At the same time, independent publishing has never been doing better. Thousands of well designed, fresh sites are being run by people with a passion for what they're writing about. All in all, I think the internet is much healthier now than during the 'let's get as big as we can, IPO then take the money and run' period.
I can't believe I'm falling into answering this, but what application do you need that you don't have? (Sincere question -- I write software; might be fun to fill in a gap).
* Professional raster graphics package - GIMP doesn't cut it.
* Professional vector graphics package - Corel Draw is a joke.
* Sound editing program.
* Sequencer.
* Flash animation and programming package.
Of course I would. We make decissions like this *every single* day of your lives. You buy food which is cheap because it's shipped by (among other things) trucks and trains. Trucks and trains kill hundreds of people every year, thousands the world over. Pesticides, energy production, industrial waste. Accidents in factories, offices.
Every single day people die because we, as a society, have decided that, in exchange for the a certain level of comfort, we will sacrifice the lives of a few people. People die because of economic reasons, plain and simple. Just as I don't think cars should be banned because 5 people died in a car accident, I don't think all mail should be irradiated just because of a terrorist campaign that killed 5 people.
It's a simple exchange: comfort for life. We make it every day. I'm making it now. It's part of what makes us humans, a selfish ability to value our comfort over that of others.
Moz-team, but please, hire Jakob Nielsen before 1.0 ships.
So they can waste a lot of money on someone who can't even design their own page? I've seen at least 3 or 4 usability tests of useit.com and all of them said that it was the most difficult and hard to understand site of all the ones they used. Most of them stopped at 'I don't understand what this site is about.'
I can't belive that. I just switched from a dual celeron 450 to a p3-866 and there's a huge rise in the 'feeling of speed', for lack of a better term. Everything goes faster. I burn CDs, play MP3, have a few apps (photoshop, flash, illustrator) in the background and play RTCW and it doesn't even break a sweat. Gotta love it.
Re:yeah, that perl script...
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oh yeah...
C:\>perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 6 subversion 1) configuration:
Platform:
osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
I also run '.pl' files as executables from the command line, without even having tu add the.pl. (ie. hello.pl will run if I type 'hello')
Besides, like 300 other people have mentioned (because they read the article) - the guy was running VMWare on Linux...
But in the era of the n86 machines, people would say 'why would I ever need more speed?' and buy the fastest or 2nd fastest machine on the market.
On the other hand, right now, I'm shopping for a celeron 600-700 for my mom, buying a p120 for $20 to use as a firewall/router/mailserver at home. Celerons and Durons are selling like hotcakes, people are buying used computers like never before.
A good friend of mine just upgraded to a blazing fast dual celeron 433 system, like the one I've been happily using for the past 2 years. I've upgraded it a lot, but extended it's functionality, not performancem, adding expansion cards for sound, firewire, iRDA, SCSI. Adding RAM (which I expect to start seeing in cereal boxes).
It is fast enough.
The only reason I actually use a GHZ+ machine is because I work on print at work and it's the machine my company gave me. I don't plan on upgrading until I can get a dual Athlon 1.4 for ~$250 here in europe. It'll be a vanity upgrade: I don't need the extra power, I just want to have it.
Hm... I look at the 1.0 release a little differently. It's a few things:
* Feature/interface freeze. A time to stop adding features. Features are being added as we speak, like the tabbed interface in 0.9.5.
* Removal of all debugging code during the release.
* Symbolic 'ready for prime time' version.
I think that the first is the most important to developers. How many skins and plugins have been made that break on the latest milestone?
For the end users the most important thing is the feeling that they're not using alpha or beta quality software, but they're using a *stable*, completed application.
This is one of the reasons that Netscape pissed me off with 6.0. It's a totally unusable browser branched of a Mozilla release that wasn't too usable itself. Then it was crudded down with Netscape's own crap. I think that this turned a lot of people off, and Netscape will pay for it down the road.
Especially on Windows. The Windows world is not the *nix world. People don't wait for the.1 or.2 release, they expect the.0 releases to work as they should. Netscape lost a lot of die-hard fans (including corporations) with the release of 6.0. I think the Mozilla team has taken this lesson to heart and the 1.0 will be rock solid.
At least I hope it will.
(btw. 0.9.5 is *really* good, I'm using it right now and find myself using MSIE 5.5 SP2 much, much less often.)
This is a bit too weird for me.
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I understand the Tamagotchi's appeal: It's a little gadget that reacts to different stimulii with a limited range of responses. But it's small, pocket sized, and is actually a social tool as it is quite a conversation piece.
I understand the AIBO's appeal. It's the uber-geek toy of choice. A small, robotic dog that runs around and yips. Great, we can all live out SF fantasies when the lone hero returns to his one room apartment and is greeted by his voluptous holographic host and his robotic dog.
But this... this is a bit sick. Neither the AIBO nor Tamagotchi try to do what this cat is doing: imitate a living being. This is a bit disconcerning. The older gadgets were far enough removed from reality that no one was going to mistake them for something real.
That's not something that I can say about a cat that has a 'fake-fur skin that expands and contracts with its various body movements and facial expressions.' Maybe I'm just bitching, but this doesn't "feel right".
Does this really warrant a 4.0 release?
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I hate to be a spoilsport, but does this really warrant a 4.0 release? I don't really see anything in the changelog that would support a 1.+ release. Maybe a.1+, but not a 1.+.
Hm... I keep going over it and see stuff like 'Removed all Gemini hooks from MySQL' or 'New character set latin_de which provides correct German sorting'. The only major things I'm seeing right now are the SSL support, support for UNION and boolean fulltext search.
Taking 3.5" discs and punching holes with a hole punch. Then selling them off as HDD?
Ghetto fabulous.
jedrek
Re:Blockbuster did this a while back...
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Hmm... That's strange. All the way up to '92 I was riding my bike every 3 days to Software Pipeline in Corvallis, OR to pick up some game for $5-7/3 days.
There are BETTER DESERVING issues that need public funding instead of damned internet access within the libraries.
I, on the other hand, belive that internet access is an absolutely crucial extension of the library concept. A storehouse of knowledge. Anyway, for a lot of people this 'Government funded internet cafe' is the *only* way they can afford to be online. And on-line is where they can get educated, find a job, keep in touch with others. The part of state and federal budgets that goes into funding cheaper internet access is really small in comparison to the impact it has in the lives of many people.
I don't think so. The thing with rendering is that it's not really a cluster - the nodes don't have to communicate. It's pretty much just: get specs; render; return pretty picture. There's not that much to gain by going back to a mainframe.
As far as reliablity, I think it's better to have a 1000 nodes of which even 10-20 can fail at once (and be replaced overnight) than having the whole mainframe go down.
Your brain can tell your body to shut of vital functions and die. Although we, as citizens of the western world, usualy can't do this many indigenous tribes can. In many cultures (some Native American tribes, native Australians) disgraced members of the tribe will actually go off alone, lay down and will themselves dead.
Many people also do not head the warning printed onto the cans, which explicitly states, that you should _not_ ever mix red bull with alcohol, due to the fact, that youw ould be mixing a strong stimulating neuro drug with it as well.
Ah... so that's why at every single Red Bull sponsored party I've been to (and there have been many) I've been offered Red Bull with vodka. Free.
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At the same time, independent publishing has never been doing better. Thousands of well designed, fresh sites are being run by people with a passion for what they're writing about. All in all, I think the internet is much healthier now than during the 'let's get as big as we can, IPO then take the money and run' period.
Finally, something that I can set up next to the shitter so I never have to take a break from coding. Yeah!
Wouldn't it be easier to create a subsection for gaming news like the oné you have for security and programming etc...?
Then whining about the number of gaming articles could be minimized because they can deselect the topic in their customisation.
Isn't that what topic blocking in your homepage customization is for?
I can't believe I'm falling into answering this, but what application do you need that you don't have? (Sincere question -- I write software; might be fun to fill in a gap).
* Professional raster graphics package - GIMP doesn't cut it.
* Professional vector graphics package - Corel Draw is a joke.
* Sound editing program.
* Sequencer.
* Flash animation and programming package.
Of course I would. We make decissions like this *every single* day of your lives. You buy food which is cheap because it's shipped by (among other things) trucks and trains. Trucks and trains kill hundreds of people every year, thousands the world over. Pesticides, energy production, industrial waste. Accidents in factories, offices.
Every single day people die because we, as a society, have decided that, in exchange for the a certain level of comfort, we will sacrifice the lives of a few people. People die because of economic reasons, plain and simple. Just as I don't think cars should be banned because 5 people died in a car accident, I don't think all mail should be irradiated just because of a terrorist campaign that killed 5 people.
It's a simple exchange: comfort for life. We make it every day. I'm making it now. It's part of what makes us humans, a selfish ability to value our comfort over that of others.
But I wouldn't have it any other way.
Or, you can use Kazaa.
jedrek
Moz-team, but please, hire Jakob Nielsen before 1.0 ships.
So they can waste a lot of money on someone who can't even design their own page? I've seen at least 3 or 4 usability tests of useit.com and all of them said that it was the most difficult and hard to understand site of all the ones they used. Most of them stopped at 'I don't understand what this site is about.'
I can't belive that. I just switched from a dual celeron 450 to a p3-866 and there's a huge rise in the 'feeling of speed', for lack of a better term. Everything goes faster. I burn CDs, play MP3, have a few apps (photoshop, flash, illustrator) in the background and play RTCW and it doesn't even break a sweat. Gotta love it.
oh yeah...
.pl. (ie. hello.pl will run if I type 'hello')
C:\>perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 6 subversion 1) configuration:
Platform:
osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
I also run '.pl' files as executables from the command line, without even having tu add the
Besides, like 300 other people have mentioned (because they read the article) - the guy was running VMWare on Linux...
sheeh
The same thing was said ten years ago.
But in the era of the n86 machines, people would say 'why would I ever need more speed?' and buy the fastest or 2nd fastest machine on the market.
On the other hand, right now, I'm shopping for a celeron 600-700 for my mom, buying a p120 for $20 to use as a firewall/router/mailserver at home. Celerons and Durons are selling like hotcakes, people are buying used computers like never before.
A good friend of mine just upgraded to a blazing fast dual celeron 433 system, like the one I've been happily using for the past 2 years. I've upgraded it a lot, but extended it's functionality, not performancem, adding expansion cards for sound, firewire, iRDA, SCSI. Adding RAM (which I expect to start seeing in cereal boxes).
It is fast enough.
The only reason I actually use a GHZ+ machine is because I work on print at work and it's the machine my company gave me. I don't plan on upgrading until I can get a dual Athlon 1.4 for ~$250 here in europe. It'll be a vanity upgrade: I don't need the extra power, I just want to have it.
while microsoft sets standards in userfriendlyness
Let me just confirm that the sound that you are hearing is, in fact, thousands of Macintosh users laughing.
jedrek
Hm... I look at the 1.0 release a little differently. It's a few things:
.1 or .2 release, they expect the .0 releases to work as they should. Netscape lost a lot of die-hard fans (including corporations) with the release of 6.0. I think the Mozilla team has taken this lesson to heart and the 1.0 will be rock solid.
* Feature/interface freeze. A time to stop adding features. Features are being added as we speak, like the tabbed interface in 0.9.5.
* Removal of all debugging code during the release.
* Symbolic 'ready for prime time' version.
I think that the first is the most important to developers. How many skins and plugins have been made that break on the latest milestone?
For the end users the most important thing is the feeling that they're not using alpha or beta quality software, but they're using a *stable*, completed application.
This is one of the reasons that Netscape pissed me off with 6.0. It's a totally unusable browser branched of a Mozilla release that wasn't too usable itself. Then it was crudded down with Netscape's own crap. I think that this turned a lot of people off, and Netscape will pay for it down the road.
Especially on Windows. The Windows world is not the *nix world. People don't wait for the
At least I hope it will.
(btw. 0.9.5 is *really* good, I'm using it right now and find myself using MSIE 5.5 SP2 much, much less often.)
I understand the Tamagotchi's appeal: It's a little gadget that reacts to different stimulii with a limited range of responses. But it's small, pocket sized, and is actually a social tool as it is quite a conversation piece.
I understand the AIBO's appeal. It's the uber-geek toy of choice. A small, robotic dog that runs around and yips. Great, we can all live out SF fantasies when the lone hero returns to his one room apartment and is greeted by his voluptous holographic host and his robotic dog.
But this... this is a bit sick. Neither the AIBO nor Tamagotchi try to do what this cat is doing: imitate a living being. This is a bit disconcerning. The older gadgets were far enough removed from reality that no one was going to mistake them for something real.
That's not something that I can say about a cat that has a 'fake-fur skin that expands and contracts with its various body movements and facial expressions.' Maybe I'm just bitching, but this doesn't "feel right".
I hate to be a spoilsport, but does this really warrant a 4.0 release? I don't really see anything in the changelog that would support a 1.+ release. Maybe a .1+, but not a 1.+.
Hm... I keep going over it and see stuff like 'Removed all Gemini hooks from MySQL' or 'New character set latin_de which provides correct German sorting'. The only major things I'm seeing right now are the SSL support, support for UNION and boolean fulltext search.
Am I missing something?
I would never say that Startship Troopers was 'deep'. A movie with a bunch of 'heroes' running around shooting at bugs 'deep'? No way.
On the other hand, I really enjoyed Starship Troopers, a fun, campy movie along the lines of Flash Gordon from the 50s. 'Fun': yes; 'Deep': never.
jedrek
Taking 3.5" discs and punching holes with a hole punch. Then selling them off as HDD?
Ghetto fabulous.
jedrek
Hmm... That's strange. All the way up to '92 I was riding my bike every 3 days to Software Pipeline in Corvallis, OR to pick up some game for $5-7/3 days.
jedrek
There are BETTER DESERVING issues that need public funding instead of damned internet access within the libraries.
I, on the other hand, belive that internet access is an absolutely crucial extension of the library concept. A storehouse of knowledge. Anyway, for a lot of people this 'Government funded internet cafe' is the *only* way they can afford to be online. And on-line is where they can get educated, find a job, keep in touch with others. The part of state and federal budgets that goes into funding cheaper internet access is really small in comparison to the impact it has in the lives of many people.
jedrek
Wow. It's not $5, it's $10! Oh. My. God. It's still less than a night out on the town, no matter how small your town is.
jedrek
They should be suing Tower Records. People bought CDs there, went home, ripped, started sharing the mp3s on Napster. Bad Tower Records, bad.
jedrek
I don't think so. The thing with rendering is that it's not really a cluster - the nodes don't have to communicate. It's pretty much just: get specs; render; return pretty picture. There's not that much to gain by going back to a mainframe.
As far as reliablity, I think it's better to have a 1000 nodes of which even 10-20 can fail at once (and be replaced overnight) than having the whole mainframe go down.
jedrek
Your brain can tell your body to shut of vital functions and die. Although we, as citizens of the western world, usualy can't do this many indigenous tribes can. In many cultures (some Native American tribes, native Australians) disgraced members of the tribe will actually go off alone, lay down and will themselves dead.
Or so I've heard.
Hell, it's a great plot device.
Cheapest DVD player *in Poland*: 800zl == $200
Decent DVD player *in Poland*: 1600zl == $400
Sony PS2 *in Poland*: 1600zl == $400
I'd really like to have that dirt-cheap DVD player in there...
Many people also do not head the warning printed onto the cans, which explicitly states, that you should _not_ ever mix red bull with alcohol, due to the fact, that youw ould be mixing a strong stimulating neuro drug with it as well.
Ah... so that's why at every single Red Bull sponsored party I've been to (and there have been many) I've been offered Red Bull with vodka. Free.
jedrek