I dont want a "credit card" simply cause i hate getting screwed, but i know ill have to get something equivalent, fortunatly Visa have an answer with their Visa Debit card... "credit card" tied to your savings account that automaticaly deducts the money from there, and prevent s you spending money you dont have.
Its a neat soloution for people who are more than ever now, likely to NEED some kind of CC for something. even if its just proof of age. But dont want to risk their finances on the damn things.
darwin was right. the evoloution has taken a bad path though... its doing its thing... but were going down the path of a twisted symbiosis.
People Unfit for existence who have money and vote + Manipulators of people who vote (politicians) + "protectors" of people with money (lawyers) = F***ED UP FUTURE
seriously... break down the trends... youll see it there. Stupid people complain en mass, and politicians will happily make some stupid law for them. Stupid people screw up because they werent explicitly told EVERYTHING they ARENT supposed to do... they do one... then sue for money cause they werent told not to do it. Then live out the rest of their life on the settlment or damages money and breed stupid kids with no work ethic that are probably statisticaly more likely to do the same thing themselves.
Gaim is useable, i got used to the options (Just), got used to the layout (agian only just), but i cant get used to its for lack of a better word, CRAP font implementation. i cannot get to grips with having no idea what my text is going to look like on the other end.
I remember the reasons for this as being something to do with system useability and not having non default fonts shown... i think its a load of crap that makes it ugly and crude. If gaims gonna get better, fix the damn font someone, i cant code well enough or id do it myself.
I can agree with you on that. The NeXTSTEP layout is very high on my list of preffered desktops, as is CDE, but neither of them are the best, ive got an empty spot at the top of the list and nothing has ever filled it, No GUI ive seen has ever given me the flexibility AND ease of use to take it.
Im using an IDE, I want maximum screen realestate, i want to auto hide frequently accessed pannels and things like the start bar on the edges of the screens to make them ocupy less room. Im sitting at my deskstop about to begin working. I want a clean area, but it should allow me to configure a simple way to get access to lots of my frequently used program on the desktop. The closest ive come is a program called GeoShell that replaces the Windows GUI, the problem is that it lacks much default form, (when you first use it you have to begin making it functional to your level of requirements, it doesnt have much of a default) and it doesnt let me have the best of both worlds, a structured layout, with the ability to become free form and maximise the layouts usefulness to a particular task. But above all else, any freeform layout gui should include the ability to define "presets" that you can shift between. I havent seen one that does.
If something drives me to learn C++ and code a serious program, this problem is likely to be it. It drives me nuts.
"I can see how there would be a lot of people that would be upset about gaining the extra country code domain"
like all the stupid little websites that occupy good domains and only have relevance to one tiny group of people speaking another language. or mabey ytour talking about just about every company that operates inside the USA throwing up their {foo}.com website even though no one outside their state, let alone their country would realy ever care who the hell they are.
or are you complaining the big companies inside the US that dont operate outside it, that realy should be using the country specific code should it be loosely enforced, that still have lots of money to throw around with making big whiny Press releases about how they dont like it?
Id preffer that the country codes were used for country specific things, while TLDs without country codes are only used by websites that have INTERNATIONAL (as in Not constrained to one country) operations, shipping, expectation to be accessed, etc.
The "Core" programming units at my Universities comp sci department were recently (last 2-3 years) switched from ada to java. "Unix and C" the name of a hard to teach class of fundamental computer science value was taken off the prerequisite list for Object orriented programing in C (the C++ class) and the C language programming classes are electives for almost everything but software engineering majors, and games programming majors...
absolute mess realy.
meanwhile ill continue to teach myself a useful language, fortran, but then again, i always liked science:)
your comment about the number of users is very true. the Deathrow OpenVMS cluster was slashdotted some time ago... But unlike regular machines... the pair, one old alpha and one vax both remaind online, visible, working as usual, AND were taking on new curious logged in users at a tremendous rate. All without batting an eye.
My hope is that as Iatanium dies the sheer momentum behind openvms can carry it forward onto a truly open platform. Companies with decades of absolute reliability on openVMS systems are paying large wads of money to HP for them, and hp will not turn a blind eye to it.
indeed it definaltly is vastly more complex, for a start its disaster tolerance and clustering capability make most products out at the moment STILL look like thinly smeared bird poo.
as for the NT connection... well... David Cutler, a seinor VMS kernel architect with a talent for programing damn well. was grabed by MS after DEC canned the PRISM project he was heading and he quit, he also draged a fair few engineers with him to MS, and they built the first NT kernels... but his influence was gone as soon as NT 4 came out... with NT4 they totaly assaulted his Kernel and added crap for the GUI and made it into the beginning of the Abominable codebase it represents today.
If you look beyond the x86 desktop market, theres a LOT of software thats close to bug free. and the companies that Pay for things like high performance Oracle soloutions, massively parralel Solaris on Sparc systems, "continuous computing" (ULTRA high availability with high levels of disaster tollerance) OpenVMS on Alpha or Iatanium...
Companies that will pay more than $ 250 000 USD on a single sytem demand the highest quality of code, and these companies DO deliver it.
OpenVMS is renouned for it, the OpenSolaris code shows how hard sun have worked to keep all bugs out, in the 3 months since they open sourced it, i think the tally of bugs found stands at 7. for how many thousands of lines of code... just 7 bugs.
Its when programers are pushed into these "Rapid Development" tools and enviroments that these standards can never be realisticaly achived. Which is unfortunate... But not everyone wants to pay thousands, or wait years bettween aditional features.
"OpenBSD is always ahead of commercial software in terms of actual security." I point you to a commercial Closed source operating system called OpenVMS, known for being THE most secure OS your money can pay for the privilege to run. As well as being known for 99.999% reliable in real world enviroments.
Funnily enough... its not widely know... cause its owned by HP... and well we all know HP suck, buying their seats on the Itanic 3 years in advance...
Dual 17inch screens ADI Microscan M700 and Sun microsystems (cant be buggered leaning over to check the model number on the back)
the sun is by far the best CRT ive ever used, theyre both running 1152x864 at 32Bit colour at 75 Hertz, While the slight flicker on the ADI monitor is noticable over extended use, on the sun, i cant see any flicker at 60 or 75 hertz.
Ive noticed theres a HUGE difference between consumer style CRTs and "proffessional" ones... My Sun monitor originaly went on an Ultra 5 (second generation, with the graphics framebuffer upgrade:) ) workstation, something the average consumer would never get. The Difference is Huge, ill pop up the same movie on each screen and start them both.. the sun wins hands down. Its sharper, clearer, higher contrast, the screen refresh flicker is almost impossible to see (i havent seen it at all)
To the point... I cant belive i didnt check it this way before but, Yeah your right. I spanned the Firefox window out over both screens and there the thing was... just sitting there in the middle, same size.
For the average user, whos Browser isnt going to be in such obscure layouts or sizes i suppose, the site is fine. Tradeoffs have to be made with these things and everyone cant be pleased. I still think the worst offender in this regard is the IBM website who STILL have theirs designed for fixed resoloution viewing at 800 x 600. But as they move on, i expect they might iorn out a few of these little bugs in the design to make it work better.
Yes it is. I know that. I was using exessive hyperbole in that part to point it out it was a joke, with all my exclamation marks. Its Obvious! isnt it! That theyve just stuck bits onto a regular laptop! Totaly Fake!
It looks like they have a fnatastic new use for it too these guys [ http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page4.html ] would love it ! it sounds like the perfect complementary technology to their unique advancement of computing!
Seriously, this nanotech stuff kicks ass, if it doesnt have the same write burn flash memory has, then this stuff would make solid state storage possible and FAST:D no more noisy hard drive... Perfect. No more worrying about over using your iPod Nano, changing your songs to often. All those nagging hassles GONE:D
I hereby state firmly based on the facts at hand that to the fullest extent of my knowledge there is no non political reason the people of tiwan are not more than 2-4 generations distant from mainland chinese therefore do not count as a separate ethinc group.
Norweigians and Finish are both Scandinavian. "Tiwanaesee" and Chinese are both Still "Chinese"
what size is your screen resoloution??? i have mine up at 1152 by 864 and it looks perfectly balanced on my screen... Im imagining some mamoth 24" scren over 1920 x 1200 widescreeen kinda huge here... care to put my curiosity to rest???
I need to read the EULA again and see if they mentioned it... if they didnt im gonna be pissed, and probably file some kind of complaint... over here we still have laws against being assraped by companies:)
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I dont want a "credit card" simply cause i hate getting screwed, but i know ill have to get something equivalent, fortunatly Visa have an answer with their Visa Debit card... "credit card" tied to your savings account that automaticaly deducts the money from there, and prevent s you spending money you dont have.
Its a neat soloution for people who are more than ever now, likely to NEED some kind of CC for something. even if its just proof of age. But dont want to risk their finances on the damn things.
darwin was right. the evoloution has taken a bad path though... its doing its thing... but were going down the path of a twisted symbiosis.
... break down the trends... youll see it there. Stupid people complain en mass, and politicians will happily make some stupid law for them. Stupid people screw up because they werent explicitly told EVERYTHING they ARENT supposed to do... they do one... then sue for money cause they werent told not to do it. Then live out the rest of their life on the settlment or damages money and breed stupid kids with no work ethic that are probably statisticaly more likely to do the same thing themselves.
People Unfit for existence who have money and vote + Manipulators of people who vote (politicians) + "protectors" of people with money (lawyers) = F***ED UP FUTURE
seriously
aside from my loathing of the evil blue things...
where do i sign???
or do i have to challenge you to an honor duel first!
Gaim is useable, i got used to the options (Just), got used to the layout (agian only just), but i cant get used to its for lack of a better word, CRAP font implementation. i cannot get to grips with having no idea what my text is going to look like on the other end.
I remember the reasons for this as being something to do with system useability and not having non default fonts shown... i think its a load of crap that makes it ugly and crude. If gaims gonna get better, fix the damn font someone, i cant code well enough or id do it myself.
I can agree with you on that. The NeXTSTEP layout is very high on my list of preffered desktops, as is CDE, but neither of them are the best, ive got an empty spot at the top of the list and nothing has ever filled it, No GUI ive seen has ever given me the flexibility AND ease of use to take it.
Im using an IDE, I want maximum screen realestate, i want to auto hide frequently accessed pannels and things like the start bar on the edges of the screens to make them ocupy less room. Im sitting at my deskstop about to begin working. I want a clean area, but it should allow me to configure a simple way to get access to lots of my frequently used program on the desktop. The closest ive come is a program called GeoShell that replaces the Windows GUI, the problem is that it lacks much default form, (when you first use it you have to begin making it functional to your level of requirements, it doesnt have much of a default) and it doesnt let me have the best of both worlds, a structured layout, with the ability to become free form and maximise the layouts usefulness to a particular task. But above all else, any freeform layout gui should include the ability to define "presets" that you can shift between. I havent seen one that does.
If something drives me to learn C++ and code a serious program, this problem is likely to be it. It drives me nuts.
"I can see how there would be a lot of people that would be upset about gaining the extra country code domain"
like all the stupid little websites that occupy good domains and only have relevance to one tiny group of people speaking another language. or mabey ytour talking about just about every company that operates inside the USA throwing up their {foo}.com website even though no one outside their state, let alone their country would realy ever care who the hell they are.
or are you complaining the big companies inside the US that dont operate outside it, that realy should be using the country specific code should it be loosely enforced, that still have lots of money to throw around with making big whiny Press releases about how they dont like it?
Id preffer that the country codes were used for country specific things, while TLDs without country codes are only used by websites that have INTERNATIONAL (as in Not constrained to one country) operations, shipping, expectation to be accessed, etc.
The "Core" programming units at my Universities comp sci department were recently (last 2-3 years) switched from ada to java. "Unix and C" the name of a hard to teach class of fundamental computer science value was taken off the prerequisite list for Object orriented programing in C (the C++ class) and the C language programming classes are electives for almost everything but software engineering majors, and games programming majors...
:)
absolute mess realy.
meanwhile ill continue to teach myself a useful language, fortran, but then again, i always liked science
your comment about the number of users is very true. the Deathrow OpenVMS cluster was slashdotted some time ago... But unlike regular machines... the pair, one old alpha and one vax both remaind online, visible, working as usual, AND were taking on new curious logged in users at a tremendous rate. All without batting an eye.
My hope is that as Iatanium dies the sheer momentum behind openvms can carry it forward onto a truly open platform. Companies with decades of absolute reliability on openVMS systems are paying large wads of money to HP for them, and hp will not turn a blind eye to it.
indeed it definaltly is vastly more complex, for a start its disaster tolerance and clustering capability make most products out at the moment STILL look like thinly smeared bird poo.
as for the NT connection... well... David Cutler, a seinor VMS kernel architect with a talent for programing damn well. was grabed by MS after DEC canned the PRISM project he was heading and he quit, he also draged a fair few engineers with him to MS, and they built the first NT kernels... but his influence was gone as soon as NT 4 came out... with NT4 they totaly assaulted his Kernel and added crap for the GUI and made it into the beginning of the Abominable codebase it represents today.
>*insert questioning of IQ and literacy of parent troll here*
with the capricious nature of art. id say that random painting has a likely chance of one day being worth a bucket load of money.
So wouldnt it be nice to have its entire history on file!
This is exactly right.
If you look beyond the x86 desktop market, theres a LOT of software thats close to bug free. and the companies that Pay for things like high performance Oracle soloutions, massively parralel Solaris on Sparc systems, "continuous computing" (ULTRA high availability with high levels of disaster tollerance) OpenVMS on Alpha or Iatanium...
Companies that will pay more than $ 250 000 USD on a single sytem demand the highest quality of code, and these companies DO deliver it.
OpenVMS is renouned for it, the OpenSolaris code shows how hard sun have worked to keep all bugs out, in the 3 months since they open sourced it, i think the tally of bugs found stands at 7. for how many thousands of lines of code... just 7 bugs.
Its when programers are pushed into these "Rapid Development" tools and enviroments that these standards can never be realisticaly achived. Which is unfortunate... But not everyone wants to pay thousands, or wait years bettween aditional features.
"OpenBSD is always ahead of commercial software in terms of actual security."
I point you to a commercial Closed source operating system called OpenVMS, known for being THE most secure OS your money can pay for the privilege to run. As well as being known for 99.999% reliable in real world enviroments.
Funnily enough... its not widely know... cause its owned by HP... and well we all know HP suck, buying their seats on the Itanic 3 years in advance...
Asta La Vista, Davey...
i just hope someone gets his presentation at the expo next year on video ( if he even shows! )
:P
I want to see the stuned audience, or the laughter.
Dvorak is gonna run em down and check it, but i doubt hell get em on tape
Dual 17inch screens
:) ) workstation, something the average consumer would never get. The Difference is Huge, ill pop up the same movie on each screen and start them both.. the sun wins hands down. Its sharper, clearer, higher contrast, the screen refresh flicker is almost impossible to see (i havent seen it at all)
ADI Microscan M700 and Sun microsystems (cant be buggered leaning over to check the model number on the back)
the sun is by far the best CRT ive ever used, theyre both running 1152x864 at 32Bit colour at 75 Hertz, While the slight flicker on the ADI monitor is noticable over extended use, on the sun, i cant see any flicker at 60 or 75 hertz.
Ive noticed theres a HUGE difference between consumer style CRTs and "proffessional" ones... My Sun monitor originaly went on an Ultra 5 (second generation, with the graphics framebuffer upgrade
To the point... I cant belive i didnt check it this way before but, Yeah your right. I spanned the Firefox window out over both screens and there the thing was... just sitting there in the middle, same size.
For the average user, whos Browser isnt going to be in such obscure layouts or sizes i suppose, the site is fine. Tradeoffs have to be made with these things and everyone cant be pleased. I still think the worst offender in this regard is the IBM website who STILL have theirs designed for fixed resoloution viewing at 800 x 600. But as they move on, i expect they might iorn out a few of these little bugs in the design to make it work better.
Yes it is. I know that. I was using exessive hyperbole in that part to point it out it was a joke, with all my exclamation marks. Its Obvious! isnt it! That theyve just stuck bits onto a regular laptop! Totaly Fake!
I dont have to...
I have The RIGHT TO CHOSE!!
Go Open Source motto, Go!
It looks like they have a fnatastic new use for it too
:D no more noisy hard drive... Perfect. No more worrying about over using your iPod Nano, changing your songs to often. All those nagging hassles GONE :D
these guys [ http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page4.html ] would love it ! it sounds like the perfect complementary technology to their unique advancement of computing!
Seriously, this nanotech stuff kicks ass, if it doesnt have the same write burn flash memory has, then this stuff would make solid state storage possible and FAST
I hereby state firmly based on the facts at hand that to the fullest extent of my knowledge there is no non political reason the people of tiwan are not more than 2-4 generations distant from mainland chinese therefore do not count as a separate ethinc group.
Norweigians and Finish are both Scandinavian. "Tiwanaesee" and Chinese are both Still "Chinese"
*begins humming Monty Pythons, "I Like Chinese"*
hhmm hmm hmm hmmmmm
what size is your screen resoloution??? i have mine up at 1152 by 864 and it looks perfectly balanced on my screen... Im imagining some mamoth 24" scren over 1920 x 1200 widescreeen kinda huge here... care to put my curiosity to rest???
see my above rundown of the google stories in the last week. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=164702&cid=137 46380
:( [ i like BSD :P ], time to give them there own section indeed i think.
They get more news than BSD
lets add it up.
3 &tid=217&tid=103 ... thumbs up
5 4&tid=217&tid=1 ... Thumbs Up
5 8&tid=217
1 5&tid=217&tid=109
/ 04/1655204&tid=217&tid=219
2 9&tid=102&tid=217
5 7258&tid=185&tid=217&tid=218 ... Thumbs Up
/ 02/0023257&tid=217&tid=219
0 1/1714241&tid=217&tid=14
0 5&tid=217&tid=193
3 4&tid=217&tid=187&tid=109
:D
Google Goes To Washington
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/08/13322
well it might be nice for someone to be doing no evil there for a change so
Google Launches Google Reader at Web 2.0
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/07/19522
Cool new google app
Google Maps Graduates
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/07/14202
SOmething comes out og Beta Testing... Thumbs Up
Google Declares War on Microsoft
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/06/12502
War on Microsoft, THUMBS UP
Taiwan Irked at Google's Version of Earth
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10
Pissing off chinese... Thumbs Down
Google & Sun Planning Web Office
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/04/12342
Hype but none the less a pretty big deal going down with sun... Shrug
Google Office Still in the Wings?
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/03/10
Awesome Idea (even though it didnt happen)
Google-NASA Partnership Backlash
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10
Possibly not doing no evil... Thumbs down
Google Ant
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/
mmmm Taxonomical Fun... Thumbs Up
Google Plans to Offer Free WiFi in San Francisco
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/01/13162
Free Wifi.. Thumbs Up
Google's Patents Reveal Strategy To Beat Microsoft
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/01/08312
Kicking MS... Thumbs up.
Well it seems based on the statistics... We still like google this week... stay tuned next week folks
I need to read the EULA again and see if they mentioned it... if they didnt im gonna be pissed, and probably file some kind of complaint... over here we still have laws against being assraped by companies :)