i love the fact that our govt expects soldiers to use military items which are known to have significant health risks in the near and long term
they train them to use vehicles and weapons to engage and kill the enemy, and also to take fire and be killed. once you're over that, eating your own piss is a walk in the park.
pngcrush has been around for a long time, and yet Adobe still sits on its collective ass about PNG compression in Photoshop.
most people that use photoshop that i know haven't even heard of PNG, they all know "JPG for many colors, GIF for few colors" as far as images for the web go. adobe is a commercial software company, they respond to the market, period. if big customers asked for better PNG support, Adobe would provide it. obviously, many people are happy to use GIF because it's familiar, works fine and enjoys broad support.
...by not releasing their source for their Linux implentation...
seriously, does slashcode not have a spellcheck? it's not that hard, people. i hate to nitpick, but poor spelling, even that written by the most capable person, adds an air of incompetence.
/me hopes i didn't make too many spelling errors in the post
I've found maintaining Gentoo software and services far easier than maintenance on Mandrake.
EXACTLY. maintenance is the hardest part. i've found that mandrake will install relatively cleanly, but get worse as months go on, like a windows install. finally, it becomes so cluttered with orphaned files and multiple versions of the same library floating around that i end up doing a re-install. it may well be possible to maintain an rpm-based distro cleanly, but i don't want to spend the time nor effort tracking down every dependency, i want software that will keep track of itself for me. gentoo's portage isn't perfect, but it is pretty clean and insanely easy to pick up.
even if it was $50/month, many people would still pay. consider how it stacks up against other entertainment costs -- $15 CDs, $9 movie tickets, etc. -- a month's worth of unlimited online play for a middle-class geek with no social life and nothing better to do is a drop in the bucket.
no, i don't play MMORGs, but i've had points in my life where i played way too many video games, simply because there was nothing immediately better to do and i didn't have an interest in actively seeking out real life stuff to do.
Agreed. They're a corporation. Their only goal is to make money. Why should they educate their users as to alternatives to their own products? I don't see any Coca-Cola ads saying "...And make sure to try Pepsi, because you may like it better". Corporations are about serving themselves, not their customers. People that think otherwise are nieve.
many americans believe it is their God-given Right to drive around in a Ford Destructinator at 90 mph getting 9 mpg. Public transportation, of which I am a big fan, is usually only a viable option in very large cities; and even then it's not always popular.
personally i love public transportation (unless i've got people jammed into my armpits (I'm tall) in a bus or subway, which of course happens occasionally) and i'm all for more of it, but there are cultural and practical issues we must take into consideration.
jeez half a million, that's a significant chunk of their population</kidding>. but seriously, not that significant, how many people knew there were 137 million people in Nigeria?
sorry, my original post was not poking fun at Herman Goldstine, in fact it was an attempt to do the opposite.
the point, which i tried to make in a humorous way, is that the original people that built the first computers were both geniuses and innovators, unlike most of today's computing population.
Harold Jenkins, famed $cr1pt k1ddi3, defacer of websites, has died at age 84 at his home in New Jersey.
Harold was best known for defacing long-defunct website Slashdot.org in 2005, replacing the entire front-page with an image known only as "g0at$3!!!11". The image has been lost to history for over 10 years when its then-current host, whitehouse.gov, was not renewed by marketing giant and internet owner Coke.com.
i'm not worried. my company, which was still very small (~15 people, i was the 4th coder) when i started has never done actual specs. this works as long as all the coders know evrything... now we've got ~50 people and about 15 coders and still no specs. things get worse and worse as people just around to different tasks or are given a new task knowing nothing how the code works (if it works, can't have unit tests w/o specs... they also allot no time for it). it just doesn't scale.
but it's ok, the CIO told me not to take everything so seriously, with all this talk of specs, documentation and unit tests.
i heard next year they'll release the names of the artists that skinned the models. Then the year after that, they'll release the guys who designed the models. Then the year after that they'll make a very official-sounding pre-pre-releasement announcement. The actual release should within 3 or 4 years of that!
An easy way to fix this, although I am no expert, is to make the fingerprint scanners heat sensitive. If the fingerprint matches and is within 1 degree of 98.6 F, then it opens.
so how does this keep people from holding the fake finger(prints) against their body to warm them up, or what about people who are running a fever or who naturally have cold fingers? i am no expert but i would assume that you would find that people's fingers run at a wide range of temperatures.
i hear space is lovely this time of year. low pollution, few politicians, low crime rates and low taxes. as long as no one builds a black hole in my space-town.
but seriously, who wouldn't. even if it sucks, humans are hardwired to explore new places, even if it's dangerous or they're not wanted.
for further reading on human nature see the works of Smith, Agent.
Slashdot Mirror
two chicks at the same time.
N000000 0F C0UR$E N0T!!!!!!!!?!?!?!?oneoneoneoneone
they train them to use vehicles and weapons to engage and kill the enemy, and also to take fire and be killed. once you're over that, eating your own piss is a walk in the park.
funny, the aliens I talk to don't predict contact for at least another 50 years.
most people that use photoshop that i know haven't even heard of PNG, they all know "JPG for many colors, GIF for few colors" as far as images for the web go. adobe is a commercial software company, they respond to the market, period. if big customers asked for better PNG support, Adobe would provide it. obviously, many people are happy to use GIF because it's familiar, works fine and enjoys broad support.
seriously, does slashcode not have a spellcheck? it's not that hard, people. i hate to nitpick, but poor spelling, even that written by the most capable person, adds an air of incompetence.
EXACTLY. maintenance is the hardest part. i've found that mandrake will install relatively cleanly, but get worse as months go on, like a windows install. finally, it becomes so cluttered with orphaned files and multiple versions of the same library floating around that i end up doing a re-install. it may well be possible to maintain an rpm-based distro cleanly, but i don't want to spend the time nor effort tracking down every dependency, i want software that will keep track of itself for me. gentoo's portage isn't perfect, but it is pretty clean and insanely easy to pick up.
no, i don't play MMORGs, but i've had points in my life where i played way too many video games, simply because there was nothing immediately better to do and i didn't have an interest in actively seeking out real life stuff to do.
insanity plea anyone?
he's a scientist; anything less would be unacceptable (not that some scientists aren't able to admit their own fallacy)
i always use bob@bob.com and occasionally fuck@you.com if i particularly don't like the bastids.
Agreed. They're a corporation. Their only goal is to make money. Why should they educate their users as to alternatives to their own products? I don't see any Coca-Cola ads saying "...And make sure to try Pepsi, because you may like it better". Corporations are about serving themselves, not their customers. People that think otherwise are nieve.
/me presses fingers together
it's *this* wide
- americans love their cars
- we have alot more land
many americans believe it is their God-given Right to drive around in a Ford Destructinator at 90 mph getting 9 mpg. Public transportation, of which I am a big fan, is usually only a viable option in very large cities; and even then it's not always popular.Another practical consideration is that Germany is approximately the size of Montana and all of Japan's islands add up to about as space as California. So a national system of high-speed public transporation such as a maglev train would require a much larger area of coverage than either of those two countries, and require a larger number of people using it on a regular basis to sustain it.
personally i love public transportation (unless i've got people jammed into my armpits (I'm tall) in a bus or subway, which of course happens occasionally) and i'm all for more of it, but there are cultural and practical issues we must take into consideration.
i know, it's impossible to do well. some jerk will make an attempt, but then they always do.
jeez half a million , that's a significant chunk of their population</kidding>. but seriously, not that significant, how many people knew there were 137 million people in Nigeria?
i'm wearing some right now
the point, which i tried to make in a humorous way, is that the original people that built the first computers were both geniuses and innovators, unlike most of today's computing population.
Harold Jenkins, famed $cr1pt k1ddi3, defacer of websites, has died at age 84 at his home in New Jersey.
Harold was best known for defacing long-defunct website Slashdot.org in 2005, replacing the entire front-page with an image known only as "g0at$3!!!11". The image has been lost to history for over 10 years when its then-current host, whitehouse.gov, was not renewed by marketing giant and internet owner Coke.com.
but it's ok, the CIO told me not to take everything so seriously, with all this talk of specs, documentation and unit tests.
i heard next year they'll release the names of the artists that skinned the models. Then the year after that, they'll release the guys who designed the models. Then the year after that they'll make a very official-sounding pre-pre-releasement announcement. The actual release should within 3 or 4 years of that!
so how does this keep people from holding the fake finger(prints) against their body to warm them up, or what about people who are running a fever or who naturally have cold fingers? i am no expert but i would assume that you would find that people's fingers run at a wide range of temperatures.
take "on the road again" and s/road/phone/ and loop it over and over. people will never get tired of that one.
let's just Xgrid them together and have them solve their own problems.
but seriously, who wouldn't. even if it sucks, humans are hardwired to explore new places, even if it's dangerous or they're not wanted.
for further reading on human nature see the works of Smith, Agent.