Such public display of the topic, the good guy apple feeling that comes out of it. I really feel like I just got hit with a very low flying advertisement
Agreed, but I think the reason there's so much fear is because people feel that their language is such a part of their identity that if they lose it, they lose everything.
This is why there are such strong reactions to it, while all other cultural influences arrive to open arms.
I'm a born and raised anglophone Quebecker. This is an issue I've faced (yes, faced) my whole life.
There is a great deal of prejudice and discrimination against anglophones in Quebec, both socially and legislatively. Two applicants to the same job, both perfectly bilingual, one Francophone, one Anglophone, most times the Francophone gets the job. I've had people pick fights with me in bars, because I was speaking English with my friends privately. If you didn't attend English school as a child, you can't send your children to English school. I've gotten attitude from merchants for using the wrong conjugation or gender. The language issues touch every aspect of life here and truly divides Quebec. I've been against these discriminatory laws my whole life. In spite of all this, recently, after the last federal election, I'm starting to get it.
Quebec is different than other provinces. The things we care about are different than the general population of North America. We believe in free health care and education for all. Not as a concept, but to the core of our being. It's ironic that we care so much for everyone, but lose sight of it over something as trivial as language. Francophone Quebec is afraid that we're going to lose these differences, this identity by way of dilution of the language. This is where the animosity comes from. It's rooted in fear, not in hatred. The fear of losing the language is justified and real. French is fading and being mixed against the cultural influence of English media. In 50 years, it will be the second language in Quebec.
The fact is, today it's a French province with clear laws that signage and publicity must be in French first, and in English second. This said, the language police are overly aggressive and make silly moves like this pretty often.. and unfortunately it undermines Quebec and the social issues it faces. It makes us seem silly and petty to the rest of the world. If you live here, after things like this you have a harsh taste in your throat once you're done rolling your eyes.
It is getting better. The next generation understands the world better than the previous generation, and things continue to improve.
I've always held Apple's cinema displays in high regard, but the fact that they now only sell glossy monitors is a joke. If there is any light in the room, you're looking at your work through an image of your face.
I loathe Dell a deep rooted fiery hot rage, but right now, their Ultrasharp monitors are the only game in town for someone who needs a precise image that they can actually see. (excluding much more expensive high-end gear)
Aye.. it's like making fun of a fat person for running, or for going to the gym.
It takes a real piece of work to heckle someone for trying to improve themselves, or to learn.
Cloud services like Rackspacecloud and Amazon EC2 are probably going to be more reliable than whatever you're planning to run yourself. They're straight-forward to learn, scale quickly, with relative ease, at reasonable cost. I don't see "going to the cloud" as an extra hurdle, but as a way to reduce headaches and to simplify deployment from the start. If you're worried about cost.. you can start with Linux instances at Rackspace for like 11 bucks/mth.
On the topic of OS, either Linux or windows servers will work just fine, and if you're not comfortable with Linux, I wouldn't mess around with it unless you really need to save every penny. Linux instances give better performance:cost ratios than their windows counter-parts, but (in my experience, windows guy here) take more time to set up.
If your project starts to get lots of traction, and you can start to pay yourself for your time spent on it, then it would start to make sense deploying real servers, or to start learning how to administer Linux instances/servers.
Anyhow, good luck with the project, have fun!:)
Public wifi isn't secure.. in other slashdot news, water is wet and fire burns.
Really though, the next step in this equation is for someone to run this at a really busy hotspot in NYC, and then to anonymously publish the results online.
Bang! media coverage.
Bang! reputation loss and user defection for compromised services.
Bang! solution for problem gains financial incentive, and gets fixed.
VMWare ESXi is a fantastic free product for server virtualization, but since it needs to go through the network, graphic performance will leave something to be desired.. you need a seperate dedicated machine to run it as well.
While you have many options, in my experience the best ones for desktop virtualization are:
VMWare Workstation
$$
Polished
Oracle/Sun VirtualBox
Free
Fast graphics performance (my subjective experience)
They're close to each other in terms of performance, with VirtualBox feeling a bit more snappy.. but VMWare is more mature and polished. Little things like copy/paste sync between the guest virtual machine and the host that make working with it much more pleasant. I have both setup, and I end up using VMWare 95% of the time due in a big part to the copy/paste sync. I'm running Windows 7 on all machines, both Guest and Host.. so YMV under ubuntu.
Story title should read: "Faulty video cards with inadequate cooling are freeze when run at their full potential". This has nothing to do with starcraft 2, other than that it's a video game that runs on a video card.
I'm writing from v.4 now.. and I must say I'm quite underwhelmed.
1) Orange button - make it smaller (icon only), and place it to the left of the tabs. Waste of space having it above them.
2) Tabs - put them at the top. Tabs in the title bar space is a great idea. Don't half-copy chrome.
3) "Always do this" checkbox in download dlg still doesn't work. Nobody cares whether it's the server's config that's at fault: Make that checkbox work.
4) Performance - slowest JS available. Guys. Seriously. What the hell is going on?
I've loved firefox since the wee days, but honestly.. this isn't looking good. To the firefox team: please get out of whatever rut you're stuck in, or prepare to be swallowed whole by google.
What an awful article, it doesn't even mention the brand that he used. Anyone who has used different hairgels will know that they can vary a LOT. Some are oily, some cheap ones produce white flakes, some are smelly, some work well, and others do next to nothing. I find it very odd that he doesn't even mention the brand he used! It makes his whole article useless.
Saying "Just use hairgel!" is like saying "The secret treasure is hidden in.. AUSTRALIA!"
I wonder how many slashdotters are gonna show this to their girlfriends the next time they ask fo- oh wait.. nevermind. I forgot where I was for a moment.:P
I have a non transflective display in my carputer, and a transflective display in both my ipod and Axim x30, the car tft is not usable at all in daylight while both the axim and ipod are perfectly usable. Yes, the colors are not 100% accurate to backlit colors.. but the screen is perfectly readable and useable. The only way to get a display that is true to original colors to work outside is to pump 1200+ nits through the screen, and have an exceptional ARAG coating such as the 3m vikuiti coatings. having a 35w backlight isn't practical on a laptop, the heat alone becomes an issue with that many ccfl tubes running through it. Kisoks that have such displays are usually pretty bulky, often with active cooling to keep the inverters from going kaput.:(
What you're asking about is transflective lcd displays. Basically, a semi transparent mirror is placed right behind the lcd panel, with the backlight and backlight substrate behind it. So the traditional ccfl backlight shines through (at reduced efficiency) AND ambient light is reflected back out through the screen by the mirror. Look at any decent pocket pc, and you'll see this technology at work. So screens that can be read without any backlight do exist, and there are some notebooks that incorperate the tech.. but you won't find them at the local electronics depot. I haven't looked into them in a long while, but check out the panasonic toughbooks. I remember they used to have transflective options for this series of notebooks!
As I wasted my last life fumbling with mario 3 using an emulator on my PDA while riding home on the bus, the Japanesse kid beside me chuckled. I gave him a dirty look, and turned away to try again.
What an erie slashdot article to come home to.
*You mean "You're". See, "your" denotes possesion, how you wrote that would imply that I own the "just plain wrong" which is a whole other bag of nonsense. Please remember in the future to use the proper contraction for "you are", which is: "You're":) Well, let's get on to where you call me a fool.
Let's see. Only about 15% of the world's population lives in America. Something to chew on. You're thinking of things in a world where America is all that there is. Your perspective is worthless. Fact is, we ARE the center of wealth concentration. Countless nations live in complete squalor to support our economy. (Don't argue, you're wrong.) We ARE the kings of this world, and even the poorest people in our nation live eons beyond that which many people on earth live in. Do you know anyone that has ever had to worry about what they're going to eat?(I'm not talking selection, tubby, I mean actually whether they will have anything to eat.) I sure haven't, and even the homeless people here get enough food to survive without issue. Have you ever watched your children starve to death? Your family die before your eyes because there isn't enough food to eat.. knowing full well, that somewhere around the globe there are millions living in extreme excess of that which they need to survive? It's ignorant people like you that will ensure mankind will never progress. It's people like you that will be our undoing.
I'll close by saying that the irony in you saying that I am a closed minded fool is hardly lost on me, "friend".
I'll be sure to check out Anthem. As to why I didn't reply to the parent thread, I didn't intend on writing a response to it.. just sort of fell into a rant.:P
Be sure to check out Ishmael. It's an excellent book, easily one of the best I've ever read.
Forgive me if I missed the joke here, but to say that humans have become wealthy is about as ignorant a thing as anyone could say. Everyday the gap in wealth widens, with more and more people living in total deprivation, and fewer and fewer living at the top. One of the most important things that can ever happen to ensure mankind's success (half a million people living in bunkers after an appocalypse doesn't constitute success) is for wealth and earning caps to be established. The current system allows unlimited amounts of wealth to be concentrated into single individuals, wealth blackholes. The fact is that no one Needs more than a certain amount. "Ok, Jimmy, you made your 5 million, nono. Sorry, that other 500 million you made? It's going towards the global renewable energy initiative"
So, can we survive? Yes. We can become the caretakers and propagators of earth. We need earning caps, wealth concentration limits, and to strip corperations of their "human rights". If a global population control in tow of china's model was established, and massive energy was put into alternative energies (wind, Wind, WIND), we could blow this whole "end of mankind" problem right out of the air.
We'll see a lot of blood spill before the 350 some odd billionaires of the world put all their money into developing the future of mankind.
Anyone interested in this topic should read "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn as a baseline, it's an excellent book to give perspective to the whole issue, even if it is a little extreme.
If people know how much money you're making on a sale, then they feel bad about paying for it. They see the value of the item as what it actually costs to produce, not what it is being sold for..e.g If my friend gets a great deal on a bucket of apples (say 5$), and offers to sell them to me at 10$ a bucket.. I won't feel too happy about that, knowing full well he is taking advantage of and making profit off my skin. If I don't know how much he paid, then I assume he is keeping my best interest in mind, and don't feel harshly towards him for selling me the apples (which at 10$ a bucket is still a great deal.)
I had this problem myself when I was selling speedstream DSL modems. I had purchased a gros (144) for 9$ each. I made the mistake of telling people what I had paid for them, and everyone wanted them for ~10$. They were selling for 120$ retail at the time, or 10$/mth with the ISP. No one wanted to pay 50$, even though it was a great deal, because they knew what I had paid for them, and how much profit I was making. I ended up only breaking even, because word got around what my profit was on each sale, and everyone wanted to bargain me down to what I had paid.:P
The fact that apple doesn't want to tell what they cost to produce makes me think that their margins are pretty obscene, and they know it would make people angry to know just how much they're pocketing.:P
Iris scanners are not that expensive anymore, and I don't understand why thumb scanners are used anywhere outside of having a little usb toy attached to your computer. This confusion doubles when you consider it in situations where security is very important, like cash transactions.
Most service companies have similar retainment systems these days. When I worked at bell mobility, we were required to do similar things to what this rep was doing. If we weren't as pushy/blindly idiotic as this rep was, we were reprimanded. People were often let go if their retainment stats were not high enough, and there was a lot of pressure to keep people from canceling. It fell directly on your shoulders if someone canceled. "Uh oh, Johnston.. you've had two cancelations this week. A manager coach will listen in with you from now on." Situations would come up like people getting deals with other companies that were twice as good as anything we could offer, and we would still have to fight tooth and knuckle to prevent them from canceling. Even when family would call in to cancel their deceased family member's phone.. we would have to push for them to keep it.:( It's horrible when your job is to keep someone with something that you know is wrong for them.
The part that really bugs me here is that AOL says they fired the employee for his behavior, when it's fully obvious that he was only doing exactly what they wanted. I highly doubt that he would have any concern with whether this customer canceled or not, were it not a factor that seriously affects his job security. Once I got a call where a company was canceling 25 lines. I spent hours trying to save them, and couldn't. When my boss found out he nearly put me through the floor. He made me reverse the cancelations, and had me call them back. Even though we had spent well over 2 hours already discussing it.
When I called to cancel an AOL account for someone I had a near carbon copy experience to this. Took over an hour just to reach the "cancelation specialist". There is nothing shocking, special, or strange about this story.
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Such public display of the topic, the good guy apple feeling that comes out of it. I really feel like I just got hit with a very low flying advertisement
Agreed, but I think the reason there's so much fear is because people feel that their language is such a part of their identity that if they lose it, they lose everything. This is why there are such strong reactions to it, while all other cultural influences arrive to open arms.
I'm a born and raised anglophone Quebecker. This is an issue I've faced (yes, faced) my whole life. There is a great deal of prejudice and discrimination against anglophones in Quebec, both socially and legislatively. Two applicants to the same job, both perfectly bilingual, one Francophone, one Anglophone, most times the Francophone gets the job. I've had people pick fights with me in bars, because I was speaking English with my friends privately. If you didn't attend English school as a child, you can't send your children to English school. I've gotten attitude from merchants for using the wrong conjugation or gender. The language issues touch every aspect of life here and truly divides Quebec. I've been against these discriminatory laws my whole life. In spite of all this, recently, after the last federal election, I'm starting to get it. Quebec is different than other provinces. The things we care about are different than the general population of North America. We believe in free health care and education for all. Not as a concept, but to the core of our being. It's ironic that we care so much for everyone, but lose sight of it over something as trivial as language. Francophone Quebec is afraid that we're going to lose these differences, this identity by way of dilution of the language. This is where the animosity comes from. It's rooted in fear, not in hatred. The fear of losing the language is justified and real. French is fading and being mixed against the cultural influence of English media. In 50 years, it will be the second language in Quebec. The fact is, today it's a French province with clear laws that signage and publicity must be in French first, and in English second. This said, the language police are overly aggressive and make silly moves like this pretty often.. and unfortunately it undermines Quebec and the social issues it faces. It makes us seem silly and petty to the rest of the world. If you live here, after things like this you have a harsh taste in your throat once you're done rolling your eyes. It is getting better. The next generation understands the world better than the previous generation, and things continue to improve.
I've always held Apple's cinema displays in high regard, but the fact that they now only sell glossy monitors is a joke. If there is any light in the room, you're looking at your work through an image of your face. I loathe Dell a deep rooted fiery hot rage, but right now, their Ultrasharp monitors are the only game in town for someone who needs a precise image that they can actually see. (excluding much more expensive high-end gear)
Aye.. it's like making fun of a fat person for running, or for going to the gym. It takes a real piece of work to heckle someone for trying to improve themselves, or to learn.
Cloud services like Rackspacecloud and Amazon EC2 are probably going to be more reliable than whatever you're planning to run yourself. They're straight-forward to learn, scale quickly, with relative ease, at reasonable cost. I don't see "going to the cloud" as an extra hurdle, but as a way to reduce headaches and to simplify deployment from the start. If you're worried about cost.. you can start with Linux instances at Rackspace for like 11 bucks/mth. On the topic of OS, either Linux or windows servers will work just fine, and if you're not comfortable with Linux, I wouldn't mess around with it unless you really need to save every penny. Linux instances give better performance:cost ratios than their windows counter-parts, but (in my experience, windows guy here) take more time to set up. If your project starts to get lots of traction, and you can start to pay yourself for your time spent on it, then it would start to make sense deploying real servers, or to start learning how to administer Linux instances/servers. Anyhow, good luck with the project, have fun! :)
made out of wrist..?
Public wifi isn't secure.. in other slashdot news, water is wet and fire burns. Really though, the next step in this equation is for someone to run this at a really busy hotspot in NYC, and then to anonymously publish the results online. Bang! media coverage. Bang! reputation loss and user defection for compromised services. Bang! solution for problem gains financial incentive, and gets fixed.
VMWare ESXi is a fantastic free product for server virtualization, but since it needs to go through the network, graphic performance will leave something to be desired.. you need a seperate dedicated machine to run it as well. While you have many options, in my experience the best ones for desktop virtualization are: VMWare Workstation $$ Polished Oracle/Sun VirtualBox Free Fast graphics performance (my subjective experience) They're close to each other in terms of performance, with VirtualBox feeling a bit more snappy.. but VMWare is more mature and polished. Little things like copy/paste sync between the guest virtual machine and the host that make working with it much more pleasant. I have both setup, and I end up using VMWare 95% of the time due in a big part to the copy/paste sync. I'm running Windows 7 on all machines, both Guest and Host.. so YMV under ubuntu.
Story title should read: "Faulty video cards with inadequate cooling are freeze when run at their full potential". This has nothing to do with starcraft 2, other than that it's a video game that runs on a video card.
I'm writing from v.4 now.. and I must say I'm quite underwhelmed. 1) Orange button - make it smaller (icon only), and place it to the left of the tabs. Waste of space having it above them. 2) Tabs - put them at the top. Tabs in the title bar space is a great idea. Don't half-copy chrome. 3) "Always do this" checkbox in download dlg still doesn't work. Nobody cares whether it's the server's config that's at fault: Make that checkbox work. 4) Performance - slowest JS available. Guys. Seriously. What the hell is going on? I've loved firefox since the wee days, but honestly.. this isn't looking good. To the firefox team: please get out of whatever rut you're stuck in, or prepare to be swallowed whole by google.
It's so terrible, I feel compelled to send it to everyone I know so they can see its glory. Well played, Microsoft.. Well played. -_-
What an awful article, it doesn't even mention the brand that he used. Anyone who has used different hairgels will know that they can vary a LOT. Some are oily, some cheap ones produce white flakes, some are smelly, some work well, and others do next to nothing. I find it very odd that he doesn't even mention the brand he used! It makes his whole article useless.
Saying "Just use hairgel!" is like saying "The secret treasure is hidden in.. AUSTRALIA!"
I wonder how many slashdotters are gonna show this to their girlfriends the next time they ask fo- oh wait.. nevermind. I forgot where I was for a moment. :P
I have a non transflective display in my carputer, and a transflective display in both my ipod and Axim x30, the car tft is not usable at all in daylight while both the axim and ipod are perfectly usable. Yes, the colors are not 100% accurate to backlit colors.. but the screen is perfectly readable and useable. The only way to get a display that is true to original colors to work outside is to pump 1200+ nits through the screen, and have an exceptional ARAG coating such as the 3m vikuiti coatings. having a 35w backlight isn't practical on a laptop, the heat alone becomes an issue with that many ccfl tubes running through it. Kisoks that have such displays are usually pretty bulky, often with active cooling to keep the inverters from going kaput. :(
What you're asking about is transflective lcd displays. Basically, a semi transparent mirror is placed right behind the lcd panel, with the backlight and backlight substrate behind it. So the traditional ccfl backlight shines through (at reduced efficiency) AND ambient light is reflected back out through the screen by the mirror. Look at any decent pocket pc, and you'll see this technology at work. So screens that can be read without any backlight do exist, and there are some notebooks that incorperate the tech.. but you won't find them at the local electronics depot. I haven't looked into them in a long while, but check out the panasonic toughbooks. I remember they used to have transflective options for this series of notebooks!
I'm pretty sure that they'll still jerk off as their main source of sexual interaction. - Make that huge calfs, thighs AND a single massive forearm.
..yes, that was the point of my response, read it again with the context of the parent article in mind. :)
Woosh! Zoom! Over your head!
As I wasted my last life fumbling with mario 3 using an emulator on my PDA while riding home on the bus, the Japanesse kid beside me chuckled. I gave him a dirty look, and turned away to try again. What an erie slashdot article to come home to.
*You mean "You're". See, "your" denotes possesion, how you wrote that would imply that I own the "just plain wrong" which is a whole other bag of nonsense. Please remember in the future to use the proper contraction for "you are", which is: "You're" :) Well, let's get on to where you call me a fool.
Let's see. Only about 15% of the world's population lives in America. Something to chew on. You're thinking of things in a world where America is all that there is. Your perspective is worthless. Fact is, we ARE the center of wealth concentration. Countless nations live in complete squalor to support our economy. (Don't argue, you're wrong.) We ARE the kings of this world, and even the poorest people in our nation live eons beyond that which many people on earth live in. Do you know anyone that has ever had to worry about what they're going to eat?(I'm not talking selection, tubby, I mean actually whether they will have anything to eat.) I sure haven't, and even the homeless people here get enough food to survive without issue. Have you ever watched your children starve to death? Your family die before your eyes because there isn't enough food to eat.. knowing full well, that somewhere around the globe there are millions living in extreme excess of that which they need to survive? It's ignorant people like you that will ensure mankind will never progress. It's people like you that will be our undoing.
I'll close by saying that the irony in you saying that I am a closed minded fool is hardly lost on me, "friend".
I'll be sure to check out Anthem. As to why I didn't reply to the parent thread, I didn't intend on writing a response to it.. just sort of fell into a rant. :P
Be sure to check out Ishmael. It's an excellent book, easily one of the best I've ever read.
Forgive me if I missed the joke here, but to say that humans have become wealthy is about as ignorant a thing as anyone could say. Everyday the gap in wealth widens, with more and more people living in total deprivation, and fewer and fewer living at the top. One of the most important things that can ever happen to ensure mankind's success (half a million people living in bunkers after an appocalypse doesn't constitute success) is for wealth and earning caps to be established. The current system allows unlimited amounts of wealth to be concentrated into single individuals, wealth blackholes. The fact is that no one Needs more than a certain amount. "Ok, Jimmy, you made your 5 million, nono. Sorry, that other 500 million you made? It's going towards the global renewable energy initiative"
So, can we survive? Yes. We can become the caretakers and propagators of earth. We need earning caps, wealth concentration limits, and to strip corperations of their "human rights". If a global population control in tow of china's model was established, and massive energy was put into alternative energies (wind, Wind, WIND), we could blow this whole "end of mankind" problem right out of the air.
We'll see a lot of blood spill before the 350 some odd billionaires of the world put all their money into developing the future of mankind.
Anyone interested in this topic should read "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn as a baseline, it's an excellent book to give perspective to the whole issue, even if it is a little extreme.
If people know how much money you're making on a sale, then they feel bad about paying for it. They see the value of the item as what it actually costs to produce, not what it is being sold for. .e.g If my friend gets a great deal on a bucket of apples (say 5$), and offers to sell them to me at 10$ a bucket.. I won't feel too happy about that, knowing full well he is taking advantage of and making profit off my skin. If I don't know how much he paid, then I assume he is keeping my best interest in mind, and don't feel harshly towards him for selling me the apples (which at 10$ a bucket is still a great deal.)
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I had this problem myself when I was selling speedstream DSL modems. I had purchased a gros (144) for 9$ each. I made the mistake of telling people what I had paid for them, and everyone wanted them for ~10$. They were selling for 120$ retail at the time, or 10$/mth with the ISP. No one wanted to pay 50$, even though it was a great deal, because they knew what I had paid for them, and how much profit I was making. I ended up only breaking even, because word got around what my profit was on each sale, and everyone wanted to bargain me down to what I had paid.
The fact that apple doesn't want to tell what they cost to produce makes me think that their margins are pretty obscene, and they know it would make people angry to know just how much they're pocketing.
Iris scanners are not that expensive anymore, and I don't understand why thumb scanners are used anywhere outside of having a little usb toy attached to your computer. This confusion doubles when you consider it in situations where security is very important, like cash transactions.
Most service companies have similar retainment systems these days. When I worked at bell mobility, we were required to do similar things to what this rep was doing. If we weren't as pushy/blindly idiotic as this rep was, we were reprimanded. People were often let go if their retainment stats were not high enough, and there was a lot of pressure to keep people from canceling. It fell directly on your shoulders if someone canceled. "Uh oh, Johnston.. you've had two cancelations this week. A manager coach will listen in with you from now on." Situations would come up like people getting deals with other companies that were twice as good as anything we could offer, and we would still have to fight tooth and knuckle to prevent them from canceling. Even when family would call in to cancel their deceased family member's phone.. we would have to push for them to keep it. :( It's horrible when your job is to keep someone with something that you know is wrong for them.
The part that really bugs me here is that AOL says they fired the employee for his behavior, when it's fully obvious that he was only doing exactly what they wanted. I highly doubt that he would have any concern with whether this customer canceled or not, were it not a factor that seriously affects his job security. Once I got a call where a company was canceling 25 lines. I spent hours trying to save them, and couldn't. When my boss found out he nearly put me through the floor. He made me reverse the cancelations, and had me call them back. Even though we had spent well over 2 hours already discussing it.
When I called to cancel an AOL account for someone I had a near carbon copy experience to this. Took over an hour just to reach the "cancelation specialist". There is nothing shocking, special, or strange about this story.