I personally think that you hit the sweet spot when you have a name which sounds cool and professional, is easy to remember, and at least tries to vaguely describe the function of the program.
A lot of software fails your last requirement (Thunderbird, Blender, Linux for a lot of people), but that isn't limited to open source software. While Microsoft has the reasonably-named Windows and Word, they also have Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Lots of posts bashing the "can't be pirated" thing, and this is the first one that talks about the first thing that I noticed. Nothing mentioned in the summary is interactive in any way. When I listen to music, it's to listen to music, frequently while driving or on the bus and subway. If I wanted to do something interactive while on the bus, I'd download some games for my phone.
So what exactly is going to be interactive about this new format? Or are they just using a word that doesn't mean what they think it means?
...and it is amazing how hard it is for some people to understand the difference between losing market share in a saturated market and your market share growing slower than a still expanding market. In percentages your market share may be declining even though your sales are still growing.
Uh, the definition of "market share" is the percentage of the whole, no matter the size of the market. If the percentage is going down, then by definition they are losing market share, even if raw sales numbers are increasing.
Whether the most important number is market share, raw sales number, amount of profit, or something else, that depends on who you ask.
Boeing has more union employees. Democrats are always in the pocket of BigLabor. Boeing is going to get favorable treatment from a administration led by a Democrat.
Seems like you could have put in more effort, but I'll give an extra point for the nice use of capital casing on "BigLabor".
Massachusetts was the home of the Pilgrims, that group that got kicked out of England for being too religious. As liberal as most of the northeastern US, and especially Massachusetts, is, there are still a few of these unusual laws floating around.
I argue that the iPhone and iPad really should not be called a "computer" (unless you also want to call your microwave oven, TV set, A/V receiver, DSLR, DVD/BD Player, VCR, etc. a "computer")
Some of those are computers. Most new televisions and Blu-Ray players run Linux.
In 2010, a COBOL programmer developed a rare fatal disease for which there was no known cure. The programmer was cryogenically frozen, to be revived when a cure had been found.
In the year 9999, the programmer is revived. When he wakes up, he asks the doctors what year it is, and when they tell him, he asks if they finally found a cure for his disease. They answered, "We're sorry, but no, we still haven't found a cure. But it's almost the year 10,000, you see, and you know COBOL..."
Even if the monthly fee is the same as the fee for a service-only contract (in which case the USA phone market is even more screwed up than I thought)
You haven't been following mobile phone stories on Slashdot much, have you? For years, you paid the same price for monthly service whether you got a subsidized phone from the carrier, had completed the two-year contract, or didn't get a phone from the carrier at all and brought your own. T-Mobile changed that about 5 years ago, when they started offering a plan that was $20/month cheaper if you didn't have a contract and subsidized phone. Now that T-Mobile is advertising this more, the other carriers are just starting to implement similar plans.
I ran into one really bizarre bug in ActionScript several years ago. I can't remember all the details exactly, but I think that if you try to redeclare a variable as a different type in the same function, the redeclaration is ignored and the type stays the same.
Integer a; ... bunch of code...
String b;
b = "foo";
That code would give an error about assigning a string to an integer variable. Of all possible ways to handle redeclaring a variable, ActionScript picked the worst.
They probably just look at the number of comments on his rants without reading what the comments are about, coming to the conclusion that he's very popular.
Hey, I know you! You were featured in that article on The Onion! Wow, it's a huge honor to have such a famous person contribute to Slashdot's discussion.
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Why does it need to be an everyday thing? Most smart phone users don't take photographs every day, but they put the camera on there nonetheless.
Sadly, I'm not sure that's true.
Good ones: Inkscape, Thunderbird, Blender, VirtualBox, Linux...
Crappy ones: GIMP, Tahoe-LAFS, Ubuntu, Kdenlive, XFCE...
I personally think that you hit the sweet spot when you have a name which sounds cool and professional, is easy to remember, and at least tries to vaguely describe the function of the program.
A lot of software fails your last requirement (Thunderbird, Blender, Linux for a lot of people), but that isn't limited to open source software. While Microsoft has the reasonably-named Windows and Word, they also have Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Lots of posts bashing the "can't be pirated" thing, and this is the first one that talks about the first thing that I noticed. Nothing mentioned in the summary is interactive in any way. When I listen to music, it's to listen to music, frequently while driving or on the bus and subway. If I wanted to do something interactive while on the bus, I'd download some games for my phone.
So what exactly is going to be interactive about this new format? Or are they just using a word that doesn't mean what they think it means?
Haha. I hope someone comes along and gives you a +1 for this. I'd share one of mine if I could.
I'd rather have an open-source Pitfall 2.
By contrast, if you wanted to resurrect, say, WinCE?
Have you ever considered a career pitching horror movies to Hollywood studios?
...and it is amazing how hard it is for some people to understand the difference between losing market share in a saturated market and your market share growing slower than a still expanding market. In percentages your market share may be declining even though your sales are still growing.
Uh, the definition of "market share" is the percentage of the whole, no matter the size of the market. If the percentage is going down, then by definition they are losing market share, even if raw sales numbers are increasing.
Whether the most important number is market share, raw sales number, amount of profit, or something else, that depends on who you ask.
I already have a program to read all logs, more or less.
So what program do you use, and what's wrong with it that it doesn't quite let you read all of the logs?
Boeing has more union employees. Democrats are always in the pocket of BigLabor. Boeing is going to get favorable treatment from a administration led by a Democrat.
Seems like you could have put in more effort, but I'll give an extra point for the nice use of capital casing on "BigLabor".
6/10
I hope the Lunarians aren't waking up any time soon.
ISPs should provide a pipe with a fixed bandwidth the user pays for.
If that's what you want, most ISPs will gladly sell you guaranteed bandwidth. It just might cost a bit more than $50/month for 10 Mbps.
Massachusetts was the home of the Pilgrims, that group that got kicked out of England for being too religious. As liberal as most of the northeastern US, and especially Massachusetts, is, there are still a few of these unusual laws floating around.
Well first off this wouldn't download except on wife. But that's a stupid expectation.
Heh. Hehe. Heh. Heh.
... compare a bag of crap with the latest album from U2
I am not number 2!
I argue that the iPhone and iPad really should not be called a "computer" (unless you also want to call your microwave oven, TV set, A/V receiver, DSLR, DVD/BD Player, VCR, etc. a "computer")
Some of those are computers. Most new televisions and Blu-Ray players run Linux.
Both the Libertarian Party and Green Party have promised to put a stop to the spying.
Didn't a bunch of Republicans and Democrats make that same promise? What kind of results have we gotten from that?
LIfe expectancy at birth doesn't really apply to many slashdotters - not many of us are under one year of age.
Boy was I fooled.
Reminds me of a good joke:
In 2010, a COBOL programmer developed a rare fatal disease for which there was no known cure. The programmer was cryogenically frozen, to be revived when a cure had been found.
In the year 9999, the programmer is revived. When he wakes up, he asks the doctors what year it is, and when they tell him, he asks if they finally found a cure for his disease. They answered, "We're sorry, but no, we still haven't found a cure. But it's almost the year 10,000, you see, and you know COBOL..."
Even if the monthly fee is the same as the fee for a service-only contract (in which case the USA phone market is even more screwed up than I thought)
You haven't been following mobile phone stories on Slashdot much, have you? For years, you paid the same price for monthly service whether you got a subsidized phone from the carrier, had completed the two-year contract, or didn't get a phone from the carrier at all and brought your own. T-Mobile changed that about 5 years ago, when they started offering a plan that was $20/month cheaper if you didn't have a contract and subsidized phone. Now that T-Mobile is advertising this more, the other carriers are just starting to implement similar plans.
I ran into one really bizarre bug in ActionScript several years ago. I can't remember all the details exactly, but I think that if you try to redeclare a variable as a different type in the same function, the redeclaration is ignored and the type stays the same.
... bunch of code ...
Integer a;
String b;
b = "foo";
That code would give an error about assigning a string to an integer variable. Of all possible ways to handle redeclaring a variable, ActionScript picked the worst.
They probably just look at the number of comments on his rants without reading what the comments are about, coming to the conclusion that he's very popular.
This is perhaps one of the most whinging pathetic things I've heard in a while.
This can only be true if "a while" is "since his last pointless rant got posted to Slashdot".
This article is foolish
Well, yeah. Most of us could have told you that as soon as we saw who wrote it.
Hey, I know you! You were featured in that article on The Onion! Wow, it's a huge honor to have such a famous person contribute to Slashdot's discussion.
Absolutely nobody. His house is creepy enough in the middle of the day.