Deciding just what is open source when it comes to the kernel gets stuck in developer section, but a rumor that Darth Vader may be setting some new fashion trends that's about 3 paragraphs long - stop the presses.:oP
That means you, yes you Joe Wilson are no longer eligable for overtime. People who charge whole dollar amounts and don't compute their bills to the nearest penny are not affected.
MySQL is easy to install. I develop on Windows because I have to support lots of legacy products. MySQL has a windows setup exe. Download, run, it's installed. Simple, easy. It's not ACID compliant, but most people I know still thing MS Access is a Good Thing. Microsoft and McDonalds prove people don't want quality, they just want to get by easily. Ease of use wins most every time.
Windows still has 90% of the market and if it's not easy to install on those computers then how can any software program hope to achieve a large user base?
PostgreSQL does have a "windows proof of concept" that requires a Cygwin installation. It is a pain in the but to get running on Windows. There is a native port in the works, but it's basically replacing Cygwin with MingW.
If I want I can download source and tons of other libraries I can get a work in progress running which failes several of the regression tests. If it's challenging for me to do it though, there is no way I'm going to require clients to do it.
I have been dying for PostgrSQL to come out with a windows port. I've used it before and love it. I would love to port my MSSQL Server apps to it. ACID compliance is a real requirement in some applications, but in general people get by without it because most people don't even understand what it is.
I was so upset about reading that Amazon was tracking my searches that I checked all my other programs for similar privacy violations. What I found may shock and appall some of you.
It must have been that last service pack I downloaded or that damn Auto Update, but you'll never believe it. INTERNET EXPLORER TRACKS YOUR BROWSING! Not only does it track every link you click on it also saves every image or web page you view. I found a hidden cache of html, images, flash files, audio files... everything I've looked at for weeks was there!
There was even a whole folder full of thousands of cookies! Websites sometimes use them I'm told, but that damn microsoft has been stealing them from websites I browse and backing them up in a secret folder on my hard drive. I deleted them and now all my web site preferences are gone and some of the sites I use don't log me in automatically anymore. Microsoft must have detected that I deleted them and they are demonstrating their power over me.
Well that's it I've had it I'm not going to take it any more! I'm switching to Mozilla today. Take that Microsoft.
P.S. Wal-Mart is switching everything to RFID tags, but that's where I get my tinfoil from. Does anyone have a good source of 1990s era tin foil? I've been using my baked potato tin foil to kill the RFID tags, but it doesn't always stick right and the wife refuses to wear her tinfoil hat at all now. I'm not sure if she can be trusted any longer...
...and that's it and that's the only thing I need, is this. I don't need this or this. Just Privacy. And this paddle game, privacy and the paddle game and that's all I need. And this remote control. My privacy, the paddle game, and the remote control, and that's all I need. And these matches. My privacy, and these matches, and the remote control and the paddle ball. And this lamp. My privacy, this paddle game and the remote control and the lamp and that's all I need. And that's all I need too. I don't need one other thing, not one - I need this. The paddle game, and the chair, and the remote control, and the matches, for sure. And this. And that's all I need. My privacy, the remote control, the paddle game, this magazine and the chair.
And while I'm quoting from the Jerk, my all time favorite...
I don't care about losing all the money. It's losing all the stuff.
Visual Input isn't required. Blind people use the occipital lobe for processing just as much as sighted people do. It seems to have more to do with spatial decoding then specific sight or sound processing. Think tracking birds or people around you in a dark room. Something like that.
Testing on blind people would be next. How many notes can they keep track of? Hook em up and play many notes at once and ask if there was a difference. Simon Says wouldn't work because they would just chunk the earlier notes. blind visual cortex
And to all the people who wonder if your brain cache can be increased, the answer is yes. An earlier Slashdot article even covered it. Playing video games can help.
Don't forget that you want a DVD that will allow you to fast forward through the previews. I lose my remote for a while and I found out that some of the Disney DVD's loop forever in preview mode if you don't have the menu button on the remote. (it isn't on my control panel)
I downloaded and got it working, but I can't seem to play anything. I end up in a certain room with the camera spinning, but there is never any guns or control given, just watching the camera.
I see it says press M1-M9 to change spawn points, but I'm not sure what that means. I have 768 Ram, GeForce3 Ti 500, on XP. Sounds stupid, but what do I do to start playing?
has not passed Windows Logo testing to verify its compatibility with Windows XP. (Tell me why this testing is important)
Continuing your installation of this software may impair or destabilize the correct operation of your system either immediately or in the future. Microsoft strongly recommends that you stop this installation now and contact the hardware vendor for software that has passed the Windows Logo testing.
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It does make me wonder if XP Service Pack 2 is going to have a "fix" for this like the XBox did.
The funny thing is I think every driver I have, even for HP or D-Link products has instructions in their manual that mention this box appearing, the next stop is to "Click install anyway" and continue.
Maybe I can finally run PostgreSQL on my machine. My old Linux box finally died so I have nothing to develop/play with lately. I tried the windows proof of concept, but was never able to get it working and it messed up my existing cygwin installation.
Does a company have a responsibility to sell their products in the country they are made in?
People in the "third world" make most of the things sold through Wal-mart, etc. Do they have access to those things themselves? Should companies make sure their poor laborers are running around in Nike's, playing with Power Rangers view.
We all know they sell crap. Lots of people make better products, yet they are number 1. The fact is most people must not care or they wouldn't be where they are. It's cheap and easy, and easy to make due.
In regards to Microsoft when they finally were forced to start trying to make a secure product they were forced to push back the release date for years and finally cut back the feature list. We'll see what they finally come up with. Things are gradually getting better, but only because competitors are forcing them. It makes sense that they would improve at the slowest rate possible.
If people really cared, they would pay for QNX or something similar instead of Linux.
In the end it may be like cars. It took over 50 years before seat belts became widely available, and even longer before they were required. I don't know how long it will take before computers are regulated like that, but I think it will happen eventually. Once todays kids grow up and everyone has lived with computers as part of their life.
Re:P2P News = Urban Legends and Stupid people stor
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*sigh*
Please read past the first sentence before responding. I also said...
What news needs is peer review and feedback. P2P in it's current form doesn't offer anything like that...
Obviously something like that is needed. That's the point of my post.
P2P News = Urban Legends and Stupid people stories
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It's nice to have an alternative method of news, but I don't think you could believe anything sent in such a network. There is "NEWS" that people can run cars on water and aliens walk among us.
"Consider the source" means a lot when your trying to decide if a news story is believable. P2P removes the credibility. News will bubble to the top based on how many people share it.
P2P news will end up a worthless collection of lies and urban legends. Most of my family is already is part of such a network via email and no matter how many times I tell them otherwise they still spread the made up news stories, "HUGS" and prayers. I search out and refute almost every piece of crap my way, but no one sends that out 20 times to everyone they now.
What news needs is peer review and feedback. P2P in it's current form doesn't offer anything like that. You would end up with worthless POP news that people bother to keep and share. News needs a reputation system.
At least now I can see something comes from Fox News and know it's likely distorted, on P2P there is no trust at all.
I read about them in Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. I never thought it would be real. This is obviously the first step. Once the technology is miniatrized we can have sun glasses that get dark when ever anything offensive is in your field of vision.
Slashdot Mirror
The first few episodes are awesome, but once the intial burst of creativity is gone they just keep making more episodes.
LOL, please do not assume the parent post is informative. It was meant as a joke, but then again maybe someone named Joe Wilson was the moderator. :)
News for nerds, stuff that matters
:oP
Deciding just what is open source when it comes to the kernel gets stuck in developer section, but a rumor that Darth Vader may be setting some new fashion trends that's about 3 paragraphs long - stop the presses.
That means you, yes you Joe Wilson are no longer eligable for overtime. People who charge whole dollar amounts and don't compute their bills to the nearest penny are not affected.
MySQL is easy to install. I develop on Windows because I have to support lots of legacy products. MySQL has a windows setup exe. Download, run, it's installed. Simple, easy. It's not ACID compliant, but most people I know still thing MS Access is a Good Thing. Microsoft and McDonalds prove people don't want quality, they just want to get by easily. Ease of use wins most every time.
Windows still has 90% of the market and if it's not easy to install on those computers then how can any software program hope to achieve a large user base?
PostgreSQL does have a "windows proof of concept" that requires a Cygwin installation. It is a pain in the but to get running on Windows. There is a native port in the works, but it's basically replacing Cygwin with MingW.
If I want I can download source and tons of other libraries I can get a work in progress running which failes several of the regression tests. If it's challenging for me to do it though, there is no way I'm going to require clients to do it.
Check out the Windows Status Page
I have been dying for PostgrSQL to come out with a windows port. I've used it before and love it. I would love to port my MSSQL Server apps to it. ACID compliance is a real requirement in some applications, but in general people get by without it because most people don't even understand what it is.
What's it take to control the moderators around here? ;)
I was so upset about reading that Amazon was tracking my searches that I checked all my other programs for similar privacy violations. What I found may shock and appall some of you.
It must have been that last service pack I downloaded or that damn Auto Update, but you'll never believe it. INTERNET EXPLORER TRACKS YOUR BROWSING! Not only does it track every link you click on it also saves every image or web page you view. I found a hidden cache of html, images, flash files, audio files... everything I've looked at for weeks was there!
There was even a whole folder full of thousands of cookies! Websites sometimes use them I'm told, but that damn microsoft has been stealing them from websites I browse and backing them up in a secret folder on my hard drive. I deleted them and now all my web site preferences are gone and some of the sites I use don't log me in automatically anymore. Microsoft must have detected that I deleted them and they are demonstrating their power over me.
Well that's it I've had it I'm not going to take it any more! I'm switching to Mozilla today. Take that Microsoft.
P.S. Wal-Mart is switching everything to RFID tags, but that's where I get my tinfoil from. Does anyone have a good source of 1990s era tin foil? I've been using my baked potato tin foil to kill the RFID tags, but it doesn't always stick right and the wife refuses to wear her tinfoil hat at all now. I'm not sure if she can be trusted any longer...
...and that's it and that's the only thing I need, is this. I don't need this or this. Just Privacy. And this paddle game, privacy and the paddle game and that's all I need. And this remote control. My privacy, the paddle game, and the remote control, and that's all I need. And these matches. My privacy, and these matches, and the remote control and the paddle ball. And this lamp. My privacy, this paddle game and the remote control and the lamp and that's all I need. And that's all I need too. I don't need one other thing, not one - I need this. The paddle game, and the chair, and the remote control, and the matches, for sure. And this. And that's all I need. My privacy, the remote control, the paddle game, this magazine and the chair.
And while I'm quoting from the Jerk, my all time favorite...
I don't care about losing all the money. It's losing all the stuff.
Compliments of IMDB
See http://toolbar.google.com/privacy.html
You can turn it of by disabling the advanced features. It's part of what makes pagerank work.
Oh good. Maybe there will be a similar result.
Visual Input isn't required. Blind people use the occipital lobe for processing just as much as sighted people do. It seems to have more to do with spatial decoding then specific sight or sound processing. Think tracking birds or people around you in a dark room. Something like that.
Testing on blind people would be next. How many notes can they keep track of? Hook em up and play many notes at once and ask if there was a difference. Simon Says wouldn't work because they would just chunk the earlier notes. blind visual cortex
And to all the people who wonder if your brain cache can be increased, the answer is yes. An earlier Slashdot article even covered it. Playing video games can help.
Gotta go play Halo now. Exercise you know.
Don't forget that you want a DVD that will allow you to fast forward through the previews. I lose my remote for a while and I found out that some of the Disney DVD's loop forever in preview mode if you don't have the menu button on the remote. (it isn't on my control panel)
I downloaded and got it working, but I can't seem to play anything. I end up in a certain room with the camera spinning, but there is never any guns or control given, just watching the camera.
I see it says press M1-M9 to change spawn points, but I'm not sure what that means. I have 768 Ram, GeForce3 Ti 500, on XP. Sounds stupid, but what do I do to start playing?
It's the only thing I know of that reliably labels emails as spam. Surely they aren't expecting the spammers to do anything.
What's the closest place for me to get my install?
The software you are installing for this hardware
TAP-Win32 Adapter
has not passed Windows Logo testing to verify its compatibility with Windows XP. (Tell me why this testing is important)
Continuing your installation of this software may impair or destabilize the correct operation of your system either immediately or in the future. Microsoft strongly recommends that you stop this installation now and contact the hardware vendor for software that has passed the Windows Logo testing.
----
It does make me wonder if XP Service Pack 2 is going to have a "fix" for this like the XBox did.
The funny thing is I think every driver I have, even for HP or D-Link products has instructions in their manual that mention this box appearing, the next stop is to "Click install anyway" and continue.
Maybe I can finally run PostgreSQL on my machine. My old Linux box finally died so I have nothing to develop/play with lately. I tried the windows proof of concept, but was never able to get it working and it messed up my existing cygwin installation.
Does a company have a responsibility to sell their products in the country they are made in?
People in the "third world" make most of the things sold through Wal-mart, etc. Do they have access to those things themselves? Should companies make sure their poor laborers are running around in Nike's, playing with Power Rangers view.
Hello this is TrollTech, and we pronounce QT as "Cute"
a la Linux
... hey wait a minute, that's not right.
Wal-Mart, McDonalds, Microsoft
We all know they sell crap. Lots of people make better products, yet they are number 1. The fact is most people must not care or they wouldn't be where they are. It's cheap and easy, and easy to make due.
In regards to Microsoft when they finally were forced to start trying to make a secure product they were forced to push back the release date for years and finally cut back the feature list. We'll see what they finally come up with. Things are gradually getting better, but only because competitors are forcing them. It makes sense that they would improve at the slowest rate possible.
If people really cared, they would pay for QNX or something similar instead of Linux.
In the end it may be like cars. It took over 50 years before seat belts became widely available, and even longer before they were required. I don't know how long it will take before computers are regulated like that, but I think it will happen eventually. Once todays kids grow up and everyone has lived with computers as part of their life.
*sigh*
Please read past the first sentence before responding. I also said...
What news needs is peer review and feedback. P2P in it's current form doesn't offer anything like that...
Obviously something like that is needed. That's the point of my post.
It's nice to have an alternative method of news, but I don't think you could believe anything sent in such a network. There is "NEWS" that people can run cars on water and aliens walk among us.
"Consider the source" means a lot when your trying to decide if a news story is believable. P2P removes the credibility. News will bubble to the top based on how many people share it.
P2P news will end up a worthless collection of lies and urban legends. Most of my family is already is part of such a network via email and no matter how many times I tell them otherwise they still spread the made up news stories, "HUGS" and prayers. I search out and refute almost every piece of crap my way, but no one sends that out 20 times to everyone they now.
What news needs is peer review and feedback. P2P in it's current form doesn't offer anything like that. You would end up with worthless POP news that people bother to keep and share. News needs a reputation system.
At least now I can see something comes from Fox News and know it's likely distorted, on P2P there is no trust at all.
I read about them in Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. I never thought it would be real. This is obviously the first step. Once the technology is miniatrized we can have sun glasses that get dark when ever anything offensive is in your field of vision.
Peril resistent glasses can't be that far behind.
I belive you mean oxymoron? Or perhaps "literate" and "FattMattP" are Mutually Exclusive too? ;)