I would much prefer a 50% MacOS/50% Windows home market with an almost non-existant Linux, for the sake of competition compared to the 90%Windows/9%Mac/1%Linux (or whatever the real stats are) with the false hope that Linux is a Windows-killer. Well it isn't and it may never be.
No way! What would he sort of people who read slashdot use? It would be far far worse, because you'd have 100% of the community in substandard operating systmes instad of the 95-ish% you have now. And you'd have even less hope for exit form the situation than you do now.
The clone makers (Power Computing in particular) were embarrassing Apple by selling faster machines at much lower prices.
Well of course he had a reason, just not a good one. At that point Apple returned to being a company which prioritised keeping their customers locked into closd formats ahead of producing the best products.
Apple are about closed systems first and good products if they can be bothered. I have little faith in them porting Mac OSX to intel, and I don't see their OS bringing any benefits to ayone not currently using Mac OS. OS X is a catch up product. They're using eye candy to try to pretend it's more, but in the near future, Windows will alawys have better applications support, and Be and linux will both be better at everything else.
OK, but its the problem with that the click boxes themselves, or the way dickhead programmers make them come up at every moment. "Are you sure you want to go to a newline", etc.
I agree about the alertboxes coming up with default focus. I use netscape on Sunrays on Solaris at uni, and it really pisses me off that I have to use the mouse to position over a popup when they rarely do come up. (it pisses me off I have to use the mouse at all - it shouldn't be necessary for 90% of stuff).
The problem is that windows has created a culture of using popups at inappropriate times when status bar alerts or... something (anything!) else would be preferable.
>trained and not worth a dime. <br> <br> What sort of crap is this, and how does it invalidate what the parent post said? Iraq's <i>army</i> drawfs the entire population of severla countries, irrespective of the incorrect description of the army size given above. Iraq is not in any way a small country.<br> <br> That the Swiss could beat them is extremely contenious. In what terrain? The Swiss are defensive. Their defence system is set up to utilise the landscape, etc, etc, etc. I'm not sure they'd last long in the deserts of Arabia. Iraq stood up to Iran, who were pretty damn well equippped for years.<br> <br> As for you question about ranson being used on the data haven, I think it's unlikely. The people at the forefront of that sort of industry would be crazy to blow their opportunities for cheap political gain - it's worth too much. but even if they did the market would provide a solution. Alternatives would pop up, etc, etc, etc<br>
Does anyone on slashdot *like* anything (besides linux)? I am seriously asking. I almost never hear anyone on slashdot say good things about movies. And not all of these movies are bad.
I seem to remember everybody thinking Austin Powers II rocked (just off the top of my head, I saw your comment, thought that, posted it:) ).
To my knowledge, Compaq OS/2 was bundled with the software pack bundled with high-end x86 (as much as x86 can be high end, particularly for a company like Digital) servers. So on the CD, you get this special flavour of NT4, a few Unixs, Netware, VMS and 'Compaq' OS/2.
Pathworks... as far as I know... was an X-Client and some related utilities.
Well I was a die-hard OS/2 user, and I always thought OS/2 sucked, but it sucked a lot less than any offering out at the time. (I now use Linux and BeOS, and NT when I'm using VisualCafe or writing ASP). NT in its current state is marginally better than OS/2 Warp 4.0. But the reason OS/2 was reverred was because it had all the makings of being great (well.. except for SIQ). I'm suprised you don't see it written more in slashdot that while OS/2 users hated Microsoft, they really loathed IBM.
Anybody who can stand here now and say that they'd claim Win3.1 was a great little OS if OS/2 ruled the world deserves an aisle seat in hell. (:) But in many respects I can see that OS/2 would have been bad for the industry (although not as bad as Microsoft has been) because IBM would ruthlessly impose their intellectual property ideas on everyone just like MS and IBM wouldn't be backing linux. But at least there wouldn't have been market dominance in applications and operating systems by the same company.
Besides all this, the spirit of slashdot is about sharing information. Freedom of knowledge, building a better world through a community of ideas.
What sort of a wanker would post on slashdot and then goes off searching for a lawsuit?
I've been waiting for a post like this for ages...
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... so I could ask:
<i>"Does anybody know what happened to the tv-series Nowhere Man?"</i>
And does anybody have scripts to stuff after they finished making the movie? I think it was an incredible series (in the style of The Fugative) - I didn't see it all because it got axed from production just when it was getting really amazingly good (he was beginning to work out who he was..)
Is there any good fan fiction on it? Pllleaaase answer me back on this!:)
The Australian government hasn't banned online gambling. In fact a Senate select committee is currently looking into the issue.
The sentimaents of the committee chain (Ferris) and Communications Minister (Alston) at the moment seem to be that you can't kill the internet, so we should do it better than everyone else. In coming months we should get a framework with a high emphasis on consumer protection. At the moment there is a limit to what online casinos can be allowed, but this is part of a trial only.
Come to Adelaide! We've got the bandwidth, cheap hosting, low labour costs, a world class bomb-proof data-centre and some of the best cs courses in the country.;)
I didn't agree with your sentiments. The problem is not Aboriginals as such, but entrenched urban poverty. Aboriginal issues are beaten around as a politial football. In South Australia we have a far left Labor Senator (Bolkus) who has built his career on making ethnic people scared and pretending to be their saviour. ("There are people out there who are going to hurt you, but stick with me, because I can protect you", etc). ATSIC itself is a really ineffective platform, because it is rigidly factionalised, and run for the political and financial gain of many of its bureaucrats. You should see the remote beach shacks the army has been made to build for some of the leaders as 'side jobs' to their work installing legitimate housing facilities up North. Nevertheless, unless something is done about entrenched poverty, poor education and health in disaffected, predominantly Aboriginal populations, it can only get worse. All will be labelled as useless as a group and it will be virtually impossible for any Aboriginal Australian to to get the opportunities needed to have a successful life. Thus their circumstances will perpetuate hatred toward their people.
But yes, the whole situation is pretty fucked. We're all paying for the sins of people who died a long time ago.
Just to deal with the issue of mandatory sentencing (not that you gave a view on it, but I just want to say this): this is another political football. Mandatory sentencing has been proven to have no positive effect on crime statistics. It has been rought in on the "Old women shouldn't feel threatened in their homes" line despite the fact that old women in their home are statistically less likely to be a victim of crime than any other element in society, and despite the fact that mondatory sentaning does nothing to decrease crime.
Living in Adelaide means I'm somewhat shielded compared to other parts of the country. Your experiences do sound pretty awful.
You know, there was a time when I had some faith in moderation. This marks the absolute end to that time. Would somebody pleaes put an extra filter onto the set up page to allow us to ignore any comment moderated (5, Insightful), please?
Write javascript to take the original premises of the universe, and then calculate them out again. It could prbably be brought down into quite a small recursive algorithm. Get it to reintrerpret the universe, etc.
I'm not sure if that wuold be browser compliant though. I'm predicting a few memory problems with this.
Easy. Like I say, my syntax is completely wrong (I ad a beer at breakfast and it's screwing with me and I can'tbe bothererd looking it up - I've even used a response.write - naughty, naughty) but you get the idea. You can do an entire website like this. Then you can pass the value of the page in from a hidden form in each page's source. (treat each link button as a submit)
I'm an Australian with an interest in the web meets politics. Obviously, when designing a webpage, it is much easier to put on it stuff you want people to see than the stuff they want to see. But because it isn't a projected media, to have any impact at all, you have to give people what they want to see. This is frequently very little glitz and lots of certain types of content. When I go to a site, I want to know what electorate I am in, who my candidates are, neat summaries of them, ways to find out more about them (or the 'good' ones according to that site at any rate), links to other parties (seriously), policy positions, and papers they've written on things issues concerning them. How do you coordinate finding out what people want to see? Do you have focus groups, or are the design team just a bunch of savvy people? (Of course the third option is that you fail, but I can't see you owning up to this:) )
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Hey - that's not stealing, it's family.
I would much prefer a 50% MacOS/50% Windows home market with an almost non-existant Linux, for the sake of competition compared to the 90%Windows/9%Mac/1%Linux (or whatever the real stats are) with the false hope that Linux is a Windows-killer. Well it isn't and it may never be.
No way! What would he sort of people who read slashdot use? It would be far far worse, because you'd have 100% of the community in substandard operating systmes instad of the 95-ish% you have now. And you'd have even less hope for exit form the situation than you do now.
The clone makers (Power Computing in particular) were embarrassing Apple by selling faster machines at much lower prices.
Well of course he had a reason, just not a good one. At that point Apple returned to being a company which prioritised keeping their customers locked into closd formats ahead of producing the best products.
Apple are about closed systems first and good products if they can be bothered. I have little faith in them porting Mac OSX to intel, and I don't see their OS bringing any benefits to ayone not currently using Mac OS. OS X is a catch up product. They're using eye candy to try to pretend it's more, but in the near future, Windows will alawys have better applications support, and Be and linux will both be better at everything else.
OK, but its the problem with that the click boxes themselves, or the way dickhead programmers make them come up at every moment. "Are you sure you want to go to a newline", etc.
I agree about the alertboxes coming up with default focus. I use netscape on Sunrays on Solaris at uni, and it really pisses me off that I have to use the mouse to position over a popup when they rarely do come up. (it pisses me off I have to use the mouse at all - it shouldn't be necessary for 90% of stuff).
The problem is that windows has created a culture of using popups at inappropriate times when status bar alerts or... something (anything!) else would be preferable.
Write it to a log file and I'LL call YOU!
>The army is disorganized and poorly
>trained and not worth a dime. <br>
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What sort of crap is this, and how does it invalidate what the parent post said? Iraq's <i>army</i> drawfs the entire population of severla countries, irrespective of the incorrect description of the army size given above. Iraq is not in any way a small country.<br>
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That the Swiss could beat them is extremely contenious. In what terrain? The Swiss are defensive. Their defence system is set up to utilise the landscape, etc, etc, etc. I'm not sure they'd last long in the deserts of Arabia. Iraq stood up to Iran, who were pretty damn well equippped for years.<br>
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As for you question about ranson being used on the data haven, I think it's unlikely. The people at the forefront of that sort of industry would be crazy to blow their opportunities for cheap political gain - it's worth too much. but even if they did the market would provide a solution. Alternatives would pop up, etc, etc, etc<br>
Does anyone on slashdot *like* anything (besides linux)? I am seriously asking. I almost never hear anyone on slashdot say good things about movies. And not all of these movies are bad.
:) ).
I seem to remember everybody thinking Austin Powers II rocked (just off the top of my head, I saw your comment, thought that, posted it
Dibs in on naplm in the evening! Together we can leverage the world into submission
:p )
MWUhahahahaha
(And damn you for beating us to to nmorn
To my knowledge, Compaq OS/2 was bundled with the software pack bundled with high-end x86 (as much as x86 can be high end, particularly for a company like Digital) servers. So on the CD, you get this special flavour of NT4, a few Unixs, Netware, VMS and 'Compaq' OS/2.
Pathworks... as far as I know... was an X-Client and some related utilities.
Can't somebody in the know please just dump the source in a slashdot post, or get it tabled in parliament somewhere or something?
Given that most of the OS/2 sites are dead, where can I go to get this information?
Well I was a die-hard OS/2 user, and I always thought OS/2 sucked, but it sucked a lot less than any offering out at the time. (I now use Linux and BeOS, and NT when I'm using VisualCafe or writing ASP). NT in its current state is marginally better than OS/2 Warp 4.0. But the reason OS/2 was reverred was because it had all the makings of being great (well.. except for SIQ). I'm suprised you don't see it written more in slashdot that while OS/2 users hated Microsoft, they really loathed IBM.
:)
Anybody who can stand here now and say that they'd claim Win3.1 was a great little OS if OS/2 ruled the world deserves an aisle seat in hell. (
But in many respects I can see that OS/2 would have been bad for the industry (although not as bad as Microsoft has been) because IBM would ruthlessly impose their intellectual property ideas on everyone just like MS and IBM wouldn't be backing linux. But at least there wouldn't have been market dominance in applications and operating systems by the same company.
So there.
Besides all this, the spirit of slashdot is about sharing information. Freedom of knowledge, building a better world through a community of ideas.
What sort of a wanker would post on slashdot and then goes off searching for a lawsuit?
... so I could ask:
:)
<i>"Does anybody know what happened to the tv-series Nowhere Man?"</i>
And does anybody have scripts to stuff after they finished making the movie? I think it was an incredible series (in the style of The Fugative) - I didn't see it all because it got axed from production just when it was getting really amazingly good (he was beginning to work out who he was..)
Is there any good fan fiction on it? Pllleaaase answer me back on this!
I would have emailed this to you... but for obvious reasons can't :)
.sig source (your creation? - I want to be able to reference it :) )
What's the
The Australian government hasn't banned online gambling. In fact a Senate select committee is currently looking into the issue.
The sentimaents of the committee chain (Ferris) and Communications Minister (Alston) at the moment seem to be that you can't kill the internet, so we should do it better than everyone else. In coming months we should get a framework with a high emphasis on consumer protection. At the moment there is a limit to what online casinos can be allowed, but this is part of a trial only.
hehehe
;)
Come to Adelaide! We've got the bandwidth, cheap hosting, low labour costs, a world class bomb-proof data-centre and some of the best cs courses in the country.
We apologise for Neighbours. (It's not as though anybody watches it here anyway)
I didn't agree with your sentiments. The problem is not Aboriginals as such, but entrenched urban poverty. Aboriginal issues are beaten around as a politial football. In South Australia we have a far left Labor Senator (Bolkus) who has built his career on making ethnic people scared and pretending to be their saviour. ("There are people out there who are going to hurt you, but stick with me, because I can protect you", etc). ATSIC itself is a really ineffective platform, because it is rigidly factionalised, and run for the political and financial gain of many of its bureaucrats. You should see the remote beach shacks the army has been made to build for some of the leaders as 'side jobs' to their work installing legitimate housing facilities up North. Nevertheless, unless something is done about entrenched poverty, poor education and health in disaffected, predominantly Aboriginal populations, it can only get worse. All will be labelled as useless as a group and it will be virtually impossible for any Aboriginal Australian to to get the opportunities needed to have a successful life. Thus their circumstances will perpetuate hatred toward their people.
But yes, the whole situation is pretty fucked. We're all paying for the sins of people who died a long time ago.
Just to deal with the issue of mandatory sentencing (not that you gave a view on it, but I just want to say this): this is another political football. Mandatory sentencing has been proven to have no positive effect on crime statistics. It has been rought in on the "Old women shouldn't feel threatened in their homes" line despite the fact that old women in their home are statistically less likely to be a victim of crime than any other element in society, and despite the fact that mondatory sentaning does nothing to decrease crime.
Living in Adelaide means I'm somewhat shielded compared to other parts of the country. Your experiences do sound pretty awful.
You know, there was a time when I had some faith in moderation. This marks the absolute end to that time. Would somebody pleaes put an extra filter onto the set up page to allow us to ignore any comment moderated (5, Insightful), please?
And I a Lenonist... of the McCartneyist variety...
if he were also a microserf the test could be in real trouble
...I'd have knoen that there was no server side scripting allowed.
Write javascript to take the original premises of the universe, and then calculate them out again. It could prbably be brought down into quite a small recursive algorithm. Get it to reintrerpret the universe, etc.
I'm not sure if that wuold be browser compliant though. I'm predicting a few memory problems with this.
>The size component of the judging will be done by examining
>the files which sit on the server, not the browser's rendering of
>those files.
Just do it in asp and use a database. My syntax is completely wrong but you can get the idea (I've used [{}] instead of greater than/lessthans)
{% option explicit
dim page = request(page)
adodb.open(databasename)
adodb.command = "select source from database where page = " + page
%}
{html}
{% response.write(adodb.execute) %}
{/html}
{% delete adodb %}
Easy. Like I say, my syntax is completely wrong (I ad a beer at breakfast and it's screwing with me and I can'tbe bothererd looking it up - I've even used a response.write - naughty, naughty) but you get the idea. You can do an entire website like this. Then you can pass the value of the page in from a hidden form in each page's source. (treat each link button as a submit)
I'm an Australian with an interest in the web meets politics. Obviously, when designing a webpage, it is much easier to put on it stuff you want people to see than the stuff they want to see. But because it isn't a projected media, to have any impact at all, you have to give people what they want to see. This is frequently very little glitz and lots of certain types of content. When I go to a site, I want to know what electorate I am in, who my candidates are, neat summaries of them, ways to find out more about them (or the 'good' ones according to that site at any rate), links to other parties (seriously), policy positions, and papers they've written on things issues concerning them. How do you coordinate finding out what people want to see? Do you have focus groups, or are the design team just a bunch of savvy people? (Of course the third option is that you fail, but I can't see you owning up to this :) )