If they are, I would sue the government for distributing child porn. I'm pretty sure I did some things in front of my computer that would qualify as porn before I was 18.
Be careful, though, fellow Slashdotters, as you declare that Macs are good machines! You might get on the Apple Fanboy List if you say you like Macs. There you will be hated and viewed at -1, even if you post useful content. Ooooooooh. Be afraid!!!!!!
I've been reading Cringley for at least a year, if not longer. He ALWAYS prefaces his REALLY good (this is an opinion, because tons disagree with him) ideas with "I am not involved with this company and i hold no stock in it." As much as I like Bob, the chances of him booking an "insider" interview with Jobs or Gates is pretty small. I thin it's just a good guess. But it was a GOOD one, and I think it might be VERY possible...
As most people seem to be saying, this is common practice. I went to Australia last year, and they wanted to know where I was staying. I told them that I would be traveling and had no plan as to what cities / hostles I would be staying in. My sister who had been attending class there had a cell phone, so I gave them that. They were pleased enough with having it. They said it was just in case I needed to be contacted for any reason. I figured it was for my benefit if something odd happened like the US got overthrown and I couldn't go home, not for Big Brother.
One thing I hope they change is getting more / faster servers. That site is really slow. Sadly, all my friends blog on it. So, I have to brave the slowness every once in awhile.
Another thing that I hope they change, though it has no bearing on me since I don't blog there, is their theme system. It's pretty convoluted to learn. I don't know why they don't just let you use CSS. 90% of the custom themes I've seen could be done with the right HTML and some CSS. At least then after you spent hours working on your LJ page with CSS, you could use it in the "real world." After learning LJ formatting, all you can do is format LJ (AFAIK).
Dumbest product, but best idea in the world. I can buy a Little Caesars Pizza for $5 USD. I can probably get enough foam, straps, and hot glue for another $5 USD to do AT LEAST 5 boxes. Shipping will be cheap because all the parts weight so little. We're talking ~$8 USD
Not only do you make profit on every one, you get free food. If someone would hire me to do one of these a day, I'd never have to worry about food again. I imagine the entire "case" takes about 15 minutes to make (excluding pizza eating time), and it will even have grease stains on the outside to give it an authentic feel. Free food for relativly no work = good idea.
But, I'm betting those are bulk-purchased boxes w/o a real brand name (as that might come into legal issues). Assuming they actually sell as many as they bought the profit is going to be very large, even at $12 USD. All this for a non-custom case that is bigger than most laptops and pretty shoddy looking. I guess you get what you pay for.
GarageBand is supposed to do on-the-fly filters. And I know Soundtrack does. Apple has been very staunch about on-the-fly effects not only in Audio, but video as well. GarageBand comes with iLife for $50. Soundtrack is $199. Neither of them will lighten your wallet too much.
I guess Jesusonic might be easier to control on-the-road than having a point and click computer to process your effects, but that is the only bonus I see to having it rather than a computer. But since it has a keyboard, I'm skeptical. If this was meant for the studio, I'd rather have a computer.
A few days ago, EU car companies were discussing ad-hoc networks to divulge traffic info. 10 days later we find out Japan is already rocking the island with this technology. We need to stop posting this stuff on Slashdot, otherwise Japan will implement all our cool "Western" ideas before we can!
When it infects sites running SlashCode, it pretends to be a legitament post (so it can get the defacement tag "NeverEverNoSanity" on the front page, then monitors for posting, and tries to get first post, too.
This is alot like people who are switching to Mac because of the iPod. I know some people gave these types a hard time, but I don't. What is happening is that people see the ease of use offered by iPod / iTunes and want more of it (that or they want to be trendy, but we'll assume the former). So, they get a Mac.
If KDE is ported to Windows, people will see that there are other options w/o leaving the comfort of the OS they learned first and start using other FOSS. Eventually, Microsoft is going to have so many security holes that people aren't going to trust it. Then they'll know where to go if they haven't already gone there.
I think most people feel "stuck" with Windows, rather than actually liking it. They are comfortable with the UI, though. The only way to change the power structure is to let them know there are other alternatives that are much better than Windows and still operate in very similar ways, thus allowing comfort and change.
Not terribly insightful or innovative? Coming from an ex-IE designer? Noooo. I don't believe it.
IE are the guys who think tabbed browsing isn't useful or desired by users. Is that why AOL is making an IE with tabbed browsing? Is that why every other browser has tabbed browsing? I think it's pretty obvious who's incorrect.
Taking hints from IE designers are like taking hints on car design from the designers of the Pinto. Sure, they might have gotten alot right, but there was that one problem...
I guess the easiest way to make sure you aren't being tapped is to 1) put all your data on a removable disk, 2) use IMAP for mail, 3) Fresh install your OS with all the programs you want 4) Ghost (or some other backup tool) your install 5) reinstall the backup as often as possible. (optional: 6) PROFIT.)
It might not keep the spyware out, but it will at least make it a pain in the ass for them to keep it on.
It's been my experience that England doesn't give a shit about kilometers. In England they still use miles. In the UK, they might use kilometers, but not in England, because England is separate and better. God forbid you ask someone from England if they live in the UK, because the might kill you then tell you they are actually English and that you are an ass (spelled ahhhs).;)
Quite frankly, nothing in the trailer looked the least bit dark / creppy to me. It looked like a burnout 1970s Beatles-esque flick. Hopefully I will be wrong in the end. I was really excited when I heard they were doing a remake. I was excited when I heard Burton was directing it. I was REALLY excited when rumors were circulating that Manson was going to play Wonka. I wasn't so excited when I heard Depp got it. After seeing the trailer, I'm glad Manson wasn't in it. I think he would have looked quite foolish in this particular vision of the film. That said, Depp looks out of place as Wonka. I'm sure it will do well at the box office as scores of parents take their children to re-live their childhood, and scores of teens look back in nostalgia. I just hope the trailer wasn't any indication of how it will turn out (because they aren't always very telling and are sometimes total lies).
Yes, I am a Mac user. That has no bearing on anything, though. I'm also a Linux, Windows, and Symbian OS user. To respond:
You're a geek aren't you? (It's okay, I am too.) If you consider hedging all your bets on a personal music player that is driven by features alone (better marketed, more user-friendly models can be bought from Apple) then you deserve what all the beta-max buyers got (and maybe the laser disc buyers, too).
Sure, iRiver is great. It plays all kinds of formats, has a big hard drive, etc. But I've never seen an advertisement for it. In a nation of consumers, people buy what they recognize and what is trendy. Further, in a nation that is (surprise) mostly non-geek, people want things that are easy to operate (and iTunes+iPod is as easy as it gets). While Windows hasn't held up its end of the deal, it got to where it is now somehow.
But what iPods have to do with Macintosh computers escapes me. You seemed to change thoughts after the parenthesis closed. I'm not hedging any bets on the iPod. Apple may be on the rise because of the iPod (which is what I think you were suggesting), but they are still selling more computers. If you are selling more of anything for any reason, it's not the time to get out. You sell when you peak, not when you are rising (see what IBM did recently with its hardware operations?). If you disagree with that, be glad you are not a stock broker...
That's why I think a partnership would emerge rather than a buy out. Even if Apple were dying, I think Steve Jobs would do his best to ride the ship into the water before he'd give up. The shareholders might say otherwise, but Jobs ego is too big to just hop ship and swim to shore.
The X-Box was built as a gaming console, not a Linux box. It was recieved well on slashdot.
The iPod was built to be an MP3 player, not a Linux box. On slashdot, while some people were perplexed, others/many thought it was great.
I don't see the difference. Any talk of "purpose" is moot in the Linux community. People generally applaud putting (or attempting to put) Linux "where it doesn't belong." It doesn't make sense to give this guy a hard time for trying.
Now, if you want to give him a hard time for FAILING, that is another story, esp. when it appears that the OS is on a removable flash card or on the harddrive, both of which could be put in the other PC with the same chip and installed there and swapped back, assuming the CMOS and the OS aren't tied together.
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If they are, I would sue the government for distributing child porn. I'm pretty sure I did some things in front of my computer that would qualify as porn before I was 18.
Pretty damn sure.
Standard. Maybe a bit above due to easy, high customizablity.
You can always get hardened gentoo if you need that extra level of security...
I think he meant he was sitting in a cup of coffee that was sitting on top of a Linux machine.
Be careful, though, fellow Slashdotters, as you declare that Macs are good machines! You might get on the Apple Fanboy List if you say you like Macs. There you will be hated and viewed at -1, even if you post useful content. Ooooooooh. Be afraid!!!!!!
I've been reading Cringley for at least a year, if not longer. He ALWAYS prefaces his REALLY good (this is an opinion, because tons disagree with him) ideas with "I am not involved with this company and i hold no stock in it." As much as I like Bob, the chances of him booking an "insider" interview with Jobs or Gates is pretty small. I thin it's just a good guess. But it was a GOOD one, and I think it might be VERY possible...
As most people seem to be saying, this is common practice. I went to Australia last year, and they wanted to know where I was staying. I told them that I would be traveling and had no plan as to what cities / hostles I would be staying in. My sister who had been attending class there had a cell phone, so I gave them that. They were pleased enough with having it. They said it was just in case I needed to be contacted for any reason. I figured it was for my benefit if something odd happened like the US got overthrown and I couldn't go home, not for Big Brother.
Too bad we don't have virus scanners that check for user stupidity / ignorance.
...if Bugzilla had a bug.
I don't think he wants ad rev. I think he wanted to do a load test. As you can see, he faild that test.
In the US? How about a link? I've never seen it, but would probably trade my current phone for one with REAL WORKING voice recognition...
One thing I hope they change is getting more / faster servers. That site is really slow. Sadly, all my friends blog on it. So, I have to brave the slowness every once in awhile.
Another thing that I hope they change, though it has no bearing on me since I don't blog there, is their theme system. It's pretty convoluted to learn. I don't know why they don't just let you use CSS. 90% of the custom themes I've seen could be done with the right HTML and some CSS. At least then after you spent hours working on your LJ page with CSS, you could use it in the "real world." After learning LJ formatting, all you can do is format LJ (AFAIK).
Dumbest product, but best idea in the world. I can buy a Little Caesars Pizza for $5 USD. I can probably get enough foam, straps, and hot glue for another $5 USD to do AT LEAST 5 boxes. Shipping will be cheap because all the parts weight so little. We're talking ~$8 USD
Not only do you make profit on every one, you get free food. If someone would hire me to do one of these a day, I'd never have to worry about food again. I imagine the entire "case" takes about 15 minutes to make (excluding pizza eating time), and it will even have grease stains on the outside to give it an authentic feel. Free food for relativly no work = good idea.
But, I'm betting those are bulk-purchased boxes w/o a real brand name (as that might come into legal issues). Assuming they actually sell as many as they bought the profit is going to be very large, even at $12 USD. All this for a non-custom case that is bigger than most laptops and pretty shoddy looking. I guess you get what you pay for.
GarageBand is supposed to do on-the-fly filters. And I know Soundtrack does. Apple has been very staunch about on-the-fly effects not only in Audio, but video as well. GarageBand comes with iLife for $50. Soundtrack is $199. Neither of them will lighten your wallet too much.
I guess Jesusonic might be easier to control on-the-road than having a point and click computer to process your effects, but that is the only bonus I see to having it rather than a computer. But since it has a keyboard, I'm skeptical. If this was meant for the studio, I'd rather have a computer.
A few days ago, EU car companies were discussing ad-hoc networks to divulge traffic info. 10 days later we find out Japan is already rocking the island with this technology. We need to stop posting this stuff on Slashdot, otherwise Japan will implement all our cool "Western" ideas before we can!
An updated version of "The Emperor's New Clothes"...
According to W3C, It's not even valid HTML 2.0. The least they could do is write valid code. Sheesh.
When it infects sites running SlashCode, it pretends to be a legitament post (so it can get the defacement tag "NeverEverNoSanity" on the front page, then monitors for posting, and tries to get first post, too.
Everything L. Ron Hubbard wrote...
This is alot like people who are switching to Mac because of the iPod. I know some people gave these types a hard time, but I don't. What is happening is that people see the ease of use offered by iPod / iTunes and want more of it (that or they want to be trendy, but we'll assume the former). So, they get a Mac.
If KDE is ported to Windows, people will see that there are other options w/o leaving the comfort of the OS they learned first and start using other FOSS. Eventually, Microsoft is going to have so many security holes that people aren't going to trust it. Then they'll know where to go if they haven't already gone there.
I think most people feel "stuck" with Windows, rather than actually liking it. They are comfortable with the UI, though. The only way to change the power structure is to let them know there are other alternatives that are much better than Windows and still operate in very similar ways, thus allowing comfort and change.
Not terribly insightful or innovative? Coming from an ex-IE designer? Noooo. I don't believe it.
IE are the guys who think tabbed browsing isn't useful or desired by users. Is that why AOL is making an IE with tabbed browsing? Is that why every other browser has tabbed browsing? I think it's pretty obvious who's incorrect.
Taking hints from IE designers are like taking hints on car design from the designers of the Pinto. Sure, they might have gotten alot right, but there was that one problem...
I guess the easiest way to make sure you aren't being tapped is to 1) put all your data on a removable disk, 2) use IMAP for mail, 3) Fresh install your OS with all the programs you want 4) Ghost (or some other backup tool) your install 5) reinstall the backup as often as possible. (optional: 6) PROFIT.)
It might not keep the spyware out, but it will at least make it a pain in the ass for them to keep it on.
It's been my experience that England doesn't give a shit about kilometers. In England they still use miles. In the UK, they might use kilometers, but not in England, because England is separate and better. God forbid you ask someone from England if they live in the UK, because the might kill you then tell you they are actually English and that you are an ass (spelled ahhhs). ;)
Quite frankly, nothing in the trailer looked the least bit dark / creppy to me. It looked like a burnout 1970s Beatles-esque flick. Hopefully I will be wrong in the end. I was really excited when I heard they were doing a remake. I was excited when I heard Burton was directing it. I was REALLY excited when rumors were circulating that Manson was going to play Wonka. I wasn't so excited when I heard Depp got it. After seeing the trailer, I'm glad Manson wasn't in it. I think he would have looked quite foolish in this particular vision of the film. That said, Depp looks out of place as Wonka. I'm sure it will do well at the box office as scores of parents take their children to re-live their childhood, and scores of teens look back in nostalgia. I just hope the trailer wasn't any indication of how it will turn out (because they aren't always very telling and are sometimes total lies).
Yes, I am a Mac user. That has no bearing on anything, though. I'm also a Linux, Windows, and Symbian OS user. To respond:
You're a geek aren't you? (It's okay, I am too.) If you consider hedging all your bets on a personal music player that is driven by features alone (better marketed, more user-friendly models can be bought from Apple) then you deserve what all the beta-max buyers got (and maybe the laser disc buyers, too).
Sure, iRiver is great. It plays all kinds of formats, has a big hard drive, etc. But I've never seen an advertisement for it. In a nation of consumers, people buy what they recognize and what is trendy. Further, in a nation that is (surprise) mostly non-geek, people want things that are easy to operate (and iTunes+iPod is as easy as it gets). While Windows hasn't held up its end of the deal, it got to where it is now somehow.
But what iPods have to do with Macintosh computers escapes me. You seemed to change thoughts after the parenthesis closed. I'm not hedging any bets on the iPod. Apple may be on the rise because of the iPod (which is what I think you were suggesting), but they are still selling more computers. If you are selling more of anything for any reason, it's not the time to get out. You sell when you peak, not when you are rising (see what IBM did recently with its hardware operations?). If you disagree with that, be glad you are not a stock broker...
That's why I think a partnership would emerge rather than a buy out. Even if Apple were dying, I think Steve Jobs would do his best to ride the ship into the water before he'd give up. The shareholders might say otherwise, but Jobs ego is too big to just hop ship and swim to shore.
The X-Box was built as a gaming console, not a Linux box. It was recieved well on slashdot.
The iPod was built to be an MP3 player, not a Linux box. On slashdot, while some people were perplexed, others/many thought it was great.
I don't see the difference. Any talk of "purpose" is moot in the Linux community. People generally applaud putting (or attempting to put) Linux "where it doesn't belong." It doesn't make sense to give this guy a hard time for trying.
Now, if you want to give him a hard time for FAILING, that is another story, esp. when it appears that the OS is on a removable flash card or on the harddrive, both of which could be put in the other PC with the same chip and installed there and swapped back, assuming the CMOS and the OS aren't tied together.