How do we know that that was a shill? You're new here, aren't you? All people who praise Microsoft or proprietary software or admonish open source or Linux are automatically deemed to be shills.
...wouldn't this be useful as far as Windows goes as well? This could create better drivers for everyone, not just Linux users. People don't expect open-source drivers for Windows. However, they do expect working drivers and Microsoft tries pretty hard to make sure they don't start generating BSODs. [Like they did for Vista.]
Put a MP3 player in your pocket, with the tunes you want, put some headphones on and the music will follow you around, magically, without phase or synchronization problems.
Soooo...What kind of software was running on the server machine(s) that failed... Linux, OS X, BSD, Windows? Also, what software gave empty or unusable backups without error or warning messages?
Slashdot Title? 253 Article text/Slashdot summary? 352 Article photo caption? 235 I vote for 666 drivers. It's a nice round number, it can't be confused by being incorrectly ordered and it's wrong.
You clearly never played Myst. I spent a good solid year at that game, and filled many notebooks. I was NOT what you'd call a casual gamer. What! A "solid year" to complete Myst? What did you fill the "many notebooks" with? A week with a page of scribbles was the longest I've heard from my mates. It was a simple game behind the fancy graphics.
...It's what tends to really kill solar and wind, as solar can't break 50%, and wind only breaks 50% in some very rare locations.Heh Heh Heh--He said, "break wind." Heh Heh Heh.
Here's my question: It is nearing the end of a project and there is a deadline upcoming. The bugs are still coming in faster than the programmers are fixing them. What do you do?
Great! A service I would never pay for is now on two different platforms! Now people can be even more annoying during meetings!
OK. I have to play devil's advocate... Why wouldn't you pay for the service? Have you ever considered that maybe the meetings are engaging enough to keep people from turning to their BlackBerry devices out of sheer boredom? Only if we are allowed to play buzzword bingo during the meeting.
How tired do you have to be to not notice that you tripped over a bunch of cables? At least as tired as the fool who snaked power cables across a path trod by humans.
This is a true story that depicts my descent into the hellish world of "computer customization."
It started innocently about a year ago; as few friends of mine sat around the glow of the monitor and trolling for Grammar Nazis on Usenet. Lucie said something or other about different keyboard layouts. I didn't think anything about it until the next time we met over at Bill's place.
Lucie had this black bag with her and she pulled out a keyboard. "C'mon," she urged with a malicious twinkle in her eye, "its called a Dvorak and all the kewl kidz are using them."
Bill said that was cool and plugged it in. We each took turns typing with it and all of us liked it much better than the old QWERTY keyboards.
I felt odd going back to the old layout on my own computer so I gave Lucie a call a few evenings later and she said her brother was expecting a big order at the end of the month. I managed to wait four more days until the 31st and I was riding high until the 18th when I was called in to the Principal's office. She asked me if I was alright or if there was something stressful happening at home. I said I was fine and I went to Lucie's place to wind down after school.
Lucie told us that the latest thing was "ergonomic keyboards" and she had only two for us to sample tonight. I fell hard for this and bought one before leaving. By this time I was leaving school at noon just to type on my new keyboard.
Over at Mike's place on Saturday evening Lucie pulled out a track ball and made Mike unplug his mouse and use this instead. Mike was too square to try using it and we all had a laugh at his old-school QWERTY keyboard and his cheap clone mouse.
Lucie and I began dating during the summer and then her brother committed suicide on June 15th. I started pushing peripherals in July and we bought his and hers Porsche Boxsters in August. Apparently this was too much for our parents, Mike's Dad ratted us out and we now face charges of trafficking in computer accessories and other electronic devices. We lucked out since the police never found the boxes of aluminum mouse pads and chording keyboards in my folk's garage.
School starts in a week and I think we will each do well in our senior year. We have learned our lesson and now use standard peripherals only. Once a week we attend an accessories-anon meeting with our parents which helps a lot. Don't let this obsession ruin your life.
Well I don't know what you mean by free, then. If you're suggesting Slashdot is taking money to run stories, or something, then no: I submitted this story to Slashdot via the normal submission channels this afternoon. A few hours later, it went up. Nothing else took place whatsoever.... A lot can happen in a few hours. Have you checked your furniture lately? Sometimes they send aliens to replace all of your furniture with exact duplicates. Beware!
INT - MARY'S HOME OFFICE. [Mary is seen banging her hand down on her desk] MARY: Damn! [John comes into the picture] JOHN: Hey Mary, what's wrong? [In a frustrated voice] MARY: My computer is as slow as molasses... and all those pop-ups... I can't get any work done. JOHN: That's because you're using Windows XP and Internet Explorer. [Intrigued, Mary turns to John and looks into his eyes] MARY: Go on. JOHN: I use Linux and I'm never going back. No more blue-screens-of-death, re-boots, re-installs, pop-ups, virus attacks and no more spy-ware. MARY: But I'm not a geek. JOHN: Linux isn't just for geeks anymore and it's free. You can share it with your friends, too. MARY: Sounds great. How do I get copy? JOHN: I'll bring the disks and install it for you on Saturday. [Mary is now elated] MARY: Sounds like a plan. Can I go down on you? JOHN: Sure! [Fade to black] VOICE OVER: Linux...Look for the Penguin. SFX: Zipper opening MARY: Oh John, I never knew. SFX: Slurping sounds.
Captcha (warped text) will probably remain for a long time. This OCR has more practical uses when applied to text that is meant to be legible. Captchas don't have to be text only nor do they have to be a simple "Type what you see in the box" question. How about, "Type the letters that remain after removing the vowels," or "How many solid blue or red squares can you see?"
Yes, but nobody (even Nintendo) expected the Wii to take off like it has. So they didn't start things early enough and now see there's money to be made. What's the fastest way to that money? Pushing out crap. How can you say that? Even EA knows it is easier to pull than to push. So they are rushing to pull out the crap.
I'm shocked and appalled that Apple came last. I thought they were a lot of granola-munching, liberal, tree-hugging hippies but they are just like every other corporation: polluting, spin-controlling, anti-contractor and profit-oriented. Does anybody want to buy a used iPod?
Man! That one reeled me right in. No jokes or sarcasm either. I even did the discount website thing. At least I didn't forward copies to friends who have 8800 cards.
Umm yeah, does excel have space invaders? OpenOffice Calc meets my needs perfectly... I mean, the last thing I want to do in a spreadsheet program is actual work. Amen! The excel version is here
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Wow! What a great concept. I'll buy that. Can you come by my office on Tuesday and we'll pitch it to the networks?
...wouldn't this be useful as far as Windows goes as well? This could create better drivers for everyone, not just Linux users. People don't expect open-source drivers for Windows. However, they do expect working drivers and Microsoft tries pretty hard to make sure they don't start generating BSODs. [Like they did for Vista.]Put a MP3 player in your pocket, with the tunes you want, put some headphones on and the music will follow you around, magically, without phase or synchronization problems.
Soooo...What kind of software was running on the server machine(s) that failed... Linux, OS X, BSD, Windows? Also, what software gave empty or unusable backups without error or warning messages?
Slashdot Title? 253
Article text/Slashdot summary? 352
Article photo caption? 235 I vote for 666 drivers. It's a nice round number, it can't be confused by being incorrectly ordered and it's wrong.
Here's my question:
It is nearing the end of a project and there is a deadline upcoming. The bugs are still coming in faster than the programmers are fixing them. What do you do?
OK. I have to play devil's advocate... Why wouldn't you pay for the service? Have you ever considered that maybe the meetings are engaging enough to keep people from turning to their BlackBerry devices out of sheer boredom? Only if we are allowed to play buzzword bingo during the meeting.
...How about a little blame for the devs? Stone the heretic.My Pathetic Story
This is a true story that depicts my descent into the hellish world of "computer customization."
It started innocently about a year ago; as few friends of mine sat around the glow of the monitor and trolling for Grammar Nazis on Usenet. Lucie said something or other about different keyboard layouts. I didn't think anything about it until the next time we met over at Bill's place.
Lucie had this black bag with her and she pulled out a keyboard. "C'mon," she urged with a malicious twinkle in her eye, "its called a Dvorak and all the kewl kidz are using them."
Bill said that was cool and plugged it in. We each took turns typing with it and all of us liked it much better than the old QWERTY keyboards.
I felt odd going back to the old layout on my own computer so I gave Lucie a call a few evenings later and she said her brother was expecting a big order at the end of the month. I managed to wait four more days until the 31st and I was riding high until the 18th when I was called in to the Principal's office. She asked me if I was alright or if there was something stressful happening at home. I said I was fine and I went to Lucie's place to wind down after school.
Lucie told us that the latest thing was "ergonomic keyboards" and she had only two for us to sample tonight. I fell hard for this and bought one before leaving. By this time I was leaving school at noon just to type on my new keyboard.
Over at Mike's place on Saturday evening Lucie pulled out a track ball and made Mike unplug his mouse and use this instead. Mike was too square to try using it and we all had a laugh at his old-school QWERTY keyboard and his cheap clone mouse.
Lucie and I began dating during the summer and then her brother committed suicide on June 15th. I started pushing peripherals in July and we bought his and hers Porsche Boxsters in August. Apparently this was too much for our parents, Mike's Dad ratted us out and we now face charges of trafficking in computer accessories and other electronic devices. We lucked out since the police never found the boxes of aluminum mouse pads and chording keyboards in my folk's garage.
School starts in a week and I think we will each do well in our senior year. We have learned our lesson and now use standard peripherals only. Once a week we attend an accessories-anon meeting with our parents which helps a lot. Don't let this obsession ruin your life.
NAMES have been changed to protect the innocent.
How many companies bought Vista? Well, 244, of course.
Linux Advertisement 1.
INT - MARY'S HOME OFFICE.
[Mary is seen banging her hand down on her desk]
MARY:
Damn!
[John comes into the picture]
JOHN:
Hey Mary, what's wrong?
[In a frustrated voice]
MARY:
My computer is as slow as molasses...
and all those pop-ups...
I can't get any work done.
JOHN:
That's because you're using Windows XP and Internet Explorer.
[Intrigued, Mary turns to John and looks into his eyes]
MARY:
Go on.
JOHN:
I use Linux and I'm never going back. No more blue-screens-of-death, re-boots, re-installs, pop-ups, virus attacks and no more spy-ware.
MARY:
But I'm not a geek.
JOHN:
Linux isn't just for geeks anymore and it's free. You can share it with your friends, too.
MARY:
Sounds great. How do I get copy?
JOHN:
I'll bring the disks and install it for you on Saturday.
[Mary is now elated]
MARY:
Sounds like a plan. Can I go down on you?
JOHN:
Sure!
[Fade to black]
VOICE OVER:
Linux...Look for the Penguin.
SFX: Zipper opening
MARY:
Oh John, I never knew.
SFX: Slurping sounds.
A new wave in sports games is coming soon. Personally, I am waiting for a golf game using that Wii controller.
I'm shocked and appalled that Apple came last. I thought they were a lot of granola-munching, liberal, tree-hugging hippies but they are just like every other corporation: polluting, spin-controlling, anti-contractor and profit-oriented.
Does anybody want to buy a used iPod?
Man! That one reeled me right in. No jokes or sarcasm either. I even did the discount website thing. At least I didn't forward copies to friends who have 8800 cards.