Author acknowledges this too, a quick RTFA shows :
"I decided to attack Windows from the same attack point as I was hitting Linux. Instead of trying to do a low level erasure of my files I was just going to recursively delete them. So after a little mucking around at the command prompt, I came up with "del/F/S/Q *"."
They'll be the most expensive place to buy Sony products
Not sure which city you're shopping in:) Typically, I've seen prices comparable to the retail chains like best buy and future shop. Usually have a greater selection since they only stock Sony products. And it's very easy to haggle there. (I've been shopping there for 7 years, I've never paid more than I would elsewhere.) You can also get an excellent extended warranty.
only carry home electronics (no computers or parts)
Wrong as wrong can be, I picked up my Vaio thereas well as my LCD monitor.
staffed by people who know all the buzzwords but have little idea what they mean.
Par for the course I would think. However, unlike Best Buy etc, Sony Store sales reps tend to know their product capabilites very well. Also, I've noticed that most of the reps at the Sony Store I frequent are also Sony product consumers, so they do believe in the product they sell.
Some of the perks that I can think of off the top of my head, that I've made use of : They keep purchase information and warranty information on hand so I've never had to bring a receipt, they often get the neat toys in advance of the other retailers. I got my launch day PS2, only because the manager phoned me at home to say he put one aside if I wanted it. Oh, and it's the only electronic store that I've been downsold to, twice!
Yes I am a pretty big Sony fan. They've dissapointed me a few times along the way. Particulary with stupid ideas like not allowing SP ATRAC recording on their PCs, and their horrid Linux driver support.
On the other side of the coin, I've only ever had to return a product for defects once, that's out of 1 minidisc deck, 3 portable minidiscs, 1 discman, 1 car stereo, 2 Wegas and 2 Trinitrons, 1 vaio, 2 Clies, 2 cameras and one dye sublimation printer, one ES amplifier and one other amplifier, 5 DVD players, 3 VHS, 1 S-VHS and 1 Super Beta HiFi, 1 mini stereo, 2 IR headsets and a complete set of PSB speakers(Not all for me, but purchased by me.) So it's not like I'm using a small sample set to speak to quality.
WindowMaker, the WM most people use for GNUStep is kind of in need of help, too.
I've been using WM as my only desktop for years. I tried KDE, I tried Gnome but I just end up coming back to quick, sleek WindowMaker. So my question would be, what parts of WindowMaker do you think need help?
A THX-certified DVD tends to have high-quality picture and sound on average.
Right. Snow White in Ultra-Hiss Mono got a THX certification. It's something that's more easily bought than earned these days. Likewise, non-THX certified equipment can and often does perform better than their certified counterparts.
The best thing to come out of THX is that THX sound at the beginning of the movie;)
So, what's better than keep tabs in the govment of the only country that can fund such stuff?
I know you're joking, but if you think that the US is the only country that can "fund such stuff" you've neglected Japan, China, Russia and the EU amongst others.
What's with all the minimum wage comments? Do you guys blast mcdonalds, burger king, target, kmart, ames, bradlys, stop and shop, price chopper, food town, a&p, acme, edwards, and whatever other giant company that pays teenagers shit for cash to do shit for brains jobs? If you work in "retail sales" you get minimum wage. Are you supposed to get 50k a year ringing a register?
Funny, don't think I said minimum wage.
McDonald's, Buger King, and all the fast food chains pay *comparable* salaries, and offer similar benefits. Same with the other retail outlets
Wal-Mart pays *less* than the average retailer, and has pitiful benefits. What's more, they put their competition out of business, or seriously bite into their business, displacing the workers, some of who end up at Wal-Mart, working for less and with worse benefits. You don't see a problem?
So no, it's not at all like other retail chain outlets. And insisting on employees working overtime without paying the employee for it... I'd consider that sweatshop material any day of the week.
If you're just going to show up to work when you're told and do a job *ANYONE* can do, you deserve the crap pay you're getting.
Hold on there. Some of these people have enough pride to work for a living, rather than live off of social assistance, and you say they're just showing up for work?
Let's also ignore the countless retailers *forced* out of business simply because Wal-Mart opened down the street. That's a little worse than crap pay I would think.
Start a business
OK, you open a retail business, competing fairly with your peers: that is until Wal-Mart moves into town. At which point, you and your peers are forces out of business because you simply cannot compete.
Or perhaps you become a supplier of an innovative new product. Being ambitious to expand, you supply Wal-Mart. Production goes through the roof. They eventually force you to lower you production costs (and eventually standards) so low, you are forced into either irrelevance, because your product's quality is near nothing, or bankrupcy.
Point is, Wal-Mart harms far, far more than just the people who are unfortunate enough to have to work for them.
And if you don't like Wal-Mart, don't shop there. Your personal experience isn't exactly scientific proof that Wal-Mart sucks, there are plenty of people (myself included) that shop there because the employees on the whole are friendly and because their prices are incredible.
I guess you aren't one of the people who miss the days when Levi's were the best jeans you could buy? Wal-Mart forced them to "cut the fat" so they would be able to offer the product at a reduced price every year. From jeans which could hold together while being pulled by two horses, to jeans no tougher than three ply tissues.
The consumer quest for rock bottom prices has also lead to rock bottom quality.
You don't mind that Wal-mart is essentially a sweat shop that pays below average wages? That they lower the standard of living in the neighbourhoods they are set up in? That it's up to the government or the spouces benefits package to make up the difference? You may save up front, but at what cost? Every consumer that shops there is contributing to the problem.
People get up in arms when workers are exploited overseas, but don't care when it happens to some extent in their own backyard as long as it saves them $0.50 on toiletpaper?
You're right, no one has to shop there if they don't want to. I don't like what Wal-Mart stands for; I think they lead to a social net loss. So I don't shop there. And I discourage others from doing so as well.
Who wants to be able to program their TV to record TV from work? Who wants to program their lights to come on from work? Who wants to program their heat/AC to turn on/off from work? Who wants their oven to preheat from work?
I know I do.
Excellent, and what a coincidence! I was thinking I would like to turn your oven on broil for the day while you're at work, shut off your heat while you're sleeping on the most bitter day in winter, and maybe screw with your lighting for the fun of it. All from my office in another country.
Some things really are best off simple, and disconnected.
Note that he said the best viewed notice went up on their INTRANET.
That is HUGE news. Made for IE applications live on the intranet, where it is perfectly OK to mandate IE as the only supported browser, and get away with making non standars compliant web pages not to mention heavy use of Active X and whatnot.
It's prevelant where I work, tons of IE only stuff, to the point where I use Mozilla for everything EXCEPT intranet sites. Which is pretty sad for an industry leading company.
"a drop in the ocean"
Yes, and how many ripples does that one drop create? One company says that they dropped IE on their intranet, and three more realise they can do it too. Best viewed in Firefox means that intranet pages will render properly in just about any browser.
Congrats to the parent poster on his company's accomplishments.
Right, that should be *TOTALLY* obvious to anyone and everyone. I guess C++ is *COMPLETELY* different than C isn't it? Perhaps you should take some of your pent up frustration and direct it to the Microsoft product naming idiots. They've generated confusion more than once. Hell, how long did it take THEM to figure out what.NET was?!
"PS: How did this get modded up, when it was an obviosu flame? Oh right. It's Slashdot."
Shouldn't that read:
"It's ironic that on the day we lose the last human to go into space alone, we send another human into space alone."
It would be a nice sentiment but a very false statement. Yang Liwei did a solo space flight for China in 2003, and AFAIK is still alive. Likewise Vladimir Shatalov of Russia is still alive I believe.
These countries have no tech. None. How hard is it to drop fire one 'soldiers' with AK-47s and sandals?
You're right General! That worked amazingly well in Vietnam! The US really kicked that backwards low tech piece of shit country didn't it! The first war on Iraq kept them quiet FOREVER! Heck, everything is under control in Iraq and Afghanistaneven as we speak!
It is very difficult for an army that uses conventional tactics and tries to be mindful of the Geneva Convention and the Rules of Engagement to combat a group using guerilla tactics.
I'd suggest you read the Seven Pillars of Wisdom by TE Lawrence (of Arabia) before spewing your expert opinion on military strategy.
I currently have around 4,000 mp3 in my collection ripped from CDs I own. Around 200 more were ripped from CDs other people I know lent me, which is totally legal. Around 80 were downloaded. All perfectly legal in Canada. So 0% of my digital music is pirated.
So, I for one disagree with Steve Ballmer.
At any rate, for me to get illegal music on my iPod, it would have had to come from somewhere. If I ripped / downlaoded / pirated the music on my Microsoft Windows XP PC, and copied onto my iPod, how is Apple the one who's responsible?
The problem is that there are very few trustworthy babysitters, and those that we have been able to find are always in high demand.
I cannot think of a single circumstance that I would leave my children with an untrustworthy babysitter. Parent poster is right : "being there" is the best way to monitor. High tech remote observation gear changes nothing : If I can't trust the person, they don't mind my children, period. I'm not going to spoil a nice romantic evening out with the wife gathered around a cellphone waiting for webcam updates : I'll go out on a night where a trustworthy babysitter is available.
...you don't explain how it could be done, you tell him "you don't want to do that, use a list" (I'm thinking of Python things). That is constructive.
No, that isn't constructive, I personally find that a little rude. "You don't want to do that because of $REASONS, use a list instead because of $BENEFITS" is constructive, thoughtful and sensitive. Never tell someone they're wrong, without explaining why. Spending the extra few seconds to explain your position means they've left knowing that they would have taken the wrong approach and why your's is a better one.
For bonus points try starting it with "I used to do that all the time too, but..." or "I can see why you'd try that but..."
Perhaps if the neighbors were up to the challenge (and didn't cancel their cable) they could even grab episodes of their favorite shows to share.
No they couldn't. What Andrew does is legal, because he buys the channels from The National Programming Service just like a cable provider would. If his neighbours recorded off of consumer sources and shared it, there would be legal problems.
Did anyone catch the season premiere of the Dead Zone. Featuring an unscrupulous congressman and an electronic voting machine? With an interface that looks similar to Diebold's?
If you haven't seen it, do so. I don't want to include spoilers, but kudos to the writers for their work!
The report says that the accident occured after dropping off Richard, this trip was specifically to bring him to Paris. I know in his place, I'd be blaming myself, that's my nature.
For what it's worth : It wasn't your fault Mr. Stallman, so don't blame yourself. And my sympathies to the families involved.
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Author acknowledges this too, a quick RTFA shows : "I decided to attack Windows from the same attack point as I was hitting Linux. Instead of trying to do a low level erasure of my files I was just going to recursively delete them. So after a little mucking around at the command prompt, I came up with "del /F /S /Q *"."
Not sure which city you're shopping in :) Typically, I've seen prices comparable to the retail chains like best buy and future shop. Usually have a greater selection since they only stock Sony products. And it's very easy to haggle there. (I've been shopping there for 7 years, I've never paid more than I would elsewhere.) You can also get an excellent extended warranty.
only carry home electronics (no computers or parts)Wrong as wrong can be, I picked up my Vaio thereas well as my LCD monitor.
staffed by people who know all the buzzwords but have little idea what they mean.Par for the course I would think. However, unlike Best Buy etc, Sony Store sales reps tend to know their product capabilites very well. Also, I've noticed that most of the reps at the Sony Store I frequent are also Sony product consumers, so they do believe in the product they sell.
Some of the perks that I can think of off the top of my head, that I've made use of : They keep purchase information and warranty information on hand so I've never had to bring a receipt, they often get the neat toys in advance of the other retailers. I got my launch day PS2, only because the manager phoned me at home to say he put one aside if I wanted it. Oh, and it's the only electronic store that I've been downsold to, twice!
Yes I am a pretty big Sony fan. They've dissapointed me a few times along the way. Particulary with stupid ideas like not allowing SP ATRAC recording on their PCs, and their horrid Linux driver support.
On the other side of the coin, I've only ever had to return a product for defects once, that's out of 1 minidisc deck, 3 portable minidiscs, 1 discman, 1 car stereo, 2 Wegas and 2 Trinitrons, 1 vaio, 2 Clies, 2 cameras and one dye sublimation printer, one ES amplifier and one other amplifier, 5 DVD players, 3 VHS, 1 S-VHS and 1 Super Beta HiFi, 1 mini stereo, 2 IR headsets and a complete set of PSB speakers(Not all for me, but purchased by me.) So it's not like I'm using a small sample set to speak to quality.
I've been using WM as my only desktop for years. I tried KDE, I tried Gnome but I just end up coming back to quick, sleek WindowMaker. So my question would be, what parts of WindowMaker do you think need help?
Informative?!
The very first link in the article is to GNUstep. Maybe check the links found in the article before griping that the link to GNUstep is not there. Because in fact, there is a link to GNUstep, cleverly disguised as OpenStep API celebrates its 10th anniversary.
He's way to old to really be a programmer these days, anyhow.
Right. Snow White in Ultra-Hiss Mono got a THX certification. It's something that's more easily bought than earned these days. Likewise, non-THX certified equipment can and often does perform better than their certified counterparts.
The best thing to come out of THX is that THX sound at the beginning of the movie ;)
I know you're joking, but if you think that the US is the only country that can "fund such stuff" you've neglected Japan, China, Russia and the EU amongst others.
does it then mean that Xbox is used for pirated games?
Funny, don't think I said minimum wage.
McDonald's, Buger King, and all the fast food chains pay *comparable* salaries, and offer similar benefits. Same with the other retail outlets
Wal-Mart pays *less* than the average retailer, and has pitiful benefits. What's more, they put their competition out of business, or seriously bite into their business, displacing the workers, some of who end up at Wal-Mart, working for less and with worse benefits. You don't see a problem?
So no, it's not at all like other retail chain outlets. And insisting on employees working overtime without paying the employee for it... I'd consider that sweatshop material any day of the week.
I would have thought in the age of Google that people would have the energy to do their own research if they doubt what is being said
But if it pleases you :
There should be ample supporting arguments on the first three pages of results from the first two links.
Not easy to do on a Wal-Mart wage.
If you're just going to show up to work when you're told and do a job *ANYONE* can do, you deserve the crap pay you're getting.Hold on there. Some of these people have enough pride to work for a living, rather than live off of social assistance, and you say they're just showing up for work?
Let's also ignore the countless retailers *forced* out of business simply because Wal-Mart opened down the street. That's a little worse than crap pay I would think.
Start a businessOK, you open a retail business, competing fairly with your peers: that is until Wal-Mart moves into town. At which point, you and your peers are forces out of business because you simply cannot compete.
Or perhaps you become a supplier of an innovative new product. Being ambitious to expand, you supply Wal-Mart. Production goes through the roof. They eventually force you to lower you production costs (and eventually standards) so low, you are forced into either irrelevance, because your product's quality is near nothing, or bankrupcy.
Point is, Wal-Mart harms far, far more than just the people who are unfortunate enough to have to work for them.
I guess you aren't one of the people who miss the days when Levi's were the best jeans you could buy? Wal-Mart forced them to "cut the fat" so they would be able to offer the product at a reduced price every year. From jeans which could hold together while being pulled by two horses, to jeans no tougher than three ply tissues.
The consumer quest for rock bottom prices has also lead to rock bottom quality.
You don't mind that Wal-mart is essentially a sweat shop that pays below average wages? That they lower the standard of living in the neighbourhoods they are set up in? That it's up to the government or the spouces benefits package to make up the difference? You may save up front, but at what cost? Every consumer that shops there is contributing to the problem.
People get up in arms when workers are exploited overseas, but don't care when it happens to some extent in their own backyard as long as it saves them $0.50 on toiletpaper?
You're right, no one has to shop there if they don't want to. I don't like what Wal-Mart stands for; I think they lead to a social net loss. So I don't shop there. And I discourage others from doing so as well.
I know I do.
Excellent, and what a coincidence! I was thinking I would like to turn your oven on broil for the day while you're at work, shut off your heat while you're sleeping on the most bitter day in winter, and maybe screw with your lighting for the fun of it. All from my office in another country.
Some things really are best off simple, and disconnected.
Note that he said the best viewed notice went up on their INTRANET.
That is HUGE news. Made for IE applications live on the intranet, where it is perfectly OK to mandate IE as the only supported browser, and get away with making non standars compliant web pages not to mention heavy use of Active X and whatnot.
It's prevelant where I work, tons of IE only stuff, to the point where I use Mozilla for everything EXCEPT intranet sites. Which is pretty sad for an industry leading company.
"a drop in the ocean"
Yes, and how many ripples does that one drop create? One company says that they dropped IE on their intranet, and three more realise they can do it too. Best viewed in Firefox means that intranet pages will render properly in just about any browser.
Congrats to the parent poster on his company's accomplishments.
"ASP != ASP.NET"
.NET was?!
Right, that should be *TOTALLY* obvious to anyone and everyone. I guess C++ is *COMPLETELY* different than C isn't it? Perhaps you should take some of your pent up frustration and direct it to the Microsoft product naming idiots. They've generated confusion more than once. Hell, how long did it take THEM to figure out what
"PS: How did this get modded up, when it was an obviosu flame? Oh right. It's Slashdot."
Hello Mr. Kettle.
It would be a nice sentiment but a very false statement. Yang Liwei did a solo space flight for China in 2003, and AFAIK is still alive. Likewise Vladimir Shatalov of Russia is still alive I believe.
You're right General! That worked amazingly well in Vietnam! The US really kicked that backwards low tech piece of shit country didn't it! The first war on Iraq kept them quiet FOREVER! Heck, everything is under control in Iraq and Afghanistaneven as we speak!
It is very difficult for an army that uses conventional tactics and tries to be mindful of the Geneva Convention and the Rules of Engagement to combat a group using guerilla tactics.
I'd suggest you read the Seven Pillars of Wisdom by TE Lawrence (of Arabia) before spewing your expert opinion on military strategy.
Well, at least it's a little better than yellow sticky notes with 'passw0rd' written on them stuck to the monitor :)
I currently have around 4,000 mp3 in my collection ripped from CDs I own. Around 200 more were ripped from CDs other people I know lent me, which is totally legal. Around 80 were downloaded. All perfectly legal in Canada. So 0% of my digital music is pirated.
So, I for one disagree with Steve Ballmer.
At any rate, for me to get illegal music on my iPod, it would have had to come from somewhere. If I ripped / downlaoded / pirated the music on my Microsoft Windows XP PC, and copied onto my iPod, how is Apple the one who's responsible?
I cannot think of a single circumstance that I would leave my children with an untrustworthy babysitter. Parent poster is right : "being there" is the best way to monitor. High tech remote observation gear changes nothing : If I can't trust the person, they don't mind my children, period. I'm not going to spoil a nice romantic evening out with the wife gathered around a cellphone waiting for webcam updates : I'll go out on a night where a trustworthy babysitter is available.
No, that isn't constructive, I personally find that a little rude. "You don't want to do that because of $REASONS, use a list instead because of $BENEFITS" is constructive, thoughtful and sensitive. Never tell someone they're wrong, without explaining why. Spending the extra few seconds to explain your position means they've left knowing that they would have taken the wrong approach and why your's is a better one.
For bonus points try starting it with "I used to do that all the time too, but..." or "I can see why you'd try that but..."
Perhaps if the neighbors were up to the challenge (and didn't cancel their cable) they could even grab episodes of their favorite shows to share.
No they couldn't. What Andrew does is legal, because he buys the channels from The National Programming Service just like a cable provider would. If his neighbours recorded off of consumer sources and shared it, there would be legal problems.
Did anyone catch the season premiere of the Dead Zone. Featuring an unscrupulous congressman and an electronic voting machine? With an interface that looks similar to Diebold's?
If you haven't seen it, do so. I don't want to include spoilers, but kudos to the writers for their work!
If corporations have the same rights as citizens, why don't they have the same responsibilities?
The report says that the accident occured after dropping off Richard, this trip was specifically to bring him to Paris. I know in his place, I'd be blaming myself, that's my nature.
For what it's worth : It wasn't your fault Mr. Stallman, so don't blame yourself. And my sympathies to the families involved.