The problem with this guy browbeating others into not thanking him on the mailing list is that idiots like me, who don't subscribe to postfix-user, have no way to browse the archives a year later and be able to differentiate between questions that have working answers and questions that the asker just gave up on. That means I'm gonna ask him the same question again, and I'd bet a dollar that he'd remember answering it the first time and just tell me to go check the archives instead of wasting his time. And if he gives bad advice with anywhere near the frequency that your parent's post mentions, then I sure as hell would like to know when any of his posts actually lead to a useful and working solution to a problem so I can ignore the others.
It's not my job to make life easier for anyone's email filter. His need for an uncluttered inbox is trumped by the need for the community to archive useful information.
Just because the people you talk to appear to be inexplicably (and idiotically) uninterested in tracking their 401Ks, or watching the stock and options they got from their employer, or trying to make a buck by picking up cheap stock before we start climbing out of this hole, doesn't mean the rest of us are too. Maybe you should take your own advice and update your own worldview.
This advertisement^Warticle looks like it was written by some marketing exec's high-school kid. It's chock full of clumsy grammar and useless buzzwords, yet somehow almost completely content-free. Can someone please explain to me again why this belongs on the front page?
A person's pay is not for work they've done in the past. No one pays their plumber a license to flush their toilet. No one pays their plumber a fee when they use the plumber's tactics to fix their own toilet again.
That's what you think - I'm on my way to the patent office right now. I'll see you suckers later!
would someone please mod this offtopic? I'm really having a hard time seeing how a knee-jerk libertarian rant about OMG TEH FREEDOMS has anything to do with a guy who is tinkering with large amounts of chemicals in the basement of his house in violation of common-sense municipal ordinances.
Nobody's taking away this guy's ability to practice his hobby. Really. They're just telling him that he can't do so in an area of town where if he blows his house up he'd take the lives and property of innocent neighbors with it. Why is that such a hard concept to grasp?
First of all, it sounds like you have way too many people involved in the UI decision-making process. You need the UI architect/lead, the guys who are gonna implement it, and an end-user or two (or maybe QA guy if you don't have any end-users around). That's it. Non-technical bosses don't need to be involved, marketing doesn't need to be involved, technical co-workers who don't have a hand in implementing this don't need to be involved (that includes other UI programmers). Meeting bloat was the biggest headache I had at my old job; we ended up designing our UI essentially by committee, and it sucked.
As far as a UI overview, again, there's nothing better than testing by actual end-users. Try to convince your boss to let you demo an early-ish prototype to real customers. If you can't, then hallway testing is probably the next best thing. If a random cross-section of people can manage to perform simple tasks through your UI, your customers shouldn't have much trouble doing the same thing.
Because overhearing a couple of conversations will obviously give you last word on how every Muslim is supposed to act. If you bothered to even read up on what you're attempting to trash, you'd learn that Muslims don't necessarily have a problem with all Jews. They're a "People of the Book", who traditionally enjoy a protected status in exchange for recognizing Islamic superiority over their lands. Israeli Jews obviously aren't going along with this, and that's the source of the insults you've heard.
Oh, so there's a caste system for infidels? Goody! Put me at the bottom, k? Fail.
Mindless and pointless anti-religious sniping. Very classy. Adds lots to the discussion.
Wasn't that what the seventeen different versions of WinXP or Vista were supposed to be - different featuresets for different target audiences? It was sucky and confusing then, it'll be sucky and confusing next time too.
Because standardized, swappable, refillable parts worked out so well for consumers when it came to inkjet cartridges, right?
It's a nice idea, but unless we get solid and pro-consumer legislation in the early stages of electrical infrastructure buildout, it's not gonna happen.
Completely agreed; this "article" is a piece of trash. Out of the ten items on the list I counted three where no actual examples of Windows use were given, only implied; three uses that are hardly mission-critical or important in any way; one example that's only included because the author worked on it firsthand; and, as a bonus, there's a lame conclusion that doesn't say anything except the obvious. Why was this posted again?
I know it's all computationally intensive and impressive in that aspect, but pictures in the article don't really look much better than your average videogame. Same triangular shapes, ugly, clearly "rendered" landscapes.
That's because the demo wasn't about finer geometry or higher-res textures or better bumpmaps. It was about the reflection and refraction bonuses you get with ray-tracing that you don't with rasterization, which won't really affect anything you were talking about.
Why? Just because of the first two words in the title? That, frankly, is a piss-poor reason to see a movie.
Yours is the exact attitude that causes movie studios to continue producing terrible sequels and re-makes instead of movies that are worth watching. Why innovate when you can imitate for cheaper and people will eat it up anyway, right?
Thinking that using Unix is the solution to getting 0wned is like thinking that heterosexuality is the solution to getting AIDS. The only general solution is education.
I'm sorry, but this is Slashdot. I'll need an automobile analogy, please.
Unitary Executive: Ignores rules for character generation. Can ignore any or all rules of combat, at will, as long as Memo of John Woo is in possession.
"Memo of John Woo"? That's the one that lets you blow up tons of stuff and perform martial arts on street criminals, right?
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In the very latest dev version of swfdec the video works again, but there is no sound.
That sounds like progress to me! Is the next version going to remove user comments from the page too?
yes, yes, a thousand times yes. This is why I still run WinAmp on the handful of Windows installs I have lying around.
Meet the "GSM Devil", which relies on this interference to tell you you're phone is about to ring.
...seriously?
You mean someone actually said "by God I should NOT have to wait that extra 1.2 seconds to hear my phone ring!" and went off and invented this?
The problem with this guy browbeating others into not thanking him on the mailing list is that idiots like me, who don't subscribe to postfix-user, have no way to browse the archives a year later and be able to differentiate between questions that have working answers and questions that the asker just gave up on. That means I'm gonna ask him the same question again, and I'd bet a dollar that he'd remember answering it the first time and just tell me to go check the archives instead of wasting his time. And if he gives bad advice with anywhere near the frequency that your parent's post mentions, then I sure as hell would like to know when any of his posts actually lead to a useful and working solution to a problem so I can ignore the others.
It's not my job to make life easier for anyone's email filter. His need for an uncluttered inbox is trumped by the need for the community to archive useful information.
Just because the people you talk to appear to be inexplicably (and idiotically) uninterested in tracking their 401Ks, or watching the stock and options they got from their employer, or trying to make a buck by picking up cheap stock before we start climbing out of this hole, doesn't mean the rest of us are too. Maybe you should take your own advice and update your own worldview.
Speaking as someone with an astrophysics background, I can say with great certainty that I have no idea what it is.
Don't worry. Speaking as someone with no astrophysics background whatsoever, I can say with great certainty that I have no idea what it is either.
This advertisement^Warticle looks like it was written by some marketing exec's high-school kid. It's chock full of clumsy grammar and useless buzzwords, yet somehow almost completely content-free. Can someone please explain to me again why this belongs on the front page?
You think you're clever, but how the hell am I supposed to kill the Combine when they finally invade?
I mean, Half-Life 2 is a training simulator, right?
It's about time we had a sporting event in which drug enhancements are welcome so we can see the effects of the different drugs.
I present to you the All-Drug Olympics.
A person's pay is not for work they've done in the past. No one pays their plumber a license to flush their toilet. No one pays their plumber a fee when they use the plumber's tactics to fix their own toilet again.
That's what you think - I'm on my way to the patent office right now. I'll see you suckers later!
would someone please mod this offtopic? I'm really having a hard time seeing how a knee-jerk libertarian rant about OMG TEH FREEDOMS has anything to do with a guy who is tinkering with large amounts of chemicals in the basement of his house in violation of common-sense municipal ordinances.
Nobody's taking away this guy's ability to practice his hobby. Really. They're just telling him that he can't do so in an area of town where if he blows his house up he'd take the lives and property of innocent neighbors with it. Why is that such a hard concept to grasp?
First of all, it sounds like you have way too many people involved in the UI decision-making process. You need the UI architect/lead, the guys who are gonna implement it, and an end-user or two (or maybe QA guy if you don't have any end-users around). That's it. Non-technical bosses don't need to be involved, marketing doesn't need to be involved, technical co-workers who don't have a hand in implementing this don't need to be involved (that includes other UI programmers). Meeting bloat was the biggest headache I had at my old job; we ended up designing our UI essentially by committee, and it sucked.
As far as a UI overview, again, there's nothing better than testing by actual end-users. Try to convince your boss to let you demo an early-ish prototype to real customers. If you can't, then hallway testing is probably the next best thing. If a random cross-section of people can manage to perform simple tasks through your UI, your customers shouldn't have much trouble doing the same thing.
...how long it will be before some lawyer argues that flipping bits in RAM or on a hard drive constitutes "a physical transformation of an article".
As nice as it would be to get some real reform efforts going, I'm not holding out too much hope for this particular one.
Your ignorance and closed-mindedness is astounding.
As a side issue: wtf is up with Islam and dogs? Jesus friggin' Christ. Any religion that doesn't "allow" a boy to have a dog as a pet is... sick.
You're absolutely right. Your preferences and moral values are automatically better than anyone else's, anywhere, ever.
Really? I've heard Muslims call Jews rats, dogs, bastards, pigs....
Because overhearing a couple of conversations will obviously give you last word on how every Muslim is supposed to act. If you bothered to even read up on what you're attempting to trash, you'd learn that Muslims don't necessarily have a problem with all Jews. They're a "People of the Book", who traditionally enjoy a protected status in exchange for recognizing Islamic superiority over their lands. Israeli Jews obviously aren't going along with this, and that's the source of the insults you've heard.
Oh, so there's a caste system for infidels? Goody! Put me at the bottom, k?
Fail.
Mindless and pointless anti-religious sniping. Very classy. Adds lots to the discussion.
What do you think the spacesuits will be made out of?
Wasn't that what the seventeen different versions of WinXP or Vista were supposed to be - different featuresets for different target audiences? It was sucky and confusing then, it'll be sucky and confusing next time too.
Because standardized, swappable, refillable parts worked out so well for consumers when it came to inkjet cartridges, right?
It's a nice idea, but unless we get solid and pro-consumer legislation in the early stages of electrical infrastructure buildout, it's not gonna happen.
Completely agreed; this "article" is a piece of trash. Out of the ten items on the list I counted three where no actual examples of Windows use were given, only implied; three uses that are hardly mission-critical or important in any way; one example that's only included because the author worked on it firsthand; and, as a bonus, there's a lame conclusion that doesn't say anything except the obvious. Why was this posted again?
Also, record record record record record record.
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I know it's all computationally intensive and impressive in that aspect, but pictures in the article don't really look much better than your average videogame. Same triangular shapes, ugly, clearly "rendered" landscapes.
That's because the demo wasn't about finer geometry or higher-res textures or better bumpmaps. It was about the reflection and refraction bonuses you get with ray-tracing that you don't with rasterization, which won't really affect anything you were talking about.
What's that in Libraries of Congress?
Personally I'll see it no matter what.
Why? Just because of the first two words in the title? That, frankly, is a piss-poor reason to see a movie.
Yours is the exact attitude that causes movie studios to continue producing terrible sequels and re-makes instead of movies that are worth watching. Why innovate when you can imitate for cheaper and people will eat it up anyway, right?
Thinking that using Unix is the solution to getting 0wned is like thinking that heterosexuality is the solution to getting AIDS. The only general solution is education.
I'm sorry, but this is Slashdot. I'll need an automobile analogy, please.
I read your post three times, and I still can't figure out what in God's name you're ranting about.
Unitary Executive: Ignores rules for character generation. Can ignore any or all rules of combat, at will, as long as Memo of John Woo is in possession.
"Memo of John Woo"? That's the one that lets you blow up tons of stuff and perform martial arts on street criminals, right?