Case in point. Say a neighbor asks if his kid can come over to my house one afternoon for help with his math homework or something.
Why would you be tutoring a neighbor kid anyway? you might as well just avoid all the other steps and register yourself as a sex offender right off the bat. I make sure to NEVER talk to my neighbors and always hurry from the car to the house without making eye contact with them if they try to start a conversation. One almost ambushed me and stood between me and my door but I kicked him in the nuts and ran into the house.
I have never, ever, in all the years of using Windows or Linux had suspend, either S3 or suspend-to-disk work properly.
I've got a generic AMD Athlon machine I built from pieces with a recent MSI motherboard running Windows XP Pro that goes in and out of S3 perfectly. Press the power button or select suspend and the system saves the state to memory in a couple of seconds and powers off all the peripherals including the fans. Press power again (don't have a USB keyboard to try, but PS/2 keyboard doesn't seem to be able to wake it, nor does a PS/2 mouse) and the machine powers up and is ready to use in a couple of seconds. For a Windows box that I use primarily for gaming and browsing the web there's no need for it to be on all the time. The only time I reboot it is applying patches or installing software that force me to. The machine runs rock solid. Windows XP Pro is awesomely stable on my box, but I'm sure people will chime in with their horror stories. YMMV.
Same thing goes for my Apple iBook. I never shut it off or reboot it unless I'm applying updates. I just let it suspend to ram when I close the lid. Wakes up just fine all the time.
As for Linux boxes.. I couldn't tell you I ever tried. All my Linux boxes are setup as servers and I never logon to the console unless they're crashed. Unfortunately one of my loudest systems is a Linux box in a rackmount case. I probably should replace it with a Via Epia system.;-)
RTFA: "BM's new software is designed to be distributed and accessed through a Web server, and to be accessible from systems running Windows and Macintosh, as well as Linux, Unix and handheld devices"
I know, so they say today. I'm just saying invariably 9/10 times "web based" applications do NOT function 100% correctly on alternate platforms. IBM is no different and whore Windows just as much as the next guy.
I mean, really WOW.
If they can pull it off succesfully, then it could be a giant blow to the MS empire.
The problem is the small print on the final product will be "Requires Windows and Internet Explorer 6 for full functionality." I've sick of seeing "web" based applications that require IE under Windows to work. Where do they morons learn how to program that they can't even write cross-platform applications for the god damn WWW? I blame Microsoft's indoctrination of college students by signing up universities for campus-wide licensing deals if they sign exclusive contracts. Once our university did that the courses started focusing heavily on Microsoft products. SQL server, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Microsoft's version of Java, Office, etc.
Unless you were lucky enough to buy a G3 iBook in late 2002, in which case you're one of the lucky few to ever get Apple's failure-prone laptops in 10 years. Motherboard failure 6 months ago and now my backlight doesn't come on any more with the lid more than about 30 degrees open. Apple produces nothing but crap as far as I'm concerned. I'm going back to Dell (my 5 year old Inspiron is STILL going strong).
What we need is a new service similar to Paypal but:
A.backed by an existing bricks and mortar bank (to provide security and confidence that there is real money in a vault somewhere to back up your virtual dollars)
You seem to be describing a credit card. Why don't you simply use your credit card to purchase stuff on eBay? If you're dissatisfied with the purchase there are a variety of existing dispute processes already available to you in order to get the situation resolved through your credit card company. Also, stop purchasing stuff from shady individuals. The only stuff I'll purchase from eBay are from the people who are obviously using eBay as cheap storefronts for their small business inventory (i.e. they have thousands of auctions in the past few months, all positive feedback, etc.). 99% of the time they also accept credit cards directly as well instead of going through paypal. Granted, I've only bought 3 things from paypal, but they've all been positive experiences.
Do me a favor. Walk to any engineering school worth its salt, pay a girl 10 bucks to walk around and smile and say hello and watch the reactions while paying special attention to eyes. He works at MIT. Cut him some slack; eye candy cant be that prevalent.
Perhaps if the engineering students and faculty tried to practice proper hygiene that wouldn't be such an issue. Stallman looks like Grizzly Adams for god's sake. I realize it's supposed to be cliche that old unix hackers have long hair and big scraggly beards, but that was cool 20 years ago. Cut your damn hair and shave that beard... fscking hippies.
In Santa Cruz, for example, they sliced their tech staff by like 80% or something.
How will this affect the release schedule for the next minor versions of the Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels? I've been anticipating Linux 2.6 settling down a bit before I switch and this news of SCO reducing it's tech staff by such a huge amount causes me to question investing so much of my time and energy into upgrading.
If SCO ceases to exist, will Linux still be available!? Will they open source the code so that a group of volunteers can saddle up and take the reins from this dedicated staff of SCO developers who have put so much time and effort into making Linux the great operating system that it is? Inquiring minds want to know the answers to these questions damnit.
Pricing for new music should be high, older stuff could be much lower. If older stuff would be priced less (in any format), I'd buy a ton of music, but right now I don't bother.
That's actually a really good idea. Charge $2.50 per song for the newest tracks and gradually scale it back to $0.25 if it's more than 5 years old (or some other arbitrary number) or less popular. Then the newest, most hyped garbage bears the cost of the system which is how it really works these days anyway. I'd be fine with sticking to 15 year old music legally downloaded for a quarter a piece while dumbass teenagers get their newest pop boy band sensation crap with their mom's credit card for $2.50 per track.
If they can pirate the operating system, why can't they just pirate the patches too?
Because pirates are stupid and lazy... too lazy to download invidual patches without letting WindowsUpdate figure it out for them. Personally I feel Microsoft should have code in all their patches that checks for software piracy (not only of their operating system, but of other software like Photoshop and Office) and disables the whole operating system if it finds evidence of it. If you're going to use Microsoft then you have to learn to eat dogshit and buy it like you're supposed to. Sure, it'll bankrupt you to spend thousands of dollars for legitimate software, but by pirating it you're just artificially reducing the cost to zero. Use Linux and free software instead.
I'm actually thinking about how many of AB's Good Eats I can cram onto one disc - they take up a lot of room in the jukebox at just 3 episodes per disc.
Or just rip them to DivX format and use a home theater PC as the frontend. No more swapping out discs or need for a changer.
Second, I was not talking on the phone, which could definitely be considered rude.
Why on earth would anyone consider that rude? If the person you were talking to was sitting right there and you were having a conversation, would that be rude as well? I never understood this fascination people have with cell phones being rude to use in a restaurant for example, yet the next table over can have 8 people all talking to each other and acting quite annoying. Why not kick them out for talking as well? I can understand their point if you're shouting into your lame ass crappy phone because you think it'll improve reception, but if you're holding a conversation in a normal tone of voice then what's the problem?
and some clause in the Patriot Act
doesn't everything? seems to me that it get stretched more than a rubber band.
Questioning the intent of the Patriot Act falls under section 14 of the Patriot Act. I hope you don't have anything to hide terrorist, because the FBI are on their way.
I don't think the estimates are the minimum spec to run the OS, the spec is to run the applications that MS expects will exist by the release of the OS.
Will those be the specs you need with or without the thousands of spyware applications running in the background? A 2.4 GHz P4 runs about as fast as a Pentium 133 when it's loaded down with spyware.
So how does that explain when my boss (ie. the owner) was franticly searching for the Paris Hilton video, back when it was all the rage. On company time, with a group of us clustered around his desk to see what he found. Oh, and yes, we're a normal tech-type company, not a pr0n house...
You're obviously in a hostile work environment. Intentionally browsing for pornography here will get you terminated immediately.
Apple's laptops, for example. Check out the packaging on those. My guess is the boxes and all will withstand a 20ft drop and the laptop will still arrive in pristine working appearance.
Are you referring to the same Apple laptops that had a huge "white-spot" issue with the displays because the packing material was pushing into the back of the display? Granted, I believe it was only the 15" Powerbooks and they've probably fixed the problem, but nobody's perfect.
Now if only I could get a damn 12" G3 iBook that doesn't keep having display probems. First it was a failed logic board and now if I open the display more than 30 degrees the backlight goes out (apparently another fairly common problem as seen on Slashdot a few months ago). Time to call Apple again. Next time I think I'm going to have to spring for the Powerbook or just go back to Dell. My 4 year old Dell Inspiron 4000 is solid as a rock.
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you do know NVidia for linux supports twinview?
I have a very happy 2560x960 X/KDE setup accross two monitors using a FX5700
He said he wants *two* window managers. I take that to mean two different window managers running and controlling each screen. I'm not sure why anyone would want to do that, but whatever floats their boat. NVidia's stuff works fine on the other hand except for the occassional flickering I get from the DVI output (connected via a DVI-VGA adapter which I've replaced.. still flickers randomly).
Just try to team up with a reasonable company like Secure Computing and use their Smartfilter list to block URLs. Keywords will aways produce tons of false-positives. We have to deal with this everyday and no matter what you hippies want to believe, you DON'T have a right to browse pornography on work computers. Go jerk off at home.
Out of probably 50 people I know who've been over and seen good HD content since I got my 50", I can't think of a single person who said man, that sucks, I'd rather watch standard definition.
If someone gave me a set for free I might consider watching HD, but why spend thousands of dollars more for a set that won't last any longer than the standard definition sets? Basically I guess what I find silliest is people that blow $4000-$10000 on a TV that will be dead in 5 years. $300 is about my limit for a television set. When I can get these fancy 50" LCD HDTVs for under $500 then let me know and I'll consider it, until then it's an extremely irrelevent luxury item. I'd rather spend the money on a downpayment for a new house or something.
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And I hardly watch TV. Sigh. But I got a HDTV so I really want to watch HD content when I can.
What exactly turns you people on about watching TV in higher resolution? I've been watching TV on a standard television for decades now and I've never sat there and said "you know, this episode of Law and Order would've been much better if it was broadcast at a higher resolution". I'm a computer geek and love my new toys, but I have absolutely zero interest in buying an HDTV compatible television set. The paradigm of a central broadcaster feeding me content without interactive control over it is boring to me. If my TV died tomorrow I'd probably go for years without replacing it. It's just not a focal point of my life.
[b] Design a machine which takes poll cards and sorts them into piles, depending on which candidate is ticked (plus an "invalid selection" pile)
- If it fails, the cards can be sorted by hand.
That's the worst thing that you could ever allow and would introduce human error into the equation. The safest thing to do is to discard the vote as an error. Otherwise you get a repeat of the 2000 Florida fiasco with guys holding ballots up to the light to look for any slight indentation or trying to judge the "intent" of the voter. That's bullshit.
Look at Postscript sometime. WYSIWYG programs are just Postscript abstraction layers.
I've seen Postscript Are you trying to suggest writing in pure Postscript is better than using a WYSIWYG editor!? Because above I was replying to a comment that said WYSIWYG editors are only good for short memos. I sure as hell wouldn't write a long document in postscript or even TeX when there's a WYSIWYG alternative.
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Why would you be tutoring a neighbor kid anyway? you might as well just avoid all the other steps and register yourself as a sex offender right off the bat. I make sure to NEVER talk to my neighbors and always hurry from the car to the house without making eye contact with them if they try to start a conversation. One almost ambushed me and stood between me and my door but I kicked him in the nuts and ran into the house.
I've got a generic AMD Athlon machine I built from pieces with a recent MSI motherboard running Windows XP Pro that goes in and out of S3 perfectly. Press the power button or select suspend and the system saves the state to memory in a couple of seconds and powers off all the peripherals including the fans. Press power again (don't have a USB keyboard to try, but PS/2 keyboard doesn't seem to be able to wake it, nor does a PS/2 mouse) and the machine powers up and is ready to use in a couple of seconds. For a Windows box that I use primarily for gaming and browsing the web there's no need for it to be on all the time. The only time I reboot it is applying patches or installing software that force me to. The machine runs rock solid. Windows XP Pro is awesomely stable on my box, but I'm sure people will chime in with their horror stories. YMMV. Same thing goes for my Apple iBook. I never shut it off or reboot it unless I'm applying updates. I just let it suspend to ram when I close the lid. Wakes up just fine all the time. As for Linux boxes.. I couldn't tell you I ever tried. All my Linux boxes are setup as servers and I never logon to the console unless they're crashed. Unfortunately one of my loudest systems is a Linux box in a rackmount case. I probably should replace it with a Via Epia system. ;-)
I know, so they say today. I'm just saying invariably 9/10 times "web based" applications do NOT function 100% correctly on alternate platforms. IBM is no different and whore Windows just as much as the next guy.
The problem is the small print on the final product will be "Requires Windows and Internet Explorer 6 for full functionality." I've sick of seeing "web" based applications that require IE under Windows to work. Where do they morons learn how to program that they can't even write cross-platform applications for the god damn WWW? I blame Microsoft's indoctrination of college students by signing up universities for campus-wide licensing deals if they sign exclusive contracts. Once our university did that the courses started focusing heavily on Microsoft products. SQL server, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Microsoft's version of Java, Office, etc.
Unless you were lucky enough to buy a G3 iBook in late 2002, in which case you're one of the lucky few to ever get Apple's failure-prone laptops in 10 years. Motherboard failure 6 months ago and now my backlight doesn't come on any more with the lid more than about 30 degrees open. Apple produces nothing but crap as far as I'm concerned. I'm going back to Dell (my 5 year old Inspiron is STILL going strong).
A.backed by an existing bricks and mortar bank (to provide security and confidence that there is real money in a vault somewhere to back up your virtual dollars)
You seem to be describing a credit card. Why don't you simply use your credit card to purchase stuff on eBay? If you're dissatisfied with the purchase there are a variety of existing dispute processes already available to you in order to get the situation resolved through your credit card company. Also, stop purchasing stuff from shady individuals. The only stuff I'll purchase from eBay are from the people who are obviously using eBay as cheap storefronts for their small business inventory (i.e. they have thousands of auctions in the past few months, all positive feedback, etc.). 99% of the time they also accept credit cards directly as well instead of going through paypal. Granted, I've only bought 3 things from paypal, but they've all been positive experiences.
Perhaps if the engineering students and faculty tried to practice proper hygiene that wouldn't be such an issue. Stallman looks like Grizzly Adams for god's sake. I realize it's supposed to be cliche that old unix hackers have long hair and big scraggly beards, but that was cool 20 years ago. Cut your damn hair and shave that beard... fscking hippies.
How will this affect the release schedule for the next minor versions of the Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels? I've been anticipating Linux 2.6 settling down a bit before I switch and this news of SCO reducing it's tech staff by such a huge amount causes me to question investing so much of my time and energy into upgrading.
If SCO ceases to exist, will Linux still be available!? Will they open source the code so that a group of volunteers can saddle up and take the reins from this dedicated staff of SCO developers who have put so much time and effort into making Linux the great operating system that it is? Inquiring minds want to know the answers to these questions damnit.
That's actually a really good idea. Charge $2.50 per song for the newest tracks and gradually scale it back to $0.25 if it's more than 5 years old (or some other arbitrary number) or less popular. Then the newest, most hyped garbage bears the cost of the system which is how it really works these days anyway. I'd be fine with sticking to 15 year old music legally downloaded for a quarter a piece while dumbass teenagers get their newest pop boy band sensation crap with their mom's credit card for $2.50 per track.
Because pirates are stupid and lazy... too lazy to download invidual patches without letting WindowsUpdate figure it out for them. Personally I feel Microsoft should have code in all their patches that checks for software piracy (not only of their operating system, but of other software like Photoshop and Office) and disables the whole operating system if it finds evidence of it. If you're going to use Microsoft then you have to learn to eat dogshit and buy it like you're supposed to. Sure, it'll bankrupt you to spend thousands of dollars for legitimate software, but by pirating it you're just artificially reducing the cost to zero. Use Linux and free software instead.
Or just rip them to DivX format and use a home theater PC as the frontend. No more swapping out discs or need for a changer.
Why on earth would anyone consider that rude? If the person you were talking to was sitting right there and you were having a conversation, would that be rude as well? I never understood this fascination people have with cell phones being rude to use in a restaurant for example, yet the next table over can have 8 people all talking to each other and acting quite annoying. Why not kick them out for talking as well? I can understand their point if you're shouting into your lame ass crappy phone because you think it'll improve reception, but if you're holding a conversation in a normal tone of voice then what's the problem?
doesn't everything? seems to me that it get stretched more than a rubber band.
Questioning the intent of the Patriot Act falls under section 14 of the Patriot Act. I hope you don't have anything to hide terrorist, because the FBI are on their way.
Will those be the specs you need with or without the thousands of spyware applications running in the background? A 2.4 GHz P4 runs about as fast as a Pentium 133 when it's loaded down with spyware.
You're obviously in a hostile work environment. Intentionally browsing for pornography here will get you terminated immediately.
Are you referring to the same Apple laptops that had a huge "white-spot" issue with the displays because the packing material was pushing into the back of the display? Granted, I believe it was only the 15" Powerbooks and they've probably fixed the problem, but nobody's perfect.
Now if only I could get a damn 12" G3 iBook that doesn't keep having display probems. First it was a failed logic board and now if I open the display more than 30 degrees the backlight goes out (apparently another fairly common problem as seen on Slashdot a few months ago). Time to call Apple again. Next time I think I'm going to have to spring for the Powerbook or just go back to Dell. My 4 year old Dell Inspiron 4000 is solid as a rock.
Damnit, deploy, not deplot. :-)
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He said he wants *two* window managers. I take that to mean two different window managers running and controlling each screen. I'm not sure why anyone would want to do that, but whatever floats their boat. NVidia's stuff works fine on the other hand except for the occassional flickering I get from the DVI output (connected via a DVI-VGA adapter which I've replaced.. still flickers randomly).
Just try to team up with a reasonable company like Secure Computing and use their Smartfilter list to block URLs. Keywords will aways produce tons of false-positives. We have to deal with this everyday and no matter what you hippies want to believe, you DON'T have a right to browse pornography on work computers. Go jerk off at home.
If someone gave me a set for free I might consider watching HD, but why spend thousands of dollars more for a set that won't last any longer than the standard definition sets? Basically I guess what I find silliest is people that blow $4000-$10000 on a TV that will be dead in 5 years. $300 is about my limit for a television set. When I can get these fancy 50" LCD HDTVs for under $500 then let me know and I'll consider it, until then it's an extremely irrelevent luxury item. I'd rather spend the money on a downpayment for a new house or something.
What exactly turns you people on about watching TV in higher resolution? I've been watching TV on a standard television for decades now and I've never sat there and said "you know, this episode of Law and Order would've been much better if it was broadcast at a higher resolution". I'm a computer geek and love my new toys, but I have absolutely zero interest in buying an HDTV compatible television set. The paradigm of a central broadcaster feeding me content without interactive control over it is boring to me. If my TV died tomorrow I'd probably go for years without replacing it. It's just not a focal point of my life.
For what? /my vpn server uses one TCP port nya nya.
- If it fails, the cards can be sorted by hand.
That's the worst thing that you could ever allow and would introduce human error into the equation. The safest thing to do is to discard the vote as an error. Otherwise you get a repeat of the 2000 Florida fiasco with guys holding ballots up to the light to look for any slight indentation or trying to judge the "intent" of the voter. That's bullshit.
I've seen Postscript Are you trying to suggest writing in pure Postscript is better than using a WYSIWYG editor!? Because above I was replying to a comment that said WYSIWYG editors are only good for short memos. I sure as hell wouldn't write a long document in postscript or even TeX when there's a WYSIWYG alternative.