I have enjoyed the videos so far and I think this is a great idea.
This will be added to the stuff I watch on PATV as well as Geek And Sundry. (Which has a slew of great shows - though I'm most stoked about Wil Wheaton's tabletop gaming show and The Guild.)
Here I'd love to see stuff that shows off what slashdot is about - tech (especially FOSS tech) at a deeper depth than the 'non-technical' folks are interested in. I enjoyed the HD tv bit - since I don't know jack about tvs. But it did feel awfully fluffy. A lot of people complain about slashvertisements - and I don't think every mention of a physical product or software that can be purchased is an abomination - but I do want to dig a little deeper than consumer level.
Being able to have user submitted video would be cool - though I have no idea how that would work. Based on what I see here in comments, I wouldn't dare go through a video firehose to look for stuff to recommend. So maybe that's just a non-starter unless there was a way to filter out the obviously horrific stuff that I anticipate would be submitted.
Slashdot has been my point of primary internet interaction for a while now. My first comment was posted almost 11 years ago - so I figure I've been here regularly for at least that long. I've done meet ups with slashdot friends 4 times over the years, the most recent was just a couple weeks ago. I'm not a neutral party - I have a bias towards the site. If I didn't like it I wouldn't have stayed this long.
There are problems to be sure - but I do believe the site still has value. There are still a significant number of knowledgable people that are engaged with the site. There are of course, and always have been people who troll and (even more caustic in my opinion) people who gripe incessentaly about everything. But even with them, people keep coming.
I'm not sure what you are looking for in regards to a "notable thing" coming out of slashdot. I view it as a place that provides a service - interaction with tech news in a primarily FOSS oriented community. A lot of the limits on community building come out of a desire to keep the signal to noise ratio good. I was very active on reddit for a while but a few months ago I deleted my account and visit rarely now. Too much crap to filter to get to the good stuff. It obviously works for a lot of people but I'm willing to bet that I'm not alone in preferring a place like this. I'm not as up on my advice animal memes as I was before - but I don't feel too bad about that. It's a cool community, but not really for me.
HN is pretty awesome though the volume of posting and interaction there is a lot lower. Quality over quantity - but you can't site that as a good site compared to slashdot and blame slashdots woes on a rigid commenting system. I do like it though for the same reason I like it here - I've got a good idea of what I'll get and a good percentage of the commentors will be knowledgable.
I had no idea unicode was supported at all it certainly doesn't work in my journal. I've got some cyrillic below that doesn't show up at all.
- I don't see the preceding two words at all in preview.
köszönöm szépen - this Hungarian looks o.k. in the preview though. In my journal entries it always previews o.k. but then gets all jacked up once I save.
I haven't employed all of it yet. From a practical stand point, the part I've actually used the most is the information in the first 2 chapters on new structural elements and some of the changes in marking up text. I am trying to think through what I want to do in order to make my projects as accessible as possible.
The part I'm probably the most interested in right now though is the section on the geolocation api. I think there are a lot of potentially exciting things going on there. I'm hoping to combine what I've learned there with another book I just got (try to review it as well once I get through it) on mapping in Drupal. ( http://mappingdrupal.com/ )
I'm also really interested in the chapter on client-side storage. I hesitate to say it has been useful because I haven't done any real world projects with it yet - but I think there are some great possibilities. I really look forward to being able to deploy applications that run in the browser, regardless of platform (os, mobile, etc.) but give me really high levels of functionality.
my wife always wants to talk about what good friends we are - but she's never come through for me like you have. if I could have kids I'd name the next one azalin.
(looking at that it might seem like I'm making fun of you for helping me out - I'm not. I'm tired and ready to go home and a bit goofy. It struck me as a very funny thing to say and I'm here to please. Gonna log out and go home now.)
I can't tell them that now. They still think I know everything.
And I wouldn't have looked it up unless you were there in the car to contradict me. That whole people who don't know what they don't know are the most dangerous thing. But if you had been there, we could have argued about it for a minute or two, then looked it up and then I would have searched frantically for some other event or piece of knowledge to ridicule you over in a lame attempt to draw attention away from my deficient knowledge.
Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman. And yes - thank the insanely stupid ip enforcement at youtube. They failed me completely here in Hungary - what is up with that? I can hardly ever see the youtube stuff I want with music but this crap gets to aurally assault me? I feel wronged and dirty inside.
that's better. I looked for a link to get to something like that but couldn't find it - but as I said I'm not very bright. I still feel traumatized by the cat stevens music though.
On the whole I consider myself a peaceful person. But JR Raphael, well something bad should happen to him for this. Make a list of "sounds" - based on a couple I saw this meant grasping pretty far to make sure the list made it to twenty. Why twenty? Because that is 10 pages worth. 2 "sounds" per page. Then just search youtbue for a video that included each sound. But don't actually watch all of the video. Instead just slap them up there so people can watch a 64 second video of a floppy drive that only has the floppy drive sound for 20 seconds or so. Or the sound of a slide projector, with a guy talking about the fact that it functions, I assume he made the video to help sell the projector. The topper was enjoying the 'sound' of a mimeograph machine while the video blasted Cat Stevens into my ears. It's like a test for the Sucker's Showcase (my favorite skit from Steve Martin's Best Show Ever). If you actually look at all 10 pages you qualify. Me, I bailed at the 5th page so I'm guessing that means I'm only mildly retarded.
There was a window of time where I would run home if necessary from the bus stop in order to be sure that I didn't miss Robotech. I've watched Macross but back then anime was not as readily available as it is now. I didn't know much about it. I knew the look and I was completely stoked that Robotech was on tv. I'm not sure that we even had a vcr yet at that point.
That's a great idea. I wonder if it would fit inside the death star that came with my buildable galaxy set. That would be awesome. I'll need to check today. Though I'm not sure how the ports would line up - maybe put a box around the board and then use the halves of the death star like bread on a sandwich. Might still look good. It will be fun trying out all kinds of options. I wonder if there would be a market for various themed cases.
I wont argue about FOSS stuff available on Windows. That's one thing I do like about it. I just don't like the intimation that one can't use commercial software on Linux. And we talk about 'most people' but then we can also stop talking about Photoshop/Illustrator.
As far as office - I don't use it any more. All my work docs are in Google. Everything. If somebody emails me a.doc or.xls file any more I just have to wonder what is wrong with them. Anymore if a file needs to be sent it's a pdf. Anything being worked on by the team is in Google for sure because it's so much easier to collaborate. The team calendar is there, all of it.
For me this is less of a problem every year. I used to have 2 pieces of software that made me keep Windows around. 1 was Turbotax and now that I do that on the web it's off the list, so I'm down to 1. It's a custom piece of software I need for me job. (The developer is a friend) I just found out that there will be a web based option available in the next year. Then my count will be at 0. As it is I just keep a little laptop for Windows and run Linux on my other machines.
Grandma is no sucker - she wont be buying her tunes.
But seriously - iTunes sucks unless you have an iDevice that requires it. I can see it for people with a bunch of Apple products - but on Win or Lin it doesn't make any sense to me.
If I'm parsing that correctly (and I'm not totally sure) what are these features that Linux is missing? I move between both regularly and I'm struggling to come up with a list of my own.
No. There is plenty of commercial software that is available on Linux.
There are some commercial packages only available on Win or Mac but then you could level the same accusation at whichever of the two does not support said software.
And there are a few things that run on Win and Mac but not Linux though I think the number is small. A lot of people with Macs run parallels or dual boot - but if we are going to throw that into the mix then a lot more becomes available on Linux too.
I've said it above - but more directly to your point about Linux being difficult - we could argue that all day. I have had a real bear trying to do some rather straightforward things on MS and Apple. The fact that so many friends are calling on me to help fix their problems on such a regular basis (and none of them are running Linux) proves to me that they are not so easy.
So I think it goes well beyond that - to marketing and business practices.
But in my mind, this discussion about if Linux is as 'easy' as MS and Apple is a waste of time as we'll be throwing around anecdotes and such without really settling anything. So I'd rather avoid that and ask, "Is Windows the dominant OS based purely on usability?" If you really believe that, we'll just have to agree to disagree.
I'm going to have to disagree. That will get you a following but not on the scale of Apple or MS. I don't think they'd market like they do if they didn't see results. The same with defending their intellectual property.
In the early days of the PC there were multiple platforms that met your description (for their time) and most of them didn't make it. I don't think it was simply a matter of them not being usable or lacking applications.
Those things of course are important, I am not saying you can succeed without them to some extent - but to get adoption on a global scale it takes some additional work.
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I have enjoyed the videos so far and I think this is a great idea.
This will be added to the stuff I watch on PATV as well as Geek And Sundry. (Which has a slew of great shows - though I'm most stoked about Wil Wheaton's tabletop gaming show and The Guild.)
Here I'd love to see stuff that shows off what slashdot is about - tech (especially FOSS tech) at a deeper depth than the 'non-technical' folks are interested in. I enjoyed the HD tv bit - since I don't know jack about tvs. But it did feel awfully fluffy. A lot of people complain about slashvertisements - and I don't think every mention of a physical product or software that can be purchased is an abomination - but I do want to dig a little deeper than consumer level.
Being able to have user submitted video would be cool - though I have no idea how that would work. Based on what I see here in comments, I wouldn't dare go through a video firehose to look for stuff to recommend. So maybe that's just a non-starter unless there was a way to filter out the obviously horrific stuff that I anticipate would be submitted.
Slashdot has been my point of primary internet interaction for a while now. My first comment was posted almost 11 years ago - so I figure I've been here regularly for at least that long. I've done meet ups with slashdot friends 4 times over the years, the most recent was just a couple weeks ago. I'm not a neutral party - I have a bias towards the site. If I didn't like it I wouldn't have stayed this long.
There are problems to be sure - but I do believe the site still has value. There are still a significant number of knowledgable people that are engaged with the site. There are of course, and always have been people who troll and (even more caustic in my opinion) people who gripe incessentaly about everything. But even with them, people keep coming.
I'm not sure what you are looking for in regards to a "notable thing" coming out of slashdot. I view it as a place that provides a service - interaction with tech news in a primarily FOSS oriented community. A lot of the limits on community building come out of a desire to keep the signal to noise ratio good. I was very active on reddit for a while but a few months ago I deleted my account and visit rarely now. Too much crap to filter to get to the good stuff. It obviously works for a lot of people but I'm willing to bet that I'm not alone in preferring a place like this. I'm not as up on my advice animal memes as I was before - but I don't feel too bad about that. It's a cool community, but not really for me.
HN is pretty awesome though the volume of posting and interaction there is a lot lower. Quality over quantity - but you can't site that as a good site compared to slashdot and blame slashdots woes on a rigid commenting system. I do like it though for the same reason I like it here - I've got a good idea of what I'll get and a good percentage of the commentors will be knowledgable.
I had no idea unicode was supported at all it certainly doesn't work in my journal. I've got some cyrillic below that doesn't show up at all.
- I don't see the preceding two words at all in preview.
köszönöm szépen - this Hungarian looks o.k. in the preview though. In my journal entries it always previews o.k. but then gets all jacked up once I save.
I'm pretty sure that's StarCraft - not messenger
I haven't employed all of it yet. From a practical stand point, the part I've actually used the most is the information in the first 2 chapters on new structural elements and some of the changes in marking up text. I am trying to think through what I want to do in order to make my projects as accessible as possible.
The part I'm probably the most interested in right now though is the section on the geolocation api. I think there are a lot of potentially exciting things going on there. I'm hoping to combine what I've learned there with another book I just got (try to review it as well once I get through it) on mapping in Drupal. ( http://mappingdrupal.com/ )
I'm also really interested in the chapter on client-side storage. I hesitate to say it has been useful because I haven't done any real world projects with it yet - but I think there are some great possibilities. I really look forward to being able to deploy applications that run in the browser, regardless of platform (os, mobile, etc.) but give me really high levels of functionality.
and the ogre poster too
pretty cool stuff.
I really want the oger poster
you are a true friend.
my wife always wants to talk about what good friends we are - but she's never come through for me like you have. if I could have kids I'd name the next one azalin.
(looking at that it might seem like I'm making fun of you for helping me out - I'm not. I'm tired and ready to go home and a bit goofy. It struck me as a very funny thing to say and I'm here to please. Gonna log out and go home now.)
I can't tell them that now. They still think I know everything.
And I wouldn't have looked it up unless you were there in the car to contradict me. That whole people who don't know what they don't know are the most dangerous thing. But if you had been there, we could have argued about it for a minute or two, then looked it up and then I would have searched frantically for some other event or piece of knowledge to ridicule you over in a lame attempt to draw attention away from my deficient knowledge.
This man (or woman or other) deserves a drink for their excellent work here.
I was just telling my kids about where saying "ditto" came from the other day. We settled on "a sort of copy machine".
Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman. And yes - thank the insanely stupid ip enforcement at youtube. They failed me completely here in Hungary - what is up with that? I can hardly ever see the youtube stuff I want with music but this crap gets to aurally assault me? I feel wronged and dirty inside.
that's better. I looked for a link to get to something like that but couldn't find it - but as I said I'm not very bright. I still feel traumatized by the cat stevens music though.
On the whole I consider myself a peaceful person. But JR Raphael, well something bad should happen to him for this. Make a list of "sounds" - based on a couple I saw this meant grasping pretty far to make sure the list made it to twenty. Why twenty? Because that is 10 pages worth. 2 "sounds" per page. Then just search youtbue for a video that included each sound. But don't actually watch all of the video. Instead just slap them up there so people can watch a 64 second video of a floppy drive that only has the floppy drive sound for 20 seconds or so. Or the sound of a slide projector, with a guy talking about the fact that it functions, I assume he made the video to help sell the projector. The topper was enjoying the 'sound' of a mimeograph machine while the video blasted Cat Stevens into my ears. It's like a test for the Sucker's Showcase (my favorite skit from Steve Martin's Best Show Ever). If you actually look at all 10 pages you qualify. Me, I bailed at the 5th page so I'm guessing that means I'm only mildly retarded.
at that price point it isn't much. my $400 acer desktop came with a terabyte drive in it.
There was a window of time where I would run home if necessary from the bus stop in order to be sure that I didn't miss Robotech. I've watched Macross but back then anime was not as readily available as it is now. I didn't know much about it. I knew the look and I was completely stoked that Robotech was on tv. I'm not sure that we even had a vcr yet at that point.
That's a great idea. I wonder if it would fit inside the death star that came with my buildable galaxy set. That would be awesome. I'll need to check today. Though I'm not sure how the ports would line up - maybe put a box around the board and then use the halves of the death star like bread on a sandwich. Might still look good. It will be fun trying out all kinds of options. I wonder if there would be a market for various themed cases.
too true.
I wont argue about FOSS stuff available on Windows. That's one thing I do like about it. I just don't like the intimation that one can't use commercial software on Linux. And we talk about 'most people' but then we can also stop talking about Photoshop/Illustrator.
As far as office - I don't use it any more. All my work docs are in Google. Everything. If somebody emails me a .doc or .xls file any more I just have to wonder what is wrong with them. Anymore if a file needs to be sent it's a pdf. Anything being worked on by the team is in Google for sure because it's so much easier to collaborate. The team calendar is there, all of it.
I stick to mammals for my technical support needs. Insects give me the creeps.
For me this is less of a problem every year. I used to have 2 pieces of software that made me keep Windows around. 1 was Turbotax and now that I do that on the web it's off the list, so I'm down to 1. It's a custom piece of software I need for me job. (The developer is a friend) I just found out that there will be a web based option available in the next year. Then my count will be at 0. As it is I just keep a little laptop for Windows and run Linux on my other machines.
Grandma is no sucker - she wont be buying her tunes.
But seriously - iTunes sucks unless you have an iDevice that requires it. I can see it for people with a bunch of Apple products - but on Win or Lin it doesn't make any sense to me.
If I'm parsing that correctly (and I'm not totally sure) what are these features that Linux is missing? I move between both regularly and I'm struggling to come up with a list of my own.
No. There is plenty of commercial software that is available on Linux.
There are some commercial packages only available on Win or Mac but then you could level the same accusation at whichever of the two does not support said software.
And there are a few things that run on Win and Mac but not Linux though I think the number is small. A lot of people with Macs run parallels or dual boot - but if we are going to throw that into the mix then a lot more becomes available on Linux too.
I've said it above - but more directly to your point about Linux being difficult - we could argue that all day. I have had a real bear trying to do some rather straightforward things on MS and Apple. The fact that so many friends are calling on me to help fix their problems on such a regular basis (and none of them are running Linux) proves to me that they are not so easy.
So I think it goes well beyond that - to marketing and business practices.
But in my mind, this discussion about if Linux is as 'easy' as MS and Apple is a waste of time as we'll be throwing around anecdotes and such without really settling anything. So I'd rather avoid that and ask, "Is Windows the dominant OS based purely on usability?" If you really believe that, we'll just have to agree to disagree.
I'm going to have to disagree. That will get you a following but not on the scale of Apple or MS. I don't think they'd market like they do if they didn't see results. The same with defending their intellectual property.
In the early days of the PC there were multiple platforms that met your description (for their time) and most of them didn't make it. I don't think it was simply a matter of them not being usable or lacking applications.
Those things of course are important, I am not saying you can succeed without them to some extent - but to get adoption on a global scale it takes some additional work.