I just installed 100 cfl's at the school. They were all from donations so there was a variety of bulbs. Some of them are as you describe, but some were really awesome. SOme of them don't have a warm up time, and some are actually much, much, much brighter than the incadecent equivelent makred on the wrapper. I guess it depends on the brand. How many people at home really know or care about "color temperature"?
High level math books rarely get updated. My topology book was 16 years old, the differential geometry book 20. There isn't enough volume to justify a new press run, plus they would have to reconsider how much information to include and fix the mistakes. The proffessor I had just had us write in the corrections. Its also why the 20 year old book still costed $125.
What one thing does your computer do well? I bet its not good at some things. Like games or security. I guess you have no other choice, but to throw it out and buy an electric typewritter, email appliance, video game console, and a deck of cards.
A device only needs to do one thing well in order for it to be accepted. Just like the wizard on Sienfeld. It's a "tip calculatior", "but it does other things". My customer bart has a computer, just becuase he wants to email his sister. Thats it. He had no interest in surfing the web, playing games or music with it. He just uses it to send emails. The extra features of a device really don't matter to anyone EXCEPT the early adopters and reviewers. If you were to give it as a gift to a "normal" person, they wouldn't care how good or bad the extra features are they won't even try to use them.
Dude, He was asking about photoshop replacement. As I said, many profesionals do not consider Gimp to be as fully featured as Photoshop, but its the same type of application and for some people it does everything they need. Or in any case its cheaper.
Very well put. I don't know why this wasn't done years ago. Perhaps it was because of the inertia and reliabliity of the old way of doing things. Or maybe it just takes a company like apple makes systems that massproduces systems that aren't mission critical to push through a change like this. I understand they make servers, but most people who buy macs are more concerned with the desktop.
Sooo... If someone were to link to Slashdot from Myspace.... Slashdot might get Myspaced? That would be an act of humiliation. I don't know what I would do a that point.
My own windows computer isn't connected to the internet. That wouldn't be safe. Giving windows Internet is like giving a five year old gasoline and matches.
Many people have the smae opinion as you do. The article was informative in reminding us of the cool things apple hasn't copied from microsoft. Tablet pc's for instance. There are also a lot of little things that microsoft does better, IMHO, but from another person's perspecitve it could be reversed. It seems as if Apple is geared towards being easy to use out of the box at the expense of making it more difficult to do advanced things with it. Whereas Micorsoft usually exposes more of the advanced features at the cost of usabliity. For most average users, Apple seems to work best. Plus, witn the Unix back end the possibilities for the power user are greater. Its still a bit difficult to get it to work exactly as I want sometimes, and its annoying to use someone elses mac that isn't tweaked to my liking. Then again, at home i use suse. Your milage may vary.
Its all very subjective. I've done tech support on plenty fo Dells, HP's and gateways as well I know what you're talking about. Still, I can't trust that magazine. I've seen way too many terrible reviews of computers in it to trust it to tell me anything tech related. I think they are written by compusa salesmen. Sure, its good at rating cars and ice cream, but thats about it. I remeber my parents bought their yearly guide on how to buy anything, there were entire sections missing. It would start out on a paragraph end mid sentance then on the same page start over again at the begining of the section. Their quality control is far worse than anything they actually review.
But otherwise you have a good point. My opinion on Ipod is that it wasn't good when it was released in what 2000? No one I knew had one until the mini came out 2-3 years ago, after apple had fixed the original so it was supported on windows, itunes, and had Itunes music store. I think the problem with all the killers is that they don't stick to the same design long enough to work out the bugs and create an icon they can advertise. Take Creative Labs, they have a plethera of players that change shape and interface every year. You can't market that. I show mine from 2004 to friends, but the one they buy now will look and act completely different.
Then again, Apple's overall quality level is probably the same as any other computer manufacturer, and their customer support is better than average.
You had me until that last sentance. It's pure speculation. I don't know what average is, and from the people who have posted about their problems it doesn't seem very good so I hope thats not true because if it is, then this sentance is going to run on forever without stopping, until I cover every possible thought about the various customer support levels of the leading computer manufactures and compare them to the apple stories that were written in this thread, but then again I didn't seem to have any trouble making the sentance extremely long without actually providing that information, therefore I think I might have to end the sentance because I'm pretty sure I've violated just about every sentance combination rule possible. Whew, Glad thats over.
All I'm saying is that it makes the post a bit pro Apple.
Find me one person that said "damn computer, I need that claria product to make it useful"
If so motivated I could find you at least 100 people that I know that would agree with that statement. They are not the smartest people not the kind that know what slashdot is, but they exist. They download whatever looks like it might make using the computer more fun, then they get confused when strange things start happening to their comptuer and they call me to fix it. I do, remove all fothe crap explain to them why they had the problem and get called with the same problem in another month becasue they replaced the programs I removed.
Thats bizare, but they might not have asuch a difficult time finding developers. Parrot ( the backend of Perl 6) is beign writeen in Haskell. I like haskell, or at least the idea of it. As the note says they've already written a lot of the packaging system in Ocaml another functional language that was the basis of an experimental microsoft.Net language F#. I'd like to see functional programing take off, but I have my doubts it will in any shape or form. I think Haskell will be a big drawback inthe short term.
shouldn't that be more like Pentium IV, Pentium IV Northwoods, Pentium IV Extreme Edition, Pentium IV D, Pentium IV Extreme Edition D, Pentium Core Duo
Please excuse the accuracy of this post, I don't actually have all of the core codenames remebered, or the versioning thats part of the joke: who on earth can? In Haiti, the kids knew about pentium IV andthat it cmae out a long time ago so they assume tha we are on Pentium 7 by now. Why would we be stuck on Pentium IV for six years?
"Has this ever happened to you? Just when you need to make a phone call, the bars of reception are scant to none. But Graeme, who writes a blog called 'Earth: Mostly Harmless,' gives us hope. Succeeding where most would quit, he chronicled his ingenuity in a post titled 'How I got mobile phone reception where there was no signal.'"
Such a bad intro. He basically made a mobile phone into a not so mobile phone connected to a highly directional antena. That will not work for me or anyone else while I'm driving, walking down the streat or in a train. Which, is basically the only time it happens to most people. While I appreciate his predictimant and commend him on "solving" it. It really won't help many people, and wasn't that novel of a solution. It reminds me of undergrad research. Do something everyone has done before, but in a trivially different way and claim its ground breaking.
In picturing the amount of fruit thrown out, I don't want to estimate the density of an apple to figure out what 200 kg of apples would look like in a dumpster.
I never liked Babylon 5. Your explanation helps me to understnad why some people really like the show. It sounds like a good show based upon your description, and from all of the episodes I've seen I'd have to say you are correct. However, I still don't enjoy it at all. Can't really articulate why as well as the parent explained why it ws a good show. I guess as some troll mentioned the acting wasn't the greatest, but acting is rarely good in scifi and I still like many other shows with worse acting. Maybe, it was too complex for me. Perhaps, it was too much like a soap opera.
It had simular mood music. SciFi should have death metal -- ALL THE TIME. That would rock.
Jugga Jigga Wugga
Defcon Jugga Jigga Wugga Death star Jugga Jigga Wugga Dilithium Crystal Jugga Jigga Wugga Death Ray Jugga Jigga Wugga Dimensional Time Warp Jugga Jigga Wugga Deflector shields And so on. With appologies and props to Strong Bad.
I must have purchased 4 copies of the game. Its hard to keep track of the bills. Maybe thats why I like the Video game that was made for SuperNES. But , this sounds like a good compromise betweenthe two. Or maybe now that I'm not living with a 3 year old that ate monopoly money and figurines, I won't lose them. Still as other posters have mentioned, I'd love to buy it and crack the card reader. That would be sweet, sweet revenge against... well, no one actually I usually win without cheating, but I'd would be even sweeter if I cheated like that.
Crack the card reader!!! Simply program it to send the fractional pennies left over from every transaction into a seperate account linked to yours. No one will every notice their money is gone!
I think it's time people finally realize there really is no meaningful competition for Apple in music players and there never will be.
Seriously? Never? Never, ever? not in 5 years? 20? 500? That's one bold statement.
It's going to take a paradigm shift in the way people listen to music to dislodge the iPod, but the current war is already won.
Oh, so it can happen. So, there will be competition. I'm sure you're intelligent, but I don't think I'll be asking you for any finacial advice anytime soon. You might wnat to look into a career as a cable TV news anchor.
OSX really is both. Okay its more like 80 % nextstep sprinkled with Beos. BEOS was created by ex apple engineers and after Jobs came back to the company via Next they were also rehired and reimplemented a lot of the things they had done with Beos. I personally think it would have been better if they had bought both. Beos is a better system but the realtiy distortion field was missing. Every succusful OS needs one. Apple now has Jobs the originator of the technique, Windows had an army of marketing execs that tell me each version of Windows is "faster" and "more secure", and Linux has a gazillion people who will disagree with any percieved slight of the OS with responces such as "it works for me" and "RTFM".
What is the difference between this and theos wonderful security tags that are now present inside every electronic device and on every piece of clothing in a store? Every store treats its customers like criminals. Sometimes I buy things and the cashier forgets to remove/disable the tag. Then the sirens go out as I leave the store and get the third degree. Once, I got in trouble because I bought pants from store A, who forgot to remove a cleaverly hidden device in a pocket then I wore them into Store B. As I tried to leave Store B, the alarms went off (even though it didn't set off the alarms at store A ). After checking everythign in my bags. They found it was my pants. They accused me of stealing them, but I was able to quickly demonstrate that they didn't actually sell the style of pants I was wearing.
So I guess I'm saying that software is finally reaching the level of scrutiny thats been there for some time in retial outlets. Its not good and causes all kinds of problems for legitimate users, but it keeps costs down. Or so they claim. If people just behaved themselves, we wouldn't be in this mess. Thanks you lousy shoplifting pirates. Pirating software may not be the same as theft, but there are simular penalties for innocent bystanders.
Slashdot Mirror
that is frightening
I just installed 100 cfl's at the school. They were all from donations so there was a variety of bulbs. Some of them are as you describe, but some were really awesome. SOme of them don't have a warm up time, and some are actually much, much, much brighter than the incadecent equivelent makred on the wrapper. I guess it depends on the brand. How many people at home really know or care about "color temperature"?
High level math books rarely get updated. My topology book was 16 years old, the differential geometry book 20. There isn't enough volume to justify a new press run, plus they would have to reconsider how much information to include and fix the mistakes. The proffessor I had just had us write in the corrections. Its also why the 20 year old book still costed $125.
What one thing does your computer do well? I bet its not good at some things. Like games or security. I guess you have no other choice, but to throw it out and buy an electric typewritter, email appliance, video game console, and a deck of cards.
A device only needs to do one thing well in order for it to be accepted. Just like the wizard on Sienfeld. It's a "tip calculatior", "but it does other things". My customer bart has a computer, just becuase he wants to email his sister. Thats it. He had no interest in surfing the web, playing games or music with it. He just uses it to send emails. The extra features of a device really don't matter to anyone EXCEPT the early adopters and reviewers. If you were to give it as a gift to a "normal" person, they wouldn't care how good or bad the extra features are they won't even try to use them.
Dude, He was asking about photoshop replacement. As I said, many profesionals do not consider Gimp to be as fully featured as Photoshop, but its the same type of application and for some people it does everything they need. Or in any case its cheaper.
GIMP. Have you heard of it? Not as good as photoshop, but free and works in Linux.
Very well put. I don't know why this wasn't done years ago. Perhaps it was because of the inertia and reliabliity of the old way of doing things. Or maybe it just takes a company like apple makes systems that massproduces systems that aren't mission critical to push through a change like this. I understand they make servers, but most people who buy macs are more concerned with the desktop.
Sooo... If someone were to link to Slashdot from Myspace.... Slashdot might get Myspaced? That would be an act of humiliation. I don't know what I would do a that point.
My own windows computer isn't connected to the internet. That wouldn't be safe. Giving windows Internet is like giving a five year old gasoline and matches.
Many people have the smae opinion as you do. The article was informative in reminding us of the cool things apple hasn't copied from microsoft. Tablet pc's for instance. There are also a lot of little things that microsoft does better, IMHO, but from another person's perspecitve it could be reversed. It seems as if Apple is geared towards being easy to use out of the box at the expense of making it more difficult to do advanced things with it. Whereas Micorsoft usually exposes more of the advanced features at the cost of usabliity. For most average users, Apple seems to work best. Plus, witn the Unix back end the possibilities for the power user are greater. Its still a bit difficult to get it to work exactly as I want sometimes, and its annoying to use someone elses mac that isn't tweaked to my liking. Then again, at home i use suse. Your milage may vary.
Its all very subjective. I've done tech support on plenty fo Dells, HP's and gateways as well I know what you're talking about. Still, I can't trust that magazine. I've seen way too many terrible reviews of computers in it to trust it to tell me anything tech related. I think they are written by compusa salesmen. Sure, its good at rating cars and ice cream, but thats about it. I remeber my parents bought their yearly guide on how to buy anything, there were entire sections missing. It would start out on a paragraph end mid sentance then on the same page start over again at the begining of the section. Their quality control is far worse than anything they actually review.
Street Fighter killers?
You mean mortal kombat?
But otherwise you have a good point. My opinion on Ipod is that it wasn't good when it was released in what 2000? No one I knew had one until the mini came out 2-3 years ago, after apple had fixed the original so it was supported on windows, itunes, and had Itunes music store. I think the problem with all the killers is that they don't stick to the same design long enough to work out the bugs and create an icon they can advertise. Take Creative Labs, they have a plethera of players that change shape and interface every year. You can't market that. I show mine from 2004 to friends, but the one they buy now will look and act completely different.
Then again, Apple's overall quality level is probably the same as any other computer manufacturer, and their customer support is better than average.
You had me until that last sentance. It's pure speculation. I don't know what average is, and from the people who have posted about their problems it doesn't seem very good so I hope thats not true because if it is, then this sentance is going to run on forever without stopping, until I cover every possible thought about the various customer support levels of the leading computer manufactures and compare them to the apple stories that were written in this thread, but then again I didn't seem to have any trouble making the sentance extremely long without actually providing that information, therefore I think I might have to end the sentance because I'm pretty sure I've violated just about every sentance combination rule possible. Whew, Glad thats over.
All I'm saying is that it makes the post a bit pro Apple.
Find me one person that said "damn computer, I need that claria product to make it useful"
If so motivated I could find you at least 100 people that I know that would agree with that statement. They are not the smartest people not the kind that know what slashdot is, but they exist. They download whatever looks like it might make using the computer more fun, then they get confused when strange things start happening to their comptuer and they call me to fix it. I do, remove all fothe crap explain to them why they had the problem and get called with the same problem in another month becasue they replaced the programs I removed.
Thats bizare, but they might not have asuch a difficult time finding developers. Parrot ( the backend of Perl 6) is beign writeen in Haskell. I like haskell, or at least the idea of it. As the note says they've already written a lot of the packaging system in Ocaml another functional language that was the basis of an experimental microsoft .Net language F#. I'd like to see functional programing take off, but I have my doubts it will in any shape or form. I think Haskell will be a big drawback inthe short term.
Real Nerd? hardly, you've just reordered the numbers. Anyone can do that. We need it more obscure, nerder way of doing it. Check the following out:
Todays date is:
114415202
Plus, I think we should all just refer to all dates as a stardates.
shouldn't that be more like Pentium IV, Pentium IV Northwoods, Pentium IV Extreme Edition, Pentium IV D, Pentium IV Extreme Edition D, Pentium Core Duo
Please excuse the accuracy of this post, I don't actually have all of the core codenames remebered, or the versioning thats part of the joke: who on earth can? In Haiti, the kids knew about pentium IV andthat it cmae out a long time ago so they assume tha we are on Pentium 7 by now. Why would we be stuck on Pentium IV for six years?
"Has this ever happened to you? Just when you need to make a phone call, the bars of reception are scant to none. But Graeme, who writes a blog called 'Earth: Mostly Harmless,' gives us hope. Succeeding where most would quit, he chronicled his ingenuity in a post titled 'How I got mobile phone reception where there was no signal.'"
Such a bad intro. He basically made a mobile phone into a not so mobile phone connected to a highly directional antena. That will not work for me or anyone else while I'm driving, walking down the streat or in a train. Which, is basically the only time it happens to most people. While I appreciate his predictimant and commend him on "solving" it. It really won't help many people, and wasn't that novel of a solution. It reminds me of undergrad research. Do something everyone has done before, but in a trivially different way and claim its ground breaking.
In picturing the amount of fruit thrown out, I don't want to estimate the density of an apple to figure out what 200 kg of apples would look like in a dumpster.
I never liked Babylon 5. Your explanation helps me to understnad why some people really like the show. It sounds like a good show based upon your description, and from all of the episodes I've seen I'd have to say you are correct. However, I still don't enjoy it at all. Can't really articulate why as well as the parent explained why it ws a good show. I guess as some troll mentioned the acting wasn't the greatest, but acting is rarely good in scifi and I still like many other shows with worse acting. Maybe, it was too complex for me. Perhaps, it was too much like a soap opera.
It had simular mood music. SciFi should have death metal -- ALL THE TIME. That would rock.
Jugga Jigga Wugga
Defcon
Jugga Jigga Wugga
Death star
Jugga Jigga Wugga
Dilithium Crystal
Jugga Jigga Wugga
Death Ray
Jugga Jigga Wugga
Dimensional Time Warp
Jugga Jigga Wugga
Deflector shields
And so on. With appologies and props to Strong Bad.
I must have purchased 4 copies of the game. Its hard to keep track of the bills. Maybe thats why I like the Video game that was made for SuperNES. But , this sounds like a good compromise betweenthe two. Or maybe now that I'm not living with a 3 year old that ate monopoly money and figurines, I won't lose them. Still as other posters have mentioned, I'd love to buy it and crack the card reader. That would be sweet, sweet revenge against... well, no one actually I usually win without cheating, but I'd would be even sweeter if I cheated like that.
Crack the card reader!!! Simply program it to send the fractional pennies left over from every transaction into a seperate account linked to yours. No one will every notice their money is gone!
I think it's time people finally realize there really is no meaningful competition for Apple in music players and there never will be.
Seriously? Never? Never, ever? not in 5 years? 20? 500? That's one bold statement.
It's going to take a paradigm shift in the way people listen to music to dislodge the iPod, but the current war is already won.
Oh, so it can happen. So, there will be competition. I'm sure you're intelligent, but I don't think I'll be asking you for any finacial advice anytime soon. You might wnat to look into a career as a cable TV news anchor.
OSX really is both. Okay its more like 80 % nextstep sprinkled with Beos. BEOS was created by ex apple engineers and after Jobs came back to the company via Next they were also rehired and reimplemented a lot of the things they had done with Beos. I personally think it would have been better if they had bought both. Beos is a better system but the realtiy distortion field was missing. Every succusful OS needs one. Apple now has Jobs the originator of the technique, Windows had an army of marketing execs that tell me each version of Windows is "faster" and "more secure", and Linux has a gazillion people who will disagree with any percieved slight of the OS with responces such as "it works for me" and "RTFM".
What is the difference between this and theos wonderful security tags that are now present inside every electronic device and on every piece of clothing in a store? Every store treats its customers like criminals. Sometimes I buy things and the cashier forgets to remove/disable the tag. Then the sirens go out as I leave the store and get the third degree. Once, I got in trouble because I bought pants from store A, who forgot to remove a cleaverly hidden device in a pocket then I wore them into Store B. As I tried to leave Store B, the alarms went off (even though it didn't set off the alarms at store A ). After checking everythign in my bags. They found it was my pants. They accused me of stealing them, but I was able to quickly demonstrate that they didn't actually sell the style of pants I was wearing.
So I guess I'm saying that software is finally reaching the level of scrutiny thats been there for some time in retial outlets. Its not good and causes all kinds of problems for legitimate users, but it keeps costs down. Or so they claim. If people just behaved themselves, we wouldn't be in this mess. Thanks you lousy shoplifting pirates. Pirating software may not be the same as theft, but there are simular penalties for innocent bystanders.