I own a Sony Network Walkman HD-5 and it plays MP3 just fine, thank you.
Isn't that pretty much the only one they have that plays non-ATRAC files? Didn't they release it only after having their asses handed to them with widespread criticisms over the inability of their players to actually work with common MP3 files? You're shading the truth worse than the person you're responding to. Sony is a shit company, and your need to justify your mistake in purchasing their garbage is sad.
Right (or control)-click on the.pkg file and choose 'Show Package Contents' from the contextual menu.
And? If you wanted to offer semi-useful advice you would have at least mentioned something like Pacifist. You're welcome to instead run down all the step required to manually get around the developer's stupidity in using a.pkg, but that doesn't fix the problem. Why should I have to jump through these hoops when I simply want to play a bloody video? Does the developer further expect me to pay for these hassles when it's much easier to drag the offending.wmv file to the trash? As with.swf, I find I can live nicely without file formats that like to jerk me around. As I said, there must be something about involving Windows that just makes everything so mind-numbingly senseless.
Maybe its a codec that wants to be availible to all users instead of just one.
Who are they to tell me what I must make available to all users? More importantly, I may not be the fucking administrator in the first place!
Or maybe it's the copy protection.
You pull that kind of shit on Windows, not on the Mac. Is there something about the W in WMV that forces gross stupidity on developers and users alike?
Drag the codec into the ~/Library/Quicktime/ folder
I can't, because they stuck it all inside a.pkg file. If they really wanted my business, they would have at least made the installation relocatable.
Try WMV Player if you want an alternative to WMP on OS X. It lets Quicktime Player play any WMV file. It's not Open Source. It's not free. But it actually works better than WMP on a Mac.
And yet it commits the same sin: requiring Administrator installation. There doesn't seem to be a single WMV option (other than the limited VLC support) that doesn't want root on my computer. When will these people learn that it's just supposed to be a bloody video codec, not a way to potentially compromise every machine it touches?
Stranger still is the fact that some bands STILL refuse to (or their labels prohibit them from) posting all their CDs on iTMS. I'm looking at you, Dave Matthews Band.
I'm looking at Linkin Park (and others) for the same reason. My solution is to buy the CD used. I mean, I want to reward the artist, but when it seems their concern is about the legality of a certain kind of distribution, they get nothing. Bands take note: you can either get a share of the album's $9.99 from iTMS or zero of the $7.95 I pay for a used CD. Wise up.
What's the deal with that? Do they intentionally want to lower their sales figures? Or do they still operate in the theoretical haze of "profit margins" for sales that don't exist (iTMS) vs. sales that might exist otherwise (Best Buy, Tower)?
I really don't understand it, either. I wish the artists would come out and say directly why fans can't get the music they know and love. One of the worst PR mistakes in that regard was by Prince. If he had just told the story of how the label was fucking him over, we'd all have been more receptive. Instead he came off sounding pretentious by going by a symbol and asking to be "The Artist".
I really don't see how you got modded up, since you seem to working with a world view that is fuzzy and warm and has absolutely no connection with how the labels work.
Shouldn't B-sides actually be cheaper than the hits?
Maybe. Since supply is effectively infinite, it may also be that the hits should be cheaper. And who is to decide what is a B-side these days? You think a record exec is really going to walk away from money should something initially considered B hits big?
New material more expensive than oldies?
Makes sense to me, but probably not the RIAA. After all, why sell the Beatles for less when the retiring boomers have all sorts of cash to spend on "golden oldies". You think a record exec is really going to walk away from money just because they already made a ton of money on it years ago?
People have been justifiably complaining for years of having to buy whole albums just to get one or two songs they want, and now they don't have to.
And the iTMS already gave them that, and at a known, fixed cost. There is a good deal of comfort with me knowing that any song I hear on the radio I can pop over an buy for a buck. Music execs seem to want to take that away from me, and then I'll have to go and see they want $1.59 or $1.99 and they've forced a decision point on me: is having this one song really worth double what other songs are?
You're also ignoring the reality that today you can get those "one or two songs" for a buck each. I will wager large sums of money that, if variable pricing catches on, you're going to see the hits priced at 80-90% of the whole album cost. So you're just going to say "I guess I'll just pop the dime each for all the other songs to get the whole album." Variable pricing in future reality effectively means an end to buying the singles you like.
Since you've not shown anything that indicates I don't understand what you've written, I'd say it's quite a bit better than yours. Just because I can refute your facts doesn't mean I don't comprehend them. If anything, it means I understand the issues far better than you.
Why do my personal feelings on the issue of evolution matter?
Where did I ever give an indication that your personal feelings mattered to me? No, I instead pointed to a system of sub-standard education, of which you apparently are a victim. That you don't see this only speaks to how badly Kansas has screwed you over.
You have no idea who I am, or how old I am.
It works out to two choices:
I think you're older than me and yet somehow unable to grasp simple logic as I do, making you stupid and forcing me to think ill of you.
I think you're younger than me and merely ignorant, giving you time to see the error in your thinking.
So I gave you the benefit of the doubt. Indeed, you are younger than me, but even at your age I was using my brain far more than you seem to be.
I have no idea how it happened, but ID seems just as plausible as evolution in my eyes.
How it happened is that you received a sub-standard education from the State of Kansas.
So the people in my school that are living on campus or around this area from other states, you are going to write them off too?
Yes. I said as much. Please tell them on the off chance they're smart enough to transfer to another State, or at least smart enough to sue the State of Kansas for misrepresenting the value of their degree.
Because of six people in Kansas, you are going to write off any education from here?
Again, you're having reading comprehension issues. As I have repeatedly stated, it is because of the pattern of brazen science mis-education. The few you point to are representatives of the people of Kansas. That they exist at all and have been given power in your State is why I am comfortable writing you off.
Because both of my diplomas say Kansas, none of my academic achievements, my internship, or my work experience will matter to you. In labor econ we never learned that screening technique.
Why would you expect a Kansas education to point out how worthless a Kansas education is? You've been scammed, son! That would be mostly forgivable, but you keep on defending those who did this to you. You're seeming more and more like a lost cause.
I will have to talk to my prof and see if we can get that added to textbooks.
Well, it's no more crazy than adding Intelligent Design!
What grammar teacher taught you that saying "mere a mere" is proper English?
Oh, look, you've caught a typo! Well that certainly undermines everything I've said! No doubt that was part of your debate education in Kansas.
Regardless of fact, you will continue on your path of bigotry against Kansans? I see you had nothing to say about my other facts. Please ignore them because they don't fit in with your theory that Kansans are not well-educated people who live in a state with a thriving tech sector. Please. For me?
Done! Of course, you need to keep in mind that a thriving tech sector is an affront to the foundation of Intelligent Design. After all, if God is the designer, then all human engineering is hubris. Do you really think you can do design better than God Himself? You'll burn in Hell for your arrogance!
The only one short of facts here is you. That I dismiss you based on that is not bigotry or prejudice, rather it is rational thought. You need to open your eyes and get the fuck out of Kansas before it is too late, but I've got a funny feeling it is already too late for you.
I was attempting neither humor nor sarcasm. I guess that answers my questions on your reading comprehension. Is your mother really a teacher?
If this theory is so great and ID so weak and lame, won't the comparison of the two make evolution's position stronger, not weaker?
Kid, you're just not getting it. ID is not science! Putting anything that is not science in the science classroom makes about as much sense as forcing churches to teach evolution in Sunday school.
Tell me what control the Kansas State Board of Education has over the state's colleges? What? Zero?
As I have stated, it is now beyond isolated instances and has gotten to the level in Kansas of a community problem. When you talk about "preached evolution" you demonstrate that, indeed, it has gone beyond mere a mere political issue and is a wide-sweeping people problem. It's like everything you write reaffirms my decision to write off a Kansas education.
Sub-standard? Kansas is ranked 13th in education.
So? A number is not a standard. It would be quite possible for all 50 States to be offering a sub-standard education. Regardless, I am ranking Kansas last, and you can thank your representatives for that, although your own words here don't help your case one bit. You would have been better off remaining silent.
Ok... You sir should not be in management or in any way involved in the HR process.
And yet I am, as are millions of other people who are not from Kansas.
You are going to shuffle resumes from Kansas to the bottom of the pile because of this?
I said as much. Is reading comprehension in Kansas as bad as their science curriculum?
For one thing, this decision just happened yesterday. I know for a fact they did not burn the old textbooks yet, my mother is a Kansas school teacher.:)
Good, then you know this did not just happen yesterday, but has in fact become an ugly pattern with Kansas over the last few years. I don't have time to sort out which batches of kids are and aren't being screwed over in that State. Your community needs to understand that science is not going away.
In any case, how does this make a four year degree from Kansas U, K-State, Washburn, Wichita State, or any of the other fine colleges in this state worthless? This will not change how people learn at college.
It will. It has, and that you do not see it means it has clearly affected your learning abilities. The degree is worthless because the State brazenly fails to meet a necessary standard of science education, and who knows how many other areas it fails you as well. If you think that's OK, then it is you who should not be in management or in any way involved in the HR process.
Your fine theory of evolution is still being preached by all of my science professors.
It is not my theory, it is a scientific theory. It is not "preached", and it is not particularly "fine". What it is is science and as such belongs in a science curriculum, and other things do not. You have misplaced your outrage. It is not my actions that should be upsetting you, it is the actions of your own community that need to corrected.
So will you discriminate against people who graduated from Kansas high schools after the class of 2006, people who graudated from college in Kansas (who may not have graduated from a KS high school), or are you so bigoted that anytime you see the word Kansas on a person's resume you will automatically disqualify them?
Yes, pretty much. As I said, I don't have the time to figure out who has and hasn't been tainted by your sub-standard educational system, and by how much.
That IMHO is way worse than some school board's decision that will probably be overturned.
Yes, it is! That's the whole point! There are permanent damages that result in your State's dismissive attitude towards science. It has gone back and forth so much that it has become clear to me that your representatives don't know up from down. Why should you get credit for being right next year if you're just going to get it all wrong again in 3 years?
As a proud University of Kansas Jayhawk Alumni (1992 Bachelor of Science Computer Science) I have a perspective on this - Not all of Kansas is this conservative.
Maybe, but those of us on the outside don't have the time to sort out which parts of your State are less fucked up than the others. Your degree has lost a lot of clout because of this; I know I'm certainly going to shuffle resumes listing Kansas to the bottom of the pile. How can you be "proud" that they've done this to you? Instead you should be up in arms, bringing suit against the State, the Board, and its members for doing this. Instead of trying to convince everyone it doesn't stink so bad, just start cleaning up your own backyard.
For Yahoo's sake, it better not be. Who would the joke be on, after all, but their own developers. "Hey, guys, know all that hard work you've been putting in? Ha ha! It's still a piece of shit compared to Gmail. You're lucky we don't fire your asses. Ha ha ha ha ha!" No, this sort of thing is best considered to be something that makes Yahoo a laughing stock externally rather than something intended to offend internally.
The Extreme Gravity series happened the first week in September.
Expecting Slashdot editors to clear out the submission queue within a week is like expecting Slashdot editors to edit. They're more like the TV weather goons, regurgitating with insincere authority what they're fed by the Nation Weather Service and still managing to get it wrong 90% of the time.
But if one of you could put in a word for me, I'd love to be a Slashdot Editor. Slashdot Editing opens doors! I mean, I was a bit on edge just now, but if I was an Editor I'd just sit at the back and not get in anyone's way! . . . I've got a second-hand apron . . .
The bad math is yours. You posted a tally of value, not cost. With a 2B/year allotment, the cost works out to an average of 100k/developer. If the value of their work is considered 60 times the cost, I say that's money well spent.
This will of course be moderated as -1 Flamebait: disturbing Slashdot reality distortion field subclause 37 - everything should always be free, and subclause 17 - people that don't get paid love taking my support calls.
Guess what I do in meta-moderation to anyone who mods up those who ask to be modded down.
Seriously, why would you care what anyone else runs on their desktop? Without commercial vendor support at this stage, Linux is not a mainstream contender. Open source has all it needs to be mainstream: Mac OS X. Tons of open source components sitting alongside commercial offerings, with users having very little tolerance for shoddy craftsmanship. Trying to get Windows users to jump to Linux just to reuse bloody *hardware* is stupid. Shove them over to Mac OS X instead and *then* maybe you'll be able to convince them that 100% free Unix-y goodness is a worthwhile move.
I currently have PostgeSQL running on my Tiger box. I initially installed it just to experiment with SQL and database normalization, but now I keep my comic book inventory on it. (I know that this is like swatting a fly with a nuclear weapon but I enjoy using PostgreSQL and it is FREE software.)
SQLite goes one better and is public domain software. It comes with Tiger, too, which makes it a great tool if you don't need an actual server for your SQL play.
Infinite stock of even the most popular titles. No return rentals. Limited not by time, but by space on the iPod. Easy point-of-sale distribution, either wandering a store full of docks or with a central kiosk. They better do it quick before Apple beats them to it online. It goes without saying that Bill Gates has already been left in the dust on this.:-)
It really sounds like you're trying to use publishing where it isn't appropriate. If anyone can edit a particular calendar, it isn't really "someone else's". The only type of server I see a need to involve is a file server, and you'd simply use whatever calendaring application you prefer to edit the files directly. As a bonus, standard file-based permission can be used to restrict access to the group of people who can edit them. Everything else you're talking about seems to be overkill for a small business.
Next they should try it with LS-120 drives. They never really caught on, so there should be plenty of spare hardware around. Then move to 200MB and 750MB Zip Drives.
It seems the market for mobile gaming is about the same (virtually zero) as the market for mobile video. Gaming is worse, too, in that it sucks up more of your attention than would passively viewing video. Yeah, you'll get a few anti-social kids and gadget hounds, but what's really the point of getting out into the world if you're only going to stuff your eyes and ears right back into the technology? You'd be better off developing for the Mac as a second platform than most any mobile device.
is when will Apple 'officially' update the mini? I am ready to buy the top model, but when I heard this I thought "well, hell, I'm not going to order now and risk getting the lower spec'd model."
It's interesting that everyone seems to think this is about clearing out 1.42GHz inventory, because an upgrade to 1.5GHz just doesn't seem to be big enough for Apple to bother with (and it sounds pretty stupid for you to put off a purchase of their "top model" low-end machine for the sake of 80MHz). Instead, I say they're clearing out some 1.5GHz chips that didn't meet the spec for the actual bump the mini will get. So probably at least 1.67GHz like the PowerBook, and maybe they'll bump that to 1.8GHz or just standardize on 1.67GHz across the line on all their G4 models.
I saw this a few days ago. It sure seems like it'd be a lot of fun to play, but as a Mac user I'll never know. Back to UT2004 vehicle maps, I guess. "Road Rage!"
But that's still pretty far from stuff like "wireless monitor" - try playing a FPS game or watching a movie on it and it sucks.
As opposed to playing/watching them on a cell phone or PDA? I think you've forgotten the context of the discussion already.
Using "wireless monitor" anywhere in the product description would have competition and press maul it to death for "how bad a monitor it is". So - I agree on the issue, but watch your wording.
Oh, please! If you care more about the wording of the abstract idea than the idea itself, you should have kept off Slashdot. I don't care if it is called "wireless monitor" or "remote desktop" or bloody "thin client". This whole discussion is about the general concept of a light-weight device that easily connects to something more beefy, and it is an idea that goes all the way back to the days of mainframes and terminals. I just want an easy way to carry my workspace into a business meeting, or a recipe into the kitchen, or Slashdot into the bathroom. I just want to give the wife or the kids access to the computer without tying it up; that they might not easily play games or watch movies could actually be a bonus! It should all be doable with today's technology for less money than a full-on portable/tablet trying to fit the same role. I'll wait to worry about the press, the competition, and my wording until such a unit actually does exist!
Slashdot Mirror
I own a Sony Network Walkman HD-5 and it plays MP3 just fine, thank you.
Isn't that pretty much the only one they have that plays non-ATRAC files? Didn't they release it only after having their asses handed to them with widespread criticisms over the inability of their players to actually work with common MP3 files? You're shading the truth worse than the person you're responding to. Sony is a shit company, and your need to justify your mistake in purchasing their garbage is sad.
Right (or control)-click on the .pkg file and choose 'Show Package Contents' from the contextual menu.
And? If you wanted to offer semi-useful advice you would have at least mentioned something like Pacifist. You're welcome to instead run down all the step required to manually get around the developer's stupidity in using a .pkg, but that doesn't fix the problem. Why should I have to jump through these hoops when I simply want to play a bloody video? Does the developer further expect me to pay for these hassles when it's much easier to drag the offending .wmv file to the trash? As with .swf, I find I can live nicely without file formats that like to jerk me around. As I said, there must be something about involving Windows that just makes everything so mind-numbingly senseless.
Maybe its a codec that wants to be availible to all users instead of just one.
Who are they to tell me what I must make available to all users? More importantly, I may not be the fucking administrator in the first place!
Or maybe it's the copy protection.
You pull that kind of shit on Windows, not on the Mac. Is there something about the W in WMV that forces gross stupidity on developers and users alike?
Drag the codec into the ~/Library/Quicktime/ folder
I can't, because they stuck it all inside a .pkg file. If they really wanted my business, they would have at least made the installation relocatable.
Try WMV Player if you want an alternative to WMP on OS X. It lets Quicktime Player play any WMV file. It's not Open Source. It's not free. But it actually works better than WMP on a Mac.
And yet it commits the same sin: requiring Administrator installation. There doesn't seem to be a single WMV option (other than the limited VLC support) that doesn't want root on my computer. When will these people learn that it's just supposed to be a bloody video codec, not a way to potentially compromise every machine it touches?
Stranger still is the fact that some bands STILL refuse to (or their labels prohibit them from) posting all their CDs on iTMS. I'm looking at you, Dave Matthews Band.
I'm looking at Linkin Park (and others) for the same reason. My solution is to buy the CD used. I mean, I want to reward the artist, but when it seems their concern is about the legality of a certain kind of distribution, they get nothing. Bands take note: you can either get a share of the album's $9.99 from iTMS or zero of the $7.95 I pay for a used CD. Wise up.
What's the deal with that? Do they intentionally want to lower their sales figures? Or do they still operate in the theoretical haze of "profit margins" for sales that don't exist (iTMS) vs. sales that might exist otherwise (Best Buy, Tower)?
I really don't understand it, either. I wish the artists would come out and say directly why fans can't get the music they know and love. One of the worst PR mistakes in that regard was by Prince. If he had just told the story of how the label was fucking him over, we'd all have been more receptive. Instead he came off sounding pretentious by going by a symbol and asking to be "The Artist".
I really don't see how you got modded up, since you seem to working with a world view that is fuzzy and warm and has absolutely no connection with how the labels work.
Shouldn't B-sides actually be cheaper than the hits?
Maybe. Since supply is effectively infinite, it may also be that the hits should be cheaper. And who is to decide what is a B-side these days? You think a record exec is really going to walk away from money should something initially considered B hits big?
New material more expensive than oldies?
Makes sense to me, but probably not the RIAA. After all, why sell the Beatles for less when the retiring boomers have all sorts of cash to spend on "golden oldies". You think a record exec is really going to walk away from money just because they already made a ton of money on it years ago?
People have been justifiably complaining for years of having to buy whole albums just to get one or two songs they want, and now they don't have to.
And the iTMS already gave them that, and at a known, fixed cost. There is a good deal of comfort with me knowing that any song I hear on the radio I can pop over an buy for a buck. Music execs seem to want to take that away from me, and then I'll have to go and see they want $1.59 or $1.99 and they've forced a decision point on me: is having this one song really worth double what other songs are?
You're also ignoring the reality that today you can get those "one or two songs" for a buck each. I will wager large sums of money that, if variable pricing catches on, you're going to see the hits priced at 80-90% of the whole album cost. So you're just going to say "I guess I'll just pop the dime each for all the other songs to get the whole album." Variable pricing in future reality effectively means an end to buying the singles you like.
What about your reading comprehension?
Since you've not shown anything that indicates I don't understand what you've written, I'd say it's quite a bit better than yours. Just because I can refute your facts doesn't mean I don't comprehend them. If anything, it means I understand the issues far better than you.
Why do my personal feelings on the issue of evolution matter?
Where did I ever give an indication that your personal feelings mattered to me? No, I instead pointed to a system of sub-standard education, of which you apparently are a victim. That you don't see this only speaks to how badly Kansas has screwed you over.
You have no idea who I am, or how old I am.
It works out to two choices:
So I gave you the benefit of the doubt. Indeed, you are younger than me, but even at your age I was using my brain far more than you seem to be.
I have no idea how it happened, but ID seems just as plausible as evolution in my eyes.
How it happened is that you received a sub-standard education from the State of Kansas.
So the people in my school that are living on campus or around this area from other states, you are going to write them off too?
Yes. I said as much. Please tell them on the off chance they're smart enough to transfer to another State, or at least smart enough to sue the State of Kansas for misrepresenting the value of their degree.
Because of six people in Kansas, you are going to write off any education from here?
Again, you're having reading comprehension issues. As I have repeatedly stated, it is because of the pattern of brazen science mis-education. The few you point to are representatives of the people of Kansas. That they exist at all and have been given power in your State is why I am comfortable writing you off.
Because both of my diplomas say Kansas, none of my academic achievements, my internship, or my work experience will matter to you. In labor econ we never learned that screening technique.
Why would you expect a Kansas education to point out how worthless a Kansas education is? You've been scammed, son! That would be mostly forgivable, but you keep on defending those who did this to you. You're seeming more and more like a lost cause.
I will have to talk to my prof and see if we can get that added to textbooks.
Well, it's no more crazy than adding Intelligent Design!
What grammar teacher taught you that saying "mere a mere" is proper English?
Oh, look, you've caught a typo! Well that certainly undermines everything I've said! No doubt that was part of your debate education in Kansas.
Regardless of fact, you will continue on your path of bigotry against Kansans? I see you had nothing to say about my other facts. Please ignore them because they don't fit in with your theory that Kansans are not well-educated people who live in a state with a thriving tech sector. Please. For me?
Done! Of course, you need to keep in mind that a thriving tech sector is an affront to the foundation of Intelligent Design. After all, if God is the designer, then all human engineering is hubris. Do you really think you can do design better than God Himself? You'll burn in Hell for your arrogance!
The only one short of facts here is you. That I dismiss you based on that is not bigotry or prejudice, rather it is rational thought. You need to open your eyes and get the fuck out of Kansas before it is too late, but I've got a funny feeling it is already too late for you.
Your attempts are sarcasm are not humorous.
I was attempting neither humor nor sarcasm. I guess that answers my questions on your reading comprehension. Is your mother really a teacher?
If this theory is so great and ID so weak and lame, won't the comparison of the two make evolution's position stronger, not weaker?
Kid, you're just not getting it. ID is not science! Putting anything that is not science in the science classroom makes about as much sense as forcing churches to teach evolution in Sunday school.
Tell me what control the Kansas State Board of Education has over the state's colleges? What? Zero?
As I have stated, it is now beyond isolated instances and has gotten to the level in Kansas of a community problem. When you talk about "preached evolution" you demonstrate that, indeed, it has gone beyond mere a mere political issue and is a wide-sweeping people problem. It's like everything you write reaffirms my decision to write off a Kansas education.
Sub-standard? Kansas is ranked 13th in education.
So? A number is not a standard. It would be quite possible for all 50 States to be offering a sub-standard education. Regardless, I am ranking Kansas last, and you can thank your representatives for that, although your own words here don't help your case one bit. You would have been better off remaining silent.
Ok... You sir should not be in management or in any way involved in the HR process.
And yet I am, as are millions of other people who are not from Kansas.
You are going to shuffle resumes from Kansas to the bottom of the pile because of this?
I said as much. Is reading comprehension in Kansas as bad as their science curriculum?
For one thing, this decision just happened yesterday. I know for a fact they did not burn the old textbooks yet, my mother is a Kansas school teacher. :)
Good, then you know this did not just happen yesterday, but has in fact become an ugly pattern with Kansas over the last few years. I don't have time to sort out which batches of kids are and aren't being screwed over in that State. Your community needs to understand that science is not going away.
In any case, how does this make a four year degree from Kansas U, K-State, Washburn, Wichita State, or any of the other fine colleges in this state worthless? This will not change how people learn at college.
It will. It has, and that you do not see it means it has clearly affected your learning abilities. The degree is worthless because the State brazenly fails to meet a necessary standard of science education, and who knows how many other areas it fails you as well. If you think that's OK, then it is you who should not be in management or in any way involved in the HR process.
Your fine theory of evolution is still being preached by all of my science professors.
It is not my theory, it is a scientific theory. It is not "preached", and it is not particularly "fine". What it is is science and as such belongs in a science curriculum, and other things do not. You have misplaced your outrage. It is not my actions that should be upsetting you, it is the actions of your own community that need to corrected.
So will you discriminate against people who graduated from Kansas high schools after the class of 2006, people who graudated from college in Kansas (who may not have graduated from a KS high school), or are you so bigoted that anytime you see the word Kansas on a person's resume you will automatically disqualify them?
Yes, pretty much. As I said, I don't have the time to figure out who has and hasn't been tainted by your sub-standard educational system, and by how much.
That IMHO is way worse than some school board's decision that will probably be overturned.
Yes, it is! That's the whole point! There are permanent damages that result in your State's dismissive attitude towards science. It has gone back and forth so much that it has become clear to me that your representatives don't know up from down. Why should you get credit for being right next year if you're just going to get it all wrong again in 3 years?
As a proud University of Kansas Jayhawk Alumni (1992 Bachelor of Science Computer Science) I have a perspective on this - Not all of Kansas is this conservative.
Maybe, but those of us on the outside don't have the time to sort out which parts of your State are less fucked up than the others. Your degree has lost a lot of clout because of this; I know I'm certainly going to shuffle resumes listing Kansas to the bottom of the pile. How can you be "proud" that they've done this to you? Instead you should be up in arms, bringing suit against the State, the Board, and its members for doing this. Instead of trying to convince everyone it doesn't stink so bad, just start cleaning up your own backyard.
It's just a harmless gag.
For Yahoo's sake, it better not be. Who would the joke be on, after all, but their own developers. "Hey, guys, know all that hard work you've been putting in? Ha ha! It's still a piece of shit compared to Gmail. You're lucky we don't fire your asses. Ha ha ha ha ha!" No, this sort of thing is best considered to be something that makes Yahoo a laughing stock externally rather than something intended to offend internally.
The Extreme Gravity series happened the first week in September.
Expecting Slashdot editors to clear out the submission queue within a week is like expecting Slashdot editors to edit. They're more like the TV weather goons, regurgitating with insincere authority what they're fed by the Nation Weather Service and still managing to get it wrong 90% of the time.
But if one of you could put in a word for me, I'd love to be a Slashdot Editor. Slashdot Editing opens doors! I mean, I was a bit on edge just now, but if I was an Editor I'd just sit at the back and not get in anyone's way! . . . I've got a second-hand apron . . .
120B/yr saved / 20k new jobs = 6M.
The bad math is yours. You posted a tally of value, not cost. With a 2B/year allotment, the cost works out to an average of 100k/developer. If the value of their work is considered 60 times the cost, I say that's money well spent.
This will of course be moderated as -1 Flamebait: disturbing Slashdot reality distortion field subclause 37 - everything should always be free, and subclause 17 - people that don't get paid love taking my support calls.
Guess what I do in meta-moderation to anyone who mods up those who ask to be modded down.
Seriously, why would you care what anyone else runs on their desktop? Without commercial vendor support at this stage, Linux is not a mainstream contender. Open source has all it needs to be mainstream: Mac OS X. Tons of open source components sitting alongside commercial offerings, with users having very little tolerance for shoddy craftsmanship. Trying to get Windows users to jump to Linux just to reuse bloody *hardware* is stupid. Shove them over to Mac OS X instead and *then* maybe you'll be able to convince them that 100% free Unix-y goodness is a worthwhile move.
I currently have PostgeSQL running on my Tiger box. I initially installed it just to experiment with SQL and database normalization, but now I keep my comic book inventory on it. (I know that this is like swatting a fly with a nuclear weapon but I enjoy using PostgreSQL and it is FREE software.)
SQLite goes one better and is public domain software. It comes with Tiger, too, which makes it a great tool if you don't need an actual server for your SQL play.
Infinite stock of even the most popular titles. No return rentals. Limited not by time, but by space on the iPod. Easy point-of-sale distribution, either wandering a store full of docks or with a central kiosk. They better do it quick before Apple beats them to it online. It goes without saying that Bill Gates has already been left in the dust on this. :-)
It really sounds like you're trying to use publishing where it isn't appropriate. If anyone can edit a particular calendar, it isn't really "someone else's". The only type of server I see a need to involve is a file server, and you'd simply use whatever calendaring application you prefer to edit the files directly. As a bonus, standard file-based permission can be used to restrict access to the group of people who can edit them. Everything else you're talking about seems to be overkill for a small business.
Next they should try it with LS-120 drives. They never really caught on, so there should be plenty of spare hardware around. Then move to 200MB and 750MB Zip Drives.
Of course, the 1GB slot has already been filled.
It seems the market for mobile gaming is about the same (virtually zero) as the market for mobile video. Gaming is worse, too, in that it sucks up more of your attention than would passively viewing video. Yeah, you'll get a few anti-social kids and gadget hounds, but what's really the point of getting out into the world if you're only going to stuff your eyes and ears right back into the technology? You'd be better off developing for the Mac as a second platform than most any mobile device.
They appear to be supremely effective in getting a Slashvertisement. An anonymous reader my ass . . .
is when will Apple 'officially' update the mini? I am ready to buy the top model, but when I heard this I thought "well, hell, I'm not going to order now and risk getting the lower spec'd model."
It's interesting that everyone seems to think this is about clearing out 1.42GHz inventory, because an upgrade to 1.5GHz just doesn't seem to be big enough for Apple to bother with (and it sounds pretty stupid for you to put off a purchase of their "top model" low-end machine for the sake of 80MHz). Instead, I say they're clearing out some 1.5GHz chips that didn't meet the spec for the actual bump the mini will get. So probably at least 1.67GHz like the PowerBook, and maybe they'll bump that to 1.8GHz or just standardize on 1.67GHz across the line on all their G4 models.
Am I to assume from the naming that the new planets having nothing more going for them than huge ... tracts of land?
And the potential, however remote and unspoken, for some hot rock-on-rock action. ."
"With an orbit that big, you're going to have to take it slow . .
I saw this a few days ago. It sure seems like it'd be a lot of fun to play, but as a Mac user I'll never know. Back to UT2004 vehicle maps, I guess. "Road Rage!"
if your bag is nicked it screams "help me, I'm being blagged!"
It won't matter, because everyone knows George Bush doesn't care about blagged people.
But that's still pretty far from stuff like "wireless monitor" - try playing a FPS game or watching a movie on it and it sucks.
As opposed to playing/watching them on a cell phone or PDA? I think you've forgotten the context of the discussion already.
Using "wireless monitor" anywhere in the product description would have competition and press maul it to death for "how bad a monitor it is". So - I agree on the issue, but watch your wording.
Oh, please! If you care more about the wording of the abstract idea than the idea itself, you should have kept off Slashdot. I don't care if it is called "wireless monitor" or "remote desktop" or bloody "thin client". This whole discussion is about the general concept of a light-weight device that easily connects to something more beefy, and it is an idea that goes all the way back to the days of mainframes and terminals. I just want an easy way to carry my workspace into a business meeting, or a recipe into the kitchen, or Slashdot into the bathroom. I just want to give the wife or the kids access to the computer without tying it up; that they might not easily play games or watch movies could actually be a bonus! It should all be doable with today's technology for less money than a full-on portable/tablet trying to fit the same role. I'll wait to worry about the press, the competition, and my wording until such a unit actually does exist!