Well, the only reason I ever had to encode an MP3, was because my el-cheapo MP3-player only plays... guess what. ^^
Other than that, my whole CD collection is now OGG. Unfortunately I did some serious ABX tests, and apparently on my current set-up, I can't distinguish a lossless WAV from a 128 kb/s MP3. *cries*
[...] in part because of their silly naming and in part because of their poor surround support.
You really are serious about this, aren't you? I thought you were serious until I read this. So how is the surround support in MP3 (That is not even a name. It's an abbreviation. For a name that also contains an abbreviation. How stupid is that?)? (Hint: It has none.)
Everything else in your comment looks goo. So what is your point with this?
It is not hard to to get right, when you leave side-effects out of the language. Because of the determinism and independence from other parts of the program, you can easily split the code processing, and even cache results wherever it helps. Automatically. (Of course you can still manually control it.)
I as a developer, have already changed to Haskell (and Java where I don't have a choice). Which is my language of choice, because I designed a language myself, and then noticed that Haskell did everything the same way, only a bit better.
Depends on if the file manager supports it. Imagine a column for it. Just like the -rwxrwx--- column, but clickable, and togglable with the keyboard. But of course, not even the Linux developers have figured *that* out. Sometimes I have the feeling that the whole Linux desktop world revolves around imitating Windows. Sometimes even badly (aka. "simpler", which it is *not*). The Unix philosophy of small parts that you can put together, seems to be completely missing. I hope KDE can get to that with this Plasmoids idea. Although they are still very far away from the same usefulness as the pipe on the shell.
Well, there are Xerox, Microsoft, Apple, KDE and Gnome, and pretty much every other mindless imitator. Notice how the icons got bigger and bigger. I heard the new "standard" in Windows and KDE is already at 120px.
It is just as stupid as navigating folders by just being shown the contents of the actual folder, and its path (or even just the name). KDE is worse in this than even Windows. Windows had a default of showing such a folder window. But you could always add a folder tree pane, and save it as the default. In KDE's (3.5) Konqueror appears to be more a non-loved part of the program. Very ofter the position of in the tree and in the list view are not in sync. (Especially when opening the program for a specified folder.) Also you have to explicitly press enter, whenever you select an item in the tree view. Etc. In Krusader, the feature seems to be completely missing.
No, I like the concept of Norton-Commander-style file managers. I just think the list view should be a tree view. Controllable with the cursor: Up/Down: Next/Prev. item. Left: Folder up. +/-: Open/close folder. Right: ? (Assignable command?) Space: Mark/Select (and/or with Shift and Ctrl, depending on your taste)
A good example of this is the tree view of the Process Viewer for Windows.
As for the icons: If they are recognizable unique and meaningful symbols (like they are used for programs), and also comfortably accessible with the keyboard, they are rather nice. You recognize such icons, when you notice that you can disable the text next to it, without it being any problem for you.
You are right. What most people do not know, is that the price of oil did not rise because of greed. If went back to the normal market price, where it should have been, but wasn't because of greed. Many OPEC leaders were bribed and threatened, and gave away the oil below market price, at the expense of the people there. Then China came along, and wanted oil too. So much that the USA were not the sole client that you needed to survive. Suddenly they could sell it to them at the normal price, and tell the USA to either buy it, or GTFO. And they bought.
At least that's how it was told to me by multiple independent sources.
Additionally, how do they connect to their ISPs? Via Satellite? Because you know... landline is not available on the high seas.
And if you defend the new "definition" that the **AA fed you, then in my book, you are collaborators. Calling us murderers who steal shit on the high seas, just because we did not buy their crap, is insulting.
That's why you charge for something that nobody provides for free.
Oh, and I got living proof that it works.
In Germany, there once where tons of websites, offering free SMS, as long as ~20 characters were used for advertisement. Then some companies started to ask money if you wanted to send more than X SMS a day. It went down to 1 SMS a day. And then everybody started to ask money. And people payed, because they had no choice. The only free ones left, were totally crappy, not guaranteeing that someone would receive it. Often taking forever until it happened. And offering only X SMS in total a hour/day. Which were usually used-up in the first seconds/minutes of that hour/day.
It is not a stupid idea, because it is the only one that makes sense at all. You've made something that costs you money. You want to live from it. You you gotta sell it. Simple as that. The real point is, that the price and the money that it's worth to the clients have to match, for it to work. So if they go the way of the **AA, it will certainly fail. And this is what you "goodluckwiththat" people imply. But if they really put a nice price tag on it. (Like 1 cent per article read. or $1 a month for a subscription.), And then use that additional money to make their business work better, and then ask a bit more for it (2-5 cent for special articles. Maybe $1.5 a month.). Then they've got a working business model. The only thing they need to start, is news that you can't get anywhere else. Special insight. Exclusive interviews. Reporters traveling to places where no-one else goes, finding stories that no-one else has. And no bullshit about Britney or Obama ordering a burger, etc. Then you got something that is worth my money.
...that the whole "different species" theory was completely debunked. Seems the editors did not notice this. Which is quite a feat, considering that they most likely posted it themselves here on Slashdot. ^^
Legos is simply short for "LEGO(tm) bricks". Same as googling is short for "Searching with Google". If everybody understands it, it is more efficient. And humans are lazy for a reason. Because it saves important resources when you add it all up. So why not?
Hell, you could also ask us to call cars "auto-mobile horse carriages". ^^ (In Germany, we call them "Autos", stemming from this.)
It seems you completely forgot about the entire DRM/TCP crap. You know. You not being in control over the computer. Some random media company ordering a takedown for your graphics card (because someone coded a fast cracking tool that uses it) making the card run in safe mode only. And much much more. Adding to all the useless colorful clickable stuff that takes more power than compiz for no reason. ^^
That is what Vista really as plagued with. Not the religious hatred, that you made-up because you never read the facts behind the hate.
Well, I imagine the betas to miss many checks and stability improvements. And that stuff always costs performance. Think of it like this: Without: C. With: Java.
Then you might know where the speed went.
Or it could just be "special" testing methods at work.
and replace it with the "spaghettiscripting" tag? Because after having to use it for 5 years at my job, and having used many real languages at home and at other jobs, I must say that that is all it is good for. The interpreter itself is a total joke. Just as bad as the code it interprets.
I could manage to do things like put random clear text in the middle of the code (where a statement should have been. And the interpreter did not even complain or notice. put a simple string without quotes of any kind inside an expression, and PHP acts as if it were a proper string. Of course it even gets hairier, when the whole automatic number-string-conversion comes in. And the each() "function". Heck, it seems not even the developers know the difference between a reserved word, and a function. And most "programmers" who use it, seem no not care that "if" is not a function. They write "if(something) { bla }" but "somefunction (parameter)", as if it were a reserved word. I have even seen it in the documentation for PHP itself. There is so much madness in that thing, that I would deny a job offer, just because this were their language of choice. And don't ask me about the PHP5 in-class special methods (the ones starting with "__"), because I might pull my hair out, when remembering how just plain wrong the concept of them was, when trying to implement standard features, that PHP somehow just didn't do.
It is simply unnecessarily hard to code properly in PHP. So why do it at all? It has no benefit over Python, JSP, or Ruby. Which in my eyes leaves no reason.
You might break both of your legs, but hey, let's not think and just do it, right. And be proud of it. Right? Right?:( I don't think you'd survive very long, if natural selection would still work.
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Well, the only reason I ever had to encode an MP3, was because my el-cheapo MP3-player only plays... guess what. ^^
Other than that, my whole CD collection is now OGG. Unfortunately I did some serious ABX tests, and apparently on my current set-up, I can't distinguish a lossless WAV from a 128 kb/s MP3. *cries*
[...] in part because of their silly naming and in part because of their poor surround support.
You really are serious about this, aren't you? I thought you were serious until I read this. So how is the surround support in MP3 (That is not even a name. It's an abbreviation. For a name that also contains an abbreviation. How stupid is that?)? (Hint: It has none.)
Everything else in your comment looks goo. So what is your point with this?
And you were so close...
How will the computers in those "emerging markets" run Windows 7 anyway?
By the way, did anyone notice this?
95 -> 4
98 -> 4.1
Me -> 4.2
2000 -> 5
XP -> 6
Vista -> 7
7 -> 7
Or how do they get to the 7? Looks like someone is acknowledging, that Windows 7 is just a service pack, and what Vista should have been. ^^
It is not hard to to get right, when you leave side-effects out of the language. Because of the determinism and independence from other parts of the program, you can easily split the code processing, and even cache results wherever it helps. Automatically. (Of course you can still manually control it.)
I as a developer, have already changed to Haskell (and Java where I don't have a choice). Which is my language of choice, because I designed a language myself, and then noticed that Haskell did everything the same way, only a bit better.
But apart from that, I second your comment.
That would be the NSDAP. Or am I missing some "humor"?
We learned the handshake as YO/SUP. :)
Depends on if the file manager supports it. Imagine a column for it. Just like the -rwxrwx--- column, but clickable, and togglable with the keyboard. But of course, not even the Linux developers have figured *that* out. Sometimes I have the feeling that the whole Linux desktop world revolves around imitating Windows. Sometimes even badly (aka. "simpler", which it is *not*). The Unix philosophy of small parts that you can put together, seems to be completely missing. I hope KDE can get to that with this Plasmoids idea. Although they are still very far away from the same usefulness as the pipe on the shell.
Well, there are Xerox, Microsoft, Apple, KDE and Gnome, and pretty much every other mindless imitator. Notice how the icons got bigger and bigger. I heard the new "standard" in Windows and KDE is already at 120px.
It is just as stupid as navigating folders by just being shown the contents of the actual folder, and its path (or even just the name). KDE is worse in this than even Windows. Windows had a default of showing such a folder window. But you could always add a folder tree pane, and save it as the default. In KDE's (3.5) Konqueror appears to be more a non-loved part of the program. Very ofter the position of in the tree and in the list view are not in sync. (Especially when opening the program for a specified folder.) Also you have to explicitly press enter, whenever you select an item in the tree view. Etc. In Krusader, the feature seems to be completely missing.
No, I like the concept of Norton-Commander-style file managers. I just think the list view should be a tree view. Controllable with the cursor:
Up/Down: Next/Prev. item.
Left: Folder up.
+/-: Open/close folder.
Right: ? (Assignable command?)
Space: Mark/Select (and/or with Shift and Ctrl, depending on your taste)
A good example of this is the tree view of the Process Viewer for Windows.
As for the icons: If they are recognizable unique and meaningful symbols (like they are used for programs), and also comfortably accessible with the keyboard, they are rather nice. You recognize such icons, when you notice that you can disable the text next to it, without it being any problem for you.
You are right. What most people do not know, is that the price of oil did not rise because of greed. If went back to the normal market price, where it should have been, but wasn't because of greed. Many OPEC leaders were bribed and threatened, and gave away the oil below market price, at the expense of the people there. Then China came along, and wanted oil too. So much that the USA were not the sole client that you needed to survive. Suddenly they could sell it to them at the normal price, and tell the USA to either buy it, or GTFO. And they bought.
At least that's how it was told to me by multiple independent sources.
Just one question: Is he red?
Read my answer to parent comment/a), and then hang your head in shame, about spreading the MS FUD yourself.
The last paragraph is meant for you too.
Have you slept trough the whole thing?
Here's the complete and thorough analysis, that was mentioned in an earlier /. article as well:
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
I quote: "The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history."
Not GTFO with your arrogant "think-you-know-everything while not knowing shit" mentality, before I come over.
Additionally, how do they connect to their ISPs? Via Satellite? Because you know... landline is not available on the high seas.
And if you defend the new "definition" that the **AA fed you, then in my book, you are collaborators. Calling us murderers who steal shit on the high seas, just because we did not buy their crap, is insulting.
That's why you charge for something that nobody provides for free.
Oh, and I got living proof that it works.
In Germany, there once where tons of websites, offering free SMS, as long as ~20 characters were used for advertisement.
Then some companies started to ask money if you wanted to send more than X SMS a day. It went down to 1 SMS a day. And then everybody started to ask money.
And people payed, because they had no choice. The only free ones left, were totally crappy, not guaranteeing that someone would receive it. Often taking forever until it happened. And offering only X SMS in total a hour/day. Which were usually used-up in the first seconds/minutes of that hour/day.
So it certainly can work, if done right.
It is not a stupid idea, because it is the only one that makes sense at all. You've made something that costs you money. You want to live from it. You you gotta sell it. Simple as that.
The real point is, that the price and the money that it's worth to the clients have to match, for it to work.
So if they go the way of the **AA, it will certainly fail. And this is what you "goodluckwiththat" people imply.
But if they really put a nice price tag on it. (Like 1 cent per article read. or $1 a month for a subscription.), And then use that additional money to make their business work better, and then ask a bit more for it (2-5 cent for special articles. Maybe $1.5 a month.). Then they've got a working business model.
The only thing they need to start, is news that you can't get anywhere else. Special insight. Exclusive interviews. Reporters traveling to places where no-one else goes, finding stories that no-one else has. And no bullshit about Britney or Obama ordering a burger, etc. Then you got something that is worth my money.
...that the whole "different species" theory was completely debunked. Seems the editors did not notice this. Which is quite a feat, considering that they most likely posted it themselves here on Slashdot. ^^
Let me guess: You threw them at each other. And this is how it came that you have to stay in the basement now. Right? *ducks* ^^
Legos is simply short for "LEGO(tm) bricks". Same as googling is short for "Searching with Google".
If everybody understands it, it is more efficient. And humans are lazy for a reason. Because it saves important resources when you add it all up.
So why not?
Hell, you could also ask us to call cars "auto-mobile horse carriages". ^^ (In Germany, we call them "Autos", stemming from this.)
It seems you completely forgot about the entire DRM/TCP crap. You know. You not being in control over the computer. Some random media company ordering a takedown for your graphics card (because someone coded a fast cracking tool that uses it) making the card run in safe mode only. And much much more. Adding to all the useless colorful clickable stuff that takes more power than compiz for no reason. ^^
That is what Vista really as plagued with. Not the religious hatred, that you made-up because you never read the facts behind the hate.
The problem is, that people just buy whatever comes with the Computer. When is the last time you heard that someone bought a OS?
Heck, if they computer is from Windows MS times, they *will* still run that.
Sad as it is...
We should use that as an advantage, to get Linux on the desktop. Make HP and Dell sell it with every system. Then you've got some power behind it.
Well, I imagine the betas to miss many checks and stability improvements. And that stuff always costs performance.
Think of it like this: Without: C. With: Java.
Then you might know where the speed went.
Or it could just be "special" testing methods at work.
and replace it with the "spaghettiscripting" tag?
Because after having to use it for 5 years at my job, and having used many real languages at home and at other jobs, I must say that that is all it is good for.
The interpreter itself is a total joke. Just as bad as the code it interprets.
I could manage to do things like put random clear text in the middle of the code (where a statement should have been. And the interpreter did not even complain or notice.
put a simple string without quotes of any kind inside an expression, and PHP acts as if it were a proper string. Of course it even gets hairier, when the whole automatic number-string-conversion comes in. And the each() "function". Heck, it seems not even the developers know the difference between a reserved word, and a function. And most "programmers" who use it, seem no not care that "if" is not a function. They write "if(something) { bla }" but "somefunction (parameter)", as if it were a reserved word. I have even seen it in the documentation for PHP itself. There is so much madness in that thing, that I would deny a job offer, just because this were their language of choice.
And don't ask me about the PHP5 in-class special methods (the ones starting with "__"), because I might pull my hair out, when remembering how just plain wrong the concept of them was, when trying to implement standard features, that PHP somehow just didn't do.
It is simply unnecessarily hard to code properly in PHP. So why do it at all? It has no benefit over Python, JSP, or Ruby. Which in my eyes leaves no reason.
You might break both of your legs, but hey, let's not think and just do it, right. And be proud of it. Right? Right? :( I don't think you'd survive very long, if natural selection would still work.
Please. How do they have any right to existance, if they don't know that a big iron spike can kill them?
I say let's do it, and let evolution sort them out. I bet it raises the average IQ by 100% in just a year.