For less than the cost of a single Porsche Boxter car (and they're only about $64,900 ), you can buy a Universal Auto Lockout kit and a tennis ball that can get you all the cars you could ever want and then some *and* lets you play with old school cars. No juggling or losing keys , it's all just there.
Why would I want to participate in the for-pay Car economy when the pirate experience is far superior?
Not in Liverpool. Looking at the women on dating sites for this city is like looking at a freak show. Seriously.
Hahah, that was really funny. I lived in Liverpool for 4 years (I know, I am sorry too) and they really are that ugly and fat.
I heard once that the reason of that is that there used to be a lot of incestuous relations and offsprings due to poor uneducated families during the "industrial revolution.
Although I got very fond memories from my time there, I have to agree that the "natives" are really shitty. If you spend a saturday-morning (around 1:00 am) walking around the city center you can see all the worst of UK binge-drinking culture.
BASIC is good only for teaching the "programmers mindset" in how to reason and think with code. The language itself does nothing but teach you terribly bad habits that will plague your code if you use anything else.
The language itself (at least, the most current implementations) do not force you to use those bad habits. Teachers are the ones who will teach to bad habits.
Even when I was programming in BASIC the function "GOSUB" was there to "structure" your code into subroutines. Nowadays, you have Subs and Functions for that.
I also don't understand why people don't like BASIC (why the basicsucks tag?).
It was a really neat language to learn programming and you could program a lot of stuff in a very simple straightforward way. I did several games and programs (including a bibliography manager for my father who had like 20,000 reference cards!).
My "learning path" was LOGO -> BASIC -> C/C++/Assembler->Java->etc Interestingly, nowadays I returned to a "breed" of logo doing agent-based simulations.
I just put my monitor-setting-up xrandr command into a script and assign it run after X starts up and viola. xrandr is so simple, that if you don't like it, just unplug your keyboard you pansy mouse lover. Avoiding the terminal in a *NIX is like going to an amusement park and avoiding all the rides. If you're here to play the quarter toss, we appreciate your patronage but you're not our target demographic.
That's all well and good if you enjoy fiddling with commands and config files... just to get your multiple monitor setup to work... until the next upgrade which will break your current setup (and you will have to fiddle again with your config files).
The rest of us just right-click, properties and "extend desktop to this monitor". And continue doing our job (at least on one monitor, on the other we are reading slashdot)
Got an idea for a better mousetrap? Build it and see if it really is better. Talk is cheap and action speaks louder than words.
I completely agree with this. A very straightforward example that ideas are mostly worthless, is the Wii (or in general game development).
I am a homebrew developer (in my very few spare time). I have had lots of ideas for games, interfaces, gameplay, etc. during all the years I have spent programming (about 16 now). However, the ideas have absolutely no value if you do not realize them.
Just have a look at the gamedev forums and see how many people want to start a new "best game project ever" with one or other idea they get.
To quote Edison, "Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration". That is, the idea is just the first tiny part of your invention, the real work is on realizing it.
It's possible. "Extremely cheap, convenient, and worry-free" can beat "Free, hard to find, and worried-about-malware-and-getting-sued".
The funny thing is that if you know what you are doing, the last "issues" you list are non-issues. And specifically, "hard to find" is more of an issue when you are trying to buy some stuff. Say, try buying online "No Temas X la Paz" from Especimen or "Zona Muerta" from Transmetal. It is not possible, whereas you can find them on eMule or bitTorrent.
Google has to pay the cost for maintaining servers and handling bandwidth for all the OS updates they push out. The more efficient they are in this process, the more money the save.
The good news is that the same benefits could be applied to Red Hat, Ubuntu, openSUSE, etc. Lower costs helps the profitability of companies trying to make a profit on Linux.
The end users also see benefits in that their packages download quicker. I'd be honestly pretty disappointed in any major distro that doesn't start implementing a binary diff solution around this.
Open source Binary diff/patch tools have been available for a while. However, the majority of the stupid Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, etc) keep sending me hundreds of Megabites for each *update* I do, because they send the whole programs to reinstall (on top of the others). That is not an "update" that is a reinstallation!
I will be very very happy with OneNote Live. I have used OneNote in my University and found it really nice. However given that OneNote doesn't "do" anything concrete related to the work I am doing, it is not possible to get it (buy, install) in my current work:( and all the open source wannabes are terrible in comparison (don't flame me, I use KmyMoney for booking and it is the best!).
.but you wouldn't think so looking through some of these comments. Office works real well with MOSS (Paid version of SharePoint) [$7,325]; which works real nice on a Active Directory and SQL Server [ $5,232 ]; which is only realistic on Windows Server$2,586 ]. When I say works well, I mean your grandmother could get it running.
(prices, links and emphasis mine)
Which means that to make use of the "new features" provided by a $252 product, you need to pay more than $15,000 !
And of course, in 5 years you will have to pay 15,000 more because the products you bought won't have support.
. for software that really isn't needed these days. Other than a one-off printed letter, what place does a word processing document have in today's world of Wikis and such?
I know you got a funny mod, but what you just said is completely out of reality.
The majority of people in several non-exact sciences (social sciences e.g.) use (1) Word, to write their articles and (2) Powerpoint to provide their presentations.
Moreover, trying to make such scientists to learn the "Wiki-language" is stupid. I am in a project where the guy in charge of IT created a "web portal" (PloneCMS) for interaction (between all the members of the project). Although he provided a wiki, forum, plone-html article(with the dead easy FCKEditor), etc. The "interaction" between researchers has been reduced to exchange of emails (sometimes with.DOC files) and uploading the "final" documents in PDF or DOC format.
That is the reality happening in more than 80% (PFMAss) of the "productive" population...
View -> Arrange By -> Conversation on OLK2003 is essentially the same as GMail mode, for example.
I use Outlook every day in my work (and I have it open right now). I did what you indicated and the "conversation" view does not look *anything* like Google's view.
For one, the messages I sent are not displayed (as they are "saved" in the SentItems folder), second, the messages from the same "conversation" are in shown in a flat list (i.e. wihtout bleeding). Moreover, you can not order by any other column once you choose "conversation" view. In summary, it sucks.
I think current OpenOffice functionality is on par with Microsoft Office 97.
Someone should really do a hand in hand comparison (maybe Microsoft should pay someone to compare OO.o 3 with MS Office 97?)
Not trying to troll here, A good review of changes between Word 2000 and 2003 can be seen here. It may be a good starting point to see if OO 3.0 has all the "new features" of Office2003, or maybe Office 2000[pdfwarning]
However, I find it difficult that any of the parties (the Open Source community or Microsoft) could do an objective comparison between the two.
I mean, they do it for Windows (I've not gone past XP yet, dunno if they do it for Vista).
Can someone say if this is possible or not? I am also interested. Although I am a happy XP user (and will be for the forseable future), my father bought a new laptop with Vista and his main pet peeve is "everything is different" than before (XP).
Godo to know, however I have an Asus and is really good.
Also, although it is the same company manufacturing the laptops, the quality of the end product is affected by the price the different OEMs are willing to pay. That is why there is still a difference between say, Acer and Lenovo equipment.
There is one very important thing that Java has (and C# doesn't) in my opinion:
- A free reference implementation. - THOUSANDS if not millions of Open libraries available (for ANY kind of task that you want to do)
On my 6 years of Comp.Sci. research I have looked at different (scientific) libraries available. Almost all of them are written in Java (or C++) and are available for free.
In general, the feeling I have from the people who write applications in.NET is a feeling of closeness.
I like C# a lot, I worked with it (in a production environment) when it was just starting (.NET 1) and since then it has progressed quite a lot. However, I still prefer Java or C++/QT4 whenever possible.
Dell's netbooks are overpriced anyway. Seriously, I went shopping for one recently and their netbooks seemed crazy expensive compared to asus, acer, et. al.
I do not know about Dell, but Acer machines have the fame of being completely craptastic. I stopped using/trusting Acer computer after having to provide service to 486Dx which had very crappy cases that seemed more like bad quality lego's. Or the other "stylish" black computers which were a completely piece of shit. I think Acer lack of quality may be only surpassed by that of Sony (which, may not be as bad due to quality but more because of the use of al lthose close formats)
Is this just smoke and mirrors. From what I have read this is Linux with a custom GUI on the front end.
Which is exactly what will make it better than any current Linux distributions. As long as the windowing system sucks a bit less than X11, we should be very happy!
Slashdot Mirror
No gracias!
whoops... seems I am late in the car analogy queue!
For less than the cost of a single Porsche Boxter car (and they're only about $64,900 ), you can buy a Universal Auto Lockout kit and a tennis ball that can get you all the cars you could ever want and then some *and* lets you play with old school cars. No juggling or losing keys , it's all just there.
Why would I want to participate in the for-pay Car economy when the pirate experience is far superior?
Not in Liverpool. Looking at the women on dating sites for this city is like looking at a freak show. Seriously.
Hahah, that was really funny. I lived in Liverpool for 4 years (I know, I am sorry too) and they really are that ugly and fat.
I heard once that the reason of that is that there used to be a lot of incestuous relations and offsprings due to poor uneducated families during the "industrial revolution.
Although I got very fond memories from my time there, I have to agree that the "natives" are really shitty. If you spend a saturday-morning (around 1:00 am) walking around the city center you can see all the worst of UK binge-drinking culture.
Not to mention the Liverpool gangs!
BASIC is good only for teaching the "programmers mindset" in how to reason and think with code. The language itself does nothing but teach you terribly bad habits that will plague your code if you use anything else.
The language itself (at least, the most current implementations) do not force you to use those bad habits. Teachers are the ones who will teach to bad habits.
Even when I was programming in BASIC the function "GOSUB" was there to "structure" your code into subroutines. Nowadays, you have Subs and Functions for that.
I also don't understand why people don't like BASIC (why the basicsucks tag?).
It was a really neat language to learn programming and you could program a lot of stuff in a very simple straightforward way. I did several games and programs (including a bibliography manager for my father who had like 20,000 reference cards!).
My "learning path" was LOGO -> BASIC -> C/C++/Assembler->Java->etc
Interestingly, nowadays I returned to a "breed" of logo doing agent-based simulations.
But basic will always get a piece of my heart.
the sound implementation in Windows Vista
What part of that din't you understand?
I just put my monitor-setting-up xrandr command into a script and assign it run after X starts up and viola. xrandr is so simple, that if you don't like it, just unplug your keyboard you pansy mouse lover.
Avoiding the terminal in a *NIX is like going to an amusement park and avoiding all the rides. If you're here to play the quarter toss, we appreciate your patronage but you're not our target demographic.
That's all well and good if you enjoy fiddling with commands and config files... just to get your multiple monitor setup to work... until the next upgrade which will break your current setup (and you will have to fiddle again with your config files).
The rest of us just right-click, properties and "extend desktop to this monitor". And continue doing our job (at least on one monitor, on the other we are reading slashdot)
Got an idea for a better mousetrap? Build it and see if it really is better. Talk is cheap and action speaks louder than words.
I completely agree with this. A very straightforward example that ideas are mostly worthless, is the Wii (or in general game development).
I am a homebrew developer (in my very few spare time). I have had lots of ideas for games, interfaces, gameplay, etc. during all the years I have spent programming (about 16 now). However, the ideas have absolutely no value if you do not realize them.
Just have a look at the gamedev forums and see how many people want to start a new "best game project ever" with one or other idea they get.
To quote Edison, "Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration". That is, the idea is just the first tiny part of your invention, the real work is on realizing it.
It's possible. "Extremely cheap, convenient, and worry-free" can beat "Free, hard to find, and worried-about-malware-and-getting-sued".
The funny thing is that if you know what you are doing, the last "issues" you list are non-issues. And specifically, "hard to find" is more of an issue when you are trying to buy some stuff. Say, try buying online "No Temas X la Paz" from Especimen or "Zona Muerta" from Transmetal. It is not possible, whereas you can find them on eMule or bitTorrent.
Google has to pay the cost for maintaining servers and handling bandwidth for all the OS updates they push out. The more efficient they are in this process, the more money the save.
The good news is that the same benefits could be applied to Red Hat, Ubuntu, openSUSE, etc. Lower costs helps the profitability of companies trying to make a profit on Linux.
The end users also see benefits in that their packages download quicker. I'd be honestly pretty disappointed in any major distro that doesn't start implementing a binary diff solution around this.
Open source Binary diff/patch tools have been available for a while. However, the majority of the stupid Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, etc) keep sending me hundreds of Megabites for each *update* I do, because they send the whole programs to reinstall (on top of the others). That is not an "update" that is a reinstallation!
Who woke up the mummies?
OneNote 2007 plus SharePoint
I will be very very happy with OneNote Live. I have used OneNote in my University and found it really nice. However given that OneNote doesn't "do" anything concrete related to the work I am doing, it is not possible to get it (buy, install) in my current work :( and all the open source wannabes are terrible in comparison (don't flame me, I use KmyMoney for booking and it is the best!).
.but you wouldn't think so looking through some of these comments. Office works real well with MOSS (Paid version of SharePoint) [$7,325]; which works real nice on a Active Directory and SQL Server [ $5,232 ]; which is only realistic on Windows Server $2,586 ]. When I say works well, I mean your grandmother could get it running.
(prices, links and emphasis mine)
Which means that to make use of the "new features" provided by a $252 product, you need to pay more than $15,000 !
And of course, in 5 years you will have to pay 15,000 more because the products you bought won't have support.
Welcome to the wonderful world of Office.
Really wonderful for Microsoft if you ask me :)
. for software that really isn't needed these days. Other than a one-off printed letter, what place does a word processing document have in today's world of Wikis and such?
I know you got a funny mod, but what you just said is completely out of reality.
The majority of people in several non-exact sciences (social sciences e.g.) use (1) Word, to write their articles and (2) Powerpoint to provide their presentations.
Moreover, trying to make such scientists to learn the "Wiki-language" is stupid. I am in a project where the guy in charge of IT created a "web portal" (PloneCMS) for interaction (between all the members of the project). Although he provided a wiki, forum, plone-html article(with the dead easy FCKEditor), etc. The "interaction" between researchers has been reduced to exchange of emails (sometimes with .DOC files) and uploading the "final" documents in PDF or DOC format.
That is the reality happening in more than 80% (PFMAss) of the "productive" population...
View -> Arrange By -> Conversation on OLK2003 is essentially the same as GMail mode, for example.
I use Outlook every day in my work (and I have it open right now). I did what you indicated and the "conversation" view does not look *anything* like Google's view.
For one, the messages I sent are not displayed (as they are "saved" in the SentItems folder), second, the messages from the same "conversation" are in shown in a flat list (i.e. wihtout bleeding). Moreover, you can not order by any other column once you choose "conversation" view.
In summary, it sucks.
I think current OpenOffice functionality is on par with Microsoft Office 97.
Someone should really do a hand in hand comparison (maybe Microsoft should pay someone to compare OO.o 3 with MS Office 97?)
Not trying to troll here, A good review of changes between Word 2000 and 2003 can be seen here. It may be a good starting point to see if OO 3.0 has all the "new features" of Office2003, or maybe Office 2000[pdfwarning]
However, I find it difficult that any of the parties (the Open Source community or Microsoft) could do an objective comparison between the two.
I mean, they do it for Windows (I've not gone past XP yet, dunno if they do it for Vista).
Can someone say if this is possible or not? I am also interested. Although I am a happy XP user (and will be for the forseable future), my father bought a new laptop with Vista and his main pet peeve is "everything is different" than before (XP).
Godo to know, however I have an Asus and is really good.
Also, although it is the same company manufacturing the laptops, the quality of the end product is affected by the price the different OEMs are willing to pay. That is why there is still a difference between say, Acer and Lenovo equipment.
There is one very important thing that Java has (and C# doesn't) in my opinion:
- A free reference implementation.
- THOUSANDS if not millions of Open libraries available (for ANY kind of task that you want to do)
On my 6 years of Comp.Sci. research I have looked at different (scientific) libraries available. Almost all of them are written in Java (or C++) and are available for free.
In general, the feeling I have from the people who write applications in .NET is a feeling of closeness.
I like C# a lot, I worked with it (in a production environment) when it was just starting (.NET 1) and since then it has progressed quite a lot. However, I still prefer Java or C++/QT4 whenever possible.
Dell's netbooks are overpriced anyway. Seriously, I went shopping for one recently and their netbooks seemed crazy expensive compared to asus, acer, et. al.
I do not know about Dell, but Acer machines have the fame of being completely craptastic. I stopped using/trusting Acer computer after having to provide service to 486Dx which had very crappy cases that seemed more like bad quality lego's. Or the other "stylish" black computers which were a completely piece of shit. I think Acer lack of quality may be only surpassed by that of Sony (which, may not be as bad due to quality but more because of the use of al lthose close formats)
, the purveyors of the biggest, buggiest and least secure bloatware on your computer
You are thinking of Symantec.
SLASHDOT: news for people who can't concentrate on work
I took that as a personal offense sir /offtopic
Is this just smoke and mirrors. From what I have read this is Linux with a custom GUI on the front end.
Which is exactly what will make it better than any current Linux distributions. As long as the windowing system sucks a bit less than X11, we should be very happy!
btw
FP hohoho