So... he defending lawyer described her client as 'isolated and living in a fantasy world, spending hours... in his room where his persona could be as he made it, good or bad.'"
I guess being in a prison cell will be a whole lot different.
Check E-bay in a few months, as well as all the discount suspiciously-low-price stores through Yahoo. There are going to be a helluva lot of cheap laptop batteries for sale in "as is" condition....
"Voters must present a valid photo ID that proves US citizenship in order to vote."
Do you mean that this would be an ideal? Because there are more than a few states in the U.S. that do not require identification to vote; some require nothing, while others use different authentication methods (e.g. matching signatures).
"I'm not sure what kind of mac you're talking about, but if you bought it in 2000, it certainly can't be useful for anything more than email...."
Let's see... I have a PowerBook G3/400mhz with a slightly dated version of OS X that we still use for word processing, e-mail, web surfing, watching DVDs, iPhoto... remind me again, why is that not useful?
Or worse, I have a beige G3/333mhz minitower (same OS X) running a file server, backup server, print server, web server... remind me again, why is that not useful?
The Wikipedia article on i-names says this: "One problem XRIs are designed to solve is persistent addressing -- how to maintain an address that does not need to change no matter how often the contact data for a person or organization changes."
Uhhh... I don't want persistent addressing. I like the idea that if I really wanted to, I could change my e-mail accounts or shut down my web site I have several e-mail accounts for use with different kinds of contacts: some for shopping, some for friends, some for business. I don't mix them. I don't want to mix them.
This also sounds like what Social Security Numbers have become in the U.S.: a catch-all identification number that you are asked for by every bank, employer, insurance company, hospital, car dealership, etc. I don't want to give them all my SSN. It's private, meant for government/tax purposes, but now everyone claims they need it. If I-names become popular, will something similar happen with them? (not trying to sound alarmist, just thinking out loud)
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Besides at a price (newegg) of $115 each that is $34,500.00. That is insane. The only way you could justify spending that much money on this is if it was not going to be a nightmare to install (i.e. single box).
If it was the cost of doing business with the government, or (better yet) the cost of winning federal project bids because you have demonstrably faster data archive access than the next bidder, then $35K is dirt cheap. The only thing cheaper would be an intern.
The summary says, "Dell... has left the Windows-based player market to the four big players -- SanDisk, Samsung, Sony, and Creative."
Last I checked, the iPod works on Windows. What you really mean is that Dell has left the Microsoft DRM player market. So your "four big players" is missing a fifth larger one: Apple.
From the article: "I understand.. if you want to test a car's performance, you test the car put on road with lots of bumps on it," Marcus said. "But when you are talking about malicious code, there's a threat to public. There are professionals who know how to handle viruses. It should be left to them." (emphasis added)
Well, that's why Consumer Reports hired computer security professionals to work with on this. Maybe they're just mad that CR didn't ask them to be the security consultants... oh wait, that might be a conflict of interest for the product review. Tough.
Judging from the list of countries where the poll was taken, they generally focused on "Western" nations and completely avoided many countries that would probably appear more fundamentalist than the U.S. or Turkey. Imagine the results if we tried the survey in Iran, Bangladesh, or most other so-called "Third World" countries.
Oh wait, we're trying to show that we're the most clueless Western nation, not the most clueless nation overall. Sorry. I forgot that for a moment.
So the article says they will make an exception for "prescription medicine with a name that matches the passenger's ticket". Because we know that no terrorist would be able to forge those labels, right?
On the flip side, the U.S. Department of Transportation is completely ignoring the railway as an answer to our nation's transportation problems.
"Don't confuse stylistic influence with capability... There is nothing in the platform that says a site has to have any particular look.
First: admittedly, you are right -- people who take a lot of time to work with Drupal will get something different. However, the vast majority of Drupal sites do not stray outside the prebuilt Drupal design mindset, and this is true for Typo3 and Mambo as well. (This might not be a complaint about CMSs... maybe it's a complaint about the people who use CMSs.)
I hope they factor in the practical flexibility of a given CMS. I've tried Drupal, Typo3, and Mambo/Joomla. With all of them, you can usually tell which CMS a site uses, e.g. a Drupal site looks like a Drupal site. This is less true for Typo3 and Mambo/Joomla, I think, but admittedly I no longer have any Drupal sites set up (just Typo3 and Mambo, as far as OSS CMS software goes).
And let's talk about average users and training. The Typo3 interface is very frustrating to most of my end-users. Mambo, on the other hand, is much simpler and more streamlined. It doesn't have quite the flexibility of Typo3, but it also doesn't require learning a whole new scripting language (TypoScript) just to get simple things done.
So, though it may be construed as n00b and insufficiently geeky for Slashdot, I'd vote for Mambo... or perhaps Joomla but I haven't upgraded yet.
Admittedly this is not exhaustive, but... all of the open source CMSs I've tried have too many "community" features that need to be disabled for use in a professional environment. This is just frustrating. Is there an OSS CMS that just focuses on kick-ass content management and doesn't care about letting users contribute stories, or running discussion forums, or the like?
2. No screen. Less space than a nomad. Lame. (hint: it's not an iPod)
3. Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these? (hint: they'll call it a tomato)
4. When I was your age we didn't have RFID chips. If you needed to mark something so you could find it later, you just wrote your initials on the tag in permanent marker. (hint: check your underwear)
I am pretty sure PHP can do more than just web guestbooks. You know, little things, like running Friendster, Yahoo, and GAIA Online. I've also run apps like the OSS Horde/IMP web-based mail front-end with tens of thousands of users. I reuse PHP code all the time. And if you add in some of the code optimizers and server accelerators, you can really make PHP sing.
You also wrote, "Thanks for wasting years of my life and teaching me bad programming habits, PHP." Which bad habits would that be? There are good and bad ways of writing PHP, just like there are with ANY computer language.
From the article: "...we have to ask ourselves -- is there anything that we really need good old fashioned Real Life for any more? Is a life of doing things and meeting people as our primitive ancestors in the late 20th Century knew it becoming redundant?"
Let's assume that a billion people on Earth have the money and time to be online regularly. (this is probably more than the real number) That leaves more than five billion without such a thing. There are significant percentages of people in rural parts of the world (from Africa to America and everywhere in between) who don't even have electricity, telephones, or real plumbing. And let's not even talk about food and medicine.
The upshot? If you have the capacity for living most of your life online, and you can take all that real-life survival stuff for granted, you are enjoying a life of luxury. And the best part is that, online, you will almost never encounter those poor starving folks, so you can safely ignore their existence (just like you do on your way to Starbucks). Enjoy!
Quick check: in terms of income, how do you rank globally?
(Go ahead, mod me as a troll... I've got karma to burn.)
The big question shouldn't be "where is Firefox's percentage" but instead "how do we make Firefox more appealing to non-technical users?"
How about taking cues from Microsoft and getting Firefox preinstalled on new computers? Or follow AOL's plots and have the installer CDs available for free with new computers (or even free for the taking) at major retailers (CompUSA, Best Buy, Wal-mart, etc.).
The hard part is not the appeal of the browser. The hard part is getting people to try it. Once Firefox has its foot in the door, people will let it in the whole way.
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"What would TV coverage of this look like? ... I can't imagine this would be very entertaining to watch on live TV...."
I suppose you didn't read this recent ./ article?
So... he defending lawyer described her client as 'isolated and living in a fantasy world, spending hours... in his room where his persona could be as he made it, good or bad.'"
I guess being in a prison cell will be a whole lot different.
Check E-bay in a few months, as well as all the discount suspiciously-low-price stores through Yahoo. There are going to be a helluva lot of cheap laptop batteries for sale in "as is" condition....
You're missing the point. VaporStream is ScatterChat, but they are going to change the splash screen.
"Voters must present a valid photo ID that proves US citizenship in order to vote."
Do you mean that this would be an ideal? Because there are more than a few states in the U.S. that do not require identification to vote; some require nothing, while others use different authentication methods (e.g. matching signatures).
...but we call it electronic voting. The sentences have much bigger consequences, but are revised every four years.
(tongue firmly planted in cheek!)
"I'm not sure what kind of mac you're talking about, but if you bought it in 2000, it certainly can't be useful for anything more than email...."
Let's see... I have a PowerBook G3/400mhz with a slightly dated version of OS X that we still use for word processing, e-mail, web surfing, watching DVDs, iPhoto... remind me again, why is that not useful?
Or worse, I have a beige G3/333mhz minitower (same OS X) running a file server, backup server, print server, web server... remind me again, why is that not useful?
The Wikipedia article on i-names says this: "One problem XRIs are designed to solve is persistent addressing -- how to maintain an address that does not need to change no matter how often the contact data for a person or organization changes."
Uhhh... I don't want persistent addressing. I like the idea that if I really wanted to, I could change my e-mail accounts or shut down my web site I have several e-mail accounts for use with different kinds of contacts: some for shopping, some for friends, some for business. I don't mix them. I don't want to mix them.
This also sounds like what Social Security Numbers have become in the U.S.: a catch-all identification number that you are asked for by every bank, employer, insurance company, hospital, car dealership, etc. I don't want to give them all my SSN. It's private, meant for government/tax purposes, but now everyone claims they need it. If I-names become popular, will something similar happen with them? (not trying to sound alarmist, just thinking out loud)
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Besides at a price (newegg) of $115 each that is $34,500.00. That is insane. The only way you could justify spending that much money on this is if it was not going to be a nightmare to install (i.e. single box).
If it was the cost of doing business with the government, or (better yet) the cost of winning federal project bids because you have demonstrably faster data archive access than the next bidder, then $35K is dirt cheap. The only thing cheaper would be an intern.
The summary says, "Dell... has left the Windows-based player market to the four big players -- SanDisk, Samsung, Sony, and Creative."
Last I checked, the iPod works on Windows. What you really mean is that Dell has left the Microsoft DRM player market. So your "four big players" is missing a fifth larger one: Apple.
From the article: "I understand .. if you want to test a car's performance, you test the car put on road with lots of bumps on it," Marcus said. "But when you are talking about malicious code, there's a threat to public. There are professionals who know how to handle viruses. It should be left to them." (emphasis added)
Well, that's why Consumer Reports hired computer security professionals to work with on this. Maybe they're just mad that CR didn't ask them to be the security consultants... oh wait, that might be a conflict of interest for the product review. Tough.
Judging from the list of countries where the poll was taken, they generally focused on "Western" nations and completely avoided many countries that would probably appear more fundamentalist than the U.S. or Turkey. Imagine the results if we tried the survey in Iran, Bangladesh, or most other so-called "Third World" countries.
Oh wait, we're trying to show that we're the most clueless Western nation, not the most clueless nation overall. Sorry. I forgot that for a moment.
And if you use disposable credit card numbers, then even that will be useless to them after your purchase.
So the article says they will make an exception for "prescription medicine with a name that matches the passenger's ticket". Because we know that no terrorist would be able to forge those labels, right?
On the flip side, the U.S. Department of Transportation is completely ignoring the railway as an answer to our nation's transportation problems.
Your opinion is shared by many... but see this other post on Slashdot for my response.
"Don't confuse stylistic influence with capability... There is nothing in the platform that says a site has to have any particular look.
First: admittedly, you are right -- people who take a lot of time to work with Drupal will get something different. However, the vast majority of Drupal sites do not stray outside the prebuilt Drupal design mindset, and this is true for Typo3 and Mambo as well. (This might not be a complaint about CMSs... maybe it's a complaint about the people who use CMSs.)
Second: you meant to link to http://www.theonion.com (no "l"), which is a good site.
I hope they factor in the practical flexibility of a given CMS. I've tried Drupal, Typo3, and Mambo/Joomla. With all of them, you can usually tell which CMS a site uses, e.g. a Drupal site looks like a Drupal site. This is less true for Typo3 and Mambo/Joomla, I think, but admittedly I no longer have any Drupal sites set up (just Typo3 and Mambo, as far as OSS CMS software goes).
And let's talk about average users and training. The Typo3 interface is very frustrating to most of my end-users. Mambo, on the other hand, is much simpler and more streamlined. It doesn't have quite the flexibility of Typo3, but it also doesn't require learning a whole new scripting language (TypoScript) just to get simple things done.
So, though it may be construed as n00b and insufficiently geeky for Slashdot, I'd vote for Mambo... or perhaps Joomla but I haven't upgraded yet.
Admittedly this is not exhaustive, but... all of the open source CMSs I've tried have too many "community" features that need to be disabled for use in a professional environment. This is just frustrating. Is there an OSS CMS that just focuses on kick-ass content management and doesn't care about letting users contribute stories, or running discussion forums, or the like?
Don't forget my favorite: http://www.rubyonrails.org/index.php
Omigosh. That's hilarious. Must be that Ruby On Rails is just too powerful to run a typical web site.
1. But does it run Linux? (hint: no)
2. No screen. Less space than a nomad. Lame. (hint: it's not an iPod)
3. Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these? (hint: they'll call it a tomato)
4. When I was your age we didn't have RFID chips. If you needed to mark something so you could find it later, you just wrote your initials on the tag in permanent marker. (hint: check your underwear)
I am pretty sure PHP can do more than just web guestbooks. You know, little things, like running Friendster, Yahoo, and GAIA Online. I've also run apps like the OSS Horde/IMP web-based mail front-end with tens of thousands of users. I reuse PHP code all the time. And if you add in some of the code optimizers and server accelerators, you can really make PHP sing.
You also wrote, "Thanks for wasting years of my life and teaching me bad programming habits, PHP." Which bad habits would that be? There are good and bad ways of writing PHP, just like there are with ANY computer language.
If you can afford Starbucks (especially regularly), then on a global scale, you are living in extreme luxury.
The "on your way to Starbucks" comment is drawn from the article, where the author refers to going to Starbucks to use the Internet access there.
From the article: "...we have to ask ourselves -- is there anything that we really need good old fashioned Real Life for any more? Is a life of doing things and meeting people as our primitive ancestors in the late 20th Century knew it becoming redundant?"
Let's assume that a billion people on Earth have the money and time to be online regularly. (this is probably more than the real number) That leaves more than five billion without such a thing. There are significant percentages of people in rural parts of the world (from Africa to America and everywhere in between) who don't even have electricity, telephones, or real plumbing. And let's not even talk about food and medicine.
The upshot? If you have the capacity for living most of your life online, and you can take all that real-life survival stuff for granted, you are enjoying a life of luxury. And the best part is that, online, you will almost never encounter those poor starving folks, so you can safely ignore their existence (just like you do on your way to Starbucks). Enjoy!
Quick check: in terms of income, how do you rank globally?
(Go ahead, mod me as a troll... I've got karma to burn.)
I posted the thing and even I can't figure out how it is even remotely informative. *scratching head*
/. really is going downhill, I guess.
The big question shouldn't be "where is Firefox's percentage" but instead "how do we make Firefox more appealing to non-technical users?"
How about taking cues from Microsoft and getting Firefox preinstalled on new computers? Or follow AOL's plots and have the installer CDs available for free with new computers (or even free for the taking) at major retailers (CompUSA, Best Buy, Wal-mart, etc.).
The hard part is not the appeal of the browser. The hard part is getting people to try it. Once Firefox has its foot in the door, people will let it in the whole way.