What the? CIA got mod points? This was a very serious thing! God you people are STUPID! Like in that quote:
(While playing chess) "You know what's so elegant about this little game, Jake? Nobody knows what the enemy is. They don't even know he exists. He's in every...one of their heads. And they trust him. Because they think they are him. If you try to destroy him... to save them,... they'll destroy you... to save him. Ahh... it's beautiful man... You have to admire the opponent's elegance. Check." — Revolver (2005, Guy Richie)
The same thing happened here. Way to go, people! Way to go!
You all have to give me all your valuable goods. And then bow before me. For I am an almighty godking!
Doesn't mean you follow that though, right? Same thing here. Any idiot can state whatever he wants. Does not mean he gets it. (Ok, except from some weak characters with no backbone or own will.*) Especially arrogant companies.
__ * I have a bad feeling, that this includes 90% of the population.
Well, you prove right there, how lack in imagination, lack in knowledge of physical possibilities, and lack of understanding my question proves that you are the very fantasy-loving idiot I talked about.
I never watched Twilight Zone. So I can't comment on that. Either I was too young, or it was not interesting to me.
Your Moby Dick example is a straw man argument, and I don't know if I should simply laugh at you, or if you are able to grasp the point, that what Melville believes to be true in that world, is not actually what is true in that world. Which is the very point of the book. He's fucked up (much like you), but he is not the story. He's a character in the story. One that is supposed to make no sense. And only trough knowing what is possible in that world (same things that are possible here), can we even see that he makes no sense. I guess when someone tells you that the floor is made out of water, you instantly start moving like you're sinking, right? Same thing.
You obviously put no thought into that Star Trek example. Because then you would have noticed that they do not actually travel faster than light, but bend the universe around them. Something which theoretically is entirely possible in our current theories of the universe. And: Oh yes! I checked this. Or else I would not have watched the series.
You see: Your simple mind once again trapped you in mediocre reasoning and false paradigms. Does not change a thing about what I said.
And we all strongly and specifically worked very very hard, to create, foster and support the lowest common denominator. Who would have died out in a healthy ecosystem.
It has nothing to do with it, and is very unfair to everyone who achieved something in his life, but we call it "being social" anyway.
So all in all, we wanted it, we got it, and now we deserve it.
Nope. They're doing it for profit. Everything a company does is by definition for profit. Or else they go out of business quickly.
This is just Apple acting on the trademark and lawsuit market, to grab money from Woolworth. Which makes sense, because looking at how this went in the past, it's a pretty good market to work in.
Seriously. If I'm even close to how fucked up those are, who direct the DHS & co, becoming a mole and after some time publishing all the data anonymously but provable, would be good for nearly everyone on this planet. Except for some fucked up bastards. Americans, non-Americans, all alike would profit.
I had the data to build a nuclear bomb back in 1999! Pulled it right off the Internet! Including contacts to buy the "special materials" needed.
Fact is: The data is worth shit. What's important, is the experience of building it with an extremely low error margin. One explosive going off at a tiny bit wrong time, and the whole thing never reaches critical mass. So you have to test like crazy, and work very properly. You also need the uranium for all this tests!
The plans alone are easy peasy. I could draw a working one myself right now. Would not help anyone a bit without really good and experienced engineers though.
Sorry, but I think you're confusing the crap out there with web design. As an ex-professional web developer (who did AJAX, two years before the word even existed, and web apps since 1998) I can only tell you, that real actual good professional web design and development is far from that easy. You have to know not only how to program well, you have to know the basics of building compilers (parsers+interpreters for whatever data you get in, which usually is in a messy special format), be a graphical designer, know chromatics, typography, usability, ontologies, psychology, work with a live/staging/workstation version management and sync environment, be good in Photoshop, JavaScript, at least one server language, RegEx, SQL and database design, networking, scripting, and most of all, knowing all the extremely annoying little bugs of browsers, that usually mean you have to be very very good at understanding race conditions and special cases.
Doing web apps the right way, is by far no easy thing. In summary, you have to be a programmer, designer, database developer and know psychology. And be good at all of them. Also if you're out for 2 years, you're done. Trying to do it again, is like starting at the beginning.
But except from the browser bugs and incompetent wannabe colleagues of the type that you mentioned, it's also really fun.;)
You missed GPs point. See we educated people know very exactly, when something we see is physically unthinkable and impossible. Which is what's the difference between SciFi and Fantasy. The thing is, that every story, every game, book, movie or whatever, as soon as it loses its believability, it loses the viewer. Like how the current Star Trek movie failed, when you saw nobody running away in terror, when Spock drove that giant mass of red matter (of which previously a tiny drop killed a whole planet) into the space-time rift / huge ship. Or like in Hellboy, when you saw that they obviously "flew" trough air from the explosion on invisible wires/strings, as if it were rails. Etc. (This is basic theory of story telling I'm explaining here!)
So Fantasy can not ever possibly be a good story for anyone who understands physics. We can follow bullshit like that. It disgusts us. And therefore loses us. Then again, if someone's dumb enough to be unable to detect its failure, he will love it. Simple as that.
And the same reason why "hypnosis" does not "work" on us.
Wow, the line an the end of the page is really fitting this time: "Shannon's Observation: Nothing is so frustrating as a bad situation that is beginning to improve."
Any of these I recommend over home/gaming/entertainment laptop equipment.
^^ I still can't imagine using a laptop for actual work. The tiny non-ergonomic keyboards and screen are just... it's not possible to take them seriously. Anything below 1600x1200 or 1920x1080 — with a DPI that is not so high because of such small screen dimensions that it does not make a difference anyway — is useless.
I highly and strongly doubt your statements. Because even assuming the fact that he can't possibly know "all the best hackers" (even more unlikely, as he's a Apple fanboi) does not matter, I think he's either living in a reality distortion field or getting payed to say that. ("Windows laptop hunters", anyone? ^^)
From my experience, a Mac is never ever an option for an actual computer expert, because: 1. The keyboard is as usual, a horrible horrible joke. More made for looks than for real usage. 2. You pay 50% tax just to get the Apple logo on there, while the hardware is way below any other laptop in that price range. 3. Stupid glaring screens. Also more made for looks than for real usage. 4. Pointless addition of MacOS for a programmer who uses Linux (as TFS states) and if he has to, Windows too, no matter what his main OS is.
Macs are all good and fine, if you are a casual computer user, or someone who refuses to waste time learning how computers work because his expert area (where he invests time in) lies somewhere else. Especially one who does care more for the looks and the dream that is sold, than for the tech. Which is perfectly OK in that case. But for programmers? That's just perverse.
Slashdot Mirror
For that, there is transparent aluminium!
Unfortunately it's only useful for superheroes with X-ray vision.
So after cat salad and hello cthulhu, now there's word salad and wharrgarbl too?
Man, where would we be without the Internet...
What the? CIA got mod points? This was a very serious thing! God you people are STUPID! Like in that quote:
(While playing chess) "You know what's so elegant about this little game, Jake? Nobody knows what the enemy is. They don't even know he exists. He's in every...one of their heads. And they trust him. Because they think they are him. If you try to destroy him... to save them,... they'll destroy you... to save him. Ahh... it's beautiful man... You have to admire the opponent's elegance. Check." — Revolver (2005, Guy Richie)
The same thing happened here. Way to go, people! Way to go!
And I state:
You all have to give me all your valuable goods. And then bow before me. For I am an almighty godking!
Doesn't mean you follow that though, right?
Same thing here. Any idiot can state whatever he wants. Does not mean he gets it. (Ok, except from some weak characters with no backbone or own will.*)
Especially arrogant companies.
__
* I have a bad feeling, that this includes 90% of the population.
Hey, let's call this "knife-in-wound troll moderation"! ^^
I clearly hit the bullseye there, didn't it? :D
Well, you prove right there, how lack in imagination, lack in knowledge of physical possibilities, and lack of understanding my question proves that you are the very fantasy-loving idiot I talked about.
I never watched Twilight Zone. So I can't comment on that. Either I was too young, or it was not interesting to me.
Your Moby Dick example is a straw man argument, and I don't know if I should simply laugh at you, or if you are able to grasp the point, that what Melville believes to be true in that world, is not actually what is true in that world. Which is the very point of the book. He's fucked up (much like you), but he is not the story. He's a character in the story. One that is supposed to make no sense. And only trough knowing what is possible in that world (same things that are possible here), can we even see that he makes no sense.
I guess when someone tells you that the floor is made out of water, you instantly start moving like you're sinking, right? Same thing.
You obviously put no thought into that Star Trek example. Because then you would have noticed that they do not actually travel faster than light, but bend the universe around them. Something which theoretically is entirely possible in our current theories of the universe. And: Oh yes! I checked this. Or else I would not have watched the series.
You see: Your simple mind once again trapped you in mediocre reasoning and false paradigms. Does not change a thing about what I said.
And we all strongly and specifically worked very very hard, to create, foster and support the lowest common denominator. Who would have died out in a healthy ecosystem.
It has nothing to do with it, and is very unfair to everyone who achieved something in his life, but we call it "being social" anyway.
So all in all, we wanted it, we got it, and now we deserve it.
Nope. They're doing it for profit. Everything a company does is by definition for profit. Or else they go out of business quickly.
This is just Apple acting on the trademark and lawsuit market, to grab money from Woolworth. Which makes sense, because looking at how this went in the past, it's a pretty good market to work in.
Luckily, only weak minds fall for the distortion field, and become mindless fanboys.
Unluckily, money weakens the minds of even the most stable judges.
...I have yet to see and DLL hell or dependency hell.
I'm by far no Gentoo fanboy, but I think the slotting works very nicely. I even have KDE 3.5.10 and 4.3.1 side-by-side without problems.
I wonder why they don't just create a ports/portage/paludis-like clone for windows...
So you would not use my new CyberCyber virtu@l e-SocialCloud Turbo iNetExplorer 2000 XFX GTX - Ultimate Web 2.0 Gold Edition?
Then you're forgetting the negative things that could happen. Like Linux declared a threat to national security.
Wait until you see a cybercyber! It's something that is steering, but in steering space!
Seriously. If I'm even close to how fucked up those are, who direct the DHS & co, becoming a mole and after some time publishing all the data anonymously but provable, would be good for nearly everyone on this planet. Except for some fucked up bastards.
Americans, non-Americans, all alike would profit.
Who's in? ^^
I had the data to build a nuclear bomb back in 1999! Pulled it right off the Internet! Including contacts to buy the "special materials" needed.
Fact is: The data is worth shit. What's important, is the experience of building it with an extremely low error margin. One explosive going off at a tiny bit wrong time, and the whole thing never reaches critical mass. So you have to test like crazy, and work very properly. You also need the uranium for all this tests!
The plans alone are easy peasy. I could draw a working one myself right now. Would not help anyone a bit without really good and experienced engineers though.
Of course I meant "We can't follow bullshit like that". No idea where the "'t" went. ^^
Sorry, but I think you're confusing the crap out there with web design. As an ex-professional web developer (who did AJAX, two years before the word even existed, and web apps since 1998) I can only tell you, that real actual good professional web design and development is far from that easy. You have to know not only how to program well, you have to know the basics of building compilers (parsers+interpreters for whatever data you get in, which usually is in a messy special format), be a graphical designer, know chromatics, typography, usability, ontologies, psychology, work with a live/staging/workstation version management and sync environment, be good in Photoshop, JavaScript, at least one server language, RegEx, SQL and database design, networking, scripting, and most of all, knowing all the extremely annoying little bugs of browsers, that usually mean you have to be very very good at understanding race conditions and special cases.
Doing web apps the right way, is by far no easy thing. In summary, you have to be a programmer, designer, database developer and know psychology. And be good at all of them.
Also if you're out for 2 years, you're done. Trying to do it again, is like starting at the beginning.
But except from the browser bugs and incompetent wannabe colleagues of the type that you mentioned, it's also really fun. ;)
Was it worth not having any sex at all during adolescence? ^^
You missed GPs point. See we educated people know very exactly, when something we see is physically unthinkable and impossible. Which is what's the difference between SciFi and Fantasy.
The thing is, that every story, every game, book, movie or whatever, as soon as it loses its believability, it loses the viewer. Like how the current Star Trek movie failed, when you saw nobody running away in terror, when Spock drove that giant mass of red matter (of which previously a tiny drop killed a whole planet) into the space-time rift / huge ship. Or like in Hellboy, when you saw that they obviously "flew" trough air from the explosion on invisible wires/strings, as if it were rails. Etc. (This is basic theory of story telling I'm explaining here!)
So Fantasy can not ever possibly be a good story for anyone who understands physics. We can follow bullshit like that. It disgusts us. And therefore loses us.
Then again, if someone's dumb enough to be unable to detect its failure, he will love it. Simple as that.
And the same reason why "hypnosis" does not "work" on us.
Wow, the line an the end of the page is really fitting this time: "Shannon's Observation: Nothing is so frustrating as a bad situation that is beginning to improve."
Great. In Germany the T400 is at 2000€?
On the other hand, this could mean that I soon can get my own Arnold for around 4000€, which is quite a deal. I hope shotguns are included. ;)
I think you meant
Any of these I recommend over home/gaming/entertainment laptop equipment.
^^ I still can't imagine using a laptop for actual work. The tiny non-ergonomic keyboards and screen are just... it's not possible to take them seriously. Anything below 1600x1200 or 1920x1080 — with a DPI that is not so high because of such small screen dimensions that it does not make a difference anyway — is useless.
I highly and strongly doubt your statements. Because even assuming the fact that he can't possibly know "all the best hackers" (even more unlikely, as he's a Apple fanboi) does not matter, I think he's either living in a reality distortion field or getting payed to say that. ("Windows laptop hunters", anyone? ^^)
From my experience, a Mac is never ever an option for an actual computer expert, because:
1. The keyboard is as usual, a horrible horrible joke. More made for looks than for real usage.
2. You pay 50% tax just to get the Apple logo on there, while the hardware is way below any other laptop in that price range.
3. Stupid glaring screens. Also more made for looks than for real usage.
4. Pointless addition of MacOS for a programmer who uses Linux (as TFS states) and if he has to, Windows too, no matter what his main OS is.
Macs are all good and fine, if you are a casual computer user, or someone who refuses to waste time learning how computers work because his expert area (where he invests time in) lies somewhere else. Especially one who does care more for the looks and the dream that is sold, than for the tech. Which is perfectly OK in that case. But for programmers? That's just perverse.
So you expect me to change my habits because of a screen, just so I can be a fanboi for Mac's type of PCs? ;)
Bonus question: Show me a programmer, who needs darker blacks in his IDE/editor. ^^
* Thinkpad keyboard — still one of the best laptop keyboard in the world IMHO
There fixed that for ya. But it's like being the best or something that in generally considered to be trash. ;)
The best keyboard in the world, no strings attached? That would be... the DataHand Pro II.