Be careful, you horny Slashdot lads. Every time you think you can try anything *this* girlfriend, you wake up the next day unsatisfied and with a painful, full feeling in the rectum and "I NEED MORE RAM" scrawled in lipstick on the wall.
What "bloat" in software means to LT as the high priest of the kernel and what bloat means to me as a user are two different things.
To a user, bloat means awkward, slow, inefficient, and needlessly large (if my storage space or bandwidth is limited). But these are all *perceived*. I don't perceive Linux to be bloated.
In fact, I find *NIX with almost any window manager to be the most efficient computer OS I have ever used. Linux is the best of them, despite being a clone of the UNIX userland.
If an OS can boot from a floppy or small USB key and be totally usable, it is certainly not bloatware. Rewrite the Linux userland in MONO or Java and then we'll talk about bloat.
Linux does NOT 'blow up' if xorg.conf is missing and it never has. You would not be able to start X without xorg.conf, but the OS would *work* and you could use the OS to fix the problem with xorg.
When M-Windows told me that the Registry was corrupt, the OS failed to start and the 'rescue prompt' was useless.
If you really have the desire to be fair, you will acknowledge that your comparison is wrong.
The last time I took Microsoft seriously... the OS wouldn't boot because the Registry suddenly became corrupt. As a result, I couldn't access my files.
So I burned a CD of Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) at work and installed it at home.
Thanks for giving me the last 4 years of stable computing, Microsoft! I'm glad I took you seriously.
I don't like what this company is doing and will avoid the product and tell others to do so. I am a privacy advocate. Even I wouldn't say that a company trying to make money is necessarily "horrible and obscene". Until "datamining the Internet activities of minors" becomes a crime, this is no more horrible and obscene than television. We all have the choice to switch that off, too.
The difference for me is that a computer is far more useful than a television.
By the way, I don't condemn you for not having children and you are free to your opinion. But if you have not had children, your opinion is incomplete. If it isn't worth it *to you*, however you measure the worth, that is your decision.
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I know I am not alone in deploring the puerile comments and immature attitudes of male programmers.
In every computing workplace where I have worked, men have behaved like sex-crazed animals and women have *never* felt comfortable working topless.
The poor Power Factor rating of CFLs means that the power grid must provide more energy to start them. The consumer may save money at home, but unless the power factor of CFLs can be improved, the electrical grid itself will have to be upgraded if we all switch to CFLs.
But there's no "if" because governments have already legislated the elimination of incandescent bulbs!
They may refuse to listen, but I pray that one day their hearts will open to the gastronomic glory of Our Noodly Creator, who maketh the snow to fall on Mars like the Parmesan of Redemption on the Holy Meatball.
The manufacturers of mobile telephones need to take environmental responsibility. A standard connector for AC charging is a step in the right direction. This should make it easier to develop a standard mobile telephone charger for bicycles.
Exactly. Consumers need to understand what this licensing means and why Linux, OS X, and older versions of Windows (2000-XP) are a better investment than Vista/Windows 7 licensing.
I still use W2K at home. XP is literally a patch-work and I am tired of the reboots, so I have mostly abandoned it. Vista is slow, lacks drivers, and drops support for hardware that is perfectly good in W2K-XP. Windows 7 is an improvement -- although Windows Explorer in RC1 is annoyingly slow and reason enough for me to abandon Windows 7.
I hope this helps other OS X users... After downloading with Software Update, I had to reboot to install the Java update successfully.
This also means that the whole update (158MB) had to be downloaded again. Download it separately before rebooting and install from the downloaded file, just in case.
Patents and proprietary, closed standards -- Open standards lead to innovation and better hardware for consumers. Look at some of the junk in that article... Engineers need the challenge of having other people improve upon their ideas. Open standards and open-source *will* win because people work best working together. Capitalism certainly won't die but it needs to learn this lesson.
Honourable Mention: Keyboards -- Most computer keyboards are designed for some other lifeform -- one with a single arm bearing 10 or more fingers. Consumers accept the familiar "conventional" keyboard because it's familiar and conventional. The keyboards that are best for human beings have a "split" or curve in the centre. There are many horrible keyboards, so I'd like to mention some excellent ones: GoldTouch Adesso Ergonomic original Microsoft Natural (not the later rubbish that claimed to be "ergonomic" just because it had a fake leather wrist support -- while maintaining the straight-row key configuration that is bad for wrists)
There are tiny odds of just about anything happening
I know that fervent believers will condemn my denial of the Elephant Rapture, but there is zero chance of the Earth turning into a proboscidean of any sort.
NILFS2 is the successor to MILFS2, which was based on the "Mother" specification.
NILFS2 is based on the "Nanny" specification, which means it is younger, firmer, *and* keeps the child nodes quiet when you are not actively updating its data.
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Be careful, you horny Slashdot lads. Every time you think you can try anything *this* girlfriend, you wake up the next day unsatisfied and with a painful, full feeling in the rectum and "I NEED MORE RAM" scrawled in lipstick on the wall.
The only way that flogging cannot be harsh is if a feather boa is used.
We will have to leave it to the Biochemist Mac Users to punish you.
Scientists can't even agree on what to *call* this so-called event:
K-T extinction
Cretaceous-Tertiary event
K-Pg event
Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction
Kreidezeit Weltschmertz
This proves that the Word of His Noodly Beneficence is the Truth.
... look forward to attending the Reunion Concert that we never had.
It's official! BeOS wins Slashdot's "What failed OS will replace OS/2 in the wistful What-If scenarios of discussion-group geeks in the 21st Century?"
Why, just to annoy *you*, of course, Number 830057! Welcome to the Village. Why did you resign?
What "bloat" in software means to LT as the high priest of the kernel and what bloat means to me as a user are two different things.
To a user, bloat means awkward, slow, inefficient, and needlessly large (if my storage space or bandwidth is limited). But these are all *perceived*. I don't perceive Linux to be bloated.
In fact, I find *NIX with almost any window manager to be the most efficient computer OS I have ever used. Linux is the best of them, despite being a clone of the UNIX userland.
If an OS can boot from a floppy or small USB key and be totally usable, it is certainly not bloatware. Rewrite the Linux userland in MONO or Java and then we'll talk about bloat.
Linux does NOT 'blow up' if xorg.conf is missing and it never has. You would not be able to start X without xorg.conf, but the OS would *work* and you could use the OS to fix the problem with xorg.
When M-Windows told me that the Registry was corrupt, the OS failed to start and the 'rescue prompt' was useless.
If you really have the desire to be fair, you will acknowledge that your comparison is wrong.
The last time I took Microsoft seriously... the OS wouldn't boot because the Registry suddenly became corrupt. As a result, I couldn't access my files.
So I burned a CD of Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) at work and installed it at home.
Thanks for giving me the last 4 years of stable computing, Microsoft! I'm glad I took you seriously.
*Do not* have the math reviewed by an English major!
Not really, it's just marketing and shareholders again.
I don't like what this company is doing and will avoid the product and tell others to do so. I am a privacy advocate. Even I wouldn't say that a company trying to make money is necessarily "horrible and obscene". Until "datamining the Internet activities of minors" becomes a crime, this is no more horrible and obscene than television. We all have the choice to switch that off, too.
The difference for me is that a computer is far more useful than a television.
By the way, I don't condemn you for not having children and you are free to your opinion. But if you have not had children, your opinion is incomplete. If it isn't worth it *to you*, however you measure the worth, that is your decision.
I know I am not alone in deploring the puerile comments and immature attitudes of male programmers.
In every computing workplace where I have worked, men have behaved like sex-crazed animals and women have *never* felt comfortable working topless.
"People don't just send you five laptops for no good reason."
They do if the senders are expecting a positive review!
At the same time, I don't think that the incoherent and vaguely grammatical comments of daft and corrupt US politicians will help sales much.
I could be wrong, though. I was one of the ones who believed Cmdr Taco was right about the iPod.
The poor Power Factor rating of CFLs means that the power grid must provide more energy to start them. The consumer may save money at home, but unless the power factor of CFLs can be improved, the electrical grid itself will have to be upgraded if we all switch to CFLs.
But there's no "if" because governments have already legislated the elimination of incandescent bulbs!
An explanation of the power factor (search for the heading "Power
Factor and Switching")
http://irc.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/pubs/cp/lig3_e.html
More summaries of problems:
http://www.cours.polymtl.ca/inf1040/2008automne/Olivier_CanadianReviewDec2007.pdf
http://sound.westhost.com/articles/incandescent.htm
Current research:
http://qnc.queensu.ca/story_loader.php?id=49db90a6e3e3d
Search for "power factor":
http://www.bchydro.com/powersmart/technology_tips/buying_guides/lighting/compact_fluorescent_lamps.html
Here, you'll see that the "requirement" for "Energy Star" labelling is
a power factor of only 0.50!
http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/residential/business/manufacturers/specifications/compact-flour.cfm?attr=12
Congratulations! According to Andreesen's Law, you are 24 years old.
They may refuse to listen, but I pray that one day their hearts will open to the gastronomic glory of Our Noodly Creator, who maketh the snow to fall on Mars like the Parmesan of Redemption on the Holy Meatball.
The manufacturers of mobile telephones need to take environmental responsibility. A standard connector for AC charging is a step in the right direction. This should make it easier to develop a standard mobile telephone charger for bicycles.
Exactly. Consumers need to understand what this licensing means and why Linux, OS X, and older versions of Windows (2000-XP) are a better investment than Vista/Windows 7 licensing.
I still use W2K at home. XP is literally a patch-work and I am tired of the reboots, so I have mostly abandoned it. Vista is slow, lacks drivers, and drops support for hardware that is perfectly good in W2K-XP. Windows 7 is an improvement -- although Windows Explorer in RC1 is annoyingly slow and reason enough for me to abandon Windows 7.
"In Soviet Russia, jokes are formulaic and decidedly non-humorous."
There, fixed your sig for you.
I hope this helps other OS X users... After downloading with Software Update, I had to reboot to install the Java update successfully.
This also means that the whole update (158MB) had to be downloaded again. Download it separately before rebooting and install from the downloaded file, just in case.
The update fails to install on some machines, mine included.
Use your favourite search engine (Bing me no Bings) to find references to:
Patents and proprietary, closed standards -- Open standards lead to innovation and better hardware for consumers. Look at some of the junk in that article... Engineers need the challenge of having other people improve upon their ideas. Open standards and open-source *will* win because people work best working together. Capitalism certainly won't die but it needs to learn this lesson.
Honourable Mention: Keyboards -- Most computer keyboards are designed for some other lifeform -- one with a single arm bearing 10 or more fingers. Consumers accept the familiar "conventional" keyboard because it's familiar and conventional. The keyboards that are best for human beings have a "split" or curve in the centre. There are many horrible keyboards, so I'd like to mention some excellent ones:
GoldTouch
Adesso Ergonomic
original Microsoft Natural (not the later rubbish that claimed to be "ergonomic" just because it had a fake leather wrist support -- while maintaining the straight-row key configuration that is bad for wrists)
There are tiny odds of just about anything happening
I know that fervent believers will condemn my denial of the Elephant Rapture, but there is zero chance of the Earth turning into a proboscidean of any sort.
NILFS2 is the successor to MILFS2, which was based on the "Mother" specification.
NILFS2 is based on the "Nanny" specification, which means it is younger, firmer, *and* keeps the child nodes quiet when you are not actively updating its data.