And NeXT was fucking fantastic, it amazed me that even in '99 the rest of the computing world hadn't caught up to how far along NeXTSTEP was when it came to providing a useful, coherent, sane computing environment.
Installed base is a much more useful number than market share, unless you really think real computing advancement comes from the hundreds of mid to low end machines typically deployed in corporations (hint: it doesn't). Emacs don't cost near 2k, iMacs do and they are poor sellers because of it. The G5 machines are priced well if you do a serious comparison of what you get for the money... and more importantly they are priced great since Apple sells them as fast they make them (the single 1.6 excluded).
I realize you are doing the anti-popular opinion troll for mod points but unfortunately for me I can't help but reply.
Re:What a bunch of assholes.
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Because with your jammer you aren't specifically taking out the one obnoxious person, you are blanketing everyone in an area to appease ONLY you. Quite selfish, isn't that?
What a bunch of assholes.
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Jamming cellphones in an area greater than your personal space is incredibly fucking selfish. When you go out in public, you are subject to the social norms of the area you live in. If other people in your city think it is cool to be obnoxious on the cell phone, deal with it, try and change it through non passive-aggressive means or move.
When I lived in San Francisco I would be amazed when people would get pissed at others for talking in normal tones on cellphones while on the bus. As I told this one old guy who was yelling, "Why don't you yell at the couple in front of her who are talking even louder?!". Personally I don't use my cellphone in crowded places and always keep my ringer off. I don't see why so many people who have vitriol for those who conduct themselves with decent manners.
While it does hit some formulaic parts, Andromeda, is a pretty good sci-fi series, especially when compared to a lot of the swill out there.
The setup: Hunt, commander of a high guard star ship, one of the most powerful in the Commonwealth screws up and gets to close to a black hole. A few hundred years (500?) later, thanks to an event that took place hundreds of years ago, his ship finally breaks free of the pull of the black hole and he emerges into a universe where the Commonwealth no longer exists anymore. Hunt who is completely lost decides, with a rag tag group who was trying to salvage his ship, to rebuild the Commonwealth. So along they go traveling all over the universe breaking the occasional law of physics but never to the point of completely insulting you repeatedly in each episode.
The best part overall, Commander Hunt, much like the first great space commander (Kirk), sees it as his duty to hit lots of alien booty.
When released, it was the first commercial object oriented OS for the PC
Smalltalk was out before Geos, while it required dos to boot, once inside, it was an OS unto itself.
What? (Titus)
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Did you even watch Titus all the way through? It is absolutely brilliant, aware that most of the audience wouldn't be able to empathize with the true shock and horror as Shakespeare wrote it Taymour grabbed familiar, but horrible things from all over the 1900s to allow modern audiences to fully feel the disgust and discomfort originally intended.
Perhaps you should watch it again with an open mind? This time try going past the first few minutes, okay?
Start streaming a large uncompressed dvd with VLC. While streaming, remote boot a series of machines off the network (all being console monitored on your current display) while showing live video of a monitor located on the other side of the link connected to the server you are booting/streaming from.
That should beat in the fact the bandwith is obscenely excessive.
Well it doesn't work at slashdot specifically because no one is accountable. This is the reason I don't moderate on slashdot, since it is a hollow faceless act.
Meta-moderation obviously doesn't do a good job of checking bad moderation either, in my opinion the whole moderation system at slashdot is broken beyond repair. I have +3 to anonymous and +2 applied to trolls when I browse so I can at least see more than the mob rule opinion.
Why don't you just establish a rating system for reviews. Allow students who submit reviews to also rate other submitted reviews. This would easily allow you to move the trash down below a viewable threshold. It would also encourage people to leave longer, more detailed reviews full of useful content.
Well because i have a contract with Dell saying I won't do that, and in return they cut the company a great deal on the other 300 pcs
I call bullshit, because if you were a real manager who had some clue as how to run an IT or IS group you would never ever cut such a deal and even if you would there's no way you could sell it to legal or accounting.
This has been around for something like 12 years, IIRC, Nowhere Man of that funny group of happy guys at [NuKE] wrote the VCL (Virus Creation Lab) in 92 (maybe 93?). Basically it was a text based GUI app with windows and drop downs that let you design a virus and produced a working one ready for distribution.
Today's viruses are absolutely pathetic compared to some of the older stuff.
I absolutely abhor using Visio, it is slow, cumbersome and eats away system resources worse than any other app save autocad. Unforunately visio does some things that nothing else can do yet. OmniGraffle isn't as full featured as Visio but what it does do, it does extremely well.
I douibt it had anything to do with schools using them, the macs were probably more of a tax writeoff as trash than as a credit for donation. This happens all the time with big business, now you know why you find such amazing stuff in their trash.
Orkut has very fine levels of control on how your private information is shared among strangers, friends and friendsOfFriends unlike many of the other networking community sites. They seem to have taken a look at many of the other sites and fixed a lot of the more obvious problems.
However the site was taken down because it wasn't doing any input validation so fine grained user security or not info was easily obtained by any random person.
The user percentage of females was easily almost equal to males with many females creating new communities and inviting their own friends to grow the network.
My friends list on Orkut was more female than male.
The only reason Apple went with PowerPC is because MOT completely blew it on the 680x0 line by being extremely late, with horrible yeilds and crazy prices. 68040s and 68060s were good procs that would have been great had they come out a year earlier.
The single best reason for Dual screens, info panes.
I'm guessing most of you who are trouncing this idea are PC game players or people who have never used a hand held game system. In any game with a large amount of information, say every RPG or RTS there is a lot of time spent bring up extra menus or pausing the game to hit a sub menu system. With two screens, one probably located directly below the other near the controls, now you just have to glance down to grab additional info. The LCD screens being used here don't have very high resolution to keep the costs reasonable so a second screen is an easy way to add much more feedback to the game player.
This console sounds like it is a direct result of the GC-GBA link system. When done right (see Zelda, Final Fantasy Chronicles) it is an amazing thing. The GBA link actually gives us what Sega promised with the dreamcast VMU except in colour and with a lot more than just basic, bland static information.
Sheesh just imagine a RTS game like Advance Wars where the secondary display shows a zoomed out map area and other random stats but automatically changes over to an info pane when you move your selector over one of your own or an enemy unit. That's not cool?
In Panther, Safari is now needed (unless you have 3rd party tools) to set the default browser. This is a pretty stupid move but I believe it was related to something in a newer version of WebKit. Hopefully this will be fixed in the future.
Time has nothing to do with if it is a good calculation or not and you are right they don't want your money. It isn't even remotely worthwhile to add and advertise Vorbis support to the iPod.
Look you slashdot trolls, Vorbis is dead in the eyes of the consumer manufactors but then again it was never alive. The window of opportunity to push a new codec for music without backing from a company is long gone. iRiver supports it because they are doing ANYTHING they can to break some kind of serious market share... and it still isn't really working.
Get over it Vorbis fans, your money, even combined isn't worth it to these companies who are major portable music players. So stop whining about it, you made the choice to encode in an obscure format so suck it in and stop crying.
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What really bad ones? You say there were a lot...
And NeXT was fucking fantastic, it amazed me that even in '99 the rest of the computing world hadn't caught up to how far along NeXTSTEP was when it came to providing a useful, coherent, sane computing environment.
Installed base is a much more useful number than market share, unless you really think real computing advancement comes from the hundreds of mid to low end machines typically deployed in corporations (hint: it doesn't). Emacs don't cost near 2k, iMacs do and they are poor sellers because of it. The G5 machines are priced well if you do a serious comparison of what you get for the money... and more importantly they are priced great since Apple sells them as fast they make them (the single 1.6 excluded).
I realize you are doing the anti-popular opinion troll for mod points but unfortunately for me I can't help but reply.
Because with your jammer you aren't specifically taking out the one obnoxious person, you are blanketing everyone in an area to appease ONLY you. Quite selfish, isn't that?
Jamming cellphones in an area greater than your personal space is incredibly fucking selfish. When you go out in public, you are subject to the social norms of the area you live in. If other people in your city think it is cool to be obnoxious on the cell phone, deal with it, try and change it through non passive-aggressive means or move.
When I lived in San Francisco I would be amazed when people would get pissed at others for talking in normal tones on cellphones while on the bus. As I told this one old guy who was yelling, "Why don't you yell at the couple in front of her who are talking even louder?!". Personally I don't use my cellphone in crowded places and always keep my ringer off. I don't see why so many people who have vitriol for those who conduct themselves with decent manners.
While it does hit some formulaic parts, Andromeda, is a pretty good sci-fi series, especially when compared to a lot of the swill out there.
The setup: Hunt, commander of a high guard star ship, one of the most powerful in the Commonwealth screws up and gets to close to a black hole. A few hundred years (500?) later, thanks to an event that took place hundreds of years ago, his ship finally breaks free of the pull of the black hole and he emerges into a universe where the Commonwealth no longer exists anymore. Hunt who is completely lost decides, with a rag tag group who was trying to salvage his ship, to rebuild the Commonwealth. So along they go traveling all over the universe breaking the occasional law of physics but never to the point of completely insulting you repeatedly in each episode.
The best part overall, Commander Hunt, much like the first great space commander (Kirk), sees it as his duty to hit lots of alien booty.
When released, it was the first commercial object oriented OS for the PC
Smalltalk was out before Geos, while it required dos to boot, once inside, it was an OS unto itself.
Did you even watch Titus all the way through? It is absolutely brilliant, aware that most of the audience wouldn't be able to empathize with the true shock and horror as Shakespeare wrote it Taymour grabbed familiar, but horrible things from all over the 1900s to allow modern audiences to fully feel the disgust and discomfort originally intended.
Perhaps you should watch it again with an open mind? This time try going past the first few minutes, okay?
Start streaming a large uncompressed dvd with VLC. While streaming, remote boot a series of machines off the network (all being console monitored on your current display) while showing live video of a monitor located on the other side of the link connected to the server you are booting/streaming from.
That should beat in the fact the bandwith is obscenely excessive.
Well it doesn't work at slashdot specifically because no one is accountable. This is the reason I don't moderate on slashdot, since it is a hollow faceless act.
Meta-moderation obviously doesn't do a good job of checking bad moderation either, in my opinion the whole moderation system at slashdot is broken beyond repair. I have +3 to anonymous and +2 applied to trolls when I browse so I can at least see more than the mob rule opinion.
Why don't you just establish a rating system for reviews. Allow students who submit reviews to also rate other submitted reviews. This would easily allow you to move the trash down below a viewable threshold. It would also encourage people to leave longer, more detailed reviews full of useful content.
Bluetooth was built from the ground up with security in mind, obviously Nokia totally boggled this.
Well because i have a contract with Dell saying I won't do that, and in return they cut the company a great deal on the other 300 pcs
I call bullshit, because if you were a real manager who had some clue as how to run an IT or IS group you would never ever cut such a deal and even if you would there's no way you could sell it to legal or accounting.
This has been around for something like 12 years, IIRC, Nowhere Man of that funny group of happy guys at [NuKE] wrote the VCL (Virus Creation Lab) in 92 (maybe 93?). Basically it was a text based GUI app with windows and drop downs that let you design a virus and produced a working one ready for distribution.
Today's viruses are absolutely pathetic compared to some of the older stuff.
-OMNIGraffle Pro blows
OH this I gotta here, how so?
I absolutely abhor using Visio, it is slow, cumbersome and eats away system resources worse than any other app save autocad. Unforunately visio does some things that nothing else can do yet.
OmniGraffle isn't as full featured as Visio but what it does do, it does extremely well.
I douibt it had anything to do with schools using them, the macs were probably more of a tax writeoff as trash than as a credit for donation. This happens all the time with big business, now you know why you find such amazing stuff in their trash.
NeXT boxes? Are you kidding me? NeXT had numerous remote holes that were never fixed even after it became Openstep. Scary indeed!
Orkut has very fine levels of control on how your private information is shared among strangers, friends and friendsOfFriends unlike many of the other networking community sites. They seem to have taken a look at many of the other sites and fixed a lot of the more obvious problems.
However the site was taken down because it wasn't doing any input validation so fine grained user security or not info was easily obtained by any random person.
Of users or people running the system?
The user percentage of females was easily almost equal to males with many females creating new communities and inviting their own friends to grow the network.
My friends list on Orkut was more female than male.
... and money is the only measure of worth in the world, fucktard?
Good luck, you'll need it.
The only reason Apple went with PowerPC is because MOT completely blew it on the 680x0 line by being extremely late, with horrible yeilds and crazy prices. 68040s and 68060s were good procs that would have been great had they come out a year earlier.
The same thing MOT went on to do with PowerPC.
The single best reason for Dual screens, info panes.
I'm guessing most of you who are trouncing this idea are PC game players or people who have never used a hand held game system. In any game with a large amount of information, say every RPG or RTS there is a lot of time spent bring up extra menus or pausing the game to hit a sub menu system. With two screens, one probably located directly below the other near the controls, now you just have to glance down to grab additional info. The LCD screens being used here don't have very high resolution to keep the costs reasonable so a second screen is an easy way to add much more feedback to the game player.
This console sounds like it is a direct result of the GC-GBA link system. When done right (see Zelda, Final Fantasy Chronicles) it is an amazing thing. The GBA link actually gives us what Sega promised with the dreamcast VMU except in colour and with a lot more than just basic, bland static information.
Sheesh just imagine a RTS game like Advance Wars where the secondary display shows a zoomed out map area and other random stats but automatically changes over to an info pane when you move your selector over one of your own or an enemy unit. That's not cool?
In Panther, Safari is now needed (unless you have 3rd party tools) to set the default browser. This is a pretty stupid move but I believe it was related to something in a newer version of WebKit. Hopefully this will be fixed in the future.
Album art.
Time has nothing to do with if it is a good calculation or not and you are right they don't want your money. It isn't even remotely worthwhile to add and advertise Vorbis support to the iPod.
Look you slashdot trolls, Vorbis is dead in the eyes of the consumer manufactors but then again it was never alive. The window of opportunity to push a new codec for music without backing from a company is long gone. iRiver supports it because they are doing ANYTHING they can to break some kind of serious market share... and it still isn't really working.
Get over it Vorbis fans, your money, even combined isn't worth it to these companies who are major portable music players. So stop whining about it, you made the choice to encode in an obscure format so suck it in and stop crying.
i think they meant furi from .au