I've owned a couple Palms, and found them buggy and ever-crashing, filled with neat gimmicky software
Palm? Unstable? Either 1) You got a broken palm 2) You installed to far too much "gimmicky" free software written over the weekend by anonymous caffiene-crazed kids 3) You're on drugs and hallucinating.
Can I hold our business analyst responible when he continually asks for new featurelets, without giving extra project time, so that testing is compromised? Can I hold managers responsible for this?
Broadcast TV is seriously threatened, and is only just realising it.
I have TV on demand already, in the form of 24+ hours of unwatched files on my home PC's hard drive. I'd download more but that would just be pointless, I don't have the time to watch it. Speaking to co-workers I realise that this is not so very unusual. Sure it's not mainstream, but give it a few years. I don't think there's any way to really stop this short of shutting down the internet. All this flailing around to find a business model and a set-top-box that will fix last century's media paradigm to compete with the free online equivalent of swap meets is amusing in a pathetic kind of way.
So - broadcast once, let the viewers rip to a file and download forevermore? Or will future TV show makers upload the files to the net themselves? Will this be the end of big-budget shows? Is that a bad thing?
"Reeducation" has quite a history in China. The word Brainwashing entered English in the 1950s, from Chinese in the 1950s, due to the sucess of these techniques.
A quick rule of thumb: anyone with a slashdot user name that is self-agrandising and offical-looking (e.g. PhysicsExpert, PhysicsGenius, PhysicsScholar) is likely to be a troll.
how exactly is this a threat to Microsoft and its Office family?
Today's home user is tomorrow's business user. Don't want them to get the ideas that 1) You don't need to pay for your word processor 2) The file format need not be msword.doc - in fact it can be an open format that can be read and written by tools from multiple vendors.
But anyway, I still don't want a word processor that only works when it's on the internet. Yes, I have always-on broadband, better than most. That's not the point.
I've always thought that it was the height of human arrogance to presume that life on other worlds would be recognizable to us as "life" at all. There may be life on the moon for all we know
Rubbish, unless you consider rocks and dust to be alive. There may be grey areas (viruses) and contingencies (robotic factory cannot replicate without electricty and a supply or microchips, plants can't replicate without light and air) in the defintion of what is living and what is not, but you need something with at least a semblance of metabolism, reaction to stimuli and reproduction in order to even start that debate. Life on the moon? Come on dude, there's bugger all there.
Yes, but. As someone else remarked below in other word: Earth-life has colonised the Atacama Desert, but can it originate and evolve under these conditions? If not, then Mars may be barren.
Genrally it means "a paying customer", as in "give the punters what they want". It can mean a member of the public, as in "he's not on shop staff, so he must be a punter".
Originally it was betting slang - the people who bet money were the punters.
I don't think this is much of an issue, I recently installed postgreSQL on my Windows XP machine in order to try it out. The installation was 100% simple and painless.
Geek: D00d, check out this new open office suit. CEO: You mean office suite not office suit, you illiterate geek. It's spelled differently, pronounced differently and means something else. You were raised by MTV and your mother smells of wee.
What is this, slow news day? Windows NT/2000/XP/etc is unstable on flaky or misconfigured hardware, and stable when done right. I very much doubt that Linux is any different.
While galactica is not completely realistic, particularly when small fighters are flying around a solar system - a realistic scale of it would make for boring TV - but it is in most respects orders of magnitude more realistic than what has gone before, and it is all the better for it.
Go watch the new series of Battlestar Galactica - the space combat is much better done, with no sounds except those originating in the craft where the POV is currently located. It's eerie but good.
like when Duchamp presented a urinal at an art exhibition?
A better analogy would be presenting art where art was not expected, like what Banksy does. However defacting wikipedia with hidden lies is just not of the same quality at all- it's neither big nor clever, and doesn't open up any new genres of anything except lack of potty-training.
I think you're missing something.
No, I think you're missing something, like being on the receiving end of this kind of shit for long enough.
Hopefully this will become a trend of radically increasing consumer internet speeds.
Well yes. The UK broadband industry is quite competitive, most of the main players have very similar packages with regard to price and performance - as soon as one ups the ante, the others follow suit. My current provider (Telewest) have just announced that they are rolling out the upgrading the 2Mb package that I have to 10Mb, I guess in order to catch up with niche players like Bulldog and Be.
So, is your solution to make sure that nobody has freedom of speech because a few speak more loudly than others?
That's the most leading question I've heared all week. Is your solution, by contrast, to beat people over the head with a rustly metal pole?
Should we all get speech licenses?... if they do not register themselves?
WTF? Where does this licence idea come from? Have you stopped beating people over the head with a rustly metal pole yet?
All I'm saying that big media is anti-equality, and it manges to lead most Americans around by the nose without resorting to anything quite so crude as censorship. Equality is a powerfull force for freedom.
True freedom of speech does not mean that the government makes sure that every voice is heard, it simply means that the government will not use its power to prevent anyone from being heard.
I disagree. A few big players with political agendas by and for the rich and powerfull dominating the mediasphere is not a good idea, and it is not something to champion in the name of "free speech".
The trickster transforms societies into something it wasn't originally. So while you may complain about people like him, he is actually making the world into something better
Complete bollocks. How do you get from "different" to "better"? If I randomly flipped some bits on your computer's hard drive, what are the odds it would be an improvement? (asside from the obvious that it would get you off the internet)
It disappoints me that nerdish communities like Slashdot, metafilter, wikipedia et. al. don't have a collective sense of humour.
Oh yeah, a randomly chosen enyclopedia article is the right place for your attempt at humour (hint: it's only funny when other people laugh too), just like a random building in town is your urinal. You seriously need to grow up.
More like don't use VSS at any cost... no concurrent edits of files
Wrong. There are serious problems with VSS but that isn't one of them. Multiple check-out may not be enabled by default, but it works well enough - the merge tool is actually better than the one in perforce.
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I've owned a couple Palms, and found them buggy and ever-crashing, filled with neat gimmicky software
Palm? Unstable? Either
1) You got a broken palm
2) You installed to far too much "gimmicky" free software written over the weekend by anonymous caffiene-crazed kids
3) You're on drugs and hallucinating.
Can I hold our business analyst responible when he continually asks for new featurelets, without giving extra project time, so that testing is compromised? Can I hold managers responsible for this?
Broadcast TV is seriously threatened, and is only just realising it.
I have TV on demand already, in the form of 24+ hours of unwatched files on my home PC's hard drive. I'd download more but that would just be pointless, I don't have the time to watch it. Speaking to co-workers I realise that this is not so very unusual. Sure it's not mainstream, but give it a few years. I don't think there's any way to really stop this short of shutting down the internet. All this flailing around to find a business model and a set-top-box that will fix last century's media paradigm to compete with the free online equivalent of swap meets is amusing in a pathetic kind of way.
So - broadcast once, let the viewers rip to a file and download forevermore? Or will future TV show makers upload the files to the net themselves? Will this be the end of big-budget shows? Is that a bad thing?
"Reeducation" has quite a history in China. The word Brainwashing entered English in the 1950s, from Chinese in the 1950s, due to the sucess of these techniques.
A quick rule of thumb: anyone with a slashdot user name that is self-agrandising and offical-looking (e.g. PhysicsExpert, PhysicsGenius, PhysicsScholar) is likely to be a troll.
how exactly is this a threat to Microsoft and its Office family?
Today's home user is tomorrow's business user. Don't want them to get the ideas that
1) You don't need to pay for your word processor
2) The file format need not be msword.doc - in fact it can be an open format that can be read and written by tools from multiple vendors.
But anyway, I still don't want a word processor that only works when it's on the internet. Yes, I have always-on broadband, better than most. That's not the point.
I've always thought that it was the height of human arrogance to presume that life on other worlds would be recognizable to us as "life" at all. There may be life on the moon for all we know
Rubbish, unless you consider rocks and dust to be alive. There may be grey areas (viruses) and contingencies (robotic factory cannot replicate without electricty and a supply or microchips, plants can't replicate without light and air) in the defintion of what is living and what is not, but you need something with at least a semblance of metabolism, reaction to stimuli and reproduction in order to even start that debate. Life on the moon? Come on dude, there's bugger all there.
Yes, but. As someone else remarked below in other word: Earth-life has colonised the Atacama Desert, but can it originate and evolve under these conditions? If not, then Mars may be barren.
Genrally it means "a paying customer", as in "give the punters what they want". It can mean a member of the public, as in "he's not on shop staff, so he must be a punter".
Originally it was betting slang - the people who bet money were the punters.
MySQL > PostgreSQL; MySQL is easier to set up
I don't think this is much of an issue, I recently installed postgreSQL on my Windows XP machine in order to try it out. The installation was 100% simple and painless.
I've used the DCC program. It's the Delphi Commandline Compiler.
Or that might just be a different DCC. I have no idea what he means by DCC.
Erm, the point I was making was this:
Geek: D00d, check out this new open office suit.
CEO: You mean office suite not office suit, you illiterate geek. It's spelled differently, pronounced differently and means something else. You were raised by MTV and your mother smells of wee.
what OpenDocument format means for office suits
What has a document format got to do with the company dress code? Or was that a veiled insult to the management?
What is this, slow news day? Windows NT/2000/XP/etc is unstable on flaky or misconfigured hardware, and stable when done right. I very much doubt that Linux is any different.
. I have seen old Japanese art depicting Japanese women being mauled by octopus.
Yup. The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife done in 1820.
While galactica is not completely realistic, particularly when small fighters are flying around a solar system - a realistic scale of it would make for boring TV - but it is in most respects orders of magnitude more realistic than what has gone before, and it is all the better for it.
In MySQL, my reports take about 10 minutes to run. In Postgres, they take 3-4 days
What, the same queries? If not, then how did they differ?
Go watch the new series of Battlestar Galactica - the space combat is much better done, with no sounds except those originating in the craft where the POV is currently located. It's eerie but good.
like when Duchamp presented a urinal at an art exhibition?
A better analogy would be presenting art where art was not expected, like what Banksy does. However defacting wikipedia with hidden lies is just not of the same quality at all- it's neither big nor clever, and doesn't open up any new genres of anything except lack of potty-training.
I think you're missing something.
No, I think you're missing something, like being on the receiving end of this kind of shit for long enough.
talking about a community built on sharing data, I doubt that the individual sites are going to be keeping their lists to themselves either...
Lists like this of bad IPs have been shared for a while. See PeerGuardian.
Hopefully this will become a trend of radically increasing consumer internet speeds.
Well yes. The UK broadband industry is quite competitive, most of the main players have very similar packages with regard to price and performance - as soon as one ups the ante, the others follow suit. My current provider (Telewest) have just announced that they are rolling out the upgrading the 2Mb package that I have to 10Mb, I guess in order to catch up with niche players like Bulldog and Be.
So, is your solution to make sure that nobody has freedom of speech because a few speak more loudly than others?
... if they do not register themselves?
That's the most leading question I've heared all week. Is your solution, by contrast, to beat people over the head with a rustly metal pole?
Should we all get speech licenses?
WTF? Where does this licence idea come from? Have you stopped beating people over the head with a rustly metal pole yet?
All I'm saying that big media is anti-equality, and it manges to lead most Americans around by the nose without resorting to anything quite so crude as censorship. Equality is a powerfull force for freedom.
True freedom of speech does not mean that the government makes sure that every voice is heard, it simply means that the government will not use its power to prevent anyone from being heard.
I disagree. A few big players with political agendas by and for the rich and powerfull dominating the mediasphere is not a good idea, and it is not something to champion in the name of "free speech".
the identified trackers ... all originate from the same IP address.
The solution suggests itself. Is PeerGuardian onto that IP address yet?
The trickster transforms societies into something it wasn't originally. So while you may complain about people like him, he is actually making the world into something better
Complete bollocks. How do you get from "different" to "better"? If I randomly flipped some bits on your computer's hard drive, what are the odds it would be an improvement? (asside from the obvious that it would get you off the internet)
It disappoints me that nerdish communities like Slashdot, metafilter, wikipedia et. al. don't have a collective sense of humour.
Oh yeah, a randomly chosen enyclopedia article is the right place for your attempt at humour (hint: it's only funny when other people laugh too), just like a random building in town is your urinal. You seriously need to grow up.
More like don't use VSS at any cost ... no concurrent edits of files
Wrong. There are serious problems with VSS but that isn't one of them. Multiple check-out may not be enabled by default, but it works well enough - the merge tool is actually better than the one in perforce.