So far, the OS X AppStore couldn't be called 'wildly popular' since its inception on January this year. Regularly, I checked my installed apps for availability in the App Store, because it allows for such easy updating. Lo and behold, only fairly trivial apps are there, the following list is not available in the App Store:
Microsoft software (Office, Messenger, Silverlight etc.)
OpenOffice
Seashore (painting program)
Parallels
VLC
Skype
Calibre (an eBook converter)
XBench (a benchmark for OS X)
Vuze
KisMAC
Now I agree that stuff like a bittorrent client (Vuze) and a network sniffing tool (KisMAC) would probably be refused in the App Store. But all in all, the OS X App Store could be called a disappointment so far.
Note that the Opera browser (which contains a bittorrent client) is in the App Store.
Virgin Media claims that their broadband is "unlimited" but actually the package I am on (10 meg) is max 1.5GB between 4PM and 9PM. [...] There are four of us in the house
Right. So it's not the package "you are on" but rather "the four of you are on". Maybe that's the problem.
Good idea, but so far, the OS X AppStore couldn't be called 'wildly popular' since its inception on January this year. Regularly, I checked my installed apps for availability in the AppStore, because the AppStore allows for such easy updating. Lo and behold, only fairly trivial apps are there, the following list is not available in the AppStore:
Now I agree that stuff like a bittorrent client (Vuze) and a network sniffing tool (KisMAC) would probably be refused in the AppStore. But all in all, the OS X AppStore could be called a disappointment so far.
Well, Apple isn't the only one. While Apple seems at least consistent on their own OS, silly companies like Adobe have created their own interface even for OS X. I hate this dumb stuff. Why the hell would you ruin a perfectly polished OS-provided interface with your own homebrewn ugliness?
Obviously they went straight in the bin.... (and the cleaner was sacked on the spot)
I don't understand this need to be super-serious about trivial matters. No need to give the guy a pink slip. Have a laugh, then forget about it.
My dad once owned a company. When working late, he caught one department head fucking the cleaning lady. Did you think he sacked the guy? Hell, no. Just laughed and asked him to turn off the lights when they'd leave the office.
Lawyers for Oracle and Google gave Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco an overview of Java [...].
Thinking about the tech knowledge of the lawyers I know, I am not sure that the Judge is a lot wiser now!
They could do worse! My wife knows everything better!
Re:What problem does Gnome 3 solve?
on
GNOME 3 Released
·
· Score: 1
I see, so it's for the lords and masters of Gnome to decide the the peasants are "in a rut" and make them run about adapting to some new aritrary "order"?
If you were talking about Microsoft, with a 90% desktop monopoly, I'd agree. But this is Gnome 3. You can stay on Gnome 2, or choose any number of other desktops.
Well, I was talking about N/W Europe, about 20 years ago. Things were different back then. They'd drink and dance and screw, because there was nothing else to do:-)
[...] getting a blowjob while working at your computer! Try doing that at work! (I did... does anybody know of any companies hiring programmers in the Portland, Oregon area?)
My dad ran a ~150 people company as a director. One day he was working late, and after finishing up, walked through the building to close off. There he caught the Lead Mechanical Designer, fucking the cleaning lady. "Piss off, Paul!", the guy screams. My dad turns on his heels, laughing, and yells back: "Turn off the lights when you're done, will ya?"
Thanks for that tip! I actually never check the tags, but checking for 'slashvertisement' seems very useful.
Although, for even a slashvertisement, the piece was amazingly badly written, with no real conclusions or summarizations, and ad-hoc jumping between topics.
It's kinda hard to see what the conclusion of TFA is, since it doesn't really take a moment to summarize anywhere in the piece. But basically we have two people speaking. Peter Coroneos tries to say something that home routers should contain more/better security.
Then he says: "people need to ask if Cloud applications are secure and private". I don't see what that has to do with security but rather with privacy, but there you go.
Then there's TrustDefender co-founder and CEO, Ted Egan, who's trying to peddle his company product, which seems to be a piece of software not unlike a trojan, which detects other trojans.
You're not reading the parent post correctly. He's suggesting that you don't power off the machine anymore. That's when you get big gains with Windows 7 and a big wad of RAM. Obviously, when you reboot, his solution doesn't work anymore.
That doesn't matter. Nor your credit card information, nor your traffic information is stored. Problem solved (for as long as you're not a specific target, which you aren't).
As we're on the inane comparisons, let's see how my free wife can beat your $200 hooker.
My Reasons
Here are the top reasons I think my wife--for which I paid nothing--crushes your hooker, which new, starts at $200 and can run more than $1000, depending on the configuration.
The wife's permanent presence: If you're into permanently available breasts and ass, or if you're serious about a clean house, you probably need the wife. Those relatives in Indiana need a copy of the video of cousin Paul's drum recital or they'd love to look at a CD with the pictures from your night trip to Alcatraz. You can't expect the hooker to put up with that shit.
The wife's rack: most hooker users readily admit it's difficult to do anything that is time intensive on a hooker. I'll go further: I detest spending extended time on a hooker. As my friend and PCWorld reviewer Jon Jacobi sarcastically puts it: "Overpriced hookers: wifes with a time limit. How innovative." Just a one-hour, one-off don't cut it. Give me a solid wife like mine. It's one of the best wives ever, and I still like the old-school lingerie that she sometimes wears..... Et cetera.
On the same level, actor/writer Wil Wheaton self-publishes via his own site http://www.wilwheatonbooks.com/. Short stories have a price which you can pick yourself, books are published via Lulu.
I've used the eBook Fling site, and they don't seem to use an API. Their site is built around their users following a number of steps to lend eBooks to each other, each step described in an iFrame below which the Amazon site is displayed.
They're probably still good to go, although the site has a number of deficiencies. For example, Amazon only allows US-based Kindle owners to lend books. They're not clear about this (you can't find it on the site) and eBook Fling doesn't tell you either. So I've wasted an hour or so finding out what was wrong with either eBook Fling or my Amazon account, until an Amazon rep finally figured out that I wasn't US-based.
That's because Dave Thomas is actually a god, in a two-headed pantheon with Andy Hunt. Of course any books by either of them are better than anything else, edible or non-edible.
I have my own little shrine for them in the living room, with the Pragmatic Programmer book in the back.
But, I'm not happy with the fact that you can spend $4000 on a computer and have it not working. Now I'm scared to even attempt to buy another one. It's somewhat of a disappointing experience.
You can spend $100,000 on a car and have it not working. It's just a machine, the high price is not a guarantee that there'll be nothing ever wrong with it.
I do not know what the six stolen items were, but I'll bet that some of them had sentimental value to the owners far beyond the intrinsic value of the gold itself, and now they are likely gone forever.
For this reason I stopped caring about expensive stuff. It's just bits of metal and stuff. Well fuck that. Thank god the girlfriend doesn't give a rat's ass about gold and diamonds either.
That wouldn't surprise me one bit. I like to read in bed, but I use those tiny LED-based reading lights so I can read my (non-LCD) Kindle e-reader and still fall asleep with the light on.
Yeah, the form factor doesn't allow holding it exactly like a book. What I meant, is to hold it with one hand up. The Kindle 3 is really light, weighing 8.5 oz (241g), for the WiFi version. It's very natural to hold it on the side, with your thumb on the 'Next Page' button. The iPad 1 is really too heavy for that, and I guess the iPad 2 too, but I think that any weight shedded is actually quite a feature.
Slashdot Mirror
So far, the OS X AppStore couldn't be called 'wildly popular' since its inception on January this year. Regularly, I checked my installed apps for availability in the App Store, because it allows for such easy updating. Lo and behold, only fairly trivial apps are there, the following list is not available in the App Store:
Now I agree that stuff like a bittorrent client (Vuze) and a network sniffing tool (KisMAC) would probably be refused in the App Store. But all in all, the OS X App Store could be called a disappointment so far.
Note that the Opera browser (which contains a bittorrent client) is in the App Store.
Virgin Media claims that their broadband is "unlimited" but actually the package I am on (10 meg) is max 1.5GB between 4PM and 9PM. [...] There are four of us in the house
Right. So it's not the package "you are on" but rather "the four of you are on". Maybe that's the problem.
Good idea, but so far, the OS X AppStore couldn't be called 'wildly popular' since its inception on January this year. Regularly, I checked my installed apps for availability in the AppStore, because the AppStore allows for such easy updating. Lo and behold, only fairly trivial apps are there, the following list is not available in the AppStore:
Now I agree that stuff like a bittorrent client (Vuze) and a network sniffing tool (KisMAC) would probably be refused in the AppStore. But all in all, the OS X AppStore could be called a disappointment so far.
Well, Apple isn't the only one. While Apple seems at least consistent on their own OS, silly companies like Adobe have created their own interface even for OS X. I hate this dumb stuff. Why the hell would you ruin a perfectly polished OS-provided interface with your own homebrewn ugliness?
Obviously they went straight in the bin.... (and the cleaner was sacked on the spot)
I don't understand this need to be super-serious about trivial matters. No need to give the guy a pink slip. Have a laugh, then forget about it.
My dad once owned a company. When working late, he caught one department head fucking the cleaning lady. Did you think he sacked the guy? Hell, no. Just laughed and asked him to turn off the lights when they'd leave the office.
She actuually thought the solar power array caused it! How am I supposed to reason with that kind of stupidity?
Marry her! Any woman that gullible, is probably also stupid enough to marry a slashdotter.
Lawyers for Oracle and Google gave Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco an overview of Java [...].
Thinking about the tech knowledge of the lawyers I know, I am not sure that the Judge is a lot wiser now!
They could do worse! My wife knows everything better!
I see, so it's for the lords and masters of Gnome to decide the the peasants are "in a rut" and make them run about adapting to some new aritrary "order"?
If you were talking about Microsoft, with a 90% desktop monopoly, I'd agree. But this is Gnome 3. You can stay on Gnome 2, or choose any number of other desktops.
Well, I was talking about N/W Europe, about 20 years ago. Things were different back then. They'd drink and dance and screw, because there was nothing else to do :-)
[...] getting a blowjob while working at your computer! Try doing that at work! (I did... does anybody know of any companies hiring programmers in the Portland, Oregon area?)
My dad ran a ~150 people company as a director. One day he was working late, and after finishing up, walked through the building to close off. There he caught the Lead Mechanical Designer, fucking the cleaning lady. "Piss off, Paul!", the guy screams. My dad turns on his heels, laughing, and yells back: "Turn off the lights when you're done, will ya?"
Thanks for that tip! I actually never check the tags, but checking for 'slashvertisement' seems very useful.
Although, for even a slashvertisement, the piece was amazingly badly written, with no real conclusions or summarizations, and ad-hoc jumping between topics.
It's kinda hard to see what the conclusion of TFA is, since it doesn't really take a moment to summarize anywhere in the piece. But basically we have two people speaking. Peter Coroneos tries to say something that home routers should contain more/better security.
Then he says: "people need to ask if Cloud applications are secure and private". I don't see what that has to do with security but rather with privacy, but there you go.
Then there's TrustDefender co-founder and CEO, Ted Egan, who's trying to peddle his company product, which seems to be a piece of software not unlike a trojan, which detects other trojans.
OK, that was a waste of time.
You're not reading the parent post correctly. He's suggesting that you don't power off the machine anymore. That's when you get big gains with Windows 7 and a big wad of RAM. Obviously, when you reboot, his solution doesn't work anymore.
That doesn't matter. Nor your credit card information, nor your traffic information is stored. Problem solved (for as long as you're not a specific target, which you aren't).
You know what is even harder to identify: me sitting behind my Swedish Relakks> VPN connection.
Admitting it was a mistake rather than coming up with some bogus excuse gives them points in my book.
I agree, however they should also be open about the punishment given to those responsible. A lethal SQL injection perhaps?
As we're on the inane comparisons, let's see how my free wife can beat your $200 hooker.
My Reasons
Here are the top reasons I think my wife--for which I paid nothing--crushes your hooker, which new, starts at $200 and can run more than $1000, depending on the configuration.
The wife's permanent presence: If you're into permanently available breasts and ass, or if you're serious about a clean house, you probably need the wife. Those relatives in Indiana need a copy of the video of cousin Paul's drum recital or they'd love to look at a CD with the pictures from your night trip to Alcatraz. You can't expect the hooker to put up with that shit.
The wife's rack: most hooker users readily admit it's difficult to do anything that is time intensive on a hooker. I'll go further: I detest spending extended time on a hooker. As my friend and PCWorld reviewer Jon Jacobi sarcastically puts it: "Overpriced hookers: wifes with a time limit. How innovative." Just a one-hour, one-off don't cut it. Give me a solid wife like mine. It's one of the best wives ever, and I still like the old-school lingerie that she sometimes wears. .... Et cetera.
On the same level, actor/writer Wil Wheaton self-publishes via his own site http://www.wilwheatonbooks.com/. Short stories have a price which you can pick yourself, books are published via Lulu.
I've used the eBook Fling site, and they don't seem to use an API. Their site is built around their users following a number of steps to lend eBooks to each other, each step described in an iFrame below which the Amazon site is displayed.
They're probably still good to go, although the site has a number of deficiencies. For example, Amazon only allows US-based Kindle owners to lend books. They're not clear about this (you can't find it on the site) and eBook Fling doesn't tell you either. So I've wasted an hour or so finding out what was wrong with either eBook Fling or my Amazon account, until an Amazon rep finally figured out that I wasn't US-based.
Found the Dave Thomas book vastly better.
That's because Dave Thomas is actually a god, in a two-headed pantheon with Andy Hunt. Of course any books by either of them are better than anything else, edible or non-edible.
I have my own little shrine for them in the living room, with the Pragmatic Programmer book in the back.
But, I'm not happy with the fact that you can spend $4000 on a computer and have it not working. Now I'm scared to even attempt to buy another one. It's somewhat of a disappointing experience.
You can spend $100,000 on a car and have it not working. It's just a machine, the high price is not a guarantee that there'll be nothing ever wrong with it.
It sounds like the open source community is very.... ...short sighted.
harharhar
They appear blind to the consequences, don't you think?
I do not know what the six stolen items were, but I'll bet that some of them had sentimental value to the owners far beyond the intrinsic value of the gold itself, and now they are likely gone forever.
For this reason I stopped caring about expensive stuff. It's just bits of metal and stuff. Well fuck that. Thank god the girlfriend doesn't give a rat's ass about gold and diamonds either.
That wouldn't surprise me one bit. I like to read in bed, but I use those tiny LED-based reading lights so I can read my (non-LCD) Kindle e-reader and still fall asleep with the light on.
Yeah, the form factor doesn't allow holding it exactly like a book. What I meant, is to hold it with one hand up. The Kindle 3 is really light, weighing 8.5 oz (241g), for the WiFi version. It's very natural to hold it on the side, with your thumb on the 'Next Page' button. The iPad 1 is really too heavy for that, and I guess the iPad 2 too, but I think that any weight shedded is actually quite a feature.