Yeah, but notice in Cambridge more people read slashdot. So, you could say Brass Rats read slashdot, and script kiddies read digg.
Besides, to echo another reply to your post...have to actually read the posts on digg? Man, what a bunch of tools post there. Less pollution here, I say.
Appreciate the response. Not sure if I should talk your post as condescending or humorous/informative, so I'll choose the latter. I wasn't sure what I'd get from saying what I did. A flamebait mod evidently, but there are lots of Morons With Mod Points out there. I was not trying to say anything inflammatory. I guess you're not allowed to question groupthink.
Anyhow, I digress.
I understand the scientific method and how peer review works and so forth. What you say makes my point exactly, though: I don't think anyone is questioning the basic tenets of macroevolution. I don't work in the field, so I don't know with any certainty. I'm just a regular programmer type guy. Just guessing based on what I read here. Every time I read a discussion here on/. on the topic, I see about ten comments that say something to the effect of "Evolution is an unimpeachable fact". When I see statements like that I start to wonder if science is taking place anymore.
I think the scientific method is one of the best detectors of rubbish-disguised-as-truth there is. All I am saying is that I hope it's being adhered to. I hope people don't blindly push evolution like some people blindly push religion.
The Catholic church is a business, plain and simple. They are in the business of making people feel good about themselves, and parting them with their money in the process. Since people want to believe in evolution and the bible, they found a way to combine them. That doesn't mean the two are compatible.
That's the trouble with people these days. Nobody wants to stand for their beliefs. If you believe in something, then at least stand by it. If you can't or won't stand by it, then why do you believe in it?
That saying cuts both ways, ya know. Most people in the US as well as the world believe in evolution. What if evolution were the big lie? What will we think in 100 years? Will we laugh at evolution like we laugh at Phrenology or Lobotomy? Or will we finally get past the genesis creation account and look at it as some silly old superstition?
Most if not all ancient legends and myths have been shown to be totally untrue. But, so have theories and teachings that had the backing of the scientific community of the time. So let us not think that just because evolution has the approval of the scientific community now that it always will or that it is infallible. When you blindly follow something, be it scientific or religious, without taking the time to examine your beliefs, it could be you who falls victim to The Big Lie.
Since you brought it up, in a very non-Godwin-invoking way I will point out that Hitler was a perfect example. Normal, everyday people went right along with his plans. Why? Because nobody stopped to think. They all fell for The Big Lie.
To this day, Hilter lives in London trying so see how he can get people to go along with the bocialist party's platform. (if you aren't laughing, then just do yourself a favor and ignore this entire paragraph, except the part about ignoring it, this part I mean. Don't ignore that last sentence. Or that one. Or...ok, moving on...)
I guess my point is that many, in fact, I'd say most people believe in what they believe in because it's comfortable to them. Many people who believe in creation do so because it's what they were raised to believe and haven't thought about it. Lots of people who believe evolution do because their high school science teacher told them it is correct, or because they are afraid of public ridicule.
There are a lot of blind followers in both camps. The question is: Are you one of them?
Apple won't lose iTunes. The record compaines are clamoring to get their stuff on iTunes. If the RIAA pulled their crap out of iTunes, there'd be some serious collateral damage for them to bear.
OP is right on, probably the most interesting comment I have read here today. I own an iPod and think it's a marvelous device. I would never consider buying a Zune. That is, unless Microsoft did precisely what OP suggested: used it to stick the RIAA where it hurts and drop DRM altogether. As I hear, there are three problems with the Zune: 1) DRM, 2) crippled WiFi, and 3) bad firmware/syncing software. Sticking the RIAA would take care of the first two, and the third is entirely within Microsoft's control.
You make an interesting point. On one hand, even the poorest of Americans have at least one of these: cable TV, cell phone, internet access.
On the other hand, think about the way employment has changed over the years. Just one example: retail (like Circuit City). 50 years ago, sure, people worked in retail. They worked in smaller stores, where often the owner worked in the same building. The owner knew his employees and cared for them. It's much hard to care for ones employees when you have 50K of them and you never see them, which is the case in these large retail stores. 50 years ago, people got health insurance at their jobs, even if it was some piddly retail job. And housing costs were lower too (relative to wages). Additionally, 50 years ago, the US actually used to make stuff. And that meant that many people who nowadays work retail would at least have a factory job, which would pay better and provide a bit more security that today's retail jobs.
We have shifted from a society of producers to a society of consumers, and our employment reflects this.
And if you want anecdote, then here it is: I recently did a property search on a popular real estate agency's website. I did this for a particular neighborhood in the city of St Louis (where I live). St Louis city is seeing a bit of a resurgence (old houses are being rehabbed like crazy), but it is still one of the cheapest cities in the US. I was hard pressed to find a 3 bedroom house for less than 180K that was livable unless you want to live in the GHETTO. Now, if you are making 8-10 an hour, how much house can you afford? Well, assuming you work 40 hours a week, you can afford a house that costs $550 / month including PMI and insurance. That's not going to get you much house, and that assumes that you can spend 1/3 of your gross salary on housing (which is close to the max debt/income ratio you want for housing). With a 30 year mortgage, at 6%, that is maybe 60K for a house (rough guess). If you have two incomes, that helps, but if you have children child care costs will eat up a $10/hour salary so you might as well have just one person working. Not sure what percentage of Americans owned homes in the 1950's, but it would seem that things were more conducive to home ownership. Personally, I don't understand how anyone can live on $10/hour, much less have a family.
Not caring about mod points is the way to go. Say what you want to say, especially if its true. All I meant was this: "It's not what you say, it's how you say it."
My impression of Vista after helping a friend use it for a few hours? Vista is a steaming pile of dung that someone sprayed with some nice pretty shiny silver paint. I was not impressed, in other words.
I did not see anything heads and shoulders above XP, which is inexcusable given the LONG time Vista neé Longhorn neé Cairo has been in development.
If it's DRM that is causing file transfer and recognition of devices like thumb drives to go ever-so-slowly, then serves them right when people abandon Vista in favor of OSX or Ubuntu. Of course, we all know people won't abandon Vista, but let a guy indulge in a fantasy here.
And what the heck is up with the static-y banjo sound when you plug in a USB drive? It sounds soooo low budget. Me, I turn off sounds by default (I don't need my PC chirping at me), but if you are gonna have sounds, make them good! The sounds in Vista were, like I said, low-budget. It's like they went to the Redmond wal*mart, played stuff on the demo model casio keyboards, and recorded the resulting sounds on a cell phone. Ironically, the sound played immediately after I plugged in the USB drive, I just get to the folder containing the files (cause, you know, explorer was kaboshed). Another extreme example of form over function.
As in, yes, there is a lot of inappropriate moderation on/.
Heck yes there is. I just got modded Offtopic for trying to be funny the other day. Maybe it wasn't funny, but Offtopic? Maybe if you don't read the entire post, but who mods a post without reading it? Come on. Then again, who cares? Generally, make good posts and get modded up. So what, there is an occasional idiot moderator. Metamod.pl will handle that.
If you have a wife/GF or are a person of female persuasion, then certainly you know "It's not what you say, it's how you say it."
So does flamebait involve intent? If yes, then this is not flamebait. If no, then since one could likely infer that a M$head will reply with an angry post, it *could* be construed as flamebait.
That kind of post, while it may not be outright flamebait, is most certain to get at least one mod who marks it as flamebait, especially this high up in the discussion. It's also likely to draw the ire of Microsoft fanboys.
He makes a valid point (which I went on to support, I must kindly point out to you). But when you start off cursing and yelling about something, how often do you get a reasoned response? Seldom. You just get more of the same, and things go downhill from there. If you politely point out flaws, you are likely to have an intelligent discussion. Save the yelling for when someone, after you made the effort to be nice, gets nasty with you. It's Human Relationships 101. This is why I (mis?)labeled his post as being "flamey". Again, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. And stuff like that.
At any rate, check out his moderation now. Good mods usually compensate for and overrule morons with mod points. And for the bad mod, well, as I pointed out, metamod.pl will deal with that. If I were to metamod the flamebait mod, I would most certainly mark it as unfair.
UQM is enough to make me happy. That's a flat out awesome game. What are you running that on? ubuntu? I have been trying to get that to work on my ubuntu box with not much success. If you are running on debian anything at least that's encouraging.
What in the *hell* is the point of a pretty interface for your operating system, when it won't carry out basic operating system tasks efficiently?
The way you wrote that, you were asking for a flamebait mod.
However, I agree with you in spirit. I was helping a friend transfer files from an XP machine to her new Vista machine. I noticed file transfer was extremely slow (was glad to see this article, I thought it was me). Yada yada.
The real mind blower for me, though, was more in line with your post. The simple act of inserting my thumb drive caused explorer to lock up for a while (assuming this, since the taskbar, all other windows, etc, were inoperable). It locked up for about 2 minutes the first time, then after that it would lock up for about ten seconds each time I inserted the drive, thus preventing preventing me from doing anything. As I waited in in front of my friend's PC, totally exasperated, I was quite bemused by the fact that her sidebar was clicking along perfectly. The slideshow was reloading a new picture every few seconds, the transition effects were working perfectly, he analog clock was working, etc.
So there you go -- while it doesn't validate the flamie-ness of your post, it does vindicate your point at least anecdotally. Vista seems to be designed to protect the flashy useless crap at the expense of core tasks (like, you know, explorer). If a task like explorer is having trouble, then resources should be diverted from other resources to help. Or, core tasks should bullet-proof. Or, MS should have concentrated on core tasks rather than flashy widgets like the sidebar. I dunno, but something seemed to be a bit mis-prioritized.
the sum total of knowledge one obtains using Windows systems (both as a "power user" (ridiculous word) and/or as a typical sysadmin) is a giant convoluted collection of trivia that spans registry edits, workarounds for things that don't work or work badly, memorisation of GUI layout du jour, and various methods of reinstalling borked systems, the value of which erodes as time goes by.
That pretty much nails it. Just the other day I was trying to figure out why my PC was running slow after getting a new audigy sound card. Well, come to find out, the "driver software" also included about ten other "helper" programs that I didn't even need, some things were even for devices my particular sound card does not have. Of course these weren't in the places you'd expect (like services.msc or startup dirs). Some of these startup programs weren't even in msconfig. Noooo, instead they were in some CurrentVersion registry key, RunOnce I think it was. Insane. I remove them, and all is well. Why am I telling you this?
Because it's just as you said: just another piece of trivia to add to the heap. These registry edits, which I just found online, probably won't apply to Vista. Heck, I'd have never known where to look had I not stumbled across this info. There is no systematic approach one can take to fixing problems on Windows. I definitely feel like all the knowledge I have accumulated from fixing my PC as well as everyone else's (which I do successfully all the time) is just that...a heap of disconnected facts.
While I am somewhat green with the linux CLI (but typing this post on my ubuntu box, so I use linux), I have noticed that things are a bit more consistent on the Linux side. I think the one thing that make Windows easier, though, in spite of itself, is that somewhere someone has had a similar problem and fixed it. I have not had the same success with googling linux problems.
if 95% of the music within a given genre shares a certain trait or quality that I don't like then the signal to noise ratio is poor enough that I won't bother to listen to the 95% crap
yeah, I guess the point I was making is that people aren't aware of 95% of the music in a genre. They hear a few country songs (like the crap on the radio) and think that's what all of it sounds like, when, in fact, that isn't even real country music. It's a industry-supported artifice. But if you grew up listening to real country and still don't like it, well then, at least you can make an educated decision. You probably won't like OCMS either then, so don't waste your time with it;)
R&B and Country are both good musical styles with some great groups writing great music. If you want to broaden your musical tastes, check out:
R&B: Tony Toni Tone: House of music Al Green: just grab a greatest hits Aaron Neville: Bring it on Home...The Soul Classics
Country: Old Crow Medicine Show: any CD Anything by Gillian Welch Any old Willie Nelson CD Any Hank Williams Sr CD (not HW Jr!)
The R&B songs are not this crap where "singers" who don't know anything about music are singing over sampled beats. These are bonafide musicians playing music and singing. These country bands (and OCMS and Gillian Welch are new acts) are not the pop glam crap you hear on the radio today. It's real country, full of grit and soul. You can find all four country artists on eMusic (not the full catalog for Willie and Hank, but enough to get you by), so there ya go, it even has the benefit of supporting non-riaa labels.
I hate it when people say they don't listen to >. People who exclude music based on genre are either not really music lovers or are genuinely ignorant.
I mean, hey anyone can tap their foot to an R&B song because they all have a beat... and nothing else.
Aw cmon, now. That's just like the R&B kids calling heavy metal "crazy devil music". There is some good R&B out there just like there's some good metal. What you said is just as ridiculous as the guy above who said punk was dead.
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huh huh huh huh, he said "penetration"
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I agree. I run a small business out of Nigeria that helps people in unfortunate situations recover lost money, and we rely on upfront investments from Americans. We always promise a good cut of the money to our American investors. This search engine spam really puts the hurt on my business, too.
interesting! A guy I work with has several friends who work at Redmond, and it's also neat to hear his insights into the thinking behind various products.
What exactly is Live? I have been seeing that everywhere. Some kind of indexing service? I know I could read about it, but in a nutshell, what is it?
Not sure which dept you work in, but I have to say if you have anything to do with Office (just upgraded to 2003 at work, and it is fantastic, esp Outlook), or Visual Studio or SQL Server tools, you guys do very good work. As far as databases, in a high traffic environment I think Oracle wins hands down (speed!), but SQL Server's tools are wonderful and Oracle doesn't even come close. Media Player 11 is also very nice. While not a huge Microsoft fan, I do see some pretty good stuff coming from Microsoft these days (we won't go there about the Zune or Vista or IE).
He's slamming Microsoft now; this makes him 100% reliable
I am sure there are some who feel this way. But there are things that Microsoft does that are just plain laughable. Have you EVER used msn.com? I can do a google search and go to the best result in the time it takes to load msn.com. When I do use msn (in a give-em-one-more-chance mood) it sucks.
Also, Microsoft's web presence is quite horrid. You cannot find ANYTHING on their website, and its dirt slow. I remmeber one time I wanted to download media player 11, went to the site, and had to spend literally three minutes finding the download page. That is an eternity in web terms.
A while ago there was talk about Microsoft not allowing employees to use Google at work. That's what happens when you don't know the competition, you don't even know if there is something better out there. Microsoft probably thinks their search, site, etc are just fine. When I use it, I sit there thinking "they have to know this is bad, right?"
Microsoft makes some damn fine IDEs (Visual Studio and SQL Server tools are great). What they need to do is stick with their strengths. Hire someone else to do your search / site. In the spirit of "if you can't beat em, join em", they should use Google search for their site. You can't be the best at everything. Microsoft needs to realize that.
Based on your poor grammar, I'd say you are neither a hiring manager nor a professional SA. I'd say you are just a mother's-basement dwelling twentysomething spazz. Based on your total inability to grasp the gist of the menu.lst anecdote, I'd say you are a pointy-haired boss. (parent wasn't bragging about knowing how to edit menu.lst...he was pointing out that he had to show a "SA" how to do this, and then you go on to inadvertently support his point by saying "Oooh, a menu.lst file. Any idiot with a text editor and man page could figure that out,". His point exactly. Maybe you don't read before posting, I don't know.)
So then, which is it? Troll or PHB? Either way, you're not making yourself look good here. You should quit while you're still just a little bit behind.
Maybe, but there are subtleties between the two OS. For example, our web server was just appearing to be drinking up memory. Forgive me if I get my facts wrong, after all I am just a web developer and not an expert SA, but I think I remember what part of our problem was: On linux, memory is handled differently. All of it is allocated but not necessarily committed. On windows, memory won't appear to be used if it is not committed. So instead of looking at memory consumption, we should have been looking at how much paging is taking place on our linux boxes and adjusting the settings accordingly. IIRC, our SA was trying to figure out why, every time he allocated more memory, it would be consumed just as quickly. He was in a Windows mindset. It took a *real* Linux SA to point out that excessive paging was the real problem in our situation. Again, not an SA, so not sure if I said what I said correctly, but that was the gist of it.
I guess my original post should be restated a bit: windows admins can handle linux just fine -- until it comes time to optimize or do some serious troubleshooting. That's when a lack of intimate knowlegde about the subtle differences between the two OS can come into play. But for general administration, you are probably right though.
Maybe judgement should be reserved until someone has seen this data. I believe both sides here would have no problem with manipulating data for thier own interests.
Agreed, I think the only thing that can be said is that Monsanto has more to gain than Greenpeace does by bending facts. Monsanto is making money hand over fist. Greenpeace isn't a for-profit organization (unless someone has facts to the contrary), so their only motive could be social engineering. I think money is a much more powerful motivating force, therefore, I would tend to give Greenpeace the benefit of the doubt over Monsanto.
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now all they need to do to make it like digg is make EVERY SINGLE LINK open in a NEW WINDOW!!! Man, digg sucks and bad.
Yeah, but notice in Cambridge more people read slashdot. So, you could say Brass Rats read slashdot, and script kiddies read digg.
Besides, to echo another reply to your post...have to actually read the posts on digg? Man, what a bunch of tools post there. Less pollution here, I say.
Appreciate the response. Not sure if I should talk your post as condescending or humorous/informative, so I'll choose the latter. I wasn't sure what I'd get from saying what I did. A flamebait mod evidently, but there are lots of Morons With Mod Points out there. I was not trying to say anything inflammatory. I guess you're not allowed to question groupthink.
/. on the topic, I see about ten comments that say something to the effect of "Evolution is an unimpeachable fact". When I see statements like that I start to wonder if science is taking place anymore.
Anyhow, I digress.
I understand the scientific method and how peer review works and so forth. What you say makes my point exactly, though: I don't think anyone is questioning the basic tenets of macroevolution. I don't work in the field, so I don't know with any certainty. I'm just a regular programmer type guy. Just guessing based on what I read here. Every time I read a discussion here on
I think the scientific method is one of the best detectors of rubbish-disguised-as-truth there is. All I am saying is that I hope it's being adhered to. I hope people don't blindly push evolution like some people blindly push religion.
The Catholic church is a business, plain and simple. They are in the business of making people feel good about themselves, and parting them with their money in the process. Since people want to believe in evolution and the bible, they found a way to combine them. That doesn't mean the two are compatible.
That's the trouble with people these days. Nobody wants to stand for their beliefs. If you believe in something, then at least stand by it. If you can't or won't stand by it, then why do you believe in it?
That saying cuts both ways, ya know. Most people in the US as well as the world believe in evolution. What if evolution were the big lie? What will we think in 100 years? Will we laugh at evolution like we laugh at Phrenology or Lobotomy? Or will we finally get past the genesis creation account and look at it as some silly old superstition?
Most if not all ancient legends and myths have been shown to be totally untrue. But, so have theories and teachings that had the backing of the scientific community of the time. So let us not think that just because evolution has the approval of the scientific community now that it always will or that it is infallible. When you blindly follow something, be it scientific or religious, without taking the time to examine your beliefs, it could be you who falls victim to The Big Lie.
Since you brought it up, in a very non-Godwin-invoking way I will point out that Hitler was a perfect example. Normal, everyday people went right along with his plans. Why? Because nobody stopped to think. They all fell for The Big Lie.
To this day, Hilter lives in London trying so see how he can get people to go along with the bocialist party's platform. (if you aren't laughing, then just do yourself a favor and ignore this entire paragraph, except the part about ignoring it, this part I mean. Don't ignore that last sentence. Or that one. Or...ok, moving on...)
I guess my point is that many, in fact, I'd say most people believe in what they believe in because it's comfortable to them. Many people who believe in creation do so because it's what they were raised to believe and haven't thought about it. Lots of people who believe evolution do because their high school science teacher told them it is correct, or because they are afraid of public ridicule.
There are a lot of blind followers in both camps. The question is: Are you one of them?
Apple won't lose iTunes. The record compaines are clamoring to get their stuff on iTunes. If the RIAA pulled their crap out of iTunes, there'd be some serious collateral damage for them to bear.
OP is right on, probably the most interesting comment I have read here today. I own an iPod and think it's a marvelous device. I would never consider buying a Zune. That is, unless Microsoft did precisely what OP suggested: used it to stick the RIAA where it hurts and drop DRM altogether. As I hear, there are three problems with the Zune: 1) DRM, 2) crippled WiFi, and 3) bad firmware/syncing software. Sticking the RIAA would take care of the first two, and the third is entirely within Microsoft's control.
You make an interesting point. On one hand, even the poorest of Americans have at least one of these: cable TV, cell phone, internet access.
On the other hand, think about the way employment has changed over the years. Just one example: retail (like Circuit City). 50 years ago, sure, people worked in retail. They worked in smaller stores, where often the owner worked in the same building. The owner knew his employees and cared for them. It's much hard to care for ones employees when you have 50K of them and you never see them, which is the case in these large retail stores. 50 years ago, people got health insurance at their jobs, even if it was some piddly retail job. And housing costs were lower too (relative to wages). Additionally, 50 years ago, the US actually used to make stuff. And that meant that many people who nowadays work retail would at least have a factory job, which would pay better and provide a bit more security that today's retail jobs.
We have shifted from a society of producers to a society of consumers, and our employment reflects this.
And if you want anecdote, then here it is: I recently did a property search on a popular real estate agency's website. I did this for a particular neighborhood in the city of St Louis (where I live). St Louis city is seeing a bit of a resurgence (old houses are being rehabbed like crazy), but it is still one of the cheapest cities in the US. I was hard pressed to find a 3 bedroom house for less than 180K that was livable unless you want to live in the GHETTO. Now, if you are making 8-10 an hour, how much house can you afford? Well, assuming you work 40 hours a week, you can afford a house that costs $550 / month including PMI and insurance. That's not going to get you much house, and that assumes that you can spend 1/3 of your gross salary on housing (which is close to the max debt/income ratio you want for housing). With a 30 year mortgage, at 6%, that is maybe 60K for a house (rough guess). If you have two incomes, that helps, but if you have children child care costs will eat up a $10/hour salary so you might as well have just one person working. Not sure what percentage of Americans owned homes in the 1950's, but it would seem that things were more conducive to home ownership. Personally, I don't understand how anyone can live on $10/hour, much less have a family.
yeah...tried that. Must be something wrong with my config. Thanks
Not caring about mod points is the way to go. Say what you want to say, especially if its true. All I meant was this: "It's not what you say, it's how you say it."
My impression of Vista after helping a friend use it for a few hours? Vista is a steaming pile of dung that someone sprayed with some nice pretty shiny silver paint. I was not impressed, in other words.
I did not see anything heads and shoulders above XP, which is inexcusable given the LONG time Vista neé Longhorn neé Cairo has been in development.
If it's DRM that is causing file transfer and recognition of devices like thumb drives to go ever-so-slowly, then serves them right when people abandon Vista in favor of OSX or Ubuntu. Of course, we all know people won't abandon Vista, but let a guy indulge in a fantasy here.
And what the heck is up with the static-y banjo sound when you plug in a USB drive? It sounds soooo low budget. Me, I turn off sounds by default (I don't need my PC chirping at me), but if you are gonna have sounds, make them good! The sounds in Vista were, like I said, low-budget. It's like they went to the Redmond wal*mart, played stuff on the demo model casio keyboards, and recorded the resulting sounds on a cell phone. Ironically, the sound played immediately after I plugged in the USB drive, I just get to the folder containing the files (cause, you know, explorer was kaboshed). Another extreme example of form over function.
Heck yes there is. I just got modded Offtopic for trying to be funny the other day. Maybe it wasn't funny, but Offtopic? Maybe if you don't read the entire post, but who mods a post without reading it? Come on. Then again, who cares? Generally, make good posts and get modded up. So what, there is an occasional idiot moderator. Metamod.pl will handle that.
If you have a wife/GF or are a person of female persuasion, then certainly you know "It's not what you say, it's how you say it."
So does flamebait involve intent? If yes, then this is not flamebait. If no, then since one could likely infer that a M$head will reply with an angry post, it *could* be construed as flamebait.
That kind of post, while it may not be outright flamebait, is most certain to get at least one mod who marks it as flamebait, especially this high up in the discussion. It's also likely to draw the ire of Microsoft fanboys.
He makes a valid point (which I went on to support, I must kindly point out to you). But when you start off cursing and yelling about something, how often do you get a reasoned response? Seldom. You just get more of the same, and things go downhill from there. If you politely point out flaws, you are likely to have an intelligent discussion. Save the yelling for when someone, after you made the effort to be nice, gets nasty with you. It's Human Relationships 101. This is why I (mis?)labeled his post as being "flamey". Again, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. And stuff like that.
At any rate, check out his moderation now. Good mods usually compensate for and overrule morons with mod points. And for the bad mod, well, as I pointed out, metamod.pl will deal with that. If I were to metamod the flamebait mod, I would most certainly mark it as unfair.
Well, how's this for a meta-conversation?
UQM is enough to make me happy. That's a flat out awesome game. What are you running that on? ubuntu? I have been trying to get that to work on my ubuntu box with not much success. If you are running on debian anything at least that's encouraging.
The way you wrote that, you were asking for a flamebait mod.
However, I agree with you in spirit. I was helping a friend transfer files from an XP machine to her new Vista machine. I noticed file transfer was extremely slow (was glad to see this article, I thought it was me). Yada yada.
The real mind blower for me, though, was more in line with your post. The simple act of inserting my thumb drive caused explorer to lock up for a while (assuming this, since the taskbar, all other windows, etc, were inoperable). It locked up for about 2 minutes the first time, then after that it would lock up for about ten seconds each time I inserted the drive, thus preventing preventing me from doing anything. As I waited in in front of my friend's PC, totally exasperated, I was quite bemused by the fact that her sidebar was clicking along perfectly. The slideshow was reloading a new picture every few seconds, the transition effects were working perfectly, he analog clock was working, etc.
So there you go -- while it doesn't validate the flamie-ness of your post, it does vindicate your point at least anecdotally. Vista seems to be designed to protect the flashy useless crap at the expense of core tasks (like, you know, explorer). If a task like explorer is having trouble, then resources should be diverted from other resources to help. Or, core tasks should bullet-proof. Or, MS should have concentrated on core tasks rather than flashy widgets like the sidebar. I dunno, but something seemed to be a bit mis-prioritized.
That pretty much nails it. Just the other day I was trying to figure out why my PC was running slow after getting a new audigy sound card. Well, come to find out, the "driver software" also included about ten other "helper" programs that I didn't even need, some things were even for devices my particular sound card does not have. Of course these weren't in the places you'd expect (like services.msc or startup dirs). Some of these startup programs weren't even in msconfig. Noooo, instead they were in some CurrentVersion registry key, RunOnce I think it was. Insane. I remove them, and all is well. Why am I telling you this?
Because it's just as you said: just another piece of trivia to add to the heap. These registry edits, which I just found online, probably won't apply to Vista. Heck, I'd have never known where to look had I not stumbled across this info. There is no systematic approach one can take to fixing problems on Windows. I definitely feel like all the knowledge I have accumulated from fixing my PC as well as everyone else's (which I do successfully all the time) is just that...a heap of disconnected facts.
While I am somewhat green with the linux CLI (but typing this post on my ubuntu box, so I use linux), I have noticed that things are a bit more consistent on the Linux side. I think the one thing that make Windows easier, though, in spite of itself, is that somewhere someone has had a similar problem and fixed it. I have not had the same success with googling linux problems.
so you write COBOL, then?
yeah, I guess the point I was making is that people aren't aware of 95% of the music in a genre. They hear a few country songs (like the crap on the radio) and think that's what all of it sounds like, when, in fact, that isn't even real country music. It's a industry-supported artifice. But if you grew up listening to real country and still don't like it, well then, at least you can make an educated decision. You probably won't like OCMS either then, so don't waste your time with it
R&B and Country are both good musical styles with some great groups writing great music. If you want to broaden your musical tastes, check out:
R&B:
Tony Toni Tone: House of music
Al Green: just grab a greatest hits
Aaron Neville: Bring it on Home...The Soul Classics
Country:
Old Crow Medicine Show: any CD
Anything by Gillian Welch
Any old Willie Nelson CD
Any Hank Williams Sr CD (not HW Jr!)
The R&B songs are not this crap where "singers" who don't know anything about music are singing over sampled beats. These are bonafide musicians playing music and singing. These country bands (and OCMS and Gillian Welch are new acts) are not the pop glam crap you hear on the radio today. It's real country, full of grit and soul. You can find all four country artists on eMusic (not the full catalog for Willie and Hank, but enough to get you by), so there ya go, it even has the benefit of supporting non-riaa labels.
I hate it when people say they don't listen to >. People who exclude music based on genre are either not really music lovers or are genuinely ignorant.
Aw cmon, now. That's just like the R&B kids calling heavy metal "crazy devil music". There is some good R&B out there just like there's some good metal. What you said is just as ridiculous as the guy above who said punk was dead.
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Actually, you are not far off. You need one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Project
I agree. I run a small business out of Nigeria that helps people in unfortunate situations recover lost money, and we rely on upfront investments from Americans. We always promise a good cut of the money to our American investors. This search engine spam really puts the hurt on my business, too.
interesting! A guy I work with has several friends who work at Redmond, and it's also neat to hear his insights into the thinking behind various products.
What exactly is Live? I have been seeing that everywhere. Some kind of indexing service? I know I could read about it, but in a nutshell, what is it?
Not sure which dept you work in, but I have to say if you have anything to do with Office (just upgraded to 2003 at work, and it is fantastic, esp Outlook), or Visual Studio or SQL Server tools, you guys do very good work. As far as databases, in a high traffic environment I think Oracle wins hands down (speed!), but SQL Server's tools are wonderful and Oracle doesn't even come close. Media Player 11 is also very nice. While not a huge Microsoft fan, I do see some pretty good stuff coming from Microsoft these days (we won't go there about the Zune or Vista or IE).
Also, Microsoft's web presence is quite horrid. You cannot find ANYTHING on their website, and its dirt slow. I remmeber one time I wanted to download media player 11, went to the site, and had to spend literally three minutes finding the download page. That is an eternity in web terms.
A while ago there was talk about Microsoft not allowing employees to use Google at work. That's what happens when you don't know the competition, you don't even know if there is something better out there. Microsoft probably thinks their search, site, etc are just fine. When I use it, I sit there thinking "they have to know this is bad, right?"
Microsoft makes some damn fine IDEs (Visual Studio and SQL Server tools are great). What they need to do is stick with their strengths. Hire someone else to do your search / site. In the spirit of "if you can't beat em, join em", they should use Google search for their site. You can't be the best at everything. Microsoft needs to realize that.
Based on your poor grammar, I'd say you are neither a hiring manager nor a professional SA. I'd say you are just a mother's-basement dwelling twentysomething spazz. Based on your total inability to grasp the gist of the menu.lst anecdote, I'd say you are a pointy-haired boss. (parent wasn't bragging about knowing how to edit menu.lst...he was pointing out that he had to show a "SA" how to do this, and then you go on to inadvertently support his point by saying "Oooh, a menu.lst file. Any idiot with a text editor and man page could figure that out,". His point exactly. Maybe you don't read before posting, I don't know.)
So then, which is it? Troll or PHB? Either way, you're not making yourself look good here. You should quit while you're still just a little bit behind.
Maybe, but there are subtleties between the two OS. For example, our web server was just appearing to be drinking up memory. Forgive me if I get my facts wrong, after all I am just a web developer and not an expert SA, but I think I remember what part of our problem was: On linux, memory is handled differently. All of it is allocated but not necessarily committed. On windows, memory won't appear to be used if it is not committed. So instead of looking at memory consumption, we should have been looking at how much paging is taking place on our linux boxes and adjusting the settings accordingly. IIRC, our SA was trying to figure out why, every time he allocated more memory, it would be consumed just as quickly. He was in a Windows mindset. It took a *real* Linux SA to point out that excessive paging was the real problem in our situation. Again, not an SA, so not sure if I said what I said correctly, but that was the gist of it.
I guess my original post should be restated a bit: windows admins can handle linux just fine -- until it comes time to optimize or do some serious troubleshooting. That's when a lack of intimate knowlegde about the subtle differences between the two OS can come into play. But for general administration, you are probably right though.