I do agree that it was not funny to make the unit of currency called a "pound", an already reserved unit of measurement, and then making the symbol for it a squiggle.
Perhaps the brits should study the America's methods of grammer and currency units further. Then possibly fewer elements of their culture would be perceived as failed attempts at humor.
dood stop whining and being a mister gloom and doom.... we're sending Maldives some rubber rafts, Russia will have thousands more square miles of livable space, and all the vermin in LA will be drowned. Global warming is not the end, but rather a splendid new beginning!
"at the court order, their whole argument revolves around something called TrustedDWG that basically looks like a digital signature that verifies the file was created by an Autodesk product."
Yes, it's called DCMA. In addition to the illegal reverse engineering, the forging of a digital signature is tantamount to check forgery. If you participate in either of these then you must be sent to prison as was Ikeman, David Irving and (hopefully soon) Torvald! I can't wait for the mass FBI raids on Open Source offices, and seeing the buses taking them all to prison where these thieving, overweight, WOW players belong.
It's true. Basically a computer that does billions of calculations per second has no excuse for taking 30 seconds - several minutes to start. Are you telling me it takes 60 billion calculations to display a start menu? I don't care for technical explainations of hardware or operating systems. Engineers who say a computer cannot start in five seconds are lazy or lying!
In this case the user says the startup is too damn slow, and it is. Five seconds should be the maximum time it takes from when the power switch is pressed to when the desktop appears.
"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't stop him from sticking his head underneath and drowning simply because they painted a carrot at the bottom of the water trough."
I'm just curious, but will a horse really drown if you do that?
The current versions of Windows are supposed to be the OS that was rebuilt from the ground up, based on NT. It's the DOS based Win95 OS that was scrapped.
Windows is satisfactory IMO: a point and click interface that doesn't crash. It's Internet Explorer that needs much fixing.
I have to agree. Immediately after Discovery crashed and burned, or rather burned and crashed, someone on the space.com messageboards posted: "That's what happens when you try and bring 20 year old cracked garbage into space."
And that's the way it is. They'll have to destroy another shuttle and kill more of our best scientists before someone finally says enough and terminates this program.
I tend to agree, today's net users are so spoiled. Back in 1993 AOL went down every Tuesday and Thursday at 11PM for six hours- at least. And AOL isn't even a recreational service as WoW is, it is vital things like email and stock tickers.
The above poster needs to learn to become tough like valient AOL users did, and who were also the tip of the spear that tamed the net for WoW players to come a decade later.
The above post is not "Informative." He just rambles about the obvious, hoping that people scan his post for big enough words that might be relevant to the article and mod him up. End result: someone comes and types out 5 sentences of duckspeak and you all mod it up.
Posts like this being modded 5 is evidence that self moderation just doesn't work.
He's prolly right. I mean, M$ has pleasing to look at icons, whereas OO has old Windows 3.1 looking icons.
Open source projects need to spend a little cash to get quality artwork that corporations have for all their products. This may seem a shallow analysis, but the truth is the initial appearence of the application does matter.
Exactly, telecoms are the ones that want the free lunch. They are incredibly jealous of content providers making so much money from the increasing returns that smart and scalable software provide.
They need to stfu and do their job delivering the IP packet from point A to point B. Telecoms business has nothing to do with content.
Greetings jayhawk88! A very well post. I really enjoyed the feeding kitten entrails to children remark.
One possible improvement you could make in the future is say "If it was legal and made them money they would feed school-children entrails to kittens." The effect would be to further illustrate to the uninitiated how corporations are cold hearted, mean, profit-maximizing machines.
Again, thank you for your delightful post. I found it pleasing to read after returning to my home after a long day at work.
Can you elaborate on this please? I used MySql for a minor windows app. It uses a database with about 4 tables and is in 3rd normal form. I chose MySql as a free alternative to M$ Sql server for this simple database only.
Are you saying it gives "estimates" for some queries?!
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So instead I'll just say: hi slashdotters! :)
Kazzahdrane (882423),
I do agree that it was not funny to make the unit of currency called a "pound", an already reserved unit of measurement, and then making the symbol for it a squiggle.
Perhaps the brits should study the America's methods of grammer and currency units further. Then possibly fewer elements of their culture would be perceived as failed attempts at humor.
Kindest regards,
plastic.person (776892)
"£68 million"
68 million squiggles? Wow that sounds like a lot in dollars!
Yea... read out your bytecode one byte at a time using WAV files on a webpage. That's a real plausable hack there..
we used to have a real reality, but too many people rejected the program. now they just play mmpogs all day.
dood stop whining and being a mister gloom and doom.... we're sending Maldives some rubber rafts, Russia will have thousands more square miles of livable space, and all the vermin in LA will be drowned. Global warming is not the end, but rather a splendid new beginning!
"at the court order, their whole argument revolves around something called TrustedDWG that basically looks like a digital signature that verifies the file was created by an Autodesk product."
Yes, it's called DCMA. In addition to the illegal reverse engineering, the forging of a digital signature is tantamount to check forgery. If you participate in either of these then you must be sent to prison as was Ikeman, David Irving and (hopefully soon) Torvald! I can't wait for the mass FBI raids on Open Source offices, and seeing the buses taking them all to prison where these thieving, overweight, WOW players belong.
It's true. Basically a computer that does billions of calculations per second has no excuse for taking 30 seconds - several minutes to start. Are you telling me it takes 60 billion calculations to display a start menu? I don't care for technical explainations of hardware or operating systems. Engineers who say a computer cannot start in five seconds are lazy or lying!
In this case the user says the startup is too damn slow, and it is. Five seconds should be the maximum time it takes from when the power switch is pressed to when the desktop appears.
Y'all are nuts for even bothering with modern math ... the guy at timecube.com figured it all out and published a proof of reality years ago.
"Once people in the govment figure out they need to shell out money to update, it will be a painless transition to linux."
Doubtful.... something like 50% of M$ revenue comes from the U.S. government. M$ isn't going to make software that their largest customer won't buy.
c'mon slashdotters, that above post deserves at least a +1 for the clever ending.
Can someone remind me why people without tickets cannot access the terminals?
"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't stop him from sticking his head underneath and drowning simply because they painted a carrot at the bottom of the water trough."
I'm just curious, but will a horse really drown if you do that?
The current versions of Windows are supposed to be the OS that was rebuilt from the ground up, based on NT. It's the DOS based Win95 OS that was scrapped.
Windows is satisfactory IMO: a point and click interface that doesn't crash. It's Internet Explorer that needs much fixing.
my girlfriend's cat could run an ISP better than AOL
That's such an obvious, exaggerated lie. People that post on slashdot don't have girlfriends!
I have to agree. Immediately after Discovery crashed and burned, or rather burned and crashed, someone on the space.com messageboards posted: "That's what happens when you try and bring 20 year old cracked garbage into space."
And that's the way it is. They'll have to destroy another shuttle and kill more of our best scientists before someone finally says enough and terminates this program.
You are correct to be very cautious with this. I myself had this procedure done. Sure it's great at first, but after ten years your eyeballs fall out!
I tend to agree, today's net users are so spoiled. Back in 1993 AOL went down every Tuesday and Thursday at 11PM for six hours- at least. And AOL isn't even a recreational service as WoW is, it is vital things like email and stock tickers.
The above poster needs to learn to become tough like valient AOL users did, and who were also the tip of the spear that tamed the net for WoW players to come a decade later.
The above post is not "Informative." He just rambles about the obvious, hoping that people scan his post for big enough words that might be relevant to the article and mod him up. End result: someone comes and types out 5 sentences of duckspeak and you all mod it up.
Posts like this being modded 5 is evidence that self moderation just doesn't work.
He's prolly right. I mean, M$ has pleasing to look at icons, whereas OO has old Windows 3.1 looking icons.
Open source projects need to spend a little cash to get quality artwork that corporations have for all their products. This may seem a shallow analysis, but the truth is the initial appearence of the application does matter.
Slashdot tradition of the stretched analogy
I dunno, that gas pipelines and google pie analogy a few posts up was pretty accurate as far as analogies go.
Exactly, telecoms are the ones that want the free lunch. They are incredibly jealous of content providers making so much money from the increasing returns that smart and scalable software provide.
They need to stfu and do their job delivering the IP packet from point A to point B. Telecoms business has nothing to do with content.
Dear jayhawk88,
Greetings jayhawk88! A very well post. I really enjoyed the feeding kitten entrails to children remark.
One possible improvement you could make in the future is say "If it was legal and made them money they would feed school-children entrails to kittens." The effect would be to further illustrate to the uninitiated how corporations are cold hearted, mean, profit-maximizing machines.
Again, thank you for your delightful post. I found it pleasing to read after returning to my home after a long day at work.
If you don't have enough time to look over your shoulder before changing lanes, then you're following the car ahead of you way to closely.
Can you elaborate on this please? I used MySql for a minor windows app. It uses a database with about 4 tables and is in 3rd normal form. I chose MySql as a free alternative to M$ Sql server for this simple database only.
Are you saying it gives "estimates" for some queries?!