I have the impression this was featured on Slashdot a few months ago already. I think someone proposed to use the Slashdot friend/foe system in a similar fashion.
I am therefore so happy not to live in Atlanta. It's just SO not for me. I like jaywalking, I like to enjoy my life every step I take. I also don't want to spend 10 % of my life commuting to work.
I live in Helsinki, where public trasnportation is top-notch. I can get to the center of the city in 11 minutes by train, or I can just walk to a national park (2.5 hours from where I live). My building is next to a forest. I regularly walk to work. I could take public transport, but it's nicer to walk for 30 minutes and enjoy the nature. Yes, believe it or not, most of my journey to work is through parks.
I know exactly what a smartphone should do, I didn't imply it doesn't do them (you might have missunderstood that way), but I am saying that the MS smartphones don'do them correctly all of the time. In functional testing, stability, reliability is the most important. Featureset is implied.
24 hours of usage? Even if you wouldn't have been sleeping or doing anything else but using the phone, you still would not have been able to assess the quality of such a complex and multifunctional product.
My impression of the MS smartphone products has been very bad, because I have used competing platforms. And btw, mobile phones are my job actually, so I have the opportunity to use many different models. See, MS will not be accepted by those customers who have been using other mobile phones before and have higher expectations and needs - mobile phones nowadays (at least here in Europe) must o a variety of tasks, voice and SMS are not enough.
You actually do sound elitist. I can appreciate the works of Kant, Descartes or Pascal, yet I still think the Matrix (the first movie) was brilliant in depicting a fundamental phylosophical problem. But you, you don't even support your dismissal with arguments, just spout off like, well, an elitist asshole.
I agree. I have learned more about absolute determinism from an article about Pascal's (ideal) all-knowing computational machine, than in years of studying phylosophy in high school (in my country we had philosophy in high school, in some gymnasiums).
Well, at least I agree with you. I am also glad I know I am not alone with my opinion. The first movie had a lenghty, fantasticly elaborate and refined introduction to the world of the matrix, it was fascinating.
You beat me to it: this is exactly what I wanted to say. The Apple ][ was hackable, moddable, you could understand the internals without the need of a microscope, a digital analyzer and a team of CPU architects. With some knowledge of digital electronics and CPUs, you could wholly grok a computer like an Apple ][. Heck, with some simple tools you could/can even repair the damn thing.
Please... by your logic, the Itanium is the utter most useless piece of crap (because it's so slow to execute legacy code and there is not useful native software) ever to see the light of the IT world.
..and even sells routing and other IPv6 equipment... and yet, we're not even dreaming of planning of designing a possible IPv6 migration for our own (50.000+ node) network. NAT does it for talking to the outside world, and we still have plenty unallocated public addresses.
Business cases have been made, feasibility plans created, consultations and meetings have been held, and it all points to: IPv4 works just fine, thank you. Our network-related problems have absolutely nothing to do with IPv4, so nobody is going to put his job on the line for the fancyness of a new technology that nobody really needs. OK, maybe somebody needs it, but heck, I really didn't see any such company around.
So, you see, if even the cook doesn't want to eat his own soup, you probably can stick to the tried-and-tested Big Mac (so I like Big Macs. Got a problem with that?) too.
My point exactly: it's a very unfriendly country for pedestrians. See, here in Finland I can leave my apartement (I am 10 minutes from the center of Helsinki by local train or 18 minutes by bus) and I find myself in a park just 10 meters from the door. From there, just by walking for 2 hours I end up in one of the national parks. But just as well I could have walked all the way to the center (a bit more than an hour) and watched a movie in this 24-theater ciname complex that I am so fond of. On my way to the cinema I could drop into Kiasma, a modern art museum that I'm rather fond of, too.
There is absolutely no place that I can not reach just by walking or with a bycicle (or is it spelled bicycle?), in the whole of Finland, except for a few restricted military areas.
I have lived in several european countries, I didn't like them all, and I definitely don't buy into the anti-US hype that is going on in some places, but as I am really used to and enjoy jaywalking, and don't want to use a car (several reasons for that, one of them is comfort), I consider countries such as US, Canada and New Zealand (and I guess Australia is similar, but I have not been there so I don't know) exclusively as touristic destinations, not as places to live in. Well, except for Boston, as I said, which looks a decent enough city to me... except that I guess I wouldn't be able to leave the perimeter of the city.
BTW, (ok, this is offtopic, but the whole thread is, so what the heck...) the guy seems to be begging to be arrested by the allied forces, because his security situation is pretty bad, but the allied troops refused to, because he's not on any of their lists. When I read this on BBC I almost died of laughter. Reality vs. fiction 1-0.
Not at all, at least in my eyes. It all depends on what are your priorities. Mine are: good public transportation and being able to jaywalk in the cities.
In that sense, Canada is every bit as bad as USA (except for Boston). I just wouldn't survive in a country where you need to take a car just to go one block away.
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We, the members of the Anti-Stupidity League, have launched this distributed denial-of-service attack on the Santa Cruz Organization.
The name of the company is Santa Cruz Operation. Please correct your statement, otherwise you may look.. well... stupid!
You are right. Everybody should be careful not to overload the tiny brains of the RedHad support engineers. I am trying to be compassionate towards morons, I just didn't know RedHat is hiring them.
I had. Caldera OpenDesktop 3.1.1 is the finest desktop linux _still_! And Their UnitedLinux release which I betatested is very coherent and well-designed for network management. I find it better conceived than, for example, RHAS 2.1 (which we paid $1200).
I used to work with SCO OpenServer 5, and found it a good UNIX, tuned for smaller intel computers. Didn't work with UnixWare.
what's to stop some clever young upstart from being willing to raise his CPU off the board by an addition 3 to 4 mm, to place a special ceramic enclosure between the CPU and the board?
Totally terrible and unnecessary solution. If you swap a couple of pins on the CPU, you can simply have a BIOS setting where you select the CPU, and the circuitry on the motherboard will do the magic (provided that you chose pins that are not delay-sensitive, and you have plenty of such signals on a CPU). You could even have the mobo autodetect the CPU and do the re-routing automatically.
Of course, Intel would not ship a chipset capable of such re-routing, but all the other guys certainly would. VIA expecially.
If the source is release, I guess the binaries are available for download for free. If that's true, can anyone tell me where I can download the game, and whether it's a full or a demo version.
You might be right, actually. But yes, I know a function is defined, I took that into consideration, and I just didn't like what that little piece of code could do.
Slashdot Mirror
I have the impression this was featured on Slashdot a few months ago already. I think someone proposed to use the Slashdot friend/foe system in a similar fashion.
I am therefore so happy not to live in Atlanta. It's just SO not for me. I like jaywalking, I like to enjoy my life every step I take. I also don't want to spend 10 % of my life commuting to work.
I live in Helsinki, where public trasnportation is top-notch. I can get to the center of the city in 11 minutes by train, or I can just walk to a national park (2.5 hours from where I live). My building is next to a forest. I regularly walk to work. I could take public transport, but it's nicer to walk for 30 minutes and enjoy the nature. Yes, believe it or not, most of my journey to work is through parks.
I know exactly what a smartphone should do, I didn't imply it doesn't do them (you might have missunderstood that way), but I am saying that the MS smartphones don'do them correctly all of the time. In functional testing, stability, reliability is the most important. Featureset is implied.
msmobiles.com ? You must be fucking kidding. That site is practically a MS mouthpiece, but without even a limited reason.
The website is considered a complete joke by all the wireless professionals in Finland because of the Comical Ali kind of spin.
24 hours of usage? Even if you wouldn't have been sleeping or doing anything else but using the phone, you still would not have been able to assess the quality of such a complex and multifunctional product.
My impression of the MS smartphone products has been very bad, because I have used competing platforms. And btw, mobile phones are my job actually, so I have the opportunity to use many different models. See, MS will not be accepted by those customers who have been using other mobile phones before and have higher expectations and needs - mobile phones nowadays (at least here in Europe) must o a variety of tasks, voice and SMS are not enough.
You actually do sound elitist. I can appreciate the works of Kant, Descartes or Pascal, yet I still think the Matrix (the first movie) was brilliant in depicting a fundamental phylosophical problem. But you, you don't even support your dismissal with arguments, just spout off like, well, an elitist asshole.
I agree. I have learned more about absolute determinism from an article about Pascal's (ideal) all-knowing computational machine, than in years of studying phylosophy in high school (in my country we had philosophy in high school, in some gymnasiums).
Well, at least I agree with you. I am also glad I know I am not alone with my opinion.
The first movie had a lenghty, fantasticly elaborate and refined introduction to the world of the matrix, it was fascinating.
You beat me to it: this is exactly what I wanted to say. The Apple ][ was hackable, moddable, you could understand the internals without the need of a microscope, a digital analyzer and a team of CPU architects. With some knowledge of digital electronics and CPUs, you could wholly grok a computer like an Apple ][. Heck, with some simple tools you could/can even repair the damn thing.
Please... by your logic, the Itanium is the utter most useless piece of crap (because it's so slow to execute legacy code and there is not useful native software) ever to see the light of the IT world.
Oh... wait.....
..and even sells routing and other IPv6 equipment... and yet, we're not even dreaming of planning of designing a possible IPv6 migration for our own (50.000+ node) network. NAT does it for talking to the outside world, and we still have plenty unallocated public addresses.
Business cases have been made, feasibility plans created, consultations and meetings have been held, and it all points to: IPv4 works just fine, thank you. Our network-related problems have absolutely nothing to do with IPv4, so nobody is going to put his job on the line for the fancyness of a new technology that nobody really needs. OK, maybe somebody needs it, but heck, I really didn't see any such company around.
So, you see, if even the cook doesn't want to eat his own soup, you probably can stick to the tried-and-tested Big Mac (so I like Big Macs. Got a problem with that?) too.
My point exactly: it's a very unfriendly country for pedestrians. See, here in Finland I can leave my apartement (I am 10 minutes from the center of Helsinki by local train or 18 minutes by bus) and I find myself in a park just 10 meters from the door. From there, just by walking for 2 hours I end up in one of the national parks. But just as well I could have walked all the way to the center (a bit more than an hour) and watched a movie in this 24-theater ciname complex that I am so fond of. On my way to the cinema I could drop into Kiasma, a modern art museum that I'm rather fond of, too.
There is absolutely no place that I can not reach just by walking or with a bycicle (or is it spelled bicycle?), in the whole of Finland, except for a few restricted military areas.
I have lived in several european countries, I didn't like them all, and I definitely don't buy into the anti-US hype that is going on in some places, but as I am really used to and enjoy jaywalking, and don't want to use a car (several reasons for that, one of them is comfort), I consider countries such as US, Canada and New Zealand (and I guess Australia is similar, but I have not been there so I don't know) exclusively as touristic destinations, not as places to live in. Well, except for Boston, as I said, which looks a decent enough city to me... except that I guess I wouldn't be able to leave the perimeter of the city.
BTW, (ok, this is offtopic, but the whole thread is, so what the heck...) the guy seems to be begging to be arrested by the allied forces, because his security situation is pretty bad, but the allied troops refused to, because he's not on any of their lists. When I read this on BBC I almost died of laughter. Reality vs. fiction 1-0.
Not at all, at least in my eyes. It all depends on what are your priorities. Mine are: good public transportation and being able to jaywalk in the cities.
In that sense, Canada is every bit as bad as USA (except for Boston). I just wouldn't survive in a country where you need to take a car just to go one block away.
We, the members of the Anti-Stupidity League, have launched this distributed denial-of-service attack on the Santa Cruz Organization.
The name of the company is Santa Cruz Operation. Please correct your statement, otherwise you may look.. well... stupid!
Probably. In some other parts of the world that person would be jailed or even killed, but it wouldn't have been called "troll".
You are right. Everybody should be careful not to overload the tiny brains of the RedHad support engineers. I am trying to be compassionate towards morons, I just didn't know RedHat is hiring them.
We paid more for RHAS 2.1. S far, the RedHat support has sucked ass, in almost all the support cases we logged with them.
I had. Caldera OpenDesktop 3.1.1 is the finest desktop linux _still_! And Their UnitedLinux release which I betatested is very coherent and well-designed for network management. I find it better conceived than, for example, RHAS 2.1 (which we paid $1200).
I used to work with SCO OpenServer 5, and found it a good UNIX, tuned for smaller intel computers. Didn't work with UnixWare.
Although MP3s are technically inferior to their uncompressed counterparts
Didn't you just say, with this very sentence, that MP3s are essentially inferior copies? What are you bitching about, then?
what's to stop some clever young upstart from being willing to raise his CPU off the board by an addition 3 to 4 mm, to place a special ceramic enclosure between the CPU and the board?
Totally terrible and unnecessary solution. If you swap a couple of pins on the CPU, you can simply have a BIOS setting where you select the CPU, and the circuitry on the motherboard will do the magic (provided that you chose pins that are not delay-sensitive, and you have plenty of such signals on a CPU). You could even have the mobo autodetect the CPU and do the re-routing automatically.
Of course, Intel would not ship a chipset capable of such re-routing, but all the other guys certainly would. VIA expecially.
If the source is release, I guess the binaries are available for download for free. If that's true, can anyone tell me where I can download the game, and whether it's a full or a demo version.
You might be right, actually. But yes, I know a function is defined, I took that into consideration, and I just didn't like what that little piece of code could do.
... do you really think he'd post the same story twice unless it was on purpose?
How sadly and pityfully deluded you are:
Google Releases an API for Their Database
Google to Offer API
Both posted by El Taquito. And check this out: both have been posted in April, for f*ck's sake!!
Does it mean that clicking on this icon did the same as pressing the Apple key? Or was this purely a keyboard icon, never to appear on the GUI?