This is my first Slashdot comment in I don't even know how long. You, sir or madam, have it exactly correct. Even Apple's "failures" (the funky-looking iMac that took a lot of jokes is a prime example) were really sold by the company and never treated as second-rate.
I hope that now that Steve is gone, the company continues to be as decisive as it has been, I think if they put the brakes on, they might lose a lot of what makes them Apple.
Evil Overlord List #15: I will never employ any device with a digital countdown. If I find that such a device is absolutely unavoidable, I will set it to activate when the counter reaches 117 and the hero is just putting his plan into operation.
Where did you get your info for point 2? I couldn't find any corroboration of that on TomTom's site, and the reviews I read said they hadn't listed any pricing for updates yet? I'd consider getting the app if it were true, that's a pretty good deal compared to the hardware device.
I kind of disagree with you here. I think having to have a "valid" reason to vote gets a bit complex - who gets to decide valid reasons? You?
What about reasons like "I believe he's secretly a terrorist" or "I think he is a moslem"? People have actually expressed that about Obama, and base their voting on it! I don't think that's a valid reason either, but I'm not going to deny people their right to vote based on it.
That's an interesting argument, and I can see your point. One issue I could see with it though is that for serious crimes like murder or child pornography, the cop might be more willing to violate the constitution to catch the person... assuming they're guilty.
This could lead to lots of cases of cops violating the constitution with an "ends justify the means" mentality, unless we also put some pretty harsh punishment on violating rights.
Really, I think we'd end up with just as many people locked up as we have now, only half of them would be cops who decided it was worth it to push their luck.
Even if your attack for #2 worked (which according to a post at the same level as mine, it does not), the article stated that the officer then immediately went into the program's "Gallery Mode", presumably to, ah, "confirm" that the files were what they said they were...
I think what you're actually predicting is a quick slide toward totalitarianism. You know, like the U.S.S.R. really was, despite their claims otherwise.
When you claim that something like that was "Socialism", you miss out on any positive aspects of socialism. Pretty much every government mixes elements of capitalism and socialism, so I would say you're painting with too broad a brush.
A guy I knew jaywalked in front of a cop at one point, and the officer made an illegal U-turn and caused an accident getting to him to give him the ticket for it.
I realize I'm a bit late here and you probably don't care anymore, but on a fresh install of Ubuntu, if you go to video.google.com, Firefox detects that you don't have the flash plugin.
It then uses the Ubuntu integration to suggest the proper package (and nspluginwrapper if you're on a 64-bit system), uses your package manager to download and install it, and tells you to restart firefox.
This process has never failed for me.
How, exactly, is this "unavailable?"
(Note: If you go to Youtube instead of video.google.com, they have a stupid wrapper that sends you to the flash website, even though it's actually harder to get flash if you go there. I don't know why they thought that was a good idea.)
I feel bad for you, man. Half to two-thirds of the people in this thread seem to be treating you like a troll, when in fact I found your original post to be frank, well-written, and insightful.
My original experience with trying to run Linux myself was pretty bad too. Originally I had a friend set up CentOS on a computer we shared in college, we used it as a media player in our common room. It worked really well, especially for being a Pentium III with integrated graphics.
When I set up Linux myself, though, I tried to use Debian. I approved of their Free message, and didn't like Red Hat which was the big other option at the time. I chose the Testing release, because it had more current software than Stable, but pretty soon I found myself with broken packages I was unable to upgrade. Try as I might, I couldn't recover my system into a useable state with my meager skills at the time, so I gave up on Linux.
Some might think I sound like a troll there, but I was just uninformed about how everything worked. *Obviously* I shouldn't have chosen Testing, and been more familiar with config files, and this and that and the other, but I needed a way to learn how to do it first.
A couple years later, I tried again with Ubuntu and was very impressed by their usability goals and the progress they'd made on top of the Debian install I had used. I was able to get a usable system running very easily, and then when I needed to figure something out it was easy to do with the community's strong support, plus I learned a lot about how to use Linux along the way.
I'd never have expected it two to three years ago, but now I'm even running the Hardy alpha(!) release and submitting bug reports to Launchpad. I'd call that a bit of a different experience than my first time. I'd say try Ubuntu out, especially given how easy it is to dual-boot, and see how you like it.
It's worth noting as well: Add up the (absolute value of) votes from the Republican candidates who are "out of whack" - Huckabee, McCain, Paul. Now, subtract the 31 votes for Paul that were later "found" - You get EXACTLY the number that Romney gained.
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This is my first Slashdot comment in I don't even know how long. You, sir or madam, have it exactly correct. Even Apple's "failures" (the funky-looking iMac that took a lot of jokes is a prime example) were really sold by the company and never treated as second-rate.
I hope that now that Steve is gone, the company continues to be as decisive as it has been, I think if they put the brakes on, they might lose a lot of what makes them Apple.
I know what the submitter means... I'm holding out for a HERO too.
I realize I'm late to the party here, but hey, it could be worse - he could never admit that he was right and keep doing it wrong just because.
Evil Overlord List #15: I will never employ any device with a digital countdown. If I find that such a device is absolutely unavoidable, I will set it to activate when the counter reaches 117 and the hero is just putting his plan into operation.
http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
I think this summed up that position fairly well: http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/5/1/
A perfectly valid position, too, IMNSHO
Where did you get your info for point 2? I couldn't find any corroboration of that on TomTom's site, and the reviews I read said they hadn't listed any pricing for updates yet? I'd consider getting the app if it were true, that's a pretty good deal compared to the hardware device.
mutual incomprehensibility
I'll say. That site is the least comprehensible shade of yellow I think I can imagine.
Swedish. It ranks Swedish.
*slow applause*
That, sir, is incredible.
Note to self: forward this post to people I don't like.
I kind of disagree with you here. I think having to have a "valid" reason to vote gets a bit complex - who gets to decide valid reasons? You?
What about reasons like "I believe he's secretly a terrorist" or "I think he is a moslem"? People have actually expressed that about Obama, and base their voting on it! I don't think that's a valid reason either, but I'm not going to deny people their right to vote based on it.
Even if it infuriates me to no end...
That's an interesting argument, and I can see your point. One issue I could see with it though is that for serious crimes like murder or child pornography, the cop might be more willing to violate the constitution to catch the person... assuming they're guilty.
This could lead to lots of cases of cops violating the constitution with an "ends justify the means" mentality, unless we also put some pretty harsh punishment on violating rights.
Really, I think we'd end up with just as many people locked up as we have now, only half of them would be cops who decided it was worth it to push their luck.
Even if your attack for #2 worked (which according to a post at the same level as mine, it does not), the article stated that the officer then immediately went into the program's "Gallery Mode", presumably to, ah, "confirm" that the files were what they said they were...
I think what you're actually predicting is a quick slide toward totalitarianism. You know, like the U.S.S.R. really was, despite their claims otherwise.
When you claim that something like that was "Socialism", you miss out on any positive aspects of socialism. Pretty much every government mixes elements of capitalism and socialism, so I would say you're painting with too broad a brush.
A guy I knew jaywalked in front of a cop at one point, and the officer made an illegal U-turn and caused an accident getting to him to give him the ticket for it.
You kind of left out the whole of southern Indiana, such as Clark and Floyd counties which border Louisville, KY.
I grew up there, and we certainly did use DST.
You don't think he's got violence and hatred?
Better watch this again:
Aldrin Punch!
Of course, I think that's more awesome than "full of hate" but that may just be me.
I realize I'm a bit late here and you probably don't care anymore, but on a fresh install of Ubuntu, if you go to video.google.com, Firefox detects that you don't have the flash plugin.
It then uses the Ubuntu integration to suggest the proper package (and nspluginwrapper if you're on a 64-bit system), uses your package manager to download and install it, and tells you to restart firefox.
This process has never failed for me.
How, exactly, is this "unavailable?"
(Note: If you go to Youtube instead of video.google.com, they have a stupid wrapper that sends you to the flash website, even though it's actually harder to get flash if you go there. I don't know why they thought that was a good idea.)
Fortunately, The Internet has a solution to your problem already.
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-limiting-user-process.html
Tells you how to use limits.conf on your system to prevent other developers from doing what I did >_>
Unfortunately not, but it's my own fault. I didn't expand the comment above yours, so I thought you were just posting a cool bash trick...
try this in bash: :(){ :|:& };:
Well, there went OUR central development server.
Damn you, curiosity.
I feel bad for you, man. Half to two-thirds of the people in this thread seem to be treating you like a troll, when in fact I found your original post to be frank, well-written, and insightful.
My original experience with trying to run Linux myself was pretty bad too. Originally I had a friend set up CentOS on a computer we shared in college, we used it as a media player in our common room. It worked really well, especially for being a Pentium III with integrated graphics.
When I set up Linux myself, though, I tried to use Debian. I approved of their Free message, and didn't like Red Hat which was the big other option at the time. I chose the Testing release, because it had more current software than Stable, but pretty soon I found myself with broken packages I was unable to upgrade. Try as I might, I couldn't recover my system into a useable state with my meager skills at the time, so I gave up on Linux.
Some might think I sound like a troll there, but I was just uninformed about how everything worked. *Obviously* I shouldn't have chosen Testing, and been more familiar with config files, and this and that and the other, but I needed a way to learn how to do it first.
A couple years later, I tried again with Ubuntu and was very impressed by their usability goals and the progress they'd made on top of the Debian install I had used. I was able to get a usable system running very easily, and then when I needed to figure something out it was easy to do with the community's strong support, plus I learned a lot about how to use Linux along the way.
I'd never have expected it two to three years ago, but now I'm even running the Hardy alpha(!) release and submitting bug reports to Launchpad. I'd call that a bit of a different experience than my first time. I'd say try Ubuntu out, especially given how easy it is to dual-boot, and see how you like it.
I've always considered the Thermaltake Armor series (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133020) to be the ultimate in computer-case overkill.
Seven available 3.5 drive bays, with several more available via 5.25->3.5 converters. Plenty of fans to keep everything cool, too, and decent airflow.
It's worth noting as well: Add up the (absolute value of) votes from the Republican candidates who are "out of whack" - Huckabee, McCain, Paul. Now, subtract the 31 votes for Paul that were later "found" - You get EXACTLY the number that Romney gained.
Questionable? I think so.
I just might show up to that... I'll have to join in the group