Isn't this the sort of situation that product recalls are for (I mean beyond 'this meat will kill you')? Why would Universal knowingly allow their dealers to sell defective merchandise? Is the Xmas shopping mania just that strong that we couldn't possibly pull a known defective product? Instead, they'd rather everyone go to the time and expense of mailing these 2 discs back and forth in February.
And what about the people who don't read/. or some other type of entertainment news who will never know that they CAN return them for an 'undamaged' version of the DVD.. Some of the people who buy these known damaged discs, will be stuck with them for life due to not knowing that they even have the option to return them...
I don't think moving towards the "phone # model" is all that great an idea. It may be familiar, but it only exists because phones are a legacy system that, as originally designed, could only handle addressing serially and very low speed (pulse dialing). Phones themselves have been moving away from the "phone # model" lately. Between on-board phone # directories and voice recognition dialing, how many people still dial the actual number on the keypad anymore? I know I only enter numbers directly to dial if I'm calling a person/business I've never called before.
I think what he's suggesting is the same thing as you say you do already.. the only time you would enter the 'web number' is the first time you're going someplace.. then you'd save it in your favorites (like you would save them to the built in 'phone book' in your phone) so then you could type in "bill's website". Instead of checking DNS first, it would check 'favorites' first, and you'd get "bill's website".. which sounds like it could be workable to me.. i'm sure Microsoft/Sony/BigBusiness would disagree.. but what he's saying at least makes sense, to me.. could use a little refining, but still makes sense.
I can't help thinking that the domain name system worked a lot better when it was all run by one company. I register domains with OpenSRS, and trying to take over domains administered by Network Solutions, for example, is a nightmare
The only problem here is you get the good with the bad.. the good, you don't have to deal with places like netsol/verisign being difficult when someone wants to transfer away from them, you don't have to deal with register.com sending "renew with us now!" to people who aren't even their customers, don't even get me started on that shit.. HOWEVER, the bad is this.. if you have one controlling body for all of this, then they can jack up rates as high as they want and screw customers any which way they want, on any given day, and there'd be nothing we can do about it.. I think competition is good, and it's good to have multiple companies running things.. If only we could get them to play nice with one another...
When I upgraded my motherboard and changed my processor it didn't have a network connection, but activating consisted of calling the number, putting in the license number I had, and entering a new number that was read off to me by the machine. No waiting on hold or listening to some minimum wage tech with a hard to understand accent. Whole thing took maybe 5 minutes.
5 minutes or 5 seconds, that right there is bullshit, I don't want to need to call them just so my product, that worked fine before, will work again just because I upgraded my system.. It's an unnecessary hassle.. but that's just my opinion..
And so it could be in the software world. Sure, 99.9% don't understand the code, but there's an opportunity for you to start up "Software Reports" in the same vein as Consumer Reports to translate and inform.
That sounds like an excellent idea.. and it sounds like something the big softwarehouses would be more willing to go for.. The chances of MS releasing their source to the world are much lower than the chances of them releasing it to a trusted group (or few groups) who is legally bound by some form of NDA, to review it as an outside source to give an educated and unbiased opinion of the product to the masses. But then again, that sounds like something else someone like MS woudn't particularly want to be a part of..
That's exactly what I do, I even take it a step further for some, and filter everything but the real address into a secondary mail folder to be read at a lower priority.. but I found it funny (or disturbing) that I was actually trying to think up a name for a second such as slashdot@domain.com instead of putting in my real email address, on my own site for testing purposes:) In my opinion, what you (and I and i'm sure most of the people here are doing) do, is the best way to go about it.. now if I could only figure out how the hell caramail.com got my REAL address, i'll have a nice clean mailbox.
They cause people to distrust each other. I am very cautious about giving a web site my email address for fear that it will be abused.
I totally agree.. Hell, the other day I thought twice about putting my email address into one of my OWN forms for testing, due to habitually putting in unique addresses for every site that I enter my address into.. It's rediculous..
2 - If the movie does entertain me, I don't care how many product placements are in it. As long as their irrelevant to the enjoyment of the movie. Silly example comes to mind... Superman II wouldn't have been any better or worse had Superman crashed into a Cola sign instead of a Coke sign.
I -totally- agree.. I don't mind that in The Sopranos all they drink is Coke, or that they had FedEx packages in Castaway, he worked for FedEx for christsake.. but scenes like handing off the *NOKIA* phone in a *FEDEX* box in Matrix annoy me.. the fed-ex dude was center camera for a few whole seconds, and they may as well have zoomed in on the Nokia logo on the phone.. that's just blatent stupid advertising.. (wayne's world II was worse, but damn, that was funny, so it's ok)
Well that was a complete waste of money for them, then. I've just seen the film, and I didn't notice any particular branding on the shaver -- it was just a shaver!
they didn't steal your truck cause they were there to steal your radio. sounds like the alarm didn't help at all...
That's what I thought at first too, until I tried to start it and the ignition was all jacked up from them trying to start it. The alarm was a factory alarm, just honked, and as I said, i'm too far away from the truck at home to hear it when it goes off, that's why I suggest the CodeAlarm which beeps when the alarm goes off
One thing i'm looking into for the alarm on my truck... Someone tried to get my truck a couple months back, luckily the factory alarm had ignition kill, or they'd be gone, all I lost was the radio and had to get the window/ignition repaired.. but I didn't HEAR the alarm because i'm in a condo complex and too far from the truck.. CodeAlarm has one alarm for 350 which you can plug windows/doorlocks/ignition modules into it, ignition kill, AND the remote beeps when the alarm goes off.. this is a MAJOR plus if you're living in a place where you can't always hear your alarm.. also, when it goes off, you'll KNOW it's YOURS.. that's the one i'm going to pick up.
I've talked to many people that think simple cheap home automation is still a futuristic dream, yet when I mention X10, they've heard of it but equate it only to the cameras.
Yeah, I know the moment I read the parent post I was thinking "oh, those stupid cameras with those godamned pop-up ads? I'll never buy their stuff" However, i've seen your website, and that's some cool stuff, maybe i'll have to look into it;)
Considering I have a dead power cord, let me know if you find a source for other cords like that. Apple insisted I'd have to buy a new power supply for my iBook - I wasn't allowed to replace the cord.
Happened to mine too, luckily it happened not even a week before they recalled the power supplies for my powerbook (whew) still bought another, but now i've got one at home and one at work, so I shouldn't need to do it again anytime soon.
Ok, i'm from california, and it states here that there's a $500 fine for the first infraction, $1000 thereafter, I'm wondering, does anyone know where this fine goes? If they're calling _me_ isn't it only right that that fine goes to me? That'd suck if it goes to the state.. someone annoys you, and the state gets paid for it, heh.. anyhow, any insight on this would be great.
It's high time people stopped complaining about what people do in their spare time and give away for free.
The only way you'll stop people from working on either desktop is if they wanted to. Because they want to work on their respective systems, they will not switch, they don't want to.
Should we stop developing FreeBSD, NetBSD and all the other free operating systems? I'd say no, because all you're trying to do is create a dictatorship.
I don't think people are complaining about it so much because they don't LIKE the competition.. Some people will swear by KDE, some Gnome, some will use other alternatives.. Everyone's going to have their own preference.. However, I think it's just too much to take in for a brand new user.. When a brand new user to RedHat turns on their machine and starts the install, a lot of them won't know what they're getting into.. "do I want kde? do I want gnome? what's the difference?"
I think maybe if there were a new user install that defaulted to Gnome (or KDE, whichever is made SIMPLEST) so that people can get their feet wet without getting totally confused.. somewhat OT, It may be a good idea to dumb down the menus too, as was mentioned in a previous story.. There's a lot in RedHat to confuse a brand new user who's just trying it out to get away from windows.. Granted, there will always be a learning curve, but the smaller we make it, the better off we are for expanding into more homes/offices. Once people get their feet wet, then they can start playing with the other desktops.. so long as there's one standard in a default 'brand new user' type install to get them into linux in the first place, without scaring them off.
Any commercial site that uses blink on their tags deserves to be shot dead.
Have you tried loading their site? Thanks to slashdot it pretty much HAS been shot dead:)
-matt
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according to pdabuzz.com the handspring client for OS X is out.
I've had my handspring visor working with OSX for months.. just go to palm.com and get the palm desktop, it's better than handsprings was anyways.. well, that's my opinion at least, for what it's worth..
This isnt an RTFM attitude, this is a 'use the GUI filemanager' attitude. The filemanager is there to be friendly and to help newbies. The filemanager will put things in the trashcan. There is nothing stopping anyone from adding a friendly (and most distributions have it) alias for rm either, for the shell newbies.
But unlink(2) and rm need to do what they're meant to do or there's no end to the things you break. Applications and scripts that create loads of temporary files can fill up a filesystem in minutes or even seconds if unlink and rm suddenly arent 'really really really _delete_ this' anymore.
I hadn't thought of it before reading your post.. but, I can see how some people would say "we can disable the trashcan? f'you, we shouldn't have to" which doesn't help new users.. why not have a fork in the install so new users can go one route, and experts can go another, the new users route has this (among other things) enabled, the expert route has it all off just how it is now.. It could basically be like a theme manager, one has all of the bells and whistles on by default, one has them all off by defauilt..
Also, a quick 'command-z' (undo) will zap the file right back to where it was, also instantly.
I totally agree with this, it seems like a lot of people who complain about the lack of mouse buttons, don't seem to grasp the fact that once you get used to all of the command+key functions, you really don't use a mouse button for much at all ESPECIALLY when it comes to undo/cut/copy/paste, it's all right there on the keyboard, using the command key so that it will work in -any- program (like pico, you can use command c and command v since ctrl c and ctrl v obviously wouldn't work).. since i've been using a mac, i've become FAR less dependant on the mouse. Well, except for opening programs and the like:P
What in God's name you need a third button for, besides having another part to break, beats the hell out of me.
In a word: Emacs. Emacs on X makes extensive use of the middle mouse button. Also, X-style copy and paste. Especially in an Xterm.
I haven't tried it in emacs, but in every other window it seems to work, I just use command x, c and v to cut/copy/paste.. why would I want to use a mouse for it?:)
However, that's just the way I do things, you may disagree..
The problem is the general populace doesn't know enough to make a distinction between hacker and cracker. They hear one news report that says hacker == bad, and it has a negative connotation forever with these people.
Yeah, but if nobody corrects them, they'll think of hacker as the correct term.. if we correct them, then they learn, then they correct their friends who use the wrong term, who in turn tell their friends... eventually, everyone's on the right track.. (and yeah, that's probably terribly optimistic) but if you don't correct people, nobody learns, and we move backwords.
-matt
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Exactly how are they supposed to fix the problems BEFORE February?
:)
time travel?
-matt
Isn't this the sort of situation that product recalls are for (I mean beyond 'this meat will kill you')? Why would Universal knowingly allow their dealers to sell defective merchandise? Is the Xmas shopping mania just that strong that we couldn't possibly pull a known defective product? Instead, they'd rather everyone go to the time and expense of mailing these 2 discs back and forth in February.
/. or some other type of entertainment news who will never know that they CAN return them for an 'undamaged' version of the DVD.. Some of the people who buy these known damaged discs, will be stuck with them for life due to not knowing that they even have the option to return them...
And what about the people who don't read
-matt
I don't think moving towards the "phone # model" is all that great an idea. It may be familiar, but it only exists because phones are a legacy system that, as originally designed, could only handle addressing serially and very low speed (pulse dialing). Phones themselves have been moving away from the "phone # model" lately. Between on-board phone # directories and voice recognition dialing, how many people still dial the actual number on the keypad anymore? I know I only enter numbers directly to dial if I'm calling a person/business I've never called before.
I think what he's suggesting is the same thing as you say you do already.. the only time you would enter the 'web number' is the first time you're going someplace.. then you'd save it in your favorites (like you would save them to the built in 'phone book' in your phone) so then you could type in "bill's website". Instead of checking DNS first, it would check 'favorites' first, and you'd get "bill's website".. which sounds like it could be workable to me.. i'm sure Microsoft/Sony/BigBusiness would disagree.. but what he's saying at least makes sense, to me.. could use a little refining, but still makes sense.
-matt
I can't help thinking that the domain name system worked a lot better when it was all run by one company. I register domains with OpenSRS, and trying to take over domains administered by Network Solutions, for example, is a nightmare
The only problem here is you get the good with the bad.. the good, you don't have to deal with places like netsol/verisign being difficult when someone wants to transfer away from them, you don't have to deal with register.com sending "renew with us now!" to people who aren't even their customers, don't even get me started on that shit.. HOWEVER, the bad is this.. if you have one controlling body for all of this, then they can jack up rates as high as they want and screw customers any which way they want, on any given day, and there'd be nothing we can do about it.. I think competition is good, and it's good to have multiple companies running things.. If only we could get them to play nice with one another...
-matt
Its jaguar only.. might not work on 10.1.
Yup, from their webpage:
"This release is for Mac OS X 10.2 only. 10.1 users should use Fink 0.4.1."
-matt
When I upgraded my motherboard and changed my processor it didn't have a network connection, but activating consisted of calling the number, putting in the license number I had, and entering a new number that was read off to me by the machine. No waiting on hold or listening to some minimum wage tech with a hard to understand accent. Whole thing took maybe 5 minutes.
5 minutes or 5 seconds, that right there is bullshit, I don't want to need to call them just so my product, that worked fine before, will work again just because I upgraded my system.. It's an unnecessary hassle.. but that's just my opinion..
-matt
And so it could be in the software world. Sure, 99.9% don't understand the code, but there's an opportunity for you to start up "Software Reports" in the same vein as Consumer Reports to translate and inform.
That sounds like an excellent idea.. and it sounds like something the big softwarehouses would be more willing to go for.. The chances of MS releasing their source to the world are much lower than the chances of them releasing it to a trusted group (or few groups) who is legally bound by some form of NDA, to review it as an outside source to give an educated and unbiased opinion of the product to the masses. But then again, that sounds like something else someone like MS woudn't particularly want to be a part of..
-matt
She:: Oh is that the upgrade to the Rabbit I have dear?
And the funniest part about that comment, is that they actually a link to that page in the article. (but i'm sure you knew that)
-matt
That's exactly what I do, I even take it a step further for some, and filter everything but the real address into a secondary mail folder to be read at a lower priority.. but I found it funny (or disturbing) that I was actually trying to think up a name for a second such as slashdot@domain.com instead of putting in my real email address, on my own site for testing purposes :) In my opinion, what you (and I and i'm sure most of the people here are doing) do, is the best way to go about it.. now if I could only figure out how the hell caramail.com got my REAL address, i'll have a nice clean mailbox.
-matt
They cause people to distrust each other. I am very cautious about giving a web site my email address for fear that it will be abused.
I totally agree.. Hell, the other day I thought twice about putting my email address into one of my OWN forms for testing, due to habitually putting in unique addresses for every site that I enter my address into.. It's rediculous..
-matt
2 - If the movie does entertain me, I don't care how many product placements are in it. As long as their irrelevant to the enjoyment of the movie. Silly example comes to mind... Superman II wouldn't have been any better or worse had Superman crashed into a Cola sign instead of a Coke sign.
I -totally- agree.. I don't mind that in The Sopranos all they drink is Coke, or that they had FedEx packages in Castaway, he worked for FedEx for christsake.. but scenes like handing off the *NOKIA* phone in a *FEDEX* box in Matrix annoy me.. the fed-ex dude was center camera for a few whole seconds, and they may as well have zoomed in on the Nokia logo on the phone.. that's just blatent stupid advertising.. (wayne's world II was worse, but damn, that was funny, so it's ok)
-matt
Well that was a complete waste of money for them, then. I've just seen the film, and I didn't notice any particular branding on the shaver -- it was just a shaver!
Ahhh, but was it a 'very pivotal scene'!?
-matt
they didn't steal your truck cause they were there to steal your radio. sounds like the alarm didn't help at all...
That's what I thought at first too, until I tried to start it and the ignition was all jacked up from them trying to start it. The alarm was a factory alarm, just honked, and as I said, i'm too far away from the truck at home to hear it when it goes off, that's why I suggest the CodeAlarm which beeps when the alarm goes off
-matt
One thing i'm looking into for the alarm on my truck... Someone tried to get my truck a couple months back, luckily the factory alarm had ignition kill, or they'd be gone, all I lost was the radio and had to get the window/ignition repaired.. but I didn't HEAR the alarm because i'm in a condo complex and too far from the truck.. CodeAlarm has one alarm for 350 which you can plug windows/doorlocks/ignition modules into it, ignition kill, AND the remote beeps when the alarm goes off.. this is a MAJOR plus if you're living in a place where you can't always hear your alarm.. also, when it goes off, you'll KNOW it's YOURS.. that's the one i'm going to pick up.
-matt
I've talked to many people that think simple cheap home automation is still a futuristic dream, yet when I mention X10, they've heard of it but equate it only to the cameras.
;)
Yeah, I know the moment I read the parent post I was thinking "oh, those stupid cameras with those godamned pop-up ads? I'll never buy their stuff" However, i've seen your website, and that's some cool stuff, maybe i'll have to look into it
-matt
Considering I have a dead power cord, let me know if you find a source for other cords like that. Apple insisted I'd have to buy a new power supply for my iBook - I wasn't allowed to replace the cord.
Happened to mine too, luckily it happened not even a week before they recalled the power supplies for my powerbook (whew) still bought another, but now i've got one at home and one at work, so I shouldn't need to do it again anytime soon.
-matt
Ok, i'm from california, and it states here that there's a $500 fine for the first infraction, $1000 thereafter, I'm wondering, does anyone know where this fine goes? If they're calling _me_ isn't it only right that that fine goes to me? That'd suck if it goes to the state.. someone annoys you, and the state gets paid for it, heh.. anyhow, any insight on this would be great.
-matt
It's high time people stopped complaining about what people do in their spare time and give away for free.
The only way you'll stop people from working on either desktop is if they wanted to. Because they want to work on their respective systems, they will not switch, they don't want to.
Should we stop developing FreeBSD, NetBSD and all the other free operating systems? I'd say no, because all you're trying to do is create a dictatorship.
I don't think people are complaining about it so much because they don't LIKE the competition.. Some people will swear by KDE, some Gnome, some will use other alternatives.. Everyone's going to have their own preference.. However, I think it's just too much to take in for a brand new user.. When a brand new user to RedHat turns on their machine and starts the install, a lot of them won't know what they're getting into.. "do I want kde? do I want gnome? what's the difference?"
I think maybe if there were a new user install that defaulted to Gnome (or KDE, whichever is made SIMPLEST) so that people can get their feet wet without getting totally confused.. somewhat OT, It may be a good idea to dumb down the menus too, as was mentioned in a previous story.. There's a lot in RedHat to confuse a brand new user who's just trying it out to get away from windows.. Granted, there will always be a learning curve, but the smaller we make it, the better off we are for expanding into more homes/offices. Once people get their feet wet, then they can start playing with the other desktops.. so long as there's one standard in a default 'brand new user' type install to get them into linux in the first place, without scaring them off.
-matt
Any commercial site that uses blink on their tags deserves to be shot dead.
Have you tried loading their site? Thanks to slashdot it pretty much HAS been shot dead:)
-matt
according to pdabuzz.com the handspring client for OS X is out.
I've had my handspring visor working with OSX for months.. just go to palm.com and get the palm desktop, it's better than handsprings was anyways.. well, that's my opinion at least, for what it's worth..
-matt
This isnt an RTFM attitude, this is a 'use the GUI filemanager' attitude. The filemanager is there to be friendly and to help newbies. The filemanager will put things in the trashcan. There is nothing stopping anyone from adding a friendly (and most distributions have it) alias for rm either, for the shell newbies.
But unlink(2) and rm need to do what they're meant to do or there's no end to the things you break. Applications and scripts that create loads of temporary files can fill up a filesystem in minutes or even seconds if unlink and rm suddenly arent 'really really really _delete_ this' anymore.
I hadn't thought of it before reading your post.. but, I can see how some people would say "we can disable the trashcan? f'you, we shouldn't have to" which doesn't help new users.. why not have a fork in the install so new users can go one route, and experts can go another, the new users route has this (among other things) enabled, the expert route has it all off just how it is now.. It could basically be like a theme manager, one has all of the bells and whistles on by default, one has them all off by defauilt..
-matt
Also, a quick 'command-z' (undo) will zap the file right back to where it was, also instantly.
:P
I totally agree with this, it seems like a lot of people who complain about the lack of mouse buttons, don't seem to grasp the fact that once you get used to all of the command+key functions, you really don't use a mouse button for much at all ESPECIALLY when it comes to undo/cut/copy/paste, it's all right there on the keyboard, using the command key so that it will work in -any- program (like pico, you can use command c and command v since ctrl c and ctrl v obviously wouldn't work).. since i've been using a mac, i've become FAR less dependant on the mouse. Well, except for opening programs and the like
-matt
What in God's name you need a third button for, besides having another part to break, beats the hell out of me.
:)
In a word: Emacs. Emacs on X makes extensive use of the middle mouse button. Also, X-style copy and paste. Especially in an Xterm.
I haven't tried it in emacs, but in every other window it seems to work, I just use command x, c and v to cut/copy/paste.. why would I want to use a mouse for it?
However, that's just the way I do things, you may disagree..
-matt
The problem is the general populace doesn't know enough to make a distinction between hacker and cracker. They hear one news report that says hacker == bad, and it has a negative connotation forever with these people.
Yeah, but if nobody corrects them, they'll think of hacker as the correct term.. if we correct them, then they learn, then they correct their friends who use the wrong term, who in turn tell their friends... eventually, everyone's on the right track.. (and yeah, that's probably terribly optimistic) but if you don't correct people, nobody learns, and we move backwords. -matt