I tried the link and of course got trashed (as I guess everyone but me knows msn.com doesn't play friendly with firefox. So, I opened up an old version of IE (work computer you know...nothing (legal) to be done about it...) to get an annoying, floating, swimming pop up. From whom? Why msn.com, wanting me to take a survey.
Personally, I dislike Gnome as a desktop experience and as a technology framework, while I still like some apps, and admit they put some good concepts on the table (but not lately). I tried to like it but I didn't. Even more, I think they got most things wrong, and also they upset long-term users lately.
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Content: What he said.
Addendum: I also tried to like Gnome because many of the people I admire like Gnome and I am not so narcissistic that I think I'm right about everything. But no matter how I tried I just could never enjoy using it. On my own machine I use fluxbox (I'm a minimalist as well as a control freak) and the CD distros I carry are KDE based. I'd have loved to have loved Gnome but...
... has all the learning/tweaking/compiling been worth the extra power/costumizability in the end?
0.02, YMMV, IMHO, etc: The costumizability [sic] (hey, that may have been a typo but I like it! It's appropriate:) is not the "cost" for me but the "added value". I'm a control freak: I want it my way. Gentoo let's me indulge that appetite. If my Gentoo isn't exactly what I want I only have myself to blame.
Whenever something goes kerflouey on me (nsert alsa here) I cuss and swear I'm switching to knoppix or slackware or... but I always end up fixing the problem (gentoo user support on their wiki is awesome!) and sticking with the distro.
I hate to be so obviously A-retentive but there are several stories on Slashdot right now whose headers are if not ungrammatical then at least very confusing.
"In the end, however, the deal could be put together, and it did not look as if that was going to change at any point in the foreseeable future. So the option has reverted, and to all intents and purposes, the project has dead ended."
"Could be"? This is either a typo or a poorly chosen excerpt. Can't we tighten up a bit on the editorial oversight?
Then again maybe it's just me; I was in ice rescue training today and my frontal lobes might still be frozen.
I've got several BMPs flagged. Anyone (everyone?) else?
C:\WINNT\Soap Bubbles.bmp 12/7/1999 7:00 AM 64.43 KB Visible in Windows API, directory index but not in MFT. C:\WINNT\Soap Bubbles.bmp:Q30lsldxJoudresxAaaqpcawXc 12/7/1999 7:00 AM 5.70 KB Visible in Windows API but not in MFT or directory index. C:\WINNT\Soap Bubbles.bmp:{4c8cc155-6c1e-11d1-8e41-00c04fb9386d} 12/7/1999 7:00 AM 0 bytes Visible in Windows API but not in MFT or directory index.
I know Microsoft is expert at talking their competitors (and good ideas) into a premature death but I find it difficult to believe these kind of statements are going to convince anyone living in the real world. My Boss' home pc has been hacked, our work machine's have been hacked, my daughter's window box had a trojan, every window user I know (and there's a ton of them) is badgering me to help them clean the adware off of their system. All that time my linux box is as stable and happy as a 14th century tahitian prince and my two apple loving friends just sit behind their fancy sceens and grin.
IMO: usenet, and groups.google to mine usenet, is probably the single greatest resource on the planet. This is as much a tragedy as the month (or so) Deja disappeared.
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Supernatural things do not exist by definition -- if it exists it's natural.
That's what I thought until I tried to get both of my kids ipods working on one xp machine. It took me two hours before I'd loaded the first song. Another two hours to load a song on the second ipod. Another hour trying to maintain both ipods. gtkpod is intuitive. Itunes is a pain.
A description of the stupid user who can't get the super intuitive ipod up and running:
Well, I am over 45, so my brain <b>is</b> addling.
But, I've been building LFS systems since December '91 -
So, I'd think I should be able to copy a song from one spot on a computer to another without pulling my hair out.
I'd love to see Creative clean Apple's clock. I bought two ipod minis for my kids this Christmas and I can't tell you the number of times I wanted to take the damn things out to the street and run over them with my 4x4. Only two things have kept me from destroying them or returning them; 1) my daughter still believes in Santa, 2) gtkpod; with gtkpod I can survive this nasty experience.
My suggestions to Creative:
Support Windows 98. People shouldn't have to upgrade their computers to support a silly music machine.
Support multiple music machines on a single computer.
Draw the line a little closer to customer enablement (vs DRM). You may have to keep the RIAA happy but they aren't your customers. DRM is disenabling (translation: it's a pain in the...)
Don't reinvent the wheel. Apple's wheel may be cool, but you don't mess with the basics.
Find out they can't sell it cheaper than $750 and set a price there - Jobs announces it at macworld, the audience boos, the press rip them a new ass, all the while missing the fact that it's a damn good computer for the price
I agree with most of what you wrote except this. First, they already have a 800$ computer so this "news" would be no news which would be bad news. Second, an $750 mac of this caliber would not (imho) be a damn good computer for the price. For $750 I could put together a three machine openmosix cluster of AMD 2200+ Semprons that would kick mac.
4. Everybody who says they would never buy one of the current Macs, but would buy this one for $500 out of impulse, is a damn liar.
Utter BS.
Agreed. Hell, I've hated apple computers since the early 80's and I hate the two ipod minis I bought my kids for Christmas, yet even I am considering buying them a $500 mac. It's what they want and like the poster said above those three hour spyware/virus cleansing sessions are a b*tch every other month. (And the kids haven't taken well to dualboot Linux)
Warning: I go off the deep end on this subject. But I'm sincere for all of that.
DejaNews is more important for our society than the Human Genome Project. Just because only Slashdot-types (mostly) understand that doesn't make it less factual. It's wrong to leave it in the hands of one company.
Why were they like that? It didn't, and doesn't, make any sense. I got so frustrated with the salesman I told him, "Look. I want to buy the encyclopedia. I have the money. But you're making me angry. If the next sentence out of your mouth isn't the price of the basic set, I am walking."
It wasn't. I did.
Wouldn't you think they'd sell a classy product like encyclopaedia's in a classy fashion? But then again look at how they sell pianos!
An illuminated manuscript provided for the dissemination of the knowledge of a few people through a few people to a few people. The printed press brought that craft into the industrial age making it possible for the transmission of the knowledge of many people through many people to thousands and sometimes millions of people. The internet, and more specific to this topic Wikipedia, not only makes it possible for the knowledge of the masses to be transmitted to the masses, but also makes it possible for little old joe average Me (and You) to share our knowledge with the world. That's power. That's what wikipedia is and EB isn't. That's what is going to shape tomorrow.
Now for the cost: Illuminated manuscripts were quite often beautiful works of art and the printed press all to often, especially in the first couple of centuries of it's use, produced ugly volumes. So what? The printed press made possible the modern world. The internet and it's component parts of which you, and I, and WIkipedia & DejaNews are components, but the EB is not, will make possible the future world.
Funny thing about the Encyclopaedia Britannica: back during the antedeluvian period, before computers and back when this guy was running the show, I desperately wanted a set. But the salesman sold them like I was from Hicksville and he was selling me an Onega or Hambilton watch out of his coat. He simply would not tell me the selling price was until I'd heard his entire sales pitch. I walked.
I'm sorry. Where I work it's the other way around. Our security department has all of the authority and none of the responsibility.
What the result is, anyone can guess: password rules so byzantine that no one can log onto production systems when sev1 issues occurr, sysops waiting three days for product tapes to be logged in and mounted, security changes being made willynilly with no change control management instituted, gateways which serve no data being loaded with full blown virus scanning software, bleeding edge maintenance being forced onto hardware and users not ready for it because it included some security fix of doubtful worth, managers not knowing the IP addys of their own *&#@ servers.
What else is the result: passwords being taped to the bottom of keyboards, users being covertly supplied administrator rights to databases and servers, sushi programs installed by everyone, hacks programmed into apps to slip data through firewalls, and entire job streams running under one userid.
Back in '84 I was offered access to the internet and turned it down. At the time our Uni was networked and the most apparent benefit was that the student body was able to swap, what I thought of at the time was, stupidities and banalities. What I missed then, and what Kari misses still today is that all that "rubbish" is the accumulated wisdom of a culture. All that rubbish accumulated in the Net is the greatest treasure of our age.
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I agree 95%. The other 5%:
Home: I have to fix the snack and it's never as tasty as...
Theater: Extra butter - Extra Extra salt - Extra Extra large pop.
I tried the link and of course got trashed (as I guess everyone but me knows msn.com doesn't play friendly with firefox. So, I opened up an old version of IE (work computer you know...nothing (legal) to be done about it...) to get an annoying, floating, swimming pop up. From whom? Why msn.com, wanting me to take a survey.
Some forms of stupidity are terminal.
I hope.
Content: What he said.
Addendum: I also tried to like Gnome because many of the people I admire like Gnome and I am not so narcissistic that I think I'm right about everything. But no matter how I tried I just could never enjoy using it. On my own machine I use fluxbox (I'm a minimalist as well as a control freak) and the CD distros I carry are KDE based. I'd have loved to have loved Gnome but...
Whenever something goes kerflouey on me (nsert alsa here) I cuss and swear I'm switching to knoppix or slackware or... but I always end up fixing the problem (gentoo user support on their wiki is awesome!) and sticking with the distro.
Then again maybe it's just me; I was in ice rescue training today and my frontal lobes might still be frozen.
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Why do I seem to be the only person on the planet who thinks usenet is better than sliced bread?
Why do I seem to be the only person on the planet who is frightened that a private company has control over the publicly available archives?
Sometimes usenet is my second choice for searching for information; usually it's my first.
I'd rather give up the web than give up usenet.
I'd rather give up my right to vote, or my gun, or my car than give up usenet.
Am I wrong? Or is 99% of the citizenry blind?
I know Microsoft is expert at talking their competitors (and good ideas) into a premature death but I find it difficult to believe these kind of statements are going to convince anyone living in the real world. My Boss' home pc has been hacked, our work machine's have been hacked, my daughter's window box had a trojan, every window user I know (and there's a ton of them) is badgering me to help them clean the adware off of their system. All that time my linux box is as stable and happy as a 14th century tahitian prince and my two apple loving friends just sit behind their fancy sceens and grin.
Microsoft just can't talk that away.
This isn't a good thing, guys.
IMO: usenet, and groups.google to mine usenet, is probably the single greatest resource on the planet. This is as much a tragedy as the month (or so) Deja disappeared.
Britney Spears exists; and she's not natural.
A description of the stupid user who can't get the super intuitive ipod up and running:Damn, I hate apple products.
My suggestions to Creative:
Agreed. Hell, I've hated apple computers since the early 80's and I hate the two ipod minis I bought my kids for Christmas, yet even I am considering buying them a $500 mac. It's what they want and like the poster said above those three hour spyware/virus cleansing sessions are a b*tch every other month. (And the kids haven't taken well to dualboot Linux)
Warning: I go off the deep end on this subject. But I'm sincere for all of that.
DejaNews is more important for our society than the Human Genome Project. Just because only Slashdot-types (mostly) understand that doesn't make it less factual. It's wrong to leave it in the hands of one company.
Why were they like that? It didn't, and doesn't, make any sense. I got so frustrated with the salesman I told him, "Look. I want to buy the encyclopedia. I have the money. But you're making me angry. If the next sentence out of your mouth isn't the price of the basic set, I am walking."
It wasn't. I did.
Wouldn't you think they'd sell a classy product like encyclopaedia's in a classy fashion? But then again look at how they sell pianos!
An illuminated manuscript provided for the dissemination of the knowledge of a few people through a few people to a few people. The printed press brought that craft into the industrial age making it possible for the transmission of the knowledge of many people through many people to thousands and sometimes millions of people. The internet, and more specific to this topic Wikipedia, not only makes it possible for the knowledge of the masses to be transmitted to the masses, but also makes it possible for little old joe average Me (and You) to share our knowledge with the world. That's power. That's what wikipedia is and EB isn't. That's what is going to shape tomorrow.
Now for the cost: Illuminated manuscripts were quite often beautiful works of art and the printed press all to often, especially in the first couple of centuries of it's use, produced ugly volumes. So what? The printed press made possible the modern world. The internet and it's component parts of which you, and I, and WIkipedia & DejaNews are components, but the EB is not, will make possible the future world.
BAM!
Damn! I fell off my soap box. Ouch!
Funny thing about the Encyclopaedia Britannica: back during the antedeluvian period, before computers and back when this guy was running the show, I desperately wanted a set. But the salesman sold them like I was from Hicksville and he was selling me an Onega or Hambilton watch out of his coat. He simply would not tell me the selling price was until I'd heard his entire sales pitch. I walked.
I love wikipedia!
The printed book is to an illuminated manuscript.
'nough said.
I'm sorry. I should have read the first reply, this story just pushed my button.
Agreed. Great first reply.
I'm sorry. Where I work it's the other way around. Our security department has all of the authority and none of the responsibility.
What the result is, anyone can guess: password rules so byzantine that no one can log onto production systems when sev1 issues occurr, sysops waiting three days for product tapes to be logged in and mounted, security changes being made willynilly with no change control management instituted, gateways which serve no data being loaded with full blown virus scanning software, bleeding edge maintenance being forced onto hardware and users not ready for it because it included some security fix of doubtful worth, managers not knowing the IP addys of their own *&#@ servers.
What else is the result: passwords being taped to the bottom of keyboards, users being covertly supplied administrator rights to databases and servers, sushi programs installed by everyone, hacks programmed into apps to slip data through firewalls, and entire job streams running under one userid.
Pity the poor security admin.
Based on the number of responses to this article, no one.
Perhaps Sharp should have cared more about us.
Back in '84 I was offered access to the internet and turned it down. At the time our Uni was networked and the most apparent benefit was that the student body was able to swap, what I thought of at the time was, stupidities and banalities. What I missed then, and what Kari misses still today is that all that "rubbish" is the accumulated wisdom of a culture. All that rubbish accumulated in the Net is the greatest treasure of our age.