Free CDs that actually have useful crap? Where is AOL's marketing department when you need them?
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Well, to be fair, this is a beta. Give them time to iron out all the irregularities that result from very generic words like "how" or "what" as well as the freudian slips that appear to be occuring when you try to type in "hetero" (Someone pointed out that it returned "hetero handjob")
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Yeah, I didn't do any checking on that, but I do think it would be a good idea for something like this to be integrated into the post filtering. If it detects the word, "loose," used as a verb, it stops you so you can verify.
I believe AOL still has some crusty old online interfaces within it that haven't been updated since 1995ish because hardly anybody uses them. FTP support, for example, has an old interface that uses button graphics that are most likely in AOL Artwork format
Didn't it take them until 1996 to get system-level TCP/IP working in their client so you could actually use software outside the client to access the internet instead of cockblocking everything that isn't theirs?
I think my parents know exactly when I have a game loaded that uses all RAM plus three times as much swap, so they can message me and have me sit there while my computer catches fire as it tries to change tasks over to the IM window.
You'd think they would stop when they see my disappear then come back a minute later (power cycle) because they at least think I'm avoiding them:)
The reason why "more decentralized open standards for IM" aren't useful is because people aren't unhappy with this FREE (well, ad supported) service.
Don't forget spyware supported. Yes, even though AOL is pushing popup and spyware protection, their IM client installs Viewpoint Media Player and WeatherBug. Even though VMP installs covertly, they provide you with the option to not install WeatherBug, but it places files in your Program Files directory anyway.
As a final word, did you know over half the deaths under age35 in america has alchohol involved?
To be fair, law enforcement uses the term "alcohol related incident" very loosely. For example, if:
A sober motorist gets into an accident while chauffering a drunk friend home; A car hits a pedestrian, who is carrying a beer, on the sidewalk; A 12-pack falls off a Coors truck and smashes the windshield of the car behind it,
these can all be considered alcohol related incidents.
I'm still waiting for someone getting added to the list for sterilizing a cut with rubbing alcohol and dying in the processs:)
No matter how you slice it, there's still a damn web browser in my file manager! One program, one purpose. I also disagree with the way it internally views text files, PDFs, RPM data, etc. It's much more flexible to associate files with separate, independent programs instead of relying on snap-ins.
Not to mention the bugs Konqueror has where it insists on internally viewing some file types (tar.gz and tar.bz2, hint, hint!) whether you configure it to or not. I shouldn't have to right-click on a menu to get tar archives to open in a separate program. I wouldn't mind the internal viewer if it weren't so slow (you ever see "stalled" a lot when doing file operations in Konqueror?) and didn't trash source directories (I've had too many compiles screw up, the problem turned out to be extracting it with Konqueror)
Well, then you end up with another web-browser-is-also-something-else paradigm.
One program. One purpose. I've always been a believer in that. A web browser browses, a file manager manages files, and text editor does nothing more than edit text (quickly; at least Notepad gets right what KWrite and Kate don't).
I've always found that GUI frontends to text configuration files usually mangle the files. SuSE even has some arbitrary information stored in many of the files to tell the frontends just what is supposed to be happening and prevent problems.
I'm hoping something in Linux reaches the ease of the MMC. YaST is unbearably slow and it feels the need to write to 20 different conf files if you do so much as fart (at least in SuSE).
I'm also hoping for some sort of centralized device manager, but I imagine a HAL has to come first, so as to eliminate the need to compile your own drivers a lot of the time.
I think the first thing that needs to happen is to fix the damn menu system (at least in KDE - You can't even change Gnome's in Fedora). This is something an average user could break very easily (even I messed it up pretty bad in KMenuEdit in about five minutes). The way they did it seems to be done in a manner just to be contrary to the way it's done in Windows (which is odd for a window manager that also decided to copy the file browser-that's-also-a-web-browser annoyance). I never saw anything wrong with shortcuts placed in directories at the file system level, but KDE decided, for some reason, to use at least five different locations to place random crap. To this day, I still don't understand something that could have been very simple, but completely overengineered now. KDE has a huge task at hand trying to fix this if they can - since all KDE distros' packages are built around the messed up menu structure.
What needs to happen is to provide a means to do all typical tasks (and most advanced) tasks via GUI. You'll be hard pressed to find a normal person who finds the terminal easy to use and intuitive. Thus, it should only have to be touched when used for automated scripting and network management for those who really wish to save time on a batch task and embrace the full power of the OS.
As long as there separate methods of doing something through both GUI and command-line as well as a good separation between frontend and backend throughout the OS, distros can please both general users and the more advanced ones.
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Free CDs that actually have useful crap? Where is AOL's marketing department when you need them?
Well, to be fair, this is a beta. Give them time to iron out all the irregularities that result from very generic words like "how" or "what" as well as the freudian slips that appear to be occuring when you try to type in "hetero" (Someone pointed out that it returned "hetero handjob")
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Yeah, I didn't do any checking on that, but I do think it would be a good idea for something like this to be integrated into the post filtering. If it detects the word, "loose," used as a verb, it stops you so you can verify.
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Yeah, Slashdot needs this badly.
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I believe AOL still has some crusty old online interfaces within it that haven't been updated since 1995ish because hardly anybody uses them. FTP support, for example, has an old interface that uses button graphics that are most likely in AOL Artwork format
They were once pioneers of the internet...
Didn't it take them until 1996 to get system-level TCP/IP working in their client so you could actually use software outside the client to access the internet instead of cockblocking everything that isn't theirs?
I think my parents know exactly when I have a game loaded that uses all RAM plus three times as much swap, so they can message me and have me sit there while my computer catches fire as it tries to change tasks over to the IM window.
:)
You'd think they would stop when they see my disappear then come back a minute later (power cycle) because they at least think I'm avoiding them
The reason why "more decentralized open standards for IM" aren't useful is because people aren't unhappy with this FREE (well, ad supported) service.
Don't forget spyware supported. Yes, even though AOL is pushing popup and spyware protection, their IM client installs Viewpoint Media Player and WeatherBug. Even though VMP installs covertly, they provide you with the option to not install WeatherBug, but it places files in your Program Files directory anyway.
As a final word, did you know over half the deaths under age35 in america has alchohol involved?
:)
To be fair, law enforcement uses the term "alcohol related incident" very loosely. For example, if:
A sober motorist gets into an accident while chauffering a drunk friend home;
A car hits a pedestrian, who is carrying a beer, on the sidewalk;
A 12-pack falls off a Coors truck and smashes the windshield of the car behind it,
these can all be considered alcohol related incidents.
I'm still waiting for someone getting added to the list for sterilizing a cut with rubbing alcohol and dying in the processs
Yeah, and PCP is Sony's new handheld!
...The State of Mississippi has approved the Laptops for the Less Fortunate program, which is effective immediately.
That was nice and ambiguous.
No matter how you slice it, there's still a damn web browser in my file manager! One program, one purpose. I also disagree with the way it internally views text files, PDFs, RPM data, etc. It's much more flexible to associate files with separate, independent programs instead of relying on snap-ins.
Not to mention the bugs Konqueror has where it insists on internally viewing some file types (tar.gz and tar.bz2, hint, hint!) whether you configure it to or not. I shouldn't have to right-click on a menu to get tar archives to open in a separate program. I wouldn't mind the internal viewer if it weren't so slow (you ever see "stalled" a lot when doing file operations in Konqueror?) and didn't trash source directories (I've had too many compiles screw up, the problem turned out to be extracting it with Konqueror)
Well, then you end up with another web-browser-is-also-something-else paradigm.
One program. One purpose. I've always been a believer in that. A web browser browses, a file manager manages files, and text editor does nothing more than edit text (quickly; at least Notepad gets right what KWrite and Kate don't).
I've always found that GUI frontends to text configuration files usually mangle the files. SuSE even has some arbitrary information stored in many of the files to tell the frontends just what is supposed to be happening and prevent problems.
I'm hoping something in Linux reaches the ease of the MMC. YaST is unbearably slow and it feels the need to write to 20 different conf files if you do so much as fart (at least in SuSE).
I'm also hoping for some sort of centralized device manager, but I imagine a HAL has to come first, so as to eliminate the need to compile your own drivers a lot of the time.
I think the first thing that needs to happen is to fix the damn menu system (at least in KDE - You can't even change Gnome's in Fedora). This is something an average user could break very easily (even I messed it up pretty bad in KMenuEdit in about five minutes). The way they did it seems to be done in a manner just to be contrary to the way it's done in Windows (which is odd for a window manager that also decided to copy the file browser-that's-also-a-web-browser annoyance). I never saw anything wrong with shortcuts placed in directories at the file system level, but KDE decided, for some reason, to use at least five different locations to place random crap. To this day, I still don't understand something that could have been very simple, but completely overengineered now. KDE has a huge task at hand trying to fix this if they can - since all KDE distros' packages are built around the messed up menu structure.
You think there's any irony in a browser exploit page going down in a Slashdot attack?
What needs to happen is to provide a means to do all typical tasks (and most advanced) tasks via GUI. You'll be hard pressed to find a normal person who finds the terminal easy to use and intuitive. Thus, it should only have to be touched when used for automated scripting and network management for those who really wish to save time on a batch task and embrace the full power of the OS.
As long as there separate methods of doing something through both GUI and command-line as well as a good separation between frontend and backend throughout the OS, distros can please both general users and the more advanced ones.
I just poured hot grits on my buzzer. Thank you.
A pullover and a pair of denim jeans?
(It's "where")
I haven't seen a CE device for less than $300.
I'm sure the Sega Dreamcast sold for much less than that.
Bart: B6!
Homer: You sunk my Scrabble-ship!
Lisa: This game makes no sense.
Homer: Tell that to the good men that just lost their lives.
which spends in education 1/3 of what the US spends...
Is that per capita?
Peter: I bet Hillary could straighten things out....even though she could never straighten out Bill!
Lois: I love it when you use topical humor. It's just like watching Murphy Brown.
----
"Hey, Murphy, blablablablablaaaablablabla, John Sununu!"
"Bla bla bla blaa blabla, Tipper Gore."
"Hey, Murph, you can bla bla bla the Ayatollah!"
"Bla bla bla bla, Desmond Tutu, bla."