If this is the kind of division I see on a topic as simple as "Should Linux have a default Recycle/Trash Bin", how the hell is the community supposed to unite to make Linux a desktop power?
There were lots of physics experiments that changed the world in terribly significant ways. Personally, I would have included the displacement test/experiment from Archimedes, because it's such a great story - however, it doesn't rank quite THAT elegantly above the experiements mentioned in the article.
This article asks for the most BEAUTIFUL experiments, not their impact on the world. These experiments most certainly did have a large impact, but what sets them apart from other experiments is how simply they were done (the article even states as much before you even get into the experiments).
I can understand your confusion -/. itself can be guilty of "Broken Telephone" news coverage, too. That, or the editors have no appreciation of beauty (the idea or the word that's missing in the headline =P ).
Microsoft is simply trying to protect thier products, and business. Yes, we have the right to critisize them for it, and maybe we can make a difference, but by saying "this is illegal, MS can't do this, etc.." I dont think we that the right to say THAT.
Don't confuse our rights. Of COURSE we can say "this is illegal, MS can't do this, etc..".
My choice is for the allowance of this practice of editing movies for sale - however, I believe that if Hollywood would take a closer look at what they're doing, they might be able to take advantage of Clean Flick's practice.
If there's seriously a market for cleaned-up movies, I believe it should be something that Hollywood should WORK WITH rather than attempt to quash. And I think that there IS a market - think of it. Your kids want to see some movie like Terminator 2, but of COURSE you won't rent it for them if they're say, 8 years old - you don't really want your kids watching Arnie ripping his forearm skin off to show the terminator underneath. Wouldn't it be a nice touch for kids to be able to keep the morals & story of the movie intact without subjecting them to the gore ?
I respect director's rights to get their movie out there, but really - they could glean increased sales by making seperate, "cleaner" versions of movies for family viewing, increasing the range of people that can watch it, and Clean Flicks can stay in business, perhaps as a subsidiary or tier in the movie business. Otherwise, people may have to pirate^H^H^H^H^H^H^Htape the movies off network TV, where movies ARE edited (usually for length, but sometimes for content).
In my own car, I've tried to take steps towards keeping the glass clean, from cleaning the interior with water-woolite to prevent chemicals in the PVC from rising and sticking to the glass, to waxing the windows on the outside so that rain just streaks away from your field of view in the rain (you should try it - you hardly need to turn on the windshield wipers in lighter rains).
Problem is, all that work turns into upkeep, since it's far from permanent. Also, you still end up with spotting and streaking on the windshield from the wax being moved by the wipers.
This sorta thing could cut down on my maintenance costs, so that's a good thing - now if they could put it on the paint, i'd mess myself.
... the "NIN" symbols on the boxes of nails in the original Quake. Mr. Carmack put that on the boxes as a joke, to humor Trent Reznor (of NIN) who was both a beta tester and supplied both sound effects and the eerie soundtrack. As we all know, it stuck... too bad it didn't do anything to help his later endeavors.
Michael, why don't you keep your inane banter to yourself?
Agreed. Just the facts, Michael. Every industry and science is prone to human fallibility/fraud, from archaeology to chemistry and physics. That's not news or even noteworthy.
If you had some kind of worthwhile editorial comments to add, you wouldn't get this backlash. You've added nothing but a sniping comment that has absolutely nothing to do with science and the realities of the GOOD things that come out of it every day, and shows nothing but contempt, ignorance, and a tendency towards tabloid-style knee-jerk reactions.
To paraphrase Marge Simpson: "THINK before you say the words!"
You're right - it DOES feel wrong, and even a bit shady. Think about what's been going on in the last 48 hours in America: right on time for the anniversary, the media reports how the "terror level" the gov't uses has been upped a notch. Then all the repeat coverage and hatred of bin Laden being inflamed, and what do you get? A nation (nay, continent) full of unease & unrest, people feeling nervous and fearful. It's really getting a lot of people worked up all over again, and casting a bad shadow on what's supposed to be a day of remembrance.
I live in Toronto, Ontario (Canada), and what does one of our newspapers emblazon on the cover? In big bold letters, with a picture of a dark day over the CN Tower: "TARGET: TORONTO", and some text explaining how people feel that Toronto is the next target for terrorists. Just more fuel for the fear fire.
September 11 2001 was a great tragedy. Too bad it took that to make people realize that it's a big world and shit can happen, without there being anything you can do.
i'm a programmer. i've been a programmer for 3 years, and i've had some interesting career experiences that apply to programmers for both the public & private sector.
in the private sector, i've worked for a small startup, and it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience for me, all the way through. the reason being: i knew that what i did really mattered to our survival. if i helped make an application better, or made something more efficient, if i made things that pleased our clients and got us more work through word of mouth, i knew that i was seriously making a difference. i knew that everything i did earned us money with which to keep going and enjoying our work. i left that company with the highest spirit, knowing that i made a difference.
in the public sector, i currently work at the ministry of education for the province of ontario (canada). in the government, you will not make a difference. efficiency and enhancement are not the order of the day. you can't campaign enough to improve a system for (virtually) any reason. it seriously is a rut, because no-one cares to have their budget cut, and showing how you can cut costs are met with people too complacent to change things for the better, just to "expand". the only motivation you will have in government is to keep moving, keep making money, keep doing what you're doing, so you better LOVE what you do, or you WILL be miserable (unless kissing ass for no reason is another of your favorite pasttimes).
what might less ethical people than yourself do with those APs?
that's the problem i have with wardriving - i don't mind that someone goes around snooping, because it's genuinely part of what makes us human - our propensity for curiosity. however, most wardrivers tend to mark with chalk the direction of insecure wireless networks. really, what's the purpose of that? in my mind, that's the equivalent of people going around with a basket of eggs looking for folks with their fly open.
Well, I would have donated it had I felt it was a good idea. Originally, the reason I replaced it was because it was starting to make a noxious horrible smell whenever it was on. After tracing the stink to the monitor, I declared it immediately unfit & left it out in the backyard - by now it's most CERTAINLY unfit for anything, since it's been through rain and and extreme heat & humidity.
I've been looking at that problem for a few months now. I have an old monitor, but I know damn well that you can't just kick it to the curb - the trashmen won't take it since there's the possibility of explosion/implosion, which is quite a safety concern. (After all, CRT's are just a big vaccuum - breaking that seal recklessly (i.e. piercing it) can cause some damage. Not to mention the possibility for electrocution via the capacitors or even a fire.)
Usually, you can take your monitor to an appropriate dealer or electronics shop, where trained & certified technicians can safely deactivate, disassemble & dispose of the monitor for you. This is what I'm looking for right now.
Now that i have a new LCD, I wonder if they're trash-safe - I haven't researched if there's any hazards concerning say, the liquid in the display, or any other chemicals.
4. I've been using the menu exclusively for
months. It works wonderful once you've gotten
used to it.
But the menu seems to be extremely
confusing on first try. I'm still working on that.
Please sit down calmly and try it out for a
minute. Don't give up after 20 seconds. It's
worth it.
Sir, I would like to laud you on your efforts to bring pie-menus into reality. As I understand it, the main advantage in using pie-menus has nothing to do with extra functionality or mouse-gesturing; it's simply the fact that if all your options are focused in a wheel around the cursor, it takes the same amount of time to click on each menu since they're all equally close to the cursor; this in turn increases usability & efficiency.
However, in regards to your 4th point, I have to agree with you totally. Pie menus are nothing new; in fact, the idea for them has been around for AGES. Various leaders in GUI development (think: Apple & MS) with user-focus groups have tried out pie menus on people, with exactly that complaint - while VERY efficient, they're just too confusing at first, and likely to frustrate new users. Most general users DO tend to give up within 20 seconds; others will just get frustrated & resist the change. People generally read in lines; it takes longer for the brain to process text that appears in non-standard forms.
I hope we all really enjoy these new pie-menus, but I wouldn't expect them to break out into the mainstream.
michael: not only are the more sane & rational posters here out to get you, but so is doubleclick. this is what i saw when i clicked "Read More" (sorry about the quality, i tried =\ ). no joke.
For a buncha guys that use OS's that REQUIRE editing of.conf files for many things to work properly, you'd think that finding a checkbox in an options dialog would be no big deal.
i made it to lvl 22 as well, with a high-score (all time) of about 402,000 (NES version, anyway). i thought that that wasn't too shabby; then again, i didn't have anyone to compare to.
i think a lot of readers are missing the boat on his hardware gripes. it wasn't so much that he couldn't get drivers; he could. but the installation process really turned him off.
people rag on windows for needing a reboot when you install new hardware. no-one ever complained that you have to recompile your whole kernel with the new hardware support until now.
what does their conviction have to do with disclosing patents on opengl ?
you know, it occurs to me that they did the right thing. they DISCLOSED THEIR PATENTS TO AN OPEN BODY. i recall another company that tried to gain leverage by not disclosing patents *coughcoughRAMBUScoughcough*.
as for what they might want to do with it: incorporation in DirectX ?
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If this is the kind of division I see on a topic as simple as "Should Linux have a default Recycle/Trash Bin", how the hell is the community supposed to unite to make Linux a desktop power?
This article asks for the most BEAUTIFUL experiments, not their impact on the world. These experiments most certainly did have a large impact, but what sets them apart from other experiments is how simply they were done (the article even states as much before you even get into the experiments).
I can understand your confusion - /. itself can be guilty of "Broken Telephone" news coverage, too. That, or the editors have no appreciation of beauty (the idea or the word that's missing in the headline =P ).
Don't confuse our rights. Of COURSE we can say "this is illegal, MS can't do this, etc..".
We'd just be wrong.
If there's seriously a market for cleaned-up movies, I believe it should be something that Hollywood should WORK WITH rather than attempt to quash. And I think that there IS a market - think of it. Your kids want to see some movie like Terminator 2, but of COURSE you won't rent it for them if they're say, 8 years old - you don't really want your kids watching Arnie ripping his forearm skin off to show the terminator underneath. Wouldn't it be a nice touch for kids to be able to keep the morals & story of the movie intact without subjecting them to the gore ?
I respect director's rights to get their movie out there, but really - they could glean increased sales by making seperate, "cleaner" versions of movies for family viewing, increasing the range of people that can watch it, and Clean Flicks can stay in business, perhaps as a subsidiary or tier in the movie business. Otherwise, people may have to pirate^H^H^H^H^H^H^Htape the movies off network TV, where movies ARE edited (usually for length, but sometimes for content).
I mean, what's next? Will software companies demand that MS include an option to remove all COM & ActiveX support?
Problem is, all that work turns into upkeep, since it's far from permanent. Also, you still end up with spotting and streaking on the windshield from the wax being moved by the wipers.
This sorta thing could cut down on my maintenance costs, so that's a good thing - now if they could put it on the paint, i'd mess myself.
... the "NIN" symbols on the boxes of nails in the original Quake. Mr. Carmack put that on the boxes as a joke, to humor Trent Reznor (of NIN) who was both a beta tester and supplied both sound effects and the eerie soundtrack. As we all know, it stuck... too bad it didn't do anything to help his later endeavors.
Agreed. Just the facts, Michael. Every industry and science is prone to human fallibility/fraud, from archaeology to chemistry and physics. That's not news or even noteworthy.
If you had some kind of worthwhile editorial comments to add, you wouldn't get this backlash. You've added nothing but a sniping comment that has absolutely nothing to do with science and the realities of the GOOD things that come out of it every day, and shows nothing but contempt, ignorance, and a tendency towards tabloid-style knee-jerk reactions.
To paraphrase Marge Simpson:
"THINK before you say the words!"
You're right - it DOES feel wrong, and even a bit shady. Think about what's been going on in the last 48 hours in America: right on time for the anniversary, the media reports how the "terror level" the gov't uses has been upped a notch. Then all the repeat coverage and hatred of bin Laden being inflamed, and what do you get? A nation (nay, continent) full of unease & unrest, people feeling nervous and fearful. It's really getting a lot of people worked up all over again, and casting a bad shadow on what's supposed to be a day of remembrance.
I live in Toronto, Ontario (Canada), and what does one of our newspapers emblazon on the cover? In big bold letters, with a picture of a dark day over the CN Tower: "TARGET: TORONTO", and some text explaining how people feel that Toronto is the next target for terrorists. Just more fuel for the fear fire.
September 11 2001 was a great tragedy. Too bad it took that to make people realize that it's a big world and shit can happen, without there being anything you can do.
(Or have people even realized that at all?)
i'm a programmer. i've been a programmer for 3 years, and i've had some interesting career experiences that apply to programmers for both the public & private sector.
in the private sector, i've worked for a small startup, and it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience for me, all the way through. the reason being: i knew that what i did really mattered to our survival. if i helped make an application better, or made something more efficient, if i made things that pleased our clients and got us more work through word of mouth, i knew that i was seriously making a difference. i knew that everything i did earned us money with which to keep going and enjoying our work. i left that company with the highest spirit, knowing that i made a difference.
in the public sector, i currently work at the ministry of education for the province of ontario (canada). in the government, you will not make a difference. efficiency and enhancement are not the order of the day. you can't campaign enough to improve a system for (virtually) any reason. it seriously is a rut, because no-one cares to have their budget cut, and showing how you can cut costs are met with people too complacent to change things for the better, just to "expand". the only motivation you will have in government is to keep moving, keep making money, keep doing what you're doing, so you better LOVE what you do, or you WILL be miserable (unless kissing ass for no reason is another of your favorite pasttimes).
for me, the only plus is the security.
what might less ethical people than yourself do with those APs?
that's the problem i have with wardriving - i don't mind that someone goes around snooping, because it's genuinely part of what makes us human - our propensity for curiosity. however, most wardrivers tend to mark with chalk the direction of insecure wireless networks. really, what's the purpose of that? in my mind, that's the equivalent of people going around with a basket of eggs looking for folks with their fly open.
i just want to say that this is the best thing i've ever read on slashdot. Thank You.
Well, I would have donated it had I felt it was a good idea. Originally, the reason I replaced it was because it was starting to make a noxious horrible smell whenever it was on. After tracing the stink to the monitor, I declared it immediately unfit & left it out in the backyard - by now it's most CERTAINLY unfit for anything, since it's been through rain and and extreme heat & humidity.
Usually, you can take your monitor to an appropriate dealer or electronics shop, where trained & certified technicians can safely deactivate, disassemble & dispose of the monitor for you. This is what I'm looking for right now.
Now that i have a new LCD, I wonder if they're trash-safe - I haven't researched if there's any hazards concerning say, the liquid in the display, or any other chemicals.
Sadly, look to the Gaza Strip. Dozens of Palestinians are doing almost exactly that - to themselves.
Sir, I would like to laud you on your efforts to bring pie-menus into reality. As I understand it, the main advantage in using pie-menus has nothing to do with extra functionality or mouse-gesturing; it's simply the fact that if all your options are focused in a wheel around the cursor, it takes the same amount of time to click on each menu since they're all equally close to the cursor; this in turn increases usability & efficiency.
However, in regards to your 4th point, I have to agree with you totally. Pie menus are nothing new; in fact, the idea for them has been around for AGES. Various leaders in GUI development (think: Apple & MS) with user-focus groups have tried out pie menus on people, with exactly that complaint - while VERY efficient, they're just too confusing at first, and likely to frustrate new users. Most general users DO tend to give up within 20 seconds; others will just get frustrated & resist the change. People generally read in lines; it takes longer for the brain to process text that appears in non-standard forms.
I hope we all really enjoy these new pie-menus, but I wouldn't expect them to break out into the mainstream.
michael: not only are the more sane & rational posters here out to get you, but so is doubleclick. this is what i saw when i clicked "Read More" (sorry about the quality, i tried =\ ). no joke.
*Burning Karma*
.conf files for many things to work properly, you'd think that finding a checkbox in an options dialog would be no big deal.
For a buncha guys that use OS's that REQUIRE editing of
You have obviously never read anything posted by Michael
There's the spirit!
Old model: slashdotting websites into oblivion
New model: slashdotting inboxes into oblivion
Not exactly a good solution for a high-volume site, though. Can you imagine /. being served from a CD-ROM ?
i made it to lvl 22 as well, with a high-score (all time) of about 402,000 (NES version, anyway). i thought that that wasn't too shabby; then again, i didn't have anyone to compare to.
i think a lot of readers are missing the boat on his hardware gripes. it wasn't so much that he couldn't get drivers; he could. but the installation process really turned him off.
people rag on windows for needing a reboot when you install new hardware. no-one ever complained that you have to recompile your whole kernel with the new hardware support until now.
what does their conviction have to do with disclosing patents on opengl ?
you know, it occurs to me that they did the right thing. they DISCLOSED THEIR PATENTS TO AN OPEN BODY. i recall another company that tried to gain leverage by not disclosing patents *coughcoughRAMBUScoughcough*.
as for what they might want to do with it: incorporation in DirectX ?