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If I can't see examples of OpenBSD running Gnome with transparent Conky over a red Lamborghini Murcielago wallpaper and maybe some cascading green character columns like the Matrix, I'm going back to Ubuntu.
I think I'm not good enough, or attractive enough, so I commit crimes?
"Self esteem" is a modern, lofty-sounding excuse for poor behaviour. It's another vague concept about which our society's dung-beetle PhDs (Piled High and Deeper) can maunder and publish to ensure gainful employment.
Mental hypochondriacs then catch the meme-virus and suddenly they are victims of a cruel world, imagining things that never really happened to them as "root causes" of their unhappiness.
He confirmed it to me by e-mail today at 01:18 EST.
The trick, you see, is to e-mail Mr Jobs at the end of the week sometime between midnight and 02:00.
His personal assistants have long passed out from being driven to exhaustion. He's a little tired himself after a week of turning the crushed egos of virgin flunkies into Magical Devices. He forgets that he is the Willy Wonka Of Technology (TM) and the Greatest Living Proponent Of The Turtleneck (TM) and that I am a worthless middle-aged code monkey with debts, a family, a 12 year old Volvo that I call the Swedish Hooker, and a 15 year old bicycle that I use most of the time because I can't afford to ride the Swedish Hooker.
I ask him questions about various things such as home maintenance, tax deductions, and how to cook for four people on a shoestring budget. He always answers.
Here, before the court of Slashdot, I admit that I have committed the heinous sins of
a) disobeying laywers for my own private, non-profit use, experimentation, and curiosity, without hurting ANYONE; and
b) angering a Stallmanite.
So great is my ethical decay that I don't even know which is worse!
I know I am fortunate to live in a country where I will not be imprisoned or put to death for what I have done. If all flouters of EULAs were sent to the Moon or forced to work on GNU Hurd, just imagine what a better world this would be.
Dock on the left side. The sleep mode gives me instant-on operation and extends the stock battery life to 8 hours.
OS X renders beautifully. This is a great netbook experience. Of course, it's a hack... But it's a glorious hack.
If there's one thing that is not optimal, it's the Apple menu across the top of the screen. I suggest that Ubuntu for netbooks have the horizontal menu extend from the left-side dock. Or hide the menu automatically.
Were you allowed to sleep at home? Did you even read the article?
I don't know how old you are, but you have forgotten all the principles for which the citizens who lived before you fought and died. If you're young, you have MUCH to learn because your education has been a failure. If you are old, you have even given up thinking or given up compassion.
The changes between 5.6 and 5.8 or 5.8 and 5.10 are huge.
I can only speak for myself, a long-time Perl programmer, but the most significant change for me in this range of versions is Unicode support. The Perl designers added the Switch statement, which I never used, and now in 5.12 they are deprecating it because of problems.
I find with Perl and C++ that I only use a lucid, practical subset of the possible functionality. I leave all the high-minded theoretical conversations about applying abstruse features to my better educated colleagues. (o;
I haven't looked over the full changes list for 5.12 yet, but it sure isn't the language Perl 5 was in 2000.
As a result of my primitive, ignorant approach to programming, I find that Perl in 2010 is very much the same language that I started using 12 years ago. I call this a strength of the language and one of the reasons why learning Perl has been an excellent investment.
Of all the lessons I have learned the hard or the easy way, I wish I had had someone like you to tell me this when I first started working in the software industry.
OSX will build on ARM without a problem and the ARM CPU would be better than the Intel Atom in a netbook.
However, as the world inside the Reality Distortion Field now knows, netbooks will never sell because no one really wants them and anyway, as a failed product, they have been replaced by the magical iPad.
Ideally, you are reading this post a) on your iPhone or b) while waiting in line to buy your Really Big iPhone.
'Our single greatest asset is the innovation and the ingenuity and creativity of the American people [...] It is essential to our prosperity and it will only become more so in this century. But it's only a competitive advantage if our companies know that someone else can't just steal that idea and duplicate it with cheaper inputs and labor.'
TRANSLATION:
"Our single greatest asset is the innovation and the ingenuity and the creativity of the American Lawyer. As our education system collapses and laziness and ignorance steadily increase until the Constitution is entirely without meaning and it becomes impossible for our society to function without coercion -- we expect lawyers to bring home enough cash to sustain not just their coke habits but also our military... with a small amount of funds possibly left over for health care (but don't bet on it). We won't have the money in this century to bully anyone with our military capabilities, so we're counting on our lawyers to win the important battles."
I like it a lot. It makes me sad that Apple is forcing me to install another OS sooner rather than later. Right now I have OS X Tiger, but won't update it further.
Is this because the Mini can't run Leopard?
With the iPad coming, I'll probably work to switch to that. I'm confident the Papers folk with have an edition for iPad.
I had been excited about the iPad before it was announced, but the product disappointed me, personally. I think a netbook is a better all-round companion device.
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If I can't see examples of OpenBSD running Gnome with transparent Conky over a red Lamborghini Murcielago wallpaper and maybe some cascading green character columns like the Matrix, I'm going back to Ubuntu.
I think I'm not good enough, or attractive enough, so I commit crimes?
"Self esteem" is a modern, lofty-sounding excuse for poor behaviour. It's another vague concept about which our society's dung-beetle PhDs (Piled High and Deeper) can maunder and publish to ensure gainful employment.
Mental hypochondriacs then catch the meme-virus and suddenly they are victims of a cruel world, imagining things that never really happened to them as "root causes" of their unhappiness.
He confirmed it to me by e-mail today at 01:18 EST.
The trick, you see, is to e-mail Mr Jobs at the end of the week sometime between midnight and 02:00.
His personal assistants have long passed out from being driven to exhaustion. He's a little tired himself after a week of turning the crushed egos of virgin flunkies into Magical Devices. He forgets that he is the Willy Wonka Of Technology (TM) and the Greatest Living Proponent Of The Turtleneck (TM) and that I am a worthless middle-aged code monkey with debts, a family, a 12 year old Volvo that I call the Swedish Hooker, and a 15 year old bicycle that I use most of the time because I can't afford to ride the Swedish Hooker.
I ask him questions about various things such as home maintenance, tax deductions, and how to cook for four people on a shoestring budget. He always answers.
Sir, your honour is indeed impugned. You post on Slashdot. (o;
I ended support for Microsoft products a few years ago.
Isn't that how the Matrix supposedly started?
No need to do anything. The sequels will self-destruct.
Most Righteous Stallmanite,
Here, before the court of Slashdot, I admit that I have committed the heinous sins of
a) disobeying laywers for my own private, non-profit use, experimentation, and curiosity, without hurting ANYONE; and
b) angering a Stallmanite.
So great is my ethical decay that I don't even know which is worse!
I know I am fortunate to live in a country where I will not be imprisoned or put to death for what I have done. If all flouters of EULAs were sent to the Moon or forced to work on GNU Hurd, just imagine what a better world this would be.
Up Yours Sincerely,
A Penitent EULA Flouter
I have OS X on a Dell Mini 10v.
Dock on the left side. The sleep mode gives me instant-on operation and extends the stock battery life to 8 hours.
OS X renders beautifully. This is a great netbook experience. Of course, it's a hack... But it's a glorious hack.
If there's one thing that is not optimal, it's the Apple menu across the top of the screen. I suggest that Ubuntu for netbooks have the horizontal menu extend from the left-side dock. Or hide the menu automatically.
Voyager 2's flight data system [...] formats information before beaming it back to Earth
"Damn it, we should have used XML!"
(ducks)
I'm an idiot. Austria != Australia.
Dubya, it's a dubyous honour to see you here on Slashdot.
"from the well-that-doesn't-make-me-feel-better dept."
Where's the zip, the punch in your writing? This is the news business! If Larry Wall can be funny AND write Perl code, so can you!
Suggestions:
"from the All Your ATM Are Belong To Us dept"
"from the Who Says Cybercrime Doesn't Pay dept."
"from the Your Money Is In Good Hands -- NOT dept"
"from the Can We Have Human Tellers Again dept"
"from the It'll Be The Debit Of Me dept."
"Mommy! Make Timmy give me the toy!"
"Batman with a tracheotomy" is the only way I can describe it.
Your words are extreme, don't you think?
Resistance to change of *some* types is due to generational refusal, I agree.
Of course our elders want to keep what they have. As people grow older, they focus more on their own security.
The young, once old, will do the same.
Give the older generation a good pension and full healthcare and I suspect they will step aside and let the OMIGOD Generation break all the toys.
Did you have have sick days and vacation?
Health benefits for you and your family?
Regulations for workplace health and safety?
Did you have labour laws to protect you?
Were you allowed to sleep at home? Did you even read the article?
I don't know how old you are, but you have forgotten all the principles for which the citizens who lived before you fought and died. If you're young, you have MUCH to learn because your education has been a failure. If you are old, you have even given up thinking or given up compassion.
BeOS, AmigaOS User Groups Say OS/2 Not As Worthy Of Rebirth As Their OS, Scuffle Ensues
General Availability (GA) Release 2.0 Of eComStation Announced For Autumn 2009
The changes between 5.6 and 5.8 or 5.8 and 5.10 are huge.
I can only speak for myself, a long-time Perl programmer, but the most significant change for me in this range of versions is Unicode support. The Perl designers added the Switch statement, which I never used, and now in 5.12 they are deprecating it because of problems.
I find with Perl and C++ that I only use a lucid, practical subset of the possible functionality. I leave all the high-minded theoretical conversations about applying abstruse features to my better educated colleagues. (o;
I haven't looked over the full changes list for 5.12 yet, but it sure isn't the language Perl 5 was in 2000.
As a result of my primitive, ignorant approach to programming, I find that Perl in 2010 is very much the same language that I started using 12 years ago. I call this a strength of the language and one of the reasons why learning Perl has been an excellent investment.
Dear Grumpy Graybeard,
Of all the lessons I have learned the hard or the easy way, I wish I had had someone like you to tell me this when I first started working in the software industry.
Signed,
A Little Grey With Many Welts
iPhone OS is "derived from" OS X but is not OS X.
I wish you a sense of humour, some figgy pudding, and a Happy New Year.
OSX will build on ARM without a problem and the ARM CPU would be better than the Intel Atom in a netbook.
However, as the world inside the Reality Distortion Field now knows, netbooks will never sell because no one really wants them and anyway, as a failed product, they have been replaced by the magical iPad.
Ideally, you are reading this post a) on your iPhone or b) while waiting in line to buy your Really Big iPhone.
I can't believe the waste. This trial never would have happened if the US court system had consulted Slashdot!
'Our single greatest asset is the innovation and the ingenuity and creativity of the American people [...] It is essential to our prosperity and it will only become more so in this century. But it's only a competitive advantage if our companies know that someone else can't just steal that idea and duplicate it with cheaper inputs and labor.'
TRANSLATION:
"Our single greatest asset is the innovation and the ingenuity and the creativity of the American Lawyer. As our education system collapses and laziness and ignorance steadily increase until the Constitution is entirely without meaning and it becomes impossible for our society to function without coercion -- we expect lawyers to bring home enough cash to sustain not just their coke habits but also our military... with a small amount of funds possibly left over for health care (but don't bet on it). We won't have the money in this century to bully anyone with our military capabilities, so we're counting on our lawyers to win the important battles."
I have an X32 and an Atom-based Netbook. Is there something in particular you want to compare?
I like it a lot. It makes me sad that Apple is forcing me to install another OS sooner rather than later. Right now I have OS X Tiger, but won't update it further.
Is this because the Mini can't run Leopard?
With the iPad coming, I'll probably work to switch to that. I'm confident the Papers folk with have an edition for iPad.
I had been excited about the iPad before it was announced, but the product disappointed me, personally. I think a netbook is a better all-round companion device.