I've used Debian before. It was ok until it was hacked. Although it did seem to be a bit more secure than RedHat and Fedora. Now though I'm solidly an OpenBSD guy. Sure it's a pain in the ass to use, but it is secure damn it, and it is pretty easy to know what each and every process is since nothing is started by default. What is the deal with RedHat/Fedora starting so many freaking processes? I don't want to spend a month doing a man on each one trying to memorize them all. I've got other things to do with my time than be a SysAdmin.
As an old time Civ player (I played the original Civ on my Amiga), I'm kinda torqued that they seemed to have forgotten their base. No previous Civ game in the past required the latest and greatest hardware. Also, no previous Civ game didn't just work out of the box. I thought Civ has always been more about playability rather than amazing graphics. Although I like some of the improvements they made to the game, I wish they had considered their past audience a bit more.
Since this game failed to play out of the box, and requires a PC designed to play games rather than the majority of machines, I shan't be buying anymore Civ games unless they reconsider these issues. Further, I still contend that Civ 2 was better than Civ 3 in game play. I haven't played enough Civ 4 to compare it to its predecessors.
I read through some of the "merits", and I have serious issues with the lack of DLLs. DLLs have become my patron saint of programming, and this thing wants to get rid of that. I'm not even sure MS could really continue if they got rid of DLLs. There may be other problems with their idea, but this is the first the leapt out at me.
Yes, the original Civ game was loosly based on the board game by AH. However, the board game had no grid, and the parallels were small.
Like the computer game, I'd say that the board game was the greatest board game ever. The only draw-back to the game is that it is very difficult to find 8 players who are willing to invest 16 hours.
Because internet customers won't look at your site for very long if you don't think about style. The public at large are like managers...show them the pretty pictures, don't tell them what it means; they won't get it anyway.
I would argue that the flawed analysis comes from assuming that the people skipping work average the $130/day. I know very few who would skip and those that are part-time employees making near minimum wage. For Episode II, I knew 1 person who had a non-McJob that took the day off. He asked for the vacation weeks in advance.
The way I see it, their analysis is so f*cked up, it's hard to believe the NYT writter and editor aren't flipping burgers.
That's right! Those of us who were Amiga fans didn't give up our platform until it was well and truely in the grave. Amigas were so much better than everything else, that they even produced better diehard fans.
I'm not sure that it's just age or marriage. When a google desktop search comes up with 1,817 results for the keyword porn, how much more do we need to search the net? When there is 300GB of images and videos filtered for preference, what more can the porn sites offer? 300GB is more than many of the pay sites out there offer.
No, think the real change is because we've been collecting the porn since 1997 (or 1987) and we just don't need any more. The 5% are 18-20 year olds starting thier collection.
There is a major difference between the MPAA and the auto industry. The MPAA does give thier codes to major manufacturers so that the DVDs will play. You can purchase a DVD player in any Walmart, Shopko, pawn-shop across the country that will play the DVD. What happens when your car breaks down in the middle of the Nevada desert will be a $1500 towing bill to get it to a dealer instead of a $200 towing bill to the next town. GM doesn't have certified auto-shops in every town.
When your DVD player breaks you just plop down another $40, do you really want to pay several hundred dollers to get to the nearest dealership and then plop down $20000?
With the older cars, either they didn't have computer codes, or the computer codes were fairly easy to figure out and published in the Chiltons manual. Now the manufacturers are trying to keep the codes as a trade secret so that you have to go to the dealer.
The net result is that it just isn't quite the same game using the DMCA to protect the cars codes. Next time my car breaks down and I have to bumb a ride 300 miles just to get to a phone, I want to know that I can get my car fixed there too. I want to have a prayer to fix the car on the road if I have a Chiltons.
I chose my ISP specifically because I knew they don't care. Velocitus (formerly RMCI) doesn't do bandwidth monitoring or any other blatant tracking. They are the laziest ISP in my area. Frequently, I peek out at speeds faster than I'm paying for.
I think the trick to finding an ISP is to find the most apathetic company out there. The only problem with this is that I'm down about 4 days a year. I find it a reasonable trade off, and it is increadibly better than AOL, MSN, or Qwest.
I will preface this with, I have never used Lotus Notes. But looking at this software it looks awesome. They let thier geeks have some real fun in creating what may be the best email client program ever. However, I'm willing to bet it will have the same issue I see everyone complaining about Lotus Notes. Its UI will suck! Clearly this program was designed by and for the geek. It will probably take a month of Sundays for a manager to get the most basic functionallity out of it, and features that will leave many people saying, "Why?"
As part of the geek class though, I have to say, that is the type of functionality I want. Although IBM is not likely to be able to sell this to the mainstream, our favorite thief Microsoft will likely put a nice UI, streamline the featureset, remove any sort of useful security, and resell it. So maybe in 3-5 years we can all have this functionality.
I use Yahoo! Bill pay, but it doesn't cost me anything. I of course use the smaller payment list. If you compare that $5/month, it is cheaper than many of the other similar services.
Yahoo wallet doesn't cost. The Yahoo stores do cost, but that is a service the vendors choose. It is like putting a store in a Mall instead of a stand alone. Malls cost more for rent than stand alone stores. The advantage of a Mall is that you will get more traffic. The advantage of a yahoo store is that you will get more traffic. You may choose not to go the the mall and you may choose not to use yahoo. However, Malls & Yahoo are very viable locations for that 80% market. The way I look at it, is that Yahoo is a business. It is through thier benevolence and best interest that they offer free services such as Mail.
If you really want to not see thier adds, use FetchYahoo.
The warning ought to be for the entire internet, since the internet is really the ultimate P2P app. When you sign up for an ISP or go to a College or library, they hand you your warning and publish your information for all the companies to track your activities.
Before I heard about the demise of the Commodore corporation, I thought that the Amiga would take over. The way I saw it was by 2003 we would have real-time graphics editing on our desktops using the VideoMicrowave or VideoWisk. We would all be confused about how the Amiga25000's HAM203947456980 really worked, but it would be an awesome image. Midi music would be enhanced to include realistic vocal tracks.
In addition, we would have superior VR games with all the players images rendered as the opponents. Sid Meyer would still be the king of great video games. The latest game time would be, "Lemmings: Going extinct."
Both the PC & the Mac would no longer require a CPU expansion daughter board to emulate. In fact, the Mac fans would have finally realized that the Amiga was a far superior use of the Motorola 68990 CPU. The PC would be dead because 16 colors just isn't enough and everyone would finally have enough of that damned BEEP from the PC speaker.
Who knew that innovation is rarely welcomed, executives are scum, and the PC actually could improve?
What is in store for us in 2013? Probably the Intel "Septium" and Athlon ZP AKA "Zippy". Our children will get PC with thier happy meal. McDonalds will thus be able to track their every movement and advertise directly to them. Microsoft will have thier OS burned as part of the 32TB Rom and will actually regress to having no command-line interface. IOW, more of the same.
Actually, I know the Idaho state government does develop software that is publically available. Occasionally, some lines of source are censored due to legal issues. So, other than the censored lines, anyone can request the source for publically available programs written by state employees. The only problem is, is that nobody would probably care to use these programs as they are all designed for a purpose useful to the government. The other problem, is that it may take some time to actually get the source as the government agency determines the motivation behind the request.
I find many other people on Slashdot seem to be very negative about the government developing software. I think it's great. In fact, I think they ought to develop a usable OS. Design the infrastructure that people, businesses, and the government needs.
I don't know about that particular book & author, but I a similar book by Steve Grantham called "Discrete and Foundational Mathematics". The really funny part about math is you don't really learn how it works until much later. Most college courses designed for the lower mathematics really just spend most of thier time drilling. If you need to memorize 1*1 and 2*2, then that's what you might take. But if you really want to understand the concepts, I'd recommend foundational mathematics. For an even deper insight, but requires a great ability to understand abstractions, you might consider abstract algebra.
It seems silly that our schools spend more time teaching how to memorize than how to understand. Then, only after you've proven that you can memorize stupid things like 1*1, 2*2, and the fundamental theorem of calculus, you get to learn why.
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I've used Debian before. It was ok until it was hacked. Although it did seem to be a bit more secure than RedHat and Fedora. Now though I'm solidly an OpenBSD guy. Sure it's a pain in the ass to use, but it is secure damn it, and it is pretty easy to know what each and every process is since nothing is started by default.
What is the deal with RedHat/Fedora starting so many freaking processes? I don't want to spend a month doing a man on each one trying to memorize them all. I've got other things to do with my time than be a SysAdmin.
As an old time Civ player (I played the original Civ on my Amiga), I'm kinda torqued that they seemed to have forgotten their base. No previous Civ game in the past required the latest and greatest hardware. Also, no previous Civ game didn't just work out of the box. I thought Civ has always been more about playability rather than amazing graphics. Although I like some of the improvements they made to the game, I wish they had considered their past audience a bit more.
Since this game failed to play out of the box, and requires a PC designed to play games rather than the majority of machines, I shan't be buying anymore Civ games unless they reconsider these issues. Further, I still contend that Civ 2 was better than Civ 3 in game play. I haven't played enough Civ 4 to compare it to its predecessors.
Actually, both yours and Wesley's answered the question quite sufficiently. Thanks.
I read through some of the "merits", and I have serious issues with the lack of DLLs. DLLs have become my patron saint of programming, and this thing wants to get rid of that. I'm not even sure MS could really continue if they got rid of DLLs. There may be other problems with their idea, but this is the first the leapt out at me.
Yes, the original Civ game was loosly based on the board game by AH. However, the board game had no grid, and the parallels were small.
Like the computer game, I'd say that the board game was the greatest board game ever. The only draw-back to the game is that it is very difficult to find 8 players who are willing to invest 16 hours.
Because internet customers won't look at your site for very long if you don't think about style. The public at large are like managers...show them the pretty pictures, don't tell them what it means; they won't get it anyway.
I would argue that the flawed analysis comes from assuming that the people skipping work average the $130/day. I know very few who would skip and those that are part-time employees making near minimum wage. For Episode II, I knew 1 person who had a non-McJob that took the day off. He asked for the vacation weeks in advance. The way I see it, their analysis is so f*cked up, it's hard to believe the NYT writter and editor aren't flipping burgers.
No, no no, it's Simplot & OreIda that offers potatoes. HP in Boise makes printers.
Unfortunately, a printer weighs more than 30lbs and it doesn't fit in a bag very well.
Or perhaps: Abandon Microsoft as they have abandoned you.
My ignorant boss is still going to want me to support all the way back to Netscape 4.
-- Daniel
That's right! Those of us who were Amiga fans didn't give up our platform until it was well and truely in the grave. Amigas were so much better than everything else, that they even produced better diehard fans.
The Amiga is dead, long live & die the Amiga!
I'm not sure that it's just age or marriage. When a google desktop search comes up with 1,817 results for the keyword porn, how much more do we need to search the net? When there is 300GB of images and videos filtered for preference, what more can the porn sites offer? 300GB is more than many of the pay sites out there offer.
No, think the real change is because we've been collecting the porn since 1997 (or 1987) and we just don't need any more. The 5% are 18-20 year olds starting thier collection.
Hello? Have you heard of Echelon?
Perhaps, but it will still be the case that nobody is listening.
If you had an Amiga, you could VHS capture much ealier.
Sorry, I know, the Amiga is dead.
There is a major difference between the MPAA and the auto industry. The MPAA does give thier codes to major manufacturers so that the DVDs will play. You can purchase a DVD player in any Walmart, Shopko, pawn-shop across the country that will play the DVD. What happens when your car breaks down in the middle of the Nevada desert will be a $1500 towing bill to get it to a dealer instead of a $200 towing bill to the next town. GM doesn't have certified auto-shops in every town.
When your DVD player breaks you just plop down another $40, do you really want to pay several hundred dollers to get to the nearest dealership and then plop down $20000?
With the older cars, either they didn't have computer codes, or the computer codes were fairly easy to figure out and published in the Chiltons manual. Now the manufacturers are trying to keep the codes as a trade secret so that you have to go to the dealer.
The net result is that it just isn't quite the same game using the DMCA to protect the cars codes. Next time my car breaks down and I have to bumb a ride 300 miles just to get to a phone, I want to know that I can get my car fixed there too. I want to have a prayer to fix the car on the road if I have a Chiltons.
I chose my ISP specifically because I knew they don't care. Velocitus (formerly RMCI) doesn't do bandwidth monitoring or any other blatant tracking. They are the laziest ISP in my area. Frequently, I peek out at speeds faster than I'm paying for.
I think the trick to finding an ISP is to find the most apathetic company out there. The only problem with this is that I'm down about 4 days a year. I find it a reasonable trade off, and it is increadibly better than AOL, MSN, or Qwest.
I will preface this with, I have never used Lotus Notes. But looking at this software it looks awesome. They let thier geeks have some real fun in creating what may be the best email client program ever. However, I'm willing to bet it will have the same issue I see everyone complaining about Lotus Notes. Its UI will suck! Clearly this program was designed by and for the geek. It will probably take a month of Sundays for a manager to get the most basic functionallity out of it, and features that will leave many people saying, "Why?" As part of the geek class though, I have to say, that is the type of functionality I want. Although IBM is not likely to be able to sell this to the mainstream, our favorite thief Microsoft will likely put a nice UI, streamline the featureset, remove any sort of useful security, and resell it. So maybe in 3-5 years we can all have this functionality.
I use Yahoo! Bill pay, but it doesn't cost me anything. I of course use the smaller payment list. If you compare that $5/month, it is cheaper than many of the other similar services.
Yahoo wallet doesn't cost.
The Yahoo stores do cost, but that is a service the vendors choose. It is like putting a store in a Mall instead of a stand alone. Malls cost more for rent than stand alone stores. The advantage of a Mall is that you will get more traffic. The advantage of a yahoo store is that you will get more traffic. You may choose not to go the the mall and you may choose not to use yahoo. However, Malls & Yahoo are very viable locations for that 80% market.
The way I look at it, is that Yahoo is a business. It is through thier benevolence and best interest that they offer free services such as Mail.
If you really want to not see thier adds, use FetchYahoo.
I don't know about other /.ers, but I see it all too frequently. The math/CS instructors at Boise State use it all the time.
The warning ought to be for the entire internet, since the internet is really the ultimate P2P app. When you sign up for an ISP or go to a College or library, they hand you your warning and publish your information for all the companies to track your activities.
Before I heard about the demise of the Commodore corporation, I thought that the Amiga would take over. The way I saw it was by 2003 we would have real-time graphics editing on our desktops using the VideoMicrowave or VideoWisk. We would all be confused about how the Amiga25000's HAM203947456980 really worked, but it would be an awesome image. Midi music would be enhanced to include realistic vocal tracks. In addition, we would have superior VR games with all the players images rendered as the opponents. Sid Meyer would still be the king of great video games. The latest game time would be, "Lemmings: Going extinct." Both the PC & the Mac would no longer require a CPU expansion daughter board to emulate. In fact, the Mac fans would have finally realized that the Amiga was a far superior use of the Motorola 68990 CPU. The PC would be dead because 16 colors just isn't enough and everyone would finally have enough of that damned BEEP from the PC speaker. Who knew that innovation is rarely welcomed, executives are scum, and the PC actually could improve? What is in store for us in 2013? Probably the Intel "Septium" and Athlon ZP AKA "Zippy". Our children will get PC with thier happy meal. McDonalds will thus be able to track their every movement and advertise directly to them. Microsoft will have thier OS burned as part of the 32TB Rom and will actually regress to having no command-line interface. IOW, more of the same.
My current project at work is called Ipanema, and its sequel is called Kalamazoo. Other projects I have worked on are SMAUG and ONERING.
Actually, I know the Idaho state government does develop software that is publically available. Occasionally, some lines of source are censored due to legal issues. So, other than the censored lines, anyone can request the source for publically available programs written by state employees. The only problem is, is that nobody would probably care to use these programs as they are all designed for a purpose useful to the government. The other problem, is that it may take some time to actually get the source as the government agency determines the motivation behind the request. I find many other people on Slashdot seem to be very negative about the government developing software. I think it's great. In fact, I think they ought to develop a usable OS. Design the infrastructure that people, businesses, and the government needs.
I don't know about that particular book & author, but I a similar book by Steve Grantham called "Discrete and Foundational Mathematics". The really funny part about math is you don't really learn how it works until much later. Most college courses designed for the lower mathematics really just spend most of thier time drilling. If you need to memorize 1*1 and 2*2, then that's what you might take. But if you really want to understand the concepts, I'd recommend foundational mathematics. For an even deper insight, but requires a great ability to understand abstractions, you might consider abstract algebra. It seems silly that our schools spend more time teaching how to memorize than how to understand. Then, only after you've proven that you can memorize stupid things like 1*1, 2*2, and the fundamental theorem of calculus, you get to learn why.