I never have to do that. I just sit down and the first time it asks me for my initials. Must be your setup or the way IT set it up. I have never had that before at college or the jobs I had after college. All times I have had to log in at multiple locations.
This whole discussion has been said many time on/. but for all this time most of the Open Source products I have used have had no improvements in this area. Either they aren't listening, are ignoring or don't know how to do this.
M$ products are really easy to use for the people that use them.
To make OS products more widely used they have to be easy and intuitive for your common non-geek user to use. This is an area we have failed in before. The products that are easy and intuitive to use from OS do well.
Note to developers... this is a very very very big deal if you want your product picked up. It's not just how good your product is at doing the technicalities but how easy you can do them with.
Open source is an ideal, it works with people who agree with it (us geeks), but when you try to apply an ideal to something else it won't work (hey lets never have sex so we can make a baby! for example).
I don't get the lets never have sex to make a baby as compared to open source remark
I would say if you want to compare sex to open source it would be like hookers being free. Hey, maybe the open source model should be applied to other industries.
I just saw "Comic Book the Movie" staring and directed my Mark Hammil. I do believe that this movie does show many of the reasons why it does not hit major mainstream. I love comics but some of the people who are all about comics just plain creep me out. There is that stigma and it scares many self proclaimed (and they want to be that way) "normal" people away.
Yes, I do realize those guys are prolly mods on/. so let the flamebait mods begin.
Modern Electronica, House, Techno, etc actually came from Detroit, Michigan, USA. THe Motor City. Every year there is the Detroit Electronic Music Festival.
Ah, the problem I have seen is that it doesn't work. It drags my job out for hours longer that it needs to be, makes it really boring and I spend more time dealing with crap than actual work.
Large Corperations with loads of money just seem to go fo M$ software. Doesn't matter how good it is or if it gets the job done they just use it. That is the problem I run into.
There seems to be a lack of knowledge where I work in general about such things and that is the problem.
To be honest the easiest way to prolly to upgrade to digital equipment and save it all as compressed video. That is a lot smaller, easier and cheaper to deal with. VHS is very very outdated for this purpose and was never really used at the pro level. Suprisingly they continued to use beta. That kind of digital storage wouldn't be that bad.
This would make Lucas the Puff Daddy of Movies. Taking existing good movies and "remixing" them to put out something not near as good as the origional.
What your saying is where we draw the line of what can be said. Some people want it at one place, others at another and still more at another. Where do we draw the line then? At the most conservative point. I prolly wouldn't listen to that. At the most liberal point. Well then anything could be said (and many things that are way beyond what you would consider listening to or seeing on tv). Somewhere in the middle. Then it becomes a judgement call. That's what you are debating and that's something I'm sure neither of us is really qualified to do.
I have read many complaints here. And I want to get somethign straight. There is complaining because a bunch of tv stations with a lot of money have to record and keep on file what their overpaid broadcasters say/do on air. This is in case they do something they are not allowed to do so they can be held laible for their actions.
I'm sorry. If someone does something they know is wrong and do it on the air... then they should just own up. There are consequences to your actions. If they screw up they can own up.
So what your saying is that people like howard stern should not be liable for what comes out of their mouths. I am held liable for what I say at every job I have ever had. How is he above that? Because he is a celebrity? Please explain it to me.
"Doesn't the government have better things to do?"
What will the government actually be doing? They hand down the law. It's up to the broadcasters to implement it. What, from teh lawsuits the courts will be busy. Maybe by a part of a fraction more than they already are.
general public read this my a%$
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Honestly who in the general public would want to read this. My guess is that it will just sit on a few college library shelve for a couple students over the next 30 years to look up a couple things in. What is the point of writing it?
I beg to differ. I had an older car and it lasted well past 200k miles with little effort. My buddy has a truck with over 300k miles on it and it runs fine with little work.
I work with reliability. I'm telling you it suffers. At least in american cars. Foreign it doesn't. This is speaking from knowledge.
There are 2 big areas that suffer in this faster life cycle.
1) Reliability - products will be more prone to fail. But, I guess this just forces you to go out and get a new one. Kind of like how many cars are now "disposable". You have them for a couple years and dispose of them to get new ones. 2) Quality - They aren't the quality products they used to be. They sure don't build them like they used to.
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Wait... what do I care. In 200 years I'll be dead.
I never have to do that. I just sit down and the first time it asks me for my initials. Must be your setup or the way IT set it up. I have never had that before at college or the jobs I had after college. All times I have had to log in at multiple locations.
This whole discussion has been said many time on /. but for all this time most of the Open Source products I have used have had no improvements in this area. Either they aren't listening, are ignoring or don't know how to do this.
M$ products are really easy to use for the people that use them.
To make OS products more widely used they have to be easy and intuitive for your common non-geek user to use. This is an area we have failed in before. The products that are easy and intuitive to use from OS do well.
Note to developers... this is a very very very big deal if you want your product picked up. It's not just how good your product is at doing the technicalities but how easy you can do them with.
Open source is an ideal, it works with people who agree with it (us geeks), but when you try to apply an ideal to something else it won't work (hey lets never have sex so we can make a baby! for example).
I don't get the lets never have sex to make a baby as compared to open source remark
I would say if you want to compare sex to open source it would be like hookers being free. Hey, maybe the open source model should be applied to other industries.
If he ever goes bad we won't have to worry about finding him. The US can target a couple missles at him and sit back. No searching like for Saddam.
If he pisses us off, an arm chair soldier could take him out. Just like a vid game.
If your gonna cut it out odds are you don't really cares what happens to him. I say use an ax. It'll be more fun that way.
I just saw "Comic Book the Movie" staring and directed my Mark Hammil. I do believe that this movie does show many of the reasons why it does not hit major mainstream. I love comics but some of the people who are all about comics just plain creep me out. There is that stigma and it scares many self proclaimed (and they want to be that way) "normal" people away.
/. so let the flamebait mods begin.
Yes, I do realize those guys are prolly mods on
Modern Electronica, House, Techno, etc actually came from Detroit, Michigan, USA. THe Motor City. Every year there is the Detroit Electronic Music Festival.
Now we will all need biosuits with built in tin foil hats.
in other 'news' welders can be used to make bad things.
Maybe Some Bad Ass things
A 3 breasted blue haired girl with a nymphomaniac obsession for men with glasses and a fetish for Moutain Dew....
A boss that looks just like her and will let you "work" from home every day
Ah, the problem I have seen is that it doesn't work. It drags my job out for hours longer that it needs to be, makes it really boring and I spend more time dealing with crap than actual work.
Large Corperations with loads of money just seem to go fo M$ software. Doesn't matter how good it is or if it gets the job done they just use it. That is the problem I run into.
There seems to be a lack of knowledge where I work in general about such things and that is the problem.
To be honest the easiest way to prolly to upgrade to digital equipment and save it all as compressed video. That is a lot smaller, easier and cheaper to deal with. VHS is very very outdated for this purpose and was never really used at the pro level. Suprisingly they continued to use beta. That kind of digital storage wouldn't be that bad.
This would make Lucas the Puff Daddy of Movies. Taking existing good movies and "remixing" them to put out something not near as good as the origional.
I think I sense a bit of anger there.
What your saying is where we draw the line of what can be said. Some people want it at one place, others at another and still more at another. Where do we draw the line then? At the most conservative point. I prolly wouldn't listen to that. At the most liberal point. Well then anything could be said (and many things that are way beyond what you would consider listening to or seeing on tv). Somewhere in the middle. Then it becomes a judgement call. That's what you are debating and that's something I'm sure neither of us is really qualified to do.
I have read many complaints here. And I want to get somethign straight. There is complaining because a bunch of tv stations with a lot of money have to record and keep on file what their overpaid broadcasters say/do on air. This is in case they do something they are not allowed to do so they can be held laible for their actions.
I'm sorry. If someone does something they know is wrong and do it on the air... then they should just own up. There are consequences to your actions. If they screw up they can own up.
So what your saying is that people like howard stern should not be liable for what comes out of their mouths. I am held liable for what I say at every job I have ever had. How is he above that? Because he is a celebrity? Please explain it to me.
"Doesn't the government have better things to do?"
What will the government actually be doing? They hand down the law. It's up to the broadcasters to implement it. What, from teh lawsuits the courts will be busy. Maybe by a part of a fraction more than they already are.
Honestly who in the general public would want to read this. My guess is that it will just sit on a few college library shelve for a couple students over the next 30 years to look up a couple things in. What is the point of writing it?
I beg to differ. I had an older car and it lasted well past 200k miles with little effort. My buddy has a truck with over 300k miles on it and it runs fine with little work.
I work with reliability. I'm telling you it suffers. At least in american cars. Foreign it doesn't. This is speaking from knowledge.
Does this mean that I could get a call on a private line with with my number on the do not call list from overseas? Kind of like spam for my phone.
There are 2 big areas that suffer in this faster life cycle.
1) Reliability - products will be more prone to fail. But, I guess this just forces you to go out and get a new one. Kind of like how many cars are now "disposable". You have them for a couple years and dispose of them to get new ones.
2) Quality - They aren't the quality products they used to be. They sure don't build them like they used to.
Am I the only person who dosen't want to "get them working" and just want them to work out of the box?
maybe the best way is for the fedora developers to take nhote of this and fix it. he is even telling them how.