Okay, so let's compare consortiums (consortii?). Among those that don't support both (smart move for them, by the way): HD-DVD has big electronics companies, mostly. Powerful, debatably, but transparent to the average consumer. Blu-Ray has companies who may not really be as good, but look at their marketing departments: Apple, Dell, Samsung, Sony, HP, Fox, Disney. Dude, you're gettin' a Blu-Ray(R). But hey, that's just my prediction. Life is random(R), right?
I recently bought the new Dave Matthews CD (Stand Up) before noticing that it claimed it could only be played on "properly configured" computers and all CD players. Properly configured, by the way, meaning Windows or OS X with WMP. I won't rehash what Mediaplay does, or whatever it's called, but basicly, until I discovered that because the DRM only uses a security hole called Autoplay, I can play it on a Linux box, I was going to return it as defective, because that is the only way that the store here on campus (RIT) accepts returns of that sort of thing. It was, of course, a Friday, so I did find out that Sony's DRM doesn't work anyway, but I discovered a new meaning to DRM: Defective, Return Monday.
is that they don't use standard keyboard shortcuts, i.e. F6 for jump to URL bar(FF, IE, Safari, Netscape, Mozilla), Ctrl-T (or Apple-T) for new tab (FF, Safari, Netscape, Mozilla). I have a friend who uses Opera and every time I go to show him a page I have to have him click things for me because STANDARD keyboard shortcuts DON'T WORK!!!!111one
</rant>
But I have to say, the built-in mouse gestures is a cool feature.
Wait - if RIAA is benefiting from P2P, let's get together and bring a class action lawsuit against them for defamation, with them saying that P2P harms the music industry. Oh, and let's get that 12-year-old girl's $90 million back.
True, however, RTFS and you will see they plan to partner with the Gizmo Project, which has in- and out-bound calls at rates comperable to SkypeIn and SkypeOut. Plus, the whole thing is open.
Not in that order, though. 2) tends to be a prerequisite for 1), though 1) may be a "big drive" behind getting 2) up there. Not that I'm complaining, mind...
Crucially, however, it does not listen to what [major] leaders of the free and open source software movement are saying
Therein lies the problem. They don't listen - they use the time-tested Microsoft Cathedral system. Not only that, it's a middle-ages Catholic cathedral (no offense, just a metaphor). All the stuff is there, but you are encouraged to ignore that stuff and just use it as is. And input on low-level stuff is ignored.
Sure, it's GPL. You're free to clone (Anglican, Episcopal) or otherwise fork (other protestant) Micrix, but it's still Micrix.
"But that doesn't hurt Linux!" you cry. True. Why? Linus Torvalds accepts input and collaboration from users into the main kernel tree (the Bazaar). There is no need to fork.
Micrix would inspire fragmentation. Show me one example of fragmentation working well. I can think of several examples of it going wrong, right off the top of my head. (Linux distributions (there's no standard, scares people) and packaging (dpkg, rpm, tgz, Portage, Autopackage...) for example) Confusing end users is a certified Bad Thing(tm).
Oh, and no offense to anyone of any religion I may have offended. I don't think badly of any religion, they just seemed like a good way to extend the Cathedral and Bazaar metaphor. Oh, and kudos to Eric S. Raymond.
So maybe Windows does have a place, after all.(don't shoot me yet, I'm not done.)
IF MS really is "embracing" cooperation with Linux and other OSS stuff, maybe Windows will be a good OS for desktops for a while. Of course, I'll really believe that when they provide a POSIX API and bash shell, but hey, maybe we'll see some of our favorite (read: most used, not loved) MS apps (i.e. Office, etc.) avaliable for Linux. Anyway, they might at least make it a bit easier for the Samba folks, and maybe even Wine.
"Evoke wonder" it does... Is there any sane order to this chart, or is it just arranged according to the "purdy colours" found on any decent(read 'real') periodic table?
...is that we (the US) are afraid to give bad students bad grades, fearing that this might make them feel bad, which may cause a lawsuit against the school. (This has happened, by the way.)
This is, of course, patent bullshit. A school is supposed to have a valedictorian not (as someone said) 47. Only public schools are subject to this nonsense, though (I believe), as only people who can't (no offense) or won't send their kids to private school usually complain about how, you know, they don't have any other option, and their kids are doing their best, and the school can't tell them they aren't insanely brilliant, it might hurt their self-esteem.
My opinion on how to fix public schools? Institute a voucher system. Make it so people who can't normally get the better education from a private school because they can't afford it, able to afford it. Give the public school system some competition. Oh, and don't say the government can't afford it - make them equivalent worth to an education in a public school. The Seattle School District, I understand, spends about $10,000 a year on each student. My (private) high school did it on less than $6,000. Not that they couldn't use that other four grand, but they didn't need it to give us students a better education.
Nothing about the 1st amendment, either. Vouchers neither promote or inhibit any one religion, or group thereof. They assist all equally, which is not prohibited by the bill of rights. And they do so better than public schools - such institutions can't even teach an impersonal, godless, religion-free "Intelligent Design" theory, or even say that evolution is only a theory! So Pythagoras, who, by the way, has always been right so far (in Euclidian geometry), has only a theory, but Darwin, with evolution, has (un)proven, scientific fact?! (don't argue, there really is no way to prove evolution without a time machine)
And if some private academy costs more that $10,000 a year? Make the vouchers worth that $10,000 or whatever, and the folks who want that academy for their kids can pay the difference.
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One last thing: quiz time.
Q: Why do some countries (I'm thinking of Japan, but I'm sure there are others) suddenly jump past the US's 229 years of free intelligence in only 60 years?
A:(my answer) Because their culture has a strong work ethic and expectation to succeed as an integral part of culture. The US won't do that because we don't want kids to be unhappy, or to realize that they aren't the best.
The real fix? Teach everyone in this country that it's okay not to be the smartest, the fastest, or the best in any other way. Then maybe it would be okay to tell them they're not the best. Maybe then they would try harder.
However, Javascript is nowhere near as adept at parsing html and stitching imagery together as Python. In fact, Javascript can't stitch imagery together. A greasemonkey port actually would not work anywhere near the same. Parse the HTML and figure out how to put the images together, yes. Getting the images and putting them together, now that's a different story...
Ah, so now Dell's making a 19-inch laptop. So what? A friend of mine has a 19-inch Alienware laptop. Its beautiful. The problem is, of course, with it's insane graphics and standard Pentium Extreme Edition, it has about one hour battery life and could serve as a space heater, despite its four fans. But then, who cares, so long as you've got a crazy good gaming machine in your lap... and your pants are on fire...
Then no wonder you didn't like the Hitchhikers Guide movie. Things change between media. Be glad they kept so many of Adams jokes from the book. I thought it was excellent.
Coming soon:
NETI@home discovers sentient penguins and daemons...
"Penguins were seen to be working alongside daemons, cultivating apples and mischievously breaking windows..."
Maybe someone could come up with some sort of sattelite WiFi uplink thingamajig... Somehow, I doubt EVDO has as good coverage as XM's sattelites. Very cool idea though.
Slashdot Mirror
Okay, so let's compare consortiums (consortii?). Among those that don't support both (smart move for them, by the way): HD-DVD has big electronics companies, mostly. Powerful, debatably, but transparent to the average consumer. Blu-Ray has companies who may not really be as good, but look at their marketing departments: Apple, Dell, Samsung, Sony, HP, Fox, Disney. Dude, you're gettin' a Blu-Ray(R). But hey, that's just my prediction. Life is random(R), right?
I recently bought the new Dave Matthews CD (Stand Up) before noticing that it claimed it could only be played on "properly configured" computers and all CD players. Properly configured, by the way, meaning Windows or OS X with WMP. I won't rehash what Mediaplay does, or whatever it's called, but basicly, until I discovered that because the DRM only uses a security hole called Autoplay, I can play it on a Linux box, I was going to return it as defective, because that is the only way that the store here on campus (RIT) accepts returns of that sort of thing. It was, of course, a Friday, so I did find out that Sony's DRM doesn't work anyway, but I discovered a new meaning to DRM: Defective, Return Monday.
is that they don't use standard keyboard shortcuts, i.e. F6 for jump to URL bar(FF, IE, Safari, Netscape, Mozilla), Ctrl-T (or Apple-T) for new tab (FF, Safari, Netscape, Mozilla). I have a friend who uses Opera and every time I go to show him a page I have to have him click things for me because STANDARD keyboard shortcuts DON'T WORK!!!!111one
</rant>
But I have to say, the built-in mouse gestures is a cool feature.
Wait - if RIAA is benefiting from P2P, let's get together and bring a class action lawsuit against them for defamation, with them saying that P2P harms the music industry. Oh, and let's get that 12-year-old girl's $90 million back.
True, however, RTFS and you will see they plan to partner with the Gizmo Project, which has in- and out-bound calls at rates comperable to SkypeIn and SkypeOut. Plus, the whole thing is open.
Not in that order, though. 2) tends to be a prerequisite for 1), though 1) may be a "big drive" behind getting 2) up there. Not that I'm complaining, mind...
No, not 30 minutes, only about eight minutes, didn't you read that stuff about a month ago about unsecured Windoze boxes?? Oh, wait...
It worked...far too well. But damn, it worked.
because, you know, a blanket can damage the space shuttle so much... this explains everything.
Sure, it's GPL. You're free to clone (Anglican, Episcopal) or otherwise fork (other protestant) Micrix, but it's still Micrix.
"But that doesn't hurt Linux!" you cry. True. Why? Linus Torvalds accepts input and collaboration from users into the main kernel tree (the Bazaar). There is no need to fork.
Micrix would inspire fragmentation. Show me one example of fragmentation working well. I can think of several examples of it going wrong, right off the top of my head. (Linux distributions (there's no standard, scares people) and packaging (dpkg, rpm, tgz, Portage, Autopackage...) for example) Confusing end users is a certified Bad Thing(tm).
Oh, and no offense to anyone of any religion I may have offended. I don't think badly of any religion, they just seemed like a good way to extend the Cathedral and Bazaar metaphor. Oh, and kudos to Eric S. Raymond.
IF MS really is "embracing" cooperation with Linux and other OSS stuff, maybe Windows will be a good OS for desktops for a while. Of course, I'll really believe that when they provide a POSIX API and bash shell, but hey, maybe we'll see some of our favorite (read: most used, not loved) MS apps (i.e. Office, etc.) avaliable for Linux. Anyway, they might at least make it a bit easier for the Samba folks, and maybe even Wine.
"Evoke wonder" it does... Is there any sane order to this chart, or is it just arranged according to the "purdy colours" found on any decent(read 'real') periodic table?
This is, of course, patent bullshit. A school is supposed to have a valedictorian not (as someone said) 47. Only public schools are subject to this nonsense, though (I believe), as only people who can't (no offense) or won't send their kids to private school usually complain about how, you know, they don't have any other option, and their kids are doing their best, and the school can't tell them they aren't insanely brilliant, it might hurt their self-esteem.
My opinion on how to fix public schools? Institute a voucher system. Make it so people who can't normally get the better education from a private school because they can't afford it, able to afford it. Give the public school system some competition. Oh, and don't say the government can't afford it - make them equivalent worth to an education in a public school. The Seattle School District, I understand, spends about $10,000 a year on each student. My (private) high school did it on less than $6,000. Not that they couldn't use that other four grand, but they didn't need it to give us students a better education.
Nothing about the 1st amendment, either. Vouchers neither promote or inhibit any one religion, or group thereof. They assist all equally, which is not prohibited by the bill of rights. And they do so better than public schools - such institutions can't even teach an impersonal, godless, religion-free "Intelligent Design" theory, or even say that evolution is only a theory! So Pythagoras, who, by the way, has always been right so far (in Euclidian geometry), has only a theory, but Darwin, with evolution, has (un)proven, scientific fact?! (don't argue, there really is no way to prove evolution without a time machine)
And if some private academy costs more that $10,000 a year? Make the vouchers worth that $10,000 or whatever, and the folks who want that academy for their kids can pay the difference.
</RANT>
One last thing: quiz time.
Q: Why do some countries (I'm thinking of Japan, but I'm sure there are others) suddenly jump past the US's 229 years of free intelligence in only 60 years?
The real fix? Teach everyone in this country that it's okay not to be the smartest, the fastest, or the best in any other way. Then maybe it would be okay to tell them they're not the best. Maybe then they would try harder.
"Canadian government slams Slashdot editers for misspelling Canadian as 'Canadien'" First post? "And they still can't spell right..."
It seems somewhat better than, say, Delta Force (Novalogic), where you can kill with one round to the foot from a .45, anyway.
It could be done...
However, Javascript is nowhere near as adept at parsing html and stitching imagery together as Python. In fact, Javascript can't stitch imagery together. A greasemonkey port actually would not work anywhere near the same. Parse the HTML and figure out how to put the images together, yes. Getting the images and putting them together, now that's a different story...
Yes, this time they'll skip dry ice and just use liquid helium II.
Ah, so now Dell's making a 19-inch laptop. So what? A friend of mine has a 19-inch Alienware laptop. Its beautiful. The problem is, of course, with it's insane graphics and standard Pentium Extreme Edition, it has about one hour battery life and could serve as a space heater, despite its four fans. But then, who cares, so long as you've got a crazy good gaming machine in your lap... and your pants are on fire...
Jumping castle? How about a flying citadel?
Maybe they send you fish?
Coming soon: NETI@home discovers sentient penguins and daemons... "Penguins were seen to be working alongside daemons, cultivating apples and mischievously breaking windows..."
This one goes to my girlfriend... As far as I know, she doesn't even have email. And she's not one for tech stuff. Damn computer lit classes.
Maybe someone could come up with some sort of sattelite WiFi uplink thingamajig... Somehow, I doubt EVDO has as good coverage as XM's sattelites. Very cool idea though.