The funniest part was using the Swiss Army Knife to do the assembly. I suppose it's possible, but I was LOL. And none of the "lilliputians" were wearing (ainti-static) wrist straps - bad form!
The initiative I propose today is a tidy room in every American home, and I'm asking Dictator For Life to take that initiative through the necessary steps in order to have it enacted.
Who are you to call someone illiterate? Given that tortured linguistic nonsense, I'd guess English is not your first language. Look at the original sentence.
During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
We all know that congress critters speak with forked tongues, but even they know the difference between "took...in creating" and "sponsored...that created". Your political blinders are showing.
I just wanted to let everyone know that there is major backlash against the Sci-Fi channel from fans about the cancellation of Farscape. They appear to have miscalculated the Fans. For the past few days Sci-Fi's main office has been inundated with faxes, e-mails, and phone calls to keep the show alive for its 5th season.
Sometimes flames are good. The Farscape Bboard has been hosed for days. Do It! Assert your preference for SciFi with at least a little intelligence.
Exactly. As long as elections are subject to constant recounts, ad nauseum, computerized voting is hopeless. How do you recreate an electronic signal with its exact original properties? And what happens when the power goes out? I live with similar data problems every day, and we can't guarantee data integrity in real-time - only through backups, and there is always the possibilty that there has been a loss of subsequent (incoming) data.
I don't know if I really understand/agree with the argument that something is amiss when a soundtrack costs as much or more then a movie
The soundtrack is about 40 minutes of audio entertainment on a CD. For two dollars (or twelve percent) more, you get a more expensive medium with everything that's on the CD plus two hours of video entertainment. I think there could be something just a little amiss there.
What prompts this fantasy is a round of tests I just ran on three new printers advertised as delivering speeds of "up to" 11, 15, and 17 pages per minute, respectively. In some ways, all three are excellent products -- I'll have more to say about their virtues in a future column -- but none comes close to its "up to" speed.
The review was overly harsh. It's really very simple. Just fill a file with "^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L...", and send it to the printer. You'll be amazed at the ppm.
I'm not pro-profit in any big way, but I do think that a genuine profit motive makes a company a better member of its community than corporate culturalism, by way of ordinary free-market forces. I think it's sad that ruthless profit-mindedness would actually improve the current situation.
I agree with half of that. The problem is that we do have "ruthless profit-mindedness." The MBA Borg-think that rules industry is concerned with only one thing: Quarterly profits, or at least the appearance of quarterly profits. Hell, if you can juggle the books to make it look like a profit, that's just as good. Keep the market pundits happy, jack up that stock price, loot the company, grab that golden parachute, and jump! Go to company B and repeat.
What we need is management (and directors and stockholders) that are interested in long-term profit. A company that has long-term profit-mindedness (which may make this quarter's numbers look bad), is a company that doesn't need creative accounting, and is good for the country and its shareholders. Unfortunately, I'm not sure we have the managers, directors, or stockholders with the brains and guts to do this any more.
Agreed! Now, I'm kinda surprised at the lack of general response to the article. There are always loads of people going for the throats of the Samba developers whenever they change something. Seems like we have a lot of people who are willing to take something for free and complain about it, but they aren't even willing to say thanks. THANKS Samba guys!
Despite the use of my super-secret SciFi ID, I am unable to contact fellow Scapers. The Farscape bboard appears to be suffering a melt-down. Too bad we can't get the C?Os email addresses. Oh, and those who didn't see the first seasons shows and are complaining about Farscape have only themselves to blame. Unlike most of the pap out there, Farscape didn't spend half the program bringing you up to speed (and waste half the program).
So the SciFi channel needs to change its name to the NoSciFi channel. Typical. The huge brains at NBC killed Star Trek at the height of its
popularity. History repeats itself. CEOs make huge bucks. Customers get screwed.
ROTFLOL. If only the slashgods would give me mod points to bestow. But, no, I have to wait for 60,000 new users to join to cover the 300,000 abandoned slots plus the real members. And, yeah, I seem to recall previous lives at/. It's that karma thing.:)
Arguably, all icon/mouse-based interfaces are pretty much the same. I.e., you click on an icon and something happens.
Not really. In Windows, you click on a desktop icon and it turns blue. You have to double-click the icon to get the action you really want. The KDE desktop gives the expected response and is an improvement. My point still stands in support of the original post: there is no reason to ape the misfeatures of the MS desktop.
It means you can know that a machine has booted into X|windows without looking at it or even needing a monitor, useful if you are under the desk or in the next room.
I can thoroughly freeze the console in our Linux labs with not so much as a keypress.
Umm, so you just fart, stare at it, send brainwaves, or what? In order to confirm your claims we'll need follow the normal peer review process. You do know what that is, right? Please submit all the relevant materials and conditions and at least a test case to prove your presumption.
Why was the parent modded a troll? More like insightful. I'm a fan of KDE, but it really does seem to become more Windows-like with each version. Do we really need the Yani musicals on boot and shutdown? I don't think it adds anything. Linux is not Windows - thank heavens, and the Linux desktops do not need to pander to the lowest common denominator. People can be taught that an OS can boot without music or work without other MSisms.
Since this was asked on/., I assume you are talking about IT work in the U.S. If so, get a government job as soon as possible.
Ironically, through the H-1B program, the government has given the private sector free license to replace any U.S. resident IT worker. Read the trade rags like Computerworld and Infoworld for a while, and you'll quickly learn that the CEOs and CIOs sit around in their $600 suits and discuss how to milk a nickel by outsourcing their IT work overseas. The only safe place for people who wish to work in IT is with the government. Wish I could get there.
Now if this were about football (and I'm not talking about the kind of "foot"ball where you carry the ball) then I'd get upset.
Oh, you mean that other football, where the objective is to run around in loose shorts and bugger your opponent at the first opportunity megasoccer.com
. No thanks, I'll take the American kind, where personal fouls get an automatic 20 yards or half the distance to the goal, and there is enough padding to prevent the European style tackle.
I highly doubt that Thomson will ever start cracking down on free, open-source decoders, because it just doesn't make any business sense.
Maybe you're right, but I'd hate to be dependant on Thomson's good will some day in the future when the business is tanking and there's no reason for them NOT to try to enforce their patents as widely as possible.
You saw wheels in the movie? You were smokin' the good stuff. The orginal speeder was mounted on a long horizontal boom wich was hidden by the camera view and is why it bounced a lot. No wheels.
To succeed on the desktop, linux has to be able to REPLACE WINDOWS *FOR* WINDOWS USERS.
Wrong. Linux only needs to be the low cost alternative to Windows. When MS Windows users are tired of getting screwed, they will come. It seems as though some posters think Microsoft has always been there. It ain't true. Microsoft DOS was nothing to be proud of, and the first version of Windows was a hopeless joke. I know - I used it and it's successors. MS originally had a tiny market share. DOS, and then Windows, became the OS of choice because it was affordable compared to the "alternatives".
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The funniest part was using the Swiss Army Knife to do the assembly. I suppose it's possible, but I was LOL. And none of the "lilliputians" were wearing (ainti-static) wrist straps - bad form!
The initiative I propose today is a tidy room in every American home, and I'm asking Dictator For Life to take that initiative through the necessary steps in order to have it enacted.
Who are you to call someone illiterate? Given that tortured linguistic nonsense, I'd guess English is not your first language. Look at the original sentence.
During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
We all know that congress critters speak with forked tongues, but even they know the difference between "took...in creating" and "sponsored...that created". Your political blinders are showing.
I just wanted to let everyone know that there is major backlash against the Sci-Fi channel from fans about the cancellation of Farscape. They appear to have miscalculated the Fans. For the past few days Sci-Fi's main office has been inundated with faxes, e-mails, and phone calls to keep the show alive for its 5th season.
Sometimes flames are good. The Farscape Bboard has been hosed for days. Do It! Assert your preference for SciFi with at least a little intelligence.
Exactly. As long as elections are subject to constant recounts, ad nauseum, computerized voting is hopeless. How do you recreate an electronic signal with its exact original properties? And what happens when the power goes out? I live with similar data problems every day, and we can't guarantee data integrity in real-time - only through backups, and there is always the possibilty that there has been a loss of subsequent (incoming) data.
Perhaps that seems silly, but soundtrack fans are evidentally willing to pay for that, while movie-plot fans aren't.
Or perhaps people who buy music have become accustomed to being ripped off over the years, while people who buy movies have not?
I don't know if I really understand/agree with the argument that something is amiss when a soundtrack costs as much or more then a movie
The soundtrack is about 40 minutes of audio entertainment on a CD. For two dollars (or twelve percent) more, you get a more expensive medium with everything that's on the CD plus two hours of video entertainment. I think there could be something just a little amiss there.
What prompts this fantasy is a round of tests I just ran on three new printers advertised as delivering speeds of "up to" 11, 15, and 17 pages per minute, respectively. In some ways, all three are excellent products -- I'll have more to say about their virtues in a future column -- but none comes close to its "up to" speed.
The review was overly harsh. It's really very simple. Just fill a file with "^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L...", and send it to the printer. You'll be amazed at the ppm.
I'm not pro-profit in any big way, but I do think that a genuine profit motive makes a company a better member of its community than corporate culturalism, by way of ordinary free-market forces. I think it's sad that ruthless profit-mindedness would actually improve the current situation.
I agree with half of that. The problem is that we do have "ruthless profit-mindedness." The MBA Borg-think that rules industry is concerned with only one thing: Quarterly profits, or at least the appearance of quarterly profits. Hell, if you can juggle the books to make it look like a profit, that's just as good. Keep the market pundits happy, jack up that stock price, loot the company, grab that golden parachute, and jump! Go to company B and repeat.
What we need is management (and directors and stockholders) that are interested in long-term profit. A company that has long-term profit-mindedness (which may make this quarter's numbers look bad), is a company that doesn't need creative accounting, and is good for the country and its shareholders. Unfortunately, I'm not sure we have the managers, directors, or stockholders with the brains and guts to do this any more.
Agreed! Now, I'm kinda surprised at the lack of general response to the article. There are always loads of people going for the throats of the Samba developers whenever they change something. Seems like we have a lot of people who are willing to take something for free and complain about it, but they aren't even willing to say thanks. THANKS Samba guys!
Despite the use of my super-secret SciFi ID, I am unable to contact fellow Scapers. The Farscape bboard appears to be suffering a melt-down. Too bad we can't get the C?Os email addresses. Oh, and those who didn't see the first seasons shows and are complaining about Farscape have only themselves to blame. Unlike most of the pap out there, Farscape didn't spend half the program bringing you up to speed (and waste half the program).
So the SciFi channel needs to change its name to the NoSciFi channel. Typical. The huge brains at NBC killed Star Trek at the height of its popularity. History repeats itself. CEOs make huge bucks. Customers get screwed.
I always thought John Edwards belonged on the comedy channel.
Agreed. The name is not the SciFi/Charlatan Channel.
ROTFLOL. If only the slashgods would give me mod points to bestow. But, no, I have to wait for 60,000 new users to join to cover the 300,000 abandoned slots plus the real members. And, yeah, I seem to recall previous lives at /. It's that karma thing. :)
Arguably, all icon/mouse-based interfaces are pretty much the same. I.e., you click on an icon and something happens.
Not really. In Windows, you click on a desktop icon and it turns blue. You have to double-click the icon to get the action you really want. The KDE desktop gives the expected response and is an improvement. My point still stands in support of the original post: there is no reason to ape the misfeatures of the MS desktop.
It means you can know that a machine has booted into X|windows without looking at it or even needing a monitor, useful if you are under the desk or in the next room.
Now, that must be a scary boot sequence! ;)
I can thoroughly freeze the console in our Linux labs with not so much as a keypress.
Umm, so you just fart, stare at it, send brainwaves, or what? In order to confirm your claims we'll need follow the normal peer review process. You do know what that is, right? Please submit all the relevant materials and conditions and at least a test case to prove your presumption.
Why was the parent modded a troll? More like insightful. I'm a fan of KDE, but it really does seem to become more Windows-like with each version. Do we really need the Yani musicals on boot and shutdown? I don't think it adds anything. Linux is not Windows - thank heavens, and the Linux desktops do not need to pander to the lowest common denominator. People can be taught that an OS can boot without music or work without other MSisms.
Since this was asked on /., I assume you are talking about IT work in the U.S. If so, get a government job as soon as possible.
Ironically, through the H-1B program, the government has given the private sector free license to replace any U.S. resident IT worker. Read the trade rags like Computerworld and Infoworld for a while, and you'll quickly learn that the CEOs and CIOs sit around in their $600 suits and discuss how to milk a nickel by outsourcing their IT work overseas. The only safe place for people who wish to work in IT is with the government. Wish I could get there.
When I was just a lad, I read all about 'em. Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote about Captain Carter, Barsoom, and the dreaded banthespams... Very dangerous.
I'm a firm believer in the fact that the human race as a whole has a very low average intelligence
The human race as a whole has exactly average intelligence. That is the definition of average.
Now if this were about football (and I'm not talking about the kind of "foot"ball where you carry the ball) then I'd get upset.
Oh, you mean that other football, where the objective is to run around in loose shorts and bugger your opponent at the first opportunity megasoccer.com . No thanks, I'll take the American kind, where personal fouls get an automatic 20 yards or half the distance to the goal, and there is enough padding to prevent the European style tackle.
I highly doubt that Thomson will ever start cracking down on free, open-source decoders, because it just doesn't make any business sense.
Maybe you're right, but I'd hate to be dependant on Thomson's good will some day in the future when the business is tanking and there's no reason for them NOT to try to enforce their patents as widely as possible.
You saw wheels in the movie? You were smokin' the good stuff. The orginal speeder was mounted on a long horizontal boom wich was hidden by the camera view and is why it bounced a lot. No wheels.
To succeed on the desktop, linux has to be able to REPLACE WINDOWS *FOR* WINDOWS USERS.
Wrong. Linux only needs to be the low cost alternative to Windows. When MS Windows users are tired of getting screwed, they will come. It seems as though some posters think Microsoft has always been there. It ain't true. Microsoft DOS was nothing to be proud of, and the first version of Windows was a hopeless joke. I know - I used it and it's successors. MS originally had a tiny market share. DOS, and then Windows, became the OS of choice because it was affordable compared to the "alternatives".
How about Outer Space Asteroid Attack Balloon? That would get some media attention.