Then fix your deadlines. Use proper planning and communication. This "drop everything now and focus on me" attitude doesn't really work well inside of companies and certainly won't work well when you want something from some else outside of your company.
I would like to say the same thing to the makers of the open source projects.
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I remember when I was looking at reviews for my first hard drive DVD recorder before I bought it. One of the reviewers gave it a low rating on Amazon and the reason was something like, "when you set it to the lowest recording quality, the video looks terrible". And I read a c-net review that said the hard drive video camera I had did not have manual settings. I have the camera myself and I used the manual focus, white balance, and everything before. Yet another reviewer on Amazon gave a 1 star rating to the new CD from one of my favorite singers. The reason for the low rating was Amazon took a long time to ship it. The moral of these stories is sometimes products get 1 and 2 star reviews because of stupid reviewers. And sometimes they get high reviews because of... stupid reviewers. But that's another story.
There are also corn syrup, trans fat, saccharin, and all of the other things private sector food producers think are okay, regardless of the health problems they produce, because they put profits first. But yes, those free parking lots are nice.
What would be really wild is if it only took the "good guys" 8 years to discover it. And all the people on Slashdot who are still bashing Windows even in the midst of this are giving themselves a big pat on the back while posting on their rootkitted Linux machines.
There is definitely a "citation needed" there. And I don't understand why you trolls manage to turn every discussion into an attack on Christians. If it were a regular Slashdot attack on Christians and I started talking about how a credit check can make it hard to get a job, I think I'd get modded "Offtopic".
They lost me with the summary. Particularly the quote, "If they don't find it in their workplace, they'll end up playing complex, 'smart' games, like Civilization IV or Chess and if they do find it in their workplace, they're more likely to sit down with a nice game of Pac-Man, Katamari Damacy, or Peggle."
With those particular clauses, the summary says, no matter what, smart people will play games in the work place. It sounds like a hypothesis of the right amount of challenge for a gamer rather than a smart person.
I'm confused. It seems like they're sending video through a firewire port but they're encrypting it to make it useless. What exactly is encrypted firewire data for? Is there some box that decrypts it? If there is, why not get one of those? If there isn't, why don't they just turn the port off completely instead of sending data through it that nobody can use?
1. My sarcasm meter is working fine. Slashdot is just not a good conductor of sarcasm.
2. If he's a troll, why didn't they mod him troll instead of flamebait?
But that wasn't why I replied the way I did. I'm just really sensitive to people replying to questions with something that isn't even an attempt at an answer. And what drives me even more crazy than that is when they reply to an answer with a link to a Google search that supposedly will return the answer. As if we're just all supposed to depend on Google instead of a forum dedicated to the subject at hand. And you got modded Informative without actually providing any information. That's something other than sarcasm.
You must be new here; on Slashdot, we are all capable of installing Linux and getting a printer working without breaking a sweat. But we won't tell you how, because learning how to do figure it out yourself that is more important that just having us tell you what to do.
Well I was considering getting a Samsung LCD television that had an ethernet port and RSS capability, and even some built-in games. The problem is, as far as I could tell from the marketing material, it would only let you pick up the USA Today RSS feed. So I'm thinking, you have a TV with an ethernet port, internet capability, and the ability to run programs and 1. you're only doing RSS and 2. you only let users choose the USA Today feed. It would be nice if I could pick up TWIT or even some video podcasts. If it has the ability to play games, why not include the Opera browser? It seems a shame to have that kind of hardware and not be able to do anything with it because Samsung made a deal with USA Today. It doesn't have to be Linux. Just an SDK and the ability to upload my own programs would have made me buy that TV.
He said they're treating the subscribers like they're Amazon subscribers instead of his subscribers. But they're Kindle users so they actually are Amazon subscribers, not Kindle subscribers. I wonder if he'd think somebody who buys a Michael Jackson song through iTunes is a Michael Jackson customer more than an Apple customer.
I personally think he wants the subscribers' contact information so he can find some way to contact them and subscribe them to his own digital service, bypassing Amazon and the Kindle. If I were making decisions for Amazon, I'd rather drop the Wall Street Journal than risk letting him steal my customers and drop me.
Who searches for "why is Windows so expensive" other than people who are religiously anti-Microsoft anyway? Can they offer some examples of skewed search results that somebody outside of Slashdot will care about?
You know, my daughters have been using the Laptop I have running Fedora 10 and they don't even know what a command line is. They mainly use it for email, Facebook, and a million other social networks that don't get the same attention. The only issue they have is apparently they have to restart regularly or Firefox gets really slow. So no you don't need the command line. You just need Firefox and need to have your entire online life exist in "the cloud".
For what it's worth, I have the Linux laptop and a Vista laptop and find the Vista one easier to maintain and use. Probably because I don't have to type in an admin password all the time and the System Restore can actually undo a driver install, instead of requiring me to reinstall Fedora because an Nvidia driver changed an xServer setting and made the system unusable. I'm sure there was a way to fix the system using the command line. But if I did that, it would kill the whole argument about not having to use the command line and it would require me to be able to see something on the screen. You know what, never mind.
Because in Vista, typing the Windows key will bring up the start menu and if you type what you're looking for, Windows Search will find it as you type. Even if it's a control panel item. Try pressing the Windows key and typing "admin" and see what shows up. Or try pressing the Windows key and typing "firewall" or "solitaire".
It's worse than that. I went to Radio Shack to get a jumper to set my hard drive to "master". After being unable to find a pack, I went to the cashier and said I needed jumpers for a hard drive and got the blank stare. After I explained what it was, he said they didn't have it. The last time I needed jumpers, the Radio Shack guy knew what they were, had them, and took me right to them. They need to change their name so people, who go to Radio Shack to find what they need, won't go there.
There are Black people who buy video games. But never mind that.
I'm not so bothered by the lack of Black people in video games. What really concerns me is the little representation I've seen is so bad. Like the Black guy in Final Fantasy, who spends most of his time cooning. And Balrog, who is big, slow, and dumb. I'd prefer a game with no Black characters rather than games that get it all wrong. The only one I can think of that isn't downright insulting is Jax. One of the problems with the generally negative portrayals if they reinforce stereotypes, just like TV shows. I guess if you're of a majority race, you never have to worry about that. But if somebody says something bad about something you care about, oh sound the alarms.
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Then fix your deadlines. Use proper planning and communication. This "drop everything now and focus on me" attitude doesn't really work well inside of companies and certainly won't work well when you want something from some else outside of your company.
I would like to say the same thing to the makers of the open source projects.
I remember when I was looking at reviews for my first hard drive DVD recorder before I bought it. One of the reviewers gave it a low rating on Amazon and the reason was something like, "when you set it to the lowest recording quality, the video looks terrible". And I read a c-net review that said the hard drive video camera I had did not have manual settings. I have the camera myself and I used the manual focus, white balance, and everything before. Yet another reviewer on Amazon gave a 1 star rating to the new CD from one of my favorite singers. The reason for the low rating was Amazon took a long time to ship it. The moral of these stories is sometimes products get 1 and 2 star reviews because of stupid reviewers. And sometimes they get high reviews because of... stupid reviewers. But that's another story.
There are also corn syrup, trans fat, saccharin, and all of the other things private sector food producers think are okay, regardless of the health problems they produce, because they put profits first. But yes, those free parking lots are nice.
I think they'd be less heinous if the cap were only activated when the network reached its capacity.
That's fine as long as there are more than one cable company in case you don't like the terms they give you. But some of us live in America.
Leave Mozilla out of this.
So why doesn't that precedent apply to sports scores?
Wouldn't (only showing people on television who are against health care for everybody) also count as shaping the perception of public opinion?
Maybe you could turn the lights off and feed it to a grue...
It has to be portrayable as a crisis of epic proportions, so they can rush in to save American pride with some epic spending.
That's exactly how I feel about saving the American auto industry...
He probably just needs a semicolon somewhere...
What would be really wild is if it only took the "good guys" 8 years to discover it. And all the people on Slashdot who are still bashing Windows even in the midst of this are giving themselves a big pat on the back while posting on their rootkitted Linux machines.
There is definitely a "citation needed" there. And I don't understand why you trolls manage to turn every discussion into an attack on Christians. If it were a regular Slashdot attack on Christians and I started talking about how a credit check can make it hard to get a job, I think I'd get modded "Offtopic".
They lost me with the summary. Particularly the quote, "If they don't find it in their workplace, they'll end up playing complex, 'smart' games, like Civilization IV or Chess and if they do find it in their workplace, they're more likely to sit down with a nice game of Pac-Man, Katamari Damacy, or Peggle."
With those particular clauses, the summary says, no matter what, smart people will play games in the work place. It sounds like a hypothesis of the right amount of challenge for a gamer rather than a smart person.
including the mark of the beast, the universal persecution of the christian faith, the single currency system... the anti-christ...
If you count a Borg head as the mark of the beast and mod points as a currency system, I think that sentence pretty much sums up Slashdot.
I'm confused. It seems like they're sending video through a firewire port but they're encrypting it to make it useless. What exactly is encrypted firewire data for? Is there some box that decrypts it? If there is, why not get one of those? If there isn't, why don't they just turn the port off completely instead of sending data through it that nobody can use?
1. My sarcasm meter is working fine. Slashdot is just not a good conductor of sarcasm.
2. If he's a troll, why didn't they mod him troll instead of flamebait?
But that wasn't why I replied the way I did. I'm just really sensitive to people replying to questions with something that isn't even an attempt at an answer. And what drives me even more crazy than that is when they reply to an answer with a link to a Google search that supposedly will return the answer. As if we're just all supposed to depend on Google instead of a forum dedicated to the subject at hand. And you got modded Informative without actually providing any information. That's something other than sarcasm.
You must be new here; on Slashdot, we are all capable of installing Linux and getting a printer working without breaking a sweat. But we won't tell you how, because learning how to do figure it out yourself that is more important that just having us tell you what to do.
In other words, you don't know either.
Well I was considering getting a Samsung LCD television that had an ethernet port and RSS capability, and even some built-in games. The problem is, as far as I could tell from the marketing material, it would only let you pick up the USA Today RSS feed. So I'm thinking, you have a TV with an ethernet port, internet capability, and the ability to run programs and 1. you're only doing RSS and 2. you only let users choose the USA Today feed. It would be nice if I could pick up TWIT or even some video podcasts. If it has the ability to play games, why not include the Opera browser? It seems a shame to have that kind of hardware and not be able to do anything with it because Samsung made a deal with USA Today. It doesn't have to be Linux. Just an SDK and the ability to upload my own programs would have made me buy that TV.
He said they're treating the subscribers like they're Amazon subscribers instead of his subscribers. But they're Kindle users so they actually are Amazon subscribers, not Kindle subscribers. I wonder if he'd think somebody who buys a Michael Jackson song through iTunes is a Michael Jackson customer more than an Apple customer.
I personally think he wants the subscribers' contact information so he can find some way to contact them and subscribe them to his own digital service, bypassing Amazon and the Kindle. If I were making decisions for Amazon, I'd rather drop the Wall Street Journal than risk letting him steal my customers and drop me.
Who searches for "why is Windows so expensive" other than people who are religiously anti-Microsoft anyway? Can they offer some examples of skewed search results that somebody outside of Slashdot will care about?
You know, my daughters have been using the Laptop I have running Fedora 10 and they don't even know what a command line is. They mainly use it for email, Facebook, and a million other social networks that don't get the same attention. The only issue they have is apparently they have to restart regularly or Firefox gets really slow. So no you don't need the command line. You just need Firefox and need to have your entire online life exist in "the cloud".
For what it's worth, I have the Linux laptop and a Vista laptop and find the Vista one easier to maintain and use. Probably because I don't have to type in an admin password all the time and the System Restore can actually undo a driver install, instead of requiring me to reinstall Fedora because an Nvidia driver changed an xServer setting and made the system unusable. I'm sure there was a way to fix the system using the command line. But if I did that, it would kill the whole argument about not having to use the command line and it would require me to be able to see something on the screen. You know what, never mind.
How about "press the Windows key and type..."?
Because in Vista, typing the Windows key will bring up the start menu and if you type what you're looking for, Windows Search will find it as you type. Even if it's a control panel item. Try pressing the Windows key and typing "admin" and see what shows up. Or try pressing the Windows key and typing "firewall" or "solitaire".
It's worse than that. I went to Radio Shack to get a jumper to set my hard drive to "master". After being unable to find a pack, I went to the cashier and said I needed jumpers for a hard drive and got the blank stare. After I explained what it was, he said they didn't have it. The last time I needed jumpers, the Radio Shack guy knew what they were, had them, and took me right to them. They need to change their name so people, who go to Radio Shack to find what they need, won't go there.
There are Black people who buy video games. But never mind that.
I'm not so bothered by the lack of Black people in video games. What really concerns me is the little representation I've seen is so bad. Like the Black guy in Final Fantasy, who spends most of his time cooning. And Balrog, who is big, slow, and dumb. I'd prefer a game with no Black characters rather than games that get it all wrong. The only one I can think of that isn't downright insulting is Jax. One of the problems with the generally negative portrayals if they reinforce stereotypes, just like TV shows. I guess if you're of a majority race, you never have to worry about that. But if somebody says something bad about something you care about, oh sound the alarms.