That is why I like newegg, they have that handy subcategory item. If I search for Video card for instance. The query comes up with all items that are tagged or contain video card in them. There is a simple subcategory view that comes up where I can select the details such as number of pipes, RAM, manufacturer, or chipset.
You would think online music stores would do the same thing. Select a major category like alternative, and beneath that there would be all the subcategories.
Maybe the online market is just so new that the developers dont know what works well so they just come up with their own system. Perhaps this is a new class that needs to be added to BS programs, just study it alongside queue theory.
Unfortunately as a company that wants to make money they have to target the biggest part of their audience. People who just want it to work so they can play solitare will be fine. However, for those of us who want maximum efficiency, well we have to trod a different path.
My question is, are the Democrats going to be putting their foot in their mouth when they get the presidency, senate, and House by 2008? The whole scream that "We need a balanced gov't" will really come to bite them in the ass when the Republicans start shouting it.
I think poor layout is more of the problem than loading times. In the late 90s and up to 2003 or so, websites were aweful from an artistic standpoint, but many sites have gotten better.
But for me the ability to sort through goods is the #1 priority. Yes I like to have a pretty site to look at but if I cannot find what I am looking for with a few simple queries then I am gone. Newegg is a fine example of a site where I can find what I want quickly. Tigerdirect is getting better. Dell is the worst. I have a theory that Dell is like many supermarkets, they rearrange stuff and make searching difficult so you see the maximum number of items before finding what you are actually looking for.
Web designers, if you want business, make it easy. I dont really think most people go to sites just to browse. Most of the time we are there with a purpose and as an ADD generation we want it quickly or we will move on.
How did you not get that...wow, really wow. I shall explain. and save the OP from the pain of bringing things to your level.
Linux is failing because you and people like you think that Joe User should have no problem compiling a driver. It has gotten better over the last few years with 1337 ego awareness. But even if you were a pretty sharp person and went to the forums for answers, you would soon feel so belittled just reading the forums and seeing the way, some not all, Linux users view the rest of the pathetic ignorant world. This mentality of, 'So what, you know the ins and outs of bypass surgery, if you cannot figure out how compile a driver in under 20 mins you are an idiot.'
There are many things I find easy: cooking, changing my oil, setting up Ubuntu or Windows XP. But that doesn't mean that I immediately know how to do other easy things without doing a bunch of research and having someone walk me through it the first time. It is not a matter of system ease, it is a matter of familiarity and study.
I am what most would call a noob to Linux. I fire it up when I need a good stable system that I dont have to look at for a long time. SAMBA, Apache, and a host for my VMware servers are mostly what I use Linux for, I dont spend much time in run level 5. But I spend so much time compiling and making sure everything is just right just to install one program. Anyone ever tried to install VMware on FC5 with a SMB kernel?
I would never recommend Linux to someone without a technical background. Even with programs like yum and distros like Ubuntu, I still spend quite a bit of time worrying about compilers and kernel versions. I dont mind building one for a friend and letting them have it. But asking them to install it is asking for trouble.
As a new person to Linux, I am very excited about the stability once it is set up. But with a history in windows I can see the bloat and how easy it is to install and customize it to an average person without a technical background. Maybe driver support will fix this, maybe a longer lifespan on an OS will help.
Bluetooth is fine, dont know what I would do with an SD card. My point was that I should be able to hook the USB up to the PCs I have without bluetooth capability.
Utterly confusing, since when did a cell company actually make a practical device rather than nickel and diming the customer to death. It has been my experience in the past that Cell companies intentionally over complicate things in order to make the customer pay more money.
Example, getting pictures off a picture phone without paying for them. Any digital camera can do this just fine. The Razor even comes with a 5 pin USB connector. However no driver support available unless you pay for a "Mobile connectivity Package" Or hack your phone.
I expect there is some way that the cell companies will take advantage of this new cell phone. Such as special connection fees, or per antennae costs. Or the E-Ink requires a special interface option.
I use the Razor for an example because outside of greed, there is no reason that the razor's driver could not be made available to the customer for easier uploading and downloading of pictures, sounds, and video clips.
How you got modded 5 informative is beyond me. Insightful maybe, but informative no.
While an intelligent assumption for a person who has not delved into the history of the bible, it is however mostly wrong.
The allegory belief usually comes when one distances himself from the Bible. The less you read it (be you agnostic or Christian) the more likely you are to believe that it is allegorical and disjointed.
The bible is at best a historical account of a group of people through their eyes, thus needs to be viewed as such, and the writing is protected by God. At worst it is an accurate mythological history book.
I am not a theologian or historian, just a geek but I am fascinated with the bible's accuracy Historically, they may embellish stories to include God, but the time line is accurate and the Historical places and people are real. Which is fantastic when you consider the age of the book.
In conclusion I would say that the tower of babel story is not allegorical, but rather God chose that junction to disrupt the human race long enough for them to define themselves rather than playing silly games that he told them not to. Whether we like Mosaic law or not, even as secularists we have to admit, there is a bit of unnatural wisdom in the protection offered by Mosaic law.
OK fine, as a sysadmin I have to add some reason to this discussion. So far I have seen people whine about how service packs are so unecessary. Yes they are unecessary, for home users, but you tinkers forget that there is a bigger picture to the world. We are called networks. For sys admins who want to slipstream the new service pack and not have to push out 100+ updates when we deploy 60 PCs, they are a godsend. Yes you can still slip in each patch separately, but that is a pain in the ass. And yes, You can build one image spend the 60 minutes applying the updates every 6 months. But I have about 7 images, every 6 months updating them is a lot of time I dont have lying around. Pushing out a service pack, or rollup without the extras is nice.
As it is, for the enormous amount of patches that get applied to my network daily I have a SUS server that helps. But thanks to MS I have to reboot after many, and I have serveral hundred employees that are not all that excited when they have to close out and reboot.
So in short, in the small small small world of home tinkerers, (aka 90% of slashdotters), service packs mean little other than neat features rolled up in them. But for the medium to large network environment they really make things simple.
Dont know, experts exchange does a pretty good job of weeding people out. Then again it is kind of like a MMoG in that you can rack up points pretty fast by just farming all day.
What a blatant misuse of statistics. I swear stat abuse is the lifeblood of media now adays.
That internet is an evil place!
Ten bucks says these people that are hiding the internet use from friends, family, and co-workers are also porn addicts. It isnt the internet it is the person feeding an addiction aside from the internet, if the net wasnt there they would just find different avenues.
The people who have a hard time being away from the internet for more than a few days arent surfing, they are probably admins or stock brokers that have accounts and systems depending on them.
I wish this were true. If it were, Wallmart wouldnt crush every small business in towns it comes to. Where I grew up, a walmart moved in right before I graduated. that was 10 years ago. Today there are no more grocery stores in town, no general stores, even the mechanics are drying up. Because, survey says, the majority of people dont give a crap about quality. They want to save.03 on a can of beans no matter how much preservative is stuck in it.
Now I go home to visit my parents and there is no where to get quality goods. No fresh produce, no good spices, meats are sub-par, and no good quality clothes. All for the good of the American way of laziness and bottom dollar.
Now there are rare people, you and I may like to go to the farmer's market in town, go to actual wine shops and get expert advice, and buy 'real' spices for our food. But jo american doesnt, travel minimal spend less. Meanwhile the rest of us suffer for it.
Yes digital has its problems, but you must not be old enough to remember how hard, inefficient, and scary, it was with paper. Anybody with a head on their shoulders could counterfit your checks. Your military records could all disappear in one fire. Or for that matter be lost as many are in the endless piles of paperwork.....how many times have I had documents lost in the flow of corporate papers....
My gym membership has never been called into question as it has a barcode, (of course on a piece of paper). My wife has lost contact with friends for months when her planner disappeared, whereas all my contacts are stored redundantly in gmail and outlook. Checks were never ever ever a secure reliable source of cash flow. As for maps, well you got me there a good map in your hand is better than a GPS device with a dead battery anyday.
Saying that checks, paper address books, and paper records are more reliable than data versions is just foolish. Historians are studying those documents because they are fragments of lost civilizations, in a dead language usually (as our encryption methods will be in a couple decades). Paper does not survive, it is organic, it will break down, it is a much more unstable media than electronic media that lives and replicates constantly. Paper gets lost daily and is not uncommon to lose gym memberships, car titles, marriage certificates, and SS cards. Luckily, electronic methods have come around to save us from the hassles of the old days.
Unfortunately data is lost, sometimes things dont go right, but the digital age allows us to see where things go wrong, whereas with the paper ages we wouldnt know for decades and millinea when it is too late.
When are these companies going to learn...every "protected" piece of crap they put out there gets broken. It is inevitable, Mr Anderson. When you figure out how much money the world has put into copy protection, vs how much they have actually lost to piracy...what are they really gaining?
I think we understand each other well. Cant disagree with you, I was just pointing out that our lives are our own. What we wish to do with them us up to us. Would I be a better person for acknowledging my insifigance? I guess that would depend on whether or not it would bring happiness. Should I benefit society? Or just myself, what if, in bettering society I lead a fulfilling life? What if my dream is to send a nonsense capsul into space? In my opininon, children have it right in life. We dont need to understand the atom to enjoy the benefits of them. I dont need to know how or whys to life to live a fulfilling existance.
Of course all of this "life is insignificant" stuff becomes moot, if we turn out to be eternal beings.
Ya well my trillian Pro install has a bias against url's in general. Any post of a URL with 32 characters or longer crashes the whole system! Must be that trillian is pushing tiny url....
Outside of the pity I feel for your life. A couple comments.
Being that your version of life will end, never to be seen again, is it just not worth it to dream? Should Columbus never have used selfish motive? Or Magellan? Each had a 1 in a million shot by earthly standards at the time. After all it doesnt matter in the scope of things, they should have just stayed at home and drank themselves to oblivion in the pub.
What about the worlds largest cookie, absolutely absurd, but fun to do anyway.
It is how we live today that matters, if I want to try to beam a nice message into space, and make a few bucks along the way so what? What if in the meantime people browse through the message here and see that earth is not actually that bad of a place at all. That our fighting and bickering and cynicsm are useless in the scope of things.?
In your cynicism you blot out hope, dreams, and just plain silliness just for the hell of it.
I would love to vote for the little guy. As long as his/her politics are in line with what I want seen done. Or at least they have one or two things I stand for on their plate.
But once they are in office they are just one voice and without money backing them what chance do they stand? You have to have clout in Washington or in local administrations, that is why the Dem/Rep parties are so promanant, they can squish any independent we vote in. Money and Power talk very very loud.
Does anybody have numbers on the chances to win a lawsuit against our Big Brother?
Seriously we some famous cases that we all memorize in class where the little guy wins. But just as we shake our heads at Microsoft throwing its weight around, is there really much we (joe citizen) can do about Govt Policies?
Someone had to ask. How is this technique going to maintain a person? Arent you essentially killing the person and reassembling their likeness in a remote location? How could an outsider tell the difference, the being that is transported would simply cease to exist while a copy lives the rest of their lives.
Seen that to, all breaks down to the fact that people no longer respect the family structure. Religion debates aside, the family structure has broken over the last 50 years. Parents dont constructively punish, they do it to vent. They dont instill morals because of Post Modernism. They arent involved because they dont have the time, after all the next big promotion is just around the corner(I think the movie click had that down right). Parents tend to go with the buddy/friend rather than good solid parenting. Dr Laura may be an extremist but the more I look at the world and the breakdown of the culture, I am starting to think she may be on to something....
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You would think online music stores would do the same thing. Select a major category like alternative, and beneath that there would be all the subcategories.
Maybe the online market is just so new that the developers dont know what works well so they just come up with their own system. Perhaps this is a new class that needs to be added to BS programs, just study it alongside queue theory.
Unfortunately as a company that wants to make money they have to target the biggest part of their audience. People who just want it to work so they can play solitare will be fine. However, for those of us who want maximum efficiency, well we have to trod a different path.
My question is, are the Democrats going to be putting their foot in their mouth when they get the presidency, senate, and House by 2008? The whole scream that "We need a balanced gov't" will really come to bite them in the ass when the Republicans start shouting it.
But for me the ability to sort through goods is the #1 priority. Yes I like to have a pretty site to look at but if I cannot find what I am looking for with a few simple queries then I am gone. Newegg is a fine example of a site where I can find what I want quickly. Tigerdirect is getting better. Dell is the worst. I have a theory that Dell is like many supermarkets, they rearrange stuff and make searching difficult so you see the maximum number of items before finding what you are actually looking for.
Web designers, if you want business, make it easy. I dont really think most people go to sites just to browse. Most of the time we are there with a purpose and as an ADD generation we want it quickly or we will move on.
Correct. Logically you can apply one of the following:
1. Current office or policy is doing a decent enough job for you not to take notice. Vote to keep things as they are.
2. Current office or policy is pissing you off. Vote for change.
3. You are Partisan. Trust your Party and vote their way.
4. You are non-partisan, Christmas tree the ballot and burn a flag.
Linux is failing because you and people like you think that Joe User should have no problem compiling a driver. It has gotten better over the last few years with 1337 ego awareness. But even if you were a pretty sharp person and went to the forums for answers, you would soon feel so belittled just reading the forums and seeing the way, some not all, Linux users view the rest of the pathetic ignorant world. This mentality of, 'So what, you know the ins and outs of bypass surgery, if you cannot figure out how compile a driver in under 20 mins you are an idiot.'
There are many things I find easy: cooking, changing my oil, setting up Ubuntu or Windows XP. But that doesn't mean that I immediately know how to do other easy things without doing a bunch of research and having someone walk me through it the first time. It is not a matter of system ease, it is a matter of familiarity and study.
I would never recommend Linux to someone without a technical background. Even with programs like yum and distros like Ubuntu, I still spend quite a bit of time worrying about compilers and kernel versions. I dont mind building one for a friend and letting them have it. But asking them to install it is asking for trouble.
As a new person to Linux, I am very excited about the stability once it is set up. But with a history in windows I can see the bloat and how easy it is to install and customize it to an average person without a technical background. Maybe driver support will fix this, maybe a longer lifespan on an OS will help.
Bluetooth is fine, dont know what I would do with an SD card. My point was that I should be able to hook the USB up to the PCs I have without bluetooth capability.
Example, getting pictures off a picture phone without paying for them. Any digital camera can do this just fine. The Razor even comes with a 5 pin USB connector. However no driver support available unless you pay for a "Mobile connectivity Package" Or hack your phone.
I expect there is some way that the cell companies will take advantage of this new cell phone. Such as special connection fees, or per antennae costs. Or the E-Ink requires a special interface option.
I use the Razor for an example because outside of greed, there is no reason that the razor's driver could not be made available to the customer for easier uploading and downloading of pictures, sounds, and video clips.
While an intelligent assumption for a person who has not delved into the history of the bible, it is however mostly wrong.
The allegory belief usually comes when one distances himself from the Bible. The less you read it (be you agnostic or Christian) the more likely you are to believe that it is allegorical and disjointed.
The bible is at best a historical account of a group of people through their eyes, thus needs to be viewed as such, and the writing is protected by God. At worst it is an accurate mythological history book.
I am not a theologian or historian, just a geek but I am fascinated with the bible's accuracy Historically, they may embellish stories to include God, but the time line is accurate and the Historical places and people are real. Which is fantastic when you consider the age of the book.
In conclusion I would say that the tower of babel story is not allegorical, but rather God chose that junction to disrupt the human race long enough for them to define themselves rather than playing silly games that he told them not to. Whether we like Mosaic law or not, even as secularists we have to admit, there is a bit of unnatural wisdom in the protection offered by Mosaic law.
As it is, for the enormous amount of patches that get applied to my network daily I have a SUS server that helps. But thanks to MS I have to reboot after many, and I have serveral hundred employees that are not all that excited when they have to close out and reboot.
So in short, in the small small small world of home tinkerers, (aka 90% of slashdotters), service packs mean little other than neat features rolled up in them. But for the medium to large network environment they really make things simple.
Dont know, experts exchange does a pretty good job of weeding people out. Then again it is kind of like a MMoG in that you can rack up points pretty fast by just farming all day.
That internet is an evil place!
Ten bucks says these people that are hiding the internet use from friends, family, and co-workers are also porn addicts. It isnt the internet it is the person feeding an addiction aside from the internet, if the net wasnt there they would just find different avenues.
The people who have a hard time being away from the internet for more than a few days arent surfing, they are probably admins or stock brokers that have accounts and systems depending on them.
seriously this article is sickening.
Now I go home to visit my parents and there is no where to get quality goods. No fresh produce, no good spices, meats are sub-par, and no good quality clothes. All for the good of the American way of laziness and bottom dollar.
Now there are rare people, you and I may like to go to the farmer's market in town, go to actual wine shops and get expert advice, and buy 'real' spices for our food. But jo american doesnt, travel minimal spend less. Meanwhile the rest of us suffer for it.
My gym membership has never been called into question as it has a barcode, (of course on a piece of paper). My wife has lost contact with friends for months when her planner disappeared, whereas all my contacts are stored redundantly in gmail and outlook. Checks were never ever ever a secure reliable source of cash flow. As for maps, well you got me there a good map in your hand is better than a GPS device with a dead battery anyday.
Saying that checks, paper address books, and paper records are more reliable than data versions is just foolish. Historians are studying those documents because they are fragments of lost civilizations, in a dead language usually (as our encryption methods will be in a couple decades). Paper does not survive, it is organic, it will break down, it is a much more unstable media than electronic media that lives and replicates constantly. Paper gets lost daily and is not uncommon to lose gym memberships, car titles, marriage certificates, and SS cards. Luckily, electronic methods have come around to save us from the hassles of the old days.
Unfortunately data is lost, sometimes things dont go right, but the digital age allows us to see where things go wrong, whereas with the paper ages we wouldnt know for decades and millinea when it is too late.
When are these companies going to learn...every "protected" piece of crap they put out there gets broken. It is inevitable, Mr Anderson. When you figure out how much money the world has put into copy protection, vs how much they have actually lost to piracy...what are they really gaining?
Of course all of this "life is insignificant" stuff becomes moot, if we turn out to be eternal beings.
Ya well my trillian Pro install has a bias against url's in general. Any post of a URL with 32 characters or longer crashes the whole system! Must be that trillian is pushing tiny url....
Being that your version of life will end, never to be seen again, is it just not worth it to dream? Should Columbus never have used selfish motive? Or Magellan? Each had a 1 in a million shot by earthly standards at the time. After all it doesnt matter in the scope of things, they should have just stayed at home and drank themselves to oblivion in the pub.
What about the worlds largest cookie, absolutely absurd, but fun to do anyway.
It is how we live today that matters, if I want to try to beam a nice message into space, and make a few bucks along the way so what? What if in the meantime people browse through the message here and see that earth is not actually that bad of a place at all. That our fighting and bickering and cynicsm are useless in the scope of things.?
In your cynicism you blot out hope, dreams, and just plain silliness just for the hell of it.
But once they are in office they are just one voice and without money backing them what chance do they stand? You have to have clout in Washington or in local administrations, that is why the Dem/Rep parties are so promanant, they can squish any independent we vote in. Money and Power talk very very loud.
I take passion over a paycheck hunter anyday. I can always teach a passionate person.
Seriously we some famous cases that we all memorize in class where the little guy wins. But just as we shake our heads at Microsoft throwing its weight around, is there really much we (joe citizen) can do about Govt Policies?
Depends on whether the 5M involves all admin costs. You have to figure in benefits, building costs, software, hardware, QA groups, bonuses...
Someone had to ask. How is this technique going to maintain a person? Arent you essentially killing the person and reassembling their likeness in a remote location? How could an outsider tell the difference, the being that is transported would simply cease to exist while a copy lives the rest of their lives.
Seen that to, all breaks down to the fact that people no longer respect the family structure. Religion debates aside, the family structure has broken over the last 50 years. Parents dont constructively punish, they do it to vent. They dont instill morals because of Post Modernism. They arent involved because they dont have the time, after all the next big promotion is just around the corner(I think the movie click had that down right). Parents tend to go with the buddy/friend rather than good solid parenting. Dr Laura may be an extremist but the more I look at the world and the breakdown of the culture, I am starting to think she may be on to something....