No company cares when you tell them you won't use their service. They do care when you tell them specifically which of their competition you're going to use instead. Because when they start seeing that name more and more, they start to worry...
If you have 10 brilliant people leading 100 average people... fire the 100 and support the 10 to do the delivery effectively
The first thing each of them will say is "I had a team of ten people supporting my project, then the bastards cut the budget and now all I do is put out fires."
everything else is smoke, mirrors and lies... take the base operating systems of each and show me ONE thing that windows is better at.
Auditing on a per-file-per-operation basis. A single service control mechanism that doesn't require an interactive session. A filesystem with fully extensible metadata. Hardware support for things like FC controllers (it's not linux's fault, no, but if I can't use it I can't use it)
As far as non-core OS end user experiences go, printing still sucks on any unix.
Score 3: interesting? Morons, that was supposed to be funny.
The "My" refers to the fact that everything under "My" is profile-specific. This is why Program Files is not called "My Programs" (though it really should exist). It could have used the username, but the convention started with win95, which wasn't multi-user in the least.
Quickest test of whether DirectX is hosed or not: pinball. And WFP only protects stuff you actually installed in the first place. God knows how you'd probably piss and moan about how sterile the OS is if they left it out.
> There has been no technical or biological barriers to producing a non-painful or non-surgical male contraceptive drug like this
You mean except for the side effects of steroids on the original shot, and the fact that the new pill is progestin. Oh goodie. See many women taking testosterone? Nice rant, no substance. Besides, my SO would rather wear a bulletproof vest than trust that the chamber was empty.
Heh. Reminds me of when someone posted the "smallest BSOD generator available".
void main() { while(1) printf("\b\t\t"); }
I compiled and ran this. While it was running and apparently did nothing, I popped my response window, and said something about the poster being full of shi*bluescreen*
Those sorts of things were funnier when the world was ytalk and unbuffered I suppose, you could actually see 'em go away.
> I don't know much about FreeBSD's ports system but I hear that Portage is better.
It's certainly more featureful out of the box, but Portage requires its own toolchain to manage, which defeats the purpose of ports in a few ways. Ports uses make, a familiar well-worn tool to most system administrators. That said, if I install Linux again, it'd probably be Gentoo.
Besides, BSD will run any linux app that doesn't have kernel dependencies (though most of/proc is supported). It's just too bad that the distro in/compat is redhat, as I would have preferred debian. I can see the reasoning though, since it's generally there to run commercial linux software that's not available on bsd.
> After visiting Italy and tasting true italian espresso, I can't really tolerate 'normal' coffee.
So get an espresso machine. Espresso is extra-roasted, ground extra-fine, then packed nice and tight, with hot water forced ("pressed", thus the name) through it quickly. Ounce for ounce, it is a lot stronger than regular coffee, but not enough for a shot of espresso to contain as much caffeine as a cup (and we're talking 6 oz cups) of drip coffee.
Good espresso tends to be mellower because they maintain the machine well, and roast and grind it just right. It's not exactly like they grow a lot of coffee in Italy. Drip coffee is kind of harsh, but it's really a coffee purist's way of having coffee (drip, vacuum, bodum, what have you, all basically the same). Most espresso tends to just taste burnt to my snobby pallate.
As an aside, I rarely drink soda. Liquid candy... jesus christ people, use some of that superior intellect and understand what all that sugar alone is doing to you. When you're all 30 and 300 lbs, the connection might become obvious.
I nearly pissed myself when I read the title the first time as "Making Mac OS X Work Like Windows?".
It's X. Or X11. X-Windows is something you might tell newbies, but it's not an official name, and slashdot really does know better. Ah but I forgot: slashdot's editors don't.
> Needless to say, it failed pretty miserably, which is why Java later came up with Swing
It failed miserably because the AWT folks were freaking idiots about the design. Nearly every single widget (if not every one) had a lock, and got locked and unlocked down the widget tree during every event. Might have been required by the native implementation, don't know. Swing's relative snappiness has less to do with its pure java implementation (though JNI is slow, I'll grant that) and more to do with imposing a lot less locking overhead. However, IBM has done just fine with SWT, which goes back to a peered implementation.
It's nice in theory, and it's nice in the real world. It just doesn't always work on the first try.
Essentially, it throws the parsing problem right back in the spammer's faces: They must answer a fuzzy logic question in order to get into your inbox once and for all.
As someone who does email support, lemme tell you just HOW MUCH I love those fucking responders. Nothing like deliberately making my job harder. Sure would be nice if these services would automatically whitelist addresses you sent mail to first.
This was a publicity stunt from someone who wanted to plug Linux. There are thousands of source licensees for Windows, and I wager the government of Taiwan is one of them. Maybe this person's particular firewall project didn't get a source license -- not to mention how it didn't need one, as MS's network stack is absolutely pluggable and documented in the SDK -- but this doesn't immediately translate into a mandate for MS to give the code away and satisfy one person who could easily vote with his feet and use FreeBSD+netgraph, OpenBSD+ipf, or Linux.
Hey look, my perfect linux systems got 0wned, but hey there's big bad Microsoft over there, they might be doing this, hey pay attention to Microsoft hey now Microsoft is bad, please stop talking about anything that might be bad in linux because Microsoft is a bunch of meanie poo-poohs.
He rather liked the idea of people exploring their creativity without societally imposed limits, and in general expressing their desires and drives to their utmost. It's been used to justify tyranny, except that he figured that if enough good people also expressed their will to power, that controlling evil could not stand.
I rather think he'd like Bill Gates and Linus both. I imagine he'd have liked RMS when he was coding, but not as he is now. "In every party there is one who through his all too credulous avowal of the party's principles incites the others to apostasy."
You do realize that there are approximately 1.37E+20 third party popup stopper programs out there? I'm a fan of popuppopper. You wish your video card dead for actually displaying the windows too?
One could question the wisdom of designing an interface catering to users intimidated by immediately responsive menues. I find it infuriating that as hardware gets ever faster companies find more ways to slow the system down.
Wow, you really got the psychology down, just from one word a third party used. How about they found it "disconcerting" instead? How about "distracting"? My personal word for menu flicker is "annoying". Get off your high horse, and at least address the semantics instead of the syntax.
Besides, the delay keeps the system fom populating submenus you're not opening. It makes the system faster. If you really must have your instant menus, use tweakUI and remove the delay. And watch yourself curse as you now require precise aim to select submenus.
I switched off that ages ago, it seemed like a good feature but I found Word would often crash *during* the autosave, basically destroying the original document. So instead of saving the x minutes since the last save, you lost the x hours or days worth of changes since the last backup.
Turn off quick saves. 90% of word's breakage comes from this heinous "feature".
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> You'd create the concept of smell() and prolly return something that describes the result of finding the max(), or driving() or smelling().
How's this differ from polymorphism as implemented in languages with type inference?
No company cares when you tell them you won't use their service. They do care when you tell them specifically which of their competition you're going to use instead. Because when they start seeing that name more and more, they start to worry...
If you have 10 brilliant people leading 100 average people... fire the 100 and support the 10 to do the delivery effectively
The first thing each of them will say is "I had a team of ten people supporting my project, then the bastards cut the budget and now all I do is put out fires."
I'd have filed it under the Amiga section. dustbin-of-history.slashdot.org or something like that...
> From what I've read, it's supposed to use hardware accelleration to paint the windows on the screen
Windows has done that since Win98. Even X does that (XAA).
everything else is smoke, mirrors and lies... take the base operating systems of each and show me ONE thing that windows is better at.
Auditing on a per-file-per-operation basis. A single service control mechanism that doesn't require an interactive session. A filesystem with fully extensible metadata. Hardware support for things like FC controllers (it's not linux's fault, no, but if I can't use it I can't use it)
As far as non-core OS end user experiences go, printing still sucks on any unix.
Score 3: interesting? Morons, that was supposed to be funny.
The "My" refers to the fact that everything under "My" is profile-specific. This is why Program Files is not called "My Programs" (though it really should exist). It could have used the username, but the convention started with win95, which wasn't multi-user in the least.
Quickest test of whether DirectX is hosed or not: pinball. And WFP only protects stuff you actually installed in the first place. God knows how you'd probably piss and moan about how sterile the OS is if they left it out.
> There has been no technical or biological barriers to producing a non-painful or non-surgical male contraceptive drug like this
You mean except for the side effects of steroids on the original shot, and the fact that the new pill is progestin. Oh goodie. See many women taking testosterone? Nice rant, no substance. Besides, my SO would rather wear a bulletproof vest than trust that the chamber was empty.
Heh. Reminds me of when someone posted the "smallest BSOD generator available".
void main() { while(1) printf("\b\t\t"); }
I compiled and ran this. While it was running and apparently did nothing, I popped my response window, and said something about the poster being full of shi*bluescreen*
Those sorts of things were funnier when the world was ytalk and unbuffered I suppose, you could actually see 'em go away.
> I don't know much about FreeBSD's ports system but I hear that Portage is better.
/proc is supported). It's just too bad that the distro in /compat is redhat, as I would have preferred debian. I can see the reasoning though, since it's generally there to run commercial linux software that's not available on bsd.
It's certainly more featureful out of the box, but Portage requires its own toolchain to manage, which defeats the purpose of ports in a few ways. Ports uses make, a familiar well-worn tool to most system administrators. That said, if I install Linux again, it'd probably be Gentoo.
Besides, BSD will run any linux app that doesn't have kernel dependencies (though most of
> Of course, the people without calculators could answer first.
Duh. The mind is quicker than the fingers. Now quick, what's the cube root of 13524629198529852974623651235?
> After visiting Italy and tasting true italian espresso, I can't really tolerate 'normal' coffee.
... jesus christ people, use some of that superior intellect and understand what all that sugar alone is doing to you. When you're all 30 and 300 lbs, the connection might become obvious.
So get an espresso machine. Espresso is extra-roasted, ground extra-fine, then packed nice and tight, with hot water forced ("pressed", thus the name) through it quickly. Ounce for ounce, it is a lot stronger than regular coffee, but not enough for a shot of espresso to contain as much caffeine as a cup (and we're talking 6 oz cups) of drip coffee.
Good espresso tends to be mellower because they maintain the machine well, and roast and grind it just right. It's not exactly like they grow a lot of coffee in Italy. Drip coffee is kind of harsh, but it's really a coffee purist's way of having coffee (drip, vacuum, bodum, what have you, all basically the same). Most espresso tends to just taste burnt to my snobby pallate.
As an aside, I rarely drink soda. Liquid candy
I nearly pissed myself when I read the title the first time as "Making Mac OS X Work Like Windows?".
It's X. Or X11. X-Windows is something you might tell newbies, but it's not an official name, and slashdot really does know better. Ah but I forgot: slashdot's editors don't.
For this whole article I can rely on just my .sig!
> Needless to say, it failed pretty miserably, which is why Java later came up with Swing
It failed miserably because the AWT folks were freaking idiots about the design. Nearly every single widget (if not every one) had a lock, and got locked and unlocked down the widget tree during every event. Might have been required by the native implementation, don't know. Swing's relative snappiness has less to do with its pure java implementation (though JNI is slow, I'll grant that) and more to do with imposing a lot less locking overhead. However, IBM has done just fine with SWT, which goes back to a peered implementation.
It's nice in theory, and it's nice in the real world. It just doesn't always work on the first try.
Imagine a Beowu--WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM.
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Essentially, it throws the parsing problem right back in the spammer's faces: They must answer a fuzzy logic question in order to get into your inbox once and for all.
As someone who does email support, lemme tell you just HOW MUCH I love those fucking responders. Nothing like deliberately making my job harder. Sure would be nice if these services would automatically whitelist addresses you sent mail to first.
This was a publicity stunt from someone who wanted to plug Linux. There are thousands of source licensees for Windows, and I wager the government of Taiwan is one of them. Maybe this person's particular firewall project didn't get a source license -- not to mention how it didn't need one, as MS's network stack is absolutely pluggable and documented in the SDK -- but this doesn't immediately translate into a mandate for MS to give the code away and satisfy one person who could easily vote with his feet and use FreeBSD+netgraph, OpenBSD+ipf, or Linux.
Hey look, my perfect linux systems got 0wned, but hey there's big bad Microsoft over there, they might be doing this, hey pay attention to Microsoft hey now Microsoft is bad, please stop talking about anything that might be bad in linux because Microsoft is a bunch of meanie poo-poohs.
> Blah. It's even a Photoshop filtered black & white picture.
It's a sketch. You don't read the WSJ print version much, do you?
What would Nietzsche say about Open Source?
He rather liked the idea of people exploring their creativity without societally imposed limits, and in general expressing their desires and drives to their utmost. It's been used to justify tyranny, except that he figured that if enough good people also expressed their will to power, that controlling evil could not stand.
I rather think he'd like Bill Gates and Linus both. I imagine he'd have liked RMS when he was coding, but not as he is now. "In every party there is one who through his all too credulous avowal of the party's principles incites the others to apostasy."
You do realize that there are approximately 1.37E+20 third party popup stopper programs out there? I'm a fan of popuppopper. You wish your video card dead for actually displaying the windows too?
One could question the wisdom of designing an interface catering to users intimidated by immediately responsive menues. I find it infuriating that as hardware gets ever faster companies find more ways to slow the system down.
Wow, you really got the psychology down, just from one word a third party used. How about they found it "disconcerting" instead? How about "distracting"? My personal word for menu flicker is "annoying". Get off your high horse, and at least address the semantics instead of the syntax.
Besides, the delay keeps the system fom populating submenus you're not opening. It makes the system faster. If you really must have your instant menus, use tweakUI and remove the delay. And watch yourself curse as you now require precise aim to select submenus.
I switched off that ages ago, it seemed like a good feature but I found Word would often crash *during* the autosave, basically destroying the original document. So instead of saving the x minutes since the last save, you lost the x hours or days worth of changes since the last backup.
Turn off quick saves. 90% of word's breakage comes from this heinous "feature".