I never saw the original Lego story, but that is the coolest shit I've seen all day. Most people don't realize that the AND, OR, and NOT gate pretty much make up everything that's sitting in front of them inside their computer.
It's amazing to think how such simple components can be used to create such complex devices.
Keep in mind this was purchased from another company where in the real world you have to release products that works on several versions of Windows.
I think this is a step back for microsoft. They should have incorporated this into a service pack. It would make the OS seem stable. It would provide much more value. And it would give people a reason to upgrade (good for microsoft).
I think even the most "I don't give a shit, just make it work" customers may even see this as just a band-aid. This is like Ford putting up a huge guardrail 2 inches in front of the windshield because the seat belts were coming lose and people were flying all over the place.
This is what I was thinking too. They should help out openoffice. If it was as fast as word to open documents and had better.doc compatibility, then it's popularity would soar. I think the major shortcomings of openoffice are just the boring interface, speed, and office compatibility. Other than that, it's functional enough to replace office for most users.
Yeah, the trick is to find the right store to buy them in. My mother knows of a deli on her work route that sells some weird brand phone cards (I think they fall off the truck on their way to NYC). I don't remember the name, "gold" something, and it's probably not important since they're going to vary so much around the country, but she claims they are a much better deal than the AT&T ones from walmart when calling friends in Ireland.
My point is, don't worry about using the latest technology, just shop around to find the best deals.
I'm a computer engineering student and for that they make us take some comp sci courses. In comp sci 2 and especially 3, they stressed UML very much. For each large assignment, we had to do class, state, and relationship diagrams. I'm torn if it was a waste of time. On one hand, it wasn't difficult and it was a good way to get an idea of how to start the program. On the other hand, we were learning UML as we were learning C++ so we'd end up changing so much when coding that it wasn't much use afterwords.
Making these diagrams was a pain too. I tried many programs such as Dia, Kivio, Umbrello, and Visio using crossover office. None worked that well which was frustrating since as a student, I'm not going to shell out big bucks for a real program. Btw, visio was given to us for free from good ol' microsoft through some student program.
In my very limited experience, we just used it to hammer out an idea for a program to show class relationships and not much more.
I share your sentiment. We, Americans, have gone completely insane. Our culture seems to have gone from hardworking, sane individuals to a group of zombies desperately searching for something our culture will never give them.
I blame television. If you watch the major stations, you have to be insane. In the morning, you have Matt Lauer and Katie Couric pretending to be happy and nice to each other. Then the daytime television starts and it basically consists of people fighting with or cheating on each other. Apparently this daily banter is supposed to be drama. Then the early evening news comes and everything bad that happened to day is shown to you so fast you can't comprehend it. Primetime television starts with reality shows. This gets me the most. They present these people with no talent or morals are somehow special enough for our attention. Then late news comes which restates the earlier news. Then somewhere in this, people fall asleep hoping tomorrow won't be so empty.
Teenagers watching MTV get an even more twisted view of reality. Here, rap and pop stars are treated like gods when all they've really done is sold their name and fact to some record company. The worse the person, the more coverage they seem to get.
I don't watch this dribble on television, but I'm not saying I'm any better. We Americans have to recognize how these companies and politicians are mind fucking us all to buy their crap and promote the values they want us to have.
I think for a few weeks after 9/11, Americans got a little saner, but then things went back to the way they were. It's scary how hundreds of millions of people can live in the land of opportunity and just sit on their asses watching television while their country is being sold out right in front of them.
Sorry if that was off topic, but it seemed like a good time for a rant.
This guy is exactly right and any posts saying that apt or udev or hal or qt or gtk or hotplug have already solved the problem is missing the points. Those are optional add-ons that other people had to make to try and solve the problem, but obviously came short since we're still dealing with them.
I'm not saying windows is perfect, but why do people think that should be the benchmark? Linux needs standards. Some of Linus' stature should create an organization that oversees what becomes a "standard desktop linux component". You want the hypothetical Penguin sticker on devices and software at the local computer store? Then this is the only way other companies will take the gamble of saying their product works with linux.
For most distros, I'd agree with you. However, since this is based off Gentoo that's known for its somewhat difficult installation, I think it's relevant. Seeing the screenshots gives people an idea of what is going to happen and makes them feel more comfortable about installing the operating system.
The Pentium M is a combination of the P3 and P4. The P4 is still slow at very high clock speeds compared to Athlons because of the long pipes. The doesn't. So a P3 running at speeds of a P4 makes for a faster processor, if I've read correctly.
Remember how the P4 was slower than the P3 when it was introduced? They assumed a high clock speed would have fixed this problem, instead it just made a lot more heat. I've seen a 3.4 ghz P4 get hot enough to burn skin.
Exactly. Intel has been around for a while and AMD was always playing catch-up. Now AMD has faster processors, but Intel is still a huge and powerful company to deal with. Their name recognition is still very strong.
I think it's great they are investing $2 billion in America. I think it's great to see American companies invest for the future and compete with each other.
They're popular in part because engineers know how to program them based on previous experience. It's nice to have some background on the ins and outs of a new CPU before you start designing stuff for it.
Then again, backwards compatibility of code that's already compiled is what keeps the x86 architecture thriving.
I second that. Over my summer office job, I had one headphone over one ear listening to Howard Stern so I could hear the secretary yell "Where's your fucking time sheet?"
I know this isn't on topic, but after reading the article and seeing how difficult it was to get SP2 out the door, I wonder about their goals for Longhorn.
I keep reading how longhorn is going to have wonderful new features and things nobody knows they need. However, I think that most users just want the stuff in windows xp to work the way it should. Longhorn should be a hardened Windows XP SP2.
That might actually be the incentive for the companies that still run windows 2000 for stability to switch over. That is their market.
Consumers are going to get windows when they buy new computer. I don't care how many linspire running walmart PCs are sold, Dell and HP are selling them with windows.
Their competition is beating them on stability and ease of use, not cool groundbreaking new features. Most computer users just want the PC to be easier to use, not more complicated with new file systems and taskbars with more crap on them.
People are switching to firefox from IE mainly for the enhanced security and tabbed browsing. Okay, tabbed browsing shouldn't be too difficult to copy to IE, but security is the reason techies are putting that little fox icon on peoples' desktops.
I think they've done a good job with SP2, but I think that people just want the computer to work and are indifferent to the bells and whistles appearing in longhorn betas.
I suppose it was more of a knee-jerk reaction when I saw that word. It's starting to become the new "para-dig-um" of overused and out of context phrases.
But yes, you are correct. This is the one time the word was used properly.
well, it is open source so everything you need is already there, so I guess you're just saying to make it easier. Not a bad idea. If the gimp people focused on the algorithms and other designers could easily make their own front end, then I think gimp would progress a lot faster than it currently does.
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I never saw the original Lego story, but that is the coolest shit I've seen all day. Most people don't realize that the AND, OR, and NOT gate pretty much make up everything that's sitting in front of them inside their computer.
It's amazing to think how such simple components can be used to create such complex devices.
Keep in mind this was purchased from another company where in the real world you have to release products that works on several versions of Windows.
I think this is a step back for microsoft. They should have incorporated this into a service pack. It would make the OS seem stable. It would provide much more value. And it would give people a reason to upgrade (good for microsoft).
I think even the most "I don't give a shit, just make it work" customers may even see this as just a band-aid. This is like Ford putting up a huge guardrail 2 inches in front of the windshield because the seat belts were coming lose and people were flying all over the place.
2.6?? That's like a year old! Try 2.6.10-bk6 with NPTL and Reiser4, then maybe you'll impress.
This is what I was thinking too. They should help out openoffice. If it was as fast as word to open documents and had better .doc compatibility, then it's popularity would soar. I think the major shortcomings of openoffice are just the boring interface, speed, and office compatibility. Other than that, it's functional enough to replace office for most users.
I think if they catered to young kids who wanted to get piss ass drunk, they might succeed.
Seriously. Take a look at Cancun. It's not that less artificial.
It belongs to Id under US laws, so I'd recommend you don't share it with us. It probably won't hurt anybody, but I don't think /. needs the headache.
Yeah, the trick is to find the right store to buy them in. My mother knows of a deli on her work route that sells some weird brand phone cards (I think they fall off the truck on their way to NYC). I don't remember the name, "gold" something, and it's probably not important since they're going to vary so much around the country, but she claims they are a much better deal than the AT&T ones from walmart when calling friends in Ireland.
My point is, don't worry about using the latest technology, just shop around to find the best deals.
I'm a computer engineering student and for that they make us take some comp sci courses. In comp sci 2 and especially 3, they stressed UML very much. For each large assignment, we had to do class, state, and relationship diagrams. I'm torn if it was a waste of time. On one hand, it wasn't difficult and it was a good way to get an idea of how to start the program. On the other hand, we were learning UML as we were learning C++ so we'd end up changing so much when coding that it wasn't much use afterwords.
Making these diagrams was a pain too. I tried many programs such as Dia, Kivio, Umbrello, and Visio using crossover office. None worked that well which was frustrating since as a student, I'm not going to shell out big bucks for a real program. Btw, visio was given to us for free from good ol' microsoft through some student program.
In my very limited experience, we just used it to hammer out an idea for a program to show class relationships and not much more.
I just made a dumb joke and somebody actually modded this up "interesting" ?? Then you get modded down for pointing that out.
More information in this article that may be helpful. I think this is potentially a very serious problem.
some true innovation!
...that this is an old, outdated, and unfunny joke.
I share your sentiment. We, Americans, have gone completely insane. Our culture seems to have gone from hardworking, sane individuals to a group of zombies desperately searching for something our culture will never give them.
I blame television. If you watch the major stations, you have to be insane. In the morning, you have Matt Lauer and Katie Couric pretending to be happy and nice to each other. Then the daytime television starts and it basically consists of people fighting with or cheating on each other. Apparently this daily banter is supposed to be drama. Then the early evening news comes and everything bad that happened to day is shown to you so fast you can't comprehend it. Primetime television starts with reality shows. This gets me the most. They present these people with no talent or morals are somehow special enough for our attention. Then late news comes which restates the earlier news. Then somewhere in this, people fall asleep hoping tomorrow won't be so empty.
Teenagers watching MTV get an even more twisted view of reality. Here, rap and pop stars are treated like gods when all they've really done is sold their name and fact to some record company. The worse the person, the more coverage they seem to get.
I don't watch this dribble on television, but I'm not saying I'm any better. We Americans have to recognize how these companies and politicians are mind fucking us all to buy their crap and promote the values they want us to have.
I think for a few weeks after 9/11, Americans got a little saner, but then things went back to the way they were. It's scary how hundreds of millions of people can live in the land of opportunity and just sit on their asses watching television while their country is being sold out right in front of them.
Sorry if that was off topic, but it seemed like a good time for a rant.
This guy is exactly right and any posts saying that apt or udev or hal or qt or gtk or hotplug have already solved the problem is missing the points. Those are optional add-ons that other people had to make to try and solve the problem, but obviously came short since we're still dealing with them.
I'm not saying windows is perfect, but why do people think that should be the benchmark? Linux needs standards. Some of Linus' stature should create an organization that oversees what becomes a "standard desktop linux component". You want the hypothetical Penguin sticker on devices and software at the local computer store? Then this is the only way other companies will take the gamble of saying their product works with linux.
For most distros, I'd agree with you. However, since this is based off Gentoo that's known for its somewhat difficult installation, I think it's relevant. Seeing the screenshots gives people an idea of what is going to happen and makes them feel more comfortable about installing the operating system.
The Pentium M is a combination of the P3 and P4. The P4 is still slow at very high clock speeds compared to Athlons because of the long pipes. The doesn't. So a P3 running at speeds of a P4 makes for a faster processor, if I've read correctly.
Remember how the P4 was slower than the P3 when it was introduced? They assumed a high clock speed would have fixed this problem, instead it just made a lot more heat. I've seen a 3.4 ghz P4 get hot enough to burn skin.
Exactly. Intel has been around for a while and AMD was always playing catch-up. Now AMD has faster processors, but Intel is still a huge and powerful company to deal with. Their name recognition is still very strong.
I think it's great they are investing $2 billion in America. I think it's great to see American companies invest for the future and compete with each other.
I think they were hosting the site on an iPod.
They're popular in part because engineers know how to program them based on previous experience. It's nice to have some background on the ins and outs of a new CPU before you start designing stuff for it.
Then again, backwards compatibility of code that's already compiled is what keeps the x86 architecture thriving.
I second that. Over my summer office job, I had one headphone over one ear listening to Howard Stern so I could hear the secretary yell "Where's your fucking time sheet?"
I know this isn't on topic, but after reading the article and seeing how difficult it was to get SP2 out the door, I wonder about their goals for Longhorn.
I keep reading how longhorn is going to have wonderful new features and things nobody knows they need. However, I think that most users just want the stuff in windows xp to work the way it should. Longhorn should be a hardened Windows XP SP2.
That might actually be the incentive for the companies that still run windows 2000 for stability to switch over. That is their market.
Consumers are going to get windows when they buy new computer. I don't care how many linspire running walmart PCs are sold, Dell and HP are selling them with windows.
Their competition is beating them on stability and ease of use, not cool groundbreaking new features. Most computer users just want the PC to be easier to use, not more complicated with new file systems and taskbars with more crap on them.
People are switching to firefox from IE mainly for the enhanced security and tabbed browsing. Okay, tabbed browsing shouldn't be too difficult to copy to IE, but security is the reason techies are putting that little fox icon on peoples' desktops.
I think they've done a good job with SP2, but I think that people just want the computer to work and are indifferent to the bells and whistles appearing in longhorn betas.
should have read "Wal-Marts' RFID Plans Slowed"
I suppose it was more of a knee-jerk reaction when I saw that word. It's starting to become the new "para-dig-um" of overused and out of context phrases.
But yes, you are correct. This is the one time the word was used properly.
Does the marketing department have to defile everything an engineer creates?
well, it is open source so everything you need is already there, so I guess you're just saying to make it easier. Not a bad idea. If the gimp people focused on the algorithms and other designers could easily make their own front end, then I think gimp would progress a lot faster than it currently does.