I can't decide who is dumber: the submitter, or the Slashdrone who accepted this story.
"Rich people don't like to go slow."
What? Says who? Since when? And others do? Data to support this claim?
No, instead, the submitter prefers to a) make a faulty and ludicrous assumption; b) pose a question that follows from the faulty premise, backed by flawed logic; c) proceeds to answer own question with wild assumptions. Fuck the submitter, fuck "Soulskill", and fuck Slate.
So... in the past two thousand years, there has been a large amount of large wars between large states. But because there have been none in the last 60 years, a *whopping* three percent of that 2000-year period, we can congratulate ourselves on stopping war, all thanks to nukes? How about if we revisit this argument in another 2000 years? Maybe then I'll buy it.
So what? The idiots got what they deserved. Anybody who thinks this is a good idea is a complete moron. "Gee, store all of my data at a remote location where any of a half-dozen places having an outage can keep me from my business? Where do I sign?"
Oh, the guy in the article beta-tested for nine months. Surely, if is doesn't go down in nine months, it'll be up forever without a hitch!
While the 'complainer' wasn't the most diplomatic person in the world, it looked to me like he could possibly have been raising some valid points. The submitter certainly engaged in back-and-forth, mostly civil academic debate. I certainly saw no bullying. If the submitter's time was wasted, he encouraged it.
To come and whine to Slashdot about 'bullying' is pretty ludicrous, or just obvious traffic-whoring.
"The Rolling Stones", "Citizen of the Galaxy", "Have Spacesuit - Will Travel", "Farmer in the Sky", "Tunnel in the Sky", "Red Planet".
I'd even recommend them in roughly that order.
I've not read these in many years, but they are what got me into SF, with a vengence for a spell. Say what you will about the man, his JuvFic was wonderful, escapist stuff. I hope they hold up well with a modern reading, because I'm really starting to get a jones to re-read these classics.
But it is mostly accurate, and the movie throws you just enough softballs for you to impress your movie-mates as well as the patrons two rows in front and back of you.
Sweet. You've just outed yourself as one of those jackholes that feels the incessant need to comment on the authenticitty of scenes in movies, in a theater, in a mannor that other patrons can here.
Because everybody *loves* your witty banter during the movie. And when you text your friends about something that just happend? Major lulz and whatnot; nice. And the mouth-breathing? Classy.
Sad that I need to do this: . If I wanted MST3K, I'd frakkin' watch MST3K. Shut up the theater. Don't text your friends. Don't try and impress patrons two rows back with your geekosity. Go blow your nose.
You know, as someone who's been building systems since I was 10, I feel a need to respond to you assertion that Dell systems "are not very good computers" and ask: by what criteria? They've got wonderfully easy-to-work-with toolfree chasis, decent quality parts (including PSU, an area where so many are lacking), the systems are customizable to a limited degree at purchase, pretty upgradble after the purchase (depending on what line), and they are rock-solid in terms of reliability, especially the workstations. Truth be told, I stopped building systems 5 years ago, and have reccommended purely Dell systems to friends/family/clients since then. I've had too few problems to mention.
Can you build a faster system better suited to high-end gaming/video production/audio editing yourself? Absolutely. But then, you're also on your own for figuring out which of the parts you just ordered is the bad one (RAM? CPU? MBoard? PSU?) and then getting a replacement.
Don't get me wrong; I'm a clone diehard, but I just don't have the time for building systems anymore, especially when someone else can do it for me, and fairly well.
So again, I ask: what about Dell makes them "not very good computers"? I can see "not the best" and "not speed demons" but "not very good" makes you sound like you've not touched a Dell since 1992; for most people doing most things computers are used for, I think they're great. And have a great price tag to boot.
I hate SPAM, but what kind of idiot tries to represent himself in court? If he'd just play their little game and hire a lawyer, things would probably go much better for him.
Is this right? No. But it's the system. If you want to win, you have to play by their rules.
Look, I don't love Vista. I've actually decided they'll have to drag my dead body to a system running Vista before I touch it; nor do I have any love for Mister Softie.
But his claim of data loss is completely unsupported by even anecdotal evidence. He says the 'stability issues' (two allegedly spontaneous reboots) caused 'loss of data' but doesn't provide (that I saw) any clue as to what is was he was doing. Was 'lost data' a lost Quake match? Was he working in Word? If the latter, I doubt his claims; I think autorecovery would handle that kind of situation. Furthermore, his very claim of unprompted reboots strikes me as suspicious. If it were simply recycling (ala a reset switch), I could buy it, but he claims that the system "went into shutdown mode" without giving him the chance to save his data; I understand this to mean that it was as if the 'Reboot' action were invoked. This seems unlikely to me. Perhaps the auto-updating he mentioned got something that required a reboot, and he simply was too quick on the trigger, hitting 'yes' to a reboot prompt. Perhaps it really did reboot of its own accord and - as a result - lost him some of that thar' data stuff; it is not my intention to cast aspersions on the character of the reviewer. But by leaving out some rather crucial bits of info, he opens himself up to credibility attacks.
His claims of this happening on both systems could also be explained by possible use of his USB key. He says he lost data: if I were actually working on something (data) and all my 'stuff' was on a USB key (he says this was the case), I'd probably have it plugged into the system I was working on. Maybe it's bad; maybe doing certain things cause the USB subsystem to freak out; maybe it takes the system down with it. Maybe it had an accident and sleeps with the fishes. Uh... what were we talking about?
It's different because it's current; KnoppMyth is typically a few versions behind (I think they're still on Mythtv 0.17). It's not totally unique, just different, newer and it doesn't use Knoppix.
Jackass. There's more to a good story than the production value. So what if it's not glossy and HD and state-of-the-art? So what if Brad and Angelina aren't in it? Does that really make it less good? Perhaps to the mainstream. And idiots like you who just want pretty shit to look at while they drool in their recliner.
Personally, I'll take a poorly-lit set with grainy footage and a top-notch story and universe over perfectly produced crap any day.
How many people can really accept that their life is a meaningless collision of particles?
And a question back at you: why is it so hard for some people to accept that life might be meaningless collision of particles? So? Does that make me less alive? Why would someone feel they need a purpose? Isn't living, loving, and doing right by others enough?
A question, though - why exactly is this in the YRO section?
An answer - the BSA has a habit of conducting warrantless searches executed based on the accusations of a single (quite possibly maligned) former employee, an activity usually carried out by an actual law-enforcement agency, and (for now) under the direction/permission of a judge (at least here in the USA (and yes, I know THIS TIME the company was in England)).
I'd suggest that most anybody proffering a dead-on answer to your ill-conceived question is unprofessional, uneducated, inexperienced, and/or limited in their skill set. This is not a question that can be answered without knowing many specifics which you are probably unwilling to supply. To wit:
-You *claim* this is a 'large' project, but would you really know a large project if you saw it? Can a 10-man (person) shop (presumably not all coders) really handle a *large* project? What criteria are you using to define large? -Do you already HAVE a set of tools/libraries/etc that would be helpful in one platform or another? Is the platform you are contemplating moving TO a non-free one? Because that's more overhead if not. -Other specifics are needed. Client-side only? Client/server? Web-based? Any specific hardware that needs supported? Who's the end user? Are real-time capabilities needed? Is this a mission-critical system? What's the logical/physical (if applicable) architecture look like?
This is the short list.
Look , I'll be blunt: you obviously don't know enough about what you're doing to actually put forth the info required to deliver you the answers you seek (but, to be fair, you could not possibly do so in a forum such as this (so why try?), even if your employer did approve of postring so much info about your product), so perhaps you should either let someone more capable than you speak up, or put forth some compelling reasons FOR a different platform instead of reasons AGAINST something. That, or listen to the boss who has managed to build a successful business - no easy task.
VAIO Desktops were crap, and as long as Sony insists on peddling proprietary crap (a frickin' 'MemoryStick' slot? Get over yourselves and slap an SD slot in there, you farging bastages) I won't waste my time finding out about the notebooks.
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I can't decide who is dumber: the submitter, or the Slashdrone who accepted this story.
"Rich people don't like to go slow."
What? Says who? Since when? And others do? Data to support this claim?
No, instead, the submitter prefers to a) make a faulty and ludicrous assumption; b) pose a question that follows from the faulty premise, backed by flawed logic; c) proceeds to answer own question with wild assumptions. Fuck the submitter, fuck "Soulskill", and fuck Slate.
So... in the past two thousand years, there has been a large amount of large wars between large states. But because there have been none in the last 60 years, a *whopping* three percent of that 2000-year period, we can congratulate ourselves on stopping war, all thanks to nukes? How about if we revisit this argument in another 2000 years? Maybe then I'll buy it.
Boy am I dumb! It's obviously been far too long since I hung out here.
It's so strange that about the only posts one sees here anymore are from users with ID#s in the 40,xxx,xxx block.
So what? The idiots got what they deserved. Anybody who thinks this is a good idea is a complete moron. "Gee, store all of my data at a remote location where any of a half-dozen places having an outage can keep me from my business? Where do I sign?"
Oh, the guy in the article beta-tested for nine months. Surely, if is doesn't go down in nine months, it'll be up forever without a hitch!
While the 'complainer' wasn't the most diplomatic person in the world, it looked to me like he could possibly have been raising some valid points. The submitter certainly engaged in back-and-forth, mostly civil academic debate. I certainly saw no bullying. If the submitter's time was wasted, he encouraged it.
To come and whine to Slashdot about 'bullying' is pretty ludicrous, or just obvious traffic-whoring.
Only if the consumer uses this much. If they only maintain a 1MB spreadsheet they can easily back that up to floppies
Yeah, like PCs still come with floppies.
"The Rolling Stones", "Citizen of the Galaxy", "Have Spacesuit - Will Travel", "Farmer in the Sky", "Tunnel in the Sky", "Red Planet".
I'd even recommend them in roughly that order.
I've not read these in many years, but they are what got me into SF, with a vengence for a spell. Say what you will about the man, his JuvFic was wonderful, escapist stuff. I hope they hold up well with a modern reading, because I'm really starting to get a jones to re-read these classics.
What, you skipped the first three paragraphs, where they talk about revealing "...show secrets and anecdotes..."? Moron.
The poster to that LUG list never claimed it was the content of the message that they were filtering. This is just stupid.
I can't believe I just said "...patrons can here...", but I did; apologies to those with delicate sensibilities: I clearly meant 'hear'.
But it is mostly accurate, and the movie throws you just enough softballs for you to impress your movie-mates as well as the patrons two rows in front and back of you.
Sweet. You've just outed yourself as one of those jackholes that feels the incessant need to comment on the authenticitty of scenes in movies, in a theater, in a mannor that other patrons can here.
Because everybody *loves* your witty banter during the movie. And when you text your friends about something that just happend? Major lulz and whatnot; nice. And the mouth-breathing? Classy.
Sad that I need to do this: . If I wanted MST3K, I'd frakkin' watch MST3K. Shut up the theater. Don't text your friends. Don't try and impress patrons two rows back with your geekosity. Go blow your nose.
You know, as someone who's been building systems since I was 10, I feel a need to respond to you assertion that Dell systems "are not very good computers" and ask: by what criteria? They've got wonderfully easy-to-work-with toolfree chasis, decent quality parts (including PSU, an area where so many are lacking), the systems are customizable to a limited degree at purchase, pretty upgradble after the purchase (depending on what line), and they are rock-solid in terms of reliability, especially the workstations. Truth be told, I stopped building systems 5 years ago, and have reccommended purely Dell systems to friends/family/clients since then. I've had too few problems to mention.
Can you build a faster system better suited to high-end gaming/video production/audio editing yourself? Absolutely. But then, you're also on your own for figuring out which of the parts you just ordered is the bad one (RAM? CPU? MBoard? PSU?) and then getting a replacement.
Don't get me wrong; I'm a clone diehard, but I just don't have the time for building systems anymore, especially when someone else can do it for me, and fairly well.
So again, I ask: what about Dell makes them "not very good computers"? I can see "not the best" and "not speed demons" but "not very good" makes you sound like you've not touched a Dell since 1992; for most people doing most things computers are used for, I think they're great. And have a great price tag to boot.
Move on, kiddo.
I hate SPAM, but what kind of idiot tries to represent himself in court? If he'd just play their little game and hire a lawyer, things would probably go much better for him.
Is this right? No. But it's the system. If you want to win, you have to play by their rules.
Look, I don't love Vista. I've actually decided they'll have to drag my dead body to a system running Vista before I touch it; nor do I have any love for Mister Softie.
But his claim of data loss is completely unsupported by even anecdotal evidence. He says the 'stability issues' (two allegedly spontaneous reboots) caused 'loss of data' but doesn't provide (that I saw) any clue as to what is was he was doing. Was 'lost data' a lost Quake match? Was he working in Word? If the latter, I doubt his claims; I think autorecovery would handle that kind of situation. Furthermore, his very claim of unprompted reboots strikes me as suspicious. If it were simply recycling (ala a reset switch), I could buy it, but he claims that the system "went into shutdown mode" without giving him the chance to save his data; I understand this to mean that it was as if the 'Reboot' action were invoked. This seems unlikely to me. Perhaps the auto-updating he mentioned got something that required a reboot, and he simply was too quick on the trigger, hitting 'yes' to a reboot prompt. Perhaps it really did reboot of its own accord and - as a result - lost him some of that thar' data stuff; it is not my intention to cast aspersions on the character of the reviewer. But by leaving out some rather crucial bits of info, he opens himself up to credibility attacks.
His claims of this happening on both systems could also be explained by possible use of his USB key. He says he lost data: if I were actually working on something (data) and all my 'stuff' was on a USB key (he says this was the case), I'd probably have it plugged into the system I was working on. Maybe it's bad; maybe doing certain things cause the USB subsystem to freak out; maybe it takes the system down with it. Maybe it had an accident and sleeps with the fishes. Uh... what were we talking about?
It's different because it's current; KnoppMyth is typically a few versions behind (I think they're still on Mythtv 0.17). It's not totally unique, just different, newer and it doesn't use Knoppix.
So you decide to link to him? Nice!
"stories with much higher production values"?
Jackass. There's more to a good story than the production value. So what if it's not glossy and HD and state-of-the-art? So what if Brad and Angelina aren't in it? Does that really make it less good? Perhaps to the mainstream. And idiots like you who just want pretty shit to look at while they drool in their recliner.
Personally, I'll take a poorly-lit set with grainy footage and a top-notch story and universe over perfectly produced crap any day.
Podcasting is a term used by retards who think they invented something new.
While I'm not enamored of your use of 'retard' as a pejorative, I agree with your sentiment 100% and would like to add 'blog' to that list, please.
How many people can really accept that their life is a meaningless collision of particles?
And a question back at you: why is it so hard for some people to accept that life might be meaningless collision of particles? So? Does that make me less alive? Why would someone feel they need a purpose? Isn't living, loving, and doing right by others enough?
A question, though - why exactly is this in the YRO section?
An answer - the BSA has a habit of conducting warrantless searches executed based on the accusations of a single (quite possibly maligned) former employee, an activity usually carried out by an actual law-enforcement agency, and (for now) under the direction/permission of a judge (at least here in the USA (and yes, I know THIS TIME the company was in England)).
I had my car CD player stolen a couple of years ago, but you don't see me bitching about it on Slashdot (oops, now you do).
That's because your CD player didn't start sending you pictures of the thieves. If it had, it would have been news.
I'd suggest that most anybody proffering a dead-on answer to your ill-conceived question is unprofessional, uneducated, inexperienced, and/or limited in their skill set. This is not a question that can be answered without knowing many specifics which you are probably unwilling to supply. To wit:
-You *claim* this is a 'large' project, but would you really know a large project if you saw it? Can a 10-man (person) shop (presumably not all coders) really handle a *large* project? What criteria are you using to define large?
-Do you already HAVE a set of tools/libraries/etc that would be helpful in one platform or another? Is the platform you are contemplating moving TO a non-free one? Because that's more overhead if not.
-Other specifics are needed. Client-side only? Client/server? Web-based? Any specific hardware that needs supported? Who's the end user? Are real-time capabilities needed? Is this a mission-critical system? What's the logical/physical (if applicable) architecture look like?
This is the short list.
Look , I'll be blunt: you obviously don't know enough about what you're doing to actually put forth the info required to deliver you the answers you seek (but, to be fair, you could not possibly do so in a forum such as this (so why try?), even if your employer did approve of postring so much info about your product), so perhaps you should either let someone more capable than you speak up, or put forth some compelling reasons FOR a different platform instead of reasons AGAINST something. That, or listen to the boss who has managed to build a successful business - no easy task.
VAIO Desktops were crap, and as long as Sony insists on peddling proprietary crap (a frickin' 'MemoryStick' slot? Get over yourselves and slap an SD slot in there, you farging bastages) I won't waste my time finding out about the notebooks.
Don't you see the handwritting on the walls.
Most people use a thing called a "question mark" to denote the end of a question.
It looks like this: ?