What's 'crazy' about the parent? He states a very valid comparison. Maybe it bugs you, but it's a very patriotic (Old school 1776 style patriotic) point of view.
You know, people might take you more seriously if you weren't so noninsightful. As it is, you just come across as YABR (Yet Another Brainwashed Republican)
You are missing out on the INTERNATIONAL news going on in your community. Your city manager, Jerry Taylor, is so misinformed and clueless that he threatened a software company with an FBI investigation because he was too stupid to understand. It has now been picked up by many news web sites around the world and he has become a laughingstock. This guy needs to be removed from your local government before he further embarrasses your town. Here's an example of the news on your town from a huge web site in England. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/24/tuttle_ce ntos/) Better get something posted on your site or your newspaper will be a laughingstock as well. It's too late to worry about local politics. Your integrity as a news source is at stake. The whole world is watching!
This is a personally interesting topic for me. I remember trying out my first beta of Windows 95 in late 1994 or early 1995. At the time, I was the only desktop support guy at the headquarters of The Buckle. (I think it's just Buckle now, the clothing store at a lot of malls. Anyway, I digress) One of my reponsibilities was to help a lot of nontechnical office personnel use Windows 3.11. I had everyone (Even the older people who had never used a computer before this job) trained up and comfortable using the Windows 3.1 Program Manager interface. One of my first reactions to seeing the Windows 95 interface was to post some idiotic rage posting to the Win95 beta group just trashing on the new interface and how stupid it was to have to have everyone retrain.
Looking back, it's just funny to me that I was unable to see how much better the Win95 interface was than the shitty Win3.x program manager interface. (Even though the relatively static Win95 interface was just a step in the right direction, but back then you couldn't drag stuff to the menu, and couldn't tweak it out the way you can now) A major personal learning experience for me, to not get myself stuck in a comfort zone and reject the new just because I didn't know much about it yet.
So, my point on this is - if the new interface actually makes it easier for people to use, then the retraining IS worth it. However, if it's just a bunch of snazzy eye candy then I could care less.
So, I'm going to hit the new interface with some patience and learned wisdom before I trash it. (And very much hoping nobody can find my stupid old rage post about the Win95 interface, as I really find it embarrassing in retrospect.:) I think it said something about how the speaker clicks every time I moved the mouse as well, some kind of bug in the beta.)
So yes, I totally agree with where you're coming from, but also want to give it a chance to see if it's a true usability improvement. If it is, then I welcome it.
I justify it by saying that's $10 for Group A's (freely given) data, NOT $10 for Group B's (withheld) data. A resource given away (same as 'close to infinite') will be close to free, a limited resource will cost you more.
That'd be like saying "Scoopful of dirt from location A is only a nickle a shovelful, so a scoopful of dirt from location B should also be a nickle." What if location B contains large amounts of gold and location A is from a feedlot (large amounts of shit)?
Data from people too stupid to know it's worth anything is rightfully cheap, while data from people who value that data is inherently more valuable.
The energy companies paid Allaire (Now Macromedia (Now Adobe)) to come up with their web application language and name it "Cold Fusion" so that searches for the the real cold fusion technology would be completely drowned out by all the screaming of the pseudo-programmers posting questions about why their code doesn't work part of the time.
So, can you do the opposite on that Mac - make it so the same thing shows up on both displays? Such as when doing a meetingroom presentation without a projector, and have your laptop monitor pointing towards you, and have the other monitor pointed towards the other people in the meeting room, both with the same content displayed? WinXP can do that, can the Mac?
We've got McAfee where we work, and we found that it was quarantining every file opened on the system for the most part. All kinds of.cs and.aspx files were disappearing. Finally found them in the quarantine after wondering if we had gone insane.
No, quite serious. The Ringworld is THAT BIG. Do some rendering where you can simulate, beleivably, flying in and landing on the inside surface. Once you get to that level of resolution (inches), you are dealing with numbers that are too monstrous for even our portable supercomputers to deal with.
Or maybe I'm wrong, I'd love someone to prove me wrong by building a RingWorld simulator. In fact that would be REALLY cool!:)
If you are using WinXP, and your laptop has an external VGA connector on the back, plug in a second monitor to your laptop. Then go to Display Properties, Advanced, Select Display #2 and check 'Extend my Windows Desktop onto this monitor'. Voila, dual monitors with a laptop.
You can do this with Linux as well, but I don't remember the correct tweaking steps that need to be done. Someone else fill in for me here?
Last I heard about Ringworld was 1) SciFi had the rights and put it on hold. 2) The Titanic guy had the rights, and put it on hold.
Nobody's got the balls to do it. I dunno if today's tech is really up to the task of rendering the ringworld. Sure, there's some fan art out there, but it doesn't look anywhere movie quality. Doing the rendering at 1 pixel per 100 miles^2 kicks the numbers up to so many zeroes it's crazy, let alone at 1 pixel per 1 mile^2 which just looks like a marble factory.
Um, your point? (Other than let us all know you are a bureaucratic control freak?) Where do you profit by devoting all this effort into stamping into everyone's head that they do not own the computer?
The 'My' in My Machine can also mean "The machine assigned to me by the company to get my work done'.
Let me guess, you're from the psuedo-side of IT - the Fix-It Monkeys, rather than the software developers. All you do is play with install disks and poke around with config files. Both the software on the install disks and the config files were not created by you. You're a trained monkey, nothing else. You're not an artist, you're a tracer.
Yah, but even though I'm pretty much one of those "Speak English or Die!" types when on American soil, I still have no problem with getting content in German from a German server.
Just when I go to Mexico, I do my best to speak Spanish (It's very bad, I read Spanish much better than I speak it), and don't expect signs to be in English down there.
I just wish we got the same consideration when Mexicans come to the US. (There's a billboard a couple blocks from my house that is in 100% Spanish. Complete bullshit if you ask me. As you said "This is America!")
But, getting pissed because a German web server does not have English content is assine.
You can see laptops replacing docking stations? What does that mean? I plug my laptop into a docking station when I am going to use it at my desk. What point is a docking station without a laptop to plug into it? I am confused. Did you mean something else?
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What's 'crazy' about the parent? He states a very valid comparison. Maybe it bugs you, but it's a very patriotic (Old school 1776 style patriotic) point of view.
You know, people might take you more seriously if you weren't so noninsightful. As it is, you just come across as YABR (Yet Another Brainwashed Republican)
See the bottom of the main http://apache.org/ page, links right to the Inde website.
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e ntos/) Better get something posted on your site or your newspaper will be a laughingstock as well. It's too late to worry about local politics. Your integrity as a news source is at stake. The whole world is watching!
You are missing out on the INTERNATIONAL news going on in your community. Your city manager, Jerry Taylor, is so misinformed and clueless that he threatened a software company with an FBI investigation because he was too stupid to understand. It has now been picked up by many news web sites around the world and he has become a laughingstock. This guy needs to be removed from your local government before he further embarrasses your town. Here's an example of the news on your town from a huge web site in England. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/24/tuttle_c
The poor squirrel, won't someone please think about the squirrel? Just like the poor squirrel from Ice Age. Poor poor squirrel.
"Security measures will make it impossible to e-mail the film to somebody else."
Let me say: Ha! Ahhh hahahahahahahahahahaha!
Dumb movie company guys: NEVER say 'impossible' to the geek crowd - they take that as a blatant challege.
Mod first sentence as Funny.
Should people have to retrain?
:) I think it said something about how the speaker clicks every time I moved the mouse as well, some kind of bug in the beta.)
This is a personally interesting topic for me. I remember trying out my first beta of Windows 95 in late 1994 or early 1995. At the time, I was the only desktop support guy at the headquarters of The Buckle. (I think it's just Buckle now, the clothing store at a lot of malls. Anyway, I digress) One of my reponsibilities was to help a lot of nontechnical office personnel use Windows 3.11. I had everyone (Even the older people who had never used a computer before this job) trained up and comfortable using the Windows 3.1 Program Manager interface. One of my first reactions to seeing the Windows 95 interface was to post some idiotic rage posting to the Win95 beta group just trashing on the new interface and how stupid it was to have to have everyone retrain.
Looking back, it's just funny to me that I was unable to see how much better the Win95 interface was than the shitty Win3.x program manager interface. (Even though the relatively static Win95 interface was just a step in the right direction, but back then you couldn't drag stuff to the menu, and couldn't tweak it out the way you can now) A major personal learning experience for me, to not get myself stuck in a comfort zone and reject the new just because I didn't know much about it yet.
So, my point on this is - if the new interface actually makes it easier for people to use, then the retraining IS worth it. However, if it's just a bunch of snazzy eye candy then I could care less.
So, I'm going to hit the new interface with some patience and learned wisdom before I trash it. (And very much hoping nobody can find my stupid old rage post about the Win95 interface, as I really find it embarrassing in retrospect.
So yes, I totally agree with where you're coming from, but also want to give it a chance to see if it's a true usability improvement. If it is, then I welcome it.
That was the day Van Halen took over the world.
Quirky of me to be sure, but there's no way in hell I'm going to run a Linux distro with a lame ass name like "PCLinuxOS". That's really teh ghey.
I justify it by saying that's $10 for Group A's (freely given) data, NOT $10 for Group B's (withheld) data. A resource given away (same as 'close to infinite') will be close to free, a limited resource will cost you more.
That'd be like saying "Scoopful of dirt from location A is only a nickle a shovelful, so a scoopful of dirt from location B should also be a nickle." What if location B contains large amounts of gold and location A is from a feedlot (large amounts of shit)?
Data from people too stupid to know it's worth anything is rightfully cheap, while data from people who value that data is inherently more valuable.
Well then, do it. I'd love to float around in a Ringworld simulator.
The energy companies paid Allaire (Now Macromedia (Now Adobe)) to come up with their web application language and name it "Cold Fusion" so that searches for the the real cold fusion technology would be completely drowned out by all the screaming of the pseudo-programmers posting questions about why their code doesn't work part of the time.
So, can you do the opposite on that Mac - make it so the same thing shows up on both displays? Such as when doing a meetingroom presentation without a projector, and have your laptop monitor pointing towards you, and have the other monitor pointed towards the other people in the meeting room, both with the same content displayed? WinXP can do that, can the Mac?
We've got McAfee where we work, and we found that it was quarantining every file opened on the system for the most part. All kinds of .cs and .aspx files were disappearing. Finally found them in the quarantine after wondering if we had gone insane.
What, the only people at your company who have laptops are contractors? Tell us another one, punk-ass.
No, quite serious. The Ringworld is THAT BIG. Do some rendering where you can simulate, beleivably, flying in and landing on the inside surface. Once you get to that level of resolution (inches), you are dealing with numbers that are too monstrous for even our portable supercomputers to deal with.
:)
Or maybe I'm wrong, I'd love someone to prove me wrong by building a RingWorld simulator. In fact that would be REALLY cool!
If you are using WinXP, and your laptop has an external VGA connector on the back, plug in a second monitor to your laptop. Then go to Display Properties, Advanced, Select Display #2 and check 'Extend my Windows Desktop onto this monitor'. Voila, dual monitors with a laptop.
You can do this with Linux as well, but I don't remember the correct tweaking steps that need to be done. Someone else fill in for me here?
Last I heard about Ringworld was 1) SciFi had the rights and put it on hold. 2) The Titanic guy had the rights, and put it on hold.
Nobody's got the balls to do it. I dunno if today's tech is really up to the task of rendering the ringworld. Sure, there's some fan art out there, but it doesn't look anywhere movie quality. Doing the rendering at 1 pixel per 100 miles^2 kicks the numbers up to so many zeroes it's crazy, let alone at 1 pixel per 1 mile^2 which just looks like a marble factory.
Whoosh! You totally missed the Kevin Smith/Banky Edwards reference.
Um, your point? (Other than let us all know you are a bureaucratic control freak?) Where do you profit by devoting all this effort into stamping into everyone's head that they do not own the computer?
The 'My' in My Machine can also mean "The machine assigned to me by the company to get my work done'.
Let me guess, you're from the psuedo-side of IT - the Fix-It Monkeys, rather than the software developers. All you do is play with install disks and poke around with config files. Both the software on the install disks and the config files were not created by you. You're a trained monkey, nothing else. You're not an artist, you're a tracer.
Yah, but even though I'm pretty much one of those "Speak English or Die!" types when on American soil, I still have no problem with getting content in German from a German server.
Just when I go to Mexico, I do my best to speak Spanish (It's very bad, I read Spanish much better than I speak it), and don't expect signs to be in English down there.
I just wish we got the same consideration when Mexicans come to the US. (There's a billboard a couple blocks from my house that is in 100% Spanish. Complete bullshit if you ask me. As you said "This is America!")
But, getting pissed because a German web server does not have English content is assine.
You dumbass
Nothing better than Ansible technology in this case!
because we are in an embargoed country (In Nebraska):
Well, Offutt is in Sarpy county, home of the most corrupt county government in Nebraska.
You can see laptops replacing docking stations? What does that mean? I plug my laptop into a docking station when I am going to use it at my desk. What point is a docking station without a laptop to plug into it? I am confused. Did you mean something else?
Please tell us more about BSD and Solaris. I didn't get enough in your other thread.