You have a small point, but if you look at the sheer volume of those tiny exploit patches, you're debating the difference between a mouse, a swarm of bees, and a hamster. Firebird's entire package is a mouse, a single IE service update is a rather fatty hamster, accompanied by a swarm of bees. Or, as you prefer, a swarm of bees accompanied by a fatty hamster.
In the 21st century, I find Darl's new, revolutionary business model refreshing. To actually MARKET your own product instead of simply suing the users of competing products is truly visionary.
Much can be learned here. And maybe he isn't the bloodless vampire that I thought he is. Maybe he does have a little blood.
I recieved a TIMEX sinclair computer in the mail once in the early 80s and since I had a C=64, I used the Timex as a door stop. It was wedge shaped and small, and made a perfect doorstop until 1995. I was curious about it since none of the keys were still legible, and the plastic housing had long since cracked. I plugged it in to my TV and powered it up with an adaptor I found in the garage. I didn't even know what voltage the Sinclair took, but the adapter fit and I didn't care about it. It booted right up. I was so shocked I went to the outlet to see what it said on it and it said TIMEX. After 10 years, I had picked the correct wall wart at random from an old box of crap in the garage. Beat that.
Since you were struck repeatedly with a hammer, I felt it only fair to include that that was sarcasm. If you got hit with a hammer in your own home, I would say it's likely that that fucker wanted you dead, so if he died, good riddance to one more asshole who thinks he can stroll in and take whatever he wants without earning it.
We don't respect that. You just continued a cycle of violence that began before he entered your home. Can you really OWN a part of earth? Can you truly keep anything of value? What if he was sexually molested as a child and needed a calculator? I bet you didn't even think about that before you shot him right in the TI. I could forgive the unprovoked shooting of a Casio, but shooting a TI, and a good one at that, is simply unforgiveable. Oh how the rest of us wish you had reasoned with the man who beat you with a hammer. Maybe someday you'll learn that violence never solved anything, and no-one ever won a war.
What were you doing with a GUN anyway? How do we know it was the robber who started the violence, since he had a weapon of convenience, and you had conspired to kill probably months in advance by buying a gun? Or maybe the gun killed him, as firearms are wont to do. Probably sat idly in the nightstand scheming and waiting for the right moment to strike, to lash out at humanity in all of its malice and cruelty. You sick bastard, I hope you choke on your linguine.
I once shot a half a dozen people for stealing my pencil from my computer desk. I wasn't sure which one did it so I shot the whole lot of them.
Later I found the pencil behind my ear, and boy, was my face red!
What you blew was an electrolytic filter capacitor on the +6v supply bus. This won't stop it from working at all, but it will raise the noise floor on that 6 volt rail. With electronics, "works fine" doesn't mean it isn't broken, what it means is that it hasn't stopped it from producing audio in this case. It will probably not meet factory specs for noise or distortion anymore, since when you drive the speaker, the filter capacitor acts as a current buffer to prevent line losses from causing that 6 volt bus to drop in voltage. Your speaker set will probably go into clipping just a wee bit early without that cap.
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You're right, because obviously HTML is the only thing used by entire companies in e-commerce. All they do is write documents. Hell, they even all use WYSIWYG tools too! I bet Amazon.com only needs one freaking guy to run the whole web prescence and everybody else is in inventory. You're totally correct. He must just use FrontPage all day long. Maybe Mozilla Composer if he's 1337. Come on, you just exemplified the attitude he's trying to complain about, mister my-coding-cock-is-way-longer-fatter-and -leeter-than-yours.
That is the most inane and absurd argument I have heard on Slashdot, which is really saying something. What you're saying is that it's equally annoying to tell an inside joke or use technical jargon as it is to assault a person repeatedly with a pencil. I can't see that this is the case. These people are using a complex tool and they in many cases DELIBERATELY ignore important error messages, don't tell you when they happen repeatedly, and only come to you when something fails to work. That's blatant stupidity. If your wife told you the car had been making a funny sound for the last two months and now it won't start, don't you think that would annoy you? If I tell someone that I need them to keep error messages open when they happen during important operations, I mean that. It's a stipulation of my help. Keep in mind that in many cases we're dealing with people who use computers FOR A LIVING. They should have at least a slight advantage over the secretary who's never even pumped her own gas. The nice thing is working for an engineering shop. There are no computer issues.
How about the middle road? I tell them what they did wrong or how error messages are important communicators, a part of the diagnostic process, and they're not just an annoying window for the user to close. But I do so out of earshot of their boss. I don't send global emails detailing the problem and how it happened. I let the user know I am on his side but I need a little help from him (her). It's just that easy. The next time, my first question is "did you get an error message?" and if they say yes, I ask what it was. If they don't know, I send them back to write the message down real quick and come back. Then we attack the problem.
Well, that's all well and good, but definition 3 from your second linked reference illustrates that the rescue helicopter story would fit as "Irony", as it is poignantly opposite of expectations.
Still up so far- pretty amazing little server for a beekeper. It's almost like there are multiple DNS listings for ILOVEBEES.COM. Almost like you'd find for yahoo.com or ebay.com. Wow.
As a former submariner, let me be the first to tell you this won't work. Here's why: Submarines are designed to resist crushing forces from all directions at once. It's strong because its cylindrical shape resists crushing from this type of force. Unfortunately, snow isn't entirely fluid, and would exert pressure in a totally different way. While a submarine would probably survive being under 50 feet of ice, the ice moves very slowly and with an incredible amount of force. It would tear a submarine apart from shear forces.
I dropped out of High School (but never got test scores below 90%) and went to tech school. I make 47k a year in New Mexico. Lots of my friends got their bachelors and make 10k less. It's not so much how much school you've had, but what you can do. I am lucky not to be in IT. I saw that one coming a long way off. There was a hint when 40% of the local college's enrolled students were in some sort of computer science. I took electronics engineering. I have continued my education in a hands on way, starting at about 10 bucks an hour and worked my way to 25 bucks an hour.
Strike 1: it's electric. After listening to the Big 3 say for years and years no one wants electric cars, the public doesn't want electric cars. Baaaa.
Actually most people could care less about what fuels it. What they are looking for is convenience, range, and efficiency. The current crop of electric vehicles don't have a leading position in any of these. Until there's a REASON to buy an electric over a gas engine, sales won't magically appear.
Strike 2: single seater. After listening to the Big 3 say for years and years that SUV's and trucks can do more for you, the public won't care about a car with a single seat. Baaaa.
Actually, if there was a market for single seat cars, you'd think that in 100 years we'd have built one that was successful. Hasn't happened. And your statement that consumers listen to the "big 3" is complete nonsense. First, there is no "big 3". There hasn't been in 30 years. Second, the car companies build more of whatever sells best. SUVs are popular because the CARB standard applies to cars and not light trucks. Before CARB there was a huge US market for full-size station wagons. Now, nobody builds full size wagons, so those customers purchase the equivalent on a truck chassis. How hard is that to understand? Your statements ending in "baaa" speak more to your misanthropy than any genuine trend in society.
Strike 3: limited range. After listening to the Big 3 say for years and years that a car should be able to drive across the US or Canada on a moment's notice... eh, you get the idea. I don't know what YOUR priorities are when you buy a car, but I live in New Mexico. Things are far from each other. Many other places are like that. A car with a 50 mile range that needs several hours in charging downtime is a pain. Plus, the electric car doesn't perform any function that a gas car doesn't. This means there's no functional benefit for putting up with the inconveniences. People don't just go around purchasing expensive items just to get "zero emissions" (which aren't zero when you consider that we have to generate the power first and transfer to batteries is less than 60% efficient, and then transfer to the motor is 70% efficient. Add the extra weight of the batteries, and you now have a car that runs on fossil fuels, (at the powerplant), weighs a ton, and uses more energy per mile than a Chrysler 300. Congratulations. I wonder where the market went? Perhaps you don't care about the market because you're a socialist who wants the government to force people to purchase a car that has no benefit to them? Socialists LOVE the government making people do things they don't want to do. Especially for altruistic purposes. Well, I don't want to work my entire life for somebody else's concept of utopia and then die. I want to retire someday and buy a little shack on the coast in Mexico and drink fancy girly drinks out of coconuts with little paper umbrellas in them. Sure, you're AC, but I enjoyed our little chat. Please try again.
Your post is a joke, right? UT2004 comes with linux binaries and they're triple sweet just like UT2003. With NVIDIA drivers, it seems faster on Linux than Windows on my machine (when I boot to IceWM).
Okay, if it is SCO's position that the GPL is invalid, under what legal authority did they distribute linux? Without teeth to the GPL, the code is still the property of whomever wrote it, and they certainly distributed more than simply the contested kernel files. Many other project's product was redistributed by SCO as well, in clear violation of the license. SCO's problem is that they believe that if the GPL is invalidated, then all of the code under the GPL would be Public Domain. That is not the case. If the GPL were somehow declared invalid, which is VERY unlikely, then the code all still belongs only to the original authors. This is unlikely because it is perfectly legal to redistribute copyrighted works with the express permission of the author or owner. The GPL establishes who has that permission. If you don't abide by GPL, you don't have permission.
Racists shouldn't be muzzled for their unpopular views any more than socialists or capitalists should be for theirs. It's just not civilized to tell people how to think or what they can and can't say. They're their own people, even if you or I might think they're inbred racist hicks. You see, in America, democracy isn't supposed to mean tyranny by the majority. We have laws to prevent it. You are free even to be an idiot, an asshole, or a bigot here. It's really quite refreshing. I consider myself none of those things, but I know that even if someone else does, I won't be muzzled like an animal because my views are not in line with popular opinion.
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You have a small point, but if you look at the sheer volume of those tiny exploit patches, you're debating the difference between a mouse, a swarm of bees, and a hamster. Firebird's entire package is a mouse, a single IE service update is a rather fatty hamster, accompanied by a swarm of bees. Or, as you prefer, a swarm of bees accompanied by a fatty hamster.
Xfce and IceWM are both pretty nice.
But they have gimpy mongoloid ninjas who wear bicycle helmets covered in teletubbies stickers.
And that's just the investors!
Try the veal.
In the 21st century, I find Darl's new, revolutionary business model refreshing. To actually MARKET your own product instead of simply suing the users of competing products is truly visionary.
Much can be learned here. And maybe he isn't the bloodless vampire that I thought he is. Maybe he does have a little blood.
I recieved a TIMEX sinclair computer in the mail once in the early 80s and since I had a C=64, I used the Timex as a door stop. It was wedge shaped and small, and made a perfect doorstop until 1995. I was curious about it since none of the keys were still legible, and the plastic housing had long since cracked. I plugged it in to my TV and powered it up with an adaptor I found in the garage. I didn't even know what voltage the Sinclair took, but the adapter fit and I didn't care about it. It booted right up. I was so shocked I went to the outlet to see what it said on it and it said TIMEX. After 10 years, I had picked the correct wall wart at random from an old box of crap in the garage. Beat that.
Since you were struck repeatedly with a hammer, I felt it only fair to include that that was sarcasm. If you got hit with a hammer in your own home, I would say it's likely that that fucker wanted you dead, so if he died, good riddance to one more asshole who thinks he can stroll in and take whatever he wants without earning it.
We don't respect that. You just continued a cycle of violence that began before he entered your home. Can you really OWN a part of earth? Can you truly keep anything of value? What if he was sexually molested as a child and needed a calculator? I bet you didn't even think about that before you shot him right in the TI. I could forgive the unprovoked shooting of a Casio, but shooting a TI, and a good one at that, is simply unforgiveable. Oh how the rest of us wish you had reasoned with the man who beat you with a hammer. Maybe someday you'll learn that violence never solved anything, and no-one ever won a war. What were you doing with a GUN anyway? How do we know it was the robber who started the violence, since he had a weapon of convenience, and you had conspired to kill probably months in advance by buying a gun? Or maybe the gun killed him, as firearms are wont to do. Probably sat idly in the nightstand scheming and waiting for the right moment to strike, to lash out at humanity in all of its malice and cruelty. You sick bastard, I hope you choke on your linguine.
I once shot a half a dozen people for stealing my pencil from my computer desk. I wasn't sure which one did it so I shot the whole lot of them. Later I found the pencil behind my ear, and boy, was my face red!
What you blew was an electrolytic filter capacitor on the +6v supply bus. This won't stop it from working at all, but it will raise the noise floor on that 6 volt rail.
With electronics, "works fine" doesn't mean it isn't broken, what it means is that it hasn't stopped it from producing audio in this case. It will probably not meet factory specs for noise or distortion anymore, since when you drive the speaker, the filter capacitor acts as a current buffer to prevent line losses from causing that 6 volt bus to drop in voltage. Your speaker set will probably go into clipping just a wee bit early without that cap.
You're right, because obviously HTML is the only thing used by entire companies in e-commerce. All they do is write documents. Hell, they even all use WYSIWYG tools too! I bet Amazon.com only needs one freaking guy to run the whole web prescence and everybody else is in inventory. You're totally correct. He must just use FrontPage all day long. Maybe Mozilla Composer if he's 1337. Come on, you just exemplified the attitude he's trying to complain about, mister my-coding-cock-is-way-longer-fatter-and -leeter-than-yours.
Don't forget, even nerds gave Steve swirlies now and then. I think I know Steve. I think I know ten.
That is the most inane and absurd argument I have heard on Slashdot, which is really saying something. What you're saying is that it's equally annoying to tell an inside joke or use technical jargon as it is to assault a person repeatedly with a pencil.
I can't see that this is the case. These people are using a complex tool and they in many cases DELIBERATELY ignore important error messages, don't tell you when they happen repeatedly, and only come to you when something fails to work. That's blatant stupidity. If your wife told you the car had been making a funny sound for the last two months and now it won't start, don't you think that would annoy you? If I tell someone that I need them to keep error messages open when they happen during important operations, I mean that. It's a stipulation of my help.
Keep in mind that in many cases we're dealing with people who use computers FOR A LIVING. They should have at least a slight advantage over the secretary who's never even pumped her own gas. The nice thing is working for an engineering shop. There are no computer issues.
How about the middle road? I tell them what they did wrong or how error messages are important communicators, a part of the diagnostic process, and they're not just an annoying window for the user to close. But I do so out of earshot of their boss. I don't send global emails detailing the problem and how it happened. I let the user know I am on his side but I need a little help from him (her). It's just that easy. The next time, my first question is "did you get an error message?" and if they say yes, I ask what it was. If they don't know, I send them back to write the message down real quick and come back. Then we attack the problem.
Yes, but if the user got an error message and didn't even bother to write it down before going to IT, don't you think that needs to be dealt with?
Well, that's all well and good, but definition 3 from your second linked reference illustrates that the rescue helicopter story would fit as "Irony", as it is poignantly opposite of expectations.
Still up so far- pretty amazing little server for a beekeper. It's almost like there are multiple DNS listings for ILOVEBEES.COM. Almost like you'd find for yahoo.com or ebay.com. Wow.
Whoever posted that to USENET had too much time on their hands, as do I for bothering to reply to it.
As a former submariner, let me be the first to tell you this won't work. Here's why: Submarines are designed to resist crushing forces from all directions at once. It's strong because its cylindrical shape resists crushing from this type of force. Unfortunately, snow isn't entirely fluid, and would exert pressure in a totally different way. While a submarine would probably survive being under 50 feet of ice, the ice moves very slowly and with an incredible amount of force. It would tear a submarine apart from shear forces.
I dropped out of High School (but never got test scores below 90%) and went to tech school. I make 47k a year in New Mexico. Lots of my friends got their bachelors and make 10k less. It's not so much how much school you've had, but what you can do. I am lucky not to be in IT. I saw that one coming a long way off. There was a hint when 40% of the local college's enrolled students were in some sort of computer science. I took electronics engineering. I have continued my education in a hands on way, starting at about 10 bucks an hour and worked my way to 25 bucks an hour.
Strike 1: it's electric. After listening to the Big 3 say for years and years no one wants electric cars, the public doesn't want electric cars. Baaaa.
Actually most people could care less about what fuels it. What they are looking for is convenience, range, and efficiency. The current crop of electric vehicles don't have a leading position in any of these. Until there's a REASON to buy an electric over a gas engine, sales won't magically appear.
Strike 2: single seater. After listening to the Big 3 say for years and years that SUV's and trucks can do more for you, the public won't care about a car with a single seat. Baaaa.
Actually, if there was a market for single seat cars, you'd think that in 100 years we'd have built one that was successful. Hasn't happened. And your statement that consumers listen to the "big 3" is complete nonsense. First, there is no "big 3". There hasn't been in 30 years. Second, the car companies build more of whatever sells best. SUVs are popular because the CARB standard applies to cars and not light trucks. Before CARB there was a huge US market for full-size station wagons. Now, nobody builds full size wagons, so those customers purchase the equivalent on a truck chassis. How hard is that to understand? Your statements ending in "baaa" speak more to your misanthropy than any genuine trend in society.
Strike 3: limited range. After listening to the Big 3 say for years and years that a car should be able to drive across the US or Canada on a moment's notice... eh, you get the idea.
I don't know what YOUR priorities are when you buy a car, but I live in New Mexico. Things are far from each other. Many other places are like that. A car with a 50 mile range that needs several hours in charging downtime is a pain. Plus, the electric car doesn't perform any function that a gas car doesn't. This means there's no functional benefit for putting up with the inconveniences. People don't just go around purchasing expensive items just to get "zero emissions" (which aren't zero when you consider that we have to generate the power first and transfer to batteries is less than 60% efficient, and then transfer to the motor is 70% efficient. Add the extra weight of the batteries, and you now have a car that runs on fossil fuels, (at the powerplant), weighs a ton, and uses more energy per mile than a Chrysler 300. Congratulations. I wonder where the market went? Perhaps you don't care about the market because you're a socialist who wants the government to force people to purchase a car that has no benefit to them? Socialists LOVE the government making people do things they don't want to do. Especially for altruistic purposes. Well, I don't want to work my entire life for somebody else's concept of utopia and then die. I want to retire someday and buy a little shack on the coast in Mexico and drink fancy girly drinks out of coconuts with little paper umbrellas in them. Sure, you're AC, but I enjoyed our little chat. Please try again.
Your post is a joke, right? UT2004 comes with linux binaries and they're triple sweet just like UT2003. With NVIDIA drivers, it seems faster on Linux than Windows on my machine (when I boot to IceWM).
Okay, if it is SCO's position that the GPL is invalid, under what legal authority did they distribute linux? Without teeth to the GPL, the code is still the property of whomever wrote it, and they certainly distributed more than simply the contested kernel files. Many other project's product was redistributed by SCO as well, in clear violation of the license. SCO's problem is that they believe that if the GPL is invalidated, then all of the code under the GPL would be Public Domain. That is not the case. If the GPL were somehow declared invalid, which is VERY unlikely, then the code all still belongs only to the original authors. This is unlikely because it is perfectly legal to redistribute copyrighted works with the express permission of the author or owner. The GPL establishes who has that permission. If you don't abide by GPL, you don't have permission.
I live in Rio Rancho and my house is inside the coverage area! WOO HOO!
So if this is true how come I can't walk around with my wiener hanging out of my fly? Explain.
Racists shouldn't be muzzled for their unpopular views any more than socialists or capitalists should be for theirs. It's just not civilized to tell people how to think or what they can and can't say. They're their own people, even if you or I might think they're inbred racist hicks. You see, in America, democracy isn't supposed to mean tyranny by the majority. We have laws to prevent it. You are free even to be an idiot, an asshole, or a bigot here. It's really quite refreshing. I consider myself none of those things, but I know that even if someone else does, I won't be muzzled like an animal because my views are not in line with popular opinion.