Microsoft has to compete with Sony on the game console market, IBM on the business computing market, Google on the search market, Mac and Linux and BSD and Sun and everybody else for the operating system market...Microsoft is starting to resemble a mammoth being circled into a tar pit by a pack on wolves: any one wolf would be a snack for the mammoth, but there's so many of them that the mammoth just charges around ineffectively.
The Roman Empire was done in not by an equal country, but by small bands of invading hordes. And perhaps the rules of political empires apply to technology empires, too.
They are yours. Not mine, not ours, not everybody's.
Well, let's stear clear of the obvious philosophical debate - I believe that there are such things as morals that exist universally. I believe that gambling, in and of itself (*casino* gambling, as opposed to you and your buddies at home playing cards with even stakes. Addictive gambling.) is deleterious to the human individual as well as to society. But then - surpri-i-ise! - those are MY beliefs, and not worth a tinker's cuss to you.
I already said the nanny state was the worst of the two evils (talk about deleterious to society!), you're with me there?
Oh, all right, sounds like you're getting all serious on me. What pray tell, need we consider that causes such grave tones? *Waving firmly goodbye to the topic for another post*
Aaaaaw, did we wun out of our widdle mod points???? Better go back and meta-moderate some more, I don't think you've earned enough, yet.
Incidentally, I was giving you the benefit of the doubt until you insulted my ability to read. Then I was ready to dismiss you as a garden-variety asshole until you started throwing your hissy with the mod points. Now that I know what a complete shit you truly are, I will tell you something that I've never said to a Slashdotter before: I will remember YOU. I'm making a promise to myself to carry a grudge.
I'm ashamed to say that I don't know as much about PHP as I should.
I have learned just last week that the best way to learn PHP is to suddenly become a webmaster hosted on a Linux server using various installed content-management tools like b2evolution or WordPress for blogging and Coppermine for image gallery. You will simply be *thrust* into PHP with no second option. In fact, my host has something like 50 tools available to use and I think only 3 of them aren't PHP.
Call it geek-fatigue, but the thing that's starting to bug me is that no matter how many languages you learn, IT'S NEVER ENOUGH. I know/have worked in something like 20 languages in my lifetime, and still, every time I try to tackle some new task, all I knew before is comepletely useless. No, I have to learn a special language just for *that* job. And I suppose by the end of this year, styles will change and they'll decend a new language from AJAX or somedamnthing and I'll *never* have a use for PHP again! When did "programming language" come to == "Kleenex"?
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Of course, you choose what to see and what not to see. Incidentally, I never have to use a commandline on Linux if I don't want to. It's just that there is no GUI in the world where you can download an HTML file and remove the tags, spellcheck the text, produce word-count statistics, bundle the results with the file, archive and compress it, and mail it to your business partner in a single step.
how close are Linux distros to being to that level
Three words for you: Damn Small Linux I have a copy and it almost is that easy. I think I had to answer about three questions, and one of them was to choose a password. Of course it's a tiny distro, but for your average script-bait user who just needs to surf the web and play a CD, it's perfect. In fact, it does make for a complete distro, as long as you don't want to do anything crazy like program something. Puppy Linux is another one. Puppy is well-known for being user-friendly; it comes with a whole menu of wizards which explain everything very clearly. To do *anything* in Puppy is three steps or less. Something I don't think people realize is that even a 50 MB Linux distro, which is considered 'tiny' in the Linux world, has more stuff on it than a Windows disk (in terms of usable features and programs).
Well, I'll be darned. Exactly like I pictured it. It could stand to be brighter, unless the phto's just underexposed. The site talks about it like it's not out yet, wonder if it's vaporware?
OK, I wasn't talking about even-stakes gambling between two friends. (-: I am of course talking about "betting against the house" type gambling, where people waste their whole lives (I have two inlaws who have literally done this from childhood to their present 70's, they are working themselves into a grave because they still have nothing, but never miss a lottery ticket, a bingo game, or a dog race. They HATE me because I have a mind, even though that mind is going to be supporting them with it's paycheck before long. But I digress into my personal problems.) chasing the Big Win against the house odds set against them.
I don't know if you're going to parse this, but live in Las Vegas for awhile (as I did for career reasons) and you will soon grow sick of just how stupid a casino nearby makes people. Gambling teaches people to have no morals or standards and to strive for nothing, because the slot machine rewards the industrious and the slothful alike. Gambling - at least casino gambling - makes people dumb.
When you get good at math, you see how stupid it is and quit gambling, and the gambling industry hates that. So anywhere where there's a casino, you can bet schools will be closed down, libraries will be bulldozed, bars and strip clubs and more casinos will take their place, and the wage level will drop to burger-flipping levels even as the cost of living meets a Silicon Valley level. You think Microsoft is bad and it is, but you haven't seen FUD until a casino PR-guy talks to a local politician.
But poker games among friends are a different matter. That's just a skill game, and it may be convenient to keep score with money.
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Man I'm not even of the faith and I know how to do a Bible search, and in fact own one paper edition. I can't believe it when I see the ball go back and forth 30 times over whether or not something's written in there...it's OK, back down, I'm laughing with you, not at you. (-:
But it doesn't have a good, easy way to enter data.
I always thought maybe you could do this with some kind of virtual-reality setup. gloves with sensors on them, and the cell phone has a light which will project a keyboard onto any flat surface. Sensors in the fingers of the gloves detect which key (different colors/intensities of light for each key + motion sensors in the gloves?). Hey, it might even look *cool* to have a hologram keyboard.
I would love it anyway, just because Billy doesn't. Yeah, sure, they're marketing their new Origami for $599 to $999, with an outside chance to come as low as $500. Of COURSE he's going to FUD MIT's laptop. Because at this rate, it has a chance to hang his ass dry.
And a PS to all the flaming idiots I've dealt with 9 billion times over the MIT laptop: before you post your reply, buy a fish. Name it "Life". So you'll have one.
As a moral and intellectual being, I of course loathe gambling with a passion. But as a geek, I love Internet freedom with an equal passion. I'm kind of wavering, but I think the freedom card trumps.
Yes, I'll fight to the death for people's right to waste their lives in the most pathetic way possible. Gah, that sucked.
PS to our Australian readers: "root" here in the US has a meaning "cheer on, encourage, hope for", as in "rooting for the home team". I saw the funny comments to the title of this post coming a mile away.
We're in fact seeing a rapid pace of technology development - I could wave my hand at the past 20 Slashdot news stories alone for an example. It's strange to hear this coming from IBM, who has become so friendly to Open Source these past few years. If the innovation in software isn't coming from Open Source these days, it ain't coming from nowhere.
I want the desktop apps I write to be "as efficient and speedy as possible". I want the web-apps I write to be "as efficient and speedy as possible"
Aye, there's the nut of the matter. The development tools that they give to their users should be just as good as the ones that they use themselves! But once again we have the Microsoft feifdom: "You're not good enough to use *real* tools. You're a stupid ape! We're going to keep you in a box and feed you scraps!" - they might as well print it right on the box.
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The Roman Empire was done in not by an equal country, but by small bands of invading hordes. And perhaps the rules of political empires apply to technology empires, too.
Well, let's stear clear of the obvious philosophical debate - I believe that there are such things as morals that exist universally. I believe that gambling, in and of itself (*casino* gambling, as opposed to you and your buddies at home playing cards with even stakes. Addictive gambling.) is deleterious to the human individual as well as to society. But then - surpri-i-ise! - those are MY beliefs, and not worth a tinker's cuss to you.
I already said the nanny state was the worst of the two evils (talk about deleterious to society!), you're with me there?
Oh, all right, sounds like you're getting all serious on me. What pray tell, need we consider that causes such grave tones? *Waving firmly goodbye to the topic for another post*
but did everybody on Digg think PHP is a new hip-hop group?
Incidentally, I was giving you the benefit of the doubt until you insulted my ability to read. Then I was ready to dismiss you as a garden-variety asshole until you started throwing your hissy with the mod points. Now that I know what a complete shit you truly are, I will tell you something that I've never said to a Slashdotter before: I will remember YOU. I'm making a promise to myself to carry a grudge.
Whereas yours sounds like you've never taken anything BUT a civics and a microeconomics course (Ooooooh, was MACROeconomics too sca-a-ary?).
Sweetheart, 20 years ago he would have been bragging. *Now* he's just trying to KEEP UP. (Notes lack of Python or Ruby) and he's losing!
Perl: Take every programming language you know now. Mix them all together. That's Perl. No, not the functionality, just the syntax.
I have learned just last week that the best way to learn PHP is to suddenly become a webmaster hosted on a Linux server using various installed content-management tools like b2evolution or WordPress for blogging and Coppermine for image gallery. You will simply be *thrust* into PHP with no second option. In fact, my host has something like 50 tools available to use and I think only 3 of them aren't PHP.
Call it geek-fatigue, but the thing that's starting to bug me is that no matter how many languages you learn, IT'S NEVER ENOUGH. I know/have worked in something like 20 languages in my lifetime, and still, every time I try to tackle some new task, all I knew before is comepletely useless. No, I have to learn a special language just for *that* job. And I suppose by the end of this year, styles will change and they'll decend a new language from AJAX or somedamnthing and I'll *never* have a use for PHP again! When did "programming language" come to == "Kleenex"?
here Of course, you choose what to see and what not to see. Incidentally, I never have to use a commandline on Linux if I don't want to. It's just that there is no GUI in the world where you can download an HTML file and remove the tags, spellcheck the text, produce word-count statistics, bundle the results with the file, archive and compress it, and mail it to your business partner in a single step.
Three words for you: Damn Small Linux I have a copy and it almost is that easy. I think I had to answer about three questions, and one of them was to choose a password. Of course it's a tiny distro, but for your average script-bait user who just needs to surf the web and play a CD, it's perfect. In fact, it does make for a complete distro, as long as you don't want to do anything crazy like program something. Puppy Linux is another one. Puppy is well-known for being user-friendly; it comes with a whole menu of wizards which explain everything very clearly. To do *anything* in Puppy is three steps or less. Something I don't think people realize is that even a 50 MB Linux distro, which is considered 'tiny' in the Linux world, has more stuff on it than a Windows disk (in terms of usable features and programs).
Well, I'll be darned. Exactly like I pictured it. It could stand to be brighter, unless the phto's just underexposed. The site talks about it like it's not out yet, wonder if it's vaporware?
Only after the Internet refused his check.
OK, I wasn't talking about even-stakes gambling between two friends. (-: I am of course talking about "betting against the house" type gambling, where people waste their whole lives (I have two inlaws who have literally done this from childhood to their present 70's, they are working themselves into a grave because they still have nothing, but never miss a lottery ticket, a bingo game, or a dog race. They HATE me because I have a mind, even though that mind is going to be supporting them with it's paycheck before long. But I digress into my personal problems.) chasing the Big Win against the house odds set against them.
I don't know if you're going to parse this, but live in Las Vegas for awhile (as I did for career reasons) and you will soon grow sick of just how stupid a casino nearby makes people. Gambling teaches people to have no morals or standards and to strive for nothing, because the slot machine rewards the industrious and the slothful alike. Gambling - at least casino gambling - makes people dumb.
When you get good at math, you see how stupid it is and quit gambling, and the gambling industry hates that. So anywhere where there's a casino, you can bet schools will be closed down, libraries will be bulldozed, bars and strip clubs and more casinos will take their place, and the wage level will drop to burger-flipping levels even as the cost of living meets a Silicon Valley level. You think Microsoft is bad and it is, but you haven't seen FUD until a casino PR-guy talks to a local politician.
But poker games among friends are a different matter. That's just a skill game, and it may be convenient to keep score with money.
here Man I'm not even of the faith and I know how to do a Bible search, and in fact own one paper edition. I can't believe it when I see the ball go back and forth 30 times over whether or not something's written in there...it's OK, back down, I'm laughing with you, not at you. (-:
His effort is the $599-$999 Origami gizmo. Let's see here, what would be Billy motive in spreading FUD? Hmmmmmm...
I always thought maybe you could do this with some kind of virtual-reality setup. gloves with sensors on them, and the cell phone has a light which will project a keyboard onto any flat surface. Sensors in the fingers of the gloves detect which key (different colors/intensities of light for each key + motion sensors in the gloves?). Hey, it might even look *cool* to have a hologram keyboard.
That's my wacky idea, group mind. Your thoughts?
And a PS to all the flaming idiots I've dealt with 9 billion times over the MIT laptop: before you post your reply, buy a fish. Name it "Life". So you'll have one.
Yes, I'll fight to the death for people's right to waste their lives in the most pathetic way possible. Gah, that sucked.
PS to our Australian readers: "root" here in the US has a meaning "cheer on, encourage, hope for", as in "rooting for the home team". I saw the funny comments to the title of this post coming a mile away.
We're in fact seeing a rapid pace of technology development - I could wave my hand at the past 20 Slashdot news stories alone for an example. It's strange to hear this coming from IBM, who has become so friendly to Open Source these past few years. If the innovation in software isn't coming from Open Source these days, it ain't coming from nowhere.
Aye, there's the nut of the matter. The development tools that they give to their users should be just as good as the ones that they use themselves! But once again we have the Microsoft feifdom: "You're not good enough to use *real* tools. You're a stupid ape! We're going to keep you in a box and feed you scraps!" - they might as well print it right on the box.
Do android sheep dream of electronics?
the weenie who lost an argument to me will now spend the final mod point on this post, and i win the karma race again!
the weenie who lost an argument to me has two mod points left to spend.
the weenie who lost an argument to me has three mod points left to spend.