"mostly right, most of the time, for most of the people."???
Is this the standard by which the Ruby community judges software goodness? I'm speechless.
Yeah, it's not great, but at least it's honest. Go on any developer site - MSDN, java.sun.com, whatever, and you'll see a nice long list of submitted bugs. Fact is, no software is perfect, so don't go crazy when they admit there might be uncaught bugs.
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Java Is So 90s
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I really do hate the virtual machine implementation
As a once was Java developer (now more LAMP and.NET) it seems to me that Java deserves two things. First, it deserves credit as the first of the truly wonderful cross-platform, virtual machine driven JIT compilation using languages. It was, without question, the inspiration for the.NET platform.
However, it also seems to me that Java is just not keeping up. It's windowing libraries still suck. Its VM barely improves with each release.
So Java's claim as a landscape-altering language is indeed deserved, but one must wonder how long it can last. It will probably always have a market, just as C still has a market, despite the likes of C++, Java, etc. However, everything that goes up must come down, and as dynamic internet language, I believe its hayday to be over.
I get more and more flasbacks from the late '90's these days. Let's hope this time people keep their heads together.
I think they have. Both of these companies have proven business models, and took quite some time to get their stock this high (Google did it overnight, but after years of being private and still awesome.) These are not "I'm going to open an online pet store, but first I need an IPO" type companies.
In any case, if it does happen that often - e.g., you live in California or some third-world country with an unreliable power grid - wouldn't you be better off getting a UPS? I've gotta believe that a SFF desktop with comparable specs + UPS is still less than this thing costs.
I live in an apartment complex in NJ, and man alive is the power setup horrible. Probably originally wired in the 60s, and that was the last time. Brownouts and power surges are a regular thing, as are blackouts during - I shit you not - thunderstorms.
My desktop is [see below --- ] on a UPS (probably the best one I know of at the consumer level - has always been near perfect - APS Back-UPS 1000, although the 1500 is out now - that's probably better) but one of a series of laptops I have - for work or personal use, or that of the GF - is often plugged directly into the wall in a room outside of the office. When we get a power surge or blackout, it sure is nice to have that battery in there.
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AW MAN! I gotta tell you how perfect this is - as I was sitting here typing this, in my office, the power went out. Who knows why, it's sunny out. Thank you laptop battery.;)
This goes for admins, programmers, and just about every other profession, especially in IT.
Good managers ask for something in 5 days, but need it in 6.
Such a basic thing, but so so important. I always try to pad estimates for our department, but I should be sure to pad my requirements for my staff as well.
Leave off the battery, and shave that lardass down to merely ridiculous levels of heaviness instead of insanely heavy.
Truely, this is a "desktop replacement" - desktop specs, smaller footprint. I equate this to something like an iMac. But the up side is if you leave IN the battery, a brownout/blackout won't stop the machine, lose any work, or fry your innards. So this is a small-footprint desktop gaming PC with built-in battery backup. Sounds ok to me.
Are you a geek, who wants a productive interface? KDE is the way to go - actually, I prefer Windowmaker myself. OTOH, are you an end user who wants a simplified UI? Gnome is the way to go.
See, I disagree. As a bit of a power user - or at least not your average end user - most of what I do beyond normal desktop applications, surfing, and word processing involves a terminal window.
I suffer from mild OCD, and to me simplicity means calm, it means an enhanced ability to concentrate, and it means a better experience overall. KDE, to me, seems so incredibly cluttered and overreaching/overbearing that I shy away from it at every possible moment.
So again, this goes back to simply a matter of preference. Some like KDE, some like Gnome, some like E, but here's my problem. For Linus to get involved in this is just wrong. He can say he uses KDE, that's fine, but to put down Gnome as detrimental to society is base, ill-informed, and callus. If people don't like Gnome, fine, let them be. But this "disease" of which he speaks affects my mom and grandparents, and yeah, they sure as hell can find their way around a Gnome base installation better and faster than they can around KDE base installation.
So instead of Linus putting down Gnome, he should have simply stated what he used and left it at that. He practically started the entire "choice" movement, and to not encourage such choice is just not right... IMO of course.
Recently, I rented some half-baked movie (not Half Baked) at Blockbuster. The girlfriend and I were going to wait out the coming snow and watch a movie. I got two.
The first movie forced me (I despise beyond despise the DVD telling me I'm not ALLOWED to fast forward through certain parts) to watch a 5 minute commercial about the ills of piracy and inform me of who I'm hurting.
I took the movie out of the DVD player, brought it back to BB, and demanded (and got) my money back. I refuse to be force fed propoganda. I refuse to accept any sort of "indoctrination." I will continue to refuse such things.
The second DVD (Love Actually, see it) had no 5 minute clip about what a dirty pirate I am, and although I had to suffer through the FBI warning, I didn't feel like a criminal, nor was I forced to watch such offensive propoganda prior to watching the movie.
Ya know, it's starting to become a relatively predictable model, game systems, especially for MS. 1) Release console, 2) hackers bypass DRM, 3) someone deciphers FS, 4) ROMs released, emulators attempted, 5) Linux now runs on it, etc.
I'm wondering if, along with the release of a game system, Microsoft and other companies don't have legal offenses prepared in advance, so that the pounce-factor on those that break the FS/DRM schemes is near immediate. Would make sense, since it's almost guarenteed that someone will break it, and they'll get threatened/sued.
There are many better ways to spend that cash though. Think schools, healthcare, infrastructure, and job training.
You mean like, by putting in an IPV6 network? It blows my mind that we can talk about $75B like it ain't no thang. Although, perhaps Bill will be philanthropistic enough to foot a quarter or so of the bill. We'll just go ahead and name it the Microsoft Vista Network 360 XP.
With the slower proc and shared RAM, and limited software library, is this anything more than a somewhat enhanced Palm like device? Sure it's got a bigger screen, but it's a bigger unit too, so perhaps less portable... I know that certain Windows based handhelds like the ones Toshiba makes can easily break the $400 mark...
The price could be brought quite down to size with limited memory, a smaller B&W LCD screen (which allows for the limited memory because the movie file can be *much* smaller), and a specialized processor.
Unfortunately, and I may be alone, but this just sounds like more trash polluting the earth. McD's will give out or sell millions of these, people will be fascinated for mere minutes, and most will be discarded or throw into a toy chest, creating more silcion based hardly-biodegradable trash polluting the earth. It's like throw-away DVDs, except the chachki-effect may last a day or two longer.
Am I the only one that feels this way? Anyone else notice it's Disney again creating all the damn trash? (Or, the ideas that create all the damn theoretical trash?)
Anyone who thinks it crashes regularly or that more than 1% of units are overheating is simply a moron.
Now now... this perception is a direct result of the incredible marketing engine behind the 360. The more press a particular product gets, the more negative press it will get following any sort of failure. Sure, the failure rate is 1%, lets say, but in today's world, when you shove something in peoples' faces and market the heck out of a $2-4+ hundred dollar product, those who put out the money for said product are going to be most upset if they recieve a failing unit.
I know there is nothing more annoying than getting a bad mobo or expansion card for my PC, for instance. However, ABit or ATrend hardly ever advertise, let alone to the blitz-level that MS hit for the 360, so the general public won't really care too much about my failed board. But because the 360 has the attention of the masses now, the press realizes that any negative story about the 360 is gold in their laps, and so those stories are equally as hyped.
Putting yourself out there is just that - putting yourself out there. If your product performs, you're gold. If there are problems, clean-up will be something difficult.
Don't get me wrong - high end graphics are really a phenominal achievment, damn sexy, and just wicked cool. But does anyone else expect that ten years from now, our entire computers will be PCI Super Express cards that sit inside of NVidia's latest dual GPU graphics processing boxes?
Something is going on? I submit, I'd say, 3 stories a month, none of which actually get posted. While they may not represent relevant content to the editors, I haven't had a story accepted in 6 months.
I'm not bitter, but our friend had THREE (the bolding is a joke) stories accepted on Nov 28 alone. Three in one day? Was there no one else submitting stories? (I did not, but still.) To assume that this man/woman does not get preferential treatment is quite base.
Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
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Merck's Deleted Data
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On Slashdot, we often are willing to relate anything anti-MS to funny, insightful, interesting, or underrated.
Damn no mod points - I love it when something simple says so much. When it comes down to it, at some level, you're gonna have to trust someone. Might as well be the entity at the bottom - that'd be Intel, at the hardware level. Fact is, unless a human is hacking around in Intel''s hardware (a true unbiased third party) we just sort of inherently (sp?) trust Intel, AMD, ABit, ATrend, NVidia, etc. right now. Some extra protection against rootkits is hardly a bad thing.
"most users won't pay us a dime since they are not interested at all about antivirus security and all that stuff we sell for a living;
I've gotta wonder if this doesn't have something to do with the consumer culture. I see buying a computer with OS and then having to buy virus protection and a firewall to go with it akin to me buying a TV and Symantec wanting to sell me a fire extinguisher, because you know those TVs, they'll just catch fire...
When a normal (non-Slashdot reading) consumer buys a computer, they have some assumption that it comes with appropriate protections built in. Why someone would spend $1000 on a computer and then have to spend more to not get a virus is something some people have difficulty swallowing.
An online virus scan at your bank/credit card/stock trading website
So... does that mean I have to install an ActiveX component on my browser? Or perhaps enable a JAVA applet? Do I have to wait for the bank to scan my entire HD every time I want to check my balance? Does this require me to use IE? Can I still check my balance using Linux or OSX computers?
Don't get me wrong. I certainly understand that safety is important, and I support the idea of an ISP dropping a customer off of the net if their computer is infected / a spam bot until corrective action is taken. But really, websites requiring scans? Hmm...
I'll go you one further, I think the law should *compel* them fess up.
Really? Why? Because with odds of only 1 in 1000, I feel much, much safer. Here - who wants my SS#? It's 151-123-4241. But promise me that only one in 1000 of you will copy it down. Because, you know, any more than that, and I might have to start worrying.
(timeOday: In case it gets lost in translation, I support your opinion.)
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Yeah, it's not great, but at least it's honest. Go on any developer site - MSDN, java.sun.com, whatever, and you'll see a nice long list of submitted bugs. Fact is, no software is perfect, so don't go crazy when they admit there might be uncaught bugs.
As a once was Java developer (now more LAMP and .NET) it seems to me that Java deserves two things. First, it deserves credit as the first of the truly wonderful cross-platform, virtual machine driven JIT compilation using languages. It was, without question, the inspiration for the .NET platform.
However, it also seems to me that Java is just not keeping up. It's windowing libraries still suck. Its VM barely improves with each release.
So Java's claim as a landscape-altering language is indeed deserved, but one must wonder how long it can last. It will probably always have a market, just as C still has a market, despite the likes of C++, Java, etc. However, everything that goes up must come down, and as dynamic internet language, I believe its hayday to be over.
I think they have. Both of these companies have proven business models, and took quite some time to get their stock this high (Google did it overnight, but after years of being private and still awesome.) These are not "I'm going to open an online pet store, but first I need an IPO" type companies.
In any case, if it does happen that often - e.g., you live in California or some third-world country with an unreliable power grid - wouldn't you be better off getting a UPS? I've gotta believe that a SFF desktop with comparable specs + UPS is still less than this thing costs.
I live in an apartment complex in NJ, and man alive is the power setup horrible. Probably originally wired in the 60s, and that was the last time. Brownouts and power surges are a regular thing, as are blackouts during - I shit you not - thunderstorms.
My desktop is [see below --- ] on a UPS (probably the best one I know of at the consumer level - has always been near perfect - APS Back-UPS 1000, although the 1500 is out now - that's probably better) but one of a series of laptops I have - for work or personal use, or that of the GF - is often plugged directly into the wall in a room outside of the office. When we get a power surge or blackout, it sure is nice to have that battery in there.
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AW MAN! I gotta tell you how perfect this is - as I was sitting here typing this, in my office, the power went out. Who knows why, it's sunny out. Thank you laptop battery. ;)
Google is your best freind. ever. period.
This goes for admins, programmers, and just about every other profession, especially in IT.
Good managers ask for something in 5 days, but need it in 6.
Such a basic thing, but so so important. I always try to pad estimates for our department, but I should be sure to pad my requirements for my staff as well.
Truely, this is a "desktop replacement" - desktop specs, smaller footprint. I equate this to something like an iMac. But the up side is if you leave IN the battery, a brownout/blackout won't stop the machine, lose any work, or fry your innards. So this is a small-footprint desktop gaming PC with built-in battery backup. Sounds ok to me.
See, I disagree. As a bit of a power user - or at least not your average end user - most of what I do beyond normal desktop applications, surfing, and word processing involves a terminal window.
I suffer from mild OCD, and to me simplicity means calm, it means an enhanced ability to concentrate, and it means a better experience overall. KDE, to me, seems so incredibly cluttered and overreaching/overbearing that I shy away from it at every possible moment.
So again, this goes back to simply a matter of preference. Some like KDE, some like Gnome, some like E, but here's my problem. For Linus to get involved in this is just wrong. He can say he uses KDE, that's fine, but to put down Gnome as detrimental to society is base, ill-informed, and callus. If people don't like Gnome, fine, let them be. But this "disease" of which he speaks affects my mom and grandparents, and yeah, they sure as hell can find their way around a Gnome base installation better and faster than they can around KDE base installation.
So instead of Linus putting down Gnome, he should have simply stated what he used and left it at that. He practically started the entire "choice" movement, and to not encourage such choice is just not right... IMO of course.
Recently, I rented some half-baked movie (not Half Baked) at Blockbuster. The girlfriend and I were going to wait out the coming snow and watch a movie. I got two.
The first movie forced me (I despise beyond despise the DVD telling me I'm not ALLOWED to fast forward through certain parts) to watch a 5 minute commercial about the ills of piracy and inform me of who I'm hurting.
I took the movie out of the DVD player, brought it back to BB, and demanded (and got) my money back. I refuse to be force fed propoganda. I refuse to accept any sort of "indoctrination." I will continue to refuse such things.
The second DVD (Love Actually, see it) had no 5 minute clip about what a dirty pirate I am, and although I had to suffer through the FBI warning, I didn't feel like a criminal, nor was I forced to watch such offensive propoganda prior to watching the movie.
Ya know, it's starting to become a relatively predictable model, game systems, especially for MS. 1) Release console, 2) hackers bypass DRM, 3) someone deciphers FS, 4) ROMs released, emulators attempted, 5) Linux now runs on it, etc.
I'm wondering if, along with the release of a game system, Microsoft and other companies don't have legal offenses prepared in advance, so that the pounce-factor on those that break the FS/DRM schemes is near immediate. Would make sense, since it's almost guarenteed that someone will break it, and they'll get threatened/sued.
You mean like, by putting in an IPV6 network? It blows my mind that we can talk about $75B like it ain't no thang. Although, perhaps Bill will be philanthropistic enough to foot a quarter or so of the bill. We'll just go ahead and name it the Microsoft Vista Network 360 XP.
With the slower proc and shared RAM, and limited software library, is this anything more than a somewhat enhanced Palm like device? Sure it's got a bigger screen, but it's a bigger unit too, so perhaps less portable... I know that certain Windows based handhelds like the ones Toshiba makes can easily break the $400 mark...
...that I have to assume I just do not meet. Not sure that my nose pores will look that good at a half meter across each.
Unfortunately, and I may be alone, but this just sounds like more trash polluting the earth. McD's will give out or sell millions of these, people will be fascinated for mere minutes, and most will be discarded or throw into a toy chest, creating more silcion based hardly-biodegradable trash polluting the earth. It's like throw-away DVDs, except the chachki-effect may last a day or two longer.
Am I the only one that feels this way? Anyone else notice it's Disney again creating all the damn trash? (Or, the ideas that create all the damn theoretical trash?)
Now now... this perception is a direct result of the incredible marketing engine behind the 360. The more press a particular product gets, the more negative press it will get following any sort of failure. Sure, the failure rate is 1%, lets say, but in today's world, when you shove something in peoples' faces and market the heck out of a $2-4+ hundred dollar product, those who put out the money for said product are going to be most upset if they recieve a failing unit.
I know there is nothing more annoying than getting a bad mobo or expansion card for my PC, for instance. However, ABit or ATrend hardly ever advertise, let alone to the blitz-level that MS hit for the 360, so the general public won't really care too much about my failed board. But because the 360 has the attention of the masses now, the press realizes that any negative story about the 360 is gold in their laps, and so those stories are equally as hyped.
Putting yourself out there is just that - putting yourself out there. If your product performs, you're gold. If there are problems, clean-up will be something difficult.
Don't get me wrong - high end graphics are really a phenominal achievment, damn sexy, and just wicked cool. But does anyone else expect that ten years from now, our entire computers will be PCI Super Express cards that sit inside of NVidia's latest dual GPU graphics processing boxes?
Exactly. Although a bit of a troll, I can see the MPAA lobbying for new laws that require any movies recorded to a DVR expire after 40 seconds.
Something is going on? I submit, I'd say, 3 stories a month, none of which actually get posted. While they may not represent relevant content to the editors, I haven't had a story accepted in 6 months.
I'm not bitter, but our friend had THREE (the bolding is a joke) stories accepted on Nov 28 alone. Three in one day? Was there no one else submitting stories? (I did not, but still.) To assume that this man/woman does not get preferential treatment is quite base.
On Slashdot, we often are willing to relate anything anti-MS to funny, insightful, interesting, or underrated.
* 6 digit crowd hangs head - IAmTheDave (746256) *
Not working for me - 2.0.2 (416.13) on Tiger 10.4.3 - blank white page. Could 416.12 vs. 416.13 be that much of a difference?
Damn no mod points - I love it when something simple says so much. When it comes down to it, at some level, you're gonna have to trust someone. Might as well be the entity at the bottom - that'd be Intel, at the hardware level. Fact is, unless a human is hacking around in Intel''s hardware (a true unbiased third party) we just sort of inherently (sp?) trust Intel, AMD, ABit, ATrend, NVidia, etc. right now. Some extra protection against rootkits is hardly a bad thing.
Apparently it did. Picture links are dead.
I've gotta wonder if this doesn't have something to do with the consumer culture. I see buying a computer with OS and then having to buy virus protection and a firewall to go with it akin to me buying a TV and Symantec wanting to sell me a fire extinguisher, because you know those TVs, they'll just catch fire...
When a normal (non-Slashdot reading) consumer buys a computer, they have some assumption that it comes with appropriate protections built in. Why someone would spend $1000 on a computer and then have to spend more to not get a virus is something some people have difficulty swallowing.
It's just a thought.
So... does that mean I have to install an ActiveX component on my browser? Or perhaps enable a JAVA applet? Do I have to wait for the bank to scan my entire HD every time I want to check my balance? Does this require me to use IE? Can I still check my balance using Linux or OSX computers?
Don't get me wrong. I certainly understand that safety is important, and I support the idea of an ISP dropping a customer off of the net if their computer is infected / a spam bot until corrective action is taken. But really, websites requiring scans? Hmm...
Really? Why? Because with odds of only 1 in 1000, I feel much, much safer. Here - who wants my SS#? It's 151-123-4241. But promise me that only one in 1000 of you will copy it down. Because, you know, any more than that, and I might have to start worrying.
(timeOday: In case it gets lost in translation, I support your opinion.)