That's exactly Linspire's point: *we* find that to be *easy*, but where do you type it, how do you know what to search for when you want a word processor, especially if you don't really know the term "word processor" but just that you want to write a business letter. If emerge's search is anything like apt-cache's, most of the users I've dealt with would quit at that step.
I thought you Digg-ers were anti-/. purists!
Wait a minute.... Welcome to slashdot...?
Go ahead, mod me offtopic, if you even see me under Redundancy here...
That's a mediocre attempt at flamebait, you fool. Nobody's complaining about how suspend2 isn't going kernel, they're saying, from what I see, suspend1 sucks, suspend2 sucks too but not as bad, and something should be done at the kernel level.
When I first ran a game server, I lazily used Knoppix(it was a Debian I'm familiar with, after all) and within minutes of giving her a shell account, another GM pointed out her success with priviledge escalation. Using a bug in one of the games included on Knoppix.
So I switched to pure Debian with minimum required services, and thereby left no tools about for such an attack to happen.
I would give out a shell here, since I'm not using it now and might replace Debian with a BSD, but it's on my home network, and in the event of a compromise, I don't want my other machines targeted. You know, sensible paranoia.
A false representation of the problem. The problem is this: Bob the Ogre kills a slime 8 million times for 1 exp each, Alice the Elf kills the Black Dragon, once, for 8 million exp. They both get the same "experience", and Bob might well get more gold. One for a very time consuming effort, but very simple and risk free. The other a shorter duration, but much more challenging, significant(the Dragon was threatening a nearby village, say) and likely more satisfying effort. A generic RPG case in point, as I don't play WoW.
To make a real life reference(actually happened) I have the following. My coworker won an HP computer, dead on arrival. HP support(thanks to them for being thorough) had him check that all the cables, etc, were installed, pulled the RAM one stick at a time, check power supply voltage switch, etc. Problem not found(he's not motivated enough with computers to swap with working components, etc) so he sent it in. From hearing it, I thought it was probably a power supply. My fiance bought an eMachine(similar specs, quality, to HP, IME) which quit and developed a burned circuit smell five months later. I checked for burnt traces, none found, I swapped the power supply, a high failure item on OEM PCs, in a matter of five minutes. Problem solved, I web-chatted Gatewaymachines tech support, and got them to send me a new power supply, costing them roughly $15, based on GearXS and their uber-cheap same-spec supply. A correct answer instead of no answer. I would have charged someone all of $10 for the effort and investment value of a cheap on-hand PS to await the OEM replacement, whereas HP probably paid their Indian phone tech a fraction of that for the hour+ it took, but $20-30 for shipping, as well as wasting my coworker's time, and making his PC unavailable for three weeks.
Which would you choose(if you had to choose one of the above,) the free, hour wasted and three week without PC solution, or the $10 geek to come in and fix it in minutes solution (since we're not getting married, call me when the replacement gets there, hey?)
On the contrary(and this is from someone also with Radiosnack experience) someone who sells expensive items *successfully* to people who don't really need them was until very recently, and in some cases still is(PS3,) exactly the kind of CEO corporations were looking for.
Keep in mind, a successful sale is one that stays sold and doesn't cause extra work post-sale. I won't go into details(would probably violate something I signed, somewhere,) but some pretty crappy salesmen can still make a living off battery profits.
I wish more engines would use Google's wildcard method, or possible even Google's engine. c++-programming results c-programming results
Differentiates easily between very short words by attaching to a common trailing word.
And until they do, we can always use the site search modifier... c-programming site:monster.com results.
Same thought that I had, although I worded it as follows: If you have more to lose, and you are set to the same level as someone with less to lose, you have lost more.
The statistics are probably fine, but the analysis seems flawed.
You mean like Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows *cough*98*cough* Millenium Edition? It's not Microsoft itself scared of new versions, its that their customers hate the way they do new versions(you have to buy it and reinstall, and lose support for the old if not) and that they won't change that method.
Home PCs are also reaching a point of no return, whence an upgrade will not lead to a noticeable improvement for 90% of the people upgrading, barring spyware, adware, etc and the people who fail to learn that it's as simple as reinstalling and avoiding online casinos, etc. The same crap will slow the new computers down just as much. Reference of slow computers with fast hardware: www.dell.com
That is actually the most sensible explanation I have *ever* seen or expect to see regarding rebates. The only one in fact that requires neither malevolence nor stupidity, and doing so while still making sense is impressive.
Also much more likely to be accepted that outright variable pricing(if you have more money you pay more because you're expected to... something nonspecific.)
Not so. Cheapness aside, since the large majority of motherboards have integrated sound/video/LAN, most cards for such(especially video) are designed as upgrades, so unless he gets a higher end motherboard(like a Radeon board with non-AC'97 audio onboard) the separate cards will most likely be better quality.
Well if you do happen to use all the integrated junk(although some of it is less junky, such as the ATI or nVidia integrated video) you tend to use less power. And yes, lots of people do use the integrated stuff, because they don't know about the better audio quality, video clarity, network performance(mainly moot on that one), and system performance they can get with dedicated hardware. That and it is nearly as cheap to get integrated systems than bare mainboards(especially microATX, which is often cheaper because of the massive OEM market for them.)
Me? Being forced to use Microsoft Windows? No. I am not, because I build my own computers.
Millions of others who don't know how to build a computer and aren't willing to go to some small builder for them being forced to use(or at least buy) Microsoft Windows? Yes. Think I'm lying? Try to get a Linux home PC(or laptop) from Dell, HP, Toshiba, or Gateway.
As I measure productivity by the following ratio: What I want to do : How much of it I can do easily
The But is that sometimes I want to do in-game and out-game maintenance on my game server. I can't play the game(yet...) in Linux, so I do this mainly in Windows, even though a large portion of it would be easier in Linux. As a result I have gotten, not Linux versions of windows-like programs, but Windows ports of Linux/Unix-native programs (MySQL Navigator, for example) and I puTTY in when I need a shell(server is on Linux.)
The technology is there already: LG-VX5550, a cell phone($269 list but selling your soul for two years makes it $30-60) with very good voice recognition.
Probably not on a general purpose processor, but hey I'm ready to welcome the return of the coprocessor (Voice recog coCPU, encryption coCPU, compression coCPU, etc) if it makes this stuff possible in tiny form factors.
The Patriots for Not Eating Babies in America say John Kerry eats aborted fetus heads for lunch. Kerry says he doesn't. More on this controversial new debate at nine!
There isn't a stupid mod, when cable companies are moving *back* to the exact same -Pay for service, plus for each receiver- model that they were on (remember cable boxes? You need them again) and Satellite is still on.
If this looks like me talking out my ass, think real hard about the big push for digital cable.
DirecWay Two-way satellite access: $600 equipment, $99/mo. for service with no contract
Outdoor 802.11b access points, average $150 each (Depends on your area, outdoors I would expect not more than 6, probably 3-4 would cover you)
Category 5 cable, 2000 feet, ~$160
Bag full of cat5e modular plugs(unless you really need boxes) $10
12+ port switch or hub plus enclosure, ~80(bad guess)
Somebody's labor(probably yours) however many hours at whatever rate.
Could be done fairly easily aroung $1500, not counting labor.
Call me a communist, but the codec mess we have with video is atually a good thing.
If not for the codec mess, the high-quality, high-compression codecs never would have become as popular as they are, and we would still be using MPEG 1 and Microsoft AVI for all our video. But we had REAL, a crappy format with high compression, VIVO, an even crappier format with higher compression, Quicktime, a high-quality format with fair compression, leading to MPEG 4, a high quality, high compression and ultimately reverse-engineered-to-hell codec that is now, more or less, open in the DivX and XviD codecs.
I wish there was a mod for arrogant, illiterate fool. Co-conspirator is perfectly appropriate: A conspirator is someone who engages in a conspiracy. A co-conspirator to the first conspirator is someone who engages in THE SAME CONSPIRACY AS THE FIRST.
Nah, AMD will just get into the same kind of naming they use for Opteron and FX chips. Nothing to a name, but advert the benchmarks.
Why not? Server/big iron vendors have always done that; Don't admit your (low) clock speed, sell benchmarks, come up with increasingly obscure and unhelpful names(Sparc series, anyone?)
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That's exactly Linspire's point: *we* find that to be *easy*, but where do you type it, how do you know what to search for when you want a word processor, especially if you don't really know the term "word processor" but just that you want to write a business letter.
If emerge's search is anything like apt-cache's, most of the users I've dealt with would quit at that step.
I thought you Digg-ers were anti-/. purists! Wait a minute.... Welcome to slashdot...? Go ahead, mod me offtopic, if you even see me under Redundancy here...
That's a mediocre attempt at flamebait, you fool.
Nobody's complaining about how suspend2 isn't going kernel, they're saying, from what I see, suspend1 sucks, suspend2 sucks too but not as bad, and something should be done at the kernel level.
Sure wouldn't.
When I first ran a game server, I lazily used Knoppix(it was a Debian I'm familiar with, after all) and within minutes of giving her a shell account, another GM pointed out her success with priviledge escalation. Using a bug in one of the games included on Knoppix.
So I switched to pure Debian with minimum required services, and thereby left no tools about for such an attack to happen.
I would give out a shell here, since I'm not using it now and might replace Debian with a BSD, but it's on my home network, and in the event of a compromise, I don't want my other machines targeted. You know, sensible paranoia.
A false representation of the problem.
The problem is this: Bob the Ogre kills a slime 8 million times for 1 exp each, Alice the Elf kills the Black Dragon, once, for 8 million exp.
They both get the same "experience", and Bob might well get more gold. One for a very time consuming effort, but very simple and risk free. The other a shorter duration, but much more challenging, significant(the Dragon was threatening a nearby village, say) and likely more satisfying effort.
A generic RPG case in point, as I don't play WoW.
To make a real life reference(actually happened) I have the following.
My coworker won an HP computer, dead on arrival. HP support(thanks to them for being thorough) had him check that all the cables, etc, were installed, pulled the RAM one stick at a time, check power supply voltage switch, etc. Problem not found(he's not motivated enough with computers to swap with working components, etc) so he sent it in. From hearing it, I thought it was probably a power supply.
My fiance bought an eMachine(similar specs, quality, to HP, IME) which quit and developed a burned circuit smell five months later. I checked for burnt traces, none found, I swapped the power supply, a high failure item on OEM PCs, in a matter of five minutes. Problem solved, I web-chatted Gatewaymachines tech support, and got them to send me a new power supply, costing them roughly $15, based on GearXS and their uber-cheap same-spec supply.
A correct answer instead of no answer. I would have charged someone all of $10 for the effort and investment value of a cheap on-hand PS to await the OEM replacement, whereas HP probably paid their Indian phone tech a fraction of that for the hour+ it took, but $20-30 for shipping, as well as wasting my coworker's time, and making his PC unavailable for three weeks.
Which would you choose(if you had to choose one of the above,) the free, hour wasted and three week without PC solution, or the $10 geek to come in and fix it in minutes solution (since we're not getting married, call me when the replacement gets there, hey?)
On the contrary(and this is from someone also with Radiosnack experience) someone who sells expensive items *successfully* to people who don't really need them was until very recently, and in some cases still is(PS3,) exactly the kind of CEO corporations were looking for.
Keep in mind, a successful sale is one that stays sold and doesn't cause extra work post-sale. I won't go into details(would probably violate something I signed, somewhere,) but some pretty crappy salesmen can still make a living off battery profits.
I wish more engines would use Google's wildcard method, or possible even Google's engine.
c++-programming results
c-programming results
Differentiates easily between very short words by attaching to a common trailing word.
And until they do, we can always use the site search modifier...
c-programming site:monster.com results.
Same thought that I had, although I worded it as follows:
If you have more to lose, and you are set to the same level as someone with less to lose, you have lost more.
The statistics are probably fine, but the analysis seems flawed.
You mean like Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows *cough*98*cough* Millenium Edition?
It's not Microsoft itself scared of new versions, its that their customers hate the way they do new versions(you have to buy it and reinstall, and lose support for the old if not) and that they won't change that method.
Home PCs are also reaching a point of no return, whence an upgrade will not lead to a noticeable improvement for 90% of the people upgrading, barring spyware, adware, etc and the people who fail to learn that it's as simple as reinstalling and avoiding online casinos, etc. The same crap will slow the new computers down just as much.
Reference of slow computers with fast hardware: www.dell.com
That is actually the most sensible explanation I have *ever* seen or expect to see regarding rebates.
The only one in fact that requires neither malevolence nor stupidity, and doing so while still making sense is impressive.
Also much more likely to be accepted that outright variable pricing(if you have more money you pay more because you're expected to... something nonspecific.)
Bravo to your logic. Or research.
More importantly: can it use Linux?
Not so. Cheapness aside, since the large majority of motherboards have integrated sound/video/LAN, most cards for such(especially video) are designed as upgrades, so unless he gets a higher end motherboard(like a Radeon board with non-AC'97 audio onboard) the separate cards will most likely be better quality.
Well if you do happen to use all the integrated junk(although some of it is less junky, such as the ATI or nVidia integrated video) you tend to use less power. And yes, lots of people do use the integrated stuff, because they don't know about the better audio quality, video clarity, network performance(mainly moot on that one), and system performance they can get with dedicated hardware.
That and it is nearly as cheap to get integrated systems than bare mainboards(especially microATX, which is often cheaper because of the massive OEM market for them.)
Me? Being forced to use Microsoft Windows? No.
I am not, because I build my own computers.
Millions of others who don't know how to build a computer and aren't willing to go to some small builder for them being forced to use(or at least buy) Microsoft Windows? Yes.
Think I'm lying? Try to get a Linux home PC(or laptop) from Dell, HP, Toshiba, or Gateway.
It's known as the "Microsoft Tax" for a reason.
As I measure productivity by the following ratio:
What I want to do : How much of it I can do easily
The But is that sometimes I want to do in-game and out-game maintenance on my game server. I can't play the game(yet...) in Linux, so I do this mainly in Windows, even though a large portion of it would be easier in Linux.
As a result I have gotten, not Linux versions of windows-like programs, but Windows ports of Linux/Unix-native programs (MySQL Navigator, for example) and I puTTY in when I need a shell(server is on Linux.)
The technology is there already: LG-VX5550, a cell phone($269 list but selling your soul for two years makes it $30-60) with very good voice recognition.
Probably not on a general purpose processor, but hey I'm ready to welcome the return of the coprocessor (Voice recog coCPU, encryption coCPU, compression coCPU, etc) if it makes this stuff possible in tiny form factors.
How is it that the universal insult for engineers the world over is calling someone a 'tool'?
I would have thought that such being an insult would contradict the presumption that tools are useful, for something.
The Patriots for Not Eating Babies in America say John Kerry eats aborted fetus heads for lunch. Kerry says he doesn't.
More on this controversial new debate at nine!
Insightful?
There isn't a stupid mod, when cable companies are moving *back* to the exact same -Pay for service, plus for each receiver- model that they were on (remember cable boxes? You need them again) and Satellite is still on.
If this looks like me talking out my ass, think real hard about the big push for digital cable.
DirecWay Two-way satellite access: $600 equipment, $99/mo. for service with no contract Outdoor 802.11b access points, average $150 each (Depends on your area, outdoors I would expect not more than 6, probably 3-4 would cover you) Category 5 cable, 2000 feet, ~$160 Bag full of cat5e modular plugs(unless you really need boxes) $10 12+ port switch or hub plus enclosure, ~80(bad guess) Somebody's labor(probably yours) however many hours at whatever rate. Could be done fairly easily aroung $1500, not counting labor.
If this movie goes well, could a Halo movie be far behind?
Red vs. Blue.
Call me a communist, but the codec mess we have with video is atually a good thing.
If not for the codec mess, the high-quality, high-compression codecs never would have become as popular as they are, and we would still be using MPEG 1 and Microsoft AVI for all our video.
But we had REAL, a crappy format with high compression, VIVO, an even crappier format with higher compression, Quicktime, a high-quality format with fair compression, leading to MPEG 4, a high quality, high compression and ultimately reverse-engineered-to-hell codec that is now, more or less, open in the DivX and XviD codecs.
Windows Media notwithstanding.
Illiterate Fool!
You: "Yes, your honor, I stole his car, but only after I found out he had a stolen bag of Cheetos in the trunk.."
Judge: "Case dismissed!"
Realistically:
"Well yes I slashed the tires, but only to keep him from getting any further with his stolen car!"
I wish there was a mod for arrogant, illiterate fool.
Co-conspirator is perfectly appropriate:
A conspirator is someone who engages in a conspiracy.
A co-conspirator to the first conspirator is someone who engages in THE SAME CONSPIRACY AS THE FIRST.
F#@!ing wannabe.
Nah, AMD will just get into the same kind of naming they use for Opteron and FX chips. Nothing to a name, but advert the benchmarks. Why not? Server/big iron vendors have always done that; Don't admit your (low) clock speed, sell benchmarks, come up with increasingly obscure and unhelpful names(Sparc series, anyone?)