"It really is pretty simple here - there are those who want overcoded, overhyped, overprotective, operating systems. And then, there are those who want to use their computer."
...I thought I knew what operating system you were talking about until I got to "overprotective" and then you lost me, but I think my head was swapping in "secure" to mean the "overprotective" part, hence the mix-up. You can be "overprotective" and completely screw up security at the same time... like a father that is always barging into his daughter's parties to make sure that everything is safe, yet thinking she's safe at home he doesn't bother her much, so the guys sneak in through the window to get the freak on.
"...but for a start, there is nothing like Photoshop..."
yes there is: Photoshop.
I have to run Photoshop for work, and with wine it works as good as any other native app. Google's even throwing money and effort into wine to specifically run Photoshop and it's brethren in an even better fashion.
Aside from common stuff from a hardware store and an electronics store.
Rreally?... the stepper motors and stepper motor controller chips from any average electronics store?
I assume to build it, you'll have the plastic parts formed on the machine, the tubes and structure you could get from a good hardware store. The electronics you'll need to be sending in an order to someone that specifically has the electronics for computer motion control for steppers and controller chips, like HobbyCNC... then you'd just have the machine, and would still need to drive it and also get CAM software that will make the tool path for the driver software. Both non trivial, especially the CAM part. Does the RepRap team have the driver and CAM software made?...
Most serious users use keyboards and have atrophy in their arms, only capable of moving their hands from the wrist down. If you force them to actually pick their arms up and move all the way to the screen, I'm afraid that it just wont be possible. Only things that will be part of the future are such things that work along the same theme as the toilet-chair, coffee IV's and Second-Life/WoW.
Lots of us (in enterprises at least) are realising (or rather, we are able to convince the project managers now) that webapps aren't the solution for everything, and that overall development time is often increased by the difficulties when developing in javascript / html. ya... because writing systems that output text are *really* hard.
Most complex webapps are still more easy to understand than complex client applications. Client applications take more extensive use of patterns and restraint than modern web applications where patterns are now very well extracted making the overall architecture improved.
In general... peanut coders can split up, understand and maintain web application far easier than a moderately complex client application.
and what if there's 2 user accounts, yours and your wife's? You won't necessarily know her password, even if you know yours. pah. as if you don't know the root password to get into your wife's stuff!
I think we've all forgotten something. The reason "suspicionless border searches of travelers' luggage" was initially allowed was to find bombs. I have yet to see a data file so explosive that it can take out an airliner. ...you'd be surprised as to what Outlook will allow hackers to do with email attachements these days.
will delay people from meeting flights and have very little effect of stopping bad digital media from entering the country. The cheapest, easiest and most secure would be to simply get an encrypted connection and download it like any other file. why would you be dumb enough to do all the really bad stuff in person?...
...the question I have... is that if you have locked user accounts, are you required to hand over the passwords to get in?... will they treat the password like locks on your luggage and demand that you don't secure your system too?...
...Linux will continue its steady progress. It's already better than Vista by most measures, and they're selling their old OS to compete. By the time that they stop offering XP, I think (hope) that the choices for OEM's between XP and linux will clearly favor linux.
yup, read that part. no part of the article says that these were the totals of all bugs raised, it's just an expression of their sampling data. Do you honestly believe that there was only a total of around 700 bugs for either company!?... surely you jest.
...if you need to patch your OS 100x more than a competitor, then you'll naturally be faster. If microsoft had an order or magnitude more bugs and was slower to fix them, then they'd be a far crappier tech company than they already are.
...old tech stays around simply because technology is nothing but solutions to problems. If the problem hasn't changed, then why do you need to replace the solution?... if all you need to do is surf the web, read emails and make simple documents, then the watermark solution to this problem is actually a computer that's more than 10 years old.
nice, you completely missed the point of my post: the numbers didn't really fucking matter. read the post again. then we can go on to talk about how there's a declining level of people's reading and comprehension skills these days...
...even if that number is only half of reality, the fact of the matter is that coal miners know the risk. People may complain about the societal pressure that may remove the choice for those people, but it's an opt-in situation. Having a nuclear power plant set up next door is at best an opt-out situation that is imposed on people... and they're certainly not sending out the direct mail campaign explaining to people in the region that they're part of the "acceptable losses program" in that even if they wipe out the entire tri-state area that they're still up 1 million potential deaths of coal miners since the year ${absurd-and-pointless-year-value}.
oh, piss off... if you can't put up with others to mis-quoting, taking out of context, paraphrasing and or even completely rewriting the post you're replying to, it's you who doesn't belong on slashdot!
I welcome our new radioactively contaminated overlords!
parent post is a sham... in all my years of contracting, I haven't seen one recruiter truly worth the money and doing more than text searching on your CV. A fun little trick: put "as an alternative to technology X, we used technology Y". Spiel this line a little, and you'll get to go for interviews that are related to technology X as well as the Y ones. When you're in the door, you can do the real business direct to the people themselves.
Recruiters suck. That whole industry is bollocks, and relies on businesses being truly lazy. If the business can't apply the insight needed to define the role and get the people they want, how the smeg is a third party going to do a better job!?... at the very least they don't deserve the edge that comes with having quality staffers.
When they finally get around to making a space ship and weed out this planet Golgafrincham style, I hope that recruiters and "head hunters" are the first morons pushed on. We need to keep the telephone hygienists (because removing bacteria is positive and measurable), but oust them recruiters! (because nothing they do can be defined as positive or measurable).
So, basically what I'm saying is that I don't worry about nuclear power because there is nothing to worry about. Aside from one major accident (And that in Russia) there have been no major accidents (where containment was lost) at any nuclear power station.
Google should be just helping Adobe. If Adobe ported to linux (they already support Unix with the Mac, so it's not the biggest leap) then it would be the biggest coup ever. It would help Google do whatever it is they want to see Photoshop on Linux for... high end hardware vendors could sell high powered Unix work stations to the imaging pros... it would be awesome. Port Premiere and all the production tools, and we'd finally get good choices back into the pro-imaging hardware arena... it would be like back when SGI was the pro-imaging hardware solution. With their pro-tools on linux, the render farms doing the grunt work for Premiere and other hard chores.
For all the same reasons why Newtek should port Lightwave to Linux/unix too... better bang for the processing buck, get them farms set up dammit!
Linux would give more choice to an industry with few choices and truly hold-out zealots. Photoshop was the reason (ok, and Quark XPress maybe) why there even was a user base for Mac's to leverage when they had their renaissance. It's the reason why a lot of people aren't switching to linux, and a reason why pro-images are staying Windows. Would be great if the dependencies could be cut for more choice and a better/healthier market place for systems.
sure... but it could do more than that!... ...what if you put some incense, a spatula, tube of KY, six pack of ping-pong balls on the counter!?... imagine the fun and games it could suggest!
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"It really is pretty simple here - there are those who want overcoded, overhyped, overprotective, operating systems. And then, there are those who want to use their computer."
...I thought I knew what operating system you were talking about until I got to "overprotective" and then you lost me, but I think my head was swapping in "secure" to mean the "overprotective" part, hence the mix-up. You can be "overprotective" and completely screw up security at the same time... like a father that is always barging into his daughter's parties to make sure that everything is safe, yet thinking she's safe at home he doesn't bother her much, so the guys sneak in through the window to get the freak on.
"...but for a start, there is nothing like Photoshop..."
yes there is: Photoshop.
I have to run Photoshop for work, and with wine it works as good as any other native app. Google's even throwing money and effort into wine to specifically run Photoshop and it's brethren in an even better fashion.
Aside from common stuff from a hardware store and an electronics store.
Rreally?... the stepper motors and stepper motor controller chips from any average electronics store?
I assume to build it, you'll have the plastic parts formed on the machine, the tubes and structure you could get from a good hardware store. The electronics you'll need to be sending in an order to someone that specifically has the electronics for computer motion control for steppers and controller chips, like HobbyCNC... then you'd just have the machine, and would still need to drive it and also get CAM software that will make the tool path for the driver software. Both non trivial, especially the CAM part. Does the RepRap team have the driver and CAM software made?...
Most serious users use keyboards and have atrophy in their arms, only capable of moving their hands from the wrist down. If you force them to actually pick their arms up and move all the way to the screen, I'm afraid that it just wont be possible. Only things that will be part of the future are such things that work along the same theme as the toilet-chair, coffee IV's and Second-Life/WoW.
...this will be great when they shrink the size down to one per eyeball, then mount it in a headset... it's the only thing holding back VR.
..."Joe Klumpp's 'Zero-Gee Football - It's a Funny Old Game" being available.
That will no doubt be regarded as one of the worst books in history.
Most complex webapps are still more easy to understand than complex client applications. Client applications take more extensive use of patterns and restraint than modern web applications where patterns are now very well extracted making the overall architecture improved.
In general... peanut coders can split up, understand and maintain web application far easier than a moderately complex client application.
will delay people from meeting flights and have very little effect of stopping bad digital media from entering the country. The cheapest, easiest and most secure would be to simply get an encrypted connection and download it like any other file. why would you be dumb enough to do all the really bad stuff in person?...
...the question I have... is that if you have locked user accounts, are you required to hand over the passwords to get in?... will they treat the password like locks on your luggage and demand that you don't secure your system too?...
The fuel was also very difficult to ignite.
Which is true. You read stories of the SR71 program being a dismal failure until they fitted the plane with cigarette lighters...
...Linux will continue its steady progress. It's already better than Vista by most measures, and they're selling their old OS to compete. By the time that they stop offering XP, I think (hope) that the choices for OEM's between XP and linux will clearly favor linux.
We're a small place and there's no in-house IT department.
...at the very least good enough to work for Geek Squad
If everyone you work with can add a hard drive or RAM, you are the IT department.
yup, read that part. no part of the article says that these were the totals of all bugs raised, it's just an expression of their sampling data. Do you honestly believe that there was only a total of around 700 bugs for either company!?... surely you jest.
...if you need to patch your OS 100x more than a competitor, then you'll naturally be faster. If microsoft had an order or magnitude more bugs and was slower to fix them, then they'd be a far crappier tech company than they already are.
...old tech stays around simply because technology is nothing but solutions to problems. If the problem hasn't changed, then why do you need to replace the solution?... if all you need to do is surf the web, read emails and make simple documents, then the watermark solution to this problem is actually a computer that's more than 10 years old.
FAIL. This is slashdot, you're supposed to make car analogies.
FAIL. You're actually meant to think of the children!
interesting?... INTERESTING!?... WTF happened to my "flamebait" rating!?
nice, you completely missed the point of my post: the numbers didn't really fucking matter. read the post again. then we can go on to talk about how there's a declining level of people's reading and comprehension skills these days...
...even if that number is only half of reality, the fact of the matter is that coal miners know the risk. People may complain about the societal pressure that may remove the choice for those people, but it's an opt-in situation. Having a nuclear power plant set up next door is at best an opt-out situation that is imposed on people... and they're certainly not sending out the direct mail campaign explaining to people in the region that they're part of the "acceptable losses program" in that even if they wipe out the entire tri-state area that they're still up 1 million potential deaths of coal miners since the year ${absurd-and-pointless-year-value}.
oh, piss off... if you can't put up with others to mis-quoting, taking out of context, paraphrasing and or even completely rewriting the post you're replying to, it's you who doesn't belong on slashdot!
I welcome our new radioactively contaminated overlords!
parent post is a sham... in all my years of contracting, I haven't seen one recruiter truly worth the money and doing more than text searching on your CV. A fun little trick: put "as an alternative to technology X, we used technology Y". Spiel this line a little, and you'll get to go for interviews that are related to technology X as well as the Y ones. When you're in the door, you can do the real business direct to the people themselves.
Recruiters suck. That whole industry is bollocks, and relies on businesses being truly lazy. If the business can't apply the insight needed to define the role and get the people they want, how the smeg is a third party going to do a better job!?... at the very least they don't deserve the edge that comes with having quality staffers.
When they finally get around to making a space ship and weed out this planet Golgafrincham style, I hope that recruiters and "head hunters" are the first morons pushed on. We need to keep the telephone hygienists (because removing bacteria is positive and measurable), but oust them recruiters! (because nothing they do can be defined as positive or measurable).
So, basically what I'm saying is that I don't worry about nuclear power because there is nothing to worry about. Aside from one major accident (And that in Russia) there have been no major accidents (where containment was lost) at any nuclear power station.
...that's a pretty bug fucking "oops" you're trying to scoop under the rug there.
Google should be just helping Adobe. If Adobe ported to linux (they already support Unix with the Mac, so it's not the biggest leap) then it would be the biggest coup ever. It would help Google do whatever it is they want to see Photoshop on Linux for... high end hardware vendors could sell high powered Unix work stations to the imaging pros... it would be awesome. Port Premiere and all the production tools, and we'd finally get good choices back into the pro-imaging hardware arena... it would be like back when SGI was the pro-imaging hardware solution. With their pro-tools on linux, the render farms doing the grunt work for Premiere and other hard chores.
For all the same reasons why Newtek should port Lightwave to Linux/unix too... better bang for the processing buck, get them farms set up dammit!
Linux would give more choice to an industry with few choices and truly hold-out zealots. Photoshop was the reason (ok, and Quark XPress maybe) why there even was a user base for Mac's to leverage when they had their renaissance. It's the reason why a lot of people aren't switching to linux, and a reason why pro-images are staying Windows. Would be great if the dependencies could be cut for more choice and a better/healthier market place for systems.
sure... but it could do more than that!...
...what if you put some incense, a spatula, tube of KY, six pack of ping-pong balls on the counter!?... imagine the fun and games it could suggest!
"it looks like you're trying to have an orgy..."