And why should the government fear you... The problem is the government took away your rights "to bear arms" along time ago. Sure they'll let you purchase a hand gun (if you pass a background check), but the minute you try to build a nuke in your basement see how long it takes for the feds to come crashing down your door. The right to bear arms only really means anything if you had the ability to protect your self from your government- and you can be sure the government won't let you have anything powerful enough to do that.
Then there is the whole screwed up political system. Supposedly you have power with your vote but your choices are all the same. It's like bringing a vegetarian to a restaurant and telling him he can have chicken or steak. You basically have a choice of two bloated corrupt political parties who don't give a flying f#^$ about your interests (just your vote). Sure maybe you can vote someone out of office, but all you'll get back at the end of the day is the same entity with a different face.
I got so much karma to burn it's not funny... so I'm going completely off topic about your SIG.
>>ACs don't bother. You're filtered. I don't even know you're there.
First off, what makes you so important that people should not bother commenting just because you ignore them.
Second, Many AC posts are trash, but a few ARE worth reading. Sometimes people post anoymously because they're about to say something not in line with the slashdot readership's group-think; and don't feel like blowing their karma.
BTW, I only drop by Slashdot maybe once a week these days. This is because I find a great deal of what people say on Slashdot is not worth the time it takes me to read it. But by all means though, I encourage all (anonymous cowards included) to keep the posts coming.
I'm saying nothing new or particularly insightful here.... but for those who aren't already devoted Simpsons fans...
The simpsons used to be the most brilliant show on TV. Not just best cartoon, best show period. Many would be of the opinion that the last GREAT season of the simpsons was either seasons 6 or 7, and season 8 was still pretty good. But then from seasons 9-11 things went wrong.... horribly wrong. Homer turned into a complete idiot, the plots had no ties to reality, entire characters were re-defined from what we know and love. There has been a slight improvement in the past few years... but not anything to make the Simpsons must-see-TV.
If all you know of the Simpsons is the last few years- Do your self a favor and rent seasons 2-7.... you won't be dissapointed.
Do you mean a projector panel LCD made for overheads? That's what I have, and it has served me well. But the color and contrast is pretty poor compared to anything you can buy new. I've been on the lookout for just the LCD element with VGA connectors but they don't seem to exist. I wouldn't mind stripping out a monitor if I knew it was going to be easy... but I've read plenty of horror stories of how they can be hard to disassemble. That, and most LCD screens are too big and tend to overlap the lighted area of your OHP.
Not a 100% on topic... but the first article to mention Vonage so....
I was a vonage subscriber for 5 months. The phone worked alright most of the time, but maybe 2 calls a week would break up or otherwise drop out. The thing that was most upsetting was their complete lack of customer support. They would absolutely ignore all my emails and contact by phone was nearly impossible. I waited all that time to get my phone number ported which should have occured between 2 weeks to a month. 5 months later and no luck. The one time I did get through the customer rep laughed, like... yeah we get all kinds of calls about that. Needless to say, I ditched that service and havn't looked back.
I don't think there is anything particularly wrong with writing open source software for windows. At the same time, It bugs me to see open source projects for Windows. Here is the reason why.
Linux simply does not have as many (or in some cases) as good apps as there are for Windows. Now you can come up with list of hundreds... possibly thousands of applications for Linux. But when you trim out all the alphaware, abandonwhere, or software that requires a geek to compile and install... the remaining selection is pretty sparse. Tell me, what is an easy way to remove red eye from photo's on Linux. There is a way to do it with Gimp, but I can do it in a couple of clicks with my photo suite on Windows. That's just one small example, I'm sure there are many others. Lets not even mention games... it's hard to get excited about early 80's clone games. I'm a bit nostalic myself, but when I'm in that kind of mood I fire up mame and play the originals.
Anyway, before I stray too far from my point... simply said I'm jealous of the manpower being wasted on an operating system that already has too many apps. If someone is going to donate their efforts for free, shouldn't they contribute to an OS that can really use the additional apps?
Well I've seen alot of what is considered evidence for evolution, but nothing good enough to sell me on the idea. Sure, there's plenty of monkey bones out there (along with artists depictions), but lots of speculation and imagination goes into turning that into a real story of human evolution. Now what i've seen is this; nature is very fragile... there used to be much more biodiversity than there is today. hardship creates a thinning out and extinction, not an explosion of new species. Also, studying the symbiotic relationships in nature makes much more sense when you consider they were designed to complement each other. For evolution that just presents more problems. Not only did one species have to survive incomprehensible odds to be what it is, the dependant species had to do the same and at the same time.
Now if you ask me, it takes much less "faith" to accept what's in the Bible. People in the past deserve much more credit than we give them. Much of the bible is historically verifiable- but many choose to discredit it because they don't what to accept that miracles just might have happened.
I respect science, but I don't think that it can explain everything. It is an assumption to think that everything can be measured with man-made tools and man-made scientific process. It's a shame that people like you are so negative. You assume that all we believe is blind, as if we put no thought into why we believe what we do. There are many things that can be taken as proof... personal experiences, written history (the Bible for example), considering humanity and it's traits. It's true that much of religion has given God a bad name, but that's no reason to abandon faith entirely.
I'm still wondering where the money in these post-boom years. I've a programmer in New England for the last 6 years... and I still have yet to break out of the 40's. I don't know if it's poor salary negotation skills or what, but there seems to be very limited opportunities as to what I can do and what pay is available for these things. I'm a pretty decent Java,C* and.Net developer- but not quite advanced enough to do EJB, Websphere,etc apps. It seems like the really big stuff, you can't get into anyway unless you've apprenticed in it already under a big company somewhere.
Maybe it's because of poor quality.
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I'm a long time palm customer... but I'm not sure for how much longer. I've had palms since the palm III, but the quality seems to be getting worse.
Currently I have a palm Tunstem T3, It was impressive when I first got it though overpriced. Just a year and a half later I'm having a ton of problems with it. The digitizer is way off and recalibration doesn't seem to help. Also, sporadically it will decide it doesn't want to shut off and will burn out the battery. If I can get it to the charger... sometimes it will snap out of it but I've completely lost it's memory several times. And I suspect bluetooth never has worked correctly... I've only been able to exchange data with 1/3 of other peoples devices I've encountered.
I'm especially dissapointed because I usually hope to get at least 3 years out of a device before shelling out more cash for another one. Just out of curiosity I was looking at the new palms at Staples the other day... and believe it or not 3 out of 6 of their display models were either frozen or had an error message on the screen. At the same time, I don't want to be carrying Windows around in my pocket... so I guess for the time being I'm going to be stuck with the piece of junk I have.
Version 1: You gotta be kidding.... GOES is better than this. Version 2: What changed? Version 3: Hmnn, guess it's better than the command line. Version 3.1: Still better than the command line... and faster too. Version 95: Thinks are looking up.... only... back to DOS mode for my games Version 98: Cool, my OS actually knows about the internet now! And no reboots for my games! Woohoo Version ME: Ooops, I think I'll just pretend I didn't see this one. Version XP: Hey, this actually seems as stable as my Linux box? Could this be the one?
"He doesn't want a cell phone that doubles as an MP3 player to become too popular as that would cut straight into Apple's bread and butter product"
I just don't get this, I mean this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to me. If cellphones with MP3 support take off, and Apples got the first shot at it... what's the problem? Instead of selling iPod's, they'll sell phonePod's... but at least they'll sell the same number of devices- maybe more.
I tried Suse 9.3 for a while... but quickly put that to rest after some major problems.
First of all was the 3D features of my nvidia card. They said just go do a on-line update to add that. It seemed to work the first time, but then when applying other updates the 3D driver stopped working mysteriously. After 3 later installation attempts, I was completely unable to get 3D to work under Suse again.
Then I found multi-media to be seriously impaired. I couln't even play mp3's... that really bugged me. Of course, another update to take care of that (after I selected the proper non-US mirror).
One thing that Suse did get right was automounting my SD card... hooray! I'm using mandrake again and that doesn't support SD cards automatically (although with some tweaking I can get it to see it)
The real nail in Suse's coffin for me was that it was butt slow... I mean dreadfully awefully slow. It took literally twice as long as my Mandrake installation to boot even after shutting down what I consider unnecessary services. Even when running, everything just seemed to drag. I don't know why... maybe it's compiled to still be 386 compatible. In any case, that more than all else ended my relationship with Suse.
"It is a bald faced lie to say linux is hard to install."
Well I hope I'm not being redundant on someone elses comment here, but the trueness (or falseness) or your statement has everything to do with what you call a complete linux installation.
If you mean getting the linux kernel, a handful of common apps, and the X desktop at a standard resolution installed... then I agree with you 100%.
But, If you mean getting linux installed so that it can interface with my digital camera, connect seamlessly with my palm handheld, read my SD cards without playing games, or play encrypted DVD's without installing extra libraries.... then I'd have to disagree with you. All these things are much easier to get done in Windows.
It's a troll... but I just gotta bite. A chair is ancient technology, but I'm happy to be sitting in one as I read slashdot today. Not all things are wrong just because they are old.
This is a old technology that I guess no one thinks is cool anymore... but at my present job I've been using Liveconnect to route messages from a server to javascript in the browser with excellent results. The java piece of it is pretty simple, it's more or less a message conduit between a javascript libary and the backend server. Also, considering how well Javascript interacts with CSS elements now, I've pulled off some pretty good interactivity using this method.
I've tried the above, with partial success. For some reason that I can't possibly imagine why, my VS insists on checking out the projects first before letting you unbind them. Which is kinda tough when your on a team where others got some of those checked out. I've successfully gone in,cleared the read-only bits form the.vbproj files before to get around this but it's a PITA when the solution you've got has some 40 projects in it.
I've used Studio 2003 new for the last year and a half. Overall I like it alot and wish I had a linux equivilent (monodevelop has SOOOOOOOO far to go). The only thing I hate hate hate hate (x1000) is it's lousy integration with source safe when it comes to ASP.net projects. Ever try moving a web project from one location to another? Or try to get a un-source controlled copy of your project. Good luck, it's possible but excruciatingly painful.
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For ubuntu to drop Gnome for Unity.
So 2+2 really is 5?
And why should the government fear you...
The problem is the government took away your rights "to bear arms" along time ago. Sure they'll let you purchase a hand gun (if you pass a background check), but the minute you try to build a nuke in your basement see how long it takes for the feds to come crashing down your door. The right to bear arms only really means anything if you had the ability to protect your self from your government- and you can be sure the government won't let you have anything powerful enough to do that.
Then there is the whole screwed up political system. Supposedly you have power with your vote but your choices are all the same. It's like bringing a vegetarian to a restaurant and telling him he can have chicken or steak. You basically have a choice of two bloated corrupt political parties who don't give a flying f#^$ about your interests (just your vote). Sure maybe you can vote someone out of office, but all you'll get back at the end of the day is the same entity with a different face.
I got so much karma to burn it's not funny... so I'm going completely off topic about your SIG.
>>ACs don't bother. You're filtered. I don't even know you're there.
First off, what makes you so important that people should not bother commenting just because you ignore them.
Second, Many AC posts are trash, but a few ARE worth reading. Sometimes people post anoymously because
they're about to say something not in line with the slashdot readership's group-think; and don't feel like blowing their karma.
BTW, I only drop by Slashdot maybe once a week these days. This is because I find a great deal of what people say on Slashdot is not worth the time it takes me to read it. But by all means though, I encourage all (anonymous cowards included) to keep the posts coming.
I'm saying nothing new or particularly insightful here.... but for those who aren't already devoted Simpsons fans...
The simpsons used to be the most brilliant show on TV. Not just best cartoon, best show period. Many would be of the opinion that the last GREAT season of the simpsons was either seasons 6 or 7, and season 8 was still pretty good. But then from seasons 9-11 things went wrong.... horribly wrong. Homer turned into a complete idiot, the plots had no ties to reality, entire characters were re-defined from what we know and love. There has been a slight improvement in the past few years... but not anything to make the Simpsons must-see-TV.
If all you know of the Simpsons is the last few years- Do your self a favor and rent seasons 2-7.... you won't be dissapointed.
Do you mean a projector panel LCD made for overheads? That's what I have, and it has served me well. But the color and contrast is pretty poor compared to anything you can buy new. I've been on the lookout for just the LCD element with VGA connectors but they don't seem to exist. I wouldn't mind stripping out a monitor if I knew it was going to be easy... but I've read plenty of horror stories of how they can be hard to disassemble. That, and most LCD screens are too big and tend to overlap the lighted area of your OHP.
Maybe I'll just go out and buy one.
Not a 100% on topic... but the first article to mention Vonage so ....
I was a vonage subscriber for 5 months. The phone worked alright most of the time, but maybe 2 calls a week would break up or otherwise drop out. The thing that was most upsetting was their complete lack of customer support. They would absolutely ignore all my emails and contact by phone was nearly impossible. I waited all that time to get my phone number ported which should have occured between 2 weeks to a month. 5 months later and no luck. The one time I did get through the customer rep laughed, like... yeah we get all kinds of calls about that. Needless to say, I ditched that service and havn't looked back.
Why you complaining about Beta.... WINE has been in Alpha for YEARS.
(ok maybe they officially just became a beta but still)
My karma's to high, must bring back to reality.
Does that mean it will now be easier for me to go back in time?
I don't think there is anything particularly wrong with writing open source software for windows. At the same time, It bugs me to see open source projects for Windows. Here is the reason why.
Linux simply does not have as many (or in some cases) as good apps as there are for Windows. Now you can come up with list of hundreds... possibly thousands of applications for Linux. But when you trim out all the alphaware, abandonwhere, or software that requires a geek to compile and install... the remaining selection is pretty sparse. Tell me, what is an easy way to remove red eye from photo's on Linux. There is a way to do it with Gimp, but I can do it in a couple of clicks with my photo suite on Windows. That's just one small example, I'm sure there are many others. Lets not even mention games... it's hard to get excited about early 80's clone games. I'm a bit nostalic myself, but when I'm in that kind of mood I fire up mame and play the originals.
Anyway, before I stray too far from my point... simply said I'm jealous of the manpower being wasted on an operating system that already has too many apps. If someone is going to donate their efforts for free, shouldn't they contribute to an OS that can really use the additional apps?
Well I've seen alot of what is considered evidence for evolution, but nothing good enough to sell me on the idea. Sure, there's plenty of monkey bones out there (along with artists depictions), but lots of speculation and imagination goes into turning that into a real story of human evolution. Now what i've seen is this; nature is very fragile... there used to be much more biodiversity than there is today. hardship creates a thinning out and extinction, not an explosion of new species. Also, studying the symbiotic relationships in nature makes much more sense when you consider they were designed to complement each other. For evolution that just presents more problems. Not only did one species have to survive incomprehensible odds to be what it is, the dependant species had to do the same and at the same time.
Now if you ask me, it takes much less "faith" to accept what's in the Bible. People in the past deserve much more credit than we give them. Much of the bible is historically verifiable- but many choose to discredit it because they don't what to accept that miracles just might have happened.
I respect science, but I don't think that it can explain everything. It is an assumption to think that everything can be measured with man-made tools and man-made scientific process. It's a shame that people like you are so negative. You assume that all we believe is blind, as if we put no thought into why we believe what we do. There are many things that can be taken as proof... personal experiences, written history (the Bible for example), considering humanity and it's traits. It's true that much of religion has given God a bad name, but that's no reason to abandon faith entirely.
Commodore 64.... you had the cadillac game system.
I played my first games on a Vic-20. In Glorious 21 column wide ascii graphics.
I'm still wondering where the money in these post-boom years. I've a programmer in New England for the last 6 years... and I still have yet to break out of the 40's. I don't know if it's poor salary negotation skills or what, but there seems to be very limited opportunities as to what I can do and what pay is available for these things. I'm a pretty decent Java,C* and .Net developer- but not quite advanced enough to do EJB, Websphere,etc apps. It seems like the really big stuff, you can't get into anyway unless you've apprenticed in it already under a big company somewhere.
Hmnnnnn..... didn't you already say this HERE
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http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=16512
I'm a long time palm customer... but I'm not sure for how much longer. I've had palms since the palm III, but the quality seems to be getting worse.
Currently I have a palm Tunstem T3, It was impressive when I first got it though overpriced. Just a year and a half later I'm having a ton of problems with it. The digitizer is way off and recalibration doesn't seem to help. Also, sporadically it will decide it doesn't want to shut off and will burn out the battery. If I can get it to the charger... sometimes it will snap out of it but I've completely lost it's memory several times. And I suspect bluetooth never has worked correctly... I've only been able to exchange data with 1/3 of other peoples devices I've encountered.
I'm especially dissapointed because I usually hope to get at least 3 years out of a device before shelling out more cash for another one. Just out of curiosity I was looking at the new palms at Staples the other day... and believe it or not 3 out of 6 of their display models were either frozen or had an error message on the screen. At the same time, I don't want to be carrying Windows around in my pocket... so I guess for the time being I'm going to be stuck with the piece of junk I have.
Version 1: You gotta be kidding.... GOES is better than this.
Version 2: What changed?
Version 3: Hmnn, guess it's better than the command line.
Version 3.1: Still better than the command line... and faster too.
Version 95: Thinks are looking up.... only... back to DOS mode for my games
Version 98: Cool, my OS actually knows about the internet now! And no reboots for my games! Woohoo
Version ME: Ooops, I think I'll just pretend I didn't see this one.
Version XP: Hey, this actually seems as stable as my Linux box? Could this be the one?
"He doesn't want a cell phone that doubles as an MP3 player to become too popular as that would cut straight into Apple's bread and butter product"
I just don't get this, I mean this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to me. If cellphones with MP3 support take off, and Apples got the first shot at it... what's the problem? Instead of selling iPod's, they'll sell phonePod's... but at least they'll sell the same number of devices- maybe more.
I tried Suse 9.3 for a while... but quickly put that to rest after some major problems.
... hooray! I'm using mandrake again and that doesn't support SD cards automatically (although with some tweaking I can get it to see it)
First of all was the 3D features of my nvidia card. They said just go do a on-line update to add that. It seemed to work the first time, but then when applying other updates the 3D driver stopped working mysteriously. After 3 later installation attempts, I was completely unable to get 3D to work under Suse again.
Then I found multi-media to be seriously impaired. I couln't even play mp3's... that really bugged me. Of course, another update to take care of that (after I selected the proper non-US mirror).
One thing that Suse did get right was automounting my SD card
The real nail in Suse's coffin for me was that it was butt slow... I mean dreadfully awefully slow. It took literally twice as long as my Mandrake installation to boot even after shutting down what I consider unnecessary services. Even when running, everything just seemed to drag. I don't know why... maybe it's compiled to still be 386 compatible. In any case, that more than all else ended my relationship with Suse.
"It is a bald faced lie to say linux is hard to install."
Well I hope I'm not being redundant on someone elses comment here, but the trueness (or falseness) or your statement has everything to do with what you call a complete linux installation.
If you mean getting the linux kernel, a handful of common apps, and the X desktop at a standard resolution installed... then I agree with you 100%.
But, If you mean getting linux installed so that it can interface with my digital camera, connect seamlessly with my palm handheld, read my SD cards without playing games, or play encrypted DVD's without installing extra libraries.... then I'd have to disagree with you. All these things are much easier to get done in Windows.
Except in Soviet Russia... where there the car.... well you know the rest..
It's a troll... but I just gotta bite.
A chair is ancient technology, but I'm happy to be sitting in one as I read slashdot today. Not all things are wrong just because they are old.
This is a old technology that I guess no one thinks is cool anymore... but at my present job I've been using Liveconnect to route messages from a server to javascript in the browser with excellent results. The java piece of it is pretty simple, it's more or less a message conduit between a javascript libary and the backend server. Also, considering how well Javascript interacts with CSS elements now, I've pulled off some pretty good interactivity using this method.
I've tried the above, with partial success. ,cleared the read-only bits form the .vbproj files before to get around this but it's a PITA when the solution you've got has some 40 projects in it.
For some reason that I can't possibly imagine why, my VS insists on checking out the projects first before letting you unbind them. Which is kinda tough when your on a team where others got some of those checked out. I've successfully gone in
I've used Studio 2003 new for the last year and a half. Overall I like it alot and wish I had a linux equivilent (monodevelop has SOOOOOOOO far to go). The only thing I hate hate hate hate (x1000) is it's lousy integration with source safe when it comes to ASP.net projects. Ever try moving a web project from one location to another? Or try to get a un-source controlled copy of your project. Good luck, it's possible but excruciatingly painful.
Just my $1 and 2 cents.