When you design your interface in such an annoying manner that it creates emotional pain, it becomes ingrained in the victims memory and the experience never goes away - and then you win! You win, Gnome! Win!
I felt the pain from the very first release, and after awhile, the only time I spent in Gnome was trying to figure out where Redhat had hidden the desktop switcher... this time. I could never understand why they would make THAT fugly, buggy, cartoonish and damn near unusable GUI (that managed to incorporate a Windows-like registry for settings, for gods sake) the default, with crud for other options.
Sorry, not meaning to troll, but I have ALWAYS loathed Gnome, all versions.
One of the main reasons I grew away from Redhat many, many moons ago.
I never quite got why HP never pushed the Touchpad for enterprise use.
I can't think of another tablet that had Java SE available to install. (Ignoring the Win7 versions running on x86, mostly reskinned keyboardless netbooks)
There are a...few... companies that use Java for many internal apps, (or at least user facing portions) and given the tablets specs it seems a natural.
I'm still hoping to score one Monday assuming HP still does the Ebay dump, the (sold) prices for the 32gb seem to have been hovering around $250, with some occasionally going for ~$150 for no apparent reason.
Perhaps HP will end up doing something "like" IBM, in the way IBM makes...a few bucks... off Linux, perhaps WebOS will get some traction and provide some return.
Yeah, if they want to avoid fragmentation, BSD seems the way to go. (CCL == BSD, I think?) 30 years later and we don't have distributions of BSD, we have 'branches'.
Absolutely, and all 5 users of each branch love it. >;- (come on, you know you wanted to say it )
I tried from 0930 central time online and around Dallas with no luck...
Well, they DID have some in Durant OK but they wanted $499 for it, and didn't care what Walmart.com said the price was. (Tried everything, store magnager... all inbred) I would have bought it if I had $499 free/available today, as sooner than later that idiocy would be cured.
I still have hope that one day, one of the star authors (Stephen King, Ken Follett etc.) will write a "Choose your own Adventure" book, or a text adventure. I mean, the concept is so great, but all we get are "You are the hero fighting the evil wizard" style books.
I agree, we totally need more "Evil Wizard kicks everyones ass and takes over the world" books/games;-)
Also note that the iPhone app works because THE AIRPLANE IS BROADCASTING THIS INFORMATION CONSTANTLY. If this information is a security threat, why did they create an air traffic control system where this information is public? If you can't be arsed to encrypt your own broadcasts, is it really shocking when someone actually reads them?
Slight correction---The aircraft is broadcasting this UNENCRYPTED information constantly.
There, clear definition of the real problem. If the Iphone can track it, making something else track it is likely trivial.
I have no issue giving the corporation the right to vote as an individual... One vote... With the same limitations as to contributions an individual has. (one person) and prohibition of lobbying expenses over some trivial amount.
Corporations have "owned" politicians for ages. Thats what must end.
I'll take a shot at it... at least based on how the US legal and tax system work. (sort of inherited from the British, at least loosely)
There would likely be protections from criminal prosecution (inadmissible evidence or such) at least until they found enough evidence OTHER than the list itself.
BUT---The tax man doesn't really care much to prosecute you. He wants his money....You give him the money, or he takes it forcibly.
You aren't likely to make much if convicted/in prison, so it's sort of a twisted win-win...
If you spent/lost it all and cannot pay him, then you may have a problem.
That's an expensive way to kill goats and scare the crap out of the guys that left the place two days ago and pisses off the neutrals downwind enough for them to take up arms. The idea fails on every single level even if you have zero morals.
The FAEs don't have fallout... and can have almost the same effect as a tactical nuke, particluarly so if you are hiding in a cave in the blast zone.
Some people cannot appreciate a decent ludicrous example when they see one.;-)
The entire point of American warfare is to expend as much ammunition as possible so to stick the American public with the biggest bill possible. A 13 meter margin of error means you can justify using three guided missiles instead of one. How does a military contractor not see the benefit of that? How are they supposed to create business for you if you're tying them up in court!
These clowns can't possibly think they're actually looking for WMD's and Osama Bin Laden could they? They're looking for an intractable enemy to spend billions trying to irradicate, and they've found them in the Taliban, just like Isreal found the Palestinians. Spooky sneaky "bad guys" are literally booming business.
The enemy is only intractable due to the fact that we still have some morals and desperately try to keel collateral damage to a minimum. This is also what drives the expensive drive for new toys. If we could just nuke or FAE then bulldoze the whole place it would be cheaper.
The Taleban do not have any regard for human life, so they don't have that issue...quite the opposite. Drug dealers are like that.
Because color laser 'photo quality" prints look like modern inkjet prints set to "fast draft"?
My experience is more the opposite. A decent color laser printer produces photo quality prints at about eight pages per minute. A typical inkjet printer produces comparable quality prints about 100 times that slow. Anything an inkjet produces in a reasonable amount of time makes dot matrix printers look like an improvement. Ugliest prints on the planet, ink spatter and all.
Who said anything about speed? Speed is not really the issue either unless you're printing many copies, which is silly to do at home on ~anything esp inkjets. If I need 100 full size color photos I'm hitting Walmart/CVS/Kinkos(or whatever it's called now).
I have yet to see any ink splatter on anything in the last 10 years, even at work that's unusual.
I tried Epson last, no replaceable printhead and going on vacation killed it, I liked Canon, but no factory Linux support, or on recent machines. HP printers rock w/linux support, and seems reliable so far, at least if you buy something decent.
The next setup I buy will be a business class all in one though, the consumer grade machines... You get what you pay for.
Colour laser printers are under $200, and the toner cartridges last a hell of a long time. Why is anyone buying ink-based printers?
Because color laser 'photo quality" prints look like modern inkjet prints set to "fast draft"?
As said before, Wagreens/Walmart are really the best option for really nice photo prints... but at home, a good quality in jet on glossy "photo paper" has a great deal of wife approval factor.
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When you design your interface in such an annoying manner that it creates emotional pain, it becomes ingrained in the victims memory and the experience never goes away - and then you win! You win, Gnome! Win!
I felt the pain from the very first release, and after awhile, the only time I spent in Gnome was trying to figure out where Redhat had hidden the desktop switcher... this time. I could never understand why they would make THAT fugly, buggy, cartoonish and damn near unusable GUI (that managed to incorporate a Windows-like registry for settings, for gods sake) the default, with crud for other options.
Sorry, not meaning to troll, but I have ALWAYS loathed Gnome, all versions.
One of the main reasons I grew away from Redhat many, many moons ago.
So much for internet polls, eh? The sheeple rule.
I never quite got why HP never pushed the Touchpad for enterprise use.
I can't think of another tablet that had Java SE available to install.
(Ignoring the Win7 versions running on x86, mostly reskinned keyboardless netbooks)
There are a ...few... companies that use Java for many internal apps, (or at least user facing portions) and given the tablets specs it seems a natural.
I'm still hoping to score one Monday assuming HP still does the Ebay dump, the (sold) prices for the 32gb seem to have been hovering around $250, with some occasionally going for ~$150 for no apparent reason.
Perhaps HP will end up doing something "like" IBM, in the way IBM makes ...a few bucks... off Linux, perhaps WebOS will get some traction and provide some return.
Yeah, if they want to avoid fragmentation, BSD seems the way to go. (CCL == BSD, I think?) 30 years later and we don't have distributions of BSD, we have 'branches'.
Absolutely, and all 5 users of each branch love it. >;-
(come on, you know you wanted to say it )
Hopefully HPs Chinese suppliers will be pissed enough to release this hardware for sale at a sane price, with Ubuntu/Android dual boot.
WebOS LOOKS excellent, and Debian/Ubuntu chroots are well done, and the hardware specs are top of the current heap.
Someone also supposedly has Honeycomb running on it.
I tried from 0930 central time online and around Dallas with no luck...
Well, they DID have some in Durant OK but they wanted $499 for it, and didn't care what Walmart.com said the price was.
(Tried everything, store magnager... all inbred)
I would have bought it if I had $499 free/available today, as sooner than later that idiocy would be cured.
Slim Pickens was simply playing a defense contractor in a tech support ride.
You do what you have to do to get the job done. >:)
Aye. A Kinect would be a great tool/controller for a computer.
Then again, maybe that's it - they don't want the computer to have one more way to compete with the 360.
Aye. A Kinect would be a great tool/controller for a computer.
Then again, maybe that's it - they don't want the computer to have one more way to compete with the 360.
No, it may mean MS is subsidizing the units (at least initially) and doesn't want to lose money on extra sales that aren't linked to an XBox.
I still have hope that one day, one of the star authors (Stephen King, Ken Follett etc.) will write a "Choose your own Adventure" book, or a text adventure. I mean, the concept is so great, but all we get are "You are the hero fighting the evil wizard" style books.
I agree, we totally need more "Evil Wizard kicks everyones ass and takes over the world" books/games ;-)
(Love the idea of a King et. al. text adventure)
Also note that the iPhone app works because THE AIRPLANE IS BROADCASTING THIS INFORMATION CONSTANTLY. If this information is a security threat, why did they create an air traffic control system where this information is public? If you can't be arsed to encrypt your own broadcasts, is it really shocking when someone actually reads them?
Slight correction---The aircraft is broadcasting this UNENCRYPTED information constantly.
There, clear definition of the real problem.
If the Iphone can track it, making something else track it is likely trivial.
Wasting a mod point to reply... Yes.
I have no issue giving the corporation the right to vote as an individual... One vote...
With the same limitations as to contributions an individual has. (one person) and prohibition of lobbying expenses over some trivial amount.
Corporations have "owned" politicians for ages. Thats what must end.
Here's what a "person" can contribute... Lobbying expenses perhaps should fall under these caps.
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/thepoliticalsystem/a/contriblaws.htm
I'll take a shot at it... at least based on how the US legal and tax system work. (sort of inherited from the British, at least loosely)
There would likely be protections from criminal prosecution (inadmissible evidence or such) at least until they found enough evidence OTHER than the list itself.
BUT---The tax man doesn't really care much to prosecute you. ...You give him the money, or he takes it forcibly.
He wants his money.
You aren't likely to make much if convicted/in prison, so it's sort of a twisted win-win...
If you spent/lost it all and cannot pay him, then you may have a problem.
Right, but Netflix sends DVDs, not Syquest discs.
Besides, don't we have to scrap a bunch of them for the new START treaty?
They have a "use by date". Cmon... ;-)
That's an expensive way to kill goats and scare the crap out of the guys that left the place two days ago and pisses off the neutrals downwind enough for them to take up arms.
The idea fails on every single level even if you have zero morals.
The FAEs don't have fallout... and can have almost the same effect as a tactical nuke, particluarly so if you are hiding in a cave in the blast zone.
Some people cannot appreciate a decent ludicrous example when they see one. ;-)
The entire point of American warfare is to expend as much ammunition as possible so to stick the American public with the biggest bill possible. A 13 meter margin of error means you can justify using three guided missiles instead of one. How does a military contractor not see the benefit of that? How are they supposed to create business for you if you're tying them up in court!
These clowns can't possibly think they're actually looking for WMD's and Osama Bin Laden could they? They're looking for an intractable enemy to spend billions trying to irradicate, and they've found them in the Taliban, just like Isreal found the Palestinians. Spooky sneaky "bad guys" are literally booming business.
The enemy is only intractable due to the fact that we still have some morals and desperately try to keel collateral damage to a minimum.
This is also what drives the expensive drive for new toys.
If we could just nuke or FAE then bulldoze the whole place it would be cheaper.
The Taleban do not have any regard for human life, so they don't have that issue...quite the opposite.
Drug dealers are like that.
1) US creates military drones used in Pakistan.
2) Drones are controlled using software.
3) Software company that writes drone software is bought by IBM.
4) Software can now, potentially, be outsourced to IBM development personnel in um, Pakistan.
Is it just me, or is something wrong with this picture?
Don't ask me, before I followed the links, I was trying to figure out how IBM bought the CIA ;-)
They showed us the dangers of exposing the ruling class to lead for generations.
They also highlighted the effect of close inbreeding in the ruling class for generations...
(the southern republicans should take note ) //troll ;-)
If you buy a 200euro amd you get the best bang for your buck. If you buy a 800 euro Intel you get more bang but pay more bucks per bang.
That's all very well, but how many bangs could a bangbuck buck if a bangbuck could bang bucks?
Pathetic losers, everyone know the answer is 42 ;-)
When was the last time you used the DVD drive? We're close to not needing them as it stands today.
Every time I ri---err... watch a DVD of course ;-)
Sorry, 600 dpi doesn't cut it for printing photos.
Maybe 20 years ago.
2400dpi (+ dithering) DOES, even if you just use it to proof what you are taking to Walmarts photolab for printing.
Don't get me wrong--- Color lasers are wonderful for what they are for.
They are NOT ideal for photo printing---Not their strong point at all.
Because color laser 'photo quality" prints look like modern inkjet prints set to "fast draft"?
My experience is more the opposite. A decent color laser printer produces photo quality prints at about eight pages per minute. A typical inkjet printer produces comparable quality prints about 100 times that slow. Anything an inkjet produces in a reasonable amount of time makes dot matrix printers look like an improvement. Ugliest prints on the planet, ink spatter and all.
Who said anything about speed?
Speed is not really the issue either unless you're printing many copies, which is silly to do at home on ~anything esp inkjets.
If I need 100 full size color photos I'm hitting Walmart/CVS/Kinkos(or whatever it's called now).
I have yet to see any ink splatter on anything in the last 10 years, even at work that's unusual.
I tried Epson last, no replaceable printhead and going on vacation killed it, I liked Canon, but no factory Linux support, or on recent machines.
HP printers rock w/linux support, and seems reliable so far, at least if you buy something decent.
The next setup I buy will be a business class all in one though, the consumer grade machines ... You get what you pay for.
Colour laser printers are under $200, and the toner cartridges last a hell of a long time. Why is anyone buying ink-based printers?
Because color laser 'photo quality" prints look like modern inkjet prints set to "fast draft"?
As said before, Wagreens/Walmart are really the best option for really nice photo prints... but at home, a good quality in jet on glossy "photo paper" has a great deal of wife approval factor.
You try shooting accurately from a platform that's bobbing.
OTOH, consider chasing a ship in a rubber raft with a couple guys with 50 cals shooting at you...
I'd consider looking for another target immediately.
"I want to understand how they justify their employment. "
Perhaps because they missed the memo where they were supposed to give a tinkers damn what you think?
As an addition:
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H. L. Mencken