Kind of like a bus, but without the inconvenience of timetables.
For me, the attraction of private car over public transport is flexibility. I used to catch the train to work. Driving into the CBD is insane, aggravating. Catching the train you acn read a book, maybe sleep, code if there's room to get the laptop out. BUT : If I left my house before 8:00 am, trains were about 5 minutes apart. If I missed the one I aimed for, no biggy, I was 5 minutes later than expected. Thing is, it's a 40 minute ride from my station to work, I don't need to be there till 9, so I don't wanna leave that early. But once you miss the 8:12 train, the next one is 8:24. Miss that, it's 8:44. Then every 30 minutes after that.
10-15 minutes late leaving your house can translate into 30 minutes late for work. And if you happen to need to change trains, or combine bus and train, you are leaving even earlier.
Now I work a 15 minute drive from home. I leave at 7:50 for an 8:10 start. But to catch public transport, I have to catch two different buses, and to be here by 8:10 I actually have to leave my house before 7am.
I'm a firm believer in the principle of public transport, but the practicality is often too painful. A method that gives the safety and relaxed mode of public transport with the flexibility and convenience of private, that would be a winner for me.
Well said. Seriously,/.ers can be a horribly cynical bunch. Clearly too many had their youthful dreams crushed from a young age so they want to pour cold water on anyone else's.
People who think Mac stuff is designed for idiots are generally in positions where they don't regularly have to support laypeople trying to use a highly complex and over complicated piece of equipment (ie a computer) just to get simple tasks done.
The average person is too computer illiterate to use windows, Word or a two button mouse. A car has a million less buttons, dials, readouts and controls than a 747. You could put heaps more stuff in a car, but you don't. Because to drive a car, you don't need all that other stuff.
A win/*nix computer on the other hand, has all that other complicated stuff, and makes it available to everyone. Why have it? It just makes my job more complicated. People don't want to fly a 747, they want to drive a car. They generally don't even want a manual, they want auto. Give everyone one button, give them the Simple Finder and show them only the four applications they need, and let them cahnge the desktop picture. That's all they want, really. The rest just confuses them.
That's garbage though. Look at the value of the computer game industry, and subtract that from the music industry. 25 years ago, only spoilt rich kids had computers (commodore 64!!). Most of the rest of us spent our spare cash on music and movies and stuff
40 years ago nobody had a computer, and most people spent their money on music and movies.
Look at the effect of computer gaming on your discretionary spending - Xbox/PS2 in Aus costs 300 odd dollars. Thats 10+ CDs you didn't buy. Each game costs 50-80, that's another 2-4 CDs. Multiply that by the number of people who have a game console....that's where the music industry's money went
I am Christian and I agree that you shouldn't be expected to follow Christian morals. The rise of religious conservatism in western politics isn't based on anything Jesus taught necessarily, but on manipulation of Christians by conservative politics.
Until 40 years ago Christians could be found on both sides, arguing for and against segregation, personal freedom, slavery, gender equity, etc. The religious right could often be found on the side of the political left.
The teachings of Jesus haven't changed, but somehow the voice of Christianity appears to have. In the last few decades the political right has succeeded in manipulating opinion, and generating votes and power for itself by working conservative Christians a lot better than the left does.
Millions of progressive Christians believe in personal choice and liberty. We've just lost our voice in politics.
Pfft don't blame everything on Christianity. Buddhism rejects drug use, prostitution and 'weird sex' too. It's about rising above the animal urge and embracing the spiritual.
The power hungry thing that you have going on with religious conservatives shouldn't be blamed on Jesus, he never legislated anything.
Don't forget that there is a whole other hemisphere who are in winter when the US is in Summer. Doing business with Australia, Africa, South America (and antarctica I guess:P) means that regardless of synchronisation with the EU, you are still gonna have to juggle stuff
misremembered and paraphrased from Ben Elton's Gridlock
Flexi time was introduced to stagger start and finish times to help address peak hour traffic issues. The consequence of that is that peak hour traffic problems now start at 6am and run all day
What kind of a country is this where you can get a knee-jerk reaction against anything by calling it "American-style"?
That would be pretty much every country in the world. Reflexive adoration is just as much a knee jerk reaction as rejecting it automatically.
Some people in Australia think America is the centre of the universe, others despise the influence it has on what little is left of our culture. Other countries are the same, with variances one way or another. The only thing you can't do with American-style is ignore it.
Unfortunately.
I was thinking that he's actually done the Creative Commons movement a service. After all, anything he touts as the next big thing generally disappears into oblivion soon afterwards, so dismissing it as irrelevant is surely some kind of guarantee of success.
No it wasn't, some things stand the test of time and are still good now, some things you try them out now and wonder what on earth you saw in it when you were young.
Go back and watch old Muppets episodes. They were good, and still are.
Nope you haven't lost your edge. The Muppet Show had independence, and cleverness, the guests weren't there spruiking their latest movie or album, they were just there to entertain.
This however is just selling movies. The characters weren't in character, they did cheap trouser gags instead of clever kids humour.
Crap
there have been no less than four new releases (Fedora Core 1 through 4) since then.
fedora isn't suitable for production, for anyone who is paid to keep a network stable and secure. You might be thinking of RH Enterprise, V 4 came out in feb?
It's a little better integrated, but it still looks ugly but functional. That's been mentioned before.
The real problem as far as I can see is that on my 1GHz G4 PB with 768M Ram, I still have time to make a coffee and cook a pizza between clicking the NeoOffice icon and actually starting to do anything. Once it does start it still feels sluggish on dialogues and saves and stuff.
I realise that's not a cutting edge machine, but everything else including Photoshop is slick and responsive on it. I can have iTunes playing, bbEdit, Photoshop and Firefox to do web dev, thunderbird checking mail, apache/mysql running underneath, and the machine is comfortably responsive.
Or I can have just NeoOffice running, and still be mildly frustrated at the lag
I went to the SAGE-AU conference in Australia a few years ago, and there was a surprising number of unix types with iBooks and the occasional Ti. A friend of mine went last year, and he said there were like half of them. *nix admins that can have whatever they like are regularly going to OSX
Song lyrics are useful too :
TaLWSATGiG
There's a Lady Who's Sure, All That Glitters is Gold
Usually gives you mixed case too, if you treat it like a title (ie minor words like is as the etc are lower case)
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The only people I've heard say 'sequel' instead of 'ess-cue-ell' are MS devs and techs
Haha damn, that is great. I'm sorry, I just used up my mod points :(
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Kind of like a bus, but without the inconvenience of timetables.
For me, the attraction of private car over public transport is flexibility. I used to catch the train to work. Driving into the CBD is insane, aggravating. Catching the train you acn read a book, maybe sleep, code if there's room to get the laptop out. BUT : If I left my house before 8:00 am, trains were about 5 minutes apart. If I missed the one I aimed for, no biggy, I was 5 minutes later than expected. Thing is, it's a 40 minute ride from my station to work, I don't need to be there till 9, so I don't wanna leave that early. But once you miss the 8:12 train, the next one is 8:24. Miss that, it's 8:44. Then every 30 minutes after that.
10-15 minutes late leaving your house can translate into 30 minutes late for work. And if you happen to need to change trains, or combine bus and train, you are leaving even earlier.
Now I work a 15 minute drive from home. I leave at 7:50 for an 8:10 start. But to catch public transport, I have to catch two different buses, and to be here by 8:10 I actually have to leave my house before 7am.
I'm a firm believer in the principle of public transport, but the practicality is often too painful. A method that gives the safety and relaxed mode of public transport with the flexibility and convenience of private, that would be a winner for me.
Well said. Seriously, /.ers can be a horribly cynical bunch. Clearly too many had their youthful dreams crushed from a young age so they want to pour cold water on anyone else's.
Hmm, was that message Double Rot13 encrypted? If that's the case, I fear I have violated the DMCA by reading it.
Thankyou! I wish I had a mod point to give you.
People who think Mac stuff is designed for idiots are generally in positions where they don't regularly have to support laypeople trying to use a highly complex and over complicated piece of equipment (ie a computer) just to get simple tasks done.
The average person is too computer illiterate to use windows, Word or a two button mouse. A car has a million less buttons, dials, readouts and controls than a 747. You could put heaps more stuff in a car, but you don't. Because to drive a car, you don't need all that other stuff.
A win/*nix computer on the other hand, has all that other complicated stuff, and makes it available to everyone. Why have it? It just makes my job more complicated. People don't want to fly a 747, they want to drive a car. They generally don't even want a manual, they want auto. Give everyone one button, give them the Simple Finder and show them only the four applications they need, and let them cahnge the desktop picture. That's all they want, really. The rest just confuses them.
That's garbage though. Look at the value of the computer game industry, and subtract that from the music industry. 25 years ago, only spoilt rich kids had computers (commodore 64!!). Most of the rest of us spent our spare cash on music and movies and stuff
40 years ago nobody had a computer, and most people spent their money on music and movies.
Look at the effect of computer gaming on your discretionary spending - Xbox/PS2 in Aus costs 300 odd dollars. Thats 10+ CDs you didn't buy. Each game costs 50-80, that's another 2-4 CDs. Multiply that by the number of people who have a game console....that's where the music industry's money wentI am Christian and I agree that you shouldn't be expected to follow Christian morals. The rise of religious conservatism in western politics isn't based on anything Jesus taught necessarily, but on manipulation of Christians by conservative politics. Until 40 years ago Christians could be found on both sides, arguing for and against segregation, personal freedom, slavery, gender equity, etc. The religious right could often be found on the side of the political left. The teachings of Jesus haven't changed, but somehow the voice of Christianity appears to have. In the last few decades the political right has succeeded in manipulating opinion, and generating votes and power for itself by working conservative Christians a lot better than the left does. Millions of progressive Christians believe in personal choice and liberty. We've just lost our voice in politics.
Pfft don't blame everything on Christianity. Buddhism rejects drug use, prostitution and 'weird sex' too. It's about rising above the animal urge and embracing the spiritual. The power hungry thing that you have going on with religious conservatives shouldn't be blamed on Jesus, he never legislated anything.
Don't forget that there is a whole other hemisphere who are in winter when the US is in Summer. Doing business with Australia, Africa, South America (and antarctica I guess :P) means that regardless of synchronisation with the EU, you are still gonna have to juggle stuff
misremembered and paraphrased from Ben Elton's Gridlock
Flexi time was introduced to stagger start and finish times to help address peak hour traffic issues. The consequence of that is that peak hour traffic problems now start at 6am and run all day
What kind of a country is this where you can get a knee-jerk reaction against anything by calling it "American-style"? That would be pretty much every country in the world. Reflexive adoration is just as much a knee jerk reaction as rejecting it automatically. Some people in Australia think America is the centre of the universe, others despise the influence it has on what little is left of our culture. Other countries are the same, with variances one way or another. The only thing you can't do with American-style is ignore it. Unfortunately.
I was thinking that he's actually done the Creative Commons movement a service. After all, anything he touts as the next big thing generally disappears into oblivion soon afterwards, so dismissing it as irrelevant is surely some kind of guarantee of success.
Damn I wish I had mod points, that's awesome
Or possibly : I only have 5 iPods, you insensitive clod.
your childhood was not all it's cracked up to be
No it wasn't, some things stand the test of time and are still good now, some things you try them out now and wonder what on earth you saw in it when you were young. Go back and watch old Muppets episodes. They were good, and still are.
Nope you haven't lost your edge. The Muppet Show had independence, and cleverness, the guests weren't there spruiking their latest movie or album, they were just there to entertain. This however is just selling movies. The characters weren't in character, they did cheap trouser gags instead of clever kids humour. Crap
there have been no less than four new releases (Fedora Core 1 through 4) since then. fedora isn't suitable for production, for anyone who is paid to keep a network stable and secure. You might be thinking of RH Enterprise, V 4 came out in feb?
And using your amazing profits on your monopoly area to offset losses in another arena is called?
It's a little better integrated, but it still looks ugly but functional. That's been mentioned before. The real problem as far as I can see is that on my 1GHz G4 PB with 768M Ram, I still have time to make a coffee and cook a pizza between clicking the NeoOffice icon and actually starting to do anything. Once it does start it still feels sluggish on dialogues and saves and stuff. I realise that's not a cutting edge machine, but everything else including Photoshop is slick and responsive on it. I can have iTunes playing, bbEdit, Photoshop and Firefox to do web dev, thunderbird checking mail, apache/mysql running underneath, and the machine is comfortably responsive. Or I can have just NeoOffice running, and still be mildly frustrated at the lag
I went to the SAGE-AU conference in Australia a few years ago, and there was a surprising number of unix types with iBooks and the occasional Ti. A friend of mine went last year, and he said there were like half of them. *nix admins that can have whatever they like are regularly going to OSX
OOOhh look! Something shiny!
Song lyrics are useful too : TaLWSATGiG There's a Lady Who's Sure, All That Glitters is Gold Usually gives you mixed case too, if you treat it like a title (ie minor words like is as the etc are lower case)
That's not real 3d though, you are still only moving in 2d space. Try Elite, released in 1984, full movement in 3 dimensions!