Thank you for opening my eyes. I just realized that my pets, two belonging to the class of animals known as dogs, and two belonging to the class known as cats, are engaged in class struggle. I only hope that they don't realize that I am of a third class entirely, and decide to over throw me!
Never upgrade a production box without first upgrading on a test system. And NEVER NEVER upgrade mid project. If you're an individual and not a post production facility, test the upgrade on a separate partition or physical volume.
Or wait until everyone else gets the kinks worked out.
This is all common sense, and it's really not that hard. But you'd be surprised at the number of otherwise intelligent people that do stupid shit like upgrading a key component in the middle of a project. And if you absolutely must, do it on a cloned volume with backed up data.
And for editors that need to work on location (for whatever reason).
The Airbook is appealing to me because of the size and weight (I travel). However, the Asus eeePC beats it on both these counts. Sure, I'll lose my beloved OS X. But at prices starting at $299 (for the somewhat anemic Surf), I think I'm going to bite. I just don't have the cash burning a hole in my pocket this year, so as much as I might be lusting after an Airbook, it's just not going to happen. Maybe if a rich relative dies and leaves me some money . . . (I'm looking at YOU, Grandma!)
You're over-thinking it and you've fucked up your analogy as a result. In your analogy, software is a vector of infection. Clearly, software is a target of infection, whatever the vector. So far, no malware author is infecting a person via their computer.
Diversity works like this (whether the scale be that of a home network, a business, or the internet): (1) A monolithic network, i.e., one dominated by a single OS, can be taken down at the knees. A mixed environment, while it might be crippled if half its component systems go down, can still hobble along and some work can get done. (2) The more diverse a network, the smaller the overall vector, thus slowing propagation of infection. Under these conditions, a virus might be contained or even burn itself out before reaching epidemic status.
Incidentally, ebola is not a food borne disease. I'll eat one of your ebola burgers if, in return, you let me wipe my syphilitic penis in your eyes. Deal?
I think you mean Market Share. If so, I have the same question as to how one might be able to ascertain that OS X is killing Linux. I suspect that the answer is that this is just another story designed to grab page views by being controversial. The editor is scuttlemonkey, so not much more needs to be said.
I honestly wouldn't bother with anything less than a G4 running at least 1 Ghz. Right now I'm on a 12" Powerbook 1.5 Ghz running Tiger and I'm pretty happy. Being a trendy and mindless Mac Zealot, I'm drooling for a Mac Book or Mac Book Pro, and I'm very interested in seeing what is unveiled next week at MWSF. But I really don't need anything more powerful than what I have, to be honest.
However, if my long cherished plans to do some extensive traveling come to fruition this year, I will be looking at lightweight kit. The Asus sub looks like a real gem. Apple is expected to be announcing a semi-sub notebook. Again, I don't need it, but if you've ever done a lot of travel you know how beneficial it can be to shed even a couple of pounds and/or have a smaller form factor. Flash based storage should also be more rugged than a conventional spinning platter hard drive.
You sound like you've gotten yourself a fine computer and operating system, even if you are a dirty smelly freetard hippy, and not a cool, trendy, latte sipping* Macasshole like myself. If you're happy, that's all that matters. Just try and take a shower once in a while, OK? It's considerate to others.
Regardless, I don't think that either OS X or any particular Linux distro are going to be the real challengers to Vista. Judging from all the stories I've been hearing and reading, most Vista users are upgrading to XP in droves. When we look back 365 days from now, I predict that we'll be calling 2008 the year of XP on the desktop. =)
(*Note: I'm really more of the regular coffee guzzling type than a latte sipper.)
Recently, the American Heritage English language projects consulted a usage panel "of some 200 distinguished educators, writers, and public speakers." "Most of the Usage Panelists reject the use of they with singular antecedents. Eighty-two percent find the sentence The typical student in the program takes about six years to complete their course work unacceptable." Study has also shown that reading time of they increases significantly when used with a gender-determinate antecedent, suggesting that such use can confuse.
Regardless, you should pack it in. You got caught making a grammatical error while attempting to correct another. You might have a leg to stand on if you had written instead something like: Somebody failed their English grammar classes.
You're dealing with a true grammar Nazi, Dan. I consider grammatical mistakes to be on par with genocide in terms of moral heft.
There's actually something to be said for good old fashioned two-bit third world corruption: it's egalitarian. Everybody can potentially participate at whatever their economic level. In the U.S., only the super-wealthy and super-connected get to play.
I think their game plan is a bit more nefarious than that. While common sense tells us that device shifting and format shifting are valid extensions of the concept fair use, they haven't been tested in court. What the RIAA would like to do here is set a precedent against device and format shifting being allowable, the idea being that we'd need to pay again and again whenever new devices or formats are developed.
George Ou has that effect on people. He's like an Asian Rob Enderle, and like Enderle, he is obstinately, willfully ignorant. Ou's skull has proven impenetrable to facts; even when they have been sharpened like spikes and pounded in with a sledge hammer they find no purchase. (How's that for ad hominem?)
This is just another sign of how far slashdot had fallen. It used to be that slashdotters had an understanding of how shit worked, and Archon wouldn't need to explain this beyond saying that the billing system was not compromised.
I might be stretching it, but I think Ridley Scott's genius was in approaching the same theme (what does it mean to be human?) from the opposite direction than PKD. An Androids, the distinguishing quality is empathy (for animals, specifically), which the androids do not have. In Bladerunner (at least the director's cut), it is the androids that show human emotions while the Rick Deckard character is almost psychopathically emotionless.
I think Scott did an honest treatment of the original material and stayed true to Dick's themes, even if the final product was vastly different. Read the book again, then watch the director's cut and maybe you'll see what I mean.
I was still sad that the Pennfield Mood Organ didn't make it into Bladerunner.
Most likely they have what you want, you just cannot find it nor can anyone that works there find it (either they don't know or they can't be bothered). Don't get me wrong, I love a visit to Frys as recreation. But it can be pretty frustrating when you actually want something specific that you know they have or should have, and you can't find that one clerk out of twenty that is helpful.
Frys also seems to succumb to entropy quite quickly. When the Burbank store opened some years back, shopping there was quite pleasant for about six months. At the end of that period the Burbank store sucked just as hard as any other Frys. I think they churn and burn their employees, so after six months, the ones with good attitudes and brains had mostly all left.
Maybe once, a long time ago, there was a smart crowd that came here. Unfortunately, it became popular, and with popularity came the freetarded. Since I first started coming here (under a different handle) the S/N has gone from 50/1 to 1000/1. I used to come here for a laugh from some of the clever posts. Today, I came specifically for this story, and to laugh at the dumb gullible posts.
But laughing at the stupid gets quickly boring, so I'm not going to read anymore.
I'm not in the least calling into question PJ's methodology or expertise (although it would be quite difficult to argue that she doesn't have a bias that sometimes enters into her work).
Anyway, I responded as I did because I felt you were being smug and/or lazy ("Please . . . get educated," you wrote). If this is a misperception on my part, accept my apology for over-reacting. My basic point still stands, however, and the original comment (by frankenheinz) about contracts and licenses is a plausible interpretation of the law in the U.S. There was nothing ingnorant in frankenheinz's comment
Perhaps a shortcoming of the legal system is that there can be various and even conflicting interpretations (although it could be equally argued that this is a strength). However, it's part of the basic foundation of the legal system; everyday lawyers are arguing before courts as to what a law actually means and how that law should be applied. Personally, I think it's a pretty good system for its flexibility. Not perfect by any means, but on the whole it yields more good results than bad ones.
I'm often a jerk on slashdot. Sometimes it is uncalled for. If this was one of those times, please accept my apology. However, if it was called for, then . . . . Fuck you!! =) j/k
However, I do like the way the summary is written as if the cable companies were responding to the discussion on slashdot. Oh, hell yeah! Those companies don't want to rile up the mighty slashdot community! If they hadn't done something quickly, we just might have sat on our fat asses and vociferously complained some more! FIGHT the POWER!
Sure, they want to limit fair use so as to make more profit. Sure, they're another scummy media company (We call their studios "Mouscwitz" here in L.A.) But it doesn't follow that they're against OSS or even CC, and I haven't seen any proof of such. However, I'm not saying not to be suspicious of them, please do. I just wondered if you had any actual dirt. The worst I can say about them from personal experience is that they're very slow to pay independent contractors in some cases.
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Thank you for opening my eyes. I just realized that my pets, two belonging to the class of animals known as dogs, and two belonging to the class known as cats, are engaged in class struggle. I only hope that they don't realize that I am of a third class entirely, and decide to over throw me!
Mangle definitions much?
or video.
Never upgrade a production box without first upgrading on a test system. And NEVER NEVER upgrade mid project. If you're an individual and not a post production facility, test the upgrade on a separate partition or physical volume.
Or wait until everyone else gets the kinks worked out.
This is all common sense, and it's really not that hard. But you'd be surprised at the number of otherwise intelligent people that do stupid shit like upgrading a key component in the middle of a project. And if you absolutely must, do it on a cloned volume with backed up data.
And for editors that need to work on location (for whatever reason).
The Airbook is appealing to me because of the size and weight (I travel). However, the Asus eeePC beats it on both these counts. Sure, I'll lose my beloved OS X. But at prices starting at $299 (for the somewhat anemic Surf), I think I'm going to bite. I just don't have the cash burning a hole in my pocket this year, so as much as I might be lusting after an Airbook, it's just not going to happen. Maybe if a rich relative dies and leaves me some money . . . (I'm looking at YOU, Grandma!)
You're over-thinking it and you've fucked up your analogy as a result. In your analogy, software is a vector of infection. Clearly, software is a target of infection, whatever the vector. So far, no malware author is infecting a person via their computer.
Diversity works like this (whether the scale be that of a home network, a business, or the internet): (1) A monolithic network, i.e., one dominated by a single OS, can be taken down at the knees. A mixed environment, while it might be crippled if half its component systems go down, can still hobble along and some work can get done. (2) The more diverse a network, the smaller the overall vector, thus slowing propagation of infection. Under these conditions, a virus might be contained or even burn itself out before reaching epidemic status.
Incidentally, ebola is not a food borne disease. I'll eat one of your ebola burgers if, in return, you let me wipe my syphilitic penis in your eyes. Deal?
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
I think you mean Market Share. If so, I have the same question as to how one might be able to ascertain that OS X is killing Linux. I suspect that the answer is that this is just another story designed to grab page views by being controversial. The editor is scuttlemonkey, so not much more needs to be said.
I honestly wouldn't bother with anything less than a G4 running at least 1 Ghz. Right now I'm on a 12" Powerbook 1.5 Ghz running Tiger and I'm pretty happy. Being a trendy and mindless Mac Zealot, I'm drooling for a Mac Book or Mac Book Pro, and I'm very interested in seeing what is unveiled next week at MWSF. But I really don't need anything more powerful than what I have, to be honest.
However, if my long cherished plans to do some extensive traveling come to fruition this year, I will be looking at lightweight kit. The Asus sub looks like a real gem. Apple is expected to be announcing a semi-sub notebook. Again, I don't need it, but if you've ever done a lot of travel you know how beneficial it can be to shed even a couple of pounds and/or have a smaller form factor. Flash based storage should also be more rugged than a conventional spinning platter hard drive.
You sound like you've gotten yourself a fine computer and operating system, even if you are a dirty smelly freetard hippy, and not a cool, trendy, latte sipping* Macasshole like myself. If you're happy, that's all that matters. Just try and take a shower once in a while, OK? It's considerate to others.
Regardless, I don't think that either OS X or any particular Linux distro are going to be the real challengers to Vista. Judging from all the stories I've been hearing and reading, most Vista users are upgrading to XP in droves. When we look back 365 days from now, I predict that we'll be calling 2008 the year of XP on the desktop. =)
(*Note: I'm really more of the regular coffee guzzling type than a latte sipper.)
I'd go so far as to say that this is a radically different reason, unless perhaps you posted your comment to the wrong story. Doh! =)
Do you even read the articles you cite?
Regardless, you should pack it in. You got caught making a grammatical error while attempting to correct another. You might have a leg to stand on if you had written instead something like: Somebody failed their English grammar classes.
You're dealing with a true grammar Nazi, Dan. I consider grammatical mistakes to be on par with genocide in terms of moral heft.
There's actually something to be said for good old fashioned two-bit third world corruption: it's egalitarian. Everybody can potentially participate at whatever their economic level. In the U.S., only the super-wealthy and super-connected get to play.
Awesome.
Would it be wrong for me to generalize, and assume most of you F/OSS people are racists?
The author failed his English Grammar classes.
Heh heh.
I think their game plan is a bit more nefarious than that. While common sense tells us that device shifting and format shifting are valid extensions of the concept fair use, they haven't been tested in court. What the RIAA would like to do here is set a precedent against device and format shifting being allowable, the idea being that we'd need to pay again and again whenever new devices or formats are developed.
George Ou has that effect on people. He's like an Asian Rob Enderle, and like Enderle, he is obstinately, willfully ignorant. Ou's skull has proven impenetrable to facts; even when they have been sharpened like spikes and pounded in with a sledge hammer they find no purchase. (How's that for ad hominem?)
This is just another sign of how far slashdot had fallen. It used to be that slashdotters had an understanding of how shit worked, and Archon wouldn't need to explain this beyond saying that the billing system was not compromised.
I might be stretching it, but I think Ridley Scott's genius was in approaching the same theme (what does it mean to be human?) from the opposite direction than PKD. An Androids, the distinguishing quality is empathy (for animals, specifically), which the androids do not have. In Bladerunner (at least the director's cut), it is the androids that show human emotions while the Rick Deckard character is almost psychopathically emotionless.
I think Scott did an honest treatment of the original material and stayed true to Dick's themes, even if the final product was vastly different. Read the book again, then watch the director's cut and maybe you'll see what I mean.
I was still sad that the Pennfield Mood Organ didn't make it into Bladerunner.
I went to the lolcat bible translation, instead.
This particular commandment is translated as "U no mek peepz ded!"
Most likely they have what you want, you just cannot find it nor can anyone that works there find it (either they don't know or they can't be bothered). Don't get me wrong, I love a visit to Frys as recreation. But it can be pretty frustrating when you actually want something specific that you know they have or should have, and you can't find that one clerk out of twenty that is helpful.
Frys also seems to succumb to entropy quite quickly. When the Burbank store opened some years back, shopping there was quite pleasant for about six months. At the end of that period the Burbank store sucked just as hard as any other Frys. I think they churn and burn their employees, so after six months, the ones with good attitudes and brains had mostly all left.
Maybe once, a long time ago, there was a smart crowd that came here. Unfortunately, it became popular, and with popularity came the freetarded. Since I first started coming here (under a different handle) the S/N has gone from 50/1 to 1000/1. I used to come here for a laugh from some of the clever posts. Today, I came specifically for this story, and to laugh at the dumb gullible posts.
But laughing at the stupid gets quickly boring, so I'm not going to read anymore.
I bet this was the same kid that was on my lawn last week. Damn kids.
I'm not in the least calling into question PJ's methodology or expertise (although it would be quite difficult to argue that she doesn't have a bias that sometimes enters into her work).
Anyway, I responded as I did because I felt you were being smug and/or lazy ("Please . . . get educated," you wrote). If this is a misperception on my part, accept my apology for over-reacting. My basic point still stands, however, and the original comment (by frankenheinz) about contracts and licenses is a plausible interpretation of the law in the U.S. There was nothing ingnorant in frankenheinz's comment
Perhaps a shortcoming of the legal system is that there can be various and even conflicting interpretations (although it could be equally argued that this is a strength). However, it's part of the basic foundation of the legal system; everyday lawyers are arguing before courts as to what a law actually means and how that law should be applied. Personally, I think it's a pretty good system for its flexibility. Not perfect by any means, but on the whole it yields more good results than bad ones.
I'm often a jerk on slashdot. Sometimes it is uncalled for. If this was one of those times, please accept my apology. However, if it was called for, then . . . . Fuck you!! =) j/k
However, I do like the way the summary is written as if the cable companies were responding to the discussion on slashdot. Oh, hell yeah! Those companies don't want to rile up the mighty slashdot community! If they hadn't done something quickly, we just might have sat on our fat asses and vociferously complained some more! FIGHT the POWER!
I totally sympathize. I once drank 20 liters of coke. I was dead, but I still cared, goddammit.
Sure, they want to limit fair use so as to make more profit. Sure, they're another scummy media company (We call their studios "Mouscwitz" here in L.A.) But it doesn't follow that they're against OSS or even CC, and I haven't seen any proof of such. However, I'm not saying not to be suspicious of them, please do. I just wondered if you had any actual dirt. The worst I can say about them from personal experience is that they're very slow to pay independent contractors in some cases.