Who is better, the Christian that goes to church every Sunday and makes sure everyone knows he goes to church, or the Christian that doesn't always go to church, but volunteers at the soup kitchen downtown and tells nobody?
Neither! Everyone knows the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the one true god.
That's fine if your staff use the same applications all the time to do the same things. Accountants, bankers, insurance brokers etc. fit this profile nicely, as do secretaries and PAs using Word. These things don't require innovation or free thought. They are essentially administrative tasks.
Once you have an employee that does specialized or varied work the model becomes very broken - think software developers, scientists, engineers. The whole reason we had a PC revolution is that it put power in the hands of the end user and suddenly you could download applications that could do just about anything and if you couldn't find one and had the time and knack you could build it yourself. Take that away by locking down their desktops, laptops and phones and suddenly you have a workforce who cannot innovate and is ineffective. Any company that doesn't fall into this "best practice" trap will have a significant advantage and you'll wind up paying through the nose for contractors and consultants (until you impose the same idiotic rules upon them too).
For the most part I don't miss slow transfer speeds and computers that stuttered playing MP3. Nostalgia for me is restricted to certain apps and games I can't or don't have the time to run.
- If I want a laugh I look at my own web page, built in the mid 90s that's only had minor changes - wayback machine - Certain games I install if they work on newer OS or emulate if they don't....though some games just can't run without a proper win98 machine which is not something I have any more - I still use a Palm Pilot on occasion. I really need to migrate my contacts off it permanently (I do have text file exports). Wonder if Palm Desktop will work with Win 7 64 bit on my new machine
What you are after is the Philips AmbientLED Dimmable A19
$40-$45 a bulb!? Serioiusly!? I would dearly love to get rid of my 2 remaining incandescent 100W globes, but I am not paying $50 a globe. That is insane! Regardless of the warranty (which no doubt is a hassle to claim). Not to mention they only replace 60W incandescent bulbs and the lighting is weak enough in my study and bedroom without making it even weaker. So they're not a good replacement for anything as far as my needs are concerned.
I think long term LED is the way to go. The dimming issue probably does require a different kind of control - one that switches individual LEDs on and off. As long as it is reliable I'd do that. But $50 per globe is a joke!!!
This isn't the guy fiddling while Rome burns. This is one of Nero's dedicated foot soldiers actively setting the fires on command. Except that there are multiple Neros, and it's not Rome, it's the world that's being set on fire.
How many other companies are expected to maintain 10+ year old software, even after TWO new releases (Vista, Win7) are available?
That just shows your ignorance. MANY MANY companies maintain software that is 10+ years old. Talk to anyone in IT in the Banking, Finance and Insurance sectors. Unless you throw a LOT of money at it (like NASA, aviation industry etc. - systems that must not fail else people die or millions are lost), software does not get bedded down and achieve stability for at least a couple of years. Even if all the major issues are right on day one (in practice this seldom happens) there are always minor differences between how a system is actually used and what was designed/envisioned. In the case of XP there have been 3 service packs in those 10 years.
Did you just say "invest"? In an MMO? Do you actually expect a return on that investment?.
Have you ever created game content? Then been told you can't play the game again. You invest your time and effort into creating artifacts that make you enjoy the game a little more. Not all investments are financial.
Once these 10 to 20 leaders are dead i'm sure all those people in death squad training camps will go right back to working in McDonalds or some other type of desk job. They definitely have the hunger and skillset to become a corporate executive.
Working in McDonalds is a deskjob? Well I guess if you call the grill your desk it would still be cleaner than some slashdotters desks;-)
I also hate the cloud, but they have already FUCKED Picasa. It always had a few quirks but it is now so buggy that I don't trust it. After months of correcting face data, after my latest upgrade it just started becoming corrupt every few restarts. The first time I lost probably 40 man hours of work. Fuck Google. Fuck Picasa. Fuck the "Cloud".
Roundabouts (or rotaries, or traffic circles, as they're known in parts of the U.S.) induce confusion and fear in many drivers, although they can be useful at times. This article from an insurance periodical suggests that it's aggressive drivers who are making rotaries more dangerous.
My wife and infant children were in a car accident last Friday on a round about. No one hurt but car written off. I'm going to be taking time off dealing with the fallout even though the other driver was at fault and admitted it. (Note I'm in Australia - we drive on the left hand side of the street, our driver's seat is on the right and we give way to our right on a roundabout). The other driver was a lady rushing to pick up her own children when "T-boned" my wife's car on the left slightly rear of center where my 1 year old sits. This lady was looking for oncoming traffic (to her right) but failed to see that my wife, who had right of way, hadn't cleared the roundabout.
I'm really not sure what I think. On the one hand the accident would likely have been much worse if it happened at a set of traffic lights as it would have happened at higher speed. On the other hand my wife would likely have cleared the intersection more quickly and the accident may not have occurred.
One thing I do know. Streets that have one roundabout after another are not pleasant to drive on, especially when busy. The potential is much higher for accidents because timing your entrance is difficult. Too hesitant and you'll never get through and people get angry. Too eager and you will get hit. I get the feeling roundabouts are not so much about safety as cost cutting. Traffic lights don't put that pressure on each and every driver. It doesn't need to be you who makes the mistake to suffer.
No it wouldn't. Energy density by volume of liquid hydrogen is 1/3 that of gasoline. So unless you're willing to carry around 3 times teh amount of fuel, I don't think you're getting the same range. And even then, do you really think it is reasonable for every car to carry 40 gallons of liquid hydrogen around with them? I don't.
Why compress it. it's lighter than air. You could have floating cars. The question is does "BMW Hindenberg" or "Toyota Hindenberg" have a better ring to it?
They were trying to prove that there are in fact creatures that are stupider, lazier, dirtier, more opportunistic and definitely willing to strike when a man is down than police.
No, not all of the source is open. At least last time I checked they kept the code for USB emulation as an incentive to buy a non-free license if you wanted the source - that code is not included in the open source version that you can build from scratch. That makes no sense to me and never did. Someone with a more detailed appreciation might answer more fully. Personally I think it's to prevent an easy fork.
Ahh, the common excuse given for whenever Mozilla fucks someone over.
Also, your point doesn't really hold - I have invested time and money in plugin development, and many of the plugins I use myself haven't don't work elsewhere.
Developers are always being screwed over. End users invested very little. I think they've lost the plot at Mozilla. Version 2 was probably the pinnacle. They lost me with Awfulbar.
He writes: "While I use Facebook and other sites, I always keep local copies of photos or anything else that I share."
OK, human stupidity is boundless, so I'm sure there's someone out there who uploads all their photos to Facebook and then deletes the local copies... but seriously, anyone that stupid is not going to make it three-quarters of the way through that article to read Mr Brockmeier's sage advice.
The more likely scenario is that they keep 1 local copy and the hard drive then dies. Or accidentally erase (or lose or have stolen) files on their camera they uploaded directly from the card without locally copying.
I know a lot of people that dump their cameras very rarely. I would not call them wise to do so, but they aren't all stupid people. They just don't care or don't realize they care until they get bitten because they're not use to managing data. Me? I keep multiple local copies and off site copies at my mother's and in-laws.
2048x2048 is the max size. That's ordinarily plenty for me, but I agree, this is just a place to show them off and NOT where one should keep their originals.
That's 4MP. You'd be hard pressed to find a camera that by default produces such small files (...well maybe on some lower end phones, or kids cameras). So unless you shoot in crap quality to save space on your cards and hard disks, storing originals is not even an option.
Picasa crashes too much. Latest version squashes my Nikon RAW (NEF) files when formatting. Recently I lost all my face recognition data when a Picasa upgrade decided, without allowing any other option, that it needed to be deleted. Also Google is as evil as any other company.
Other than that the rest of your rant is valid. I don't see why you were modded down.
I am sure the Faceborg have the best interests of the public in mind. Those nasty open source free applications can spread like wildfire, and then we are all communists.
Please! Don't insult the Borg. The correct parody of the name is "Faceplant". Everyone knows that!
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I thought it was expanded to most modern IT departments ;-)
Who is better, the Christian that goes to church every Sunday and makes sure everyone knows he goes to church, or the Christian that doesn't always go to church, but volunteers at the soup kitchen downtown and tells nobody?
Neither! Everyone knows the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the one true god.
That's fine if your staff use the same applications all the time to do the same things. Accountants, bankers, insurance brokers etc. fit this profile nicely, as do secretaries and PAs using Word. These things don't require innovation or free thought. They are essentially administrative tasks.
Once you have an employee that does specialized or varied work the model becomes very broken - think software developers, scientists, engineers. The whole reason we had a PC revolution is that it put power in the hands of the end user and suddenly you could download applications that could do just about anything and if you couldn't find one and had the time and knack you could build it yourself. Take that away by locking down their desktops, laptops and phones and suddenly you have a workforce who cannot innovate and is ineffective. Any company that doesn't fall into this "best practice" trap will have a significant advantage and you'll wind up paying through the nose for contractors and consultants (until you impose the same idiotic rules upon them too).
LIBRE
GRAP
HICS
What? That reads like Libre Crap Hicks. And the 1.2 looks like 12 because the . is lost by being typeset too close to the 1
This is NOT what I expect of a magazine that purports to be about using free software to do things including layout books and magazines.
to bite my shiny metal ass.
Don't forget to mention your humble dream to kill all humans.
For the most part I don't miss slow transfer speeds and computers that stuttered playing MP3. Nostalgia for me is restricted to certain apps and games I can't or don't have the time to run.
- If I want a laugh I look at my own web page, built in the mid 90s that's only had minor changes
- wayback machine
- Certain games I install if they work on newer OS or emulate if they don't....though some games just can't run without a proper win98 machine which is not something I have any more
- I still use a Palm Pilot on occasion. I really need to migrate my contacts off it permanently (I do have text file exports). Wonder if Palm Desktop will work with Win 7 64 bit on my new machine
What you are after is the Philips AmbientLED Dimmable A19
$40-$45 a bulb!? Serioiusly!? I would dearly love to get rid of my 2 remaining incandescent 100W globes, but I am not paying $50 a globe. That is insane! Regardless of the warranty (which no doubt is a hassle to claim). Not to mention they only replace 60W incandescent bulbs and the lighting is weak enough in my study and bedroom without making it even weaker. So they're not a good replacement for anything as far as my needs are concerned.
I think long term LED is the way to go. The dimming issue probably does require a different kind of control - one that switches individual LEDs on and off. As long as it is reliable I'd do that. But $50 per globe is a joke!!!
This isn't the guy fiddling while Rome burns. This is one of Nero's dedicated foot soldiers actively setting the fires on command. Except that there are multiple Neros, and it's not Rome, it's the world that's being set on fire.
Excellent! We won't need light bulbs at all then!
How many other companies are expected to maintain 10+ year old software, even after TWO new releases (Vista, Win7) are available?
That just shows your ignorance. MANY MANY companies maintain software that is 10+ years old. Talk to anyone in IT in the Banking, Finance and Insurance sectors. Unless you throw a LOT of money at it (like NASA, aviation industry etc. - systems that must not fail else people die or millions are lost), software does not get bedded down and achieve stability for at least a couple of years. Even if all the major issues are right on day one (in practice this seldom happens) there are always minor differences between how a system is actually used and what was designed/envisioned. In the case of XP there have been 3 service packs in those 10 years.
Did you just say "invest"? In an MMO? Do you actually expect a return on that investment?.
Have you ever created game content? Then been told you can't play the game again. You invest your time and effort into creating artifacts that make you enjoy the game a little more. Not all investments are financial.
That will fix our banking system for sure!
Banks for sure?
Once these 10 to 20 leaders are dead i'm sure all those people in death squad training camps will go right back to working in McDonalds or some other type of desk job. They definitely have the hunger and skillset to become a corporate executive.
Working in McDonalds is a deskjob? Well I guess if you call the grill your desk it would still be cleaner than some slashdotters desks ;-)
I really hate the cloud.
I also hate the cloud, but they have already FUCKED Picasa. It always had a few quirks but it is now so buggy that I don't trust it. After months of correcting face data, after my latest upgrade it just started becoming corrupt every few restarts. The first time I lost probably 40 man hours of work. Fuck Google. Fuck Picasa. Fuck the "Cloud".
Roundabouts (or rotaries, or traffic circles, as they're known in parts of the U.S.) induce confusion and fear in many drivers, although they can be useful at times. This article from an insurance periodical suggests that it's aggressive drivers who are making rotaries more dangerous.
My wife and infant children were in a car accident last Friday on a round about. No one hurt but car written off. I'm going to be taking time off dealing with the fallout even though the other driver was at fault and admitted it. (Note I'm in Australia - we drive on the left hand side of the street, our driver's seat is on the right and we give way to our right on a roundabout). The other driver was a lady rushing to pick up her own children when "T-boned" my wife's car on the left slightly rear of center where my 1 year old sits. This lady was looking for oncoming traffic (to her right) but failed to see that my wife, who had right of way, hadn't cleared the roundabout.
I'm really not sure what I think. On the one hand the accident would likely have been much worse if it happened at a set of traffic lights as it would have happened at higher speed. On the other hand my wife would likely have cleared the intersection more quickly and the accident may not have occurred.
One thing I do know. Streets that have one roundabout after another are not pleasant to drive on, especially when busy. The potential is much higher for accidents because timing your entrance is difficult. Too hesitant and you'll never get through and people get angry. Too eager and you will get hit. I get the feeling roundabouts are not so much about safety as cost cutting. Traffic lights don't put that pressure on each and every driver. It doesn't need to be you who makes the mistake to suffer.
No it wouldn't. Energy density by volume of liquid hydrogen is 1/3 that of gasoline. So unless you're willing to carry around 3 times teh amount of fuel, I don't think you're getting the same range. And even then, do you really think it is reasonable for every car to carry 40 gallons of liquid hydrogen around with them? I don't.
Why compress it. it's lighter than air. You could have floating cars. The question is does "BMW Hindenberg" or "Toyota Hindenberg" have a better ring to it?
I've never seen a pun so logical with the problem like this.
You would have preferred "Failure to lunch"?
They were trying to prove that there are in fact creatures that are stupider, lazier, dirtier, more opportunistic and definitely willing to strike when a man is down than police.
Can VirtualBox be forked like OpenOffice?
No, not all of the source is open. At least last time I checked they kept the code for USB emulation as an incentive to buy a non-free license if you wanted the source - that code is not included in the open source version that you can build from scratch. That makes no sense to me and never did. Someone with a more detailed appreciation might answer more fully. Personally I think it's to prevent an easy fork.
Ahh, the common excuse given for whenever Mozilla fucks someone over.
Also, your point doesn't really hold - I have invested time and money in plugin development, and many of the plugins I use myself haven't don't work elsewhere.
Developers are always being screwed over. End users invested very little. I think they've lost the plot at Mozilla. Version 2 was probably the pinnacle. They lost me with Awfulbar.
He writes: "While I use Facebook and other sites, I always keep local copies of photos or anything else that I share."
OK, human stupidity is boundless, so I'm sure there's someone out there who uploads all their photos to Facebook and then deletes the local copies... but seriously, anyone that stupid is not going to make it three-quarters of the way through that article to read Mr Brockmeier's sage advice.
The more likely scenario is that they keep 1 local copy and the hard drive then dies. Or accidentally erase (or lose or have stolen) files on their camera they uploaded directly from the card without locally copying.
I know a lot of people that dump their cameras very rarely. I would not call them wise to do so, but they aren't all stupid people. They just don't care or don't realize they care until they get bitten because they're not use to managing data. Me? I keep multiple local copies and off site copies at my mother's and in-laws.
2048x2048 is the max size. That's ordinarily plenty for me, but I agree, this is just a place to show them off and NOT where one should keep their originals.
That's 4MP. You'd be hard pressed to find a camera that by default produces such small files (...well maybe on some lower end phones, or kids cameras). So unless you shoot in crap quality to save space on your cards and hard disks, storing originals is not even an option.
Hmmm, hadn't Mark Zuckerberg used KDE in The Social Network?
You do realize that film is not a documentary. There was a lot of artistic license.
Because they can. Now go back to tending crop in Farmvile, Peon.
I suggest you don't pee-on the crops you're tending. Especially in the electronic world. You may be electrocuted.
Picasa crashes too much. Latest version squashes my Nikon RAW (NEF) files when formatting. Recently I lost all my face recognition data when a Picasa upgrade decided, without allowing any other option, that it needed to be deleted. Also Google is as evil as any other company.
Other than that the rest of your rant is valid. I don't see why you were modded down.
I am sure the Faceborg have the best interests of the public in mind. Those nasty open source free applications can spread like wildfire, and then we are all communists.
Please! Don't insult the Borg. The correct parody of the name is "Faceplant". Everyone knows that!