No, the price difference is so the Faithful can run around flaunting their glowing logo...
I have to admit that everyone I've met does like the glowing logo a lot. Personally, I can't see it when I use the machine, so I don't care too much.
I do however find it extremely hilarious when I see an Apple laptop in a TV show that the actors are (supposedly) using while the logo is unlit. That one always gives me a little chuckle.
...and while you present an interesting technical argument for lack of flash on the iPhone, it's much much simpler.
Flash games and applications bypass the app store.
If you bypass the app store, AT&T and Apple don't get to extract [more] money out of you or out of the end user. Apple and AT&T are more interested in money than in truly unifying the mobile and fixed web browsing experiences. End of story.
You may notice that people tend to be so inept that runonce.msn.com tends to be their homepage forever.
Someone at work called the helpdesk because the Internet was down... and it turned out that runonce.msn.com was actually offline for a very short period.
Could you imagine Live! Search being the default search engine of Firefox?
Live! search actually returns relevant results, I just can't read the fucking page. Google's layout keeps things simple, and on the left side of the page, which is what I've gotten used to.
IMHO, Microsoft could actually get me to use their search by imitating Google's layout, making it faster for folks such as myself to read and sift the results.
Windows is a pain in the ass. Every time you boot it, you have to reopen all your apps and documents, and its registry is a little bigger.
Windows has hibernation too. shutdown/h should do it from a command prompt if you don't see it listed. Also, it may not be enabled by default. I usually do a shutdown of my personal machine as the only program I care about having open again is firefox, and that will save its tabs anyway.
Please don't! While I'd be tempted by the substantial (I hope) pay increase, I much prefer systems administration. My general interaction with SQL is via WMI and MS SQL via VBScript (e.g. putting WMI query results into an MSSQL database).
I knew someone would probably point out my terrible SQL query, though;)
Product X is rumored to suck. Product Y's manufacturer does or does not claim specific function of Product Y in conjunction with Product X. Product Y doesn't deliver expected results when used with Product X.
Conclusion: Product X is responsible for Product Y's failure. Further, Product X sucks.
I'd love to hear someone get ripped to shreds for claiming OS X sucks because their new Konica Minolta printer doesn't work for them. I have had problems with mine, but I know full well it isn't Apple's fault.
The important thing with Linux is, that you can choose how much you system takes to boot up.
You can do the same thing with XP or Vista. The difference is that you need to do it with a third party tool, but nonetheless, paring down your OS is a power user task, and power users are the kind of folks who download said tools.
My preferred copy of XP right now is one I stripped down with nLite. Boots in 13 seconds on a 1 GHz P3 machine. I need to rebuild it with new patches, though.
Yes, but do other operating systems use an Adobe shell extension to preview the file, or do they use an internal library?
I'm entirely certain that Windows would have built in PDF support if Adobe wouldn't drag Microsoft's ass into court over it... which is the reason I can't print to PDF in Office 2007 without downloading an extension.
Same here. That and the overall speed increase gained by Firefox 3 was what made me switch from IE7.
I really hate the fact that I need to type the first 3 or 4 letters of a website in before all the pr0n entries disappear of the list... I'd like to be able to flag certain websites or keywords from *ever* showing up. It's annoying as hell if people are watching you navigate to a website.
Heh, I do know that there are plenty of good lawyers out there, and my experience with them (a couple of civil suits) has helped me discern the difference better than I used to be able to, but I digress. I would say it's more sad that these places appear to be online discussion forums for those you would consider the elite (LAW students in IVY LEAGUE schools)... but they're actually worse than/b/tards, and live up to the snobby superficial stereotypes often associated with them in modern film...
Its like 4chan for guys who decided to put down the beer and weed and get a real job.
Wow... and the unfortunate fact that it seems to be a fairly high traffic site means that it only appears that much more legitimate.
I would actually consider 4chan to be a more civilized place than this one, if only for the fact that once people stop caring about it for 10 or 15 pages, it's gone.
Not only that, but I can hardly see what relevance her sex life has in that forum, especially if the information is hearsay.
Any forum moderator or website operator should have the common decency to recognize a troll and delete the offending material if you can show, with good intentions, that it's more detrimental to you for that false information to be there than it is positive for them to keep it....
In the end, you should never have to legislate good taste, but for fuck's sake, it'd be nice for more people to have it as well... TFS and TFA certainly paint it as being that black and white, but perhaps that's not the case, and that's why you need a lawsuit.
I know that a trite Ask Slashdot combined with the fact that it's posted under news all topped off with kdawson as the poster can be enough to make the best of us rage, but please, it's not worth wasting your karma for.
The idea is to move towards a more secure system. Not to keep making excuses.
I hate to break it to you, but unless Microsoft (or OEM's, or ISP co-ops, or some central authority) starts whitelisting user apps/behavior, when you put a virus at the end of a yes/no prompt that is required by virtually every piece of shit "must have 'Administrator' to load a fucking text file" application made over a decade after the advent of the NT security model...
You get the idea. If applications require things like UAC (and MS was guilty too, though more with regard to non-critical system settings) to constantly and pointlessly elevate them, out of your virtual machine or into your insecure DLL, then nothing will allow a user to really, really understand that they should think a little harder about that damned dialog box they keep clicking "yes" on.
...Of course though, even if this were the case, it doesn't explain why people can't distinguish
YOU'VE GOT A DEADLY VIRUS - Windows Internet Explorer
from the real thing. I'm still amazed that people feel insulted when I tell them they likely installed the virus themselves.
FWIW, the same phone I used to come to my non-scientific conclusion charged just fine after installing drivers when plugged into a machine running Windows... and I doubt that driver could force the USB port to supply 5.2v.
It also will not charge from generic wall plug to USB power converters, or from 12V to USB converters, only from the Motorola branded charger.
Though I've got no actual hard evidence to back it up, I seriously believe there's some sort of ultra-cheap DRM built into the chargers and phones to prevent you from buying reasonably priced travel/home replacement chargers.
I used to love Motorola phones because I used to have a Motorola E815. After you hacked the limitations (which were imposed by Verizon) off of the phone, it had more features than some smartphones did....
At least they're still better than the crap produced by LG, but not by much:P
It's called the "God" particle because the name is more memorable to laymen.
If discovery of the Higgs boson gives us the ability to reach that much closer to completing our model of how the universe works, then we effectively gain insight on what I would call "the mind of God..." or maybe perhaps an idea of how such a mind works.
It's a very abstract idea, I know, but drawing parallels to or directly referencing religious constructs can be just as effective a metaphor as other things in history or everyday life. Quite personally, I would say that "God particle" gets this idea across fairly well to those who understand the implications its existence poses. For others (particularly extremely vocal and judgmental atheists, whom I may add ruin it for the rest of you), it's just another "politically motivated action to insert religion into your potentially heathen lives." Then again, it could be neither.
Slashdot Mirror
No, the price difference is so the Faithful can run around flaunting their glowing logo...
I have to admit that everyone I've met does like the glowing logo a lot. Personally, I can't see it when I use the machine, so I don't care too much.
I do however find it extremely hilarious when I see an Apple laptop in a TV show that the actors are (supposedly) using while the logo is unlit. That one always gives me a little chuckle.
...and while you present an interesting technical argument for lack of flash on the iPhone, it's much much simpler.
Flash games and applications bypass the app store.
If you bypass the app store, AT&T and Apple don't get to extract [more] money out of you or out of the end user. Apple and AT&T are more interested in money than in truly unifying the mobile and fixed web browsing experiences. End of story.
You may notice that people tend to be so inept that runonce.msn.com tends to be their homepage forever.
Someone at work called the helpdesk because the Internet was down... and it turned out that runonce.msn.com was actually offline for a very short period.
Could you imagine Live! Search being the default search engine of Firefox?
Live! search actually returns relevant results, I just can't read the fucking page. Google's layout keeps things simple, and on the left side of the page, which is what I've gotten used to.
IMHO, Microsoft could actually get me to use their search by imitating Google's layout, making it faster for folks such as myself to read and sift the results.
Windows is a pain in the ass. Every time you boot it, you have to reopen all your apps and documents, and its registry is a little bigger.
Windows has hibernation too. shutdown /h should do it from a command prompt if you don't see it listed. Also, it may not be enabled by default. I usually do a shutdown of my personal machine as the only program I care about having open again is firefox, and that will save its tabs anyway.
Remind me never to offer you a job as a DBA.
Please don't! While I'd be tempted by the substantial (I hope) pay increase, I much prefer systems administration. My general interaction with SQL is via WMI and MS SQL via VBScript (e.g. putting WMI query results into an MSSQL database).
;)
I knew someone would probably point out my terrible SQL query, though
Only on Slashdot do you find someone who wants to listen to Natalie Portman talk SQL.
SELECT * FROM Memes WHERE Reference LIKE '%Portman%' AND LIKE '%naked%' AND LIKE '%petrified%' ORDER BY SlashdotCommentScore, HotGrits;
27,154,947 Rows Returned.
My two year old Sharp Aquos has a darker black than the 25 year old Admiral CRT it replaced
Your brightness setting on your CRT was likely way too high.
I do find this mentality rather sad...
Product X is rumored to suck. Product Y's manufacturer does or does not claim specific function of Product Y in conjunction with Product X. Product Y doesn't deliver expected results when used with Product X.
Conclusion: Product X is responsible for Product Y's failure. Further, Product X sucks.
I'd love to hear someone get ripped to shreds for claiming OS X sucks because their new Konica Minolta printer doesn't work for them. I have had problems with mine, but I know full well it isn't Apple's fault.
It might be entertaining for its participants, well, one of them anyway,
I'm eerily reminded, by the thread you've started here, that the TV will never love anyone back.
Reminds me of some women I've known...
The important thing with Linux is, that you can choose how much you system takes to boot up.
You can do the same thing with XP or Vista. The difference is that you need to do it with a third party tool, but nonetheless, paring down your OS is a power user task, and power users are the kind of folks who download said tools.
My preferred copy of XP right now is one I stripped down with nLite. Boots in 13 seconds on a 1 GHz P3 machine. I need to rebuild it with new patches, though.
Yes, but do other operating systems use an Adobe shell extension to preview the file, or do they use an internal library?
I'm entirely certain that Windows would have built in PDF support if Adobe wouldn't drag Microsoft's ass into court over it... which is the reason I can't print to PDF in Office 2007 without downloading an extension.
I loved it from the first time I saw it.
Same here. That and the overall speed increase gained by Firefox 3 was what made me switch from IE7.
I really hate the fact that I need to type the first 3 or 4 letters of a website in before all the pr0n entries disappear of the list... I'd like to be able to flag certain websites or keywords from *ever* showing up. It's annoying as hell if people are watching you navigate to a website.
with usernames like Riaa250k
I think "Riaa750k" might be more appropriate, given that's what they'll try to score with every file they download from you.
Heh, I do know that there are plenty of good lawyers out there, and my experience with them (a couple of civil suits) has helped me discern the difference better than I used to be able to, but I digress. I would say it's more sad that these places appear to be online discussion forums for those you would consider the elite (LAW students in IVY LEAGUE schools)... but they're actually worse than /b/tards, and live up to the snobby superficial stereotypes often associated with them in modern film...
Just goes to show money isn't everything.
If only the iPhone had a more useful CLI and ditched the glitzy interface, it could be the best phone on the market!
Its like 4chan for guys who decided to put down the beer and weed and get a real job.
Wow... and the unfortunate fact that it seems to be a fairly high traffic site means that it only appears that much more legitimate.
I would actually consider 4chan to be a more civilized place than this one, if only for the fact that once people stop caring about it for 10 or 15 pages, it's gone.
Defamation should be a civil matter.
Not only that, but I can hardly see what relevance her sex life has in that forum, especially if the information is hearsay.
Any forum moderator or website operator should have the common decency to recognize a troll and delete the offending material if you can show, with good intentions, that it's more detrimental to you for that false information to be there than it is positive for them to keep it....
In the end, you should never have to legislate good taste, but for fuck's sake, it'd be nice for more people to have it as well... TFS and TFA certainly paint it as being that black and white, but perhaps that's not the case, and that's why you need a lawsuit.
Google != Background check. Sigh.
I know that a trite Ask Slashdot combined with the fact that it's posted under news all topped off with kdawson as the poster can be enough to make the best of us rage, but please, it's not worth wasting your karma for.
The idea is to move towards a more secure system. Not to keep making excuses.
I hate to break it to you, but unless Microsoft (or OEM's, or ISP co-ops, or some central authority) starts whitelisting user apps/behavior, when you put a virus at the end of a yes/no prompt that is required by virtually every piece of shit "must have 'Administrator' to load a fucking text file" application made over a decade after the advent of the NT security model...
You get the idea. If applications require things like UAC (and MS was guilty too, though more with regard to non-critical system settings) to constantly and pointlessly elevate them, out of your virtual machine or into your insecure DLL, then nothing will allow a user to really, really understand that they should think a little harder about that damned dialog box they keep clicking "yes" on.
...Of course though, even if this were the case, it doesn't explain why people can't distinguish
YOU'VE GOT A DEADLY VIRUS - Windows Internet Explorer
from the real thing. I'm still amazed that people feel insulted when I tell them they likely installed the virus themselves.
Nevermind.
How does one get the temperature below 0 degrees Kelvin?
When jokes fly above the heads of unsuspecting slashdotters, the ensuing endothermic reaction has been shown to lower temperatures past 0 degrees K.
The "woosh"-ing sound means it's working!
True.
:P
I shuddered at what I had done when I installed Fox's ActiveX control a couple years back.
At least I've since reformatted
FWIW, the same phone I used to come to my non-scientific conclusion charged just fine after installing drivers when plugged into a machine running Windows... and I doubt that driver could force the USB port to supply 5.2v.
Interesting though.
It also will not charge from generic wall plug to USB power converters, or from 12V to USB converters, only from the Motorola branded charger.
Though I've got no actual hard evidence to back it up, I seriously believe there's some sort of ultra-cheap DRM built into the chargers and phones to prevent you from buying reasonably priced travel/home replacement chargers.
:P
I used to love Motorola phones because I used to have a Motorola E815. After you hacked the limitations (which were imposed by Verizon) off of the phone, it had more features than some smartphones did....
At least they're still better than the crap produced by LG, but not by much
It's called the "God" particle because the name is more memorable to laymen.
If discovery of the Higgs boson gives us the ability to reach that much closer to completing our model of how the universe works, then we effectively gain insight on what I would call "the mind of God..." or maybe perhaps an idea of how such a mind works.
It's a very abstract idea, I know, but drawing parallels to or directly referencing religious constructs can be just as effective a metaphor as other things in history or everyday life. Quite personally, I would say that "God particle" gets this idea across fairly well to those who understand the implications its existence poses. For others (particularly extremely vocal and judgmental atheists, whom I may add ruin it for the rest of you), it's just another "politically motivated action to insert religion into your potentially heathen lives." Then again, it could be neither.
I am biased, but I suspect we all are.