So, given that the over/under problem can be stated this simply and clearly, yet nothing has been done about it, we can conclude that it is a deliberate crippling of the system by the owners/operators of Slashdot who are quite happy with the setup.
Well, that reading comprehension thingy applies to the ggp who talked about something that is not applicable to this subject (i.e. crossing border with laptop).
I've still got an ancient 816 byte DOS program that spits out: [ Gadzooks... no files in ?...* ]
if there are no files in the current directory. Maybe this program is not too well known because if there was one-and-only-one file in the directory when you ran it, it would crash. Nonetheless, one of my favorite words of exclamation ever since.
Because another Dreamworks title, Shrek 2, showed trailers for them on the DVD release I bought, and prohibited me from skipping past them.
I've noticed this on a number of DVDs I've watched. It was frustrating until I found that hitting the FF button 4 times warped me through them with an average of one frame per trailer. I can live with that...on a Netflix'd DVD anyway.
Now about those DVDs that package the trailers in groups, and you have to hit FF 4 more (and even 8 more) times to get through the lot of them...grrrrr. Perhaps the ultimate in "let's piss-off the consumer, shall we?" is when they have trailers that kick in after (after!) you select Play from the main menu. Unfrickin believable.
SSDs have at least one other advantage: no more hard storage limits. HDs have platter capacity limits that rarely go up. And they have form factor limits like "must fit in a 3.5" drive bay and be less than this high". The result is 500GB/1TB drives, but no 17TB drives, for example. SSDs will usher in more granular storage upgrades where you just plug more chips in to expand/double/quadruple your storage.
...in the way they broke Media Player (and maybe most dialog boxes). With XP, and who knows how many OS versions before that, you go alt-F, O and you are looking at your files. Then you go shift-tab and you are IN your files. Well, with Vista you are never in your files (via the keyboard). You will end up in a lot of strange places, but never will you highlight a file. Since I rely on this constantly in XP, this single problem is enough of a FU to make me not want to use Vista ever.
This brings to mind a similarly sucky breakage. Windows 95's sound recorder v1.0 would not respond to the keyboard until you clicked somewhere on the menus, then all would be normal. They quietly fixed this at some later date but the point was made: "We don't want people to be too productive, or they won't want to upgrade, so let's insert random WTFs throughout the OS, to be fixed (or not) in the future once we add new WTFs to replace them." aka the upgrade treadmill.
The point is that I think a football/soccer ball/baseball is a better "toy" to give a child than LEGO. Yes, with LEGO you can make things. You can also make things with a jack knife and a branch you find on the ground, with the latter option being more creative. Similarly, a football will lead to more (1) social interaction, (2) longer term use, (3) real world knowledge (of sportsmanship, friendship, team play, physics, etc.) than connecting some plastic blocks together will.
Similarly, a pencil and paper is better than LEGO. My father frequently used the back of an envelope to sketch out a piece of furniture he was going to make, or how an elevator worked, or some simple caricatured faces. I never had a single piece of LEGO when I grew up (but had a small number of plain red bricks that were similar, as well as tinkertoys and mechano -- the latter I would rank quite a bit higher than LEGO) yet I went on to become an engineer. I was raised by someone who made things, and grew up to do the same thing. My spouse's kids were raised by a bi-polar Philip K. Dick loving video gameaholic who bought them LEGO (and a boggling array of other toys), and today the oldest is just like his dad (and the LEGO have sat idle since he was 13).
LEGO is not the be all and end all of toys. Not even close. But it does have longevity (just as pencils have had and for the same reason -- simplicity and versatility). There is no point in getting all geeky and gushy about LEGO. Buy some for your kids, encourage them to use it and praise them when they do, while making sure the many other important aspects of their life are worked on and mastered as well.
By the way, I proposed to my wife using LEGO duplos...
The only things I think he had right... XP virtual machine/emulation... An XP vm would be a quick and dirty fix for compatibility issues
So I have a Vista machine with a Blu-Ray drive. I pop in a Blu disc, fire up the XP VM and launch a BR player that runs under XP. Do I get my full 1080? Ok, maybe there aren't XP players of BR discs (I have no idea as I am not interested in BR) but when one comes along, what will Microsoft do?
The things we want from an XP VM are the very things Microsoft doesn't want to give us.
Given that the better designed keys map out the bad data, you may want to monitor the free space on the drive. If free space decreases, the key has failed. Continuing past the first failure you could measure "failures per day" info and come up with other interesting observables.
How about copying file(s) equal in size to the capacity of the drive, deleting them and repeating a couple more times to be belt-n-suspenders safe? Hint: It is only the most recent data that is preserved -- no stray magnetic particles to snoop for data on a memory stick.
Since this is both wrong and hurtful to pigs, I have to comment despite mod points.
Some TmT episodes have in fact involved engine work. And changing old tires for new on pretty much every truck can hardly be considered lipstick -- more like a boob job or at least a tummy tuck.
And the idea that all of this is being done on a "pig" is insane. Truckers drive a rig for a million miles. We might do that in a lifetime, they do it in 10 or 15 years. Then do it again with their next truck. They also invest tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in their rig. And live in it 24x7 in some cases. So you are saying they don't deserve a seat without rips, dash lights that can actually be seen, and a TV to fall asleep to? Tricking out a trucker's truck was/is an untapped market and a win for the little guys who drive them. If nothing else the show is worth watching for Rhino's artwork.
Apple radically reinvents stuff. They modify APIs, deprecate frameworks that used to be essential UI. They change architectures and discontinue successful products.
The strange this is you are impressed with Apple for these things.
> They modify APIs
You didn't say "extend", "enhance", "improve". Modify sounds like "heh, you used to know where stuff was, but now I moved it all" [where "you" is a blind person (i.e. a program that is already compiled and designed to work in a certain way with dependencies on the OS to be there for it)]
> deprecate frameworks that used to be essential UI
A good coach lays the groundwork for what he wants to deliver. As an example, my father would say "Ok, can I say a few words?" He was serious about the question -- if I didn't nod my head or say "Sure", he would just go off and do something else. And if I answered in the affirmative I was much more attentive than if he just started talking at me.
Most of my feeds are valuable because they tell me when particular content is available. I could hit these web sites over and over again, but I prefer to have RSS tell me once, exactly. Some of my sites may not interest you: hulu.com telling me when the latest House M.D. is now available for streaming on their site, for example (besides, it is the off season for House).
A killer application of RSS for me is to be told when the local library system has new DVDs available. The sooner you get there to place a hold, the shorter your wait time is, and there is no way to sign up faster for a new DVD than an RSS feed. This was my first feed, and most valuable.
Finally, my daily dose of Dilbert is obtained with the greatest ease via RSS. The site changed recently and became unbearable to use. There is a "fast" link, but it doesn't compare to RSS.
I think RSS is less useful for news sites like/., for example. I find it faster (and gain more information) by visiting the home page than by hovering over subject-line RSS summaries. RSS gets in the way because for any story you care about you need to hover, and/or click just to get to the same level of information/links as you get from the home page. Also, the/. home page maintains a reverse chronological order so you know what stories you have already read. And I found the/. RSS links to keep showing me stories I had already deleted.
You mean let him hit you. He was the one driving on the wrong side of the road. To get back into the right lane he would have had to hit sumdumass's car. Not fun but probably the safest option for sumdum and his nephew. And afterward there would be dent marks on the driver's side of sumdum's car to show the police and insurance adjusters.
On a related note, I was once riding at about 30 to 35mph down a VERY steep hill. Single lane each way, with a gravel shoulder and a 4" to 6" drop-off from road to gravel. A car passed me (going about 40mph) and then proceeded to slam on its brakes and turn left right in front of me. It was a T intersection with no road area to the right for me to use. No chance I could get by on the paved road surface so I went onto the gravel at speed. Terrifying. Miraculously I didn't wipe out -- mountain bike + 40 years of bike riding experience + luck = live to ride another day. So, would this entitle one to some, er, rage? Personally I was just incredibly grateful to not be on the way to the hospital.
The point is that there are times when someone else endangers our life/lives, and it can make us a bit testy, even if they are sporting a "Have a nice day!" bumper sticker.
What used to cost me $40 a month in fuel was going to start costing $200 a month.
The bus can be a great solution (two members of our family use it) but when did gas cost $0.80/gal [$4/gallon * $40/$200]? This page suggests it was about 25 years ago. So we need to know how much more you are paid today compared to 25 years ago, or you can just keep your comparison in the apples to apples category. Apples to apples, your cost savings are not as much as you stated, based on gas costs alone.
On the plus side, you need to consider that you are saving vehicle wear and tear, and possibly the need for a second vehicle (both true in our case). This is more valuable to us than the gas savings, so we were busing even before gas prices doubled.
american media is more concentrated now than it has been for over 3/4 of a century and more subservient to the government than ever.
You started off great and then went straight downhill. American media is more concentrated now...but American media completely dictates to government. Politicians are milked for all they are worth -- and if they don't play along, the media sinks their popularity. Or worse.
The last thing American media wants is a third party. [Politicians could care less, they are basically opportunists.] Politics in America is like religion (two poles, apart). It is also like JFK/RFK/911 conspiracy "theories" -- "Do _you_ think it was a conspiracy?" "Ooh, the intrigue." They just keep the debate alive, never resolving it. Same with vegetarianism, we hear doctors saying we should eat more vegetables, less meat -- but rarely NO meat, and certainly not in the media.
Soft drinks: we have Coke, Pepsi and...what? When you have three+ parties (like Canada), you have unpredictable voting, and if you are not careful, logical policies will emerge and/or two parties might unify to oust the third. Today American politics is fanaticism (the voters) and rhetoric -- none of which, not one speck, has anything to do with what the media/cartel will have us doing in the four years ahead.
Save time, skip the politics talk. We are all being led by the nose ring wherever they want to lead us. There's no cake, no ice cream, happy birthday.
Slashdot Mirror
To the first four notes of Beethoven's fifth.
(1) You got your +5.
(2) You added '?sl' to your link.
(3) So, did you profit?
I'm just curious...
So, given that the over/under problem can be stated this simply and clearly, yet nothing has been done about it, we can conclude that it is a deliberate crippling of the system by the owners/operators of Slashdot who are quite happy with the setup.
Well, that reading comprehension thingy applies to the ggp who talked about something that is not applicable to this subject (i.e. crossing border with laptop).
Bits of Skylab struck and killed a cow.
I've still got an ancient 816 byte DOS program that spits out:
[ Gadzooks... no files in ?...* ]
if there are no files in the current directory. Maybe this program is not too well known because if there was one-and-only-one file in the directory when you ran it, it would crash. Nonetheless, one of my favorite words of exclamation ever since.
[* - lameness didn't like 11 "?" in a row...]
Because another Dreamworks title, Shrek 2, showed trailers for them on the DVD release I bought, and prohibited me from skipping past them.
I've noticed this on a number of DVDs I've watched. It was frustrating until I found that hitting the FF button 4 times warped me through them with an average of one frame per trailer. I can live with that...on a Netflix'd DVD anyway.
Now about those DVDs that package the trailers in groups, and you have to hit FF 4 more (and even 8 more) times to get through the lot of them...grrrrr. Perhaps the ultimate in "let's piss-off the consumer, shall we?" is when they have trailers that kick in after (after!) you select Play from the main menu. Unfrickin believable.
SSDs have at least one other advantage: no more hard storage limits. HDs have platter capacity limits that rarely go up. And they have form factor limits like "must fit in a 3.5" drive bay and be less than this high". The result is 500GB/1TB drives, but no 17TB drives, for example. SSDs will usher in more granular storage upgrades where you just plug more chips in to expand/double/quadruple your storage.
SSDs are to HDs as LCDs are to CRTs.
at such a critical moment? Priceless.
You pay 50 for 30gig cap but could pay 100 more (total 150) for 60 gig cap? Then get two by 30gig cap for 100 total, saving 50.
By the way, your numbers sound wrong. I'm going to guess the "100" is 100 total, and that you get a faster-than-10mb line thrown in.
...in the way they broke Media Player (and maybe most dialog boxes). With XP, and who knows how many OS versions before that, you go alt-F, O and you are looking at your files. Then you go shift-tab and you are IN your files. Well, with Vista you are never in your files (via the keyboard). You will end up in a lot of strange places, but never will you highlight a file. Since I rely on this constantly in XP, this single problem is enough of a FU to make me not want to use Vista ever.
This brings to mind a similarly sucky breakage. Windows 95's sound recorder v1.0 would not respond to the keyboard until you clicked somewhere on the menus, then all would be normal. They quietly fixed this at some later date but the point was made: "We don't want people to be too productive, or they won't want to upgrade, so let's insert random WTFs throughout the OS, to be fixed (or not) in the future once we add new WTFs to replace them." aka the upgrade treadmill.
The point is that I think a football/soccer ball/baseball is a better "toy" to give a child than LEGO. Yes, with LEGO you can make things. You can also make things with a jack knife and a branch you find on the ground, with the latter option being more creative. Similarly, a football will lead to more (1) social interaction, (2) longer term use, (3) real world knowledge (of sportsmanship, friendship, team play, physics, etc.) than connecting some plastic blocks together will.
Similarly, a pencil and paper is better than LEGO. My father frequently used the back of an envelope to sketch out a piece of furniture he was going to make, or how an elevator worked, or some simple caricatured faces. I never had a single piece of LEGO when I grew up (but had a small number of plain red bricks that were similar, as well as tinkertoys and mechano -- the latter I would rank quite a bit higher than LEGO) yet I went on to become an engineer. I was raised by someone who made things, and grew up to do the same thing. My spouse's kids were raised by a bi-polar Philip K. Dick loving video gameaholic who bought them LEGO (and a boggling array of other toys), and today the oldest is just like his dad (and the LEGO have sat idle since he was 13).
LEGO is not the be all and end all of toys. Not even close. But it does have longevity (just as pencils have had and for the same reason -- simplicity and versatility). There is no point in getting all geeky and gushy about LEGO. Buy some for your kids, encourage them to use it and praise them when they do, while making sure the many other important aspects of their life are worked on and mastered as well.
By the way, I proposed to my wife using LEGO duplos...
There has never been a better toy than Lego and there never will be.
(1) soccer ball
(2) football
(3) baseball
etc...
The only things I think he had right ... XP virtual machine/emulation... An XP vm would be a quick and dirty fix for compatibility issues
So I have a Vista machine with a Blu-Ray drive. I pop in a Blu disc, fire up the XP VM and launch a BR player that runs under XP. Do I get my full 1080? Ok, maybe there aren't XP players of BR discs (I have no idea as I am not interested in BR) but when one comes along, what will Microsoft do?
The things we want from an XP VM are the very things Microsoft doesn't want to give us.
Given that the better designed keys map out the bad data, you may want to monitor the free space on the drive. If free space decreases, the key has failed. Continuing past the first failure you could measure "failures per day" info and come up with other interesting observables.
How about copying file(s) equal in size to the capacity of the drive, deleting them and repeating a couple more times to be belt-n-suspenders safe? Hint: It is only the most recent data that is preserved -- no stray magnetic particles to snoop for data on a memory stick.
Since this is both wrong and hurtful to pigs, I have to comment despite mod points.
Some TmT episodes have in fact involved engine work. And changing old tires for new on pretty much every truck can hardly be considered lipstick -- more like a boob job or at least a tummy tuck.
And the idea that all of this is being done on a "pig" is insane. Truckers drive a rig for a million miles. We might do that in a lifetime, they do it in 10 or 15 years. Then do it again with their next truck. They also invest tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in their rig. And live in it 24x7 in some cases. So you are saying they don't deserve a seat without rips, dash lights that can actually be seen, and a TV to fall asleep to? Tricking out a trucker's truck was/is an untapped market and a win for the little guys who drive them. If nothing else the show is worth watching for Rhino's artwork.
I think I know who the pig is in this analogy.
Apple radically reinvents stuff. They modify APIs, deprecate frameworks that used to be essential UI. They change architectures and discontinue successful products.
/me frantically trys to open the door to his Datsun 260z while a horde of fanatics leap on top of him
The strange this is you are impressed with Apple for these things.
> They modify APIs
You didn't say "extend", "enhance", "improve". Modify sounds like "heh, you used to know where stuff was, but now I moved it all" [where "you" is a blind person (i.e. a program that is already compiled and designed to work in a certain way with dependencies on the OS to be there for it)]
> deprecate frameworks that used to be essential UI
deprecate: to express strong disapproval of; deplore". To do this to 'things that used to be essential', doesn't sound like A Good Thing(tm).
> They change architectures
This sounds dictatorial. I'm not hearing "improve", "enhance", "$THESAURUS(n), where n is something good".
> [They] discontinue successful products
Apparently that famous reality distortion field is contagious.
What about PRINT.COM? It allowed you to do something else while it sent stuff to the printer. And then there was Sidekick...
A good coach lays the groundwork for what he wants to deliver. As an example, my father would say "Ok, can I say a few words?" He was serious about the question -- if I didn't nod my head or say "Sure", he would just go off and do something else. And if I answered in the affirmative I was much more attentive than if he just started talking at me.
Most of my feeds are valuable because they tell me when particular content is available. I could hit these web sites over and over again, but I prefer to have RSS tell me once, exactly. Some of my sites may not interest you: hulu.com telling me when the latest House M.D. is now available for streaming on their site, for example (besides, it is the off season for House).
/., for example. I find it faster (and gain more information) by visiting the home page than by hovering over subject-line RSS summaries. RSS gets in the way because for any story you care about you need to hover, and/or click just to get to the same level of information/links as you get from the home page. Also, the /. home page maintains a reverse chronological order so you know what stories you have already read. And I found the /. RSS links to keep showing me stories I had already deleted.
A killer application of RSS for me is to be told when the local library system has new DVDs available. The sooner you get there to place a hold, the shorter your wait time is, and there is no way to sign up faster for a new DVD than an RSS feed. This was my first feed, and most valuable.
Finally, my daily dose of Dilbert is obtained with the greatest ease via RSS. The site changed recently and became unbearable to use. There is a "fast" link, but it doesn't compare to RSS.
I think RSS is less useful for news sites like
You mean let him hit you. He was the one driving on the wrong side of the road. To get back into the right lane he would have had to hit sumdumass's car. Not fun but probably the safest option for sumdum and his nephew. And afterward there would be dent marks on the driver's side of sumdum's car to show the police and insurance adjusters.
On a related note, I was once riding at about 30 to 35mph down a VERY steep hill. Single lane each way, with a gravel shoulder and a 4" to 6" drop-off from road to gravel. A car passed me (going about 40mph) and then proceeded to slam on its brakes and turn left right in front of me. It was a T intersection with no road area to the right for me to use. No chance I could get by on the paved road surface so I went onto the gravel at speed. Terrifying. Miraculously I didn't wipe out -- mountain bike + 40 years of bike riding experience + luck = live to ride another day. So, would this entitle one to some, er, rage? Personally I was just incredibly grateful to not be on the way to the hospital.
The point is that there are times when someone else endangers our life/lives, and it can make us a bit testy, even if they are sporting a "Have a nice day!" bumper sticker.
What used to cost me $40 a month in fuel was going to start costing $200 a month.
The bus can be a great solution (two members of our family use it) but when did gas cost $0.80/gal [$4/gallon * $40/$200]? This page suggests it was about 25 years ago. So we need to know how much more you are paid today compared to 25 years ago, or you can just keep your comparison in the apples to apples category. Apples to apples, your cost savings are not as much as you stated, based on gas costs alone.
On the plus side, you need to consider that you are saving vehicle wear and tear, and possibly the need for a second vehicle (both true in our case). This is more valuable to us than the gas savings, so we were busing even before gas prices doubled.
american media is more concentrated now than it has been for over 3/4 of a century and more subservient to the government than ever.
You started off great and then went straight downhill. American media is more concentrated now...but American media completely dictates to government. Politicians are milked for all they are worth -- and if they don't play along, the media sinks their popularity. Or worse.
The last thing American media wants is a third party. [Politicians could care less, they are basically opportunists.] Politics in America is like religion (two poles, apart). It is also like JFK/RFK/911 conspiracy "theories" -- "Do _you_ think it was a conspiracy?" "Ooh, the intrigue." They just keep the debate alive, never resolving it. Same with vegetarianism, we hear doctors saying we should eat more vegetables, less meat -- but rarely NO meat, and certainly not in the media.
Soft drinks: we have Coke, Pepsi and...what? When you have three+ parties (like Canada), you have unpredictable voting, and if you are not careful, logical policies will emerge and/or two parties might unify to oust the third. Today American politics is fanaticism (the voters) and rhetoric -- none of which, not one speck, has anything to do with what the media/cartel will have us doing in the four years ahead.
Save time, skip the politics talk. We are all being led by the nose ring wherever they want to lead us. There's no cake, no ice cream, happy birthday.