usability != stripping every single feature possible from the application and only including a go and a stop button.
Apple is using the ford taurus mentality, it works....but the only things you get are a go and a stop pedal.
Linux is the Formula 1 race car that no normal day to day driver is gonna understand, but is one kick ass machine.
then there is bsd/unix: a race car built by some ex-hippie acid head mechanic, EVERYTHING is tweakable, and if you know how to use it, it is the most powerful and amazing engineering marvel evAR!
The reason your linksys router has so much trouble keeping up with what is going on is mostly due to its software. openwrt and dd-wrt etc etc fix this problem. Granted, the rules of logic still apply. You aren't going to get some magic software and turn your linksys into a full fledged cisco router or something like that, but you are going to make the thing a lot better. One of the great things about running openwrt on the thing is that it becomes a big huge swiss army knife. The thing has been a godsend for me at work, any time i need a spare wireless AP, or other networking swiss army knife...the WRT is there and waiting. The thing has actually impressed my boss so much that he let me buy a few soekris boards to run embedded linux.
i am fighting this tooth and nail at work (i mean, good god, telnet!) To make matters worse....we run an outdoor wireless network that goes for about a mile (if you have decent equipment) with *gasp* WEP! protecting it.
I called up our software vendors (who also shipped us the hardware that we use....intermec 6400c..circa 1998) and told their "hardware guy" how absolutly unbelievably insane this was. His response was that "you have SSID broadcast turned off right?" to which i responded "yes...so that will stop the 50 year old grand mother across the street from trying to connect to us and use t3h internets"...to this he responded "anybody sophisticated enough to find our SSID could probably pwnz0re the internets anyhow...and also that switching to WPA is pointless cause the ability to crap WEP puts them into teh "god" category of hacker. Meaning that we're screwed if somebody points their linbox our way anyway, so give up!"
oh, did i mention that by default everybody has admin privs on the system...and the software company doesn't understand why this is a problem?
i swear this shit is going to drive me insane one of these days.
Remember mturk? It never got off the ground. The simple fact is that it is WAY too much work to do all of the photos by hand. The company will result to automated cameras mounted on vans. The amount of work required to actually SORT these photos is much much more that what the end result would actually be worth.
Not to mention that a lot of the neighborhoods in this part of the country (phoenix) are gated. (mine included)
that is a big deal. This is apple taking what is more or less the standard way of interfacing with a media device, patenting it, and then taking people to court if they don't want to change. Lets say i start a laptop manufacturer. My laptops are okay, but still don't really sell very much. Well lets say that I use the money that i have made to hire a bunch of lawyers. We find out that it has not been patented to power a laptop with a portable source of power. So we patent it, then sue everybody who doesn't stop using batteries. What apple has patented is just the logical way of doing it. I guess that is a business tactic. Its just a very slimy one, and a very good example of how patents can be very very bad.
The guys who do this stuff usually try to get their hands on (pre)release DVD/VHS screeners.
while this is true, kudos are given to the group who releases the best copy as quickly as they can. As of late the best copies have been cams (often mislabeled as telesyncs). This is due to a huge scene bust that happened last summer. A lot of the bigger groups got out of the scene for fear of going to jail. You are correct that a telecine is used for scene releases, but what you missed was that correctly done telecines are very highly respected. They are also not done in an empty theater. A telecine machine requires that you actually run the film through it. Because of this, you cannot run a telecine and watch the movie on a big screen at the same time. If you want more information on this sort of thing, you should check out This website
The problem with a machine readable, human writable language is that humans aren't neat enough. When I write the letter R it looks one way, which is differant than my sister, or my friend, or my butler (okay, i don't have a butler...but a kid can dream!).
If someone were to develop a language that was machine readable, human writable, it would probably consist of a series of straight lines. Letters would have to be larger, but lines are probably the way to go.
A very good friend of mine is this way. He insists that command line on BSD is the ONLY way to fly. (in fact he doesn't run a window manager on his laptop...i think thats going a little far, whatever). He's the kind of person i would want managing servers, and writing backend stuff. Would i ever put him in charge of writing a UI? NO! It would come out with 900 differant options all aranged in a random order, with cryptic descriptions. Names? lol....no! memory locations!
if you read this trav, I still think its cause you're just an elitist!
thank god somebody who agrees! I try to drill this through peoples heads all the time. No matter what the hell your skin color is, if you come into a job interview weiring a FUBU, or Eko, or some sports jersey that is 12 sizes too big, shorts that ALMOST cover your entire legs, you are slack jawed, have a bandanna on your head, can't speak proper english etc etc. You aren't going to get a job. Thats not called racism, its called being effective at the whole "screening process".
btw, your sig: meat is healthier, from a "I have to eat this or i'm going to die" perspective. Not the meat exactly, but the fat in the meat. I guess if you were assuming that you should eat all foods in equal ammounts, then yes, vegis are healthier. But you NEED to have meat(fat).
Having said that, you make a fine point - obviously there is no way to comb through all encrypted net traffic. However, I also believe that the NSA has ways of cracking some commercial crypto incredibly quickly.
I completely agree with you, in fact, i had this exact argument with one of my close friends not too long ago. Basically it boils down to the fact that the NSA is in the business of gathering information that they're not supposed to have. If all it took to defeat the NSA was some simple PGP....wouldn't that put the NSA out of business pretty quickly?
keep in mind that in a hotel, you are paying for the priveledge to be there. In an office, they are paying YOU for the priveledge of having you there. If you don't like the conditions, leave, and your job will be out-sourced to india.
Digg.com has bettery forums? This is news to me, and i spend more time on digg that anyone that i know of. The discussions on digg are either non-existant, or horrible. The majority of topics turn into apple worship. Every time a new piece of technology comes out the 14 years olds report for duty and proclaim that it will be "hacked" in a day or so...not really knowing what exactly will be hacked, or how it will be done. The differance between a slashdot discussion and a digg.com discussion is that on slashdot you have people who have been in the industry, doing whatever the topic is since it got started. Digg.com is a bunch of 14-18 yr olds that MIGHT have read a doc or two about the subject. The new threaded comment system that was opened up a few days ago is HORRID!!! the first 10 or so comments will have between +40 and -40 diggs, and from the on its pretty much nothing. Aside from that, people undigg comments not because they are bad, but because they dont' agree with them. This makes discussions difficult or impossible.
Yes, our planet is overpopulated, which is why we are about due for another horrific plague. Aids has potential for this, but is too easily preventable. It will happen soon, as it has been happening for the last several hundred million years or so, and yes...the christians WILL think that it is the rapture of their/our church.
actually thinking for yourself means researching a product before you buy it, instead of just blindly buying what everyone else has, assuming that its the best one. Everyone has it, it must be the best right?
My marketing class is a perfect example of this, prof. says to the class "Look at the marketing behind the ipod, half of you felt like you needed to buy one"
some moron yells out "yeah, but thats cause they play VIDEOS its the best player out there"
sorry man, but there are cheaper players out there that have better UI's and can play more formats, without apples psychotic DRM.
did they take into account the dyed black hair, dickies wearing non-conformists that only listen to the most obscure music they can find by searching though the blogs of 14 year old girls on myspce!?//POPCORN!
it definitely does NOT take *several hours* to configure ndiswapper....
emerge ndiswapper
ndiswrapper -i.inf
modprobe ndiswrapper
iwlist wlan0 scan
iwconfig wlan0 essid "ESSID NAME"
dhcpcd wlan0
this should take you a maximum of about...7 minutes and 38 seconds. To be quite honest with you...after having actually USED linux, i find myself extremely frustrated when trying to get wireless to work under windows. While linux will tell you the signal strength in dBm windows just says "good' or "bad". If you have issues with your wirless connectivity you can actually DIAGNOSE them...unlike in windows (at least easily).
iwconfig....am i connected to an AP? (if so whats the signal strength)
ifconfig....do i have an ip address?
route.......do i have a default gateway? (if not, route add default gw dev wlan0)
cat/etc/resolv.conf.....do i have a set of DNS servers?
ping.....ping works..
ping www.google.com....okay, now i get a DNS hit, but no ICMP response...hrm..
i had to go through this process upon arrival at my dorm...something that would have been MUCh MUCH more difficult on a windows system. once you have the system down, the shell really becomes more effective/easier to use than the GUI.
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Clearly treo is in violation of an Apple Copyright.
Or maybe I just think so because FreeBSD is the only OS other than Windows I've ever used for more than six months at a time.
;-)
I think you just nailed it
usability != stripping every single feature possible from the application and only including a go and a stop button.
Apple is using the ford taurus mentality, it works....but the only things you get are a go and a stop pedal.
Linux is the Formula 1 race car that no normal day to day driver is gonna understand, but is one kick ass machine.
then there is bsd/unix: a race car built by some ex-hippie acid head mechanic, EVERYTHING is tweakable, and if you know how to use it, it is the most powerful and amazing engineering marvel evAR!
The reason your linksys router has so much trouble keeping up with what is going on is mostly due to its software. openwrt and dd-wrt etc etc fix this problem. Granted, the rules of logic still apply. You aren't going to get some magic software and turn your linksys into a full fledged cisco router or something like that, but you are going to make the thing a lot better. One of the great things about running openwrt on the thing is that it becomes a big huge swiss army knife. The thing has been a godsend for me at work, any time i need a spare wireless AP, or other networking swiss army knife...the WRT is there and waiting. The thing has actually impressed my boss so much that he let me buy a few soekris boards to run embedded linux.
anybody running as400.
i am fighting this tooth and nail at work (i mean, good god, telnet!) To make matters worse....we run an outdoor wireless network that goes for about a mile (if you have decent equipment) with *gasp* WEP! protecting it.
I called up our software vendors (who also shipped us the hardware that we use....intermec 6400c..circa 1998) and told their "hardware guy" how absolutly unbelievably insane this was. His response was that "you have SSID broadcast turned off right?" to which i responded "yes...so that will stop the 50 year old grand mother across the street from trying to connect to us and use t3h internets"...to this he responded "anybody sophisticated enough to find our SSID could probably pwnz0re the internets anyhow...and also that switching to WPA is pointless cause the ability to crap WEP puts them into teh "god" category of hacker. Meaning that we're screwed if somebody points their linbox our way anyway, so give up!"
oh, did i mention that by default everybody has admin privs on the system...and the software company doesn't understand why this is a problem?
i swear this shit is going to drive me insane one of these days.
Remember mturk? It never got off the ground. The simple fact is that it is WAY too much work to do all of the photos by hand. The company will result to automated cameras mounted on vans. The amount of work required to actually SORT these photos is much much more that what the end result would actually be worth.
Not to mention that a lot of the neighborhoods in this part of the country (phoenix) are gated. (mine included)
that is a big deal. This is apple taking what is more or less the standard way of interfacing with a media device, patenting it, and then taking people to court if they don't want to change. Lets say i start a laptop manufacturer. My laptops are okay, but still don't really sell very much. Well lets say that I use the money that i have made to hire a bunch of lawyers. We find out that it has not been patented to power a laptop with a portable source of power. So we patent it, then sue everybody who doesn't stop using batteries. What apple has patented is just the logical way of doing it. I guess that is a business tactic. Its just a very slimy one, and a very good example of how patents can be very very bad.
i think that gold bullion in your underwear will soon be replacing the H2 as a small penis compensation device.
Sir, if i had some mod points, i would give you them ALL!
:)d
good post
The guys who do this stuff usually try to get their hands on (pre)release DVD/VHS screeners.
while this is true, kudos are given to the group who releases the best copy as quickly as they can. As of late the best copies have been cams (often mislabeled as telesyncs). This is due to a huge scene bust that happened last summer. A lot of the bigger groups got out of the scene for fear of going to jail. You are correct that a telecine is used for scene releases, but what you missed was that correctly done telecines are very highly respected. They are also not done in an empty theater. A telecine machine requires that you actually run the film through it. Because of this, you cannot run a telecine and watch the movie on a big screen at the same time. If you want more information on this sort of thing, you should check out This website
The problem with a machine readable, human writable language is that humans aren't neat enough. When I write the letter R it looks one way, which is differant than my sister, or my friend, or my butler (okay, i don't have a butler...but a kid can dream!).
If someone were to develop a language that was machine readable, human writable, it would probably consist of a series of straight lines. Letters would have to be larger, but lines are probably the way to go.
|_|__|-__-__-_||_|__
^like that.
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A very good friend of mine is this way. He insists that command line on BSD is the ONLY way to fly. (in fact he doesn't run a window manager on his laptop...i think thats going a little far, whatever). He's the kind of person i would want managing servers, and writing backend stuff. Would i ever put him in charge of writing a UI? NO! It would come out with 900 differant options all aranged in a random order, with cryptic descriptions. Names? lol....no! memory locations!
if you read this trav, I still think its cause you're just an elitist!
thank god somebody who agrees! I try to drill this through peoples heads all the time. No matter what the hell your skin color is, if you come into a job interview weiring a FUBU, or Eko, or some sports jersey that is 12 sizes too big, shorts that ALMOST cover your entire legs, you are slack jawed, have a bandanna on your head, can't speak proper english etc etc. You aren't going to get a job. Thats not called racism, its called being effective at the whole "screening process".
btw, your sig: meat is healthier, from a "I have to eat this or i'm going to die" perspective. Not the meat exactly, but the fat in the meat. I guess if you were assuming that you should eat all foods in equal ammounts, then yes, vegis are healthier. But you NEED to have meat(fat).
Having said that, you make a fine point - obviously there is no way to comb through all encrypted net traffic. However, I also believe that the NSA has ways of cracking some commercial crypto incredibly quickly.
I completely agree with you, in fact, i had this exact argument with one of my close friends not too long ago. Basically it boils down to the fact that the NSA is in the business of gathering information that they're not supposed to have. If all it took to defeat the NSA was some simple PGP....wouldn't that put the NSA out of business pretty quickly?
keep in mind that in a hotel, you are paying for the priveledge to be there. In an office, they are paying YOU for the priveledge of having you there. If you don't like the conditions, leave, and your job will be out-sourced to india.
and i get modded troll? Mods, how is this a troll? i was responding to his statement that digg is about to take over slashdot? NOt really trolling.
Digg.com has bettery forums? This is news to me, and i spend more time on digg that anyone that i know of. The discussions on digg are either non-existant, or horrible. The majority of topics turn into apple worship. Every time a new piece of technology comes out the 14 years olds report for duty and proclaim that it will be "hacked" in a day or so...not really knowing what exactly will be hacked, or how it will be done. The differance between a slashdot discussion and a digg.com discussion is that on slashdot you have people who have been in the industry, doing whatever the topic is since it got started. Digg.com is a bunch of 14-18 yr olds that MIGHT have read a doc or two about the subject. The new threaded comment system that was opened up a few days ago is HORRID!!! the first 10 or so comments will have between +40 and -40 diggs, and from the on its pretty much nothing. Aside from that, people undigg comments not because they are bad, but because they dont' agree with them. This makes discussions difficult or impossible.
digg.com = Aol chatroom
The plague is a part of the rapture.
Yes, our planet is overpopulated, which is why we are about due for another horrific plague. Aids has potential for this, but is too easily preventable. It will happen soon, as it has been happening for the last several hundred million years or so, and yes...the christians WILL think that it is the rapture of their/our church.
windows ultimate:
isn't this also know as xpde?
it already leaked.
actually thinking for yourself means researching a product before you buy it, instead of just blindly buying what everyone else has, assuming that its the best one. Everyone has it, it must be the best right?
/zen vision M
My marketing class is a perfect example of this, prof. says to the class "Look at the marketing behind the ipod, half of you felt like you needed to buy one"
some moron yells out "yeah, but thats cause they play VIDEOS its the best player out there"
sorry man, but there are cheaper players out there that have better UI's and can play more formats, without apples psychotic DRM.
did they take into account the dyed black hair, dickies wearing non-conformists that only listen to the most obscure music they can find by searching though the blogs of 14 year old girls on myspce!? //POPCORN!
Well thank god I just upgraded to AOL 35.0 for broadband, now with Uber anti-hax0r security suite!
it definitely does NOT take *several hours* to configure ndiswapper.... emerge ndiswapper ndiswrapper -i .inf
modprobe ndiswrapper
iwlist wlan0 scan
iwconfig wlan0 essid "ESSID NAME"
dhcpcd wlan0
this should take you a maximum of about...7 minutes and 38 seconds. To be quite honest with you...after having actually USED linux, i find myself extremely frustrated when trying to get wireless to work under windows. While linux will tell you the signal strength in dBm windows just says "good' or "bad". If you have issues with your wirless connectivity you can actually DIAGNOSE them...unlike in windows (at least easily).
iwconfig....am i connected to an AP? (if so whats the signal strength)
ifconfig....do i have an ip address?
route.......do i have a default gateway? (if not, route add default gw dev wlan0)
cat /etc/resolv.conf.....do i have a set of DNS servers?
ping .....ping works..
ping www.google.com....okay, now i get a DNS hit, but no ICMP response...hrm..
i had to go through this process upon arrival at my dorm...something that would have been MUCh MUCH more difficult on a windows system. once you have the system down, the shell really becomes more effective/easier to use than the GUI.