Well, good for them! They certainly need one badly.
What I want to know is how is this tool going to do me any good when my computer goes into its "reboot fifty times before XP comes up" mode?
This frustrated me so much I moved as many of my MP3s as would fit into the Linux side of the computer and changed the LILO default to Linux. After goobering with it a while I discovered that freeing space and defragging the C: drive (on HD0, AKA HDa and C:, which holds only the OSes and LILO, HD1 is Windows' D: drive and holds data) the problem is solved.
But that's when I experience frustration with windows: when it breaks. I've had Linux break on odccasion, but it has always been when there was flakey hardware.
Like I said, language evolves, I have given it up. But we still need a replacement for the old "hacker". Suggestions? I coined a new word yesterday (whorem, my prostitute harem) so it's somebody else's turn today.
What I'd like to see in a GUI isn't really minimalist; you would still have icons, a menu system, etc but a command line as well that you wouldn't have to open a shell ti use.
Do DRM right. Do something that is information theory impossible, but do it right. Yes. I'll just get my magic pixie dust now.
I'm with you there! Was that the guy who keeps submitting the "2008 will be the year of [X}" stories to slashdot? Or is he the one who doesn't know "there" from "they're" or how to use an apostrophe? What's his problem?
How can someone who visits a site with a masthead that reads "news for nerds" not understand that DRM is an impossible dream cooked up by the technologically ignorant and implimented by con artists and thieves who know damned will that their "unbreakable lock" cannot possibly withstand the attack of hundreds of thousands of very intelligent, highly competent nerds? Maybe I'm too hard on the fellow, perhaps he's just suffering from some sort of distraction. (The last link may not be safe for work)
If the industry is forced to do their DRM in an interoperable way it will be better than the present situation where DRMed content is practically not interoperable at all.
But which DRM? Dumb Restrictions on Music, or Dumb Restrictions on Movies? Or is it really DRM at all, will we be stuck with the Dynamically Underpowering Movie Bomb (DUMB) that was talked about in a Slashdot story last night?
Personally I would like to see the corporations' stronghold on the world's governments come to an end, and all forms of Dumb Restrictions on Media outlawed! If your work is protected by technological measures, it should lose copyright protection.
something like Office 2007 (yay ribbon) is a stroke of pure genius.
We're still using Office 2000 where I work. Those menus that don't show all the items unless you wait are a pain (I've changed it on my machine, somebody here clued me as to how).
Word alone has thousands of different options to make everybody happy.
They should make thousands of different products then. I hate swiss army knife software!
Going with a blanket "Microsoft sucks" statement may get you modded up, but it's not always true
Perhaps, but it's been my experience. And since I've gotten a "troll" and a "flamebait" today it's not likely I'm doing much karma-whoring. Maybe they've gotten better, but I'd have to see it. I actually liked DOS, and back then I hated the Apples they had in my kids' schools (although I liked the earlier IIe).
But, when I think about teaching someone like my mom or grandmother how to use a command line tool, I feel a cold chill run down my spine.
It would be there, but you would still have icons to click.
you're just looking for mod points. How much of Microsoft's code have you seen?
I've seen the product. You used to get an OS on a floppy, now it takes an entire CD. Linux distros get not only the OS but nearly every program most people would need, including several competing versions, and it's on 3 CDs for Mandriva. The one Windows XP CD only has an OS and a few simple apps like Write and Paint, and only one of each of them. With a Linux distro you have three or four browsers, an entire office suite or two, paint programs, several media programs, etc.
I have a ten gig drive for XP and Linux and an 80 gig drive for data, Microsoft continually squels about running out of disk space.
Actually you're going to need to RTFM with any OS. But one could concievably install and run Mandriva/KDE (or likely Ubantu, which I've read about but not yet used) without a manual.
You wouldn't have been able to use a car without a manual when they were first produced.
And contrary to conventional wisdom, a computer newbie finds Windows harder to use than Linex; at least the computer newbies I've installed dual boot on.
I agree 100%, except I'm not sure that not having the battery be replaceable is actually bad design in the case of the iPod. You have to think primarily of your target audience, and most likely the target audience consisted mostly of people who upgrade every coupld of years anyway. Plus, there's the cost of the battery itself in relation to the cost of the item. If for example you hae a $50 battery running a $75 device, having a replaceable battery wouldn't make any sense.
But even if it is a design flaw, no design is perfect.
If it were patently obvious that it was a lever then it would be intuitive. But if the thing actually looked like a pig, with no visible slots or gaps nobody would know it was even a toaster, and if they were told it was a toaster they'd have no idea how it would be operated.
if I'm a long term invester (and it's better to be), then I don't need the dividend now. What would I do? Probably re-invest it. If I believe in the company enough to own their stock, I'd rather they didn't pay me the dividend, which I'd just re-invest, because (I think) if my investment isn't tax-protected that's actually better from a tax perspective.
That's one of the many things wrong with our tax system. IMO, forst of all dividensds and Capital Gains should be taxed as income, at the same rate as if you were working for a living at some shitty job.
Second, if you reinvest your dividends they shouldn't be taxed.
Well, if your only market for your piggley toaster is hog farmers* than it would be a good design.
Er, you fed your pigs BREAD? How did they taste? A friend of mine was raising a few pigs, he fed then 1/2 hog feed and 1/2 ice cream mix (he knew someone who got outdated ice cream mix for free from his employer). That was the best tasting pork I ever ate!
Pity the price of hog feed went up so much he stopped raising them.
*out west they'd call them "hog ranchers" I think.
It appears that your fellow Rushies have mod points today, as I'm apparently trolling. Not that it makes any difference that I actually believe what I wrote, since there is no "-1 I disagree" mod, "Troll" will have to do I guess. Sucks to be them when the metamods hit them in the karma.
My karma still stands at excellent (check for yourself) and I don't even try or I wouldn't post opinions that some would disagree about, like the above. Pretty good for a so-called troll, ya think?
As to your ratio, pork != socialism. All that government money is going to the corporates, not social programs. A corporate run government is a facist government, by definition.
Attn mods, you can mod this one troll too. I don't care, I will continue to speak what I believe.
If one wanted to get rid of a horrible addiction, it makes no sense whatever that the person trying to get off one drug would start another. I mean, you would have to be on crack to do that;)
However, when the rehab is forced, that's another matter entirely and I'd like to see some studies on that. I know some people who I used to smoke pot with whose employers started testing for drugs. They found out (whether truthful or not) that reefer stays in your system for a month, while with cocaine it's three days*. So they traded smoking pot for smoking crack, with disastroud results.
Your tax dollars at work.
-mcgrew
*The three days is no longer true; one of these unfortunates got arrested, and cocaine was detected by the court-ordered urine test he took a week after stopping his incredibly stupid habit.
Crack in it's purest form is a small round animal found usually under one's sofa. Once boiled, the crack turns into a white powder called "cocaine", which when correctly prepared, makes crack. The whole process can be compared to're more similar process o'boilin' urine - Likeness being, you might pass out from the fumes. However, having your head in a plastic bag under'e entire process of making crack will save you from unconsciousness.
[edit] Crackinated Crack Crackinated Crack came as a result of the before mentioned protests and boycotts. It is simply normal crack, with even more crack added. It's for those people enjoying their genitals shrivelling and heart and other various body parts exploding.
Crackinated Crack is also the preferred crack of choice of crack-whores, crack heads, crack fiends, crack-a-holic's, crackers, and crack babies.
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DOH! I dodn't see the typoo.
(slinks off)
Print "42. What is the most important part of the female anatomy?"
a= [] the titties
b= [] the vagina
c= [] the anus
d= [] the computer
IF (a) print "you are a baby. Grow up."
Endif
IF (b) print "you are a normal heterosexual male. Stay away from my woman"
Endif
IF (c) print "you are a homosexual. Please make sure (B) stays away from my woman"
Endif
IF (d) print "you are a nerd. Please debug this script which was written in no known computer language."
Endif
43. You need a bigger computer if:
Well, good for them! They certainly need one badly.
What I want to know is how is this tool going to do me any good when my computer goes into its "reboot fifty times before XP comes up" mode?
This frustrated me so much I moved as many of my MP3s as would fit into the Linux side of the computer and changed the LILO default to Linux. After goobering with it a while I discovered that freeing space and defragging the C: drive (on HD0, AKA HDa and C:, which holds only the OSes and LILO, HD1 is Windows' D: drive and holds data) the problem is solved.
But that's when I experience frustration with windows: when it breaks. I've had Linux break on odccasion, but it has always been when there was flakey hardware.
That was exactly my point. A toaster should be a toaster.
Like I said, language evolves, I have given it up. But we still need a replacement for the old "hacker". Suggestions? I coined a new word yesterday (whorem, my prostitute harem) so it's somebody else's turn today.
My dictionary didn't pay its rent so I evicted it.
What I'd like to see in a GUI isn't really minimalist; you would still have icons, a menu system, etc but a command line as well that you wouldn't have to open a shell ti use.
In a related note, Doubleday and other tree killers (take THAT you dirty hippies) are working with the US Congress, th eUK House of Lords (Prayer), and the Canadian government (The Canadian Hockey League) to enact legislation forcing the WTO (Wild Teenaged Orgy) to standardize DRM (Dumb Restrictions on Media) (note, there are some redacted passages in the DRM article that you must highlight to read) to include their wares as well as the Music And Film Association of America (MAFIAA).
The proposed legislation will require that all Xerox machines be copy protected.
-mcgrew
Do DRM right. Do something that is information theory impossible, but do it right. Yes. I'll just get my magic pixie dust now.
I'm with you there! Was that the guy who keeps submitting the "2008 will be the year of [X}" stories to slashdot? Or is he the one who doesn't know "there" from "they're" or how to use an apostrophe? What's his problem?
How can someone who visits a site with a masthead that reads "news for nerds" not understand that DRM is an impossible dream cooked up by the technologically ignorant and implimented by con artists and thieves who know damned will that their "unbreakable lock" cannot possibly withstand the attack of hundreds of thousands of very intelligent, highly competent nerds? Maybe I'm too hard on the fellow, perhaps he's just suffering from some sort of distraction. (The last link may not be safe for work)
Or maybe he was a nerd but lost his license?
If the industry is forced to do their DRM in an interoperable way it will be better than the present situation where DRMed content is practically not interoperable at all.
But which DRM? Dumb Restrictions on Music, or Dumb Restrictions on Movies? Or is it really DRM at all, will we be stuck with the Dynamically Underpowering Movie Bomb (DUMB) that was talked about in a Slashdot story last night?
Personally I would like to see the corporations' stronghold on the world's governments come to an end, and all forms of Dumb Restrictions on Media outlawed! If your work is protected by technological measures, it should lose copyright protection.
-mcgrew
something like Office 2007 (yay ribbon) is a stroke of pure genius.
We're still using Office 2000 where I work. Those menus that don't show all the items unless you wait are a pain (I've changed it on my machine, somebody here clued me as to how).
Word alone has thousands of different options to make everybody happy.
They should make thousands of different products then. I hate swiss army knife software!
Going with a blanket "Microsoft sucks" statement may get you modded up, but it's not always true
Perhaps, but it's been my experience. And since I've gotten a "troll" and a "flamebait" today it's not likely I'm doing much karma-whoring. Maybe they've gotten better, but I'd have to see it. I actually liked DOS, and back then I hated the Apples they had in my kids' schools (although I liked the earlier IIe).
But, when I think about teaching someone like my mom or grandmother how to use a command line tool, I feel a cold chill run down my spine.
It would be there, but you would still have icons to click.
you're just looking for mod points. How much of Microsoft's code have you seen?
I've seen the product. You used to get an OS on a floppy, now it takes an entire CD. Linux distros get not only the OS but nearly every program most people would need, including several competing versions, and it's on 3 CDs for Mandriva. The one Windows XP CD only has an OS and a few simple apps like Write and Paint, and only one of each of them. With a Linux distro you have three or four browsers, an entire office suite or two, paint programs, several media programs, etc.
I have a ten gig drive for XP and Linux and an 80 gig drive for data, Microsoft continually squels about running out of disk space.
Actually you're going to need to RTFM with any OS. But one could concievably install and run Mandriva/KDE (or likely Ubantu, which I've read about but not yet used) without a manual.
You wouldn't have been able to use a car without a manual when they were first produced.
And contrary to conventional wisdom, a computer newbie finds Windows harder to use than Linex; at least the computer newbies I've installed dual boot on.
I agree 100%, except I'm not sure that not having the battery be replaceable is actually bad design in the case of the iPod. You have to think primarily of your target audience, and most likely the target audience consisted mostly of people who upgrade every coupld of years anyway. Plus, there's the cost of the battery itself in relation to the cost of the item. If for example you hae a $50 battery running a $75 device, having a replaceable battery wouldn't make any sense.
But even if it is a design flaw, no design is perfect.
Nothing ever done by a human will be perfect. very good, better than anyone else perhaps, but not perfect.
If it were patently obvious that it was a lever then it would be intuitive. But if the thing actually looked like a pig, with no visible slots or gaps nobody would know it was even a toaster, and if they were told it was a toaster they'd have no idea how it would be operated.
if I'm a long term invester (and it's better to be), then I don't need the dividend now. What would I do? Probably re-invest it. If I believe in the company enough to own their stock, I'd rather they didn't pay me the dividend, which I'd just re-invest, because (I think) if my investment isn't tax-protected that's actually better from a tax perspective.
That's one of the many things wrong with our tax system. IMO, forst of all dividensds and Capital Gains should be taxed as income, at the same rate as if you were working for a living at some shitty job.
Second, if you reinvest your dividends they shouldn't be taxed.
Well, if your only market for your piggley toaster is hog farmers* than it would be a good design.
Er, you fed your pigs BREAD? How did they taste? A friend of mine was raising a few pigs, he fed then 1/2 hog feed and 1/2 ice cream mix (he knew someone who got outdated ice cream mix for free from his employer). That was the best tasting pork I ever ate!
Pity the price of hog feed went up so much he stopped raising them.
*out west they'd call them "hog ranchers" I think.
Someone will say something about the USSR, Natalie Portmen, a Beowolf cluster, or CowboyNeal and be modded "+5 funny"
Wait, so does your post count?
Self-fulfilling prophesy?
It appears that your fellow Rushies have mod points today, as I'm apparently trolling. Not that it makes any difference that I actually believe what I wrote, since there is no "-1 I disagree" mod, "Troll" will have to do I guess. Sucks to be them when the metamods hit them in the karma.
My karma still stands at excellent (check for yourself) and I don't even try or I wouldn't post opinions that some would disagree about, like the above. Pretty good for a so-called troll, ya think?
As to your ratio, pork != socialism. All that government money is going to the corporates, not social programs. A corporate run government is a facist government, by definition.
Attn mods, you can mod this one troll too. I don't care, I will continue to speak what I believe.
Still, everyone knows that rupping to yape has been illegal for years...
It has? Since when? Here? Can you link the statute?
Would you vaccinate your child ?
Or your employees? Or your signed artists?
Signed artists? You would decimate your own livelihood!
Yeah, but you're a geezer too. Most of the folks here weren't even born back then, old man! (I was 17 in 69, I should write a pop song)
If one wanted to get rid of a horrible addiction, it makes no sense whatever that the person trying to get off one drug would start another. I mean, you would have to be on crack to do that ;)
However, when the rehab is forced, that's another matter entirely and I'd like to see some studies on that. I know some people who I used to smoke pot with whose employers started testing for drugs. They found out (whether truthful or not) that reefer stays in your system for a month, while with cocaine it's three days*. So they traded smoking pot for smoking crack, with disastroud results.
Your tax dollars at work.
-mcgrew
*The three days is no longer true; one of these unfortunates got arrested, and cocaine was detected by the court-ordered urine test he took a week after stopping his incredibly stupid habit.
That's when the world starts to get creepy!
Starts? Oh to be young again!
Well, the uncyclopedia says