growing so we added a new server every 2-3 months. But none of them were rack mountable. I said over and over that we should go to rack mounting, but we had no rack mountable servers, so it was a catch 22. Eventually I said screw it and got the 19' rack anyway and a bunch of shelves. I then had ONE rack mountable server in the rack. Time has gone on, but I still have two ATX cases on their side in the rack.
Didn't Microsoft resolve the backwards compatibility over time? I thought they were still working on it. I'm just curious if this could be an indicator of lack of support from MS that we could expect in the future. I have yet to hear good things about compatibility in the PS3 for that matter.
There's nothing on those game discs that could have been fit on a DVD at this point...
Even if Bluray comes later it becomes irrelevant for games. It's the game console addon problem. Addons do not work for consoles, because game developers will always aim at the base model. When you have an install base of 1 million PS3s that don't have bluray drives in them, who in the hell is going to publish games on a bluray disk and exclude those customers? Especially since they're most likely the early adapters who go the most crazy over new games.
Thus Sony knew that if they wanted to put bluray in, it had to be all or nothing. Gabling on a laser that isn't widely produced or they didn't have stockpiled was obviously not the greatest decision short term.
While the product is free obviously someone has some monetary interest in it somewhere. That makes us the customer. If KDE doesn't want to support the customer all they have to do is say so and we can go elsewhere just like any other customer.
Sorry, but the fact that you do not purchase or are required to use a product means you are NOT a customer. A customer is a person who purchases goods or services from another; buyer; patron. This is why the KDE team doesn't have to show anything for their work, BECAUSE of the fact that you are free to go anywhere else but are not poorer because of any transaction.
I want written proof and not you're made-up bullshit to support that 80% of the features are gone.
Too bad, it's a 100% BS claim I have no obligation to substantiate. =)
My point is that with all of it's massive resources MS is having a hard time releasing Vista, I hardly believe that manpower and resources automatically pushes better products out the door, as the author was somehow claiming.
"Show me where the results are."
And why does the KDE team have to show you ANYTHING?
KDE's biggest problem is a lack of manpower and financial backing by big companies.
Proof?
Microsoft has not been resting on its laurels either. Windows Vista is already available.
After how many YEARS? Sorry but everyone seems to agree that the Vista development has been a cluster fuck and that with 80% of the targeted features thrown out, it's not the revolution that MS claimed it was going to be.
KDE finally became my desktop some years ago around 3.2, and let me tell you I eagerly await each minor revision, because I'm seeing real results and improvements. KDE works just fine and is improving at a good rate. KDE is also working quite hard in many aspects under the hood, not just wiz bang 3d windows flying around. The adaptation of dbus by both Gnome and KDE is going to show some real results towards bridging the gap between environments. KDE is STILL the only freaking window environment that gives me freaking previews of images that I may overwrite instead of asking me if I want to overwrite the old 001.jpg with the new one. How about the damn simple button to suggest a new name automatically instead of requiring me to make one up in the case of overwriting? If I recall correctly MS and Mac don't allow you to even change the name, they just abort the copy/move operation.
The KDE team has done just fine in my opinion, and I have full confidence that they will continue to make my computer less of a pain in the ass to use in the future.
Isn't that supposed to be one of the intended consequences of naming a product or business after yourself? You are expected to hold your name in good standing not only for yourself but for your business/product - which is more than likely your lively hood as well. I think back in the day this was a selling point that a real name actually stood behind something instead of generic brand X.
There is also a philosophy that putting a name behind something can put more power behind it. See Trump's book.
That would make more sense. How can you tell someone is a lawyer just by seeing them at the side of the road?
This is probably inherited from the jscript engine which is a part of windows scripting host. Or possibly it was inherited from the help system. Or maybe it's one of the umpteen million other problems that were created by integrating IE with windows. What is surprising is how the clipboard feature wasn't at least put under the control of the internet zones trust model. Not that there hasn't been enough security problems with that, but it is at least acknowledging that it's something arbitrary websites shouldn't do.
Open Source can mean a lot of things, not just for the community. I'm sure it's not uncommon for someone to improve packages for themselves.
The problem with open source projects such as Debian is that they're volunteer and that people need to have continual interest in it in order for it to survive - with pay developers or no. That may sound like a obvious point, but it seems that more than a few open source projects are stagnating because of waning interest. NetBSD also comes to mind. What happens to Debian will be interesting not only because of Debian itself, but because the "waning interest" scenario will happen to many open source projects in the future that look perfectly healthy today. I guess I'd say it's a point of maturity we haven't really reached before.
My problem with that approach is that when people are administrator, you have absolutely no way of telling where the problems are coming from. Some people do God knows what with the machines, others innocently just fubar it and have no clue why. And yes, user ignorance is considered a valid excuse where I work.
When I migrated the company to windows 98 my policy was you're responsible for the computer. That just totally didn't fly. Then with windows 2000 we actually had passwords and supposedly had accountability. But someone else may have been on the computer, or maybe they had the user's password, or often no one logged off so ANYONE could install stuff on the computer. Users always had ways of fucking up their machine but passing the buck in a way that I couldn't hold them accountable.
So today I have a lockdown policy on computers. I advocated they use firefox, so I don't restrict their web browsing. They can't install programs on their computers, however I will install just about any program (aside from IM) on their machines. If you have the GUTS to ask me to install something like a crossword puzzle generator, then I'll do that - and I have done that BTW.
Out of all the movies with vivid stars, I'd say that one is the most boring by far.
And as far as that goes I'd prefer two biased views that continually counterpoint each other in a reasonable manner. When you see these "unbiased" reviews that typically means that the person in question hasn't used both extensively enough to have a very good understanding of either. The real guts comes out when you have people use this stuff in the trenches in real life scenarios. Usually this will cause people to gravitate to one or the other for some reason or another. These experiences are the guts of a good comparison.
one loophole, which I've seen done and done on occasion myself; is doing something like
$x=`blah`
Now I'm sure we'd all say together, we'd catch that after testing the script. I'd agree, and I'm not sure what the article was trying to get at when talking about quoting variables - you'd see it's not working correctly if you bothered testing it and saw instances where $x was always blank.
The shell is good for nice quick, or at least very simple things, but it is often abused and extensions can leave you with unexpected results at the very least. Not to mention the linux-ism that expects that sh is ALWAYS bash.
Although some people will pipe in with their number crunching sever stories, are there any normal usage servers that really come in at 100% CPU usage? For the 20 odd servers I run few ever run at that rate for more than 30 minutes a day or so - and usually doing backups for that matter. Other system components often keep you from reaching that target, and most 24-7 servers I've seen do most of their work during a certain period then spend the rest of their time twiddling their thumbs.
I say that every time I go to Canada. I often make jokes about strippers and coin slots, but they just don't seem to find the humor in that.
I'd think it could also backfire and be demoralizing. Lets say I work for Microsoft as an example and they give me stock options. I bust my ass to try to make the company advance, but the endless amounts of red tape and BS is obviously choking the company and there's nothing I can do about it. Instead of at least getting a raise, I have a bunch of stock that is going no where and there's nothing I can do about it.
Stock options worked great for the MS of old, but not so great as the current MS. Basically I'd think it comes down to 'when it's good it works, when its bad it may contribute to breaking stuff even worse'
WindowsUpdate after you haven't phoned home to verify your copy of Vista isn't pirated?
2Pac : "And stop pouring the Colt 45 on the sidewalk for your dead homies. I'm right here!"
When the parent is sneaking off to the bathroom to look at a blackberry, they're obviously taking a hands off approach to parenting. In avoiding conflict, they're basically avoiding parenting - and there is probably no pretending really going on here, I'm sure the kids are really driving the bus in this family. The flip side could also be that she is an active parent, but feels guilty over the blackberry thing and thus tells her kids that she will quit but really doesn't. I have my doubts though.
In ten years I'm sure a common message sent by this person on their blackberry will be "Why are my kids so fucked up?"