Among the crowd tech-type people, the decision to use linux is often based on the "tweakability" of the operating system, and the ability to greatly customize or alter the way the OS works (not to mention avoid crashing).
However, for most home users (including myself on one of my desktops), software is definately the key.
In particular, games would likely be the key in many cases.
If linux were to come up with a real killer app, or better yet a killer game, I think we could watch a drastic increase in desktop use. Actually, games are "partly" behind my uses of a secondary Redhat box as well, as I'm trying to get a windows-compatible VPN for network gaming purposes (any/.'ers who can give me some advice on this?).
This article seems to deal mostly with servers and corporations. What about desktop users and/or other home users.
While there are probably a lot of corps out there thinking about switching to linux from unix/windows, there are also an increasing amount of home users searching for an alternate desktop environment.
I wonder how this might tally if things such as linux firewalls, mp3 servers, and other more custom uses were considered?
Nobody cares... and yet I still have a 1 and you have a 0. So perhaps you wasted more time in the typical 12-yr-old 'you-suck' reply than my original post?
A few points
a) My friend was the one who did this, not somebody he knows.
b) He didn't fry the drive, it friend itself. And the FS extended warantee often extends past the product warrantee.
Another point. I had a subwoofer for that acquired a crack. It was past original warrantee. I hadn't exactly been gentle on it, crash was my fault, but it wasn't deliberate. Brought it back in and it was replaced (past the product warrantee).
Point of point? An extended warrantee is useful beyond the original product warrantee
Nobody was ripped off, but I got a better product. Oh, and the magnet thing was more or less a joke.
So? Back it up and then take a magnet to it, or something else that makes it very hard to tell what happened. Do this about a week before it's due. Oh, and don't forget to get the no-hassle warrantee plans if there is one available.
That way, when you return it, you get a new drive. I had a friend who had several problems with CD-RW drives. When his first one broke under extended warrantee at Future Shop, he returned it and they replaced it with a newer model (old model wasn't available anymore). It happened again with the newer model in about 6mo and he go a newer one again, which had no problems
Sometimes I wonder if he had bad luck or good magnets...
Hiring fresh lawyers, and especially ones looking to "make a name for him/herself" isn't always such a great idea. Fresh lawyers sometimes tend like to go to court, they like big cases, and whatever else will get them a little bit of fame.
A little money over a long period of time can be a lot of money...
How about a little easter egg built, so whenever 260lbs of weight are applied, the chair says "hey lardass, time to take a diet - you're killin' my joints here."
Of course, this would never go through, but there are other interesting possibilities with weight-sensors and perhaps people on diets...
It would be interesting to see what people could accomplish by "WarCamming." Rather than trying to pick up open networks, perhaps we could pick up signals from remote cameras. Wouldn't it be interesting if it was easy to feed all those little radio, etc signals into a home input point. If there are a lot of downtown businesses minitoring their front door/walk, for example, one would be able to monitor almost an entire street!
On a side note, one wonders how many little wireless spycams are out there on a relatively open range and a unencoded signal. Hey , let's look what we can see from the neighbour's bedroom bookshelf today...
While it's not really a good thing for any large or visible company to make a mistake, it happens. This was probably just a 1-line or even 1 word fix in a script. Hopefully this won't become a reason for users to roast banthespam over a slow grill. People always seem to remember the bad things most... must be human nature.
However, it is somewhat of an amusing irony to cover in slashdot...
Could you consider getting a sense of humour before posting a flame. On your your second overall post, even! It wasn't opinion, it was humour, as was I believe the parent post.
Or maybe you're just a troll?
For this humourless flame, I award you, my little troll, the title of )( - phorm
My experience came mostly from quite old windows being changed in quite old houses (circa early 90's, late 80's). Guess these were probably "crown" glass, installed to an antiquated standard.
Once again, it's nice to be disproven with somebody with better experience and/or a grounded opinion. Much nicer than "you're wrong, you suck." Or "read the article, I read 50%, but you still suck".
To be well-beaten by a gentleman is much more pleasing than to be ill-cursed by a cur - phorm
Probably burn some karma even replying to this post again, but...
I'll bow to this. I've only had experience with various window glasses and it may be the case that they were always installed with a thicker end near the bottom thusly.
You've got the older windows and probably more experience, in this case I will accept that your opinion is better supported than mine and agree with you.
Oh my, it was getting hot in here for awhile - phorm
In fact, optical glass is usually not the same as the glass used in windows and bottles... So old telescope lenses and mirrors provide good evidence that some glasses do not flow, but little evidence to support the claim that glass in old windows has not flowed
If you have reached such a state of perfection then perhaps you should be able to moderate yourself rather than directing the mods what to do.
I *DID* read the attached article. claims that glass panes in old windows have deformed due to glass flow have never been substantiated.
It's not entirely unsubstantiated either. I've yet to find one of these windows thicker at the top. Does that mean that if they *were* thicker to begin with then the thick end was always installed at the bottom. Easier for me to believe in a slight flow. Note that I am not stating glass is a liquid, just slightly amorphous in its solid state.
Slashdot is often a tool for conjecture and opinion, of which I am offering both.
And yes, had a typo, read right past it in the preview, these things happen without coffee early in the morning. At least it only makes me a little slow on grammar as opposed to anal like some people.
We're all entitled to opinion, some people prefer to state theirs in a manner less offensive than others - phorm
It also somewhat resembles a buttcrack. Or maybe hubble is peering into a great cosmic buttcrack as well?
Maybe because, he who hacks another's wireless makes an ass of himself (scanning doesn't count)?
We need real online comedians, so we can all get some more *lol*'s...
seems different glands react to different frequencies and power levels in a wide variety of ways...
Does this mean that in some people the cellphone might make you extremely horny. I thought that was just the vibe-alert, but it might be the radiation too?
Somebody, anyone, please call me! I'm single but I have a vibrating Li battery!
If you ever pull an old window out of a house, take a measurement of the top and bottom portions of the glass pane. You will notice that the bottom of the glass is thicker than the top.
Conclusion: Glass will flow download, but the motion is imperceptible and extremely slow, not noticable except over a long period of time. This may not apply to all varieties of glass however, but the old glass panes are definately thicker on the bottom (and we not when installed).
What would your opinion be on time-terminated audio/video formats. That is to say, files that would download play fine on a user's PC until the termination point, in which case the file would then become unusable.
Would this be of benefit to artists, allowing them to proliferate work while not leaving public copies that users could download and listen to/watch forever without paying for?
Moreover, do you think the RIAA would support such a technology, as it would technically violate the "copyright", but with a lesser impact than current Mp3's?
A neat trick is to make a router that only allows known IP's, and assigns dynamic IP's for a special restricted subnet. Then, run a few apps on the subnet to watch what the "incoming" is doing. If known hacker activities are occuring, why not have your network fight back and attempt to hack *THEIR* machine. After all, they are connected to your network, which means you are connected to them... perhaps you can test how secure their machine in.
That or post public files on the subnet that do fun things to those foolish enough to download them...
~ Tild-e or Tild-ee? That is the question..
What is the range on these devices? If they are actually connected, wouldn't it stand to reason that in various areas the signal would be passing near the aircraft regardless of an active connection within the craft itself?
That is to say, if an airborn device has enough strength to reach a landbound or sat-type network, would not landbound signals also affect anything passing through their airspace regardless? Is is the signal area small enough that only on-plane devices would do this, or would a focussed signal do the same?
If would really suck if all one had to do to screw up incoming aircraft would be to point a signal-boosted UWB PDA at them...
I seem to remember that when the webphone with a mini-screen and keyboard first came out in Japan, one of the more annoying problems were all the dumb kids downloading/watching porno on the bus, train, or other public places
Think could be a lot worse... last thing I need is some idiot streaming nudies next to me on the bus, with a crowd of his leering friend peering over our shoulders...
Somebody who had the plague and lived, or somebody who survived through the times of the plague. Therein lies the difference, sorry I wasn't specific before.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot is not engineered with people with real lives, an IQ below 50, or possibly small children... :-)
Among the crowd tech-type people, the decision to use linux is often based on the "tweakability" of the operating system, and the ability to greatly customize or alter the way the OS works (not to mention avoid crashing). However, for most home users (including myself on one of my desktops), software is definately the key.
/.'ers who can give me some advice on this?).
In particular, games would likely be the key in many cases.
If linux were to come up with a real killer app, or better yet a killer game, I think we could watch a drastic increase in desktop use. Actually, games are "partly" behind my uses of a secondary Redhat box as well, as I'm trying to get a windows-compatible VPN for network gaming purposes (any
This article seems to deal mostly with servers and corporations. What about desktop users and/or other home users.
While there are probably a lot of corps out there thinking about switching to linux from unix/windows, there are also an increasing amount of home users searching for an alternate desktop environment.
I wonder how this might tally if things such as linux firewalls, mp3 servers, and other more custom uses were considered?
Nobody cares... and yet I still have a 1 and you have a 0. So perhaps you wasted more time in the typical 12-yr-old 'you-suck' reply than my original post?
A few points
a) My friend was the one who did this, not somebody he knows.
b) He didn't fry the drive, it friend itself. And the FS extended warantee often extends past the product warrantee.
Another point. I had a subwoofer for that acquired a crack. It was past original warrantee. I hadn't exactly been gentle on it, crash was my fault, but it wasn't deliberate. Brought it back in and it was replaced (past the product warrantee).
Point of point? An extended warrantee is useful beyond the original product warrantee
Nobody was ripped off, but I got a better product. Oh, and the magnet thing was more or less a joke.
So? Back it up and then take a magnet to it, or something else that makes it very hard to tell what happened. Do this about a week before it's due. Oh, and don't forget to get the no-hassle warrantee plans if there is one available.
That way, when you return it, you get a new drive. I had a friend who had several problems with CD-RW drives. When his first one broke under extended warrantee at Future Shop, he returned it and they replaced it with a newer model (old model wasn't available anymore). It happened again with the newer model in about 6mo and he go a newer one again, which had no problems
Sometimes I wonder if he had bad luck or good magnets...
Hiring fresh lawyers, and especially ones looking to "make a name for him/herself" isn't always such a great idea. Fresh lawyers sometimes tend like to go to court, they like big cases, and whatever else will get them a little bit of fame.
A little money over a long period of time can be a lot of money...
How about a little easter egg built, so whenever 260lbs of weight are applied, the chair says "hey lardass, time to take a diet - you're killin' my joints here."
Of course, this would never go through, but there are other interesting possibilities with weight-sensors and perhaps people on diets...
It would be interesting to see what people could accomplish by "WarCamming." Rather than trying to pick up open networks, perhaps we could pick up signals from remote cameras. Wouldn't it be interesting if it was easy to feed all those little radio, etc signals into a home input point. If there are a lot of downtown businesses minitoring their front door/walk, for example, one would be able to monitor almost an entire street!
On a side note, one wonders how many little wireless spycams are out there on a relatively open range and a unencoded signal. Hey , let's look what we can see from the neighbour's bedroom bookshelf today...
While it's not really a good thing for any large or visible company to make a mistake, it happens. This was probably just a 1-line or even 1 word fix in a script. Hopefully this won't become a reason for users to roast banthespam over a slow grill. People always seem to remember the bad things most... must be human nature.
However, it is somewhat of an amusing irony to cover in slashdot...
Could you consider getting a sense of humour before posting a flame. On your your second overall post, even! It wasn't opinion, it was humour, as was I believe the parent post.
Or maybe you're just a troll?
For this humourless flame, I award you, my little troll, the title of )( - phorm
Acht, incredibly sorry, I would change my post to gentleperson, but ./ will not allow me to modify posts to change.
Oi, with mistakes like this no wonder I've had so many odd dates - phorm
My experience came mostly from quite old windows being changed in quite old houses (circa early 90's, late 80's). Guess these were probably "crown" glass, installed to an antiquated standard.
Once again, it's nice to be disproven with somebody with better experience and/or a grounded opinion. Much nicer than "you're wrong, you suck." Or "read the article, I read 50%, but you still suck".
To be well-beaten by a gentleman is much more pleasing than to be ill-cursed by a cur - phorm
Probably burn some karma even replying to this post again, but...
I'll bow to this. I've only had experience with various window glasses and it may be the case that they were always installed with a thicker end near the bottom thusly.
You've got the older windows and probably more experience, in this case I will accept that your opinion is better supported than mine and agree with you.
Oh my, it was getting hot in here for awhile - phorm
I read the article. Did you read this part
In fact, optical glass is usually not the same as the glass used in windows and bottles... So old telescope lenses and mirrors provide good evidence that some glasses do not flow, but little evidence to support the claim that glass in old windows has not flowed
You may chew, but I'll bite back - phorm
If you have reached such a state of perfection then perhaps you should be able to moderate yourself rather than directing the mods what to do.
I *DID* read the attached article.
claims that glass panes in old windows have deformed due to glass flow have never been substantiated.
It's not entirely unsubstantiated either. I've yet to find one of these windows thicker at the top. Does that mean that if they *were* thicker to begin with then the thick end was always installed at the bottom. Easier for me to believe in a slight flow. Note that I am not stating glass is a liquid, just slightly amorphous in its solid state.
Slashdot is often a tool for conjecture and opinion, of which I am offering both.
And yes, had a typo, read right past it in the preview, these things happen without coffee early in the morning. At least it only makes me a little slow on grammar as opposed to anal like some people.
We're all entitled to opinion, some people prefer to state theirs in a manner less offensive than others - phorm
It also somewhat resembles a buttcrack. Or maybe hubble is peering into a great cosmic buttcrack as well?
Maybe because, he who hacks another's wireless makes an ass of himself (scanning doesn't count)?
We need real online comedians, so we can all get some more *lol*'s...
seems different glands react to different frequencies and power levels in a wide variety of ways...
Does this mean that in some people the cellphone might make you extremely horny. I thought that was just the vibe-alert, but it might be the radiation too?
Somebody, anyone, please call me! I'm single but I have a vibrating Li battery!
If you ever pull an old window out of a house, take a measurement of the top and bottom portions of the glass pane. You will notice that the bottom of the glass is thicker than the top.
Conclusion: Glass will flow download, but the motion is imperceptible and extremely slow, not noticable except over a long period of time. This may not apply to all varieties of glass however, but the old glass panes are definately thicker on the bottom (and we not when installed).
What would your opinion be on time-terminated audio/video formats. That is to say, files that would download play fine on a user's PC until the termination point, in which case the file would then become unusable.
Would this be of benefit to artists, allowing them to proliferate work while not leaving public copies that users could download and listen to/watch forever without paying for?
Moreover, do you think the RIAA would support such a technology, as it would technically violate the "copyright", but with a lesser impact than current Mp3's?
A neat trick is to make a router that only allows known IP's, and assigns dynamic IP's for a special restricted subnet. Then, run a few apps on the subnet to watch what the "incoming" is doing. If known hacker activities are occuring, why not have your network fight back and attempt to hack *THEIR* machine. After all, they are connected to your network, which means you are connected to them... perhaps you can test how secure their machine in.
That or post public files on the subnet that do fun things to those foolish enough to download them... ~ Tild-e or Tild-ee? That is the question..
What is the range on these devices? If they are actually connected, wouldn't it stand to reason that in various areas the signal would be passing near the aircraft regardless of an active connection within the craft itself?
That is to say, if an airborn device has enough strength to reach a landbound or sat-type network, would not landbound signals also affect anything passing through their airspace regardless? Is is the signal area small enough that only on-plane devices would do this, or would a focussed signal do the same?
If would really suck if all one had to do to screw up incoming aircraft would be to point a signal-boosted UWB PDA at them...
I seem to remember that when the webphone with a mini-screen and keyboard first came out in Japan, one of the more annoying problems were all the dumb kids downloading/watching porno on the bus, train, or other public places
Think could be a lot worse... last thing I need is some idiot streaming nudies next to me on the bus, with a crowd of his leering friend peering over our shoulders...
It is British Naval Connector. Thus we were taught in College. Thus all the network techs call it.
Unless there are a lot of people laughing at me right now...
Maybe if they changed the alien-headed logo to something more like a skull and crossbones? Or a spade and shovel... Napster is dead, bury it.
Somebody who had the plague and lived, or somebody who survived through the times of the plague. Therein lies the difference, sorry I wasn't specific before.