There is change, and time is just our perception of the change.
You can measure the change, but if you are familiar with the popular thought experiments for relativity, you can see that if you give up this idea that time is something that exists on its own, the paradoxes (I'm older than my twin brother, how astounding!) melt away.
C'mon, this is Duck Dogers in the 21st and a half century (almost)!! Give up on that low-tech, retrograde Chevy Impala type thinking.
No no, I didn't miss the context, you were just paying either a) too much attention (and are a pedant who'll be continuously frustrated by Slashdot) or b) not enough attention (in which case you'll eventually rule this place).
The roads are public places, jammers are useful there, I don't like driver's chatting on a cell phone when they are driving. That's more than on-topic enough.
Your example of stupid things people do in cars is silly in context but, in your defense, you are able to spell, meaning that you are smarter and better looking than at least 50% of slashdot readers.
It is simple. If you want to drive a car and use a cellphone, get a handsfree set.
A regular cell phone, used by a driver while driving (I include that for you pedants) requires that 1 hand be used full time to handle the cell phone, and that the phone be held in a specific place. This is too much taken away from a driver who is handling 3000 lbs+ of steel, glass, rubber, plastic, and gasoline. If you have problems understanding this then you are probably one of those all-to-common people who feel that their desires outweigh the needs and desires of anyone else and you should report to carrousel immediately.
...I think this dislike of cell phones is irrational...
Look, when you are old enough to drive and some asshole in a Beemer paying more attention to his cellphone call than driving makes you jam on your brakes and swerve to avoid having him smash into your wife who is sitting in the passenger seat, come back and we'll have this conversation, 'kay?
1. He doesn't want a mini-itx motherboard because he can't find a case style he likes other than the Hush. But this is supposed to be a server so who cares? It costs much more than mini-itx solutions.
2. He states small businesses are afraid of Linux because there is no accountability. But that's FUD and crap. If you have a problem with Microsoft, guess what? They are big and powerful and Mr. Small Business Owner is weak and puny. If you just want someone to call, get your Linux software from one of the many companies selling it.
3. He talks like this is inexpensive, but it ain't. There are cheaper, better solutions out there, as I'm sure many have already pointed out.
4. There is likely a 4, and a 5 and 6, but I stopped there; I'd had enough. Save your time and read the comments here rather than the article.
Absolutely. Zebra pens are (relatively) inexpensive and write great. I bought the swanky thicker one to tuck in my computer case and the normal kind to scatter around the house and work for when I need a pen at hand.
Don't let the.7 fool you, it writes thinner than that (about.5).
It lets you type as you want but strongly encourages you to structure documents correctly. I don't see anything that gets in the way of composition. I love everything about the versions of Framemaker I've used except the price, oh the price.
At every company I've been at where they either had professional tech writers or were hiring them, Framemaker was used and if Word had been used, it was being phased out.
I feel the pain of those who lose formatting on medium and long documents in MS Word--my wife shares her pain with me:-/
I made her get Framemaker, now to make her use it. It does styles and structure right (and there is (was?) a Unix version).
What do you base your confidence on? I'd have said "Probably nothing of significance will happen to them." as ICANT^HN is evil and the goverment has no reason to care enough to do anything.
7) Abiword. This word processor needs better Msword support and proper table support.
I finally tried the much vaunted Abiword and found its interface to be ass.
What's with the pointer changing angle, for example? Is it a word processor or a gnome/KDE competitor?
9) gnu/hurd.
You're joking, right? If this was 1993 instead of 2003 I'd agree.
The list is silly. Very few projects will have a surfit of help, listing some arbitrary 10 is pointless. Want to help? Pick a project you can contribute to, probably something you use a lot, and help there. You don't need an AC to give you a list.
Apple's tech support sucks. I'm talking golf ball through garden hose.
"You are past the 90 days of free support and even though you are inside your 1 year warranty I'm going to hold $50 on your credit card in case your broken speaker is software related."
The problems start at the top and it sucks all the way down. Most of their "techs" are monkeys, nearly all of them are outsourced (yes, I know).
Oh and my iBook came back from "repair" in worse shape than it went in. Total incompetence.
I know you pulled the "no-BS, almost-no-waiting policy" out of your ass. Speaking from personal experience both as a customer and employee of Apple.
Apple hates its customers but loves their money. Support is as minimal as possible, as difficult as possible, and as incompetent as possible.
What you say is great. I work tech support, know my shit, and walk through what they tell me because sometimes they are right and I'm an idiot.
Your example sucks donkey dick, however.
The touch typist wasn't complaining about the spell checker, nor about the spell checker telling her about errors.
She was complaining about it telling here there were no errors. What a dumbshit thing to do! If there are no errors, don't say anything, it is pointless.
You owe her an apology, or at least a bug report and a box of sweets.
Anonymous coward posts the obvious followup, stating "unelected? check"
But of course, screwing that up. George Bush was elected. I mean, duh.
Getting a majority of the votes cast nationwide is not the criteria for getting elected.
All you monkeys stating otherwise are part of the problem. If you understood how our system worked maybe things would have been different. At least there would be less whining.
The US is not a (pure) democracy, and speaking as someone who is a member of some minority groups, I'm glad it isn't. For those who aren't from the US, it is a constitutional republic, where a certain measure of power is left to each of the 50 states. This prevents, say, California (the granola state) from riding roughshod over, say, Kansas (the carry on my wayward son state).
5 lbs is 5 lbs, not nothing. I mean, duh. So what I believe you are dimly trying to say is no one cares about any laptop weighing under 5 lbs because a healthy average person can carry 5 lbs without real strain.
I fail to be convinced. For example, my wife carries her portable, a case, lots of papers, journels, et cetera. It adds up.
I find the lighter a portable is, the more likely I am to carry it with me. It's like with pistols--better a.22 with than a.45 locked up at home.
And of course there are people like my friend who is 4' 10". And my other friend who used to be strong but is now old and has a body wearing out on him.
Likewise with internet radio, fine for voice, but when it comes to music I would rather listen to an FM radio station with decent sound quality.
FM radio isn't exactly hi fidelity. I don't know that it is better than a good Internet station, I'll have to compare.
The nice thing about a home system is you can set up your own MP3's (or ogg's) at the quality level you want--heck you can even play lossless files if you like ( roughly 10 MB/minute for a non-encoded CD is 1 1/3 Mbps if I did my math right).
And you get much more control
That's important. My playlist and my wife's will have a lot of overlap but she doesn't like punk or industrial and I don't like jazz. The ability to choose what I or she or we like is quite nice.
And I'd like a reference to signal loss using CAT5 cabling. Honestly. Just saying it negates benefits doesn't make it so, but if you are right I want to know before I wire my own house!:-)
Make sure you get white covers if you have white walls. Beige wall plates on white walls looks so ass. This goes for electrical, switches, etc.
If you run wires for ceiling fans run 3+ground wires so you can control the fan independently.
I've bought my cable and plates at Home Depot--better than Lowes and often surprisingly good prices.
One bit of advice I've seen is to have pipes for data cabling installed (I suppose it is PVC) everywhere. That way upgrading is trivial (have a string or fishing line (or 2) in each run to pull new cable and a replacement pull line). I'll try to find a reference.
Having tried to install OpenBSD on a Quadra 800 using an external hard drive for swap and wasting hours and hours of time in the attempt, and having successfully installed Windows 98 in a couple hours, I won't take this challenge.
In my experience OpenBSD, at least on the Mac68k platform, is impossible to hack as it doesn't work. Of course, it isn't very useful, but their mail list does come with as much free abuse as you want!
As far as the summary of points in the summary of the Gartner article, I found the points to be ill-thought-out and deceptive. Read them yourself, it is pretty clear it is FUD as much as it is FUD to compare the security in Windows 98 to anything up-to-date (such as the Windows 2000 Professional I am forced to use at work).
Am I the only person that *only* cares about my personal files and not about the system?
I hope so.
Caring "*only*" about your personal files and not the system shows you don't quite understand how a computer works.
If the computer doesn't work or doesn't work right, you can't get at your precious files, nor can you work on them, and your personal files are entirely useless until put on a working computer. And of course anyone else using the computer is screwed, too.
Using your analogy of a house, imagine your house does burn down but you are able to able to save your personal stuff. Where will you store it and use it during the months it takes to rebuild your house? It's raining here as I type, so think fast!
Do you want your personal files not mucked with? Fine. I'm OK with that. But not caring about the system at all means you lack clues.
Sorry.
If you want a system that doesn't allow a virus or trojan or x to mess with your files, you need write-once storage, not read-write. I suppose it'd be a bit cumbersome using a WORM drive instead of a hard drive, but *shrug*.
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There is change, and time is just our perception of the change.
You can measure the change, but if you are familiar with the popular thought experiments for relativity, you can see that if you give up this idea that time is something that exists on its own, the paradoxes (I'm older than my twin brother, how astounding!) melt away.
C'mon, this is Duck Dogers in the 21st and a half century (almost)!! Give up on that low-tech, retrograde Chevy Impala type thinking.
No no, I didn't miss the context, you were just paying either a) too much attention (and are a pedant who'll be continuously frustrated by Slashdot) or b) not enough attention (in which case you'll eventually rule this place).
The roads are public places, jammers are useful there, I don't like driver's chatting on a cell phone when they are driving. That's more than on-topic enough.
Your example of stupid things people do in cars is silly in context but, in your defense, you are able to spell, meaning that you are smarter and better looking than at least 50% of slashdot readers.
It is simple. If you want to drive a car and use a cellphone, get a handsfree set.
A regular cell phone, used by a driver while driving (I include that for you pedants) requires that 1 hand be used full time to handle the cell phone, and that the phone be held in a specific place. This is too much taken away from a driver who is handling 3000 lbs+ of steel, glass, rubber, plastic, and gasoline. If you have problems understanding this then you are probably one of those all-to-common people who feel that their desires outweigh the needs and desires of anyone else and you should report to carrousel immediately.
...I think this dislike of cell phones is irrational...
Look, when you are old enough to drive and some asshole in a Beemer paying more attention to his cellphone call than driving makes you jam on your brakes and swerve to avoid having him smash into your wife who is sitting in the passenger seat, come back and we'll have this conversation, 'kay?
Good adrenaline rush, though!
Sorry, here is the link to download the spastic, brain-damaged edit job: monkeyOQO.mov
A spastic, brain-damaged monkey.
No offense to our primate cousins.
1. He doesn't want a mini-itx motherboard because he can't find a case style he likes other than the Hush. But this is supposed to be a server so who cares? It costs much more than mini-itx solutions.
2. He states small businesses are afraid of Linux because there is no accountability. But that's FUD and crap. If you have a problem with Microsoft, guess what? They are big and powerful and Mr. Small Business Owner is weak and puny. If you just want someone to call, get your Linux software from one of the many companies selling it.
3. He talks like this is inexpensive, but it ain't. There are cheaper, better solutions out there, as I'm sure many have already pointed out.
4. There is likely a 4, and a 5 and 6, but I stopped there; I'd had enough. Save your time and read the comments here rather than the article.
Please...no, stop!! More links a in a story submission means the submission is likely to be inferior.
For example, here is part of a made-up submission:
Joe Clark writes "Nearly a year after an interview with this correspondent highlighted a few problems with Slashdot's HTML, Daniel M. Frommelt...
Gregory W. Nemitz
I know that some feel that 8 links in 1 paragraph is excessive, but that's crap! It isn't enough! Shame on the poster, shame.
Absolutely. Zebra pens are (relatively) inexpensive and write great. I bought the swanky thicker one to tuck in my computer case and the normal kind to scatter around the house and work for when I need a pen at hand.
Don't let the
How so?
It lets you type as you want but strongly encourages you to structure documents correctly. I don't see anything that gets in the way of composition. I love everything about the versions of Framemaker I've used except the price, oh the price.
Styles, structure, yes.
:-/
But not MS Word, not on a Mac, not on a PC.
At every company I've been at where they either had professional tech writers or were hiring them, Framemaker was used and if Word had been used, it was being phased out.
I feel the pain of those who lose formatting on medium and long documents in MS Word--my wife shares her pain with me
I made her get Framemaker, now to make her use it. It does styles and structure right (and there is (was?) a Unix version).
They will probably get their wrists slapped.
You say that with such...confidence.
What do you base your confidence on? I'd have said "Probably nothing of significance will happen to them." as ICANT^HN is evil and the goverment has no reason to care enough to do anything.
7) Abiword. This word processor needs better Msword support and proper table support.
I finally tried the much vaunted Abiword and found its interface to be ass.
What's with the pointer changing angle, for example? Is it a word processor or a gnome/KDE competitor?
9) gnu/hurd.
You're joking, right? If this was 1993 instead of 2003 I'd agree.
The list is silly. Very few projects will have a surfit of help, listing some arbitrary 10 is pointless. Want to help? Pick a project you can contribute to, probably something you use a lot, and help there. You don't need an AC to give you a list.
Pretty funny Steve.
Apple's tech support sucks. I'm talking golf ball through garden hose.
"You are past the 90 days of free support and even though you are inside your 1 year warranty I'm going to hold $50 on your credit card in case your broken speaker is software related."
The problems start at the top and it sucks all the way down. Most of their "techs" are monkeys, nearly all of them are outsourced (yes, I know).
Oh and my iBook came back from "repair" in worse shape than it went in. Total incompetence.
I know you pulled the "no-BS, almost-no-waiting policy" out of your ass. Speaking from personal experience both as a customer and employee of Apple.
Apple hates its customers but loves their money. Support is as minimal as possible, as difficult as possible, and as incompetent as possible.
Microsoft (and most other big software companies) spend billions of dollars on testing.
Reference, please. And don't point to your backside, that doesn't count.
What you say is great. I work tech support, know my shit, and walk through what they tell me because sometimes they are right and I'm an idiot.
Your example sucks donkey dick, however.
The touch typist wasn't complaining about the spell checker, nor about the spell checker telling her about errors.
She was complaining about it telling here there were no errors. What a dumbshit thing to do! If there are no errors, don't say anything, it is pointless.
You owe her an apology, or at least a bug report and a box of sweets.
Anonymous coward posts the obvious followup, stating "unelected? check"
But of course, screwing that up. George Bush was elected. I mean, duh.
Getting a majority of the votes cast nationwide is not the criteria for getting elected.
All you monkeys stating otherwise are part of the problem. If you understood how our system worked maybe things would have been different. At least there would be less whining.
The US is not a (pure) democracy, and speaking as someone who is a member of some minority groups, I'm glad it isn't. For those who aren't from the US, it is a constitutional republic, where a certain measure of power is left to each of the 50 states. This prevents, say, California (the granola state) from riding roughshod over, say, Kansas (the carry on my wayward son state).
!v
Wrong.
.22 with than a .45 locked up at home.
5 lbs is 5 lbs, not nothing. I mean, duh. So what I believe you are dimly trying to say is no one cares about any laptop weighing under 5 lbs because a healthy average person can carry 5 lbs without real strain.
I fail to be convinced. For example, my wife carries her portable, a case, lots of papers, journels, et cetera. It adds up.
I find the lighter a portable is, the more likely I am to carry it with me. It's like with pistols--better a
And of course there are people like my friend who is 4' 10". And my other friend who used to be strong but is now old and has a body wearing out on him.
But that's enough for now.
The direct, registration-free links to the pdf are here:
Not hardly. It wants the username and password. Someone mod the parent down to avoid wasting others time.
Likewise with internet radio, fine for voice, but when it comes to music I would rather listen to an FM radio station with decent sound quality.
:-)
FM radio isn't exactly hi fidelity. I don't know that it is better than a good Internet station, I'll have to compare.
The nice thing about a home system is you can set up your own MP3's (or ogg's) at the quality level you want--heck you can even play lossless files if you like ( roughly 10 MB/minute for a non-encoded CD is 1 1/3 Mbps if I did my math right).
And you get much more control
That's important. My playlist and my wife's will have a lot of overlap but she doesn't like punk or industrial and I don't like jazz. The ability to choose what I or she or we like is quite nice.
And I'd like a reference to signal loss using CAT5 cabling. Honestly. Just saying it negates benefits doesn't make it so, but if you are right I want to know before I wire my own house!
Make sure you get white covers if you have white walls. Beige wall plates on white walls looks so ass. This goes for electrical, switches, etc.
If you run wires for ceiling fans run 3+ground wires so you can control the fan independently.
I've bought my cable and plates at Home Depot--better than Lowes and often surprisingly good prices.
One bit of advice I've seen is to have pipes for data cabling installed (I suppose it is PVC) everywhere. That way upgrading is trivial (have a string or fishing line (or 2) in each run to pull new cable and a replacement pull line). I'll try to find a reference.
Subscribe to The Family Handyman for lots of useful articles (like how to wire a house for data.)
Having tried to install OpenBSD on a Quadra 800 using an external hard drive for swap and wasting hours and hours of time in the attempt, and having successfully installed Windows 98 in a couple hours, I won't take this challenge.
In my experience OpenBSD, at least on the Mac68k platform, is impossible to hack as it doesn't work. Of course, it isn't very useful, but their mail list does come with as much free abuse as you want!
As far as the summary of points in the summary of the Gartner article, I found the points to be ill-thought-out and deceptive. Read them yourself, it is pretty clear it is FUD as much as it is FUD to compare the security in Windows 98 to anything up-to-date (such as the Windows 2000 Professional I am forced to use at work).
Am I the only person that *only* cares about my personal files and not about the system?
I hope so.
Caring "*only*" about your personal files and not the system shows you don't quite understand how a computer works.
If the computer doesn't work or doesn't work right, you can't get at your precious files, nor can you work on them, and your personal files are entirely useless until put on a working computer. And of course anyone else using the computer is screwed, too.
Using your analogy of a house, imagine your house does burn down but you are able to able to save your personal stuff. Where will you store it and use it during the months it takes to rebuild your house? It's raining here as I type, so think fast!
Do you want your personal files not mucked with? Fine. I'm OK with that. But not caring about the system at all means you lack clues.
Sorry.
If you want a system that doesn't allow a virus or trojan or x to mess with your files, you need write-once storage, not read-write. I suppose it'd be a bit cumbersome using a WORM drive instead of a hard drive, but *shrug*.