... Shark's Tale crashes and burns, and the Incredibles triumphs in their wake. With the exception of Shrek, Dreamworks has been playing copy cat to Pixar. Pixar develops a Bugs Life, and -- what a coincidence -- Dreamworks releases Antz a few months before Pixar. Pixar develops Finding Nemo, and Dreamworks comes out with a Shark's Tale.
They did so well with their only original idea -- Shrek. Given how lame ST looks in previews, I hope it spanks them into forced creativity.
... now the fear of losing money @ the workplace due to stress will cause more stress, causing more money loss, and thereby creating a feedback loop that will kill us all.
This LBA issue is resolved in Series 2 Tivo's (the one's they are selling for $99, or $89 if you go to Best Buy). I got mine up to 330 hours (two 160Gb drives). The sky is the limit at this point.
Certainly, the linux/windows PVR has the plus of being able to play other media and donwloaded movies. Although I can't imagine a full fledged linux TiVo interface hack isn't in the works already to permit this functionality (Tivos come with USB, and support ethernet networking).
Try hitting F8 on boot up of windows. Safe Mode bypasses the card's video drivers into a generic failsafe 256 color 640x480 driver. Or maybe you just made that example up.
wise advice. but most people, especially freshman year, end up with multiple roommates who inevitably don't care as much, and leave doors open.
Unless you are willing to invest in a safe (which will cost you a pretty penny, and probably get you wierd stares from your friends and rommates), or in laptop locks (which I guess you say is insecure), in college dorms the best way to secure your stuff on the cheap is security through obscurity. Hide the important stuff.
Yes, actually. That you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Come on, do you really believe that the windows development team would give that much weight and media time to a system that implemented find / -name $string -print?! And even then, that they couldn't hammer it out in a day? Please.
What they are looking to do is to integrate the filesystem into a database system, where files are organized not by directory, but by use/type/relationship. Even I have a hard time wrapping my head around what this will look like once it's carried out. What will it gain us in user experience? My gut says 'a lot' given the sheer amount of development time these people have put into the project.
I certainly feel anger, fury and loathing when simpletons critique what they don't understand.
Why "google like"? What separates google from other engines is its page-rank algorithm. I hardly think KDE is applying page-rank to local disks (wouldn't make sense). So then, the headline should just read "KDE plans search capability". Whoopdy do.
Argh... If it's really true, it's only if you run your user account are Administrator. The same is true if you run your linux desktop as root. Any program can overwrite your system settings.
I hate people blaming stupid user setup decisions on MS.
Saddest part about the whole thing:
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That even with all the caveats about the changes, most people will buy the DVDs. Giving Lucas another $1 billion dollar smash hit, and further shielding him from the truth that most fans, while they consume his movies faithfully, hate them nonetheless.
2.6.8 kernel so buggy...
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... Linus and crew are at work with yet another version of the kernel, this time numbered 2.6.9! Those people are so sloppy, having to upgrade the kernel every few months to fix all the issues.
Doesn't sound quite right now does it? Change the tag to SP2 and Windows, and we have a slashdot headline!
Mod me as troll if you like, I'm just trying to make a point.
As technology advances, and burgeoning industries like computer vision and robotics continue their frantic pace towards matching human performance, it's inevitable that automation will replace humans in most service jobs (food, cleaning, construction), much like it has done in manufacturing.
The result of this will be nothing short of catastrophic. There will be a massive unemployed workforce lacking skills past what automation/robots can provide. The chasm between the haves and have-nots will will widen. Do we become a socialist welfare state, to try to help individuals educate themselves for the higher skilled jobs? Realistically, our economy would break down if everyone were wealthy.Do we become like the third world countries with no middle class? This is all very 'end of the world'-ish, but I can't see any other result.
What to do? We can't set down laws to slow down progress, right?
I wish I had more time to set down my thoughts. I'd be interested to hear what other people think.
The US continually bought more and more weapons, which it would never use, so that Russia would follow suit -- until Russia bankrupted itself.
Gmail only has a couple of thousand users, so it can continue upping it's storage. Hotmail & Yahoo follow suit, but with it's million users, they asplode!
Well, if I ever got an e-mail from someone at hotmail that wasn't an odd neumonic of their common name, or with random numbers at the end, I'd be impressed!:) It's not the gmail that I'm psyched about (although right now it is somewhat impressive), but the fact that it's my nickname with no neumonics or numbers (I have a very common nickname).
Personally, I guard my gmail account as if it were more valuable than Gold.
I waited so long for the invite! And I got exactly the name I wanted, given it's so early in the system's lifespan. Now I bask in the admiration of other geeks as they receive my e-mail from gmail.:-)
I hope they aren't going to kick us all off our accounts once the beta is over....
The win98 comment was part sarcasm, which is why I followed it up by "Seriously, what ridiculously mismanaged system is he running?". Meaning that his XP system is ridiculously mismanaged if he's having so many problems.
What particular XP design flaws are you talking about? I'm not doubting you, just would like to get a better idea of what is tripping people up.
There is a lot of truth in your post, if I could I'd mod you Insightful. I would hope Longhorn is working on improving system optimality through time. While I rarely reboot, I definitely re-install every year or so.
I do take a slight issue with the Linux comment. We (I include myself since I admin some linux boxe) don't see as much regular maintenance because Linux isn't particuarly well designed for the install/uninstall usage common in Windows. Uninstalling a package you just compiled and installed can be a huge task in linux, since files get spread across many directories. Thankfully, RPMs and other package maintainance formats handle install and uninstall. But personally, I very carefully plan my linux system's sofware contents before building it, and after everything is set, most of the software changes are upgrades.
Other than that, linux is great in terms of maintenance. The FS is solid, and the modularity of it all means you can check out new kernels without killing all the other apps (differently from an MS os)
Does your grandma use Linux? I'm seriously impressed!!!:)
I set up my mother on XP, and she runs as an non-administrator user, with Ad-Aware set to auto-scan, Norton Anti-virus, and Mozilla. No viruses, and only the occasional spyware issue, which Ad-Aware catches, or a re-boot fixes since the spyware cannot write to important system areas.
As much as I hate it, my mom runs tons of little utility apps she finds on the web. If I switched her to OSX (a fine, secure OS, no question) I'd have a hell of a time justifying why she can't run all her little apps, especially since, up to this point, the few windows issues she's had are not show stoppers.
Why are Microsoft products so endlessly frustrating to use? Even techno-geeks like me get annoyed by Windows. I'm tired of spending the first 10 minutes of my day rebooting just so I can get to work. Microsoft Outlook 2003, the latest version of the company's e-mail and calendar software, hangs for me about once a day, requiring me to restart my PC. I also have a problem with Word 2003: Whenever I bullet a line of text, every line in the document gets a bullet. Asking Windows to shut down is more of a request than a command--it might, it might not. And recently, Internet Explorer stopped opening for me.
It looks like the author needs to stop running Windows 98...
Seriously, what ridiculously mismanaged system is he running? I reboot my win2k and XP systems maybe once a month, if that.
How many startup services does he have that his reboot takes 10 minutes? On my 800mhz machine (ancient by todays standards) reboot is 2-3 minutes, tops.
Although I've stopped using outlook and IE, in favor of mozilla and thunderbird, in the few times I have to use the apps for compatibility, I never experience instability.
Yes, MS products aren't perfect, but I hate it when people dishonestly paint Window's systems as if they crashed every 10 minutes just to make their point that XXX alternate system is better. OSX is sweet. Linux rocks. But WinXP is also a great system.
Infinium Labs is way ahead of Bill and Schwartz. But as we, all know the Phantom was built "By Gamers, For Gamers(c)", so this is not wholly unexpected.:)
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... Shark's Tale crashes and burns, and the Incredibles triumphs in their wake. With the exception of Shrek, Dreamworks has been playing copy cat to Pixar. Pixar develops a Bugs Life, and -- what a coincidence -- Dreamworks releases Antz a few months before Pixar. Pixar develops Finding Nemo, and Dreamworks comes out with a Shark's Tale.
They did so well with their only original idea -- Shrek. Given how lame ST looks in previews, I hope it spanks them into forced creativity.
Remind me how many times you've performed a source code check on Mozilla?
> That is some good pay man, and in view of all that whinging on /. sometimes I really wonder why no one took up that offer.
heh... probably because 95% of the slashdotters that trash Windows on a daily basis couldn't write an OS module if their life depended on it.
You should read the forums again! :) Just check out the Hindsdale how-to, for example, they now provide a new LBA-enabled boot CD with the mfs tools.
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This thread talks about upgrading w/ a single 200GB drive: http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.p
... now the fear of losing money @ the workplace due to stress will cause more stress, causing more money loss, and thereby creating a feedback loop that will kill us all.
This LBA issue is resolved in Series 2 Tivo's (the one's they are selling for $99, or $89 if you go to Best Buy). I got mine up to 330 hours (two 160Gb drives). The sky is the limit at this point.
Certainly, the linux/windows PVR has the plus of being able to play other media and donwloaded movies. Although I can't imagine a full fledged linux TiVo interface hack isn't in the works already to permit this functionality (Tivos come with USB, and support ethernet networking).
Fire up your bittorrents, people!
Try hitting F8 on boot up of windows. Safe Mode bypasses the card's video drivers into a generic failsafe 256 color 640x480 driver. Or maybe you just made that example up.
> lock ur door
wise advice. but most people, especially freshman year, end up with multiple roommates who inevitably don't care as much, and leave doors open.
Unless you are willing to invest in a safe (which will cost you a pretty penny, and probably get you wierd stares from your friends and rommates), or in laptop locks (which I guess you say is insecure), in college dorms the best way to secure your stuff on the cheap is security through obscurity. Hide the important stuff.
> Any guesses?
Yes, actually. That you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Come on, do you really believe that the windows development team would give that much weight and media time to a system that implemented find / -name $string -print?! And even then, that they couldn't hammer it out in a day? Please.
What they are looking to do is to integrate the filesystem into a database system, where files are organized not by directory, but by use/type/relationship. Even I have a hard time wrapping my head around what this will look like once it's carried out. What will it gain us in user experience? My gut says 'a lot' given the sheer amount of development time these people have put into the project.
I certainly feel anger, fury and loathing when simpletons critique what they don't understand.
Why "google like"? What separates google from other engines is its page-rank algorithm. I hardly think KDE is applying page-rank to local disks (wouldn't make sense). So then, the headline should just read "KDE plans search capability". Whoopdy do.
Argh... If it's really true, it's only if you run your user account are Administrator. The same is true if you run your linux desktop as root. Any program can overwrite your system settings.
I hate people blaming stupid user setup decisions on MS.
That even with all the caveats about the changes, most people will buy the DVDs. Giving Lucas another $1 billion dollar smash hit, and further shielding him from the truth that most fans, while they consume his movies faithfully, hate them nonetheless.
... Linus and crew are at work with yet another version of the kernel, this time numbered 2.6.9! Those people are so sloppy, having to upgrade the kernel every few months to fix all the issues. Doesn't sound quite right now does it? Change the tag to SP2 and Windows, and we have a slashdot headline! Mod me as troll if you like, I'm just trying to make a point.
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
I've thought about this issue for a long time...
As technology advances, and burgeoning industries like computer vision and robotics continue their frantic pace towards matching human performance, it's inevitable that automation will replace humans in most service jobs (food, cleaning, construction), much like it has done in manufacturing.
The result of this will be nothing short of catastrophic. There will be a massive unemployed workforce lacking skills past what automation/robots can provide. The chasm between the haves and have-nots will will widen. Do we become a socialist welfare state, to try to help individuals educate themselves for the higher skilled jobs? Realistically, our economy would break down if everyone were wealthy.Do we become like the third world countries with no middle class? This is all very 'end of the world'-ish, but I can't see any other result.
What to do? We can't set down laws to slow down progress, right?
I wish I had more time to set down my thoughts. I'd be interested to hear what other people think.
The US continually bought more and more weapons, which it would never use, so that Russia would follow suit -- until Russia bankrupted itself.
Gmail only has a couple of thousand users, so it can continue upping it's storage. Hotmail & Yahoo follow suit, but with it's million users, they asplode!
LOL!!1!11
Well, if I ever got an e-mail from someone at hotmail that wasn't an odd neumonic of their common name, or with random numbers at the end, I'd be impressed! :) It's not the gmail that I'm psyched about (although right now it is somewhat impressive), but the fact that it's my nickname with no neumonics or numbers (I have a very common nickname).
Personally, I guard my gmail account as if it were more valuable than Gold.
:-)
I waited so long for the invite! And I got exactly the name I wanted, given it's so early in the system's lifespan. Now I bask in the admiration of other geeks as they receive my e-mail from gmail.
I hope they aren't going to kick us all off our accounts once the beta is over....
The win98 comment was part sarcasm, which is why I followed it up by "Seriously, what ridiculously mismanaged system is he running?". Meaning that his XP system is ridiculously mismanaged if he's having so many problems.
What particular XP design flaws are you talking about? I'm not doubting you, just would like to get a better idea of what is tripping people up.
There is a lot of truth in your post, if I could I'd mod you Insightful. I would hope Longhorn is working on improving system optimality through time. While I rarely reboot, I definitely re-install every year or so.
I do take a slight issue with the Linux comment. We (I include myself since I admin some linux boxe) don't see as much regular maintenance because Linux isn't particuarly well designed for the install/uninstall usage common in Windows. Uninstalling a package you just compiled and installed can be a huge task in linux, since files get spread across many directories. Thankfully, RPMs and other package maintainance formats handle install and uninstall. But personally, I very carefully plan my linux system's sofware contents before building it, and after everything is set, most of the software changes are upgrades.
Other than that, linux is great in terms of maintenance. The FS is solid, and the modularity of it all means you can check out new kernels without killing all the other apps (differently from an MS os)
Does your grandma use Linux? I'm seriously impressed!!! :)
I set up my mother on XP, and she runs as an non-administrator user, with Ad-Aware set to auto-scan, Norton Anti-virus, and Mozilla. No viruses, and only the occasional spyware issue, which Ad-Aware catches, or a re-boot fixes since the spyware cannot write to important system areas.
As much as I hate it, my mom runs tons of little utility apps she finds on the web. If I switched her to OSX (a fine, secure OS, no question) I'd have a hell of a time justifying why she can't run all her little apps, especially since, up to this point, the few windows issues she's had are not show stoppers.
From the article:
Why are Microsoft products so endlessly frustrating to use? Even techno-geeks like me get annoyed by Windows. I'm tired of spending the first 10 minutes of my day rebooting just so I can get to work. Microsoft Outlook 2003, the latest version of the company's e-mail and calendar software, hangs for me about once a day, requiring me to restart my PC. I also have a problem with Word 2003: Whenever I bullet a line of text, every line in the document gets a bullet. Asking Windows to shut down is more of a request than a command--it might, it might not. And recently, Internet Explorer stopped opening for me.
It looks like the author needs to stop running Windows 98...
Seriously, what ridiculously mismanaged system is he running? I reboot my win2k and XP systems maybe once a month, if that.
How many startup services does he have that his reboot takes 10 minutes? On my 800mhz machine (ancient by todays standards) reboot is 2-3 minutes, tops.
Although I've stopped using outlook and IE, in favor of mozilla and thunderbird, in the few times I have to use the apps for compatibility, I never experience instability.
Yes, MS products aren't perfect, but I hate it when people dishonestly paint Window's systems as if they crashed every 10 minutes just to make their point that XXX alternate system is better. OSX is sweet. Linux rocks. But WinXP is also a great system.
Infinium Labs is way ahead of Bill and Schwartz. But as we, all know the Phantom was built "By Gamers, For Gamers(c)", so this is not wholly unexpected. :)