You have incredibly low standards as a consumer. They basically gave you the run around multiple times, lied to you about a rebate, refused fast shipping for some bogus reason and you sat there and accepted it instead of canceling your order and giving money to a company that would treat you well.
Tiger makes exactly these improvements to the OSX desktop experience via Dashboard. Dashboard allows any one who can code javascript to have access to a wide variety of created APIs to create desktop widgets.
However the current OSX dock is useful for a lot more than you give it credit for, try using it sometime.
Seriously. Every time one of these topics comes up on the/. there are a flood of posts talking about how useless or pointless the invention is. Applying an easy stereotype I notice most of these comments come from posters who joined in the last couple of years.
Has the general readership of/. really changed so much? Is it not appropriate to have a little lust and desire to see tech invade every portion of our lives? Wasn't/. itself about the new and exciting uses of technology and cool things on the net?
More on topic, your thermostat will be networked one way or the other. Either you choose to do it, or your power company will within the next 10-15 years to help control power blackouts, surges and fluctuations. Some power companies already offer discounts for those in high heat areas if the end user allows the power company to turn off their AC during peak usage times.
"If the CD has a track that is about violence against women, or the degredation of women, and promotes youth violence then the entire CD needs to be removed"
Right. You respect him because he is determining what meets those standards above? How about books that feature violence against women? racism? violence in general? What about movies that do the same? Libraries do pay attention to parental warning labels and will not lend out media materials to people who do not meet age requirements. Basically you are respecting a man who is censoring you, but even worse you seem completely content (or oblivious) with what is happening.
If you live everyday like it is your last you will have never prepared for the future. Instead I think you would want to live everyday as "how you would like to be remembered if you were to die tomorrow".
... DEC Techs did something the other big boys never did. Every single time I had a faulty part and called in a tech who hauled ass to get there they brought at least two and sometimes three of the broken part. They were taking no chances that the replacement wouldn't work either. But the best was we had a CPU go out once, so they brought that card but because on that particular model of alpha sometimes a "BAD CPU" test could possibly mean bad rom, ram or video they went ahead and brought all of them in their little repair box too.
Contrast this with Sun who for around that same price would get you the part within four hours, but only that one part and if it is bad... you have a brand new four hour window to wait.
Hey slashdot guys if you wonder why you don't have jobs in the Real World(TM) this post shows exactly why.
Your planning, as usual was, poor. Your communication terrible. Again you ignored the features your users (ie your paying customers and AD viewers) actually wanted and finally you fixed changes that should have been fixed long ago.
Fortunately for you guys slashdot has such a critical mass of tech eyeballs you are insulated from your own incompetence and unprofessionalism. I'm sure someone will come along and clamor "but th1z is r0b'z personal site!!@" which might have been valid four or five years ago. Mostly I am just disappointed that the typical slashdot reader and worse, editor, is so ready to settle for this. Don't you editors want to be really proud of your work? Don't you feel a responsibility to your users? Your actions certainly seem to say "who cares?".
Do you really remember significantly more detail about a story from reading a book than from seeing a movie?
I've also never been affected by a movie as deeply as books have affected me. Crime and Punishment made me cry like a child at the end and had a profound effect on certain parts of my personality that were reminiscent of Raskolnikov. There are still some days when just thinking about passages in that book can give me chills.
Movies on the other hand only seem to speak to more basic emotions to me. Some movie rembrances bring fear or an internal laugh, but nothing life altering... and this is despite watching a good deal of non-fiction movies.
So for me, movies are definitely more of a easy to remember, sharable experience while books maintain a special, long term effect on me in a personal level.
Reality is what your instruments measure, and what your friends' instruments measure when they try to measure whatever it was that you were measuring.
Just because you and your friends agree it is true and the instruments you have setup to measure in a specific way give you results you expect, doesn't mean it is true. History is filled with scientific "truths" that are later invalidated... and this will probably continue until we manage to get a big ol' theory of everything.
With that said, I feel there is a demonstrable value to most anything that will satisfy most requirements of being factual enough to constitute reality.
But my 12v Audi engine sees much better gas mileage at 75mph than it does at 55mph. 70mph seems to be the sweet post for maximum mileage on long hauls for this car but not only is 75mph better than 55mph near 80mph gets me only slightly less gas milage on long interstate drives and gets you there a hell of a lot faster.
If you were the one in charge of the net connection then you dropped the ball here, not the phone company. There are plenty of tools to let you know how far from the CO you are and in any case you should have asked. Not knowing the distance limitations of DSL is not an excuse, if you are ordering one for your business then you damn well better at least read a FAQ on it.
OSX's built in mail seems to be pretty close to the accuracy numbers listed in the above summary. I tend to have one to three pieces of spam slip through which are almost always entirely image based with some poetry or equivalent attached.
I must say I've been pleasantly surprised with the spam filtering it provides and it has been a lot easier than the hoops I used to utilize to clean out my inbox.
You get anywhere from 2-5% compression depending on codec used. When something is downloaded a couple thousand or even hundred thousand times that little amounts of savings can add up to a huge overall savings in total bandwidth.
The circumstances really don't really matter. If you choose to run a site with thousands, hell even a dozen users, you treat as though you would treat any professional site you may manage. Not giving any notice whatsoever speaks volumes about the level of respect he had for his users and his level of commitment in general. Obviously this is a decision he has been mulling for some time, would it have been so hard to give weeks of notice? To have closed down public access but allowed users to download their content?
Basically he is just a dick who shouldn't make commitments (even to strangers) that he can't honour in a respectable manner.
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You have incredibly low standards as a consumer. They basically gave you the run around multiple times, lied to you about a rebate, refused fast shipping for some bogus reason and you sat there and accepted it instead of canceling your order and giving money to a company that would treat you well.
You deserve more when spending so much money.
Tiger makes exactly these improvements to the OSX desktop experience via Dashboard. Dashboard allows any one who can code javascript to have access to a wide variety of created APIs to create desktop widgets.
However the current OSX dock is useful for a lot more than you give it credit for, try using it sometime.
Do more LSD and/or Shrooms.
Do you have after market memory?
https://fei.psu.edu/ESCO/2003_DmdSideResponse.htm
Seriously. Every time one of these topics comes up on the /. there are a flood of posts talking about how useless or pointless the invention is. Applying an easy stereotype I notice most of these comments come from posters who joined in the last couple of years.
/. really changed so much? Is it not appropriate to have a little lust and desire to see tech invade every portion of our lives? Wasn't /. itself about the new and exciting uses of technology and cool things on the net?
Has the general readership of
More on topic, your thermostat will be networked one way or the other. Either you choose to do it, or your power company will within the next 10-15 years to help control power blackouts, surges and fluctuations. Some power companies already offer discounts for those in high heat areas if the end user allows the power company to turn off their AC during peak usage times.
Have you been to a major US city not in the midwest or south recently?
There are debit card enabled things everywhere in NYC, Chicago, SF, etc...
"If the CD has a track that is about violence against women, or the degredation of women, and promotes youth violence then the entire CD needs to be removed"
Right. You respect him because he is determining what meets those standards above? How about books that feature violence against women? racism? violence in general? What about movies that do the same? Libraries do pay attention to parental warning labels and will not lend out media materials to people who do not meet age requirements. Basically you are respecting a man who is censoring you, but even worse you seem completely content (or oblivious) with what is happening.
Okay so we have scanned one hundred systems and found we only know of life in one of them (our own)?
So 1% of the universe is FULL OF LIFE? OMG!
I believe SInbad has patented this method already.
That is a horrible way to live.
If you live everyday like it is your last you will have never prepared for the future. Instead I think you would want to live everyday as "how you would like to be remembered if you were to die tomorrow".
Matias Tactile Pro Keyboard
Capability
That's just a shorthand way of saying "we require pixel shaders".
... DEC Techs did something the other big boys never did. Every single time I had a faulty part and called in a tech who hauled ass to get there they brought at least two and sometimes three of the broken part. They were taking no chances that the replacement wouldn't work either. But the best was we had a CPU go out once, so they brought that card but because on that particular model of alpha sometimes a "BAD CPU" test could possibly mean bad rom, ram or video they went ahead and brought all of them in their little repair box too.
Contrast this with Sun who for around that same price would get you the part within four hours, but only that one part and if it is bad... you have a brand new four hour window to wait.
Hey slashdot guys if you wonder why you don't have jobs in the Real World(TM) this post shows exactly why.
Your planning, as usual was, poor. Your communication terrible. Again you ignored the features your users (ie your paying customers and AD viewers) actually wanted and finally you fixed changes that should have been fixed long ago.
Fortunately for you guys slashdot has such a critical mass of tech eyeballs you are insulated from your own incompetence and unprofessionalism. I'm sure someone will come along and clamor "but th1z is r0b'z personal site!!@" which might have been valid four or five years ago. Mostly I am just disappointed that the typical slashdot reader and worse, editor, is so ready to settle for this. Don't you editors want to be really proud of your work? Don't you feel a responsibility to your users? Your actions certainly seem to say "who cares?".
Do you really remember significantly more detail about a story from reading a book than from seeing a movie?
I've also never been affected by a movie as deeply as books have affected me. Crime and Punishment made me cry like a child at the end and had a profound effect on certain parts of my personality that were reminiscent of Raskolnikov. There are still some days when just thinking about passages in that book can give me chills.
Movies on the other hand only seem to speak to more basic emotions to me. Some movie rembrances bring fear or an internal laugh, but nothing life altering... and this is despite watching a good deal of non-fiction movies.
So for me, movies are definitely more of a easy to remember, sharable experience while books maintain a special, long term effect on me in a personal level.
11) No stop lights within 1/4 mile of a high traffic exit. The spill over from lights such as these on loops cause much of the traffic congestion.
Did you even bother to read the summary?
Reality is what your instruments measure, and what your friends' instruments measure when they try to measure whatever it was that you were measuring.
Just because you and your friends agree it is true and the instruments you have setup to measure in a specific way give you results you expect, doesn't mean it is true. History is filled with scientific "truths" that are later invalidated... and this will probably continue until we manage to get a big ol' theory of everything.
With that said, I feel there is a demonstrable value to most anything that will satisfy most requirements of being factual enough to constitute reality.
But my 12v Audi engine sees much better gas mileage at 75mph than it does at 55mph. 70mph seems to be the sweet post for maximum mileage on long hauls for this car but not only is 75mph better than 55mph near 80mph gets me only slightly less gas milage on long interstate drives and gets you there a hell of a lot faster.
Yes yes, I didn't provide detailed stats, then again it is a COMMENT on slashdot.
If you were the one in charge of the net connection then you dropped the ball here, not the phone company. There are plenty of tools to let you know how far from the CO you are and in any case you should have asked. Not knowing the distance limitations of DSL is not an excuse, if you are ordering one for your business then you damn well better at least read a FAQ on it.
OSX's built in mail seems to be pretty close to the accuracy numbers listed in the above summary. I tend to have one to three pieces of spam slip through which are almost always entirely image based with some poetry or equivalent attached.
I must say I've been pleasantly surprised with the spam filtering it provides and it has been a lot easier than the hoops I used to utilize to clean out my inbox.
You get anywhere from 2-5% compression depending on codec used. When something is downloaded a couple thousand or even hundred thousand times that little amounts of savings can add up to a huge overall savings in total bandwidth.
The circumstances really don't really matter. If you choose to run a site with thousands, hell even a dozen users, you treat as though you would treat any professional site you may manage. Not giving any notice whatsoever speaks volumes about the level of respect he had for his users and his level of commitment in general. Obviously this is a decision he has been mulling for some time, would it have been so hard to give weeks of notice? To have closed down public access but allowed users to download their content?
Basically he is just a dick who shouldn't make commitments (even to strangers) that he can't honour in a respectable manner.