What about when Adam got his lip eaten by the vaccum cleaner motor - followed with the line "well, that was one of the most stupid things I've ever done".
At least he admitted it - I had a great laugh at that.
1) Was the student photographed drinking on school premises? 2) Was the student photographed drinking during school hours? 3) Was the school visible in any of these photos?
If not, then the school has no say at all in what said student does in their own personal time. This is like my company firing me for being in a pub brawl. Yeah, I probably shouldn't be in pub brawls, but it's none of the companies business what I do outside of work hours.
I was waiting for someone to ask this - and the reason is very simple. As a desktop OS, Linux sucks. If you look at what Windows and OSX has going for it, you'll quickly note that it's simple and easy to do just about anything.
I think WiFi on my Dell notebook is about the best example that I can come up with off the top of my head. it's a dual band 802.11a/b/g card for which Linux drivers just don't exist. So I have to wrap them in an NDIS wrapper, and hope that they work that way. Then there's the annoyance of having X not like using 1920x1200 straight away as a desktop res (the LCD's native res). Then I have issues with sound (alsa isn't the be all and end all), then there's always something else to fix.
Bottom line? You spend more time getting things to work than using the actual system. This might be fine if you want to do this kind of stuff as a technical challenge, but personally, I just want to be able to use my system for what I need to get done, and not have to worry about half of the crap I mentioned above.
I did some work quite a while ago getting newer ALSA drivers working on the xbox-linux project, and it's not as pretty as it could be. I'm no newbie to linux, but damn, I wish sometimes I didn't have to do half the crap I had to just to get a decent, working system. Enter OSX.
Out of curiousity, what is it that you are doing via an SSH session to a Linux box and can be done on an OS X terminal but cannot be done with cygwin on Windows?
Most of this is working on CVS stuff (do a checkout when you have a net connection, edit away, then commit when you get back). I know it can be done on Windows, but it's damn ugly.
I personally don't see the point of running cygwin when you can have it native to the OS.
All the apps I used on Windows I found replacements for OSX.
Windows -> OSX MS Office -> MS Office Outlook Calendar -> iCal Trillian -> AdiumX Outlook Express -> Mail Firefox -> Safari (yes I know you can run Firefox on OSX, but it's DAMN slow) ActiveSync -> Missing Sync (to sync my Windows Mobile devices) Canon photo capture -> Image Capture (to bring photos of my digital camera)
Then of course there's all the unix tools, which are mostly there (the only one I had to source and install was wget and ncftp from memory). It takes a while to find all the replacements, but when you do, it's pretty easy to not look back.
My personal situation is that I have bought 2 Mac machines in the past 6 months (does that make me 2 'converts'?) because the underlying system suits my needs better.
I spend ~45% of my time using PuTTY on a Windows machine connected to a linux server doing things that I can't do on a windows laptop without a net connection. When you have this capability locally via the OSX terminal, I can do whatever I need to on the move and not be tied to an internet connection and SSH session.
The other benefits I get is that the OS is very solid, I get all the unix tools I need, and it 'just works'.
Maybe not in the US, however in Australia, we have LPG (basically propane) at 95% of all petrol stations. maybe 10% of the nations cars (including taxis etc) run on LPG as it is less than half the cost per litre of petrol (45.9cpl vs 125cpl).
The gas is mixed in with the air intake of the car by a mixer unit (which also takes care of air/fuel ratio) and the rest of the car runs like normal. Most of the cars can come like this from the dealer, however older cars require a newer, harder piston head/cylinder head as the fuel runs hotter than petrol as a rule.
As I'm saying this, I have an 80L gas tank in the back of my car, and it costs me $30 to fill (usually) however a gas price of 45.9cpl is higher than it has been for quite a while... A few weeks ago, it was hovering around 35.5cpl...
While I'm fully aware that a nuclear reactor is technically a piece of "hardware", in the context of SlashDot, doesn't "hardware" usually imply "something that geeks buy to put on their desks, in their pockets, or in their cars"?;)
Have you been reading the specs for the next generation Intel P5 chips? Nuclear power generation might fix the hardware section of Slashdot more than you think....
ok, so this new GE plant absorbs more stuff from the air.... where does this go? What does the plant do with it? Does it release the same amount of stuff that it absorbed when it dies? Does it turn it into something else?
What I would love to know is if the DVD drive is still crap. If it's a UJ-835, then it's not really an upgrade. See http://superdrive.crc.id.au/ for more info, and please let me know what you find!:)
What linux needs for the desktop market is an easy to use, and simple desktop. The problem with this on current installs is the lack of communication between desktop and kernel etc.
For example, Sometimes, sound on linux can be an absolute bitch to get going. Even something as trivial as playing an AVI caused me *way* too much drama. Not that I couldn't get it to work, but then if I wanted sound to work with other things, I need to use a sound daemon. Fair enough, thats not too hard - but then the audio/video sync was out because of the latency in the sound daemon.
The point is, that as long as simple issues like playing a video become mammoth tasks, then the average person will just stick with something simpler. Hell, 90% of the time I can just install Windows and everything will work right out of the box.
This is what needs to be worked on. While all the technical side of things on Linux just rocks, I doubt that many people have worked on the 'end user experiance' because at the moment, it just sucks.
There is a reason Apple is gaining market share - as well as mind share - and it's the OS that does it. I can do the majority of things I can do on a linux system (console and X side), and have a nice, pretty and *FUNCTIONAL* GUI for everything else. The end user experiance is second to none. This is what Linux should be looking at - not making 'sweeping changes' that you still need to spend a week on getting to run just right:|
But this would assume that decent, feature rich apps for doing this actually exist and are stable on linux - which we all know is currently a pipe-dream...
Err, if it's a polynomial of degree 5, and there are 5 numbers listed that are supposed to be roots, then of course there are no nonreal roots -- the sum of the number of real roots and the number of nonreal roots equals the degree of the polynomial.
So REAL nerds recognized that you don't need to manually check it!
And that folks is the scream of eternal virginity.
I'll go one further. Since getting nabbed twice - both within 300m of a speed change zone - I've been taking notes of where I see speed cameras in Melbourne.
1) Parked 250m away from a 80km/h sign from a 90km/h zone.
2) Parked 300m away from a 70km/h sign in a 60km/h zone.
3) Parked around a corner at the bottom of a large hill. Shifting into neutral and rolling down this hill will put you 20km/h over the limit.
4) Parked in a clearway zone on the footpath on a main road during rush hour. Note: It's illegal to park on the footpath.
These four examples have been within the last 6 months. To say it's a crock of shit is an understatement.
And this makes it right how? If we are a victim of crime, the criminal should not be punished because crime is a fact of life and the fact we were victimized shows that we inadequately prepared ourselves... is this what you're saying?
Petty crimes are often unpunished. Would you rather people go to jail for littering? Spam is a side effect of having email. It's effects can be minimised with proper planning and implementations. Obviously, someone sending you email is not a clear cut crime, and it's treated as such.
So they have less space... but they haven't been deprived of that space?
The capacity is still there. Same capacity. It's not like they have 'stolen' 5Gb of my drive and the 120Gb drive suddenly becoems a 115Gb drive. Does this mean I should sue people for putting papers in my mailbox?
Correct. You put it online making it available to the public for people to send you messages.
I have effective (though not 100% effective) barriers to spam and I have posted the restrictions against sending spam to my domain.
So you have solved your problem of spam? Great! If you're complaing about the extra overhead, maybe you shouldn't have put up a mail server in the first place. The saying 'if you cant put up with the heat, get out of the kitchen' comes to mind here.
My domain is anti-spam.org. If that's not enough, my home page includes the following notice *snip*
That's all well and good, but did you put it in a locked filing cabinet, in a disused lavatory, in the basement? - oh, and include the 'beware of the lepard' sign as well - because both have equal chance of being read.
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What about when Adam got his lip eaten by the vaccum cleaner motor - followed with the line "well, that was one of the most stupid things I've ever done".
At least he admitted it - I had a great laugh at that.
After all, you can always use Google Groups!
Oh, and where are the pics? :P
Ok - there are a number of issues here.
1) Was the student photographed drinking on school premises?
2) Was the student photographed drinking during school hours?
3) Was the school visible in any of these photos?
If not, then the school has no say at all in what said student does in their own personal time. This is like my company firing me for being in a pub brawl. Yeah, I probably shouldn't be in pub brawls, but it's none of the companies business what I do outside of work hours.
put linux on your laptop?
I was waiting for someone to ask this - and the reason is very simple. As a desktop OS, Linux sucks. If you look at what Windows and OSX has going for it, you'll quickly note that it's simple and easy to do just about anything.
I think WiFi on my Dell notebook is about the best example that I can come up with off the top of my head. it's a dual band 802.11a/b/g card for which Linux drivers just don't exist. So I have to wrap them in an NDIS wrapper, and hope that they work that way. Then there's the annoyance of having X not like using 1920x1200 straight away as a desktop res (the LCD's native res). Then I have issues with sound (alsa isn't the be all and end all), then there's always something else to fix.
Bottom line? You spend more time getting things to work than using the actual system. This might be fine if you want to do this kind of stuff as a technical challenge, but personally, I just want to be able to use my system for what I need to get done, and not have to worry about half of the crap I mentioned above.
I did some work quite a while ago getting newer ALSA drivers working on the xbox-linux project, and it's not as pretty as it could be. I'm no newbie to linux, but damn, I wish sometimes I didn't have to do half the crap I had to just to get a decent, working system. Enter OSX.
Out of curiousity, what is it that you are doing via an SSH session to a Linux box and can be done on an OS X terminal but cannot be done with cygwin on Windows?
Most of this is working on CVS stuff (do a checkout when you have a net connection, edit away, then commit when you get back). I know it can be done on Windows, but it's damn ugly.
I personally don't see the point of running cygwin when you can have it native to the OS.
All the apps I used on Windows I found replacements for OSX.
Windows -> OSX
MS Office -> MS Office
Outlook Calendar -> iCal
Trillian -> AdiumX
Outlook Express -> Mail
Firefox -> Safari (yes I know you can run Firefox on OSX, but it's DAMN slow)
ActiveSync -> Missing Sync (to sync my Windows Mobile devices)
Canon photo capture -> Image Capture (to bring photos of my digital camera)
Then of course there's all the unix tools, which are mostly there (the only one I had to source and install was wget and ncftp from memory). It takes a while to find all the replacements, but when you do, it's pretty easy to not look back.
While this isn't the only reason...
My personal situation is that I have bought 2 Mac machines in the past 6 months (does that make me 2 'converts'?) because the underlying system suits my needs better.
I spend ~45% of my time using PuTTY on a Windows machine connected to a linux server doing things that I can't do on a windows laptop without a net connection. When you have this capability locally via the OSX terminal, I can do whatever I need to on the move and not be tied to an internet connection and SSH session.
The other benefits I get is that the OS is very solid, I get all the unix tools I need, and it 'just works'.
Usenet is faster.... or so I've heard....
Now I wish that they would start selling the videos in stores OTHER THAN the US....
Urm. They do. Videos are available in the Australian iTunes store...
Maybe not in the US, however in Australia, we have LPG (basically propane) at 95% of all petrol stations. maybe 10% of the nations cars (including taxis etc) run on LPG as it is less than half the cost per litre of petrol (45.9cpl vs 125cpl).
The gas is mixed in with the air intake of the car by a mixer unit (which also takes care of air/fuel ratio) and the rest of the car runs like normal. Most of the cars can come like this from the dealer, however older cars require a newer, harder piston head/cylinder head as the fuel runs hotter than petrol as a rule.
As I'm saying this, I have an 80L gas tank in the back of my car, and it costs me $30 to fill (usually) however a gas price of 45.9cpl is higher than it has been for quite a while... A few weeks ago, it was hovering around 35.5cpl...
It's all a matter of dedication (and price).
Run that past me once again in English?
While I'm fully aware that a nuclear reactor is technically a piece of "hardware", in the context of SlashDot, doesn't "hardware" usually imply "something that geeks buy to put on their desks, in their pockets, or in their cars"? ;)
Have you been reading the specs for the next generation Intel P5 chips? Nuclear power generation might fix the hardware section of Slashdot more than you think....
This is all nice about upgrading the PowerBook specs, but have they fixed the problems with the damn SuperDrives!
ok, so this new GE plant absorbs more stuff from the air.... where does this go? What does the plant do with it? Does it release the same amount of stuff that it absorbed when it dies? Does it turn it into something else?
What I would love to know is if the DVD drive is still crap. If it's a UJ-835, then it's not really an upgrade. See http://superdrive.crc.id.au/ for more info, and please let me know what you find! :)
Just like the Windows Security Updates :)
What linux needs for the desktop market is an easy to use, and simple desktop. The problem with this on current installs is the lack of communication between desktop and kernel etc.
:|
For example, Sometimes, sound on linux can be an absolute bitch to get going. Even something as trivial as playing an AVI caused me *way* too much drama. Not that I couldn't get it to work, but then if I wanted sound to work with other things, I need to use a sound daemon. Fair enough, thats not too hard - but then the audio/video sync was out because of the latency in the sound daemon.
The point is, that as long as simple issues like playing a video become mammoth tasks, then the average person will just stick with something simpler. Hell, 90% of the time I can just install Windows and everything will work right out of the box.
This is what needs to be worked on. While all the technical side of things on Linux just rocks, I doubt that many people have worked on the 'end user experiance' because at the moment, it just sucks.
There is a reason Apple is gaining market share - as well as mind share - and it's the OS that does it. I can do the majority of things I can do on a linux system (console and X side), and have a nice, pretty and *FUNCTIONAL* GUI for everything else. The end user experiance is second to none. This is what Linux should be looking at - not making 'sweeping changes' that you still need to spend a week on getting to run just right
"oh, that's really going to chaff my willy!"
:)
Extra geek points for naming the movie that it's from
But this would assume that decent, feature rich apps for doing this actually exist and are stable on linux - which we all know is currently a pipe-dream...
Yeah - but the US won't do anything like this because there isn't a ton of oil in the ground in China....
I hate to tell you this, but they're trying...
0 061791,39202379,00.htmo a/Music_industry_gains_discovery_win_in_Aussie_MP3 _site_case/0,39029154,40003501,00.htm3 9177280,00.htmp e=news&ID=275
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/0,200
http://www.cnet.com.au/mp3players/musicsoftware/s
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,
http://www.out-law.com/page-5942
http://addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&ty
They're all stories about the Australian ISP being sued for hosting a site that contained links to copyrighted material.
Not good.
Err, if it's a polynomial of degree 5, and there are 5 numbers listed that are supposed to be roots, then of course there are no nonreal roots -- the sum of the number of real roots and the number of nonreal roots equals the degree of the polynomial.
So REAL nerds recognized that you don't need to manually check it!
And that folks is the scream of eternal virginity.
I'll go one further. Since getting nabbed twice - both within 300m of a speed change zone - I've been taking notes of where I see speed cameras in Melbourne.
1) Parked 250m away from a 80km/h sign from a 90km/h zone.
2) Parked 300m away from a 70km/h sign in a 60km/h zone.
3) Parked around a corner at the bottom of a large hill. Shifting into neutral and rolling down this hill will put you 20km/h over the limit.
4) Parked in a clearway zone on the footpath on a main road during rush hour. Note: It's illegal to park on the footpath.
These four examples have been within the last 6 months. To say it's a crock of shit is an understatement.
Your reality is surreal.
Opinion is everything.
And this makes it right how? If we are a victim of crime, the criminal should not be punished because crime is a fact of life and the fact we were victimized shows that we inadequately prepared ourselves... is this what you're saying?
Petty crimes are often unpunished. Would you rather people go to jail for littering? Spam is a side effect of having email. It's effects can be minimised with proper planning and implementations. Obviously, someone sending you email is not a clear cut crime, and it's treated as such.
So they have less space... but they haven't been deprived of that space?
The capacity is still there. Same capacity. It's not like they have 'stolen' 5Gb of my drive and the 120Gb drive suddenly becoems a 115Gb drive. Does this mean I should sue people for putting papers in my mailbox?
No, the "public" isn't providing my mail server.
Correct. You put it online making it available to the public for people to send you messages.
I have effective (though not 100% effective) barriers to spam and I have posted the restrictions against sending spam to my domain.
So you have solved your problem of spam? Great! If you're complaing about the extra overhead, maybe you shouldn't have put up a mail server in the first place. The saying 'if you cant put up with the heat, get out of the kitchen' comes to mind here.
My domain is anti-spam.org. If that's not enough, my home page includes the following notice *snip*
That's all well and good, but did you put it in a locked filing cabinet, in a disused lavatory, in the basement? - oh, and include the 'beware of the lepard' sign as well - because both have equal chance of being read.