... I was hoping it would be called "Harry Potter and the Back Alley Abortion."
Seriously, why do people keep on reading this stuff?:: goes and pre orders five copies-- one for self, one for wife, one for sister, one for children, one for mother::
... demand that all measurements in such articles be given in more standard units. When will people start thinking of those of us measure the sizes of our apartments in Square Libraries of Congress?
Kidding aside, this is an informative article... possibly the first such that I have seen on Slashdot since I joined.
That's my first reaction. Second reaction is... shouldn't Google be pushing anything but Internet Explorer to its customers? A certain browser named after a certain bushy animal comes to mind.
Clearly, the US military now officially has its spending priorities correct. Who gives a damn about winning the bloody war, or setting Iraq's forces straight so that they don't get knocked up like cheap hookers every time they set foot outside their barracks?
No-- this is more important by far. The Pentagon really does need to be fighting a press war with hairy-assed, unemployed bloggers operating out of their mothers' basements. They also need more lobbyists and politicians on their payroll, because if they don't win the war for the US, nothing else can.
Agree with you 100%. Just downloaded it and have been playing around with it for the last 20 minutes or so. First, the bad:
Confusing interface to start with
Doesn't quite fit in with the rest of XP.
The organization nightmare you can pretty much sidestep by simply hitting "Organize By Song"-- it'll just revert to what is basically the WMP10 organization scheme that we've all come to love and/or hate. The GUI problem is understandable, given that I am running XP in classic mode. I'll give it this though: it'll look hella cool once you run it inside the vista mothership. Mind you, that doesn't make the startup trainwreck any better. MS could have done a much better job there.
After the initial shock though, the nice things start to make themselves evident. The search is oh so responsive-- finally, it's up to par with itunes "show results as you type" deal. I haven't worked too much with setting up successive filters (I'm only a few minutes into the acclimatization process), but it looks like if you click on the library category (album, song, genre etc), and then start typing in the search box, results are organized by the category in question. Cool... it may actually be better in terms of search flexibility than iTunes. The privacy options appear to be better than 10, although given the DRM crap that is lurking under the surface, I don't know if the privacy options are just a whitewash (any privacy experts care to weigh in?). The application itself feels infinitely faster and more responsive than 10 ever was-- especially when it's recovering to window mode from the taskbar "mini" mode.
I'm a qualified fan at this stage-- I'll use WMP11 for audio organization, but VLC will remain my primary video viewing app.
The signal is going directly into mythtv box before going to the TV. Therefore, the system has access to the cable line signal before the TV has a chance to renormalize the signal. This in turn makes the volume monitoring technique feasible.
I'm sure they'll find other work. I hear there are plenty of burgers out there that need flipping. The fact that most of them will be unable to find work doing anything else should tell you plenty about how worthless they are at actually adding value to the economy.
-1 Troll? Indeed. But the fact of the matter is that people are being forced out of their chosen industry all the time... It's happened before, and it will happen again in the future. "But people will lose jobs" should never be considered a valid argument against a superior technology.
Preaching to the choir here... I got a free ride to a very good undergrad school. I finsihed a couple of years back, and am still bemused by (and eternally thankful for) the fact that I don't have any student loans.
Even so, there are a lot of cases where it's difficult to get the money together to go to a very good school. My best friend from high school got into the same school I did, but because his family earned more than mine, didn't get a very good financial aid package. The problem was that they didn't earn enough to make up the balance, and my friend was forced to go to the local state school, where the EECS department was not as good. From what I understand, it isn't an uncommon occurrence (sp?)-- people being forced to go to not-so-good schools due to financial constraints is a lamentable reality.
[[Ivy Leaguer in Happy Gilmore "I don't eat shit for breakfast" voice:]]
"Nuh uh! We don't get preferential treatment! It's an even playing field for everyone!"
That said, you can't blame Google. They're running a business built on smarts, and to find the smartest poeople, they need to go to the places with the highest concentration of talented people, which in turn implies that they need to recruit at some of the more... er... prestigious educational institutions.
Nothing wrong with that.
What is wrong is if they turn down a highly qualified candidate who couldn't afford anything more than Bumfsck Community College. I haven't heard anything like that happening at Google just yet, so I'm going to go ahead and refrain from the kneejerk "elite schools are teh suck!" comments for now.
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One word: Kentucky Fried Penguin.
Okay, so it was three. But it's still funny. Laugh, dammit!
... I was hoping it would be called "Harry Potter and the Back Alley Abortion."
:: goes and pre orders five copies-- one for self, one for wife, one for sister, one for children, one for mother ::
Seriously, why do people keep on reading this stuff?
Answer: bring back Final Fantasy to the fold. Seriously.
I believe New Jersey also passed such a franchise agreement for FiOS a couple of months back.
If the site used cookies, we would know.
... demand that all measurements in such articles be given in more standard units. When will people start thinking of those of us measure the sizes of our apartments in Square Libraries of Congress?
Kidding aside, this is an informative article... possibly the first such that I have seen on Slashdot since I joined.
"Find the power button on this computer. "
I kid you not... this one should filter out 95% of the cruft.
I stand corrected. The person above me pointed out www.google.com/firefox
What's their game? Do they even have a game (apart from expanded audience, that is).
The term "pwned" comes to mind.
That's my first reaction. Second reaction is... shouldn't Google be pushing anything but Internet Explorer to its customers? A certain browser named after a certain bushy animal comes to mind.
... we don't.
I agree. Managing strip club + hooker expenses via email/phone is simply too difficult.
Much easier to broach the subject over a friendly game of tennis.
Find one (nouveau New Zealand mammal), lose one (Chinese White Dolphin). It evens out, no? :: Goes and votes Republican ::
I kid, I kid.
So that's where Disaster Area's stunt ship crash landed...
... is now safe!
I always did want to live on Hoth. The big question, however, is whether or not we'll have tontons when the next snowball era rolls around.
"This document needs to be cleaned up to conform to wikipedia standards. Please add sources."
::Revert::
-- 3.2003 entry on Iraq weapons of mass distruction.
Intelligence officer with fief to protect: "Lame."
... don't see it, either.
Slashdotted.
Clearly, the US military now officially has its spending priorities correct. Who gives a damn about winning the bloody war, or setting Iraq's forces straight so that they don't get knocked up like cheap hookers every time they set foot outside their barracks?
No-- this is more important by far. The Pentagon really does need to be fighting a press war with hairy-assed, unemployed bloggers operating out of their mothers' basements. They also need more lobbyists and politicians on their payroll, because if they don't win the war for the US, nothing else can.
Astonishing. Just astonishing.
The organization nightmare you can pretty much sidestep by simply hitting "Organize By Song"-- it'll just revert to what is basically the WMP10 organization scheme that we've all come to love and/or hate. The GUI problem is understandable, given that I am running XP in classic mode. I'll give it this though: it'll look hella cool once you run it inside the vista mothership. Mind you, that doesn't make the startup trainwreck any better. MS could have done a much better job there.
After the initial shock though, the nice things start to make themselves evident. The search is oh so responsive-- finally, it's up to par with itunes "show results as you type" deal. I haven't worked too much with setting up successive filters (I'm only a few minutes into the acclimatization process), but it looks like if you click on the library category (album, song, genre etc), and then start typing in the search box, results are organized by the category in question. Cool... it may actually be better in terms of search flexibility than iTunes. The privacy options appear to be better than 10, although given the DRM crap that is lurking under the surface, I don't know if the privacy options are just a whitewash (any privacy experts care to weigh in?). The application itself feels infinitely faster and more responsive than 10 ever was-- especially when it's recovering to window mode from the taskbar "mini" mode.
I'm a qualified fan at this stage-- I'll use WMP11 for audio organization, but VLC will remain my primary video viewing app.
Not quite right.
The signal is going directly into mythtv box before going to the TV. Therefore, the system has access to the cable line signal before the TV has a chance to renormalize the signal. This in turn makes the volume monitoring technique feasible.
I'm sure they'll find other work. I hear there are plenty of burgers out there that need flipping. The fact that most of them will be unable to find work doing anything else should tell you plenty about how worthless they are at actually adding value to the economy.
-1 Troll? Indeed. But the fact of the matter is that people are being forced out of their chosen industry all the time... It's happened before, and it will happen again in the future. "But people will lose jobs" should never be considered a valid argument against a superior technology.
... and for an encore, he proved that black is white and went and got himself killed on the closest zebra crossing.
Preaching to the choir here... I got a free ride to a very good undergrad school. I finsihed a couple of years back, and am still bemused by (and eternally thankful for) the fact that I don't have any student loans.
Even so, there are a lot of cases where it's difficult to get the money together to go to a very good school. My best friend from high school got into the same school I did, but because his family earned more than mine, didn't get a very good financial aid package. The problem was that they didn't earn enough to make up the balance, and my friend was forced to go to the local state school, where the EECS department was not as good. From what I understand, it isn't an uncommon occurrence (sp?)-- people being forced to go to not-so-good schools due to financial constraints is a lamentable reality.
[[Ivy Leaguer in Happy Gilmore "I don't eat shit for breakfast" voice:]]
"Nuh uh! We don't get preferential treatment! It's an even playing field for everyone!"
That said, you can't blame Google. They're running a business built on smarts, and to find the smartest poeople, they need to go to the places with the highest concentration of talented people, which in turn implies that they need to recruit at some of the more... er... prestigious educational institutions.
Nothing wrong with that.
What is wrong is if they turn down a highly qualified candidate who couldn't afford anything more than Bumfsck Community College. I haven't heard anything like that happening at Google just yet, so I'm going to go ahead and refrain from the kneejerk "elite schools are teh suck!" comments for now.
Egads! An intelligent literary allusion on Slashdot!
Now I've seen everything.
Kudos... the one time I wish I had mod points, I don't have them.