So what's the difference between the "open source philosophy" to make things difficult (for one method of installation - I heartily enjoy using Adept to search for and install packages) and a wrapper around apt-get that kde/gnome/etc runs when you double-click on a.deb file? This theoretical wrapper looks in the database and sees if you've got the.deb installed already and does 3 things: 1) if it doesn't find it, asks if you want to install it 2) if it finds it, but is a previous version, asks if you want to upgrade it, and 3) if it finds it and its the same version asks if you want to uninstall it?
Of course, these two methods are not incompatible, much like apt-get from the command line and Adept from the gui are not incompatible. In fact, this would be a nice feature to add to Adept if it doesn't already exist.
Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday. Why? [...] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
From the remarks about his staff sending him an Internet, to an obvious lack of understanding on why it got delayed its easy to tell that Mr. Stevens doesn't have a clue. That this same person was criticizing net neutrality and possibly influencing others against it is frightening.
So why don't you learn to use a mouse with your right hand? While I'm not left handed, a friend of mine is and uses his mouse in his right hand. He types on the number pad with his right hand. Yet, he writes with his left and bowls with his left.
I mean, I can't use the keypad on a controller (PS2, etc) with my right hand, but I'm sure I could learn it if I tried (or had a reason to).
It's ironic that the only people really capable of monitoring their children are the same people that 1. are stereotypically without social skills (and thus, without children) and/or 2. the same people who monitor grownups at work to make sure they're not doing something bad.
IMHO it is the responsibility of a parent to make sure their child isn't doing something stupid online. This means chatting with pedophiles, sending nude pictures, etc. It is the responsibilty of the parent to at least be able to check in on their child (even if that means just checking they're IE history or *gasp* asking them)
I don't mean that parents should micro-manage them or monitor every second they're online, but they should be able to at least check in on them...even if it's to keep them honest.
Who killed the electric car?
New documentary coming up about how GM had an awesome electric car that everyone wanted...and they canceled it. Then they recalled them and junked them instead of letting people buy them outright like people wanted to. Trailer's on Apple.
So when MS doesn't add new features they are slammed for not innovating enough, and when they do add new features they are slammed for contributing to bloat that you don't want.
New features that are wanted or improve a product are innovative. New features that are of questionable use or aren't going to be used are bloat.
To someone who just wants to fix toast in their toaster, the All New Juicy Juicer eXTREME Juice maker and Egg Fryer Super Deluxe Ultra Platinum Edition are bloat. To someone who wants eggs and juice with their toast, they are innovative features.
I personally don't use WMP because I just want to play music or a video. I don't want to know the detailed life story of the artist or who Britney is having sex with this week. I don't have an MP3 player so I don't need to automatically sync WMP with something that doesn't exist and I don't listen to CDs (they go into the closet after being ripped) so the burning feature is of questionable use. I do use the library feature (not in WMP because the last time I used WMP to try to organize my music, it decided to screw up all my ID3 tags). To me, all these nifty "features" are bloat. To Jill the teeny-bopper with an iPod who has to know all the latest nsync songs or else she'll just die, WMP is what she wants.
Bounty hunting doesn't work quite as intended when there is a big reward for a minor penalty.
I give EVE Online as an example:
EVE Online had a bounty hunting system where you could place a bounty on anyone's head that you wanted. Until that person is killed, the money just keeps adding up.
The reason it doesn't work? Griefer 1 (G1) with a bounty of 10,000,000 goes to his buddy Griefer 2 (G2) with a bounty of 10,000,000 and says "Hey, I'll let you kill me and get my bounty if you let me kill you to get your bounty." Both G1 and G2 are up 10,000,000 and the people who put up the bounty are now out of cash. This is especially true if G1 and G2 can mitigate their losses by putting their loot in the bank. As soon as the bounty reward is greater than the cost of dying, its to the griefer's benefit to die. G1 and G2 could care less whether or not the police will come after them because they think anyone not in combat areas 24/7 are carebears or wusses.
I don't know about you, but I don't have a cell phone card in my laptop (service is ~$80 for low DSL speeds last I looked) that I can get wireless internet everywhere I go. Admittedly there are lots of places nowadays where you can get a free hotspot, but I don't want to stop at a Starbucks every time I open a game.
Ghost in the Shell also plays along this line, although most people have a cybernetic brain implant in that series. One of the first episodes is when a tank designer dies and has his brain/ghost/soul implanted into the body of his new experimental tank.
Slashdot has been using the old Gnome logo for so long its becoming a running joke. They changed their logo in 2002. See the response from the Gnome foundation here.
In other words, Grandparent believes that there is a rational explaination for God and belittles God B by saying that he only works with random chance and survival of the fittest.
What he doesn't understand is that the Great Grandparent isn't saying God B is using random chance. He's saying that God B already knows what will happen a billion years in advance and has already set things in motion so that the butterfly wings don't cause a tornado. God B has already predicted the outcome, chosen the possibilities, and set his plan into motion to fulfill his goals. If that means a few Dodos die, well, it was for a reason.
Personally, I think God B still makes adjustments and likes to keep scientists on their toes just for the fun of it.
This would be like Apple adding new features to Cocoa in a new OS and only providing emulation for older Cocoa apps. All your old Cocoa apps would suddenly run slower on the new OS. With Apple, new Cocoa apps run on the old OS as long as they're not using new Cocoa specific features only available on the new OS. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) With Microsoft, you have four options:
Design your app for the new OS, but this means most of your customers can't run it.
Design your app for the old OS, but this means your app runs slow on the new OS.
Design your app for both new and old OS, but this takes more time and money, plus gives you two code bases to debug.
Design your app to run on OpenGL, which your programmers may not know. This may mean throwing out years of legacy, stable, debugged, reusable code.
The latter, who is making huge changes to their apps to support it knows exactly what has changed, and the big stuff isn't in your list.
Mind letting us poor plebs know what "big stuff" there is? The only reason I've seen so far to wipe my XP install is DX10, but since DX9 is only run in emulation, and all of my games run slow, DX10 doesn't sound very nice until I'm forced to upgrade.
Sametime client lets me have Sametime without having Lotus Notes open all the time.
Notes Minder alerts me whenever there's a meeting or email without having Notes open. Unfortunately, Notes Minder seems to have a small bug in it. It keeps saying "Ignoring Pre-Cutoff Unread Replication Activities" after running it for a few months and even though I've been able to get rid of it temporarily, I've never been able to get rid of it permanently.
That said, I absolutely loathe Lotus Notes for being excruciatingly slow.
...and I say electronic components all work on Magic Blue Smoke. Yes, I know in theory what transistors and resistors do, but I don't need to be bothered with that level of complexity and neither does the Half Orc Barbarian or Susie the Secretary. I am not electronics literate.
To them, it IS magic how their computer works. To you and me, an operating system only does what it is told to do (by some program, programmer, or operator). To Susie, it happens because the there's a new moon, she's having a bad hair day, or the computer likes/hates her that day and it is the IT department's job to beat her computer back into submission when it decides to eat her email, project report, etc.
I knew a Susie at my previous job who was afraid of her computer and I was the Sorcerer who came and fixed it when it broke. She was a real whiz when it came to Excel and Word (and knew it better than I did) because she used it every day, but didn't know the least about computers in general. Once I explained it to her in terms she could understand (the magic blue smoke escaped) she could grasp what was wrong and frequently had a correct answer to her problem before I told her what the correct answer was.
Now, I would never say that she was computer literate (semi-literate, perhaps) but that was only because she thought the computer was out to get her. Once she realized that it was something she had done (saved to the wrong directory, etc) and not something that the computer magically did because it hates her, she knew how to fix her problem and move on.
In other words, being computer literate means knowing why a computer does something, and knowing that it isn't magic.
I've come across this as well. Usually it is expressed in one sentence: "Why would anyone want to give away software for free?!" When I try to explain that some people like to program for fun/challenge of it, they just can't understand.
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Or, if you call Vonage and ask for information, they point you to the site and the phone number. Pretty nifty that they managed to fool Vonage's own tech support.
I don't know about the rest of the Slashdotters here, but I still see lots of job postings that ask for the alphabet soup of certifications. Now though, as opposed to around the time of the Dot Com boom, I see lots of "certifications requested" or "certifications a plus" rather than "certification required".
That is correct. Best Buy salespeople are not on commission. I don't know how long this has been so, but I talked with someone who works there (sits in the cube next to me) and he said he wasn't on commission.
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So what's the difference between the "open source philosophy" to make things difficult (for one method of installation - I heartily enjoy using Adept to search for and install packages) and a wrapper around apt-get that kde/gnome/etc runs when you double-click on a .deb file? This theoretical wrapper looks in the database and sees if you've got the .deb installed already and does 3 things: 1) if it doesn't find it, asks if you want to install it 2) if it finds it, but is a previous version, asks if you want to upgrade it, and 3) if it finds it and its the same version asks if you want to uninstall it?
Of course, these two methods are not incompatible, much like apt-get from the command line and Adept from the gui are not incompatible. In fact, this would be a nice feature to add to Adept if it doesn't already exist.
It wasn't so much the "series of tubes" remark that was so off base, but the rest of the speech.
From Wikipedia's article on the Series of Tubes remark:
From the remarks about his staff sending him an Internet, to an obvious lack of understanding on why it got delayed its easy to tell that Mr. Stevens doesn't have a clue. That this same person was criticizing net neutrality and possibly influencing others against it is frightening.
So why don't you learn to use a mouse with your right hand? While I'm not left handed, a friend of mine is and uses his mouse in his right hand. He types on the number pad with his right hand. Yet, he writes with his left and bowls with his left.
I mean, I can't use the keypad on a controller (PS2, etc) with my right hand, but I'm sure I could learn it if I tried (or had a reason to).
True.
It's ironic that the only people really capable of monitoring their children are the same people that 1. are stereotypically without social skills (and thus, without children) and/or 2. the same people who monitor grownups at work to make sure they're not doing something bad.
IMHO it is the responsibility of a parent to make sure their child isn't doing something stupid online. This means chatting with pedophiles, sending nude pictures, etc. It is the responsibilty of the parent to at least be able to check in on their child (even if that means just checking they're IE history or *gasp* asking them)
I don't mean that parents should micro-manage them or monitor every second they're online, but they should be able to at least check in on them...even if it's to keep them honest.
That's why you install both and let the program decide which ones it wants to use.
That's because you're using the wrong dictionary.
Miriam-Webster says:
and American Heritage says:People who are afraid, overreact.
Yes, the terrorists have won in this regard.
Who killed the electric car? New documentary coming up about how GM had an awesome electric car that everyone wanted...and they canceled it. Then they recalled them and junked them instead of letting people buy them outright like people wanted to. Trailer's on Apple.
New features that are wanted or improve a product are innovative. New features that are of questionable use or aren't going to be used are bloat.
To someone who just wants to fix toast in their toaster, the All New Juicy Juicer eXTREME Juice maker and Egg Fryer Super Deluxe Ultra Platinum Edition are bloat. To someone who wants eggs and juice with their toast, they are innovative features.
I personally don't use WMP because I just want to play music or a video. I don't want to know the detailed life story of the artist or who Britney is having sex with this week. I don't have an MP3 player so I don't need to automatically sync WMP with something that doesn't exist and I don't listen to CDs (they go into the closet after being ripped) so the burning feature is of questionable use. I do use the library feature (not in WMP because the last time I used WMP to try to organize my music, it decided to screw up all my ID3 tags). To me, all these nifty "features" are bloat. To Jill the teeny-bopper with an iPod who has to know all the latest nsync songs or else she'll just die, WMP is what she wants.
Bounty hunting doesn't work quite as intended when there is a big reward for a minor penalty.
I give EVE Online as an example:
EVE Online had a bounty hunting system where you could place a bounty on anyone's head that you wanted. Until that person is killed, the money just keeps adding up.
The reason it doesn't work? Griefer 1 (G1) with a bounty of 10,000,000 goes to his buddy Griefer 2 (G2) with a bounty of 10,000,000 and says "Hey, I'll let you kill me and get my bounty if you let me kill you to get your bounty." Both G1 and G2 are up 10,000,000 and the people who put up the bounty are now out of cash. This is especially true if G1 and G2 can mitigate their losses by putting their loot in the bank. As soon as the bounty reward is greater than the cost of dying, its to the griefer's benefit to die. G1 and G2 could care less whether or not the police will come after them because they think anyone not in combat areas 24/7 are carebears or wusses.
I don't know about you, but I don't have a cell phone card in my laptop (service is ~$80 for low DSL speeds last I looked) that I can get wireless internet everywhere I go. Admittedly there are lots of places nowadays where you can get a free hotspot, but I don't want to stop at a Starbucks every time I open a game.
Ghost in the Shell also plays along this line, although most people have a cybernetic brain implant in that series. One of the first episodes is when a tank designer dies and has his brain/ghost/soul implanted into the body of his new experimental tank.
Slashdot has been using the old Gnome logo for so long its becoming a running joke. They changed their logo in 2002. See the response from the Gnome foundation here.
In other words, Grandparent believes that there is a rational explaination for God and belittles God B by saying that he only works with random chance and survival of the fittest.
What he doesn't understand is that the Great Grandparent isn't saying God B is using random chance. He's saying that God B already knows what will happen a billion years in advance and has already set things in motion so that the butterfly wings don't cause a tornado. God B has already predicted the outcome, chosen the possibilities, and set his plan into motion to fulfill his goals. If that means a few Dodos die, well, it was for a reason.
Personally, I think God B still makes adjustments and likes to keep scientists on their toes just for the fun of it.
This would be like Apple adding new features to Cocoa in a new OS and only providing emulation for older Cocoa apps. All your old Cocoa apps would suddenly run slower on the new OS. With Apple, new Cocoa apps run on the old OS as long as they're not using new Cocoa specific features only available on the new OS. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) With Microsoft, you have four options:
Mind letting us poor plebs know what "big stuff" there is? The only reason I've seen so far to wipe my XP install is DX10, but since DX9 is only run in emulation, and all of my games run slow, DX10 doesn't sound very nice until I'm forced to upgrade.
Two applications:
Lotus Sametime Client
Notes Minder
Sametime client lets me have Sametime without having Lotus Notes open all the time.
Notes Minder alerts me whenever there's a meeting or email without having Notes open. Unfortunately, Notes Minder seems to have a small bug in it. It keeps saying "Ignoring Pre-Cutoff Unread Replication Activities" after running it for a few months and even though I've been able to get rid of it temporarily, I've never been able to get rid of it permanently.
That said, I absolutely loathe Lotus Notes for being excruciatingly slow.
...and I say electronic components all work on Magic Blue Smoke. Yes, I know in theory what transistors and resistors do, but I don't need to be bothered with that level of complexity and neither does the Half Orc Barbarian or Susie the Secretary. I am not electronics literate.
To them, it IS magic how their computer works. To you and me, an operating system only does what it is told to do (by some program, programmer, or operator). To Susie, it happens because the there's a new moon, she's having a bad hair day, or the computer likes/hates her that day and it is the IT department's job to beat her computer back into submission when it decides to eat her email, project report, etc.
I knew a Susie at my previous job who was afraid of her computer and I was the Sorcerer who came and fixed it when it broke. She was a real whiz when it came to Excel and Word (and knew it better than I did) because she used it every day, but didn't know the least about computers in general. Once I explained it to her in terms she could understand (the magic blue smoke escaped) she could grasp what was wrong and frequently had a correct answer to her problem before I told her what the correct answer was.
Now, I would never say that she was computer literate (semi-literate, perhaps) but that was only because she thought the computer was out to get her. Once she realized that it was something she had done (saved to the wrong directory, etc) and not something that the computer magically did because it hates her, she knew how to fix her problem and move on.
In other words, being computer literate means knowing why a computer does something, and knowing that it isn't magic.
I've come across this as well. Usually it is expressed in one sentence: "Why would anyone want to give away software for free?!" When I try to explain that some people like to program for fun/challenge of it, they just can't understand.
Yes there is.
Or, if you call Vonage and ask for information, they point you to the site and the phone number. Pretty nifty that they managed to fool Vonage's own tech support.
I don't know about the rest of the Slashdotters here, but I still see lots of job postings that ask for the alphabet soup of certifications. Now though, as opposed to around the time of the Dot Com boom, I see lots of "certifications requested" or "certifications a plus" rather than "certification required".
That is correct. Best Buy salespeople are not on commission. I don't know how long this has been so, but I talked with someone who works there (sits in the cube next to me) and he said he wasn't on commission.