Gee, I'd love to email you, but google's down. Sure I could use my yahoo mail, but you're on google too. I guess I could call you, but your contact information is in my spreadsheet on Google Documents. Damn.
I'll probably be marked as a troll for this, but I have karma to burn.
The secret is that Wine sucks.
Really, it does. It's worth the effort put into it, though, and it's getting better, but it still sucks. There are a few things that work on it really well, and almost everything else is terribly handicapped.
I guess what I really should say is "wine sucks...to use". As I said, though, it's worth all the development effort being put into it, because some day, it's going to be very usable, and I can't wait on that day. The main issue is that it keeps trying to hit a moving target. Right now, we can reliably run almost everything that ran on Windows 98. We're multiple Windows releases behind. In 1998, we could run stuff made for Windows 3.1. Maybe in 10 years, we'll be able to run all the XP/Vista stuff. Who knows what Windows will be released by then.
Whenever Windows slows down their development and it finds a plateau, then Wine can be a good solution. Until then, it's fighting an uphill battle, just because it has to try to keep up.
hehe I went to remove a user from an old server, and I was checking his account in the current server, and removed his account from what I thought was the old server.
That sucks for you guys. At DeVry Columbus, the guy who was teaching us VB was actually an RPG programmer whom, we suspect, had been told to learn VB or lose his job. By the end of the semester, nearly everyone in class legitimately knew the language better than him. It was surreal. I'm glad I got out of there before I sunk too much money in it.
Ah yes, that glorious deafening sound of silence. You also get the ever so fleeting moment of abject horror, similar to typing "rm -rf./public_html/old-backup/ *" and then noticing that it is taking a bit longer than it should.
My fiancee and I really really really want to get an alpaca farm going some place in the country where we don't be bothered by anyone or anything electronic.
I think it's more like you saying "Don't go to any channels that have porn"
You know that channels 1-1000 all have porn, and you've blocked them.
I know that channels 10,000 - 11,000 are mirrors of 1-1000, so I go there because you haven't blocked those, even though I know you don't want me going to porn channels.
If the kid who broke into the computer figured it out, then yes, nurture that person, while you're punishing them (directed community service, anyone?). If, however, they got a copy of a CD from the kid who was smart enough to figure it out, punish them.
It's just like when I was in school. If you're smart enough to write the code on your graphing calculator, you're smart enough to do the problems. However if you copied that program from the smart person in front of you, you didn't learn anything except how to cheat.
And the big deal is what? You're not allowed to talk about the interview until you get hired or not. It's not like when someone asks you where you work, you have to cough and look away.
Participant agrees not to do the following, except with the advanced review and written approval of Google: (a) issue or release any articles, advertising, publicity, or other matter relating to this Agreement
As someone who did desktop / ISP technical support for 5 years, I can personally corroborate nearly all of your anecdotes.
I've thought about it, and I think the reason that some people get it and some people don't is that some people just aren't willing/capable of abstract thought. The idea of something as physically ambiguous as a "file" doesn't work for them, let alone an entire other universe where there are files, and servers where the files live. It's too much for them, so they simplify it down to "The IE picture is the internet", and then they use it to read Email (and probably think it's "so neat how some people can put pictures in there"), and they like the speed of delivery versus "real mail", and they might look up recipes but that's about as far as it goes.
And the kicker is that the people aren't stupid. They're normal, contributing members of society in every other way, it's just that when they get in front of a computer, they look at it like a magic TV. The only reason that they call the computer the "hard drive" is they've heard people use that term, maybe while gesturing to it, or a technician at one point tried to explain the difference between memory and storage space.
The problem isn't just education, it's abstraction. Many people who have never used a computer have no way to grasp the idea of a shortcut, let alone a symbolic link or a subnet mask. It's almost as foreign as a dolphin's sonar would be to you or I.
The good news is that it's all changing, slowly. As children are being exposed to a computer younger and younger, they gain the ability to think in the abstract, and to utilize manifestly non-physical ideas instead of tying them to real-life counterparts.
Take the desktop model, for instance. Why do you suppose it is that some of the very first graphical computer interfaces were that of a desk? Because the users needed that grounding in reality. If files and links would have been arranged in an artificial construct, say multi-dimensional matrices, the user would have no previous experience to relate, and would have a much longer learning curve.
Hopefully, interfaces in the future won't be held back by virtual manifestations of physical models.
You're so far off your rocker that you don't even know where your porch is.
Every time I hear someone go off on how free-as-in-beer software is evil and corrupts the precious open-source movement, I just want to smack my forehead in disgust.
It's the usability, stupid.
It's about turning your computer into something productive, so it's not a paperweight with blinking lights. Ubuntu has made more headway in organizing a usable system than RedHat, Mandrake, and Debian combined. It is really the first distro that nearly everyone can use.
Now, about your comments that it is "parasitic", I think you're confused even further. If nothing else, Ubuntu is a way to increase the user base of the software which you say it doesn't contribute to. It gets Linux, Open Office, Xorg, and thousands of other softwares into the hands of people who would never have known there was another alternative to Microsoft otherwise. And you decry it because it encourages people to have choice. You insult the very software that could very well be the cause of manufacturers opening drivers, or if not providing open drivers, perhaps providing working binary drivers, ala NVidia. But then, you're against that, too. To fanatical egotistic closed minded people like yourself, having a binary driver in your kernel would sully it somehow, rendering it unfit to use, so instead you install semi-working drivers provided by people who have reverse engineered the hardware and bitch about how for-profit companies refuse to give away their trade secrets.
Get over yourself. It's not a paragon of virtue and selflessness. It's a fucking kernel. That's it.
My last few passwords have been the last 6-10 characters of my/etc/shadow file's md5 sum. I memorize it, change the password, and it can't be recovered (at least without knowing the previous password, which was likely to be based on the previous md5sum...
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Gee, I'd love to email you, but google's down. Sure I could use my yahoo mail, but you're on google too. I guess I could call you, but your contact information is in my spreadsheet on Google Documents. Damn.
I'll probably be marked as a troll for this, but I have karma to burn.
The secret is that Wine sucks.
Really, it does. It's worth the effort put into it, though, and it's getting better, but it still sucks. There are a few things that work on it really well, and almost everything else is terribly handicapped.
I guess what I really should say is "wine sucks...to use". As I said, though, it's worth all the development effort being put into it, because some day, it's going to be very usable, and I can't wait on that day. The main issue is that it keeps trying to hit a moving target. Right now, we can reliably run almost everything that ran on Windows 98. We're multiple Windows releases behind. In 1998, we could run stuff made for Windows 3.1. Maybe in 10 years, we'll be able to run all the XP/Vista stuff. Who knows what Windows will be released by then.
Whenever Windows slows down their development and it finds a plateau, then Wine can be a good solution. Until then, it's fighting an uphill battle, just because it has to try to keep up.
I was really just looking for something that would allow me to NEVER have to worry about finding a network connection wherever I am.
And only the breeding animals are that much. The ones who just hang out and produce wool are much cheaper.
hehe I went to remove a user from an old server, and I was checking his account in the current server, and removed his account from what I thought was the old server.
Oops.
and THAT is why my xterms are now tinted.
That sucks for you guys. At DeVry Columbus, the guy who was teaching us VB was actually an RPG programmer whom, we suspect, had been told to learn VB or lose his job. By the end of the semester, nearly everyone in class legitimately knew the language better than him. It was surreal. I'm glad I got out of there before I sunk too much money in it.
Ah yes, that glorious deafening sound of silence. You also get the ever so fleeting moment of abject horror, similar to typing "rm -rf ./public_html/old-backup/ *" and then noticing that it is taking a bit longer than it should.
I'd ask if you went to DeVry, but I don't think my VB teacher know what a breakpoint was. /Also, toggle can be an adjective, like "toggle switch"
if you make $100k in NY and save 15% you'll have $225k after 15 years, or about 80% of a really nice house in a ritzy Manhattan (Kansas) suburb
If you don't get shot first living where you would have to live to save $15k a year in NY.
Alpacas.
My fiancee and I really really really want to get an alpaca farm going some place in the country where we don't be bothered by anyone or anything electronic.
I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
I think it's more like you saying "Don't go to any channels that have porn"
You know that channels 1-1000 all have porn, and you've blocked them.
I know that channels 10,000 - 11,000 are mirrors of 1-1000, so I go there because you haven't blocked those, even though I know you don't want me going to porn channels.
If the kid who broke into the computer figured it out, then yes, nurture that person, while you're punishing them (directed community service, anyone?). If, however, they got a copy of a CD from the kid who was smart enough to figure it out, punish them.
It's just like when I was in school. If you're smart enough to write the code on your graphing calculator, you're smart enough to do the problems. However if you copied that program from the smart person in front of you, you didn't learn anything except how to cheat.
I bet if you wear a Masonic ring and you're not a mason, you have some very odd interactions with people
And the big deal is what? You're not allowed to talk about the interview until you get hired or not. It's not like when someone asks you where you work, you have to cough and look away.
Participant agrees not to do the following, except with the advanced review and written approval of Google: (a) issue or release any articles, advertising, publicity, or other matter relating to this Agreement
Does this mean that we can report security attacks to abuse@kremlin.ru?
As someone who did desktop / ISP technical support for 5 years, I can personally corroborate nearly all of your anecdotes.
I've thought about it, and I think the reason that some people get it and some people don't is that some people just aren't willing/capable of abstract thought. The idea of something as physically ambiguous as a "file" doesn't work for them, let alone an entire other universe where there are files, and servers where the files live. It's too much for them, so they simplify it down to "The IE picture is the internet", and then they use it to read Email (and probably think it's "so neat how some people can put pictures in there"), and they like the speed of delivery versus "real mail", and they might look up recipes but that's about as far as it goes.
And the kicker is that the people aren't stupid. They're normal, contributing members of society in every other way, it's just that when they get in front of a computer, they look at it like a magic TV. The only reason that they call the computer the "hard drive" is they've heard people use that term, maybe while gesturing to it, or a technician at one point tried to explain the difference between memory and storage space.
The problem isn't just education, it's abstraction. Many people who have never used a computer have no way to grasp the idea of a shortcut, let alone a symbolic link or a subnet mask. It's almost as foreign as a dolphin's sonar would be to you or I.
The good news is that it's all changing, slowly. As children are being exposed to a computer younger and younger, they gain the ability to think in the abstract, and to utilize manifestly non-physical ideas instead of tying them to real-life counterparts.
Take the desktop model, for instance. Why do you suppose it is that some of the very first graphical computer interfaces were that of a desk? Because the users needed that grounding in reality. If files and links would have been arranged in an artificial construct, say multi-dimensional matrices, the user would have no previous experience to relate, and would have a much longer learning curve.
Hopefully, interfaces in the future won't be held back by virtual manifestations of physical models.
XNU is the kernel
is that anything like Xenu? Cause if so, I've got a test I'd like my Mac to take...
Glad I don't have tickets to that.
This article is the kind of mindless drivel that makes me not want to ready slashdot.
Thanks a lot. I shouldn't get worked up like that ;-)
You're so far off your rocker that you don't even know where your porch is.
Every time I hear someone go off on how free-as-in-beer software is evil and corrupts the precious open-source movement, I just want to smack my forehead in disgust.
It's the usability, stupid.
It's about turning your computer into something productive, so it's not a paperweight with blinking lights. Ubuntu has made more headway in organizing a usable system than RedHat, Mandrake, and Debian combined. It is really the first distro that nearly everyone can use.
Now, about your comments that it is "parasitic", I think you're confused even further. If nothing else, Ubuntu is a way to increase the user base of the software which you say it doesn't contribute to. It gets Linux, Open Office, Xorg, and thousands of other softwares into the hands of people who would never have known there was another alternative to Microsoft otherwise. And you decry it because it encourages people to have choice. You insult the very software that could very well be the cause of manufacturers opening drivers, or if not providing open drivers, perhaps providing working binary drivers, ala NVidia. But then, you're against that, too. To fanatical egotistic closed minded people like yourself, having a binary driver in your kernel would sully it somehow, rendering it unfit to use, so instead you install semi-working drivers provided by people who have reverse engineered the hardware and bitch about how for-profit companies refuse to give away their trade secrets.
Get over yourself. It's not a paragon of virtue and selflessness. It's a fucking kernel. That's it.
if microsoft product were that bad, do you really think so many people would still be using them?
You're kidding, right?
I'd be willing to bet you $5 that not one person buys an iPhone who doesn't own or use a computer
How is that at all different than the other 99.9% of computers sitting on desks around the world?
My last few passwords have been the last 6-10 characters of my /etc/shadow file's md5 sum. I memorize it, change the password, and it can't be recovered (at least without knowing the previous password, which was likely to be based on the previous md5sum...