I'm 21 years old/5'7" [~170cm]/160 lbs. [~73kg] and a generally sedentary lazy ass and I didn't have much trouble moving a 32" CRT by myself. Was it made of lead?
Sounds like you have a cheapie TV... or something? My 32" Panasonic CRT weighs 140 lbs. Between the plain dead weight of the thing, its size, and its weird balance (most of the weight toward the front, because of the glass) one person cannot shift it from the ground. Two men can expect to be able to move it, but it won't be a comfortable trip.
At this point, it's actually become something of an albatross for me. I want to replace it with a new, fancy LCD or plasma at some point, but what do I do with it when I want to get rid of it? It has some nice features (480p) but pretty much anyone I try to sell it to would choose a new set for all the same reasons that I want one. In California, it's illegal to send a CRT to the dump. And I don't even own a car (and you almost need a truck to fit this set). What the hell am I going to do with this monster?
Free markets fail whenever externalities exist. So the free market is incapable of solving Global Warming without Government.
You might want to actually read the article you posted in your own link. Free markets do not just fail whenever externalities exist. If that were true, capitalism itself would have failed by now. Negative externalities do tend to create "less socially optimal" situations, but that doesn't mean that market forces can't correct for them, either. I agree, however, that it seems unlikely that corporate enterprise is likely to spontaneously create a solution for global warming.
I know this is totally off topic, but is it just me or is the Slashdotter Firefox plug-in broken now? On a couple of different machines, when I go to open a thread using the Ajax controls I see a partial page of content (including the Slashdot header bar) for a brief instant, then the whole browser window goes white. The only way to read comments is to disable the extension. Is anyone else seeing this? Or is it possible I have a conflict with some other add-on?
Since Credit Suisse is a new Novell customer, you'd think that Novell would have tried to sell them their own suppport.
What am I missing?
According to Matt Asay over at InfoWorld, this story is incorrect, or at best exaggerated. He says he has it on authority that all the companies mentioned in the story had been using both Suse and Red Hat for some time.
Has anyone mastered the keyboard of the Blackberry Pearl? I played with it for a few minutes in the store and just couldn't figure it out. The display is stunning, but I don't know if I could ever adjust to that keyboard...
Yes, I dig it. It's the same predictive typing method that was on the earlier BlackBerry 7100 series. It's actually pretty amazing. The trick is to learn to recognize the situations where it's going to have trouble and give it "hints" as you go along, by picking from the options it presents you as you type.
To me, this sort of keyboard -- on a phone -- is preferable to a full QWERTY. I want my phone to resemble, first and foremost, a phone. The Treo has too many buttons. And the full-size BlackBerry models just look ridiculous to me.
So what you're saying is that Debian is for fucked-up smelly hippies who just can't handle the idea that people need money to live? Debian is too "pure" for anyone to get a pittance for their contribution? If you want your work accepted in Debian you'd better be independently wealthy? Oh fine. Sure sounds like the GNU ideal to me.
Sure, and while you're at it, fuck feeding the poor -- if I'm going to feed the poor, shouldn't I get paid for it? And fuck shelters for battered women -- what am I, a hippie? Obviously, anybody who believes anyone could actually afford to volunteer their time for a worthwhile cause must be an independently wealthy, elitist snob. Out here in the real world it's all about the money, baby. You want code? Fuck you, pay me.
Yessirree, Bob... I sure loves me some open source.
Not too suprising - the browser built into the Nokia 770 is a customized Opera, it works great...
Beg to differ, but it runs like crap on mine. The 2006 OS improved the problems with constantly running out of memory, but seemed to make it crash a lot more. I can usually flip through a couple of article pages on/. before the OS freezes up and the device is forced to reboot itself. It also has a very tiny screen that often makes it difficult to select links. You tap and nothing happens. The only way to open the link is to hold down the stylus and wait for the contextual menu to appear. Opera may be great software but its implementation on the Nokia 770 -- alas, like most everything about that product -- leaves something to be desired.
No problem. If this sort of thing interests you, you will notice that pretty much every publication/media outlet has its own copy style. Most start with a well-known guide like the Associated Press Stylebook or the Chicago Manual of Style, but most also create their own additions/changes. (In many cases this is just plain necessary -- I work in computer trade journalism, for example, and we encounter a lot of terms/names/jargon etc. that just aren't covered in the mainstream guides.) But while there is no one, single style that's been set in stone by the Lords of Proper English, you will find that most media outlets do have a standard style and they generally will stick to it. If a writer deviates from the style, it's the job of copy editors to change it back.
My realization on this came a few weeks ago when listening to some random news in the morning (NPR), and hearing a report reffer to Bush as "Mr. Bush" repeatedly. It sorta stuck in my head, it was the only time I can remember a reporter calling a sitting prez "Mr. *****" instead of "President *****", even when they were from the opposite side of the political fence (Fox to a dem, NPR to a Repub, etc).
When the Constitution was drafted, the president was specifically not meant to be a monarch or figurehead of extreme distinction. My understanding is that the honorific "Mister" has always been acceptable for a president, sitting or otherwise.
The title, such as "President," "Mr." or "Ms.", in front of a name is called an honorific. NPR uses the honorific "President" on first reference and then "Mr." for all subsequent mentions. This has been NPR's style going back at least to the Ford administration. Most other broadcasters have the same policy. It also makes for better writing to vary the honorific.
Newspapers seem to have a different standard. For some reason, the president is usually referred to as "President Bush" or "the president," on first reference. But the honorific is rarely used on second reference. And in newspaper headlines particularly, the solitary "Bush" is often seen.
The president is the only person who -- by decree and tradition at NPR -- gets the honorific. All others who are mentioned in news reports are usually referred to by their title or occupation on first reference ("Jane Doe is a reporter for The New York Times..."). After that, it's surnames only.
Even ignoring that we are a collective and not a person this is kind of corny. It's awesome they're recognizing the trend towards internet communities of individuals working together for the common good but I can't help thinking that this is a cheesy publicity stunt to increase subscriptions.
Step 1: Publish a weekly print magazine devoted to news and photojournalism.
Step 2: Tell everybody that the Internet is where it's at, MySpace is bringing people together, bloggers are reporting the news, Flickr is showing people photography.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: PROFIT!
This has all the earmarks of an AC troll, but I'd like to chime in and say.... agreed.
The first PotC movie was great fun, but the second one fell way short of the mark. And one of the main reasons was because they spent so much time showcasing effects and so little on story. I mean, the end... WTF?? Does that make any kind of sense to anybody? Are you really waiting on the edge of your seat to find out how that was possible or did you just roll your eyes?
All the scenes on Davy Jones' ship looked fake. Completely fake. It was as if the characters walked off the real world and into this alternate world where every single person or object is made out of CG. It felt claustrophobic. Maybe that was part of the point... you were supposed to want the characters to escape Davy Jones' ship. But all I really wanted to do was escape that scene, which was way to long a section of way too long a movie.
Similarly, the scenes with the voodoo witch lady. Wow, way to come up with a cheap way to move the plot forward in between action scenes. All the characters miraculously appear in some green-tinged CG swamp where the voodoo lady is always up and waiting for guests. Almost as if she was, say... an Oracle?? Then we leave again and it's back to the rest of the movie.
It's the same thing people are always saying about videogames these days. Too much money spent on the look, not enough on "game play" -- or, in this case, giving you an entertaining movie to watch.
And what is the deal with making every movie three hours long these days? I'm sorry, but there was not enough movie in King Kong to last three hours. There wasn't enough in PotC: Dead Man's Chest, there wasn't enough in Casino Royale... enough already!! Give me 90 minutes of decent movie and save all that money you spent on these "gorgeous" effects (which Disney apparently feels so compelled to justify that it set up a Web site to promote them).
If Novell is so smart and crafty, why can't they do a better job competing against MS in the marketplace?
Or, as one of my coworkers put it at our company Christmas party last night: "The Novell/Microsoft deal is easy to explain. Novell has already given Microsoft all its NetWare customers. They don't have any left to give. So they have no choice but to start finding Linux customers to give to Microsoft. Novell is actually the most diabolically clever sales tool that Microsoft ever invented."
When the phone is locked, pressing the scroll wheel once, rolling it down and pressing it again automatically makes a call to 911 - and there is no way to turn it off.
The BlackBerry 8100 "Pearl" has a standby mode. Instead of holding down "*" to look the keyboard, like you did with earlier BlackBerry models, hold down the mute button, which is a small silver button on the top of the phone. This will put the phone into Standby, which is a low-power mode where the screen is black and no buttons function on the phone, including the scroll ball. The phone will still receive calls and messages and will give notifications. To bring it back out of Standby, press the mute button again once. Problem solved.
There were a few good points in there, but all in all I think that deep down inside The Lexus and the Olive Tree there was a clear and concise essay screaming to get out and being smothered by 200 pages of ad-hoc musings that were thrown in as filler.
If that was your reaction to The Lexus and the Olive Tree, then for the love of all that is holy, do not read The World is Flat.
OpenOffice in my opinion is simply a clone of MS Office suite. Instead of trying to mimic MS' product. It should innovate. Try things. Risk things. Experiment. Do something crazy. Remove all features that isn't useful or doesn't add to the experience and add features that rock. Don't let feature creep come in. Don't worry if the competitors got this many features. Until OpenOffice finally have a reason for me to use it(Such as killer UI or killer implementations of features), I will continue to use other word proccessor.
I agree about the need for innovation. I just recently started using Office 2007 and, though I thought I wouldn't like it at first, the new UI really is a breath of fresh air. But as far as feature creep is concerned, I think you're looking at the wrong problem. Joel Spolsky maybe said it best...
A lot of software developers are seduced by the old '80/20' rule. It seems to make a lot of sense: 80% of the people use 20% of the features. So you convince yourself that you only need to implement 20% of the features, and you can still sell 80% as many copies. Unfortunately, it's never the same 20%.
It doesn't matter if the code is open sourced and hosted on sourceforge. It most likely violated MS patents and MS said they intend to sue anybody who USES any software which violates their patents unless it was bought from novell.
OK, but like the parent said, this would still be true even if Red Hat wrote the code. If support for OpenXML is something that business Linux users want -- and I think it is -- there's no way around this issue. I agree that the Novell/Microsoft pact seems to create an ugly situation for the open source community, but in this case, software patents seem to be the problem, not Novell.
Has this ever been a problem before for people using Linux (or Windows)? Has anybody complained that they cannot share documents and productivity is being lost because of this?
Here on Slashdot, there is a selection process and a reputation system that determines who has the ability to moderate.
Is that true? My understanding was that any registered user with an account older than X period of time was eligible to moderate.
If there really is some sort of reputation system, I'm not sure I approve of that. For example, I've been reading Slashdot for close to 10 years. Check out my account number. Presumably I have a pretty good "reputation." But then again, I love a really good troll.(*) I've been known to post a few, too. (Ssshh!) Based on those facts, should I really be allowed to moderate more than somebody else, just because my "reputation" is ostensibly more established?
Wait... did I say that? Or only think it?
(*) It's a pity there are so few really good trolls anymore.
Why do Microsoft always release to businesses first?
Maybe because businesses buy in bulk and only require OEM-style white-box packaging? It probably takes a while to gear up a full marketing blitz for the retail channel, complete with ads in magazines, end-of-aisle displays at CompUSA, etc. Plus, it probably makes more sense to market Vista directly to consumers once the majority of new PCs in the stores are shipping with it pre-installed.
I second the other two posters who responded to the parent. A friend of mine just got into a car accident where he was hit from behind at 50mph. He was a little banged up but had no visible serious injury, but he still wanted to get checked out, partially just to establish a paper trail documenting the incident should any problems arise later. Unfortunately he had no health insurance, so his only option to get an X-ray or whatever was to go to the county emergency room. He spent six hours there before giving up and going home. He tried going back the next day. He was there for four hours more before some kindly health care worker leaned in and said, "Look, hon... by law I can't tell you that nobody is going to see you. It would be illegal for me to tell you that. But you might just want to go home." Basically, there was no way they were going to even take the time to evaluate him for possible injuries, without insurance, when they were still wheeling in gunshot victims and the mentally ill off the streets. Eventually he was able to reach the insurance agent of the person who hit him on the phone, and they agreed to pay for a trip to a private clinic. With an incident number from the insurance company he was able to see a doctor, a few days after the actual accident.
Disclaimer: I was on the original Exchange team, but no longer work for Microsoft. I'm really just curious at this point what is driving the anti-Exchange bandwagon, because I don't see a real, viable competitor out there.
I dunno. I've never had to do it myself, but everybody I know who's ever had to manage and maintain an Exchange server hates it. Maybe it's getting better over time. But it seems to definitely have its faults, in which cause the fact that there's no real, viable competitor is what makes people wish there was one. Make sense?
Is it commonplace for Microsoft employees (and former Microsoft employees) to develop the attitude that market competition is the equivalent of terrorism? I'm just asking. Enlighten me.
Au contraire, mon frere. I can't help but think that a three-digit ID is infinitely less cool than a four-digit one. In fact, we should probably both re-register with new accounts immediately, and regain some self respect!
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Sounds like you have a cheapie TV ... or something? My 32" Panasonic CRT weighs 140 lbs. Between the plain dead weight of the thing, its size, and its weird balance (most of the weight toward the front, because of the glass) one person cannot shift it from the ground. Two men can expect to be able to move it, but it won't be a comfortable trip.
At this point, it's actually become something of an albatross for me. I want to replace it with a new, fancy LCD or plasma at some point, but what do I do with it when I want to get rid of it? It has some nice features (480p) but pretty much anyone I try to sell it to would choose a new set for all the same reasons that I want one. In California, it's illegal to send a CRT to the dump. And I don't even own a car (and you almost need a truck to fit this set). What the hell am I going to do with this monster?
You might want to actually read the article you posted in your own link. Free markets do not just fail whenever externalities exist. If that were true, capitalism itself would have failed by now. Negative externalities do tend to create "less socially optimal" situations, but that doesn't mean that market forces can't correct for them, either. I agree, however, that it seems unlikely that corporate enterprise is likely to spontaneously create a solution for global warming.
I know this is totally off topic, but is it just me or is the Slashdotter Firefox plug-in broken now? On a couple of different machines, when I go to open a thread using the Ajax controls I see a partial page of content (including the Slashdot header bar) for a brief instant, then the whole browser window goes white. The only way to read comments is to disable the extension. Is anyone else seeing this? Or is it possible I have a conflict with some other add-on?
According to Matt Asay over at InfoWorld, this story is incorrect, or at best exaggerated. He says he has it on authority that all the companies mentioned in the story had been using both Suse and Red Hat for some time.
Yes, I dig it. It's the same predictive typing method that was on the earlier BlackBerry 7100 series. It's actually pretty amazing. The trick is to learn to recognize the situations where it's going to have trouble and give it "hints" as you go along, by picking from the options it presents you as you type.
To me, this sort of keyboard -- on a phone -- is preferable to a full QWERTY. I want my phone to resemble, first and foremost, a phone. The Treo has too many buttons. And the full-size BlackBerry models just look ridiculous to me.
Sure, and while you're at it, fuck feeding the poor -- if I'm going to feed the poor, shouldn't I get paid for it? And fuck shelters for battered women -- what am I, a hippie? Obviously, anybody who believes anyone could actually afford to volunteer their time for a worthwhile cause must be an independently wealthy, elitist snob. Out here in the real world it's all about the money, baby. You want code? Fuck you, pay me.
Yessirree, Bob ... I sure loves me some open source.
Beg to differ, but it runs like crap on mine. The 2006 OS improved the problems with constantly running out of memory, but seemed to make it crash a lot more. I can usually flip through a couple of article pages on /. before the OS freezes up and the device is forced to reboot itself. It also has a very tiny screen that often makes it difficult to select links. You tap and nothing happens. The only way to open the link is to hold down the stylus and wait for the contextual menu to appear. Opera may be great software but its implementation on the Nokia 770 -- alas, like most everything about that product -- leaves something to be desired.
Where the hell do you live? Soviet Russia?
No problem. If this sort of thing interests you, you will notice that pretty much every publication/media outlet has its own copy style. Most start with a well-known guide like the Associated Press Stylebook or the Chicago Manual of Style, but most also create their own additions/changes. (In many cases this is just plain necessary -- I work in computer trade journalism, for example, and we encounter a lot of terms/names/jargon etc. that just aren't covered in the mainstream guides.) But while there is no one, single style that's been set in stone by the Lords of Proper English, you will find that most media outlets do have a standard style and they generally will stick to it. If a writer deviates from the style, it's the job of copy editors to change it back.
When the Constitution was drafted, the president was specifically not meant to be a monarch or figurehead of extreme distinction. My understanding is that the honorific "Mister" has always been acceptable for a president, sitting or otherwise.
But here is what NPR has to say on the matter:
Step 1: Publish a weekly print magazine devoted to news and photojournalism.
Step 2: Tell everybody that the Internet is where it's at, MySpace is bringing people together, bloggers are reporting the news, Flickr is showing people photography.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: PROFIT!
Whoah, good call.
This has all the earmarks of an AC troll, but I'd like to chime in and say .... agreed.
... you were supposed to want the characters to escape Davy Jones' ship. But all I really wanted to do was escape that scene, which was way to long a section of way too long a movie.
... enough already!! Give me 90 minutes of decent movie and save all that money you spent on these "gorgeous" effects (which Disney apparently feels so compelled to justify that it set up a Web site to promote them).
The first PotC movie was great fun, but the second one fell way short of the mark. And one of the main reasons was because they spent so much time showcasing effects and so little on story. I mean, the end... WTF?? Does that make any kind of sense to anybody? Are you really waiting on the edge of your seat to find out how that was possible or did you just roll your eyes?
All the scenes on Davy Jones' ship looked fake. Completely fake. It was as if the characters walked off the real world and into this alternate world where every single person or object is made out of CG. It felt claustrophobic. Maybe that was part of the point
Similarly, the scenes with the voodoo witch lady. Wow, way to come up with a cheap way to move the plot forward in between action scenes. All the characters miraculously appear in some green-tinged CG swamp where the voodoo lady is always up and waiting for guests. Almost as if she was, say... an Oracle?? Then we leave again and it's back to the rest of the movie.
It's the same thing people are always saying about videogames these days. Too much money spent on the look, not enough on "game play" -- or, in this case, giving you an entertaining movie to watch.
And what is the deal with making every movie three hours long these days? I'm sorry, but there was not enough movie in King Kong to last three hours. There wasn't enough in PotC: Dead Man's Chest, there wasn't enough in Casino Royale
Or, as one of my coworkers put it at our company Christmas party last night: "The Novell/Microsoft deal is easy to explain. Novell has already given Microsoft all its NetWare customers. They don't have any left to give. So they have no choice but to start finding Linux customers to give to Microsoft. Novell is actually the most diabolically clever sales tool that Microsoft ever invented."
Oh, how we laughed.
The BlackBerry 8100 "Pearl" has a standby mode. Instead of holding down "*" to look the keyboard, like you did with earlier BlackBerry models, hold down the mute button, which is a small silver button on the top of the phone. This will put the phone into Standby, which is a low-power mode where the screen is black and no buttons function on the phone, including the scroll ball. The phone will still receive calls and messages and will give notifications. To bring it back out of Standby, press the mute button again once. Problem solved.
If that was your reaction to The Lexus and the Olive Tree, then for the love of all that is holy, do not read The World is Flat.
I agree about the need for innovation. I just recently started using Office 2007 and, though I thought I wouldn't like it at first, the new UI really is a breath of fresh air. But as far as feature creep is concerned, I think you're looking at the wrong problem. Joel Spolsky maybe said it best...
OK, but like the parent said, this would still be true even if Red Hat wrote the code. If support for OpenXML is something that business Linux users want -- and I think it is -- there's no way around this issue. I agree that the Novell/Microsoft pact seems to create an ugly situation for the open source community, but in this case, software patents seem to be the problem, not Novell.
Um, short answer? Yes. Constantly.
Is that true? My understanding was that any registered user with an account older than X period of time was eligible to moderate.
If there really is some sort of reputation system, I'm not sure I approve of that. For example, I've been reading Slashdot for close to 10 years. Check out my account number. Presumably I have a pretty good "reputation." But then again, I love a really good troll.(*) I've been known to post a few, too. (Ssshh!) Based on those facts, should I really be allowed to moderate more than somebody else, just because my "reputation" is ostensibly more established?
Wait ... did I say that? Or only think it?
(*) It's a pity there are so few really good trolls anymore.
Maybe because businesses buy in bulk and only require OEM-style white-box packaging? It probably takes a while to gear up a full marketing blitz for the retail channel, complete with ads in magazines, end-of-aisle displays at CompUSA, etc. Plus, it probably makes more sense to market Vista directly to consumers once the majority of new PCs in the stores are shipping with it pre-installed.
If they invest money toward finding cures for diseases, they are helping people in perpetuity.
I second the other two posters who responded to the parent. A friend of mine just got into a car accident where he was hit from behind at 50mph. He was a little banged up but had no visible serious injury, but he still wanted to get checked out, partially just to establish a paper trail documenting the incident should any problems arise later. Unfortunately he had no health insurance, so his only option to get an X-ray or whatever was to go to the county emergency room. He spent six hours there before giving up and going home. He tried going back the next day. He was there for four hours more before some kindly health care worker leaned in and said, "Look, hon ... by law I can't tell you that nobody is going to see you. It would be illegal for me to tell you that. But you might just want to go home." Basically, there was no way they were going to even take the time to evaluate him for possible injuries, without insurance, when they were still wheeling in gunshot victims and the mentally ill off the streets. Eventually he was able to reach the insurance agent of the person who hit him on the phone, and they agreed to pay for a trip to a private clinic. With an incident number from the insurance company he was able to see a doctor, a few days after the actual accident.
I dunno. I've never had to do it myself, but everybody I know who's ever had to manage and maintain an Exchange server hates it. Maybe it's getting better over time. But it seems to definitely have its faults, in which cause the fact that there's no real, viable competitor is what makes people wish there was one. Make sense?
Is it commonplace for Microsoft employees (and former Microsoft employees) to develop the attitude that market competition is the equivalent of terrorism? I'm just asking. Enlighten me.
Au contraire, mon frere. I can't help but think that a three-digit ID is infinitely less cool than a four-digit one. In fact, we should probably both re-register with new accounts immediately, and regain some self respect!