I don't care who uses which desktop environment more. I love GNOME. I don't like KDE. I positively hate Windows. And I love Mac OS, but just can't justify the cost. Especially when the new boxes will be obsolete before the Intel based Macs hit the market. Not to mention that all the "big names" are using GNOME: Sun, HP-UX, Novell. GNOME is just more flexible, looks better and is extremely customizable. Of course, I WAYYYYY prefer Enlightenment over all other window managers and can't wait until it's a complete desktop environment. That is the truest representation of flexibility.
Where does this whole "stay in the right lane" thing come from? Did I ever mention anything about driving in the changing lane at the speed limit? I swear, every time that I post something about following the speed limit, people come out of the woodwork trying to imply that I must be one of those people who drives the speed limit in the changing lane. It must be some kind of psychosis or something. Here, I will state so that everyone can read it:
I FOLLOW THE SPEED LIMIT IN THE ***RIGHT*** LANE.
Is that clear enough for you folks to understand? The only time I'm ever in the left lane is when I'm passing someone who is going UNDER the speed limit. Other than that, it's the middle or right lane for me. Middle is preferred because on many bigger freeways the right lane usually ends by exiting. Everyone going faster has the option of passing me in the left *changing* lane. I'm not moving out of their way because they are wrong and I am right. Period.
Actually, I have driven there. And if I have to drive there again in 200 years, it wil be too soon. Masshole drivers are fucking insane. That's exactly where my Nissan couldn't get me up to the needed speed to merge onto the freeway. It was a fucking nightmare. My Nissan goes from 0-60 in about 40 seconds. Those onramps aren't anywhere near long enough. To actually safely merge, you need to have a car with excessive HP.
Hey... I'm no Bush supporter. But the speed limits have been around for quite some time and worked very well in the 50s, 60s and 70s. It wasn't until the 80s (when the Boomers started to think they own the world) that this shit started increasing. People were much better drivers and willing to follow the law back in the past. The fact that they don't anymore, doesn't mean the law is wrong. It means that there are more stupid people willing to break the law for their own benefit. Witness G.W. Bush... BTW, I'm supposed to take a guy name "larry bagina" seriously?;P
On any road I've been on, I've been perfectly happy to follow the speed limit. In fact, at times the only time I've seen anything seeming unreasonable it's been the higher speeds. Mainly because the average car (my Nissan Sentra for example) can't just jump onto a freeway at 65 or 75 with a short onramp. I'm happy at 25 in residential areas where there might be pedestrians because I can successfully stop in case they decide to run out in to the road for some reason. I'm happy at 35 in commercial districts because even if there are no cars, 35 does not impact my ability to get from point A to point B in a reasonable time. I'm happy with 45 on country backroads because most of those areas have no pedestrian traffic and there are longer stretches between, say one private driveway to the next. If it's a winding country road, I still prefer 35.
55 on the freeway within a municipal area is reasonable because most people are either passing through and won't be terribly slowed down for long. It's also reasonable for people going from one part of the city to another on the freeway. 55 is fast enought o get through any reasonable sized city within a half an hour. I find 65 acceptable on the freeways and toll ways in the netherland between big cities, but if the road passes through a city, I prefer that speeds drop back down to 55. 75 is unreasonable everywhere exctp for those weirdo western states where you have hundreds of miles between bizarro small towns with populations less than 2,000. (I'm a city bwah myself and like congestion) Anything faster should carry the death penalty.
That seems to be the way that things have been set up across the US and I've never been a victim of the supposed "revenue generating" ticket industry. In nearly 20 years of driving, I've gotten one citation and it was waived because I was using cruise control and it failed to keep the speed on a hill. By the way, the smartest drivers use cruise control because it helps you stay within the speed limit without having to think about it. I have no respect for the average driver. I have a lot of respect for law enforcement. The speed limits are there for a reason (safety) and it's not to line anyone's pockets with money.
Ahhh but grasshoppah... you forget. It is required that you follow the law and not the mouth breathers who think they deserve to drive at whatever speed they wish. I choose the law over the morons.
I've done that. It sucks. Browsers and the web are too slow. It doesn't matter if it's the late IE on Windows XP Pro or the late Firebird/Mozilla on any OS. It has nothing to do with the browser though. It is influenced by several factors:
1. Internet bandwidth still sucks for the most part. Until we all have at least 100 MB/s to the desktop, broadband is a joke. 2. HTTP is a pretty shitty protocol overall. Apache makes things better than IIS in terms of performance, but beyond that it's connectionless state requires all sorts of stupid hacks (like cookies) to preserve a session. HTTP has been overextended beyond it's own usefulness. 3. Most web pages are poorly designed because of ease of use crap in the WYSIWYG web site design apps. That and the use of crap like Flash to design entire web sites makes for complete shit on the web.
I've done things to "optimize" my browsing experience ranging from designing my own personal portal to just using the bookmarks and built in RSS features in Firefox. I've also tried the extensions for Firefox to add functionality and I've worked with some of the crap IE plugins (like the Google toolbar). It's all shit. Complete and utter shit. Nothing anywhere near as stylish or beautiful as dedicated widgets. Sorry, but you're all wet.
1. Windows = Yugo (w/Automatic Transmission and Power Steering) 2. Mac OS X = DeLorean 3. GNOME = Kit Car 4. KDE = Yugo (w/Manual Transmission and Manual Steering + DeLorean cardboard facade option)
That about sums up the state of GUIs in this day and age. Let the flames begin!:P
Considering how many mouth breathers seem to think that the roads are for playing GTA and not getting from point A to Point B, I'd love to see this here. I follow the speed limits to the letter becasue I've NEVER seen an unreasonable speed limit anywhere in my travels. (I've driven in almost every state except, Hawaii and Alaska) Sorry folks, but the roads are for people like me to get safely from one place to another. If you want to speed, go find a race track and have at it. If you want to get your testosterone rush on, then play GTA. Otherwise, mind the speed limit.
Patent the concept of protecting copyrighted and patented materials from the useless and redundant moniker of "Intellectual Property". Information wants to be with me.;P (I do not condone piracy. I'm not a narc. I like buying and owning things as long as they are worth it.)
Did I say anybody actully uses Sendmail? No. I said no one in their right mind uses Exchange as an MTA for carrier grade operations. I don't even use Sendmail. I use Courier. At work we use SunOne Messaging server. The only places I've seen Exchange used are either small organizations that can't afford a decent admin or large corporations for internal use only. That's it.
Things like the George Foreman grill aren't really inventions, they're a take-off from something similar.
But... isn't that the definition of an innovation? Taking something that already exists and combining it with a slightly different approach to result in a new something that didn't exist before?
Sendmail is THE MTA of choice for all major ISPs. Hotmail is not an ISP. Yahoo is not an ISP. Google is not an ISP. Think more along the lines of Speakeasy and then you're talking a major ISP. AOL isn't even really an ISP sinc eit only services the average person.
Read it again. I mentioned something about large ISPs that provide carrier grade mail services. Not little businesses that run internal groupware. BIG difference. If everyone dropped Sendmail tomorrow and switched over to Exchange as the standard for all Internet mail, you'd get more reliability out of two tin cans and string with moths gnawing at the fibers. I don't think anyone in their right mind would use Exchange for a carrier grade mail solution. And carrier grade is what EVERYONE should demand from mail and phone systems.
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...before posting this.
I'd always assumed that it had to do with transition from one state of matter to another. Water as a solid is ice. Once the temperature starts warming up above the freezing point the density of the matter decreases. There's no mystery in that, because it's what all matter does when it changes state. So... where's the mystery?
Where I work, we have a saying. "There are only two things that need to be up and running 24x7 without a hitch. Ever: phone and e-mail". Until Microsoft can provide an OS with this kind of reliability that doesn't cost the farm (like Windows Data Center on Unisys) they will not be chosen as a serious contender for carrier grade mail or phone. How many large ISPs out there use Exchange for mail? None. An for people like me... I want carrier grade quality in everything even for my own home use. That's why I use *nix for anything serious.
Just for that comment you are getting added to my Friends list. If there's one thing I CAN stand on Slashdot, it's a poster with a good sense of humor.;P
I didn't say *I* did this. It was just your typical hypothetical situation that most guys find themselves in at one time or another. My wife's quite satisfied, thank you very much!;)
And if you're happy and get value from running your own services that's fine too. I have nothing against server-geeks...I was one myself before wife and kid took priority over Linux, Bind, Sendmail and Apache.:^)
Being a new father (my kid's eight months old now) I can say that it's completely possible to deal with the wife, the kid, BIND, Courier, OpenSSH, etc... and still have a life. Of course, I only sleep 4-6 hours a night so everyone is asleep while I'm working on my stuff. The lack of sleep thing is inherent to me since I'm primarily a musician and secondarily a geek. But... thanks for the good response. You made your point and I can't fault it.:)
...is a lot like trying to convince your wife to go to a swinger's party. The whole time you're trying, she will put up a fight and say that she's not interested in that sort of thing. Or that the guys are all going to be fat and balding and the women harsh. Or that she's not into chicks. Etc... But once you actually get her to go to one and she sees that the people are just normal everyday people like the ones you work with or are your neighbors, she revises her thinking and agrees to go again, but not necessarily participate. After a few more times, and maybe meeting a few guys she thinks are attractive, she might actually take the next step.
This is exactly like the music/movie industry's stance on electronic distribution. For the longest time, they've been opposed to the technology because they felt that it would be detrimental to them (ie. having to fuck the fat balding guy). Then they agreed to let it happen here and there as long as they didn't really have to participate in things that were beyond their control (ie. agreeing to go to the parties, but not really get involved. Retaining control.). The only step the MPAA and RIAA need to take now, is to find out that if they allow some of their music to be released using non DRMed MP3 and other format files on normal P2P networks (eDonkey, Gnutella, etc...) that their sales might go up when people want the rest of the album (ie. finding the one or two cute guys with big scholongs that your wife actually enjoys spending a little time with, but still eschewing the fat balding guys). It'll happen sooner or later or my name isn't secretly Trolling4Dollars!;P
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I don't care who uses which desktop environment more. I love GNOME. I don't like KDE. I positively hate Windows. And I love Mac OS, but just can't justify the cost. Especially when the new boxes will be obsolete before the Intel based Macs hit the market. Not to mention that all the "big names" are using GNOME: Sun, HP-UX, Novell. GNOME is just more flexible, looks better and is extremely customizable. Of course, I WAYYYYY prefer Enlightenment over all other window managers and can't wait until it's a complete desktop environment. That is the truest representation of flexibility.
Where does this whole "stay in the right lane" thing come from? Did I ever mention anything about driving in the changing lane at the speed limit? I swear, every time that I post something about following the speed limit, people come out of the woodwork trying to imply that I must be one of those people who drives the speed limit in the changing lane. It must be some kind of psychosis or something. Here, I will state so that everyone can read it:
I FOLLOW THE SPEED LIMIT IN THE ***RIGHT*** LANE.
Is that clear enough for you folks to understand? The only time I'm ever in the left lane is when I'm passing someone who is going UNDER the speed limit. Other than that, it's the middle or right lane for me. Middle is preferred because on many bigger freeways the right lane usually ends by exiting. Everyone going faster has the option of passing me in the left *changing* lane. I'm not moving out of their way because they are wrong and I am right. Period.
Hehehehe... it will now that Apple is going Intel. ;P Fortunately, Linux with 64-bit AMD is super low power consuption and maximum compute power.
It was a one time incident and it was because it was an American car. If it had been Japanese, that would have never happened. American cars are shit.
Actually, I have driven there. And if I have to drive there again in 200 years, it wil be too soon. Masshole drivers are fucking insane. That's exactly where my Nissan couldn't get me up to the needed speed to merge onto the freeway. It was a fucking nightmare. My Nissan goes from 0-60 in about 40 seconds. Those onramps aren't anywhere near long enough. To actually safely merge, you need to have a car with excessive HP.
Hey... I'm no Bush supporter. But the speed limits have been around for quite some time and worked very well in the 50s, 60s and 70s. It wasn't until the 80s (when the Boomers started to think they own the world) that this shit started increasing. People were much better drivers and willing to follow the law back in the past. The fact that they don't anymore, doesn't mean the law is wrong. It means that there are more stupid people willing to break the law for their own benefit. Witness G.W. Bush... BTW, I'm supposed to take a guy name "larry bagina" seriously? ;P
On any road I've been on, I've been perfectly happy to follow the speed limit. In fact, at times the only time I've seen anything seeming unreasonable it's been the higher speeds. Mainly because the average car (my Nissan Sentra for example) can't just jump onto a freeway at 65 or 75 with a short onramp. I'm happy at 25 in residential areas where there might be pedestrians because I can successfully stop in case they decide to run out in to the road for some reason. I'm happy at 35 in commercial districts because even if there are no cars, 35 does not impact my ability to get from point A to point B in a reasonable time. I'm happy with 45 on country backroads because most of those areas have no pedestrian traffic and there are longer stretches between, say one private driveway to the next. If it's a winding country road, I still prefer 35.
55 on the freeway within a municipal area is reasonable because most people are either passing through and won't be terribly slowed down for long. It's also reasonable for people going from one part of the city to another on the freeway. 55 is fast enought o get through any reasonable sized city within a half an hour. I find 65 acceptable on the freeways and toll ways in the netherland between big cities, but if the road passes through a city, I prefer that speeds drop back down to 55. 75 is unreasonable everywhere exctp for those weirdo western states where you have hundreds of miles between bizarro small towns with populations less than 2,000. (I'm a city bwah myself and like congestion) Anything faster should carry the death penalty.
That seems to be the way that things have been set up across the US and I've never been a victim of the supposed "revenue generating" ticket industry. In nearly 20 years of driving, I've gotten one citation and it was waived because I was using cruise control and it failed to keep the speed on a hill. By the way, the smartest drivers use cruise control because it helps you stay within the speed limit without having to think about it. I have no respect for the average driver. I have a lot of respect for law enforcement. The speed limits are there for a reason (safety) and it's not to line anyone's pockets with money.
Ahhh but grasshoppah... you forget. It is required that you follow the law and not the mouth breathers who think they deserve to drive at whatever speed they wish. I choose the law over the morons.
I've done that. It sucks. Browsers and the web are too slow. It doesn't matter if it's the late IE on Windows XP Pro or the late Firebird/Mozilla on any OS. It has nothing to do with the browser though. It is influenced by several factors:
1. Internet bandwidth still sucks for the most part. Until we all have at least 100 MB/s to the desktop, broadband is a joke.
2. HTTP is a pretty shitty protocol overall. Apache makes things better than IIS in terms of performance, but beyond that it's connectionless state requires all sorts of stupid hacks (like cookies) to preserve a session. HTTP has been overextended beyond it's own usefulness.
3. Most web pages are poorly designed because of ease of use crap in the WYSIWYG web site design apps. That and the use of crap like Flash to design entire web sites makes for complete shit on the web.
I've done things to "optimize" my browsing experience ranging from designing my own personal portal to just using the bookmarks and built in RSS features in Firefox. I've also tried the extensions for Firefox to add functionality and I've worked with some of the crap IE plugins (like the Google toolbar). It's all shit. Complete and utter shit. Nothing anywhere near as stylish or beautiful as dedicated widgets. Sorry, but you're all wet.
Simple:
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1. Windows = Yugo (w/Automatic Transmission and Power Steering)
2. Mac OS X = DeLorean
3. GNOME = Kit Car
4. KDE = Yugo (w/Manual Transmission and Manual Steering + DeLorean cardboard facade option)
That about sums up the state of GUIs in this day and age. Let the flames begin!
Considering how many mouth breathers seem to think that the roads are for playing GTA and not getting from point A to Point B, I'd love to see this here. I follow the speed limits to the letter becasue I've NEVER seen an unreasonable speed limit anywhere in my travels. (I've driven in almost every state except, Hawaii and Alaska) Sorry folks, but the roads are for people like me to get safely from one place to another. If you want to speed, go find a race track and have at it. If you want to get your testosterone rush on, then play GTA. Otherwise, mind the speed limit.
Better yet:
;P (I do not condone piracy. I'm not a narc. I like buying and owning things as long as they are worth it.)
Patent the concept of protecting copyrighted and patented materials from the useless and redundant moniker of "Intellectual Property". Information wants to be with me.
Did I say anybody actully uses Sendmail? No. I said no one in their right mind uses Exchange as an MTA for carrier grade operations. I don't even use Sendmail. I use Courier. At work we use SunOne Messaging server. The only places I've seen Exchange used are either small organizations that can't afford a decent admin or large corporations for internal use only. That's it.
But... isn't that the definition of an innovation? Taking something that already exists and combining it with a slightly different approach to result in a new something that didn't exist before?
Sendmail is THE MTA of choice for all major ISPs. Hotmail is not an ISP. Yahoo is not an ISP. Google is not an ISP. Think more along the lines of Speakeasy and then you're talking a major ISP. AOL isn't even really an ISP sinc eit only services the average person.
Read it again. I mentioned something about large ISPs that provide carrier grade mail services. Not little businesses that run internal groupware. BIG difference. If everyone dropped Sendmail tomorrow and switched over to Exchange as the standard for all Internet mail, you'd get more reliability out of two tin cans and string with moths gnawing at the fibers. I don't think anyone in their right mind would use Exchange for a carrier grade mail solution. And carrier grade is what EVERYONE should demand from mail and phone systems.
...before posting this.
I'd always assumed that it had to do with transition from one state of matter to another. Water as a solid is ice. Once the temperature starts warming up above the freezing point the density of the matter decreases. There's no mystery in that, because it's what all matter does when it changes state. So... where's the mystery?
Where I work, we have a saying. "There are only two things that need to be up and running 24x7 without a hitch. Ever: phone and e-mail". Until Microsoft can provide an OS with this kind of reliability that doesn't cost the farm (like Windows Data Center on Unisys) they will not be chosen as a serious contender for carrier grade mail or phone. How many large ISPs out there use Exchange for mail? None. An for people like me... I want carrier grade quality in everything even for my own home use. That's why I use *nix for anything serious.
I'll say thank you. I'll also say, "ya great bender"!!!! ;P
Just for that comment you are getting added to my Friends list. If there's one thing I CAN stand on Slashdot, it's a poster with a good sense of humor. ;P
Of course it will. It's a known fact that all geeks are sexual deviants. hy do you think Goatse was so popular. Or Tubgirl?
I didn't say *I* did this. It was just your typical hypothetical situation that most guys find themselves in at one time or another. My wife's quite satisfied, thank you very much! ;)
Being a new father (my kid's eight months old now) I can say that it's completely possible to deal with the wife, the kid, BIND, Courier, OpenSSH, etc... and still have a life. Of course, I only sleep 4-6 hours a night so everyone is asleep while I'm working on my stuff. The lack of sleep thing is inherent to me since I'm primarily a musician and secondarily a geek. But... thanks for the good response. You made your point and I can't fault it.
...is a lot like trying to convince your wife to go to a swinger's party. The whole time you're trying, she will put up a fight and say that she's not interested in that sort of thing. Or that the guys are all going to be fat and balding and the women harsh. Or that she's not into chicks. Etc... But once you actually get her to go to one and she sees that the people are just normal everyday people like the ones you work with or are your neighbors, she revises her thinking and agrees to go again, but not necessarily participate. After a few more times, and maybe meeting a few guys she thinks are attractive, she might actually take the next step.
;P
This is exactly like the music/movie industry's stance on electronic distribution. For the longest time, they've been opposed to the technology because they felt that it would be detrimental to them (ie. having to fuck the fat balding guy). Then they agreed to let it happen here and there as long as they didn't really have to participate in things that were beyond their control (ie. agreeing to go to the parties, but not really get involved. Retaining control.). The only step the MPAA and RIAA need to take now, is to find out that if they allow some of their music to be released using non DRMed MP3 and other format files on normal P2P networks (eDonkey, Gnutella, etc...) that their sales might go up when people want the rest of the album (ie. finding the one or two cute guys with big scholongs that your wife actually enjoys spending a little time with, but still eschewing the fat balding guys). It'll happen sooner or later or my name isn't secretly Trolling4Dollars!
Bender!