This is the kind of thinking that creates unbearable to use UI's. "You're a user, you annoy me with your presence, so you must be punished and ridiculed!"
Don't forget that you're making a UI for the user to like. Not so they'll leave you the fuck alone.
Well that's true, except for all the whiners who THINK they're "good with computers" but then whine over how slow firefox/chrome/whatever is and how it takes "forever to load a simple webpage"...
This thing will be hacked in a manner of days from public release, and all your fancy multitasking needs will be accommodated. But Jobs won't be to blame when you stuff it full of crapware and start spreading FUD about how it was 'always this shitty'...
No, single-tasking and appstore are just really, really good ways of accommodating 95% of the customer base AND keeping them happy about their hardware. Good motherfucking product design!
Everybody missed the point that 8gbytes isn't average. My calculations tell me that to have exactly 100,000 times less ram that the cat, you'd need to have just about 1 509.94944 megabytes RAM in your machine.
The article is of little use other than tell the general populace of Slashdot that FreeBSD 8.0 and Ubuntu 9.10 are right around the corner, and that we should be hyped. Also FreeBSD 8 is a little faster than FreeBSD 7.2 but a lot slower than Ubuntu Linux 9.10
I'm not surprised, however I do belong to the group that does not really care about relative performance to other OS's as performance is only one of the aspects from the vector of decisions we had to make to finally choose FreeBSD for mass-scale deployment.
IT Pro's are statistically insignificant, and their software use pattern is extremely predictable.
The point you raised is exactly the point of the stats - average joe's. *They* are the reason web developers (used to?) spent an extra 20% time breaking their CSS to be IE6 compatible.
This is like the WHO announcing that yet another poor guy in a third-world country got infected with TB. Interesting stuff man, we already know it's a tragedy. Stop beating the dead horse now.
I considered using djbdns until I stumbled across his inflammatory and borderline-fanatic attitude against BIND. What the hell, man? It's just a DNS server. Get over it.
There's no point for me to claim that I'm not off topic. Anybody can see that.
And no, I'm still not trolling - even though I've managed to piss you off thoroughly with minimal effort.
Nobody is modding me down because nobody wants to waste their mod points in a three day old article discussion.
Anyway, you're way too invested in this discussion. I think I'm just going to call it a day and declare your flawless victory over me. Have a nice weekend:)
Thinking of it, this is actually a smart move. Powering up your industrialized areas with Internet only makes those areas more productive, thereby generating more tax money which in turn can be used to help those villages.
Putting sewage, water and electricity into villages doesn't guarantee a ROI - it's just a sink-hole for money. Once you install those basic necessities they will only attract maintenance costs and shift focus away from survival and onto prospering. The people will focus more on getting their kids to school than just surviving.
All of this sounds like a good idea, yeah? But where will the money for all of this come from? The west? No. We already fucked up Africa pretty good, and we should stop interfering any more. They are more than capable of generating their own money, as witnessed by this undersea cable.
Any child who's played a strategy game knows this for a fact: Resources is the first thing you should make sure you have plenty of. Spending resources before you have them is dumb, and always results in failure.
Same here. I dusted off my old gaming computer from 2006 to play games and try out this new-fangled "Windows" thing. All games work perfectly. Currently I have Spore, L4D, GTA: SA, the usual Steam/Valve suspects (hl1 and hl2 engines) and Bioshock. This is the first Windows I'd rather pay for than pirate.
Wow man, relax. It was just a joke - i didn't even bother to read your post. The syntax was too weird to understand, and your thoughts are all over the place. Also you worry too much about how you're modded.
Slashdot Mirror
What moron mod rated this troll?
Here ya go.
My bad. Your message did seem authentic, though.
This is the kind of thinking that creates unbearable to use UI's.
"You're a user, you annoy me with your presence, so you must be punished and ridiculed!"
Don't forget that you're making a UI for the user to like. Not so they'll leave you the fuck alone.
Well that's true, except for all the whiners who THINK they're "good with computers" but then whine over how slow firefox/chrome/whatever is and how it takes "forever to load a simple webpage"...
This thing will be hacked in a manner of days from public release, and all your fancy multitasking needs will be accommodated.
But Jobs won't be to blame when you stuff it full of crapware and start spreading FUD about how it was 'always this shitty'...
No, single-tasking and appstore are just really, really good ways of accommodating 95% of the customer base AND keeping them happy about their hardware. Good motherfucking product design!
Redundancy turns precious information to noise.
4.2.2.1 works too!
Level3 is about 6ms faster on average, for me. (40ms vs 34ms)
Either way it's insanely fast, and I'd never switch away from my own resolver :x
Oh and in case anybody doesn't know yet:
4.2.2.{2..6} are Level3's public DNS servers.
Everybody missed the point that 8gbytes isn't average.
My calculations tell me that to have exactly 100,000 times less ram that the cat, you'd need to have just about 1 509.94944 megabytes RAM in your machine.
To me, this sounds quite average.
I wish I could mod you +1, bloody brilliant.
The article is of little use other than tell the general populace of Slashdot that FreeBSD 8.0 and Ubuntu 9.10 are right around the corner, and that we should be hyped. Also FreeBSD 8 is a little faster than FreeBSD 7.2 but a lot slower than Ubuntu Linux 9.10
I'm not surprised, however I do belong to the group that does not really care about relative performance to other OS's as performance is only one of the aspects from the vector of decisions we had to make to finally choose FreeBSD for mass-scale deployment.
IT Pro's are statistically insignificant, and their software use pattern is extremely predictable.
The point you raised is exactly the point of the stats - average joe's. *They* are the reason web developers (used to?) spent an extra 20% time breaking their CSS to be IE6 compatible.
Computer games are very Zen, true.
You are all incorrect in assuming that legalese (should|can|does|will) make any sense from a technical point of view.
Many 14-year old girls with overpowered hardware on Slashdot, I see.
This is like the WHO announcing that yet another poor guy in a third-world country got infected with TB.
Interesting stuff man, we already know it's a tragedy. Stop beating the dead horse now.
I considered using djbdns until I stumbled across his inflammatory and borderline-fanatic attitude against BIND. What the hell, man? It's just a DNS server. Get over it.
What, you thought iPods being 'lickable' was just a homosexual persons way of saying that it looks pretty?
There's no point for me to claim that I'm not off topic. Anybody can see that.
And no, I'm still not trolling - even though I've managed to piss you off thoroughly with minimal effort.
Nobody is modding me down because nobody wants to waste their mod points in a three day old article discussion.
Anyway, you're way too invested in this discussion. I think I'm just going to call it a day and declare your flawless victory over me. Have a nice weekend :)
P.S.
Take your dyslexia or ADD/ADHD meds
Sometimes, the trolls here amaze me with their "effete down moderations" & "ad-hominem" style attacks of myself
Self-contradictory fail.
No, being off topic merely makes me off topic.
And stop talking about anon. Do a whois on the domain in my sig and you'll have both my full name and home address. You can even call my cell phone.
If I were a troll, you would be successfully trolled.
Thinking of it, this is actually a smart move. Powering up your industrialized areas with Internet only makes those areas more productive, thereby generating more tax money which in turn can be used to help those villages.
Putting sewage, water and electricity into villages doesn't guarantee a ROI - it's just a sink-hole for money. Once you install those basic necessities they will only attract maintenance costs and shift focus away from survival and onto prospering. The people will focus more on getting their kids to school than just surviving.
All of this sounds like a good idea, yeah? But where will the money for all of this come from? The west? No. We already fucked up Africa pretty good, and we should stop interfering any more. They are more than capable of generating their own money, as witnessed by this undersea cable.
Any child who's played a strategy game knows this for a fact: Resources is the first thing you should make sure you have plenty of. Spending resources before you have them is dumb, and always results in failure.
The villagers can wait.
Same here. I dusted off my old gaming computer from 2006 to play games and try out this new-fangled "Windows" thing. All games work perfectly. Currently I have Spore, L4D, GTA: SA, the usual Steam/Valve suspects (hl1 and hl2 engines) and Bioshock.
This is the first Windows I'd rather pay for than pirate.
Wow man, relax. It was just a joke - i didn't even bother to read your post. The syntax was too weird to understand, and your thoughts are all over the place.
Also you worry too much about how you're modded.