> 'If you figure out which ones did the best and get rid of the ones who have no idea, you'd do even better. Distill it down to the people who really know,'
...and then disappear everyone who knows what they're doing, so you can hire clueless sycophants whose loyalty can be guaranteed.
A sword cuts both ways, after all. I fear this tech.
> Like a chess player that must see more moves ahead to succeed, the intelligent human sees the consequences of his/her actions more clearly than the one that refuses (or can't) think so deep.
Not chess. Tic-tac-toe. We don't play tic-tac-toe because there's no way to win. It's always a tie. The game is pointless. What separates the geek from the mundane is that the geek has learned, at least as far as relationships go, the lesson of futility.
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
> That's the feature that makes it for me, being able to close a tab without having to switch to it or use the context menu.
J1M.
*slaps JIM across the face with a trout*
That's the featue that breaks it for me. (Assuming you're right-handed), if you can mouse all the way up to the tab, you can Alt-F,C with your left hand and never touch the fucking mouse. But no matter which hand you use, you used to be able to simply hover the mouse over the little "X" that closes "the current tab" and close tabs as you read them, one at a time, with a single button press, and no mouse movement.
Wouldn't be an issue if cockgobbling ad-impression-hawking (but I repeat myself) fuckwits didn't split single-page articles onto 6 pages and deny us "printable view" options. But that's the world we live in. I want to get the annoying frustrating mousehandling out of the way fast, and read in peace.
A single "close current tab" button does this for me. Having to move the damn mouse for every fucking tab doesn't.
> If all of the tabs you want to close are in a row, then yeah, a single button in the same location is great.
99% of the time, that's my use case.
Pop open 20 or 30 tabs from various boards, one discussion thread per tab, and read 'em in sequence. One mouse click, and no mouse movement, per tab-closing.
Having to move the mouse to each tab would be a dealbreaker.
If, as the release notes suggest, "Power users who open more tabs than can fit in a single window will see arrows on the left and right side of the tab strip that let them scroll back and forth between their tabs", there'd fucking well better be a "close current tab" button. Because the misfeature of a single close button per tab just cut the number of tabs I can fit on a single window by half.
The open source model's greatest flaw is that it's incapable of doing usability testing.
> The Revolutionary war was, in part, to protect ou privacy from English soldiers entering our homes and taking what they wanted.
On the upside, the Third Amendment has yet to fall. On the downside, we're rapidly running out of amendments. The Third is arguably the only one still intact.
> Now you've got both feet stuck in your mouth. Let's see if you can fit anything else in there.
Q: What do you get when you cross Ouroborous with a Klein Bottle?
A: Jack Thompson, the only man who can simultaneously put his feet in his mouth when he's already got his head up his ass.
> You wouldn't. This would allow for more frequency allocation to wireless devices. Meaning more bandwidth for the rest of us and more channels to prevent channel crossover. Terrible problems in some apartment buildings.
Sometimes when I'm stuck in traffic, I pick up XM/Sirius broadcasts on (locally)-unused FM frequencies because people with wireless FM transmitters are leaking signal for around 10-20 feet around their car.
The obvious application for these frequencies is going to be a wireless device that broadcasts analog TV from an NTSC input source, and it'll be advertised as a "wireless DVD/gaming console player" or "make your old VCR wireless" gadget, targeting nontechnical people who (a) don't want to buy a new TV, and (b) hate that messy tangle of cables behind the TV, and (c) don't want to worry about their kids mucking about in the rats' nest of cables every time they want to play a video game.
DRM won't even be an issue -- sure, there's an analog hole, but the quality will be so downgraded compared to DVD (let alone HD-DVD/Blu-Ray), that it won't even be useful for piracy.
You say terrible problem, I say interesting feature. As long as my neighbors' pr0n collection isn't too kinky (and even if it is:), it'll still beat the hell out of broadcast TV.
"Cable is dead. Low power TV, here and now. Network 21." - Sigue Sigue Sputnik
> There may not be an easy way to disable it in today's email software, short of turning off HTML email entirely.
"The PROPER way to handle HTML postings is to cancel the article, then hire a hitman to kill the poster, his wife and kids, and fuck his dog and smash his computer into little bits. Anything more is just extremism."
- Paul Tomblin was talking about USENET when he said this, but he was right.
> > (WARNING, PDF Newspaper!) >
Made the front page, but below the fold.
> >I tried folding it. You owe me a new flatscreen monitor.
Worked just fine for me. Of course, I had to pay some dude shaped like a big red "A" L$30 Linden Dollars for something called "Acrobat 8.SL" before the newspaper rendered as anything other than a blank piece of newsprint.
Now that I've got Acrobat 8.SL running, of course, my newspaper renders PDF, but it also comes with about 30 plugins that drag around behind me everywhere I go, and the guy who looks like a burning fox and the guy who looks like a frozen weasel... well, they both hate me even more than they hate each other.
> By allowing only signed drivers it will make it harder for root kit crackers. I don't think there are many voluntaires that write device drivers for Windows in the first place, so the requirement that only companies can get a Publisher Identity Certificate is not that big a loss. The cost of $500 a year is not much for a company, anyway.
The cost of $500 a year is also not much for the Russian mob, or any other bunch of fuckweasels that want to sponsor the creation of a rootkit.
> I think this is more there are no plans for a sequel. That doesn't mean he can't come back to it five years from now, if he needs to. Nobody would permanently trash an opportunity that big.
The Serenity sequel is like a leaf on the wind. Leaf on the wi***CRUNCH***
> If a branch hits you on the head, but the branch wasn't thrown by a person, are you still knocked out?
Sure. But could you charge anyone for assault? Probably not.
I'm not defending the practice; back when suspects were guaranteed the right of a trial, the evidence gathered in this manner would be challenged and most likely thrown out. (Ironically enough, under a doctrine named after the "fruit of the poisoned tree"...)
Of course, if there's no trial, there's no need for the rules of evidence to come into play.
> "There is a certain level of knowledge snobbery in so far as if you talk in acronyms you sound like you really know what you are talking about and if others don't understand then they are seen in some way as inferior,"
It's domain-specific knowledge, and the domain changes on a weekly basis. I'll bet half the non-technical users who didn't grok the TLAs in the TFA would have no problems instantly recognizing "Bennifer" and "TomKat" or whoever the cute-celeb-name-du-jour is on the entertainment news.
Jargon comes from domain-specific knowledge. Language evolves to accomodate new technological and social developments. And the world's a better place when everyone is willing to play along.
So STFU n00b, and when the microcontroller responsible for integrating temperature over time tells you to do so, gimme my 4x4 with a side of animal-style fries. Because that's what I call enjoyin' the ol' in-n-out.
> Everyone who has worked on Star Trek previously, from the top executives at the studio to the guy who sweeps the floor on-set, is gone.
> >They fired Steve? Bastards!
But also in TFA:
"...the movie will most likely be a prequel featuring Kirk and Spock in their younger years"
So sure, they fired Berman from his janitorial duties, but because there a slash-fic author managed to sneak into the focus group, so they hired that Foley creep in his place.
"There's clingons on the aft nacelle, scrape 'em off, Rick!"
> "The study found that almost $2 Billion a year in productivity was being lost to these 'excessive indulgences'"
> >
How fast does $2 Billion get used in Iraq? I'm all for efficiency, but lets have it across the board.
A better question: What economic output are these DOI employees (and for that matter, our mercenaries working for private contractors at 5-10 times the expense of an enlisted serviceman/woman) supposed to be creating that's worth $2B per year? In order to speak meaningfully of productivity, one first must be in the business of producing stuff.
This is government work. Nothing's being produced, only consumed.
> Real and WMA? I think I'd rather just stab myself with an icepick. What the hell is wrong with these morons? More restictive DRM attached to EXTREMELY crappy players is going to somehow take the web by storm, despite all historical evidence to the contrary?
I agree. There's more to this story than meets the eye.
According to this article, the underlying hardware is based on the e200 series of players. That's interesting because the e200 's most distinguishing feature is its support for both MTP mode (yuck, Media Transfer Protocol means "works on XP only, and you can only transfer files by politely asking WMP10/11+ for permission") and UMS (woohoo, USB Mass Storage, it mounts like every other USB drive on every OS in the world) mode.
There's also been rumors of interest from Sandisk in working with the Rockbox folks.
I speculate that Real is paying Sandisk a small fortune to place Real-branded (and Real-DRM-infected) firmware on the existing Sansa e200 hardware. The branding of the player "Sansa Rhapsody" doesn't stomp all over the "Sansa e2x0" series. Sandisk makes money off Real's licensing fees and the hardware even if the programme flops flat on its face. Sandisk, after all, is in the business of selling flash memory, not MP3 players - hence why the e200 is flash-based and has an expansion slot for MicroSD. If you're a flash manufacturer, high-capacity flash-based MP3 players are a great means of not just driving sales, but for boosting profit margins.
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A sword cuts both ways, after all. I fear this tech.
Not chess. Tic-tac-toe. We don't play tic-tac-toe because there's no way to win. It's always a tie. The game is pointless. What separates the geek from the mundane is that the geek has learned, at least as far as relationships go, the lesson of futility.
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
"...and they get it good and hard."
*slaps JIM across the face with a trout*
That's the featue that breaks it for me. (Assuming you're right-handed), if you can mouse all the way up to the tab, you can Alt-F,C with your left hand and never touch the fucking mouse. But no matter which hand you use, you used to be able to simply hover the mouse over the little "X" that closes "the current tab" and close tabs as you read them, one at a time, with a single button press, and no mouse movement.
Wouldn't be an issue if cockgobbling ad-impression-hawking (but I repeat myself) fuckwits didn't split single-page articles onto 6 pages and deny us "printable view" options. But that's the world we live in. I want to get the annoying frustrating mousehandling out of the way fast, and read in peace.
A single "close current tab" button does this for me. Having to move the damn mouse for every fucking tab doesn't.
Hence, the trout. :)
99% of the time, that's my use case.
Pop open 20 or 30 tabs from various boards, one discussion thread per tab, and read 'em in sequence. One mouse click, and no mouse movement, per tab-closing.
Having to move the mouse to each tab would be a dealbreaker.
If, as the release notes suggest, "Power users who open more tabs than can fit in a single window will see arrows on the left and right side of the tab strip that let them scroll back and forth between their tabs", there'd fucking well better be a "close current tab" button. Because the misfeature of a single close button per tab just cut the number of tabs I can fit on a single window by half.
The open source model's greatest flaw is that it's incapable of doing usability testing.
On the upside, the Third Amendment has yet to fall. On the downside, we're rapidly running out of amendments. The Third is arguably the only one still intact.
Q: What do you get when you cross Ouroborous with a Klein Bottle?
A: Jack Thompson, the only man who can simultaneously put his feet in his mouth when he's already got his head up his ass.
Sometimes when I'm stuck in traffic, I pick up XM/Sirius broadcasts on (locally)-unused FM frequencies because people with wireless FM transmitters are leaking signal for around 10-20 feet around their car.
The obvious application for these frequencies is going to be a wireless device that broadcasts analog TV from an NTSC input source, and it'll be advertised as a "wireless DVD/gaming console player" or "make your old VCR wireless" gadget, targeting nontechnical people who (a) don't want to buy a new TV, and (b) hate that messy tangle of cables behind the TV, and (c) don't want to worry about their kids mucking about in the rats' nest of cables every time they want to play a video game.
DRM won't even be an issue -- sure, there's an analog hole, but the quality will be so downgraded compared to DVD (let alone HD-DVD/Blu-Ray), that it won't even be useful for piracy.
You say terrible problem, I say interesting feature. As long as my neighbors' pr0n collection isn't too kinky (and even if it is :), it'll still beat the hell out of broadcast TV.
"Cable is dead. Low power TV, here and now. Network 21."
- Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Tried that with the one involving the Cessna and the apartment building, and people looked at me like I was kinda weird.
"The PROPER way to handle HTML postings is to cancel the article, then hire a hitman to kill the poster, his wife and kids, and fuck his dog and smash his computer into little bits. Anything more is just extremism."
- Paul Tomblin was talking about USENET when he said this, but he was right.
The article describes it as "a mouse with a big head, ears, eyes and teeth that lives in a mountainous area of Cyprus.'"
Please take your hand of my head, Pinky, or I shall have to hurt you.
(Same thing we do every night, try to get the hell off this island and take over the world!)
>
>Must be a big bed.
It went well until everyone decided to do introductions and handshakes.
"Foley, Jack Abramoff."
Then things got weird.
If you're charging $500 for a cert, then the answer to the question is "The kind of protections that can be implemented for less than $500".
The minute a cracker can make more than $500 with one of these certificates is the minute those kinds of protections become useless.
> Made the front page, but below the fold.
>
>I tried folding it. You owe me a new flatscreen monitor.
Worked just fine for me. Of course, I had to pay some dude shaped like a big red "A" L$30 Linden Dollars for something called "Acrobat 8.SL" before the newspaper rendered as anything other than a blank piece of newsprint.
Now that I've got Acrobat 8.SL running, of course, my newspaper renders PDF, but it also comes with about 30 plugins that drag around behind me everywhere I go, and the guy who looks like a burning fox and the guy who looks like a frozen weasel... well, they both hate me even more than they hate each other.
The cost of $500 a year is also not much for the Russian mob, or any other bunch of fuckweasels that want to sponsor the creation of a rootkit.
And Deb and Ian have a rodent named Iceweasel.
> either that or slashdot is seriously FOS
Welcome to Slashdot! So, how much did you pay on eBay for that four-digit ID? :)
The Serenity sequel is like a leaf on the wind. Leaf on the wi***CRUNCH***
Sure. But could you charge anyone for assault? Probably not.
I'm not defending the practice; back when suspects were guaranteed the right of a trial, the evidence gathered in this manner would be challenged and most likely thrown out. (Ironically enough, under a doctrine named after the "fruit of the poisoned tree"...)
Of course, if there's no trial, there's no need for the rules of evidence to come into play.
If a tree falls in a forest, but nobody's there, does it make a sound?
If your voice calls are transcribed by a machine, but nobody submits a query to the database that retrieves your transcript, were you wiretapped?
Wait, are we talking Myspace here, or are we talking Congress?
It's domain-specific knowledge, and the domain changes on a weekly basis. I'll bet half the non-technical users who didn't grok the TLAs in the TFA would have no problems instantly recognizing "Bennifer" and "TomKat" or whoever the cute-celeb-name-du-jour is on the entertainment news.
Jargon comes from domain-specific knowledge. Language evolves to accomodate new technological and social developments. And the world's a better place when everyone is willing to play along.
So STFU n00b, and when the microcontroller responsible for integrating temperature over time tells you to do so, gimme my 4x4 with a side of animal-style fries. Because that's what I call enjoyin' the ol' in-n-out.
>
>They fired Steve? Bastards!
But also in TFA:
"...the movie will most likely be a prequel featuring Kirk and Spock in their younger years"
So sure, they fired Berman from his janitorial duties, but because there a slash-fic author managed to sneak into the focus group, so they hired that Foley creep in his place.
"There's clingons on the aft nacelle, scrape 'em off, Rick!"
>
> How fast does $2 Billion get used in Iraq? I'm all for efficiency, but lets have it across the board.
A better question: What economic output are these DOI employees (and for that matter, our mercenaries working for private contractors at 5-10 times the expense of an enlisted serviceman/woman) supposed to be creating that's worth $2B per year? In order to speak meaningfully of productivity, one first must be in the business of producing stuff.
This is government work. Nothing's being produced, only consumed.
I agree. There's more to this story than meets the eye.
According to this article, the underlying hardware is based on the e200 series of players. That's interesting because the e200 's most distinguishing feature is its support for both MTP mode (yuck, Media Transfer Protocol means "works on XP only, and you can only transfer files by politely asking WMP10/11+ for permission") and UMS (woohoo, USB Mass Storage, it mounts like every other USB drive on every OS in the world) mode.
There's also been rumors of interest from Sandisk in working with the Rockbox folks.
I speculate that Real is paying Sandisk a small fortune to place Real-branded (and Real-DRM-infected) firmware on the existing Sansa e200 hardware. The branding of the player "Sansa Rhapsody" doesn't stomp all over the "Sansa e2x0" series. Sandisk makes money off Real's licensing fees and the hardware even if the programme flops flat on its face. Sandisk, after all, is in the business of selling flash memory, not MP3 players - hence why the e200 is flash-based and has an expansion slot for MicroSD. If you're a flash manufacturer, high-capacity flash-based MP3 players are a great means of not just driving sales, but for boosting profit margins.