Dec 15th 2009, claimed that Galileo proved the earth was round and that it revolves around the sun, and that the Dems/Obama are just like the evil people that tried to shut him up (I guess Obama is a Muslim Christian then, or Christian Muslim or something like that).
In my brief experience in court, one lesson that my lawyer taught me was to honestly answer questions, but don't offer info not asked for.
True, if you are a witness or defendant in a case. Not a friggin' potential juror. Why can't people make the distinction here? This guy is was not on trial (yet).
If only one of Samsung's lawyers was on his original case...
If only. Too bad there wasn't. I suspect that what happened here is that the spouse recognized the name of the juror when he started on his televised ego trip post-trial, though Apple seems to think the timing may be different.
... are routinely being ruled in what, to any layman, looks completely arbitrary?
The problem here is that what he did was not arbitrary. The jury didn't rule against a law they disagreed with. They were fed bullshit by this weasel (oooh, Jury Duty reference) about what the law states that is in fact NOT what the law states.
This is not the usual case of an ignorant judge or jury mucking up a case. This is a guy deliberately manipulating a jury through lies. He was, at best, un-forthcoming during voire dire. But he flat out lied during deliberations by his own account. And bear in mind, this is not your run of the mill reformed alcoholic taking a break from flipping burgers at the local greasy spoon to serve on a jury here, this is an engineer with 40 years experience directly related to the field in question. His manipulation of the jury cannot reasonably be attributed to ignorance or incompetence, but to malice.
couldn't get X to work because of my Diamond SpeedStar Pro graphics card
That takes me back! I remember what a PITA it used to be trying to get X to run with Vipers and the like. Glad those days are (mostly) behind us. (don't mind the proprietary kernel patch for NVidia, beats the hell out of searching through doco trying to find refresh rates that don't destroy your monitor).
Starting back late '93ish early '94ish
Slackware -> Debian -> Ubuntu -> Ubuntu + Oracle Enterprise Linux (on select servers)
Brief instances of SUSE, RedHat and Cent O/S mixed in there, but they never took (OEL notwithstanding)
Went the opposite direction (Deb to Ubu) because of slow releases from Deb with needed updates.
I could never grasp this, which always led me to suspect that he was some sort of paid agent. I mean, I am a Java guy in a big way. The vast majority of my development work is done there, and I like it alot. But I would be (and in fact have been) appalled at Java becoming a dependency of the os environment. I hate that OpenJDK is defined as a dependency in Ubuntu for several apps (particularly when I STILL find, even under 7, that Sun/Oracle's JVM is superior).
Java, at least though, is designed to be cross platform and to some extent open source. Why in God's name you would intentionally infect your design with something that is designed for and tightly coupled with a particular proprietary operating system is beyond me. And that is without even considering that the operating system in question was Microsoft's
I have never trusted the guy, and rarely found anything of truth or merit that comes out of his mouth.
... or the OS "hiding" stuff on the assumption that they don't need it.
A fair point, but it isn't the OS hiding it. It's Gnome. Gnome could be really good, but I can't deal with being told that something that I consider to be a flaw in the GUI logic is just me doing it wrong. I am just incensed by the dogmatic, misguided feng-shui obsession. KDE is MUCH better, but bloated as hell with all the social desktop BS, and is itself prone to the same mentality. Unity? Any GUI that makes it impossible to create a shortcut to an application just doesn't make the cut. (Try pinning a Java app like Netbeans, I shouldn't have to edit configuration files to do this simple task).
I know this sounds troll-worthy, but I switched back to Windows with Win7 after the better part of 10 years using KDE on all of my production workstations. I even continued to muddle through the KDE 4.0 release debacle. But nepomuk and all the other crap like it finally drove me over the edge. Linux still drives all but 2 of my nearly two dozen servers, but having to fight the GUI environment to do what I want in addition to the lack of some Windows apps that I need made me re-evaluate things.
I used to run XP under a VM (libvirt) with KDE as my base environment. Now it is the other way around, I run KDE in my VM under Virtual Box on my Windows 7 workstation. I'm not happy ABOUT it, but I am much happier WITH it. The bottom line is that it just works much better this way. Truth be told, I spend a considerable amount of my time in Konsole on the vm (Oracle client, and all the utils that are missing from windows like grep, sed, locate, cut).
What proponents of the Linux desktop really need to worry about is if Microsoft ever pulls their heads out of their asses and creates a real terminal app with all the utils (hearing Microsofties boast about PowerShell leaves me conflicted about whether to laugh or cry). Seriously, 20 years later and you are STILL fixed width with no direct copy/past? WTF?
You think that two black men, Barack Obama and Eric Holder are in charge? You can't be that thick. Holder and Obama are merely agents for Cary Sherman, Chris Dodd, Larry Ellison, Tim Cook, Randall Stephenson, Lowel McAdam, and Brian L. Roberts, all privileged white men. I neglect to mention the bank chiefs here because they are all represented by Tim Geitner (another whiter than white guy) in Obama's cabinet.
You know who will be in charge next January? Cary Sherman, Chris Dodd, Larry Ellison, Tim Cook, Randal Stephenson, Lowel McAdam and Brian L. Roberts. Depending on how the election goes, you might have to add David and Charles Koch to that list.
That's a load of crap brought to you by the people who would rather that you pay 10 times as much for 1/10th the performance and 1/10th the capacity.
But let me rebut that in a more logical fashion. Tapes take considerably longer, meaning the backup strategy ends up backing up less than is optimal.
Sure, disk backups are fragile. But if you system is going to be borked by the failure of a backup volume or two, then I would posit that your backup strategy is a disaster waiting to happen regardless of the media that you use.
Honestly, I know it isn't your question, but skip USB. Too slow. WAY too expensive. Get yourself a rocket raid card or similar, a sas expander, and an 8+ trayless disk enclosure. I use a 12 disk enclosure (8 for regular backups, 4 for all the one off stuff I do) with 2TB drives. I wrote a program in Java using NIO that stripes the backups across the disks so that it can saturate the bus. A solution like this will ultimately be faster and cheaper. One day I will port the code to native as the Java program was just a proof of concept that has worked so well I haven't gotten around to it.
This setup works exponentially better than the VXA-3 tape backup we were using before, and couldn't imagine having to do it with usb drives, either from a cost or a logistics perspective.
Yes, you could make corners of any number of shapes. But only 3 of them make sense: orthogonal, circular fillet, elliptical fillet.
Orthogonal creates a sharp point. Bad idea. Obvious.
elliptical fillets can add to the manufacturing cost and tend to produce dopey looking designs. Obvious design simplification that requires no influence from anywhere to decide that it isn't what you want.
Circular fillet. Obvious choice. EVERY. SINGLE. PHONE. I have ever owned has/had circular rounded corners. Every one of them. For 10 years now. I don't care what other design elements they are included with, the rounded corners are a meaningless element.
If Apple's phones had some weird compound radius and Samsung had copied, then you would have an argument. Because a weird compound radius is not the most logical design that anyone with an ounce of intelligence would also have utilized when designing a touch screen phone.
Should Samsung be able to file a design patent that includes making the phone out of a solid rather than a gas, so that when that feature is included with other design elements it would give them a lock on solid phone design? Apple isn't claiming a design patent on "Alpha Romeo". They are claiming a patent on the fucking letter "A".
I know the point you are trying to make, and on a certain level I kind of agree with you, but Apple's arguments are horseshit pure and simple. They just don't want to have to compete, so they litigate. Design patents are crap to start with, but when we are getting down to the point of trying to put a business under because the radius of the corners on the device infringe upon Apple's ownership of some mathematical constant..... I mean, are you listening to this??? Has our entire country gone completely batshit fucking insane? Why is Apple so terrified to compete on the merits of its products?
Because the larger the working group gets, the more people need to know that Frank has a week off in two months time - otherwise someones going to book that very important meeting with that very important client slap bang in the middle of it.
Hah! You think having vacation time on your calendar keeps them from doing that? Happens every friggin' time. Shared calendars aren't for YOU to manage your time, they are for the clerical staff to manage your time.
Ding Ding Ding! Bob, we have a winner! E. Fish. ANSII. Touch is not and cannot be practical for most business/office applications. Yes, it rules for Angry Birds and Draw Something, maybe even for your calendar (provided you are only viewing). But it is an awful interface for anything that requires typing and makes multi-tasking nearly impossible. Copy and paste on touch is the gonorrhea of computing. Just look at how crappy Autocad has gotten over the last 10 years or so where they have tried to move everything to a point-and-click use paradigm. It sucks balls, I spend an hour everytime I install it disabling all of the new UI crap they put on it because it just isn't efficient. I can't wait to see the cesspool that they create for it on Win8.
I think touch it is fantastic on tablets, but not the friggin' desktop. And even there, the dozen or so people in my office that have tablets all end up getting keyboards and mice for them (myself included on my ICS Android tablet) because they simply can't get stuff done quickly enough with touch.
Leave it to Microsoft to finally get something right (Windows 7) and then throw it away.
As an added bonus, javascript provides the best of both functional and object oriented programming, and just about every decent programmer knows javascript or can learn it easily.
For varying definitions of the term "best". Shoot me in the head before I take on the nightmare of debugging a project like this written in Javascript. The thought of it truly makes me *cidal. (where * is sui and/or homa)
I had a lengthy reply, partly agreeing and partly disagreeing (revolution is hyperbolic bs) with you. But I can say it much more concisely: If you truly believe that this reaction is about the RIAA then you are really missing the point.
You may have fought for something, all right, but it wasn't for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
At least not for you and me.
Well I can tell you it definitely wasn't for YOU! The government's reasons for doing things frequently don't align with the individual's. I was a Marine in GHWB's Gulf War. From a government perspective it was definitely about oil. To me, those would have been unlawful orders, except that I saw what Hussein did to the people of Kuwait. THAT is why I served, sir. Our family friend that we wave to daily as he strolls by in his wheelchair didn't lose his legs in the current Iraq venture because of GWB's daddy complex, he did it because he believed he was trying to help the Iraqi people, because he believed (however misguided it may be) that he was helping to keep our liberties safe. He paid for it with loss of use of half of his body, at the hands of the very people he was trying to help. And to have some cumstain POS like you denigrate the sacrifice that he made makes my blood boil! And then the following poster takes yet one more crap on Vietnam Vets, an even more egregious act given the fact that those guys didn't even volunteer, they were drafted.
Listen, I know what you are trying to say. I am a LIBERAL (one of the few who refuse to accept that the term rooted in liberty has somehow become pejorative). I did not support Jr's excursion into Iraq at all, I protested against it. But I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the people who fought (and continue to fight in Afghanistan), even the ones who committed some awful acts, did it out of a love for their country, for their fellow citizens, and for the principles that they represent (regardless of how far we may come from actually attaining them). They did it for you and me and the Iraqi/Afghan people.
It's real easy to take a stand against something from the cozy confines of the internet, but you best drag your ass out there and do it in the real world before you decide to slander several million Americans who put their countrymen before themselves.
Dude, I scanned that list and saw "Microsoft" and "2010" in the same sentence and had the shitscare that they were resurrecting Frontpage... Frontpage + Geocities: A match made in heaven.
Brings me back to the days of violent cyan on olive drab with animated snowflake gifs and blinky text all over the web (making me wish Compuserve was more successful in getting all infringing images pulled). I think I need a Tums.
Slashdot Mirror
May 26, 2009 Beck claims that Hitler's "empathy" was the cause of the holocaust.
Claimed Sean Smith was a CIA operative sent to Benghazi to cover up Obama's involvement in the Libyan uprising.
Dec 15th 2009, claimed that Galileo proved the earth was round and that it revolves around the sun, and that the Dems/Obama are just like the evil people that tried to shut him up (I guess Obama is a Muslim Christian then, or Christian Muslim or something like that).
In my brief experience in court, one lesson that my lawyer taught me was to honestly answer questions, but don't offer info not asked for.
True, if you are a witness or defendant in a case. Not a friggin' potential juror. Why can't people make the distinction here? This guy is was not on trial (yet).
If only one of Samsung's lawyers was on his original case...
If only. Too bad there wasn't. I suspect that what happened here is that the spouse recognized the name of the juror when he started on his televised ego trip post-trial, though Apple seems to think the timing may be different.
... are routinely being ruled in what, to any layman, looks completely arbitrary?
The problem here is that what he did was not arbitrary. The jury didn't rule against a law they disagreed with. They were fed bullshit by this weasel (oooh, Jury Duty reference) about what the law states that is in fact NOT what the law states.
This is not the usual case of an ignorant judge or jury mucking up a case. This is a guy deliberately manipulating a jury through lies. He was, at best, un-forthcoming during voire dire. But he flat out lied during deliberations by his own account. And bear in mind, this is not your run of the mill reformed alcoholic taking a break from flipping burgers at the local greasy spoon to serve on a jury here, this is an engineer with 40 years experience directly related to the field in question. His manipulation of the jury cannot reasonably be attributed to ignorance or incompetence, but to malice.
couldn't get X to work because of my Diamond SpeedStar Pro graphics card
That takes me back! I remember what a PITA it used to be trying to get X to run with Vipers and the like. Glad those days are (mostly) behind us. (don't mind the proprietary kernel patch for NVidia, beats the hell out of searching through doco trying to find refresh rates that don't destroy your monitor).
Starting back late '93ish early '94ish
Slackware -> Debian -> Ubuntu -> Ubuntu + Oracle Enterprise Linux (on select servers)
Brief instances of SUSE, RedHat and Cent O/S mixed in there, but they never took (OEL notwithstanding)
Went the opposite direction (Deb to Ubu) because of slow releases from Deb with needed updates.
I could never grasp this, which always led me to suspect that he was some sort of paid agent. I mean, I am a Java guy in a big way. The vast majority of my development work is done there, and I like it alot. But I would be (and in fact have been) appalled at Java becoming a dependency of the os environment. I hate that OpenJDK is defined as a dependency in Ubuntu for several apps (particularly when I STILL find, even under 7, that Sun/Oracle's JVM is superior).
Java, at least though, is designed to be cross platform and to some extent open source. Why in God's name you would intentionally infect your design with something that is designed for and tightly coupled with a particular proprietary operating system is beyond me. And that is without even considering that the operating system in question was Microsoft's
I have never trusted the guy, and rarely found anything of truth or merit that comes out of his mouth.
... or the OS "hiding" stuff on the assumption that they don't need it.
A fair point, but it isn't the OS hiding it. It's Gnome. Gnome could be really good, but I can't deal with being told that something that I consider to be a flaw in the GUI logic is just me doing it wrong. I am just incensed by the dogmatic, misguided feng-shui obsession. KDE is MUCH better, but bloated as hell with all the social desktop BS, and is itself prone to the same mentality. Unity? Any GUI that makes it impossible to create a shortcut to an application just doesn't make the cut. (Try pinning a Java app like Netbeans, I shouldn't have to edit configuration files to do this simple task).
I know this sounds troll-worthy, but I switched back to Windows with Win7 after the better part of 10 years using KDE on all of my production workstations. I even continued to muddle through the KDE 4.0 release debacle. But nepomuk and all the other crap like it finally drove me over the edge. Linux still drives all but 2 of my nearly two dozen servers, but having to fight the GUI environment to do what I want in addition to the lack of some Windows apps that I need made me re-evaluate things.
I used to run XP under a VM (libvirt) with KDE as my base environment. Now it is the other way around, I run KDE in my VM under Virtual Box on my Windows 7 workstation. I'm not happy ABOUT it, but I am much happier WITH it. The bottom line is that it just works much better this way. Truth be told, I spend a considerable amount of my time in Konsole on the vm (Oracle client, and all the utils that are missing from windows like grep, sed, locate, cut).
What proponents of the Linux desktop really need to worry about is if Microsoft ever pulls their heads out of their asses and creates a real terminal app with all the utils (hearing Microsofties boast about PowerShell leaves me conflicted about whether to laugh or cry). Seriously, 20 years later and you are STILL fixed width with no direct copy/past? WTF?
Oooooh, it's feeding time!
You think that two black men, Barack Obama and Eric Holder are in charge? You can't be that thick. Holder and Obama are merely agents for Cary Sherman, Chris Dodd, Larry Ellison, Tim Cook, Randall Stephenson, Lowel McAdam, and Brian L. Roberts, all privileged white men. I neglect to mention the bank chiefs here because they are all represented by Tim Geitner (another whiter than white guy) in Obama's cabinet.
You know who will be in charge next January? Cary Sherman, Chris Dodd, Larry Ellison, Tim Cook, Randal Stephenson, Lowel McAdam and Brian L. Roberts. Depending on how the election goes, you might have to add David and Charles Koch to that list.
That's a load of crap brought to you by the people who would rather that you pay 10 times as much for 1/10th the performance and 1/10th the capacity.
But let me rebut that in a more logical fashion. Tapes take considerably longer, meaning the backup strategy ends up backing up less than is optimal.
Sure, disk backups are fragile. But if you system is going to be borked by the failure of a backup volume or two, then I would posit that your backup strategy is a disaster waiting to happen regardless of the media that you use.
Honestly, I know it isn't your question, but skip USB. Too slow. WAY too expensive. Get yourself a rocket raid card or similar, a sas expander, and an 8+ trayless disk enclosure. I use a 12 disk enclosure (8 for regular backups, 4 for all the one off stuff I do) with 2TB drives. I wrote a program in Java using NIO that stripes the backups across the disks so that it can saturate the bus. A solution like this will ultimately be faster and cheaper. One day I will port the code to native as the Java program was just a proof of concept that has worked so well I haven't gotten around to it. This setup works exponentially better than the VXA-3 tape backup we were using before, and couldn't imagine having to do it with usb drives, either from a cost or a logistics perspective.
When are you due? I'm guessing no more than seven months since you have already missed a couple of periods. Who's us kemosabe?
Yes, you could make corners of any number of shapes. But only 3 of them make sense: orthogonal, circular fillet, elliptical fillet.
If Apple's phones had some weird compound radius and Samsung had copied, then you would have an argument. Because a weird compound radius is not the most logical design that anyone with an ounce of intelligence would also have utilized when designing a touch screen phone.
Should Samsung be able to file a design patent that includes making the phone out of a solid rather than a gas, so that when that feature is included with other design elements it would give them a lock on solid phone design? Apple isn't claiming a design patent on "Alpha Romeo". They are claiming a patent on the fucking letter "A".
I know the point you are trying to make, and on a certain level I kind of agree with you, but Apple's arguments are horseshit pure and simple. They just don't want to have to compete, so they litigate. Design patents are crap to start with, but when we are getting down to the point of trying to put a business under because the radius of the corners on the device infringe upon Apple's ownership of some mathematical constant..... I mean, are you listening to this??? Has our entire country gone completely batshit fucking insane? Why is Apple so terrified to compete on the merits of its products?
Because the larger the working group gets, the more people need to know that Frank has a week off in two months time - otherwise someones going to book that very important meeting with that very important client slap bang in the middle of it.
Hah! You think having vacation time on your calendar keeps them from doing that? Happens every friggin' time. Shared calendars aren't for YOU to manage your time, they are for the clerical staff to manage your time.
Wait for the charm bar.
Seriously? Charm Bar? WTF is this, the Webkinz desktop? To quote the only authoritative source on such things:
"I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man."
Ding Ding Ding! Bob, we have a winner! E. Fish. ANSII. Touch is not and cannot be practical for most business/office applications. Yes, it rules for Angry Birds and Draw Something, maybe even for your calendar (provided you are only viewing). But it is an awful interface for anything that requires typing and makes multi-tasking nearly impossible. Copy and paste on touch is the gonorrhea of computing. Just look at how crappy Autocad has gotten over the last 10 years or so where they have tried to move everything to a point-and-click use paradigm. It sucks balls, I spend an hour everytime I install it disabling all of the new UI crap they put on it because it just isn't efficient. I can't wait to see the cesspool that they create for it on Win8.
I think touch it is fantastic on tablets, but not the friggin' desktop. And even there, the dozen or so people in my office that have tablets all end up getting keyboards and mice for them (myself included on my ICS Android tablet) because they simply can't get stuff done quickly enough with touch.
Leave it to Microsoft to finally get something right (Windows 7) and then throw it away.
I'd seriously consider Javascript.
As an added bonus, javascript provides the best of both functional and object oriented programming, and just about every decent programmer knows javascript or can learn it easily.
For varying definitions of the term "best". Shoot me in the head before I take on the nightmare of debugging a project like this written in Javascript. The thought of it truly makes me *cidal. (where * is sui and/or homa)
I had a lengthy reply, partly agreeing and partly disagreeing (revolution is hyperbolic bs) with you. But I can say it much more concisely: If you truly believe that this reaction is about the RIAA then you are really missing the point.
You may have fought for something, all right, but it wasn't for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
At least not for you and me.
Well I can tell you it definitely wasn't for YOU! The government's reasons for doing things frequently don't align with the individual's. I was a Marine in GHWB's Gulf War. From a government perspective it was definitely about oil. To me, those would have been unlawful orders, except that I saw what Hussein did to the people of Kuwait. THAT is why I served, sir. Our family friend that we wave to daily as he strolls by in his wheelchair didn't lose his legs in the current Iraq venture because of GWB's daddy complex, he did it because he believed he was trying to help the Iraqi people, because he believed (however misguided it may be) that he was helping to keep our liberties safe. He paid for it with loss of use of half of his body, at the hands of the very people he was trying to help. And to have some cumstain POS like you denigrate the sacrifice that he made makes my blood boil! And then the following poster takes yet one more crap on Vietnam Vets, an even more egregious act given the fact that those guys didn't even volunteer, they were drafted.
Listen, I know what you are trying to say. I am a LIBERAL (one of the few who refuse to accept that the term rooted in liberty has somehow become pejorative). I did not support Jr's excursion into Iraq at all, I protested against it. But I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the people who fought (and continue to fight in Afghanistan), even the ones who committed some awful acts, did it out of a love for their country, for their fellow citizens, and for the principles that they represent (regardless of how far we may come from actually attaining them). They did it for you and me and the Iraqi/Afghan people.
It's real easy to take a stand against something from the cozy confines of the internet, but you best drag your ass out there and do it in the real world before you decide to slander several million Americans who put their countrymen before themselves.
Anytime I see that Dreamweaver anchor image, I want to punch a baby in the mouth.
AC sux at the HTML.
Dude, I scanned that list and saw "Microsoft" and "2010" in the same sentence and had the shitscare that they were resurrecting Frontpage... Frontpage + Geocities: A match made in heaven.
Brings me back to the days of violent cyan on olive drab with animated snowflake gifs and blinky text all over the web (making me wish Compuserve was more successful in getting all infringing images pulled). I think I need a Tums.
So, let me repeat the question: What's the best open source replacement for Dreamweaver? Points off if your answer is a text editor.
What is 2 + 3? Points off if you answer 5.