While we can't go back in time and actually experience what it was truly like for our grandparents, we can read personal accounts from those who did experience the Great Depression. Studs Terkel's book is essential if you're going to draw any comparisons about "hard times." It's a terrific read. The point I'm making is, don't make grandiose statements about our plight as techies. Not yet at least. Food is in abundance. Deflation is in check. You can at the very least get that bone-head job if you need income. In the 1930's, folks were being shooed away from highly dangerous jobs like bridge building. You have a good point; just manage your perspective.
By the time I get to Phoenix IE will be rising IE will find the note I left hangin' on its door IE will laugh when it reads the part that says I'm leavin' 'Cause I've left that browser so many times before
By the time I make Albuquerque IE will be VB scripting IE will prob'ly stop at lunch and give me a call But she'll just hear that phone keep on ringin' Off the wall that's all
By the time I make Oklahoma she'll be sleepin' She'll turn softly and call my name out loud And she'll cry just to think I'd really leave her Tho' time and time I try to tell her so She just didn't know I would really go.
It surprises me how often the speed comparison between Mozilla and IE pops up here and elsewhere. Is it really that big either way. Here's my observation: render speeds in Mozilla and IE are comparable, period. Even start up times are neglibile. I use Mozilla without Quicklaunch, and I'm pleased as punch. Once I have a browser window, I'm golden. It's not like I'm opening and closing Mozilla left and right, and I'm a web app developer.
The difference for me lies in good old-fashioned goodwill. I believe in open source, its developers, and share in the overall passion for software that is developed with me in mind far more that marketable software with corporate profit in mind. Pure and simple.
First, Southwest Airlines is a private company. They can run their web site any way they see fit. Or, they don't have to have one. We're talking about a web site, something so often confused for a currency mint. Web sites are the cost of doing business, a necessary evil really, and as such, they cannot be mandated like ramps and elevators.
Second, unlike entry into a building, there are alternative airlines. No one said he had to fly Southwest. Crikey!
Hell, assume I'm completely wrong. Does this mean anyone with a web site has to be in compliance with this cat's text-to-speech converter? While noble, this complaint has no business in the legal system. What happens next? Money changes hands? If this guy wants to affect change and get what he wants, he should 1) write a letter to Southwest explaining his problem, 2) write his congresscritter explaining his problem, and/or 3) fly with somebody who meets his accessibility needs.
True, graphics accelerator cards cost more than gaming consoles, but you have to look deeper for the true value of a PC versus a console.
I've been pricing a gaming PC I want to build, and I can say with certainty that a gaming PC with a buff graphics board is the better value. Assuming you already have an acceptable monitor, you can piece together a wicked gaming PC for $700-$800 tops. Besides, you're not going to buy a new TV for that gaming console right.
$100 Athlon 2000XP CPU
$60 mobo to match CPU
$130 512MB DDR RAM
$80 40GB Maxtor drive
$100 fancy case
$150 CD-RW/DVD combo drive
$165 GeForce4 Ti 4200 128MB
$32 Soundblaster Live! 5.1
Total = $817
And you can shave off more or drop more $ on this kind of setup. This is going to last you three years, giving you tip-top gaming at that. You get to play any title ever written for the PC, especially those not suited for consoles.
Now, when this no longer suits your gaming needs, you repurpose it as a sweet workstation or server. You cannot do that with a console.
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How can you compare a specific, detailed task like animation to the diverse needs of common end-users? That's like comparing a single piston to a automobile with options. I'm surprised the parent post was modded up to 5.
Actually, I don't have a console either. I'm just getting too old I guess. That thirtieth b-day is just a short two months away. Maybe somebody will buy me a C-64 and a Raid Over Moscow cartridge for it.
Slashdot community aside, most folks don't want to swap PCs every year or two just to run the latest and greatest shooter. I think game developers have simply put the PC market down like a dog with their recommended and in some cases minimum requirements. There just are not enough people who are gonna get a bug up their ass to buy a $400 graphics board, 1GB of RAM, 2.x GHz processor, and $200 Windows upgrade.
Somewhere along the way, the number of triangles and polygons determined what kind of game you were going to make. PCs have been gaming lackeys since. Too bad. I really think a creative, resourceful effort could make a buck or two producing games for mid to low end PCs, but then again I'm a hopeless idealist.
The FCC is violating the First Amendment, period. I would love to see someone start a LPFM station, be challenged by someone, and take this before the Supreme Court. Maybe then we could begin to unfuck the FCC.
Thanks for the tips, and yes, I do drive an SUV. A 1989 Jeep Cherokee. Rolled off the assembly line well before anyone rolled out the anti-SUV sentiment. So, neener neener neener!;)
Chalk up that first bike to inexperience. I was told, "Don't buy a cheap bike," I ignored that wisdom, and I paid for it. Hopefully some bloke happens upon the bike and gives it a good home. As for my next bike, I've been scanning eBay, checking out some bike manufacturer's websites (e.g. Klein, Trek, Cannondale, Motobecane, Schwinn), and plan on visiting a local bike shop this weekend. One poster suggested looking for older Schwinns for their durability, and I just might do that. Definitely getting a road bike with good gear rather than a cheap mountain bike.
I live no more than 1-2 miles from work, and I have favorable roads for bike riding to and fro. Yes, I do feel some guilt for driving that distance even though I only have to fill up once a month. I'd like to make that short bike ride a routine in addition to getting out for 10-15 miles most nights for general fitness. Potentially being my daily conveyance and workout, I promise not to go cheap with my bike again.
They would herd over real fast until one of them tried to run their desktop using Linux and couldn't figure out how to do anything.
I was thinking recently that when Windows 95 was released, the base GUI that corporate types have run with for seven years now (through the 98/2000/Me/XP manifestations) and is more or less a standard, no one knew how to do anything with it either. I postulate that if corporation X moved its entire personnel to a Linux desktop, then the learning curve would be the same as it was from Windows 3.1(1) to Windows 95. It simply has to be attempted!
Desktop apps aren't a brick wall now. In fact, if you are an IT manager deploying MS Office, SQL Server, IE, and/or IIS in your office, someone above you in your chain of command should be threatening to pink slip you. The open source, freely distributable solutions like OpenOffice, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Mozilla, Opera, and Apache are ripe. If you don't even consider these options in this "wintery economic climate," it is probably you who should be pink-slipped.
There are obstacles. Moving to a Linux desktop isn't a deliverance to a computing valhalla. But neither is any other offering you might deploy. God, I really want to see Linux take on the desktop. It just needs to be attempted. Anyone have stories or anecdotes?
Well it just so happens that I chucked my $200 Eddie Bauer EBT mountain bike in someone's front yard tonight after walking it four fifths of the twelve miles I had ridden from home. Second flat in a week. The gears absolutely suck shit. Never could get into the third main gear without constant tweaking. This bike sucked, and I don't care that I left maybe $100 resale value next to some sod's mailbox. I'm no longer encumbered with that piece of shit.
So I'm in the market for a new bike. Preferrably a durable streetwise ten-speed. I nosed around a local bike shop while getting a wheel checked out last week. Some of those bikes were $1500-$2500! They don't burn any fossil fuels!
Seriously, I understand now that cheap bikes are cheap, but I can't justify buying a bike for more than $500. I want to 10-15 miles each night after I get home from work, and I don't want to repair flat tires or gear systems every night to do it. Any tips on buying bikes?
Right, blame the founding fathers, who had the foresight to protect the nation from an oppressive majority rule. Since we're way offtopic here, allow me to expound on this. You voted for Gore, who won the majority. His base came from 21 of 51 states, largely those states with densely populated, urban cities. These states possess the population numbers to oppress other smaller states if we did things by popular vote. Thanks to the electoral college, we live in a representative republic and not a strict democracy of majority rule.
Think about it. If we Yanks did things by popular vote and majority rule, why would smaller states even bother with the Union. You'd have states seceding left and right. You may not like the outcome, but you've gotta love the system. It worked.
Check out Federalist Papers #39 and #68. The fruits of this debate from over two hundred years ago can be found in the text of our Constitution's Twelfth Amendment.
There's more to this argument, but a rational observer or participant of the political process should volunteer that the American republic with its electoral college is the best system of government the world over.
As for being the worst leader in our nation's history, I can think of afewothers without even thinking of this clown.
Except they're the voices you tune out between songs on the radio. I don't know about you, but I'm not paying attention to the radio in my car until I heard the typical:
BAM! BONG! BOOM! click. Twirp. 98.5FM! The Worm!
A song begins, then I turn the dial because the song typically sucks. Repeat until I can take no more and switch the radio off.
The RIAA has been moaning about P2P and Internet radio killing their profits. I postulate that advertising has had a lot to do with this. The time most folks listen to the radio is during the drive to and from work, and you're fucking lucky to get one or two songs an hour between ads. Why bother?
Advertising is so ubiquitous that I don't even notice it, especially when its up in my grill.
I submit "Midsummer Night's Dream" into evidence. He's got two lines in the whole movie, and whiffs on both of them. I mean bad. Rumor has it that Shakespeare himself reanimated somewhere outside Stratford-upon-Avon, discovered the location of the movie's shoot, and would have brought back Reeves with him to the grave were it not for some valiant albeit confused Bobbies.
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While we can't go back in time and actually experience what it was truly like for our grandparents, we can read personal accounts from those who did experience the Great Depression. Studs Terkel's book is essential if you're going to draw any comparisons about "hard times." It's a terrific read. The point I'm making is, don't make grandiose statements about our plight as techies. Not yet at least. Food is in abundance. Deflation is in check. You can at the very least get that bone-head job if you need income. In the 1930's, folks were being shooed away from highly dangerous jobs like bridge building. You have a good point; just manage your perspective.
By the time I get to Phoenix IE will be rising
IE will find the note I left hangin' on its door
IE will laugh when it reads the part that says I'm leavin'
'Cause I've left that browser so many times before
By the time I make Albuquerque IE will be VB scripting
IE will prob'ly stop at lunch and give me a call
But she'll just hear that phone keep on ringin'
Off the wall that's all
By the time I make Oklahoma she'll be sleepin'
She'll turn softly and call my name out loud
And she'll cry just to think I'd really leave her
Tho' time and time I try to tell her so
She just didn't know I would really go.
The difference for me lies in good old-fashioned goodwill. I believe in open source, its developers, and share in the overall passion for software that is developed with me in mind far more that marketable software with corporate profit in mind. Pure and simple.
Second, unlike entry into a building, there are alternative airlines. No one said he had to fly Southwest. Crikey!
Hell, assume I'm completely wrong. Does this mean anyone with a web site has to be in compliance with this cat's text-to-speech converter? While noble, this complaint has no business in the legal system. What happens next? Money changes hands? If this guy wants to affect change and get what he wants, he should 1) write a letter to Southwest explaining his problem, 2) write his congresscritter explaining his problem, and/or 3) fly with somebody who meets his accessibility needs.
Whoops, I meant to punch in slashdot.org, but I must have mistyped it and here I am at anthropologydot.org. So tell me of your travels, dear friend.
And me without mod points to downvote the parent. Damn.
True, graphics accelerator cards cost more than gaming consoles, but you have to look deeper for the true value of a PC versus a console.
I've been pricing a gaming PC I want to build, and I can say with certainty that a gaming PC with a buff graphics board is the better value. Assuming you already have an acceptable monitor, you can piece together a wicked gaming PC for $700-$800 tops. Besides, you're not going to buy a new TV for that gaming console right.
Looking at pricewatch.com:
$100 Athlon 2000XP CPU
$60 mobo to match CPU
$130 512MB DDR RAM
$80 40GB Maxtor drive
$100 fancy case
$150 CD-RW/DVD combo drive
$165 GeForce4 Ti 4200 128MB
$32 Soundblaster Live! 5.1
Total = $817
And you can shave off more or drop more $ on this kind of setup. This is going to last you three years, giving you tip-top gaming at that. You get to play any title ever written for the PC, especially those not suited for consoles.
Now, when this no longer suits your gaming needs, you repurpose it as a sweet workstation or server. You cannot do that with a console.
You mean GNOME, right?
Get passed up for parole or something, chump? Not my fault that you are your cell block's bitch.
How can you compare a specific, detailed task like animation to the diverse needs of common end-users? That's like comparing a single piston to a automobile with options. I'm surprised the parent post was modded up to 5.
All anybody needs are the headers anyway. Right?
Actually, I don't have a console either. I'm just getting too old I guess. That thirtieth b-day is just a short two months away. Maybe somebody will buy me a C-64 and a Raid Over Moscow cartridge for it.
Somewhere along the way, the number of triangles and polygons determined what kind of game you were going to make. PCs have been gaming lackeys since. Too bad. I really think a creative, resourceful effort could make a buck or two producing games for mid to low end PCs, but then again I'm a hopeless idealist.
The FCC is violating the First Amendment, period. I would love to see someone start a LPFM station, be challenged by someone, and take this before the Supreme Court. Maybe then we could begin to unfuck the FCC.
Chalk up that first bike to inexperience. I was told, "Don't buy a cheap bike," I ignored that wisdom, and I paid for it. Hopefully some bloke happens upon the bike and gives it a good home. As for my next bike, I've been scanning eBay, checking out some bike manufacturer's websites (e.g. Klein, Trek, Cannondale, Motobecane, Schwinn), and plan on visiting a local bike shop this weekend. One poster suggested looking for older Schwinns for their durability, and I just might do that. Definitely getting a road bike with good gear rather than a cheap mountain bike.
I live no more than 1-2 miles from work, and I have favorable roads for bike riding to and fro. Yes, I do feel some guilt for driving that distance even though I only have to fill up once a month. I'd like to make that short bike ride a routine in addition to getting out for 10-15 miles most nights for general fitness. Potentially being my daily conveyance and workout, I promise not to go cheap with my bike again.
Thanks for the input.
I was thinking recently that when Windows 95 was released, the base GUI that corporate types have run with for seven years now (through the 98/2000/Me/XP manifestations) and is more or less a standard, no one knew how to do anything with it either. I postulate that if corporation X moved its entire personnel to a Linux desktop, then the learning curve would be the same as it was from Windows 3.1(1) to Windows 95. It simply has to be attempted!
Desktop apps aren't a brick wall now. In fact, if you are an IT manager deploying MS Office, SQL Server, IE, and/or IIS in your office, someone above you in your chain of command should be threatening to pink slip you. The open source, freely distributable solutions like OpenOffice, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Mozilla, Opera, and Apache are ripe. If you don't even consider these options in this "wintery economic climate," it is probably you who should be pink-slipped.
There are obstacles. Moving to a Linux desktop isn't a deliverance to a computing valhalla. But neither is any other offering you might deploy. God, I really want to see Linux take on the desktop. It just needs to be attempted. Anyone have stories or anecdotes?
Are you ready for some FOOTBALL!!!!!
So I'm in the market for a new bike. Preferrably a durable streetwise ten-speed. I nosed around a local bike shop while getting a wheel checked out last week. Some of those bikes were $1500-$2500! They don't burn any fossil fuels!
Seriously, I understand now that cheap bikes are cheap, but I can't justify buying a bike for more than $500. I want to 10-15 miles each night after I get home from work, and I don't want to repair flat tires or gear systems every night to do it. Any tips on buying bikes?
Yeah, you're probably right. If you include the number of songs DJs talk over, we're probably talking somewhere between zero and zero tunes.
Think about it. If we Yanks did things by popular vote and majority rule, why would smaller states even bother with the Union. You'd have states seceding left and right. You may not like the outcome, but you've gotta love the system. It worked.
Check out Federalist Papers #39 and #68. The fruits of this debate from over two hundred years ago can be found in the text of our Constitution's Twelfth Amendment.
Still wanna gripe? Consider the fallibility of majority rule. 60% of adults surveyed, agreed or strongly agreed that some people possess extrasensory powers. Does that instantly prove that ESP, telekinesis, and clairvoyance are in fact real? Get a load of this one: 60% of adults surveyed support specific requirements that broadcasters air an hour of educational programming -- or more -- for children each day. They think it should be "required."
There's more to this argument, but a rational observer or participant of the political process should volunteer that the American republic with its electoral college is the best system of government the world over.
As for being the worst leader in our nation's history, I can think of a few others without even thinking of this clown.
BAM! BONG! BOOM! click. Twirp. 98.5FM! The Worm!
A song begins, then I turn the dial because the song typically sucks. Repeat until I can take no more and switch the radio off.
The RIAA has been moaning about P2P and Internet radio killing their profits. I postulate that advertising has had a lot to do with this. The time most folks listen to the radio is during the drive to and from work, and you're fucking lucky to get one or two songs an hour between ads. Why bother?
Advertising is so ubiquitous that I don't even notice it, especially when its up in my grill.
Do you typically "make the love" or just "get it on?" Sorry. Had to. :)
Did this post have a point aside from bashing the President?
I submit "Midsummer Night's Dream" into evidence. He's got two lines in the whole movie, and whiffs on both of them. I mean bad. Rumor has it that Shakespeare himself reanimated somewhere outside Stratford-upon-Avon, discovered the location of the movie's shoot, and would have brought back Reeves with him to the grave were it not for some valiant albeit confused Bobbies.
If you care to follow that link...