Who else owns a stake in facebook (other than the founders) ?
Personally, I can't see the founders telling MS to f%&k off when they turn up at a board meeting suggesting that Facebook be renamed to LiveBook.com - $240m can wield an awful lot of unoffical power...
1. I arrive at my desk 2. I open the lid on my coffee 3. I start to drink my coffee 4. I glare at my minions until... 5....One of them gives me an update.
Delegation. Get others to put out your fires for you. THEN claim the credit.
OK, I hear what you are saying... but if MS managed it with MSI (which after 4 years now de-facto for packaging), then surely the Linux community can do it too ?
I am not a Linux user, but I am a software developer, and it seems to me, that ALL the distros could benefit from a universal package manager, that was compatible with all the major package types?
Or do I completely mis-understand how things work under linux ?
Graphics cards have a small defined set of criteria that they are judged against. If a graphics card is faster than any other, with higher refreshes, and higher resolution, then for 99.9% of users it is percieved the best.
Mice however, require the user to be comfortable holding them, with the correct mousepad, with or without a wrist rest, and then there's wireless vs wired, bluetooth vs infra-red, trackball or optical. Some users swear by a simple 3 button scroll wheeled mouse, some users can't function without all those extra buttons on the sides. A high DPI is one thing, but for some that just makes the mouse TOO twitchy. Gaming is not ALL about twitch speeds, and frag counts. There are many games out there, where a slower moving mouse with higher accuracy is actually benificial (most of the God Sims, spring to mind).
At the end of the day, there are different mouses for different houses. What works for you, probably doesn't work for your neighbour. As such most mouse reviews have limited value, with or without benchmarks.
-Jar. [Logitech MX510, on a kidney shaped plastic grooved mousepad - both at work and at home]
Odd. I've installed Vista Ultimate (Technet RTM) onto about 3 different mobile devices now, (one of which is a Tablet PC) and they've all hibernated correctly without issue.
Maybe I'm just lucky?
Out of interest, RC2 of Vista was shite at hibernation, so I guess it was one of things MS worked on for the RTM.
However, on the flip side, Hibernate in Vista is very very good. MS have even demoted 'Shutdown' to a drop down menu, in favour of Standby-and-then-hibernate on the old Shutdown Icon.
So there you go, that's one reason to upgrade to Vista [tongue in cheek].
My pre-order was with Currys, and I got a nasty letter yesterday telling me don't bother to collect because they wont have any today (Launch Day). I went in the shop this morning in order to a)bitch at the the manager citing fraud (as they had taken my deposit money, and the receipt is a bill of contract) and to b)demand a refund if I didn't get a definite delivery date.
All over the store are signs saying that Currys stores will not have any Wiis before Christmas. After talking to the Manager, he told me that Nintendo have 're-allocated' all of Currys* allocation for 2006 to other retailers (Game, HMV, Virgin).
I demanded my refund and got it, no arguments.
Cest la vie, I'll now wait for the version that'll play DVDs, and hopefully be in a different colour.
-Jar.
*This could just be the smaller Currys.Digital stores.
You can't go wrong with Archos. They do a nice range of players. I use an aging Archos Gmini 400 (sadly discontinued).
The nice things about them are:
1. Very Good build quality 2. Large variety of players from simple music only to full blown media players. 3. Mount as standard USB mass storage 4. NO DRM what-so-ever 5. Supports mp3, wav, ogg, wma, wmv, divx, xvid (some formats are player dependent) 6. Windows Media Player can sync to it (as can many other freeware library managers)
If my Gmini died, I go straight to the web and buy another Archos, no question.
Never Mind... Finally found out why in the 'Older Stuff' sidebar...
Idea #2: Slashdot has a 'sticky article option' that's always at the top of the main page, so those of us who aren't on American Time, get to see the important stuff when we wake up.
Has Slashdot lost it's threading, or is it just me ?
Y'know, I really wish Slashdot had a 'Talk' forum, where we could all discuss (sorry, bitch) about stuff on Slashdot in general without our posts being connected to an article.
The days of snagging your works (or a friends works) Volume Licence Key are over.
Vista corporate licencing now has the OS pinging a Corporate Licence server which in turn keeps track of how many clients are out there, it then pings MS which greenlights whether that org is still within licencing terms or not. The actual system is a bit more in depth than that, but essentially that's how it works. If the client can't ping the licence server within 90 days, then the client goes into 'reduced functionality mode'.
So even though I would never condone actually hacking the OS, the only option to the pirates is to patch the OS to bypass the Licence Server ping. But I'm sure MS have forseen that and have all manner of checksum systems in place.
Well over here, in Blightly, where we INVENTED the language, the correct Queens English usage is 'My Brother and I' - however many people in the UK would say 'my brother and me', the breakdown of usage is as so:
'My Brother and I' - Professional white collar public school rich bastards* (and the Royal Family**) 'My Brother and me' - Low menial workers in boiler suits and their orange faced bleach blonde bimbo wives (and the BBC).
But seriously, this is a new low for Slashdot, a long thread on such a pointless topic... no wait, I think arguing over 'lock and load' is even more pointless....
-Jar.
* I'm one of these ** The Queen is well known for saying 'My Husband and I....'
Uh huh - I used to work at the Investment Bank that designed Mindalign originally (except back then it was was called Interchange) - the in house developers broke away (with the banks blessing) and formed Parlano.
I like where they've taken Mindalign, but I am surprised that there seems to be no other direct competitor out there for this form of collaboration.
Slashdot Mirror
It seems to be over at Engadget
However, I'ver looked up this strange word 'sommeliers' and can't for the life of me, work out what cell phones and wine waiters have in common ?
-Jar
Who else owns a stake in facebook (other than the founders) ?
Personally, I can't see the founders telling MS to f%&k off when they turn up at a board meeting suggesting that Facebook be renamed to LiveBook.com - $240m can wield an awful lot of unoffical power...
-Jar
1. I arrive at my desk ...One of them gives me an update.
2. I open the lid on my coffee
3. I start to drink my coffee
4. I glare at my minions until...
5.
Delegation. Get others to put out your fires for you. THEN claim the credit.
-Jar.
OK, I hear what you are saying... but if MS managed it with MSI (which after 4 years now de-facto for packaging), then surely the Linux community can do it too ?
*Throws down gauntlet*
-Jar.
- Gaties ?
- Starbies ?
- SG-oners ?
-Jar.That was a nod to 'classic' Who. It had to be done to keep the fanbois (and grrls) happy.
Later on it got much much betterer.
Jury is still out on Torchwood tho...
-Jar.
I am not a Linux user, but I am a software developer, and it seems to me, that ALL the distros could benefit from a universal package manager, that was compatible with all the major package types?
Or do I completely mis-understand how things work under linux ?
-Jar.
Surely mouse preference is subjective ?
Graphics cards have a small defined set of criteria that they are judged against. If a graphics card is faster than any other, with higher refreshes, and higher resolution, then for 99.9% of users it is percieved the best.
Mice however, require the user to be comfortable holding them, with the correct mousepad, with or without a wrist rest, and then there's wireless vs wired, bluetooth vs infra-red, trackball or optical. Some users swear by a simple 3 button scroll wheeled mouse, some users can't function without all those extra buttons on the sides. A high DPI is one thing, but for some that just makes the mouse TOO twitchy. Gaming is not ALL about twitch speeds, and frag counts. There are many games out there, where a slower moving mouse with higher accuracy is actually benificial (most of the God Sims, spring to mind).
At the end of the day, there are different mouses for different houses. What works for you, probably doesn't work for your neighbour. As such most mouse reviews have limited value, with or without benchmarks.
-Jar.
[Logitech MX510, on a kidney shaped plastic grooved mousepad - both at work and at home]
Yeah... I read that after I posted my comment.
Odd. I've installed Vista Ultimate (Technet RTM) onto about 3 different mobile devices now, (one of which is a Tablet PC) and they've all hibernated correctly without issue.
Maybe I'm just lucky?
Out of interest, RC2 of Vista was shite at hibernation, so I guess it was one of things MS worked on for the RTM.
-Jar.
However, on the flip side, Hibernate in Vista is very very good. MS have even demoted 'Shutdown' to a drop down menu, in favour of Standby-and-then-hibernate on the old Shutdown Icon.
So there you go, that's one reason to upgrade to Vista [tongue in cheek].
-Jar.
Don't hold your breath.
My pre-order was with Currys, and I got a nasty letter yesterday telling me don't bother to collect because they wont have any today (Launch Day). I went in the shop this morning in order to a)bitch at the the manager citing fraud (as they had taken my deposit money, and the receipt is a bill of contract) and to b)demand a refund if I didn't get a definite delivery date.
All over the store are signs saying that Currys stores will not have any Wiis before Christmas. After talking to the Manager, he told me that Nintendo have 're-allocated' all of Currys* allocation for 2006 to other retailers (Game, HMV, Virgin).
I demanded my refund and got it, no arguments.
Cest la vie, I'll now wait for the version that'll play DVDs, and hopefully be in a different colour.
-Jar.
*This could just be the smaller Currys.Digital stores.
You can't go wrong with Archos. They do a nice range of players. I use an aging Archos Gmini 400 (sadly discontinued).
The nice things about them are:
1. Very Good build quality
2. Large variety of players from simple music only to full blown media players.
3. Mount as standard USB mass storage
4. NO DRM what-so-ever
5. Supports mp3, wav, ogg, wma, wmv, divx, xvid (some formats are player dependent)
6. Windows Media Player can sync to it (as can many other freeware library managers)
If my Gmini died, I go straight to the web and buy another Archos, no question.
-Jar.
How likely is this to be? I'm not a Nintendo-owner, however I do have a modded xbox - would the modding of the Wii be in the same vein ?
-Jar.
Woah, a little less of the f**king and maybe people will pay attention to the point you are making.
-Jar.
I've only ever seen it when I post as AC. I have Excellent Karma however, so it may also appear for lower karma dudes...
-Jar.
Never Mind... Finally found out why in the 'Older Stuff' sidebar...
Idea #2: Slashdot has a 'sticky article option' that's always at the top of the main page, so those of us who aren't on American Time, get to see the important stuff when we wake up.
-Jar.
Has Slashdot lost it's threading, or is it just me ?
Y'know, I really wish Slashdot had a 'Talk' forum, where we could all discuss (sorry, bitch) about stuff on Slashdot in general without our posts being connected to an article.
-Jar.
Actually, it's not that simple.
The days of snagging your works (or a friends works) Volume Licence Key are over.
Vista corporate licencing now has the OS pinging a Corporate Licence server which in turn keeps track of how many clients are out there, it then pings MS which greenlights whether that org is still within licencing terms or not. The actual system is a bit more in depth than that, but essentially that's how it works. If the client can't ping the licence server within 90 days, then the client goes into 'reduced functionality mode'.
So even though I would never condone actually hacking the OS, the only option to the pirates is to patch the OS to bypass the Licence Server ping. But I'm sure MS have forseen that and have all manner of checksum systems in place.
-Jar.
And this surprises you?
-Jar.
So...
If I were standing on Mars in my natty Gucci space suit, which has a CLEAR visor. Is the Normal or the False Colour image the vista I'd see?
ie. is Mars really red?
-Jar.
Well over here, in Blightly, where we INVENTED the language, the correct Queens English usage is 'My Brother and I' - however many people in the UK would say 'my brother and me', the breakdown of usage is as so:
'My Brother and I' - Professional white collar public school rich bastards* (and the Royal Family**)
'My Brother and me' - Low menial workers in boiler suits and their orange faced bleach blonde bimbo wives (and the BBC).
But seriously, this is a new low for Slashdot, a long thread on such a pointless topic... no wait, I think arguing over 'lock and load' is even more pointless....
-Jar.
* I'm one of these
** The Queen is well known for saying 'My Husband and I....'
Who needs a client?
-Jar.
Searched this comment thread... it seems no one had done a 'slashdot sucks'....
d ot+sucks%22&btnG=Search
So I did...
http://google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%22slash
-Jar.
Uh huh - I used to work at the Investment Bank that designed Mindalign originally (except back then it was was called Interchange) - the in house developers broke away (with the banks blessing) and formed Parlano.
I like where they've taken Mindalign, but I am surprised that there seems to be no other direct competitor out there for this form of collaboration.
-Jar.
Parlano's Mindalign has sticky 'backchat' where recently joined users can scroll back and read the history of the conversation.
Mindalign is one of the major IM/collaboration players in the Investment Banking market, and is installed on the desktops of a lot of global banks.
(No, I don't work for Parlano)
-Jar.