In "the oldun days", computers used to come with books, instruction manuals, telling you how to use them. Nower days, OS vendors will jump through hoops to try and ensure that their users Do Not Have To Learn A God Damn Thing(tm)... and in some instances, inconsistent user interfaces actually prohibit learning (although I wouldn't call this common case). And this is the result.
I'm not suggesting people should have to know all the nuts and bolts of the internals, but I'm sure there's a middle ground so this culture of "our users are stupid, we must protect their tiny brains" can be vanquished.
(this is not limited to Apple/OSX by any means, although they do appear to me to be worse for it, this gap is closing fast)
"You may be modded funny, but to me, that's only because there isn't a "douchebag" mod"
I think the funny mod can actually be used defensively... when somebody says something, and they might be completely serious, but it's blatently obvious that it shouldn't be taken seriously, a +1 funny mod can help to set the context of which it is read:-)
Yeah, like, if instead of Microsoft, it was the government, and instead of delaying web pages for half a second, they delayed peoples access to oxygen for up to half a day, people would be outraged!! And yes, it totally is the same thing! What if, instead of just a few selected people, it was everyone who's ever been alive? Delayed oxygen for half a day? This is proof that Microsoft has killed billions of people.
"Fuck NVIDIA's proprietary and undocumented hardware!"
I do, everytime I try to run my linux drivers on it... hah, oh yes, I went there
(just kiddin, I only ever have problems with ati's drivers (windows and linux) and i've always been lucky enough to never have problems with nvidia drivers, (again, windows and linux))
Interesting read. I figured a way of measuring your eyes 'framerate' or 'refreshrate' (of course differences in brightness et al all make a difference) was to use the reverse-spinning-wheel effect. You spin a wheel, slowly increasing its rotation speed, and when you see it starting to spin backwards, you've just passed your eyes' refresh speed. Then you just need to know the rotation rate of the wheel, and of course how many spokes (or other lines of symmetry) the wheel has. Would be interesting to see the results.
"isn't that the ultimate crux of the world today?"
Most of us wanna live our lives doing what we wanna do. We wanna be programmers, teachers, doctors, artists, and running a country gets in the way of those things... so we leave it to other people to do, complain about how they do it, about how we would do things differently, but then still go back to our programming, teaching, etc, etc. Most of us want the world to be the way that we want it, but we're not willing to make the sacrifices necessary to put ourselves in a position to do anything about it, and so we're governed, as always, by those who are, or by those who had nothing else to sacrifice in order to do it.
"Some of them clearly need de-populating"
Yeah I can find something and make it sound really scary too. I'm sure the genome project was meant to have spawned a targetted virus that would've wiped out all the jews by now or something... but south park's still funny, so as far as I'm aware, that hasn't happened.
But hey, where's the fun in not imagining horrible things that could possibly happen if everything goes horribly wrong? Maybe if we blow up all the power plants we can be sure technology won't be used against us?
"otherwise it had not voted twice for the idiot bastard son"
Once. Anyway, there are actually more neurons in your gut than there are in your brain, it's true, look it up. I know many of you will say you did look it up and it's not true, well that's because you looked it up in a book. Next time try looking it up in your gut.
(although in all seriousness, second brain disovererd in stomach" has already happened... not sure if it's enough to measure in the same way to use for biometrics, eg, different people having recognisably different stomach thought patterns, so there goes my attempt at bringing my post on topic!)
"If so, why are we more tolerant of allowing our kids to see brains scattered all over the set instead of *gasp* sexual intercourse?"
Because people must be protected from being pedophiles, which, if a child finds out anything with regards to sexuality from someone*, is what that makes them, and as becoming a pedophile is a very scary thought, adults need the protection that protecting children gives them.
(*apologies on the sloppy wording, hope it's still just about clear!)
Wanted: Senior Software Engineer Requirements: 2 years commercial experience milking cattle, Experience of at least 2 space walks, At least 1 Formula 1 Grand Prix World Championship win, 6 toes on at least one foot.
"Humanity moves on because we take ideas and improve on them"
Sorry to be a grammar nazi here, but there's no excuse for being ignorant to the fact that when you take the verbs "to take and improve" and conjugate to refer to actions of Microsft, you end up with "steal and ruin and kill babies and eat puppies". This is slashdotese we speak here. It might look like English, but that's only because we were inspired by and evolved the language (again, same verbs, different inflection)
"It's ok to criticize Microsoft, but it's not ok to criticize open source software"
Now you're just being stupid. That's like saying "oh it's okay to criticize the government, but it's not okay to critisize smiling". You really can't tell the difference?
Erm... Microsoft's like, a business, an entity, that can have policy, direction, a road map, and can make decisions. "Linux" isn't... so... your post makes no sense. If your argument is really "people shouldn't disagree and should all just use the same system" then... that would be Windows. The whole point is that it isn't that.
I know it might look like it's a service pack, because for the first time since 2003, it's a release that's an improvement on their previous OS, and the only other times they've released stuff that's improved a previous OS have been service packs, which makes it very easily confused... but it's still not a service pack.
"And some people need to stop being latin-grammar nazis"
I think some people need to stop thinking that throwing the word 'nazi' in here and there makes for a valid argument or somehow proves a point.
"A. Virii is cooler."
Ignorance is never cool. I'm not being judgemental to people who simply didn't know something; I only know stuff because someone thought to tell me, or thought to put the information somewhere I could find. No one can know everything, but that doesn't exclude scope for correction. Learning is way cooler.
As it happens, if I make an ignorant mistake, I much prefer to have it pointed out to me so I have a choice as to whether I make it again. I didn't have a good education, so this is how I learn. I merely treating others how I wish to be. There's absolutely nothing hypocritical there at all.
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In "the oldun days", computers used to come with books, instruction manuals, telling you how to use them. Nower days, OS vendors will jump through hoops to try and ensure that their users Do Not Have To Learn A God Damn Thing(tm)... and in some instances, inconsistent user interfaces actually prohibit learning (although I wouldn't call this common case). And this is the result.
I'm not suggesting people should have to know all the nuts and bolts of the internals, but I'm sure there's a middle ground so this culture of "our users are stupid, we must protect their tiny brains" can be vanquished.
(this is not limited to Apple/OSX by any means, although they do appear to me to be worse for it, this gap is closing fast)
Because WRED hasn't broken slashdotters hearts.
"You may be modded funny, but to me, that's only because there isn't a "douchebag" mod"
I think the funny mod can actually be used defensively... when somebody says something, and they might be completely serious, but it's blatently obvious that it shouldn't be taken seriously, a +1 funny mod can help to set the context of which it is read :-)
Half a second. You've spent more time complaining about it than those people waited for their page to load.
Just to put things into some kind of perspective.
Off topic comment re your sig:
For some reason, whenever I see the initials RMS, my brain translates it as "Root Me Silly".
Yeah, like, if instead of Microsoft, it was the government, and instead of delaying web pages for half a second, they delayed peoples access to oxygen for up to half a day, people would be outraged!! And yes, it totally is the same thing! What if, instead of just a few selected people, it was everyone who's ever been alive? Delayed oxygen for half a day? This is proof that Microsoft has killed billions of people.
Dumbass.
"The "Beta" in Google's case is very much a marketing issue as much as it is a technical issue"
And perhaps a commitment issue, like people who stay engaged forever but never actually get married...
Yay this is gonna be so much easier than trying to ship Wine with my viruses...
"Fuck NVIDIA's proprietary and undocumented hardware!"
I do, everytime I try to run my linux drivers on it... hah, oh yes, I went there
(just kiddin, I only ever have problems with ati's drivers (windows and linux) and i've always been lucky enough to never have problems with nvidia drivers, (again, windows and linux))
"More on how your eyes actually work"
Interesting read. I figured a way of measuring your eyes 'framerate' or 'refreshrate' (of course differences in brightness et al all make a difference) was to use the reverse-spinning-wheel effect. You spin a wheel, slowly increasing its rotation speed, and when you see it starting to spin backwards, you've just passed your eyes' refresh speed. Then you just need to know the rotation rate of the wheel, and of course how many spokes (or other lines of symmetry) the wheel has. Would be interesting to see the results.
"isn't that the ultimate crux of the world today?"
Most of us wanna live our lives doing what we wanna do. We wanna be programmers, teachers, doctors, artists, and running a country gets in the way of those things... so we leave it to other people to do, complain about how they do it, about how we would do things differently, but then still go back to our programming, teaching, etc, etc. Most of us want the world to be the way that we want it, but we're not willing to make the sacrifices necessary to put ourselves in a position to do anything about it, and so we're governed, as always, by those who are, or by those who had nothing else to sacrifice in order to do it.
"Some of them clearly need de-populating"
Yeah I can find something and make it sound really scary too. I'm sure the genome project was meant to have spawned a targetted virus that would've wiped out all the jews by now or something... but south park's still funny, so as far as I'm aware, that hasn't happened.
But hey, where's the fun in not imagining horrible things that could possibly happen if everything goes horribly wrong? Maybe if we blow up all the power plants we can be sure technology won't be used against us?
"otherwise it had not voted twice for the idiot bastard son"
Once. Anyway, there are actually more neurons in your gut than there are in your brain, it's true, look it up. I know many of you will say you did look it up and it's not true, well that's because you looked it up in a book. Next time try looking it up in your gut.
(although in all seriousness, second brain disovererd in stomach" has already happened... not sure if it's enough to measure in the same way to use for biometrics, eg, different people having recognisably different stomach thought patterns, so there goes my attempt at bringing my post on topic!)
"I always wonder about people who argue that TPB wasn't about piracy"
In all fairness, two thirds of all the words in their name aren't 'pirate', that's gotta mean something!!
"If so, why are we more tolerant of allowing our kids to see brains scattered all over the set instead of *gasp* sexual intercourse?"
Because people must be protected from being pedophiles, which, if a child finds out anything with regards to sexuality from someone*, is what that makes them, and as becoming a pedophile is a very scary thought, adults need the protection that protecting children gives them.
(*apologies on the sloppy wording, hope it's still just about clear!)
Am I missing something? Cuz if it said:
Wanted: Senior Software Engineer
Requirements:
2 years commercial experience milking cattle,
Experience of at least 2 space walks,
At least 1 Formula 1 Grand Prix World Championship win,
6 toes on at least one foot.
I don't think they'ld get the right applicants.
"Humanity moves on because we take ideas and improve on them"
Sorry to be a grammar nazi here, but there's no excuse for being ignorant to the fact that when you take the verbs "to take and improve" and conjugate to refer to actions of Microsft, you end up with "steal and ruin and kill babies and eat puppies". This is slashdotese we speak here. It might look like English, but that's only because we were inspired by and evolved the language (again, same verbs, different inflection)
Why develop TFT when there's already cathode ray tubes out there that will display picture?
Why invent new cars when there are clearly other cars out there that will get you from A to B?
Why invent motor powered vehicals when we have legs and bicycles?
Why invent geared bicycles when there are already pennyfarthings?
Why plant seeds when there's already food in my cupboard?
Why were you born when there're clearly other people out there that exist?
Stupid questions? Maybe, but you started it.
Yeah, ignorance is a go go! Wooo!!!
"I rebel"
Hardly! :-p
"It's ok to criticize Microsoft, but it's not ok to criticize open source software"
Now you're just being stupid. That's like saying "oh it's okay to criticize the government, but it's not okay to critisize smiling". You really can't tell the difference?
There's enough difference to make people want it over vista.
Can't have it both ways.
By that logic, XP should've been a free upgrade to 2000, for all the differences it had. How clever would that've been?
Erm... Microsoft's like, a business, an entity, that can have policy, direction, a road map, and can make decisions. "Linux" isn't... so... your post makes no sense. If your argument is really "people shouldn't disagree and should all just use the same system" then... that would be Windows. The whole point is that it isn't that.
I know it might look like it's a service pack, because for the first time since 2003, it's a release that's an improvement on their previous OS, and the only other times they've released stuff that's improved a previous OS have been service packs, which makes it very easily confused... but it's still not a service pack.
"And some people need to stop being latin-grammar nazis"
I think some people need to stop thinking that throwing the word 'nazi' in here and there makes for a valid argument or somehow proves a point.
"A. Virii is cooler."
Ignorance is never cool. I'm not being judgemental to people who simply didn't know something; I only know stuff because someone thought to tell me, or thought to put the information somewhere I could find. No one can know everything, but that doesn't exclude scope for correction. Learning is way cooler.
So your defense is "two wrongs make a right"?
As it happens, if I make an ignorant mistake, I much prefer to have it pointed out to me so I have a choice as to whether I make it again. I didn't have a good education, so this is how I learn. I merely treating others how I wish to be. There's absolutely nothing hypocritical there at all.