Math is evil. A requirement of math is what kept me out of college in the first place, and I'm sure it's prevented me from getting a technical job, even though I have the skills to do that kind of work better than the glorified sock monkeys that are doing so many of them now.
First, the "It people" do treat users like dirt... but it's part of who we are. If we wanted to get inside of the heads of the average user, we would be shrinks, not IT people.
But in fairness... our attitude also partially comes from people who are unwilling to learn anything at all. (I'd say about 80%)
These people act so stupid it's easy to treat everyone like you have to treat them. I've taken the time to try to teach things to users only to have them completely forget everything I've said by a week later. I'm not the best teacher, but I know I'm not THAT bad at imparting information to others. A lot of people are unwilling or unable to learn, and the only way to deal with this en masse is to treat people like they're stupid.
When is Apple finally going to overhaul HFS+? It's a decent filesystem, but it has quite a few drawbacks and limitations, including this "issue", if what you say is true.
Microsoft finally did right and made NTFS the standard. BeOS has BFS, and Linux... well, there's about 10 good filesystems for Linux.
HFS+ has been around since the early days of multigigabyte hard disks. In computer time, that's an eturnity. Come on Apple, the time has come for HFS++.
Multiple mice... that's actually not a bad idea. With the advent of USB, it's very possible. We already have multiple monitors, why not more than one mouse pointer?
I'm really glad to see this, as it proves that the BeOS community hasn't given up hope yet.
I'm one of them, and I don't want to think I'm the only one. Open source is good, but as far as Closed-source OS's go, there was none better than BeOS, and I doubt there ever will be. OS X might be it's sucessor, but fine as it is, it's raw speed is but a pale shadow of what Be Inc. Achieved several years before. I won't bitch about OS X, or praise Be for all it had that was good...
I'll just say again I'm glad to see the BeOS community alive and well.
Why not use a Gameboy Advance screen? The size isn't huge, but at $70, it's dirt cheap compared to most other options. The only problem is, I don't know what res it runs at... if it's not enough, you could use more than one, and it would still be very cost-effective.
Coming from someone who WAS homeschooled, you're full of crap.
I never liked being around people, and I still don't. The best way to learn to tolerate the presence of others is to get a job, not go to school. After all, most people spend what, 15 years in an academic enviroment, and 50 or so in a work enviroment. That is where you'll have to deal with "real people"... not in schools, (unless you want to be a teacher) but in your future workplaces. Welcome to the real world: your sentance: until you can retire.
I know opinions differ on this, but here's my $0.02 on the subject.
Yes, Mac OS X feels slow to me in day-to-day use. I have a G3-600 iMac with 512MB of RAM. Hardly a top of the line machine, but it's not man antique. I've run 10.0, 10.1, and lately 10.2 on this machine. Yes, speed has improved, but not as greatly as some will lead you to believe.
Actually, "speed" isn't my biggest complaint. It's _RESPONSIVENESS_. For example, my Windows 2000 laptop can have a dozen IE windows open, and I'll be Alt-Tabbing between them, and I won't have to wait for the windowing system to catch up... it's as responsive as I am quick-moving. I don't dare open more than four or five IE windows on the Mac, because the system becomes so terribly unresponsive when I have four or more apps open at a time.
I love using my mac, but I've realized that OS X cannot be responsive on this machine, it just can't happen. I'm saving my money for a dual 1.25GHz G4. Maybe then OS X will be as responsive as my 450MHz Pentium II was when it ran Windows 2000 with 128MB of RAM.
I'd compare OS X to BeOS running on a 180MHz machine with 64MB of RAM, but I don't want the rabid mac folks to start throwing bricks.
I hate for this to sound like a troll, I'm a big Apple fan, but I don't like having to wait four seconds between double-clicking on a titlebar and the app minimizing.
Apple should have based OS X on BeOS. I'd have given a very important part of my anatomy to have seen the union of BeOS and the best of Apple....
This only pisses me off more at the SciFi Channel, as I'm still annoyed at the mistakes they have made in the past. When they get a good show, they kill it. They produced a good fourth season of sliders before allowing Jerry O'Connel to leave and torpedoeing any chance at keeping the series running... however, rather than end it there, where it should have, they produced a sub-par fifth season. Lexx had good ratings, but after a poor third season (the quality went up immensely with the fourth) SciFi nuked it, once again pissing me off. The Invisable Man was a surprise to me. It was actually consistant and surprising, to my shock... as well as having laugh-out-loud moments more frequently than any other SciFi other than Red Dwarf. Boom, two full seasons, and it feels the SFC kiss of death.
Anyone else noticing a pattern here?
Also, I'm properly annoyed at the SFC's dropping the ball on carrying 7 Days, a show I and many of my friends quite liked. The science had holes, but it was more fun and less heavy then a lot that's on the SFC... however, the SFC let it slip into oblivion rather than rescue it like they did Sliders (which was the highest rated show on the network for both of it's two seasons with the SFC... right up until the last episode!)
The loss of Farscape is only the latest in a long string of stupid decisions made by the execs at the SFC. If they cancel any more shows, they won't have anything left worth watching.
Slashdot Mirror
Drop me an email, I collect obscure stuff like that.
I know I can't be the only slashdotter who's sick of all this "geek dating" advice floating around lately... can I?
Jeez, just because it's "the day the candy flows", guys...
Math is evil. A requirement of math is what kept me out of college in the first place, and I'm sure it's prevented me from getting a technical job, even though I have the skills to do that kind of work better than the glorified sock monkeys that are doing so many of them now.
Math BAD!
Both sides have vilid points:
First, the "It people" do treat users like dirt... but it's part of who we are. If we wanted to get inside of the heads of the average user, we would be shrinks, not IT people.
But in fairness... our attitude also partially comes from people who are unwilling to learn anything at all. (I'd say about 80%)
These people act so stupid it's easy to treat everyone like you have to treat them. I've taken the time to try to teach things to users only to have them completely forget everything I've said by a week later. I'm not the best teacher, but I know I'm not THAT bad at imparting information to others. A lot of people are unwilling or unable to learn, and the only way to deal with this en masse is to treat people like they're stupid.
That's just my opinion.
Where should space travel go?
MARS!
No one else said it, and I'm sure that sums up the plans of about 80% of slashdotters, doesn't it?
Is that an *offer*? /me ducks to avoid the projectile
I know they have a stake in the evil **AA's, but they make sweet toys.
'Nuff said.
Didn't A. C. Clarke say something to the effect of "The ultimate machine must have NO MOVING PARTS." In his novel "Beyond the fall of night"?
I always wondered about that. I just thought it was Japanease or something...
What do I miss?
Speed.
Journaling (ok, you got me here)
Compression.
Encryption (do they? care to tell me how?)
Not much, but there it is.
So... now it's OK to say yes to crack!? When did THIS happen?!
Kind of OT, but what the hell.
When is Apple finally going to overhaul HFS+? It's a decent filesystem, but it has quite a few drawbacks and limitations, including this "issue", if what you say is true.
Microsoft finally did right and made NTFS the standard. BeOS has BFS, and Linux... well, there's about 10 good filesystems for Linux.
HFS+ has been around since the early days of multigigabyte hard disks. In computer time, that's an eturnity. Come on Apple, the time has come for HFS++.
Multiple mice... that's actually not a bad idea. With the advent of USB, it's very possible. We already have multiple monitors, why not more than one mouse pointer?
Hear Hear... BeOS has the Best GUI I've ever used.
"pretty fast"?! What machine are you running?!
I'm really glad to see this, as it proves that the BeOS community hasn't given up hope yet.
I'm one of them, and I don't want to think I'm the only one. Open source is good, but as far as Closed-source OS's go, there was none better than BeOS, and I doubt there ever will be. OS X might be it's sucessor, but fine as it is, it's raw speed is but a pale shadow of what Be Inc. Achieved several years before. I won't bitch about OS X, or praise Be for all it had that was good...
I'll just say again I'm glad to see the BeOS community alive and well.
Keep on coding, guys... I'm with ya.
Because they both start with B you moron. :P
Why not use a Gameboy Advance screen? The size isn't huge, but at $70, it's dirt cheap compared to most other options. The only problem is, I don't know what res it runs at... if it's not enough, you could use more than one, and it would still be very cost-effective.
There are. I am one.
Not everyone enjoys fucking with software to get it working. That's one of the reasons I'm a big fan of Mac OS and BeOS, and still use Windows.
I'd much rather spend the free time I have playing with my hardware, coming up with new and novel configurations and ideas.
Software is only what enables you to use your sweet hardware. Don't forget that, bub.
Coming from someone who WAS homeschooled, you're full of crap.
I never liked being around people, and I still don't. The best way to learn to tolerate the presence of others is to get a job, not go to school. After all, most people spend what, 15 years in an academic enviroment, and 50 or so in a work enviroment. That is where you'll have to deal with "real people"... not in schools, (unless you want to be a teacher) but in your future workplaces. Welcome to the real world: your sentance: until you can retire.
I know opinions differ on this, but here's my $0.02 on the subject.
Yes, Mac OS X feels slow to me in day-to-day use. I have a G3-600 iMac with 512MB of RAM. Hardly a top of the line machine, but it's not man antique. I've run 10.0, 10.1, and lately 10.2 on this machine. Yes, speed has improved, but not as greatly as some will lead you to believe.
Actually, "speed" isn't my biggest complaint. It's _RESPONSIVENESS_. For example, my Windows 2000 laptop can have a dozen IE windows open, and I'll be Alt-Tabbing between them, and I won't have to wait for the windowing system to catch up... it's as responsive as I am quick-moving. I don't dare open more than four or five IE windows on the Mac, because the system becomes so terribly unresponsive when I have four or more apps open at a time.
I love using my mac, but I've realized that OS X cannot be responsive on this machine, it just can't happen. I'm saving my money for a dual 1.25GHz G4. Maybe then OS X will be as responsive as my 450MHz Pentium II was when it ran Windows 2000 with 128MB of RAM.
I'd compare OS X to BeOS running on a 180MHz machine with 64MB of RAM, but I don't want the rabid mac folks to start throwing bricks.
I hate for this to sound like a troll, I'm a big Apple fan, but I don't like having to wait four seconds between double-clicking on a titlebar and the app minimizing.
Apple should have based OS X on BeOS. I'd have given a very important part of my anatomy to have seen the union of BeOS and the best of Apple....
What do "they" use it for? Well, my 160GB drive is over 120GB full of...
DivX DVD Rips.
MP3s.
DivX encoded TV shows (a complete run of
lexx, minus two episodes)
Backups.
My "Stuff to do" folder.
Unarchived downlods (stuff you downloaded and haven't had a chance to burn to CD yet)
Need I go on?
Hmmmm... I wonder if you're right. Before Lexx got the axe, I would have disagreed. I'm not so sure I can say that now.
This only pisses me off more at the SciFi Channel, as I'm still annoyed at the mistakes they have made in the past. When they get a good show, they kill it. They produced a good fourth season of sliders before allowing Jerry O'Connel to leave and torpedoeing any chance at keeping the series running... however, rather than end it there, where it should have, they produced a sub-par fifth season. Lexx had good ratings, but after a poor third season (the quality went up immensely with the fourth) SciFi nuked it, once again pissing me off. The Invisable Man was a surprise to me. It was actually consistant and surprising, to my shock... as well as having laugh-out-loud moments more frequently than any other SciFi other than Red Dwarf. Boom, two full seasons, and it feels the SFC kiss of death.
Anyone else noticing a pattern here?
Also, I'm properly annoyed at the SFC's dropping the ball on carrying 7 Days, a show I and many of my friends quite liked. The science had holes, but it was more fun and less heavy then a lot that's on the SFC... however, the SFC let it slip into oblivion rather than rescue it like they did Sliders (which was the highest rated show on the network for both of it's two seasons with the SFC... right up until the last episode!)
The loss of Farscape is only the latest in a long string of stupid decisions made by the execs at the SFC. If they cancel any more shows, they won't have anything left worth watching.