Dump the stock ROM and replace it with pdaXrom and use xfce as the windows manager- it's like a full-featured linux desktop in your pocket (Evolution and KDE has been built and running, though they need some optimization until they are fully useful. It will make that Axim look like a toy...
Because, a PDA that doesn't become useful until you replace the ROM, the Window Manager, the Browser, the Email Application, and the underlying Application Framework certainly isn't a toy...
Hello, moderators! This isn't interesting. It's either a bad joke, or someone completely clueless.
Yet they're modded up, and you're modded down. There may be some deeper philosophical meaning there, but I'm too busy laughing at the incredible cluelessness of slashdot moderators to care...
I don't think this is aimed at gamers, exactly. I would think this would be aimed at professionals. I could be wrong. Who else would need the ability to drive 4 monitors at over 1600x1200 each?
Could someone explain how this get modded to +5 Insightful?
I understand that SLI is a silly buzzword, targeted at a fairly small niche market, and neither the article summary nor the article itself bothered to explain it. But if people don't understand the article, why the hell are they moderating comments?
Is the slashdot moderation system just a formalized system where a bunch of clueless wanker stand around a water cooler shooting the shit, and each day they draw secret lots to select the toady responsible for telling the other idiots that they're smart, interesting, and funny?
Good point... Google spends nearly a million dollars per employee per year. Microsoft spends about a half-million dollars per employee. IBM spends about a quarter-million dollars per employee per year.
Why is IBM so much more efficient than Microsoft and Google?
Where I come from when people call themselves an atheist they talk about belief. When they dont know if there is a God they say they are agnostic.
Knowledge and belief are two entirely seperate things. Saying "I believe in a god" or "I do not believe in a god" says nothing about whether or not I have knowledge of a god.
Of course, many religions all make two claims: god exists, and knowledge of god is possible. It's little wonder that many people who haven't had much exposure to the world confuse those two claims for one claim.
Well, just check the "related links" section. That's where the editors put the links related to the story that don't belong in the body text itself. There's plenty for this story:
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That box is there for a reason. If you study those links, you'll know everything you need to know about this story, including why Slashdot chose to post it.
Are a full 50% of the articles in the submission queue from trolls hoping to trick the editors into posting dupes or misleading article summaries? Or do the editors simply select those articles, for reasons that aren't clear to the rest of us?
For those of us who are ignorant and don't see why someone would use Apple hardware over good commodity stuff, what's the advantage in going with Xserve stuff?
Well, the Xserve stuff is cheaper.
Or, did you mean "commodity" as in "I got my 13 year old cousin to build something from parts he bought online?" Yeah, people who put any value on their data and time don't simply don't do that.
Windows SHOULD be storing registry type stuff as attributes on the program file. But it doesn't.
Yeah, then roaming profiles are going to work great.
The registry isn't great, and the per-user, per-application private data caches implemented by Microsoft need some work. But 99% of the "solutions" proposed by slashdotters are far worse than what we already have.
Each release has been faster than before with 3.5 being noticably faster than 3.4.1.
Every time someone posts the "mozilla is great if you use the nightly builds" troll, Jesus rips the wings off an Angel.
Seriously -- stupid assholes cut-and-paste this stupid troll in every story, about every non-Microsoft project in existence. This isn't interesting or insightful or informative. It's redundant, stupid, misleading, and usually just plain wrong.
Company agrees to repayment using pre-tax deductions from pay.
Despite that this is insanely unethical, I'll grant that the politicians of many countries have probably made it legal. But again, unless someone is citing specific court cases where this was found acceptable, I'm going to guess that in most places people doing this are risking prison.
(Of course, I'm not saying that avoiding taxes is unethical. I'm saying that tax laws that create such blatantly unfair and uneven tax burdens are unethical.)
You know, the older I get, the more I'm coming to the conclusion that, if given the opportunity, the vast, overwhelming majority of humans will gladly, of their own free will, chose slavery over freedom.
You must still be very young. Because the older I get, the more I'm coming to the conclusion that the vast overwhelming majority of humans have already gladly, of their own free will, chosen slavery over freedom. This includes you, and it certainly includes me.
The laptop is his, bought through a scheme which means that he effectively gets it cheaper than retail by the rate he pays income tax at.
Unless you're a tax lawyer and can cite specific court cases that make such a think legal, I suspect you're very wrong.
The company is buying the laptop with pre-tax dollars, and they own it. If they're turning around and give the laptop to the employees and no-one is paying any taxes on the transaction, someone is going to go to prison.
I won't buy a PC without one (same for serial port - gotta have it)
I won't buy a computer without an EISA expansion bus.
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While I have worked in construction, built computers from scratch and done my share of soldering,
Making a computer from scratch has always sounded like fun.
I'm assuming there are now inexpensive ways to print a multi-layer circuit board, and people no longer wire-wrap chips to a breadboard. However, I've always wondered about firmware and peripherals and compilers and operating systems and the like -- how long does it take to write the software to even get something that will boot off media?
Read a few "Ask Slashdot" questions, and you'll understand. Ask Slashdot can almost always be summed up:
"I've been running linux on the computer in my bedroom for a long time, so obviously I'm incredibly 144t. I just got hired as a summer intern doing tape backups at the local brewery, and I built a beowulf cluster out of old 486sx's I found in the dumpster. How do I convince my boss that we should restructure the company's entire infrastructure around open source software? Also, does anyone know an open source program for running a brewery?"
I'm old and cynical, and longer surprised by clueless fanboys with an exaggerated opinion of their own experience, intelligence, and skill.
I will never understand, however, how any of them manage to find jobs.
Suns also lack, as a default configuration, literally dozens of extremely useful tools that power users expect. That starts with a decent compiler built into the OS
WTF? He was talking about a production cluster. The only production machine that ever has a compiler is the one in the corner named "build". And, since developers don't get a logon to build in any decent IT shop...
I come from the other side of the fence. I am a developer of multiplayer servers. For my part, I couldn't do my job without root access.
I come from the other side of the fence. I am a developer of complex client-server applications. For my part, I don't even have login permissions on production.
I have root on my local development machine and shared development. If there are problems during testing, I get a temporary logon on stage, with an admin sitting over my shoulder watching me type. But I've never had a logon on production, and I can't imagine why I would ever need one.
I develop the app. I write deployment, testing, and rollback documentation. That way, I never need to touch the production server. This is how every real shop I've ever been in works.
Why? Do you not know the meaning of the phrase coup d'etat?
Apparently, you don't. Coup d'etat menas we're better off voluntarily giving lots of money and power to the good ol' boy defense network. Because if we don't, they're going to take all the money and all the power.
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Dump the stock ROM and replace it with pdaXrom and use xfce as the windows manager- it's like a full-featured linux desktop in your pocket (Evolution and KDE has been built and running, though they need some optimization until they are fully useful. It will make that Axim look like a toy...
Because, a PDA that doesn't become useful until you replace the ROM, the Window Manager, the Browser, the Email Application, and the underlying Application Framework certainly isn't a toy...
Sheesh, I'm glad I'm in the U.S. AND I can file jointly with my wife (who doesn't have earned income).
Yeah, because the US tax laws are a paragon of fairness, transparency, and virtue.
Sorry, I'd love to talk more, but I have to run. A unicorn just flew out my ass.
Hello, moderators! This isn't interesting. It's either a bad joke, or someone completely clueless.
Yet they're modded up, and you're modded down. There may be some deeper philosophical meaning there, but I'm too busy laughing at the incredible cluelessness of slashdot moderators to care...
I don't think this is aimed at gamers, exactly. I would think this would be aimed at professionals. I could be wrong. Who else would need the ability to drive 4 monitors at over 1600x1200 each?
Could someone explain how this get modded to +5 Insightful?
I understand that SLI is a silly buzzword, targeted at a fairly small niche market, and neither the article summary nor the article itself bothered to explain it. But if people don't understand the article, why the hell are they moderating comments?
Is the slashdot moderation system just a formalized system where a bunch of clueless wanker stand around a water cooler shooting the shit, and each day they draw secret lots to select the toady responsible for telling the other idiots that they're smart, interesting, and funny?
Since when don't spreadsheets have every one of these algorithms already built in?
Good point... Google spends nearly a million dollars per employee per year. Microsoft spends about a half-million dollars per employee. IBM spends about a quarter-million dollars per employee per year.
Why is IBM so much more efficient than Microsoft and Google?
I suppose I don't need to draw any pictures of what this did to the four occupants.
This is how we know you're lying -- no H2 has ever had four passengers at the same time.
Unless you mean the driver and three bags of groceries.
These "poor" folks that would receive vouchers are probably finding a way to pay for cable right now.
People with cable don't need OTA digital tuners, mr. smart guy.
Where I come from when people call themselves an atheist they talk about belief. When they dont know if there is a God they say they are agnostic.
Knowledge and belief are two entirely seperate things. Saying "I believe in a god" or "I do not believe in a god" says nothing about whether or not I have knowledge of a god.
Of course, many religions all make two claims: god exists, and knowledge of god is possible. It's little wonder that many people who haven't had much exposure to the world confuse those two claims for one claim.
- Download Apache Geronimo Software
- Compare Prices on Windows Software
- Compare Prices on Linux Software
- Compare Prices
- HP Sponsered Solutions
- IBM Sponsored Solutions
That box is there for a reason. If you study those links, you'll know everything you need to know about this story, including why Slashdot chose to post it.Are a full 50% of the articles in the submission queue from trolls hoping to trick the editors into posting dupes or misleading article summaries? Or do the editors simply select those articles, for reasons that aren't clear to the rest of us?
For those of us who are ignorant and don't see why someone would use Apple hardware over good commodity stuff, what's the advantage in going with Xserve stuff?
Well, the Xserve stuff is cheaper.
Or, did you mean "commodity" as in "I got my 13 year old cousin to build something from parts he bought online?" Yeah, people who put any value on their data and time don't simply don't do that.
Windows SHOULD be storing registry type stuff as attributes on the program file. But it doesn't.
Yeah, then roaming profiles are going to work great.
The registry isn't great, and the per-user, per-application private data caches implemented by Microsoft need some work. But 99% of the "solutions" proposed by slashdotters are far worse than what we already have.
Each release has been faster than before with 3.5 being noticably faster than 3.4.1.
Every time someone posts the "mozilla is great if you use the nightly builds" troll, Jesus rips the wings off an Angel.
Seriously -- stupid assholes cut-and-paste this stupid troll in every story, about every non-Microsoft project in existence. This isn't interesting or insightful or informative. It's redundant, stupid, misleading, and usually just plain wrong.
Company agrees to repayment using pre-tax deductions from pay.
Despite that this is insanely unethical, I'll grant that the politicians of many countries have probably made it legal. But again, unless someone is citing specific court cases where this was found acceptable, I'm going to guess that in most places people doing this are risking prison.
(Of course, I'm not saying that avoiding taxes is unethical. I'm saying that tax laws that create such blatantly unfair and uneven tax burdens are unethical.)
You know, the older I get, the more I'm coming to the conclusion that, if given the opportunity, the vast, overwhelming majority of humans will gladly, of their own free will, chose slavery over freedom.
You must still be very young. Because the older I get, the more I'm coming to the conclusion that the vast overwhelming majority of humans have already gladly, of their own free will, chosen slavery over freedom. This includes you, and it certainly includes me.
The laptop is his, bought through a scheme which means that he effectively gets it cheaper than retail by the rate he pays income tax at.
Unless you're a tax lawyer and can cite specific court cases that make such a think legal, I suspect you're very wrong.
The company is buying the laptop with pre-tax dollars, and they own it. If they're turning around and give the laptop to the employees and no-one is paying any taxes on the transaction, someone is going to go to prison.
I won't buy a PC without one (same for serial port - gotta have it)
I won't buy a computer without an EISA expansion bus.
While I have worked in construction, built computers from scratch and done my share of soldering,
Making a computer from scratch has always sounded like fun.
I'm assuming there are now inexpensive ways to print a multi-layer circuit board, and people no longer wire-wrap chips to a breadboard. However, I've always wondered about firmware and peripherals and compilers and operating systems and the like -- how long does it take to write the software to even get something that will boot off media?
Can we somehow mod the above comment to +6, and close the thread?
There's really nothing else that needs to be said.
Read a few "Ask Slashdot" questions, and you'll understand. Ask Slashdot can almost always be summed up: I'm old and cynical, and longer surprised by clueless fanboys with an exaggerated opinion of their own experience, intelligence, and skill.
I will never understand, however, how any of them manage to find jobs.
Suns also lack, as a default configuration, literally dozens of extremely useful tools that power users expect. That starts with a decent compiler built into the OS
WTF? He was talking about a production cluster. The only production machine that ever has a compiler is the one in the corner named "build". And, since developers don't get a logon to build in any decent IT shop...
I come from the other side of the fence. I am a developer of multiplayer servers. For my part, I couldn't do my job without root access.
I come from the other side of the fence. I am a developer of complex client-server applications. For my part, I don't even have login permissions on production.
I have root on my local development machine and shared development. If there are problems during testing, I get a temporary logon on stage, with an admin sitting over my shoulder watching me type. But I've never had a logon on production, and I can't imagine why I would ever need one.
I develop the app. I write deployment, testing, and rollback documentation. That way, I never need to touch the production server. This is how every real shop I've ever been in works.
Why? Do you not know the meaning of the phrase coup d'etat?
Apparently, you don't. Coup d'etat menas we're better off voluntarily giving lots of money and power to the good ol' boy defense network. Because if we don't, they're going to take all the money and all the power.
I don't think many of the people writing in this thread understand what Dada's doing.
Dada is doing exactly the same thing he does in every Slashdot thread -- he's lying about his life experiences, and trolling for responses.
For what it's worth, I would have loved to work as a contractor under the system you've described, too...