why does slashdot bother to review movies when a link from their site leads to a critic who already has reviewed the same film (and BONUS: that person is not Katz)
I completely agree with you expect for your example
On the other hand a good ball player or school teacher is not replacable by another
I would argue that "good" teachers are in fact interchangable within their field of expertise. I also think this is true of ball players. Only fields that require true creativity (art,music,etc) would I argue that someone else couldn't easily take the place of the artist and generate the same outcome.
Although there are a number of warnings I fail to see how the parody is very offensive. Anyone else feel this way or have I been completely desensitized by the media?
Yesterday a verison salesman called and informed me my slow downloads were over. I could purchase DSL for ~$60/month and get a 1 month free. I informed the sales person I already pay $24.95/month for TW's RoadRunner Service and have had it for 3 years now.
This is why DSL is going down... cable has been around for a while and costs less.
Are you suggesting that MYSQL is indeed a finished product? Have they finished finer grain locks? Transactions? Does it scale better? Is it the first DB to fulfil the entire spec? Wow when did all this happen?
Can you hear that... That's the sound of millions of businesses *not* racing to use mysql, but as I said before it is lacking many important features and has not proven itself.
btw - if this is not the case, explain... rude remarks only make you seem childish.
people use mysql because it is free. Even though we all hate MS, you've got to agree that SQLServer is a much better DB than mysql. Face it, people are paid to work on it; it implements more of the sql 92 standard and it works.
I myself, prefer oracle of DB2, but what can you do. If you already have sqlserver, why replace it with something inferior (note: I did not say bad, mysql is just a child).
nope, I said WM and xterms. That gives me the whole range of unix apps.
If you're going to be smug, you could at least be informed
Perhaps I am smug, but you are foolish for assuming that everyone is not aware of so trivial a point. Of course you can run kde/gnome apps under a different wm so long ans you have appropriate libs installed, a WM is just a vessel through which to view X11 content, if you will.
What I object to is that KDE/gnome are not folling ESR's guide to creating unix apps. One of the fundamental commandments was not to reproduce work that already exists (e.g. a mp3/cd player, why not slap a new skin on XMMS and call it good?).
The idea of walking up to a PC in sleep mode and hitting a button, which would instantly activate a specific app, is compelling.
...explorer.exe perhaps?
The OS would manage all the applications in the background. If you wanted to switch apps, you hit another hot key.
Like alt/tab?
Work files could be stored in yet another "button."
Or even better... a folder ala "My Documents"
Is it just me or does it sound like this genius is trying to invent an even worse windows.
Interactivity between the apps could be facilitated the same way they are now, with a GUI shell, but without the preponderance of icons, start menus and switchers, and without the tedious effort of installing apps via the GUI or customizing your environment.
This is the most frightening part. Re-read that again...without the tedious effort of installing apps via the GUI or customizing your environment. He thinks it is tedious that I like to have my icons ordered in reverse alpahbetical order on the right hand side of the desktop. His dream OS will prevent me from such luxuries (insanities?)? How sad.
"One big mistake is the idea of an operating system... [which] is the program you have to hassle with before you get to hassle with the application. It does nothing for you, wastes your time, is unnecessary," Raskin reportedly said.
I'll say one thing, if this guy gets his way and there are no more operating systems. And all we must do to launch an app is 'press a button' (yes this idea was mentioned in the article) we're going to need mamoth keyboards.
Taco, Linux is a great programmer, modest, quite skilled and a good speaker. You are named after Mexican food. Please do not compare yourself with him again.
I think you're misunderstanding that anyone (yes this includes linus) could set up a win32 cluster.
Why? Windows does much of the hard work for you. This looks like something that will do the same for linux.
With ssh you can forward an X11 connection
and with telnet you can set the $HOST variable
and maybe mess with xhost to do something similiar, thus high quality porn via telnet/ssh has existed almost as long as telnet/ssh.
I have this book and I find it too be less technical and much more abstract then I had hoped. If your intent is to make kernel modules et al, buy Oreilly's "Device Drivers" book and not this. If you wish to have a general understanding of the kernel, but be abstracted away from the code buy this.
Ah Hah! I bet you expected to find a java hating bigot. Nope, just a JSP hating one. If you want something similiar to JSP, but much more interesting (for a number of reasons I won't mention here, go to the webpage lazy ass) try
Apache's Cocoon
If Linux is to grow stronger and better we must
learn to accept criticism.
And how, pray tell does mass bitching about a very poor article affect linux in any way? Are you making the assumption that because we are complaining we are not hacking? I don't want to be the first to break this too you, but the majority of the big names in the FSF movement do
not post on slashdot. Linus was interviewed (6months ago?) and said more or less that he'd like to (read slashdot), but his work keeps him too buisy.
Conclusion, bitching is good. Complain all you want it will not slow down the OS machine.
If I tried to install SuSE, I would have to insert CD 2, insert CD 3,... insert CD 6.
I think you're not understanding the point, SuSE aim is to provide large amounts of data to
users w/o fat internet connection. You get a subscription and they send you cd's in the mail. This should be perfect for you and your 28.8.
Keep it Small/Simple Stupid
This is the most anoying phrase in the world
and truly doesn't apply here. For as much as it is a paradox, More = Simple in this instance. SusE sends you disks, you install them. You could find them on the web (difficult) or use the CD( Simple), understand now?
I for one think this is great for a number of reasons not the least of which is the fact that java is easy and HS students who may have been scared away from CS due to c/c++, will instead see relatively simple straight forward java.
I know the general slashdot sentiment will be "java sucks", "java's too slow', "VM's suck", etc, etc...
Even the largest java bigot has to admit that java developement is very fast and there fore could/will provide a very powerful learning tool.
Maybe he uses a different gnutella than I do, but never have I downloaded something substantial via that service. Music is one thing, but Porn, Games, etc always timeout or take forever (read days for 100MB).
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Apache's cocoon is a basically jsp done right using XML/XSLT.
why does slashdot bother to review movies when a link from their site leads to a critic who already has reviewed the same film (and BONUS: that person is not Katz)
JonKatz? Didn't he set up us the bomb?
I completely agree with you expect for your example
On the other hand a good ball player or school teacher is not replacable by another
I would argue that "good" teachers are in fact interchangable within their field of expertise. I also think this is true of ball players. Only fields that require true creativity (art,music,etc) would I argue that someone else couldn't easily take the place of the artist and generate the same outcome.
The page you linked to mentions a patch. Have you tried that?
Although there are a number of warnings I fail to see how the parody is very offensive. Anyone else feel this way or have I been completely desensitized by the media?
Yesterday a verison salesman called and informed me my slow downloads were over. I could purchase DSL for ~$60/month and get a 1 month free. I informed the sales person I already pay $24.95/month for TW's RoadRunner Service and have had it for 3 years now.
This is why DSL is going down... cable has been around for a while and costs less.
Are you suggesting that MYSQL is indeed a finished product? Have they finished finer grain locks? Transactions? Does it scale better? Is it the first DB to fulfil the entire spec? Wow when did all this happen?
Can you hear that... That's the sound of millions of businesses *not* racing to use mysql, but as I said before it is lacking many important features and has not proven itself.
btw - if this is not the case, explain... rude remarks only make you seem childish.
-t
people use mysql because it is free. Even though we all hate MS, you've got to agree that SQLServer is a much better DB than mysql. Face it, people are paid to work on it; it implements more of the sql 92 standard and it works.
I myself, prefer oracle of DB2, but what can you do. If you already have sqlserver, why replace it with something inferior (note: I did not say bad, mysql is just a child).
-tony
nope, I said WM and xterms. That gives me the whole range of unix apps.
If you're going to be smug, you could at least be informed
Perhaps I am smug, but you are foolish for assuming that everyone is not aware of so trivial a point. Of course you can run kde/gnome apps under a different wm so long ans you have appropriate libs installed, a WM is just a vessel through which to view X11 content, if you will.
What I object to is that KDE/gnome are not folling ESR's guide to creating unix apps. One of the fundamental commandments was not to reproduce work that already exists (e.g. a mp3/cd player, why not slap a new skin on XMMS and call it good?).
-ffatTonyRedMeat. My favorite and one of the most bizarre comics. ffatTony
the bsd startup script is more confusing and inconvient.
I've heard alot of bsd'ers stabbing sysv statup scripts (e.g. /etc/init.d/*), but having a single rc.conf seems much, much worse to me.
The idea of walking up to a PC in sleep mode and hitting a button, which would instantly activate a specific app, is compelling.
...explorer.exe perhaps?
The OS would manage all the applications in the background. If you wanted to switch apps, you hit another hot key.
Like alt/tab?
Work files could be stored in yet another "button."
Or even better... a folder ala "My Documents"
Is it just me or does it sound like this genius is trying to invent an even worse windows.
Interactivity between the apps could be facilitated the same way they are now, with a GUI shell, but without the preponderance of icons, start menus and switchers, and without the tedious effort of installing apps via the GUI or customizing your environment.
This is the most frightening part. Re-read that again ...without the tedious effort of installing apps via the GUI or customizing your environment. He thinks it is tedious that I like to have my icons ordered in reverse alpahbetical order on the right hand side of the desktop. His dream OS will prevent me from such luxuries (insanities?)? How sad.
"One big mistake is the idea of an operating system ... [which] is the program you have to hassle with before you get to hassle with the application. It does nothing for you, wastes your time, is unnecessary," Raskin reportedly said.
I'll say one thing, if this guy gets his way and there are no more operating systems. And all we must do to launch an app is 'press a button' (yes this idea was mentioned in the article) we're going to need mamoth keyboards.
that should be $DISPLAY for telnet...
And I should have previewed:
:s/(Linu)x/\1s/
Sorry.
Taco, Linux is a great programmer, modest, quite skilled and a good speaker. You are named after Mexican food. Please do not compare yourself with him again.
Oh and ... it was a joke. lighten up.
With ssh you can forward an X11 connection and with telnet you can set the $HOST variable and maybe mess with xhost to do something similiar, thus high quality porn via telnet/ssh has existed almost as long as telnet/ssh.
I have this book and I find it too be less technical and much more abstract then I had hoped. If your intent is to make kernel modules et al, buy Oreilly's "Device Drivers" book and not this. If you wish to have a general understanding of the kernel, but be abstracted away from the code buy this.
One warning, it is very, very dull.
Ah Hah! I bet you expected to find a java hating bigot. Nope, just a JSP hating one. If you want something similiar to JSP, but much more interesting (for a number of reasons I won't mention here, go to the webpage lazy ass) try Apache's Cocoon
With a name like Apache it's gotta be good...
I though keanu wasn't in the sequels...
I do not love java. And yes.
If Linux is to grow stronger and better we must learn to accept criticism.
And how, pray tell does mass bitching about a very poor article affect linux in any way? Are you making the assumption that because we are complaining we are not hacking? I don't want to be the first to break this too you, but the majority of the big names in the FSF movement do not post on slashdot. Linus was interviewed (6months ago?) and said more or less that he'd like to (read slashdot), but his work keeps him too buisy.
Conclusion, bitching is good. Complain all you want it will not slow down the OS machine.
If I tried to install SuSE, I would have to insert CD 2, insert CD 3, ... insert CD 6.
I think you're not understanding the point, SuSE aim is to provide large amounts of data to users w/o fat internet connection. You get a subscription and they send you cd's in the mail. This should be perfect for you and your 28.8.
Keep it Small/Simple Stupid
This is the most anoying phrase in the world and truly doesn't apply here. For as much as it is a paradox, More = Simple in this instance. SusE sends you disks, you install them. You could find them on the web (difficult) or use the CD( Simple), understand now?
I for one think this is great for a number of reasons not the least of which is the fact that java is easy and HS students who may have been scared away from CS due to c/c++, will instead see relatively simple straight forward java.
I know the general slashdot sentiment will be "java sucks", "java's too slow', "VM's suck", etc, etc...
Even the largest java bigot has to admit that java developement is very fast and there fore could/will provide a very powerful learning tool.
when they have a link to the best movie review site on the web, the Filty Critic
Maybe he uses a different gnutella than I do, but never have I downloaded something substantial via that service. Music is one thing, but Porn, Games, etc always timeout or take forever (read days for 100MB).