>> regarding innovation, have you even used a mac or an ipod?
yeah, just got one. It's pretty half-assed toy OS. Even though it came with a super drive, there is now way to exactly copy an audio cd.
It's like they just thought of a few things for you to do, anything else, and os x just fails. Apple is still up to it's old ways, do it our way, or don't.
Wasn't Hurd around before linux, and failed to get the needed attention. I think even Linus thought of Linux as stop-gap because eventually everyone would run hurd.
Well, there you go, you just justified the whole preordering bs that's going on. You could have just waited. By preordering you are assuming that whoever you bought it from will have it for you when it comes out, which maynot be the case at all.
> Useability STUDIES have shown that a line length of about 2 alphabets is the optimal length for reading. You may think it looks ugly, but it is easier for your brain to scan quickly.
and the internet has shown us not to assume anything from your client. If they really wanted to play the 2 alphabets thing(what the hell does that mean anyway 2*26, do chinese like insanely long lines?) then your fontsize should sacale.
>>Just about everything is on a white background and it's hard to get around on the page.
> And this is different fro/. how?
slashdot highlits things with differing backgrounds, in green and gray things that need more or less to be read.
>>The comment layout is poor as non of the comments collapse.
??? I'm not sure what you mean, but the show/hide comments seems to work just fine for me.
when I go to dig I see all the comments just written out. On slashdot only top level ones and high rated ones that aren't toplevel. The rest you have to click on.
>>Not only can you not click the topic title (or some other obvious link) to read the article, the only link is the words "the market will decide the winner". Huh? What market? Why not "talks to unify the hd-dvd and blu-ray formats have failed" if we want a contextual link? Or why not both a contextual link and a title link?
why limit yourself to one article per report. Furthermore clicking on the title to get you to the articel is unintuitive it should take you to the discussion page. Unless you don't come here for the comments.
you're joking about dig right. It was antiquated when new, with it's fixed width design. This makes it look like utter shit on my wide screen monitor. Just about everything is on a white background and it's hard to get around on the page. The comment layout is poor as non of the comments collapse. There is no titles for comments. It's just an archaic design. Even the adds are not in their own boxes and seam to flow into the page. Slashdot may not look snazzy, but it's not trying to market to that crown, it's merely functional
>> Home Deopot/Lowes employees are just as bad as best buy employees. > That's a hasty generalization, and a very incorrect one.
perhaps it depends on where you live. The bestbuy people in the Seattle are tended to be better than the lowes people, but we all have different experiences.
well, you haven't met me. I have the worlds worst router karma. Back in 2004 or so I bought a linksys 802.11b router. After 6 months or so it needed daily reboots(pull cord), or it would stop routing. Eventually I replaced it with an SMC router. It worked good. My roomate moved out and asked if he could get my old linksys router. I let him have it and it worked perfectly for him for years. Shortly after the antenna on my smc router broke, and my range was about 3 ft. I got a 100ft ethernet cable, that worked. About 6 months later I replaced it with the top-of-the line mimo router from netgear. The range was incredible and it worked for 9 months. After that it needed daily reboots, probably because of Azureus which I started using. Netgear support was useless and frustrating. I just got a linksys router to replace it(week ago). So far so good, but it doesn't have the range or throughput of the netgear.
Routers break, but it my case all the fucking time.
>>The primary problem with electronics, however, is that many of the shops they visited pay their employees close to minimum wage, possibly with a marginal commission enticement.
That's like every retail store. I don't expect much help picking plants from the employees at Wall-Mart either. Home Deopot/Lowes employees are just as bad as best buy employees. The only reason the slashdot crowd knows the best buy guys are full of shit is because they actually know more about electronics than the average person.
>> And most people lock their cars. If you encrypt your network and someone cracks the key - you probably won't be held liable. If you don't have encryption at all, you're negligent.
yet even if you leave your car unlocked, keys in the ignition you won't be held for an accident.
>> yet even if you leave your car unlocked, keys in the ignition you won't be held for an accident.
I refuse to be intimidated by bullys.
>> Most non-tech people don't know that, they just don't want the hassle of entering/remembering a password (even if it's stored).
that's another good reason. WEP passwords are always giberish. Windows does a shitty job of storing them. Most linux dists are better about remembering it, but it can be a PITA. You want a new computer to have the WEP, ok, walk to the old one, write it down, oh wait go find paper and pen(something being used less and less), write down the giberish and then shred it. It's a PITA. All for nothing, I'm sure the RIAA will not care if your neighbor was using p2p from your WEPed network or your open one. At least with the open one you have more deniability.
>> Most non-technical people see encryption as an unnecessary hassle.
because wep is insecure, and wpa isn't universally supported. encryption should be used in protocols(e.g. https). YACA you are no more liable for your internet pipe, then you are for accidents if your car gets stolen.
>> I know this is a tech forum, but please don't forget companies like MacDonalds and KFC, which are really (negativelty) effecting the health of the population.
Eating some fried chicken now and then never hurt anyone. It's the people that go to KFC and McDonalds daily that are hurting themselves.
Right, I've been hearing about this card for many years now. It'll be released right with the next duke nukem. These days your best bet for libre is an r200 radeon.
Don't get me wrong, if the card is released I'll buy it right away, but that's a big if.
oops that was the 90% confidence interval. The 95% would be approximately.66 +-.115, just a little different. I assumed an infinite population size. The real interval would be slightly smaller, but I don't have enough significant digits anyway. and of course I assumed good data. So I don't really put that much confidence in this releases data.
Slashdot Mirror
Ever try it, doesn't work.
>> regarding innovation, have you even used a mac or an ipod?
yeah, just got one. It's pretty half-assed toy OS. Even though it came with a super drive, there is now way to exactly copy an audio cd.
It's like they just thought of a few things for you to do, anything else, and os x just fails. Apple is still up to it's old ways, do it our way, or don't.
reviews on newegg are bullshit. They have been known to delete negative reviews.
This is why I consider newegg to be scummy.
Wasn't Hurd around before linux, and failed to get the needed attention. I think even Linus thought of Linux as stop-gap because eventually everyone would run hurd.
Well, there you go, you just justified the whole preordering bs that's going on. You could have just waited. By preordering you are assuming that whoever you bought it from will have it for you when it comes out, which maynot be the case at all.
most of the people I see working at wall-mart don't even deserve that job.
> Useability STUDIES have shown that a line length of about 2 alphabets is the optimal length for reading. You may think it looks ugly, but it is easier for your brain to scan quickly.
/. how?
and the internet has shown us not to assume anything from your client. If they really wanted to play the 2 alphabets thing(what the hell does that mean anyway 2*26, do chinese like insanely long lines?) then your fontsize should sacale.
>>Just about everything is on a white background and it's hard to get around on the page.
> And this is different fro
slashdot highlits things with differing backgrounds, in green and gray things that need more or less to be read.
>>The comment layout is poor as non of the comments collapse.
??? I'm not sure what you mean, but the show/hide comments seems to work just fine for me.
when I go to dig I see all the comments just written out. On slashdot only top level ones and high rated ones that aren't toplevel. The rest you have to click on.
>>Not only can you not click the topic title (or some other obvious link) to read the article, the only link is the words "the market will decide the winner". Huh? What market? Why not "talks to unify the hd-dvd and blu-ray formats have failed" if we want a contextual link? Or why not both a contextual link and a title link?
why limit yourself to one article per report. Furthermore clicking on the title to get you to the articel is unintuitive it should take you to the discussion page. Unless you don't come here for the comments.
you're joking about dig right. It was antiquated when new, with it's fixed width design. This makes it look like utter shit on my wide screen monitor. Just about everything is on a white background and it's hard to get around on the page. The comment layout is poor as non of the comments collapse. There is no titles for comments. It's just an archaic design. Even the adds are not in their own boxes and seam to flow into the page. Slashdot may not look snazzy, but it's not trying to market to that crown, it's merely functional
>> Home Deopot/Lowes employees are just as bad as best buy employees.
> That's a hasty generalization, and a very incorrect one.
perhaps it depends on where you live. The bestbuy people in the Seattle are tended to be better than the lowes people, but we all have different experiences.
well, you haven't met me. I have the worlds worst router karma. Back in 2004 or so I bought a linksys 802.11b router. After 6 months or so it needed daily reboots(pull cord), or it would stop routing. Eventually I replaced it with an SMC router. It worked good. My roomate moved out and asked if he could get my old linksys router. I let him have it and it worked perfectly for him for years. Shortly after the antenna on my smc router broke, and my range was about 3 ft. I got a 100ft ethernet cable, that worked. About 6 months later I replaced it with the top-of-the line mimo router from netgear. The range was incredible and it worked for 9 months. After that it needed daily reboots, probably because of Azureus which I started using. Netgear support was useless and frustrating. I just got a linksys router to replace it(week ago). So far so good, but it doesn't have the range or throughput of the netgear.
Routers break, but it my case all the fucking time.
>>The primary problem with electronics, however, is that many of the shops they visited pay their employees close to minimum wage, possibly with a marginal commission enticement.
That's like every retail store. I don't expect much help picking plants from the employees at Wall-Mart either. Home Deopot/Lowes employees are just as bad as best buy employees. The only reason the slashdot crowd knows the best buy guys are full of shit is because they actually know more about electronics than the average person.
Man, I knew nerds were wimpy, but 6lbs?!!? What is that the most excersise you get. My 17" Dell is about 8, just throw it in your backpack.
>> And most people lock their cars. If you encrypt your network and someone cracks the key - you probably won't be held liable. If you don't have encryption at all, you're negligent.
yet even if you leave your car unlocked, keys in the ignition you won't be held for an accident.
>> yet even if you leave your car unlocked, keys in the ignition you won't be held for an accident.
I refuse to be intimidated by bullys.
>> Most non-tech people don't know that, they just don't want the hassle of entering/remembering a password (even if it's stored).
that's another good reason. WEP passwords are always giberish. Windows does a shitty job of storing them. Most linux dists are better about remembering it, but it can be a PITA. You want a new computer to have the WEP, ok, walk to the old one, write it down, oh wait go find paper and pen(something being used less and less), write down the giberish and then shred it. It's a PITA. All for nothing, I'm sure the RIAA will not care if your neighbor was using p2p from your WEPed network or your open one. At least with the open one you have more deniability.
>> Most non-technical people see encryption as an unnecessary hassle.
because wep is insecure, and wpa isn't universally supported.
encryption should be used in protocols(e.g. https).
YACA
you are no more liable for your internet pipe, then you are for accidents if your car gets stolen.
>> I know this is a tech forum, but please don't forget companies like MacDonalds and KFC, which are really (negativelty) effecting the health of the population.
Eating some fried chicken now and then never hurt anyone. It's the people that go to KFC and McDonalds daily that are hurting themselves.
if push comes to shove, the US will default on any debt that China holds, the Chinese economy will colapse.
Here is yahoo china's logo, it all makes sense.
The logo
Please reuse it, and/or make a better one.
woosh.
He didn't say terrier, he said terroir
damn French.
>> Then where's the incentive to write a good book that people want to read?
just like where's the incentive to write good code. Easy, if you write a shitty book, you won't be hired again.
>> basically an artist shouldn't make royalties of a product that can be sold over and over to multitude of individuals over they years.
replace artist with code monkey and you have the same concept.
Right, I've been hearing about this card for many years now. It'll be released right with the next duke nukem.
These days your best bet for libre is an r200 radeon.
Don't get me wrong, if the card is released I'll buy it right away, but that's a big if.
yeah, like all those people calling realtek when their ethernet card isn't working with linux.
try +/- 12%
oops that was the 90% confidence interval. The 95% would be approximately .66 +- .115, just a little different.
I assumed an infinite population size. The real interval would be slightly smaller, but I don't have enough significant digits anyway.
and of course I assumed good data. So I don't really put that much confidence in this releases data.