Uh huh... and you think the North's black-out is propaganda... It's actually against the law in DPRK to have lights on after dark because the country considers itself at war and still maintains blackout..
And you know all this how? Your own media. Yup, go on trusting that faithfully, consumerican!
Get some good ol' "Madison Avenue" Juche for you, why don't you!
clicking "[blah]" a bunch of times is a lot more intuitive...
actually, i don't think intuitive is the right word for this. instead, try this:
clicking "[blah]" a bunch of times gives the user the feeling they're doing something on their computer, without actually requiring them to actually understand what it is they're doing at all...
stupid GUI's make users stupid. a good user understands whats going on; that the command line interface is still going strong as a major computer interface paradigm, in light of all the 'GUI' competition, is as sure an indicator that progress isn't in fact being made as anything else may be..
You're the one jumping to conclusions and acting like a jerk (as you are accusing 'Apple' of being). Maybe also the 'financial payment' (confidential) was "give back what you paid us to join the ADC, and your ADC membership was cancelled".
College grad or not, if you don't know the -exact- terms of the deal, don't be so hasty to cast judgment. Oh, wait, this is/.... there are few here who aren't hasty at most things in life..
yeah, i'm definitely not gay, and by the end of summer, almost half of Typing A knew this for a fact, heh heh..
still, i did get a lot of flak from my pals over the fact i was 'in a girls class'.. it wasn't until they saw my invaders clone on the "word processor" that they got the picture, and the next semester the school was in-undated with BBC Micro's, so you can guess who took over those classes, lunch-time hack-a-thons, and after-school nerdfests.. was quite a fun period of my life, but i'm glad i've moved on to other things since then...
Actually, my girlfriend sat in the back row, the only class she wasn't up front, and.. by the end of the semester, I was quite popular with the rest of the ladies in the class, since a summers worth of their blossoming company while pursuing my professional love (hacking) resulted in quite an understanding between us all..
I have to wonder how such tech could be being used in grid-less nations, for example, to promote industry?
I mean, is it possible to create such a system that could be used to fire a kiln, for example, or keep a high-temperature oven maintained long enough to do glass?
As a tech-nerd who longs to get off the grid, this sort of thinking appeals to me. How can small, light industry, be brought to the DIY scale..
They're now accessories, mostly for PDA's, but pretty much shortly for all kinds of things. Folding keyboards with integrated battery/power management, and your average cell-phone..
Targus make wicked foldables for all sorts of computers.. for this very reason (small, portable, comfortable keyboard) I maintain a Zaurus sl5500, with accessories, as a truly compact and manageable 'travel computer' system for on the go..
With these two 'accessories', I've got a worthy system for work. I love the Targus foldables, I can't wait for them to get even smaller.. IBM were waaaay ahead of their time, but anyway, foldables are on the immediate horizon as an accessory cult item.
.. I remember those hot, sweaty days, at the back of the typing class, me and the fold-up newly-donated Osborne sitting together, watching the sweaty backs of all the schoolgirls in class adjusting their bra-straps.. hooh boy.. I was 15, the only guy in the class of 30, and I selected the class because of the Osbourne straight up, without even thinking, ignoring the other 'none of my friends are gonna take it' factor completely, honest. My first day of class, when I realized it was just me and pretty much every hot chick in my year, *plus* the Osbourne sitting there for me to hack on, every afternoon..
I was only allowed to touch 'the wordprocessor' because I'd already mastered the drills and homekeys of every other typewriter in the class (Typing A, Senior High School).. highest accuracy, highest rate, document writing, etc. The Osbourne was 'special', because it wasn't really typewriter-standard keys, or so the teacher said, bless her.. but it wasn't long until it was just me n' Wordstar, totally horny for each other, watching sweet teenage girls of my year doing their typing drills on crappy old hard-core typewriters, in the desert sun, paper, ink and sweat. In uniform.
Good times, good times...
I'd love to have an Osborne around, but alas the oldest computer I ever owned that I still have is a lowly Oric-1, whose treasured spot in a box in the attic at home is right next to the "Local Boy Wins in State Typing Championship" newspaper article, cheesy photo and all..
PC's aren't dead, they're just cheaper, and easier to use, and everywhere, and not just running the same operating system, and not exclusively a Microsoft thing, any more, either..
What is dead is the "use the desktop war as a straw man" tactic. Too much code written for that to be a nuisance now!
I use Hyperlinkomatic.. its generally a little easier to use than del.ici.o.us (whatever) I have found, and it integrates well.. i have a hot-key for two bookmarks 'add current to hlom', and 'access hlom', just option-1 and option-2 to access and manage my bookmarks from anywhere.
looking forward to the OSX-local version of HLOM.. roll on Apache installer!
what part of 'hungry black hole' means gravity has anything to do with anything?
i know, i'm just playin' paranoid sci-fi fruitcake, yo, but hey.. c'mon, smarties, play along... what if the core of the earth was being consumed by a black hole, albeit a very small one.. might explain a few mysteries of tecto-geologic-watcha-ma-callit..
what i want to know is, if, gravity is not an issue here, then how do we know our earths gravity is not whisking these fireballs away into the very core (actually), and we're mis-interpreting what we're seeing as 'the fireball went out'.
maybe the fireball went 'down'? very fast. hungrily.
a) justifying the substantial cost of developing *and supporting* your own linux distribution
Where is the substantial cost? I download tarballs for the packages I need, I set up a running system, I build the binaries, I create my own filesystem, I make a tarball of the finished running system.
This is a weeks worth of work for a competent engineer.
What you are saying is its 'expensive not to have competent engineers doing linux admin', and I'm saying: "the only reason for that is incompetent engineers".
b) the complete lack of support for major commercial packages that doing this entails.
Show me a commercial package which runs on a Linux distro that cannot be re-built from scratch by a competent engineer. Oracle? Forget it, I can get Oracle running on a custom-built system in a week. Done it enough times already to not even break out in a sweat over it.
In 99% of cases *THERE IS NO MEANINGFUL ADVANTAGE TO ROLLING YOUR OWN LINUX DISTRIBUTION*. It's pointless. Rebuilding your own local copy of some commercial distro (eg: RHEL) is an only marginally less pointless proposition when you could simply use the existing rebuilds of said commercial distro.
Any decent admin would scoff at this. Building your own means you are *fully* in control of whats going on, and not only that: you know whats going on. So many times I've seen 'admins' waste their time trying to work out the 'way RedHat does it' compared to "the way Gentoo does it", when they could be educating themselves and rolling their own..
The Linux community is not known for its fondness of commercial, closed-source software or its efforts towards retaining code and API stability to support such software. Indeed, it's rather *infamous* for its attitude towards these things.
Its a strength of the Linux computing realm, not a weakness. Those who understand this and know how to exploit it, do. Those who don't understand it, complain about it, and get very little actually done...
Well, I have been quite critical of the 'mythos of [Country X]'s beer', since I'm not generally a beer drinker, and am not always on the hunt for what I consider a 'nice beer to drink'.. so maybe I'm just un-educated and un-worthy to comment on beer..
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Uh huh... and you think the North's black-out is propaganda... It's actually against the law in DPRK to have lights on after dark because the country considers itself at war and still maintains blackout..
And you know all this how? Your own media. Yup, go on trusting that faithfully, consumerican!
Get some good ol' "Madison Avenue" Juche for you, why don't you!
You can see the photoshop, for cryin' out loud.
Stupid cheesy American agitprop. Lose!
The general public are fascist, greedy invidiuals, with very little responsible for the world beyond their own tiny realms.
This is by design.
clicking "[blah]" a bunch of times is a lot more intuitive...
..
actually, i don't think intuitive is the right word for this. instead, try this:
clicking "[blah]" a bunch of times gives the user the feeling they're doing something on their computer, without actually requiring them to actually understand what it is they're doing at all...
stupid GUI's make users stupid. a good user understands whats going on; that the command line interface is still going strong as a major computer interface paradigm, in light of all the 'GUI' competition, is as sure an indicator that progress isn't in fact being made as anything else may be
How do you know he's not a rich punk?
/. ... there are few here who aren't hasty at most things in life..
You're the one jumping to conclusions and acting like a jerk (as you are accusing 'Apple' of being). Maybe also the 'financial payment' (confidential) was "give back what you paid us to join the ADC, and your ADC membership was cancelled".
College grad or not, if you don't know the -exact- terms of the deal, don't be so hasty to cast judgment. Oh, wait, this is
yeah, i'm definitely not gay, and by the end of summer, almost half of Typing A knew this for a fact, heh heh ..
.. it wasn't until they saw my invaders clone on the "word processor" that they got the picture, and the next semester the school was in-undated with BBC Micro's, so you can guess who took over those classes, lunch-time hack-a-thons, and after-school nerdfests .. was quite a fun period of my life, but i'm glad i've moved on to other things since then ...
still, i did get a lot of flak from my pals over the fact i was 'in a girls class'
Actually, my girlfriend sat in the back row, the only class she wasn't up front, and .. by the end of the semester, I was quite popular with the rest of the ladies in the class, since a summers worth of their blossoming company while pursuing my professional love (hacking) resulted in quite an understanding between us all ..
I have to wonder how such tech could be being used in grid-less nations, for example, to promote industry?
I mean, is it possible to create such a system that could be used to fire a kiln, for example, or keep a high-temperature oven maintained long enough to do glass?
As a tech-nerd who longs to get off the grid, this sort of thinking appeals to me. How can small, light industry, be brought to the DIY scale
They're now accessories, mostly for PDA's, but pretty much shortly for all kinds of things. Folding keyboards with integrated battery/power management, and your average cell-phone
Targus make wicked foldables for all sorts of computers
With these two 'accessories', I've got a worthy system for work. I love the Targus foldables, I can't wait for them to get even smaller
ssia.
.. I remember those hot, sweaty days, at the back of the typing class, me and the fold-up newly-donated Osborne sitting together, watching the sweaty backs of all the schoolgirls in class adjusting their bra-straps .. hooh boy .. I was 15, the only guy in the class of 30, and I selected the class because of the Osbourne straight up, without even thinking, ignoring the other 'none of my friends are gonna take it' factor completely, honest. My first day of class, when I realized it was just me and pretty much every hot chick in my year, *plus* the Osbourne sitting there for me to hack on, every afternoon ..
.. highest accuracy, highest rate, document writing, etc. The Osbourne was 'special', because it wasn't really typewriter-standard keys, or so the teacher said, bless her .. but it wasn't long until it was just me n' Wordstar, totally horny for each other, watching sweet teenage girls of my year doing their typing drills on crappy old hard-core typewriters, in the desert sun, paper, ink and sweat. In uniform.
...
..
I was only allowed to touch 'the wordprocessor' because I'd already mastered the drills and homekeys of every other typewriter in the class (Typing A, Senior High School)
Good times, good times
I'd love to have an Osborne around, but alas the oldest computer I ever owned that I still have is a lowly Oric-1, whose treasured spot in a box in the attic at home is right next to the "Local Boy Wins in State Typing Championship" newspaper article, cheesy photo and all
.. as in, it is media made for me, and me only then i would accept some form of "unique DRM identifier".
but if its mass-market media, forget it. i ain't gonna pay to be one of the Jones's, yo!
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
PC's aren't dead, they're just cheaper, and easier to use, and everywhere, and not just running the same operating system, and not exclusively a Microsoft thing, any more, either
What is dead is the "use the desktop war as a straw man" tactic. Too much code written for that to be a nuisance now!
I use Hyperlinkomatic .. its generally a little easier to use than del.ici.o.us (whatever) I have found, and it integrates well .. i have a hot-key for two bookmarks 'add current to hlom', and 'access hlom', just option-1 and option-2 to access and manage my bookmarks from anywhere.
.. roll on Apache installer!
looking forward to the OSX-local version of HLOM
A Linux port to a new hardware platform is working documentation.
That said, there should be *no* hardware requirements, that is entirely the point. Port to all, use the code to test your unique hardware design.
Push the metal, not the software.
Whats the point... You think Europe should invade the U.S. already?
"Roll Your Own".
If there is one thing the diaspora of distro's should prove, it is that truly anyone can roll their own..
what part of 'hungry black hole' means gravity has anything to do with anything?
.. c'mon, smarties, play along... what if the core of the earth was being consumed by a black hole, albeit a very small one .. might explain a few mysteries of tecto-geologic-watcha-ma-callit..
i know, i'm just playin' paranoid sci-fi fruitcake, yo, but hey
what i want to know is, if, gravity is not an issue here, then how do we know our earths gravity is not whisking these fireballs away into the very core (actually), and we're mis-interpreting what we're seeing as 'the fireball went out'.
maybe the fireball went 'down'? very fast. hungrily.
/
//irony
a black hole. yeah, thats gonna be handy in the coming apocalypse.
not.
Don't worry, even synthetic indigo's are being replaced.
p0lar is the new blue.
a) justifying the substantial cost of developing *and supporting* your own linux distribution
..
...
Where is the substantial cost? I download tarballs for the packages I need, I set up a running system, I build the binaries, I create my own filesystem, I make a tarball of the finished running system.
This is a weeks worth of work for a competent engineer.
What you are saying is its 'expensive not to have competent engineers doing linux admin', and I'm saying: "the only reason for that is incompetent engineers".
b) the complete lack of support for major commercial packages that doing this entails.
Show me a commercial package which runs on a Linux distro that cannot be re-built from scratch by a competent engineer. Oracle? Forget it, I can get Oracle running on a custom-built system in a week. Done it enough times already to not even break out in a sweat over it.
In 99% of cases *THERE IS NO MEANINGFUL ADVANTAGE TO ROLLING YOUR OWN LINUX DISTRIBUTION*. It's pointless. Rebuilding your own local copy of some commercial distro (eg: RHEL) is an only marginally less pointless proposition when you could simply use the existing rebuilds of said commercial distro.
Any decent admin would scoff at this. Building your own means you are *fully* in control of whats going on, and not only that: you know whats going on. So many times I've seen 'admins' waste their time trying to work out the 'way RedHat does it' compared to "the way Gentoo does it", when they could be educating themselves and rolling their own
The Linux community is not known for its fondness of commercial, closed-source software or its efforts towards retaining code and API stability to support such software. Indeed, it's rather *infamous* for its attitude towards these things.
Its a strength of the Linux computing realm, not a weakness. Those who understand this and know how to exploit it, do. Those who don't understand it, complain about it, and get very little actually done
a bit in the minority, eh?
.. so maybe I'm just un-educated and un-worthy to comment on beer ..
Well, I have been quite critical of the 'mythos of [Country X]'s beer', since I'm not generally a beer drinker, and am not always on the hunt for what I consider a 'nice beer to drink'
.. but since its not being broadcast in my market, I'll have to look for .torrents for future episodes, instead.
c'mon BBC, fully convert to the Internet already, dang!!