I hate looking at some gaudy colored box in some has-been trendy shade.
The only think worse, is when they have an odd shape so that a CD case slides off the top. If it is going to be ugly you might as well be able to stack stuff on it.
What is it that Windows does that Linux (or any brand X) doesn't.
I am no Windows "fan-boi", as is the perjoritive here, but I find that 4 out of 5 of the computers in my house do run Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
Clearly, "all computers suck" (feel free to quote me), yet somehow, people find them useful.
For whatever reason, they find Windows(tm) computers most useful.
Beleive me, I'd love some other OS to work for me, but somehow nothing is compelling...
Oddly enough I earn about 80% of my living from customers who want Windows software, and 20% from those who want Linux software. I am the tail, I am NOT wagging the dog.
The sooner everything is patented, the sooner the patents will run out.
Not only will every thing then be up for grabs, but it will all be neatly documented at the USPTO!
Wake me up in 20 years.
A related question - if someone suspects you of infinging their software patent, but you claim closed source, trade secret status, how can they prove you infringed, if you don't allow them to reverse engineer your software, under penalty of the DMCA?
You know, those with obsessive compulsive disorder can get really really bad about it... or get over it.
I didn't Read either of TFA, because they seem to be slashdotted at the moment.
However, after years and years of living, I can tell you that "if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well" is just not true. Sometimes doing a job "good enough" is more than enough. It might get torn down next week. If you wash the windows "OK", that is probably good enough, they'll be dirty again soon enough.
It all depends on what you are doing. Building a house? Do it well. Wiring a computer cabinet? Pfft - make it good enought for a few years. It will change. RS-232, thin-wire, thick-wire, 10BaseT, Cat 3, Cat 5, Cat 5e... Fibre... whatever.
If you can do a 90% job for half the cost you will have enough left over to do another 90% job of something twice as good 4 years from now.
How much of a difference is there between Great Aunt Agatha falling prey to a phishing scam - wherein she gives her info to someone else to take her funds, and her falling prey to a traditional scam, where she takes the money out of the bank herself and hands it over to the con man in a brown paper bag?
In the first case the Bank pays, in the second case Aunty pays (after all, for all you know she lost the money at the dog track).
All the "make the banks do something" arguments boil down to "make it harder for customers to get their money".
Right now maybe the "get at your money" rules are a bit too lax, but be careful what you ask for, or the next thing you know you will be submitting biometric info to swip your ATM card for that next Starbucks.
And when that happens, does the Bank still pay if it really was Aunt Agatha's finger that authorized the payout?
Of course we have 110C coffee here! We invented pressurized coffee cups just for that purpose!
We blast super heated coffee right down our throats, it's a real waker-upper in the morning, while driving giant SUV's down the highway and yaking on our cell phones!. Doesn't everyone like it HOT?
Knowing which way to go... guys have a stronger sense of it then girls
My wife has anti-sense. I've been married 20mumble something years (to the same woman) and on those occasions where I can observe her sense of direction, it is almost always wrong (i.e. walk into the parking lot and she will forcefully walk in the opposite direction of the car. Of course, having been married this long, I just walk to the car and let her eventually find the way... sometimes even admiting "right again, dear.").
Anyhow, she is left-handed, so I wonder if that has any bearing on the issue?
More than likely, after thinking about it, it is just that females think more about non-tangible stuff - relationships, wondrering if the "stuff" just purchased was the right thing, etc. Whereas guys are thinging, more along the lines of "that was a lot for that crap", and, "where's the car, I want to get out of here!"
Slashdot Mirror
Just type "greater fool investment" into Google and study the results...
I think I have one more "witness protection program" move coming.
Controller Bob? Sorry, that just came out.
"Computer for sale: PII 500MHz - doesn't boot. Buy it Now $25!"
Tell me you can't sell that.
Asparagus is a plant.
Therefore plants smell!
I hate looking at some gaudy colored box in some has-been trendy shade.
The only think worse, is when they have an odd shape so that a CD case slides off the top. If it is going to be ugly you might as well be able to stack stuff on it.
1) Go straight to the source - make everything run off of 120V AC, like God intended. No conversion inefficiencies!
2) Run everything off direct Solar Power, man (no specifics given - dude, don't bogart that...!)
3) Make everything run off of 1.5v DC - that seems to be the most common battery I have!
* ok I am making it up.
I am no Windows "fan-boi", as is the perjoritive here, but I find that 4 out of 5 of the computers in my house do run Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
Clearly, "all computers suck" (feel free to quote me), yet somehow, people find them useful.
For whatever reason, they find Windows(tm) computers most useful.
Beleive me, I'd love some other OS to work for me, but somehow nothing is compelling...
Oddly enough I earn about 80% of my living from customers who want Windows software, and 20% from those who want Linux software. I am the tail, I am NOT wagging the dog.
Gentlemen, start your perl scripts!
I sure wouldn't want to be the TA to grade that mess.
The problem of keeping sea level where it is at - Solved!
Not only will every thing then be up for grabs, but it will all be neatly documented at the USPTO!
Wake me up in 20 years.
A related question - if someone suspects you of infinging their software patent, but you claim closed source, trade secret status, how can they prove you infringed, if you don't allow them to reverse engineer your software, under penalty of the DMCA?
Meanwhile, in the time it took you to write about a new Slashdot meme, I have applied your fear!
I didn't Read either of TFA, because they seem to be slashdotted at the moment.
However, after years and years of living, I can tell you that "if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well" is just not true. Sometimes doing a job "good enough" is more than enough. It might get torn down next week. If you wash the windows "OK", that is probably good enough, they'll be dirty again soon enough.
It all depends on what you are doing. Building a house? Do it well. Wiring a computer cabinet? Pfft - make it good enought for a few years. It will change. RS-232, thin-wire, thick-wire, 10BaseT, Cat 3, Cat 5, Cat 5e... Fibre... whatever.
If you can do a 90% job for half the cost you will have enough left over to do another 90% job of something twice as good 4 years from now.
Maybe. YMMV.
I mean, what was it hurting, anyhow?
Let me do a Google search on "violent sex" and see if that straightens me out.
My bad.
I thought the whole idea of personal computers was to allow people to work they way they wanted to?
You may like clean desktops while others like cluttered desktops.
Let's start a holy war over how many icons can dance on a screen.
Democrats think they can get you there quicker, in a special handbasket.
The handbasket is union-made. The road was built with a no-bid contract.
Pick one.
Well, I guess it is an improvement over Kon-Tiki which only had an ave speed of 1.5 knots. But at least it didn't use all this new-fangled technology!
If transportation advancement followed CPU speed or Disk Drive storage - whoa nelly! We'd be burning our nads off, zipping around!
Don't hold back...
In the first case the Bank pays, in the second case Aunty pays (after all, for all you know she lost the money at the dog track).
All the "make the banks do something" arguments boil down to "make it harder for customers to get their money".
Right now maybe the "get at your money" rules are a bit too lax, but be careful what you ask for, or the next thing you know you will be submitting biometric info to swip your ATM card for that next Starbucks.
And when that happens, does the Bank still pay if it really was Aunt Agatha's finger that authorized the payout?
We blast super heated coffee right down our throats, it's a real waker-upper in the morning, while driving giant SUV's down the highway and yaking on our cell phones!. Doesn't everyone like it HOT?
Foreign whimps.
My wife has anti-sense. I've been married 20mumble something years (to the same woman) and on those occasions where I can observe her sense of direction, it is almost always wrong (i.e. walk into the parking lot and she will forcefully walk in the opposite direction of the car. Of course, having been married this long, I just walk to the car and let her eventually find the way... sometimes even admiting "right again, dear.").
Anyhow, she is left-handed, so I wonder if that has any bearing on the issue?
More than likely, after thinking about it, it is just that females think more about non-tangible stuff - relationships, wondrering if the "stuff" just purchased was the right thing, etc. Whereas guys are thinging, more along the lines of "that was a lot for that crap", and, "where's the car, I want to get out of here!"
To paraphrase the old saw... That award and $2.95 ought to cover a cup of coffee - er, I mean, a cup of Java!...
Look it up!