I read the bull and bear arguments, whatever, they're both waving their arms. The most interesting part I saw was in the bear rebuttal:
MS Cash and Short-Term Investments
6/30/04 $60.6 billion
6/30/05 $37.8 billion
6/30/06 $31.1 billion
6/30/07 $21.1 billion
Notice a trend? It would seem that MS' me-too policy (Xbox, Zune, live search, etc.) over the last couple of years has been pretty hard on their cash reserves. I think if they can turn a profit on these things it will have been worth it because $60 billion of cash reserves sounds like too much.... but if that trend continues, we'll see MS in debt by the time the coming recession is over.
I know what you mean, but specifically for me it's the finder. Apple never really seemed to be able to "fix the fucking finder" to my satisfaction, especially in leopard because I don't like sidebars and I don't like the rooting behavior in column view and Apple has declared that thou shalt use them. Thus, I'm really interested in a native konqueror. I'm downloading the torrent as we speak, but somehow I bet there will be a reason to keep using the finder....I've put the kde binaries on my machine when Ranger Rick started putting them up on his site but I could never quite break myself of the apple way of doing things while on a mac. I don't know, we'll see, but as you say, this can't be a bad thing for mac users at least because it at least give us the option to use something else.
As I'm typing this, my desktop has been up 42 days. So, might I humbly suggest that it is not the OS that's your problem, could it be an application? (And yes, I also use my desktop as a file server/terminal for my cluster, that's why it stays up so much.)
It's not just in the high schools. This happens in the Universities too. Examples: professors at my school have to make sure they don't give tests the day after a football game because the students will be recovering from the previous day's inebriation (and their teaching evaluations would certainly suffer if they did). Also, in some of the more jock-filled classes (intro. envi. sci, etc.), something like 5% of the class is cheating on a regular basis on the exams. A significant fraction of the students aren't learning anything in the University, except how to get blind drunk and game the system.
Does anybody else here completely dislike the idea of Dolphin? For one thing, I always thought that whoever decided that it was a good idea to make the file manager and the web-browser one and the same must have been smoking crack or similar but it doesn't look nearly as customizable as konqueror (the file manager) has in Dolphin. Is there anybody here who uses it that can enlighten me?
Okay so the troll mod I can kind of understand, (I think the poster made an interesting point but got carried away), but off-topic? WTF, did you hit the wrong button?
You could do it as two movies. Just put the divider when they are down, down in goblin town. That's a pretty climactic point in the the book and the death of the great goblin would lend itself to a nice big happy melodramatic ending.
IANAP (I am not a physicist), but as far as I know it special relativity says: elapsed time depends on your velocity. In fact, more than time being relative and slowing down, the only reference frame when time is constant is when all objects being considered are moving at the same relative speed.
.... Oh wait, you meant, can our perception of time speed up during accidents.
TFA article is a talking points memo, like what political parties give to the party loyalists to spew the party line. The difference between M$ and Apple or linux is that no one needs to put out a talking points memo about OS X 10.5 or the 2.6 kernel. These systems are better and it is self-evident from their feature list and after everyone tries them, and they're also more or less backwards compatible to their previous versions. (Except I won't be upgrading to 10.5 because I don't like the sidebar and I know how to use rsync so I don't really need time machine all that badly.) That memo basically reads like M$ seems to think that the sysadmins want to upgrade but the PHBs don't. My impression is it's the other way around -- our sysadmins tried vista for few weeks and basically told everyone not to install it because it wasn't worth their time trying to support it.
Actually, I was thinking that would be perfect for turning those televisions off in public areas where they have removed the power button (because people keep turning them off) or ones that are behind glass or too high to reach. I work at a university and some "saavy" media company has discovered that if they donate a television to the university and broadcast some helpful student messages for about 30 seconds out of every five minutes, they can spend the rest of the time doing product placement and advertising. It's an annoying development and a number of people who make a regular habit of turning those televisions off when they can.
Popular news and media outlets are routinely running stories about the slow adoption of Vista by major corporations and small businesses alike. New sales of Office are apparently lagging, too.
That might be true, but my guess is that there are only slightly fewer that are running stories about the inevitable adoption of Vista in time. "We" (as a society) have no practical other choice. This is the entire point of trust-busting. To put it bluntly, we're paying a lot for shoddy crud products and we have no real choice because Microsoft is a monopoly and we have to use their products to some extent to compete effectively in the marketplace.
...and all that privacy paranoia is justified. Just look at the lengths that SCO went to (still going through, based on the AC's post) to try to discredit her/ruin her life/etc., etc. Something like this just happened in Atlanta with a guy who fought off a gang who tried to rob him at gun point -- a reporter identified him as a hero and next thing you know the gang members friends were camped outside his door step. He had to move too.
I was just rereading my message and since I quoted the article, I engaged in illegal duplication of a copyrighted work for public display -- Wow, neat! Slashdot is full of copyright law breakers then, in fact, you might say html is built for it because of the blockquote tag.
I was also quite surprised by the following passage:
Clearly, we are only beginning to grasp the massive changes afoot with the
advent of digital technology. Yet amidst the flux, one constant emerges: the 1976
Copyright Act lies always at the heart of these debates, inextricably mediating our
relationship with cyberspace and new media. Three decades have passed since the
current Copyright Act went into effect. Without dispute, tremendous economic,
technological, and social changes have occurred in that time. And although these
changes do necessarily warrant concomitant reform, this symposium follows on
the premise that we have reached an appropriate point to evaluate the efficacy of
the extant Act and think holistically about the issue of reform.
I had no idea that the Copyright Act was made in 1976. Such a recent law, yet I thought the copyright law was from antiquity. Definitely something I'll have to read up on. I agree completely that we need to rethink copyright law, but how can that be done when the money is all on the side of the copyright maximalists? (RIAA, MPAA)
If the Chinese were truly undetected they could have gained far more by staying undetected than the minor political points garnered by surfacing.
That last point is an important one. During the cold war a U.S. sub once picked up a Soviet one and trailed it all the way to the east coast. (Here's the link.) IIRC, the Soviets didn't find out about this until one of their spies told them, Hanssen maybe.
This is a troll. Why is the mods cannot distinguish between trolls and somebody who prefers the same software as them? I guess the mods are photoshop fan boys too.
Please you can't even easily change brush sizes and spacing without digging down through several windows.
I just loaded up the GIMP, made a new image, clicked on the brush icon and changed the brush size. You know... the one that was right fucking in front of me on the default menu. I know most of that other garbage in your post is not in the gimp, but we've heard that same old shit so often before I think every slashdot user could tell you now that the GIMP doesn't have CMYK or have a whole bunch of filters that like one or two graphic designers actually use and no one else never needs. "Teh gimp suxors" posts are getting really old so just drop it please.
F THAT. I am so sick on NON PROFESSIONALS saying how good gimp is.
And I am so sick of some photoshop fan boys coming around here constantly bashing GIMP because it's not an exact duplicate of their precious little jewel photoshop. Don't like the GIMP, I have a real simple answer for you: DON'T USE IT.
Incidentally, I find it delightfully ironic that every GIMP article some photoshop fan boys come out saying the that gui on the GIMP needs to be more like photoshop. Well, here's mud in your eye -- the ui on photoshop isn't perfect either. Hell, I've known that ever since I started using photoshop. Maybe you're just too indoctrinated in the Adobe way to notice any more.
As another poster here said, there's no way any of us can ascertain if she is really innocent or not. I'm a little more concerned about the cost. In a quick google search, I couldn't find the price tag of this particular database, but I did find this:
One problem that's getting $380 million worth of attention in the president's budget: developing an INS database to identify foreigners who overstay their visits or are considered threats. The database would be linked to other agencies to keep tabs on foreigners.
If the Department of Homeland Security is spending anyone thing like the same amounts of money, I think it's a rather larger price to pay for one fugitive grandmother, if that's all they can show for their work.
But, hey, what do I know, I'm just some joe-schmoe taxpayer.
"The FBI's placing of peace activists on an international criminal database is blatant political intimidation of US citizens opposed to Bush administration policies," says Colonel Wright, who was also Deputy US Ambassador in four countries.
The worst thing about this is that it's not the first time U.S. policies are being abused to punish people not loyal to Bush or changing policies in favor of those who are loyal to Bush, and it won't be the last. Just another in a long line of disappointments from the current administration and our government in our continuing slide into fascism.
Another bad thing is that it seems that these people can't actually run the government well, they only they are capable of doing correctly is character assassination, whether that be republican political opponents or civil rights activists. They're fucking incompetent in doing everything else. How long must we endure this? Oh yeah, it's right here.
Now I wonder if the next president will reverse this trend? If you listen to the Republican candidates, all they seem to care about perpetuating the policies that are ruining our government. The democrats seem like they're more level-headed, but I wonder if they have the courage to change the status quo, because they haven't done a damn thing since gaining congress. Where's Roosevelt when you need him?
Hah! My guess is that's close to what happened here, except that the guy in the story is honestly getting filched, I bet Best Buy is selling him a hard drive that had been previously returned, but the sales clerk accepting the return didn't bother looking in the box, thereby not realizing the box contained tile instead of a hard drive. It also sounds like some Best Buy manager wasn't making his sales target so is deciding to boost his apparent profit by not issuing a return. An auto parts store manager I used to work did the same sort of shenanigans when he was in trouble, the store went out off business about six months after I left. They don't call it "Worst Buy" for nothing though, this just adds to a long list of reasons to look everywhere else first.
One problem with this theory however is that the newspaper is dated 09/16/07 whereas the WD claims the hard drive was manufactured 09/04/07. With only two weeks lead time, that might put the date of the switch at the factory rather than the store, but I don't know, could they even get their merchandise out the door that quickly?
They did.... and they STILL used the "To:" field. Astounding.
FTFA:
Compounding the mistake, the committee later sent out a second email attempting to recall the original email; it, too, included all recipients in the "to:" field, according to a recipient of the emails.
No shit! Although... I wonder. While it's tempting to say that if the Democrats were so stupid as to have fucked this up, perhaps it's indicative of their overall incompetence and it's no wonder they haven't been able to stop, or even limit, the Iraq war, get SCHIP passed or any number of their bills.
However, maybe it's the technology, e-mail is not exactly a communication system designed with high level security in mind. I've made the mistake, twice now in my lifetime, of hitting "reply" when I meant "forward." Once was a serious foot-in-mouth moment, but fortunately it was no one I knew. Since then I've tried to not to say anything that should not be repeated in an e-mail but maybe everybody has to go through this at least once before they learn.
As a long time mac user I look at this OS with ambivalence, maybe even trepidation, if I may use another four syllable word. I look at the 3-D Dock and think meh... ugly. Maybe the little grid for large directory sizes will work, but maybe not. Regardless, I don't see much improvement over the current way the dock treats folders. As for the Finder, I see the continuing march to the sidebars, which I don't prefer, and the "rooting" behavior (this last part is unconfirmed, I don't know if 10.5 does this). Basically: if you are in column view (my favorite), and you click on a "special" location, like your home directory, the Applications folder, Documents, etc., you are rooted to that spot. That is, your horizontal scroll bar disappears. WTF?!? Why should the OS be hiding the directory hierarchy from me? That there is windoze-type behavior because it basically assumes the user is an idiot who can't comprehend what a directory structure is. There are workarounds for 10.3 and 10.4, but 10.5 leaves me blasé. I must be getting old.
What I'd really like is a native konqueror because it rocks and is my favorite mix of flexibility vs. bloat.
Boucher was also one of the most vocal opponents of Clinton's impeachment, and has also been on record criticizing the excesses DMCA as well. He's one of the few congressmen that I'm actually glad is in in office.
Tools are much improved.
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I've been using this in the debian unstable repo for a few weeks now and I've found the redesigns are both intuitive and useful. I especially like the new selection tool, it's much easier to select an area and then change the selection after you realized you didn't hit the right pixel. Kudos to the GIMP team!!
P.S. Although the GTK2 (i.e. GIMP Tool Kit) file picker is still slow as molasses in directories with large numbers of files. I had to hack firefox to get it to use it's native file picker once again because I got tired of waiting 30 seconds or more each time I wanted to save a file.
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Notice a trend? It would seem that MS' me-too policy (Xbox, Zune, live search, etc.) over the last couple of years has been pretty hard on their cash reserves. I think if they can turn a profit on these things it will have been worth it because $60 billion of cash reserves sounds like too much.... but if that trend continues, we'll see MS in debt by the time the coming recession is over.
I know what you mean, but specifically for me it's the finder. Apple never really seemed to be able to "fix the fucking finder" to my satisfaction, especially in leopard because I don't like sidebars and I don't like the rooting behavior in column view and Apple has declared that thou shalt use them. Thus, I'm really interested in a native konqueror. I'm downloading the torrent as we speak, but somehow I bet there will be a reason to keep using the finder....I've put the kde binaries on my machine when Ranger Rick started putting them up on his site but I could never quite break myself of the apple way of doing things while on a mac. I don't know, we'll see, but as you say, this can't be a bad thing for mac users at least because it at least give us the option to use something else.
I can't tell you anything about Leopard, but here's my record for uptime on my desktop running 10.4:
18:07 up 112 days, 8:57, 5 users, load averages: 0.93 0.24 0.08
As I'm typing this, my desktop has been up 42 days. So, might I humbly suggest that it is not the OS that's your problem, could it be an application? (And yes, I also use my desktop as a file server/terminal for my cluster, that's why it stays up so much.)
It's not just in the high schools. This happens in the Universities too. Examples: professors at my school have to make sure they don't give tests the day after a football game because the students will be recovering from the previous day's inebriation (and their teaching evaluations would certainly suffer if they did). Also, in some of the more jock-filled classes (intro. envi. sci, etc.), something like 5% of the class is cheating on a regular basis on the exams. A significant fraction of the students aren't learning anything in the University, except how to get blind drunk and game the system.
Does anybody else here completely dislike the idea of Dolphin? For one thing, I always thought that whoever decided that it was a good idea to make the file manager and the web-browser one and the same must have been smoking crack or similar but it doesn't look nearly as customizable as konqueror (the file manager) has in Dolphin. Is there anybody here who uses it that can enlighten me?
Okay so the troll mod I can kind of understand, (I think the poster made an interesting point but got carried away), but off-topic? WTF, did you hit the wrong button?
You could do it as two movies. Just put the divider when they are down, down in goblin town. That's a pretty climactic point in the the book and the death of the great goblin would lend itself to a nice big happy melodramatic ending.
IANAP (I am not a physicist), but as far as I know it special relativity says: elapsed time depends on your velocity. In fact, more than time being relative and slowing down, the only reference frame when time is constant is when all objects being considered are moving at the same relative speed.
.... Oh wait, you meant, can our perception of time speed up during accidents.
TFA article is a talking points memo, like what political parties give to the party loyalists to spew the party line. The difference between M$ and Apple or linux is that no one needs to put out a talking points memo about OS X 10.5 or the 2.6 kernel. These systems are better and it is self-evident from their feature list and after everyone tries them, and they're also more or less backwards compatible to their previous versions. (Except I won't be upgrading to 10.5 because I don't like the sidebar and I know how to use rsync so I don't really need time machine all that badly.) That memo basically reads like M$ seems to think that the sysadmins want to upgrade but the PHBs don't. My impression is it's the other way around -- our sysadmins tried vista for few weeks and basically told everyone not to install it because it wasn't worth their time trying to support it.
Actually, I was thinking that would be perfect for turning those televisions off in public areas where they have removed the power button (because people keep turning them off) or ones that are behind glass or too high to reach. I work at a university and some "saavy" media company has discovered that if they donate a television to the university and broadcast some helpful student messages for about 30 seconds out of every five minutes, they can spend the rest of the time doing product placement and advertising. It's an annoying development and a number of people who make a regular habit of turning those televisions off when they can.
...and all that privacy paranoia is justified. Just look at the lengths that SCO went to (still going through, based on the AC's post) to try to discredit her/ruin her life/etc., etc. Something like this just happened in Atlanta with a guy who fought off a gang who tried to rob him at gun point -- a reporter identified him as a hero and next thing you know the gang members friends were camped outside his door step. He had to move too.
I was just rereading my message and since I quoted the article, I engaged in illegal duplication of a copyrighted work for public display -- Wow, neat! Slashdot is full of copyright law breakers then, in fact, you might say html is built for it because of the blockquote tag.
I just loaded up the GIMP, made a new image, clicked on the brush icon and changed the brush size. You know... the one that was right fucking in front of me on the default menu. I know most of that other garbage in your post is not in the gimp, but we've heard that same old shit so often before I think every slashdot user could tell you now that the GIMP doesn't have CMYK or have a whole bunch of filters that like one or two graphic designers actually use and no one else never needs. "Teh gimp suxors" posts are getting really old so just drop it please. And I am so sick of some photoshop fan boys coming around here constantly bashing GIMP because it's not an exact duplicate of their precious little jewel photoshop. Don't like the GIMP, I have a real simple answer for you: DON'T USE IT.
Incidentally, I find it delightfully ironic that every GIMP article some photoshop fan boys come out saying the that gui on the GIMP needs to be more like photoshop. Well, here's mud in your eye -- the ui on photoshop isn't perfect either. Hell, I've known that ever since I started using photoshop. Maybe you're just too indoctrinated in the Adobe way to notice any more.
But, hey, what do I know, I'm just some joe-schmoe taxpayer.
Another bad thing is that it seems that these people can't actually run the government well, they only they are capable of doing correctly is character assassination, whether that be republican political opponents or civil rights activists. They're fucking incompetent in doing everything else. How long must we endure this? Oh yeah, it's right here.
Now I wonder if the next president will reverse this trend? If you listen to the Republican candidates, all they seem to care about perpetuating the policies that are ruining our government. The democrats seem like they're more level-headed, but I wonder if they have the courage to change the status quo, because they haven't done a damn thing since gaining congress. Where's Roosevelt when you need him?
Yeah, both of you guys, rmcd and elrous0, have it. I hadn't thought of that, but it's likely it was an old newspaper from NY.
Hah! My guess is that's close to what happened here, except that the guy in the story is honestly getting filched, I bet Best Buy is selling him a hard drive that had been previously returned, but the sales clerk accepting the return didn't bother looking in the box, thereby not realizing the box contained tile instead of a hard drive. It also sounds like some Best Buy manager wasn't making his sales target so is deciding to boost his apparent profit by not issuing a return. An auto parts store manager I used to work did the same sort of shenanigans when he was in trouble, the store went out off business about six months after I left. They don't call it "Worst Buy" for nothing though, this just adds to a long list of reasons to look everywhere else first.
One problem with this theory however is that the newspaper is dated 09/16/07 whereas the WD claims the hard drive was manufactured 09/04/07. With only two weeks lead time, that might put the date of the switch at the factory rather than the store, but I don't know, could they even get their merchandise out the door that quickly?
FTFA:
No shit! Although... I wonder. While it's tempting to say that if the Democrats were so stupid as to have fucked this up, perhaps it's indicative of their overall incompetence and it's no wonder they haven't been able to stop, or even limit, the Iraq war, get SCHIP passed or any number of their bills.
However, maybe it's the technology, e-mail is not exactly a communication system designed with high level security in mind. I've made the mistake, twice now in my lifetime, of hitting "reply" when I meant "forward." Once was a serious foot-in-mouth moment, but fortunately it was no one I knew. Since then I've tried to not to say anything that should not be repeated in an e-mail but maybe everybody has to go through this at least once before they learn.
As a long time mac user I look at this OS with ambivalence, maybe even trepidation, if I may use another four syllable word. I look at the 3-D Dock and think meh... ugly. Maybe the little grid for large directory sizes will work, but maybe not. Regardless, I don't see much improvement over the current way the dock treats folders. As for the Finder, I see the continuing march to the sidebars, which I don't prefer, and the "rooting" behavior (this last part is unconfirmed, I don't know if 10.5 does this). Basically: if you are in column view (my favorite), and you click on a "special" location, like your home directory, the Applications folder, Documents, etc., you are rooted to that spot. That is, your horizontal scroll bar disappears. WTF?!? Why should the OS be hiding the directory hierarchy from me? That there is windoze-type behavior because it basically assumes the user is an idiot who can't comprehend what a directory structure is. There are workarounds for 10.3 and 10.4, but 10.5 leaves me blasé. I must be getting old.
What I'd really like is a native konqueror because it rocks and is my favorite mix of flexibility vs. bloat.
Boucher was also one of the most vocal opponents of Clinton's impeachment, and has also been on record criticizing the excesses DMCA as well. He's one of the few congressmen that I'm actually glad is in in office.
I've been using this in the debian unstable repo for a few weeks now and I've found the redesigns are both intuitive and useful. I especially like the new selection tool, it's much easier to select an area and then change the selection after you realized you didn't hit the right pixel. Kudos to the GIMP team!!
P.S. Although the GTK2 (i.e. GIMP Tool Kit) file picker is still slow as molasses in directories with large numbers of files. I had to hack firefox to get it to use it's native file picker once again because I got tired of waiting 30 seconds or more each time I wanted to save a file.