- *BSD
- Mac OS X
- Mac OS X
- UNIX/Linux
- UNIX/Linux
- Linux/*BSD
- All Of The Above
- Mac OS X/X11
- Teh Suck
- Same As Above
- Not A Problem On Non-Windows Platforms
- Mac OS X
- Whoopie
- Weeelllllcccoooommmmmeee To The Ffffuuuttttuuuurrrreee!
- Mac OS X
- UNIX
- HOORAY!
- Mac OS X
"Since Google are the kings of search, they know exactly how much demand there is for EVERYTHING. They can sift through their data and see what markets have a huge demand and then dominate them. I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years Google entered new markets that had nothing to do with technology and surprised everyone with massive sales, all because they can read the minds of millions of people and know what they need and want in a way that no marketing company could ever even dream of."
I'm excited by this potential. Google's getting into the porn business!
The new power adapter with MagSafe connector is designed to magnetically guide your cord into place and disconnect smoothly if someone (else) trips over it.
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I think that's awesome. I can't tell you how many times I've grabbed my PowerBook thinking it wasn't plugged in, only to have the chord yanked out, or worse, have the laptop almost pulled out of my hands.
"The National Archives [...] will have to handle roughly 100 million emails from the Bush White House, up from 32 million during the Clinton years"
I'd love to read those emails, seeing as how we've gone from:
From: bclinton@whitehouse.gov
To: hclinton@whitehouse.giv
CC: agore@whitehouse.gov; tgore@whitehouse.gov; monica04329@yahoo.com; ltripp@weightwatchers.com;
Subject: omglol, you got to get me some of these!
From: gbushjr@whitehouse.gov
To: dickc@whitehouse.giv
CC: crice@whitehouse.gov; jbush@whitehouse.gov; lbush@whitehouse.gov; urnotapuppet@gmail.com; osamab@msn.com; cpowell@hotmail.com;
Subject: Are they for real? Can we attack them too?
Subject sayz it all, any toughts Dick? I think we can git `em.
> DYKE BOURDER OIL SERVIES
> OFFER FOR SALE OF NIGERIAN CRUDE OIL
>
> Dear Sir,
>
> I am President of blah blah blah...
"No. All she is "testing" there is how closely the desktop they're being "tested" on resembles the one they're used to."
[...]
"So, to send email... where's Outlook? Where's Email? What's this "Evolution" thing? That doesn't sound like email. Maybe if I open all the apps I can find, I'll click on the right one."
So, she's testing the... usability of the system? I fail to see how my comments weren't valid.
"I have been called to help, as a long time GNU/Linux desktop user."
My advice? Don't have someone who's been a long time GNU/Linux user assisting her. Chances are, you're fond of either KDE or Gnome. Before the study has even started, I'm alarmed by potential bias. Let her do the study on her own, gather the facts and come up with her own conclusion. Isn't that what Ph.D.'s do?
"[...] while I provided her a number of links on background information and previous usability studies on both DE, and advised her to subscribe to relevant mailing lists of both projects."
To me, the study is already flawed. You've dropped a load of information onto her lap, while a complete "newbie" doesn't have that same luxury. How can a usability study be unbiased in this manner? Who's to say you didn't provide her with REALLY good links to KDE information, while giving half-assed links to Gnome?
"OK, mod this down... Eric Raymond is the biggest f*cking prick I've ever met. Microsoft's worst nightmare? I doubt Bill Gates is sitting at home having nightmares about the arrogant gasbag that is ESR. I met him a couple times so far. Each time he was condescending and rude."
Yes, but did he pass the geek smell test? That's my litmus for nerdery. If he has that 3-day-old smell of farted burritos and stale Cheetos, he get my nod of approval. Otherwise, pfft, you're completely right.
"In our flash business, we had an awful quarter.... It makes me puke to lose US$39 million." -- Hector Ruiz, chairman, president and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices Inc., clearly not a happy man. is my fav.
It is rare to get such honesty these days."
That's not honesty. That's a CEO kissing ass, hoping the board won't fire him. An honest CEO would explain in detail why that division lost so much money, why it was his fault, and how he would rectify the issue.
I posted this a few years ago somewhere, and I think it still holds true. Flame me or whatever, I could not care less.
I'll take a stab at it...
Linux isn't truly innovative. The open source community, brilliant as they
are, can not make Linux usable for the desktop. What's that saying? You
can't polish a turd? They refuse to accept that Linux will never become
"prime time," not for lack of ability (it can be a very usable desktop), but
because everything open source programmers produce is already available on
other operating systems. There's nothing to drive normal desktop users to
another OS. But, it's free! So? My friend's copy of XP came free with his
computer! No, it didn't, he paid for it, but that's how he perceives it.
No one really cares if they can get an application for free. It might be
nearly as good, you get the source code, and it doesn't cost you a dime! Big
deal. Honestly, how much source code have you gone through on a Linux
machine? I ran it for nearly 4 years and I barely looked at it. Why? Because
it worked, and I didn't want to bother with it. That, unfortunately, is how
90% of the public probably feels.
Do you think your parents care if they get source code? NO! Computer
illiterate users just want to set up the machine, plug it in, turn it on,
and have it work. Are they going to recompile a new kernel? My parents rely
on the fact that when they go out to a store and see a program they like,
they buy it, go back home and install it on their Windows machine _and it
works_ (though sometimes I still get phone calls). If they're having trouble
with following a printed manual (which essentially tells you to run
D:\setup.exe), how are they going to handle apt-get, rpm's, or other such
nonsense?
Linux has no definitive direction. While the Linux movement continues to
grow, no single source can say "This is it, this is what we need. Move along
X path to reach Y destination." Programmers add this feature and that
feature, and while it's "cool" for them to add it, they never stop and think
"Is this a feature that's really needed? Will this be good in the long
term?" They are programmers, not CEO's or people who make business decisions
that will make or break a company. Programmers are good at programming, not
B2B sales, which could help Linux gain a foothold on the desktop market.
Imagine building a house, only that you have an idea on what you want it to
look like. Suddenly, your neighbor comes over and adds a door facing his
house so it's easier for him to drop by. Then you neighbor from across the
street lengthens your driveway. Someone else adds a skylight.
You can correct everything that you don't like, but it's on your time.
That's the Linux kernel. Great ideas, without a thought concerning
repercussions.
"Now I'll NEVER figure out what Kurt Cobain was saying!"
Totally irrelevant, but when Cobain killed himself the music station where I lived at had a Nirvana "double shot" weekend, where they'd play two Nirvana songs back-to-back. With shotgun blasts going off in the background when the music started playing.
>> "I also see MCE and some Linux solutions. The first is proprietary and the other two require work on my end to have something that both looks decent and might actually work."
> "So you dismissed the TiVo because it's proprietary and yet would like a DVR from Apple? I seriously doubt whatever Apple releases will be any less proprietary than TiVo..."
Re-read that first quoted sentence: "I also see MCE and some Linux solutions. The first is proprietary and the other two require work on my end to have something that both looks decent and might actually work."
He was commenting about MCE being proprietary, not Tivo. Granted, I don't know how Apple could be less proprietary than the MCE solution, but Apple's DRM is fairly easy to strip away.
"But with this web-based/AJAX thingies it is a bit a conflict of interest for Microsoft. MS desperately tries to jump onto the services band-wagon. But the truth is that their main revenue comes from shrink-wrapped software (like Windows or Office). They *try* to laverage that to other areas but they fail miserably."
I had to respond because you bring up a really good point here. I don't have the original author's name, but someone on/. posted about software services a few years ago, comparing Apple to Microsoft:
"Some columnist recently pointed out that Apple achieved in one stroke everything MS is trying to achieve with.NET, by announcing iCal and iSync last week at MacWorld. These two programs allow users of Mac OS 10.2 (Jaguar) to connect their PDAs, cell phones and desktop PIMs to a single database and publish them on the Internet, connect with the calendars of others, and resolve conflicts between the two.
In other words, while Microsoft spent two years talking about Web services and technologies, Apple quietly went about actually building them into a program its users will want to use. Microsoft has been announcing and releasing software for other people to build these Web applications, but Apple decided to lead by example instead.
No doubt the next release of Windows will include similar features, and of course they'll be more widely used than Apple's. But just think what might be happening right now if Microsoft had spent as much time creating Web applications for Windows XP as they did promoting them.
If a person could synchronize their PocketPC to their MSN account and Outlook at the same time, then reconcile with all their coworkers' calendars and documents, without having to do anything more than press a button, Microsoft wouldn't need subscriptions to sell the next version of Office or Windows. Instead they settled for getting halfway there so that they could sell more copies of Exchange Server and keep PocketPCs as expensive as humanly possible."
Look at how Microsoft is trying to compete with Google. Google search = Simple for the novice user, but jam-packed with options for power users who need more refinement. Microsoft has made a good attempt at implementing Google's simple search layout, but it's still not there. Take the damn drop-down menu:
Google: Search for 'Killian's' -> Get web results. Click the Images link -> Get images of 'Killian's' Beer
MSN: Search for 'Killian's' -> Get web results. Select drop down menu -> Images. Re-click Search -> Get images of 'Killian's' -> Note that every image is everything but the beer.
" The best way to manage geeks is with fences and cattle prods!"
I'm not sure which is more frightening... The thought of using fences and cattle prods against pasty geeks, or the fact you got moderated as Informative.
"The horde's new race, Bloodelves were an incredibly polished race with a promising future in the overall WoW universe while the alliance were left with empty speculation as to what their race would be."
So, kinda like an exact role-reversal from which the Horde is normally used to?
/plays Horde /misses the "fit and polish" the Alliance side seems to take foregranted.
"Why am I willing to pay more for music than I would for video?"
Just my opinion, but music has a MUCH higher replay value than videos or movies. I *love* the movie Se7en, but I only watch it once every 2 or 3 months. I listen to a bunch of the music I bought from the iTMS every day on my way to and from work.
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- *BSD
- Mac OS X
- Mac OS X
- UNIX/Linux
- UNIX/Linux
- Linux/*BSD
- All Of The Above
- Mac OS X/X11
- Teh Suck
- Same As Above
- Not A Problem On Non-Windows Platforms
- Mac OS X
- Whoopie
- Weeelllllcccoooommmmmeee To The Ffffuuuttttuuuurrrreee!
- Mac OS X
- UNIX
- HOORAY!
- Mac OS X
I can't wait! On, I guess I can...
I'm excited by this potential. Google's getting into the porn business!
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*blue screen*
Yeah! Fuck those people who are left handed! They should plug their mouse or tablet on the right side, just like everyone else!
Power Up With MagSafe
The new power adapter with MagSafe connector is designed to magnetically guide your cord into place and disconnect smoothly if someone (else) trips over it.
---
I think that's awesome. I can't tell you how many times I've grabbed my PowerBook thinking it wasn't plugged in, only to have the chord yanked out, or worse, have the laptop almost pulled out of my hands.
I can't wait to download the 324 widgets that will allow me to control XMMS, each just a little bit different from the last.
O RLY?
System 6, released back in 1985 seemed to have some very neat desktop accessory applications. Creepy, huh?
Well, playing the game in your parent's basement during the summertime...
I'd love to read those emails, seeing as how we've gone from:
From: bclinton@whitehouse.gov
To: hclinton@whitehouse.giv
CC: agore@whitehouse.gov; tgore@whitehouse.gov; monica04329@yahoo.com; ltripp@weightwatchers.com;
Subject: omglol, you got to get me some of these!
I want these for Christmas! http://www.big-fat-cigars.com/
To something along the lines of:
From: gbushjr@whitehouse.gov
To: dickc@whitehouse.giv
CC: crice@whitehouse.gov; jbush@whitehouse.gov; lbush@whitehouse.gov; urnotapuppet@gmail.com; osamab@msn.com; cpowell@hotmail.com;
Subject: Are they for real? Can we attack them too?
Subject sayz it all, any toughts Dick? I think we can git `em.
> DYKE BOURDER OIL SERVIES
> OFFER FOR SALE OF NIGERIAN CRUDE OIL
>
> Dear Sir,
>
> I am President of blah blah blah...
I hate being the one asking, but, I gotta wonder...
How many trillions of megabytes is that, in porn?
[...]
"So, to send email ... where's Outlook? Where's Email? What's this "Evolution" thing? That doesn't sound like email. Maybe if I open all the apps I can find, I'll click on the right one."
So, she's testing the... usability of the system? I fail to see how my comments weren't valid.
My advice? Don't have someone who's been a long time GNU/Linux user assisting her. Chances are, you're fond of either KDE or Gnome. Before the study has even started, I'm alarmed by potential bias. Let her do the study on her own, gather the facts and come up with her own conclusion. Isn't that what Ph.D.'s do?
"[...] while I provided her a number of links on background information and previous usability studies on both DE, and advised her to subscribe to relevant mailing lists of both projects."
To me, the study is already flawed. You've dropped a load of information onto her lap, while a complete "newbie" doesn't have that same luxury. How can a usability study be unbiased in this manner? Who's to say you didn't provide her with REALLY good links to KDE information, while giving half-assed links to Gnome?
Yes, but did he pass the geek smell test? That's my litmus for nerdery. If he has that 3-day-old smell of farted burritos and stale Cheetos, he get my nod of approval. Otherwise, pfft, you're completely right.
It is rare to get such honesty these days."
That's not honesty. That's a CEO kissing ass, hoping the board won't fire him. An honest CEO would explain in detail why that division lost so much money, why it was his fault, and how he would rectify the issue.
*sound of chair hitting the wall*
"What the FUCK was that?"
Totally irrelevant, but when Cobain killed himself the music station where I lived at had a Nirvana "double shot" weekend, where they'd play two Nirvana songs back-to-back. With shotgun blasts going off in the background when the music started playing.
How tacky.
Still makes me chuckle.
> "So you dismissed the TiVo because it's proprietary and yet would like a DVR from Apple? I seriously doubt whatever Apple releases will be any less proprietary than TiVo..."
Re-read that first quoted sentence: "I also see MCE and some Linux solutions. The first is proprietary and the other two require work on my end to have something that both looks decent and might actually work."
He was commenting about MCE being proprietary, not Tivo. Granted, I don't know how Apple could be less proprietary than the MCE solution, but Apple's DRM is fairly easy to strip away.
I had to respond because you bring up a really good point here. I don't have the original author's name, but someone on /. posted about software services a few years ago, comparing Apple to Microsoft:
"Some columnist recently pointed out that Apple achieved in one stroke everything MS is trying to achieve with .NET, by announcing iCal and iSync last week at MacWorld. These two programs allow users of Mac OS 10.2 (Jaguar) to connect their PDAs, cell phones and desktop PIMs to a single database and publish them on the Internet, connect with the calendars of others, and resolve conflicts between the two.
In other words, while Microsoft spent two years talking about Web services and technologies, Apple quietly went about actually building them into a program its users will want to use. Microsoft has been announcing and releasing software for other people to build these Web applications, but Apple decided to lead by example instead.
No doubt the next release of Windows will include similar features, and of course they'll be more widely used than Apple's. But just think what might be happening right now if Microsoft had spent as much time creating Web applications for Windows XP as they did promoting them.
If a person could synchronize their PocketPC to their MSN account and Outlook at the same time, then reconcile with all their coworkers' calendars and documents, without having to do anything more than press a button, Microsoft wouldn't need subscriptions to sell the next version of Office or Windows. Instead they settled for getting halfway there so that they could sell more copies of Exchange Server and keep PocketPCs as expensive as humanly possible."
Look at how Microsoft is trying to compete with Google. Google search = Simple for the novice user, but jam-packed with options for power users who need more refinement. Microsoft has made a good attempt at implementing Google's simple search layout, but it's still not there. Take the damn drop-down menu:
Google: Search for 'Killian's' -> Get web results. Click the Images link -> Get images of 'Killian's' Beer
MSN: Search for 'Killian's' -> Get web results. Select drop down menu -> Images. Re-click Search -> Get images of 'Killian's' -> Note that every image is everything but the beer.
I think Microsoft has a long way to go.
I'm not sure which is more frightening... The thought of using fences and cattle prods against pasty geeks, or the fact you got moderated as Informative.
Is the tech sector really that cutthroat?
So, kinda like an exact role-reversal from which the Horde is normally used to?
Just my opinion, but music has a MUCH higher replay value than videos or movies. I *love* the movie Se7en, but I only watch it once every 2 or 3 months. I listen to a bunch of the music I bought from the iTMS every day on my way to and from work.
Hi. Are you a fucking human? People will watch porn on ANYTHING.
Let me be the first to say it, but... Get the FUCK outta here! This coming from the industry that exploits the 18 to 21 year old genre?
Yeah, right....
Which virus does this Mozilla release include?