I agree. However, the neocons didn't play it that way when they obsessed about Clinton's cock and his pot smoking days. Why should I offer their boy any slack? You can't have double standards. Either take the stance that what someone did in the past doesn't matter and extend that to Democrats and Neocons alike, or crucify them all. That's the only logical way to be.
I didn't give Clinton a pass. I want equal time. Put both the jackasses up as examples of supremely stupid judgement. It's just that Bush is worse because he wouldn't admit it.
Don't tell me you're one of the fools who buys every TV series in box set form. How else are you supposed to timeshift programs? And if you're one of those "I don't even own a TV fools" then this conversation is at an end. Currently I use my PC to record TV shows for me and HDTV really hasn't sold me on being that much better than regular old NTSC S-video to make me want to shell out thosands of dollars to redo my system. So what's your answer? How do you currently time shift and archive your favorite shows (assuming you're a normal human being who likes to be entertained once in a while)?
1. We work hard on establishing a world wide WiFi network that isn't supplied or owned by ISPs, but is a collective non-profit organization. 2. Set up multiple membership levels with different requirements:
a. Standard users (just a regular WiFi access point to "catch the signal")
b. Operators (a bridging WiFi set up that connects several neighborhoods together)
c. Watchtower men (long range WiFi setups that can spam 20-50 miles to connect the Operators together)
d. Publishers (Centralized content hosting for free media perhaps in partnership with Wikimedia and the like)
3. Use this network to broadcast live and on/demand programming that is supplied and produced by any members
Ideally, this should really be multiple assocaited projects. The primary one being the non-profit that organizes the members of this wireless network. The other projects would be focused on creating content publishing software that would make it easy for anyone to publish video and audio, as well as education on creating media.
Barring any of that, a similar kind of network would probably grow tremendously if "Joe Average" learned that he could download the latest episodes of his favorite show using a WiFi peer-to-peer network...
So which is it going to be corporate America? Do you turn every citizen into a criminal, or do we find alternatives to your crap?
I am obsessed with the whole cycle of creation and destruction. I am a fan of the movie Donnie Darko. I spend Tuesdays tearing down my karma here and there and the rest of the week nursing it back to health.
The world of programming has gotten better and be[tt]er over the years. It used to be that you had to have to deal with punch cards or programming right on the metal itself. But in recent years development environments have improved tremendously approaching the ideal: ANYONE can write software even if they don't understand programming.
Take me for example. I work for a Fortune 500 company that is currently working on NextGen database products. I'm the chief software designer. Back when I was in college in the 80s, programming was a black art known only to nerds who wore underpants on their heads and uttered dark incantations. I never really got on with those guys because they just weren't popular enough and they smelled kind of funny.
But thanks to the miracle of the 90s, I am now a software developer myself. My dev suite is comprised of Photoshop (for mock layouts of the UI), Macromedia Flash and MS PowerPoint. With these tools I am crafting the nextgen interfaces that are what put my company at the top. We are drawing lots of attention and turning lots of heads with our products because only we know what the users want these days. Our database product is an award winning package that combines the ambience of Myst and Riven with an Oracle backend and a hint of The Matrix. Users want cool looking apps, not some archaic software that just displays data. Why settle for an app where the text is just displayed in a scroll box, or worse through a terminal emulation program like WRQ Reflection? Our app flys in the text from the side and makes the text sparkle like you see in the intro to a lot of movies. That's the key folks, don't look to Silicon Valley for great software ideas, look at Hollywood. They get it right.
Since I'm a generous guy, I'll share some suggestions about how to design great apps these days:
1. Always make sure that you focus on making the UI look as cool as possible. This requires the use of many tools to make sure that the interface is going to make the user look as good as possible. 2. Always add more features to your application because nothing helps users more than new features. And make them sexy. I'm not talking about adding automatic spell checking or useless shit like that. I'm talking about syncronized sound effects that reflect the actions on screen like you see in the best films. 3. Pervasive use of MPEGs. Our company got away from the old practice of using stupid 16 color icons for button functions and the like because we realized that this was confusing to users. Most of the time those images didn't mean much. Instead, we replaced them with full MPEGs running in loops to represent every possible function a user might do in the real world. 4. Watch all the latest blockbuster scifi films that make use of computer interfaces. The geeks get UI design wrong every time. Only Hollywood knows how to make cool looking UIs and only the best software designers know to take their cues from the film industry. 5. Require that your customers have the most powerful boxes to run your programs. We can't be bothered with idiotic businesses that want to keep desktop systems with PIIIs and 256 megs of RAM. How the hell are you supposed to expect the software to run properly? We tell all of our customers that they must upgrade all desktops to the following minumum requirements: Pentium 4 2.5 GHz or better, with 1 gig of RAM. That just barely keeps up with our advanced software, but it's the minimum. (Alienware makes the best business machines we've seen)
It makes me laugh when I see you geeks trying to come up with new programming languages and platforms. Mono. What a joke. You call that progress? I don't. Keep working on more tools like Photoshop, Flash and PowerPoint. That's where development is these days. All that antiquated complicated crap is just mental masturbation for losers with no life. I read an article recently about a company that is working on self writing software. If these guys succeed, and they partner up
Do you call this good? While I'm not 100% in support of community run networks (mostly due to the fact that there aren't enough smart people to run them securely in most communities), I think this illustrate the point quite well that governements no longer have power, the businesses do. After all, who has the most money? Your governments (state local and federal) or businesses? Considering the huge debt at the federal level and the deficits at state and local levels, my money (hehehe) is on the businesses controlling the most funds. And they say we have "big government", hah! It seems that during the past decade, as the tech sector has grown tremendously and gained the most wealth in a short time, more and more "laws and legal decisions" have been bought by them. We are headed rapidly for the corporate feudal system with our governments being democracies only in name. Wake up... we're only a few steps from complete fascism.
Well... not enough that it interferes with my ability to have a pretty "normal" life by outward appearances. About the only thing that some people who know me personally have ever confronted me about is my "type A" side. Fairly atypical for a "liberal".:)
It's not crashed. It's pining. Pining for the fjords.;P
Seriously, it sounds to me like it's waiting for something ifit's not really crashed. Probably something network dependent woudl be my guess. Is this at home or in a work environment with a DHCP server?
So they're going to "clean their cocks" huh? Please stop advocating for the rest of us as you appear to be getting a lot of things wrong here. Youre advocacy makes the rest of us look bad.
Do I detect a future interview here? I'd say you need to start a new thread to open a dialog with this guy and/.ers The fact that you posted the update and all the responses to it are buried in the latest comments ( I like to read oldest to newest) is forcing some of us to have to alter our prefrences.
Good question. I think it has more to do with PR for RedHat since Novell is gaining a large amount of credibility and already has far more resources than RedHat. They probably figure they should grab back the hobbyist market by making nice-nice with the people who absolutey must have that accountability factor even if they are just using RedHat at home. I don't care myself, so as far as I'm concerned RedHat hasn't done anything wrong with regards to Fedora or the hobbyist sector. I still can't relate to the people who jumped ship for Mandrake, Debian, or Gentoo. (Well, actually I can see a case for Gentoo and Debian is more 1337;) So there really isn't much point in discussing this whole RedHat development other than to point out that they made a business move. And we all know that business is pointless to those who are dedicated to technology for technology's sake.
David Foley? And here, I just thought he was a nice guy member of the greatest comedy troup ever: The Kids in the Hall and star of News Radio. I guess he really is a bastard after all?;P
I hadn't noticed anything other than BETTER quality from the Fedora project compared to previous RedHat offerings. I am using a mix of RedHat 9 and Fedora Core 3 at home and at work and from where I stand FC3 is a HUGE jump past RH9. The hardware support is better, the apps are even better integrated than before and the functionality overall is extermely impressive. Examples:
1. The changes to Nautilus have made file management and access much easier with many conveniences like thumbnails, media previews, photo gallery views, etc... 2. The integration of remote mounts (SMB [ie. Windows file shares], FTP, SSH) is spectacular 3. USB device support is nearly flawless. I plugged in my brand new Epson Stylus R300 and just started printing. I plugged in a USB flash drive and it mounted and placed an icon on the desktop. I plugged in my Sony Mavica CD digital camera and it asked me about importing images into a gallery. The gallery also displayed all the inluded EXIF information. Just beautiful. 4. GIMP 2.0 takes some getting used to, but it looks promising (Just for the record I love GIMP 1.x) 5. LVM2 with kernel support at boot so that you no longer have to deal with the archaic notion of partitions 6. And of course... much improved performance on the same hardware. I have been using the same P4 at work for the past three years. RH9 was OK on it but admittedly a little slow with the default packages. I recompiled nearly everything and got performance more in line with Windows XP on the same box. But... with FC3, the same box didn't need any of the custom compiles and tweaks the RH9 did to get even better performance
Overall, I'd say Fedora has been a rousing success. I RedHat says they plan to put more effort into it, this can only mean greater things.
And you, apparently, have no sense of humor. I pity you. It must suck to go through life without a humor muscle. Or is that a humorous love muscle? I always forget which.;P
Hehehe... nice try at trolling. But how can anyone named "LordNimon" be trusted? Get thee back to the leisure hive! LOL!!!!111 (Note: I think you foed me once in a past life here on/.)
I am intrigued by your lack of originality and would like you to donate your brain to science so that we may finally be able to study the missing link.;'P (Nothing better than being a wiseass)
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AFAIK it applies to ALL televsion programming.
I agree. However, the neocons didn't play it that way when they obsessed about Clinton's cock and his pot smoking days. Why should I offer their boy any slack? You can't have double standards. Either take the stance that what someone did in the past doesn't matter and extend that to Democrats and Neocons alike, or crucify them all. That's the only logical way to be.
I didn't give Clinton a pass. I want equal time. Put both the jackasses up as examples of supremely stupid judgement. It's just that Bush is worse because he wouldn't admit it.
Don't tell me you're one of the fools who buys every TV series in box set form. How else are you supposed to timeshift programs? And if you're one of those "I don't even own a TV fools" then this conversation is at an end. Currently I use my PC to record TV shows for me and HDTV really hasn't sold me on being that much better than regular old NTSC S-video to make me want to shell out thosands of dollars to redo my system. So what's your answer? How do you currently time shift and archive your favorite shows (assuming you're a normal human being who likes to be entertained once in a while)?
Ahhh... but grasshoppah... that toothead boozehound pot smoker G. W. Bush IS in office. ;P
No worries mate!
Here's a concept:
1. We work hard on establishing a world wide WiFi network that isn't supplied or owned by ISPs, but is a collective non-profit organization.
2. Set up multiple membership levels with different requirements:
a. Standard users (just a regular WiFi access point to "catch the signal")
b. Operators (a bridging WiFi set up that connects several neighborhoods together)
c. Watchtower men (long range WiFi setups that can spam 20-50 miles to connect the Operators together)
d. Publishers (Centralized content hosting for free media perhaps in partnership with Wikimedia and the like)
3. Use this network to broadcast live and on/demand programming that is supplied and produced by any members
Ideally, this should really be multiple assocaited projects. The primary one being the non-profit that organizes the members of this wireless network. The other projects would be focused on creating content publishing software that would make it easy for anyone to publish video and audio, as well as education on creating media.
Barring any of that, a similar kind of network would probably grow tremendously if "Joe Average" learned that he could download the latest episodes of his favorite show using a WiFi peer-to-peer network...
So which is it going to be corporate America? Do you turn every citizen into a criminal, or do we find alternatives to your crap?
...the wheel? Most of the gadgets in the world could't live without one.
I am obsessed with the whole cycle of creation and destruction. I am a fan of the movie Donnie Darko. I spend Tuesdays tearing down my karma here and there and the rest of the week nursing it back to health.
Fris[tt]!!! Haha! Fuck you!
The world of programming has gotten better and be[tt]er over the years. It used to be that you had to have to deal with punch cards or programming right on the metal itself. But in recent years development environments have improved tremendously approaching the ideal: ANYONE can write software even if they don't understand programming.
Take me for example. I work for a Fortune 500 company that is currently working on NextGen database products. I'm the chief software designer. Back when I was in college in the 80s, programming was a black art known only to nerds who wore underpants on their heads and uttered dark incantations. I never really got on with those guys because they just weren't popular enough and they smelled kind of funny.
But thanks to the miracle of the 90s, I am now a software developer myself. My dev suite is comprised of Photoshop (for mock layouts of the UI), Macromedia Flash and MS PowerPoint. With these tools I am crafting the nextgen interfaces that are what put my company at the top. We are drawing lots of attention and turning lots of heads with our products because only we know what the users want these days. Our database product is an award winning package that combines the ambience of Myst and Riven with an Oracle backend and a hint of The Matrix. Users want cool looking apps, not some archaic software that just displays data. Why settle for an app where the text is just displayed in a scroll box, or worse through a terminal emulation program like WRQ Reflection? Our app flys in the text from the side and makes the text sparkle like you see in the intro to a lot of movies. That's the key folks, don't look to Silicon Valley for great software ideas, look at Hollywood. They get it right.
Since I'm a generous guy, I'll share some suggestions about how to design great apps these days:
1. Always make sure that you focus on making the UI look as cool as possible. This requires the use of many tools to make sure that the interface is going to make the user look as good as possible.
2. Always add more features to your application because nothing helps users more than new features. And make them sexy. I'm not talking about adding automatic spell checking or useless shit like that. I'm talking about syncronized sound effects that reflect the actions on screen like you see in the best films.
3. Pervasive use of MPEGs. Our company got away from the old practice of using stupid 16 color icons for button functions and the like because we realized that this was confusing to users. Most of the time those images didn't mean much. Instead, we replaced them with full MPEGs running in loops to represent every possible function a user might do in the real world.
4. Watch all the latest blockbuster scifi films that make use of computer interfaces. The geeks get UI design wrong every time. Only Hollywood knows how to make cool looking UIs and only the best software designers know to take their cues from the film industry.
5. Require that your customers have the most powerful boxes to run your programs. We can't be bothered with idiotic businesses that want to keep desktop systems with PIIIs and 256 megs of RAM. How the hell are you supposed to expect the software to run properly? We tell all of our customers that they must upgrade all desktops to the following minumum requirements: Pentium 4 2.5 GHz or better, with 1 gig of RAM. That just barely keeps up with our advanced software, but it's the minimum. (Alienware makes the best business machines we've seen)
It makes me laugh when I see you geeks trying to come up with new programming languages and platforms. Mono. What a joke. You call that progress? I don't. Keep working on more tools like Photoshop, Flash and PowerPoint. That's where development is these days. All that antiquated complicated crap is just mental masturbation for losers with no life. I read an article recently about a company that is working on self writing software. If these guys succeed, and they partner up
Urggh? "Little Sally" must be one tough little girl. And you left out:
5) Profit!!!
Do you call this good? While I'm not 100% in support of community run networks (mostly due to the fact that there aren't enough smart people to run them securely in most communities), I think this illustrate the point quite well that governements no longer have power, the businesses do. After all, who has the most money? Your governments (state local and federal) or businesses? Considering the huge debt at the federal level and the deficits at state and local levels, my money (hehehe) is on the businesses controlling the most funds. And they say we have "big government", hah! It seems that during the past decade, as the tech sector has grown tremendously and gained the most wealth in a short time, more and more "laws and legal decisions" have been bought by them. We are headed rapidly for the corporate feudal system with our governments being democracies only in name. Wake up... we're only a few steps from complete fascism.
...it works with free (speech and beer) OSes and allows unproxied access to the rest of the world, it will be a hit with people like me. :)
Well... not enough that it interferes with my ability to have a pretty "normal" life by outward appearances. About the only thing that some people who know me personally have ever confronted me about is my "type A" side. Fairly atypical for a "liberal". :)
..."flesh light". [shivers at the thought of what people will use to network with]
It's not crashed. It's pining. Pining for the fjords. ;P
Seriously, it sounds to me like it's waiting for something ifit's not really crashed. Probably something network dependent woudl be my guess. Is this at home or in a work environment with a DHCP server?
So they're going to "clean their cocks" huh? Please stop advocating for the rest of us as you appear to be getting a lot of things wrong here. Youre advocacy makes the rest of us look bad.
Do I detect a future interview here? I'd say you need to start a new thread to open a dialog with this guy and /.ers The fact that you posted the update and all the responses to it are buried in the latest comments ( I like to read oldest to newest) is forcing some of us to have to alter our prefrences.
In soviet Russia, computer built You SSR?
Good question. I think it has more to do with PR for RedHat since Novell is gaining a large amount of credibility and already has far more resources than RedHat. They probably figure they should grab back the hobbyist market by making nice-nice with the people who absolutey must have that accountability factor even if they are just using RedHat at home. I don't care myself, so as far as I'm concerned RedHat hasn't done anything wrong with regards to Fedora or the hobbyist sector. I still can't relate to the people who jumped ship for Mandrake, Debian, or Gentoo. (Well, actually I can see a case for Gentoo and Debian is more 1337 ;) So there really isn't much point in discussing this whole RedHat development other than to point out that they made a business move. And we all know that business is pointless to those who are dedicated to technology for technology's sake.
Laugh! It's funny!
I hadn't noticed anything other than BETTER quality from the Fedora project compared to previous RedHat offerings. I am using a mix of RedHat 9 and Fedora Core 3 at home and at work and from where I stand FC3 is a HUGE jump past RH9. The hardware support is better, the apps are even better integrated than before and the functionality overall is extermely impressive. Examples:
1. The changes to Nautilus have made file management and access much easier with many conveniences like thumbnails, media previews, photo gallery views, etc... 2. The integration of remote mounts (SMB [ie. Windows file shares], FTP, SSH) is spectacular
3. USB device support is nearly flawless. I plugged in my brand new Epson Stylus R300 and just started printing. I plugged in a USB flash drive and it mounted and placed an icon on the desktop. I plugged in my Sony Mavica CD digital camera and it asked me about importing images into a gallery. The gallery also displayed all the inluded EXIF information. Just beautiful.
4. GIMP 2.0 takes some getting used to, but it looks promising (Just for the record I love GIMP 1.x)
5. LVM2 with kernel support at boot so that you no longer have to deal with the archaic notion of partitions
6. And of course... much improved performance on the same hardware. I have been using the same P4 at work for the past three years. RH9 was OK on it but admittedly a little slow with the default packages. I recompiled nearly everything and got performance more in line with Windows XP on the same box. But... with FC3, the same box didn't need any of the custom compiles and tweaks the RH9 did to get even better performance
Overall, I'd say Fedora has been a rousing success. I RedHat says they plan to put more effort into it, this can only mean greater things.
And you, apparently, have no sense of humor. I pity you. It must suck to go through life without a humor muscle. Or is that a humorous love muscle? I always forget which. ;P
Hehehe... nice try at trolling. But how can anyone named "LordNimon" be trusted? Get thee back to the leisure hive! LOL!!!!111 (Note: I think you foed me once in a past life here on /.)
I am intrigued by your lack of originality and would like you to donate your brain to science so that we may finally be able to study the missing link. ;'P (Nothing better than being a wiseass)