By the way, anyone care to tell me why slashdot was showing May 2009 articles earlier?
I've seen that recently a few times. The page starts with something from today, then yesterday, last week, last couple months, then last year. It's very odd and mostly pointless.
I can agree that it's silly to argue that she should care about a bunch of details of the machine that don't affect how she uses it, because it performs in a way that she enjoys and finds satisfactory for her expectations. But wouldn't you agree it's equally silly to tell others that they shouldn't care about details that don't fit their expectations of what the machine should be and do? From my perspective, your wife's simpler set of requirements represents a lesser utilization of the machine.
This has been the thought that has been waiting in my brain for a while. I knew there was an argument against the "well it's not for you" statements
Here in my car -- I make analogies
It is handy because -- you can relate to them
In cars...
It's like having a muscle car with a very restrictive governor for a little old lady who drives to the store and church once a week. "Oh, it's a very nice car, I like it", says granny. Her grandson doesn't even want to borrow it because it can't reach highway speeds until twenty seconds have passed. Sure, it looks great in the mall parking lot, but that's all.
A computer analogy; The Founders thought they were setting up a heterogeneous distributed network with minimal centralized control (the Constitution) and each State was supposed to have the leeway to operate the best way for each.
This is the kind of thing, as xbeefsupreme points out, that will rise to the level that it garners attention beyond the realm of geekdom
I'd bet 1000 bucks against anyone that it won't. Especially since all the outrage is from people who aren't even iPhone users anyway.
I'm an iPhone owner, but things like this have been souring me to Apple a lot lately. This story will make the rounds in writer's circles, and filter into the view of other artists who have iPhones. Would their free iPhone art gallery idea be banned? Better choose Android. Would a news article mocking Apple be banned? Better choose Kindle to publish instead (despite Amazon's record, it's not the story of the moment).
The MPAA/RIAA/Brein/Bumastemra all love to claim that our society will collapse when no more "play for cash only" bands will exist. No more spice-girls, no more backstreet boys. The end of civilization as we know it.
They do have a slight point on this issue. The United States are still quite diverse and geographically distant. The culturally homogenizing effects of mass media help to foster similarities between people in New Orleans, Alaska, Maine, Hawaii, California, Iowa...
Only going to argue against one point today (since someone saw fit to argue with me about well water and bottled water being somehow a government utility last time)
to my house [...] which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.
Do the Police sit outside your house and patrol the yard? You house hasn't been plundered thanks to: your own physical security, the watchfulness of your neighbors, or happenstance. Usually happenstance, since shotgun burglars can steal big ticket items in a couple minutes, and only a dog or a human trying to stop them will slow them down. If they're killers, that won't slow them down either.
Are there big well known names that we can point to as running Linux or BSD? Of course there are, but can we give a concise list? I'm looking for samples of things one could bring in an expert witness to counter that claim with, as well as a clear NON-"HACKER" usage pattern for it that would "explain" why Joe User (like me) would have it on my computer.
IBM, Novell, Google, German Government, NSA, FBI, CIA, DoD, Nokia, Microsoft, A bajillienty websites. I thought someone said some banks are giving out customized Linux boot CDs for online access now; maybe it was wishful thinking?
remarkably prescient in that it hasn't happened yet, but you still cling to the hope that it will someday so that he doesn't look like a nattering assmonkey who eats toechunks whilst speaking publicly?
Those are beard-nibblets. How would toechunks get into his beard?
And now to the serious part: Some of the things have already happened. Not the Lunar colony (and that seems unlikely to happen within 300 years let alone 50), but some of the bad stuff:
"Like everyone, he had been taught since elementary school that sharing books[music/software/foo] was nasty and wrong--something that only pirates would do." Done with comics distributed as educational materials in public schools.
"each [facecbook profile] had a monitor that reported when and where it was read, and by whom, to Central Licensing. (They used this information to [...] sell personal interest profiles to retailers)" Obvious
"in the 1990s, both commercial and nonprofit journal publishers had begun charging fees for access." This one's a freebie, since it already happened before he wrote the piece, but other things have happened since: Ever tried googling a medical research term? Page after page of paywalls.
"In 2047, Frank was in prison, not for pirate reading, but for possessing a debugger." How many people here have been given the stink eye from some ISP for using ICMP (just ping!) to diagnose a problem that their techs take days to solve (because they do hardware only)? Tons of EULAs prohibit use of gdb and its ilk. DMCA provisions against distributing decryption software is dangerously close to "possessing a debugger."
"Dan would eventually find out about the free kernels, even entire free operating systems, that had existed around the turn of the century. But [...] you could not install one if you had one, without knowing your computer's root password. And neither [Apple] nor [Sony] would tell you that." iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad, obviously, not Mac OS X (yet). Sony PS3, also Nintendo and Microsoft XBox, but the PS3 had Linux support taken away. I remember back in early 2000's, Compaq/HP used to fund Linux research for their iPaq handheld computers (Loved both GPE and Opie). They came with WinCE, but Linux was so much more useful.
The average consumer of entertainment just doesn't have the self control to stop listening to songs or watching films for an unknown amount of time just to put pressure on the industry, and groups like the RIAA know this.
So you're saying that the music cartel is also a drug cartel? Then I'd like to reaffirm my full support for the war on drugs.
As someone who uses OpenBSD from a command line for most of my professional life and who turns to Apple as soon as my time is my own, I have to say I think most of the Apple hate amongst the fellow nerds here is just jealousy.
I hate Apple because I have to administer them, and locking them down is a pain. Default settings are nothing like OpenBSD in terms of software security, and physical security is a joke (You can't lock the RAM cover on an iMac, a RAM reseat erases the nvram password, and then you're owned by a CD boot or you've had RAM stolen).
They _want_ people to know about this. If the people know, then they're more likely to keep such talk private. If they don't know, a "bad" comment could spread on twitter and they'd have to play clean up.
If you're intrigued by this sort of thing, there's a fantastic SF short by Ted Chiang called "Liking What You See: A Documentary". It's about the consequences and ethics of suppressing a person's ability to recognise (and thus be biased by) physical attractiveness.
If you're not in a reading mood, they made it into a movie called Shallow Hal.
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Princess Leia, she clearly has midichlorins. Were there any other females in those movies?
How could you forget Mon Mothma? Even her name is hot.
can you imagine two identical twins where one was fat and the other skinny?
Yes I know a pair. Both are attractive, but one is single and jogs, the other is married, doesn't exercise, and eats a lot. It's not all in the genes.
a booster with no mission (I smell pork)
I smell near Earth asteroid.
And while we're at it, he's no true Scotsman, either.
And as we all know: "If it isn't Scottish, it's CRAP!"
It's sad that the people who shed it off to ascend to an energy level aren't around any more. Don't send Marina Sirtis or Denise Crosby to Trinidad!
By the way, anyone care to tell me why slashdot was showing May 2009 articles earlier?
I've seen that recently a few times. The page starts with something from today, then yesterday, last week, last couple months, then last year. It's very odd and mostly pointless.
I can agree that it's silly to argue that she should care about a bunch of details of the machine that don't affect how she uses it, because it performs in a way that she enjoys and finds satisfactory for her expectations. But wouldn't you agree it's equally silly to tell others that they shouldn't care about details that don't fit their expectations of what the machine should be and do? From my perspective, your wife's simpler set of requirements represents a lesser utilization of the machine.
This has been the thought that has been waiting in my brain for a while. I knew there was an argument against the "well it's not for you" statements
Here in my car -- I make analogies
It is handy because -- you can relate to them
In cars...
It's like having a muscle car with a very restrictive governor for a little old lady who drives to the store and church once a week. "Oh, it's a very nice car, I like it", says granny. Her grandson doesn't even want to borrow it because it can't reach highway speeds until twenty seconds have passed. Sure, it looks great in the mall parking lot, but that's all.
A computer analogy; The Founders thought they were setting up a heterogeneous distributed network with minimal centralized control (the Constitution) and each State was supposed to have the leeway to operate the best way for each.
So we've become Mosix instead of Beowulf?
This is the kind of thing, as xbeefsupreme points out, that will rise to the level that it garners attention beyond the realm of geekdom
I'd bet 1000 bucks against anyone that it won't. Especially since all the outrage is from people who aren't even iPhone users anyway.
I'm an iPhone owner, but things like this have been souring me to Apple a lot lately. This story will make the rounds in writer's circles, and filter into the view of other artists who have iPhones. Would their free iPhone art gallery idea be banned? Better choose Android. Would a news article mocking Apple be banned? Better choose Kindle to publish instead (despite Amazon's record, it's not the story of the moment).
Yes, Apple has a locked down system that rejects apps for arbitrary reasons.
This is a known fact, can we stop pretending its "stuff that matters?"
And accept defeat? I'll keep pointing it out to people until Apple changes the system or kills it.
The MPAA/RIAA/Brein/Bumastemra all love to claim that our society will collapse when no more "play for cash only" bands will exist. No more spice-girls, no more backstreet boys. The end of civilization as we know it.
They do have a slight point on this issue. The United States are still quite diverse and geographically distant. The culturally homogenizing effects of mass media help to foster similarities between people in New Orleans, Alaska, Maine, Hawaii, California, Iowa...
to my house [...] which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.
Do the Police sit outside your house and patrol the yard? You house hasn't been plundered thanks to: your own physical security, the watchfulness of your neighbors, or happenstance. Usually happenstance, since shotgun burglars can steal big ticket items in a couple minutes, and only a dog or a human trying to stop them will slow them down. If they're killers, that won't slow them down either.
Are there big well known names that we can point to as running Linux or BSD? Of course there are, but can we give a concise list? I'm looking for samples of things one could bring in an expert witness to counter that claim with, as well as a clear NON-"HACKER" usage pattern for it that would "explain" why Joe User (like me) would have it on my computer.
IBM, Novell, Google, German Government, NSA, FBI, CIA, DoD, Nokia, Microsoft, A bajillienty websites. I thought someone said some banks are giving out customized Linux boot CDs for online access now; maybe it was wishful thinking?
remarkably prescient in that it hasn't happened yet, but you still cling to the hope that it will someday so that he doesn't look like a nattering assmonkey who eats toechunks whilst speaking publicly?
Those are beard-nibblets. How would toechunks get into his beard?
And now to the serious part: Some of the things have already happened. Not the Lunar colony (and that seems unlikely to happen within 300 years let alone 50), but some of the bad stuff:
If it makes you feel better, I think I've never eaten Doritos.
Of course you have. What do you think Dorito Pie is made from?
The average consumer of entertainment just doesn't have the self control to stop listening to songs or watching films for an unknown amount of time just to put pressure on the industry, and groups like the RIAA know this.
So you're saying that the music cartel is also a drug cartel? Then I'd like to reaffirm my full support for the war on drugs.
I haven't read the article yet, but I hope that it's not really Live Video. It would be a haven for real stalkers (not the cyber kind).
As someone who uses OpenBSD from a command line for most of my professional life and who turns to Apple as soon as my time is my own, I have to say I think most of the Apple hate amongst the fellow nerds here is just jealousy.
I hate Apple because I have to administer them, and locking them down is a pain. Default settings are nothing like OpenBSD in terms of software security, and physical security is a joke (You can't lock the RAM cover on an iMac, a RAM reseat erases the nvram password, and then you're owned by a CD boot or you've had RAM stolen).
A person who is fatter than me or who has a different body type is very likely not related.
Um, Huh? Because fatness is purely genetic? I know so many families where some are fat and some are skinny.
How long before someone creates another Internet where "The Man" can't go and fuck it up?
There are plenty of Lesbian-only sites on the regular Internet.
This test was so tedious I simply gave up when it asked me to do the whole thing over again.
So it asks you to do it again and again until there's prejudice detected?
They _want_ people to know about this. If the people know, then they're more likely to keep such talk private. If they don't know, a "bad" comment could spread on twitter and they'd have to play clean up.
If you're intrigued by this sort of thing, there's a fantastic SF short by Ted Chiang called "Liking What You See: A Documentary". It's about the consequences and ethics of suppressing a person's ability to recognise (and thus be biased by) physical attractiveness.
If you're not in a reading mood, they made it into a movie called Shallow Hal.
Is Astromech a registered trademark of Lucas?
As an owner of both an iPhone and an iPad, you're opinion is invalid.
As an owner of an iPhone an a sysadmin responsible for "setting up" an iPad, your use of "you're" is incorrect.