Years ago when I once called the ISP out on their UNLIMITED plan being throttled, they correctly showed me page 936 of the user agreement and I kid you not, they said that only my ACCESS to the data was unlimited, not the AMOUNT of data.
While I was driving, I voice activated my phone to "call my dad" and I handed my daughter behind me my phone to talk to grandpa. At some point th connection dropped. Next I hear my four year old using the voice control and says "call my dad", sure enough, she reconnected to my dad.
1. I didn't know she knew how to activate the voice control (double click home button) but she had enough exposure to other phones/tablets to know to try it.
Amen. Got a Cat S50 I can't root for the life of me. I need root to remotely help my grandfather who accidentally presses buttons all the time. I got him a great water proof drop proof old age proof phone, but the gas and mileage of physically driving 100 miles to press a stupid button is getting on my nerves!
To be fair, many in the world don't find Quebec French to be real French or even a real language, so I see where Americans would think Quebec French != French.
(Satirical nod to the history of Quebec vs Parisian)
You are making the assumption they are all tuned into the same frequencies.
Imagine you get 100 people into a room and their teeth pick up radio signals, some AM, some FM. What one person hears will be different from the next one.
Yes it's a mental disease, but like any other, there are reasons pro's/con's why it happens and how.
I routinely wanted to share out a simple sheet, allowable for anyone to edit easily, but have always fallen flat on my face by the complexity of simple tasks.
Yes I'm a novice user, however like Excel, I can use Calc or any similar thing because the interface is similar and or easy to use. I cannot use a database and have people interface with it to updated it without having to create a form, create a web interface or other complex things which are beyond my ability.
Now, you add database like abilities to Excel, and a lot more people would use them (like linking to other workbooks, multiple users editing simultaneously etc.)
Everyone gets help in Office suite, however Access remains the most neglected app. Only education or simplicity can change that, and people are not in the mood to learn new things*
I was thinking just drop them in the Ocean at a deep depth to add to the simulation. There's no-one coming for you in an emergency in that case, and there's a very real possibility of system failure.
The only thing I can add is Liability. RedHat assumes some liability in the day to day operations of your company. Liability which if you sell to customers (aduh) they require for certain forms and certifications. Insurance is not enough. We're talking SOX, we're talking HIPAA etc. At the end of the day though, just remember that these are just tools. No different than someone saying "I want a stanley hammer" and you getting a black and decker.
I've written a few whitepapers on Support and Maintenance, and in my surveying of customers, liability or the ability to checkmark that their supplier/vendor has liability for the code they use to produce their goods has been a very GOOD thing in a few cases like government and lawfirms.
Maybe that's my problem, always been using it on older hardware because I never wanted to give my good hardware to it until it was proven.
Although an athlon 2500 with a gig of ram I would have thought would be pretty detectable. And the wireless IS a usb, so more problems there, but it's no different from windows, "install driver" no problem.
Want to install this RPM? just chmod a few letters which mean nothing in a terminal you don't understand and you're there!
I just want to doubleclick the driver and have it work, not prompt me to extract it then have no idea how to run it.
But again, that's from a windows mentality, but its what people really do think when they try Linux for the first time!
Forgive me if this is off topic, but I just wanted to get my views out there with this new release.
Unity or no, the real problem is that simple tasks are not that simple. In simple terms, that simple people can understand.
I booted a live cd of Ubuntu and had 2 hard drives, main drive and storage drive. I wanted to prepare (wipe) the storage drive and backup everything in the main drive.
However, I found that the secondary drive was readonly (I couldn't make a directory). Without knowing how to prep the drive or under what circumstance, it almost stopped me from continuing until I read some articles about how to unmount it, the fact that journaling was enabled, all enough to make my head spin.
So I went on a crusade (just for fun) to track down a GUI based tool to let me wipe my drive and control the properies (like RENAME FFS). Almost none exist. Sure I eventually got to GPARTED or whatever it's called, but the point is, there is no easy, straight forward way to do things which Windows users are used to doing.
About once a year I try to go LINUX ONLY on my desktop and I would consider myself a poweruser on windows, but I keep getting frustrated by the eventual lack of something working, something not working, or having no idea how to have an app start on startup without editing some seemingly random txt file in a some subset of folders (see what I did there?) which I don't understand.
Linux leaves me feeling stupid that I don't know how to do simple tasks. So I go back to Windows.
The only distro I tried which kind of tried to address this is Puppylinux, but even then, I got stopped when I tried to install an app which wasn't puppy approved or some nonsense. I'm sure it could have been done, just not easily.
So now, I've got a Kbuntu system at home I tried, came back, frozen screensaver. Common problem which the only resolution to is to install a new screensaver app and guess what? Edit more text files.
I used to get excited about the "year of the linux" but truth is, even within its own community it fights "GNOME vs KDE", "Debian vs Ubuntu". So now I just think it's a bunch of people doing really cool things, competing for a dwindling user base who finds they will not invest time and energy into learning/fixing new things via text files and who are longing for a real alternative to Microsoft, but linux always comes up short.
Well if anyone knows of good user-based distro's which speak and step people through the basics of its innerworkings, let me know, I'd love to try it and get my family, friends, and business associates off of Microsoft!
Slashdot Mirror
Years ago when I once called the ISP out on their UNLIMITED plan being throttled, they correctly showed me page 936 of the user agreement and I kid you not, they said that only my ACCESS to the data was unlimited, not the AMOUNT of data.
I switched ISP's the next day.
Yo Grark
It's not even remotely intelligent or helpful.
Where is the bathroom? Where is the gift shop? Where is the cafeteria? How do I find out which room a patient is?
All questions which led to the default "I'm sorry, please choose an option from my chest so I can help you".
I seriously don't know how this company hooks places to put this thing in!
- Yo Grark
Funny you mention LinkedIn, I recently got a message from someone who had been dead for 4 years.
The profile had not been updated since her passing, and when I replied to her message "from beyond the grave" I didn't get an answer.
So yes, I can backup your claim of them sending fake messages.
Yo Grark
While I was driving, I voice activated my phone to "call my dad" and I handed my daughter behind me my phone to talk to grandpa. At some point th connection dropped. Next I hear my four year old using the voice control and says "call my dad", sure enough, she reconnected to my dad.
:P
1. I didn't know she knew how to activate the voice control (double click home button) but she had enough exposure to other phones/tablets to know to try it.
2. She was four.
3. Somehow I expected my phone to call itself
- Yo Grark
OMG a Chapin joke. I actually had that song playing when I started reading this thread!
- Yo Grark
Amen. Got a Cat S50 I can't root for the life of me. I need root to remotely help my grandfather who accidentally presses buttons all the time. I got him a great water proof drop proof old age proof phone, but the gas and mileage of physically driving 100 miles to press a stupid button is getting on my nerves!
Yo Grark
To be fair, many in the world don't find Quebec French to be real French or even a real language, so I see where Americans would think Quebec French != French.
(Satirical nod to the history of Quebec vs Parisian)
Yo Grark
You are making the assumption they are all tuned into the same frequencies.
Imagine you get 100 people into a room and their teeth pick up radio signals, some AM, some FM. What one person hears will be different from the next one.
Yes it's a mental disease, but like any other, there are reasons pro's/con's why it happens and how.
- Yo Grark
Oh nothing at all. http://fredw-catharsisours.blo...
YoGrark
Ya know? Slashdot.jp with google translation is not bad at all!
Yes I'm half-serious.
Even has crawlingw errrr...trolls.
- YoGrark
Avast is starting to suck donkey balls with all their advertising and tricks into upgrading unsuspecting non-computer literate people. :(
- Yo Grark
An we continue to be pissed about it except it makes no news because we have "mini-bush" in the PM's office!
- Yo Grark
Except in Quebec. Just want to point that out.
- YoGrark
Why not, drug companies are continually sued over the failure of their "code"
- Yo Grark
Canadians?
Yo Grark
Not that I would ever admit it, but we gave the USA Justin Bieber cause he was fricken getting on our nerves.
Yo Grark
...... The whole thing weighs like 80lbs and sounds like a jet landing.
Just like my Sager 7280, can't idle without sounding like a jet engine!!!!
- Yo Grark
Can I draw a straight line without following a website yet? /me ducks
Yo Grark
...and don't get me started on the minibars!
Why.... are you a mean drunk?
Yo Grark
Blame the lack of easy use of Access.
I routinely wanted to share out a simple sheet, allowable for anyone to edit easily, but have always fallen flat on my face by the complexity of simple tasks.
Yes I'm a novice user, however like Excel, I can use Calc or any similar thing because the interface is similar and or easy to use. I cannot use a database and have people interface with it to updated it without having to create a form, create a web interface or other complex things which are beyond my ability.
Now, you add database like abilities to Excel, and a lot more people would use them (like linking to other workbooks, multiple users editing simultaneously etc.)
Everyone gets help in Office suite, however Access remains the most neglected app. Only education or simplicity can change that, and people are not in the mood to learn new things*
*office drones, 9-5ers
Yo Grark
I was thinking just drop them in the Ocean at a deep depth to add to the simulation. There's no-one coming for you in an emergency in that case, and there's a very real possibility of system failure.
Yo Grark
Oh I never said it was REAL. I just said it was a good thing CIO's need to checkmark their responsibilities :)
Yo Grark
The only thing I can add is Liability. RedHat assumes some liability in the day to day operations of your company. Liability which if you sell to customers (aduh) they require for certain forms and certifications. Insurance is not enough. We're talking SOX, we're talking HIPAA etc. At the end of the day though, just remember that these are just tools. No different than someone saying "I want a stanley hammer" and you getting a black and decker.
I've written a few whitepapers on Support and Maintenance, and in my surveying of customers, liability or the ability to checkmark that their supplier/vendor has liability for the code they use to produce their goods has been a very GOOD thing in a few cases like government and lawfirms.
Yo Grark
Maybe that's my problem, always been using it on older hardware because I never wanted to give my good hardware to it until it was proven.
Although an athlon 2500 with a gig of ram I would have thought would be pretty detectable. And the wireless IS a usb, so more problems there, but it's no different from windows, "install driver" no problem.
Want to install this RPM? just chmod a few letters which mean nothing in a terminal you don't understand and you're there!
I just want to doubleclick the driver and have it work, not prompt me to extract it then have no idea how to run it.
But again, that's from a windows mentality, but its what people really do think when they try Linux for the first time!
Forgive me if this is off topic, but I just wanted to get my views out there with this new release.
Unity or no, the real problem is that simple tasks are not that simple. In simple terms, that simple people can understand.
I booted a live cd of Ubuntu and had 2 hard drives, main drive and storage drive. I wanted to prepare (wipe) the storage drive and backup everything in the main drive.
However, I found that the secondary drive was readonly (I couldn't make a directory). Without knowing how to prep the drive or under what circumstance, it almost stopped me from continuing until I read some articles about how to unmount it, the fact that journaling was enabled, all enough to make my head spin.
So I went on a crusade (just for fun) to track down a GUI based tool to let me wipe my drive and control the properies (like RENAME FFS). Almost none exist. Sure I eventually got to GPARTED or whatever it's called, but the point is, there is no easy, straight forward way to do things which Windows users are used to doing.
About once a year I try to go LINUX ONLY on my desktop and I would consider myself a poweruser on windows, but I keep getting frustrated by the eventual lack of something working, something not working, or having no idea how to have an app start on startup without editing some seemingly random txt file in a some subset of folders (see what I did there?) which I don't understand.
Linux leaves me feeling stupid that I don't know how to do simple tasks. So I go back to Windows.
The only distro I tried which kind of tried to address this is Puppylinux, but even then, I got stopped when I tried to install an app which wasn't puppy approved or some nonsense. I'm sure it could have been done, just not easily.
So now, I've got a Kbuntu system at home I tried, came back, frozen screensaver. Common problem which the only resolution to is to install a new screensaver app and guess what? Edit more text files.
I used to get excited about the "year of the linux" but truth is, even within its own community it fights "GNOME vs KDE", "Debian vs Ubuntu". So now I just think it's a bunch of people doing really cool things, competing for a dwindling user base who finds they will not invest time and energy into learning/fixing new things via text files and who are longing for a real alternative to Microsoft, but linux always comes up short.
Well if anyone knows of good user-based distro's which speak and step people through the basics of its innerworkings, let me know, I'd love to try it and get my family, friends, and business associates off of Microsoft!
Yo Grark