Why is memory use of a browser even relevant? Anyone reading slashdot already has 4GB or more, and quibbling over 62MB or 100MB or 200MB is like spending an hour of your time trying to save $5. It's such a small amount as to be irrelevant, and in that hour you could have earned 10 times that amount.
So what's this mean for Terri Schiavo's doctors? When will they be tried for murder now it's known we can give these people a life? When will her ex husband be executed for his crimes?
Australian Democrat MP Sandra Kanck said the Maralinga tests took an appalling toll on the local Maralinga people and poisoned a large chunk of Australian bush for the next 250,000 years.
This kind of ignorant political pandering to the cult of doomsday environmentalists is sickening. Hiroshima, a city hit directly by a nuclear weapon, has no residual radiation, "no genetic damage was detected in children conceived after the blasts", and "American scientists sweeping Hiroshima with Geiger counters a month after the explosion to see if the area was safe for occupation troops found a devastated city but little radioactivity". Within three months of the bomb the city was being rebuilt.
Even Chernobyl, a land-level disaster, killed fewer than 100 people, and despite the claimed massive amounts of radiation in the area and hundreds of thousands of years worth of radioactive pollution, wildlife there is thriving better than ever. Human population in a particular area does far more damage to the health of an ecosystem than ANY nuclear weaponry ever has.
Nuclear weapons and accidents are bad, no doubt about it, but the evidence in the wild completely contradicts the ignorant statements that areas are "poisoned for 250,000 years".
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Moving multiple arbitrarily named and arbitrarily chosen files from one folder to the next (or other similar action).
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I use photoshop.
You have my sympathies. Perhaps you're not aware that you don't need a gui to use a solid graphics tool. See GIMP's scripting where you can do everything you'd normally do from a GUI, without the overhead.
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The problem with guis is they don't work. There's been no evidence that they actually increase productivity or ease of use in the long term, and indeed may hinder usefulness. There's nothing you can't do in a shell that a gui provides extra ability for, when you've been well trained or decided to -learn- how to use a text mode interface well. A GUI will certainly allow for some extra functionality right off the bat, when someone is first exposed to a program they know nothing about, but after a few months usage, those who use text mode interfaces will be outstripping their gui counterparts. It's trading off learning skill with convenience, and like convenience foods ends up in bloated overweight apps always trying to cater to the lowest common denominator.
For a simple example, look at a spreadsheet in its most basic form. Tab goes to the next column over, return goes to the next row down. Entire usage of the software can be made in a text screen, and FAR quicker than entering a number, moving to the mouse, moving the mouse to the next cell, clicking, then moving back to the keyboard, when instead you can enter a number, hit return, enter a number, hit return, etc.
The "inventors" of the gui really have something to explain.
Exactly how is opening up a file manager and dragging files from one window to another easier than simply dropping your iPod into it's dock and having it sync the files automatically?
Flexibility. Not everyone wants to work like that, and if you did, the drag & drop method from the filesystem works there. Simply write a script to sync your music collection on the computer to the media player.
It could be written in less time than it takes to download iTunes, use less memory, run quicker, and again run on any system without being forced to use only those which Apple finds worthy of assaulting with iTunes.
What made the iPod successful was how easy it was to add songs to it. I haven't seen the software that's going to be shipped with the Zune but I'm guessing it'll be similar to iTunes.
Oh get off the grass. Almost every player EXCEPT the iPod uses the infinitely simpler method of drag & drop from the filesystem to put files onto it. No screwing around with a proprietary piece of software with all its quirks, just drag the mp3 from the filesystem, onto the device. Simple. It works without needing extra software installed whether you're on Linux, Windows, even another Mac. It doesn't GET any simpler than that, and that's what we already have for the majority of non-iPod players.
Apple may have claim to an easier UI in some parts of Mac OS X, but the iTunes to iPod interface is NOT one of them
> Who in their right mind would remove a CEO (a loved one at that) of > a successful company? A company whos share price is soaring nevertheless
Someone who realises the truth, that the loved CEO of said company is only loved because of the success of his company, and his company is only showing successful because of dodgy accounting.
Remember, Enron's share price was soaring and their CEO was loved too, but as is becoming increasingly clear with Apple, that success is not to do with doing good business, rather it's just bad accounting. This is why the discrepancy in recordable sales of apple macs and ipods to the world, and the actual numbers counted sold at stores. It hasn't been matching up for years, and it looks like Steve's desperation to be a success has outwitted his morals, and he's resorted to telling porkies to make himself look successful.
In that case, if it's that easy to do, you should be able to write me a step-by-step guide to get audio working perfectly on, say, a thinkpad 390. Go on. I'm waiting.
1. Get up off your ass and do it yourself.
Sorry, you're just more evidence of the kind of lazy thinking I responded to in the first place. Why are you sitting around waiting for someone else to do the work? Why do you want some random person on slashdot to do the job for you? It's your machine, you want audio on it, YOU get it working.
If you can't get something as simple as audio up and going on a distro geared for idiots like Ubuntu is, then you really shouldn't be using a computer. Go hand your computer in to the closest goodwill and go back to pen & paper
what's bad is microsoft is a convicted monopolist, and they have abused their power by bundling their apps that support only their protocols in order to give their protocols extra support they wouldn't have had on their own without microsoft's illegal monopoly practises.
Letting Microsoft keep on bundling apps that they don't allow to be removed is like giving a sniper rifle and some rope to a convicted serial killer who shot all his victims with a sniper rifle and then hung them from trees with rope. Normal people can be trusted with rifles and rope, but not our friendly neighbourhood serial killer.
Microsoft's bundling is all about promoting the one protocol or format that the bundled app supports. Linux's bundling is all about choice (you have twenty or more IM apps for one linux distro, for example. That, and they're still not convicted illegal monopolists). There's bundling, and then there's bundling.
If you ask any random 16-24 yr old person on the street the name of the Beatles label you'll probably get a low percentage of correct answers.
Precisely proof that Apple Computer has diluted the trademark of Apple Corps to the extent that they have illegally substituted their brand for that of the original owners.
Which is why this lawsuit against Apple Computer must succeed to be fair.
I wonder when the networks will get it through their thick skulls that nobody wants any more reality TV. It's the lowest cost way of dumping out several hours of content sure, but what's the use of it when so many people loathe it?
Taking a leaf from the RIAA/MPAA book of customer relations, perhaps?
Every time I bring up my experience with "easy to use" Ubuntu, no matter how I say it, I get modded down, but I will gladly do it until I get modded off Slashdot if it finally gets the message across - DESIGN THE SOFTWARE WITH THE NEW-TO-LINUX USER IN MIND.
It's this kind of lazy stupid timewasting post that really makes people look like an idiot. If you as much time whining on slashdot until you "get modded off" and put it into improving ubuntu yourself then YOU WOULD HAVE SOLVED YOUR PROBLEM.
Ubuntu isn't Windows, it isn't Mac OS X. It's it's open source free software. If there are features you find missing and they're still missing after you've continually whined about them then you've missed the whole point and should be using Windows or a Mac.
Now stop complaining about it and get up off your ass and fix what you think needs fixing. Remember that if you're ever tempted to whine again, that you chose not to put effort into fixing things, but preferred to be a whiner and complain about the people who chose to be constructive instead.
I wouldn't say that anything to do with a CRT is a benefit. They're blurry, hot, electricity-hungry and contain a large dangerous vacuum on your desk in front of your eyes, while sitting you right in the direction of an electron gun while firing x-rays out the back.
So, you'd have no complaints being audited by the IRS for your 'suspicious' behavior of having a home business that earns more than the average, even though it'll cost you a nice chunk of time and money? I mean, after all, you came out of things without any harm, survived the audit, right?
You wouldn't mind being detained in a holding cell for a day because some overzealous cop thought you 'looked suspicious'? I mean, you got released the next day, so no harm, no foul?
How about having the police raid your home because you've bought a little too much cold medicine over the past month, and you also happened to place an order for some beakers for a halloween party? Because, you might be running a meth lab, and so the cops were able to get a nearly unrestricted warrant on that alone? I mean, it's no big deal, other than the day of work you missed, the neighbors watching the police crawl all over your property, and all those entries in the public records.
Seems a little more scary, doesn't it?
Of course it seems scary, but as none of those things have ANYTHING to do with my defence of financial inspections in this case which cost the supposed "victim" nothing, did not involve them being incarcerated, did not involve a police raid on his home, did not involve an unrestricted warrant on his property, did not have neighbours watching a raid and did not involve him missing work.
You're bringing in straw men, making up your own little arguments in your head to argue against because you had no genuine argument against my points. You just didn't like them on an emotional level but can't figure out why, or a real argument against them.
> Which is an idiotic argument, because what's currently okay won't always be okay.
Logical fallacy. Police 150 years ago were allowed to look at you, to see if you're doing anything suspicious. If you're climbing a garden fence they might ask what you're doing. If you then explain you locked your side gate, and you go in and prove you're not breaking and entering, you go on your way, they go on their way, and you know the world is a little bit safer for their efforts.
This is the EXACT SAME THING. Prevention on the part of law enforcers. You can't apply the senseless "slippery slope" logic to everything, you can't say "X can't be done now because it might get worse" to all of X, otherwise you will never ever move, nothing will ever progress. it's a logical fallacy to be concerned that what's currently OK might not be OK in the future. Deal with it in the future, not in some theoretical possible future you're imagining today with all of today's biases in your head.
What you have to realise is none of this means anything. So homeland security is notified. So they have a look at your records. So they eventually notice nothing is wrong, and they go away.
What's the problem? Again it comes down to the age old statement that defeats the conspiracy theorists who are convinced the government is going to imprison all good americans while the real troublemakers run free.
"If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about."
Think about it. If someone were involved in the shifting of huge amounts of funds around and planning the next WTC, Pentagon, Waco or Bali bombing, you mean you all wouldn't want to know about it? Uhuh. Right.
I was skiing this week with a friend of mine who manages a half-billion dollar investment fund. His skepticism about the US was withering. It will not be very long before the world economy interprets America, with its spaghetti of ludicrous, paranoiac IT legislation, DMCA bullshit and general hostility towards 'the other', as damage, and routes around it.
And just where is he going to move to to be more "relevant"? Europe with its socialism inherent and impossibility of making a go of it? Russia filled with organised crime, or Canada with the same eurosocialists in power? Africa with 15c to rub together, or Asia where you can make millions in one of a hundred currencies so devalued they're worthless anywhere else? South america where the greens are so entrenched in industry that it's nearing impossibility to make a profit?
If he thinks he's got it bad in the USA your friend really needs to get out into the world a bit more.
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Why is memory use of a browser even relevant? Anyone reading slashdot already has 4GB or more, and quibbling over 62MB or 100MB or 200MB is like spending an hour of your time trying to save $5. It's such a small amount as to be irrelevant, and in that hour you could have earned 10 times that amount.
No medical treatment, up to and including science fiction ideas like tissue regeneration, could have properly revived her
And until recently, that's what "medicine" and "science" thought was the case with the young man in the story.
But now he's up and talking.
Think about it.
So what's this mean for Terri Schiavo's doctors? When will they be tried for murder now it's known we can give these people a life? When will her ex husband be executed for his crimes?
From the article:
Australian Democrat MP Sandra Kanck said the Maralinga tests took an appalling toll on the local Maralinga people and poisoned a large chunk of Australian bush for the next 250,000 years.
This kind of ignorant political pandering to the cult of doomsday environmentalists is sickening. Hiroshima, a city hit directly by a nuclear weapon, has no residual radiation, "no genetic damage was detected in children conceived after the blasts", and "American scientists sweeping Hiroshima with Geiger counters a month after the explosion to see if the area was safe for occupation troops found a devastated city but little radioactivity". Within three months of the bomb the city was being rebuilt.
Even Chernobyl, a land-level disaster, killed fewer than 100 people, and despite the claimed massive amounts of radiation in the area and hundreds of thousands of years worth of radioactive pollution, wildlife there is thriving better than ever. Human population in a particular area does far more damage to the health of an ecosystem than ANY nuclear weaponry ever has.
Nuclear weapons and accidents are bad, no doubt about it, but the evidence in the wild completely contradicts the ignorant statements that areas are "poisoned for 250,000 years".
Moving multiple arbitrarily named and arbitrarily chosen files from one folder to the next (or other similar action).
xtree managed that in the 1980s
Altering the arrangement of a screen.
And that.
Anything having to do with graphic design.
I already addressed that
I use photoshop.
You have my sympathies. Perhaps you're not aware that you don't need a gui to use a solid graphics tool. See GIMP's scripting where you can do everything you'd normally do from a GUI, without the overhead.
The problem with guis is they don't work. There's been no evidence that they actually increase productivity or ease of use in the long term, and indeed may hinder usefulness. There's nothing you can't do in a shell that a gui provides extra ability for, when you've been well trained or decided to -learn- how to use a text mode interface well. A GUI will certainly allow for some extra functionality right off the bat, when someone is first exposed to a program they know nothing about, but after a few months usage, those who use text mode interfaces will be outstripping their gui counterparts. It's trading off learning skill with convenience, and like convenience foods ends up in bloated overweight apps always trying to cater to the lowest common denominator.
For a simple example, look at a spreadsheet in its most basic form. Tab goes to the next column over, return goes to the next row down. Entire usage of the software can be made in a text screen, and FAR quicker than entering a number, moving to the mouse, moving the mouse to the next cell, clicking, then moving back to the keyboard, when instead you can enter a number, hit return, enter a number, hit return, etc.
The "inventors" of the gui really have something to explain.
Nice try by the Appleheads to blame that one on Dell. Never seen a Dell looking like that, it's clearly an iBook G4 or a Macbook.
Exactly how is opening up a file manager and dragging files from one window to another easier than simply dropping your iPod into it's dock and having it sync the files automatically?
Flexibility. Not everyone wants to work like that, and if you did, the drag & drop method from the filesystem works there. Simply write a script to sync your music collection on the computer to the media player.
It could be written in less time than it takes to download iTunes, use less memory, run quicker, and again run on any system without being forced to use only those which Apple finds worthy of assaulting with iTunes.
What made the iPod successful was how easy it was to add songs to it. I haven't seen the software that's going to be shipped with the Zune but I'm guessing it'll be similar to iTunes.
Oh get off the grass. Almost every player EXCEPT the iPod uses the infinitely simpler method of drag & drop from the filesystem to put files onto it. No screwing around with a proprietary piece of software with all its quirks, just drag the mp3 from the filesystem, onto the device. Simple. It works without needing extra software installed whether you're on Linux, Windows, even another Mac. It doesn't GET any simpler than that, and that's what we already have for the majority of non-iPod players.
Apple may have claim to an easier UI in some parts of Mac OS X, but the iTunes to iPod interface is NOT one of them
> Who in their right mind would remove a CEO (a loved one at that) of
> a successful company? A company whos share price is soaring nevertheless
Someone who realises the truth, that the loved CEO of said company is only loved because of the success of his company, and his company is only showing successful because of dodgy accounting.
Remember, Enron's share price was soaring and their CEO was loved too, but as is becoming increasingly clear with Apple, that success is not to do with doing good business, rather it's just bad accounting. This is why the discrepancy in recordable sales of apple macs and ipods to the world, and the actual numbers counted sold at stores. It hasn't been matching up for years, and it looks like Steve's desperation to be a success has outwitted his morals, and he's resorted to telling porkies to make himself look successful.
This time, apple may truly be dying.
In that case, if it's that easy to do, you should be able to write me a step-by-step guide to get audio working perfectly on, say, a thinkpad 390. Go on. I'm waiting.
1. Get up off your ass and do it yourself.
Sorry, you're just more evidence of the kind of lazy thinking I responded to in the first place. Why are you sitting around waiting for someone else to do the work? Why do you want some random person on slashdot to do the job for you? It's your machine, you want audio on it, YOU get it working.
Your problem, not mine.
If you can't get something as simple as audio up and going on a distro geared for idiots like Ubuntu is, then you really shouldn't be using a computer. Go hand your computer in to the closest goodwill and go back to pen & paper
what's bad is microsoft is a convicted monopolist, and they have abused their power by bundling their apps that support only their protocols in order to give their protocols extra support they wouldn't have had on their own without microsoft's illegal monopoly practises.
Letting Microsoft keep on bundling apps that they don't allow to be removed is like giving a sniper rifle and some rope to a convicted serial killer who shot all his victims with a sniper rifle and then hung them from trees with rope. Normal people can be trusted with rifles and rope, but not our friendly neighbourhood serial killer.
Microsoft's bundling is all about promoting the one protocol or format that the bundled app supports. Linux's bundling is all about choice (you have twenty or more IM apps for one linux distro, for example. That, and they're still not convicted illegal monopolists). There's bundling, and then there's bundling.
If you ask any random 16-24 yr old person on the street the name of the Beatles label you'll probably get a low percentage of correct answers.
Precisely proof that Apple Computer has diluted the trademark of Apple Corps to the extent that they have illegally substituted their brand for that of the original owners.
Which is why this lawsuit against Apple Computer must succeed to be fair.
That's quicktime for you, slow as a wet week. Run the Java VM, it'll have to run an order of magnitude quicker.
They also say bloggers can enjoy the freedoms of traditional news organizations when endorsing a candidate or engaging in political speech.
Aren't we lucky, they're so gracious as to allow us our constitutionally protected free speech. Like they had a choice.
I wonder when the networks will get it through their thick skulls that nobody wants any more reality TV. It's the lowest cost way of dumping out several hours of content sure, but what's the use of it when so many people loathe it?
Taking a leaf from the RIAA/MPAA book of customer relations, perhaps?
Every time I bring up my experience with "easy to use" Ubuntu, no matter how I say it, I get modded down, but I will gladly do it until I get modded off Slashdot if it finally gets the message across - DESIGN THE SOFTWARE WITH THE NEW-TO-LINUX USER IN MIND.
It's this kind of lazy stupid timewasting post that really makes people look like an idiot. If you as much time whining on slashdot until you "get modded off" and put it into improving ubuntu yourself then YOU WOULD HAVE SOLVED YOUR PROBLEM.
Ubuntu isn't Windows, it isn't Mac OS X. It's it's open source free software. If there are features you find missing and they're still missing after you've continually whined about them then you've missed the whole point and should be using Windows or a Mac.
Now stop complaining about it and get up off your ass and fix what you think needs fixing. Remember that if you're ever tempted to whine again, that you chose not to put effort into fixing things, but preferred to be a whiner and complain about the people who chose to be constructive instead.
I wouldn't say that anything to do with a CRT is a benefit. They're blurry, hot, electricity-hungry and contain a large dangerous vacuum on your desk in front of your eyes, while sitting you right in the direction of an electron gun while firing x-rays out the back.
No thanks. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
No hard drives either, all boot from 4G IDE flash drives
Remind us how stupid an idea this is when in two months you find your flash drive failing because you've used it too much just booting.
So, you'd have no complaints being audited by the IRS for your 'suspicious' behavior of having a home business that earns more than the average, even though it'll cost you a nice chunk of time and money? I mean, after all, you came out of things without any harm, survived the audit, right?
You wouldn't mind being detained in a holding cell for a day because some overzealous cop thought you 'looked suspicious'? I mean, you got released the next day, so no harm, no foul?
How about having the police raid your home because you've bought a little too much cold medicine over the past month, and you also happened to place an order for some beakers for a halloween party? Because, you might be running a meth lab, and so the cops were able to get a nearly unrestricted warrant on that alone? I mean, it's no big deal, other than the day of work you missed, the neighbors watching the police crawl all over your property, and all those entries in the public records.
Seems a little more scary, doesn't it?
Of course it seems scary, but as none of those things have ANYTHING to do with my defence of financial inspections in this case which cost the supposed "victim" nothing, did not involve them being incarcerated, did not involve a police raid on his home, did not involve an unrestricted warrant on his property, did not have neighbours watching a raid and did not involve him missing work.
You're bringing in straw men, making up your own little arguments in your head to argue against because you had no genuine argument against my points. You just didn't like them on an emotional level but can't figure out why, or a real argument against them.
> Which is an idiotic argument, because what's currently okay won't always be okay. Logical fallacy. Police 150 years ago were allowed to look at you, to see if you're doing anything suspicious. If you're climbing a garden fence they might ask what you're doing. If you then explain you locked your side gate, and you go in and prove you're not breaking and entering, you go on your way, they go on their way, and you know the world is a little bit safer for their efforts. This is the EXACT SAME THING. Prevention on the part of law enforcers. You can't apply the senseless "slippery slope" logic to everything, you can't say "X can't be done now because it might get worse" to all of X, otherwise you will never ever move, nothing will ever progress. it's a logical fallacy to be concerned that what's currently OK might not be OK in the future. Deal with it in the future, not in some theoretical possible future you're imagining today with all of today's biases in your head.
What you have to realise is none of this means anything. So homeland security is notified. So they have a look at your records. So they eventually notice nothing is wrong, and they go away.
What's the problem? Again it comes down to the age old statement that defeats the conspiracy theorists who are convinced the government is going to imprison all good americans while the real troublemakers run free.
"If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about."
Think about it. If someone were involved in the shifting of huge amounts of funds around and planning the next WTC, Pentagon, Waco or Bali bombing, you mean you all wouldn't want to know about it? Uhuh. Right.
I was skiing this week with a friend of mine who manages a half-billion dollar investment fund. His skepticism about the US was withering. It will not be very long before the world economy interprets America, with its spaghetti of ludicrous, paranoiac IT legislation, DMCA bullshit and general hostility towards 'the other', as damage, and routes around it.
And just where is he going to move to to be more "relevant"? Europe with its socialism inherent and impossibility of making a go of it? Russia filled with organised crime, or Canada with the same eurosocialists in power? Africa with 15c to rub together, or Asia where you can make millions in one of a hundred currencies so devalued they're worthless anywhere else? South america where the greens are so entrenched in industry that it's nearing impossibility to make a profit?
If he thinks he's got it bad in the USA your friend really needs to get out into the world a bit more.