If you click "preferences" in your left-hand navbar (better word for all the links on the left of every/. page?), you can click on the link for "Slashdot Stats" under the slashboxes (between 10 Hot Comments and News From Userland (haven't they heard of *complete* alphabetical order round here?!???:). However, as I do this I come up with the message "The rest of the stats are currently offline while we wait for some new hardware." so you won't get all the stats right away of course...
Sometimes all I want is instant email. In a chat setting like AIM or Y! pager or whatever, you are always there. It's easier to talk to 5 ppl at once when there aren't 5 seperate boxes on your screen. Not to mention the fact that I can use the entire program from a teeny little box in a corner of my screen; the others use up way too much screen real estate.
...though I always turn off all the sounds. I wish the sounds were themeable...
"If it's so accurate, why can't we even figure out the exact day it ends?"
Because the real task isn't using it to count the days, it's comparing their calendar to ours in order to see when they match up. The first one I heard was Dec 22, 2012, but I haven't heard of other dates until now. Any idea where they get 2011 from?
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"Did the creators of the link law ever stop to think about people with so called 'free for all' link pages? Or how about when someone has a link and the content of the site being linked to changes? So because someone puts up something that I may or may not approve of I get the jail sentence?? Sounds like someone needs to pull their head out of their rear and get a kl00."
Thank you for saying this, this needs to be addressed before something like this could ever be enforceable. Would an AC posting an URL to/. be guilty of a felony b/c someone posted an URL? Or any site that allows posting of URLs... could the site itself be sued?
Not to mention that this has no bearing at all outside the US!!! If I link to a page that links to a page that links to a page with that info, am I in the bad? If those sites aren't in the US, it doesn't really matter, does it? Scary stuff indeed... thank the gods this isn't actually a law yet.
"It's in the fact that I have copies of MSIE 3 that swear blind that they are actually copies of MSIE 4 (this when queried via Javascript under oath). "
I almost had a heart attack laughing at this. Allow me to explain.
Some coworkers of mine are doing some freelance web design and are having a hell of a time developing for IE 5 b/c if you just ask it if it's Netscape or IE it will say it's Netscape. (though if you ask it what version it is it will say it's IE 5...)
"I'm speaking generically, because the telecomm and media industries are already intertwined in this realm. ATT owns cable companies, and MediaOne is providing phone services. "
How right you are; AT&T owns MediaOne.;)
...or is at least in the process of buying them out. Anyone know if that deal has been completed yet?
The real problem here is that AOL isn't going to open up the AIM server stuff, which really needs to happen if they're going to get anywhere w/ this. If they had an open server standard this wouldn't be a problem at all; we could put up our own servers (or MS could put up their own, or Yahoo, or whoever). Of course, this might mean that there would be even more security problems w/ AOL screennames, but they should have seperated those out in the first place, IMHO.
Of course, ICQ is still my favorite messenger so this whole thing affects me not in the slightest...;)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't IBM sue the original BIOS cloners out of business? They won their case though, so companies like Compaq could make clones. Compaq was one of the first ones to do this.
However, this whole post is only valid IIRC, so someone back me up on this... please?
"UNIX - is a great OS, how cannot it not be with so many years of growth under its belt? But Unix is so cumbersome to the average user that the apps written for it for the average user have to be choice based, leaving out any intuition on the user . You can either hit this key or that key. And, when Unix crashes, you actually have to make a trip out there because there is no way you can walk some average joe through a fix on the phone. "
This is actually where it being a Unix box could come in handy. Don't want to make a visit OR talk the user through fixing it? Just telnet into the box...
Found something else interesting at The Register in this article. Looks like they're going to be porting the WebSpyder browser and calling it Embrowser. (Oooooh, aren't we creative;) Has anyone actually used this? Could be more competition for the current version of Netscape (especially if it doesn't crash every hour and a half...). Still waiting for Opera of course...
I don't understand this argument against standardization. First you say:
"Try to shame the Linux developers into making a 'standard' Linux. This will hopefully never happen."
Then you turn around and say: "Secondly, linux already has a standard user interface that is common across all distributions: the dreaded CLI. I can sit on a RedHat or Slackware or SuSE installation, type 'ls' or 'cd' or 'vi', 'find' or 'awk' or 'perl', 'ps' or 'kill' or 'cat', and get the expected result every single time. More to the point, I can use 90% of those same commands on virtually any Sun, HP-UX, OSF (er sorry Tru64), AIX, Irix, or BSD machine and get the expected results!"
My favorite thing we have is that things are the same across platforms at the CLI level. I see no reason why this shouldn't be extended to the GUI. There isn't any reason why we shouldn't expect something a little more functional than twm (even though it does work... kinda) as a standard. If I knew I could view any *nix desktop and know exactly how to use most of the features of it I would be happier. It would make using Linux much easier. Of course, thanks to the flexibility of Linux, you can use many other configurations, but having that guarantee of having a good GUI would be wonderful. I know grep, ls, cd, etc will always be there, but also knowing what applets will do and what double clicking something on the desktop will do would be nice too.
Wouldn't it be nice if reality was closer to this analogy? Any time I got a nasty bug I could format my entire body... provided I make daily backups of important parts of my brain.
Seriously though, this is just another example of why computer analogies should be left completely alone.
for my brief stint w/ them, I found that Seti would go through in about 19 hours at home on a K6-2 300, but at work on a PII-233 it took well over 60 (prob closer to 80) hours to go through one. Don't use this as a benchmark, I know my machine isn't 2-3 times as fast as that PII.
I don't buy new CDs, but I do buy used. Of course this is much more related to my current financial situation, YMMV. Maybe something to consider if you need the parts you can't hear and/or have better uses for your bandwidth.:)
Is it just me or does it seem like they want to break up Ma Bell again to prevent a future monopoly? I don't agree w/ monopoly prevention (if the market flops then what?) but I can sorta understand their reasoning. However, I do think they should have given it a chance before they decide to regulate it.
"Exactly. Why didn't anyone bitch and moan when MS decided to inegrate TCP/IP into their OS's? They handily killed off Trumpet Winsock and the like with that maneuver. And yet, no one seems to mind THAT........"
Well, yeah, but you can actually uninstall TCP/IP.:-\
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If you click "preferences" in your left-hand navbar (better word for all the links on the left of every /. page?), you can click on the link for "Slashdot Stats" under the slashboxes (between 10 Hot Comments and News From Userland (haven't they heard of *complete* alphabetical order round here?!??? :). However, as I do this I come up with the message "The rest of the stats are currently offline while we wait for some new hardware." so you won't get all the stats right away of course...
/. server on the way. :)
Woo hoo! Bigger and better
"all it is is instant email. whats the point?"
Sometimes all I want is instant email. In a chat setting like AIM or Y! pager or whatever, you are always there. It's easier to talk to 5 ppl at once when there aren't 5 seperate boxes on your screen. Not to mention the fact that I can use the entire program from a teeny little box in a corner of my screen; the others use up way too much screen real estate.
...though I always turn off all the sounds. I wish the sounds were themeable...
"Apple did get one thing right by mapping cut-copy-paste-undo to the first four F keys."
...except when you're used to F1 being there for help, if anything.
"If it's so accurate, why can't we even figure out the exact day it ends?"
Because the real task isn't using it to count the days, it's comparing their calendar to ours in order to see when they match up. The first one I heard was Dec 22, 2012, but I haven't heard of other dates until now. Any idea where they get 2011 from?
"Did the creators of the link law ever stop to think about people with so called 'free for all' link pages? Or how about when someone has a link and the
/. be guilty of a felony b/c someone posted an URL? Or any site that allows posting of URLs... could the site itself be sued?
content of the site being linked to changes? So because someone puts up something that I may or may not approve of I get the jail sentence?? Sounds
like someone needs to pull their head out of their rear and get a kl00."
Thank you for saying this, this needs to be addressed before something like this could ever be enforceable. Would an AC posting an URL to
Not to mention that this has no bearing at all outside the US!!! If I link to a page that links to a page that links to a page with that info, am I in the bad? If those sites aren't in the US, it doesn't really matter, does it? Scary stuff indeed... thank the gods this isn't actually a law yet.
"It's in the fact that I have copies of MSIE 3 that swear blind that they are actually copies of MSIE 4 (this when queried via Javascript under oath). "
I almost had a heart attack laughing at this. Allow me to explain.
Some coworkers of mine are doing some freelance web design and are having a hell of a time developing for IE 5 b/c if you just ask it if it's Netscape or IE it will say it's Netscape. (though if you ask it what version it is it will say it's IE 5...)
No, y'all is still first person; all y'all is second person. ;)
"I'm speaking generically, because the telecomm and media industries are already intertwined in this realm. ATT owns cable companies, and MediaOne is providing phone services. "
;)
How right you are; AT&T owns MediaOne.
...or is at least in the process of buying them out. Anyone know if that deal has been completed yet?
The real problem here is that AOL isn't going to open up the AIM server stuff, which really needs to happen if they're going to get anywhere w/ this. If they had an open server standard this wouldn't be a problem at all; we could put up our own servers (or MS could put up their own, or Yahoo, or whoever). Of course, this might mean that there would be even more security problems w/ AOL screennames, but they should have seperated those out in the first place, IMHO.
;)
Of course, ICQ is still my favorite messenger so this whole thing affects me not in the slightest...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't IBM sue the original BIOS cloners out of business? They won their case though, so companies like Compaq could make clones. Compaq was one of the first ones to do this.
However, this whole post is only valid IIRC, so someone back me up on this... please?
"UNIX - is a great OS, how cannot it not be with so many years of growth under its belt? But Unix is so cumbersome to the average user that the apps
written for it for the average user have to be choice based, leaving out any intuition on the user . You can either hit this key or that key.
And, when Unix crashes, you actually have to make a trip out there because there is no way you can walk some average joe through a fix on the
phone. "
This is actually where it being a Unix box could come in handy. Don't want to make a visit OR talk the user through fixing it? Just telnet into the box...
Found something else interesting at The Register in this article. Looks like they're going to be porting the WebSpyder browser and calling it Embrowser. (Oooooh, aren't we creative ;) Has anyone actually used this? Could be more competition for the current version of Netscape (especially if it doesn't crash every hour and a half...). Still waiting for Opera of course...
Interesting comments.
I don't understand this argument against standardization. First you say:
"Try to shame the Linux developers into making a 'standard' Linux. This will hopefully never happen."
Then you turn around and say:
"Secondly, linux already has a standard user interface that is common across all distributions: the dreaded CLI. I can sit on a RedHat or Slackware or SuSE installation, type 'ls' or 'cd' or 'vi', 'find' or 'awk' or 'perl', 'ps' or 'kill' or 'cat', and get the expected result every single time. More to the point, I can use 90% of those same commands on virtually any Sun, HP-UX, OSF (er sorry Tru64), AIX, Irix, or BSD machine and get the expected results!"
My favorite thing we have is that things are the same across platforms at the CLI level. I see no reason why this shouldn't be extended to the GUI. There isn't any reason why we shouldn't expect something a little more functional than twm (even though it does work... kinda) as a standard. If I knew I could view any *nix desktop and know exactly how to use most of the features of it I would be happier. It would make using Linux much easier. Of course, thanks to the flexibility of Linux, you can use many other configurations, but having that guarantee of having a good GUI would be wonderful. I know grep, ls, cd, etc will always be there, but also knowing what applets will do and what double clicking something on the desktop will do would be nice too.
Wouldn't it be nice if reality was closer to this analogy? Any time I got a nasty bug I could format my entire body... provided I make daily backups of important parts of my brain.
Seriously though, this is just another example of why computer analogies should be left completely alone.
for my brief stint w/ them, I found that Seti would go through in about 19 hours at home on a K6-2 300, but at work on a PII-233 it took well over 60 (prob closer to 80) hours to go through one. Don't use this as a benchmark, I know my machine isn't 2-3 times as fast as that PII.
LOL... This is great.
:D
And yes you too can work for The Onion...
I don't buy new CDs, but I do buy used. Of course this is much more related to my current financial situation, YMMV. Maybe something to consider if you need the parts you can't hear and/or have better uses for your bandwidth. :)
Is it just me or does it seem like they want to break up Ma Bell again to prevent a future monopoly? I don't agree w/ monopoly prevention (if the market flops then what?) but I can sorta understand their reasoning. However, I do think they should have given it a chance before they decide to regulate it.
So if the FSF makes their own distro and calls it GNU Linux can we just end this perpetual flamewar? :)
"Exactly. Why didn't anyone bitch and moan when MS decided to inegrate TCP/IP into their OS's? They handily killed off Trumpet Winsock and the like with that maneuver. And yet, no one seems to mind THAT........"
:-\
Well, yeah, but you can actually uninstall TCP/IP.