Everyone knows that in the business model, faster, better and cheaper are corners of a triangle, and you can only be at one point in that triangle. If you move towards one of them, you move away from the other two. That's why "faster, better, cheaper" was not just overambitious, but fundamentally flawed.
That's why if you make something faster and cheaper, you don't get the better; when your fast and your cheap are at maximum, you're as far away from your good as you can be.
New printers? I've got an HP printer that's more than two years old and it's still quite capable of printing out a photo on photo paper at good enough quality to put in an album. People might as well just buy old ones on ebay and let the gullible people buy the new ones and pay a lot for the cartridges.
I think it's fair to say that the intelligence histogram will give a fair number of "uninformed" users in the Windows OS, simply because a new PC user is less likely to go for a Mac than an x86-compatible. Probably a Dell. And how many x86 PCs come preinstalled with Linux? So your average Joe is probably going to be running some form of Windows, and if you aim it at XP Home you're probably going to hit a lot of people who don't have a clue. Aim it at MacOS and most users will have the gumption not to open emails providing them with free pron... I hope.
Quite. The only reason these things are directed at Windows is because a) There are so damned many Windows users and b) The majority of stupid computer users will use Windows.
People keep picking up on his comment that an ID to a screen is no longer relevant. They then proceed to tell the rest of/. that screens do, in fact, have IDs, and it's in the title bar of the window.
Surely these people can't have noticed that that's exactly what he said?
I think the point he is getting at is that in a GUI system like Windows, you can have several "screens" open at once, and they can overlap and be switched between at random, usually. Thus there is no perceivable screen flow in Windows; your browser window does not logically follow on from your word processor window, and so the idea of giving the screens sensible IDs becomes replaced with the idea of giving windows sensible names.
The fact that the webpage has the capacity to alter the title of the browser window has completely bypassed everyone's attention? The uniqueness of the URL is happenstance; the actual guideline is something that should be implemented by people, not something that emerges from the system to be relied upon. So if the guideline is going to actually be a guideline (i.e. it can voluntarily be disregarded) then it more applies to whether or not the webpage sets a useful title in the browser window or not.
Doing rm *.jpg would first require you to navigate to the directory containing the JPG files. Also it would omit.jpeg files which, I admit, is a rare occurrence (it only really applies to JPG and HTM files). But an action like
cd "c:\My Documents\My Pictures\France 2004\Argent" del *.jpg del *.jpeg
is much slower than pressing Start-E, browsing down to the folder, doing sort by type and shift-clicking the range you want, then hitting delete...
Maybe Google can be the backbone of Internet 2, so when the TCPA finally imposes its fascist ways on us, we can forget those companies and turn to Google instead.
Did anyone play the Alien mod for the original Doom? The first level of that had no meetings with any enemies at all, but it had their sounds, through the walls. That was atmosphere.
Half Life 2 had interactive cutscenes. Did no one notice?
Did we not spend ages waiting for Alyx to get back? A time in which we were chatted to by others, and we got to fiddle with things in the office.
Personally, I was highly impressed by the way the guy said "Wait" and I actually waited for a while; not so long I got bored, and not so short a time that it was obvious he didn't really mean wait. Was that not an interactive cutscene?
It used to be practically impossible to get a decent signal inside the actual screen because of jamming, but you could often get a signal in the lobby.
That was back in the days when mobiles had little aerials and rubbish reception anyway. These days, the network connections seem to be a lot hardier. I couldn't lose even one bar of connection on a new Nokia when I put it inside an earthed metal box, so the whole jamming system is no longer particularly effective.
The lynch-mob system of angry patrons descending on inconsiderate chavs, however, works a treat.
I'll write them one in PHP and MySQL. Sure it won' t be very secure, but this is a branch of the US Government, so they either won't notice or won't care.
You are suggesting something that the government and the business world cannot fathom. You are suggesting that there be a true free market. Not one regulated by a single entity handing out slices like it was the last piece of pie on earth?
Yeah! Like the Internet! That's a free-for-all, and look where that got us!
Slashdot Mirror
Everyone knows that in the business model, faster, better and cheaper are corners of a triangle, and you can only be at one point in that triangle. If you move towards one of them, you move away from the other two. That's why "faster, better, cheaper" was not just overambitious, but fundamentally flawed.
That's why if you make something faster and cheaper, you don't get the better; when your fast and your cheap are at maximum, you're as far away from your good as you can be.
New printers? I've got an HP printer that's more than two years old and it's still quite capable of printing out a photo on photo paper at good enough quality to put in an album. People might as well just buy old ones on ebay and let the gullible people buy the new ones and pay a lot for the cartridges.
Is USians short for United Statians?
I think it's fair to say that the intelligence histogram will give a fair number of "uninformed" users in the Windows OS, simply because a new PC user is less likely to go for a Mac than an x86-compatible. Probably a Dell. And how many x86 PCs come preinstalled with Linux? So your average Joe is probably going to be running some form of Windows, and if you aim it at XP Home you're probably going to hit a lot of people who don't have a clue. Aim it at MacOS and most users will have the gumption not to open emails providing them with free pron... I hope.
Quite. The only reason these things are directed at Windows is because a) There are so damned many Windows users and b) The majority of stupid computer users will use Windows.
People keep picking up on his comment that an ID to a screen is no longer relevant. They then proceed to tell the rest of /. that screens do, in fact, have IDs, and it's in the title bar of the window.
Surely these people can't have noticed that that's exactly what he said?
I think the point he is getting at is that in a GUI system like Windows, you can have several "screens" open at once, and they can overlap and be switched between at random, usually. Thus there is no perceivable screen flow in Windows; your browser window does not logically follow on from your word processor window, and so the idea of giving the screens sensible IDs becomes replaced with the idea of giving windows sensible names.
The fact that the webpage has the capacity to alter the title of the browser window has completely bypassed everyone's attention? The uniqueness of the URL is happenstance; the actual guideline is something that should be implemented by people, not something that emerges from the system to be relied upon. So if the guideline is going to actually be a guideline (i.e. it can voluntarily be disregarded) then it more applies to whether or not the webpage sets a useful title in the browser window or not.
What's the Orange book? Can I get one? I'm young, you see.
is much slower than pressing Start-E, browsing down to the folder, doing sort by type and shift-clicking the range you want, then hitting delete...
They found it atlassed!
See what I did there?
And $13,000 is only half that in sterling, anyway. Still, it's two years of education paid for if you win.
I did too. I was sort of hoping they'd stabilised the resonance cascade and changed history, but no, I have to keep playing.
Maybe Google can be the backbone of Internet 2, so when the TCPA finally imposes its fascist ways on us, we can forget those companies and turn to Google instead.
Did anyone play the Alien mod for the original Doom? The first level of that had no meetings with any enemies at all, but it had their sounds, through the walls. That was atmosphere.
Half Life 2 had interactive cutscenes. Did no one notice?
Did we not spend ages waiting for Alyx to get back? A time in which we were chatted to by others, and we got to fiddle with things in the office.
Personally, I was highly impressed by the way the guy said "Wait" and I actually waited for a while; not so long I got bored, and not so short a time that it was obvious he didn't really mean wait. Was that not an interactive cutscene?
It used to be practically impossible to get a decent signal inside the actual screen because of jamming, but you could often get a signal in the lobby.
That was back in the days when mobiles had little aerials and rubbish reception anyway. These days, the network connections seem to be a lot hardier. I couldn't lose even one bar of connection on a new Nokia when I put it inside an earthed metal box, so the whole jamming system is no longer particularly effective.
The lynch-mob system of angry patrons descending on inconsiderate chavs, however, works a treat.
Whem I'm rich I'm gonna build the Space Elevator. What's gonna be fun is that it won't be built in America! pwned.
I'm selling shares now.
So big whoop, BitTorrent relies on the trackers and the trackers get shut down sometimes.
That's what this is for
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4149647.stm
Damn you, Slashdot. You win this time.
I think we broke mysql...
The table above lists software companies meeting two criteria:
1) I consider their products spyware, [yadda, yadda, llama, llama, duck]
2) They have received major financial investments.
Is that, they meet both? And are they receiving investments from the spyware companies, or for the spyware itself from non-spyware companies?
Just a question, not a dig or anything.
Why wait for someone else to DDOS when you're in the army of slashdotters?
I'll buy that for a dollar!
No more, mind.
I'll write them one in PHP and MySQL. Sure it won' t be very secure, but this is a branch of the US Government, so they either won't notice or won't care.
You are suggesting something that the government and the business world cannot fathom. You are suggesting that there be a true free market. Not one regulated by a single entity handing out slices like it was the last piece of pie on earth?
Yeah! Like the Internet! That's a free-for-all, and look where that got us!
Oh, yeah, that's right. A whole new era.
Newsflash! FCC to make complete U-Turn and allow any Tom, Dick or Harry to broadcast whatever they want, whenever they want!
Interest: 70%
Anticipated... ness: 99%
Grounding in reality: -30%