I also go to amazon quite a bit, but for book reviews I usually go to other sites like goodreads.com. However, for music, the sound bites usually give you a pretty good idea of whether or not you want to buy it. I've made a couple of bad purchases with that, but on the whole it works well.
...violence is inherently anti-social...... you've still got a screw loose.
Indeed. And I guess we'll find out pretty soon just how understanding everyone is when they catch this person. From TFS, the following stands out:
...the sheer volume and different proprietary formats of video from security cameras, mobile devices, and media groups. Ultimately this will be a case study in whether an individual bent on destruction can remain anonymous in an era of digital surveillance, social media, and crowdsourcing.
...as meaning just one thing. We have a lynch mob here.
Seriously, the whole point of being married is to become one, in all ways imaginable.
That can be argued both ways, but it is certainly the case that it is often simpler and easier to have joint finances. My wife and I have done so for 28 years, pretty much since we first met (4 years before we actually got around to getting married).
Whether or not a bank or credit card account is under one or both of our names is immaterial if it's the same pool of money. And many sites, like Amazon, are not particularly amenable to dealing with multiple identities on the one account.
Software makers sticking their finger in their ears?... sounds just like the GNOME3 story:)
You're not wrong. I was a big fan of Gnome from early days (while KDE was mostly Kluttered and Kfucking Khorrible). Now the tables have turned, and KDE appears to have learned from the mistakes of the early KDE4 implementation to produce a truly excellent UI, while Gnome has become utterly unusable.
An open source operating system that has been shunned by practically all software companies which provide the software used by professionals.
Linux has been powerful and stable enough to underpin the server market for coming up to two decades. If those commercial software companies chose to hitch their wagon to one horse without taking the time to consider any of the alternatives, then they deserve to fail.
Too bad: Business Management 101. They'll get no sympathy from me.
Apple, for a while, looked like it was doing OK with its unixy features under the hood (and to be fair, Macports are still useful), but its business model has become steadily uglier as its fund of innovative ideas has dwindled.
Eventually, I would not be surprised if we saw a repeat of the SCO debacle where the only thing Microsoft and Apple are left to work with is the potential gains from litigation over their portfolio of patents.
Hell, anyone running XP now will most probably be doing so five years from now, regardless of whatever MS might say about its EOL. One way or another, it makes no difference to me: I've been running Linux (yes, on the desktop) since 1995.
By way of an alternative that won't get you into trouble, I was told once by a Telstra RF tech that one of the most intractable problems he had encountered with cellphone reception had been in a small pine forest. Apparently (he supposed) the pine needles form some sort of diffraction grating that make reception really difficult.
It is also likely, that there has never been at time that MOST people have worn a watch, even in the 90's.
Err, the '90s weren't that long ago. Back in the '60s and '70s, I would say at least 90% of people (in the Western world) wore watches. (And yes, I am that old, and my memory is unimpaired,)
If you care about the karma, then you shouldn't, if you're here for the right reasons.
(And even more OT: FWIW, my karma has been maxed out since it used to be a decimal integer, and I couldn't care less if this post gets knocked down to -1.)
Not quite. I'm here. And I have never posted as AC. The simple truth is that if one cares enough not to want to land up in negative karma exile, then one shouldn't behave like an asswipe. My contention is that the ability to post as AC (generally) encourages trolls and asswipes. An ID with a layer of pseudonymity, if it has been around for long enough, should imply enough of a fair level of bona fides.
My calculator never fitted in my pockets (neither did my slide rule when I was at high school), but it did get lugged around in my bag for years while I was at Uni. Now it sits on my desk, while the RealCalc app on my phone (which handles RPN beautifully, but sadly without the nice clicky keys) is the one I carry around.
Oh, there's still plenty of room for fun there, pretty cheaply (not $25, but close): check out the Unemployed Philosopher's Guild: here. I have the Dali and Leonardo watches. Oops, just checked, the latter no longer seems to be available (bummer): needless to say, the face and movement are reversed, to confound your friends...
It isn't about being fair. It is about what produces the best result for society as a whole.
No it's not. It's about appeasing the lobby group with the biggest legal fund. So even if the Supreme Court did happen to strike down gene patents (which I believe unlikely), there's no reason why those interest groups wouldn't just lobby Congress to get the law changed in their favour. I would guess they would have a high likelihood of success there, given that all politicians are corrupt.
This is why Linux has no market share on the desktop. I mean it SHOULD be popular. It's available free of charge for Christ's sake. If it was even close to the usability levels of the commercial OSs, it'd be popular. But it's not.
1. Linux does have a share on the desktop. But not a market share. There's a difference, and if you think about it, you'll see why.
2. My wife, who is (although a PhD in another discipline) pretty much illiterate as far as computers are concerned, has been comfortably running Slackware on her desktop boxes since 2003. OK, I had to set them up for her. Windows and Mac boxes are always set up before you buy them, so what's the difference? There are plenty of distros out there that take away the need for most of that hand-holding.
If you're telling us that you are incapable of even coping with that, you should hand in your "nerd card" and not come back.
Look it up for yourself, you lazy sod. The Wikileaks search engine (unlike Slashdot's) isn't bad. And if you are too indolent even to do that, Google has already indexed many such examples.
Ah, a Linux fan. It's been a while... tell me, can you actually copy and paste from anywhere to anywhere yet?
Yes. And the middle-button thingy is a historical artifact from earlier unices (but useful nonetheless once you have the hang of it). You don't have to use it if you don't like it.
Does it still ask you where and how big to make a "swap file" when you install, and expect you to know about partitions?
Does it still ask you where and how big to make a "swap file" when you install, and expect you to know about partitions?
Yes. And since I do know about partitions, I have no problem with that. So what's your point?
Does it still use bizarre and unguessable names for apps, even the core ones like the one to set up basic system options?
No more bizarre or unguessable than some of the commercial offerings I have seen. For instance, if you didn't happen to know, what would you expect Outlook to do? However, this is beside the point: in the menus, the programs are referred to by aliases such as "internet browser" or "system configuration" in most of the more modern desktop environments.
There's a reason Linux never caught up on the desktop. And it's not because people are stupid. It's because no-one with any user design skills ever had enough control over Linux to make it half-decent to use.
The whole point is that we don't have some bozo in a black roll-neck or grey suit telling us how we should use our machines. That said, there are plenty of options available that would be easily and instantly usable out of the box for anybody who has had contact with any computer made since 1990.
I can't say I'm surprised. XP (or possibly Windows 7) is about as grown-up as Microsoft have succeeded in making their interface, though they're not alone. Both Microsoft and Apple have gone down the path of attempting to make their desktop UI look like a smartphone's, and all they succeed in is making it look dumb.
I often wonder what will happen first: Microsoft/Apple realising the error of their ways and making a useful UI, or users collectively sighing and sucking up the crap they are given.
What exactly is the difference between a 'fake' journal and a 'real' journal? How much you pay?
Well, one thing I can tell you is that you will not find out from that so-called "tutorial" linked to in TFS. That's just a Wired page with a list of 6 examples to pick on a T/F basis. Slashdot editors asleep at the wheel again (sigh).
Most conductors I have met (which happens to number quite a lot) are quite picky about the batons they use. If they don't "feel" right, they often prefer to use none at all. Also, an accelerometer will usually introduce a noticeable degree of latency, which entirely defeats the purpose.
Slashdot Mirror
I also go to amazon quite a bit, but for book reviews I usually go to other sites like goodreads.com. However, for music, the sound bites usually give you a pretty good idea of whether or not you want to buy it. I've made a couple of bad purchases with that, but on the whole it works well.
...violence is inherently anti-social... ... you've still got a screw loose.
Indeed. And I guess we'll find out pretty soon just how understanding everyone is when they catch this person. From TFS, the following stands out:
...the sheer volume and different proprietary formats of video from security cameras, mobile devices, and media groups. Ultimately this will be a case study in whether an individual bent on destruction can remain anonymous in an era of digital surveillance, social media, and crowdsourcing.
...as meaning just one thing. We have a lynch mob here.
Seriously, the whole point of being married is to become one, in all ways imaginable.
That can be argued both ways, but it is certainly the case that it is often simpler and easier to have joint finances. My wife and I have done so for 28 years, pretty much since we first met (4 years before we actually got around to getting married).
Whether or not a bank or credit card account is under one or both of our names is immaterial if it's the same pool of money. And many sites, like Amazon, are not particularly amenable to dealing with multiple identities on the one account.
Software makers sticking their finger in their ears? ... sounds just like the GNOME3 story :)
You're not wrong. I was a big fan of Gnome from early days (while KDE was mostly Kluttered and Kfucking Khorrible). Now the tables have turned, and KDE appears to have learned from the mistakes of the early KDE4 implementation to produce a truly excellent UI, while Gnome has become utterly unusable.
I think it's more that they've decided that touch interfaces are the way things will go.
And I think they've underestimated the staying power of those who don't like mucky paw-prints over their screens. My money's on the latter.
An open source operating system that has been shunned by practically all software companies which provide the software used by professionals.
Linux has been powerful and stable enough to underpin the server market for coming up to two decades. If those commercial software companies chose to hitch their wagon to one horse without taking the time to consider any of the alternatives, then they deserve to fail.
Too bad: Business Management 101. They'll get no sympathy from me.
Apple, for a while, looked like it was doing OK with its unixy features under the hood (and to be fair, Macports are still useful), but its business model has become steadily uglier as its fund of innovative ideas has dwindled.
Eventually, I would not be surprised if we saw a repeat of the SCO debacle where the only thing Microsoft and Apple are left to work with is the potential gains from litigation over their portfolio of patents.
Hell, anyone running XP now will most probably be doing so five years from now, regardless of whatever MS might say about its EOL. One way or another, it makes no difference to me: I've been running Linux (yes, on the desktop) since 1995.
By way of an alternative that won't get you into trouble, I was told once by a Telstra RF tech that one of the most intractable problems he had encountered with cellphone reception had been in a small pine forest. Apparently (he supposed) the pine needles form some sort of diffraction grating that make reception really difficult.
It is also likely, that there has never been at time that MOST people have worn a watch, even in the 90's.
Err, the '90s weren't that long ago. Back in the '60s and '70s, I would say at least 90% of people (in the Western world) wore watches. (And yes, I am that old, and my memory is unimpaired,)
my palms had 160x160 pixels and i read ebooks on them fine.
Whereas my palms only had hair on them. :-P
If you care about the karma, then you shouldn't, if you're here for the right reasons.
(And even more OT: FWIW, my karma has been maxed out since it used to be a decimal integer, and I couldn't care less if this post gets knocked down to -1.)
Not quite. I'm here. And I have never posted as AC. The simple truth is that if one cares enough not to want to land up in negative karma exile, then one shouldn't behave like an asswipe. My contention is that the ability to post as AC (generally) encourages trolls and asswipes. An ID with a layer of pseudonymity, if it has been around for long enough, should imply enough of a fair level of bona fides.
My calculator never fitted in my pockets (neither did my slide rule when I was at high school), but it did get lugged around in my bag for years while I was at Uni. Now it sits on my desk, while the RealCalc app on my phone (which handles RPN beautifully, but sadly without the nice clicky keys) is the one I carry around.
Oh, there's still plenty of room for fun there, pretty cheaply (not $25, but close): check out the Unemployed Philosopher's Guild: here. I have the Dali and Leonardo watches. Oops, just checked, the latter no longer seems to be available (bummer): needless to say, the face and movement are reversed, to confound your friends...
It isn't about being fair. It is about what produces the best result for society as a whole.
No it's not. It's about appeasing the lobby group with the biggest legal fund. So even if the Supreme Court did happen to strike down gene patents (which I believe unlikely), there's no reason why those interest groups wouldn't just lobby Congress to get the law changed in their favour. I would guess they would have a high likelihood of success there, given that all politicians are corrupt.
You mean if someone blows their own brains out in my country, they are not breaking any laws?
If I blow my own brains out, you're welcome to stick my corpse in jail. The other inmates, however, might object.
;-P
Whereas if you were to blow your brains out, you would have to aim very carefully.
You had a girlfriend called Sailfish?
Ummm... OK.
So Google's better, right?
No, Bing is better. At finding malicious sites.
I always knew it must be good for something...
This is why Linux has no market share on the desktop. I mean it SHOULD be popular. It's available free of charge for Christ's sake. If it was even close to the usability levels of the commercial OSs, it'd be popular. But it's not.
1. Linux does have a share on the desktop. But not a market share. There's a difference, and if you think about it, you'll see why.
2. My wife, who is (although a PhD in another discipline) pretty much illiterate as far as computers are concerned, has been comfortably running Slackware on her desktop boxes since 2003. OK, I had to set them up for her. Windows and Mac boxes are always set up before you buy them, so what's the difference? There are plenty of distros out there that take away the need for most of that hand-holding.
If you're telling us that you are incapable of even coping with that, you should hand in your "nerd card" and not come back.
...Manning is a traitor, aided and abetted the enemies of our country..... He deserves the firing squad.
Hmmm. Perhaps you should visit a pharmacist and ask for something for redness around the neck area.
Look it up for yourself, you lazy sod. The Wikileaks search engine (unlike Slashdot's) isn't bad. And if you are too indolent even to do that, Google has already indexed many such examples.
Ah, a Linux fan. It's been a while... tell me, can you actually copy and paste from anywhere to anywhere yet?
Yes. And the middle-button thingy is a historical artifact from earlier unices (but useful nonetheless once you have the hang of it). You don't have to use it if you don't like it.
Does it still ask you where and how big to make a "swap file" when you install, and expect you to know about partitions?
Does it still ask you where and how big to make a "swap file" when you install, and expect you to know about partitions?
Yes. And since I do know about partitions, I have no problem with that. So what's your point?
Does it still use bizarre and unguessable names for apps, even the core ones like the one to set up basic system options?
No more bizarre or unguessable than some of the commercial offerings I have seen. For instance, if you didn't happen to know, what would you expect Outlook to do? However, this is beside the point: in the menus, the programs are referred to by aliases such as "internet browser" or "system configuration" in most of the more modern desktop environments.
There's a reason Linux never caught up on the desktop. And it's not because people are stupid. It's because no-one with any user design skills ever had enough control over Linux to make it half-decent to use.
The whole point is that we don't have some bozo in a black roll-neck or grey suit telling us how we should use our machines. That said, there are plenty of options available that would be easily and instantly usable out of the box for anybody who has had contact with any computer made since 1990.
I can't say I'm surprised. XP (or possibly Windows 7) is about as grown-up as Microsoft have succeeded in making their interface, though they're not alone. Both Microsoft and Apple have gone down the path of attempting to make their desktop UI look like a smartphone's, and all they succeed in is making it look dumb.
I often wonder what will happen first: Microsoft/Apple realising the error of their ways and making a useful UI, or users collectively sighing and sucking up the crap they are given.
Fortunately, in the *nix world, we have a choice.
What exactly is the difference between a 'fake' journal and a 'real' journal? How much you pay?
Well, one thing I can tell you is that you will not find out from that so-called "tutorial" linked to in TFS. That's just a Wired page with a list of 6 examples to pick on a T/F basis. Slashdot editors asleep at the wheel again (sigh).
Most conductors I have met (which happens to number quite a lot) are quite picky about the batons they use. If they don't "feel" right, they often prefer to use none at all. Also, an accelerometer will usually introduce a noticeable degree of latency, which entirely defeats the purpose.