Your dad's stash of Playboys didn't have people dressed up as Squirrels having sex with people dressed up as Nuns in orifices that should not be penetrated smeared with what looks like a mixture of feces and vomit.
Not that I disagree with the point you're making, just don't even think of comparing the interweb with a typical softcore magazine from your childhood.
Yeah, Apple totally wants to steal Linux's market share... why, they might make a whole $2000 off all the Linux users who switch! This was a brilliant strategy!
This has nothing to do with anything other than: 1. not supporting iPods that have been messed with by third party software 2. keeping up the appearance of maintaining DRM/locking so the music industry remains happy
I've been recommending nVidia cards to everyone who asks, simply because their Linux support has been leagues ahead of ATI (now AMD, for those who haven't been paying attention). True, true. My girlfriend got a laptop a couple weeks ago and one of the deciding factors was nVidia vs ATI. I haven't even considered an ATI card for myself and I recommend that others get nVidia.
It's about fucking time that companies realize the trickle-down effect of abusing nerds. Who do the ignorant masses go to when they need advice? Their nerdy friend...
ATI lost market share for almost the exact reason that IE did (albeit to less extent).
Indeed, I'd like to point out that while surfing the web at work I try to use as little bandwidth as possible. Hence, adblock... let the employees using IE top my bandwidth usage in case the hammer ever starts falling.:)
My company works with hospitals a lot, and most either have or are implementing wireless networks. Also, most doctors I see have cell phones and want fancy software on their smartphones.
I think this/. thread about interference in hospitals is a bit overblown with too many people talking about stuff they don't know.
Phones are probably disallowed because the hospital environment is stressful enough without random ringing and loud yapping.
I think these people are learning through experience!
When their ISPs cut them off for spamming, or their personal information is stolen, or any other number of malware things happen... maybe they'll get a clue.
(WTF is up with the Politics section, for example) Well, when politicians started legislating our happy interweb world, us nerds needed a forum to respond. Not to mention, the world is becoming more integrated with "technology" everyday.
YOU sir may only see the gaming aspect, but the rest of us see the government's encroachment on our civil rights through the use of and regarding to technology. The EFF is often lumped together with the ACLU for a reason.
1. Internet censorship
2. Big Brother use of technology
3. Moral legislation
4. Black-box voting
Having a vested interest in certain political outcomes means we have a vested interest in politics in general, and that's why we can get away with a Politics section.
We always hear how Microsoft and Google only hire the brightest and make their working environment so cushy. I doubt that means they're looking for cheap developers. And judging from the quality of MS products, I think cheap developers would be disastrous to the thin trust their clients have left.
My company, albeit not Microsoft or Google, hires a fraction of a percentage of the developers who apply... and we hire mainly out of college students so they aren't rejected for lack of experience. The truth of the matter is, there is a shortage of good, SMART developers.
I use and like Azureus, and I totally agree that they follow good programming practices, but have you seen this "Vuze" shit they put out in the new version 3.0? They're trying to be all content-portally and changed the default, intuitive Azureus view.
It has amazing find/replace capabilities that I haven't seen in other text apps. Edit Pad Lite is free (the download is a bit hidden at that URL) and Pro costs money but has regexp, syntax, etc.
Yeah, as a Wisconsinite, I was kinda hoping he'd run for president.
But instead we're just going to have two New Yorkers running against each other playing the 9/11 card. Or at least two coasties. What this country needs is some good mid-western common sense.
I was thinking the same thing - "if a child doesn't pay attention to what *I* want him/her to pay attention to, the child has an attention problem." Sorry, it doesn't work that way.
Perhaps the best way to get kids to pay attention is to raise them to appreciate things for which you want them to be interested in... and then not kill the opportunity with boring school teachers.
I've got the same problem with TV, too. I have always needed to do something/while/ watching TV... whether that's play with Legos as a child or surf the interweb as an adult. Perhaps I'm just able to better divide my attention... I doodle at meetings too (and no doubt some people think I'm not paying attention).
They already have my money, why should they get my time as well? If we factor what I get paid an hour into how long they want me to wait in line, they sure as shit better have amazing prices.
At places like Sam's Club it can be up to a 5 minute wait.
I hate stores that want to see your receipt. Sam's Club is the biggest offender (and no doubt since they're owned by Wal-Mart).
They have some old lady at the exit of the store count your items and run highlighter on your receipt, otherwise you can't return anything if you don't have a properly checked receipt. Sometimes the line's 5 minutes long.
Fuck that. I run right past them. I once told the person that her job was worthless.
There's a growing abuse against consumers by corporations. Parking lots are designed to let people in easy, but not out. Exact same with stores - in easy, and once they have your money they fuck you in the ass.
Most people act like cattle - line up at the exit, and let the company waste their time after it has their money!
I hope this guy wins in court big-time so that this kind of shit doesn't happen so often.
Yeah, man. I'm only screwed in Linux when it doesn't boot at all... but that's usually when I screw up my fstab somehow (why does this happen so often, I do not know). And even then, I just boot the install CD and fix fstab with vim.
I'd say Linux recovery capabilities > Windows recovery capabilities. I've never hosed Linux so bad that I had to reinstall, but I've done it to Windows hundreds of times. Linux is just designed better. People may laugh, but it's true - it's easier to control and manipulate to your bidding.
There's no console mode in Windows where you can say "MAKE_MY_COMPUTER_SUCK=0" and have your computer magically fixed.
P.S.: Mandriva 4 ever, screw this Ubundu fad. Mandrake was the first user-friendly distro and still holds the crown. 8-)
If there was a flu pandemic that actually created a breakdown in services, people would begin to die within 2 weeks due to stravation. Maybe people on the coasts, but not the midwest. Score one for fat people, wooo!!!! We're gonna ride this famine out!
My company got in a FUD lawsuit with another company maybe 10 years ago. As the legend goes, the judge ordered us to give them our source code but did not specify a means of transfer... so apparently we gave them a truck load of printed out disassembly.
it was an IMPOSED, HARDCODED limit WITHOUT ASKING the user. Not to start a flame war, but isn't this exactly what people find so great about Macs - that the OS designers made all the decisions for them?
Most coders don't want to add a registry setting. Most users don't want to touch it.
There's obviously just something wrong with their big picture view if they can't get this shit straight. It's probably because the network and multimedia teams are separate and don't know what the others' doing.
Giant companies want software as a service. Right now, they're all using Citrix to emulate thin Windows clients. It still costs a good amount of money (see Citrix stock skyrocket). It's a lot slower and less responsive. It adds another place for failure in the chain of applications.
If you design a lean web app, you'll never have to upgrade your company's computers again (relatively speaking). They could all run Windows 9x or Linux and Firefox for all you care.
Also, such a model destroys Microsoft's OS upgrade monies and breaks people free from any specific OS. Dell gets shafted a bit too.
Generally, audio goes through many buffers before being sent out to the device. In Vista, perhaps all audio is streamlined as high-priority.
For example, when audio recording, you don't want to use Microsoft's typical sound system - you want to record using ASIO which goes through less buffering and latency. If you record using the regular sound system, you end up with perhaps 100s of ms of lag, which is a bitch when you're trying to record to a metronome.
As some AC above noted, Linux only has a direct audio IO path when using jackd. Otherwise, everything is buffered a plenty.
So I think it has nothing to do with CPU power, and more to do with "Vista is a real-time multimedia machine!" When you're interrupting a LOT to be attentive to the audio device, this is going to interfere with the network, whereas if you just interrupt less regularly but send larger amounts of buffered data you don't have that problem.
*Fair warning, my facts may not be 100% accurate, but I think this is the gist of the problem.
Maybe that should be our goal, to have all our machines running on biofuel, hence becoming carbon neutral. Hah, that's kind of funny. Human history: 1. Work against nature, try to do things 'better'. 2. Find out that it doesn't work. 3. Eventually do things the way nature intended.
Maybe that's humanity's destiny: to realize that we were wrong all along.
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Your dad's stash of Playboys didn't have people dressed up as Squirrels having sex with people dressed up as Nuns in orifices that should not be penetrated smeared with what looks like a mixture of feces and vomit.
Not that I disagree with the point you're making, just don't even think of comparing the interweb with a typical softcore magazine from your childhood.
Yeah, Apple totally wants to steal Linux's market share... why, they might make a whole $2000 off all the Linux users who switch! This was a brilliant strategy!
This has nothing to do with anything other than:
1. not supporting iPods that have been messed with by third party software
2. keeping up the appearance of maintaining DRM/locking so the music industry remains happy
It's about fucking time that companies realize the trickle-down effect of abusing nerds. Who do the ignorant masses go to when they need advice? Their nerdy friend...
ATI lost market share for almost the exact reason that IE did (albeit to less extent).
Indeed, I'd like to point out that while surfing the web at work I try to use as little bandwidth as possible. Hence, adblock... let the employees using IE top my bandwidth usage in case the hammer ever starts falling. :)
My company works with hospitals a lot, and most either have or are implementing wireless networks. Also, most doctors I see have cell phones and want fancy software on their smartphones.
/. thread about interference in hospitals is a bit overblown with too many people talking about stuff they don't know.
I think this
Phones are probably disallowed because the hospital environment is stressful enough without random ringing and loud yapping.
I think these people are learning through experience!
When their ISPs cut them off for spamming, or their personal information is stolen, or any other number of malware things happen... maybe they'll get a clue.
YOU sir may only see the gaming aspect, but the rest of us see the government's encroachment on our civil rights through the use of and regarding to technology. The EFF is often lumped together with the ACLU for a reason.
1. Internet censorship
2. Big Brother use of technology
3. Moral legislation
4. Black-box voting
Having a vested interest in certain political outcomes means we have a vested interest in politics in general, and that's why we can get away with a Politics section.
We always hear how Microsoft and Google only hire the brightest and make their working environment so cushy. I doubt that means they're looking for cheap developers. And judging from the quality of MS products, I think cheap developers would be disastrous to the thin trust their clients have left.
My company, albeit not Microsoft or Google, hires a fraction of a percentage of the developers who apply... and we hire mainly out of college students so they aren't rejected for lack of experience. The truth of the matter is, there is a shortage of good, SMART developers.
I use and like Azureus, and I totally agree that they follow good programming practices, but have you seen this "Vuze" shit they put out in the new version 3.0? They're trying to be all content-portally and changed the default, intuitive Azureus view.
http://www.vuze.com/Screenshots.html
Not that it isn't a smart idea to try to steal some of YouTube's pie... but it definitely isn't a "simple" bittorrent client anymore.
Edit Pad Lite http://editpadlite.com/
It has amazing find/replace capabilities that I haven't seen in other text apps. Edit Pad Lite is free (the download is a bit hidden at that URL) and Pro costs money but has regexp, syntax, etc.
It's the only Windows app I really miss in Linux.
Yeah, as a Wisconsinite, I was kinda hoping he'd run for president.
But instead we're just going to have two New Yorkers running against each other playing the 9/11 card. Or at least two coasties. What this country needs is some good mid-western common sense.
Just log into all of them with Pidgin (formerly Gaim) and then put up a mysterious away message that alludes to being a tortured soul.
I was thinking the same thing - "if a child doesn't pay attention to what *I* want him/her to pay attention to, the child has an attention problem." Sorry, it doesn't work that way.
/while/ watching TV... whether that's play with Legos as a child or surf the interweb as an adult. Perhaps I'm just able to better divide my attention... I doodle at meetings too (and no doubt some people think I'm not paying attention).
Perhaps the best way to get kids to pay attention is to raise them to appreciate things for which you want them to be interested in... and then not kill the opportunity with boring school teachers.
I've got the same problem with TV, too. I have always needed to do something
They already have my money, why should they get my time as well? If we factor what I get paid an hour into how long they want me to wait in line, they sure as shit better have amazing prices.
At places like Sam's Club it can be up to a 5 minute wait.
I hate stores that want to see your receipt. Sam's Club is the biggest offender (and no doubt since they're owned by Wal-Mart).
They have some old lady at the exit of the store count your items and run highlighter on your receipt, otherwise you can't return anything if you don't have a properly checked receipt. Sometimes the line's 5 minutes long.
Fuck that. I run right past them. I once told the person that her job was worthless.
There's a growing abuse against consumers by corporations. Parking lots are designed to let people in easy, but not out. Exact same with stores - in easy, and once they have your money they fuck you in the ass.
Most people act like cattle - line up at the exit, and let the company waste their time after it has their money!
I hope this guy wins in court big-time so that this kind of shit doesn't happen so often.
Yeah, man. I'm only screwed in Linux when it doesn't boot at all... but that's usually when I screw up my fstab somehow (why does this happen so often, I do not know). And even then, I just boot the install CD and fix fstab with vim.
I'd say Linux recovery capabilities > Windows recovery capabilities. I've never hosed Linux so bad that I had to reinstall, but I've done it to Windows hundreds of times. Linux is just designed better. People may laugh, but it's true - it's easier to control and manipulate to your bidding.
There's no console mode in Windows where you can say "MAKE_MY_COMPUTER_SUCK=0" and have your computer magically fixed.
P.S.: Mandriva 4 ever, screw this Ubundu fad. Mandrake was the first user-friendly distro and still holds the crown. 8-)
God forbid we drop the lower-case I naming convention. It stands for "interwebs compatible".
I keep wanting to read "hardy heroin"
So maybe it's a drug-addled, sex-crazed bird terrorizing his native wetlands.
You said you had karma to burn... don't be a n00b and draw attention to it.
My company got in a FUD lawsuit with another company maybe 10 years ago. As the legend goes, the judge ordered us to give them our source code but did not specify a means of transfer... so apparently we gave them a truck load of printed out disassembly.
Most coders don't want to add a registry setting. Most users don't want to touch it.
There's obviously just something wrong with their big picture view if they can't get this shit straight. It's probably because the network and multimedia teams are separate and don't know what the others' doing.
In addition to this other response to you: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=281591&cid=203 85037
Giant companies want software as a service. Right now, they're all using Citrix to emulate thin Windows clients. It still costs a good amount of money (see Citrix stock skyrocket). It's a lot slower and less responsive. It adds another place for failure in the chain of applications.
If you design a lean web app, you'll never have to upgrade your company's computers again (relatively speaking). They could all run Windows 9x or Linux and Firefox for all you care.
Also, such a model destroys Microsoft's OS upgrade monies and breaks people free from any specific OS. Dell gets shafted a bit too.
Generally, audio goes through many buffers before being sent out to the device. In Vista, perhaps all audio is streamlined as high-priority.
For example, when audio recording, you don't want to use Microsoft's typical sound system - you want to record using ASIO which goes through less buffering and latency. If you record using the regular sound system, you end up with perhaps 100s of ms of lag, which is a bitch when you're trying to record to a metronome.
As some AC above noted, Linux only has a direct audio IO path when using jackd. Otherwise, everything is buffered a plenty.
So I think it has nothing to do with CPU power, and more to do with "Vista is a real-time multimedia machine!" When you're interrupting a LOT to be attentive to the audio device, this is going to interfere with the network, whereas if you just interrupt less regularly but send larger amounts of buffered data you don't have that problem.
*Fair warning, my facts may not be 100% accurate, but I think this is the gist of the problem.
1. Work against nature, try to do things 'better'.
2. Find out that it doesn't work.
3. Eventually do things the way nature intended.
Maybe that's humanity's destiny: to realize that we were wrong all along.