You've obviously never been a hardware designer. Cell phones are hard enough to design as they are, without imposing arbitrary limitations on battery sizes and input ports. For instance when designing a small device like a cell phone, you need to keep interferance at a mimimum with so many parts crammed in together in a tight space. Adding extra hard requirements on plugs and battery sizes and positions will make this even more difficult.
Implementing this would mean that new technologies would take longer to implement, phones would almost definitely be bigger to accommodate non-ideal-sized and positioned parts (such as a battery), and phones would be more expensive to make up for the added design costs. You'll notice even one manufacturer can't keep batteries all the same size across all of their phones: it's simply because the added cost in size and design time doesn't make up for the benefit of using consistant parts across products.
Standardization like this is much easier when space isn't at a premium, like in a PC or a printer, but for portable devices it just isn't worth it.
You should check out FreeSSL.com instead. It's cheaper than InstantSSL, and works on even more browsers. No, it's not "free" (despite the name), but it is cheap.
Try tvtime for Linux TV viewing. It's got lots of optimizations, and is much more efficient than both MythTV and mplayer for TV playback on my machine.
This is exactly what I thought! I've been looking for a (very) small access point that I can bring with me on business trips to use my PowerBook wirelessly anywhere, but I've been unable to find one that was small enough to carry with me. It also supports the same swappable plug of the PowerBook adapter so I can use the Apple world adapter kit to plug it in when I'm in the UK or mainland Europe. Perfect! I am absolutely going to buy this.
I've heard a lot about this here in Canada over the past few days. Does anybody know what systems RBC was using, and what upgrade they were doing? It definitely seems suspicious that they were doing an upgrade at the *end* of the month (May), which is the busiest time for a bank (I know, from having worked at one). Was this really an upgrade gone wrong? Are there any more technical details?
People, stop bitching about Real and remember the fact that they are still the only one of the big three media player providers (Mediaplayer, Quicktime, Realplayer) who have ever taken the Linux platform seriously.
That's only because they're in "last place" in the codec wars. Every big commercial software company these days likes to show they're into the marginal platforms when they're in last place. Real supports Linux because they're desperate. If they were truely interested in supporting Linux they'd provide support to the gstreamer libraries and RealPlayer plugins to gstreamer.
I have a 12" PowerBook, and I was wowed by the upgrade to 10.3, but when I got an even bigger wow from the upgrade of my other computer to KDE 3.2, and the fact that Panther set me back >$200 Canadian, I'm considering selling my PowerBook and buying a ThinkPad.
From the steep initial purchase, to the steep OS upgrades, to the need for additional commericial software to use a reasonably-price USB webcam with iChat, it seems that I just keep paying to keep this thing up-to-date and useful. The PowerBook is a great machine, but it's not so great that it justifies the enormous cost I've sunk into it.
...except that after overwhelming complaints about FS not working on various laptops, the latest version of Final Scratch only runs on Mac OS X and Windows XP. Bad example.
I'll second that. You don't find jobs by sending in resumes these days, especially if the resume is sent electronically. At most companies, electronic resumes (even.DOC files) are put into a database, and most are never read by anything but a computer.
The fact is, you need to get out there and talk to people, make some contacts, and make the most of your network. If you're going through HR, it's pretty unlikely you'll ever get an interview, nevermind a job.
After seeing Nat speak at the Real World Linux Conference a few weeks ago in Toronto, I decided to check out Dashboard. From what I can tell, no it's not usable. It's clearly CVS-quality code, but that's not the reason it's so difficult. The barrier to entry for compiling Mono apps seems VERY high: you'll need to compile gtk-sharp, gconf-sharp, glib-sharp, gnome-sharp, evolution-sharp, as well as all their esoteric dependancies.
Presumably these dependancies will come out of CVS and will be packaged with GNOME, but for now "mono-izing" your computer is a pain in the ass. I would only suggest installing Dashboard if you have lots of time and patience. Otherwise, wait six months or so.
Agreed. I hate this place when the geeks think they're being funny. Slashdot became much more readable when I started assigning a -3 moderation to anything moderated as "Funny" (check the prefs -- great feature). Unfortunately the same trick doesn't work for the front page.
In the meantime, here are some other good tech/news sites to check out while Slashdot is useless:
Yeah, I thought the same thing as a wrote it.:) How about this: the error is making a decision too quickly, but in the end it's usually the right decision anyhow. Sound good?
Robert is FAMOUS for his "split-second" decisions. He makes all of his decisions quickly and moves ahead quickly. It's part of what has made RackShack (EV1Servers) so successful I suppose, though every once in a while making a decision quickly without all the facts can come back and bite you in the ass. Still, he seems to be erring on the side of being right for the most part.
I guess you've never tried to transfer your domains out then. Take a look at the forums on DomainState. You'll see a slew of issues around GoDaddy, especially on transfers away. One of the latest complaints can be found in this thread.
Now, compare the number of GoDaddy bitching threads to honest registrars like Tucows OpenSRS or Melbourne IT. You'll see that GoDaddy is not the most ethical registrar out there, nor are they the cheapest, so why the hell should you give them your business?
One of the most impressive IO Slaves is audiocd:/. It displays a CD in your drive as having a bunch of folders: "By Name," "By Track," "MP3," and "OGG" for instance. If you want an MP3 of a track you put in the CD, access it through audiocd:/ in Konqueror, go to the MP3 directory and copy the MP3 "file" to your hard disk. It's an unbelievably intuitive way to search an audio CD.
Or if you'd like even cheaper domains try EV1Servers at $6.49 (+tax), web.com for $6.95, Hostway for $6.95, or hell even eNom for $5.99. I've heard far too many nasty GoDaddy stories to go near that place with my domains.
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That said, my first reaction, is one I always have: why when an interesting topic comes up: why do I find only sarcastic/hopefully humorous comments get through my level 4 filter? Still waiting for an answer on that.
You may want to do what I did: add a "-3" penalty to any slashdot comments moderated as "Funny." As you probably know, the vast majority of "Funny" moderated comments are more annoying than funny, and you won't see them if you assign a penalty to that moderation. Keep in mind you will miss the average 1 geniunely funny joke on slashdot by doing this, but I think it's a small price to pay to make the comments more relevant.
I had this happen to me -- kinda. I have a resume online that I spent a lot of time on while unemployed (so it's quite pretty:) ). One day I was surfing along and stumbled across a rather blatant ripoff of it. What what was odd was that not only did this person take the style of the resume, he also took phrases from the content itself! What was even more strange is that the guy had the same name as me!
You can imagine my surprise when I viewed this resume that had my name on it, looked like my resume, and even read like my resume, but had different work experience. I mean come on! If you're going to rip off somebody's resume, don't do it from somebody with the same name as you!:)
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Hi Slothy! You beat me to it. ;)
So ... you get a product that the general public actually wants?
How about I just keep my identity and NOT have any single company owning my personal data?
That's what the Liberty Alliance is. It's a way to share authentication info without one company controlling it all. RTFA.
Perhaps, but then you have to live in London, Ontario. That place is a complete cultural void. You're paying with your soul.
You've obviously never been a hardware designer. Cell phones are hard enough to design as they are, without imposing arbitrary limitations on battery sizes and input ports. For instance when designing a small device like a cell phone, you need to keep interferance at a mimimum with so many parts crammed in together in a tight space. Adding extra hard requirements on plugs and battery sizes and positions will make this even more difficult.
Implementing this would mean that new technologies would take longer to implement, phones would almost definitely be bigger to accommodate non-ideal-sized and positioned parts (such as a battery), and phones would be more expensive to make up for the added design costs. You'll notice even one manufacturer can't keep batteries all the same size across all of their phones: it's simply because the added cost in size and design time doesn't make up for the benefit of using consistant parts across products.
Standardization like this is much easier when space isn't at a premium, like in a PC or a printer, but for portable devices it just isn't worth it.
You should check out FreeSSL.com instead. It's cheaper than InstantSSL, and works on even more browsers. No, it's not "free" (despite the name), but it is cheap.
The problem here seems to be that you're trying to run the latest and greatest on old hardware. Why not try a distribution from a few years ago?
Try tvtime for Linux TV viewing. It's got lots of optimizations, and is much more efficient than both MythTV and mplayer for TV playback on my machine.
This is exactly what I thought! I've been looking for a (very) small access point that I can bring with me on business trips to use my PowerBook wirelessly anywhere, but I've been unable to find one that was small enough to carry with me. It also supports the same swappable plug of the PowerBook adapter so I can use the Apple world adapter kit to plug it in when I'm in the UK or mainland Europe. Perfect! I am absolutely going to buy this.
I've heard a lot about this here in Canada over the past few days. Does anybody know what systems RBC was using, and what upgrade they were doing? It definitely seems suspicious that they were doing an upgrade at the *end* of the month (May), which is the busiest time for a bank (I know, from having worked at one). Was this really an upgrade gone wrong? Are there any more technical details?
People, stop bitching about Real and remember the fact that they are still the only one of the big three media player providers (Mediaplayer, Quicktime, Realplayer) who have ever taken the Linux platform seriously.
That's only because they're in "last place" in the codec wars. Every big commercial software company these days likes to show they're into the marginal platforms when they're in last place. Real supports Linux because they're desperate. If they were truely interested in supporting Linux they'd provide support to the gstreamer libraries and RealPlayer plugins to gstreamer.
I have a 12" PowerBook, and I was wowed by the upgrade to 10.3, but when I got an even bigger wow from the upgrade of my other computer to KDE 3.2, and the fact that Panther set me back >$200 Canadian, I'm considering selling my PowerBook and buying a ThinkPad.
From the steep initial purchase, to the steep OS upgrades, to the need for additional commericial software to use a reasonably-price USB webcam with iChat, it seems that I just keep paying to keep this thing up-to-date and useful. The PowerBook is a great machine, but it's not so great that it justifies the enormous cost I've sunk into it.
...except that after overwhelming complaints about FS not working on various laptops, the latest version of Final Scratch only runs on Mac OS X and Windows XP. Bad example.
I'll second that. You don't find jobs by sending in resumes these days, especially if the resume is sent electronically. At most companies, electronic resumes (even .DOC files) are put into a database, and most are never read by anything but a computer.
The fact is, you need to get out there and talk to people, make some contacts, and make the most of your network. If you're going through HR, it's pretty unlikely you'll ever get an interview, nevermind a job.
After seeing Nat speak at the Real World Linux Conference a few weeks ago in Toronto, I decided to check out Dashboard. From what I can tell, no it's not usable. It's clearly CVS-quality code, but that's not the reason it's so difficult. The barrier to entry for compiling Mono apps seems VERY high: you'll need to compile gtk-sharp, gconf-sharp, glib-sharp, gnome-sharp, evolution-sharp, as well as all their esoteric dependancies.
Presumably these dependancies will come out of CVS and will be packaged with GNOME, but for now "mono-izing" your computer is a pain in the ass. I would only suggest installing Dashboard if you have lots of time and patience. Otherwise, wait six months or so.
Agreed but what is worse on April Fool's Day? I'd vote kuro5hin over slashdot easily.
Agreed. I hate this place when the geeks think they're being funny. Slashdot became much more readable when I started assigning a -3 moderation to anything moderated as "Funny" (check the prefs -- great feature). Unfortunately the same trick doesn't work for the front page.
In the meantime, here are some other good tech/news sites to check out while Slashdot is useless:
Enjoy!
Yeah, I thought the same thing as a wrote it. :) How about this: the error is making a decision too quickly, but in the end it's usually the right decision anyhow. Sound good?
Robert is FAMOUS for his "split-second" decisions. He makes all of his decisions quickly and moves ahead quickly. It's part of what has made RackShack (EV1Servers) so successful I suppose, though every once in a while making a decision quickly without all the facts can come back and bite you in the ass. Still, he seems to be erring on the side of being right for the most part.
I guess you've never tried to transfer your domains out then. Take a look at the forums on DomainState. You'll see a slew of issues around GoDaddy, especially on transfers away. One of the latest complaints can be found in this thread.
Now, compare the number of GoDaddy bitching threads to honest registrars like Tucows OpenSRS or Melbourne IT. You'll see that GoDaddy is not the most ethical registrar out there, nor are they the cheapest, so why the hell should you give them your business?
It does seem to use liblame0 for MP3 encoding, but I'm not sure what it uses to read the CD.
One of the most impressive IO Slaves is audiocd:/. It displays a CD in your drive as having a bunch of folders: "By Name," "By Track," "MP3," and "OGG" for instance. If you want an MP3 of a track you put in the CD, access it through audiocd:/ in Konqueror, go to the MP3 directory and copy the MP3 "file" to your hard disk. It's an unbelievably intuitive way to search an audio CD.
Or if you'd like even cheaper domains try EV1Servers at $6.49 (+tax), web.com for $6.95, Hostway for $6.95, or hell even eNom for $5.99. I've heard far too many nasty GoDaddy stories to go near that place with my domains.
That said, my first reaction, is one I always have: why when an interesting topic comes up: why do I find only sarcastic/hopefully humorous comments get through my level 4 filter? Still waiting for an answer on that.
You may want to do what I did: add a "-3" penalty to any slashdot comments moderated as "Funny." As you probably know, the vast majority of "Funny" moderated comments are more annoying than funny, and you won't see them if you assign a penalty to that moderation. Keep in mind you will miss the average 1 geniunely funny joke on slashdot by doing this, but I think it's a small price to pay to make the comments more relevant.
I had this happen to me -- kinda. I have a resume online that I spent a lot of time on while unemployed (so it's quite pretty :) ). One day I was surfing along and stumbled across a rather blatant ripoff of it. What what was odd was that not only did this person take the style of the resume, he also took phrases from the content itself! What was even more strange is that the guy had the same name as me!
You can imagine my surprise when I viewed this resume that had my name on it, looked like my resume, and even read like my resume, but had different work experience. I mean come on! If you're going to rip off somebody's resume, don't do it from somebody with the same name as you! :)