This is my current situation (satellite internet link with bandwidth monitoring and scaled usage plan). I'm fine with it, and usually hit the monitoring site daily to keep an eye on my rolling 30-day usage. My friends on dsl can't believe I put up with it, but as my only other choice is 24kbps modem, I'm a satisfied customer.
You may be a man, but are you a FATHER? Sociology AND biology help dictate social roles. My wife was MUCH better with the kids when they were little, and I'm getting better with them as they become teens. (driving! OMG!) But I'll be the first to admit that my patience sucked when they were little. Thankfully, age and repetitive exposure has taken some of my edge off. This sounds a lot like the old "Nature vs Nurture" argument. I think that most of the people that study this (and most on Slashdot for that matter) fall at the high end of the bell curve, and can't relate/understand the majority of people that are controlled by BOTH forces. Listen up, when society reinforces biological predisposition people are usually happy/successful. When society (usually led by some pseudo-intellectual asshole) is pushing an agenda counter to our biology, we have dysfunctional/pissed off/psychotic individuals.
Speaking of psychotic..."it's good to have children spend a year with mom, and then another year with dad, and back again to mom, and so on. It provides balance." NO IT DOESN'T, IT PROVIDES A CLIENT FOR THE FUCKING THERAPIST, YOU ASS! Children need a family of fairly calm, PREDICTABLE parents. Constant upheaval wreaks kids! I've seen my kids friends go through that hell, and wish I could save them from it. Where is that "reach-through-the-net-and-throttle-a-fool" button?
I don't imagine anyone on/. falls into the range of "most people". I know that I normally have about 7 apps running on my linux system, while I have multiple remote desktop and PuTTY sessions running on my XP laptop at the same time. Yes, I keep both machines busy all day long.
The philosophy of Linux (server) and Haiku (desktop) dictates different OS design and application. Linux seems kinda shoehorned into the desktop mold, it works but there are things that don't quite fit. Haiku isn't a server OS, it aims for the multimedia desktop. They compliment and work with each other.
You seem to have confused "turned off" with "stripped out". TinyXP is indeed faster. You have actually removed code from the installation. All versions of Vista carry all the DRM, processes, etc... The code base is the same, it's the configuration that is slightly different. I've worked in equipment shops where we charged the customers literally thousands of dollars to spend 2 minutes to go into a config screen and turn on an option. The code and hardware were already there, they just had to be turned on.
I'm the Sys Admin for a small boutique webdev shop, and the only windows in the shop is on the devs laptops. Well, most of the laptops. I've replaced Vista on several with custom XP images and Ubuntu. Our servers are Linux (Redhat & Ubuntu). We'll be damned before we go spending money on Windows Server. I don't do Windows, and it doesn't provide any services for our devs that Linux won't.
My devs already hate Vista, and they mostly do Java, HTML, Ajax, etc... Guess what I'm going to introduce to them next, heh, heh, heh...
Several points of your statement have been debated numerous times here on/. 1) Software is expected to be perfect because the revision *only* requires a rewrite. No materials or tooling need to be changed to create a better program. (end sarcasm) 2) Pointing to different consumer products as examples of acceptably flawed products isn't really accurate. Medical and Aviation are just 2 areas where flaws aren't acceptable. BUT... the rate of innovation is so low that it resembles a flat line because they have to test and bug-stomp all the way, at tremendous cost. 3) Each area of industry has evolved its' own set of best practices, rules of thumb, acceptable quality control levels, etc... because they have a limited set of requirements to deal with. They have certain materials, tooling, methods, laws, profit margins, and expectations of customers to deal with. Software is limited in scope only by the human imagination, and thus presents an unlimited set of requirements and resources. The problem has few set limits, and thus is much harder. 4) The design of a product is usually the cheapest part of the creation. They will redesign many times to save a little money on the tooling, materials, labor, packaging, etc... whereas design is the complete manufacturing stage for software. There aren't many opportunities to save money during the manufacture of the product.
My landlord was cleaning house once for a dinner party they were having, and running short of one type of cleaner he added another (Clorox) to the bucket. We ran around the house opening all the windows (Germany in February is rather cold). Don't think "everyone knows". What "everyone knows" will get someone killed.
Eclipse and Netbeans are pretty (incredable) flexible. Yes, they are designed for java first, but very usable for a multitude of languages. Being Opensource doesn't hurt or limit their being implemented, either.
I DO use both keyboard layouts at work. I use two laptops side by side, Linux/Dvorkian on one, WinXP/Qwerty on the other (the WinXP box is locked down so hard I'm not ALLOWED to make any changes in setup). I've been a Qwerty typist for 26 years and have used Dvorak for almost 6. I'm moderately fast on both, and switch all day long. It IS a pain in the ass, but thankfully not in the wrist anymore. That was the big reason I switched: I started developing RSI in my right hand (I'm married, it wasn't caused by THAT). The keyboard layout change made all the difference between going under for surgery and recovering on my own. Efficiency may not be as uber as word of mouth says (I think it is), but it definitely made me feel physically better. As for TFA: I didn't read it (this IS slashdot, right?), but claiming Dvorak isn't better because it didn't dominate the market, neglects several significant factors (Industry inertia, marketing, the fact that it's DIFFERENT, and general lack of knowledge or care about it). A "market-based" argument isn't worth the electrons used to write it.
All authority is based upon the threat of violence. Even school children know this. Only pretentious pseudo-intellectuals think "group concensus" grants "authority". Bush concealed a lot of what he did, and had the media paint him as a conservative patriot. Clinton got painted by the radical conservatives as a murdering liberal psyco and that's why the White House facade is now bullet resistant (drive-by shootings) and there are Stinger missles emplaced on the roof (cessna intentionally crashed into the lawn). Your argument isn't worth a bag of poo.
cayenne8 has got it right. We were smack in the middle of the great ice storm of '06 in Missouri, and went a week and a half without grid power. We managed to grab a 5KW Onan generator after 5 days ($800). It provided heat (funace blower), water (electric 400 foot well pump) and entertainment (sat TV on big flatscreen) for TWO houses. Yes it was loud, yes you better know what you're doing (My AA is in electronics), and the gas usage was 5 gal/12 hours.
BUT...We weren't in dire straits. The power was needed more for the water pump and my furnace blower than anything else, but we had neighbors bring us several 5 gal containers of fresh water for cooking and drinking. We collected ice to melt on the gas stove (humidity in the air helps keep the house feeling warm), water our pets, clean dishes, take sponge bathes, and run the toilettes(9 kids between the two houses!).
Different forms of indoor lighting (candles, LED camp lanterns, oil lamps) are needed, and some way of generating heat (camp stove, gas stove). The food in the fridge went into coolers with blocks of ice and scooped-up snow, some wrapped in trash bags to protect the food from water. When we started using the generator, the biggest load was the well-pump. We ran it for an hour a day, with nothing else connected to it, and collected as much clean water as we could for bathing, drinking, etc... The next largest load was the refrigerator, and I wish we had used a chest freezer with this gadget (http://kegman.net/9025.html) to make it a "super fridge". It would have made our generator go a lot farther!
We hung blankets over the windows and doors, and closed off as much of the house as possible to concentrate people and heat into as small an area as possible. We drained the waterlines as much as possible, and ran a filament bulb in the well-house on the coldest night from an inverter running off the car to keep the pump equipment from freezing. A 1KW inverter (truck-sized) just wasn't enough to power the furnace blower enough to start up, we had to wait until the generator got to us.
To keep morale up, we played a lot of card and board games with the kids (AD&D anyone?), read books and magazines, talked, worked on chores and small indoor projects. Basically, we started to live like the people of my grandparents day did. Only not quite as well prepared at first.
You can make it with just a little prep, and remembering how the farmers lived before the rural electrification men came around blowing up their wind generators (it happened quite a bit around here).
Mythbusters (I know, I know, "they're actors, not physicists") DID verify the earthquake machine. They had an episode where they ran a free-running mechanical oscillator (breaking springs in the process, as predicted), and finally managed to get measurable effects from PC controlled linear electric actuators. Still no feedback loop involved. That would have brought that bridge down in a hurry!
We need to draw a line between the oil industry and the auto industry. As long as we treat them as the same we're never going to rise above the muck that keeps alternative fuels beached.
Actually, we need to MAKE a line between the oil and auto industries. Do you honestly believe that one could exist without the support of the other in their present situations? And the subsidies? Do you reward your kids for making F's in school? They shouldn't receive subsidies, they should be PURCHASED and new management installed. Old management should be blacklisted. (Yes, blacklisting does happen).
Having known some 'hot-shot' lawyers, and knowing the kind of shit that happens in the music industry, all I have to say is that the pricks look like they've snorted so much coke that they've gone stupid. They'll die soon. Unfortunately, there is a seemingly endless supply of drugged-out prick lawyers coming out of law schools.
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This is my current situation (satellite internet link with bandwidth monitoring and scaled usage plan). I'm fine with it, and usually hit the monitoring site daily to keep an eye on my rolling 30-day usage. My friends on dsl can't believe I put up with it, but as my only other choice is 24kbps modem, I'm a satisfied customer.
You may be a man, but are you a FATHER? Sociology AND biology help dictate social roles. My wife was MUCH better with the kids when they were little, and I'm getting better with them as they become teens. (driving! OMG!) But I'll be the first to admit that my patience sucked when they were little. Thankfully, age and repetitive exposure has taken some of my edge off.
This sounds a lot like the old "Nature vs Nurture" argument. I think that most of the people that study this (and most on Slashdot for that matter) fall at the high end of the bell curve, and can't relate/understand the majority of people that are controlled by BOTH forces.
Listen up, when society reinforces biological predisposition people are usually happy/successful. When society (usually led by some pseudo-intellectual asshole) is pushing an agenda counter to our biology, we have dysfunctional/pissed off/psychotic individuals.
Speaking of psychotic ..."it's good to have children spend a year with mom, and then another year with dad, and back again to mom, and so on. It provides balance." NO IT DOESN'T, IT PROVIDES A CLIENT FOR THE FUCKING THERAPIST, YOU ASS! Children need a family of fairly calm, PREDICTABLE parents. Constant upheaval wreaks kids! I've seen my kids friends go through that hell, and wish I could save them from it.
Where is that "reach-through-the-net-and-throttle-a-fool" button?
So then, logically, anyone with a brain wouldn't want to be a Microsoft partner?
I don't imagine anyone on /. falls into the range of "most people". I know that I normally have about 7 apps running on my linux system, while I have multiple remote desktop and PuTTY sessions running on my XP laptop at the same time. Yes, I keep both machines busy all day long.
Yep, that's why I stick with *nix. 30 years of pounding out the bugs and you get a good, solid OS. How old is Vista/Windows 7?
The philosophy of Linux (server) and Haiku (desktop) dictates different OS design and application. Linux seems kinda shoehorned into the desktop mold, it works but there are things that don't quite fit. Haiku isn't a server OS, it aims for the multimedia desktop. They compliment and work with each other.
Unfortunately, PHBs outnumber skilled commanders 100:1.
Sounds like you set up your own personal server/thin-client. Just another instance of big iron technology sliding down to the PC user.
You seem to have confused "turned off" with "stripped out". TinyXP is indeed faster. You have actually removed code from the installation. All versions of Vista carry all the DRM, processes, etc... The code base is the same, it's the configuration that is slightly different. I've worked in equipment shops where we charged the customers literally thousands of dollars to spend 2 minutes to go into a config screen and turn on an option. The code and hardware were already there, they just had to be turned on.
I'm the Sys Admin for a small boutique webdev shop, and the only windows in the shop is on the devs laptops. Well, most of the laptops. I've replaced Vista on several with custom XP images and Ubuntu. Our servers are Linux (Redhat & Ubuntu). We'll be damned before we go spending money on Windows Server. I don't do Windows, and it doesn't provide any services for our devs that Linux won't.
My devs already hate Vista, and they mostly do Java, HTML, Ajax, etc... Guess what I'm going to introduce to them next, heh, heh, heh ...
Machine-gunning fish is fun and all, but for a really fun time you need explosives.
You can find Mr. Obama at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington D.C.
Don't bother telling me how your attack goes, I'm sure we'll all know *snicker*
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Several points of your statement have been debated numerous times here on /.
1) Software is expected to be perfect because the revision *only* requires a rewrite. No materials or tooling need to be changed to create a better program. (end sarcasm)
2) Pointing to different consumer products as examples of acceptably flawed products isn't really accurate. Medical and Aviation are just 2 areas where flaws aren't acceptable. BUT... the rate of innovation is so low that it resembles a flat line because they have to test and bug-stomp all the way, at tremendous cost.
3) Each area of industry has evolved its' own set of best practices, rules of thumb, acceptable quality control levels, etc... because they have a limited set of requirements to deal with. They have certain materials, tooling, methods, laws, profit margins, and expectations of customers to deal with. Software is limited in scope only by the human imagination, and thus presents an unlimited set of requirements and resources. The problem has few set limits, and thus is much harder.
4) The design of a product is usually the cheapest part of the creation. They will redesign many times to save a little money on the tooling, materials, labor, packaging, etc... whereas design is the complete manufacturing stage for software. There aren't many opportunities to save money during the manufacture of the product.
My landlord was cleaning house once for a dinner party they were having, and running short of one type of cleaner he added another (Clorox) to the bucket. We ran around the house opening all the windows (Germany in February is rather cold). Don't think "everyone knows". What "everyone knows" will get someone killed.
Eclipse and Netbeans are pretty (incredable) flexible. Yes, they are designed for java first, but very usable for a multitude of languages. Being Opensource doesn't hurt or limit their being implemented, either.
I DO use both keyboard layouts at work. I use two laptops side by side, Linux/Dvorkian on one, WinXP/Qwerty on the other (the WinXP box is locked down so hard I'm not ALLOWED to make any changes in setup). I've been a Qwerty typist for 26 years and have used Dvorak for almost 6. I'm moderately fast on both, and switch all day long. It IS a pain in the ass, but thankfully not in the wrist anymore. That was the big reason I switched: I started developing RSI in my right hand (I'm married, it wasn't caused by THAT). The keyboard layout change made all the difference between going under for surgery and recovering on my own. Efficiency may not be as uber as word of mouth says (I think it is), but it definitely made me feel physically better. As for TFA: I didn't read it (this IS slashdot, right?), but claiming Dvorak isn't better because it didn't dominate the market, neglects several significant factors (Industry inertia, marketing, the fact that it's DIFFERENT, and general lack of knowledge or care about it). A "market-based" argument isn't worth the electrons used to write it.
Did anyone else read this as "Has Microsoft corrected its PENILE function?"
No, still hung like a squirrel...
Why not? The Govt does it all the time.
All authority is based upon the threat of violence. Even school children know this. Only pretentious pseudo-intellectuals think "group concensus" grants "authority". Bush concealed a lot of what he did, and had the media paint him as a conservative patriot. Clinton got painted by the radical conservatives as a murdering liberal psyco and that's why the White House facade is now bullet resistant (drive-by shootings) and there are Stinger missles emplaced on the roof (cessna intentionally crashed into the lawn). Your argument isn't worth a bag of poo.
cayenne8 has got it right. We were smack in the middle of the great ice storm of '06 in Missouri, and went a week and a half without grid power. We managed to grab a 5KW Onan generator after 5 days ($800). It provided heat (funace blower), water (electric 400 foot well pump) and entertainment (sat TV on big flatscreen) for TWO houses. Yes it was loud, yes you better know what you're doing (My AA is in electronics), and the gas usage was 5 gal/12 hours.
BUT...We weren't in dire straits. The power was needed more for the water pump and my furnace blower than anything else, but we had neighbors bring us several 5 gal containers of fresh water for cooking and drinking. We collected ice to melt on the gas stove (humidity in the air helps keep the house feeling warm), water our pets, clean dishes, take sponge bathes, and run the toilettes(9 kids between the two houses!).
Different forms of indoor lighting (candles, LED camp lanterns, oil lamps) are needed, and some way of generating heat (camp stove, gas stove). The food in the fridge went into coolers with blocks of ice and scooped-up snow, some wrapped in trash bags to protect the food from water. When we started using the generator, the biggest load was the well-pump. We ran it for an hour a day, with nothing else connected to it, and collected as much clean water as we could for bathing, drinking, etc... The next largest load was the refrigerator, and I wish we had used a chest freezer with this gadget (http://kegman.net/9025.html) to make it a "super fridge". It would have made our generator go a lot farther!
We hung blankets over the windows and doors, and closed off as much of the house as possible to concentrate people and heat into as small an area as possible. We drained the waterlines as much as possible, and ran a filament bulb in the well-house on the coldest night from an inverter running off the car to keep the pump equipment from freezing. A 1KW inverter (truck-sized) just wasn't enough to power the furnace blower enough to start up, we had to wait until the generator got to us.
To keep morale up, we played a lot of card and board games with the kids (AD&D anyone?), read books and magazines, talked, worked on chores and small indoor projects. Basically, we started to live like the people of my grandparents day did. Only not quite as well prepared at first.
You can make it with just a little prep, and remembering how the farmers lived before the rural electrification men came around blowing up their wind generators (it happened quite a bit around here).
Mythbusters (I know, I know, "they're actors, not physicists") DID verify the earthquake machine. They had an episode where they ran a free-running mechanical oscillator (breaking springs in the process, as predicted), and finally managed to get measurable effects from PC controlled linear electric actuators. Still no feedback loop involved. That would have brought that bridge down in a hurry!
We need to draw a line between the oil industry and the auto industry. As long as we treat them as the same we're never going to rise above the muck that keeps alternative fuels beached.
Actually, we need to MAKE a line between the oil and auto industries. Do you honestly believe that one could exist without the support of the other in their present situations? And the subsidies? Do you reward your kids for making F's in school? They shouldn't receive subsidies, they should be PURCHASED and new management installed. Old management should be blacklisted. (Yes, blacklisting does happen).
Having known some 'hot-shot' lawyers, and knowing the kind of shit that happens in the music industry, all I have to say is that the pricks look like they've snorted so much coke that they've gone stupid. They'll die soon. Unfortunately, there is a seemingly endless supply of drugged-out prick lawyers coming out of law schools.
I thought it said "Experimental Magnetic Shield Against Cosplayers". I was planning to pick one up next time I went to Fry's.