But let the rendering engine strip or blobify the skin/theme files. Who cares what the underlying descriptive language is, let it be something people are already familiar with.
Imagine if every time a new software project was started we first created a new language, that's what we generally ask of our theme/skin designers. I guess someone's thinking outside that box!:P
Dude, you know it's the United States of America right? United Statesians would only work for the US without the A. Please hand over your superiority card.
Have them make healing magnetic bracelets and then have them fight students from an intelligent design class. Which ever group wins is right! So you'll teach them to test their theories and all while teaching them survival of the fittest. Suck it intelligent design!:P
cats and dogs are smarter than we give them credit for
I always figured that although we are probably as smart as we think we are our inability to definitively define language and intelligence was a reasonable reason to reserve judgment. Usually that would have applied to the idea of alien life and intelligence (why would it be like terrestrial intelligence?) but it seems possible enough that our own arrogance and simplified understandings of our environment might lead us to make incorrect conclusions (or not).
It's not independent. Anyway, we lost most of the independent radio stations in the 90's.
Perhaps their hope is that by playing this game they either A) effect an industry they might see as a competitor or B) they gain an ally in short term with their own fight who can help with legislation and/or rate negotiation. Kind of a reversal of what they might have seen as a divide and conquer scheme that landed them the different rates in the first place.
Of course the real fight is still coming as we begin the transition from analog broadcasting to an all digital networked signal. After all, a cell phone is just a radio device.
Your announcing on a technology site that you just pre-ordered TWO copies of an OS that's in a free public beta? See if you can cancel the order, create a (free) technet account and download then burn your disks. You can use this version until March 1, 2010 and then decide if it's worth your money.
I think the truth is often developers care less for end users (or have less time or patience) then one might think. In a business environment this tends to have less impact because somewhere in the chain people who aren't the programmers will be included and some missing or poorly designed elements will be addressed. In open source projects there isn't really much marketing and from what I've seen even a little resentment towards the very idea, the 'scratching an itch' model often results in projects which seem actively hostel towards much of its own user-base, and why shouldn't they be, it's their time and their itch. Hopefully as the mainstreaming of open source continues the developers involved in may of these projects will become more interested in their respective user bases and a lot of the trouble is probably that it's actually really hard to process feedback so many developers simply assume that because users can't always express themselves accurately that they don't know what it is that they want: communication is tough and not all talented programmers are such talented people persons.
Credit cards offered a service for a small fee which would warn a purchaser before making a purchase from a possibly fraudulent retailer? Like a real-time blackhole list for purchasers, only instead of blocking the consumer it simply warns them of a possible risk?
I might not be interested in something like this but if it wasn't grossly mis-managed or more then a few dollars I'd probably recommend it to my family and friends if they asked me about it. Of course when Amazon files the patent for this maybe this post can stand as prior art.:-)
I'd love to see unobtrusive consumer protections be made available that didn't brainlessly give away the consumers privacy.
When I used to produce my own music I read trade magazine like a car lover might read auto magazines. Getting featured in a decent music magazine (if the product is interesting enough) could create loads of demand.
I really appreciate the non-slashvertisement nature of this article. But curiosity got the better of me and I was wondering if this might be the product (originally something I read about here)? If so, and you ever get terribly bored, how about a gimp tutorial? Like the snares and kick.
Personally I'm really hoping that between Android and Moblin we'll see some attempts at user interfaces that seem to have a cohesive plan to them. Ubuntu Netbook Remix seems to have stayed closer to the franken interface design we've come to expect on Linux desktops.
As you become more comfortable retrieving your information from the web you'll slowly find yourself using tabs as short-term bookmarks (otherwise your actual bookmarks will become unmanageable). I typically have between 20 and 40 open and I used to make apologies like a lot of other users saying I shouldn't have so many open (so memory issues are my fault) but I stopped feeling this way recently because I realized this is a more natural way to organize information then the bookmark paradigm. It's like leaving notes out on your desk instead of filing them.
I know people post publicly about using FTP for *ANYTHING* do it just to make me feel smarter but that summary included the words mission critical, Windows AND FTP.
and post hd-dvd/blue-ray format war the consumer has simply started to notice the benefits of high definition isn't tied to a expensive platter produced by a single vendor/consortium. We'd been forced to choose and there was a time when it appeared to make sense, but the magic of blue-ray technology isn't the high quality video or the expensive little boxes, it's a just delivery system.
irrelevant for people who use simple technologies like Media Extenders. After tinkering with a HTPC for a few years I bought a D-Link DSM-750 which streams most formats from a computer via 802.11n (or wire, or attached usb drive/device) pretty nicely. It's not perfect by any stretch of the imagination but it's the only HD device I'd use. Blue-ray and its ilk is a solution for the distributor, not the consumer.
I played Alien Arena for a month or so and at the time there wasn't a problem with cheating. I run a server for Assault Cube now and here it's about as bad as it was with the last big commercial game I played (Team Fortress 2). Playing on a well admined server with any game helps tremendously.
Another point, would we prefer the ISP implement this in a subpoenable fashion or wait for the government to implement a national security system that would need essentially the same level of access to your information? Personally I like an audible paper trail from a non-governmental organization.
Just make it opt-out and the 10% of us (or whatever) that might not be comfortable can continue to use the service happily.
The problem with bot-nets is not that people don't care (exactly) but that they are ignorant, literally, they don't know. Everyone wouldn't fix it or know how or who to turn to but the net result would still be X percentage less infected computers. Probably even an X percent increase in awareness/interest (personal information accessible/business information-secrets accessible/illicit information accessible/etc). And of course importantly an X percent decrease in profitability for operators (or at least their end-users).
I work IT doing support for a web application developer. The users are mainly programmers and most of the support work I do is architecture, server configuration and monitoring.
If respect is an issue maybe consider finding a environment which better suits you. You'll probably have to work harder (and be pretty motivated to learn more) but if your users are whats burning you out and you really enjoy the technical challenges this is probably one of the best things you can do. I think it's quite possible to do IT and have a reasonable level of respect.
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But let the rendering engine strip or blobify the skin/theme files. Who cares what the underlying descriptive language is, let it be something people are already familiar with. Imagine if every time a new software project was started we first created a new language, that's what we generally ask of our theme/skin designers. I guess someone's thinking outside that box! :P
Dude, you know it's the United States of America right? United Statesians would only work for the US without the A. Please hand over your superiority card.
Have them make healing magnetic bracelets and then have them fight students from an intelligent design class. Which ever group wins is right! So you'll teach them to test their theories and all while teaching them survival of the fittest. Suck it intelligent design! :P
cats and dogs are smarter than we give them credit for
I always figured that although we are probably as smart as we think we are our inability to definitively define language and intelligence was a reasonable reason to reserve judgment. Usually that would have applied to the idea of alien life and intelligence (why would it be like terrestrial intelligence?) but it seems possible enough that our own arrogance and simplified understandings of our environment might lead us to make incorrect conclusions (or not).
It's not independent. Anyway, we lost most of the independent radio stations in the 90's.
Perhaps their hope is that by playing this game they either A) effect an industry they might see as a competitor or B) they gain an ally in short term with their own fight who can help with legislation and/or rate negotiation. Kind of a reversal of what they might have seen as a divide and conquer scheme that landed them the different rates in the first place.
Of course the real fight is still coming as we begin the transition from analog broadcasting to an all digital networked signal. After all, a cell phone is just a radio device.
Your announcing on a technology site that you just pre-ordered TWO copies of an OS that's in a free public beta? See if you can cancel the order, create a (free) technet account and download then burn your disks. You can use this version until March 1, 2010 and then decide if it's worth your money.
I think the truth is often developers care less for end users (or have less time or patience) then one might think. In a business environment this tends to have less impact because somewhere in the chain people who aren't the programmers will be included and some missing or poorly designed elements will be addressed. In open source projects there isn't really much marketing and from what I've seen even a little resentment towards the very idea, the 'scratching an itch' model often results in projects which seem actively hostel towards much of its own user-base, and why shouldn't they be, it's their time and their itch. Hopefully as the mainstreaming of open source continues the developers involved in may of these projects will become more interested in their respective user bases and a lot of the trouble is probably that it's actually really hard to process feedback so many developers simply assume that because users can't always express themselves accurately that they don't know what it is that they want: communication is tough and not all talented programmers are such talented people persons.
Credit cards offered a service for a small fee which would warn a purchaser before making a purchase from a possibly fraudulent retailer? Like a real-time blackhole list for purchasers, only instead of blocking the consumer it simply warns them of a possible risk?
:-)
I might not be interested in something like this but if it wasn't grossly mis-managed or more then a few dollars I'd probably recommend it to my family and friends if they asked me about it. Of course when Amazon files the patent for this maybe this post can stand as prior art.
I'd love to see unobtrusive consumer protections be made available that didn't brainlessly give away the consumers privacy.
When I used to produce my own music I read trade magazine like a car lover might read auto magazines. Getting featured in a decent music magazine (if the product is interesting enough) could create loads of demand.
I really appreciate the non-slashvertisement nature of this article. But curiosity got the better of me and I was wondering if this might be the product (originally something I read about here)? If so, and you ever get terribly bored, how about a gimp tutorial? Like the snares and kick.
The moblin UI looks interesting (when will Ubuntu stop making brown and orange interfaces?):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAG2VyKaxCk
The Ubuntu Netbook Remix looks like it's trying to stuff too much into the interface:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9iOIVnrMt8
Personally I'm really hoping that between Android and Moblin we'll see some attempts at user interfaces that seem to have a cohesive plan to them. Ubuntu Netbook Remix seems to have stayed closer to the franken interface design we've come to expect on Linux desktops.
Kdawson, boner, cute girl in advertising. And that's the optimistic version!
I thought it was an ad?
As you become more comfortable retrieving your information from the web you'll slowly find yourself using tabs as short-term bookmarks (otherwise your actual bookmarks will become unmanageable). I typically have between 20 and 40 open and I used to make apologies like a lot of other users saying I shouldn't have so many open (so memory issues are my fault) but I stopped feeling this way recently because I realized this is a more natural way to organize information then the bookmark paradigm. It's like leaving notes out on your desk instead of filing them.
I know people post publicly about using FTP for *ANYTHING* do it just to make me feel smarter but that summary included the words mission critical, Windows AND FTP.
*head explodes*
To hire people to wait for other people to get things done.
and post hd-dvd/blue-ray format war the consumer has simply started to notice the benefits of high definition isn't tied to a expensive platter produced by a single vendor/consortium. We'd been forced to choose and there was a time when it appeared to make sense, but the magic of blue-ray technology isn't the high quality video or the expensive little boxes, it's a just delivery system.
irrelevant for people who use simple technologies like Media Extenders. After tinkering with a HTPC for a few years I bought a D-Link DSM-750 which streams most formats from a computer via 802.11n (or wire, or attached usb drive/device) pretty nicely. It's not perfect by any stretch of the imagination but it's the only HD device I'd use. Blue-ray and its ilk is a solution for the distributor, not the consumer.
I played Alien Arena for a month or so and at the time there wasn't a problem with cheating. I run a server for Assault Cube now and here it's about as bad as it was with the last big commercial game I played (Team Fortress 2). Playing on a well admined server with any game helps tremendously.
Is no way to scare people into silence. A suspicious suicide or burglary would still work better.
Perpetual, low-level war.
Another point, would we prefer the ISP implement this in a subpoenable fashion or wait for the government to implement a national security system that would need essentially the same level of access to your information? Personally I like an audible paper trail from a non-governmental organization.
Just make it opt-out and the 10% of us (or whatever) that might not be comfortable can continue to use the service happily.
The problem with bot-nets is not that people don't care (exactly) but that they are ignorant, literally, they don't know. Everyone wouldn't fix it or know how or who to turn to but the net result would still be X percentage less infected computers. Probably even an X percent increase in awareness/interest (personal information accessible/business information-secrets accessible/illicit information accessible/etc). And of course importantly an X percent decrease in profitability for operators (or at least their end-users).
Kill the market.
I work IT doing support for a web application developer. The users are mainly programmers and most of the support work I do is architecture, server configuration and monitoring.
If respect is an issue maybe consider finding a environment which better suits you. You'll probably have to work harder (and be pretty motivated to learn more) but if your users are whats burning you out and you really enjoy the technical challenges this is probably one of the best things you can do. I think it's quite possible to do IT and have a reasonable level of respect.
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